ã€ŠMagic Industry Empireã€‹


 Volume 1 1 - Applicant

    <h4>Applicant</h4>

    It was early June, the beginning of summer. Banta City was like Beijing in the previous world, they were both sweltering.

    Wearing the graduate uniform of the Senkaiser School, Xu Yi who waspletely covered from head to toe was already feeling hot after walking a little bit down the road.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he had used his magic to cover his body in a miniature Frost Array, his entire body would be soaked in sweat right now.

    ¡°Is it here?¡±

    Xu Yi stopped and looked up at the thirty meter tall building in front of him. The bottom floor was a Magic Tower that surpassed over ten thousand square meters. His eyes finally fell onto the que at the door at the front of the Magic Tower.

    ¡°Cami Magic Tower.¡±

    That¡¯s right, it was here.

    Seeing the que, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with nervousness, even causing him to reveal a smile of self ridicule.

    His current mood was as nervous as when he graduated from university five years ago and went to work at his firstrge mechanical engineeringpany.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t belong to this world.

    Three years ago, he was one of the most important mechanical engineering masters of thergest mechanical engineeringpany of his country on earth, having an outstanding reputation in the business. He was only twenty four at that time, it could be considered very rare and he had bright prospects for the future.

    However, the world was unpredictable. Three years ago, during an engineering survey, he fell into the water and woke up to find that he had transmigrated to another world.

    In the beginning, Xu Yi thought that he was like a protagonist in one of those novels, easily bing a super magician in this magic focused world, reaching the same peak in life.

    But it was a pity that reality was very brutal.

    It could be said that Xu Yi¡¯s magical talent wasn¡¯t bad and aftering to this world, he had adapted in just six months. With his effort, he spent two years to get into a magical school,pleting a course that normal students needed four years or longer toplete. He was called a magical genius by many of the teachers of the school.

    The problem was that Xu Yi¡¯s time in this world was too short and the magicians of this world began training in magic since they were young. No matter how much talent Xu Yi had, it was hard to stand out immediately.

    Not to mention he didn¡¯t have any foundation in this world, so he could only enter the Senkaiser School which was a very normal magical school in the Lampuri Kingdom. The magic being taught wasn¡¯t especially strong, so even though Xu Yi could far surpass his peers at the Senkaiser School, when ced on the entire continent, it wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    Therefore after Xu Yi graduated from the Senkaiser School, he faced the same awkward situation as many university graduates on earth would face, unemployment.

    ¡°No matter what, I have to make the interview today a sess.¡± Xu Yi forcefully shook his head, shaking away the nervousness and chaotic memories of his previous life from his mind. After focusing himself, he took a deep breath and walked into the Magic Tower.

    Great Magician Cami was one of the most powerful magicians in Banta City. If he could obtain the opportunity to help with this magician¡¯s research, Xu Yi believed that he could rapidly increase his magical power, thus achieving his value in this world.

    What surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations was that the guarding of the Magic Tower was not that strict, as he easily walked through the front door. Although there were people wearing different robes passing by him, they at most gave him a look of curiosity. Most people chose to ignore him.

    Looking at the rapid steps of these people and the looks of serious contemtion on their faces, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of the mechanical engineering research facility he belonged to back on earth.

    The researchers of the facility, including him, would usually have this kind of expression on their faces.

    Thinking of this, the nervousness in Xu Yi¡¯s heart disappeared without a trace.

    He came to the utched front gate of the Magic Tower with a few steps and without any hesitation, Xu Yi pulled open the door. When he had just walked in, he suddenly heard the sounds of rushed footstepsing from behind. He immediately reached out his hands to stop the doors that were about to automatically closed and kept them open.

    Turning around to take a look, Xu Yi was a bit stunned.

    The one rushing forward was actually a beautiful young girl with a head of bright yellow hair. Although she was wearing the same simple ck magician¡¯s robe, it still revealed her beautiful figure. Matched with her stunning facial features and her slim face, that had a confident smile hanging on it, she was filled with a young vitality.

    Back in the research facility, from time to time, there would be beautiful girls like this girl who came as interns.

    The girl saw Xu Yi holding the door waiting for her toe over. After being surprised for a bit, she revealed a smile to Xu Yi and nodded in gratitude.

    Xu Yi returned the smile and after she came in, he turned to head to the Magic Tower¡¯s affairs department he had just seen behind the door.

    The girl behind him saw Xu Yi¡¯s simple departure and was stunned again. She took one deep look at Xu Yi¡¯s back before turning to leave.

    She went to the magicaldder at the center of the Magic Tower and directly headed to the highest level of the Magic Tower.

    If Xu Yi understood the Magic Tower a bit more, he would know that the peak of the Magic Tower was the personal space of the Magic Tower¡¯s owner, which was the Great Magician Cami.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have time to consider this. After he stated his purpose after arriving at the affairs department, they quickly prepared two people to interview him.

    But it wasn¡¯t that smooth.

    When the two interviewers heard that Xu Yi had graduated from the Senkaiser School, the expression on their faces changed slightly.

    Xu Yi was very familiar with this change because he had seen it many times in the past half a year.

    This was clear despising.

    The Senkaiser School wasn¡¯t considered famous in the Lampuri Kingdom, so as a Senkaiser School graduate, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t regarded as anything important.

    ¡°Eh¡­..Xu¡­..Xu Yi, right? Have you participated in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification testing yet?¡± The slightly chubby interviewer on the right continued asking him questions.

    This question was considered goodwill to Xu Yi, but it was a pity Xu Yi could only awkwardly shake his head.

    He had been in this world for less than three years, it was already quite hard for him to graduate the Senkaiser School. When would he have time to take the certification test for the Magicians Guild?

    The more important thing was that the fees for the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification tests were not cheap and Xu Yi was already being stretched paying his fees for the Senkaiser School, his living fees, and the asional consumption for magical research. How could he possibly have spare cash to spend?

    Seeing Xu Yi shake his head, the two interviewers looked at each other. The slightly chubby interviewer gave a soft cough and he had an apologetic look on his face.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this. Mister Xu Yi, thank you foring to apply, but I¡¯m very sorry¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk. He was clear on the fact that since the interviewer said this, it meant that this application had ended in failure.

    But if he failed this interview, because he didn¡¯t have much money left on him, he could only find some other work to make ends meet.

    Like this, he would be separated from magical research for a long time. His magical power would only fall instead of increase, which would have a great influence on his future development.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi raised his hand to cut off the interviewer.

    ¡°Mister, I think that it isn¡¯t important which school I graduated from, right? You need an assistant that can help Great Magician Cami with his magical research, not a graduation certificate from a magic school or a Magicians Guild certification. It¡¯s fine as long as I can show I¡¯m capable enough, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± The slightly chubby interviewer looked at Xu Yi like he had seen something funny, ¡°Then young man, what do you have to prove that you have this ability?¡±

    Xu Yi took out a small box from the bag on his back and handed it over.

    ¡°What is this?¡± The two interviewers looked over the box for a while, feeling perplexed.

    ¡°It¡¯s this.¡± Xu Yi reached out a finger to gently tap the box and a bit of magic came out of his finger.

    Although the two interviewers weren¡¯t powerful magicians, as assistants to Great Magician Cami, naturally they wouldn¡¯t be unfamiliar with magic. They could easily feel the trace of magic from Xu Yi, revealing looks of surprise at the same time.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s magic was a bit weak, they could feel the purity of this magic and how stable it was. There were no fluctuations from the magic at all.

    Even some powerful magicians would find it hard to do this, not to mention that Xu Yi looked like he was a young man in his twenties.

    Because of this trace of magic, the two interviewers looked at Xu Yi differently. They watched as the box in his hand started glowing and became a bit cautious.

    After Xu Yi had injected his magic, this square box suddenly split open and a clear music floated out of the box.

    The two interviewers looked right at it and found that after the box opened, there was a model of a piano inside.

    This model piano was only the size of a person¡¯s hand, but it was actually very finely made. There was even a clear division between each key.

    What surprised people even more was that those keys kept falling with the music. It was like an invisible hand was ying the piano, releasing music from it.

    The two interviewers looked at the piano for a while before the slightly chubby interviewer ced the box down. He looked at Xu Yi with a frown and asked, ¡°This is only a toy, how can it prove your magic power?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Mister, this is indeed a toy, but the driving force for this toy is the Magic Array that I¡¯ve imprinted on it. As long as a person ces a trace of magic in, it will automatically start. Does this not prove my magic power?¡±

    Actually, the core of this toy was indeed the Magic Array inside it, but the decisive factor was Xu Yi¡¯s mechanical engineering knowledge.

    This toy was made during his spare time at the Senkaiser School, unifying his mechanical engineering knowledge with the knowledge of magic he learned aftering to this world, while also including Xu Yi¡¯s hobby, ying piano. It could be said that he wasbining his original world and this world, so the level of technology contained within was not low.

    Those two interviewers looked at piano model, but they shook their head at the same time.

    ¡°Young man, I¡¯m very sorry. Although your toy is very novel, it still isn¡¯t able to meet our requirements. You¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    The people of the Sines Continent focused on magic, but they mainly focused on the destructive might of magic, with few focusing on the practical application of magic. Up until now, there had been no magician that had seen through the level of technology in his so-called ¡°toy¡±, so naturally it was hard for him to prove his magic power.

    When the slightly chubby interviewer was about to give Xu Yi his ¡°death sentence¡±, the door suddenly opened with a squeak.

    The slightly chubby interviewer was cut off by this nose. He looked up at the door in dissatisfaction, but said in a surprised voice, ¡°Young Miss Still, why are you here?¡±

    Xu Yi turned his head over curiously and was also surprised.

    The Young Miss Still that suddenly came in was actually the young girl that he had met at the gate of the Magic Tower.

    After seeing Xu Yi, the girl also revealed a surprised look, but she only nodded at Xu Yi. She came in front of the interviewer table and looked at Xu Yi¡¯s resume on the table. She picked it up to look it over and nodded before looking back at the piano model beside it. She turned back to Xu Yi and asked, ¡°This was made by you?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded in a daze.

    Based on Young Miss Still¡¯s casual movements and how the interviewer addressed her when she came in, her status was probably not low.

    ¡°Can you let me see it?¡± Still tapped the model piano.

    ¡°Of course.¡± There was a trace of hope in Xu Yi¡¯s heart, giving a go ahead gesture towards the model piano.

    ¡°Very interesting.¡± After looking it over, Still revealed an interested appearance. She looked back at Xu Yi before saying to the two interviewers, ¡°Just hire him.¡±

    The two interviewers looked at each other and said with difficulty, ¡°Young Miss Still, he has only graduated from the Senkaiser School and hasn¡¯t passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification test. This seems to¡­..not conform to the requirements, right?¡±

    Still just casually waved her hand, ¡°He thinks very actively, this is better than some stiff brained old magicians. Perhaps he will be able to help grandfather.¡±

    Hearing Still say this, the two interviewers helplessly looked at each other. The slightly chubby interviewer gave a cough and said to Xu Yi, ¡°This¡­..Mister Xu Yi, congrattions on passing the interview. May I ask, when can you report for work?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly filled with joy. He looked at Still with gratitude, but found that Still wasn¡¯t looking at him at all, rather she was looking at the model piano.

    It was like to her, this model piano was more interesting than the creator Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi could only turn back to the interviewer and nod with a faint smile.

    ¡°Anytime.¡±

 Volume 1 2 - Itâ€™d be great if there was a desk fan

    <strong>It¡¯d be great if there was a desk fan</strong>

    ¡°Hot! So hot!¡±

    A loudint suddenly resounded through the room, instantly causing an echo.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, why is it so hot? It¡¯s simply driving people to death!¡±

    ¡°Right, I wish that I can take off all my clothes!¡±

    ¡°Scram! Rem, you idiot, there are girls here!¡±

    [TL Note: I feel pain tranting his name as Rem, but it¡¯s technically the same characters¡­..]

    ¡°Che, We, are you considered a girl?¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing theints of his coworkers, Xu Yi looked up. He wiped off the perspiration pouring out of him with his sleeve.

    It was indeed quite hot.

    Without knowing it, he had already been working at the Cami Magic Tower for a month now.

    It was already the beginning of July and they were in the middle of summer, so naturally the weather was very hot.

    During this month, he had been doing odd jobs in the magic researchboratory under the Great Magician Cami. He hadn¡¯t participated in the magical research work at all.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this. For someone like him who had had several years of work experience on earth, he was very clear on the fact that new people had to slowly do foundational work before they were slowly integrated.

    Not to mention, his magical power was not outstanding at all among his coworkers and the matter of his interview had already spread. Right now, the others all treated him as someone who Young Miss Still had let in through the backdoor, so there were quite a few coworkers that looked down on him.

    ¡°This fellow, is it because he looks a bit good that Young Miss Still has set her eyes on him?¡±

    Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile at this. Since seeing Still at the interview that day, he hadn¡¯t seen her a second time in this entire month. He learned from chatting with his coworkers that Still was Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter, but he knew nothing else about her, so god knows how this rumour had spread.

    Of course he was clear that these so called rumours had no basis at all.

    So he didn¡¯t exin them at all and only focused on working hard, while also increasing his level of magical knowledge by observing the experiments of his coworkers.

    Xu Yi¡¯s talent was indeed quite good, although he had only been observing from the side, his level of magic had increased by quite a bit in a single month.

    After all, Great Magician Cami¡¯s level was not something the teachers of the Senkaiser School could match. Even if it was an experiment he had only arranged a bit of, its level was much higher than what Xu Yi had learned in the Senkaiser School.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, when I was called over by his excellency Great Magician to report in, found that his room was very cold. Why is that?¡±

    The one who spoke was Rem who was called an idiot. After passing the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification test, he was graded as a Fifth Grade Magician, being ced third among the seventeen people in the researchb, including Xu Yi. He was a very extroverted person, being a fiery existence in the researchb.

    ¡°Idiot, his excellency Great Magician¡¯s room has arge scale Frost Array set in it, of course it would be cold.¡±

    The one who responded was We who Rem hadined about. She was a Fourth Grade Magician, being weaker than Rem. She had a serious personality and didn¡¯t skimp on reprimanding Rem normally, but most people could see that she treated Rem rather special. They had already been secretly ced as a pair by others.

    ¡°Oh? Then why can¡¯t we cerge scale Frost Arrays in ourboratories?¡±

    ¡°You still don¡¯t believe me when I call you an idiot! Just setting arge scale Frost Array costs thirty gold coins, not to mention it requires ten High Grade Magic Crystals to maintain each day, which requires five gold coins. That takes a hundred and fifty gold coins each month. I say, Rem, how much do you get paid each month?¡± We snappily responded.

    ¡°This¡­..ha, ha¡­¡­¡± Rem gave to dryughs and didn¡¯t dare respond.

    Xu Yi knew that even though Rem¡¯s monthly sry was high, it was no more than thirty gold coins. Not mentioning the consumption of therge scale Frost Array, he didn¡¯t even have enough to set one down.

    In the entire Cami Magic Tower, the only room that had arge scale Frost Array was the respected Great Magician Cami¡¯s room. There were no other rooms that had one.

    ¡°Actually, I was lucky enough to visit Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Towerst time, they had Frost Arrays in each room. There was even red wine in each room¡­..¡± A rather timid voice spoke up.

    This voice belonged to the one closest to age to Xu Yi and was the weakest in theb, Sarash. Because she was cedst among everyone in theb before Xu Yi arrived and she had a weak personality, she would be rather timid at all times.

    ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel? Isn¡¯t that one of the richest Great Magician¡¯s in our Lampuri Kingdom? Their situation is naturally better than ours. Tell me, why is it even though they are both Great Magicians, Great Magician Eisenkel has so much money and our respected Great Magician Cami doesn¡¯t even have enough money to install Frost Arrays for us?¡±

    Rem let out a long sigh, but he found that no one sympathized with him. He looked around in a daze and found that everyone was looking down, clearly signaling that they didn¡¯t want to speak to him.

    He only saw We ring at him, signaling him with her eyes.

    Rem instantly understood and knew that spoken too much, saying the wrong things. He quickly lowered his head and didn¡¯t dare say anything else.

    Xu Yi who had seen everything from the side couldn¡¯t stop his lips from raising and revealing a smile.

    Rem¡¯s questions made him remember his professors when he was a graduate student. The better ones could pull in more topics, so naturally they earned more. The weaker ones would naturally earn less.

    Of course, there were differences in professors that earned more. Some would share the rewards with the students under them, letting everyone be happy.

    There were also professors that wanted more for themselves, so they were very stingy to the students under them, naturally raisingints.

    So which kind was Great Magician Cami?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t even have the qualifications to see Great Magician Cami, so without understanding anything, he wouldn¡¯t be able to make a decision.

    ¡°But speaking honestly, putting in a singlerge scale Frost Array is good. At least it would be this hot anymore.¡± Xu Yi pulled back and forth on the front of his shirt, trying to let himself cool down a bit.

    Although he could arrange a small scale Frost Array under his clothes for the summer, it consumed arge amount of magic to maintain this array. With his current magic, he could maintain it for less than half an hour and it would take him over three hours to recover. The losses far outweigh the gains.

    What was more important was that working in theboratory meant he had to use magic at any time. So, even for a Fifth Grade Magician like Rem, he didn¡¯t dare casually waste magic on anything.

    Xu Yi habitually looked up at the wall of theboratory and saw that it waspletely empty. How could there be a trace of an air conditioner?

    ¡°This technologically backwards world¡­..¡± Xu Yi could only shake his head and let out a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s fine if there¡¯s no air conditioning, it would be good if there was even a single electric fan.¡±

    Thinking of electric fans, something popped in Xu Yi¡¯s mind like he had thought of something.

    After being in a daze for a while, Xu Yi suddenly pped his leg.

    ¡°Idiot! If there isn¡¯t one, why don¡¯t I just make myself?¡±

    The ¡°pa¡± sound from Xu Yi pping his leg surprised the people working around him, causing them to look at him with surprised looks. They found that the person who had always silently worked by himself had suddenly encountered something he was happy about, revealing an overjoyed look on his face.

    ¡°Did this fellow go crazy?¡±

    How could Xu Yi care about their gazes, he was alreadypletely focused on the idea that had just popped up in his mind.

    That¡¯s right, he suddenly thought of making his own electric fan!

    Of course, there was no electricity in this world, but there was something that could rece it. It was magic!

    Xu Yi quickly organized the thoughts in his mind and quickly pulled over a piece of paper, wildly drawing on it.

    As someone who focused on mechanical engineering, although Xu Yi did not specialize in productions, he had always been fascinated by the mechanical production industry since he was young. So, he had a very clear understanding of the structure and principle of an electric fan.

    Adding in his specialized mechanical engineering knowledge, Xu Yi quickly finished a blueprint for an electric fan.

    After looking it over, Xu Yi quickly confirmed his conversion path.

    If he wanted to use an automatic electric fan in this world, the first thing was to have a power source.

    There was no electricity in this world, but he could achieve the same effect with Magic Arrays. This was exactly what Xu Yi had been studying at the Senkaiser School the entire time without stopping.

    The model piano he took out during the interview, it could be considered the embodiment of his research.

    The structure of an electric fan was very simple to a high level mechanical engineer like him and recing the power source with a Magic Array also wasn¡¯t hard for him. Xu Yi spent less than an hour and he had already finished the Magic Array.

    This Magic Array was a primary grade Wind Magic Array, it could simte low level wind magic and create rotating wind.

    Xu Yi now just needed tobine this Magic Array and the structure of the electric fan together to create an electric fan.

    Of course, Xu Yi still had many problems to solve.

    For example, how fast would the wind of the Magic Array have to be to actually move the electric fan¡¯s des, recing electricity in activating the fan?

    Or for example, if the Magic Array was ced inside the electric fan and it could be used, would it affect the shape of the electric fan?

    Or for example, if Magic Crystals were used as a power source for the Magic Array, what grade would it have to be to ensure that it would work?

    Or for example¡­...

    As he thought of more and more problems, Xu Yi instead became even more excited.

    In that instant, it was like he had returned to his time on earth.

    Whenever his research facility came across any difficult problems, Xu Yi would always be excited.

    He was in every sense a madman for research. Whether it was researching something or solving a problem, it was even more enjoyable than any form of entertainment.

    It was already time to get off work in the blink of an eye, so his coworkers began to leave.

    Xu Yi of course kept studying. His coworkers already were not surprised by this.

    During this month, Xu Yi stayed overtime almost every day.

    His coworkers actually admired Xu Yi for this kind of mindset.

    Only they didn¡¯t know that this time, he wasn¡¯t just doing research on magic.

 Volume 1 3 - Magic Fan

    <strong>Magic Fan</strong>

    ¡°Hu¡ª¡ª¡±

    Xu Yi let out a long breath and put down the tools in his hand. He wiped the sweat off his face, but his hand felt very strange. Looking at it, his hand was covered in grease. By wiping his face, he turned his face into that of arge tabby cat.

    Xu Yi actually didn¡¯t care at all about just, he just beganughing. His heart was filled with joy as he looked at the strange lump of iron on the table in front of him.

    This lump of iron was not normal looking. This thing had a rectangr base with a hollow space above it. There were veryrge iron rods stuck together in this gap and there were three fan des evenly distributed around the center.

    This was clearly the electric fan he had developed.

    Xu Yi had spent half a month before developing this electric fan that worked using a Magic Array.

    What he spent the most time on was not the most important power supply, but rather the outer design of the electric fan.

    After solving the most important problem of having a Magic Array as a power supply, Xu Yi found another important problem. It was hard to imitate the outer coating of electric fans on earth for this electric fan because this world didn¡¯t have a perfect stic and alloy production technique.

    Helplessly, Xu Yi could only rece it with iron.

    It was because this world¡¯s forging technique couldn¡¯tpare to that of earth, this electric fan looked a bit strange and could even be called ugly.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, the requirements aren¡¯t too high, it¡¯s fine as long as it can be used.¡± Xu Yi shrugged his shoulder as heforted himself.

    After carefully looking over it twice, Xu Yi a multicoloured Magic Crystal that was the size of his thumb. He carefully ced it in the mouth on the back of the electric fan before closing it up.

    It was only a simple action, but Xu Yi was covered in sweat. After wiping his face, he raised his right hand with a serious expression and reached out his index finger. After a moment of hesitation, he finally pressed down.

    ¡°Bada¡ª¡ª¡±

    With this clear sound, the switch of the electric fan was pressed. Xu Yi immediately felt a trace of magic running through the electric fan and after a while, the Magic Array on the surface released a light green glow that went into the slits of the fan.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes were wide as he stared at the fan des.

    After a while, the three des suddenly moved and began to slowly rotate.

    The fan des were rotating very slowly at first, but not long after, it became faster and faster. Gradually, the three fan des couldn¡¯t be seen at all as they became one.

    With the high speed turning of the fan des, there was a light breeze that drifted out of the des. They blew across Xu Yi covered in sweat and instantly a cool feeling passed through his body.

    Xu Yi enjoyed it for a while before suddenly clenching his fist.

    Sess!

    ###

    When they saw Xu Yi bringing the electric fan in, the people in theboratory all cast curious nces at him.

    What is with this fellow today? Not to mention his funny face, he was bringing in this strange lump of iron. What did he want to do?

    ¡°Hey, Xu¡­.Xu Yi, what is this thing?¡± Rem couldn¡¯t push down his curiosity and pointed at the electric fan Xu Yi was holding as he asked this question.

    ¡°This, it¡¯s¡­..¡± Xu Yi thought about it and suddenly thought that the name electric fan wasn¡¯t right, ¡°It¡¯s a Magic Fan, I made it in my free time.¡±

    ¡°Magic Fan?¡± Everyone was even more confused.

    Rem looked at the fan and couldn¡¯t feel any magic from it, so he became even more curious.

    ¡°What can this thing do?¡±

    Xu Yiughed before looking around and finally cing the fan on the table in front of Rem.

    ¡°Hasn¡¯t it been very hot the past few days? I wanted to make something to help everyone cool down.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi pressed down the switch.

    The people in theb were all magicians, so naturally they could immediately feel the flow of magicing from the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan. But this flow of magic was quite weak, so it could be seen that it was quite a low grade Magic Array.

    But then everyone was surprised to find that the three strange des of this thing began to rotate and it began moving faster and faster.

    ¡°Wa! There¡¯s wind!¡± Xu Yi had just ced the fan down in front of Rem, so naturally he was the first one to feel the wind being blown out of the fan. He could out in shock, ¡°So cool!¡±

    ¡°Wind?¡± Everyone saw that Rem¡¯s magic robe was beginning to move, like it was being blown by wind. They couldn¡¯t help themselves as they all came over.

    When they came in front of the fan, everyone immediately felt the cool breeze.

    It was very hot today and everyone had sweated quite a bit, so now that there was a breeze blowing over them, their body felt quite cool.

    After enjoying it for a bit, everyone began questioning Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, how is this moving? Is it because of the Magic Array inside it?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? The Magic Array is fine, but how could it move this thing? I¡¯ve never heard of a Magic Array with this kind of effect.¡±

    ¡°That must be something Xu Yi discovered himself. Isn¡¯t that right, Xu Yi?¡±

    ¡°Discovered himself? Xu Yi, you¡¯re actually this skilled in Magic Arrays? You can actually research new Magic Arrays?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you can actually develop your own Magic Arrays? Then why is your magical power still so low?¡±

    ¡­...

    These people asked questions for a while. Most of the questions were about Xu Yi¡¯s magical power, there were few people that questioned him on the principle behind the Magic Fan.

    This was normal for the Sines Continent. In this magical continent, application of magic was rarely focused on by magicians.

    We who was thest one to ask about the Magic Fan hit the nail on the head.

    ¡°Xu Yi, there should be a Magic Crystal inside, right? Otherwise, you can¡¯t maintain the Magic Array for this long.¡±

    ¡°Right.¡± Xu Yi pressed the switch and stopped the fan¡¯s movements. He opened the mouth on the back and took out the small Magic Crystal that was much dimmer after having its magic consumed.

    We looked at the thumb sized Magic Crystal in Xu Yi¡¯s hand and her pupils trembled.

    ¡°If I¡¯m not mistaken, this Magic Crystal should be a medium grade one, right?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands with a bitter smile, ¡°I couldn¡¯t afford to buy a High Grade Magic Crystal.¡±

    We nodded. She took the Magic Crystal from Xu Yi¡¯s hand to look it over before pointing at the Magic Fan.

    ¡°Xu Yi, can you take apart that¡­..Magic Fan and let me see the Magic Array inside it?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°You can disassemble it, but it would be hard to reassemble.¡± Seeing the disappointed look on We¡¯s face, Xu Yi added, ¡°But it¡¯s very easy if you want to see the Magic Array. I have blueprints here, you can see them at any time.¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± We hesitated for a second before suddenly making up her mind. She pointed at the Magic Fan and said, ¡°How about you sell this Magic Fan to me?¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    Rem couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°We, what are you buying this for? If you¡¯re interested in the Magic Array inside, didn¡¯t Xu Yi say that you can see it at any time?¡±

    We shook her head, ¡°This is not the same.¡± She ignored everyone¡¯s surprised gazes after she finished and looked at Xu Yi, as she honestly said, ¡°Give me a price.¡±

    Xu Yi saw We¡¯s serious expression and felt a bit awkward.

    It seemed like this We was really obsessed with magic and as long as she saw something new, she would immediately want to research it.

    But as for a price¡­...

    If it was just the price of materials, the main expenses for the Magic Fan is the frame itself. Including the wooden base and the iron structure, it would cost less than thirty silver coins.

    Then adding in thebor costs, including the fee for the cksmiths, it would be less than two gold coins added up together.

    But in addition to these costs, the most important was the research cost.

    In order to develop this Magic Fan, Xu Yi had spent half a month¡¯s time, spending almost all his free time on this. In order to develop the perfect Magic Array for this, he used over a hundred sheets of paper.

    Not to mention building a frame that would work perfectly with the Magic Array. This mechanical engineering knowledge that surpassed anything on the Sines Continent, it was something that they couldn¡¯t attach a value to.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was hesitating, Rem became unhappy. He said with a frown, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, this is only an iron frame, how much could it be worth? Since We wants it, why don¡¯t you sell it to her? Just give a price, I¡¯ll pay it.¡±

    We looked at Rem with a frown, but she said nothing.

    Although she was very curious towards the Magic Fan, she also didn¡¯t think this strange looking thing would be worth that much.

    Who would have thought that after Xu Yi thought about it, he raised up two fingers, ¡°Since we are coworkers, if you really want to buy it, then it¡¯ll be two gold coins.¡±

    This price could be considered Xu Yi giving up the research cost and just treating this Magic Fan as a normal product.

    He was not worried that she would be able to see through the mysteries of this Magic Fan after buying it. Perhaps she could easily see through the Magic Array, but this simple looking Magic Fan contained modern era technology, so she couldn¡¯t see through it no matter what.

    However, the price that seemed fair Xu Yi¡¯s heart made everyone¡¯s eyes pop out.

    ¡°Two gold coins?¡± Rem stretched his arms out in an exaggerated manner, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, are you crazy? This is only a piece of iron! Although you being able to think of something like this is pretty good, how could it be worth two gold coins?¡±

    Everyone agreed with him, they all felt that the price Xu Yi set was too much.

    Although We didn¡¯t say anything, her deeply knit brows made her thoughts very clear.

    Xu Yi let out a sigh and felt helpless.

    The people of this world didn¡¯t understand modern technology at all, they naturally couldn¡¯t understand its value.

    Based purely on the perspective of a magician, the Magic Array inside this Magic Fan really wasn¡¯t worth two gold coins.

    But as a high level mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi had his pride. He definitely wouldn¡¯t allow something he worked hard to research be sold that cheaply.

    So he could only give a shrug, ¡°Since you can¡¯t ept this price, then forget it. Anyway, I felt that theb was very hot, so I took it out to let everyone use it.¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi with strange gazes. This fellow, since he could take it out and let everyone use it for free, why didn¡¯t he just use it to create some favour with We by selling it to her for a low price?

    We hesitated for a bit. When she wanted to keep persuading Xu Yi, a clear and beautiful voice came from outside the door to theb.

    ¡°Two gold coins, I¡¯ll buy it.¡±

 Volume 1 4 - Sale

    <strong>Sale</strong>

    There was a soft sound from the door. Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t even need to look up to know that it was his precious daughter, Still.

    Other than her, there was no one else in the Magic Tower that dared to enter without knocking on the door first.

    ¡°Grandfather, I¡¯m back.¡± Still¡¯s youthful voice came from in front of Cami.

    Cami looked up with a smile and lovingly looked at Still in front of him. His gaze couldn¡¯t help looking away from Still¡¯s face to her arms where there was a strange¡­..looking clump of iron?

    ¡°What is this?¡± Great Magician Cami knit his brows.

    ¡°I just bought something fun, it¡¯s called a Magic Fan. Take a look.¡± Still responded with a smile, as she put the thing in her embrace onto the table in front of Cami. She then casually pressed something sticking out at the base.

    ¡°Pada¡ª¡ª

    With this sound, the three des that Cami thought were just ornaments slowly began to rotate. They became faster soon after and released gentle breezes.

    ¡°Inside this is¡­..Magic Arrays?¡±

    As a Three Star Great Magician recognized by the Magicians Guild, Cami¡¯s magical power far surpassed that of Rem and the others. When the Magic Fan was activated, he could sense the important magical fluctuations inside the Magic Fan.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Grandfather, don¡¯t you think that this thing is very interesting?¡± Stills asked.

    ¡°It is a bit interesting.¡± Cami reached out to touch the Magic Fan¡¯s base and became familiar with the Magic Array inside based on the magical fluctuations. He then shook his head, ¡°It is only a simple Revolving Wind Array, it¡¯s not anything rare.¡± He looked at Still after saying this and said with a serious expression, ¡°Still, you should study magic properly if you have free time, stop wasting time on these random things.¡±

    Cami pampered his granddaughter not just because she was beautiful and filial, the more important reason was that Still had a high talent for magic. Three years ago, she was admitted to the Lampuri¡¯s highest magical school, the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy, which had a bit of fame on the entire Sines Continent. Moreover, she had passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification testst year, bing an official magician recognized by the Magicians Guild.

    To have this kind of aplishment at the age of neen, even when ced on the entire Sines Continent, she could be considered a genius of magic.

    It was because of this that Cami pampered Still while also having strict requirements from her. He frequently reprimanded Still for liking small things like this.

    ¡°I know.¡± Still was already used to Cami acting like this, so she wasn¡¯t afraid at all. She stuck out her tongue and quickly left.

    She understood that if she remained, she would definitely be lectured by Cami.

    Seeing Still leave, Cami helplessly shook his head.

    He really didn¡¯t have a way to deal with this granddaughter of his.

    Looking over the Magic Array again, shock suddenly appeared in Cami¡¯s heart.

    ¡°This is wrong!¡±

    Cami¡¯s eyes turned to the Magic Fan on the desk Still forgot to bring away. He ced a hand on it andrge amounts of magic slowly entered it.

    The Magic Fan¡¯s base bloomed with a light green glow and the steadily turning fan des wildly increased their speed several times. The entire Magic Fan became unstable and began shaking.

    After a while, strange sounds came from the Magic Fan. The fan des couldn¡¯t take this kind of wild speed and directly flew off, hitting the iron in front of it.

    With the high speed of the des, they were naturally shattered to a pulp. Even the protective iron in front of it was twisted.

    Cami took back his hand and his face was covered in confusion.

    The reason why he suddenly wanted to investigate the Magic Fan was because he suddenly thought of something. The Revolving Wind Array was only a low grade Wind Magic Array, so the wind it created was also low grade magic.

    If it was directly released, perhaps it would be much stronger than the wind released by the Magic Fan, but it wouldn¡¯t be as steady. It would be as wild and unstable like other Wind Magic.

    But this Magic Fan had been going for over ten minutes now and the des kept turning. The wind it released had been iparably stable the entire time, not changing at all.

    ¡°How was this made?¡± Cami thought about it a bit and found that with even with his strength was a Great Magician, he couldn¡¯t understand some things.

    Looking over the twisted Magic Fan, Cami waved his hand without any hesitation. The Magic Fan was split open down the middle and the inside parts of the Magic Fang was revealed.

    Cami honestly looked at the Magic Array inside it, not missing a single part.

    But after looking through the Magic Array, he was stunned to find that there were many parts that he couldn¡¯t understand!

    Perhaps he could perfectly duplicate the Magic Array, but as for why the Magic Array was like this and why it would make the fan des that stable, he actually couldn¡¯t understand it at all!

    Serious questions appeared in Cami¡¯s mind.

    ¡°Just who made this Magic Array?¡±

    ###

    Heinz saw the sparse stream of people walking outside the store before looking back at the Magic Fan that kept turning and blowing wind on his table. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Yesterday, the little magician called Xu Yi gave him three of these strange Magic Fans to let him sell them, which he wanted to reject at first.

    He couldn¡¯t guarantee that he would be able to see these strange things.

    But based on the fact that Xu Yi normally bought things from his store, he agreed in the end.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t force him to sell it. He just wanted one Magic Fan to be ced like this and he didn¡¯t need to care about anything else.

    It had to be said, with this Magic Fan blowing cool air the entire time, Heinz¡¯s shop wasn¡¯t as stuffy as before, making it much morefortable.

    ¡°If I really can¡¯t sell it, I should just buy it. Anyway, Xu Yi said that a small Magic Crystal was enough for it to run for three whole days.¡±

    While Heinz was secretly making his ns, a tall figure appeared in the store.

    ¡°Hey, dear Carl, why are you here so early today?¡± Heinz immediately came forward to greet him, this person was a frequent customer in his store.

    That man that was called Carl had a head of disheveled and thick brown hair, as well as a messy beard. He was quite tall and had a straightforward appearance. He waved his hand when he heard these words and loudly said, ¡°Alright, Heinz, stop wasting words. Quickly give me a cup of cool ale, I¡¯m about to burn to death!¡±

    Heinzughed and filled a cup of cool ale before walking over.

    Carl drank it in severalrge gulps and let out a long breath. Suddenly he made a yi sound.

    ¡°I say, Heinz, why is your store cooler than outside? Strange? Where is this winding from? There isn¡¯t any wind outside? Don¡¯t tell me that someone as stingy as you was willing to have a Magic Array installed in your store?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t use it even if I install it.¡± Heinz pointed at the Magic Fan working hard beside him, ¡°Here, it¡¯s this Magic Fan blowing out wind.¡±

    ¡°Magic Fan?¡± Carl curiously looked over the Magic Fan and felt the cool wind being blown out of it. He suddenly pped the table and pointed at Heinz as he roared out, ¡°Good Heinz, you¡¯re actually not telling me about something as good as this! Speak, how much is this? You¡¯re not telling me you¡¯re not selling it, right?¡±

    Heinz¡¯s eyes instantly lit up and deliberately stretched out his voice, ¡°This¡­..This thing is not cheap.¡±

    ¡°What? You think I don¡¯t have money?¡± Carl¡¯s eyes instantly narrowed, ¡°Speak! As long as it¡¯s not too expensive, I¡¯ll buy it! Let me tell you, if this weather bes any hotter, I¡¯m even nning on setting up arge scale Frost Array!¡±

    Heinzughed. Although Carl seemed rough, he was actually quite smart and was willing to suffer. He had a small business and although he wasn¡¯t considered rich in Banta City, he definitely had more money than normal people. If he nned on installing arge scale Frost Array, it was indeed not a problem.

    ¡°Of course it doesn¡¯t cost as much as arge scale Frost Array. The price¡­..¡± Heinz hesitated a bit before stretching out two fingers towards Carl.

    ¡°Two gold coins?¡± Seeing Heinz nod, Carl took out four gold coins from his pocket without saying a thing and pped it on the table, ¡°It¡¯s this cheap, give me two!¡±

    Seeing the four gold coins on the table, Heinz was stunned, ¡°You¡¯re certain you want two?¡±

    Carl looked back at him, ¡°What? You don¡¯t even have two here? I can¡¯t just buy one, right? If that brat back home doesn¡¯t have one, he¡¯ll cause enough trouble to cause my death!¡±

    ¡°Yes, yes, yes, of course we have them.¡± Heinz quickly took out the remaining two Magic Fans and gave them to Carl.

    When he saw that Carl was about to leave with them, Heinz suddenly thought of something and called out to stop him.

    ¡°Wait, Carl, there is still something I need to tell you.¡± This Magic Fan needs Magic Crystals, otherwise it won¡¯t move at all.¡±

    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you say so earlier?¡± Carl knit his brows. He was not a magician, but he knew that as long as something was rted to magic, it would requirerge amounts of Magic Crystals, ¡°Does this thing take a lot of Magic Crystals? If you need to spend a hundred crystals each month like arge scale Frost Array, I might as well just install arge scale Frost Array.¡±

    ¡°Of course not, of course not¡­¡­¡± Heinz quickly waved his hand, ¡°This thing doesn¡¯t take that many Magic Crystals. Here, this little Magic Crystal is enough for it to run for three days.¡±

    Carl looked at the little Magic Stone that wasn¡¯t even the size of a thumb in Heinz¡¯s hand and his mood instantly became better. He broke out inughter, ¡°Just this little bit, it simply doesn¡¯t cost money at all.¡±

    After saying this, he waved his hand at Heinz and walked out with the two Magic Fans.

    Heinz turned around to look at the four sparkling gold coins on the table and was stunned for a while.

    Two were sold just like this? Moreover, it was sold for four gold coins just like that?

    What did that brat Xu Yi say before? He said that he could keep 10% as amission? That meant that just by selling two Magic Fans, wouldn¡¯t he be getting forty silver coins as amission?

    It had to be known, his store¡¯s daily profit was only around a single gold coin¡­...

    Gaining forty silver coins just by selling two fans. If he were to sell twenty or two hundred¡­...

    While Heinz was fantasizing about this, another person came in.

    ¡°Hey, Heinz, I bumped into Carl just now. I¡¯ve heard that you have something called the Magic Fan for sale here, how is it? Take it and let me see. If it¡¯s easy to use, I¡¯ll take two.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Heinz was stunned. When he was about to answer that he only had one left, another person came through the door and said the same thing as the other person, he also wanted to buy the Magic Fan.

    Heinz was stunned and pleasantly surprised to see more and more peopleing in. His heart began to beat faster and faster.

    Could it be he was about to be rich?

 Volume 1 5 - Mass production

    <strong>Mass production</strong>

    ¡°A total of one hundred and thirty seven fans?¡± Xu Yi had a bit of a headache as he looked at the preorder form Heinz gave him. For a while, he didn¡¯t know if he should be happy or worried.

    The poprity of the Magic Fan didn¡¯t surpass his expectations. In this kind of extremely hot weather, everyone wanted something that could cool them down a bit. However, arrangingrge scale Frost Arrays was too expensive for most people, so with the appearance of the Magic Fan, it satisfied most of their needs.

    Thinking about it, arge scale Frost Array would require thirty gold coins to install and it would cost over a hundred gold coins each month to maintain it. Instead,pared to a Magic Fan which costs two gold coins and had a consumption of less than a gold coin each month, it was much cheaper.

    Even if the effects of the Magic Fan couldn¡¯tpare to therge scale Frost Array, it could still let people cool down a bit which was enough for them to alleviate some of this summer heat.

    But no matter what, Xu Yi never thought that in just a single day, Heinz would have taken preorders for one hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans.

    Moreover, ording to Heinz, there were many people that didn¡¯t have the resolve to buy it since they didn¡¯t see the product. Once there were enough Magic Fans, the order quantity would surpass one hundred and thirty seven.

    ¡°Dear Xu, no matter what, you have to make these hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans as soon as possible! This is a matter that will affect our future reputation!¡± If Hienz was normally polite to Xu Yi before, now he viewed Xu Yi like a mountain of gold. His voice was filled with expectations and he even added in a few words of ttery, ¡°Of course, if you can, make as many Magic Fans as you can! Believe me, there are definitely more people in Banta City that need Magic Fans! Even if there are no people left in Banta City, I believe that people in other cities will need them!¡±

    Xu Yi somewhat couldn¡¯t resist the fervor Heinz had and thinking about the seven gold coins and one silver coin Heinz gave him, excitement also filled his heart.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do my best toplete them!¡±

    But it was easy to agree, only it was hard to actually do something.

    If he wanted toplete the preordered hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans, Xu Yi definitely couldn¡¯t do it alone.

    Even if he was very adept at making Magic Fans, for Xu Yi to do it alone, he would need at least three hours for each fan. Multiply that by one hundred and thirty seven, that was a total of four hundred and eleven hours, which would mean spending half a month on working straight!

    After sending Heinz off, Xu Yi considered it. He first went to the cksmith that he had make the outer casing for the Magic Fans and ordered another two hundred sets of outer casing before rushing back to the Cami Magic Tower.

    He used his lunch break to go meet Heinz and when he returned to theb, his coworkers are also there.

    Xu Yi under everyone¡¯s surprised gaze brought back arge sack of cool ale which he distributed to everyone. When he came in front of Rem, he didn¡¯t reach out to take it, rather he asked with a frown, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, just speak if you need something. My mother taught me that after you eat something from someone else, your mouth will be soft. If you don¡¯t tell me what it is, I won¡¯t drink your ale.¡±

    Hearing Rem say this, the other people who had taken the ale and were prepared to drink it all put them down. They gathered around to look curiously at Xu Yi.

    Rem¡¯s reaction surprised Xu Yi a bit. He looked at Rem and revealed a smile. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he raised his voice to say, ¡°Everyone, I do have something that I need everyone¡¯s help with. Of course, this ale is just a little gift, it doesn¡¯t count for anything. Everyone can rx and drink it, I haven¡¯t put any poison in it.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s rxed words drew a wave of chuckles before he continued saying, ¡°As for asking for everyone¡¯s help, naturally I have a reward prepared. This can be considered outside work, is there anyone that is interested?¡±

    ¡°What kind of reward is it?¡±

    ¡°What is it that we have to do?¡±

    ¡°How long? Is it hard work?¡±

    ¡­...

    Everyone was focused on different things, but they were most concerned about the reward.

    While they assisted Great Magician Cami in his magical research, although they received a monthly sry, it was firmly fixed and it couldn¡¯t be discussed. So when these coworkers learned about the rewards, many of them were interested.

    ¡°This work isn¡¯t too hard for everyone and you won¡¯t spend that much time on it. As for the rewards, it depends on how much work is done. The more work down, then the more rewards there will be. The specifics are like this¡­¡­¡±

    When they heard Xu Yi tell them that they only needed to inscribe a simple Revolving Wind Array, everyone let out a sigh of relief. To them, this low level Revolving Wind Array didn¡¯t need them to spend too much time and it wasn¡¯t that difficult for them.

    When they heard from Xu Yi that eachplete Revolving Wind Array could earn them ten silver coins, everyone became very excited. Even We whose expression hadn¡¯t changed became a little excited.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, this work was very simple. They just had to make a few Revolving Wind Arrays and they could earn several gold coins. It really was rxed work.

    After Xu Yi finished speaking, of the sixteen people in theb other than Xu Yi, there were ten of them who agreed to do this work.

    The remainder who didn¡¯t agree included Rem and We, as well as those ranked at the top in terms of magical power in theb.

    Xu Yi could only reveal a gentle smile and say nothing else.

    He understood that these people didn¡¯t agree mainly because they looked down on this kind of work, even looking down on him.

    But this didn¡¯t hinder him at all, being able to convince ten coworkers had already exceeded his expectations.

    With the help of ten coworkers, justpleting the hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans wasn¡¯t a problem at all. They could even follow Heinz¡¯s idea and create even more fans.

    ###

    For the next week, Xu Yi could be considered so busy that his feet didn¡¯t even touch the ground.

    On one hand, he had to strictly monitor the quality of the fan¡¯s outer casing made at the cksmith.

    As a high level mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi knew that when a product was mass produced, the most important thing was to ensure that the quality was kept constant.

    However on the Sines Continent, the quality of a cksmith¡¯s productpletely depended on their experience and craftsmanship. There was no way to control the fine details of a product, so naturally it was impossible for the product to bepletely the same.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a way to control this temporarily. He could only make clear marks on the blueprint and request the cksmiths to strictly follow the design of the blueprints.

    On the other hand, he needed to teach his ten coworkers how to make the Revolving Wind Array.

    In the beginning, the ten coworkers disdained this matter. They thought that they didn¡¯t need to be taught for a trivial Revolving Wind Array, they could just casually make them.

    But when Xu Yi made a Revolving Wind Array in front of them, they found that this Revolving Wind Array was moreplicated than they had thought. They didn¡¯t understand most of the nodes and lines inside of the array.

    One of the coworkers wasn¡¯t convinced and randomly drew an array. However, when Xu Yibined this array with the fan outer casing, everyone found that the wind blown out of the Magic Fan was very weak, not reaching the basic standard set.

    At this time, they all obediently listened to Xu Yi¡¯s arrangement and honestly began to study the array.

    Other than focusing arge amount of energy on these two tasks, Xu Yi also couldn¡¯t give up his work at the Cami Magic Tower.

    With Heinz¡¯s urging of Xu Yi and the sales prospects of the Magic Fan, Xu Yi could give up working at the Magic Tower. If he just focused on selling the Magic Fan, he could guarantee that he wouldn¡¯tck money. So why did he make himself this busy?

    Xu Yi could onlyugh at this. He didn¡¯t give Heinz the reason why he did this and continued to work at the Magic Tower each day.

    After being busy for a week, five hundred Magic Fans were made in the end. After throwing away thirteen fans because they were inferior products, they were left with four hundred and eighty seven fans. Not only did they finish the preordered hundred and thirty seven fans, they had an extra three hundred and fifty fans.

    Xu Yi had rented a small room during this period of time as a workshop. After finishing work at the Magic Tower, Xu Yi and his ten coworkers gathered here to work hard on the Magic Fans.

    Today¡¯s work environment was different from before. There was much more joy since after finishing the five hundred Magic Fans, Xu Yi gave them the reward he promised them.

    Of the ten coworkers, each person finished around fifty Magic Arrays. ording to the reward Xu Yi had promised them before, each person received five gold coins.

    This amount did not seem like much, but for these low level wizards that normally didn¡¯t have much chance to earn a lot of money, this was a solid amount of ie for them.

    Other than that, Xu Yi even gave each of them a Magic Fan as a bonus.

    It had to be known, the Magic Fan had already be a hot product in Banta City. A normal person couldn¡¯t buy it even if they wanted to.

    In secret, the set price of two gold coins for each Magic Fan had even been raised to three gold coins! It had increased by half!

    If they were to sell the Magic Fans Xu Yi gave them, it would mean gaining three more gold coins!

    Seeing these young coworkers trying to hide the excitement on their faces, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He turned and headed in the direction of Heinz¡¯s store.

    Tomorrow was the day Heinz had set to sellrge amounts of the Magic Fans. This time he had used the money from the preorder of the hundred and thirty seven fans to directly make five hundred Magic Fans. If there was arge sale tomorrow, he would definitely earn arge amount.

    If there was an ident and he couldn¡¯t sell the Magic Fans, he wouldn¡¯t even receive his initial investment.

    Sess? Failure? He could only wait until tomorrow and see.

 Volume 1 6 - Shopping frenzy

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 6 Shopping frenzy</strong>

    It was already the middle of July, it was the hottest time of the year. Even though it was early morning, when the sun came out, the streets of Banta City became quite hot and dry.

    Banta City seemed like it had been weakened by the burning sun and the entire city didn¡¯t have any strength at all. Not to mention streams of people, it was rare to even hear a voice.

    However, in the business street to the city¡¯s west, it was apletely different scene.

    There were over a hundred small andrge stores gathered on this business street and there were several hundred people gathered here before the sun had even risen. What was even more shocking was that these several hundred people were gathered in front of a single store, like they had an appointment.

    ¡°Yi? Joseph, why are you also here?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, I can¡¯te if you can? That¡¯s right, Ike, you¡¯re also buying a Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. You said ¡®also¡¯? Could it be you¡¯re also here to buy a Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°Of course. I preordered one a week ago!¡±

    ¡­...

    Simr conversations sounded asionally from the crowd.

    After chatting to each other, everyone found that the hundreds of people gathered in front of this normal looking ¡°Heinz General Store¡± were actually all here to buy Magic Fans!

    There was a small group of people who had preordered one a week ago and were here to pick it up today. The other several hundred people had heard about the Magic Fans from other sources and had rushed here to get one.

    ¡°I say, with this many people, what if the story doesn¡¯t have enough Magic Fans to sell?¡± A person suddenly asked this question.

    He asked this question and the people chatting with each other suddenly became silent. After a while, it was like they were of one mind as they charged towards the door of the general store.

    ¡°Don¡¯t push! I have to buy a Magic Fan today! Otherwise, my wife will scold me to death!¡±

    ¡°Damn! You think that only your wife knows how to scold people? Mine told me that if I don¡¯t bring back a Magic Fan tonight, she would bring our kid to sleep on the streets!¡±

    ¡°Alright, all of you stop pushing! I already preordered one!¡±

    ¡°Scram! Why are fellows who have already preordered pushing with us!¡±

    ¡­...

    Xu Yi had already sent the five hundred Magic Fans to Heinz¡¯s General Storest night and was currently taking stock with Heinz. They suddenly heard the noise from outside the store and after looking at Heinz, they came to the front of the store together.

    When they opened the door, the two were scared by the scene in front of them.

    A dense crowd of people charged into the store like a flood, instantly filling this little store.

    ¡°Heinz, where is the Magic Fan I ordered?¡±

    ¡°Hey, boss, I didn¡¯t preorder one, but I want two right now! No! Three!¡±

    ¡°Me too! Heinz, I am an old customer here, you have to sell me two Magic Fans!¡±

    ¡°Damn, so what if you¡¯re an old customer? You have to sell me one if I give you money, I also want one!¡±

    ¡°What are you pushing so fiercely for if you¡¯re only buying one? Get to the back for me!¡±

    ¡­...

    It was already very hot, but when the crowd charged it, it became even hotter. Adding in the fact that this was Xu Yi first time dealing with this situation, he instantly broke out in a sweat.

    It was also Heinz¡¯s first time seeing such a wild crowd, but he had opened this store for many years, so he was much better at dealing with this situationpared to Xu Yi who always studied inside. He quickly calmed himself down and loudly shouted, ¡°Everyone, calm down! Calm down! We have prepared five hundred Magic Fans this time, we guarantee we can sell to all of you!¡±

    Hearing that there were five hundred of them, everyone calmed down a bit.

    But this calm onlysted for the blink of an eye as everyone thought of something. There were several hundred people outside the store and even if each person only bought one, it would be barely enough. But there were many people who didn¡¯t just stop at one just now, so like this, five hundred wasn¡¯t enough at all.

    Thinking this through, the crowd actually became wilder than before.

    Seeing this, Heinz knew that there was nothing he could say. He quickly looked at Xu Yi to have him and his nephew Alex who he called back two days ago to head to the backyard and bring out the merchandise.

    A single Magic Fan weighed less than three kilograms, so Xu Yi and Alex could bring out ten together. However, as soon as these ten had appeared, they were instantly taken by the crowd camping outside the store. The two of them could only head back and get some more.

    As Xu Yi and Alex moved back between the store and the warehouse in the backyard, all four hundred and eighty seven Magic Fans were quickly sold.

    After a while, the people in the store couldn¡¯t wait any longer and they directly charged to the warehouse in the backyard with Xu Yi and Alex.

    Heinz also took advantage of this to change the sales location to the warehouse. So in less than an hour, all the Magic Fans in the warehouse had been sold.

    There were still over a hundred people outside the store that hadn¡¯t bought anything yet. When they heard that all the Magic Fans had been sold, they were instantly disappointed and some of the more impatient people couldn¡¯t helpining.

    ¡°Not even preparing enough things, what kind of broken store is this?¡±

    To this kind of mindlessint, Xu Yi and Heinz could only reveal bitter smiles.

    But in their bitter smiles, there was a clear satisfaction and rxation.

    They thought it would take quite a while for them to sell over four hundred Magic Fans, but they never thought that they would all be sold in less than an hour. This really surprised the two of them.

    For the remaining hundred people who hadn¡¯t bought the Magic Fans, Heinz naturally wouldn¡¯t give up on them that easily. After obtaining a nod of affirmation from Xu Yi, he told everyone that there would berge amounts of Magic Fans in the future. If they needed them, they could order in advance.

    This time, no one hesitated and they all ordered in advance.

    After another half an hour, the people gradually scattered and the store returned to its normal calm.

    After sending off thest customer, Heinz immediately pulled Xu Yi into the back room.

    ¡°Ding, ding, dang, dang¡ª¡ª¡±

    Heinz shook the money bag in his hand and arge amount of gold coins flowed out like water. It came down and formed a small mountain of gold coins on the table in front of the two of them.

    Seeing this little mountain letting out a golden glow, Heinz swallowed a mouthful of saliva with great difficulty.

    Too much!

    It took Heinz a while before he could calm down his excited heart and took inventory of the money in front of Xu Yi.

    There were a total of four hundred and eight seven Magic Fans sold and with a price of two gold coins per Magic Fan, it should have been a total of nine hundred and seventy four gold coins. However, one hundred and thirty seven of those fans had a deposit of one gold coin on them, so after taking away one hundred and thirty seven, the total was eight hundred and fifty seven gold coins.

    After Heinz took inventory, there was nothing missing at all.

    ¡°Xu¡­..Xu Yi, we¡¯ve be rich today!¡± Even if his heart was prepared for this number, but seeing over eight hundred gold coins in front of him, Heinz felt a bit dizzy.

    Opening a general store in Banta City, his entire year¡¯s revenue wouldn¡¯t be more than three hundred gold coins. Not in just a single morning, he had earned over eight hundred gold coins!

    He simply didn¡¯t dare believe it was true!

    Although Xu Yi was calmer than Heinz on the surface, he was also a bit excited deep within.

    Aftering to this world for three years now, his lifestyle could not be considered abundant. Although he wasn¡¯t very sensitive towards money, with this kind of ie now, there was no doubt he could be much more rxed.

    The two were silent for a bit. Xu Yi calmed his mind and took out four hundred gold coins from the pile and moved it towards Heinz.

    Heinz was stunned, ¡°This isn¡¯t correct, right?¡±

    ording to the agreement between him and Heinz, he should have paid Heinz 10% which should have been amission of ny seven gold coins. Other than that, when he was making the five hundred Magic Fans, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have enough money for the material, so he borrowed two hundred gold coins from Heinz. He might as well return it all at once.

    Properly speaking, Xu Yi should have given Hienz three hundred gold coins. The remaining hundred gold coins was what Heinz was surprised about.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing wrong. The extra hundred gold coins is for you to help me find a bigger ce to rent in the city, making it more convenient for me to mass produce Magic Fans. Otherwise, if I keep doing from my home, it would be very inconvenient.¡±

    Heinz gave a slight nod. Xu Yi¡¯s little room was less than ten square meters, it was quite inconvenient.

    Xu Yi wanted to give more detail to Heinz when Alex who was watching over the store suddenly charged in.

    ¡°Uncle Heinz, Xu¡­..Mister Xu Yi¡­...There¡¯s a big customer here!¡±

    ¡°Big customer?¡± Xu Yi and Heinz looked at each other with surprised gazed, ¡°What is considered a big customer?¡±

    The two came to the front together and instantly understood what Alex meant by ¡°big customer¡±.

    The person who came was a middle aged man in his forties, with an average height and normal looks, but there was an astuteness to him from head to toe. When he narrowed his eyes to look over people, it was like he was looking at them like a product.

    ¡°One thousand.¡± After seeing Heinz and Xu Yi, that middle aged man named Lexis directly gave his reason foring here, ¡°I want to order one thousand Magic Fans in advance.¡±

 Volume 1 7 - No foundation

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 7 No foundation</strong>

    ¡°One thousand?¡± Heinz¡¯s voice instantly disappeared and he looked at Lewis in shock. He never expected that this fellow would actually give such arge number in a single breath.

    Lewis revealed a faint smile, ¡°What? You can¡¯t do it?¡±

    ¡°Of course¡­¡­¡± Heinz wanted to answer, but suddenly remembered that he didn¡¯t have any decision in this matter. He quickly looked over at Xu Yi, signaling to him with his eyes, hoping that he would quickly agree to this.

    What a joke! A thousand Magic Fans, based on the price of two gold coins, that was an entire two thousand gold coins!

    Based on the 10%mission, he would earn two hundred gold coins just based on this one deal!

    However, Heinz had another thought. If this Lewis directly looked for Xu Yi to make the order, he wasn¡¯t involved in this matter at all, so of course he wouldn¡¯t be able to take amission.

    Thinking of this, Heinz couldn¡¯t help struggling between gains and losses.

    Seeing Heinz¡¯s reaction, Lewis instantly understood. The one with the power to make this decision was Xu Yi, this normal looking ck haired youth, so he looked over at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was thinking of something else. He slightly knit his brows and considered it for a bit before shaking his head in front of Heinz¡¯s expectant eyes.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t take this order.¡±

    Lewis and Heinz were stunned. Lewis asked with a frown, ¡°Why? Are you afraid that I can¡¯t pay? If it¡¯s like this, I can leave a deposit right now.¡± He took out a special looking light gold paper from his chest after saying this, ¡°This is the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gold note, it can be used on the entire continent and it has a face value of one thousand gold coins. You can look it over.¡±

    ¡°Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gold note!¡± Heinz couldn¡¯t help calling out in shock.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the Sines Continent¡¯srgest chamber ofmerce. It¡¯s said that there are tworge empires behind them, one of them being the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family, who were incredibly strong. So, the gold notes they issued weremon currency on the Sines Continent.

    This middle aged man could actually casually take out a Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gold note worth a thousand gold coins, it could be seen that he was quite rich. It was something that a trivial general store owner like Heinz was far from being able topare to.

    ¡°That is not the reason.¡± Xu Yi was still unmoved, ¡°I cannot ept your order mainly because of reasons with my side. This is because I cannot guarantee that I can manufacture one thousand Magic Fans in a short period of time and even if I force myself to finish, I can¡¯t guarantee their quality.¡±

    ¡°Quality?¡± Lewis looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise, like he had found something interesting. His lips curled into a trace of a smile, ¡°Then Mister Xu Yi, if I were to increase the price a bit, say two gold coins and ten silver coins per Magic Fan, what would you think?¡±

    Heinz¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

    Adding ten gold coins per Magic Fan, although it didn¡¯t seem like much, it was a full one hundred gold coins for a thousand fans!

    Not to mention that ording to the normal rules of business, when arge amount was ordered like Lewis was doing, it was normal to give a discount. Lewis right now was actually taking the initiative to increase the price, so his sincerity could be seen.

    However, Xu Yi firmly shook his head, ¡°Sorry, this is unrted to price. The quality of the product is very important. If it can¡¯t be ensured, a disaster could ur and I¡¯m not willing to see that happen.¡±

    ¡°Disaster?¡± Lewis knit his brows, as if not understanding what Xu Yi meant.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, but he didn¡¯t n on replying.

    It was not umon for problems caused by quality issues on earth, so he didn¡¯t want to see this kind of problem appearing on the Sines Continent.

    Perhaps it was impossible to avoid all the problems, but he would do his best.

    This was a basic principle as a mechanical engineering master.

    Seeing how firm Xu Yi was, Lewis let out a sigh. He took back the gold note, but took out another piece of paper of a different colour that also looked quite special to give to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Mister Xu Yi, meeting you is a happy asion. This is my name card, please ept it.¡±

    Xu Yi took the name card and looked over it. He noticed that there was only a name and a simple address on it, there was no other information on it at all.

    This address was in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital city, Anvilmar, but as for exactly where it was, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know.

    Although he had lived in the Lampuri Kingdom for three years now, he had never gone to Anvilmar once.

    ¡°If you ever change your mind, you can find me at that address at any time. Perhaps you will have something as novel as the Magic Fan in the future, I hope you can think of me first. I believe that we will definitely have a chance to cooperate in the future.¡±

    Although this Lewis had an astute feelinging from him that Xu Yi didn¡¯t really like, whether it was his actions or his words, they made people unable to hate him. So, Xu Yi nodded, showing that he understood.

    After Lewis left, Heinz took the name card from Xu Yi¡¯s hand. After taking a nce, he called out in shock, ¡°It¡¯s actually Sloan Street! My god! He must be an incredible famous person!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Heinz with a curious gaze.

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± Heinz seemed to be very surprised with Xu Yi that he didn¡¯t know about Sloan Street, ¡°Sloan Street is where therge noble families of Anvilmar live. That Lewis wants you to go there to contact him, that means that he is definitely an important person who lives there!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, not caring at all. It didn¡¯t matter if this Lewis was an important character, he didn¡¯t have a rtionship with him right now.

    What he needed to care about right now was not this. Although he had earned a profit of over four hundred gold coins from this first batch of Magic Fans and could be considered rich, that was only the first step. If he wanted to continue earning more profit, there were still many things he needed to do.

    He didn¡¯t ept Lewis¡¯ order just now was because of the reason he mentioned. He couldn¡¯t guarantee the production line of the Magic Fans.

    The entire Magic Fan production line was him connecting the cksmith and his coworkers together, it was in fact a non-standard production line. Because of this, any problem that urred could affect production.

    The biggest problem was the ten coworkers who were in charge of the Magic Array at the core of the Magic Fan.

    The ten coworkers who had received the benefits of working with Xu Yi for a week, as long as Xu Yi continued to give them the same rewards, they would happily draw more Magic Arrays for him. However, this kind of cooperation was not stable, it could be cut off at any time by any sudden reasons that ur.

    But when Xu Yi took out a contract in hopes of employing them, all of the coworkers rejected him without any exception.

    Although they didn¡¯t say anything, Xu Yi was very clear on the reason why they rejected him. It waspletely because of their modesty and pride as magicians.

    They didn¡¯t have any problem helping Xu Yi draw a few Magic Arrays, it could be considered some extra ie in their spare time.

    But if it was signing a contract, to them, that meant bing Xu Yi¡¯s employee. To these magicians that were normally filled with pride, this was a very hard thing for them to ept.

    Although Magic Fans had the word magic in their name and was rted to magic, the Sines Continent didn¡¯t focus on the application of magic. This work was no different from being a normal artisan, so naturally magicians would look down on it.

    Other than that, the cksmith shop¡¯s side didn¡¯t let Xu Yi feel assured.

    Even if Xu Yi drew extensive blueprints when ordering the Magic Fan outer covers andbeled each part with careful details, there were still many parts of the outer cover that did not meet Xu Yi¡¯s requirements.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact the technological requirement of the Magic Fan was not too serious, Xu Yi would have returned all these defective products and had them remake them.

    Of course Xu Yi was very clear that this was him making excessive demands.

    As a high level mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi was used to high tech machines from earth that didn¡¯t differ from the requirements by even a single millimeter. But this was the Sines Continent, a mechanical world that had no foundations in technology at all. If he wanted to reach the same level of technology as on earth, that was of course a fool¡¯s dream.

    ¡°Ai, such serious responsibilities.¡± Thinking of the problems that he faced, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help letting out a long sigh.

    The next day, Xu YI went to the Magic Tower for work like normal.

    Xu Yi¡¯s status in the researchboratory was differentpared to before. Although his magical power wasn¡¯t any stronger, at least the ten coworkers that had worked with him and gained quite a bit of benefit from him were much more friendly to himpared to before.

    When he walked into theb, there were more people that greeted him.

    Xu Yi responded to them with a smile. When he sat down in his spot, We suddenly came up from beside him and pped the Magic Array blueprint in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I have already thoroughly studied your Magic Array!¡±

    Xu Yi looked up in a surprised manner, seeing that there was a very proud look on We¡¯s face. He looked back down at the Magic Array blueprint on the table and noticed that it was the core Magic Array of the Magic Fans, the Revolving Wind Array.

    But We had made put several notes on the blueprint,menting on almost every node.

    It was like We had said, based on the blueprint, she had thoroughly studied this Magic Array. Each annotation was very detailed and very easy to understand.

    Even if it was someone who had juste in contact with magic, if they looked at this blueprint, they wouldpletely understand all the changes Xu Yi had made to this Revolving Wind Array.

    Xu Yi looked over it and felt his eyes cross. He suddenly looked up at We, ¡°Hei, We, you really are good!¡±

    We gave a soft snort and revealed a look of pride.

    ¡°But this is just a low level array, it¡¯s not that hard to study it.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, obviously he wouldn¡¯t fall for the obvious hole in We¡¯s words. He raised the blueprint and asked, ¡°Can you sell this blueprint to me?¡±

    We was stunned, ¡°What are you buying it for? Didn¡¯t you make this array?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I was just honoured that someone would make such detailed annotations to this array, so I wanted to take back this blueprint. How about it? Will you sell it to me? Give me a price.¡±

    We looked at Xu Yi in surprise before casually waving her hand, ¡°At least you know quality. Forget it, I¡¯m not as blinded by money as you, a broken fan actually costs two gold coins. This blueprint isn¡¯t worth anything, I¡¯ll give it to you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then I¡¯ll have to thank you.¡±

    After saying this, he didn¡¯t hesitate to put away the blueprint.

    He really wanted to thank We. With this blueprint, it helped him solve arge problem.

    If he wanted to teach people how to make this Magic Array in the future, he didn¡¯t need to guide them that closely. He just needed to let them see this blueprint and they would understand most of it. It really saved him quite a bit of effort.

    When he was about to focus on his work, the doors to theb suddenly opened. Still quickly walked in and looked around theb before her gaze locked onto Xu Yu.

    ¡°Xu Yi,e with me. Grandfather wants to see you.¡±

 Volume 1 8 - Summoned by the Great Magician

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 8 Summoned by the Great Magician</strong>

    After being in the Cami Magic Tower for close to two months, this was actually Xu Yi¡¯s first time entering the top of the Magic Tower.

    When he stepped into Great Magician Cami¡¯s exclusive use area, a cool feeling immediately hit him. It made Xu Yi give an uncontroble shiver and he almost gave a sneeze.

    ¡°It¡¯s really good having arge scale Frost Array.¡± Xu Yi rubbed his nose before talking to Still in front of him with a smile.

    ¡°What? Are you envious?¡± Still looked back at Xu Yi with eyes filled with curiosity.

    The Magic Fan Xu Yi had invented not long ago had made her surprised, but she never thought that her grandfather would suddenly summon him. Adding in the impression Xu Yi made on her on the first day, Still was quite interested in Xu Yi.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi replied very naturally, ¡°The seniors in theb had secretly said many times that if there was arge scale Frost Array installed in theb, everyone¡¯s efficiency would increase by several times.¡±

    Stillughed before saying while waving her hand, ¡°That won¡¯t happen. Grandfather is known for being poor, he doesn¡¯t have the money to install arge scale Magic Array in eachb. Even this array here is only used on the hottest day, normally it¡¯s only for decoration.¡±

    Xu Yi somewhat understood this, but was still very curious.

    ¡°Young Miss Still, this isn¡¯t normal, right? His excellency Cami is still a Three Star Great Magician. Not mentioning anything else, just the set sry the kingdom gives him each year isn¡¯t small, how could he be poor?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s because he spends more money than he receives.¡± Still gave a shrug and looked very helpless, ¡°You only know that grandfather is a Great Magician and earns arge sry from the kingdom each year, but you don¡¯t know how much magic research, especially high level magic research like grandfather does costs. He uses most of his ie to buy magic materials and the rest is used for upkeeping the Magic Tower. His budget is actually quite tight.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­..But I¡¯ve heard that other Great Magicians are all very rich¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Are you trying to say that grandfather has no abilities in earning money?¡± Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Let me tell you, you can¡¯t mention this in front of grandfather, otherwise he will be very angry.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, of course I¡¯m not thinking this. I¡¯ve heard that his excellency Cami has always been opposed to magicians focused on earning money¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no choice, grandfather is just that stubborn.¡± Still let out a sigh, ¡°I have urged him several times, but he always says that magicians should be focused on magic. Thinking about making money all day, they are simply shaming the name of magicians.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and said nothing else.

    Great Magician Cami reminded him of those schrs who focused on research, they also disdained doing business. They felt that the scent of money would corrupt their academic research.

    Xu Yi did not like this kind of attitude. Sure the scent ofmercialism would greatly affect academic research, but with the infusion ofmercialism, it would raise their research funds, drastically improving their research environment. It would actually greatly increased the efficiency and progress of academic research.

    There were many examples on earth of perfectlybined research and business. The two worked with each other and its effect was much greater than pure research.

    Moreover, the mechanical engineering profession Xu Yi had was a science that focused on applications. If they couldn¡¯t createmercial value in their practical application, it would be considered a failure.

    ¡°We¡¯re here.¡± Still directly opened the door and signaled to Xu Yi to enter, ¡°You can go in, grandfather is waiting.¡±

    Xu Yi fixed his clothes and walked in with his head held high.

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s private researchb took up the entire top floor of the Magic Tower, naturally it took up a veryrge area. It was at least four-five timesrger than theb Xu Yi worked in.

    The arc ceiling of theb was very high, with its highest point surpassing five meters. Looking around, this ce seemed to be around the same size as a basketball field.

    At the center of the space was a desk and sitting behind the desk was an old man with a deep blue robe and deep blue hair currently performing magical research.

    This should be Great Magician Cami.

    Hearing that someone came in, Great Magician looked up. After seeing Xu Yi, he looked him over and nodded before lowering his head back down to continue his research.

    Xu Yi was not surprised by this, he had already heard that Great Magician Cami was obsessed with magical research. He must be immersed with some problem right now and wasn¡¯t willing to stop.

    During this time, Xu Yi looked around theb.

    Theb was much neater than he had expected. There were all kinds of strange magical technology ced ording to groups by the walls. The only messy ce was the desk Great Magician Cami was currently sitting at.

    There were strange marks on the wall and ground, which should have been left by Great Magician Cami during his experiments.

    Many of those marks were quite deep, it could be seen that the situation was very dangerous back then.

    Xu Yi suddenly stopped at a corner where a pile of mangled iron was ced. However, Xu Yi could easily tell from looking at this pile of mangled iron that it was the first Magic Fan he made that Still bought from him.

    Based on how tattered the Magic Fan was, it should have been destroyed by someone.

    As for who broke it¡­...

    Xu Yi looked back at Great Magician Cami with a bit of surprise in his heart.

    ¡°Could it be that Great Magician Cami is very interested in this Magic Fan? But the magic inside this thing is at a very low level, how could he care about something like that?¡±

    Not long after, Great Magician Cami seemed to have finished his research. After stretching his body, he directly stood up.

    After looking at Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami was a bit surprised like he hadpletely forgotten about Xu Yi.

    After pausing for a bit, he finally nodded at Xu Yi, ¡°You are Xu Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly gave a respectful bow, ¡°Yes, that¡¯s me. Respectful greetings to your excellency Great Magician.¡±

    Great Magician Cami waved his hand, ¡°No need to be nervous. I had Still bring you over because I wanted to ask you a few questions.¡±

    ¡°Please ask your excellency. As long as I know it, I will definitely answer it.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Great Magician Cami looked around and arrived at the mangled pile of iron Xu Yi had just seen, ¡°I¡¯ve heard Still say that you made this thing?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at the Magic Fan that one couldn¡¯t see the true form of anymore and awkwardly replied, ¡°When I gave it to Young Miss Still, it didn¡¯t look like this.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t me Still, I wanted to investigate it a bit, so it became like this.¡± Great Magician Cami threw the Magic Fan to the side. He dug around in his desk and took out a blueprint, ¡°Here, I was looking for you mainly because I was interested in the Magic Array you inscribed on the Magic Fan. There are some parts that I can¡¯t understand, I hope you can exin them to me.¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly filled with profound respect for Great Magician Cami. As a Three Star Great Magician, he actually admitted that he didn¡¯t understand some things to a fellow that hadn¡¯t even passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam. It could be seen that he was very serious about magic.

    ¡°Your excellency Camilly is too polite. I think there isn¡¯t anything the Great Magician can¡¯t understand about this Magic Array and the things you don¡¯t understand should be unrted to magic, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami thought for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°You can say it is unrted, but you can¡¯t say it ispletely unrted. Come, take a look, this ce¡­..¡± Great Magician Cami pointed at a part of the Magic Array, ¡°I can understand that you changed this part to make the Magic Array¡¯s revolving wind effect weaker, but I don¡¯t understand why you did it. Could it be you don¡¯t want the Magic Array to be stronger?¡±

    Xu Yi took a look and immediately replied with a smile, ¡°You¡¯repletely right about this, this change does weaken the Magic Array. However, your excellency, this Magic Array is mainly used to provide power to the Magic Fan, so it doesn¡¯t need to be that strong.¡±

    Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°That¡¯s not right, I¡¯ve tested your Magic Fan. Although the wind blown out isn¡¯t small, haven¡¯t you thought that sometimes you might need arger breeze? For example, my room is this big, if there was only a single Magic Fan, it can only blow wind in a very small part. It can¡¯t satisfy my needs at all.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hand with a bitter smile, ¡°Your excellency Cami, I did consider this problem when designing the Magic Fan, but I was limited by the materials used for the Magic Fan. The fan des can¡¯t withstand such high speeds at this time. If the Magic Array¡¯s power was increased, the fan des would revolve faster, but the Magic Fan itself won¡¯t be able to take it. You won¡¯t be able to use it long before it breaks.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Cami remembered the first time he injected magic into the Magic Fan. When the fan des were quickly rotating, it couldn¡¯t take it after using it for not long. It directly turned the Magic Fan into a pile of scrap iron, a matter that Still hadined about for a long time.

    ¡°Alright, leaving this question aside, what is with this ce?¡±

    ¡°Oh, this. This is guarantee the Magic Array¡¯s power was kept in a small area of fluctuation, guaranteeing that the wind blown out of the Magic Fan wouldn¡¯t be too unstable.¡±

    ¡°Then what about this?¡±

    ¡°This is tobine it with the overall design of the Magic Fan. Look, this Magic Array is attached to the middle axle of the Magic Fan. If it wasn¡¯t designed like this, the power released by the Magic Array will be greatly affected and it would waste the Magic Crystal.¡±

    ¡°Very good. There¡¯s also this part¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

 Volume 1 9 - Long term goal

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 9 Long term goal</strong>

    His meeting with Great Magician Cami was longer than Xu Yi had expected.

    Great Magician Cami had asked many questions about the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan and in order to make a good impression on Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi had to extensively answer every question.

    But most of Great Magician Cami¡¯s questions weren¡¯t rted to the Magic Array at all. After all, the Revolving Wind Array was only a low level Wind Magic Array. No matter how Xu Yi modified it, it was impossible that it would stump a Great Magician like Cami.

    Most of his questions were because he didn¡¯t understand the design of the Magic Fan.

    When it came to questions on design, most of them contained mechanical engineering knowledge.

    It could be said that this knowledge had never appeared on the Sines Continent before. Xu Yi had quite a bit of trouble exining these things to Great Magician Cami, sometimes he even had to start with the most basic knowledge.

    But because of this, when Xu Yi finished answering Great Magician Cami¡¯s questions, Great Magician Cami gave him praise that surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations.

    ¡°I had thought that this Magic Fan was something you casually designed, but I never thought it contained such rich knowledge. Moreover, putting aside the things that I didn¡¯t really understand when you exined them, just based on the Magic Array itself, it lets me see that you have quite a bit of talent for magic.¡± After saying this, Great Magician Cami paused before looking at Xu Yi with a bit more expectation, ¡°Xu Yi, I feel that you really aren¡¯t bad. How about this? Are you interested in bing my assistant for my magical research?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly stunned.

    Assisting Great Magician Cami¡¯s magical research? ording to the tradition of the Sines Continent, this was basically Great Magician Cami wanting to take Xu Yi in as an apprentice!

    If it was any other magician, they would be filled with wild joy and would ept without any hesitation.

    Cami was considered a top Three Star Great Magician even on the entire Sines Continent. Being able to be his apprentice, that was the dream of many young magicians!

    If any other magicians in the Magic Tower knew about this, they would die from their jealousy of Xu Yi!

    But Xu Yi thought about it and didn¡¯t immediately reply. He just said that he would consider it.

    Great Magician Cami was clearly a bit surprised and disappointed, but he didn¡¯t force Xu Yi to agree. He just waved his hand to let him leave.

    When he left the top floor of the Magic Tower, he was hit by a heat wave that caused Xu Yi to be covered in sweat, while also calming him down.

    Bing Great Magician Cami¡¯s apprentice?

    If it was two months ago, or even a month ago, he definitely would have agreed without any hesitation. But now he found that he wasn¡¯t moved by this prospect at all.

    ¡°Why am I suddenly unmoved?¡± Xu Yi asked himself with a frown.

    After the confusing thoughts circled his mind a few times, a familiar object appeared in his mind, the Magic Fan.

    That¡¯s right, it was the Magic Fan!

    This fused magic with the mechanical engineering of earth, it was made after Xu Yipletely focused his mind on creating it. During this process of studying it, he frequently had the misconception that he was back in hisb on earth.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel anything back then, but thinking about it now, he found that it waspletely the effect of the mechanical engineer¡¯s soul inside his body.

    That¡¯s right, he loved machines since he was young. In his previous world, he hadpletely thrown himself into the mechanical industry.

    Even though he couldn¡¯t use pursue his hobby and use his ability aftering to this magical world, forcing him to study magic, his heart had not changed.

    Now that he had realized the joy of researching machines through the Magic Fan, how could he be willing to give it up?

    ¡°That¡¯s right! I¡¯ll study machines in this magical world! I want to perfectlybine magic and the mechanical industry together! Not only a fan, but also air conditioners and refrigerators! Even steam boats and airnes! I want to create an industrial system on this continent! I want to create a magic industry empire!¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly felt like his entire body was filled with his epiphany and his body waspletely filled with excitement.

    He understood. This was because after wasting three years in this world in a daze, he had finally confirmed his goal.

    His goal could be considered lofty and even unlikely, but it was still a goal, it had motivational power!

    As for the difficulty? It would be ovee.

    Xu Yi¡¯s footsteps were faster when he returned to theb. What weed him were gazes filled with envy, jealousy, and questioning.

    His colleagues didn¡¯t understand at all, why was a new person that had been in the Magic Tower for less than two months suddenly summoned by Great Magician Cami. It had to be known, these people rarely saw Great Magician Cami and there was no need to mention being summoned by him.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about the strange gazes his colleagues were giving him at all. He now had a goal, he didn¡¯t care about anything else now. He had a faint smile on his face as he casually returned to his spot.

    Although he didn¡¯t n on being Great Magician Cami¡¯s apprentice, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on leaving the Magic Tower.

    If he wanted to do some things in Banta City, with some things rted to magic, he had to maintain a good rtion with Great Magician Cami. Xu Yi was not dumb enough to cut off this rtion on his own initiative.

    ###

    Three miles to the west of Banta City, there was a small manor that upied a space of less than ten thousand square meters.

    Although this manor was not big, it was very famous in Banta City because it was the only magic academy in Banta City, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    As the only magic school in Banta City, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy gathered all the children with magical talent in Banta City and around Banta City.

    To these children that wanted to be powerful Great Magicians, it was very important for them to study here. It was even to the point that they could give up eating and sleeping.

    ording to convention, other than studying basic magic knowledge each day, the students also had to learn some knowledge about Magic Arrays.

    Only during the time set for discussing Magic Arrays today, the second grade fourth ss professor surpassed all the students¡¯ expectations and brought out an ugly clump of iron.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that a Magic Fan!¡± The sharp-eyed students instantly recognized it.

    The Magic Fans had been a hot product in Banta City during these past few days. It was not especially expensive and had a low consumption, so something that let people cool down was weed by everyone.

    Most students of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy had decent family backgrounds, with many of their families buying the Magic Fans immediately. So naturally they could easily recognize it.

    But it wasn¡¯t anything to recognize the Magic Fan, why did the teacher bring it out in the ssroom?¡±

    ¡°Students, today¡¯s main lecture will be studying this Magic Fan. urately speaking, it is the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan.¡± The teacher quickly gave an exnation to the students.

    ¡°Che, isn¡¯t it a toy used bymoners? What value is there in us studying it? Teacher, are you sure you aren¡¯t making a mistake?¡±

    The one who spoke was a slightly chubby youth who was around sixteen-seventeen years old.

    This youth was called Orin Zetaman, the second son of Banta City¡¯s Viscount Zetaman. He was the one with the best family in the second grade fourth ss. It¡¯s said that every room in his house had arge scale Frost Array, so naturally he looked down on the Magic Fan.

    Hearing Orin¡¯s words, the teacher¡¯s face sunk. He strictly said, ¡°Orin, you can look down on the Magic Fan, but as a magician, you can¡¯t look down on the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan. I can tell you that the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan is exquisite, it is something a normal magician cannot create. I can even make a bold analysis that the one who made this Magic Array was someone at the Great Magician level!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Great Magician?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, why would a Great Magician do something like this?¡±

    ¡°Our Banta City only has his excellency Cami, the only Great Magician, right? Doesn¡¯t he dislike magicians working together with merchants?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps he has changed his views?¡±

    ¡­...

    After a while of talking, the students began to understand their teacher¡¯s thoughts.

    Even if the Magic Array inside wasn¡¯t created by a Great Magician, the level of magic contained in this Magic Array far surpassed their imaginations.

    Since it was like this, it was natural for the teacher to want them to study it.

    When the teacher opened the Magic Fan and revealed the Magic Array to the students, the students were even more shocked.

    As second year students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy, they were not new students who knew nothing about magic. They could naturally see the astonishing level of magic contained within this Magic Array.

    Although many students could tell this should be a variant of the Revolving Wind Array, there was not a single student that could understand every part of the array.

    There were many students who couldn¡¯t even understand how this Magic Array was activated and maintained, so there was no need to mention them understanding how the Magic Fans could run on his Magic Array.

    It had to be known, there were many magical geniuses in the second year fourth ss. They were even honoured as the most talented ss in the Baron Rickto Magic Academy!

    The more these proud young men and women studied this Magic Array, the more profound they found this Magic Array. They were filled with iparable admiration for the magician who made this Magic Array.

    Only they didn¡¯t know that they magician they were secretly admiring was not that far from them right now.

    In the student management office of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy, the director Shearer was looking at the unexpected guest with a frown on his face. Based on the symbol on the ck robe he was wearing, he could confirm that he was Great Magician Cami¡¯s subordinate.

    ¡°Young man, are you here for something? Or did Great Magician Cami send you here?¡±

    ¡°No, this is not rted to Great Magician Cami. This is my private matter.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Private matter? What is it?¡±

    ¡°This is not anything troublesome. I am here because I want to hire some students.¡±

    Shearer¡¯s expression sunk, ¡°We are a magic school, not a mercenary school! You¡¯vee to the wrong ce!¡±

    Xu Yi was not surprised, he just said with a faint smile, ¡°Then Director Shearer, what if I said that this work would not only pay the students and also help them raise their magic level?¡±

    Shearer was stunned, ¡°Are you joking? How could there be such a good job?¡±

    ¡°Of course there is.¡± Xu Yi had a radiant smile, ¡°If you don¡¯t mind, I can slowly exin this to you¡­..¡±

 Volume 1 10 - Renting land

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 10 Rentingnd</strong>

    A horse carriage was slowly heading out Banta City¡¯s western gate. It gradually elerated and quickly headed to Banta City¡¯s western suburbs.

    Xu Yi and Heinz were sitting across each other inside the carriage. Heinz was holding a rough map of Banta City in his hands and was exining something to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Look, this is Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory, with a total area of close to a thousand hectares and over half of it is undevelopednd. Viscount Leslie has promised us that we can casually pick a piece ofnd to rent from this undevelopednd.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the map and pointed at the map with his finger, ¡°No need to pick, here is fine.¡±

    ¡°This ce?¡± Heinz looked at where Xu Yi was pointing and thought about it . He said with a frown, ¡°This ce is not close to Banta City and it isn¡¯t close to anything else, I¡¯m afraid it won¡¯t be convenient living there.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug before saying with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s good if there is nothing there, it¡¯s more convenient for us to n things. It has to be known, it¡¯s easier to draw on an empty piece of paper than a covered piece of paper.¡±

    ¡°But like this, our expenditures will be higher than estimated.¡± Heinz still had a frown on his face.

    ¡°This initial investment is necessary.¡± Xu Yi nodded before drawing another circle on the map, ¡°If it¡¯s possible, I even want to rent thisrge part of undevelopednd to use.¡±

    ¡°Thisrge part?¡± Heinz said in a stunned voice, ¡°We can¡¯t do that. Just to rent a hectare ofnd, we need to pay Viscount Leslie one hundred gold coins every year. I we rent such arge piece¡­..It wouldn¡¯t be ten thousand, but it would be several thousand gold coins each year. Then again, we don¡¯t need such arge workshop, why do we need such arge piece ofnd?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Heinz, could it be that you are only satisfied with a little Magic Fan factory?¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze. Could it be this fellow has even bigger ambitions?

    Just yesterday, Xu Yi had found Heinz to tell him not to waste time finding a suitable ce in Banta City because Xu Yi wanted to find an empty space outside Banta City. He was nning to build a factory on emptynd and focus on producing Magic Fans.

    During this time Xu Yi also had Heinz¡¯s nephew Alex perform a small survey of the city. ording to their results, Xu Yi could estimate that the consumption for Magic Fans in Banta City was around three to five thousand and right now they had only sold less than five hundred. This meant they had a market of over several thousand people.

    Moreover, this number was only limited to Banta City. The living conditions of families in the rural areas outside Banta City was not as good as Banta City, but there was still a certain demand for Magic Fans.

    If the area around Banta City was included, Xu Yi could make a bold estimate that the demand for Magic Fans was over ten thousand units!

    Because of this number, Xu Yi had made the decision to increase his production line.

    If he wanted to greatly increase his production, there were limits to the warehouses he rented in Banta City. So, Xu Yi directly headed outside the city, preparing to build a Magic Fan factory.

    After all his research, he finally decided on a piece ofnd that belonged to Viscount Leslie.

    Of course, if he wanted to increase production, other thannd, the more important thing was people.

    Xu Yi looked at the stack of things in his hand and his lips curled into a smile.

    Of this stack, half was information on thirty people and the other half was thirty contracts.

    These things were his harvest after his trip to Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    With his hard work at convincing him, Director Shearer finally allowed Xu Yi to recruit Baron Rickto Magic Academy students to work for him. However, Shearer had said that he would not openly support him, he would just not oppose him.

    However, after Xu Yi put in effort all around the campus and finally seeded in recruiting thirty students that met the requirement.

    The magic level of the students were not high, at least there wasn¡¯t a single one that couldpare to Xu Yi.

    But as Baron Rickto Magic Academy students, they had a solid foundation on the basics of Magic Array, as well as some experience drawing Magic Arrays.

    Even though the Revolving Wind Magic Array of the Magic Fan had been changed by Xu Yi, making it moreplicated, it was still only a low level Wind Magic Array. It wasn¡¯t that difficult to inscribe it.

    Xu Yi recruited these students and the only thing they had to do was inscribe the Magic Arrays.

    Although this was a very simple task, they needed a certain amount of magical power to do this.

    When he was manufacturing the five hundred Magic Fans, Xu Yi had asked his ten coworkers to help himplete them. However, in order to produce over ten thousand Magic Fans, it was impossible just to rely on his ten coworkers.

    Compared to this, it was more suitable for him to hire thirty students than to rely on his ten coworkers.

    First, these thirty students wouldn¡¯t be as constrained as his ten coworkers, they wouldn¡¯t hesitate to sign a contract with Xu Yi. With them establishing a clear employment rtionship with Xu Yi, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t need to worry about them affecting production.

    Next, when Xu Yi invited his ten coworkers toplete the five hundred Magic Fans, he had paid each coworker five gold coins and given them a bonus of a Magic Fan. Compared to this, he had already discussed this with the thirty students and each one would be earning two silver coins per Magic Array drawn, so he could greatly cut down on costs.

    Actually when Xu Yi mentioned this pay, he was a bit worried that the students would find it too low. However, he never thought that after hearing the pay, the students would all look very excited, even praising Xu Yi for being so generous.

    Thest thing was the most important point. Compared to his coworkers in theb, these magic academy students still had not formed their own thinking, so they didn¡¯t have that much prejudice towards magical application.

    Xu Yi could instill them with his mechanical engineering knowledge from earth, letting them learn from the beginning.

    If a few of them showed talents in magical engineering, that would be a very valuable resource.

    If more and more of these magicians appeared, Xu Yi¡¯s dream of creating an industrial system on the Sines Continent would no longer just be a dream¡­..

    The horse carriage suddenly jolted and Xu Yi was thrown out of his seat, instantly bring him out of his daydream about the future.

    ¡°We¡¯re almost there.¡± Heinz on the side reminded him.

    Xu Yi opened the window and looked out. He found that the horse carriage had already left therge road to Banta City¡¯s west and was now on a rocky and unsmooth small vige road.

    Feeling the shakinging from the carriage, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°This situation of this road is toocking.¡±

    Heinz said with a bitter smile, ¡°Of course, this ce is a piece of undevelopednd. For it to have a small road that can let a horse carriage pass is already pretty good.¡±

    ¡°This won¡¯t do. Heinz, if I wanted to make a smooth path from our ce to therge road just now, around how much money would that cost?¡±

    ¡°Building a road?¡± Heinz was stunned. He looked down and pointed at the map a few times before replying with a bitter smile, ¡°That is not cheap. Even if it is the most simple road, it would cost several hundred gold coins.¡± After pausing for a bit, he couldn¡¯t help adding, ¡°Actually, although this road is a bit bumpy, it can let a horse carriage pass, so we don¡¯t need to spend all that money on repaving the road, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, we have to repave this road. The Magic Fans aren¡¯t that well made, so perhaps their transport requirements aren¡¯t high, but we will be making more and more precise products in the future. With the situation of this road, it¡¯s very easy for products to ur during transport.¡±

    Heinz curled his lips. He found that he didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi meant by ¡°well made¡±, ¡°future products¡±, and ¡°precise¡±, so he couldn¡¯t help trying to convince him otherwise.

    But right now, Xu Yi was the one in charge and he didn¡¯t have any decision making rights, so he gave up on trying to convince him in the end.

    The horse carriage continued jolting down this road for a bit before it finally slowly stopped.

    Xu Yi and Heinz jumped out of the horse carriage and looked around, seeing a true expansive wastnd. The surrounding area was filled with weeds and they couldn¡¯t see anything.

    Seeing how run down thend was, Heinz couldn¡¯t help being a bit disappointed, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all.

    He had gone to several areas on earth that were being developed, thend there was even more deste than this. After it was developed, it wouldn¡¯t be long before it became much more lively.

    Although this area was very deste right now, he believed that if he kept investing in it, this ce would be much more luxurious.

    ¡°Are you Mister Xu Yi and Mister Heinz?¡± A small and thin old man had appeared at an unknown time.

    ¡°Hello Butler Brunei, I am Heinz and this is my partner Xu Yi.¡± Heinz quickly came forward to greet him, ¡°Xu Yi, this is Viscount Leslie¡¯s butler, Mister Brunei.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over this ordinary looking old man and gave him a bow.

    Brunei looked over with his small eyes and looked over Xu Yi. He said with a nod, ¡°Alright, since you are here, then have a proper look. The Lord Viscount has said that although this ce is undevelopednd, since it is in his territory, he can¡¯t just give it to people to use. No matter what you want to do in the future, if it¡¯s on thisnd, you have to tell the Lord Viscount first, understood?¡±

    Looking at this arrogant Brunei, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling angry and finding this funny.

    If this was earth, if someone like him was willing to pay money to rent this undevelopednd, the owner would go wild with happiness.

    But on the Sines Continent, Viscount Leslie not only took his money, his butler Brunei was acting this arrogantly. It was like thisnd wasn¡¯t being rented by Xu Yi, rather it was Viscount Leslie who was gracious enough to let him use it.

    Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t reveal anything on his face, so he just nodded in agreement. Then he turned to look around the area.

    Xu Yi was very satisfied with his inspection. This geological conditions of thisnd was good and the terrain was rather t, it was very suitable for building a factory.

    The more important thing was that there was a ten meter wide river by thisnd and there was a small forest on the other side, so it was easy to gather resources and to gather water.

    The only problem was that transportation wasn¡¯t too convenient, but Xu Yi had already considered this problem.

    Renovating the road to ensure connection was the first thing to do when building a factory or a mine.

 Volume 1 11 - Buying a slave

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 11 Buying a ve</strong>

    A hectare ofnd was not too big, Xu Yi spent less than an hour to finish inspecting it.

    Returning back to Butler Brunei, Xu Yi took out a document from his bag.

    ¡°Butler Brunei, this is our n for thend¡¯s use for the first year, you can bring it back for the Lord Viscount to look over. If there is anything the Lord Viscount isn¡¯t satisfied with, he can tell us and we will make the appropriate changes to ording to Lord Viscount¡¯s needs.¡±

    Xu Yi was still very respectful on the surface.

    He was very clear that the Sines Continent was currently in a half feudal society, being different from the society on earth. If he wanted to seed in some things on the continent, he had to follow some customs.

    As expected, with Xu Yi¡¯s respectful appearance, Butler Brunei¡¯s expression became more rxed. He took Xu Yi¡¯s n and gave a nod, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll have the Lord Viscount look it over when I head back. Actually you don¡¯t need to be too worried, the Lord Viscount is a very generous person. As long as you don¡¯t do anything that will upset him, the Lord Viscount normally will not interfere.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll have to thank Butler Brunei for your kind words.¡±

    The better the tone became, naturally this matter became much more smooth. Butler Brunei only casually looked over the development n before taking out a rent contract for Xu Yi to sign.

    When Xu Yi signed his name, Butler Brunei finally revealed a smile. He reached his hand out towards Xu Yi, ¡°Very good. Mister Xu Yi, thisnd will belong to you for a year. I hope that you will treasure this chance the Lord Viscount has given you.¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡±

    The three people said a few more words and when Xu Yi and Heinz wanted to leave, a shrill cry suddenly came from the distance.

    The three of them were stunned, looking in the northwest direction the cry came from.

    There was another pitiful wail before the sound of crying and the sound of a leather whip cracking rang out.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go take a look!¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t have time to think as he rushed off in the direction the sound came from.

    Heinz hesitated a bit before looking at Butler Brunei beside him, ¡°Butler Brunei, it seems like the sound ising from Lord Viscount¡¯s territory?¡±

    Butler Brunei narrowed his little eyes to look in the direction the sound came from before waving his hand, ¡°We¡¯re going to take a look.¡±

    When they came closer, the sound became louder. The sound of the whip cracking couldn¡¯t help making people¡¯s hearts feel fear and hearing the pitiful crying that came after, people couldn¡¯t help feeling pity.

    Xu Yi was younger than Butler Brunei and Heinz, and adding in the fact that he left first, he appeared where the sound came from not long after. Looking up, his eyes instantly filled with anger.

    In a deste area, threerge men were currently surrounding a child who was only around fourteen-fifteen years old. These people had whips in their hands and kept cracking them at the child.

    That child already had countless bloody marks from the whips and even some parts of his body werecerated, making them look iparably pitiful.

    They could cry out pitifully at first, but now they didn¡¯t scream anymore, not even have the strength to turn over. They could only keep twitching from the whips falling on them.

    ¡°Stop!¡± Xu Yi roared out in rage, charging out without even thinking about it, ¡°You want to beat him to death?¡±

    The threerge men clearly never expected someone to charge out and stared at Xu Yi in a daze. They mostly had scruples because of the magic robes that he was wearing, so they couldn¡¯t help stopping.

    But when Xu Yi wanted to lean over to look at the child, he was stopped by one of therge men.

    ¡°Hey, what are you doing? We¡¯re teaching this ve a lesson, no matter who you are, you have no qualification to meddle in this matter!¡± Therge man shouted.

    ¡°ve?¡± Xu Yi was stunned when he looked at the child on the ground. He remembered that this was Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory, then this child would be¡­...

    ¡°This is Viscount Leslie¡¯s ve?¡±

    Therge man looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Since you know the Lord Viscount, then do not stick your nose in the business of others. Let me tell you, this little bastard has lost the Lord Viscount¡¯s cattle, it wouldn¡¯t be going easy if he was beaten to death!¡±

    ¡°Cattle?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and angrily said, ¡°It¡¯s just losing a single cow, you want his life just for that?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t know shit!¡± Therge man scoffed, ¡°It¡¯ll be the fall harvest in less than two month, but this little bastard has lost a cow at this time, that would greatly affect the fall harvest! Then again, do you know how much a single cow costs? Forty gold coins! This little bastard wouldn¡¯t be worth half that much even if he was sold! Don¡¯t you think it¡¯s going easy on him?¡±

    ¡°That still doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t beat him to death? Even if you kill him, that cow won¡¯te back.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! Of course we know that. This is punishment! Do you understand punishment? If we don¡¯t punish this fellow, the other fellows will all be the same and then who would nt the Lord Viscount¡¯s fields?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows. He knew that he couldn¡¯t talk any sense to them and there was nothing on the Sines Continent that protected ves, so he really didn¡¯t have any qualifications to stop the other side from doing this.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked around at Butler Brunei and Heinz who were not far behind him and calmed down.

    The threerge men followed Xu Yi¡¯s gaze and naturally saw Butler Brunei.

    As guards of Viscount Leslie¡¯s manor, they naturally recognized the trusted Butler Brunei of Viscount Leslie. After being stunned for a bit, they quickly went over to receive him.

    After a while, Butler Brunei and Heinz also came over. When they looked over the scene, they understood what was going on.

    ¡°Mister Xu Yi, this is our family¡¯s matter, I ask you not to interfere.¡± Butler Brunei¡¯s tone was very indifferent, but his voice gave no room for argument.

    Xu Yi deeply knit his brows. He knew that if they followed the customs of the Sines Continent, he indeed didn¡¯t have any reason or qualification to interfere.

    But to have him watch a child being beaten to death like this, this was not something he could ept.

    Xu Yi looked over at Heinz for help, but he saw Heinz shaking his head to him. It was clear he didn¡¯t agree with his actions.

    The threerge men pulled out their leather whips and Xu Yi felt anxious. He suddenly had an idea and shouted, ¡°Wait a minute! Butler Brunei, can I buy him from you?¡±

    ¡°Buy?¡± Butler Brunei was stunned, but then he knit his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, I have already told you, this is our family¡¯s matter, are you really going to meddle with this?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I don¡¯t have this meaning.¡± Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°I just suddenly remembered that it isn¡¯t convenient for me to live alone. I had always wanted to buy a servant to serve me, but I¡¯ve never found a suitable one. Since this servant belongs to the Lord Viscount, I want to ask for a favour and hope the Lord Viscount will sell him to me. How about it? I believe as the trusted butler of the Lord Viscount, you can make the decision for a trivial ve, right?¡±

    Butler Brunei¡¯s face sunk and was about to reject him when Xu Yi suddenly charged forward, cing a hand on his shoulder.

    This sudden action made Butler Brunei frown and when he was about to get angry, he heard Xu Yi whisper in his ear, ¡°10% stocks! Sir butler, as long as you agree to sell this ve to me, I will give 10% of the stocks of my newly built Magic Fan factory to the Lord Viscount. What do you think?¡±

    Butler Brunei looked at Xu Yi in a daze and found that Xu Yi had a very serious expression, not looking like he was joking at all. He couldn¡¯t help saying in a curious voice, ¡°Mister Xu Yi, you really want to give away 10% stocks for a trivial ve? Although I don¡¯t know the value of this 10% stock, with how the Magic Fans are selling in Banta City, it shouldn¡¯t be a small value, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Just treat it as me being willful.¡±

    Butler Brunei looked at Xu Yi with a deep gaze, ¡°You¡¯re certain about this?¡±

    Xu Yi firmly nodded, ¡°Certain.¡±

    Butler Brunei nodded. He didn¡¯t throw away Xu Yi¡¯s arm and waved his hand at the threerge men, ¡°Let him go.¡±

    The threerge men looked at each other and obediently walked away.

    Butler Brunei looked at the ve on the ground before looking back at Xu Yi, ¡°Mister Xu Yi, he belongs to you now.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and reached his hand into his pocket, ¡°Many thanks, many thanks. How much is this ve worth?¡±

    Butler Brunei¡¯s lips curled into a strange smile. He shook his head and said, ¡°Mister Xu Yi is this generous, I naturally can¡¯t be petty representing the Lord Viscount. This ve will be given to you, just treat it as a meeting gift.¡±

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then I ask you to thank the Lord Viscount for me.¡±

    After Butler Brunei and the threerge men left, Xu Yi and Heinz carried the ve into the horse carriage together.

    When he heard the price Xu Yi paid to save the ve on the way back, Heinz almost jumped out of the carriage.

    ¡°Are you crazy!¡± Heinz pointed at Xu Yi, actually being a bit out of breath from his anger, ¡°Xu Yi, ording to our estimate, if everything goes smoothly, the profit of this Magic Fan factory will be at least five thousand gold coins in a year! The 10% share you¡¯ve given Leslie is equal to giving him at least five hundred gold coins! You have to know, we also spent one hundred gold coins to rent this one hectare ofnd from him for a year!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, signaling for Heinz to sit down. He said with a smile, ¡°Actually this isn¡¯t anything, I wanted to find a chance to give Viscount Leslie a 10% share anyway. I might as well use this chance to give it to him, it¡¯s better to say that everything is going ording to my n.¡±

    Seeing how rxed Xu Yi was, Heinz rxed a bit. However, he was still a bit confused.

    ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yiughed and pointed at the destend outside the window, ¡°Heinz, you¡¯ve already seen it, thisnd is all Viscount Leslie¡¯s personalnd. You should know what personalnd means, right? It means that as long as Viscount Leslie changes his mind, he can drive us out at any moment. Even if we have a contract, it¡¯s no use because it¡¯s that damn noble¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already considered this, so if we want to do this for a long time, we need Viscount Leslie¡¯s full support. But how can we make that noble Lord Viscount fully support us? There is only one answer which is to put him in the same carriage as us. As long as we share benefits with him, he will fully support us. At the very least, he wouldn¡¯t be dragging us down. Actually, 10% is too little. If possible, I want to give him 20%. But this would be too conspicuous and our rtionship is just starting, so there¡¯s no rush for this matter.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a while before suddenly shaking his head and letting out a long sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I was mistaken about you.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    ¡°I thought at first that you were a magical genius, but now it seems like you¡¯re more of a profiteer than me.¡±

    ¡°Ha, many thanks for your praise.¡±

 Volume 1 12 - Variable Speed Magic Fan

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 12 Variable Speed Magic Fan</strong>

    The little ve was covered in bruises andcerations. Although his wounds looked very terrifying, they were actually only skin wounds and didn¡¯t hurt his physique at all.

    Xu Yi delivered him to Banta City¡¯s best hospital. After confirming that there was no life threatening danger, he left him with the doctor and let the doctor watch over him as he returned to the Cami Magic Tower.

    Returning to theb, his coworkers were a bit surprised to see him suddenlye in.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, didn¡¯t you take the day off? Why are you back?¡± Rem loudly asked.

    ¡°I finished my matters and had nothing else to do, so I came back to see if there was any work here.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°Oh? I thought that you wouldn¡¯t be nning toe back this time.¡±

    ¡°Rem, don¡¯t you understand? With how well the Magic Fans are selling right now, Xu Yi would be fine even if he didn¡¯te back. He can be rich just by selling the Magic Fans, how would he need toe back to this shabby tower to do the dirty work in the future?¡±

    Hearing this dark voice, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. He then shook his head with a smile and ignored it.

    Because he needed to organize the factory and do many other things, he had to take several days off.

    Great Magician Cami said nothing about this, but his coworkers in theb had some veiled criticisms. There were even some that had a bit of anger in their voices when they were talking.

    Xu Yi was toozy to care about why they cared about him so much, it didn¡¯t affect him that much anyway.

    ¡°We, how is the research for the Magic Array going?¡± Xu Yi came directly to We¡¯s desk and asked in a low voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s pretty much done.¡± We took out a Magic Array blueprint and spread it on the table, ¡°Look at this, I agree with your thought that using the Lidiel Node would conflict with the Magic Array. I¡¯ve done many experiments over the past few days and have already found the most suitable model. Do you think it¡¯s alright?¡±

    ¡°Since you say it¡¯s the most suitable, then there definitely isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    Though he said this, Xu Yi still carefully looked over the Magic Array blueprint. Finally he confirmed that We¡¯s solution was indeed very suitable.

    ¡°Great! We, thanks for your help.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi gave a soft cough, ¡°Of course, help on one side and reward on the other. Another ten gold coins, what do you think?¡±

    We¡¯s face had a slight blush and she awkwardly said, ¡°Isn¡¯t that too much? I only spent a single night on it.¡±

    ¡°He, he, it¡¯s because you are a genius. Knowledge is priceless, I even feel ten gold coins isn¡¯t enough.¡± Xu Yi said.

    We thought about it and was no longer polite, as she nodded in agreement.

    When Xu Yi walked away from We, Rem came over with a frown.

    ¡°We, what were you talking about with Xu Yi? Acting all sneaky.¡±

    We red at him, ¡°Who are you calling sneaky? How was it sneaky?¡±

    Rem was surprised and his voice became apologetic, ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m just saying¡­..Mysterious, that¡¯s right, mysterious. What were you talking about?¡±

    ¡°Nothing, Xu Yi just wanted my help in studying a Magic Array and then he gave me ten gold coins as remunerations.¡± We didn¡¯t think there was anything that needed hiding, so she openly said it.

    ¡°Ten gold coins?¡± Rem shouted out in surprise, attracting the attention of everyone in theb. He was surprised before saying in a low voice, ¡°He¡¯s giving you ten gold coins just to study one Magic Array? Is he cheating you?¡±

    ¡°What reason would he have to cheat me?¡± We rolled her eyes at Rem, ¡°This is not the first, he paid me quite openly the past few times. What reason do I have to not trust him?¡±

    ¡°Not the first time?¡± Rem was even more shocked, ¡°We, you actually¡­...actually hid from me that you and Xu Yi¡­¡­¡±

    We instantly flew into a rage, ¡°What are you saying? What hiding from you? Who are you to me? Do I have to report to you if I want to do something?¡±

    We¡¯s voice became even louder and fell onto the ears of everyone in theb. Everyone looked over at We and Rem, treating it as a lover¡¯s quarrel.

    And then everyone looked over at Xu Yi. They couldn¡¯t understand, why did Xu Yi talking to We for a bit cause her and Rem to argue? That kid Rem, he normally wasn¡¯t someone who was jealous¡­...

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have time to pay attention to We and Rem. After he received the Magic Array blueprint from We, he went back to his table to continue working.

    This Magic Array was an improved Revolving Wind Array for the Magic Fan.

    Because the first design for the Magic Fan was rushed, there were many parts that weren¡¯t perfect. Now that Xu Yi was prepared to expand Magic Fan production lines, naturally he was prepared to make a new Magic Fan.

    For example, if he finished researching this Magic Array in his hand, he could let the Magic Fan change speeds. It wouldn¡¯t keep rotating at the same speed like the first generation Magic Fan.

    But while this modification sounded simple, it actually had a high requirement of the Magic Array. Xu Yi could no doubt study this himself, but it would waste quite a bit of time for this, so he simply asked for We¡¯s help. He hoped that she could change the design of the Magic Array based on his requirements.

    We was already interested in Xu Yi¡¯s first generation Magic Fan and hearing that Xu Yi wanted her help in changing the Magic Array, she immediately agreed.

    As a magician whose magic power ranked in the top ranks of theb, We¡¯s researching ability towards Magic Arrays was much stronger than Xu Yi¡¯s. It didn¡¯t take her long to make the changes to the Magic Array ording to Xu Yi¡¯s requirements.

    Xu Yi was very happy with this result. He recognized that a single person¡¯s power was limited and each profession had specialization, so in terms of magic level, We was much stronger than him. So giving this kind of magic question to a specialist like We was not wrong.

    We helped him solve every problem, so naturally had to pay ten gold coins as remunerations.

    We always said it was too much, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t think so.

    It had to be known that if one looked for a specialist to solve a problem on earth, if they didn¡¯t give a high price, the specialist would ignore them.

    The more important thing was that this could save Xu Yi quite a bit of time, letting himbine magic and design together.

    To suit this altered Magic Array, the Magic Fan¡¯s structure inevitably needed to be changed a bit. The only person on the Sines Continent that understood this was Xu Yi, no one could help him.

    It was nowte July and the hot weather wouldn¡¯tst more than two months. If he wanted to let the second wave of Magic Fanse out during the summer, Xu Yi needed to make the best use of his time.

    Time passed quickly when he focusedpletely on researching. When Xu Yin finally determined the first steps in the Variable Speed Magic Fan design, he looked up to find that theb was already silent. His coworkers had already finished work and left.

    Xu Yi stretched himself out. When he was prepared to put away his things and leave, the doors of theb suddenly opened and Still¡¯s head poked in.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you really haven¡¯t left yet.¡± Still waved her hand and Xu Yi and revealed a bright smile.

    ¡°What is it? Do you need me for something? Is Great Magician Cami summoning me again?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Although he didn¡¯t meet Still that much, because she had helped him get his job in the Magic Tower, he had always felt grateful towards her. He was much more friendly with herpared to his coworkers.

    Still rolled her eyes and gave a soft snort, ¡°What? I can only look for you if I need something?¡±

    Xu Yi had a lost smile as he shook his head. He didn¡¯t believe that still would look for him without any reason, but he wasn¡¯t dumb enough to reveal this lie in front of this neen year old young miss.

    ¡°Looking for me without a reason? It can¡¯t be because I¡¯m too handsome and you¡¯ve fallen in love with me, right?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help teasing her.

    Still¡¯s face turned red and she red at him. She angrily said, ¡°Why are all you men so full of it? Alright, stop wasting time,e with me. We¡¯re going out to eat, it¡¯ll be my treat.¡±

    ¡°Treating me to a meal?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, as he thought, it really would be strange if you looked for me without a reason, alright?

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t believe me?¡± Still red at him. She came over to hook Xu Yi¡¯s arm and pulled him outside.

    ¡°Hey, hey, hey, this will make people misunderstand. I¡¯ll walk with you, alright¡­..¡±

    Still treated Xu Yi to a meal in a restaurant not far away from the Magic Tower.

    This restaurant didn¡¯t look very expensive, but it had a quiet atmosphere. This ce wasn¡¯t too crowded and the dishes were a bit special, tasting quite good. It could be seen that Still had put some thought into treating him.

    While they were eating, Still hesitating a few times, but she never said anything. Xu Yi felt this was funny and said nothing, just lowering his head to eat.

    Seeing that they were about to finish the meal, Still couldn¡¯t take it anymore and said to Xu Yi in a small voice, ¡°That¡­..Xu Yi, can I ask you something?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he thought that Still was quite patient. He asked back, ¡°What is it? Tell me about it. Based on this meal, I¡¯ll help if I can.¡±

    Still¡¯s heart was filled with anger. She thought to herself that she was still a beauty, not to mention treating someone to a meal, if she found another man for help, which one wouldn¡¯t just follow her?

    Xu Yi actually said that he would help based on this meal, but he still sounded reluctant. He really didn¡¯t know good from bad.

    But she was the one asking for something, so she let go of her attitude. She forced a smile and said, ¡°Eh¡­..It¡¯s like this. Do you remember when you came for your interview at the Magic Tower on the first day and took out that model piano?¡±

    ¡°I do, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Do you have it on you right now?¡±

    ¡°No. That thing is not small, why would I bring it around for no reason?¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°That is right.¡± Still thought about it before suddenly saying, ¡°Then how about we go to your house right now?¡±

 Volume 1 13 - Problems with mass production

    <h4><strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 13 Problems with mass production</strong></h4>

    Xu Yi choked on a mouthful of food.

    ¡°Ke, ke, ke¡­...Ke¡­...Still, what did you say?¡±

    ¡°Go to your house.¡± Still felt a bit strange, but seeing the strange expressions on Xu Yi¡¯s face, her mind turned and instantly understood what he meant. A faint blush covered her face and she couldn¡¯t help sending a punch out, ¡°What are you thinking!¡±

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand and shouted, ¡°Alright, alright, I know what you mean. You want to go to my house and see the model piano, right? But I don¡¯t understand, why are you in such a rush?¡±

    Still stopped her hand and hesitated for a bit. She asked in an uncertain voice, ¡°Xu Yi, that¡­..Can you sell me that model piano?¡±

    ¡°Sell it to you?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still with a confused gaze, ¡°What do you need it for?¡±

    ¡°I have my uses.¡± Still ambiguously responded.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t even think about it as he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid not. That thing is very important to me, I can¡¯t sell it to you.¡±

    It wasn¡¯t Xu Yi rejecting on purpose. That model piano was made by him during his time in the Senkaiser School, it was also the first magical mechanical product he made in this world, so it was very sentimental to him. He wasn¡¯t willing to give it to anyone.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Still was a bit disappointed before asking, ¡°Then¡­..Can you teach me how you made it? Un, I originally wanted you to teach me how to make it since personally making something is worth more than buying something from someone else.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still with a strange gaze, ¡°Still, I want to ask something. Are you nning to give this to someone?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I need to give someone a birthday present right now. Last time I saw your model piano, I felt it was quite novel and using it as a birthday present was quite good. What do you think? Can you teach me? Teach me how to make it, alright? I promise I will not treat you unjustly. As long as you help me, I will let grandfather treat you well from now on.¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin. Forgetting about using this chance to advance a step further with Great Magician Cami, just based on the fact that Still was such a beauty, it was normal for him to help her.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I want to ask something else. Is the person you¡¯re giving the present to a man?¡±

    A faint blush appeared on Still¡¯s face and she angrily said, ¡°Why do you care!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, thinking that he had been correct.

    But Still was neen years old, she was in the spring of life. It wasn¡¯t strange for her to like some boy.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s no problem teaching you how to make it, but there¡¯s no need to go to my house. It¡¯s already gettingte, it¡¯s not convenient for a little girl like you toe to my house. From tomorrow onwards,e to theb to find me after work, I¡¯ll teach you there.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Xu Yi, I never thought you would be such an honest person.¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­...Do I look like a dishonest person?¡± Xu Yi angrily looked at Still, as he snappily asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, when do you need the present? I need to prepare my speed for teaching you.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still half a month, there shouldn¡¯t be a problem, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, that is enough time. That model piano¡¯s crafting technique is not difficult, it just requires some fine details.¡±

    After the two made an agreement, Xu Yi left after saying goodbye. He didn¡¯t head home like normal, rather he went to the hospital first.

    The little ve who was wrapped in bandages, looking no different from a mummy had woken up from theira. Lying on the bed in the hospital, their eyes looked at the sealing and there was a trace of rm and fear in them.

    Hearing Xu Yi talking to the doctor, he finally reacted. He turned to look at Xu Yi and a deep curiosity appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°How do you feel?¡± Noticing the little ve look over, Xu Yi stopped talking to the doctor and asked him this in a gentle voice.

    The little ve didn¡¯t seem very adept at talking to others, so he only nodded after a bit of hesitation.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t press him. He asked the doctors a few things and after confirming that he was already good, he said to the little salve, ¡°It¡¯s good that nothing¡¯s wrong. Your injuries haven¡¯t healed yet, so just rest up for a few days here. I¡¯lle back for you when you are better.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to leave when he felt a tug at the corner of his clothes. Turning back in a surprised manner, he found that the little ve had reached out and was tightly holding his clothes.

    Xu Yi looked at the nervous and fearful little ve and instantly understood what he needed.

    ¡°What? You need someone to stay with you? I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t, I¡¯m very busy with work, I don¡¯t have much time to stay with you. Rx, since I have already bought you, I won¡¯t throw you away. You can just rx and stay here. The doctor has said that you can leave in a few days, it¡¯s fine.¡±

    The doctor on the side looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze.

    Bought? That meant the little fellow on the bed was a ve.

    This Xu Yi really was a strange person, actually being this good to a ve.

    It had to be known, this hospital was Banta City¡¯s best hospital, the fees weren¡¯t cheap at all.

    The little ve tightly held Xu Yi¡¯s clothes and the fear on his face became stronger. It was like he was afraid that Xu Yi would throw him away.

    Seeing this appearance, Xu Yi could only give a helpless sigh. He turned to the doctor and asked, ¡°Is it alright if I take him home like this? Will there be any danger to him?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...Actually he only has some external injuries, it isn¡¯t too serious. There¡¯s no problem taking him back now, as long as he eats his medicine on time and change his ointment every three days.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good, I¡¯ll take him home first then. Leave this bed for him, I will pay the fees.¡±

    The doctor couldn¡¯t help looking at the little ve in the bed.

    This kind of treatment, not to mention a ve, some family¡¯s children would find it hard to receive something simr.

    Completely wrapped up, this ve that couldn¡¯t move at all was brought back to Xu Yi¡¯s home. He worked hard to get him to settle down and after feeding him his medicine, Xu Yi was covered with sweat.

    Seeing the little ve sleep after eating his medicine, Xu Yi let out a long sigh, ¡°Hu¡­..I told Butler Brunei that I wanted to buy him to take care of me, but now I¡¯m the one taking care of him.¡±

    Even while sleeping, the little ve had a pained expression on his face from time to time. It could be seen how difficult his life was normally.

    Seeing this thin little face, Xu Yi let out a sigh and shook his head. He turned to to take a bath before heading back to study the Magic Array.

    After having We¡¯s help with the Magic Array, the research on the Variable Speed Magic Fan had be much faster. All that was left to do now was to find a suitable structure for this Magic Array.

    Xu Yi wanted to use this second generation Magic Fan to greatly increase the power of the Magic Fan, but after researching, he found that there were two problems that couldn¡¯t be avoided.

    The first problem was materials.

    The industrial system of the Sines Continent was close to zero. Although there were some artificial products, most of the time they used natural materials. Even if it was processed, it was a crude processing. The various kinds of materials were far from being able topare to the super finely made materials of earth.

    Taking the Magic Fan as an example, the core part of it was without a doubt the electric motor, but Xu Yi had used the Revolving Wind Array to rece that.

    However, for the center bearing that was just as important as the electric motor, Xu Yi had not been able to find a suitable recement currently.

    On earth, they could use highly dense and highly wear resistant alloy materials on earth, but they could only use normal iron on the Sines Continent.

    This world¡¯s iron craftsmanship couldn¡¯tpare to earth¡¯s, the quality of the smelted iron wasn¡¯t high. Even if they were hammered, it wouldn¡¯t raise the quality that much higher.

    When Xu Yi made the first generation Magic Fan, he didn¡¯t care that much about this quality.

    An electric fan on earth couldst for around ten to forty thousand hours, but with Xu Yi¡¯s current estimates, the first generation Magic Fans couldn¡¯tst more than three thousand hours.

    If each Magic Fan was used for eight hours during the three hottest months of the year, the first generation Magic Fan could onlyst four years before they broke.

    If it was used all day like Heinz was doing, the two Magic Fans he had now would be broken by summer next year.

    It could be said that the problem with the material was the most serious problem with the Magic Fans and it was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t solve at all.

    Materials was one of the most basic andplexponents of an industrial system, it would involve many parts of the system. Even on earth, it would be very difficult to increase the level of materials, not to mention the Sines Continent with no industrial system at all.

    The second problem was an issue with the production process.

    There were no standard tools on the Sines Continent like on earth. When Xu Yi made the first generation Magic Fans, he could only find the cksmiths in the forges and have them create something based on his design.

    It could be said that these cksmiths had pretty good technique for Banta City, but no matter how precise human hands were, they couldn¡¯tpare to the precise machinery of earth. The outer cover for the Magic Fans they built always had a slight difference.

    Although it didn¡¯t seem like a big problem, Xu Yi was very clear that if they wanted to increase the output of Magic Fans, they needed to step into mass production. That meant that every part of the Magic Fans needed to be perfect, or at least it had to reach a level of being uniform.

    ¡°Cutting machines, slide tool rests, punch presses, drill presses, and boringthes¡­..Ah, ah, ah, I want to die!¡±

    Thinking about all the problems he needed to face when wanting to start mass production, Xu Yi gave a wail filled with pain.

 Volume 1 14 - A hundred thousand bolt screws

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 14 A hundred thousand bolt screws</strong>

    Standing in front of the Volcano cksmith, Xu Yi had swept away the pain fromst night and had beposed again.

    ¡°May I ask if Master Lanus is in?¡± Xu Yi came to the front door of the cksmith and was hit with a wave of heat, almost forcing his words back into his mouth.

    ¡°Keng¡ª¡ª¡±

    A loud metal shing sound came from the cksmith, as if it took the ce of a reply.

    Xu Yi went in and he saw the forge of the cksmith spew out mes. Beside the forge, there was a dwarf whose head was only to Xu Yi¡¯s chest, but was several times bulkier than him currently holding a piece of red iron mped in his left hand and with his right hand mming down with a hammer that was two times the size of his head.

    ¡°Keng¡ª¡ª¡±

    ¡°Keng¡ª¡ª¡±

    ¡­...

    As the hammer fell down again and again, there was a clear metal nging sound that filled the cksmith, that had a kind of charm to it.

    Xu Yi watched this dwarf¡¯s extremely rhythmic hammering for a while and couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    Heinz really was right. If one was talking about cksmithing, dwarves really were the best on the continent.

    When he met Heinz today, Xu Yi discussed the issues he faced with him. Heinz didn¡¯t have a method for the material problem, but in terms of craftsmanship, he did give a suggestion. It was to have Xu Yi search for Banta City¡¯s most renowned cksmithing master, which was this dwarf Lanus in front of him.

    After being reminded by Heinz, Xu Yi finally remembered that while the Sines Continent was different from earth, it didn¡¯t only have humans. There were also many races other than humans.

    The dwarf n was renowned as cksmithing masters on the continent, publicly recognized as the race with the greatest skills in cksmithing.

    But normally dwarves lived in their own tribes and rarely went out, so there was only Lanus, this dwarven cksmith master in the entirety of Banta City. Xu Yi actually never thought of him before.

    Xu Yi patiently waited for a while and Lanus finally finished what he was currently forging. He threw the red piece he had already hammered into shape into the water and looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hey, say what you want to say, I don¡¯t want to beat around the bush.¡± While speaking, Lanus took a waterskin from the table and opened it, causing a strong wine scent to spew out.

    Dwarves loved wine the most, the stronger the better.

    ¡°Master Lanus, I am here to ask for your help in making something.¡± Xu Yi took out a blueprint from his chest.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Lanus raised his head back to takerge mouthfuls while taking the blueprint to look it over. He gave a cold snort and threw the blueprint away, as he angrily said, ¡°Who told you that I, Lanus would help people make this kind of broken nails?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, as he picked up the blueprint from the ground, ¡°Master Lanus, although this thing is a nail, it is better to call them screw bolts.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care if it¡¯s a screw bolt or not, anyway I, Lanus will never make this kind of little toy! You can leave!¡± Lanus waved his bulky arm and turned to leave. He looked like he wasn¡¯t willing to acknowledge Xu Yi at all.

    ¡°Are you not making it? Or can you not make it?¡±

    When Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, Lanus quickly turned around and pointed at Xu Yi as he shouted, ¡°Human! Let me tell you, don¡¯t think that Lanus is someone stupid you can goad into action! I said I won¡¯t do it, so I won¡¯t do it!¡±

    ¡°Oh, if you won¡¯t make the screw bolt, will you make this? This thing is not a small thing.¡± Xu Yi took out another blueprint.

    Lanus red at Xu Yi before calmly taking the blueprint.

    This time he didn¡¯t throw away the blueprint, rather he honestly looked over it.

    After a while, Lanus slowly looked up at Xu Yi with a face filled with curiosity, ¡°Hey, little human, where did you get this blueprint? Why have I never seen this before?¡±

    ¡°It was made by me. How about it? Master Lanus, can you make it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Lanus looked at the blueprint and carefully thought it over. His face suddenly turned red and he gave a snort, ¡°This was just randomly thought of by you, how could it be made? I say, brat, did you deliberatelye here to y with me? If so, scram for me now!¡±

    Xu Yiughed. There was arge scale excavator on this blueprint, it was even hard to make on earth, trying to make it with humanbor was basically a fool¡¯s dream.

    But he certainly wasn¡¯t here to y with Lanus. Although he saw Lanus bing angry, he looked down at the blueprint and said with a serious face, ¡°Master Lanus, you are a cksmithing master. Although this thing can¡¯t be made right now, you should know that this wasn¡¯t randomly thought of by me. This thing is the main reason I came to find you.¡±

    Lanus gave a snort, but his expression rxed a bit.

    Actually he could see that Xu Yi was not lying.

    Although the thing on the blueprint seemed like it was fantasy, there were exhaustive details written for every part of the blueprint, even having detailed and precise parameters. It could be seen that this was not made on an impulse.

    And based on his inference, he could tell that it wasn¡¯t impossible to make this thing, only it couldn¡¯t be aplished with the Sines Continent¡¯s current cksmithing level.

    ¡°Alright, brat, just what do you want me to make?¡± Lanus couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Xu Yi took out the first blueprint.

    ¡°I¡¯m not joking with you, this time I really hope that you can help me make this bolt screw.¡±

    This time Lanus didn¡¯t fly into a rage, but he carefully looked over the blueprint.

    When he looked it over, he saw that there was a little toy drawn on the blueprint and threw it away. Now that he was carefully looking over it, he found that although this little toy called the screw bolt was small, it was actually not simple.

    Looking it over, he found that this thing was like a normal nail, but looking it over carefully, he found that although it was like the nail, this screw bolt had fine lines all over it. There was no difference in the spacing between lines and it curved all the way down. It looked very precise andplicated, it was not something a normal smooth nail couldpare to.

    Lanus looked at it for a while and was a bit confused, ¡°Hey, kid, why did you make such aplicated pattern for a nail? To make it look better?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi took out another blueprint for Lanus with a smile.

    The blueprint had ns for the second generation¡¯s Variable Speed Magic Fan, but it was only a part of the Magic Fan¡¯s outer casing. It included the screw bolt and nut part connecting the outer casing.

    Lanus took the blueprint and looked it over, immediately understanding the mysteries contained within.

    ¡°So it was something like this! This is great! With these holes, as long as these screw bolts are twisted firmly, it will be fixed! Even taking it out is very convenient! Hey, kid, the person who thought of this is simply a genius!¡±

    As a cksmithing master, Lanus could tell with a single nce that this screw bolt would have arge effect on the cksmithing industry.

    He had looked down on this little screw at first, but seeing the cap nut and the screw bolt hole, his perspective of the bolt screw greatly changed.

    Looking up to see Xu Yi¡¯s faint smile, Lanus was stunned, ¡°Was this thing something you thought of?¡±

    ¡°It was me.¡± Xu Yi admitted without any politeness, ¡°How about it? Master Lanus, are you willing to make this screw bolt now?¡±

    Lanus looked at the blueprint and nodded, ¡°Based on your creative talent, I will make an exception and help you. Tell me, how many of these screw bolts do you need?¡±

    Xu Yi raised one finger at him with a smile.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be one, right? Is it ten? Un¡­...I¡¯ll make a mold first, it should take around a week.¡± Lamus thought about it before speaking.

    ¡°Not just ten.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Then a hundred? There¡¯s isn¡¯t much of a difference. As long as a mold is made, a hundred isn¡¯t that different from ten. It should take around ten days.¡±

    ¡°He, he, Master Lanus, you¡¯re mistaken. It isn¡¯t a hundred either, it¡¯s a hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡°A hundred thousand?!¡± Master Lanus¡¯ eyes were already quite big and they were staring right at Xu Yi right now, wishing that he could spit in Xu Yi¡¯s face, ¡°I thought that you were seriously here for my help, but I never thought you were ying me! A hundred thousand! You want me to spend the rest of my life making these damn screw bolts?

    Xu Yi wiped his face and his smile didn¡¯t change as he took out another blueprint.

    ¡°It¡¯s a waste for a master cksmith like you to spend your life on something small like the screw bolts. Actually, I came to find you this time was to have you help me make this Magic Thread Rolling Machine.¡±

    ¡°Magic Thread Rolling Machine? What damn thing is that?¡±

    Lanus curiously took the blueprint and from a single nce, his face became serious.

    ¡°This¡­..This thing is like this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°How about it? Do you have any confidence in making this?¡±

    Lanus didn¡¯t immediately respond this time and looked at the blueprint for a while. After thinking for a bit, he slowly replied, ¡°I need to research this, I can¡¯t make it that quickly. That¡¯s right, kid, what is this thing used for?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the screw bolt blueprint, ¡°It¡¯s to make screw bolts.¡±

    ¡°Oh? No wonder it¡¯s like this.¡± Lanus nodded in understanding.

    ¡°Master Lanus, if possible, I hope you can make this machine as quickly as possible. Of course, I definitely will provide a reward you are satisfied with.

    Lanus waved his arm, ¡°We¡¯ll talk about the paymentter, first tell me this, what is with this toy? For such aplicated thing, there are many things that aren¡¯t clearly written on your blueprint. How do you want me to make this?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretly revealing a smile. He said in his heart that this Magic Thread Rolling Machine was something that he made with the Sines Continent¡¯s situation in mind. If he were to draw the Thread Rolling Machine from earth without changing a thing, even if it was a dwarven cksmithing master renowned across the Sines Continent, he would definitely be stunned seeing it.

 Volume 1 15 - Everyone has ambitions

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 15 Everyone has ambitions</strong>

    ¡°Look, these two Magic Arrays should be further apart. This way, the two Magic Arrays can work together on this node and the two Magic Arrays won¡¯t affect each other.¡±

    ¡°You need to pay attention here, you have to look over each socket, there can¡¯t be a single mistake. Otherwise, a spring will be stuck when the piano starts and it can¡¯t continue working.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what song did you decide on? Different songs have different keys, so the Magic Arrays are also different, it needs to be set beforehand.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, you can¡¯t do this here, you will destroy the entire model¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    The Cami Magic Tower was silent after work, but Xu Yi¡¯s voice kept ringing out in theb he was in.

    He was following through with his agreement, teaching Still how to build her model piano after work.

    Still¡¯s talent in magic was as good as the rumour said. Xu Yi only needed to exin the principle of the two Wind Attributed Magic Arrays of this model and she could easily replicate it.

    But when it came to model design and building the model, Still could only honestly listen to Xu Yi¡¯s instructions.

    It was a good thing Still was diligent and naturally intelligent. Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to waste that much effort before she learned the main points.

    After using around a week¡¯s worth of rest time after work, Still¡¯s model piano had already taken its basic form. Now they only needed to make a few more precise adjustments.

    With the current speed, it would take no more than three more days. They could definitely finish it before the birthday of Still¡¯s friend.

    ¡°Ka¡ª¡ª¡±

    Still pressed gently and a sound came from the model. The piano lid fit perfectly with the base.

    ¡°Hu¡ª¡ª¡± Still let out a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat off her face, ¡°Alright!¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..Not bad.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°You¡¯ve grasped the main points of the model, the rest you canplete by yourself. If there is any adjustment you don¡¯t understand, you can as meter.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Still replied, turning to reveal a smile at Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, thank you for patiently teaching me. Later, I¡¯ll treat you to another meal.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the sky outside and shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t today, I have a meeting with someone else tonight. I have other things to do.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Still was a bit disappointed. She thought about it before asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, I always wanted to ask you, why did you reject my grandfather¡¯s invitation? You should know, there are many young magicians who give their all to being grandfather¡¯s disciple. Moreover, grandfather has secretly praised you several times in front of me, saying that your talent in magic is very high. As long as you focus on studying magic, it is very likely you¡¯ll be a Great Magician in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for his excellency Great Magician¡¯s praise, but please tell his excellency that it isn¡¯t because I don¡¯t want to be his disciple. Only, there are too many other things to do and I¡¯m afraid I won¡¯t have enough time to study magic with him, so I can only turn down his goodwill.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Still knit her brows and asked in a confused voice, ¡°Even my grandfather has praised you for your high talent in magic and I can see in these past few days that your talent in magic is indeed high, perhaps even greater than mine. Why aren¡¯t you willing to properly study magic? Could it be because of that Magic Fan? I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve been focused on studying that during this period.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and asked a question back, ¡°Still, what do you think of the Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°Me?¡± Still pointed at herself and honestly thought about it before slowly answering, ¡°I feel that it is very interesting because it¡¯s very rare to see magic being put to use in daily life and it is very well designed. To be honest, I admire you quite a bit. But Xu Yi, you should be clear that a magician¡¯s status on the Sines Continent depends on his strength. Even if you design a hundred Magic Fans and your magic power isn¡¯t that strong, you still won¡¯t have any status. Your magic talent is that good, I urge you to focus on studying magic. As long as you be a Great Magician, I promise you that everyone will apud and praise you when you design a Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying this like everyone feels the Magic Fan is a bad thing¡­..¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering in a low voice. Seeing Still¡¯s honest expression, he gave a cough and seriously said, ¡°Still, I understand what you are talking about, but each person¡¯s thoughts and pursuits are different. Perhaps most magicians feel that their magic power is the most important, but I am not the same. I¡¯ve always felt that magic is a tool. Magicians can use magic to destroy, so why can¡¯t they use it to build? We have reasons to use magic in many parts of our daily lives and if we can improve everyone¡¯s lives with magic, isn¡¯t that good?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Still hesitated, ¡°You¡¯re right, but¡­...But if a magician isn¡¯t strong enough, they will miss many¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Who says that studying magical machinery won¡¯t raise my strength?¡± Xu Yi suddenly revealed a strange smile. He raised his right hand and activated his magic, creating a small cream coloured tornado in his hand that was visible to the naked eye.

    ¡°Miniature Tornado Spell!¡± Still called out in shock, ¡°This is a Third Grade Magic Spell, only Third Grade Magicians can use this kind of spell! Xu Yi, I remember that during the interview, you said that you hadn¡¯t passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam!¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t pass doesn¡¯t mean I can¡¯t pass.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course, my magic power during the interview couldn¡¯tpare to my magic power now. Back then, I was still in the middle of the First and Second Grade Magician Rank.¡±

    ¡°Your meaning is that¡­...In just two months, you became a Third Grade Magician?¡± Still was even more shocked, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated? You¡­..Your talent in magic is actually this high? I thought you normally didn¡¯t have that much time to research magic!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You can¡¯t just raise your magic power by focusing on studying magic. While studying magical machinery, I am also focusing on studying Magic Arrays. Studying Magic Arrays is also equal to studying magic, so it isn¡¯t strange that it can raise magic power. Still, when focusing on building this model piano during the past few days, didn¡¯t you find that your magic power has increased because of it?¡±

    Still tilted her head to think before nodding, ¡°Un, I feel that my understanding of Wind Attributed Magic has deepened. But¡­..it isn¡¯t as exaggerated as you.¡±

    ¡°That is because I am a genius.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, boasting as he spoke.

    Still rolled her eyes at him and couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Since you are a genius, why don¡¯t you focus on studying magic? With your talent, there is a veryrge chance of you bing a Great Magician.¡±

    ¡°I already said it, everyone has their own ambitions.¡± Xu Yi said with a rxed expression. He looked up to cut Still off from trying to convince him otherwise and looked at the sky outside before saying, ¡°Alright, Still, we¡¯ll end here today. I¡¯ll remember your offer to treat me to a meal, when I remember it in the future, you can¡¯t forget about it.¡±

    ¡°Humph, petty.¡± Still pouted her lips.

    Xu Yiughed before putting away his things and walking out.

    When he came out of the Magic Tower, he saw someone in the distance quickly walk over.

    Xu Yi was very familiar with that figure, it was Heinz.

    Seeing how rushed Heinz looked, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Since Xu Yi gave Heinz 20% of the stocks, he was like a car that gained more horsepower and he drove off at full force. Not only did he take the job to supervise the factory, hepletely took over the production, transport, and sales channels for the Magic Fan. He was entirely like a smart andpetent manager.

    As for his small general store, he had alreadypletely handed it over to his nephew Alex.

    Although Heinz was not someone who had experience and creativity, he was a good person and wasn¡¯t afraid of working hard. He was very organized when taking care of things, so it could be said he was very suited to this kind of work.

    Of course, the dividends brought by the 20% was the greatest driving force for this kind of effort.

    ¡°Hey, Heinz, why did youe looking for me today? You¡¯re even this anxious¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi had just raised his hand to greet him when he was suddenly shocked.

    Heinz hade over at this time. Xu Yi was surprised to find that he looked very serious, so solemn that he seemed like he would drip out water at any moment.

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

    This was because since they hired the thirty Baron Rickto Magic Academy students to draw the Magic Arrays, the production of the first generation Magic Fans hadn¡¯t stopped during this time. The sales had been as high as usual, selling over a thousand of them in just a short week.

    This brought Xu Yi over seven hundred gold coins in profits and also two hundred gold coins for Heinz who had a 20% share. Heinz¡¯s mood had been good the entire time, always having a smile whenever he met Xu Yi, like he had just drank honey.

    This was his first time seeing him with such an ugly expression.

    ¡°Could it be that something happened?¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi quickly walked over.

    Without Xu Yi even asking him, Heinz said in a small voice, ¡°Xu Yi, this is bad, something has happened!¡±

    Seeing how anxious Heinz was, Xu Yi patted his shoulder to tell him to calm down.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be anxious, what happened? Tell me slowly?¡±

    Heinz took a few deep breaths and calmed down after a while. He looked around before moving close to Xu Yi, whispering in a deep voice, ¡°There has been imitations of the Magic Fan!¡±

 Volume 1 16 - Brand

    <h4>Brand</h4>

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Fan that was almost exactly the same on the table. After looking over it for a while, he reached out his hand to press the switch.

    The Magic Fan stopped for a few seconds before the fan des began to rotate slowly. After a while there was a cool breeze that was blown out.

    Xu Yi stood in front of the fan to feel the breeze and gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, not made, it¡¯s quite cool.¡±

    Heinz on the side became anxious, reaching out to turn off the Magic Fan. He began panting out of anxiety, ¡°It¡¯s already like this and you have the mind to praise it? Quickly think of a way! Let me tell you, there isn¡¯t just this one thing. I¡¯ve had people investigate this for me and there aren¡¯t that many in Banta City, but there are many imitations outside the city!¡±

    ¡°Did you investigate where the imitations came from?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Heinz was instantly discouraged.

    ¡°No need to investigate.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°There is no use even if you find out.¡±

    ¡°What do you mean no use! We can tell¡­..¡± After saying this, Heinz suddenly stopped.

    This was because he suddenly remembered that for products, not to mention the Lampuri Kingdom, even the entire Sines Continent didn¡¯t have aw that protected them against imitations. Even if he found the person making the Magic Fan imitations, it was impossible to depend on the kingdom¡¯sws to punish that person. The kingdom might even reprimand him for being too nosy.

    ¡°Have you realized it?¡± Seeing Heinz¡¯s expression, Xu Yi knew he understood the main point, ¡°Actually when I was designing this Magic Fan, I had already thought of this.¡±

    This was not just Xu Yi deceiving Heinz, when he was designing the Magic Fan, he had already done his research. He was certain that the Sines Continent was exactly as he thought, there was nothing like patents and there wasn¡¯t a need to mention something like product protection.

    So he was already certain a long time ago that Magic Fan imitations would appear because the technology in this thing wasn¡¯t at a high level, so it wasn¡¯t hard to imitate it at all.

    ¡°Since you have already thought of this, do you have a way to prevent it? Do we really have to watch these sneaky fellows copy us? Xu Yi, you should be clear on this, each one they sell means one less we sell. That means we will be earning one less sparkling gold coin!¡±

    ¡°Alright, no need to be excited.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to press him down, signaling to Heinz to calm down, ¡°Rx, since I have already thought of this, I have already prepared a way to stop it. Come, take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi casually grabbed one of the Magic Fans he made and pointed at the base of the fan for Heinz.

    ¡°What?¡± Heinz felt this was strange.

    ¡°Do you see this symbol?¡± Xu Yi pointed at a circr icon above the switch at the base of the Magic Fan, ¡°Here, this is the brand logo that I¡¯ve designed for our Magic Fan.¡±

    Heinz knit his brows to look at this half a wing inside a circle and asked in a confused voice, ¡°What use is this thing? The brand logo you mentioned¡­..what does it mean?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...You can consider it a badge, a unique one that one that is only on the Magic Fans that we produce. I have already given an application to the kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament to have this as a badge. Without our approval, anyone who uses this badge will be severely punished by the Royal Parliament.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Applied for a badge from the Royal Parliament?¡± Heinz¡¯s eyes popped out as he looked at Xu Yi with a shocked look, ¡°My god! You actually made an application to the Royal Parliament for a little badge? You¡­..Wait, what grade badge did you apply for?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he stretched out three fingers.

    ¡°Pa!¡± Heinz pped his hand to his head and painfully said, ¡°Although the Royal Parliament is less demanding on applications now, but a third grade badge¡­..Just because of this, we have to pay three hundred gold coins each year to the Royal Parliament?¡±

    ¡°Un, it is indeed that much. Actually the Royal Parliament isn¡¯t amodating enough. They will only allow me to raise the badge¡¯s level if I pay enough for a year, otherwise I would have directly raised it to the tinum grade.¡±

    ¡°tinum badge?¡± Heinz suddenly raised his voice and shouted out, ¡°That costs one thousand gold coins each year! You must be crazy!¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m very sane.¡± Xu Yi had Heinz sit down while giving him a cup of tea, ¡°This badge, actually it is the only thing that I could think of that would protect us right now. With the protection of this badge, we can imprint this badge onto each Magic Fan that we make. As for other people, they can imitate the Magic Fan, but out of fear of the Royal Parliament¡¯sws, they wouldn¡¯t dare put the same badge onto the Magic Fans they make.¡±

    Heinz drank a mouthful of tea and shook his head, ¡°I still don¡¯t understand what you mean. Even if we have this extra badge, what use would that have?¡±

    ¡°There are many uses!¡± Xu Yi confidently said, ¡°This badge can be used to differentiate the Magic Fans we produce and those imitations and that difference will be our brand!¡±

    Heinz was still astonished, ¡°What about a brand? Can it be eaten?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. To want to exin the value of a brand to the people of this world was a bit advanced.

    Moreover, it was very hard for people to understand with just this thing. People could only understand if they ever saw a concrete example.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi waved his hand at Heinz.

    ¡°Hey, Heinz, does Banta City have any¡­...Eh¡­..Anything like a newspaper?¡±

    ###

    Afaylia¡¯s father was very angry.

    To an old hunter who relied on hunting to make a living, two gold coins was half a month¡¯s ie from hunting in the mountains. Normally, he wouldn¡¯t be willing to spend such arge amount at once.

    If it wasn¡¯t because his beloved grandson had fainted because of the heat in the past two days, he wouldn¡¯t have made up his mind to buy an expensive Magic Fan.

    Although this Magic Fan was indeed pretty good, sending out a cool breeze at first. It made his grandson smile from ear to ear, but¡­..damn! This damn Magic Fan only turned for two days before it stopped turning!

    Afaylia¡¯s father bought several pieces of Magic Crystals for this, but no matter which crystal they used, the Magic Fan wouldn¡¯t turn at all.

    Seeing his little grandson¡¯s face flushed red because of how hot it was, Afaylia¡¯s father couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He took the Magic Fan in one hand and entered Banta City.

    The person who sold him the Magic Fan had said that he bought this Magic Fan from a store called Heinz¡¯s General Store in Banta City. Now that there was a problem with the Magic Fan, he couldn¡¯t find that damn merchant, so there shouldn¡¯t be any problem looking for this Heinz¡¯s General Store.

    Afaylia¡¯s father didn¡¯te to Banta City often, he spent some time in the city before he found that Heinz¡¯s General Store. However, when he arrived at Heinz¡¯s General Store, he was stunned.

    This was because the general store¡¯s entrance was filled with people. With a casual look, it was over a hundred people.

    What made Afaylia¡¯s father even more curious was that these people all had Magic Fans in their hands.

    ¡°Hey, young man, what is going on? Why are there so many people here?¡± Afaylia¡¯s father curiously pulled out a young man from the crowd and asked him.

    The young man looked at Afaylia¡¯s father and seeing the Magic Fan in his hand, he immediately revealed a look of understanding.

    ¡°Old man, is your Magic Fan broken?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what? Is everyone here like me?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! This damn profiteer!¡± The young man spat on the ground, ¡°I resolved my heart to buy a Magic Fan, but it stopped turning after using it for just one night! It caused me to sweat all night and I couldn¡¯t fall asleep at all!¡±

    The young man¡¯s voice was very loud and the people beside him clearly heard him, so they all agreed with him.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it was also like this for my Magic Fan. It stopped turning after just a single night, it didn¡¯t work even after I changed the Magic Crystal.¡±

    ¡°Mine is a bit better than yours. I used it for two days, but it stopped working when I took it out today at noon.¡±

    ¡°It seems like I¡¯m the most unlucky. I only used it for less than two hours and was just feeling good when it suddenly stopped. Damn, I spent a whole three gold coins on this !¡±

    ¡°Ah? You spent three gold coins? Isn¡¯t it only two gold coins?¡±

    ¡°Two? Why did that damn profiteer want three from me?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ve been scammed¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the discussions of the people around him, Afaylia¡¯s father was actually a bitforted.

    If it was only his Magic Fan that had a problem, the profiteer might never admit it and his problem wouldn¡¯t be easily solved.

    Now that all these people had a problem, if this damn profiteer wasn¡¯t willing to solve it, it would cause the public to be enraged.

    While they were thinking, the doors of Heinz¡¯s General Store slowly squeaked open.

    Everyone immediately came forward.

    ¡°Hey, my Magic Fan is broken. Can you fix it?¡±

    ¡°Mine is also broken! I want to exchange for another one!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! Directly exchange it!¡±

    ¡°Profiteer! Father spent a whole two gold coins and it broke in just a single day! Be wary that father might report you for this!¡±

    ¡­...

    When the general store¡¯s door opened, Heinz came out with a somewhat strange look.

    Seeing the excited crowd, Heinz was very surprised.

    ¡°This, Xu Yi, how did he know that this would happen today?¡±

    The discussion he had with Xu Yist night shed in his mind. Heinz raised his hand before pping it down and saying in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone calm down, let¡¯s slowly discuss this if there is a problem! I am this store¡¯s owner, Heinz! If there is a problem with my store, I will definitely solve this problem for everyone!¡±

    ¡°You say you¡¯ll solve it? Good, then let me tell you, I bought this Magic Fan from your store and it broke only after one day! What are you going to do?¡± Arge man said in a loud voice.

    ¡°What can you do,pensate us! Something worth two gold coins, how can it break so easily!¡± Another person shouted out.

    ¡°That¡¯s right! Compensation!¡±

    ¡°Even if you don¡¯tpensate it, you have to repair it for me! The tigress in my house hates this heat!¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Everyone calm down!¡± Heinz shouted out again and pressed down everyone¡¯s voice. Looking around, he pointed at the loudestrge man and said, ¡°Let me see your Magic Fan.¡±

    Therge man gave the Magic Fan to Heinz. With so many people watching, he wasn¡¯t worried that Heinz would dare to deceive him.

    Who would have thought that after Heinz looked at it for a bit, he would shake his head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, this Magic Fan wasn¡¯t sold by us. I can¡¯t solve your problem.¡±

    ¡°Ha? What kind of joke is this?¡± Seeing Heinz actually rejecting him, therge man instantly flew into a rage, ¡°I¡¯ve already asked around, only your store sells Magic Fans in Banta City. If it wasn¡¯t sold by you, could it have fallen out of the sky?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, there is no other store that sells this other than yours, do you dare not admit that?¡±

    ¡°This bastard wants to cheat us!¡±

    ¡°Profiteer! Beat him to death!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the crowd swelling up, Heinz was a bit fearful. After taking a deep breath, he calmed himself and shouted, ¡°This Magic Fan indeed was not sold by us because there isn¡¯t our brand on it!¡±

 Volume 1 17 - Free repairs

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 17 Free repairs</h4>

    Everyone instantly calmed down, looking at each other in nk dismay.

    ¡°Brand? What is that?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what is this thing? Have you heard of it before?¡±

    ¡°Only a ghost would have heard of it¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°He wouldn¡¯t be speaking nonsense to fool us, right?¡±

    ¡­...

    Everyone discussed this and after a while, therge man couldn¡¯t take it anymore and shouted at Heinz, ¡°Hey, profiteer, what is this brand you mentioned? Why can you tell it wasn¡¯t sold by you since there was no brand? Let me tell you, if you want to cheat us, there is no good ending for you!¡±

    Heinzughed and waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, how could that be? My ce is awful operation, how could it cheat people. Of course, it isn¡¯t something sold by us, so how can it be associated with us? Come, everyone take a look.¡±

    Heinz took as Magic Fan he had already prepared from Alex and raised it high up, letting everyone see it. He pointed at the badge above the switch at the base of the Magic Fan.

    ¡°Does everyone see this? There is a half wing design here, which is the brand of a Magic Fan made by us. It is called the Frestech Brand. Only Magic Fans with this symbol are products sold by us. If it doesn¡¯t have it, it is fake goods sold by someone else!¡±

    [TL Note: Frestech is an actual chinesepany that sells refrigerators.]

    Hearing him say this, everyone couldn¡¯t help looking at the Magic Fans in their hands.

    ¡°Yi? It really doesn¡¯t have it.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, mine doesn¡¯t have it either.¡±

    ¡°Could it be that he is telling the truth? These Magic Fans really aren¡¯t sold by them?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be. I¡¯ve asked around, there is only this ce in Banta City that sells Magic Fans.¡±

    ¡°That also isn¡¯t right. My Magic Fan was not bought from this store, it was a fellow who ran to my vige to sell this. I¡¯ve heard they specially came to our vige from this store to resell this thing.¡±

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s the same as me. What did the fellow who sold you the Magic Fan look like?¡±

    ¡°Let me think¡­...That fellow was not old, but his skin was very dark. That¡¯s right, his nose was especially big.¡±

    ¡°Oh, that isn¡¯t the same. The fellow who came to our vige to sell the Magic Fan was a middle aged man.¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the discussion in the crowd, Heinz gave a slight nod. It seemed like the fellows selling imitation Magic Fans was a group. After they finished making the imitations, they split up to sell them in the viges.

    After everyone discussed this, they all had the same worried looks.

    ¡°Hey, ording to what this fellow said, this Magic Fan was not sold by them. What do we do now? I spent two gold coins on this Magic Fan and now it¡¯s broken, so who should I look for now?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I can¡¯t just spend these two gold coins in vain, right?¡±

    ¡°Ai, it¡¯s my fault for beingzy and cheap. I asked around earlier, everyone who bought a Magic Fan here bought one for two gold coins. Think about it, since those fellows were trying to resell them, how could it be for only two gold coins? Wouldn¡¯t he have made a trip in vain, what money would he gain?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t good. ording to what you¡¯ve said, haven¡¯t we been cheated? Didn¡¯t we waste those two gold coins?¡±

    ¡°Otherwise? Can we still find the boss here to cause trouble? Our Magic Fans don¡¯t have that¡­..brand he mentioned, it means it wasn¡¯t sold by him.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­....

    Seeing everyone¡¯s worried looks, Heinz seized this chance to loudly shout, ¡°Everyone, please calm down. I still have something else to announce.¡±

    Everyone immediately stopped talking, they wanted to hear what he was going to say.

    ¡°I know that everyone has been cheated by a swindler and I understand what everyone is thinking, but I must make something clear right now. The Frestech Magic Fans is currently only sold in our store, anything sold anywhere else are all imitations. I ask everyone to please be careful.¡±

    ¡°Che¡­..What use is there in saying this now? We¡¯ve already been cheated.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s just words. This fellow wouldn¡¯tpensate us our gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Humph, this fellow in the end is just a profiteer, would he have any good intentions?¡±

    ¡­...

    Heinz revealed a faint smile as he continued to say in a loud voice, ¡°But, the cause of this matter is the Magic Fan in the end. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman has said that this time everyone has sustained a loss and although we can¡¯t give everyonepensation, we can at least help everyone solve some of their problems. For the Magic Fans everyone has bought this time, whether it is of the Frestech Brand or not, as long as it is broken, it can be repaired for free! Listen well, as long as it doesn¡¯t require a part recement, the repair will be free!¡±

    Heinz announced this and everyone broke out in cheers.

    ¡°Really? You¡¯re speaking the truth?¡±

    ¡°Free! He actually said free repairs!¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Didn¡¯t he say that our Magic Fans weren¡¯t sold from his ce? Why would he repair it for us for free?¡±

    ¡°Are you stupid, didn¡¯t you hear what he just said? Their chairman is helping us solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°Wa! That chairman really is a great person! That¡¯s right, what is yourpany called? It¡¯s Fresh¡­...Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This store owner just said that the Magic Fans were of the Frestech Brand, it seems like the name came from the name of thepany.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll remember that. Frestech, Frestech, I¡¯ll look for this first when I buy Magic Fans in the future! The other fake products can all go shove it!¡±

    ¡°Un, me too! As long as you can fix my Magic Fan this time, not to mention the Magic Fans, even for other things, I will buy everything as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells it!¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing everyone continuing to talking about ¡°Frestech¡±, Heinz¡¯s expression became very strange.

    Could this be the ¡°brand recognition¡± Xu Yi talked about?

    Although he didn¡¯t understand what these words meant, based on the reaction of these people, not only did he and Xu Yi not suffer a huge loss this time, they even gained some benefits that couldn¡¯t be seen right now.

    ¡°Managing a brand is very hard, it needs to be maintained for a long time. If we even rx a bit, it could be destroyed at any moment. So, Heinz, you have to remember in the future, no matter the time, as long as there is a chance, you have to seize it to advertise our brand.¡± After he finished fixing a Magic Fan, Xu Yi turned his head over to speak to Heinz.

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Heinz replied with a nod.

    Seeing the people who had full smiles and were filled with words of thanks after their Magic Fans had been repaired, Heinz had some understanding in his heart.

    After this matter, these people should have a deep impression of the ¡°Frestech Brand¡±. This means that in their hearts, they should have a certain amount of brand awareness.

    Seeing Heinz being lost in thought, Xu Yi turned back around with a smile. After he stretched out his stiff limbs, he nodded at the person waiting in front of him, ¡°Alright, bring your Magic Fan over.¡±

    Afaylia¡¯s after carefully ced the Magic Fan he was carrying on the table in front of Xu Yi. After sitting down, he didn¡¯t watch Xu Yi fix the Magic Fan, but rather he looked at Xu Yi with a curious look.

    Sensing Afaylia¡¯s father¡¯s gaze, Xu Yi felt a bit awkward. He looked over the Magic Fan while saying with a smile, ¡°Old grandfather, what are you looking at me for? Is there something on my face?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah¡­..nothing, nothing.¡± Afaylia¡¯s father quickly waved his hand as he said whileughing, ¡°I¡¯m just a bit curious. Hey, kid, tell me, what is yourpany¡¯s boss thinking?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I¡¯m saying¡­...These people who been scammed with these Magic Fans are clearly unrted to you, so why is your boss helping us fix them for free?¡±

    ¡°Oh, you¡¯re asking about this. It¡¯s very simple, our chairman said that apany is not just about making money, they also have to bear social responsibilities. Although it was you all who were cheated into buying these imitation Magic Fans, because we didn¡¯t announce this matter beforehand, you were all cheated. So that means, we do have some responsibilities. These free repairs can be considered ourpensation to you all.¡±

    Afaylia¡¯s father knit his brows and thought it through for a while before shaking his head, ¡°I don¡¯t understand. Actually it¡¯s fine if you all do nothing since these Magic Fans weren¡¯t sold here. We can¡¯t cause any trouble for you even if we wanted to.¡±

    ¡°He, he, I¡¯ve already said this, this is our social responsibility.¡±

    ¡°What social responsibility? I don¡¯t understand.¡± Afaylia¡¯s father waved his hand.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You¡¯re old, you don¡¯t need to understand. You just need to know that this is how it¡¯ll be.¡± After saying this, he returned the Magic Fan in his hand to Afaylia¡¯s father, ¡°Here, it¡¯s fixed. Why don¡¯t you take a look?¡±

    ¡°Ah? It¡¯s fixed?¡± Afaylia¡¯s father took the Magic Fan in a daze. He looked over it before pressing the switch.

    After a few seconds, the des of the fan began moving and it blew out a cold breeze after a while.

    Afaylia¡¯s father instantly bloomed with a smile, ¡°This is great! This is great! With this fan working, my little grandson won¡¯t cause any more trouble! Thank you kid!¡±

    ¡°No need, this is what I should do.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he spoke in a respectful voice before adding, ¡°That¡¯s right, there is a problem with the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan and there is a problem with the structure, so it can¡¯t be used for a long time. You need to let it rest after a certain amount of time or something bad will happen to it. ording to my estimates, you can¡¯t use it for more than two hours before you need to let it rest.¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t keep using it?¡± Afaylia¡¯s father¡¯s good mood instantly sunk, ¡°What broken thing is this? It even cost me two gold coins.¡±

    After being annoyed for a bit, Afaylia¡¯s father asked Xu Yi, ¡°Then what about the one you sell¡­..Right, that Frestech Magic Fan? Does it need to keep resting like this thing?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°There is definitely no problem with the quality of our Magic Fans, it can be used continuously for three days without problems. You can ask around Banta City, there are people who have bought our Frestech Magic Fans and there hasn¡¯t been a single person with any problems. Of course, it can¡¯t keep spinning for too long, otherwise it wouldn¡¯t be able to keep going no matter what it is. Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    ¡°I understand this, but it¡¯s so much better than this broken thing.¡± Afaylia¡¯s father pped his head in annoyment, ¡°If I knew this earlier, I wouldn¡¯t have blindly bought something outside. I would have juste into the city and bought it from here!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s not toote to know about this now, you just need to recognize our brand in the future.¡±

    Afaylia¡¯s father gave a strong nod, ¡°Frestech Brand, right? I¡¯ll remember it!¡±

 Volume 1 18 - Birth of the screw bolt

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 18 Birth of the screw bolt</strong>

    After sending off thest person who had been cheated, Xu Yi let out a long sigh and stretched out his body.

    ¡°Hu, it¡¯s finally over. I¡¯m so tired.¡±

    Heinz came over right in time to hand Xu Yi a cup of warm tea. He said with a smile, ¡°Actually, since you already expected that this would happen today, you should have called those students over. If you rely on just one person, naturally you¡¯ll be tired.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°That won¡¯t do, the things they learn in school are very important to them, I can¡¯t cause them to fall behind. Then again, it already stated on the contract they signed before that it can¡¯t interfere with their ss time. They are also closely rted to the production of Magic Fans, so if they are tired, it wouldn¡¯t be good since it would affect our production.¡±

    Heinz rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°It¡¯s not bad if you¡¯re tired?¡±

    ¡°Hei, this bit isn¡¯t much. In the past¡­..¡± Xu Yi suddenly stopped.

    He wanted to say that when he used to work in the research center, he went three days straight with only four hours of sleep. Compared to that time, this was basically nothing.

    But he reacted before he spoke. He was no longer in that world anymore, he couldn¡¯t return to that wild research environment.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a trace of sadness in his heart.

    Seeing Xu Yi suddenly be silent and his expression became vacant, Heinz was a bit confused. However, he knew that it was not a good time to ask questions, so he also became silent.

    There was only the sound of Alex putting things away in this room.

    After a while, Xu Yi shook his head and looked at Heinz with a smile.

    ¡°Sorry, I was distracted. That¡¯s right, what were we talking about just now?¡±

    ¡°You said that you couldn¡¯t tire those students and affect production.¡±

    ¡°Oh, right. Speaking of this, Heinz, find some time to go to the Baron Rickto Magic Academy and try your best to recruit more students. You can also have those students we already hired to advertise for you, it would be more effective. I¡¯ve almost finished researching the second generation Magic Fan, so perhaps we¡¯ll be able to begin producing them at the end of the month. We¡¯ll need arge amount of manpower at that time.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Heinz casually wrote what Xu Yi said into the little book he carried with him.

    Seeing his movement, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling because Heinz¡¯s actions were simply the same as an experienced secretary.

    Heinz was a bit confused by Xu Yi¡¯s smile, but he opened the book and remembered something else.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, I already asked around and there really isn¡¯t anything like the newspaper you mentioned before in Banta City. The closest is the City Lord Manor¡¯s government report sent once in a while. But that thing is only sent to the old masters of the noble families, normal people can¡¯t see it at all.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this, then forget it. I¡¯ll think of another method of advertising.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, signaling to forget this matter for now, ¡°Speaking of manpower, Heinz, I think we should hire a group of cksmiths.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Heinz was stunned by Xu Yi¡¯s sudden thoughts, ¡°Hire cksmiths? Why? If it¡¯s to make fans, can¡¯t we just use a cksmith shop in the city?¡±

    ¡°Other people have too much control like this. If something happens to the cksmith shop, it¡¯ll be very hard for us to take care of this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Of course, the main thing is that we need specialized people. I¡¯ve always been dissatisfied with the outer casing made from those cksmith shops, their quality can¡¯t match my requirements. Because we haven¡¯t been able to find a suitable substitute, we¡¯ve been using them the entire time. After what happened today, haven¡¯t you noticed yet that we were able to easily convince those people that the Magic Fans they bought wasn¡¯t from our ce because of the quality of our Magic Fans are much better? So, if we want to maintain the value of our brand, we need to maintain the quality.¡±

    Heinz thought about what happened today and found that Xu Yi was right.

    If it wasn¡¯t for a clear difference in quality, making those people have to admit that the Magic Fans they bought and the Frestech Brand Magic Fans werepletely different things, this matter wouldn¡¯t have ended so easily.

    ¡°But where are we going to find arge amount of suitable cksmiths?¡± Heinz knit his brows.

    ¡°Actually, we don¡¯t need very skilled people, we just need specialized cksmiths for this. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°You¡¯re saying¡­..we just need to hire some cksmiths that know how to forge and have them specially make the fan outer casing for us?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s exactly what I mean. Eventer¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and a strange look shed in his eyes, ¡°When we¡¯ve developed to a certain extent, we won¡¯t even need that many of these specialized cksmiths.¡±

    It was already afternoon when he left Heinz¡¯s General Store. Xu Yi looked up at the sky and thought that he would take another day off. He had already taken three days off during this week, he hadn¡¯t gone to work at the Magic Tower for close to half the time.

    ¡°The coworkers in theb should already be able to guess that I don¡¯t want to do it anymore? Perhaps they¡¯ll think that I¡¯m too dumb, giving up the chance to study magic with Great Magician Cami.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile of self ridicule, ¡°But speaking of this, Great Magician Cami has never revealed a stance on this. If it was anyone else, perhaps he would have already driven them out of the Magic Tower.¡±

    While trying to guess what Great Magician Cami was really thinking, Xu Yi passed several corners and arrived in front of the Volcano cksmith again.

    Like usual, when he entered the cksmith shop, he was weed with a wave of heat.

    ¡°Hey, Master Lanus, here.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t even look as he threw the bottle of wine in his hand into the cksmith.

    A thick hand came out of the heat wave and firmly grabbed the wine bottle.

    ¡°Brat, can¡¯t you see that I¡¯m working? What if¡­..Yi? Good wine!¡±

    Master Lanus was about to curse out when he was attracted from the powerful wine fragrance from the bottle of wine. Without saying a single thing, he put it to his mouth and took arge swig.

    ¡°Hu¡­..It really is good wine!¡± Master Lanus let out a breath filled with alcohol smell before giving a burp. Only then did he look at Xu Yi, ¡°Hey, kid, this should be the Sachi Manor¡¯s thirty year aged wine, right? This costs at least five gold coins per bottle. A kid like you wouldn¡¯t have any good intentions, so what requests do you have now?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean by strange requests?¡± Xu Yi said in an aggrieved voice, ¡°Master Lanus, have you been dissatisfied with the requests I¡¯ve made the entire time? Don¡¯t forget that you¡¯re the one who agreed to them. As for me changing this request in the end, wouldn¡¯t it improve the two machines much more?¡±

    ¡°Humph! I did say this, but kid, you keep throwing requests after requests at me.¡±

    Xu Yi gave twoughs. He looked to the side and his eyes fell onto the two strange machines in the corner of the cksmith shop.

    ¡°Wa! Master Lanus, I¡¯ve only been away for two days and you¡¯ve already finished it?¡±

    Xu Yi excitedly charged over. He went around the two machines a few times like he was looking at a treasure.

    ¡°Humph! What kind of person am I, Lanus? It¡¯s just two machines, how hard can they be?¡± Master Lanus gave a snort before taking another swig of the wine.

    Xu Yi was already beginning to look over these two machines from head to toe.

    One of them was the Magic Thread Rolling Machine which he had Master Lanus make the other day. The other one was a Magic Capping Machine he addedter.

    These two machines were important machines for making the screw bolts. As long as both of them worked properly, the mass production of screw bolts that Xu Yi envisioned would be possible.

    Don¡¯t look down on the screw bolt. This thing seemed normal, but it could be found in every part of the industrial system, it was an essential material.

    Whether it was big or small,plicated on simple, almost every machine and industrial product on earth had a screw bolt in it.

    Being able to mass produce screw bolts, it meant that Xu Yi had already taken the first step on the path of industrialism on the Sines Continent!

    ¡°Master Lanus, can these two machines be used right now?¡± Xu Yi turned his head to ask this.

    ¡°Nonsense, I¡¯ve already told you it¡¯s finished, could it be it still can¡¯t be used?¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi took a small iron rod from the store and ced it in the mold of the capping machine before pressing the on switch.

    There was no movement at all.

    ¡°Idiot! You didn¡¯t even put in a Magic Crystal, how could it move!¡± Master Lanus¡¯ angry roar came from behind him.

    Xu Yi pped his head. He realized that he had been too excited, actually forgetting the most important thing.

    Xu Yi quickly took out the High Grade Magic Crystal he had already prepared and put it into the capping machine as the power source before pressing the switch again.

    There was suddenly a ¡°peng¡± sound from the capping machine, as it sent a high speed hit, hitting the top of the rod inside the mold.

    ¡°Keng¡ª¡ª¡±

    With a clear strange sound from the capping machine, the machine itself trembled intensely. The entire cksmith shop trembled several times from the giant sound, which was truly terrifying.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    Wasn¡¯t it just hitting a screw bolt head, why did it create such a heaven shaking sound?

    He finally came back to his senses after a bit. He pressed the switch again and the stamp head came back to the peak.

    Xu Yi took the iron rod from the mold. He was pleased to find that under the power of the stamp head, the head of the rod had actually been turned into a circle. There was also a cross hole on the head, which was normal for a screw bolt.

    ¡°It¡¯s not bad.¡± Xu Yi nodded in satisfaction, ¡°Let¡¯s try the thread rolling machine.¡±

    Compared to the simple and crude capping machine, the thread rolling machine was much moreplicated.

    Even though Xu Yi simplified it quite a bit, this thread rolling machine actually had over four Magic Arrays. Just drawing the Magic Array had used quite a bit of concentration from Xu Yi, not to mention having to perfectlybine the Magic Array with the structure of the machine.

    But seeing the cutting tool quickly engraving lines on the screw bolt, Xu Yipletely forgot the difficulty in studying this machine and was just filled with a sense of aplishment.

    This was the Sines Continent! This was a world without any industrial systems at all!

    To be able to create a screw bolt in this world, this was already a great aplishment!

    As one of the most important participants in this great project, Xu Yipletely had the right to feel proud!

    To the side, Lanus saw these two machines turn this iron rod into this finely made screw bolt and his heart was filled with shock.

    At first he thought this kid¡¯s two machines were very strange, that was why Lanus took the challenge to make it for him.

    But now that he had seen how amazing these two machines were, Lanus suddenly felt that these two machines were more important than anything he had made before.

    ¡°How did this kid think of these two machines?¡± Lanus looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with curiosity.

 Volume 1 19 - Invitation

    <h4>Invitation</h4>

    Not far into the northwest corner of Banta City, there was a small road that led into a lush, green forest. About two kilometers into that path, there was a manor upying an extremelyrge piece ofnd.

    This manor was alsopletely green, with all manners of nts and flowers. There were only ten rooms inside of the manor, but they didn¡¯t look messy at all, rather it was all neatly designed.

    There was the sound of a bird crying from time to time, making the manor seem even more calming and peaceful.

    There was a little mountain to the west of the manor, with a clear mountain spring flowing off the mountain. There was a cool mist that filled the manor while also collecting a pool at the foot of the mountain.

    The water was clear as it kept flowing down, naturally creating even more cool mist.

    There was a little wood cabin beside the spring and Viscount Leslie was currently at the cabin looking at the spring. He took off his shoes and dipped his calves into the spring. Feeling the cool sensation brought by the spring water, he let out moans offort from time to time.

    Other than this, there was a Magic Fan that kept turning beside him.

    With the cool breeze of the Magic Fan, it kept blowing his scattered hair around.

    After closing his eyes to enjoy it for a while, Viscount Leslie suddenly shook his head, ¡°This thing isn¡¯t good, it can¡¯tpare to the Frost Array.¡±

    Butler Brunei who had been standing on the side the entire time bowed and responded, ¡°Yes, Lord Viscount. There isn¡¯t a single noble family that has bought a Magic Fan in Banta City, everyone feels it is something for themoners. I suggest you do not continue using it, otherwise rumours will spread.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Those idiots are thinking this?¡± Viscount Leslie looked over at Butler Brunei with a smile of ridicule on his face.

    Seeing Viscount Leslie¡¯s sluggish smile, Butler Brunei gave a sigh deep down.

    The Lord Viscount had just turned thirty and was in the prime of his life. Adding in his charm and his proper manners, there were many nobledies in Banta City that weed him, but he still chose not to get married. It made the old Count in Anvilmar worry about this for a long time.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, what do you mean?¡± Butler Brunei of course wouldn¡¯t reveal what he was thinking and instead responded right on time.

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t understand?¡± Viscount Leslie pointed at the Magic Fan, ¡°Although this thing¡¯s effect can¡¯tpare to the Frost Array, you shouldn¡¯t forget that the cost of this thing is far beneath the Frost Array. Those normal families in Banta City can¡¯t put down a Frost Array, but that doesn¡¯t mean they can¡¯t buy this Magic Fan. They can get a cool breeze for themselves for just two gold coins, what is uneptable about that?¡±

    Butler Brunei gave a slight nod, ¡°That is indeed true. During this time, the Magic Fan has sold very well in Banta City, there are even many people in the viges outside the city who are buying it.¡±

    ¡°Brunei, how much do you think it costs to make this thing?¡± Viscount Leslie suddenly asked.

    Brunei didn¡¯t hesitate at all and immediately responded, ¡°With a general estimate, a single Magic Fan shouldn¡¯t cost more than one gold coin to make.¡±

    ¡°He, he, a cost less than one gold coin and selling it for two gold coins. This also means that each time he sells one, that fellow Xu Yi will earn a gold coin. Then do you know how many he has sold so far?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...I¡¯m not certain. But I estimate it to be over two thousand?¡± Butler Brunei said in an uncertain voice.

    ¡°Then let¡¯s consider it two thousand, which is two thousand gold coins. This fellow used only a single month to earn two thousand gold coins, he really is quite skilled.¡± Viscount Leslie had a trace of praise in his voice.

    Butler Brunei was a bit curious as he asked with knitted brows, ¡°Lord Viscount, although I admit that he does have some skills, this is only an exception. The Magic Fan can only sell during the summer, at most he can sell it for three months each year. Then again, each family wouldn¡¯t need that much. When he has sold to every family that needs one, he won¡¯t be able to make anymore gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Brunei, you are old in the end.¡± Viscount Leslie shook his head with a sigh, ¡°You don¡¯t understand, even if there is no one in Banta City to sell this to, he can sell this thing to other cities or even other countries. The Sines Continent is this big, there are countless people who want to buy this Magic Fan. As long as he can transport this thing to other ces, he will definitely be able to sell it. I can even confidently say that this fellow had this idea from the beginning, otherwise would he suddenly rent a hectare ofnd from me? If he wanted to keep his current scale, he wouldn¡¯t need that big of a ce, he could just find a small workshop in Banta City.¡±

    Butler Brunei said in an astonished voice, ¡°He actually had suchrge ambitions?¡±

    ¡°He, he, having ambition is good. Otherwise, do you think I would discuss a small merchant with you?¡± Viscount Leslie said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually what made me take note was when a group of people surrounded his storest time.¡±

    ¡°Oh, I was also surprised by this matter. I thought it would be a big problem, but I never thought they would take care of it that easily. In the end, those people were very happy when they returned.¡± Butler Brunei¡¯s tone couldn¡¯t help containing a trace of admiration, ¡°I¡¯ve seen that Heinz before, he isn¡¯t that great of a person. So everything that happened should be because of Xu Yi.¡±

    ¡°Just this isn¡¯t considered much, but what I took note of was what he mentioned¡­..That¡¯s right, brand! Brunei, do you understand what this means?¡±

    Butler Brunei shook his head in a daze.

    ¡°Honestly I don¡¯t understand either, but I feel this thing is definitely very important. The other merchants in Banta City still don¡¯t understand what this thing means, but I believe they will definitely understand in the future.¡± Viscount Leslie¡¯s tone was strangely certain, it seemed like he believed in his conclusion very much.

    Butler Brunei knit his brows while thinking about it and he couldn¡¯t help but ask, ¡°Lord Viscount, what are you thinking about, saying all of this? No matter what that Xu Yi wants to do, it shouldn¡¯t be that rted to you, right? Although he has given you a 10% share, ording to my estimates, it can only bring several hundred gold coins each year. You don¡¯t need to care that much, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslieughed, ¡°Brunei, I can you old and you still don¡¯t understand. Go, take a trip for me and send an invitation to Xu Yi. Say that I¡¯m inviting him here as a guest.¡±

    Butler Brunei¡¯s eyes popped wide open in shock.

    Did he hear wrong? The Lord Viscount who never liked guests bothering him was actually personally inviting someone as a guest?

    ###

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t feeling honoured at all right now. After testing the capping machine and the thread rolling machine over a hundred times at Master Lanus¡¯ ce, he gave Master Lanus a bunch of adjustment suggestions.

    He received manyints from Master Lanus at the same time, but he also received the good news that it would be finished in three days.

    This process exhausted Xu Yi¡¯s mind and body. When he dragged himself back to his little hut, he directly copsed on his bed and fell asleep.

    He didn¡¯t know how long he was asleep, but when Xu Yi woke up, there was the fragrant smell of meat cooking that assaulted his nose.

    Piquing his ears, he could hear soundsing from the kitchen.

    It was actually a girl¡¯s voice!

    Xu Yi was shocked. Could it be that when he was sleeping, someone snuck in?

    Standing up, Xu Yi looked over at the kitchen. He saw one small and onerge figure with their backs to him, currently working in front of the stove.

    Whether it was therge or small figure, both of them were familiar.

    ¡°Still, why are you here?¡± Xu Yi asked in a daze.

    Still who was stirring with her spat turned around in surprise before giving Xu Yi a smile, ¡°You¡¯re awake. Go wash your face first and prepare to eat.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her with a strange gaze before looking at the little ve beside Still and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a frown.

    ¡°Hey, your injuries aren¡¯t cured yet, why did youe out?¡±

    The little ve had been at Xu Yi¡¯s ce were several days now, but they still acted very timidly. Their neck shrank back and lowered their head to leave the kitchen, heading for the room Xu Yi prepared for them.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what are you so fierce with her for? I called her out to help.¡± Seeing Xu Yi chasing off her little helper, Still couldn¡¯t help speaking in a dissatisfied voice.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you see his wounds, you¡¯re actually having him help? It¡¯ll be troublesome if his wounds open again.¡±

    ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve looked over her body, it¡¯s already pretty much healed. It won¡¯t hinder her at all.¡± Still had already finished cooking this dish. She used her mouth to signal to Xu Yi to bring the soup and dish to the side over.

    After putting down the tableware, Still asked Xu Yi in a small voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what is with this little girl?¡±

    ¡°Little girl? Who?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a stunned voice.

    ¡°Of course I mean her.¡± Still pointed at the little room the little ve was in.

    ¡°Oh, I bought a little ve. This matter is very troublesome to exin, I¡¯ll tell youter¡­...Wait a minute, you said little girl?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes suddenly opened wide.

    ¡°That¡¯s right? What?¡± Seeing Xu Yi surprised expression, Still was also stunned.

    ¡°He isn¡¯t a boy?¡± Xu Yi asked in a shocked voice.

    ¡°What boy? She¡¯s clearly a little girl, alright! Is there a problem with your eyes?¡± Still reprimanded him without any courtesy.

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    The first time he saw the little ve, she was being beaten to death by threerge men with leather whips, causing Xu Yi to unconsciously deem her as a little boy. This was because he didn¡¯t believe that there would be people who were this ruthless to a little girl in this world.

    After he bought her from Butler Brunei, because she had been injured, she had been wrapped up in gauze the entire time. Moreover, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much contact with her, so naturally he didn¡¯t pay attention to this matter.

    He never thought that the little boy he thought she was was actually a little girl!

 Volume 1 20 - Vivian

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 20: Vivian</b>

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help scratching his head as he felt he really was too careless.

    Then again, this couldn¡¯t be med on Xu Yi. He didn¡¯t interact too much with girls back on earth and adding in the fact that he spent most of his time with ice cold machines and data, he was quite slow in this aspect.

    Moveover this little ve had such a thin figure, she didn¡¯t grow that well, so there were no features of a girl on her at all.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the special circumstances, Xu Yi never would have figured it out.

    Seeing the awkward look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Still suddenly revealed a smile.

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, when I saw this little girl in your house, I thought that you were the same as a few of those aristocrats with special tastes. But looking at it now, it seems I¡¯ve mistaken you.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    What special hobby, alright? Even if he was interested in that, would he be moved by this kid that was like a bean sprout?

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about me, let¡¯s talk about why you came to my house first, alright?¡± Xu Yi snappily asked back, ¡°How did you know where I live? Moreover, if you felt that I was some kind of pervert, why are you still here? Moreover, what is the meaning of you making food for me?¡±

    ¡°You really have a lot of questions.¡± Still mumbled, ¡°Thanks to you, I have already finished the model piano. I came to ask you out to treat you to dinner, but I never would have thought I would see you asleep. Seeing how tired you were, I couldn¡¯t bear to wake you up. Thinking about it, I just chose to make you dinner. How about it? Looking at how messy your ce is, no one should have evere here to make you dinner before, right? Aren¡¯t you very grateful to me?¡±

    Still was as pretty as a flower and adding in that charming and cute smile, it made Xu Yi¡¯s eyes light up and he couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    ¡°Eh¡­..I say, you wanted to treat me to a meal, but you used my ingredients and my cookware, isn¡¯t this a little too economical?¡±

    ¡°Che, I personally made food for you, this is something that even my grandfather rarely enjoys. It should be enough to satisfy you.¡± Still gave a cold snort and pointed at the room inside, ¡°Go and call the little girl out to eat. Although she shouldn¡¯t eat with us based on her ve status, I can see that you don¡¯t treat her as a ve.¡±

    ¡°Of course, there shouldn¡¯t be things like ves in this world anyway.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head before heading to the room.

    Hearing the sigh Xu Yi unconsciously gave, Still was a bit stunned. Her eyes lit up a bit as she watched Xu Yi walking away.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, other thaning here to treat you to a meal to show my gratitude, I have something else to tell you about.¡± While they were eating, Still suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Un? What is it? It can¡¯t be that I¡¯ve taken too many days off during this time and Great Magician Cami is dissatisfied, so he¡¯s firing me, right?¡± Xu Yi asked in an uncaring voice.

    ¡°Psh, who wants to fire you?¡± Still red at him before pointing at Xu Yi and saying, ¡°Let me tell you, grandfather likes you quite a bit. Although you rejected being his apprentice, he says that your talent in magic is quite high and you always have some kinds of new thoughts. Keeping you in the Magic Tower will give him some inspiration, so how could he be willing to let you go?¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good. If it¡¯s not firing me, what else does he need you to tell me?¡±

    ¡°Listen well. Xu Yi, although I don¡¯t know why you don¡¯t care about raising your magic power that much, I have to seriously tell you that since you are already a magician, your rank means everything on the Sines Continent.¡± Still¡¯s face became iparably serious, it could be seen that she was very serious about this, ¡°Also, in less than three months is the Magicians Guild¡¯s annual certification exam. Grandfather as a Magicians Guild recognized Three Star Great Magician, he has three rmendation spots and he¡¯s decided to give you one. He will rmend you to participate in the certification exam. Do you understand what this means?¡±

    Xu Yi honestly shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t understand.¡±

    Still couldn¡¯t keep her serious expression and she was breathless from her anger, as she shouted, ¡°You idiot! You don¡¯t even understand this? If it is someone rmended by a Great Magician, the Magicians Guild will be more rxed during the exams. This means that with this rmendation, you will pass the qualification certification exams much easier than normal magicians!¡±

    ¡°And then? Bing a magician whose rank and strength doesn¡¯t match?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Still was stunned, not being able to say anything for a while.

    This was because she suddenly found that she couldn¡¯t refute the meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s question at all.

    Seeing Still¡¯s dumbfounded expression, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He reached his hand out towards Still, ¡°Give it to me.¡±

    ¡°Give you what?¡± Still asked in a daze.

    ¡°The thing representing the rmendation? I can¡¯t just run to the Magicians Guild and tell them that Great Magician Cami rmended me, hoping that they would believe me, right?¡±

    Still asked in a daze, ¡°Don¡¯t you not want this rmendation?¡±

    ¡°Who told you I didn¡¯t want it?¡±

    ¡°But you just said¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I did say that, but that doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m not clear on the meaning of this exam.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I am twenty seven years old today, that doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m a child with ideal thoughts like you. How could I give up convenient things and not know how to use them? Then again, this is Great Magician Cami¡¯s¡­...Un, and your goodwill. If I rejected it, wouldn¡¯t it be a waste of your goodwill?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a while before suddenly pping the table and standing up. She angrily threw a sentence back at him, ¡°You¡¯re the child!¡±

    After saying this, she didn¡¯t even look back as she left.

    Watching Still disappear, Xu Yi shook his head with a lost smile.

    ¡°It seems like that¡¯s her taboo word, I can¡¯t say it that easily in front of her in the future.¡±

    He turned back to see the little ve on the side looking at him in a daze, with a helpless look on her face. Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and asked her, ¡°Sorry, I¡¯ve been busy these days and never had time to properly talk you to. How is it? Are you used to staying here?¡±

    The little ve shook her head first, but after thinking about it, she gave a strong nod.

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°You¡­.can¡¯t speak?¡±

    The little ve nodded.

    ¡°What does that mean? Can you speak or not?¡±

    The little ve slowly opened her mouth and after a while, she said a few sybles, ¡°Can¡­..speak¡­¡­¡±

    Based on the stuttering sybles that came with her hoarse voice, it seemed like she hadn¡¯t spoken in a long time. At least she wasn¡¯t that skilled at talking right now.

    Xu Yi thought about it and scooped some meat soup into her bowl.

    ¡°You don¡¯t have to be afraid in my ce. Although I bought you, I don¡¯t have any intention to treat you as a ve and I won¡¯t hit you, so you can be assured.¡±

    The little ve looked at the bowl of meat soup and gave a soft nod.

    ¡°I¡­..I¡­...know, you¡­..are¡­...a good person.¡±

    ¡°Ha, I¡¯ve been given a good guy card.¡± Xu Yi gave a softugh, ¡°That¡¯s right, what is your name? I never asked.¡±

    ¡°Viv¡­...Vivian¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Vivian? That is a good name.¡± Xu Yi praised. Seeing the pained look that quickly passed on the little ve face, he knew that this name had brought up some painful memories for her. He shook his head and didn¡¯t ask anything else.

    He knew that this little ve¡¯s life must have been hard before and it caused serious trauma on her. If he wanted her to speak openly, he could only slowly put in effort and couldn¡¯t rush it.

    After they finished eating, the little ve took the initiative to put away the dishes. Xu Yi thought about it and didn¡¯t stop her.

    Letting her do some things now would make it easier for her to integrate into her new life. This was actually a good thing for her.

    After doing a few exercises, Xu Yi headed into the workshop again.

    The Magic Capping Machine and the Magic Thread Rolling Machine had already been made, that meant they could officially begin producing the second generation Magic Fans. But right now, Xu Yi still had many other problems he had to solve first.

    Although there were only three more speedspared to the first generation Magic Fan, there were manyplicated changes needed for the Magic Array and the Magic Fan¡¯s structure, so there was quite a bit of data to calcte.

    There were many things that he couldn¡¯t let other people do because right now, he was the only person that was skills in Magic Arrays and mechanical engineering. Not to mention that he was the only person that could use both perfectly.

    ¡°Talented people are hard to obtain.¡± Thinking of the sea of problems he needed to solve, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a long sigh.

    If this world had as many talents who received higher education and aplete knowledge system like on earth, his work wouldn¡¯t be this hard.

    But thinking about it, if the Sines Continent had as many talents as on earth, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t rely on basic technology like the Magic Fan to earn thisrge amount of money.

    ¡°So called, one can¡¯t have a fish and a bear paw together.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile. When he was prepared to focus on his research, a tray suddenly appeared beside him.

    Seeing the steaming tea on the tray, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Vivian, you don¡¯t need to care about me, go and sleep.¡±

    Vivian ced the teacup beside Xu Yi before lowering her head and softly saying, ¡°Serving¡­...master is¡­..my responsibility.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t keep trying to persuade her as he turned to continue working.

    Vivian at first stayed at Xu Yi¡¯s side while cautiously lowering her head, but after a while, she looked up at Xu Yi¡¯s work with a curious look on her face.

    This new master, he really is much better to herpared to her old master.

    Only why did he have to work so hard?

 Volume 1 21 - Bonus

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 21 Bonus</h4>

    On thend rented from Viscount Leslie, the factory that had been built just three days ago was already in full swing.

    Actually, saying this ce was a factory was being too nice because the so called factory was only a building. It was nothing more than a simple wooden log that took less than five hundred square meters of space.

    To call it something, it was just a small workshop.

    But of course, there was no other choice, time was very tight. They had only rented thisnd from Viscount Leslie for less than ten days and Heinz being able to find enough people to build such arge cabin could already be considered quite talented.¡±

    ¡°If his thoughts could be more flexible and he had some more foresight, he could be considered a very good CEO.¡± Xu Yi looked at Heinz who was busy supervising the production and his heart filled with a trace of regret.

    Talented people were hard to find, that didn¡¯t just apply to research staff, but also management staff.

    Xu Yi currently could only rely on Heinz right now, so he basically gave all the management work to Heinz.

    It should be said that Heinz was quite good. Whether it was production or sales channels, he did everything properly. It allowed the process to suffer no setbacks and proceed smoothly.

    But that was all there was.

    Heinz had only been a normal general store owner before, his realm was limited. He was very outstanding in doing some mundane things, but he didn¡¯t have any form of higher cognition that would allow him to make changes and react to things.

    Many times, Xu Yi had to supervise the general situation and give pointers to him. It also took quite a bit of mental concentration away from Xu Yi.

    If there was someone who was even more talented than Heinz in terms of management, not only would Xu Yi be freed, he could focus on research and his long term n. At the same time, it would also free up Heinz, allowing him to focus on managing production and sales channels. This would greatly increase their productivity.

    ¡°Where can I find this kind of talent?¡± Xu Yi was a bit worried.

    ¡°Chairman, can I discuss something with you?¡± A young voice suddenly came from beside him, breaking Xu Yi¡¯s train of thought.

    Xu Yi turned over to look and was a bit surprised, ¡°Orin, you already finished your work?¡±

    This slightly chubby kid was one of the thirty students he recruited from Baron Rickto Magic Academy, but he was different from the other twenty nine kids who came from normal or poor families. This student called Orin Zetaman was the biological son of Viscount Zetaman in Banta City, he was a true noble.

    When he saw this fellow¡¯s background at first, Xu Yi was very surprised. This fellow with his background, why did he need to run here and work for him?

    Orin¡¯s reply had made Xu Yi a bit speechless. He said that he was here for life experience and was very interested in the Magic Fan, so he came here to study it.

    Xu Yi thought back then that this kind was just applying because he wanted to have fun. Once he realized how boring it was working in the factory, he probably wouldn¡¯t remain.

    Xu Yi wanted to reject him, but there wasn¡¯t a suitable reason to reject him. This was because he was from the first batch of students recruited from Baron Rickto Magic Academy and Orin was known as a magic genius in the school, so if he couldn¡¯t bring out any reason to reject him, it would affect his recruitment in the future.

    Not to mention that a student like Orin with a rich family and was talented in magic was willing to work for him, this was a kind of stimtion for the other students of the school.

    Look, even Orin is willing, is there anything the others could be dissatisfied with?

    So Xu Yi recruited Orin with a trace of worry.

    He never thought that after working for a week, Orin not only persisted in this job, he also meticulously finished all the work he was given. Because of his outstanding magical talent, he could make arrays that were better than the other students, which had better effects.

    This performance made Xu Yi see him in a new light.

    ¡°I¡¯ve already finished the morning¡¯s work.¡± Orin loudly replied.

    Xu Yi looked in the direction of the other students working. He found that there were some others who had finished their morning work and were currently resting, so he gave a nod, ¡°Un, very good. What do you want to discuss with me? Is it a request for work? Speak freely, as long as it is a reasonable request, I will agree to them all.¡±

    ¡°If it is work requests, there are. For example, this ce is too hot, so I strongly request that youy down arge scale Frost Array, otherwise it will affect our work efficiency and enthusiasm.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile and said while shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t agree to this. You have arge scale Frost Array in your home, so you should know how much it costs to set one and maintain it, right? I can¡¯t afford that right now. But just bear with it for now, wait until I make the Magic Air Conditioner and everything will be much better.¡±

    ¡°Magic Air Conditioner?¡± Orin¡¯s eyes lit up and excitedly asked, ¡°What is that thing? Is it a new magic machine? Chairman, can you tell me the details? I am very interested!¡±

    Xu Yi realized that he had been careless and quickly waved his hand, ¡°This thing is just a thought right now, I haven¡¯t started studying it yet. It won¡¯t be finished for this summer at least, so you shouldn¡¯t ask about it.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­...It seems like it¡¯s a secret still.¡± Orin nodded in a disappointed manner, but he obediently didn¡¯t keep asking.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Based on your tone, you aren¡¯t here to make a request, so what did you want to discuss?¡± Xu Yi quickly changed the topic.

    Hearing this question, Orin revealed a look of excitement and dug out a blueprint from his chest.

    ¡°Chairman, look, this is the Revolving Wind Array I developedst night. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Revolving Wind Array?¡± Xu Yi looked at Orin curiously. He thought, kid, you are working on drawing the Revolving Wind Array right now, why are you still researching this thing?

    Of course he wasn¡¯t stupid enough to attack Orin¡¯s enthusiasm. Looking over the blueprint, he suddenly made a yi sound and honestly looked it over.

    After a while, Xu Yi raised his head and looked at Orin in a daze, ¡°This Revolving Wind Array was developed by you alone?¡±

    Orin stuck out his chest and proudly said, ¡°It was me alone, no one helped.¡±

    It was like meeting Orin for the first time for Xu Yi. He looked him over before patting him on the shoulder and praising him, ¡°Good kid, no wonder Director Shearer said you were a rare magic talent for Baron Rickto Magic Academy and for me to properly look out for you.¡±

    Orinughed before pointing at the blueprint in Xu Yi¡¯s hands, ¡°Chairman, what do you think about this Magic Array? If feel that if this change is made, it should be a bit better than the previous Revolving Wind Array, but I¡¯m not certain on this.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Don¡¯t you see how much I¡¯m praising you? The answer is of course yes. Let me tell you, although I haven¡¯t tested your change yet, I can tell that just with this change, it can decrease the consumption of the Magic Fan by a bit.¡±

    ¡°Ah? It¡¯s only a bit?¡± Orin was very disappointed, ¡°Chairman, one can only say the Magic Array you designed was too outstanding, there is almost no ws at all. I did everything I could and I only made this small change.¡±

    Xu Yi pped Orin¡¯s shoulder and seriously said, ¡°You mustn¡¯t look down on this small change. I can honestly tell you that for magic machinery, any small change, no, more urately speaking it¡¯s an improvement, will all be very important. Don¡¯t look down on your modification because it can slightly reduce the Magic Crystal consumption rate of the Magic Fan by a little. This will allow the people who buy the Magic Fans from us to save more money. For us, this makes people more willing to buy the Magic Fan. The more important thing is that it will increase the quality of our Frestech Magic Fan. The meaning of that is not something you can understand right now.¡±

    Orin was stunned by what Xu Yi said. He thought that he had only made a small change, but why did it sound like it was very important when the chairman said this?

    Thinking about it, he became happy again.

    He had only altered the Revolving Wind Array out of interest, he didn¡¯t think that much about it at all. To obtain Xu Yi¡¯s acknowledgement was already enough to satisfy him.

    Xu Yi suddenly pulled Orin by the arm and brought him to where the other students were working.

    He was met with the curious gazes of the twenty nine students and Heinz. Xu Yi raised Orin¡¯s arm high up and loudly said, ¡°Everyone listen up, Orin has just proposed a modification of the Revolving Wind Array with me and after my confirmation, this change will have a positive effect on the Magic Fan. So I will now announce that because Orin made this modification, he will receive a special research bonus from thepany. The amount is¡­..ten gold coins!¡±

 Volume 1 22 - Being a guest

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 22 Being a guest</strong>

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, an uproar went through everyone.

    ¡°Ten gold coins? That much!¡±

    ¡°God! What modification did that kid Orin make? He was actually rewarded ten gold coins at one?

    ¡°If I knew this earlier, I would have studied it as well. I¡¯m very confident with Magic Arrays.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, ten gold coins! If I could receive this reward, I could let my mother rest for a while¡­..¡±

    ¡­...

    It had to be known that these students received only two gold coins for each Magic Array they drew. If they wanted to obtain ten gold coins, they needed to draw an entire five hundred Magic Arrays!

    To the students whose families couldn¡¯tpare to Orin¡¯s, ten gold coins were a veryrge amount for them.

    Hearing the discussion of the students, Xu Yi looked at the stunned Heinz. Heinz immediately understood and headed to the side. After a while, he came back with a small paper bag in his hand and handed it to Orin.

    ¡°Orin, this is your reward. You can count it.¡±

    ¡°No need, chairman. I was just interested in the Magic Array, so I studied it. This reward¡­..I don¡¯t need it.¡± Orin shook his head and hands, he didn¡¯t want to ept this reward.

    Although he was normally very proud, he knew that he was separated from the other students because of his family background. If he were to take this reward in front of everyone, it couldpletely divide him from everyone else.

    This was not a happy experience.

    ¡°Take it. This is thepany¡¯s policy, it doesn¡¯t just apply to you.¡± Xu Yi took the paper bag and put it in Orin¡¯s hands, ¡°Come, count it and see if there are ten gold coins inside.¡±

    Seeing how firm Xu Yi was, Orin could only open the paper bag with an awkward face and take out the gold coins inside to count one by one.

    Seeing in the sparkling gold coins in Orin¡¯s hands, the eyes of the other students couldn¡¯t help lighting up.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile before raising his voice again, ¡°Listen up, what I said just now, that policy doesn¡¯t apply only to Orin alone. If any of you can make a modification that will improve the Magic Fan, you will also receive the same reward!¡±

    ¡°Chairman, what kind of change is good?¡± A rather tall student raised his hand and asked.

    ¡°As long as it is rted to the Magic Fan and has a positive effect on the Magic Fan, it will be enough.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Of course, that is on the premise it doesn¡¯t affect your work. If you only think about this and dy your work, affecting the production speed, not only will I deduct your pay, I might even directly fire you based on our contract.¡±

    He had no choice but to be the bad guy. If these students be hot headed and only focus on studying modifications, forgetting to do even their most basic work, the gains would not equal the losses.

    The students looked at each other and they all looked down as they focused on their work.

    Compared to before, they were working even more enthusiastically.

    Heinz looked at Orin who had returned to his post to work honestly and asked Xu Yi in a quiet voice, ¡°Ten gold coins? Was it worth it?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a softugh, ¡°Of course it is. Heinz, you have to remember, this kind of modifications are very important to the quality of the product. This policy needs to be maintained in the future and it shouldn¡¯t be only limited to changes with the Magic Array. In the future, we should also include the entire production line of the Magic Fans. If anyone can make a change to the structure of the Magic Fan, they will also be rewarded, encouraging them to do this.¡±

    Heinz said in a confused voice, ¡°Didn¡¯t you do all of this yourself? Do you think that the things you¡¯ve researched can¡¯tpare to a bunch of kids who haven¡¯t even grown hair on their bodies yet?¡±

    ¡°No matter how powerful I am, I am still a person. A person¡¯s abilities are limited, but the wisdom of people is infinite. You mustn¡¯t looked down on these students, perhaps the next great Magic Mechanical Engineering Master will be born from among them.¡±

    Heinz looked at the passionately working students and shook his head.

    Why couldn¡¯t he see it?

    When Heinz wanted to discuss their next steps with Xu Yi, there was a loud call from the doors of the wooden cabin, ¡°Mister Xu Yi.¡±

    The two were both stunned. To address Xu Yi in such an official tone, only that old butler of Viscount Leslie did something like this.

    Turning back, who would have suddenly appeared in the entrance of the cabin if it wasn¡¯t for Butler Brunei?

    Xu Yi quickly came forward to greet him.

    ¡°Butler Brunei, why are you here? Is there something you need?¡±

    Butler Brunei looked over the wooden cabin before taking out a goldced invitation out of his chest for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Mister Xu Yi, I represent my master, Lord Viscount Leslie to sincerely invite you to his manor to be a guest at noon.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He looked at Heinz, but he was also confused.

    When they were renting thend, Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t even show himself, so why did he suddenly invited Xu Yi as a guest?

    ###

    When he saw Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Since he rentednd from Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi naturally knew a bit about this Lord Viscount.

    ording to the information Heinz found, Xu Yi knew that this Viscount Leslie was very famous among the nobles in Banta City. He had just turned thirty this year and it¡¯s said that because he was very handsome and he had a rich family, he was very weed by the noble young misses in Banta City. He was famous for being a dandy young master in Banta City.

    Xu Yi thought that this fellow would grow up as a pretty boy, making his actions very frivolous and making him very prideful, which meant he definitely wasn¡¯t an easy person to get along with.

    But after seeing the truth, Xu Yi found that his impression was a bitcking.

    The fellow in front of him was indeed handsome, his face was very serious, with thick brows and big eyes, giving him a very serious aura. His face was not the white colour that was popr among nobles, rather he had a bronze glow that was even considered a bit ck.

    He was a very tall person and very well proportioned. There was no need to mention it to know that he exercised regrly, he was not was weak as those young masters from noble families.

    Just with a single look at Viscount Leslie, the contempt in Xu Yi¡¯s heart towards him disappeared.

    This Viscount Leslie, he was not like this arrogant and idiotic noble young masters he had seen before.

    While Xu Yi was sizing up Viscount Leslie, he was also sizing up Xu Yi and he seemed quite interested in Xu Yi. He honestly looked over Xu Yi a few times before pointing the little table beside him, ¡°Please sit.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a salute like amoner before respectfully sitting down in front of Viscount Leslie.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, Viscount Leslieughed, ¡°No need to be so constrained, I am not as strict with troublesome courtesies like those old men, you can just act casually. Look, I didn¡¯t greet you in the main hall, so this is not considered an official meeting. You can just treat it as a friend inviting you to a meal.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and felt a bit strange that he would be this courteous to him.

    Based purely on status, Xu Yi was a very normalmoner and the other side had been bestowed a viscount title by the Lampuri Kingdom, he was a true noble.

    Even with Xu Yi¡¯s status as a magician, it wasn¡¯t that rare to see magicians on the continent. Most people wouldn¡¯t attach great importance to normal magicians.

    In Banta City, only a Great Magician like Cami would received everyone¡¯s respect.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi hadn¡¯t passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, so he didn¡¯t have any value at all.

    If one looked at it from a business angle, Xu Yi was rentingnd from Viscount Leslie, meaning he was under his control. By right, he should be even more respectful to Viscount Leslie.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, I don¡¯t know why you¡¯ve suddenly summoned me. Is there something urgent?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help but ask.

    ¡°We¡¯ll talk about thister. Come, let¡¯s eat first.¡± Viscount Leslie waved his hand and didn¡¯t reply.

    Xu Yi thought about it before rxing his heart. He just enjoyed the lunch that Viscount Leslie called out.

    It was just like Viscount Leslie said, he didn¡¯t entertain Xu Yi in the manor¡¯s main hall, rather it was a small cabin beside a pool. The meal he brought out wasn¡¯t that luxurious or official, it was just a few cold dishes.

    Of course, these dishes were finely made, it was not something any restaurant in Banta City couldpare to.

    Viscount Leslie during the meal was very friendly, taking care of Xu Yi while chatting with him. He talked to Xu Yi about matters around the country, not repeating a single matter once, which showed that his insights were much better than normal citizens.

    After they finished their meal, the servants took away the tableware and were timely in bringing out two cups of cold fruit juice. Viscount Leslie stopped chatting and looked at Xu Yi before suddenly saying, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve heard Butler Brunei say that your Magic Fan factory has already begun functioning?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s here.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat. He took a sip of the fruit juice, wetting his throat while organizing his thoughts. After a pause, he replied with a nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve also heard that your factory has made quite a few Magic Fans. Can you tell me how many Magic Fans you make each day?¡± After asking this question, Viscount Leslie also quickly waved his hand, ¡°Of course, if this is a secret, you don¡¯t have to tell me.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This is not a secret. Right now, we¡¯re producing one hundred and fifty each day, no more, no less.¡±

    ¡°Oh? One hundred and fifty each day¡­..Let me count it. You¡¯ve already opened the factory for three days, then that would be four hundred and fifty fans.¡±

    ¡°If everything still goes smoothly today, that is indeed the number.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Then I have a question for you.¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a profound gaze and asked, ¡°If you can produce one hundred and fifty each day, then you can produce four thousand and five hundred in a month? Do you think you can sell all these Magic Fans? Banta City only has three thousand households and I don¡¯t think each family will buy several Magic Fans.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the Lord Viscount¡¯s worries.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Actually, it is like you said, the Magic Fan needs in Banta City are saturated, it will be hard to sell more Magic Fans.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then why are you producing all these Magic Fans? You¡¯re not worried that you won¡¯t be able to sell them?¡±

    ¡°If there isn¡¯t anyone in Banta City that wants to buy them, there are still arge amount of people outside Banta City who also needs it.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, I won¡¯t hide anything, actually the orders we currently have exceed over five thousand. There is a very small portion of it thates from Banta City and the majority of it is from the viges outside the city. Moreover, with each day, the orders keep increasing. For example, just yesterday morning, I just received another order for one thousand Magic Fans.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi paused for a second. He looked at Viscount Leslie¡¯s expression and said in a more serious tone, ¡°What is worth mentioning is that the order came from Karma City.¡±

 Volume 1 23 - Partner

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 23 Partner</h4>

    ¡°Karma City?¡± Viscount Leslie quickly looked at Butler Brunei who had been standing on the side the entire time and said in an astonished voice, ¡°I never thought that you would have already sold Magic Fans in other cities, that really is unexpected.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and shook his head, ¡°Strictly speaking, we didn¡¯t sell them, but rather they were the ones who came to us.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean by that?¡± Viscount Leslie asked in a very curious voice.

    ¡°Lord Viscount has just said it, the poption in Banta City is limited. Even adding in the viges outside Banta City, there is still a limit to the need for Magic Fans, so we have already made ns to promote the Magic Fans in areas outside of Banta City. But we didn¡¯t promote this earlier because the timing was not right.¡±

    ¡°Why wasn¡¯t it right?¡± Viscount Leslie was a bit confused, ¡°If people are willing to buy, you aren¡¯t willing to sell?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not like this. This is based on my consideration for the future.¡±

    Xu Yi put down his fruit juice and decided to exin it all to Viscount Leslie.

    After the short period of contact with him, his impression of Viscount Leslie had greatly changed. He felt that he wasn¡¯t as useless as those normal noble dandies and rather had his own ideas and views. With this kind of person, Xu Yi was willing to interact with him more.

    ¡°Although looking at it from the surface, it is inevitable that we would bring the Magic Fans to a broader market, this is still very good for our development. But we can¡¯t rush this matter because as the number of sales increase, we must also increase our output. Otherwise, if our output can¡¯t keep up and we can¡¯t fulfill the orders we receive, not only will it create losses in terms of sales, the most important thing is that it will be arge hit to our reputation. If we lose our reputation, it will damage our foundations and hurt our future development.¡±

    Viscount Leslie thought about it and asked with knitted brows, ¡°Then why can¡¯t you increase the output? Is it because you don¡¯t have enough people? But I¡¯ve heard Brunei say that you have only recruited thirty students from Baron Rickto Magic Academy, you aren¡¯t producing to your full potential yet. You said just now that you are producing one hundred and fifty Magic Fans each day, then if you recruited some more people, you don¡¯t have to recruit a lot, wouldn¡¯t you at least be able to produce two hundred per day?¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, you¡¯ve forgotten a very important question.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°That is quality. Although it is very simple to make the Magic Fans, up until now, the people that can produce them has been very small. urately speaking, there is only me who can make Magic Fans perfectly. Those students that were hired, although they can work on the most important Magic Array, for the small adjustments and instations, there is no one else but me who can do it. This is a fact that has made me very helpless, which is that the production of the Magic Fans dependspletely on my work efficiency. But as a single person, my abilities are limited, so the production line is limited and it can¡¯t be increased.¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi for a while, ¡°This isn¡¯t right. Since you can give the most important Magic Array work to the students, it is impossible to give the other work to other people to do. I think¡­..you should be afraid of revealing the core secrets, so you¡¯re not willing to do this, right?¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, you¡¯re looking down on me.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I have just said that the Magic Fans aren¡¯t hard to make and to me, they aren¡¯t considered a secret at all. Only, I¡¯m in charge of a very difficult matter right now, so it¡¯s hard for me to hand it to other people. But I believe this won¡¯tst for long. Those students have slowly started to learn the main parts and I believe that after a period of time, they will be able topletely take over my work. When that timees, you¡¯ll find that the Magic Fan production will greatly increase.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi paused for a bit and revealed a mysterious smile, ¡°Other than that, I might as well disclose a real secret to you. If nothing unexpected happens, a new generation of Magic Fans are about to appear.¡±

    Viscount Leslie was instantly stunned, ¡°A new generation? There are different Magic Fans? What is different about itpared to the Magic Fans you sold before?¡±

    ¡°As for what difference it has, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t simply describe it. When the new generation of Magic Fans appears, you will naturally know.¡± Xu Yi deliberately kept him guessing, ¡°Moreover, I can tell you that the new generation of Magic Fans are made withpletely different production methods and has apletely different design. Its output will far surpass the Magic Fans currently being produced. When that timees, that is when we push the Magic Fans onto the broader market.¡±

    Viscount Leslie stared at Xu Yi for a while before shaking his head with a smile and saying, ¡°When I saw the n Butler Brunei gave me at first, I thought you were a lunatic with big words. Looking at you now, it seems I¡¯ve truly underestimated you. Very good, since you didn¡¯t disappoint me, that means we can discuss this further. Brunei, bring out the contract.¡±

    Butler Brunei bowed before turning to leave.

    ¡°Contract?¡± Xu Yi saw Viscount Leslie¡¯s confident look and slightly knit his brows.

    Could it be that this fellow wants to y some tricks?

    After a while, Butler Brunei came back with a document, which Viscount Leslie ced in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Look at this and feel free to ask any questions you have.¡±

    Xu Yi curiously picked up the document and found that it was and rental contract that was about thend that he was currently renting.

    Butpared to the first contract, this one was much more in depth and also much more preferential.

    In the previous contract, Xu Yi and Heinz had only been renting thend from Viscount Leslie for a year and they didn¡¯t have any authority at all. They were very limited by Viscount Leslie and if he felt unhappy one day, he could drive them away without any questions.

    As for this contract, it clearly stipted that Xu Yi hadpletely control over the use of thend and Viscount Leslie only had property rights.

    This also meant that Xu Yi could do whatever he wanted with thend without any problems, even without needing agreement from Viscount Leslie.

    At the same time, Viscount Leslie had directly increased the length of the contract from one year to five years, as well as decreasing the rent. One hectare per year was actually decreased by half, which became only fifty gold coins!

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the contract and after confirming he had missed nothing, he put down the contract. Thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Viscount Leslie, do you have any conditions?¡±

    A look of praise shed in Viscount Leslie¡¯s eyes and he said with a faint smile, ¡°If I didn¡¯t raise any conditions, would you believe it?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying anything.

    ¡°Ha, ha, alright, I won¡¯t joke around. Of course there is a condition, but I think you won¡¯t reject it.¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, please tell me.¡±

    ¡°Un, this condition is very simple, I want to invest. Pay attention, this is not as simple as the 10% share you gave me, rather I want to participate. In the future, whether it is the Magic Fans or any other projects you make, I want the right to know and to give my opinion. Of course, I will not force my way in. Other than providingnd, I can also inject capital into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Other than that, I can also rely on my connections to open up markets for you. For example, I can help you bring this Magic Fan to Anvilmar City to sell. How about it, what do you think of this condition?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change and after thinking for a while, he asked with a serious look, ¡°Lord Viscount, I want to ask something. When you raised this condition, are you using your identity as a noble or as an ordinary merchant?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is there a difference?¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s strange question, Viscount Leslie was very interested.

    ¡°There is arge difference.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If you use your identity as a noble, then ording to the rules set by the kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament, your rights as a shareholder must be supervised by the Royal Parliament and can¡¯t hide anything. Like this, there will be many things of ourpany that can¡¯t be hidden from the Royal Parliament. This is one thing that I can¡¯t ept and I can only apologize to you.¡±

    ¡°Then if it¡¯s as a normal merchant?¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s as a normal merchant¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi revealed a sly smile, ¡°Then in terms of business, the condition you have stated is very attractive. But I must clearly tell you that while there is no problem for you to be a shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you will only have a small amount of rights. That means that other than the right to give ideas, you will not have any decision making powers. What do you think about that?¡±

    Butler Brunei on the side tightly knit his brows and angrily said, ¡°Audacious! The Lord Viscount is willing to invest in your littlepany, that is your honour! You dare say the Lord Viscount won¡¯t have any decision making power? Simply audacious!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change. Hepletely ignored Butler Brunei and kept looking at Viscount Leslie with a faint smile.

    Viscount Leslie did not show a single trace of surprise, rather he nodded and asked, ¡°I understand your thoughts, but Xu Yi, how can you ensure you won¡¯t make the wrong decisions? Simply speaking, how can you guarantee my benefits?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and unexpectedly winked at Viscount Leslie as he said, ¡°Lord Viscount, don¡¯t you believe in me?¡±

    Viscount Leslie was surprised before breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Good! Good! Xu Yi, you really are an interesting person. Brunei, it¡¯s fine, take out the other contract for him to see.¡±

    Xu Yi received another contract from Brunei and found that it was an investment contract.

    The contract stated that Viscount Leslie would be using territory to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and his original 10% would be raised to 30%.

    The contract also clearly stated that in terms ofpany decision making, Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t have any decision making power. For everything about thepany, Xu Yi was in charge and Viscount Leslie could not interfere.

    Another thing that was specially added was a privacy use, which meant that this contract wouldn¡¯t be protected by the kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament.

    But because of this, Xu Yi felt rxed.

    After carefully reading the contract, Xu Yi looked up and stretched his right hand out as he looked at Viscount Leslie with a smile.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, to a good cooperation.¡±

    Viscount Leslie also stretched out his hand with a smile and tightly gripped Xu Yi¡¯s hand.

    ¡°To a happy cooperation.¡±

 Volume 1 24 - Men can also become jealous

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 24 Men can also be jealous</strong>

    It was past noon when Xu Yi left Viscount Leslie¡¯s manor. Looking up at the bright son, he determined that it was better not to brave this burning heat to go to the factory and let Butler Brunei send him back to Banta City with the horse carriage instead.

    With this hot weather, Banta City was in the same deathly silence as usual. Xu Yi looked around from inside the horse carriage and found that many houses and stores had traces of Magic Fans turning. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    It was just in a single month, but the Magic Fans had spread all over inside and outside Banta City. Other than those rich people who can afford toy downrge scale Frost Arrays inside their houses, every household had one or two Magic Fans. It was simply impossible to raise one¡¯s head and not see one in the neighbourhood.

    ording to Heinz¡¯s data, up to this point, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold a total of two thousand three hundred and seventy one Frestech Brand Magic Fans.

    Adding in all the assorted costs, the profit was over two thousand and two hundred gold coins.

    Then taking away themission Heinz made and themission from Viscount Leslie¡¯s 10% share, Xu Yi had made a profit of one thousand and five hundred gold coins from just this!

    And this was just his ie for a single month.

    It had to be known, the average ie per month for people in Banta City was only ten gold coins and their yearly ie was around two hundred gold coins.

    With Rem¡¯s thirty gold coin ie at Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, he could be considered someone with a high ie in Banta City.

    Butpared to the current Xu Yi, there was no doubt he wascking by countless times.

    It was no wonder Heinz frequently tried convincing Xu Yi to stop working at the Magic Tower and focus on thepany.

    Of the reasons why the Magic Fan¡¯s production couldn¡¯t be raised, the deciding factor was Xu Yi¡¯s limited energy.

    Although his workload at the Magic Tower was not considered heavy, it did consume arge part of his energy.

    From Heinz¡¯s point of view, this was basically arge waste.

    But as for Heinz¡¯s proposition each time, Xu Yi kept firmly rejecting him.

    Heinz didn¡¯t have foresight, but Xu Yi didn¡¯tck it.

    After getting out of the horse carriage, Xu Yi gave the driver a gold coin and carried arge and small bag into the Magic Tower.

    He came across quite a few colleagues in the Magic Tower, who all looked at him with a smile when they saw him.

    During this time, Xu Yi had soldrge amounts of Magic Fans he designed in Banta City, so even with how little the magicians of the Magic Tower cared about normal things, they still heard all about it. Through this, they began recognizing this ck haired kid none of them knew before.

    But in the eyes of the magicians of the Magic Tower, Xu Yi was ignoring his main profession.

    As a magician, he wasn¡¯t properly conducting magical research and running of to make some unknown Magic Fan, this was simply an embarrassing magician!

    Xu Yi turned a blind eye to all the strange gazes mixed with these smiles and maintained his own smile as he headed into theb.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, the young colleagues in theb all shouted out and charged over. They stole the bags from Xu Yi¡¯s hands without any politeness and quickly opened them.

    ¡°It¡¯s mung bean juice again? I say, Xu Yi, don¡¯t you have anything new?¡± A colleague didn¡¯t forget toin.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°What? You¡¯re sick of it? Alright, I¡¯ll remember to bring something new next time.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t listen to his nonsense, it¡¯s already pretty good having something to eat.¡± A female colleague pushed the colleague whoined aside, ¡°Xu Yi, you always bring something to eat back, it¡¯s embarrassing for us.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, just some small cheap things. I¡¯m always taking vacations and leaving the work in theb for you all, so this is considered an apology from me.¡±

    ¡°He, he, you¡¯re too polite¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Humph! So you do know.¡± A cold snort suddenly cut through this harmonious atmosphere, ¡°Xu Yi, don¡¯t think that you can show off here with the bit of money you¡¯re making from the Magic Fans. Don¡¯t forget, you are a magician in the end. We magicians rely on our magical strength and it¡¯s the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam next month. I¡¯ve heard that you haven¡¯t even passed the lowest level test yet, right? If you still can¡¯t pass it next month, that will be a joke!¡±

    Xu Yi looked over and found that one speaking was the one who was second in terms of magic power in theb, Cimirot.

    Since Xu Yi came to thisb, this Cimirot had always been critical of him, looking down on him in many ways.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand what was the matter, but after asking around with his colleagues, he found that Cimirot always had thoughts about Still. After learning that Xu Yi was brought in through the back door by Still, he thought that Xu Yi and Still had some kind of special rtionship, so naturally he didn¡¯t like Xu Yi.

    For this kind of people, Xu Yi knew that he would be more excited the more you paid attention to him. He had always ignored him, not acknowledging his existence.

    After a long time, Cimirot realized that him grumbling by himself didn¡¯t have any meaning. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special rtionships with Still, he gradually stopped.

    He never thought that he would suddenly start again.

    ¡°Hey, Cimirot, aren¡¯t your words a bit too harsh?¡± The female colleague who had spoken up for Xu Yi earlier said in a dissatisfied voice, ¡°Although Xu Yi hasn¡¯t passed the certification test yet, everyone has been working together for this long, do we still not know what kind of power Xu Yi has? If it was me, I¡¯m certain he will pass the certification test next month!¡±

    ¡°Humph! Lotte, Xu Yi has bought some small things for you and he has already bought you off? You say he will definitely pass the test? Then so what? I can see that his strength is at most at the Primary Magician Grade? Do you think a Primary Grade Magician is strong?¡±

    ¡°You¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi stretched out his hand to stop Lotte who kept wanting to argue. He looked at Cimirot and said with a faint smile, ¡°Senior Cimirot, my magic power can¡¯tpare to yours, I think we don¡¯t need to discuss this matter.¡±

    Cimirot never thought that Xu Yi would actually admit that he couldn¡¯tpare to him in front of all these people and he was stunned. He was too embarrassed to keep going, so he gave a grunt and sat back down. It was unknown if he was wholeheartedly focused on his work.

    ¡°What kind of person is he!¡± Lotte disdainfully looked at Cimirot before giving a soft snort. She then slightly knit her brows as she said to Xu Yi in a soft voice, ¡°Xu Yi, why did you say that you can¡¯tpare to him? Isn¡¯t this urging him to be even more arrogant?¡±

    ¡°The problem is that I am indeed inferior to him.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, not looking angry because of it at all, ¡°Lotte, I am an engineer. The most basic requirement for me is honesty, I can¡¯t lie about anything.¡±

    Lotte red at Xu Yi, ¡°You are indeed quite calm.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Looking around, he didn¡¯t see Rem and We.

    ¡°The two took a day off together today, I think they¡¯re most likely going on a date.¡± Lotte giggled as she spoke, ¡°Speaking of this, that fellow Rem really isn¡¯t single minded, he still knows to ask We out on a date.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­...It¡¯s really a pity, I wanted to find We for something.¡± Xu Yi helplessly said.

    ¡°You¡¯re looking for We again?¡± Lotte looked at Xu Yi doubtfully. She suddenly became mysterious and said in a small voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, don¡¯t me me for not warning you, but it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t look for We alone. Although Rem hasn¡¯t said anything, I can tell that he is very unhappy because of this.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°I am only looking for We for business.¡±

    ¡°That still isn¡¯t good.¡± Lotte firmly said, ¡°Men can also be jealous, you should be careful.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. After thinking about it, he could only shake his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be more careful in the future.¡±

    Since We wasn¡¯t here, Xu Yi lost his goal ining to theb today. After he went back to his station to finish the work that had piled up, it was already close to getting off work.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before leaving theboratory, stepping onto the magicaldder.

    The topyer of the Magic Tower waspletely cool. Xu Yi reported his name and the door to Great Magician Cami¡¯sb automatically opened, revealing the space inside.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you actually didn¡¯t take the day off today?¡± Great Magician Cami had just finished a magic experiment and was taking a short break. Seeing Xu Yie in, he even revealed a small interested smile.

    Xu Yi awkwardly smiled. He knew that he had taken quite a few days off, even Great Magician Cami knew about it.

    ¡°Speak, what are you looking for me for?¡± Great Magician Cami asked.

    ¡°I have two things. The first is to express my gratitude to your excellency Great Magician.¡±

    ¡°Thank me for what?¡± Great Magician Cami asked with knit brows.

    ¡°To thank you for the rmendation quota you gave me for the Magicians Guild certification exam.¡±

    ¡°Gave you?¡± A trace of confusion appeared on Great Magician Cami¡¯s face before he suddenly remembered something and nodded, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, your magical talent is pretty good, so it¡¯s very appropriate to rmend you. Anyway, this quota won¡¯t y that much of a role, it just makes it a bit easier for you, so you don¡¯t need to thank me. You said there¡¯s another thing.¡±

    ¡°No matter what, I still need to thank you.¡± Xu Yi gave a deep bow to express his gratitude to Great Magician Cami before taking out a blueprint, ¡°The other thing is to consult you about a matter.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s another Magic Array?¡± Great Magician Cami took the blueprint and looked it over before making a faint yi sound, ¡°This¡­..It seems to be a Frost Array?¡±

    ¡°You truly are your excellency Great Magician, recognizing it with a single nce.¡± Xu Yi immediately ttered him, ¡°That¡¯s right, this is indeed a Frost Array, or urately speaking, a modified Frost Array.¡±

    ¡°I can see that, but what changes have you made to the Frost Array?¡± Great Magician Cami pointed at the blueprint, ¡°Why have I noticed that the changes you have made to the Frost Array is simr to the modifications you¡¯ve made to the Revolving Wind Array?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly impressed as he happily said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you really are too powerful, you can see the core of this array with a single nce. That¡¯s right, the goal of modifying this Frost Array is the same as modifying the Revolving Wind Array, it¡¯s to let the Frost Array have a stable output. Can you see what the effects the array has?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­...This modification is very good, but there are small problems in several ces¡­..¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly looked up, ¡°Xu Yi, you wouldn¡¯t be nning to use this Frost Array to make something, right? Just like that Magic Fan thing?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. I want to make a Magic Air Conditioner.¡±

 Volume 1 25 - Experimental machine

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 25?Experimental machine</strong>

    In the blink of an eye, they entered August and the middle of summer.

    The weather became even hotter and once the sun came out, the Magic Fan factory was the same as a steamer. After a while, every one of the thirty students were covered in sweat.

    Even with a Magic Fan turning in every corner of the factory, it couldn¡¯t let them cool down.

    ¡°Sir vice chairman, can you convince sir chairman to install arge scale Frost Array in this ce.¡± Orin wiped his forehead covered in beads of sweat, as he couldn¡¯t helpining to Heinz beside him.

    He came from a noble family and had a better family circumstance since he was young, so he had never suffered like this before.

    ¡°Orin, you really are a child of a noble family. Do you know how much arge scale Frost Array costs to install?¡± Without waiting for Heinz to respond, a student refuted him with a cold snort, ¡°We only make a few gold coins each month and even if we add all thirty of us together, we can barely afford the consumption for arge scale Frost Array each month. Do you think sir chairman will install one for us?¡±

    ¡°I know that, but we still have to put up some resistance.¡± Orin didn¡¯t care about the insulting tone of the student at all. Since he received a special reward from Xu Yi for modifying the Magic Array, Orin¡¯s heart had been filled with joy the entire time and he became much more open.

    ¡°Ke, everyone does not need to worry, I¡¯ll report this matter to the chairman when I get back and I will try my best to convince him to install arge scale Frost Array. I believe that chairman has seen everyone¡¯s hard work and will definitely think of a way to solve this.¡± Seeing everyone¡¯s back covered in sweat, Heinz quicklyforted them.

    With how hot the Magic Fans were selling, the Magic Fan factory earned over a hundred gold coins each day. Like this, it wasn¡¯t uneptable for them to install arge scale Magic Array.

    After all, these students were the core part of producing Magic Fans and now that it was too hot, it would greatly affect their productivity. As the manager of this factory, Heinz had no choice but to consider this problem.

    The students didn¡¯t reveal expressions that were too excited towards Heinz¡¯s response, even Orinughed while shaking his head, looking like he didn¡¯t believe him.

    The student said was right. Laying arge scale Frost Array costs too much and from the perspective of a merchant, they would not easily arrange this kind of thing for their workers.

    At least they had never heard of apany that arranged such a luxurious thing for their factory.

    Of course, they thought this, but when they saw Xu Yi appear in the factory, there was a bit of hope in those students.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s reply immediately shattered their hopes.

    ¡°Laying arge scale Frost Array? That isn¡¯t possible, it costs too much. There is no need for that at all.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, answering in a very firm voice.

    The students looked at each other and gave sighs before silently returning to their work.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I thought that you were different from other merchants, but now I can see that you are no different from them.¡± Orin was too disappointed and he couldn¡¯t helpining.

    Xu Yiughed while waving his hand and saying, ¡°You don¡¯t need to be in a rush to be disappointed. Although I said that arge scale Frost Array is too wasteful, that does not mean that I can¡¯t solve your problems.¡±

    The students curiously looked over at Xu Yi again. They thought that the weather is so hot, if you don¡¯ty down arge scale Frost Array, how could you solve the problem?

    Xu Yi pointed at the rectangr iron box he just brought in and signaled for Heinz to install this box on the wall of the workshop with him. Then he casually threw a Magic Crystal into the hole on the side.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s action, the eyes of the students lit up.

    Could it be that Xu Yi made another new piece of magic machinery?

    ¡°Sir chairman, what is this thing?¡± Orin couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Don¡¯t rush, you¡¯ll know in a bit.¡± Xu Yi finished his preparations before pressing the switch at the bottom of the strange box.

    ¡°Ding¡ª¡ª¡±

    With a soft sound, the iron box lit up with a faint cream coloured light before it released a faint blue glow along with that light, as wu, wu sounds came from the iron box.

    There were several strange openings on the bottom of the box and outside it were strips of cloth. At first everyone couldn¡¯t tell what it was, but after a while, everyone found that these strips of cloth were slightly moving, clearly being blown by winding out of the opening.

    Seeing this scene, the students became disappointed again.

    ¡°Sir chairman, isn¡¯t this just an altered Magic Fan? What use does it have?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we have so many Magic Fans around us, but just blowing wind won¡¯t cool us down that much.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you should stilly arge scale Frost Array for us. Otherwise, we¡¯ll die from the heat.¡±

    ¡­...

    Xu Yi smiled without exining anything.

    After a while, Heinz and the other students suddenly realized something strange.

    ¡°Yi? This isn¡¯t right, why is this wind so cold?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s so strange. It¡¯s clearly so hot, so why is the wind being blown out cold?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s true, it¡¯s so cold! This is great! It¡¯ll be much morefortableter!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, sofortable! This thing is almostparable to arge scale Frost Array!¡±

    ¡­...

    The students enjoyed the cool breezeing from this strange iron box for a while before they couldn¡¯t help curiously asking Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, just what is this thing?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, why is the wind being blown out so cold?¡±

    ¡°It would be great if the Magic Fans were like this. Everyone wouldn¡¯t need to installrge scale Frost Arrays.¡±

    ¡°This thing¡­..¡± Xu Yi stretched out his words. He obtained the appetite of the students, but he kept them hanging, ¡°I won¡¯t tell you for now.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Sir chairman, you¡¯re kidding with us, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, why do you need to intentionally keep us hungry? At least you can tell us what¡¯s the name of this thing, right?¡±

    ¡°Hei, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not willing to tell you, rather this thing hasn¡¯t beenpleted yet. I have only made an experimental model and I¡¯m letting you use it first. One, I¡¯m positively changing your work environment and two, I¡¯m giving you all a task, which is to observe the running conditions off this magic machinery. No matter what problems or changes ur with it, you have to record it all. I need to collect some experimental data and then make some changes to it, do you understand?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this, we will definitely finish this task!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! Be assured sir chairman, since it has let me be much cooler, I will definitely treat it as a treasure!¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I don¡¯t want you to use it like a treasure, rather be rough with it. How rough you can be is how rough you should treat it. This is because I need to record its reactions to many different special circumstances to test its performance. The time, let¡¯s just set it for three days for now. In three days, I¡¯ll collect the data from you all. If everything goes smoothly, this thing will enter production. At that time, I¡¯ll install a few of them here for you all and I promise you won¡¯t feel the heat.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great!¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you really are a good person!¡±

    ¡°No, a good boss!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the cheering of the students, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He turned to Heinz and said in a small voice, ¡°Heinz, I¡¯ll be heading out in the next few days. The matters on this side will depend on you.¡±

    ¡°Going out? Where?¡± Heinz asked in a surprised voice.

    Xu Yi¡¯s gaze drifted into the distance, ¡°I¡¯m going to the dwarven vige Master Lanus came from. Master Lanus said that it would be fast, only taking a day, so I¡¯m estimating it at three days. But if something happens to dy me, you are here to help me take care of things. Also I need you to take a trip to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower for me and tell Great Magician Cam that I will be taking two days off.¡±

    Heinz asked in a curious voice, ¡°What are you doing suddenly going to the dwarven tribe?¡±

    ¡°Remember what I told youst time? I¡¯ve always been dissatisfied with the works of the cksmiths in Banta City and the only one qualified is Master Lanus. But Master Lanus is alone, so he can¡¯t meet my needs at all. I¡¯ve thought about it seriously and discussed this with Master Lanus, deciding to head to the dwarven tribe. If I can recruit a few dwarves to leave their tribes, it will be very helpful to my nter on.¡±

    ¡°Although dwarven artisans are a bit better than human artisans, is there a need for this? Look at those Magic Fan outer casings made by human cksmiths in the city, I don¡¯t see any problem with them at all.¡±

    ¡°He, he, Heinz, this isn¡¯t me being picky, rather your standards are too low. Can it be that you haven¡¯t noticed that although the Magic Fan outer casings look pretty good, there are always small differences in its appearance? These differences can createrge or small differences in the appearance of the Magic Fans we¡¯ve produced. You shouldn¡¯t look down on these small differences. You can¡¯t see it now, but when our factory wants to start line work, these small differences could be fatal.¡±

    ¡°Line work?¡± Heinz couldn¡¯t help being astonished by the several new words that came out of Xu Yi¡¯s mouth as he became dazed again, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll exin this to you when the time is right, you just need to focus a bit more. This is the must standard for all products, it must be uniform and have no discrepancies at all.

    Seeing how serious Xu Yi was, Heinz could only nod in agreement.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m setting off. I hope that when I return, I¡¯ll be able to bring back a group of dwarven artisans.¡±

 Volume 1 26 - Steel alloy

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 26: Steel alloy</b>

    If one directly calcted the distance, Master Lanus¡¯ dwarven tribe was only less than two hundred kilometers away from Banta City.

    But if one calcted based on travel distance, it was close to three hundred meters.

    The over two hundred meters in the beginning could by traveled by sitting in a horse carriage, only at the mountain the dwarves lived on in the end, there were only twenty kilometers that needed to be traversed on foot.

    To Master Lanus, this would only take a single day¡¯s travel.

    Xu Yi found after leaving Banta City in the morning that only when the sky turned dark could he see the dots of mes Master Lanus mentioned in front of them.

    ¡°Do you see it? Each me is a forge, the fires in the forges of us dwarves are never extinguished!¡± When he said this, Master Lanus held his stomach that wasn¡¯t that small and revealed a proud look.

    It was a pity that Xu Yi already had no strength to talk to him after traveling for a day, but he also wasn¡¯t interested in going along with him.

    To Xu Yi¡¯s sudden visit, the dwarves in the vige were mostly surprised, but because Xu Yi came with Master Lanus, they were immediately weed. There was a grand weing feast held for them.

    The dwarves loved wine, so naturally they used wine to greet guests.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t remember how many times his bowl had been filled and couldn¡¯t remember at all how he passed out drunk, only when he opened his eyes after regaining consciousness, it was already bright out. It was already the morning of the next day.

    Xu Yi shook his head and found that strangely it didn¡¯t hurt, only he was a bit dizzy.

    It seemed like the dwarves not only loved wine, they were very skilled in making wine. After drinking that muchst night, he actually didn¡¯t have a hangover the next day.

    Of course, this was also thanks to Xu Yi¡¯s tolerance being quite good.

    On earth, as one of the best mechanical engineers of the country¡¯s biggest mechanical engineeringpany, even if Xu Yi strictly controlled himself, he couldn¡¯t avoid the various dinner appointments. His alcohol tolerance was also trained by this.

    This wine fermenting technology of this world wasn¡¯t as developed as on earth, so naturally the degree was far from being able topare. This indirectly increased Xu Yi¡¯s tolerance by arge amount.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi is it? Are you awake?¡± There was a thick voice that came from beside him.

    Xu Yi turned over and saw a male dwarf with a ratherrge nose.

    ¡°You are¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi scratched his head. He had an impression of this male dwarf, but he couldn¡¯t think of his name.

    ¡°Ha, ha, just call me Camby.¡± The dwarf strongly pped Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder as he burst withughter, ¡°I thought that all humans couldn¡¯t drink that much, but I never thought that you really could drink. You actually drank out two people before you copse, not bad, not bad!¡±

    Xu Yiughed. The dwarves loved wine, so any man who could drink wine was a good person. The alcohol tolerance he disyedst night at the feast was a great stepping stone for me.

    ¡°Where¡¯s Master Lanus? Why don¡¯t I see him?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°That brat Lanus has gone to see the head, he said that he had something to discuss. That¡¯s right, I almost forgot, he said that you could go see the head after you woke up. How about it? Are you going now? But you just woke up, it¡¯s better to eat something before you go.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his stomach, it was indeed empty, so he nodded.

    Camby brought out two pancakes made of unknown ingredients that Xu Yi quickly finished. Then he asked Camby to lead him to the meeting with the head.

    The dwarven tribe Lanus came from was not especially big. ording to what Camby said, there was only around five hundred people in the entire dwarven tribe.

    Xu Yi estimated ording to what he observed. There should be around one hundred adult male dwarves in the dwarven tribe.

    This made him a bit disappointed. He nned on recruiting enough dwarven workers this time, but the adult males of this tribe only added up to around a hundred people. Even if everyone had the same level of skill as Master Lanus, it was still a bitcking.

    ¡°Who told you that only adult male dwarves could forge?¡± The dwarven tribe chief Siluka gave a snort at Xu Yi¡¯s question, ¡°Let me tell you, we dwarves learn winemaking and forging as soon as we¡¯re born. Even the little kids in our tribe are much better than those human cksmiths!¡±

    Seeing Siluka¡¯s proud appearance and the approval of Master Lanus and Camby on the side, Xu Yi tactfully didn¡¯t respond. He thought about it before saying, ¡°Then respected sir tribe chief, can you allow me to hire some smithing masters from your tribe to help Master Lanusplete the work I¡¯ve entrusted him?¡±

    ¡°Regarding your request, I¡¯ve already discussed this with Lanus.¡± Siluka nodded, ¡°Speaking logically, I don¡¯t have a reason to stop you. But human, have you considered a problem? If arge group of people leave the tribe, it will greatly affect the lives of our tribe members who remain. Not to mention, how can you guarantee that the tribe members who work in your human factory will be able to live a good life and will obtain the rewards they deserve?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over at Master Lanus and Lanus gave a slight nod.

    Master Lanus had already mentioned this problem to Xu Yi on the way her, which is a problem that many dwarves tribes faced.

    Although the races of the Sines continent lived in rtive peace, they were still different races in the end and various kinds of problems will ur when living together.

    For example, even if Master Lanus was a master cksmith recognized in Banta City, because he is a dwarf, there are many difficulties for him living in Banta City.

    Although this problem was only brought up by Siluka, these were the worries in the hearts of many dwarves.

    It was because of these worries that caused the dwarves to gather together in little viges instead of choosing to live together with humans.

    Xu Yi had long considered this and casually said, ¡°Sir tribe chief can be assured, since I want to invite the dwarven friends to work for me, naturally I will solve all their problems. As for their daily needs, I have already discussed this with Master Lanus and I believe that Master Lanus has already mentioned this to you.¡±

    ¡°Un, he said that you want to assign a special area for the tribe members to live near your factory and you will take care of their board and daily necessities, this is very good. But what about the other aspects? Are you certain my tribe members won¡¯t be disdained and oppressed by humans?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir tribe chief, I¡¯ll tell you something I¡¯m not willing to admit, which is that we humans care quite a bit about race. As long as the other side can bring benefits to us, then we can be friends with them and won¡¯t have any scruples with them. I think you would agree to this point, right?¡±

    Siluka gave a cold snort, ¡°Of course I know this.¡±

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, what scruples do you have? Look, Master Lanus is a very good example of this. Although he is a dwarf, because of his exceptional cksmithing skills, he can bring many benefits to the people of Banta City and that naturally gains him the respect of many people in Banta City. Perhaps there are some difficulties with his life, but those don¡¯t really inconvenience his life at all, right?¡±

    Master Lanusughed at the right time and said with a nod, ¡°It is indeed like this. That group of fellows in Banta City don¡¯t dare offend me. There are many things the human cksmiths in Banta City can¡¯t do and only I can do, so how could they possible cause trouble for me?¡±

    Siluka considered this for a bit before saying, ¡°Then that¡¯s good, let¡¯s not discuss this matter for now. You are taking arge group of our adults away, so what can the rest of the tribe members do? You have to know, even if we dwarves love wine and forging, we still need to keep living. Whether it is hunting or farming, we still need quite a few tribe members. If you take them away, it will greatly affect our tribe.¡±

    ¡°Sir tribe chief, I have a suggestion that I hope you will listen to.¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡±

    ¡°I am nning to build a researchb here and I hope the dwarven friends can help me research something. Of course, I will also send a set amount of research funds each month. As for the amount¡­..let¡¯s set it at five hundred gold coins for now. If thebes up with and significant results, there will still be corresponding rewards. Sir tribe chief, what do you think of this suggestion?¡±

    As his voice fell, the three dwarves on site were stunned.,

    ¡°Five hundred gold coins?¡± Master Lanus¡¯ eyes popped out, ¡°Xu Yi, why didn¡¯t you tell me you wanted to build a researchboratory here before?¡±

    ¡°Researchboratory? Human, we dwarves only excel at forging, what do you want us to help you research?¡± As the tribe chief, Siluka was worried about something else.

    ¡°Please be assured, the things you are researching is rted to forging, it¡¯s mainly rted to researching some forging materials. I¡¯ve bought a research n today, sir tribe chief, please take a look at it.¡± Xu Yi took out a piece of paper from his chest.

    Siluka looked it over and was a bit stunned, ¡°Steel allow? What is this thing?¡±

    ¡°The concrete details have all been written, sir tribe chief can slowly look it over.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Now, sir tribe chief, do you have any other questions? If there is anything you still aren¡¯t satisfied with, please speak. As long as I can do it, I will definitely satisfy your request.¡±

    Siluka and Master Lanus, as well as Camby looked at each other a few times before giving soft sighs, ¡°Alright, human, I admit that I have been moved by your words. I basically agree with your condition and agree to you recruiting people in the tribe, but as for the concrete details, we still need to properly discuss them.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a happy smile and replied, ¡°Of course.¡±

 Volume 1 27 - I am a child

    <h4><strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 27 I am a child</strong></h4>

    ¡°Xu Yi, actually even if you didn¡¯t add the five hundred gold coinspensation, the tribe chief would have agreed to your conditions.¡± On the horse carriage ride back, Master Lanus looked at Xu Yi and suddenly spoke with a sigh.

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°You couldn¡¯t see it? The tribe¡¯s living conditions were already very poor.¡± Master Lanus give a bitterugh before shaking his head, ¡°Actually I had suggested to the tribe chief long ago that we should let the tribe members wander in your human world. With the skills of us dwarves, it could greatly improve the living conditions of our tribe members.¡±

    ¡°This suggestion is pretty good, so why didn¡¯t tribe chief Siluka agree to this?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    Master Lanus looked at Xu Yi and after hesitating a bit, he replied, ¡°Because we dwarves have been tricked by you humans many times before and the tribe chief doesn¡¯t trust humans at all.¡±

    This time Xu Yi was the one with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Then why did sir tribe chief agree this time? Could it be that he isn¡¯t afraid that I¡¯m lying to him?¡±

    ¡°Because there is already no other choice.¡± Master Lanus helplessly said, ¡°The Sines Continent ispletely controlled by you humans, almost all of the precious resources has been taken by you humans. Whether it is us dwarves, the elves, or the beast men, we can only stay far away from you humans and find a ce to stay that hasn¡¯t been seized by you humans yet. But these ces are devoid of any resources and we don¡¯t have the creativity of you humans at all, so the living conditions of my tribe members are getting worse and worse and there are less and less people. Xu Yi, do you know? When I was young, our n had over a thousand dwarves, but now there are only around five hundred people left.¡±

    ¡°When you were small?¡± Xu Yi looked over Lanus. He knew that dwarves lived longer than humans, so when Master Lanus talked about when he was young, that was over several hundred years ago.

    Master Lanus didn¡¯t care about what Xu Yi was thinking as he continued to say, ¡°Justst year, three people died of old age and not a single baby was born. That is a decrease in the tribe by three people. The tribe chief knows that like this, our tribe will gradually decrease until we disappear. But there is no other choice, we can¡¯tpete with humans at all. We can¡¯t fight a war with the humans for resources like thousands of years ago. But trying to integrate into human society isn¡¯t easy to talk about. You don¡¯t know this, but for me to continue living in Banta City, I¡¯ve suffered quite a bit of hardships and have almost lost my life.¡±

    Xu Yi silently looked at Master Lanus and gave a soft nod.

    Although he didn¡¯t know what happened specifically, he could tell just from his imagination. For someone from a foreign race like Master Lanus, to integrate into a human city and smoothly make a living, he needed to put in quite a bit of effort.

    ¡°The tribe chief actually wasn¡¯t prepared to send out all those adults, but he had no other choice since the conditions you gave were just too good. Not to mention everything else, just based on you taking out five hundred gold coins at once could help solve many problems that needed to be solved in the tribe. Not to mention that you agreed to give a high sry of eight gold coins each month for each worker. With this sry, their families in the tribe could live their lives without worry. Tell me, with this kind of conditions, could the tribe chief reject you?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about this for a bit and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Have the daily lives of dwarves already reached such a bitter state? What is the tribe chief basing on trusting me? Could it be that he isn¡¯t afraid that I¡¯m lying to him?¡±

    ¡°You still don¡¯t understand? Even if you are lying to him, the fact that you have taken out five hundred gold coins is real.¡± Master Lanus rolled his eyes and said, ¡°Then again, you are someone I brought in the end. Although I haven¡¯t known a kid like you long, based on me living among humans for a long time, I can tell that you are not someone who lies to others. At the very least you try to fulfill what you say. Just based on this, I feel it¡¯s worth trusting you this time.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his head in embarrassment and said whileughing, ¡°So I¡¯m someone this worth trusting.¡±

    Master Lanus red at Xu Yi, ¡°Kid, don¡¯t be happy too soon. As for what happens, it still depends on how you treat my tribe members. Let me tell you, if you are tricking them in the end, I will use this old life to properly take care of you!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°How could that be? Master Lanus, you and your nsmen are treasures to me, I will use everything to protect you all, how could I lie to you. Actually, I¡¯ll be honest with you. Master Lanus, the work and your nsmen will be doing will be very important work that will change the entire Sines Continent. In the future, it is very likely you dwarves will y a very important part in the history of the Sines Continent. When the timees, you will be masters weed all over the continent, will you need to worry that you can¡¯t afford your daily necessities?¡±

    Master Lanus red at him, ¡°Kid, don¡¯t make it sound good! What changing the continent, what written in history, I don¡¯t care about this at all. The thing I care about most now is, where are the houses that you promised my nsmen?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, as he thought it really wasn¡¯t realistic to let Master Lanus believe this.

    But he was certain that as long as everything went smoothly, Master Lanus and his nsmen will be the most important driving factors to changing the history of the Sines Continent.

    ###

    When he came back to Banta City after three days, it was already time for the night lights to be lit. When he came into the city, Master Lanus said a few things to Xu Yi before jumping out of the carriage.

    Xu Yi ordered the driver to return to where he lived. When he jumped out of the horse carriage, he found that there was someone sitting on the ground in front of his house and this figure looked a bit familiar.

    When he came close, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being stunned

    ¡°Still? It¡¯s thiste, what are you sitting at my door for?

    Still had been sitting there hugging her legs with her head between them. After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, she slowly looked up.

    After seeing her face, Xu Yi was shocked.

    Under the lights, Still¡¯s face looked very pale and her face was much thinner. Her face had alreadypletely lost the previous youthful beauty it had before. A pair of big eyes and no figure at all, it was like her entire person had copsed.

    ¡°Hey, Still, what happened?¡± Xu Yi leaned over in worry and looked into Still¡¯s eyes looking up, asking in a deep voice.

    Still opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say a single word. After a while, she slowly shook her head.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and didn¡¯t think too much. He helped Still up by the arm and opened the door before walking in.

    When he came in, the light from Vivian¡¯s room lit up and Vivian¡¯s timid voice rang out.

    ¡°Who¡­..Who is it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s me! You keep sleeping, there¡¯s no need to get up.¡± Xu Yi replied before supporting Still over to the couch to sit down. He turned to pour a cup of water for her before sitting in front of her. After a while, he asked in a soft voice, ¡°Still, tell me, what happened? Could it be¡­..you were¡­..bullied by someone?¡±

    Still suddenly revealed a bitter smile and looked at Xu Yi before taking a big gulp from the teacup on the table.

    Because she drank too fast, she choked and gave several strong coughs.

    Xu Yi deeply knit his brows.

    Even if he dind¡¯t understand much about girls, based on Still¡¯s expression, she must have suffered a strong hit. Otherwise for a lively and naughty young girl like her, she wouldn¡¯t easily be like this.

    ¡°Still, did you¡­.give the gift?¡± Xu Yi tentatively asked.

    Thest time he saw Still was when she came to his ce at nightst time to thank him, but she was chased off in anger by Xu Yi saying ¡°you are still a child¡±.

    But in their talks before this, Still had said that she finished the model piano she had Xu Yi help build and the birthday of the person she liked was approaching soon. She was going to take a trip to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital of Anvilmar to personally give the gift to that person.

    Now after several days, Still hade back looking like she had lost her soul. It was very likely the problem came from this.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Still put down the teacup and looked at Xu Yi for a while before suddenly asking ¡°Xu Yi, tell me, am I a child?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. Could it be that Still still cared about what he saidst time?

    But it didn¡¯t seem like it based on her appearance.

    Xu Yi seriously thought for a bit, but he still didn¡¯t know how to answer.

    Still clearly wasn¡¯t in a stable mental state right now, so if he answered wrong, it was very possible it would have an unexpected effect.

    ¡°This¡­..That depends on what aspect you mean. Based on my aspect, you¡­..¡±

    ¡°Alright, you don¡¯t need to say anything! You are right, I am a child! A child who is incredibly dumb!¡± Still suddenly raised her voice and shouted out.

    ¡°Why do you say this?¡± Xu Yi asked with knit brows.

    ¡°If I wasn¡¯t an innocent child who didn¡¯t understand anything, how could I have liked that kind of trash!¡± Still suddenly cursed out in a rough manner.

 Volume 1 28 - Uncle

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 28 Uncle</strong>

    ¡°Trash?¡± Xu Yi was stunned before his face sunk, ¡°Still, tell me, just what happened? If someone has bullied you, just tell me, I will definitely think of a way to take revenge for you!¡±

    ¡°You?¡± Stillughed and shook her head, ¡°You can¡¯t do it, his family background is very strong, you can¡¯t do anything to him.¡±

    ¡°He has a lot of influence?¡± Xu Yi raised one before before saying with a faint smile, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, then I do need to investigate a bit. Come, tell me, what kind of person is the fellow who bullied you? The most important thing is¡­..what kind of harm did you suffer?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was looking over her, a faint blush appeared on Still¡¯s pale face. She angrily rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°What are you thinking? Nothing happened to me at all! Don¡¯t forget, my grandfather is a Great Magician, he doesn¡¯t have the guts to do anything to me.¡±

    ¡°That is true.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°ording to what you said, you¡¯re sad because you realized that he was waste, therefore¡­..you¡¯re heartbroken?¡±

    ¡°Pei! I wasn¡¯t even dating him, alright? How could I be heartbroken?¡± Still reprimanded.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°One sided love being lost can be considered heartbroken as well.¡±

    Seeing Still recovering some anger on her face, Xu Yi became more rxed.

    It seemed like Still had just found out that the person she admired was trash, therefore the beautified image in her heart had been shattered, dealing a mental blow to her.

    This was a very normal thing, it wasn¡¯t rare for young girls to encounter this kind of thing. It was all good as long as she wasn¡¯t injured, she would naturally recover after a bit of time.

    ¡°Humph! It¡¯s a good thing you can still smile!¡± Still gave a snort and red at Xu Yi.

    Although she was a bit angry, Still found that after talking with Xu Yi for a while, she actually no longer felt like her heart was iparably empty and the whole world had copsed, it was like she had suddenlye back to life.

    After a while, Still looked at Xu Yi seriously and said, ¡°Xu Yi, the things I¡¯m about to tell you, you definitely can¡¯t tell grandfather, do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi knew that Still needed someone to vent to right now to get rid of her anger, so he gave an iparably serious nod. He looked at Still and silently waited for her to speak.

    ¡°That gift¡­..I still haven¡¯t given it yet¡­¡­¡±

    Under the cover of night, there was only a faint candle inside of Xu Yi¡¯s room.

    With this light, Still slowly narrated her troubles over the past few days to Xu Yi.

    Actually, it wasn¡¯t that strange of a story for Xu Yi.

    The person Still had an unrequited crush on was a male student. That male student was from arge noble family in Anvilmar, so he had a deep background. Adding in the fact that he was handsome and dashing, as well as exceptionally talented in magic, he was publicly recognized as a ¡°male god¡± in the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy. He was secretly admired by countless female students.

    Still was one of them.

    Properly speaking, this was just a normal story of unrequited love, but Still was quite the dedicated girl. Even after graduating the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy anding back to Banta City, she still thought about that male student even though they were this far apart.

    This time she wanted to use that male student¡¯s birthday and use that chance of his birthday banquet. Still specially had Xu Yi help her make the model piano and brought this gift filled with her love to Anvilmar. She was prepared to personally hand this present to that male student at his birthday celebration and confess to him.

    Who would have known that after she arrived in Anvilmar City, she would receive some terrible new! The male god in her heart had actually been engaged!

    Still naturally felt dejected, but she still nned on giving her present. She was prepared to hide her feelings and bless the male god of her heart.

    If this matter ended here, it would be considered a sad story with a decent ending.

    But what happened next was something that people didn¡¯t expect.

    Still found that male god at the birthday banquet. She was prepared to give him the gift and give a few words of congrattions before leaving.

    Who would have known that after seeing Still, the male god would secretly tell Still that he had always loved her.

    Still was pleasantly surprised, but remembering that the male god was already engaged, she tactfully gave him a reminder.

    But after hearing the honey coated words of the male god, Still strangely chose to believe him. She even had two secret appointments with him in the next two days.

    ¡°How did that fellow be trash?¡± Listening up to this point, Xu Yi looked at Still with a strange look, ¡°Could it be that he¡­..forced himself onto you?¡±

    Still¡¯s face turned red, ¡°He didn¡¯t dare force himself onto me. But he¡­..he¡­..In short, he¡¯s just trash! He¡¯s clearly engaged, but before he is married, he gave me that kind of request. I rejected him and he said that I didn¡¯t like him at all! Humph! Who set the rules that someone has to give their body away if you like someone? This trash,ter I overheard some ssmates say that this fellow had already yed with several female students while in school and then didn¡¯t admit it at all. He was alreadyplete trash to begin with!¡±

    ¡°Pa, pa, pa.¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly started pping.

    ¡°Still, congrattions.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes, ¡°I¡¯m this pitiful that you¡¯re even congratting me? Are you trying tofort me, or are you justughing at me?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m seriously congratting you.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Still, being able to recognize someone¡¯s real face before suffering an even greater loss, isn¡¯t this worth congratting? Other than that, I also admire your firm and clear mind very much. Since this fellow has tricked all those female students, he must be quite skilled in tricking girls. Since you could remain this pure and firm in front of his tricks, it really is something rare.¡±

    Still¡¯s face turned red and she gave a soft snort, ¡°I wouldn¡¯t sell myself cheap like that.¡±

    Xu Yi said whileughing, ¡°Good words. But Still, since you know that he is trash, why are you doing this to yourself, putting yourself in such a bad state? Itpletely isn¡¯t worth it at all.¡±

    ¡°I just¡­..just couldn¡¯t think it through for a while.¡± Still mumbled.

    ¡°Then what about now? Have you thought it through?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi before looking at the night outside the window. After thinking about it for a bit, she took a fine box out of her backpack.

    She opened the box and naturally there was the model piano she personally made inside.

    Still looked at the model piano in a daze for a while before suddenly taking a deep breath and smashing her fist down.

    ¡°Hong¡ª¡ª¡°

    This model piano was iparably intricate, so naturally it was very fragile. Adding in the fact that Still¡¯s fist was covered in low grade fire magic, when this fist came down, the model piano was instantly shattered to pieces. The remaining pieces also burst into mes, instantly turning into ashes.

    ¡°Alright, I no longer have anything to do with that fellow.¡± Still flipped her head up and the beautiful golden hair floated up.

    In just an instant, she returned to being the lively and beautiful girl from before.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a happy smile.

    Still really was a strong girl,, she could recover this easily.

    But that meant that she didn¡¯t have real feelings for that so called ¡°male god¡±. It was no more than the admiration a young girl had for something beautiful in her youth.

    This was also good, most girls would experience this once. For still to experience this, it could be considered as gaining experience, making her more mature.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m not going back tonight.¡±

    When Xu Yi was praising her in his heart, the words Still suddenly said made him spit out his thoughts.

    ¡°Ha? You¡¯re not going back? It can¡¯t be that you¡¯re spending the night here, right?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes popped out as he looked at Still in disbelief, ¡°Are you kidding me? I am a man who lives by myself and if a little girl like you spends a night in my ce, aren¡¯t you afraid of bad rumours spreading? If Great Magician Cami knew of this, it would be strange if he didn¡¯t send my flying with his magic!¡±

    ¡°Che, I¡¯m not worried, what are you worried about?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi in distance, ¡°Aren¡¯t you always saying that I¡¯m a child, so what can happen if a child like me spends a night in the house of an uncle like you? Then again, you have a small girl like Vivian here, how can you be a bachelor? Rx, I¡¯ll sleep with Vivianter and won¡¯t disturb you, uncle.¡± After saying this, Still stretched herself out before walking into the bathroom, ¡°I haven¡¯t had a bath in several days, I¡¯m so dirty. Hey, uncle, can you lend me some clothes? I haven¡¯t even washed my clothes in the past few days, I don¡¯t have anything to change into.¡±

    Seeing Still enter his bathroom without any politeness, Xu Yi could only helplessly stand there in a daze. He looked to the side and found that Vivian had opened a crack in her bedroom door, secretly peeping on them. He waved his hand at her.

    ¡°Come over, Vivian. Go and take care of Still, tell her how to use our bathroom. That¡¯s right, are there any clothes you haven¡¯t worn yet from the ones I bought youst time? Take out a set for her to change into first, I¡¯ll buy a few more sets for youter.¡±

    Vivian gave an obedient nod and went back to her room to bring a set of clothes to the bathroom.

    Not long after, there was the sound of water sshing and Still¡¯s soft singinging from the bathroom.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°This fellow, how does she look like she¡¯s just been heartbroken at all? Humph, calling me an uncle? I¡¯m only twenty seven this year, alright! How am I like an uncle? Hey, Vivian, do you think I¡¯m like an uncle?¡±

    The pitiful Vivian looked at Xu Yi in a daze, not knowing whether to nod or shake her head.

 Volume 1 29 - Lack in manpower

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 29? Lack in manpower</strong>

    Because of the long journey yesterday and adding in the fact he was tossing and turningte into the night because of Still¡¯s matter, Xu Yi woke up quitete the next day.

    When he opened his eyes, the sunlight shined in through his window and it seemed like it was around noon.

    ¡°Master, are you awake?¡± Vivian¡¯s timid voice rang in his ears, ¡°It¡¯ll be noon soon, is there anything you want to eat?¡±

    Xu Yi sat up and looked around, not seeing a trace of Still.

    ¡°Big sister Still already went back. She said that if master is heading to the Magic Tower today, she wants you to look for her. She has something to discuss with you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Something to discuss with me? Why didn¡¯t that fellow tell mest night?¡± Xu Yi looked out the window before asking Vivian, ¡°Don¡¯t make anything today. Let¡¯s go out to eat, it¡¯ll save some time.¡±

    ¡°Master, there¡¯s no need for me.¡± Vivian said in a surprised voice, ¡°You go and eat, it¡¯s alright for me to casually eat something at home.¡±

    ¡°Stop talking, this is an order.¡± Xu Yi said without any politeness.

    After being with Vivian for some time, Xu Yi knew that because this little girl had been a ve for too long, she was used to putting herself in a very low position. If he wanted to change her views, it would also take a long time.

    ¡°Oh.¡± As expected, hearing the strong tone in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Vivian obediently agreed.

    After bringing Vivian out, Xu Yi brought her to a clothing store to buy two sets of clothes before looking for a restaurant to eat lunch in.

    While eating, Xu Yi was organizing his thoughts in his mind.

    There were manyplicated things in front of him right now, so he had to sort these things into rtive importances.

    The most important thing was of course guaranteeing the production and sale of Magic Fans. Otherwise, if hecked money, he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Although the Magic Fan sales had exploded, Xu Yi was very clear that the market of Banta City and the surrounding area would be saturated soon. Their sales in the future quickly fall and teau, they wouldn¡¯t have the same explosive sales as before.

    Xu Yi two methods for this. One was to improve the Magic Fan, constantly releasing new products.

    He believed that after the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan was produced, it would inevitably create a swell. This was because people loved new things.

    The second was continuously increasing the market.

    Other than Karma City, there have been merchants from other cities near Banta City who have maderge orders.

    ording to the information they brought, when the Magic Fans came to their city, it immediately created a wild surge. The first test batch of Magic Fans these merchants brought back were emptied in a short period of time, so when these merchants came a second time, they directly proposed an order that was several timesrger thanst time.

    But because the Magic Fan production capacity couldn¡¯t be increased for now, Heinz had only epted five thousand fans in orders right now.

    Heinz was very annoyed because of this. If he knew about this earlier, he would have been even bolder and built a factory several times bigger, increasing their production capacities by several times to allow them to swallow all these orders.

    Xu Yi was not anxious because of this, he had already set his mind on the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan.

    As long as everything went smoothly, as long as the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan entered the production line, their output would increase by several times. When the timees, not to mention a trivial ten thousand fans, even if it was twenty thousand, thirty thousand, or even more, they could handle it easily.

    Of course, to actualize this production line, there were many things that needed to be prepared.

    This was the thing Xu Yi cared about the most right now.

    Although Master Lanus had already built a Magic Thread Rolling Machine and a Magic Capping Machine, allowing the production of screw bolts and allowing the possibility of a Variable Speed Magic Fan production line, it was far from being enough.

    In order to upgrade the crude forging of the first generation Magic Fans, he needed to standardize every part of the Magic Fan production.

    But to standardize it, it was very hard just based on manpower.

    Even if Master Lanus¡¯ tribe members had the same forging skills as Master Lanus, it wouldn¡¯t satisfy his needs.

    To achieve this, the most important thing was a forging machine.

    Take the Magic Fan cover as an example, if one were to rely on hand forging, a cksmith shop in Banta City couldn¡¯t produce more than thirty covers.

    In order to guarantee the production of Magic Fans, Xu Yi had already made orders in every single cksmith shop in Banta City.

    Although this meant there was always work and it made the cksmiths very happy, this affected the order in Banta City, so it wasn¡¯t a long term n.

    Even if it was like this, the output of Magic Fan covers could only barely match the production output of the factory. If he wanted to increase it, it was almost impossible.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had always been dissatisfied with the cksmiths¡¯ handiwork, most of the Magic Fan covers they made were not uniform at all. If it was ced on earth with their strict factory guidelines, most of them would be considered defective products.

    If he wanted the Variable Speed Magic Fans to be ced on a mass production line, these outer covers couldn¡¯t be used at all.

    ¡°In the end, there is still a seriousck in industrial foundations.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    The establishment of an industrial system couldn¡¯t leave behind development of heavy industrial equipment. But on the Sines Continent, not to mention heavy industrial equipment, even light industrial equipment was rare to find. Their foundation was just toocking.

    ¡°I hope that after those dwarvese, they can improve this aspect.¡±

    Xu Yi took out a little book and began making preliminary ns on this matter.

    ording to his agreement with tribe chief Siluka, in three days, there would be a hundred dwarves with excellent skills that woulde to Banta City to be Xu Yi¡¯s employees.

    In order to protect these dwarves, Xu Yi would build a residential area near the factory and also separately build two more workshops.

    One would be a metal foundry that the dwarves would mainly work in while the other would be the assembly room for the Variable Speed Magic Fans.

    Because there was only a single month of summer left, time was very short. Those two workshops would have to be crude for now and would be built like the previous Magic Fan workshop.

    But he couldn¡¯t casually build the residential area. He had given tribe chief Siluka a good condition and also p his chest in promise in front of Master Lanus.

    Not to mention that these dwarves were the most important forging masters in Xu Yi¡¯s heart. It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that the base of the industrial system for the Sines Continentid in these dwarves¡¯ hands. If he didn¡¯t treat them properly, that wouldn¡¯t be good.

    ¡°There are just too many things to do, I don¡¯t have enough people at all.¡± Xu Yi knit his brows as he looked at the packed things in his little book, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, just the workshop and the employee dormitory needs arge amount of people. I wonder, how will Heinz take care of this?¡±

    While thinking about this, Xu Yi suddenly looked at Vivian who was focused on eating and his eyes lit up.

    ¡°I know!¡±

    ###

    ¡°You want to buy a few ves from me?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi in a daze. He never thought that this fellow would run over here at noon and ask this kind of request, ¡°What are you buying them for?¡±

    ¡°Because I need arge amount of people right now.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°I¡¯m expanding the factory¡¯s production line and needrge amounts of workers. I can¡¯t hire that many people in a short period of time, so I could only find you to think of a solution.¡±

    Viscount Leslie¡¯s expression was a bit ugly, ¡°Based on your tone, I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t need a small amount of people. Tell me, how many people do you need?¡±

    Xu Yi raised one finger and said with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ll take one hundred for now.¡±

    ¡°One hundred?¡± Viscount Leslie slightly narrowed his eyes and reprimanded him without restraint, ¡°Do you think they are pigs? You¡¯ll get one hundred if you need one hundred? Let me tell you, I only have a total of three hundred ves under my name and if I give you one hundred, what would I do? I¡¯ll be honest with you, where would I even find ves to buy to make up for that? Don¡¯t you see that there is still undevelopednd under my name? If I had enough people, thatnd wouldn¡¯t be empty at all and there wouldn¡¯t be empty space for you.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t moved at all by this, as he asked with a smile, ¡°Then speaking of this, the Lord Viscount only needs ves to help you sow thend?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, what use do these fellows have? It¡¯s just a bunch of ves.¡± Viscount Leslie said these sharp words before suddenly looking at Vivian who had been following behind Xu Yi the entire time, ¡°That¡¯s right, this little girl should be the ve you stole from Brunei without my permissionst time, right? What? After experiencing some sweetness from her, you want to buy a few more ves to use?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked over and Vivian immediately lowered her head in fear.

    From her views, her previous master Viscount Leslie was in an aloof position, one that a small ve like her couldn¡¯t stare at.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and seriously said, ¡°Lord Viscount, first, I didn¡¯t steal her, rather I have discussed the conditions with Butler Brunei. Vivian was bought with agreement from both sides and you signed the contract for this matter. Secondly, Vivian is my people, so I ask you to mind your words and not say anything degrading.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi directly contradicting Viscount Leslie, Vivian was terrified. She couldn¡¯t help reaching her little hand to pull on Xu Yi¡¯s clothes with a face covered in terror.

    Viscount Leslie was a bit surprised. He actually wasn¡¯t angry at all from being contradicted, rather he looked over Xu Yi and Vivian before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you really are a strange fellow. For a ve, you actually dared confronting me. You said that this little girl belongs to you¡­..but I can see that she¡¯s still a virgin, right? She could actually remain a virgin after being with you for so long, are you actually an unexpected good person?¡±

    They never thought Viscount Leslie would say something like virgin, causing Xu Yi and Vivian to blush.

    ¡°Ke¡­...Lord Viscount, I didn¡¯t mean that, only¡­...Forget it, there is no meaning hanging onto this matter. I just want to remind the Lord Viscount that you have underestimated ves too much. Even if they are ves, as long as their hands, feet, and head are working properly, they have value as manpower, only you are not using them efficiently. I¡¯ll say something you won¡¯t like to hear, but if those three hundred ves remain in your hands, their value is far less than if you hand them all to me.¡±

    Viscount Leslie was instantly filled with joy.

    ¡°Good, then I want to hear this. If I gave them to you, how will you let them disy their value?¡±

 Volume 1 30 - Plant manager and assistant plant manager

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 30 nt manager and assistant nt manager</h4>

    Heinz saw therge group of ragged men and women far behind Xu Yi, surging as a wave towards the factory and was terrified.

    Could it be that this fellow was locked onto by all the ¡°beggars¡± inside Banta City?

    When the crowd came closer, Heinz noticed that he wasn¡¯t right because in front of the men and women in rags, there was a brightly dressed old man with a noble aura around him with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Butler Brunei? Why are you here?¡± Heinz asked in a stunned voice.

    Butler Brunei nodded at Heinz and didn¡¯t respond to his question. He turned to Xu Yi and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have already sent the people over. From now on, these hundred ves will be for your use, you can do whatever you want with them. But the Lord Viscount has said that these hundred ves are only being lent to you and they aren¡¯t being given or sold to you. He hopes that you will fulfill your promise to him and if not, he will immediately take back the hundred ves.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Alright, many thanks to Butler Brunei for personally sending them over.¡±

    Butler Brunei turned to give those men and women a few orders before those people walked behind Xu Yi, revealing looks of obedience.

    ¡°Alright, I have finished my task.¡± Butler Brunei gave another nod to Heinz before saying seriously to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, although the Lord Viscount didn¡¯t tell me why he gave you these hundred ves, as the Lord Viscount¡¯s butler, I must warn you that these hundred ves are very important to the Lord Viscount. Now that the Lord Viscount has given them to you, that represents the Lord Viscount¡¯s trust in you. I hope you will not disappoint the Lord Viscount.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, if the Lord Viscount didn¡¯t trust me, how could he ept my request?¡±

    Butler Brunei gave a slight nod before saying nothing else and turning to leave.

    After Butler Brunei entered his horse carriage and left, Heinz couldn¡¯t contain the curiosity in his heart anymore as he asked, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what is going on here? These people are all ves? And they are all Viscount Leslie¡¯s ves? Why would he give you these ves to use? What condition did you discuss with him?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to stop Heinz from asking his questions.

    ¡°I¡¯ll talk about thister, what about the houses I asked you to buildst time? Let¡¯s set up the ves first and let them settle down.¡±

    Heinz doubtfully looked at Xu Yi looked at Xu Yi before turning to shout at the workshop. After a while, Heinz¡¯s nephew Alex ran out.

    After listening to a few words from Heinz, Alex waved his hand to bring the ves to the distantrge wooden cabins near the river.

    ¡°You called Alex over to help?¡± Xu Yi looked at Alex leading the ves and asked this with a bit of a surprise.

    ¡°Hei¡­..I was just too busy, so I directly called him over to help.¡± Heinz somewhat awkwardly said, ¡°Although this kid isn¡¯t that smart, at least he¡¯s serious when he works. I had him help me manage several things and it¡¯s saved me quite a bit of effort.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder as he said, ¡°This is my fault, I¡¯ve put everything onto you. Actually now that there are more and more things, I should have found you a helper to share this a long time ago. You having Alex help is also good. At least he¡¯s one of us, so we can be assured.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also thought the same. Of course, if the chairman has someone more suited for this, I¡¯ll immediately send this kid back to manage the general store.¡±

    ¡°No need for that. Since he is already here, then let him work properly. We¡¯ll do this, I¡¯ll use this chance to divide the work. Heinz, you¡¯ll now be in charge of managing the production line and all therge and small matters here. You¡¯ll be the nt manager. As for the sry¡­...let¡¯s just set it for thirty gold coins per month for now.¡±

    ¡°Ah? How could that be?¡± Heinz was stunned before he quickly waved his hands, ¡°I have stock already, managing things here is what I should do. How could I also receive a sry?¡±

    ¡°Stock and you doing things are twopletely different things. Putting effort in means receiving a reward. You spend arge amount of time and effort to manage things here, so actually thirty gold coins is already very little. But we are just beginning and can only afford this much for now. When we develop further, your sry will definitely be bigger.¡± Without waiting for Heinz to refute this, Xu Yi forcefully pped his shoulder, ¡°We¡¯ll just set it like this!¡±

    ¡°This¡­..That¡­...That isn¡¯t good¡­..¡± Heinz rubbed his hands and had a look of embarrassment, but in the end he didn¡¯t refuse this.

    Xu Yi smiled before continuing, ¡°As for Alex, he¡¯ll be the assistant nt manager. His sry will be..,....¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, no, no! It¡¯s already his luck for that kid to help, how could he dare take a sry. You don¡¯t need to consider him at all, really!¡± Heinz quickly said.

    Xu Yiughed as he pointed at Heinz, ¡°You¡¯re getting thirty gold coins each month and he¡¯s not getting a single copper coin, how could he be happy? Alright, I¡¯m setting this matter and it¡¯ll be ten gold coins for a month for now. If he does well, it can be raised at any time. What do you think?¡±

    Heinz gave twoughs and didn¡¯t refute him.

    Seeing the excitement that couldn¡¯t be hidden on his face, Xu Yi found it a bit funny.

    Heinz seeking benefits for his nephew, this could be considered a normal thing for people. Xu Yi didn¡¯t have anything against this.

    It was just like he said, Alex was considered one of them, so he could be assured in using him.

    Moreover, like this, it would make Heinz invest even more and care even more about the factory which was a good thing.

    As for his and Alex¡¯s sries, it was nothing more than a small thing.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, you still haven¡¯t told me yet, what are these ves for?¡± After a bit of excitement, Heinz didn¡¯t forget to ask about the matter with the ves.

    ¡°Oh, that¡¯s the manpower I¡¯ve borrowed temporarily from Viscount Leslie. Our factory will be investing into expanding our production capacity and we need arge amount of workers. These ves are obedient and easy to use, so of course they are very suitable choices. That¡¯s right, contract a few more construction crews from Banta City and have them build more rooms as quickly as possible. The dwarven craftsmen that I¡¯ve recruited will be here in just a few days, so we need to have a ce for them to stay when the timees.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll remember these matters. Is there anything else?¡±

    ¡°Anything else¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Heinz before shaking his head, ¡°Nothing right now. The main thing is taking care of the problem of where the ves and dwarves will live. Heinz, you mustn¡¯t neglect them because of their identities as ves and dwarves, they will be important parts for ourpany to develop.¡±

    ¡°I know this, I¡¯ll definitely n everything.¡± Heinz have a serious nod.

    Xu Yi let out a sigh, as he thought that he reallycked manpower.

    Heinz in name was a nt manager, but he was also human affairs and the logistics manager. Almost all the small andrge things of the factory was taken care of by him.

    The factory was still small right now and the scale of production wasn¡¯t big, but he already needed to call Alex over for help. When they developed in the future, he couldn¡¯t rely on just one person to do everything no matter what.

    But this kind of management talent was even harder to find than research talent sometimes. For now, he didn¡¯t have a solution for this problem.

    After he finished speaking to Heinz, Xu Yi walked into the workshop.

    Because there were sses in the morning, the thirty students he recruited were at school right now and this workshop felt a bit lonely.

    Xu Yi looked into the empty workshop and couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh over hisck of manpower.

    To those students, their studies at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was more important in the end. Even if they signed a contract, they wouldn¡¯t focus on working here, rather they would bnce work and study.

    However, for a factory, a stable and continuous production line was very important.

    Even if Xu Yi recruited arge amount of students to do this work, the minds of the students would still be affected by the system of the Sines Continent. They would feel that bing stronger machines is more important than working here, so it was very hard for them to remain here for a long time like Xu Yi wanted.

    ¡°Two ways to solve this, one is to cast a wide. Magic is extremely prosperous on the Sines Continent and there are many magicians, so there will always be magicians who aren¡¯t too sessful. In order to live, those fellows still need to work. This work is considered work for their upation, so there will be people thate here. As for the other method¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi fell into deep thought and considered this.

    The other method was to reduce the threshold of the Magic Array.

    Although the Magic Fan¡¯s Revolving Wind Array was only a Low Grade Magic Array that even students in magic school could finish, Xu Yi would make even more products in the future. The Magic Arrays inside those things would not be limited to Low Grade Magic Arrays.

    To draw a High Grade Magic Array, one needed the magician to have a corresponding strength.

    When he arrived at that stage, it would be very hard to casually recruit magicians toplete this work.

    What Xu Yi could do was reduce the magic power need by these magical machinery as much as possible, lowering the might and grade of the Magic Arrays, as well as the requirement for the magician needed to draw it.

    But this was a veryrge project, needing arge amount of time and effort to finish.

    Just based on the Revolving Wind Array used in the Magic Fan, it was already very difficult if Xu Yi wanted to make any improvements to it. If he wanted to make any product in the future, he would have the same problem.

    If it was just relying on Xu Yi alone, it definitely couldn¡¯t be solved.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and aimlessly walked through the workshop, while considering how to solve this problem.

    He arrived at the tables where the students drew Magic Arrays and suddenly felt a breeze of cold wind, surprising him.

    Looking up, he found that the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall was still on.

    ¡°It¡¯s still on without anyone here? Isn¡¯t this a waste?¡± Xu Yi muttered, but then he remembered that he was the one who told them to do this. He wanted them to use the Magic Air Conditioner more and test its performance.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what kind of problems those fellows havee up with. After collecting their problems, I should go find Cami and discuss this magic¡­¡­¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and said to himself in a soft voice, ¡°It seems like I need to have a proper discussion with Great Magician Cami.¡±

 Volume 1 31 - Spokesperson

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 31 Spokesperson</strong>

    Xu Yi left Great Magician Cami¡¯sb covered in dust.

    When he saw the Magic Air Conditioner earlier, Xu Yi remembered that when he studied the Magic Air Conditioner, he had consulted Great Magician Cami several times and obtained many modifications of the Frost Array from him. So he wanted to invite Great Magician Cami to be his research adviser. With his excellency Great Magician¡¯s powerful magic strength, there were many problems that could be easily solved.

    When Xu Yi found Great Magician Cami, their discussion at first was quite harmonious, with Great Magician Cami even agreeing to Xu Yi¡¯s request, temporarily giving some magic knowledge to solve some problem that he couldn¡¯t solve. But when Xu Yi offered to pay him in gold coins for his services, Great Magician Cami¡¯s face instantly changed. He angrily pped the table and pointed at the entrance to have Xu Yi scram, not giving him a chance to exin at all.

    ¡°This Great Magician Cami, does he have some kind of grudge against money?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help wondering about this.

    Although he already knew that Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t mix magic research and business, he never thought that it would reach this kind of situation.

    ¡°Hey, uncle, what do you have a distressed look for? Does someone owe you money?¡± There was a beautiful voice that suddenly came from beside him.

    ¡°Nobody owes me money. Other than that, I¡¯m only twenty seven years old, stop always calling me uncle, alright?¡± Xu Yi snappily looked at Still.

    After a single night, Still¡¯s face didn¡¯t show any sign of the heartbreak fromst night and she recovered her youthful appearance.

    Of course, she was still obviously a bit thinner. This was something that couldn¡¯t be recovered in a single night.

    ¡°Who told you to always regard me as a child?¡± Still gave a snort. Seeing the Great Magician¡¯s exclusiveboratory behind Xu Yi, she asked in a low voice, ¡°What? Did you make grandfather angry?¡±

    Xu Yi told Still about the matter that made him depressed and it caused her to break out inughter and teasing.

    ¡°Ha, ha, you deserve it! You already knew that my grandfather didn¡¯t like these things, but you still propose paying him to him. Isn¡¯t this just looking for trouble?¡±

    ¡°Ai, how could I have known he hated it this much.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh and couldn¡¯t help but ask, ¡°Still, his excellency Great Magician, why is he so opposed to this? The other Great Magicians clearly wouldn¡¯t reject this.¡±

    ¡°You want to know?¡± Still revealed a sly smile, ¡°This won¡¯t do if you don¡¯t pay a little price.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders and looked at the sky outside the window, ¡°It¡¯s not time to eat yet, so how about we get some afternoon tea?¡±

    After ordering two cold drinks in a snack bar near the Magic Tower, still told Xu Yi the entire story.

    In the beginning, Great Magician Cami had several disciples and there were two who he ced high expectations on. He thought that as long as they were willing to put in effort, they would be powerful magicians eventually and could even surpass him.

    But in the end, these disciples couldn¡¯t resist the call of money. They were hired at a young age byrgepanies and became guards for thosepanies. Theypletely disregarded their magic research and didn¡¯t advance at all after many years.

    Great Magician Cami was very hurt by what they did, while also abhorring the actions of thosepanies. It umted after several times and it turned into his current manner.

    ¡°After grandfather looked at your Magic Fan, he felt that your magic talent was outstanding and was filled with great expectations towards you. In the end, not only did you reject studying under him, you even made your ownpany, so naturally he was very disappointed. Let me tell you, if grandfather wasn¡¯t filled with hope towards you and your magic power has indeed kept growing, he would have chased you out of the Magic Tower already. How could he let you see him whenever and even solve your questions about magic? Now that you are discussing a business agreement with him, will he not be angry? So I told you you deserved this, but you didn¡¯t believe me.¡±

    Towards Still¡¯s final statement, Xu Yi could only open and close his lips without saying a thing.

    ¡°It really is a pity, I wanted to invite his excellency Great Magician to be our chief researcher and I even hoped that he could be the spokesperson for ourpany¡¯s products. ording to what you said, doesn¡¯t that mean there is no hope?¡± Xu Yi helplessly said.

    ¡°Are you dreaming?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi before asking in a curious voice, ¡°But what do you mean by chief researcher and spokesperson? Why haven¡¯t I heard of this before?¡±

    ¡°Chief researcher¡­..Actually it¡¯s just someone who helps me research the Magic Arrays needed inside the magic machinery that I make. Because your grandfather is a Great Magician and very strong, of course he could be the chief. Un, chief means number one, boss. You should understand that.¡±

    ¡°What about spokesperson? This is my first time hearing of this, what does it mean?¡±

    ¡°Spokesperson¡­..It¡¯s a bitplicated talking about this.¡± Xu Yi thought about the situation of the stars on earth and after thinking for a bit, he replied, ¡°For the so-called spokesperson, it¡¯s inviting someone to represent thepany¡¯s products. As for the specifics, it¡¯s using someone to represent certain products and people will think of those products if they look at that person. Normally speaking, the representative has to have a good self image and it¡¯s best if he has some fame. This way, everyone can indirectly learn about the product by knowing about this person, so it¡¯s a kind of mutual advertising.¡±

    ¡°Then if the product they represent isn¡¯t good, wouldn¡¯t it also tarnish the image of the spokesperson?¡± Still immediately asked back.

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Your reaction is quite fast. That¡¯s right, this is a mutual rtionship, so the product and the spokesperson will be mutually affected. Not only will the spokesperson¡¯s image be affected if there is a problem with the product, if there is a problem with the spokesperson, it will also affect the product. So, whether it is the spokesperson or thepany choosing the spokesperson, they have to carefully think this over.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking is quite good to choose my grandfather as a representative.¡± Still gave a soft snort, ¡°My grandfather is a Great Magician, he is very famous in the entire Lampuri Kingdom. If everyone knew that he was suddenly representing a product, everyone would ask what the product is. Then again, my grandfather has always been a serious person, so his image is incredibly good.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why I wanted him as a spokesperson.¡± Xu Yi stretched his hands out before saying in a regretful voice, ¡°But based on the attitude of his excellency Great Magician, there is no need to mention this spokesperson matter with him at all, he definitely wouldn¡¯t agree.¡±

    ¡°It would be strange if he did agree.¡± Still nodded. She looked at Xu Yi before suddenly asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, since you are asking someone to be your spokesperson, then there must be a pay for that spokesperson, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course, how could we let that person work for free?¡±

    ¡°Then can I ask how much you¡¯re prepared to offer?¡±

    ¡°This is not certain, it depends mainly on who the spokesperson is. Normally speaking, the more famous a person is and the better their image, the higher they¡¯re paid. If it was his excellency Great Magician, I wanted to pay him a thousand gold coins a year as a spokesperson fee¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°One thousand gold coins?¡± Without waiting for Xu Yi to finish, Still¡¯s eyes popped wide open and her mouth opened wide, ¡°That much? It¡¯s just to represent something?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you shouldn¡¯t have sold that many Magic Fans, so how could you give my grandfather one thousand gold coins right away? You have that much money?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You don¡¯t understand this? This is called investing in advertisement and it is a very cost effective investment. This thousand gold coins doesn¡¯t seem like much, butpared to the benefits brought by his excellency Great Magician, it can¡¯t be considered anything.¡± Speaking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing, ¡°It¡¯s a pity his excellency Great Magician wouldn¡¯t agree to this at all, so it¡¯s a waste talking about this. That¡¯s right, Still, are you familiar with any other Great Magicians? How about you introduce me to them?¡±

    Still knit her delicate brows as she considered this before shaking her head, ¡°I do know several Great Magicians through grandfather, but Xu Yi, I can honestly tell you that those Great Magicians will not care about a smallpany like yours. You can just give up on this.¡±

    ¡°I thought it would be like this.¡± Xu Yi revealed a self-deprecating smile, ¡°Mypany doesn¡¯t have anything right now, those venerable Great Magicians not caring about us is very normal.¡± Putting aside this matter, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something else, ¡°That¡¯s right, Still, Vivian said you wanted her to tell me that you wanted to see me when you left. You said you have something to discuss, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Un, I indeed have something, but now I¡¯ve found this matter has already been solved.¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°I wanted to ask if you could find something for me to do. I¡¯m very bored right now staying with grandfather, it isn¡¯t interesting at all. Moreover, you always seem like you¡¯re very busy, so perhaps you could have found something for me to do.

    Xu Yi honestly looked at Still. He thought that this fellow suddenly wanted him to find something for her to do, could it be that she wanted to use work to push through the pain in her heart?

    ¡°It¡¯s not a problem if you want something to do. For example, I wanted to ask your grandfather to be the chief researcher, it¡¯s actually because I¡¯m nning to build a magic researchboratory exclusive to thepany. If you¡¯re interested, you can do magic research in theboratory and help me finish next products.¡±

    ¡°I was indeed interested in this work and I was prepared to have you prepare this work for me. However, now that I¡¯ve heard what you¡¯ve said, I feel that another kind of work is more interesting.¡± Still narrowed herrge eyes and spoke with a smile.

    ¡°What work?¡±

    Still slowly sat up and she revealed a birght smile, revealing two rows of silver teeth. She said in a soft voice, ¡°Xu Yi, what do you think about making me yourpany¡¯s spokesperson?¡±

 Volume 1 32 - Superior energy

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 32 Superior energy</strong>

    ¡°Watch properly, put this rough end here and carefully insert it into the hole.¡± Xu Yi took a half finished screw bolt and put it on the capping machine, ¡°You have to pay attention to this next part. After you put it in, you must move away from the capping machine and you definitely cannot put your hand in. Otherwise, once the machine starts, it will destroy your entire hand, do you understand?¡±

    Around Xu Yi were the hundred ves Viscount Leslie had temporarily lent him. They were seriously listening to Xu Yi, nodding to signify they understood.

    ¡°Good, next you press down on this switch.¡± Xu Yi reached out to softly press the on button for the capping machine.

    The flowing light green and scarlet red light signaling magic flowing lit up and the head of the capping machine fell down.

    ¡°Hong¡ª¡ª¡±

    The sudden explosive sound caused the surrounding ves to jump back in fright. Some of the more timid ves even squatted down as their bodies trembled.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid, it¡¯s not an explosion! Get up and look!¡± Xu Yi reprimanded, trying his best to regain order among the ves.

    Under the gazes of the ves, Xu Yi took out the half finished screw from the hole of the capping machine, raising it to show everyone.

    ¡°Do you see this? This side of the screw has a cross shaped groove on it, that means that the product is finished. What you need to do now is check to see if the cross shaped groove matches the requirements.¡± Xu Yi took out an iron stick with a cross shaped tip and ced it into the head of the screw bolt, which fit perfectly, ¡°Do you see this? If this stick can fit inside, it means that it meets the requirements and it can be taken to the next part of the process.¡±

    The ves nodded like they understood and didn¡¯t understand at the same time.

    To people like them who had positions as ves, magic was not something they could touch at all. Not to mention a machine that seemed thisplicated and mysterious. If it were normal times, they wouldn¡¯t even have the chance to touch this machine, not to mention operating it.

    But since they came here, Heinz under Xu Yi¡¯s orders had treated the ves impartially and was veryprehensive about their living conditions. This filled the hearts of the ves with gratitude towards Xu Yi and Heinz, therefore when Xu Yi had three vese forward to attempt controlling the machine, even if they had hearts filled with fear of the machine, they still obediently came forward to operate it.

    Actually, the controls for the capping machine was very simple and these ves had normal intelligence. Under Xu Yi¡¯s personal guidance, they overcame their fear of the machine and quickly learned how to operate it.

    Seeing the three ves he picked out gradually be more proficient, Xu Yi nodded in satisfaction. He had the three of them keep working before bringing the rest of the ves to another machine.

    ¡°Compared to the previous machine, this Magic Thread Rolling Machine is a bit moreplicated, so you have to watch properly. You can¡¯t make any small mistakes.¡±

    Xu Yi picked out five ves and demonstrated to them how to operate the Magic Thread Rolling Machine. He made sure that they didn¡¯t have any problems.

    After demonstrating how to use the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, Xu Yi brought the remaining ves to one final machine.

    This was made with a cooperation between Xu Yi and Master Lanus, it was the newly made Miniature Magic Punch Press.

    ¡°This machine is rtively simple to operate, but it is much more dangerous than the other two machines. If you don¡¯t pay attention, there wouldn¡¯t be a problem turning your entire body into a meat patty, so you have to be seriously careful.¡± Since these ves didn¡¯t have any knowledge of how dangerous these magic machines were, Xu Yi had to warn them first. He proposed a set of very strict work guidelines to ensure that nothing went wrong.

    ¡°Watch properly, ce this iron sheet here first. You have to be careful, this iron sheet has to perfectly fit into the model, there can¡¯t be any cracks at all. Next, you close the model and move back a bit before pressing the on switch.¡±

    ¡°Peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    The Miniature Magic Punch Press¡¯s two giant sides crushed together and thet iron sheet under the giant pressure turned into a half circr Magic Fan outer cover.

    This Miniature Magic Punch Press was naturally used to create batches of Magic Fan outer covers.

    In this new workshop that had only been built for two days, there were five different kinds of magic machines that were responsible for making the different parts of the second generation Magic Fan.

    With the help of these machines, the requirement for human skill was lowered, so Xu Yi could finally give up on those cksmiths in Banta City. Just based on the ves Viscount Leslie gave him, he could produce the Magic Fans.

    Of course, the Magic Array that was the core of the Magic Fan still required the students to finish.

    After he finished teaching these ves how to operate the machines, Xu Yi had the ves scatter and he taught them how to assemble a single Magic Fan from theponents.

    If assembling theplete Magic Fan was a veryplicated process, then after separating them into several parts, it became iparably simple.

    One group of ves only needed to learn how to put together a few pieces, another group needed to learn how to thread iron wire into the same ce and form a protective, and another group had an even more simple job which was to put in the screw bolts¡­..

    These ves hadn¡¯t undergone any learning at all, so their understanding abilities weren¡¯t too high, but as long as their intelligence was normal, they could grasp this simple work without any problems.

    Xu Yi worked all morning and these ves began to familiarize themselves with their work. The entire workshop was filled with an intense working environment.

    Xu Yi happily looked at his achievement and gave a satisfied nod.

    Next, as long as the number of workers were adjusted based on their efficiency, the entire line would proceed much more smoothly.

    As for this work, of course it was given to Heinz as the nt manager to handle, it didn¡¯t need Xu Yi to personally care about this.

    Seeing the ves be more and more familiar with the controls of the machines, Xu Yi suddenly realized that he seemed to have neglected a superiority he had on the Sines Continent.

    Compared to the highly developed industrial system on earth, perhaps there were many things the Sines Continent couldn¡¯tpare to.

    But there was one superiority where earthcked far behind the Sines Continent.

    That was energy.

    Earth¡¯s main energy sources are petroleum, coal, water, wind, sr, nuclear energy, and etc¡­...

    Of these energy sources, whether it was using petroleum, coal, or the developing nuclear energy technology, they all had one fatal w. That was the fact that they were serious pollutants.

    In any industrialized country on earth, the environment would suffer from the pollution and destruction caused by this industrialization. Finally, they would have to spend arge amount of manpower and effort to restore the environment.

    As for hydro, wind, and sr power that had few pollutants, because their energy efficiency was low, they couldn¡¯t be brought into the mainstream.

    Compared to this, the magic machines that Xu Yi was currently researching used Magic Arrays as their driving source. To keep these Magic Arrays working, one needed to use Magic Crystals.

    No matter what kind of Magic Array it was, after the Magic Crystal consumed the magic inside, it would be a normal piece of stone. It wouldn¡¯t create any pollution at all.

    Even the High Grade Magic Crystal, it waspletely condensed from magic. So if all the magic inside was consumed, the Magic Crystal would then disappear and wouldn¡¯t leave a single trace, so naturally there also wouldn¡¯t be any pollution at all.

    Other than that, Magic Crystals also had a bigger advantage which was that there was a higher energy efficiency.

    Just a very small piece of Magic Crystal was enough to support the Magic Fan for three entire days. If one were to switch it out for a normal electric fan on earth, it would take at least three kilowatts of electricity.

    Converting this three kilowatts of energy, ording to the standard on earth, one would need to burn one kilogram of coal. At the same time, one would release as high as four kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions.

    Based on the energy conversion and the scale of pollution, the Magic Crystal had an unparalleled advantage.

    Not to mention that because of the low industrial base of the Sines Continent, the consumption of the Magic Fan Xu Yi made far surpassed the electric fans of earth that had been improved many times.

    If this aspect could match the standard of earth, then the Magic Crystal consumption would be even lower.

    As for the Magic Crystal? It could be found almost everywhere on the Sines Continent. Just Banta City alone had threerge scale Magic Crystal Mines.

    Moreover, since the Magic Crystals were verymon, other than those high quality Magic Crystal Ores, the normal Magic Crystal Ores were basically ignored by everyone.

    ¡°Heinz, go buy some more Magic Crystal Mines.¡± Xu Yi suddenly said to Heinz beside him who had been watching the ves work.

    ¡°Ha? Why are you suddenly buying more Magic Crystal Mines?¡± Even if he was already ustomed to Xu Yi¡¯s sudden and random thought process, Heinz was still stunned, ¡°If you want Magic Crystals, we can just buy them from otherpanies. If we were mine it ourselves, the cost will probably be even higher.¡±

    ¡°No, we must buy some mines. We need to do our best to buy more and more.¡± Xu Yi seriously said, ¡°Remember, for things like energy, there will be less the more we use. No matter what, it¡¯s best if we can control it ourselves.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi with narrowed brows, not knowing why he suddenly had this kind of thought.

    But he also understood that his foresight couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi. Since he already made this decision, he must have his own reasoning.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go take care of it.¡±

    Xu Yi grabbed Heinz¡¯s shoulder and urged in a deep voice, ¡°Remember, this matter must be handled quickly and as secretly as possible, understood?¡±

    Heinz couldn¡¯t help muttering in his heart.

    Secretly? This was something that wasn¡¯t worth mentioning, was there a need to keep it a secret?

 Volume 1 33 - The significance of investing in research

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 33 The significance of investing in research</strong>

    There was an old phrase that said ideals were rich and reality was bone bare.

    Xu Yi thought that since he was familiar with his previous world¡¯s industrial history, he could steal resources beforehand. He would buy eight-ten or even more Magic Crystal Mines so that even if the price of Magic Crystals increase in the future, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about not having enough Magic Crystals just with these mines.

    Who would have thought that he would be suddenly hit by the cruelty of reality.

    The fact was¡­..he didn¡¯t have money!

    ¡°Sir chairman, there is only around three hundred and sixty one gold coins floating inpany. ording to my research, the cheapest Magic Crystal Mine in Banta is still costs around three thousand gold coins.¡± Sebas stated the brutal reality to Xu Yi without any expressions, not caring about how ugly Xu Yi¡¯s face looked right now.

    ¡°At least three thousand gold coins?¡± Xu Yi calmly considered this, ¡°Then based on what you¡¯ve said, it would be at least a month before we considered this again?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, we cannot do that.¡± Sebas shook his head, ¡°Although if everything with thepany proceeds smoothly, we will gain a revenue of over five thousand in a month, sir chairman, a qualifiedpany needs to at least keep some floating capital for ourselves. Otherwise if something happens, it will cause a serious crisis to thepany. Other than that, if I may be bold, sir chairman¡¯s investment spending is too much. Just the investment in research is a third of thepany¡¯s revenue, this is not how a healthypany spends their money.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Sebas and said with a smile, ¡°Is this idea from you or from the Lord Viscount?¡±

    Sebas was actually someone rmended by Viscount Leslie.

    ording to what Viscount Leslie said, although based on his contract with Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t have any decision making power in thepany, he did have the right to make suggestions and know everything. So he sent someone to thepany, who would act as his representative.

    Heinz was very worried about this matter, saying that Viscount Leslie was cing a chess piece inside thepany. Even if Viscount Leslie was obedient now, he could affect the decisions of thepany through this chess piece and could even gradually control thepany.

    Xu Yi¡¯s reaction was different from Heinz¡¯s.

    Since Viscount Leslie already has a 30% share in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was a very reasonable request for him to send in a representative. They had no reason to reject him at all.

    Not to mention that they needed many things from Viscount Leslie. If they started rejecting Viscount Leslie¡¯s reasonable requests from the beginning, then the cooperation agreement they reached before would be nonexistent.

    As for Heinz¡¯s worry that Viscount Leslie would control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through Sebas, Xu Yi gave a snort of contempt.

    Viscount Leslie was a viscount of the kingdom, he was a true noble. He was the highest existence in Banta City other than the City Lord and even because of the backing behind him, his status wasn¡¯t that different from Banta City¡¯s City Lord.

    Rtively speaking, even if their Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned quite a bit from these Magic Fans, just based on the power of theirpany, they weren¡¯t that powerful in Banta City. As for their other aspects, there wasn¡¯t anything powerful about them at all.

    For a powerful noble like Viscount Leslie, if he really wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t need to do anything this troublesome. He had a hundred different ways that were much more direct and simple to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So, Xu Yi happily epted Sebas. When he found out that Sebas had been the financial manager of apany in the past, he gave all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s finances to him to manage.

    The facts proved that Sebas really was an incredible talent. In just two short days, a detailed financial ount for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been prepared. It was properly organized, not like the random bunch of data Xu Yi and Heinz had before.

    Heinz was very worried about Sebas handling all of thepany¡¯s finances, but Xu Yi was overjoyed. He felt that Viscount Leslie had done a great thing, sending him such an incredible talent.

    Of course, there were some times where Xu Yi had misgivings about Viscount Leslie behind Sebas, so he asked this question.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Sebas gave a bow, ¡°It¡¯s this subordinate¡¯s idea, it is unrted to the Lord Viscount.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°It¡¯s fine, it doesn¡¯t matter whose opinion it is. Sebas, you think that an investment of a third in research is too much? I think it¡¯s too little. This is because thepany¡¯s ie isn¡¯t high right now, so while a third does sound like a lot, added up it¡¯s only around a thousand gold coins. This research fund is low in my opinion. As thepany gains more and more and ie, I will continue to investrge amounts into thepany¡¯s research fund. Perhaps it¡¯ll be even more than you imagined.¡±

    Sebas hesitated for a moment before saying with knit brows, ¡°Sir chairman, I don¡¯t understand why you would do something like this. The sales volume of the Magic Fans is very good right now and the prospects are also very good, so you don¡¯t need to invest that much money into research. Although I also agree that in order to seize the market, it is necessary to continue developing the Magic Fan, do we need to be in such a rush? Other than that, sir chairman, a lot of money you invested into research¡­...doesn¡¯t seem to be rted to the Magic Fan, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he thought that Sebas has finally asked the real question in his heart, which should also be Viscount Leslie¡¯s question.

    This question really wasn¡¯t easy for Xu Yi to answer, since based on the facts, more than half of what he invested into research wasn¡¯t rted to research on the Magic Fan.

    For example, with Master Lanus¡¯ dwarf tribe, he invested five hundred gold coins a month. At the same time, after receiving so many dwarven craftsmen, Xu Yi invested another two hundred gold coins into them, which also kept increasing.

    Other than that, there was only Still in his newly built magic researchb, but he had already invested over a hundred gold coins.

    This added up to a giant amount of close to a thousand, which on the surface indeed seemed like it wasn¡¯t rted to the Magic Fan.

    Moreover, the results from this research wouldn¡¯t be seen for a long time. Even if Xu Yi wanted to exin that this research was closely rted to the establishment of an industrial system in the future, no one on the continent would be able to understand what he meant.

    ¡°Sebas, let me ask you something. Do you think ourpany¡¯s Magic Fans are selling well?¡± Xu Yi thought about it and asked this question back.

    ¡°That true locally.¡± Sebas had clearly already researched this matter and replied without any hesitation, ¡°Compared to the expensiverge scale Frost Array, the Magic Fan that only costs two gold coins should be widely epted by the families that can¡¯t installrge scale Frost Arrays and suffer during the summer. Not to mention the consumption of the Magic Fan is low, it would cost less than ten silver coins a month to use it, which is affordable for the families who buy it. So for these families, while the Magic Fan¡¯s effects are less than therge scale Frost Array, it does satisfy their needs. So after seeing the Magic Fan being released, these family will buy it without any hesitation, therefore there arerge sales for the Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded in praise, ¡°Then let me ask you something else. Are the Magic Fans hard to make?¡±

    ¡°They shouldn¡¯t be hard.¡± Sebas shook his head, ¡°The Magic Fan hasn¡¯t been out for long and there are already replicas, but since they are inferior to ourpany¡¯s products, they haven¡¯t had arge impact on us. Moreover, sir chairman used a brilliant method at the time and helped thepany smoothly pass through that crisis.¡±

    After saying this, a look of admiration appeared in Sebas¡¯ eyes as he looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi had proposed the idea of the ¡°brand¡± during this fake product event, which filled Sebas¡¯ heart with admiration.

    Before being sent here by Viscount Leslie, Sebas had done some research on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He was surprised to find that after the fake product event, the sales of the Frestech Magic Fans actually didn¡¯t drop. Moreover, when many people wanted to buy a Magic Fan, they first thing they asked was if it was from the Frestech Brand. If it wasn¡¯t, they directly said they wouldn¡¯t buy it. This caused those small workshops making fake Magic Fans give up this idea.

    Although there were some fellows that wanted to carve the Frestech Brand on their Magic Fans, but Xu Yi took out the exclusive sales use. This meant that the Frestech Magic Fan was only sold in a single shop in Banta City and everything else was a fake product.

    Thispletely cut off the livelihood of living off counterfeit products, creating a monopoly inside and outside Banta City for the Frestech Magic Fans.

    ¡°Since they aren¡¯t hard to make, that means it is very hard for us to stop people from making Magic Fans.¡±

    After he said this, a helpless look appeared on Xu Yi¡¯s face. This world didn¡¯t have any patent protectionws, so even if he invented the Magic Fan, he didn¡¯t have the corresponding protective measures. This meant that if others wanted to make it, it was no effort for them at all.

    ¡°Although there is no problem for us in Banta City, in other cities, no one knows about the Frestech Brand. So in those ces, we have no advantages at all. You should know that less than a hundred kilometers away in Saltan City, there is already another Magic Fan factory and they have simrly good sales numbers in Saltan City.¡±

 Volume 1 34 - Picturesque beauty

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 34 Picturesque beauty</strong>

    ¡°So, sir chairman, I suggest we open the market in the other cities as soon as possible. I have already investigated this, the Saltan City factory¡¯s Magic Fans cannotpare to the quality of our Frestech Magic Fans. I believe that as long as we start selling in Saltan City, we will definitely steal back the market.¡± Sebas said with a serious expression.

    ¡°He, he, we certainly will steal it back, but we can¡¯t rush this. After all, Saltan City is someone else¡¯s territory. Our product is perfect, but if we rush over there, it won¡¯t be as easy to steal back the territory. Right now, I¡¯m waiting for a good opportunity. This chance is actually rted to the questions you were asking.¡±

    Sebas was stunned. He was dragged around by Xu Yi for a while and almost forgot the questions he asked before, but he never thought Xu Yi would drag them out again.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the research you invested in are not rted to the Magic Fan at all.¡±

    Xu Yi extended the index finger on his right hand and shook it, ¡°No, no, no. Sebas, in this industrial system, there isn¡¯t a single research that isn¡¯t rted to another aspect. Although the Magic Fan seems simple, it involves quite a few things. Right now it seems like the research I¡¯ve invested in aren¡¯t that rted to the Magic Fan, but after results appear for this research, you will find that it is greatly rted to the Magic Fan. Every single one of these studies could create a heaven shaking giant change to the Magic Fan. Not to mention¡­...who told you that my Frestech Chamber of Commerce only produces Magic Fans?¡±

    Sebas¡¯ eyes couldn¡¯t help opening wide. Based on what Xu Yi said, could it be he was actually inventing new products?

    He still had things to ask, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t give him that chance. He stood up and pointed outside, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go outside and take a look. After this long, Still should be finished with her matter.¡±

    Sebas couldn¡¯t only helplessly follow behind Xu Yi.

    While walking, Sebas digested the words Xu Yi had just said.

    ¡°Industrial system? What is that? It seems like it¡¯s something important based on what he said. Other than that, what was the new product he mentioned? Could it also create a stir like the Magic Fan? The Lord Viscount should be very interested in this, I¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi and Sebas were talking in an inner room and once they left the room, they came to a veryrge hall.

    In the center of the hall at this time, Still was currently standing still. Opposite of her, there was a Magic Fan ced parallel to her, currently blowing refreshing cold wind onto her face.

    This Magic Fan was clearly different from the Frestech Magic Fan from before. The structure was much more refined and it was a bit smallerpared to before, making it look more sleek.

    This was the official second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan that had been developed.

    Still opposite the Magic Fan was wearing a white dress today. With the cool wind, Still¡¯s golden hair slightly danced in the wind, matching her skirt that kept fluttering in the wind, making her look very elegant.

    Still was already very beautiful and now that she was dressed up like this, she became even more charming. Looking from the side, she was simply dazzling. So beautiful that people couldn¡¯t look directly at her.

    Hearing footstepsing from behind, Still turned around to look at Xu Yi. She threw out a smile at him that actually made Xu Yi¡¯s heart skip a beat.

    ¡°He, if this fellow was ced on earth, she would have be a star, right?¡± Xu Yi secretly thought.

    He made a hand gesture to Still and after signaling to her to focus, Xu Yi went to a corner of the hall.

    To Still¡¯s side was an artist and on the giant canvas in front of him right now, there was a drawing that was almost finished.

    ¡°Un, the picture is quite good!¡± Xu Yi took a look and immediately praised it.

    Other than aplete drawing of Still and the Magic Fan, there was also a background of an open field. This painting was very well done, manifesting Still¡¯s appearance and charm decisively, letting those who looked at it unable to look away.

    Xu Yi stood beside the artist for a while. When the artist finished the final stroke, he let out a sigh of relief, as his spirited expression was immediately reced with a look of iparable exhaustion. It could be seen that he spent quite a bit of energy on this drawing.

    ¡°Master Anlios, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡± Xu Yi raised a cup of prepared cold drink and handed it over.

    Master Anlios only noticed Xu Yi. He took the cold drink and revealed a confident smile. He pointed at the painting and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu Yi, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi gave him a thumbs up without holding anything back, ¡°It¡¯s very good. Master Anlios really is the best artists in our Banta City, this painting is simply perfect.¡±

    Of course it was perfect, Xu Yi had spent a sky high price of an entire fifty gold coins on this artist. If the painting wasn¡¯t drawn properly, then Xu Yi¡¯s fifty gold coins would have been wasted.

    Master Anlios gave a loudugh, ¡°Chairman Xu Yi, actually this painting could be this outstanding was mainly because of Young Miss Still. I have only drawn her beauty onto paper. Don¡¯t you feel that if Young Miss Still were to just stand there, she would be like a painting?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over to see Still walking over and he gave a soft nod, ¡°This point, I really couldn¡¯t agree with you more.¡±

    Master Anlios and Xu Yi looked at each other and broke out in tacitughter at the same time.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you guys discussing? You¡¯reughing this happily.¡± Still came over and asked this.¡±

    ¡°Master Anlios is praising your beauty.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Many thanks for Master Anlios¡¯ praise.¡± Still revealed a sweet smile to Master Anlios before turning to Xu Yi to ask, ¡°Then what about you? Do you think I¡¯m beautiful?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitter smile, as he thought that little girls really loved being beautiful.

    ¡°Of course I also agreed.¡± Xu Yi replied in a very serious voice, ¡°Is there anyone who dares say you aren¡¯t beautiful? Tell me and I¡¯ll dig out their eyes! It would by no use to them anyway!¡±

    Stillughed before softly hitting Xu Yi, ¡°You¡¯re too exaggerated.¡±

    She said this, but the expression on her face clearly demonstrated the joy in her heart.

    Xu Yi looked at the painting again before suddenly saying to Still, ¡°Still, I have a strong premonition that you¡¯ll be famous soon and you¡¯ll be very famous. Do you feel any pressure?¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Still asked in surprise, ¡°Isn¡¯t it just doing what you said, making an advertisement? Why would I be famous?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. This was the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan¡¯s first advertisement, they were prepared to go all out in spreading this. With Still¡¯s appearance and aura, it would be strange if she didn¡¯t be famous.

    They discussed a few things before Master Anlios and Sebas left to pay the remunerations, while also beginning to start nning for the advertisement, leaving Xu Yi and Still alone. They looked at each other and Xu Yi made a gesture to let Still go first.

    ¡°Beautiful Young Miss Still, can I have the honour to ask you out to lunch?¡±

    Still deliberately made her face stern, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, this mister, I normally don¡¯t ept other people¡¯s invitations to a meal, unless that person is a handsome uncle.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise and he pointed at himself, ¡°Charming uncle? Isn¡¯t that me?¡±

    Still couldn¡¯t keep a straight face andughed while saying, ¡°You finally recognized that you are an uncle? Then this handsome uncle, can I ask what you are treating me to?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­...How about a bowl of noodles that are as fresh as you?¡±

    ¡°Damn, how could a bowl of noodles be fresh? And it¡¯s the same as me?¡±

    ¡°Ha, you don¡¯t understand this. The noodles are very slender, gentle while firm and bouncy¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Smiling while they talked, Xu Yi and Still found a nearby small restaurant and found a familiar ce to sit in.

    Because they had been working in the past few days, the two had been frequently eating together. They hade to this little restaurant several times, so they were already familiar with it.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, the matter I mentioned to youst time, did you consider it?¡± When they had just sat down, Still asked this question.

    ¡°That matter?¡± Xu Yi was stunned before suddenly remembering it, ¡°Oh, you¡¯re talking about your ssmates, right? Didn¡¯t I sayst time that I wee them very much? Could it be that you were waiting for my response and hadn¡¯t contacted them yet?¡±

    Still had suddenly discussed this with Xu Yist time. Although she had graduated from the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy already, she had always kept a good rtionship with her many ssmates. Now that these ssmates knew that Still was working in Xu Yi¡¯s magic researchb and was specially studying the Magic Arrays inside the magic machinery, there were several people who expressed their interest. They asked if Xu Yi was willing to ept them.

    Xu Yi naturally weed them, they were the talents that he had been having headaches over, especially in terms of Magic Array. Other than him, there was almost no one helping him.

    After Still came, she had shared quite a bit of work with him, but Still was just a single person and was far from being enough.

    Now that Still¡¯s ssmates wereing over, Xu Yi was naturally very happy.

    ¡°Of course not, I¡¯ve already contacted them and three people want toe, but¡­..¡± Still paused, seeming a bit embarrassed, ¡°They wanted me to ask you, what kind of treatment will you give them¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Treatment?¡± Xu Yi looked at the somewhat awkward Still and suddenly smiled, ¡°Still, I haven¡¯t even seen them yet and don¡¯t know what kind of strength they have, so what kind of treatment should I give them?¡±

    ¡°I also understand that, but¡­...can you give them a minimum promise? Otherwise, if theye this far and you give them something they aren¡¯t satisfied with, wouldn¡¯t they havee for nothing?¡± Still had a bit of expectation as she looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Look, you started with fifteen gold coins with me, you can¡¯t give them any less, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..It¡¯s like this. Still, contact those three again, tell them that I am inviting them over with my status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. I will cover their expenses, including their travel expenses, their lodgings, as well as any other expenses. They will all be covered by my Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If both sides are satisfied, then we can attempt it for a month and their sry during this month will be ten cold coins. If both sides are satisfied after the probationary period, then they will be official researchers of the research facility, having the same sry as you, fifteen gold coins. If they produce any results with their research, thepany will offer special awards. As for how much they receive, it will depend on their achievement. What do you think?¡±

    Still nodded, ¡°Very good, let¡¯s just do this. I¡¯ll write a letter to them in a while.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and said a few words before he suddenly looked at the entrance to the restaurant, causing him to knit his brows.

 Volume 1 35 - Discussing cooperation

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 35 Discussing cooperation</h4>

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    Four people came into the restaurant. The one walking in the front was an obese middle aged man that could be described as round. The three people following him was unexpected by Xu Yi. It was actually Cimirot, Rem, and We.

    What amazed Xu Yi was Cimirot¡¯s attitude.

    Because this fellow was ranked second in terms of magic power in theb, he had always acted very arrogantly, but now in front of this chubby middle aged man, he kept bowing and ttering him with a smile on his face. Although he didn¡¯t act like a servant, he put himself in a very low position that waspletely different from the impression he normally gave Xu Yi.

    As for Rem behind him, although his attitude wasn¡¯t as clear as Cimirot¡¯s, he did reveal a ttering tone to the middle aged man. He wasn¡¯t as loud and careless as he normally was in theboratory.

    We still maintained her normal cold appearance. Xu Yi could even see a trace of disdain on her face.

    It was unknown if she disdained this middle aged man, or if it was Cimirot and Rem.

    Still saw Xu Yi¡¯s strange reaction and turned to look at the entrance, also being stunned.

    This small restaurant wasn¡¯t big and Xu Yi and Still weren¡¯t sitting that far away from the entrance. When the two of them saw Cimirot¡¯s group of four, We bringing up the rear also noticed them.

    ¡°Xu Yi, Still, what are you guys doing here?¡± We asked in a surprised voice.

    Cimirot had been trying to convince the middle aged man to change ces for lunch, but hearing We suddenly mention Xu Yi and Still¡¯s name, he was instantly stunned.

    He looked over and saw Xu Yi and Still sitting across from each other at a table, with no one else around them. His face sunk a bit.

    This damn Xu Yi! What was he doing? He was actually having lunch with Young Miss Still in this kind of ce alone? Damn!

    ¡°Hey, We, why did youe here?¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to greet We and Rem, while also ignoring Cimirot, ¡°This ce is a bit away from the Magic Tower, you wouldn¡¯t have run all the way here for lunch, right?¡±

    We looked at Rem and he replied with an awkward smile, ¡°We¡­..are here with a guest.¡±

    ¡°Guest?¡± Xu Yi looked over the middle aged man and found that there was a sharp auraing from him, not seeming like a magician at all, ¡°This should be a guest for the Magic Tower, right? Can you introduce me to him?¡±

    ¡°Of course we can introduce you, but Xu Yi, do you think you¡¯re qualified?¡± Cimirot cut in and said with a cold smile, ¡°Let me tell you, this is chairman Farsak from Saltan City. Chairman Farsak has one of the biggestpanies in Saltan City, it¡¯s not something a certain smallpany canpare to.¡± After saying this, Cimirot deliberately looked at Xu Yi with a clear meaning in his eyes, ¡°Xu Yi, if you want to be introduced, you have to have magic power at my level at least.¡±

    Hearing Cimirot¡¯s response and seeing his arrogant appearance, looking down on him, Xu Yi was not angry at all, rather he found it a bit funny.

    This fellow kept saying that he was chasing Still and now in front of her, he made this kind of bad move. Does he hope that Still will like him because he knows thisrgepany¡¯s chairman?

    As expected, Still gave a soft snort and her face sunk as she said, ¡°Is a bigpany¡¯s chairman that amazing? Who is stronger between him and my grandfather? Cimirot, you shouldn¡¯t boast about your magic power in front of Xu Yi! Let me tell you, he has just studied magic for a shorter time than you. As long as you give him enough time, he will definitely be stronger than you!¡±

    Cimirot never would have thought that Still would impolitely refute him like this in front of everyone and would stand up for Xu Yi without any hesitation.

    Thinking about the fact that these two were having lunch alone, Cimirot¡¯s heart was filled with depression. His eyes looking at Xu Yi became iparably sharp.

    Xu Yi smiled as he matched his gaze, not looking away at all. There was even a taunting look in his eyes.

    ¡°Cimirot, whether I have the qualification to know sir chairman Farsak should be up to chairman Farsak and not you, right?¡±

    Cimirot gave a strong snort, ¡°You think a noble person like chairman Farsak will waste time with a small person like you who hasn¡¯t even passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification test?¡± After saying this, he turned to the chubby middle aged man and changed his expression. He had an inviting look as he said, ¡°Chairman Farsak, let¡¯s change ces to have lunch, staying here will ruin the mood. There are still many good restaurants in our Banta City, it won¡¯t bete if we go now.¡±

    It was like chairman Farsak didn¡¯t hear what Cimirot said. He looked over Xu Yi several times before asking in front of everyone¡¯s doubtful gazes, ¡°May I ask¡­...Are you mister Xu Yi from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    When he said this, everyone was stunned.

    Based on this, the iparably noble chairman Farsak as described by Cimirot actually knew Xu Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi was also a bit surprised, but he said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am Xu Yi. Does chairman Farsak know me?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, chairman Farsak burst out inughter. He reached his hands out to Xu Yi and said in a very polite voice, ¡°Although I haven¡¯t met you before, I have heard of chairman Xu¡¯s fame and have long known about you. Actually I won¡¯t hide anything, but for my trip to Banta City this time, other than a small matter, the most important matter was to have a proper talk with chairman Xu. I wonder if chairman Xu¡­..¡± After saying this, chairman Farsak paused and looked at Still to the side, ¡°I wonder if you have time now, may I invite you to some afternoon tea?¡±

    Chairman Farsak was actually this polite and respectful to Xu Yi, it stunned everyone to the side.

    Still, Rem, and We looked over Xu Yi and chairman Farsak without stopping, as their eyes filled with curiosity.

    Cimirot¡¯s face was the same colour as the dirt. He never would have thought that this chairman Farsak with hisrge backing would suddenly be this polite to this normal looking Xu Yi.

    This was simply giving him a resounding p to the face!

    Moreover, it was in front of Still!

    ¡°Chairman Farsak is too polite. I wonder, what do you wish to discuss with me?¡± Xu Yi was not in a rush to agree, he first asked this question.

    ¡°He, he, it¡¯s just to discuss a cooperation. I think chairman Xu will definitely be interested.¡± Chairman Farsak replied.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at chairman Farsak in surprise. He considered it before saying to Still, ¡°Still, it seems like I¡¯m busy and can¡¯t stay with you.¡±

    Still uncaringly waved her hand, ¡°Business is more important, go.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded. He smiled at Rem and We after standing up and then he left with chairman Farsak.

    When the left, chairman Farsak didn¡¯t even say a word to Cimirot¡¯s group of three.

    Still looked at the stunned Cimirot and gave a coldugh. Then she looked at Rem and We, giving them a nod to say goodbye before leaving.

    Rem and We looked at each other and both gave a sigh before leaving. They left Cimirot in the little restaurant by himself with a face that was like dying embers.

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    After leaving the little restaurant, chairman Farsak and Xu Yi found a quiet cafe. As soon as they sat down, chairman Farsak said, ¡°Chairman Xu, it¡¯s truly hard to see you. Time is precious, so I¡¯ll be direct. The target of the cooperation I wanted to discuss with you is rted to the Magic Fan.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had the Magic Fan as a product, so if one was to discuss a cooperation, of course it would be rted to the Magic Fan.

    ¡°I wonder, what kind of cooperation does chairman Farsak wish to pursue? If you wish to buyrge amounts of Magic Fans to take back to Saltan City to sell, that is very easy. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already formed aplete production line, so you just need to directly buy from there.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Farsak shook his head, ¡°Of course it isn¡¯t that simple. If it was like this, would I even need to look for you?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Alright, then please tell me what you have in mind chairman Farsak.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Chairman Farsak gave a soft cough, seeming like he was organizing his thoughts, ¡°If we buyrge amounts of Magic Fans from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to resell, although we would earn quite a bit, this is very inefficient. This is because the losses on the road are quite severe and to me, these losses don¡¯t outweigh the gains at all. Therefore, after considering it, I hope to cooperate with yourpany to directly open up a Magic Fan factory in our Saltan City.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly raised one brow. This chairman Farsak actually thinks in longer terms than normal merchants.

    Although this method was quite troublesome, as long as it could be smoothly finished, it was something that was done once and there would be much more profit there.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, if I¡¯m not wrong, your Saltan City already has apany that is producing Magic Fans. Of course, that is not our Frestech Brand Magic Fans. But ording to what I know, thispany already has a monopoly on selling Magic Fans in Saltan City. How can you ensure that establishing a Magic Fan factory in Saltan City will let us sell our product?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Farsak¡¯s chubby face revealed a smile that seemed quite gentle, ¡°If we were to produce the same Magic Fans, of course we couldn¡¯t. But if it¡¯s the Frestech Brand and it was a new generation Frestech Brand Magic Fan, I think there won¡¯t be any problems.¡±

 Volume 1 36

    <h4>A first sspany sets the standard</h4>

    Heinz looked at the fatty looking around the workshop and became curious.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what is this fellow doing? Why are you letting him wander around the workshop? Wouldn¡¯t we lose all our secrets like this?¡± Seeing the fatty even wanting to try out the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, Heinz finally couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi.

    ¡°Secret?¡± Xu Yi looked at Heinz pretending to be surprised, ¡°What secrets?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, of course it is production line of the Magic Fans, that is the secret of ourpany!¡± Heinz anxiously said, ¡°If these things were disclosed to others, wouldn¡¯t people be able to make the same generation Variable Speed Magic Fans as us soon!¡±

    ¡°Heinz, you¡¯re too worried.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder and signaled to him to calm down. He pointed at the ves who were currently busy in the workshop making Magic Fans, ¡°Look, there are so many people in the workshop, do you think there is still any secret?¡±

    ¡°How could that be the same, those are our employees!¡± Heinz narrowed his eyes, ¡°Then again, they are the ves from Viscount Leslie. Even if they have ten times their courage, they still wouldn¡¯t dare reveal these inside matters.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that these things will be revealed eventually, isn¡¯t that right?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a rxed look, ¡°Then again, I never nned on keeping these things secret because they aren¡¯t important at all.¡±

    ¡°How are they not important!¡± Heinz couldn¡¯t help waving his hands, ¡°Even if they can¡¯t be kept secret in the end, they have to be kept secret for a while. We can earn more profit because we had a bit more opportunity than other people, isn¡¯t that important?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, as he thought that it was too much effort exining to a petty fellow like Heinz, he simply would not understand. He went over to chairman Farsak who was preparing to operate the Magic Thread Rolling Machine.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Farsak, operating this machine is quite dangerous. I advise you not to attempt it so easily.¡±

    Chairman Farsak looked over and gave Xu Yi augh, ¡°Rx, I already observed from the side for quite some time now, there is no problem.¡±

    Seeing how excited he was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t put a damper on it. He watched from the side and if anything went wrong, he could pull him away.

    Although chairman Farsak seemed quite chubby, he was actually quite nimble. After just watching from the side for a while, he became quite good at operating the Magic Thread Rolling Machine. Very soon, he finished making a screw bolt.

    After seeing the iparably fine thread on the finished screw bolt, chairman Farsak couldn¡¯t help sighing in praise.

    ¡°Great! This is truly great! Chairman Xu, although this is a small thing, if a cksmith were to make this, it would take him an entire day just to make this thing! But with this machine, it was made in less than a minute! This is simply incredible!¡±

    Xu Yiughed. You have never experienced the might of the high tech machines on earth, otherwise your chin would have fallen off in shock already.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, after you have finished observing our workshop, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Hearing this question, chairman Farsak fell silent for some time. After turning his head to look around the workshop for a while, he finally said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to say, your workshop has truly broadened my horizons. I thought that building a Magic Fan was a veryplicated matter, but after seeing your workshop, I¡¯ve found that making a Magic Fan is actually this simple. They are just some employees without any special skills and they can assemble the Magic Fans with such ease. To be honest, I never thought that a small workshop like yours would have such a high efficiency. Let me guess, your workshop should be able to make around three hundred Magic Fans each day, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave him a thumbs up, ¡°Chairman Farsak truly has sharp eyes. That¡¯s right, this workshop can produce three hundred Magic Fans each day. Of course, that is for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. As for the first generation Magic Fan, because of problems with its design, the output is not as high.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t tell him that the workshop¡¯s opening hours were strictly kept to eight hours each day. If they were to work overtime, it wasn¡¯t a problem for them to make five hundred Magic Fans each day.

    Only Xu Yi had a high requirement for quality, so Xu Yi strictly controlled productions. He didn¡¯t force them to do empty work to meet numbers.

    Chairman Farsak looked at the machines being used at full speed by the ves and said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I was to speak the truth, the core of your workshop should be these machines, right?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Farsak, your eyes are truly sharp. How about it? What do you feel about these machines?¡±

    ¡°Feel?¡± Chairman Farsak suddenly revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, beforeing here, I was very confident in reaching a cooperation with you. I even thought that you would obediently agree because there were only benefits and no downside for you. But after seeing these machines, I¡¯ve found that our positions have suddenly changed. I¡¯ll admit, you havepletely taken the initiative now. To be honest, I don¡¯t like this feeling at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Farsak, you are just too modest. Since we have agreed to cooperate, there is no up or down side, there is no initiative. Cooperation is everyone achieving their goal and letting both sides win, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    ¡°Both sides win?¡± Chairman Farsak¡¯s little eyes pushed in by his fat lit up, ¡°This idea sounds very novel, but it¡¯s actually very reasonable. That¡¯s right, the perfect result of a cooperation is both sides benefitting. But chairman Xu, what kind of cooperation do you think we should have to achieve this effect?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he pointed at the machines, ¡°Chairman Farsak, are you interested in buying a few of these machines to take back?¡±

    Chairman Farsak was stunned, ¡°Chairman Xu, you.....You¡¯re meaning is that......You¡¯re actually willing to sell these machines to me?¡±

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I be willing?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°If I didn¡¯t want to sell these machines to you, why would I have brought you here?¡±

    ¡°But these machines.....¡± Chairman Farsak thought about it and changed the topic, ¡°Alright, since chairman Xu is willing to sell, then of course I¡¯m willing to buy. But chairman Xu, just with these machines, that doesn¡¯t mean we have a cooperation between us, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s not just machines, it¡¯s also manpower. I believe you won¡¯t have a way of finding workers capable of operating these machines in Saltan City. So, not only will I sell you these machines, I will also help you train your workers and help set up your workshop until it runs as smoothly as this workshop. What do you think about this?¡±

    Chairman Farsak narrowed his eyes and carefully looked over Xu Yi for a while before suddenly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t be joking right?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Would I kid with you at this time?¡±

    Chairman Farsak nodded and after thinking about it for a while, he slowly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to say, this condition is very enticing, I even suspected that you might be tricking me for an instant. Giving this kind of rich condition, I¡¯m afraid the request you have isn¡¯t low. So why don¡¯t you let me hear it.¡±

    ¡°My request......It isn¡¯t considered high, but it isn¡¯t considered low either, it all depends on what chairman Farsak thinks.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Oh? There is such a strange request? Chairman Xu, please speak.¡±

    ¡°My request is......¡±

    ......

    After two days, chairman Farsak finished his discussions with Xu Yi and boarded a horse carriage that was leaving Banta City.

    Seeing the horse carriage disappear over the t horizon, Heinz said with knit brows, ¡°Xu Yi, is this really good? Although we can earn ten gold coins from each Magic Fan he produces, we¡¯repletely giving up Saltan City like this. If we really let this continue, wouldn¡¯t we be suffering arge loss? Not to mention that we are releasing all the technology we currently have on the Magic Fan, wouldn¡¯t there be many other factories that produces the same Magic Fans as us in the future? When the timees, our space for development will be greatly affected.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said while shaking his head, ¡°No, Heinz, you should look a bit further. The Magic Fan is not something hard to imitate, it can¡¯t be kept hidden for too long. We need to be in a dominant position and need to keep inventing or changing our product, that is the foundation of our continued studies. As long as we maintain our advantage in terms of technology, then we will always be at an advantage. I can tell you one thing right now, you have to remember it.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi with rapt attention. He knew that every time Xu Yi spoke in this tone, it was very important.

    ¡°A third ratepany makes the product, just like chairman Farsak. Even if he establishes factories, in the end he would be a third ratepany who at most produces Magic Fans, he will not have much influence.¡±

    ¡°A second ratepany will establish a brand. I have already exined the concept of a brand to you before, but I think you don¡¯t understand itpletely even now. You and I have worked together for a long time and you still haven¡¯t understood the concept. On the entire Sines Continent, there wouldn¡¯t be many people who would understand the meaning of a brand. Perhaps they will know about it, but they will not understand the details of it. But this point is something our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already aplished. The Frestech Brand is a very trusted brand at least around Banta City, as long as we don¡¯t do anything that will ruin the brand, then this brand will continue existing.¡±

    ¡°Thest one is the most important, a first ratepany sets the standard. This is the goal we are currently working hard to achieve, only this is a very difficult goal and we need to spend a long time before we reach this goal. But once we achieve it, it could be said that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can stand on the Sines Continent without copsing. Chairman Farsak thinks that he bought those magic machines very cheap, but from what I can see, he has already fallen into my standard. Even if chairman Farsak¡¯s currentpany is stronger than ours, they will be thrown far behind us in the end.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi, not understanding why he would have such strong confidence.

    Based on scale, the first ss Farsak Chamber of Commerce in Saltan City was several times bigger than their small Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not to mention surpassing it, it was hard to even reach it.

    Although Heinz didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi just said, Heinz still understood that it was very powerful. At least it meant that Xu Yi currently had a long term goal in his heart, that meant he wouldn¡¯t act as randomly.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s confident look, Heinz¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

    ¡°Perhaps that fellow really will make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce one of the bestpanies on the Sines Continent.¡±

 Volume 1 37 - Setting middle and high class

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 37 Setting middle and high ss</strong>

    Xu Yi exined many things to Heinz, but he didn¡¯t exin the most important point.

    It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t want to exin, but rather Heinz wouldn¡¯t understand. To be even more clear, there was perhaps no one on the entire Sines Continent that could understand it.

    This was because this point was rted to the core of Xu Yi¡¯s n to establish an industrial system.

    In industrial advancement, light industrial equipment was the surface and heavy industrial equipment was the core.

    Even if there were ten thousand or a hundred thousand Magic Fans that were made, it was only a product being developed. It could only be considered a small development in light industrial equipment on the Sines Continent.

    If this ten thousand or a hundred thousand was changed into manufacturing machines, it was apletely different story.

    Xu Yi chose to sell the Magic Punch Press and the Magic Thread Rolling Machine¡­..these magic machines to chairman Farsak and even giving out the technology for the second generation Magic Fan, other than out of consideration from a business perspective, the most important thing was to spread these magic machines across the Sines Continent.

    These represented the powerful productive power of the basic level magic machines, he believed that it would quickly spread across the Sines Continent.

    With the poprization of these machines, it would be a very meaningfulrge step towards the development of industrialization. It would have an important use to Xu Yi in founding the concept of an industrial system on the Sines Continent.

    These things, other than an engineering master from earth like him who had transmigrated over, who else would understand it?

    But there was something that Xu Yi had to agree with, which was that although heavy industrial equipment was the core of an industrial system, to make money quickly, the best choice was to invent new products. So while Xu Yi researched new magic machines with the dwarves, he didn¡¯t stop researching new products.

    That night, Xu Yi went to Viscount Leslie¡¯s manor to see him again.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve been very busytely, why do you suddenly have free time toe see me?¡± Viscount Leslie seemed to like the spring in his manor quite a bit. Even though the sun had set and the weather wasn¡¯t too hot, he still received Xu Yi in the log cabin beside the spring.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, if I told you thating to see you is also part of my work, would you believe me?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi and his eyes fell onto the strange looking rectangr box beside Xu Yi, ¡°What is this thing?¡±

    ¡°The Lord Viscount¡¯s eyes are sharp.¡± Xu Yi praised. He at Butler Brunei with his head covered in white hair and shook his head. Xu Yi then turned to Viscount Leslie and said, ¡°Lord Viscount,e and help me. Help me install this thing up there.¡±

    Butler Brunei knit his brows. When he wanted to speak, Viscount Leslie raised his hand to stop him.

    Viscount Leslie was very interested as he stood up and looked at Xu Yi, ¡°How do you want me to do it?¡±

    Xu Yi looked around the log cabin and found that there was an iron shelf on one of the walls, so he pointed at it and said, ¡°Help me put this thing on there.¡±

    The two were strong youths, so naturally it was very easy for them to put it up.

    After installing it ording to Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, Viscount Leslie looked it over and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Xu Yi, you should tell me now. Just what is this thing?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Don¡¯t be anxious, you¡¯ll know after you use this thing.¡± He pressed the switch under the iron box after he said this and turned to close all the doors and windows of the log cabin.

    Viscount Leslie and Butler Brunei saw Xu Yi¡¯s actions and felt it was a bit strange.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what are you doing¡­¡­¡± When Viscount Leslie wanted to question him, he suddenly felt a weak cool breeze hit him, instantly scattering the heat that came with Xu Yi closing doors and windows.

    It was different from the Magic Fan, this slight breeze was clearly a bit cold. Being hit by this breeze did not make people feel hot afterwards like with the breeze from the Magic Fan.

    Not long after, the little log cabin¡¯s air turned cold from the cool breeze that kept blowing out, not feeling like the zing heat of summer at all.

    After experiencing this cold feeling for a while, Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a serious gaze and asked, ¡°Tell me, what is this thing?¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Viscount Leslie¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This Lord Viscount really wasn¡¯t an idiot, it seemed like he could already see the abnormal parts of this thing.

    ¡°This thing is called the Magic Air Conditioner, what does the Lord Viscount think of that name?¡±

    ¡°Magic Air Conditioner? Air conditioner?¡± Viscount Leslie thought it over for a bit, ¡°The so called air conditioner, does it mean controlling the air?¡±

    ¡°The Lord Viscount truly isn¡¯t normal, you understood the meaning of this name this quickly.¡± Xu Yi praised, ¡°That¡¯s right, it means controlling the air. This Magic Air Conditioner can create a cool space even in this kind of burning weather, so don¡¯t you think that this name isn¡¯t exaggerated at all?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not exaggerated.¡± Viscount Leslie¡¯s eyes fell onto the Magic Air Conditioner again and after seriously looking over it for a while, the look of admiration on his face became deeper and deeper, ¡°Xu Yi, this Magic Air Conditioner is the new product you¡¯ve researched?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Why did you bring it to my ce?¡± Viscount Leslie was a bit confused, ¡°Since you¡¯ve finished researching it, you should immediately start producing it. I can tell that as long as the price of this thing does not surpass the price ofying arge scale Frost Array, it will definitely sell.¡±

    ¡°I brought it here for two reasons. One is because the Lord Viscount is a major shareholder of ourpany, so if there ever is a new product, I have to bring it over for you to look over first. Second, it is because of a problem with the setting the ss of this product.¡±

    ¡°Setting problem? What setting?¡± Viscount Leslie and Butler Brunei both looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Before a product is sold, we have to first set the ss of the product. To put it simply, we must determine what kind of people we will sell this product to.¡± Xu Yi slowly exined.

    Viscount Leslie pointed at himself, ¡°Your meaning is that I am the kind of person you want to sell this Magic Air Conditioner to?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°For this Magic Air Conditioner, I want to set it as a middle and high ss item, which means that it isn¡¯t suited formoners to use, rather it is suited for people of status like the Lord Viscount. Of course, the most important thing is that it is used by people with economic power. So I brought it here first to see how the Lord Viscount feels about using this thing. Now that you have tested this Magic Air Conditioner, what kind of value do you feel this Magic Air Conditioner has?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­..¡± Viscount Leslie stroked his chin and considered it for a bit. He didn¡¯t reply and instead asked, ¡°Then tell me first, how much do I need to spend to buy this thing?¡±

    Xu Yi raised two fingers.

    Viscount Leslie knit his brows, ¡°It can¡¯t be two gold coins, then it would have the same price as the Magic Fan. ording to what you just said, it should be¡­..twenty gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°This price is considered quite good. If it was me, I could definitely ept it.¡± Viscount Leslie turned back to look at the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall, ¡°There is still another problem, does this thing consume a lot of Magic Crystals? You should be very clear that it isn¡¯t that many families don¡¯t have the money toy down arge scale Frost Array, rather it is because they can¡¯t support the cost of therge scale Frost Array because that thing uses just too many Magic Crystals.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, this is actually the biggest advantage of the Magic Air Conditioner. For a Magic Air Conditioner like this, although the consumption of Magic Crystals is greater than the Magic Fan, even if you use it for an entire day, it would only take thirteen to fifteen silver coins worth of Magic Crystals each day. Of course, if you want to increase its efficiency, you can use High Grade Magic Crystals, which would increase the consumption.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Viscount Leslie and Butler Brunei to the side both had their eyes pop out.

    ¡°It actually has such a low consumption? Fifteen gold coins a day, it would be less than five gold coins each month! This is several times lower than therge scale Frost Array!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°If the consumption wasn¡¯t several times lower than therge scale Frost Array, what would I have researched this thing for?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi for a while before giving a slight nod, ¡°Very good, Xu Yi, I can tell you now that if everything you said is true, I can guarantee that this Magic Air Conditioner will sell! Of course, it is impossible to reach the same quantity as the Magic Fans. However, I think the profit from this thing should be even more than the Magic Fans.¡±

    Xu Yi said whileughing, ¡°The Lord Viscount is wise. The profit for this thing¡­..is indeed should be several times higher than the Magic Fan. But if we want to sell arge amount, we¡¯ll need the Lord Viscount¡¯s help.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What help do you need from me?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a very interested gaze, ¡°Speak freely. I can be considered a major shareholder, so you don¡¯t need to be polite with things that I should do.¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, the matter I¡¯m hoping for you to do is actually very simple¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 38 - Banquet

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 38 Banquet</strong>

    Another day nearing night, the extremely wide manor to the west of Banta City was full of all kinds of luxurious horse carriages. Countless people wearing luxurious clothes and releasing noble auras were wandering the manor, filling this manor that was normally very peaceful with noise.

    If there was someone familiar with the nobility of Banta City here, they would have easily noticed that of the people in the manor, most of them wererge and small nobles of Banta City. If one had even sharper eyes, they would have noticed that deep in the manor, a middle aged man with a strong body and serious appearance was currently talking to the master of the manor.

    This middle aged man was the most influential person in Banta City and also Banta City¡¯s City Lord, Lord Count Sean Samo!

    As for the young and handsome owner of the manor the City Lord was talking to, he was someone everyone in the nobility circle of Banta City knew. It was Viscount Leslie that countless families¡¯ madames and young misses loved.

    Viscount Leslie always loved peace, but he suddenly announced he was holding a banquet, so the nobles of Banta City was very surprised by this.

    There were many reasons given for Viscount Leslie holding this banquet¡­..The funny one was that he was bringing out a nephew from the far off Anvilmar toe experience the world. But the nobles loved banquets very much and they also wanted to use this banquet to raise their previous rtions, so the reason was not important, the important thing was that Viscount Leslie was holding a banquet. So of all the nobles that received an invitation, not a single person rejected it and they all came.

    Other than the nobles, there was a small part of the guests that weren¡¯t nobles. If one carefully looked at them, they would have found that while they weren¡¯t nobles, they were people with some kind of status in Banta City. Not a single one of them was a normal person.

    As for this situation, no one was surprised.

    Lord Viscount Leslie was holding a banquet, so how could regr people be invited?

    So Xu Yi obediently hid in a corner, not attracting any attention.

    With his status, he didn¡¯t have the qualification to join them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had relied on the Magic Fan to earn a lot, but calcting it all up, they were nothing more than a smallpany that had just started out. Even if there weren¡¯t a hundred littlepanies like this in Banta City, there was still eighty of them, so Xu Yi wasn¡¯t considered anything special.

    As for his status as a magician?

    Stop joking! Xu Yi hadn¡¯t even passed the Magician Guilds¡¯ certification exam, he wasn¡¯t even considered an official magician, so what qualification did he have toe to this banquet?

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t look that bad, in this kind of situation, he naturally wouldn¡¯t attract that much attention. Normally speaking, it would be no problem for him to hide, but he was helpless to the fact that beside a green leaf like him, there was an eye snatching flower that was as beautiful as the moon in the sky that people couldn¡¯t look away from.

    ¡°It really is boring.¡± Still gave a sigh before sheined to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, I thought that the banquet held by Viscount Leslie would be fun, but I never thought that it would be as boring as the other banquets.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes at her, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you before that this was only a normal banquet, what can I do if you won¡¯t believe me?¡±

    ¡°Humph! You¡¯re not embarrassed to speak?¡± Still angrily said, ¡°Who told me before that the noble¡¯s banquets were boring things and it was better to study Magic Arrays then toe here?¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his face, ¡°Alright, it was me.¡±

    ¡°Then when a fellow like youes to this banquet, of course I would find it strange. I thought that this banquet would have something special that attracted you, but I never thought that it wouldn¡¯t have anything interesting at all. You caused me to get happy for no reason.¡± Still angrily said.

    Xu Yi looked over Still, it was clear this little girl had carefully dressed herself up today. She was wearing a purple dress that perfectly outlined her figure, her casually pulled up hair perfectly revealed her slender, white nape, and her figure added a noble aura to her. Inparison to this, there was a youthful glow to her perfect facial features. With these two different tastesbined, it made her even more charming. It was no wonder that when anyone passed by her, they couldn¡¯t help secretly taking a few gazes at her.

    After just standing there for less than half an hour, there were over ten young men that ran over to talk her up.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi standing beside her, that number would have increased by several times.

    ¡°If you want to talk about something special, of course there is something.¡± Xu Yi took a sip of fruit juice and helplessly exined to Still, ¡°Still, do you still remember the thing we researched a few days ago?¡±

    Still was a bit surprised, ¡°You¡¯re talking about the Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    Since Still had joined the researchb, naturally she would participate in the research of the Magic Air Conditioner.

    It should be said that Still had yed arge part in letting this Magic Air Conditioner be finished this quickly.

    ¡°How is the Magic Air Conditioner rted to this banquet?¡± Still was even more confused.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Haven¡¯t you notice that even with all these people in the room, it isn¡¯t hot at all?¡±

    With Xu Yi¡¯s reminder, Still immediately woke up. She looked around in a daze and after a moment, she found that on the walls of the hall being used to wee guests, there were already two Magic Air Conditioners. They were blowing out cold wind without stopping, it was no wonder the hall wasn¡¯t warm at all.

    ¡°Xu Yi. could it be that you and Viscount Leslie are in cahoots?¡± Still couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°What cahoots? This is called cooperation.¡± Xu Yi reprimanded, ¡°Still, ording to the normal flow, this matter should be something a spokesperson like you should be doing. However I can see that you weren¡¯t interested in selling the product in front of all these people, so I gave up on that idea.¡±

    ¡°Humph, I wouldn¡¯t run up to others to say: Hey, hello, buy our product? This is too silly.¡± Still disdainfully said, ¡°You said to me in the past that being a spokesperson wouldn¡¯t require this kind of thing.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, so I gave up this very enticing idea. But then again, it is a bit wasteful.¡± Xu Yi looked over Still again and said with a smile, ¡°Letting an outstanding beauty like you run out to be a salesperson, if others knew about this, they would scold me for wasting a heavenly treasure.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Still immediately revealed a smile. She quickly turned around in front of Xu Yi and proudly said, ¡°Don¡¯t you feel that I¡¯m very beautiful today?¡±

    ¡°No, not just today, I¡¯ve always felt that you were very beautiful. Of course, you are exceptionally beautiful today.¡±

    Still became even more proud. She slightly raised her head and gave a soft snort, ¡°You do know how to talk.¡± After a pause, she immediately asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, since you are in cahoots with Viscount Leslie, why haven¡¯t I seen Viscount Leslie helping you sell this Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile, ¡°Viscount Leslie is still an honourable viscount, how can he run around selling the product directly? This task should be handled by a lowly merchant by me.¡± He looked at Still after he finished talking and continued, ¡°I have to be a salesman now, if you¡¯re not willing toe, you can just wait here for me.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at him and quickly followed Xu Yi.

    ¡°Let me see how a profiteer like you makes a sale.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He looked over the hall and locked onto a dignified looking middle aged man.

    ¡°Honourable Viscount Zetaman and the madame, hello.¡±

    Viscount Zetaman and his wife turned around, seeing the youth who had suddenly appeared and felt a bit strange.

    ¡°This one is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I am Xu Yi, the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This one is mypanion¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°She is called Still, Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter. I have seen her a few times before.¡± Viscount Zetaman spoke first.

    Still quickly gave a bow to the two of them, ¡°Grandfather has always said that Lord Viscount Zetaman is a righteous person, you are one of the few nobles that he respects. Now that I¡¯ve seen you, I deeply approve of grandfather¡¯s approval.¡±

    Viscount Zetaman gave augh, naturally he wouldn¡¯t believe this kind of words. He turned to Xu Yi with a bit of doubt on his face.

    ¡°You just said that you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman?¡±

    ¡°Yes, Lord Viscount.¡±

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­...Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­...I seemed to have heard this name somewhere before.¡± Viscount Zetaman thought about this with knit brows for a bit. He turned his head to ask Viscountess Zetaman, but before he even received an answer.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, I think you should have heard this name from noble young master Orin before, right?¡± Xu Yi reminded him.

    Viscount Zetaman was stunned for a bit before he instantly remembered it.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it was that kid Orin who mentioned it. Oh, after you said this, Ipletely remember it. I¡¯ve heard Orin say that he was working in one of the workshops under your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­..No, one of the factories? It made something¡­...That¡¯s right, Magic Fans? Is that right?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, I thought that you would be angry after you remembered this thing.¡±

    Viscount Zetaman was stunned, ¡°Why would I be angry?¡±

    ¡°Because I thought that knowing that your son was working in a normal factory, you would think that it would be throwing away your face. So beforeing to see you, I hesitated for a while before having the courage toe over.¡±

    Still on the side almost broke out inughter.

    After Xu Yi saw Viscount Zetaman earlier, he didn¡¯t hesitate a bit as he directly walked over. How could he have hesitated and finally worked up the courage toe over?

    Viscount Zetamanughed, ¡°Chairman Xu Yi, you¡¯re thinking too much. That kid Orin is good at everything, but I have always worried that he wouldn¡¯t be able to suffer and was too impatient, I never thought that he would be able to stay in your workshop for that long. But seeing him continue for this long, I am very happy about this, how could I feel that it loses face for me?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, although Orin has been very tired whenever hees home, I can tell that he is actually very happy.¡± Viscountess Zetaman on the side cut in, ¡°To be honest, after all these years, it has been very rare to see him this happy. Chairman Xu Yi, although I don¡¯t know what kind of things you do there, to be able to make him this happy, as his mother, I have always wanted to thank you.¡±

    ¡°How could that be, how could that be¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°The Lord Viscount and Viscountess are too polite, Orin has also helped me quite a bit. I won¡¯t hide it from you, the core of mypany¡¯s Magic Fan is the Magic Array and Orin is responsible for this work. Not only does he help draw the arrays, he has also made an optimization to it and I¡¯ve even given him a special reward because of it. These days, he has been responsible for researching and producing the Magic Air Conditioners, also helping me quite a bit. Speaking of this, I should be thanking the Lord Viscount and Viscountess for giving birth to such an outstanding son.¡±

    No matter what world it was, parents will always be happy when others praise their child in front of them. Viscount and Viscountess Zetaman were no exception.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu Yi, you are too exaggerated with your praise of Orin. That¡¯s right, what was that Magic Air Conditioner thing that you¡¯ve just invented? What is that thing? Is it rted to the Magic Fan?¡±

    Seeing the curious expression on Viscount Zetaman¡¯s face, Still couldn¡¯t help looking over at Xu Yi.

    This fellow, he actually hooked the fish out like this?

    As expected, Xu Yi had been waiting for this as he replied, ¡°Speaking of the Magic Fan, actually there are some in this room¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 39 - Farming machinery

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 39 Farming machinery</strong>

    Late into the night, the banquet in Viscount Leslie¡¯s manor had finally ended. The guests had already departed and the manor finally regained its tranquility.

    In the main hall that was slightly messy after the banquet, Viscount Leslie was staring at Xu Yi who was currently talking to Still. There was a look of admiration that couldn¡¯t he hidden on his face.

    Like Still had guessed, he had held this banquet under Xu Yi¡¯s request. The most important goal was to help Xu Yi sell the Magic Air Conditioner that he had just invented.

    Xu Yi had set the Magic Air Conditioner as a middle to high ss product, so naturally it targeted those with status and high positions in Banta City. the most important ones were those people with worth.

    At this banquet this time, because of some intentional interference from Viscount Leslie, it could be said that all the guests fulfilled this requirement.

    Xu Yi¡¯s request for Viscount Leslie had only been this, he did not request him to participate, so Viscount Leslie never knew what Xu Yi would actually do. However, he knew now that Xu Yi had made quite a bit of harvest at this banquet.

    This was because during the banquet, there were quite a few people who would mention the somewhat conspicuous Magic Air Conditioner when they came to talk to Viscount Leslie. After they learned of the price and current consumption cost of the Magic Air Conditioner, not a single guest didn¡¯t reveal their willingness to buy it.

    Even the City Lord, Lord Count Sean Samo was an exception.

    Therefore Viscount Leslie was certain that these Magic Air Conditioners would be all the rage among the Banta City nobles. The one that caused this trend, in the eyes of the nobles, it would be Viscount Leslie.

    ¡°If those fellows these matters had already been calcted by Xu Yi, I wonder what kind of thoughts they would have?¡± Viscount Leslie secretly thought in his heart.

    At this time, Xu Yi had ended his conversation with Still and walked over.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, the banquet tonight has been quite the sess. I really have to thank you.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°There is no need to thank me, I could be considered a major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°There is a question that I have to ask you. Xu Yi, there are only those few rich people in Banta City, there is a limit to the number of Magic Air Conditioners you can sell in Banta City. The profit, wouldn¡¯t it be less than the Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about this.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Since this Magic Air Conditioner is considered a middle to high ss product, then the sales n for this is naturally different from the Magic Fan. I have already signed an agreement with the Farsak Chamber of Commerce in Saltan City, there will be a special store that will open in Saltan City soon that will specialize in selling our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. When the timees, our Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner will also enter Saltan City.¡±

    ¡°Saltan City?¡± Viscount Leslie suddenly thought of something, ¡°That¡¯s right, there were two young nobles that came from Saltan City to visit their rtives, you wouldn¡¯t have made contact with them already, right?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°The Lord Viscount¡¯s reaction is quite fast.¡±

    Viscount Leslie¡¯s gaze looking at Xu Yi instantly became more serious.

    This fellow, he had already calcted this point, he really was quite terrifying.

    But changing this thought, Viscount Leslie really had to admire his own foresight.

    Luckily he had seen through Xu Yi¡¯s unusualness from the events from before and had decided to cooperate with him. Otherwise, once he missed this chance, he would have missed out on many opportunities.

    Not mentioning the others, just based on the sale of the Magic Fans, in just a single month, Viscount Leslie had already earned over a thousand gold coins from this.

    Even with Viscount Leslie¡¯s worth, one thousand gold coins already couldn¡¯t be considered a small amount.

    Moreover, Viscount Leslie deeply believed that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became even bigger, the ie brought by his 30% share would also gradually increase. In the end, it would far exceed a thousand gold coins.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, other than the Magic Air Conditioner, there is another thing I want to discuss with you.¡± Xu Yi then said.

    ¡°Oh? What is it? Speak freely.¡±

    Xu Yi considered it for a bit before saying, ¡°Lord Viscount, it¡¯s about to enter September and your territory should have reached its fall harvest stage, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie was stunned. He never thought that Xu Yi would suddenly jumped to this topic.

    ¡°Ah, that¡¯s right, it¡¯s almost harvest time. What are you asking this for?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Do you still remember the little ve I bought from youst time? The reason I bought her back then was because she had lost a cow, which would greatly affect the fall harvest. Because of this, the guards almost beat her to death.¡±

    Viscount Leslie naturally had heard Butler Brunei report this matter before. He looked at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°What? Do you want to ask for justice for this little ve right now? Let me tell you, it is very hard to train a cow right now, a cow is worth more than a single ve. She actually lost a cow, beating her to death is actually taking it easy on her.¡±

    Xu Yi secretly let out a sigh in his heart. Even if he was considered quite close to Viscount Leslie right now, he still couldn¡¯t change the indifferent tone Viscount Leslie had towards ves.

    Of course, Viscount Leslie¡¯s manner of treating ves was the norm on the Sines Continent. Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the ability nor did he have the mind to change this attitude, naturally he had something else nned when he mentioned this thing.

    ¡°The Lord Viscount¡¯s meaning is that cattle is very hard to obtain and is very important to farming, so it has a very high value, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s like this. I say, Xu Yi, what did you say all this for?¡± Viscount Leslie became a bit impatient.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then Lord Viscount, if I can make a tool to rece the cattle, how much money are you willing to spend to buy it?¡±

    Viscount Leslie doubtfully looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Could it be that you have invented some magic machine that can work thend? This can¡¯t be the truth, right? Farm work is thatplex, what kind of machine is strong enough to rece the use of cattle?¡±

    ¡°Just treat it as me giving an analogy. Lord Viscount, if this machine could rece the work of cattle, even being far more effective than the cattle, what kind of price could you ept?¡±

    Viscount Leslie thought it over and raised a hand, ¡°Fifty gold coins for each one, give me as many as you have.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Lord Viscount, are these words true?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Viscount Leslie snappily said, ¡°It isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know, over half of my territory hasn¡¯t been developed yet, that is because I don¡¯t have enough manpower to cultivate it. I have no choice, so it became deste. If there was the kind of magic machine you mentioned, then of course I want as many as you have, it¡¯s best if I could finish cultivating all mynd. Other than this, I dare affirm that not only me, in Banta City, the entire Lampuri Kingdom, and the entire Sines Continent, there are many nobles who need something like this. If you can really develop this kind of magic machine, I can guarantee that it will cause people to go wild snatching for it.¡±

    After saying this, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you wouldn¡¯t have already invented this thing already, right? This is not something you can joke about.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°Of course not, it is only an idea right now. But with such an exciting response from the Lord Viscount, I¡¯m even more interested to go back and invent this thing.¡±

    Seeing the mysterious smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Viscount Leslie¡¯s heart lit up.

    ¡°This kid, perhaps he had already invented this thing.¡±

    Actually, Viscount Leslie had overestimated Xu Yi.

    After seeing Vivian almost being beaten to death after losing the cow, Xu Yi had already made up his mind to research farming machinery. But up to this point, not only did he not have the time, he also didn¡¯t have the funds and the manpower to research this thing. So this had always been an idea in his mind and hadn¡¯t be reality at all.

    But now it was different. Although Xu Yi still didn¡¯t have enough time right now, the manpower he had now was not small, not to mention the most important hundred dwarves that came from Master Lanus¡¯ tribe.

    With the help of these dwarves who had craftsmanship not below Master Lanus, Xu Yi could make the promise with chairman Farsak and provide him the corresponding machines to make the second generation Magic Fans.

    But the work for these machines wasn¡¯t much, so these dwarves finished it all without spending that much time. They were studying some mechanical knowledge that Xu Yi had given them and most of the time, they were free, so Xu Yi thought about this farming machinery.

    Actually to someone like Xu Yi, for the Sines Continent that had a technological level and standard of living that was below that of earth, farming technology was the most important thing right now.

    It was like Viscount Leslie said, arge part of his territory remained deste because he didn¡¯t have enough people to cultivate it.

    If this was raised to the level of the Sines Continent, one could imagine just how much destend there was on the continent.

    Corresponding with this, the Sines Continent had always had a low standard for harvests, so this has lead to a low standard of living for the people of the continent. At least in a small city like Banta City, there would be news of people starving to death each year.

    From chatting with Heinz, Xu YI learned that eleven years ago, the Sines Continent had arge famine because of strange climate changes. Locusts roamed thend back then and caused quite a bit of trouble on the continent, with several small countries being destroyed in a single night.

    As for the frightened look Heinz had back then, Xu Yi remembered it vividly.

    For Xu Yi who had transmigrated from a highly advanced society like earth, when had he ever seen this scene?

    But just based on his imagination, he knew how terrifying this scene was.

    So he was even more determined on studying farming machinery.

    ¡°If this could be enough to increase the living standard of the people of the continent, perhaps there could be some meaning to my transmigrating into this world.¡±

    Xu Yi looked into the bright starry night as he was lost in thought.

 Volume 1 40 - Strange chairman Xu Yi

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 40 Strange chairman Xu Yi</strong>

    A horse carriage quickly moved across the road to the north of Banta City, very quickly approaching Banta City.

    The window of the horse carriage suddenly opened and a round young girl¡¯s face was stuck out of the horse carriage. She saw the city wall of Banta City wasn¡¯t considered tall and loudly shouted, ¡°Look, that is Banta City! We¡¯re almost there!¡±

    Another girl¡¯s face appeared behind the ss and looked at the distant Banta City, but her eyes fell somewhere else.

    ¡°Yi? What is that?¡± A delicate looking girl pointed at a high building outside Banta City and asked this question.

    The round faced girl pointed in a direction and found that not far outside Banta City, there was a thick pole sticking out of the ground. It was supporting a strange giant rectangr thing high up above the city walls.

    The side of the sign facing the road seemed to have something drawn on it. They couldn¡¯t see it clearly at first, but when the horse carriage approached it, the two girls found that there was an iron foundation that was turning left and right.

    The center part of this drawing was being turned at high speed by this strange machine, so they could only see a blurry image. They couldn¡¯t see what was inside it at all.

    ¡°Is this that Magic Fan thing?¡± The round faced girl¡¯srge eyes looked at this strange looking machine as she spoke.

    ¡°It should be. Look, it¡¯s clearly blowing out wind.¡± The delicate looking girl replied before she looked to the right of the image. She called out in a surprised voice, ¡°Ya, isn¡¯t that Still?¡±

    ¡°Still? Where?¡± The round face girl looked over and found that there was a beautiful golden haired girl on the right side of the image.

    Although it was only from the side, the golden hair girl¡¯s fine features, iparably smooth skin, as well as the slightly floating white dress, it made people unwilling to look away.

    ¡°It really is Still!¡± The round face girl quickly recognized her, ¡°Her image is actually on this? Isn¡¯t this too conspicuous?¡±

    ¡°It should be rted to the Magic Fan.¡± The delicate girl said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Look, there is a name on this sign. It seems say¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Frestech Brand Magic Fan, bringing a bit of cold to you in the summer heat. What does that mean?¡± The round face girl rushed to read it first, but she didn¡¯t understand it.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. Butst time Still said that she became the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s spokesperson, could it be that this is a representation of her?¡± The delicate girl said.

    The round face girl tilted her head to think for a bit before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t get it. Forget it, we¡¯ll see her in a bit, we can just ask her then.¡±

    ¡°Un, it seems like we can only do this.¡± The delicate girl nodded. She said to the horse carriage driver, ¡°Uncle, can you take us to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    The horse carriage driver was a middle aged man of around forty. When he heard this, he asked back, ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce? There are two ces. One is the exclusive store they¡¯ve opened and the other is the factory outside the city, which one do you want to go to?¡±

    ¡°There is a difference?¡± The two girls looked at each other in a daze. The delicate looking girl thought about it before asking, ¡°Do you know where their chairman normally is?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know that. But I¡¯ve heard that their exclusive store only has a fellow inside selling things, normally there isn¡¯t anyone else. I think the chairman should normally be in the factory.¡± The driver guessed.

    ¡°That¡¯s good, can you send us directly to the factory?¡± The delicate looking girl said.

    ¡°I can, but they are building roads near the factory during this time, so I can only send you near there. You¡¯ll have to walk the rest of the way yourself.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do that.¡±

    The delicate looking girl said this and the driver flicked the whip in his hand, making the horse carriage turn right. It directly headed out Banta City in a westward direction.

    The small road outside the city was not t, so the horse carriage kept shaking. The two girls inside the carriage couldn¡¯t help feeling dizzy.

    But this kind of situation didn¡¯tst long. After a while, the horse carriage only shook slightly before it became very stable, as if there wasn¡¯t the slightest bit of trembling at all.

    The round face girl couldn¡¯t suppress her curiosity and poked her head out the carriage¡¯s window. She found that the path the horse carriage was currently on was very smooth, there wasn¡¯t a single hole to be seen. This road was much betterpared to the one from before.

    The round face girl¡¯s heart was filled with curiosity and she couldn¡¯t help asking the driver, ¡°Uncle, why is this road so smooth? It would be great if the road we traveled on before was as smooth as this.¡±

    The driverughed, ¡°This road has been specially paved by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t easy to travel at all before. I¡¯ve heard that in order to pave this road, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has spent quite a bit of money.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Theirpany is even responsible for paving the road? Isn¡¯t this supposed to be managed by the City Lord?¡±

    ¡°Properly speaking, it should be the City Lord who is responsible for this, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s what¡­...That¡¯s right, the chairman named Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied, so he was happy to take out his own money to fix the road. The Lord City Lord couldn¡¯t stop him from doing that, right? So the current road you see now is the newly fixed road.¡±

    ¡°Why was chairman Xu Yi not satisfied? Could it be that people couldn¡¯t walk on it?¡± The round face girl asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°How could that be? No matter what, this road is still the main road outside of our Banta City, how could people not walk on it? Although the road before wasn¡¯t that t, it wasn¡¯t that bad, there was no need to fix it at all. But chairman Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied, so what could he do? I¡¯ve also heard that he¡¯s still not satisfied with this road right now, he said that he would fix it again when the conditions were right¡­..What¡­...That¡¯s right, he would fix it with concrete. I don¡¯t know what this concrete thing is, but to satisfy chairman Xu Yi, it should be better than this road, right?¡±

    ¡°Even better than this road? How t would that be?¡± The round face girl said in a stunned voice, ¡°That chairman Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be boasting, right? How could there be such a smooth road?¡±

    The driverughed, ¡°That I don¡¯t know. What those big people are thinking, that is not something a small driver like myself could imagine.¡±

    The round face girl muttered in a low voice before heading back into the carriage. She said to the delicate girl with knit brows, ¡°Hey, Evita, do you think that chairman Xu Yi will make us research how to repair roads?¡±

    The delicate girlughed and reached out a finger to tap the round face girl¡¯s forehead, ¡°Akali, you only know how to speak nonsense! We are magicians, even if we agree to stay with chairman Xu Yi, we would be researching Magic Arrays! How is this rted to fixing roads?¡±

    The round face girl named Akali shook her head in a confused manner, ¡°I don¡¯t know. But I feel that this chairman Xu Yi is a strange person. He¡¯s not satisfied with this road that is clearly smooth and has to fix it again. Do you think he has too much money?¡±

    Evita helplessly shook her head. Akali really liked to guess randomly, when will she be able to fix this problem.

    Although she didn¡¯t randomly guess like Akali, her heart was also filled with curiosity towards this chairman Xu Yi.

    Why was the road this important to him? Clearly how good this road was waspletely unrted to him.

    Could it be that this road had some rtionship with the things theirpany produced? But this also wasn¡¯t convincing.

    Could it be that this chairman Xu Yi had very strict requirements, not letting any problems appear in the road near his factory?

    If it was like this, this chairman Xu Yi might not be easy to get along with. When they see himter, she should be a bit more careful.

    While Evita and Akali¡¯s minds were filled with random thoughts, the horse carriage had already traveled a bit. It suddenly slowed down before stopping.

    ¡°Two young misses, the road ahead is being fixed, so no horse carriages other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s horse carriages are allowed over. So, I¡¯ll have to trouble the two misses to walk the rest of the way.¡± The driver¡¯s voice rang out.

    Evita and Akali looked at each other before opening the curtain to the horse carriage. Akali directly jumped out while Evita slowly came down while holding the reins of the carriage.

    The two looked up and found that the path in front of them really was being fixed. There was only a less than three meter wide path left for people to travel on.

    Based on the scale of the construction, after this road was finished, it would be over ten meters wide which was very shocking.

    It had to be known that in the Lampuri Kingdom, only the two main roads of the Lampuri Kingdom were only around ten meters wide.

    Looking into the distance, there was a river flowing by and beside the river on arge piece of emptynd, there were several buildings put together. From time to time, one could see people moving between the buildings.

    Whether it was the buildings or the road work, it was a very lively scene. It was like they weren¡¯t affected by the blistering heat at all.

    Seeing this kind of bustling scene, the two girls couldn¡¯t help looking at it for a while. After a while, they finally remembered their goal ining here.

    Akali looked over and walked over to the people fixing the road. She was about to pat the person to get their attention, but seeing that that person was covered in dirt, she put her hand down and raised her voice, ¡°Hey, hello. Can I ask you if this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    That person looked over and scared Akali.

    That person¡¯s face was also covered in dirt and there were several lines left by his sweat dripping down, which made him look quite fierce.

    But after seeing the little girl in front of him, that person revealed a smile and that fierce look disappeared without a trace.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Are you looking for someone?¡±

    That person¡¯s smile was very bright and his was quite refreshing, instantly melting the nervousness in Akali¡¯s heart.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we are looking for chairman Xu Yi. Can you help us inform him? Just say that we were called over by Still.¡± Akali said in a loud voice.

    Hearing this, that person was a bit surprised. He looked over Akali before looking at Evita not far to the side and saying in a dazed voice, ¡°You are Still¡¯s ssmates?¡±

    This response stunned Akali and Evita. Akali couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°How do you know that we are Still¡¯s ssmates? Could it be that you are close to chairman Xu Yi? Did he tell you?¡±

    That person revealed a grin that showed his white teeth.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I am very close to Xu Yi. I dare promise that there is no one closer to him than me. That is because¡­...I am Xu Yi.¡±

 Volume 1 41 - Interview test

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 41 Interview test</strong>

    As the factory became bigger and bigger, there were more and more things Xu Yi had to take care of. As that increased, the time he spent in the factory also increased, so there was a small room built to serve as an office.

    Xu Yi received Akali and Evita in the office. After washing up, he poured some water for them before sitting down and seriously looking over them.

    These two girls should be around the same age as Still. The one called Akali seemed more lively while the one called Evita seemed more gentle.

    This could be seen from their attire.

    Even though they both wore magic robes, Akali¡¯s skirt length was as high as her knees,pletely revealing her two little calves. It was clear that this had been specially altered.

    Other than this, her magic robes were covered in all kinds of little decorations, making her entire person seem more sprightly.

    In contrast, Evita¡¯s magic robe was very traditional. It was very straight, reaching all the way down to her ankles, not being altered at all.

    The only difference was that there was a little light blue flower on her chest, fully representing the fact that Evita was still a young girl.

    While Xu Yi was looking over them, Akali and Evita were also curiously looking over him.

    In the letter Still wrote to them, there had been quite a few descriptions about Xu Yi.

    ording to what Still said, this Xu Yi should be a ¡°charming uncle¡±, but when the two first saw Xu Yi, they had seen this fellow covered in dirt. His face was so dirty that they couldn¡¯t even clearly see what he looked like, how could they tell if he was handsome or not.

    But after Xu Yi received them and went to wash his face, revealing his true appearance, the two of them agreed with Still¡¯s appraisal.

    Eh¡­...urately speaking, they agreed to the first half.

    This Xu Yi was indeed quite handsome. His face was very neat, his eyes were bright, and his nose was straight, but he was clearly very young, he didn¡¯t seem like he was that much older than them. How was he an uncle?

    Compared to Akali who mainly focused on Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, Evita was paying more attention to Xu Yi¡¯s movements.

    Evita believed that a person¡¯s true nature could be seen from the tiniest movements they made.

    So from the first moment she saw Xu Yi, Evita had been looking for these. She wanted to use the smallest movements to judge what kind of person Xu Yi was.

    If he really was as good as he was in Still¡¯s heart, then she would consider staying here to work.

    Otherwise, even if it was Still that pulled them here, she could only say sorry.

    The results of her observations had satisfied Evita.

    When they first met a few minutes ago, Xu Yi had kept a bit of distance from the two of them because he had been covered in dirt to avoid making them dirty. Just this raised a bit of goodwill towards him in Evita.

    Aftering to this office, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush to talk to the two of them. He first went into another small room to wash up and change into new clothes. This was a sign of respect to the two of them.

    While he had been pouring water for the two of them, Evita had focused on his fingers. She found that not only were this man¡¯s fingers slender, his fingernails were neatly trimmed, not leaving a bit outside at all, while also keeping his fingernails very clean. It could be seen that he had been very careful in cleaning himself just now.

    Because of this, Evita¡¯s appraisal of Xu Yi had increased by 10%.

    Other than this, Evita was also paying attention to Xu Yi¡¯s other movements.

    A person¡¯s walking pattern, the way they bent their waists or their arm, or even the small movements they made when they talked, all of these revealed a person¡¯s real personality and were very hard to hide.

    After Evita observed him for a period of time, her initial assessment of him was that this chairman Xu Yi should be a very careful person, but he was also a person with a frank personality.

    ¡°No wonder he could open apany and develop it this quickly.¡± Evita secretly praised in her heart, ¡°Still held him in such high esteem, it really is because he has all these merits.¡±

    ¡°The two of you, can I ask you a question?¡± Xu Yi suddenly said.

    ¡°Ask all you want, we¡¯ll answer all your questions.¡± Alkali said with a smile, ¡°Of course, if chairman Xu Yi asks a bunch of extremely personal questions, don¡¯t me us for going back on our promise.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he thought that this Akali truly was lively.

    ¡°This question is a bit personal because I wanted to ask, since you have graduated from the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy like Still, you should be considered magical talents among the kingdom¡¯s youths. Why would you choose toe work in my ce?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, sir chairman, have you made a mistake? We are only taking a look, we haven¡¯t said that we would work here.¡± Akali waved her hand as she spoke.

    Evita gently nudged Akali, signaling her to restrain herself a bit.

    No matter what, they had been invited here this time. Whether it was their travel expenses or meal fees, it had all been paid by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they had to be a bit more polite to the other side.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind at all as heughed before continuing to say, ¡°Good, then I¡¯ll change my words. Since you are here, then you must be interested in the work here, right? I want to ask you now, what kind of things do I need to give to make the two of you stay?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this simple? As long as you give us thirty gold coins a month as a sry, we will definitely stay without another word.¡± Akali openly replied.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I¡¯m helpless there. Still is currently a member of the researchb and she is only make fifteen gold coins per month, I can¡¯t just give you twice the sry she makes as soon as you start.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, don¡¯t listen to her nonsense.¡± Evita finally couldn¡¯t help speaking up, ¡°Still has already clearly exined your conditions for us in her letter. We came this time because we wanted to see what kind of work you had for us here. If we feel the work is suitable for us, we should choose to remain here.¡±

    This time it was Akali¡¯s turn to stare at Evita.

    This fellow, what was she doing lowering their stance so low? Wouldn¡¯t they be at the mercy of this chairman in a while?

    ¡°Work contents? I have a few blueprints here, take a look to see if you can understand the content of this work.¡± Xu Yi took a few blueprints off the table of the office and gave it to the two of them.

    Akali and Evita curiously took the blueprints and looked over them. She found that there were some Magic Arrays drawn on the paper.

    But they were different from the Magic Arrays they had studied in the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy. These Magic Arrays were only rough designs and there were requests written on the side of the designs.

    For example, the blueprint that was currently in Evita¡¯s hand. It used to be a Revolving Wind Array, but there were three requests on the design.

    One was to lower the wind speed of this Revolving Wind Array. The second one was to stabilize the Magic Crystal usage of the array for at least ten hours. The third was to ensure that the wind produced by this array remained stable.

    The three requests seemed very simple, but when Evita carefully looked it over, she couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows.

    Changing a Magic Array wasn¡¯t that difficult of a matter, Evita was confident in taking care of any one of these three requests. However, adding them up together, she felt it was quite difficult.

    ¡°Sir chairman, does Still normally alter Magic Arrays based on these requirements?¡± Evita asked Xu Yi.

    ¡°Un, pretty much. Of course, normally I¡¯m the one whoes up with the requests and we research how to make the changes together.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Take a look at these designs, can you see any changes that need to be made?¡±

    Evita and Akali looked at each other. This should be his test for the two of them.

    They didn¡¯t hesitate at all as they took the papers from Xu Yi and began to study them.

    Seeing how focused the two of them were, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He filled the cups in front of them and spoke up to give them notice before leaving the office, letting the two of them study in this quiet space.

    Outside the office, there was arge building in the empty space that was previously there.

    Other than the Magic Fan factory that was made in the beginning, there was an evenrger round building that was built out of stone.

    This was the workshop the dwarves normally worked in to research and produce magic machines.

    When they built this workshop at first, Heinz was very confused because he didn¡¯t understand what magic machines meant. He didn¡¯t know what it was to be used for at all.

    But after Xu Yi signed the agreement with chairman Farsak, selling the five magic machines to him, Heinz immediately changed his attitude.

    This was because ording to what Xu Yi said, the price of those five magic machines didn¡¯t even add up to twenty seven gold coins, but he had sold them to chairman Farsak for an entire two hundred gold coins!

    There was an eight times profit earned from that!

    Not to mention that they were just beginning to make magic machines. If those magic machines ever needed repairs of spare parts, chairman Farsak would have to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He even needed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help in training people to work those magic machines.

    They would also charge money for this matter. As for the price¡­..Even Heinz who thought that he had a ck heart, after he read the contract, he felt that Xu Yi was too ck.

    Xu Yi only had a few words in response to this.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this is the power of a monopoly.¡±

    Even though it was like this, chairman Farsak was satisfied in his discussions with Xu Yi. He even thought that he had gotten quite a cheap deal out of this.

    As for Heinz, he couldn¡¯t only give an emotional sigh in his heart. This fellow Xu Yi, his talent for making money was not something he could match.

    Because these five magic machines had earned such arge profit, the magic machine workshop was filled with excitement.

    The dwarves that received this praise and encouragement felt like they were heated up from within. Other than sleeping and eating each day, they were always inside the workshop, doing their best toplete the task Xu Yi assigned them.

    Of course, the biggest reason was Xu Yi¡¯s promise. As long as they finished the Magic Harvester, each person would be rewarded with one gold coin.

 Volume 1 42 - Material limitations

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 42 Material limitations</strong>

    When Xu Yi walked into the magic machine workshop, all the hundred dwarves in the workshop were working hard.

    These hundred dwarves were all responsible for different kinds of work. A part of them was to continue producing Magic Thread Rolling Machines and other magic machines used to produce the Magic Fan. Another part of them was responsible for researching how to forge the new Magic Harvester Xu Yi had assigned them.

    At this time, the research emphasis was ced on the Magic Harvester.

    After his conversation with Viscount Lesliest time, Xu Yi believed that farming technology hadrge prospects on the Sines Continent, so he immediately began researching it as soon as he came back.

    Also because they were about to enter the fall harvest season, Xu Yi goal right now was to produce a small scale harvester.

    The research was divided into two different aspects. One was Xu Yi and Still studying a Magic Array that would be used as the core driving force for the harvester. The other portion was the dwarves researching how to forge the outer structure of the harvester.

    The work that Xu Yi was responsible for was the most important, he had to perfectlybine the Magic Array with the structure of the harvester. To do this, he neededrge amounts of practical data to support him. For this, he had been running between the researchboratory outside and inside Banta City for the past few days.

    Hard work definitely had its payout. After this period of research, the small Magic Harvester had already taken form. In thisboratory, the dwarves responsible for researching magic machines had already made a harvester that was almost the same as one on earth and now they were just fixing all the bugs.

    When they saw Xu Yie in, Camby who had been appointed the manager of the workshop came over.

    ¡°Hey, Xu¡­...Oh, no, chairman, did youe here to see the Magic Harvester?¡± Camby raised his stubby arm to greet Xu Yi,

    ¡°Alright, Camby, just call me by my name.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. Didn¡¯t you see all the wheat in the Lord Viscount¡¯s fields turning yellow? It seems like they¡¯ll begin harvesting it in less than a month. If we don¡¯t hurry up and finish this Magic Harvester by the time the wheat matures, we¡¯Lloyd have to wait at least another half a year.¡±

    ¡°Rx, the brothers have been working hard overtime these past few days. Looks, this thing has already been made, but there are still some small bugs with it, otherwise it could already be used.¡±

    ¡°Finding the problems now is better than problems appearing when using it.¡±

    Xu Yi and Camby went over to the dwarves who were testing out the Magic Harvester. After asking some question, he found that the problem they had now was that after using the machine at high speeds for a while, there would be the situation where it wouldn¡¯t run as smoothly.

    There was no need to investigate at all, Xu Yi already knew what it was. It is certainly because of the bearings breaking down.

    As expected, once he opened it for a look, there were scratch marks on the line shaft of Magic Harvester, causing several dents to appear in it. This would naturally affect the rotation.

    Xu Yi was actually helpless about this because this waspletely an issue with the material of the bearing.

    Because the iron smelting technology on the Sines Continent was limited, steel alloy that was wear resistant and stretchable hasn¡¯t appeared right now.

    Whether it was using white iron or grey iron, it clearly wasn¡¯t enough to build this kind of bearing that needed to withstand this kind of high speed rotation.

    Although the Magic Fan from before also needed to withstand high speed rotations, the driving force of the Magic Fan wasn¡¯t that strong, so the pressure wasn¡¯t too strong. Just using simple iron to build it was enough to withstand it. But when it came to the Magic Harvester, it was very easy for problems to ur with this machine that needed a strong driving force.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t solve this material problem right now. He carefully thought about it and could onlye up with apromise. He had the dwarves install an iron roller on the bearing. This would reduce the effect of the rubbing and allow the bearing to live a bit longer.

    Of course, this would also weaken the output power. So, Xu Yi had no choice but to consider changing the Magic Array to allow the Magic Array to release enough power.

    ¡°Ai, speaking of this, the industrial system of the continent is just too weak. If it was like on earth where there were ten different kinds of steel alloys, would there be such troubles?¡± Looking at the dwarves who had begun working hard because of his one little modification, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and secretly sighing.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi naturally thought about his material researchboratory in the dwarves¡¯ vige.

    Although he had promised the five hundred gold coins each month in research expenses for the hundred dwarven masters, he still had a trace of hope in his heart.

    If the dwarves of the tribe could make a breakthrough in this material research, the five hundred gold coins a month would be worth it.

    Of course, as a mechanical engineer specialist, Xu Yi knew that there wouldn¡¯t be sudden progress in researching materials. They could only make improvements bit by bit, they couldn¡¯t rush this matter at all.

    ¡°Forget it, the so called engineering master only exists to solve this matter. When you need to solve problems in limited situations, that is where people like me have value.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi psyched himself up ording to his habits.

    He then considered that because of this small change, he would have to make corresponding changes with the Magic Array. When he thought of the Magic Array, Xu Yi naturally thought of the two girls who were currently working in his office.

    ¡°This is bad, I was only focused on the work here, I almost forgot the two of them.¡± Xu Yi pped his thigh. He pulled Camby over to say a few things before leaving the workshop and rushing back to the office.

    ¡°Sorry, I was busy with other stuff¡­..¡± When Xu Yi opened the door to the office, he wanted to apologize, but he found Akali and Evita sprawled over the table,pletely focused on making the changes to the Magic Array ording to the test he gave them. He immediately stopped talking.

    Xu Yi stood by the door for a while. Akali was probably a bit tired, so she stretched herself out and she finally noticed Xu Yi.

    ¡°Yi? Sir chairman, when did youe back?¡± Akali asked in a surprised voice.

    Hearing Akali say this, Evita was also surprised and looked over at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s been a while, but seeing how focused the two of you were, I couldn¡¯t bother you.¡±

    ¡°What bother.¡± Akali reached out her little fist to tap his head andined, ¡°Sir chairman, the blueprints you gave us really is troublesome. Evita and I have thought about it for a while and we haven¡¯t even finished a single sheet. Would you think that we are too stupid since we can¡¯t even solve these problems?¡±

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°To be honest with you, I spent several days thinking about these problems in the beginning before solving them. If you were able to solve all these problems in such a short amount of time, would you believe that I would use a sry of a hundred gold coins a month to keep you here?¡±

    Akali couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°You clearly knew we couldn¡¯t do it and you deliberately used thisrge sry to wet our appetite.¡±

    Evita paid attention to another matter, ¡°Sir chairman, you mean that these designs are already problems that you have solved? Then¡­...Can you let me see the method for solving this?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t because the final solution is currently a secret for ourpany. We can¡¯t easily let others see it.¡±

    Evita gave a disappointed sigh and her head went down.

    ¡°Of course, if you officially join ourpany, it won¡¯t be a secret to you anymore.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Akali said in a dejected voice, ¡°Sir chairman, the designs you gave us are already this difficult, would you even let us join yourpany even if we wanted to?¡±

    ¡°That is not certain.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Can you let me see your solutions first?¡±

    Taking the sheets from the two of them, Xu Yi seriously looked them over and he couldn¡¯t help nodding in satisfaction.

    Even if the two of them didn¡¯t give aplete answer, based on the thoughts they had written on the paper, Xu Yi was certain that they had graduated from the Lampuri Royal Magic Academy. They had a very high understanding of magic and the thoughts they had were already on a very high level, evening very close to the final solution Xu Yi had.

    Based on the thoughts the two had, one could see that there was a difference in personality between the two of them.

    Whenparing them, Akali¡¯s thoughts were more active, acting in an unconstrained manner. There were some very bold ideas in her method, which could even be considered fantasies.

    As for Evita, she was much more traditional, but it could be see that she had a very solid foundation. Every step of her solution was very solid and her overall idea was close to perfection.

    If Evita was given enough time, he believed that she would be able to create a real solution in the end.

    After looking over these papers, Xu Yi was very happy.

    Although these two ssmates of Still weren¡¯t powerful magicians, it was as Still said, the two of them werepetent enough to finish the work in theb right now.

    If they were recruited and adding in Still, Xu Yi would have three reliable helpers. It would definitely greatly increase the efficiency of his magic research.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi put down the papers and looked into their expectant eyes. He revealed a refreshing smile and said, ¡°I have to say, you two are truly outstanding,pletely fulfilling the requirements for working in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic researchb. I have a serious question for the two of you right now, are you willing to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

 Volume 1 43 - Payday

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 43 Payday</strong>

    The burning hot weather continued and it was already the middle of August in the blink of an eye.

    On this day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workshops were all filled with joy. Almost every person had a smile on their faces that was filled to the brim.

    As for the reason? It¡¯s very simple, it was because today was payday.

    ording to the rules Xu Yi set, the fifteenth of each month was the set payday. This time, the factory had been set up for a month, so this was the first official payday, so naturally it had to be official and could even be considered grand.

    Sebas had arrived at the factory early and had given the financial report forst month he had made to Xu Yi and Heinz to look over.

    Xu Yi believe that there was no need to doubt useful people and don¡¯t use doubtful people. He only simply swept over the financial report and didn¡¯t care about it at all. Heinz on the other hand carefully looked it over several times, only letting Sebas off after ensuring that every number was correct.

    Xu Yi was helpless towards Heinz¡¯s actions, but he didn¡¯t stop him.

    As the thirdrgest shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after himself and Viscount Leslie, Heinz had enough qualification and reason to do this. Moreover, with him carefully looking it over, it saved Xu Yi quite a bit of effort.

    The nervous and exciting morning passed and it was the afternoon in the blink of an eye. All the workers in both workshops gathered and they began lining up to receive their pay.

    The first toe up was the dwarf Camby.

    As the manager of the magic machine workshop, Camby¡¯s wage was naturally higher than the other dwarves. He was on almost the same level as Heinz¡¯ receiving twenty gold coins per month.

    The next one toe forward was Alex.

    As Heinz¡¯s assistant, Alex¡¯s wage was ten gold coins, it was a bit higher than the normal worker.

    Then came the dwarves excluding Camby.

    Other than the dwarves that had been affected by trivial matters or health issues, the other dwarves all received eight gold coins a month as a wage.

    When they opened the purses Sebas handed them and found eight gold coins shining inside, the dwarves all had smiles bloom on their faces. There were even some dwarves who began excitedly dancing.

    It was like Master Lanus said, these dwarves had very poor living conditions before. When these dwarves had been living back in the tribe, although they didn¡¯t starve, other than wine that they could brew themselves, they werecking in other materials they needed.

    After they came to work at the factory, not only did the factory take care of their meals, not letting them worry about their daily necessities, they also received eight gold coins per month!

    Even if eight gold coins was not considered much, they could buy some needed items and bring them back to the tribe, letting their parents, wives, and children have better lives.

    Thinking of the happy smiles their family members would have when receiving these things, these frank and straightforward dwarves were filled with joy.

    When remembering that they could only enjoy this kind of life aftering to the factory, the dwarves all looked at Xu Yi with gazes filled with excitement and respect.

    Compared to the dwarves, the wages of the students from the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was a bit lower. It was only around five-six gold coins.

    They had this kind of wage because they were only still students, so the time they had each day to work was limited. Naturally they couldn¡¯tpare to the dwarves who worked in the magic machine workshop all day.

    The second reason was because they only had simple Magic Array making work. Although it was work on the magic side, it was a very simple and repetitive kind of work. It didn¡¯t have a high requirement in terms of technique, so naturally their wages weren¡¯t that high.

    Xu Yi was a bit worried at first that the students wouldn¡¯t be satisfied seeing that other people¡¯s wages were higher than theirs, but after the students received their wages, every single one of them was filled with iparable joy. There wasn¡¯t a single bit of dissatisfaction at all.

    Even a kid from a noble family like Orin, his mouth was crooked from smiling at just a trivial six gold coins. It was like he wasn¡¯t holding six gold coins, but rather six hundred gold coins.

    Xu Yi thought about it and couldn¡¯t help but smile.

    Actually the reactions of the other students were normal. They were only student still in school right now, being able to earn a wage with their own work was already enough to make them happy.

    Not to mention that five-six gold coins to them was already quite a bit. It had to be known that the fee for each semester at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was twenty five gold coins.

    This meant that as long as they kept this job, these students could rely on their own hard work to pay their own school fees.

    For most of the students from normal or poor families, this saved quite a bit of burden for their families. Once their parents found out about this, they would be very satisfied with this.

    After they finished giving the students their wages, there was a portion of workers that didn¡¯t receive wages, which was the hundred ves.

    When it was time to give these hundred ves their wages, Xu Yi was actually troubled.

    Based on normal logic, since these ves worked in the factory, they deserved to receive wages, but ves were ves after all. Even if Xu Yi was not willing to ept this, he had to ept this. ves didn¡¯t have any right or position on the Sines Continent and in normal conditions, no one would agree to ves receiving wages.

    The more important reason was that these ves currently belonged to Viscount Leslie, Xu YI was only borrowing them.

    Even if Xu Yi wanted to give them wages, he should give it to Viscount Leslie first. As for whether Viscount Leslie would pay these ves or not, it would depend on his mood.

    So after Xu Yi and Heinz discussed this for a while with Sebas, they finally decided not to give the ves wages, rather they would receive welfare allowances.

    Currently it was still the middle of the zing summer, so Xu Yi gave each of the ves a second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. Other than that, he gave each person a clothing ticket for Metagen¡¯s tailor shop in Banta City. With this clothing ticket, the ves could have the Metagen tailor shop prepare one piece of clothing for them that didn¡¯t surpass a value of one gold coin.

    Other than this, he gave them some meat and fruit, as well as some random daily necessities.

    When all the welfare allowances was added up, it was valued at around four gold coins.

    ording to the ideas Xu Yi had at first, the value of the ves¡¯ work each month should be at least six gold coins. He wanted to give them more welfare allowances, but this idea was stopped by Heinz.

    No matter what, these ves still belonged to Viscount Leslie. If Xu Yi was too good to them, Viscount Leslie would have some special thoughts.

    Even based on these simple welfare allowances to Xu Yi, it had already overstepped a taboo matter.

    When those ves saw the dwarves and students receiving their wages from the side, although they were envious, they knew that they were just ves, it was impossible for them to receive the same wages. So they could only watch them without saying anything.

    Actually they were already very satisfied with their current living conditions.

    Since they came to the factory, not only would they not be beaten or cursed at each day, they could enjoy three sumptuous meals a day and not worry about empty stomachs.

    Although there was work to do each day,pared to the heavy work they had to do under Viscount Leslie, it was much more simple and rxed.

    Not to mention that they only had to work eight short hours each day and there wasn¡¯t any extra work that was given to them.

    Even when there was ack of people working on the roadst time and Xu Yi had them help, he had also given each ve a pound of meat aspensation.

    It could be said that their current lives was like a dream to the ves, they never thought that they would ever have such afortable and rxed life.

    If it was possible, they really wanted Viscount Leslie to sell them to Xu Yi.

    With this kind of master, it was the best home in the heart of every ve.

    So when Sebas announced for the ves toe up and receive their welfare allowance, the ves were all stunned.

    Welfare allowance? What was this thing? Was it for us?

    Only when Sebas raised his voice to repeat this and picked out the name of a ve were the ves sure that they had not misheard.

    The ve that was picked carefully came in front of Sebas. Heinz smiled as he ced the Magic Fan, the clothing ticket, the meat, and the other welfare allowances in his hands.

    That ve looked at the things in his hands in a daze for a while before suddenly revealing arge smile. He eyes couldn¡¯t help being filled with tears as he choked up. For a while, he didn¡¯t know how he should react.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a soft sigh.

    This damn very, it should be eliminated as soon as possible.

    After the hundred ves were given their welfare allowances, Xu Yi announced in a loud voice that he would be giving them the rest of the afternoon off, which was instantly met with thunderous apuse.

    With their wages in hand, whether it was the dwarves or the students, they couldn¡¯t wait to show off. Of course, there were some that were already bing impatient.

    Xu Yi announced that they would be given a vacation, it was simply hitting them where it itched, causing it to instantly explode in their minds.

    Seeing the several students charge out in a group while cheering, where even Orin wasn¡¯t an exception, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This scene made him think of back when he was in university, he ran out of school with his ssmates like this and went wild all day.

    Turning around to look, the dwarves also scattered in groups, leaving only the ves standing there not knowing what to do. Xu Yi thought for a bit before pulling Heinz to a corner.

    ¡°Heinz, start recruiting workers.¡±

 Volume 1 44 - Changing to a new product

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 44 Changing to a new product</strong>

    Perhaps the deities had finally been paid their wages, but right after high noon, a rainstorm began falling not long after.

    Little pinky sized raindrops hurt when they fell onto one¡¯s body. There was the dull sound of raindrops falling onto the thick wooden roof.

    ¡°This is the first time there was such arge rainfall, will it leak in?¡± Xu Yi looked up at the roof with his brows knit in worry.

    ¡°It might leak a bit, but it shouldn¡¯t be that much of a problem.¡± Heinz on the side answered in an uncaring voice.

    It was currentlypletely dark outside because of the rainstorm, one couldn¡¯t see more than ten meters outside the window.

    In the workshop right now, the workers had already left. There was only Xu Yi, Heinz, Sebas, and Camby, these four people left. It became iparably silent in the room.

    The sounds of the raindrops falling onto the roof reverberated through the workshop, like it was a drum.

    ¡°No, a leak is a big problem.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Heinz, we produce precise machinery here. If it is soaked by the rain and rusts, it will greatly damage the Magic Array inside and ruin the entire machine, so this problem needs to be dealt with seriously.¡±

    Heinz helplessly looked up, ¡°It can¡¯t be right? These things are all made of iron, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem if they get a bit wet.¡±

    The dwarf Camby also looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, not understanding why he was making a fuss over a trivial matter.

    As a dwarven master of working with iron, Camby had seen more iron items in his life than Xu Yi. He did not feel that these shiny, ck iron fellows would be ruined by a little rain.

    Only Sebas was the same as before, not showing any changes on his face.

    Xu Yi was also helpless. Not to mention stainless steel, there wasn¡¯t even steel items in this world, so the world¡¯s rust prevention techniques were quite crude. This caused many iron items to be sold at arge discount.

    Looking at the pile of finished Magic Fans in the corner of the workshop, Xu Yi shook his head.

    There was no choice, he was only a mechanical engineer. Although he knew a bit of researching materials, he wasn¡¯t that skilled at it. He couldn¡¯t take out the form for stic, otherwise if the outer casing for the Magic Fan was made of stic, not only would it be better at resisting rust, it would greatly decrease its weight while also making it prettier. The most important thing was that it would greatly decrease their costs and would also increase their profits.

    It was a good thing that when he was designing the Magic Fan, Xu Yi had already considered waterproofing it. The core part was very strictly waterproofed, so it shouldn¡¯t be easily ruined by being soaked with water.

    Moreover, the Magic Array was made from special magic material. Once the Magic Array was made, unless the magic rted material was broken, it was very hard for the Magic Array itself to be destroyed. There wasn¡¯t a need to worry much about this point.

    ¡°Moving aside from the reason that the products might be damaged, this workshop will need to be refurbished in the future. Otherwise once it does leak, it will greatly affect the productivity of the workers.¡± Xu Yi still insisted on his opinion, ¡°Heinz, arrange this as soon as possible.¡±

    Seeing how firm Xu Yi was, Heinz could only nod his head in agreement.

    ¡°Alright, putting this problem aside for now, what were we just talking about?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    As the key members of thepany, the four of them had stayed after all the workers left to hold a meeting. Other than summarizing everything that happened to thepany in thest month, they would also n on how to expand thepany.

    ¡°Camby said that everything in the magic machine workshop is running smoothly, but many dwarves areining that it is too boring and they don¡¯t have things to do.¡± Heinz replied.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, many brothers are saying that they aren¡¯t doing much and they are receiving all this money, they are feeling embarrassed.¡± Camby scratched his head and spoke with a somewhat embarrassed smile.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    These dwarves really were simply. They weren¡¯t happy that their work was easy and they actually said that their wages were too high.

    ¡°Camby, let them be assured that while the work isn¡¯t heavy now, that is only because the fellows outside haven¡¯t realized the importance of magic machines yet. You just need to wait a while and when chairman Farsak builds a factory in Saltan City, I can promise thatrge amounts of magic machines will fly out. Just don¡¯t me me for there being too much work at that time.¡±

    Camby grinned and waved his hand in an uncaring manner, ¡°How could that be? We dwarves can endure suffering the best, as long as there is wine to drink, there¡¯s no problem no matter how much work there is.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of wine¡­..Camby, although I know that you dwarves especially love wine, you mustn¡¯t drink while you are working because the machines you are making need to be very precise. Just a little mistake will cause arge problem, so you need to keep reminding them while working. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still a smallpany right now after all, we have to pay attention to our product¡¯s quality while developing.¡±

    Camby nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll tell them when I head back. They just need to drink after getting off work and not drink while working.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Just a warning isn¡¯t enough. How about this, we¡¯ll set a rule. If someone is found drinking while working, the first time they¡¯ll be fined fifty silver coins, the second time they¡¯ll be fined two gold coins, and the third time they¡¯ll be fined their entire month¡¯s wages.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too serious?¡± Camby was stunned, ¡°Chairman, those brothers treat alcohol like their lives. I¡¯m afraid that once this rule is set, quite a few people won¡¯t be able to receive their wages.¡±

    ¡°I know that you treat alcohol like your lives, so it has to be this serious.¡± Xu YI said with a serious expression, ¡°No matter what, the quality of the product is most important. If there is a problem with the quality because of a personal problem, then one should be punished because of it.¡±

    Seeing how serious Xu Yi was, Camby couldn¡¯t only helplessly lower his head.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll tell it clearly to them.¡±

    ¡°Of course, this rule does not only apply to your dwarven brothers. Heinz, this rule also applies to the Magic Fan workshop.¡±

    Heinz knew that Xu Yi was only being fair, so he immediately agreed.

    ¡°Camby, you don¡¯t need to be that depressed. There are also rewards thee with punishment. Tell your dwarven brothers that if they work properly, I can use thepany¡¯s name to make arge order from the Sachi Manor. If you want wine in the future, that¡¯ll depend on your aplishments with thepany.¡±

    Camby¡¯s eyes instantly lit up, ¡°You¡¯re telling the truth?¡±

    ¡°Would I be joking with you at a time like this?¡±

    Camby¡¯s dispirited look disappeared without a trace and he broke out inughter.

    ¡°Good, good, this is good! I dare promise that as long as the brothers hear about the Sachi Manor¡¯s wine, they will work very zealously!¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡± Xi Yi nodded with a faint smile before turning to Heinz and saying, ¡°Alright, we¡¯re done talking about the magic machine factory, so let¡¯s now talk about the Magic Fan factory.¡±

    Heinz immediately stuck out his chest and fearlessly said, ¡°There is no need to worry about our Magic Fan factory. The ves are very obedient, there won¡¯t be any trouble at all.¡±

    Camby looked over at Heinz. This seemed like it was an indirect insult.

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a bitter smile. Although the dwarves had been working here for a month, there were still some barriers between humans and dwarves.

    Only it would take a long time before this barrier could be solved and it couldn¡¯t bear rushed.

    ¡°No, Heinz, the problem with the magic machine warehouse is not the workers, but rather what they are producing next.¡±

    Heinz was surprised, ¡°There is no problem with production at all, everything is smooth.¡±

    ¡°My meaning is not that production isn¡¯t smooth and you have forgotten a very important problem. Isn¡¯t it a fact that the Magic Fans will stop being produced soon?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Heinz was shocked and he suddenly stood up, ¡°Stop production? Why would you stop production? The Magic Fan is selling this well, why would you need to stop producing it?¡±

    Camby and Sebas on the side both looked at Xu Yi with confused looks.

    Just the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan has only been produced for less than half a month and it had already sold over six thousand units, bringing a profit of over five thousand gold coins to thepany. Why was it that with such good sales volume, Xu Yi suddenly wanted to stop production?

    Xu Yi pointed out the window, ¡°Because summer is about to pass.¡±

    The three instantly understood.

    That¡¯s right, it was currently the middle of August and summer was about to pass soon. At best, the hot weather would onlyst for a month.

    Once it wasn¡¯t as hot anymore, people¡¯s desire to buy Magic Fans would greatly decrease and it would be close to zero.

    When that timees, with no one buying Magic Fans, naturally there was no need to produce them anymore.

    Once he thought this through, Heinz instantly became anxious.

    ¡°Then what do we do? Xu Yi, the Magic Fan is our most profitable item, if the production stops, what will we depend on to earn money? Quickly think of a way, otherwise, will we have to wait until next summer before we start working again? But there will be all kinds of imitation Magic Fans next year, we won¡¯t be able to sell much at that time!¡±

    Camby pulled Heinz back, ¡°What are you anxious for? Since the chairman has raised this question, that means that he already has a method. You just need to listen to him.¡±

    Heinz threw Camby aside and angrily said, ¡°Of course you¡¯re not anxious! Your magic machine workshop will always have things to do, but what about us?¡± After saying this, he turned to Xu Yi and urged him, ¡°Xu Yi, do you have some kind of solution? Quickly say it, ah, I¡¯m going to die of anxiety!¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder and signaled for him to calm down.

    ¡°Of course there is a solution. Since the Magic Fan can¡¯t be produced anymore, we can just change to a product that isn¡¯t affected by the seasons.¡±

    Hearing that there is a possibility, Heinz¡¯s eyes instantly lit up, ¡°What product?¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he took out a blueprint from his chest, ¡°Here, it¡¯s this.¡±

 Volume 1 45 - Researcher in the research lab

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 45 Researcher in the researchb</strong>

    It was already afternoon when he finished the meeting with Heinz and the others. The rainstorm was smaller than before and there were traces of light beams poking through the dark clouds.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before braving the heavy rain to head back to Banta City.

    He didn¡¯t immediately head back home, but rather he came to a small silent building in west of Banta City.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchboratory.

    ording to Xu Yi initial ns, this magic researchboratory should have been built with the factory, allowing instant exchanges between the researchb and the factory.

    But based on the special circumstances of the Sines Continent, with magicians always considering themselves higher than others and adding in the fact that the first researcher was a beautiful young girl like Still, Xu Yi rented this little building separately to be the researchb.

    After Akali and Evita joined the researchb, Xu Yi wanted to rent out separate residences for them. Who would have thought that after the two saw the environment of the little building, they directly decided to live in the researchb.

    Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t reject them, so this quiet little building was not only the magic researchboratory, it was also considered the dorm for the researchers.

    When the door was opened, Akali¡¯s round face appeared.

    Perhaps she never thought that Xu Yi would brave therge rain toe here, but Akali was scared. After she reacted, she invited Xu Yi in.

    Coming into the room, Xu Yi looked around and found that the living room of the house was quite disorderly. Not only were blueprints thrown all around, all kinds of magic material was ced all over. Other than this, there were several pieces of girl clothing scattered on the ground, with even a few pieces of underwear among them.

    Seeing Xu Yi look around, Akali¡¯s face turned red. She quickly picked up the clothes on the ground and she threw them into the bedroom. When she came out again, she had a very awkward smile on her face.

    Xu Yi also smiled not minding it at all.

    Actually when he had gone to university, because he had been on day duty, he had gone to several female students¡¯ dorms and found that they were not as clean as he had imagined at all. Rather, they were just as dirty as male students and some of them were even more dirty than male students.

    After that, Xu Yi knew that female students weren¡¯t that different from male students, there was also a separation betweenzy and diligent.

    Akali had a very open disposition, so her randomly throwing things around was not that surprising to Xu Yi.

    Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Akali misunderstood that Xu Yi wasughing at her. Although her face was a bit red, she still couldn¡¯t help giving a snort and ring at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, why did you suddenlye here for? Is there something you need?¡±

    ¡°Un, there is. Where¡¯s Evita? Call her over as well, I have a research task for you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Hearing that it really was for work, Akali forgot her anger from her shame and had Xu Yi wait as she ran upstairs.

    Watching her rush off, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    This Akali, she really was a child who had just graduated, she really didn¡¯t understand anything about this world.

    No matter what, he was still considered a chairman. Aftering here, she actually didn¡¯t even pour any tea for him and she just left him here alone.

    Xu Yi casually picked up a few blueprints from off the ground and gave a slight nod.

    These blueprints were rted to the Magic Harvester they were currently researching. Based on the Magic Arrays draw on the papers, it seemed like they were already making progress on Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    It seemed like she and Evita had been working very hardtely, otherwise it was possible for them to have this kind of progress in this short period of time.

    ording to their current speed, they should be able to finish the core Magic Array for the Magic Harvester very soon. That way, there would be enough time for the magic machine workshop to work with the Magic Array and do plenty of practical experimenting.

    There were sounds of footsteps from the staircase. Xu Yi looked over and instantly his eyes lit up.

    Akali had a quite careless disposition, so she wouldn¡¯t care that much about her appearance in the researchb that was basically the same as her home. Not only did she mess up the living room, she didn¡¯t even tidy herself up.

    Evita waspletely different. Even if she was wearing a simple set of clothes made for wearing around the home, she had meticulously tidied herself, not showing a single bit of mess on her entire body.

    She was already delicate looking and had a gentle aura. Adding in this kind of dress,pared to Akali, she was clearly more conspicuous.

    Xu Yi had a look of praise in his eyes as he waved his hand at the two of them, ¡°Come, I¡¯ll show you your research assignment.¡±

    Evita slightly knit her brows, ¡°Sir chairman, we are still currently researching the Magic Array for the Magic Harvester.¡±

    ¡°It won¡¯t conflict. This assignment can wait until you¡¯ve finished researching the Magic Harvester and it is much simplerpared to the Magic Harvester, so it won¡¯t take much time. Come, take a look.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he gave them the blueprint he had just shown to Heinz¡¯s group of three.

    Evita and Akali carefully looked over this blueprint and nodded at the same time.

    ¡°This is indeed much simpler.¡± Akali pointed at the blueprint and asked, ¡°Chairman, can you tell me what this thing is used for? This is a simple Magic Array, I can¡¯t see anything special or powerful about this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this thing is very simple, but you can¡¯t look down on this thing. Perhaps each family will use this thing in the future.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Come, I¡¯ll exin this to you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    After around fifteen minutes, Akali and Evita had finished listening to Xu Yi¡¯s exnations and they looked at Xu Yi with shocked gazes at the same time.

    ¡°Chairman, just what is going on in your head? Why do you always have such strange creative ideas?¡± Akali actually nned on lifting her hand to rub Xu Yi¡¯s head, but smartly stopped herself.

    ¡°Akali, stop speaking nonsense!¡± Evita reprimanded her, ¡°Sir chairman is naturally different from normal people, otherwise Still wouldn¡¯t have¡­¡­¡±

    Evita suddenly stopped.

    ¡°Still wouldn¡¯t have what?¡± Xu Yi asked curiously, ¡°This fellow must be talking about me to you guys behind my back, right? Is it bad things about me?¡±

    ¡°No, no, of course not.¡± Evita quickly waved her hands, ¡°She just¡­..just¡­..It isn¡¯t bad things about you, really! You have to believe me! Sir chairman is such a good person, how could Still say bad things about you?¡±

    ¡°Is this considered you giving me arge good guy card?¡± Xu Yi rubbed his nose in a depressed manner, ¡°Forget it, it doesn¡¯t matter what she said. You should focus on studying and finish researching this thing as soon as possible. ording to my n, I want to begin producing this product by the beginning of next month. Do you think you can finish researching it before then?¡±

    ¡°The beginning of next month? That is in half a month¡­¡­¡± Akali tilted her head to think, ¡°It should not be a problem. We only need a single week to finish the Magic Array for the Magic Harvester. This thing is this simple, I think we can finish it in a week.¡±

    Evita also gave a slight nod, ¡°I also feel it won¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good, I can be assured then.¡± Xu Yi stood up again and looked around before asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, how have you been during this period of time? Are youcking anything? If you need anything, just ask. If there is anything that is inconvenient talking to me about, you can also tell Still and have her solve it for you.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯re notcking anything, we¡¯re doing quite well here.¡± Evita waved her hand. She looked out the window and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, are you nning to leave? The rain is quite big right now, how about you wait here for a while? You can also solve some problems for us. We¡¯ve encountered a few problems in the past few days, but it isn¡¯t rted to the Magic Array at all. It should be like you¡¯ve said, it¡¯s rted to the machine itself and we don¡¯t understand much about this. So if you can exin this to us, I think the results of our research will be much better.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, there are indeed many parts that feel very strange.¡± Akali also said, ¡°For example, the Wild Wind Array on the Magic Harvester, why is it so small? This will also make the Wild Wind Array much weaker. Also, why did you request for the wild wind speed to not decrease? This is very hard to control, Wind Magic Array are unstable to begin with. Although the solution you used in the Revolving Wind Array of the Magic Fan was quite good, I feel like it could be changed like this¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the two excited for knowledge, Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll use this chance to exin a few fundamental problems I considered when I was designing the magic machines. That way when you are performing magic research in the future, you can consider these issues and it will make your research much easier.¡±

    ¡°First, I¡¯ll tell you why it is called a magic machine. The magic inside of the so called magic machine is not the magic magicians use, but rather it refers to using magic as a driving force. To put it simply, it is using magic as an energy to create motion. The core of the magic machine is to use the magic created by the Magic Array as a driving force, so the Magic Array is the core power source of a magic machine. As for the machine, whether it is the Magic Fan or these machines, they can all be considered normal machines. The most important part of magic machines isbining the magic power source with the machine itself, allowing the magic to perfectly drive the machine andplete a set task. This point will rely on some mechanical knowledge. Let me start from the rtively simple Magic Fan¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 46 - Magic Harvester being released

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 46 Magic Harvester being released</strong>

    Perhaps it had been suppressed for too long, but the rain either didn¡¯t fall or it continued to rain for half a month before stopping.

    When the weather finally cleared, the sun showed itself in its full glory, burning bright for an entire day. Everyone was stunned to find that the weather wasn¡¯t as hot as before where it made people want toy down all day.

    After all, it was already the end of August and the final bit of summer.

    There has been an excessive bit of rainwater in this period of time, so the wheat on the farms underwent a wild period of growth. After the weather had been clear for two days, all the green from the farms before had turned a golden yellow. Looking at it, with the golden waves rippling in the wind, it looked quite magnificent.

    For a Sines Continent that didn¡¯t have a developed production system, a world which couldn¡¯t even guarantee that every person could be warm and fed, the harvest of each year was very important. No matter what country it was, everyone would put down everything on the important harvest day and focuspletely on the harvest.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was in the southwest of the Sines Continent, having two harvest seasons each year, with the fall harvest being the most important. So when the wheat fields matured, the entire kingdom became a scene of harvest and naturally Banta City was not an exception.

    But this year, there were some ces that weren¡¯t the same as before.

    To the west of Banta City, in arge piece ofnd that belonged to Viscount Leslie, because he had nted his crops a bit early, over half the field of wheat had already matured. It was now time to rush and harvest all of this.

    ording to traditions, Viscount Leslie would send out all the ves under his name and even send all his guards to help with the harvest. There were many times when even children had to participate.

    After all, the harvestpletely depended on manpower. If a single extra person was sent, it would mean that the harvest would end a bit earlier.

    Often times, everyone hoped that the sky wouldn¡¯t suddenly be filled with arge rainstorm like before, otherwise that would mean that the year¡¯s harvest would be over.

    But it was different this year. Although Viscount Leslie did the same thing asst year, leading all the servants of the viscount manor to hold a sacrificial ceremony to the gods, he didn¡¯t announce for all the ves and servants to begin harvesting. After he cut the first ear of wheat for symbolic purposes, he directly moved to the side and adopted a look of watching the fun.

    This filled the hearts of all the Banta City nobles on the side with wonder.

    It was already very strange that Viscount Leslie would invite them all here to watch the sacrificial ceremony, but now that Viscount Leslie was like this¡­...Just what kind of tricks was Viscount Leslie up to?

    While everyone was filled with doubt, there was suddenly arge sound from behind Viscount Leslie that instantly attracted everyone¡¯s gaze.

    In front of everyone, a strange machine being pushed by arge men came out from behind Viscount Leslie.

    This machine looked very strange. There was a giant rectangr iron box in the front and the front of the box was open, revealing a line of iron plows that kept turning, looking very fierce.

    There was a giant iron stand in the middle of the machine that was covered in iron, that was constantly releasing a sound from inside, as if there was something there that kept shaking.

    At the bottom of the stand were two giant iron wheels that were half the size of a normal person. Looking at it, this wheel had clearly been specially made. Not only was the wheel as thick as half a child¡¯s arm, there were also grooves on it that seemed like it would be used to stabilize the machine in the dirt.

    But to many people, this was clearly unnecessary.

    Based on the fact that the cart could easily dig into the dirt, this machine was at least several hundred pounds.

    The end of the machine was quite simple, there were only two handles. It allowed the man to tightly hold them and control this machine as he wished, as he moved forward.

    ¡°Viscount Leslie, what is this thing for?¡± A noble standing beside Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help asking him.

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s no meaning in saying it, you¡¯ll know if you just watch.¡±

    Hearing this response, the nobles that wanted to know the answer could only helplessly focus back onto the machine itself.

    Thatrge man was carefully pushing the strange machine onto the fields. He turned back to look at Viscount Leslie and seeing him give a nod, he pulled out a white cloth to ce over his mouth and nose before putting a cloth bag over the opening of the machine. Then he pushed down on the switch with his hand and the machine made arge sound as he slowly pushed towards the field.

    The surrounding nobles were all shocked. This machine looked this fierce, if it charged over like this, wouldn¡¯t it tten the wheat that was so hard to grow?

    Even if Viscount Leslie had arge territory, he could only grow this much wheat. To waste it like this, this definitely was something he shouldn¡¯t do.

    In front of everyone¡¯s confused and shocked gazes, the front of this machine had already reached the first outer row of wheat.

    The iron plows rotating at high speeds easily swallowed the grains and it disappeared into the machine.

    Strange sounds came from the giant box and after a while, several nobles with sharp eyes found that something seemed to be spurting out of the opening of the machine. The empty cloth sacked was filled up a bit.

    The machine continued to advance through the field and something kept being spurted out the opening in the back, causing the sack to fill up bit by bit.

    When therge men went around the field twice, the cloth bag was already filled and the man stopped the machine.

    Viscount Leslie waved his hand and two ves came from behind him, changing out the cloth bag of the machine and putting in a new bag.

    Therge man continued to push the machine over the field to harvest the wheat while the two ves brought the full cloth bag in front of Viscount Leslie.

    Without waiting for Viscount Leslie¡¯s agreement, some nobles on the side had alreadye over.

    A noble looked down and called out in surprise. He reached out to grab a handful and he had grabbed a handful of small red wheat grains!

    Seeing this scene, the other nobles couldn¡¯t hold it in anymore and reached their hand in. There wasn¡¯t a single person who didn¡¯t grab a handful of wheat grains.

    Seeing the wheat grains without any shells in their hands, the nobles simply didn¡¯t dare believe their eyes.

    ¡°This¡­...How is it possible? It was clearly stalks of grain in the field, how could it suddenly turn into grains of wheat?¡± A noble said to himself in a confused voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, how was this done? Viscount Leslie, you wouldn¡¯t have already filled the bag with wheat grains to fool us, right?¡± Another noble clearly didn¡¯t dare believe it.

    Viscount Leslie was toozy to exin it to them and pointed at the machine that was still harvesting in the field.

    Everyone looked over and found that the bag that had just been changed had already been filled again.

    The two ves brought the bag over and in front of everyone¡¯s gaze, they found that this bag was also filled with small grains of wheat.

    If someone said that Viscount Leslie was fooling them, no one would believe it.

    First, Viscount Leslie had no need to do this. Second, the nobles at least had some understanding of farming and naturally they could see that the wheat grains in the cloth bags had been newly harvested. It was impossible for Viscount Leslie to put in wheat that had been harvested before to fool them.

    But¡­..Just how was this done?

    Clearly the wheat had been growing in the field, but once the strange machine swallowed it, it turned into grains of wheat?

    ¡°I say¡­..Viscount Leslie, this wouldn¡¯t be made with some kind of magic, right?¡± A noble couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Viscount Leslieughed, ¡°You¡¯re not wrong, this really is a bit rted to magic. But it¡¯s wrong if you want to say that it waspletely made with magic. Have you ever heard of such convenient magic?¡±

    Everyone shook their heads.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll tell you all. This thing is called a Magic Harvester and it is used to harvest wheat. What about it? After you have seen it, what kind of thoughts do you have?¡± Viscount Leslie excitedly looked at everyone around him.

    Everyone looked at each other before they looked back and gathered around Viscount Leslie with smiles, as one person asked, ¡°Viscount Leslie, we¡¯re all old friends. Tell me, do you have many of these machines? Can you lend me two to use?¡±

    Hearing this person say this, the other nobles all reacted.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, lend me one as well. It¡¯s time to harvest the wheat on my territory. Your machine is this amazing, it is simply too easy to use!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we¡¯re all old friends, can you lend me some to use as well?¡±

    ¡°What is called borrow? You bunch of greedy fellows. Viscount Leslie, I don¡¯t need to borrow. If you have many of these, directly give me a price and I¡¯ll buy two of them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I can also buy them. With this thing, it¡¯ll be much easier harvesting the wheat. Look at this speed, wouldn¡¯t you be able to harvest arge patch in just an hour?¡±

    ¡°I think you won¡¯t even need an hour. It has to be said, this thing is just too easy to use. Viscount Leslie, if you have extras, sell them all to me, I¡¯ll buy as many as you have!¡±

    ¡°Baron Rover, you have such a small territory, what are you buying all those machines for? Then again, this machine is so amazing, I can tell there definitely aren¡¯t many of them. Viscount Leslie, you have to sell to me first! Don¡¯t forget, in the spring harvestst time, I lent you a hundred ves to help.¡±

    ¡­¡­.

    Seeing the excited appearances of the surrounding nobles, Viscount Leslieughed as he turned to point at a person behind him.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if you want to buy this machine, but you should look for him, not me. This machine of mine was bought from him.¡±

    The nobles turned their heads in a stunned manner to see a smiling Xu Yi.

    That smile, it was like a tiger that had been starved for three days suddenly being sent arge piece of meat to its mouth.

 Volume 1 47 - Household magic machine workshop

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 47 Household magic machine workshop</h4>

    ¡°Hey, Camby, weren¡¯t youining just a while ago? Let me tell you some good news, you have work to do now and there¡¯s quite a bit of work to do!¡± Xu Yi smiled as he pped Camby¡¯s shoulder, but because dwarves had quite a bit of muscle, his hand was numb from pping him.

    ¡°What work? Is it the Magic Harvester?¡± Camby¡¯s eyes lit up and he immediately asked this.

    Xu Yi raised the pack of orders in his hand and said whileughing, ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the Magic Harvester. An entire seventeen machines and it has to be made in a single week, what do you think?¡±

    Camby had a look of joy just now, but he fell over after hearing the number.

    ¡°Seventeen? And it has to be in a week?¡± Camby shook his head with a bitter look, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated? We are working in full force now and we can¡¯t even make one a day.¡±

    ¡°Hei, I don¡¯t care about this. I have already taken the orders and if you can¡¯t finish the work, don¡¯t me me if I dock your pay for next month.¡± Xu Yi revealed a look of a ruthless capitalist and ced the orders in Camby¡¯s hands before he left the magic machine workshop while whistling a little tune.

    He couldn¡¯t stop his mood from being good.

    An entire seventeen Magic Harvesters!

    At the sales price of seventy gold coins for one, this was an entire one thousand one hundred and ny gold coins!

    ording to Sebas¡¯ calctions, the cost of each Magic Harvester wouldn¡¯t even add up to ten gold coins.

    This meant that with each Magic Harvester sold, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn a whole sixty gold coins!

    This was equal to 600% profits! Using explosive wasn¡¯t even enough to describe this!

    At first, Xu Yi was prepared to sell at the set price of ¡°fifty gold coins¡± Viscount Leslie had said before, but Viscount Leslie say that Xu Yi could still raise the price a bit higher. He dared promise that it would still sell.

    Facts showed the Viscount Leslie¡¯s proposition was very correct.

    After witnessing how amazing the Magic Harvester, close to twenty nobles offered to buy the Magic Harvester on the spot.

    Even giving a high price of seventy per machine, those nobles agreed without even blinking.

    It made Xu Yi a bit regretful that the price was still a bit too low.

    He only took seventeen orders in the end because Xu Yi considered that the productivity of the magic machine workshop wasn¡¯t enough, so he rejected several nobles.

    Because of Xu Yi refusal, those several nobles were unhappy and thought that Xu Yi was looking down on them.

    It was a good thing Viscount Leslie was there. He said that he would lend his Magic Harvester to themter, allowing the situation to defuse.

    ¡°It seems like the productivity of the magic machine workshop isn¡¯t enough. It seems like the crafting research needs to be faster, otherwise when more orderse in, we won¡¯t be able to finish them. How could we watch this piece of fat meat in our mouths slip away?¡± Xu Yi thought in an unwilling manner.

    As for Cambyining that they couldn¡¯tplete the order, Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t put it in his heart.

    Only being able to finish one a day, it was because the Magic Harvester had still been in its development stage.

    Now that the development wasplete and they were in official production, naturally the efficiency wouldn¡¯t be as low as this anymore.

    Seventeen in a week, that was the number that Xu Yi had carefully calcted. With the abilities of Camby and the other dwarves, they definitely could finish this task.

    Of course, this week would be rather tiring for them.

    But Camby said before that dwarves could handle suffering the most and alsoined that Xu Yi gave them too little work.

    While he was thinking about how to increase the productivity of the magic machine workshop, Xu Yi had slowly walked to the Magic Fan workshop.

    Entering the end of August, the Magic Fan workshop had be much more rxedpared to before.

    Before this time, the workshop was always working on full and the ves had even worked several days of overtime because of this.

    But afterpleting thergest three thousand Magic Fans order from Karma City, the Magic Fan factory became much more rxed.

    It was like Xu Yi had anticipated, once it was close to the end of summer, there were much less families that wanted to buy Magic Fans and the demand for Magic Fans greatly decreased. Naturally the orders wouldn¡¯te in hoards like before.

    Xu Yi looked over the much more peaceful workshop and his eyes fell onto Heinz squatting in the corner with a dazed look, not knowing what to do.

    When Xu Yi came over and also squatted down did Heinz finally react.

    ¡°Ah? Xu Yi, when did you get here?¡±

    ¡°I just came.¡± Xu Yi smiled and asked back, ¡°What? What are you thinking? You looked so worried.¡±

    ¡°Can I not worry?¡± Heinz gave a bitterugh as he pointed at the workshop, ¡°Take a look, now that the Magic Fan orders have been reduced and the fact that we might not be able to sell another one next month, how could I not be worried? If this keeps going on, perhaps this workshop will be out of business by next month.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this something that we already expected?¡± Xu Yi said in an uncaring voice.

    Heinz looked over at Xu Yi with a serious look and suddenly said, ¡°Xu Yi, be honest with me, are you nning to give up on the Magic Fan workshop?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Who told you I¡¯m giving up on it?¡±

    ¡°Then what about the new product you mentioned?¡± Heinz reached his hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Don¡¯t think I don¡¯t know, you helped Camby research that Magic Harvester thing and it must be selling very well right now. Adding in the fact that they were already making those machines, their magic machine workshop must be incredibly busy right now. Then look at out Magic Fan workshop, there is only less and less work to do. In the end, we might even be shut down. Tell me, aren¡¯t you favouring one side too much?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether he shouldugh or cry.

    ¡°I say, Heinz, what nonsense are you thinking by yourself here? Whether it is the Magic Fan workshop or the magic machine workshop, they are all important parts of ourpany. How could I possibly favour one side and give up on the other? That¡¯s right, the magic machine workshop does have quite a bit of work to do right now, but if you think that I would give up the Magic Fan workshop because of this, you are making a big mistake! I¡¯ll honestly tell you that this workshop will be changing its name today. It will no longer be the Magic Fan workshop, rather it will be called the household magic machine workshop.¡±

    ¡°Household magic machine workshop?¡± Heinz was stunned, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°It means that this workshop will no longer only make Magic Fans, rather it will produce magic machines that families will use in their daily lives. Didn¡¯t I tell you to make thirty Magic Air Conditioners a while ago? Did you forget?¡±

    ¡°Of course I wouldn¡¯t forget. But Xu Yi, the Magic Air Conditioners were not as popr as you said they were. After thirty of them sold, there hasn¡¯t been another single order.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes at him, ¡°Nonsense, the Magic Air Conditioner costs twenty gold coins for one, how could it be easy to sell? Then again, with summer half over, how many people will buy a luxury good like the Magic Air Conditioner? But you don¡¯t need to worry, the Magic Air Conditioner isn¡¯t like the Magic Fan where it can only be used in summer, it can also be used in winter.¡±

    ¡°Used in winter? Are you kidding me?¡± Heinz¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°That thing blows out such cold wind, wouldn¡¯t people freeze to death from using it in the winter?¡±

    ¡°I say, Heinz, when did you get such a single tracked mind?¡± Xu Yi sighed before saying in a voice that didn¡¯t expect anything, ¡°Who told you the Magic Air Conditioners can only blow out cold wind? The so called air conditioning means controlling the air itself. If it can turn the air cold, naturally it can also make the air warm. Let me tell you, when the weather bes cold, we can sell Magic Air Conditioners that controls heat. At that time, I dare say that we will sell arge amount of them.¡±

    Heinz¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°You¡¯re telling the truth? Can it really make the air warm?¡±

    ¡°When have I ever lied to you before?¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s great! If it really is like this, we¡¯ll earn arge amount when that timees!¡± Heinz excitedly stood up.

    Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh. No matter what method he tried to convey his thoughts to Heinz, he was always such a petty fellow. It seemed like he was only suited to being a nt manager, he couldn¡¯t develop any higher.

    This was something he was helpless in, a person¡¯s experience is rted to their environment. Before meeting Xu Yi, Heinz was only the owner of a small general store, so how could he have any excellent experience.

    After Heinz was excited for a bit, he suddenly thought of something and became depressed again.

    ¡°But Xu Yi, summer is over and there are still several months before winter, what will we do during this time?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°Did you forget about what I told you before? Let me tell you some good news, Still and the others have already researched the core Magic Array and now I just need to spend some time tobine the Magic Array with the machine structure. After some testing, we can officially start producing it. If we move fast, we can finish it in less than twenty days.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Hearing that the workshop wouldn¡¯t close down, Heinz let out a sigh of relief and finally calmed down.

    Seeing him being swayed by personal gains, Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh again.

    This time he wasn¡¯t sighing because of Heinz, but rather because of the backwards industrial system of the Sines Continent.

    In the previous world, the electric fanpanies didn¡¯t run out of work once summer was over.

    Even if no one bought it now, they would first produce stock and hold it, waiting for the next summer to sell it.

    Moreover, it was even easier to change production. The powerful industrial system of his previous world allowed the electric fan factories to change their production line slightly to make new products. They wouldn¡¯t stick with electric fans to the end.

    But on the Sines Continent, because of reasons with the material, if they were to produce Magic Fans a year ahead of time, it would be a pile of waste by next summer.

    Moreover, the Magic Fan workshop¡¯s machines and workers were all trained to specially produce the Magic Fan. If they were to change products, they would have to rebuild the machines and retrain the workers.

    That meant that in the next twenty days, Xu Yi would still be quite busy.

    ¡°Hei, establishing aplete industrial system, it sounds easy, but it is actually harder than ascending to the heavens.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh, ¡°Oh, no, if mentioning ascending to heaven, it isn¡¯t that difficult in this world filled with magicians¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 48 - Magic Rice Cooker

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 48 Magic Rice Cooker</h4>

    In the little building of the magic researchb, Xu Yi, Still, Akali, and Evita were around a small table. Four pairs of eyes were staring at a round thing on the table, not blinking at all.

    Faint wisps of white steam wasing out of the top of the round thing. It rose up and hit the faces of the four of them, condensing small beads of water on their hair, but they didn¡¯t care about it at all. They just kept staring at the round thing, like there was something special about this ck iron thing.

    ¡°I can smell the fragrance!¡± Akali suddenly said in an excited voice, ¡°Can you smell it too?¡±

    ¡°Un, I can also smell it.¡± Still also had a look of joy on her face. She turned to look at Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, it should be done now, right?¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep sniff and didn¡¯t reply, rather he turned to Evita, ¡°Evita, you are the best at cooking out of all of us, it should be you who determines if it¡¯s good or not.¡±

    ¡°Ah? But this is differentpared to before¡­¡­¡± Evita was shocked, softly waving her hand to reject.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, the method has just changed, but the foundations are still the same. Take a sniff, we can test the results if you think it is good.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Oh¡­..Alright.¡± Evita responded. She pushed her hair behind her ears and came over the round thing. She took a deep sniff and closed her eyes to savour the smell before nodding at the three expectant people, ¡°Un, it should be done.¡±

    ¡°Then what are we still waiting for, take the pot off!¡± Akali cheered and reached out for the outer cover of the round thing.

    Xu Yi was shocked seeing this. He quickly grabbed Akali¡¯s outstretched hand and stopped her.

    ¡°Do you want to be burned to death?¡± Xu Yi angrily reprimanded.

    Akali only realized what was wrong and awkwardly stuck out her tongue at Xu Yi.

    Then she saw her right hand being held in Xu Yi¡¯srge hand and Akali¡¯s face turned a bit red.

    Although she had an open personality, even at her age, she had nevere in close contact with males other than her family members.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that much. After stopping Akali, he directly let go of her hand. This made Akali let out a sigh of relief, while also feeling a bit disappointed.

    Xu Yi found a cloth to cover his hands and reached out to take the cover off the round thing.

    Once it was opened, a thick white fog with a strong fragrance came out, instantly filling the room.

    As the fog scattered, the four looked into the round thing and saw that it was filled with white crystal like rice. It looked very enticing.

    Still was already holding a spoon that she stuck in to take a small spoonful. After blowing on it twice, she put it into her mouth.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s cooked just right. The taste is very good. Come, Xu Yi, have a taste.¡±

    Still took another spoonful and very naturally put it to Xu Yi¡¯s mouth.

    Xu Yi swallowed in one bit and after chewing a bit, he felt that the rice in his mouth was tender and delicious,bining both soft and hard. Just a bite was enough to draw out a person¡¯s appetite and it even made Xu Yi feel that he could eat two whole bowls of only rice.

    This kind of delicious rice was something Xu Yi had only eaten when he was young. All the rice he had eaten after that had lost this kind of taste.

    ¡°Un, it is indeed quite good.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Very good, this also means that our experiment is a sess! Come, Akali, Evita, have a taste as well. You have done a lot in helping develop this thing. Come¡­..I say, why do you have such strange expressions?¡±

    Akali and Evita looked at Xu Yi before looking at Still. They looked at each other and broke out inughter at the same time. They then found some spoons from the side to have a taste and nodded in satisfaction.

    ¡°This is great! Chairman, this¡­..this¡­..what was this thing again?¡± Akali was stuck all of a sudden.

    ¡°Magic Rice Cooker.¡± Xu Yi supplemented.

    ¡°Oh, right. Magic Rice Cooker, is this considered a sess?¡±

    ¡°Actually this can¡¯t be considered aplete sess, there are actually quite a few things that could be changed.¡± Xu Yi looked at the ck round thing on the table. He thought that although the outside looked like an electric rice cooker from earth, there were still many things that werecking.

    At least the electric rice cookers on earth hadplete heat instion, so one wouldn¡¯t need to fear burning their hands when opening it.

    But this was a small problem, there would just need to be a small change made when it was being produced.

    That¡¯s right, this Magic Rice Cooker was the special product that Xu Yi had prepared for the Magic Fan workshop to continue working.

    Back when summer was half over, Xu Yi had already considered the problem Heinz had been worrying about during the past period of time. After he considered it, Xu Yi made long term ns, deciding to turn the Magic Fan Factory into a household magic machine workshop.

    As the name suggested, the products the workshop would make from now on were magic machines that normal households would use.

    Although the conditions on the Sines Continent were limited and many household electronics from earth couldn¡¯t be recreated, the ones that could be recreated were plenty.

    The electric rice cooker was one of them.

    Compared to the Magic Fan, the craftsmanship needed to make this Magic Rice Cooker was much simpler. The entire research process only took less than a week and it was already finished.

    Also after studying this Magic Rice Cooker, Xu Yi found another advantage of the magic machines. That was that the main power of the Magic Arrays was magic, so it wasn¡¯t the same as the electric appliances on earth where one had to consider how to change electricity, rather one could just use the corresponding power as a direct power source.

    For example, with this Magic Rice Cooker,pared to the electric rice cooker that needed to transform electricity into heat, the Magic Rice Cooker could directly use a low level me Magic Array. After the switch was pressed, with the support of the Magic Crystal, this me Magic Array could directly produce heat that would envelop the pot inside. Not only would it heat up fast, but because of the specialty of the Magic Array, the heat usage efficiency was quite high.

    On earth, there would be people who looked to cook with firewood to preserve the original taste, feeling that it tasted better than the rice cooked by the electric rice cooker. This was because the firewood has stronger mes and was more direct, so its effects were better than heat transformed from electricity.

    This problem didn¡¯t exist with the Magic Rice Cooker. Because of the careful studying from Akali, Still, and Evita, the Magic Rice Cooker¡¯s internal me Magic Array covered the entire pot with heat, evenly heating up the pot and making no mistakes with the rice that was cooked.

    Xu Yi ate several more mouthfuls of rice and felt very satisfied.

    If he gave this thing to Heinz, he wouldn¡¯t keep looking at him like an aggrieved woman each day.

    ¡°Sir chairman, let¡¯s sit down and eat.¡± Evita had already cleaned up a table and brought out several dishes that had been prepared beforehand.

    ¡°Oh, alright.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he sat down at the table. When he looked over the four finely made dishes and the meat soup that got one¡¯s appetite going just from looking at it, he couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Evita, your cooking really is good. Whoever marries you in the future will truly be filled with happiness.¡±

    Evita¡¯s hand that was currently filling a bowl of rice turned stiff and her face turned slightly red.

    ¡°Hey, uncle, this is sexual harassment.¡± Still tapped the table in front of Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°Let me tell you, Evita was very well loved when we were in school and there were many male students that professed their love for her. If it was known that there was an uncle like you who was harassing the goddess of their heart, do you believe they will charge over here and take care of you?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°It¡¯s this terrifying? Alright, then I¡¯ll obediently eat and won¡¯t speak any nonsense.¡±

    Evita came over with their rice with a red face and put a bowl in front of Xu Yi first.

    ¡°Sir chairman, don¡¯t listen to Still¡¯s nonsense. If we talk about admiration, Still was one of the most admired in our Lampuri Royal Magic Academy, I am far from being able topare to her.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that Still¡¯s heart was taken, if she said a casual word, the male students who wanted to chase her would go from here to Banta City¡¯s gates.¡± Akali on the side gave an emotional sigh before asking Still, ¡°That¡¯s right, Still, I forgot to ask you the entire time, didn¡¯t you always like that Vincent? What happened now? Didn¡¯t you go look for him after graduation? I thought that you would at least tell him that you liked him, right?¡±

    ¡°Vincent?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat. Could it be that this was the male student Still liked before and then after seeing his true colours, she called a bastard?

    ¡°I found him, but he was already engaged. Could it be that I would run over and steal someone¡¯s fiance?¡± Still gave a casual shrug, looking like she didn¡¯t care at all.

    Xu Yi seriously looked at Still¡¯s expression. He found that although she had a casual look, under that, there was a bit of darkness hidden.

    It seemed like she couldn¡¯t recover from her wounds in a short period of time.

    ¡°Engaged? Why did I never hear about this? Who is he engaged to? That girl shouldn¡¯t be as beautiful as you, right? Still, how about you just steal him away. I feel that you¡­..¡±

    ¡°Akali.¡± Seeing that Akali was prepared to keep going, Xu Yi suddenly spoke to cut her off.

    ¡°Un? What is it, chairman?¡± Akali was stunned as she asked this back.

    ¡°Un¡­..Also Evita, are you two interested in doing advertisements?¡±

    ¡°Advertisements?¡±

    Akali and Evita looked at each other in nk dismay, not understanding what Xu Yi meant at all.

 Volume 1 49 - Insecure hearts

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 49 Insecure hearts</strong>

    ¡°Xu Yi, you didn¡¯t need to do anything for me, I¡¯m fine.¡± Still revealed a rxed smile to Xu Yi beside her.

    The two had already finished eating lunch in the magic researchb. Still was nning on heading back to the Magic Tower and Xu Yi wanted to find Great Magician Cami for something, so they took the road back to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower together.

    ¡°You¡¯re really alright?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still with a frown, with doubt all over his face, ¡°Why did I think that your expression wasn¡¯t that good just now.

    ¡°That is just¡­¡­¡± Still thought about it before waving her hand in a slightly agitated manner, ¡°This matter will make people unhappy no matter what. I just felt disgusted thinking about it.¡±

    ¡°As long as you don¡¯t have any more feelings for that fellow.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug.

    ¡°Could it be that I would still have feelings for that fellow who isn¡¯t anything good!¡± Still angrily red at Xu Yi, ¡°Do you think I¡¯m an idiot? I liked him before because I didn¡¯t know his true face and was fooled by his outer appearance. Thinking about it now, I really was weak back then, actually liking a person because of his appearances. This¡­..Alright, I was indeed an idiot back then.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Being an idiot once is not a bad thing. At least after this matter, you¡¯ll know that you can¡¯t judge a book by its cover. Compared to one¡¯s appearance, their heart is more important. After all, a person like me who is outstanding on the outside and inside is really rare.¡±

    Still looked like she wanted to puke, ¡°Can you act humble? I just finished eating, i don¡¯t want to vomit everything out.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a snort and revealed a look of disdain, ¡°I¡¯m just telling the truth and you won¡¯t believe it, you really are a child who won¡¯t learn. But forget it, an outstanding man like myself is like a moon in the sky, it can¡¯t be hidden even if one wanted to. I¡¯m notcking a person with broken eyes like you to discover me.¡±

    ¡°Your eyes are broken.¡± Still red at Xu Yi before suddenly breaking out inughter.

    Thisughter was like a flood gate that couldn¡¯t hold back the water and more and more kept pouring out. Still at first covered her mouth, but as herughter became stronger and stronger, she held her stomach and couldn¡¯t stand up straight as sheughed.

    Xu Yi had a straight face at first, but he couldn¡¯t helpughing with her in the end.

    On this noon during the summer, these two fellows were wildlyughing on the street like this, naturally it attracted strange gazes from the people around them.

    These two fellows were considered people with a decent amount of fame. After the people around them noticed them, they couldn¡¯t help pointing at them.

    Xu Yi quickly noticed this and quickly grabbed Still¡¯s arm before he ran off.

    Only when they reached the Cami Magic Tower did Xu Yi finally let go of Still¡¯s arm. He was panting as he pointed at the Magic Tower and said, ¡°Alright, go and find your grandfather first. I should take a trip to theb first. That¡¯s right, tell Great Magician Cami something for me. I have something to look for himter, I hope that he could give me a bit of time.¡±

    ¡°What are you suddenly being polite for?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Didn¡¯t grandfather already tell you that you could go see him whenever you wanted?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°There was no problem before, but after being cursed out by him, I can¡¯t dare say that if the old man still has a favourable impression of me anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°You deserved it.¡±

    After saying this, Still suddenly knit her brows and gave a soft sigh. She turned to look at the Magic Tower standing proud and a somewhat regretful look appeared on her face.

    ¡°Xu Yi, actually¡­..Actually, I shouldn¡¯t talk about you. I always wanted to urge grandfather against this. If he stays like this, I¡¯m afraid this Magic Tower¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What¡¯s wrong with the Magic Tower?¡± Xu Yi noticed the sadness in Still¡¯s voice and couldn¡¯t help asking in a surprised tone, ¡°Could it be that there are problems with the Magic Tower? It shouldn¡¯t be. Then again, Great Magician Cami is a Great Magician and has status in the entire kingdom.¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°It isn¡¯t this problem, but I won¡¯t talk about this to you for now. After I finish talking to grandfather, I¡¯ll find the time to discuss this with you. Perhaps¡­..I¡¯ll have to request for your help at that time.¡±

    Hearing Still¡¯s serious tone, Xu Yi tightly knit his brows.

    Based on her tone, Great Magician Cami seemed to have met some troubles.

    ¡°Don¡¯t say request, just speak if there is anything I can help you with. Still, in the past, you were the one who made the exception that allowed me to work in the Magic Tower. If it wasn¡¯t for this, I would be doing some other kind of work that probably wouldn¡¯t have been rted to magic, so there would be no need to mention me making thispany. So the fact that I could have these things now, you yed a decisive role. Since it¡¯s like this, is there a need for you to be polite with me?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°Then do you know why I made an exception for you back then?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡±

    ¡°Because¡­...you held the door open for me back then.¡± Still paused for a second before throwing these words down and turning to leave.

    ¡°Just because of this?¡± Xu Yi rubbed his nose as he shook his head with a bitter smile.

    When Xu Yi came to theb, he raised quite a stir.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger and bigger, Xu Yi asked for more and more days off. After a while, he would onlye once every few days and he would only stay for an hour before leaving.

    This made his coworkers in theb even forget that he was still a member of thisb.

    The stranger thing was that if it was anyone else, they would have already been chased out of the Magic Tower by Great Magician Cami. But for this Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami never said a thing, like he didn¡¯t know what Xu Yi was doing at all.

    So as time passed, the coworkers in theb knew that Xu Yi held a special ce in Great Magician Cami¡¯s heart.

    Adding in the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more and more products and thepany became richer, Xu Yi¡¯s position in the mind of his coworkers also grew.

    Now that Xu Yi had appeared in theb, naturally he wouldn¡¯t be ignored like in the beginning. Also no one showed any hostilities towards him and he seemed to be met with the same warm wee.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, why did you have time toe here today?¡± Lotte was the first to jump out, weing Xu Yi with a full smile, ¡°If you didn¡¯te back, we would have forgotten that we worked with you.¡±

    ¡°Lotte, what nonsense are you saying? We could forget others, but we would never forget Xu Yi. Then again, we worked together on the Magic Fan for such a long time in the past. Don¡¯t you think so, Xu Yi?¡± This coworker was one of the ten who had worked on the Magic Fan Magic Array for Xu Yi before.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this will never be forgotten.¡± Another coworker came beside Xu Yi whileughing and he pped Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder. He suddenly asked in a low voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, do you have any work in yourpany? If there is, help find something for me, alright?¡±

    Hearing this question, theb suddenly became silent.

    Xu Yi looked around and saw that other than a few people, the other coworkers were all looking at him with expectant gazes.

    Even the coworkers that weren¡¯t looking over were clearly attentively listening to them, not looking like they didn¡¯t care at all.

    Xu Yi was secretly shocked.

    These coworkers used to look down on Magic Array drawing work before, why did they suddenly show such interest?

    There was only one exnation, there was a change that he didn¡¯t know about yet.

    ¡°There is this kind of work, but with your magical strength, I¡¯m afraid it won¡¯t match your skills?¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, while seriously watching for everyone¡¯s reactions.

    While he was seriously looking over them, Xu Yi found something that had shocked him.

    ¡°Yi? Why don¡¯t I see Cimirot, Rem, and We? Those three wouldn¡¯t have taken a vacation like me, right?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± Lotte looked at Xu Yi with an astonished look before suddenly realizing something, ¡°Oh, right, you haven¡¯te in several days, so you definitely don¡¯t know. They already no longer work here. I¡¯ve heard that they¡¯ve ran off to apany in Saltan City, working for thatpany.¡±

    ¡°Working for apany?¡± Xu Yi was instantly stunned, ¡°With their strength, they wouldn¡¯t have run off to be a guard for apany, right? I won¡¯t mention Cimirot, but with how proud Rem and We are, how could they have agreed?¡±

    ¡°No, of course they aren¡¯t guards. How could they be willing to run off to apany to be a guard?¡± Lotte shook her head, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that they seem to be doing some kind of research¡­...That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, it seems like it is rted you your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°What rtions does it have to mepany?¡± Xu Yi was even more stunned.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know the specifics either. I only know that thepany has given them a high sry. Anyway, before Cimirot left, he said that it was even higher than their sries here.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and sunk into deep thought.

    Cimirot was the second strongest in thisboratory, so naturally he had one of the highest sries, even higher than Rem. He received forty gold coins each month.

    For apany to give him a sry that was even higher when he had just started out, that really was not a small number.

    If they gave the same starting wage to Rem and We, it wouldn¡¯t be strange if the two of them agreed at all.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, since the three of them have been baited over by thepany, what about you all? Why haven¡¯t they tried taking you?¡± Xu Yi then asked.

    He never thought that once he asked this question, the coworkers in theb would all show the same strange look.

    Xu Yi immediately understood. There wasn¡¯t a single exception here, they had all been taken.

    As for the reason why they were still here, there was only one answer. They hadn¡¯t finished discussing the conditions yet.

 Volume 1 50 - Poor Great Magician

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 50 Poor Great Magician</h4>

    After an hour, Xu Yi met Great Magician Cami in the topyer of the Magic Tower.

    After observing his excellency Great Magician for a while, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a secret sigh.

    Since thest time he saw his excellency Great Magician, it had already been twenty days. However, even though a short twenty days had passed, his excellency Great Magician had clearly gotten much older.

    Other than being thinner and more tired, the most prominent thing was that his excellency Great Magician¡¯s head of brown hair now had several gray hairs that appeared.

    For a Great Magician that always seemed to be bursting with life and filled with energy to look like this, he must have encountered quite a bit of pressure in the past few days.

    After seeing Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami seemed to have forgotten something. He was like he was in the beginning, nodding at Xu Yi with a kind look, signaling him to sit down.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what did youe looking for me for this time?¡± Although he looked tired, Great Magician Cami still had a serious expression, ¡°Let me tell you first, if you are here to discuss a business cooperation, you can leave right now.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I¡¯m afraid I have to disappoint you. I came this time because I wanted some help with a problem in magic because I¡¯ve met some difficulty that I can¡¯t solve for now. But now I¡¯ve changed my mind and want to talk to you about a business cooperation.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and angrily said, ¡°Then scram for me! You fellows, all of you are falling into traps of money, how are you qualified to be magicians? Ah?¡±

    Xu Yi still had his smile and his expression didn¡¯t change.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I think your words are a bit mistaken. Falling into a trap of money is not right, but that seems to be unrted to whether one is qualified to a magician or not, right?¡±

    ¡°Humph! A fellow that only knows how to make money and doesn¡¯t know how to study magic, are they qualified?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I have a question for you. Tell me, do you think magic research needs money?¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s expression froze and his expression changed. It went from anger to doubt before finally reaching helplessness.

    ¡°Magic research of course needs money and not only does it need it, it needs a lot of money¡­..¡± Great Magician Cami gave a sigh as a dull look appeared on his face.

    ¡°So that means that not only should a magician not be opposed to making money, they shouldbine the two. Your excellency Great Magician, do you think this is correct?¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°Did you speciallye to ridicule me?¡±

    ¡°No, your excellency Great Magician, you are mistaken. I definitely didn¡¯t have the meaning of ridiculing you. I only¡­..heard that you met some problems and wanted to see if there was anything I could help you with.¡±

    Great Magician Cami stared at Xu Yi for a while and only saw sincerity from his face, so he said with a soft snort, ¡°Did Still tell you?¡±

    ¡°Still indeed told me a bit, the rest I heard from the other coworkers.¡± Xu Yi paused before continuing, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I feel that you should change your ideas right now. How about attempting tobine magic and business?¡±

    ¡°I hate businessmen and hate the spirit of merchants polluting the pure magic.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a cold snort.

    ¡°But you don¡¯t hate gold coins, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, but he didn¡¯t refute him.

    Xu Yi used this chance to say, ¡°That¡¯s right, gold coins are only a tool. What you hate are those people who use this tool to hurt you and not gold coins itself. Money does is not ssified into good and evil, if it is used well, it is a very useful tool. If it isn¡¯t used well, it can also bring great disaster. Great Magician Cami, if you had enough money, what would you use it for?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense. If I had enough gold coins, I would definitely invest it all into magic research.¡± Great Magician Cami replied in an exceptionally simple manner.

    ¡°But you don¡¯t have enough gold coins right now, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s expression changed and he didn¡¯t speak for a long time.

    Seeing his appearance, Xu Yi gently shook his head. It seemed like the difficulties Great Magician Cami had met now was even more serious than he had thought.

    When he noticed that Cimirot, Rem, and We had actually left the Magic Tower in theb, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised. But after he found that everyone else in theb had their hearts swayed and had the idea of leaving the Magic Tower, Xu Yi knew that this situation was not right.

    After he kept using a veiled attack, Xu Yi finally received an answer that he didn¡¯t expect.

    Great Magician Cami was out of money!

    Although Great Magician Cami had never been well off and the magicians in the Magic Tower were filled withints, there had been no problem in maintaining the normal operation of the Magic Tower.

    But during this time, many magicians have found that there were problems in the normal operation of the Magic Tower.

    The first was that there were shortages in the materials they needed. Then some of the reasonable requests the magicians had made had actually been rejected. The final and most important thing was that Great Magician Cami had actually failed to pay their sries for the first time!

    Although he had fully paid everyone after two days, this period of time made everyone vignt.

    In the magicians¡¯ circle, there were many things that weren¡¯t considered a secret. So every soon, everyone had learned that Great Magician Cami had met with some big problems. His funds would be less than before and he might not even be able to support the Magic Tower.

    After hearing this information, the magicians of the Magic Tower had been shocked and naturally looked for different paths.

    Once Cimirot, Rem, and We left first, the workers in theb naturally couldn¡¯t sit still. Now that a big boss like Xu Yi had appeared in front of everyone, they all revealed the same enthusiasm.

    Xu Yi who had asked around looked for Still who came to the Magic Tower with him and after pressing her for the answer, he finally received the truth from Still.

    The coworkers had heard the truth, there really had been arge problem with Great Magician Cami¡¯s fundings.

    Normally speaking, if not calcting the other sources of ies for Great Magicians, there were two sources of stable ie for magicians of the Great Magician level.

    One was from the Magicians Guild.

    When a magician broke through and reached the Great Magician Rank, they were entitled to a special subsidiary from the Magicians Guild.

    This subsidiary was strictly determined by one¡¯s rank, mainly taking into ount a Great Magician¡¯s power rank and secondly taking into ount when one reached the Great Magician Rank.

    Great Magician Cami was currently a Three Star Great Magician and ording to normal standards, he was entitled to a special subsidiary of two hundred gold coins from the Magicians Guild each year. Other than that, since he had already reached the Great Magician Rank twenty three years ago, he also received a special fifty gold coin subsidiary.

    Adding this together, it was two hundred gold coins.

    The other source of ie was from the country the magician was from.

    This was because magicians were an important part of the country¡¯s strength and magicians of the Great Magician Rank were very precious, so every country would give special financial support to Great Magicians.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom was only a small country on the Sines Continent, Great Magician Cami received a high financial support of up to two thousand gold coins from the Lampuri Royal Family each year.

    Because Great Magician Cami was not like other Great Magicians who worked withpanies, promising to protect thosepanies while receiving support from them in terms of gold coins, this two thousand two hundred and fifty gold coins was Great Magician Cami¡¯s yearly ie.

    If there were no changes, this two thousand two hundred and fifty gold coins was enough to support the daily expenses of a Magic Tower in a small town in Banta City.

    But there were changes this year.

    The main change was with the financial support from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the past, with each year¡¯s fall harvest, the Lampuri Royal Family would give money to the Great Magicians of the kingdom. However, half a month ago, the Lampuri Royal Family suddenly announced that because their finances were tight, the Royal Family had to lower the financial support they were giving to Great Magicians.

    When it came to Great Magician Cami, they had cut his previous year¡¯s two thousand down to a thousand! They actually cut it by a half!

    Great Magician Cami already had many problems when it came to maintaining the Magic Tower, but suddenly losing the support of a thousand gold coins, it could be considered an instantaneous copse.

    A thousand gold coins was equal to half a year of Great Magician Cami¡¯s ie. Suddenly losing all of this, not only did it mean he didn¡¯t have enough gold coins to support his magic research, he didn¡¯t even have enough to pay the sries of the magicians working for him.

    ¡°Grandfather even said to me that it is very likely he will close the Magic Tower.¡± When Still said this to Xu Yi, she revealed a very helpless smile, ¡°Although from my angle, this is indeed a good thing because without the Magic Tower to worry about, grandfather will have much less to worry about, I know that grandfather has spent quite a bit of effort to build this Magic Tower. This contains the hard work he has invested and if he was to close it now, he might not be able to ept it.¡±

    After hearing Still¡¯s thoughts, Xu Yi considered it a bit before resolutelying to the topyer of the Magic Tower and asking for an audience with Great Magician Cami.

    In the face of this serious and old fashioned old man who was actually very wise, Xu Yi didn¡¯t hide his ideas and goals at all. He very cleanly and directly pointed out this brutal fact to Great Magician Cami.

    Great Magician Cami, you have no money!

 Volume 1 51 - Positions of magicians and merchants

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 51 Positions of magicians and merchants</h4>

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I don¡¯t have enough gold coins right now and can¡¯t support the daily expenses of this Magic Tower.¡± Hearing Xu Yi coldly prating through him, Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t seem hurt at all. He just let out a soft sigh and directly admitted the truth, ¡°But Xu Yi, I don¡¯t like magic being polluted by the spirit of merchants. This is my principle, you don¡¯t need to spend all that effort to change my thoughts.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, can I ask why you feel this way¡­..Magic and moneying together, will it definitely be polluted? From what I can see, this is aplete paradox. Just like I said just now, money is innocent and as for how it is used, itpletely depends on a person¡¯s thoughts. You might think that money and magicing together is bad, but rather I feel theplete opposite. If money and magice together, it can create very wonderful changes.¡±

    ¡°Wonderful?¡± Great Magician Cami gave a strong snort, ¡°For a fellow like you with such a strong talent for magic to be a lowly merchant, how is that a wonderful change?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows even tighter, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, your prejudices are too strong. Perhaps in the tradition of the Sines Continent, magicians are higher than merchants, but from what I can see, the merchants of the Sines Continent are stronger than the magicians.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly pped the desk and angrily stood up. He pointed at Xu Yi as he cursed, ¡°You actually dare say that a magician can¡¯tpare to those dirty merchants? What can those merchants do? They only rob people of their money with their ck conscience! Whether it is their eyes or their brain, it is filled with thoughts of money and they don¡¯t even have any honour among themselves! Those fellows, you are actuallyparing them to magicians? Are you trying to shame me?¡±

    ¡°Then your excellency Great Magician, what can magicians do?¡± Xu Yi said with a cold smile, ¡°Keep researching more powerful magic to be more efficient at killing people?¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Cami wanted to say that Xu Yi was speaking nonsense, but he suddenly stopped.

    This was because he realized that Xu Yi was actuallypletely right.

    That¡¯s right, magicians had a high status on the continent, but why was that ? Of course it was because magicians were stronger than normal people and then easiest ce for that to manifest itself was on the battlefield. Magicians had much greater killing power than normal soldiers with their magic.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, many countries had countless wars and in those wars, magicians yed a very important role each time.

    Even some more powerful magicians, like those at the Great Magician Rank, just one or two of them was enough to change the situation of a battle or even influence the entire war.

    Therefore, from a long time in the past, Magicians had always been feared and worshipped by people of the Sines Continent. Their statuses kept increasing without stop.

    But no matter how high of a status a magician had, that didn¡¯t change a fact, which was that Xu Yi waspletely right. Magicians had always done a single thing, which was to keep studying more powerful magic.

    As for the reason why they studied more powerful magic? Of course it was to have a bigger role on the battlefield.

    To be more precise, it was to be more effective at killing people.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Cami¡¯s face that had been red because of Xu Yi¡¯s words instantly turned pale. His finger pointing at Xu Yi began trembling and after a while, he fell back into his chair and didn¡¯t speak for a long time.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head. If it wasn¡¯t for the special circumstances, he wasn¡¯t willing to be this direct with Great Magician Cami.

    But this was indeed his true inner thoughts.

    He could understand why magicians had such a high status on the Sines Continent, but that didn¡¯t mean he agreed with this.

    From what Xu Yi could see, having powerful strength was indeed important because this could allow one to protect oneself and one¡¯s important things.

    But other than this, the most important thing was normal life.

    Humans created civilization because they chased a more beautiful life.

    Because of this point, humans invented various tools. This was the case from the ancient stone ages to the highly advanced civilization on earth.

    With the development of civilization, humans could go from not having enough to eat to not worrying about food or clothes. They could even go into the sky or ocean, or even reach outer space.

    If they lost this point, that means that human civilization would lose their driving force. At that time, they would be no different from animals.

    Magic was very powerful, but Xu Yi was more willing to use magic to increase everyone¡¯s quality of living instead.

    So using his magic and his mechanical knowledge, he invented the Magic Fan to allow the people of Banta City to enjoy a cool breeze in the burning summer.

    He then invented the Magic Harvester to increase the efficiency of harvesting wheat. It made Viscount Leslie and the other nobles confident in nting even more wheat, increasing Banta City¡¯s grain yield indirectly.

    After this, he would invent even more and more magic machines and help the people of this world to obtain a good life through these magic machines.

    He even hoped to establish aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent, letting people of the Sines Continent have the same lives as normal people on earth.

    Xu Yi knew that it was very difficult toplete this, but he wouldn¡¯t retreat at all.

    This was because while he was researching the magic machines, not only did he find again the joy of researching machines he had done for over three years, he also felt the joy of changing the world.

    And right now, the first thing he needed to change was Great Magician Cami¡¯s thoughts.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, if I may be frank, although merchants are like you say where their eyes and minds are only filled with thoughts of gold coins, it is because of this that they would have the idea to make and sell products. It is because of the drive from the profits that products would circte on the Sines Continent, so people will not suffer the predicament ofcking anything. Perhaps there are quite a few degenerates among them, who even sell their conscience for gold coins, but can we deny the changes they bring?¡±

    Great Magician Cami was silent for a bit and his expression kept changing. After a while, he let out a long sigh and looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I admit that your words have reason, but is this rted to what you want to say? Speak, what exactly do you want to say?¡±

    Xu Yi seriously looked over Great Magician Cami¡¯s face and found that he had seemed to have regained his calm. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Great Magician Cami was after all an old person with experience and wisdom, he would not be easy to strike down.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, let us return to the main problem. You don¡¯t have enough gold coins right now to support your Magic Tower, then are you willing to cooperate with me? I canpletely provide you with enough gold coins. Hei, I won¡¯t hide it from you, my recent ie isn¡¯t bad.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Humph, you want to cooperate with me again.¡± Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort and waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t say anymore. I said that this is my principle, I won¡¯t change it.¡±

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, how about you let me finish first?¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°I think why you hatebining magic and business is one, because once it isbined with business, the magic research will be affected. And two, you feel unsettled about helping merchants cheat money from normal people. Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave another snort, but didn¡¯t reject this.

    ¡°Very good, if your scruples are with this, I can tell you that if you cooperate with me, these two things won¡¯t be problems.¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about whether the magic research will be affected or not. If I were to cooperate with you, you won¡¯t cheat money out of normal people?¡± Great Magician Cami asked in a thoughtful voice, ¡°You think that I would believe a weak reason like this?¡±

    Hearing how more rxed Great Magician Cami¡¯s voice was, Xu Yiughed. He took out a blueprint from his chest and put it on the table in front of Great Magician Cami.

    ¡°Of course I won¡¯t say that I won¡¯t cheat normal people¡¯s money, but what would you think if I were to say that people would look forward to me cheating them of their money?¡±

    ¡°Are you joking?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°Would there be anyone hoping that others would cheat them of their money?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because they need something and other than me, no one else can give them this thing. These things are especially important to them, so in this kind of situation, do you think they would care if I cheat them out of a bit of money?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°How could there be such a thing?¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi, but his eyes couldn¡¯t help looking over at the blueprint.

    After looking it over a few times, Great Magician Cami said in a strange voice, ¡°What is this thing? Why does it look so strange? What is it used for?¡±

    Since Xu Yi began inventing magic machinery, he didn¡¯t even know how many times he had heard this question.

    ¡°Un, this is the very special thing that I just told you about. With this thing, it will solve a problem that has puzzled people for a long time. They will clearly know that I am relying on this thing to make money, but their hearts will be filled with gratitude towards me.¡± Without knowing it, Xu Yi had alreadye beside Great Magician Cami and had bent over to start exining the blueprint, ¡°First, this thing is called the Magic Plowing Machine¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 52 - Mentality change

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 52 Mentality change</b>

    This time, when Xu Yi left Great Magician Cami¡¯s exclusive researchb, he didn¡¯t look as sorry as he did before. Instead he had his head up high and he had a proud smile on his face.

    Still had been waiting outside for a full two hours and had already be anxious from waiting. When she saw Xu Yie out, she immediately rushed over and expectantly asked Xu Yi, ¡°How is it? How is it? What did grandfather say?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he raised his right hand¡¯s index and middle finger at still, showing the ¡°v¡± hand sign. Then realizing that Still might not understand what this meant, he quickly said, ¡°Rx, his excellency Great Magician agreed.¡±

    ¡°Agreed?¡± Still called out in surprise. She looked over Xu Yi with a face covered in curiosity, ¡°Grandfather actually agreed! I say, Xu Yi, how did you make grandfather submit? Could it be that you used the legendary dark enchantment magic on grandfather?¡±

    ¡°How could I possibly know that stuff?¡± Xu Yi snappily looked at Still, ¡°Then again, your grandfather is a Great Magician. I am just a fellow who hasn¡¯t even passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification examination, wouldn¡¯t I be rushing to my death if I cast magic on him?¡±

    ¡°Then how did you get grandfather to agree? He is someone who absolutely hates businessmen, not to mention working together with them.¡± Still kept questioning him in a curious manner.

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Xu Yi paused for a bit before giving a helpless sigh, ¡°His excellency Great Magician had no choice. In the end, a magician still needs to eat and the problem your grandfather faces right now is real, he doesn¡¯t have any money. Although an old person like him is very stubborn,pared to this Magic Tower that he painstakingly built, that stubbornness doesn¡¯t count for anything. Then again, cooperating with me is better than cooperating with other merchants, I at least am considered a merchant with a conscience. Moreover, at the same time, I also have a status as a magician, which makes it easier for your grandfather to ept.¡±

    A dispirited look appeared on Still¡¯s face as she gave a slight nod. She said with a sigh, ¡°That¡¯s right, if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he really had no other choice, grandfather definitely wouldn¡¯t do this.¡± After saying this, she looked at the door to Great Magician Cami¡¯s exclusiveboratory, ¡°I¡¯m going to see him.¡±

    Watching Still walk in, Xu Yi considered it before turning to leave the Magic Tower.

    He had just discussed this matter with Great Magician Cami for a full two hours, Xu Yi¡¯s harvests could be considered quite rich.

    The most important harvest was naturally finally being able to cooperate with Great Magician Cami.

    Since what he studied was magic machines, magic naturally had an important role to y.

    Before now, the magic machines Xu Yi studied could be considered light machinery, so the magic used wasn¡¯t any high level Magic Arrays. With his current strength, it was enough toplete it.

    But when Xu Yi prepared to develop the Magic Plowing Machine, he ran into a problem that he had already expected. That was the fact that his magic power wasn¡¯t strong enough.

    Because the Magic Plowing Machine needed to loosen arge area of earth, it needed a power source that was stronger than the other magic machines that Xu Yi had developed before. After Xu Yi made some careful calctions, he confirmed that if he were to use Wind Attributed Magic Arrays, it would take at least a Level Six Magic Array to work.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s magic power had been constantly increasing, since it had been a short period of time, he was still only between a Third and Fourth Grade Magician. He could only use a few Fourth Grade Magic Spells and Magic Arrays, he had no way of using Sixth Grade Magic Arrays at all.

    Even if it was Still, Evita, and Akali who were stronger than Xu Yi, they also couldn¡¯t use a Sixth Grade Magic Array. Xu Yi was helpless in this matter and could only steel his heart to look for Great Magician Cami for help.

    Speaking of this, Xu Yi should thank the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Royal Family. If they didn¡¯t suddenly cut Great Magician Cami¡¯s funding, causing this economic crisis for the Great Magician, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have been able to make this clean sweep with him. Who knows when he would have been able to convince Great Magician Cami to agree to working with him,

    Xu Yi was not in a rush for sess. He knew that even if Great Magician Cami agreed to work with him, the prejudice against merchants in his heart would not easily disappeared. So, he only brought out this Magic Plowing Machine to let Great Magician Cami study and didn¡¯t raise any other requests.

    It had to be said, a Great Magician really was a Great Magician. Not only did his magic power surpass Xu Yi¡¯s, his eyes, wisdom, and realm all surpassed him.

    After Xu Yi thoroughly exined the concept of the Magic Plowing Machine, Great Magician Cami only said a single word that stunned Xu Yi for a while.

    ¡°Since it¡¯s to plow the earth, why do you use a Wind Attributed Magic Array? Why not use an Earth Attributed Magic Array?¡±

    When Xu Yi heard this, he was stunned for a while before pping his forehead.

    Idiot!

    Great Magician Cami waspletely right. Since the Magic Plowing Machine was used to plow the earth, using an Earth Attributed Magic Array was the more direct and effective method. It was far from something that that plows moved by a Wind Attributed Magic Array could aplish.

    Xu Yi understood that he waspletely limited by his structured thoughts.

    This was because in his original world, all the machines used energy transformation and then used that energy to power the machine. So, when Xu Yi researched the magic machines, he had followed this same logic.

    For the first Magic Fan that Xu Yi made on the Sines Continent, he found that the Wind Attributed Magic Array could simte most engines from earth. So in his further studies, he simted the machines from earth and naturally used Wind Attributed Magic Arrays.

    However, now that he had been reminded by Great Magician Cami¡¯s words, Xu Yi suddenly realized that he had made a mistake.

    The Sines Continent in the end was different from earth and the biggest difference was magic.

    Although it wasn¡¯t able topare to the highly developed industrial system of earth, magic had its own advantage.

    Before this, Xu Yi sighed with emotion at how efficient Magic Crystals were in powering Magic Arrays, but now he found that magic had a powerful advantage in terms of flexibility.

    Just with the Magic Plowing Machine. If one followed Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, it would be the same as plowing machines on earth and would use a Wind Attributed Magic Array as a power source.

    Because thend that had to be plowed had been deste for so long, the power needed to movend that was this firm was quite high. In the end, Xu Yi determined that it would need at least a Grade Six Wind Magic Array.

    But after being reminded by Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi quickly changed his thoughts. If he considered it from the angle of Earth Attributed Array, he found that it only needed a Second Grade Earth Magic Array, the Earth Splitting Array to satisfy this requirement.

    As long as the design was fine tuned a bit, the effects would be even stronger than what Xu Yi had estimated before!

    In this process, the most important thing to Xu Yi was not making the design of the Magic Plowing Machine much simpler or greatly decreasing the cost, rather it was that his thoughts had been open.

    Before, Xu Yi only used his rich mechanical engineering knowledge and used a bit of magic to make copies of the machines. Now, Xu Yi found that there were many uses to magic and he couldpletely change the design, perfectlybining magic and the special mechanical engineering knowledge that he had together.

    In other words, the magic machines Xu Yi researched before could only be considered magic powered machines.

    But this new Magic Plowing Machine that he designed after researching with Great Magician Cami, that is a product that was a true fusion of magic and machines! It represented the true fusion of the culture of the Sines Continent and earth!

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s footsteps couldn¡¯t help bing faster.

    The heart of a mechanical engineer inside him had already begun to burn and he was impatient to rush back to the factory. He wanted to lead Camby and the dwarves as they carried out research on the new Magic Plowing Machine.

    But when Xu Yi stepped on the little path to the factory and looked into the distance, he was stunned. In the empty space in front of the two buildings, it was filled with people forming a dense crowd that didn¡¯t leave a single opening.

    Seeing how noisy these people were, Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

    Could it be something happened?

 Volume 1 53 - Recruitment

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 53 Recruitment</strong>

    Xu Yi¡¯s worry onlysted a few seconds before he suddenly realized something.

    ¡°Oh, I remember now. Today is the day we¡¯re recruiting workers.¡±

    Many days ago, Xu Yi had already told Heinz that in order to increase their production line and their production capacity, they needed to recruit more workers.

    But during this time, whether it was the second generation Magic Fans or the miniature Magic Harvester of the magic machine workshop, both workshops had been operating at full. Because of this, Heinz didn¡¯t have time for this matter.

    Now that summer was over, the orders for the Magic Fans had greatly decreased, so Heinz had some free time. After a period of preparation, he was finally prepared to officially begin recruiting workers today.

    Heinz had reported this matter to Xu Yi yesterday, but because Xu Yi had suddenly achieved his cooperation with Great Magician Cami and a single word from Great Magician Cami had opened up his world, he was too excited and hadpletely forgotten about this matter.

    ¡°I never thought that there would be this many people who woulde, could it be that this many people in Banta City have nothing to do? But this isn¡¯t right either¡­..¡± Xu Yi looked at the sky and found that the sky was already slightly leaning towards the west, ¡°It¡¯s already the afternoon, so why are there still this many people? Could it be that Heinz has been wasting time all morning?¡±

    Xu Yi moved over towards the factory in curiosity, but he found that the entire area in front of the workshop was filled with people. He couldn¡¯t even reach the door of the workshop at all.

    Feeling helpless, Xu Yi could only pat the person in front of him. He wanted to let the person move aside, but that person who seemed to be in his early twenties red right at him.

    ¡°What are you doing! Line up properly!¡±

    Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile. It was good that Heinz could make these people line up, but why couldn¡¯t he have these people line up in an orderly manner?

    Looking around, Xu Yi found Alex who was on site keeping order and quickly walked over.

    ¡°Chairman, you¡¯re back?¡± Seeing Xu Yi suddenly appeared, Alex called out in a pleasantly surprised voice.

    Xu Yi knew this was bad immediately.

    As soon as they heard Alex call out ¡°chairman¡±, the surrounding people who came for interviews all looked over.

    After those eyes fell onto Xu Yi, there were many of them that were filled with doubt.

    Xu Yi looked to be around twenty years old, so how could he be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman?

    While these people were still filled with doubt, Xu Yi took Alex¡¯s arm and moved through the crowd.

    Those people recognized Alex and seeing him lead the way, although their hearts were filled with doubt, they still opened a path. In the end, Xu Yi still smoothly made his way into the household magic machine workshop.

    The situation inside was better than outside, but it was also filled with people.

    Other than the people who worked in the workshop, there were twenty strangers who were currently working on the Magic Fan production line. It seemed like they were currently taking their practical test.

    When Xu Yi and Alex came in, they were spotted by Heinz who was watching the test from a corner. He came up in a stunned manner and asked in a low voice, ¡°Why are you here? Didn¡¯t you say that you were running the final test on the Magic Rice Cooker today?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Heinz and couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Since the Magic Fan stopped production, Heinz had been paying special attention to the new Magic Rice Cooker that Xu Yi promised him. When Xu Yi told him that he would do the final test today, he even said that he would handle the recruitment alone to let Xu Yi focus on his research.

    ¡°Rx, the Magic Rice Cooker is a sess. It can enter the experimental production phase tomorrow and it¡¯ll be officially produced in less than weak.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder and said this with a smile.

    As expected, when he heard Xu Yi¡¯s words, Heinz immediately nodded with a smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s good, that¡¯s good. I was just thinking that after you made me recruit a hundred workers, what would I do if there was no work for them when the time came.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes as he wondered when Heinz would change his mentality of only caring about his own profits.

    Of course he knew that a personality problem was very hard to change, so he gave up considering this question. He pointed at the strangers on the production line and asked, ¡°Heinz, it can¡¯t be that you are testing each person on their abilities to see if you hire them or not, right?¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°I shouldn¡¯t do that? If we don¡¯t let them test it, how could we know that they will be able to do it after they are hired? If they can¡¯t, they still have to resign and that is a waste of time.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be right? This is the simplest kind of work, shouldn¡¯t they be able to learn it as long as they aren¡¯t idiots?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Look at how fast the hundred ves Viscount Leslie gave me learned how to do it, could it be that these people can¡¯t evenpare to those ves?¡±

    Heinz knit his brows and looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, I feel like you¡¯re looking down on those ves, aren¡¯t you? Let me tell you, you might not believe it, but although those ves have low statuses, since they are ves used by Viscount Leslie, of course they aren¡¯t fools, so they can learn fast. As for these people whoe here for the interviews, there are quite a few ves among them. Just this morning, there were quite a few people who couldn¡¯t learn how to work on the production line and there were even two people who were injured while learning how to use the Magic Thread Rolling Machine. Tell me,pared to the ves, who are the fools?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly speechless. He looked at the people operating the iparably simple magic machines and working at the even simpler assembly line. If this kind of work was ced on earth, even the mostmon ofmon workers would be able to grasp this kind of work. Unless that person was a true fool, how could they not understand it?

    After a while, he finally reacted.

    There was another important difference between the Sines Continent and earth, which was the level of education for normal people.

    The continent operated under a ve and feudal society, so their production capacity was low. Normal people already found it hard to fill their stomachs, so there was no need to mention if they had the energy and finances to be educated, so the average education level of normal people was rtively low.

    On earth, most countries had implemented a basic education system, so the average person had more chances to be educated than on the Sines Continent.

    People who had been educated normally had better learning abilities than people who hadn¡¯t been educated. Once they entered the factory, they could master the foundational skills much easier.

    If one used the ng of earth, earth had an advantage over the Sines Continent in terms of human resources.

    Something that was very natural for Xu Yi on earth became a different matter when it came to the Sines Continent.

    Thinking about the change in ideas he received from Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi understood. He gave a slight nod and seriously said, ¡°Un, you¡¯re right. I¡¯ll leave this matter to you, everything will be as you say. But Heinz, it¡¯s best if you speed this up, there are still many people waiting outside. Then again, we only need to recruit a hundred people for now, it shouldn¡¯t be that difficult, right?¡±

    ¡°It indeed isn¡¯t hard¡­¡­¡± Heinz¡¯s face suddenly became a bit unnatural. After pausing for a second, he lowered his voice as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°This¡­..Xu Yi, I¡¯ll be honest with you and don¡¯t be angry. Hearing that our factory was recruiting, there are many acquaintances from before who want me to introduce their people in. I have known those acquaintances for a long time and it isn¡¯t good for me to reject them¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder and said, ¡°I¡¯ve forgot to mention this to you, but of the hundred people being recruited this time, ten spots are up to you to decide, I won¡¯t care. Of course, you have to ensure that those people canplete the work and won¡¯t affect the speed of the workshop, understand?¡±

    Heinz¡¯s eyes instantly lit up and he kept nodding, ¡°I understand, I understand! Sir chairman, you are truly¡­..amazing!¡±

    Xu Yi epted Heinz¡¯s unskilled ttery. With how stingy Heinz was, if this was apany on earth and with how big a shareholder Heinz was, not to mention a tenth of the quotas, he would have swallowed all the quotas.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind this request from Heinz. Interpersonal rtionship, whether it was the Sines Continent or earth, it was always very important.

 Volume 1 54 - Second generation replica

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 54 Second generation replica</h4>

    After watching the recruitment process from the side, Xu Yi silently left and went to the magic machine workshop.

    Since there needed to be a whole new design for the Magic Plowing Machine, naturally he had to discuss this with the dwarves who were responsible for the forging.

    Unlike the household magic machine workshop led by Heinz that was close to closing, the dwarves led by Camby were iparably busy during this period of time.

    After seeing the power of the Magic Harvesters, any noble with territory in Banta City would submit an order to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although the initial seventeen orders had already been finished, it was quickly followed by thirty one orders that the dwarves needed to finish quickly.

    Even if the dwarves slowly increased their production efficiency, toplete this batch of orders, they actually needed to step up their work time.

    In the past half a month, with Camby leading them, all the dwarves of the magic machine workshop had been working overtime untilte into the night.

    Xu Yi proposed overtime pay to these dwarves, but Camby sternly rejected this.

    This was because to the dwarves,pleting these orders was their work. Even if time was short and they had no choice but to work overtime, work was still work in the end. If they weren¡¯t able to finish it in the allotted time, that would mean their abilities weren¡¯t good enough. Therefore, for thepany to specifically pay them overtime, it was an embarrassment to them.

    Xu Yi was unable to understand the logic of these dwarves, but with Camby foaming from rage at this idea, he couldn¡¯t keep insisting on it at all. He could only let go of this idea and help them order some fine wine from the Sachi Manor aspensation.

    This idea was greatly weed by the dwarves, only under Camby¡¯s strict supervision, the dwarves had no choice but to control their desire for wine. Only after finishing the orders could they allow themselves to enjoy the wine.

    Thinking of how disappointed the dwarves looked after hearing Camby¡¯s decision, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny.

    It had to be said, these dwarves were a bit too honest.

    If all dwarves had this kind of disposition, it wasn¡¯t strange at all that they were defeated in the war against humans thousands of years ago.

    Of course, as thepany¡¯s chairman, Xu Yi mainly had to consider another problem.

    Not only did Heinz¡¯s household magic machine workshop need to recruit more workers, the magic machine workshop also needed to recruit some more people.

    With the situation of the magic machine workshop, the newly recruited people could only be dwarves.

    After these dwarves have lived here longer and the barrier with humans gradually disappeared, it would be possible to recruit humans into the workshop.

    While Xu Yi was considering this issue, he had already walked into the magic machine workshop.

    When he had just entered the doors to the workshop, he heard Camby¡¯s loud sound booming out.

    ¡°Hei, look, this is the new Magic Harvester that we¡¯ve made during this time. Let me tell you, this thing is simply too easy to use! I¡¯ve personally seen it, this thing doesn¡¯t even need an hour to finish harvesting an entire field of wheat. Don¡¯t you think this is fast?¡±

    Xu Yi was curious. Camby waspletely correct, but which dwarf in this workshop didn¡¯t participate in building this Magic Harvester? Who was he exining this to?

    Looking up, Xu Yi found that beside Camby short and stocky figure, there was a fat middle aged man that could be described as round standing there.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak? When did you get here?¡± Xu Yi looked over and spoke in a surprised voice.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, all the dwarves and chairman Farsak all looked over.

    As soon as he saw Xu Yi, chairman Farsak¡¯s round face immediately revealed an exaggerated smile and he stretched out his arms to wee him.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, I was prepared to head to Banta City to look for you, but I never thought that you would be here. This is truly great.¡±

    Xu Yi gave him a hug and after letting go, he looked over chairman Farsak. He found that he had be a bit thinner. He asked in a curious voice, ¡°Chairman Farsak, since you wanted toe, why didn¡¯t you tell me ahead of time? I would have gone outside the city to wee you.¡±

    Chairman Farsakughed, ¡°Chairman Xu is too polite. With the current rtionship between us, is there a need for such conventions?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This chairman Farsak really knew how to pull people in.

    Current rtionship between us? Strictly speaking, it was just a cooperation rtionship.

    Last time, Xu Yi sold him five machines and then sent a few skilled people to Saltan City, helping the Farsak Chamber of Commerce set up a production line for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. They had had several exchanges during this time, so if one had to talk about their rtionship, it was quite harmonious.

    But other than this, could it be considered intimate? That was not certain.

    When Xu Yi sold those five machines to the Farsak Chamber of Commerce, he had written in the contract that all repair services and part changes need to go through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, there needed to be a fee that was paid each time and that fee wasn¡¯t cheap.

    If it was said that chairman Farsak didn¡¯t see that Xu Yi earned arge amount of profit from this, it was something impossible.

    Only right now only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could perform these services. So even if chairman Farsak knew that Xu Yi was earningrge amounts from him, he could only ept it and even try to create a good rtionship with Xu Yi.

    After all, the Magic Fan was very popr in Saltan City. Just based on the second generation Magic Fan production line, after the Farsak Chamber of Commerce promoted the second generation Magic Fan in Saltan City, it hadpletely pushed out the first generation Magic Fan. They seized the market in one fell swoop and in less than a month, they had earned a profit of over five thousand gold coins.

    After Xu Yi and chairman Farsak spoke a few polite words, chairman Farsak¡¯s smiling face suddenly became overcast and he said with a soft sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually I have some important mattersing to see you this time.¡±

    ¡°What would youe for no reason?¡± This thought passed in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, but he said, ¡°Chairman Farsak, you are too polite. With the good rtionship between us, is there a need to use the word ¡°request¡±? Please speak if you need something. As long as it is something I can help with, I will not reject it.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu really is straightforward.¡± Come, let me show you something first.¡±

    Chairman Farsak brought Xu Yi to the corner of the workshop and dug around in a giant bag before taking out a Magic Fan.

    ¡°Please take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi took it in a surprised manner. He looked it over before shaking his head, ¡°Isn¡¯t this just a second generation Magic Fan? Chairman Farsak, what do you want me to look at?¡±

    Chairman Farsak pointed at the symbol at the base of the Magic Fan, ¡°Pay attention to this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over and found that the Magic Fan also had a symbol, but the symbol was a golden glowing lion and not the Frestech Brand.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, if I remember correctly, your Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s symbol should be an eagle, right?¡±

    Chairman Farsak gave a slight nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, so all the Magic Fans that we produce has an eagle symbol on it.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly understood. He raised the second generation Magic Fan in his hand and asked, ¡°This means that this Magic Fan was not produced by yourpany and is an imitation from someone else?¡± After that, he knit his brows, ¡°That is strange. In Saltan City, other than your Farsak Chamber of Commerce, there is anotherpany that can produce the second generation Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. This lion mark represents the Leo Chamber of Commerce, which is thergestpany in our Saltan City.¡± Chairman Farsak replied in a deep voice.

    Xu Yi thought it over.

    There seemed to be no problem with this Magic Fan. It was only a normal second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan and other than the different symbol, it was no different from the Magic Fan the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Farsak Chamber of Commerce produced.

    And that was the problem.

    The Magic Fan the Farsak Chamber of Commerce produced was the same as the one the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced. This was because the Farsak Chamber of Commerce used the same production line as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which they purchased from them and they had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helping them produce them. It could be considered from the same source, so one would imagine there would be no problems.

    But Xu Yi was very clear on the fact that he had nevere into contact with any Leo Chamber of Commerce. Naturally he didn¡¯t sell a single production line to the Leo Chamber of Commerce.

    Since it was like this, how could this Leo Chamber of Commerce produce a Magic Fan that was exactly the same?

 Volume 1 55 - Difference in quality

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 55 Difference in quality</strong>

    ¡°I¡¯ve already investigated this. In the Magic Fan factory of the Leo Chamber of Commerce, they also have five simr magic machines¡­¡­¡± Seeing Xu Yi being lost in thought, chairman Farsak added these words that had implied meaning.

    Xu Yi looked at him and calmly said, ¡°Chairman Farsak, please speak if you have something to say.¡±

    Chairman Farsak¡¯s round face didn¡¯t have the same iparably kind smile from before. His little eyes stared right at Xu Yi and shot out two beams.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although it wasn¡¯t stated clearly in the contract you signed with mypany, if yourpany does sell magic machines to otherpanies in Saltan City, shouldn¡¯t you have informed me first?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells magic machines to begin with, do I need your permission to sell them?

    Of course, Xu Yi was very clear on the fact that while this was a verymon business practice on earth, it was not the same on the Sines Continent.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi pushed down on chairman Farsak¡¯s hand, signaling him to be patient. Then he reached out and rubbed the foundation of the Magic Fan.

    After a while, Xu Yi revealed an understanding smile that was already expected.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, first I need to strictly remind you, the magic machines are magic machines that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has independently studied. As long as others give us a price, we have the right to sell to anyone¡­¡­¡± Seeing that chairman Farsak¡¯s face sunk, Xu Yi continued with a smile, ¡°Of course, since we are in a cooperation, then as a partner, I naturally have to consider the benefits of your Farsak Chamber of Commerce. So, in a normal situation, we would not sell the magic machines needed to produce the Magic Fan to any otherpanies in Saltan City.¡±

    ¡°Then what is the deal with this Magic Fan?¡± Chairman Farsak pointed at the Magic Fan in Xu Yi¡¯s hand with a frown, ¡°If it was made purely from manualbour, each Magic Fan would take a very long time to make and have a very high cost. But the price of the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan is actually ten silver coins lower than the ones from our Farsak Chamber of Commerce. If they didn¡¯t make them with the magic machines, I can guarantee that the Leo Chamber of Commerce will bleed themselves to death. Of course, I don¡¯t believe those fellows at the Leo Chamber of Commerce would be so foolish.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, I think you have neglected something.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Since the Magic Fans can be imitated, then the magic machines can also be imitated.¡±

    ¡°Imitations of the magic machines?¡± Chairman Farsak¡¯s small eyes suddenly popped out, ¡°That is impossible! Those five magic machines are veryplicated, how could it be possible they were copied?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Although I don¡¯t want to admit it, this is the truth if my guesses aren¡¯t wrong. The five magic machines the Leo Chamber of Commerce you mentioned had, it should be imitations made by them.¡±

    ¡°But¡­...But are the magic machines that easy to imitate?¡± Chairman Farsak looked at Xu Yi, as if he didn¡¯t believe him.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not easy, but that doesn¡¯t mean that it is impossible.¡±

    Xu Yi casually picked up a tool and very easily dismantled the Magic Fan in his hands intoponents.

    It was like he had expected, this Magic Fan not only had the same outer shell as the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, but even the innerponents were basically the same.

    In other words, this Magic Fan was aplete knockoff of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan.

    ¡°Can you see any problems?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, chairman Farsak couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Xu Yi picked up an axle that supported the fan des to look over beforeughing, ¡°I can see many problems. Chairman Farsak, this Leo Chamber of Commerce shouldn¡¯t have sold this Magic Fan for more than half a month, right?¡±

    Chairman Farsak was stunned. After thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, it hasn¡¯t passed half a month yet. How did you know?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at theponents on the ground, ¡°They told me.¡±

    ¡°They?¡± Chairman Farsak looked at theponents scattered on the ground and didn¡¯t understand.

    Xu Yi looked over at chairman Farsak, ¡°You should have brought the Magic Fan yourpany produced on your trip this time, right?¡±

    ¡°I did.¡± Chairman Farsak took out another Magic Fan from his giant bag.

    Xu Yi looked it over and suddenly knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Farsak, when yourpany made this Magic Fan, did it strictly follow the standard that I set?¡±

    Chairman Farsak was stunned before saying in an aggrieved voice, ¡°Of course! Chairman Xu, this thing was developed by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could I not follow the standard you set?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t see it?¡± Xu Yi gave a snort. Looking around, he saw a Frestech Brand Magic Fan that was spinning in the corner and he brought it over. He put it beside the Magic Fan chairman Farsak brought and filled them both with a Magic Crystal of the same size and quality, pressing the switch at the same time.

    Two blue lights appeared and the des of the two Magic Fans began moving, making the same weng, weng sound.

    Xu Yi brought chairman Farsak in front of the Magic Fan to test the wind being blown out before suddenly looking over and asking, ¡°Can you see it?¡±

    Chairman Farsak¡¯s round face already had an ugly expression on it.

    Although these two Magic Fans looked exactly the same from the outside, once they were activated, there were some visible differences.

    First was the toggle speed.

    As soon as the switch for the Frestech Brand Magic Fan was pressed, it only took the blink of an eye for the fan des to begin moving, blowing out its cool breeze.

    As for the Magic Fan the Farsak Chamber of Commerce made, it took a whole five seconds before the fan des started moving. It took a while before one could feel the cool breeze.

    Next was the stability of the fan.

    The fan de speed of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan was set and the naked eye couldn¡¯t see any fluctuations.

    As for the Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan, it slowed down from time to time, like something was hindering the movement of the fan des.

    Other than these two points, for the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, it only made a faint weng, weng sound while it spun. As for the Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan, not only did the des make arge sound, there was also a ka, ka sound that rang out from time to time. After the des spun for a while, the noises would be even louder and the entire Magic Fan would shake, making people believe that the des would fall out of its frame.

    ¡°Chairman Farsak, if you were a customer and these two Magic Fans were in front of you, which one would you choose to buy?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Farsak¡¯s face had sunken and the fat on his face twitched. He finally revealed a bitter smile and replied, ¡°Of course I would choose your Frestech Brand Magic Fan.¡± Without waiting for Xu Yi to speak, he then asked, ¡°But chairman Xu, why is this? I have been very strict with the Magic Fan and have strictly followed the guidelines you have set during the manufacturing process. Even the fiveponent making magic machines were bought from you, so why is there such a difference in the end?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. The difference lies in two points. One is material and the other is workers.¡± Xu Yi stretched out two fingers which he shook and suddenly asked, ¡°Chairman Farsak, the skilled workers that I sent you, you haven¡¯t ced any importance on them at all, right?¡±

    ¡°How could that be! Those five people you¡¯ve sent are there to teach the manufacturing process, how could they not be important?¡± Chairman Farsak raised his voice, ¡°Since they came, I have fed them good food and drinks all day, not treating them like ves at all.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Can you guarantee that the people under you didn¡¯t treat them as ves?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chairman Farsak¡¯s voice stopped before he said in an uncertain voice, ¡°I have strictly told them before, so they shouldn¡¯t¡­...Ke, chairman Xu, you also said material, right? I don¡¯t understand, isn¡¯t it just iron being used to make the Magic Fans, is there a difference?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. If this fellow were to know that there were over ten kinds of different pig iron alone, how many chunks of fat would fall off his face from shock?

    Of course, for this Sines Continent that had an iparably weak industrial system, even if Xu Yi said all this, no one would be able to understand him.

    Feeling helpless, he could only slowly exin it in words that chairman Farsak would be able to understand.

    ¡°Even with the same kind of iron, there are still differences¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 56 - Hope

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 56 Hope</h4>

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    In the end, chairman Farsak left Banta City feeling very satisfied.

    The reason why he could leave assured naturally was not just because Xu Yi had exined the problem with the Magic Fan to him. He had also promised to also send several other skilled workers to help him increase the quality of his Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan.

    To a well qualified merchant like chairman Farsak, something that could satisfy him naturally brought him enough benefits.

    To obtain these benefits, he had signed a new contract between his Farsak Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This contract was for an even deeper cooperationpared to before.

    ording to this contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide moreplete technical support for the Farsak Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a new magic machine product avable, the Farsak Chamber of Commerce would have the rights to cooperate with them first.

    For example, on chairman Farsak¡¯s trip to Banta City this time, he had heard about the small Magic Harvester. Other thaning here for the matter of the Magic Fan, his main reason was to collect information on the small Magic Harvester from Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi very cleanly gave him all the information on the small Magic Harvester, but he rejected the proposition of helping the Farsak Chamber of Commerce set up a small Magic Harvester production line.

    Even if chairman Farsak was dissatisfied with this, Xu Yi was unable to help him.

    The small Magic Harvester was not the same as the Magic Fan, the requirement in terms of forging technique was increased by several times. Currently, even in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only the dwarves couldplete this work.

    Xu Yi had not invented a magic machine that could rece manpower in making the small Magic Harvester and of course he couldn¡¯t just give these dwarves to other people, so naturally he had no way of helping chairman Farsak set up a production line.

    Chairman Farsak¡¯s request couldn¡¯t be fulfilled, so he could only take a step back. He proposed to Xu Yi that they would be the only distributor of the small Magic Harvester in Saltan City.

    To this request, Xu Yi agreed right away.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current scale and fame, it wasn¡¯t a realistic idea for them to break into the Saltan City market. Rather to enter Saltan City through this chairman Farsak who had enough strength and status would be much easier.

    Letting chairman Farsak represent the small Magic Harvester, even if they lost a portion of the profits, it could allow the Frestech Brand and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gain fame in Saltan City. In short, it was a quite efficient deal.

    Other than this, Xu Yi firmly refused chairman Farsak¡¯s suggestion of being the only buyer for the magic machines.

    Even if this rejection made chairman Farsak very dissatisfied, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on making any concessions.

    He was not just considering Saltan City¡¯s side, he was also considering from a long term angle.

    If he agreed to this request from chairman Farask, all the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be limited in the future.

    With the precedent of chairman Farsak, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to sell their products to the entire Sines Continent, it would be hard to reject other merchants if they came with the same request.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be greatly limited and would even be controlled by others.

    This was something that Xu Yi could never ept.

    Chairman Farsak wanted to keep struggling and even implied some vague threats in his voice, but Xu Yi¡¯s tone was firm and didn¡¯t allow a single concession, so chairman Farsak was helpless in the end,

    After all, there was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that produced the magic machines right now and chairman Farsak saw enormous benefits from this. If he really had a falling out with Xu Yi from this negotiation and lost the chance to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be a great loss to his Farsak Chamber of Commerce.

    So after two days of back and forth negotiation, they finally reached an agreement.

    Although there were many conditions from chairman Farsak that wasn¡¯t epted, from the negotiations, he could tell that the Farsak Chamber of Commerce would earnrge benefits from this, so naturally he was satisfied when he left.

    Compared to the rtively satisfied chairman Farsak, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was not that rxed and happy.

    After sending chairman Farsak off, Xu Yi returned to the office. He looked at the Magic Fan on the desk that kept turning and fell into deep thought.

    The Magic Fan that was turning now was not the Frestech Brand and was not the Farsak Brand, rather it was the Magic Fan produced by the Leo Chamber of Commerce.

    It had to be said, the quality of this Magic Fan was definitely not high. Not only could it notpare to the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, it was even a bit worse than the Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan.

    Over the two days he negotiated with chairman Farsak, Xu Yi had ced the Magic Fan on his table to turn without stop.

    It had been two days and the Magic Fan was much looser than before. The Magic Fan kept trembling when the Magic Fan was set to the high speed setting and it made waves of ka, ka sound, like it would break at any moment.

    For Xu Yi to be able to convince chairman Farsak, the performance of this Magic Fan had an important use.

    Personally witnessing the Magic Fan produced by the Leo Chamber of Commerce being unable to withstand this performance, the worry in chairman Farsak¡¯s heart had scattered.

    Different from chairman Farsak¡¯s heart filled with schadenfreude when seeing this, when Xu Yi looked at the Magic Fan, his heart was actually filled with great worry.

    Although the quality of this Magic Fan was verycking, it could even be said that they were nothing more than fake goods, this Magic Fan did represent a fact. That was that other than Xu Yi¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were other people and otherpanies that had set their eyes on magic machines.

    Xu Yi was always worried that because the industrial system on the Sines Continent was too weak and because the magicians had a high position, most people wouldn¡¯t ce importance into the magic machine industry.

    As a master mechanical engineer, it was very difficult for Xu Yi to ept a world with a weak industrial system like this. So he hoped very much that he could create aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent.

    But building the foundation of an industrial system was an iparablyrge project and it was impossible toplete with just a single person. Only if more people became involved and they worked together, could there be a hope inpleting this idea.

    Now that the Leo Chamber of Commerce had appeared, this meant the people of the Sines Continent recognized the importance of the magic industrial system.

    Although the Leo Chamber of Commerce only produced this Magic Fan in hopes of earning money, as long as they kept participating, this meant that they had the same idea and there was hope.

    Of course, this was not an especially surprising thing.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned over ten thousand gold coins in just two short months with the Magic Fan, so this kind of ie would naturally make others jealous. So it wasn¡¯t a strange thing for them to follow along and enter the magic machine research sector at all.

    Xu Yi was not worried that the Leo Chamber of Commerce would be any threat to them because one could see from their Magic Fan that the Leo Chamber of Commerce was only at the initial stages of research.

    Even though Xu Yi was surprised that they could make the imitation magic machines, he had a rough understanding of the production process from this Magic Fan. The fake magic machines had a great inferiority, they couldn¡¯tpare to the magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Xu Yi suddenly gave a sigh and reached out to touch the base of the Magic Fan.

    ¡°Based on the style of the Magic Array, this should be We¡¯s handiwork. Based on what Lotte said a few days ago, thepany in Saltan City that she and Rem, as well as Cimirot went to should be the Leo Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi turned to look out the window in a northeastern direction, in the direction of Saltan City, ¡°If it was in terms of magic machine research, clearly our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is better. We chose the Leo Chamber of Commerce because she was afraid that Rem would be unwilling to work under me. As for Cimirot¡­...

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort. He looked at the Magic Fan on the table of the office and a trace of ridicule appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°Choosing this kind ofpany for quick sess, you¡¯ll deserve the bad luck you get.¡±

    ¡°Ka¡ª¡ª¡±

    The Magic Fan on the table suddenly shook and the outer wire mesh of the fan was shaken off by the trembling of the Magic Fan. It mmed down on the table and made a deafening sound.

 Volume 1 57 - New advertisement

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 57 New advertisement</strong>

    It was already thetter half of September and the summer heat began to gradually dissipate. There was even a cool feeling that filled the breeze in the air.

    On the trees by the roads, there was a trace of yellow that appeared in the originally green leaves. When the wind blew through them, there would be one or two that fell down with it from time to time.

    However even in this refreshing autumn weather, Freeman was covered in sweat, soaking the shirt that he was wearing. It was very ufortable having the shirt stick to his body.

    But there was no other choice here. Anyone who was carrying a two hundred pounds bag of wheat from Irnd to Banta City, which was a trip of close to thirty kilometers would be covered in sweat.

    Actually he didn¡¯t need to make it this hard for himself because the day of the fall harvest, the McGrady Chamber of Commerce from Banta City that specialized in the grains business had already sent someone to the viges to buy their harvest. Most of the wheat in the vige had already been sold to them.

    Freeman had done this in the past few years, but this year he chose to send his best wheat to Banta City himself to sell.

    The reason was very simple. He had asked around this year and he found that if he sold it in Irnd Vige, each pound of would be sold for three copper coins less than in Banta City.

    If it was for over two hundred pounds of wheat, this difference was around seven-eight silver coins.

    Perhaps to the nobles of Banta City, if seven-eight gold coins were to fall on the ground, they would be toozy to acknowledge their existence. Even for the citizens of Irnd Vige, they didn¡¯t care that much, so they almost all chose to sell their wheat to the McGrady Chamber of Commerce in their viges.

    However, for Freeman with a poor family of three children crying for food, seven-eight gold coins was an amount he couldn¡¯t ignore.

    The other viges thought it was too troublesome, but Freeman insisted on bringing his wheat to Banta City just for these seven-eight silver coins.

    A cool breeze suddenly blew and made it much more refreshing for Freeman.

    He temporarily stopped his cart and grabbed a towel to wipe his sweat, as he prepared to rest for a bit.

    The walls of Banta City was already in sight and there was still some time before noon, so he didn¡¯t need to rush.

    Looking up after wiping off the sweat on his face, Freeman¡¯s eyes suddenly fell onto a location outside of Banta City and he suddenly made a yi sound.

    Outside the walls of Banta City, there was a giant brand that had been there the entire time. Not only were the citizens inside Banta City familiar with it, even the vigers like Freeman from outside the city were familiar with it. Each time he had business in Banta City, Freeman couldn¡¯t help taking a look at the sign.

    It was for no other reason than to see the beautiful and noble girl on the sign.

    But when Freeman looked at the sign once again out of habit, he found that the picture on it had changed.

    On the sign, other than the beautiful girl, there was the Frestech Brand Magic Fan on it.

    The first time he saw the picture on the sign, Freeman had already been deeply attracted.

    Other than remembering the beautiful girl, he also remembered the Frestech Brand Magic Fan. He even secretly made up his mind that as long as his family became a bit richer, he would definitely buy a Frestech Brand Magic Fan to bring back, letting the three kids in his family enjoy a cool breeze on a hot summer day.

    However on the image of the giant sign now, other than the beautiful girl that Freeman was familiar with, there were two other young girls on their as well.

    Although the two girls weren¡¯t as pretty as the other girl, they were also still quite pretty. One was very lively and one was a gentle beauty, giving people different feelings.

    The three girls in the picture were around a table and based on the cooked dishes, they were prepared to eat.

    But in the center of the table was a strange round iron tub. The lively looking girl with a round face had a rice paddle in her hand and was digging out fragrant rice from the strange iron thing.

    ¡°What is that thing?¡± Freeman looked at the image in confusion. After thinking for a bit, he guessed something, ¡°The previous image was an advertisement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did for the Magic Fan, so this should also be an advertisement? But what is that strange thing? Why is there cooked rice inside it?¡±

    There were two lines of words on the image, but it was a pity that Freeman was illiterate. In the end, driven by his curiosity, he found a middle aged man who seemed a bit educated passing by to ask some questions.

    ¡°What is written on there?¡± The middle aged man looked at where Freeman was pointing and he revealed a smile, ¡°Oh, that. Let me tell you, that is the new advertisement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just put up two days ago. It is to advertise theirpany¡¯s newest product, the Magic Rice Cooker.¡±

    ¡°Magic Rice Cooker? It¡¯s that round thing inside the picture? What is it used for?¡± Freeman became even more curious.

    ¡°You can¡¯t even understand that? Look, isn¡¯t there rice inside? So that means that this Magic Rice Cooker is used to cook the rice.¡± The middle aged man pointed at the sign and read it word for word, ¡°There are two lines up top. The first line is ¡®Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker, letting you enjoy the purest rice¡¯. The second line says ¡®A healthy life, leaving behind firewood smoke¡¯. Do you understand what this means?¡±

    Freeman honestly shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t.¡±

    The middle aged man couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°What is there not to understand? If you use the Magic Rice Cooker, you don¡¯t need to use firewood to light a fire and you¡¯ll still be able to cook rice. Not only is it faster than using firewood, there isn¡¯t any smoke at all. How about that? Isn¡¯t it convenient?¡±

    ¡°Not using firewood? How is it possible to heat it up?¡± Freeman asked in a stunned voice.

    The middle aged manughed, ¡°It seems like you still don¡¯t understand, but forget it. Without seeing it yourself, you wouldn¡¯t understand if I exined it to you. If you are really curious, you can buy one yourself to try. Let me tell you, I bought one immediately after it came out and now it¡¯s much more convenient for my wife to cook the meals.¡±

    After watching the middle aged man leave whileughing, Freeman helplessly shook his head. He thought that although the Magic Rice Cooker was a good thing, he wasn¡¯t able to afford it. No matter how good it was, he had no use for it.

    After talking by the road for a bit, Freeman felt like he had recovered a bit of strength. He headed out on his carriage, continuing towards Banta City with his carriage filled with wheat.

    After half an hour, Freeman arrived at the McGrady Chamber of Commerce. After easily following the stream of people to where they were buying wheat, he sold his wheat and left with two gold coins, thirty seven silver coins, and seventy six copper coins.

    After receiving this hard earned ie, Freeman looked at the restaurant beside the McGrady Chamber of Commerce before swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty. After that, he took out cloth package that he carried half a day, which contained the sesame cake his wife had prepared for him this morning and got some free cold water offered by the McGrady Chamber of Commerce to settle his lunch.

    He had just taken a sip of water and was prepared to eat the sesame cake when he suddenly heard the rushed conversation of two people beside him.

    ¡°Hey, are you going to participate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Big Stomach King Competition?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m participating, but it¡¯s a pity that I can only eat three bowls. Ai¡ª¡ª¡±

    ¡°Only three bowls? Aren¡¯t you toocking? I can eat a full five bowls!¡±

    ¡°Che, what is five bowls? When I wentst time, that fellow who stole the championship ate an entire nine bowls! The rice in three Magic Rice Cookers was eaten by him alone!¡±

    ¡°That powerful? This fellow wouldn¡¯t be a pig, right?¡±

    ¡°How would I know¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Freeman¡¯s ears piqued at this. Big Stomach King Competition? What was that?

    The curious Freeman found out from someone working for thepany what the Big Stomach King Competition was. It was a contest the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had held since the morning to see who could eat the most.

    There was no limits to participation in thispetition, it didn¡¯t matter who one was, they just needed to want to participate.

    In thispetition, thepetitors could eat as much as they want of the rice the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided. Whoever ate the most would be the champion.

    Thepetition wouldst all day before deciding a champion. Not only would that champion win a Magic Rice Cooker, they would also receive a special membership card from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. No matter what product they bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future, they would receive preferential treatment.

    Freeman didn¡¯t care about these prices at all, he just cared about the fact that it was free to eat the rice.

    Looking down at his dry sesame cake, Freeman thought about it before wrapping it up and putting it back in his chest. Then he asked the staff member where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯spetition was and headed off withrge steps.

 Volume 1 58 - Big Stomach King Competition

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 58 Big Stomach King Competition</h4>

    When Freeman rushed to the market district, he found that the wide street was alreadypletely filled with people. From time to time, there was even waves of cheering that could be heard.

    Even if Freeman was a strong man, he used quite a bit of effort before he could push his way through.

    There was a crowd gathered around arge area and there were several tables in line ced there, with ten people of different appearances sitting at the table. In front of each person was the Magic Rice Cooker Freeman had seen on the sign outside the city.

    Each Magic Rice Cooker was filled with white rice that released its fragrance in all directions. Each of these ten people were holding bowls the size of their faces which were filled with white rice, preparing to shove them into their faces.

    Thepetition seemed like it had just started and the ten people ate very quickly. Not long after, the tenrge bowls had already been emptied.

    However, when it came to the second bow, there were already clear winners and losers.

    Three people could only eat half a bowl before giving up, announcing they gave up.

    Not long after, another two also couldn¡¯t keep going.

    Of the remaining five, only two seemed very rxed after eating their second bowl and the other three seemed kind of stuffed.

    As expected, those three only finished a small of their third bowl before giving up. The other two finished the third bowl in a single breath.

    As the two remaining people dueled each other, the crowd became more excited. They kept cheering for those two and the atmosphere became very passionate.

    After they finished the fourth bowl, the actions of the two slowed down.

    After finishing half the fifth bow, there was one person who couldn¡¯t keep going any longer. He spat out a mouthful of rice while the other person slowly finished the rest of his bowl.

    Thispetition had naturally ended. A young person walked out to congratte the winner and handed the Magic Rice Cooker in front of him to him as his prize.

    Freeman asked the person beside him in a daze, ¡°Wasn¡¯t it said that only the final winner would receive a Magic Rice Cooker? Could it be that this is the finalpetition?¡±

    That person looked at Freeman and said in disdain, ¡°How could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be petty? Let me tell you, no matter whichpetition you win, you can receive a Magic Rice Cooker. The final winner not only receives a Magic Rice Cooker, they also receive a special prize. What? You want to enter?¡±

    Freeman nodded.

    At this time, the young person who seemed to be in charge announced that the nextpetition would be beginning soon. Freeman quickly charged out and stole a spot by the table.

    Seeing the hesitant looks on the faces of the people, Freeman couldn¡¯t help feeling disdain.

    These fellows, there is clearly free fragrant rice and they¡¯re actually noting, this is just a waste.

    After a while, ten people had gathered and another ten Magic Rice Cookers were ced on the tables.

    Under the young man¡¯s instructions, the ten contestants including Freeman took off the cover of the Magic Rice Cooker. Once the Magic Rice Cooker was opened, there was a fragrant scent that poured out that made the surrounding people cry out in shock.

    Freeman sucked in his nose with great force and felt the rich fragrance greet his nostrils, making him unable to stop his drooling. His stomach couldn¡¯t help making rumbling sounds.

    This Magic Rice Cooker really was a good thing. He only saw people put rice and water in it and it was cooked into fragrant rice in just a while. It was even more fragrant than the rice he cooked at home with hisrge pot.

    ¡°Let thepetition begin!¡±

    With themand of the young man, Freeman immediately used the rice paddle to fill the bowl in front of him. After blowing on it twice, he began to swallow inrge mouthfuls.

    Since the morning, Freeman had only drank water and hadn¡¯t eaten anything.

    For him to carry two hundred pounds of wheat such a far distance, the energy he consumed was quite shocking.

    His stomach had been empty for a long time and not to mention white rice, he might have even swallowed down a bowl of wild weed.

    The crowd felt like everything was a blur as therge bowl in front of Freeman had already been emptied.

    When Freeman continued to his second bowl, he was stopped by the young man in charge.

    ¡°What? I¡¯m not allowed to eat?¡± Freeman looked at the young man in a daze, as his face filled with disappointment.

    Alex couldn¡¯t stop the cold sweat from appearing on his face.

    Since this morning, there had been thirteen groups of over a hundred people who had participated in the Big Stomach King Competition, but this was his first time seeing a fellow who ate this quickly.

    Thisrge bowl, he wouldn¡¯t be able to finish even if he ate for an entire day, but this swarthy looking fellow actually finished it all in the blink of an eye. He really didn¡¯t know what his mouth and stomach was made of.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not that I¡¯m not letting you eat, but I¡¯m asking you to wait a bit for the other participants. It¡¯s more convenient for us to count this way.¡± Alex maintained his smile as he exined to Freeman.

    ¡°Oh.¡± Freeman could only put down his bowl before looking at the participants beside him, ¡°I say, can¡¯t you eat a bit faster? Could it be you don¡¯t want to win?¡±

    The other nine contestants looked at each other in nk dismay. They did want to win, but seeing how you eat, was there any hope of winning?

    After that, two contestants directly left their seats and gave up on thepetition.

    The other seven contestants were a bit unwilling and finished their first bowls.

    After seeing Freeman eat the second bowl like a hurricane clearing up the clouds, the remaining seven participants had all lost their appetites. There was no need to mention any chances of winning.

    So after Freeman had only eaten two bowls, he had already been named the winner of thispetition.

    Watching the other contestants leave, Freeman was a bit curious.

    ¡°Hey, why are you all leaving? This rice is this delicious, aren¡¯t you nning to eat a bit more?¡±

    Everyone was speechless.

    They had seen many participants of this Big Stomach King Competition, but this was their first time seeing this kind of fellow.

    Alex didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he ced the Magic Rice Cooker in front Freeman in his hands. He tried his best to keep a straight face as he said, ¡°This mister, congrattions on winning this round. This Magic Rice Cooker is your price, please take it. Other than this, I ask you to leave your name and toe participate in the final round at six.¡±

    Freeman looked at the Magic Rice Cooker in his hands in a daze. He had just eaten two bowls of rice and he had won a Magic Rice Cooker?

    Was there really such a good thing in this world?

    Facts proved it and the good things Freeman met was not just this.

    After doing some temporary work in the city for an afternoon, Freeman went to thepetition area after receiving his three silver coins. In the end, he shocked everyone by eating thirteen bowls of rice to win the entirepetition.

    Based on this victory, Freeman was led by Alex and he actually got to meet the legendary chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi!

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over Freeman before finallynding on his stomach and his eyes became a bit strange.

    He had clearly heard from Alex that this fellow had just eaten thirteen bowls of rice in the finals, but his stomach was only sticking out a little. He really couldn¡¯t see where he put the thirteen bowls of rice at all.

    ¡°Perhaps this is a natural talent?¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. He straightened his face and said with a soft cough ,¡±Hello, I am Xu Yi, you are called Freeman? I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯re from Irnd Vige?¡±

    Although Freeman was a bit surprised by how young he was, thinking of the other side¡¯s status as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯t help being a bit nervous. Hearing this question, he was stunned for a bit before awkwardly replying, ¡°Right, right, I am from Irnd Vige. I¡­..My appetite is just big¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You don¡¯t need to say this, I already know.¡±

    Freeman was instantly embarrassed and his dark face filled with a rare blush.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Since you¡¯re the final winner of thispetition, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has to give you some special prizes based on the rules. But before this, can I ask you a question?¡± Xu Yi then said.

    ¡°Ah, sir chairman, please ask, please ask whatever you want.¡±

    ¡°He, he, no need to be nervous. It¡¯s best you keep your calm in front of this question and answer me after you properly consider it.¡± Xu Yi paused. He looked at how nervous Freeman looked looking at him and he knew it was impossible for him not to be nervous. He gave a nod before continuing, ¡°Listen well, this question is actually a choice. Freeman, you have two rewards you can choose from right now. One of them is fifty gold coins¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 59 - Freeing up production forces

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 59 Freeing up production forces</strong>

    ¡°Fifty gold coins! That much!¡± Freeman stood up and his limbs started trembling out of excitement.

    Although he already guessed that the prizes would be quite good, he never thought that it would be a high prize of receiving fifty gold coins at once!

    For a poor family like his, if they had fifty gold coins, this meant that he could immediately escape his poor living conditions.

    Not only could he fix several ces in his roof that were leaking, he could even change the entire set of furniture in his house. Other than that, he could buy two new dresses for his wife and even buy several toys for his children that they had long fantasized about¡­...

    Xu Yi saw Freeman¡¯s fluctuating expression and didn¡¯t say anything to cut him off.

    Based on what Alex told him and the clothes Freeman was wearing, he could guess that this man¡¯s family background was a difficult one.

    Fifty gold coins was naturally nothing for the current Xu Yi, but it was a very important thing for Freeman.

    When Xu Yi had just transmigrated to the Sines Continent, because he wasn¡¯t familiar with the people and thend, he had almost starved to death.

    If someone were to suddenly give him fifty gold coins back then, his excitement wouldn¡¯t have been less than that of Freeman¡¯s.

    After a while, Freeman slowly regained his cool. He looked at Xu Yi and swallowed a mouthful of saliva with great difficulty as he slowly asked, ¡°Chair¡­..Sir chairman, is this true? You wouldn¡¯t be lying to me, right? Can I really receive a prize of fifty gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a very certain nod, ¡°Of course it¡¯s true. I think that since you are someone from Banta City, you should be familiar with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You think that I would throw away the prestige of ourpany for fifty gold coins?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, of course not, of course not!¡± Freeman quickly waved his hand, ¡°Sir chairman, don¡¯t misunderstand. It¡¯s just that for a while¡­..For a while, I didn¡¯t dare believe it, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m doubting you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I understand. Then Freeman, have you decided to pick this prize?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve decided¡­¡­¡± Freeman had just finished half his words when he suddenly stopped, ¡°Wait¡­..Wait a minute. Sir chairman, you said that there were two prizes that I could choose from, can I ask what the other prize is?¡±

    Seeing Freeman¡¯s eyes light up, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile. He thought that although this Freeman looked like an honest person, he wasn¡¯t dumb.

    ¡°Of course you can, but I don¡¯t think the second prize will excite you as much. This is because the second price is not as real as gold coins, rather it is giving you a chance.¡±

    ¡°Chance?¡± Freeman scratched his head and looked at Xu Yi with a confused gaze, ¡°Sir chairman, this¡­..What does this mean?¡±

    ¡°Freeman, I¡¯ve heard that you came from Irnd Vige to sell your wheat. You should have seen the wheat fields around Banta City, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Wheat fields?¡± Freeman tilted his head to think before nodding, ¡°Un, I saw quite a few on the way here. Speaking of this, sir chairman, it seems like the harvest near Banta City happened quite early. In the fields I saw, the wheat stalks had already been burnt for a long time.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s good that you could notice this point. But if I told you that Banta City¡¯s harvest had already harvested ten days ago, what would you think?¡±

    ¡°How is that possible!¡± After Freeman was in a daze for a bit, he forcefully shook his head, ¡°It had just ripened ten days ago, how could it have been harvested in just a day or two? Sir chairman, a great person like you might not understand some things in farming. You don¡¯t know that the harvest is very troublesome, even I had to spend a whole week to finish the couple of mus ofnd that I have.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out his right finger and shook it, ¡°No, I understand very well. Moreover, when the wheat fields outside Banta City were harvested, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce had participated.¡±

    Freeman looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°Sir chairman, I remember that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells Magic Fans, so how could it help with the harvest?¡±

    ¡°This is because we don¡¯t just sell Magic Fans, we also sell small Magic Harvesters.¡± Xu Yiughed as he took a picture from Alex¡¯s hands and opened it in front of Freeman, ¡°It¡¯s this.¡±

    Freeman looked over.

    What was drawn was a small harvester moving through the fields, but it was different from the scene Freeman was used to of several men in the field with des. What was drawn was arge man pushing something strange through the fields.

    This strange thing had arge opening that swallowed the grains and then there was a small mouth at the end that kept spitting out wheat grains.

    Freeman looked at it for a while before asking with a frown, ¡°Sir chairman, is this thing real? How could harvesting the wheat be this simple?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just this simple.¡± Xu Yi gave the picture to Freeman before honestly saying, ¡°Now, Freeman, we should return to the main point. The second prize you can choose from is an opportunity and this opportunity is rted to this small Magic Harvester, as well as the Small Magic Plowing Machine that we will be releasing soon¡­¡­¡±

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    ¡°Why?¡± Viscount Leslie slightly knit his brows as he looked down to read some documents Xu Yi gave him, ¡°You should know that even with fall harvest over, as long as you continue to make small Magic Harvesters, the nobles in Banta City will snatch them up. As for the small Magic Plowing Machine, there are a group of people who submitted orders to you for a long time now. With these two very hot magic machines and the total price of one hundred and twenty gold coins, you actually want to give it tomoners for free who don¡¯t have any rtionship to you at all? Xu Yi, just what are you thinking?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up and revealed a rxed smile to Viscount Leslie before shaking his head, ¡°It¡¯s not give, it¡¯s lend, this can¡¯t be mistaken.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a soft snort, ¡°Lend? Not taking a bit of money and lending it to someone, what difference is there from giving?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a difference.¡± Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie¡¯s face and felt that Viscount Leslie treated this issue very seriously. After thinking about it, he gave him a good exnation, ¡°Lord Viscount, this is actually a part of the farmer support n that I¡¯ve developed. As for this farmer support n, Sebas and I have discussed this before and I think he should have reported to you already.¡±

    ¡°He has indeed mentioned this before, but it was only a thought that you had and there wasn¡¯t a solid n at all. Why did you suddenly decide to do this? Giving¡­..Alright, boring the small Magic Harvester and the small Magic Plowing Machine to the farmers, how will it help the n?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very helpful.¡± Xu Yi was very clear that Viscount Leslie was a very insightful person. If he wanted to convince him, he couldn¡¯t use ambiguousnguage, ¡°Lord Viscount, before exining the specifics, I want to ask you a few questions.¡±

    Hearing what Xu Yi, Viscount Leslie immediately knew that Xu Yi had been thinking about this matter for a long time and his heart rxed. He rxed in his body and leaned back in his chair, waving his hand at Xu Yi to continue afterposing himself.

    ¡°Ask.¡±

    ¡°Alright. The first question, Lord Viscount, where do you think the small Magic Harvester and small Magic Plowing Machine are used in?¡±

    ¡°Is there a need to ask this? Of course it¡¯s on the farm.¡±

    ¡°Then the second question, limiting it to the area around Banta City, what proportion of farnd do you and the nobles own inside the area of Banta City?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..I remember there was a countst year and it was around 30%.¡± Viscount Leslie thought before replying.

    ¡°Very good. Since you and the nobles own 30%, what about the remaining 70%? Whose hands are it in?¡± Xu Yi then asked.

    ¡°Nonsense, if it doesn¡¯t belong to us nobles, of course it belongs to the royal family. The farnd in the hands of us nobles was granted to us by the royal family.¡±

    ¡°That is not quite correct.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although theoretically speaking, all thend in the kingdom belongs to the royal family, it is impossible for the royal family to have enough manpower and effort to open up all this farnd. Therefore, the farnd is actually given to the normal farmers of the kingdom. In theory, they are farnd owned by the royal family, but actually they are controlled by the peasants.¡±

    Viscount Leslie considered this a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°It¡¯s correct if you want to say it like this, but how is this rted to what you are talking about?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very closely rted.¡± Xu Yi continued in his certain voice, ¡°Lord Viscount, currently the small Magic Harvesters sold by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been sold to the nobles represented by you, but not a single one has gone to the peasants. This means that on the 30% of the farnd controlled by you nobles, it can enjoy the convenience of the small Magic Harvester, but those peasants still have to rely on pure arduous hand harvesting toplete their harvest.¡±

    Viscount Leslie knit his brows, ¡°What? You¡¯re nning to me the fact that those peasants can¡¯t afford the small Magic Harvester on us nobles?¡±

    ¡°There is no meaning in ming someone.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I¡¯m just stating a fact. The facts in front of us are that just using Banta City as an example, only the 30% farnd owned by you nobles can be quickly harvested and that is not the case with the other 70% farnd. What I want to do is help those farmers also enjoy the benefits of this quick harvest.¡±

    ¡°So you directly gave the small Magic Harvester and the small Magic Plowing Machine to that farmer named Freeman?¡± Viscount Leslie was still confused, ¡°But Xu Yi, what use does just giving one machine do? Based on the area Banta City covers, I think it won¡¯t be enough even if you give out a hundred, right? Then again, is there any benefits to you in this matter? Are there any benefits to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, I want to remind you that it is not giving and it is lending. Although you can¡¯t see any ie now, I can dare to guarantee that ourpany will earn arge revenue just based on this service, please believe me.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Other than this, this matter is of great importance to me alone and it will bring great benefits to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head in confusion, ¡°I can¡¯t see any benefits.¡±

    Xu Yiughed as his expression became a bit strange.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, have you heard of a phrase before? It is called freeing up production forces?¡±

 Volume 1 60 - Magic Plowing Machine

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 60 Magic Plowing Machine?</strong>

    The conversation with Viscount Leslie proceeded very smoothly.

    Compared to the proud and stubborn nobles, Viscount Leslie had a very clear advantage. It was that when there was something he didn¡¯t understand, he didn¡¯t directly reject it, rather he patiently listened and tried to understand it as much as possible.

    For example, the freeing up production forces that Xu Yi talked about. Viscount Leslie waspletely confused and he showed that he didn¡¯t understand at all.

    But he didn¡¯t refute Xu Yi because of this and patiently listened to what Xu Yi said. When Xu Yi used the hundred ves that he took from him as an example, he had a bit of understanding of the topic.

    When those hundred ves were under Viscount Leslie, they could only do a few simple things, so their value was very limited. In order to support them, Viscount Leslie even had to take out a few gold coins each year.

    But after he lent them to Xu Yi, it had only been two months. If he were just to calcte it by normal wages, it could be said that Viscount Leslie had earned over a thousand gold coins.

    Not to mention that they yed a very important role in developing the factory, bringingrge amounts of revenue to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Viscount Leslie was a major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the benefits thepany received, he would also receive a portion.

    So even if Viscount Leslie was not willing, he had to admit it. What Xu Yi said before waspletely right. If those ves remained in his hands, the value they had was far below the value they had in Xu Yi¡¯s hands.

    Thinking of this, Viscount Leslie became quite interested in the farmer support n that Xu Yi mentioned. Even if he didn¡¯t know the concrete parts of Xu Yi¡¯s ns, he still grabbed the bull by the horns and decided to fully support Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    Compared to this, although Xu Yi¡¯s worth had increased because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was still only a small merchant in Banta City. There were many things that weren¡¯t easy for him to do.

    It waspletely different for Viscount Leslie. As a famous noble in Banta City and having a deep family background, the power of his words in Banta City was not something Xu Yi couldpare to. With his great support, Xu Yi¡¯s n was naturally much easier to enforce.

    After three days, the first small Magic Plowing Machine was released. It made a demonstration on Viscount Leslie¡¯s farnd as usual.

    This time was different from watching Viscount Leslie harvest the wheatst time. The Banta City nobles who received the invitations didn¡¯t have a trace of doubt in their hearts and joyfully came because they knew the effects of the small Magic Plowing Machine being demonstrated this time.

    Although they only understood the name of the small Magic Plowing Machine, that didn¡¯t dampen their enthusiasm.

    In the fall harvest before this, the nobles had already enjoyed the benefits brought by the small Magic Harvester. A field that needed around ten days to half a month to finish harvesting was finished in at most two days with the small Magic Harvester. The increase in efficiency was terrifying.

    This time when Viscount Leslie told them that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had researched another magic machine that could increase the speed of their plowing, there wasn¡¯t a single noble that doubted this. Without even knowing what the appearance of the machine was like, they all submitted their orders to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the small Magic Plowing Machine was finally out, these nobles definitely wanted to be the first to see it.

    When they came to the set field, they were stunned to find that by the fields, other than the nobles, there were some fellows that looked likemoners. There were some among them who looked very crude, having swarthy faces and dressing like farmers.

    Seeing this scene, the nobles instantly felt dissatisfied.

    This was clearly a gathering of nobles, it was eptable for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi to participate, but what was the reason for thesemoners and even these earth working peasants being invited?

    But since it was Viscount Leslie that invited them, they thought that Viscount Leslie could have other intentions. These nobles were dissatisfied, but they didn¡¯t reveal it.

    These peasants felt very awkward, especially the normal farmers. They had never seen this many nobles before and now that they were suddenly standing by these noble masters, they felt very awkward.

    It was a good thing that the strange looking machine by the fields attracted everyone¡¯s eyes and everyone¡¯s attention fell onto this machine.

    This machine should be the small Magic Plowing Machine, but its appearance was even stranger than the small Magic Harvester.

    The front of the machine had a row of cylinders ced together and the bottom of each cylinder was releasing a weak yellow glow.

    There were some nobles with understanding of magic, so they could see that there was probably Earth Attributed Magic Arrays attached to the cylinders.

    Thinking about the fact that this machine was called the Magic Plowing Machine, it could be understood why there were Earth Attributed Magic Arrays on it.

    But the other half of the machine was something they couldn¡¯t understand.

    There was a firmly packed iron back on thetter half and other than the thing that looked like a slit, they couldn¡¯t clearly see what it was. It made people want to open the iron box and see what was inside.

    The doubts in their hearts didn¡¯tst long. After a while, Viscount Leslie saw that everyone had arrived and he announced that it would begin.

    Arge man came forward and after grabbing the handle of the machine, he pressed the switch. The row of cylinders with yellow glows lit up and then they fell down, mming into the ground that had turned hard after they had finished harvesting the wheat.

    The cylinders moved through the ground and everyone could hear a series of deep soundsing from the ground. After that, they saw countless cracks form in the hard ground as it began shaking.

    ¡°Earth Splitting Spell?¡± The eyes of a young noble by the field lit up as he spoke in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Baron Hanass, you recognize the Magic Array on the ground?¡± The noble beside him asked in a dazed voice.

    ¡°Un, if I haven¡¯t made a mistake, there should be the Earth Splitting Array on each of the cylinders.¡± The young noble called Baron Hanass nodded as he replied, ¡°Although the Earth Splitting Array is only a Second Grade Array, to have the array work like this, to control the affected area of the array, and to even let the arrays on the cylinders not affect each other, it is designed perfectly. It could be imagined how profound the Magic Array knowledge of the person who designed this magic machine is.¡±

    ¡°He, he, Baron Hannas, this is your first time in our Banta City, so I¡¯m sure you don¡¯t know. The one who designed this magic machine is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi. He is definitely a magician and it¡¯s said that even Great Magician Cami hasmended his talent for magic before. It is naturally not strange for him to be able to design this kind of Magic Array.¡±

    ¡°You said that he¡¯s a magician?¡± Baron Hannas was stunned, ¡°Since he is a Magician, why did he start apany? Why didn¡¯t he properly study magic? He has such great talent for magic, if hepletely focused on studying magic, he would definitely be a powerful magician!¡±

    The noble beside him gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t know that. But everyone has their own goals, perhaps chairman Xu Yi likes studying these kinds of things?¡±

    Baron Hannas shook his head with a frown and didn¡¯t say anything else.

    In the field, the small Magic Plowing Machine didn¡¯t stop as it moved forward.

    As the cylinders in front fell down, the Earth Splitting Array on the cylinders easily cracked the firm ground into loose soil. The iron box in the back finally revealed its fangs, which was a fierce looking iron rake.

    With the high speed rotation of the iron rake, the plows on the iron rake kept scattering the soil blocks left behind and broke them down into pieces.

    When the small Magic Plowing Machine passed through the patch of soil, the firm soil was turned into iparably loose piles of soil.

    Seeing this scene, whether it was the nobles or the farmers, they couldn¡¯t help gasping in shock.

    If one was relying on just manpower, to do the same kind of plowing work, not only would they have to spend arge amount of effort and time, it was impossible for the soil to be this loose. The effect would be greatly inferior.

    The more loose the soil was, the easier the nting work after the plowing was and it would be easier for the seeds nted to absorb the nutrients in the ground. It would be greatly beneficial to the future growth of the nts.

    So this meant that with the help of the small Magic Plowing Machine, not only could one save on time and effort, it would also greatly increase the growth of their nts.

    The group of people stared right at the small Magic Plowing Machine as it easily finished a mu of farnd in less than ten minutes before looking at the iparably loose soil in the field. It took them a while before they came back to their senses.

    Several nobles with quick reactions charged to Xu Yi standing beside Viscount Leslie and rushed as they shouted out.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, how is the small Magic Plowing Machine I ordered? Has it already been made? Send it to me right now!¡±

    ¡°Send what? Chairman Xu, I¡¯ll send people to yourpany now, there are fields at my estate that are waiting to be plowed.¡±

    ¡°Hey, don¡¯t think you can act like that just because you made an order. I was the first one to make an order back then. Chairman Xu, you must remember firste, first serve.¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the actions of these people, the other nobles instantly reacted. They all charged in front of Xu Yi and began shouting.

    Seeing these noble masters shouting without a care, themoners on the side were shocked before finally reacting.

    They looked at each other and they all revealed dispirited looks.

    Although the effects of this small Magic Plowing Machine was very shocking, it was clear it would be very expensive. Not to mention them being able to afford it, even if they did, those noble masters were going all out to snatch them, so how could anye to thesemoners.

    Thinking of this, themoners let out a sigh before preparing to leave while shaking their heads.

    They couldn¡¯t understand why Viscount Leslie had invited them at all. This kind of ce, it wasn¡¯t a ce formoners at all.

    When themoners wanted to leave, a man who whether it was his dress or his expression looked very serious came out. He smiled at everyone and said, ¡°Everyone, please wait. I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s finance manager, Sebas. May I ask everyone, is there anyone who wants the small Magic Plowing Machine?¡±

    Themoners were stunned. Seeing this very serious Sebas, they hesitated for a bit before they all nodded.

    It had to be said, this small Magic Machine had given them a strong shock and they had to be blind if they said they didn¡¯t want it.

    Seeing everyone nod, Sebas revealed a smile before continuing, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, I think you will all be interested in the farmer support n that ourpany has establishedtely¡­..¡±

 Volume 1 61 - Paparazzi

    <h4><b>Volume 1 Chapter 61: Paparazzi</b></h4>

    ¡°You were introduced by Lewis?¡± Xu Yi looked at this young noble that Viscount Leslie had attracted in front of him. He never thought that he would hear a name that he hadn¡¯t heard in a long time from him.

    Baron Hannas gave a slight nod before saying with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. When he heard that I wasing to Banta City, uncle Lewis told me that I had to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Uncle Lewis also said that he is very regretful that he couldn¡¯t obtain the chance to work with you on the Magic Fan before. If yourpany has any other new products, he would definitely cooperate with you if there was another chance.¡±

    Lewis¡¯ normal looking face with an astute feeling passed through Xu Yi¡¯s mind again.

    To arge client who ordered a thousand Magic Fans right away, Xu Yi had a profound impression of him.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been made and the Magic Fan had just been researched, they didn¡¯t enjoy the same fame as they did in Banta City and they didn¡¯t have any fame in the surrounding cities.

    Even in this situation, Lewis dared to immediately order such arge number. It could be seen that his eyes looked quite far and he was quite bold.

    What Xu Yi never imagined was that he still remembered their smallpany after several months and even sent someone to specially contact them.

    Xu Yi looked over Baron Hannas and thought that although this fellow was young, he was still a baron no matter what. Moreover, he went through Viscount Leslie to look for him, which meant that he had some status in Anvilmar City.

    For such a person to call Lewis uncle, it could be seen that Lewis was indeed an important person.

    ¡°Lewis¡­..How was mister Lewis certain that we would have new products?¡± Xu Yi asked curiously.

    Baron Hannas revealed a smile, ¡°I also asked uncle Lewis this and he responded that although he had only met chairman Xu Yi once, he could tell that you were a driven person. You definitely wouldn¡¯t be satisfied with just one product like the Magic Fan.¡±

    Xu Yi awkwardly touched his nose and his face became somewhat embarrassed.

    ¡°Am I that easily seen through by others?¡±

    Viscount Leslie who was apanying them broke out inughter, ¡°Xu Yi, if I couldn¡¯t see the ambition in you, do you think I would be willing to work with you?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Is the word ambition written all over my face?¡±

    Baron Hannas also broke out inughter, ¡°Chairman Xu is truly interesting. Having ambition isn¡¯t a bad thing, right? Since you have set up such a uniquepany, if you didn¡¯t have ambition¡­...Un, I like the word driven uncle Lewis said. If you didn¡¯t have drive, how could thispany havested this long?¡±

    ¡°Alright, I admit it, I have ambi¡­..I have a lot of drive. Un, I also like this word. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has just been established, but I will make it the bestpany in all of the Lampuri Kingdom and even the Sines Continent!¡± Xu Yi said with a firm nod.

    ¡°I believe that.¡± Baron Hannas nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But chairman Xu, I am also very curious. I¡¯ve heard that you are an exceptional magician and based on the small Magic Plowing Machine from earlier, I can at least tell that the level of your Earth Magic Array is quite high. Since it¡¯s like this, why didn¡¯t you choose to continue studying magic and be a powerful magician? Why did you choose to study magic machines? I think you should be very clear that even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bes thergestpany on the Sines Continent, as a merchant, your status still won¡¯t be as high as a powerful magic, right?¡±

    ¡°You are not the first person to ask me this.¡± Xu Yi looked over at Viscount Leslie. Just a month ago, Viscount Leslie had asked him this same question, ¡°This question is not easy to answer. I can only tell you that this is my personal interest.¡±

    Baron Hannas knit his brows and was very unsatisfied with this answer.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, based on personal interest, it has urged you to give up a promising future as a magician and be a merchant instead?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. He couldn¡¯t just tell him his thoughts about creating aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent, right?

    Even when Viscount Leslie asked him, Xu Yi only told him thatpared to studying magic, he rather liked studying magic machines.

    This kind of response about personal interest was not something others could understand or be satisfied with, but it was not something they could refute.

    So far, Xu Yi had only disclosed a trace of his true thoughts to Great Magician Cami and Still.

    As for Baron Hannas? Their rtionship was just toocking.

    ¡°Baron Hannas, I think you should give this question to mister Lewis, perhaps he will have a better time understanding this than you. That¡¯s right, you said that mister Lewis wants to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I wonder, what are the specifics of the cooperation?¡± Xu Yi quickly changed the topic.

    ¡°There aren¡¯t any.¡± Baron Hannas was still young and it was easy for Xu Yi to change his focus. He shook his head and said, ¡°Uncle Lewis just wanted me to take a look first and meet you if it was possible to raise this idea. As for what the specifics are¡­..I¡¯m not familiar with this. Does chairman Xu Yi have any methods of cooperation?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Me? Actually I know nothing about mister Lewis and don¡¯t even know what he does, so how could I know about any cooperation?¡±

    Baron Hannas¡¯ eyes popped out in shock, ¡°You actually don¡¯t know uncle Lewis¡¯ identity? Could it be that he didn¡¯t tell youst time?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°He only gave me a name card. There is only a name and an address on the name card, I don¡¯t know anything else.¡±

    ¡°There was an address on the name card uncle Lewis gave you? What was the address?¡±

    ¡°I think it was Anvilmar City¡¯s Sloan Street Number Twenty Three¡­...Or was it Number Twenty Four? I¡¯m sorry, I didn¡¯t bring the name card with me and I can¡¯t remember it too clearly.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Xu Yi found that Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas both had strange expressions.

    There was only a look of shock in Viscount Leslie¡¯s eyes while Baron Hannas looked at Xu Yi like he was a freak.

    ¡°Uncle Lewis actually gave you his personal name card! My god! I never thought that uncle Lewis treated you this importantly! No wonder he specially had mee find you.¡±

    Although Xu Yi was a bit surprised, he could guess from the reaction of the two that the name card Lewis gave him back then was not something that is easily obtained.

    This was even more strange. Lewis had clearly only met him once, so why did he treat him this importantly?

    Could it be that this fellow is a prophet, knowing that he would invent even more magic machines and would change the continent?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I think I need to learn more about you.¡± After Baron Hannas got over his shock, he revealed a serious expression, ¡°Uncle Lewis is famous for his judge of character and since he has put such importance on you, I think there should be something worth this on your body. Eh¡­..How about this? I will stay in Banta City for half a month and in this half a month, chairman Xu, can I learn more about you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being stunned, ¡°How do you want to learn?¡±

    ¡°For example, I can stay by your side all day and watch over your actions. I could also go to you factory and watch how you operate. I can also ask around Banta City and see what kind of evaluation people have towards yourpany¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi felt a chill run through him.

    The thoughts of this Baron Hannas, why was it simr to that of paparazzi on earth?

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid this¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi wanted to reject him, but seeing Viscount Leslie give him a nod from the side, he swallowed his words.

    ¡°Afraid what?¡± Baron Hannas asked with an expectant look.

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie¡¯s expression and considered it before saying with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m afraid you¡¯ll be wasting your time?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m very interested in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now. This will allow me to understand you better and when I return to Anvilmar, I can exin in greater detail when uncle Lewis asks me about this.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi hesitated for a while before nodding, ¡°Alright then. Since Baron Hannas has this idea, I will represent myself and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to warmly wee you.¡±

 Volume 1 62 - Banta Times

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 62 Banta Times</strong>

    ¡°I don¡¯t wee him!¡± Heinz steeled his face and revealed all of the unhappiness in his heart, ¡°Xu Yi, when you agreed to that fellow, why didn¡¯t you tell me first? Don¡¯t you know that now that we are producing the Magic Rice Cooker, we are working at full capacity and I have my hands full everyday. But now you want to bring in a weak and pale noble young master, do you want us to produce properly?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over in surprise at Baron Hannas in the distance who had a curious look and was skulking around like a cat and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°It can¡¯t be right? Didn¡¯t I already say that you don¡¯t need to care about him, just treat him like he doesn¡¯t exist. You also don¡¯t need to care about the fact that he¡¯s a noble young master, he already said that you don¡¯t need to be that polite to him.¡±

    ¡°You say it so easily!¡± Heinz angrily said, ¡°No matter what, he is still a noble young master from Anvilmar City and based on what you said, he has a strong noble background. There are many magic production machines andponents in this workshop, so if something happened to him or if he was injured, would we even be able to keep running this workshop? Even if nothing happens to him, he is still interfering with our normal work by standing there! Look, he¡¯s even running over to harass our workers¡­..My god! He actually wants to control the Magic Thread Rolling Machine!¡±

    Xu Yi and Heinz quickly ran over and pulled back Baron Hannas who was eager to give the machine a try.

    ¡°This¡­..Ke, Baron Hannas, you can look over the workshop, but let¡¯s forget about operating the machines, alright?¡± Xu Yi learned from Viscount Leslie¡¯s signals that this Baron Hannas¡¯ background was not small, so he should agree with him as much as possible, ¡°This magic machine is a bit dangerous, so if you try to operate it without training, it is very likely you¡¯ll be hurt by it. Look, the head can knock the head of the nail t, I think it wouldn¡¯t be that difficult for it to break your finger or even your arm, right?¡±

    Baron Hannas was a bit curious, ¡°It can¡¯t be right? It looks quite simple for those workers to control it.¡±

    ¡°That is because they are our skilled workers. You have to know, when these magic machines were being used at first, there were some workers that were injured because of it and there was even one who broke his arm.¡± Speaking of this, Xu Yi looked over at the workers that were working the Magic Thread Rolling Machine.

    Those workers understood and quickly followed him.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s right. That kid Ti¡¯s arm still hasn¡¯t healed yet.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this thing is dangerous. I was almost identally caught in itst time and if it wasn¡¯t for my quick reactions, I would have lost my entire arm.¡±

    ¡°Right, this magic machine is not something to y with. People who aren¡¯t skilled with it will be injured.¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the terrifying words from the workers, Baron Hannas hesitated a bit before helplessly giving up with a sigh.

    ¡°Alright then, I won¡¯t control it myself and watch you work it instead.¡±

    Xu Yi and Heinz had just given a sigh of relief. They saw Baron Hannas take out a small book and pen from his chest and write something in front of the two.

    ¡°There is danger in controlling the magic machines, even workers can be injured.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the writing in the book and his face twitched.

    He never thought the things he said casually would be seriously written down by him.

    It was a good thing that there was no worker unions on the Sines Continent, otherwise based on what was recorded here, his factory might have been shut down.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly thought that although even though he paid attention to the treatment of his workers, he hadn¡¯t really thought about safety programs orpensation ns.

    Currently there hasn¡¯t been a workce injury ident yet, so this hidden danger hasn¡¯t been revealed yet. But once this came out, it would cause trouble if he didn¡¯t have appropriate measures in ce.

    The workers in the workshop before were ves from Viscount Leslie, but now that they had recruited a hundred workers, he had no choice but to attach importance to this issue.

    Thinking of this, in front of Baron Hannas, Xu Yi made ns with Heinz for everything.

    Seeing Baron Hannas record everything he said in his little book, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    The things Baron Hannas were recording were clearly being brought back for Lewis.

    If these things became important to Lewis because he found them interesting, it would be very helpful to what Xu Yi wanted to do in the future.

    After he finished touring the household magic machine workshop, Xu Yi brought Baron Hannas to the magic machine workshop.

    Seeing that this workshop was filled with dwarves, Baron Hannas was quite surprised.

    Since the race war several thousand years ago, other races were appearing less and less in human areas.

    Even in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital of Anvilmar, it would be hard to find several dwarves. There was no need to mention an entire hundred dwarves.

    Baron Hannas couldn¡¯t suppress the curiosity in his heart, as he grabbed the manager Camby and began asking questions. Only these questions were not rted to the workshop or the magic machines, rather it was about the daily lives of the dwarves.

    Seeing Baron Hannas asking these gossip questions with an excited look on his face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he made a decision.

    If this Baron Hannas was ced on earth, he was most suited to being a paparazzi.

    Thinking of the paparazzi, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help suddenly thinking of something.

    He remembered that over a month ago, he had asked Heinz whether there was a newspaper in Banta City or not. The response was that other than the asional government notice from the City Lord Manor, there weren¡¯t any official newspapers.

    Now that he saw Baron Hannas acting like a paparazzi, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking about those tabloids back on earth. He then suddenly thought that since there were no newspapers in this world, why wouldn¡¯t he just make one?

    On earth, before the inte, the newspaper could control what the public discussed. If one controlled the newspaper, it was equal to controlling the public opinion and could even guide it to a certain extent.

    If Xu Yi could seed in making a newspaper, he could definitely create some influence for himself.

    Of course, the idea of social sses was very important on the Sines Continent, so trying to control the public¡¯s opinion was a way to seek one¡¯s death. However, this did not hinder the other conveniences of a newspaper, like in the form of advertisements¡­...

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s somewhat helpless gaze looking at Baron Hannas instantly changed.

    ###

    Ten days passed and it was officially the October of autumn.

    Most of the leaves on trees were dyed golden yellow and people on the paths gradually changed to longer clothes. There was a cool breeze that filled the air, as the summer heat from beforepletely disappeared.

    Today was a normal day in Banta City, but early in the morning, it was a bit different for the people of the city.

    ¡°Extra! Extra! Freshly printed ?Banta Times?! Any big and small news in and outside the city will all be in the ?Banta Times?!¡±

    A little boy who was around eleven-twelve was running through the streets, shouting out in a clear voice.

    Hearing what he said, the people on the streets stopped moving and looked at the little boy with curious gazes.

    ¡°Hey, kid, what is this ?Banta Times?? What small and big news? What is it for?¡± An uncle who was the closest to the little boy called out to ask him these questions.

    The little boy was not nervous as he took a newspaper from the sack filled with newspaper at his chest with a smile and handed it over, ¡°Look, this is the ?Banta Times?. There are many things recorded that are happening inside and outside the city, are you interested in buying one to take a look? It¡¯s very cheap, each copy is only one silver coin.¡±

    ¡°Let me see it first to see if I¡¯ll buy it or not.¡± The uncle prepared to take it, but the little boy swiftly dodged out of the way.

    ¡°This customer, the most important thing about the newspaper is the content. If you finish reading it, how can I sell it to you? How about it? It¡¯s only one silver coin, you can read it as you wish.¡±

    The uncle red at the little boy, but while being watched by the crowd, he still obediently gave him a silver coin. After that, he had a high and mighty appearance as he read the newspaper.

    Compared to themoners outside Banta City, the people in the city were much more educated. This uncle looked quite rough, but he still knew how to read. As soon as he opened the newspaper, he read in a loud voice.

    ¡°Front page headline, farmer support n, good! Some time ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced the small Magic Harvester and small Magic Plowing Machines that they researched. They are prepared to provide support to farmers and make it easier for them to nt their fields. After a month of experiments, the n is proceeding very smoothly. Three viges outside Banta City including Irnd Vige were the site of the first round of experiments and the farmers have already enjoyed the benefits of this n. To support this n, Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Sean Samo has said that this is a n that helps themoners and has praised the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a conscientiouspany¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing the uncle read this, the surrounding people all broke out in discussions.

    ¡°I¡¯ve also heard about this farmer support n before. I have a rtive who lives in Irnd Vige and I¡¯ve heard that someone from their vige rented a small Magic Plowing Machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It only took three days to finish all the fields in Irnd Vige and they earned over four gold coins just from this thing.¡±

    ¡°How did they earn so much?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. He used this small Magic Plowing Machine to help others plow their fields and charged two silver coins for each mu. Irnd Vige has around two hundred mus of farnd and it was all taken by him, so how much did he earn?¡±

    ¡°Then all the Irnd Vige¡¯s people had him plow their fields and they didn¡¯t do it themselves?¡±

    ¡°Are you stupid? If you plow it yourself, how long will each mu take? Also you would be tired to death. If you let him do it, a single mu takes less than ten minutes and only costs two silver coins, so would you do it? Couldn¡¯t you just do something else with all that time and effort saved?¡±

    ¡°That is right¡­...I¡¯ve heard that the Lord City Lord is also repaving the roads and there is work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There is work everywhere and with all that time, one can earn much more than just two silver coins.¡±

    ¡°That is correct¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the discussion of the crowd, the uncle became morecent and read even louder.

    However, many people were too impatient to listen to him read. They went directly in front of the little boy and gave him a silver coin, buying a copy for themselves to read.

    After a while, the little boy¡¯s sack of newspapers was emptied and there were many people who hadn¡¯t received on.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s disappointed appearances, the little boy put away the silver coins in his hand and shouted with a smile, ¡°There will be ?Banta Times? sold daily starting now! If everyone wants to buy one, pleasee earlier!¡±

 Volume 1 63 - City Lord Manorâ€™s banquet

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 63 City Lord Manor¡¯s banquet</strong>

    A horse carriage came out of Viscount Leslie¡¯s manor and quickly moved on the smooth road towards Banta City.

    Inside the carriage, Viscount Leslie was currently looking over a copy of ?Banta Times? in his hands!

    After looking at it for a while, Viscount Leslie nodded in praise, ¡°This thing really isn¡¯t bad. I dare confirm that this thing will definitely be popr. Xu Yi, it¡¯ll be much more convenient for you to advertise on this thing in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi sitting in front of Viscount Leslie stopped flipping through the papers in his hands and looked up with a smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, although this is correct that I made this thing to make advertising much easier, you mustn¡¯t say this in front of Baron Hannas or he will definitely be angry.¡±

    Viscount Leslie broke out inughter, ¡°That¡¯s right, that fellow has invested in this thing, so if you run in front of him and tell him that you want to add advertisements, he might even give you face as the founder, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°All that doesn¡¯t matter, I made this newspaper thing to give him something to do. It was to stop him from following me to the factory all day, stopping Heinz fromining to me all day.¡±

    Viscount Leslie¡¯sughter became louder, ¡°Xu Yi, if Heinz hear you being this blunt, he would definitely be angered to death. Is he really that troublesome?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, Lord Viscount, you can¡¯t randomly say this. How could Baron Hannas be troublesome? Only¡­...Un, he cares a bit too much about me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it does affect our work a bit. Now that I¡¯ve specially researched the Magic Printer and provided enough funds and the location for him to set up this ?Banta Times?, Baron Hannas is very grateful towards me. If he were to hear your misleading words about me, I would suffer quite a bit.¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°Hannas is still too young, he was easily taken caught up by you. ording to his schedule, he should have returned to Anvilmar already, but now that you¡¯ve made this ?Banta Times?, he has been having too much fun and has forgotten about going back. When I met him yesterday, he even said that he wanted to stay here forever, making the ?Banta Times? better and better. I really don¡¯t know what he is thinking.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he thought that it was very simple. The ?Banta Times? was a very novel thing on the Sines Continent, not only did it satisfy Baron Hannas¡¯ gossiping personality, it satisfied him as a passionate young man who was in his early twenties. He could control many things with this newspaper, so naturally he was quite enthusiastic about this.

    Of course, the reason why Xu Yi made him the ?Banta Times?¡¯s chief editor was not just as simple as finding something for him to do and to stop him from causing trouble.

    Towards the ?Banta Times?, Xu Yi had considered it quite a bit. Although this was quite a novel thing for the Sines Continent, he believed that very soon that many people would be able to see the great things this new thing would bring.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current status, it was not suitable for him to control this thing. So when he created the ?Banta Times?, although he provided the idea, funds, and location, the ownership of this newspaper was put in Viscount Leslie¡¯s name and after talking to Baron Hannas, he was appointed the chief editor.

    On the surface, this ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t seem connected to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but this newspaper would definitely be affected by Xu Yi. It would definitely be biased towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Actually, you can tell Baron Hannas that even if he returns to Anvilmar, he can still remain as the chief editor. At worst, he could just start an ?Anvilmar Times?.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with deep meaning as he shook his head, ¡°You think Anvilmar is the same as this ce? It won¡¯t be that easy to do the same thing in Anvilmar, especially with a sensitive thing like the newspaper. Do you believe that if this was Anvilmar, even if the newspaper could appear, it would be a thing that ispletely different from what you imagined?¡±

    ¡°Naturally I believe this.¡± Xu Yi nodded with an understanding look.

    Viscount Leslie looked out the window to the north and after thinking for a bit, he suddenly gave a sigh. He turned back and returned to his calm expression, as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s not talk about this. Have you thought about what you¡¯re going to say to the Lord Count?¡±

    Xu Yi tapped the papers in his hands before pointing at his head, ¡°It¡¯s all prepared.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡± Viscount Leslie nodded, ¡°This is your first time meeting the Lord Count, you have to leave a good impression. If you can obtain his support, whether it is to you or thepany, it would be of great help.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand that.¡±

    The horse carriage moved through Banta City, moving to the north of the city without stopping. Finally it stopped in front of the City Lord Manor to the north of the city.

    Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie jumped out of the horse carriage and a middle aged man in butler clothes came to wee them.

    ¡°Viscount Leslie, the Lord City Lord has already been waiting a long time.¡± The middle aged man who should have been the butler of the City Lord¡¯s Manor came forward to wee Viscount Leslie before looking at Xu Yi ,¡±This should be chairman Xu, right? Please follow me.¡±

    There was a clear difference in the butler¡¯s attitude when dealing with Viscount Leslie and Xu Yi. He was quite warm when dealing with Viscount Leslie and had a trace of respect, but when facing Xu Yi, he was a bit cold, just like he was greeting a passerby.

    Naturally Xu Yi would be disappointed by this. With his status, it was all based on Viscount Leslie¡¯s face that he could see the Lord City Lord.

    Viscount Leslie treated Xu Yi quite importantly, so he introduced Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, this is the Lord Count¡¯s butler, Heid. You¡¯ll be seeing him many times in the future, you need to remember him.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded at Butler Heid with a faint smile.

    Butler Heid looked at Viscount Leslie with a surprised look. When he looked back at Xu Yi, he revealed a faint smile and was a bit warmer than before.

    After exchanging simple greetings, Xu Yi consciouslygged behind Viscount Leslie by half a step as they followed Butler Heid into the City Lord Manor.

    This City Lord Manor was not as big as Xu Yi expected. After walking for a bit, they came to a hall that seemed to be the reception hall of the manor.

    However, Butler Heid didn¡¯t lead them in, rather he turned and led them to the side.

    ¡°The Lord City Lord has already prepared dinner in the dining room, pleasee with me.¡±

    Hearing what Butler Heid said, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Viscount Leslie.

    Although he already knew that Viscount Leslie and City Lord Count Sean Samo had a good rtionship, based on Butler Heid¡¯s attitude and the fact that the Lord City Lord directly invited them to the dining room, it seemed like their rtionship was closer than Xu Yi expected.

    It seemed like the family behind Viscount Leslie was not weak. Otherwise, just based on the fact that he was a small viscount, he would not have such a close rtionship with a respected City Lord who was also a noble count.

    Very soon, the two were led by Butler Heid to the dining room and they saw Count Sean Samo already sitting in the dining room.

    Seeing the two of them, Count Sean immediately broke out inughter and waved his hand to let the twoe in.

    As soon as he sat down, Xu Yi felt a strange cool breeze on his back. Looking back in surprise, he saw a Magic Air Conditioner on the wall of the dining room. It was releasing a faint blue glow and was blowing out a cool breeze.

    Noticing Xu Yi¡¯s movements, Count Sean broke out inughter again, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you remember that the first time we met was at Viscount Leslie¡¯s banquet? If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, this kid should have held this banquet because he was in cahoots with you and wanted to help you promote this Magic Air Conditioner? Otherwise, with this kid¡¯s temper, how could he have found arge group of people to bother him for no reason.¡±

    Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie looked at each other in surprise before he said with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord truly is wise. That¡¯s right, that banquet was me asking for help from the Lord Viscount and the goal was indeed to advertise the Magic Air Conditioner. Of course, the effects aren¡¯t bad, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s good. Can¡¯t you see that I couldn¡¯t hold back my temptation and bought several back at once?¡± Count Sean pointed at Viscount Leslie, ¡°Back then I felt that even this arrogant kid was willing to help you, then you Xu Yi must be someone with true skills. I never thought that my expectations were too small back then. In just a short two months, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invented so many novel things, it has really opened my eyes.¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord is excessive with your praise. These are only a few small things I came up with when I had free time, it really isn¡¯t anything.¡± Xu Yi immediately said in a humble voice.

    ¡°Small things?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi. He revealed a faint smile, but he said nothing as he turned to give a nod to Butler Heid on the side.

    Butler Heid pped his hands and a group of maids brought in all kinds of dishes.

    The maid walking in the back was different from the other maids. On the tray she was holding, there was a Magic Rice Cooker!

    Seeing Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie¡¯s stunned expressions, Count Sean broke out in a long burst ofughter.

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t like eating rice?¡±

    Viscount Leslie shrugged his shoulders and acted very natural, ¡°Lord Count, you know that I¡¯ve never been picky about my food.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows in an undetectable manner.

    The Lord City Lord kept disying his knowledge of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce since the beginning. Was this a show of goodwill? Or was it a warning?

 Volume 1 64 - Negotiations

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 64 Negotiations</strong>

    Even though there were only three people, this banquet in the City Lord Manorsted an hour before it finally finished.

    After they finished eating, Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie went into a hall that wasn¡¯t big under the invitation of Count Sean. After chatting about a few things, Count Sean quickly changed the topic to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you had this kid Leslie use his face to find me, you can¡¯t be silent like you were at the dinner table after getting to see me, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi after hearing this and Xu Yi nodded. He organized his thoughts and said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, this is my first time being honoured by your presence, so I was a bit nervous and couldn¡¯t help being a bit silent.¡±

    Count Sean waved his hand, ¡°When this kid Leslie introduced you to me, he didn¡¯t say it like this. He said that you were a person with many ideas and based on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I believe his judgement. You say that you are nervous meeting me? I can¡¯t see it though?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and decided to abandon this method. After thinking about it, he continued, ¡°Alright, it doesn¡¯t matter if I¡¯m nervous or not, I can only be not nervous right now. Lord City Lord, I asked the Lord Viscount to arrange this meeting, so naturally I have something that I need your help with.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s right that you have something. If you didn¡¯t need anything, why would you see an old man like me? I am not some kind of beauty.¡± Count Sean said with a nod, ¡°Speak, just what do you need? If it is like this kid Leslie and you want me to help you advertise yourpany¡¯s products, I can¡¯t do that. There are manypanies in Banta City, I can be biased towards any of them.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he thought that this Count Sean¡¯s manner of speech was quite charming.

    This was also good. If he was a stubborn old noble, the matters he wanted to talk about today would be hard to approve.

    ¡°Of course not. As the Banta City City Lord, if it was just to ask you to help me advertise, that would be too much of a waste.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Does that mean I have a bigger use?¡± Count Sean felt interested as he looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hei¡­..Lord City Lord, I think you should have some understanding of the farmer support n ourpany has introducedtely, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Count Sean nodded, ¡°Not only do I have some understanding, I have properly investigated it. I have to say, the n proposed by yourpany is quite excellent. If it can be implemented smoothly, I think it will greatly improve the lives of our Banta City peasants.¡±

    ¡°Improving the lives of the peasants is just a preliminary goal.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°The most important reason ourpany is promoting this n is to improve themercial power of the farmers with these agricultural magic machines. By increasing the nting power of the farmers, they will be able to open more farms and increase their food production. While changing their lives, they will be liberated from their farms and they have more time to engage in different forms of work.¡±

    ¡°For example, working in yourpany¡¯s factory?¡± Count Sean asked with a raised brow.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Lord City Lord, working in ourpany¡¯s factory is quite good. I think that if those farmers had the choice, they would definitely agree.¡±

    Count Sean gave a slight nod, ¡°I already know a bit about that. I¡¯ve heard that a normal worker in your factory can earn at minimum six gold coins each month, this is quite a bit in our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Actually, if I speak honestly, this sry is still low. I rather give these workers greater wages so they will work in ourpany¡¯s factory for a long time. You might not know this, but Saltan City¡¯s Leo Chamber of Commerce has been stealing many of ourpany¡¯s workers with higher wages. It has caused us to recruit even more workers and train them, causing our production speed to slow down quite a bit.¡±

    ¡°Saltan City¡¯spany?¡± Count Sean knit his brows, ¡°There are actuallypanies from other citiesing here to steal our Banta City¡¯s workers? You just let them steal them away?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands and looked helpless, ¡°There was no other way, the Leo Chamber of Commerce was offering a high price of ten gold coins per month. Many workers couldn¡¯t resist this temptation and were stolen away.¡±

    Count Sean gave a soft snort, ¡°Ten gold coins? They really were willing to put in money. But why is this Leo Chamber of Commerce stealing your workers?¡±

    ¡°This is because the Leo Chamber of Commerce also produces magic machines like us.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°So it¡¯s like this¡­...Then what methods do you have to counter this? Why haven¡¯t you raised the wages for your workers?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°This¡­...Lord City Lord, although we want to raise the wages for our workers, as a long term n for ourpany, it isn¡¯t the correct decision to increase the wages for our workers because this will disrupt our ns and will affect ourpany¡¯s future development. So we can only use other methods, like giving our workers more welfare benefits instead. Of course, there are only a small part of the workers that were poached and most of the workers are willing to remain at ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care what ns yourpany has, but I hope that you will properly deal with this matter. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is our Banta City¡¯s fastest developing and most promisingpany, I hope that you will not be defeated this easily.¡± Count Sean waved his hand as he spoke.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise.

    Based on the meaning of Count Sean¡¯s words, it seemed like he was very supportive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was very good news for Xu Yi.

    With the support of the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, it would save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quite a bit of trouble at least in Banta City.

    ¡°Lord City Lord can be assured, although the Leo Chamber of Commerce is several times bigger than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can dare to guarantee that at least in terms of magic machines, they are not our match!¡± Xu Yi spoke in a confident voice.

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi for a while before nodding in satisfaction.

    ¡°Very good. Then let¡¯s return to the previous topic. The farmer support n that you have, its main goal is to free the farmers from their farms and let them take other work. I can understand this logic, but do you know that to Banta City and to the entire Lampuri Kingdom, farms are the most basic things? If there isn¡¯t enough food being produced, everything else is for nothing. When people are hungry, they can do anything.¡±

    Seeing Count Sean¡¯s serious expression, Xu Yi also became serious. He gave a strong nod and said, ¡°I understand the Lord City Lord¡¯s worries. But Lord City Lord, I think that this is because you don¡¯t understand the agricultural magic machines and that is why you have this kind of worry. In this aspect, perhaps you¡¯ll doubt me if I say something, so I¡¯ll let the Lord Viscount exin it to you.¡±

    Count Sean¡¯s eyes turned to Viscount Leslie to the side.

    Viscount Leslie was already prepared. He calmly put down the teacup in his hand and gave a slight nod, ¡°Lord Count, as for this regard, I can be a guarantee for Xu Yi. Take my territory for instance, during the fall harvest, I had around seven hectares of wheat fields on my territory. If it wasst year, I would have needed to send out all my ves and guards under me for half a month to finish the harvest. But after I bought two small Magic Harvesters from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I used less than two days to finish the entire harvest and I used no more than twenty ves the entire time.¡±

    Count Sean raised a brow, ¡°Is this true? It was only two days? You used less than twenty ves toplete it?¡±

    ¡°Lord Count, how could I lie to you? Not just me, you can also ask the other nobles in Banta City. As long as they have wheat fields in their territory that needs to be harvested, they would buy a small Magic Harvester. This will also save themrge amounts of time and effort. Lord Count, your territory isn¡¯t here, but if it was, I would strongly rmend you buy two harvesters because these things are just too easy to use.¡±

    Count Sean seriously looked over Xu Yi before giving a slow nod, ¡°I had heard a bit about this before, but I never thought it would be this shocking. Xu Yi, even if we don¡¯t discuss the others, just based on this small Magic Harvester, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has performed a great merit.¡±

    Viscount Leslie said whileughing, ¡°Lord Count, don¡¯t be anxious, I¡¯m not done yet. Other than the small Magic Harvester, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has also released a small Magic Plowing Machine, greatly increasing the efficiency of plowing the earth before nting the seeds. Right now, with the help of the small Magic Plowing Machine, I have decided to open up another twenty one hectare of farnd and will nt them all when the timees. If nothing happens, the food produced next year will be increased by several times.¡±

    Count Sean didn¡¯t reveal a pleasantly surprised look, rather he knit his brows.

    ¡°Leslie, how could nting crops be an easy thing. Even if you have this small Magic Harvester to increase the harvest speed and the small Magic Plowing Machine to increase the plowing speed, farming is not just harvesting and plowing. There is also taking care of the seedlings, nting the seeds, weeding, watering, and all kinds of other things that need to be done. If you open all these fields, will you have enough manpower to take care of them all?¡±

    Viscount Leslie smiled and didn¡¯t reply, as he looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, the so called agricultural magic machines are not just the small Magic Harvester and the small Magic Plowing Machine. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will also build small Magic Excavators, small Magic Water Pumps, small Magic Earth Drills, small Magic Road Rollers, and other kinds of magic machines. Our final goal is to rece all manpower with magic machines and liberate all manpower from the farms. Just yesterday, I had discussed this with Viscount Leslie and have made ns to redesign all the fields in his territory. We¡¯ll turn the fields in his territory into rice paddies which are more suitable for magic machines and easier to nt.¡±

    ¡°Wait, rice paddies that are easier to nt?¡± Count Sean was stunned, ¡°Banta City mainly nts wheat, so why is Leslie changing to nting rice? This ce isn¡¯t a ce rich in water like Karma City, perhaps it won¡¯t be cost effective?¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a smile, ¡°Lord Count, Banta City isn¡¯tcking in water, only it is difficult to use. Now that there is help from the magic machines, it¡¯s much easier to use them. Then again, wouldn¡¯t one be tired of eating bread all day? It¡¯s good to change what you eat.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi before giving a cold snort, ¡°I remember now. The newest product your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is focusing on building is the Magic Rice Cooker. That thing, it requires people to eat rice, so no wonder you had this kid Leslie nt rice paddies. Do you want all of Banta City to change to nting rice paddies?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying anything.

 Volume 1 65 - Vivianâ€™s talent

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 65 Vivian¡¯s talent</strong>

    Being lost in negotiations with Count Sean, naturally a long time passed. When Xu Yi returned home, the moon was already in the middle of the sky and it was close to midnight.

    When he opened the door to his house, Vivian wasn¡¯t waiting at the door like usual. The house waspletely dark and silent, not containing a single sound.

    ¡°She probably couldn¡¯t wait and went to sleep.¡± Xu Yi secretly thought.

    He took off his shoes and entered the room, but he was surprised to find that there was someone lying on the table in the living room.

    Using the moonlight to see, who else would it be if not Vivian?

    Looking at the table, the dishes on it hadn¡¯t been touched at all. She must have made the meal a long time ago and had been waiting for Xu Yi toe back to eat, but she must have fallen asleep while waiting.

    Looking at Vivian¡¯s little sleeping face, there was an apologetic feeling that passed through Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    Because Viscount Leslie had suddenly contacted him to go to the City Lord Manor for dinner, he didn¡¯t have time to contact Vivian and made this little girl wait for him the entire time.

    ¡°I was talking with Leslie and Count Sean about freeing the production forces that I forgot about a little girl like Vivian in a small room like this, I really did go a bit overboard.¡± Xu Yi sighed as he shook his head. He leaned over to pick up Vivian.

    Compare to how thin she was when Xu Yi bought her, although Vivian was still a bit slender, she had gotten a bit heavier, which made it a bit hard for Xu Yi to carry her.

    This is because one, Vivian was currently in her growth spurt and two, the conditions in Xu Yi¡¯s ce was much better than being a ve under Viscount Leslie. This caused her body to quickly be stronger.

    Other than putting on some weight, there were other parts of Vivian¡¯s body that had begun to develop. When Xu Yi picked her up, he could feel the richness of certain parts of her body, causing him to be somewhat distracted.

    It was a good thing Xu Yi wasn¡¯t an impulsive young fellow in his teens. Even if he knew that Vivian wouldn¡¯t dare reject him if he raised this request to her, he suppressed his desires and carried Vivian to her room to let her sleep.

    Returning back to the living room, Xu Yi lit a candle.

    As soon the candle was lit, Xu Yi suddenly seemed to have realized something and he hit his own head.

    ¡°Idiot, I always thought that there was a magic machine I should invent, but I had thrown away a premade thing in front of me. Hei, if I were to invent this thing, Heinz would definitely be very satisfied.¡±

    Since he began studying magic machines, there were all kinds of ideas that came into Xu Yi¡¯s head. Some could only be stored in Xu Yi¡¯s head for now since the Sines Continent had a weak industrial system and some could be realized, so Xu Yi recorded them down to find a suitable time to release them.

    Now that he had thought of this idea, Xu Yi followed his habit and took out the notebook he carried with him to write it down.

    As soon as he sat down at the table, Xu Yi was surprised to find that there were several blueprints where Vivian had just been lying. There were also several pieces of paper scattered on the ground to the side.

    Xu Yi took several pieces of paper to look over and he found that there were designs for all kinds of magic machines on them!

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk. These designs were the ones made asionally when he was home, he never thought that Vivian¡¯s memory was this outstanding. She had only watched from a side a few times and she couldpletely draw them.

    These designs seemed quite normal, but they were actually the trade secrets of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If these were to fall in the hands of the Leo Chamber of Commerce who also cared about the magic machines, it would create losses to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that were greater than losing the sales of several hundred magic machines.

    Xu Yi thought about it and quickly ruled out the terrifying thought that Vivian was actually a business spy.

    Since she was bought by Xu Yi, Vivian had almost never left his house and the only person she contacted outside was Still.

    Still definitely wasn¡¯t any kind of business spy, so even if Vivian wanted to do it, there weren¡¯t enough conditions met to do it.

    Moreover, Vivian¡¯s status was only Xu Yi¡¯s ve. ording to thews of the Lampuri Kingdom, no matter how Xu Yi treated her, there were no problems even if he killed her.

    With Vivian¡¯s personality, she didn¡¯t have this courage.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi rxed and seriously looked over the diagrams in his hand.

    It had to be said, although Vivian couldn¡¯t even read, she was quite skilled in drawing. These diagrams were no different from the ones Xu Yi drew at all.

    Other than these diagrams, Vivian actually drew manyplete drawings of magic machines.

    Looking at it, it seemed like she had drawn the finished magic machine based on the designs.

    Although the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were a bit different from these, they weren¡¯t that much different in the end.

    Even¡­...Xu Yi had to admit that if it was based purely on physical appearance, the magic machines Vivian drew was actually a bit more beautiful¡­...

    ¡°Could it be that this little girl has a natural talent as a designer?¡± Xu Yi looked at the diagrams and his expression became very strange.

    As a talented mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi had seen many talented people. He knew more clearly than anyone else that there were geniuses that could make people speechless.

    But he had never connected a pitiful little ve like Vivian with the identity of a genius, not to mentionbining her and rough machines.

    But in front of Xu Yi, even though the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have things like magic machines before, it was unknown how this little girl developed this talent¡­...

    For things that he couldn¡¯t understand, Xu Yi could only put things that were very unlikely to the side with his scientific mind. He shook his head and honestly wrote down the idea he just had before tidying up the table. He was toozy to wash up, so he directly dragged his exhausted body to go to sleep.

    When he woke up the next day, Xu Yi woke up to the sounds of Vivian making breakfast.

    The first thought Xu Yi had was that he should change houses. Otherwise if Vivian were to wake him up every day when she made breakfast, he wouldn¡¯t be able to sleep in on days he wanted to sleep in.

    His second thought were the diagrams he had seenst night.

    After being in a daze for a bit, Xu Yi got up and quickly washed his face, waking himself up.

    After he finished washing up, Vivian had put the breakfast she had prepared for him on the table.

    After living with Xu Yi for two months, Vivian had already formed a tacit understanding with Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi picked up a piece of bread and looked Vivian who was waiting for him to eat first. After thinking for a bit, he said, ¡°Vivian, did you not eat dinner yesterday?¡±

    Vivian gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, master didn¡¯te back and I was waiting for the entire time. Only I fell asleep afterwards, I didn¡¯t even know when you came back. I even troubled master to carry me back to my room.¡±

    ¡°Remember, if I¡¯m ever not back by dinner time, you don¡¯t need to wait for me. I am very busy with work right now and there are many times I¡¯ll be eating outside. If you keep waiting for me each time, you¡¯ll be hungry many times, do you understand?¡± Xu Yi told her.

    ¡°But¡­...But master, you haven¡¯t even eaten, how could I eat by myself?¡± Vivian¡¯s eyes popped out, looking at Xu Yi in confusion.

    ¡°This is an order, you just have to follow it.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Vivian obediently replied.

    ¡°Other than that¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi took the diagrams he organized yesterday and waved it in front of Vivian, ¡°Were these drawn by you?¡±

    A look of shame appeared on Vivian¡¯s face and she looked down, ¡°Sorry, master. Without your permission, I shouldn¡¯t have used your pen and paper¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°That is not important. Come, lift your head and respond to my question.¡± Xu Yi carefully looked over Vivian¡¯s expression. He only saw some embarrassment on her face and didn¡¯t see any other expressions, so his heart rxed.

    He definitely didn¡¯t believe that a little girl without any background would have such good acting skills, there should be no problem with Vivian.

    ¡°Vivian, the reason why you drew these pictures, is it because you are bored at home, so you drew these to kill time?¡±

    Xu Yi took out one of the pictures and there was his image drawn on it.

    There was another one that was a portrait of Still and severalndscape drawings. After Xu Yi found these, his suspicions about Vivian was even more relieved.

    ¡°I must say that your talent isn¡¯t bad. Look, you drew me like this, this is simply like a photo.¡± Xu Yi pointed at his portrait as he praised it.

    ¡°Photo?¡± Vivian looked at Xu Yi in a daze, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­...It¡¯s a picture printed on a piece of paper, you¡¯ve never seen it before.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that. Vivian, answer my question, do you feel bored staying here all day?¡±

    ¡°No, no, I¡¯m not bored. I¡¯m very happy being here, really!¡± Vivian quickly waved her hand, doing all she could to deny it.

    ¡°Tell the truth!¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    Vivian was scared. After a while, she hesitantly replied, ¡°Yes¡­...I¡¯m a bit bored¡­...There are too few things that need to be done here, I¡­..I¡¯m a bit not used to it.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it. Since you¡¯re bored, you should have told me earlier. Vivian, you have lived with me for two months now, could it be you don¡¯t know what kind of person I am?¡±

    ¡°Master, you are a good person. I¡­..I am only a ve, you don¡¯t need to care about me.¡± Vivian lowered her head, speaking in a timid voice.

    ¡°Even if you are a ve, you are still my ve. Let¡¯s do this, Vivian, since you feel like there are too few things to do and you are bored, I can give you some things to do so you aren¡¯t bored anymore.¡±

    Vivian looked up in a daze. She saw Xu Yi reveal an evil smile like he was abducting a little girl and he asked in a soft voice, ¡°Vivian, do you want to go to school?¡±

 Volume 1 66 - The first class

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 66 The first ss</strong>

    The students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy were a bit surprised. The ss schedule for each day¡¯s sses were already set, but there had been an extra ss added for a strange reason.

    The name of the ss was very strange, it was called theoretical basics of magic machines.

    This ss was a rare public ss, open to all the students in the school. This meant that any student of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy could take it.

    These students in their adolescents were naturally filled with curiosity. So even if the ss didn¡¯t have forced participation, when the ss started, over half the students filled the lecture room being used.

    The leaders of the school didn¡¯t think that this many students would be participating when they organized this ss. Even though they used the biggest lecture hall they had in the school, with over half the students taking the ss, not only was every seat in the lecture hall filled, there wasn¡¯t even empty space to stand inside the ssroom.

    Orin Zetaman was among the first batch of students to charge into the ssroom. He was currently in the first row of seats in the lecture hall and were chatting with the students around him in a loud voice.

    ¡°Evan, I dare bet that the teacher whoes outter will definitely be chairman Xu Yi. Do you dare bet with me?¡± Orin was provoking a tall male student to his right.

    The male student called Evan gave a cold snort, ¡°You¡¯re speaking nonsense. In this entire Banta City, other than chairman Xu, who else understands magic machines? Could it be that you could find someone else? If I were to bet with you, that would mean my brain is broken.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Orin, your bet is too rigged. I think we should bet on what chairman Xu will be lecturing onter.¡± A male student who was further back agreed with him.

    ¡°Theoretical of magic machines¡­...Based on the name of this ss, it should be a simple introduction since this is the first ss chairman Xu is teaching. If he goes too deep, I¡¯m afraid arge group of people won¡¯t be able to understand him.¡± A golden haired girl sitting to the left of Orin spoke in a soft voice as she pointed at the students with doubtful and expectant looks inside the lecture hall.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, other than us, would these other fellows understand what magic machines are?¡± Orin confidently said.

    If Xu Yi was here, he would have found that the students sitting with Orin were the students who had jobs drawing Magic Arrays in his factory for the past few months.

    Compared to the other students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy, they did have the qualifications to say this.

    But Orin¡¯s words were a bit too loud and when the students not far behind him heard this, they were immediately dissatisfied.

    ¡°Hey, Orin, a kid like you is acting this arrogantly? Isn¡¯t it just working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a few days, do you really think you understand magic machines that much? I¡¯ve heard that you only draw the most simple Magic Arrays, what are you talking about understanding magic machines. I think at most you only understand a few things about this.¡± A male student scoffed at him.

    Orin turned his head without backing down and looked up as he said, ¡°Even if it is a few things, it is more than you. What? Not satisfied?¡±

    That male student flew into a rage and pointed at Orin as he roared, ¡°Good brat, don¡¯t run after school is over!¡±

    Orin gave a snort, ¡°Isn¡¯t it just not leaving, who is afraid of who?¡±

    When their fighting was about to escte, a teacher entered therge lecture hall. The students all recognized that it was the stern director Shearer, so they instantly calmed down.

    Orin and that male student red at each other before giving up for now and focusing on what was in front of them.

    Shearer looked over the silent lecture hall before nodding in satisfaction. He gave a soft cough and said in a loud voice, ¡°Students, let us warmly wee the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi!¡±

    Orin and the students around him revealed a look of ¡°as expected¡± before they gave vigorous apuse.

    Xu Yi stepped up to the lectern and saw Orin and the others sitting in front before giving them a nod with a smile. Then he raised his right hand and the students became silent as they looked at him with curious gazes.

    During this time, each new magic machine released by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce attracted countless eyes in Banta City and they were all very popr.

    Towards these magic machines, those traditional machines have called them messes and have even called them a shame to magic, but the rebellious students of Baron Rickto Magic School were very interested in it. It filled them with interest towards chairman Xu Yi of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had invented all of these magic machines.

    Although they had already heard from Orin and the others that Xu Yi was a young man in his twenties, after personally seeing Xu Yi, they were shocked by how young Xu Yi was.

    From what these students could see, studying magic was a very difficult thing. To be able to grasp Magic Arrays like this, even casually changing Magic Arrays andbining them with ice cold machines, it was something that seemed close to impossible.

    This chairman Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem that much older than them, but not only did he have a powerful understanding of magic, he had many strange ideas that had shocked people.

    Faced with the curious gazes of the students, Xu Yi began speaking.

    ¡°Students, I know that everyone doesn¡¯t like hearing idle talk, so I¡¯ll get to the main topic. The reason why I requested director Shearer to organize this ss today was not to teach everyone as a teacher, rather it was to have a chat with everyone. As for what we are chatting about? Of course it is magic machines. This ss is called theoretical basics of magic machines, so I¡¯ll talk about the basics.¡±

    ¡°I think that everyone has some understanding of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products and should understand what are magic machines. Towards something like magic machines, as students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy, everyone should understand magic, but should be unfamiliar with the word machine, so we¡¯ll focus on machines today.¡±

    ¡°The so called machine is a kind of tool. Using this tool, people can save energy in doing some work, while also reducing the difficulty of that work. To use a simple example, when digging the earth, I think that everyone will not use their hands to dig, but rather use a shovel. This is because after using a shovel, it is much easier to dig the earth and it is more convenient. This shovel can actually be considered a machine.

    ¡°Of course, a shovel is a very simple machine and the machine I want to talk about are a bit moreplicated. Students, you should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made a Magic Rice Cooker. This is a magic machine normally used in one¡¯s household and as for its concrete¡¯s use, it is to cook rice. Without the Magic Rice Cooker, when someone wanted to eat rice or gruel, they would need to use firewood to light a fire and then boil rice in arge pot. With this Magic Rice Cooker, one only needs to add rice and water into the Magic Rice Cooker. After pressing the switch and waiting for a bit, the rice will be naturally cooked. How about it? Compared to lighting a fire to cook rice, isn¡¯t this more convenient?¡±

    ¡°A magic machine can also be called a magic powered machine. This is because the base of the machine is using a Magic Array to power the machine. Students, you should have all studied Magic Arrays before, so you should be clear on the fact that magic is very powerful. Then have you ever thought that other than being used to kill people, can magic be used anywhere else? I have thought about it and so I have designed these magic powered machines. I did note to discuss with everyone where magic should be used, rather I just want to introduce to everyone what magic machines can be used for. For example, the Magic Rice Cooker can be used to cook rice, the small Magic Harvester makes it easier to harvest grains, the Magic Fan can be used to create a cool breeze¡­...Magic can be used in many different ces and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has just been established. In the future, I¡¯m certain that everyone will be able to see many different kinds of magic machines. I also believe that magic machines will change everyone¡¯s lives bit by bit.¡±

    ¡°So how can magic machines achieve this? This is the main topic of our ss today. Magic can be used as power and can move these machines to do work that are hard for humans to do, so it actually involves some very specialized knowledge. This knowledge is the theoretical basics of magic machines. The basic idea there is to use magic as a power source and have machines present a use with it. As for the specifics¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    In the beginning, the students had a bit of doubt and didn¡¯t listen too seriously.

    But as Xu Yi¡¯s lecture became deeper and deeper, the students became more and more focused on the lecture.

    The theories that Xu Yi discussed were things the students had never heard before.

    The students were already absorbing knowledge of the world and for a novel and interesting thing like the theory of magic machines, of course they were very interested in it.

    So as Xu Yi¡¯s lecture became deeper and deeper, the students were more and more enthused listening to it.

    After director Shearer¡¯s third reminder, Xu Yi realized that the sky outside had already turned red and it had long passed time for school to be let out.

    Xu Yi had to announce that today¡¯s ss would end here.

    The students hadn¡¯t had enough and they all requested Xu Yi to keep lecturing.

    Xu Yi was helpless about this, he could only stop here today. He also hinted that he would lecture again in the future and if they were interested, the students coulde to the lecture then.

    Only then did the students let Xu Yi go, passionately discussing with each other as they left therge lecture hall.

    Seeing the passionate appearances of the students, director Shearer on the side let out a sigh. He shook his head at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really shouldn¡¯t have agreed that you woulde lecture again. Look, the students have been hooked by you, I¡¯m worried about if they will be distracted in their future lessons.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°How could that be? Director Shearer, My ss today has always been rted to magic. It is a good thing for the students to be interested in this, they will be even more interested in studying magic in the future. You should be happy about this.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain they are interested in magic and not magic powered machines?¡± Director Shearer said with a cold snort.

    Xu Yiughed. He had donated five hundred gold coins to Baron Rickto Magic Academy to let Vivian attend the school while also exchanging for a chance to give a lecture. If he couldn¡¯t put seeds in the hearts of the students to be magic machine engineers, it would have been a waste of five hundred gold coins.

    As a merchant, how could he do any business that suffered a loss?

 Volume 1 67 - Burying a seed

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 67 Burying a seed</strong>

    Since he reached an agreement with Great Magician Cami, he went back to the Cami Magic Tower more often.

    Especially after discussing with the Lord City Lord and decided to focus on developing agricultural magic machines, Xu Yi had been more diligent in visiting.

    Agricultural magic machines required more power and naturally it required more powerful magic to provide this power. Of the magicians that were working with Xu Yi right now, other than Great Magician Cami, there was no one else with this ability.

    Xu Yi¡¯s research department had been separated into two sections. One was made up of Still, Evita, and Akali, who were mainly focused on studying Magic Array in household magic machines. The other was made up of Great Magician Cami alone, who was mainly in charge of heavy magic machines that required more power.

    Because only Xu Yi had a knowledge of magic and mechanical engineering, he had to participate in both fields of research.

    This naturally was not a good situation.

    The mechanical engineering research couldn¡¯t beplete by Xu Yi alone. As long as there were more and more magicians with abilities simr to Xu Yi, their research power would be stronger and stronger.

    So during these days, whether it was when he was with Still¡¯s group of three or if he was with Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi had been paying attention to secretly teaching them some foundational mechanical engineering knowledge.

    Since the four of them could be outstanding magicians, their learning and understanding abilities were naturally also outstanding, so they easily epted this new knowledge.

    Now when Xu Yi made ns for a new magic machine, they could even give him some advice.

    Of course, it was far from being enough just having the four of them.

    So Xu Yi ran to Baron Rickto Magic Academy to hold this kind of ss. His goal was toy down seeds in the hearts of the students, giving them preliminary knowledge on fusing magic and machines.

    If there were results in the future, Xu Yi could continue holding public sses at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    If it was even possible, he would make this course a regr part of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy curriculum.

    If even a tenth of the students who graduated here were to focus on studying magic machines, that was a power that could not be ignored.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, you¡¯re here again.¡±

    When Xu Yi entered the Magic Tower, a magician came forward to warmly wee him.

    ¡°Hey, good morning. Is his excellency Great Magician here?¡± Xu Yi smiled as he greeted him.

    The magician circle was not big and the Magic Tower¡¯s circle was even smaller, so the news of Xu Yi cooperating with Great Magician Cami couldn¡¯t be hidden at all. It didn¡¯t take long before it was spread all over the Magic Tower.

    Almost all the magicians in the Magic Tower knew that Great Magician Cami was working with Xu Yi and he received a thousand gold coins from Xu Yi each year.

    The Magic Tower being able to return to its normal condition could be said to all depend on the thousand gold coin investment from Xu Yi.

    To be even more direct, Xu Yi could be considered the one who was paying all the magicians in the Magic Tower.

    So when facing Xu Yi, the magicians who used to have a bit of disdain towards him naturally became much more weing.

    ¡°His excellency Great Magician is in the topyer experimenting with magic like normal. He will definitely be happy to see you.¡± The magician responded with a full smile.

    ¡°Alright, thank you.¡± Xu Yi nodded and thanked him. He didn¡¯t go to the magicdder leading to the topyer, rather he went to the researchb that belonged to him.

    When he pushed open the door, he saw that everyone was leaned over their tables seriously studying magic.

    But looking carefully, they were not engaged in normal magic research, rather they were researching all kinds of Magic Arrays.

    Looking at the wall of theb, there was arge diagram on the wall there and there was a strange machine drawn on it.

    Hearing the sound of the door, Lotte looked up in surprise. When she saw Xu Yi, she immediately skipped over.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re here!¡±

    This greeting rmed everyone else. The others all looked up and warmly greeted Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi returned the greetings one by one with a smile before asking Lotte, ¡°How is it? How is the research progress?¡±

    The joy on Lotte¡¯s face from seeing Xu Yi immediately change into a depressed look as she sighed while shaking her head, ¡°It¡¯s not that good. We have already researched all the Magic Arrays needed for each part of the Magic Excavator, but we don¡¯t have a way tobine them all without a problem. As for the overall operation that you wanted, we don¡¯t have any clues on how to achieve it at all.¡±

    ¡°Let me see the results of your research first.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi took the gathered materials from Lotte and carefully looked over them.

    After reaching a cooperation agreement with Great Magician Cami, of course that didn¡¯t mean that Great Magician Cami wouldplete the research Xu Yi needed alone. For a Great Magician like him, the magicians in the Magic Tower could be considered his assistants. When Xu Yi gave him a research project, he could give the parts that didn¡¯t need him to personally research to the magicians under him.

    Xu Yi had used to work in this researchb before and the magicians in theb have cooperated with Xu Yi in making magic machines before, so Great Magician Cami would normally throw this research into theirb.

    Because Xu Yi would give Great Magician Cami some gold coins as a bonus each time a research project was finished and Great Magician Cami would give a part to the magicians in theb, the other magicians of the Magic Tower were jealous of the magicians of thisb.

    After looking through the research of Lotte and the others, Xu Yi quickly found the problem.

    The power of these magicians were stronger than Still¡¯s group of three, but because it was like this, their thoughts in magic were quite stiff. When researching these Magic Arrays, they basically followed conventional Magic Array methods.

    The Magic Excavator Xu Yi gave them to research was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s mostplex magic machine, so if they used conventional Magic Array methods, there would be all kinds of problems that appeared.

    Actually Xu Yi had overestimated these people. This was because whether it was with Great Magician Cami or Still¡¯s group of three, Xu Yi had always been on the side giving advice, so there weren¡¯t that many problems. As for the magicians in theb, they all studied by themselves and weren¡¯t influenced by Xu Yi, so it was hard for them to make the appropriate changes.

    If Xu Yi had put in a bit more detail in the blueprint he gave them, there would be fewer problems.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi released his knit brows and called all the people in theb over. He opened the blueprint and began to give them a detailed exnation.

    Xu Yi¡¯s exnation was very detailed, not even letting off the smallest details,pletely offering all his ideas to the magicians.

    What he hoped now was that they could reverse engineer his thoughts, allowing them to quickly be magic mechanical engineers. It would make it much easier for them to research magic machines in the future.

    With them changing, the other magicians in the Magic Tower could see the benefits and it would be very possible they would change with them.

    After changing the magicians in the Magic Tower, next was changing the magicians in Banta City, changing the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, and finally changing all the magicians on the Sines Continent.

    At that time, it wouldn¡¯t be a dream anymore to create an industrial system on the Sines Continent.

    It was not easy to exin all the parts of the Magic Excavator and the most difficult part was to exin the mechanical theory behind this magic machine.

    There were many times Xu Yi had to exin to them the most fundamental physics and geometry. The things that even grade schoolers knew on earth would shock the magicians that others worshipped on the Sines Continent.

    After spending over three hours, Xu Yi finally exined all his thoughts to them.

    Seeing that everyone around him finally looks of understanding, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.

    Properly speaking, these magicians were not that old and it should be rtively easy to exin new knowledge to them. But while Xu Yi was interacting with them, he found that it was even harder than exining to Great Magician Cami.

    When he was discussing magic machines with Great Magician Cami, there were many times Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to exin anything at all. Great Magician Cami would be able to understand on his own and would even be able to make analogies.

    It had to be known, Great Magician Cami was an old man who was close to sixty years old.

    After exining his requirements and the main points, Xu Yi left theboratory. He stepped onto the magicdder and arrived at the top floor of the Magic Tower.

    Great Magician Cami was indeed in theb at the top floor currently researching magic.

    Of course, he was still researching magic.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Great Magician Cami looked up at him and suddenly said, ¡°There¡¯s good news and bad news. Xu Yi, which one do you want first?¡±

 Volume 1 68 - If you were a Grand Magus

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 68 If you were a Grand Magus</strong>

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. After his excellency Great Magician received the gold coins from him, his mood was much betterpared to before. He was actually in a casual mood and even joked around with him.

    ¡°Un¡­...Let¡¯s hear the bad news first, I¡¯ve always liked leaving good things forst.¡±

    ¡°This is not a good habit. If good things are left too long, they will be stolen by other people.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, saying something that confused Xu Yi, ¡°But since you want to hear the bad news first, then I¡¯ll satisfy your desire. Listen well, the bad news is that Magicians Guild has rejected the idea of Magic Array Patent that you proposed.¡±

    Xu Yi let out a sigh, but his expression didn¡¯t seem that disappointed.

    ¡°Did they give a reason?¡±

    ¡°There is a reason. It is because Magicians Guild is a collection of magicians, so since the beginning, the Magicians Guild has advocated cooperation between magicians. Studying Magic Arrays, making progress together, and promoting the development of magic. So your proposal has gone against the basic aim of the Magicians Guild, so of course it wouldn¡¯t pass.¡± Great Magician Cami exined.

    ¡°Studying and progressing together?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Do people believe this joke? Of the magicians on the Sines Continent, which one isn¡¯t studying magic by themselves? If they do make a breakthrough, they will definitely hide it, afraid that other magicians will find out. Now you¡¯re telling me that magicians should cooperate with each other¡­..Hei¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and forcefully knocked on the table, ¡°Xu Yi, pay attention to your attitude. No matter what you are thinking, the goal of the Magicians Guild is like this. This proposal was raised by a Great Magician like me, so there is only a rejection and there are no consequences at all. If it was raised by you, it is very likely that you would have lost the right to participate in the certification exam. Do you understand how serious this matter is?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I only asked you to submit this proposal for me, I didn¡¯t have any intention for you to put it in your name.¡±

    ¡°This is nothing, just treat it as me working for the thousand gold coins.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head before casually saying, ¡°Alright, you¡¯ve heard the bad news, now I¡¯ll tell you the good news. Although your proposal didn¡¯t pass, I have rmended you to the Magicians Guild and you¡¯re qualified for next month¡¯s certification exam. You can participate with a Great Magician¡¯s rmendation and if you perform well, you¡¯ll have a higher evaluation than normal magicians who take the exam.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°Compared to the bad news, this iscking too much. Your excellency Great Magician, you should know that I¡¯m not interested in bing a high level magician. Whether my evaluation is high or not, this doesn¡¯t have any meaning to me at all.¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at him and spoke with a cold snort, ¡°Kid, let me warn you, don¡¯t be conceited. I know that you have earned quite a bit of money with your magic machines, so you aren¡¯t that interested in bing a powerful magician. However, I must tell you that on the Sines Continent, being a powerful magician is very important. If you can be a Great Magician like me or an Arch Magus who is even stronger than me, you will find that many things will be much easier for you! Like with your proposal, I am a Great Magician, so there are no problems even if the proposal doesn¡¯t pass. But if you were to mention it, it is very likely the Magicians Guild would have stripped you of your rights to participate in the exam. But if the person who made the proposal was an Arch Magus, even if the proposal went against the basis of the Magicians Guild, they wouldn¡¯t have directly rejected it like this and would have considered it. If it were a Grand Magus who proposed it¡­...Kid, do you know what would have happened?¡±

    Xu Yi was astonished, ¡°What would happen?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave another cold snort, ¡°Kid, you don¡¯t even understand what a Grand Magus represents. There have been less than ten Grand Magus on the Sines Continent in the past few thousand years and every one of them has been a super powerful person who could cause tremors on the continent with a single stomp. If the one who raised this proposal was a Grand Magus, not only would there be no problem in getting it passed, there would be countless people who would study the profound meaning for the Grand Magus proposing this. As for the final result, it would be hard to imagine.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned listening to this, as he thought that a Grand Magus was a bit too strong.

    ording to this, their influence was even stronger than the world leaders back on earth.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, Great Magician Cami gave a coldugh, ¡°How about it, kid? Do you know now how necessary it is to be a powerful magician? I won¡¯t mention a Grand Magus which is something impossible to obtain, if you were to be an Arch Magus who is stronger than me, at least in the Lampuri Kingdom, your guarantee would be even more useful than his majesty the king. Although your proposal wasn¡¯t epted by the Magicians Guild, I can dare to guarantee that the royal family would do all they can to support you. How about it? Are you moved? Do you have any desire to be a powerful magician?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned for a bit before he suddenly waved his hand, causing a dark red fireball to fly out from the center of his hand at Great Magician Cami.

    Great Magician Cami was surprised as his brows popped up. A bright light blue barrier appeared in front of him.

    When the fireball hit the barrier, the barrier trembled and waves formed like water ripples on the barrier. There was a ¡°pu¡± exploding sound before it disappeared without a trace.

    Great Magician Cami finally took back his barrier and he looked at Xu Yi with uncertainty and shock.

    ¡°Burst me Spell! Kid, when did you grasp Burst me Spell?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°How is it? Your excellency Great Magician, how is the strength of this Burst me Spell?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with narrowed eyes for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°It¡¯s pretty good. The Burst me Spell is a Fourth Grade Fire Spell that is considered hard to master, but I never thought that you could release it this quickly and could even control its size. It could be seen that your control of it is quite good.¡± After saying this, Great Magician Cami let out a deep sigh before shaking his head while saying, ¡°Xu Yi, since you have such outstanding magical talent, why are you unwilling to focus on studying magic? I am more and more certain that as long as you focus, you will certainly be a powerful Arch Magus in the future. When that timees, wouldn¡¯t the things you want to do be much easier? Even if you like studying magic machines, it won¡¯t be toote if you study them after bing an Arch Magus.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulder, ¡°I have said it before, everyone has different thoughts. Perhaps your excellency Great Magician think that the goal of all magicians on the Sines Continent is to be stronger, but I firmly believe that using magic to improve the lives of the people is more important. Perhaps you¡¯re right that if I be an Arch Magus, studying and creating magic machines will be easier, but your excellency Great Magician, you have forgotten one important problem which is time. Thinking about it, with my talent, if I focus on studying magic, how many years would it take for me to be an Arch Magus?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Cami fell into thought before shaking his head, ¡°This is hard to say. Bing a powerful magician not only takes time, but also requires a bit of luck. If it goes smoothly, with your talent, perhaps you¡¯ll be able to be a powerful Arch Magus with thirty years. Of course, that is already considered quite fast on the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Thirty years? I¡¯ll be close to sixty by then. Your excellency Great Magician, how long do you think I can live for? If I were to start studying magic machines in thirty years, how many years could I keep going for?¡±

    Great Magician Cami had no response.

    ¡°A person¡¯s effort and time are limited. Your excellency Great Magician, I have already decided to study magic machines and it would be hard to divide my attention into studying magic. Of course, while studying magic machines, my magic power has also increased quite fast, hasn¡¯t it?¡±

    After a while, Great Magician Cami gave a sigh and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, this is myst time convincing you. I won¡¯t mention this topic with you again. You are not a child like Still, you have your own thoughts and goals. I don¡¯t have a way or the reason to stop you. But as a person who has lived longer than you, I still want to remind you that bing a powerful magician will always be useful on the continent. You said that you are also raising your magic power while studying magic machines, that is also good. Don¡¯t forget to do this, it will help you greatly in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong nod, ¡°Yes, I understand, many thanks for your care. Other than this¡­..Still has always said to me that she isn¡¯t a child anymore, so if you say this to her, she will definitely be very angry.¡±

    Great Magician Cami suddenly looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze and asked, ¡°Xu Yi, you think that Still isn¡¯t a child?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He thought about it before answering, ¡°Based on the age difference between us, perhaps she could be considered a child. But I think objectively, she can¡¯t be considered a child from all her aspects. Then again, recently she¡­...Ke¡­..She has experienced quite a few things and is quite a bit more maturepared to before, so she can¡¯t be considered a child.¡±

    ¡°You said that she has matured quite a bit?¡± Great Magician Cami narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze for a while before suddenly saying, ¡°Kid, remember what I said just now. You shouldn¡¯t leave good things to the end because it is likely that someone will steal it away in the end.¡±

    [TL Note: Best grandpa ;^)]

    Xu Yi looked Great Magician Cami in shock as his mind filled with confusion.

    What is with Great Magician Cami today? Why did his words sound so strange?

 Volume 1 69 - Tax deductions

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 69 Tax deductions</strong>

    It was mid October and it was time to nt fall crops. There was no sign of nting on Viscount Leslie¡¯snd at all, rather there was an endless roaring sound all over the ce.

    Looking at it, several dozenrge and small magic machines of different shapes passed through the fields, changing the appearance of the destend.

    This was Viscount Leslie¡¯s conviction.

    With the support ofrge amounts of magic machines from Xu Yi, Viscount Leslie had decided to open up all thend under his name and carry out arge scalend restructuring based on Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    Before this, because thend under Viscount Leslie had been nted by hand, he was very casual about the design of the fields. Now that he was opening all these fields, Xu Yi had given him a new n and connected all the fields, dividing them into exact squares. At the same time, they were digging out spacious drainage ditches for the farms, making it more convenient to make rice paddies and prevent droughts.

    Other than this, Xu Yi had also suggested to Viscount Leslie to put all his farms on arge piece ofnd at the same height, making it more convenient for machines to work on in the future.

    To be honest, it wasn¡¯t like Viscount Leslie hadn¡¯t considered restructuring thend under his name, but because his manpower was limited, he didn¡¯t have enough manpower to aplish this task even if he had the thought to do so.

    With the three hundred ves and less than a hundred guards under him, he couldn¡¯t have opened more than seven hectares of farnd even if he put in all his effort each year.

    But this year he had the agricultural magic machines developed by Xu Yi, so this thought finally became reality.

    He used the small Magic Plowing Machine to first break up the earth and then he transported this loose earth to lower areas.

    After repeating this several times, the farms under Viscount Leslie¡¯s name had be a t area.

    At this time, it was time for the new small Magic Excavator developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to take the stage.

    First they used the small Magic Plowing Machine to loosen the dirt in an area before using the small Magic Excavator to dig bit by bit. In the end, they created arge hole that had a depth and width of close to half a meter.

    Then the small Magic Excavator kept moving back, as its mechanical arm kept moving back and forth. This hole was expanded and soon arge straight ditch was created in thend.

    ¡°Not bad. With this speed, in just a single day, we¡¯ll be able to transform an entire hectare of farmnd.¡± It wasn¡¯t just Viscount Leslie and Xu Yi who came today, even Count Sean Samo hade after hearing the news. Seeing the high efficiency of the magic machines in the fields, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help praising them, ¡°If this was done by hand, it might not be finished even given a week.¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, actually I¡¯m not satisfied with this speed.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°The efficiency of the small Magic Excavator we designed is still to low. ording to my designs, the real Magic Excavator wouldn¡¯t need the help of the Magic Plowing Machine and it could dig the ditch by itself. My final goal was that it could dig out rocks. This is far from something the small Magic Excavator you are seeing now canpare to.¡±

    ¡°Of? It can even dig up stones? Are you not kidding?¡± Count Sean said in an astonished voice.

    ¡°No, of course I¡¯m not kidding. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact we were limited by our materials, we could achieve a stronger Magic Array output with this magic machine. Like this, the effect of the Magic Excavator would be much more effective and it wouldn¡¯t be strange to achieve the goal of digging up stone.¡± Xu Yi responded in a confident voice.

    This was not just him bluffing. After studying this for a long time with Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi was very clear on how strong high level magic was. Even the legendary forbidden spells could bepared to nuclear bombs on earth.

    Comparing it like this, as long as the right magic power was used in the magic machines, it wasn¡¯t a fantasy for these magic machines topare to the machines on earth.

    It was a pity that the Sines Continent¡¯s ironwork was very crude. These magic machines couldn¡¯t take the power being released right now, so Xu Yi had to keep his ns in his mind for now.

    ¡°It¡¯s good for young people to have lofty goals, but bread needs to be eaten mouthful by mouthful. You shouldn¡¯t be in a rush for this.¡± Count Sean patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder tofort him, ¡°The magic machines you have designed have already surprised me. If this was before, I never would have imagined that arge area of farnd could be improved in such a short period of time. It was no wonder that kid Leslie confidently saidst tie that he wanted to open up all the farnd under his name. Looking at it now, there really is hope.¡±

    Xu Yi suddenlyughed, ¡°Lord City Lord, Lord Viscount is actually using all the farnd under him to help me do an experiment. Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invented many magic machines, if they aren¡¯t used to perform experiments with real results, that wouldn¡¯t be right.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is the attitude a responsiblepany should have. As for this kid Leslie¡­..I can see that he is looking forward to letting you experiment on his territory. Don¡¯t you know that the other nobles are all very jealous of him right now?¡± Count Sean said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing. Not only did he know this, he had experienced it countless times.

    It had to be known that after Xu Yi used the magic machines he developed to help Viscount Leslie change the farnd under him, the other nobles of Banta City had also made the same request of Xu Yi. It was a pity that Xu Yi¡¯s factory capacity was limited right now and he could only meet Viscount Leslie¡¯s request and couldn¡¯t agree to the other nobles at all.

    Moreover, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce enough agricultural magic machines, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t easily agree to these nobles.

    Viscount Leslie was fine since when Xu Yi introduced the small Magic Harvester and the small Magic Plowing Machine, he had been by Xu Yi¡¯s side since the beginning, so the others knew that Viscount Leslie¡¯s rtionship with Xu Yi was not normal. But if Xu Yi agreed to help any other noble, perhaps he might offend to the rest of the nobles.

    Xu Yi was not a fool, why would he do such a thankless job.

    Of course, when Xu Yi turned down these nobles, he had also made a promise to them. He promised that when next spring came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will have enough magic machines and will meet all the requests of the nobles.

    Although there were several months before next spring, Xu Yi had already receivedrge orders worth close to ten thousand gold coins.

    These orders contained all kinds of agricultural magic machines, guaranteeing that the dwarves led by Camby would be busy during the entire winter.

    But this was a matter that also made Xu Yi quite worried.

    The magic machine workshop was not just for making agricultural magic machines. Compared to this, Xu Yi hoped that they couldpletely focusing on studying production magic machines.

    This was because to develop the industry, production machines were the most fundamental thing. The production of any machine couldn¡¯t be separated from production magic machines.

    If production magic machines weren¡¯t developed enough, the development of the industry would be limited. This was not something Xu Yi wished to see happen.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t reject these orders at all, so he had been facing a painful decision during this time.

    If he wanted to develop the magic machine industry, he did have to make as much money as possible since studying magic machines required arge amount of money. Any random project would requirerge amount of funds and manpower.

    But if he wanted more money, he had to shift his focus, slowing down the research of magic machines. It was basically putting the cart before the horse.

    ¡°In the end, we have too few people.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh before turning to Count Sean to ask, ¡°That¡¯s right, Lord City Lord, has there been any progress with the thing I asked for your help withst time?¡±

    Count Sean was surprised, but he reacted and slightly knit his brows, ¡°You¡¯re talking about helping you recruit craftsmen? This¡­..is a bit difficult. Your requirement of craftsmen are too high, so there aren¡¯t many who meet it in Banta City and there are also only a few in other cities that meet it. Not to mention that the ones who conform to your standard are rare talented people and won¡¯t easily move to other ces, like running to our Banta City. So¡­..I¡¯m also having some difficulties.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh. Actually he was very clear that Count Sean was right and that if good craftsmen were easy to recruit, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry so much.

    It seemed like he could only depend on the dwarves.

    He had raised this matter to Cambyst time and Camby said that he would help him contact the dwarves of other tribes. If possible, he would recruit more dwarven craftsmen for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°But Xu Yi, you don¡¯t need to be disappointed. I can¡¯t help you with finding craftsmen, but I can help you with something else.¡± Count Sean suddenly said.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Sean with a surprised gaze.

    Count Sean pointed at the magic machines working in the field and said, ¡°I have already given a report on your agricultural magic machines to the kingdom¡¯s agricultural department, while also writing a secret letter to his majesty mentioning these things. Whether it was the agricultural department or his majesty, they were all filled with praise for these things. They finally decided to give tax deductions to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, while promoting you agricultural magic machines throughout the kingdom. If there are no surprises, his majesty will be summoning you soon. You better prepare yourself.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

    Tax deductions for everything?

    It had to be known the business tax in the Lampuri Kingdom was very high. For a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the highest tax was even at 40%!

    For a small Magic Harvester with a price of seventy gold coins, if they received a full tax deduction, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn an extra twenty gold coins!

    This was equivalent to his majesty and the agricultural department giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce arge amount of money.

    Of course, it should be impossible for a full tax deduction. This would cause all thepanies in the kingdom to be dissatisfied and his majesty definitely wouldn¡¯t be this stupid.

    But even if it was a partial deduction, that would bring many benefits to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The more important part was thetter half! His majesty and the agricultural department would be promoting the agricultural magic machines all over the kingdom!

    This was basically official advertisement!

    With the support of his majesty and the agricultural department, it meant the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines will be able to easily spread to every corner of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    At that time, just based on selling agricultural magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could jump to bing a first sspany in the Lampuri Kingdom!

 Volume 1 70 - New alloy

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 70 New alloy</strong>

    ¡°Of course, Xu Yi, his highness and the agricultural department has hoped that since they have provided tax deductions, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can lower the price of your agricultural magic machines appropriately. At a minimum, make it so that all the nobles with territory in the kingdom can afford it.¡± Count Sean added.

    ¡°I ask Lord City Lord to pass to his majesty that this is something that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce should do. Perhaps you should tell his majesty of ourpany¡¯s farmer support n, that way his majesty can understand how much of a responsiblepany we are.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°What is social responsibility? Why is there always strange words thate out of your mouth?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°Of course I have also reported to his majesty about your farmer support n. His majesty has greatly praised it and has said that he wants you to further exin it when you make your audience. You should also prepare yourself on this matter.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I will definitely let his majestypletely approve of this ce. The best case scenario is if he implements this n throughout the kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°You can raise this when you meet his majesty, but remember that you can¡¯t speak randomly. If you carelessly mention this matter like you did in front of me and that kid Leslie, don¡¯t me me for not warning you when disaster hits.¡± Count Sean honestly said, ¡°Xu Yi, you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is apany that people pay attention to, at least in our Banta City, so no matter what, you need to be careful.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Sean in surprise. The Lord City Lord wouldn¡¯t casually say something like this and it was a friendly reminder.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I forgot that you are still a magician. The Magicians Guild¡¯s test will be held in Anvilmar next month, you should be participating, right?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Un, I have already discussed this with Great Magician Cami, I¡¯ll be participating when the timees.¡±

    ¡°Good, since you¡¯ll be in Anvilmar next month, you won¡¯t have to go on an extra trip. I¡¯ll send a letter to his majesty telling him of this when I head back. When you head over to take the Magicians Guild¡¯s test, his majesty can also summon you.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly thanked him with a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks to the Lord City Lord for caring about me this much.¡±

    Count Sean gave a cold snort, ¡°I am only taking care of you based on the fact that you invented the agricultural magic machines. If there are no good results with Leslie¡¯s farms next year, you think I will be this polite to you when the timees?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°The Lord City Lord can be assured. Even if I have to go all out, I will let the Lord Viscount have a rich harvest!¡±

    ###

    After two days, Xu Yi went to Master Lanus¡¯ dwarven tribe again.

    It was different fromst time when he came with Master Lanus because once Xu Yi provided funding, the dwarves providedbour andid a smooth road to the outside road from the dwarven vige. Xu Yi could directly head to the dwarven tribe while riding his horse drawn carriage.

    This was the first time many dwarven children of the tribe had seen something like the horse carriage and couldn¡¯t help surrounding it.

    Xu Yi passed out the candy he had already prepared and drew a wave of cheers out of the children.

    The dwarven tribe chief Siluka came to wee him with a wide smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you haven¡¯te in such a long time, I thought that you had forgotten about us dwarven friends.¡±

    Xu Yi bent over with the same wide smile to forcefully hug Siluka before pointing to Camby who came with him and said, ¡°How could that be? With Camby and those dwarven brothers who I work with daily, I always think of my dwarven friends who are here whenever I see them. I¡¯ve been too busy during this past period, so I didn¡¯te here. How is it? Has everyone been well during this time?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks to chairman Xu for your bonus, the lives of our tribe is much better than before. Not only are the children not hungry each day, they can also have several sets of new clothes.¡± Siluka said with a wide smile.

    ¡°No, no, no, chief Siluka, that money is not a bonus, rather it is a research fund. Do you understand? Research fund.¡± Xu Yi deliberately repeated it again.

    Siluka had an awkward look on his honest face as he rubbed his head in an embarrassed manner. He lowered his voice to say, ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, I won¡¯t hide it from you, we have tried experimenting based on the method you¡¯ve given us, but we haven¡¯t once sessfully refined the alloy metal you mentioned¡­..Look¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. If this research was that easy to seed in, would he have such a headache over this matter.

    He patted Siluka¡¯s shoulder tofort him, ¡°It¡¯s fine, research takes a lot of time. I didn¡¯t expect you to have any real results in just two short months. You can just keep researching, there¡¯s no rush.¡±

    A blush appeared on Siluka¡¯s face.

    With how simple the personality of the dwarves was, the more uncaring Xu Yi was, the more ufortable they felt.

    Camby was anxious looking at this, but he knew it wasn¡¯t right for him to say anything for the tribe chief. He could only keep scratching his head and letting out a sigh.

    Seeing the response of the two dwarves, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile. If this was back on earth, the organization in charge of the research would find all kinds of ways to avoid taking responsibility, saying that they met difficulties and would need more investment.

    But when it came to the dwarves, just a trivial five hundred gold coins was enough to make them feel this ufortable.

    Actually Xu Yi had used this five hundred gold coins each month to pull in the dwarven craftsmen and now the hundred dwarves led by Camby had a value of over five hundred gold coins each month.

    Not to mention that these dwarves had grasped the techniques to make the top of the line production magic machines and normal magic machines. This wasn¡¯t something that could be valued with gold coins.

    Camby had even told Xu Yi that severalpanies had secretly contracted him. They said that they were willing to give Camby and the dwarves under him a sry of twenty gold coins a month if they were willing to join them, but Camby had tly rejected them.

    Seeing that Siluka and Camby were a bit embarrassed, Xu Yi thought about it before waving his hand, ¡°How about this, tribe chief Siluke, let me see the results of your research. Perhaps I can give some advice to you.¡±

    Chief Siluka nodded, ¡°Yes, yes, yes, chairman Xu understands this topic the best. If you look at it, perhaps there will be a pleasant surprise.¡±

    Xu Yi and Camby were led by Siluka to a giant cave which hit them with intense heat waves.

    Looking carefully, this over ten meter tall cave had a size that was bigger than a football field and there were all kinds of small andrge furnaces made of stones inside the cave. At this time, most of the furnaces were filled with mes and the dwarves beside them kept adding more things into the furnace.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, look at this, we have begun experimenting with your methods, but we¡¯ve never had any sess. Later our nsmen have been adding different things into the iron liquid, creating all kinds of¡­...Un¡­...It can be considered the alloy you mentioned. But not a single one has met the requirements of the steel alloy you mentioned before.¡± Siluka was somewhat embarrassed as he gave his introduction.

    ¡°Oh? All kinds of different alloys? Where are they? Let me take a look.¡± Xu Yi asked in an interested voice.

    ¡°Here, they are all over there.¡± Siluka brought Xu Yi to a corner of the cave, pointing at the pile of iron lumps in front of them.

    Xu Yi looked over the iron mountain that was twice his size and his eyes couldn¡¯t help falling onto an iron ball that was reflecting the light.

    He climbed onto the iron mountain to take it. Xu Yi was surprised to find that other than some parts that contained some impurities, the outside surface of the ball was very smooth. There was a silver glow to the surface and it didn¡¯t have the rusty stain that normal iron things would have.

    Xu Yi looked over the iron ball and found that this ball was very light. Reaching out to hit it, there wasn¡¯t an echo from an empty core, which proved that the inside was quite solid.

    ¡°This thing is iron?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Siluka took an iron hammer and forcefully smashed down on it. The iron ball only slightly changed shape and it didn¡¯t show any signs of cracking, so it could be seen that the iron ball was quite firm.

    ¡°Damn, what kind of alloy is this? It¡¯s actually this strong?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help bing excited. He asked Siluka, ¡°Chief Siluka, how was this iron ball made?¡±

    Siluka took the iron ball from Xu Yi¡¯s hand and found a mark at the bottom of the ball. He raised his hand to call over a dwarf with a long beard.

    ¡°Murru, was this iron ball made by you? Chairman Xu is very interested in it, tell us, how did you make it?¡±

    The eyes of the dwarf called Murru lit up and he expectantly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, this thing is useful?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Although we have no way to test its performance right now, based on what I just saw, it should be useful.¡±

    Murru excitedly said, ¡°Then that¡¯s great! We¡¯ve tried many things and have tested several thousand forms, but we¡¯ve never made the steel alloy you mentioned before. I never thought that there would be one that would be useful!¡±

    Siluka red at him, ¡°Stop wasting words. Chairman Xu asked you how to made it, properly answer him.¡±

    Murru suppressed the excitement in his heart. He looked at the iron ball and tilted his head to think about it before slowly responding, ¡°This thing was actually made when I identally poured a cup of silver leaf liquid in¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 1 71 - You want to rebel?

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 71 You want to rebel?</b>

    After thinking about it, the dwarf Murru narrated the process he used to make this iron ball.

    In the process he described, Xu Yi kept asking him things to rify, not even letting go of what temperature he used when he was forging this thing.

    ¡°This¡­..Temperature?¡± Murru scratched his chaotic hair and was a bit confused, ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean that there are many kinds of mes? I don¡¯t know about this, I can only tell you that the mes were normal when I refined it and it wasn¡¯t that strong.¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit helpless. The Sines Continent didn¡¯t extensively collect data like on earth. This could be a major w in developing an industrial system, so it seemed like he had to think of a way to solve this problem.

    Of course, this problem was forter, what was most important was the iron ball in his hand right now.

    After questioning Murru several times, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a way to obtain a satisfactory answer. Finally, he could only ask Murru to repeat the refinement of that day.

    Hearing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi found the iron ball Murru refined interesting, the other dwarves that had been experimenting all came over.

    When faced with everyone, Murru thought about it for a while before lighting up a furnace.

    The first half followed the normal forging process and Xu Yi didn¡¯t see anything special. Only when the iron liquid in the forge began to bubble, Murru picked up a can filled with silver sparkling dust that he poured in, causing the situation in the forge to change instantly.

    When this can of silver leaves was poured in, it instantly fused with the iron liquid inside the forge. After a while, the iron liquid that had been bubbling because of the high temperature began to churn even stronger, as a trace of silver light filled thepletely red iron liquid.

    The process of forging was rather boring and Siluka was worried that Xu Yi would be bored watching it. But he found that Xu Yi had been staring at the iron liquid inside the forge from the beginning, almost not even blinking. His face looked very focus and his heart was filled with curiosity.

    This chairman Xu Yi, why did he care about this strange so called alloy so much?

    Xu Yi came to the dwarven tribe in the afternoon and after the molten iron in the forge finished refining, it was already night.

    During this time, Xu Yi had been by the forge the entire time. Other than going to the washroom once, he actually hadn¡¯t moved at all.

    Other than this, he even took out a notebook. During the entire process, he recorded the order and amount of materials added by Murru one by one.

    When the molten iron cooled, it gradually formed a sphere inside a mold. Xu Yi carefully looked over this iron ball and found that this iron ball really wasn¡¯t that much different from the iron ball from before. This confirmed that Murru really followed his processst time.

    Seeing that it waste, Siluka wanted to invite Xu Yi back to the tribe for dinner, but was directly rejected by Xu Yi.

    They had discovered a new alloy with great difficulty, Xu Yi was currently filled with excitement. His passion as a mechanical engineer had burst forth, naturally he wasn¡¯t willing to leave at this time.

    So Siluka called his nsmen to bring dinner here. The dwarves ate with Xu Yi while conducting all kinds of tests on the iron ball based on Xu Yi¡¯s requests.

    After a series of tests, Xu Yi had finally confirmed that this strange alloy formed from adding silver leaves wasn¡¯t that good in terms of firmness, but its ductility and sticity could match normal alloys from earth. It was generally much stronger than the pig iron refined on the Sines Continent.

    The more important thing was the alloy with silver leaves had been in the corner for close to two months, but there wasn¡¯t a single trace of rust on it.

    Even without having to do any rust treatment, it had the nature of stainless steel!

    Xu Yi held the iron ball that had been deformed after his experiments and his heart was filled with excitement.

    The reason he came to the dwarven tribe this time was actually to contact other dwarven tribes through chief Siluka, bringing even more dwarves back to his magic machine workshop. He never expected these dwarves had unexpected made this kind of new alloy.

    Even without appraising it first, Xu Yi was certain that this new alloy that he had temporarily named the Silver Leaf Alloy could not be used in heavy magic machines because of its hardness, but it would be very useful in producing household magic machines.

    For example, for the new Magic Rick Cooker they had been focusing on making, if they used this alloy, the Magic Rice Cooker would be much lighter.

    Just based on this, the Magic Rice Cooker would be even more popr.

    Afterpleting the tests on the Silver Leaf Alloy, Xu Yi immediately raised a request with chief Siluka. He hoped that he and the other dwarves of their tribe would experiment even more on the Silver Leaf Alloy.

    For example, adding in more silver leaf dust, changing the temperature of the me, or adding in other materials¡­...

    At the same time, he used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name to give Murru a twenty gold coin reward, as amendation to him for inventing this new alloy.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of material testing from earth, he believed that even the smallest change would change the final properties of the alloy.

    This Silver Leaf Alloy appeared because of an ident. If there were more idents like this, he would greatly support them.

    Other than this Silver Leaf Alloy, Xu Yi looked over the pile of iron balls again and found another special iron ball.

    Although this iron ball was not as eye catching as the Silver Leaf Alloy and its properties weren¡¯t that outstanding, after testing it, Xu Yi was surprised to find that this iron ball surpassed pig iron in terms of firmness and resistance.

    For heavy machine, especiallyrge production machines, this kind of alloy was very much needed.

    Xi Yi gave chief Siluka another request, having the dwarves of the tribe also perform experiments on this alloy.

    This time, chief Siluka didn¡¯t agree quickly like before, rather he revealed a difficult look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we don¡¯t have enough nsmen in the tribe right now. If you didn¡¯t take Camby and the others away, there is no problem researching two things at once. You can see that all the nsmen that can do things are here, there are only these ten people, so we can¡¯t fulfill your request.¡±

    Xu Yi looked around and found that chief Siluka¡¯s words were not exaggerated.

    Since he had brought the hundred dwarves led by Camby out of the tribe, most of the people left in the tribe were the elderly or women and children. The ones that could perform forging like this were the ten dwarves left here.

    ¡°Let¡¯s do this. Chief Siluka, isn¡¯t the Ang Tribe sending people to talk to me tomorrow? I¡¯ll mention this matter at that time and it¡¯s best if their tribe can be convinced to ept the research for one of these alloys. Of course, it would be best if chief Siluka can connect me to more dwarven brothers. I¡¯mcking quite a bit of manpower right now and it¡¯s mainly ack of suitable dwarven craftsmen. I want however many you can give me.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before speaking.

    Siluka didn¡¯t immediately agree, rather he looked at Xu Yi with a frown.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you nning to fill your factory with only dwarves?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Of course not, but there are still more dwarves in my factory right now.¡±

    Siluka shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I want to remind you that if your factory has too many dwarves like us, there will be problems.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Problems? What problems? I am just letting the dwarven brothers work for me, what problems could there be?¡±

    Siluka let out a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I know you have good intentions, but not all humans are like you. The more important thing is that your human leaders won¡¯t be able to think like this. There is no problem if a few dwarves appear in human society, but if arge group of dwarves appear, I¡¯m worried it will cause trouble for you and us dwarves.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°The race wars are something that happened thousands of years ago, could it be that chief Siluka is worried about this?¡±

    Siluka waved his hand, ¡°It is impossible for the race war to ur again. I am just worried that the human leaders will be worried. When that timees, we dwarven brothers cannot bring you benefits, rather we will cause trouble for you.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and couldn¡¯t help admiring that chief Siluka was right.

    Although the Sines Continent waspletely ruled by humans and the other races couldn¡¯t evenpete with humans, there was still the existence of racial segregation.

    Xu Yi recruiting a hundred or several hundred dwarves to work for him was not a problem, but if he recruited a thousand or several thousand dwarves, it would attract the vignce of the big characters of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With all these foreign race members under him, did he want to rebel?

    ¡°Ai, it seems like no matter what world it is, it is impossible for business to avoid politics.¡± Xu Yi sighed in his heart. He thought about it before nodding to chief Siluka, ¡°Many thanks to the chief for your reminder, I will pay attention to this matter. But I think it won¡¯t be a problem at this stage and mypany is justcking too much manpower right now, so I ask you to pay more attention to this matter still. Actually if things go wrong, it isn¡¯t like I don¡¯t have any preparations.¡±

    Siluka gave a slight nod with hisrge head, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu is an intelligent human, I believe you have a solution. As for the dwarven brothers of the other tribes¡­¡­¡± After saying this, Siluka revealed a bitter smile and had a helpless look on his face, ¡°Their current lives are not much better than our tribe was before.¡±

 Volume 1 72 - Angola Tribe

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 72 Ang Tribe</strong>

    The Ang Dwarf Tribe was less than a hundred kilometers away from the Norma Tribe led by chief Siluka. Receiving the news that Xu Yi had arrived, the next morning, the representative from the Ang Tribe had alreadye.

    To Xu Yi¡¯s surprise, the one leading the Ang Tribe representative was their chief Monto. As for the two representatives that followed chief Monto¡¯s side, they were the two elders with the highest positions.

    Seeing this lineup, Xu Yi naturally understood that the Ang Tribe viewed this negotiation with the greatest importance. So, he also became more serious.

    However, the process of the negotiations had surprised him again.

    The entire process was quite simple. Xu Yi gave chief Monto and the two elder the conditions he had already prepared and the three of them hid nothing as they revealed looks of excitement. They didn¡¯t even think as they agreed to him, making him feel that his starting conditions were just too good.

    But these conditions were based on the conditions Xu Yi offered chief Siluka from before. Other than an extra beneficial condition of building a road from here to the Ang Tribe, there wasn¡¯t anything else added.

    This was Xu Yi trying to understand the thoughts of a dwarf with the mindset of a human., The dwarves could be considered a rough or even straightforward race, their way of handling matters was different from humans.

    Xu Yi had used human negotiations as a reference, so he thought that chief Monto would bargain back and forth before both sides would take a step back and reach a settlement.

    Who would have thought that chief Monto and the two elders would be satisfied with these conditions, not even having the mind to bargain back and forth.

    Of course, there was a reason why chief Monto and the two elders would agree so quickly.

    The Ang Tribe was not far from here and as dwarven brothers, both sides would frequentlymunicate with each other, so they had a clear understanding of the situation in the Norma Tribe.

    The Norma Tribe and the Ang Tribe wererades in suffering, both sides¡¯ living conditions weren¡¯t that good.

    But since two months ago, after a human had made a trip here, the dwarves of the Ang Tribe had found that the lives of the dwarves of the Norma Tribe had suddenly be much better.

    When the hundred adult dwarves of the Norma Tribe were taken by Xu Yi, the Ang Tribe thought that the Norma Tribe couldn¡¯t support them anymore, so they were selling their nsmen to this human to work heavybour. But they realized that was not the case.

    They learned after asking that the dwarves who had left were now working in a human factory. Not only did they have enough food and ces to sleep, they had a high sry of eight gold coins a month!

    The most important thing was that they even had good wine in the factory to drink! It was even the famous Sachi Manor wine!

    They silently watched as the lives of theirpatriots in the Norma Tribe became better. Not only did they have enough to eat, they also received brand new clothes, and could even repair their houses. The dwarves of the Ang Tribe naturally couldn¡¯t sit still.

    After learning that all these changes were from a human named Xu Yi, chief Monto had formed the idea of seeing Xu Yi.

    If this human named Xu Yi could help the Ang Tribe like he helped the Norma Tribe, changing the lives of their nsmen, his role as the chief would have been fulfilled.

    Who would have thought that when chief Monto made up his mind, Siluka woulde find him and directly tell him Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    Hearing that Xu Yi was recruiting dwarven craftsmen, chief Monto didn¡¯t even think as he instantly agreed.

    Compared to the Norma Tribe, the Ang Tribe was a bit bigger, having almost twice the poption.

    The Norma Tribe could produce a hundred dwarven craftsmen, but the Ang Tribe could produce two hundred.

    Chief Monto even gritted his teeth and directly proposed that he could send three hundred adults to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory for work.

    Chief Siluka on the side was shocked, ¡°Monto, are you crazy? Just how many adults do you have in your tribe? If you let three hundred people leave the tribe, how will the rest of the tribe keep living?¡±

    Chief Monto and the two elders looked at each other beforeughing, ¡°It¡¯s no problem, it isn¡¯t like the ones left in the tribe can¡¯t move at all, at worst they will just have to suffer a bit. Then again, chairman Xu has already reached an agreement with us for the sry of our nsmen working in the factory. As long as they can endure for a while and wait for the sry of our nsmen, naturally it will be much easier. Don¡¯t you think so, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he said with a nod, ¡°Chief Monto can be assured that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is looking for a happy cooperation with the dwarves, so we definitely will not skimp on our sries. But chief Siluka does make a lot of sense. Chief Monto, if you suddenly send out three hundred people, the lives of the ones left in the tribe will be greatly affected¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wanted to reject him, chief Monto quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, it won¡¯t, there is no problem. Really, it¡¯s no problem! I am more clear on the situation in the tribepared to chairman Xu, there is no problem even if we send three hundred people.¡±

    Seeing how anxious chief Monto and the two elders were, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing inside.

    Last time he came to the Norma Tribe with Master Lanus to negotiate with chief Siluka, he found that the living conditions of the dwarves were quite poor. He was even able to easily move chief Siluka with a promise of five hundred gold coins. Now based on the reactions from chief Norma and the two elders, it seemed like the problems of the Norma Tribe was amon problem for the dwarves.

    ¡°Chief Monto, don¡¯t be anxious and listen to me first.¡± Xu Yi slowly said, ¡°Actually, I have other things to consider. Although ourpany needsrge amounts of outstanding dwarven craftsmen to help us with our work, if we were to receive three hundred dwarves at once, it would be hard for ourpany to settle them right now. Temporarily, we could only take around a hundred.¡±

    ¡°Only a hundred? That is too little¡­..¡± Chief Monto and the two elders revealed looks of disappointment.

    ¡°Let me finish.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile as he continued, ¡°Other than the hundred dwarven craftsmen working in ourpany¡¯s factory, I also need arge amount of experienced dwarven craftsmen to perform experiments with material. I wonder if chief Monto is interested in this?¡±

    ¡°Material experiments? What is that?¡± Chief Monto and the two elders were bewildered.

    Xu Yi looked at chief Siluka and he immediately understood. With a cough, he began to exin it to the three of them.

    After half an hour, chief Monto and the two elders revealed looks of enlightenment.

    ¡°That means¡­..this so called material research is just testing methods of forging iron?¡± Chief Monto asked.

    ¡°It has this general meaning, but there are more requirements for the concrete details.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    Chief Monto thought about it before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, your meaning is to have our nsmen and the dwarven brothers here help your Frestech Chamber of Commerce perform this¡­..material research?¡±

    ¡°Yes. The material research requires a lot of experiments and although chief Siluka has some people here, I feel it is far from enough, so I want to find some more dwarven brothers to help him with this research. I wonder if chief Monto is interested?¡±

    Chief Monto asked with knit brows, ¡°But this thing¡­...what benefits does it bring to our tribe?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He knew that it would be a waste of words to exin to them how important this research was to the Sines Continent, so he directly sent out a p.

    ¡°Any research results that I approve of will have a reward of five hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Five hundred gold coins?¡± Chief Monto and the two elders had their eyes shrink as shock filled their faces.

    When they were discussing the sries for their nsmen working in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory, they only received eight gold coins a month. Although there were many people, the amount wasn¡¯t much, so it didn¡¯t seem that special.

    Now that Xu Yi immediately said five hundred gold coins, it had stunned the three dwarves.

    Chief Monto couldn¡¯t help looking at chief Siluka on the side. His eyes fell onto the luxurious cloth clothes made by a highly skilled human tailor and a look of envy appeared in his eyes.

    This Siluka, he was still wearing tattered linen clothes three months ago, but now he had changed into such beautiful clothes. It was clear that these changes were brought from working with this human merchant.

    Then thinking about the shocking changes he saw when he walked through the Norma Tribe, chief Monto immediately steeled his heart and gave a strong nod to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright! We¡¯ll agree on this!¡±

    Xu Yi immediately revealed a serious smile and tightly gripped chief Monto¡¯s hand.

    Actually while chief Monto was excited about therge remunerations Xu Yi promised, Xu Yi was also feeling very excited.

    He had reaped arge harvest from his trip this time. Not only did he solve his seriousck of manpower, he had even identally made arge breakthrough in the material research.

    If the Ang Tribe dwarves could also research a few new alloys like Murru and the others, it would be a great help to Xu Yi¡¯s n of forming an industrial system on the Sines Continent.

    Other than this, through the contacts of these two dwarven tribes, he could establish good rtions with other dwarven tribes.

    Although there weren¡¯t many dwarves on the Sines Continent right now, most of them were highly skilled craftsmen.

    Perhaps this didn¡¯t affect other humans that much, but to Xu Yi, this was a great wealth.

    If he could grab this wealth in his hand, the confidence in Xu Yi¡¯s heart would naturally be much stronger.

 Volume 1 73 - Exploring an ore vein

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 73 Exploring an ore vein</h4>

    Perhaps it was because they had personally witnessed the changes with the Norma Tribe, chief Monto and the two elders entered this cooperation with Xu Yi filled with confidence. So these negotiations¡­..Oh, no, they could be considered business discussions went very smoothly.

    In just a short day, Xu Yi had already set all the details with chief Monto.

    For the hundred dwarven craftsmen provided by the Ang Tribe, Xu Yi would give the same treatment as Camby and the others, giving them a sry of eight gold coins a month.

    But in terms of other benefits, it was a bitcking.

    This was because Camby¡¯s group had already been working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for two months now and they could be considered trained skilled workers. As for the dwarves from the Ang Tribe, they were new hires, so naturally it was impossible for them to receive the same treatment.

    Chief Monto and the two elders didn¡¯t have any objections to this since being able to obtain a sry of eight gold coins a month for their nsmen was already enough to satisfy them.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had promised to create a material researchb in the Ang Tribe. Not only did he give them a fixed research fund of one hundred gold coins a month, as long as they seeded with a project which was useful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would receive a bonus of five hundred gold coins.

    For the Ang Tribe that had been impoverished for a long time, whether it was their nsmen going to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and receiving a fixed sry of eight gold coins a month, or receiving a bonus of five hundred gold coins a month for any sess was like rain at the end of a drought. They were very satisfied with this, so how could they have more requests at this time?

    The dwarves were simple and honest and now that Xu Yi had given them these conditions, it was like he was saving them.

    So chief Monto and the two elders wanted to bring Xu Yi back to the Ang Tribe as a guest no matter what to show their gratitude.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t reject their goodwill and could only follow them in the end. With chief Siluka and Camby, they headed to the Ang Tribe.

    Perhaps it was because their poption was higher than the Norma Tribe, sopared to the previous Norma Tribe, the lives of the Ang Tribe was a bit better. But there was still a limit to this and they were only barely keeping themselves away from starving.

    Butpared to the current Norma Tribe, it was like heaven and earth.

    After walking around the Ang Tribe, Xu Yi saw a little dwarven boy happily eating the candy he had brought and he couldn¡¯t help asking chief Siluka, ¡°I¡¯m very curious, why are the lives of the dwarves so difficult? The dwarves are clearly very industrious, can endure suffering, and have strong forging techniques, they should be living their lives like this by normal logic, right?¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before revealing bitter smiles.

    After a while, chief Siluka let out a sigh and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, this problem, you should actually ask your fellow humans.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at chief Siluka with a curious gaze, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. Since the race wars several thousand years ago, humans hadplete victories and had taken every good ce on the Sines Continent. Whether it is us dwarves, the beastmen, or the halflings that haven¡¯t been seen in a long time, we could only live on barrennd and couldn¡¯t obtain enough food at all. If we wanted to obtain food from human hands, we needed to payrge prices. Chairman Xu, youe from Banta City. Let me ask you, how much does one pound of wheat in Banta City sell for?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. He thought about it before replying, ¡°If I remember correctly, the current price should be fourteen silver coins per pound.¡±

    ¡°Look, it¡¯s only fourteen silver coins per pound!¡± Chief Siluka gave a snort, not hiding the dissatisfaction in his voice at all, ¡°Do you know how much you humans sell a pound of wheat to us for?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows. There was no need to ask, he already knew that it would be a very high price.

    As expected, chief Siluka raised a thick finger.

    ¡°An entire gold coin! That can only buy one pound of wheat! Chairman Xu, do you know? We dwarves have a higher capacity for foodpared to you humans and each person can eat half a pound of wheat in a single meal. This means that a single gold coin is only enough to feed us dwarves for a single day!¡± After saying this, chief Siluka¡¯s voice was filled with rage. It was very clear that he had been suppressing his anger at the humans increasing the price of wheat for a long time, ¡°We dwarves only have the habit of enjoying good wine, but good wine requires even more wheat. In order to save the wheat we obtained from the humans with great difficulty, our Norma Tribe had already forbidden wine. Chairman Xu, do you know,st time when you came to our tribe, it was our first time drinking wine in two year?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile. For these dwarves who were addicted to wine, two long years without drinking was a very painful thing.

    It was no wonder that when Xu Yi promised the dwarves under Camby that he would provide wine from the Sachi Manor as a reward, the enthusiasm of the dwarves had surged.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding it strange.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right. Chief Siluka, based on what you said, did you use something to exchange for gold coins or for the life preserving wheat?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, we used ores.¡± Chief Siluka pointed at the mountain outside the Ang Tribe, ¡°There are many ores inside this mountain, as well as Magic Crystal ores. Humans feel this ce is too far and it¡¯s too costly to mine here, so they never cared about it. So, we dwarves have depended on mining these iron ores and Magic Crystals to exchange for food from humans.¡±

    ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, they are also purchasing these iron ores and Magic Crystals at a very low price, right?¡± Xu Yi asked in a thoughtful voice.

    ¡°It is very low, but what other choice is there?¡± Chief Siluka said with a sigh, ¡°This is because these humans don¡¯t care since harvesting these ores are just too costly. If one day humans set their eyes on these mines and send soldiers to drive us away, we really don¡¯t know what we can depend on to keep living anymore. We still have to thank the humans for giving us a path of life.¡± After saying this, chief Siluka revealed a self deprecating smile.

    Xu Yi looked at chief Monto nearby with a somewhat helpless look and chief Monto as revealed a bitter smile. He nodded at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Although the situation of our tribe is a bit better than the Norma Tribe, it isn¡¯t that different. In the end, we aren¡¯t humans and humans are the rulers of the Sines Continent.¡±

    Seeing the expression of the two chiefs, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit awkward.

    As a human and being here listening to these two dwarves discussing the oppression of dwarves by humans, he did feel like he didn¡¯t belong.

    But there was information that chief Siluka gave just now that had attracted his attention. He looked up at the tall mountain for a while and Xu Yi suddenly asked, ¡°Chief Siluka, you dwarves are not just good at forging but also good at mining?¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. We dwarves don¡¯t have any other specialties, but we do have some talent in opening up wastnds and refining ores. The ores you humans spend a whole day picking might not be as much as we dwarves can mine in a single meal.¡± Chief Siluka replied.

    ¡°That is a bit off. Since dwarves have this ability, why don¡¯t humanpanies hire dwarves to mine for them?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°They did before, but the wages those humanpanies gave our dwarven brothers was very low. Of course the main thing was that those humans looked down on us and it was easy to be bullied in those mines, so it was better toe back and not do it anymore. After a long time passed, now there are no dwarven brothers willing to work for humans.¡± Chief Siluka looked over Xu Yi before continuing, ¡°To be honest, chairman Xu, if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that I had no other choice, I wouldn¡¯t have agreed to Lanus and let you take our hundred dwarven brothers away.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, this had already been raised to him by Master Lanus.

    ¡°Of course, Camby has also told me after that our brothers are doing very well at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not only does chairman Xu provide food and ces to sleep, you also let them drink wine, letting me be gradually assured.¡± Chief Siluka changed into a voice of praise, ¡°It has to be said, chairman Xu is not the same as other humans, you don¡¯t have any biases towards us dwarves.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°I¡¯ll say something you won¡¯t like hearing. I am a pure human merchant, I only care if the other side will bring benefits or not, I don¡¯t care about their race at all.¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto broke out inughter at the same time. Chief Siluka even got on his tiptoes to p Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder as he said, ¡°If all humans were as straightforward as chairman Xu, we dwarves would have much better days.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He never thought that him saying this would be considered a frank appraisal.

    He looked back at the tall mountain before saying, ¡°Chief Siluka, since you dwarves are good at opening mines, you should be good at exploring for ore veins, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, if it is exploring ore veins, if we dwarves say we are second, there is no race on the Sines Continent who dare im to be first.¡± Chief Siluka had a proud look on his face.

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good. I have an idea and I need your ore vein exploring experts to help me.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°No problem.¡± Chief Monto patted his chest before chief Siluka, ¡°Speaking of ore vein exploring experts, our Ang Tribe has many of them. There is no need to mention others, I am an expert.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Of course there¡¯s no need for chief Monto to personally head out. I hope that chief Siluka and chief Monto can pick five people each from your tribe to explore all over the Lampuri Kingdom ording to my requests and it would be best if they can find some mines. Do you two think this will work?¡±

    ¡°All over the Lampuri Kingdom?¡± The two chiefs looked at each other before knitting their brows, ¡°This might be a bit difficult, but it is not impossible. It just needs a bit of time.¡±

    ¡°How long do you estimate it will take?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°If it is searching for ore veins and Magic Crystal veins, our nsmen has a rich experience. If there are ten people, I think it¡¯ll take less than half a year to finish.¡± Chief Monto said, ¡°But if you include other ore veins, it would be hard to say¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly overjoyed, ¡°It won¡¯t even take half a year? That¡¯s great! Very good, we¡¯ll do this. Chief Siluka, chief Monto, you just need to pick the most experienced dwarves from your tribes. I¡¯ll tell you, not only will our Frestech Chamber of Commerce pay for all their fees, we will also give each person a hundred gold coins at the end of the expedition.¡±

    ¡°One hundred gold coins? That is too much!¡± When Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, the two chiefs shook their hands, ¡°This is only a small matter, there is no need to mention a reward, not to mention that one hundred gold coins is too much.¡±

    ¡°The dwarven brothers are working hard, of course there should be a reward.¡±

    ¡°That hundred gold coins is too much¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­....

    While the three were discussing this, an Ang Tribe dwarf quickly ran to chief Monto and loudly shouted, ¡°Chief, the elven guests are here!¡±

 Volume 1 74 - Female elf

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 74 Female elf</strong>

    The three were all stunned, especially Xu Yi whose eyes popped out.

    Elves?

    It was actually elves!

    Xu Yi hade to the Sines Continent for three years now, this was not considered a short period. But in these three years, even though he had seen dwarves in cities and beastmen in construction sites, he had never once seen an elf.

    It¡¯s said that three thousand years ago, the elves were the rulers of the Sines Continent. However, humans quickly caught up and finally dethroned the elves through the race wars, bing the new rulers of the Sines Continent.

    Since then, the elves had almostpletely disappeared from the continent. Even if humans went to the forests where elves lived, they wouldn¡¯t be able to see a single elf.

    Many times, elves became things of legends and many people even wondered if the elves had already gone extinct!

    But in this dwarven tribe now, Xu Yi would actually get to meet an elf!

    Since chief Monto gave the order for that dwarf to bring the elven guests over, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help stretching his neck out towards the entrance of the Ang Tribe, not even blinking at all.

    After a while, a slender elf who was twice as tall as dwarves and almost the same height as Xu Yi was slowly led over by the dwarf from before.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly swept over that elf and he couldn¡¯t help secretly praising her.

    A pair of sharp ears demonstrated her identity as an elf and the tall peaks on her chest showed she was a female. She had a pair of blue eyes like deep springs, as well as a resolute look on her gentle face that gave her gentle appearance a kind of heroic feel. Adding in the snow white calves with perfect proportions that she revealed, she instantly made people¡¯s eyes light up.

    Xu Yi had already heard that the elven race was filled handsome guys and beautiful girls, but he didn¡¯t believe it at first. Now that he was seeing this elven beauty, he had no choice but to believe it.

    The female elf had already noticed Xu Yi who was like a crane among chickens among the elves from far away. After walking over, she couldn¡¯t help looking over Xu Yi and revealed a look of curiosity.

    But elves paid great attention to courtesy, so even if she was very curious about Xu Yi, the female elf still gave a bow to chief Monto first before saying, ¡°Hello respected chief Monto, may the light of Elune forever shine onto you.¡±

    Chief Monto only gave a slight nod in return as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Hello, may your feet always be in Messiah¡¯s palms.¡±

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first time hearing this kind of greeting and he couldn¡¯t help curiously looking over the female elf even more.

    It really was like the rumours said, not only were elves beautiful, their auras were also outstanding. This female elf had white skin, a tall figure, and even more outstanding aura. Although her expression was calm, there was a cold feel to her that made it hard for people to approach her, while also making them want to be closer to her.

    After the female elf and chief Monto finished their greetings, she immediately said, ¡°Respected chief Monoto, have you considered the matter fromst time? Our tribe¡¯s situation is already very bad right now and I hope you can agree to my request to help us. Our entire tribe will firmly remember the helping hand you will be reaching out.¡±

    Although her words were delightful and pleasant to listen to, even Xu Yi who didn¡¯t understand what her words meant could hear the unsettled tone in her voice.

    Thus it could be seen that when she said ¡°our tribe¡¯s situation is already very bad¡±, it wasn¡¯t a lie.

    Chief Monto revealed a difficult expression, ¡°This¡­..Dear miss Agnes, although we dwarves have a long set rtion with the elves and we hope to help you solve this problem, you can see that our tribe is also facing many problems. Moreover, arge group of our adults will be leaving here soon, so we will not have enough people to help you. Can you go look for another dwarf tribe?¡±

    Hearing chief Monto¡¯s response, the female elf Agnes revealed a disappointed look, but she didn¡¯t make it obvious.

    ¡°Alright, many thanks to chief Monto for listening to my request. May the light of Elune forever keep your health.¡±

    Leaving this, the female elf Agnes turned to leave.

    Xu Yi on the side was stunned by this.

    Even though he had heard that elves were so proud that they wouldn¡¯t change their mind no matter what was said, he never thought that this female elf would run all this way for one sentence and leave right after being rejected!

    This fellow, does she not know how to talk?

    With her attitude, it would be strange if she could aplish anything.

    If the elves were all like this, it wasn¡¯t strange at all for the elves to be dragged down from the throne of the Sines Continent by the humans.

    There were various thoughts in Xu Yi¡¯s head before he suddenly took two steps forward, blocking Agnes¡¯ way.

    Agnes stopped moving and looked at Xu Yi who had suddenly appeared in front of her with a surprised look on her face.

    ¡°Human, do you need something?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed what he considered his most gentle smile and said, ¡°Beautiful elven miss, can I ask you what you and your tribe need help with? Perhaps I could help you with this?¡±

    Agnes slightly knit her beautiful brows and honestly looked at Xu Yi for a while before slowly shaking her head.

    ¡°Sorry, I don¡¯t trust humans.¡±

    She didn¡¯t even say goodbye after saying this, as she directly walked past Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi never thought that this fellow would be this straightforward and disrespectful. When he finally reacted and wanted to block Agnes again, he saw a sh of green light from her as she directly disappeared from the gate to Ang Vige.

    ¡°It¡¯s elven magic, it¡¯s the Shadow Stealth Spell.¡± Chief Siluka came to Xu Yi¡¯s side and looked in the direction Agnes disappeared in as he said, ¡°Unless your magic power is much stronger than hers, you won¡¯t be able to find her and shouldn¡¯t even think about chasing her.¡±

    Chief Monto also came over and seriously said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, the elves are very hard to approach. I suggest you give up and ideas about pursuing her.¡±

    Seeing the strange expressions on the faces of the two chiefs, Xu Yi knew that they must have misunderstood. He was toozy to exin it as he asked chief Monto, ¡°Chief Monto, the thing she wanted your help with and she said that her tribe¡¯s situation wasn¡¯t good¡­...Do you know what problem they¡¯ve encountered?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..This is already her third time here. I had considered it the first two times, but because I¡¯ve already agreed to send a hundred nsmen to your factory, I could only reject her.¡± Chief Monto said, ¡°As for the problem their tribe has encountered¡­..it¡¯s actually quite fatal. The elven tribe shees from lives in the Falling Rain Forest two hundred kilometers away from here. There used to be a river that ran through the Falling Rain Forest and it provided water for her tribe, but the river has be smallertely and is even close to drying up. It has made their living conditions very difficult.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Something like this happened? What is the reason for the change?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Their tribe has investigated it and the river is undergoing this change is because the silt at the bottom of the river has increased. It¡¯s caused the river to flow in a different direction, so naturally the water flowing to their tribe has decreased.¡±

    ¡°Then the help they are asking you for is that they are hoping you dwarves can help them move the silt at the bottom of theke?¡±

    Chief Monto shook his head and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Although the magic of the elves are pretty good, but their strength is normal. They need help from us dwarves for this kind ofrge project, but how could we have that many people to help them. We can only reject them.¡±

    Chief Siluka on the side gave a cold snort, ¡°This group of elves aren¡¯t worth helping. We are putting in all that effort to solve their problem and they¡¯ll only give us a few icy words of thanks, they won¡¯t even give us some wine to drink. Why would we help them?¡±

    Chief Monto said with a sigh, ¡°That¡¯s right, if we could secure our own living conditions, based on old friendships, we could help them. But now we can¡¯t even support our own nsmen, so how could we care about them?¡±

    Xu Yi ignored the two dwarf chiefsining about what the elves did wrong before, rather he looked in the direction Agnes disappeared in with brows knit in deep thought.

    The elves had met trouble and perhaps this wasn¡¯t rted to others, but it was not the same for Xu Yi.

    He keenly felt that this was a chance, a good chance to let him establish connections with the elves.

    Just like Xu Yi had said in front of the two chiefs before, as a pure human merchant, Xu Yi only considered the benefits people brought when he looked over them, he didn¡¯t care about their race.

    Even if the elves were facing problems, Xu Yi knew that they had many advantages other races didn¡¯t have, so naturally there were enough benefits for him to explore.

    If he could use this crisis of the elves to get closer to the elves, perhaps Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will earn great benefits in the future.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi took out the notebook he carried with him and drew several drawings before writing several detailed annotations beside the drawing. Finally he ripped it off and gave it to chief Monto.

    ¡°Chief Monto, since that elf hase to you three times, I think you should know a bit about her and her tribe, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°A bit.¡± Chief Monto took the paper from Xu Yi and found that he couldn¡¯t understand it at all, ¡°What is this thing?¡±

    ¡°This is a n I¡¯ve made for them to change the direction of the river upstream for their tribe. If you give it to her or her tribe, they should understand it.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Chief Monto and chief Siluka both came forward, honestly looking over the drawing on the piece of paper. They still couldn¡¯t understand it in the end and could only give up, ¡°But Xu Yi, why are you thinking of a way to help them? That Agnes just now didn¡¯t have a good attitude towards you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I believe that after she sees this thing, it will definitely change her attitude towards me.¡±

 Volume 1 75 - Invitation from the Business Union

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 75 Invitation from the Business Union</strong>

    After visiting the Ang Tribe, Xu Yi stayed for another half a day and gave some information on material research to chief Siluka and chief Monto before finally leaving.

    Camby didn¡¯t leave with him and chose to remain.

    After chief Monto prepared the hundred dwarves, Camby would lead them back.

    As for Xu Yi, naturally he needed to head back to Banta City first to prepare some things.

    Because there was a road leading to the main road from Norma City, the travel schedule didn¡¯t require an entire day¡¯s travel like before. However Xu Yi left the Norma Tribe at noon and when he arrived in Banta City, it was already turning dark.

    Even though it was a bitte, Xu Yi directly headed to the factory outside the city.

    Although it was already under the cover of night, the two factories were brightly lit up and it was clear they were working overtime.

    During this time, working overtime had already be a habit for the two workshops.

    The dwarves in the magic machine workshop were all working hard on the agricultural magic machines the nobles had made orders on. As for the household magic machine workshop led by Heinz, they were all working until dark because of how popr the Magic Rice Cooker was.

    Actually there were some interesting developments with the Magic Rice Cooker.

    Xu Yi had designed the Magic Rice Cooker because of a sudden idea that had appeared in his mind, he didn¡¯t think that much about it back then. When the Magic Rice Cooker was made, he found that there was a serious problem. It was that the staple food source around Banta City was grains and the bread made from those grains were the staple food around Banta City.

    The Magic Rice Cooker¡¯s abilities were very simple right now, it could only be used to cook rice and it couldn¡¯t be used to cook bread at all. So unlike what Xu Yi had expected, the sales inside Banta City weren¡¯t that high.

    After realizing this problem, Xu Yi immediately changed his strategy. He marketed the Magic Rice Cooker to the surrounding cities, especially sellingrge amounts in Karma City that was famous for their rice paddies.

    This chance in their n was very appropriate. After seeing how convenient it was to cook rice with the Magic Rice Cooker, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce immediately receivedrge amounts of orders.

    Just in Karma City alone, from thepanies that worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the Magic Fans before, their orders added up to a total of over seven thousand.

    Adding in the orders from other cities, as well as the demand from Banta City, the task the household magic machine workshop faced now was having to make over sixteen thousand Magic Rice Cookers in a month!

    Even if it was much easier to make Magic Rice Cookerspared to Magic Fans, which made it much faster to make, this was still a very tiring task.

    But for a fellow like Heinz who only knew how to worry about not having any work to do, this was a very happy thing for him.

    During this time, Heinz had been in the workshop daily supervising everything, even sleeping in the workshop at night, rarely returning to Banta City. There were many times when Heinz¡¯s wife hade looking for him and they had started arguing in front of Xu Yi.

    But Heinz became very excited every time the factory was filled with work, so how could he have the mind to listen to others.

    After Xu Yi found that talking to him didn¡¯t work, he just let him do what he wanted.

    Heinz as the factory manager went all out, so the workers under him naturally couldn¡¯t bezy.

    There was no need to mention the hundred ves he borrowed from Viscount Leslie, even the hundred workers recruited after all worked very earnestly. Whenever one entered the workshop, they would always see a bustling working scene.

    Of course, the reason why the workers were so full of zeal was that Xu Yi had told them through Heinz that they would receive overtime pay!

    This was a very new thing for them.

    For these workers, they had never heard of the concept of working overtime before.

    In their knowledge, since they came to work here, they did whatever the boss told them to do, or they wouldn¡¯t receive their wages.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had opened their eyes.

    Because the Magic Rice Cooker hadn¡¯t been sold yet, so the workshop¡¯s work wasn¡¯t too heavy, so they strictly followed the work schedule of eight hours a day.

    The workers were confused back then. Clearly there were many things to do still, so why was their rest time each day for so long?

    There were many workers who were even unsettled by this. Such a strangepany, could it be there was a problem?

    After being here for a few days, as the Magic Rice Cooker was sold to the other cities andrge amounts of orders came in, Heinz announced that they would by working overtime. The workers all became assured and felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just like any otherpany.

    But at this time, Heinz then announced that they would also receive overtime pay which confused the workers even more.

    What was overtime pay? Didn¡¯t we already discuss our sry? Could it be that after we finish the work we should do, thepany will pay even more money to us?

    Of course, having extra money is a good thing and the overtime pay wasn¡¯t small. Calcting this, it was more effective to work overtime than to work their normal jobs.

    So not only did the workers not reject overtime, they were actually hoping for it.

    Now that they were working overtime each night, Heinz found that even though these workers were exhausted each day, they actually were quite enthusiastic when they worked overtime.

    Heinz was very confused about this situation, but Xu Yi felt it was very normal.

    This system was copied exactly from earth andpared to the Sines Continent, this system from earth was much more advanced.

    In terms of increasing enthusiasm among workers,pared to the Sines Continent¡¯s method of treating their workers as pack animals, there was no doubt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s system was better.

    The most obvious example was that the household magic machine workshop¡¯s work efficiency actually increased and there were fewer problems that urred. It was clear that the workers were focused on working and invested all their minds on it.

    With their current speed, it was no problem for them to finish the order.

    When Xu Yi walked into the household magic machine workshop, Heinz was inspecting the final assembly process of the Magic Rice Cooker with a very focused expression. Only when Xu YI walked over and patted him on the shoulder did he react.

    ¡°You¡¯re back?¡± Perhaps it was because he had shouted too much in the workshop, but Heinz¡¯s voice was a bit hoarse, ¡°How did it go?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s done. If nothing unexpected happens, Camby will bring back another hundred dwarves. You¡­..¡± Xu Yi suddenly stopped.

    He wanted to have Heinz prepare ces for the hundred dwarves, but seeing Heinz¡¯s red eyes, his words stopped.

    ¡°What about me?¡± Seeing that Xu Yi suddenly stopped, Heinz asked this in a confused voice.

    ¡°Nothing.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He looked over the workshop before patting Heinz¡¯s shoulder and saying with a sigh, ¡°You¡¯ve worked hard. With such arge order, you must have been working hard for several days now, right? Heinz, I urge you to pay attention to resting and give some matters of the workshop to Alex to handle. If you really copse from exhaustion, Ria will curse me to death.¡±

    Heinz gave a cold snort, ¡°What does she know? She just needs to stay home and take care of the kids, does she need to care that much?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. Based on how Ria treated Heinz before, he must not have had a high position in his home before. Now that Heinz earned more and more money from investing in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could stand straight when facing Ria.

    ¡°No matter what, you need to take care of your body. We have few managers in ourpany right now and if we¡¯re missing you, the factory won¡¯t be able to hold on.¡±

    Heinz loved hearing this the most and he immediately stood straight while patting his chest. He said in a strong voice, ¡°Rx, my body is fine, there won¡¯t be any problems. But you¡¯re right, my work right now is very important, so I will pay attention to my body.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡±

    After talking to Heinz about a few things rted to the factory, Xu Yi prepared to leave, but Heinz seemed like he suddenly remembered something.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, the Business Union of the city sent you an invitation the day before yesterday. It seems like they want to invite you to their whatever banquet.¡±

    ¡°An invitation from the Business Union?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before revealing a smile, ¡°Heinz, it seems like our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is bing argepany in Banta City.¡±

    Heinzughed, ¡°That¡¯s right, if those fellows didn¡¯t recognize it as argepany, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have invited you as the chairman to their banquet. So? Are you going?¡±

    ¡°Yes! Why wouldn¡¯t I go?¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°As argepany recognized by the Business Union, it is a very significant matter. How could I give up such a good thing?¡±

    Heinz also smiled and kept nodding, ¡°Right, right, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has only been established for three months and it¡¯s already being recognized by the city¡¯s Business Union. Not to mention being the first in the Lampuri Kingdom, we¡¯re probably even rarely seen on the entire Sines Continent. This is something others will envy if they learn of this.¡±

    Heinz took out the invitation after he said this. Xu Yi took it to look over and found that the invitation was indeed sent by Banta City¡¯s Business Union and it was actually signed with the Business Union president¡¯s name.

    Based on this, it seemed like the Business Union felt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was quite important.

    He waved his hand to let Heinz return to his work and Xu Yi looked over the invitation again. The look of joy that he had gradually disappeared and this time he slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°It seems like those fellow really have keen noses, they¡¯re already locking onto us this quickly.¡±

 Volume 1 76 - Magic Crystal Lamp

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 76 Magic Crystal Lamp</strong>

    It was a bit cold at the end of October. The people of Banta City began to wrap themselves up with long clothes, tightly wrapping them around themselves.

    Compared to on the street, the temperature inside the rooms was naturally a bit higher, but even like this, one couldn¡¯t keep wearing short skirts. Still, Evita, and Akali had already changed into loose long dresses suited for the home,pletely covering up their figures.

    Xu Yi looked over the three of them and a trace of disappointment appeared in his heart.

    But this strange mood was quickly suppressed by him. He focused back onto the ss sphere ced on the table.

    It wasn¡¯t that all craftsmen had low skills on the Sines Continent, for example, they had many outstanding ssmakers. The sphere in front of them made of ss waspletely transparent, not containing a trace of impurity. Even with how thick it was, the surface was very smooth. Even based on the standards of earth, this was an outstanding work of ss.

    ¡°This is the Magic Crystal Lamp?¡± Xu Yi looked at the ball and asked Still, ¡°This thing costs two hundred gold coins?¡±

    Still nodded, ¡°Un, I had to ask my grandfather to get this. This is not something one could buy with just money.¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly speechless.

    This thing to put it bluntly was just used as a light bulb, but it was actually sold for over two hundred gold coins and it couldn¡¯t be bought if one wanted to. He really couldn¡¯t understand this.

    When Xu Yi lit that candle in his house that night, there was an idea that appeared in his mind. He suddenly thought that since it was very troublesome to light a candle, why didn¡¯t he just research how to make a light bulb?

    Actually, he had already thought about this when he transmigrated, but he had gradually forgotten about it.

    Thinking about it now, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t suppress the excitement in his heart and decided to research it.

    But when he raised this idea to Still and the others, he had received a blow to the head.

    On the Sines Continent, there was already a magicmp!

    When Xu Yi asked the three of them that since there was already a magicmp, why didn¡¯t it be popr and why had he never seen one before, the answer he received had surprised him.

    The magicmp was too expensive!

    It¡¯s said the Magic Array in the magicmp was veryplex and normal magicians couldn¡¯t draw them at all.

    As for this Magic Array, other than being able to release a bit of light, it had no power at all. So since it was invented, there hadn¡¯t been another magician who researched it anymore.

    So the magicmp became a thing of low value. Other than some fellows who bought it to show off how much money they had, normal people wouldn¡¯t even think about buying a magicmp.

    After a long time, the magicmp gradually became a very rare thing and naturally it became more and more expensive and more and more refined. It waspletely different from the widely spread and cheap light bulb Xu Yi thought of from earth.

    After receiving this news, although Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand why magicians of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t ce importance on application of magic, that did not mean he looked down on the magicmp. Instead he had Still think of a way to buy one so he could research it.

    When he researched the small Magic Plowing Machine, Xu Yi had reached an epiphany. Even if the Sines Continent¡¯s industrial level was far below that of earth, because of the uniqueness of magic, there were some parts where they had the advantagepared to earth.

    If he could obtain some inspiration from the Magic Crystal Lamp and help him greatly decrease his production cost, he wouldn¡¯t deny the thought of making changes to the light bulb design from earth.

    ¡°Have you studied this before?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Crystal Lamp and asked.

    The three looked at each other before Still pointed at the Magic Crystal Lamp with a difficult expression and said, ¡°This Magic Crystal Lamp is a whole, it can¡¯t be opened at all. If you want to study the Magic Array inside, you have to break the crystal cover on the outside¡­..¡±

    ¡°Then how about we shatter it?¡± Xu Yi looked at her with a strange gaze.

    ¡°Ah? Shatter it? This cost two hundred gold coins!¡± Akali opened her mouth in an exaggerated manner. She pointed at Magic Crystal Lamp with a look of disbelief on her face.

    ¡°I bought it to let you study it, what use is there in just leaving it there?¡± Xu Yi looked around before casually picking up a stone from the table, smashing it in the Magic Crystal Lamp¡¯s direction.

    Seeing that Xu Yi really wanted to smash it, Akali and Evita showed unwilling looks on their faces.

    The Magic Crystal Lamp was made very fine and the outside was very beautiful, so they loved it as soon as they saw it. Now that Xu Xi actually wanted to shatter this beautiful thing in front of them, they couldn¡¯t look right at it.

    ¡°Wait!¡± Still suddenly reached out to grab Xu Yi¡¯s falling hand.

    ¡°What is it? Still, it can¡¯t be that you can¡¯t let this two hundred gold coins go, right? You¡¯ve been me for this long, you should know that the results from this research will far surpass the value of a trivial two hundred gold coins.¡± Xu Yi looked at Still with knit brows as he spoke.

    ¡°I understand this logic.¡± Still put down the stone in Xu Yi¡¯s hand, ¡°It¡¯s necessary to break it, but can you not just casually break it like this? What if you also break the Magic Array inside? If you break the Magic Array, how will we study it? Will we need to buy another one?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°I forgot about this.¡±

    Akali and Evita saw Still stop Xu Yi and they were happy because they could keep this pretty little thing, but when they heard the rest of Still¡¯s words, they instantly looked at each other in nk dismay.

    They were helpless since this Magic Crystal Lamp was bought with Xu Yi¡¯s money, so they had no right to say how it was handled. They could only watch as Xu Yi and Still looked over the Magic Crystal Lamp before finally picking an angle to softly break it from.

    ¡°Hua¡ª¡ª¡±

    The outer ss cover of the Magic Crystal Lamp shattered to pieces and finally revealed the inside.

    The instant the ss was shattered, Xu Yi took a strong sniff. Other than some dust that flew into his nose, there wasn¡¯t any strange smells at all.

    After giving a sneeze, Xu Yi confirmed that the outer ss cover of the Magic Crystal Lamp only covered and scattered the light. It wasn¡¯t like the ss cover of the light bulbs from earth because they didn¡¯t keep the inert gases in.

    Of course, this world probably does not have any sealed ss that could keep inert gases inside.

    Still carefully removed the shattered ss of the Magic Crystal Lamp¡¯s outer cover. The four of them looked at the foundation of the Magic Crystal Lamp at the same time.

    As expected, there was an iparablyplicated Magic Array on this foundation. Just based on the lines of the Magic Array, one could tell it was much moreplicated than the low level Magic Arrays Xu Yi used in his magic machines.

    Akali looked for a while before hesitantly saying, ¡°Sir chairman, this Magic Array is thisplicated, I¡¯m afraid we don¡¯t have the ability to study it?¡±

    Still nodded, ¡°Un, there¡¯s a bit of a problem with me looking at it. How about you take it to grandfather, he should be able to understand this.

    Xu Yi also looked at the Magic Array for a while and found that Akali and Still were right. This Magic Array was tooplicated, it had already exceeded his level of magic knowledge.

    When he was about to nod in agreement to Still¡¯s idea, he suddenly found that Evita wasn¡¯t speaking. He looked down at her, ¡°Evita, what do you think? Can you understand it?¡±

    Evita was in thought for a while before saying in an uncertain voice, ¡°Although I don¡¯t understand it, I feel like I¡¯ve seen this Magic Array somewhere before.¡±

    ¡°Oh? You have an impression of it? Could it be that you¡¯ve touched this Magic Array before?¡± Xu Yi quickly asked.

    ¡°No, I shouldn¡¯t have studied thisplicated Magic Array before. Only¡­..I feel like the appearance and style of this Magic Array is very close to a Magic Array I¡¯ve seen before, perhaps it is rted.¡± Evita replied.

    ¡°Then do you remember which Magic Array that is?¡±

    Evita thought about it for a while before taking a piece of paper and drawing a Magic Array on it.

    The other three looked at the Magic Array Evita drew before looking back at the Magic Array on the foundation of the Magic Lamp and nodding at the same time.

    ¡°It is very simr. Although the Magic Array on the Magic Crystal Lamp is much moreplicated, I can see that they are very alike.¡± Still said.

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Array Evita drew for a while and thought about if before saying to Evita, ¡°Evita, can you draw this Magic Array?¡±

    Evita gave a slight nod.

    ¡°Good, then draw this Magic Array right now and let us see what effect it has.¡±

    Akali gave a p, ¡°That is a good method. Evita, quickly draw it.¡±

    Evita nodded. She took out some magic materials and arranged the Magic Array on the ground of the living room.

    This Magic Array was not asplicated as the one on the base of the Magic Crystal Lamp and Evita only spent over ten minutes to finish drawing it.

    Xu Yi had the other three move back and he injected a bit of magic into the Magic Array. Then there was a blue light that quickly spread through the Magic Array before the Magic Array released a bright white light, filling the entire living room with a sh of white.

    After that sh of white light, it disappeared.

    The four of them looked at the Magic Array in a daze. After a while, seeing that there were no other changes, they couldn¡¯t help being confused.

    ¡°It¡¯s over like this?¡± Akali pointed at the Magic Array and said, ¡°Is there a mistake? It just released a sh of light, what use is that?¡±

    Still said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°This is probably a Thunder Attributed Magic Array from the ss of Wind Attributed Magic. But this Magic Array is very strange, it only releases the sh of lightning of Thunder Attributed Magic, but there isn¡¯t the might of thunder thates with it. It seems like this is a failed Magic Array. Evita, where did you learn this Magic Array from?¡±

    ¡°I identally saw it in a book once.¡± Evita looked a bit disappointed, ¡°I thought it could be a bit useful, but I never thought it would be this disappointing.¡±

    The only one without a look of disappointment was Xu Yi, rather he had a look of pure excitement.

    Hearing what the three of them said, Xu Yi gave augh before standing up and patting Evita¡¯s shoulder while saying, ¡°No, no, no, Evita, it is because it is a failed Magic Array that it is useful. If this Magic Array wasn¡¯t a failure and contained the mighty power of Thunder Attributed Magic, how could we use it to make amp? Alright, I will now announce a research project for the three of you. It is to properly study this Magic Array and the final goal is to stabilize the light it releases, understood?¡±

    Still¡¯s group of three looked at each other before nodding.

    Compared to theplicated Magic Array of the Magic Crystal Lamp, the one drawn by Evita was much easier to understand.

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s best if you also study the Magic Array inside the Magic Crystal Lamp. If there is anything you don¡¯t understand, ask Great Magician Cami. He is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s special research consultant, you must seize this chance to learn magic from him.¡±

    There was no need to mention Still, but when Akali and Evita heard what Xu Yi said, they revealed excited looks.

    To be able to learn from a Great Magician at any time, this would be very helpful for them when it came to increasing their magic power.

    Xu Yi said a few more things before preparing to leave.

    With Camby staying at the Ang Tribe to wait for the dwarves from there, he needed to pay more attention to the magic machine workshop during this period. Adding in all the different work he had, Xu Yi was very busy, not even having time to stay here for lunch.

    When he walked out the door, Akali quickly came out of the room and called out to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡­..Are you going to the Business Union¡¯s banquet in two days?¡±

    ¡°Un, how do you know about that?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Still told me.¡± Akali pointed at the door behind. She revealed a shy expression as she hesitantly said, ¡°Sir chairman, can¡­..can I ask you something?¡±

    This was his first time seeing this lively girl acting shy like this and he couldn¡¯t help finding it a bit funny.

    ¡°What is it? Tell me. If I can help, I definitely won¡¯t disappoint.¡±

    Hearing how quick Xu Yi responded, Akali¡¯s eyes lit up and she quickly asked, ¡°I¡¯ve heard Still say that you still don¡¯t have a femalepanion for this banquet?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as he looked at Akali with a confused expression, ¡°That¡¯s right. What? Do you want to be my femalepanion?¡±

    Akaliughed, ¡°Sir chairman is truly wise. That¡¯s right, I want to be your femalepanion for this banquet, are you willing?¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit strange, ¡°Why do you suddenly want to go to this banquet? This thing really isn¡¯t that interesting.¡±

    ¡°This¡­..I just want to take a look. How about it? Sir chairman, can you agree?¡± Akali revealed a look of begging.

    ¡°There is no problem bringing you, but Akali, if you go as my femalepanion for this even, aren¡¯t you worried that people will mistake you as my girlfriend?¡± Xu Yi teased her.

    Akali raised her underdeveloped chest and said with a smile, ¡°As long as you agree, I am very willing to be your girlfriend. But¡­..forget it, if I really be your girlfriend, someone will be angry. Sir chairman, are you willing to bring me to the banquet?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Alright, since you want toe, then I¡¯ll bring you.¡±

    ¡°Great! Sir chairman is truly great!¡± Akali cheered. She actually spread her arms to hug Xu Yi before suddenly letting go and running back into the room like a little rabbit.

    Seeing her disappear, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    These little girls, he really didn¡¯t know what they were thinking.

 Volume 1 77 - Transferring slaves

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 77 Transferring ves</strong>

    ¡°Xu Yi, you really want to go to that boring banquet?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with knit brows as he was filled with confusion, ¡°Could it be that you can¡¯t tell those fellows don¡¯t have good intentions? Although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed well, there is still quite a big difference before you be a realrgepany. Those fellows trying to pull you in now, it is nothing more than wanting the technology you have.¡±

    ¡°Lord Viscount, you have a 30% share in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it shouldn¡¯t be ¡®your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯, but rather ¡®our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Alright, since it is ¡®our¡¯ Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I have even more right to talk about this. I am explicitly telling you that I am against you going to this banquet and oppose you getting together with those sly old foxes.¡± Viscount Leslie serious said, ¡°Although I don¡¯t like boasting, you have to admit that in Banta City, I as Viscount Leslie have a bit of influence. As long as you don¡¯t seek your own death, I can promise that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop safely. You don¡¯t need to care about those fellows at all, you just need to focus on developing more magic machines, why do you need to care about them?¡±

    ¡°Of course I believe the Lord Viscount has this ability. But Lord Viscount, your understanding of business is a bit shallow.¡± Xu Yi said without any politeness.

    Viscount Leslie gave a snort, ¡°Oh? Then tell me, what is a not shallow understanding like? As a little fish, you want to jump into a tank of sharks to seek your own death?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right,pared to thosergepanies in the Business Union, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a small fish. But Lord Viscount, not a singlepany can exist alone. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products are unique and there are no copies, but you must understand that ourpany is still closely rted to otherpanies. For example, the most important material in making magic machines, iron. We are currently buying from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce because they control all the iron mines around Banta City, so we have no other choice.¡±

    Viscount Leslie nodded and said in a deep voice, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that half a month ago, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce increased the price of pig iron by another 10%, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Recently ourpany has maderge orders, so naturally we neededrge amounts of pig iron. For the Falcao Chamber of Commerce to seize the chance to raise the price is a very normal thing.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile.

    ¡°You can still smile?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face and he became angry without knowing why, ¡°The Falcao Chamber of Commerce raised it by 10% this time, but what if they raise it by another 10% next time? Could it be that you¡¯re willing to keep suffering?¡±

    ¡°What can we do if we don¡¯t suffer? Lord Viscount, I think you¡¯re more clear on this, but who is the master behind the Falcao Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi said without any changes to his expression.

    Viscount Leslie was a bit surprised as his anger scattered and he waved his hand in an annoyed manner.

    Of course he was more clear on this than Xu Yi. The Falcao Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t seem that special, but behind thepany that held 40% of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s iron trade was the giant Jole Family.

    The Jole Family was one of the top families in the Lampuri Kingdom. Not to mention a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the family behind Viscount Leslie had to think it over before provoking them.

    ¡°Then what can we do? Iron is the most fundamental material in making magic machines, we can¡¯t just not use it. If the Falcao Chamber of Commerce keeps raising the price, how do you n on dealing with it?¡± Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any anxiety on his face, rather he lifted a cup to take a sip before slowly saying, ¡°Lord Viscount, you don¡¯t need to worry about this. The rise in the pig iron price is expected and I would have found it strange if it didn¡¯t rise. But for stuff like raising prices, there is a certain limit. There are just too many ces that need pig iron and there are manypanies that need it as well, it isn¡¯t just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If the Falcao Chamber of Commerce raises the price too high, there is no need for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to do anything and the otherrgepanies would do something for us. No matter how excessive the Falcao Chamber of Commerce bes, they wouldn¡¯t go as far as selling to otherpanies at a different price than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°They definitely wouldn¡¯t dare, but Xu Yi, don¡¯t you feel this is too passive?¡±

    ¡°Of course I feel that way, so I agreed to go to the banquet.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile as he returned to the original topic, ¡°There are some things where if you don¡¯t participate, you won¡¯t have the right to say anything. Naturally, everything else will require you to be passive.¡±

    ¡°But aren¡¯t you afraid that after you participate, you¡¯ll be swallowed by them?¡± Viscount Leslie said with a frown.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, if I was that easy swallow, it would be good news for you. It can tell you that I am not worthy of your investment, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a cold snort. He nodded at Butler Brunei who had been silent on the side the entire time and Butler Brunei turned to pick up a document.

    ¡°This is the transfer contract for those ves, look it over.¡± Viscount Leslie put the documents in front of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie with a somewhat surprise gaze, ¡°Lord Viscount, I never thought that you would actually agree!¡±

    When it came to payday at the factory a few days ago, Xu Yi was worried by the wages of the household magic machine factory¡¯s ves again.

    This was because those ves were the property of Viscount Leslie, so it was very hard for Xu Yi if he wanted to give them wages.

    He couldn¡¯t directly give them gold coins and it was troublesome giving them benefits, plus he had to ask for Viscount Leslie¡¯s agreement first.

    After that, Xu Yi tried proposing to Viscount Leslie to directly sell him those ves, saving him the trouble.

    Viscount Leslie had disagreed back then and Xu Yi thought it was hopeless, but he never thought that he would be thrown a transfer contract now.

    ¡°You already said it before, this is my investment in you. Those hundred ves is a part of that investment, I hope that you can pay me back for this investment.¡± Viscount Leslie said without any expression.

    Xu Yi quickly looked over the contract and found that there were no problems. He immediately signed his name onto the contract.

    As long as this document was verified by a kingdom¡¯sw enforcement institute, it would immediatelye into effect. From now on, those hundred ves belonged to Xu Yi.

    Viscount Leslie took the contract from Xu Yi¡¯s hand to look over, but he didn¡¯t immediately sign it. He looked at Xu Yi and raised his right index finger.

    ¡°I can give you those hundred ves, but there is a condition. I have not written it in the contract and it is a verbal agreement between us, so listen well.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised, he just gave a gentle nod.

    ¡°In a month, there will be three hundred ves who enter the factory. You must teach those three hundred ves how to produce all the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently has. Including the household magic machines like Magic Fan, the Magic Rice Cooker, and the Magic Air Conditioner, as well as heavy magic machines like the small Magic Harvester and the small Magic Plowing Machine. Do you understand my meaning?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie with narrowed eyes for a bit before slowly asking, ¡°Lord Viscount, can I ask you where those three hundred ves areing from?¡±

    Viscount Lesli¡¯s face turned cold, ¡°It¡¯s best if you don¡¯t ask too much, there aren¡¯t any benefits to you. I am only asking you, can you agree to this?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Can I not agree? Not counting the fact that the Lord Viscount is a major shareholder, just based on the fact that you are transferring a hundred ves to me, I have to agree to this. No problem, I will talk to Heinz and Camby and tell them to properly train those three hundred ves, they will not hide anything. Of course, Lord Viscount, I cannot guarantee that those three hundred ves can understand everything since every person is different.¡±

    Viscount Leslie nodded, ¡°I understand this, you just need to properly teach them.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s fine. I still have another question, how long will they stay? If the time is too short, I don¡¯t think they will be able to learn anything. If their stay is longer, it¡¯s best if you give me an estimate time so I can make preparations. Otherwise, once they leave, it will affect the work speed of our factory.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s estimated to be half a year. We¡¯ll see what changes there are in half a year and I will tell you ahead of time,¡± Viscount Leslie said.

    ¡°Alright, I understand.¡±

    Seeing Viscount Leslie sign his name on the contract, Xu Yi revealed a smile from the bottom of his heart.

    Hearing that Viscount Leslie wanted to ce three hundred ves in, Xu Yi was a bit surprised. But after he heard his request, Xu Yi wanted tough.

    Viscount Leslie had requested him to teach the three hundred ves how to produce the light and heavy magic machines, but he had forgotten a very important technique. Which was the manufacturing technique for the magic production machines.

    It had to be known that although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many production lines, producing close to ten different kinds of magic machines, the foundation of that were the simple magic production machines that made theponent parts without stopping.

    If one could grasp the production method of the magic production machines, one could truly grasp the core technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi guessed that these three hundred ves came from the family behind Viscount Leslie. They wanted these three hundred ves as a foundation to create another Frestech Chamber of Commerce, creating benefits for the family behind Viscount Leslie.

    The family behind Viscount Leslie hadrge influence and if they grasped these techniques, as well as invest into apany, their scale could instantly surpass that of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand why Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t ask him to teach those three hundred ves how to make the magic production machines.

    Viscount Leslie was not stupid, he was very clear on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was impossible for him not to see the important use of the magic production machines.

    ¡°Could it be that it was on purpose?¡± Xu Yi tried guessing, ¡°But why would he do that?¡±

 Volume 1 78 - Banquet

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 78 Banquet</b>

    The autumn wind was a bit dreary and Banta City at night was even colder than it was during the day. There were much less people on the streetspared to a month ago, making the entire city feel a bit lonely.

    But in a mansion to the north of Banta City, there were over thirty horse carriages parked outside.

    Although these horse carriages were of different shapes and sizes, themon feature was that every single one of them was luxuriously made.

    Not only were the decorations of each horse carriage very expensive looking, even the horses pulling the carriage were all fine breeds, they were definitely not ordinary horses.

    Just based on these horse carriages, one would know that their owners were very rich. Any one of them could be considered an important person in Banta City.

    There were happy chatter andughter that came from the mansion, as well as the faint sounds of dance music. It seemed like there was a banquet being held inside.

    A banquet that could gather this many important people of Banta City, it was quite a rare event.

    A ck carriage suddenly came out of a corner.

    This carriage looked very in and other than antern hung outside it, there were no other decorations. The horse pulling the carriage was of mixed colour, it didn¡¯t seem like it was a special breed.

    Based on this carriage, the person sitting inside wasn¡¯t an important person, so before they even reached the doors of the mansion, they were stopped by the guards outside the gate.

    When the guard was about to reprimand them and drive away this carriage that didn¡¯t know its ce, the curtain suddenly pulled open and a young man jumped out.

    Although the young man¡¯s clothes weren¡¯t luxurious and he didn¡¯t wear any expensive essories, his aura was strong and confidence filled his movements, so it could be seen that he was not a normal person. After the guard was stunned, he swallowed the words he was about to say.

    The young man looked at the guard before turning back towards the carriage to stretch out a hand.

    A delicate white hand came out of the carriage and being supported by the young man, a round faced cute girl with a lively aura who wasn¡¯t that tall came out of the horse carriage.

    Seeing this girl, the guard was stunned for a second before reacting. He said in a shocked voice, ¡°You are miss Akali!¡±

    Akali had just jumped out of the horse carriage when she suddenly heard someone call her name. She looked up in surprise and saw this happy looking guard, giving him a sweet smile.

    ¡°You recognize me?¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course!¡± The guard excitedly nodded, ¡°Miss Akali, you are on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s billboard outside the city, I have seen it countless times. I never thought that I would really meet you, this is really¡­...really¡­¡­¡±

    The young man to the side was naturally Xu Yi. Seeing how the guard looked at Akali like a groupie, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°Akali, you¡¯ve be famous. You even have fans.¡±

    ¡°What are fans?¡± Akali looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Ah¡­..Fans¡­..It¡¯s someone who cares about and likes you. This guard brother became excited after seeing you and look how happy he is, that means he is your fan.¡±

    ¡°It sounds quite powerful.¡± Akali looked over and gave the guard another sweet smile, ¡°Brother guard, we are here for the banquet, can you let us through?¡±

    The guard was stunned before finally reacting. He looked at Xu Yi to the side and suddenly understood.

    ¡°This must be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, right? Pleasee in, pleasee in.¡±

    Being led by the guard, as soon as Xu Yi and Akali entered the mansion doors, they felt countless pairs of eyes look over.

    Compared to the people inside who were all wearing expensive clothes and magnificent essories, people who were showing off their wealth, Xu Yi and Akali were dressed rather simple.

    Although Xu Yi had tidied up before leaving, he was still wearing a set of normal clothes that didn¡¯t show any signs of being valuable at all.

    Compared to Xu Yi, Akali had clearly dressed up a bit, but she was still the daughter of a normal family. She came from a normal household, so naturally it was impossible for her to have many magnificent essories to put on herself. She was just wearing a normal dress and there was a simple light purple shawl around her.

    Of course, there were some small ces that Akali had clearly changed.

    For example, her hair was a bit loose and pulled into a bun behind her neck, revealing her white nape.

    There was also a small essory added to her hair, matching her round face, making her look lively and yful.

    Although in terms of luxury, she couldn¡¯tpare to the wives and the young misses, she injected a different kind of taste into this banquet that attracted everyone¡¯s eyes.

    It was quiet for a few seconds before with loudughter, a thin looking middle aged man came forward.

    ¡°This one must be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi, right?¡± The middle aged man moved in front of Xu Yi and grabbed his hand, as he said whileughing, ¡°I¡¯ve long heard of chairman Xu¡¯s name, but this is our first time meeting. Chairman Xu truly is young and promising, it really makes me sigh with emotion at the future.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. Why did this middle aged man keep emphasizing how young he was?

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t reveal anything on the surface and just asked with a bit of curiosity, ¡°May I ask who you are¡­¡­¡±

    Before the middle aged man could reply, another fat middle aged man walked over. He exined to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Manhattan Rank, who is also the current president of our Banta City¡¯s Business Union.¡±

    Xu Yi recognized this middle aged man. He was called Moon Cruise, he was the chairman of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce mainly dealt in construction, so when Xu Yi prepared to expand his workshop, he had contacted him a few times, so they were familiar with each other.

    Hearing his introduction, Xu Yi revealed a surprised appearance. He tightened his grip around president Rank¡¯s hand after he reacted and forcefully shook it as he said, ¡°So it was the honourable president Rank. I have long heard of your name, but I never thought that I would get to meet you today. It really has me quite excited.¡±

    President Rank gave a longugh, ¡°Chairman Xu¡¯s praise is too much. In Banta City right now, whichpany is more famous than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Chairman Xu is this famous, perhaps even the vigers and farmers outside the city know your name, right?¡±

    Hearing this, the banquet that had be lively again turned silent.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto Xu Yi, but now there were many gazes of envy that filled those gazes of curiosity.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support nst month was just too eye catching.

    There were twenty threemoners who received the help of the farmer support n. Those twenty three people half borrowed and half rented the agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, attracting much attention during the fall harvest and fall nting season.

    Depending on the agricultural farming machines they obtained, the fall harvest and nting had been much more efficientpared to previous years. There were many households that opened up even morend and nted more seeds.

    If everything went smoothly, Banta City¡¯s harvest next year would be greatly increased.

    Therefore City Lord Count Sean Samo had specially made a statement in the ?Banta Times?, saying that the City Lord Manor was grateful to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would also support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support n, working hard to increase Banta City¡¯s harvest next year.

    There were manypanies in Banta City, but among thesepanies, this was the first time one of them had been praised by the Lord City Lord. Naturally this created quite a stir.

    Then again, the ?Banta Times? that was very popr in the city, being read by almost everyone in the city each day seemed to be connected to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The merchants here all looked at Xu Yi with more and moreplicated gazes.

    Just where did this kide from? In just a short three months, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce had popped up out of nowhere. Now it was argepany with its own space in Banta City.

    Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t care about everyone¡¯s gazes, rather he seriously looked over president Rank.

    ording to tradition, the Business Union of each city would choose one member as their president. To be able to be the Business Union¡¯s president, naturally one had to be someone with fame in Banta City.

    This president Manhattan Rank had been the Business Union¡¯s president for three consecutive terms, a long six years. Naturally he had power and prestige that was above normal people, far from what a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman couldpare to.

    For this kind of important person to personally write an invitation to him, this represented his sincerity, but there was naturally a reason.

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°President Rank is the one who is too generous with your praise. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can only do small business with the farmers, how could wepare to your Sarank Chamber of Commerce? Look around, who doesn¡¯t have one or two items from the Sarank Chamber of Commerce on them?¡±

    The key business of the Sarank Chamber of Commerce was luxury goods and most of their customers were either nobles or rich merchants. Not mentioning their high profits, but because they had good rtions with nobles andrge merchants, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce was famous in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    President Rank shook his head and pointed at Xu Yi as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t have a single product from our Sarank Chamber of Commerce.¡± After saying this, he revealed a smile and turned to wave his hand.

    A normal looking young man came over with a wooden box and opened it in front of Xu Yi, releasing the bright light from within.

    Akali looked at it and couldn¡¯t help giving a soft gasp.

    There was a pearl ne inside the box. Each pearl was the size of a thumb and it was very smooth, having the same shape and size.

    This kind of pearl ne naturally was a rare product, its lowest price would still be over five hundred gold coins.

    President Rank said with a smile, ¡°Today is chairman Xu¡¯s first time participating in our Business Union¡¯s banquet. As the union¡¯s president, naturally I should prepare a gift. Chairman Xu, perhaps you are not interested in the things of our Sarank Chamber of Commerce, but I think this beautiful miss will definitely like it.¡±

    There was no need to ask at all. Based on Akali¡¯s glowing eyes, Xu Yi knew that she did indeed like this ne.

    After a bit of hesitation, Xu Yi took the ne from the box with a faint smile and moved towards the stunned Akali as he said, ¡°Come, let me help you out it on.¡±

    Akali was stunned. When she reacted, she waved her hands in a panic.

    ¡°No, no, this present is too expensive, I¡­..¡±

    Before she finished, Xu Yi had already opened the ne. Opening his hands, he put the ne on Akali¡¯s neck.

    Suddenly being held by Xu Yi like this, smelling the scent that came from him, Akali¡¯s body instantly froze.

    When she reacted, Xu Yi had already finished putting the ne on her neck.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s very beautiful. It suits you very much.¡± Xu Yi looked at Akali with her red face and praised her. He turned back to president Rank, ¡°Many thanks to president Rank for this gift.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, president Rank seemed very satisfied. He waved his hand and said, ¡°It isn¡¯t anything big, chairman Xu is too polite. Come, chairman Xu, since this is your first time here, how about we find a ce to chat? I am very curious about chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I have also admired president Rank for a long time, please.¡±

 Volume 1 79 - Are we friends?

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 79 Are we friends?</strong>

    Going into a small hall with president Rank, Xu Yi found that there were already five people sitting there. It was not a private talk like he had thought it would be.

    He looked over the people in the room and Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. President Rank wasn¡¯t beating around the bush with him at all, directly bringing these people out, was he nning toy out all his cards tonight?

    But thinking about it, whether it was Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in the eyes of president Rank or the others, it wasn¡¯t worth mentioning at all. There was no need to y around with him, it was better to be direct.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help curling into a taunting smile.

    ¡°Come, chairman Xu, please sit.¡± President Rank had an inviting appearance to Xu Yi, before pointing at the people sitting, ¡°Let me introduce you, these people are¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi raised a hand to stop president Rank and said with a smile, ¡°President Rank, these are all the most famous merchants in our Banta City, if I don¡¯t even recognize them, would I have the qualification to do business? What do you think, chairman Morgan?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at a middle aged man with graying hair and a normal sized build. He was the chairman of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce Xu Yi had talked to Viscount Leslie about before, chairman Fuller Morgan.

    Seeing that Xu Yi took the initiative to talk to him, there was a trace of surprise that shed on chairman Morgan¡¯s face before he said with a big smile, ¡°Chairman Xu is joking. If we¡¯re talking about fame, is there anyone with bigger fame in Banta City than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Chairman Xu¡¯s name frequently appears in the ?Banta Times?, so not mentioning our colleagues, there isn¡¯t a single person of the Banta City citizens who doesn¡¯t know you, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he said with a shrug of his shoulder, ¡°Actually I just want to properly do my business and don¡¯t want to care about other things, but Baron Hannas always says that there is news in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He always wants to report on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I have no way of dealing with him.¡±

    Hearing this, the expression of the others slightly changed.

    Banta Times?, when this new thing appeared, these people didn¡¯t care about it at all. However, when the ?Banta Times? quickly became popr in the city and was even sold to the nearest two cities, everyone realized the giant influence this thing contained.

    Using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as an example, because the ?Banta Times? kept reporting on the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their fame in Banta City swelled. There was no need to mention everyone in Banta City knowing about it, even the people outside the city was the same.

    Moreover, every time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came up with a new product, the ?Banta Times? would give a detailed report about it. Not only did it clearly state the use of the new product, it also highly praised it, saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made people¡¯s lives much easier.

    During this time, whether it were the nobles or themoners, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a high approval rate in Banta City. There were some people who didn¡¯t know the truth and would buy magic machines from otherpanies, but now there was no one who did this.

    Once someone had this idea, they would definitely be called a fool by everyone around them.

    ¡°The Frestech Brand magic machines are the best. If you buy those magic machines from who knows where, the one who will suffer will definitely be you!¡±

    This was already well known knowledge to everyone in Banta City.

    Moreover, there were even Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines in the houses of theserge merchants. They had to admit, the quality of the Frestech Brand magic machine was better than the imitations.

    During this time, the ?Banta Times? had even reported on news from Saltan City. It¡¯s said that the Leo Chamber of Commerce from Saltan City had tried producing magic machines like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but there were serious quality issues with the Leo Brand Magic Fans because the des would fall off and hurt people. Recently the Leo Brand Magic Rice Cooker had even exploded, causing serious idents with one dead and three injured to appear among the citizens.

    Even if the Leo Chamber of Commerce was the biggestpany in Saltan City, after being gued with continuous idents, their fame in Saltan City had fallen to shambles. It even attracted several hundred people to surround theirpany in protest.

    Compared to the Leo Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines hadn¡¯t had a single ident. Not only were the Frestech Brand magic machines very durable, it was very unlikely that there would be problems with their quality.

    Then again, even if there was a quality problem, there was a special ¡°post sale service center¡± created by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Banta City. As long as there was a problem with a Frestech Brand magic machine, there were free repairs for a year here, so the people who bought the Frestech Brand Magic Fans had no more worries.

    It was because of these clear differences that in just a short three months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Brand magic machines had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the citizens from the surrounding cities, attracting everyone¡¯s approval.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just released the Magic Rice Cooker and without doing any big advertisements in the surrounding cities, thepanies of those cities all came for the right to sell the Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker.

    When the people of those cities heard that this Magic Rice Cooker came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t have any doubts and they were very quick with their purchases.

    The main reason was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were easy to use and were of high quality, but the advertisement from the ?Banta Times? was also very important.

    The people here were allrge merchants in Banta City, how could they see this point?

    Morgan looked over and smiled at Xu Yi as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that you have a good rtion with Baron Hannas who is the chief editor for the ?Banta Times??¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°We are just normal friends.¡±

    The others couldn¡¯t help rolling their eyes at Xu Yi.

    Normal friends? Who would believe you!

    If they were just normal friends, would the ?Banta Times? report on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for no reason? Moreover, the reports were also positive and never negative?

    It had to be known that thepanies behind these people had also approached Baron Hannas, wanting him to give theirpanies a positive report, but they were directly rejected by Baron Hannas.

    The reason Baron Hannas gave was that the ?Banta Times? would focus on reporting on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce! The otherpanies didn¡¯t have anything to report on, it wouldn¡¯t attract the people¡¯s attention!

    Everyone felt that this reason was nonsense. Normal people might not know, but these people knew that while the ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t seem to have any rtion to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was actually aplicated rtion between Xu Yi and the creation of the ?Banta Times?.

    Not mentioning anything else, the reason why the ?Banta Times? could print over a thousand copies was because the ?Banta Times? used a Magic Printing Press that Xu Yi had invented, greatly increasing their printing speed.

    If it was said that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any investment in the ?Banta Times?, no one would believe them.

    Chairman Morgan couldn¡¯t help giving a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you being too unfriendly here? Even if you let us know that you have a good rtion with Baron Hannas, what does it matter? Anyway, everyone here is good friends in the Business Union and you¡¯re about to join the union, so everyone will be colleagues. What reason do you have to hide this from us?¡±

    ¡°Friends?¡± Xu Yi revealed a surprised expression as he looked at chairman Morgan and said while shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Morga, so you consider us friends? I thought you didn¡¯t think that way, otherwise, why would you suddenly raise the price of pig iron by 10%?¡±

    When Xu Yi raised this question, the atmosphere in the room froze.

    Chairman Morgan was stunned as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise. He never thought that Xu Yi would actually mention this matter in front of others and he would do it so straightforward, not hiding anything at all.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chairman Morgan said with a dryugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, business and personal matters aren¡¯t rted, right? Raising the price of pig iron was a joint decision within ourpany, it wasn¡¯t a rtionship made by me alone. Then again, the price wasn¡¯t raised just for chairman Xu¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I ask chairman Xu not to think too much.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? The personal friendship between me and Baron Hannas naturally is unrted to the ?Banta Times? reporting on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After all, the ?Banta Times? is not just decided by Baron Hannas alone.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Chairman Morgan instantly choked up. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at Xu Yi and although there was still a smile on his face, it became a bit colder.

    President Rank suddenly gave a soft cough and attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the reason why we invited you to this banquet tonight, you should have already guessed a few things.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, president Rank wants to admit our Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a member of the Business Union?¡±

    President Rank nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, it is exactly this. Actually with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current scale, you aren¡¯t qualified to join our Business Union yet. But chairman Xu is not a normal businessman and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is not a normalpany. After we have discussed this matter, we have decided to make an exception in letting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be a member. Does chairman Xu have any opinion on this matter?¡±

 Volume 1 80 - Shameless

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 80 Shameless</b>

    Xu Yi immediately said with a smile, ¡°To receive special admission rights into the Business Union, naturally I am ttered. But president Rank, I have only heard of the Business Union, what are the exact details of the Business Union? For example, if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce joins the Business Union, what rights will we get? What duties will we need to fulfill?¡±

    President Rankughed before waving his hand and saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, there is no need to be nervous. Actually, our Business Union is just to join thergepanies in Banta City to let everyone develop together. This is much better than working alone, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°I do agree with this. But president Rank, this so called developing together, what does it specifically involve?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°As for the specifics, it¡¯s having a close business rtionship with thepanies of the Business Union and not blindlypeting with each other, like raising prices or stealing resources. Other than that, we also share resources and information, giving members preferential treatment. For example, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce joins the Business Union, you will be able to receive a preferential price when buying pig iron from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Chairman Morgan gave a slight nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. If chairman Xu¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce joins the Business Union, our Falcao Chamber of Commerce will give you a preferential price when ites to selling pig iron. I can¡¯t give you a specific number yet, but I can guarantee it is close to 5% cheaper.¡±

    ¡°5%?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce raised the price by 10% and now the preferential price is only a 5% discount.

    Compared to the initial price, it was still much higher.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave up this question and asked president Rank, ¡°This is the resource sharing, but what about the information sharing?¡±

    ¡°As for information sharing, that is much moreplicated.¡± President Rank thought for a bit before pointing at a rich looking fat man who had the same smile as the Buddha back on earth, ¡°Let¡¯s talk about it with chairman Vincent¡¯s Armani Chamber of Commerce and my Sarank Chamber of Commerce. The Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main business is fabricating cotton and a part of the high end cotton produced is used in my Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product. So the Armani Chamber of Commerce shares information with our Sarank Chamber of Commerce, helping us understand the needs of high end customers, pairing them with expensive clothes and precious jewels.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°I mostly understand. In short, this is also a type of resource sharing, but the resource is information on customers.¡±

    President Rank revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu really is an intelligent person, now wonder you could develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce so far in a short period of time.¡±

    ¡°President Rank is too generous with your praise. But president Rank, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products are magic machines and our customers are normal people, so we don¡¯t have any resources to share. Of course, if everybody wishes to purchase products from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can give you a satisfactory preferential price.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu is joking.¡± President Rank shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most valuable resource is not your magic machines, but rather¡­¡­¡± After saying this, president Rank paused before saying with a serious expression, ¡°The technology needed to make those magic machines. Chairman Xu, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sneering in his heart.

    Of course he understood what president Rank meant.

    ording to what president Rank said, all thepanies in the Business Union needed to share resources and he had ssified the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as resources. This meant that he clearly wanted him to share the technology for producing them.

    Towards this idea of president Rank, Xu Yi had only one word.

    Shameless!

    That¡¯s right, it was shameless!

    If this was earth, what was the most important thing to apany? Some people thought it was money, some people thought it was talented people, and some thought it was management, but Xu Yi was clear on the fact that the most important thing to apany was its core technology.

    This meant that as long as they had core technology, a business had hope. Whether it was funds or talented people, they could do without them. As long as they didn¡¯t lose their core technology, they wouldn¡¯t lose their foundation and would have a hope of rebounding.

    President Rank immediately asked Xu Yi to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s core technology, if this was back on earth, it would be strange if one wasn¡¯t met with a string of curses.

    Of course, this was the Sines Continent. Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the right to curse president Rank just yet, so he could only remain silent.

    His eyes looked over the other five people and Xu Yi could see the greed that they weren¡¯t hiding at all on their faces.

    Xu Yi gave another coldugh in his heart. Even though he had already known that tonight¡¯s banquet wasn¡¯t going to be good and these fellows didn¡¯t have any good intentions towards him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he never thought that they would be so open about it, not hiding it at all.

    As the president of the Business Union, this Manhattan Rank immediately asked Xu Yi for his core technology. The people here must have already reached an agreement.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised.

    Compared to these people, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just a small shrimp. If there weren¡¯t for some scruples in their heart, they would have directly swallowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and wouldn¡¯t be wasting words with him.

    Looking at everyone¡¯s expectant and greedy eyes, Xu Yi slowly said, ¡°President Rank, may I ask what kind of technology you¡¯re referring to?¡±

    President Rankughed, ¡°That is for chairman Xu to consider yourself. Of course, as the president of the Business Union, the objective I¡¯ve followed is that all members should share all the resources they have. That way, everyone can be stronger together. Chairman Xu, don¡¯t you agree with me?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help cursing him as shameless again.

    The meaning of president Rank¡¯s words was that he wanted Xu Yi to take out all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology.

    If he really did this, with the manpower that theirpanies had that surpassed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could easily crush the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not leave a single scrap.

    ¡°I agree to this point as well. But president Rank, since we are all merchants, if we take something out and we don¡¯t get anything in return, that goes against our code as merchants, don¡¯t you think so?¡± Xu Yi said.

    President Rank instantly understood, Xu Yi was beginning to bargain with him.

    He was not surprised at this, rather he was filled with joy.

    He was not afraid of Xu Yi¡¯s bargaining, he was afraid that he wouldn¡¯t bargain.

    If negotiations today broke off and Xu Yi directly left, because there was Viscount Leslie behind the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi was rted to Baron Hannas, and because the Lord City Lord cared about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would have many scruples about moving against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was good that Xu Yi intended to cooperate with them. As long as they pulled Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber ofmerce in, with the ability of these people, it wasn¡¯t a problem carving up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They could do it in a manner that Viscount Leslie and the Lord City Lord couldn¡¯t find any problems with at all.

    ¡°Of course. The goal of the union is to develop together, sharing things between members, so naturally there are benefits. For example, if chairman Xu can share the technology of your Frestech Chamber ofmerce, then I can say on the behalf of the Sarank Chamber of Commerce that we will share information on gem lodes with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the jewelry business. What do you think about this?¡±

    Xu Yi could only give a coldugh in his heart again.

    Giving information on gem lodes? Helping them enter the jewelry business?

    What a joke! The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t half any foundation in the jewelry business, so what could we do with information on gem lodes anyway? Those gem lodes must be in the hands ofrge nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom and without any rtion, they couldn¡¯t be opened at all!

    As for helping them enter the gem business, it was all nonsense. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no understanding of the business and had no clients, so even if they could make jewelry, they definitely couldn¡¯t sell them.

    President Rank¡¯s words sounded good, but it was arge hole for Xu Yi to jump in.

    ¡°If chairman Xu agrees, I will do my best to lower the price of pig iron for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by 10%. The price will even be cheaper than before, what does chairman Xu think?¡± Chairman Morgan on the side added in.

    With these two speaking, the other four also began speaking. They gave Xu Yi favourable conditions, speaking in a very exaggerated manner.

    Xu Yi listened without any changes in his expression and when they finished speaking, he said with a faint smile and a slight nod, ¡°I can see everyone¡¯s sincerity. Since you want me to share the technology for making the magic machines, it isn¡¯t a problem¡­..¡± Seeing the happy looks on their faces, Xu Yiughed as he changed his tone, ¡°But, I feel these conditions aren¡¯t good enough, can we change them?¡±

    President Rank made an inviting pose to Xu Yi, ¡°If chairman Xu has any ideas, please raise them. We¡¯re all friends in the Business Union, you can just say whatever you want to say.¡±

    ¡°Very good, I have a n here, everyone please take a look.¡± Xu Yi took out a document he had already prepared out of his chest and gave it to president Rank.

    Seeing Xu Yi take out the n, everyone¡¯s expression changed slightly.

    This brat, he had actually already prepared for this!

    President Rank¡¯s face sunk. But the more he read the document, the more shocked his expression became.

    When he finished reading with great difficulty, his face was filled with absolute shock. He shook the document in his hand as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, are these your true thoughts? It¡¯s just this simple?¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°It¡¯s just that simple.¡±

 Volume 1 81 - How about I marry you?

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 81 How about I marry you?</h4>

    The horse carriage¡¯s wheels rolled over the tiles and it made faint sounds, as it headed into the night in a rxed manner.

    Thepartment was as silent as the night outside. Akali who was always filled with words had been silent sinceing into the carriage for an unknown reason, as her head was down while she was thinking something. Xu Yi was leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed, revealing an exhausted look on his face.

    This first meeting with president Rank¡¯s group could be considered both sides being happy on the outside, with both sides being satisfied with the result.

    But Xu Yi as very clear that this effect was very hard to achieve.

    Based on the disy of president Rank and the others, they had already made up their minds. They wanted to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But their table manners were just too ugly, actually without even waiting for Xu Yi to agree to joining the Business Union, they proposed that Xu Yi take out the core technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t have other ns, he would have pped the table and left.

    Thinking of the joyful expression president Rank and the others had when he agreed to transfer the technology, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    Those fellows, they made it sound so nice, saying that as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce joined the Business Union, he would be able to enjoy the many benefits and that he would be able to cooperate with thepanies of the Business Union. But if one looked at it closer, they would find that they had dug arge hole for him to jump in.

    If Xu Yi was really that stupid, sharing the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with the difference in ability between a realrgepany and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would have been swallowed not long after.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt it was strange. Properly speaking, those fellows were chairmen ofrgepanies, so their minds wouldn¡¯t be weak, so did they really think Xu Yi was that stupid?

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi understood.

    Those fellows didn¡¯t think Xu Yi as stupid, but they were certain that the conditions they gave as arge enticement to Xu Yi.

    To Xu Yi¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce, being able to join the Business Union was already very prestigious matter. Being able to cooperate with thosergepanies, they would be iparably lucky. If it was another smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they definitely wouldn¡¯t reject this kind of enticement.

    But why did they never consider that Xu Yi¡¯s image of the development of magic machines had already surpassed everyone else on the Sines Continent. He was already thinking about creating aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent, how could he be enticed by these small enticements.

    Those fellows had dug a hole for Xu Yi to jump in, but they never would have thought that Xu Yi had dug an even bigger hole for them.

    The n Xu Yi took out in the end for president Rank in the end was simple because on the paper, Xu Yi proposed that he would share the Magic Fan building technology with all the members of the union. If the other members of the union wanted to build Magic Fans, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support them with technology and would help the other members establish a production line.

    The only condition that Xu Yi raised was that when the other members sold a Magic Fan, they would have to pay the Frestech Chamber of Commerce five silver coins each time.

    Compared to the two gold coin price of the Magic Fan and the over a gold coin profit, five gold coins weren¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    So president Rank was very surprised because he thought the condition Xu Yi raised was too simple.

    Of course he was clear on the fact that asking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transfer their magic machine technology was a very excessive matter, so Xu Yi would definitely raise many conditions. But he never would have thought that Xu Yi would only raise this simple condition.

    From what president Rank could see, Xu Yi¡¯s n was basically the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving up therge market of Magic Fans.

    This was because as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave up the Magic Fan production method, with the powerful might of theirpanies, they could easily squeeze the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of the market.

    Even with this condition, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gaining five silver coins for each Magic Fan sold,pared to therge profit of the Magic Fans, these five gold coins was just the fat skimmed off the soup.

    After seriously reading through Xu Yi¡¯s n and after questioning him a bit, president Rank and the chairmen of the other fivergepanies were all filled with zeal over Xu Yi¡¯s n. President Rank even immediately announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was joining the Business Union.

    Although Xu Yi had only given up the technology for the Magic Fans, these people knew that president Rank wanting Xu Yi to give up all his magic machines was like the lion opening its mouth too wide. No matter how dumb Xu Yi was, he would never agree to this matter.

    Having him give up this Magic Fan technology was already taking the most crucial first step.

    With the first step, there could be a second and a third.

    Anyway, Xu Yi had already joined the Business Union and there was time and opportunity to slowly swallow the technologies the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had one by one.

    After clinking wine sses to celebrate, chairman Rank¡¯s group was happy, but Xu Yi¡¯s smile was happier.

    These fellows thought that they had earned arge bargain getting this Magic Fan technology, but they never knew that in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, they had fallen into Xu Yi¡¯s hole.

    Actually before these fellows, there was anotherpany that had already obtained the Magic Fan technology, which was Saltan City¡¯s Farsak Chamber of Commerce.

    Right now, the Farsak Chamber of Commerce with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help had already established a Magic Fan production line and it could be said they had many of the core technology for the Magic Fan. Moreover, they had sold over three thousand Magic Fansst summer, earning a profit of over three thousand gold coins.

    And this as profit earned while being suppressed by the Leo Chamber of Commerce. Now that the Leo Chamber of Commerce had many serious quality issues, the Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan sales would increase by arge amount next year.

    On the surface, it seemed like the Farsak Chamber of Commerce who had grasped the Magic Fan technology was already earning a stable profit from the Magic Fan technology. It seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had lost arge market in Saltan City because of this.

    But Xu Yi saw this as apletely different matter.

    The Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan production linepletely relied on the magic production machine the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them. Just based on selling these magic production machine, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already earned several hundred from the Farsak Chamber of Commerce. Andpared to this sale, adding in the maintenance and repairs for these magic production machines, they could earn even more profit.

    The more important thing as that because the Farsak Chamber of Commerce used the magic production machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided, it meant the Magic Fans produced by chairman Farsak were all produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s standards.

    For example, there were two kinds of screws currently being used in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. A small three centimeter screw and arge five centimeter screw. The Magic Fans produced by the Farsak Chamber of Commerce used these to kinds of screw because their Magic Thread Rolling Machines came from the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, so they couldn¡¯t change the shape of the screws at all.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had carefully designed the Magic Fan, so casually changing it would causerge problems.

    In short, the Farsak Chamber of Commerce was earning arge profit from these Magic Fans, but they were conforming to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s standards because of these Magic Fans. If they couldn¡¯t rely on themselves to make anyrge technological breakthroughs, they would be led by the nose by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But how could breakthroughs in technology be as easy as talking about them?

    Xu Yi could design these magic machines with the powerful mechanical engineering knowledge and practical knowledge umted over hundreds of years from earth. The Sines Continent didn¡¯t have this kind of foundation at all, so how could theypare with Xu Yi on this matter at all?

    Now that president Rank¡¯s group wanted to obtain the magic machines technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally Xu Yi would not reject them.

    Of course it was impossible giving them all the technology rted to magic machines at once, so Xu Yi had to throw a rich bone like the Magic Fan technology to satisfy their hunger first.

    They would definitely be very satisfied gnawing their teeth on this bone, but as for whether they can take their teeth out or not¡­...Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t promise anything.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Akali who had her head down as she thinking about something suddenly heard Xu Yi¡¯s strangeughter and couldn¡¯t help looking at him. She asked in a curious voice, ¡°Sir chairman, what are you suddenlyughing at?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah¡­..nothing, I was just thinking about something.¡± Xu Yi came back to his senses and rubbed his face. He looked at Akali and suddenly remembered that this little girl had been silent the entire time, so he couldn¡¯t help being curious, ¡°That¡¯s right, what are you thinking about? You¡¯ve been quiet the entire time, it¡¯s not like your normal style.¡±

    ¡°I¡­..¡± Akali opened her mouth, but she suddenly gave a sigh and looked down. After a while, she said in a depressed voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I just suddenly felt that there is arge difference between my life and rich people¡¯s lives, but I also envy them. What do you think I should do¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, it seemed like Akali had been enticed by the banquet.

    As a normal girl from a normal family, Akali had seen the lives of rich people since she was a young girl. Being stimted by this banquet wasn¡¯t strange at all.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi answered, ¡°There are to methods. One is to find a way to make yourself rich and the other is to marry a rich person, which will you choose?¡±

    Akali looked up at Xu Yi in a daze before saying with a frown, ¡°Sir chairman, you really are straightforward. I thought that you wouldfort me by saying that the lives of rich people aren¡¯t that good and they also have many things that trouble them, but I never thought you would use such ugly words.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Good words are things that little boys say to little girls. Although it¡¯s the truth, as an old man who is already twenty seven and is called an uncle by Still, I feel that saying things like this doesn¡¯t have any meaning at all.¡±

    Akali couldn¡¯t helpughing and rolling her eyes at Xu Yi before asking, ¡°Then this uncle, what words do you think have meaning?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a serious look, ¡°No matter what, we have to admit that rich people are better off in terms of materialpared to normal people. It is very normal for you to envy them, it is normal for humans. But, unless you are born into a rich family or money falls out of the sky, allowing you to enjoy a rich person¡¯s life, you can only use the two methods I told you about. Which one will you pick?¡±

    Akali looked over and suddenly gave Xu Yi a sweet smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how about I marry you?¡±

 Volume 1 82 - Strange guest

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 82 Strange guest</strong>

    Two dayster, Camby finally led the hundred dwarves from the Ang Tribe to Banta City.

    Xu Yi had already prepared the worker dorms for these dwarves and had requested Camby as the manager of the magic machine workshop to make further arrangements for them. At the same time, he asked Camby and the hundred dwarves from the Norma Tribe to quickly familiarize them with their work, so they could start working as soon as possible.

    The magic machine workshop¡¯s work was very heavy and from what could be foreseen, the future work would be even heavier, so naturally it was best for those Ang Tribe dwarves to familiarize themselves with their work as soon as possible.

    ¡°Do you see it? From here to beside the river and then from the side of that workshop to five hundred meters to the west, thisrge empty space, I want to create arge workshop. Moreover, that workshop must be very tall, it can¡¯t be less than four meters. Can you do it?¡± Xu Yi was standing in the empty space outside the magic machine workshop, talking to a middle aged man with blue linen clothes and a swarthy face about something.

    The middle aged man looked at the area Xu Yi had described and thought about it before slightly knitting his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, your requests are a bit high. I¡¯m afraid it¡¯ll be a bit difficult to build this house.¡±

    ¡°Not mentioning how hard it is, can you do it or not? If you can¡¯t, I can only find someone else to do it.¡± Xu Yi said.

    The middle aged man forcefully patted his chest and confidently said, ¡°Of course it¡¯s no problem. If our Amrit couldn¡¯t do it, no one else would be able to do it!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡±

    This middle aged man was called Wayne Riley, he was a manager for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. He was mainly in charge of outstanding construction projects for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    In a normal situation, for a small workshop like Xu Yi wanted, there was no need for the manager to personally head out.

    But when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this construction request to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise had found Riley and had him personally oversee this construction.

    Based on chairman Cruise¡¯s cautious approach, Riley knew that the chairman attached great importance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So when he was facing Xu Yi, he was very polite and even respectful.

    ¡°Manager Riley, this workshop I¡¯m requesting needs to be sturdy enough because there will be four-five hundred workers inside the workshop most of the time. If a problem urs, it will mean the lives of hundreds of people, can you give me a guarantee?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Riley revealed an insulted look and said with a red face, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you not believe me?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and patted Riley¡¯s shoulder, ¡°It isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t believe you, rather it is to tell you the importance of this matter and to hope that you will properly supervise it. Whether it is materials or workers, I want the best, money is not a problem. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Riley gave a strong nod, ¡°Be assured, sir chairman Cruise has personally assigned me to this task. We will definitely be careful during construction and won¡¯t make careless mistakes, I will definitely be paying close attention.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Very good. Chairman Cruise is my good friend, I believe in his promise.¡±

    Seeing Riley take measurements based on his requirements, Xu Yi looked into the distance and tightly knit his brows.

    When they rented this hectare ofnd from Viscount Leslie, Heinz had thought it was too big. With the scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce back then, they didn¡¯t need thisrge space at all and only needed to use one mu ofnd.

    Xu Yi had denied Heinz¡¯s thoughts. He was very clear that as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger, they would need more and more space for their factories, so one mu was far from enough.

    But what Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would develop this quickly. Once the magic machines were released, they were greatly weed in Banta City and the surrounding cities. The orders the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received kept increasing, so naturally they had to construct more factories.

    Xu Yi thought one hectare would be enough at first, but looking at it, it didn¡¯t seem like it was enough.

    The household magic machine factory Heinz led was still fine because most household magic machines were small machines, so they didn¡¯t take up too much space.

    But it was different for the magic machine workshop led by Camby and the dwarves.

    Even if the small Magic Harvester had the word ¡°small¡± on them, the area taken by one was several times that of the Magic Fan or the Magic Rice Cooker. There was no need to mention the even bigger magic production machines.

    So Xu Yi chose to expand the magic machine workshop first.

    With the current output of the magic machine workshop, as well as therge demand that woulde in the future, Xu Yi directly decided to increase the magic machine workshop by ten times.

    When the new magic machine workshop was finished and they recruited enough craftsmen, this workshop would be able to increase their productivity by tenfold.

    At that time, not only would they be able to satisfy the needs of Banta City and the surrounding cities, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s antenna could even reach further cities.

    What Xu Yi anticipated the most now was meeting the king.

    Two days ago, the Lord City Lord had sent someone to tell Xu Yi that the king was very interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, so he decided to summon Xu Yi.

    When Xu Yi went to Anvilmar for the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification test, he should immediately report in and wait for the king¡¯s summons at any time.

    Xu Yi had already lived on the Sines Continent for three years now, he was very clear on how important the agricultural business was on this continent with a low production output.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released agricultural magic machines that could raise farming productivity, increasing the yield of grains, it would be highly valued by the kingdom¡¯s upper ss.

    Xu Yi was even certain that as long as the king confirmed the conveniences brought by these agricultural magic machines, he would definitely use quite a bit of power to support these agricultural magic machines.

    When that timees, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive many orders for these agricultural magic machines. If he wasn¡¯t prepared beforehand and couldn¡¯t ept the king¡¯s request, not mentioning the fact that they would miss out on a good chance, this good thing could turn into a bad thing.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly revealed a bitter smile.

    Heinz always said that he was thinking too far, but Heinz didn¡¯t know that if he didn¡¯t think further and more about the future, how could it be easy to create aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent without any foundation.

    Like when Heinz found out that Xu Yi really gave the Magic Fan technology to the Business Union, he immediately flew into a rage at Xu Yi. He said that Xu Yi was digging his own grave, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t exin it at all.

    This was because it was impossible for Xu Yi to make Heinz believe. What they could only do now was hope that thosergepanies would be limited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He couldn¡¯t tell Heinz that the other reason for doing this was to have more people and powers on the continent invest into magic machines, helping him create an industrial system.

    Heinz would not understand Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, no one on the Sines Continent could understand his thoughts.

    So even if Xu Yi wanted to tell president Rank and the others that he could even give up all the technology he had, hoping that everyone would create an industrial system together, creating a beautiful future, he could only keep this in his heart for now. He could only keep manipting president Rank and the other, out of fear that the small Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be swallowed by these giants.

    ¡°I¡¯ve suddenly noticed this, but do I have masochistic tendencies?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a self taunting smile.

    After smiling, Xu Yi took a deep breath and forcefully pped his cheeks. He shook his head and threw out all these random thoughts that had popped into his mind.

    Although there were many problems, since he had already recognized his goal, he could only walk towards it step by step.

    If he couldn¡¯t learn how to be tough like the machines, how could he be qualified to be a mechanical engineer?

    He suddenly heard rushed footsteps from behind him and Xu Yi turned back to take a look. He found Alex holding a blueprint in his hand quickly running over.

    ¡°Chairman, there is a guest looking for you.¡± Alex stood in front of Xu Yi while panting, handing the blueprint in his hand over, ¡°This guest is very strange, she won¡¯t even show her face. She just told me that you would meet her if I showed you this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the paper andughed, ¡°Here already, it seems like it really is anxious.¡± He looked up at Alex to ask, ¡°The guest? Where is she?¡±

    ¡°She said she didn¡¯t want to see anyone but the chairman, so I put her in the office for now.¡± Alex replied.

    ¡°Un, very good. Go back to your work, I¡¯m going to see the guest.¡±

    Alex looked at Xu Yi for a second and hesitated for a bit before asking in a worried voice, ¡°Chairman, this guest is very strange, I think¡­...I think you should have someone with you when you meet them. If something happens¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and looked at Alex, ¡°Did you forget that I am a magician?¡±

    ¡°But your magic level¡­..¡± Alex cut himself off halfway.

    Xu Yi snappily waved his hand at him, ¡°Alright, stop wasting words. Go back to your position, I¡¯ll go see her.¡±

    After sending Alex away, Xu Yi went to the office.

    When he opened the door, he saw a person wrapped in a long cloak sitting on a chair in the office.

    Although she was facing the office door, because her face was tightly wrapped up, people couldn¡¯t see her appearance at all.

    Xu Yi looked over this person before saying with a smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say you don¡¯t believe in humans? Dear miss Agnes?¡±

 Volume 1 83 - Hannasâ€™ ambition

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 83 Hannas¡¯ ambition</h4>

    The mysterious guest stood up and opened the cloak that even wrapped up her head, revealing a beautiful face with a heroic feel to it, as well as a pair of long and sharp ears.

    It was the female elf Agnes Xu Yi had met in the Ang Tribest time.

    ¡°I still don¡¯t believe in humans now.¡± Agnes ignored the taunting tone in Xu Yi¡¯s voice and her face was calm, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the elder said that the blueprint you gave us could help the problem of our tribe, I wouldn¡¯t have been sent here.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t waste more time on meaningless words. He asked Agnes to sit down and poured a cup of cold water for her ording to her request. He then sat down across from her and took out the blueprint Alex had handed him from before.

    That blueprint was the one Xu Yi had left with chief Monto when he left the Ang Tribe, having him give it to Agnes. So when he saw this blueprint and heard from Alex that this guest wouldn¡¯t show her face at all, Xu Yi immediately knew that this guest was Agnes.

    ¡°Miss Agnes, based on what you said, not only have you seen these blueprints, you even showed them to the elders of your tribe?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes. The elder looked at it and felt that there is a high chance of this method working, so he had mee looking for you. To implement this method, what do we need to do?¡± Agnes said with a nod.

    Xu Yi looked over the blueprint. This was a method created by mixing many simr cases back on earth, so of course it was very likely this would work.

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, miss Agnes, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t tell you what you need to do.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I had only heard a bit about your problem from chief Monto and only gave an approximate solution based on my own experiences, but because I don¡¯t know the exact situation, I can¡¯t give you a concrete method. Unless I could inspect the area in person, I wouldn¡¯t be able to tell you what you need to do.¡±

    Agnes considered this a bit before asking, ¡°Your meaning is that you want to go to our tribe to look at the situation?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi confidently said.

    Agnes was silent for a bit before shaking her head.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid not. It¡¯s been several hundred years since our tribe has hand any humans enter it and we don¡¯t wee humans either.¡±

    ¡°Then even if I want to help, I can¡¯t do anything.¡± Xu Yi stretched out his hands and helplessly said, ¡°Miss Agnes, I think you must admit that solving the problem with the river is arge project and I can¡¯t give you a concrete solution with just my imagination. If you can¡¯t let me inspect the area, I can only say I¡¯m sorry.¡±

    Agnes was silent for a bit before suddenly standing up. She ced the index and middle finger of her right hand on her chest and gave Xu Yi a slight bow, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, I will be leaving first. I hope you receive Elune¡¯s blessings in your dreams.¡±

    After saying this, Agnes left without even turning back.

    Xu Yi opened his mouth and wanted to call out to stop her, but he let go after thinking about it.

    The elves had this kind of personality, so he couldn¡¯t change Agnes¡¯ thoughts even if he called out to stop her. It was better to let the elven tribe make their own decision.

    Anyway, Xu Yi was not in a rush for this matter, the one in a rush were the elves.

    After thinking about some things in the office, Xu Yi stood up to leave. He gave some more requirements for the new factory to manager Riley before getting onto a horse carriage and heading to a small yard to the north of Banta City.

    When he walked into this yard, Xu Yi heard Baron Hannas roaring out.

    ¡°Millet, move faster! If can¡¯t finish the drafts by dinner, we might not even get to sleep tonight!¡±

    ¡°McCovey, stop standing in a daze, why haven¡¯t you taken the prepared drafts over to printing yet? What are you standing there like a fool for?¡±

    ¡°Meghan, are those fellows responsible for collecting news back yet? It¡¯s almost time to finalize the draft! If you don¡¯te back, they should give up on their wages today!¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing this voice that was a bit hoarse, Xu Yi never would have connected this voice to Baron Hannas who had seemed quite shy when he met him for the first time.

    It seemed that being the chief editor for the ?Banta Times?, it had changed Baron Hannas quite a bit.

    Looking around the small building in the yard, he found that it was quite busy.

    There were over ten young men and women bent over desks, desperately writing something. There were people organizing documents and people running back and forth sending something¡­...

    Standing in the middle shouting and pointing while looking over the documents in his hand was Baron Hannas.

    It was unknown if it was because he was too busy, but Baron Hannas¡¯ face was currently covered in arge beard. He looked quite rough and his clothes were a bit disorderly, while many ces were stained with ck ink from who knows where. He was apletely different person from the person Xu Yi met the first time.

    ¡°Hey, your excellency Baron, are you still busy?¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to wave at Baron Hannas.

    Hearing this voice, Baron Hannas looked over in a daze. After he saw Xu Yi, his brows jumped up and he revealed a look of joy.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it¡¯s great that you¡¯re here, I was looking for you!¡±

    ¡°Oh? Looking for me? Do you need something?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Could it be the Magic Printing Press is broken?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, the Magic Printing Press is our treasure, how could it break? But me finding you is rted to the Magic Printing Press. This¡­..Chairman Xu, look, the sales for our ?Banta Times? keep increasing and just relying on a single Magic Printing Press, we¡¯re already having trouble keeping up. Can you help me make another¡­...No, it¡¯s best if it¡¯s two, oh, no, it¡¯s best if it¡¯s three! How about it? Three Magic Printing Presses? It should be that hard for you, right?¡±

    ¡°Are you certain you want three?¡± Xu Yi looked at Baron Hannas in surprise.

    The Magic Printing Press he made was based on the movable font printing press from earth. Because the Sines Continent used a characternguage system, using the ancient Chinese movable font printing system was the simplest. Adding in a Wind Attributed Magic Array to power it, it could finish printing two thousand sheets in just one hour.

    The ?Banta Times? had ten pages and if you count both sides, it was only twenty pages.

    This meant that if a Magic Printing Press was operating at full power, it could print one hundred copies of ?Banta Times? in an hour.

    Xu Yi knew that Baron Hannas decided the contents of tomorrow¡¯s ?Banta Times? by dinner time, so counting from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, there was a full twelve hours of time to print ?Banta Times?.

    Even if one removed the break times and some idents in between, there was enough time to print a thousand ?Banta Times?.

    Now Baron Hannas was all of sudden asking for three Magic Printing Presses from Xu Yi, this meant that the amount of ?Banta Times? printed each day would be over three thousand copies!

    This was a very shocking number. It had to be known that there were less than thirty thousand people in Banta City and if they were divided into households, that would only be five thousand households.

    With the education level of Banta City¡¯s people, it was impossible for each family to purchase a copy of ?Banta Times?. It was already good enough for a tenth to buy it, so a single Magic Printing Press was enough.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, three machines.¡± Baron Hannas gave an assured nod, ¡°Xu Yi, you haven¡¯t been heretely, so you don¡¯t know some things. Right now just in Banta City, the ?Banta Times? can sell a thousand copies each day and I have sent people to establish selling points in the viges outside the city. Even if each vige only buys one or two copies each day, that will gradually umte. I can guarantee that not long after, we can sell many ?Banta Times? in the viges outside the cities. This is because there are many more people outside Banta City, so the sales for outside Banta City for the ?Banta Times? will reach a thousand copies in the future.¡±

    ¡°This still isn¡¯t enough for you to request three Magic Printing Presses at once, right?¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice.

    Baron Hannasughed, ¡°Xu Yi, do you know that outside of the ?Banta Times?, I have already set up two branches in Saltan City and Karma City?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as he asked, ¡°You moved this quickly?¡±

    Baron Hannas gave a proudugh, ¡°It¡¯s just this fast. If nothing unexpected happens, I can guarantee that in just a week, the ?Saltan Times? and the ?Karma Times? will be on sale! When that timees, I will know everything about those two cities! Moreover, I will spread these newspapers to every part of the Lampuri Kingdom, even across the entire Sines Continent!¡±

    Seeing Baron Hannas be even more proud and filled with zeal towards work, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing in his heart.

    When he saw Baron Hannas for the first time, Xu Yi thought he was a normal noble with a good family education. He never thought that after bringing out his gossip side and Xu Yi threw out a ?Banta Times? for him, arge chance would ur with him. He became this passionate worker and this reporter with outstanding energy.

    The reason why the ?Banta Times? could develop so quickly was rted to the enormous amount of energy Baron Hannas had ced into it.

    Based on his family background and his rtions, Baron Hannas didn¡¯t encounter any unexpected hindrances when setting up the ?Banta Times?. This new thing was naturally weed by countless people, so it could develop to this state in a short period of time.

    ¡°Eh¡­...Actually, Hannas, the names of newspapers don¡¯t all need to be called times. You can call them things like ?Saltan Morning News? or ?Karma Herald? or things like that.¡± Xu Yi gave a small suggestion and saw a look of joy appear on Baron Hannas¡¯ face, but he suddenly changed the topic, ¡°But speaking of this, Hannas, are you really prepared to stay in Banta and not return to Anvilmar?¡±

 Volume 1 84 - Choice

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 84 Choice</strong>

    Hearing this question, the excited expression on Hannas¡¯ face suddenly froze. After a while, he slumped down as he ran out of energy.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I thought that you were here to cheer me on, I never thought that you would run here to propose this kind of boring topic.¡± Baron Hannas suddenly seemed exhausted and he found a chair to sit in, as he waved his hand with an annoyed look, ¡°Leslie and Lord Count has discussed this matter with me and have urged me to immediately return to Anvilmar. The people from my family has urged me to do the same, but when I think about returning to that boring Anvilmar City, breathing that depressing air and facing those spiritless people, I never had a thought of going back.¡±

    After saying this, Baron Hannas paused before taking a deep breath. He looked out the window with a sunken look on his face.

    ¡°Think about it, the life here is this beautiful. Although I sleep a bit less each day and the food isn¡¯t as good as back in the family, I am filled with energy each day and I¡¯m always filled with energy. Since I was young, I had never found anything this exciting before, making me invest everything into it. I even feel that the thing I¡¯m doing now is the great business I should invest my life into. Compared to this, whether it is being a fake noble or a rotten merchant, I feel like it would be better for me to die instead.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you know that just the day before yesterday, our ?Banta Times? reported on a piece of news outside of Banta City. It was a small noble who raped a normal farmer¡¯s daughter, so in the end the daughter drowned herself in the river. ording to normal conventions, this kind of matter would be suppressed and nothing would have happened to the small noble, so the pitiful girl would have died in vain. But this matter was reported on by our ?Banta Times? and the Lord Count flew into a rage after seeing it. He directly caught that small noble and whipped him twenty times in front of everyone ording to the Royal Parliament¡¯sws, as well as making himpensate that farmer thirty gold coins. I can say that if it wasn¡¯t for our ?Banta Times? upholding justice, this matter wouldn¡¯t have this kind of good ending.¡±

    Looking at Baron Hannas¡¯ face filled with righteousness, Xu Yi could only give a bitter smile.

    Twenty whips and paying thirty gold coins was considered upholding justice? This was a good ending?

    This was a person¡¯s life!

    But Xu Yi was very clear that Baron Hannas wasn¡¯t wrong at all, this was the reality on the Sines Continent.

    Nobles had a higher status than normal citizens, so even if nobles raped citizens, they would only receive this kind of punishment.

    If the ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t report on this, attracting the attention of City Lord Count Sean¡¯s attention, this small noble wouldn¡¯t have been punished at all.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t change this fact, so he could only remain silent.

    Compared to Xu Yi¡¯s silence, Baron Hannas became even more excited as he told Xu Yi about all the things that the ?Banta Times? had already done. Among them included exposing small nobles, reporting on the filial deity ofmoners towards their disabled parents, and even revealing some news in the ?Banta Times? through the Lord City Lord¡­¡­.

    Xu Yi patiently listened to him and when he finally took a small rest, he said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Hannas, I admit that you are right. The ?Banta Times? is indeed the greatest business in your life and it is even greater than you can imagine. However, I must remind you that if you want to continue in this business, you will meet all kinds of difficulties and with just your strength alone, you won¡¯t be able to continue.¡±

    Hannas¡¯ face sunk, ¡°What? You are just like Leslie, urging me to cooperate with those fellows back in the family? Do you believe that if they were allowed to participate, the entire vour of the newspaper would instantly change?¡±

    ¡°Of course I believe it.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually, Hannas, even if they don¡¯t join now, there are many people that don¡¯t believe that the ?Banta Times? is a pure thing because¡­..¡± Xu Yi pointed at himself, ¡°It involves a dirty merchant like me.¡±

    Hannas was stunned. Thinking about what he had said just now, he gave Xu Yi an embarrassed smile.

    ¡°Don¡¯t misunderstand, I was not talking about you. Compared to those fellows, Xu Yi, you are a very conscientious merchant. The farmer support n of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce allowed those twenty three farmers who participated change their lives and also greatly increase the efficiency of this autumn¡¯s nting season, this can be considered a great thing. If it wasn¡¯t for you basically giving those magic machines to those twenty three farmers, they definitely couldn¡¯t buy them.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t think that I¡¯m so noble. If we look at the farmer support n from a business perspective, I actually earned quite a bit. Although those twenty three farmers don¡¯t need to pay any money, they will have to pay for itter. Moreover, I¡¯ve used their hands to help my advertise the magic machines and the effects are quite good. I dare confirm that by next year¡¯s spring harvest, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will definitely sell arge amount of agricultural magic machines.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°For this kind of good thing, of course it¡¯s good that more of them are sold.¡± Baron Hannas said whileughing, ¡°I even look forward to your agricultural magic machines being used on every farm in our Lampuri Kingdom. Like this, our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people wouldn¡¯t need to worry about not having enough to eat.¡±

    Seeing Baron Hannas falling into his youthful fantasies, Xu Yi helplessly shook his head and decided to pull him back.

    ¡°Let¡¯s return to the previous issue. You say that I¡¯m not like other merchants, but other people don¡¯t think this. Everyone who reads the ?Banta Times? has noticed that the ?Banta Times? always reported on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Based on what they can see, they think that it is helping our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to advertise, meaning that the ?Banta Times? was opened by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Who is speaking nonsense?¡± Baron Hannas angrily said, ¡°Is it the otherpanies in Banta City? Those disgusting fellows, they don¡¯t know at all. If it wasn¡¯t for you stopping me, I would have reported even more on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This is because in my eyes, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines are epoch creating things that willpletely change people¡¯s lives! Those fellows are just jealous of your sess and can¡¯t even see the true value of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products, they are simply shortsighted fools!¡±

    Xu Yi stopped Baron Hannas from storming off with a bitter smile before saying with a serious face, ¡°First let¡¯s not care about what they are saying, but this is a fact. Hannas, even if I appreciate the ?Banta Times? insisting on remaining self sufficient, you have to admit that it is impossible for you not to be influenced by anyone. Then do you think that when you have to make a decision, would you be willing to let the newspaper be controlled by you or let it be controlled by no one?¡±

    Baron Hannas came from arge noble family, so although he had some ideals, it didn¡¯t mean that he was naive. After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, his face sunk as he thought about it before he gave a slight nod.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I understand what you mean, but how is this rted to you urging me to head back to Anvilmar?¡±

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted. Hannas, have you considered that if you don¡¯t go back to Anvilmar, how long will it be before Anvilmar will have a ?Anvilmar Times??¡±

    Hannas gave a cold snort, ¡°Although those fellows are always slow in deciding things, they definitely will not give up this chance. Even if I don¡¯t go back, I dare to guarantee that within a year, they will create an ?Anvilmar Times?.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Since it¡¯s like this, why not head back earlier and use your experience with the newspaper to steal this chance?¡± Xu Yi seriously said, ¡°I think you should be very clear on this, but newspapers are like the news itself, the one who strikes first always has the advantage. You can¡¯t control the situation in Anvilmar, but you can try to affect it with your initiative. Even if you aren¡¯t willing to depend on your family¡¯s power, you have to admit that your family¡¯s power is much stronger than you alone. If the ?Anvilmar Times? is controlled by your family, isn¡¯t it better than it being controlled by another family?¡±

    Hannas lowered his head to consider this before looking at Xu Yi with strange gaze, ¡°Why do you care about this matter so much? To be honest, you are just a small merchant and no matter what, this matter isn¡¯t rted to you at all, right?¡±

    ¡°Why is it not rted to me?¡± Xu Yi opened his eyes in an exaggerated manner, ¡°Hannas, did you forget? The Magic Printing Press is made by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As the chairman, of course I must create more sales for the product of mypany. Think about it, if a newspaper appeared in Anvilmar, there would be newspapers that appear all across the Lampuri Kingdom and even across the Sines Continent. At that time, we¡¯ll be able to sell countless Frestech Brand Magic Printing Presses! How much money would I earn!¡±

    Hannas rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°It seems like I was wrong, you¡¯re not different from those fellows. You also have the same lust for money that those disgusting fellows have.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t care about this at all as he asked, ¡°Then your excellency Baron Hannas filled with righteous nobleness, are you willing to return to Anvilmar City and use the ?Anvilmar Times? to change that disgusting city?¡±

    Hannas looked around the room and gave a deep sigh.

    ¡°I¡¯ll go back, but I will still return to this ce. This is where my foundations are, so even if I return to Anvilmar, it is only as a guest.¡± After pausing, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that you will be going to Anvilmar to take part in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification test in a while, is that right?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu YI nodded.

    ¡°Good, we¡¯ll go together when the timees. I can use this time to n out everything here.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulder, showing no objections.

 Volume 1 85 - Fluorescent Grass

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 85 Fluorescent Grass</strong>

    Leaving the ?Banta Times? office, Xu Yi went to the researchb to the west of the city.

    After knocking on the door, the one who answered was Evita and not Akali who chose to live on the first floor.

    Seeing Xu Yi, Evita revealed a somewhat surprised and somewhat happy expression.

    ¡°Chairman, why are you here?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at his stomach with a smile and said, ¡°Vivian is out on an autumn outing with her ssmates today, so no one is home to make a meal for me. I don¡¯t want to eat at a restaurant, so I came here to mooch off you. You won¡¯t wee me?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course you¡¯re wee, pleasee in.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile. It it was Akali here, she would definitely tease him a few times. Evita¡¯s personality waspletely different from Akali¡¯s, she was much more calm.

    After walking around and not seeing Akali around, Xu Yi casually asked, ¡°Where¡¯s Akali?¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s out today.¡± Evita replied.

    ¡°Went out?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What? She had something to do?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman, did you forget that today is Sunday? You said yourself that you would give us Sunday off each week.¡±

    ¡°Of? Right, I forgot and I even said I wanted to see your research progress.¡± Xu Yi patted his head, thinking that he really was too busy, even forgetting what day of the week it was. He looked at Evita and notice that there was a thick apron outside of her clothes, ¡°Since it¡¯s Sunday, why are you still wearing this? Could it be you¡¯re still working?¡±

    When mentioning work, Evita¡¯s eyes instantly lit up, ¡°Chairman, I had some new discoveriestely and wanted to research it with you. You came right on time today, do you want to see my new discoveries first?¡±

    ¡°Oh? New discoveries, what is it about? Is it the Magic Air Conditioner?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    It was about to be winter soon, so Xu Yi had given Still¡¯s group of three a new research task, which was to make a new Magic Air Conditioner.

    The first generation Magic Air Conditioner was a cold air conditioner for the summer. Now that the weather was getting colder, Xu Yi had them research a Magic Air Conditioner that could release cool and hot air.

    Of course, what they needed to solve first was the Magic Array for the heat controlling side.

    Who would have thought that Evita would shake her head, ¡°No, it is rted to the Magic Lamp.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°This quickly? You¡¯ve solved the consistency problem of the shing Thunder Array in just a few days?¡±

    Evita shook her head again, ¡°Although we¡¯ve had some progress, we haven¡¯t really solved the problem yet. I¡¯m talking about another new discovery.¡±

    ¡°What is that?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t understand if I exin, so let me show you.¡± Evita waved her hand at Xu Yi before heading to the second floor.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before calming down and giving himself a smile of self ridicule before following her up.

    He had alreadye to the researchb many times, but this was his first time on the second floor.

    Compared to the mess on the first floor, the second floor was iparably neat. Looking at it, everything was neatly put away and very clean, even the workbench materials were meticulously put in ce, not showing any signs of mess at all.

    Other than this, Evita even put a few flower pots in this room that was considered spacious. Even though it was close to winter, these nts lush and vibrant, adding a bit of life to the room.

    Xu Yi looked around and saw many decorations on the walls that seemed to be made of rags.

    The material was simple, but it was finely designed, with a bit of elegance and a bit of cuteness. It wasn¡¯t inferior at all to the ornaments designed by professional craftsmen in stores at all.

    ¡°Evita, you made of this yourself?¡± Xu Yi pointed at a rag in the shape of a flower on the wall to his right.

    A blush filled Evita¡¯s face as she gave a slight nod.

    ¡°Your hands are truly skilled.¡± Xu Yi praised before sighing, ¡°You can even do this kind of thing. If it was Akali or Still, I really wouldn¡¯t be able to imagine it.¡±

    Evita¡¯s face became even redder. She wanted to say a few words for Akali and Still, but she found she had nothing to say.

    With their personality, how could they be patient enough to make aplicated ornament from rags.

    It was a good thing Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep asking about this matter as he asked Evita, ¡°Alright, where is the new discovery you made? Let me take a look.¡±

    Evita calmed herself down and took a small club from her workbench that she handed over to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took a look before asking in a daze, ¡°Isn¡¯t this Fluorescent Grass? This is your new discovery? How is this thing rted to Magic Lamps?¡±

    Evita gave a slight nod, ¡°Chairman, when you gave us the Magic Crystal Lampst time, didn¡¯t you say that there was another method? You said that after a metal fment was heated, the fment would release light and that could be used to make a Magic Lamp?¡±

    ¡°Un, I did say that. But I also said that we couldn¡¯t make that metal fment right now, so temporarily, we can¡¯t make that kind of Magic Lamp.¡± Xu Yi looked at the Fluorescent Grass in Evita¡¯s hand before saying with a frown, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t be saying that this thing could rece the metal fment, right? This thing would immediately turn to ashes if it were to catch on fire.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not wrong to say it can be used to rece it, but it isn¡¯t using the heating method you mentioned.¡± Evita revealed a smile and returned to her workbench, pointing to a Magic Array already prepared as he said, ¡°Chairman, take a look, this is the shing Thunder Array we¡¯ve changed a part of. Although it can¡¯t release stable light like you wanted, but it can discharge electrical light for up to a minute continuously.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as he praised, ¡°Very good. If you can make this Magic Array continue to release light under the support of a Magic Crystal, the Magic Lamp could be easilypleted.¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before making her decision to say, ¡°Chairman, acutally¡­...Actually, don¡¯t you think that even if we change this Magic Array to continuously release electric light, it wouldn¡¯t be very suitable for a Magic Lamp?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This is because the light it releases is too strong. Akali and I have tested it at night and while the light released by the Magic Array could light up the entire room, the light was just too strong and we couldn¡¯t even open our eyes. I think that if this was turned into a Magic Array, it wouldn¡¯t be useful, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before slowly nodding, ¡°Your words are quite reasonable, but I feel this problem isn¡¯t that hard to solve. As long as the might of the Magic Array is weakened, it¡¯ll be fine if the light released is softer.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid not.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°We have consulted this with his excellency Great Magician Cami and his excellency Great Magician said that Thunder Attributed Magic is a high level Wind Attributed Magic, it requires a certain intensity to work. This shing Thunder Array can released electric light without the might of a bolt of lightning, so it is a failed Thunder Attributed Magic Array, but it is still a Thunder Attributed Magic Array, so it also has a high requirement for magic intensity. This shing Thunder Array has already reached its lowest threshold requirement. If the power of the array is weakened again, this Magic Array willpletely fail and it won¡¯t release the sh of electric light.¡±

    ¡°His excellency Great Magician said this?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows.

    He could only at most grasp Fourth Grade Magic, so he didn¡¯t understand anything of high level Thunder Magic. So naturally he could only listen to his excellency Great Magician¡¯s specialized knowledge.

    ¡°Then ording to what Great Magician Cami said, this Magic Array was studied in vain and it was all for nothing?¡±

    ¡°We can¡¯t say it was for nothing. Chairman, please look.¡± Evita lifted the Fluorescent Grass and put it in the middle of the Magic Array.

    Evita ce a finger on the Magic Array and sent in her magic power, causing a faint blue glow to fill the array, as it instantly activated.

    Xu Yi watched the changes of the array and felt magic elemental energy gathering in the center. In the blink of an eye,rge amounts of magic elemental energy was gathered in the center of the Magic Array.

    ording to Evita¡¯s demonstration from before, there should have been a sh of lightning from the center of the array before it released a bright light.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and prepared for the bright light, but he found that there was only a faint sh of light from the center of the Magic Array. It seemed like it was being sucked into the Fluorescent Grass, entering the Fluorescent Grass.

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Xu Yi wanted to open his mouth in a daze when he saw the Fluorescent Grass suddenly light up. The light it released was gentle and bright.

    When Evita took back her hand from the Magic Array, the glow of the Magic Array faded, but the Fluorescent Grass kept releasing light.

    Before Xu Yi could react, Evita had already closed all the blinds to the room.

    Even blocking off all the light from outside, because of the light from the Fluorescent Grass, they could still clearly see every part of the room.

    Xu Yi looked at this Fluorescent Grass in a daze for a while. He found that although the light it released was bright, it wasn¡¯t dazzling at all and it was quite gentle.

    ¡°This is your new discovery?¡± Xu Yi looked at Evita as he asked this.

    Evita gave a slight nod, ¡°I remember reading a recording in a book once. It said that on the Pamir Prairies in the Candra Empire, there was a patch of Fluorescent Grass and each time there was lightning, that patch would release a gentle light that was very beautiful. When I was studying this shing Thunder Array during these days, I suddenly remembered this recording and guessed that the Fluorescent Grass would be useful, so I ran a few tests. Chairman, what do you think of these results?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and was about to praise Evita when there was a scornful voice that came from the door.

    ¡°Hey, dear Evita, on such a bright day, what are you doing with our respected sir chairman in a room with the blinds closed?¡±

 Volume 1 86 - Does he like men?

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 86 Does he like men?</strong>

    Xu Yi was stunned. When he looked back, he saw that Akali had appeared outside the door at an unknown time and was currently leaning on the door. She looked at him and Evita with a smile that almost didn¡¯t seem to be there on her face.

    ¡°Akali, what nonsense are you saying!¡± Evita reprimanded Akali before quickly moving to the window, pulling up all the blinds.

    Seeing Evita whose face waspletely red under the sunlight, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Evita¡¯s face really was thin.

    He looked back at Akali and when his eyes passed over her neck, Xu Yi was surprised to find a ne around her neck.

    Although this ne looked quite finely made, it clearly couldn¡¯tpare to the one president Rank had given Akali at the banquet.

    Xu Yi pointed at Akali¡¯s neck and asked in a confused voice, ¡°Since you like wearing nes, why don¡¯t you wear the one president Rank gave you? It¡¯s more suited to youpared to this one?¡±

    ¡°The one from president Rank¡­¡­¡± A somewhat unnatural expression appeared on Akali¡¯s face and a bitter smile that wasn¡¯t easy to see appeared before she turned to head downstairs.

    Xu Yi was even more confused. He was just asking about a ne, why was Akali¡¯s reaction so strange?

    ¡°Did something happen to her in the past few days?¡± Xu Yi asked Evita in a daze.

    Evita shook her head in an astonished manner, ¡°Nothing. Chairman, so that ne wasn¡¯t something you gave her?¡±

    ¡°Me?¡± Xu Yi also shook his head, ¡°That ne was given to her by the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank, it isn¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, no wonder it¡¯s so beautiful.¡± Evita gave a slight now before looking at Xu Yi and revealing a smile, ¡°Chairman, president Rank definitely gave Akali that ne because of you, so it isn¡¯t wrong to say that you gave it to her.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, you can¡¯t say it like that.¡± Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°President Rank giving it to her and me giving it to her haspletely different meanings, you can¡¯t randomly say stuff.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, sir chairman is not my boyfriend and didn¡¯t agree to my proposal, so that ne can¡¯t be considered something you gave me.¡± Akali¡¯s voice faintly came from outside the door again.

    When Xu Yi turned back, he found that Akali hade back with a box in her hand. It was the box president Rank had given Akali to hold the ne that day.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Akali took two steps forward and put the box in Xu Yi¡¯s hands.

    ¡°Chairman, help me return this ne back to president Rank, I¡¯m not qualified to wear it.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and didn¡¯t ept the box, rather he seriously looked at Akali. Although her expression was very calm, the corner of her brow and her nose kept twitching, showing that her heart was not calm.

    Xu Yi looked at Evita with a look of inquiry, but Evita shook her head.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi tentatively asked, ¡°Akali, this was the gift president Rank gave you. If you return it to him, it will be very rude to him and he might misunderstand your meaning. I think¡­..¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care! Anyway I¡¯m not qualified to wear it!¡± Akali cut Xu Yi off in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi never thought that Akali¡¯s reaction would be this strong and couldn¡¯t help falling into a daze. He looked at Akali¡¯s expression for a while before giving a sigh in his heart and reached out to take the box.

    ¡°Alright, since you insist on not wanting it, I¡¯ll take it. But this can¡¯t be returned to president Rank, you can¡¯t let him misunderstand.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if you return it to president Rank or not, I just don¡¯t want it!¡± Akali firmly said.

    Looking at the aggrieved Akali, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh. He thought that whether it was on earth or on this continent, the thoughts of a girl who wasn¡¯t twenty years old yet was still the hardest to guess.

    He thought that he could discuss thebination of Fluorescent Grass and the shing Thunder Array with Evita before mooching off some food, but with the current atmosphere, it wasn¡¯t good for him to stay here.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi gave Evita his thoughts. He had Evita keep studying the Fluorescent Grass and it would be best to guarantee that the Fluorescent Grass could release continuous and stable light. As well, he wanted it to change in light intensity and even adjust it at will.

    Evita agreed to his requests one by one.

    While Xu Yi was talking, Akali stood on the side without any expression the entire time and not saying anything, making the atmosphere very awkward.

    After giving his thoughts with great difficulty, Xu Y directly said goodbye to the two of them.

    He looked at Akali before leaving and after a pause, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Akali, if you have any ideas, you can just talk to me. We¡¯ve known each other for a few months and you should know that I¡¯m a person who isn¡¯t good at talking. Of course, if you think it is something that isn¡¯t good for you to talk to me about, you have Evita and Still, your two good friends who you can talk to. In short¡­...You and Evita left home toe to Banta City to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I don¡¯t want you to live bad lives here, do you understand?¡±

    Akali bit her lip and didn¡¯t say anything.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and looked at Evita a few times while pointing at Akali.

    Evita gave a slight nod, signaling to Xu Yi to be assured.

    Xu Yi finally waved his hand and rejected Evita sending him off as he directly left.

    Hearing Xu Yi walk downstairs and finally Xu Yi closing the main door, Akali¡¯s expression finally copsed and two rows of tears dripped down. She threw herself onto Evita¡¯s bed and began crying as she pounded the bed.

    Evita shook her head with a sigh and sat down on the bed. She patted Evita¡¯s back as she said in a low voice, ¡°Alright, you already knew it was impossible, so why did you have to charge forward?¡±

    After a while, Akali slowly stopped sobbing and suddenly rubbed her head against the nket. She turned her head and looked up at Evita, looking quite aggrieved.

    ¡°How would I know if I didn¡¯t try?¡±

    Evita said with a bitter smile, ¡°But now that you¡¯ve tried it, do you think it is impossible?¡±

    Akali¡¯s face turned bitter again, ¡°It seems to be impossible¡­...Hey, Evita, do you think I¡¯m that much worsepared to Still?¡±

    Evita looked at Akali for a while before giving a serious nod, ¡°Indeed you are much worse. At least Still wouldn¡¯t cry like this. Other than that¡­..You have to admit, Still is much more beautifulpared to you.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Beauty isn¡¯t the only thing.¡± Akali mumbled, ¡°ording to my observations, sir chairman doesn¡¯t seem to treat her that specially.¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t help flicking Akali¡¯s forehead, ¡°Are you dumb? Still is more beautifulpared to you, has a better personality, and she has been with sir chairman longer than you. If sir chairman doesn¡¯t even have thoughts for her like this, why do you think sir chairman would have thoughts for you?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps sir chairman likes my type?¡± Akali said in a voice unwilling to give up. She thought for a bit before asking in a mysterious voice, ¡°Evita, sir chairman is already twenty seven this year and hasn¡¯t gotten married yet and we haven¡¯t seen him have a close rtionship with any girls. He doesn¡¯t even have a special feelings for a beauty like Still. Could it be¡­..he likes men?¡±

    ###

    ¡°Achoo¡ª¡ª¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong sneeze and couldn¡¯t help pinching his nose as he looked into the sky.

    His goal going to the researchb was to mooch some dinner and it was quitete when he went there. Now that he had left for a while, the sky was already turning dark.

    It was early November and the Sines Continent¡¯s weather was approaching winter.

    Because they were in the southwest, the Lampuri Kingdom was not as cold in winter as the north, but when Banta City entered night, the streets would still be quite cold.

    Xu Yi fixed his clothes and tightly wrapped himself up.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I almost forgot. Vivian shouldn¡¯t have any winter clothes, so it seems like I need to find some time to buy her some. But I¡¯m not familiar with female clothes, so I should ask Still and the others to help her find some.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi naturally thought of Akali.

    Rubbing the box in his chest, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Because he had sunk himself in research all day back on earth, he didn¡¯t have the time or mind to interact with girls. Aftering to this world, he had been busy familiarizing himself with this world and working hard to survive, so it was even more impossible for him to interact with girls in this world, so hepletely didn¡¯t understand Akali¡¯s strange reaction at all.

    But he did understand that for a young girl like Akali, who were the hardest to understand, it wasn¡¯t strange for him to be unable to guess anything at all.

    He wasn¡¯t prepared to guess either becausepared to the thoughts of a little girl, there were just too many things that he had to consider.

    Whether it was developing new magic machines or trying to start taking the first steps of establishing an industrial system, it all required arge amount of time and effort from him.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce faced many dangers while quickly developing. Even Xu Yi as a person who didn¡¯t care about a person¡¯s strength had to quickly increase his power. These two things took up a lot of time and effort from Xu Yi.

    Many times, Xu Yi even wished he could break himself into several portions and each one would focus on a certain thing. That way, those aspects would develop even better.

    But that was something impossible to achieve and in those aspects, there were many things that people couldn¡¯t substitute Xu Yi for. So he could only invest his own effort and time into it, not daring to waste even a single bit of it.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi was considered a workaholic back on earth. As long as it was interesting mechanical research, he would be more and more enthusiastic.

    ¡°Actually talking about it, it¡¯s still the same problem. Talented people are hard to get. Xu Yi knocked his head as he thought that this problem really had no solution.

    The knowledge of magic on the Sines Continent only remained on destruction and ughter, so even with practical application of magic like the Magic Crystal Lamp, they were small in number and weren¡¯tmon at all.

    If Xu Yi wanted to create an industrial system ording to his thoughts on the Sines Continent, he could only use practical magic machines to change the thoughts and understanding of the people of the Sines Continent bit by bit.

    The good news was that at least in Banta City, people¡¯s understanding of magic machines was quite good.

    ¡°It¡¯s best if there were more magicians who knew about magic application. It¡¯s best if all the magicians on the continent studied magic application, it wouldn¡¯t be that hard for me anymore. It¡¯s a pity¡­..Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the side of the road.

    Two familiar figures entered his eyes who were currently entering a small restaurant by the side of the road.

 Volume 1 87 - Pained Wella

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 87 Pained We</strong>

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before following them in.

    The familiar man and woman had just been shown to a table by a waiter and were prepared to order their meal when Xu Yi appeared in front of them.

    ¡°Hey, Rem, We, why aren¡¯t you two in Saltan City anymore?¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to wave at them.

    Rem and We looked at Xu Yi who had suddenly appeared in a daze and after being frozen for a bit, We suddenly said with a sigh, ¡°Banta City really is a small ce, you can meet past acquaintances at any time. But Xu Yi, the person we don¡¯t want to see the most right now is you.¡±

    Rem¡¯s expression was also quite awkward. His eyes kept avoiding Xu Yi like he didn¡¯t dare look at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Oh? Why don¡¯t you want to see me?¡± Xu Yi sat down in a nearby chair without any hesitation and curiously asked We, ¡°I haven¡¯t done anything wrong to you, right, We?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s the opposite. It¡¯s us who have wronged you.¡± After a few months, We seemed to have lost that sharp aura from back in the Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower and she had be much more depressed. But her words were still quite straightforward, not dodging anything at all.

    Xu Yi thought about it for a bit before saying with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that you and Rem were studying magic machines for Saltan City¡¯s Leo Chamber of Commerce, so is it rted to how you¡¯ve wronged me?¡±

    We gave a slight nod. When she wanted to speak, Rem reached out his hand to stop her.

    ¡°We, stop speaking. Could it be that you think we haven¡¯t been embarrassed enough?¡± Rem¡¯s expression was a bit pained.

    Well looked at him and calmly said, ¡°It is because it is embarrassing that we have to talk about it. Since we¡¯ve bumped into Xu Yi, then it is better to just tell this matter to him. If we can¡¯t obtain his forgiveness and help, we¡¯ll shoulder our guilt for the rest of our lives. Are you willing to live like that?¡±

    Rem¡¯s raised hand became stiff and his expression kept changing before he finally let out a long sigh. His hand came down and he leaned back in his seat, closing his eyes without saying anything else.

    Xu Yi felt this was strange. Based on the news he had heard, Rem and We had been treated very importantly after they followed Cimirot to the Leo Chamber of Commerce, why did the two of them suddenly show up back in Banta City looking like they were lost?

    ¡°Xu Yi, since you know we went to the Leo Chamber of Commerce, you should also know what we were doing at the Leo Chamber of Commerce, right?¡± We asked.

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I know the general situation. The Leo Chamber of Commerce should have had you study magic machines, right? I¡¯ve looked at the Magic Fans the Leo Chamber of Commerce produced and it is the closest to the Frestech Brand Magic Fan that we produced. Moreover, there was even the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan, it really surprised me. I thought that without the support of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be impossible for any otherpanies to make the second generation Magic Fan.¡±

    Ren suddenly gave a soft sort, ¡°That isn¡¯t anything special, why can¡¯t it be made?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, but he didn¡¯t say anything. We furiously red at Rem and said in a dark voice, ¡°Rem, shut up! You think it isn¡¯t embarrassing enough?¡±

    The corners of Rem¡¯s lips twitched before he tightly shut his mouth, preparing not to say anything else this time.

    We looked back at Xu Yi and after pausing for a second, she continued, ¡°We thought at first that the new Magic Fan wasn¡¯t anything that hard and we even made the production magic machines, so making this Magic Fan was not a problem. Actually with our efforts, we helped the Leo Chamber of Commerce make the same Variable Speed Magic Fan and the Leo Chamber of Commerce rewarded me and Rem one hundred gold coins each, but¡­¡­¡±

    Before this, the situation had been very calm and We had no expression at all, but there was a deep look of pain that appeared on her face after saying this.

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you know about Saltan City¡¯s Magic Fan and¡­...Magic Rice Cooker incidents?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod. This matter had been reported on in the ?Banta Times?, so it could be seen that it had arge influence.

    We¡¯s look of pain became even deeper as she said with a self deprecating smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for us not knowing the depths of heaven and earth, researching the Magic Fan and the Magic Rice Cooker, those matters wouldn¡¯t have happened at all. Xu Yi, do you know, every night, the people who have been injured or died in Saltan City because of this matter appears in my dreams, it makes it very hard for me to sleep. They should be sleeping soundly in Saltan City, but because of the magic machines that I researched, they met this kind of ident. I¡­...I¡¯ve wronged them.¡±

    Xu Yi saw We¡¯s face filled with pain and saw the same expression on Rem¡¯s face, understanding what had happened.

    It seemed like these two felt the responsibility for this matterid on them, making them shoulder a profound sense of guilt.

    But the strange thing was that We said that she had also wronged Xu Yi, what was that about?

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you know what the production magic machines of the Leo Chamber of Commerce is about?¡± We asked.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and thought about it before saying, ¡°The production magic machines is moreplicated than the Magic Fan and the Magic Rice Cooker and the Leo Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t buy them from ourpany, so they should have developed them themselves. But there are quality problems with the Magic Fans and Magic Rice Cooker you developed, so the production magic machines the Leo Chamber of Commerce has shouldn¡¯t be that good. Moreover, I never heard of any problems with the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production magic machines, which proves that the technology for the production magic machines was not researched all on your own. That means¡­..¡± Xu Yi¡¯s gaze looking at We and Rem suddenly turned sharp, ¡°We, the technology for the production magic machines, you should have stolen them from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t saying steal too ugly to hear?¡± Rem who had been silent for a while finally couldn¡¯t keep silent anymore, ¡°Xu Yi, I admit that we took some information on the production magic machines from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but the production magic machines of the Leo Chamber of Commerce has our knowledge in it. You can¡¯t say that it is aplete copy of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Rem before shaking his head, not nning to discuss this matter with him.

    On the Sines Continent, there was no intellectual property and there were no patents. So strictly speaking, even if Rem and We really stole the production magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no problem in terms of thew.

    But while there¡¯s no problem in terms of thew, one couldn¡¯t say there was no problem from a moral standpoint.

    The Sines Continent treated people¡¯s research as secrets and they were very important to that person. If a person without that person¡¯s agreement stole that person¡¯s technology for their own use, they would be looked down on by others.

    We feeling like she had wronged Xu Yi, the reason came from this.

    Just like Xu Yi¡¯s analysis, the Leo Chamber of Commerce could make their own production magic machines was clearly because We and Rem had stolen the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Otherwise, for the Leo Chamber of Commerce who had no foundations on magic machines at all, it was impossible for them to make these moreplicated and precise production magic machines.

    ¡°Let me think¡­...We, I remember that before you left Banta City, you said that you wanted to view ourpany¡¯s factory. You stole the information on the production magic machines then, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± We nodded, ¡°Xu Yi, I was actually just curious back then and wanted to see what magic machines moreplex than Magic Fans looked like, I never wanted to steal the technology. Only afterwards¡­...There was a lot of pressure from the Leo Chamber of Commerce, so I gave them what I knew.¡±

    We suddenly stood up and gave a deep bow to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m sorry.¡±

    Seeing We¡¯s action, Rem wanted to stop her, but he seemed to have thought of something when he reached out his hand, so he stopped.

    Xu Yi saw We¡¯s bowing and he felt a bit depressed.

    Back in Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, because of her magic power and talent, We was very arrogant and never would have lowered her head to anyone.

    Now she was actually bowing and apologizing to the person with the weakest magic power, this really was surprising.

    After looking at We for a bit, Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°No need, I don¡¯t like being apologized to by others, there is no meaning in this. You should still tell me why you came back to Banta City.¡±

    We was not a roundabout person, so hearing what Xu Yi said, she sat down and hesitantly replied, ¡°It¡¯s nothing. Since those incidents happened, there should be someone who takes responsibility. We were the main researchers for those production magic machines, so naturally we would take responsibility. A week ago, we were fired from the Leo Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, not being surprised at all.

    The Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s thoughts were very much like thepanies on earth.

    ¡°This means that you two are both unemployed now?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    We looked at Rem before saying with a soft sigh, ¡°We couldn¡¯t stay in Saltan City anymore and we only came back to Banta City because we came from Banta City to begin with. But since we left Great Magician Cami back then, we definitely can¡¯t go back now. Rem and I have discussed it and in a few days, when we¡¯ve calmed down, we¡¯ll leave this ce and look for work in a further city.¡±

    ¡°I understand why you don¡¯t want to return to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, but why are you leaving Banta City?¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°In Banta City, with your power and your knowledge, you can also find a job suitable to you.¡±

    We shook her head, ¡°Impossible. There is only magic research under Great Magician Cami in Banta City and it is impossible for us to continue researching magic machines, so there is no meaning in staying in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Of course it isn¡¯t meaningless.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°As long as you¡¯re willing, I can represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to wee you. How about it? Do you want toe?¡±

    We and Rem looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

 Volume 1 88 - Confidentiality contract

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 88 Confidentiality contract</b>

    ¡°Xu Yi, just what kind of things are you thinking?¡± Still knocked on Xu Yi¡¯s head without any politeness. She looked around before revealing a strange expression, ¡°We clearly admitted that she stole the technology for the production magic machines from you, you still want to hire someone like her? You aren¡¯t afraid that she will steal even more important technology?¡±

    ¡°If I was afraid, I would just give up researching since anyone could steal it from me, right? For example, Evita and Akallie, or even you.¡± Xu Yi pointed at Still as he spoke.

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Still pped Xu Yi¡¯s hand away, ¡°Are the three of us the same as We? You weren¡¯t that close to We before and the three of us are at least good friends with you.¡±

    ¡°Good friends?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile. In the face of enough benefits, not to mention a good friend, it wouldn¡¯t be strange even if a family member or a spouse were to betray you.

    But Still reminded Xu Yi that he had not taken any security precautions yet. If Evita and Akali were naive enough to sell the technology they had because of money, he would have no defense against that.

    Because the technology they were currently researching was quite low level and didn¡¯t involve any high level technology, this wasn¡¯t as important. When they were here longer and grasped more key technology, if this situation were to ever happen, it could deal a heavy blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that thosergepanies in Banta City, they definitely want to obtain these core technologies.

    If they knew about the existence of Evita and Akali, knowing that these two little girls grasped many of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s important technology, they would use a high price to entice those two and make them sell these things.

    ¡°Hey, Still, what do you think about me signing a confidentiality contract with you?¡± Xu Yi asked Still.

    ¡°About the magic machines?¡± Still asked back. Seeing Xu Yi nod, Still revealed a smile and pushed back her golden locks as she revealed a proud appearance, while saying, ¡°What? You only thought of this now? Dear sir chairman, do you know that there are manypanies that have looked for my grandfather and even me? They asked how much of the magic machine technology we had and even offered to buy them at a high price.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How high are their prices? If it¡¯s high enough, I can sell to them too.¡± Xu Yi said with a rxed smile.

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°Uncle, you¡¯re not worried? I¡¯m still fine, but if grandfather is moved after knowing how important these things are to thosepanies, you¡¯re not afraid of suffering arge loss?¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not worried. His excellency Great Magician is not that kind of person, how could he agree to do such a viinous thing?¡± Xu Yi shot a smile at Still before adding, ¡°Of course, a noble and beautiful miss like Young Miss Still would never do something like this.¡±

    Still looked up slightly and gave a soft snort, ¡°At least you understand. But I¡¯ll be serious with you, you should add some security measures. For example, when grandfather signs magicians to his Magic Tower, the contract has a security use, stating that they can¡¯t reveal the research results they obtained in the tower. If they go against it, not only will they be kicked out of the tower, grandfather will report them to the Magicians Guild and they¡¯ll lose their qualifications as magicians if it is serious enough.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that magic machines aren¡¯t protected by the Magicians Guild right now. The penalty will just be some gold coins, I¡¯m afraid the restrictions aren¡¯t enough.¡± Xu Yi helplessly said.

    This was the problem Xu Yi currently faced.

    There was no intellectual property protection on the Sines Continent and the Magicians Guild will not protect any form of magic application. The only form of punishment was punishment through the kingdom¡¯sws.

    But the kingdom¡¯sws only protected apany¡¯s property and they didn¡¯t consider technology as apany¡¯s property. So whenpany¡¯s faced this situation, most of them would retaliate in secret.

    Xu Yi was not willing to do this, but if he didn¡¯t have enough punishments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology was very likely to be revealed.

    Still thought about it for a while and found that there really wasn¡¯t any good method. She could only say in a depressed voice, ¡°Then just raise thepensation a bit higher, make it so they can¡¯t pay even if they sold everything they had. That will put the fear in them.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°I can only do that for now.¡± He looked at Still after saying this and hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Still, I can definitely trust you and his excellency Great Magician, so you don¡¯t need to sign the confidentiality contracts. But as for Evita and Akali¡­...It isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t trust them, but I¡¯m not that close to them, so I¡¯m worried that when I have them sign the confidentiality contract, they might have some ideas because of it¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Rx, they won¡¯t. They are my good friends, I understand them very well. They are not that petty. If you feel like it isn¡¯t good for you to mention this, I can do it for you and take responsibility for it.¡± Still patted her tall chest, speaking in an honest voice.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°This is good. Alright, let¡¯s go see your grandfather.¡±

    The two were talking on the top floor of the Magic Tower. They pushed open the door to the side and walked into Great Magician Cami¡¯s private researchb.

    Seeing the two walking side by side, a smile shed on Great Magician Cami¡¯s face. He waved his hand at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Come, Xu Yi, see this Magic Array.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Your excellency Great Magician hase up with new innovation?¡± Xu Yi came over and looked over the Magic Array on the workbench. For a while, he didn¡¯t know if he should say he understood or that he didn¡¯t understand.

    His meaning of understanding it was that Xu Yi could tell from a single nce that this was a mix of a Frost Array and a me Array. Moreover, it was a mix between the two opposing attributes, causing these two Magic Arrays that weren¡¯t thatplicated to be much moreplicated.

    What he didn¡¯t understand was that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know if this Magic Array could still be considered a single Magic Array anymore.

    ¡°This¡­..Your excellency Great Magician, can this Magic Array work normally?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ording to normal magic theory, a normal Magic Array couldn¡¯t be mixed with another Magic Array, not to mention one that was of apletely opposite attribute.

    This was because this was rted to the elemental magic energy gathered by the Magic Array and its attribute. If it was interrupted by another form of magic, it would affect its operation and even make it unable to start.

    Magic was a very strict thing and if even one tiny mistake was made, it could greatly change the result.

    ¡°You¡¯ll know after trying it.¡± Great Magician Cami said while pointing at the Magic Array.

    Xu Yi and Still looked at each other. They really didn¡¯t know what medicine Great Magician Cami had taken today.

    ¡°I¡¯ll try it.¡± Still reached a hand out to inject magic into the Magic Array.

    There was a faint blue light that flickered on the Magic Array and Xu Yi and Still felt a chilling from the array.

    It was already winter and now that they were suddenly hit with this kind of chill, the two of them couldn¡¯t help shivering.

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Array and found that only half of the array lines were releasing this faint blue light. The other half wasn¡¯t moving at all, like it wasn¡¯t affected by the magic.

    Looking more closely, he found that the half releasing this light was clearly a Frost Array.

    Moreover, the half that wasn¡¯t being affected was a me Array.

    Xu Yi suddenly understood.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you ovepped this Frost Array and me Array? But won¡¯t it create conflict like this? Now that the Frost Array is activated, how can you activate the me Array?¡±

    Faced with Xu Yi¡¯s questions, Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t respond and had Still remove her hand. He made a small adjustment in the Magic Array, moving a small line to another ce before injecting magic into the Magic Array.

    ¡°Hong¡ª¡ª¡±

    A red light quickly filled the me Array and a small me that was less than a centimeter appeared, covering the entire Magic Array.

    After a while, the Magic Array¡¯s surrounding area was filled with heat, instantly dispelling the coldness in Xu Yi and Still¡¯s bodies.

    Xu Yi was instantly filled with joy seeing this.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you even adjusted the me height of the me Array! This is great! This kind of me Array can be used in the Magic Air Conditioner!¡±

    When Xu Yi had Still¡¯s group of three research the me Array, because the mes of the me Array reached half a meter tall, it couldn¡¯t be used in the small Magic Air Conditioner at all. So Xu Yi had them make some changes to the me Array, letting it maintain its same high temperature whilepressing the height of the mes.

    Still¡¯s group of three had limited magic power, so the research was not fast. But he never thought that Great Magician Cami would actually solve it for them.

    ¡°No, this Magic Array was not made by just me, I just put their ideas together.¡± Great Magician Cami waved his hand and modestly said, ¡°Actually, the only thing I did was modify the me Array a bit, making the mes a bit smaller.¡±

    Great Magician Cami made it sound simple, but Xu Yi knew that the most difficult part of the Magic Array was changing the me Array.

    If it wasn¡¯t for a powerful magician of the Great Magician level helping, with Still, Evita, and Akali¡¯s level of magic, it would take them a long time to do something like this.

    Of course, this Magic Array also had a very clever design. It was the way the Frost Array and me Array came together and they didn¡¯t sh with each other at all, as well as being able to change between arrays with a single modification.

    When Xu Yi was designing the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, in order to put in both the Frost Array and the me Array, he had made the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner very big. It caused the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner to be more than twice the size of the Cold Magic Air Conditioner, so it was too conspicuous hanging it on the wall.

    But now with this modification, the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner can save quite a bit on space. In the end, it would be a bit bigger than the Cold Magic Air Conditioner, but it would only be a tiny bit bigger.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, your excellency Great Magician, did you say that these little things aren¡¯t interesting at all, so you didn¡¯t want me to take these things out to bother you with? Why now¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Array and asked in a curious voice.

    Great Magician Cami looked at him before answering, ¡°Kid, you¡¯re going to Anvilmar for the certification exam in a few days and I¡¯ve heard from Still that you¡¯ve been worrying about this Magic Air Conditioner for the past few days. I decided to help you solve this so you won¡¯t have anything to worry about during the exam. Understand?¡±

    Although Great Magician Cami had put it very modestly, Xu YI¡¯s heart filled with warmth.

    This Great Magician, he really was too good to him.

    But to really have him have nothing to worry about, was it really that easy to do?

 Volume 1 89 - Master, save me!

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 89 Master, save me!</strong>

    The ss bell had already rang a long time ago and the other students had already left their seats, either going out to rx or gathering to talk with their friends in groups of two or three.

    The sses for the Baron Rickto Magic Academy were an hour and a half long, so the rest time was also a bit longer. Recess was twenty minutes, so students naturally seized this time to properly rest up.

    The only exception was Vivian.

    Other than going to the restroom once, Vivian almost never left her desk. Her head had been down the entire time as she honestly looked over her notes from the ss just now. She read it again and again, trying to firmly lock up this knowledge in her mind and doing everything she could to understand it.

    After being sent here by Xu Yi, Vivian had always been using everything she had to focus on studying.

    Because her parents had been ves, Vivian had been a ve since she was born. So during the fourteen years before Xu Yi bought her, Vivian had always lived as a ve.

    Although Viscount Leslie treated his ves better than some other nobles, a ve was still a ve in the end. The so called kindness was only limited to not mistreating her or randomly killing her, it was impossible for Vivian to receive this kind of education.

    After Xu Yi became her master, Vivian found that her life had greatly changed. Not only did she not have to worry about food or a ce to rest each day, all she had to do was some simple housework.

    Moreover, Xu Yi was multiple times better to vespared to Viscount Leslie.

    Vivian knew that after Xu Yi bought her, she had already made her mental preparations. She thought that Xu Yi was someone with special tastes, liking her body that hadn¡¯t fully developed yet.

    However, Xu Yi had lived with her for two months and hadn¡¯t made a single move on her, not to mention doing anything to her.

    This filled Vivian with joy while also filling her with a tiny disappointment.

    It was hard to get a good master like Xu Yi and if he really wasn¡¯t interested in her body, would he ever sell her someone else in the future?

    Of course, that was not certain. Vivian had heard from some other female ves that female ves who were tired of were sold to even more cruel masters, making their lives even worse.

    But no matter what, the anxious Vivian never would have thought that Xu Yi would send her to school.

    Going to school, to Vivian, it was a hope that once filled her heart. In the end, because of the cruel reality, she had no choice but to give it up.

    She knew that she was just a lowly ve. On the Sines Continent, not everymoner would be able to receive an education, so there was no need to mention a lowly ve who no one cared if she died or not.

    So when Xu Yi asked her if she wanted to go to school, she was stunned for a while. After confirming with him multiple times, she finally joyfully agreed.

    In the blink of an eye, Vivian had already been enrolled in the Baron Rickto Magic Academy for over a month now.

    Although Baron Rickto Magic Academy was called a magic academy, it was not just for teaching magic.

    When this school was formed by Baron Rickto, it was made for teaching magic, but after developing for hundreds of years, this school had be thergestprehensive school in Banta City.

    Other than teaching magic, it also taught all kinds of basic knowledge likenguage, history, culture, and even art.

    Because Vivian had never been educated before, Xu Yi had enrolled her in a basguage course, giving her the most basic reading and writing skills.

    Other than this, she had been enrolled in a drawing course.

    Although Vivian had never been educated, her intelligence was not low. Adding in her desire for knowledge, in just a short month, she had already grasped how to read and write.

    Although she didn¡¯t understand everything, she already had no problem with basic reading.

    Compared to hernguage course, Vivian¡¯s performance in her drawing course could be considered shocking.

    Xu Yi through the casual drawings that Vivian made had learned of her talent, but after she came to Baron Rickto Magic Academy, her talent had instantly exploded under the guidance of the art teacher.

    In just a short week, Vivian hadpletely conquered the teacher. The usually strict art teacher said that she was a genius artist that came every few decades.

    The current Vivian, because of her strong talent in art, she had already gained some fame in the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    It was a pity this fame didn¡¯t bring many advantages, but rather caused quite a bit of trouble for her.

    After she finished reviewing after ss, Vivian left thenguage ssroom and walked down the hall to her drawing ssroom when she was blocked by three people.

    ¡°Hey, dear miss Vivian, can you ept an invitation to supper with me tonight?¡± The young man in the middle of the three looked at Vivian and asked this in a very glib voice.

    Vivian looked at him and recognized him as Enrique of the magic department.

    ¡°Sorry, I don¡¯t have time tonight.¡± Vivian decisively rejected him.

    Ever since he saw Vivian from the side in the drawing ssroom and personally witnessing Vivian¡¯s talent in art, it seemed like Enrique had begun liking Vivian. He had begun to stalk Vivian while trying to chase her.

    But Vivian had gained this precious chance to learn with great difficulty, so how could she have time to waste with Enrique? So whenever Enrique made a request, Vivian had directly rejected him and not given him any chance.

    ¡°It¡¯s no problem if you don¡¯t have time tonight, you would have time tomorrow, right?¡± Enrique didn¡¯t seem to want to give up.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have time tomorrow either.¡± Vivian shook her head before seriously saying to Enrique, ¡°Please give up, alright?¡±

    After being with Xu Yi for a while and being influenced by him, the current Vivian was not as timid as before and now dared to speak her own thoughts.

    Enrique¡¯s expression changed. He never thought that Vivian would reject him so decisively, this wasn¡¯t giving him any face at all.

    In front of his two friends, Enrique instantly felt very embarrassed and couldn¡¯t stop his voice from turning cold.

    ¡°Miss Vivian, I just want to have a meal and talk to you a bit, there is no need to be this heartless, right?¡±

    Vivian innocently blinked her eyes, not understanding what Enrique meant.

    After all, she was just a little girl who wasn¡¯t even fifteen yet and she had been a ve for her entire life, so didn¡¯t understand rtionships too well. She didn¡¯t understand the boring ego of these kinds of little men.

    But this kind of appearance from her made Enrique even madder.

    Enrique¡¯s face sunk. He thought about it before suddenly grabbing Vivian¡¯s hand and saying in a deep voice, ¡°Let me tell you, whether you are willing or not, you will agree tonight! Otherwise, don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    Seeing Enrique¡¯s twockiesing forward, Vivian remembered the scene from back when she was under Viscount Leslie, almost being beaten to death by guards because of a single mistake. Her face instantly filled with fear and her body began to tremble.

    Seeing Vivian¡¯s look of fear, Enrique immediately gave a proudugh. He prepared to pull Vivian around the campus.

    How could Vivianpare to Enrique in terms of strength. Although she was very unwilling, she couldn¡¯t help being pulled along by him.

    If it was another girl, she definitely could have called out, but Vivian had been a ve since she was young and she was used to having a low status or being bullied by others. Although her body and heart was filled with resistance, she didn¡¯t call out for help at all.

    Only in her heart, there was a single cry.

    ¡°Master, save me!¡±

    Enrique pulling Vivian along suddenly stopped and a figure appeared in front of him.

    ¡°Hey, uncle, you want to meddle in this matter? Let me tell you, it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t¡­..¡± Enrique only finished half his words when a fireball suddenly flew at him.

    Enrique was shocked, but he quickly let go of Vivian¡¯s hand and raised a water shield in front of him.

    It had to be said, Enrique¡¯s level of magic was not bad. In this kind of situation, he could actually form aplete water shield.

    But although this fireball seemed normal, its strength was quite astonishing. Enrique¡¯s water shield was instantly shattered and the fireball mmed into his chest, sending him flying away.

    Enrique had just fallen to the ground when water ball fell onto him. It extinguished the mes on his chest whilepletely drenching him in cold water.

    It was now the beginning of November and it was a bit cold. Now that he had been drenched in cold water, naturally he was hit with a chill, instantly waking up Enrique who had almost fainted from being hit with a fireball.

    Looking at the person in front looking down on him, Enrique¡¯s heart filled with shock and fear. He quickly shouted out, ¡°You dare hit me! Do you know who my father is? If you dare go against me, do you believe that my father will beat you until you¡¯re crippled!¡±

    Xu Yi looked down at Enrique who had lost some hair from the fireball and who looked iparably sorry from being drenched in water and he couldn¡¯t help letting out a coldugh.

    ¡°Oh? Who is your father? Let¡¯s hear it.¡±

    ¡°My¡­...My father is the chairman of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce! Let me tell you, I know many powerful magicians and any one of them can beat you until you¡¯re a cripple!¡± Bringing out his father, Enrique was suddenly filled with courage.

    ¡°Of it¡¯s actually chairman Morgan¡¯s son, this is really hard to handle¡­..¡± Xu Yi revealed a difficult expression.

    Enrique thought he was afraid and he jumped up from the ground. He pointed at Xu Yi and arrogantly said, ¡°How about it? Are you afraid now? Humph! Let me tell you, you have hurt me like this, don¡¯t think I¡¯ll let you go. You just wait, I will definitely tell this matter to my father and let you suffer!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded in praise, ¡°Not bad, you know you can¡¯t win, so you look for your father for help. I wanted to take care of you, but I have to give chairman Morgan some face, so I can¡¯t do anything. Then again, chairman Morgan is our good friend andying a hand on a friend¡¯s son is like bullying the weak.¡±

    Enrique was stunned. Based on this person¡¯s words, he seemed to be an acquaintance of his father? Father even said that they were good friends?

    It would be bad if this was true. To be considered a friend of father¡¯s, normally it would be people he contacted through business.

    Father cared more about benefits to thepanypared to anything. If he told this matter to his father, there was no need to mention his father taking revenge for him, his father might even fiercely teach him a lesson.

    ¡°You¡­..Who are you?¡± Enrique hesitated a bit before he finally couldn¡¯t help asking this.

    ¡°Not bad, you finally know to ask my name.¡± Xu Yi revealed a grin, ¡°Listen well, I am Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.¡±

    Enrique¡¯s face instantly looked like dying ashes.

 Volume 1 90 - Student aid fund

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 90 Student aid fund</strong>

    ¡°Vivian, this kid doesn¡¯t seem like he¡¯s been bothering you for just a day or two now, does he?¡± Watching Enrique¡¯s group of three running off, Xu Yi asked Vivian this with a frown.

    He was at Baron Rickto Magic Academy Today, other than teaching a theoretical basics of magic machines ss, he was here for another important matter.

    Who would have thought that after he finished ss and was walking across campus, he would see Vivian talking to three boys about something in the distance.

    At first Xu Yi thought that the three of them were Vivian¡¯s ssmates, feeling happy that Vivian had made friends in this short period of time and even guessed that perhaps they were Vivian¡¯s admirers. But after a while, he suddenly saw one of the boys grabbing Vivian and pulling her to the school gates.

    Even if Vivian didn¡¯t call out for help, whether it was her expression or her action, they all showed signs of resistance.

    How could Xu Yi endure this? He had lived with Vivian for several months and he had already treated Vivian as a family member. Without saying anything else, he threw a fireball at Enrique, not giving them any chance to argue back at all.

    But Enrique being the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan¡¯s son, this was something that Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had joined the Business Union and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were in their honeymoon phase, Xu Yi¡¯s rtionship with Morgan Fuller right now wasn¡¯t bad. If chairman Morgan knew that Xu Yi had taught his son a lesson, although he wouldn¡¯t me him, their rtionship would be a bit awkward.

    ¡°Un.¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Vivian responded while lowering her head.

    ¡°Then why didn¡¯t you tell me sooner?¡± Xu Yi took Vivian¡¯s arm that had been grabbed by Enrique and found that there was a bruise on it. It could be seen how hard Enrique had been gripping just now, ¡°What if I wasn¡¯t here one day and that kid really did something to you?¡±

    Vivian lowered her head even further and after a while, she muttered, ¡°I¡­..I was afraid of worrying master.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and rubbed her head, ¡°Idiot, if something really happened to you, it would be toote for me to worry. Next time this kind of thing happens, you must tell me, understand?¡±

    Vivian gave a slight nod and gave an un sound.

    Xu Yi suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Then again, Vivian, you really have made progress.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Vivian looked up at Xu Yi in a confused manner.

    ¡°You were actually afraid of worrying me, that means that you¡¯re already treating me as a family member and know I will worry. Not bad, not bad. It seems like letting youe to school was right. It¡¯s only been two months and you¡¯ve progressed quite a bit.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, the shock and fear in Vivian¡¯s heartpletely scattered. She revealed a sweet smile to Xu Yi and there was a faint blush on her face.

    ¡°How about this? Since this happened today, you can go ask for a day off from your teacher and not go to ss today. Go home and rest first. I¡¯ll find some time toe back tonight and we can go out to eat. What do you think?¡±

    What Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect was that Vivian would actually shake her head to this suggestion.

    ¡°No, I¡¯m fine. I still¡­...want to stay at school for a bit. Being able to learn a bit more is good.¡± Vivian looked at Xu Yi with an expectant gaze as she said this.

    ¡°Oh? You¡¯re that interested in studying?¡± Xu Yi said in an emotional voice. After thinking about it, he agreed to Vivian¡¯s request.

    After that Enrique learned his name, he wouldn¡¯t have the guts to cause trouble for Vivian anymore.

    If there really was no choice, Xu Yi could ask Director Shearer to take care of Vivian. After all, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy took all that money from Xu Yi, he should at least receive some preferential treatment.

    After asking Vivian a few questions about how her studies were going, Vivian mentioned that her drawing ss would start soon and said goodbye to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi went to the school administration office to meet Director Shearer.

    Other thaning here to hold a lecture on theoretical basics of magic machines, Xu Yi hade to Baron Rickto Magic Academy for another important reason. He would sign another contract with the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    During the lecture on theoretical basics of magic machines, Orin and some other students of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy had secretly told Xu Yi that they were very interested in studying magic machines. After they graduated from school, they wanted to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to study magic machines.

    Naturally Xu Yi extended a warm wee to them. The reason why he spent such arge amount of money to hold a lesson on theoretical basics of magic machines at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was just to attract the attention of the students, hoping to guide them into studying magic machines.

    Although Xu Yi had a deep mechanical engineering knowledge from earth, studying magic machines was still a new topic for him.

    The theory in this aspect was impossible topile based on him alone, he needed arge number of magicians to participate. The more people he could gather, the faster he couldplete the theory on magic machines and the better it would be.

    Although more than ten students had expressed their interest right now, Xu Yi felt that was still too little. After thinking about it, he directly had a talk with Director Shearer of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy and decided to create a student aid fund under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.

    There were two kinds of student aid funds. One was for children from poor families in the school. As long as they handed in their applications and after everything was checked, they could receive financial aid from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, helping them pay their school fees and expenses.

    The other kind was for the magic department. This fund had more money than the other fund, but the requirements were also higher.

    The students that obtained the second kind of fund would have their entire education paid for by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not only would that include all their school fees and their not low living expenses, it also included extra financial support that would allow these students to obtain better conditions to conduct magical research.

    ordingly, the students that received the second fund would have to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after they graduated and the lowest contract period was three years.

    As for what the students wanted to do after the three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t limit them in any way.

    After hearing that Xu Yi wanted to establish these student funds, Director Shearer was overjoyed and worried.

    He was happy because if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really did provide the funds for these grants, that meant that many students that couldn¡¯t keep studying because of family circumstances could keep studying because of this financial aid.

    Whether it was to those children or the Baron Rickto Magic Academy, this was a good thing.

    As for his worries, he was worried that the students of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy would increase their good feelings for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Especially magic department students who received the second kind of grant. No matter what they wanted, they had to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for three years after they graduated. This was indirectly equal to the Baron Rickto Magic Academy training magicians for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Director Shearer was an old fashioned magician. He always thought that the most important thing for magicians was raising their own magic power, working hard to be strong.

    As for magic application, especially those magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that was just an evil path. It was not worthy of bing the true path for magicians.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he couldn¡¯t reject the money offered, he wouldn¡¯t have even let Xu Yi do his lesson on theoretical basics of magic machines.

    Director Shearer¡¯s anxiety was in the end repelled by a few words from Xu Yi.

    ¡°This student aid fund is voluntary application. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will not force any students to ept it nor will we allow the school to force them to ept it. It will be no different from before, rather we can give the students a right to choose. Not to mention that if the students don¡¯t even have the funds to support their studies, even if they don¡¯t take our student aid funds, they won¡¯t be able to be magicians in the end. You think thatpared to this, which result is better for the children?¡±

    Director Shearer was convinced by Xu Yi¡¯s facts, so he talked to the other school administrators and finally facilitated a contract between Xu Yi and the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    Xu Yi came today to sign the contract.

    The discussions had already been settled a long time ago. After Xu Yi met with Director Shearer, he also met with the school principal and then they represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Baron Rickto Magic Academy to sign this contract.

    There were no surprises during this entire process. The only thing that wasn¡¯t harmonious was the bitter smile Director Shearer revealed in the end when he saw the contract being signed.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if our school had enough funding, I definitely wouldn¡¯t let these children walk on this path.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Director Shearer, perhaps you think that studying mgic machines is an evil path and the wrong way, but I believe that not long after, you will find thatbining magic and machines, letting magic help people and change their lives is the proper way. When that timees, the students thate from this school and studied magic machines in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will definitely create more value that will far surpass that of you traditional magicians.¡±

    Director Shearer looked at Xu Yi before giving a sigh, ¡°I hope it is like this.¡±

 Volume 1 91 - If you give me territory

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 91 If you give me territory</strong>

    Each time the middle of the month came, it would be an exciting time for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers.

    The reason was very simple, it was because the middle of the month was their payday.

    After working hard for a month, when they received their pay, everyone would be much happier than normal.

    Adding in the fact that early in the morning, Heinz and Camby had announced a good piece of news to the workers of both factories.

    Not only did they not need to work overtime today, thepany would also host arge banquet for both workshops and all the workers could participate for free.

    Not only did the banquet have plenty of food, it even had good wine!

    When hearing that the wind was actually from the Sachi Manor, not only did the household magic machine workshop¡¯s workers explode with cheers, the dwarves of the magic machine workshop almost blew up their workshop with their cheers.

    Being supported by this exciting mood, the productivity of both workshops had increased by 20% today. They finished all the work they should have finished during overtime during their normal shifts.

    When it was close to dinner, Heinz and Camby announced that work was over half an hour early and they gathered everyone to give out their pay.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receivedrge amounts of orders, there was quite a bit of overtime for both workshopsst month. So when they gave out wages, adding in the pay for the overtime, each worker¡¯s sry was quite a bit higher than normal.

    The dwarves of the magic machine workshop had a set sry of eight gold coins per month, but now even the person with the smallest wage had at least twelve gold coins. There were many of them that received even more than fourteen gold coins.

    This wage could be considered quite good in Banta City. Even many of the old workers in thergepanies couldn¡¯t receive this kind of wage.

    To the dwarves that had lived impoverished lives before, this was a giant amount.

    Other than that, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took care of their meals and lodgings, this was equal to helping them save money.

    If this was in the dwarf tribe, because humans raised prices when doing business with dwarves, it seemed like dwarves didn¡¯t consume a lot each month, but it was still quite a lot when it was converted into gold coins.

    Adding it all up, the dwarves received over twenty gold coins per month in sry.

    Compared to this, the workers of the household magic machine workshop didn¡¯t have wages as high as the dwarves. The lowest received over ten gold coins and the highest received close to thirteen gold coins.

    Other than that, because the workers in the household magic machine workshop were all human, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have many scruples in giving them benefits. So other than their wages, the human workers in the magic machine workshop could also receive many material benefits.

    For example, condiments for their daily cooking, rice and flower, fruits that the workers normally couldn¡¯t bear to buy, and other things¡­...

    Although these things weren¡¯t expensive, they were all things the workers needed. Many times, the effect they had wasn¡¯t worse than paying them their wages.

    If there was still a part of the human workers that still wasn¡¯t too assured about this newpany yet, after working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory for over two months, these human workers no longer had any suspicion towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not only was there was a stable wage here, there were all kinds of benefits they had never imagined before. The work here was even more much more rxedpared to other ces and the boss didn¡¯t beat or scold them. To many of the human workers, this ce was simply like heaven.

    Not mentioning having any doubts about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if Xu Yi were toe here and fire and worker, that person would immediately break out in tears and definitely refuse to leave.

    Of the three hundred workers in the household magic machine workshop, there were a hundred workers who were rather special.

    Seeing the other human workers pick up their wages in high spirits, these hundred workers moved to the side. Although their expressions were filled with envy, they didn¡¯t have any hope in their hearts at all.

    These hundred human workers were naturally the hundred ves Viscount Leslie had given Xu Yi.

    After they knew that Viscount Leslie had given them to Xu Yi, the hearts of these hundred ves were filled with happiness.

    This was because they were clear that following a master like Xu Yi was definitely better than being under Viscount Leslie.

    Of course, they still remembered their ve status and didn¡¯t dare have any expectations towards receiving wages.

    They belonged to Xu Yi, so it was natural that they worked for him. It was pretty good that he was feeding them, so how could he still give them money?

    Therefore when a ve heard Sebas who was handing out wages call his name and found that Sebas gave him not some daily necessities, but actually a purse when he arrived in front of him, he waspletely stunned.

    ¡°This¡­...This is for me?¡± Bazac carefully pointed at the purse, speaking with a look of disbelief on his face.

    ¡°Yes, it¡¯s yours, quickly take it. Next¡­¡­¡± Sebas threw the purse to Bazac and called out the next ve in a loud voice.

    Bazac walked back to the ves holding the purse in a daze. The other ves couldn¡¯t suppress the curiosity in their hearts and urged him to open the purse.

    Bazac¡¯s trembling hands took a while to open up the purse and instantly a dazzling golden glow came out of the purse.

    Lying in the purse, if it wasn¡¯t dazzling gold coins, what else could it be!

    The surrounding ves stretched their heads out, looking into the purse and they couldn¡¯t hold back their gasps of shock.

    The youngest ve was still over twenty and even with how old they were, they had never seen a gold coin before, especially one that belonged to them!

    ¡°One¡­..Two¡­...Three¡­...Seven¡­...Eight, eight gold coins!¡± Bazac slowly finished counting the coins in the purse and he couldn¡¯t help roaring out in excitement.

    Gods above! He, Bazac could actually own eight gold coins!

    This must be a gift from the gods! No, this was Lord Xu Yi¡¯s grace!

    Bazac quickly ran over to Xu Yi who was standing beside Sebas looking over the monthly ounts. He fell down with a putong and kept bowing his head.

    Xu Yi was surprised and quickly pulled him up. Seeing Bazac¡¯s bloody forehead, he asked in shock, ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    ¡°I¡­..I¡­..I wanted to thank Lord Xu! You must be a great god descended to the world!¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. He never thought that giving someone the wages they deserved could actually make them this excited.

    He waved his hand to stop the other ves who wanted to do the same. Xu Yi shook his head and was toozy to exin anything to Bazac as he called for two ves to take him away to stop his bleeding. Then he waved as Sebas to let him continue giving out the wages.

    Heinz on the side suddenly knit his brows. He came beside Xu Yi and said in a low voice, ¡°Xu Yi, I already said it before, it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t give the ves wages. This will be bad if you keep doing this, I¡¯m afraid you¡¯ll attract resentment from the nobles of the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and revealed a rxed smile, ¡°Rx, didn¡¯t I tell youst time? I am not a noble now, I am only doing things as a merchant. Those lord nobles will not care about what a small merchant like me does, it isn¡¯t rted to them anyway.¡±

    ¡°Then you don¡¯t want to be a noble?¡± Heinz then asked.

    Xu Yi closed the book of ounts and after thinking for a bit, he said with a serious face, ¡°I do and I want to be one very much, I wish I could already be a noble. On the continent, the status of a noble makes handling many things much more convenient. At least I can have a piece ofnd that belongs to me, so I can do whatever I want. But it isn¡¯t like that right now, just expanding the workshop has already tied up our hands.¡±

    Heinz looked over out the window to look at the construction site for the new workshop.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s real intentions, when he wanted to construct this new factory, he wanted ren thisrge piece ofnd toy the foundation for further expansion.

    But Heinz had reminded him that theynd they were currently using belonged to Viscount Leslie. If Viscount Leslie ever changed his mind, thend that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked so hard to develop would be gone.

    So Xu Yi was helpless, he could only first build a new workshop and suppress the idea of building an industrial district back down into his heart.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes looked over the construction site with Heinz and he said with a soft sigh, ¡°If I had a piece ofnd, I am certain that I could build aplete and beautiful industrial district on thatnd. It¡¯ll be much better than this current mess.¡±

    Heinz said with a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that you¡¯re not a noble.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before giving Heinz a smile, ¡°I¡¯m not now, but that doesn¡¯t mean I can¡¯t be in the future. Perhaps when Ie back from Anvilmar, you¡¯ll find that I¡¯ve already be a noble.¡±

    Heinz was stunned. Looking at Xu Yi¡¯s mysterious expression, he was a bit surprised.

    He had heard Xu Yi say that when he goes to Anvilmar to participate in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, the king would also summon him. Could it be he received some inside information?

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin at all as he watched Sebas hand out the rest of the wages. He called Alex to let the workers gather and prepare for the banquet before calling Heinz, Camby, and Sebas to follow him to the office.

 Volume 1 92 - Raising efficiency

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 92 Raising efficiency</strong>

    ¡°I think the three of you already know, but I¡¯ll be leaving this ce tomorrow and I¡¯ll be heading to Anvilmar.¡± When the four of them sat down, Xu Yi directly said this.

    Heinz, Camby, and Sebas looked at each other before they all nodded.

    ¡°This is differentpared to going to the dwarf tribe. If it is a round trip, it will take at least ten days and if some unexpected dyse up, it is likely it will take more than half a month. Because my time away is a bit long, all the work rted to thepany during this time needs to be nned ahead of time.¡± Xu Yi nodded to Sebas, ¡°Sebas, first give us a summary of thepany¡¯s financial situation during this time.¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman.¡± After being together for some time, Sebas was no longer only respectful on the surface to Xu Yi like before, rather he began to treat him like his boss. After giving a response, he opened the ounting books in his hands and looked over them before saying, ¡°Because ourpany has receivedrge amounts of orders for magic machinestely and adding in the fact that our production line has been smooth, our ie has been very stable. The financial situation of thepany is very good right now. Just based on the data fromst month, our profit has reached eleven thousand four hundred and twenty three gold coins. Although the data for this month isn¡¯t out yet, with our current trend, the profit of ourpany will keep making breakthroughs at least in the next three months.¡±

    Although Heinz and Camby were high level managers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they only had some approximate knowledge towards their financial situation, they didn¡¯t know the exact numbers. Hearing Sebas give them a number that was over ten thousand gold coins, they immediately revealed wide smiles.

    Especially Heinz who had a 20% share in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If these profits were distributed, it meant that he would have an ie of two thousand gold coins in just a single month!

    When he was still running his general store, this kind of huge digit only existed in his mind, he never thought that it would be a reality one day.

    Of course, after being with Xu Yi for a long time, his eyes were no longer looking at just the present. Of course he wouldn¡¯t hope that these profits would be distributed right now.

    ¡°Of course, other than profits, the expenses of thepany are also quite big.¡± Sebas paused before saying, ¡°Thergest is the wages for the workers, with this month totaling five thousand seven hundred and sixty one gold coins. Adding in the additional benefits, we have spent a total of six thousand three hundred and forty seven gold coins on our workers.¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Hearing this number, Heinz and Camby were stunned at the same time.

    One really know the costs if they didn¡¯t manage the house. Although the two of them knew that the workers wages should have cost them a lot, but hearing thisrge numbere out of Sebas¡¯ mouth, the two of them were shocked.

    ¡°It¡¯s just that much.¡± Xu Yi looked at them before saying with a nod, ¡°So you two need to think of a way to increase your worker efficiency, making them produce more quality products in the same amount of time.¡±

    Camby and Heinz looked at each other before revealing difficult looks.

    ¡°This¡­...The workers are already working very hard, so if you want to increase the worker efficiency¡­...I¡¯m afraid the gains will not match the losses.¡± Heinz thought about it before saying this.

    ¡°My meaning is not forcing them to be more efficient, rather to use other methods to increase efficiency.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°To give an example, Heinz, do you remember the suggestion I gave youst time?¡±

    Heinz thought about it, ¡°You¡¯re talking about how you had me move the magic production machines for the screw to behind the people putting them all together?¡±

    ¡°Right. Although this was a small action, it allowed the workers putting the things together to use the screw right after the small Magic Thread Rolling Machine finished making it. This was a small increase in efficiency. Based on this example, you should be able to find even more methods to increase worker efficiency.¡±

    Heinz and Camby gave thoughtful nods.

    Xu Yi then said, ¡°Of course, raising efficiency isn¡¯t all about the workers. I have been researching a new generation of production magic machines with Great Magician Cami and if we can sessfully develop it, the new generation¡¯s magic machines will be several times more efficient than the ones we use now. This can also greatly increase production efficiency. At the same time, I will also research some magic machine tools with Still and the others. Using them will make it easier for the workers toplete their jobs. For example, Still and the others are researching a small Magic Drill. If this can be made, the workers responsible to drilling in the screws can use it and they no longer need to slowly twist it in, increasing their speed by several folds.¡±

    Heinz and Camby looked at Xu Yi in shock, ¡°Why didn¡¯t you tell us before?¡±

    Although Sebas didn¡¯t ask, he also looked at Xu Yi.

    As Viscount Leslie¡¯s representative in the Fresth Chamber of Commerce, he needed to understand the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current actions to properly report to Viscount Leslie.

    He suddenly heard Xu Yi say that he was researching all these new things that he had never heard of before.

    If Viscount Leslie knew about this, he definitely wouldn¡¯t be happy.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and said with a smile, ¡°Because these things were only thoughts before, so there was no use in mentioning them. Now with all these magic machines and Magic Arrays as foundations, we¡¯ve already built a basic framework. When Ie back from Anvilmar, I believe Great Magician Cami and Still¡¯s group will give a satisfactory answer. I¡¯lle find you for the final experimental tests and then it¡¯ll beplete. You just need to wait patiently.¡±

    Heinz and Camby nodded, showing they agreed.

    After being with Xu Yi for a few months, they were used to Xu Yi making decisions and them implementing those decisions.

    Sebas thought about it before tentatively asking, ¡°Sir chairman, as for the new production magic machines and small Magic Drill you mentioned, should these be reported to the Lord Viscount?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°You don¡¯t need to tell him. I¡¯ll be going to Anvilmar with the Lord Viscount tomorrow, I¡¯ll find some time to tell him on the way.¡±

    The three were stunned again.

    Xu YI was actually traveling with Viscount Leslie, this was a bit unexpected to them.

    ¡°The Lord Viscount hasn¡¯t been home in a while, so he¡¯s using this chance to go with me to Anvilmar. He will go back to see his family while also bringing me along as a guest.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    Camby didn¡¯t have any special reactions, but the expressions on Heinz and Sebas¡¯ faces couldn¡¯t help changing.

    Xu Yi had said it lightly, but the two understood. Viscount Leslie¡¯s actions clearly meant that he had truly epted Xu Yi, nning to introduce Xu Yi to his family.

    If nothing unexpected happened, this meant that Xu Yi would join the sphere of influence of the family behind Viscount Leslie.

    Sebas¡¯ gaze towards Xu Yi became more kind because if nothing unexpected happened, they would all be on the same side.

    Heinz slightly knit his brows before rxing them again.

    Although he felt that it was a pity that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be a dependent of arge family, this was a matter they were helpless on.

    On the Sines Continent, if one didn¡¯t have the support of arge noble family, normal merchants andpanies wouldn¡¯t have a proper foothold.

    Since Xu Yi had chosen Viscount Leslie back then, it was best if he didn¡¯t change his path. Otherwise, if he chased away everyone, the final ending would definitely be ugly.

    Xu Yi noticed the changes of their expression and revealed a faint smile.

    It wasn¡¯t hard to guess their thoughts, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯tpletely like what they imagined, he wasn¡¯tpletely giving himself up to the family behind Viscount Leslie.

    Of course, he definitely had to obtain their support, but Xu Yi insisted on maintaining a bit of independence.

    As for reaching this middle bnce, that was a problem Xu Yi had to face.

    ¡°Sebas, your report isn¡¯t over yet, continue.¡± Xu Yi said to Sebas.

    ¡°Yes, chairman.¡± Perhaps it was because he already considered Xu Yi on his side, but Sebas was much more respectful to Xu Yi now. He gave a loud response before looking down at his ounts. After a slight pause, he said with a clear hesitation, ¡°Other than the spending on the workers, the biggest costs are the various investments sir chairman has made. This includes the fixed five hundred gold coins given to the dwarves and the not fixed material investment currently set at two hundred gold coins. Other than that, there is the investment of a thousand gold coins given to Great Magician Cami each year,ing to an average of eighty three gold coins per month. Then there is the investment to the three member researchb of Miss Still¡¯s, which added upes to a total of fifty seven gold coinsst month. Then there¡¯s the student aid fund sir chairman signed with the Baron Rickto Magic Academy a few days ago, which by my estimates would cost around a hundred gold coins per month. Adding this all up, there is no specific number for the investment¡¯s sir chairman has made, but it should be around a thousand gold coins per month.¡±

    ¡°Too much!¡±

    ¡°Too little!¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze, ¡°You find a thousand gold coins a month too little? Xu Yi, ourpany only earns over ten thousand gold coins each month and we have less than six thousand gold coins left after paying our workers¡¯ wages. If you take off another thousand gold coins, that is only five thousand gold coins left!¡±

    ¡°What? You think that five thousand gold coins of pure profit is small?¡± Xu Yi looked at Heinz, ¡°Actually, I really feel that one thousand gold coins is just too little. If I had the choice, I would even invest all of thepany¡¯s ie into research.¡±

    ¡°Are you crazy? What would we even earn?¡± Heinz couldn¡¯t help raising his voice.

    As a major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could ept Xu Yi investing a bit of the profits into research, but he definitely would not ept Xu Yi¡¯s idea of investing all their ie into research.

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders. He already knew that Heinz¡¯s vision was not far, so it wasn¡¯t a surprise that he had this kind of reaction.

    ¡°What ideas do Viscount Leslie have?¡± Xu Yi asked Sebas.

    Sebas hesitated a bit before looking at Heinz and saying with a forced smile, ¡°The Lord Viscount said that he has already promised sir chairman that he wouldn¡¯t participate in decisions for thepany. You can do what you want, he won¡¯t have any objections.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile and spread his arms to Heinz. His meaning was self evident.

    Heinz gave a cold snort, but said nothing else.

    Xu Yi looked at Heinz before suddenly revealing a mysterious smile and waving his hands at the three of them.

    ¡°Actually I have an idea that will definitely earn thepany a lot of money. Do you want to hear it?¡±

    Heinz was shocked. He was very clear on Xu Yi¡¯s abilities and since Xu Yi said this, it meant that he really did have a feasible n.

    So Heinz immediately perked up and went over to seriously listen to Xu Yi.

 Volume 1 93 - Majestic Lord Viscount

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 93 Majestic Lord Viscount</strong>

    Two dayster, apanion of seven horse drawn carriages slowly entered the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital, Anvilmar City.

    The cavalcade had just entered the city gates and passed the first corner when Baron Hannas jumped down from the first carriage.

    ¡°Leslie, Xu Yi, I¡¯ll be going back home alone first. I¡¯lle find you guys when I have time. That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, perhaps my father will be interested in seeing you.¡±

    ¡°That would truly be my honour.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Baron Hannas knit his brows and shook his head, ¡°My father, he¡­¡­Forget it, since it¡¯s hard for you to take this trip, seeing more people should be a good thing for you. Alright, we¡¯ll decide it like this. I¡¯ll be leaving first, see you.¡± He waved his hand to Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie after saying this and then he turned the corner.

    ¡°Is he going to walk back?¡± Xu Yi watched as Baron Hannas leisurely walked through the streets filled with people and was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Marquis Theuer¡¯s manor isn¡¯t far from here.¡± Viscount Leslie casually exined before giving an order to the driver. The cavalcade began to move in a different direction.

    As the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom, how lively Anvilmar City was was far from something a small Banta City couldpare to. The cavalcade didn¡¯t move smoothly and after spending half an hour, they had only crossed three streets.

    ¡°If we didn¡¯t bring so many things, we could also jump out of the horse carriage. Walking there would probably be faster.¡± Xu Yi opened the window curtain and looked at the bustling crowd outside. He thought about traffic jams back in therge cities on earth, he never thought that he would encounter them in this world too.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way. Anvilmar City is the biggest city in the kingdom, so naturally there are more people herepared to Banta City. Then again, it¡¯ll be the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam soon, so there are more people in the citypared to usual. It would be strange if it wasn¡¯t this busy.¡± Viscount Leslie also looked out the window and he didn¡¯t look rushed at all, rather he had a faint smile, ¡°I would frequently wander the streets alone as a child, so seeing this scene brings up fond memories.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders. He really couldn¡¯t resonate with Viscount Leslie in this aspect.

    The cavalcade slowly moved forward on therge street and it was a good thing their destination wasn¡¯t far away. Xu Yi was not in a rush, so he looked out the window in a rxed manner.

    It was like Viscount Leslie said, because if was close to the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, there were more magicians in their magic robes in Anvilmar City. Some came alone, some wandered in groups of twos and threes, while there was also a group of young children who were around ten years old.

    ¡°Those children should have been arranged by a magic academy.¡± Viscount Leslie looked at the children to the right of the carriage in the same uniforms before looking back at Xu Yi with a strange smile on his face, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve arranged something called the student aid fund at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy a few days ago? Are you nning to trick those students to work at yourpany?¡±

    ¡°What tricking?¡± Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie, ¡°I was very clear on the conditions, how could it be considered tricking someone? Then again, it isn¡¯t bad for them toe work at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The wage isn¡¯t low and we give them arge space to develop. This is such a good thing that some people can¡¯t even obtain it if they wanted.¡± He pointed at the group of children outside the carriage after he said this, ¡°Let me tell you, if it is possible, I want to establish the Frestech student aid fund in every magic academy. It¡¯s best if all the children of magic academies knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Viscount Leslie took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Are you nning to change the views of magicians starting with the children?¡±

    ¡°You can tell?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before revealing a bit of a helpless look, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. It is just too hard to change the views of adult magicians, I can only start nning long term.¡±

    ¡°Actually it isn¡¯t as hard as you think.¡± Viscount Leslie said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Think about it, since you could convince Great Magician Cami, it means that you can also convince the other magicians. To be blunt, as long as you can give them enough benefits, it isn¡¯t impossible to change their thoughts. Of course, if you want to change the thoughts of the entire Magicians Guild¡­...With your current strength, it isn¡¯t too likely.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Lord Viscount, you¡¯re just wasting words.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave augh, ¡°Anyway, I won¡¯t interfere with how thepany is managed, so I¡¯m just giving you my thoughts. As for whether you listen or that, that¡¯s up to you.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at Viscount Leslie. When he wanted to curse him a few times, there was suddenly a pitiful cry and several shocked calls that cut through their conversation.

    Following the sound, they saw arge empty space in front of the horse carriage. There was a man who was wearing a tattered ck robe that rolled a few times,nding right in front of the horse carriage.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the driver¡¯s fast reactions and pulled on the reins, he would have already been crushed under the hooves of the horse.

    Three young men in luxurious clothes came out of the crowd. After looking at the man on the ground, the youth in the middle sent a kick right into that person¡¯s chest and cursed, ¡°I already told you not to block this young master¡¯s path and you dare not listen? Don¡¯t you think you deserve a beating? Un?¡±

    While saying this, the youth kept sending kicks onto that person.

    It was unknown if that person didn¡¯t dare resist or if he didn¡¯t have the strength to resist at all. Although each kick made his body reel in pain, he only gave a soft grunt and didn¡¯t react in any other way.

    Xu Yi knit his brows. He looked at the three youths before looking at the person on the ground, as hesitation formed in his heart.

    Xu Yi was a bit unwilling to endure, but seeing the luxurious clothes of the three youths and how they dared to act this arrogantly on the streets of Anvilmar City, they were probably juniors of some noble family. If he rashly made a move, perhaps he might attract some trouble.

    When Xu Yi was hesitating, the other two youths joined in on the beating.

    With the three working together, sending kicks down, the person on the ground opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood. It sprinkled on the tiles of the ground and looked very shocking.

    There were waves of shocked gasps from the crowd, clearly this had scared them. Some people also revealed hesitant looks, but not a single person came out. It was clear they had the same scruples as Xu Yi.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He began to move and prepared to jump out of the horse carriage.

    But as soon as he rose, Viscount Leslie on the side pulled him back.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you want to stick your nose in other people¡¯s business?¡± Viscount Leslie asked.

    Xu Yi looked at him as he said in a cold voice, ¡°Lord Viscount, perhaps you nobles are used to this kind of thing, but I can¡¯t get used to it.¡±

    Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I¡¯m just asking you, why are you projecting your anger at me? I¡¯m not the one hitting people.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    Viscount Leslie shook his head and said with a soft sigh, ¡°I thought that with your appearance in Banta City, you wouldn¡¯t be this hot blooded, but I never thought that I was wrong.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Lord Viscount, what do you want to say? If it¡¯s nothing, stop dying me from saving someone. After a while, he might be beaten to death.¡±

    Viscount Leslieughed. He stood up to push Xu Yi back in his seat before opening the curtain to the carriage to jump out. He shouted to the three youths in a cold voice, ¡°Victor, Cell, Urgot, after not seeing each other in two years, I never thought that you three kids would still be so arrogant! Why are you not stopping for me yet!¡±

    ¡°Who dares call out to this young master, seeking death¡­¡­¡± The youth in the middle had just finished a kick and heard someone calling out to reprimand him. When he had just cursed out, he stopped himself and his arrogant face turned as pale as a ghost.

    The other two youths felt it was strange and also looked over. After seeing Viscount Leslie, their faces had turned as pale as the youth in the middle.

    Viscount Leslie gave augh and said to the youth in the middle, ¡°Victor, you really are brave. You dare say I¡¯m seeking death? Will you ept your punishment? Or will I have toe over to take care of you?¡±

    The youth called Victor trembled. His expression changed several times before he finally came in front of Viscount Leslie with a bitter look on his face.

    Xu Yi was nearby so he heard him plead with Viscount Leslie in a low voice when he came over.

    ¡°Big brother Leslie, there are so many people here, leave a bit of face for me¡­¡­¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a cold snort before nodding. He suddenly raised his foot to kick Victor¡¯s stomach.

    ¡°Peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    This kick clearly wasn¡¯t weak, with Victor bending over in pain, but he didn¡¯t dare call out at all. After a while, he stood back up again, but there were a few drops of cold sweat on his face.

    Viscount Leslie hooked his finger at the other two youths. The two looked at each other beforeing over with bitter smiles on their faces.

    ¡°Peng, peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t waste words as he directly sent out a kick for both of them. Based on the sound, it didn¡¯t sound lighter than the kick he had given to Victor.

    After he finished, Viscount Leslie waved his hand at the three of them, ¡°Alright, all of you scram.¡±

    It was like the three had been pardoned as they moved through the crowd, disappearing in an instant.

    People had thought that someone¡¯s life would be taken today, but someone had suddenly popped out. Those three arrogant noble young masters instant became mice in front of a cat, easily solving this problem.

    Seeing that there was nothing else to watch, the crowd scattered and not a single person cared about the person lying on the ground.

    Xu Yi jumped out of the carriage and wanted to reach out to help that person up, but that person struggled to stand up. He did not even look at Viscount Leslie who had saved him and slowly left dragging his body along.

    Viscount Leslie saw Xu Yi looking at that person¡¯s back and snappily said, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you wouldn¡¯t be wanting to tell me that you want to be a good person to the end right? You want to bring him to a hospital and give him some money right? This fellow didn¡¯t even say thanks, I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s not worth you doing this.¡±

    Xu Yi watched that person vanish into a small alley before looking back. He said with a confused look, ¡°Strange, why did I feel a strange magic fluctuation from him just now? It didn¡¯t seem like magic, rather it was more like a Magic Array.¡±

    Viscount Leslie was stunned, ¡°You¡¯re saying he¡¯s a magician? It can¡¯t be, right? A magician would be wrapped up in this mess?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, naturally he didn¡¯t know what the specific reason was.

 Volume 1 94 - Registration

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 94 Registration</strong>

    The small incident on the road didn¡¯t take much time. Rather, because this matter had scattered the crowd around them, it allowed the cavalcade to move much faster.

    After ten minutes, the cavalcade finally arrived at their destination, Banta City¡¯s office in Anvilmar City.

    Of course, this was just what Xu Yi called this ce. Actually this was City Lord Count Sean Samo¡¯s other manor in Anvilmar City.

    Count Sean Samo had a residence in Anvilmar City, but since he was elevated to Banta City¡¯s City Lord, he had sold his original residence and changed to this smaller manor.

    Other than the dwelling the Lord Count used when he came to Anvilmar City, the other small yards was used as residences for people from Banta City the Lord Count sent to Anvilmar City to do things. So, this ce was called the Anvilmar Banta City office by Xu Yi.

    Originally, Xu Yi¡¯s trip to Anvilmar was just to take the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam and didn¡¯t have the right to live here. However, his majesty had summoned Xu Yi, so after the Lord Count deliberated on it, he had Xu Yi live in this residence after going to Anvilmar City to make it easier for his majesty to summon him.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first time in Anvilmar City, so he wasn¡¯t familiar with the ce and the people, so naturally he wouldn¡¯t reject the Lord Count¡¯s suggestion.

    Moreover, this made it easier for Xu Yi to reject Baron Hannas and Viscount Leslie¡¯s help, avoiding owing them a favour.

    The housekeeper of the office had already been notified by Count Sean and seeing the personal letter from Count Sean that Xu Yi had, as well as Viscount Leslie with him, they immediately warmed up to Xu Yi and weed him in.

    But after seeing the six horse carriages behind them, the housekeeper and his subordinates were a bit surprised.

    Those six horse carriages were clearly freight carriages, only they were tightly wrapped up so they couldn¡¯t see what was inside at all.

    Looking from the outside, the things inside seemed quite sharp and a bit fierce.

    ¡°Put these things in a safe ce, you mustn¡¯t lose them and it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t let anyone approach, do you understand?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the things in the horse carriages and seriously said to the housekeeper, ¡°That¡¯s right, be careful when you¡¯re unloading them, don¡¯t break them.¡±

    Seeing how serious Xu Yi was, the housekeeper kept nodding.

    Count Sean¡¯s personal letter had said to treat Xu Yi like they would treat him. This housekeeper was a trusted confidant of the Lord Count, but it was his first time being ordered like this. Naturally he could tell that this normal looking youth was very important to the Lord Count, so he was very respectful to Xu Yi.

    After the servants had carefully moved the cargo from the six horse carriages and into the storage room under Xu Yi¡¯s orders, Viscount Leslie rejected Xu Yi and the housekeeper¡¯s idea of staying and directly left.

    Xu Yi enjoyed a sumptuous meal in the office before sleeping for a while. When he woke up, it was already afternoon.

    Seeing that it was still early, Xu Yi decided to go out for a walk.

    He waved his hand to the housekeeper to reject his suggestion of preparing someone to apany him. Xu Yi left the office and began to leisurely wander around Anvilmar City.

    Of course, he wasn¡¯t wandering around aimlessly.

    While walking in the street, Xu Yi kept looking around.

    He was different from the other people wandering the streets. Xu Yi wasn¡¯t looking at the beauties nor was he looking for fine products. He kept looking around, not letting a single corner escape his gaze, as he focused on whether this ce was hiding magic machines or not.

    ording to what Xu Yi knew, Banta City was less than four hundred kilometers away from Anvilmar City. Based on the scale from earth, this was like they were next door neighbours and they should exchange all kinds of news.

    But based on the situation in reality, because of the difficulty in transport and the limits on information transfer methods, the magic machines that were all the rage in Banta City that was four hundred kilometers away and its surrounding cities had not reached Anvilmar at all.

    ¡°It seems like this ce is still virgin ground waiting to be developed.¡± Xu Yi sighed in his heart, not knowing whether he should be happy or disappointed.

    He was happy because he didn¡¯t see a single magic machine in Anvilmar City. This meant that as long as he could sell the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines here, he could dig out arge market.

    He was disappointed because of how slow the world was responding to the changes he made. After a few months, there wasn¡¯t any signs of changing appearing in Anvilmar at all.

    ¡°Such heavy responsibilities.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh. After finishing his short market research, he went to a small shop to ask about where the Magicians Guild was and quickly set off.

    If it was said that one could find magicians wearing their magic robes in any part of Anvilmar City, when Xu Yi came to the Magicians Guild to the west of Anvilmar, he found that there were all kinds of people in magic robes here and it was very hard for him to find a normal person.

    Xu Yi looked around and found that not far away was the group of youths wearing uniforms he had seen on the street before.

    They were currently gathered and were listening to a magician that was in his forties talking about something.

    Looking at them, the middle aged magician was probably the teacher in charge of them and he was currently telling the students some things they needed to pay attention to.

    Looking at the excited appearance of the children, a scene of himself in elementary school and middle school going on his spring field trips appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile as he looked at them a few more times before heading to the Magicians Guild.

    There were just too many people here and Xu Yi wasted quite a bit of energy before he came in.

    Unlike most of the other magicians that were here for the certification exam, Xu Yi didn¡¯t go to the registration booth surrounded by people. After looking around, he went to a door leading deeper in.

    ¡°Line up there if you¡¯re registering, this ce is not a ce you can casually go in.¡± A white haired old magician guarding the door saw Xu Yie over and reprimanded him without any restraint.

    Xu Yi gave a bow to the old magician with a smile before taking out a letter from his chest.

    The old magician doubtfully took the letter and looked it over. Then he looked back at Xu Yi and his eyes were filled with even more doubt.

    ¡°Hey, kid, how old are you now?¡± The old magician asked.

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Twenty seven. What¡¯s wrong?¡±

    ¡°Already twenty seven¡­¡­¡± A trace of disappointment appeared on the old magician¡¯s face, ¡°You¡¯re this old and you have¡¯t even passed the lowest level test, then that means your talent must becking. That fellow Cami actually wasted one of his precious rmendation quotas on you?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit speechless. Is it rted to you who Great Magician Cami gives his rmendation quota to?

    It was a good thing the old magician only muttered a few words and didn¡¯t ask too much. After looking over the rmendation again and looking over Xu Yi, he gave a sigh before moving aside.

    Xu Yi took back the letter and gave another bow to the old magician before moving along the path he opened up.

    The space inside was much quieter than outside. Xu Yi followed the old magician¡¯s directions and easily found the test application room past the first corner.

    Knocking on the door before going in, he found a female magician who was around thirty years old and a youth who seemed to be seventeen-eighteen years old.

    The female magician was sitting behind a desk and the youth was standing in front of the desk. It seemed like he was listening to the female magician telling him something.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, both of them were a bit surprised.

    Xu Yi quickly took out the rmendation letter and the female magician took it to look over before revealing the same look of doubt that the old magician had just now.

    But different from the old magician, the female magician didn¡¯t say anything. She just emotionlessly gave Xu Yi a form and after having him fill it out, she put a stamp on it before throwing Xu Yi a badge.

    ¡°The test begins in two days, you¡¯ll need this badge toe in when the timees, so don¡¯t lose it.¡± The female magician said to him.

    Xu Yi nodded to show her understood. After waiting a bit, but seeing that the female magician wouldn¡¯t say anymore to him, he gave her a bow and prepared to leave.

    Before he reached the door, the youth suddenly broke out inughter, ¡°Hey, uncle, who are you to Great Magician Cami? Are his nephew or his grandson? That¡¯s right, I heard that Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter looks quite good, could it be that you are her lover?¡±

    Xu Yi stopped and turned to look at this youth with a frown. He found that he had a look of disdain and a look of uncaringness. He then looked at the female magician who was actually leaning over to write something, acting like she couldn¡¯t hear the youth at all.

    Thinking about how the female magician and the youth were talking happily just now, Xu Yi instantly understood. It seemed like this female magician should have some special rtion to this youth.

    Xu Yi looked at the youth with a calm face, ¡°Why are you asking this?¡±

    The youthughed, ¡°This is not nonsense. Uncle, you¡¯re already this old and you haven¡¯t even pass the lowest test yet, so with such a low level of magic, your talent must be greatlycking. To receive Great Magician Cami¡¯s rmendation like this, how could it be possible for you not to have a special rtion to Great Magician Cami?¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Then for you to be here even though you¡¯re this young, it seems like you also have a special rtion with a Great Magician?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± The youth instantly flew into a rage, ¡°I Anke Eren am a genius! Do you understand genius? Let me tell you, I passed the trivial lowest grade test five years ago and the test I¡¯m taking this year is to be a Fourth Grade Magician! A seventeen year old Fourth Grade Magician! For a genius like me, a Great Magician specially rmended me. How could I be the same as a piece of trash like you?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Anke Eren right? I admit, bing a Fourth Grade Magician at the age of seventeen is indeed quite good. But young man, I must remind you that no matter how talented a magician is, he must first learn a bit of respect. Otherwise, people will think that your family didn¡¯t raise you well.¡±

    Xu Yi ignored the youth after saying this and directly left.

    The youth was stunned. When he finally reacted, he erupted like thunder.

    ¡°This fellow dare say my family didn¡¯t raise me well! I definitely won¡¯t let him off!¡±

    The female magician had already raised her head and looked at the door with a faint frown. She turned to the youth and said, ¡°Anke, he is just a magician here for the beginner grade test, why do you need to fight with him?¡±

    Anke Eren looked over and angrily said, ¡°I don¡¯t care! He actually dares to shame me like this, I will definitely get him back.¡± After saying this, he took the form Xu Yi had filled without any politeness and looked it over before saying with a cold smile, ¡°Humph! Xu Yi? I will definitely not even let you pass the beginner grade test! I¡¯ll let you know the consequences of shaming a genius!¡±

    The female magician looked at the enraged Anke Eren with a headache. She had the mind to stop him, but she knew it was no use.

    This fellow was talented in magic and had strong family background. He had already formed an arrogant personality that always kept his promises, he didn¡¯t listen to anyone else.

    She could only pray that Xu Yi was lucky, hoping that he wouldn¡¯t suffer too much in Eren¡¯s hands.

    No matter what, he came here with Great Magician Cami¡¯s rmendation letter. If anything had happened to him, it would be hard to exin this to Great Magician Cami.

 Volume 1 95 - Recruiting people

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 95 Recruiting people</strong>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the mind to argue with a kid who hadn¡¯t grown up yet. After throwing those words down, he left the inner halls of the Magicians Guild.

    The old magician guarding the door saw Xu Yie out and shook his head at him again. It was like Great Magician Cami giving this precious rmendation quota to Xu Yi confused him and seemed quite pitiful.

    Xu Yi could only smile at him and didn¡¯t have a way to exin anything.

    The situation in the hall was still the same as when Xu Yi walked in. It was still filled with people and was very noisy.

    But when Xu Yi came out of the inner parts, he found quite a few eyes looking over at him.

    Only people who received special rmendations could enter the inner room to enjoy preferential registration, this was a point that many people knew about. After seeing Xu Yi go in ande back out, it attracted their curiosity.

    It was different from the doubt in the hearts of the old magician and the female magician. These magicians that were paying attention to Xu Yi didn¡¯t know about Great Magician Cami¡¯s situation, so they were just envious of Xu Yi over the fact that he was able to receive a special rmendation spot.

    Faced with these jealous looks, Xu Yi didn¡¯t avoid them at all. Instead he weed everyone¡¯s gaze and carefully looked back over them.

    Based on the situation in the hall, most of the magicians here for the exam were young people. There were only a few magicians that were around the same age as Xu Yi.

    This was not strange. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild was only responsible for certification tests of Fifth Grade or below magicians. Fifth Grade or below magicians were considered quite low among other magicians, so most of them were young people.

    The older magicians either had very powerful magic strength, or they were limited by their talent and their magic power was long stabilized. Of course, it was impossible that they were bored and came here to participate in the exam.

    This hall was around two hundred square meters and with Xu Yi¡¯s rough estimate, he guessed that there were around two hundred magicians here. Adding in the magicians he saw outside and around Anvilmar City, just in Anvilmar City alone, there were over a thousand magicians here.

    He had chatted with the Great Magician before and Xu Yi had asked out of curiosity just how many magicians the Lampuri Kingdom had.

    Great Magician Cami said that he didn¡¯t know the exact numbers, but ording to the statistics of the Magicians Guild fromst year, there were currently over five thousand magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If they added in the ones not in the data, it was likely to be closer to six thousand.

    As for the entire continent, the Magicians Guild had announced a number three years ago. At that time, the recorded number of magicians on the entire continent was eighty seven thousand four hundred and sixty seven.

    As for the ones that weren¡¯t recorded, it was very likely that number was over a hundred thousand people.

    Of course, the magician system was in a pyramid shape.

    Of the over a hundred thousand magicians on the continent, there were only twenty seven Arch Magi and five hundred one to five star Great Magicians. The rest of the people were all normal magicians from the Primary Grade to the Ninth Grade.

    In the Lampuri Kingdom, for a Three Star Great Magician like Great Magician Cami, he could be considered one of the stronger Great Magicians. Most people were normal magicians that most people didn¡¯t care about like the ones in front of him right now.

    When Xu Yi was looking over the magicians, he was not thinking about the cruelty of the magician upation, rather he was seriously considering a problem.

    For strong magicians like Great Magician Cami, the Lampuri Kingdom would offer special fund to support them. But for the normal magicians under the Great Magician Rank, they didn¡¯t have any kind of ie.

    What did these magicians rely on to make a living?

    Based on what Xu Yi had saw in Banta City, the Great Magician Cami Magic Tower only had less than twenty magicians and the otherpanies hired a few magicians as guards.

    Other than this, with how many people there were under the Fifth Grade and the lower Primary Grade Magicians, they wouldn¡¯t even have this kind of opportunity.

    Then for these magicians with weak power and couldn¡¯t increase their power any more because of their talent, what was the final outlet for them?

    Was it really like Still had said? They would find somepanions with the same goal and adventure on the continent?

    It had to be known that this path was very dangerous and there was an immeasurable number of adventurers that die each year because of this.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes looking over these magicians had a trace of sympathy, while also revealing traces of anticipation and excitement.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed and the output of the two workshops increased, they wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on with just having the Baron Rickto Magic Academy students making the Magic Arrays.

    So Director Shearer hadined to Xu Yi about this. He said that he had taken half of the magic department¡¯s students to work for him and it had even affected the nning of the school.

    Xu Yi was very clear on this point. The main task of students was studying, so they couldn¡¯t spendrge amounts of time working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi needed to find some people to take over for them.

    The problem was that Banta City was a small city and there weren¡¯t that many magicians there, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a way to recruit enough people at all.

    Xu Yi had been worried about this before, but now that he saw the hall filled with magicians, Xu Yi found that this problem that had troubled him for a long time could suddenly be solved!

    Xu Yi suppressed the excitement in his heart and after calming down, he revealed a gentle smile as he walked towards the nearest magician looking over him.

    ¡°Hello, I am Xu Yi. I¡¯m from Banta City, can I ask where you are from?¡± Xu Yi looked at this young magician who was over twenty and asked him this question.

    The young magician clearly never thought that Xu Yi woulde over to introduce himself, so after being stunned for a second, he forced out a smile as he nodded at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hel¡­..Hello, I am Cesar, Ie from Wales City.¡±

    ¡°Wales City? That is a beautiful city.¡± Xu Yi immediately praised, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that there are many rivers in Wales City and the city is constructed on the water, is that right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..It¡¯s indeed very beautiful.¡± Cesar casually said before he finally couldn¡¯t stop himself from asking Xu Yi, ¡°You said you are from Banta City and I only know Great Magician Cami in Banta City, so were you rmended by him?¡±

    Xu Yi looked back at the door her had just came out of before looking back at the doubtful Cesar and giving a slight nod.

    ¡°Yes, it was indeed Great Magician Cami who rmended me for the exam.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­...Are you a rtive of Great Magician Cami? Oh, I¡¯m sorry, I am not doubting you, but¡­..Only you don¡¯t have a magician¡¯s badge on your chest, so I think you shouldn¡¯t have passed the Primary Grade test, right?¡± Cesar then asked.

    Xu Yi looked at his empty chest before looking at Cesar¡¯s chest. He found that there was a finely made magician¡¯s badge on Cesar¡¯s chest. Based on the design of the badge which was two lines under the rippling water, it meant that Cesar was certified as a Second Grade Magician by the Magicians Guild.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I indeed haven¡¯t passed the Primary Grade test.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°I think you must be very curious on why I received Great Magician Cami¡¯s special rmendation, right?¡±

    Cesar smiled, neither agreeing to it or denying it.

    ¡°The reason why I received a special rmendation from Great Magician Cami is not because I have a special rtionship with him and of course it isn¡¯t because my talent is outstanding. Rather it is because¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi paused and deliberately left him hanging. When he saw that Cesar waspletely focused on him, he finally replied with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s because I have some original thoughts in terms of magic machine research.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, you said¡­..magic machines? What are those?¡± Cesar asked in a confused manner.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡±

    With Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, Cesar very quickly understood what magic machines were.

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that you study magic not to make yourself stronger, but rather to research these magic machines?¡± Cesar looked at Xu Yi with a look of disbelief.

    This fellow wasn¡¯t that much bigger than him, but he actually said he was the chairman of apany in Banta City and that Frestech Chamber of Commerce actually made magic machines. This was even more strange.

    What were these magic machines and what could they do?

    ¡°Don¡¯t you feel that being able to allow people to enjoy the convenience magic brings is a very wonderful thing?¡± Xu Yi tried very hard to entice Cesar, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce iscking outstanding magicians like you to contribute to this cause. What about it? Cesar, are you willing to join ourpany?¡±

    For a while, Cesar didn¡¯t know what kind of expression to show Xu Yi.

    He was currently a Second Grade Magician and wasn¡¯t strong enough to be treated importantly by anypany. Now this Xu Yi had appeared to invite him to this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it actually moved his heart a bit.

    But thinking about the fact that this Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in a small ce like Banta City, producing these strange magic machines, he had a few scruples.

    ¡°This¡­...I¡¯m sorry, I only want to focus on researching magic right now, my strength isn¡¯t enough¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly raised one finger, ¡°Ten gold coins each month.¡±

    Cesar almost choked on his saliva.

    Ten gold coins a month? Although Cesar hadn¡¯t been invited by apany before, he knew that manypanies invited magicians they liked and the lowest starting wage was twenty gold coins.

    Of course, those thatpanies wanted were ones that were strong enough to be guards, so they clearly weren¡¯t weak Second Grade Magicians like him, but rather at the lowest they were Fifth Grade Magicians.

    The price that Xu Yi gave was very fair for a Second Grade Magician, but after hesitating a bit, Cesar still rejected his offer.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m not thatcking in money now. Compared to rushing to earn money, I like to use this to raise my magic level.¡± Cesar said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, many thanks for your good intentions. If we can work together in the future, I will consider your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit disappointed, but he still retained his smile as he gave a slight nod, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re not willing Cesar, of course I won¡¯t force you. But our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has our doors open to you always. If you ever change your mind, you cane to Banta City and I will always wee you.¡±

    Cesar nodded with a faint smile.

    No matter what, it was quite good knowing this chairman Xu.

    After Cesar left, Xu Yi realized he had made a mistake.

    Based on Cesar¡¯s clothes, his family background clearly wasn¡¯t bad. Without economic pressure, with themon knowledge of the Sines Continent, he would of course treat raising his strength as the most important thing and it wasn¡¯t strange at all for him to reject him.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that disappointed. After realizing this problem, he changed his target to magicians that didn¡¯t look that well off.

    After asking seven people, the results he obtained weren¡¯t too satisfactory.

    Perhaps it was because there wasn¡¯t enough eptance for a new thing like the magic machines, but even though these seven magicians all seemed like they were in the same situation. Xu Yi had only interested three people. Of the three, only one of them promised Xu Yi that he woulde to Banta City to take a look.

    As for the remaining four, they all had pretty much the same reaction as Cesar.

    Xu Yi was helpless about this.

    To change the situation, he would have to first change the thoughts of all the magicians on the Sines Continent.

    As for this, it was very clear he couldn¡¯t do that right now.

    ¡°Yi? Aren¡¯t you Xu Yi? Xu Yi! It really is you!¡±

    At this time, a voice filled with pleasant surprise suddenly came from beside Xu Yi.

 Volume 1 96 - Old classmate

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 96 Old ssmate</strong>

    Xu Yi turned around in a surprised manner and found three people who were around twenty years old standing beside him. The one who called out was a young man with a head of light red hair.

    After being surprised for a bit, Xu Yi also revealed a look of pleasant surprise. He punched the young man with light red hair on the shoulder, ¡°Erwin, it¡¯s actually you! Why are you here?¡±

    The youth called Erwin gave augh before strongly hugging Xu Yi. His lips curled as he said, ¡°Aren¡¯t you speaking nonsense? Participating in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, which magician would miss this? Look, didn¡¯t youe in the end?¡±

    After saying this, Erwin looked over Xu Yi and had a surprised look, ¡°Yi? Xu Yi, looking at your current appearance, you seem like you have some money? No wonder you came to the certification exam, you always said that you didn¡¯t have money before.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s alright.¡±

    This Erwin was a ssmate from the Senkaiser School and they lived in the same dorm. Although Xu Yi was older than the others in his dorm, they were all still young people and it was easy for him to get along with them. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi was more mature than them, had more knowledge, and had high talent in magic, he became the big brother for these people.

    Thinking about his other roommates, Xu Yi looked at the two youths behind Erwin before asking, ¡°After graduating, have you been in contact with Roy and the others?¡±

    Erwin shrugged his shoulders, ¡°We all drifted apart after graduation, we can¡¯t contact each other even if we wanted to. If it wasn¡¯t because I bumped into you today, I wouldn¡¯t even know what you were doing. That¡¯s right, what are you doing right now? Did you find a good job? It¡¯s been just a few months and you already have enough to participate in the certification exam.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without responding before looking at the other two youths, ¡°You¡¯re not going to introduce me to your new friends?¡±

    ¡°Oh, I almost forgot.¡± Erwin patted his head before pointing at the tall and buff youth with a righteous face and saying, ¡°These two are my adventurerrades. He is Rooney.¡± Then he pointed at the thin and somewhat short youth to the right, ¡°This is Bob. Hey, Rooney, Bob, this is my ssmate from the Senkaiser School, his name is a bit strange, he¡¯s Xu Yi. But he¡¯s a good person and was a good friend when we were back in school.¡±

    Rooney and Bob shook hands with Xu Yi while Xu Yi looked at their chest. He found that Rooney¡¯s magician badge was the same as Cesar and Bob¡¯s magician badge only had a single ripple, showing that he was the lowest Primary Grade Magician.

    Erwin was the same as Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t have a badge on his chest to represent his rank at all.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fall onto their chests, Rooney and Bob also looked at Xu Yi¡¯s chest. Seeing no badge at all, they couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised looks.

    Erwin keenly noticed this point and quickly exined, ¡°Hey, you two, don¡¯t look down on Xu Yi. Don¡¯t think that he¡¯s bad because he doesn¡¯t have a badge, his talent is actually really good, he was already almost a Grade Three Magician when we were back in school. Whenever we called him to participate in the exam, he always said he had no money and rejected us.¡±

    ¡°No money?¡± Rooney and Bob¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with even more surprise. Rooney couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Erwin, the students of your Senkaiser School wouldn¡¯t all be the same right? All unwilling to participate in the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam?¡±

    ¡°Hey, don¡¯tpare me to Xu Yi. He had no money and I couldn¡¯t pass, it¡¯spletely different, alright?¡± Erwin corrected him.

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder, ¡°Alright, no matter what the past was, since you came this time, you just need to pass. Erwin, I think that with how you are now, you should have confidence in passing the Second Grade Magician exam, right?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much, there should be no problem.¡± Erwin confidently replied. After saying this, he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Don¡¯t just talk about me, you were called a rare magic genius back in school by the teachers. After not seeing each other for half a year, your strength should have increased quite a bit, right? Tell me, are you nning on passing the Fourth Grade Magician exam this time?¡±

    Hearing Erwin¡¯s attention, although it caught Rooney and Bob¡¯s attention, they weren¡¯t that surprised.

    Xu Yi looked to be several years older than them, so it was normal that his magic power was stronger than theirs.

    ¡°Un, pretty much.¡± Xu Yi very casually nodded, ¡°This is not important. Erwin, why did you be an adventurer? Don¡¯t you think that it is very dangerous?¡±

    Erwin gave a sigh, ¡°So what if it¡¯s dangerous? I¡¯m not a fellow with incredibly good talent like you, being able to quickly be a high level magician and not having to worry about food or board. If I be an adventurer, what do you think I can? With my bit of magic, I¡¯m not even qualified to be an assistant to a Great Magician.¡±

    Rooney and Bob on the side revealed depressed looks, it was obvious they faced the same problems as Erwin.

    Xu Yi looked over the three of them and thought that the problem he thought about earlier wasn¡¯t baseless, it really did exist.

    ¡°Erwin, what if I told you that there is a work where you don¡¯t have to face any danger and you have spare time to research magic, where the work itself is rted to magic and can increase your magic power? Would you be willing to take it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Erwinughed, ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, after not seeing each other for half a year, when did you learn to boast? How could there possibly be such a good job, you don¡¯t need to tell such lies even if you¡¯re trying tofort me, right?¡±

    The eyes of Rooney on the side twinkled ashe said, ¡°The job you¡¯re talking about, how much money can it give?¡±

    Xu Yi raised one finger, ¡°That depends on the situation, but it won¡¯t be less than ten gold coins per month.¡±

    ¡°Ten gold coins per month? That is not much, but there is no danger and there is spare time, so the conditions are quite good.¡± Erwin rubbed his chin and looked very satisfied, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, this all sounds quite good, but aren¡¯t you just ying a joke? Such a good job, can you give me it?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and gave a serious nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯ll give it to you.¡±

    ###

    When the moon rose in the sky, Xu Yi leisurely walked back to the office.

    The housekeeper had long prepared dinner, but it had already gone cold since Xu Yi came back sote. But thinking about how the Lord Count ordered him to give him special treatment, the housekeeper wanted to order the kitchen to prepare a new set, but that was stopped by Xu Yi.

    When he was walking in the streets, Xu Yi had found a small roadside stall to take care of dinner, so naturally he didn¡¯t need to eat again.

    ¡°Housekeeper Lahm, you don¡¯t need to waste all this effort. It is very likely I¡¯ll be eating outside most of the time during this period, so there won¡¯t be many times when I eat here. You don¡¯t need to specially leave a meal for me.¡± Xu Yi gave an order to the housekeeper.

    Housekeeper Lahm thought about it before nodding in agreement.

    Xu Yi had arrived here today with Viscount Leslie, so it seemed that other than having a special rtion to the Lord Count, the other connections he had here weren¡¯t normal.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, ording to the Lord Count¡¯s orders, the news of your arrival has already been reported to the agricultural department and the king¡¯s special guards. If nothing unexpected happened, there should be a noticeing in two days. It¡¯s best if you don¡¯t go too far in the next few days. If you are going out, it¡¯s best if you tell me where you¡¯re going so it¡¯s easier for me to find you.¡± Housekeeper Lahm then said.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be careful.¡± Xu Yi was a bit helpless. There were no cell phones in this world, so it was truly hard to find someone.

    After talking to Housekeeper Lahm, Xu Yi prepared to head to his room to rest.

    While he was walking, Xu Yi remembered today¡¯s experience and was quite satisfied.

    After his preliminary inspection, he found that Anvilmar City really was a nk market. As long as Baron Hannas sessfully set up the ?Anvilmar Times? or the ?Anvilmar Morning News?, he could depend on this to easily take part of the market.

    Compared to a small city like Banta City, Anvilmar had arger market without a doubt. Just based on the people Xu Yi saw when he was walking around, he could tell that Anvilmar City had several times more peoplepared to Banta City.

    The Magic Fan could sell ten thousand units in Banta City, so with a conservative estimate, it could sell over fifty thousand units in Anvilmar City.

    Of course, Xu Yi had already decided to give out the basic manufacturing techniques for the Magic Fan, so there would be manypetitors for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce next summer.

    But Xu Yi was not worried at all. Just in terms of Magic Fans, there were many aspects where he could easily defeat thepetitors.

    Not to mention that this technology all came from him, which was equal to having thepetitors¡¯ lives in his hands. It was very easy for him to counterattack them if he wanted to.

    Other than this, the sess that satisfied Xu Yi was the most was that including Erwin, Rooney, and Bob, there was a total of eight magicians who were interested. They had a desire toe to Banta City to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Eight magicians perhaps weren¡¯t that important, but Xu Yi was very happy to see a trend in them. It was that they were weak magicians who couldn¡¯t advance like Erwin, so they were willing to take another path.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, perhaps it will give these magicians a new path to work hard in.

    ¡°It was like this to begin with. It¡¯s not like every magician can be powerful Great Magicians or Arch Magi, so what is bad about working for a living?¡± Thinking about the strange expressions Erwin¡¯s group of three had when they heard he started apany and were producing magic machines, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Thinking about the magic machines, Xu Yi thought about the things in the storage room. He stopped moving and started heading towards the storage room.

    Those things were rted to the sess or failure of this trip to Anvilmar City, there definitely couldn¡¯t be any idents that happened.

    As soon as he saw the corner of the storage room, Xu Yi suddenly saw a spark appearing in the darkness. There was a roaring me that suddenly exploded and instantly surrounded the entire storage room.

 Volume 1 97 - Arrogant agricultural department

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 97 Arrogant agricultural department</strong>

    The next morning, Viscount Leslie who received the news was standing in front of the burned ck storage room with a dark look on his face.

    ¡°How are the losses?¡± After a while, Viscount Leslie finally asked a question to Xu Yi beside him.

    ¡°I noticed early, so there weren¡¯t that many losses.¡± After Xu Yi¡¯s reply, he slightly knit his brows and looked a bit confused.

    He had personally saw the spark explode before the mes instantly surrounded the entire storage room. It didn¡¯t seem like a simple fire, rather it looked like someone had set the fire on purpose.

    But Xu Yi had just arrived in Anvilmar City yesterday and didn¡¯t know that many people. Naturally he didn¡¯t make any enemies, so why would someone suddenly move against the things he brought over?

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s doubts, Viscount Leslie was silent for a bit. He suddenly waved his hand and signaled to Housekeeper Lahm and the others to move back.

    When everyone was far away, Viscount Leslie gave a sigh and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m the one who implicated you.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Lord Viscount, why do you say that?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked northeast wall of the yard and a bitter smile shed across his face.

    ¡°Because some people don¡¯t wee me back and this is a warning for me.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s mouth opened wide, but he didn¡¯t ask anything in the end.

    Based on Viscount Leslie¡¯s tone, there must be aplicated reason for this. With Xu Yi¡¯s current status, it would be best if he didn¡¯t take the initiative to involve himself.

    ¡°It seems like it¡¯s not safe putting this here. How about this, I¡¯ll help you find a safe ce to put it?¡± Viscount Leslie thought about it before saying this.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There is no need. Since it has already been burnt, this means that the other side must think the things are broken and won¡¯te to make a move again. Not to mention that this is a warning against the Lord Viscount and since the warning has already seeded, the results are not important. I will have Housekeeper Lahm increase the guard around here, so there should be no problems.¡±

    Viscount Leslie knit his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, these things are important for your audience, why do I feel you aren¡¯t nervous at all?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I was nervous before it burned down, but after seeing the fire from yesterday, I suddenly thought it through. These things are not that important, the most important thing is what these things represent. There would be no problem if these things were destroyed because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can make them again. Unless those fellows can use a fire to burn down all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it doesn¡¯t have any significance.¡±

    Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You really are unrestrained, but you aren¡¯t afraid that you can¡¯t take anything out when you meet the king?¡±

    ¡°I am.¡± Xu Yi gave a serious nod, ¡°So Lord Viscount, you must help me with something.¡±

    ###

    After sending Viscount Leslie off, Xu Yi returned to the storage room. Seeing everything that had been burned ck in front of him, Xu Yi¡¯s rxed face gradually sunk.

    In front of Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi didn¡¯tpletely tell the truth.

    When the fire appearedst night, Xu Yi clearly felt a trace of magical fluctuations. It could be seen that the person who set the firest night was a hidden magician.

    To send a magician for this small matter, it could be seen that this was very important to the other side and they had made the resolution to seed.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yiing along and promptly using Water Attributed Magic to put out the fire, neutralizing the magic destructive might inside the mes, even if the things in the storage room wasn¡¯t destroyed, it would have been damaged still.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi walked to another room in the distance.

    This room used to be a guest room, but because the storage room was burned down, Xu Yi had Housekeeper Lahm put the things in here.

    Opening the door, he saw six strange looking machines inside. Outside was stained from being burned by the mes and it looked very fierce, really not looking good at all.

    The six machines were specially brought here by Xu Yi. They were six agricultural magic machines which included the small Magic Harvester, the small Magic Plowing Machine, and the small Magic Excavator.

    Being summoned by the king this time, Xu Yi nned on demonstrating the powerful uses of these machines to the king.

    The nobles in Banta City had already been conquered by these machines and had sent their orders to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he believed the king wouldn¡¯t be different.

    If the king was moved and promoted these agricultural magic machines throughout the entire Lampuri Kingdom, now only would it bringrge amounts of profits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would aplish the first step of the n in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    Xu Yi took a towel and carefully wiped the surface of these six machines.

    This work took quite a bit of time, but Xu Yi was not assured in giving these machines to the servants to handle, so he could only personally take care of them.

    After spending half an hour, he finally finished wiping the surface of the six machines. He took out a few Magic Crystals and ced them into the six machines before preparing to flick the switch to test them.

    As soon as he flicked the switch of the first small Magic Harvester and the plow in front began to turn, there was the sound of footstepsing from outside the room.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, chairman Xu¡­¡­¡± Housekeeper Lahm¡¯s shouts came from outside.

    Xu Yi turned off the small Magic Harvester and walked out in a confused manner.

    When he came out, he saw Housekeeper Lahm leading six people over.

    These four were all wearing the same fine work uniform and they seemed like they came from the same organization.

    As expected, after Housekeeper Lahm gave introductions, Xu Yi knew that these four came from the agricultural department. After learning that Xu Yi hade to Anvilmar City yesterday, they came to meet Xu Yi early in the morning.

    The one leading them was a middle aged man who seemed to be past fifty with greying hair. After hearing Housekeeper Lahm¡¯s introduction, he said with a slight nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, where are the agricultural magic machines you brought? Give them to us to take back.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows. This Lord Fisher¡¯s tone seemed very calm, but whether it was his expression or tone, there was a trace of disdain and indifference that wasn¡¯t concealed at all. It was likeing here to see Xu Yi was already giving him quite a bit of face and it was natural for Xu Yi to hand the things over.

    Xu Yi thought that the agricultural departmenting over the next morning after receiving the newsst night meant that they were very serious about the agricultural magic machines, but it didn¡¯t seem like this.

    ¡°Lord Fisher, when have I said that I would hand these things over to the agricultural department?¡± Xu Yi said with a frown.

    ¡°You want to keep it?¡± Lord Fisher¡¯s voice became a bit higher. He looked at Xu Yi and was a bit impatient, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you have reported that you have brought agricultural magic machines over, then of course you have to hand them over to us and let us bring it back to study first. If these really do help improving farming, the agricultural department will give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce amendation.¡±

    ¡°Commendation?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice instantly became angry.

    He hade here this time to promote the agricultural magic machines. He thought that with even the king summoning him, the agricultural department would treat this very seriously. But he never thought that these four agricultural department ministers would have this kind of appearance, not caring about him at all.

    Based on their appearance, if Xu Yi really gave them the agricultural magic machines, perhaps they would shelf this matter and not care about it anymore.

    ¡°Your excellency, allow me to ask a question. I remember that in my correspondence with the agricultural department, you had mee here this time was to hear my farm transformation n and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support n, it didn¡¯t mention anything about me handing over my magic machines, right? Other than that, I¡¯ve never said that I¡¯ve brought any agricultural magic machines with me, so how do you know about this?¡± Xu Yi looked right at Lord Fisher as he asked this.

    A look shed in Lord Fisher¡¯s eyes before he looked right at Xu Yi and said in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is not something you should ask. You don¡¯t need to care this much, I am representing the agricultural department to ask you to immediately take out the agricultural magic machines for us to study. Could it be you can¡¯t agree to this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the other three ministers with Lord Fisher and found that they had fierce looking faces. It was like if Xu Yi dared to reject them, they would immediately move against them.

    Seeing the appearance of the four, Xu Yi paused for a second.

    He wasn¡¯t afraid, he just felt that something was fishy.

    If the agricultural department didn¡¯t ce importance on him, they definitely wouldn¡¯t run here this early in the morning. If they did ce importance in him, why would they show this kind of appearance?

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Your excellency, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t agree to your request. I have other uses for these machines and if I had them over to you, it will disrupt my n.¡±

    Lord Fisher¡¯s face instantly sunk as he said with a cold snort, ¡°Disrupt your ns? If you don¡¯t give us these machines, it will disrupt the ns of our agricultural department! Do you think that your ns are more important or our agricultural department¡¯s ns?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency, there doesn¡¯t seem to be anything topare there? Perhaps your agricultural department¡¯s ns are important, but that does not mean I must give those machines to you.¡±

    ¡°Audacious!¡± Lord Fisher instantly flew into a rage and pointed a finger in Xu Yi¡¯s nose as he roared out, ¡°Xu Yi, you are just a small merchant, you actually dare go against the request of our agricultural department? Do you know that if it wasn¡¯t for yourpany¡¯s whatever farmer support n being a bit of use, you wouldn¡¯t even have the qualifications to talk to us?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and pressed down Lord Fisher¡¯s finger as he maintained his calm voice to say, ¡°Your excellency, if you maintain this kind of attitude, I think our talk can end here.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s calm tone enraged the other three agricultural department officials and enraged Lord Fisher even further, but since he was older and more stable, he raised his hand to stop hispanions from charging forward. He looked at Xu Yi and said with a serious face, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are nning to go against our agricultural department¡¯s orders?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency, first, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have a superior and subordinate rtionship. A word like orders, it doesn¡¯t seem like it¡¯s used here, right? Second, can you really represent the agricultural department?¡±

 Volume 1 98 - Programmable Magic Array

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 98 Programmable Magic Array</b>

    Seeing Lord Fisher angrily leave with his threepanions, Housekeeper Lahm came beside Xu Yi and said in a worried voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­...is it good for you to treat agricultural department officials like this? Didn¡¯t the Lord Count give an order that he hoped to see you working together with the agricultural department to promote the things you¡¯ve done in Banta City?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed in the direction of the four people leaving, ¡°Did they seem like they wanted to cooperate?¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm was instantly speechless.

    Lord Fisher¡¯s group of four had been arrogant and bossy since the beginning,pletely treating Xu Yi as a subordinate. They even ordered Xu Yi to take out the agricultural magic machines. This really didn¡¯t seem like they wanted to cooperate at all.

    It had to be known that Count Sean had been filled with praise of Xu Yi in the letter, writing in words filled with courtesy. It could be seen that chairman Xu was not a normalmoner.

    Adding in his close rtionship to Viscount Leslie, it was very normal for Xu Yi topletely disregard four officials from the agricultural department.

    ¡°Housekeeper Lahm, why are you sure those four were agricultural department officials?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    Housekeeper Lahm was stunned before replying. Even now Xu Yi still doubted the identity of the four of them.

    He quickly responded, ¡°Their uniforms are the uniforms of the agricultural department and they even had the agricultural department¡¯s badge. In Anvilmar City, nobody would dare impersonate officials.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before not saying anything else, rather he returned back into the room to continue examining the six machines.

    The examination results were considered optimistic.

    These six machines were after all made of iron and they were made with Xu Yi¡¯s strict quality control, as well as the dwarves¡¯ craftsmanship, so these six machines were very firm and hard to damage.

    Other than some damage to the Magic Array of the small Magic Excavator causing it unable to start, the other five machines could be considered in perfect condition.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the repair materials on hand and there were no suitable materials in the other yards. Xu Yi could only leave after informing Housekeeper Lahm and go out shopping in Anvilmar City.

    Compared to yesterday, there were even more magicians in magic robes on the street today. No matter where you looked, there would be groups of magicians that entered your eyes.

    If one came to this world during these two days, one would definitely be mistaken that all the people in this world were magicians.

    Xu Yi found magic material shop to find some materials to fix the Magic Array, but he had to wait an hour before he finally bought some. One could tell just how busy it was.

    When he was about to leave the street specially selling magic rted goods, there was a person that staggered out of the small shop in front of him.

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said that no one will like this broken toy of yours! You¡¯re not allowed back here it the future!¡± A young salesman charged out of the store and roared out at him before sending a kick at his butt. Only then did he go back into the store.

    Watching the person hobble away, Xu Yi suddenly felt that he was a bit familiar.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi finally remembered. This person was the person he had saved when he came to Anvilmar yesterday.

    Watching him hobble down the street, Xu Yi suddenly had a thought and followed him.

    After that person left the street, he turned into a small alley and found a quiet, remote corner. Without any scruples of how cold the stone tiles were, he directly sat down. He took out a pitch ck round thing that looked like a piece of bread from his chest and slowly began to gnaw on it.

    He was clearly very hungry, but he ate very slowly. After he finished gnawing a mouthful of ck bread, he chewed it several times in his mouth before swallowing. It was like that piece of ck bread that no one would care about if it was thrown on the floor was the most hard to obtain delicacy.

    Xu Yi watched him from not afar for a while. Thinking about it, he left the little alley and bought some things before walking in front of him.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯ll be very thirsty just eating bread, have some milk.¡± Xu Yi squatted down in front of that person and gave him the hot milk he had bought from a small shop by the side of the road.

    That person was stunned for a bit before looking up at Xu Yi. Xu Yi immediately revealed a gentle smile.

    That person looked at the hot milk in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and a look of desire appeared in his eyes.

    Xu Yi put the swayed the milk in front of him, but after a swallowing sound came from him, he lowered his head and didn¡¯t have any intent on taking the hot milk.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. This person¡¯s appearance, his head was like a crow¡¯s nest and it seemed like it had been many days since he¡¯s eaten his fill. No matter what, he looked no different from a beggar, but he never thought that he would actually reject him.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Hey brother, this is not a handout. I am a merchant and I want to do some business with you, so this hot milk is just a greeting gift.¡±

    The person looked up again and a look of doubt appeared on his dirty face.

    Xu Yi pointed at his chest, ¡°I saw you walking out of the store a moment ago and heard what that salesman, so you should have been wanting to sell the thing in your chest to the store, right? Oh, that¡¯s right, other than being a merchant, I am also a magician. I can feel that the Magic Array on the thing in your chest is very strange, so I am interested in it. Can you take it out for me to see? If I am satisfied, I can buy it.¡±

    That person hesitated a bit before suddenly reaching his hand out and taking the milk from Xu Yi¡¯s hand. He swallowed it in a single breath.

    That hot milk was still quite hot, so his burns weren¡¯t light.

    Xu Yi patiently waited for him to recover before taking out the delicacies in his other hand that he had bought earlier.

    That person didn¡¯t reject it this time. He took it and swallowed it like a wolf like with the hot milk.

    Only when there wasn¡¯t a single drop of milk left and not a single crumb left of the food did that person let out a long breath. He then looked at Xu Yi and finally said, ¡°You¡­..want to buy it?¡±

    Perhaps it was because he talked very little to others, but just these three words took quite a bit of effort from him.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t dare say that I will buy it. I am a merchant, before seeing a product first, I will not easily make my decision. Of course, if my feeling isn¡¯t wrong, I¡¯ll probably buy it.¡±

    That person nodded and dug in his chest a bit before taking out a round crystal ball.

    Xu Yi took the crystal ball and carefully looked it over. He found that the surface of this crystal ball was no different from the toys little children had, but after using magic to check it out, he knew that there should be a Wind Attributed Magic Array attached to the surface of the crystal ball.

    ¡°Can I give it a try?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the foundation of the crystal ball and asked this.

    That person nodded. He looked at Xu Yi curiously as if he was wondering what Xu Yi was prepared to do.

    Xu Yi focused his mind and sent a trace of magic from his palm into the foundation of the crystal ball.

    The Magic Array at the foundation of the crystal ball instantly activated and a light breeze came from it. The debris inside the crystal ball that was supposed to resemble snowkes began to float and it looked like the crystal ball was filled with snow.

    When it started, there wasn¡¯t anything strange about it. The Wind Attributed Magic Array at the bottom kept releasing a stable breeze and it was no different from a normal Magic Array.

    But after a while, the wind from the foundation suddenly changed and suddenly blew in an oblique angle.

    The debris that had already been blown into the air instantly began to dance. It wildly danced inside the crystal ball, making the scene that was considered stable inside the crystal ball be like a blizzard.

    After another while, the Magic Array at the bottom of the crystal ball suddenly stopped blowing wind. Rather it suddenly stopped and the floating debris naturally fell down again.

    When the debris hadpletely fallen down, the Magic Array at the base was activated again. This time it blew out jets of air from the bottom in different ces like a fountain, not blowing continuous wind.

    So the debris that covered the bottom was suddenly shot up before falling down again.

    The jet stream from the bottom was fast and slow, sometimes shooting in a single stream and sometimes blowing from the entire bottom. The debris inside the crystal ball danced in the air, creating a beautiful scene.

    This processsted for two minutes before the base once again blew a small breeze like in the beginning.

    Xu Yi took back his magic and the crystal ball became calm again.

    ¡°The process will keep repeating, right?¡± Xu Yi raised the crystal ball as he asked the man.

    That person was a bit surprised before nodding while asking, ¡°You can tell?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He looked back at the crystal ball in his hand and his gaze gradually began to burn.

    This crystal ball didn¡¯t seem all that amazing, but Xu Yi was very clear that the Wind Magic Array at the foundation of the crystal ball would be enough to create a revolution!

    Before this, the Magic Arrays that Xu Yi learned and had contact with all had a set effect once the Magic Array wasid out and it was always a single effect, without changing at all.

    For example, the Revolving Wind Array in the Magic Fan. When it was set into the foundation of the Magic Fan, the might of the wind was already set. Then it would be used to power the des, which moved at a determined speed, blowing out wind that was also at a set volume.

    As for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan, that was actually three different Revolving Wind Arrays at the bottom of the Magic Fan of different power.

    When one changed the speed of the Magic Fan, they were just changing to another Revolving Wind Array.

    But for the Wind Magic Array on the bottom of the crystal ball in Xu Yi¡¯s hand, he had maintained a steady stream of magic, but the effects had actually changed!

    Not only did it change wind speed, it also changed the wind direction, the area of release for the wind, the frequency, and many other aspects¡­...

    If one were to describe it, the Wind Magic Array on this crystal ball could even be said to have a taste of programming to it!

 Volume 1 99 - The lives of noble young masters arenâ€™t good either

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 99 The lives of noble young masters aren¡¯t good either</strong>

    When the word ¡°programming¡± passed in his mind, Xu Yi¡¯s gaze looking at the crystal ball became even more passionate.

    This fellow that looked like a beggar clearly didn¡¯t know what kind of value was in the Magic Array he designed, but Xu Yi was very clear on this. If his guess was right, this fellow designed Magic Arrays like programming to set them ahead of time, allowing the Magic Arrays to change function in between use. This would very likely change the entire magic industry and greatly pull together the disparity in terms of industrialization between earth and the Sines Continent.

    ¡°You¡¯re the one who set the Magic Array on this?¡± Xu Yi asked this person to confirm it.

    That person nodded as an expectant look appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°You¡­...What do you think of this thing?¡±

    Xu Yi pushed down the excitement in his heart and gave a slight nod, ¡°Not bad. But since you can draw Magic Arrays, that means you should be a magician. How did you end up like this?¡±

    That person¡¯s eyes dimmed again and he shook his head, not saying anything.

    Seeing that he didn¡¯t want to answer, Xu Yi didn¡¯t force him. He raised the crystal ball and asked, ¡°If I had you draw the Magic Array on this again, can you do it?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s no problem.¡± That person heard another meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s words and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a trace of excitement in his voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s good. I¡¯ll introduce myself again. I am Xu Yi from Banta City and I¡¯m the chairman of apany in Banta City. Right now I want to invite you to do some research for me in terms of Magic Arrays and the wage will be set at ten gold coins per month. Will you ept these terms?¡± Xu Yi looked at him and spoke in an honest voice.

    ¡°Ten gold coins per month? That much?¡± The person looked at Xu Yi like he couldn¡¯t believe it, ¡°You¡¯re this young, are you really the chairman of apany? You¡¯re not lying to me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°What value is there in me lying to you? If it was just buying this crystal ball, I think ten gold coins would be enough, right?¡±

    That person was silent for a bit as he lowered his head to think before slowly giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I promise you. But¡­...But I don¡¯t even have a copper coin right now, this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This is not a problem, since you are a worker for mypany now, I¡¯ll take care of your basic living expenses.¡± Xu Yi looked around before saying, ¡°Based on your appearance, you shouldn¡¯t have a dwelling or family in Anvilmar City, right? How about youe with me now and I¡¯ll take care of your food and board. When I finish my work here in a few days, you cane back to Banta City with me.¡±

    The person nodded.

    Actually he already had no other paths, he was almost about to starve to death. Xu Yi had suddenly appeared to hire him and gave him a sry of ten gold coins per month, this was a chance that he couldn¡¯t let go.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go.¡± Xu Yi stood up and reached out to pull that person up, ¡°That¡¯s right, I don¡¯t even know your name yet.¡±

    ¡°Santo¡­...Sancheli, I am called Sancheli.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and thought that since this person¡¯s response was so hesitant and he even changed his words, it meant that this was probably a fake name.

    But he didn¡¯t care that much right now. Anyway, his reason for hiring this person was just to obtain the method of setting the functions of a Magic Array beforehand, it didn¡¯t matter if he hid his identity or not.

    Xu Yi was about to leave the small alley and head back to the office to clean him up when several figures appeared at the end of the alley. One of them pointed at Sancheli and said in a loud voice, ¡°It¡¯s him! Young master, is that right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up in a daze and saw three familiar figures.

    Victor, Cell, and Urgot. It was actually the three young master who had violently beaten Sancheli in front of the horse carriage yesterday.

    After looking at Sancheli, Victor gave a coldugh before saying in a sharp voice, ¡°It¡¯s this fellow! He actually dared to make this young master lose such a great deal of face in front of a crowd. If we don¡¯t take care of him, this young master can¡¯t swallow this offense! Cell, Urgot, watch from the side for now. When I finish venting my anger, it¡¯ll be your turn!¡±

    Cell and Urgot on the side couldn¡¯t helpining, ¡°Hey, Victor, don¡¯t beat him to death or we won¡¯t be able to vent our anger.¡±

    Victor spat into his palm and rubbed his hands, as he said with a coldugh, ¡°Rx, how could I let him die this quickly? If I don¡¯t properly torture him, how could I vent the anger in my heart! Hey, that fool over there, what are you standing in a daze for? Why aren¡¯t you scramming yet? You want to also be beaten by this young master?¡±

    The final words brought Xu Yi back to his senses.

    Xu Yi knit his brows. He never thought that after obtaining this pleasant surprise with great difficulty, this kind of ident would appear.

    He turned to look at Sancheli and noticed that he was trembling slightly. It was clear that he was a bit afraid.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling angry and finding this funny.

    This Sancheli was beaten miserably yesterday by Victor¡¯s group, but he didn¡¯t show any trace of fear then. Now that he hadn¡¯t even been beaten yet, he was already afraid like this. The difference in reactions was just too big.

    Then again, he is also a magician, so why was he afraid of these three noble young master who had nothing other than strong bodies?

    Xu Yi looked over at Victor and took a step forward to move in front of Sancheli.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s action, Victor was surprised before flying into a rage.

    ¡°What? This young master wants to teach this beggar a lesson and a kid like you wants to butt in? Are you tired of living?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile as he bowed to Victor and said, ¡°Young master Victor, this person is my friend, can you give me some face and let him go?¡±

    Victor was stunned, ¡°You know me?¡± Then he angrily said, ¡°What kind of thing are you? Why should I give you face?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before raising his hand and slowly approaching Victor.

    When he was less than two meters away from Victor, he saw Victor tighten his foot and Xu Yi knew that he couldn¡¯t approach anymore. He stopped and said in a low voice, ¡°Young master Victor, I was in the same carriage as Viscount Leslie yesterday.¡±

    Although Victor was domineering, he wasn¡¯t a fool. After being surprised for a bit, he understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning.

    He looked at Xu Yi before looking at Sancheli behind Xu Yi and saying with a dark look, ¡°You are big brother Leslie¡¯s friend, so I can give you face and not care about you standing in front of me. But this fellow has caused us three brothers to lose face in front of everyone, we can¡¯t let him go. Move aside!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a difficult expression and took another step forward towards Victor as he said in a low voice, ¡°Young master Victor, I won¡¯t hide the truth, he is now a worker for ourpany. As his boss, I can¡¯t just watch him being beaten by someone, that wouldn¡¯t be proper, don¡¯t you think? If you think that he has made you lose face, I can have him apologize to you and I can give you somepensation, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Worker? Boss?¡± Victor looked at Xu Yi in a daze with a confused look on his face, ¡°Hey, are you mistaken? This fellow is just a poor beggar, when did he be your worker? What can he even do for you? Sweep your floors?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t reply to this question. Seeing that Victor was much less angry, he directly reached into his chest and took out a pouch before leaning over, blocking everyone¡¯s sight and secretly handing it over to Victor.

    ¡°Just a small gift, I ask young master Victor to ept it. If you¡¯re still not satisfied, we can still discuss this, what do you think?¡±

    Victor hesitated a bit before he looked at the bulging purse in Xu Yi¡¯s hand. He gritted his teeth as he reached out to take it. He carefully opened it and was instantly stunned.

    Golden light flowed out of the purse, it was actually filled with gold coins!

    Although he couldn¡¯t tell exactly how many there were, but with a rough estimate, he could tell that there were at least fifty gold coins in the purse!

    Victor¡¯s breathing instantly became rushed.

    Although he was a noble young master of Anvilmar City, there were many noble families in Anvilmar and there were all kinds of noble young masters like him.

    Not to mention that he didn¡¯t have the right to inherit the family. For an unimportant junior like him, he only received an allowance of twenty gold coins each month and didn¡¯t have any other sources of ie.

    Now that thisrge amount had suddenly appeared in front of him, it made him a bit excited.

    Seeing his reaction, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding it a bit funny.

    It seemed like the lives of the noble young masters of Anvilmar wasn¡¯t good. If it was the officials of Beijing back on earth, not to mention this bit of money, it wouldn¡¯t enter their eyes even if they were offered ten times this amount.

    ¡°Young master Victor, this is only a little gift, of course it can¡¯t be considered a fullpensation. How about we find a ce to sit down and talk?¡± Xu Yi reminded him.

    Victor quickly came back to his senses and gave a soft cough. He didn¡¯t reveal anything as he put this purse away before pointing at Sancheli behind Xu Yi and shouting, ¡°Consider yourself lucky. This young master on ount of this¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi quickly said, ¡°I am Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.¡±

    Victor nodded before continuing, ¡°On ount of chairman Xu¡¯s face, I¡¯ll let you go. But it¡¯s best if you never appear in front of this young master again, otherwise this young master cannot promise you¡¯ll leave in one piece, understand?¡±

    Hearing Victor¡¯s words, not only was Sancheli a bit confused, Cell, Urgot, and their two servants were all confused.

    Didn¡¯t they say that after finding this beggar that made them lose face, they would properly beat him up to vent their anger? Why did Victor suddenly change his mind?

    Victor was toozy to exin. He patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and loudly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are big brother Leslie¡¯s friend, then you are our friend. If you ever meet any trouble in Anvilmar City, you can just give the names of us brothers. No matter what¡­..Ke, not mentioning any big troubles, there shouldn¡¯t be any problems with small troubles and we promise to take care of it for you!¡±

    Cell and Urgot suddenly revealed looks of understanding. So this Xu Yi person who appeared out of nowhere was actually Viscount Leslie¡¯s friend. It was no wonder suddenly gave him face and changed his mind.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Young master Victor is too polite. I haven¡¯t encountered any problems yet, but I was looking for someone to do a bit of business with. I wonder, is young master Victor interested?¡±

 Volume 1 100 - More people from the agricultural department

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 100 More people from the agricultural department</strong>

    After two hours, Xu Yi and Sancheli returned to the office.

    Housekeeper Lahm saw Sancheli who looked no different from a beggar following Xu Yi and his heart was filled with doubt, but he was an experienced person, so he wouldn¡¯t ask about it. He followed Xu Yi¡¯s orders and had the servants help Sancheli wash up and change clothes. He followed Xu Yi and said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, the special guards of the king has just sent a messenger saying that his majesty will be summoning you the day after tomorrow at five in the afternoon, it¡¯s best if you prepare yourself. You should wait here ahead of time and people will take you into the pce when the timees.¡±

    ¡°The afternoon of the day after tomorrow? It¡¯s quite fast.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I thought that his majesty would be busy with other matters and I would need to wait several days before being summoned.¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm immediately said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are underestimating yourself too much. The messenger who came was his majesty¡¯s personal clerk, so sending him to contact you, it can be seen that his majesty has ced great importance on you. I even asked that clerk and he said that since his majesty has set the appointment for five in the afternoon, it means he wants you to stay for dinner. This is a rare honour, you must prepare yourself mentally.¡±

    ¡°Oh? His majesty has ced such importance in me? That really makes me feel ttered.¡± Xu Yiughed before knitting his brows, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, what is going on with the agricultural department? His majesty has ced such importance in me and the agricultural department is this rude to me, don¡¯t you find it a bit strange?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Housekeeper Lahm looked around before suddenly moving to Xu Yi¡¯s side and said in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, the current agricultural department head is Marquis Saitech and he doesn¡¯t have the same political views as Viscount Leslie¡¯s father, Duke Stagg¡­¡­¡±

    Although this was a simple reminder, Xu Yi immediately understood what Housekeeper Lahm meant.

    But understanding was just understanding, Xu Yi could only reveal a helpless bitter smile.

    Actually he just wanted to research magic machines and keep inventing new magic machines to increase the lives of themoners. Now without doing anything, he was caught up in the battle of these important people. He really didn¡¯t want this.

    But this was something Xu Yi had already expected.

    Not to mention this world that was controlled by the nobles, even on earth with its democratic and equal system, businessmen couldn¡¯tpletely stop themselves from being involved in politics.

    Not to mention therger countries on earth where politics were controlled by therge businessmen.

    ¡°ording to this, wouldn¡¯t it mean that I can¡¯t receive the support of the agricultural department?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows.

    Although by receiving the support of his majesty, Xu Yi¡¯s n to promote agricultural magic machines can be aplished, the concrete parts of the n would still involve the agricultural department. If the agricultural department were to obstruct Xu Yi¡¯s n for political reasons, that would create many problems.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this. The agricultural department is the most important department in the country, it¡¯s not just controlled by Marquis Saitech alone.¡± Housekeeper Lahmforted him.

    Xu Yi thought about it and could only give a shrug, ¡°I hope it¡¯s like this.¡±

    When he was about to give some instructions to Housekeeper Lahm, a servant quickly ran in.

    ¡°Sir housekeeper, there are two people iming to be officials of the agricultural department here to see chairman Xu!¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm and Xu Yi were stunned at the same time.

    Didn¡¯t the agricultural department officials alreadye, why are there two more now?

    After five minutes, Xu Yi went to see the two agricultural department officials in the main hall.

    The two were wearing the same uniform as the other four officials from before, but there was a bit of a difference in the badge on their chests.

    The two officials were a man and a woman who both looked quite young. The man seemed to be around thirty and the woman was in her early twenties, they were far from being able topare to a fifty year old old man like Lord Fisher.

    They were different from the aloof Lord Fisher, these people looked more gentle and approachable. When they saw Xu Yi, the male official took the initiative to stretch his hand out to him.

    ¡°Are you chairman Xu? I am Harvey, I have long heard of your fame. Now that I¡¯m finally meeting you in person, I am truly filled with excitement.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused as he shook his head, ¡°You know me?¡±

    Harveyughed, ¡°Of course. I have already done quite a bit of research into the farmer support n your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has proposed. I have to say, chairman Xu, your n is a work of art. Not only does it help the peasants make a living, with the efficiency of the agricultural magic machines yourpany has produced, the citizens of Banta City has drastically increased their number of tiller fields. ording to Count Sean¡¯s report, if nothing unexpected happens, the harvest next year in Banta City will be greatly increased. As an official of the agricultural department, I am very happy about this matter. If the situation in Banta City can be shared across the entire kingdom, the amount of food harvested can be greatly increased and it would solve a major problem for our Lampuri Kingdom! Therefore, our agricultural department had ced great importance in you and your Frestech Chamber ofmerce, reporting this matter to his majesty immediately. His majesty has also ced great importance in this matter, so he has decided to summon you for a meeting.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a bit of surprise, ¡°You say your agricultural department has ced great importance in this matter? Why can¡¯t I see it?¡±

    Harvey was a bit stunned. He could tell something was strange from Xu Yi¡¯s tone.

    ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Housekeeper Lahm to the side and paused for a bit before saying, ¡°Before you came, in the morning, there were four other officials from the agricultural department who were here. They didn¡¯t show any manners at all and immediately told me to hand over my six agricultural magic machines to them.¡±

    ¡°Agricultural department officials came?¡± Harvey was stunned. After looking at the female official who had been silent the entire time, he asked Xu Yi in a serious voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, who was leading them?¡±

    ¡°He called himself Lord Fisher.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Lord Fisher?¡± Harvey gave a slight nod and said nothing else. After being silent for a while, he said with a serious expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, I want to exin something to you. Our agricultural department has many responsibilities and for contacting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and for any future cooperations, it is all controlled by the Kingdom Agricultural Reform Committee under the agricultural department, which is formed of only me and her.¡± Harvey pointed at the female official beside him, ¡°Lord Fisher is an official of the agricultural department, but he has no authority in this matter, so you don¡¯t need to worry about him.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Only you two? Then how should I believe you?¡±

    Harvey thought about it and revealed a bitter smile, ¡°This is something we haven¡¯t considered. But chairman Xu, I think after you see his majesty, you¡¯ll have your answer.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Alright, after I see his majesty, I¡¯lle talk to your agricultural department. For now, I don¡¯t know who I should believe.¡±

    ¡°This¡­...Chairman Xu, before you meet his majesty, we want to see the six agricultural magic machines you bought at work and summarize it in a report for his majesty. So we hope that you can cooperate with us and bring the six agricultural magic machines out of the city now to perform a demonstration for us.¡± Harvey said.

    ¡°Why should I believe you?¡± Xu Yi looked at Harvey and said, ¡°What if you are the same as that Lord Fisher and just want to confiscate my magic machines?¡±

    Harvey didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Chairman Xu, how about¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If the agricultural department really wanted you to hand over the six magic machines, would you hand it over?¡± The female official who had been silent the whole time finally spoke to cut Harvey off.

    Once she spoke, Harvey immediately closed his mouth.

    Based on this, Xu Yi immediately understood. Although it seemed like Harvey was in charge, the real leader here should be this younger female official.

    Actually calling her an official made her seem too old. Actually she was just over twenty and even if she didn¡¯t look as shocking as Still, she had very gentle features and a close to perfect figure. When one looked closely, they couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of affection for her.

    But her aura revealed a strong confidence and nobility. She clearly didn¡¯t have a normal status and had been properly educated since she was young.

    This kind of outstanding girl, this was not something a normal noble family could raise. At the very least she came from somerge noble family.

    No wonder the Agricultural Reform Committee Harvey mentioned was onlyposed of him and this girl.

    Harvey already looked like he wasn¡¯t simple and this girl¡¯s background was probably even stronger than his. Perhaps their backing was the king himself, so they didn¡¯t need to care about Lord Fisher at all.

    ¡°If the agricultural department has enough reasons, for example wanting to study how these six machines function, as well as how they increase efficiency, then I can hand them over. But if it is someone like Lord Fisher who arbitrarily orders me to hand them over, then I¡¯m not willing toply.¡± Xu Yi honestly answered.

    The girl gave a slight nod, ¡°For this kind of unreasonable request, of course you don¡¯t need to ept. But chairman Xu, we hope that you can give us a demonstration of these six magic machines now, letting us understand how these magic machines function, so we can let his majesty understand more easily how they work. I think you wouldn¡¯t reject this, right? I think that since you¡¯ve brought these magic machines from Banta City, of course you don¡¯t hope to keep them in a storage room, unable to demonstrate their true use.¡±

    Xu Yi thoughtfully looked at the girl. The other side¡¯s eyes didn¡¯t turn at all, looking right at Xu Yi. Her eyes were clear, not having a single trace of guilt at all.

    ¡°Your eyes are truly beautiful.¡± Xu Yi suddenly praised with a smile before suddenly standing up, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll choose you believe you. But I need to remind you first that you shouldn¡¯t be scared by how powerful they are.¡±

 Volume 1 101 - Investmen

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 101 Investment</b>

    The next morning, Viscount Leslie walked into the hall of the office and when he saw the situation in front of him, he couldn¡¯t believe his eyes.

    Other than Xu Yi, there were three people who Viscount Leslie never would have thought would be here. It was Victor, Cell, and Urgot.

    What surprised Viscount Leslie more was that these people were happily talking to Xu Yi, looking like they were old friends.

    When Viscount Leslie came in, Victor was currently exining something to Xu Yi with words and gestures.

    ¡°Thirty gold coins? Chairman Xu, you think that our Anvilmar City is a small ce like your Banta City? Oh, it¡¯s not that I¡¯m looking down on you, please don¡¯t mind it. My meaning is that if you only sell it for thirty gold coins each, aren¡¯t you underestimating the rich people of our Anvilmar City? Let me tell you, as long as that Magic Air Conditioner you described is really that convenient, not to mention thirty gold coins, a bunch of people would still buy it if you doubled the price! Then again, for the people of our upper society group, what is most important? Money? Of course not! The most important thing is face! Think about it, even the small nobles of Banta City are using this new thing like the Magic Air Conditioner, so how could our Anvilmar City not have any? That is too shameful! So, chairman Xu, don¡¯t you think I¡¯m right? We should just double the price, going from thirty gold coins for one to fifty gold coins for one is definitely not a problem!¡± After saying this, Victor even pped his chest, ¡°I promise that even at this price, you¡¯ll have no problem selling several hundreds of them in Anvilmar City!¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Only several hundred? Young master Victor, excuse me for being impolite, but I think your eyes are set too small. My goal is to sell several thousand units in Anvilmar City or even up to ten thousand units.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Victor¡¯s mouth dropped wide open and he looked at Cell and Urgot in nk dismay, ¡°Thousands of units? This¡­..Chairman Xu, although our Anvilmar City has many rich people, tens of gold coins is not a small number. Those that can casually take that out¡­..perhaps there aren¡¯t that many.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Perhaps there aren¡¯t that many now, but once the kingdom¡¯s economy develops, naturally there would be more.¡±

    Victor scratched his head and had a confused look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t understand this economical development you mentioned, so let¡¯s not talk about this now. With what we can see now, I feel that it¡¯s already pretty good if we can sell one thousand units in Anvilmar City.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since young master Victor thinks we can sell one thousand units, then let¡¯s set it at this number for now.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Of course, providing you with a thousand units right away is not realistic, ourpany can¡¯t produce that many right now. How about this, I¡¯ll give you fifty units first. Before sending them over, I¡¯ll have to ask young master Victor, young master Cell, and young master Urgot to advertise them with all your effort first. It¡¯s best if you can sell the first batch of Magic Air Conditioners right away, which is another form of advertisement and it¡¯ll allow you to see what the market is like. What do you all think?¡±

    The three of them all revealed wide smiles, but then Victor¡¯s smile became awkward as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, ording to the price of twenty five gold coins per unit, fifty units would be one thousand two hundred and fifty gold coins. This¡­...This¡­..Although we brothers have some money and can seek a bit of support from our families, to take out this much all at once, I¡¯m afraid¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yiughed and waved his hand as he generously said, ¡°The three young master shouldn¡¯t look down on me, it¡¯s just a trivial one thousand two hundred and fifty gold coins. With the status of the three young masters, how could I need you to pay this amount in advance? I¡¯ll make the decision to first put this amount in an ount. After you sell the first batch of Magic Air Conditioners, the three young master can just repay me. I believe that with the skills of the three young masters, you will be able to sell them in Anvilmar City and quickly earn back these gold coins.¡±

    The eyes of the three lit up and Victor excitedly shouted, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you serious?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a dissatisfied look, ¡°Young master Victor, if you don¡¯t believe me, it¡¯s better if we don¡¯t do business together.¡±

    Victor quickly grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm and kept saying, ¡°I do, I do, I do, of course I believe chairman Xu. Alright, it¡¯s all set. Have your people send the fifty¡­..No, it¡¯s best if you give us a week to prepare first. Once we are prepared, have your people send the fifty Magic Air Conditioners over.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, I will be in Anvilmar City for another week or so. If you have any ideas during this time, you cane look for me.¡±

    Victor¡¯s group of three looked at each other before they all revealed smiles.

    After talking about a few more things, Victor¡¯s group of three left with wide smiles.

    When they left, Viscount Leslie came out from his hidden spot and entered the main hall. He looked over Xu Yi like it was his first time meeting him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, although I always felt that you had powerful interpersonal skills, but I never thought that in just a single time, you would be mixing with those three fellows. Moreover, based on what you were just discussing, are you preparing to do business with them?¡±

    ¡°When did the Lord Viscount arrive?¡± Xu Yi looked at him in surprise before looking in the direction the three walked off in. He said with a smile, ¡°It was just a coincidence. What? Lord Viscount, you feel that it isn¡¯t good to cooperate with them?¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°Those three fellows have been good for nothing since they were young and aren¡¯t good at business. With you choosing to cooperate with them, I¡¯m worried you will suffer a loss.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and looked rxed, ¡°I can suffer the loss from fifty Magic Air Conditioners. Then again, this is also an investment and if it seeds, it will bring me rich profits. As a merchant, if I wasn¡¯t willing to take this bit of risk, I might as well focus on studying magic instead.¡±

    ¡°Investment?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze, ¡°You have only met them once the day before yesterday and don¡¯t know anything about them, so why are you certain they are worth investing in?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a smile to Viscount Leslie as he said, ¡°Lord Viscount, for you to know them and be qualified to be taught a lesson by you, they wouldn¡¯t be from normal families, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie instantly became happy, ¡°Is this considered you ttering me? Fine, your guess is correct. Although those three kids are good for nothings, the families behind them have a bit of power in Anvilmar City, so you cooperating with the three of them was correct. Those three fellows are considered the local bullies, so they know many people and many paths. They can¡¯t do anything big, but helping you sell some Magic Air Conditioners and opening the market is not a problem. Of course, that is on the premise they are willing to do this.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Each time a Magic Air Conditioner is sold, they can earn five gold coins. Do you think they are willing to work hard on this?¡±

    Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Those three fellows are strictly managed by their families and their finances are normally tight, so they are definitely willing to do anything that earns money quickly. But Xu Yi, I have to warn you that there have been otherpanies who have looked for them and was smashed by them in the end. Even if they work hard, that does not mean they will do well.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve already said this, this is an investment. Of course there are risks in investing, but it doesn¡¯t matter if theypletely fail or not. As long as they can let the people of Anvilmar City know about Magic Air Conditioners, it¡¯s fine.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a slight nod, ¡°That is also right. In the end, the things you make are unique items on the Sines Continent. Just based on the novelty of it, there are many people who are willing to try it, so there is no need to worry about not being able to sell them.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a proud smile. He changed the topic and asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, Lord Viscount, why are you here so early? Did you need me for something?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s nothing special. You¡¯re going to the Magicians Guild for the qualification certification exam, so as a friend, I should send you there.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a bit of surprise. He thought that even though he and Viscount Leslie could be considered close, the status between the two were too different and they couldn¡¯t be considered friends at all. Moreover, his rtionship with Viscount Leslie back in Banta City was considered not too close, so why did he suddenly be this friendly?

    ¡°The Lord Viscount is too polite.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Only this is just a qualification certification test, it isn¡¯t anything especially important. How could it require you to send me there?¡±

    ¡°You seem confident.¡± Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°Xu Yi, let me ask you something and I hope you¡¯ll answer honestly.¡±

    ¡°Please ask Lord Viscount.¡±

    ¡°With the current level of your magic, what grade magician test can you pass?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows as he looked at Viscount Leslie with a bit of confusion.

    Viscount Leslie really was a bit strange today. He actually came here to ask him his real magic level.

    ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, I can pass the Fourth Grade Magician exam. If I¡¯m lucky, perhaps I can pass the Fifth Grade.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before responding.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Viscount Leslie was a bit surprised, ¡°This means that your strength is already approaching that of a Fifth Grade Magician?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi gave a slight nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Xu Yi, I have a small request and I hope you can agree to it.¡± Viscount Leslie paused for a bit before saying, ¡°After passing the Primary Grade Test, I want you to directly take the Fifth Grade Magician exam.¡±

    ¡°Directly take the Fifth Grade?¡± Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie in shock, ¡°Lord Viscount, I said just now that if my luck was good, I can pass the Fifth Grade Magician exam. That does not mean that I¡¯ll definitely pass. The Magicians Guild only holds the exam once per year and if I don¡¯t pass the Fifth Grade exam, that means I¡¯ll at most be considered a Primary Grade Magician this time.¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you not care about this anyway?¡± Viscount Leslie said.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Lord Viscount, why do you want me to do this? Although what grade magician I am doesn¡¯t matter to me, I am being specially rmended by Great Magician Cami this time, so I don¡¯t wish to let down his expectations.¡±

    Viscount Leslie was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and waving his hand, ¡°Alright, treat it like I didn¡¯t mention this matter and you can forget about it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie¡¯s expression and felt this was even more strange.

    This Lord Viscount, what was with him today?

 Volume 1 102 - Primary Grade exam

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 102 Primary Grade exam</strong>

    Although the Magicians Guild was in Anvilmar City, because there were too many people who had registered, the location of the exam was arranged outside the city.

    Xu Yi smoothly entered the site of with his registration badge and ran into quite a few people who took the initiative to talk to him.

    The day of the registration, in order to recruit more workers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had taken the chance to talk to every magician he saw.

    Although there were few people who agreed, Xu Yi¡¯s conversation skills were quite good and he had left a good impression on these people. So when these people saw him, naturally they came to greet him.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, I never thought that you had this many personal connections.¡± Seeing Xu Yie over, Erwin punched his shoulder as he spoke with a smile.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other choice, I¡¯m just too handsome.¡±

    Erwinughed, ¡°So cocky. An old bachelor like you and you¡¯re still saying your face is handsome? If Roy and the others heard this, they wouldugh themselves to death.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes.

    Back in the Senkaiser School, because Xu Yi was already twenty four, being much older than most of his ssmates and adding in the fact that he didn¡¯t have time to interact with girls since he was still integrating into this world, he was called an old bachelor by them.

    Xu Yi was helpless in refuting, so he could just let them be.

    ¡°Where¡¯s Rooney and Bob?¡± Xu Yi looked around before asking.

    ¡°They aren¡¯t participating in the Preliminary Grade exam like us, of course they¡¯re not here.¡± Erwin said with a smile.

    ¡°Oh¡­..¡± Xu Yi then remembered, the Magicians Guild exams were separated by grades. The first day was the Primary Grade test and there weren¡¯t any limits. The second day was a test for Primary Grade Magicians and if they passed, they would be Second Grade Magicians.

    The third day was a test for Second Grade Magicians. And so it went like this, with thest day being the exam for Fourth Grade Magicians which is the Fifth Grade exam.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s hurry up and take care of this Primary Grade exam. Don¡¯t you feel it¡¯s embarrassing having the two of us stand here like this?¡± Erwin said.

    ¡°Embarrassing?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before he reacted.

    If one was a magician with outstanding talent, they would have been taught magic since they were young. Normally one would take the Primary Grade exam when they were ten to be an official magician.

    For someone like Erwin who was neen and still hadn¡¯t passed the Primary Grade exam, it meant that he didn¡¯t have an outstanding talent.

    And as for Xu Yi who was already twenty seven and hadn¡¯t passed the Primary Grade exam, his talent must be even lower. In his entire life, it was impossible for him to be a Great Magician.

    Standing among a group of kids who were ten and participating in this exam, no wonder Erwin felt this was embarrassing.

    But it was a good thing it wasn¡¯t just embarrassing for them. Other than them, there were also quite a few magicians in their twenties with average talent. There was even a white haired old man who seemed to be over sixty years old.

    Seeing this old man covered in a ck magic robe, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling respect for him.

    To still persist in participating in the Primary Grade exam at his age, this grandfather must really love magic.

    Very soon, the Magicians Guild staff member in charge announced that the exam would be starting.

    Because this was a Primary Grade exam, other than checking a magician¡¯s magic power, they also needed to test a magician¡¯s fundamental understanding and interpretation of magic. So other than thebat exam, there was a written exam that came first.

    Xu Yi took the exam scroll and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    He had already studied the contents back in the Senkaiser School, but the scope of the questions was a bit deeper.

    Erwin could graduate from the Senkaiser School, so there was definitely no problem passing this written test.

    The reason why he didn¡¯t pass the Primary Grade exam before was obviously because of thebat test.

    No wonder he chose to be an adventurer after graduation. This was because a dangerous job like being an adventurer could let him increase hisbat experience, allowing him to be much more rxed in thebat test.

    No wonder he was filled with confidence this time. It had to be known that this fellow had one of the lowest magical talents among all their roommates.

    The problems on the scroll weren¡¯t any problems for Erwin, so naturally Xu Yi who was considered a genius in the Senkaiser School would find it to be a cinch.

    After less than half an hour, Xu Yi hadpletely answered all the questions on the test paper.

    With his discretion as an engineer, Xu Yi checked over his answers twice. After confirming that there were no problems, he handed in the test paper.

    After leaving the test area, he found that there was already a person waiting there.

    Seeing Xu Yie out, a taunting smile appeared on that person¡¯s face.

    ¡°You actually took this long for a Primary Grade written test, do you still dare say that you don¡¯t have a special rtion to Great Magician Cami?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows to look at this youth who seemed to be underaged still and revealed a thoughtful look. After thinking for a while, he finally pped his hands and pointed at him while shouting, ¡°I finally remember! You¡¯re that person I met when I was registering called what¡­...Anke Galen?¡±

    ¡°Eren!¡± Anke Eren thought that no one would forget him once they saw him, but he never thought that Xu Yi would only remember him after thinking for a while and even got his name wrong. He instantly flew into a rage, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m telling you, you are dead today!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, thinking that this kid must definitely be pampered by his family.

    He was disinclined to arguing with a kid and directly found a ce to sit, patiently waiting for the next test.

    But this manner enraged Anke even more. He came in front of Xu Yi and pointed at Xu Yi¡¯s nose as he said in a loud voice, ¡°Xu Yi, do you hear me? You are dead today!¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly looked up and asked a bit weakly, ¡°Alright, why am I dead?¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Seeing that Xu Yi was finally talking to him, Erenughed into the sky before answering with a proud look, ¡°Because you offended me! Let me tell you, you actually dare to look down on this genius, this genius will definitely ruin your life. Do you know that a person with a special rmendation doesn¡¯t need to take a written exam at all? So why did you take the written exam?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was actually a bit surprised, ¡°Based on your appearance, this was your doing?¡±

    ¡°Of course! Humph, with only a single word from me, not to mention taking away your special rmendation, it¡¯s even easy to directly take away your right to participate in the exam. What? Are you afraid?¡±

    ¡°Aiya, I really am afraid.¡± Xu Yi revealed a fearful look, ¡°Then I¡¯ll ask young master Eren, why did you leave me mercy? Why are you still letting me take the exam?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t even understand this? This is because this genius will destroy you in thebat test and let everyone know the fate of daring to shame this genius!¡± Eren said in a fierce voice.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Although he had heard of a child like this before, one who thought that he could do whatever he wanted since he was pampered since he was young, this was his first time seeing one in real life.

    As facts shown, this kind of child really made people hate him.

    ¡°Eren, I remember thatst time you said that you were a Fourth Grade Magician, right?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    Erenughed as he proudly said, ¡°What? Are you afraid? You can be assured, to take care of trash who hasn¡¯t even passed the Primary Grade exam, I don¡¯t need to use Fourth Grade Magic to take care of you. I can easily take care of you with Second Grade Magic.¡±

    ¡°You really will only use Second Grade Magic?¡± Xu Yi then asked.

    Eren knit his brows, ¡°This genius has always kept his words! You just wait, when I meet you in thebat test, I definitely will only use Second Grade Magic!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile before closing his eyes to ignore Eren.

    Eren wanted to throw a few more threats at him, but seeing Xu Yi close his eyes and clearly looking like he was going to ignore him, he could only angrily leave for now.

    After the written test was over, there were looks of joy and worry on the people leaving the exam site. It seemed like even with this simple magic theory test, there were many people who didn¡¯t pass.

    But Erwin had arge smile and a rxed look, so it could be seen that there was no problem with him passing the written test.

    After the written test, there were a series of other tests. That included the magic test, the magic elemental energy control test, the meditation test, and many other tests. Finally was the most important test, which was thebat test that everyone looked forward to.

    Everyone magician on the Sines Continent knew that a magician¡¯s strength would be measured with actualbat in the end. So, thebat test naturally became the most important test.

    Of course, thebat test wasn¡¯t a fighting tournament, they wouldn¡¯t let participating magicians ughter each other. Rather they had higher grade magicians from the Magicians Guild spar with them, letting these higher grade magicians judge them based on actualbat.

    Normally speaking, the Magicians Guild would sent some rather old magicians with rich experience, but this time everyone noticed something was different.

    In the crowd of magicians where the youngest one was in his forties, there were several young magicians. Among them was a magician who wasn¡¯t even of age yet!

    Seeing Anke Eren looking at him with acent gaze, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    This fellow really put in some effort to deal with him, actually using his connections to be an examiner here.

    And to cover for himself, he even thought to arrange some other young magicians to be examiners with him to avoid making it too obvious.

    There was no need to mention it, when it was time for Xu Yi¡¯s exam, the examiner would definitely be him.

    In the beginning, the participant magicians doubted the young magicians because of their age, but after a few rounds, no one had any more doubts.

    These examiners were young, but their magic power was enough. No matter what kind of methods the examinees used, they couldn¡¯t budge them at all.

    The one who looked underage was even more astonishing. Even with how young he was, whenever he made a move, he either used a Grade Three or Grade Four Spell!

    These magic spells were not considered much in the eyes of powerful magicians, but when they appeared on an underaged magician, it was very shocking.

    With the age and magic level of this youth, he could be considered a rare genius magician of the Lampuri Kingdom!

    While everyone was praising him, it quickly became Xu Yi¡¯s turn to take the test.

    And as expected, the one in charge of his test was Anke Eren.

    Seeing Xu Yi walk onto the stage, Anke Eren¡¯s smile became even morecent. He lowered his voice to say, ¡°Xu Yi, you just wait, no matter what you disy, I will give you the lowest evaluation and won¡¯t let you pass this test. Offending me, I won¡¯t let you even be a Primary Grade Magician!¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all, rather he said with a smile, ¡°Dear young master Eren, do you remember your promise?¡±

    Eren was stunned, but he suddenly remembered and said with a cold snort, ¡°Che, Grade Two Magic is Grade Two Magic. Just with a piece of trash like you, I only need Grade Two Magic to mess you up. I definitely won¡¯t let you disy anything and will let you lose face in front of everyone!¡±

    Xu Yi ignored the rest of his words and nodded with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s good that you remember your promise.¡±

    After a while, Eren hinted to Xu Yi to begin the exam. He raised a hand and a light blue glowing water shield appeared in front of him.

    Xu Yi recognized this water shield as the Second Grade Water Attributed Water Mark Spell. This Eren actually did what he said, but he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile as he raised his hand and sent out a fireball.

    ¡°Just a trivial First Grade Fireball Spell, you actually dare take it out to embarrass yourself¡­..¡± Eren had a cold smile on his face, but he saw the fireball Xu Yi throw out be faster as the red fireball filled with a purple colour. There were even traces of lightning shing in it. He instantly revealed a look of great shock, ¡°It¡¯s actually the Thunder Crack Fireball Spell, how is this possible¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    The fireball suddenly hit Eren¡¯s shield and the water shield swayed before it was cracked by the fireball.

    A powerful force came out of the fireball and Eren only had time to give a grunt before he was sent flying from the stage.

 Volume 1 103 - What benefits can I get?

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 103 What benefits can I get?</strong>

    The entire crowd was silent.

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi on the stage in a daze, as they all felt that there was something wrong with their eyes.

    This fellow was clearly also participating in the Primary Grade exam, so why was it that just by raising his hand, he could send the genius magician who was at least in the Fourth Grade flying?

    Xu Yi looked at Eren lying under the stage not moving at all and gave a coldugh.

    This kid¡¯s magic power wasn¡¯t bad, but his mental endurance and ability to take a hit was too weak. Although his fireball was the Fourth Grade Spell Thunder Crack Fireball, with a powerful might, since he already had the Second Grade Water Mark Spell to defend him, this fireball wouldn¡¯t have done that much damage to him.

    However, this kid actually fainted like this. It was probably because he fainted out of his shock and fear.

    ¡°Magic genius?¡± Xu Yi shook his head and turned to the staff member under the stage to ask, ¡°Does this count as me passing?¡±

    The staff member had an ugly expression as he looked at Eren who had been taken away by a few staff members of the Magicians Guild before looking back at Xu Yi. He calmed himself and gave a slight nod.

    Xu Yi had knocked the examiner flying in front of all these people, if this wasn¡¯t considered passing the test, what could be considered passing?

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi obtained the results he wanted and wasn¡¯t prepared to waste anymore time here. After walking off the stage, he patted the stunned Erwin and said a few words of encouragement to him before leaving the test area. However, he didn¡¯t head back to Anvilmar City and went to a ce even further away from the city.

    Coming out around five kilometers out of the city, he came to an area of t farnd.

    When he was still quite far away, he could hear the mechanical soundsing from the farnd.

    When he came closer, he saw that in this little patch of farnd of around five-six mus, there were three magic machines that were moving through it. There were all kinds of holes created in these fields and all kinds of marks were left.

    Beside each magic machine were several people who followed the magic machine along while recording some things down in the notebooks in their hands.

    To the side was a young man and woman, who was currently pointing at the magic machines in the field as they discussed in a low voice.

    ¡°Hey, mister Harvey, miss Seveni, you¡¯ve already been watching for a day, so what kind of results do you have?¡± Xu Yi greeted the two beside the field in arge voice.

    These two were the two agricultural department officials who had found Xu Yi yesterday and requested that they get a demonstration of the agricultural magic machines.

    After Xu Yi had agreed, the two had very quickly found some people to bring the six agricultural magic machines Xu Yi had brought out of the city and to a test farnd they had already prepared.

    Since yesterday afternoon, these two had been studying the magic machines the entire time and they still hadn¡¯t stopped today. This proved what Harvey had said to Xu Yi, the agricultural department really did put great importance on these magic machines.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, good afternoon.¡± Harvey waved his hand to Xu Yi. His attitude was even warmerpared to yesterday and there was a trace of excitement in his voice, ¡°Although we still haven¡¯t received the final results, I can be certain that chairman Xu isn¡¯t wrong at all. I waspletely shocked by the power of these machines! Look¡­¡­¡± Harvey pointed at therge plot of farnd in front of him, ¡°Thisrge piece ofnd, I just used three people and three machines and in less than a day, they actuallypletely finished loosening the earth, digging the holes, and leaving trenches. If this was to be done with pure manpower, it would take at least twenty adults to finish in the same amount of time!¡±

    The female official called Seveni to the side also gave a slight nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, I somewhat understand now why Count Sean ced such importance on you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. These agricultural magic machines are indeed outstanding, it only took three machines to finish all this hardbour. If it can be poprized, all the destend in the kingdom could be developed and it would greatly increase the harvest of the kingdom. If this matter can be realized, perhaps there would no longer be famine that would ever ur in the kingdom!¡±

    When she reached the end, the always calm Seveni in Xu Yi¡¯s mind actually showed a bit of excitement.

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°That is the goal that me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is chasing. Mister Harvey, miss Seveni, luckily his majesty is wise and appointed you two to have full authority in this matter. Otherwise if it was given to someone like Lord Fisher, I¡¯m very certain that this matter would be suppressed and wouldn¡¯t reach the result that I wished for at all.¡±

    Harvey revealed a faint smile, how could he not hear the warning Xu Yi was giving them? He said with a nod, ¡°I ask chairman Xu to be assured. Agriculture is the base of the kingdom and anything that can raise the harvest will have his majesty¡¯s close attention and importance. The two of us has received his majesty¡¯s orders and no one else is allowed to interfere in this matter. If there is another person like Lord Fisher whoes to bother you, you can directly ignore them.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that¡¯s a bit hard. I am only a small merchant, I am not like you all with his majesty behind you. If I offend someone, whether I can leave Anvilmar City safely is a problem.¡±

    Harvey and Seveni looked at each other before they started smiling.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this matter at all. Everyone now knows that you will have an audience with his majesty soon, so there definitely won¡¯t be anyoneing to cause trouble with you. When you meet his majesty, I can promise that no one will casuallye looking for you to cause trouble in the future. Of course, that is on the premise that we cane to a cooperation in the future.¡±

    The final words were a hidden warning.

    Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°Alright, mister Harvey, I¡¯ll believe your promise for now. But as for the cooperation you mentioned¡­...Can I ask what you are nning to do? How do you want me to cooperate with you?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Harvey fell silent for a while and looked over at Seveni before saying with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, this should have been discussed after you met his majesty, but since you are asking about it now, I might as well disclose a bit to you. We hope that you will give us the production methods for the agricultural magic machines and help our agricultural department set up a production line for the agricultural magic machines, so we can directly poprize these agricultural magic machines in the kingdom.¡±

    After hearing this, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether to be happy or angry.

    It seemed like no matter which world it was, politicians were all shameless.

    Compared to Harvey, those fellows from the Banta City Business Union were even better.

    ¡°Can I ask, what will me and my Frestech Chamber of Commerce gain from this matter?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, there are many gains from this matter, his majesty will definitely give you properpensation.¡± Harvey was not surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s question and said with a full smile, ¡°If this n seeds, his majesty will give you a special award. Which means that as long as you help usplete this n, you will be able to rid yourself of yourmoner identity and officially be a noble.¡±

    ¡°Just this?¡±

    Harvey looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, going from amoner to a noble, this is something that many people dream of. You have to know, other than in times of battle, normally there wouldn¡¯t be a situation where a special award is given.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. He pointed at the magic machines rolling along in the farnd and asked Harvey, ¡°Do you know how much each magic machines costs?¡±

    Harvey and Seveni were stunned. They clearly never thought that Xu Yi would suddenly bring the topic here.

    ¡°This¡­..I¡¯m sorry, I don¡¯t know.¡± Harvey thought about it and honestly shook his head.

    ¡°A small Magic Excavator costs fifty eight gold coins. A small Magic Harvester costs seventy gold coins. A small Magic Plowing Machine costs sixty give gold coins. A small Magic Bulldozer costs sixty gold coins. A¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi said this while looking at their expressions.

    As he listed each machine, Harvey and Seveni¡¯s faces also became ugly.

    When Xu Yi finished, the smiles on their faces hadpletely disappeared.

    Watching the two of them in silence, Xu Yi smiled before continuing, ¡°Banta City is only a small city in the kingdom, but our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already sold over a hundred agricultural magic machines. Then if we use this number to calcte the entire kingdom, I think it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to say it would be over ten thousand machines. Even if each agricultural magic machine only brought an ie of one gold coin, that would be arge profit of ten thousand gold coins. But mister Harvey, ording to your method of cooperation, this is equal to me giving up this profit and exchanging it for a lord title that is just in name, right?¡±

    ¡°No, you will also receive his majesty¡¯s favour and his care.¡± Harvey quickly said, ¡°I think this is very important to you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a ghost of a smile and after seeing his face flush, he said, ¡°Mister Harvey, no one is a child here, there is no need for that rubbish. My thoughts are very simple, to have us cooperate with the agricultural department andplete your ns, increasing the harvest of the kingdom and let everyone have enough to eat, there is no problem here, I¡¯m very willing to cooperate. But ordingly, me and mypany should receive a correspondingpensation. If thispensation cannot satisfy me, I can only say I¡¯m sorry. Perhaps the agricultural department¡¯s n is very good, butpared to this, it would be better for me to implement the n myself. Mister Harvey, I don¡¯t think you¡¯ll doubt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ability to implement the farmer support n by ourselves across the kingdom, right?¡±

 Volume 1 104 - Wanting territory is fine

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 104 Wanting territory is fine</strong>

    Even though the weather was a bit cold, Harvey couldn¡¯t stop the cold sweat from appearing on his forehead. He gave two dryughs before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I may be frank, if you do not have the support of his majesty or the agricultural department and you only rely on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to promote your agricultural magic machines, you will encounter many difficulties.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a rxed smile, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, I¡¯m not in a rush.¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Harvey¡¯s expression instantly changed.

    Seeing that the two were in a stalemate, Seveni who had been silent on the side the entire time suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, just like you said earlier, no one here is a child, so let¡¯s not waste words.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi and said with a serious expression, ¡°There is no meaning in senseless arguing, so let¡¯s honestly discuss the issue. Chairman Xu, you are not satisfied with the proposal Harvey gave just now, that is not a problem. Now, can you tell us your proposal? I think that before you came to Anvilmar City, you¡¯ve already made your ns, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He already knew that although Harvey was the one that usually spoke to him, the one with authority was Seveni. Now that Seveni had spoke, that meant he finally had the chance to bargain with the other side.

    ¡°My proposal isn¡¯tplicated. First, I won¡¯t, or more urately speaking, for now I won¡¯t give the technology for the agricultural magic machines. This is because to be honest, I don¡¯t trust you. Moreover, with your current abilities, even if I give you these technology, you wouldn¡¯t be able to grasp it. So my idea is to have our Frestech Chamber of Commerce continue to manufacture these agricultural magic machines and we can make all kinds of improvements based on the agricultural department¡¯s requests, allowing these agricultural magic machines to adapt to the various terrains of the kingdom. And the work of the agricultural department is very simple, they just need to be a medium. To all the nobles andmon citizens of the kingdom, you just need to advertise these agricultural magic machines to all your might. For nobles, the agricultural department can force them to buy these. As for the normal farmers who can¡¯t afford to buy them, we can continue carrying out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support n. Like this, I think that it won¡¯t take much time for the agricultural magic machines to be promoted across the kingdom, greatly increasing the kingdom¡¯s farming efficiency in a short period of time.¡±

    Harvey¡¯s eyes were wide open. Although he didn¡¯t agree to Xu Yi¡¯s proposal, before Seveni spoke, he could only stare at Xu Yi and not say a thing.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s proposal, Seveni was silent for a bit before she slowly said, ¡°Like this, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can earn arge amount of gold coins by selling the agricultural magic machines? You said that yourpany can receive one gold coin for each agricultural magic machine sold, but I don¡¯t think that¡¯s correct, right? This number might still be too small even if it was multiplied by ten. If yourpany could really sell ten thousand agricultural magic machines in the kingdom, yourpany would earn arge profit of over a hundred thousand gold coins!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°No, dear miss Seveni, your guess is wrong. This number isn¡¯t just multiplied by ten, it could be twenty or even more.¡±

    Harvey couldn¡¯t help shouting out, ¡°Wouldn¡¯t that be two hundred thousand gold coins? God! Our Lampuri Kingdom only had a tax revenue of a million gold coinsst year!¡±

    Seveni red at him and Harvey instantly realized his mistake. He quickly gave an awkward smile and turned around.

    Seveni looked back at Xu Yi and gave a nod, ¡°This kind ofrge profit, no wonder chairman Xu isn¡¯t willing to ept our proposal. But chairman Xu, if you keep this fixed price, even with our help, it would be hard to expand all over the kingdom. Moreover, raising farming efficiency is a kingdom¡¯s most basic policy, so doing this is going against the nation¡¯s policy and would create consequences. I think I don¡¯t need to remind you of this.¡±

    Thisst sentence, there was no doubt that it was a bare threat.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t look nervous at all, rather he still had the same rxed smile. He shook his head and said, ¡°Miss Seveni, I think you¡¯re mistaken. I ampletely in support of this raising farming efficiency n, so I made this farmer support n. I wanted the farmers of Banta City to experience the convenience brought to them by machines, freeing them from their farms. It is because of this that I¡¯ve decided toe to Anvilmar and cooperate with the agricultural department. Otherwise why wouldn¡¯t I just stay in Banta City,fortably and slowly selling these magic machines?¡±

    Seveni gave a slight nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, the fact that you can have this thought means that you aren¡¯t a normal merchant with dull eyes. But chairman Xu, I still don¡¯t understand, why do you keep insisting on selling the agricultural magic machines yourself? Don¡¯t you know that this several dozen gold coins price even for some small nobles isn¡¯t a small amount?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because of business rules. Since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already sold agricultural magic machines in Banta City and have already set a price, if other ces also had the same agricultural magic machines and the price was lower by several dozen gold coins, what would those people in Banta City who have already bought these magic machines think? How could our Frestech Chamber of Commerce face them? So the price cannot be changed, but¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic.

    ¡°The price cannot be changed, but that does not mean other ces can¡¯t be changed. Miss Seveni, I hope the tax department can give some tax rebates for the agricultural magic machines that we produce. At the same time, I hope that the agricultural department can give a document saying that everyone who buys an agricultural magic machine will be able to receive some benefits from the kingdom¡¯s agricultural department. This benefit can be in the form of a fund or some tax rebates, in short, giving somemoners some real benefits andpensations.¡±

    Seveni knit her brows, ¡°Your thoughts aren¡¯t bad, but¡­...the agricultural department doesn¡¯t have that much money¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Money is not a problem.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can take out this money and you can think of the amount.¡±

    Seveni and Harvey were stunned.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are providing tax deductions for the agricultural magic machines and taking care of the reimbursements, could it be that you aren¡¯t nning on making money on these agricultural magic machines?¡± Seveni said in a shocked voice, ¡°This is different from what you just said. If you really aren¡¯t nning on earning money, you might as well have agreed to Harvey¡¯s proposal.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, this ispletely different.¡± Xu Yi kept shaking his head, ¡°ording to mister Harvey¡¯s proposal, me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be a dependent of the agricultural department and wouldn¡¯t have any authority at all. I cannot ept this at all.¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Her smile was different from Still¡¯s. If Still¡¯s smile was like a peerlessly gorgeous rose in full bloom, her smile was like a lotus that was slowly blooming.

    ¡°Chairman Xu really isn¡¯t someone who is willing to be under others. Fine, chairman Xu, since you are giving up suchrge profit, what do you want to gain.¡± Seveni asked, ¡°Don¡¯t tell me that you are doing all this for the normalmoners?¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not that noble.¡± Xu Yi stretched out a finger, ¡°I only have one request, that is to get a piece of territory that belongs to me.¡±

    ###

    As the lights lit up in the night, Anvilmar City was even more livelypared to the day. People walked about in groups of twos and threes, strolling in the streets, filling the entire city with noise.

    Only when this noise came to a wide residence in the west of the city, it was like it had been cut off by someone¡¯s hand.

    The president of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild Palmes Eren was sitting in the living room. There was a cup of tea in his hand, but he didn¡¯t take a single sip as it was unknown what he was thinking.

    Knowing that the master was not happy, the servants of the manor all went about cautiously. Not to mention them keeping their voices down, they even walked along as soft as cats, trying to make as little sound as possible.

    Therge manor was usually quite lively, but now it was like a ghost town, iparably silent.

    After a while, a beautiful woman who was still under forty walked out from the inner parts of the manor. After seeing Palmes Eren, her eyes turned red and tears fell down.

    ¡°Old master, Anke¡¯s injuries are that serious, you must take revenge for him!¡± The beautiful middle ageddy begged in a pained voice.

    Palmes Eren looked at her before saying with a cold snort, ¡°What revenge? That brat doesn¡¯t even learn properly and wanted to teach someone a lesson to get taken care of himself, do we still have to cause trouble for that person? The lesson that he learned this time will be helpful to him. It¡¯ll stop him from not knowing the depths of heaven and earth, or he¡¯ll eventually really be taken care of.¡±

    Seeing that Palmes Eren wasn¡¯t listening to her pleading, the beautiful middle aged woman didn¡¯t give up.

    She only had Anke Eren as a son and had spoiled him since he was young. Seeing him being brought back after being knocked out by someone else, she almost fainted on the spot.

    Palmes Eren had a headache from her crying and impatiently scolded her, chasing back into the inner parts of the manor.

    The things that happened at the test site today, the staff members of the Magicians Guild had exined everything to him.

    No matter how he looked at it, one could only me Anke Eren for this matter. Even if Palmes Eren spoiled him like his wife, he couldn¡¯t say anything on this matter.

    Of course, in normal circumstances, he would definitely help his precious son vent his anger. He would definitely make it so that the person who injured his son wouldn¡¯t have a good life.

    But the key thing was that the fellow who had injured his son was called Xu Yi.

    Palmes Eren was not familiar with this name and at first thought that this fellow was hiding his strength. He clearly had enough power to beat his son, but he went to participate in the Primary Grade exam.

    But after investigating this matter, he found that this Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that simple.

    First, he came from Banta City and was participating in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam on Great Magician Cami¡¯s special rmendation.

    Next, he was a colleague of Duke Stagg¡¯s son Viscount Leslie. They came to Anvilmar City together from Banta City and it seemed like they were quite close.

    Then, this Xu Yi¡¯s residence in Anvilmar City was actually Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Sean Samo¡¯s other residence.

    This Xu Yi was not some official from Banta City and was only a normal merchant. For him to enter this other residence, it meant that his rtionship with Count Sean was quite good.

    Finally, which was also the most important point, this fellow was actually being summoned by his majesty tomorrow!

    Palmes Eren couldn¡¯t help rubbing his pounding head.

    If it was a normal low grade magician, he had his methods to take care of the other side to take revenge for his son. But there were all these important people that he couldn¡¯t ignore that were rted to Xu Yi, so he had to be much more prudent in how he took care of this.

    Being a prudent and oversuspicious old person who was approaching sixty, Palmes Eren even suspected that this Xu Yi had been sent by one of his enemies to deliberately hurt Anke Eren and dig a hole for him to jump in.

    As long as he dared make a move against Xu Yi, perhaps he would be met with great resistance.

    ¡°This fellow called Xu Yi, just where did hee from?¡± Palmes Eren knit his brows and after thinking for a while, he didn¡¯t have the slightest clue.

    A servant quickly ran in with a strange expression.

    ¡°Old master, there¡¯s a guest here.¡±

    Palmes Eren angrily waved his hand, ¡°I¡¯m not in any mood to see any guests, send him away.¡±

    That servant didn¡¯t leave and after hesitating a bit, he said, ¡°Old master, he says he is called Xu Yi.¡±

    Palmes Eren suddenly stood up from his seat in shock.

    This Xu Yi, he actually came to look for him!

 Volume 1 105 - Thesis paper

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 105 Thesis paper</strong>

    On his trip to Anvilmar this time, Xu Yi had done many important things, but the most important thing was still clearly his audience with the king.

    He didn¡¯t participate in the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam the next day, so Xu Yi cancelled all his ns. He rejected Erwin, Rooney, and Bob¡¯s invitation and calmly prepared himself in the office.

    After eating breakfast, Xu Yi had a rare moment of rest. Then he began thinking about his meeting with Palmes Erenst night.

    When he first saw Anke Eren at the Magicians Guild, Xu Yi had just treated him as a magic genius who had be an arrogant child because of it. However, after learning from chatting with Viscount Leslie that this fellow was the son of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild¡¯s president Palmes Eren, Xu Yi began to think about this matter.

    After meeting that fellow at the exam yesterday, Xu Yi had deliberately angered him, creating a hole for him to jump into to injure him without holding back. Actually, this was all for creating an appropriate reason for meeting Palmes Eren.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current identity, even with the special rmendation of Great Magician Cami, it was impossible for him to go meet the high up Magicians Guild¡¯s president.

    So after injuring his son, Xu Yi had obtained these qualifications.

    After hearing that Xu Yi was there to meet him, Palmes Eren met Xu Yi without any hesitation.

    He wanted to teach Xu Yi a lesson to help vent for his son, but after Xu Yi came with full sincerity and adding in the fact that he had brought a rare gift that was worth over three hundred gold coins, Palmes Eren found it hard to vent his anger.

    In the end, this matter was Anke Eren¡¯s fault to begin with, so he couldn¡¯tin to Xu Yi at all.

    Xu Yi¡¯s attitude had been shown, so Palmes Eren could only suppress his anger to seriously talk to Xu Yi.

    Having this rare chance to talk to the president of the Magicians Guild, Xu Yi quickly changed the topic to his real goal. That was hoping that the Magicians Guild could protected Magic Arrays with patents.

    Xu Yi had raised this request to the Magicians Guild before through Great Magician Cami, but it had been directly rejected.

    Now that Xu Yi was mentioning this in front of Palmes Eren, naturally he wouldn¡¯t be direct. He smartly first proposed a Magic Fan Magic Array protection patent, which meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could pay the Magicians Guild a certain fee each year. He didn¡¯t directly propose aplete protection patent n.

    Although Palmes Eren didn¡¯t give any explicit indications, Xu Yi could see that this Magicians Guild president was very excited about the patent protection fee that Xu Yi proposed.

    After seeing this kind of reaction, Xu Yi didn¡¯t continue discussing this matter.

    This was his first time meeting Palmes Eren, he didn¡¯t want to decide such a longsting event on the first meeting.

    It was good as long as the president was excited. Xu Yi believed that after Palmes Eren and the Magicians Guild learnt that these protection patents can bringrge amounts of profit to the Magicians Guild, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t need to do anything else and they would put in all their effort to make this bill pass.

    This point was also applicable to Xu Yi¡¯s meeting with the king.

    Xu Yi in the end was just a small merchant from Banta City and him passing the Primary Grade exam didn¡¯t add much to his status. With his identity, it would be impossible for him to see the king in a normal situation.

    The reason why the king took the initiative to summon him was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines did indeed change farnd. It raised had a great effect on increasing the efficiency of farming.

    Although Banta City had only undergone a single fall harvest, the role the agricultural magic machines had yed was something that no one could ignore. Therefore the sharp eyed Count Sean Samo had reported this upwards.

    To the Lampuri Kingdom, agriculture was without a doubt the most important thing. Anything that could increase the efficiency of farming would be viewed as important to the king, so Xu Yi had obtained the chance to have an audience with the king.

    Xu Yi was very clear that being summoned by the king this time, it would greatly affect him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    If he could obtain the support of the king, it would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop in the long run.

    But to receive the support of the king, clearly he had to show something that gave the king great benefits.

    For the king, this benefit is the increase in farming efficiency.

    ¡°Perhaps I should raise the importance of increasing farming efficiency in increasing national power?¡± Xu Yi stroked his chin and looked at the half finished n in front of him, filling his heart with doubt.

    The n that he was prepared to submit to the king only mentioned the changes to farnd with the agricultural magic machines, thus increasing the farming efficiency. He only went as far as mentioning the increase of harvest and didn¡¯t go any further, only mentioning the influence freeing up the farming workforce could bring.

    As someone who had transmigrated from earth and was very familiar with the history of the industrial revolution on earth, Xu Yi could guess in advance the changes this would bring. But for the people of the Sines Continent who were living in a half ve and half feudal society, this waspletely new ground for them.

    Industrial revolution? Greatly increasing productive power? Technological innovation?

    These words didn¡¯t have any meaning on the Sines Continent, so naturally the people of the continent didn¡¯t understand what these words represented.

    After seriously thinking about it, Xu Yi decided to mention a few more trends.

    Showing that he had good foresight to the king was a good thing, this could make the king attach great importance to him.

    Of course, his foresight couldn¡¯t go too far.

    There was a sentence that said that one step ahead made one a genius and ten steps ahead made one a lunatic.

    The n proposal came to less than five thousand words and Xu Yi spent most of the morning finishing it.

    During this time he had amended it three times, even going over every word of the n, in order to ensure that they could properly demonstrate his words as best as possible. He had to allow the king and the staff members under him topletely understand the meaning of these words.

    After finalizing everything, Xu Yi carefully looked it over again. After making sure that he didn¡¯t miss anything, he carefully reorganize this n proposal.

    Seeing a nk area on the top of the paper, Xu Yi thought about it before finally writing the title ¡°the importance of liberating farming workforce¡±.

    After he finished the title, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    After adding this title, this n proposal seemed more like a thesis paper.

    Although Xu Yi had written quite a few thesis papers since starting university, most of his thesis paper had been rted to mechanical engineering. This was his first time writing this kind of sociological thesis paper.

    Carefully putting the n proposal away, Xu Yi looked at the sky outside the window and found that it was close to noon.

    There was still an hour before lunch. Xu Yi thought about it before walking out of his room and heading to another room not far away.

    Opening the door to this room that was quite a bit smaller, he saw Sancheli sitting at a desk, heaving out sighs as he faced a nk piece of paper.

    There were abandoned scrunched up balls of paper all over the foot of the table, it seemed like Sancheli had been working quite a bit already.

    ¡°How is it? You still can¡¯t write it?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Sancheli suddenly looked up and after seeing Xu Yi, he looked like he was going to cry.

    After being in this yard for two whole days, not only had Sancheli changed into clean clothes, he had also washed up and cleaned his hair and beard, making him look like a new person. Other than his face looking a bit pale from being malnourished, he was no different from a normal person.

    But now that he had a long face, adding in his skinny face from being malnourished for so long, it looked a bit ugly and a bit shocking.

    ¡°Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you say that you wanted to hire me to research magic? Why are you having me write this damn theory? I don¡¯t know what this is about at all.¡± Sancheli said with a sigh.

    Xu Yi picked up several scrunched up paper balls from the ground and found that there were some incoherent words written on the papers, as well as some drawings. If one looked at each piece of paper, no one would be able to understand what each paper meant.

    Afterparing the things written on several pieces of paper, Xu Yi thought about it before looking at Sancheli to say, ¡°It seems like you don¡¯t understand what I mean. How about this, I¡¯ll say it again. Sancheli, the Magic Array that your crystal ball uses, it was researched all by yourself, right?¡±

    Sancheli nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, I discovered it alone and no one helped.¡±

    ¡°Since you discovered it alone, you should understand the details of this Magic Array, right?¡± Xu Yi then asked.

    Sancheli immediately patted his chest, ¡°Of course, I¡¯ve gone over that Magic Array over a thousand times and I can remember any line on it.¡±

    ¡°Then why can¡¯t you write it down?¡± Xu Yi looked at him with a frown, ¡°I want you to write the difference between your Magic Array and a normal Magic Array, and since you have suchprehension of this Magic Array, why can¡¯t you write it down?¡±

    Actually, what Xu Yi wanted to obtain from Sancheli was why he was able to set the function of his Magic Array before it was finished.

    If he could discover this point and develop on it, it would definitely create a leap in magic machines that Xu Yi hoped for.

 Volume 1 106 - Visit to the royal palace

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 106 Visit to the royal pce</strong>

    However, even if Sancheli was the person who discovered this Magic Array, he didn¡¯t seem to understand why it was like this at all.

    Moreover, he didn¡¯t understand the important meaning this Magic Array had, so naturally he couldn¡¯tprehend Xu Yi¡¯s meaning.

    Even if Xu Yi tries very hard to exin it to him and Sancheli worked hard for an entire day, he still couldn¡¯t write anything.

    Seeing Sancheli distressed and speechless appearance, Xu Yi took a deep breath and thought that perhaps he was being too forceful and hasty.

    The magicians of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t care about this aspect at all before, forcing them to have the same ideas as him waspletely impossible.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi calmed down and said to Sancheli in a slow voice, ¡°How about this, don¡¯t worry about what I said before. From now on, you just have to record every detail of this Magic Array. I¡¯ll make it a bit more simple, you just need to teach this Magic Array to me and let me grasp every aspect, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Sancheli thought about it, ¡°This¡­..Sir chairman, if I teach this to you, will you still need me?¡±

    Seeing Sancheli¡¯s anxious appearance and the cunning look hidden in his eyes, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    This fellow, when he was dead inside as a beggar, he didn¡¯t care about anything. Why was it that after being full for two days, he hadpletely changed?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t like this kind of people, but he knew he couldn¡¯t just tell him to scram now. So he coldly looked at him and said, ¡°What are you afraid of? You think I would go back on a promise?¡±

    Sancheli didn¡¯t say anything, but the expression on his face disclosed the thoughts that he had.

    ¡°Blind fool!¡± Xu Yi gave a snort in his heart. He dug into his chest and threw ten gold coins onto the table.

    ¡°Here, this is the first month¡¯s wage paid in advance, take it now. If you can let me understand this Magic Array, I will give you five gold coins as a reward. Other than that¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi took a paper from the table and took the pen from Sancheli¡¯s hand as he quickly drew a Magic Array on it, ¡°This is a Burning Magic Array, study it and then make changes to it based on my request. If you seed, you¡¯ll receive another ten gold coins as a reward.¡±

    Sancheli¡¯s eyes instantly lit up, ¡°Sir chairman, what are your requests?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. You should have seen a standard Burning Magic Array before. A weak me will appear after the Magic Array is activated, but my request is to have this me burn in this Magic Array for five minutes before it extinguishes itself.¡±

    Sancheli was stunned, ¡°Then just cut off the magic power supply.¡±

    ¡°Let me finish. My meaning is to have the me extinguish, but to have the array still active. After two minutes, the mes will appear again and will extinguish after burning for five minutes. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi said with a serious face.

    Sancheli thought about it before revealing a difficult expression.

    ¡°This¡­...To have the Magic Array remain active while not letting out mes¡­...Sir chairman, what about the heat of the Magic Array? It can¡¯t be that you want to have the Magic Array make the heat disappear, right? That would turn this magic array into apletely different magic array.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a nod of praise. Although Sancheli was a bit greedy and a bit sly, his mind was sharp enough.

    ¡°No. My request isn¡¯t to have the heat of the Magic Array disappear, but to maintain the heat without needing the me, do you understand?¡±

    Sancheli let out a sigh of relief. After thinking about it, he said with a smile, ¡°That is much simpler. Sir chairman, give me a bit of time, I should be able toplete this task. But¡­..¡± Sancheli hesitated a bit before revealing a ttering smile, ¡°Sir chairman, this¡­...Can you pay these ten gold coins to me in advance as well? If you can do ten, five is also good¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Sancheli for a while, forcing him to lower his head before taking out ten gold coins and putting them on the table.

    ¡°Sancheli, as long as you can contribute to thepany, money is not a problem. But I hope that you will not hide anything from me.¡±

    ¡°Of course not, I definitely wouldn¡¯t hide anything from sir chairman.¡± Sancheli gave two dryughs. There was no hesitation at all in his hands as he swept those ten gold coins into his pocket.

    Xu Yi looked at Sancheli with a forced smile on his face with knitted brows. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that this fellow could control Magic Arrays by programming them, he wouldn¡¯t be willing to hire him at all.

    After eating lunch, Xu Yi continued to discuss this matter with Sancheli.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s magic talent and deep knowledge of Magic Arrays, he quickly grasped the Wind Magic Array Sancheli had ced on the crystal ball.

    It had to be said, the Wind Magic Array Sancheli discovered really was unique. Although it wasn¡¯t asplicated as Xu Yi thought, only being a bit moreplicated than a normal Revolving Wind Array, there were many details that were different.

    And it was because there were these minute differences that maderge changes to the manifestation of this Magic Array.

    But after grasping these details, it didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi hadpletely grasped this Magic Array.

    Although he couldpletely reproduce this Magic Array, causing the Magic Array to have the same programmed effects as when it was ced on the crystal ball like before, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t very clear just what made this Magic Array different from other Magic Arrays.

    What Xu Yi needed was a summary of the set rules of programming Magic Arrays and not to just understand a single Magic Array.

    Another part of industry was to poprize and mass produce, not to just create a single exception.

    But even Sancheli himself didn¡¯t know what the theory behind this was because he had discovered this special Wind Magic Array by ident, it was not because he had finished aplete set of theories.

    So when they were studying Magic Arrays together, Xu Yi supervised Sancheli as he research the Fire Magic Array he had him study, telling Sancheli to clearly state his thoughts when he was researching this.

    After researching with Sancheli, Xu Yi believed that he could find a rule that he couldpile into aplete theory to apply to other Magic Arrays.

    Being lost in research caused time to fly. Xu Yi had only had a slight view of the solution when time had already passed into the afternoon. Someone came from the pce to tell him to enter the pce to wait for his audience with the king.

    After confirming that this person did indeede from the pce, Xu Yi gathered his things and followed that person, leaving the office.

    When he had taken strolls in Anvilmar City, Xu Yi had approached the pce before, but he had only take a few looks and had never approached it before.

    Now that he had been summoned by the king, Xu Yi could finally openly walk into the pce. This filled his heart with a bit of excitement.

    It was not just because he could discuss business matters after seeing the king, it was also because of being able to enter the pce itself.

    Although there were many historic royal pces left in many countries on earth, Xu Yi never had the chance to enter them. He had some understanding of them through what he saw on television and other news sources, but of course he had never personally experienced entering them.

    Only after entering the Lampuri Kingdom Royal Pce to the north of Anvilmar City, Xu Yi was a bit disappointed.

    This pce didn¡¯t look that big from the outside, being around the size of two-three football stadiums from earth. Xu Yi found that although the inside was decorated quite luxuriously, there wasn¡¯t anything that really surprised him. It was far fromparing to the magnificent royal pces that Xu Yi had imagined.

    Looking at this average royal pce, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help making estimates in hiss heart.

    A royal pce was a demonstration of national power. The reason why the Lampuri Kingdom Royal Pce wasn¡¯t as luxurious is most likely caused by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national power.

    As a normal small kingdom to the central southwest of the Sines Continent, the Lampuri national power couldn¡¯tpare to the only two empires on the Sines Continent, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire. Even among the kingdoms of the same size, they could only be considered at the medium or low level, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t have a strong national power.

    Of course, a pce wouldn¡¯t have to be poor if a country wasn¡¯t strong. For example, there were poverty stricken countries with sky high government official buildings to show off their power, not looking poor at all. Compared to this, even though the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t that strong, they could decorate the royal pce this luxuriously which still shocked people.

    The current appearance was because the Lampuri Kingdom royal family had always been thrifty, leaving behind a tradition seeking effectiveness over appearances.

    Adding in the turmoil in the Lampuri Kingdom over the past ten years, greatly decreasing its national power, the king had been even more stringent and didn¡¯t allow any wasteful spending at all. This royal pce hadn¡¯t been repaired in ten years and it was around the same as the manors of some nobles.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes saw quite a few marks inside the royal pce, with the paint peeling off quite a few walls. He thought that if this king really cared about efficiency more than vanity like the rumours said, his ideas would be more easily epted by the king.

    As a mechanical engineer, Xu Yi appreciated this kind of character because in the machine industry, not a single bit of error was allowed.

    After the servant guided Xu Yi into the royal pce, they didn¡¯t bring him far. After going through two corridors, they brought him to a small room to rest for now.

    ¡°Wait a minute.¡± Xu Yi called out the servant who was about to leave, ¡°Can I ask, to have mee this early, is there some special order?¡±

    The servant replied without any expression, ¡°Noment, I am just following orders to lead you here.¡±

    Looking at the servant whose facial expressions were like stone, Xu Yi knew that he couldn¡¯t get anything out of him, so he just waved his hand.

    Unexpected to Xu Yi, after the servant left, there was no one who came to call him.

    Xu Yi had been alone in the room for close to half an hour and finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore, so he stood up.

    When he stood up, he found that the door to this little room had been blocked by something from the outside!

    Xu Yi¡¯s face instantly fell.

    It seemed like he had fallen into a trap.

 Volume 1 107 - Only a chess piece

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 107 Only a chess piece</strong>

    Putting his hand on the door, Xu Yi wanted to use force when a chill filled his heart and he withdrew his hand.

    In that instant, he clearly felt a strange magic fluctuationing from the door.

    On this ordinary door, there was actually Magic Array!

    If Xu Yi kept using force, the Magic Array would definitely have been activated.

    Xu Yi felt into deep thought before stretching out his hand again.

    His finger softly touched the door and Xu Yi felt a very faint magicing from his finger. He investigated the Magic Array on the door bit by bit.

    In order to research suitable magic machines, Xu Yi had reached a very high realm in terms of researching Magic Arrays, so he easily recognized that it was a Third Grade Wind Magic Array on the door, the Wind Burst Array.

    Once this Magic Array was activated, it would send out intense air currents from the Magic Array.

    Although a Third Grade Magic Array wasn¡¯t strong, with the wind gusts being unable to take people¡¯s lives, the gusts of wind would still be able to send people flying. Even if they didn¡¯t die, they would still be injured.

    After checking the door to the room, Xu Yi moved his finger from the door to the wall and investigated the faint magic energy traces on the wall.

    In the end, he found that other than the door, there were actually Wind Burst Arrays ced on all four walls and the two windows!

    This meant that in this room that wasn¡¯t too big and didn¡¯t seem that outstanding, it had actually been turned into a little jail cell!

    Xu Yi took back his hand and slightly knit his brows.

    The person whoid this trap didn¡¯t seem to want to take his life, they just wanted to trap him here for a bit.

    But this was the royal pce and wouldn¡¯t others notice if he had been trapped here for a long time?

    Xu Yi thought about this and instantly understood.

    The other side should be trying to ruin his audience with the king.

    Xu Yi had left the office at around four and had spent around half an hour on the way to the pce. Adding in the time he had spent waiting here, it was almost five which was Xu Yi¡¯s time for his audience with the king.

    Perhaps the person who prepared the trap didn¡¯t want to get him stuck here, they just wanted to trap him for a while and make him unable to make it to his audience with the king on time.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s heart sunk.

    With his current status, being able to obtain an audience with the king was very hard to get. If he missed this rare opportunity and showed upte to the meeting, he would without a doubt leave a bad impression on the king.

    Even if Xu Yi could exin this, it wasn¡¯t certain if he would have the chance to have another audience with the king. Even if he did, it wouldn¡¯t mean that the king would trust him.

    No matter what, if he missed this chance, it would be a veryrge hit to the n that Xu Yi had in his heart.

    Time was short and although Xu Yi had many questions in his heart, he didn¡¯t have time to think it over. Taking a look at the gate that was shut, he gave a soft snort and pped it.

    Magic that was several times stronger than when he was investigating came out of his palm and instantly countless lines covered the door to the room.

    The Wind Burst Array on the door was already covered by Xu Yi¡¯s magic, but there wasn¡¯t any signs of triggering. Instead, it was being erased bit by bit by Xu Yi¡¯s magic.

    After a while, a weak blue glow came from the door and then a breeze blew through the air, slightly moving Xu Yi¡¯s hair.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. The Wind Burst Array on the door had already been broken by him and couldn¡¯t be activated anymore.

    After losing the obstruction of the Wind Burst Array, Xu Yi just needed to make a small change to the Wind Magic on the door and break the plug blocking the door.

    With a ¡°zhiya¡± sound, the door opened.

    ¡°Relying on a Third Grade Array to stop me, you really are looking down on me too much.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort. He kicked open the door.

    When he wanted to walk out, several figures suddenly appeared outside the door and blocked Xu Yi off.

    ¡°Who is it? Daring to be this audacious in the pce! Catch him for me!¡±

    With an angry roar, threerge men wearing the uniform of pce guards charged at Xu Yi.

    Seeing these three fierce men charging at him, Xu Yi hesitated a bit.

    Breaking property wasn¡¯t a problem, but if he moved against the pce guards, it would really cause trouble.

    But he couldn¡¯t hesitate at this time, as three guards were already in front of him. If he didn¡¯t react, they would have caught him.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart. He raised his hand and prepare to shoot out a spell.

    ¡°Stop!¡±

    At that time, someone roared out.

    The three guards had already grabbed Xu Yi when they heard this sound from behind them. They immediately stopped and not a single person moved.

    Xu Yi was stunned and took two steps back, scattering the magic he had already gathered. He looked at where the sound came from and was also stunned.

    The one who had suddenly appeared to stop the guards was actually Harvey.

    Noticing that Xu Yi was looking at him, Harvey gave a nod of acknowledgement to Xu Yi before looking at the guard who seemed to be themander and saying in a sharp voice, ¡°What is going on here?¡±

    The guard immediately gave a bow to Harvey and responded in a loud voice, ¡°Reporting to the Lord Viscount, we were patrolling nearby when we rushed over after hearing strange sounds and then we saw¡­¡­¡± The guardmander pointed at Xu Yi, ¡°He came out of the room breaking the door. I don¡¯t recognize this person and thought he was an assassin, so was prepared to capture him to interrogate him.¡±

    Harvey knit his brows as he thought for a bit before waving his hand, ¡°Alright, there is nothing for you here. You can leave.¡±

    The guardmander hesitated a bit, ¡°Lord Viscount, but he¡­..¡±

    Harvey looked at him, ¡°He is his majesty¡¯s guest, do you need me to exin this to you?¡±

    The guardmander trembled before he quickly straightened himself and shook his head.

    ¡°Then why aren¡¯t you leaving yet? What are you standing like a fool for?¡± Harvey then shouted.

    The guardmander looked at Xu Yi before leaving with the other guards.

    When they left, Harvey came to Xu Yi¡¯s side with a dark look and asked in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, what is going on here?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before telling him everything that happened after he came to the pce.

    After he finished listening to Xu Yi, Harvey knit his brows. It was clear that he didn¡¯t understand, but he only thought about it for a bit before shaking his head and saying, ¡°There¡¯s no time to think about it now. Chairman Xu, it¡¯ll be your audience with his majesty soon. Come with me, I¡¯ll bring you to see his majesty.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and followed Harvey in another direction.

    After walking in silence for a bit, Harvey looked to see if anyone was around before asking Xu Yi in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, when you see his majestyter, I ask you not to mention this matter.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him before giving a nod with a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, I know how to separate important matters.¡±

    Harvey gave a nod of praise, ¡°Chairman Xu truly is a wise person. Let me tell you some good news, after his majesty saw the results of our experiments over these past few days, he was very satisfied with them and has great praise for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When you see himter, as long as what you demonstrate can satisfy him, he will definitely give you a rich reward.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Rewards don¡¯t matter, it¡¯s fine as long as his majesty can ept my proposal.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s depend on if chairman Xu can convince his majesty.¡± Harvey said with a smile.

    After walking through another part of the pce, Harvey brought Xu Yi to arge garden before suddenly stopping.

    ¡°I can only bring you here. There will be another servant to bring you inter and then you¡¯ll be able to see his majesty.¡± Harvey thought about it before warning in a low voice, ¡°Remember, don¡¯t say too much.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and was a bit surprised that he was this nervous.

    This was the royal pce, did Harvey think that what just happened could be hidden from the master of the royal pce?

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t ask the question in his heart and just gave a slight nod to show he understood.

    Harvey then waved at a servant to the side and exined Xu Yi¡¯s identity to him before hinting to Xu Yi to follow the servant.

    When Xu Yi wanted to move forward, it was like he had suddenly remembered something and stopped.

    After pausing for a bit, Xu Yi came to Harvey¡¯s side and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, ¡°Viscount Harvey, since his majesty has taken interest in the agricultural magic machines, the best method is to let nature take its course and not do anything extra. Otherwise if too many things are added, it would be hard to expect something happening.¡±

    Harvey¡¯s eyes shrunk slightly as his gaze looking at Xu Yi suddenly became sharp.

    After looking at Xu Yi for a while, Harvey said in a voice that was much colder than before, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are an intelligent person, you should know that many things today are unrted to you. You do not have the ability to meddle in them.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and thought that this Harvey really wasn¡¯t deep enough. Just a casual poke by him and he had revealed his true colours already.

    Of course, it was also likely that he disdained hiding things in front of Xu Yi. In the end, it was like he had said, with Xu Yi¡¯s current identity and power, there were many things he couldn¡¯t meddle in.

    So even though he knew that the matter after he came into the pce was rted to a battle between important people and he was just treated like a chess piece, he didn¡¯t have any method to resist and couldn¡¯t even express any opinion.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much about this. Anyway, the battle between important people weren¡¯t too rted to him and it was all good as long as he aplished his goal.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi shook his head, throwing away all the thoughts that weren¡¯t rted to this matter and focusing his mind again.

    If he treated establishing an industrial system as a war, then this meeting with the king was without a doubt an important campaign at the beginning of the war.

 Volume 1 108 - I have some very valuable things

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 108 I have some very valuable things</strong>

    ¡°Your majesty, this picture is the scene after a small Magic Harvester harvests the wheat.¡± Xu Yi spread a picture on the table, enthusiastically exining this to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s King Keynes Lampuri, ¡°Look, the wheat in the field is very rich and if it was harvested with manpower, it would take three days to an entire week before it could be done. Then it would take another two days using a cow turned stone roller to peel it all. Finally it would take about a day topletely extract all the grains. Moreover, once the weather changes, it will greatly affect this process.¡±

    ¡°This entire process together takes around ten days to half a month and the effects aren¡¯t good, therefore it would waste many grains of wheat and wheat that can¡¯t be unshelled in time. But if we use our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s small Magic Harvester, this wheat field could be finished harvesting in just an hour. Look, after this wheat is taken from the front of this small Magic Harvester, it only takes the blink of an eye for it to turn into wheat grains spat out the back. The person in charge just needs to prepare the bag at the back of the harvester, look how much effort that saves!¡±

    King Keynes Lampuri was forty eight years old this year and was in the prime of his life. He had a rectangr face and a serious expression, without any extra fat on his body. It could be seen that he paid great attention to exercising, clearly having a lot of energy.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s eloquent speech, he only sometimes cut in to ask about a few details. Most of the time, he seriously listened to him and only stopped to reveal a thoughtful expression.

    After seeing Xu Yi¡¯s introduction of the small Magic Harvestering to an end, King Heynes thought about it before suddenly asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, you keep saying small. Does that mean that there is a bigger version of the Magic Harvester?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He never thought that after the king listened to him for a while, he would first ask about this.

    ¡°Your majesty¡¯s guesses aren¡¯t wrong. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will soon promote medium Magic Harvesters and then will promote somerge Magic Harvesters. Of course, in my n, there will be many models of the Magic Harvester to deal with different requirements. This will not be limited to the specifications of small, medium, andrge.¡±

    King Heynes gave a slight nod, ¡°Not bad, you can think of this which means that you didn¡¯t juste up with the small Magic Harvester based on sudden inspiration. I thought that with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce making all kinds of novel magic machines without stopping, this small Magic Harvester was only a temporary thought for you. I was worried that you didn¡¯t consider everything and was afraid that you were justing here to sell me these things. Looking at it now, I¡¯ve underestimated you.¡±

    Xu Yi said in surprise, ¡°Your majesty, hearing your tone, you already had a long term n in ce?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± King Heynes revealed a faint smile, ¡°I understand Count Sean and I didn¡¯t doubt the description of his letter, so I didn¡¯t doubt the powerful ability of the agricultural magic machines that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced. But I couldn¡¯t confirm if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce had even more abilities. Like the different kinds of Magic Harvesters you mentioned earlier, although our Lampuri Kingdom mainly has ins, there areplicated terrain. It is impossible to use a single kind of Magic Harvester on all those different kinds of terrain. Moreover, if your agricultural magic machines could only work on the terrain near Banta City, it would have lost most of its value in being promoted.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Your majesty, does this mean you have already agreed?¡±

    King Heynesughed, ¡°If it can increase the harvest, why wouldn¡¯t I agree? Actually when I decided to summon you, I already made the decision to promote these magic machines. The only problem was how to promote them.¡±

    Aftering saying this, King Heynes stopped and looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.

    Xu Yi immediately understood. The real discussion wasing.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Your majesty, I still insist on my basic conditions which is that the technology for the agricultural magic machines won¡¯t be given to the agricultural department. If you must insist, perhaps I won¡¯t be able to reject, but me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce won¡¯t participate in promoting the agricultural magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yi nervously looked at the king after saying this.

    He was very clear that in this half ve and half feudal society, there was no doubt of the king¡¯s authority. If the king insisted on Xu Yi giving up the technology, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t resist at all and could only hand it over.

    But like this, it was equal to Xu Yi losing out on therge agricultural magic machine market and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will suffer arge loss from this.

    But the more important thing is that this would be a very bad start.

    If the king forced Xu Yi to hand over the agricultural magic machine technology and if he took a liking to another magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would he force Xu Yi to hand it over again?

    In order to avoid any future problem, whether it was in front of Harvey or the king, he had to clearly express his rejection of this idea.

    King Heynes looked at Xu Yi for a while before suddenly saying with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think I¡¯m such a greedy person? Or do you think I¡¯m a dumb person?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before quickly shaking his head, ¡°Of course not. You are the outstanding wise king of our Lampuri Kingdom, how could I feel you are greedy or dumb?¡±

    ¡°Since it is like this, why did you think that I would make you hand over the technology for the agricultural magic machines?¡± King Heynes then asked.

    ¡°This¡­...Did Viscount Harvey not represent your ideas?¡± Xu Yi mentioned Harvey¡¯s proposal from the other day.

    King Heynes narrowed his eyes before giving a snort and saying while waving his hand, ¡°That is only his proposal, I didn¡¯t have these ns. I can promise you now that no matter what magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops, they will all belong to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I am not interested in the technology of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I only care about whether your agricultural magic machines can be used on the farnd of our Lampuri Kingdom and whether they can increase our kingdom¡¯s harvest or not. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly overjoyed. With these words from the king, the stone in his heart finally fell down.

    With the promise of the king, this was equivalent to receiving a protective charm. Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to worry about someone using their authority or power to steal his technology anymore.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, your majesty, while I have this opportunity, I have another suggestion.¡± Xu Yi decided to strike while the iron was hot, directly telling him of his patent protection n.

    Hearing Xu Yi exin his patent protection n, King Heynes thought about it for a bit before giving a slight nod, ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad. ording to what you said, with this patent protectionw, eachpany can protect their technology with the patent, so they won¡¯t need to worry about others stealing their technology to use like before. Like this, thosezypanies would have to think of their own ways to make new technology?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty is truly wise.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising.

    This King Heynes could actually immediately see the greatest benefit of this patent protectionw, he truly was the wisest king in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than this function, thepanies with the patents need to give up some protection fee. This way the kingdom can gain some ie from this and thepanies would be willing to hand it over.¡± Xu Yi added.

    King Heynes looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You mentioned this thing and you voluntarily added in the protection fee?¡±

    Xu Yi stood straight and said with a righteous appearance, ¡°Your majesty, if you want some harvest, you have to pay something! This is the consciousness a merchant should have!¡±

    King Heynesughed as he pointed at Xu Yi and said, ¡°You¡¯re reminding me that obtaining benefits from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I should give out an appropriate price?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, not saying anything and not denying it.

    King Heynesughed for a while before slowly stopping. He said with a nod, ¡°You have to pay to obtain benefits. These words aren¡¯t bad. But chairman Xu, I am not agreeing to your proposal from before, so I¡¯m not agreeing to these conditions that you have set.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Your majesty, I feel that the proposal I gave Viscount Harvey and Miss Seveni was perfect. Not only does it benefit both our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the kingdom, it also includes all the problems that coulde up when promoting these agricultural magic machines. This matter, it¡¯ll be easily aplished if we cooperate.¡±

    ¡°Your words are correct, but I don¡¯t want this much trouble.¡± King Heynes took a document from beside him to hand to Xu Yi, ¡°These are my thoughts, have a look.¡±

    Xu Yi flipped through the document with wonder.

    The proposal on the document was very simple. King Heynes was representing the Lampuri Kingdom to ce arge order for agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to finish these orders ording to the requirements of the agricultural department while also providing technical training, post sale services, and other services.

    Simply speaking, this proposal was a simple trade contract. Other than the buyer being the kingdom¡¯s agricultural department, there wasn¡¯t any official feeling to it at all.

    Perhaps if it was put a bit more straightforward, the king was only discussing an ordinary piece of business with Xu Yi.

    Of course, the scale was a bit big because the king¡¯s first order was for ten thousand small Magic Harvesters.

    Xu Yi looked over it carefully a few times and noticed a problem.

    ¡°Your majesty, the current market price for the small Magic Harvester is seventy gold coins and if you buy ten thousand at once, the price will be a high seven hundred thousand gold coins. Do¡­..you have this much money?¡±

    Xu Yi had no choice but to doubt this. Based on the information Harvey had blurted out, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s tax revenuest year was less than a million gold coins. How could it be possible for them to suddenly take out seven hundred thousand gold coins to buy these small Magic Harvesters?

    King Heynes smiled and spread his hands, as he directly said, ¡°No.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling depressed. He rubbed his nose and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Your majesty, we are only a smallpany, we can¡¯t do business on credit.¡±

    King Heynes was amused by Xu Yi and gave a fewughs. He looked at Xu Yi with a teasing expression and said, ¡°Although I don¡¯t have money, I have some very valuable things. Chairman Xu, what do you want?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

 Volume 1 109 - Fifth Grade exam

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 109 Fifth Grade exam</strong>

    After meeting the king, Xu Yi was even busier during the next two days.

    The king not only ordered ten thousand small Magic Harvesters from Xu Yi. Other than this, of the other five kinds of agricultural magic machine that Xu Yi brought, he ordered between five thousand to ten thousand units of those.

    For such arge order, to aplish this, there was no doubt that there were many details to take care of. So during these two days, Xu Yi had been negotiating with the people sent by the king and members of the agricultural department.

    It was impossible to reach aplete understanding in just two days, but after receiving the care and promotion of the king, the negotiations had progressed very smoothly. In just two days, they had already set up a preliminary n.

    ording to the suggestion of the king, the Lampuri Kingdom and the king would be buying six different kinds of agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with numbers going from five thousand to ten thousand units.

    Of course, with the current ability of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally they couldn¡¯t received such arge order. But since currently other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were no otherpanies that could make agricultural magic machines, they decided to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce deliver in batches.

    The first batch for magic machines was five hundred units and they needed it before the spring harvest.

    Agreeing to this batch order actually gave Xu Yi a strong headache.

    Although after bringing in the hundred dwarves from the Ang Tribe, the production speed of the magic machine workshop had increased, it would still be very difficult for them toplete three thousand agricultural magic machines before next spring¡¯s harvest.

    The reason why Xu Yi had agreed was because the king wouldn¡¯t allow the order number to be below five hundred units. If it was below this number, it was hard for Xu Yi to show the benefits of mass production and it was not possible for the king to be determined to invest in this project.

    After all, behind a giant order of tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines, it required the king and the agricultural department to pay arge amount of several million gold coins.

    This amount was not something the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances could support, so the king proposed to Xu Yi that the kingdom would use its resources to pay.

    Xu Yi naturally weed this. Although his request for a piece ofnd was rejected by the king, his request for an iron mine and a Magic Crystal mine was epted.

    ording to the preliminary agreement between the two sides, Xu Yi would obtain two iron mines near Banta City for now, as well as three Magic Crystal mines to the northwest of Banta City which were quite far away.

    Since Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand anything about these mines, this was only a preliminary agreement. Once Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investigated these mines and were satisfied with them, the agreement woulde into effect.

    And after taking these mines, Xu Yi must follow the requests of the order. He had to finish all the requested small agricultural magic machines for the order and he had to change the farnd inside the kingdom ording to the agricultural department¡¯s requests.

    So there was arge amount of pressure on Xu Yi right now.

    Before next year¡¯s spring harvest, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t finish the first batch of orders, not only would they not be able to gain the mines, they would also lose the trust and support of the king.

    If this really happened, it would be arge hit to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce without a doubt. This would also greatly affect the long term n that Xu Yi had in an irreversible manner.

    So this first batch had to beplete and there couldn¡¯t be a single mistake.

    But as a mechanical engineer, Xu Yi had extremely fine requirements for his work, he wouldn¡¯t allow even half a mistake. So he was already used to this kind of pressure and had even learned to create power from this pressure.

    Although this first batch of orders of agricultural magic machines were very big, Xu Yi felt that he could use this chance. He would make the changes that he was already prepared to make to the production magic machines, making the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even stronger.

    As long as he grabbed this chance, there was no doubt there was great prospects for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After working for two days, the third day was the Magicians Guild¡¯s Fifth Grade exam.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s original n, he was supposed to participate in the Fourth Grade exam yesterday, going straight from the Primary Grade to the Fourth Grade. But after thinking about Viscount Leslie¡¯s sudden request and considering it over, he finally decided to skip the Fourth Grade exam and directly participate in the Fifth Grade exam.

    The magicians participating in this exam was far lesspared to the amount on the first day. After Xu Yi looked over the examination ground, he found that including him, there were less than fifty people here. There weren¡¯t even as many people as there were on the first day in a corner.

    It was different from the Primary Grade exam, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know a single one of these magicians.

    After all, those that dared participate in the Fifth Grade exam, they were already magicians of the Fourth Grade. It was impossible for there to be many Fourth Grade Magicians and it was very hard to break through to the Fifth Grade, so there were few magicians that participated in the Fifth Grade exam each year.

    At the Primary Grade exam, Xu Yi who was already twenty seven was considered a bit old, so he was looked at by people with gazes of despise. But here at the Fifth Grade exam, he was considered rather young, making people feel he was an outstanding talent, so it attracted the gaze of the others.

    When the others noticed that Xu Yi didn¡¯t even have a magician¡¯s badge on his chest, they were even more shocked.

    This kid can¡¯t have even skipped the Primary Grade exam and directly came here for the Fifth Grade exam, right?

    In front of everyone¡¯s shocked gaze, Xu Yi reported his name to the Magicians Guild staff member in charge of the exam.

    The staff member in charge of the exam heard this name and looked at Xu Yi in shock. Then he knit his brows and asked in a low voice, ¡°Xu Yi, are you certain you want to participate in the Fifth Grade exam? I must remind you, although you have Great Magician Cami¡¯s special rmendation and can skip grades for exams, you only have one chance. If you lose this chance, you won¡¯t be able to receive another special rmendation and you¡¯ll even lose a rank in the Magicians Guild¡¯s evaluation. I hope you understand these consequences.¡±

    Hearing the staff member¡¯s words, everyone finally understood.

    So this kid had a special rmendation, no wonder he could directly participate in the Fifth Grade exam.

    Everyone¡¯s gaze looking ata Xu Yi filled with a trace of disdain.

    This kid wasn¡¯t even a Primary Grade Magician, based on what did he think he could pass the Fifth Grade exam? He took this too lightly.

    But other than disdain, everyone¡¯s hearts also filled with doubt.

    Since this fellow could receive Great Magician Cami¡¯s special rmendation, he should have a strong talent for magic, only then would he receive Great Magician Cami¡¯s admiration.

    Perhaps he was an apprentice secretly taken in by Great Magician Cami. He had been focusing on studying magic the entire time, so he never participated in the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam before, just to shock the world with a single feat.

    Thinking about it, a young magician participating in the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam for the first time and directly bing a Fifth Grade Magician, how shocking would that news be.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that everyone had all these strange thoughts in their mind. Actually he didn¡¯t care at all about whether he passed the exam or not, he didn¡¯t even care that much about the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Great Magician Cami and Still urging him, he would have been disinclined to participate in this exam in the first ce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Viscount Leslie¡¯s request, he wouldn¡¯t have directly participated in the Fifth Grade exam.

    His current strength was actually between the Fourth and Fifth Grade. If he participated in the Fourth Grade exam, there was a 90% chance that he would pass.

    But if he participated in the Fifth Grade exam, he was only confident in a 50% chance of passing.

    Compared to the Primary Grade exam, the Fifth Grade exam got rid of many other aspects, only having a written exam and abat portion.

    There was no need to mention thebat exam. The written exam was to test a magician on their magical theory, so it was very important.

    Unexpected to Xu Yi, the Fifth Grade exam written portion was actually rted to several Fifth Grade Magic Arrays.

    In order to study magic machines, Xu Yi¡¯s understanding and research on Magic Arrays had far passed magicians of the same grade. He had even discussed many Fifth Grade Magic Arrays with Great Magician Cami a long time ago, so it was like the back of his hand to him and naturally the content of the exam wasn¡¯t hard for him.

    In less than half an hour, Xu Yi had already easily finished the written portion of the exam.

    Seeing Xu Yi casually leaving the exam area, the other magicians participating in the exam all looked at him with gazes of shock.

    This fellow, could it be that he really was a genius? Could it be that his strength already surpassed that of a Fifth Grade Magician?

    But an hourter when the realbat test began, the magicians that had been shocked by Xu Yi immediately had their eyes opened.

    It didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi didn¡¯t do well, but in the actualbat test, Xu Yi kept using magic at the Fourth Grade. Even if he could asionally use a few Fifth Grade Spells, his grasp on them weren¡¯t that great.

    No matter how they looked at it, Xu Yi¡¯s strength was only at the Fourth Grade and it would be hard for him to pass the Fifth Grade exam.

    So everyone¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi became strange again.

    This fellow, could it be that he really was just purely conceited?

    After the realbat test was over, although Xu Yi¡¯s performance was notst among the forty seven magicians, he was in the lower middle range.

    ording to the traditions of the Magicians Guild, there was a quota of people who passed each time. In a normal situation, it was impossible for Xu Yi to pass the Fifth Grade exam.

    Feeling the ridiculeing from everyone¡¯s gazes, Xu Yi still had a calm face and didn¡¯t move at all.

    As a mechanical engineer, he cared about facts. His strength was between the Fourth and Fifth Grade, so it wasn¡¯t unexpected that he didn¡¯t pass the exam and it wasn¡¯t something that he couldn¡¯t ept.

    Not to mention that he didn¡¯t care about the results of the exam at all.

    But after patiently waiting for two hours and when the results were announced, everyone was stunned to see that Xu Yi was included.

    Xu Yi¡¯s name was on the list of people who had passed!

 Volume 1 110 - Representative

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 110 Representative</strong>

    When he returned to the office, Xu Yi thought about the scene when the list of people who passed the Fifth Grade exam was announced.

    Perhaps it was because Xu Yi had been too noticeable and he didn¡¯t disy that much power during the realbat, so after everyone knew that he passed the Fifth Grade exam, the magicians who had a more outstanding performance than Xu Yi in the realbat test, but didn¡¯t pass couldn¡¯t help questioning it. There were even some people who were doubting that there was something happening behind the scenes with the Magicians Guild.

    For the doubts of these people, the response the Magicians Guild gave was that Xu Yi scored first on the written test. Moreover, his answers on the written test were beyond what a Fourth Grade Magician and even normal Fifth Grade Magicians were at, showing that he had a very high level and aptitude in terms of magical theory. So the examiners were all unanimous in letting Xu Yi pass the test.

    To this answer, although the other magicians didn¡¯t ept it in their hearts, they couldn¡¯t refute it since the Magicians Guild had always stressed that magicians should reach the standard in terms of theory. For Xu Yi to even surpass the standard of theory for a Fifth Grade Magician, it was alright to let him pass the Fifth Grade exam.

    But like this, there were quite a few Fourth Grade Magicians who didn¡¯t pass who spoke out against Xu Yi. Many of them even looked at Xu Yi with gazes of hatred.

    A magician even specially came in front of Xu Yi and threw down some fierce words at him.

    ¡°Kid, don¡¯t think you¡¯re great since you¡¯re a Fifth Grade Magician now. I am just a Fourth Grade Magician, but do you believe that I can knock out all your teeth?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s only response to him was just a calm smile.

    To him, magic was only useful in application and there was no use in using it to fight at all.

    The magicians of the Sines Continent wielded this magic that wasparable to the industrial technology on earth in vain. There were even some ces that created incredible powers, but they always used it to fight each other or ughter others. They had never thought of using magic to change other people¡¯s lives, it really was a waste of precious resources.

    ¡°If all the Great Magicians were like Great Magician Cami and invested a bit of their mind into studying magic application, wouldn¡¯t the people of the Sines Continent not have to worry about food and clothing now?¡± Xu Yi gave an emotional sigh. He walked through the door of the office and the scene he saw scared him.

    The foyer space of the office was notrge, but in the empty space behind the main doors, there were all kinds of iron lumps ced there. There wasn¡¯t even a ce for someone to stand.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re back!¡± A spirited voice came from among the iron lumps and a familiar youth jumped out with a smile.

    ¡°Alex, you¡¯re here.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile. He pointed at the magic machines and said with a knit brow, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you to properly wrap them up, why do they look like this? It can¡¯t be that when you were transporting them, you put them into the carriage like this and rushed over, right?¡±

    The iron lumps on the ground were naturally the various magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than agricultural magic machines, there were also fifty brand new Magic Air Conditioners.

    After thest batch of agricultural magic machines were burned, Xu Yi had Viscount Leslie send someone to Banta City to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He prepared eighteen agricultural magic machines for the agricultural department, letting Harvey and Seveni test them out on arger piece of farnd, better understanding the performance of these magic machines.

    As for the fifty Magic Air Conditioners, of course they were the first batch prepared for Victor¡¯s group of three.

    ¡°Of course not!¡± Alex quickly shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman, you specially said to treat these fellows like treasures, so how could I be careless? Be assured, on the road, I even wrapped each magic machine in a thick cloth and only unpacked them here. Take a look, these fellows don¡¯t even have a single scratch on their surface, right?¡±

    Xu Yi bent over to check and found that these magic machines really didn¡¯t have any damage before giving a satisfied nod, ¡°Very good. Alex, didn¡¯t you always say you didn¡¯t want to stay in Banta City? You¡¯re quite good at transporting items. I¡¯ll talk to Heinzter and have you be ourpany¡¯s transport manager. Ourpany¡¯s products will soon be sold to many other cities on the continent, so if you take the post of transport manager, I can guarantee that you¡¯ll run all over the continent.¡±

    Alex¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really? Sir chairman, you¡¯ll really let me be the transport manager?¡±

    ¡°Would I lie to you?¡± Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°Moreover, you won¡¯t be riding in a horse carriage at that time and you¡¯ll be riding in a faster and more stable cart, which is much morefortable.¡±

    ¡°Faster and more stable? What kind of cart is that?¡± Alex asked in a confused voice.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Noment.¡±

    Alex waspletely stumped, but he knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t tell him, so he could only helplessly scratch his head.

    ¡°Alright, first take inventory of these things, especially the Magic Air Conditioners. There will be someoneing to take themter.¡±

    Xu Yi said this to Alex before looking for Housekeeper Lahm, having him send a servant to contact Victor.

    In less than half an hour, Victor had already charged over with glowing eyes.

    When he saw the Magic Air Conditioners on the ground, he was stunned. He pointed at the Magic Air Conditioners and asked Xu Yi with an expectant expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, these are the Magic Air Conditioners you mentioned?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t respond, rather he signaled to Victor to help. The two lifted the Magic Air Conditioner into a room and ced it on the nails already prepared on the wall.

    Seeing Victor¡¯s doubtful look, Xu Yi took out a Magic Crystal and swayed it in front of Victor before putting it into the Magic Air Conditioner. He then pressed the on switch and pulled Victor in front of the Magic Air Conditioner.

    ¡°Si¡ª¡ª¡±

    A cold wind was blown out of the front of the Magic Air Conditioner and they couldn¡¯t help shivering at the same time.

    ¡°Xu¡­..Chairman Xu, this fellow, why¡­...Why is it blowing cold wind? So cold!¡± Victor dodged to the side and found that after the Magic Air Conditioner blew out cold wind, the temperature in the room had decreased a bit.

    ¡°Ah¡­...Oh, this is the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, so I wanted to show you the cold function first.¡± Xu Yi gave a dryugh, determined not to tell Victor that he had pressed the wrong switch.

    Coming in front of the Magic Air Conditioner, Xu Yi looked at it. He found that Heinz had followed his design and had put two switches of blue and red on it. The one he had just pressed was the blue switch for cold air.

    He then pressed the red switch and the blue switch jumped out with a click.

    Even this small design had never existed on the Sines Continent before. When Xu Yi mentioned it, he had receivedmendation from Master Lanus and Camby for it.

    After the red switch was pressed down, the Magic Air Conditioner stopped blowing out cold wind. After a while, warm wind was blown out and Victor who was standing in front of the Magic Air Conditioner couldn¡¯t help trembling when he was hit by this warm wind.

    Not long after, not only was it warm in front of the Magic Air Conditioner, the room that had been freezing because of the winter gradually warmed up.

    Victor even felt that he was a bit warm and couldn¡¯t help taking off his thick coat.

    Xu Yi raised a hand to stop him and turned off the Magic Air Conditioner. He asked with a smile, ¡°How is it, young master Victor? What do you think of the effects of the Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    Victor didn¡¯t hesitate to give Xu Yi a thumbs up as he kept praising him, ¡°Great! So strong! Chairman Xu, I never thought that such a normal looking piece of iron would have such a good effect! This thing is is simply more effective than arge scale Frost Array or me Array!¡±

    ¡°Then you¡¯re not confident in selling them all?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Victorughed as he shook his head, ¡°No, now I¡¯m filled with confidence! Chairman Xu, we¡¯ve actually asked some noble friends of ours in the past few days and many people are curious in this novel thing. If they could see the powerful effect the Magic Air Conditioner has, I dare to guarantee that they¡¯ll go crazy snatching them! Chairman Xu, fifty units definitely aren¡¯t enough, I want a hundred! No! Two hundred! The more the better!¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and deliberately revealed an awkward expression, ¡°This¡­..Young master Victor, we can supply more goods, but as for the payment¡­¡­¡±

    Victor was stunned. After he came back to his senses, he patted his head, ¡°Right, right, this was my fault. Chairman Xu has been friendly enough to give us fifty units first, I can¡¯t be too greedy, right? Alright, after these fifty Magic Air Conditioners have sold, I¡¯ll give you the payment for the first batch. Then the three of us will make some more money and buy another batch from you, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi then revealed a smile and gave a nod, ¡°That is very good. But young master Victor, I will be leaving Anvilmar City tomorrow and will be returning to Banta City¡­..¡±

    ¡°How could that be!¡± Victor quickly cut off Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, our cooperation is just beginning and will be making arge amount of money soon, how can you just leave? If you leave, where would we get another batch of goods and it¡¯ll be a problem when I need to pay you for the first batch. Could it be the three of us have to go to Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s no need, I¡¯ve made preparations.¡± Xu Yi walked out and called Alex who was outside organizing the products, ¡°Young master Victor, he is called Alex, he will be ourpany¡¯s temporary representative in Anvilmar City, who has theplete right to represent me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After I leave, you can just look for him if you need anything. Whether it is for more Magic Air Conditioners or to pay for the goods, you can just look for him.¡±

    Heinz had already talked to Alex before he came here, so he knew that he was here to do something and wasn¡¯t surprised because of this. He revealed an honest smile to Victor and said, ¡°Hello.¡±

    Victor sized up Alex for a while before giving a slow nod, ¡°Since it¡¯s someone trusted by chairman Xu, I have no opinions.¡±

    After setting Alex as his representative, Xu Yi determined some simple details in front of the two of them.

    This was Victor¡¯s first time doing formal business and it was Alex¡¯s first time taking this kind of responsibility, so the two were clearly quite nervous.

    Compared to them, Xu Yi who had just passed twenty seven this year was quite calm. He raised the ideas he had already thought of and the two kept nodding as they listened to him, rarely disagreeing with him.

    Not long after, the three of them had finished deciding the details of the transaction and Xu Yi even took out a contract he had prepared to let Victor and Alex sign their names on. After they signed their names, it officially started the long term cooperation between the two.

    Victor carefully put away the contract before looking out the window to look at the sky and suggesting, ¡°Chairman Xu, brother Alex, it¡¯ll be noon soon. How about we go out and find a ce to eat? It can also serve as a celebration to our sessful cooperation.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and wanted to respond, but Housekeeper Lahm¡¯s voice suddenly came from outside.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, Lord Viscount Leslie is here.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised and a dark look that wasn¡¯t easy to see shed across his face before he said to Victor with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, the Lord Viscount is here, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯te. Alex, you can represent me to drink a few cups with Victor. You will be in contact with each for a long time in the future, so you might as well take this chance to be friends.¡±

    Victor helplessly shook his head, ¡°That¡¯s fine. I hope that next time chairman Xues to Anvilmar City, you will let me properly entertain you.¡±

    ¡°There will definitely be a chance.¡± Xu Yiughed before leaving the room.

 Volume 1 111 - Apologies

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 111 Apologies</strong>

    Seeing Xu Yi walk into the main hall, Viscount Leslie revealed a bright smile to him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, congrattions on officially bing a Fifth Grade Magician.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°How did you find out this quickly?¡±

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t doubt the power of the Stagg Family behind Viscount Leslie in Anvilmar City, it hadn¡¯t been that long since the Fifth Grade exam had ended. Viscount Leslie had already received news on this, it was a bit too surprising.

    ¡®A person who has never taken the Magicians Guild exam before, but passed the Fifth Grade Exam on his first time. If I don¡¯t even know about this news, I might as well note to Anvilmar City anymore.¡± Viscount Leslie said with a bit of pride.

    ¡°Oh? Is me passing the Fifth Grade Magician exam that rare of a matter?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°Of course. You have to know that there were many people who looked down on you before, but now they have no choice but to pay attention to you because of this piece of news.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Lord Viscount, although Fifth Grade Magicians aren¡¯t everywhere, they aren¡¯t thatcking, right? I think that just in our Lampuri Kingdom, there should be over a thousand Fifth Grade Magicians, so how special can I be? Comparing it, I think my magic machines are more attractive to people. Not to mention that I was summoned by the king two days ago because of the agricultural magic machines, it should be right that this matter attracted more attention.¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°You don¡¯t understand people¡¯s hearts at all. They thought that you were just a small merchant that invented something novel that caught his majesty¡¯s interest, that¡¯s why you were summoned. As for the major impact that these agricultural magic machines have, these people don¡¯t know about it at all and disdain learning about it. Compared to this, a magician with great talent is something they pay more attention to.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°Among those people, does it include Lord Viscount¡¯s father, Lord Duke Stagg?¡±

    Viscount Leslie took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Although lord father knows more than those fellows, but Xu Yi¡­...it¡¯s far from enough.¡±

    ¡°Is it because me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have enough influence, so it can¡¯t enter his eyes?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Viscount Leslie gave a slight nod, ¡°It¡¯s generally this meaning. Although lord father is a bit interested in you because you were summoned by his majesty, it¡¯s far from having him care about and cing importance on you. So¡­¡­¡± Viscount Leslie spread his hands and said in a helpless and pitiful voice, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry. Although I¡¯ve worked very hard, lord father doesn¡¯t have the intention to meet you.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders and said in an uncaring voice, ¡°Lord Viscount, you don¡¯t need to apologize. I¡¯m very clear that with my identity and status, having the Lord Duke care and ce importance on me is impossible. This is nothing, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I have a lot of space to develop, so there will be a chance to meet the Lord Duke in the future.¡±

    ¡°You really do always have confidence.¡± Viscount Leslie said with a smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s one of my advantages.¡± Xu Yi epted this praise without any hesitation before asking, ¡°But Lord Viscount, I¡¯m very curious. Why hasn¡¯t Hannese see me in so many days? Could it be that after he came back to Anvilmar City, he wouldn¡¯t recognize an old friend from Banta City anymore?¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a helpless smile, ¡°You finally couldn¡¯t help asking about this. Let me tell you, ording to some news I received yesterday, as soon as that fellow Hannas returned home, he was locked up and can¡¯t go out for a month. So even if he wanted to see you, it¡¯s impossible.¡±

    ¡°Locked up?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s to punish him for staying in Banta City for too long, even missing the arranged time to return home.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit speechless, ¡°He isn¡¯t a child, why would he be punished for this?¡±

    Viscount Leslie shrugged his shoulders, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, his family is like this.¡±

    ¡°No wonder Hannas had a strange expression when mentioning his father.¡±

    After chatting about a few more things concerning Hannas, Viscount Leslie took out a letter to give to Xu Yi.

    ¡°I need to stay in Anvilmar City for some time. You¡¯re going back tomorrow, so help me take this letter back to Brunei.¡±

    Xu Yii took the letter and Viscount Leslie gave him a thick paper bag that he didn¡¯t know what was contained within.

    ¡°It¡¯s some documents, also give them to Brunei.¡± Viscount Leslie thought for a bit before saying, ¡°I might need to stay in Anvilmar City for a rather long time, so if you need anything, you can just go talk to Brunei.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Lord Viscount, forgive me for being blunt. Although Butler Brunei is loyal to you, he is rather stubborn as a person and isn¡¯t as flexible as you. It¡¯s fine if it was a normal matter, but if it was something special for example somerge actions for thepany, I¡¯m worried¡­...Ke, forgive me for being direct, but I¡¯m worried he will dy these matters.¡±

    Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You kid, you actually have this much opinion about Brunei. Rx, I¡¯ve said before that I wouldn¡¯t take part in the developmental decisions for thepany, so you can just do whatever you want to do. As for the matter of thend, I¡¯ve written about it in the letter and I believe you won¡¯t be disappointed.¡±

    Xu Yi put the letter and bag away with a smile, ¡°Then I can be assured. Lord Viscount, you truly are wise, you have prepared everything.¡±

    Viscount Leslie ridiculed him before standing up, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll leave it like this. I have something to do tomorrow, so I won¡¯t send you off when you leave.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not a little girl, would I die from something like this?¡±

    Viscount Leslieughed before walking out the door.

    When he had one foot past the door, Viscount Leslie suddenly stopped. After pausing for a bit, he slowly turned to Xu Yi and his expression became veryplicated, like he was struggling with something in his heart.

    After hesitating for a while, he finally gave a sigh before saying in a soft voice, ¡°Xu Yi, as for the matter in the pce, I should apologize to you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie in surprise. Countless thoughts passed by in his mind before he gave a smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, you make this sound too serious. Actually Viscount Harvey was right, as a chess piece, I should have the awareness of a chess piece. There is no need for you to apologize.¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi in a daze and his eyes couldn¡¯t hide the shock he felt.

    After that, Viscount Leslie¡¯s expression calmed down again and he gave a nod to Xu Yi. He didn¡¯t say anything else as he left without turning back.

    Seeing him disappear around the corner, Xu Yi covered his face and revealed a smile of self ridicule.

    ¡°Actually if there was no other choice, who would want to be a chess piece?¡±

    ###

    Two dayster, Xu Yi returned to the Banta City he had been away for ten days.

    This time he didn¡¯te back alone, butpared to when he left Banta City, the people who were traveling with him had changed.

    The ones with him when he left were Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas, but now that he was back, those two fellows remained in Anvilmar City. The one who came back with Xu Yi, other than Sancheli who Xu Yi had picked up on the way, there were also the ten low level magicians he had enticed toe to Banta City to check out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which included Erwin, Rooney, and Bob.

    The highest of these magicians was only Second Grade. The youngest was Rooney who was neen this year and the oldest was Isaac Fowler who was forty seven this year.

    If it said that there was still hope for the three young people of Erwin¡¯s group to be powerful Great Magicians, then for someone like Isaac Fowler who was still a Second Grade Magician at his age, it was close to impossible for him to be a powerful Great Magician.

    So when Xu Yi talked to them and mentioned the wages he offered, it was very easily to entice them.

    Other than these people who would be staff members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce without any unexpected idents, there was also a very special person who came with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Young miss Seveni, have you prepared a ce to live during this time?¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni who sat opposite of him and asked with a faint smile, ¡°If you haven¡¯t, perhaps I can help you find a suitable ce?¡±

    Seveni was still wearing the agricultural department¡¯s uniform. She didn¡¯t have any makeup on her face and she didn¡¯t look that outstanding with a first nce, but the more one looked at her, the more they were attracted by the intelligent look she had that wasn¡¯tmonly seen in women of the Sines Continent.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Seveni revealed a gentle smile and shook her head, ¡°Many thanks to chairman Xu¡¯s goodwill, but I will be seeing Count Sean soon. As for your question, I think Count Sean should have made preparations, so there is no need to trouble chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°The preparations of Lord City Lord are better than mine. Then young miss Seveni, you¡­...how are you nning to inspect our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ording to the instructions of the king, Seveni was representing the king and the agricultural department to monitor and inspect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, to ensure there wouldn¡¯t be any problem in terms of quality for the agricultural magic machines made for the agricultural department. At the same time, she would be studying the farnd transformation and the farmers participating in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support n, to see how to implement this n across the kingdom.

    Based on this work, Seveni would have to stay in Banta City until at least the spring harvest of next year.

    It was already December and there were still around five months before next year¡¯s spring harvest.

    Thinking that Seveni would be staying in Banta City for this long, while representing the king to inspect hispany¡¯s work, Xu Yi felt a bit awkward.

    But the agricultural department representing the king was thergest customer of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and this customer had the king¡¯s imperial edict, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t show any discontent at all. He had to do his best to show his passion and wee them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu¡¯s words are too heavy, I am not inspecting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather I am just observing with a learning attitude.¡± Seveni said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually I¡¯m very curious towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce you¡¯ve built. Chairman Xu, what made you think to study magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi paused for a second before answering in an awkward voice, ¡°Young miss Seveni, this is a long story.¡±

    Seveni still had the same faint smile, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, we have much time together in the future. I¡¯m very happy to slowly listen to chairman Xu¡¯s stories.¡±

    The carriage stopped at this time and Xu Yi opened the curtain to take a look, seeing that the carriage was already at the entrance of the City Lord¡¯s Manor. He jumped out of the carriage and reached his hand out to support Seveni down.

    ¡°If you really want to hear it, I can slowly tell you in the future.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°As for today, you must be tired from the long journey, so I hope that you will have happy dreams first.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your blessings.¡± Seveni gave the normal curtsy of a noblewoman before heading to the doors of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    Count Sean had already received the news and was at the door waiting. Seeing Seveni walk over, he immediately came forward with a wide smile.

    Seeing the exaggerated smile on Count Sean¡¯s face, there were a few doubts in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    Even if Seveni was here to inspect Banta City on behalf of the agricultural department, did Count Sean need to act this polite?

    But this thought only appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind for a second before he threw it to the back of his head.

    After getting in the carriage again, he gave an order to the driver and the cavalcade headed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce outside the city.

 Volume 1 112 - Shabby Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 112 Shabby Frestech Chamber of Commerce</strong>

    After leaving Banta City for ten days, when he came back, Xu Yi found that the new workshop that didn¡¯t even have a finished foundation when he left was already taking form. There were many workers busily working there, making it a lively scene.

    And the workshops beside the construction site were also filled with all kinds of noise. It was clear that the two workshops were filled with people bustling around with their work.

    Xu Yi had just jumped out of the horse carriage when Wayne Riley of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce directing the construction saw him and immediately came to wee him with a wide smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re finally back!¡± Manager Riley looked at the peopleing down from the horse carriages before pointing at the half finished wall of the new workshop behind him and asking, ¡°Look, look, is our construction fast enough?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°It is fast, but is the quality good with how fast it is?¡±

    Manager Riley revealed an insulted expression and said in a dissatisfied voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are looking down on us too much. Your project was handed to us by our chairman, how could we not ensure the quality? From beginning to end, to guarantee that the workers didn¡¯t make a single mistake, I¡¯ve been here watching them the entire time.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder, ¡°Since there¡¯s manager Riley¡¯s promise, then I can feel assured. Then let me ask you, how long do you think it¡¯ll take before this new workshop is finished? How long will it be before we can start using it?¡±

    Manager Riley thought about it, ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, it should be finished in half a month. As for when it can be used¡­...that is hard to say. It is already winter and it¡¯s getting cold, so it¡¯s not easy for the walls to dry, so it¡¯ll take a while.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯ll still take a while?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°If I wanted to start using it within the month, do you think it is possible?¡±

    ¡°This month? You¡¯re this rushed?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, manager Riley thought about it before nodding, ¡°If chairman Xu is truly in a rush, I can think of a way to have the walls dry faster. But this will affect the entire building and its lifespan will be shortened.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°No matter how short it is, it shouldn¡¯t break within three years, right?¡±

    Manager Riley¡¯s face turned red, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you kidding? The houses constructed by this Riley, how could they copse in three years? Not to mention three years, even if it was thirty years, I can promise there will be no problems!¡±

    Xu Yiughed and said while shaking his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need for thirty years, there isn¡¯t even a need to mention three years because I have more ns for this ce soon. This workshop might be rebuilt in less than three years.¡±

    Manager Riley looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    Since he was only nning to use it for three years, why did Xu Yi request for the quality of the workshop to be this high?

    Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too much money and not enough ces to spend it?

    ¡°Manager Riler, I still have to ask you for something else. I might not have time during this period, so I¡¯ll have to trouble you to help me pass on a message when you see chairman Cruise. I have something to discuss with him, so I¡¯ll have to trouble him to contact me when he has time so we can set a meeting.¡± Xu Yi added.

    Manager Riley gave a nod in response.

    Xu Yi gave a few more requests to manager Riley before heading over to the curious magicians who were looking over the two workshops.

    ¡°Everyone, as you can see, these are the two workshops of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although they seem rather simple, there are all kinds of magic machines that are produced from these two factories. Right now the two factories can make magic machines worth over ten thousand gold coins for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, creatingrge profits for ourpany, which can be said to be the basis of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If these two factories were destroyed by others, perhaps I might even have anything to eat anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi gave twoughs, but he found that the magicians didn¡¯t have any smiles on their faces. Rather they all had frowns on their faces, as if they weren¡¯t satisfied with what they were seeing.

    The reason why they agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion and came to Banta City with him was because of how fantastic Xu Yi had made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sound. Who would have thought that when they saw the real scene, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be two small factories like this.

    Apany of this scale, what future did they have?

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes as he could easily guess what everyone was thinking. He didn¡¯t say anything else as he called to everyone and led them to the household magic machine workshop.

    The magicians hesitated a bit before following him.

    After all, they hade all this way, they had to at least take a look before making their decisions.

    When everyone entered the workshop, they were instantly shocked by what they saw.

    The area inside was less than a thousand square meters, but it was actually filled with people. With a rough estimate, there were around two hundred people.

    Not a single one of these two hundred people were idle, they were all busying themselves, not stopping for an instant.

    What attracted everyone¡¯s attention the most were the several dozen strange looking iron lumps ced in each corner.

    As the workers by them operated these machines, these iron lumps maderge sounds before the various ironponents the workers ced in took another appearance.

    As soon as theseponents were made, they were immediately delivered to another worker. These workers didn¡¯t stop and they skillfully assembled theseponents together before sending them to the next group of workers.

    The next group of workers made some dazzling movements and after theseponents were assembled, they took another appearance.

    Theponents were assembled bit by bit and after thest group of workers screwed in some strange nails, theseponents took on the shape of a rectangr box.

    ¡°This¡­..seems to be that Magic Air Conditioner thing?¡± A magician suddenly pointed at the iron box and spoke in an uncertain voice.

    ¡°Magic Air Conditioner? What is that?¡± The surrounding people instantly asked.

    ¡°The night before leaving Anvilmar City, I was a guest at Viscount Lance¡¯s house. He had some people install some thing in the room and said he had bought something new called the Magic Air Conditioner.¡± That magician exined, ¡°It¡¯s really strange talking about it. The room had been very cold back then, but after Viscount Lance put a Magic Crystal into the Magic Air Conditioner and pressed the switch, the Magic Air Conditioner began to blow out warm air. Not long passed before the room became warm and I didn¡¯t even need to wear my coat in the end. If I had to say it, the effect of this Magic Air Conditioner is even better than therge scale me Array!¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right?¡± Another magician couldn¡¯t help refuting him, ¡°Laying arge scale me Array costs all that money and this thing has an even better effect than therge scale me Array, so it should cost even more, right?¡±

    The other magician shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not considered expensive. I heard Viscount Lance say that his Magic Air Conditioner only cost him thirty five gold coins. The most important thing is that this thing consumes very little Magic Crystals. The night I stayed at Viscount Lance¡¯s house, this thing stayed on just with a single Magic Crystal, it didn¡¯t need to be changed at all.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right?¡± The others were even more shocked, ¡°Isn¡¯t this thing more powerful than arge scale me Array?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I heard Viscount Lance say that it not only blew out warm wind, it also blew out cold wind, so it could also be used in summer.¡± Sensing everyone¡¯s shocked gaze, that magician was filled with satisfaction and began to exin in an even morecent manner about what happened in Viscount Lance¡¯s house.

    Xu Yi on the side couldn¡¯t help revealing a strange smile.

    ¡°Thirty five gold coins? This Victor, he really knows how to raise the price.¡±

    When Victor discussed this with Xu Yi, Victor had said that he would set the Magic Air Conditioner at a fixed price of thirty gold coins. Who would have thought that when he heard it from this magician, the price would have actually been raised!

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t care whether he raised the price or not. In the end, Victor was buying at a fixed price of twenty five gold coins per unit, so if Victor can sell it at a higher price, that was his skills.

    Seeing the magicians discussing among themselves, Xu Yi ignored them and moved over to Heinz who had already given him countless looks.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, these fellows all seem like magicians. Could it be that you pulled them over from Anvilmar City?¡± Seeing Xu Yie over, Heinz immediately asked this in a low voice.

    ¡°Un, I just don¡¯t know how many of them will stay behind.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Let me see. One¡­..Two¡­..A total of thirteen people, it¡¯s too little even if they all stay.¡± Heinz was a bit disappointed.

    ¡°The amount isn¡¯t important, the important part is making them stay.¡± Xu Yi smiled and wasn¡¯t as disappointed at Heinz, ¡°Even if only a single magician stays in the end to work at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is a major breakthrough because this is arge significance. There will be a second or third if there is a first and then there will be even more.¡±

    Heinz carefully looked over the magicians talking in loud voices and knit his brows, but his disappointment didn¡¯t disappear at all.

    ¡°These fellows all seem like Primary Grade and Second Grade Magicians? What use can they be? Their magic isn¡¯t that much stronger than the students.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°You think those high grade magicians will agree toe to a smallpany like ours without any fame at all? Let me tell you, to trick them here, I already spent quite a bit of effort. Alright, ourpany isn¡¯t even the number onepany in Banta City, we don¡¯t need to set our requirements that high. Although these people have normal magic strength, at least they aren¡¯t like students where they need to spend most of their time on studying. Moreover, they have more experience drawing Magic Arrays, so they are more efficient than students.¡±

    Hearing Xu YI¡¯s exnation, Heinz finally revealed a faint smile.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. The students are too unstable, I can¡¯t be assured just relying on them. If we can hire more magicians to rece the students in the future, it would be worth it to give them higher wages. That¡¯s right, what wage did you give them to begin with?¡±

    Xu Yi crossed his fingers together, ¡°The lowest is ten gold coins per month and how much will be decided by their production.¡±

    [TL Note: Ten in Chinese is Ê®, so that¡¯s how he crossed his fingers.]

    Heinz was shocked, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? It¡¯s only ten gold coins a month, these noble magicians were willing to follow you like this?¡±

    Xi Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, magicians are people too, they also need to eat.¡±

 Volume 1 113 - Dwarven magic mechanical engineers

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 113 Dwarven magic mechanical engineers</strong>

    Perhaps it was because they were shocked by the Magic Air Conditioner, but after Xu Yi had led them on a tour of the two workshops, there were a total of nine people of the thirteen magicians who were willing to stay with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the four people who rejected him, the ones who made Xu Yi most disappointed were Erwin and Bob.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Xu Yi, I really do want to struggle with you, but¡­¡­¡± Erwin was a bit embarrassed, ¡°My dream since I was young was to be a powerful magician. I am still young, so I don¡¯t want to give up yet¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi asked in a confused voice, ¡°You can also study magic here. Even Rooney is stay and his magician grade is higher than yours.¡±

    Erwin scratched his head before saying with augh, ¡°Compared to here, I prefer going through danger to increase my power. As for Rooney¡­...His family¡¯s condition isn¡¯t good, so he always hoped for a stable ie, he is different from me and Bob. Based on giving me face, I hope you can take care of him.¡±

    Seeing that Erwin had made up his mind, Xu Yi could only give a helpless sigh and a slight nod, ¡°Alright, I will take care of him.¡±

    After sending off the four magicians who wanted to leave that included Erwin and Bob, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have time to be hurt. He brought the remaining nine magicians to find Sebas, to have them sign an employment contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    From this day forth, these nine magicians would be officially employees of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The work they did was to finish drawing all the Magic Arrays on the magic machines.

    Even though there were only nine people, because they were full time workers, being able to work longer than the Baron Rickto Magic Academy students and adding in the fact that they had studied magic longer, their experience in drawing Magic Arrays was much higher than the students.

    As long as they familiarized themselves with their work, Xu Yi was certain that the work theypleted each day would surpass the students.

    After signing the contract, Xu Yi had Sebas lead them back to Banta City.

    In order to wee these magicians, Xu Yi specially contacted Heinz ahead of time to rent two buildings in Banta City as their temporary residence.

    Of course, as there were more and more workers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, these two buildings wouldn¡¯t be enough. Xu Yi had long nned to build worker dorms near the factories, giving a ce for the employees of thepany to live in.

    After taking care of these magicians, Xu Yi went to the magic machine workshop. He called together Camby and the other dwarves in charge to hold a small meeting.

    ¡°Three thousand unit?¡± Hearing the number Xu Yi gave, Camby and the other dwarves all revealed look of pleasant surprise.

    Of course they were happy because of therge orders, which meant that the dwarves would have quite a bit of work to do and they would receive arge wage from this work.

    They were shocked because this number was just too high. With the current production of the magic machine workshop, they probably couldn¡¯t finish this amount by the spring harvest at all.

    ¡°Chairman, you should be very clear on our abilities right now, so why did you ept this order?¡± Camby looked at Xu Yi doubtfully and asked, ¡°Or are you going to gather more dwarven brothers to increase productivity? Time is short now and it takes some time to grasp how to make the agricultural magic machines. Even if you can recruit enough dwarven brothers, I¡¯m afraid this bit of time isn¡¯t enough.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile and helplessly replied, ¡°Of course I know this, but there was no other way. This was the lowest amount the king would take and if we can¡¯tplete it, perhaps this order would be gone.¡±

    Camby was even more confused, ¡°That isn¡¯t right. The king should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the only one who can make agricultural magic machines, so even if we can¡¯tplete the order, could it be that he would find others to do it?¡±

    ¡°Of course he wouldn¡¯t. But the king said that if we couldn¡¯tplete this order, he would force us to hand over the technology and use the kingdom¡¯s power to build them. Do you think I had a choice?¡±

    Camby and the other dwarves looked at each other and after a while, Camby let out a long breath.

    ¡°Your human king really is unreasonable.¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s forget about this. I¡¯ve already taken the order, so we should be thinking about how toplete it.¡±

    Camby awkwardly scratched his head, ¡°Chairman, I can have the brothers work overtime and supervise everyone to increase productivity, but there is a limit to this. It would still be very difficult toplete such arge order. Then again, other than this order, we also have toplete the orders for the nobles of the cities around Banta City, who also want agricultural magic machines. Moreover, you said before you left that because we are working with thergepanies in the city, we also have toplete some production magic machines? If it¡¯s this much¡­...I feel like we can¡¯t do it.¡±

    The other dwarves all looked at each other before giving sighs and shaking their heads, clearly thinking this would be very difficult.

    ¡°Relying on pushing people to dobour isn¡¯t a good choice, so I have some other ns.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took out a blueprint from his chest which he opened in front of the dwarves, ¡°Come, everyone take a look. This is the new magic machine that I drew in my spare time on the road, how long do you think it will take you all to finish this?¡±

    The dwarves gathered around and looked at the blueprint for a while. Camby made a yi sound, ¡°Chairman, this magic machine is a bit like the small Magic Punch Press.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, this magic machine is called the Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press, it¡¯s used to create parts like connecting rods. With these things, you don¡¯t need to rely on hand forging to make connecting rods when ites to agricultural magic machines.¡±

    Camby seriously looked at the blueprint for a while before he sighed, ¡°Chairman, although I don¡¯tpletely understand this blueprint, I can tell that it is very powerful. If it is really like what you described and we can rely on this production magic machine to make connecting rods, our efficiency would be greatly increased.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It isn¡¯t just this Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press, there are also others. There is the Mechanical Magic Punch Press, the Extrusion Magic Punch Press, and other machines. My goal in the end is to use magic machines to rece as much human work as possible. Although the craftsmanship of you dwarves is very good, to increase productivity and produce in batches, we need to start using more magic machines.¡±

    Camby couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman, since you had such a good thing, why didn¡¯t you take it out earlier?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the blueprint, ¡°If I didn¡¯t let youe in contact with the simpler magic machines and directly took out this blueprint, would you have understood it?¡±

    Camby could only scratch his head as he said with an awkward smile, ¡°No.¡±

    ¡°Right, this meal had to be eaten bite by bite and this road had to be walked step by step. I want to design all the magic machines at once and make it so everyone can easily produce what they want, but that is not realistic. It¡¯s a good thing that you dwarves are so skilled and have an especially strongprehension for this matter that I could take out these magic machine blueprints for you all. If it was a normal person, I wouldn¡¯t dare take it out at all.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi say this, the dwarves all revealed looks of pride. Camby forcefully patted his chest and loudly said, ¡°Be assured, chairman, as long as you can give usplete blueprints, I can guarantee that without a single mistake, we will make this¡­...this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press.¡± Xu Yi reminded him.

    ¡°Right, we¡¯ll make this Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press!¡± Camby confidently said.

    ¡°Chairman, you are nning to let our magic machine workshop be the same as the household magic machine workshop, having these production magic machines make theseponents and then have us assemble theponents, right?¡± A dwarf suddenly asked this.

    Xu Yi looked at that dwarf and recognized him to be Bordeau, one of the dwarves from the Ang Tribe. Because he was skilled and learned quickly, he became one of the backbones of the magic machine workshop.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, that would be the ideal condition. But as for how closely we can reach that, it¡¯ll depend on my research and your craftsmanship skills.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Bordeau turned to look at the busy dwarves in the workshop and said with a depressed look, ¡°But chairman, like this, wouldn¡¯t us dwarves be useless? If these magic machines solved all the problems, what would you still need us for?¡±

    Hearing Bordeau¡¯s question, including even Camby, the others dwarves looked at Xu Yi. Their eyes were burning, clearly showing that they cared about the answer to this question very much.

    Xu Yi smiled and softly shook his head, ¡°No, Bordeau, you¡¯re looking down on your value too much. Machines are just machines in the end, although they can help usplete some work, there are many kinds of work machines can¡¯t do. Just like Bordeau said, for the small Magic Plowing Machine that you are responsible for making, when each machine is made, you need to listen to it to ensure that there is no problem with the machine. Can this task be done by a machine?¡±

    Bordeau revealed a smile and looked confident.

    ¡°To me, an experienced worker is far more valuable than an inflexible machine. Bordeau, you don¡¯t have to worry that once there are more magic machines, it will mean the dwarven brothers will have nothing to do. Rather, as the magic machines be more and more developed, I will need the help of you dwarven engineers with rich experience, strong skills, and a deep understanding of magic machines even more. Let me tell you, each dwarven brother in the workshop is a precious resource for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce! They are much more important than those ice cold machines!¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s passionate words, Camby, Bordeau, and the other dwarves all revealed smiles of iparable joy.

    The dwarves were a fairly simple and honest race. Since they arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had already noted in their hearts how Xu Yi treated them.

    Now that Xu Yi had given them such a high evaluation, confirming that they were precious, it filled the bottom of their hearts with joy and pride.

    ¡°Engineers?¡± Another dwarf called Ailim repeated this before revealing a happy smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, although I don¡¯t know what this word means, it sounds very powerful and I like it. Alright, when I introduce myself to others from now on, I¡¯ll tell them that I¡¯m a dwarven engineer!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°The urate way of saying it should be a dwarven mechanical engineer. Oh, no, it¡¯s dwarven magic mechanical engineer.¡±

    The dwarves looked at each other before breaking out in wide smiles at the same time.

    ¡°Right, we are all dwarven magic mechanical engineers!¡±

 Volume 1 114 - Sincere request

    <strong>?Volume 1 Chapter 114 Sincere request</strong>

    Because they were too involved in the design of the new magic machines, Xu Yi and Camby¡¯s group of dwarves stayed in the meeting and didn¡¯t even leave at the normal time to get off work. When they finally decided their tentative ns and the meeting ending, when Xu Yi finally left the workshop, he found that it was already night outside.

    It was already December and the winter freeze had already arrived, so now that it was night, the temperature outside was naturally very cold.

    Suddenlying out of the workshop that was heated up by the Magic Air Conditioner, when Xu Yi was hit by the cold wind outside, he couldn¡¯t help shivering.

    The dwarves that walked out with Xu Yi didn¡¯t show any strangeness. Although they were wearing less than Xu Yi, they were filled with energy and didn¡¯t look cold at all.

    Camby even excitedly stood on his tiptoes to pat Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder as he said in a loud voice with a smile, ¡°Chairman, your human bodies are too weak. I think you should exercise to strengthen yourself and don¡¯t be like those other magicians, being able blown away with a single gust.

    Xu Yi looked at Camby¡¯s body that was twice as thick as his with a bitter smile and shook his head, ¡°Forget it, how can Ipare to naturally talented people like you dwarves? It¡¯s better for me to go back and put on some more clothes.¡±

    Camby dug in his chest and took out a bottle to give to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Here, this is some half a bottle of good wine I didn¡¯t finish yet. You¡¯ll feel warmer after a few swigs.¡±

    Xu Yi took it and sniffed it, it really had a strong wine fragrance. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows as he said, ¡°Camby, didn¡¯t I say that you can¡¯t drink while working? Why do you bring a bottle of wine along with you?¡±

    Camby rubbed his head andughed, ¡°Rx, all those brothers are watching me, so I can¡¯t break the rules. I just carry this bottle along with me and take a drink after getting off work. You can rx, there definitely won¡¯t be any mistakes.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head. He knew that wanting these dwarves addicted to drinking to stop drinking was impossible, so Camby restraining himself like this was already very rare.

    Opening the bottle, he raised his head back to take a swig and he felt a warm current flowing down his throat into his stomach. After a while, the essence of the wine came from his stomach and heat came out bit by bit.

    Xu Yi let out a breath of wine and felt much morefortable. He waved his hand to the dwarves before walking out the factory.

    When he walked into the darkness away from the factory lights, Xu yi remembered that because of his special orders, the two horse carriages outside the factory had been sent off to bring the magicians back. Now there wasn¡¯t a single carriage left.

    Moreover, it was already night, so there wouldn¡¯t be any carriages in this remote ce. So, after Xu Yi looked around, he was depressed to find that he could only walk back to Banta City.

    It was a good thing this ce wasn¡¯t considered that far from Banta City. After Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, he took another sip of the wine and woke up his mind before he quickly walked towards Banta City.

    Without going far, Xu Yi suddenly stopped and his somewhat hazy eyes suddenly became sharp.

    ¡°Who? Come out!¡± Xu Yi gave a cold roar into the darkness.

    In the shadows of the trees to the left, there was suddenly a strange distortion before a person slowly walked out.

    Xu Yi looked in that direction with the moonlight and could see that person¡¯s slender form, as well as the two sharp ears on their head.

    ¡°Young miss Agnes? Why is it you?¡± Xu Yi asked in a daze.

    The one who suddenly appeared was actually the female elf Agnes!

    Under the moonlight, Agnes¡¯ body was releasing a faint light that made her seem like she was a dream, not seeming like a real person at all.

    Xu Yi knew that this was the special characteristic of the elves.

    The elves were known as the race of the moon goddess Elune. They would gain special characteristics under the moonlight, for example the faint glow that was currently surrounding Agnes¡¯ body. It could counter most of the physical and magical damage against her, as well as making her body more lithe and agile.

    All the races of the Sines Continent were certain that challenging an elf of the same grade in the forest and under the moonlight was no different from suicide.

    And someone who challenged an elf in the forest and under the moonlight¡­..That fellow must definitely be insane.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes looking at Anges filled with more vignce.

    Although he had just passed the Fifth Grade exam and was already a Fifth Grade Magician, but since Agnes could use the Shadow Stealth Spell of the elves since they first met, that meant her power was only higher and not lower than Xu Yi¡¯s. If she suddenly wanted to attack Xu Yi, Xu Yi would suffer quite a bit.

    It was a good thing Agnes wasn¡¯t showing any hostility at all. After she walked of the shadows, she even gave a standard elven greeting to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hello chairman Xu. Under the brilliance of Elune, I sincerely express my happiness at your return.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. Agnes was actually using Elune¡¯s name to show her feelings, that meant she was truly happy.

    But why was that?

    Why was it that Agnes would be happy that he was back?

    ¡°Because I have waited over a week for you.¡± Agnes replied.

    Xu Yi was even more confused, ¡°It¡¯s only been a week. To you elves, this is the same time as a blink of the eye for us humans.¡±

    ¡°Yes, but the water source issue to our nsmen, even one second is too long.¡± Agnes¡¯ almost perfect face looked to be in low spirits, which was a mood that was very rare for elves, ¡°Before leaving the tribe, the river that flows through the river was almost blocked, so the lives of our nsmen have been very hard.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the expression on Agnes¡¯ face and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Then you didn¡¯t think of another way to solve it? Since you live in the Falling Rain Forest, your water source wouldn¡¯t only rely on the river, right?¡±

    Agnes softly shook her head, ¡°This wasn¡¯t a problem at first, but now that the river is drying up, the forest has also been influenced and now many trees of the Falling Rain Forest have started withering. The grand elder said that if this continues, the entire Falling Rain Forest will disappear. Like this, we will be forced to leave.¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to say ¡°leave then, it isn¡¯t that big of a deal¡±, but when he saw the hurt look on Agnes¡¯ face and remembered the legend of elves loving their home, he couldn¡¯t say these words.

    ¡°Alright, young miss Agnes, based on the situation you described, if the Falling Rain Forest hasn¡¯t been hit by the legendary curse spells, then there is only one reason why it suddenly became like this. That is that the environment upriver has met some kind of destruction.¡±

    ¡°The environment has met some kind of destruction? What does that mean?¡± Agnes looked at Xu Yi with a confused gaze.

    Xu Yi patted his head. He remembered that environment being destroyed was a popr phrase on earth, but it wasn¡¯t said on the Sines Continent.

    ¡°Un¡­..This thing is veryplicated, I can¡¯t exin for now. Has your tribe sent anyone upstream to check? I dare to guarantee that the soil erosion upriver is very serious¡­...Oh, you don¡¯t understand soil erosion either. To put it simply, it means that the area upriver shouldn¡¯t have any vegetation and ispletely bare. The soil there probably turned into silt and fell into the river, flowing downstream. Finally the silt at the bottom of the river will stack and will cause changes to the river in the end, even blocking it. Don¡¯t you think this is correct?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s suddenly giving his guess, Agnes¡¯ eyes looking at Xu Yi gradually lit up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you clearly haven¡¯t been there yet, so why are you so clear on this?¡± Agnes called out in a pleasantly surprised voice.

    ¡°I was just making a simple analysis based on what you said.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug.

    Agnes asked with an expectant look, ¡°Then you definitely have some way to solve it, right?¡±

    ¡°That I wouldn¡¯t dare guarantee.¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh.

    A river being diverted from soil erosion, even on the advanced industrialized earth, this was a troublesome problem. Not to mention the Sines Continent with such a low technological level.

    ¡°But didn¡¯t you give me a blueprintst time? After the elders saw it, they all said that this method should solve our problem. So you definitely have a method, right?¡±

    ¡°But you rejected my request to inspect your tribe, so how can I help you?¡± Xu Yi said as he spread his hands.

    Agnes passed for a second before suddenly bending down on one knee and lowering her head, giving a very serious bow to Xu Yi. She said in a very sincere voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I ask you to forgive me for my offense from before. After I brought your request backst time, the elders agreed to ept your conditions and allowed you toe to our tribe for an inspection. Now I am seriously requesting you to take a trip to the tribe with me and help us solve our problem. Can you save our n and our nsmen?¡±

    After saying thesest words, Agnes looked up at Xu Yi with an expectant expression and eyes filled with hope.

    The moonlight perfectly fell onto Agnes¡¯ face and those beautiful and fair cheeks were bathed in soft light. There was a mysterious beauty and attraction that wasing from her that made Xu Yi almost want to directly agree to her.

    ¡°This¡­...Although I¡¯m very willing to help you, but you see¡­...I just returned from Anvilmar City and now there are a bunch of things I need to take care of now, so I can¡¯t leave right now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°How long will it take you to finish these matters?¡± Agnes kept asking.

    Xu Yi stroked his chin, ¡°That is hard to say. There are some things that are hard to take care of, so I¡¯m not certain how long it¡¯ll take.¡±

    Agnes¡¯ eyes dimmed before she thought it over and pleaded again, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am seriously hoping you can help us. If you need some form of reward, the elders have already decided that as long as you can help us solve our problems, no matter what reward you want, we¡¯ll definitely agree as long as we can give it.¡±

    ¡°Then can you give yourself to me as a reward?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help teasing her.

    Who would have thought that Agnes would only hesitate a bit before sincerely nodding, ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes and gave a sigh. He reached out to help Agnes stand up and he gave up his thoughts of teasing her. He seriously looked at Agnes and said, ¡°Young miss Agnes, you have to believe that I do have a way to solve your problem. Otherwise, I wouldn¡¯t have given chief Monto those blueprints and had them give them to you.¡±

    Agnes gave a slight nod, ¡°Yes. It is because of this that I came looking for you.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Then I¡¯ll sincerely tell you that although I very much want to help you solve your problem right now, I do have some very important things I have to take care of. Moreover, it definitely won¡¯t take just a day or two to solve the problems you have, so I must make some preparations before going to your tribe for an inspection and actuallying up with a real solution. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Agnes kept nodding, ¡°Yes, I understand. But chairman Xu, around how long will it be before you cane with me to our tribe?¡±

    ¡°I really can¡¯t give you an urate answer for this. But I think that within a year, I should have time to take a trip. Does this answer satisfy you?¡±

    ¡°Within a year?¡± Agnes innocently blinked those baby ck eyes and thought it over before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Alright.¡±

    If this was a human speaking, they normally would have added ¡°I hope you can keep your promise¡± here. However, Agnes just said a simple ¡°Alright¡±, like shepletely believed that Xu Yi would keep his promise with her.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart as he said to Agnes, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then young miss Agnes, we¡¯ll leave it like this for now. When I¡¯ve finished my urgent matters here, I¡¯ll notify chief Monto and have him contact you or your nsmen. I hope you can wait patiently for my message.¡± He waved his hand to Agnes after he finished and turned to leave.

    After taking two steps, Xu Yi was surprised to find that Agnes was actually following behind him and didn¡¯t look like she was going to leave at all.

    Xu Yi turned to look at her, ¡°Young miss Agnes, what are you following me for? Didn¡¯t we already make a promise? You can go back to your tribe now and cane look for me when you receive a message from chief Monto.¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°The elders ordered me toe back with you and since you can¡¯t leave, then I can only stay by your side and go with you when you decide to set off.¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at himself and said in a voice of disbelief, ¡°Your meaning is that you¡¯re nning to follow me all the time during this period?¡±

    Agnes gave a serious nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help wanting to hit his head.

    This elven girl, she was actually a simple minded idiot?

 Volume 1 115 - Fluorescent Grass Powder

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 115 Fluorescent Grass Powder</strong>

    ¡°Du¡ª¡ªDu, du¡ª¡ª¡±

    Hearing the sound of knocking, Akali¡¯s round face popped out from behind the door.

    Seeing Xu Yi standing behind the door, Akali revealed an unnatural expression. She paused for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re back.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded before looking around the room, ¡°How is it? Is Vivian good?¡±

    ¡°The first question back is about Vivian¡­¡­¡± Akali muttered before moving aside, ¡°Go in, Vivian is upstairs. She should still be awake, I¡¯ll go call her.¡±

    Seeing Akali turn to run upstairs, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking behind him, but he didn¡¯t see a trace of Agnes.

    It seemed like this female elf should have used her Shadow Stealth Spell to hide herself again.

    Thinking about how she kept following him on the way back, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rubbing his head in pain.

    Elves were stubborn by nature and this Agnes was especially stubborn.

    No matter what Xu Yi said, she wouldn¡¯t leave Xu Yi¡¯s side. It was like once she left, Xu Yi would disappear without a trace.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t speak sense to her, couldn¡¯t threaten her, and couldn¡¯t even shake her, so he could only helplessly ept this fact in the end.

    It was a good thing Agnes didn¡¯t like showing herself in front of others. She could always use the Shadow Stealth Spell to hide herself, so she didn¡¯t affect Xu Yi too much.

    Shaking his head as he came in, Xu Yi found that the living room was actually tidy. It was not like the mess he had seen before whenever he came to visit.

    Seeing Akali run downstairs again, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Hey, Akali, you¡¯ve changed your personality? You actually learned to clean the room?¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi with an aggrieved look and gave a soft snort, ¡°Isn¡¯t it because sir chairman always says that I don¡¯t clean my room.¡±

    ¡°It seems like my words were effective, that is a good thing.¡± Xu Yiughed before feeling that something wasn¡¯t right. He thought about it before looking up and finding that there was actually a light yellow, transparent cylinder hanging on the roof of the living room.

    This transparent cylinder seemed to have something inside that was letting out an intense light, but after being filtered by the cylinder, it became a warm yellow light.

    Xu Yi felt this wasn¡¯t right because he suddenly remembered that it was dark outside. However the room was very bright, just like daytime.

    If it was illuminated with candles, it definitely couldn¡¯t achieve this kind of effect.

    Looking at the light yellow cylinder, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help calling out in pleasant surprise, ¡°Hey! You actually already seeded with this research!¡±

    Akali¡¯s face filled with a smile as she said, ¡°Yes, sir chairman, this is the Magic Lamp that we researched. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand, but he found that this Magic Lamp was hung high up and he couldn¡¯t reach it at all.

    When he wanted to find something to stand on to have a better look at the Magic Lamp, there was a softugh from the staircase before Evita¡¯s voice rang out.

    ¡°Chairman, if you want to take a look at the Magic Lamp, how about looking at the one in my hand?¡±

    Xu Yi turned around and his eyes instantly lit up.

    On the staircase, Evita was walking down.

    Perhaps it was because it waste, but she was wearing a set of loose fitting sleep clothes right now. Although it tightly covered her up, it gave azy feeling to her that gave her a different kind of feeling and taste.

    What attracted Xu Yi¡¯s eyes even more was the glowing thing that was held in Evita¡¯s hands.

    This thing had a round wooden base and there was a transparent light purple ss cover on top of that.

    The thing inside the ss wasn¡¯t releasing a strong light and because it was covered by the ss, it was only letting out a dim light purple glow. Evita that was holding it was covered by it and it added a mysterious aura to Evita.

    Xu Yi looked for a while and his heart filled with pleasant surprise, ¡°Evita, you actually solved the problem of the Magic Array¡¯s intensity?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t respond to Xu Yi¡¯s question. Rather she moved aside and revealed Vivian hiding behind her.

    Seeing Vivian¡¯s shy expression revealed by the light purple glow, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    ¡°Vivian, what are you hiding behind Evita for? What? Could it be that in just ten days, you don¡¯t recognize me anymore?¡±

    Vivian quickly shook her head. She looked at Evita and seeing Evita give her a nod with a look of encouragement, she hesitated a bit before moving down the staircase and slowly moving to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    Before she reached Xu Yi¡¯s side, her expression became more nervous. When she reached Xu Yi¡¯s side, she suddenly gave a sigh of relief and her expression rxed all of a sudden.

    Xu Yi looked at her with a somewhat bewildered look before he couldn¡¯t help reaching out to touch her head.

    ¡°You don¡¯t have a fever¡­...I say, Vivian, what is with you?¡±

    Vivian¡¯s face was already a bit red since she had juste out of the bath, but it became even redder as she forcefully shook her head.

    ¡°A little girl¡¯s thoughts really aren¡¯t easy to guess.¡± Xu Yi could only mutter in his heart before turning to wave his hand at Akali and Evita, ¡°Come, Evita, let me see the Magic Lamp in your hand. Akali, take out the research you¡¯ve done in the past few days, I want to see how much progress you¡¯ve made.¡±

    Evita brought the crystalmp over and Xu Yi had her take it apart without any hesitation. As expected, there was a familiar looking Magic Array at the base of the Magic Lamp.

    But looking at it more closely, he found that whether it was the Magic Array on the foundation of the Magic Lamp he had bought or the one that Evita had drawn before, it had changed quite a bit. It was clear that Evita¡¯s group had made quite a few improvements to this Magic Array.

    Xu Yi looked at it for a while and found that the difference with this Magic Array was that on this Magic Array, there was some kind of weed that was densely packed on it. Xu Yi carefully looked it over for a bit before recognizing that although this weed had changed colours, it was still the Fluorescent Grass.

    Xu Yi thought about it and softly pressed on the Fluorescent Grass. He found that after her pressed down on it, there were several cracks that formed on the fine Fluorescent Grass.

    Evita saw Xu Yi¡¯s actions and it was toote to call out to stop him. She saw Xu Yi break several pieces of Fluorescent Grass and instantly revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Chairman, have you found the problem?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at her and gave a slight nod, ¡°This is a very normal problem, it isn¡¯t hard to find. Have you not found a solution yet?¡±

    Evita helplessly shook her head, ¡°Although the Fluorescent Grass can perfectly release light, it is still grass in the end and is very weak. No matter what methods we¡¯ve thought of, it is very hard to guarantee it isn¡¯t destroyed. So look at this, whether it is the Magic Lamp hanging on the ceiling or the Magic Lamp in my hand, they are all wrapped up in ss to make sure the Fluorescent Grass isn¡¯t damaged.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad. The problem is too limited and we don¡¯t have a way to pull the air out of the ss or insert some inert gas to stop the material from oxidizing. But this method can¡¯t be used for long.¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi in a daze. She didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi meant by pulling out the air or inserting noble gas at all, but she knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t thoughtlessly say these things. So she didn¡¯t give her opinion and silently waited for Xu Yi to continue while noting these down.

    Akali had brought over their research results from the past few days and Xu Yi honestly looked them over after taking them.

    These papers were thick and Xu Yi seriously looked over them, so he spent a while reading them all.

    After he finished, Xu Yi closed his eyes to think about something before saying to the two of them, ¡°I¡¯ve found that the two of you have neglected a very important problem.¡±

    Evita and Akali were stunned at the same time, ¡°What problem?¡±

    Xu Yi stood up to walk over to the table and touched the Magic Lamp Evita had put away earlier, taking out the Fluorescent Grass inside the Magic Lamp. He had Akali bring a small bowl and then put the broken pieces of Fluorescent Grass inside, using a soupdle to crush them.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, Akali asked in shock, ¡°Sir chairman, it can¡¯t be that you think that Fluorescent Grass Powder can also absorb the lightning of the Magic Array to release light, right?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi asked back. He pointed at the material to the side, ¡°Haven¡¯t you noticed that in the description of the Fluorescent Grass, even after the Fluorescent Grass withers, it can absorb lightning and release light?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, so we used Fluorescent Grass for this experiment. If we wanted live Fluorescent Grass, we wouldn¡¯t even have been able to develop these two Magic Lamps. But sir chairman, how is this rted to your ideas? Withered Fluorescent Grass is still Fluorescent Grass, but isn¡¯t crushing it into powder apletely different story?¡± Akali still asked in a confused voice.

    Evita also had a look of doubt, as she thought that Xu Yi was sometimes whimsical.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Since wither Fluorescent Grass also has the ability to store lightning and release light, it means that it is unrted to the life force of the Fluorescent Grass and it¡¯s the specialty of the material that determines this quality. Since it¡¯s like this, there shouldn¡¯t be much difference betweenplete Fluorescent Grass and powdered Fluorescent Grass. Since it¡¯s possible in theory, why wouldn¡¯t we give it a try? The so called experimenting is just trying to find the one sess in ten thousand failures.¡±

    Evita and Akali couldn¡¯t help nodding thoughtfully when they heard this.

    Xu Yi hadpletely grounded the Fluorescent Grass. He took the shing Thunder Array that Evita had prepared from the table and carefully scattered the Fluorescent Grass Powder ording to the path Evita and Akali had found.

    When everything was prepared, Xu Yi looked at the nervous Akali and Evita and revealed a smile. He reached out a finger and sent out a trace of magic.

    With a sh of light, the shing Thunder Array activated.

    After a while, a weak glow came from the Fluorescent Grass Powder on the Magic Array before it gradually became stronger. It lit up all the dark ces on the table and also lit up the three faces with pleasantly surprised smiles around the table.

 Volume 1 116 - Designer

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 116 Designer</strong>

    When Xu Yi came home, it was alreadyte at night.

    Perhaps it was because she was back in a familiar environment, but as soon as they came in, Vivian who had been sleeping on Xu Yi¡¯s back suddenly woke up. After being in a daze for a bit, she fully woke up and quickly jumped off Xu Yi¡¯s back as she lowered her head to apologize, ¡°Sorry, master, you had to carry me back¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi patted her head and asked, ¡°How was it? Did you have a good time living with Evita and Akali?¡±

    Vivian immediately revealed a smile and excitedly nodded, ¡°Un, it was very good. Big sister Akali and big sister Evita were very good to me. Big sister Still also came to see me and bought new clothes for me. Master, look, I¡¯m wearing the clothes big sister Still bought for me right now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the thick cotton padded jacket Vivian was wearing, ¡°No wonder. I was thinking that I didn¡¯t buy this for you, so it was something Still bought for you. Vivian, it seems like it was a very good idea to let them look after you. How about you just live with them from now on, they are this good to you anyway.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Vivian was stunned before tears suddenly appeared in her eyes, ¡°Master, you¡­..you don¡¯t want me anymore?¡±

    Xu Yi never thought that just a casual joke from him would make Vivian cry. He quickly wiped away her tears in a panic before anxiously saying, ¡°I¡¯m just joking, don¡¯t take it seriously!¡±

    ¡°Really? Master, it isn¡¯t because you don¡¯t want me anymore?¡± Although the sadness on her face softened, Vivian¡¯s expression still looked unsettled.

    Seeing how she looked like an abandoned little animal, Xu Yi let out a sigh. He thought that he really didn¡¯t pay enough attention.

    Vivian had been a ve since she was young, so she never had a sense of stability and safety before. Now that she finally had some peaceful days, naturally it would be very important to her.

    Perhaps it was only a casual joke to Xu Yi, but it was a very terrifying fact for her, so naturally it would cause such an intense reaction from her.

    ¡°Rx, I won¡¯t not want you, I was just kidding.¡± Xu Yi patted her head andforted her in a very certain voice. Then he gave the Magic Lamp that Evita gave him to Vivian, ¡°Go and turn on themp. You¡¯ve been with Evita and Akali for so long, you should know how to use it, right?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s orders, Vivian finally stopped crying and brought the Magic Lamp into the room.

    Seeing the room light up, Xu Yi turned back to look at the dark night and raised his voice a bit to shout, ¡°Young miss Agnes,e out.¡±

    Space distorted to his left and Agnes appeared.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you need me for something? Could it be that you changed your mind and are prepared to head back to the tribe with me now?¡± Agnes¡¯ voice was filled with a trace of pleasant surprise.

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, I have to disappoint you.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I just want to ask you, how are you nning to spend the night?¡±

    ¡°Spend the night?¡± Agnes seemed like she never thought Xu Yi would ask this, so her voice was a bit surprised, ¡°I¡¯ll just stay here.¡±

    ¡°Stay here?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s face filled with disbelief, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t be nning to spend all night outside, right? It¡¯s this cold, you aren¡¯t afraid of freezing to death?¡±

    Agnes opened the cloak on her head and tilted her head with a curious look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re caring about me?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m caring about you!¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°Although I feel that you following me around like this very annoying, but I can¡¯t just watch a little girl like you sleeping on the streets, right? Come,e in. Although my ce isn¡¯t big, there¡¯s no problem if one more person lives here.¡±

    Agnes hesitated a bit before following Xu Yi into the room.

    When she walked to Xu Yi¡¯s side, Agnes suddenly thought of something and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am seventy four years old this year, I¡¯m much bigger than you. You shouldn¡¯t call me a little girl.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly found this funny. He looked over at Agnes and said in a voice showing that he was a bit angry and found this a bit funny, ¡°ording to the standard of your elves, seventy four is equal to being a teen for us humans, right? I am a twenty seven year old human, so is there a problem in calling you little girl?¡±

    Agnes actually carefully considered this before giving a nod.

    ¡°This is also reasonable. Alright, you can call me little girl.¡±

    Xu Yi was defeated by this elf Agnes¡¯ stubbornness and honesty. He could only shake his head and not pursue this topic any longer.

    When he walked into the room, Vivian had already lit up the Magic Lamp and it released a light green glow, covering the room in a light shade of green.

    Looking at the Magic Lamp on the table, Agnes looked a bit surprised. She went around the Magic Lamp before saying in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, you humans really are a creative race, to actually make something like this. This is simply like the Moonlight Flowers in our tribe we use to light up the night.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t you elves have strong night vision? Why would you need the Moonlight Flower¡¯s light?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°Not every elf has strong night vision. The older elves have weaker bodies, so their night vision is also weaker. They need the Moonlight Flower and Elune¡¯s light very much. Chairman Xu, what is this thing that is like the Moonlight Flower called?¡±

    ¡°This thing is a Magic Lamp. What, you¡¯re interested in it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Agnes nodded, ¡°Un, I like this thing very much. Of course, it would be better if it was more beautiful.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t think it¡¯s beautiful enough?¡± Xu Yi looked at the Magic Lamp on the table with a confused look.

    Since Evita specially gave him this Magic Lamp, of course it was the best looking one to Evita. The Magic Lamp was beautifully made and it was of excellent craftsmanship, Xu Yi felt like it was a work of art.

    But this Agnes didn¡¯t think it was beautiful enough, so her request must be quite high.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi remembered that the elves had always been best known for elegance and beauty. The things of the elves would always be considered extremely fine and beautiful items.

    The goods that have spread from the elven empire thousands of years ago were considered supreme artistic treasures. Once they were known to the world, they could be sold for shocking prices of up to hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help curiously asking Agnes, ¡°What part of the Magic Lamp isn¡¯t beautiful for you? If you could design it, what would it look like?¡±

    Agnes was a bit surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s question, but after turning to look at him, she turned back to the Magic Lamp on the table and thought it over. She drew in the air with her slender finger a few times before stopping and helplessly saying, ¡°I don¡¯t have a way to tell you.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that simple?¡± Xu Yi turned to Vivian who had been stunned by the sudden appearance of this strange girl with sharp ears and said, ¡°Vivian, go and bring your pen and drawing pad over for Agnes.¡±

    Vivian responded before going to her room to get a pen and the drawing pad for Agnes.

    Agnes took the pen and the drawing pad, but she didn¡¯t immediately start drawing. Rather she looked over Vivian and turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, this human girl, is she your daughter?¡±

    Xu Yi almost fell over, ¡°I¡¯m only twenty seven, how could I have such an old daughter?¡±

    ¡°Then she¡¯s your wife?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly patted his head, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what you elves are thinking¡­...Vivian is still this small, how could she be my wife?¡±

    ¡°Oh, then I understand, she is your little sister, right?¡± It was like Agnes cared very much about the answer to this question as she kept pursuing the topic.

    ¡°Alright, just treat her as my little sister. Stop worrying about this, quickly draw what you¡¯re thinking. I really want to see what a beautiful Magic Lamp looks like to you.¡± Xu Yi urged.

    Agnes responded and took the pen and the drawing pad. After thinking for a bit, she began drawing on it.

    It¡¯s said on the Sines Continent that every elf was an artist.

    Xu Yi had only heard it and not believed it, but now that he saw Agnes drawing in front of him, he suddenly felt that these words were probably not false.

    It was just a few strokes, but the distinct appearance of the Magic Lamp had appeared on the paper.

    After a while, a life like drawing of the Magic Lamp appeared on the paper.

    Finally Agnes added a few modifications and apletely unique and stunningly beautiful Magic Lamp was finished.

    Xu Yi looked at the drawing and couldn¡¯t help praising it..

    Not talking about how fast and precise Agnes was in drawing, just this drawing alone was already filled with beauty.

    Although it wasn¡¯t that different from the Magic Lamp on the table, but with the unique views that Agnes had and the small changes she had made, the final product was not only filled with beauty, it also seemed iparably finely made. If people saw it, they wouldn¡¯t be able to stop their gasps. This was simply a work of art!

    Only taking a single look, Xu Yi deeply believed that if a Magic Lamp had this kind of beautiful appearance, it would definitely draw out people¡¯s desire to buy it!

    Just based on this design, the price of the Magic Lamp could be increased by several times!

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly filled with passion as he looked at Agnes.

    This female elf, she was simply a natural born outstanding designer!

    At this moment, Vivian on the side suddenly spoke in a timid voice.

    ¡°Master, this kind of Magic Lamp¡­...it doesn¡¯t seem right.¡±

 Volume 1 117 - Volume 1 Chapter 117

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 117 One will search high and low only to find it when one least expects to</h4>

    Hearing what Vivian said, Agnes doubtfully looked at her, but she didn¡¯t say anything. Xu Yi asked in a curious voice with a trace of expectation, ¡°Why isn¡¯t it good? Vivian, can you tell which part isn¡¯t good?¡±

    Xu Yi was very expectant of Vivian becausest time he identally found Vivian¡¯s talent for product design, he had decided to send Vivian to Baron Rickto Magic Academy to learn drawing, wanting to unearth the talent inside her.

    Now that he saw her actually agree to the beautiful Magic Lamp that Agnes drew, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a bit surprised at all, rather he was excited.

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Vivian looked at Anges and saw a pair of long ears. This big sister who looked like the legendary elf didn¡¯t seem too happy, so she hesitantly pointed at the drawn Magic Lamp a few times before pointing at the beautifully drawn base and saying, ¡°If the base is like this, there¡¯s no way to draw the Magic Array onto it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at where Vivian was pointing and after thinking about it, he realized that Vivian wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    Evita was the one who came up with this Magic Lamp, but because she didn¡¯t learn anything about design at all, she just designed it based on requirements. So there were many things that she didn¡¯t consider, or rather she didn¡¯t have the rted knowledge for at all¡­...

    This Magic Lamp¡¯s current appearance was formed from Evita¡¯s many tests, so there weren¡¯t any considerations for appearance changes at all. So as soon as it was changed by Agnes, there were immediately problems that appeared.

    The most important problem was that the designed base couldn¡¯t support a Magic Array, but Agnes had changed it anyway. The base was much smaller because of this, so there wasn¡¯t a way to put a Magic Array on it.

    In other words, this kind of design was aplete failure.

    Xu Yi looked at Vivian and couldn¡¯t help nodding in praise.

    She actually noticed the most important problem with this design, showing that she really did have a talent for this.

    ¡°Very good, Vivian, you¡¯re very correct.¡± Xu Yi said in a voice of praise, ¡°Then ording to your thoughts, how should this Magic Lamp be changed?¡±

    ¡°I feel it¡¯s best if it¡¯s changed like this¡­¡­¡±

    Perhaps it was because she gained courage from Xu Yi¡¯s encouragement, but Vivian directly took the pen and drawing pad from Agnes¡¯ hand and drew a new Magic Lamp design on another page.

    One had to admit, the elves did have more talent when it came to art. Although Vivian was considered a genius at drawing and had studied drawing at Baron Rickto Magic Academy for a while, while her drawings were very clear and life like, the feeling it gave to people was inferior inparison.

    Butpared to Agnes¡¯ drawing that only cared about the design, Vivian didn¡¯t just draw the design. She also included drawings that considered the internal design, making it look more realistic.

    And this came from the usual guidance Xu Yi gave Vivian.

    When Vivian finished, Xu Yi was filled with praise, ¡°Good! Vivian, your drawing is great!¡±

    Vivian¡¯s drawing considered the overall design of the Magic Lamp. Not only did it leave enough space for the Magic Array, it also left some space for further changes.

    Other than this, based on the design of the ss cover, Vivian had also considered the problem of light divergence. She had cleverly designed the ss cover to have a curved non transparent mirror.

    Although it wasn¡¯t clear what effect this would have on the design, it showed that she had already considered the light divergence problem. This was something that Xu Yi hadn¡¯t taught her and was something Evita and Akali never considered, so it could be seen that she had thought of this herself.

    Getting praise from Xu Yi, Vivian¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help revealing a proud look. When she looked at Agnes, she raised her head a bit.

    Agnes didn¡¯t notice Vivian¡¯s little actions. Rather after looking at the design Vivian made for a while, she shook her head, ¡°No, this isn¡¯t beautiful enough.¡±

    Xu Yi had a thought and gave the drawing to her.

    ¡°Then Agnes, based on this, make something that you think looks good.¡±

    ¡°Can I?¡± Agnes looked at Vivian.

    Vivian hesitated a bit. Although her heart was a bit unwilling, she still obediently nodded.

    So Agnes quickly finished a new drawing.

    This time, she even made a few revisions to the inner design Vivian had made.

    The drawing really looked much more refined and beautiful after it was modified. Even if Vivian wasn¡¯t willing to submit, she still had to admit this point.

    But Vivian found several more problems and pointed them out without any politeness before making another drawing.

    Agnes gave her ideas on the design again and created another drawing.

    Vivian also found more problems and made another drawing.

    Agnes¡­...

    ¡­...

    The next morning, Xu Yi woke up on time.

    When he walked out, he saw the drawings scattered all over the living room and Agnes and Vivian sleeping sprawled over the table.

    Seeing the tired look they had on their exhausted faces, they probably slept quitete.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. When he saw Agnes and Vivianpeting with each otherst night, he smartly chose to retreat and sleep first.

    And seeing them now, they might have gone all night.

    Xu Yi¡¯s looked at Agnes¡¯ delicate and beautiful face and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Vivian was the same. Agnes called herself seventy four years old, but she had the same temper. She wasn¡¯t embarrassed to say she wasn¡¯t a little girl.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the drawings on the table and couldn¡¯t help praising it in his heart.

    Based on these drawings, their ideas gradually came together. In the end, not only was the Magic Lamps beautifully designed, the structure was also perfect, where even Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see a problem.

    A Magic Lamp of this design, it could definitely be considered a sess or it could be called an outstanding design.

    Xu Yi casually took out a page and thought that if the drawn Magic Lamp could be made, it would definitely attract the interest of many people.

    Not mentioning anything else, just based on this outstanding design, it was worth buying.

    Taking another look at the sleeping Agnes and Vivian, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    It really was one will search high and low only to find it when one least expects to.

    ###

    When Xu Yi entered the household magic machine workshop, he found that the magicians he hired yesterday were already working.

    This was the first time magicians were drawing Magic Arrays in the morning, so when Xu Yi saw this, he wasn¡¯t used to it.

    The students hired from the Baron Rickto Magic Academy only came when they didn¡¯t have sses in the afternoon or when they were on vacation, their work times were iparable to full time magicians.

    After Xu Yi watched on the side for a while, he found that the magicians had deeper understanding of Magic Arrayspared to the students.

    For the students toplete the small Frost Array and small me Array for the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, it would take them around half an hour. Although these magicians had low grades, each person only took around twenty minutes to finish this work.

    This was also their first day at work, so they weren¡¯t as skilled yet. Once they became more skilled, perhaps they could cut that down to ten minutes.

    Higher efficiency and more work time, whenparing this, the results of these magicians far surpassed that of the students.

    To this change, the happiest person was of course Heinz.

    The limiting factor for the household magic machine workshop was the efficiency of the Magic Arrays. However, since the workers were all students from Baron Rickto Magic Academy, he couldn¡¯t request the students to ignore their studies to increase their efficiency.

    Even if Xu Yi recruited more of them, there wouldn¡¯t be enough students working here, causing the household magic machine workshop to never increase their productivity. This was something that always caused Heinz to break out in a sigh over.

    And the bigger problem was that Xu Yi kept having the magic machine workshop create new production magic machines and improve the current ones. This gradually increased the efficiency of the normal workers in the household magic machine workshop, even reaching two-three times the normal efficiency in the beginning.

    Compared to this, the efficiency of drawing Magic Arrays was limited to the magic power of the students which couldn¡¯t be increased. So like this, it gradually became a situation that Heinz felt helpless over.

    It was that after the workers finished theponents for the Magic Rice Cookers and Magic Air Conditioners, they still had to wait for the students to draw the Magic Arrays on before finishing them. This greatly affected their production efficiency.

    Now that these magicians had been hired, although it was just nine people, based on their work efficiency, they were not lower than thirty students. This instantly solved Heinz¡¯s urgent problem and made the entire workshop work more smoothly, while increasing its efficiency. It was no wonder that when Xu Yi saw him, he had a smile blooming on his face.

    ¡°Ha, ha, Xu Yi, I think you don¡¯t need to recruit that many magicians. After these people be more familiar with their work, we might not even need those students anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Heinz who let the sess go to his head and felt that this fellow would never change how petty he was.

    Not to mention that these nine magicians could leave whenever, even if it was for thepany¡¯s future development, they would need to recruitrge amounts of magicians.

    Other thanpleting the simple Magic Arrays, the more important job was researching Magic Arrays that would be used to run the magic machines.

    Not mentioning anything else, just based on the changes Great Magician Cami and Still¡¯s group of three did to the two Magic Arrays inside the Magic Air Conditioner, it decreased the size of the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner by half. This allowed them to cut down a third of the Magic Air Conditioner¡¯s cost.

    If there wasn¡¯t this change, Xu Yi estimated that the profit from each Magic Air Conditioner was around thirteen to fifteen gold coins. Now with this change, the profit had exploded to close to twenty gold coins!

    As the Magic Air Conditioner became popr with the nobles of Banta City and the surrounding cities, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received an order of over a thousand units.

    Putting it together, just based on the Magic Air Conditioner alone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could receive arge profit of close to twenty thousand gold coins this winter!

    And this one third change in profit came from a small change.

    This was the power of scientific research!

 Volume 1 118 - Splitting research

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 118 Splitting research</strong>

    After he left the household magic machine workshop, Xu Yi came to the magic machine workshop. After discussing a few things with Camby and the other dwarves, he took several blueprints before heading back to his office.

    The office had already been expanded and other than the office that Xu Yi used asionally, there was another room that was specially put aside as We¡¯s researchb.

    When Xu Yi came in, he found We was immersed in some material, looking through them withplete focus.

    These materials were rted to the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently produces. After We was employed by Xu Yi, Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately have her work on researching, but rather gave her some material for her to study first.

    Hearing the sound of the door opening, We looked up and saw Xu Yi. She gave him a simple nod and didn¡¯t greet him.

    Xu Yi was already used to her indifference and this had be more clear after he had her sign the confidentiality contract.

    ¡°We, what do you think? Do you have an approximate idea of the design of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products?¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about her attitude and saw down in front of her as he asked this.

    We thought for a bit before giving a slight nod, ¡°I have some ideas. Xu¡­..Chairman, after seeing these materials, I¡¯ve found that it isn¡¯t strange at Rem and I lost at the Leo Chamber of Commerce at all.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why did you suddenly say this?¡±

    ¡°Because after I studied the material you gave me, I¡¯ve found that in these magic machines, the magic actually isn¡¯t the main factor. What decides its use is actually the design and structure of the magic machine itself. If it was just in terms of Magic Array, the ones that me and Rem created wouldn¡¯t lose to your Magic Arrays in terms of power. But if these Magic Arrays were used in magic machines, because there is a big disparity in terms of design, there would be arge contrast.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at We in surprise as he couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of appreciation.

    Although this logic was simple, other than Great Magician Cami and Still¡¯s group who researched with him, the other magicians didn¡¯t seem to understand this point.

    In everyone¡¯s thoughts, they felt that the power of the magic machines is because of the power of magic. Theypletely ignored the powerful mechanical engineering knowledge Xu Yi had brought from earth.

    We was the first person who recognized this in front of Xu Yi. Even with Still and the others, they recognized this, but they didn¡¯t openly ept it like We.

    ¡°Congrattions, We. Recognizing this point, it means you have taken a step closer to bing a magic machine designer.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Since you have this understanding, I feel like I can now give you some real work to do.¡±

    Xu Yi took out a blueprint and handed it to We.

    ¡°This is the blueprint for the Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press that I¡¯m nning to develop and I need you to study something, which is this Magic Array that provides the power. Because there needs to be explosive power in this driving force, I feel that it is most suitable to use a burst type me Magic Array. We, you are more skilled with Fire Magic Arrays, so I decided to give this part to you to study. I have already written down the specific requirements for this Magic Array on the blueprint, so you can just properly study the patterns and details on the design.¡±

    We took the blueprint and was shocked by the dense amount of details written on the design. After she looked it over, she looked up to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, when you designed the Magic Fan, you didn¡¯t use such aplicated blueprint, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi replied in a natural manner, ¡°The Magic Fan technology is so low leveled, how could itpare to this Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press? You should know that the Magic Fan only used a simple Revolving Wind Array and this Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press, my initial ns has it using eleven Magic Arrays of different grades and three different elements! Do you think it would be the same?¡±

    We looked at the blueprint in a daze before suddenly giving a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman, now I¡¯m willing to admit my defeat.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He pointed at a few ces on the blueprint before saying with a serious expression, ¡°I don¡¯t care if you admit it or not, but you have to do well with this Magic Array. You are now an employee of ourpany, We, I hope you will not mess it up.¡±

    Well red at Xu Yi and gave a soft snort. Her expression was filled with confidence again, ¡°Who do you think I am?¡±

    ###

    In order toplete the three thousand agricultural magic machines before the spring harvest, Xu Yi was incredibly busy.

    After taking care of the research We was responsible for, Xu Yi immediately left the factory and headed back to Banta City.

    When first went to see Sancheli who had been thinking about the Magic Array problem in a room by himself. After giving him a few words of instruction, he immediately went to Evita and Akali¡¯s little house.

    After they saw the new Magic Lamp design that Agnes and Vivian made together, Evita and Akali couldn¡¯t help gasping in shock.

    ¡°Sir chairman, who drew this? This is simple¡­..too beautiful!¡± Feeling excited, Akali even forgot about how she was deliberately acting cold towards Xu Yi. She grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm in pleasant surprise as she cried out in shock.

    Although Evita was more reservedpared to Akali, she also couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of excitement.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman, this Magic Lamp is too beautiful! If there really was this kind of Magic Lamp, I don¡¯t care how much it costs, I would definitely buy one!¡± Evita said in a certain voice.

    ¡°Are you both very interested in this Magic Lamp? You both want to buy it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course!¡± The two both nodded as they replied in a very certain voice, ¡°This is simply a work of art!¡±

    An embarrassed look suddenly appeared on Evita¡¯s face, ¡°Sir chairman, since you had just a good Magic Lamp design, why didn¡¯t you tell me earlier? You caused me to give you such an ugly Magic Lamp¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°No, no, that Magic Lamp isn¡¯t ugly at all. Moreover, the Magic Lamp drawn here was modified from that Magic Lamp.¡± Xu Yi quicklyforted her, ¡°This design has just entered my hands, I didn¡¯t know about it at all before. Un¡­..Since you two are very satisfied with the design of this Magic Lamp, then there should be no worries in terms of selling it. Very good, this has been decided. The next product our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be selling is this Magic Lamp!¡±

    ¡°Great! I support you sir chairman!¡± Akali gave an excited p, ¡°When this Magic Lamp is made, I will definitely buy one!¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, ¡°You are one of the designers of this Magic Lamp and you¡¯re still thinking of buying it? Rx, when it is made, I¡¯ll give you one.¡±

    Akali cheered in happiness, even swinging as she hugged Xu Yi¡¯s arm, not acting depressed like before after suffering a blow from Xu Yi.

    Seeing Akali¡¯s exaggerated appearance and Evita¡¯s happy appearance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The powerful magic machines that he worked hard to make, in the eyes of these little girls, they couldn¡¯tpare to a single Magic Lamp.

    After saying goodbye to Akali and Evita, Xu Yi headed to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had Still, Evita, Akali, We, and Sancheli researching Magic Arrays for them, which waspletely enough to finish researching the Magic Arrays needed for magic machines, in order toplete the mass produce the agricultural magic machines, Xu Yi had to invent a series of Magic Punch Presses for them.

    Compared to the previous simple Magic Fans, Magic Rice Cookers, Magic Air Conditioners, and small Magic Punch Press, the Rolling Forge Magic Punch Press used to make agricultural magic machines was much moreplicated. Naturally there were several times more Magic Arrays that needed to be researched.

    Toplete thisrge amount of Magic Array research in a short period of time, it was naturally impossible to just depend on Still and the others. So after discussing it with Camby and the others, Xu Yi decided to ask for Great Magician Cami¡¯s help.

    Not mentioning therge amount of Magic Array research, the core driving part of the Magic Punch Presses had high requirements, so naturally the Magic Array also had to be of the same level. Although Xu Yi theorized that Fifth Grade or Sixth Grade Magic Arrays should be enough, to be sure, Xu Yi nned to give this core research to Great Magician Cami to finish.

    If Xu Yi gave all these research projects to Great Magician Cami before, he would have definitely been reprimanded by Great Magician Cami. But after receiving the gold coin subsidization from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and receiving some extra rewards from helping with the research, Great Magician Cami had seen the benefits of helping Xu Yiplete this research and also gradually lost his resistance to the work Xu Yi gave him.

    Not to mention that helping Xu Yiplete this research also helped Great Magician Cami gain new understanding of magic and Magic Arrays, which was quite arge help to increasing his magic power.

    So each time he saw Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami was not filled with regret like before. It was more like he was expecting something, as he always had a smile, looking very friendly.

    But seeing Xu Yi this time, Great Magician Cami had a different expression. When he saw Xu Yie in, he gave a cold snort.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He had already left Banta City for over ten days and this was his first time seeing Great Magician Cami, so he shouldn¡¯t have done anything to make him made, right?

    Great Magician Cami looked at the stunned Xu Yi and gave another snort. He said in a deep voice, ¡°I thought that after you became a Fifth Grade Magician, you would ascend into the heavens. You wouldn¡¯t be willing to see me, but you still know toe.¡±

    Xu Yi was even more surprised. What did Great Magician Cami mean by that?

    He had juste back yesterday afternoon and came to see him the next morning, but he was actually dissatisfied?

    Great Magician Cami suddenly changed the topic, ¡°Kid, do you know that after Still knew that you woulde back yesterday, she was happy for several days. It was rare for her to even make several dishes and she waited to invite you to my house for a meal. Kid, in the end, you ran to the little girls Evita and Akali¡¯s ce. What? Are those two little girls more beautiful than Still?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. So Great Magician Cami wasn¡¯t saying something about himself, rather he was saying something for Still.

    But Still was even more strange. The reason why he went to Evita and Akali¡¯s ce was to bring home Vivian who had been there for several days. It wasn¡¯t like Still didn¡¯t know what was going on, so why was she so angry?

    ¡°This¡­...Your excellency Great Magician, you don¡¯t mean that right? Still¡¯s charm is not only something everyone in the city knows, even in the surrounding cities, she is considered the goddess of Banta City. If you say that she isn¡¯t beautiful, isn¡¯t this speaking nonsense with your eyes wide open?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before replying like this with a dry smile. Then he quickly changed the topic and asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, how did you know I became a Fifth Grade Magician?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave another cold snort and pointed at the thick book on the table as he said, ¡°Kid, you¡¯ve be famous!¡±

 Volume 1 119 - There is no free meal

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 119 There is no free meal</strong>

    The bing famous Great Magician Cami mentioned was bing famous in the magician circle.

    This magazine like thing was a periodic released inside the Magicians Guild, so only Great Magicians and Arch Magi will regrly get it.

    So Great Magician Cami saying Xu Yi¡¯s be famous means that he was known by many Great Magicians.

    There were only twenty seven Arch Magic and over five hundred Great Magicians on the entire Sines Continent, so strictly speaking Xu Yi was only famous among these five hundred or so people. To be honest this couldn¡¯t be considered famous at all.

    ¡°Idiot!¡± Great Magician Cami angrily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Arch Magi and Great Magicians are the top characters among magicians, so having the Arch Magi and Great Magicians knowing about you, that is equal to all the magicians knowing about you. Is this not considered being famous?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami in shock, ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Why would I lie to you?¡± Great Magician Cami pointed underneath him, ¡°As long as I wanted, all the people in this Magic Tower would learn about this news. If they then spread this news to others, all the magicians in Banta City and the surrounding cities would know about this. Let me tell you, this internal periodic has a high position in the hearts of the magicians of the continent, so if you can appear in this periodic, it is hard not to be famous.¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin, looking a bit confused.

    ¡°Although it is rare to see someone be a Fifth Grade Magician with their first exam, with how high scale this periodic is, I think I shouldn¡¯t be qualified to appear in this periodic, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°Of course it¡¯s not because you became a Fifth Grade Magician. Although this doesn¡¯t happen often, there are many people who participate in the guild¡¯s exam and there will always be someone who is as shocking as you, so this matter isn¡¯t considered rare. This periodic isn¡¯t a newspaper that reports gossip like the ?Banta Times?, it only reports on things rted to magic. For you to appear on it, it is actually rted to your answers on the Fifth Grade exam written test.¡±

    ¡°Written test answers?¡± Xu Yi remembered when he took part in the test and was a bit astonished, ¡°Why do I feel that there isn¡¯t anything special about that?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t think it¡¯s special?¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi as he asked this with a serious look.

    Seeing how serious Great Magician Cami was, Xu Yi seriously thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°No, I don¡¯t.¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s expression became a bit strange, ¡°Xu Yi, it seems like I¡¯ve still underestimated your talent. Come, take a look at the appraisal of you in the periodic.¡±

    Xu Yi took the thick periodic from Great Magician Cami¡¯s hands and turned to the seventh page as instructed. He found that what was written on it was actually the questions on Magic Arrays he had encountered in the Fifth Grade exam.

    Xu Yi noticed that the one who wrote this article was called Gordon Eisenkel.

    This name was a bit familiar to Xu Yi. Thinking about it, he finally remembered that when he had just started working at Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, Sarash had mentioned this name. He said that he was the richest Great Magician in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    And in this article, this richest Great Magician was filled with praise for the answers that Xu Yi had given.

    The Magic Arrays in the written exam were only Fifth Grade Arrays. The questions were asking about some details of the Magic Arrays, as well as some small requests to let the examinee improve a few parts of the Magic Array.

    Xu Yi already knew a great deal about Magic Arrays and adding in the fact that he focused most of his energy in changing Magic Arrays to suit the needs of magic machines, these kinds of questions were a piece of cake for him.

    After the test was finished, the old examiners from the Magicians Guild were unanimous that Xu Yi¡¯s answers far surpassed the level of normal Fifth Grade Magicians. They specially agreed to let him pass the test and be a Fifth Grade Magician.

    And in this article, Great Magician Eisenkel analyzed the answer Xu Yi gave bit by bit, clearly exining all the ideas behind Xu Yi¡¯s answers.

    ¡°......This ispletely a genius level of creativity! Using the curves of the array to change the Magic Array¡¯s magical elemental area density absorption, causing a change in the area of effect of the Magic Array, this is simply allowing the Magic Array toe alive! If we can promote this kind of creativity, we can even change Magic Arrays as we wish, allowing the Magic Arrays to reach the effects we want. I can definitely say that this Xu Yi¡¯s research on Magic Arrays has reached the level of grandmaster! Even I can¡¯tpare to him!¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s straightforward praise in the article, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help blushing a bit.

    These Magic Arrays were only natural to him, but he never thought that in Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s eyes, it would be this shocking. This was something he really didn¡¯t expect.

    After he finished reading the article, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. He asked Great Magician Cami, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, are you close to this Great Magician Eisenkel?¡±

    Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°No, we just know each other¡¯s names.¡±

    ¡°Then why is he praising me like this? I don¡¯t think that I¡¯m worth this kind of praise. Seeing him praise me as a genius in his article, I feel a bit embarrassed.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to feel embarrassed. After I saw the answers you wrote for the written exam, I felt that his praise for you isn¡¯t exaggerated at all. Your creativity and ingenuity really is worthy of this praise.¡± Great Magician Cami seriously said, ¡°I still have the same view as before, if you were to focus on studying magic, perhaps your future achievements might even surpass me and you could even be the first Arch Magus of the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a dryugh, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you don¡¯t need to say this again.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a snort before saying, ¡°Of course, other than you having the qualification to be praised like this, I have to remind you, that this fellow Eisenkel¡­...He has never done anything unnecessary, so¡­...you should be a bit careful.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slow nod.

    There was a phrase that said that there was no free meal in this world.

    Even if the answer that he gave in the written test was quite shocking, it was still only a written test for the Fifth Grade exam. In a normal situation, it wouldn¡¯t fall into the eyes of an important character like Great Magician Eisenkel at all.

    But Great Magician Eisenkel had to choose the answer that Xu Yi had given and specially wrote an article in this important Magicians Guild¡¯s internal periodic, giving suchrge praise. If it was said he didn¡¯t have any other goals, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t believe it even if he was beaten to death.

    But Xu Yi felt this was very strange. He was just a small Fifth Grade Magician, what was worth having this Great Magician deem as important?¡±

    Unless¡­..He cared about the fact that he was Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman?

    Xu Yi thought about it and couldn¡¯t think of an answer, so he could only put aside this question for now. He focused his mind back on the main topic of why he came to find Great Magician Cami.

    Hearing that Xu Yi wanted to focus on studying a series of production magic machines and that he was only giving him a month¡¯s worth of time, Great Magician Cami couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°Kid, are you nning on not giving me any time to research magic?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other choice, toplete the order for his majesty, I have to invent these production magic machines. Even if the dwarves go all out, they can at most finish the initial three thousand small agricultural magic machines. But to finish the tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines the king wants, they might not even be able to finish in several years. Since it has to be studied eventually, it is better to do it earlier.¡±

    But these Magic Punch Presses look thisplicated, you really think it can be done in a month?¡± Great Magician Cami doubtfully asked.

    ¡°Perhaps the time is a bit tight, but I don¡¯t think it¡¯s that big of a problem.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying with a serious expression, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, it isn¡¯t just the king that wants to achieve the n in his heart, I want to do the same. To spread the agricultural magic machines before the harvest season, it will raise the kingdom¡¯s total harvest. The king is considered the living problem in the kingdom and although I¡¯m not that noble, I¡¯m not willing to see people starve. Last time when I discussed the disaster in the kingdom with Heinz, where many people starved to death, a grown man like Heinz couldn¡¯t help breaking out in tears. I decided then that my priority would be to make magic machines that could increase the harvest.¡±

    Great Magician Cami thought about it before giving a slight nod, ¡°Your thoughts aren¡¯t wrong. When I was invited to Count Sean¡¯s banquet a few days ago, Count Sea was filled with praise for you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He said that with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, quite a bit of farnd had been opened near Banta City. If nothing unexpected happens, Banta City¡¯s harvest will greatly increase and make sure that everyone can fill their stomachs. Xu Yi, do you know that because of this, Count Sean has been secretly giving you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quite a bit of support? If not, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have developed so smoothly in Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°The City Lord taking care of me and thepany, I know in my heart.¡± He then gave augh, ¡°But your excellency Great Magician, since the Lord City Lord is supporting me, shouldn¡¯t you also support me?¡±

    Great Magician Cami snappily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Don¡¯t use Count Sean to pressure me, it¡¯s no use. But since you are trying to increase the production of agricultural magic machines, I¡¯ll agree to your request. Not only me, I will have the entire Magic Tower help you research the Magic Arrays for these production magic machines!¡±

    Xu Yi was filled with joy.

    With Great Magician Cami¡¯s promise, Xu Yi had over 80% confidence in making these Magic Press Punches.

 Volume 1 120 - Prodigal

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 120 Prodigal</strong>

    Two dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory outside the city weed a special guest.

    ¡°Young miss Seveni, please take a look, these two workshops are the current factories for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the construction to the side, that is our new magic machine workshop. ording to manager Riley¡¯s deadline, we should be able to use it within the month.¡± Xu yi was standing outside the workshop, introducing everything to Seveni beside him.

    Wayne Riley on the side heard Xu Yi mention his name and immediately revealed a smile as he said while nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right, if nothing unexpected happens, this factory can be used at the end of the month.¡±

    Seveni looked at the magic machine workshop that was less than a thousand square meters before looking at the new workshop that was clearly more than ten times bigger. She knit her brows and said, ¡°Such arge ce, can it be done within the month? Even if it is done, can it be used that quickly? Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you being too hasty?¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for manager Riley insisting on maintaining quality and not ruining the reputation of their Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I would have requested him to finish this factory by the middle of the month.¡±

    Manager Riley heard Xu Yi unintentionally praising him and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, causing him to fill with joy.

    With how Xu Yi was treating her and even how respectful he seemed, although this young miss Seveni seemed young, she definitely was someone with status. If he could make a good impression on her, it was a good thing whether it was to manager Riley or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although his majesty¡¯s request is a bit tight, I hope that it will not cause too much pressure for you that will lead to idents. If you let these workers be hurt, his majesty and I will both be unsettled.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi, speaking in a serious voice.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He looked at Seveni and saw that her expression was serious, not like she was saying this just for appearance. He gave a nod and said with a smile, ¡°Be assured, young miss Seveni. I take the safety of the workers under me very seriously and I am assured in the skills of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and manager Riley, so there shouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    Manager Riley immediately came forward to say, ¡°Young miss Seveni, you might not know this, but in terms of treating one¡¯s workers, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is one of the best. Not to mention thepanies of our Banta City, perhaps there wouldn¡¯t be a singlepany in the entire Lampuri Kingdom that couldpare to them.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Seveni looked at manager Riley and asked in an interested voice, ¡°What special treatment for Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers? Why do you think that it is so good?¡±

    Manager Riley looked at Xu Yi and saw that he had no objections, so he said with a smile, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, just the set work time of eight hours a day for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers is something nopanies canpare to.¡±

    ¡°A set work time of eight hours a day?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, is this true?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod with a smile

    Seveni of course knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t use something this easy to research to deceive her with, so she was even more surprised.

    ¡°Why do you have this rule? Although employees do need time to rest, don¡¯t you think set work times of eight hours is too short? If you give the employees that much time to rest, don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s a waste of their wages?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit strange, as he thought that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too many orders right now, the workers were working overtime each day. If this was earth, he would be scolded as a no good capitalist. He never thought that he would be asked if he felt the wages were a waste if people rested too much.

    ¡°This¡­..Young miss Seveni, workers are people too. Other than work, there are many things they have to do in their own time. Actually manager Riley¡¯s words aren¡¯t correct, because thepany has been too busytely, the workers have been working overtime each day and don¡¯t have that much time to rest.¡±

    Before Seveni could speak, manager Riley couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°That¡¯s not right, chairman Xu. Not mentioning your workers doing overtime, when the workers under me heard that your workers receive overtime pay, there were some people who wanted toe over to yourpany.¡±

    ¡°Overtime pay?¡± Seveni was surprised again, ¡°What is this?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­...It¡¯s that outside the set eight hours of work each day, if people still need to work, they will receive rewards for their services. That is called overtime pay.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are a strange chairman. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is also very strange, this is the first time I¡¯m hearing about apany giving their workers overtime pay. That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, can I ask you something? The employees for yourpany¡­..How much is the wage for your workers each month?¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t anything wrong, it¡¯s not a secret.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If it¡¯s for the set eight hours and there isn¡¯t overtime, the workers in the two workshops earn around eight gold coins. Because there have been more overtime in the past two months, most of the workers earn around ten to sixteen gold coins.¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes widened slightly. After thinking about it, she turned to ask manager Riley, ¡°Mister Riley, can I ask how much the workers under you earn each month?¡±

    Manager Riley gave a bitterugh and looked at Xu Yi with hiddenint. He hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°This¡­..There are different works, so there are different wages. For the current month¡­..it¡¯s around four gold coins¡­¡­¡± Seeing Seveni¡¯s strange appearance, manager Riley couldn¡¯t help exining, ¡°The price our Amrit Chamber of Commerce is giving is already quite high, the other workers who build houses like us at most earn six gold coins! Young miss Seveni, you can¡¯tpare ourpany with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Xu, he¡­..he¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I what?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    With Xu Yi and Seveni looking at him, manager Riley gave dryughs for a while before he finally couldn¡¯t hide it any longer. He lowered his voice and said, ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, young miss Seveni, you mustn¡¯t think that this is something I¡¯ve said. Actually, there are many bosses of manypanies in Banta City who secretly talk about chairman Xu. They all say that¡­...chairman Xu is aplete prodigal¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Prodigal?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Giving the workers a slightly higher wage is being a prodigal? I think that aren¡¯t they being a bit too stingy?¡±

    Manager Riley quickly waved his hand, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t speak nonsense. Actually if I have to say something, you are indeed a bit of a prodigal. They are just some normal workers, why do you need to start them off with such high wages? Not to mention with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving such high wages, what can the otherpanies of Banta City do? Do you know that the workers under me have protested many times. If it wasn¡¯t for chairman Cruise agreeing to increase their wages, they would have already stopped working.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the slightly irritated manager Riley. He thought that these words probably weren¡¯t manager Riley¡¯s words, but rather words from chairman Cruise and a small warning to him from the otherpanies of Banta City.

    Xu Yi disdained all of this.

    Compared to him, these fellows were capitalists who squeezed out every drop from their employees.

    Of course, on the Sines Continent, their ways weremon and Xu Yi¡¯s was a bit strange. It was expected that it raised some opinions with some people.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t n to change ording to their ideas.

    Based on industrial development from earth, pressing down the wages of the workers was not the right thing to do. This would go against the rules of socio-economic development and would actually slow down the development of the economy.

    [TL Note: If anyone is more interested in this, search ¡°wage increase effect on supply and demand¡±, it¡¯s actually quite interesting.]

    If the normal popce didn¡¯t have the economic ability to buy products it meant that the market wouldn¡¯t be active and it would affect the cirction of goods. This would affect the profit of thepany and would create a vicious cycle.

    But with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce raising the wages of their workers, it allowed the workers to have enough financial power to satisfy their basic needs, while also allowing them to buy other products. This facilitates the cirction of products and increases economic development.

    Take the example of the two hundred human workers in the household magic machine workshop. Because they received a wage of over ten gold coins from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for two months, not only has it greatly increased their family¡¯s living conditions, it also allowed them to have enough money to buy toys for their children.

    These toys were not made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but thepany that made these toys benefited from this, which brought more profit for theirpany. This also allowed them to create more jobs, which also increased the ie of another group of people.

    Through the business cycle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would benefit eventually.

    Take the Magic Fan as an example. Actually one Magic Fan only cost two gold coins and if the people of Banta City had the same level of wages as the workers in the household magic machine workshop, then each person would have the financial power to purchase one.

    Like this, in just a small city like Banta City, there would have been several tens of thousands of Frestech Brand Magic Fans that sold. It wouldn¡¯t have been the same as summer where only several thousand sold.

    This logic was something that Xu Yi felt someone like chairman Cruise wouldn¡¯t understand, so he didn¡¯t waste time exining it to him. The best method was to just do it.

    If he ced the solid benefits in front of their faces, those fellows might understand.

    As for now, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on changing his methods.

    After a few thoughts passed in his mind, Xu Yi paused before saying to manager Riley with a smile, ¡°If they won¡¯t work anymore, ourpany is about to expand again, so we n on recruiting some more workers. If the workers under you don¡¯t want to work anymore, I wee them very much to join ourpany.¡±

    Manager Riley¡¯s face instantly changed, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean by this?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and patted manager Riley¡¯s shoulder before saying, ¡°Nothing at all, it¡¯s just a joke. Rx, manager Riley. Please tell chairman Cruise that since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already working with the Business Union, then we won¡¯t make it hard for everyone. Since the wages of workers has already increased, it¡¯s impossible for it to fall for no reason. As for other aspects, we can cooperate on some more things. As long as everyone receives gold coins, it isn¡¯t that hard to ept the workers earning a bit more, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Manager Riley looked at Xu Yi with an uncertain expression.

    This Xu Yi, was this secretly making fun of them?

 Volume 1 121 - Worker card

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 121 Worker card</strong>

    After manager Riley found an excuse to leave, Seveni revealed a smile with some extra meaning to Xu Yi as she said, ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like your partners in Banta City aren¡¯t too happy with you?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and acted like he was surprised as she said, ¡°Young miss Seveni, what are you saying? Thergepanies of our Banta City are good partners from the Business union, how could there be dissatisfaction? You must have mistaken something.¡±

    Seveni smile and didn¡¯t waste time pursuing this topic. She looked at the magic machine workshop she had just toured under Xu Yi¡¯s guidance and thought about it before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you just said that you are nning to use around a month to develop some new production magic machines to raise the production of agricultural magic machines. Are you confident in researching and developing these production magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said responded in a very certain voice, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasrge amounts of experience in developing production magic machines. Now that we have a powerful backing like Great Magician Cami, I am certain it will seed this time.¡±

    Seveni softly shook her head, ¡°Chairman Xu, you didn¡¯t tell the truth. From the situation in Banta City and the information I¡¯ve gathered in the past few days, the key of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still you, this chairman. Whether it was the Magic Fan in the beginning or the agricultural magic machines that are important to the agricultural department, these magic machines all came from you and you yed the most important part. So I don¡¯t want to ask if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can do this or not, I just want to ask you, do you have the confidence?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni and noticed that her expression was very serious, without a trace of lies. It made people unable to not believe her words.

    ¡°Young miss Seveni, if I as the chairman didn¡¯t have confidence, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have disbanded already, don¡¯t you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Seveni looked over the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face for a while before giving a slight nod, ¡°I hope that chairman Xu will always be filled with confidence. Alright, I believe that you will develop the new production magic machines in a month and that the agricultural magic machines will be integrated into mass production. But chairman Xu, I have a question about the mass production you mentioned. ording to what you said, if you can change the production line, the agricultural magic machine production rate can be increased by over ten times. But like this, will they be able to maintain the same quality? I feel that for anything, to maintain quality, one needs to be stringent.¡±

    ¡°The idea of being stringent is good, but young miss Seveni, your thoughts are being used in the wrong ce. Going from hand building agricultural magic machines to using machines to mass produce is changing to apletely different method. Although the quantity has been increased, that does not mean the quality will be decreased like you said. If we use strict standards to guide it, the produced agricultural magic machines might even be of higher quality than hand produced ones.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the household magic machine workshop to the side and said, ¡°In that workshops just now, you saw the first batch of Magic Fans and the newest batch of Magic Fans. Which do you think has the higher quality?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the newest batch of Magic Fans.¡± Seveni replied without any hesitation.

    ¡°Like you have seen, although the first batch of Magic Fans were made purely by the best craftsmen in Banta City, its quality can¡¯tpare to the newest batch of Magic Fans assembled from theponents made from the production magic machines. Although people are more flexible than machines, when ites to mass production, human poweres far from being able topare to machines. If his majesty just wants three thousand agricultural magic machines, I could just have the dwarven craftsmen finish them with their hands alone. But his majesty has requested thirty thousand units and even more, so unless weplete this with machine power, there is no other choice.¡±

    Seveni thought about this before giving a slight nod, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, but without seeing the products it produces first, I still have this doubt. I hope chairman Xu will not disappoint me.¡±

    ¡°Rx, I promise you won¡¯t be disappointed.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before pausing and saying, ¡°Young miss Seveni, I think you should know now that the ones making those agricultural magic machines for ourpany are those dwarves. Can you help me solve a problem?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu does not need to be this polite. My main task ining here is to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerceplete his majesty¡¯s orders. As long as your request will helpplete these orders, you can mention them all.¡± Seveni said with a smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t stay polite as he continued, ¡°Although those dwarves had been working for thepany for several months, because they are dwarves in the end, they never received any certification from the kingdom. It makes it quite inconvenient for them to live here. Young miss Seveni, can you help solve this problem?¡±

    ¡°The kingdom hasws pertaining to this. As long as races other than humans fulfill these conditions, they can be citizens of the kingdom. I believe chairman Xu should know about this, right?¡± Seveni asked back.

    ¡°I do know about this, but young miss Seveni, you should be clear that thesews are too strict. If the dwarves want to be official citizens, not only do they have to fulfill a requirement for years lived in the kingdom, they have strict requirements in terms of taxes, it is impossible to achieve this in less than eight years. And to have these dwarves wait for eight years, perhaps our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will have disappeared by then.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you joking?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has such good prospects for development, how could it notst at least eight years. As for the request you¡¯ve raised, I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t respond to you. Thews of the kingdom are clearly written and it can¡¯t just be changed for the two hundred dwarves of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not requesting that you change thews and I¡¯m not hoping the kingdom can ept them as citizens, I was just hoping that you could give them a special certification to make it easier for them to live here. For example¡­..a worker card.¡± Xu Yi then said.

    ¡°Worker card?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprised, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°A worker card is¡­...Other than other races who are citizens of the kingdom, this can also be given to humans from other countries who want to work here. The people with worker cards can be employed by thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom. While their worker cards are in effect, they can stay, work and live a normal life in the Lampuri Kingdom. To put it simply, people with worker cards can be considered temporary citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom, but they are restricted by thepanies. Once problems ur with these people, the kingdom officials can look to thepanies that hire them to take responsibility. After their worker card expires, these people will lose their temporary citizen status. If they want to remain here, they can apply for it again and wait for the kingdom officials to approve it.¡± Xu Yi patiently exined.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad, but how can you guarantee that these people will follow the kingdom¡¯sws?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve just said it, these people rely on thepanies and their employment status to enjoy this qualification. Other than watching these people, the officials just have to watch thepanies as well. I think that thepanies of our Lampuri Kingdom would care about their own feathers, right?¡±

    Seveni thought about it and couldn¡¯t help slowly nodding.

    ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad, but chairman Xu, you¡¯ve forgotten a problem. Whether it is issuing the worker card or doing qualification tests, it requires a rted department from the kingdom, the human resource needed won¡¯t be small. With the kingdom¡¯s current finances, I feel that it will be hard for his majesty and the Royal Parliament to ept this suggestion.¡±

    ¡°No money? Isn¡¯t that simple?¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°You need to pay money to apply for a worker card and while these cards are in effect, thepanies that hire these people will also have to pay a fee, with the amount depending on the situation. Young miss Seveni, if it is like this, do you think his majesty and the Royal Parliament will not ept this suggestion?¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze before slowly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I suddenly feel that you shouldn¡¯t be a merchant. How about working for the government?¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I am a rotten merchant from head to toe, let¡¯s forget about working for the government. Young miss Seveni, do you think my suggestion has any hope?¡±

    ¡°Un, if there are payments like you described, I think the difficulty in passing it is much lower.¡± Seveni said with a nod, ¡°But chairman Xu, ording to what you said, I don¡¯t think there are that many humans or other races that qualify for this in the kingdom right now. How much are you nning to spend to obtain these rights for the two hundred dwarves in yourpany? Other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there should be other simr situations in the kingdom. If thisw were to pass, what if the otherpanies aren¡¯t willing to pay?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that simple? They won¡¯t enjoy the benefits if they don¡¯t apply for the worker card and everything will be the same as before. As for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, like manager Riley said just now, because this chairman is a prodigal, he would be bored enough to apply for this kind of worker card for his workers.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug as he casually said this.

    Seveni broke out inughter. After a while, her face returned to being serious as she asked, ¡°How about the answer for the first question? How much money is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce nning on giving?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯ll be up to the kingdom officials to decide how much it is, but I can give you ourpany¡¯s bottom line.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand, ¡°Five gold coins per worker, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Five gold coins?¡± Seveni¡¯s beautiful eyes opened wide and she took a deep breath. She looked at Xu Yi with an emotional gaze, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are good to your workers.¡±

 Volume 1 122 - Cement

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 122 Cement</strong>

    Seveni felt that spending five gold coins to help a worker apply for a worker card was too much, but Xu Yi felt it was too little.

    On earth, not to mention foreign worker permits, even if it was Chinese citizens applying for worker permits in Hong Kong or Macau, it would cost them several thousand RMBs.

    Converting it, it was equal to several dozen gold coins.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t tell Seveni this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over two hundred dwarves now and there would be even more dwarves in the future. It was even possible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to hire elves and beastmen in the future.

    With all these other races, he could save more and more on the worker cards.

    Other than receiving a confirmation from Seveni on the worker cards, Xu Yi also received some good news from her.

    With the agreement of the king, the king had paid the mines that were meant as payment for the agricultural magic machines. Xu Yi had thought that it would take some time after the contract was fulfilled and was afraid that these mines were just lip service. But Seveni told Xu Yi that the kingdom¡¯s mineral department had already cleared one of the mines outside Banta City and Xu Yi could take it at any time.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s agreement with the king, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished the first batch of orders, the contract woulde into effect. The iron mine would then belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for other iron mine and three Magic Crystal mines, it would depend on the future orders the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished.

    Although there were many variables in the future, at least this iron mine could already be considered a source of ie for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, during the discussions, because iron ores weren¡¯t that valuable on the Sines Continent, the king and the agricultural department¡¯s representative had put a low price on them.

    Xu Yi was very clear that once the magic machine industry developed on the Sines Continent, the demand for iron ore would greatly increase. At that time, the value of iron ore would soar.

    As for the Magic Crystal mine¡­..There were Magic Crystals all over the Sines Continent and they weren¡¯t worth any money at all. The value of the three Magic Crystal mines added together didn¡¯t even match a single iron mine.

    But Xu Yi was very certain that as the magic machine industry developed and as magic machines were used in a wider scope on the Sines Continent, the demand for Magic Crystals would greatly increase. The Magic Crystal value would also explode.

    Right now it seemed like the king using just two iron mines and three Magic Crystal mines to gain three million gold coins worth of agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was earning arge deal, but Xu Yi was more clear than anyone that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned arge amount from this.

    Thinking of how he could rely on these mines to lessen his worries in the future, Xu Yi was naturally in a very good mood. He even had a wide smile on his face when he met the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise, like he hadpletely forgotten what he had spoken to manager Riley about.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it¡¯s rare for you toe see me, I really am incredibly happy. But¡­..why did you make an appointment at the construction site?¡± Chairman Cruise pointed at the cleared ground where they were nning to build a wall and asked this, ¡°The weather is so cold. We should find a ce to have a few drinks and talk, that is more appropriate.¡±

    What surprised chairman Cruise the most was Xu Yi didn¡¯t meet him at the nearly finished new workshop for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather he met him at a small construction site outside Banta City. He also requested that other than manager Riley, no one else shoulde with him.

    ¡°There are many opportunities to drink and talk, but chairman Cruise, if you miss the opportunity in front of you, that wouldn¡¯t be right.¡± Xu Yi gave chairman Cruise a mysterious smile and then he took a heavy cloth sack from his horse carriages, throwing it in front of chairman Cruise and manager Riley.

    ¡°What is this?¡± The two looked at the cloth sack in a daze.

    Xu Yi smiled without responding. He asked manager Riley, ¡°Manager Riley, when your workers were building the wall, how did they make the bricks they used?¡±

    Manager Riley had a strange expression, not understanding why Xu Yi asked this question. After hesitantly looking at chairman Cruise, he gave a nod in agreement before responding, ¡°It¡¯s mixing lime and sand with mud, it¡¯s nothing special.¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the cloth sack, ¡°Then try recing the lime with this.¡±

    Manager Riley opened the sack in a confused manner and after taking a look, he said in a surprised voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This thing is called cement, it¡¯s a bit like lime. Give it a try, it should be easier to use than lime.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Manager Riley reached out to take a handful of cement and rubbed it together, as the fine powder fell out of his hands.

    After working in construction for all these years, going from an ordinary worker to bing a manager, manager Riley knew just by touching it that this thing had some special characteristics. Not mentioning anything else, there were more fine particles in this powderpared to the lime they normally used.

    After rubbing it a few times, manager Riley didn¡¯t waste any other words and picked up the shovel Xu Yi had already prepared. He took a shovel of cement and mixed it with the sand on the side, carefully mixing water.

    Seeing the cement, sand and water graduallye together, not only manager Riley, even chairman Cruise had a strange look in his eyes.

    As the chairman of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, chairman Cruise naturally could see the specialty of the cement.

    After evenly stirring it, manager Riley took a brick and skillfully smeared the ster on it before firmly cing it on the wall.

    They didn¡¯t even need to wait for the cement to dry. Just with the feeling of his hand, manager Riley could tell that this ster made from cement was much better than the ster made from lime.

    After seeing manager Riley use up all the ster and build two levels of brick, chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and tightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is the meaning of this?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There is no meaning, I just found this cement form in an ancient book and wanted you two experts to appraise it.¡±

    They naturally didn¡¯t believe Xu Yi¡¯s words, what kinds of ancient book would have this thing? Even if it did, how could these people who rely on the construction industry to make a living not know about it?

    But this wasn¡¯t time to expose Xu Yi. Chairman Cruise thought about it before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, everyone is intelligent, there is no need to beat around the bush. I am very interested in this cement and if you¡¯re willing to take out the recipe, we can discuss any condition you want.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a few fakeughs, ¡°Chairman Cruise, aren¡¯t you toocking in sincerity? Hand over the form? Do you think that¡¯s possible?¡±

    Chairman Cruise fell silent. Of course he knew that Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t agree to his request, but this cement was just too good and he couldn¡¯t stop it from moving his heart.

    After thinking for a bit, chairman Cruise than said, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, give me your condition. Since you specially had mee here, you already had the idea to work with me, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course, otherwise I wouldn¡¯t have wasted all this effort.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the unused cement on the ground and said, ¡°To be frank, chairman Cruise, this cement was just developed recently by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and has just entered mass production. I asked you here to tell you that this thing has appeared and to ask, is you Amrit Chamber of Commerce interested in it?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t ask the obvious. How are you nning on selling this cement? Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce wants everything that you have. Of course, all of us are friends in the Business Union, so I hope that you won¡¯t go overboard with your price.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Cruise, what kind of person do you take me for? This kind of cement has a fixed price of six gold coins per ton, do you think it¡¯s fair?¡±

    ¡°Only six gold coins?¡± Chairman Cruise and manager Riley couldn¡¯t help calling out, ¡°This¡­..This is too¡­¡­¡±

    It was a good thing these two were astute and swallowed the words ¡°too cheap¡± back down.

    But from the shocked expression these people had, it was clear they were deeply shaken by this price.

    It had to be known that lime powder¡¯s current market price was six gold coins per ton. This cement was clearly better than the lime, so they were already prepared for Xu Yi to give a sky high price. They never thought that Xu Yi would actually give the same price as lime!

    This price, of course it was too cheap!

    ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, are you telling the truth?¡± After a while, chairman Cruise asked this with a look of disbelief.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s true, why would I need to lie to you?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°How about it? Do you think this price is fair?¡±

    ¡°Fair! Fair! Of course it¡¯s fair!¡± Chairman Cruise kept nodding, like he was afraid Xu Yi would regret it. After pausing, he then asked, ¡°But chairman Xu, since we are friends in the Business Union, I have a small request that I hope you can agree to.¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°Since you have just started mass producing this cement, your output shouldn¡¯t be that high, right? Since it¡¯s like this, then all the cement that yourpany has, no matter how much it is, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce wants it all! Moreover, I can increase your price a bit to six and half gold coins per pound, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi made an awkward expression and considered it a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°Alright, president Rank has already said that since all of us arerades in the Business Union, we should help each other. Based on this, all the cement our Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes in the next two years will all go to your Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Other than this, I will give you some more uses for the cement, like reinforced cement¡­..¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi say it was only for two years, chairman Cruise and manager Riley were a bit disappointed, but after hearing Xu Yi mention ¡°reinforced cement¡±, the eyes of the two lit up again.

    Since it was something that Xu Yi specially mentioned, there was definitely something special about it.

    As long as the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could grasp the uses of cement before everyone else, then the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would make leaps and bounds in the construction business. Perhaps they might even be able to step out of Banta City because of this, bing one of the best construction firms in the Lampuri Kingdom.

 Volume 1 123 - Failed advertisement

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 123 Failed advertisement</b>

    After saying goodbye to chairman Cruise¡¯s group of two, Xu Yi set off towards Banta City alone in his horse carriages.

    When he came to a secluded ce, there was a space distortion beside Xu Yi. With a delicate fragrance, there was an extra person on the seat beside him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what you said to the two of them just now about wanting theirpany to build embankments on a river, were you referring to the river of our tribe?¡± Agnes asked Xu Yi with an expectant look.

    ¡°Do you think I need to build embankments on any other rivers?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°That means you really are nning to help us?¡± Agnes¡¯ expression suddenly became excited.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°Young miss Agnes, I never said that I wouldn¡¯t help you, it¡¯s just you never believed in me to begin with.¡±

    Agnes slightly lowered her head and somewhat awkwardly said, ¡°Sorry, the tribe seniors have been teaching us since we were young to not trust humans.¡±

    ¡°The prejudice you elves have against us humans really is big.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Although I admit that there are some cunning humans that exist among us, there are still many humans that are honest, just like me. Your elves have been tricked by humans several times, so you are beating all of us humans with the same stick, that¡¯s too biased.¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°It isn¡¯t just a few times. Based on what the elders said, in the history of us elves, we have been deceived by humans countless times, so we elves can¡¯t believe anything humans say.¡± After pausing, Agnes asked with a look of doubt, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually I¡¯m very curious. Why is that even though you humans are the same race, each human is different?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes and snappily said, ¡°Could it be that everyone of the elven race is the same? For example, are they all simple minded creatures who are as innocent as you? I really don¡¯t know what your elders were thinking, actually sending you to ask other races for help. They aren¡¯t afraid that you would be sold by people.¡±

    Agnes blinked innocently, looking perplexed.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is a single minded creature? Do you really think I¡¯m that innocent?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, feeling toozy to discuss this matter with this young miss from the elven race. He then said, ¡°Alright, you heard it just now, I¡¯ve asked the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to help me build embankments on the river. However, whether it is the fact of them getting used to using the cement, learning how to use the cement, or even developing the cement mixers, it all needs time, so we can¡¯t change the water source of your tribe right now. That¡¯s right, Agnes, have you never thought of using underground water? Although the river has changed, the situation of the water underground wouldn¡¯t change that easily. The vegetation of Falling Rain Forest is quite rich, so there should be quite a bit of underground water.¡±

    ¡°Underground water?¡± Agnes thought about it before answering, ¡°The elders have tried it too. They wanted to create a well to use the underground water, but after we reached ten meters deep, we found that there was a deep bedrock and couldn¡¯t dig any deeper.¡±

    ¡°You probably hit the underground rockyer. ording to my experience, as long as you can prate this rockyer, you will be able to hit the water source. Could it be that you gave up just like this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Agnes revealed a depressed expression, ¡°The elders said that the rockbed under the ground is very thick and we can¡¯t break through with our power. If we want to break through, we can¡¯t do it even with the human¡¯s high grade Earth Attributed Magic. We could only do it if an Earth Attributed Grand Magus came to use a Forbidden Spell. But Arch Magi are the highest people among you humans, not mentioning inviting them over, we can¡¯t even see them.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as you can give him enough benefits, that Arch Magus will also be moved.¡±

    Agnes helplessly said, ¡°But our tribe can¡¯t take out anything that can move an Arch Magus.¡±

    ¡°Perhaps you just haven¡¯t noticed your own value yet. For example, Agnes, I think you already have quite a bit of value just based on you.¡± Xu Yi said to Agnes while looking at her with eyes filled with profound meaning.

    Agnes pointed at herself in a daze, ¡°Me? I am just a normal elf, what special value do I have?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You don¡¯t know it now, but you¡¯ll understand in the future. As for solving the problem of your tribe¡¯s water, based on what you just said, I suddenly thought of a way to solve it temporarily for you.¡±

    Agnes¡¯ eyes instantly lit up, ¡°Really? What method?¡±

    ¡°Just be patient for a while, I¡¯ll give you an answer.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Agnes didn¡¯t keep asking, she just looked at Xu Yi with sparkling eyes that no longer contained the same doubt a before.

    Without knowing why, she had already begun to trust this human she hadn¡¯t known for long.

    ###

    The horse carriage came to a remote and quiet small yard in the city.

    Xu Yi jumped out of the horse carriage and walked in after pushing open the door. He immediately saw Still standing in the small garden in the back with a light purple dress on, holding Magic Lamp that Master Lanus, Camby, and the other dwarves with exceptional skills made. Her head was slightly down and her expression was tranquil, as her lips slightly curled.

    Just by taking one look, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help skipping a beat.

    Still was already beautiful, but in this scenario, but being a model like this, her cheerful aura suddenly became refined and delicate. Thisrge difference was a big impact on Xu Yi.

    Once Still became quiet and adding in this form fitting light purple dress, it was like her aura had changed.

    Just based on how she was modeled now, there was no doubting her ¡°Banta Goddess¡± title.

    Not far away from her, Master Anlios had arge canvas in front of him and was concentrated on painting the moving scene in front of him.

    Xu Yi knew that Master Anlios was currently immersed in the world of drawing, so he watched from afar. He saw that the painting was almost done, so he silently stood on the side and didn¡¯t dare disrupt them.

    It took an entire half an hour to finish the painting. Although Xu Yi could never tire of how beautiful Still was, his feet was a bit sore from standing the entire time. When he saw that Master Anlios had finished thest stroke and put away his tools, he quickly walked over.

    When he came over and saw the canvas, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising it.

    The drawing almost perfectly replicated Still¡¯s beautiful image. Although it wasn¡¯t as moving as the real person, it was still quite expressive. Anyone who saw this painting would instantly be drawn in by Still.

    But after looking at it for a while, Xu Yi found a problem.

    Still on this painting was moving and quite eye attracting, but all the attention was taken by Still and not many people would notice the Magic Lamp in Still¡¯s hands.

    It had to be known that Xu Yi had Master Anlios draw this because he wanted to create an advertisement for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Lamp. If they used this painting as an advertisement, it would be advertising Still, but it wouldn¡¯t be advertising the Magic Lamp.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, as long as young miss Still is attractive enough, then people will naturally notice the Magic Lamp in her hand. I don¡¯t feel that this is a problem, you¡¯re worrying too much.¡± To the worry that Xu Yi had, Master Anlios didn¡¯t care at all.

    When Still came over and looked at the painting, she thought about it before saying to Master Anlios, ¡°Master, I feel that Xu Yi is right, you should focus a bit more on the Magic Lamp. If you can¡¯t, then you can make my face a bit more fuzzy.¡±

    Master Anlios kept shaking his head, ¡°How could that be? Young miss Still is such a beautiful person, if we were to make your face fuzzy, that simply like removing the sun from the sky and the painting would lose its meaning. No, I definitely can¡¯t agree to this.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also agree on this. Still, if your face were to be made burry, then what reason is there in my requesting for you to be the model? I could just find a random person.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying, ¡°Master Anlios, my meaning isn¡¯t to blur out Still, but rather to focus a bit more on the Magic Lamp, since this is an advertisement for the Magic Lamp. The priority should be focusing on it.¡±

    ¡°Right, I am just an essory.¡± Still said with a smile.

    Seeing that those two were saying the same thing, Master Anlios helplessly knit his brows to think for a bit before drawing a few strokes on the canvas.

    Although it was just a few strokes, the Magic Lamp in Still¡¯s hand immediately became more prominent. It was enough to show his skills as a master.

    Xu Yi looked at it for a while and still felt a bit dissatisfied, but he didn¡¯t know about drawing, so he couldn¡¯t tell what wasn¡¯t good.

    Seeing Xu Yi was still doubtful, Master Anlios¡¯ expression turned cold, ¡°Chairman Xu, the painting can be changed at most like this. If you aren¡¯t satisfied, I can paint another one, but you will need to pay extra.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and felt a bit dissatisfied, but Master Anlios was Banta City¡¯s most famous painter. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t find anyone else more suitable than him and they had worked together several times, with quite good results, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to ruin this rtionship because of a small difference in opinion.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for another painting, this one is quite good, we¡¯ll use it.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before speaking.

    Master Anlios¡¯ expression became warm again, ¡°Good, then chairman Xu, the work this time is finished.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and shook hands with Master Anlios before sending him off.

    After Master Anlios left, Still looked at the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face and said, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve heard that Karma City has a famous painter, how about trying him?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°You¡¯re talking about Master Kassadin? I¡¯ve asked around and this Master Kassadin can¡¯tpare to Master Anlios. If we went to find him, we would be breaking off our rtion with Master Anlios and that isn¡¯t a good choice.¡±

    Still knit her brows and thought about it before saying with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that Banta City is only a small city and there aren¡¯t any better choices. If this was Anvilmar City, we could find a better painter than Master Anlios.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this is reality.¡± Xu Yi took the painting Master Anlios had just done and after looking at it for a bit, he gave a nod of satisfaction, ¡°Un, it¡¯s pretty good. Although it¡¯s a failure as an advertisement, but it is quite outstanding as a portrait for you, Still. Look, it captured your expression perfectly. I think that if anyone who doesn¡¯t know you saw this painting, they would mistaken you as a gentle and graceful beauty.¡±

    ¡°Mistaken?¡± Still knit her brows and red at him, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t exin at all. The angry Still couldn¡¯t help throwing a fist at him.

    Who would have thought that when Still¡¯s fist came halfway, there would be a space distortion between the two. A person suddenly appeared and quickly reached out her hand to grab Still¡¯s arm.

    ¡°You¡¯re not allowed to hurt him.¡± Agnes¡¯ voice came from under the cloak.

    Recognizing that this was a young female¡¯s voice, Still couldn¡¯t help bing stunned. She looked over Agnes before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Who is she?¡±

    Xu Yi was also scared by Agnes suddenly appearing, but after hearing the question Still gave and looking at Agnes wrapped up in the cloak, he suddenly had an idea.

    Got it!

 Volume 1 124 - Agnesâ€™ value

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 124 Agnes¡¯ value</strong>

    Banta City under the curtain of the night wasn¡¯t as lively as it was during the day. Other than some businesses that were still open in the night, the entire city gradually fell into a deep sleep.

    If one were to look at if from above, it would beplete darkness underneath, other than a few ces letting off light. This waspletely different from a city on earth, which was brightly illuminated even in the darkness.

    Among the ces that were lit up, Xu Yi¡¯s house was included.

    It was different from normal candlelight, as Xu Yi had a Magic Lamp on the table in his living room.

    Not only did the light green ss cause the room filled with the light to be dyed a light green, it also made Still who was holding her head with one arm looking down with a thoughtful appearance look even more beautiful.

    Looking at Still¡¯s skill that was wless and white under the light, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°Still, I definitely feel that you could go be the spokesperson for the Chanel Chamber of Commerce. With your beautiful skin as advertisement, I can guarantee that the Chanel Chamber of Commerce will sell even more perfume and makeup!¡±

    Although Still didn¡¯t move and her expression didn¡¯t change, she gave a soft snort as her lips softly parted to say, ¡°There is no use in ttering me. If you don¡¯t tell me why this elf is following you, I won¡¯t forgive you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Agnes in front of Still with the drawing pad in her hand, focusing on drawing before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you at dinner that she is here to ask for my help with her tribe¡¯s problems. The reason why she¡¯s following me is because she is waiting for me to finish my things so she can bring me to her tribe. Isn¡¯t that right, Agnes?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Agnes was focused on drawing, so suddenly hearing Xu Yi call her name, she looked up at Xu Yi in a daze before nodding in a bewildered manner, ¡°Ah,right.¡±

    Seeing Agnes¡¯ appearance, Still gave another snort, ¡°Xu Yi, if you want toe up with a cover story for her, you should at least put in a bit more effort. You think I would believe this?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    ¡°We haven¡¯t done anything wrong, what would we be covering up?¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to keep exining, but after seeing the dispirited expression on Still¡¯s face, his heart skipped a beat and he couldn¡¯t say anything.

    The room fell into an awkward silence.

    Xu Yi looked at Still for a while before suddenly saying, ¡°Still, I¡¯ve heard Great Magician Cami say that the night I came back from Anvilmar City, you personally cooked and wanted me toe to your house for dinner?¡±

    Still¡¯s expression froze before she said with an indifferent look, ¡°You didn¡¯te that day, so I threw out all the dishes. What are you suddenly mentioning this for?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing. I just suddenly thought of it and wanted to say thanks.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°In this world, other than Vivian, you are the only other person who made a meal for me, so I¡¯m quite happy.¡±

    Vivian sitting beside Xu Yi narrowed her eyes and her eyes filled with an indescribable happiness.

    Still couldn¡¯t keep the same position and looked up in surprise to say, ¡°The first time? It¡¯s never happened before?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. Although he thought that it did happen on earth, it was indeed the first time in this world.

    It was like Still¡¯s first time meeting Xu Yi as she looked over him a few times. She suddenly revealed a smile and said, ¡°Alright, since you still know to say thanks, I¡¯ll forgive you this time. I¡¯ll also give you a special privilege that if you want to eat the meals I make, you just have to tell me and I¡¯ll make it for you. Of course, this can only be used once, so you have to treasure it.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Then I really have to thank you.¡± Seeing the happy smile on Still¡¯s face, he couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Still, I take back what I said this afternoon. Although your quiet and elegant face is also good,paring it together, I still like the happy smile on your face more. Without knowing why, when I see you smile, I feel much more at ease.¡±

    A blush filled Still¡¯s face and she rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, as she softly scolded, ¡°Fool¡­..¡±

    When Xu Yi and Still were in an indescribable mood, Agnes suddenly pped.

    ¡°Done.¡±

    ¡°Done? This fast?¡± Still put down her arm in surprise and stood up to walk to Agnes¡¯ side. She bent over to see the drawing in Agnes¡¯ hand and couldn¡¯t help calling out in surprise, ¡°Too beautiful!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Hey, Still, it¡¯s you on the drawing, so you don¡¯t need to be this narcissistic, alright?¡±

    Still red at Xu Yi and took the drawing pad from Agnes¡¯ hand, as she turned it to show Xu Yi, ¡°Do you think it¡¯s not beautiful?¡±

    ¡°Of course I feel¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the drawing pad and he was drawn into the drawing pad like he was being pulled by a ma, unwilling to look away at all.

    On the painting, Still used her left hand to support herself on the table as her left palm held her cheek. Her right hand was ced on the table and two fingers were outstretched stroking the table. Her expression was very rxed, like she was thinking about something and thinking about nothing at all.

    By the table, the Magic Lamp was releasing a faint green light that covered Still with ayer of faint green light, giving her a more mysterious feeling. People couldn¡¯t help thinking about, just why was this girl revealing this kind of expression that couldn¡¯t be read at all?

    Compared to the painting Master Anlios made in the afternoon, the lines were more clear and the expression on Still¡¯s face was even more eye catching. Whether it was theposition or the idea, it was all much better than Master Anlios¡¯ painting.

    What made Xu Yi satisfied was that because they picked the night as a background, the foundation of the painting was set by the green light of the Magic Lamp and no one could ignore the crucial part yed by the Magic Lamp.

    Moreover, because the design of the Magic Lamp was created by Agnes and Vivian working together, Agnes was more clear than anyone else on the design of the Magic Lamp. So her drawing was made more carefully and she could draw the beautiful and delicate shape of the Magic Lamp better than anyone. It made it so if anyone¡¯s eyes fell onto Still or the Magic Lamp, their attention would immediately be pulled in.

    After Xu Yi saw this drawing, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a desire to buy the Magic Lamp, showing the power of this drawing.

    After looking over this drawing several times, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving Agnes arge thumbs up, ¡°It¡¯s beautiful! Agnes, you really are a talented drawer!¡±

    Agnes shook her head and said, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for young miss Still and the Magic Lamp for being beautiful, the drawing wouldn¡¯t have been this good.¡±

    Hearing Agnes praising her as beautiful, Still suddenly felt that her actions from before were a bitughable.

    Still was an open minded girl and after thinking about this, she felt that Agnes wasn¡¯t that displeasing. She even became interested in her long pointy ears.

    ¡°Agnes, you¡¯re too modest. I think that this painting can be considered a work of art.¡± Still praised Agnes.

    Agnes didn¡¯t understand what was called modesty, she just said her true thoughts. But after being praised by Xu Yi and Still, she felt very happy.

    Of course, Xu Yi was even happier than the two of them.

    Now that facts had proven that Agnes¡¯ skills were better than Master Anlios, Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to hold back with Master Anlios anymore.

    If Master Anlios still didn¡¯t care about others¡¯ opinions like this afternoon, Xu Yi could break off their rtionship without any hesitation and make him scram.

    But that was on the premise that he could keep Agnes here.

    If it was said before that Xu Yi had a special fondness for Agnes since she was an elf, now Xu Yi found that Agnes had a value herself that could move his heart.

    Agnes had this astonishing talent for art, so other than being able to substitute for Master Anlios, she could also work together with Vivian to make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products have beautiful and attractive designs.

    One mustn¡¯t look down on the design of a product. On the highly technological earth, there were many industries that had saturated technology, so the difference between them was usually in terms of design.

    An outstanding design could make a product stand out, even allowing that product to have a higher price.

    Sometimes, just based on design, the price of the same product could have arge difference.

    Although the magic machine industry had just started developing on the Sines Continent, in order to prepare for the future, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t let go of an outstanding designer that came to him.

    But the status of Agnes as an elf was arge hindrance.

    Compared to dwarves, the barrier between humans and elves were bigger.

    The dwarves would asionally live in human cities, but there wasn¡¯t a single elf that did the same.

    How to convince Agnes to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was arge problem.

    ¡°Agnes, after the problem with your tribe has been taken care of, would you be willing to live in Banta City?¡± Xu Yi tried asking.

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Why would I live in Banta City? Of course I want to live with my tribe.¡±

    ¡°It really is like this¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi muttered. He wasn¡¯t willing to give up as he asked, ¡°then what kind of situation would make you willing to live in Banta City? Un, to be honest, I want you to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, are you willing?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Xu Yi, even if Agnes draws better than Master Anlios, she is still an elf in the end¡­¡­¡±

    Agnes softly shook her head, ¡°Many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s invitation, but I still hope to live with my nsmen.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°If after I help you solve the problem with your tribe, what if I ask for you as a reward?¡±

    Still and Vivian looked up at Xu Yi in shock at the same time.

    Was he joking?

    However Agnes met their gazes and gave a very calm nod.

    ¡°If it¡¯s chairman Xu¡¯s request, I¡¯m willing.¡±

 Volume 1 125 - Herd mentality

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 125 Herd mentality</strong>

    This female elf Agnes had suddenly appeared. Although it had shocked Still and Vivian, no one else knew other than the two of them, so it didn¡¯t create much of a stir.

    Banta City¡¯s people still lived their normal lives and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce steadily moved forward ording to Xu Yi¡¯s instructions.

    The development of the production magic machines went smoothly.

    With Great Magician Cami helping full force, the core Magic Arrays for the Magic Punch Presses had been quickly finished. Great Magician Cami was responsible for the most important Magic Array positioning and initial changes, and the remaining changes were all left for the assistants in his Magic Tower.

    Because Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower had worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce several times, so even though the workload was quite heavy this time, they were still very organized and Xu Yi was very satisfied with their progress.

    In line with Camby and the dwarves¡¯ progress in designing the production magic machines, if nothing expected happens, Xu Yi estimated that they would finish the series of Magic Punch Presses within a month. Then it would only take them a short period of time to put it into use.

    Although it was a bit longer than the time he gave Seveni, with Xu Yi¡¯s estimate of the production capacity of the Magic Punch Presses, as long as the Magic Punch Presses became operational, Xu Yi estimated that the first batch of three thousand agricultural magic machines would beplete a month before the deadline. The agricultural department would have plenty of time to arrange these agricultural magic machines.

    Of course, in Xu Yi¡¯s opinion, the development time for the Magic Punch Presses was too short.

    Although they had Xu Yi tempered mechanical engineering knowledge from earth as a foundation, so they didn¡¯t need to research the basics when it came to these Magic Punch Presses, the production magic machines studied in such a short period of time would definitely have some ws.

    Xu Yi was aware of this, but he had no other choices.

    In order toplete the order from the king and the agricultural department in time, Xu Yi had to do this.

    Although Xu Yi felt that most of this research fund was wasted on this kind of rushed research project, as long as he could seize this change, it wasn¡¯t something that couldn¡¯t be epted.

    Not to mention that they would be developing a series of production magic machines. Whether it was for Great Magician Cami and the magicians under him, or Camby and the dwarves in the magic machine workshop, they would all gain plenty of experience from this.

    This would create a solid foundation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future development. As long as Xu Yi kept putting in manpower and resources, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would gradually improve on their magic machines.

    What was more important to Xu Yi was that the magicians and dwarves that were a part of this would be influenced. This would gradually form a theory system for magic machines.

    Xu Yi had transmigrated from earth, so of course he knew the importance of theoretical foundations to establishing an industry.

    The magic machine industry on the Sines Continent could be considered a product of his promotion, so the foundations weren¡¯t solid at all.

    If one day Xu Yi came across a problem involving magic machines that he couldn¡¯t solve, it would mean that there would be no one in this world that could solve it.

    So when it came to research, Xu Yi kept instilling people with his own mechanical engineering knowledge. He pointed out the key points ofbining this knowledge with magic, giving them aplete exnation.

    He did this because he hoped that other than him, there would be more qualified magic mechanical engineers on the Sines Continent.

    Other than being busy with researching, although this period of time was very busy, the happiest person was actually Heinz.

    After the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner had sold over five thousand units in Banta City and the surrounding cities, they began promoting the new Magic Lamps and a new wave of buying came in.

    Compared to the high twenty five gold coin price of the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, which was mainly targeted at rich families, the more beautiful Magic Lamp that was even considered a piece of art by many people was being sold for only one gold coin, mainly targeting normal families.

    As for the price of one gold coin, when most people saw the appearance of the Magic Lamps on the four billboards outside the city, they felt it was very appropriate.

    There were even some people who thought that this price was too low because some rich people cared about style. This Magic Lamp could already be considered a work of art, it couldn¡¯t have the same price as a normal product.

    Not to mention the Magic Crystal Lamps that appeared before on the Sines Continent were not only inferior in appearance, the effects were also much worse.

    Those Magic Crystal Lamps had prices of several hundred gold coins, then even if these Magic Lamps didn¡¯t have exaggerated prices, they should be at least worth several dozen gold coins, right?

    Of course, with people thinking the price is low, naturally there would be those who thought it was high.

    Some families that weren¡¯t as rich felt that one gold coin was considered quite a bit. Although this Magic Lamp did look very good, making people want to buy it, to actually take out a gold coin to buy a singlemp was something that they hesitated to do.

    But after the ?Banta Times? ran a new article based on the Magic Lamps that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released, it changed the thoughts of these people.

    For a normal household, if they used candles or oilmps to light up their house at night, based on the calction of one candle or oilmp per room, they would spend five-ten copper coins a night. They would be spending between two to three silver coins each month.

    But if they used the Magic Lamp, they would only use a single Low Grade Magic Crystal each month, which cost less than sixty copper coins.

    This number wasn¡¯t clear in just a month or two, but if they calcted by years, one could save over twenty silver coins each year using the Magic Lamp instead of candles or oilmps.

    In just four years, they would have saved up enough for a Magic Lamp.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Lamps had a warranty for three years. If non-intentional damage was done to the Magic Lamp within these three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promised to fix it.

    That meant that if one bought the Magic Lamp, they wouldn¡¯t need to worry about it for three years.

    Like this, it was clear that the Magic Lamp was more cost effectivepared to candles or oilmps.

    Not to mention that whether it was the candles or oilmps, they all gave off a smell and smoke, which wasn¡¯t good for the body. And the Magic Lamps used the Magic Array to create the light, so it didn¡¯t give off any smoke at all, not harming one¡¯s body.

    Moreover, the Magic Lamp¡¯s light was far stronger than candles or oilmps. A candle or oilmp could only light up no more than three square meters, but if one used the Magic Lamp, it could light up every corner of the room!

    After the report was published in the ?Banta Times?, the people who hesitated on buying the Magic Lamp immediately made up their minds and decided to buy it.

    So after just a single week of being out, the Magic Lamp wildly sold over twenty thousand units!

    This was just the amount sold in a small city like Banta City!

    If one added in the orders from Banta City, this number reached a terrifying forty thousand!

    It had to be known that there were only around fifty thousand people inside and near Banta City, so that was equal to almost everyone in Banta City buying one!

    Of course, the main reason was thatrger homes didn¡¯t only buy one Magic Lamp, but rather they bought several of them to use in different rooms.

    Other than Banta City, the merchants from other cities who had already been working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time didn¡¯t want to show weakness, so they also submittedrge orders.

    If all the orders of the other cities were added together, that was a total of over fifty thousand already!

    Putting it together, just in a single week and with just the small Magic Lamp, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already earned arge ie of close to a hundred thousand gold coins.

    Each Magic Lamp sold for one gold coin and their cost was just a trivial thirty silver coins.

    Putting it together, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s pure profits on the Magic Lamps was close to seventy thousand gold coins!

    Moreover, this was just in a single week. As time passed and with the Magic Lamp¡¯s current poprity, this amount could still be greatly increased.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates¡­..No, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t estimate their sales amount at all because even he didn¡¯t think that the Magic Lamps would be this popr.

    It was no wonder that although Heinz was being run ragged each day, he had a smile that wouldn¡¯t close on his lips.

    Before this, although Heinz felt that Magic Lamp that Xu Yi developed looked good and would sell well, he never thought that the Magic Lamp would have this kind of terrifying sales numbers.

    As a veteran general store owner of Banta City, he couldn¡¯t understand at all why people would be so crazy about amp that could only be used for lighting.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because there is a mob mentality in people. The more people buying it, there will be more people who want to buy it, otherwise they would be different from everyone else.¡± Seveni held the Magic Lamp in her hand to look over for a while before she couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°It has to be said, this Magic Lamp is just too beautiful, it¡¯s no wonder so many masters of Banta City praise this as a work of art. Even at the banquet yesterday, there were several Banta City masters of the art who cursed you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in front of Count Sean.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Cursing me about what?¡±

    Seveni tilted her head to think before saying with a faint smile, ¡°The masters felt that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is treating this almost perfect piece of art as a product to mass produce, flooding the entire world with this precious treasure, it is spheming this piece of art!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Art doesn¡¯t equal something separated from the masses, these masters are just too biased.¡±

    ¡°No, they aren¡¯t biased. Rather they think that art is something aloof that is above the popce and could only be enjoyed by their small loft group. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s methods are destroying their sense of superiority, it¡¯s no wonder they are bing angry out of shame.¡± After saying this, Seveni¡¯s lips curled back into a taunting smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the Magic Lamps were just too beautiful and artistic, making them unable to deny it, the masters would act like they looked down on it even if their hearts epted it.¡±

    Xu Yi never would have thought that Seveni would have such a rude appraisal of these master because no matter what, Seveni was not just a normal member of the agricultural department and her status shouldn¡¯t be normal. She should be one of the upper ss that the masters were talking about.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, the person that designed the Magic Lamp shouldn¡¯t be from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? Where did you find this kind of master with such high artistic skills?¡± Seveni suddenly asked, ¡°Other than this, the billboards on the four sides of the city should also be drawn by this master, right? I can tell that the drawn Magic Lamp is the same style as the design, so it should be made by the same person.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°It is indeed the same person and they aren¡¯t from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But if you want to ask who they are¡­..I can only say sorry.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say it? That really is a pity. Although I don¡¯t like those so called masters, I do approve of their appraisals. The artistic value of the drawing is even higher than the Magic Lamp. Based on the appraisal of these masters, just based on this drawing, this person is enough to be known as a grandmaster.¡± Seveni suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Of course in my opinion, the reason why it is so outstanding and the effects are so good, other than the Magic Lamp, the intoxicating girl in the painting is actually very important. I¡¯ve heard that this girl is called Still and she¡¯s Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise, ¡°You actually even found this out?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything hard to find. I found out identallyst time and Still is so popr in Banta City. But it is a very normal thing when one thinks about it, she is that beautiful and is always on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advertisements, it¡¯s hard for her not to be famous.¡± Seveni looked over and asked, ¡°Butpared to this, what I¡¯m more interested in is that, I¡¯ve heard the rtionship between you and Still isn¡¯t normal?¡±

    Xu Yi remembered the strange look Still had after hearing Agnes¡¯ answer the other night and said after giving two dryughs, ¡°Young miss Seveni, did you have some important matter to discuss since you specially came to find me today?¡±

    Seveni pursed her lips into a smile and didn¡¯t keep pursuing this matter. After pausing, she said to Xu Yi with a serious expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, I came to find you today because I have some bad news for you.¡±

 Volume 1 126 - Want the mine?

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 126 Want the mine?</strong>

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change as he asked, ¡°What bad news?¡±

    Seveni hesitated a bit before answering, ¡°It¡¯s rted to the two iron mines.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Is there a problem with the two iron mines?¡±

    The two iron mines were an important part of Xu Yi¡¯s deal with the king, so if there was a problem with them, it could even mean that the transaction this time is a failure.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t a problem with the iron mines itself, rather we¡¯ve encountered a problem.¡± Seveni said in an awkward manner.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression calmed down a bit as he asked, ¡°Then may I ask what problem? Could it be that his majesty has changed his mind?¡±

    ¡°No, since his majesty has already signed the contract with you, of course he wouldn¡¯t easily change his mind.¡± Seveni shook her head before she said with a soft sigh, ¡°It¡¯s just that two days ago, someone in the kingdom suddenly came up with some argument on the contract you signed with the agricultural department.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Who? What problem?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    This transaction was signed between Xu Yi and the agricultural department representing the king. To raise an argument at this was equal to going against the king.

    During Xu Yi¡¯s observations from living in the Lampuri Kingdom for several years, the king¡¯s might in the kingdom was unchallenged, so who dared to go up directly against him?

    ¡°This is rted to a deal from a long time ago. The details say that when the Lampuri Kingdom was formed, the first king made a deal with the families that helped him form the nation, rewarding them for supporting him. The deal with the Jole Family is rted to the iron mines of the kingdom.¡± Seveni replied.

    Xu Yi suddenly understood, ¡°That means that it¡¯s the Jole Family who aren¡¯t satisfied with his majesty giving these two iron mines to ourpany? But this isn¡¯t right, those two iron mines don¡¯t belong to any family and they belong to the royal family. Since it¡¯s like this, his majesty has the right to make any decisions for these iron mines, so can other people bring up arguments?¡±

    Seveni said with a bitter smile, ¡°You¡¯re not wrong, but the problem is in the deal the first king made with the Jole Family. Other than giving them some iron mines, they also guaranteed that as long as the royal family wanted to transfer other mines, the Jole Family would have priority.¡±

    ¡°Priority?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was filled with surprise, ¡°That means that as long as the royal family transfers the iron mines under their names, they must first be given to the Jole Family? Others can¡¯t meddle in this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that exaggerated. This priority means that for the same price, the representative of the Jole Family had priority over the iron mines.¡± Seveni said.

    Xu Yi finally understood. Thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, ¡°But these iron mines aren¡¯t things that the royal family is giving to ourpany, rather it is the price paid for the agricultural magic machines.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that since the Jole Family thinks that if these iron mines are being offered aspensation, it¡¯s equal to the royal family selling these two mines, so the Jole Family has the right to offer a price. Three days ago, Duke Jole proposed in front of his majesty that he wanted to have a fair auction with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to decide who will take these two iron mines.¡± Seveni exined.

    ¡°His majesty just agreed to this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°After all, this is a deal between the first king and the Jole Family, if we don¡¯t keep it, the royal family would be criticized. Chairman Xu, his majesty is a bit helpless in this matter.¡± After saying this, Seveni¡¯s voice slowed down a bit as there was a trace of pleading that appeared.

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni before saying with a cold snort, ¡°Young miss Seveni, I want to lodge a protest on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Ourpany has already signed a contract with the agricultural department representing his majesty, but now you want to break the contract for your own reasons. I say that this vites the spirit of the contract and I have my right to show my dissatisfaction.¡±

    Seveni gave a slight nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand very much that you¡¯re dissatisfied, but I ask you to trust that his majesty and our agricultural department wants to cooperate with you. This time it¡¯s because our side didn¡¯t think far enough, causing you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to suffer losses, so we will definitely providepensation.¡±

    ¡°Compensation?¡± Xu Yi gave another snort, ¡°Even a signed contract can be broken, how do you want me to believe there will bepensation?¡±

    Seveni calmly looked at Xu Yi for a while before shaking her head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve known you for a while, so I know you¡¯re not a person swayed by personal emotions, so let¡¯s not talk about this, alright? As for the two iron mines, his majesty has no way to reject Duke Jole¡¯s request, so we hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can have a fair bidding war with the Jole Family¡¯s representative. As for the losses your Frestech Chamber of Commerce suffers from this event, his majesty has said that he will provide your Frestech Chamber of Commerce a Magic Crystal mine aspensation. Other than this, the kingdom will give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce some special favours. For example the patent idea you had before, his majesty has indicated he will carefully review it and will submit it to the Royal Parliament to verify as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°The patentw is not something only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will benefit from.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before continuing, ¡°But since his majesty has agreed to providepensation, I am willing to ept this. But only having a single Magic Crystal mine aspensation, I really don¡¯t think will be enough. Young miss Seveni, you should be very clear that those two iron mines had a high value of one million and eight hundred thousand gold coins on the contract. Now that since Duke Joles has proposed that he would have a bidding with ourpany, he clearly already understands this price. If the Joles Family proposes a higher price, what should ourpany do?¡±

    Seveni immediately replied, ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants the two iron mines, it¡¯s very simple, you just need to give a higher price. It doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t want it either, just let the royal family give the two iron mines to the Jole Family and directly use the gold coins to pay for the order.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a coldugh, ¡°Young miss Seveni, in the original contract, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have received two iron mines for one million and eight hundred thousand gold coins. Now we either need to raise the price or lose the two iron mines, do you think this is appropriate?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the value of these two iron mines is just one million and eight hundred gold coins. Yourpany will receive the same amount of gold coins from the royal family, is there a problem?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°What if I really want those two iron mines?¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni, not taking a single step back, ¡°Young miss Seveni, I don¡¯t believe that you can¡¯t see that Jole Family¡¯s goal is not the two iron mines, but rather it is to keep all the iron mines in the kingdom in their hands, driving out all theirpetitors. Like this, they could monopolize all the iron ore business in the kingdom and set the price at all, with no one being able topete with them.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi shook his head and his face looked confused, ¡°Actually young miss Seveni, I¡¯ve always been very curious. For an important national resource like iron ores, why is the royal family not controlling it and it is controlled by a family other than the royal family? Could it be just because of the trivial agreement from the beginning of the kingdom?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi had a strange look as she was silent for a bit. After a while, she slowly said word for word, ¡°Chairman Xu, please remember, you are just a normal merchant. There are some things that it is best for you not to think about.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a self ridiculing smile as he said, ¡°That¡¯s right, you are right, I am just a small merchant, I have no ns on questioning the king. Alright, I won¡¯t care about that now. I just want to ask, how do I acquire the two iron mines that should have already been mine?¡±

    ¡°First I want to remind you that before the Frestech Chamber of Commercepletes the orders, the two mines don¡¯t belong to you.¡± Seveni said with a serious face, ¡°Second, there is a way for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to obtain the two iron mines that they should have obtained, but we need your cooperation. That is the reason why I came to see you.¡±

    Xu Yi finally revealed a smile and gave a slight nod, ¡°It seems like young miss Seveni has already made ns, why didn¡¯t you say so earlier? Alright, how should I cooperate with you?¡±

    ¡°ording to Duke Jole¡¯s request, in a week, there will be an open auction for these two mines in Banta City. Chairman Xu, if you want to obtain these two iron mines, I¡¯ll have to ask you to¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    A weekter, the Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor was brightly lit and filled with voices. It was clear there was currently a banquet being held.

    The City Lord Manor held banquets for many reasons, especially during this time.

    Only the banquet tonight was clearly different from the others.

    This was because there was an open auction being held at the same time as the banquet.

    An auction being held in the City Lord¡¯s Manor really was unprecedented. However the people who knew the inside story were very clear that if this auction wasn¡¯t held in the City Lord¡¯s Manor, there was no other ce qualified.

    This was because the auction wasn¡¯t selling some precious treasure, rather it was for two iron mines in Banta City.

    Although treasures were rare and could sell for sky high prices,pared to these two iron mines, they clearly weren¡¯t worth looking at.

    The people who could participate in auctions were normally rich people, but the people participating in this auction couldn¡¯t be simply described as rich.

    Just a single iron mine was worth over a million gold coins and the two mines being auctioned together, the amount reached a point that made most people feel dizzy.

    So when many people saw Xu Yi at tonight¡¯s banquet, they couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised expressions.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed quickly since they were established, making everyone pay attention to them. Just in less than half a year, they had already established a ce for themselves in Banta City. But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had existed for a short period of time andcked any depth, so even if each product of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold for arge amount, they wouldn¡¯t have umted that much wealth in just half a year.

    This Xu Yi, what qualification did he have to participate in this highest level auction of over a million gold coins?

 Volume 1 127 - Power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 127 Power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</strong>

    Although no one would run in front of Xu Yi to question if he had the qualifications to be here, there were quite a few people that came forward with questioning tones.

    Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been at the banquet long when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise came forward with a smile and a ss of wine.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, usually when we invite you to banquets, you always say that you¡¯re too busy toe. Why is it that when the Lord City Lord invites you, you immediately appear?¡±

    Since the exclusive supply agreement in terms of cement with Xu Yi and after experimenting with the cement quite a few times, confirming the wonderful effect of this thing, which far surpassed anything the Amrit Chamber of Commerce used before, chairman Cruise would always have a smile when he saw Xu Yi. It was no longer filled with disdain and suspicion like before when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just joined the Business Union.

    Xu Yii raised the cup of wine with a smile to clink it with his ss, ¡°Chairman Cruise, that¡¯s unfair to me. You have to know that I even rejected the Lord City Lord¡¯s invitations before this, it wasn¡¯t just you guys. There¡¯s no other choice there were too many things to handle with ourpany. I haven¡¯t even had time to sleep since I¡¯ve been too busy with work. For me to participate in this banquet, I had to do everything I could.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a good thing to be busy with work. The things of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always been popr, so of course you as the chairman will be busy.¡± Chairman Cruiseughed before suddenly moving closer and asking in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, give me some facts, how many units of that Magic Lamp have you sold?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and raised a hand.

    ¡°Five thousand? No, it can¡¯t be that little. Then¡­..fifty thousand units?¡± Seeing Xu Yi nod, chaiman Cruise gasped as his face filled with shock, ¡°Isn¡¯t this just half a month? You actually sold that many already? Chairman Xu, you¡­..could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has used charm magic on everyone in Banta City? Making it so that everyone will buy your stuff?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. Although he didn¡¯t use charm magic, with the various products that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has released and with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various advertisements and reports in ?Banta Times?, the people of Banta City had a high approval of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Brand. No matter what product the Frestech Chamber of Commercees out with, it would attract overall attention.

    For the Magic Lamp this time, because the two genius designers Agnes and Vivian worked together, just the design alone of the Magic Lamp was enough to attract everyone¡¯s attention. Adding in the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it created this kind of terrifying sales numbers.

    ¡°Chairman Cruise, if I knew this kind of powerful magic, why would I open apany? I would just charm people and make them obediently give me the gold coins in their pockets, alright¡± Xu Yi said in a teasing voice, ¡°For it to sell that well, of course it¡¯s because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product is good enough. Like the cement, do you not like it?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the cement, chairman Cruise nervously looked around. He took a few looks at Xu Yi before saying in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I ask you to keep this a secret for now.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    In business, being able to have an advantage would y an important use.

    Now that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had obtained the exclusive rights to cement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it meant that they had an advantage over otherpanies in terms of materials. This meant that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would be able to grow quite a bit in the future.

    Chairman Cruise naturally wished that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t reveal this secret, to avoid affecting his and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n.

    Seeing that Xu Yi closed his mouth, chairman Cruise gave two dryughs before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, let¡¯s talk about the previous topic. Why did you have time today to participate in this banquet? I really am curious.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°What? Do you think that I¡¯m not qualified toe to this auction?¡±

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head, but he still paused before saying in a tactful voice, ¡°Only hasn¡¯t yourpany been developing in magic machines the entire time? Why are you suddenly interested in iron mines?¡±

    ¡°Your Amrit Chamber of Commerce specializes in construction, so why are you here?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Hei, it takes quite a bit of iron in construction sites. Not to mention that thing you mentioned before¡­..¡± Chairman Cruise lowered his voice again, ¡°That reinforced concrete also consumes quite a bit of iron. If I can get an iron mine, it¡¯s better than buying it from other people. I think chairman Xu should be very clear that that fellow Fuller Morgan has quite the ck heart.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Then do you think that the magic machines our Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces needs quite a bit of iron ores?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi for a while before slightly knitting his brows, ¡°Then that means chairman Xu really has intentions for those two iron mines?¡±

    ¡°Of course, otherwise why would I be here?¡± Xu Yi answered naturally before pointing at the hall filled with people, ¡°This is a rare public auction for an iron mine by the royal family, not only are therepanies from our Banta City, evenrgepanies from other cities are here. I think that if his majesty allowed it,panies from other countries would also be here. In the end, the use of iron ores is just too widespread and who would let go of the chance to own two iron mines?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked around the hall filled with people chatting with each other before giving a nod, ¡°Indeed, this is a rare chance, who would want to let it go?¡± After saying this, he turned to Xu Yi and hesitantly asked, ¡°But chairman Xu, based on the news I¡¯ve heard from the Lord City Lord, the starting price of these two iron mines is five hundred thousand gold coins for one mine¡­..¡±

    Simply put, he was doubting Xu Yi¡¯s finances.

    Xu yi smiled. Even though chairman Cruise hesitated for a while, he finally couldn¡¯t stop himself from asking this. He said in a rxed voice, ¡°Un, I¡¯ve also heard this. This starting price can be considered quite low, but I think with how many people are eyeing it, the price in the end should far surpass this.¡±

    Chairman Cruise observed Xu Yi. After seeing that his face didn¡¯t even change after hearing the shocking number of five hundred thousand gold coins, his heart couldn¡¯t help filling with doubt.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only in Banta City and they sold things under everyone¡¯s gaze. How much ie they have, everyone had seen already.

    ording to the estimate of the Business Union fromst time, even if each of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products made pure profit, their ie in thest half a year should only be less than two hundred thousand gold coins. What made Xu Yi think he could meddle in the auction for these two iron mines? Where did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce get all that money?

    Of course, it was impossible for him to get the answer from Xu Yi. So he could only chat with Xu Yi about a few things before leaving.

    When he turned around, chairman Cruise looked over the banquet hall and he was suddenly shocked.

    In this area of over five hundred square meters where the highest arc was only around four meters tall, looking around, chairman Cruise suddenly saw many products from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    On the walls to the left and right, going from one side to the other, there were up to twenty Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioners lining the walls.

    Although in the advertisement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it said that a single Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner could support an area of thirty square meters, this was a banquet hall the Lord City Lord used to host guests, of course he wouldn¡¯t be petty. So he bought twenty units from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at once.

    Because it was deep winter now, the night was cold enough to ice formed, so there were twenty Magic Air Conditioners on at the same time in this banquet hall. It made the banquet hall as warm as spring.

    Under the Magic Air Conditioners, there was also a row of stands and on each stand was a row of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest Magic Lamps. They were releasing a bright light that lit up the room like it was daytime.

    When the banquets were held before, other than the countless candles that were on the wall, there had to be candles ced on every table to light up the entire hall.

    But now they just needed to hang a few Magic Lamps, as well as the Magic Lamp Chandelier specially made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the hall was brightly lit, without a single feeling of darkness.

    Seeing the Magic Air Conditioners and Magic Lamps, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help thinking of a guess that even he didn¡¯t dare believe.

    Perhaps¡­...everyone had underestimated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ###

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know that chairman Cruise was thinking about all of this and he didn¡¯t know that he had seriously misjudged the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because he saw all the different products

    But he knew the guess of two hundred thousand gold coins in chairman Cruise¡¯s mind, he definitely would have been surprised.

    This is because ording to the financial record Sebas had made half a month ago, in this half a year, not including the ie from the Magic Lamps, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned just around two hundred thousand gold coins from their products.

    But the real profit of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was not something outsiders could calcte.

    The reason was very simple, every product of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had explosive profits! Moreover, they were very terrifying profits!

    The one with the lowest profit margin was the first product, the Magic Fan.

    This is because when the Magic Fan was developed back then, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that experienced with researching magic machines, so he didn¡¯t properly decrease the cost of the Magic Fan.

    Moreover, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have enough dwarven craftsmen back then and hadn¡¯t developed the production magic machines to mass produce them yet. So most of the outer covers for the Magic Fans were made from cksmiths in Banta City, which increased the cost even more.

    But even like this, the profit margin of the first generation Magic Fan was over 50%.

    As for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan, because the production methods had matured and they could use the production magic machines to mass produce them, the cost had greatly decreased, while the price was the same as the first generation Magic Fan. This created a profit margin of over 70%.

    As for the agricultural magic machines, the Magic Air Conditioners, the Magic Rice Cookers, and the current Magic Lamps, no matter which one it was, they didn¡¯t have a profit margin of under 70%.

    This meant that in less than half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gross sales number was two hundred thousand and their gross profit was a shocking one hundred and forty thousand gold coins!

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested quite a bit during this time.

    Most of this was spent on research.

    For research on new products, new technology, and new theories, Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold back at all to invest.

    In this half a year, Xu Yi had invested over twenty thousand gold coins just on this aspect alone.

    Adding in the close to thirty thousand gold coins they spent on worker wages, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bnce had eighty seven thousand four hundred and sixty three gold coins.

    For Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that were made from nothing, this was without a doubt arge amount.

    But if this amount was used to buy the two iron mines, it was far from being enough.

    After Xu Yi finished calcting in his mind, when he lifted his head, he met the distant curious gaze of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan.

 Volume 1 128 - Security deposit

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 128 Security deposit</strong>

    This time the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family suddenly announced that they would hold a public auction for two iron mines near Banta City, it quickly attracted the attention of all the powerfulpanies in the kingdom.

    After confirming that this information was true, thepanies gathered in Banta City to participate in this auction were some of thergestpanies in the kingdom.

    Everyone was clear that this was a very good chance.

    This was because before this, all the iron mines in the Lampuri Kingdom were owned by the Jole Family and others couldn¡¯t stick their hand in at all.

    But now the king was holding a public auction for these two iron mines. There was no doubt that this meant the attitude the royal family had for the Jole Family had changed and they silently epted otherpanies to join the iron ore trade.

    As for why the royal family suddenly did this, everyone had different guesses.

    The mostmon guess was that the king finally couldn¡¯t take the Jole Family controlling the iron ore trade in the kingdom and was nning to move against the Jole Family.

    The nextmon guess was one made by people who had some understanding of the kingdom¡¯s finances.

    Because the kingdom¡¯s finances have been low in the past few years, even if the king wanted to do something, he would be limited by finances and couldn¡¯t aplish it.

    So being forced into this situation, the king finally decided decided to take out the royal family¡¯s mineral resources to exchange for finances to fund his own ns.

    It should be said that this guess was close to the truth and was in the same general field. It was indeed because the king was limited by the kingdom¡¯s finances, so he couldn¡¯t buy the tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines that the kingdom needed, so he wanted to pay with this mine.

    But because the contract that between Xu Yi and the agricultural department under the king was a very closely guarded secret, there were very few people who knew about this.

    The reason why the Jole Family knew about these two mines was because of their analysis from the king¡¯s actions in the two mines, therefore they asked for a fair bidding for these mines.

    As for the role the Frestech Chamber of Commerce yed, Seveni promised Xu Yi that the Jole Family shouldn¡¯t know anything, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t dare believe it.

    But seeing chairman Fuller Morgan¡¯s expression, Xu Yi was certain. Even if the Jole Family wasn¡¯tpletely clear on the facts, they must know that him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were involved.

    As for how much the Jole Family knew, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi directly headed towards chairman Morgan.

    Seeing Xu Yie over, chairman Morgan quickly revealed a smile on his face and raised his ss at Xu Yi, ¡°Hei, dear Xu, for you to appear here today, it really surprises me.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Cruise was saying the same thing earlier.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°It seems like most people here have the same idea.¡±

    Chairman Fuller smiled, not denying or admitting it at all.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to pester him with this question, so he directly said, ¡°Chairman Morgan, your Falcao Chamber of Commerce already controls almost half the iron mines in Banta City. Now that there are two extra, can you just let them go?¡±

    Chairman Morgan rubbed his head of half white hair and said whileughing, ¡°Chairman Xu, is this a joke? Since our Falcao Chamber of Commerce already controls half, why wouldn¡¯t we want to control the rest of the iron mines? Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the exclusive provider of magic machines, so if someone wanted to steal them from you, would you be willing to hand them over?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very willing.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°There is only development withpetition. Actually I want to create several otherpanies that deal in magic machines other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If it¡¯s just us, the industry will develop too slowly.¡±

    Chairman Morgan¡¯s face sunk slightly as he said with knit brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you serious about this? The reason why your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has this much money is not because of the magic machines, but rather because you¡¯re the onlypany that produces them. If there were several otherpanies that also produced the same magic machines, do you think that yourpany would still earn that much money?¡±

    ¡°There, isn¡¯t there a few over there?¡± Xu Yi raised his chin and looked at a group of people at the far end of the banquet hall.

    Chairman Morgan followed Xu Yi¡¯s gaze before saying with disdain, ¡°Those fellows from Saltan City, they actually want to steal business in our Banta City. They really only know how to seek death.¡±

    That group of people were the representatives of Saltan City¡¯spanies. Among them was a person speaking eloquently, who was the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Bruno. In the crowd beside him, there was also the Farsak Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman that Xu Yi knew very well.

    Perhaps they could feel Xu Yi and Morgan¡¯s gaze, but chairman Bruno stopped talking to the people around him and he looked over.

    After looking at Xu Yi, there was a cold look that appeared in chairman Bruno¡¯s eyes, but there was still a smile on his face as he even raised the ss of wine in his hand at Xu Yi.

    The people around him saw this and they also looked over. Chairman Farsak revealed a sincere smile as he also raised his ss at Xu Yi.

    The other people were surprised, they didn¡¯t understand chairman Bruno and chairman Farsak who could raise storms in Saltan City would specially look at this normal looking youth and specially salute him.

    If it was said that Xu Yi was arge noble, then the power of the family behind him would be enough to make these two show courtesy. But no matter how they looked at Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t have the special aura of arge noble.

    But since chairman Bruno and chairman Farsak both saluted him, naturally the others all revealed smiles as they also saluted Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi also raised the ss of wine in his hand as he smiled at them. He said to chairman Morgan, ¡°Since this is a public action held in Banta City by the king and the Mining Union, we don¡¯t have any special advantages over these Saltan City people.¡±

    ¡°We?¡± Chairman Morgan knit his brows and couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is really participating in the auction?¡±

    ¡°Of course, otherwise why would I be here?¡± Xu Yi said this very naturally.

    Chairman Morgan was silent for a bit before he said with a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, as a friend from the Business Union, I have to give you some advice. It¡¯s best to not do something that exceeds your capacity.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Many thanks for chairman Morgan¡¯s advice, but I know what to do.¡±

    Chairman Morgan gave a stronger cold snort before lifting his ss of wine and walking away.

    Watching him leave, Xu Yi rubbed his nose as he gave a bitterugh, ¡°Why is it that no one is willing to believe that I have the ability to buy these two mines?¡± Thinking about it, he gave a shrug before saying with a self ridiculing smile, ¡°Alright, actually even I don¡¯t believe it.¡±

    The banquet slowly proceeded as everyone talked to each other. When everyone felt that it was about time, Count Sean appeared in the back of the hall and attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    He extended his wee to everyone foring before saying a few pleasantries. Count Sean then introduced the topic and began the climax of the banquet, he started the auction for the iron mines.

    ¡°Receiving instructions from his majesty, this auction will be held for the two iron mines that are fifty miles west of the city and sixty miles southwest of the city respectively. ording to the exploration of the kingdom¡¯s mining department, these two mines are rich with iron ores, as well as many other kinds of metals¡­¡­¡±

    Most people under the stage had some understanding of the mine already, but after hearing Count Sean¡¯s introduction, it still caused everyone to be surprised.

    ording to the results of the exploration of the kingdom¡¯s mining department, these two mines were considered first grade mines. If they could be mined normally each year, the lowest ie one would make would be over one hundred thousand gold coins.

    If one could buy these two mines, even if they had to invest a lot of money during the mining, they could also earn arge amount.

    ¡°ording to the instructions of his majesty, what is being sold is not the property rights, but rather the mining rights which is for fifty years. Anyone interested can make a bid.¡± Count Sean added.

    Everyone secretly nodded, not feeling surprised.

    This was something expected. Even the iron mines controlled by the Jole Family in name still belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom and not the Jole Family. But since the mining rights had always been in the hands of the Jole Family, it was actually still controlled by the Jole Family.

    Mining rights of fifty years, to an iron mine, this wasn¡¯t considered too long, but it also wasn¡¯t considered short.

    If one was willing to invest, fifty years was enough to allow one to earn back their investment and earn arge amount.

    After basic information on the two iron mines were introduced, Count Sean handed over the task of hosting to a specially invited host and auctioneer.

    The host didn¡¯t immediately announce the beginning of the auction, rather the first thing they did was to ask every person andpany here to first pay a deposit.

    This was not something unexpected.

    Forrge auctions like this, it generally had this custom. It guaranteed that the people participating had the rights of participate and prevented people from causing trouble.

    The people who came to this banquet were already prepared. So under the supervision of the people sent by the City Lord¡¯s Manor, everyone paid the deposit that they had already prepared.

    ording to the customs of the Sines Continent, the deposit was at least 40% of the base price. The base price of these two iron mines added together was one million and two hundred thousand gold coins, so just this deposit alone was a high four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.

    Seeing the merchants going up one by one and handing over their deposits, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help filling with doubt.

    Based on this current situation, there were quite a few powerful businessmen in the Lampuri Kingdom. So manypanies could take out arge amount like four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.

    And the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s tax revenue was only a pitiful million gold coins. This really was arge contrast.

    Looking over chairman Morgan who stepped on stage, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and was filled with thought.

    Very soon it was Xu Yi¡¯s turn to step on stage. When the host called Xu Yi¡¯s name, most of the people under the stage looked over.

    Of course the merchants of Banta City recognized Xu Yi and because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the merchants from cities near Banta City had also heard of Xu Yi.

    Even if one didn¡¯t know about Xu Yi, based on the rumours that one heard about Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during the banquet, one would quickly be curious about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But everyone was very clear that no matter how much money this newpany made, it was impossible for them to earn five hundred thousand gold coins in just half a year.

    So when Xu Yi appeared in front of everyone and walked up to the stage, there were countless eyes filled with curiosity and doubt that looked over.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could they really take out that much money?

    Xu Yi had the perfect faint smile as he calmly walked in front of the host. He first revealed a smile to Count Sean sitting on the side before taking out an envelope that wasn¡¯t too thick from his chest.

    The host took the envelope and opened it to take a look. He looked at Xu Yi in surprise before announcing in a loud voice, ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce has handed over five Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gold notes worth one hundred thousand each, for a total of five hundred thousand gold coins!¡±

 Volume 1 129 - Auction

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 129 Auction</strong>

    There was the sound of whispers that came from under the stage. Many people had looks of disbelief as they looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with shock and curiosity.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could actually take out five hundred thousand gold coins at once!

    What surprised everyone was that he actually took outrge gold notes from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce!

    It had to be known that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the biggestpany on the Sines Continent. To get their approval and have them give you gold notes was not an easy thing. To have the Chimera Chamber of Commerce to create this kind of giant gold note, it was a very difficult thing to do.

    Although the merchants here didn¡¯t have weak backgrounds, the security deposits they gaver were mostly gold notes given by the Lampuri Chamber of Commerce run by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family or they used some bonds as deposits. There were only a fewpanies, which included the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, that would take out these gold notes that would be recognized even on the other continents.

    From what everyone could see, being able to have gold notes from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was a proof of status.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, they normally wouldn¡¯t have this right.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly took out five hundred thousand in deposits. This showed that Xu Yi actually had the intention topete for these two gold mines.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength, being able topete for just one mine was already hard to believe, not to mentionpeting for two of them!

    But the facts were in front of them and people had no choice but to believe them.

    Watching Xu Yi casually step off the stage, chairman Morgan slightly narrowed his eyes.

    From those five giant gold notes from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, he smelled something strange.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce had to win these iron mines, but there might be a fewplications.

    Very soon, thepanies participating in the auction had given their deposits. Everyone was shocked to find that based on the numbers the host just announced, there were thirty eightpanies that were participating in the auction, so based on the deposits, the host had received over ten million gold coins just now.

    It was no wonder the hall waspletely filled with armed soldiers, not letting any random peoplee close.

    An entire ten million gold coins! This was an amount that was enough to make many people go crazy!

    Very soon, while everyone was feeling excited and nervous, the host announced that the auction was starting. The auctioneer that Count Sean had invited from Anvilmar came to take control of the auction.

    ¡°The first mine, the starting price will be five hundred thousand gold coins with the lowest increment being five thousand gold coins! Begin!¡±

    The wooden gavel in the auctioneer¡¯s hand fell down and somepanies already impatiently called out numbers.

    In the blink of an eye, the auction price had gone from five hundred thousand to over six hundred thousand.

    The passionate mood in the hall began to cool off and the sounds of bidding came slower.

    ¡°Seven hundred thousand gold coins.¡± A voice suddenly rang out that made the hall silent.

    Everyone looked at where the voice came from in shock. Wasn¡¯t thest price just six hundred and ten thousand gold coins, this fellow actually raised it to seven hundred thousand, was there a problem with him?

    After they saw the person who made the bid, everyone understood.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce was determined to win these two iron mines, so chairman Morgan directly raising this price was already enough to show everyone the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s determination.

    Of course, although this was already a sky high price, it was not enough to scare people. After the hall was silent for a bit, quickly there was someone who called out a bid for seven hundred and ten thousand gold coins.

    A price of over seven hundred thousand, it already made quite a fewpanies hesitant.

    Such arge amount couldn¡¯t be easily taken out.

    But after hesitating a bit, these people quickly thought it through. The mine being auctioned now was the smaller one, so of course the price was a bit lower.

    If they couldn¡¯t even take this mine, they didn¡¯t even need to think about the second bigger mine.

    So although the bids weren¡¯t as passionate as before, they didn¡¯t stop.

    The bidding kept rising and quickly reached eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    To everyone here, eight hundred thousand gold coins was considered a very suitable price for this mine.

    Once they passed this price, even if their ie from this wasn¡¯t poor, but based on the investment they would have to put in and the output they got out, it wouldn¡¯t be considered very profitable.

    Of course, profit could still move people¡¯s hearts. So manypany representatives had their hearts move and they were prepared to raise the price.

    But at this time, chairman Morgan spoke again

    ¡°Nine hundred thousand gold coins!¡±

    The hall fell into silence again.

    Everyone looked at chairman Morgan with surprised looks.

    Even if your Falcao Chamber of Commerce wanted this iron mine, you didn¡¯t need to bid like this, right?

    Not speaking is fine, but increasing it by a hundred thousand at once, this was clearly telling others that you had to win.

    It should be said that chairman Morgan¡¯s bidding strategy wasn¡¯t rare.

    In an auction that was very popr andpetitive, this kind of approach could scare many people who were just trying their luck and could save quite a bit of trouble.

    But by showing one¡¯s determination like this, one could meet someone who deliberately raises the price.

    There were pros and cons, it was very hard to predict.

    After the hall was silent for a bit, when the auctioneer wanted to confirm the bid, someone raised the price again.

    ¡°Nine hundred and fifty thousand.¡±

    Chairman Morgan looked at the source of the voice and found that the one who made a bit was chairman Bruno of the Leo Chamber of Commerce that he just looked at with Xu Yi.

    Their gazes met and chairman Morgan gave a cold snort before calling out, ¡°One million!¡±

    The representatives that were hesitating to speak couldn¡¯t help shutting their mouths.

    Everyone looked at chairman Morgan and chairman Bruno with excitement.

    Based on the situation, this auction was probably going to be a test of might between the two of them.

    As expected, after hearing chairman Morgan¡¯s bid, chairman Bruno didn¡¯t have any hesitation as he called out, ¡°One million and fifty thousand.¡±

    Chairman Morgan just gave a snort and immediately followed, ¡°One million and one hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡°One million one hundred and fifty thousand.

    ¡°One million and two hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡­...

    The two kept going and it passed one million and five hundred thousand in the blink of an eye.

    Everyone in the hall seemed to be holding their breath, not daring to say a word.

    No one had thought that a mine worth five hundred thousand would reach one million and five hundred thousand!

    Even if everyone here was from a powerfulpany, to any of them still, they still had to carefully consider bringing out arge amount like one million and five hundred thousand gold coins.

    Even chairman Bruno hesitated after he heard chairman Morgan call out this price and he couldn¡¯t stop his expression from changing. After hesitating a bit, he gritted his teeth and called out, ¡°One million five hundred and ten thousand.¡±

    Hearing this number, everyone in the hall couldn¡¯t help letting out a sigh.

    The two had been increasing by fifty thousand each time before, but now chairman Bruno only added ten thousand. It could be seen that he didn¡¯t have confidence and he was just trying his luck, betting that chairman Morgan had already reached his limits.

    But chairman Morgan gave gave him a cold snort and actually called out one million and six hundred thousand!

    Meeting chairman Morgan¡¯s cold gaze, chairman Bruno¡¯s forehead was covered with small drops of cold sweat.

    He wanted to add ten thousand to give it a try, but he was afraid that chairman Morgan would suddenly give up.

    If that happened, it meant that the Leo Chamber of Commerce needed to spend a sky high price of one million six hundred and ten thousand gold coins to buy this mine.

    Although the Leo Chamber of Commerce was thergestpany in Saltan City, it was unable topare to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce which was one of the toppanies of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If they were to truly take out one million six hundred and ten thousand gold coins at once, it would be cutting into the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s flesh.

    And the iron mine needed atrge amount of manpower and resources to open, it was arge investment.

    Because this was the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main industry, they were already rich with experience in opening up mines. To them, opening up another mine was a very normal thing, but it waspletely different from the Leo Chamber of Commerce.

    Comparing it, the profit the Falcao Chamber of Commerce earned from opening this mine surpassed all otherpanies, so chairman Morgan didn¡¯t even blink when he increased this price.

    Seeing the struggle on chairman Bruno¡¯s face, chairman Morgan gave a coldugh. He turned to say to the auctioneer on the stage, ¡°Can you hurry up?¡±

    The auctioneer looked at chairman Bruno and seeing that he didn¡¯t react, he raised the wooden gavel in his hand and said in a clear voice, ¡°One million and six hundred thousand going once¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Chairman Bruno suddenly raised his hand to stop the auctioneer¡¯s actions. He looked at chairman Morgan before saying through gritted teeth, ¡°One million six hundred and fifty thousand.¡±

    Everyone flew into an uproar.

    Chairman Bruno only added ten thousand before, but now he suddenly added fifty thousand.

    What was he thinking?

    Could it be the Leo Chamber of Commerce also longed for this iron mine like the Falcao Chamber of Commerce?

    Chairman Morgan looked at chairman Bruno before calling out ¡°one million six hundred and sixty thousand¡± which surprised everyone.

    After seeing chairman Bruno hesitate a bit and prepare to increase the price, chairman Morgan looked at him with a dark face and said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Bruno, does your Leo Chamber of Commerce n on fighting our Falcao Chamber of Commerce to the end? I think I need to remind you that even if this iron mine enters your Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hands, you won¡¯t even be able to mine half a piece of iron ore.¡±

    Not only chairman Bruno, everyone else¡¯s face changed.

    Chairman Morgan was clearly using this to threaten them,

    But everyone had to admit that his threat was quite real.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce controlled all the mining business in the Lampuri Kingdom. It would only take a few words from them and not a single miner would dare work for the Leo Chamber of Commerce.

    Like this, even if the Leo Chamber of Commerce obtained thee iron mine, it would be very hard for them to mine anything.

    Even if they could mine things, it would be hard for them to sell the ores.

    Chairman Bruno¡¯s expression changed several times before he gave a sigh in the end and put his hand down.

    Seeing that he gave up, everyone couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    The first auction ended like this, then that means no one will darepete against the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in the second auction.

    The ending to this auction had already been determined.

    Chairman Morgan revealed a proud smile before turning to the auctioneer on stage.

    The auctioneer was an expert in reading moods and seeing the situation under the stage, he didn¡¯t hesitate at all as he raised the wooden gavel.

    ¡°One million six hundred and sixty thousand going once¡­...One million six hundred and sixty thousand going twice¡­¡­.One million six hundred and sixty thousand going thr¡­¡­¡±

    When the auctioneer was about to finish, there was a voice that suddenly rang out at this time.

    ¡°One million and eight hundred thousand!¡±

 Volume 1 130 - You really have money?

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 130 You really have money?</strong>

    The hall had been quiet since the ending had been decided, but once this voice sounded and rang through the hall, everyone¡¯s eyes had been attracted.

    After seeing who this voice belonged to, everyone¡¯s expressions filled with shock.

    It was actually Xu Yi!

    It was actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    The shock instantly turned into deep doubt.

    How much did Xu Yi call out? One million and eight hundred thousand gold coins!

    Based on what did he shout that sky high price? Where did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce get all that money?

    Although Xu Yi had just taken out the five hundred thousand gold notes from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, no one really thought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here to participate in the auction. They all thought that Xu Yi was just here for the fun.

    No one would have thought that when the Leo Chamber of Commerce gave up, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would jump in.

    Chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi and the unsettled feeling in his heart became stronger.

    ording to normal analysis, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t take out that much money at all.

    But after seeing Xu Yi take out the five Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gold notes, chairman Morgan suddenly felt that the matter tonight would not be as easy as he expected.

    As expected, the Leo Chamber of Commerce jumped out first, causing chairman Morgan to add an entire three hundred thousand gold coins to the price in his mind. Now there was another Xu Yi that jumped out.

    ¡°One million and eight hundred thousand?¡± Chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi and said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t believe you, but does your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really have that much money? I think that five hundred thousand should have been borrowed from somewhere, right?¡±

    Xu Yi pretended to be surprised, ¡°How does chairman Morgan know I borrowed them? Right, that¡¯s right, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t take out that much money, so we could only borrow it. It¡¯s a good thing that someone with a good heart was willing to lend to me, otherwise I really wouldn¡¯t daree to this auction.¡±

    Chairman Morgan shook his head, ¡°I can barely believe lending your Frestech Chamber of Commerce five hundred thousand gold coins, but to lend you one million and eight hundred thousand¡­..Not just me, if you ask many people here, would they believe it?¡±

    Although no one in the hall backed up chairman Morgan, based on the expression on their faces, it was clear they were filled with doubt.

    Without waiting for Xu Yi to respond, chairman Morgan turned his head to Count Sean who was supervising the auction not far away and said with a polite bow, ¡°Lord City Lord, I now doubt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t take out that much money, so chairman Xu¡¯s actions are just causing trouble. I ask you to follow the rules of the auction and throw him out.¡±

    Hearing chairman Morgan¡¯s words, the hall was filled with an uproar again.

    Although most people didn¡¯t feel that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could take out arge amount like one million and eight hundred thousand, chairman Morgan right now waspletely tearing off all face with Xu Yi!

    After thinking about it, they felt that chairman Morgan¡¯s actions were very right.

    If Xu Yi was really thrown out, it wouldn¡¯t just be Xu Yi losing face, even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would find it hard to stand firm in Banta City.

    With the strength of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, would they be worried about tearing off all face with a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Count Sean knit his brows and rose to look at Xu Yi before looking at chairman Morgan. He said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Morgan, that is only your own suspicion. It does not constitute a reason for me to throw out chairman Xu.¡±

    Chairman Morgan nodded before pointing at Xu Yi to say, ¡°Then Lord City Lord, I hope that chairman Xu can prove that he has the ability to take out one million and eight hundred thousand gold coins. Otherwise, he is just disrupting the auction and I am very dissatisfied and against this.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Chairman Morgan, why don¡¯t you prove it first?¡±

    Chairman Morgan said with a coldugh, ¡°Does our Falcao Chamber of Commerce need to prove anything? We¡¯re not a smallpany like you!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Morgan and felt strange.

    Although he had expected that chairman Morgan would react to his sudden bid, he never thought that his reaction would be this strong.

    Could it be that chairman Morgan had secretly received some information?

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi had some ideas, but he still revealed a smile. He turned to Count Sean to say, ¡°Lord City Lord, ording to normal logic, I feel that chairman Morgan¡¯s request and protest is all nonsense and there is no need to care. But chairman Morgan¡¯s point does make a point. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a smallpany, of course we don¡¯t have the same rights Falcao Chamber of Commerce. So this time, in order not to trouble the Lord City Lord, I¡¯ve decided to take out evidence that will prove that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the ability to pay this bid.¡±

    Including chairman Morgan, everyone looked at Xu Yi with curious gazes.

    This fellow could actually prove it? How was he going to prove it?

    ¡°Lord City Lord, can I bring in apanion?¡± Xu Yi then asked Count Sean.

    ¡°Thatpanion can prove this?¡± Count Sean asked back.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Alright then.¡±

    Count Sean called the host over and had him personally bring Xu Yi out of the hall.

    When Xu Yi left, the banquet hall instantly filled with noise, as everyone began discussing this. They were curious about who Xu Yi was calling that was able to prove that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to pay the giant one million and eight hundred thousand bid.

    ¡°I think this fellow¡¯s just looking for a way to escape, right?¡± Chairman Morgan said with a cold snort.

    The Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Manhattan Rank and the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Samuel Vincent looked at each other, both being able to see the unsettled look in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Manhattan Rank thought about it before saying, ¡°Chairman Morgan, although I know that your Falcao Chamber of Commerce must obtain these two iron mines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still a part of our Business Union. We don¡¯t need to ruin our rtionships like this, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Morgan, just let Xu Yi bid and stop if you think that it¡¯s too high. Anyway, we all know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have that much money. When he can¡¯t take it out, the one embarrassed is him and his Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it is unrted to you. Then ording to the rules of the auction, your Falcao Chamber of Commerce that gave the second highest bid can take the iron mine. Is there a need to cause trouble with him here?¡± Chairman Vincent supported him, ¡°Right now there arepany representatives from other cities, if they see that our Banta City¡¯spanies have this kind of rtionship, we will beughed at by them.¡±

    ¡°This fellow sought this himself, he should have just honestly kept making magic machines. He actually wants to meddle in the business of our Falcao Chamber of Commerce, this is already breaking the rules, you can¡¯t me me.¡± Chairman Morgan said.

    Actually he agreed with chairman Vincent¡¯s words. In normal circumstances, he wasn¡¯t willing to break all face with Xu Yi.

    But he felt that something was strange tonight, which made him feel very restless, causing him to request Xu Yi to provide proof like this.

    As for falling out with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over this, he and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care.

    President Rank and chairman Vincent looked at each other before giving helpless bitter smiles.

    This time, they really hoped that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯te back.

    But facts wasn¡¯t as they wished. Less than five minutes after Xu Yi left, he returned to the hall with the host while also bringing someone with him.

    The curious gazes of the people in the hall fell onto this person and surprised gasps came from the hall.

    ¡°It¡¯s actually him!¡±

    When chairman Morgan saw this person, his expression became very ugly.

    When president Rank saw this person and after he looked at chairman Morgan, his face became very bright.

    Only chairman Vincent felt a bit confused. Seeing the changes with their expressions, he took another look at that person. He found that the person who came in with Xu Yi was a well proportioned middle aged man with a very neat dress, that wasn¡¯t a single bit out of ce. That person let out a serious and fine aura, just a single nce was enough to tell that he was someone with ability and status.

    But based on his outer dress, this person shouldn¡¯t have made chairman Morgan and president Rank have this kind ofrge reaction.

    ¡°Who is this person?¡±

    President Rank looked at Xu Yi with a rxed smile on his face and said with a bitter smile, ¡°You¡¯ll know in a while.¡±

    In front of everyone¡¯splicated gazes, Xu Yi and that person was led by the host to the stage.

    Count Sean looked at that person before looking at Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Xu Yi, you really have quite some face.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord¡¯s praise is too much. Can I ask him to help me answer chairman Morgan¡¯s question now?¡±

    Count Sean gave a slight nod, ¡°Of course.¡±

    Xu Yi said a few words in a low voice to that person and that person nodded. He came to the stage and looked over everyone below before saying in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, first let me introduce myself. I am the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Lampuri Kingdom branch¡¯s manager, Fieri Rose.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, even more shocked gasps sounded from beneath the stagepared to before.

    This person was actually someone from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce!

    Everyone instantly understood. It was no wonder Xu Yi could take out fiverge gold notes from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, he actually had some rtion with the Chimera Chamber of Commerce!

    Evenrger doubts appeared in everyone¡¯s mind.

    The small Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how did they be rted to the Chimera Chamber of Commerce? Even sending out a manager to Banta City to help Xu Yi solve his problem?

    Fieri Rose ignored the doubts in everyone¡¯s eyes and continued without any expression, ¡°In response to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu¡¯s request, I havee to specially announce something to everyone. After strict verification, we have epted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s loan application to us, at a total amount of five million gold coins.¡±

 Volume 1 131 - Maniac

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 131 Maniac</strong>

    The entire banquet hall fell into a deathly silence.

    There were people whispering under the stage, but when they heard the final number manager Rose gave, they were so shocked they couldn¡¯t say anything else. Therge banquet hall was so silent that even the sound of a pin being dropped could be heard.

    This deathly silence didn¡¯tst long as the hall exploded after a while.

    ¡°Five million gold coins? Gods above! Is this true?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? How could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be allowed to borrow that much?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, there wouldn¡¯t even be this value if the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce was sold, right? Five hundred thousand gold coins is already enough!¡±

    ¡°When did the Chimera Chamber of Commerce be this easy to talk to? We were rejectedst time we put in a loan for just eight hundred thousand gold coins, so how did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce get approved for five million?¡±

    ¡­...

    Everyone¡¯s eyes were filled with disbelief.

    The one filled with the most disbelief was of course chairman Morgan.

    He kept staring at manager Rose. If it wasn¡¯t for the people watching on the side, he would have charged up to the stage and pulled on manager Rose¡¯s skin to see if it was someone disguised as him.

    But his reasoning told him that this manager Rose was indeed the manager Rose he had contacted many times in Anvilmar City, it definitely was not someone disguised as him.

    Also what use would there be in Xu Yi finding someone to disguise as him? If this matter didn¡¯t have the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s approval, would Xu Yi dare do this?

    After a while, chairman Morgan slowly came back to his senses. He took a deep look at Xu Yi before turning to manager Rose to ask, ¡°Manager Rose, can I ask a question?¡±

    Manager Rose gave a slight nod, ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°I want to ask, just based on what did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receive the approval to get a five million gold coin loan from your Chimera Chamber of Commerce?¡± Chairman Morgan asked.

    This question was the question that everyone wanted to know. When chairman Morgan asked this, everyone looked over at manager Rose.

    Who would have thought that manager Rose would just look at chairman Morgan and answer without any expression, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I cannot say anything about this issue.¡±

    ¡°Ai.¡±

    A wave of sighs sounded.

    Disappointment came, but everyone was clear that this reply from manager Rose was irrefutable.

    It was a Chimera Chamber of Commerce secret why this loan was approved, so it was expected that manager Rose wouldn¡¯t answer this question.

    Chairman Morgan¡¯s face twitched a few times before he nodded and didn¡¯t ask anything else.

    Seeing that no one else had any questions, Count Sean stood up and announced the auction would continue.

    But the auction continuing meant chairman Morgan had to face the sky high price of one million and eight hundred thousand that Xu Yi gave.

    Although before this auction, the Jole Family had given chairman Morgan instructions that he had to obtain these two iron mines, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce had only valued this smaller mine at eight hundred thousand to one million and two hundred thousand. When chairman Morgan gave that one million six hundred and sixty thousand gold coin bid, it had already surpassed his budget.

    If he wanted to press down Xu Yi¡¯s bid of one million and eight hundred thousand,

    The auctioneer who was on the stage again saw that chairman Morgan didn¡¯t say anything, so he couldn¡¯t help giving a soft cough. He reminded him, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has bid one million and eight hundred thousand, is there anyone that wants to go higher? If not, the iron mine will belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Everyone looked at chairman Morgan.

    The cold sweat covering chairman Morgan¡¯s head was several times more than chairman Bruno earlier. He looked at Xu Yi before looking back at the auctioneer. After hesitating for a bit, he slowly raised his hand as the auctioneer raised the wooden gavel and softly called, ¡°One million eight hundred and fifty thousand.¡±

    ¡°Two million.¡± When chairman Morgan said his final word, Xu Yi already called out another number.

    Everyone in the hall took a cold breath of air at the same time.

    Two million gold coins!

    All for an iron mine that wasn¡¯t considered too big!

    Moreover Xu Yi had gone to two million from one million eight hundred and fifty thousand at once, this was even more aggressive than chairman Morgan from before!

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi like he was a maniac.

    Does this Xu Yi know what he was doing?

    Did he think that this two million gold coins fell out of the sky?

    Even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce received a loan of five million from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce for an unknown reason, can you not spend it so freely like some low level nouveau riche?

    Thinking of upstarts, everyone suddenly remembered thatpared to thergepanies with rich backgrounds and history, isn¡¯t Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce considered nouveau riche?

    But whether he was one or not, Xu Yi had already given his price, so would chairman Morgan meet it or not?

    Chairman Morgan took out his handkerchief and forcefully wiped his head. He found that his dry handkerchief had be soaked and his hand holding it couldn¡¯t help shaking.

    ¡°Damn fellow!¡± Chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi in the distance with a rxed smile on his face and he cursed in his heart.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this fellow suddenly butting in, he could have used one million six hundred and sixty thousand to take this mine.

    Although this price was a bit high, it was still in his eptable range.

    But now that Xu Yi had given a price of two million gold coins, it had already passed what chairman Morgan could ept.

    Chairman Morgan hesitantly wiping off his sweat. When the auctioneer reached his third count and the wooden gavel fell, he didn¡¯t make a single sound.

    ¡°Two million gold coins! Congrattions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for winning, obtaining the mining rights to this mine for fifty years!¡±

    The auctioneer¡¯s voice reverberated through the banquet hall, but it didn¡¯t draw out any response. There wasn¡¯t even any polite pping.

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi and chairman Morgan with extremely strange expressions.

    Chairman Morgan gave up on bidding in the end, which made everyone disappointed, but it was expected. After all, the price of two million was just too high, it had already surpassed everyone¡¯s calctions.

    Even if the Falcao Chamber of Commerce had many resources and was powerful, they couldn¡¯t spend this casually. This was the reason why chairman Morgan gave up.

    As for the iron mine that Xu Yi used a sky high price to obtain, no one was happy for him.

    With such arge investment, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wildly mined it, it was impossible to earn thisrge amount back in a short period of time.

    Not to mention that this amount was something the Frestech Chamber of Commerce borrowed from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. The Chimera Chamber of Commerce was not kind, there had to be a high interest to this loan. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t managed properly, they wouldn¡¯t even be able to pay back the interest. In the end, they might even copse from this interest.

    In the opinion of many people, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a very stupid choice.

    So the first auction ended with this strange silence. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce used a shocking price of two million to earn the mining rights of this rather small mine.

    But the silence was crushed instantly by the sounds of bidding as soon as the second auction began.

    The second mind was much bigger than the first mine, so there was much more value contained in it. Just the starting price was seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    Perhaps it was because of how wild the first auction was or maybe it was because everyone was set on thisrger mine to begin with, so when the auction started, everyone jumped out with prices.

    The seven hundred thousand starting price turned into a million in an instant and it quickly charged close to one million and five hundred thousand.

    But when the representative of apany wanted to bid one million and five hundred thousand, chairman Morgan who had been silent the entire time suddenly spoke.

    It was fine when he didn¡¯t open his mouth, but he shocked everyone when he did.

    ¡°Two million!¡±

    He directly raised the price by five hundred thousand gold coins!

    The hall fell silent and everyone looked at chairman Morgan. They found that the expression on his face was quite fierce at this time.

    Everyone understood that this time, chairman Morgan wouldn¡¯t give up on this mine no matter what.

    Otherwise, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce would return empty handed this time.

    After a pause, apany representative from Anvilmar City called out a bid of ¡°two million and fifty thousand¡±.

    When he finished, chairman Morgan directly called out ¡°two million and three hundred thousand¡±.

    Although he didn¡¯t suddenly raise it by five hundred thousand again, suddenly raising it by two hundred and fifty thousand was still shocking enough.

    The more shocking thing was what chairman Morgan said after he made his bid.

    ¡°This mine, our Falcao Chamber of Commerce has to obtain it. Whoever wishes to steal it will be an enemy of our Falcao Chamber of Commerce! Moreover, you all understand that even if you obtain this mine, will you really have the ability to mine it?¡±

    This was simply a naked threat.

    Count Sean knit his brows. He was dissatisfied, but his brows rxed and he didn¡¯t say anything.

    Seeing that no one made a sound, chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, how about it? Do you still want to bid? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has suddenly borrowed five million from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and there¡¯s still three million left, so will you struggle against our Falcao Chamber of Commerce again?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Morgan in surprise and said in an innocent manner, ¡°Chairman Morgan, what are these words? Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten that you¡¯ve said that we¡¯re all friends in the Business Union and everyone should help each other? How could I maliciously attack you? Then again, I can¡¯t just spend all five million of what I¡¯ve borrowed, right? Actually using two million to buy the mine is already enough to give me a headache. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the magic machines produced by mypany using arge amount of iron, I wouldn¡¯t be that interested in the iron mine, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Chairman Morgan red at Xu Yi, not believing a single word.

    But Xu Yi seemed like he was going to make a concession, so naturally he wouldn¡¯t say anything. He just kept staring at Xu Yi, seeing if he would do the same as before, bidding at thest second.

    But when the auctioneer finished counting and the small wooden gavel fell to the end the auction, Xu Yi had the same smile on his face with his mouth closed, not saying a word.

    After hearing the auctioneer say that the Falcao Chamber of Commerce received the mining rights to these mines, chairman Morgan let out a long sigh of relief. After he finished fighting this war, his body rxed.

    Xu Yi actually came over at this time and said to chairman Morgan with a smile, ¡°Congrattions, congrattions, this mine has fallen into your Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hand in the end. It¡¯s a pity that my Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t strong enough, otherwise I really wanted to struggle a bit.¡±

    Chairman Morgan gave a strong snort. He thought that if it wasn¡¯t for this fellow causing trouble, those two mines would have easily fallen into the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s pockets.

    Losing a mine, the Joles Family would definitely be dissatisfied because of this. Chairman Morgan didn¡¯t know what kind of punishment he would receive because of this.

    Xu Yi suddenly came forward two steps and said to chairman Morgan in a low voice, ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Morgan. Now that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has gained a mine, I was prepared to invent some mining magic machines. I wonder, is your Falcao Chamber of Commerce is interested?¡±

    Chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi in a daze. After seeing that his expression was serious and it didn¡¯t seem like he was lying, he couldn¡¯t help thinking deeper into this.

    Although chairman Morgan looked down on a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had to admit that the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all surprisingly easy to use. The most obvious example of this was the agricultural magic machines.

    If Xu Yi really invented some mining magic machines, perhaps it really would help the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, chairman Morgan¡¯s expression changed several times at a speed that made Xu Yi sigh with emotion. He finally revealed a warm smile and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Of course we¡¯re interested. How about chairman Xu discuss this with me in detail?¡±

 Volume 1 132 - Year end bonus

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 132 Year end bonus</strong>

    This public auction in Banta City that attracted countless people¡¯s attention and severalrge and smallpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom was actually just a y Xu Yi coordinated with the royal family to put on.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce certainly couldn¡¯t take out an exaggerated amount as two million and it was like everyone had thought, they didn¡¯t have the qualifications to apply for arge five million gold coin loan from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.

    This five million gold coin loan was actually taken by the king, using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name on the application.

    The two million gold coins used to buy the first mine would naturally return into the king¡¯s hands. The three million that wasn¡¯t spent in the end would directly be given back to the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.

    In this auction, when it came to settling ounts, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t spend a single cent. The interest the king had to pay for this short term loan of five million was twenty thousand which wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    Compared to the ie of two million and three hundred thousand gold coins earned from selling the second mine, it really wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    Of course, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s agreement with the king, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should have received two iron mines. Although now one of the mines ended in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hands, the other mine was still auctioned off to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    But Seveni and Xu Yi¡¯s ns had already thought of that.

    If Xu Yi could have bought the second mine at a suitable price, it would have been good. But chairman Morgan threw those rough words at the auction, so Xu Yi chose to give it up after careful consideration.

    Seveni had given Xu Yi two choices in this situation.

    One was ording to the one million and three hundred gold coin value in the contract. The king would directly give one million and three hundred thousand gold coins to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which would be considered payment for the order of agricultural magic machines.

    The second was to find a suitable iron mine in the kingdom to give Xu Yi. That way, it would be no different from the contract from before.

    But Xu Yi gave Seveni another option. That was to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rent somend from the royal family, using the payment as rent for thend.

    As for the size of thend, Xu Yi¡¯s first request was around ten times the size of Banta City.

    But Seveni¡¯s response to this was¡­...

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you crazy?¡±

    Of course Xu Yi wasn¡¯t crazy, he was actually very sane.

    Because he was very sane, he proposed the n of rentingnd from the royal family. He no longer wanted to obtain territory like before.

    This was because Xu Yi had studied up on the history of the Lampuri Kingdom. Since the kingdom had been founded, although the Lampuri Kingdom royal family had conferred new noble titles, they had never given out an inch ofnd.

    It could be seen that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family felt thend was quite important.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think he was qualified to have the royal family give himnd, so after considering it, he chose the next best option to rentnd from the royal family.

    It was renting, but it waspletely different from rentingnd in the hands of the nobles.

    First the royal family controlled the Lampuri Kingdom. Putting aside thend in the hands of the nobility, over 70% of thend belonged to the kingdom.

    If one rented from the royal family, they could get more and request to rent arge piece ofnd.

    If he rented from the nobles, even if it was the Stagg Family with the mostnd, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t find an area that would satisfy him.

    Secondly, the royal family was much more stablepared to the nobles.

    If one rentednd from the nobles, with a single idea from the nobles, there could be many changes against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As the royal family was in control of the kingdom, they cared more about their prestige and about the general situation. In a normal circumstance, they wouldn¡¯t easily change their policies.

    The main reason why Xu Yi wanted territory that belonged to him was mainly because of thetter reason.

    Right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was rentingnd from Viscount Leslie. Although Xu Yi¡¯s rtion with Viscount Leslie was good and Viscount Leslie was a major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there normally weren¡¯t any problems, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much expectation to this kind of rtionship.

    This point could be seen by the three hundred ves Viscount Leslie had sent into the household magic machine workshop.

    It was clear that these three hundred ves didn¡¯t belong to Viscount Leslie and Viscount Leslie himself was dissatisfied with the ns for the three hundred ves. He even secretly warned Xu Yi not to treat these ves are real workers and not to let them learn all the technology in the workshop.

    But even if Viscount Leslie wasn¡¯t willing, once those three hundred ves entered the workshop and learned for a month, arge part of the ves had mastered the techniques required.

    Xu Yi was very clear that these three hundred ves should be from the Stagg Family behind Viscount Leslie.

    And from this point, he knew that Viscount Leslie is influenced by the family behind him.

    So no matter how good his rtionship was with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that didn¡¯t decide everything.

    So Xu Yi wanted to avoid situations he couldn¡¯t control and of course he wanted his own territory.

    So even if there were limitations in renting from the royal family, no matter what, it was better than his current situation.

    So even though Seveni couldn¡¯t help calling Xu Yi crazy, Xu Yi still insisted on this request.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s persistence, Seveni decided to report Xu Yi¡¯s n to the king in the end.

    As for whether Xu Yi¡¯s request could be satisfied, Seveni didn¡¯t dare promise anything.

    It took quite a bit of time for Xu Yi to clean up after the auction. When he finished everything and seeded in registering the iron mines in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name, it was already close to the end of December.

    The Sines Continent also celebrated New Years and of course there would be vacation for New Years.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t finished most of the order, no matter what, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t have the workers keep working overtime during the New Years period.

    After discussing it with Heinz, Camby, and the others, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce decided to start their vacation on the twenty fifth and it would go all the way until the seventh of January.

    On the twentieth, there was a cheer that filled both the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workshops.

    This was because the vacation Xu Yi announced was longer than most of the other Banta Citypanies. Once it was announced, it naturally obtained the support of all the workers.

    What made the workers even happiers that was Xu Yi announced that other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paying their wages while they were off for New Years, each person would also receive one month¡¯s sry as a year end bonus!

    Before this, no one had ever heard of a year end bonus before!

    After they heard Xu Yi personally announce this, all the workers almost went wild with happiness!

    This was because ording to Xu Yi¡¯s announcement, not only would the workers receivest month¡¯s pay, with the first half of this month¡¯s pay added in, they would also receive a bonus of one month¡¯s base pay!

    Counting it all, even the most normal worker would receive a sry of over thirty gold coins before New Years!

    As for the workers with higher wages and the workers who worked more overtime, their wage could surpass forty gold coins or even reach fifty gold coins!

    To these workers that would at most receive three-four gold coins per month beforeing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was a giant amount!

    With this money, the workers that were rather poor didn¡¯t need to worry about their family¡¯s livelihood when it came to celebrating New Years this year.

    Thinking of them bringing home arge amount of gold coins, letting their parents and wives have a rich celebration for New Years, the workers all looked at Xu Yi with gazes of gratitude.

    In that moment, Xu Yi¡¯s image in their minds was iparablyrge.

    However, not all the workers showed this same disy of excitement. The biggest exception to this were the three hundred ves brought by Viscount Leslie.

    They were different than the hundred ves under Xu Yi¡¯s name. Viscount Leslie had specially said that these three hundred ves couldn¡¯t receive any special treatment, so even if Xu Yi felt sorry for them, he still couldn¡¯t pay them wages.

    Even buying some materialpensation for them was greatly discouraged. In the end, Xu Yi could only helplessly buy them some small things they could use for New Years as a sign of recognition for their work.

    But even though these were small things that cost less than gold coin, these ves treated them like things that could burn their hands. If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi ordering them to take it, no one would have dared to take it.

    Other than the three hundred ves, the nine magicians in charge of drawing the Magic Arrays weren¡¯t as excited as the other workers.

    One was because these magicians hadn¡¯t been at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for more than a month, so they didn¡¯t have any feelings for this ce, so naturally they weren¡¯t excited as the other workers.

    Second, the magicians had more experience than these workers, so how could they be excited so easily.

    But of course it was false to say that they weren¡¯t happy at all.

    Even though they worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for less than a month, because they had a higher efficiency than those students, their sry was over twenty gold coins each month when counting it all!

    If they had worked aplete month, their sry might have evene close to more than thirty gold coins!

    To these magicians who were at most Second Grade Magicians, this was a high wage that filled them with joy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have a normal day of work today. Thy finished working at the end of the morning and tidied up the two workshops.

    They came together for a meal at noon and after they finished eating, wages were given.

    After all this fuss, the day had ended like this.

    After they finished taking care of the workers¡¯ year end arrangements with difficulty, Xu Yi along with Heinz, Camby, and the others headed back to Banta City together. He had them go find a few ces in a restaurant first before he headed to the researchb Evita and Akali lived in.

 Volume 1 133 - Come spend New Year with me

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 133 Come spend New Year with me</strong>

    The door of the research facility was open by a rare chance and Xu Yi walked in. He saw Akali sitting cross legged in the living room, putting the clothes beside her into a luggage bag.

    It seemed like she was packing her baggage.

    Akali who felt someonee in looked up at Xu Yi and immediately reached out her hand.

    ¡°Sir chairman, quickly give me money. I am waiting for money to head home.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and took out the prepared purse in his chest to throw over to her.¡±

    Akali took the purse and her hand went to open the purse, as she poured the money on the ground. She carefully counted it and couldn¡¯t help saying in surprise, ¡°Seventy six gold coins? This much! I say, sir chairman, did you make a mistake?¡±

    Evita who heard the sounds came downstairs and beside her was Still who hade to send the two of them off.

    Hearing the number Akali said, even the usually quiet Evita was surprised, ¡°Sir chairman, why is it this much?¡±

    Still wasn¡¯t that surprised as she looked at Evita and Akali with a smile.

    ¡°Other than twenty six gold coins fromst month and this month, there is also the fifty gold coin year end bonus for you.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Year end bonus?¡± Evita and Akali looked at each other and their expressions became strange, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°Just as the word means. At the end of the year, in order to reward you for your hard work this year, you were given some extra bonuses.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Since the work you two have done is outstanding and to show how important researchers are, thepany has decided to give you higher year end bonusespared to the normal workers. The final set amount is fifty gold coins. How about it? Are you satisfied?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Akali jumped up from the ground and hugged Xu Yi¡¯s arm as she shook about, ¡°Sir chairman, I really love you to death! You¡¯re suddenly giving us this much money to go home with to celebrate New Years, mother and father will definitely be happy hearing about this!¡±

    ¡°Then they must congratte you.¡± Xu Yi pulled his arm out without any changes to his expression and he took out two purses that he gave to Evita and Still.

    Evita took the purse and said her thanks in a soft voice, but she didn¡¯t open it.

    Still just put the purse into her little bag and didn¡¯t reveal any special expressions.

    Seeing Akali tidy up the gold coins that had fallen to the ground, Xu Yi suddenly said, ¡°That¡¯s right, there¡¯s something I want to tell you. Starting next year, the three of you will receive an increase in sry. You¡¯ll be going from fifteen gold coins to twenty five gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± The three looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    Akali couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°It¡¯s actually going up this much? Chairman Xu, did you suddenly be rich?¡±

    ¡°Haven¡¯t I be rich in the past half a year?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, ¡°What? I¡¯m increasing your wages and you don¡¯t want it? If you don¡¯t want it, I can just increase Evita and Still¡¯s wages while you have the same wage, alright?¡±

    ¡°No, no, I¡¯m very willing!¡± Akali quickly waved her hand and even begged, ¡°Sir chairman, I was just speaking casually, you can¡¯t take it as something serious.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort. He looked around before asking, ¡°You still haven¡¯t finished packing? It¡¯s already quitete, if you don¡¯t hurry, you won¡¯t be able to make it to the horse carriage in time.¡±

    Evita gave a sigh before looking at Akali, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for Akali, we would have already finished packing.

    ¡°It¡¯s really troublesome finding things.¡± Akali muttered as she began moving faster.

    When girls were packing things, it wasn¡¯t convenient for Xu YI to stay. After wishing them well on their journey, he prepared to leave.

    Before he walked out, Still called out to him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you going home for the holidays?¡±

    ¡°Going home?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°What home?¡±

    ¡°Your home.¡± Still asked naturally, ¡°I remember that you¡¯re not from Banta City, right? It¡¯s now the New Years, so of course you should go back to your hometown. Speaking of this, I¡¯ve never heard of you mentioning your hometown before. Just where is your hometown?¡±

    Hearing Still ask this, Evita and Akali stopped moving and curiously looked over.

    ¡°Hometown?¡± Xu Yi silently thought this over before he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    His hometown wasn¡¯t even in this world, how could he go back?

    Seeing the curious gaze of the three of them, Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°I can¡¯t go back to my hometown anymore, so I¡¯ll just stay here this year.¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t go back?¡± The three became even more curious. Akali asked, ¡°Sir chairman, what do you mean by that? Is it because your hometown has been destroyed? Or is it because you were chased out?¡±

    ¡°Akali!¡± Evita spoke in a rare sharp voice, as she red at Akali.

    Akali was surprised and bit her tongue, as she said in a small voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I was just curious. I didn¡¯t mean anything, don¡¯t misunderstand.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s nothing. But you shouldn¡¯t ask where my hometown is, I¡¯m not willing to mention this topic.¡±

    Akali gave an obedient nod.

    Although Xu Yi still had a smile on his face, Evita could clearly see the sadness hidden beneath it. Seeing the pain in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, Evita couldn¡¯t stop her heart from filling with pain.

    This sir chairman who was always filled with confidence and didn¡¯t seem to fall from any blows actually had a delicate side.

    In an instant, Evita had the urge to pull Xu Yi into her embrace andfort him.

    Evita only had the urge, but Still directly did it.

    In front of Evita and Akali¡¯s surprised looks, Still came forward and opened her arms to softly hug Xu Yi. She said in a gentle voice, ¡°You don¡¯t have to talk about it if you don¡¯t want, we won¡¯t ask in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi was scared by Still¡¯s sudden hug. Smelling the scenting from Still, his body first froze before he rxed. He said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s not that serious, you don¡¯t need to be that considerate.¡±

    Still only hugged him for a second before letting go. Based on her stiff actions and the redness on her face, she was actually quite nervous.

    The room fell into a strange silence and after a while, Still calmed the expression on her face before asking, ¡°Since you¡¯re staying here for New Years, that¡¯s even better. If you don¡¯t have any other ces to go, how abouting to my house for New Years? My mother and father will also be back for New Years and with grandfather and me, the house will be quite lively. If you alsoe, it¡¯ll be even more lively. Grandfather has always liked you and he was already prepared to invite you over as a guest. Moreover, I believe mother and father will also like you after they see you. Do you want toe?¡±

    Seeing Still¡¯s expectant expression, Xu Yi thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I have to let down your good intentions. Although I¡¯ll be staying during New Years, I have some work to do. Because I promise Agnes, I¡¯ll be going to her ce this year. This trip will take quite a bit of time and the holidays might be over when I get back.¡±

    ¡°Agnes?¡± Still revealed a disappointed look on her face. Before she could speak, Akali first said, ¡°Sir chairman, this Agnes¡­..It should be a girl based on the name, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s indeed a girl. What about it?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a nod.

    ¡°What about it? You¡¯re still asking this!¡± Akali¡¯s voice raised and her face filled with anger, ¡°Still¡¯s already inviting you to her house for new years and wanted to introduce you to her mother and father, but you¡¯re actually rejecting her for another girl! Sir chairman, you really are too unfaithful!¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Unfaithful? How am I unfaithful?¡±

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I really was wrong about you. I thought that you were a good man and I liked you quite a bit before, but I never thought you were this kind of person. I¡­¡­¡±

    Akali didn¡¯t get to finish her words as her mouth was covered by Evita and Still.

    Still¡¯s face turned red seeing Akali¡¯s angry expression. No matter how slow Xu Yi was, he still realized what was wrong, as he said with augh, ¡°Akali, you¡¯re mistaken. I¡¯m going to Agnes¡¯ ce because of work, Still understands what this is about. Isn¡¯t that right, Still?¡±

    Still nodded and gave an un sound, but her expression was still a bit disappointed.

    Akali stopped struggling and doubtfully looked at Still, not understanding why she had this kind of reaction.

    Xu Yi shook his head and thought that these girls really were sensitive, they were just too hard to deal with.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said to Still, ¡°If I finish my work and Ie back early, I¡¯lle and visit your family. At least I have to offer my New Years greeting to your grandfather, right? Naturally it would even be better if I can see your parents. I¡¯m very curious, what kind of parents could give birth to such a beautiful girl.¡±

    Still¡¯s elegant face became redder. Evita and Akali looked at Xu Yi in surprised, clearly being very shocked by the fact that he said those words.

    Akali pushed aside the two hands covering her mouth and she couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, I thought that you were aplete blockhead, who didn¡¯t know how to praise girls at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This isn¡¯t praise, it¡¯s the truth. Look, I¡¯m also curious what kind of parents can give birth to a lively and curious girl like you, Akali.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t praise¡­¡­¡± Akali red at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yiughed and pped his hands before saying, ¡°Alright, stop rambling here with me. There isn¡¯t much time, you should quickly finish packing. That¡¯s right, help me wish your parents a happy New Years. Just say that I¡¯m grateful for your daughter¡¯s outstanding contributions to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Evita and Akali agreed before turning to finish up Akali¡¯s packing.

    Still saw that Xu Yi wanted to leave and she suddenly shouted, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m alsoing!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi turned back in a daze, ¡°Where do you want to go?¡±

    ¡°Agnes¡¯ ce!¡±

    Evita and Akali couldn¡¯t help stopping again as they looked at Still in shock.

    Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s serious face and he couldn¡¯t help rubbing his aching head.

    These little girls, just what were they thinking?

 Volume 1 134 - Three beauties traveling together

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 134 Three beauties traveling together</strong>

    Two dayster, a horse carriage was on the road to the west of Banta City, heading for the mountain road.

    A slender arm pulled open the curtain and Vivian¡¯s little face popped out. After looking at the scenery outside, she couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°So dwarves live in remote mountains like this, now wonder it¡¯s so hard to see them.¡±

    ¡°That is before, it¡¯s much easier to see them now.¡± Still¡¯s voice came from inside the carriage, ¡°Vivian, when thepany starts working again, if you want to see dwarves, you can just go to the magic machine workshop. There are several hundred dwarves usually there.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Vivian gave a strong nod, ¡°Banta City¡¯s people aren¡¯t that curious about dwarves anymore, right?¡±

    ¡°But they should be very curious about elves, don¡¯t you think so, young miss Agnes?¡± Still¡¯s final words were actually directed at Agnes on the other side of the carriage.

    Agnes honestly thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°It should be. We elves hate contacting humans more than dwarves, so we haven¡¯t appeared in front of humans for several hundred years. It is normal for them to be curious about us.¡±

    ¡°But your tribe must show themselves to humans now. Young miss Agnes, don¡¯t you feel worried?¡± Still then asked.

    There was a helpless tone that filled Agnes¡¯ voice, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, our tribe is facing difficulties and to solve this, only you humans seem to have a way. In order to survive, there¡¯s no other choice even if we have to reveal ourselves to the humans again. Then again, I feel that chairman Xu is right, not every human is bad. Other than chairman Xu who is a good person that is honestly willing to help us solve our problem, there is a person as pure as an elf like Vivian. There are also noble and beautiful people like young miss Still who I also like very much.¡±

    Still¡¯s face became a bit red, ¡°Many thanks for your praise, but I think that is because your luck is good and the first human you met is Xu Yi. Although this fellow is a profiteer, his character isn¡¯t bad. Since he has promised that he would help you, he will definitely do it.¡±

    Agnes nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right. After interacting with chairman Xu a few times, as well as my observations from following him, I feel he should be a trustworthy human.¡±

    Still thought about it before suddenly saying, ¡°That¡¯s right, Agnes. You mentioned that you kept following Xu Yi during this time, does that mean you follow him all the time? Could it be that when Xu Yi was sleeping, bathing, and using the washroom, you also followed him?¡±

    Agnes had a natural expression as she nodded, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Still opened her eyes in shock, ¡°You¡¯re by his side when he¡¯s bathing? Could it be that you saw all of him?¡±

    Agnes didn¡¯t seem to understand what Still meant and said in a confused voice, ¡°I saw all of him, is there anything wrong?¡±

    Xu Yi in the front of the carriage suddenly started coughing, as he became angry in shame.

    ¡°Ke¡­...Ke, ke¡­...I say Agnes, why didn¡¯t you tell me that you were with me when I was bathing?¡±

    Agnes pulled open the curtain and looked at Xu Yi in the driver¡¯s seat, ¡°Because I felt there wasn¡¯t any problem. Why do you and young miss Still all care about this?¡±

    Xu Yi slowed the carriage and looked back at Agnes. Seeing her innocent expression, he could only give a helpless sigh before looking at Still with a strange expression. He said in a voice that was angry from shame, ¡°You¡¯re still smiling! I was unknowingly seen by her, I¡¯m the one who suffered a loss, alright?¡±

    Still gave a soft snort, ¡°You are a man, what loss can you suffer. Agnes is a beautiful elven girl, the one suffering is her.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, determined not to discuss this issue with Still.

    But after seeing Still and Agnes¡¯ conversation, with the rtionship between them bing much warmer, he felt more assured.

    His n today only included Agnes and himself, but he found that when they left, because Evita and Akali had already gone home, there was no one to take care of Vivian. So he could only bring her along.

    And he didn¡¯t know what was with Still, insisting oning with him.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were fruitless, so he was forced to agree in the end.

    So Xu Yi¡¯s travel n that seemed quite simple included two extra girls.

    But this also had an advantage. The journey was much more lively and wasn¡¯t as boring.

    Because Xu Yi invested in making a road to the dwarf tribe, the final twenty kilometers wasn¡¯t a pure hike like before. The swaying horse carriage went along and in less than an hour, they could already see the smoke plumes filling the sky.

    ¡°Could it be that ce is on fire?¡± Seeing the thick smoke, Still couldn¡¯t help asking this in a surprised voice.

    ¡°No, it should be the smoke from the steel and concrete factories.¡± Xu Yi looked at the thick smoke that filled the sky and slightly knit his brows.

    Although this scene made him remember the factories on earth and gave birth to a warm feeling, seeing this still made him remember the serious problem of pollution.

    The Norma Tribe and the Ang Tribe used to be filled with beautiful scenery and environment, but since Xu Yi created the steel and concrete factories here, the smoke from the factories had ruined the environment.

    Although chief Siluka and chief Monto didn¡¯t care, since they were happy that having the two factories there allowed their tribes to earn a stable ie, Xu Yi was very clear on the consequences of environmental pollution, so naturally he was worried.

    But the industrialization on earth was apanied by serious pollution, there wasn¡¯t a single developed country on earth that could avoid it. If the Sines Continent was industrialized like Xu Yi wanted, naturally it would follow this path.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi thought of a problem. What he was developing was a magic machine industry instead.

    Compared to the industrialization on earth, magic industrialization¡¯s greatest advantage was that its power source was magic, so there wasn¡¯t much pollution.

    Since the magic industrialization Xu Yi took before didn¡¯t have the problem of pollution, it meant that the steel and concrete workshop could also avoid this problem.

    Xu Yi was thinking about how he should improve the production lines of the factories as the horse carriage continued forward. Not long after, he had arrived at the Norma Tribe.

    Camby and the other dwarves hade back since they were on vacation from the factory, so they already knew Xu Yi wasing today. When they saw the horse carriage, the dwarves all came out to greet it with chief Siluka leading the way.

    They saw that Xu Yi was actually driving. After the carriage stopped, three figures came out of it. There wererge and small beauties that made the dwarves unable to stop the shock that filled their hearts.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, wee, wee.¡± Chief Siluka¡¯s gaze passed over the three beauties and he stopped on Agnes a bit before reaching out his hand to Xu Yi with a smile.

    Xu Yi shook his hand and said a few greetings before having chief Siluka lead him to the steel factory first.

    This steel factory was made by Xu Yi before he left for Anvilmar City because the dwarves had made a breakthrough in their material studies.

    This was because once the alloy with silver leaves added which Xu Yi called the Silver Leaf Alloy was researched by the dwarves, they now understood the characteristics of this alloy. The dwarves could now skillfully refine three different kinds of Silver Leaf Alloys.

    So Xu Yi investedrge amounts into this. He built this steel factory in the Norma Tribe to let these dwarves focus on refining this Silver Leaf Alloy.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s analysis, this Silver Leaf Alloy had many uses. Just right now, it could be used to rece the normal pig iron used in the Magic Fans, the Magic Air Conditioners, the Magic Rice Cookers, and the other household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    If this changed to this new material that had outstanding hardness and ductility, as well as the attribute of being stainless steel, those household magic machines would definitely undergo a heaven turning change.

    As for therge magic machine and the new production magic machines, because they needed the alloy to be very strong, the Silver Leaf Alloy wasn¡¯t suited to be used.

    On this point, Xu Yi put his hopes on the other material the dwarves discovered. But because they hadn¡¯t properly studied it yet, it couldn¡¯t be used for now.

    The steel factory currently focusing on producing the Silver Leaf Alloy was considered small. They had been producing for close to two months and they only produced less than ten tons of the Silver Leaf Alloy.

    If this waspared to the standard from earth, it couldn¡¯t evenpare to the smallest steel factory.

    But Xu Yi was already very satisfied with this.

    After all, the steel industry was still developing on the Sines Continent and the output of the small steel factory kept increasing. They produced less than three thousand tons in the first month and they produced over five thousand tons in the second month.

    ording to this speed, as the dwarves became more familiar with this work and they kept expanding, not mentioning the steel factory reaching the standard of earth, they should be able to provide enough to match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s needs.

    Still, Vivian, and even Agnes who saw the steel factory for the first time all revealed looks of shock.

    The current situation had already surpassed what they could imagine.

    To Still and Vivian, the so called iron refining was just putting them into arge furnace to boil like in those cksmiths seen in Banta City.

    But the scene in front of them waspletely different from this.

    Piece by piece of iron ore was ced into the giant furnace and molten iron like magma flowed out the other end. It finally flowed into the mold and gradually cooled down to be silver glowing steel.

    Whether it was their efficiency or the shock they gave, it surpassed those cksmiths by several times.

    Still looked at the newly formed Silver Leaf Alloy and asked Xu Yi, ¡°The new material you said that the Magic Fans would use next year, you were talking about this?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°When the Magic Fans start producing next summer, everyone will be shocked.¡±

    Agnes on the side heart their conversation and looked at the bustling refining, as the belief in Xu Yi in her heart increased again.

    This human can make this kind of shocking scene, then shouldn¡¯t it be easy for him to solve the problem with her tribe?

 Volume 1 135 - Constructing a new tribe

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 135 Constructing a new tribe</b>

    Compared to the steel factory, the cement factory wasn¡¯t as shocking. Rather because of the dust in the air, it looked quite messy, making Still unable to stop herself from knitting her brows as soon as she saw it.

    Vivian didn¡¯t show any disgust at this environment. When she was a ve under Viscount Leslie, the environment she lived in wasn¡¯t much better than this.

    Xu Yi thought that the one who would reject this environment the most would be Agnes, but he never thought that Agnes would just calmly look at this, not having any opinions at all.

    ¡°Agnes, don¡¯t you think that this environment is bad?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°I feel it is very bad, but we elves have a very strong adaptiveness to environment. This environment doesn¡¯t affect me at all.

    ¡°I thought that you elves would have a high request for good environment like the rumours.¡± Xu Yi muttered.

    ¡°Yes. We elves are a race that strive for perfection. Although we have a high adaptivity to environments, we still have very high requirements for our own living environment. Once you arrive at our tribe, you will find the ce we live in is very beautiful.¡±

    ¡°I believe this.¡± Xu Yi immediately nodded. Thinking about it, he pointed at the dirty cement factory and asked, ¡°Then do you think there is a way to change the environment here?¡±

    ¡°Just let the dwarves stop turning the stones into dust.¡± Agnes responded very naturally.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling depressed as he said with a bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m asking about if the factory continues working like this, is there a way?¡±

    Agnes slightly knit her brows and thought for a bit before giving a soft nod, ¡°There should be a way. There is a Silent Cloth Grass that grows near our tribe that can suck up the dust in the air, keeping the environment clean. But there is too much dust here, so I don¡¯t know if it¡¯ll work.¡±

    ¡°Giving it a try is good.¡± Xu Yi received a satisfying answer and immediately smiled, ¡°When we arrive at your tribe, I¡¯ll ask your elders to help us transnt some Silent Cloth Grass.

    Seeing Agnes agree, Xu Yi turned to say to chief Siluka on the side, ¡°Chief Siluka,st time I suggested that you move the living areas a bit further away to avoid them being affected by the dust. Why is it that I¡¯ve found that you haven¡¯t moved at all?¡±

    Chief Siluka patted his thick chest whileughing and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re looking down on us dwarves too much. It¡¯s just a bit of dust, we dwarves are strong and don¡¯t care at all. You have to know that a long time ago, we dwarves lived in caves underground. Us dwarves loved forging back then and the cave was filled with smoke all day, with nothing happening.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Chief Siluka, even if you dwarves have strong bodies, this much dust will still harm your bodies. It¡¯s a good idea for you to move away from this pollution, so why aren¡¯t you willing to leave?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, chief Siluka rubbed his head and awkwardly said, ¡°To move all the nsmen, it would take quite a bit of money.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Chief Siluka, I thought that you were a good chief that truly cared about your nsmen. I never thought that for a bit of money, you would let your nsmen face danger to their bodies. You¡¯ve truly disappointed me!¡±

    Chief Siluka fell silent, but Camby on the side couldn¡¯t keep watching as he quickly said, ¡°Chairman, you¡¯ve misunderstood the chief!¡±

    ¡°How have I misunderstood him?¡± Xu Yi was depressed because of this shocking pollution here and hearing chief Siluka¡¯s answer just now, it filled his heart with a bit of anger. Hearing that Camby wanted to argue for him, he asked without any hesitation, ¡°Camby, you and your dwarven brothers work and live at the factory, so you aren¡¯t affected by this ce. Of course you don¡¯t know what kind of harmes from living in this kind of environment. Do you know that if you keep staying here, the lifespans of you dwarves would be affected?¡±

    Camby had been working for Xu Yi for a while and had gradually formed a bit of fear to Xu Yi. After being reprimanded, he didn¡¯t dare refute, but thinking about it, he still tried to exin for chief Siluka, ¡°Chairman, you have to think a bit about the chief. Although our tribe¡¯s days had be a bit better, we¡¯re stillcking in money. The chief is thinking for the nsmen, not willing to use up all the money the nsmen would use on buying food.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°You still don¡¯t have enough money to buy food?¡±

    Chief Siluka shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°We have enough if it is buying food, but we want to save some money. When winter passes, we want to fix the houses for our nsmen, so¡­...Chairman Xu, you¡¯re right, if the bodies of the nsmen degrade, there¡¯s no point in saving this money. I¡¯ll immediately begin moving the nsmen!¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before suddenly asking, ¡°Chief Siluka, ording to your estimates, how much money would it cost to move everyone to a better environment?¡±

    ¡°Actually if it¡¯s just moving, it wouldn¡¯t cost a single copper. We dwarves personally build the houses we live in, so it just takes some time. But¡­..¡± Chief Siluka had an awkward expression on his face, ¡°I wanted to use the chance of this extra ie to give everyone better homes, so I wanted to buy materials from the humans. If possible, I wanted to invite humans to help build our house since you humans are better than us at building houses and they look more beautiful. I calcted it and to give each member of the tribe a good looking house, it would cost over two thousand gold coins.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and said with a serious face, ¡°That¡¯s good. Chief Siluka, I¡¯ll represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give your tribe three thousand gold coins to help you build your new houses.¡±

    Chief Siluka and Camby were both shocked, as they quickly waved their hands.

    ¡°How could that be! No, chairman Xu, our tribe can have such good days is all because of you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. We have already received enough help from you, so how could we still want your money? Now, I can¡¯t take this money!¡±

    Xu Yi decisively said, ¡°You have to even if you don¡¯t want to. But chief Siluka, I¡¯ve thought about it. Directly giving you money is not good because you are dwarves, so you will be cheated out of quite a few gold coins if you look for a humanpany to help you build homes. How about this, I have a good rtion with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce right now, so I¡¯ll go to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to help you build new homes. As for the style and location of the home, you can make that decision. What do you think of this n?¡±

    Chief Siluka and Camby¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°This method is good, but chairman Xu, this¡­..This is too much trouble for you. Moreover, this would take quite a bit of money, right? I¡¯m afraid two thousand gold coins won¡¯t be enough¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°There¡¯s no need for you to worry about money. Thinking of having the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build these houses, I suddenly thought ofe new ideas. Chief Siluka, do you know approximately how many dwarven brothers there are in the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chief Siluka thought about it before responding in an uncertain voice, ¡°Around¡­..twenty to thirty thousand? I¡¯m not certain either.¡±

    ¡°Un, then how many dwarven brothers can you contact?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°There are less than twenty tribes that make contact with our tribe, which adds up to less than five thousand.¡± Chief Siluka replied.

    ¡°Very good. My new idea is that since I¡¯m building new houses, I might as well build some more. I n on choosing an open area not far from here and buildingrge amount of houses for thousands of dwarves. Other than the dwarves of your Norma Tribe, I want to invite the dwarves of other tribes to live there. For example, I think the Ang Tribe and chief Monto should be willing to agree to my idea.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s idea, not only were chief Siluka and the other dwarves shocked, even Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you nning? Gathering all these dwarves together, you¡¯re not afraid of attracting the vignce of the kingdom¡¯s officials?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°That is indeed a problem¡­¡­¡±

    Chief Siluka quickly said, ¡°Young miss Still is right. If that many of us dwarves gather together, I¡¯m afraid it will cause a misunderstanding with your human king. Chairman Xu, we can ept you wanting to help us build new houses, but let¡¯s forget everything else.¡±

    ¡°No, I feel this is a good idea, the king might not oppose this.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before continuing, ¡°How about this, let¡¯s use the n from the beginning. Chief Siluka, pick a ce nearby and I¡¯ll have the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build a new tribe for you. But chief Siluka, when you¡¯re picking this new ce, it¡¯s best if you can find a ce that can have more houses. If my n can receive the king¡¯s acknowledgement, it¡¯s best to have room to implement it.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi insisted on it, chief Siluka could only nod in response.

    But being safe, chief Siluka couldn¡¯t help reminding Xu Yi again.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although it has been several thousand years since the race wars, you humans are still vignt of other races. It¡¯s fine if you have a few dwarven brothers working for you, but gathering all these dwarves together like this, you will easily attract the suspicion of your human king. I¡¯m worried that this will bring trouble to you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it¡¯s best if you are a bit more cautious.¡±

    Still also had knit brows as she said in a worried voice, ¡°That¡¯s right, Xu Yi, chief Siluka is right. Although I don¡¯t have any prejudice against dwarves and other tribes, it¡¯s hard to stop others from having prejudice. If some people have hostility towards you, they might grasp the handle of your close rtionship with the dwarves.¡±

    ¡°I understand your worries.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°But I have to say that it is because they don¡¯t know the value that other races have. If one day they can understand this, I wouldn¡¯t need to do anything and they would seek to change this. When that timees, I might be a prophet!¡±

    Still rolled her eyes, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that before you be a prophet, you¡¯ll be a martyr.¡±

 Volume 1 136 - Elven tribe

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 136 Elven tribe</strong>

    Xu Yi and the other three rested in the Norma Tribe for a night before setting off to the Ang Tribe early next morning. After discussing some things with chief Monto and setting some things in terms of building the new tribe, they headed off to the Falling Rain Forest while being led by Agnes.

    There was no path through the Falling Rain Forest, so the four could only abandon the horse carriage and walk through the mountain forest with Agnes on foot.

    It was a good thing that the Falling Rain Forest was less than twenty kilometers away, so even the weakest Vivian could keep going.

    When it was evening on the next day, the four finally came to the boundary of the Falling Rain Forest.

    The sky outside the Falling Rain Forest was still lit up, but once they entered the forest, the thick foliage and branches above their heads had blocked off the light, not letting in a single ray.

    But the Falling Rain Forest was notpletely dark. Looking around, there were bits of green, purple, or blue light twinkling around them. It covered the forest in a strange colour and made it more mysterious.

    This was amon sight for Agnes, but Xu Yi, Still, and Vivian who was here for the first time couldn¡¯t help gasping in surprise.

    Especially the two girls Vivian and Still, they were filled with curiosity and excitement over the mysterious scene in front of them.

    Still even grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm and excitedly shouted, ¡°Xu Yi, how nice would it be if we could live here every day! This ce is too beautiful!¡±

    Xu Yi expressionlessly pointed at the ground by her feet, ¡°Look out, don¡¯t step on that snake.¡±

    Still jumped in fear and looked down at where Xu Yi pointed, seeing a giant dark green snake slivering in front of her.

    That giant snake didn¡¯t seem to fear people at all and seemed topletely ignore them. It slithered in front of the four of them before disappearing into the darkness on the side.

    ¡°That is a Green Leaf Snake, it doesn¡¯t bite people.¡± Agnes pointed at where the snake disappeared as she exined this. She waved her hand at the three of them, ¡°Follow me or it¡¯ll be very easy to be lost.¡±

    The three quickly nodded and tightly followed Agnes, heading deeper into the Falling Rain Forest.

    Before they entered the Falling Rain Forest, Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand why even though many people knew that the elves lived in the forest, almost no one had seen the elves before.

    After entering the Falling Rain Forest, Xu Yi understood before long.

    The Falling Rain Forest wasn¡¯t considered a very wide forest, but once one went in, the surroundings made it very easy for people to be lost.

    Moreover, there were thick nts that grew in the forest that made it hard for people to pass.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Agnes leading the way, if the three of them came in alone, they would quickly lose their way and wouldn¡¯t know where they were at all.

    To want to find the elves that lived in this kind ofplicated environment, it was almost impossible to do.

    Not to mention that Agnes was already agile, moving very quickly. Once she entered the Falling Rain Forest, it was like her body had lost all weight and she easily jumped through the forest, like it didn¡¯t take any effort at all.

    At first the three could barely keep up, but after less than an hour, Xu Yi already couldn¡¯t keep going anymore.

    The reason why he was weaker than a little girl like Vivian was because there was arge wooden box on Xu Yi¡¯s back. It contained important tools he needed for this trip to the elven tribe.

    The box weighed several dozen pounds, so even if Xu Yi was a young man, he couldn¡¯t keep carrying it on his back for a long period of time.

    Agnes saw this scene and directly took the box from Xu Yi¡¯s back, easily carrying it on her back. Her other hand was supporting the panting Vivian as she continued without any effort at all.

    Still looked at Xu Yi in disdain and Xu Yi gave a helpless bitterugh. Then the two did the same thing as they bothughed while continuing forward.

    They kept going like this for around two hours, resting two times in the middle. Agnes suddenly signaled for the three to stop and put down the box on her back while letting go of Vivian before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Wait a bit.¡± She jumped up after saying this andnded on arge tree. After jumping twice, she disappeared into the forest.

    Still was surprised by this and couldn¡¯t help saying in a worried voice, ¡°Xu Yi, she wouldn¡¯t be ditching us here, right?¡±

    Xu Yi fell onto his butt and patted the ground beside him, ¡°Rx, Agnes still hopes that we can solve the problem with her tribe. Come, rest up first.¡±

    Still looked in the direction Agnes disappeared in. She thought about it and thought that being anxious was no use, so she sat down by Xu Yi.

    After the three of them rested for around ten minutes and caught their breath, there was sound from the trees above them and more than ten figures jumped down.

    Xu Yi looked at them and found that the first one down was Agnes. Of the ones who jumped down with Agnes, there were men and women, all with long ears. It seemed like they were elves like Agnes.

    ¡°Agnes, your nsmen are here to pick us up?¡± Xu Yi stood up and waved his hand to Agnes. Who would have thought that the male elf behind Agnes would suddenly take a step forward,ing in front of her. He raised his arms and the bow in his hands were pointed at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Human, put down your hand.¡±

    Seeing the vignt look on the male elf¡¯s face, Xu Yi said to Agnes with a frown, ¡°What? Agnes, you didn¡¯t tell them that we wereing?¡±

    ¡°I did, but¡­¡­¡± Agnes¡¯ expression looked a bit awkward. After pausing, she said to Xu Yi with a pleading look, ¡°Chairman Xu, please just do what they say, alright? Please be assured, they will not hurt you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort and put down his hand.

    Compared to Xu Yi¡¯s treatment, the elves were better to Still and Vivian. Not only did they not point bows at them like the male elf, even the female elves near them curiously looked them over, not showing any hostility.

    It seemed like not only did humans rarely see elves, even elves rarely saw humans. They were also filled with curiosity for humans.

    Seeing Xu Yi put down his hand, the male elf¡¯s hostility faded, but he didn¡¯t rx his vignce at all. He made a hand gesture to the other elves and the other elves took out a thick cloth.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, young miss Still, young miss Vivian, please cover your eyes.¡± Agnes awkwardly said, ¡°This is the elder¡¯s request, please understand.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and didn¡¯t say anything as he pointed at his eyes.

    The cloth was thick and once it was tied, Xu Yi fell into darkness and he couldn¡¯t see anything at all.

    A slender hand reached out and took Xu Yi¡¯s hand at this time. Agnes¡¯ voice softly rang in Xu Yi¡¯s ears, ¡°Chairman Xu, follow me.¡±

    Xu Yi was pulled along by Agnes. After walking around in the forest without knowing anything, he felt his body brushing by many things before he felt Agnes beside him stop.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯re here.¡± Agnes reached out to take the cloth covering Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and a warm and bright light green light entered his eyes.

    Xu Yi blinked before opening his eyes, finding that his group had actuallye to an empty area.

    The Falling Rain Forest was covered in nts. Xu Yi¡¯s group had walked for half a day without seeing an empty area, but now they had appeared in an empty area of around five hundred square meters which surprised Xu Yi.

    Looking around, Xu Yi found that there were severalrge trees that reached twenty meters into the sky.

    Looking at these giant trees, he found that there were beautiful log cabins on the thick branches of these trees.

    Although these log cabins were on the branches, they weren¡¯t intrusive at all and seemed to be a part of the giant tree. The design was beautiful, fully disying the elves¡¯ personality of loving beauty.

    Looking up again, Xu Yi found that the leaves of the giant trees had tightly covered the sky, not revealing any gaps at all.

    But there were faint green lights at the top of the trees that illuminated the entire area.

    He turned around to see that Still and Vivian also had their blindfolds removed and were currently curiously looking around, which made Xu Yi calm down. When he wanted to question Agnes, there were shadows that appeared above him.

    Looking up, he saw a female elf slowly falling down from the sky.

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart trembled.

    This female elf could actually slowly fall to the ground, it meant that her attainments in Wind Magic had already reached the Great Magician level.

    He never thought that in this small elf tribe, there was actually a Great Magician!

    But thinking about it, it wasn¡¯t that strange.

    The elemental magic humans had came from the elves in the first ce. As well,pared to humans with short lives, elves had more time to learn. It could be said that all older elves were all powerful magicians.

    Although this female elf didn¡¯t seem that much older than Agnes, elves didn¡¯t change much after they became adults. So as for how old she really was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t estimate at all.

    ¡°Human, you are Xu Yi?¡± The female elf looked over Xu Yi before asking this.

    Even neglecting her beautiful and mysterious appearance, just based on this gentle voice, it made people unable to stop themselves from feeling affection for her.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am Xu Yi. You should be elder Illusia that Agnes keeps mentioning, right?¡±

    The female elf looked at Agnes on the side before a faint smile appeared on her lips, ¡°Agnes has frequently mentioned me to you?¡±

    Agnes¡¯ expression became a bit awkward, but she lowered her head and didn¡¯t dare speak.

    ¡°Yes. Whenever Agnes mentions you, she would hold you in high respects. Before I came here, I was very curious about you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Human, meaninglesspliments have no use to me. Since I have already agreed to let Agnes bring you here, it means that I am willing to ept your help. But I¡¯m clearer than Agnes on the fact that humans wouldn¡¯t do anything without any meaning. Since you¡¯re willing to help us, it means you can benefit from us. But human, now that you have seen our ce, do you think there is anything here worth you helping us?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course there is. Based on what I can see, there are countless things here that can move my heart. For example, elder Illusia is one of them.¡±

    When this was said, the expressions of the surrounding elves changed.

 Volume 1 137 - Entering the pit

    <h4>Volume 1 Chapter 137 Entering the pit</h4>

    The male elf who detained Xu Yi earlier pointed his bow at Xu Yi again and roared in a cold voice, ¡°Human, apologize for your disrespect now or don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    The surrounding elves all had uneasy looks as they coldly stared at Xu Yi.

    Agnes was surprised. She quickly came to Xu Yi¡¯s side and said in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­..Why did you say this kind of thing to the elder?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled at her, ¡°Rx, the elder isn¡¯t angry because I spoke the truth.¡±

    Everyone turned to look at elder Illusia and they didn¡¯t see a displeased look on her face. Rather she seemed to be quite happy with Xu Yi¡¯s words as she said with a faint smile, ¡°Human, I said just now, there is no point in meaninglesspliments. Although I don¡¯t seem that much bigger than you, I¡¯m already over three hundred years old. I¡¯m old enough to be your ancestor, you think there is any meaning in praising me?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I think the elder has misunderstood. Although your beauty and aura has moved my heart, but the thing I value the most is your intelligence and knowledge. If I can learn some things from you, this trip would be worth it for me. Not to mention that the elves have value that you haven¡¯t noticed yet, for example, her¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi pointed at Agnes.

    The elves looked at Agnes who was pointing at herself in a daze with a confused look on her face.

    ¡°Based on what Agnes said before, you wanted to request her as your reward for helping our tribe?¡± Elder Illusia said this and the temperature around Xu Yi, Still, and Vivian dropped. The surrounding elves were all releasing waves of killing intent, ¡°Human, I want to seriously warn you about something. You humans have caught many elves as ves before, we elves abhor this matter. If you want to raise this kind of request, I urge you to leave immediately. Even if our tribe disappears from this world from this trouble, I definitely won¡¯t agree to your request.¡±

    Seeing the hostile eyes of the elves around him, Xu Yi wanted to speak after revealing a bitter smile, but Agnes said while waving her hands first, ¡°Elder, you¡¯re mistaken. Chairman Xu does not want me to be his ve, he just¡­...He just wants me to work for him.¡±

    ¡°Work?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°What kind of work can Agnes do for you? She is still just a child.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Honourable elder Illusia, like I said just now, Agnes has value that you haven¡¯t discovered yet. I¡¯ll give you an example, like during the half a month that Agnes was following me, she helped us design a new product for ourpany. This new product has sold for half a month now, but it has earned over a hundred thousand gold coins for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°A hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Not just the surrounding eleves, even elder Illusia¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help popping out as she asked in shock, ¡°You¡¯re saying that Agnes has helped yourpany earn over a hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not exactly right.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The new product is the culmination of many people¡¯s work, it isn¡¯t just Agnes alone. But based on my personal opinion, Agnes has yed thergest part. If we were to divide this with the hundred thousand gold coins, Agnes¡¯ value is at least twenty thousand gold coins.¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi had such a high appraisal of her, Agnes couldn¡¯t help reveal a look of joy. She smiled as she looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Twenty thousand gold coins¡­¡­¡± Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°Human, although I don¡¯t like you using gold coins to measure value, I admit that this model is very easy to understand. But even if Agnes is hiding this immense value in her, I don¡¯t agree to hand her to you. You humans have been very unkind to us elves, I do not think that Agnes will be able to safely live in your human world.¡±

    Seeing the serious look on elder Illusia¡¯s face, Xu Yi could only cry out bitterly in his heart.

    The gap between human and elves were too deep, so their prejudice against humans were too strong. If he wanted to change the impressions of these stubborn elves on humans in a short period of time, it was basically impossible.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi gave up on this topic and revealed a smile again. He pointed at the box another male elf was carrying and said, ¡°Alright, elder Illusia, before we finish our work, it¡¯s meaningless to talk about rewards. Let¡¯s see how we should help your first.¡±

    Elder Illusia nodded with a faint smile, ¡°It seems like you¡¯re a human who doesn¡¯t like idle talks, I like this very much. Come with me.¡±

    Elder Illusia led the way and their group entered a gap between tworge trees. After taking several steps, they came to arge hole in the small open space in front of them.

    ¡°We tried to use underground water, but after we dug ten meters deep, we met this very thick rockyer. The rock is too firm and even I couldn¡¯t dig through it, so we could only give up in the end.¡± Elder Illusia pointed at therge hole as she said this.

    Xu Yi came close to the hole and looked down. He found that even with the bright light above him, he couldn¡¯t see what this pit was like at all.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, do you have a long enough rope? I want to go down to take a look.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Still on the side pulled Xu Yi¡¯¡¯s sleeve and shook her head at him.

    Seeing her worried appearance, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Rx, there are many noble elves here, nothing will happen to me.¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Human, you don¡¯t need to use words to force us, we elves have our own principle.¡± After talking to a male elf, he quickly left and came back with a long rattan rope not long after.

    Xu Yi took the rope and pulled hard on it, finding that the rattan rope was iparably strong. It was probably stronger than nylon rope of the same thickness.

    Tying the rope around his waist, Xu Yi prepared to enter the hole to take a look.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wanted to climb down, Agnes suddenly came out.

    ¡°Elder, how about I go down with him? If something happens, I can save him.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Agnes with a surprised look. After thinking about it, she said with a nod, ¡°Alright, we can¡¯t just let a human guest risk himself.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi and Agnes being bound together with a strange look. She opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say anything in the end.

    Vivian on the side said in an annoyed voice, ¡°It¡¯s good if I had the same skills as big sister Agnes.¡±

    Still looked at her and thought the same, but other than their natural talent, the elves had lived in the forest since they were young and trained bit by bit, so their skills were not something that humans could match.

    The two could only helplessly watch as Xu Yi and Agnes went into the hole with their faces basically touching each other.

    Hearing that Agnes wanted to go down with him, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special thoughts to begin with. But as they went deeper and deeper and it became darker and darker, he could feel various things changing around him.

    He felt that his body was being pressed tighter against Agnes and could even feel her breath falling onto his face. Even if Xu Yi was a block head, he couldn¡¯t stop his heart from beating faster.

    In this dark environment, even one¡¯s heartbeat could be heard clearly.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you scared?¡± Agnes suddenly asked.

    It was fine if she didn¡¯t speak, but once she did, more of her breath came out.

    Of course it wasn¡¯t bad breath. Rather there was a delicate nt fragrance in her breath and made Xu Yi¡¯s mind tremble after he smelled it.

    This made Xu Yi feel even more awkward. Not only did his heart beat faster, even a certain part couldn¡¯t help reacting.

    It was a good thing this hold was only ten meters deep. When Xu Yi felt his foot touching ground, his heart calmed down.

    Agnes stretched out a finger and a green light appeared on her finger, lighting up the depths of this hole.

    The pit the elves dug was quite spacious. The bottom was around ten square meters, allowing the two of them enough space to move around.

    With the light in Agnes¡¯ hand, Xu Yi carefully looked around them. Then he bent down and used his hand to touch the dirt on the ground, revealing the hidden rockyer.

    Xu Yi first touched it with his hand and based on the feeling, the rockyer shouldn¡¯t be too dense and was rather loose, so he couldn¡¯t help nodding in satisfaction.

    This kind of rockyer, it didn¡¯t matter how deep it was, the tool he brought could drill through it.

    Actually in a normal situation, in a forest like the Falling Rain Forest, there shouldn¡¯t be this kind of rockyer ten meters under the ground. Not to mention that there were giant trees on the surface, which had roots that should have stopped this rockyer from forming. So this situation waspletely different from Xu Yi¡¯smon knowledge.

    But thinking that this ce wasn¡¯t earth and that he couldn¡¯t applymon sense from earth here, Xu Yi rxed and didn¡¯t think of this problem.

    After he finished investigating, Xu Yi pulled on the rattan rope on him to tell the elves above to pull him and Agnes up again.

    When he met the hopeful looks of the elves and elder Illusia, Xu Yi nodded, ¡°There shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    The elves let out a sigh of relief and even elder Illusia revealed a trace of joy on her face.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much and opened the box he brought, revealing machine with a drill that was as thick as his arm.

    Xu Yi lifted this machine with effort and said to elder Illusia with a smile, ¡°Honoured elder, I¡¯m honoured to introduce this to you. This is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed magic machine for solving the problem of your tribe, called the small Magic Drill.¡±

 Volume 1 138 - Become my slave

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 138 Be my ve</strong>

    ¡°Weng, weng, weng, weng¡ª¡ª¡±

    The deep and rhythmic sound came from the hole without stop, causing the elven tribe to have no peace at all.

    If it was normal, the elves who loved a peaceful environment would have been very dissatisfied, but the elves didn¡¯t disy a single trace of dissatisfaction. Rather they had happy and expectant gazes as they kept staring at where the sound came from.

    ording to what the human said, not long after, the small Magic Drill would be able to pierce through the rockyer and everyone would be able to use the underground water!

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like the elves really are out of touch with the continent.¡± Elder Illusia looked at the hole that kept making sound and gave a sigh while shaking her head, ¡°You humans have already invented this kind of powerful tool and we elves have remained in the past. Like this, the difference between us and humans will just grow bigger and bigger.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the hole and revealed a faint smile before asking, ¡°Elder Illusia, if I may ask something impolite, could it be that you elves have never thought about taking power back from the humans?¡±

    ¡°Although we have, we¡¯re clear that it is not possible.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°You humans are the most creative and quickest to learn race among all the races, this point was made clear to the other races during the race wars thousands of years ago. Since the continent is already controlled by you humans, it is impossible for us other races to seize it again. Of course, you humans are a race that love to kill each other. If one day you humans destroy each other, it is possible for us other races to steal back the continent.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile as he thought that elder Illusia wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    Killing each other is a trait of humans, there was no way of changing it.

    The humans on the Sines Continent were still fine, but the humans on earth had created a weapon of mass destruction that could destroy the earth. If there was ever a nuclear war, humanity might really destroy itself.

    ¡°Let¡¯s not discuss such a heavy topic.¡± Xu Yi said with a forced smile, ¡°Let¡¯s discuss the problem your tribe has encountered. Elder Illusia, the problem of the underground water has been solved and it can temporarily solve the problem of your tribe. But looking at it from a long term view, if the river situation hasn¡¯t changed, the underground water might dry up eventually. So in the end, we still need to solve the problem of changing the river.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this point.¡± Elder Illusia revealed a bitter smile, ¡°But with the ability of our tribe, we couldn¡¯t even solve the problem of using the underground water, so how can we solve the problem of the river? Chairman Xu, I honestly think that even with the ability of you humans, it is not possible to solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°If it really isn¡¯t possible, I wouldn¡¯t havee.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Elder Illusia, you also said it just now, we humans are the most creative race. Perhaps we didn¡¯t have a way to solve this problem before, but right now I have the confidence to solve it.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re certain?¡± Elder Illusia honestly asked.

    ¡°I¡¯m certain.¡± Xu Yi confidently replied.

    Elder Illusia fell silent and she looked at the hole for a while. When she wanted to speak, she felt a shudder and arge sound came from the hole.

    ¡°Hong¡ª¡ª¡±

    A giant water spout came out of the hole, reaching a high ten meters. It createdrge rainfall all around the hole and everyone near the hole had their clothes be wet.

    The elves were all stunned as they looked at the water spout shooting into the sky. After a while, there was a cheer that exploded as they joyfully danced around this water spout.

    Even the every calm elder Illusia who had been standing there allowed the water to fall onto her, as she couldn¡¯t hold back the excited look on her face.

    Only Xu Yi saw that when the water spouted out, there was also the two male elves who had been sent into the hole to control the small Magic Drill and the small Magic Drill that were sent flying.

    But these two elves were very agile, so after being shot out, they twisted in the air and dexterously fell down, without a single injury.

    Xu Yi rxed at this. He quickly moved to Vivian and Still¡¯s side who were stunned and quickly pulled the two aside.

    The elves had strong physiques, so naturally they weren¡¯t afraid of being soaked in cold water in winter, but they couldn¡¯t handle it.

    The elves wildly celebrated for two more hours before stopped. At this time, Xu Yiy¡¯s group of three had been led by elder Illusia to arge log cabin to rest.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we sincerely thank you for solving our tribe¡¯s urgent problem.¡± Elder Illusia had a look of sincere gratitude as she thanked Xu Yi, ¡°Of course, only thanking you has no meaning, so now please give us your request.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows to think before shaking his head and saying, ¡°Elder Illusia, actually this problem wasn¡¯t considered too troublesome and I didn¡¯t contribute that much, so I¡¯m not qualified to ask for much. To be honest, before I even have an understanding of your tribe, I don¡¯t even know what would be an appropriate request. Currently speaking, I hope that you will allow Agnes to work at mypany designing products. She has enough value that it is worth me helping you this time.¡±

    ¡°Although I believe that chairman Xu will be kind to Agnes, I¡¯m very sorry since I cannot believe that other humans will have the same kind intentions towards Agnes. If Agnes goes to work at yourpany, it is inevitable that she will enter human society. Can you promise that she will not be harmed by other humans?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying, ¡°That means that as long as I can guarantee Agnes¡¯ safety, you will allow Agnes to work for ourpany?¡±

    ¡°There is another condition, which is that Agnes herself is willing.¡± Elder Illusia added.

    ¡°I think Agnes wouldn¡¯t disagree with this.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°As for how to protect Agnes, I have a proposition. That is to make Agnes my ve.¡±

    Elder Illusia tightly knit her brows. Anger shed in her eyes and her tone instantly turned ice cold.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, these are your true thoughts?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia and waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Elder Illusia, you¡¯re mistaken. The ve I¡¯m talking about is just a ve in name, it doesn¡¯t mean I want Agnes to really be my ve.¡±

    ¡°Is there a difference?¡± Elder Illusia asked with a cold snort.

    ¡°Of course. If Agnes bes my ve in name, then that means she is my property by the kingdom¡¯sws, so that means no one is allowed to harm her without my permission. Like this, at least on the surface, other humans won¡¯t harm her in any way. Otherwise they will be punished ording to the kingdom¡¯sws.¡±

    ¡°Then how can you ensure that no one will take advantage of her in secret?¡± Elder Illusia asked without any politeness.

    ¡°To be a bit arrogant, as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can be considered to have some position in the human world. If normal humans want to do anything to my ves, it would be hard to ignore me. Then again, Agnes¡¯ strength is very outstanding and she has the powerful Shadow Stealth Spell. If anyone wants to take advantage of her, even if she can¡¯t beat them, couldn¡¯t she at least run away?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then after she bes your ve, you won¡¯t try to limit her?¡± Elder Illusia asked again.

    ¡°Of course not. I¡¯ve already said this, it¡¯s only in name. Actually Agnes will be an official member of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I will only give her corresponding work, but I won¡¯t limit her at all. Unless it is necessary, I won¡¯t tell others that she is my ve.¡±

    Elder Illusia considered this before giving a slight nod, ¡°Although this method is good, let me consider it for a bit. Other than this, I still need to ask Agnes for her opinion, so I can¡¯t respond right now.¡±

    ¡°That is how it should be.¡±

    After ending this short conversation, elder Illusia had the elves under her take Xu Yi to another room to rest.

    Xu Yi¡¯s room was right beside Vivian and Still¡¯s room. When he came in, Still and Vivian followed him inside.

    ¡°Xu Yi, did those elves make it hard on you?¡± Still looked over Xu Yi with a worried face, as if she was afraid that elder Illusia had taken advantage of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°I say, Still, we came to help them this time, so even if they don¡¯t thank us, would they do anything to us?¡±

    ¡°But I¡¯ve heard that the elves have always hated humans, so what if they suddenly go crazy¡­¡­¡± Still¡¯s heart still wasn¡¯t settled.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°You¡¯ve known Agnes all this time, have you seen her gone crazy?¡± After saying this, he turned to ask Vivian, ¡°Vivian, how are you feeling? Are you tired?¡±

    Vivian shook her head with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m not, this ce is quite fun. Look, there was an elf who even gave me a present.¡±

    Seeing Vivian take out a gift, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up. After carefully looking over it for a while and touching it a few times, he couldn¡¯t help bing excited.

    This light green crystal toy that had the shape of a tiger, it had a smooth surface. It wouldn¡¯t deform no matter how hard he pressed on it. No matter how he looked at it, this should be made of resin.

    To make it easier to understand, this thing was actually a stic product!

 Volume 1 139 - Last chance

    <b>Volume 1 Chapter 139 Last chance</b>

    After learning from Vivian that she got this from an elder female elf, Xu Yi immediately had Vivian bring him to find that female elf.

    The answer Xu Yi received from that female elf made him very happy.

    Because elves had the good rtionship with nts, they had a very good understanding of how to use the characteristics of the nt. The toy made of resin was just to entertain the elves when they were bored, it wasn¡¯t something rare at all.

    This answer made Xu Yi instantly think of countless possibilities, so he went to look for elder Illusia again without any hesitation.

    Xu Yi wanted to ask elder Illusia to learn the elves¡¯ method for refining the resin, but he was told that the method they used was a magic that only the elves could use and humans couldn¡¯t learn itk at all.

    After Xu Yi tried, he learned that the magic did conform to the specialties of the elf race and humans couldn¡¯t learn it at all, so he could only give up.

    After considering it, Xu Yi decided to take a step back. He hoped that the Night Song Elf Tribe that elder Illusia was in charge of could help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make magic machines that could be used to refine resin.

    The outeryer of the magic machines wasn¡¯t hard to make, but the most important core which was the Magic Array used to refine resin could only be made by the elves, so he needed help from the elves.

    Actually it had to be said that Xu Yi had another choice, which was to follow the method from earth, putting in additives and coagnts to create a synthetic resin. But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t familiar with making stic and he didn¡¯t know how to make the additives, or how much to put in. Secondly, this method had a strong polluting factor that Xu Yi didn¡¯t like. Moreover, by using the magic of the elves, he didn¡¯t need to add high temperatures or useplicated methods, he just simply needed to add magic. The resin would then melt into a liquid and could be freely formed.

    The more important thing was that although the elves currently used this to refine small toys, Xu Yi could see that this meant the elves could research new magic that would turn the resin into different shapes.

    So Xu Yi hoped that the Night Song Tribe would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce research a series of resin forming magic. It was best if they could form different Magic Arrays based on different requirements for the form.

    For Xu Yi¡¯s request, elder Illusia just considered it before agreeing.

    The elves lived in the forest and it was quite boring other than hunting for food each day. Helping Xu Yiplete this research would give their tribe something to do, while it could also be considered repayment to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, it isn¡¯t enough if it is just this.¡± Hearing elder Illusia say that this was considered repayment, Xu Yi shook his head andughed, ¡°As a human merchant, I¡¯m not that interested in the word repayment. If I had the choice, I like cooperation better.¡±

    ¡°Cooperation?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in a confused manner, ¡°How can we elves cooperate with you humans?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a way. The so called cooperation is both sides working as per their ability and as per their needs. Look, your Night Song Tribe needs our power to change your river and solve your water problem and I also want something from you. Of the current things you have, other than the value that Agnes has, only this resing has value. Perhaps to you this resin is something that can be casually found and doesn¡¯t have any value, but to me, this resin has a very high value. If it wasn¡¯t for the power of your tribe, it would be very hard for me to disy this value. So, we can cooperate.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying with a serious expression, ¡°Elder Illusia, I sincerely hope that we can maintain a long term cooperation rtionship. My goal is for both of us to profit, so whether it is me or your Night Song Tribe, we will both receive benefits from this cooperation.¡±

    ¡°Long term?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi with a bit of interest, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know what long term means to us elves? We elves have long lives, perhaps it can be considered a lifetime for you human.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll work hard to cooperate until the day I die, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°The problem is that our tribe only needs to solve the problem of our water source.¡± Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°Not to mention that we have already connected to the underground water, so we are not in a rush to solve this problem. To put it a bit more extreme, we can even leave the Falling Rain Forest and find another ce to live. The Sines Continent is very big, we can easily find a new ce to live.¡±

    ¡°Then if you meet the same water problem or another problem, will you move again?¡± Xu Yi asked back without any politeness, ¡°Although the Sines Continent is very big, honourable elder, if you may allow me to be frank, the ces you elves can live is already getting smaller and smaller. Could it be that you are nning to keep going like this?¡±

    Elder Illusia fell silent and calmly looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t show any weakness and met her gaze, not looking away at all.

    After a while, elder Illusia revealed an awkward smile, which was like a flower in full bloom.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know why I agreed to Agnes going to look for you?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Could it be that it isn¡¯t because I came up with a method to solve your problem?¡±

    ¡°That is the reason on the surface, but the deeper reason is that on the blueprint you gave Agnes, I saw a possibility. I hoped to grab this possibility and to turn this possibility into reality.¡±

    ¡°What possibility?¡± Xu Yi curiously asked.

    ¡°Elves and humans living together in peace, the possibility of living together.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°Just like you said, the ces for us elves to live are getting smaller and smaller on the continent. In these hundred years, the elf tribes I¡¯ve known of have been disappearing one by one. Compared to when I was young, there is already less than half of the elves left. If another few hundred years pass, all the elves on the continent will disappear and the elves will havepletely vanished.¡±

    ¡°As the elder of the Night Song Tribe, I have no way to change the fate of all the elves, but I want to try to change the fate of our tribe. Since the continent is now controlled by you humans, it is time for us to recognize this fact and put down the rules of thousands of years to try and cooperate with you humans, try to live together. It has been several thousand years since the race wars and the hatred between humans and elves have long dissipated. This is now a good chance and the final chance for us elves, so I very much want to grab it and had Agnes contact you.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re not against Agnes working for ourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes. I want Agnes to be the first step out for our tribe. If she can live a normal life in your human world, it means the other elves can also have the same lives.¡± Elder Illusia revealed a bitter smile and said with a soft sigh, ¡°I don¡¯t know if this is the right choice, but perhaps it is our final chance. We elves have always disliked change, but if we don¡¯t make any changes, there is only the destiny of destruction that awaits us.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia in a daze. From the young girl¡¯s face in her early twenties, he could see all kinds of vicissitudes and exhaustion.

    It seemed like the survival of the elves have bothered her for a long time and even this elegant elder of the elves couldn¡¯t handle this load.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, if you think like this, I think that I should change my proposition from before and not let Agnes be my ve.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡±

    ¡°If you desire humans and elves living in peace and living together, we can¡¯t have the elves have a lower status than the humans from the moment they appear again in front of them. If Agnes appears in front of the other humans as my ve, the other humans will treat the elves as those from thousands of years ago who were turned into ves after being defeated. It will not change their view of you elves at all.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Elder Illusia considered this before asking, ¡°Then what difference will there be if you don¡¯t have Agnes as your ve?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a veryrge difference.¡± Xu Yi said in a certain voice, ¡°I hope that Agnes can work for ourpanypletely because of her artistic talent, making me want her as ourpany¡¯s designer. If she appears as a normal elf and not my ve, the other humans will pay more attention to her identity as a designer and will more easily recognize her value. We humans are a race that cares about facts, as long as you have value, we will ce importance on you and seriously take you in.¡±

    Elder Illusia considered this for a long time before slowly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think you¡¯ve given me a very good lesson this time. Yes, it is because humans are a race that cares about facts that they rose up among the various races of the continent and finally took control from us elves who were too arrogant and proud to see the facts. It we want to keep surviving now, we can only be like you humans. We need to show our value other than our beauty, that is what we should do.¡±

    After saying this, elder Illusia suddenly stood up and gave Xu Yi a deep bow.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, thank you. You have allowed me to understand the truth.¡±

 Volume 1 140 - Two sprouts (End of volume 1)

    <strong>Volume 1 Chapter 140 Two sprouts (End of volume 1)</strong>

    As an elven elder who had lived in the world for over three hundred years, Illusia without a doubt had outstanding wisdom and foresight, as well as a clear understanding of the world.

    Actually even without the talk with Xu Yi, she would have already noticed the problems the elves had encountered.

    Only with the appearance of Xu Yi, it gave her a chance to apply the good opportunity she had thought of.

    So after a long talk between elder Illusia and Xu Yi, they easily set their cooperation agreement.

    In the beginning cooperation between the two, Xu Yi had to help the Night Song Tribe solve their water source issue.

    So Xu Yi¡¯s preliminary n was to construct arge dam upstream of the river flowing into the Falling Rain Forest while also dredging the river, allowing it to connect again.

    This was arge project and would take quite a bit of time even on the technologically advanced earth, so it was naturally not that easy on the Sines Continent.

    Moreover, to properly control the river, Xu Yi decided to ask the Amrit Chamber of Commerce that had just learned the reinforced concrete technology from him to construct an even sturdier dam. As well as having them create reinforcement on the river bank.

    Based on his calctions, as long as this project seeded, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about this river for at least a hundred years.

    There was arge cost associated to this project and naturally the Night Song Tribe couldn¡¯t take out that much money.

    So in response to this, the Night Song Tribe followed Xu Yi¡¯s request and began studying resin rted project, while also collecting resin inrge amounts. When Xu Yi finished developing the resin refiner with the Night Song Tribe, they would begin refiningrge amounts of materials for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to use.

    As for the request of Agnes working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because of Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Agnes didn¡¯t be Xu Yi¡¯s ve. So elder Illusia couldn¡¯t take this request as repayment.

    On the surface, it would cost a lot to fix and dredge the river. ording to Xu Yi¡¯s initial estimates, even if this river wasn¡¯t too big, the lowest cost would be over a hundred thousand gold coins. The repayment the Night Song Tribe gave wasn¡¯t that much to look at.

    But in the long run, grasping this resin material technology had arge significance to the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, they would be opening a new point of benefit, therefore it created a good rtionship with the Night Song Tribe.

    In short, it was still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that gained.

    Xu Yi, Still, and Vivian stayed at the Night Song Tribe for three days. After Xu Yi exined all the requests he had in terms of the resin research to the elves, they finally left.

    Because Agnes wanted to stay in her tribe for New Years, when they left, Agnes sent them out of the Falling Rain Forest and back to the Ang Tribe before turning to leave.

    Because it was already the thirtieth of December, thest day of the year, the three didn¡¯t stay in the Ang Tribe at all. They just quickly told chief Monto to give their greetings to chief Siluka and the other dwarves before getting back into their horse carriage and rushing back to Banta City.

    It was already dusk when they arrived and after entering Banta City, they found that it was very lively today. There were bright lightsing from the windows of each house and all kinds of sounds wereing out, sounding very lively.

    It seemed like whether it was earth or the Sines Continent, no matter what world it was, New Years was a very important thing and a good time for a family reunion.

    Seeing Xu Yi looking at the sides of the road, Still couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Xu Yi, how about you and Viviane to my ce for New Years? There is no need to mention grandfather and mother and father will definitely wee you and Vivian. If you go, you will be very happy. This is better than you and Vivian being alone, right?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at Still with a faint smile and said while shaking his head, ¡°No need. Still, I¡¯m very grateful for your well intentions, but New Years is a very important thing. ording to the rules of my hometown, New Years must be spent with your family, so I won¡¯t disrupt your family. Then again, I will go greet your grandfather tomorrow morning for new years, we¡¯re just not seeing each other for a night.¡±

    Still¡¯s fae turned a bit red and muttered, ¡°It isn¡¯t like I want you to go because I want to see you¡­¡­¡±

    The horse carriage quickly came to Still¡¯s house. When Still jumped down, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any intentions to go in. He waved his hand to Still and brought Vivian back to his own home.

    Seeing the home he had rented for half a year, but had always forgotten, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    It seemed like his fourth year in this world would be spent in this small and worn out room.

    Although he was just with Vivian, Xu Yi still decided to make some delicious dishes.

    Other than the dishes Vivian was in charge of, Xu Yi used his memory to make some dishes that would normally be made at New Years on earth.

    Although since Xu Yi had never cooked on earth, causing these dishes to look and taste terrible, Xu Yi and Vivian were happy eating them.

    The liveliness was a bitckingpared to other homes, but with Xu Yi¡¯s effort, the atmosphere wasn¡¯tcking at all.

    The only thingcking was that this world didn¡¯t have a television, so there wasn¡¯t the New Year¡¯s G that Xu Yi rarely watched.

    Compared to Xu Yi¡¯s disappointment, Vivian was truly happy in this moment.

    This was because not long after she was born, her parents who were also ves had died in the famine of the Lampuri Kingdom over ten years ago. So since Vivian was young, she didn¡¯t have any impression of her family and never had family members to spend New Years with.

    In her fifteen years of living, she had spent fourteen years just trying to survive.

    If it wasn¡¯t for meeting Xu Yi and being bought by him, not mentioning all this delicious food, warm clothes, and the right to go to school, she might even have died suddenly.

    So being able to have this New Years meal with Xu Yi, her beloved master, having fun ying with Xu Yi, it was already the greatest happiness for her.

    After the finished dinner, Xu Yi looked at the night sky filled with countless stars and suddenly had an idea. He asked Vivian if she wanted to go for a walk.

    Of course Vivian wouldn¡¯t go against his idea, so she put on a coat for Xu Yi who was already drunk. She wanted to clean the table, but Xu Yi waved his hand to stop her.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry that much today, just be rxed and happy.¡±

    So Vivian smiled as she hugged Xu Yi¡¯s arm and the two left the room, casually strolling through Banta City at night.

    Perhaps it was because he was a bit drunk, Xu Yi pointed at some kids running around on the streets as he said to Vivian, when he was young, they definitely would have been running around with firecrackers on New Years Eve. One time, he had set a pile of straw on fire while running around with firecrackers, so he had been beaten because of it.

    Looking up at the night sky after a while, he pointed and said to Vivian, in his hometown, there would be a constetion that was easy to recognize in winter called Orion. There were three stars that formed a line in that constetion that was called Orion¡¯s Belt.

    After a while, his face became dispirited and even some tears came out. This was his fourth New Years away from his family. He really wanted to see his parents now, he really wanted to know how they were doing.

    After a while¡­...

    ¡­¡­

    Vivian supported Xu Yi as she silently listened to the words that came out of his mouth that she didn¡¯t recognize, as the doubt in her heart became stronger.

    What were fireworks? Were they fun?

    Why does master say that the night sky in his hometown had an Orion? Could it be that the night sky in his hometown was different from the night sky in Banta City?

    Since the master missed his parents, why didn¡¯t he go back?

    ¡­...

    Questions kept appearing in Vivian¡¯s head, but she didn¡¯t ask them because she knew that the master just needed to vent right now.

    As they chatted and walked along, unknowingly the two had already left Banta City and had walked to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory to the west of the city.

    It was already New Years Eve and the two factories were silent. Other than the light of the Magic Lamp the two bachelors Xu Yi had hired as guards for the magic machine workshop, every other ce was pitch ck.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any ideas of disrupting the guards, he just stood in the empty space in front of the factories. Looking at the small workshops in the dark, his heart filled with emotions.

    Although the two workshops were very small, it represented the sprout of the dream in his heart.

    Although they were just two sprouts now, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed and the people of the Sines Continent began to pay more attention to the magic industry, these two sprouts would one day be giant trees.

    There was a figure in the corner of his eyes that came out of the household magic machine workshop, causing Xu Yi to be surprise. When he wanted to call out, he found that this figure was very familiar. After looking carefully, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Hey, Heinz, why aren¡¯t you with sister inw at home today, why did youe here?¡± Xu Yi greeted that person in a low voice.

    That person was surprised and looked over. After seeing that it was Xu Yi and Vivian with the faint lighting out of the workshop, he calmed down.

    The figure walked over and it really was Heinz.

    He looked at the two of them and asked in a low voice, ¡°I couldn¡¯t calm down, so I came to take a look. Anyway, Xu Yi, why aren¡¯t you and Vivian spending New Years at him, what did youe here for?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I just wanted to take a walk outside and naturally came here.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug as he turned to look at the two workshops, ¡°Perhaps it is because this ce takes up the most important spot in my heart, so I couldn¡¯t help wanting toe take a look.¡±

    Heinz gave a slight now, ¡°I¡¯m also the same. To be honest, Xu Yi, I was just the owner of the small general store half a year ago, I never would have dreamed that I would be a major shareholder in argepany. There are many times that when I go to sleep, I doubt that everything I¡¯ve experienced is false and it is all an illusion. So Ie to the factory very early each day just to see this factory, just to see the two workshops. As long as I can see them, I feel that I¡¯m not in a dream and everything I¡¯ve experienced is real.¡±

    Seeing Heinz being in a rare mood, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°No wonder you look unwilling to leave each day when we¡¯re getting off work, are you afraid that everything will disappear when you leave?¡±

    Heinz gave a slight nod, ¡°Xu Yi, you know that I¡¯m not someone with lofty aspirations. To me, I¡¯m very satisfied with my current life, so I treasure the things I have now. I¡¯m really afraid that these two workshops will disappear one day. If that really happens, I might even die from my broken heart.¡±

    ¡°Rx, that won¡¯t happen.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder forcefully and said, ¡°These two workshops might disappear because they are too small, they can¡¯t take the requests of ourpany. What we need is arge work area like the new workshop. But even if they disappear, there will be more workshops that appear to take their ces. You have to believe that as ourpany develops, the magic industry will be like a raging me that instantly spreads across the continent, lighting it up in the end. When that timees, there will be ourpany¡¯s workshops and factories all over the continent. Heinz, can you see every single workshop then?¡±

    Heinz looked into the dark night, but his eyes could already see what Xu Yi described.

    After a while, he muttered, ¡°Xu Yi, can everything you said be reality?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a very confident nod, ¡°Of course, because the magic industry has already sprouted on the continent and it¡¯s very hard to stop its growth. One day, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will create a giant magic industry empire on the continent!¡±

    (End of volume one ?Sprouts of the Magic Industry?. Please anticipate volume two ?Fires of Industry?.)

 Volume 2 1 - Industry Business conference

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 1 ?Industry Business conference</strong>

    On the fifth day after New Years, Xu Yi received a special invitation.

    This invitation came from the City Lord¡¯s Manor. The contents was to invite Xu Yi to represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in participating in the New Years exchange banquet at the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    It was different from the normal banquet invitations Xu Yi received from the City Lord¡¯s Manor before. This time the invitation was personally signed by the City Lord Count Sean Samo.

    Xu Yi could avoid the banquet invitations from before, but since this was an invitation the Lord City Lord was personally sending, it was hard for him to easily avoid them like before.

    Moreover, the key point of this invitation was that at this New Years exchange banquet, other than representatives from Banta Citypanies, there were also merchants from Karma City that was closest to Banta City.

    This made Xu Yi a bit surprised.

    It was only the fifth day after New Years, why were the Karma City merchants suddenly running over to Banta City?

    ¡°Actually this is an old tradition.¡± The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise had a cup of wine in his hand as he exined to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Every New Years, Karma City¡¯s City Lord Count Anaris would bring the Karma City merchants to visit our Banta City. Then a few dayster, the Lord City Lord would pick some Banta Citypany representatives to take a trip to Karma City. Chairman Xu, you have only joined the business circlest year, so it isn¡¯t strange that you don¡¯t know about this custom. But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just establishedst year and already has already been invited by the Lord City Lord to this banquet, it really is shocking.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°What? You don¡¯t think our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is qualified?¡±

    ¡°How could that be!¡± Chairman Cruise called out with an exaggerated expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t been established for long, is there anyone in Banta City that still dares to question your qualifications? Then again, we are close partners, so no matter who I think is unqualified here, I wouldn¡¯t think of you, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I¡¯m just joking, chairman Cruise doesn¡¯t need to be this nervous.¡±

    Chairman Cruise said that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were close partners and although it was a bit exaggerated, it wasn¡¯t that exaggerated.

    Since the Amrit Chamber of Commerce obtained cement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they grasped the various methods of using the cement, the quality of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s buildings had soared.

    In just a short two months, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had received quite a bit of praise. Their construction orders had increased after the New Years and it had raised by 30% all of a suddenpared tost year.

    And this increase of 30% wasn¡¯t including the construction orders the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    On the third day after New Years, Xu Yi had specially found chairman Cruise. Other than wishing him a happy New Years, his more important goal was to mention the newrge scale construction products the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed.

    Other than constructing another new factory on Viscount Leslie¡¯snd for the household magic machine workshop to use, there were two otherrge projects that surprised chairman Cruise.

    One of them was building new houses for the Norma and Ang Tribe and to build houses for the new tribe. The other was solving the water problem of the Night Song Tribe, changing that river in the Falling Rain Forest filled with silt.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t tell chairman Cruise why he wanted to do these two projects, but chairman Cruise wasn¡¯t that interested in Xu Yi¡¯s goal. Other than raising some doubts on whether Xu Yi had Count Sean¡¯s approval on changing this river, he was mostly focused on the price of these two projects.

    Xu Yi had very high requirements to the quality of these two projects, requesting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to use their best manpower and materials. This meant that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would receive the most profits from these two projects.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s initial n, chairman Cruise could easily calcte that the total price of these two projects could surpass three hundred thousand gold coins!

    And the lowest profit the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could get was arge profit of over fifty thousand gold coins.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high profits, they had been established for too short, so it was impossible for them to take out three hundred thousand gold coins at once. So Xu Yi proposed to settle this debt with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce using cement, which was greatly weed by chairman Cruise.

    The construction projects under the Amrit Chamber of Commerce almost couldn¡¯t leave cement now.

    Therefore, chairman Cruise had requested several times to Xu Yi on increasing the length of the monopoly right on cement the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had, but it was firmly rejected by Xu Yi.

    But no matter what, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could be considered close.

    Actually when Xu Yi said ¡°some people doubted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the qualification to participate¡±, he waspletely joking.

    The ones at the banquet were all merchants from Banta City and just in half a year of development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was known by all thepanies in Banta City. Everyone was very clear on the powerful potential the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    And after the auction of the two mines fromst time, no one doubted the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore.

    Being able to snatch an iron mine from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and borrowing funds from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, no matter what point it was, it was enough to make the otherpanies hold the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in high respects.

    There were even quite a few people who guessed that there was arge backer behind Xu Yi.

    And based on spection from Xu Yi¡¯s rtionship with Viscount Leslie, his backer was very likely the Stagg Family which was one of the strongest families in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, no one questioned it, but that didn¡¯t mean everyone epted it.

    There were some who were like chairman Cruise and were very friendly with Xu Yi, but there were also people who showed hostility that wasn¡¯t strong, but was very clear.

    This was of course referring to chairman Fuller Morgan of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    Because an iron mine had been taken by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Fuller Morgan had been reprimanded by the important members of the Jole Family, almost losing his position as the chairman because of this. So Fuller Morgan being full of hate for Xu Yi wasn¡¯t strange.

    Normally speaking, when the other side fully disyed their hostility, people wouldn¡¯t willingly approach them, but Xu Yi was the exception.

    After he found Fuller Morgan in the crowd, he walked over with a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Morgan, happy New Years.¡± Xu Yi raised his cup in a toast to chairman Morgan.

    Although chairman Morgan was very unhappy, he had the good demeanor of arge merchant. After clinking sses with Xu Yi, he said with an ugly smile, ¡°Happy New Years.¡±

    Xu Yi finished his cup of wine and said after some praise, ¡°Chairman Morgan, I¡¯ve been busy these days and haven¡¯t had a chance to talk to you. Now that we have a chance to meet, I want to ask you, the mining magic machines I mentionedst time, have you considered it?¡±

    Chairman Morgan was stunned. He remembered the auction and that Xu Yi had mentioned this matter with him, but Xu Yi had said that it was just a simple concept and chairman Morgan had been in a very bad mood, so he didn¡¯t seriously listen and had forgotten about it.

    Because there had been many things he had been busy with in terms of the mine, chairman Morgan had thrown this to the back of his mind.

    Hearing Xu Yi mention this again, chairman Morgan thought about before discreetly answering, ¡°I have considered it, but chairman Xu, although I believe in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ability, is there any meaning in not seeing the thing and just believing in empty words?¡±

    ¡°Oh? This means that chairman Morgan is interested?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s actually very easy to see the thing. Ourpany has just invented a small Magic Drill not long ago that can increase the efficiency of mining. If chairman Morgan has the time, will youe and see it?¡±

    ¡°Small Magic Drill? This name sounds not bad¡­¡­¡± Chairman Morgan was arge merchant in the end, he wasn¡¯t easily influenced by his emotions. After hearing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem to be joking, he considered it before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu can have someone send the thing over to let me study. If it is easy to use, we can discuss other matters.¡±

    Seeing chairman Morgan agree, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about the fact that he deliberately acted reserved, agreeing with a smile.

    Not long after, Count Sean suddenly walked out from the back of the banquet hall. Beside him was a middle aged man with small stature, but was firmly built, with clear eyes.

    It was very clear that this middle aged man was Karma City¡¯s City Lord Count Anaris.

    And following behind the two City Lords were the merchants that hade from the far Karma City.

    Xu Yi looked over them and found several acquaintances. They were all merchants who hade to Banta City to orderrge amounts of magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The two City Lords gave a speech on the stage, speaking of the main purpose of this banquet. It was to give the merchants of the two cities a chance to interact, hoping that everyone would seize this chance to create many new business deals to help develop the two cities.

    It should be said that this exchange was very meaningful.

    With the limited technology level of the Sines Continent, there weren¡¯t many methods ofmunication. If the merchants wanted to do business, most of the time they relied on face to face interaction.

    Now that the City Lords of the two cities took the initiative to host this kind of banquet, it gave the merchants of the two cities a very good chance.

    Of course, the premise was that Count Sean and Count Anaris had a good rtionship, allowing them to host this kind of banquet.

    When the two counts announced that the banquet was starting, everyone began talking to each other. The merchants of the two cities went to find friends they were familiar with and they began chatting in small groups of twos and threes.

    When Xu Yi wanted to find some Karma City merchants he was familiar with to talk to, he suddenly noticed Count Sean beckoning to him.

 Volume 2 2 - Invitation from Karma City

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 2 Invitation from Karma City</strong>

    After following Count Sean and Count Anaris to a small booth at the side of the banquet hall, the two counts took their ce before Count Sean pointed at Xu Yi and said with a smile to Count Anaris, ¡°Here, Anaris, this is the Xu Yi I mentioned to youst time.¡±

    Count Anaris looked over Xu Yi before nodding with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already heard of chairman Xu as a promising youth, but seeing you today, you really are young. It makes this old man¡¯s heart unable to not fill with envy.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord Count, you are in a man¡¯s golden age, I¡¯m the one who is envious of you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I¡¯m already an old man and I don¡¯t even have the strength to do anything. How can I be filled with energy like a young man like you? What are you envious of me for?¡± Count Anaris asked back with a smile.

    Xu Yi pointed at the empty seat to the side, ¡°At your age, at least you have a seat to sit in, right?¡±

    Count Sean and Count Anaris were stunned. They looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Count Anaris pointed at Count Sean as heughed loudly. He said in a loud voice, ¡°Sean, you¡¯re the one at fault here, right? How could you ept a guest without arranging a ce to sit? You still need chairman Xu to discreetly insult you.¡±

    Count Sean alsoughed before looking at Xu Yi and saying, ¡°My City Lord¡¯s Manor has always left a seat for chairman Xu, but chairman Xu is a busy person and it¡¯s hard for him toe normally. If it wasn¡¯t to give you face today, chairman Xu might not have evene to this banquet. Alright, chairman Xu, please sit down. Don¡¯t let this fellow Anarisugh at me for not understanding how to treat guests.¡±

    Xu Yi had a faint smile as he found a seat that was a bit closer to Count Sea before asking, ¡°Lord City Lord and Lord Count Anaris, for you two to specially call me, is there something you need from me?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t something we need, only Count Anaris wants your help with something. But it isn¡¯t convenient for him to say it, so he had me help him call you over.¡± Count Sean replied.

    Xu Yi turned to Count Anaris, ¡°Lord Count, you¡¯re too polite. If there is anything I can do for you, please give me the order.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t an order, rather I¡¯m sincerely asking for your help.¡± Talking about business, the smile disappeared from Count Anaris¡¯ face and he said with a serious expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, before this, I want to first tell you about the protest my Karma City merchants have about you.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Protest? Protest what about me?¡±

    ¡°Our Karma City and Saltan City are the two cities closest to Banta City, so we can be considered neighbours. But why is it that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has agreed to sell your production magic machines to Saltan City¡¯s Farsak Chamber of Commerce and not to our Karma City¡¯spanies?¡± Count Anaris asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Anais in surprise and seeing that he didn¡¯t seem like he was kidding, he seriously thought about it before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°Then you really can¡¯t me me. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has given the same conditions to the Karma City colleagues as the Farsak Chamber of Commerce, but while the Farsak Chamber of Commerce could agree, the noble colleagues couldn¡¯t. You can¡¯t me me for being unfair to them, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh? I¡¯ve heard the merchants of my city say that it is because your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conditions are too strict and they can¡¯t ept that, that¡¯s why they didn¡¯t agree.¡± Count Anaris kept saying.

    Xu Yi stretched out his hands and helplessly said, ¡°Lord Count, the conditions are the same, so why can the Farsak Chamber of Commerce agree and the colleagues from Karma City can¡¯t? Actually I also feel this is very strange. I clearly gave them a chance to let them buy production magic machines and sell magic machines produced in Karma City, but they didn¡¯t agree at all. Rather each time they chose toe to Banta City to purchase some magic machine products to bring back to Karma City to sell. Could it be that they don¡¯t think this is troublesome and very inefficient?¡±

    Count Anaris shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t care what they are thinking. As Karma City¡¯s City Lord, I have a responsibility to help them achieve their goals. You just said that the merchants of my citye from far to your Banta City to buy your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine to bring back to sell, that is the ky point. Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products are this popr in our Karma City, then why hasn¡¯t yourpany considered opening a factory in our Karma City? If you directly produce magic machines in our Karma City, can¡¯t you just directly selle it?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised as he asked in an uncertain voice, ¡°Count Anaris, your meaning is that¡­..You want our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in building a factory in your Karma City?¡±

    ¡°Invest in a factory? This term seems quite novel, but indeed this is what I want.¡± Count Anaris said with a nod and a smile.

    After receiving an affirmative response, Xu Yi¡¯s minds filled with thoughts.

    As for investing in a factory in another city outside Banta City, Xu Yi already had this thought.

    But for this Sines Continent that didn¡¯t have a developedmunication system, each city was like its own kingdom. With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, if they wanted to invest in a factory in another city, they would be facing all kinds of trouble. If they weren¡¯t careful, they might lose their investment.

    So Xu Yi had been discreet about this matter, nning step by step. He would consider this after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong enough.

    But that did not mean that Xu Yi wanted to give up, rather now that there was a good chance in front of Xu Yi, how could he just ignore it.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Then¡­..Lord Count, I wonder, what kind of factory you want ourpany to build?¡±

    Count Anaris waved his hand, ¡°That is youpany¡¯s matter, I don¡¯t care. But I can disclose some matters to you first. In order to wee your Fretech Chamber of Commerce to our Karma City¡­..Un, to invest in a factory, I will use the City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s name to rent somend to yourpany and will also provide some help to yourpany, to make it easy for you toplete this investment. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with joy.

    ording to Count Anaris¡¯ ideas, this meant that there would be Count Anaris¡¯ support for this investment.

    With Karma City¡¯s City Lord¡¯s support, as long as no idents urred when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built their factory in Karma City, they would definitely open this market.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi felt this was strange.

    ¡°Lord Count, why did you speciallye find our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? I think that as long as you offered some help, any of our Banta City¡¯spanies would be very happy to invest in Karma City, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s because your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is special.¡± Count Anaris said, ¡°Our Karma City and Banta City have carried out business deals for many years. The oldpanies of the two cities have already invested a certain amount in the other city and have dug out all potential, without any new direction to develop in. But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is different. Not only was yourpany just createdst year, all your products are unknown magic machines. In Karma City, the magic machines yourpany produces are very popr and even I have quite a few in my home. So of course I want to invite yourpany to invest in my city, there is a great need for this.¡±

    ¡°I admit that Lord Count¡¯s words are very reasonable and I indeed hope to invest in Karma City, but¡­..¡± Xu Yi hesitated for a bit as he looked at Count Sean, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a Banta Citypany in the end, so for matters in this aspect, I think we should ask for the Lord City Lord¡¯s opinion.¡±

    ¡°What? Chairman Xu, you¡¯re kicking this problem to me?¡± Count Sean teased with a smile before he said with a serious expression, ¡°Since I have called you here to talk to Count Anaris, it means that I have already reached an agreement with Count Anaris. You don¡¯t need to worry about this, I support your Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in Karma City and sincerely hope your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can stand firm and develop far.¡±

    ¡°Are you warning me?¡± Count Anaris shook his head with a smile before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, please be assured. Since I represent Karma City to invite you, that means I will definitely give you the greatest support and promise that yourpany can safely develop in my city.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Sean and Count Anaris before saying with a smile, ¡°Since there is the Lord City Lord¡¯s support, if I still rejected the Lord Count¡¯s invitation, it really wouldn¡¯t be smart. Alright, Lord Count, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to agree to investing apany in your Karma City!¡±

    ¡°Good, let¡¯s have a drink to our cooperation!¡± Count Anaris raised his wine ss with a smile.

    Xu Yi and Count Sean also raised their cups and after toasting him, they drank it all.

    After that, Xu Yi had a conversation with Count Anaris and reached a preliminary agreement.

    Count Anaris said that he would provide an area of no less than five hectares with a good location and surroundings to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to rent and build their new factory on.

    Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to promise Count Anaris that they would be developing household magic machine production lines for the Magic Fans, the Magic Rice Cookers, the Magic Air Conditioner, and the Magic Lamp. At the same time, they would also create a post sale center for magic machines in Karma City.

    Other than this, they would also create a workshop for agricultural magic machines to satisfy Karma City¡¯s need for agricultural machines.

    Although these were just preliminary ns, based solely on this agreement, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could establish a production base in Karma City, it would clearly be bigger than the ones in Banta City.

    So when Count Anaris reached this agreement with Xu Yi and left in a satisfactory manner, Xu Yi who stayed behind with Count Sean asked, ¡°Lord City Lord, don¡¯t you think¡­..that like this, it will disperse the power of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and decrease our tax revenue to Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Of course I know this.¡± Count Sean said with a faint smile, ¡°But I can see that the prospects for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very good and wouldn¡¯t be limited to our Banta City anyway. To leave a bit earlier and open up prospects in another city, whether it is to yourpany or our Banta City, there will be benefits.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just for this?¡± Xu Yi was a bit doubtful.

    ¡°What, this isn¡¯t enough?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi and thought about it before putting down his wine cup. There was a different meaning that appeared in his smile as he said, ¡°Alright, since you want to ask, I¡¯ll tell you something. The reason why I agreed to Anaris was one because of our friendship and two because Karma City needs you.¡±

    ¡°Karma City needs me?¡± Xu Yi was even more confused.

    If something happened to Karma City that was even difficult to the City Lord Count Anaris, how could the chairman of a smallpany like him help?

    ¡°It isn¡¯t trouble, just that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can solve some problems for Anaris. I¡¯ll give you an example. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory can suddenly hire two hundred workers, letting two hundred households gain stable ie and making their lives even better, which solved arge problem for me. Just this point is something that manypanies that are stronger than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯tpare to.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly understood.

    In the end, what Count Sean and Count Anaris cared about was the problem of employment that many leaders on earth cared most about.

    And to solve the problem of employment, what was better than the production industry that was filled withbour?

 Volume 2 3 - Trivial matters

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 3 Trivial matters</b>

    Half a month after New Years, the noisy Banta City gradually returned to its normal state.

    At the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory to the west of the city, it had already started work a week ago and it regained its lively state.

    Heinz opened the door to the office and saw Xu Yi standing in front of a wall, thinking deeply as he looked at the map of the Lampuri Kingdom hanging on it.

    This map was something Xu Yi had asked for from the Lord City Lord. It seemed he liked this map very much, as he seemed to be looking at something on it every day.

    Heinz found that the map today had changed today.

    When this map was put on, Xu Yi had put a small me red spot to the west of Banta City.

    Heinz asked him why he did this and Xu Yi told him that represented where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was, so he used the me red colour to represent where the me of the magic industry burned.

    Heinz had found that Xu Yi had put a circle of fire red on Karma City not far to the right of Banta City and it was actuallyrger than Banta City.

    Heinz looked at the me red circle and asked Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°What? You already reached an agreement?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Un, I just discussed it with Count Anaris¡¯ representative and have reached an agreement to rent somend in Karma City. We just need to send someone from ourpany to inspect thend and make the final confirmations. With how much Count Anaris cares about this matter, I think it should go very smoothly. That¡¯s right, Count Anaris¡¯ representative asked me to go for an inspection as soon as possible, so I told him I would arrange it within a week. Although Karma City is very close to Banta City, with a trip there not taking that much time, the inspection will take quite a bit of time so you and Camby need to make preparations.¡±

    Seeing Heinz nod in agreement, Xu Yi gave a sigh and pointed at the extra me red circle on the map as he said, ¡°But now we¡¯re also facing an important problem. It isn¡¯t hard to invest in a factory in Karma City, we just need to put in enough gold coins and with Count Anaris¡¯ help, the factory can be easily built. But the problem is that I¡¯ve found that we can¡¯t send a corresponding person to manage it. Normally speaking, when apany opens up a new market, I should take the helm as the chairman, but I have to pay attention to therge order of agricultural magic machines for the agricultural department. There are many things I have to take care of and I can¡¯t pull myself away. If I find anyone else, I¡¯m not assured, so it is very hard.¡±

    A hesitant look shed on Heinz¡¯s face before he paused and suddenly said, ¡°Let me go.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him in surprise, ¡°You?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Heinz gave a strong nod, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve thought about it. There are more and more things that need to be taken care of and we can¡¯t have the chairman go personally, or you will be too busy. As the vice chairman, I must share some of this for you. Therefore let me take charge of building the factory in Karma City this time, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi thoughtfully looked at Heinz for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°You taking care of the household magic machine workshop for this long is already considered taking quite a bit of work. But since you¡¯re willing to ept even more work, naturally I will wee it. But Heinz, didn¡¯t you say that you wanted to peacefully live your life in Banta City and not go anywhere else? Why did you suddenly¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve been thinking about what you said on New Years Eve during this time. Each time when I think about what you said about having a factory open on every part of the continent and seeing the mark of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce everywhere, I would feel very excited. Thinking about it, I really want to do something to make this a reality. Xu Yi, I know that I¡¯m not a person with farsight like you, so I can¡¯t help you with making decisions for thepany. What I can do and excel in is taking care of trivial matters. This time we have Count Anaris¡¯ support in building the factory in Karma City, so I think there shouldn¡¯t be any problems. The main thing is that there needs to be someone there taking care of trivial matters. I feel that I¡¯m very suited for this, what do you think Xu Yi?¡±

    ¡°I also think you¡¯re very suited.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°But Heinz, you are mistaken about something. Although this work is trivial, it is also very important. If these trivial matters aren¡¯t taken care of, ourpany¡¯s development will be empty talk. If you can help me take care of this matter, I would be very happy, but Heinz, what about the workshop if you leave?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry. Do you remember the worker called Ankhto I mentioned to you before?¡±

    ¡°Ankhto?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before remembering, ¡°The worker who took the initiative to clear up the argument between workersst time?¡±

    ¡°Yes, it¡¯s him.¡± Heinz nodded. He had a look of praise as he said, ¡°I¡¯ve been observing this fellow for some time and found that he has a steady personality and a flexible mind. He has some prestige among the workers so a month ago, I promoted him to team leader to help me run the workshop. After observing him for some time, I feel that he isn¡¯t bad. If I leave, you can promote him to vice manager of the workshop to take care of the production line in the workshop, I feel he should be able to do it.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It seems like you¡¯re very satisfied with Ankhto. Good, since it¡¯s your personal rmendation, we¡¯ll decide on him. Go and tell him after you head back, let him prepare himself.¡±

    ¡°Rx, I know what to do.¡±

    Since there was Heinz to volunteer, Xu Yi simply to yield and let Heinz take care of the matter of the Karma City factory.

    Actuallypared to Xu Yi, Heinz was much older and had more worldly wisdom than Xu Yi. Letting him handle this kind of thing, perhaps he would even do better than Xu Yi.

    But through this matter, Xu Yi found another problem for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was the fact that theycked talented people.

    Although Heinz had found a talent for management among like workers like Ankhto, with how fast the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing, it wasn¡¯t enough to meet their needs to find talents from inside them.

    So when recruiting more workers for the expansion of the factory, Xu Yi also needed to recruit some managers.

    Talented people naturally wouldn¡¯t appear easily, so Xu Yi could only wait.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production line couldn¡¯t wait.

    After they began working after New Years, they had officially started using the new workshop. The dwarves of the magic machine workshop entered a new workshop that was more than ten times bigger and much more beautiful, causing their enthusiasm for work to skyrocket.

    In just a single week, the magic machine workshop hadpleted over five hundred small Magic Harvesters.

    With their speed, in less than two months, they couldplete the first order for three thousand agricultural magic machines for the agricultural department.

    Of course, the reason for this terrifying speed was that Camby¡¯s group of dwarves had already finished developing the line of Magic Punch Presses beforest year ended.

    Now there was a production magic machine production line for the small Magic Harvesters and they didn¡¯t need to rely purely on dwarvenbour to make them, so naturally the efficiency had been increased.

    Sheets of iron were cut, ttened, and formed by the Magic Punch Presses and then skillfully assembled into small Magic Harvesters by the dwarves. Seveni who had just arrived in Banta City in the morning and ran over to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory was very satisfied. She couldn¡¯t help turning to Xu Yi and praising him, ¡°Chairman Xu, to be honest, I wasn¡¯t that confident in you before. This was because after I came to Banta City and saw that yourpany didn¡¯t have a high efficiency in making the agricultural magic machines, I was doubtful about whether yourpany could finish the order or not. You said before that as long as you developed the Magic Punch Presses, your efficiency would be greatly increased, but I was very doubtful. This was because before seeing these Magic Punch Presses, I couldn¡¯t have imagined what kind of tool could allow workers to increase their efficiency by over ten times.¡±

    ¡°Then what about now that you¡¯ve seen it?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°I¡¯m very¡­..shocked. Yes, I¡¯m very shocked.¡± Seveni said with an emotional expression, ¡°I never thought that these Magic Punch Presses would be this strong. Look, to turn an iron sheet into a certain form, if it was using pure manualbour, it would take a cksmith an entire afternoon. But using this Magic Punch Press, it happens in the blink of an eye. This really has opened my eyes.¡±

    Xu Yiughed. He came in front of a stack of iron sheets that had already been shaped and slid his finger along the edge. He said to Seveni, ¡°Young miss Seveni, efficiency is only one part of it. The other important part is standardizing everything. Look, almost every one of these iron sheets have the same form, not differing at all. If you had cksmiths make this, it would be impossible to be asplete as this. This kind of difference is the biggest difference for arge scale assembly line.¡±

    Seveni slightly knit her brows. She looked at Xu Yi and said in a confused manner, ¡°Chairman Xu, the things you¡¯ve said¡­..Actually I don¡¯t understand that much, can you exin it to me?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s not a problem. But young miss Seveni, you have to pay some tuition to learn this knowledge. What will you use to pay your tuition?¡± Xu Yi said in a teasing voice.

    ¡°Tuition?¡± Seveni revealed a cunning smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I wonder, will some good news about rentingnd would be enough to pay this tuition?¡±

 Volume 2 4 - Helpless chairman Morgan

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 4</strong>

    Helpless chairman Morgan

    This was indeed some good news.

    Regarding Xu Yi¡¯s request to rent somend, the king had considered it and had shown some agreement for now!

    As for the specifics, that would depend on when Xu Yi gave an initial n. After he showed his goals for thend, the king would truly consider it.

    Moreover, this was on the premise that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished the first batch of agricultural magic machines on time, otherwise there was no need to mention any of this.

    Of course, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finished the new series of Magic Punch Presses, so this premise was no problem at all.

    Compared to the magic machine workshop production line that was already in order, Xu Yi would always be more focused on research and development.

    The magic machine workshop workers had already changed to their new workshop and the old workshop had been turned into a magic machine development workshop by Xu Yi.

    Including Camby, Bordeau and thirteen other dwarves with the richest experience in cksmithing specially worked on researching and developing magic machines.

    Although the Magic Punch Press could be used now, it was still at initial sess. Whether it was Xu Yi or Camby¡¯s dwarves, they all felt that these Magic Punch Presses could be improved still.

    Actually if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the king and the agricultural department¡¯s orders were too tight, ording to the ideas of Camby¡¯s dwarves, it would take them another three months to finish these production magic machines.

    As for Xu Yi who was a well known mechanical engineer on earth, he was very clear that developing these magic machines wouldn¡¯t just take a short month and it wouldn¡¯t just take three months, there shouldn¡¯t be a limit to how long it took.

    Even on the industrialized earth, research on machines never stopped with new results being published each year.

    This was because for those corporations on earth, if they could advance their technology, they could surpass theirpetitors and take another part of the market.

    Although there was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce producing magic machines right now on the Sines Continent, so they didn¡¯t feel any pressure at all, Xu Yi didn¡¯t rx on this aspect.

    Actually as Xu Yi researched magic machines even more, there were many times he found he couldn¡¯t apply his mechanical engineering knowledge from earth. Rather he had to make a corresponding change based on the specialties of magic or the Sines Continent.

    For example, like the medium Magic Drill that he had Camby¡¯s dwarves research, it was very different from the drills on earth.

    The drills on earth used the spinning drill head to bore into the earth. As for the drill that Xu Yi developed, hebined the unique magic of the Sines Continent and stuck a Fifth Grade Earth Magic Array that wasn¡¯t weak on the drill head.

    With the help of this Earth Magic Array, the drill only needed to be close to the ground. The Magic Array¡¯s might would appear and easily create cracks in the earth and even in rockyers, saving quite a bit of time when it was drilling.

    The small Magic Drill Xu Yi used to drill out the water at the Night Song Tribe was only a test product and it was already strong enough to drill through a rockyer of several meters. The medium Magic Drill developed now went a step further and the drilling power was even stronger.

    Heinz had asked Xu Yi why he needed to develop this kind of thing because although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an iron mine, they didn¡¯t have enough funds to open this mine right now. They could only put it aside for now, there was no use in developing this thing.

    Xu Yi could only say in his heart that Heinz didn¡¯t have any foresight.

    Even if they couldn¡¯t use it, there were people who could use it.

    For example, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this thing is actually this strong!¡± Chairman Morgan looked at the cracked giant rock in front of him in shock, ignoring therge amount of dust raised from it being cracked. His mouth was open in shock and it didn¡¯t close for a while.

    When he was invited by Xu Yi to witness the testing of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new product, Chairman Morgan hesitated a while before finally deciding toe take a look.

    But he never thought that the small Magic Drill that Xu Yi mentioned to him before would actually be this strong. In less than three minutes, thisrge stone that was three meters tall, four meters wide, and two meters thick had actually been turned into rubble.

    As the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, chairman Morgan could see that this giant rock was iron ore normally found in mines and it was very hard.

    If it was the workers in the mine using pickaxes to mine this thing, even if several workers worked on it for one-two hours on this iron ore, they might not be able to crack it.

    Xu Yi had two young men who weren¡¯t that strong pick up this Magic Drill and aim it at the center of this giant iron ore. Then this iron ore that was even troublesome for chairman Morgan with his rich experience in mining actually had a hole appear in the center and was shattered to pieces.

    Then the two of them continued pointing the Magic Drill at ratherrge pieces and all the rocks were shattered into pebbles.

    This entire process added together took just over ten minutes.

    Hearing chairman Morgan¡¯s surprised voice, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°How about it? Chairman Morgan, are you satisfied with this Magic Drill?¡±

    ¡°Of course¡­¡­¡± Chairman Morgan suddenly stopped his mouth and he looked at Xu Yi. He restrained the shock and excitement on his face as he gave a soft cough and slowly said, ¡°Un¡­..This thing is indeed quite good. But chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t seem to use this thing, right? Why would you invent this kind of thing?¡±

    Seeing the indifferent look chairman Morgan pretended to have, Xu Yi found it funny in his heart. He looked surprised as he said, ¡°Who says we can¡¯t use it? Chairman Morgan, you¡¯ve forgotten that ourpany had gained an iron mine from the auctionst time. We invented this thing just to open that mine. Chairman Morgan, your Falcao Chamber of Commerce are experts in opening mines, so I invited you here to have a look at this. Is this thing very good at opening mines?¡±

    Chairman Morgan really wanted to shake his head, but with facts in front of him, the Magic Drill¡¯s might would p him in the face if he denied it. So he could only give a dryugh before nodding, ¡°Un, it¡¯s very good.¡±

    Xu Yi pped his hands and excitedly said, ¡°Then that¡¯s great. With chairman Morgan¡¯s affirmation, it means that this magic machine really isn¡¯t bad. I can be assured then. If we wanted to open the mine earlier, ourpany wouldn¡¯t have enough manpower and funds to do so, but now that we have this thing, we can at least give it a try.¡±

    Chairman Morgan couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re looking down on opening a mine too much. Although I admit that with this Magic Drill, it will be much easier gathering ores, but mining isn¡¯t just simply gathering ores. There¡¯s also transporting, processing, and many other things. Each process will take arge amount of manpower toplete and with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­¡± Chairman Morgan gave a soft snort, as his expression was filled with disdain.

    It was like Xu Yi didn¡¯t see chairman Morgan¡¯s expression at all as he shrugged and responded with a rxed smile, ¡°That is very easy. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce excels in researching magic machines to rece manpower. The work that you mentioned before, we can use the same method of inventing some magic machines to finish it. This isn¡¯t anything hard to do, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Chairman Morgan wanted to say that Xu Yi was looking down on mining, but then he thought about it. He realized that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could invent this Magic Drill, it didn¡¯t seem impossible for them to invent magic machines that did all the other work.

    Thinking of this, chairman Morgan¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help changing. He looked at the Magic Drill resting on the side and after thinking about it, he couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, this Magic Drill¡­..You should be selling it, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed in his heart, but he gave a surprised expression as he asked back, ¡°What? Chairman Morgan, are you interested?¡±

    Chairman Morgan said with a frown, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you are not prepared to sell this thing to me, why did you call me down?¡±

    ¡°I just said it, I wanted to ask for your opinion.¡± Seeing chairman Morgan¡¯s expression that quickly turned ugly, Xu Yi immediately changed his tone, ¡°But since chairman Morga is interested in this thing, then that¡¯s good. Sell! Of course I¡¯ll sell! Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells magic machines to begin with.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. How much does each one cost?¡± Chairman Morgan asked.

    ¡°Un¡­...We haven¡¯t set a price yet. But since it¡¯s chairman Morgan asking¡­..Alright, since we¡¯re all old friends, I¡¯ll give you an exclusive price. It¡¯ll be an exact figure, one hundred gold coins per unit, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°One hundred gold coins per unit?¡± Chairman Morgan¡¯s eyes popped out as he looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°Why don¡¯t you simply steal my money?¡±

    Seeing chairman Morgan¡¯s angry expression, Xu Yi innocently blinked his eyes and looked aggrieved as he said, ¡°Chairman Morgan, this is already a very fair price. You¡¯re still not satisfied?¡±

    ¡°Fair¡­¡­¡± Chairman Morgan resisted and stopped himself from swearing. He took a desperate deep breath and calmed down, as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t joke around. Give a serious price and if I¡¯m satisfied, I will order a few units.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward look and after thinking about it, he finally said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s chairman Morgan, I¡¯ll give in a bit. Ny five gold coins per unit, what do you think?¡±

    Chairman Morgan looked at Xu Yi and was toozy to get angry as he coldly said, ¡°Fifty gold coins per unit, don¡¯t think about it if it¡¯s any higher.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Chairman Morgan, I am unable to ept this price. If you are sincere, I¡¯ll give you a serious price. Ny gold coins per unit, it can¡¯t be any less.¡±

    ¡°Humph, this machine doesn¡¯t seem to be worth more than twenty gold coins in my eyes. If you dare say ny gold coins per unit, you are too ck hearted. Fifty five gold coins, this is the price.¡±

    ¡°You have to look at how much time and effort ourpany put in to develop this thing. Alright, the lowest is eighty eight gold coins.¡±

    ¡­...

    Arguing back and forth, the final price was set at seventy eight gold coins per unit.

    Chairman Morgan wasn¡¯t satisfied with this price, but he was helpless about it.

    After personally witnessing the might of this Magic Drill, he had to admit that if he had this machine that could help with mining, their efficiency would greatly increase. How could he miss this chance, so he couldn¡¯t insist too much on the price he wanted.

    Although Xu Yi had an exaggerated look like he suffered a loss, his heart was filled with joy.

    The materials for this Magic Drill didn¡¯t even add up to a trivial five gold coins.

    Although the research cost was high, as long as they can sell enough units, the research costs would eventually be irrelevant.

    So calcting with the strictest conditions, if it was sold at this price, just a single unit earned the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over sixty gold coins!

    And although Chairman Morgan only ordered a trivial hundred units from Xu Yi, he had also said that if this thing is easy to use, he would continue ordering inrge amounts.

    Xu Yi was very confident about this.

    With the low technology level on the Sines Continent, the mining industry relied purely on manpower. How could this kind of efficiencypare to the efficiency of machine power?

    As long as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce saw therge efficiency increase brought by the Magic Drill, they wouldn¡¯t be able to separate themselves from it.

    After they discussed this initial cooperation, they should have gone to eat a meal together to foster a friendship ording to normal conventions. But chairman Morgan didn¡¯t have any good feelings towards Xu Yi, so he never mentioned this matter.

    As for Xu Yi who had other things to do, he didn¡¯t mention it at all.

    So the two left after saying their goodbyes and Xu Yi directly headed to Banta City on a horse carriage.

    What he needed to do wase here to wee a special group of guests.

 Volume 2 5 - Small company without a future

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 5 Smallpany without a future</strong>

    Compared to the many methods of transportation on earth, the Sines Continent only had the single method of traveling in horse carriages, which was without a doubt worse.

    Butpared to other horse carriagepanies, thergest horse carriagepany in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Fersen Carriage Company was quite punctual normally.

    Xu Yi came a bitter than when the horse carriage arrived and he came just in time to see Akali jump out of a horse carriage.

    When she jumped down and saw Xu Yi, Akali excited ran over.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m back!¡±

    Seeing Akali¡¯s excited appearance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    This little girl had been rather sadtely, but after going home for New Years, she seemed to have returned to normal.

    Xu Yi rather like this little girl Akali who was lively and happy, but once she became depressed, it made people feel it was a shame.

    ¡°Un, wee back.¡± Xu Yi responded with a smile. His eyes looked at the two horse carriages behind Akali and gave a nod to Evita who came out after Akali. Then he looked at the two men and three women beside her who were around the same age.

    If his guesses weren¡¯t wrong, these five should be the five ssmates Akali mentioned in her letterst time.

    As expected, when she saw Xu Yi¡¯s eyes falling onto the five of them, Akali excitedly introduced them to Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, they are the five ssmates I mentioned to you before. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Akali, I¡¯m recruiting magicians. Could it be that you want me to tell how strong their magic is just based on their appearance?¡± He reached his hand out to the five of them after saying, ¡°These students, wee to Banta City. I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.¡±

    The five youths shook hands with Xu Yi while looking over him with eyes filled with curiosity.

    When it was the turn of a girl who was rather tall with ck curls, she suddenly revealed a smile and said, ¡°Sir chairman, although Akali said that you were young and handsome, we never believed it. We always thought that to be apany¡¯s chairman, one should at least be an uncle. I never thought that now that I¡¯ve seen you, you are even younger than I imagined. Sir chairman, you aren¡¯t that much older than us, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You aren¡¯t the first people who are curious or doubtful about my age. I am twenty eight this year, butpared to you, I can be considered an uncle. At least Still keeps calling me uncle.¡±

    ¡°Still?¡± The three girls looked at each other with surprised looks. Another girl who was rather short and chubby suddenly asked in a mysterious manner, ¡°Sir chairman, ording to what Akali said, you and Still¡¯s rtionship is quite good. Could it be that you are already¡­..in that kind of rtionship?¡±

    Without waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s response, the man who had shaken his hand and introduced himself as Schoch suddenly said with a soft snort, ¡°Be, don¡¯t speak nonsense. Still wasn¡¯t interested in any of the male students back in school, how could she suddenly feel anything for chairman Xu?¡±

    Be rolled her eyes at Schoch and said without any politeness, ¡°Chairman Xu isn¡¯t a little boy like you, it isn¡¯t strange if Still likes him. Let me tell you, chairman Xu is this young and handsome, and he is the chairman of apany. Even I would like him, don¡¯t you say so, sir chairman?¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand without knowing whether tough or cry, ¡°Young miss Be, please don¡¯t kid with me. Still and I don¡¯t have that kind of rtionship, I just have a good rtionship with Still¡¯s grandfather Great Magician Cami. Adding in the fact that Still works for mypany and normally interacts with me, our rtionship is just not bad.¡±

    ¡°Lies.¡± Akali on the side suddenly gave a soft snort as she muttered this.

    Xu Yi looked at her and didn¡¯t pursue the matter as he turned to call the horse carriage he had already prepared. He first had the driver head around Banta City to let them be familiar with the area, also going to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s repair center in Banta City.

    After seeing all the magic machines in the repair center, the students couldn¡¯t help revealing looks of surprise.

    Especially when they saw the Magic Lamp. Not only did the three girls really like it, even the two boys couldn¡¯t help revealing looks of praise.

    After circling the city, the horse carriage arrived at a factory outside the city.

    After seeing the three workshops on the empty space, these youths revealed a bit of disappointment.

    Be seemed like someone who couldn¡¯t keep their words in. After looking at the somewhat shabby factories other than the new factory, she couldn¡¯t help saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, are these all the factories under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? This is just too small, it can¡¯t evenpare to a casual factory that we saw under thergepanies from before.¡±

    Schoch also revealed his disdain as he said with as snort, ¡°That¡¯s right, with such a small factory, it seems like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t anything great. It¡¯s fine if Akali likes to boast, but Evita has never boasted before. How could you deceive us like Akali did by saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very goodpany and that it was very promising working here?¡±

    Evita had a gentle personality and being scolded by Schoch like this, her face instantly turned red and actually didn¡¯t know what to say.

    Akali reprimanded back without any courtesy, ¡°What do you know? Don¡¯t look down on the fact that the factory isn¡¯t big, but don¡¯t you know that even with thergest factory not being usedst year, our factory has already made many kinds of magic machines? If you look around Banta City now, I can guarantee that you will find out Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things in every house! Let me tell you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has only existed for half a year and it¡¯s already this strong, you dare say that there are no prospects to working here? Humph! And you¡¯re not embarrassed to talk about me and Evita. We¡¯ve only worked a few months herest year and we¡¯ve already earned over a hundred gold coins. How about you? Waiting around your house not doing anything and only knowing how to rely on your mother and father, so embarrassing!¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    Although Schoch said in front of Xu Yi that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no future and his tone was quite sour, no one would have thought that Akali would actually react this strongly. Not leaving any face for Schoch at all.

    Schoch¡¯s face turned white and green. After changing several times, he gave a strong snort and angrily said, ¡°Akali, I only came to give you and Evita face, but I never thought you thought of me like this. Alright, since you like this brokenpany, then you can just keep working here. This smallpany without a future can¡¯t enter my eyes! Let me tell you, thergepanies in Anvilmar City have approached me, but I haven¡¯t replied to them! For a magical genius like me, even if I¡¯m forced to work for apany, I should enter argepany like the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. I definitely will not enter this poor littlepany without a future at all!¡±

    Seeing that Schoch was about to charge off in anger, Xu Yi knit his brows and moved in front of him.

    ¡°What? Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t let people leave?¡± Schoch angrily looked at Xu Yi as he spoke.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°No, my ce here is not a bandit nest, of course you can leave when you wish. But ssmate Schoch, if I was you, I wouldn¡¯t choose to leave now because if you leave, you wouldn¡¯t be able to refute Akali¡¯s words. Wouldn¡¯t that prove that her words are correct?¡±

    ¡°Of course it isn¡¯t like that!¡± Schoch flew into a rage. He looked at Akali and wanted to reprimand her, but he felt it was too embarrassing to argue with a girl. He could only give a strong snort and turn his head.

    Seeing this scene, not only was Xu Yi not nervous at all, rather he almost broke out inughter.

    These fellows, they really were young people.

    ¡°Un¡­..ssmate Schoch, I won¡¯t oppose you leaving, but I don¡¯t agree to your appraisal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from before. There is a saying in my hometown that you can¡¯t say anything if you don¡¯t investigate. You don¡¯t know anything about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and you already determined that ourpany has no future, this conclusion is rather rash.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Although our Frestech Chamber no Commerce only has these factories, I can give you some data, so you might as well listen with your ssmates.¡±

    Hearing this, the five youths couldn¡¯t help paying attention to Xu Yi.

    ¡°The first number is that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s total ie in thest half a year is two hundred three thousand four hundred and ny four gold coins.¡±

    The five youths called in surprise at the same time. It was even Evita and Akali¡¯s first time hearing suchprehensive numbers, so they couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised looks.

    To these youths from normal families, two hundred thousand gold coins was a number they usually could never touch. They couldn¡¯t even think of such an astronomical number.

    But for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made by this young chairman Xu, it actually made this much money by selling products in half a year.

    ¡°Sir chairman, then can you tell us how much money you made?¡± Cecilia of the three girls who had been rather silent asked this.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°This question is the right thing to ask. For a chamber ofmerce, the important thing is not how much it has sold, but how much it has earned. This is the second number I want to tell you. In the past half a year, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s total revenue was over one hundred and forty thousand gold coins.¡±

    Everyone was shocked.

    ording to what Xuu Yi said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit margin was quite high.

    ¡°Those two numbers are just to tell you that although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t be considered argepany right now, we definitely aren¡¯t apany without a future. Rather, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prospects for development is very good. After another period of time, we will be opening a new factory in the neighbouring Karma City and within the year, we¡¯ll also build another new production base in Banta City. ording to the n, the area of the new production base will even be bigger than Banta City. Do you think that a smallpany without a future can have such arge and long term n?¡±

    ¡°Area surpassing Banta City?¡± Akali looked at Xu Yi in surprise and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Sir chairman, I feel that you can boast even more than me.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course this isn¡¯t boasting, you¡¯ll know in the future. Of course, to all of you, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ns don¡¯t matter that much. I think what you rather care about is your own ie. Let¡¯s use Akali as an example. She and Evita came to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commercest August and has been working for ourpany for less than five months. If you add up all the ie, it is like Akali said, she has already earned over a hundred gold coins. And this was based on the fact that the two of them had a base wage of fifteen gold coinsst year. From this year forward, the two of them are second level researchers for ourpany and their monthly wage has been increased to twenty five gold coins from fifteen gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Twenty five gold coins?¡± Be said in surprise, ¡°This isn¡¯t low even for Anvilmar City.¡±

    ¡°That is only the base wage.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Other than this, every time you invent a new magic machine or you¡¯ve made some improvements to a magic machine, thepany will also give you extra cash awards. The award amount isn¡¯t set, but the lowest amount is twenty gold coins and there is no upper limit. With ourpany¡¯s emphasis on creating new products, one can frequently earn these cash awards.¡±

    ¡°Un, Akali and I received seventy gold coins as rewardsst year.¡± Evita timely added this in.

    Akali grumbled and said in a dissatisfied voice, ¡°That is because we¡¯re not strong enough, otherwise we could even receive more. Look at Great Magician Cami, because he worked with ourpany, he received over a thousand gold coins. He¡¯s much stronger than us.¡±

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help rolling their eyes at all. Great Magician Cami was a Great Magician, what did you have that couldpare to him?

    But based on what Xu Yi, Akali, and Evita said, the five youths could tell that if they worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they might really earn quite a bit.

    Seeing the eyes of the five youths light up, even Schoch seriously considering this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Not afraid that they wouldn¡¯t be moved, but it was easier to take care of once they were moved.

 Volume 2 6 - Give it to me

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 6 Give it to me</strong>

    For these five youths who hadn¡¯t graduated that long ago and had just entered society, so they were anxious to prove themselves, finding some work with a high wage was without a doubt necessary.

    Not only was the work researching magic machines for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce decent and the wage wasn¡¯t bad. The only disadvantage was the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t really argepany and didn¡¯t have any fame.

    But for these five youths who weren¡¯t considered magical geniuses, this was already enough for them.

    So after a two day inspection, the five youths all decided to sign a work agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bing five first level researchers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    They were like when Evita and Akali had just joined thepany, the five of them received for now a base wage of fifteen gold coins per month.

    But ording to their contracts, after they worked here for half a year and no problems urred, they would be promoted to second level researchers. At that time, they would receive the second level researcher wage of twenty five gold coins.

    To these five youths, perhaps this was just a simple work choice and wasn¡¯t thatplicated or difficult, but to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the five youths joining was of great significance.

    In front of the five of them was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current research facility. The current research staff was only Still, Evita, Akali, We, and Sancheli who had been focusing on studying the Magic Array programming issue. Even if Xu Yi was added in, their research power was very weak, causing Xu Yi to give most of their research work to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower toplete.

    This situation clearly wasn¡¯t good. First, not mentioning the fact that it cost the Frestech Chamber of Commerce arge amount of gold coins to have Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower help with the research, just based on the fact that they couldn¡¯t research anything themselves made it so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t be a healthypany.

    So Xu Yi neededrge amounts of magicians to join them.

    Even if these five were young, the strongest among them was only a Fourth Grade Magician. But they represented the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong enough to bring in magicians, which represented a beginning.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became stronger, even more magicians would join them.

    Of course, training their own powerful magician was also necessary.

    Therefore Xu Yi injected five hundred gold coins into the magic research facility each month to support Evita and Akali¡¯s independent magical research, letting the two of them increase their magic power.

    The increase of power for a magician required powerful talent for magic, but it also consumed arge amount of gold coins.

    This is because each magician¡¯s research requiredrge amounts of magical resources. Without the support of funds, if a magician wanted to rely purely on his talent to grasp a new kind of magic, it was basically impossible.

    So every powerful magician on the Sines Continent hadrge amounts of financial support behind them. Even an impoverished Great Magician like Great Magician Cami had the Magicians Guild and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s support.

    ordingly, if a magician had enough funds to conduct magic research, they also needed a decent magical talent. Then it was natural for them to increase their strength.

    When Evita and Akali joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were only a Third and Fourth Grade Magician respectively.

    And now that they¡¯ve worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for half a year, although they spent quite a bit of time researching magic machines, with the financial support from Xu Yi, the two of them had studied other magic while studying Magic Arrays. Their strengths had increased by leaps and bounds and now they broke through the boundary of a Fourth Grade Magician.

    Evita could even grasp a small bit of Fifth Grade Magic, only being a step away from bing a Fifth Grade Magician.

    And this was an important reason for why the five youths excitedly signed the contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to Akali and Evita, Still who had great talent and had more magical power hadn¡¯t increased by that much in half a year.

    As for the reason¡­...It was because she was always busy with something else.

    ¡°Xu Yi, chairman Rank of the Sarank Chamber of Commerce sent someone to find me today to have me be in an advertisement for their Sarank Chamber of Commerce. Do you think I should go or not?¡± Still¡¯s slender brows slightly knit, asking Xu Yi in a slightly worried manner, ¡°I¡¯ve avoided him several times, but he keeps sending people to find me, it¡¯s really troublesome.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her with a smile and said, ¡°That depends on if you¡¯re willing or not, why are you asking me?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and said with a soft snort, ¡°I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s spokesperson, you don¡¯t think there¡¯s a problem if I do advertising for otherpanies?¡±

    ¡°What problem is there?¡± Xu Yi carelessly shrugged his shoulders, ¡°The Sarank Chamber of Commerce deals in luxury goods, it doesn¡¯t sh with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products at all. If you do an advertisement for theirpany, it won¡¯t affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all. If I really have to say something, chairman Rank¡¯s eyes are rather sharp. Still is this beautiful and elegant, it really is fitting for you to do an advertisement for their Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s jewelry.¡±

    Still immediately revealed a smile, ¡°Really? You also feel that I¡¯m a good match for those jewelry?¡±

    Seeing the light in Still¡¯s eyes, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing in his heart.

    It seemed like whether this was earth or the Sines Continent, girls, especially beautiful girls couldn¡¯t resist beautiful jewelry.

    ¡°Of course!¡± Xu Yi gave a very certain nod, ¡°But if I can be honest, no matter how beautiful the jewelry is, it can¡¯tpare to your beauty. You are already a radiant piece of jewelry, so why put on those things to ruin your beauty?¡±

    Still broke out inughter. She looked at Xu Yi with an interested expression as she said, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯ve said that you¡¯ve never interacted with girls before, but I don¡¯t believe that.¡±

    ¡°Why not? Do I need to lie to you about this?¡± Xu Yi said with an innocent expression.

    ¡°This is because your ttery is too good to listen to, it doesn¡¯t seem faked at all. You must have frequently lied to girls before. How could you have not interacted with girls before?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes and snappily said, ¡°I am just speaking from the heart. Actually I don¡¯t like girls wearing any jewelry, especially a girl who is already beautiful enough. This is because I really feel that a beautiful girl is a special scene and putting on any embellishment like jewelry is ruining it. Still, actually you are as beautiful as a flower under the sun, why would you rather put on jewelry to ruin that beautiful scene?¡±

    Still didn¡¯tugh this time, rather her face turned red and she said in a soft voice, ¡°I never said that I would wear any jewelry. Actually I don¡¯t even like wearing those things, it¡¯s very troublesome.¡± After pausing, she said to Xu Yi, ¡°Since you don¡¯t like me wearing jewelry, I¡¯ll go turn down chairman Rank.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t, these are just my thoughts, you shouldn¡¯t be influenced.¡± Xu Yi quickly stopped her, ¡°Also being in the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advertisement will make you more popr and you being more popr brings benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When you do advertisements for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the effect will be even better.¡±

    ¡°Then do you want me to go or not?¡± Still waited for Xu Yi¡¯s answer.

    ¡°This¡­..Can I ask how much chairman Sarank is willing to pay you?¡±

    Still reached out a finger.

    ¡°One hundred gold coins? Isn¡¯t this too cheap, damn! Don¡¯t go!¡± Xu Yi immediately shook his head.

    Still gave a soft snort and said with a bit of pride, ¡°It isn¡¯t one hundred gold coins, it¡¯s a thousand!¡±

    ¡°Ah? A thousand gold coins?¡± Xu Yi was instantly speechless. He finally couldn¡¯t help shaking his head after a while and saying with a sigh, ¡°The Sarank Chamber of Commerce really is worthy of dealing in luxury goods, making such a generous move. Still, if your grandfather were to know that just by doing one advertisement for the Sarank Chamber of Commerce you would be able to earn as much as he receives from the royal family in a year, what would he think?¡±

    Still stuck out her tongue and naughtily said, ¡°So I didn¡¯t mention this matter to him at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That¡¯s good, it¡¯s better not to excite an old person like him. But speaking of rewards,pared to chairman Rank¡¯srge move, it seems like the reward our Frestech Chamber of Commerce gives you is a bit low. You only receive fifty gold coins per advertisement, this really is a bit too much. How about this, Still, you give me a price. As long as it isn¡¯t as exaggerated as a thousand gold coins, I can promise you as the chairman. You are still a big star in our Banta City, so the price can¡¯t be too low.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and snappily said, ¡°Get this clear, I¡¯m helping you do advertisements, I¡¯m not helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If it wasn¡¯t for you saying it was a problem for thepany, I wouldn¡¯t even take a single copper coin. Now you¡¯re mentioning rewards with me, then good. I won¡¯t mention something like a thousand gold coins, I¡¯ll just request nine hundred and ny nine gold coins, will you give it to me?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s outstretched little white hand and couldn¡¯t help teasing, ¡°This expensive, I can¡¯t afford it. How about I give myself to you to settle the debt, what do you think?¡±

    Still¡¯s face turned red. After looking at Xu Yi for a while, she slightly pursed her lips and said, ¡°Alright, give it to me.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. Seeing Still¡¯s slightly red face under the Magic Lamp and the slightly nervous look in Still¡¯s eyes, he actually became stupid for a while.

    The two looked at each other and although they felt it was very awkward, they weren¡¯t willing to look away.

    It was like in this staring match, the two of them both wanted an ending.

    Without knowing how long passed, Xu Yi slowly opened his mouth and softly said one word.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

 Volume 2 7 - Donâ€™t beat around the bush

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 7 Don¡¯t beat around the bush</strong>

    A rare winter sun appeared releasing warm sunlight that wasn¡¯t dazzling. Still stood on thewn and slightly looked up at the sunlight above her, with her left hand pushing back the golden hair at her ear as she revealed a faint dazzling smile.

    The sunlight fell onto her face and it made her snow white skin look translucent, like it could be broken by just blowing.

    Golden hair released streaks of light that bathed her entire body in a faint golden glow, giving her a sacred aura.

    Chairman Rank not far away couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°Young miss Still really is the goddess of our Banta City, these pieces of jewelry can only release this kind of dazzling glow when they are on her. Don¡¯t you think so, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Rank, you mean that your jewelry isn¡¯t as good if it is worn by the noble madames and young misses of Banta City? If they heard this, your Sarank Chamber of Commerce would suffer serious losses.¡±

    Chairman Rankughed, ¡°This is just my sincerepliment to young miss Still, I don¡¯t believe those noble madames and young misses will mind that much.¡±

    Although he said this, chairman Rank immediately changed the topic and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really have to thank you this time. If it wasn¡¯t for you persuading her, young miss Still wouldn¡¯t have agreed to do this advertisement for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t say anything. If you want to mention persuading Still, you have to mention the sky high price of a thousand gold coins you offered.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi looked at chairman Rank with profound meaning and asked, ¡°Chairman Rank, taking out such arge amount at once, is it really because you like Still¡¯s charm or do you have other intentions?¡±

    Chairman Rank shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think you¡¯ve underestimated young miss Still¡¯s charm. Even if you ignore the fact that young miss Still is a Fifth Grade Magician and the fact that she is Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter, just young miss Still herself is worth me paying such arge price. Look at how the jewelry young miss still is wearing is shining. If you were a normal girl and you saw this scene, you must think that if you buy the same jewelry, you would be able to be just as dazzling.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still in the distance. Although he thought that Still was indeed dazzling and released charm in all direction, was it because of the jewelry she was wearing? This waspletely because of Still herself.

    But looking at chairman Rank with a wild look in his eyes, Xu Yi decided to force down these words.

    After a while, chairman Rank let out a soft sigh and gave an awkward smile to Xu Yi, ¡°Sorry, when speaking of jewelry, I can¡¯t control myself.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an understanding smile, ¡°If we talk about magic machines, I¡¯m the same.¡±

    Chairman Rank revealed a faint smile, ¡°Since chairman Xu is this interested in magic machines, then let¡¯s talk about magic machines. Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that¡­..your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been helping the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce invent some magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him in surprise.

    It wasn¡¯t surprising that chairman Rank knew about this, what was strange was why did he suddenly care about this?

    ¡°It is like this.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°But the actual situation is my looking for chairman Cruise and chairman Morgan on my own, showing them the magic machines we develop and luckily they epted them.¡±

    ¡°Luckily?¡± Chairman Rank said with a soft smile, ¡°Perhaps it isn¡¯t luck. Chairman Xu¡¯s eyes have always been urate, so what you offered the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce were just what they needed. So it wasn¡¯t strange for chairman Cruise and chairman Morgan to ept them.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Rank is overestimating me too much, it really was just luck.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand.

    ¡°Alright, it doesn¡¯t matter if it is luck. This at least proves that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop magic machines ording to the needs of otherpanies, isn¡¯t that right, chairman Xu?¡± Chairman Rank asked again.

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Rank in surprise before giving a slight nod, ¡°Although that isn¡¯tpletely correct, it is mostly correct. What? Chairman Rank, could it be that your Sarank Chamber of Commerce needs us to invent a magic machine for you?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Chairman Rank nodded with a smile. He raised his hand and the aide standing behind him suddenly took out a stack of papers.

    Xu Yi took them and found that they were blueprints, with several mechanical designs on them. At the same time, there were requestsbeled on them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we have drawn blueprints ording to our needs, please look over them. Of course, we have only pondered this matter and don¡¯t specialize in magic machines like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This is only a suggestion, the final product doesn¡¯t have to be like this.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and seriously looked over the blueprints. He was surprised to find that although the small magic machines couldn¡¯tpare to the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce specialized in building, based on the blueprints, he could see traces of mechanical engineering theory.

    Then adding in the requests beside these magic machines, the magic machines on the blueprint could already satisfy these basic requirements.

    With these blueprints, as long as they kept studying a bit, perhaps the Sarank Chamber of Commerce could develop these magic machines by themselves!

    ¡°Our Sarank Chamber of Commerce is not responsible for researching magic machines. Chairman Xu, these blueprints were made by some magicians and craftsmen we¡¯ve found who were interested in the magic machines, what do you think about them?¡± Chairman Rank asked.

    ¡°Magicians and craftsmen interested in magic machines?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at chairman Rank, as he thought that there were finally people who recognized the importance of magic machines, so they began researching them.

    Compared to the shoddy replications by the Leo Chamber of Commerce from before, this blueprint contained original ideas by from magicians and craftsmen.

    Although it was much worsepared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, this still meant that they seriously entered the magic machine industry and began to seriously study it.

    Xu Yi was really surprised and happy about this.

    He was shocked that people outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had begun entering the magic machine industry. Right now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the technological advantage to be rxed about this. If they every stagnated, the others would quickly catch up to them.

    He was happy because there were finally others entering the magic machine industry. On this continent, it wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone researching in this field.

    If more of these people andpanies joined, it would increase the magic machine industry development rate on the Sines Continent. It would mean significant progress for Xu Yi¡¯s dream of creating an industrial revolution.

    As various thoughts passed in his mind, Xu Yi looked at the blueprints in his hand before asking chairman Rank, ¡°Can I ask, what kind of people are the magicians and craftsmen who made these blueprints?¡±

    Chairman Rank shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°They were all casually found by me, chairman Xu won¡¯t know them even if I tell you their names.¡±

    Chairman Rank¡¯s response was within Xu Yi¡¯s expectations. He thought about it before saying, ¡°Alright, I will bring these blueprints back and try to make the magic machines ording to the requests. Other than this, chairman Rank, I¡¯ll have to trouble you to pass on some words to the magicians and craftsmen who made these blueprints. Tell them that if they don¡¯t understand anything when studying magic machines, they cane look for me. I¡¯m not that secretive about these matters and will definitely teach them what they want to know, so they don¡¯t need to beat around the bush like this.¡±

    Chairmamn Rank¡¯s expression changed slightly before turning back into a smile. He said with a nod, ¡°Alright, I will pass your words to them.¡±

    Xu Yi put the blueprints in his chest and stood up to move over to Still who had finished modeling.

    Seeing Xu Yie over, Still revealed a smile covered in sunlight before a faint blush filled her face. She lowered her head, like she didn¡¯t dare look at Xu Yi.

    Seeing Still¡¯s reaction, Xu Yi also felt his face be a bit warm.

    Since that day when he didn¡¯t know why he unexpectedly said ¡°alright¡±, the atmosphere between Xu Yi and Still had be a bit strange.

    Over the next few days, it had been awkward between the two of them. Still who had always been open and natural would have her face turn red and Xu Yi became much more stiff around her.

    It was like the two of them didn¡¯t know how to be with each other.

    Looking at Still who had her head down and didn¡¯t know what to do, Xu Yi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He said with a smile, ¡°Still, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡±

    Still looked up at Xu Yi and revealed a somewhat crooked smile.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not hard.¡±

    Then she lowered her head again.

    Seeing Still¡¯s different than usual behaviour, Xu Yi remembered the awkwardness between them recently. There was a strong impulse that filled him and he quickly moved forward, grabbing Still¡¯s hand.

    Still looked up at Xu Yi in surprise and seeing that Xu Yi was holding her hand, her face turned red again. She wanted to pull her hand away, but because Xu Yi was holding her tightly, she couldn¡¯t move it at all.

    ¡°Chairman Rank, if there is nothing else, Still and I will be leaving now.¡± Xu Yi raised his other hand to wave at chairman Rank as he spoke in a loud voice.

    Chairman Rank¡¯s eyes fell onto their hands and a profound smile appeared on his face, as he gave a slight nod, ¡°Alright, I won¡¯t dy you two. Please have a nice trip chairman Xu and young miss Still.¡±

    Xu Yi used a bit of strength and Still obediently followed behind him, as they left the Sarank Chamber of Commerce.

 Volume 2 8 - Matters related to patents

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 8 Matters rted to patents</strong>

    ¡°Hey, kid, when are you nning to get married to Still?¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly looked at Xu Yi to ask this.

    ¡°Pu¡ª¡ª¡±

    Xu Yi spat out the tea he had been drinking. After coughing a few times, he looked at Great Magician Cami in shock as he said in a lost voice, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you¡­..What are you saying?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a strong snort, ¡°What? Is there a problem with me asking? Kid, since you have decided to be in a rtionship with Still, could it be I shouldn¡¯t ask you when you are nning to get married? Kid, are you saying that you are only nning to y with still and aren¡¯t nning to marry her? Let me tell you, kid, anyone who isn¡¯t nning to marriage in a rtionship is a hoodlum! If you dare do this to Still, do you believe that I won¡¯t break your legs?¡±

    Seeing the agitated Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he responded, ¡°I say, your excellency Great Magician, Still and I have just started dating. Shouldn¡¯t we understand each other a bit better before considering marriage?¡±

    ¡°Understand what? You two have been together for half a year, working together all day and getting together when you have nothing to do. Still¡¯s even spent a few nights at your ce, this isn¡¯t enough?¡± Great Magician Cami said in a cold voice, ¡°Kid, stop wasting words, I am asking you this as Still¡¯s grandfather, honestly answer my questions!¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t seem to be kidding, Xu Yi thought about it before the helpless look on his face disappeared and he said with a serious expression, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, Still is an outstanding girl whether it is in terms of appearance or personality, of course I hope that she can be my wife as soon as possible. But I have to respect Still¡¯s wishes. If she feels it isn¡¯t suitable, I can¡¯t just force her to agree to marry me.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows, ¡°What? Still isn¡¯t satisfied with you?¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a bitter smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t like that, it¡¯s just that she isn¡¯t prepared for marriage this early. You should just give us some time and when the time is ripe, naturally these matters will be considered. But before this, i hope that you won¡¯t give her too much pressure.¡±

    Great Magician Cami thought about this before giving a sigh. He waved his hand and said, ¡°Forget it, this is the matter of you young people anyway, I can¡¯t be bothered. Alright, kid, let¡¯s talk about business. Come, first take a look at the periodical that came from the guild today.¡±

    Taking the internal periodical from Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi saw therge words on top and was stunned.

    ¡°Magic research is selfish?¡±

    Usually the title page of the Magicians Guild¡¯s internal periodic would represent the hottest recent topic at the Magicians Guild, which would normally be rted to magic research.

    But while the title of this periodical seemed rted to magical research, it had quite the moral taste to it.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami in surprise.

    ¡°Take a look yourself. Oh that¡¯s right, take a look at the seventh page first.¡±

    Xu Yi flipped to the seventh page and was even more surprised by the title on this page.

    ¡°Magic research is a magician¡¯s property and shouldn¡¯t be taken lightly!¡±

    Seeing the title of this article, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at the name of the author and found it was a familiar name.

    Gordon Eisenkel.

    Seeing this name, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    If it was this Great Magician who was the greediest for money, it wasn¡¯t strange for him to say this.

    As he continued reading, he found that the content of the article wasn¡¯t as weak as the title.

    Great Magician Eisenkel kept emphasizing the great damage releasing a magician¡¯s research results would cause the magician. It would cause magicians to gradually lose their motivation to develop new magic because even if they could develop it, it would be easily learnt by other magicians.

    ¡°Magician are also people and people are moved by benefits. If there aren¡¯t enough benefits, why would magicians waste their energy to study new forms of magic?¡±

    The article could be considered well founded, speaking in a convincing manner, but what surprised Xu Yi was that in thetter half of the article, Great Magician Eisenkel used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi as an example.

    He highly praised Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, saying that the magic machines Xu Yi developed was giving magicians a new way to develop. It proved that magical application had an important and powerful role in normal lives.

    But if the magic machines Xu Yi developed weren¡¯t protected and anyone could casually copy it, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would certainly lose the motivation to develop new magic machines.

    ¡°Every time a new prospect appears, it would always stop from the guild¡¯s propaganda of being selfless. For the longest time, the magicians of the Sines Continent haven¡¯t moved forward and the level of magic on the continent hasn¡¯t increased. Could it be that in this situation, we still shouldn¡¯t change ourselves?¡±

    At the end of the article, Great Magician Eisenkel couldn¡¯t help speaking in an rmist manner.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that the level of magic on the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t increasing.

    Since several thousand years, although the magicians of the Sines Continent weren¡¯t as strong as the magicians during the race was, they have continued their magical research, so it was impossible for there to be no progress at all.

    After he finished reading the article and read some other parts of the periodic, he found that many of the articles published by Great Magicians were arguing this matter.

    ¡°Why did it suddenly be like this?¡± Xu Yi closed the periodic and asked Great Magician Cami this in a confused manner.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because the guild is prepared to pass a new decision. They are requesting all the magicians of their guild to publish it to the guild after they make any new discoveries, sharing their research with all other magicians, promoting the growth of magic on the Sines Continent.¡± Great Magician Cami responded.

    ¡°Damn¡­...The people at the Magicians Guild¡­..are they stupid?¡± Xu Yi paused before he couldn¡¯t help cursing, ¡°Having everyone share everything, it would be strange if anyone was willing to work. If they really pass this decision, it will cause every magician to stop their magical research and everyone would just wait for others to finish their research.¡±

    ¡°If this was before, I would scold you for being too selfish and not understanding the spirit of sacrifice, but now¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Cami revealed a bitter smile, ¡°I have to admit that being selfish sometimes isn¡¯t a bad thing. If you release all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research, yourpany will instantly fall. And I wouldn¡¯t be able to receive that much funding from yourpany.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re also opposed to this decision?¡± Xu Yi immediately asked.

    ¡°Yes. Not only is it me and Eisenkel, most of the Great Magicians have shown clear opposition this time.¡± Great Magician Cami said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°So this decision shouldn¡¯t pass. Kid, you don¡¯t have to worry about the guild forcing you to release your research.¡±

    ¡°Of course, with a decision that goes against normal human thinking, it would be strange if it passed.¡± Xu Yi said whileughing.

    ¡°Other than this, in response to the decision this time, Eisenkel proposed to the guild about magicians having exclusive rights to their research. The specifics are like the patents you tried to submitst time. Currently this suggestion is being discussed and it¡¯s unknown if it will pass or not. But because of the storm caused by the other decision, there is quite a high approval for passing this decision.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°This Great Magician Cami really knows how to seize opportunities. But why does he hope to obtain patent rights for a magician¡¯s research? Moreover, he even used me as an example, not even letting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce off?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with a strange expression.

    ¡°Kid, being reminded by you, I suddenly feel that you and that fellow Eisenkel are quite simr. Compared to magicians, you two rather seem like merchants.¡±

    ###

    Without knowing if the magician¡¯s exclusive rights to their research passed or not, Seveni gave Xu Yi some bad news first. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament had rejected the patentw.

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni with knitted brows, ¡°With thisw passed,panies that apply for patents would have to pay a certain amount each year and the kingdom¡¯s ie would increase, so why did they reject it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because ones behind the parliament are therge nobles of the kingdom. Under those nobles, there are thergepanies.¡± Seveni replied.

    ¡°Then I¡¯m even more confused. This patentw is aimed at all thepanies in the kingdom, could it be theirpanies don¡¯t have unique technology, so they don¡¯t need the protection of the patentw?¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice.

    Seveni took a deep look at Xu Yi and gave a soft sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I told you that the reason why this proposal was overruled was because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would you believe it?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise and after a while, he shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t believe it. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is just a smallpany who has earned several hundred thousand in a year, how could thoserge characters care about us?¡±

    ¡°No, chairman Xu, you¡¯re looking down on yourself and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Since you signed the order with the agricultural department for the tens of thousands of small agricultural magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was no longer a smallpany.¡± Seveni said with a serious expression, ¡°I think that you should know that during this time, the king has already announced that our agricultural department is cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so everyone in the kingdom knows about yourpany and knows that you have earned several million gold coins with just the agricultural magic machines. So many people are jealous and want to join the magic machine industry. You think that at this time, would they pass a patentw that would hinder them?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before letting out a long breath, revealing a helpless look.

    The agricultural department announcing they were cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that they had discussed with him beforehand. Xu Yi did not oppose it at the time because it would greatly increase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame.

    He never thought that just by announcing this cooperation, it would actually attract the attention of many nobles behind thergepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After they focused on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, people noticed that these magic machines had infinite potential andrge profits.

    It wasn¡¯t that strange if they wanted to enter this industry.

    ¡°No wonder chairman Rank would suddenly take out those blueprints, so the Sarank Chamber of Commerce already had this idea. Only how far have the otherpanies developed?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying to Seveni, ¡°This means that it is now impossible for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to safely and slowly develop in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°Chairman Xu, I must remind you thatpared to somergepanies, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very weak. If you¡¯re not careful, it¡¯s very likely you¡¯ll be swallowed.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as he revealed a self taunting smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s good, I have to face thesepetitors sooner orter. Although they came a bit earlier, since they are here, I¡¯ll just properly take care of them. These fellows want to treat our Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a small fish to swallow, but they never would have thought that this small fish can swim faster than them and they can¡¯t catch it at all, right?¡±

 Volume 2 9 - Long term plan

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 9 Long term n</strong>

    For the Lampuri Kingdom that was to the southwest of the Sines Continent, spring came earlier than most other countries on the continent.

    Entering March, the south winds came. The snow on the ground had already been blown away and there were even some sprouts in the fresh soil, bringing a touching trace of green to the monotonous ground.

    Xu Yi looked at the eye catching green outside the window and was stunned for a bit before turning back to the kingdom¡¯s map on the wall.

    To the west of Banta City, other than the area of red where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories were, there was arge area of light red to the west. It represented the area the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was going to take under them.

    Of course Seveni didn¡¯t only bring bad news. After spending two months at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce andpleting the first batch of agricultural magic machines, Seveni gave Xu Yi some good news. The king had seriously considered it and had agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s request to rent somend from the royal family.

    And unexpected to Xu Yi, the king was even more generous than he had thought.

    Xu Yi just tentatively wanted to rent and with an area of one square kilometer, but the king had increased it by ten times! He agreed to rent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a giant area of over ten square kilometers!

    Moreover, the rent the king had set was even cheaper than Xu Yi had expected.

    At first Xu Yi was nning on renting a square kilometer ofnd and was nning to pay at least five thousand each year in rent, but after the king agreed to rent him ten square kilometers, he actually gave him a rent of only thirty thousand gold coins each year!

    If one used conversion based on purchasing power, thirty thousand gold coins was equal to three million RMB.

    If anypany on earth knew about this, that they could rent a full ten square kilometers with only three million RMB each year, they would have fainted from happiness.

    Of course, with the rent being cheap, it meant that thend wouldn¡¯t be that good.

    Although the king allowed Xu Yi to picknd near Banta City, he requested that it was at least ten kilometers away.

    Normally because thisnd is far away from Banta City, it would be quite bad.

    But unexpected to the king and Seveni, Xu Yi actually chose a deste piece ofnd that was fifty kilometers to the west of Banta City.

    Seveni even thought that Xu Yi was insane.

    Although on the map, this ce seemed to be in between Banta City, Saltan City, and Karma City, not being that far away from the three cities, it was still over fifty kilometers from the closest Banta City.

    With such arge distance, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a factory here and producedrge amounts of magic machines, it would without a doubt cost a giant amount to transport the magic machines to these cities.

    Thinking of how Seveni tried to talk him out of it, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Although Seveni was seriously thinking about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she didn¡¯t know Xu Yi¡¯s n at all, so she could only worry in vain.

    Xu Yi stood up and moved in front of map. He first looked at therge fire red area before looking to the top left, finally stopping at some forests, rivers, and mountains.

    This forest was the Falling Rain Forest.

    Those two mountains were the Crossing Mountains where the Norma Tribe and the Ang Tribe¡¯s dwarves lived.

    The river was naturally the one that passed through the Falling Rain Forest, the river that was now filled with silt.

    The ce Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell was where the new tribe was to be constructed after Xu Yi talked with chief Siluka and chief Monto.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already sentrge amounts of people there and were currently building houses in full force.

    After two months of construction, this ce of over ten thousand square meters would have buildings of a new tribe that could host over a thousand dwarves.

    Once it wasplete, ording to the estimates of the two dwarven chieves, it could host over three thousand dwarves at once.

    Not only would it allow all the dwarves of the Ang and Norma Tribes to move in, it would also leave over half the houses for other dwarven tribes.

    His eyes then fell onto a ce to the top left of the river where the Night Song Tribe had hidden themselves.

    In these past two months, the elves haven¡¯t been idle.

    They had been studying the resin ording to Xu Yi¡¯s requests, while also bringing some human irrigation specialists upriver to see what the situation was.

    After a month of inspection, they had finally finished their n.

    The one in charge of this project was still the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce slowly grasped how to use the cement, so they were the onlypany on the Sines Continent that could follow Xu Yi¡¯s request to use reinforced cement to build reinforcements along the bank of the river.

    Even if this river wasn¡¯t big, the amount of time needed for this project was set for over two years.

    Xu Yi had no other choice since the Sines Continent didn¡¯t haverge scale construction machines like on earth. And the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the technology to make machines that were simr.

    But as this project progressed, Xu Yi had instructed the research department to research construction magic machines, so perhaps one or two could be finished in time.

    For example, the technology needed for the Magic Concrete Mixer wasn¡¯t high and had already been made. After they gave it to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to use, with how good it was, chairman Cruise ordered a hundred units.

    Elder Illusia didn¡¯t think that this was long.

    For the elves with lifespans of hundreds of years, two years was just a snap of the finger. It wasn¡¯t considered much.

    Moreover, the Night Song Tribe had abundant underground water right now, so it wasn¡¯t pressing for them to fix the river like before.

    His eyes looked across the map and Xu Yi put a finger on Banta City on the map. Then he slid his finger out of the city, drawing a straight line that led to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory. Then going along, he went to thend he rented, to where the new dwarven tribe was before finally stopping at the Falling Rain Forest.

    ¡°There needs to at least be proper roads that connect these ces.¡± Xu Yi muttered. Then his finger created two more lines from thend her rented, going to Saltan City and Karma City, ¡°Other than this, there needs to be two more roads.¡±

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, therge piece ofnd he rented would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most importantrge scale production base. It would take most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine orders.

    And for a production base, convenient transportation was one of the first things to consider, so Xu Yi immediately thought about how to construct roads to this ce. Rather than ordinary roads made of rocks and sand that was normally constructed on the Sines Continent.

    Of course, this n couldn¡¯t bepleted for now and currently only existed in Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    Currently speaking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base was the factory Xu Yi was currently in.

    ¡°Right, there¡¯s still the factory outside Karma City.¡± Seeing Heinze in, Xu Yi secretly added in his heart. Then he asked Heinz with a smile, ¡°Hey, Heinz, are you setting off?¡±

    There was a tense look on Heinz¡¯s mature face. After he went around the office twice, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re really not nning to go with me?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Why would I go? Didn¡¯t we already agree that you had full authority for Karma City and I wouldn¡¯t meddle? Then again, I went when the factory began construction a few days ago, so if I go now, the people there will misunderstand. They will think that you managing them is not a good thing.¡±

    ¡°I know what you say is reasonable, but¡­¡­¡± Heinz said with a bitter smile, ¡°Xu Yi, I have never managed such arge ce. Actually¡­..it¡¯s a bit nerve racking.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Didn¡¯t you bravely say before that you wanted to share some of my responsibilities and wanted to run the Karma City factory alone, so why are you telling me you¡¯re nervous now? Alright, no one knows anything from birth. Didn¡¯t you see that I didn¡¯t know anything about business before and hasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed properly?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s is different. You¡­..You have talent, I don¡¯t¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What talented. Isn¡¯t managing these things the same. If you can manage a workshop with several hundred people, then you can manage a factory in Karma City.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder and said, ¡°Alright, quickly set off. Today is the first day the factory is starting work, if you as the factory manager iste, you¡¯ll lose face.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­..I¡¯m setting off?¡± Heinz asked in an uncertain voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile and pushed him from behind, pushing him out of the office and onto the horse carriage already prepared for him.

    He watched as Heinz¡¯s horse carriage disappeared into the distance. Xu Yi shook his head and prepared to return to the magic machine workshop, but he caught a glimpse of a horse carriage in the distance, which unexpected stopped in front of him.

    When the horse carriage stopped, a familiar figure jumped out and fell into Xu Yi¡¯s embrace with a fragrant scent.

    Feeling two warm lips pressed on his face, Xu Yi said in surprise, ¡°Still, why are you here?¡±

    It was different from the shy appearance when they entered their rtionship, now Still had regained her sunny personality like before. Even in front of others, she didn¡¯t hide it at all. This kind of bold attitude made Xu Yi blush from time to time.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s personality was quite passive, so he enjoyed Still acting like this.

    ¡°I brought a special guest here, look.¡± Still pointed at the horse carriage with smile.

    ¡°Special guest?¡± Xu Yi looked at the horse carriage and saw a middle aged magician wearing a magician¡¯s robe, but was covered in the sharp aura of a merchant stepping down.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, the middle aged magician said with a faint smile, ¡°Hello chairman Xu, let me introduce myself. I am Gordon Eisenkel.¡±

 Volume 2 10 - Cooperate with me

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 10 Cooperate with me</b>

    Gordon Eisenkel?

    Xu Yi was instantly shocked.

    This middle aged man that seemed like a sharp merchant was actually the richest magician in the Lampuri Kingdom, Gordon Eisenkel!

    ¡°Hello Great Magician Eisenkel.¡± Xu Yi quickly gave the other side the standard magician greeting before curiously looking over the other side.

    It was a bit different from the rumours, this Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s clothes was actually quite simple. Other than the normal dark ck magician¡¯s robe that he was wearing, there was a strange bracelet that was at his wrist.

    But after Xu Yi saw that bracelet, his eyes couldn¡¯t help narrowing.

    If he wasn¡¯t mistaken, this bracelet was actually a rarely seen Natural Magic essory!

    Natural Magic essories were rarely seen on the Sines Continent and they had special effects, so each one could be considered a top ss treasure.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what effect this bracelet had, since it was on the wrist of a Great Magician like Eisenkel, it was definitely a special Natural Magic essory. If it was put onto auction, the lowest price would be over a hundred thousand gold coins!

    If Xu Yi at first thought that Great Magician Eisenkel was simple, if anyone were to say to him now that Great Magician Eisenkel was simple, he would definitely spit in the other side¡¯s face.

    Simple? Is your family so simple that you can wear a treasure worth a hundred thousand gold coins on your wrist?

    Not to mention that this was only what Xu Yi could see. God knows how many other treasures Great Magician Eisenkel was hiding in ces that couldn¡¯t be seen.

    But only Great Magician Eisenkel dared to do something like this. If anyone else dared to grantly wear something this valuable, they would have had their hands chopped off already.

    All kinds of strange thoughts floated out of Xu Yi¡¯s mind. When he stood up again, there was a standard polite smile on his face.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Eisenkel, for you to suddenlye to our Banta City, it should be to visit Great Magician Cami, right? Why did youe to my ce?¡± Xu YI asked.

    Great Magician Eisenkel looked at Xu Yi holding hands with Still with a faint smile before shaking his head and saying, ¡°No. On the surface it is toe visit Cami, but actually I came this time to see you, chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He turned to look at Still and seeing that she didn¡¯t look surprised at all, it seemed like she already knew about this matter.

    ¡°This¡­...For your excellency Great Magician Eisenkel to specially visit me, I really am honoured. Only I wonder, what does your excellency Great Magician need me for?¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel smiled without replying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re not inviting me in for a tour?¡±

    ¡°You want to tour these factories?¡± Xu Yi asked in surprise.

    ¡°Right, I came this time for them.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Eisenkel in surprise. After thinking about it, he invited him in.

    ¡°Please follow me.¡±

    After an hour, Great Magician Eisenkel went to the office with Xu Yi and Still after they finished the tour.

    Seeing Still take the initiative to pour them water, Great Magician Eisenkel said with a smile, ¡°Last time I came to Banta City to visit Great Magician Cami, Still, you were still just a little girl of around ten. I never thought that in the blink of an eye, that you would be a big girl with such an outstanding boyfriend who is about to get married.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an awkward smile as Still naturally ced the water in front of Great Magician Eisenkel, saying with a faint smile, ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel, you¡¯re old.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel broke out inughter, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m already old. This world already belongs to you young people. Look, for many years I wanted to apply magic into people¡¯s normal lives, but I never had a clue on how and I didn¡¯t have the time or energy to actually do it. I never thought that in just a short year, chairman Xu Yi could apply this theory to application magic and prate it into people¡¯s hearts. I really can¡¯tpare.¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel, you¡¯re too modest.¡± Xu Yi replied before asking, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you¡¯ve paid attention to magic application before?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel nodded, ¡°If I didn¡¯t pay attention to magic application, I wouldn¡¯t have earned that much money. If I didn¡¯t earn that much money, my magic power wouldn¡¯t have reached the step it was at now. Actually this is a very simple logic, I¡¯m just curious, why are there so many magicians who don¡¯t understand it?¡±

    Still couldn¡¯t help curiously asking, ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel, you mean that you worked so hard to make money just to increase your own magic power?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t exactly like that. My meaning is that magic and making money doesn¡¯t sh. Since bing a powerful magician means that you have to spend money, then why can¡¯t studying magic and making money be rted?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said with a sigh, ¡°I really can¡¯t understand, why do so many of my colleagues have to be so proud. It¡¯s like rting magic and making money would taint magic. Didn¡¯t they think about how if they didn¡¯t have money, they couldn¡¯t even study magic, so how could they increase their power? Just by wildly guessing?¡±

    Still slightly knit her brows, ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel, why do I feel you¡¯re talking about my grandfather?¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkelughed, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am talking about your grandfather. But of course I¡¯m talking about the previous him. As for now¡­...In my visit this time, I¡¯ve found that your grandfather had changed into another person. Not only does he not have the same cold and disdainful attitude like before, he even took the initiative to talk about magic application with me. Speaking of this, it should be chairman Xu¡¯s merit, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, ¡°If he didn¡¯t see the real benefits magic application brought to people, I feel that an old person like him wouldn¡¯t easily change his thoughts.¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about real benefits, you¡¯re talking about the magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel asked.

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel, you should tell me your goal for looking for me this time. For a Great Magician like you to suddenlye here, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s for a small matter, right?¡±

    ¡°He, he, chairman Xu really is in a rush. Alright, let¡¯s stop chatting and talk about business. I cam this time mainly to talk to chairman Xu about the matter of cooperation.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Cooperation?¡± Xu Yi and Still looked at each other, seeing the surprised look in each other¡¯s eyes, ¡°How can you and I cooperate?¡±

    ¡°Since you can cooperate with Cami, why can¡¯t you cooperate with me?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel asked back.

    ¡°You mean¡­...you want to cooperate with me to research magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked in an uncertain voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. I¡¯m very interested in how youbined magic and machines and thought that this would need more research. If this can beplete, I even feel that it could change the entire Sines Continent!¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said in a somewhat fervent voice.

    Although his words mimicked what Xu Yi thought, without knowing why, Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel any excitement from his ideas being finally acknowledged at all.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Then Great Magician Eisenkel, how are you nning on cooperating?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, I¡¯ll provide the materials the magicians need that I own and you provide the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine research knowledge. With us working together, we can have magic machine take over for all manpower. With our strengths, I believe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research can progress by leaps and bounds. Think about it, if we sessfully research more and more magic machines, flooding the Sines Continent with it, how attractive of a situation would that be?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit excited by Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s fervor. After pausing he asked, ¡°Then how do we take care of the results of the research from this?¡±

    ¡°Of course we¡¯ll jointly own it, this is the results of us working hard together.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel responded in a refreshing manner, ¡°That¡¯s right, a month ago with the other Great Magicians, we¡¯ve proposed to the Magicians Guild of magicians having exclusive rights to their research. ording to the newest information, the guild is very likely to ept this proposal. This mean that the results that we obtain together will belong to us along and you won¡¯t need to worry about others taking your research to use for themselves.¡±

    After saying this, Great Magician Eisenkel took out a sheet from his chest and spread it in front of Xu Yi.

    There was an image on it and it was actually that of a Magic Fan.

    ¡°Look, this is the Magic Fan researched by a smallpany in Anvilmar City, it is already the same as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan. I feel that if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to sell your Magic Fans in Anvilmar City, you won¡¯t be able topete with them. But if the magic research rights are passed by the guild, we can strictly order the magician working with thispany to stop. Otherwise they will be going against the guild¡¯s rules and will be punished ordingly.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Fan and gave a slight nod, ¡°Indeed, having protection matters will be much better.¡±

    ¡°So chairman Xu, cooperate with me. As long as those people in the guild sees the benefits of magic application, they will happily approve this proposal.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the expectant Great Magician Eisenkel and he couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    What cooperation?

    Perhaps Great Magician Eisenkel would be able to provide assistance with his knowledge of magic when it came to researching magic machines.

    But in terms of magic research, it wasn¡¯t only Great Magician Eisenkel who could help him.

    To put it differently, he didn¡¯t have any uniqueness.

    But Xu Yi waspletely different.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce or more urately Xu Yi with his knowledge of magic mechanical engineering theory, was currently unique on the Sines Continent. It was impossible for anyone to have the same knowledge and no one could rece Xu Yi.

    One that had knowledge and one that didn¡¯t, it was impossible for both sides to be on the same level.

    Great Magician Eisenkel made it sound good, iming that he would use his financial resources to support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research, also iming that both sides would share the research.

    This looked pretty good at first nce, but to Xu Yi, this Great Magician Eisenkel clearly wanted to take Xu Yi¡¯s mechanical engineering knowledge that he didn¡¯t have at all.

    Xu Yi was certain that as long as he agreed to this cooperation, when Great Magician Eisenkel felt he had grasped enough mechanical engineering knowledge, he would definitely kick Xu Yi away.

    This kind of cooperation, Xu Yi would be an idiot if he agreed.

    But after Xu Yi considered it for a while, he nodded at Great Magician Eisenkel.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I hope we have a happy cooperation.¡±

 Volume 2 11 - Product announcement

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 11 Product announcement</strong>

    Three dayster, when Great Magician Eisenkel left Banta City, his expression was a bit dissatisfied.

    Although Xu Yi had said he agreed to cooperating with him, after discussing this for three days, Xu Yi firmly held onto the technology he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had studied and wasn¡¯t willing to share it at all.

    In the cooperation agreement, Xu Yi only hoped that Great Magician Eisenkel would be responsible for researching the magic portion and he didn¡¯t let him participate in researching the design portion at all.

    Like this, even if he cooperated with Xu Yi, Great Magician Eisenkel would only be responsible for researching the magic and Magic Array aspect, it was no different from before. It waspletely unlike what Great Magician Eisenkel wanted, participating in designing the magic machine to grasp the knowledge to make the magic machines.

    As for Xu Yi refusing to conceded, Great Magician Eisenkel had no other way because Xu Yi was not an idiot, of course he wouldn¡¯tpletely agree to his request.

    After considering it, Great Magician Eisenkel didn¡¯t be angry because of Xu Yi¡¯s insistence. Rather he agreed to cooperate with Xu Yi because no matter what, they would share the results of their research.

    If by then Great Magician Eisenkel was also conducting research on magic machines, he would be a step further than the otherpanies.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you should know that Great Magician Eisenkel manages apany in Anvilmar City and it is much bigger than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If you agree to share the research results with him, won¡¯t he rely on his advantages to produce the same magic machine and squeeze out the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± After sending off Great Magician Eisenkel and returning to the office, Still couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi this in a worried voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t reply to Still¡¯s question. Rather he went to the corner of the office and took out a Magic Rice Cooker.

    ¡°Can you see it?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Rice Cooker and asked this.

    ¡°See what? Isn¡¯t this just a Magic Rice Cooker?¡± Still was a bit confused.

    ¡°I¡¯m telling you to pay attention to thebel on it.¡± Xu Yi then said.

    Still looked at the bottom half of the Magic Rice Cooker and was surprised to find that although this Magic Rice Cooker looked the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Rice Cooker, the product brand at the bottom of the product was not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s half wing design, rather it was an angry bull.

    ¡°This¡­..is a replica?¡±

    ¡°Strictly speaking, it isn¡¯t a replica.¡± Xu Yi opened the top of this Magic Rice Cooker and showed the inside to Still, ¡°Look, this Magic Rice Cooker, whether it is the outside, the inside, or even the function, it is all the same as our Frestech Brand Rice Cooker. If it is called a replica, it really is a good replica. Actually, I¡¯m willing to call it another brand of Magic Rice Cooker.¡±

    ¡°What difference is that? Isn¡¯t it just a replica of our Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker?¡± Still pursed her lips, as she said in a voice filled with disdain.

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a difference. It¡¯s rare for normal replicas to even reach this level of quality and this Bull Brand Magic Rice Cooker canpare to our Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker, even adding a bit of innovation. Other than the Magic Rice Cooker in my hand, there are other models of this Bull Brand Magic Rice Cooker with quite the difference in terms of quantity.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Still took the Bull Brand Magic Rice Cooker from Xu Yi¡¯s hand and carefully looked it over. She found that this Bull Brand Magic Rice Cooker really was of good quality, it was almost no different from the Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker.

    After looking at Xu Yi and seeing that there was still a happy smile on his face, Still couldn¡¯t help asking in a confused voice, ¡°Xu Yi, how can you keep smiling? With a Magic Rice Cooker of such good quality appearing, there will be a strongpetitor for the Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker. You¡¯re not worried at all?¡±

    ¡°Why would I be worried?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s a good thing there arepetitors. Actually I¡¯m looking forward to seeing manypanies that canpete with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce appearing on the continent. Only like this can magic machines be popr on the Sines Continent and the magic magic industry can enter people¡¯s hearts, making my dreams much easier to aplish!¡±

    Still reached out touch Xu Yi¡¯s forehead, ¡°You¡¯re speaking nonsense without a fever? Don¡¯t forget, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t the strongestpany yet, so if there really were morepetitors, aren¡¯t you afraid that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be crushed? As for the ideal of establishing an industrial system on the continent, even if it is aplished, will you be happy if you¡¯re not the one to do it?¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right. If it¡¯s not personally aplished by me, there is indeed no meaning. So¡­..¡± Xu Yiughed as he ced his hand on Still¡¯s face, ¡°The beautiful and dazzling young miss Still, I¡¯ll have to trouble you to help me make another advertisement.¡±

    ###

    The first of April, it was a very special day on earth, but it didn¡¯t have meaning on the Sines Continent. It didn¡¯t affect people¡¯s lives at all.

    But it was not the same for Banta City. Early in the morning, a group of people poured into the business district to the west of the city. The street that was considered rather wide waspletely filled without leaving a single gap.

    The merchants on the street weren¡¯t surprised by this because in the past few days in the ?Banta Times?, they reported that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at their service center would be doing a¡­..product announcement?

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce really knew how to do things. Wasn¡¯t this just inventing a new product, why didn¡¯t they specially have to do an announcement and attract all these people?

    It waspletely having nothing better to do.

    But people had to admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had quite a bit of poprity in Banta City and the surrounding cities. It was just announcing a new product, but it attracted all these people this early in the morning.

    Looking around, other than people who came to see what the ruckus was about, there were many sharp looking merchants.

    Most of them were from other cities. Other than the closest Saltan City and Karma City, there were actually merchants from the further Canberra City, Norton City, and other cities.

    It could be seen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence was spreading from Banta City, gradually reaching further ces.

    Other than this, there were over ten people with rather special auras and uniforms. These people were divided into several groups who were looking at each other with hostility.

    If anyone who was familiar was here, they would recognize them as reporters that appeared in Saltan City and Karma City recently. Among included people from the ?Saltan Morning News? and ?Karma Times? that had be famous in those cities recently.

    Speaking of reporters, this was a concept that the ?Banta Times? had used. It referred to staff who collected news and after the ?Banta Times? had been in cirction for half a year, this upation had been epted by the people.

    The ?Banta Times? was very popr in Banta City, so reporters of the ?Banta Times? were very respected. They walked around with a proud look on their faces.

    Now there were many learned youths who wanted to be reporters for the ?Banta Times?, there was even a son of a Banta City baron who was a reporter for the ?Banta Times?.

    Of course the Saltan City and Karma City newspapers didn¡¯t have any fame in Banta City, so there weren¡¯t many people who recognized them.

    The reason they came this time was naturally for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement.

    Even in Saltan City and Karma City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something the popce paid attention to. So it would never be wrong to report on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Two months ago, the ?Karma Times? had put forth a series of reports on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing into a factory near Karma City, which attracted the attention of Karma City¡¯s people and increasing the poprity of the ?Karma Times? in Karma City. As their sales increased with their poprity, it attracted the attention of the City Lord Count Anaris.

    So if there was any news on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the ?Karma Times? definitely wouldn¡¯t let it go.

    Seeing the colleagues from the ?Saltan Morning News? pushing to the door of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center, the vice editor from the ?Karma Times? who hade personally waved his hand and indicated to his subordinates to follow, going forward to steal a good ce.

    At this time, the crowd suddenly stirred.

    ¡°Look, chairman Xu is here!¡±

    ¡°Ah! Oh god, who else did I see? Young miss Still! God! I¡¯m too happy, I actually got to see her!¡±

    ¡°Oh, no! Young miss Still and chairman Xu are actually holding hands! Could it be that they are already dating? This is impossible!¡±

    ¡°Why is it impossible? Young miss Still is this beautiful and other than chairman Xu, can you find someone else worthy of her?¡±

    ¡°But¡­..But, young miss Still is the goddess in my heart, how could she¡­..how could she be dating! No, I want to die!¡±

    ¡°Scram! No one¡¯s stopping you, at least you¡¯re opening up a spot.¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the voices in the crowd, Rhine pushed his way forward. He saw that from the door of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center, Xu Yi was currently walking out to the stage with a smile, holding Still¡¯s hand.

    Seeing this scene, Rhine couldn¡¯t help feeling lost in his heart. After shaking his head, he came back to his senses.

    Just like Karma City, many people in Saltan City and Karma City also had the goddess Still in their hearts, but she was actually dating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu!

    This might be even bigger news than the special product announcement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had organized!

 Volume 2 12 - Automatic Magic Rice Cooker

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 12 Automatic Magic Rice Cooker</strong>

    Seeing the intense reaction from the crowd under the stage, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying to Still with a smile, ¡°Still, if you show up with me today, perhaps you will lose quite a few fans.¡±

    Still gave a soft snort and flipped her beautiful golden hair as she proudly said, ¡°So what if there are less, I don¡¯t care at all. I must tell everyone who I like right now!¡±

    Seeing how high spirited and confident Still was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he was in a very good mood.

    If it was any other girl, it would be very difficult for her to announce her feelings in front of all these people like Still did.

    Not to mention that Still was very famous in Banta City and the surrounding city, being the goddess in many men¡¯s hearts.

    Announcing her feelings like this, it would definitely be a heavy blow to her fans.

    If it was the small stars from earth, they definitely wouldn¡¯t do this.

    Of course, there would be some small star that would make fake news to intentionally increase their fame.

    ¡°Could Still and I be considered news?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of this question, ¡°Perhaps we can, after all, the two of us can be considered public figures.¡±

    Thinking about how because of the Frestech Chamber he had be a star that wasn¡¯t too big or too small, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile. He shook his head and focused his mind. Looking at the people under the stage creating quite a stir, he raised his hand.

    It was like he had used magic, but when Xu Yi raised his hand, the people closest to him became silent and stared at him without saying a thing.

    Then this silence spread from the closest area outwards. In the blink of an eye, the crowd that had been quite noisy fell into silence and everyone was looking in Xu Yi¡¯s direction.

    Regarding this effect, Xu Yi was surprised while also being very happy. He gave a soft cough and spoke in a loud voice, ¡°Hello everyone, I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi, I¡¯m very thankful to everyone foring to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement. This is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first product announcement and I believe that this is the first time any Banta Citypany has done a product announcement. The so called product announcement is specially announcing a new product. For this product announcement, I wish to introduce a new product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to everyone which is called the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker¡­..¡±

    Everyone under the stage fell into an uproar.

    Everyone knew the Magic Rice Cooker, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine specially used to cook meals. There were many people here who even had one or two of them in their houses.

    But what was the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker? Adding in ¡°automatic¡±, did that mean anything?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can you exin what the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker means?¡± A reporter in the crowd raised his hand and asked this in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi looked at the reporter and based on the pen and notepad in his hand, he could tell who he was. He gave a nod with a smile and exined, ¡°The so called Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, is referring to our Magic Rice Cooker. Previously although the Magic Rice Cooker was very convenient to use, there was a w to it since it required people to be nearby to time it themselves. As for the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, one just needs to add enough rice and water and press the switch, you won¡¯t need to do anything else.¡±

    ¡°The rice won¡¯t be burnt?¡± The reporter from the ?Saltan Morning News? asked the question in everyone¡¯s hearts.

    ¡°Of course not. The Automatic Magic Rice Cooker will finish cooking the rice and automatically turn off. It won¡¯t keep cooking, so you don¡¯t need to worry about your rice bing burnt.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    As soon as his voice fell, another uproar filled the crowd.

    ¡°Ah? How is this possible?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the Magic Rice Cooker is just a lump of metal, how could it tell if the rice is cooked?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this is too unbelievable. Is this a lie?¡±

    ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be one, right? In front of all these people, what would he gain from lying? Does he not want to keep the pride of hispany?¡±

    ¡°But¡­...But this is too fake. How could it turn off by itself¡­..¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s see what he says next.¡±

    ¡°Un. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made all these mysterious magic machines, perhaps it will be even more mysterious this time.¡±

    ¡°That is right¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the crowd discuss this, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He then waved his hand and two staff members of the service center carried out an Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, some rice, and some water that had already been prepared.

    Seeing the new Automatic Magic Rice Cooker in the hands of the staff, everyone was stunned.

    This time it was a reporter from the ?Karma Times? called Rhine that seized the initiative to ask in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker you mentioned? Why is it silver? Did you te the outside with ayer of silver?¡±

    Everyone could see that the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker¡¯s outside was silver and it was very smooth, looking very beautiful. It made people like it as soon as they saw it.

    Compared to the dark red Magic Rice Cooker the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker looked ten times better!

    ¡°Silver ting?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, of course not. This mister, this Magic Rice Cooker is used to cook food and if it is ted with silver, it is very likely the silver will enter the food. If this is eaten, it will harm a person¡¯s body. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce pays great attention to our customer¡¯s health, so how could we make a mistake like that?¡±

    ¡°Then why is it silver? I¡¯ve never heard of a metal with this kind of colour.¡± Rhine asked.

    Xu Yi wanted to call him ¡°ignorant¡±. There were many silver coloured metals and other than silver, the mostmonly seen was aluminum. Even pure iron had this same silver colour, so it couldn¡¯t be considered rare at all.

    But thinking about how there were few aluminum products on the Sines Continent and pure iron couldn¡¯t be refined, this Rhine¡¯s ignorance couldn¡¯t be considered his own fault.

    ¡°This needs me to give a proper introduction. This Automatic Magic Rice Cooker is the newest product that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has used all our power to develop. Other than the craftsmanship need to build it, which gives it its automatic cooking function, it is also made from our newest developed steel alloy. This material is even more advanced than the material used for the previous generation Magic Rice Cooker.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Steel alloy? What is that thing?¡± Rhine who considered himself experienced was confused by this, not to mention the crowd.

    ¡°The so called steel alloy has a main ingredient of iron, but it is a new material made using other things. The steel alloy used to manufacture this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker has been named the Silver Leaf Alloy. Other than having this beautiful silver colour, it also has a special characteristic which is that rust won¡¯t form over it!¡±

    The crowd went into an uproar again.

    ¡°It won¡¯t rust over? How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this is something made of iron, how could it not rust over?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t chairman Xu¡¯s boast a little too much? He already said that this whatever Silver Leaf Alloy was made from iron, so how could it not rust.¡±

    ¡°Ha, iron that doesn¡¯t rust over, this is simply the biggest joke I¡¯ve ever heard!¡±

    ¡­....

    Hearing the discussion from under the stage, Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing. When everyone became silent, he continued, ¡°Of course, this can¡¯t be seen right now. Now let¡¯s first see the other advantages this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker made from the Silver Leaf Alloy has.¡± Looking down from the stage, Xu Yi saw a man with rather tidy clothes and asked him, ¡°This mister, does your family have a Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker?¡±

    The man was surprised before quickly nodding, ¡°Of course. Not only does our family have your Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker, we also have your Frestech Brand Magic Fan. Because this winter was too cold, my wife forced me to buy a Frestech Brand Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner. Also just a few days ago, we bought two Frestech Brand Magic Lamps, so our house is filled with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stuff.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It seems like you are a loyal customer of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to thank you. Come, since you¡¯ve bought our first generation Magic Rice Cooker, I¡¯ll ask you to take this new Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and see if there are any differences.¡±

    The man took the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker from Xu Yi and immediately revealed a surprised look.

    ¡°Yi? This is so light. I think¡­¡­it¡¯s at least half the weight of our Magic Rice Cooker!¡±

    ¡°Really? Let me see.¡± The man beside him grabbed it from his hands and after weighing it, he also said in surprise, ¡°That¡¯s right, it really is much lighter. Strange, it¡¯s around the same size and thickness, so why is it so much lighter? I say, chairman Xu, did you skimp on materials for this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Of course not. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products have guaranteed quality, so how could we skimp on materials. This Automatic Magic Rice Cooker is lighter than the first generation Magic Rice Cooker because of the characteristic of the Silver Leaf Alloy. This alloy is much lighter than normal iron, but you don¡¯t need to worry since it is harder than normal iron. Here, I¡¯ll give you a demonstration.¡±

    Xu Yi took the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker from that person and in front of everyone, he raised it high up before he dropped it to shocked cries.

    ¡°Weng!¡±

    The Automatic Magic Rice Cooker mmed onto the stage under Xu Yi. It bounced up half a meter before falling again, rolling off the stage.

    The people under the stage saw the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker roll over and avoided it like a wild beast. However, they were all firmly staring at it, like a monster would jump out of the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker at any moment.

    After a while, they saw that nothing was moving, the first man plucked up the courage to pick up the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker.

    After looking at it for a while in his hand, he couldn¡¯t help shouting in a look filled with surprise, ¡°It can¡¯t be! There isn¡¯t even a single dent!¡±

    Everyone heard this and moved forward.

    But looking at the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker from all sides, they found that there wasn¡¯t a single dent on it at all!

    Other than a few scratches on it, this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker was as good as new!

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi in shock,

    This Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, wasn¡¯t it too amazing?

    Xu Yi took back the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and said to everyone with a smile, ¡°Alright, since everyone has seen how hard it is, I want to demonstrate to everyone the most important function of the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, which is cooking a meal.¡±

    Xu Yi put the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker on the table beside him and under everyone¡¯s gaze, he poured the prepared rice and water into it. After closing the lid, he pressed the switch.

    ¡°Ding.¡±

    With a sound, the little ss window on the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker that everyone didn¡¯t know what use it had suddenly turned a me red colour.

    Xu Yi pointed at this and said, ¡°Everyone look at this. When this ss part is red, it means that the Magic Rice Cooker is cooking the rice. When it disappears, it means that the Magic Rice Cooker has stopped.¡±

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    Although this seemed very normal, it was very detailed and useful.

    It could be seen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put quite a bit of thought into the design of the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker.

    Xu Yi looked at the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker before turning to the crowd.

    ¡°There will be some time before the rice cooks. I know that everyone must have many questions, so everyone is free to ask them during this time and I¡¯ll answer them all.¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, Rhine had already shouted out, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have a question!¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°I found that you and young miss Still were holding hands when you came out. May I ask what rtionship you have with young miss Still right now? Are you two dating?¡±

    When this question was asked, the crowd instantly fell into a deathly silence.

 Volume 2 13 - Bring out your sincerity

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 13 Bring out your sincerity</strong>

    Everyone stared at Xu Yi and Still on the stage, with no one making a sound. It was like they were afraid of missing a single word of Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He never thought the first question would be about him and Still and it wouldn¡¯t be rted to the Magic Rice Cooker at all.

    ¡°This¡­..Although this concerns me and Still¡¯s privacy, since you¡¯ve asked in front of all these people and I¡¯ve agreed to answer all questions, then I¡¯ll answer you.¡± Xu Yi reached out his left hand and tightly held Still¡¯s right hand before lifting it up and loudly saying, ¡°Yes, I¡¯m very blessed and very lucky to announce to everyone that Still and I are currently dating!¡±

    The crowd fell into an even stronger deathly silence and after a while, the crowd exploded.

    ¡°God! It¡¯s actually true!¡±

    ¡°My goddess is actually dating someone else, I¡­..I don¡¯t believe it!¡±

    ¡°No! This can¡¯t be true! There definitely must be something wrong with my eyes! My ears must have heard wrong! Young miss Still is as noble and elegant as a goddess, how could she date anyone? This must be a lie!¡±

    ¡°Ai, I definitely can¡¯t ept it if it was anyone else, but if it is chairman Xu, I can barely ept it.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, in Banta City and perhaps the entire Lampuri Kingdom, is there any young man more outstanding that chairman Xu? To be the chairman of argepany at such a young age and I¡¯ve heard that he is a powerful magician. Other than not being a noble, he is simply perfect.¡±

    ¡°Che, what is so good about being a noble? Isn¡¯t it good that chairman Xu is amoner? This means that not all beautiful girls want to get married to nobles. Young miss Stil, I support you marrying chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I also support you! Marrying chairman Xu is better than marrying the useless young master of some noble family!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I support young miss Still¡¯s choice! Support chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing that there were actually people supporting them, with some cries of supporting Still marrying him mixed in, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit awkward. He looked over at Still and saw that she had a smile that was filled with confidence and pride.

    Sensing Xu Yi¡¯s gaze, Still looked at him with a proud look in her eyes.

    ¡°How about it? Xu Yi, my eyes are pretty good, right? Look, everyone is supporting us.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Excuse me, this is because I¡¯m good enough. If it was anyone else, do you believe that they wouldn¡¯t be ripped to shreds by an angry crowd?¡±

    The smile on Still¡¯s face became even brighter.

    ¡°Although I am very happy that you are outstanding enough that so many people acknowledge you, I like you not because of this. It is because¡­...I like you for who you are.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and tightly gripped Still¡¯s hand. He turned to the crowd under the stage and shouted, ¡°Thank you for everyone¡¯s blessings and support for me and Still. But I ask everyone to remember that this is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement, so I hope that everyone will ask questions rted to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new product.¡±

    The reporter that came from the ?Saltan Morning News? that didn¡¯t have time to speak looked at each other. After nodding, a reporter that was quite old raised his hand and asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, I have a question. Recently in the past month, whether it is Banta City, Saltan City, Karma City, or even other cities in the kingdom, there have been manypanies that have invented magic machines. What views do you have on that?¡±

    ¡°This reporter is quite professional.¡± Xu Yi praised in his heart. He said with a faint smile, ¡°I have some understanding of the situation you mentioned. As for my views, I¡¯m very happy and can even be said to be very pleased.¡±

    The crowd under the stage was shocked. The reporter continued asking with a frown, ¡°Chairman Xu, this probably isn¡¯t what you really feel. With morepetitors for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it will affect the sales of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. Why are you happy and pleased about this?¡±

    ¡°The reason why I¡¯m happy and pleased is that because other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are otherpanies starting to research and produce magic machines. This means that everyone has started putting importance on the magic machines. Once everyone puts importance ion magic machines, this industry will quickly develop and the products of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be epted by everyone, meaning that ourpany will make even more money. As a chairman, why wouldn¡¯t I be happy about this?¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°But aren¡¯t you worried that his will affect your sales?¡± The reporter asked. ¡°After all, there are only that many people and as long as one person buys one magic machine from apany, that will be one less customer for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I think your understanding of customers and the market is too shallow.¡± Xu Yi shook his head without any politeness and said, ¡°Actually, from what I can see, the people who will buy magic machines will increase by several times, also making the magic machine market several times bigger. If the market ispared to a cake, then what I want to do is make the cake bigger and bigger, so people andpanies can receive bigger and bigger pieces of this cake. What I don¡¯t want to do is have people fighting over small pieces of a cake and having everyone starve to death. And I believe that this magic machine cake is very big, not only being able to feed our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but also letting the otherpanies have their fill as well. So for otherpanies who are beginning to make magic machines, I extend a warm wee to them.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has sold production magic machines for the Magic Fan and the Magic Rice Cooker topanies in our Karma City, is this true?¡± The ?Karma Times?¡¯ vice editor in chief Rhine seized this chance to ask this in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi looked at him and found he had some impression of this person. He seemed to havee to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory opening in Karma City.

    ¡°Yes. Specifically speaking, there are three Karma Citypanies who have bought production lines. And just half a month ago, those threepanies have already begun using their production lines. I think that when you return to Karma City, perhaps you¡¯ll be able to see Magic Fans and Magic Rice Cookers other than our Frestech Brand.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But chairman Xu, you should have given them the technology for this Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, right?¡± Rhine pointed at the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker releasing waves of steam and asked this.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m weing otherpanies into this business and can even give them basic support, but that does not mean that I will give them all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology. This Automatic Magic Rice Cooker is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed product and represents our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advantage. If the otherpanies want to catch up to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, alright, please take out your sincerity!¡±

    Seeing the aggressive looking Xu Yi, the people under the stage couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Rhine couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    Xu Yi was telling the truth.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had worked hard to gain these results. The other people andpanies didn¡¯t have a right to ask them to hand these over for free.

    To enter this profession and catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than bowing to them and gaining their support, they could only rely on themselves.

    Of course, there are practices that weren¡¯t considered fair¡­...

    Rhine thought about it and wanted to ask something else, but a ¡°ding¡± sound rang out.

    Looking over in surprise, he saw that the red light on the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker had suddenly vanished. The switch that Xu Yi had pressed down had also bounced back to its original position.

    ¡°Everyone, the rice is done.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and opened the lid to the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker. The fragrance of rice filled the air and the stomachs of some people who forgot to eat breakfast grumbled.

    Everyone looked at the white and tender rice in the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    This Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, it really was automatic!

    ###

    In a normal small building in Saltan City, Cimirot was staring at the newly published ?Saltan Morning News? in his hands. His eyes were filled with unwillingness and hatred.

    ¡°Damn that Xu Yi, he¡¯s clearly being petty and he puts it so nicely! Lies!¡± Cimirot looked at therge title in the ?Saltan Morning News? and couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He ripped it to pieces and turned to look at the silent Rem sitting at another table holding a copy of the ?Saltan Morning News? as he said, ¡°Hey, Rem, we have to just watch this fellow being this arrogant?¡±

    Compared to back at Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, the current Rem was much thinner and his face had lost much of its glow. He had visibly be much darker.

    Hearing Cimirot¡¯s question, Rem said with a bitter smile, ¡°What can we do? We spent all that effort to break the secret of the Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker and thought we could rely on that topete with him. Who would have thought that with a casual move from him, he would take something out that far surpassed us. How can wepare to him?¡±

    ¡°You want to admit defeat like this?¡± Cimirot angrily said, ¡°Who was it that he would show results and suppress that fellow Xu Yi, winning back We¡¯s affections? If you give up like this, could it be that you¡¯re nning to give up on We?¡±

    Hearing the name ¡°We¡±, a pained look shed on Rem¡¯s face. He said with a sigh, ¡°Don¡¯t mention her again. Since she picked to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I didn¡¯t go with her, I felt that she was getting further and further away from me. Now¡­..I don¡¯t think there is any hope between us.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re nning to give up since Xu Yi took your woman? Are you still a man?!¡± Cimirot asked in a sharp voice.

    Rem¡¯s breathing became heavy and taking a few deep breaths, he suddenly looked at Cimirot and roared out, ¡°Then what do you want me to do? She is already that damn Xu Yi¡¯s employee and she even happily talks to me about the trivial matters about working for that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce! Her entire heart belongs to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how do you want me to beat them and take her back?¡±

    Seeing Rem¡¯s irritated expression, Cimirot¡¯s expression changed and he suddenlyughed. He reached out to hold Rem¡¯s shoulder and said in a low and mysterious voice, ¡°Actually it isn¡¯t like there isn¡¯t anything you can¡¯t do, it just depends on if you¡¯re willing or not¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 2 14 - Outsourcing

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 14 Outsourcing</b>

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement was over, the household magic machine workshop became busy again.

    The household magic machine workshop was finishedst month. There had been five hundred workers originally and adding in the two hundred newly recruited people, a total of seven hundred people began working full force, working overtime to make the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker.

    Because there were too many people who had personally witnessed the power and quality of the automatic Magic Rice Cooker, the poprity of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products had surged.

    One turned to ten and ten turned into a hundred. Almost everyone in Banta City knew about the power of the new generation Automatic Magic Rice Cooker. Even in Banta City where rice wasn¡¯t that popr, there were over five thousand orders.

    And through the slightly exaggerated reports of the ?Saltan Morning News? and the ?Karma Times?, other cities also became familiar with the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker. After the announcement was over, there were quite a few merchants from other cities who ran to Xu Yi asking for orders.

    In just three days, the orders for Automatic Magic Rice Cookers in other cities had already surpassed twenty thousand units.

    What made Xu Yi the happiest was that this new generation Automatic Magic Rice Cooker even reached Cramer City that was over a hundred and fifty kilometers from Banta City.

    It has to be known that Cramer City was less than a hundred kilometers from Anvilmar City. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products could reach Cramer City, with another step, it wouldn¡¯t be strange for it to reach Anvilmar City.

    Of course, there were already quite a few Frestech Chamber of Commerce products in Anvilmar City right now.

    Victor¡¯s group of three young masters during the short three months of winter, they had sold over three hundred Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioners.

    They could gain around ten gold coins from each Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, so they had earned over three thousand gold coins from this.

    Even if they split it between the three of them, each of them took one thousand gold coins.

    Thisrge amount was something they could never imagine before.

    The three of them who had experienced this sweetness didn¡¯t keep acting like yboys in Anvilmar City like before. Rather they seriously contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, continuing to sell the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines in Anvilmar City.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, they took therge pot of gold they earned to create a Frestech Brand special franchise store in Anvilmar City, specially selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.

    Because winter was over, the franchise store wasn¡¯t selling any Variable Speed Magic Air Conditioners, rather they were selling Magic Lamps and Magic Rice Cookers.

    Before Xu Yi announced the new generation Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, Xu Yi had contacted them.

    Victor immediately made a decision, buying a thousand Automatic Magic Rice Cookers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If including this order, the amount of Automatic Magic Rice Cookers ordered were close to thirty thousand units.

    Although the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker used the new Silver Leaf Alloy and using Xu Yi¡¯s metal temperature control function Xu Yi brought from earth, it only raised the cost slightly. It brought it up from the cost of less than a gold coin for the first generation Magic Rice Cooker to over a gold coin.

    And the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker relied on its outstanding design to be even more popr than the first generation Magic Rice Cooker. The fixed price went up from three gold coins to three and a half gold coins, so the profit from each unit was actually raised.

    Selling close to thirty thousand units like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned arge profit of over fifty thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, now that the new workshop was functional, there were three production lines for the new Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and their production capacity had doubled.

    It would only take less than two months toplete this order of close to thirty thousand Automatic Magic Rice Cooker.

    Moreover, now that the factory outside Karma City was functioning, although not all the workers had been recruited yet, so they didn¡¯t have full production capacity, it still took some of the pressure from the Banta City factory.

    But to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their biggest project was finishing the agricultural department¡¯srge order. So the dwarves of the magic machine workshop worked even more overtime than the workers in the household magic machine workshop.

    Xu Yi was very helpless about this. Before thebour certification was passed by the Lampuri Kingdom Royal Parliament, it wasn¡¯t suitable for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recruit more dwarves, so their capacity was stuck here for now.

    When Xu Yi was racking his brain for a way to increase the magic machine workshop¡¯s capacity, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weed a special merchant.

    ¡°This¡­...That¡­...Chairman Xu, hello. I¡­..I am called¡­..Freeman. I am yourpany¡¯s, un¡­..first one supported by the farmer support n¡­...the one from that n¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at this simple looking middle aged man who kept stuttering because of how nervous he was. After carefully thinking about it, he pointed at him and said, ¡°I remember now, you are the Big Stomach King fromst time!¡±

    Freemanughed, bing less nervous because Xu Yi mentioned the Big Stomach King. He said with a nod, ¡°Yes, it¡¯s me. When I came to the cityst year, I was in time for your Big Stomach Kingpetition and took the championship. then¡­..Then I participated in the farmer support n.¡±

    ¡°Un, I remember that you were the one who paid not long after the fall harvest and the first farmer to repay everything.¡± Xu Yi nodded before continuing, ¡°It seems like you really could sufferst fall harvest. You relied on just a single small Magic Harvester to earn that much money.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the small Magic Harvester, Freeman happily revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to thank your Frestech Chamber of Commerce for this. If it wasn¡¯t for your n, how could I have afforded to buy something like the Magic Harvester. Mentioning this thing, you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are my benefactors. My family no longer has to worry about food and clothes because of you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and waved his hand, ¡°Supporting you is one matter and you working hard is another matter. Of the people participating in the nst time, there were several people who didn¡¯t work hard and couldn¡¯t repay their debts, so their agricultural magic machines were taken back by us.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Thosezy fellows, not grabbing the chance they were given, they deserved it!¡± Freeman fiercely said.

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t say much on this topic. He asked, ¡°Alright, Freeman, let¡¯s talk about you again. For you to speciallye find me, why is that? Could it be that you have some other ideas towards our farmer support n?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not the support n. It¡¯s¡­..¡± Freeman didn¡¯te alone, there were several other peasants from Irnd Vige that came with him. When speaking of this, he looked at hispanions and they gave him looks of support, so Freeman nodded and turned back to Xu Yi to say, ¡°That¡­..Chairman Xu, I came this time to discuss something with you. Look, when I used the Magic Harvester to help harvest our vige¡¯s crops, the machine had broken several times. At the beginning I could only take it to the service center to get it fixed, but after going several times, I learned how to do it myself. The more I fixed it, I realized that the Magic Harvester were just pieces of iron put together. Do you think I¡¯m right?¡±

    Xu Yi found this funny, as he said with a nod, ¡°Although there are some differences, it is close enough if you say it like this.¡±

    ¡°Un, just like this. There was one time when a board in the Magic Harvester broke and someone at your service center said that it would require money to rece. I wasn¡¯t willing to spend the money, so I had the cksmith in the vige make one for me based on the appearance from before. Although it wasn¡¯t as good as before after changing it, it could still be used. Then¡­¡­¡±

    After listening to this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help lifting his hand to cut him off.

    ¡°Get to main point. Freeman, what do you want to say? Just be direct if you have any requests or ideas. You are considered an old friend to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t anything you can¡¯t say.¡±

    ¡°Oh, oh, right, look at my mouth, I forget once I start talking. Chairman Xu, you are a busy person, you can¡¯t waste time like this. Un, it¡¯s like this, chairman Xu, I was thinking¡­..Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Harvester are made of these parts, could you give us a part of this to do?¡±

    ¡°Wait, wait! What did you say?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock and his face filled with disbelief, ¡°You mean to say that¡­..You want to outsource the parts production for the Magic Harvesters?¡±

    ¡°Outsource? Oh, it seems to be like this. Anyway, I¡¯ve heard the people of your service center say that the parts are also made by yourpany and that it takes quite a bit of manpower¡­...They said that it was something that you frequently worry about, so I thought that making these parts doesn¡¯t seem that hard, so if you give it to us to do, perhaps it can save you quite a bit of effort.¡± After saying this, Freeman carefully looked at Xu Yi with an expectant gaze, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think¡­..this is alright?¡±

    It was like Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing Freeman as he looked over him several times. After seeing how scared Freeman was, heughed before looking over the people following Freeman and asking, ¡°Was this an idea you thought of together?¡±

    Freeman pointed at a simple looking farmer with a dark face just like him and said, ¡°This idea mainly came from Kovac. They said that I know you and have talked to you before, so they wanted me to discuss this with you.¡±

    Seeing their earnest and expectant looks, there was a very happy smile that filled his face as he patted Freeman¡¯s shoulder while shouting, ¡°Of course! Of course you can!¡±

 Volume 2 15 - Donâ€™t come back in the future

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 15 Don¡¯te back in the future</strong>

    Xu Yi had to admit that he had underestimated the people of the Sines Continent before.

    He thought that magic machines would be a new thing on the Sines Continent, so it would take people quite a bit of time to even ept this new thing, not to mention beginning to research it. So he always felt that it would take quite a bit of time to create an industrial system on the Sines Continent, perhaps he wouldn¡¯t even be able to aplish it in his life.

    But reality had ruthlessly pped his face.

    Once the magic machines were released, it only took a short amount of time for the people of Banta City to ept it. Then after the king and the agricultural department announced they were cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it grew like a mushroom after a storm in the Lampuri Kingdom, as severalrge and smallpanies began producing magic machines.

    Thesepanies couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in scale right now, so their magic machines were just imitations of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s early products, but they still earned arge amount in the ces the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s saleswork didn¡¯t reach.

    What made Xu Yi truly surprised and shocked was that these ordinary farmers like Freeman would actually use their experience with the small Magic Harvester to think of the idea of outsourcing the production of parts!

    This mind for business couldn¡¯t help surprising Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi very happily agreed to Freeman¡¯s idea, first letting them tour the factory before personally giving them some instruction.

    As for Freeman¡¯s group¡¯s idea to buy production magic machines to outsource parts, Xu Yi had agreed, but he didn¡¯t agree to them outsourcingrge parts.

    This is because with their current technological power and their shallow knowledge of magic machines, if they rashly made theserge parts, it would be likely the parts they made wouldn¡¯t conform to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s requirements. In the end they wouldn¡¯t be used and they would suffer arge loss.

    In the end, under Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Freeman¡¯s group turned their eyes to the Magic Thread Rolling Machine.

    Although the screw bolts were small, to the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were an indispensable part and were used in many machines.

    Moreover the Magic Thread Rolling Machine was the first official production magic machine developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, now that it had been improved on for a year, it was much more refinedpared to before. Not only was it simple to operate, it was also more stable, so there were more kinds of screw bolts produced. It could meet the requirements for all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current magic machines.

    After Freeman¡¯s group considered it, they epted Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion and bought five entire Magic Thread Rolling Machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The new generation Magic Thread Rolling Machine costed forty gold coins each, so five would require two hundred gold coins.

    This was arge sum for normal farmers and although Freeman¡¯s group had used the agricultural magic machine to earn some money, they couldn¡¯t take out such arge amount.

    So when Freeman hesitantly asked if it could be the same as when the received the Magic Harvester, using a postponing method to pay for the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all and directly agreed to their request.

    To Xu Yi, for these normal farmers like Freeman to start producing magic machine parts, it was even more significant that the magic machines that had bloomed in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although they were just normal farmers, since they were buying Magic Thread Rolling Machines, it demonstrated that an important part of the industrial system was appearing on the Sines Continent.

    If it was given time and a smallpany like this gradually appeared, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could just let this littlepany produce the parts for their magic machines. It would free up a lot of staff for Xu Yi to focus on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s matters.

    Of course, the ideal in Xu Yi¡¯s heart would never be something everyone could understand.

    It was Heinz before, but now that Heinz was in Karma City managing the factory there, the oneining had changed to Sebas.

    ¡°Sir chairman, ording tost month¡¯s financial reports, we sold various kinds of screw bolts for a profit of seven hundred and sixty four gold coins. Not to mention the massive cost benefits that the screw bolts brought us, which added together would be a total of over two thousand gold coins.¡±

    It was different from Heinz¡¯sining. Sebas was someone who was serious and respected Xu Yi, so he would always bring out data first that supported his point.

    ¡°You sold those five Magic Thread Rolling Machines to those farmers for no charge and promised to help them master the method for producing screw bolts, which is basically giving these profits to them. Is this¡­..good?¡± Sebas looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze.¡±

    ¡°Let me ask you a question.¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Sebas, do you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be a first sspany?¡±

    Sebas was stunned, never thinking that Xu Yi would suddenly ask this kind of question.

    After thinking about it, Seba gave a slight nod, ¡°Yes, sir chairman, I have no doubt that ourpany will be a first sspany on the Sines Continent.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, never thinking that Sebas was this confident. He just asked if they would be a first sspany, but Sebas¡¯ answer surpassed that.

    ¡°Then good, since you believe we will be a superrge first sspany, do you think that allrgepanies will take all the market for the products under them? Or urately speaking, do you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will take all the magic machine industry?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Gradually being influenced by Xu Yi, the people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were no longer strangers to the words magic machine industry. Sebas thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°No. ording to the sir chairman¡¯s n and estimates, the magic machine industry is a colossus and it is impossible for us to grab everything.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Since we can¡¯t possibly take everything, we have to give parts to people sooner orter. Then it¡¯s better to take the initiative to give it out rather than passively give it out. Although it is just the screw bolt, it represents profit of over two thousand each month, or even more. But you should see that producing the screw bolt doesn¡¯t take any technological knowledge, it just requires one to buy the Magic Thread Rolling Machine to make. Do you think we should sell the Magic Thread Rolling Machines?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Sebas was silent for a bit before hesitantly responding, ¡°Actually¡­..Sir chairman, on your decision to give sell those smallpanies the production magic machines, I have always been¡­..confused. The production magic machine can only be produced by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the best quality in terms of magic machines, as well as the highest efficiency. Now that you are selling those production magic machines, there will be manypanies in the Lampuri Kingdom making the same magic machines. Although those smallpanies aren¡¯t any threat to us right now, there will be some influence in the end.¡±

    Seeing the doubtful look on Sebas¡¯ face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. If it was Heinz instead, he wouldn¡¯t be as tactful as Sebas and directly said that he was ruining them and raising a tiger to bite them¡­..

    But for Heinz, Xu Yi could just refute him. He could say that this was part of his long term n and he wouldn¡¯t need to care.

    But for Sebas, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t directly refute him like this.

    ¡°Sebas, do you remember what I saidst time at the product announcement?¡±

    Sebas knit his brows to think about it, ¡°This¡­.sir chairman. I¡¯m not too certain what you¡¯re referring to.¡±

    ¡°I said at the product announcementst time that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce want to make arge cake. We wouldn¡¯t snatch this cake from others, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Sebas hesitated for a while. The doubt on his face disappeared, but it was reced with heavy confusion.

    ¡°Sir chairman, perhaps doing this will allow more people to understand magic machines and expand the market, making arge cake like you said, but¡­..With our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, after making thisrge cake, it does not mean we can take the biggest slice.¡±

    ¡°What, are you doubting the strength of ourpany?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, if I didn¡¯t have confidence, do you think I would do this?¡±

    Sebas looked at Xu Yi without saying a thing.

    If he raised his doubts at this time, it would be disrespectful to Xu Yi and he definitely wouldn¡¯t do something like this.

    Xu Yi patted Sebas¡¯ shoulder with a smile, ¡°Alright, go back and tell the Lord Viscount that I have my ideas, tell him not to worry.¡±

    ¡°This is not the Lord Viscount¡¯s meaning¡­¡­¡± Sebas reflexively responded, but seeing the almost non-existent smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he couldn¡¯t help taking back his words. After pausing, he said with a nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ###

    Sebas didn¡¯t need to send Viscount Leslie a letter because Viscount Leslie had returned from Anvilmar City two days after they had spoken!

    Out of Xu Yi¡¯s expectation, when Viscount Leslie came back, he brought back the legendary Baron Hannas who had been under house arrest for a full three months.

    When he saw Xu Yi, Baron Hannas came forward with a wide smile and hugged him. Then he impatiently asked, ¡°Xu Yi, how is my ?Banta Times? doing? Is it doing well now? Did any problems ur after I left?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°The ?Banta Times? is not your child. Don¡¯t be disappointed when I tell you this, but although you left, the ?Banta Times? has been even better than when you left under Nakhi¡¯s leadership. It now sells over ten thousand papers each day, being several times stronger than the nearby cities¡¯ ?Saltan Morning News? and ?Karma Times?.¡±

    Baron Hannas broke out inughter, ¡°Why would I be disappointed? I¡¯m very happy! This is great, I was worried the most about the ?Banta Times? when I was in Anvilmar City. Now that I¡¯ve heard that it has developed this much, I¡¯m very assured.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the spirited Baron Hannas and found thatpared to when he left Banta City, the childishness on his face had disappeared and he looked much more mature.

    ¡°Hannas, I¡¯ve heard that there are two newspapers that appeared in Anvilmar City that are called the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly?. Be honest with me, are those two newspapers rted to you?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hannasughed and patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder before whispering in his ear, ¡°It¡¯s good you know, don¡¯t ask too much.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile and didn¡¯t n to keep asking. He turned to Viscount Leslie on the side and asked, ¡°Lord Viscount, you¡¯re finally back. If it wasn¡¯t for the spring harvest, perhaps you wouldn¡¯t havee back this time?¡±

    Viscount Leslie nodded with a smile, ¡°Indeed. After going there, there was something that happened back at home. If it wasn¡¯t for the importance of this spring harvest, I wouldn¡¯t have had the time toe back.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°This is arge part of your territory and you are arge shareholder of ourpany, so if you¡¯re never here, there are many things that be troublesome.¡±

    ¡°With you here, what trouble can there be?¡± Viscount Leslie smiled before suddenly sighing, ¡°Xu Yi, let me tell you some news that even I don¡¯t know if it is good or not. After this spring harvest, perhaps I will have to leave Banta City and will nevere back.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie in surprise. Seeing that he didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, he was speechless.

 Volume 2 16 - Your highness queen

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 16 Your highness queen</strong>

    The two harvest seasons each year were the most important days in the Lampuri Kingdom and Banta City.

    This year¡¯s spring harvest was more important than other years. When Viscount Leslie conducted the harvest on his territory, not only did it attract all the nobles with territory to watch, even the Lord City Lord personally came to watch. He even gave a speech on the spot, praising Viscount Leslie for the ample harvest on his territory.

    Other than this, what surprised people was that the crowd was made up of normal farmers from the various rural areas outside Banta City.

    Among them were farmers who had received invitations before, so although they were a bit nervousing this time, they weren¡¯t as cautious as before seeing all these nobles.

    As for the ones who wereing for the first time, their eyes were gathered on the farms with looks of praise.

    For these farmers who had been working on farms for their entire lives, they have never seen such a uniform farm that looked like it came out of a painting.

    And these farms were filled with long golden wheat, which created a beautiful image when it entered their eyes.

    The reason why so many people were gathered here today was traced tost year¡¯s fall harvest.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s suggestionst year, Viscount Leslie used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines to greatly change all the farms in his territory. He also opened up thends that he hadn¡¯t opened before because of ack of manpower.

    After the farm harvest,rge amounts of agricultural magic machines had been operating non stop on his territory. It finished a project that seemed quiterge to people in a very short period of time.

    And now it was time to harvest the results of the project.

    This farm modification n was a pilot project for Banta City and for the king. As the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, Coun Sean Samo had to be there.

    Other than this, Seveni as the agricultural department¡¯s representative was naturally also there.

    The results of this farm modification n would directly decide the agricultural department¡¯s future ns.

    And seeing the facts in front of her, the results were without a doubt very good.

    Looking at it, the area in front was a very smooth and perfectly divided farnd covered in a sea of yellow, filling one¡¯s eyes with golden wheat.

    Even if it was someone without experience in farming, they could still easily tell that Viscount Leslie had a rich harvest this year.

    When Count Sean finished his speech and Viscount Leslie finished the sacrifice ceremony as the owner of thend, dozens of small Magic Harvesters went in a straight line, choosing a piece of farnd to drive over.

    In less than half an hour, each small Magic Harvester had finished harvesting a mu ofnd.

    Looking at the small stalks left from therge fields of golden wheat and the sacks filled with grains on the side, the people watching couldn¡¯t help giving sighs of praise.

    It should be said that it was some people¡¯s first time seeing the small Magic Harvester¡¯s at work, but seeing such a harvest, everyone couldn¡¯t help praising it.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like this year¡¯s harvest is much faster.¡± A noble pointed at the Magic Harvesters preparing to move onto the next field as he spoke to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Un, ourpany has made some improvements to this batch of Magic Harvesters. They turn much faster and make more resolutions, so their harvest efficiency had been increased.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°How about it, Viscount Samuel? You didn¡¯t buy anythingst year, are you interested this year?¡±

    Viscount Samuelughed, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll definitely buy some this year! Not only this Magic Harvest, I also want to buy the Magic Excavator and the Magic Plowing Machines. In short I want to modify my farms just like Viscount Leslie¡¯s. Seeing Viscount Leslie¡¯s rich harvest this year, I¡¯m indeed a bit jealous.¡±

    ¡°Be assured Viscount Samuel, it isn¡¯t toote to start now. As long as you change it after the spring harvest, with ourpany¡¯s magic machines, it can be done in less than half a month, so there will be plenty of time to nt the seeds. When the autumn harvestes, yournd will have a simr scene.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s set it as this. Chairman Xu, since you¡¯ve already agreed to me, don¡¯t tell me you don¡¯t have the goods when timees.¡± Viscount Samuel reminded him.

    ¡°Be assured, ourpany has increased our efficiency, so we definitely won¡¯t becking in goods.¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to keep talking to Viscount Samuel and set the deal when he saw Seveni in the distance waving to him. After excusing himself from Viscount Samuel, he walked over.

    ¡°What is it? Young miss Seveni, seeing this scene in front of you, do you have more confidence in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Un, it is indeed like this.¡± Seveni nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But chairman Xu, I want to remind you that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t finished our agricultural department¡¯s high thirty thousand agricultural magic machine order yet. I hope that you can focus on our order first.¡±

    Xu Yi looked back at Viscount Samuel and gave a shrug, ¡°There is no way since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a Banta Citypany, so we can¡¯t just ignore business in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°There is no problem doing business in Banta City, but it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t do business with other cities. This would also be very helpful to our agricultural department¡¯s n to promote the agricultural magic machines.¡± Seveni said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you should be very clear that if our agricultural department helps you promote the agricultural magic machines, it will be of great help to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, so I hope that you can finish our agricultural department¡¯s orders first. As for the other magic machines, can you stop producing them for now?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Young miss Seveni, your request is a bit overboard. Our agreement said that the order needed to be finished in two years and with our current efficiency, we can easily finish this order. You requesting us to finish the agricultural department¡¯s order isn¡¯t a problem, but for us to stop developing and producing magic machines, this really is forcing others into doing something they do not wish to do.¡±

    Seveni thought about and turned to look at the farnd being harvested. After being in silence for a bit, she suddenly gave a soft sigh, ¡°Alright chairman Xu, I admit I¡¯m a bit anxious. Based on the current scene I was a bit excited. I was thinking that it would be great if every other ce in the kingdom could be like this, so I gave you an excessive request, I¡¯m quite sorry.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to apologize. I understand your thoughts and your anxiety since as the ruler of the country, of course you want the country to be as strong as possible. Am I right, your highness queen?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I really hope that¡­..¡± Seveni was suddenly stunned. She turned to look at Xu Yi with bigger eyes and asked in surprise, ¡°You¡­..When did you find out?¡±

    ¡°Not long ago.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Actually, I found it very strange as soon as I saw you. Why would a girl with such a noble aura be a normal official in the agricultural department? And you were this young. So when you came to Banta City, I found it even more surprising that a normal agricultural department official like you could contact the king and even act on the king¡¯s behalf to negotiate with me. Of course, I just suspected that you didn¡¯t have a simple identity, but I never thought that you would be our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s noble queen.¡±

    Young miss Seveni, or rather queen Seveni was surprised for only a bit before she recovered. She said with a faint smile, ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, it should be Viscount Leslie who told you? I clearly told him not to speak too much.¡±

    ¡°Honourable queen, this isn¡¯t anything that needs to be hidden, right?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Although hiding your identity makes it a bit safer, it doesn¡¯t really help for the work you¡¯re currently doing. If I knew that you were the queen beforehand, it would have made our negotiations much more direct.¡±

    ¡°Direct? You¡¯re talking about demanding for territory from me?¡± Seveni said without any politeness.

    Xu Yi smiled, but didn¡¯t say anything.

    The so called queen was different from a normal princess.

    The princess only meant she was the king¡¯s daughter, but the queen meant that other than the identity, she also had the right to inherit the throne.

    That¡¯s right, as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king¡¯s only daughter, queen Seveni had the same inheritance rights as her two brothers.

    Because queen Seveni had been outstanding since she was young and she had high fame in the Lampuri Kingdom, many people even felt that she had more rights to inherit the throne than the other two princes.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that she was a woman, the king would have already made her the only sessor already.

    Thereforepared to the princesses in other small kingdoms of the Sines Continent, queen Seveni had much more authority.

    If Xu Yi knew that she was the queen, he would have directly asked her for territory.¡±

    ¡°You better give up on territory.¡± Seveni firmly said, ¡°Other than special circumstances, the kingdom will definitely not confer any new territory and it is even more impossible for a normal merchant like you. Perhaps because of the contributions your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made, royal father will consider making you a noble, but he definitely won¡¯t give you territory.¡±

    Xu Yi casually gave a shrug, ¡°Noble queen, you¡¯ve mistaken me. I actually don¡¯t want territory, rather I just need somend to freely develop. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to develop and needs arge piece ofnd to build a factory. Since the king has already agreed to rent me arge piece ofnd, my request has already been satisfied and there¡¯s no need for me to be grantednd.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually I¡¯m very curious. What difference is there innd rented from the royal family andnd rented from Viscount Leslie?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a difference, at least the royal family won¡¯t take thend away if they suddenly be unhappy.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seveni narrowed her eyes before revealing a smile of profound meaning while saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve obtained some news, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile and looked at Viscount Leslie talking with Count Sean before saying with a sigh, ¡°That¡¯s right, there are some things that even Lord Viscount Leslie can¡¯t control. I am just a small merchant, I am even more powerless.¡±

    Seveni looked at the distant Viscount Leslie and thought about it before giving a sigh, ¡°Viscount Leslie is a very good partner, but it¡¯s a pity that he isn¡¯t strong enough.¡±

 Volume 2 17 - Has to leave in the end

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 17 Has to leave in the end</b>

    After the spring harvest was over, after the final count, on Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory, adding up the harvest of the new twenty one hectares ofnd with the seven hectares that had been used before, the total amount of wheat had surpassed a hundred thousand pounds!

    ording to the conversion of fifteen mus in a hectare, each mu on Viscount Leslie¡¯snd had harvested between two hundred forty and two hundred fifty pounds.

    Although it couldn¡¯tpare to the high yield of five hundred or even a thousand pounds on earth, it was very close to the yield on earth before technology had been developed.

    Moreover for Viscount Leslie¡¯snd, the production per mu wasn¡¯t important, the important thing was the total amount.

    Before this, Viscount Leslie used all the ves and guards under him each year and at most could open up the seven hectares. At most he would gain no more than twenty thousand pounds each harvest.

    But after using the agricultural magic machines to open up another twenty one hectare ofnd, his spring harvest had broken a hundred thousand pounds, which was four times higher than before!

    Although people had prepared themselves for this result, when they heard the real number, they were still very shocked.

    There was joy that followed this shock.

    Since Viscount Leslie could achieve thisrge harvest using the agricultural magic machines to change his farnd, it meant that the others could do the same.

    Among these people, the happiest person was naturally Seveni.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, once my royal father knows of this rich result, he will definitely be very happy.¡± Seeing the numbers in her hands, Seveni revealed a look of joy that couldn¡¯t be suppressed, ¡°Our Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯tck thend, we justck manpower so much of thend is deste. Now that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines have proven that it can save manpower in opening thesends, it means that the destends in the kingdom can finally be used! Like this, the yield in the kingdom can be increased just like with Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory. Perhaps in less than two years, no one in the kingdom will have to starve anymore!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni who had lost herself in happiness and thought that if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he had starved for some time after transmigrating to this world, he wouldn¡¯t be able to understand the joy in Seveni¡¯s heart at all.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Honoured queen, why does it need two years? As long as we seize the chance during the spring harvest to change thend, then we just need to wait until this year¡¯s fall harvest to see the results. Perhaps no one in the kingdom will need to starve this year.¡±

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°Of course I hope that it can happen as soon as possible, but it needs time to promote the magic machines in the kingdom and can¡¯t be done that quickly. Not to mention¡­..¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a slightly aggrieved look, ¡°Can your Frestech Chamber of Commerce finish this by the spring nting season? Don¡¯t forget, my request to produce the magic machines first was rejected by you.¡±

    Xu Yi said with an awkward smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have a way to handle this since I have to consider ourpany¡¯s development n.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not ming you, I just have some hope in you. I hope that yourpany can give priority in finishing this order.¡± Seveni¡¯s beautiful eyes were filled with sincerity looked right into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, ¡°Chairman Xu, there are over half the people in the kingdom who can¡¯t eat their fill. Whether we can solve this problem will depend on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his nose with a bitter smile, ¡°Your highness queen, this puts a lot of pressure on me if you say it like this. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is just a smallpany, is there a need to give us such arge responsibility?¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°With more poweres more responsibility. Wasn¡¯t this what chairman Xu said to me before? Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has this ability, then you must take on this responsibility. Don¡¯t you think that¡¯s right, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi could only give a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s very right, your highness.¡±

    ###

    After looking over the data from Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory, Seveni immediately left Banta City.

    ording to what she said, with the shocking results from Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory, it would definitely make it easier to move the other nobles with territory. It would also make it more convenient for the agricultural department to poprize the agricultural magic machines.

    ording to the agricultural department¡¯s estimates, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished the agricultural department¡¯s high order of thirty thousand agricultural magic machines, it wouldn¡¯t be enough to satisfy the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s need.

    In other words, it was likely they would make anotherrge order of agricultural magic machines with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Naturally Xu Yi weed this.

    Selling agricultural magic machines was a very lucrative business, not to mention that if the agricultural magic machines became popr, it would be what Xu Yi wished for. Large amounts of workforce would be freed from the farms and they could enter therger magic machine industry.

    With Banta City, because they startedst year, with most nobles in Banta City buying some agricultural magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support n putting many agricultural magic machines in the hands of normal farmers, in most of the farms outside of Banta City, it was already normal to use agricultural magic machines.

    For this year¡¯s spring harvest, it took less than a week for most of the farms outside Banta City to be harvested.

    After they were harvested, countless agricultural magic machines rolled over destend that couldn¡¯t be used since there weren¡¯t enough manpower and they began opening up more farnd.

    ording to data from the City Lord¡¯s Manor, the current n was to open three times more farnd outside Banta City!

    If those farnds could be nted during the spring nting, when it came to the fall harvest, Banta City¡¯s harvest output would shock everyone.

    Under the urging of Count Sean and Seveni, the ?Banta Times? did many reports on the changes with Viscount Leslie¡¯snd, which could be considered an advertisement for the n to open more destend.

    And in the next ten days, the ?Banta Times? did a series of reports that showed the bustling scene outside Banta City to everyone.

    To be able to do this, one had to redit it to Baron Hannas who had juste back from Anvilmar City.

    Although he was much more maturepared to before, once he came into contact with the newspaper, Baron Hannas immediately recovered his excited state of fervor from before.

    When he came back to Banta City, he immediately ran to the ?Banta Times? office and worked all day until it was dark.

    During the time Baron Hannas left, the ?Banta Times? wasn¡¯t as excited and sharp was when he was here, bing much more stable. But once he came back, it was like the ?Banta Times? had been injected with steroids as its style changed immediately.

    ¡°This is Hannas¡¯ charm.¡± Viscount Leslie looked at the ?Banta Times? that came out today in his hands and said with a faint smile, ¡°Perhaps it is because with his support, the ?Banta Times? can be this sharp, daring to report on things that had noble involvement. I think that this fellow must be very happy because in Anvilmar City, even with the family behind him, there were many things he didn¡¯t dare touch.¡±

    ¡°Of course, could it be that he dares to report on what colour of underwear the king was wearing today?¡± Xu Yi teased.

    Viscount Leslieughed, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re wrong there. He actually dared to report on the daily matters of the king in the ?Anvilmar Times? and even dared to report some scandals. But he was instructed to do so by the king, he wouldn¡¯t have dared to do it on his own.¡±

    ¡°The king instructed him to do so?¡± Xu Yi considered it, ¡°In order to make it seem like he was closer to the people?¡±

    ¡°Not bad, Xu Yi, you can understand this.¡± Viscount Leslie nodded. He looked at the ?Banta Times? in his hand before throwing it onto the table. He gave a sigh and said while shaking his head, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that even with how happy Hannas is here, he has to return to Anvilmar City in a few days.¡±

    Looking at Viscount Leslie¡¯s slightly knit brows, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°You¡¯re going back with him?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi and didn¡¯t reply immediately. First he took a slow sip of his tea, like he was considering how to respond to Xu Yi¡¯s question.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t urge him and silently waited in his chair.

    After a while, Viscount Leslie put down his cup of tea and tapped his finger on the table. He looked at Xu Yi and gave a slow nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m going back with him.¡±

    ¡°Then you won¡¯t being back like you saidst time?¡± Xu Yi asked again, ¡°Why? Aren¡¯t you doing quite well in Banta City?¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°Perhaps to you and most people, I¡¯m living quite well in Banta City. But to my family, it isn¡¯t good at all. As the eldest son of my family, these years of staying in a small ce like Banta City enjoying myself is actually avoiding my responsibilities. The family needs me to be an important person, so they hope that I won¡¯t stay in Banta City anymore. I could resist and avoid this before, but this time¡­...I can¡¯t keep avoiding them any longer. If nothing happens, I will enter the army after leaving Banta City and head to the northern borders, following my family¡¯s n for me to umte military aplishments. If nothing else unexpected happens, I shouldn¡¯t have the chance to return to Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    This was Viscount Leslie¡¯s responsibility for being born into arge family like the Stagg Family, he couldn¡¯t question it at all.

    But Viscount Leslie was a different kind of noble, being very open minded. He wasn¡¯t proud like the other nobles, it was quite good cooperating with him and being his friend.

    Once he left, Xu Yi would feel a bit disappointed in his heart.

    ¡°Xu Yi, inviting you here today, the first reason is to tell you as a friend that I¡¯m leaving Banta City and to say goodbye. The other reason is to use my identity as your partner to give you a final request.¡± Viscount Leslie then said.

    Xu Yi forced out a smile, ¡°Please tell me what requests you have. As long as I and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can aplish it, we will definitely do it for you.¡±

    Viscount Leslie nodded and said with a serious face, ¡°Xu Yi, let me sell my stock.¡±

 Volume 2 18 - Viscount Leslieâ€™s advice

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 18 Viscount Leslie¡¯s advice</strong>

    ¡°Sell stocks?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why? Lord Viscount, although you¡¯ll be leaving this ce, you can still keep your stocks. I promise that your dividend each year won¡¯t be small! Why would you need to sell your stocks? I feel that¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Let me finish.¡± Viscount Leslie raised his hand and cut Xu Yi off, ¡°Xu Yi, let me ask you a question. When you decided to rentnd from me and used that little ve to give me stocks, your goal was to approach me, or rather the family behind me, right?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi never thought that Viscount Leslie would ask something like this. Although both sides were aware of this, generally no one would expose it this directly.

    Seeing Viscount Leslie¡¯s serious expression, Xu Yi thought about it before giving a slow nod after taking a deep breath.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Viscount, since you are asking, I¡¯ll honestly answer. Right, my goal was to approach you and the family behind you. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just a smallpany and if there wasn¡¯t any support behind us, it would be hard for us to exist in Banta City, not to mention expanding. I knew back then that the Lord Viscount came from the Stagg Family, so I decided to use this method to approach you. Whether it was renting yournd or giving you stocks in thepany, I wanted to create a good rtionship with you and finally gain the support of the Stagg Family.¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°Then when you went to Anvilmar City and couldn¡¯t see lord father through me, were you disappointed?¡±

    Xu Yi honestly nodded.

    ¡°Yes. If I could see Duke Stagg, perhaps our Frestech Chamber of Commerce could catch the Lord Duke¡¯s attention. Having the attention and support of the Stagg Family would greatly help ourpany¡¯s development.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Viscount Leslie revealed a smile like he was having fun, ¡°Then Xu Xi, have you ever considered that obtaining the attention of lord father isn¡¯t a good thing for you? Other than helping and supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there is an easier and more advantageous choice to lord father, which is to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed slightly. He forced out a smile and said, ¡°Probably not¡­...The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a small and weakpany, would it catch the Lord Duke¡¯s eyes?¡±

    ¡°Then why did you think that lord father would support you?¡± Viscount Leslie¡¯s question made Xu Yi speechless, ¡°Xu Yi, ept reality. If lord father really noticed you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be most likely that you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be controlled by the Stagg Family and there wouldn¡¯t be another choice for you. Don¡¯t tell me that you didn¡¯t know what me giving you those three hundred ves meant, right?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before he couldn¡¯t help asking back with a frown, ¡°Lord Viscount, why are you discussing this with me? Why would you choose to mention selling your stocks at this time?¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Viscount Leslie revealed a smile as a lonely look passed in his eyes, ¡°Because in this world, there are few people I like and you Xu Yi are one of those people. Xu Yi, although we haven¡¯t been in contact much since I¡¯ve known you, I believe that you are a person with ambitious and lofty ideals. Moreover, you do have an ability that others don¡¯t have. I even sometimes feel that you have the ability to change this world. I don¡¯t want to see this hope being crushed or you perishing, so I want to help you and give you some advice.¡±

    Seeing Viscount Leslie¡¯s serious expression, one that he had never seen before, Xu Yi gave a slow nod.

    ¡°Please advise me Lord Viscount.¡±

    ¡°First, his majesty doesn¡¯t represent the Lampuri Kingdom, just the royal family. The royal family is thergest noble family in the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Second, among the noble families, especiallyrger families, there aren¡¯t any real friends, only trying to take benefits from each other. The royal family has the most resources and most benefits in the kingdom, so they have the most contradictions with therge noble families.¡±

    ¡°Third, I am the Stagg Family¡¯s eldest son and not the Stagg Family. You approaching me does not mean approaching the Stagg Family. Moreover, you have the his majesty¡¯s recognition and support, so just stay loyal to the royal family. Don¡¯t think about being friendly with both his majesty and the Stagg Family.¡±

    ¡°Fourth, his majesty has proved he is a powerful king by ruling for decades, so don¡¯t doubt him.¡±

    ¡°Fifth, you are an idiot in terms of politics, so just honestly manage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Don¡¯t casually participate in politics.¡±

    Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie had known each other for this long and had been in contact many times, but this was his first time hearing Viscount Leslie say this much and to say it in such a serious tone.

    This advice had clearlye from the bottom of Viscount Leslie¡¯s heart, with each word being sincere and holding real implications, so Xu Yi kept nodding as he listened.

    But hearing the final advice, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being unconvinced.

    Even the queen Seveni had wanted Xu Yi as a politician, so why did Viscount Leslie say that he was an idiot in politics.

    ¡°Before you have the identity to dabble in politics, you are just an idiot in politics.¡± To Xu Yi¡¯s doubt, Viscount Leslie reprimanded him without holding back, ¡°My advice is for you to properly manage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and once it bes strong enough to affect many things in the kingdom, then you have the qualification to dabble in politics. And when many people have to seriously consider the words you say, you have the qualification to dabble in politics. Otherwise, you are just seeking your own death.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and had to admit that Viscount Leslie¡¯s words were right, so he nodded without refuting him.

    But that still didn¡¯t answer the question in his heart.

    ¡°But how does this matter rte to you selling stocks?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°First, because my goal is to be arge noble in the kingdom, I have to raise my position. ording to the old rules of the Royal Parliament, I can¡¯t participate in anymercial business.¡±

    ¡°Is there a problem with owning stocks? Then again you can transfer them to someone you trust, like Butler Brunei.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Have you forgotten my advice from earlier?¡± Viscount Leslie gave a soft snort, ¡°I am not the Stagg Family, but the Stagg Family can represent me. If I keep the stocks, you will be swallowed in one bite and you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be a dependent. Even if it is Brunei¡­¡­¡±

    Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t keep talking, but Xu Yi already understood what he meant.

    After thinking carefully about the meaning in Viscount Leslie¡¯s words, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling moved.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, why are you thinking this much for me?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it just now, I feel you have the possibility to change the world. The world is just too boring right now and it¡¯s hard enough for a special person like you to appear, so I hope that you won¡¯t be destroyed. I can only help you with this much right now, I hope that you will not disappoint me.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, if I let down your expectations, wouldn¡¯t it mean that I wasn¡¯t worthy of them?¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a slow nod, ¡°Good, then I¡¯ll give you some final advice. After I leave, the family will send someone to take care of thisnd. Although this person hasn¡¯t been set yet, don¡¯t think that he is the same as me.¡±

    ###

    A week after Xu Yi¡¯s talk with Viscount Leslie, Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas left for Anvilmar City again in a horse carriage.

    Baron Hannas was very reluctant about leaving Banta City, rather he was unwilling to leave the ?Banta Times?. The night before he left, he dragged Viscount Leslie and Xu Yi out to drink.

    Since he was strictly raised by his family, this was Baron Hannas¡¯ first time wildly drinking. He became drunk after just a few cups and broke out weeping in front of Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie.

    For the entire night, the two had to listen to Baron Hannasin to them about his dream, his passion for the ?Banta Times?, and his sadness about being in Anvilmar City. Finally he fell down drunk and passed out.

    As for Viscount Leslie, since that day when he had that discussion with Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t mention it again. Only when he was normally with Xu Yi, he acted like that day didn¡¯t happen at all.

    Only Xu Yi knew that in secret, Viscount Leslie had Butler Brunei take out the contract he had signed with Xu Yist year. He returned the 30% stock of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce back to Xu Yi at a price of three hundred thousand gold coins.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current value, this price wasn¡¯t high at all.

    Butpared to Viscount Leslie¡¯s very low investment investment at the time, this was a veryrge gain.

    Of course, Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t care about this.

    If Viscount Leslie cared about making money, with how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing, he would keep the 30% share he had. It would definitely bring him profits of more than three hundred thousand gold coins.

    The reason why Xu Yi had transferred 30% to Viscount Leslie was to establish a good rtionship with the Stagg Family, finding arge leg to hug.

    But Viscount Leslie had explicitly told Xu Yi that relying on the Stagg Family was not a good choice, since the final result would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being swallowed by the Stagg Family, not leaving a single bit to Xu Yi.

    To the advice of the Staff Family¡¯s eldest son, Xu Yi had no choice but to believe it.

    Even the eldest son Viscount Leslie said this and even didn¡¯t hesitate to return the 30% back to Xu Yi at this time. This meant that there was some contradiction between Viscount Leslie and his family Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand for now, which meant that it wasn¡¯t reliable to go to the Stagg Family.

    ¡°But¡­..is the king¡¯s support that easy to use?¡±

    Seeing Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas¡¯ horse carriage disappearing into the distance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of Seveni¡¯s unimpressive, but very good looking face that always had an elegant and gentle smile.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s mind,pared to the king he had only met once, this queen was more trustworthy.

 Volume 2 19 - First build roads if you want to become rich

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 19 First build roads if you want to be rich</strong>

    Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas leaving createdrge ripples in Xu Yi¡¯s heart, but the lives of Banta City¡¯s people weren¡¯t affected at all and everything went as normal.

    After the spring nting was over, the Banta Citynd remation product was smoothly finished with the help ofrge amounts of agricultural magic machines.

    ording to data from the City Lord¡¯s Manor, after thisnd remation project, the farnd around Banta City had increased from thirty thousand hectares to a hundred and ten thousand hectares. As well, there were corresponding crops that had already been nted on them.

    ording to initial estimates, Banta City¡¯s fall harvest would at least doublest year¡¯s amount.

    If everything went smoothly, there would be a shocking result when the fall harvest came. To Count Sean who was Banta City¡¯s City Lord, this was an important achievement.

    So although Count Sean had been busy during this time, he had been very happy. Each time he saw Xu Yi, he would have a very affectionate smile on his face.

    But when he heard the topic Xu Yi mentioned today, his expression became very ugly.

    ¡°Constructing roads?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with an awkward expression and hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, although I don¡¯t know what difference there is between these roads and the roads outside Banta City, constructing roads outside the city is very expensive. For a fellow who can spend money like you, building roads would be even more expensive? Our Banta City¡¯s current finances aren¡¯t good right now, I can¡¯t agree to this.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile like he expected this and said without any surprise, ¡°Lord City Lord, this road does cost quite a bit of money, but there is an idiom in my hometown which is that to earn money, one must first build roads. It means that if Banta City wants to be rich, the first thing it must do is build roads and protect them. To give an example, our Banta City has quite a few special products, which the Magma Berry that Still and I have liked eating during this period of time is considered one of. I think the Lord City Lord should also like eating this fruit, can you acknowledge it as a delicacy?¡±

    Count Sean couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. This Magma Fruit has a very good taste. It is quite sweet and one doesn¡¯t get tired of eating it, so if it was put in Anvilmar City, I think many people would buy it even if it sold for a gold coin per pound.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Such a good fruit, but because it¡¯s hard to preserve, it can only be traded in Banta City and the surrounding cities. Let¡¯s not mention increasing the price, we can¡¯t even advertise it, which means we¡¯re losing arge amount of business.¡± Xu Yi said with a look of regret.

    ¡°Indeed, if we could sell it¡­...Wait, how is this rted to you building a road to the Falling Rain Valley?¡± Count Sean suddenly remembered, ¡°If the Magma Fruit is sold to further ces, it¡¯s clear that we need to build a road from Banta City to Anvilmar City first. Kid, don¡¯t think of using the Banta City g to create benefits for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    The so called Falling Rain Valley referred to the piece ofnd the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had rented fifty kilometers to the west of Banta City.

    Because thisnd had two mountain ranges surrounding it and it had the Falling Rain Forest at its back, it was called the Falling Rain Valley.

    On the matter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce renting thisrge piece ofnd, Count Sean knew everything. How could he not know why Xu Yi wanted to create a road from Banta City to the Falling Rain Valley.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a Banta Citypany, benefits gained by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce are also benefits to our Banta City.¡± Xu Yiined, ¡°If ourpany didn¡¯t wish to help the Lord City Lord, creating more factories and recruiting more workers, causing the hectare ofnd rented from Viscount Leslie to be not enough, how could we go to the Falling Rain Valley and ask you for a road? Lord City Lord, you can¡¯t unfairly judge me.¡±

    Count Sean gave a snappy cold snort, ¡°Alright, you make it sound nice, but in the end it¡¯s to help your Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop. Even if I wasn¡¯t involved, wouldn¡¯t you still be setting up a factory?¡± After saying this, Count Sean focused. After hesitating a bit, he asked, ¡°Speaking of this, Xu Yi, why don¡¯t you keep rentingnd from Viscount Leslie and have to rent thisrge piece ofnd that is so far from Banta City from the king? If you just use this reason, it wouldn¡¯t make sense, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a dryugh, ¡°Lord City Lord, renting Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory is too inconvenient in the end. Then again, in just a few days, that ce won¡¯t be Viscount Leslie¡¯snd and someone else¡¯s.¡±

    ¡°Oh? It seems like that kid Leslie spoke to you before he left?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°This kid treats you pretty good, he actually told you about this.¡±

    ¡°The Lord Viscount is indeed pretty good to me¡­..¡± Thinking of the advice Viscount Leslie gave before leaving, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing. He rubbed his knit brows and took a deep breath before saying to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, even if it is thinking for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing the Falling Rain Valley, there are good reasons to build a road from Banta City to the Falling Rain Valley. You¡¯ve said that you fully support the development of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and now that our development has reached a bottleneck, you have to support us. You can¡¯t go back on your word.¡±

    ¡°This kid, you want to pressure me?¡± Count Sean scolded with a smile before giving a sigh, ¡°Actually I understand your idea and want to help you. I even seriously studied the road n you gave mest time and feel that if we build roads ording to your n, it will greatly help Banta City develop, but¡­..¡±

    Count Sean spread his hands with a helpless look.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t have the money. Although Banta City¡¯s tax revenue is considered not bad in the Lampuri Kingdom, arge amount is given to the kingdom finances each year and the rest is used for maintaining Banta City and the surrounding areas, so there¡¯s nothing left for other matters. As for building roads¡­...first let¡¯s not mention therge amount of resources needed, just the amount of people would be hard for me to find.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Lord City Lord, this is the important reason why I came to find you. Building these roads are not the same as the ones you imagined. Last year our Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a road to our factory and thergest expense was in manpower, so I understand your difficulty. But the cement roads I¡¯m talking about are different since with the help of magic machines, the manpower needed isn¡¯t that high and most of the cost wille from resources.¡±

    ¡°Magic machines?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°You mean that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made magic machines for building roads?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod and said with a proud look, ¡°Of course. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce specializes in developing magic machines, so naturally it is easy for us to make magic machines for building roads.¡±

    ¡°Then based on this, those magic machines should already be developed?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Far beyond being developed, they have been tested and are currently being used.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, did the Amrit Chamber of Commerce chairman Cruise invite you to see their newly developed concrete floor two days ago and suggested that you change the square outside the City Lord¡¯s Manor to this kind of floor?¡±

    Count Sean thought about it and understood, ¡°The concrete had your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s involvement? When you said mentioned this matter, I thought that it was very strange. How could you know about this thing.¡±

    ¡°urately speaking, I taught this thing to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. And the most important cement was provided by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cement factory.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, what do you think of the road made from cement?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s very good.¡± Count Sean said without any hesitation, ¡°Actually, I thought of this issue when I saw the cement floor two days ago. Since this thing can be used to make a square, it can be used to make a road. This thing is even smoother than normal ground and much harder. If it could be used to make a road, it is much better than the soil and gravel road outside Banta City.¡±

    Speaking of this, Count Sean gave a sigh, ¡°But it is the same problem, this concrete floor is very expensive. ording to what chairman Cruise said, just a single square meter costs sixty gold coins. If it was used to make a road¡­...it is paving a road with gold coins.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. A single square meter of cement costed sixty gold coins, so if it was converted to earth¡¯s RMB, it would be around sixty RMB per square meter. If those road developers on earth knew about this, they would think that one was skimping on materials.

    Of course, this is because the price in this world is too low. Actually sixty silver coins for each square meter was already a shockingly high price for the people of this world.

    ¡°Lord Count, don¡¯t worry. You won¡¯t have to take out a single copper coin for this road. I came looking for you today just to have you authorize this road building project. Without your authorization, I wouldn¡¯t dare to build such a long road by myself.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Count Sean was instantly stunned, ¡°You mean that¡­...For this fifty kilometer road from Banta City to the Falling Rain Valley, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning to pay for everything?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

 Volume 2 20 - Reason for leeching a meal

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 20 Reason for leeching a meal</strong>

    Building roads is a very expensive matter.

    On earth, building public roads was something funded by the government, supplemented sometimes by private capital. It was rare for a road to bepletely built with private capital.

    Because the roads connecting a country can be considered its veins, there was no doubt of its importance. If it wasn¡¯t controlled by the government, it could easily be arge problem.

    If it was possible, Xu Yi naturally hoped that he could fully pay for the road construction n across the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the fact was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial situation wasn¡¯t that good. Thergepanies andrge nobles of the kingdom had plenty of money, just the kingdom¡¯s finances werecking.

    Reflecting this onto Banta City, the City Lord Count Sean and the chairman of thosergepanies could live rich lives, but Banta City itself didn¡¯t have much finances.

    It was clearly impossible to build roads when the financial situation was this bad.

    So Xu Yi gave up on letting Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom pay for these roads and decided to pay for them himself.

    Viscount Leslie¡¯s advice before leaving could be considered a warning to Xu Yi. It made him lose confidence and hope in developing on Viscount Leslie¡¯s, or rather the Stagg Family¡¯snd, so he had to develop the Falling Rain Valley.

    Although the Falling Rain Valley¡¯s position wasn¡¯t bad, connecting the Falling Rain Forest and Crossing Mountains, allowing him to develop rtionships with the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elves and the dwarves of Norma Tribe and the Ang Tribe. But it was still fifty kilometers away from Banta City and if he wanted to develop it, he had to connect them and had to first build a road to Banta City.

    This road was around a total of length of between fifty to fifty five kilometers. ording to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s price of sixty silver coins per square meter of concrete, to create a road that was three meters wide, fifteen centimeters thick, wide enough to hold two horse carriages, adding the base price of constructing the road, it would cost a total of around one hundred and thirty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    It should be said that the price of this over fifty kilometer long road wasn¡¯t high, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have enough floating capital now, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t pay this much gold coins.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this simple? We¡¯ll follow the old method and use cement as payment.¡± Chairman Cruise patted his chest and generously said to Xu Yi, ¡°We are old friends, I believe in chairman Xu. We can help you finish this project and you can slowly pay. I¡¯m not in a rush, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, of course he wasn¡¯t in a rush.

    ording to chairman Cruise¡¯s n, he wanted Xu Yi to spend even more money on this road. That way his Amrit Chamber of Commerce could keep their monopoly on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cement and continue to hold their advantage in the construction industry.

    Of course Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject this method.

    He wasn¡¯t willing to pay anyway, so using cement to pay was an eptable method.

    The cement factory had been in the Norma Tribe for some time and the dwarves were getting used to making the cement. Then adding in the fact that the Ferstech Chamber of Commerce had made progress in developing the Magic Cement Mixer and other magic machines, the cement output of the Norma Tribe had greatly increased. They went fromst month¡¯s amount of three thousand tons to this month¡¯s amount of seven thousand tons.

    And after the next two cement factories were added to the Norma Tribe and Ang Tribe, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be producing over twenty thousand tons of cement each month!

    ording to the price that Xu Yi had with chairman Cruise of one ton for six gold coins, it would only take a month or two for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pay the costs of building this road in terms of cement.

    Of course, if Xu Yi sold the cement publicly, the price would be over six gold coins per ton and would earn even more money.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too many construction products and couldn¡¯t separate from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi was very happy to use cement to maintain the good rtionship between the twopanies.

    The cement was mainly produced with the y and limestone that the dwarves dug out of the Crossing Mountains, so the cost could be basically ignored.

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do this.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi nodded and confirmed their cooperation again, ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Cruise, I¡¯ve heard that chairman Morgan has looked for you and wanted to develop a magic machine with your Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Chairman Cruise waved his hand with a look of disdain, ¡°Che, that fellow has gone further than just looking for me. He¡¯s gone to everypany in Banta City with a bit of power. But there was basically no one that agreed to him because everyone knew that it would be hard topare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of developing magic machines. Instead of undertaking this fruitless task, it is better to do things they excel in. Don¡¯t you think so, chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°These words are quite right.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he gave a coldugh in his heart.

    He believed it if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce declined the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation deal to develop magic machines, but if they wanted him to believe that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t interested at all in developing magic machines, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t believe it even if he was beaten to death.

    Other than the Falcao Chamber of Commerce who didn¡¯t n on hiding themselves at all, almost all thergepanies of Banta City had basically invested in developing magic machines.

    It wasn¡¯t just for therge profit magic machines brought, it was also to master the magic machine technology and develop magic machines that they needed.

    Of thergepanies of Banta City, not a single one could avoid using products made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Taking the Falcao Chamber of Commerce as an example, justst week, chairman Morgan had made an order of ten thousand small Magic Drills to Xu Yi.

    At the same time, chairman Morgan had shown interest in the Magic Impact Crusher Xu Yi had mentioned. He said that once it was tested, he would put in arge amount with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The small Magic Drill had a selling price of seventy eight gold coins, so ten thousand of them was seven hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.

    And the selling price of the Magic Impact Crusher Xu Yi mentioned went as high as two hundred and sixty gold coins per unit. If one wanted to make arge order, one had to spend arge amount of gold coins without any doubt.

    If the Falcao Chamber of Commerce could develop these two mining magic machines themselves and produce them, it would save them arge amount of gold coins.

    The same situation as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was shared by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies.

    All the otherpanies wanted to avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earningrge profits from this situation, but after using those magic machines, they had to admit that the magic machines were indeed very easy to use. Right now, thosepanies couldn¡¯t separate themselves from the magic machines.

    Since they couldn¡¯t separate themselves, the only method was to develop them. They would strive to grasp this magic machine technology for themselves and no longer allow themselves to be controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Only other than some sess on the Magic Fan technology that Xu Yi willingly handed out, as for the other magic machines, especially therge magic machines, thepanies hadn¡¯t made any development at all.

    As these thoughts shed in his mind, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny. He patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and said in a friendly voice, ¡°Of course, we are good partners. If the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is really interested in developing magic machines, chairman Cruise can just talk to me. If there is something I can help with, I will definitely do my best.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes lit up, but he then caught himself. He gave an awkward smile and shook his head as he said, ¡°No, no, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce will honestly stay in the business of construction. Aplicated thing like magic machines is something chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can y with, I won¡¯t mess around.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t continue this topic. He then discussed the concrete ns of constructing this road with chairman Cruise.

    After discussing with chairman Cruise until the evening, Xu Yi rejected chairman Cruise¡¯s invitation for dinner and headed to a yard that upied a ratherrge space to the south of Banta City.

    Since Evita and Akali¡¯s five ssmates joined, the small building the two lived in before clearly wasn¡¯t enough as a researchb, so Xu Yi had rented this yard ahead of time with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.

    This courtyard used be a viscount¡¯s residence in Banta City, but since that viscount left Banta City, it was empty for Xu Yi to buy.

    The yard took up a space of over two thousand square meters, including three small buildings and several houses. Other than giving the ten members of the researchb a ce to work, it also gave Evita and Akali¡¯s five ssmates a ce to live.

    When Xu Yi entered the courtyard, he smelled something fragrant.

    Taking a sniff, Xu Yi was certain that tonight¡¯s dinner was made by Evita.

    As expected, when he entered the main hall, he saw Evita taking off an apron and preparing to start eating.

    Seeing Xu Yi suddenlye over, the group was stunned.

    After a while, Akali jumped up and excitedly called to Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, why are you here?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I haven¡¯t eaten yet, so I came here to leech a meal.¡±

    Looking over the dishes on the table, Xu Yi pointed to one that was rather dark and said with a smile, ¡°Let me guess, this one should be made by Akali, right?¡±

    Akali angrily looked at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, sir chairman, you were wrong.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Other than you, there is someone else who can turn stir fried vegetables into baked vegetables?¡± Xu Yi asked in a fake surprised manner.

    Everyone broke out inughter.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you really guessed wrong. This dish was something that Cecilia offered to make, it really wasn¡¯t made by Akali.¡± Be on the side said with a smile.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi looked at the blushing Cecilia in surprise. He never thought that this shy and gentle girl who was even worse than Evita would be even worse than Akali at cooking, ¡°This really is surprising still. I thought that gentle girls like Evita knew how to cook, but I never thought there was an exception.¡±

    Cecilia lowered her head even more and silently gnawed on the bread in her hand, not saying a word.

    ¡°Sir chairman, stop bullying Cecilia, she is very shy.¡± A girl named ire with natural ck curls said with a smile, ¡°If she can¡¯t take it andes to my room to cry, I have to ask sir chairman forpensation.¡±

    Cecilia suddenly looked up and hit ire¡¯s shoulder, as she angrily said, ¡°You¡¯re the one who cried!¡±

    Seeing Cecilia act like this, everyone couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Finding that even Schoch who always had a bad expression couldn¡¯t help smiling, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling satisfied.

    It seems like after working here for a bit, these young people had gotten used to living here.

    It was because of their vigor and talent that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop those shocking magic machines.

    These youths didn¡¯t know this, but Xu Yi was certain on this.

    As long as they worked hard, they would definitely be powerful magic mechanical engineers, bing an important part of the magic machine industry.

    Looking over their young faces, Xu Yi suddenly found a problem.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, where¡¯s We? Why don¡¯t I see her? Did she go out to eat?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    To make research more convenient, after Xu Yi bought this courtyard, he had We move from theboratory at the factory over here.

    Because We was now alone in Banta City, all her food and amodations were taken care of like ire and the others.

    ¡°Big sister We went out before eating, she said she wanted to see someone and didn¡¯t know when she woulde back.¡± Evita responded.

    ¡°See someone?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Sinceing back from Saltan City, We hadn¡¯t been willing to go out during this time. She didn¡¯t want to see her acquaintances in Banta City, so who did she suddenly go out to see?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps big sister We went to find some boyfriend, we don¡¯t need to wait for her.¡± Akali waved her hand, ¡°Sir chairman, sit down and eat. It¡¯s a good thing that Evita made some more today. But why don¡¯t you go home to eat today? What about Vivian?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s some activity at school today, so Vivian is eating dinner at school. Otherwise would Ie here to leech a meal off you?¡± Xu Yi casually replied before doubtfully sitting down.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right. Even if you want to leech a meal, you should go to Still¡¯s house. You are Still¡¯s boyfriend now, Still will definitely wee you if you go leech a meal.¡± Be said.

    Schoch sitting opposite Xu Yi froze. He looked up at Xu Yi and aplicated look appeared in his eyes, before he lowered his head to silently eat his meal.

    ¡°I want to, but Still hasn¡¯te back from Karma City after doing an advertisement there for ourpany. I can¡¯t just have a candlelight dinner with Great Magician Cami alone, right?¡±

    Everyone broke out inughter again.

    When theughter stopped, there were footsteps that came from the door.

    Xu Yi turned to look and saw We walking in with someone else.

    Seeing the person beside her, Xu Yi was stunned.

    ¡°Rem? Why are you back again?¡±

 Volume 2 21 - We are impossible

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 21 We are impossible</strong>

    Why was it again?

    Because a few months ago, after We and Rem left the Leo Chamber of Commerce in Saltan City, they came back to Banta City.

    But when Xu Yi invited them to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, We epted while Rem rejected Xu Yi.

    After Xu Yi asked We about Rem, he learned that Rem had left Banta City to find anotherpany to work for.

    As for what he was doing or whatpany it was, Rem didn¡¯t even tell We.

    Xu Yi thought that Rem was intentionally hiding it from We like a man who had failed at his enterprise, onlying back to We after he had found some sess. Who would have thought that he would appear in Banta City again, appearing in front of him with such a clear lost look on his face, looking defeated. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying ¡°again¡±.

    When this was said, Xu Yi realized that this was improper, so he stood up and beckoned to them while saying, ¡°Come,e,e over and sit. We, if you and Rem are back now, you shouldn¡¯t have eaten outside, right? Come, sit and eat. Evita made the dishes today, it tastes quite good.¡±

    We nodded and pulled Rem¡¯s sleeve, as she took a step forward.

    Rem forced out a smile as he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, why are you here as well?¡±

    ¡°I have some work here, so I might as well scrape some food.¡± Xu Yi casually replied. Looking at We sitting down, he hesitated a bit before he gave up on asking anything and beckoned to Rem to sit down.

    Akali and the others looked over We and Rem, looking to be filled with curiosity.

    Although We was several years older than them, she waspletely different than them who had just graduated from school. Not only was she stronger than them, she was much more stable and mature, having more experience than them.

    Although they hadn¡¯t been together for long, We had already received their heartfelt approval and respect.

    Moreover, We was usually serious and a bit cold, so it made them respect her while also making her feel like she was hard to approach.

    But now they found Wee here with a man who was around the same age as her, so it really surprised them.

    Seeing Rem naturally sit down beside We, their eyes filled with even more curiosity.

    Could it be like Akali had guessed, this Rem really was We¡¯s boyfriend?

    The atmosphere at the table was a bit strange. Akali and Be whose hearts burned with the mes of gossip wanted to try asking several times, but they were stopped by Xu Yi¡¯s eyes.

    We had a calm manner, slowly eating her food. But Rem¡¯s body expression was much more unnatural and he had a frozen expression, roughly eating his food.

    After waiting for We to finish, Rem put down his bowl and gave We a look.

    We was silent for a bit before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, I have something to discuss with you. Do you have time?¡±

    Hearing We call ¡°chairman¡± and her respectful tone, Rem¡¯s expression changed slightly, but it quickly recovered.

    Xu Yi had long finished and had been patiently waiting while drinking some tea. Now that We had finally spoken, he put down the teacup and stood up, pointing to the back of the living room, ¡°Let¡¯s go back to talk, let¡¯s not disturb their meal.¡±

    We and Rem stood up at the same time. While being watched by Akali¡¯s group¡¯s curious gazes, they followed Xu Yi to the small room behind the living room.

    The three of them sat down and Xu Yi looked at the silent We and Rem before revealing a smile. He broke the silence first and asked Rem, ¡°Rem, I¡¯ve heard We say that you¡¯ve found a newpany to work for and are still researching magic machines?¡±

    Rem¡¯s expression froze and he looked at Xu Yi with aplicated gaze before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, thispany also studies magic machines. But during this time, I¡¯ve found that We ispletely right. If we¡¯re talking about studying magic machines, there is nopany that canpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather can¡¯tpare to you. I have been studying magic machines at my currentpany and haven¡¯t made any progress at all.¡±

    ¡°Magic machines are veryplex, it isn¡¯t realistic if one wants results in a short period of time.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod and pointed at We before saying, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has these results now because there are researchers working hard at our research facility like We.¡±

    ¡°Other than We, I can tell that your other researchers are just kids who have just graduated? Are they strong enough?¡± A look of disdain appeared on Rem¡¯s face, ¡°Since even they can have achievements, there¡¯s no reason that we magicians who are stronger than them can¡¯t.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows. How could Rem be this arrogant?

    He clearly hadn¡¯t had any achievements, so how could he look down on Evita and the others who had already maderge progress in terms of magic machines? It was already being light saying that he had high eyes and low hands.

    We looked at Rem and coldly said, ¡°Actually you haven¡¯t had any results even now and those kids who you look down on have had many results with just their hard work. Of the magic machines that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces, other than the ones Great Magician Cami researches, the rest are made by them. What right do you have to look down on them?¡±

    We¡¯s unrestrained words caused Rem¡¯s face to turn red and he couldn¡¯t say a single thing.

    Seeing that the atmosphere became a bit awkward, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this. Rem, did youe back this time to see We? Or was it for something else?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Rem hesitated a bit, but he didn¡¯t respond and looked at We.

    We knit her brows before rxing them. She looked at Xu Yi with a calm face and said, ¡°Chairman, Rem came back this time to work in Banta City. I mean¡­...he wants to work for ourpany. It¡¯s best if he can research Magic Arrays with me at our research facility. You¡­..What do you think?¡±

    If one had to talk about price, Rem was far from being able topare to We.

    From meeting We when he entered the Magic Towerst year, he had known her for around a year and this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing We ask anything of anyone.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked at Rem in surprise, but he found that he had a look of hope and no shame at all.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    This fellow, if he had mentioned this himself, Xu Yi could still give a high view of him. But now that he had urged We to mention this for him, he really made Xu Yi despise him.

    Although the Rem from before always looked down on people and Xu Yi didn¡¯t really like it, he had never made Xu Yi despise him.

    He really didn¡¯t know what he experienced in these months after leaving Banta City to turn him into this.

    But whether he despised him or not, it was hard enough for We to mention this request, so he couldn¡¯t not give her face.

    After considering it, a smile appeared on Xu Yi¡¯s face as he said, ¡°Alright. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce iscking magicians in our research facility. As for Rem who is an experienced magician in researching magic machines, of course we wee him. Rem¡¯s magic power is quite good, so there¡¯s no need to consider this at all. I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in weing Rem.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi stand up and stretch his hand at him, Rem quickly stood up and took his hand. He said with a smile, ¡°Thank you. Xu¡­..Chairman, I will definitely work hard, no, properly learn.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. At least you know how to learn, otherwise if you keep looking down on people, you wouldn¡¯t be able to stay in this researchb.

    ¡°We, there are some things that need to be paid attention to that I won¡¯t say, so you can tell Rem.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Other than that, I will have someone bring the employment contract and the confidentiality agreement tomorrow, so you can tell Rem what to do.¡±

    We nodded. Rem asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Confidentiality agreement? What is that?¡±

    ¡°Oh, it¡¯s a contract to stop our research staff from revealing some of ourpany¡¯s secrets. If it is breached, one needs to paypensation. This isn¡¯t anything, it won¡¯t have any effect as long as you don¡¯t go against the contract.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    Rem¡¯s expression changed slightly, but it quickly returned to normal. He nodded with a smile and said, ¡°Un, that is normal. After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many technology rted to magic machines and if it is casually revealed, the losses wouldn¡¯t be small.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s good you understand.¡±

    After saying a few more things and making the final decision to hire Rem, Xu Yi stood up and left.

    We stopped Akali and Evita who wanted to send Xu Yi off and she sent him off herself.

    When the two came out, Xu Yi looked at We and said, ¡°We, if you have anything that isn¡¯t convenient to say in front of others, just mention it now. We can be considered colleagues from Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, so there isn¡¯t anything you can¡¯t say with our rtionship.¡±

    We looked at Xu Yi for a while before softly saying, ¡°Thank you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯re wee. Our Frestech Chamber of Commercecks magicians anyway, so even if you didn¡¯t mention it, I was very willing to hire a magician like Rem with his power and experience with magic machines.¡±

    ¡°But Rem, he¡­¡­¡± We opened her mouth, but she didn¡¯t say anything else and just gave a sigh.

    Seeing the deste look on We¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°We, would you mind if I ask you some personal questions?¡±

    We looked up at Xu Yi and revealed a bitter smile, ¡°You want to ask about me and Rem?¡±

    ¡°Right. I¡¯ve heard that in the few months that Rem was away from Banta City, he hadn¡¯t even contacted you, so I¡¯m a bit worried. When we were colleagues back at Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, I was jealous of you two being together, but this situation now¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and found that he couldn¡¯t continue, since it was too straightforward.

    ¡°It should be impossible for us now.¡± We very directly gave him her answer, ¡°I thought that I would be very happy that he wasing back, but when I saw hime back, I found that I already didn¡¯t feel anything for him. I didn¡¯t feel any special feeling after seeing him and it was like seeing a stranger. So I know that it should have ended between us.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a while before asking, ¡°But now that he has joined our researchb and you will be working together every day, so will this affect you?¡±

    We shook her head, ¡°No. I really don¡¯t have any feelings for him anymore and will only treat him as an acquaintance. To return to the rtionship from before, it is definitely impossible.¡±

    Xu Yi had some understanding of We¡¯s personality and since she said it was impossible, it really was impossible.

    He wanted tofort her, but he found that We didn¡¯t need it at all.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a dryugh, ¡°That¡¯s good, I don¡¯t have anything else to say. I hope that Rem can work here properly in the future. With his ability, I believe that he will be an important part of the researchb.¡±

    We gave a soft nod and didn¡¯t say anything.

    Xu Yi paused and found that he had nothing to say, so he raised his hand to bid We farewell.

    Aftering out of the little alley the research facility was in, he turned around to take a look. He found We standing at the main entrance looking up at the starry night sky, not knowing what she was thinking.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. This magician couple that all their colleagues had a good impression of had actually split for a strange reason, it really made him feel sad inside.

    If he and Still separated one day, would he be as calm as We?

 Volume 2 22 - Have to go meet people

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 22 Have to go meet people</strong>

    ¡°Impossible!¡± Still had a determined look as she said without any hesitation, ¡°First, it is impossible for me to break up with you. Second, even if there is a day when you don¡¯t want me, I will definitely go crazy and won¡¯t be as calm as We. Moreover, if you ever let me down or break up with me, it is likely I will duel you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and reached out to tweak her nose, ¡°Dueling me? Don¡¯t forget that my strength has increased and I¡¯m a Fifth Grade Magician now, not weaker than you. If you really due me, who knows who¡¯ll win or lose.¡±

    ¡°Then how about we fight right now?¡± Still pushed away Xu Yi and stood up in a dueling position.

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Alright, you¡¯re a kind and beautiful girl with such a good personality, how could I be willing to give you up. To be honest, I¡¯m more worried that the goddess in the eyes of everyone would not like me anymore and will give me up. Right, what about your trip to Karma City this time, how was it? Did you have fun ying around these two days?¡±

    ¡°y? There was no time to y at all, alright?¡± Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and jumped into Xu Yi¡¯s bed. She rolled while holding Xu Yi¡¯s nket andined, ¡°I¡¯ve been helping thepany advertise during these two days, attending all kinds of banquets. When I had some rare free time, all the Karma City nobles and merchants came to bother me. Really, everyone already knows that I¡¯m already your girlfriend, so why do they keep looking for me? Could it be that they still haven¡¯t given up?¡±

    ¡°Chasing after beauties is in human nature, you can¡¯t stop this.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Then again you are my girlfriend and not my wife yet, so how could others give up?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise. She narrowed her eyes and revealed a sly smile, ¡°What? Xu Yi, are you proposing at a time like this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If the beautiful young miss Still is willing, how about it?¡±

    Still buried her head into the nkets for a while before looking over and revealing a sunny smile to Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, this young miss hasn¡¯t decided yet. Chairman Xu will have to keep working hard.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and helplessly said, ¡°So that means you don¡¯t need to worry about me not wanting you and I should be the one worried, right?¡±

    Still jumped out of bed and threw herself into Xu Yi¡¯s embrace. She threw a strong kiss onto his cheek and said with a smile, ¡°Rx, unless you be as man like Rem without any self respect, how could I not want you? Although there are a bunch of disgusting men following me around, how could theypare to you? There are quite a few beautiful and charming girls by your side other than me, so I¡¯m very worried.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Are there girls who are more beautiful and charming than you? Where? Can you introduce me to them?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile and pointed at Vivian who was carrying out a dish as she said, ¡°Here. I won¡¯t mention Evita and Akali, even Vivian has already be a little beauty. Be honest, did you buy her from Viscount Leslie because of this back then?¡±

    Hearing what Still said, Vivian¡¯s little face turned red and she quickly put down the dish, as she returned to the kitchen.

    After a while, there were ttering sounds that came from the kitchen.

    Xu Yi snappily pinched Still¡¯s cheek, ¡°Vivian is still a child, what are you teasing her for?¡±

    Still gave a softugh, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about Vivian. But there is a girl who is more beautiful than me by your side.¡±

    ¡°More beautiful than you?¡± Xu Yi doubtfully looked at Still, ¡°Still, this is nonsense. How could there be a girl more beautiful than you?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Still stood up and looked around before suddenly raising her voice, ¡°Agnes,e out, I know you¡¯re there. Stop hiding, we¡¯ll be eating soon anyway.¡±

    Spatial distortions appeared in a corner of the room and a figure appeared, who was the elf girl Agnes.

    ¡°Young miss Still, what did you call me for?¡± Agnes asked Still.

    Still walked over and lifted her hand to take off the hood covering Agnes¡¯ face. She stroked her finger across her elegant face before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°How about it? Agnes is more beautiful than me, admit it.¡±

    Agnes looked at Still in surprise, ¡°Young miss Still, you were talking about me now? I¡¯m sorry, I don¡¯t understand your human standard of beauty, so I don¡¯t understand why you think I¡¯m more beautiful than you. But from the viewpoint of us elves, whether it is your face or your figure, you conform very well to our elven standard of beauty. From what I can see, you can be considered a work of art.¡±

    Seeing Agnes¡¯ serious expression, Still¡¯s face turned red and she became embarrassed.

    ¡°No, Agnes, you¡¯re the one who¡¯s truly beautiful. Although I have confidence, I still feel I can¡¯tpare to you.¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t much difference in the appearance of us elves, so I¡¯m not outstanding by elven standards. But young miss Still is the most outstanding human I¡¯ve seen, just pretty isn¡¯t enough to describe you and you must use beautiful.¡±

    ¡°If you say it that well, I really¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Stop!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help raising his hand to stop the two of them, ¡°What are you two ttering each other for. Alright, you¡¯re both absolute beauties, stop being modest.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Still gave a confident snort and turned back to Agnes before pping her hand, ¡°That¡¯s right, speaking of this, Agnes, I have something to talk to you about.¡±

    ¡°Talk to me?¡± Agnes pointed at herself in surprise.

    Xu Yi also looked at Still with a confused look. What could she be looking for Agnes for?

    ¡°Come, let¡¯s sit and talk.¡± Still pulled Agnes over to the table and thought for a bit before saying, ¡°When I went to Karma City this time, I bumped into Master Kassadin at a banquet and he asked me which master¡¯s hand our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Lamp advertisement came from. Because Xu Yi had told me that you¡¯re not willing to reveal yourself to humans, I told him that you weren¡¯t willing to reveal your name. But Master Kassadin said that he really liked your drawing and seemed to have learned a bit from it, only a single drawing wasn¡¯t enough. So he hoped that I could give you a message asking if you could give him a few more drawings or if you could teach him a bit, he would be willing to pay a high price. What do you think, Agnes?¡±

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡± Agnes looked at Xu Yi with a dazed look, ¡°I don¡¯t understand this, what do you think chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Did he give a high price? How high?¡± Xu Yi asked Still

    Still stretched out a finger, ¡°One thousand per drawing.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help gasping, ¡°That high? Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce only spends fifty to a hundred gold coins getting an advertisement from Master Anlios, but Agnes can sell her drawing for one thousand gold coins? This is too much of a difference!¡±

    ¡°Master Kassadin also said that using gold coins to measure Agnes¡¯ drawing was shaming the art, but he couldn¡¯t think of a way to move Agnes. He could only use this n, so he wanted me to apologize to Agnes.¡± Still added.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said to Agnes, ¡°Agnes, it seems like you don¡¯t need to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You can just rely on your drawings to earn arge amount of money.¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m not working for chairman Xu for money.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°The reason elder Illusia agreed to you working for ourpany was to hope to use you as a breaking point, testing out contact between the elves and humans. She wants to strive for peace and coexistence with the humans on the Sines Continent. Since it is like this, Agnes, are you prepared?¡±

    ¡°Prepared for what?¡± Agnes asked in surprise.

    ¡°Prepared to make contact with humans.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Elder Illusia hoped that you could contact humans and test out how humans will treat elves. But Agnes, since you left the Night Song Tribe and came to my side two months ago, you have been hiding by my side the entire time. You haven¡¯t contacted the humans at all, so this may be letting down elder Illusia.¡±

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡± Agnes lowered her head and said in a soft voice, ¡°I¡¯m a bit afraid.¡±

    ¡°Afraid of what? Afraid that humans will eat you?¡± Xu Yi reached out his hands and lifted Agnes¡¯ head, letting her look at him again, ¡°Come, look at me. I¡¯m a human, are you afraid?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Agnes honestly replied.

    Xu Yi turned her head towards Still.

    ¡°Look at Still now. She is also a human, are you afraid of her?¡±

    Still immediately revealed a kind sunny smile.

    ¡°No.¡± Agnes replied again.

    Xu Yi let go and pointed at Vivian who had finally walked out of the kitchen.

    ¡°Now look at Vivian. She is also a human, are you afraid of her?¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°No.¡±

    ¡°That is right.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and said, ¡°Look, me, Still, and also Vivian are all humans, but you aren¡¯t afraid of us. Moreover, by following me during this time, you should have made contact with many humans, so are you afraid of them?¡±

    Agnes hesitated again and thought about it before answering, ¡°You, young miss Still, and Vivian all know of my existence and are familiar with me. You have also gone to our tribe and helped us, so you can be considered my friends. But the other humans don¡¯t know about me and I¡¯m not familiar with them, so I don¡¯t know what they will do. The elders taught us since we were young that humans were aplicated race. We elves have been deceived by humans many times, so we can¡¯t easily trust humans.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°In the end, it stilles back to elder Illusia. She wants elves and humans to coexist, but she put these kinds of thoughts in your mind since you were young, could this be considered hindering her own ns?¡±

    ¡°The elder was thinking about our tribe, it wasn¡¯t her fault.¡± Agnes immediately refuted.

    ¡°Alright, I know. I agree that elder Illusia did everything in consideration for you elves, so she wasn¡¯t wrong. But Agnes, since you believe in elder Illusia and she wants you to contact humans, so you should go out to meet people. Why are you so resistant?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡± Agnes was a bit speechless.

    ¡°Alright, since elder Illusia has entrusted you to me, then you should just follow my arrangements.¡± Xu Yi looked into Agnes¡¯ eyes and seriously said, ¡°How about it, Agnes, do you trust me?¡±

    Agnes looked into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and slowly nodded, ¡°I do.¡±

    ¡°Good. There wasn¡¯t a chance before and you weren¡¯t ready yet, so I didn¡¯t force you to contact humans. But since there¡¯s such a good chance, Agnes, you have to prepare your heart. I will find an appropriate chance for you to meet some other humans.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Agnes replied as her eyes gradually filled with determination.

 Volume 2 24 - Mysterious master

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 24 Mysterious master</b>

    At nine in the morning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second product announcement had formally begun.

    When it had just started, the process went as everyone had expected.

    In front of everyone, Xu Yi introduced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed product, the Magic Bread Maker.

    It should be said that everyone weed the appearance of this thing, especially the people of Banta City.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only developed the Magic Rice Cooker and even developed on it, making the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, it could be seen the importance ced on this product.

    But the main method of eating grains in Banta City was wheat and bread made from it.

    No matter how easy it was to use the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, it wasn¡¯t any use to the people of Banta City who weren¡¯t use to eating rice.

    Before this, the ?Banta Times? had even conducted a survey of Banta City, investigating what every hoped the next magic machine developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be.

    The final result was ¡°a magic machine that could automatically make bread¡± was the winner.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finally made the Magic Bread Maker, it could be considered finally fulfilling the hopes of many people in Banta City.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s introduction, this square looking Magic Bread Maker that was the size of a human head was very simple to use. It just required a necessary amount of flour, water, egg, or other things that people liked to add in to be ced into the Magic Bread Maker before pressing the switch. The Magic Bread Maker would automatically mix everything and then ferment it for some time before it went on to bake the bread.

    During this process, the person making the bread only needed to press the button after a certain time. They didn¡¯t even need to mix the flour, which saved quite a bit of time.

    Compared to the troublesome method of making bread yourself, it was without a doubt much easier to use the Magic Bread Maker.

    After Xu Yi introduced the Magic Bread Maker, many Banta City citizens who came to watch the fun cheered out. They loudly said that they would immediately buy a Magic Bread Maker to take home.

    Xu Yi epted everyone praise with a faint smile before following the process of the product announcement, demonstrating the product in front of everyone.

    Finally when he pressed the switch to start baking, Xu Yi stopped and turned to everyone to say in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, it¡¯ll take around one to two hours for the bread to bake, so during this time¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can we ask questions?¡± A reporter from Saltan City impatiently asked from under the stage.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°ording to normal procedure, this time should be time for everyone to ask questions, but it is different today. During this time, the Lord City Lord and I have something to announce to everyone, so I ask everyone to be patient. After this matter is announced, I will honestly answer your questions.¡±

    Of the Banta City citizens that came to watch for fun, there were some who were prepared to leave after hearing that it would take an hour or two for the bread to finish baking. But now that they heard what Xu Yi said, they stopped out of curiosity.

    The reporters right under the stage focused their minds. Their eyes kept couldn¡¯t help looking at the mysterious person who was covered up on the stage.

    If their guesses weren¡¯t wrong, the matter that Xu Yi and Count Sean wanted to announce was very likely rted to this person.

    Xu Yi looked at Count Sean with a look of inquiry and Count Sean gave a slight nod back. So with a soft cough from Xu Yi, everyone began to calm down. He pped his hand and two Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers behind him took out arge painting.

    Xu Yi turned the painting and showed it to everyone under the stage.

    Everyone looked over and found that it was the advertisement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used to promote the Magic Lamp.

    This painting had been on therge signs outside Banta City¡¯s four gates for two entire months. Not mentioning Banta City¡¯s people, even people from other cities were familiar with it.

    It was because of this painting that Still¡¯s position as a goddess was cemented in the hearts of the people. Even after she announced that she was dating Xu Yi, this wasn¡¯t affected at all.

    But¡­..why was Xu Yi taking this out now? In order to show off Still, this beautiful girlfriend that everyone admired?

    Meeting the crowd¡¯s doubtful gazes, Xu Yi pointed at the painting and said, ¡°Everyone should recognize this painting and I think people shouldn¡¯t be unfamiliar with the Magic Lamp on this painting. But does everyone know who drew this painting?¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    This question was indeed arge doubt in everyone¡¯s hearts.

    When this advertisement was released, it had created arge stir in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Because this painting was just too good. Even the ordinary people who didn¡¯t know much about art were attracted by it, so there¡¯s no need to mention the masters of each city.

    After Master Anlios denied that it was his handiwork, everyone couldn¡¯t help guessing who made this painting.

    To create this work that was deemed a work of art by all the masters of art, once this person was revealed, the world would wildly chase after them.

    But no matter how they asked, they couldn¡¯t obtain any information on this person.

    There were some people who even asked Xu Yi, but they were rejected by him since the other side didn¡¯t want to reveal themselves.

    Now that Xu Yi had taken out this painting in front of everyone and raised this question, could it be¡­..he was finally revealing their identity?

    Thinking of this, everyone looked over at Xu Yi.

    Some reporters couldn¡¯t hold back their excitement as they began asking questions.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re prepared to tell us who this master is?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to calm them down, ¡°Please be patient, I¡¯ll give you the answerter. Before this, I have to tell you some other things first. First the Magic Lamp¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Lamp in the painting as he said, ¡°There are many people who have told me that the Magic Lamp our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made is too beautiful, it is simply a work of art. Selling them for a gold coin each was just sphemy.¡±

    Many people under the stage couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    This Magic Lamp had created a tidal wave of purchases in the surrounding cities after it was released because it was just too beautiful. Many people didn¡¯t even treat it as a magic machine, but rather as a piece of art.

    Some of the richer families even bought the three different kinds of Magic Lamps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made, not to use, but rather to collect them.

    Perhaps not everyone would agree that a gold coin for one is sphemy, but everyone agreed that it was just too cheap.

    ¡°Now I¡¯ll tell everyone that the one who drew this painting also participated in designing the Magic Lamp.¡± Xu Yi then said.

    The crowd instantly stirred.

    So the Magic Lamp and the painting were actually connected like this.

    But thinking about how the Magic Lamp in the painting and the final produced Magic Lamp were very simr, many people being able to see the simr style, being filled with an artistic feel, they understood.

    Then Xu Yi pped his hand and the two Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers took down the painting. They then took out the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker.

    Xu Yi held them up with one in each hand, ¡°Everyone look, are the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker beautiful?¡±

    Everyone was stunned, as they looked up at the two magic machines in Xu Yi¡¯s hands.

    It was currently the morning and the April sun wasn¡¯t blinding. Shining down on the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker¡¯s silver casing, it reflected a silver light that wasn¡¯t dazzling.

    Although the two magic machines had different appearances, looking at them, they were very smooth and natural. It didn¡¯t seem like they were carved by an artisan at all and this was the natural appearance of those two magic machines.

    Many people felt veryfortable seeing these two magic machines for the first time. Now that Xu Yi had mentioned it, they couldn¡¯t help nodding their heads and praising their beauty.

    Although describing these two lumps of metal as beautiful made people feel a bit strange, other than the beautiful, they really couldn¡¯t think of anything else to describe it with.

    Rhine thought of something and asked in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t be saying that the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker were all designed by that master, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°That is right. That master indeed worked on designing this, but this design was not made by her alone and was the result of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s design department working together.¡±

    ¡°Design department?¡± Everyone was a bit surprised, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°The so called design department mainly designs the appearance of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. Take a look, this is the same Magic Bread Maker. I¡¯ll put this Magic Bread Maker with a lump of ck iron that has the same ability as it, but which one would you choose?¡±

    ¡°Of course the prettier one!¡± A person under the stage replied in a loud voice.

    The crowd instantly agreed.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That means that our design department works on this. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only wants to give everyone useful products, but we also want to ensure they look good. Only like this would everyone be willing to spend their money when they buy our products, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    The reporters under the stage looked at each other before they looked at Rhine, thinking about what Rhine had said before.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many cards people didn¡¯t know about. Otherpanies were still studying how to copy the magic machines, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already considering the design of the magic machines.

    Just based on this, they surpassed the otherpanies researching magic machines by an unknown amount.

 Volume 2 25 - Do you want to hurt her?

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 25 Do you want to hurt her?</strong>

    ¡°Alright, I have introduced this product designer of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now I invite the Lord City Lord to say a few words.¡±

    Xu Yi moved back and Count Sean came up to the stage, causing the doubt and curiosity in everyone¡¯s heart to be stronger.

    Based on what Xu Yi said, this master that everyone was curious about was hired by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and worked as their whatever product designer, but how was this rted to the Lord City Lord? Was there a need for him to say anything?¡±

    Count Sean appeared in front of everyone and said in a clear voice with a faint smile, ¡°Citizens of Banta City and friends from other cities, hello, I am Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Sean Samo. Seeing this many peoplee to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement, I am happy for chairman Xu because for his Frestech Chamber of Commerce to attract this many people, it means that the sales amount will reach an amount that will satisfy him and will earn the Frestech Chamber of Commerce arge amount. But it¡¯s a pity that no matter how much money the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns, it won¡¯t give me a single copper coin. So I¡¯m happy for chairman Xu and afraid that he won¡¯t appreciate it.¡±

    After saying this, Count Sean deliberately revealed a helpless appearance and gave a sigh.

    The crowd under the stage broke out inughter. They thought that even though Count Sean was normally aloof, he really was quite charming and humorous.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s get back to the topic. I want to ask everyone a question. There are many people under the stage, so other than humans, are there friends from other races?¡± Count Sean asked.

    The crowd was stunned. They looked around and found that there were only humans here.

    Count Sean took back the hand he had ced on his forehead and said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a true pity, there doesn¡¯t seem to be any. Everyone, several thousand years ago, other than us humans, there were also elves, dwarves, beastmen, halfings, and even dragons that lived together on the continent. After several thousand years, now there only seem to be humans left on the continent. Other than some dwarves that we meet asionally, it is very rare for us to see other races. Although this means that we humans are now the rulers of the continent, I still feel that this situation is quite pitiful. There were many different races that used to live on the continent, but if there are only humans left, it really feels a bit lonely.¡±

    The people under the stage couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit strange.

    What was with the Lord City Lord today? Why did he suddenly speak of this in front of all these people?

    Although it had been several thousand years since the race wars and humans didn¡¯t have much hatred with the other races, the other races chose to disappear from the human world, so this can¡¯t be med on humans.

    Then again, how was this rted to what Xu Yi just said?

    In the crowd, Rhine¡¯s eyes quickly fell onto the masked person and his heart began beating a bit faster.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s introduction and what the Lord City Lord said, this masked person¡¯s identity would really shock everyone.

    ¡°I won¡¯t say as much as chairman Xu, I just want to ask everyone here a question. If there was someone from another race that appeared in front of you, how would you treat them?¡±

    After saying this, Count Sean actually moved to the side to everyone¡¯s surprise.

    Xu Yi came forward again and looked at the stage who were moved by Count Sean¡¯s words. He took a deep breath and said in a loud voice, ¡°Now I¡¯m honoured to introduce to everyone our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product designer, young miss Agnes Artitan Vayne Sarnd!¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi turned around and raised his hand at the masked person behind him.

    In front of everyone¡¯s surprised, curious, and doubtful gazes, the masked person slowly came to Xu Yi¡¯s side. After pausing for a bit, a slender and crystalline white hand came out of the cloak. It was slowly raised as it pulled back the hood covering her face bit by bit.

    A face that was iparably beautiful and natural with a trace of mysteriousness to it appeared in front of everyone.

    But everyone¡¯s gaze couldn¡¯t help moving away from her beautiful face and falling onto the long and slender ears on the side of her head.

    ¡°Elf!¡±

    Cold breaths could be hearding from under the stage.

    Since the race wars several thousand years ago and humans took over the Sines Continent, the living spaces for other races had been gradually squeezed out by humans.

    With this, other than some races that had disappeared without a trace, of the races that still existed on the Sines Continent, it was the elves that used to rule the continent that were the most rarely seen.

    At first after the race wars, one could still see the elven race on the Sines Continent, but as time passed and in the most recent several hundred years, it was very hard to see the appearance of an elf.

    If it wasn¡¯t for several hundred years ago when people had witnessed elves, meaning that the elves still existed on the continent, many people would have thought that the elves had silently faded away like the halflings.

    Elves were rare to see. Other than elves not trusting humans and not being willing to appear in front of humans, because elves were very good at hiding themselves, as long as they weren¡¯t willing to show themselves, it would be very hard to find them. For most humans, elves were a legendary existence and they had never personally seen them before.

    Of the over five thousand people gathered in the market square, there wasn¡¯t a single person here that had ever seen an elf before!

    Now that there was an elf that suddenly appeared in front of them, everyone was stunned.

    After everyone¡¯s eyes were gathered on Agnes¡¯ long ears for a while, they slowly moved onto Agnes¡¯ face.

    After seeing Agnes¡¯ face, everyone couldn¡¯t help gasping in shock.

    The girls of the elf tribe were rumoured to be beautiful. This elven girl whose name they didn¡¯t know looked to be around the same as a twenty year old human girl, with iparably fine features and almost perfect facial proportions, which were matched with a pair of deep bluerge eyes. It made people unwilling to turn away.

    Everyone couldn¡¯t helpparing her to Still in their hearts. They found in shock that although this elven girl¡¯s appearance wasn¡¯t simr to Still¡¯s at all, it still was shocking. Moreover, it was different from Still¡¯s sunny aura and she had a naturally fresh and mysterious aura to her.

    Although the styles were different, it still dazzled people.

    ¡°Xu¡­..Chairman Xu¡­...She¡­...Is she real?¡± A reporter under the stage pointed at Agnes with some difficulty as he asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°What real or fake?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a strange voice, ¡°Could it be that you think that I had someone dress up as an elf to fool you?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...I¡¯m not doubting you, only¡­...Only elves have never been willing to contact humans and rarely appear in front of them, so how¡­¡­¡± The reporter looked at Agnes¡¯ fine features before stuttering out, ¡°How could they reveal themselves in front of all these people?¡±

    That was the question in everyone¡¯s hearts.

    ording to the rumours of elven personality, to reveal their true appearance in front of thousands of humans, this was something that elves would never do.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and looked around before raising his voice, ¡°Friends, this world never stops changing. We humans have never stopped changing, so it isn¡¯t strange for the elves to change either. Young miss Agnes is an example of the elves changing. Not only is she our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s specially invited product designer, she is also the ambassador of the elven race sent to contact us humans, representing their willingness to contact humans. Right now, I want to ask everyone, after seeing Agnes, do any of you have thoughts about hurting her?¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Everyone under the stage called out in shock and the reporter from before couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, what kind of damn question is this? Such a beautiful and mysterious elven young miss, how could we possibly think of hurting her? We¡¯re in a rush to protect her!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! It¡¯s this hard for an elf to appear in front of us and we don¡¯t even have time to be happy, how could we think of hurting her? What a joke!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! Even if she wasn¡¯t an elf, just based on the fact that she¡¯s this beautiful, I wish to propose to her! How could I want to hurt her!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you must be confused from being in the sun too long. Anyone that would want to hurt this beautiful and cute elven girl is definitely a freak.¡±

    ¡°Right, right. This is simply looking down on people, chairman Xu, please take back this question!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the crowd surge under the stage, Xu Yi smiled at Agnes and said, ¡°How about it, Agnes, are you still afraid?¡±

    Agnes helplessly looked at the noisy crowd under the stage and only after a while did she ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, they¡­...Is what they said true?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Most of it is true, but I can¡¯t guarantee if everything is true. After all, the heart is aplicated thing and I can¡¯t guarantee that everyone will do what they say.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­..You mean that there are some people who want to hurt me?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But Agnes, we can¡¯t just look at the bad side of a problem. Even if there are people who want to hurt you,pared to them, there are more people who like you. Look at the over five thousand people down there, I dare to guarantee that at least five thousand of them wholeheartedly like you. So you don¡¯t need to worry that much, seize this chance and properly introduce yourself.¡±

    Agnes gave a soft nod. Her eyes looked over everyone¡¯s passionate faces under the stage and she took a deep breath before raising her voice.

    ¡°Hel¡­..Hello everyone, I am Agnes. Just like you can see, I am a normal elven girl and Ie from the Night Song Tribe¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 2 26 - Agnesâ€™ statement

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 26 Agnes¡¯ statement</strong>

    ¡°Sir chairman, can¡¯t you think of a way?¡± Ankhto who had taken over for Heinz as the household magic machine workshop manager pointed at the empty space in front of the factory and said with a bitter look, ¡°These fellows havepletely blocked our factory¡¯s entrance every day. Our workshop can¡¯t even get our materials without them investigating it first, it¡¯s greatly slowing down on production speed.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman, our magic machine workshop has also been greatly affected. If this keeps going, not mentioning the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders, it might even affect the agricultural department¡¯s agricultural magic machine order.¡± Camby on the side also had a pained look on his face, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand, just what are you humans thinking? Isn¡¯t it just an elf, do all these people need to surround us every day?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand, this is called chasing a star.¡± Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh. He looked at the sea of people in front of the factory and also felt a bit of a headacheing on.

    Since Agnes revealed herself at the product announcement, it created a raging tide. Countless people surged the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just to get a single nce of Agnes.

    At the beginning, the news only spread in Banta City, so only Banta City¡¯s people came.

    But after a few days, the newspapers of the surrounding cities published this explosive news. Not only did countless peoplee from the nearby Saltan City and Karma City, even quite a few people from the further Canberra City and Norton City came.

    Even in the further Cramer City and the kingdom¡¯s capital Anvilmar City, quite a few people had rushed over.

    Now on thend outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were over ten thousand people waiting there!

    All these people surrounded the factory, so naturally it affected the production of the factory quite a bit. It filled Ankhto and Camby who were in charge of the factory withints.

    Xu Yi also thought at first that these fellows were just here for fun. After a while, they would naturally scatter.

    But who would have thought that after an entire week, not only did the crowd outside decrease, rather it gradually becamerger.

    Seeing these frantic people outside, Xu Yi could only give a bitter smile.

    Although he had experienced how terrifying those fans on earth were when they were chasing stars, he still felt a strong headache when he had to deal with this kind of matter.

    To these people, Agnes¡¯ effect was even stronger than the emperors in the entertainment business on fans.

    After all, now that there were only humans, elves were existences of legend. Now that a real elf had appeared, the shock it brought couldn¡¯t bepared to.

    After seriously considering it, Xu Yi felt that he couldn¡¯t ignore this matter any longer or it would just be worse.

    ¡°Agnes,e out.¡± Xu Yi suddenly called out.

    The space to the left of Xu Yi distorted and Agnes appeared.

    Even though he had seen Agnes several times when she followed Xu Yi around, seeing Agnes¡¯ fine face appearing in front of him again, Ankhto couldn¡¯t help taking a few more looks. His eyes were filled with curiosity and praise.

    Seeing his reaction, Camby couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, Ankhto, why do you humans have such arge reaction to seeing elves? Is it because Agnes is beautiful?¡±

    Ankhto was revealed by Camby, so his face turned a bit red as he exined, ¡°It isn¡¯t because of just beauty¡­...Of course young miss Agnes is very beautiful, notcking even whenpared to young miss Still. But it¡¯s mainly because I¡¯m curious. There¡¯s no choice since this is my first time seeing an elf. I think most of the people outside the factory are the same as me, just purely curious.¡±

    ¡°Then ording to what you said, the reason why you don¡¯t react when seeing us dwarves is because we¡¯re normally seen, so you aren¡¯t curious at all?¡± Camby asked.

    ¡°Un¡­..Pretty much.¡± Ankhto said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Actually I was a bit surprised when I came here at first to see all these dwarves, but I wasn¡¯t really curious. After all, although there are few dwarves, there are many ces they can be seen. For example, in Banta City, including Master Lanus, one can see several dwarves normally. We be used to them after seeing them, so of course we wouldn¡¯t be curious.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi followed up. He turned to Agnes and said, ¡°Look, Agnes, we humans have such arge reaction when you elves appear, it is because you appear just too little. If we can see you each day, we¡¯ll quickly get used to you and won¡¯t be that curious anymore, so we can treat you normally.¡±

    Agnes looked at the people outside the factory and nodded, ¡°Un, it should be this way.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯ll go out with me now and let those fellows gradually get used to your existence.¡± Xu Yi pulled Agnes in and said a few soft words before leaving the office with her.

    When they came to the office doors, the crowd outside the factory exploded with cheers.

    ¡°Look, it¡¯s chairman Xu! Chairman Xu is out!¡±

    ¡°Ah, look, who is behind chairman Xu? It¡¯s young miss Agnes!¡±

    ¡°God! I finally got to see young miss Agnes! She is this dazzling! When I see her, I feel like fainting in happiness!¡±

    ¡°Oh, great miss elf, let me kiss your jade feet! I¡¯m willing to be your ve for life!¡±

    ¡°Scram! You look like a pig and you think you¡¯re worthy of being the noble young miss Agnes¡¯ ve? It should be me who takes that role!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing Agnes appear, the crowd that was rather restrained was like oil dropped into cold water and it exploded.

    It was like the dense crowd exploded from a dam and charged at Xu Yi and Agnes like a wave. They instantly surrounded the factory like a fence and ttened the dirt around it.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and raised a hand. His magic energy surged and a dirt wall that was half a meter tall and as thick as a person appeared twenty meters away from them, blocking everyone froming over.

    Waving his hand, two small hurricanes appeared and slowed down the momentum of the crowd.

    With the earth wall and the intense wind, it calmed down the excited crowd. From the front of the crowd, the people charging gradually slowed down before they stopped in front of the earth wall.

    Seeing everyone calm down, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.

    It was a good thing he used two hurricanes to slow down the crowd, otherwise in this situation, it was very easy for people to get trampled.

    If thismotion took even a single life, not only would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receive infamy, baseless usations could be thrown at Agnes because of this.

    With Agnes still not fully trusting humans, just based on this, it could ruin everything that elder Illusia worked hard for.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and used magic to create several earth walls of different heights before walking to the highest earth wall with Agnes.

    ¡°Friends, I know that you all want to see young miss Agnes. Now that she is here, she has some things to say to everyone. I ask everyone to be quiet and listen to her.¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, the noisy crowd instantly became silent. Everyone¡¯s gaze gathered, falling onto Agnes beside Xu Yi.

    ¡°Wild fans really are terrifying.¡± Xu Yi could only secretly give a sigh. He looked at Agnes and took a step back, leaving the highest position to her.

    Although Agnes had appeared in front of other humans at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time by Xu Yi¡¯s request, so she was a bit used to seeing humans and wasn¡¯t as unsettled, in front of such arge crowd with all these eyes gazing at her, she was still a bit nervous.

    She looked back at Xu Yi and seeing him give her a nod with a faint smile, Agnes¡¯ nervousness faded a bit. She turned back to face the crowd and after taking a few deep breaths with the method Xu YI taught her, she raised her voice to say, ¡°Hel¡­..Hello everyone. I¡­..I¡¯m very grateful that everyone is here to see me and I¡¯m happy that we elves are this approved and epted by humans. When I left my tribe toe here, I was worried about whether I could adapt to living with humans. But chairman Xu told me that humans had good hospitality and that I shouldn¡¯t worry.¡±

    ¡°Based on what I see now, chairman Xu was right. Humans are indeed not what we imagined. They are not all deceitful and sly people not worthy of trust, there are many good and kind people like you all. But we elves are a race that like quiet and you are just too weing, so I really can¡¯t get used to this.¡±

    ¡°Moreover if you all gather in front of the factory like this every day, it will affect our work. As a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I do not wish to see thepany affected because of me. So I hope that everyone can calm down a bit. Can you all not surround the factory like this in the future?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in nk dismay. They never thought that Agnes¡¯ rare appearance would be to raise this kind of request.

    ¡°But young miss Agnes, we¡¯re here to see you. If not here, where else can we see you?¡± A person asked in a loud voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we are all loyal supporters of young miss Agnes. Everyone just wants to see you, we don¡¯t have any other requests. Could it be that even this isn¡¯t allowed?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say it like this, right? Didn¡¯t you hear young miss Agnes, we are affecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s work and also affecting her.¡±

    ¡°Could it be that chairman Xu is causing trouble for young miss Agnes? How could that be? Chairman Xu, although I admire you, how could you treat young miss Agnes like this! No, I don¡¯t agree!¡±

    ¡­...

    Agnes didn¡¯t think that her words would create this kind of reaction and she couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi for help.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Agnes, you don¡¯t need to think about me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Just say what you really want to say based on your true thoughts.¡±

    Agnes was a bit hesitant, ¡°But¡­...ording to what chairman Xu has taught me about humans, if I say what I¡¯m really thinking, they might not be happy. Is this alright?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s smile became a bit strange, ¡°Rx, you can just say what you want, I promise nothing will happen. Do you remember how you were the first time you met me? But from what I can see, your ways right now can¡¯tpare to your ways from before.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Agnes thought about it and decided to believe in Xu Yi. She turned around and met everyone¡¯s gazes. After pausing for a bit, her eyes went from warm with a bit of nervousness to a bit cold and her voice turned a bit cold.

    ¡°To be honest with you all, I¡¯m not happy that you¡¯re surrounding this factory to see me because it makes me feel like I am a monster. Being stared at by everyone¡¯s curious gazes, I don¡¯t like it at all. If it remains like this, I will choose to leave this ce and return to my tribe. I¡¯ll tell the elder that you humans still can¡¯t live normally with us elves. From now on, we elves will never appear in front of you humans ever again!¡±

 Volume 2 27 - Micrometer

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 27 Micrometer</strong>

    Agnes¡¯ cold words reached everyone¡¯s ears with the special magic of the elf race, stunning everyone.

    Looking at Agnes¡¯ beautiful calm face without any expression from the distance, everyone could feel that Agnes was speaking the truth.

    Thinking about how Agnes might disappear from this, causing the elves who had finally shown themselves to humans to disappear, everyone became unsettled.

    ¡°No! Young miss Agnes, we definitely didn¡¯t mean to insult you, you mustn¡¯t misunderstand!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we really just want to see you, we definitely don¡¯t think of you as a monster. Really!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you¡¯re an elven girl who is as beautiful as an angel, how could anyone see you as a monster? That person must definitely be blind!¡±

    ¡°Right, right, young miss Agnes, you mustn¡¯t go. It was hard enough for me to see the legendary elves in my life, how could you just leave like this?¡±

    ¡°Young miss Agnes, please stay. No matter what request you have, we will agree, alright?¡±

    ¡°Right! We¡¯ll all listen to you. No matter what you say, we will do!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing everyone around her begging her, Agnes was a bit surprised. She wanted to turn back to Xu Yi for advice, but she remembered what Xu Yi had just told her, so she focused herself and continued without any expressions, ¡°I left my tribe toe live in the human world because the elder hoped that we elves could live in peace with humans, which means this is the elder¡¯s test. So I hope that you humans can treat me normally, I just want to see if humans can live normally with elves. If you all keep acting like this, the experiment will fail.¡±

    ¡°Good! We¡¯ll support you. Young miss Agnes, we¡¯ll treat you like a normal human from now on!¡±

    ¡°Right, you are just a human girl who is a bit special. What do you think about this?¡±

    ¡°Un, just a human. Of course, you are a beautiful human girl.¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Alright, if you can do this, I can stay.¡± Agnes gave a slight nod, ¡°Other than this, I want to give you all a serious warning. Chairman Xu is my friend and if you insult chairman Xu in front of me again or disrespect him, I will take it as an insult or disrespect to me. I will use all my power to punish that person, please remember this!¡±

    Everyone was stunned again before a person shouted out, ¡°Alright! Disrespecting chairman Xu is disrespecting young miss Agnes! Whoever dares disrespect chairman Xu in the future, I will be the first one to go against him!¡±

    ¡°Me too!¡±

    ¡°Me as well!¡±

    ¡°Me too¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°I hope that you humans can keep your promises.¡± Agnes nodded, ¡°Please leave this ce immediately, me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff still have work to do, so we hope you won¡¯t bother us.¡±

    After saying this, Agnes immediately used her Shadow Stealth Spell and disappeared in front of the crowd.

    Everyone looked at where Agnes disappeared and after being stunned for a bit, they suddenly cried out in shock.

    ¡°Wa! Young miss Agnes is too cool! I really love her to death!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. So elven women were actually this handsome, there aren¡¯t any girls like this among us humans.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I really like her more and more! I¡¯ve decided! I will change the goddess in my heart from young miss Still to young miss Agnes!¡±

    ¡°You fickle fellow, you simply are a disgrace to us humans! Humph, I won¡¯t be like you. From this day forth, there will be two goddesses in my heart!¡±

    ¡°This fellow, you have the face to talk about me? What does it mean to have two goddesses in your heart? Are you a yer?¡±

    ¡°Pei! They are the goddesses in my heart, how is it rted to being a yer? I¡¯m not hoping that anything happen with them, I¡¯m just silently supporting them in my heart because I like them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it. Alright, I¡¯ll also do the same¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    The crowd slowly disperse as they discussed this and after a while, there were only several dozen fellows who didn¡¯t give up remaining at the factory. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    If he didn¡¯t have the experience of seeing crazy fans from earth, he really didn¡¯t know how to deal with this.

    After returning to the office, Ankhto and Camby looked at him in a daze.

    ¡°Chairman, is this alright?¡± Ankhto pointed outside in disbelief, ¡°I thought those fellows were crazy and wouldn¡¯t leave no matter what you or young miss Agnes said. I never thought that after young miss Agnes scolded them, they would actually leave so obediently! This¡­..What does this mean?¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t mean anything, you just don¡¯t understand the thoughts of crazy fans.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, now that the people surrounding the factory have been taken care of, we can work like normal. Ankhto, did you see the orders for the Magic Bread Makers? Do you think that you can finish them within the given time?¡±

    Ankhto calcted it before revealing a difficult expression.

    ¡°This¡­...Sir chairman, aren¡¯t there too many Magic Bread Makers? To make over fifty thousand in just a single week, even if our workshop doesn¡¯t do anything else and only makes Magic Bread Makers, we can¡¯t finish this.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°Not just you, even I didn¡¯t think that the number of Magic Bread Makers would be this terrifying. Thinking about it now, other than the Magic Bread Maker having a greater use than the Magic Rice Cooker, Agnes¡¯ advertisement might have been a bit too useful.¡±

    For an elf that humans hadn¡¯t seen in a long time to appear at the product announcement for the Magic Bread Maker, this matter seemed to have caused a stir in every part of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    When everyone heard the news of this elf, naturally they would know about the product announcement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held and also the star of the announcement, the Magic Bread Maker.

    It had to be said, for the many families of the Lampuri Kingdom who mainly ate bread, the Magic Bread Maker was a very useful household magic machine.

    And the otherpanies of the kingdom naturally saw the opportunity here. So less than a day after the product announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received over a hundred thousand orders.

    There were fifty thousand orders that were requested to be finished in a week, which was something that was basically impossible.

    ¡°Ai, in the end, ourpany¡¯s factory is a bit too small and we can¡¯t greatly increase our production efficiency.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh before patting Ankhto¡¯s shoulder and saying, ¡°Just do your best, I¡¯ll make adjustments to the order. When the magic machine workshop develops the automatic production magic machines, our production efficiency will be increased several times and you won¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Xu Yi had Ankhto not worry, but Camby on the side revealed a look of worry.

    ¡°Chairman, you say it so easily, but the automatic production magic machines are just too hard. Me and my brothers have researched this for nearly a month and our progress as been small. To reallypletely this, we don¡¯t know how long it¡¯ll take.¡±

    ¡°What? You met some kind of bottleneck?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice, ¡°Didn¡¯t I teach you all the skills necessary before? Also the Magic Array has already been finished, you just need to design a structure that can support it, so is it hard?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t hard per say, but the problem is¡­¡­¡± Camby scratched his dishevelled hair and said with a bitter look, ¡°Chairman, for the structures of automatic magic machines that you¡¯ve taught us, you¡¯ve added in some measurements that we can¡¯t understand¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t understand?¡± Xu Yi was surprised. Then he remembered that the fine tuning for the automatic magic machines that he requested from Camby and the others were very high, far surpassing that of the basic magic machines. So hebelled the blueprints like he did on earth, using very small units.

    But to the people of the Sines Continent, although they had the samerge units of measure as his previous world, using the same basic unit of meters, their uracy was farcking.

    In terms of lengths, the Sines Continent¡¯s smallest unit was centimeters, so there was no millimeters and there was no need to mention nanometers.

    And the automatic production magic machines had a high requirement for fine tuning, usually measuring in millimeters, so this could go beyond what Camby and the other dwarves knew.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi understood.

    He was just copying his mechanical engineering knowledge from earth and hadpletely forgotten the situation on the Sines Continent.

    This was because Xu Yi had been focused on how to present Agnes to the humans, so he had neglected all of this.

    ¡°This was my fault.¡± Xu Yi honestly admitted, ¡°I only requested a higher precision, but I forgot to exin what is means. How about this, I¡¯ll make a Vernier Scale in my free time for you and then I¡¯ll make a micrometerter. With these two things, you should understand the precise measurements I¡¯m giving you.¡±

    ¡°Vernier Scale? Micrometer?¡± Camby and Ankhto looked at each other, not understanding what these meant.

    But since they came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had heard many words they didn¡¯t understand from Xu Yi, so they weren¡¯t surprised.

    ¡°Un, these two things are very basic, but also very important tools for measurement. Ourpany will have a higher and higher requirement for uracy in the future with magic machines, so we have to have these two tools. You also need to grasp how to use it and also let the workers learn how to use them.¡±

    Xu Yi said before knitting his brows and realizing a problem he had ignored.

    Since creating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had always used his inspiration to propose magic machine one after another to the research facility and Camby. Although using his strong foundations in mechanical engineering to give concrete ideas and even creating some blueprints, he had never told them about design standards.

    These things were the most basic of basics for mechanical engineers and didn¡¯t need to be exined, but for the people of the Sines Continent, this was apletely new territory.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi stroked his chin as he muttered to himself.

    ¡°It seems like I need to write a book.¡±

 Volume 2 28 - What attitude does the Stagg Family have?

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 28 What attitude does the Stagg Family have?</strong>

    His thought of writing a book was suddenly interrupted by something.

    It couldn¡¯t be considered sudden either. When Viscount Leslie left Banta City, this matter, or this person was definitelying, he just didn¡¯t know when they woulde.

    At the end of April, a cavalcade came to Banta City from Anvilmar City.

    The one in that cavalcade was Viscount Leslie¡¯s sessor, which was also the new lord that the Stagg Family had sent for their territory in Banta City, Baron Belil Stagg.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had rented a hectare ofnd from the Stagg Family. As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, it was reasonable for Xu Yi to pay him a visit as soon as possible.

    But when he talked to Butler Brunei who Viscount Leslie had left in Banta City, he learned that the Lord Baron had just arrived and had many important people to see. He didn¡¯t have time to see Xu Yi right now, so he had him wait first.

    Xu Yi was instantly stunned before asking Butler Brunei with knit brows, ¡°Are these the words of the Lord Baron?¡±

    Butler Brunei replied without any emotion, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s brows knit even tighter.

    If Butler Brunei were conveying the words of Baron Belil Stagg, it meant that the other side waspletely looking down on Xu Yi or was openly revealing hostilities towards him.

    No matter which one it was, it wasn¡¯t something that Xu Yi wanted to see.

    And from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce,pared to strangely being hostile towards them, Xu Yi hoped that this was the baron looking down on him.

    It was fine if he looked down on him or was just arrogant, but it was very troublesome if he was hostile.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi then asked, ¡°Butler Brunei, did the Lord Baron mention my name or our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Butler Brunei looked up at Xu Yi and after pausing, he slowly nodded, ¡°Yes, when I was making my report of the territory, I mentioned your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lord Baron learned of your existence.¡±

    ¡°Then what attitude did the Lord Baron have?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    Xu Yi thought that Butler Brunei wouldn¡¯t seriously answer this question, but after Butler Brunei thought about it, he suddenly stood up straight and said with a look of disdain, ¡°There are many smallpanies in Banta City, I really don¡¯t know why that fellow Leslie ces such importance on this.¡± After saying this, Butler Brunei restored his uncaring appearance and said, ¡°These were the words of the Lord Baron.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Butler Brunei in surprise for a bit before seriously saying, ¡°Thank you.¡±

    Butler Brunei nodded and remained silent.

    After leaving the manor Viscount Leslie left behind, Xu Yi entered his horse carriage and ordered the driver to head towards the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    As the carriage continued, Xu Yi fell into his thoughts.

    Although he didn¡¯t know why, Butler Brunei¡¯s actions had surprised him. He had shown Xu Yi Baron Belil Stagg¡¯s real thoughts, which would be a very big help to Xu Yi in making his decision.

    ording to what Butler Brunei showed hi, this Lord Baron should have learned of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from Viscount Leslie.

    He could even infer from his words that Viscount Leslie might have specially told him some things about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or Xu Yi before he came to Banta City.

    As for the Lord Baron¡¯s response of not sparing a nce, this was because to him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t one of the bigpanies of Banta City, so it wasn¡¯t worth entering the eyes of a junior from the Stagg Family like him.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect the new lord to be as open as Viscount Leslie, having the same appreciation and support for him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But be just hoped that the new lord didn¡¯t have any special goals.

    For example, ording to what Viscount Leslie said, if the Stagg Family noticed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s potential, they would decide to move against them. They would send a smart lord who would use thend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is currently renting and the powerful influence of the Stagg Family to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bit by bit.

    ¡°Ha, ha, ha, ha¡­...Xu Yi, you really are thinking too much.¡± Count Sean Samo broke out in loudughter as he pointed at Xu Yi and said, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, should I say that you¡¯re thinking too highly of yourself or too lowly of yourself?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Sean with a confused look. He didn¡¯t understand why he would react so strangely after he came to him for help.

    ¡°What does this mean?¡±

    ¡°In terms of thinking too highly of yourself, you think the Stagg Family would actually specially send someone to deal with you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? You have to understand, the Stagg Family is one of the top families in our Lampuri Kingdom, even if it is me, I can only look up to Lord Duke Stagg. For such a giant, who is only second to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family, would they need to specially deal with a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Count Sean asked with a smile.

    ¡°This¡­..Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t big, I have to admit that there¡¯s still some value. Not only are our product revenue margins high, our prospects are very wide, so it wouldn¡¯t be strange if the Stagg Family set their eyes on us?¡± Xu Yi asked in an unconvinced voice.

    Count Sean shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Although you¡¯repletely right, Xu Yi, you have to see reality. Even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prospects are broad, you are just a smallpany who earns less than five hundred thousand a year. This isn¡¯t worth mentioning at all to the Stagg Family, why would they send someone to specially deal with yourpany?¡±

    ¡°Not afraid of everything, just afraid of if.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°You have to thank that fellow Leslie for this. If it wasn¡¯t for him helping you hide the truth from the Stagg Family, your worries would have be a reality.¡± Count Sean said with a deep sigh, ¡°Even now I still don¡¯t understand why he helped you this much, actually even thinking of things in long term.¡±

    ¡°Viscount Leslie helped me hide the truth?¡± Xu Yi was surprised. He thought of Viscount Leslie¡¯s advice from before he left and he understood.

    It seemed like Viscount Leslie never reported his appreciation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stagg Family and had even lowered his evaluation. This caused the Stagg Family to have the wrong evaluation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s worth, causing them not to ce any importance on it.

    The three hundred ves from the Stagg Familyst time was proof.

    ording to Viscount Leslie¡¯s warnings, Xu Yi didn¡¯t let those three hundred ves touch the core technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He just had those ves work on some simple assembly work.

    Those three hundred ves had already left the household magic machine workshop and the Stagg Family didn¡¯t send anyone else after that.

    But Xu Yi was still a bit confused.

    ¡°Even if Viscount Leslie hid this, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has quite the fame in the kingdom. It is impossible for the Stagg Family to not investigate us, so why do they have this kind of attitude?¡±

    ¡°This was the second thing I said. Xu Yi, you¡¯re looking down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce too much.¡± Count Sean stoppedughing and after a pause, he said with a serious face, ¡°Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t big right now, you have met the king and have signed the cooperation agreement with the agricultural department representing the king. When the agricultural department announced this, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already be famous among the nobles. Because the king wants to poprize the agricultural magic machines through the agricultural department, they have to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Of the nobles in the kingdom withnd, they can¡¯t avoid cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Stagg Family is therge noble family with the mostnd in the kingdom, so they are the first ones the king¡¯s ns apply to. It could be said that everyone is paying attention to them right now, so of course it¡¯s impossible for them to move against your Frestech Chamber of Commerce at this time.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Then why does the new Lord Baron look down on ourpany?¡±

    Count Sean thought about it before replying, ¡°ording to my contact with Baron Belil, perhaps it is because his personality is like this. As for why the Stagg Family would send him here, that is a matter of the Stagg Family and I can¡¯t reply for you.¡±

    Xu Yi considered this before slowly nodding, ¡°Alright, I understand. Many thanks for the Lord City Lord¡¯s advice.¡±

    ording to Count Sean¡¯s analysis, the Stagg Family should still be paying attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they didn¡¯t have a clear understanding of its true value.

    Perhaps to the Stagg Family, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is just lucky. They were relying on some agricultural magic machines they developed to receive the king¡¯s recognition, which resulted in thisrge order.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just a very smallpany.

    ording to Baron Belil, it was just a smallpany that couldn¡¯t even stand at the top of Banta City.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was like the Falcao Chamber of Commerce with influence all over the Lampuri Kingdom and having the Jole Family behind, there would be no need to mention the Stagg Family paying attention to them.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they weren¡¯t qualified.

    ¡°Should I be happy or disappointed?¡± Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile.

    Count Sean patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and said with a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t think that much. You just need to know that I like you and yourpany very much, it is the same with that fellow Leslie. His majesty¡¯s attitude isn¡¯t very clear, but based on the attitude of her highness queen, his majesty should also favour you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When the agricultural magic machines spread across the kingdom, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will have a true foundation in the kingdom. Anyone will have to consider it if they want to move against you, will you still need to be worried with this foundation?¡±

    Xu Yi considered it before nodding with a smile.

    ¡°The Lord City Lord is right, as long as we finish this matter, we won¡¯t need to think about anything else.¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Sean and seriously asked, ¡°Lord City Lord, I¡¯m very grateful for your support towards me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but why are you supporting us like this?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t even understand this? No wonder that fellow Leslie said that you were an idiot with politics, he wasn¡¯t wrong at all.¡± Count Sean said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s very simple. First looking at it from a wide perspective, I¡¯m hoping that our Lampuri Kingdom will be stronger, so I support his majesty.¡±

    ¡°Second, from my personal point of view, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already recruited five hundred workers and their ie is quite good, which is enough to solve the daily problems for five hundred families. This is very helpful in stabilizing Banta City. Moreover, ording to your n, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will hire several thousand or over ten thousand workers in the future. If this bes real, our Banta City citizens will quickly be rich and it¡¯ll be much easier for me as a City Lord. And if this result was achieved, wouldn¡¯t my status in the kingdom also increase?¡±

    Xu Yi understood. If this was on earth, this was called political achievements.

    Indeed, ording to his n, with the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Banta City residents would be freed from the farnds and would invest into industrialization.

    When all of Banta City was ced on the track of industrialization, the citizens would all have decent ies and everyone¡¯s basic livelihood would be easily guaranteed.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom that wasn¡¯t strong and where many people couldn¡¯t eat their fill, this was a dazzling achievement.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, it¡¯s a good thing the Stagg Family doesn¡¯t favour ourpany like you, or that if that I worry about might be real.¡±

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is under my eyes, who understands it better than me? As for your worries, just give them up. The thing you need to do now is to properly develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Remember, as long as you be stronger, you have nothing to fear.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong nod.

 Volume 2 29 - Product exchange

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 29 Product exchange</strong>

    It should be said that Count Sean waspletely right.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became stronger, so strong that people would have scruples about messing with them, then Xu Yi would not have to worry about arge noble family swallowing them up one day.

    But for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that couldn¡¯t even ¡°stand at the top of a small city like Banta City¡±, it was without a doubt a very long path.

    Of course, a meal had to be eaten mouthful by mouthful and a road had to be taken step by step, one can¡¯t rush things at all.

    If was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing at a high speed. Compared to when they were establishedst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be several times stronger inparison.

    The simplest method ofparing was topare numbers.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was formedst year, they sold a total of less than a thousand Magic Fans in their first month and received less than two thousand gold coins.

    Back then Xu Yi had used therge cksmiths in the city to create the outer cover, which had a high cost. So calcting everything, the final profit was less than five hundred gold coins.

    Although this was arge amount to Xu Yi and Heinz at the time,pared to the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t even equal to the amount needed to buy materials for the research facility each month.

    ording to Sebas¡¯ April finance report, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had quite a bit of profit now.

    Among them was the household magic machines, which had stable sales from the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Lamp.

    Other than the explosive sale from when they were just released, there were six thousand seven hundred and forty eight Automatic Magic Rice Cookers sold in April, for a total of close to thirteen thousand gold coins in profit. The Magic Lamps sold eight thousand two hundred and eleven units, which had a profit of just over five thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame spread to other ces in the Lampuri Kingdom, even merchants from cities that were over four hundred kilometers away from Banta City came to ce orders. Right now, the sales for these two magic machines still kept growing!

    Other than this, the sales for the Magic Bread Maker released in April was simply shocking.

    The product announcement was in the middle of April and ording to the data, in thetter half of April, the Magic Bread Maker actually sold over a hundred and fifty thousand units.

    Other than the fact that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s main source of grain was in bread, the more important thing was the effect of the explosive news of Agnes the elf appearing in front of everyone.

    The Magic Bread Maker had a price of four gold coins, but it cost less than one and a half gold coins. Therefore the profit of the Magic Bread Maker reached a terrifying three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins!

    Although because the household magic machine workshop couldn¡¯t keep up with this terrifying amount in a short period of time, so this profit was thinned out in the end, such a terrifying figure had even shocked Xu Yi.

    Calcting all of this, the profit of the household magic machine workshop in just April was close to four hundred thousand gold coins!

    Compared to the household magic machine workshop, the magic machine workshop had even more explosive profits.

    For example, in the contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed with the agricultural department for thirty thousand agricultural magic machines, the price of that order reached a terrifying one million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    Taking away the cost, the profit of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already exceeded one million gold coins.

    This was just from a single order.

    Other than the order from the agricultural department, the magic machine workshop also took other orders. Thergest was with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce for ten thousand Magic Drills. The price was set at a high seven hundred and eighty thousand gold coins and the profit was calcted at close to five hundred thousand gold coins.

    Next was the Magic Concrete Mixers, Magic Concrete Sprayers, and other concrete rted magic machines that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had ordered. It reached a high price of six hundred and thirty thousand gold coins. Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t finished researching these magic machines, they couldn¡¯t calcte the total profit, but it was estimated to be at least over three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Other than these tworge customers, there were many other smallpanies that wanted to enter the magic machine industry, so they bought production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi agreed to them all and sold a total of three thousand six hundred and forty one production magic machines, earning a profit of close to two hundred thousand.

    Adding it up together, the magic machine workshop had earned a profit of over two million gold coins!

    Of course, because of the limits of the magic machine workshop, the time for these orders were very long. For example, the order for the agricultural department was for summer of next year. So if it was divided into months, the magic machine workshop¡¯s profit couldn¡¯tpare to the household magic machine workshop.

    Camby was usually a bit depressed over this.

    ¡°Chairman, me and the brothers work ourselves to death each day, why can¡¯t we earn as much money as Heinz¡¯s side?¡± Cambyined to Xu Yi.

    Even though the manager of the household magic machine workshop was now Ankhto, Camby was used to calling Heinz the representative of the household magic machine workshop side.

    ¡°This is something that you can¡¯t do anything about since the concept of magic machines hasn¡¯t been epted by everyone. Compared to the specialized magic machines of the magic machine workshop, the household magic machines that are designed for most people are more easily epted and also easier to sell.¡± Xu Yiforted him.

    ¡°Then based on what you said, if these things were easier to ept and more normal people used them, when everyone on the Sines Continent knows about them and epts them, wouldn¡¯t our magic machine workshop be unable topare?¡± Camby said in a dejected voice.

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi patted Camby¡¯s shoulder and said in a certain voice, ¡°Household and industrial magic machines are two different aspects, one can¡¯t discuss which one is stronger. Right now it¡¯s because everyone has easily epted the household magic machines that it¡¯s selling easier. But when the otherrgepanies realize the strength of magic machines, the field of industrial magic machines will berger. Look, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce spent seven hundred thousand gold coins on those Magic Drills. If we were to researchrge scale mining magic machines, I dare to promise that it wouldn¡¯t be strange for them to spend over seven million gold coins.

    Camby looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Seven million gold coins? That much? I say, chairman, you don¡¯t need to boast tofort me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, ¡°Am I interested in boasting to a dwarf like you? Alright, believe me, this will definitely happen, but there is something missing right now.¡±

    Xu Yi called out Agnes¡¯ name out of habit, but he found that Agnes appeared behind him which scared him.

    ¡°So you weren¡¯t hiding yourself.¡± Agnes walked out without a sound and it really shocked Xu Yi.

    Agnes had an innocent expression, ¡°Sir chairman, wasn¡¯t it you who wanted me to stop hiding myself and show myself to everyone?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Un, I did say it and it¡¯s very right for you to do this. Only I¡¯m used to you hiding by my side, so I¡¯m not used to you suddenly appearing behind me. Hei, Agnes, you don¡¯t make any sounds at all when you move, I think that it would go really well if you became an assassin.¡±

    ¡°Assassin? What is that?¡± Agnes tilted her head in curiosity as she looked at Xu Yi.

    The expression of Camby on the side changed slightly and he cut off Xu Yi from exining. He asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, the thing that you said was missing just now, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Un? Oh¡­...It is an essential thing that is missing and that is material. Have you noticed that chairman Farsak has beening to our ce more frequently?¡±

    Camby nodded, ¡°Un, it¡¯s because their production magic machines have had problemstely. I was considering sending some brothers over to specially maintain and repair them.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and said, ¡°This is not a good method. Next time chairman Farsakes, if I¡¯m not here, you can just tell him that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can provide him a new batch of production magic machines. Moreover, these are the newest models and they are stronger than the old ones.¡±

    Camby knit his brows, ¡°He probably won¡¯t agree. When we sold him those production magic machines, we promised him three years of free repairs. If we sell him another batch, he won¡¯t be willing to pay that much gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Who said I¡¯m selling them to him? It¡¯s an exchange. Of course, it¡¯s notpletely free. Tell him that it¡¯s just the difference between the old and new magic machines, which isn¡¯t much. Their Farsak Chamber of Commerce has a total of fifty production magic machines, so even if it is ten gold coins per machine, it¡¯s no more than five hundred gold coins. He will definitely agree to this.¡±

    Camby was stunned, ¡°Then wouldn¡¯t we be losing too much? If we sold fifty production magic machines, we can earn over three thousand gold coins. You want to let him exchange them for just five hundred gold coins, isn¡¯t that too cheap for him?¡±

    ¡°You need to set your eyes further.¡± Xu Yi said in a sincere voice, ¡°If those old production magic machines stay in the Farsak Chamber of Commerce and problems keep urring, our product name of ourpany will suffer arge blow, making people think that ourpany¡¯s products aren¡¯t reliable. In the long term, we will lose more than several thousand gold coins.¡±

    Camby considered it before slowly nodding, ¡°That is right. Humans don¡¯t care about credibility, that¡¯s why they have such a bad reputation among us other races¡­..Oh chairman, I¡¯m not talking about you. My meaning is that apany is the same as a person, credibility is very important.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head not knowing whether tough or cry before he said, ¡°So, don¡¯t worry about these short term losses. I have already made an initial n and for the next period, for the products that we have already sold, I will recycle the old products and exchange them for new products.¡±

    Camby tightly knit his brows, ¡°Taking back bad production magic machines already is quite a loss, but if we do this for all products, we¡¯ll lose hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Sebas definitely won¡¯t agree to this idea of yours.¡±

    ¡°Rx, although Sebas is a miser, he is also a smart person and will understand my meaning.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before continuing, ¡°Coming back to the question you had earlier, we¡¯recking useful materials, so the products we make aren¡¯t useful or durable, so we have to use this product recall and exchange. If our materials were a bit better and the production magic machines were more durable, our products wouldn¡¯t break for years, so no one will have a problem, right?¡±

    ¡°Certainly. Look, a normal shovel that wouldn¡¯t break after being used for three years is already enough for people to praise the craftsmanship. Our production magic machines are also made of iron and if they can be used for several years without breaking, people will praise it to the heavens.¡± Camby said in a certain voice.

    ¡°That is right, so first we need to solve this material problem. And this will mainly depend on the results of your brothers from the Norma Tribe.¡± Speaking of this, Xu Yi turned to Agnes who was silently listening to them and waved his hand at her as he said, ¡°Come, Agnes, let¡¯s go on some official business together.¡±

    ¡°Official business?¡± Agnes and Camby both looked at Xu Yi with confused gazes.

    ¡°It¡¯s going out on a business trip with me.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°Chief Siluka sent people to days ago to tell me that their material research has yielded new results, so I want to see if they made any breakthroughs. Other than this, I want to go to your Night Song Tribe to greet elder Ilusia and discuss something with her. I can¡¯t go to your Night Song Tribe alone, so I need you to lead the way.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Agnes understood and nodded before following Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi talked to Camby about a few more work matters and picked up his bag that had been packed, before leading Agnes out the factory.

    But when he came to the factory doors, there was a horse carriage that came from the direction of Banta City and stopped in front of them.

    The horse carriage opened and Butler Brunei was revealed.

    He quickly looked over Agnes behind Xu Yi before saying to Xu Yi with the same emotionless face, ¡°Chairman Xu, the Lord Baron extends his invitation.¡±

 Volume 2 30 - Raising rent

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 30 Raising rent</strong>

    Even after hearing Count Sean¡¯s analysis, Xu Yi was much more assured, but if he had topletely ignored Viscount Leslie¡¯s sessor, it was impossible.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main factory was onnd rented from him, so Xu Yi had to give the other side some face.

    So before seeing Baron Belil Stagg, Xu Yi maintained a bit of respect for him in his heart. Even if the other side looked down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as he didn¡¯t move against them, it wasn¡¯t a problem.

    But this bit of respect he had in his heart had disappeared after he met Baron Belil.

    ¡°You are Xu Yi?¡± Seeing Xu Yie in after Butler Brunei, Baron Belil looked over him and revealed a look of contempt.

    Based on his appearance of leaning in his chair with his crossed legs and his careless look on his face, he seemed like a hoodlum, but he also seemed like a Baron that came from a noble family. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, only simply saying, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Based on Baron Belil¡¯s appearance, Xu Yi found that his idea of trying to solve things peacefully would fail.

    This Baron Belil without the Stagg Family, he wasn¡¯t some bright bulb.

    As expected, after Baron Belil looked over Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t invite Xu Yi to sit. He grabbed a fruit off the table to casually eat before looking over at Xu Yi, looking like he had just thought of something.

    ¡°Oh, that¡¯s right, there isn¡¯t anything special for calling you over, it¡¯s just that I wanted to tell you something. Butler Brunei could have told you this matter, but I was a bit curious about you, so I called you over to take a look. Only now that I¡¯ve seen you¡­..¡± Baron Belil shook his head and clicked his tongue, looking very flippant, ¡°There isn¡¯t anything special, I don¡¯t know know Leslie was that courteous to you. Really, this is simply losing face for our Stagg Family.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows again at this time and calmly asked, ¡°Lord Baron, I wonder, what is it that you wished to tell me?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Oh, it¡¯s like this. I have reced Leslie to manage the family¡¯snd here. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been renting a hectare ofnd from Leslie, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Un, how much is the rent each year?¡± Baron Belil looked at Butler Brunei.

    ¡°Fifty gold coins each year, Lord Baron.¡± Butler Brunei replied with a respectful bow.

    ¡°Peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    Baron Belil suddenly pped the table and said in a loud voice with wide eyes, ¡°Only fifty gold coins? This is just too little! Is our Stagg Family¡¯snd not worth any money?¡±

    Butler Brunei lowered his head and didn¡¯t speak.

    Xu Yi looked at Baron Belil and looked down on his shoddy performance. He acted like he was worried as he asked, ¡°Lord Baron, your meaning is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t even see my meaning? You¡¯re this stupid, how can you be a chairman?¡± Baron Belil cut off Xu Yi without any courtesy, ¡°It¡¯s very simple. Now that thisnd is managed by me, the lease agreement you signed before with Leslie has been nulled. I am the one in charge, so thisrge piece ofnd being rented out for fifty gold coins each year is too little, it¡¯s no different from giving it away. From this day forth, the rent will increase, so I called you here to sign a new contract. Butler Brunei,e, give him the new contract and have him sign it.¡±

    Butler Brunei took out the contact that was already prepared for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reach out to take it, rather he asked Baron Belil, ¡°Lord Baron, when I signed the contract with Viscount Lesliest year, it was written that I was rentingnd from the Stagg Family, so that means it belongs to the Stagg Family. Although Viscount Leslie has already left this ce, it was signed by Viscount Leslie representing the Stagg Family, so it can be considered a deal between the Stagg Family¡¯s representative and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Lord Baron, can you¡­..represent the Stagg Family?¡±

    ¡°Can you if I can¡¯t?¡± Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi and said with augh, ¡°You are just a little merchant and you dare say that you have discussed this with the representative of our Stagg Family, who do you think you are? Stop wasting words, ept the fact that I¡¯ve changed the contract. You¡¯re not afraid of me announcing the contract is void and taking back thend?¡±

    Meeting this unreasonable person, Xu Yi could only helplessly shake his head. He took the new contract to look over.

    But when he saw it, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He looked at Baron Belil in surprise, ¡°A hundred thousand gold coins each year? Lord Baron, even if you increase the rent, you can¡¯t increase it like this, right? This is more than two thousand times!¡±

    Baron Belil coldly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You don¡¯t understand my meaning? I called you here to sign this new contract, not to discuss this with you. You can either sign it or I¡¯ll announce the previous contract is void and will send people to take back thend tomorrow, it¡¯s your choice.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled out of anger as he looked at Baron Belil¡¯s casual appearance. He thought, was this fellow really stupid? Or was he doing this on purpose?

    Based on the fact that he wasn¡¯t even twenty and his appearance, Xu Yi really wanted to think that he was stupid.

    But he was still a direct junior from the Stagg Family and Viscount Leslie¡¯s cousin. Being born in the Stagg Family, he had been educated well since he was young, so he shouldn¡¯t be this stupid.

    But if he wasn¡¯t stupid and did this on purpose, this made Xu Yi even more confused.

    Just what was the Stagg Family doing?

    ording to Count Sean¡¯s analysis, the Stagg Family had scruples so it was impossible for them to directly move against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But now Baron Belil had suddenly increased the rent of fifty gold coins to a hundred thousand gold coins and had acted with iparable disdain for Xu Yi, this clearly meant that he didn¡¯t want to show any mercy to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But what benefits were there for the Stagg Family in going against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Xu Yi really couldn¡¯t understand it.

    He looked down at this new contract that increased the rent and enforced various strict conditions. Xu Yi thought about it before taking a deep breath to calm himself and say to Baron Belil, ¡°Lord Baron, this matter is important, so can you give me a few days to discuss it with the other people in mypany before I respond?¡±

    ¡°Discuss what? Aren¡¯t you the chairman? Could it be that you don¡¯t make the decisions? Then why are you the chairman?¡± Baron Belil impatiently said.

    ¡°Thepany isn¡¯t made up of my alone, so I have to talk to the others. Than again our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a smallpany and a hundred thousand gold coins is arge amount, so it means a lot to us and we can¡¯t casually agree. I ask the Lord Baron to bend the rules, can you give me a few days?¡± Xu Yi calmly said.

    Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi with knit brows and thought about it before waving his hand, ¡°Alright, a hundred thousand gold coins is indeed asrge amount for a smallpany like you, so I¡¯ll give you some time to consider. But it is impossible to give you a few days, I¡¯ll only give you one. You must give me your answer the day after tomorrow, I don¡¯t have the free time to wait for you, do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi considered it before nodding, ¡°Alright.¡±

    ¡°Alright, you can leave. Next time youe, it¡¯s best if you prepare the money.¡± Baron Belil waved his hand, driving Xu Yi away like he was a fly.

    After leaving the manor left by Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi turned to look at this manor that used to be familiar, but now seemed unfamiliar. He shook his head with a bitter smile and after a bit, he called, ¡°Agnes.¡±

    Agnes appeared out of thin air and curiously asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, did you have me hide myself and not meet this person, was it because you already knew that he wouldn¡¯t be friendly?¡±

    ¡°I was just guessing, but I never thought it would be right. This seems a bit troublesome.¡± Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Agnes, I might not be able to leave Banta City for now. How about this, you have nothing to do over the next few days, so you can just go in my ce.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Is this alright?¡± Agnes said in surprise, ¡°Chairman, there are many things I don¡¯t understand, so I can¡¯t represent you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, this matter isn¡¯t difficult. Listen well¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi carefully said a few things to Agnes and after confirming that she understood, he gave her the bag on his back,

    ¡°If possible,e back as quickly as you can. I need your report to make my decision.¡± Xu Yi said this and then seeing the serious face on Agnes¡¯ face, he couldn¡¯t help smiling. He patted Agnes¡¯ shoulder and said, ¡°It really is a pity. I thought that I could go on a business trip with a beauty, but I never thought that it would be ruined.

    Agnes naturally didn¡¯t understand the meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s words, she just revealed a smile and said, ¡°As long as the chairman is willing, I can go on a business trip with you any time.¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s not, otherwise Still will definitely kill me.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before having Agnes set off.

    Watching Agnes disappear into thin air, Xu Yi turned to look at the tightly closed manor gates before heading to Banta City.

    Half an hourter, Xu Yi appeared at the gates of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    Seeing the familiar open gates of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, he couldn¡¯t help thinking of how he had ran to Count Sean after Baron Belil refused to see him, so he was calmed down by his analysis. Now that his heart was unsettled again after meeting Baron Belil, he ran to Count Sean again. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing at himself.

    ¡°Why do I feel like an elementary student who¡¯s running to the teacher to tattle after being bullied by a ssmate?¡±

 Volume 2 31 - Not playing with him

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 31 Not ying with him</strong>

    ¡°Lord Baron, Xu Yi has left the City Lord¡¯s Manor.¡± Butler Brunei respectfully reported this to Baron Belil Stagg.

    ¡°Un.¡± Baron Belil gave a slight nod to show he heard.

    If Xu Yi saw the current Baron Belil, he would definitely be very surprised.

    The current Baron Belil was sitting up straight with a calm look on his face along with a confident smile. It wasn¡¯t like that careless appearance Xu Yi had saw, it was like he was apletely different person.

    After elegantly sipping his tea, Baron Belil thought for a bit before saying to Butler Brunei, ¡°He should have been in the City Lord¡¯s Manor for around half an hour? It seems like his rtionship with Lord Count Sean is pretty good.¡±

    Butler Brunei nodded, ¡°Yes. Count Sean greatly favours the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, openly showing his support for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If it wasn¡¯t like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have developed to this degree in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°I think that for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops this quickly, my beloved big brother Leslie should have yed arge role.¡± Baron Belil said with a faint smile.

    Hearing Baron Belil mention his previous master, Butler Brunei lowered his head and said nothing.

    Baron Belil looked at him and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Butler Brunei, big brother Leslie had you stay here because he wanted you to watch over Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for him, right?¡±

    Butler Brunei hesitated a bit before seriously replying, ¡°The Lord Viscount never said anything like that. He just felt that since I knew the situation well, it would make it easier for whoever the family sent to take over.¡±

    ¡°Un, you have indeed helped me quite a bit during this time. If you weren¡¯t big brother Leslie¡¯s subordinate, I really would want to keep you.¡± Baron Belil praised Butler Brunei before changing the topic, ¡°But Butler Brunei, because of your attitude towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can¡¯t actually keep you here. If you identally make a mistake because of your thoughts, it may not just be bad luck and could also implicate me or even our entire family.¡±

    Butler Brunei looked at Baron Belil in surprise, ¡°Lord Baron, this¡­..isn¡¯t it too exaggerated? I am just a small butler, how could my attitude have any effect?¡±

    ¡°Although you are just a small butler, if you stay here, you will represent my big brother Leslie. Big brother Leslie is the eldest son of our Stagg Family and the only sessor of the Lord Due, so his attitude will represent our Stagg Family¡¯s attitude. So based on this rtion, your attitude to many people can be represented as our Stagg Family¡¯s attitude.¡±

    Butler Brunei knit his brows, ¡°That means¡­..The Lord Baron is worried that others will misunderstand through my attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that the Stagg Family favours the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯m even more confused. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a pretty decentpany and Xu Yi is quite smart. If they are taken it, it would help the family very much, so why is Lord Baron doing this?¡±

    Baron Belil looked at Butler Brunei. Butler Brunei had served the Stagg Family since he was young and now he had served them for close to sixty years. He was normally very cautious person and didn¡¯t speak much, but now that he had asked this much for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it confirmed many questions in his heart. It showed that he indeed had a favourable impression of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or rather Xu Yi.

    If his attitude represented Leslie¡¯s attitude, it means that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were worthy of this favour.

    If it wasn¡¯t because of the family¡¯s choice, he might really try to win them over.

    After thinking about it, Baron Belil answered, ¡°The reason is very simple, it¡¯s because Xu Yi is too close to her highness queen Seveni.¡±

    Butler Brunei was stunned. His face changed and after considering it, he couldn¡¯t help lowering his voice and carefully asking, ¡°The Lord Duke¡­...has made his decision?¡±

    Baron Belil sipped his tea and looked up at Butler Brunie before casually saying, ¡°That is not something you¡¯re qualified to ask, you just need to do your own things.¡±

    Butler Brunei¡¯s heart skipped a beat before he took a step back with his head down and didn¡¯t say another word.

    ###

    The sun was still high in the sky when he left the City Lord¡¯s Manor, it was currently noon. Xu Yi looked up at the sky before heading to the research facility to the south of the city.

    He didn¡¯t choose to take the horse carriage before because he wanted to use the walk to gather his thoughts.

    He didn¡¯t receive any urate information from his meeting with Count Sean just now.

    After all, in such a short amount of time, Count Sean couldn¡¯t receive any more information to give Xu Yi a more urate judgement about Baron Belil.

    Although he was very shocked that Baron Belil suddenly raised the rent to a hundred thousand and even cursed Baron Belil as crazy, Count Sean couldn¡¯t do much about this.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory was on the Stagg Family¡¯snd and it all depended on the Stagg Family.

    Now that the Stagg Family had sent Baron Belil to control thisnd, then he made the decisions for thisnd and even the king couldn¡¯t question his decisions.

    The only thing that could change the situation was the contract the two signedst year.

    This contract was signed with Viscount Leslie, stipting that thend was being rented for three years and it would be fifty gold coins each year.

    But now Baron Belil cancelled that contract and arbitrarily raised the amount to a shocking hundred thousand gold coins, which was a serious vition of the contract.

    The people of the Sines Continent cared very much about contracts. If Xu Yi was to reveal this, the Stagg Family would be med by countless people and Baron Belil would be cursed by everyone.

    When Count Sean asked Xu Yi if he wanted to announce this matter, Xu Yi considered it before shaking his head.

    The Stagg Family was one of the top families of the Lampuri Kingdom, having immense power and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just a smallpany. If this matter was revealed, although it would make countless people me the Stagg Family and even make Baron Belil take back this decision, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stay on thend as per the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would surely offend the Stagg Family.

    For the currently small and weak Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was pretty much seeking death.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t just some young kid in his twenties, he wouldn¡¯t choose this dumb decision just to vent some anger.

    Based on the advice Viscount Leslie gave him before leaving and Count Sean¡¯s analysis, the first thing Xu Yi needed to do was work hard on developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became stronger, there were many things that could be easily solved.

    So after considering it, Xu Yi made the final decision on this matter¡­..He would leave thatnd and stop ying with him!

    Baron Belil raised the hundred thousand gold coins a year rent simply to drive the Frestech Chamber of Commerce away because it was impossible for Xu Yi to agree to such an exaggerated increase.

    Although right now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might make an annual revenue of over one million gold coins, to pay a hundred thousand gold coins for a trivial one hectare ofnd was something they couldn¡¯t ept.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi felt this one hectare was already restricting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, so he contacted the king through Seveni to rent arge piece ofnd.

    Now that Baron Belil wanted to chase him away, Xu Yi used this chance to start his n ahead of time.

    Although the timing would be a bit hasty, since Viscount Leslie told Xu Yi he would be leaving, Xu Yi had already expected this day and made a series of preparations, so he wouldn¡¯t be caught off guard.

    When Xu Yi went to see Count Sean, other than to tell him Baron Belil¡¯s unreasonable request, he mainly went to tell him his decision.

    Towards Xu Yi¡¯s decision, Count Sean was a bit surprised. He mentioned that he could negotiate with Baron Belil for Xu Yi and tried to keep Xu Yi here, but Xu Yi steeled his heart and turned down Count Sean¡¯s help.

    In the end, Count Sean could only helplessly agree to Xu Yi¡¯s decision. He mentioned that he could provide Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce some help to make it easier for them to relocate.

    After discussing everything with Count Sean, Xu Yi didn¡¯t waste time as he quickly prepared for the relocation.

    Although the research facility in the city wouldn¡¯t be affected, as part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he still had to inform them to have them prepare their hearts.

    He was thinking about everything that needed to be done, as Xu Yi slowly walked forward. When he had a general n of all the work in his mind, he was close to the alley the research facility was in.

    Xu Yi stopped thinking and when he was about to go in, he saw a familiar figure standing in a corner out of the corner of his eye.

    Looking over, he found that person was Rem.

    After seeing this, Xu Yi knit his brows and became a bit doubtful.

    Other than Rem, there was someone that Xu Yi didn¡¯t recognize.

    What made Xu Yi suspicious was that Rem and this person didn¡¯t look normal, rather they were very close together, almost sticking to each other. They were trying to talk as softly as possible and they hid their expressions, as if they were doing something that couldn¡¯t be revealed.

    Xu Yi was a bit curious. If this person was Rem¡¯s friend, since it was the research facility¡¯s lunch break, it was very normal for him to see this friend or go out for a meal. But based on their appearance, it really was suspicious.

    Looking around and finding no way to approach them, Xu Yi gave up the thought of eavesdropping on them. He took a deep look at the stranger and after memorizing his appearance, he headed into the yard.

 Volume 2 32 - Sandton Manor

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 32 Sandton Manor</strong>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s two factories in Banta City were therge workshop covering over three thousand square meters and the smaller workshop covering over a thousand square meters. Adding in the office and the store rooms, they took up a total of over five thousand square meters.

    Calcting all of this, over half of the hectare ofnd was already being used, leaving not enough space for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop.

    So when Xu Yi announced that they were moving, everyone in thepany was shocked. But after they listened to Xu Yi analysis, they agreed with his decision.

    Of course, there were still someints.

    Like when Camby heard Baron Belil¡¯s request, he spat out in disdain, ¡°Pei! Humans really don¡¯t keep their words!¡±

    As for the human leaders of thepany led by Xu Yi, they could only lower their heads and not say a thing.

    Moving an entire factory was a veryrge andplex task, especially with the various production magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where any of them weighed over several hundred kilograms, or even reaching a ton. It wasn¡¯t an easy thing to move them.

    It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had several hundred dwarves. With the strength of these dwarves that surpassed normal humans, they really lifted these machines that would normally require heavy machinery on earth to lift into the horse carriages.

    Otherwise if they relied purely on manpower, it would waste quite a bit of effort to move these magic machines.

    For this relocation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only moved all their employees, they also hired all the freebour in Banta City.

    But this was far from enough. Count Sean even sent five hundred Banta City guards to help out with this matter.

    Watching these dwarves andrge men with their shirts off, sweating as they lifted theserge machines into the horse carriages, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of regret.

    If he had invented some heavy magic machinery before this, perhaps it wouldn¡¯t have been this troublesome.

    Of course, no one expected Baron Belil¡¯s sudden request. So even if Xu Yi had prepared his heart for this, it was impossible for him to prepare everything.

    Right now, he could only urge everyone to pay as much attention as they moved all therge machines to reduce their losses as much as possible.

    ¡°Not only will there be losses because of these machines being moved, just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopping their production for a few days will cause serious losses.¡± Chairman Moon Cruise of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce came to watch after hearing this news, but he gave a sigh as he said this in a pitiful voice, ¡°I wanted to urge you to quickly finish those Magic Concrete Mixers, but now it seems like it¡¯ll take some time.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, I can¡¯t expect things suddenly happening.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and suddenly lowered his voice to mysteriously say, ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is suddenly deciding to move because you¡¯re being forced out by Baron Belil?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and calmly said, ¡°Chairman Cruise, you can¡¯t speak nonsense. This is a decision that ourpany made for our own development, it isn¡¯t rted to Baron Belil at all.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expressionless face, chairman Cruiseughed and didn¡¯t ask anything else.

    Actually the people of Banta City already knew about this matter in their hearts, but since Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce remained silent, others wouldn¡¯t take the initiative to offend Baron Belil or even the Stagg Family.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce being close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Cruise having a good rtionship with Xu Yi, he wouldn¡¯t have asked this much.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, I still haven¡¯t asked you, but where are you nning to go?¡± After a moment of silence, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help asking this.

    ¡°I¡¯ll be following my original n and moving to the Falling Rain Valley. Once it is done, I won¡¯t need to worry about thend for the factory at all. But chairman Cruise, has only half the road to the Falling Rain Valley been finished?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Chairman Cruise looked at him, ¡°What? You think we¡¯re going slow? This is the fastest speed with me personally supervising, we can¡¯t go any faster. You care too much about quality, so if I raise the speed, we can¡¯t keep the same quality. It would be strange if you didn¡¯te find me for troubleter.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°No, no, no, you¡¯re misunderstanding, I don¡¯t find it slow. On the contrary, only a month has passed and you¡¯ve already finished close to half of it, so it is actually quite fast. So fast that I¡¯m worried about the quality of the road. Of course, I believe in chairman Cruise and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I believe that you won¡¯t be careless with the road¡¯s quality. The reason I asked this was actually to say that I don¡¯t have a way to safely bring everyone to the Falling Rain Valley. You think that on those broken uneven gravel roads, can we transport everyone there safely?¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head without any hesitation, ¡°It¡¯s definitely impossible. It is spring and it rains quite a bit in a year, since those roads are made of dirt, if you move onto them, the wheels of the horse carriage will sink in and you won¡¯t be able to move at all.

    ¡°That is right. Although we have to move this time, we don¡¯t need to move far. Rather we can go to the Sandton Manor that isn¡¯t that far away.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Sandton Manor?¡± Chairman Cruise thought about it before looking at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°If my memory isn¡¯t wrong, that Sandton Manor was the one you bought three months ago? Could it be that you expected this to happen three months ago?¡±

    ¡°It would be boasting if I said that I predicted this to happen. But¡­..It isn¡¯t wrong to prepare beforehand.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s a temporary workshop built in that manor and although it is simple, we can maintain our normal production without any problems. So chairman Cruise, you don¡¯t need to worry, your Magic Concrete Mixers will not be dyed. Don¡¯t forget, the river construction project and the road to the Falling Rain Valley needs the help of those Magic Concrete Mixers and these two projects are very important to me.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi like it was his first time meeting him.

    Sandton Manor was Viscount Sandton¡¯s private manor. Because financial problems ured with the Viscount Sandton¡¯s family, Viscount Sandton held a public auction for this manor three months ago, selling it to Xu Yi for a high price of three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

    Everyone in Banta City thought Xu Yi was crazy back then.

    Although this Sandton Manor was facing a mountain and beside a river, so it was very peaceful, making it a good choice for a vacation manor. It was still over fifteen kilometers away from Banta City, so it was rather remote.

    Moreover the manor was less than two hectares, so even if the interior was decorated quite well by Viscount Sandton, it was not worth over three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins no matter what.

    ording to the price among the Banta City nobles, the manor should be worth around two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    But at the public auction of the manor, Xu Yi had suddenlye in and ced his bet.

    Perhaps they were not satisfied that an ordinary merchant like Xu Yi wanted to buy this manor, so some nobles bid against Xu Yi, driving up the price. In the end, it reached a shocking amount of three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

    Three months ago, everyone¡¯s estimates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was no more than five hundred thousand gold coins. For Xu Yi to suddenly take out three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins to buy this manor, naturally everyone thought that Xu Yi had gone crazy.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had popr products and high profits, causing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have more finances than normalpanies, but to suddenly take out three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins, this must have emptied the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s coffers.

    Doing something like this, to the other merchants andpanies, this was simply stupid.

    Even if people thought that Xu Yi wanted to buy somend for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this price was a bit high in the end, so they didn¡¯t think it was a smart choice.

    However, Xu Yi still insisted on doing this.

    Chairman Cruise had been very confused back then and did his best to persuade Xu Yi, but he was powerless since Xu Yi had steeled his heart and didn¡¯t listen to his advice, as he bought this manor.

    But three monthster, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce faced the difficult problem of having to move, chairman Cruise suddenly found that Xu Yi¡¯s decision to buy the manor was a very smart decision.

    Actually if it was just purchasing the manor, this two hectare manor was only worth at most a hundred thousand gold coins, or not even that much.

    But for Viscount Sandton who wascking funds, when he sold this manor, he also sold the territory that this manor was on which was rarely seen.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom had never givennd since it was formed, so allnd was very precious for nobles and they wouldn¡¯t easily take them out to sell.

    Viscount Sandton really had no other choice, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have made this decision.

    Adding in the fact that thend was also being sold, this manor¡¯s price suddenly went from a hundred thousand gold coins to around two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    It was because of this that Xu Yi encountered suchrge obstacles when he tried to buy this manor, spending over a hundred thousand more than the estimate to get it.

    Of course, right now, that auction was very cost effective for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With a piece ofnd that belonged to them, not only did it have a strong symbolic significance, it also meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could give up the factory on thend controlled by the Stagg Family.

    At least they wouldn¡¯t be forced to move again because of a casual word from Baron Belil.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of praise as he looked at Xu Yi.

    With a chairman with such foresight and having such decisiveness in critical matters, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely develop more smoothly than people imagined.

    And for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, being able to have this kind of partner was a matter that was worth rejoicing over.

    Chairman Cruise turned over and said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu can be assured, not only do you attach great importance to these two projects, I also attach great importance to them. If our Amrit Chamber of Commerce can finish these two products, it means that our Amrit Chamber of Commerce haspleted two projects that otherpanies didn¡¯t have the techniques toplete. Just based on this, we should thank chairman Xu from the bottom of our hearts. If it wasn¡¯t for your selfless help, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce definitely wouldn¡¯t have this chance or advantage.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Cruise is too polite, this is also your Amrit Chamber of Commerce working hard to seize this opportunity.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Cruiseughed and was about to say a few more polite things to Xu Yi to increase their rtionship when he suddenly saw several horse carriages slowly approaching.

    A horse carriage in the middle had the mark of the City Lord¡¯s Manor and the one behind it had the mark of the Stagg Family.

    Chairman Cruise immediately closed his mouth and pointed in the direction of the horse carriage for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi turned to look and revealed a faint smile, ¡°The Lord City Lord has also invited Baron Belil, is he nning tough at my present distressed manner?¡±

 Volume 2 33 - Mass production of weapons and armours

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 33 Mass production of weapons and armours</strong>

    Of the people who came, other than the Lord City Lord and Baron Belil, there were also some who came because they heard the news like chairman Cruise.

    Most of them were heads ofrgepanies that had connections to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, among them was the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan.

    Without an exception, these people showed their concern on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly moving their factory. The key point of their concern was naturally whether this move would affect their orders with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When they learned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be moving to the Sandton Manor not far away and would be able to resume production in just a week, many people were assured.

    After exchanging greetings, people¡¯s eyes naturally fell onto Count Sean and Baron Belil.

    Most of them were looking at Baron Belil.

    These people were all well informed people of Banta City, so how could they not know the situation of why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was suddenly moving.

    It should be said that Baron Belil¡¯s sudden unreasonable request made everyone very surprised.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce clearly had prospects, so even if the Stagg Family didn¡¯t ce importance on them, they shouldn¡¯t act like this and basically break all rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Baron Belil still looked very careless in front of everyone. Seeing everyone focused on him, he gave augh beforeing in front of Xu Yi, looking at him as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, giving Count Sean some face, I¡¯ve given you a few days time. But don¡¯t me me for not reminding you that if you don¡¯t finish before the deadline, I won¡¯t be giving you any face.¡±

    Hearing this, the surrounding people couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows.

    What grudge did this Baron Belil have with Xu YI? Why did he go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this?

    Xu Yi¡¯s face was calm, as he nodded with a smile and said, ¡°The Lord Baron can be assured, with our current speed, we can finish by the day after tomorrow. We won¡¯t be dying the ns you have with this piece ofnd.¡±

    Baron Belil gave a slight nod, ¡°That is more like it. If you dy my matters, there aren¡¯t any good consequences for you.¡±

    Everyone knit their brows even more.

    Based on the information they obtained, this matter had been Baron Belil being unreasonable from the start. Now that he had said all this in front of Xu Yi, even the people who had normal rtionships with Xu Yi found it hard to keep their hearts calm.

    But the people here were all well experienced, no one would refute Baron Belil to his face.

    This fellow clearly looked like a yboy and looked unreasonable. If they said anything against him, not only would it have no use, they would offend the Stagg Family behind him for no reason, no one would be that foolish.

    Xu Yi looked at Baron Belil and suddenly asked, ¡°Lord Baron, I have a question for you.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± Baron Belil said in an uncaring voice.

    ¡°Are you certain you won¡¯t regret doing this?¡±

    Count Sean who had only greeted Xu Yi aftering here and not said anything else slightly raised a brow, as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    This Xu Yi, he looked like he had been calm about this matter on the surface, but based on his question, it meant that he did have a bit of rage in his heart.

    Everyone else was a bit surprised, as they thought that Xu Yi¡¯s question didn¡¯t have any politeness at all.

    Baron Belil was surprised before giving a coldugh and disdainfully saying, ¡°Regret? Why would I regret this? I say, Xu Yi, although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed at a good speed and earned quite a bit in a year, you shouldn¡¯t overestimate yourself. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a smallpany in Banta City, what qualifications do you have to make me feel regret? Asking this kind of question, don¡¯t you find it funny?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Baron Belil for a while until he felt ufortable being stared at like that. He angrily looked at Xu Yi who looked away with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, I understand. Many thanks for the Lord Baron¡¯s answer.¡±

    Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi in surprise before saying with a cold snort, ¡°Xu Yi, from the things that I don¡¯t want to see on the newspapers, I thought that you would at least be a smart person. Now that I look at you, you don¡¯t seem that smart.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory being moved, whether it was in Banta City or the surrounding cities, this was arge piece of news.

    In a normal situation, the newspapers of the city would cover it and delve into the reasons.

    But this time, the ten newspapers of these cities only made a simple report like it was a normal piece of news.

    As for the reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly decided to move, they unanimously reported it as a future development n the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had prepared beforehand.

    The reason why these ten newspapers were so unanimous, other than it being Xu Yi¡¯s request, naturally it was because Count Sean and Karma City¡¯s City Lord Count Anaris.

    Baron Belil was of course aware of this, so he praised Xu Yi as a smart person.

    Right now to him calling him not intelligent, Xu Yi was toozy to argue it. He just revealed a smile at him and ignored him, turning to talk the other merchants that came.

    When he and everyone else confirmed that this was a n for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future development, everyone began to scatter. At this time, Count Sean finally came over.

    Watching the horse carriages leave, Count Sean said, ¡°Not bad. Moving such arge factory is a veryplicated matter and in such a rushed situation, I thought that you would be in a panic. But looking at you now, it seems like you¡¯ve already arranged everyone and I really have to praise you for it.¡±

    ¡°Lord Count is overpraising me.¡± Xu Yi said with a modest smile, ¡°For you to speciallye here, it shouldn¡¯t be just to see how our move is going, right?¡±

    ¡°This is one of the reasons.¡± Count Sean pointed at the office in the distance, ¡°Let¡¯s sit down and discuss the rest.¡±

    Xu Yi had his doubts. If he really wanted something, why did he call him to the City Lord¡¯s Manor?

    The two walked into the office that hadn¡¯t been moved yet. Xu Yi poured the water before sitting down.

    Count Sean paused for a second before pointing out the window and asking Xu Yi, ¡°What do you think of those little fellows in the city guards?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, he never thought that Count Sean would begin with the city guards that came to help with the move.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Very good. I can see that they are very strong. If our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army had this kind of quality, perhaps our Lampuri Kingdom could spread our name across the entire Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re overexaggerating.¡± Count Sean waved his hand, ¡°There are many things that decides a nation¡¯s power, the quality of a soldier is only one aspect. Other than this, there is also equipment, logistics, and other important things. And among this, the thing that raises battle strength the most is equipment.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised.

    Count Sean was not someone who liked wasting words, so what was the meaning of discussing equipment with him?

    After considering it, Xu Yi could only gave a forced nod, ¡°Un, I agree.¡±

    Count Sean kept asking, ¡°Xu Yi, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce uses production magic machines to make iron magic machines like the Magic Fan, the Magic Rice Cooker, and others, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, it is indeed like this.¡±

    ¡°Then you¡­..¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi and paused before saying in a casual voice, ¡°To develop a magic machine that mass produces weapons and armours shouldn¡¯t be a problem, right?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s hand trembled and he almost dropped the cup of tea.

    After calming himself, Xu Yi asked Count Sean in a deep voice, ¡°Lord City Lord, what do you mean?¡±

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t understand what I said?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi and said in a serious voice, ¡°Let me ask you, do you have confidence in researching a production machine that have the same efficiency as the Magic Fan or the Magic Rice Cooker that can produce armour and weapons for soldiers?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent and only after a while did he reply with difficulty, ¡°In theory¡­..there is no problem. We have many production magic machines including the Magic Punch Press, so we just need to change them a bit and we¡¯ll be able to form a simple armour production line. As for weapons¡­...it¡¯ll depend on what kind of weapons.¡±

    Count Sean¡¯s eyes lit up as he kept asking, ¡°For example, bows and arrows?¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s bows¡­..I don¡¯t understand what materials are used for bows, so I can¡¯t reply. But as for arrows, if we¡¯re just making steel arrowheads, it isn¡¯t as hard as making screw bolts, it could even be considered simpler. As for shafts¡­..If you want a pure steel arrow shaft, it will be a bit more troublesome. But if you just want to make an alloy shaft or a stic shaft, it isn¡¯t that hard. Although researching the magic machines will be a bit troublesome, I don¡¯t think there will be a problem. But to develop these things, it will hinder our development of magic machines for civilians, so I feel that¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait a minute¡­¡­¡± Count Sean was a bit confused as he raised a hand for Xu Yi to stop. After thinking about it, he asked with knit brows, ¡°What are these alloys and stic you mention? Why have I never heard of them before?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before he reacted. He had replied based on the standard of earth, but he had forgotten that the people of this world didn¡¯t know much about materials used in machines.

    The alloys are at least being used in the Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker right now, but as for stic¡­...Currently it was being developed in the Night Song Tribe and it would take some time before it could be revealed.

    ¡°These two things are some special materials, it¡¯s different from basic materials with different effects. Like the material used in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and Magic Bread Maker, it is a special steel alloy that ourpany researched. This alloy that I¡¯ve named the Steel Leaf Alloy is lighter than normal iron, but it isn¡¯t weaker and it doesn¡¯t rust.¡±

    ¡°Then wouldn¡¯t the effects be better if this Silver Leaf Alloy was used to make weapons and armours?¡± Count Sean immediately asked.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit, ¡°This¡­..I wouldn¡¯t dare promise it because there are many limits to armours and weapons being used by soldiers. We haven¡¯t conducted a limit test with this Silver Leaf Alloy, so we can¡¯t guarantee if it can take the demands of being forged into armour or weapons.¡±

    ¡°Since you have the Silver Leaf Alloy, then perhaps there are other steel alloys like you mentioned? Then of these steel alloys, there should be another alloy that is more suited for making armour and weapons, right?¡± Count Sean was a bit unwilling to give up.

    ¡°There¡­.should be.¡± Xu Yi could only helplessly shake his head.

    ¡°Very good!¡± Count Sean pped the table and broke out inughter. Then he pped Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and said in an excited voice, ¡°I just wanted your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop a magic machine that I needed, but I never thought that you have so many useful things. Xu Yi, ah Xu Yi, I really never thought that you hid so many treasures. If I didn¡¯t ask, were you even nning on telling me?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, this is after all ourpany¡¯s business secret. If it wasn¡¯t for you asking, how could I reveal it that easily?¡±

    ¡°Business secret?¡± Count Sean shook his head with a smile, ¡°In the face of the kingdom¡¯s benefits, what are some business secrets. Alright, Xu Yi, I¡¯ll give you two choices right now. The first is to agree to me and research the magic machines that I mentioned for the kingdom, while also developing those alloys and stic that you mentioned. The second choice is to reject me and let your Frestech Chamber of Commerce run its course. What is your choice?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t only give a helpless bitter smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, do I have a choice?¡±

 Volume 2 34 - Youâ€™re not suited to be the queen

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 34 You¡¯re not suited to be the queen</strong>

    Of course Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a choice.

    If he rejected Count Sean¡¯s request, then that would mean that Xu Yi would lose the support of Count Sean.

    And even if Count Sean¡¯s support wasn¡¯t important, the support of those who prompted him to make this kind of request to Xu Yi was very important.

    Count Sean could say that it was for the benefit of the entire Lampuri Kingdom, which meant that this request didn¡¯t juste from Count Sean alone, making Xu Yi unable to reject it at all.

    But by epting Count Sean¡¯s request, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be entering the arms industry that Xu Yi always resisted.

    Although with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing and people epting the power of the magic machines, Xu Yi had already expected this day toe, so he had made preparations in his heart.

    But no matter what, he never expected it toe this early.

    The magic machines for normal people haven¡¯t even been poprized in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already getting into the arms industry.

    Most of the advanced technology on earth was associated first to the military, before it was gradually used by citizens. Xu Yi suddenly found that perhaps this was the fate of the machine industry.

    It was like this on earth and it wasn¡¯t an exception on the Sines Continent.

    So after Xu Yi agreed to Count Sean, not long after, he adjusted his resistance mentality and began raising them.

    But when he saw Seveni appear in front of him and discussing what kinds of weapons and armours are used by the army, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t adjust and felt a bit ufortable.

    ¡°Your highness queen, I thought that you focused on the citizens, but I never thought that you dabbled in the military as well. It really¡­..lets me feel a contrast.¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni¡¯s gentle face as he spoke.

    ¡°Contrast? Why?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Because I feel that¡­...for a beautiful girl like you, it¡¯s more suited to care about the lives of the citizens. But if you were to be rted to the ice cold weapons, it is a bit strange.¡± Xu Yi honestly said.

    ¡°You think that I¡¯m beautiful?¡± Seveni saw Xu Yi nod and revealed a faint smile as she said, ¡°Many thanks for your praise. Indeed,pared to ice cold things like weapons and cruel military matters, I rather like care more about people¡¯s lives. But there¡¯s no other choice, since you call me your highness queen, I have no way of avoiding these things.¡±

    ¡°You want to take the throne?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    After asking this, he found that asking this was a bit too rash.

    This kind of question, how could he be worthy of asking this.

    It was a good thing that Seveni only looked at Xu Yi in surprise. She didn¡¯t look angry as she tilted her head to think before asking Xu Yi, ¡°If you want the truth, I haven¡¯t thought about it. Of course, no one would believe this.¡±

    ¡°I believe it.¡± Xu Yi quickly said, ¡°Because I feel that you¡¯re really not suited to being a queen.¡±

    ¡°Is if because I¡¯m not worthy?¡± Seveni asked back.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not that you¡¯re not worthy, rather you¡¯re not suited.¡± Xu Yi sincerely said, ¡°Although I haven¡¯t had much contact with you, I feel that you¡¯re a very calm and kind girl, this kind of disposition isn¡¯t suited to being a queen. Actually, I¡¯m a bit confused about how your highness developed this kind of personality growing up in the royal family.¡±

    ¡°This is your misconception.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°As the queen, how could I possibly have the personality you speak of? Alright, let¡¯s stop this nonsense and talk about business.¡±

    Seveni pped and took out a sheet of paper which she spread on the table in front of them.

    ¡°Do you see this? This is the current armour being used by the imperial guards. You should be able to understand the measurements written on this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked it over and nodded, ¡°I can understand, but it isn¡¯t enough with just this design. It¡¯s best if you give me a real set of armour.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s no problem, I will have someone send over several sets of armour with different specifications over.¡± Seveni nodded. She looked at Xu Yi carefully looking over the blueprint and said, ¡°How about it? Do you have confidence?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over it again before standing up and revealing a confident smile, ¡°Your highness, did you forget how I repliedst time you asked this question?¡±

    Seveni was a bit surprised. She thought about when Xu Yi wanted to develop those Magic Punch Presses, she had asked this question to Xu Yi.

    Back then Xu Yi¡¯s response was, of course!

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡± Although Seveni¡¯s smile wasn¡¯t as bright as Still¡¯s, it was still as warm as the winter sun, ¡°I hope that chairman Xu can live up to your word. I can tell you ahead of time that if you finish this cooperation with the royal army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be an important partner of the royal army, being able to receive support from the royal family in terms of military.¡±

    ¡°The specific benefits?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know for now. But at least your Frestech Chamber of Commerce won¡¯t be swept out again by Baron Belil like this time.¡± Seveni¡¯s smile had a bit of teasing in it.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a snort, ¡°Your highness queen, you¡¯re wrong about that. It¡¯s fine if it is inconvenient for you and his majesty to act, but our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is an important partner of the agricultural department, so for the agricultural department to do nothing this time, I really am disappointed.¡±

    ¡°The agricultural department can¡¯t do anything.¡± Seveni helplessly said, ¡°The Stagg Family is the noble family with the most territory in the kingdom, so close to half the grain taxed each yeares from the Stagg Family. Do you think that the agricultural department will go against the Stagg Family for you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°That isn¡¯t right. Although the Stagg Family are the nobles with the most territory in the kingdom, it can¡¯tpare to the royal family, right? Why is it that the Stagg Family has close to half the taxed grains?¡±

    ¡°This is because the territory of the royal family isnd that belongs to the kingdom, it¡¯s different from the territories of nobles. The Stagg Family can depend on theirbour force to open up farnds and increase their productivity, while harvestingrge amounts of grains, but it is different for the royal family. This is because first, we don¡¯t have a way to recruit that many people to open up more farnd.¡±

    Seveni said this before looking at Xu Yi with a gaze of deep meaning, ¡°Now do you know why royal father ces such importance on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi understood before looking at Seveni andining.

    ¡°Your highness, since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is this important, you and his majesty should havee out for us. Otherwise we will be too disappointed.¡±

    Seveni gave a helpless bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, royal father has his difficulties. And as for me¡­..Right now I really am helpless. Other than that, in our royal family¡­..there are different voices.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the exhausted looking Seveni and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°So I say that not a normal person can sit on the throne. Alright, your highness, I was just casuallyining, you don¡¯t need to put it in your heart. As for the magic machines this time, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to agree. Give us some time and we should be able to develop them.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then I represent royal father in thanking you.¡± Seveni gave the bow of a noble woman, which scared Xu Yi.

    This was her first time giving Xu Yi such a serious bow, so it could be seen how much importance she attached to this project.

    After sending Seveni off, Xu Yi looked at the blueprint on the table. He rolled it up and thought about it before giving up the idea of putting it in the office, while putting it into his chest.

    Although there was a new office in the Sandton Manor where normally if someone didn¡¯t have Xu Yi¡¯s approval, they couldn¡¯t just charge it, this was a matter that had to be kept secret. So unless there was a need, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to easily reveal this matter.

    After making some calctions in the office, Xu Yi opened the door and left. He took a breath of the fresh air outside and he felt his muddled mind clearing up.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the faint machine sounds in the manor, this manor Viscount Sandton had left behind was a well decorated ce.

    Looking around at the tworge factories, Xu Yi revealed a smile. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was on a new beginning.

    After a week of work, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory had finally been moved from the Stagg Family¡¯s territory.

    Of course, the only thing that was moved were the machines inside the factory. As for the factory, there was no way to move it.

    As for the fourrge and small factories left on thend, Baron Belil was even shameless enough to ask forpensation from Xu Yi.

    This is because he felt it wasn¡¯t eptable that these were factories left by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which required him to spend time and money to demolish. So he requestedpensation from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to demolish them.

    For his shameless and unreasonable request, Xu Yi of course didn¡¯t agree.

    Baron Belil kept pestering and even threatened Xu Yi, but Count Sean who had received the news directly reprimanded him and forced him to give up.

    Thinking of how Count Sean was indecisive when Baron Belil drove the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from his territory and now showed his support, not even hesitating to reprimand Baron Belil, Xu Yi understood that it was definitely because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stepping into the arms business.

    And this was one of the main reasons why Xu Yi decided to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce step into the arms business.

    To establish a real magic industry empire on the continent, the arms business was not something he could avoid.

    When thinking about what to do, Xu Yi suddenly had an idea. His brows slightly jumped up as he called into the air, ¡°Agnes,e out.¡±

 Volume 2 35 - The gift Agnes brought

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 35 The gift Agnes brought</strong>

    With the familiar spatial distortion, Agnes appeared with a doubtful look on her face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how did you know I was here? I clearly didn¡¯t release my Shadow Stealth Spell.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, this is because that familiar feeling from when you stayed by my side was back, so I know you were back.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Familiar feeling?¡± Agnes looked confused, ¡°What feeling is that?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t describe it. In short, when you are by my side, even if I can¡¯t see you, there is a strange feeling that lets me know that someone is near.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Then if some other elf used the Shadow Stealth Spell to stay by your side, can¡¯t you also sense them?¡± Agnes asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s not the same.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Perhaps it is because you¡¯ve been by my side for a long time, so even if you are by my side with the Shadow Stealth Spell, I can also sense you. But if it was another elf, then I would never sense them. To put it simply, it would be the scent that your body has that betrays you?¡±

    ¡°Scent?¡± Agnes slightly knit her brows and lowered her head to take a sniff, ¡°There isn¡¯t any special scent.¡±

    Xu Yi had an urge to take a sniff, but doing this would be too offensive. He suppressed that urge and changed the topic with a smile, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not waste words. What are the results of your business trip alone?¡±

    ¡°Oh, I saw chief Siluka, chief Monto, and the elder and I told them what you wanted me to say. Then they had me bring back some things for you.¡±

    Agnes took therge bag off her back and when she opened it, there were many iron things of different colours inside.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t have carried all these things back from the Falling Rain Forest, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it?¡± Agnes asked back in a surprised voice.

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    Such arge bag with many different iron things, it should be over a hundred pounds.

    Agnes had carried this bag to run over a two hundred miles from the Falling Rain Forest. Should it be said that the elves had good natural talent or was she just a fool?

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to trouble yourself next time. I just wanted you to bring back one or two of the samples chief Siluka had, you didn¡¯t have to bring back this many of them. You don¡¯t think it¡¯s too heavy?¡± Xu Yi said while shaking his head.

    ¡°These are all samples.¡± Agnes took out a sheet of paper from the bag for Xu Yi, ¡°This is the list chief Siluka gave me, it has the form for each sample and their initial test results. He wanted me to bring them over for you to take a look.¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re all samples?¡± Xu Yi looked over the bag and saw that there were over twenty kinds. Could it be that in just a few months, the Norma Tribe had invented all these different alloys?

    If it was like this, the dwarves talent in forging was just too terrifying.

    But after seeing the list, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    The so called samples were just things that chief Siluka had drawn inspiration from the Silver Leaf Alloy from. During this time, they added all kinds of strange materials into molten iron, even adding in powdered feces.

    The so called alloy made from this scenario, it would be strange if it had any special effects.

    But after checking the tests, Xu Yi found that in the twenty three kinds of alloys that chief Siluka had Agnes bring back, there really were some that were useful.

    Putting aside some that ¡°broke with a single tap¡± that almost made Xu Yi puke out blood, the one listed as ¡°number seventeen¡± by chief Siluka had really good characteristics. It had a strong resistance against corrosion and high temperatures.

    To have one useful alloy out of all these useless alloys, Xu Yi was very satisfied.

    The characteristic of having powerful corrosion and heat resistance was very useful in materials. If it could also have the characteristic of being stainless steel, he could use this material to make countless new magic machines.

    ¡°Very good. Let me see, the one that is number seventeen¡­..¡± Xu Yi went through the bag and dug up the iron lump that had the number seventeen.

    This dark red lump of iron sunk in his hand, so it was a bit heavier than normal iron. It seemed like after the dwarves added the special material, this material¡¯s internal structure had been changed.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of doubt in his heart.

    Although the Sines Continent couldn¡¯tpare to earth in terms of technology, there were some advantages that earth couldn¡¯tpare to.

    Just like the Silver Leaf Alloy. There were many alloys that had the same characteristics as the Silver Leaf Alloy on earth, but on the Sines Continent, you just needed to mix the molten iron with some Silver Leaf Powder that could be found everywhere.

    As for the number seventeen alloy that had strong corrosion and heat resistance, based on the description of the list from chief Siluka, they had just added somemon nt¡¯s stem powder into molten iron to make it. They didn¡¯t use any special forging techniques at all.

    ¡°What kind of damn principle is this?¡± As someone who was thoroughly filled with engineering principles, Xu Yi was really puzzled by this strange phenomenon.

    [TL Note: The protagonist aura principle.]

    But these were the facts, so Xu Yi had to exin it as there being some difference between the Sines Continent and earth.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over all the samples, Agnes reached into her chest and took out a small box which she handed over.

    ¡°This is a gift that the elder had me bring to you.¡± Agnes said.

    ¡°Gift? What is this?¡± Xu Yi curiously opened the box and found that there was a little human model inside the box.

    This little human model was made of crystal and other than the bright yellow hair, the other parts were all a creamy white colour.

    Xu Yi reached out to touch it and found that this little model should be made of stic.

    What surprised him the most was that this little model was actually based on Still!

    Although this was only twenty centimeters tall, it was very finely made and they had even carved out Still¡¯s beautiful features, even carefully carving out each strand of hair. Xu Yi gave a surprised gasp before praising, ¡°Too beautiful! If Still saw this, she would definitely be happy. Agnes, help me thank elder Illusia, I¡¯m very satisfied with this gift she gave me.¡±

    Agnes revealed a sweet smile, ¡°The elder said that this is a gift for a friend, so there¡¯s no need for thanks. The elder also said that after seeing this gift, you should understand her meaning.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the little figure and used his finger to feel it before nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right, I understand.¡±

    Elder Illusia had Agnes bring this gift, there was no doubt that meant that the Night Song Tribe had results that met Xu Yi¡¯s requirements.

    Looking at the wooden box, he found that other than this little human figure, there were also some creamy white rectangr pieces of stic inside.

    Xu Yi took these pieces of stic and first took a sniff. Not only was there the expected smell, rather there was a faint refreshing smell that made him nod in satisfaction.

    Then he put the stic on the ground and picked up a pointed stone. In front of Agnes¡¯ shocked gaze, he smashed the pointed stone at the stic on the ground.

    ¡°Pu¡ª¡ª¡±

    The stone mmed into the stic and made a deep sound.

    Xu Yi pulled back and seriously looked at it. He found that there was a very small groove on the surface of the stic and there was no other marks at all.

    ¡°Very good, whether it is the smell, firmness, or flexibility, there are no problems. Now it¡¯s time for the most important test.¡±

    Xu Yi picked up the stic again and put it in his right hand, as he released his magic energy. In an instant, a strong chill came from his right hand and instantly froze the air that was a bit warm from the May temperature.

    Sixth Grade Spell, Ice Nova.

    This was the first Sixth Grade Spell that Xu Yi learned not long ago.

    Once the Ice Nova was released, the temperature of the air instantly dropped. Based on the magic power of a magician and their understanding of the spell, the drop in temperature was different.

    If it was an Arch Mage that used this spell, their lowest temperature could even cause a stone to crack from freezing.

    Although the magic that Xu Yi released wasn¡¯t that exaggerated, it still reduced the temperature down below zero.

    In an instant, there were snowkes around Xu Yi¡¯s right hand and his right hand had turned white from the magic, even bing a bit transparent.

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi¡¯s right hand and her eyes filled with surprise.

    Although she focused on special elven magic and haven¡¯t started studying elemental magic, she could still recognize that Xu Yi was currently using Ice Nova.

    After following Xu Yi for a long time, she was clear on the fact that Xu Yi was only a Fifth Grade Magician. It was already surprising that he could use Sixth Grade Magic, but what really surprised her was that Xu Yi could keep up this spell for this long!

    Although this magic was limited to the area around Xu Yi¡¯s right hand, decreasing the amount of magic it consumed, but he could maintain it for this long. Other than proving that his magic was better than normal magicians, it also meant that his magic power wasn¡¯t weaker than Sixth Grade Magician.

    Agnes couldn¡¯t help thinking of the appraisal of Great Magician Cami on Xu Yi that she heard from Still.

    ¡°If this kid focused on studying magic, he could be a powerful Arch Mage.¡±

    Thinking of this, Agnes couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi with a gaze of pity.

    After following Xu Yi for this long, she was very clear that Xu Yi sincerely loved studying magic machines.

    Even if he spent time studying magic, Agnes could tell that most of it was just to make it easier for him to study magic machines.

    If he focused more of his time and effort into studying magic, Agnes was certain that with his talent, he could be a powerful Arch Mage.

    Xu Yi on the side didn¡¯t notice Agnes¡¯ thoughts and he focused on the piece of stic in his hand.

    Seeing that the stic block didn¡¯t distort at all after all this time, Xu Yi revealed a satisfied smile.

    After using Ice Nova for several minutes, Xu Yi took back his magic power and released the spell.

    The frost that had formed from the quick drop in temperature on the stic block had turned into beads of water that dripped down from the surface of the block.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the stic and found that other than that little hole that was made by him with that rock, there were no other changes.

    ¡°This is great!¡± Xu Yi looked at the piece of stic in his hand and revealed a happy smile. He turned to Agnes and said, ¡°Agnes, didn¡¯t you always ask what value I found in your elf tribe? Let me tell you, just based on this piece of stic, I have found infinite value!¡±

    Agnes looked at the normal piece of resin in Xu Yi¡¯s hand and was confused.

    It¡¯s clearly a piece of normal tree resin, so why does sir chairman treat it like it¡¯s a piece of treasure?

 Volume 2 36 - Seizing the market

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 36 Seizing the market</strong>

    As they entered the middle of May, the weather began to gradually be warmer.

    On the streets of Banta City, there were many young girls who had changed into shorter skirts, boldly showing their slender white legs on the streets.

    There were even some bolder girls who had changed into short sleeves which they only wore on burning summer days, revealing their slender arms and white chests. It was like there was a bright sun above them, as many young men and men who weren¡¯t young anymore felt dizzy.

    It was like they were reacting to these bold girls and the heat that in therge and small stores of Banta City, they did what they should do.

    Walking in therge streets and small alleys of Banta City, one could see one or many Magic Fans on the counters of many shops. They were turning without stop, not caring if the fan cooled people or even made them feel cold.

    If one looked more closely, they would be surprised to find that for the Magic Fans of certain shops, not a single one of them had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce logo, rather there were different logos on it.

    This meant that these Magic Fans didn¡¯t alle from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    To the current Banta City, this was simply something unimaginable.

    Although it had only been two months short of a year since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, in this short period of time, everyone in Banta City had some recognition of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines. As long as magic machines were mentioned, they would immediately think of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that the Magic Fan was the first magic machine from Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. To the people of Banta City, this was something that had subverted the views of many people, so naturally it left a deep impression on them.

    But when the weather became hotter, there were many different kinds of Magic Fans, but not a single one of them was the Frestech Brand. This really confused everyone.

    Could it be¡­..The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was giving up on producing Magic Fans?

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Seeing a group of people¡¯s doubtful gazes, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°The Magic Fan market is far from being saturated and I can earn quite a bit of money on this thing, so why would I give it up?¡±

    ¡°Then sir chairman, why is ourpany not producing Magic Fans?¡± Of the young magicians in the research facility, if one was to rank them in terms of liveliness, then Akali would be the winner. But if they were judged by how straightforward their words were, one could be certain that it was Be who won without even thinking about it, ¡°Look at all those Magic Fans outside in those shops, if we don¡¯t seize the chance, everyone will buy those Magic Fans and we won¡¯t be able to sell our Magic Fans.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I went out to take a look and although the performance of the Magic Fans from otherpanies can¡¯tpare to our Frestech Brand, it isn¡¯t thatcking. Moreover, there are many different designs for those Magic Fans, so one can casually choose.¡± Akali also said with a worried face, ¡°The most important thing is that they¡¯re cheaper! I asked about some Iron Mountain Brand Magic Fan and it was only being sold for sixty silver coins. It was a full forty silver coins lower than our Frestech Brand Magic Fan!¡±

    ¡°Un, I also asked around and those other brand Magic Fans are all around fifty silver coins. It¡¯s quite a bit lower than our Frestech Brand Magic Fan, so even if the quality isn¡¯t as good, I feel that many people will buy the cheaper ones.¡± ire also added.

    ¡°Looking for cheap profits?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile and thought that it was indeed this problem.

    Whether it was earth or the Sines Continent, there were always people looking for cheap profits.

    Thepanies of the Business Union who received the Magic Fan technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the reason why they put the price of the Magic Fan so low was indeed to fight a price war with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They wanted to use their low prices to steal the market from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Right now, the effects were quite good.

    Although there were many people who bought another brand¡¯s Magic Fan because of the low price, most people in Banta City were still waiting for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan.

    After close to a year of influence, at least in Banta City, people had a high recognition of the Frestech Brand.

    If it was the same magic machine, when people wanted to buy something, they would always think of the Frestech Brand first.

    This was very clear in terms of the Magic Fans. The reason was because of the incidents in Saltan Cityst year.

    Although there weren¡¯t as many newspapers as before that could spread this news very quickly, because of how big this matter was, it also spread to the surrounding cities of Saltan City.

    Because Banta City was the origin of Magic Fans, naturally people cared more.

    After they learned of these incidents, everyonepared the Magic Fans the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made. They found that Frestech Brand Magic Fans were of much higher quality than the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fans.

    Not mentioning anything else, there hadn¡¯t been a single ident with the Frestech Brand Magic Fan. Just based on this, it was enough to instantly kill the Leo Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan.

    It was also because of this that people¡¯s recognition of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan increased several times. Even though the other brands in Banta City were much cheaper than the Frestech Brand Magic Fans and their quality wasn¡¯t that much different, their sales were still pitiful.

    ¡°Rx, no one is an idiot. Before seeing our Frestech Brand Magic Fan and beforeparing them, there won¡¯t be that many people who will choose the other brand¡¯s Magic Fans.¡± Xu Yi confidently said, ¡°And when they see our Frestech Brand Magic Fan, I dare to guarantee that they will definitely pick ours!¡±

    Everyone looked at each other as they thought that sir chairman seemed quite confident.

    But they were members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, so they were very clear on the progress of development for Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products.

    As for the development chart that Xu Yi gave them, for research on the newest Frestech Brand Magic Fan, they hadn¡¯t started at all.

    ¡°Sir chairman, when are we researching the Magic Fans? Can you give us a general time? We also need to prepare ourselves.¡± Be couldn¡¯t help saying.

    The others also nodded.

    ¡°Research?¡± Unexpected to everyone, when Xu Yi heard this question, he revealed a surprised expression. After looking surprised for a bit, he said with a smile, ¡°I think you¡¯ve misunderstood something. Although your guesses aren¡¯t wrong that the new generation of Magic Fans are being researched, it isn¡¯t rted to Magic Array research at all. The main problem this time is in terms of structure and material, so the dwarves led by Camby and the material research facility will take care of this. That¡¯s right, the design is also important, so there will be quite a bit of work for the design department during this time.¡±

    Akali gave an oh sound before nodding, ¡°No wonder I haven¡¯t seen Agnes following youtely, so she has been designing a new model.¡±

    Hearing the name ¡°Agnes¡±, everyone focused their attention.

    Although Agnes under Xu Yi¡¯s request recently hadn¡¯t been hiding herself from the members of thepany, so everyone had been gradually getting used to the elf and didn¡¯t make a big deal over it.

    To humans, elves were still a rare thing. Not to mention that Agnes was that beautiful, so people still wished to see her very much.

    ¡°Un, Vivian has also been busy during this time. I wanted to take her out with Still to buy her some new summer clothes, but she rejected me because she was busy with work.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and helplessly said, ¡°I really didn¡¯t see it then, could it be that she and Agnes are workaholics? I clearly said that there¡¯s no rush with the design and she didn¡¯t need to be anxious, but the two of them said that the design had to be perfect, so they¡¯ve been going crazy every day and discussing the design whenever they have free time.¡±

    Akaliughed, ¡°Sir chairman, you don¡¯t understand this? They just want to prove themselves to you, that means that you have quite the position in their minds. How about it, are you happy?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her, ¡°Stop speaking nonsense. Vivian is fine, but what does Agnes have to prove in front of me?¡±

    Akali pursed her lips into a smile and didn¡¯t keep speaking.

    Xu Yi was toozy to care about her, as he looked at the door and asked, ¡°Where¡¯s Evita? You called me over and said that you had something that would shock me, so didn¡¯t she go prepare it? Why isn¡¯t she out yet?¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes, ¡°Just wait.¡± Then she ran off.

    After a while, Akali ran out and said with a mysterious look, ¡°It¡¯s been prepared.¡±

    Xu Yi looked around in a confused manner, ¡°It¡¯s ready? Where?¡±

    Akali and everyone around revealed a smile, as they ran to their position by a window. Then Cecelia suddenly gave a snap.

    ¡°Pa¡ª¡ª¡±

    The room fell into darkness as everyone pulled down their curtains, blocking out the sun.

    ¡°Hey, what are you doing¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi asked this when there was a white light that appeared above him, instantly lighting up the room.

    ¡°What¡¯s going on? What are you ying this game for?¡± Xu Yi looked at the special made Magic Lamp hanging on the ceiling and was even more confused, ¡°Could it be it is someone¡¯s birthday that you¡¯re doing all of this¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly paused and after a slight daze, he said with an excited look, ¡°No! None of you had touched the light at all. Could it be¡­...Could it be¡­...Could it be that you¡¯ve solved the long distance magic transmission problem?¡±

 Volume 2 37 - Long distance magic transfer and magic power gradation

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 37 Long distance magic transfer and magic power gradation</b>

    When developing these household magic machines, Xu Yi had used Magic Arrays as power sources, allowing these magic machines to perform the same task as those household electronics from earth.

    The driving power supply of this was the Magic Crystal that powered the Magic Array.

    Most times, there wasn¡¯t any interference because of this. The Magic Crystal supplied the Magic Array with the magic it needed to function and then it was turned into a variety of useful magic.

    But when developing the Magic Lamp, Xu Yi had encountered a problem.

    When Xu Yi was developing the Magic Lamp, he imagined the lights hung from the ceiling on earth which was used to light up the entire room. But because thee Magic Crystal and the Magic Array had to be together, if the Magic Lamp was put on the ceiling, the position of the switch became a problem.

    Thinking about it, when one wanted to turn on the Magic Lamp on the ceiling, they had to use adder to push the switch on the ceiling. And to turn it off, they had to do the same thing. How troublesome this was.

    The City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s banquet hall had many Magic Lamps on the ceiling and walls, that was because of the Lord City Lord¡¯s special request and that the City Lord¡¯s Manor had enough servants to take care of this matter.

    But if it was a normal family, who would have the patience to climb up adder to turn on and off a Magic Lamp each day?

    Feeling helpless, Xu Yi¡¯s n of creating hanging lights turned into making a simple deskmp in the end.

    Although the Magic Desk Lamp sold very well, which surprised Xu Yi, it was all because of the very fine design that it had. It wasn¡¯t rted to the well designed structure that Xu Yi considered the most important.

    After this, Xu YI had requested Akali and Evita to research how to allow a Magic Crystal to provide energy to a Magic Array from a distance.

    Xu Yi thought that this was veryplex and it would be like the Magic Array coding that Sancheli couldn¡¯t finish even after such a long time, but he never thought that in just a few months, they would actually have concrete results!

    Thinking of all the changes and possibilities that solving this problem could bring, Xu Yi¡¯s voice began to tremble in excitement. He grabbed Akali¡¯s shoulders and asked, ¡°Tell me, is it true? Did you really solve this difficult problem?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, it hurts.¡± Akali knit her brows as she pushed away Xu Yi¡¯s hands holding her shoulders, ¡°It isn¡¯t just this, keep watching.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s more? Could it be that be a more important discovery than solving this problem?¡± Xu Yi asked in surprise.

    ¡°Just keep watching.¡± Akali revealed a proud smile to Xu Yi, before raising her voice to call out, ¡°Evita, you can start the second experiment!

    After saying this, Akali reached out to point at the Magic Lamp that Evita had personally designed on the roof.

    Xu Yi strangely looked up at the Magic Lamp. This thing just proved that Evita and the others had solved the problem of long distance magic transmission, could it be that they made something new?

    This thought had just appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind when he noticed that the Magic Lamp¡¯s light was actually dimming.

    After looking carefully, he realized that it wasn¡¯t a mistake.

    The bright white light of the Magic Lamp began to weaken in front of Xu Yi¡¯s gaze. Not long after, the light that was strong enough to light the entire room became weaker, as it became a bit of light like a firefly in the night.

    The Magic Lamp was about to extinguish, but the light gradually became stronger. Not long after, it became as bright as before.

    When the light began to dim again, Xu YI suddenly shouted, ¡°Stop!¡±

    The Magic Lamp stopped changing. Xu Yi thought about it before shouting, ¡°Evita, make it a bit brighter for me.¡±

    Evita hiding in an unknown ce outside the room gave a crisp response and the Magic Lamp¡¯s light became brighter.

    He looked up at the Magic Lamp on the ceiling before Xu Yi looked down at Akali and asked, ¡°Akali, other than solving the problem of transmitting magic, did you also solve the energy gradation problem?¡±

    The smile on Akali¡¯s face became even more proud as she said with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, you guessed it?¡±

    ¡°Answer me!¡± Xu Yi suddenly roared out.

    Everyone was scared by this. Akali even held her chest in shock as she looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡­..what is wrong with you? Right, we solved the problem of magic gradation, how about it? Could it be that you¡¯re not happy?¡±

    Xu Yi stared at Akali until she was covered in goosebumps and she couldn¡¯t help taking a step back. After a while, he broke out inughter and moved in front of her, hugging her in front of everyone.

    ¡°Happy! I¡¯m too happy! Ha, ha, this is great! Too great! After solving these two problems, my ideals can be achieved.¡± Xu Yi happy said to himself, while loudly cheering and patting Akali¡¯s back, ¡°Akali, I really am too grateful! Not only are you a good magic mechanical engineer, I will definitely properly reward you!¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi let go of the stiff Akali and turned to hug Be who was stunned on the side. He also patted her back a few times and praised her before moving onto the next person.

    He went around like this and Xu Yi didn¡¯t even let off Schoch who always had a bad face towards him, as he passionately hugged them all.

    But after hugging Cecilia who wasst and seeing Evitae in, when Xu Yi charged at her, Evita raised a hand to stop him.

    ¡°Chairman, please calm down and consider Still¡¯s feelings.¡± Evita calmly said.

    Hearing the word ¡°Still¡±, Xu Yi was stunned. It was like a bucket of ice cold water was poured over him and he instantly calmed down.

    ¡°Ah¡­...Right, I was too excited, I¡¯m sorry.¡± Xu Yi awkwardly smiled at Evita before turning to the girls to apologize to them.

    As for the two boys, of course they were excluded.

    Although the girls had slightly red faces, they clearly didn¡¯t mind.

    Be even extended her hands out again at Xu Yi as she said with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman,e, let¡¯s hug again. I feel that it¡¯s quite good being hugged by you.¡±

    ire rolled her eyes, ¡°Alright, stop being a fool. Sir chairman has Still, his heart won¡¯t be moved by you.¡±

    Be said with a smile, ¡°I just want sir chairman to hug me, there¡¯s no other meaning.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile, ¡°Alright, stop making fun of me. I was just too excited earlier and I lost control.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, why are you this happy about us solving these two problems?¡± Be asked out of curiosity, ¡°The Magic Bread Maker that we developed before sold that many units and we didn¡¯t see you like this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you have always been calm in my memories and have never lost control. What happened to you today? I feel like these two problems aren¡¯t that big.¡± ire also said.

    ¡°That is because you don¡¯t understand how significant it is that you¡¯ve solved these two problems.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Let¡¯s put it in another way, once these two most fundamental and most important questions are solved, the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent will change. And once there¡¯s more studying done on this problem, I dare to guarantee that you will find earth shattering changes with everyone¡¯s lives!¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡± Akali who had a red face and didn¡¯t speak after being hugged by Xu Yi returned to normal and asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Sir chairman, isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡±

    ¡°Whether it¡¯s exaggerated or not, you¡¯ll know when the timees.¡±

    Xu Yi knew that it was impossible for them to understand the scene he was talking about because they hadn¡¯t transmigrated from earth like him, they hadn¡¯t lived in an industrialized world before.

    So he couldn¡¯t exin it. After thinking about it, he pped his hands with a smile and said in a loud voice, ¡°Alright, since there¡¯s been arge breakthrough this time, I as the chairman will award a special reward to the magic research facility. As for the amount¡­¡­¡±

    Even including Evita and Cecilia, everyone perked their ears.

    They didn¡¯t know the meaning of solving these two problems, but of course they understood receiving a reward.

    Based on how excited Xu Yi was, this reward wouldn¡¯t be low.

    Xu Yi looked over their expectant faces and deliberately paused before finally saying in a loud voice, ¡°Five thousand gold coins!¡±

    When his voice fell, the room became silent and there was only heavy breathing that could be heard.

    After a while, Be swallowed her saliva with great difficulty as she asked, ¡°Chair¡­..Sir chairman, you¡­..aren¡¯t lying, right?¡±

    ¡°Why would I lie to you?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Then¡­...You really are nning to reward us five thousand gold coins?¡± ire asked in an uncertain voice.

    ¡°Of course, when have I ever broken my word?¡±

    Cecilia opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Akali cheered out and ran to Xu Yi¡¯s side, as she hugged his left arm and shook it. She excitedly said, ¡°I knew that sir chairman is the best! Ha, ha, this is great, this is great! A total of five thousand gold coins, if we share it, each person still receives several hundred gold coins. I must use my portion to buy some new clothes and some¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the excited Akali, Xu Yi shook his head. He carefully took his hand out and was about to speak, when Schoch suddenly said in a cold voice, ¡°I don¡¯t want it. I didn¡¯t participate in these two projects, so there¡¯s no portion for me.¡±

 Volume 2 38 - Chief Evita

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 38 Chief Evita</b>

    Everyone was surprised as they looked at Schoch.

    Eric beside Schoch hesitated for a bit before shaking his head and saying, ¡°Un, Schoch is right. I didn¡¯t participate in those two studies, so there shouldn¡¯t be a portion for me. I don¡¯t want it.¡±

    Be standing beside him reached out to grab Eric and said in a small voice, ¡°Hey, Eric, are you crazy? Every can get several hundred gold coins and you don¡¯t want it? With this money, your father¡¯s illness¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Stop talking!¡± Eric roared in a low voice, stopping Be from continuing. He looked up at Xu Yi with an awkward smile and said, ¡°Chairman, it was Akali and Evita who took charge for these two projects and Be¡¯s group of girls helped them, Schoch and I didn¡¯t do a thing. The reward for these two projects should be given to them, it isn¡¯t rted to the two of us.¡±

    Seeing Be signaling him with her eyes, Xu Yi considered it before nodding, ¡°Alright, your words are reasonable. Since you two didn¡¯t participate in these two projects, then it isn¡¯t justified to give you a portion of the reward. We¡¯ll do this, the reward will be given to the researchers who participated in these two projects to split. As forter¡­...Evita, I need to give you a task.¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman, please speak.¡±

    ¡°Now that there are more and more members of the research facility, there needs to be a leader, so I want to pick one of you as the chief. As for the people in the facility, other than Still, only you and Akali have the oldest qualifications. Still rarely participates in magical research, so other than her, it only leaves you and Akali. I have decided to appoint you as the chief, will you ept this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Everyone was stunned. Evita couldn¡¯t close her mouth in shock and only after a while did she shake her head while saying, ¡°No, no, I am only a normal researcher, I can¡¯t be a good chief. Chairman, how about you pick someone else? For example Cecilia, I feel that she would be suitable.¡±

    Cecilia directly shook her head, ¡°I support Evita.¡±

    ¡°I do too.¡±

    ¡°Un, I agree. It¡¯s very suitable for Evita to be the chief.¡±

    ¡°Right, I also think the same.¡±

    ¡­...

    The others all spoke up and soon they had the same opinion.

    Akali on the side stared at Xu Yi and said in an unconvinced voice, ¡°Chairman, why is it that even though Evita and I have the same qualifications, you chose her and not me?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Alright, the first task I¡¯m giving you as the chief is to make aplete reward system, are you willing to do it?¡±

    ¡°Then let¡¯s forget it¡­¡­¡± Akali waved her hand, ¡°This kind of troublesome matter is more suited for Evita to do, I won¡¯t do it.¡±

    Everyone knew that Akali was just joking, but seeing her reaction, they couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Xu Yi turned to Evita, ¡°Look, everyone is agreeing to you being the chief. What reason do you have to decline?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡± Evita lowered her head while biting her lip in hesitation. When she raised her head, her eyes became determined, ¡°Alright, since the chairman hopes that I can be the chief, then I¡¯ll agree. If I do anything wrong, I hope that the chairman and everyone can tell me immediately.¡±

    Everyone gave a p, which was considered congratting Evita while also settling this matter.

    ¡°That¡¯s good. I have something to talk to our chief alone about, so you can all busy yourselves.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile as he sent everyone off. He gestured to Evita and they headed into a room.

    ¡°What did Be mean when she mentioned Eric¡¯s father?¡± When he sat down, Xu Yi asked Evita this.

    ¡°I knew that the chairman would ask about this matter.¡± Evita revealed a faint smile. She gave a sigh before replying, ¡°Eric¡¯s father is very ill and needs treatment, but the treatment costs a lot and his family can¡¯t afford it at all. Although his father could maintain himself by eating medicine, they still need to spend a lot of money. If it wasn¡¯t for this, he wouldn¡¯t havee immediately after hearing Akali mention that he could earn more than twenty gold coins a month working for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Is several hundred gold coins enough to treat his father¡¯s illness?¡±

    Evita shook her head, ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be enough. Back in school, he had said to thatpletely cure his father, it would take at least two thousand gold coins. His family can¡¯t take out that much money, so his father right now¡­...is just waiting for death.¡±

    After saying this, a depressed look appeared on Evita¡¯s face before she looked at Xu Yi expectantly, ¡°Sir chairman, I know that you are actually a very good person. For you to specially ask me about this, are you nning to give him money to cure his father?¡±

    ¡°Do I seem like a good person?¡± Xu Yi smiled before thoughtfully saying, ¡°I indeed want to help him since two thousand gold coins isn¡¯t considered much for me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but Evita, you have seen that Eric is a very strong willed person. If I ran over and told him that he could have two thousand gold coins to cure his father, he probably won¡¯t take it. Didn¡¯t you see how he even gave up several hundred gold coins?¡±

    Evita slightly knit her slender brows.

    ¡°One¡¯s father is one¡¯s most important family member, sopared to self respect, one¡¯s father¡¯s life is more important. Although Eric can make others feel that he has self respect, to lose the chance to cure his father, I don¡¯t like his methods at all.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Evita in surprise. He could see a trace of anger in her gentle and refined eyes.

    After knowing Evita for this long, this was his first time seeing her being angry.

    ¡°I don¡¯t like it either.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°But this is a fact and we have no way to change it. Since we do want to help Eric, then you should consider it from his angle and think of how to make him ept it.¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, are you serious?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Could it be that this is something to kid about?¡±

    Evita was a bit surprised before her face turned a bit red. She lowered her head, ¡°Chairman is right, I shouldn¡¯t have asked it like that.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything. I just thought of something, to have Eric ept this matter, we can create a special help fund in ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Special help fund?¡± Evita looked up at him, ¡°What is this for?¡±

    ¡°This thing is to help all our Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff. The so called special help fund is if any Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff member meets an urgent problem where they needrge amounts of money, they can apply to thepany for help from the special fund. Once thepany has investigated everything, then we can provide the special fund to the staff member.¡±

    Evita asked in surprise, ¡°For free?¡±

    ¡°Of course not. The staff members that ept the fund must return this amount by working for thepany. For example, if your family met some difficulty and applied for a thousand gold coins from the special help fund, then you have to repay it using the wages you receive by working for thepany. Of course, we can¡¯t just have you give up all your wages, so it¡¯s just a set amount each month.¡±

    ¡°The amount will depend on the situation. For example, you currently have a wage of twenty five gold coins a month and it¡¯s been raised to thirty gold coins after you became the chief, so you can just take out twenty gold coins a month as repayment. If it¡¯s two thousand gold coins, you can pay it all in just eight years. If your wage is increased during this time, you can pay it off even sooner.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, Evita didn¡¯t care at all about Xu Yi mentioning the increase in her wage. Rather she was silently thinking it over, feeling that Xu Yi¡¯s idea wasn¡¯t wrong.

    If there really was this special help fund, it would be an important benefit for the employees of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°But chairman, I feel there are many loopholes in this. For example, if someone applies for arge amount and then leaves the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, without them working to clear up the debt, wouldn¡¯t this amount bepletely wasted?¡± Evita asked with knit brows.

    ¡°You really are a girl with sharp thoughts, you didn¡¯t let me down in appointing you the chief.¡± Xu Yi praised with a smile before saying, ¡°There are indeed loopholes, but we can make improvements to make up for those loopholes. No matter what, we can¡¯t just not put in any effort because we¡¯re afraid of these problems, right?¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise as her expression was a bit vacant. After a while, she suddenly said with a sigh, ¡°Sometimes I really do envy Still.¡±

    ¡°Un? What did you say?¡± Xu Yi was currently remembering some of the charity organizations from earth and was thinking about whether there was a system he could use, he didn¡¯t hear what Evita muttered to herself at all.

    ¡°Nothing.¡± Evita shook her head and focused her mind as she said, ¡°Chairman, if there is this kind of special help fund, I think that Eric won¡¯t reject it. As long as we make it clear to him how he will repay this, I feel that this won¡¯t hurt his self respect at all.¡±

    ¡°Right, we¡¯ll do this. But as for how to persuade him, you have to rely on your schoolmates to think of a way. As for what to do exactly¡­..I¡¯ll leave it up to you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright, leave it to me, please be assured.¡± Evita said with a strong nod.

    Xu Yi smiled before looking out with aplicated expression on his face. He lowered his voice to ask Evita, ¡°I didn¡¯t see Rem and We today, did they go out together?¡±

    ¡°No, something happened to big sister We, so she left early this morning. She even told us to tell you that she wanted to take three days off. When we were demonstrating the results of the experiment to you, I forgot to mention this.¡± Evita replied.

    ¡°Something happened? What is it? Is it serious?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear, big sister We didn¡¯t say anything. But based on her appearance, it didn¡¯t seem important.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. What about Rem? Why isn¡¯t he here?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Rem left after big sister We left. He said that he had something to take care of and woulde back in the afternoon.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi was silent for a bit as his face filled with a bit of hesitation.

    Evita couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°What is it? You¡¯re suddenly asking about them, do you need them for something?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Evita and calmed his expression as he said with a serious face, ¡°Evita, you can¡¯t tell anyone else about what I¡¯m about to tell you, do you understand?¡±

    Evita was surprised, but seeing how serious his expression was, she considered it before slowly nodding.

    ¡°Alright, let me ask you something. During this time, how many times does Rem go out?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Evita tilted her head to think, ¡°Quite a few times. He goes out once every few days.¡±

    ¡°How long does he go out for usually?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°Not certain. At most half a day and at least less than an hour.¡±

    ¡°Did he say what he was doing?¡±

    ¡°No, he never said anything.¡± After saying this, Evita couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman, could it be¡­...Rem¡­...There is something wrong with him?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°I hope that he has no problems, but¡­..Alright, let¡¯s not discuss this now. Evita, can you do a y with me?¡±

    ¡°y?¡± Evita was surprised again.

 Volume 2 39 - Active promotion

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 39 Active promotion</h4>

    Night fell, but chairman Rank¡¯s manor was once again brightly lit.

    There was no need to mention it, chairman Rank was currently hosting a banquet.

    This banquet was held was being held in the name of Banta City¡¯s Business Union¡¯s president, so the guests were all representatives from thergepanies of the Business Union.

    But the banquet today was different from its normal noisy scene, today the banquet was much more sombre. The chairman of the variouspanies didn¡¯t seem as spirited as usual, rather they all revealed worried looks that were hard to hide.

    The chairman of thepanies discussed in a low voice before giving a sigh and shaking their heads.

    If someone had listened in on their conversations, they would have heard them mention the words ¡°Magic Fan¡± quite a few times.

    These days, based on the Magic Fan technology that Xu Yi had sharedst year, almost all of thepanies in the Banta City Business Union had invested in producing Magic Fans. In Banta City and the surrounding cities, there were several different brands of Magic Fans that appeared.

    But the first batch of their brand¡¯s Magic Fan had been on sale for half a month and all the sales of theirpanies¡¯ Magic Fans were very pitiful, it could even be described as horrible.

    If this kind of situation continued, theirpanies would suffer arge loss this time.

    As for the investment in producing the Magic Fans, they would have thrown it away.

    This was arge amount to thesergepanies, so if they didn¡¯t receive anything back at all, of course it would greatly affect them.

    So at this Business Union banquet, all the representatives of thergepanies had worried faces.

    ¡°This really is a rare scene.¡± The only one who had a good mood at the banquet was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise.

    Seeing the depressed looks of the other people, he even felt a bit of schadenfreude.

    ¡°I already said it, not everyone can y with the magic machines, so why did you all charge at it? You didn¡¯t listen to my advice, now aren¡¯t you all suffering losses?¡±

    The Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Samuel Vincent on the side slightly knit his brows as he said, ¡°I say chairman Cruise, even if your Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t suffer a loss here, do you need to say all this? Then again, are you really willing to give up a promising business like these magic machines?¡±

    ¡°If I said I¡¯mpletely willing, that would be a lie.¡± Chairman Cruise thought about it before saying, ¡°But so what if I¡¯m not willing? I don¡¯t think our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has the same strong technological base in magic machines like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and we don¡¯t have a genius like Xu Yi, so we should just honestly focus on developing in the construction business. I feel that our prospects in this business is getting better and if we do well, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce will be a realrgepany eventually.¡±

    Chairman Vincent looked at chairman Cruise with a strange look, ¡°Could it be that you reached an agreement with Xu Yi in secret? That¡¯s why you¡¯re not interested in producing Magic Fans this time?¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°No, I don¡¯t have any agreements with him. Rather it¡¯s the exact opposite of what you guessed. Chairman Xu not only doesn¡¯t have any ideas of not letting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce join the Magic Fan market, rather he asked if I was willing to join. Only I¡¯m not a fool and won¡¯t be fooled by him.¡±

    Chairman Vincent¡¯s expression was a bit ugly. The Armani Chamber of Commerce under him had also invested in producing Magic Fans, so he was one of the ¡°fools¡± scolded by chairman Cruise.

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t even care about chairman Vincent¡¯s expression. He pointed at everyone else at the banquet and said, ¡°Look, there are at least thirty chairmans from thergepanies of Banta City. If eachpany under them makes Magic Fans, that¡¯s an average of one production line under each other them, which is a total of around thirty. As for how much money each production line costs¡­...I think chairman Vincent is more clear on this than me.¡±

    Chairman Vincent nodded, ¡°A production line came at a starting cost of eight thousand gold coins from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this can¡¯t be considered expensive.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s just one production line, of course it¡¯s not expensive. But what about thirty of them? That is over two hundred thousand gold coins!¡± Chairman Cruise slightly raised his voice, ¡°Think about it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has earned over two hundred thousand gold coins from selling these production lines. In terms of pure profit, I think it¡¯s definitely over a hundred and fifty thousand, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Chairman Vincent kept nodding with a bitter smile, ¡°Of course I believe that. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things have high profit margins, but there¡¯s no other way since these things can only be made by theirpany alone.¡±

    ¡°So that means they earned one hundred and fifty thousand on selling these production lines and if something goes wrong with these magic machines, you have to go to their Frestech Chamber of Commerce to get it fixed which also costs money. Calcting it all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can earn over two hundred thousand gold coins from this. How much can you earn from each Magic Fan? It should be less than one gold coin? Two hundred thousand gold coins, you have to sell a total of two hundred thousand Magic Fans to earn that much. You think this many Magic Fans can be sold in Banta City?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible in Banta City, but you can also sell them in different ces.¡± Chairman Vincent wasn¡¯t convinced by chairman Cruise, so he argued back, ¡°Even if the people of Banta City only recognize the Frestech Brand, it isn¡¯t like this in the other parts of the Lampuri Kingdom. As long as we sell our Magic Fans in further ces, I believe we¡¯ll be able to sell to many people. Think about it, when the Magic Fan appearedst year, Banta City¡¯s people went crazy. The people of the other cities haven¡¯t seen a Magic Fan before, so when we bring the Magic Fan over, they will definitely go crazy!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Chairman Cruise revealed a faint smile. He gave a sigh in his heart as he thought that Xu Yi really did predict their reactions without a single mistake.

    Perhaps chairman Vincent was right. As long as thepanies of the Business Union worked together, using their various channels to transport the Magic Fans to the different parts of the Lampuri Kingdom, it would definitely sell well.

    But if it was like this, it would actually help Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When Xu Yi normally chatted with chairman Cruise, his biggest hope was to let the magic machines quickly spread all over the Lampuri Kingdom, even beginning to spread on the Sines Continent. He wanted everyone to recognize and ept it, having everyone recognize these new magic machines.

    Like this, the magic machine market would begin to grow and this cake would be truly big.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established for too short and were just too weak, so they couldn¡¯t do this now. They always hoped that the otherrgepanies would help them advertise the magic machines.

    Now for the Banta City Business Union¡¯spanies to sell their inventoried Magic Fans, they had to push their Magic Fans to various parts of the Lampuri Kingdom. This was equal to them helping Xu Yiplete the thing that he hoped to see the most.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help feeling surprised.

    Last year when Xu Yi¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just joined, he had shared the Magic Fan production technology with the Business Union. Back then, everyone hadughed at him for being a fool.

    But looking at it now, if Xu Yi had already expected this situation back then and had made this decision, then that youth who seemed harmless with a gentle and friendly smile on his face was more terrifying than everyone had imagined!

    Chairman Vincent didn¡¯t notice the changes with chairman Cruise¡¯s expression. After a pause, he suddenly lowered his voice to ask, ¡°Chairman Cruise, I¡¯ve heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has cooperations with your Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡­..and that¡¯s right, there¡¯s also the Sarank Chamber of Commerce. They¡¯re helping yourpanies research useful magic machines?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it? Is your Armani Chamber of Commerce also interested?¡± Chairman Cruise asked back.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve heard that yourpanies¡¯ magic machines are easy to use and has greatly increased your production efficiency. So I was thinking that if we had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce research a magic machine that we can use, perhaps it would also increase ourpany¡¯s production efficiency?¡±

    ¡°Your Armani Chamber of Commerce deals in cloths, mainly making clothes. For work that requires pure hand power, can the magic machines be used?¡± Chairman Cruise thought about it while stroking his chin.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t harvesting wheat a pure manpower job? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed those agricultural magic machines, I feel like it should be no problem.¡± Chairman Vincent said.

    ¡°Un, there is a possibility since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can always make novel things. But what are you asking me for? You should be talking to Xu Yi about this matter.¡± Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°I¡¯m just chatting to you about it first, anyway chairman Xu isn¡¯t here yet¡­¡­¡±

    Chairman Vincent suddenly closed his mouth and looked at the main entrance.

    Chairman Cruise followed his gaze and saw a man and a woman entering the entrance together.

    The man was naturally Xu Yi they had just mentioned.

    As for Xu Yi¡¯s femalepanion, it wasn¡¯t Akali who Xu Yi had brought to the first Business Union Banquet. Rather is was the more beautiful and eye catching Still that many people called the ¡°Banta City Goddess¡±.

    The banquet hall that was quite noisy instantly became silent when Xu Yi and Still entered, as everyone¡¯s gaze fell onto Xu Yi, even neglecting Still beside him. Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help sighing in his heart.

    It had only been a year since Xu Yi¡¯s first time attending the banquet. The current Xu Yi already made everyone unable to stop themselves from focusing on him.

    Just based on this, it was enough to prove that whether it was Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had be pivotal existences in Banta City!

 Volume 2 40 - I am talking about standards

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 40 I am talking about standards</h4>

    The banquet for the Business Union this time was mainly to discuss therge amounts of Magic Fans they had in stock. On the surface it didn¡¯t seem rted to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but everyone was clear that to solve this problem, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude was very important.

    So when Xu Yi and Still appeared at the banquet, although the chairmen of the otherpanies didn¡¯t feel good, they all showed warm expressions towards Xu Yi.

    However when the Business Union banquet officially begun, none of that enthusiasm was left.

    A chairman from a smallpany came first.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that you have shared all the technology for the Magic Fans, but why is it that the quality of our Magic Fans can¡¯tpare to your Frestech Brand Magic Fan? Could it be that you¡¯ve hidden something important?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°Chairman Mitta? I can guarantee that all the production technology rted to the Magic Fans have been shared. As for the difference in quality, I can only say that yourpany¡¯s production isn¡¯t good enough, so that is unrted to me.¡±

    Chairman Mitta flew into a rage, ¡°Nonsense! Don¡¯t forget, all the magic machines used in the Magic Fan production line was bought from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even all our workers were taught by your staff, so if there is a difference in quality, then it can only mean that you didn¡¯t share all the technology, what does it have to do with us?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡± Xu Yi smiled as he asked, ¡°Chairman Mitta, the Magic Fan yourpany produces is called the Mergen Brand Magic Fan, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the Mergen Brand. What about it?¡±

    ¡°Alright. If it is the Mergen Brand Magic Fan, I¡¯ve seen it before. If I didn¡¯t remember incorrectly, this Magic Fan¡¯s de is a bit biggerpared to our Frestech Brand Magic Fan.¡±

    Chairman Mitta held up his head and said with a proud look, ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s bigger than your Frestech Brand Magic Fan! So the wind our Mergen Brand Magic Fan blows out is several times more than your Frestech Brand and it is more refreshing. How about it? Chairman Xu, are you regretting the fact that you didn¡¯t make the same modifications as us?¡±

    ¡°Regret?¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°No, how could I feel regret? Rather, I feel that your modification is quite stupid.¡±

    The people in the hall were all stunned, they never thought that Xu Yi would use an impolite description like ¡°stupid¡±.

    Chairman Mitta was stunned for a second before his face sunk, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t speak nonsense. How is this modification stupid?¡±

    ¡°You really want to hear it?¡± Seeing chairman Mitta slowly nod his head, Xu Yi continued, ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll give a general description. Although in theory, at the same rotational speed, a bigger fan does give more wind. But chairman Mitta, have you ever considered what kind of price you¡¯re paying to keep spinning thisrger fan de at the same speed?¡±

    ¡°What price? Isn¡¯t it the same?¡± Chairman Mitta said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°It seems like you don¡¯t know at all.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Alright, let me tell you. ording to the tests that I¡¯ve run with the Mergen Brand Magic Fan, because the des are 13% longer and 7% wider than our Frestech Brand Magic Fan, it takes around 40% more kic energy for it to movepared to our Frestech Brand Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°This is only theoretical data, but in a real situation, by casually increasing the rotation speed, the fan de will receive more friction from the air. So as the fan des spin faster and faster, the Mergen Brand Magic Fan will consume more and more energy. Chairman Mitta, let me ask you, with a low grade Magic Crystal, how long can the Mergen Brand Magic Fanst under the highest speed?¡±

    Hearing this question, chairman Mitta¡¯s expression became a bit ugly. After hesitating a bit, he struggled to say, ¡°Around¡­...It canst around ten hours?¡±

    The other chairman in the hall all had strange expressions.

    This was because everyone knew that the Frestech Brand Magic Fan had a clear sentence written in their advertising. A single piece of low grade Magic Crystal was enough to run the Frestech Brand Magic Fan at the highest speed for three full days!

    And before everyone began making their own Magic Fan, they had run some tests on the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, confirming that these advertisements weren¡¯t exaggerated at all.

    Compared to the Mergen Brand Magic Fan that could onlyst around ten hours, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan threw them far behind just based on this.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s strange expressions, chairman Mitta couldn¡¯t help saying in an unwilling to submit voice, ¡°But our Mergen Brand Magic Fan gives a stronger breeze and feels more refreshing!¡±

    ¡°Stronger wind doesn¡¯t always mean it¡¯s more refreshing.¡± Xu Yi kept arguing with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Mitta, we are producing these Magic Fans to be used by humans, so the wind doesn¡¯t need to be that big. Your Mergen Brand Magic Fan at the highest speed indeed blows out quite arge gust, but it is just too big. It¡¯s so big that it makes it hard for people to breathe. Do you think that this kind of effect is good for a Magic Fan?¡±

    Chairman Mitta was silent for a bit before suddenly saying with a coldugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think you¡¯re just jealous that our Mergen Brand Magic Fan can blow out such a strong wind, right? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t do this and ourpany can, you must be worried that ourpany¡¯s Magic Fan technology is surpassing yourpany, right?¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, everyone in the room looked at chairman Mitta like they were looking at an idiot.

    Did this fellow forget? The reason why theirpanies could make a new thing like the Magic Fan was all because Xu Yi had shared the key technology with them.

    Now he dared to say that hispany had surpassed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Was this confidence? Or was it stupidity?

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Alright, chairman Mitta, I admit that your Mergen Brand Magic Fan has surpassed our Frestech Brand Magic Fan in terms of wind power. But I must give you some advice that household Magic Fans have their own standard, it doesn¡¯t mean it¡¯s better since the wind power is stronger. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do this not because we couldn¡¯t, rather we didn¡¯t want to.¡±

    Chairman Mitta gave a cold snort, clearly not believing him.

    Xu Yi naturally was toozy to care about what he was thinking as he continued, ¡°Other than that, I need to remind you that other than your Mergen Brand Magic Fan having increased consumption, but because you freely expanded the size of the fan de without making a proper change to the product, it will make the structure more unstable and create hidden dangers. If it is used for a long time, perhaps some incidents will ur. I think¡­...chairman Mitta isn¡¯t willing to see the same thing appear likest year in Saltan City, right?¡±

    Chairman Mitta¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you cursing ourpany?¡±

    ¡°No, this is a kind reminder. I hope that you will seriously inspect every Mergen Brand Magic Fan and try your best to stop this kind of incident from urring.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious expression, ¡°Other than this, I want to remind everyone that although wants to make their own improvements to the Magic Fan, the design that I have shared with everyone is already quite perfect. I¡¯ve already given you some strict standards and if everyone doesn¡¯t follow the standards, it will be toote to regret it if something happens.¡±

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan who had been listening the entire time suddenly gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, based on what are you requesting us to follow your standards? Could it be that we can¡¯t research it ourselves?¡±

    ¡°Based on what?¡± Xu Yi looked over everyone before arrogantly saying with a coldugh, ¡°Because you don¡¯t understand! So, I¡¯m saying it is the standard!¡±

    The room fell into silence.

    Everyone looked at each other, seeing that while they didn¡¯t seem willing, most of them were also helpless.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s words were a bit overbearing, after everyone thought about it, they had to admit that they were true.

    That¡¯s right, towards this novel thing like magic machines, the only one who truly understood was Xu Yi. He indeed had the qualifications to say that the others didn¡¯t understand.

    As for the standard he gave¡­...There were manypanies who had the same thought as chairman Mitta when they were making their Magic Fans, making some changes to give it some novelty and increase their sales.

    But facts proved that these changes didn¡¯t bring any good effects. In the end, most of thepanies had no choice but to follow the standards that Xu Yi gave to make their Magic Fans.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, let me say a few things.¡± The hall had been silent for a while before president Rank suddenly gave a soft cough, attracting everyone¡¯s attention to him, ¡°Chairman Mitta isn¡¯t using you, it¡¯s just that everyone here is a bit doubtful. Although you have shared the Magic Fan technology to the Business Union and have given standards, you haven¡¯t told us why we need to follow those standards. If we don¡¯t know the consequences of what happens if we don¡¯t do this, naturally it¡¯s easy for problems to ur. So we asked you here today just to have you exin the doubt in everyone¡¯s hearts.¡±

    Hearing president Rank¡¯s question, everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto Xu Yi again.

    This was indeed the question everyone cared about the most. If they could learn the meaning behind the material and design standards that Xu Yi set, understanding why it had to be done, without a doubt it would be a great help to their research on the Magic Fans.

    With everyone¡¯s expectant gaze, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took out a thin book from his chest to throw onto the table.

    ¡°The questions you want answers to are all in this book.¡±

    Everyone looked at the book and saw therge letters written on it, ?One Hundred Thousand Whys on Magic Machines?.

 Volume 2 41 - Larger orders

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 41 Larger orders</strong>

    The representatives of the otherpanies in the Business Union that came to the banquet had beenpletely brainwashed. With Xu Yi¡¯s eloquent exnation, these people came to a new understanding of magic machines.

    Before they had treated every magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a special invention, the product of a spark of inspiration from Xu Yi.

    But after listening to Xu Yi¡¯s detailed exnation, everyone found that these magic machines actually had a point inmon. It was that they had arge,plicated, and extremely detailed theoretical system as a base.

    Whether it was the household magic machines like the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, and the Magic Rice Cooker, the production magic machines, the agricultural magic machines, or the mining magic machines the Falcao Chamber of Commerce used. All these magic machines were established with the same magic machine theory.

    Only by studying this set of theory could one truly understand the production process of magic machines.

    If they couldn¡¯t do it and wanted to produce magic machines, they could only simply imitate and copy them. If they wanted to arbitrarily make changes to the design like chairman Mitta, they would be seeking their own death.

    It was because of Xu Yi¡¯s exnation that everyone understood that they couldn¡¯t look down on this Magic Fan that was only over ten centimeters tall and weighed less than five kilograms. The theory hidden within was very rich and it was far from being simple.

    Just with the fan de, it involved simple physics like aerodynamics and space geometry that Xu Yi mentioned.

    The three fan des of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan seemed like three pieces of iron randomly put in, but actually why it was that shape, why there were three of them, and why they were that size¡­¡­as well as many other questions. It was all determined after going through countless calctions, it wasn¡¯t just randomly ced.

    So after Xu Yi exined all of this, although everyone was dizzy from hearing all those wordsing out of his mouth, they understood one fact.

    Magic machines were actually very deep and it wasn¡¯t as simple as everyone thought. It definitely wasn¡¯t something that could be easily mastered.

    The variousrgepanies had investedrge amounts of funds and manpower into this field of research, but not a singlepany hade up with a magic machine that couldpare to the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Back then everyone had thought that it was because they had been studying it for a short period of them. As they kept studying it, results would appear sooner orter.

    But after they heard Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, everyone realized that it wasn¡¯t because they hadn¡¯t invested enough money or they hadn¡¯t researched long enough. Rather it was because the difference between them and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just too big, so big that it filled them with despair, creating this kind of result.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had alreadye up with such aplicated set of theory for magic machines, yet they were still stuck at researching the most basic Magic Arrays. They couldn¡¯t even touch the most important magic machine design that Xu Yi talked about.

    Thisrge difference made many smallpanies who understood give up the idea of researching magic machines. It even made the Falcao Chamber of Commerce with theirrge power give up on wasting more resources in this aspect.

    There were a total of twenty eightpanies that participated in this Business Union banquet other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi. After this conference was over, there were twenty threepanies that directly left the Magic Fan industry, no longer getting involved in the magic machine industry.

    Xu Yi was very disappointed about this

    He always hoped that all thepanies on the Sines Continent would invest into the magic machine industry, establishing aplete industrial system on the continent faster.

    But he couldn¡¯t me these twenty threepanies that chose to pull out.

    After all, researching magic machines takes arge amount of funds and manpower, so it was quite a burden for anypany.

    After realizing that the different with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was so big that they couldn¡¯t reverse it, it was normal for them to give up.

    Then again, from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, wasn¡¯t it better to have lesspanies aspetition?

    So although Xu Yi was worried that the remaining fivepanies who didn¡¯t show their attitude would also choose to withdraw, he couldn¡¯t really say anything.

    He couldn¡¯t just jump in front of them and say, ¡°Hey, let¡¯s study magic machines together. I¡¯ll sincerely support you, giving you technology, money, and people¡­¡­¡±

    It would be strange if the others didn¡¯t think he was crazy.

    ¡°Ai, I show my heart to the moon, but the moon shines into the ditch.¡± Xu Yi helplessly looked up as he recited this. He found that it was the next morning and there was a bright sun in the sky, not having a trace of moonlight.

    ¡°Chairman Xu seems quite free.¡± There was a familiarugh from behind him, ¡°Although I don¡¯t understand what you just said, I feel like the rhythm is quite good. Can you exin it?¡±

    Xu Yi turned back and saw the gentle smile of Seveni.

    ¡°Your highness, why are you back again?¡±

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t wee me?¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have never heard of the words you¡¯ve said before, but it sounds quite good. Is it thenguage of your hometown? Can you tell me what these words mean?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right, it¡¯s thenguage of my country. As for its meaning¡­¡­¡±

    After hearing Xu Yi exin these words, Seveni¡¯s eyes sparkled as she praised, ¡°These words¡­..It really is elegant. There is such deep meaning hidden in these short words. It seems like the literature of your hometown is quite good. If possible, I ask you to teach me.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s quite hard learning my hometown¡¯snguage, I don¡¯t think you have that much time, your highness.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°For example, your sudden arrival this time, it definitely isn¡¯t to learn thenguage of my hometown.¡±

    Seveni revealed a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I came this time to give you some good news.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What good news this time?¡± Xu Yi was suddenly surprised as he asked.

    ¡°The first piece of good news is rted to the worker cards you talked to me aboutst time. It¡¯s finally passed in the parliament and if nothing happens, in two months, the kingdom will establish abour department and then you can get certifications for the dwarves in yourpany.¡± Seveni replied.

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi was filled with joy, ¡°This is great! Once the dwarven brothers at thepany learn of this good news, they will definitely be filled with joy! Now they can live here without worrying about any inconveniences and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can openly recruit more dwarves!¡±

    ¡°I have to remind you that although I know that you recruit those dwarves to work at yourpany, if there are too many of them, it will attract some special attention. I hope you will pay attention to this problem.¡± Seveni said with a serious face.

    ¡°Many thanks for your highness¡¯ warning, I will take notice.¡± Xu Yi quickly replied.

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Seveni paused for a bit before asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce even recruited a female elf called Agnes, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, we already hired her when you camest time. Only she wasn¡¯t willing to reveal herself to other humans, so you didn¡¯t see her.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°I¡¯ve heard that after she revealed herself in front of many people, so can you invite her out to meet me? To be honest, I have never seen an elf before even with how old I am and I¡¯m quite curious about them.¡±

    ¡°This really is a bad coincidence. She is working at the design department in Banta City, so she¡¯s not at Sandton Manor.¡± Xu Yi said in an apologetic voice.

    ¡°That really is a pity.¡± Seveni was a bit disappointed.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, you can see her next time. Or you can stay for a few more days and naturally you¡¯ll see her.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, you said that the worker cards were the first piece of good news, so is there a second one?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°The second piece of good news is that the agricultural department has received good reactions from the agricultural magic machines all over the kingdom. Almost all the nobles with territory in the kingdom have greatly requested more agricultural magic machines. The less than ten thousand agricultural magic machines that yourpany has made during this time has already been divided, so you need to quickly make more.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°How is this good news? Every time youe, you¡¯re clearly here to tell us to rush your order.¡±

    ¡°Let me finish. For this demand for agricultural magic machines, the agricultural department has made some estimates and havee up with a new conclusion. To spread the agricultural magic machines through the kingdom, we need at least seventy thousand agricultural magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That means¡­...taking away the twenty thousand we haven¡¯t delivered yet, there are still fifty thousandcking?¡±

    Seveni nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Now do you understand why I call this good news? That¡¯s right, we still need your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to finish these fifty thousand agricultural magic machines. I came this time to represent royal father and the agricultural department to make another order to you.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it, but he didn¡¯t reveal an excited look, rather he asked with a frown, ¡°Your highness, I have to say something that doesn¡¯t sound good. For fifty thousand agricultural magic machines, that requires a total of three million gold coins! Can his majesty and the agricultural department take out that much money? It can¡¯t be that his majesty is going to sell me another two mines, right?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right, royal father can¡¯t take out the money, so he can only keep selling you mines. What? You don¡¯t want them?¡±

    ¡°Of course I do, but your highness, what if the Falcao Chamber of Commerce does something again? A small mine cost me two million gold coinsst time, could it be that his majesty wants to use these two small mines to get fifty thousand agricultural magic machines from ourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked in a somewhat dissatisfied voice.

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°If you want gold coins, we can just do another auction likest time. But Xu Yi, royal father doesn¡¯t want another mine to fall into the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hands, so there won¡¯t be an auction and it will directly be given to you at market price. Of course, the price of iron has soared, so the estimates of the mine¡¯s price has increased. I hope you can understand that.¡±

    ¡°This I understand, but what I don¡¯t understand is that could it be that his majesty isn¡¯t afraid of the Jole Family resisting again?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°They won¡¯t this time.¡± A hard to see cold look shed in Seveni¡¯s gentle eyes, ¡°They won¡¯t ever do it again.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s calm face, a chill ran through Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

 Volume 2 42 - Small company support plan

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 42 Smallpany support n</strong>

    Seveni stayed in Banta City for two days this time before heading back to Anvilmar City.

    Other than signing the order for the fifty thousand agricultural magic machines with Xu Yi and discussing details, she spent most of her time in the City Lord¡¯s Manor and it was unknown what she was discussing with Count Sean.

    Only when she left, she sent people to send severalrge boxes to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi opened them to find that these boxes contained bright armour and weaponsmonly used by the army.

    The meaning of this was very clear and Xu Yi immediately understood. He immediately threw these boxes to the dwarves led by Camby, having them study them, while he put all his effort into studying another magic machine.

    It entered June and the weather began to warm up bit by bit.

    But this time, the people of Banta City were surprised to find that the different brands of Magic Fans that could be seen on every street of Banta City hadpletely disappeared.

    Everyone found it strange. There were many different brands of Magic Fans and the price was dropping, almost falling under the one gold coin mark, so why did they all suddenly disappear?

    The weather was gradually getting hotter and when families were nning to buy Magic Fans, these fellows had all disappeared before they even earned anything. Where did they all go?

    The doubts of everyone didn¡¯tst long because after two days, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan that everyone had looked forward to had finallye out!

    Although the Frestech Brand was still at the same price of two gold coins, making everyone ask questions, feeling that the Frestech Brand Magic Fan should decrease their price to one gold coin and fifty silver coins, since every other brand had done the same.

    But when Xu Yi took out a Frestech Brand Magic Fan in front of everyone at the product announcement, everyone had shut their mouths and were dumbfounded.

    Unexpected to everyone, other than the new generation Magic Fan having a different wooden base, beingpletely made of iron, and being covered in the same Silver Leaf Alloy as the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker, there was an important part made of a material that they had never heard of before, stic.

    Hearing Xu Yi say the word ¡°stic¡±, everyone was confused since they knew nothing about this new material.

    When everyone saw Xu Yi perform some tests with this new generation Magic Fan, they found that this Magic Fan made of this new material was weaker than the Magic Fan made of iron, it would break if one used a bit of strength. However, it had a clear advantage which was that it was lighter.

    Although the Frestech Brand Magic Fan used a wooden base which reduced the weight by a bit, a Magic Fan still weighed around three to four kilograms. For a small thing like this, it was clearly very heavy.

    But the new generation Magic Fan that was made from the new stic material, the weight was only around two kilograms, allowing one to easily hold one in one¡¯s hand. Just based on this, it was greatly superior to the previous Magic Fan.

    Other than this, the new generation Magic Fan¡¯s design was countless times better.

    With the silver Silver Leaf Alloy and the light green sticing together, the entire Magic Fan looked very slick. It was much better looking than the Magic Fan made of pure iron from before.

    The reporters that came to this product announcement saw the Magic Fan and couldn¡¯t help shouting ¡°work of art¡± in their hearts.

    There was no need to say it, the design of this Magic Fan came from the hands of the beautiful elf, young miss Agnes.

    Just based on this, it would be fine even if this Magic Fan didn¡¯t decrease in price, it was even fine if it increased.

    Now to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held an exchange event that made everyone¡¯s eyes light up.

    ording to Xu Yi, this exchange event idea was to have everyone bring in their old Magic Fans to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would use their old fans to pay for a part of the price and they would receive a new generation Magic Fan from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the old Magic Fan was in good shape, then that old Magic Fan could reduce the price by half a gold coin. If it was a Magic Fan from another brand, it could reduce the price by thirty silver coins.

    Last year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold a total of twenty units of first generation and second generation Magic Fans in Banta City alone.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales strategy, those Magic Fans had service guarantees for three years after sale and adding in the quality of the Magic Fans, it wasn¡¯t likely for something to happen to them. After a year, most of the Frestech Brand Magic Fans could still be used.

    In a normal situation, the families that had already purchased a Frestech Brand Magic Fan wouldn¡¯t consider buying a new Magic Fan since they could still use theirs.

    But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding this exchange event, they could use their old Frestech Brand Magic Fan to lower the price, so it would cost only around a gold coin to exchange for a new Frestech Brand Magic Fan that used this new material, looked countless times better, and had better performance. For many families, this was something that wasn¡¯t hard to ept.

    Of course, to maintain the same explosive sales asst year in the Banta City market that was already saturated was something that was impossible.

    Like thest two product announcements, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce product announcement proceeded like normal. It was that after the product announcement, there would be an explosive piece of news.

    But it was different from thest two times. For this product announcement, Xu Yi¡¯s explosive piece of news was at least a bit rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce will soon byunching our smallpany support n, supporting smallpanies who are interested in studying and making magic machines to enter the magic machine industry. The smallpanies that participate in this n will receive equipment, funds, and personnel from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, helping the smallpany develop in this business and quickly grow.¡±

    After Xu Yi said this, the product announcement sight filled with an uproar.

    What was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing?

    The otherpanies were worried that there were too manypetitors, they wanted to monopolize all the business in their industry, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was actually raising their ownpetitors.

    Was Xu Yi crazy?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why is yourpanyunching this smallpany support n? Is it rted to the farmer support n youunched before?¡± The ?Karma Times?¡¯ vice editor in chief Rhine raised his hand to ask.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took a step back, ¡°This question, it¡¯s better for me to leave it to the firstpany of this n, the current chairman of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, chairman Freeman to reply to.¡±

    ¡°Irnd Chamber of Commerce?¡± Several reporters of the Banta City thought about it and confirmed that they had never heard of thispany in Banta City before. They couldn¡¯t help curiously looking at Freeman who had walked out from behind Xu Yi.

    After seeing Freeman¡¯s face, everyone couldn¡¯t help calling out.

    Rhine couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Although he didn¡¯t believe that Xu Yi would y a joke in this kind of situation, no matter how he looked at Freeman, he looked like a normal peasant, how did he look like the chairman of apany?

    ¡°Freeman¡­..Mister, let me ask you, what kind ofpany is your Irnd Chamber of Commerce?¡± Rhine asked.

    This was Freeman¡¯s first time standing on a stage like this, so being watched by all these people, he was already incredibly nervous. Now that he heard Rhine¡¯s question, he couldn¡¯t help breaking out in cold sweat.

    He reached out to scratch his head as he turned back to Xu Yi, but seeing Xu Yi giving him an encouraging smile, he calmed his mind. He turned back to Rhine and hesitantly said, ¡°Our¡­...Our¡­...Irnd Chamber of Commerce is a partnership formed by me and some people from Irnd Vige. Right now we are producing¡­...mainly screw bolts.¡±

    ¡°Screw bolts? Everyone was stunned.

    Rhine hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°May I ask, the Irnd name that yourpany is using, is it because you and your partners are vigers from Irnd Vige?¡±

    ¡°Yes¡­...Yes. Actually I participated in the Big Stomach Kingpetitionst year and after stealing the championship, I met chairman Xu¡­¡­¡±

    Freeman told everyone about what happened to him this year.

    At first his words were rough and unclear, but after a while, the nervousness in his heart gradually disappeared and it became more smooth.

    After hearing his experiences, everyone understood the origin of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. They couldn¡¯t help sighing in their hearts, this Freeman¡¯s luck really was good.

    It was just participating in the Big Stomach Kingpetition by coincidence, but he was recognized by Xu Yi because of this. This allowed him to participate in the farmer support n and receive a small Magic Harvester.

    Then this farmer from Irnd Vige used this small Magic Harvester to earn arge amount. He then boldly made a request to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with hispanions that they wanted to be involved in the production of magic machines.

    What surprised everyone was that Xu Yi actually agreed to their request, even personally helping them choose the business of producing screw bolts which was most suited for them.

    Then this small Irnd Chamber of Commerce had relied on this small screw bolt to actually be a smallpany with a bit of strength.

    When Freeman said all this, Xu Yi came up to interrupt him, ¡°Everyone, you mustn¡¯t look down on a small screw bot. I can tell everyone that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce no longer works on screw bolts. All the screw bolts used for magic machines are now being provided by the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. Just with this, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is paying over five thousand gold coins each month!¡±

 Volume 2 43 - The people behind Rem

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 43 The people behind Rem</strong>

    Everyone under the stage was stunned.

    Although most people here have some business experience and didn¡¯t think that five thousand gold coins was arge amount.

    But this number not being big only applied to argepany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. To the Irnd Chamber of Commerce that was a smallpany made of several farmers, this was a number that they never dared to imagine before.

    ¡°Chairman Freeman, if I may ask something, how much does yourpany gain from the five thousand each month?¡± A reporter under the stage asked.

    ¡°How much?¡± Freeman scratched his head and gave a simpleugh, ¡°I¡¯m not too clear on this, but I heard Kovac say thatst month, we¡¯ve earned from chairman Xu¡­..around five hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Only five hundred gold coins¡­¡­¡± Everyone under the stage let out a sigh of relief.

    If this Irnd Chamber of Commerce that just suddenly appeared had a high profit margin, casually earning several thousand gold coins each month, that would be too shocking.

    But it¡¯s just five hundred gold coins, this was not something that they couldn¡¯t ept.

    ¡°Then chairman Freeman, how many people are currently in yourpany?¡± The reporter asked a follow up question.

    ¡°Including me¡­..a total of six people.¡± Freeman said.

    ¡°Six people?¡± Everyone thought about it before being surprised.

    Based on what Freeman said, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce earned over five hundred gold coins each month and they only had six people in theirpany, so averaging it between them, that was close to a hundred gold coins per person!

    Although from the angle of apany, this ie was a bit small and wasn¡¯t considered much, from the angle of an individual, this ie could be considered a high ie in Banta City.

    And based on Freeman¡¯s replies, they were all just normal farmers from Irnd Vige. They would focus on farming all year before and their ie would be less than a hundred gold coins, but now they could earn that much in a single month. This was simply an explosion in ie.

    Thinking of this, many people under the stage couldn¡¯t help looking at Freeman with gazes of envy or unwillingness.

    These fellows were just normal farmers, but they could earn close to a hundred gold coins a month from just producing screw bolts. Why can¡¯t we do the same?

    Seeing the gazes everyone had, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    Actually Freeman was telling the truth, but he didn¡¯t describe the exact situation.

    Actually, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t just producing screw bolts for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because thergepanies of Banta City had been rushing to make Magic Fans in the past two months, there was arge demand for screw bolts.

    ording to what Freeman had told Xu Yi before, they had made over two million screw bolts of different specifications justst month.

    Even if each screw bolt only earned them several copper coins each, with thisrge amount as a foundation, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce had earned over a thousand gold coinsst month!

    If it was evenly divided between Freeman¡¯s group of six, that was close to around two hundred gold coins each!

    But just revealing less than half of that was enough to move the hearts of everyone under the stage.

    It seemed like the effects of Freeman appearing this time was better than he imagined.

    This was very helpful in promoting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can you tell us some concrete details on how the smallpany support n will be implemented?¡±

    As expected, some reporters jumped over Freeman and began to question Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and took back the stage Freeman offered him. He looked over the excited crowd and said in a clear voice, ¡°The exact details are like this. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will first review the smallpanies applying to participate¡­¡­¡±

    After a full hour, the product announcement finally ended.

    When they left the announcement site, whether it was the lively citizens of Banta City or the reporters that came here looking for news, they all had excited looks in their eyes.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was thepany that made novel things like magic machines, even the ns that they had were this novel.

    The farmer support n from before had surprised everybody, but the facts had proved that this farmer support n had brought great benefits to the normal farmers of Banta City.

    Now that they had begun this smallpany support n, there was no doubt it would bringrge changes to Banta City.

    If it was like everything Xu Yi had said, then Banta City would undergo some earth shaking changes.

    Thinking of all the new things and changes that had happened in Banta City because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or urately speaking, brought by Xu Yi, everyone couldn¡¯t help praising Xu Yi in their hearts.

    But Xu Yi after finishing this product announcement didn¡¯t have time to enjoy everyone¡¯s praises at all.

    Once the product announcement was over, there was a group of people who rushed him, wanting to ask him questions about the smallpany support n. There were also many people who wanted to participate in their smallpany support n, hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support them.

    There were just too many people and Xu Yi found it hard to deal with them.

    ¡°It seems like I need to find a spokesperson sooner orter.¡± A helpless thought passed through Xu Yi¡¯s mind. He suddenly saw someone walking into the product announcement conference hall, so he raised his hand and loudly said, ¡°Everyone, don¡¯t worry. As for the details of the smallpany support n, we will be publishing it in the ?Banta Times? over the next few days, while also making a public announcement at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center. Other than this, the Lord City Lord has also shown his support, so the Lord City Lord will also be making an announcement in the market square on some details. We ask everyone to look out for this.¡±

    Hearing what Xu Yi said, the people surrounding him calmed down.

    There were some reporters that wanted to keep asking Xu Yi questions, but they saw him push through the crowd and arrive at the side of the person who just came in.

    Those reporters recognized this person as the current editor in chief of the ?Banta Times? Nakhi, so they tactfully backed down.

    Whether it was the reporters of Banta City or the surrounding city, they were clear that chairman Xu and the founder of the ?Banta Times?, Baron Hannas had a close rtionship, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the ?Banta Times? had a close rtionship.

    Most of the news on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was reported in the ?Banta Times? before the other newspapers received the news.

    Now that Xu Yi was meeting Nakhi, it was clear that they were prepared to release some special news in the ?Banta Times?.

    Under the jealous gaze of the reporters, Nakhi came towards Xu Yi, but his expression wasn¡¯t happy at all, rather it was very serious. He moved closer to Xu Yi and said in a low voice, ¡°Big brother Xu, we¡¯ve found that person.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk a bit before his smile came back. He patted Nakhi¡¯s shoulder and pointed towards a room inside the conference hall, ¡°Come, let¡¯s go in and talk.¡±

    When the two walked in, Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking Nakhi, ¡°Where did you find him? Did Rem go see him again?¡±

    ¡°Un, ording to the reports of my brothers, Rem went to see that person yesterday morning. The two of them stayed in the room for half an hour before Rem left.¡± Nakhi said with a nod.

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort as a bit of rage shed on his face before he asked, ¡°Where is that person right now?¡±

    ¡°After meeting Rem, he left Banta City. I¡¯ve already had some brothers follow him and based on their reports, that person should be heading in the direction of Saltan City.¡±

    ¡°Saltan City?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°It can¡¯t be that fellow who isn¡¯t willing to give up, right?¡±

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi shook his head. His face regained its calm as he said to Nakhi with a smile, ¡°Alright, Nakhi, it¡¯s been hard on you and your brothers. You are the editor in chief of ?Banta Times?, for me to have you do something like this, it really is a waste of your talents.¡±

    ¡°What is big brother Xu saying?¡± Nakhi said in surprise, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for big brother Xu¡¯s help, then the ?Banta Times? wouldn¡¯t exist. My brothers and I would definitely be bored all day in our homes, how could we be doing such interesting things? We really have to thank you for this, helping you do things is what we should do.¡±

    After saying this, Nakhi mysteriously looked around before approaching Xu Yi and saying in a low voice, ¡°Big brother Xu, actually I feel that there¡¯s no need for all this trouble. Since you are certain it¡¯s that brat, how about we just catch him and have someone teach him a lesson? I don¡¯t believe that he won¡¯t tell us everything.¡±

    ¡°I say, you are the editor in chief of the ?Banta Times?, you are still considered an important person in Banta City. How could you like using brute force to solve problems this much?¡± Xu Yi teased with a smile. He shook his head and said, ¡°Although the method you said is rather simple and effective, the main problem doesn¡¯t lie with him right now, rather the people behind him.¡±

    Nakhi thought about it before nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right, if we don¡¯t catch the people behind him, there will be the same problems in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. This trouble wasn¡¯t just this little bit, even if they solved the problem this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would meet all kinds of problems in the future.

    Of course, this was something that had to be met on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s path of growth, it can¡¯t be avoided even if they wanted to.

    Moreover, it was only a small problem now, but as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger, their problems would also be bigger and bigger.

    Xu Yi strangely thought of a phrase from ?The Song of the Stormy Petrel?.

    Come! Let the tempeste strike harder!

 Volume 2 44 - Small companyâ€™s potential

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 44 Smallpany¡¯s potential</strong>

    The tempest indeed came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this tempest did not bring trouble, rather a bunch of Banta City residents who wanted to be rich overnight.

    After the product announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n was reported in the newspaper of several cities. Adding in the fact that the City Lord¡¯s Manor had created a bulletin in the market square, in just a few days, the entirety of Banta City knew about this.

    After learning that the farmers of Irnd Vige could earn over a hundred gold coins a month from participating in this n, the people of Banta City instantly became wild.

    In a single night, there were countlesspanies with strange names that appeared in Banta City. Then all these smallpanies that had suddenly appeared all tried to participate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n.

    In just a short three days, there were over a thousandpanies that had submitted applications.

    Although the majority of them were from newpanies that had just been formed in the past few days, there were also some that came from smallpanies that had long existed in Banta City.

    With thisrge amount of applications, the City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s officials sent by Count Sean to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been worked harder than dogs. They worked from morning to night each day, only getting less than five hours of sleep each day.

    It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already set a list of standards for this n. They could eliminate anypanies that didn¡¯t meet these standards, which saved them quite a bit of time.

    The most basic standard was that forpanies applying to this smallpany support n, they had to have basic proof of funds.

    The lower limit of this was temporarily set by Xu Yi at two hundred gold coins.

    Just with this, they had cut down half of the thousandpanies that applied.

    Adding in the other conditions, thepanies that had passed the verification for this smallpany support n were only over two hundredpanies.

    However when these two hundredpanies learned that while they were a part of this smallpany support n, but couldn¡¯t make magic machines like the Magic Fan, the Magic Rice Cooker, or the Magic Bread Maker, rather they had to makeponents for these magic machines, over half of thesepanies chose to withdraw from participating.

    In the end, the ones that decided to stay in the smallpany support n were only eighty sevenpanies.

    ¡°Xu Yi, when you said that you would let Freeman¡¯s group make the screw bolt, I didn¡¯t feel it was that much since the screw bolt isn¡¯t that important. But now that you¡¯re telling me that you want to leave theponents to these smallpanies to make¡­..Hey, are you nning to get rid of our household magic machine workshop?¡±

    As Xu Yi¡¯s prestige in thepany grew, the people who dared to talk to Xu Yi like this in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only Heinz.

    It wasn¡¯t his set day of the month to be back in Banta City yet, but after he saw the report on the smallpany support n in the ?Karma Times?, he couldn¡¯t help rushing back.

    It was for no other reason than to question Xu Yi face to face.

    ¡°Who says that I want to disband the household magic machine workshop?¡± Xu Yi looked at him in surprise, ¡°I say, did you specially run back today just for this?¡±

    Heinz pointed at the representatives of the eighty seven smallpanies being led around the household magic machine workshop by Ankhto and angrily said, ¡°Is it not? This workshop is only in charge of producing and assembling thoseponents, but now you want to give the work of producingponents to these smallpanies I¡¯ve never even heard of. What use is there in keeping this workshop? Do we just spend all day assembling thoseponents?¡±

    ¡°Wait a minute¡­...Heinz, I feel that there¡¯s a problem with your logic.¡± Xu Yi said with knit brows, ¡°Even if I give the work of producingponents to these smallpanies, why does that mean that the workshop would have nothing to do?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! These things should be done by the workers of our household magic machine workshop, so if you give them to others, of course there¡¯s nothing for our workers to do!¡± Heinz angrily said.

    ¡°Who said that¡­...Oh, I understand.¡± Xu Yi patted his head before reaching out to grab Heinz¡¯s shoulders as he said with augh, ¡°It¡¯s my fault for not telling you clearly. Un¡­..How to put it, let me just put it clearly for you first. Even if the eighty seven smallpanies join theponent production business, it will not affect the work of ourpany. I am very certain about this, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Although Heinz was angry, he knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t joke about this with him in this situation, so he couldn¡¯t help asking in a confused voice, ¡°What is going on here? Speak clearly.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this. Look, first, you used to be the person in charge of this workshop, so I think you should be very clear that the work capacity of this household magic machine workshop has already reached a bottleneck. The reason for this bottleneck is that our speed in producingponents can never match our assembling speed, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Heinz thought about it before nodding, ¡°It is like that, but I adjusted the proportion of workers before I left, so it should be consistent. Could it be that after I left, that kid Ankhto randomly changed things?¡±

    ¡°Not that, Ankhto¡¯s work is very outstanding, you don¡¯t need to worry about that. But if you think about it, even if you adjust the proportion of workers and increase the overall efficiency, this is only a kind ofpromise, isn¡¯t it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Then what do you think? You¡¯ve said it before, the speed of producingponents can¡¯tpare to the speed of assembling them, so we can¡¯t just recruit a group of people that are just in charge of producingponents, right? We don¡¯t have that big of a ce right now, unless¡­¡­¡± Heinz was suddenly stunned. He thought about it before strangely looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Hey, could it be that you want to use these smallpanies to rece the need for us to hire workers and find a new ce?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a full smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, you finally understood.¡±

    Heinz looked at the smallpany representatives in the distance and his mind quickly turned. After a while, he knit his brows again.

    ¡°This still isn¡¯t right. Although by having them makeponents, it could save us quite a bit of manpower and space, since they are producing and we are buying it from them, they have to earn a profit still. Like this, wouldn¡¯t our profits decrease?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Heinz, let me ask you a question. How much did a number three screw bolt cost us before?¡±

    Heinz was stunned as he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°How do I know this, you should ask that fellow Sebas.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve asked, so I know. Let me tell you, for a number three screw bolt, if we were to produce it ourselves, Sebas has calcted the cost to be around twenty five to thirty copper coins.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this wrong? A number three screw bolt is that small and it only uses a bit of iron, so how could it cost around twenty five to thirty copper coins?¡± Heinz asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°Iron is just material cost, but calcting the real cost, we need to add in the manpower cost, the cost for consumption of using the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, as well as various other costs. There are many things that need to be calcted in the end.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Un¡­..alright. Even if there are that many, how is this rted to what I just ask for you to suddenly ask this?¡± Heinz asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted. Now you know that if we make a number three screw bolt ourselves, it cost around twenty five to thirty copper coins. But do you know how much it costs for us to buy a number three screw bolt from the Irnd Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t pay attention to this. But they also want to earn money, so a number three screw bolt should¡­..cost around thirty five gold coins. If it¡¯s more, you definitely wouldn¡¯t agree to it.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°You¡¯re wrong. For us to buy a single number three screw bolt from the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, it costs us twenty three copper coins.¡±

    ¡°How is this possible!¡± Heinz immediately refuted it in a shocked voice, ¡°Could it be that they don¡¯t want to earn money?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s the opposite, they can still earn money. ording to my estimates, they can earn around five copper coins from a screw bolt they sell to us at twenty three copper coins.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then how is that possible!¡± Heinz was simply shocked this time, ¡°It takes us twenty five to thirty copper coins to make a single number three screw bolt, so why can they do it for less than twenty copper coins? Could it be that they do it better than us?¡±

    Seeing Heinz¡¯s agitated state, Xu Yi knew that it hurt Heinz¡¯s pride as the manager of the household magic machine workshop. He patted his shoulder and said, ¡°It isn¡¯t rted to you. Rather it¡¯s that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has good worker benefits, so our manpower costs are a bit higher. As for the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, they are their own bosses while also being their own employees, so they can neglect manpower costs. So naturally their costs are lower than ours.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the quality of their screw bolts? If it can¡¯tpare to the ones we make ourselves, I¡¯m still against you doing this.¡± Heinz said in an unwilling to submit tone.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity, but the quality of the screw bolts they make is a bit better than ours¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi said as he helplessly spread his hands.

    ¡°Ah? It can¡¯t be? Why is that?¡± Heinz¡¯s face was covered in disbelief.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because they are specialized.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug before a look of praise appeared in his eyes, ¡°When I sold them the Magic Thread Rolling Machine and the other equipment, as well as teaching them how to make the screw bolts, I never thought that they would keep making changes during this time. Now the quality of the screw bolts they produce is even better than ours, it¡¯s even better than me¡­...Un, in short it¡¯s good, it definitely meets the requirement of ourpany.¡±

    Heinz looked at the smallpany representatives who were at the workshop for two days working with the Thread Rolling Machine and muttered a few words. Then he suddenly asked Xu Yi, ¡°I can understand why you gave the work of making theponents to the smallpanies, but Xu Yi, aren¡¯t you worried of the day these smallpanies grow up and steal all business from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If they really could do this, I would definitely spread both hands in wee.¡±

    Seeing the honest smile in Xu Yi¡¯s face, Heinz rubbed his head as it ached.

    ¡°I forgot, you¡¯re aplete lunatic!¡±

 Volume 2 45 - There are benefits to building roads

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 45 There are benefits to building roads</strong>

    After half a month of training at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, of the eighty seven smallpanies that qualified, there were only sixty threepanies in the end that signed the support n agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the the contract, they would get some production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by paying for installments and they would use them to make theponent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce designates for them. Then they would sell thoseponents back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they had to sell it at the set price of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although these conditions seemed a bit overbearing, if one thought about it carefully, the conditions the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them were very reasonable.

    First the price the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set gave the sixty threepanies plenty of space for profit. If one roughly calcted it, a smallpany could earn at least five hundred gold coins just based on theponent order from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    And if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ordered even more, the smallpanies would naturally earn more money.

    Not to mention that this contract onlysted for five years. That meant that in five years, these smallpanies wouldn¡¯t have to follow the set price of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when selling theseponents to them, rather they could set their own prices.

    So in less than half a month since the smallpany support n was announced at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement, there were suddenly sixty three smallpanies in Banta City that were responsible for making magic machineponents.

    It was different from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workshop that took up a hectare ofnd, these smallpanies only needed to rent a small work space for their workshops.

    Many smallpanies only needed to rent a small warehouse. They could put the production magic machines they bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in there and hire a few people before starting production.

    Because the production magic machines were rather loud and adding in the fact that rent was expensive in the city, most of the smallpanies rented warehouses outside Banta City.

    Moreover, because theyponents they made were mainly sold to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally they picked locations that were close to Sandton Manor.

    The originally peaceful Sandton Manor that could be considered a resort waspletely polluted with noise, as if it had be arge work site. Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help filling with a bit of regret when he saw this.

    He had nned on moving all the factories to the Falling Rain Valley after the roads were finished and turning this Sandton Manor into a research center. They would focus on studying and developing all kinds of magic machines for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the beautiful environment here, it was very suited for researchers to gather.

    But because of the circumstances, the area around Sandton Manor had turned into a small industrial district.

    And Xu Yi was certain that as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, this industrial district would expand and it would never return to the same peaceful environment from before.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpining a bit about the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    If they had finished connecting the Falling Rain Valley a bit sooner, Sandton Manor wouldn¡¯t have be like this.

    ¡°I say, chairman Xu, doesn¡¯t it seem wrong to me me for this?¡± Towards Xu Yi¡¯sining, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise couldn¡¯t help feeling aggrieved, ¡°It¡¯s clearly because of the strict quality requirements you have for this road and our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has to follow your orders. In order to maintain the quality, we specially lowered the speed and strived for perfection. Now you¡¯reing here andining that it¡¯s slow, this really isn¡¯t right.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just casually speaking, don¡¯t mind it.¡± Seeing chairman Cruise looking a bit dissatisfied, Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed into a smile as he said, ¡°Quality is first, everything else cane after. This is our Lampuri Kingdom and the Sines Continent¡¯s first public road, if it is built well, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce will leave their mark in the history of the Sines Continent. If it isn¡¯t done well, you will leave behind a mark of infamy. I had a strict requirement for quality all because I was thinking about your Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m more clear on this than you.¡± Chairman Cruise replied before his expression became serious, ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s very important if this road is built well or not. Not mentioning something like leaving a mark in the history of the Sines Continent, just talking about the present, chairman Pompeii of the Fersen Carriage Company has contacted me, asking me about how much it cost to build this road to the Falling Rain Forest. Based on his meaning, he might be wanting to invest in building a public road.¡±

    ¡°Fersen Carriage Company?¡± Xu Yi was surprised. After thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, theirpany¡¯s business is in public transportation, so they want the roads to be better and it isn¡¯t strange for them to care about the roads. But building roads is something the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government should care about, it¡¯s not something he should care about.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that everyone knows that the kingdom iscking in finances. Even if the king wants to fix the roads, he can¡¯t take out that much money.¡± Chairman Cruise helplessly spread his hands and said, ¡°So chairman Pompeii has asked me this time how much money it takes to build this road and after I told him that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is investing in this, chairman Pompeii didn¡¯t keep asking me about this topic.¡±

    ¡°What? Was he scared by the price of building the road?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Nonsense, building this road that¡¯s only fifty kilometers long already cost your Frestech Chamber of Commerce several hundred thousand gold coins. If one wanted to connect the cities of the Lampuri Kingdom with roads, it would cost tens of millions of gold coins. Do you think that everypany can take out that much?¡±

    ¡°Onepany can¡¯t take out that much, but it won¡¯t stop ten, one hundred, or even a thousandpanies from doing it. With everyone working together, naturally this roadwork can be established.¡± Xu Yi said in an uncaring voice.

    ¡°You think it¡¯s that easy? Other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­...which otherpany would take out money to do a thankless job like building roads?¡± Chairman Cruise said.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. Didn¡¯t you say a few days ago that chairman Morgan looked for you to build a road from one of the mines under theirpany to Banta City?¡±

    ¡°That is different. The road connecting the mine to Banta City can help them transport the ores they collect more easily and faster. In short the road would save on their cost. Actually it¡¯s the same as the road you¡¯re building, you¡¯re only building it for the benefits of yourpany, otherwise why would you build it?¡±

    ¡°So that means that the core of it is whether there are benefits or not. What if I told you that there are no losses in building roads and it can actually earn more money?¡± Xu Yi mysteriously said.

    ¡°Make money?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Are you joking? How could this thing earn money?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe me?¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°In a few days the king will send people to find you to have yourpany build roads, if you have the skills, reject them.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes and his first reaction was that Xu Yi was joking with him.

    It was clear that the kingdom¡¯s finances were bad, so how could there be money for building roads?

    But his logic told him that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t kid about something like this.

    Could it be true?

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s mysterious smile, chairman Cruise fell into confusion for a while.

    ###

    As it entered July, the weather began to swelter.

    As the temperature rose bit by bit, the desire to buy Magic Fans among the people of Banta City increased.

    It waspletely different from a month ago. Right now there weren¡¯t any Magic Fans of other brands in Banta City, there were only Frestech Brand Magic Fans.

    Of course, even if there were Magic Fans of other brands right now, with the beautiful design of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, they couldn¡¯t be sold at all.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding their exchange event, many families that bought Magic Fansst year considered it and most of them chose to use this event. They exchanged the old Magic Fan in their homes for a new generation Frestech Brand Magic Fan.

    ording to Sebas¡¯ report forst month, in June, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan had sold a total of six thousand four hundred and seventy two units. The ones that had sold because of the exchange event made up half the numbers, surpassing three thousand units.

    It could be said that the sales numbers were much lower thanst year, but this was expected by everyone in thepany.

    After all, the Magic Fan was not a consumable product and one fan could be used for several years. No one would just exchange it if they were bored.

    In a small city like Banta City where the poption was barely over fifty thousand and in a situation where the market was saturated, it was naturally impossible to have the same amount of sales asst year when the Magic Fan was just released.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the new Magic Fan looked very beautiful and there was the exchange event, then this year¡¯s sales numbers would be even worse.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s response to this was simple, they would just have to expand their market. They would sell the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products to even more cities of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Only expanding the market was something that took time. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built a strong foundation in Banta City, Karma City, and even Saltan City, easily opening up the markets for these three cities, to sell to the further Canberra City, Norton City, or even the further Cramer City, it would take quite a bit of effort.

    Compared to this, the Lampuri Kingdom capital Anvilmar City that was even further than Cramer City was actually a bit easier to open.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce retail store Victor¡¯s group of three had opened in Anvilmar City had very good business. Every time more household magic machines were shipped over from Banta City, it would be sold in a short period of time.

    While making arge amount of money for Victor¡¯s group of three, it also deeply rooted the Frestech Brand into the hearts of Anvilmar City¡¯s people.

    Xu Yi had even seriously considered doing the same as Karma City, opening a new factory outside Anvilmar City and producing Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    But after hearing Xu Yi¡¯s n, Seveni who was in Banta City for business looked at Xu Yi before shaking her head with a determined look, ¡°It won¡¯t work.¡±

 Volume 2 46 - Power of industry

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 46 Power of industry</strong>

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise and asked with a frown, ¡°Your highness, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a properpany, isn¡¯t it normal to go to the capital to open a factory? Why isn¡¯t it good?¡±

    Seveni shook her head slightly, ¡°It isn¡¯t that it isn¡¯t good, it¡¯s more that it isn¡¯t the right time yet.¡±

    ¡°Not the right time yet?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows even more, ¡°Your highness, I don¡¯t understand what you mean. From my angle, the development of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines is very limited in Banta City, so we should be focusing on developing, so why is it not the right time?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not saying in terms of business, rather it¡¯s another wrong time.¡± Seveni took a deep look at Xu Yi and honestly said, ¡°Xu Yi, believe me. After personally seeing the changes brought by your agricultural magic machines, I believe more than anyone that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can be bigger. So I ask you to believe me, the advice or the warnings that I¡¯m giving you, they are all beneficial to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s honest expression, Xu Yi considered it before giving a slight nod.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll believe you.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi suddenly change his address to ¡°you¡±, Seveni revealed a smile. She took a deep breath and calmed her mind before saying, ¡°Good, then I¡¯ll discuss serious business. Royal father has already looked through the kingdom public road connection n you mentioned and he supports this very much. Moreover, Count Sean has already reported the details of the road you built before, which royal father has paid attention to before. Now that he has seen your n, he is very happy. He said that you not only care about yourpany, you are also thinking about the Lampuri Kingdom. Only¡­..¡±

    ¡°Only the kingdom finances can¡¯t take out the money?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. You should be clear on the situation of the kingdom¡¯s finances, so we indeed can¡¯t take out the money needed for your public road n. As for what you proposed¡­¡­¡±

    When she said this, Seveni¡¯s smile disappeared and her brows knit deeper.

    ¡°This¡­...toll stations, royal father doesn¡¯t agree to it. He said that since we are making public roads, it is consideration for the kingdom¡¯s citizens,, so why should we set up toll stations and make the people who take these roads pay for it? This method is simply exploiting the people of the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Exploiting?¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Your highness, for his majesty¡¯s care about his subjects, I deeply respect and appreciate it. But I have to say that his majesty¡¯s understanding of the public road is very shallow. The toll stations isn¡¯t exploiting the citizens, rather, it is an excellent policy that will increase the level of living for the kingdom¡¯s people.¡±

    ¡°I know that you¡¯re not a merchant that is greedy for money, you must have a reason for proposing this.¡± Seveni¡¯s expression rxed and she calmly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Although I¡¯m also very much against opening these toll stations, I¡¯m willing to listen to your thoughts.¡±

    ¡°Your highness really is quite open.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°If we want to talk about this matter, then it will take a long time. So I will simply ask you a few questions. First, your highness, is it very beneficial to the kingdom to connect the kingdom by building these roads?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Although I can¡¯t understand the situation you described in the n right now, I am certain that these public roads will bring many benefits to public transport in the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°The second question, the kingdom¡¯s finances can¡¯t take out this much money to build the roads, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°The third question, can you havepanies take out money to fix the roads?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Seveni hesitated a bit, ¡°We can, but the roads must be strictly supervised by the kingdom as it¡¯s being constructed and it needs to be turned over to kingdom officials after it is finished.¡±

    ¡°Look, the problem right now is very simple. Since the kingdom needs these public roads to improve the traffic situation and the kingdom¡¯s finances doesn¡¯t have the money, then looking for normalpanies to help pay for building the roads is a very normal choice. As for establishing the toll stations and charging a set fee, this is alsopensation to thepanies. To put it simply, it¡¯s the kingdom¡¯s finances temporarily borrowing from thepanies and using future ie to repay them. Your highness, why do you and his majesty think that this n isn¡¯t good?¡±

    Seveni fell silent and considered it for a bit before saying with difficulty, ¡°Royal father and I not approving of this method is mainly because¡­...to charge a fee to the citizens, this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s bad for your reputation?¡± Xu Yi directly pointed out her thoughts.

    Seveni nodded with an awkward expression.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯ll be publicly announced when this road is being built that this road is built by apany. It¡¯s not said now, but after the toll stations are added, you just need to tell everyone that they were added by thepanies and unrted to you all. To put it simply, take his majesty and the royal family out of the discussion and let thepany that builds the road to take the infamy. I think like this, it won¡¯t affect the fame of his majesty and the royal family.¡±

    Seveni was stunned. She looked at Xu Yi and asked in a serious voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you shaming me and royal father? Our Lampuri Royal Family, how could there be anyone who won¡¯t take responsibility!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Your highness, you don¡¯t need to be this serious. To manypanies, it¡¯s fine as long as they make money, they don¡¯t care about their fame at all. Like our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with aplicated expression on her face. It was praise, guild, admiration, and even a bit of fanaticism, before she finally gave a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, when you proposed this n, did you already think of this?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi looked at the expression on Seveni¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Your highness, you mustn¡¯t think that I¡¯ll suffer a loss from this matter. In the long term, me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will benefit far more than you can imagine from this.¡±

    ¡°I hope so.¡± Seveni said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve always looked down on merchants who have their heads filled with gold coins, but I have to admit that you have abilities that I don¡¯t have. And now, not only do I admire your abilities, I also seriously hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can be bigger, or rather you can be more rich.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your highness¡¯ blessing, we definitely will.¡±

    For Seveni¡¯s sudden trip this time, the matter of building roads was secondary whereas the main topic was the production magic machine for the weapons and armours that Camby¡¯s dwarves were developing.

    After close to two months of research, Camby¡¯s dwarves had finally developed three Magic Punch Presses specially used for making armours.

    Seeing the iron sheets being used by the Magic Punch Presses and easily being molded into different shapes before being made into simple armour after some simple cutting, Seveni couldn¡¯t stop her eyes from opening wide.

    In Anvilmar City, she had visited a cksmith to watch a set of armour being made.

    Even if it was the most simple form of armour, a cksmith would start by first refining the iron before finally creating aplete set of armour. In total it would take up to a whole day to finish.

    Sometimes there would be problems that urred and it would take more than a day to finish.

    Now in front of Seveni, these Magic Punch Presses used less than an hour to finish casting a set of armour. Then after ten minutes of assembling from Camby, it became aplete set of armour.

    And with the introduction from Xu Yi, Seveni understood that these Magic Punch Presses were going slower than normal.

    If they went at full speed, with the efficiency of these Magic Punch Presses, they could make fifty sets of armour in just a single hour.

    Even if they only worked eight hours a day, they could produce four hundred sets of armour!

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is the cost of this set of armour?¡± Seveni asked the most important question for her.

    ¡°Cost?¡± Xu Yi looked at the finished set of armour in Camby¡¯s hands and said with a shrug, ¡°Other than the material cost of the armour, there¡¯s also a bit needed for the people who operate the machines. As for the other costs¡­...right, it¡¯s just a bit of Magic Crystals.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Then doesn¡¯t that mean there is almost no cost?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If it ispared to a cksmith, it can be said like that.¡± Seeing Seveni¡¯s look of disbelief, Xu Yi added, ¡°Don¡¯t be surprised, your highness, this is the power of industry. Didn¡¯t you experience it with the agricultural magic machines from before?¡±

    ¡°The power of industry?¡± Seveni looked at the armour in Camby¡¯s hands and couldn¡¯t help sinking into deep thought.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could mass produce these Magic Punch Presses, then the speed of producing armour and weapons would be greatly increased while the cost would be greatly reduced.

    Like this, the kingdom¡¯s soldiers wouldn¡¯t need to worry about not having weapons and armours and the battle strength of the royal army would be greatly increased.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom had enough military might, although they wouldn¡¯t have the guts topare to the two colossi of the Candra and Marlow Empires, they could at least protect themselves from the surrounding countries.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom was safe, the kingdom could peacefully develop. It would mean that royal father¡¯s care and dedication wouldn¡¯t be wasted.

    Thinking of the kingdom¡¯s development, Seveni¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help falling onto the face of Xu Yi who was talking to Camby.

    Coming to Banta City this time, Seveni found that anotherrge change had urred in Banta City.

    Everyone in Banta City seemed busy like everyone had many things to do. The entire city was filled with positivity and life, which was different from the depressing aura it normally had from being so remote.

    When she went to the Sandton Manor where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory was, she found that the surrounding area had be a giant work site. Around Sandton Manor, there were manyrge and small workshops that kept letting out the sounds of machines turning.

    Everyone on the roads seemed very busy, but their faces were covered in happy smiles.

    What was it that changed the people and the city?

    Seveni kept thinking about this question, but hearing what Xu Yi said, she understood.

    Yes, it was like Xu Yi had said, it was the power of industry that changed the people of Banta City and Banta City itself.

    From the ces that Seveni had seen, the power of industry had also changed Karma City, Saltan City, Canberra City, and Norton City.

    In the near future, the power of industry will definitely change Cramer City, Anvilmar City, and finally the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    When this power developed in the Lampuri Kingdom, Seveni believe that the Lampuri Kingdom of that time will shock the entire continent!

 Volume 2 47 - Celebrity effect

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 47 Celebrity effect</strong>

    There was a rare thunderstormst night thatpletely washed away the summer heat. It also washed over Banta City, making the city feel much more refreshing.

    When the sun came up over the horizon, the weather began to rise and the city was filled with the heat of summer again.

    Early morning, Xu Yi picked up Still from her home and after getting breakfast together, the two of them wandered around Banta City.

    Even if he was busy with many things during this time, Xu Yi still set aside a day or half a day to spend with Still.

    After all, for something like dating, there was only meaning if the two of them could spend time alone.

    But for Xu Yi, walking around window shopping with Still was still a boring thing for him. It was because as an engineer, he couldn¡¯t understand no matter what why Still wanted to spend an hour in a clothes shop, even trying out every single piece of clothing in the shop before only buying one or two pieces.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, clothes were just used to cover yourself and for heating one¡¯s body, there was no meaning in its appearance.

    It was summer now and if this was earth, unless it was necessary, Xu Yi would spend most of his time in shorts and a t-shirt, ignoring everything else.

    Of course, his views on earth had already been severely criticized by his female coworkers. So now that he was apanying Still in window shopping, even if he wasn¡¯t willing, he obediently chose to close his mouth and let Still pull him around to try different things.

    One thing that was worth mentioning was that while the Sines Continent couldn¡¯tpare to earth in terms of technology, they weren¡¯tcking at all in terms of clothes. Just in this store that was less than a hundred square meters, it was filled with over two hundred different designs of women¡¯s summer clothing, which dazzled Xu Yi when he looked over it.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s helpless face as he stood there, Still revealed a bright smile to him as she said, ¡°Alright, just wait patiently. The store is much cooler than being outside, so it¡¯s better to stay in here than to go out.¡±

    Being reminded by Still, Xu Yi finally realized it. This clothes shop was much cooler than outside and it felt quite refreshing.

    Looking around, Xu Yi saw a Magic Air Conditioner on the right side wall that kept blowing out cool air into the store.

    There was no need to say it, it was the Frestech Brand.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fall onto the Magic Air Conditioner, the owner who had never left their side since Still and Xu Yi came into the store said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Brand Magic Fan really is easy to use. Since we started using it, our store has always been cool, so our store¡¯s business has be much better.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is it because more people havee into your store to enjoy the cool air?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°It should be.¡± The owner was a woman in her thirties and her smile looked very friendly. Perhaps this was also a reason why her store¡¯s business was so good, ¡°Think about it, our store is so cool, but after staying for a while, wouldn¡¯t they be embarrassed if they didn¡¯t buy anything?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Are you warning me to not leave empty handed?¡±

    The ownerughed, ¡°How could that be? What kind of people are chairman Xu and young miss Still, how could I dare warn you? But chairman Xu, I have a question to ask you and it¡¯s a rare opportunity to meet you, so can I ask it?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What question? Just ask whatever you want.¡±

    The owner nodded before pointing at the Magic Air Conditioner and saying, ¡°Please take a look, isn¡¯t the outside of the Magic Air Conditioner a bit rusted?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall and found that although the outside had been cleaned several times, he could see quite a bit of rust still. He gave a nod, ¡°Un, it is indeed quite rusted. It seems like you¡¯ve bought this Magic Air Conditioner for some time?¡±

    ¡°Un, I bought itst summer when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce just released it.¡± The owner replied.

    Xu Yi looked at her in surprise, ¡°Oh? Then your eyes are really good and you¡¯re willing to spend money, no wonder your business has be better. You have to know, when our Frestech Chamber of Commerce came out with this Magic Air Conditionerst summer, the sale numbers weren¡¯t that good.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s twenty gold coins for one, I felt quite pained when I bought itst year. Of course, it was quite worth it calcting everything.¡± The owner said with a smile.

    ¡°Un, do you have any other questions?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Oh, didn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce release the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker recently, my family bought one of each. Then I found that the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker were like you said, they didn¡¯t rust at all¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Right, it is because the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker is made of the new material and this material is a form of stainless steel, so it doesn¡¯t rust.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, since you use the non-rust material to make the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker, then I think¡­...If you make more Magic Air Conditioners, you should be using this kind of material, right? Look at how rusty the Magic Air Conditioner in my store is, not mentioning how long I can keep using it, it just doesn¡¯t look good. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can release a Magic Air Conditioner that is made with the new material, I can exchange for one to use. That¡¯s right, will you be doing the exchange program with the new Magic Air Conditioners?¡± The owner asked.

    Xu Yi looked at the owner in a bit of surprise before saying with augh, ¡°Be assured, I can reveal some things to you now. The new generation Magic Air Conditioner will be released in another few days. Moreover, it is like you have thought, the new generation Magic Air Conditioner is made from the new material. Not only will it not rust, it is much lighter, and because of the new technology it contains, you can also change the temperature, so it¡¯s much easier to use.¡±

    ¡°You can also change the temperature?¡± The owner was overjoyed, ¡°That¡¯s great! This Magic Air Conditioner will make things very cold when it¡¯s on for a long time, but it only needs to be as cool as when it is turned on. There are times when the weather isn¡¯t that hot, so turning it on will make you feel a bit cold, but it¡¯s ufortable if it¡¯s not turned on. If you can adjust the temperature, that would be best.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s clear that we¡¯ve noticed this problem, so the new generation Magic Air Conditioner has this new technology added in.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You have to believe that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the user¡¯s experience as our highest priority. As long as the people who buy our products are satisfied, it will allow our products to sell more and more, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right. It¡¯s like how we sell clothes, as long as people feelfortable and look good wearing our clothes, they will be repeat customers. Look¡­..Ah, young miss Still, these clothes are really suited for you!¡± The owner suddenly looked over and called out in an exaggerated manner.

    Xu Yi also turned over and his eyes lit up.

    Still came out of the changing room wearing a water green short skirt that was over her knees. Because of the tight fitting design of the dress, it revealed her perfect figure, making her look very slender.

    The design of the short dress was quite simple, but it matched Still¡¯s perfect face and figure, contrasting with her noble aura to make her seem even more elegant.

    Adding in the beautiful long golden hair she had, it made her entire person feel even more dazzling.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over her and he couldn¡¯t help staying on her slender legs that were revealed, as he couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°Truly beautiful!¡±

    Still proudly revealed a smile and turned around before asking Xu Yi, ¡°How about it? Are you satisfied?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t respond and turned to the owner to say, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll buy this one.¡±

    The owner waved her hand, ¡°Chairman Xu and young miss Still have graced my little store, it is my honour, so how could I take your money? These clothes were born to be worn by young miss Still and young miss Still likes them, so I¡¯ll just give them to you as a gift.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°How could that be. Still might just like several pieces of clothes, would you just give them all for free?¡±

    The owner paused for a second before her smile became even brighter, ¡°It¡¯s no problem if it¡¯s all free. If a beautiful and noble girl like young miss Still likes our clothes, wouldn¡¯t that mean our clothes are worth buying? As long as I tell everyone that our ¡®Banta City Goddess¡¯ young miss Still bought several pieces of clothes in my little store, I dare to guarantee that all the girls in Banta City will rush to my store.¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi held the owner in high esteems.

    When he heard that she spent twenty gold coins to buy the Magic Air Conditionerst summer, Xu Yi felt that this owner had quite the insight. Now that he heard that she actually understood Still¡¯s celebrity effect, Xu Yi praised her business sense even more.

    When Xu Yi wanted to speak up to reject her, Still suddenly asked, ¡°When I was trying out clothes, I noticed that yourpany doesn¡¯t just sell clothes from the Armani Chamber of Commerce. You also sell clothes from otherpanies, right?¡±

    The owner was stunned before she gave a nod, ¡°Right, what about it? Is there a problem?¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯m sorry, I can¡¯t take this gift from you. Moreover, I hope that you can promise me that you won¡¯t tell anyone else that I bought clothes from here.¡± Still said in a serious voice.

    Xu Yi and the owner were stunned. The owner couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Why? Young miss Still, it isn¡¯t an embarrassing matter to buy clothes from my ce, so why can¡¯t this be spread?¡±

    An apologetic look appeared on Still¡¯s face as she said, ¡°This is because I¡¯ve signed a contract with the Armani Chamber of Commerce to represent the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s clothes. So out of consideration for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, I can¡¯t represent the clothes of any otherpanies.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned for a second before remembering that the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent hade looking for himst time. He wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to research a cotton weaving magic machine for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, but he also wanted to use him to contact Still to discuss something.

    Although Xu Yi had passed this on to Still, because he was too busy, he had forgotten to ask what they had discussed. Hearing what Still said, chairman Vincent had actually found Still to be the spokesperson of hispany!

    It had to be said, chairman Vincent¡¯s choice was very correct.

    Still not only had an outstanding appearance, her fame in Banta City and the surrounding cities was very high right now.

    Not only did she have the attention of the men from these cities, she also became the idol in the minds of the young girls from other cities.

    The clothes she wore would naturally be mimicked by the young girls of all these cities.

    If everyone knew that she only wore clothes from the Armani Chamber of Commerce, naturally the sale amount for the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s clothes would increase.

    Xu Yi was not surprised that chairman Vincent chose Still as his spokesperson, but he was surprised that Still would think this much about the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s benefits.

    Based on this, Still already had professional qualities that many stars on earth had already forgotten about.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help bing a bit strange.

    He had never thought about this before, but after thinking about it, he suddenly realized that unintentionally, he had actually be the lover of arge star!

 Volume 2 48 - Way out after graduation

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 48 Way out after graduation</strong>

    In the end, Still rejected the owner¡¯s idea of giving her clothes, but under the owner¡¯s request, she still agreed to allow the owner spread the news that she had bought clothes from her store.

    But Still had made the owner promise that when she spread this news, she had to add that Still had only bought clothes from the Armani Chamber of Commerce and didn¡¯t buy clothes made from otherpanies.

    ¡°I¡¯m very curious about this. Still, since chairman Vincent chose you as the spokesperson for hispany, could it be that he can¡¯t do something as simple as specially designing clothes for you and giving you free clothes?¡± When they walked out of the clothes store, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking this.

    ¡°Of course there is this, chairman Vincent wouldn¡¯t be this stingy. Actually the clothes that I¡¯ve been wearing before, they were all given to me for free from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.¡± Still replied.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Since you already get clothes for free, why are youing out to buy them?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand this? Shopping for clothes is fun, it isn¡¯t about buying anything, it¡¯s about the process of buying something.¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°Then again, the Armani Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t give me all my clothes. If I walk around myself, perhaps I can find something that I haven¡¯t seen before.¡±

    As for this kind of fun, Xu Yi could only shrug his shoulder to show that he didn¡¯t understand.

    Still suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found more and more that being famous really isn¡¯t a good thing. Look at how we¡¯re just walking on the street, there is always someone pointing, it feels quite ufortable. Even buying clothes has be this troublesome, it¡¯s not like before where I could freely walk through the streets.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her face and thought about it before asking, ¡°Do you really think this? As far as I know, there are many girls who are jealous of you and hope that they can be as famous as you.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s because they aren¡¯t famous yet, they don¡¯t know how troublesome it is.¡± Still said with a sigh.

    Xu Yi thought about it before he stopped moving. He looked at Still and said with a serious face, ¡°Still, if you really want to return to being a normal person, there is still time right now. Otherwise once you be famous across the Lampuri Kingdom or even the entire Sines Continent, it will be very hard for you to be a normal person then.¡±

    Still tilted her head to think before hesitantly shaking her head, ¡°I¡¯m not too clear on this, give me some time to think about it.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    Although Still felt that being famous was very troublesome, as a normal young girl, of course she wanted to be the center of everyone¡¯s attention and it was normal for her to have some hesitations.

    ¡°Alright, no matter what decision you make, I will support you.¡±

    Perhaps after experiencing this matter, Still¡¯s enthusiasm for window shopping dropped quite a bit. She just bought some things that she already wanted before going to a tea house in the corner with Xu Yi, chatting while drinking cold drinks.

    When it was close to noon, the two of them didn¡¯t eat a meal in the city. Rather they hired a horse carriage and headed towards Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    Today was Baron Rickto Magic Academy¡¯s graduation day.

    Other than being the end of the school year for students in their first to third years, it also represented the end of studying for fourth year students as they officially graduated.

    Xu Yi and Still chose toe here today was first to congratte Vivian on sessfully finishing her first year at Baron Rickto Magic Academy. Secondly it was for the graduating students of the magic department.

    Last year, Xu Yi had signed a contract with the Baron Rickto Magic Academy in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, setting up a special assistance fund at the school.

    When this assistance fund was opened, the school was thrown into an uproar as some students from poor families submitted their applications.

    Now after half a year, this assistance fund had paid over three thousand gold coins, helping over two hundred students finish their year of study.

    Of the three hundred and sixty seven students graduating from Baron Rickto Magic Academy¡¯s magic department, there were thirteen people who epted help from this special fund.

    ording to the contract they signed when they epted this fund, once they graduated from this school, they would have to work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for at least three years.

    The reason why Xu Yi and Still came today, other than congratting these students on sessfully graduating, they were also here on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign an employment contract with them.

    Although as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame grew and magic machines were imprinted deeper into people¡¯s hearts, causing the low grade magicians at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to increase to ny three people from the previous nine people, these ny three people were all quite old. They were mostly low grade magicians with strength stuck at the First or Second Grade.

    These magicians didn¡¯t have any future development, so it was impossible for them to join the research facility. They could only remain in the factory to draw the Magic Arrays needed toplete the magic machines.

    Although these people were important as fundamental parts of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what Xu Yi valued more were people like Evita and the others with talent. High level people who could help with studying and developing magic machines.

    Even if the Baron Rickto Magic Academy graduates were just average and there weren¡¯t many magicians with talent among them,pared to the old magicians who were set in their ways, there was more room to grow.

    If they entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and were trained for some time, there could be several qualified magic mechanical engineers that could appear from them.

    So Xu Yi valued the thirteen students who joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through this special fund very much, even personallying to sign their contracts.

    Right now Xu Yi and Still were stars in Banta City, so not only did people stare when they walked through the streets, they drew quite a bit of attention when they came to Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    They picked up Vivian from the art department before heading to the magic department, finding that their graduation had just finished. The thirteen students who had applied for the special fund quickly noticed the three of them from the noise of the crowd.

    These thirteen students had already seen Xu Yi once when they applied for the fund, so they had a deep impression of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    In the past year, because of the special fund from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their studies had been finished much more smoothly. Their magic power increased far more than it had in three yearsbined, so they were very grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t forget Xu Yi.

    Then there was Still whose appearance everyone in Banta City was familiar with. A man that could hold hands and be this close to Still, there was no one else other than Xu Yi.

    So the thirteen students pushed through the crowd and appeared in front of Xu Yi, looking at him with expectant gazes.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes looked over these young faces and he sighed with emotion in his heart.

    These thirteen students seemed quite normal, but they had a great significance to the beginning of a magic machine industrial system on the Sines Continent.

    This was because they represented a new path for children who learned magic after they had graduated. Other than entering the armies of their kingdoms or entering Magic Towers to work under powerful magicians, they could now enter the magic machine industry.

    If this gradually became epted, studying magic machines will be an eptable choice for all magicians on the continent. That would mean that the magic machine industry would have set its roots on the Sines Continent and would develop sooner orter.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi revealed a bright smile towards these thirteen students.

    ¡°Sake, Elena, Alessandro, Gal¡­..¡±

    There were five boys and eight girls among these thirteen students and he actually didn¡¯t miss a single name.

    After naming them all, Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a weing pose, ¡°In my name as the chairman, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to happily wee you all in joining us. I hope that you¡¯ll spend a happy and productive three years in ourpany.¡±

    The thirteen students looked at each other before they all revealed bright smiles.

    If it was said that they were worried about the serious restriction of being forced to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for three years after graduation, during this half a year, everyone noticed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing at a quick speed and had be argepany in Banta City that everyone favoured.

    Of the magicians that worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only did everyone receive enviable high wages, they could also keep studying magic, raising their magic power while working.

    Work that satisfied both sides, who wasn¡¯t willing to do it?

    Seeing Xu Yi take out contracts for these thirteen students to sign, another student who had just graduated from the magic department asked in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, can students who didn¡¯t apply for the special fund also work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up in surprise in the direction of the voice and saw the rough linen clothes that student was wearing. He revealed a faint smile and said in a kind voice, ¡°Of course. The students who applied for the special fund are just following their past contract to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for three years, but that does not mean that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t wee other students like you to work for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Then can I apply to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± The student asked again.

    Xu Yi looked over the other students paying attention to them before replying with a nod, ¡°Of course.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, the students around him exploded.

    After a while, the student who had just asked these questions pushed his way through the crowd. He came to Xu Yi¡¯s side with an excited look and pointed at himself as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m called Drexel, I have also just graduated from this school and I¡¯m currently a Third Grade Magician. Is that alright?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Drexel¡¯s expectant face and looked at the excited students around him before feeling a bit stunned.

    Could it be¡­...the effects of his trip to Baron Rickto Magic Academy would be even better than he had expected?

 Volume 2 49 - Road opening

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 49 Road opening</strong>

    Facts proved that Xu Yi¡¯s guess was right.

    After staying at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy for a day, not only did Xu Yi sign contracts with the thirteen students who had epted the special fund, making them employees of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There were also twenty four other graduates who expressed their willingness to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to Xu Yi.

    Naturally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t just agree to them, rather he had them prepare themselves toe to the Sandton Manor three dayster to be tested.

    Actually Xu Yi wanted to not waste another word and ept these over twenty students, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in urgent need ofrge amounts of magicians.

    Although the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was not the best magic school in the Lampuri Kingdom, it was still much stronger than the Senkaiser School that Xu Yi had attended before.

    Being able to graduate from this ce, normally one had to be at least a Second Grade Magician. There were even quite a few who were Third or Fourth Grade Magicians.

    If these students could be recruited into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they were trained for a while, the magic research facility would be filled with staff.

    Of course, it was just the beginning recruiting these students into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thepany in the future would still requirerge amounts of magicians, or rather more urately speaking, they needed more magic mechanical engineers. Xu Yi had considered all of this and after discussing this with the Baron Rickto Magic Academy management, he decided on starting a magic mechanical engineering department at the school.

    As the department¡¯s name implied, they would be learning knowledge rted to magic machines.

    But to create this department, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to pay the Baron Rickto Magic Academy ten thousand gold coins each year.

    When summer passed and the Baron Rickto Magic Academy began to recruit students again, this department would also be attracting new students.

    When the students of the magic mechanical engineering department graduated, the path that they would choose to take would naturally be work rted to magic machines.

    ¡°Investing ten thousand gold coins each year just for the possibility of a few students, isn¡¯t this too wasteful?¡± On the way back, Still expressed her doubts to Xu Yi.

    ¡°When the fall enrollment seasones, as long as there is a single student that joins the magic mechanical engineering department, this means this ten thousand gold coins will be worth it.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°The significance of this branch is much greater than its practical uses. I just want to use this department to tell those kids that want to learn magic that magic is not just about power and breaking things, there are many other methods to use it. When this idea enters everyone¡¯s mind and is epted by them, there will be more and more students who join this department.¡±

    ¡°But how many years will that take?¡± Still then said, ¡°Is this really worth it?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no choice. Creating aplete industrial system is arge project that takes a long time, I can only build the foundation bit by bit. As for when it will bloom, I can¡¯t be certain.¡±

    After pausing, Xu Yi then said, ¡°In fact, if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that ourpany doesn¡¯t have that much money, I even want to open a school that is dedicated to teaching magic mechanical engineering. I want to recruit those children with talent in magic and teach them about magic machines from a young age. You have to know, magic machines are not just about magic, there is also quite a bit of engineering knowledge that needs to be learned. If one onlyes in contact with it midway, the effects wouldn¡¯t be as good.¡±

    ¡°Un, I have some experience now.¡± Still gave a nod, ¡°I¡¯ve been busy with advertising in the past few months, so I rarely spent time researching Magic Arrays with Evita and the others. I went back there a few days ago and found that when I discussed things with Evita and Akali, I couldn¡¯t understand what they were saying at all!¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he tapped Still¡¯s nose, ¡°It¡¯s very normal that you can¡¯t understand. Evita and the others spend arge amount of time each day with their research and the new technology they have developed has even surprised me. If azy fellow like you could stay at the same level as them, it really wouldn¡¯t be fair.¡±

    Still gave a soft snort and twisted her little nose as she said, ¡°Give me some time, I will definitely catch them. That¡¯s right, what you talked about with the owner of the clothing store, the new technology that the new generation of Magic Air Conditioners is using where you can adjust the temperature, was it the new technology that Evita and the others recently developed?¡±

    ¡°Un, the ability to adjust temperatures, it was because of the energy gradation technology that they had just discovered. This technology can control the amount of magic being released from the Magic Crystal, which controls the might of the Magic Array. If this is ced in the Magic Air conditioner, it would mean that the might of the Frost Array inside the Magic Air Conditioner can be adjusted, changing the temperature of the wind being blown out.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Still thought about it and couldn¡¯t help sighing as she said, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, it really is incredible. I¡¯ve only casually thought about this technology and found many ces to implement it, no wonder even you were shocked by it.¡±

    ¡°Un, I thought that Evita and the others would take a long time to solve this problem, but I never thought that they would solve it this quickly. It really is incredible.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he praised them, ¡°Actually to be honest,pared to this magic power gradation technology, the long distance magic transfer technology is more important. We can¡¯t implement it properly right now, but as we develop this technology, you¡¯ll find that this technology canpletely change your life!¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Still¡¯s eyes lit up as she seriously looked at Xu Yi. She smiled as she hugged him and said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be waiting to see it.¡±

    To see the effects of the long distance magic transfer technology was not easy, but it was easy to see the difference between public roads and normal roads.

    When the twenty four students of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy all passed the application process and began working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, chairman Cruise brought Xu Yi a great piece of news.

    The Falling Rain Road, it was finallyplete!

    It should be said that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was very efficient. This fifty seven kilometers road from Banta City to the Falling Rain Valley waspleted by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in just a short three months.

    And after it wasplete, Xu Yi had inspected it and had confirmed that the quality of the road was quite good.

    Xu Yi¡¯s fifteen centimeter thick road was changed to twenty centimeters in the end. The concrete road was very t, there weren¡¯t any bumps that could be seen at all.

    Looking out, the road was like a white path that led off into the distance from Banta City, looking truly beautiful.

    The only thing that was bad was that although it had been widened, it still didn¡¯t reach four meters. On the road back on earth, at most it could be considered two traffes, which could only be seen on rural roads.

    Compared to those sixne provincial highways or the tenne national highways, it was really arge difference.

    To the Sines Continent, this was the first public road, so it had arge significance.

    When the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that the Falling Rain Road was finished, they conducted a ribbon cutting ceremony outside of Banta City. Even Count Sean hade to this ceremony and gave a speech, praising the significance of this road.

    Actually there was no need for Count Sean to praise it, just by using one¡¯s eyes, everyone could see that this road was as calm as dead water. There was no doubt that it was countless times better than the roads made of ordinary gravel.

    When the Falling Rain Road opening ceremony was over, countless people stepped on the roads. They didn¡¯t feel any bumps from under their feet, which caused them to gasp in surprise.

    As for the nobles andpany representatives that Xu Yi and chairman Cruise had invited, they drove their horse carriages onto the roads, their surprise turned into shock.

    The horse carriage galloped at high speeds on the road and it didn¡¯t shake at all!

    Compared to when sitting in the carriage almost threw people out, this was a heaven and earth difference!

    Also by traveling on a smooth surface like this, the horse carriage being influenced by the bumpy ground was minimalized, so they moved more than twice as fast as on normal roads.

    Chairman Mark Pompeii of the Fersen Carriage Company only tried the road for a bit before immediately searching for Xu Yi who was talking to Count Sean. He didn¡¯t care about Count Sean at all as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is investing in a road from Banta City to Karma City?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it? Is chairman Pompeii also interested?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii kept asking, ¡°Then can I ask chairman Xu, how much are you nning to invest in this road?¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin and thought for a bit before replying, ¡°I¡¯m not clear on the mount now. However because this road is a bit moreplicated and I want a wider road, ording to the estimates of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the current estimate should be around three hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Around three hundred thousand gold coins¡­..¡± Chairman Pompeii lowered his head to think before suddenly turning to Count Sean and saying with a serious face, ¡°Lord City Lord, our Fersen Carriage Company is willing to do the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, contributing our strength to Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom. We currently are nning to invest in a public road from Banta City to Saltan City, I ask the Lord City Lord to agree to this!¡±

 Volume 2 50 - Labour shortage

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 50Labour shortage</strong>

    Of course chairman Pompeii was not dumb and the Fersen Carriage Company didn¡¯t have money they wanted to waste.

    He had raised this idea of a road connecting Banta City and Saltan City because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in a road connecting Banta City to Karma City was a thing that everyone knew, there was even a public announcement from the City Lord¡¯s Manor in the city square.

    Regarding this matter, whether it was the newspapers in Banta City or Karma City, they all issuedrge amounts of reports on it. Even the newspapers in Anvilmar CIty had done a series on this.

    From these reports, everyone had learned that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished these roads, they would be establishing toll booths on these roads that would collect fees from all horse carriages using these roads.

    On this point, most people didn¡¯t care and a small portion turned their noses at it.

    Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce crazy? They actually wanted to make money on collecting toll fees?

    They wanted money? It¡¯s very simple, at best I won¡¯t use that broken road.

    Anyway this road was being built somewhere else, it wouldn¡¯t affect the current road between Banta City and Karma City.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to use toll fees to collect the costs of building this road, this was simply wishful thinking.

    But what other thought was not what chairman Pompeii thought.

    As the chairman of the Fersen Carriage Company, he understood better than anyone how much a good road would affect the business of horse carriages.

    Not mentioning anything else, the Fersen Chamber of Commerce spent as much as a hundred thousand to a hundred and fifty thousand each year on fixing horse carriages.

    If they counted the costs that came from horse carriages running on bad roads, this number would reach close to two hundred thousand.

    Chairman Pompeii had thought before that if each road in the Lampuri Kingdom was as smooth as the marble road in front of the Anvilmar City¡¯s royal pce, then the Fersen Chamber of Commerce could save at least a hundred thousand gold coins in fixed costs.

    Moreover, as the roads were improved, the speed of the horse carriages would be increased. People would have better journeys and the business of riding horse carriages would be much better.

    But all these well wishes were nothing more than simple dreams.

    The path in front of the royal pce was only five hundred meters long and ten meters wide, but because the materials used were the best marble blocks, which were carefully carved by the best stonemasons, it cost over seven hundred thousand gold coins to build.

    If they wanted to turn all the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom into something simr, the amount of gold coins spent was something even the richest Candra Empire couldn¡¯t support.

    Chairman Pompeii had given up on this hope until he saw the road the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built.

    Althoughpared to that smooth road in front of the royal pce, this public road was a bitcking, but it was countless times better than those roads that were covered in pieces of rocks.

    If chairman Pompeii had a choice, even if he had to pay a toll fee to use it, he would definitely have the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s horse carriages travel on this kind of road.

    He was certain that even if the otherpanies couldn¡¯t see the significance this road had, afterparing them, the otherpanies would also choose to drive their horse carriages over this road.

    Ignoring the damage reduced to their products by going on a road like this, just based on the time saved, it was not something that a trivial toll fee couldpare to.

    So chairman Pompeii could instantly determine that something like collecting toll fees was definitely worth it.

    So he immediately looked for Xu Yi and proposed his idea of building a road to Count Sean.

    Of course, the most important factor in his decision was¡­..the price of building the road was low enough.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, the fifty seven kilometer road to the Falling Rain Valley cost no more than two hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for the close to seventy kilometer road connecting Banta City to Karma City, it would cost around less than three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Although Saltan City was a bit further from Banta City, ording to their estimates, it wouldn¡¯t cost more than four hundred thousand even if they used the materials. The Fersen Carriage Company could definitely ept this.

    The most important thing was that when the otherpanies reacted, they would all begin building public roads. Not long after, all the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom would be reced with public roads.

    When that timees, the ones who would profit the most would without a doubt be the Fersen Carriage Company who relied on the roads.

    ¡°Hei, that fellow Pompeii looks like his heart¡¯s blooming with joy. He probably thinks that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is doing everything to help his Fersen Carriage Company.¡± Chairman Cruise watched the changing scene outside the horse carriage before curling his lips and looking back at Xu Yi. He shook his head and said, ¡°Actually he never would have thought that everything was ording to your n.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t look out the window and just casually patted his seat before saying with a smile, ¡°You can¡¯t say that it¡¯s everything. Look, if all the roads of the Lampuri Kingdom are turned into smooth roads like this, at least it¡¯ll be much morefortable sitting in horse carriages.¡±

    The horse carriage the two were in were traveling on the newly finished Falling Rain Road. Because of how smooth the road was, although the carriage kept traveling at a high speed, it was very stable. It wasn¡¯t as ufortable as sitting in horse carriages traveling on gravel roads.

    Chairman Cruiseughed as he nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right. To be honest, after traveling on these roads a few times, if you have me go back to going on those broken roads, I really can¡¯t take it. Ai, I don¡¯t know when the roads of the Lampuri Kingdom will all be turned into this kind offortable road.¡±

    Xu Yi considered it a bit before saying, ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be too long. After this Falling Rain Road has been finished, the newspapers of the kingdom have been reporting on them and the royal family has been advertising it, so the entire Lampuri Kingdom should know of the benefits this road brings. Adding in the fact that the royal family is advertising the two roads being built by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Fersen Carriage Company, I believe thepanies of the kingdom will understand the benefits of building roads. Not long soon, you will find that many people will be looking for your Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build roads.¡±

    Chairman Cruise slightly knit his brows, ¡°With ourpany¡¯s current abilities, it takes all our strength to finish these two roads. If there are more people who want to build roads, we might not be able to do it.¡±

    ¡°Then are you willing to reveal the cement technology and let the otherpanies help you?¡±

    Being teased by Xu Yi, chairman Cruise quickly shook his head without even thinking.

    ¡°Of course not. How about this, chairman Xu, with this opportunity, I will order another set of concrete machines from you. Other than that, I hope that you can develop the other road building magic machines, I¡¯m in a rush to use them now.¡±

    ¡°The equipment is easy to say, but what about people?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°In Banta City right now, I think you shouldn¡¯t be able to find enough people, right?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention manpower, chairman Cruise gave a long sigh and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Speaking of this, I really don¡¯t know whether to praise you or scold you?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Before your Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, there were idle people all over Banta City. If I gave a sry of three gold coins per month, there would be arge group of people willing to work. But now that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has opened several new factories and have recruited over a thousand people, you also created this smallpany support n, causing people to be recruiting all over Banta City. I wanted to hire some more people to fix the road, but can you guess what happened?¡±

    ¡°What? You couldn¡¯t hire any people?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I couldn¡¯t hire any people, but for a job that does small work like ttening a road, they actually wanted a sry of seven gold coins a month! This is simply robbery!¡± Chairman Cruise indignantly said.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Not bad, it¡¯s only seven gold coins, it¡¯s not that much. Our starting wage when hiring people is now ten gold coins per month.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Who darespete with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce! You people have always been generous, it¡¯s simply being a wastrel. But in the end, if it wasn¡¯t for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce raising the wages so high, ourpanies wouldn¡¯t have all this trouble.¡±

    ¡°I exined this to youst year. The increase in wages for workers is a result of economic development, it isn¡¯t something that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can change alone. With the current demand for workers in Banta City, even if ourpany didn¡¯t increase it, there would be apany that increased the wages. Perhaps you don¡¯t know, but there were somepanies that wanted to poach our workers and they even offered a wage of twenty gold coins a month.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Twenty gold coins? Whichpany is crazier than you?¡± Chairman Cruise asked in surprise, ¡°Weren¡¯t your workers all poached away?¡±

    ¡°It wasn¡¯t onepany, it was manypanies. As long as it¡¯s apany that wants to produce magic machines like us, they will try to poach our workers. Perhaps they think that if they poach our workers, they will be the same as ourpany?¡± A sly smile shed on Xu Yi¡¯s face, ¡°But it¡¯s a good thing that most of our workers are dwarves, so they are quite loyal. So far, there are only a few human workers who have left, so the impact isn¡¯t big.¡±

    Chairman Cruise enviously looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Why can¡¯t I hire that many dwarves? Not only are dwarves strong and have good physiques, they can also suffer and have good craftsmanship, they are truly suited to being workers. Hey, Xu Yi, since you know that many dwarves, can you introduce some to ourpany? I promise to give them high wages! At least ten gold coins per month, how about it?¡±

    ¡°You shouldn¡¯t ask me this, you should go ask the dwarves.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, pointing at the two mountains that had appeared outside the horse carriage window, ¡°There are many dwarves currently living in the Falling Rain Valley. If you have the skills, recruit them to yourpany.¡±

 Volume 2 51 - Steel is the foundation of industry

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 51 Steel is the foundation of industry</strong>

    There were indeed many dwarves in the Falling Rain Valley.

    After half a year of construction, the new dwarven tribe had taken shape.

    Other than most of the dwarves from the Norma and Ang Tribes that moved over, there were many dwarven tribes that chief Siluka and chief Monto knew that had also moved in.

    In this new tribe, there was actually a shocking over two thousand dwarves living here. They had almost filled up all thepleted parts of the new tribe.

    A month ago when chairman Cruise saw all these dwarves moving in, he was so shocked that he couldn¡¯t close his mouth since he had never seen this many dwarves together in his life.

    It had to be known that even if all the dwarves in the Lampuri Kingdom were gathered together, it would be less than fifty thousand dwarves. But now there were over two thousand dwarves gathered in a small ce like this.

    It was no wonder City Lord Sean had specially warned Xu Yi. He wanted him to watch over these dwarves, he couldn¡¯t let anything happen because of them gathering together like this.

    Xu Yi actually answered this very naturally. His method of dealing with this was very simple, he would just give all these dwarves some work.

    For a frank and honest race like the dwarves, they were satisfied as long as they had food and wine. As long as they epted the work Xu Yi gave them, not only could they eat their fill, they could also earn a wage which would let them buy good things that improved their quality of life.

    Although because of work, Xu Yi had strictly restricted them to not drink, that was only during work times and it didn¡¯t apply when they were off work.

    Not to mention that once in a while, Xu Yi had people send over several carriages of wine from the Sachi Manor. They chose a night to hold a banquet and allowed everyone to drink their fill.

    This kind of life, to these dwarves that had lived a life of hiding in the mountains, it was a perfect dream that they never dared think of!

    Since it was like this, how could they have any thoughts of causing trouble.

    On the contrary, they were grateful to Xu Yi who allowed them to have such a good life. Whether it was the Ang or Norma Tribe, or the dwarves that moved in afterwards, they did all they could to finish the work that Xu Yi gave them.

    And it was like chairman Cruise¡¯s appraisal. The dwarves were strong, fit, and had more flexible hands than normal people, so they were the perfect workers.

    Under the hard work of these dwarves, the Falling Rain Valley quickly developed, almost changing every day.

    Before the Falling Rain Road was finished, the dwarves had already ttened the ground of the Falling Rain Valley, preparing to build factories.

    After the Falling Rain Road was finished,rge amounts of goods were quickly brought in through the Falling Rain Road. The dwarves cooperated with the workers of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, creating arge change in the Falling Rain Valley in a short period of time.

    Compared to when Xu Yi came to the Falling Rain Valley the first time to inspect it, this ce had already turned into arge work site.

    Other than the remote living areas that the dwarves were still constructing, in a ce a bit closer to the Falling Rain Road, there was a giant factory that was slowly rising.

    ording to Xu YI¡¯s n, the Falling Rain Valley would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base.

    In the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi had arranged a special production workshop for each of the household magic machines.

    And each of these workshops, they were all several times bigger than the household magic machine workshop at the Sandton Manor. It was big enough to easily fit several hundred workers at the same time.

    When building these workshops, chairman Cruise had expressed his doubts to Xu Yi.

    He felt that with the size of the factory the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the Sandton Manor, it was enough to produce the household magic machines demanded by Banta City and the surrounding cities. Why would he need to make this manyrge workshops in the Falling Rain Valley?

    Xu Yi knocked down his questions with a single sentence.

    ¡°Could it be that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal is just Banta City and the surrounding cities?¡±

    But no matter how many or how big the new factories were, it naturally couldn¡¯t fill up this ten square kilometer wide Falling Rain Valley.

    Other than the living area and the light machine production base, in Xu Yi¡¯s ns, what upied most of thend in the Falling Rain Valley would be the heavy machine production base.

    But whether it was for the Sines Continent or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the so called heavy machines was just in its initial form.

    Other than the magic machines made by the magic machine workshop, the only heavy machines under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name was in the steel factory at the Norma Tribe.

    This steel mill¡¯s current monthly output had just broken six thousand tons, it was far from being able topare to the smallest steel mill on earth.

    As for Xu Yi¡¯s goal of making a steel mill that could supply the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, it was still a long way off.

    Currently the steel mill was mainly refining the Silver Leaf Alloy, which was enough to satisfy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s need for the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Bread Maker, and the new generation of Magic Air Conditioners.

    If they maintained the current output, there was no doubt they couldn¡¯t reach Xu Yi¡¯s goal, they gradually wouldn¡¯t even be able to keep up with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s demand.

    So after Xu Yi and chairman Cruise rode into the Falling Rain Valley in their horse carriage, the first thing they saw was a group of dwarves currently holding arge converter that was three meters tall and had a diameter of close to two meters. Then they put a high support onto the converter.

    ¡°This thing really is impressive.¡± It was chairman Cruise¡¯s first time seeing this thing, so he couldn¡¯t help praising it.

    ¡°This is still small, you¡¯ll see something even more impressive in the future.¡± Xu Yi looked down at the inexperienced chairman Cruise in his heart.

    Indeed,paring the converters that weighed over a hundred tons in therge steel mills on earth, Xu Yi relied on his memories and worked with the dwarves to finish this refiner that could refine over ten tons of materials at once. Their capacity for making steel waspletely different from before.

    But this was the first real converter on the Sines Continent, it represented the steel mills moving away from relying purely one dwarven power to refine steel, so it would greatly increase their capacity for producing steel.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, if this converter was coordinated with a series of steelmaking equipment, the productivity of this steel mill would increase several times. It was even likely that they could break the realm of producing twenty thousand tons of steel a month.

    Moreover this was just the first set of test equipment. Once the equipment was tested and after some changes, the steel mill could invest in several sets of the same equipment and the output of the steel mill would explode.

    Thinking of this steel mill sending outrge amounts of steel in the future, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit excited.

    The so called machines, no matter how high of a technological level it had, the main structure was still made of steel.

    If they couldn¡¯t guarantee a supply of steel, then this industrial system would be like a castle in the sky, it wouldn¡¯t have a foundation at all.

    Of the countries on earth, to evaluate their industrial power, the most important data was their steel production.

    If a country¡¯s steel production output was at a low level, there was no need to discuss any industrial power.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Cami¡¯s figure shed in Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    When researching the steelmaking equipment, Xu Yi and the dwarves encountered an important problem which was how to enhance the speed of refining the iron ores.

    If they followed the old methods of the dwarves, using a vertical heating furnace to refine the iron, not mentioning how slow it was, it also took up arge amount of space which didn¡¯t fit the n for the steel mill.

    So Xu Yi took this question to Great Magician Cami out of habit, but Great Magician Cami directly looked down on it.

    To Great Magician Cami, the dwarves¡¯ use of coal to raise the temperature of their mes wasn¡¯t good enough to begin with.

    With Fire Magic, there were many high level magic spells that could create heat that far surpassed the temperature that burning coal could reach.

    After discussing it with Xu Yi, in the end, Great Magician Cami decided to use a Ninth Grade Magic Spell, the Exploding me Spell.

    In the furnaces the steel mill used, Great Magic Cami had personally drawn the Exploding me Magic Arrays.

    Compared to using coal to stoke the fire, once the Exploding me Magic Array was activated, the temperature increased very quickly and the ore was quickly refined. So only a small furnace was needed to match the speed of the converter, greatly increasing the overall efficiency.

    The more important thing was that it didn¡¯t require coal to operate the furnace, it only required Magic Crystals.

    Compared to coal, Magic Crystals not only had a much lower cost, there also wasn¡¯t any pollution at all.

    Thinking of how this was even more convenient than the electric powered furnaces on earth, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh.

    Even if the Sines Continent wascking in terms of technologypared to earth, with a thing like magic, there were quite a few advantages it had over earth¡¯s developed industrial system.

    While Xu Yi was thinking about the significance of this steel mill, chairman Cruise noticed the small mountains of old Magic Fans, Magic Rice Cookers, and Magic Air Conditioners that were in an open space by the steel mill.

    ¡°Xu Yi, the reason why your Frestech Chamber of Commerce did that exchange even wasn¡¯t just to take back these old Magic Fans and to resmelt them, right?¡± Chairman Cruise pointed at the small mountains as he asked this.

    ¡°Of course, otherwise why would we take them back?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°This is too ineffective. ording to your exchange event, just a single old Magic Fan could make up for fifty gold coins, but if you resmelt them, you can only get a few pounds of scrap iron, which isn¡¯t even worth ten gold coins. If you do this, you might as well just buy iron from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°First, the price of iron ore has increased, so the scrap iron from a Magic Fan is valued at thirty gold coins, so we¡¯re not losing that much.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Secondly,st year our Frestech Chamber of Commerce used old technology to make these Magic Fans, Magic Air Conditioners, and Magic Rice Cookers, so they only use normal iron and the quality isn¡¯t that good. Taking them back now and turning them into the new generation of Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products, not only will it solve the problem of quality, it will also affect our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame.¡±

    ¡°Fame?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in surprise before saying with a sigh, ¡°Although a fame of apany is important, it doesn¡¯t mean that you have to take it to this step, right?¡±

    ¡°You might not understand if I say fame. Alright, let me tell you, do you understand what is called building a brand?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m even more confused.¡± Chairman Cruise immediately shook his head.

    ¡°Alright, to put it simply, if there were two Magic Fans in front of you, one is a Frestech Brand Magic Fan and the other is a Magic Fan from another brand. If these two Magic Fans had the same price, which one would you buy?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Nonsens, of course I would buy your Frestech Brand Magic Fan. The Magic Fans of the otherpanies aren¡¯t as good as the Frestech Brand.¡± Chairman Cruise replied without any hesitation.

    ¡°Then what if the other brand¡¯s Magic Fan had a lower price? Which one would you choose?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°That depends on how much lower it is. If it¡¯s lower by a bit, I will definitely choose the Frestech Brand. If it¡¯s quite a bit lower¡­..¡± Chairman Cruise hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°I¡¯ll still choose the Frestech Brand. No matter what, I definitely hope that what I buy will be good, otherwise it¡¯ll be a waste of my money.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Do you understand the use of a brand now?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was stunned as he suddenly understood.

    When he looked at Xu Yi again, there was a look of admiration in his eyes.

 Volume 2 52 - Plan

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 52 n</strong>

    This time Xu Yi and chairman Cruise came to the Falling Rain Valley together, naturally it was to see the current development here.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the Falling Rain Valley was divided into an industrial area and a living area.

    The first wave of construction in the industrial area was a total of thirteen factories. There were also a thousand buildings for the dwarves that had been finished in the living area, but now they were still going to build another three thousand residences.

    Of course, these three thousand residences weren¡¯t all for dwarves. They also included residences for the humans who wereing to the Falling Rain Valley for work.

    Other than that, the living area couldn¡¯t just be residences, a part of it had to be a business area that satisfied the daily needs of the workers.

    To put it simply, this Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi was nning to but it like a little city from earth.

    In order to improve this n, Xu Yi not only discussed this with chairman Cruise, he also asked Count Sean to find several architects from Anvilmar City to help with this n.

    But these architects were limited by the level of the Sines Continent, there were many aspects where there were conflicts with Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts.

    For example, in terms of a sewage system. The architects nned on following the system from the various cities of the Sines Continent, using a single open canal to collect waste which would finally be discharged into the river that ran through the Falling Rain Forest.

    Xu Yi insisted onpleting an underground sewage system like on earth, so one couldn¡¯t see the sewage from the surface.

    The architects truly couldn¡¯t understand this.

    First the cost would be too high and second, there really was no need for this.

    But after Xu Yi had chairman Cruise exin how they used reinforced concrete to build embankments on the river, the architects understood that the cost wasn¡¯t as high as they thought. Finally they begrudgingly agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    So the n for the Falling Rain Valley was decided,bining the specialities of cities from earth and the Sines Continent.

    Even if it didn¡¯t follow what Xu Yi wanted, they were limited by the technological level of the Sines Continent, so they could only do this.

    This time chairman Cruise came with him mainly to arrange the project of building the roads inside of the Falling Rain Valley.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, all the roads inside Falling Rain Valley had to be at the same standard as the main road and it allowed ess to every part of the Falling Rain Valley.

    Chairman Cruise had already made a n for this, but because Xu Yi and those architects had their discussion and made some changes, which also changed the roads, he had personallye with Xu Yi and nned to give some orders to manager Riley who was in charge of the Falling Rain Valley project.

    After building the factory on the Stagg Family¡¯s territory, manager Riley was now in charge of all projects between the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not only was he familiar with Xu Yi, he was now also very familiar with the dwarves of the Falling Rain Valley.

    When chairman Cruise found him, he was currently chatting with some dwarves. It seemed like they had quite a good rtionship.

    After pulling him to the side and discussing their work, chairman Cruise lowered his voice and asked, ¡°How is your rtionship with the dwarves right now?¡±

    As chairman Cruise¡¯s trusted aide, naturally manager Riley immediately understood his meaning. After thinking about it, he slightly knit his brows, ¡°Rtionship¡­...It¡¯s not bad. The dwarves aren¡¯t as hard to get along with as the rumours say, but¡­..Chairman, I urge you to give up the idea of hiring them.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Chairman Cruise was surprised.

    ¡°This is because I¡¯ve found that dwarves are very stubborn, they don¡¯t know how to be flexible at all. Not mentioning the dwarves of the Norman and Ang Tribes, they only recognize Xu Yi alone. No matter what I talk to them about, it would always change to how they are grateful to Xu Yi for improving their lives.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was silent for a bit before asking in an unwilling to give up voice, ¡°Even if it¡¯s not possible with the dwarves of the Norma and Ang Tribes, aren¡¯t there still other dwarven tribes? Those dwarves aren¡¯t the same as these two dwarven tribes, they haven¡¯t been with Xu Yi for long. Could it be that they also only recognize Xu Yi?¡±

    ¡°They don¡¯t only recognize Xu Yi, but they only believe their dwarven brothers, who are the dwarves of the Norma and Ang Tribes. This means that they only believe in Xu Yi.¡± Manager Riley helplessly said.

    Chairman Cruise turned to look at the dwarves who seemed to never run out of energy busying themselves in the Falling Rain Valley before turning to look at the distant Xu Yi. After a while, he let out a long sigh.

    ¡°Ai, this is as Xu Yi said, you have to seize chances. Now that he has earned the trust of the dwarves ahead of time, I¡¯m afraid it¡¯ll be hard for people to be the same as him in the future, being able to create a good rtionship with the dwarves.¡±

    Manager Riley hesitated a bit before reminding him in a low voice, ¡°Chairman, other than the dwarves, there is also the elves¡­¡­¡±

    Chairman Xu was stunned, but after a while, he suddenly spat out onto the ground.

    ¡°Pei! That damn Xu Yi!¡±

    Xu Yi in the distance naturally never thought that chairman Cruise would actually be cursing him from behind. He was currently focused on the two balls of iron in his hands.

    Using his hands topare them, Xu Yi found that the dark red ball of iron in his left hand was heavier than normal iron and the ck ball of iron was lighter than normal iron.

    ¡°These two are the alloys 29 and 37 you mentioned in your letterst time?¡± Xu Yi asked chief Siluka in front of him.

    ¡°Right, the red one is number 29 and the ck one is number 37.¡± Chief Siluka nodded at the two balls of iron before saying, ¡°Alloy number 29 has very good resistance. We¡¯ve run over five hundred tests on it and there wasn¡¯t a single mark on its surface at all. Alloy number 37 has a very high degree of hardness. I had the strongest brother of the tribe use arge hammer to smash it, but it didn¡¯t leave a single mark.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then these two are quite useful. Did you record the date rted to them?¡± Xu Yi asked in an interested voice.

    ¡°All of it, I guarantee it can be refined at any time.¡± Chief Siluka said with a nod.

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi patted chief Siluka¡¯s shoulder with a smile and said, ¡°You can¡¯t stop the research on the steel alloys at all, you have to test every condition. But after the steel mill isplete, the capacity must be adjusted and you can¡¯t just produce the Silver Leaf Alloys. Rather you need to start producing the number 17 alloy that you mentionedst time. Other than that, you need to make some of this number 37 alloy. I think¡­...a set of armour takes around fifteen kilogram, so for fifty thousand sets¡­...it would be around seven hundred and fifty tons. Alright, just to be safe, produce a thousand tons in two months.¡±

    ¡°A thousand tons isn¡¯t much, but chairman Xu, to suddenly produce all this armour, did something happen to the Lampuri Kingdom?¡± Chief Siluka asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I don¡¯t know.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But the royal army gave us this orderst time, so I can onlyplete it and can¡¯t reject it.¡±

    ¡°The royal army?¡± Chief Siluka was even more confused. After looking over Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t ask anything else and just nodded.

    When discussing the army, the topic would be very serious. Xu Yi thought about it and changed the topic with a smile, as he began asking chief Siluka about the dwarves living in the new tribe.

    Chief Siluka replied with a smile, ¡°This environment is much better than before, the brothers are very happy living here. After the brothers of the other tribes came here, they saw that they weren¡¯t willing to leave and they all wanted to live the rest of their lives here.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that everyone is satisfied. Are there any other requests you have? Just tell me all of them, I will definitely help you do it if I can.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°No need for the trouble.¡± Chief Siluka shook his head, ¡°We dwarves just want to live peaceful lives. Being able to eat our fill and drink some wine asionally, we are already very happy, we don¡¯t need anything else. Now that chairman Xu has already given us such a good environment, most of our brothers are very satisfied.¡±

    ¡°Most?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Then that means there are some dwarves who aren¡¯t satisfied?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chief Siluka said with an awkward smile, ¡°There are some brothers who aren¡¯t used to trusting humans. They feel that since chairman Xu is being this nice to us dwarves, you must have some plot.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Plot? What benefit is here in plotting against you all? Chief Siluka, help me tell those dwarven brothers that I can see the hidden value in your dwarves, so being nice to you all is to have you all work to death for me. As for other things¡­..they are just overthinking it.¡±

    Chief Siluka scratched his head and awkwardly said, ¡°Actually I¡¯ve known chairman Xu for a long time and I already know what kind of human you are. But there are some new brothers who just don¡¯t know. It¡¯s nothing, after a while, they will naturallye to believe in you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t care if you believe in me or not, it¡¯s all good as long as they worked properly.¡± Xu Yi looked around and noticed chairman Cruise talking to manager Riley in a low voice about something. He lowered his voice and said to chief Siluka with a serious face, ¡°Recently the demand for cement has increased, so I hope that you can talk to chief Monto about building another cement factory to increase the output. Als I need to remind you to keep this secret and you mustn¡¯t let anyone steal the recipe for cement.¡±

    Chief Siluke was a bit confused. Although Xu Yi had warned him about keeping the matter of the cement a secret, why was he so careful about it?

    This time it was Xu Yi¡¯s turn to reveal an awkward smile.

    ¡°This¡­..There¡¯s no other way, it¡¯s because I¡­...don¡¯t have any money.¡±

 Volume 2 53 - High defect rate

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 53 High defect rate</strong>

    ¡°Sir chairman, you don¡¯t have money?¡± Agnes who had been silently following him since he came into the Falling Rain Forest suddenly stopped and turned to look at Xu Yi. She dug around in her clothes for a bit before taking out a gold coin to hand to Xu Yi, ¡°Here, I only have this much on me now, you can take it for now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the gold coin in Agnes¡¯ slender fingers in surprise before looking up at Agnes¡¯ serious expression and saying in a confused voice, ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you say to chief Siluka that you don¡¯t have money? I don¡¯t have any use holding onto these gold coins for now, so you can take them.¡± Agnes responded with a natural look on her face.

    Xu Yi finally understood her meaning and didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he pushed her hand back while saying, ¡°Agnes, I said that I don¡¯t have money, but more urately it isn¡¯t that I myself don¡¯t have money, rather it¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that doesn¡¯t have money. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Thepany doesn¡¯t have money?¡± Agnes¡¯ eyes popped open in surprise and she looked at the gold coins in her hand before shaking her head, ¡°This bit probably won¡¯t be enough. How about when we go see the elderter, you can talk to the elder about borrowing some from her? Didn¡¯t you give the elder wages for our nsmen, it seemed to be several thousand gold coins.¡±

    Seeing Agnes¡¯ innocent face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding it funny.

    ¡°Agnes, looks like you still don¡¯t understand what I mean. When I say thepany doesn¡¯t have money, I¡¯m talking about how we have no floating capital. It means that if thepany really needs money to use, we can¡¯t take out the capital. If thepany really needs to use money, several thousand gold coins is far from being enough.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do? If we can¡¯t take out money when we need it, wouldn¡¯t ourpany be in big trouble?¡± Agnes was a bit anxious, ¡°Sir chairman, have you thought about what we should do?¡±

    ¡°Rx, it¡¯s not as serious as you think, it¡¯s just a temporaryck of funds. Then again, after another period of time, thepany will be able to naturally earn plenty of money.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand as heforted her.

    ¡°Oh, that¡¯s good.¡± Agnes¡¯ expression calmed down. She thought about it before doubtfully asking, ¡°But sir chairman, why is thepany suddenly out of money? I remember that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been earning a lot during the past few months. Last time I heard manager Sebas say that justst month, thepany earned several tens of thousands of gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Then you didn¡¯t pay attention to him saying how much we spent?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Let me tell you, ourpany¡¯s earnings haven¡¯t been small in the past few months, but we¡¯ve spent even more. Not mentioning anything else, we¡¯ve already invested three hundred thousand gold coins into the Falling Rain Valley. Adding in the over a hundred thousand for the Falling Rain Road and the hundred thousand for the road between Banta City and Karma City, as well as the various expenses and fixed costs thepany has, thepany doesn¡¯t even have twenty thousand gold coins in cash. We really can be considered out of money.¡±

    Anges stuck out her tongue, ¡°So there¡¯s still twenty thousand gold coins, I thought there wasn¡¯t even a single gold coin left.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He thought that after Agnes followed him for several months, why did she still not care about worldly matters?

    Could it be that the elves really were like the rumours? Because of their long lives, it was hard for them to change?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at the dark Falling Rain Forest in front of him. If the elves really were like this, elder Illusia¡¯s hope of letting the elves live in harmony with humans really would be hard to realize.

    ¡°I am also worried about this.¡± Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°So I had Agnes follow by your side the entire time because human merchants have the most ideas among you humans and are the most flexible humans. If Agnes can live normally by your side and learn how to be flexible like humans from you, I believe that the other elves can do the same.¡±

    ¡°The problem is¡­...I feel that Agnes hasn¡¯t changed much from the first time I¡¯ve seen her. Rather I feel that she¡¯s be even more innocentpared to before.¡± Xu Yi said with a frown.

    ¡°No, just the opposite. Compared to back when she lived in the tribe, there¡¯s already been arge change in Agnes.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°Agnes was just a very pure child before, she would only think simple thoughts about matters. But now, ording to what you¡¯ve told me before, she has learned to not appear as soon as you mentioned that you didn¡¯t have money, rather she waited until you came to the Falling Rain Forest to express her thoughts. This can be considered her learning how to use proper timing from you humans.¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless. This was a skill humans had innately, how did it be something this worthy of praise when it came to Agnes?

    ¡°This is because you are humans and we are elves.¡± Elder Illusia answered Xu Yi¡¯s question with a very general and real answer.

    Xu Yi shook his head, as he still couldn¡¯t understand the thoughts of elves.

    ¡°Alright, putting the change with Agnes aside, we should talk about business.¡± Xu Yi took out a cover for the new generation Magic Fan from his backpack and handed it over.

    Elder Illusia took it to look over before curiously looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Is there a problem with this stic cover?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem just looking at it alone, but¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi came forward and pointed at a finely made flower design on the top right of the cover as he said, ¡°It¡¯s a problem that this part isn¡¯t the same as the other Magic Fan covers.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at the finely carved flower pattern and was very confused.

    ¡°I don¡¯t see any problems, this flower is carved very beautifully.¡±

    ¡°This flower itself is the problem.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious expression, ¡°Elder Illusia, when I asked your Night Song Tribe to make these stic covers for the Magic Fans, didn¡¯t I give you some blueprints to follow?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Elder Illusia stood up to flip through a box and took out several pieces of paper, ¡°They are still here.¡±

    ¡°I ask the elder to look it over, is there a flower design on the covers on the blueprints?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Elder Illusia looked at the blueprint and shook her head, ¡°The blueprint doesn¡¯t have any.¡±

    ¡°So that means when making this Magic Fan cover, the elf responsible didn¡¯t follow the blueprint, right?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°It seems to be that way.¡± Elder Illusia nodded before revealing a look of confusion, ¡°But chairman Xu, I still don¡¯t understand what¡¯s the problem. There is an extra beautiful design on this Magic Fan cover, could it be that it doesn¡¯t make the Magic Fan more beautiful?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t a problem if it¡¯s said like this, but honourable elder, this Magic Fan is not a single unit and is a mass produced product of ourpany, so that makes it a veryrge problem.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious face.

    Seeing the serious expression on Xu YI¡¯s face, elder Illusia thought about it before sitting down and saying to Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t understand what you mean. Please exin it to me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold back and picked up the Magic Fan cover as he said, ¡°Elder, if there was a Magic Fan cover with this design and one without it, if these two Magic Fans had the same price and you wanted to buy a Magic Fan, which one would you pick?¡±

    ¡°Clearly the one with the design because it looks better.¡± Elder Illusia replied.

    ¡°Good. That means that at the same price, it is impossible for the Magic Fan without the design to be sold, right?¡±

    ¡°Not necessarily, perhaps there are humans that like ones without designs.¡±

    ¡°Un, we can¡¯t rule out that possibility. But elder Illusia, don¡¯t you have to admit that the price of these two Magic Fans should be different? Because of the difference in design, their price shouldn¡¯t be the same.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then the problem appears there. This Magic Fan cover is being used with Magic Fan covers without designs to make the same mass produced product, so if we put these covers on, then that means it¡¯ll be difficult to set a price on this batch of Magic Fans. This is because people won¡¯t ept that they can buy products of different value at the same price.¡± Xu Yi raised the stic cover in his hand, ¡°So when ourpany is producing Magic Fans, this kind of cover is treated as a defective product and it isn¡¯t used.¡±

    ¡°Defective product?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, in the skilled hands of us elves, how could there be a defective product? You must have made some kind of mistake?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and said with a serious expression, ¡°Honourable elder, it doesn¡¯t matter if you¡¯re willing to admit it or not, but this is the standard of ourpany. Any parts that don¡¯t follow that standard will be considered a defective product!¡±

    Seeing how serious Xu Yi was treating this, elder Illusia considered this a bit before giving a slight now, ¡°Alright, since we are making things requested by yourpany, we should follow the standard you have set. You are right.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia and confirmed that nothing was wrong with her before continuing, ¡°Actually this cover is just one of the situations that isn¡¯t considered that serious, the more serious ones are when the entire cover¡¯s shape is distorted. We can¡¯t assemble them with the other parts of the Magic Fan at all. After our final examination, we¡¯ve found that among the twenty thousand Magic Fan covers you made this time, the defective products reached 30%. So honourable elder, I came this time to ask you¡­..what is going on?¡±

 Volume 2 54 - The elf raceâ€™s sense of discipline

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 54 The elf race¡¯s sense of discipline</strong>

    ¡°Thirty percent?¡± Elder Illusia¡¯s expression changed slightly. She thought about it before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I ask, how serious of a loss has this caused yourpany?¡±

    ¡°ording to the contract we signed before, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some Magic Fans that were dyed in being produced, causing a batch of orders to miss their deadline. Therefore we had to pay a penalty of three thousand gold coins to the other side.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    There was a serious look of apology on elder Illusia¡¯s face, ¡°Sorry, chairman Xu. We¡¯ve caused losses to yourpany, I will think of a way topensate you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia for a while before slowly shaking his head and saying with a sigh, ¡°Elder Illusia, actually three thousand gold coins is not considered much to ourpany. Compared to this, the losses your tribe suffers is even bigger.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    ¡°First, because there were defective products among the products made by your Night Song Tribe, ording to the contract, the losses caused by these defective products should be paid by your Night Song Tribe. ording to the normal rules of us human merchants, you shouldpensate our Frestech Chamber of Commerce gold coins because of this.¡±

    Elder Illusia gave a straight nod and said, ¡°That is normal, but our tribe doesn¡¯t have enough gold coins right now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll talk about this in the future.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before saying in a deep voice. ¡°Second, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce had your Night Song Tribe make these twenty thousand Magic Fan stic covers for us, but there was a 30% defective rate with your products. ording to the custom of us humans, ourpany should have serious doubts about the abilities of your Night Song Tribe. Even if we make a simr order in the future, we wouldn¡¯t consider having your Night Song Tribe do it.¡±

    Elder Illusia was silent for a bit before saying with a bit of difficulty, ¡°I understand, this is a problem of trust.¡±

    To have an elf admit that a human that they couldn¡¯t trust would have a trust issue with their tribe, this was a very hard decision to make, but elder Illusia still admitted to this point.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling admiration for elder Illusia. If it wasn¡¯t for trying to find a way out for the Night Song Tribe and even the entire elven race, she wouldn¡¯t have put down the pride of the elves and admitted that elves weren¡¯t good enough.

    ¡°The final thing is the most important thing. From the production of the stic covers, I found that there is arge problem with the Night Song Tribe, or rather the elves in general, which is that¡­..¡± After saying this, Xu Yi stopped and hesitated a while, but he still didn¡¯t say anything.

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Please don¡¯t have any scruples and just say it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her and paused before nodding, ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll say it. The problem is that elves seem to have a very casual personality. To put it more directly, it¡¯s very¡­.cking in discipline.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Y nervously looked at elder Illusia.

    He wasn¡¯t certain what kind of reaction the other side would have hearing his impolite criticism of her entire race.

    But elder Illusia¡¯s reactions went against his expectations.

    After hearing this evaluation, elder Illusia was first stunned before falling into a long period of contemtion.

    This period of thinking actuallysted an entire half an hour. Only when Xu Yi¡¯s legs felt a bit numb did elder Illusiae back to her senses, looking at Xu Yi with an apologetic smile as she said, ¡°Sorry, I suddenly thought of something from the past and fell into a daze.¡±

    ¡°Long time ago?¡± Xu Yi was secretly stunned.

    ording to elder Illusia¡¯s age, this long time ago might have been something from several hundred years ago.

    That was really a long time ago¡­...

    ¡°Chairman Xu, regarding the appraisal you just gave, I¡¯ve carefully thought about it and have realized that in our elvennguage, there¡¯s never been the word discipline. This word seems to have been learned from you humans, but¡­...We elves have never understood the meaning of this word.¡± Elder Illusia said with a thoughtful look on her face.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°You don¡¯t understand the meaning of this word? What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°It means that¡­¡­¡± Elder Illusia revealed a bitter smile, ¡°For us elves, there has never been any form of discipline that existed.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    In the rumours about the elves on the Sines Continent, the words used most to describe them were beautiful, elegant, mysterious, powerful, and proud¡­...But no one had ever connected the word disciplined with the elves before.

    As for the reason why humans could take over as the rulers of the continent from the elves several thousand years ago, people always summarized it as humans using their unique creations and powerful learning to take over control of the continent.

    But rarely did they mention the weakness of the elves.

    Hearing what elder Illusia said, Xu Yi felt like he had suddenly grabbed something.

    But elder Illusia didn¡¯t give Xu Yi time to think as she suddenly stood up and said to him, ¡°Chairman Xu, pleasee with me. Let¡¯s go take a look at how the nsmen finish those stic covers and why there would be a 30% defective rate.¡±

    Watching as elder Illusia walked out the door, Xu Yi strangely felt a cold sensation that he had never felt from her before.

    Leaving the living space of the Night Song Tribe, they walked around a hundred meters to arge open space that was around the size of a ser field.

    And in that open space, there were currently a hundred elves working there.

    Looking around, one could see strong elven mening out of the forest withrge ss jars in their hands. They came to the left side of the open space and poured them into arge porcin jar.

    Heat rose in that jar and the smell of resin kepting out.

    As the heat was gradually increased, the green light of the Magic Array under the jar kept shining, as the impurities of the resin floated out to the surface.

    When all the impurities were taken out, the elves on the side scooped them out and put them in a container by the porcin jar.

    There was also another elf that kept adding an unknown blue powder while stirring the concoction. The yellow liquid began to be more sticky as the colour gradually turned light blue.

    Finally under the guidance of other elves, the resin that was finished was poured into molds that had already been prepared. After they were cooled down for a bit, they turned intoplete Magic Fan covers.

    Although this entire process seemed a bit crude, under the magic of the elves, the final stic covers were even better than the ones made from stic factories on earth.

    Moreover because of the nature of the elves, after this resin was formed into stic covers, it still kept the scent of the resin. It didn¡¯t have the special odor that normal stic had.

    There seemed to be no issue with this process based on a first nce, the elves werepleting their work.

    But if one watched for a while, they would find that sometimes the elves would stop in the middle of work and walk around, even going off to sing and dance.

    The other elves didn¡¯t find this situation strange at all. There was even an elf that became a bit too excited when adding in material and threw arge bunch of it in.

    He actually let this batch of material go to the next step, so there were clear distortions in the final stic cover that was made.

    Then when it came to the final step of the process, something even more shocking would happen.

    The elves that seemed like they were bored actually came to the side of a mold that was cooling down. After they discussed it for a while, an elf picked up a stick from the ground and even began drawing on the stic cover.

    When he finished, perhaps they thought that the pattern he drew on the cover was beautiful, but the other elves began pping for him.

    Xu Yi¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    Although from the high 30% defective rate, he had already guessed that the elves weren¡¯t as meticulous when it came to making these stic covers, he never would have thought that the elves would actually be this ck when it came to the production process!

    If they were human workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories and this situation was found, Xu Yi would have fired them all without saying another word!

    Looking over at elder Illusia, he found that her expression was still calm, but the tightly knit brows showed that her mood wasn¡¯t that good.

    The two of them were being covered in elder Illusia¡¯s Shadow Stealth Spell, so they weren¡¯t worried about being found by the other elves.

    But seeing the elves act like this, it really didn¡¯t feel good to them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, in the factories of yourpany, how do the human workers act?¡± Elder Illusia suddenly asked this.

    Xu Yi looked at the elves who didn¡¯t act seriously at all in the distance and shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t really describe it, but they definitely aren¡¯t like that.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Elder Illusia was silent for a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really don¡¯t understand what it means to be disciplined. I didn¡¯t think that there was a problem with my nsmen, but after talking with you today, I¡¯ve found that something really isn¡¯t right. But as for how to change it, I really didn¡¯t know. Chairman Xu, do you have a good method?¡±

    ¡°You really want to change them?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then it¡¯s simple, give them to me. There is a very simple method that can change them, which is¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled into a cold smile, ¡°Special training.¡±

 Volume 2 55 - Ice cream

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 55 Ice cream</strong>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding another product announcement.

    Because of the experience of thest two product announcements, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their product announcement in the ?Banta Times? three days ago, everyone was already expecting it. In this product announcement, other than their new product, what kind of explosive news would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce release?

    Even though the product announcement was set for the Sandton Manor that was fifteen kilometers away from the city, on the day of the product announcement, there were countless people who rushed out of Banta City early in the morning. There were even people who came to Sandton Manor from the other cities.

    The current Sandton Manor waspletely different from when it belonged to Viscount Sandton. Now there were several dozen small andrge factories that were formed around it and had begun production, so one could hear the sound of magic machines from around Sandton Manor every day, making it very noisy.

    Regarding this change, whether it was the newspapers of Banta City or the surrounding cities, they had all made reports on it.

    There were even several newspapers in Anvilmar City that had run special series of reports on this situation, trying to analyze the effect and consequence this would have on Banta City.

    No one could see the concrete effects yet, but the current effects was that other than factories being opened near Sandton Manor, because of how many workers there were, there were many otherpanies that opened shops here to amodate their daily needs.

    The workers here already added up to several thousand people, but now adding the people who worked in the shops, there was currently over ten thousand people that frequently came to this area!

    So in Banta City, there were many people who had already secretly regarded Sandton Manor as a small town.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement, Sandton Town was already filled with all kinds of people. Just the stores selling breakfast got rid of all their wares and earned quite a bit.

    When it was ten in the morning which was time for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was like everyone had been summoned and they headed to Sandton Manor in a wave.

    Seeing the crowd that filled the empty space in front of Sandton Manor, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Not mentioning anything else, just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement was a brand for summoning people.

    Seeing this, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ever wanted to release any products, they just needed to host a product announcement and it would be enough to advertise for them. There was no need to do anything else at all.

    Seeing that it was time, Xu Yi took two steps forward and stood on the stage prepared ahead of time. The noisy crowd in Sandton Manor immediately became quiet and everyone was focused on him.

    ¡°Hello everyone, wee to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement this time. I know that everyone is interested in our product announcement. Other than being interested in what product is being announced, everyone is more interested in what other things will happen, am I right?¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, the sound ofughter came from under the stage.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, you¡¯re right.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, is there any big news to release today? We¡¯re very expectant.¡±

    ¡°Right, I came from far to be here, just toe for this. As for your new product, of course we¡¯ll know about it after the product announcement.¡±

    ¡°Hey, all of you, the product is the lead of the product announcement. If you keep talking about other things, you¡¯re not giving chairman Xu any face. Aren¡¯t I right, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and pointed at the insightful reporter as he said, ¡°You¡¯re very right. I remember that you¡¯re a reporter from the ?Canberra Daily Sun?, right? After the conference is over, I can give you half an hour to have an interview with me. As long as it¡¯s something I can reply to, I will reply.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± That reporter from the ?Canberra Daily Sun? was overjoyed.

    The other reporters around him all looked at him with eyes filled with envy.

    All the reporters knew that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made special novel things, as long as they reported on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there would be more people attracted to their newspaper.

    The core of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was chairman Xu Yi. All the people of the cities around Banta City were curious about Xu Yi, so naturally they liked reading a report about him.

    That reporter from the ?Canberra Daily Sun? had a chance to have a special interview with Xu Yi, this was a very lucky matter.

    It had to be known that only the reporters of the ?Banta Times? had this opportunity.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s return to the lead of this product announcement, which is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new product.¡± Xu Yi raised his voice and cut through the chatter under the stage, ¡°Everyone doesn¡¯t need to be disappointed, I can guarantee that just with this product, it will surprise everyone and change all your lives! Next we ask the manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine workshop Ankhto to introduce everyone to the new product.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi move back while apuding, everyone was stunned.

    Why was it not Xu Yi who introduced the product, but rather it was this Ankhto?

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s introduction, this Ankhto was the manager of the household magic machine workshop. It seemed like he was an important person in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However when Ankhto walked onto the stage, everyone was surprised to find that Ankhto was just a young man who was at most in his early thirties. He wasn¡¯t a mature or self important type of person that everyone imagined, rather he was a person that was filled with vigor and energy.

    ¡°Hello everyone, I am Ankhto.¡± Being met with everyone¡¯s curious gazes, Ankhto gave a self introduction in a clear and loud voice, ¡°It is like the chairman has said, I am the manager of the household machine workshop, mainly in charge of managing the production of household magic machines. Because the new product this time is a household magic machine, the chairman had me introduce it to everyone.¡±

    Seeing Ankhto speaking in front of everyone in a confident manner, not feeling any fear at all, Xu Yi gave a secret nod.

    Although Heinz was a stingy person and was short sighted, his eyesight for people was quite good.

    After this Ankhto was promoted, not only did he quickly take charge of the household magic machine workshop, he even showed off his leadership skills and earned a high prestige in the household magic machine workshop.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to care about the household magic machine workshop at all. No matter what happened, Ankhto always took care of it in a manner that Xu Yi was satisfied with.

    He had Ankhto introduce the new product for him was to train him a bit. He wanted him to be a high level member of management of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that everyone knew.

    Ankhto hadn¡¯t disappointed him. Even if this was his first time appearing in front of all these people, he was only a bit nervous in the beginning and had rxed as time passed. He was definitely suited for being a kind of vice general.

    After he gave a few simple words of introduction, Ankhto arrived at the middle of the stage where a box like thing was covered in a sheet. After pausing for a bit and waiting for everyone to focus on the sheet, he suddenly reached out to pull it.

    The sheet flew off and a silver rectangr prism that was supported by rollers that was one meter tall, one meter and a half long, and half a meter deep was revealed in front of everyone.

    Everyone was shocked when they saw this unknown thing and after a while, a reporter asked, ¡°Manager Ankhto, what is this thing? What is it used for?¡±

    ¡°This is the Magic Refrigerator. As for its use¡­¡­¡±

    Ankhto opened the rectangr prism and the people close to it found that there was something inside this Magic Refrigerator that was releasing cold air.

    Everyone watched as Ankhto pulled out an ice cube that was the size of his palm from the Magic Refrigerator.

    Everyone instantly understood.

    So there was an ice cube that was ced inside this Magic Refrigerator ahead of time that made it so cold inside.

    ¡°No, you¡¯re all wrong.¡± Ankhto shook his head, ¡°I didn¡¯t put this ice cube in there ahead of time, rather I put in a cup of water and now that cup of water has turned to ice. You can take a look if you don¡¯t believe it. Doesn¡¯t the shape of this ice cube look the same as the cup?¡±

    Everyone looked carefully and found that the shape of the ice cube was indeed a bit special. There was a unique concave curve on the sides that fit the shape of the cup perfectly.

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that the inside of the Magic Refrigerator is this cold? It can actually turn water into ice?¡± A reporter asked.

    ¡°Right, this is the use of the Magic Refrigerator. It uses magic to maintain a temperature where water can be turned into ice.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in nk dismay before another reporter couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°What use is that? Could it be that this thing is only useful in making ice cubes?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not that simple.¡± Ankhto revealed a faint smile and reached in, taking out a frozen piece of beef from the Magic Refrigerator which he raised high up, ¡°Look, I bought this piece of beef from Banta City yesterday. If this was before, if this piece of beef wasn¡¯t eaten yesterday, it would have spoiled already. But if you put it in the Magic Refrigerator, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem even if it was ced there for over ten days. Look, is there any bit of rot on it at all?¡±

    The people close by took a look and found that other than the ice on the piece of beef, there wasn¡¯t a trace of rot at all.

    Seeing this, everyone couldn¡¯t help shaking their heads.

    Not mentioning anything else, just based on the fact that this Magic Refrigerator allowed them to store meat without it going bad, it already had its practical use.

    Although before people could use high level Ice Magic Arrays to store things, it cost too much and only rich people could use it, normal people couldn¡¯t even think about it at all.

    So it was rare for normal families to eat meat and because it had to be eaten quickly, they couldn¡¯t really savour it.

    Now that there was this Magic Refrigerator, normal families could slowly enjoy meat after buying some.

    ¡°Other than this use, the Magic Refrigerator can also make delicious things.¡± Ankhto looked around and found a rather young girl by the stage who he asked, ¡°This miss, do you like eating sweet things?¡±

    The girl was stunned before looking around and nodding.

    ¡°Alright, then I think you will definitely like eating this thing.¡±

    Ankhto took out a small bowl from the Magic Refrigerator and bent over to fiddle around in the Magic Refrigerator in a bit before standing up. The little bowl was filled with this sticky thing that was covered in red powder.

    Ankto waved at the girl and signaled for her toe onto the stage before handing the bowl to her.

    ¡°Give it a try, the taste is quite good.¡±

    The girl looked at the unknown thing in the bowl and hesitated a bit. She found that everyone under the stage was staring at her and after thinking about it, she gritted her teeth and used the spoon to bring a spoonful of it to her mouth.

    As soon as it entered her mouth, a chill quickly filled it, as well as a sweetness that could intoxicate a person.

    The taste was very refreshing and smooth, it was sweet without being greasy, as well as bringing a cold sensation to one¡¯s mouth. The girl had only taken a single bite, but she found that she couldn¡¯t help letting out a satisfied moan.

    After the first bit, the girl didn¡¯t hesitate at all as she took several big mouthfuls in front of everyone¡¯s surprised gaze. After she finished the entire bowl, she found that her tongue was numb from the ice. She unwillingly put down the bowl and took a deep breath before saying to Ankhto with a sigh, ¡°Too delicious! Manager Ankhto, can you tell me what this is called?¡±

    Ankhto revealed a faint smile, ¡°It has a very simple name, it¡¯s called ice cream.¡±

 Volume 2 56 - Elven workers

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 56 Elven workers</b>

    Perhaps it was because the girl¡¯s reaction was too overexaggerated, but everyone was deeply interested in the ice cream. There were many reporters in the front row who requested to try it.

    Ankhto naturally satisfied their requests one by one.

    After eating it, although the reporters didn¡¯t react in an exaggerated manner like the girl, they also loudly praised it.

    The crowd around the reporters were hungry from seeing them eat it, but because the prepared ice cream had already been taken, they could only helplessly watch the reporters smack their lips.

    The ice cream was just a small interlude, but it deepened everyone¡¯s understanding of the use of the Magic Refrigerator.

    After Ankhto exined a bit more into the use of the Magic Refrigerator, everyone had a deep interest in the Magic Refrigerator.

    When Ankhto announced that a single Magic Refrigerator would only cost eighteen gold coins, everyone was shocked.

    Everyone thought that such arge Magic Refrigerator with an outstanding function would sell for much more, but they never thought that the price would be even cheaper than the smaller Magic Air Conditioner.

    So when they heard the price, almost everyone here had secretly made a decision to buy one for their own home.

    Ankhto escaped the reporters with great difficulty and when Xu Yi returned to the stage, everyone realized something.

    Without knowing it, they had forgotten their goaling to this product announcement and had focusedpletely on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new product.

    Seeing everyone fall silent under the stage, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°What? Has everyone awakened from the shock brought by our new product?¡±

    Everyoneughed as the strange atmosphere was instantly swept away.

    Ankhto who had walked to the back saw this situation and couldn¡¯t help feeling more admiration for Xu Yi in his heart.

    Actually he had been a bit nervous when he was on stage and when he was being questioned by the reporters, he had stuttered several times.

    But now that it was Xu Yi in front of them, he had easily grasped the mood of the crowd in the palm of his hands.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t try to lie to us. Quickly tell us, what¡¯s the big news this time? I¡¯m very curious.¡± A reporter said in a loud voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, quickly tell us, we¡¯re all waiting.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, stop stalling, everyone is quite anxious.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, quickly, quickly¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re all this excited, so if the announcement I make isn¡¯t stirring enough and you¡¯re not satisfied, wouldn¡¯t you all want to beat me up?¡± Xu Yi made an exaggerated strange expression.

    Everyone under the stage broke out inughter again.

    ¡°How could that be, we believe in you.¡±

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu has released all those big pieces of news, we wouldn¡¯t be worried at all.¡±

    ¡°Right, even if you say that you¡¯re getting married to young miss Still, that is also a big piece of news.¡±

    ¡°Go to the side, young miss Still is still young, how could she get married this early?¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s going to marry chairman Xu eventually¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Xu Yi raised his hand and the crowd fell into silence again. Everyone¡¯s eyes were gathered on him, as they silently waited for him to speak.

    ¡°Alright, in order to not disappoint everyone, I will announce a shocking piece of news to everyone. This piece of news is¡­..¡± Being stared at everyone¡¯s unblinking eyes, Xu Yi deliberately paused before raising his voice a bit to say, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has just recruited a hundred workers three days ago,¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Everyone under the stage was stunned.

    After a while, the sounds ofining rang out.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? Chairman Xu, are you teasing us? How is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruiting a hundred workers considered big news? Aren¡¯t you always recruiting workers?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, not mentioning a hundred, even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited a thousand¡­...Oh, no, recruiting a thousand people can be considered decent news.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s only a hundred people, what is there to be shocked about? Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve disappointed us too much!¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Let me finish.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand again and everyone fell silent as they looked at him.

    Only this time, other than expectant gazes, there were quite a few gazes of doubt.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that big news if it was just a hundred workers and you wouldn¡¯t be surprised at all. But I want to tell everyone that these hundred workers are a bit special because¡­...they are all elves!¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡±

    Everyone was stunned once again.

    But this time, itsted much longer than before.

    After a while, even louder voices exploded from under the stage.

    ¡°A hundred elves? It can¡¯t be? I must have heard it wrong!¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible! I¡¯m already surprised that there¡¯s young miss Agnes, so how could there be another hundred elves?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you must be kidding! Where did you find a hundred elves? Are there even that many elves adding up all the elves in our Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the only elf I¡¯ve ever seen is young miss Agnes and now you¡¯re telling us you¡¯ve found a hundred of them. This¡­...This can¡¯t be real!¡±

    ¡°Wait, listen carefully. Chairman Xu didn¡¯t say he found a hundred elves, rather these hundred elves are going to be workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory!¡±

    ¡°Ha? That¡¯s right, the elves came to be workers in a human factory? This¡­...This is too incredible!¡±

    ¡­...

    When the sounds of discussion became more quiet, vice editor in chief Rhine of the ?Karma Times? finally had his choice to raise his hand and ask in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you said that you¡¯ve hired a hundred elves to work in yourpany¡¯s factory, does that mean that the hundred elves are currently at Sandton Manor?¡±

    Hearing this question, everyone looked at Sandton Manor, mostly looking at the entrance to the two workshops.

    Thinking that perhaps there were a hundred elves not far away from them, everyone¡¯s expressions couldn¡¯t help bing excited.

    ¡°You¡¯re guess is right, they are currently here.¡± Xu Yi nodded and waved his hand behind him.

    Everyone looked in the same direction as Xu Yi and they found that in one of the distant workshops, there were two rows of workers wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce walking out.

    These workers all had slender fingers and steady footsteps, it seemed like their physiques were quite good.

    Butpared to their physiques, what attracted everyone¡¯s attention were the two long and slender ears on the sides of their heads.

    Elves!

    They really were elves!

    Moreover it was a hundred elves!

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help holding their breaths, as they watched the elves walk over in a daze before standing on the high stage.

    When the elves finished lining up, Xu Yi said to everyone under the stage in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, let me introduce you all. These are the elves from the Night Song Tribe and they have been hired by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bing official staff of ourpany. I want to remind everyone that you can¡¯t act like when Agnes had just arrived, surrounding them and harassing them. I hope that you can let them work normally and live normal lives. Can everyone agree to this?¡±

    After the initial shock passed, everyone slowly recovered.

    Seeing the hundred elves that included males and females, Rhine swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I can promise this since with the appearance of young miss Agnes before, everyone wouldn¡¯t be as surprised as before at the appearance of elves. But can I ask you something? Why would all these elves suddenly want to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Other than that, I¡¯ve also been very curious, why do so many dwarves work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has some special charm?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a special charm. But I want to say that the most important thing is that whether it is towards dwarves or elves, we humans should keep a calm mind and treat them like normal humans. The dwarves and elves also need a normal life, so as long as you don¡¯t treat them like you¡¯re meeting monsters, you will find that it¡¯s easier to get along with them than with other humans.¡±

    Rhine knit his brows. Although Xu Yi¡¯s words were right, it didn¡¯t answer his question.

    But since Xu Yi chose to answer like this, it meant that he wasn¡¯t nning on giving the real answer.

    This wasn¡¯t Rhine¡¯s first time meeting Xu Yi, so he knew it was useless to ask anything else and gave up. He changed his tone and began asking the elven workers what it was like working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the product announcement was over, everyone looked at the reporter from the ?Canberra Daily Sun? with looks of envy because he had obtained the chance to interview Xu Yi.

    At the press conference, there were many questions that Xu Yi didn¡¯t answer in detail.

    But in an interview that he had agreed to do, he would definitely answer in more detail than at the product announcement.

    But no matter what, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly recruiting a hundred elves to work for them, this was already a very explosive and shocking piece of news.

    Although Agnes¡¯ appearance had shocked everyone, it was just a single elf. It was apletely different idea from a hundred elves.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recruit a hundred elves, didn¡¯t that mean they could do the same as the dwarves and recruit even more elves?

    The most important question was, why did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruit so many other race workers?

    This fellow Xu Yi, just what did he want to do?

 Volume 2 57 - Two more identities

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 57 Two more identities</strong>

    ¡°I¡¯m not thinking of doing anything.¡± Seeing the inquisitive Seveni, Xu Yi casually responded, ¡°It¡¯s just recruiting a hundred elves, is there anything strange about it? Don¡¯t forget, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has over five hundred dwarven workers right now. The worker cards that these dwarves have, it was something your highness personally issued for me.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s expression wasn¡¯t as rxed as Xu Yi¡¯s as she shook her head and said, ¡°Elves are different from dwarves. Although dwarves can¡¯t be considered to have a close rtionship with humans, it isn¡¯t that bad. Moreover, there are quite a few dwarves that live in the human world, so humans can ept dwarves much more easily. But elves used to be the rulers of the continent and although it¡¯s been several thousand years since the race wars, there are still many humans who are still wary of elves.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much.¡± Xu Yi said with a frown, ¡°There are so few elves on the Sines Continent, I estimate there are less than ten thousand in the Lampuri Kingdom alone, so what is there to be worried about? Not to mention that elves have much lower fertility than us humans. ording to what elder Illusia said, their tribe has only given birth to two elven children in the past ten years. You think a race like this is worthy of humans worrying about or being wary of?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think so, but some humans do. I am not worried about these elves, rather some people using this as a pretext to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, causing trouble for you.¡± Seveni said with a serious face.

    Xu Yi smiled, ¡°The people who want to attack ourpany will always be able to find excuses, they won¡¯t care about an extra few elves. Then again, your highness is supporting ourpany, so you can¡¯t just sit by and not care, right?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s smiling appearance, Seveni rolled her eyes at him, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know that I¡¯ve kept away quite a bit of trouble away from yourpany already?¡±

    ¡°Of course. Your highness is the saviour guiding the way for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m very clear on this. I really wish I could pull out my heart to show you my gratitude.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s face turned a bit red and reprimanded Xu Yi. When her face became serious again, she asked Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, you should pay attention to this problem. I came this time mainly this time for the order of weapons and armours.¡±

    ¡°I also thought so. Your highness can be assured, currently we¡¯ve finished eight thousand sets of armour. If you give us a few more months, we canplete over fifty thousand sets of armours.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°This speed isn¡¯t bad.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°But I came this time not to add onto the order, rather I wanted to revise the order a bit.¡±

    ¡°Revise?¡± Xu Yi saw the unnatural expression on Seveni¡¯s face and knew that this revision wasn¡¯t small.

    As expected, Seveni paused for a bit and an apologetic look appeared in her face before she continued, ¡°Although the army was very satisfied with the quality of the first batch of armour, some people made suggestions that production ofrge amounts of armour can¡¯t be held by a normalpany and needs to be controlled by the royal family and the army. So¡­..¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re not allowing us to make armour anymore, rather you¡¯re changing the order to production magic machines?¡± When Seveni hesitated, Xu Yi casually asked this.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re reactions are really fast.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t anything, I¡¯ve heard this request countless times.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Everyone doesn¡¯t hope that the things they need are controlled by others, they are most relieved as long as they control it themselves. I understand his majesty and the royal army¡¯s worry, this is very normal.¡±

    ¡°That means¡­...chairman Xu agrees to this?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why wouldn¡¯t I?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Then again, do I have the right to disagree? Alright, your highness, you don¡¯t need to be sorry to me because I understand that the military is the foundation of a country, they definitely wouldn¡¯t let a smallpany like ours control it. Even if you didn¡¯t request this today, I would have found a chance to discuss this problem with you eventually.¡±

    Seveni nodded, ¡°Chairman Xu truly is a wise person, you don¡¯t need me to exin anything. Since chairman Xu understands my meaning, then I¡¯ll give the request the military headquarters has for you. We¡¯ll retain the order of fifty thousand sets of armour, but the military headquarters wants to raise a special order with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can build a special factory that produces weapons and armour for the military headquarters.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this order. He stroked his chin in thought before asking, ¡°Your highness, building aplete military factory is a very troublesome matter, other than the machines, it also requires arge amount of manpower. Could it be that you can find that many workers?¡±

    ¡°We can¡¯t.¡± Seveni honestly shook her head, ¡°So we need the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help to solve these problems.¡±

    ¡°Relying on us?¡± Xu Yi pointed at himself, ¡°Honourable highness, do you and the military headquarters think this highly of us?¡±

    ¡°Is there any difference? Anyway other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there is no otherpany that can do this, right?¡± Seveni said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi thought about it and could only helplessly admit this was the truth.

    ¡°Alright, then what should we do?¡±

    ###

    It should be said that Seveni was mentioning the king and the military headquarter¡¯s request to cooperate with Xu Yi.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current abilities, investing too much into the military business was not a good thing because it was easy to make certain people vignt.

    But helping the royal army create a military factory like this, it was easy for those people to ept.

    After this matter, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a deeper rtionship with the royal army and would gain many advantages.

    In terms of benefits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than therge amount of ie from the fifty thousand sets of armour, there was also the ie from therge amounts of magic production machines and technical guidance.

    The more important thing was that through this cooperation, Xu Yi had obtained the rights to mine another two Magic Crystal mines from the royal family.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had three iron mines and five Magic Crystal mines.

    These mines, especially the Magic Crystal mines, didn¡¯t seem that valuable, but Xu Yi was very certain that as magic machines became even more popr, the price of iron and Magic Crystals would increase.

    So Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush to mine these mines now, he just temporarily put them aside and waited for the right time to mine them.

    Other than the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gained, Xu Yi had also gained some very practical benefits.

    First, because of this cooperation, the king had given Xu Yi a special reward.

    This meant that Xu Yi was finally no longer a normal citizen, but rather a respected lord of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although this title didn¡¯t have anynd and was one of the lowest noble titles, it meant a change in his identity. It meant that he went from a normal citizen to a noble.

    Next, the military headquarters had given Xu Yi a special advisor status in the royal army.

    Although this was an empty title, it meant that Xu YI was still a part of the royal army and received some special benefits.

    Of course, whether it was the identity as a lord or the special advisor of the army, their uses couldn¡¯t be seen now.

    To Xu Yi, his most important identity was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. What he cared most would always be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development.

    Entering July, the weather began getting even warmer. The sales amount of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new generation Magic Fans and Magic Air Conditioners began to explode.

    Compared tost month, the Magic Fans sold over twenty units halfway into the month, already surpassingst year¡¯s sales numbers.

    And the Magic Air Conditioner sails also greatly expanded.

    Last summer, the Magic Air Conditioner only sold a thousand units.

    But halfway through July this year, they had already sold over three thousand units.

    Moreover, this was just in Banta City alone. If they added the sales numbers in the surrounding cities, it was close to ten thousand units.

    This also didn¡¯t include the store that Victor¡¯s group of three had set up in Anvilmar City. It had to be known, based on this small store, they had sold five thousand units just this summer.

    Even when exchanging an old one, the Magic Fan still earned close to a gold coin in profits.

    A Magic Air Conditioner had a shocking fifteen gold coin profit margin.

    Just based on these two things, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit in the past half a month was close to two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Not to mention that the Magic Refrigerator was quickly entering the markets of Banta City and the surrounding cities. In just over ten days, they had already sold over thirty thousand units.

    A Magic Refrigerator cost around four gold coins, which meant that they earned around thirteen to fourteen gold coins per unit.

    With thirty thousand units in sales, that was a terrifying profit of over four hundred thousand gold coins.

    ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really develops fast.¡± Banta City¡¯s City LOrd Count Sean was looking at the tax revenue forms for the first half of the year and he shook his head. He looked at Xu Yi and said with a sigh, ¡°Last year your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s six months of tax revenue was less than twenty thousand gold coins. But this year, justst month you paid around forty thousand gold coins, which means that yourpany earned at least two hundred thousand gold coinsst month. This month your Magic Fans, Magic Air Conditioners, and the new Magic Refrigerators are all selling well, so I think that yourpany should earn at least five hundred thousand this month.¡±

    Xu Yi just smiled, neither confirming or denying it.

    ¡°Lord Count, this is just this month. Right now the people of Banta City and the surrounding city are buying what they need, but next month, I promise that the sales for our products will be very bad. Perhaps we might not even reach a hundred thousand next month. I am currently worried about what to do.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re worried? Shouldn¡¯t the chairman of the otherpaniesmit suicide by jumping into the river?¡± Count Sean scolded with a smile, ¡°Alright, yourpany making money is a good thing for our Banta City. Right now the people of Banta City have stable work, can earn money, and everyone¡¯s lives are getting better, so my job as the City Lord is much easier. Speaking of this, this is the merit of you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°How could that be? Banta City¡¯s current state is all because of the Lord Count¡¯s wise leadership, it¡¯s not rted to my Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.¡±

    ¡°Stop ttering me?¡± Count Sean reprimanded, ¡°At least the several dozen smallpanies from your n aren¡¯t rted to me, as well as the industrial area around the Sandton Manor.¡±

    ¡°How is it not rted! If it wasn¡¯t for the Lord Count¡¯s support, how could the n have passed? How could the industrial area have been built? The Lord Count is being too modest!¡±

    Count Sean smiled and shook his head. He flipped through the papers on the table before taking one out to throw in front of Xu Yi, ¡°I didn¡¯t call you here to just praise you, rather I wanted to raise some money from you.¡±

 Volume 2 58 - Banta Cityâ€™s new plan

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 58 Banta City¡¯s new n</strong>

    ¡°Raising funds?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Lord Count, you¡¯re raising funds from me? What a joke!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not a joke, you¡¯ll know if you take a look.¡± Count Sean pointed at the document in front of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi opened the document to take a look and found that it was a n that was targeted at Banta City as a whole.

    ording to this n, Count Sean wanted to rebuild Banta City as a whole, connecting the viges around Banta City to Banta City. It would be no longer like the previous Banta City and previous viges outside the city, they would all be one.

    To achieve this, first they had to build roads.

    The reason before why the vigers outside Banta City and the citizens in Banta City belonged to two different worlds was mainly because transportation was just too difficult.

    ording to the stats of this n, there were currently seventy three viges outside Banta City and there were only thirty four viges that had roads connecting to Banta City. The rest of these viges didn¡¯t have a singleplete road that was connected to Banta City and even many of these vigers had never taken a single step out of their viges.

    So the first step of this n was to build enough connecting roads, linking these viges to Banta City.

    Like this, whether it was the vigers in the viges or the citizens of Banta City, they could all associate with one another.

    ¡°ording to the inspections of the people I¡¯ve sent, there are quite a few valuable items hidden in the viges on the mountains or in the swamps, but because there is no way to transport them, they are all being wasted. Among them is the Magma Berry that you mentioned to mest time.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi had already finished reading the first few pages, Count Sean said, ¡°If we can build roads connecting to these viges, we should be able to improve the lives of the vigers living there.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the serious Count Sean and was almost mistaken that he had returned to earth.

    ¡°Count Sean, this idea isn¡¯t bad, but it¡¯s very hard to implement this n.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the map on the n awkwardly and said, ¡°Look, it¡¯s easy for those thirty four viges that already have roads, we can just fix up those roads and connect those viges, but for the remaining viges¡­...Based on the map, we can build a single road that connects them for most of these viges, but there are some that it is impossible for.¡±

    ¡°I never said we would solve them all at once, that is too unrealistic.¡± Count Sean waved his hand and said, ¡°My goal is to first solve the road problem of these thirty four viges first and develop them first. As for the other viges, we¡¯ll slowly think of a solution after studying them further.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He carefully looked over the map before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°But Lord Count, the closest of these thirty for viges is less than two killometers and the furthest is more than twenty kilometers away. If we were to build roads for all of them, it would be around four to five hundred kilometers of road. This¡­..¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already calcted it, it¡¯s a total of around four hundred and sixty kilometers of road. ording to the rate of the Falling Rain Road, it should cost around nine hundred thousand gold coins.¡± Count Sean followed up.

    ¡°Nine hundred thousand gold coins¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Sean with a difficult expression, ¡°Lord Count, although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has earned a bit of money, it¡¯s impossible for us to take out nine hundred thousand at once. Not to mention, it¡¯s a donation¡­...It¡¯ll be hard to exin this to the other people of thepany.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not given up for free, what are you worried about?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯m looking for your help, so of course there are benefits for you. Could it be that I don¡¯t even understand such simple logic? Listen well, ording to my thoughts, as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can take out that much money, I can exempt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from paying taxes for a year. Other than this, for the viges that have new roads built, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can receive the rights to develop them for three years. It means that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can take whatever you want, as long as the vigers don¡¯tin and you don¡¯t kill and pige the vigers.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Then I can do what I want in those viges?¡±

    ¡°It can be considered this.¡± Count Sean nodded, ¡°As for whether you can earn money and how much you can make, it¡¯ll depend on your skills.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly began calcting in his heart.

    If he agreed to Count Sean, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could avoid paying taxes for a year.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current profits, they would earn at least three million gold coins in a single year.

    If they could avoid paying taxes, they would gain at least four hundred thousand gold coins.

    Then the cost of building the roads would only be five hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for whether he could earn that five hundred thousand gold coins from the viges¡­...Xu Yi couldn¡¯t guarantee this now, but he had enough confidence to achieve this.

    ¡°Alright, then we¡¯ll do this. But Lord Count, it¡¯ll take some time if you want to build these roads and we can only slowly start with one vige at a time.¡± Xu Yi thought about it and used his finger to draw a circle around Banta City, ¡°I feel that first we should mark an area of ten kilometers around Banta City to create awork of roads first. Then we slowly advance outwards before we connect all of Banta City with roads.¡±

    ¡°Un, this idea isn¡¯t bad, it¡¯s quite realistic. Alright, we¡¯ll just follow this idea first. But let¡¯s put the idea of building roads aside first, let¡¯s first look at the contents of this n first.¡± Count Sean flipped through several pages before pointing at a map and saying, ¡°This is part of my n for a suburb in Banta City, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at it and couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Lord Count, why does it seem quite familiar?¡±

    Count Seanughed, ¡°Of course you would find it familiar, this blueprint was made based on the Falling Rain Valley.¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly understood and carefully took a look, finding that this map had many simrities to the design of the Falling Rain Valley. For example, the separation of industrial and living areas, as well as awork of roads connecting it.

    But after looking for a while, Xu Yi found a problem.

    ¡°Lord Count, the industrial area that you¡¯ve designated, there are clearly two viges in this area.¡±

    Count Sean waved his hand, ¡°Just have them leave.¡±

    ¡°Then what aboutpensation?¡±

    ¡°Compensation?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Just have them leave, whatpensation?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly speechless, this was the forceful eviction of the Sines Continent?

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said to Count Sean, ¡°Lord Count, just leave this project to me. Chairman Cruise and I are very familiar with this matter.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise, ¡°I just wanted your opinion on this, but since you¡¯ve taken the initiative to take this project, that¡¯s good. Alright, I¡¯ll leave this project to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯ll wait for your results.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded in response.

    After discussing some general details with Count Sean, he rejected his invitation to eat a meal before Xu Yi left the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    It was currently sunset, so the temperature was much cooler. There was a breeze that blew past and brought a bit of a chill.

    The street by the City Lord¡¯s Manor was regted, so it was considered peaceful. When he turned the corner and entered the street by the City Lord¡¯s Manor, he immediately found that even though it was close to dinner, there were many people still on the street wandering around.

    All kinds of people walked through the streets. Some seemed like they were taking a strong, but most of them looked like they were rushing about, like they had many things to take care of.

    There were countless shops that lined both sides of the street, asrge and small vendors took up pieces of space on the road, calling out their wares.

    Seeing this crowded and busy scene, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    He remembered when he first came to Banta City. Because of how remote this small city was, the rhythm of the city was quite slow and it was very peaceful.

    But now just after a single year, this small city had be this bustling.

    ording to the stats of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, the current poption of Banta City was more than twice what it wasst year.

    There were less than fifty thousand peoplest year, but now there were over a hundred thousand people.

    Moreover, this was just the main city inside the walls. If that included the people living outside the walls, the current poption of Banta City would be three times what it wasst year.

    The reason why this situation urred was because there was an explosion of jobs in Banta City, so the amount of manpower in Banta City wasn¡¯t enough to satisfy this demand.

    Adding in the drive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and theirrge demand for manpower, the average wage in Banta City was rather high.

    So the people of the surrounding cities, including Karma City, Saltan City, even the further Canberra and Norton Cities had people who came to Banta City looking for work.

    Now that Banta City was filled with people from all different cities, one could hear the difference in ents for the universalnguage of the Sines Continent when walking through the streets.

    This scene reminded Xu Yi of the special economic areas when they first developed on earth.

    Of course, the scale was still much smaller.

    While having these thoughts, Xu Yi was walking towards his home.

    Today Still said that she wanted to make dinner with Vivian, so Xu Yi was looking forward to that.

    After walking through half the street, there were several horse carriages that slowly moved by Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked over and saw that those horse carriages had the mark of the Sarank Chamber of Commerce. Thinking about it, he began walking towards those horse carriages.

 Volume 2 59 - Transport problem

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 59 Transport problem</strong>

    The one sitting in the first carriage was chairman Rank¡¯s assistant Leif, he had seen Xu Yi several times at the Business Union conferences. Seeing him suddenly appear, he quickly stopped the horse carriages.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, how do you have time to take a stroll in the city today?¡± Leif was around forty years old and was a bit chubby. He looked a bit like the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgan when he smiled, but he seemed a bit more friendlypared to chairman Morgan.

    ¡°No, I was just discussing some things with the Lord City Lord and just came out.¡± Xu Yi casually replied before looking at the horse carriages and saying, ¡°It seems like your harvest this time isn¡¯t bad, did you sell all those Magic Fans?¡±

    Leif said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s all thanks to chairman Xu¡¯s suggestions that we¡¯ve sold all the Magic Fans in our warehouse. I won¡¯t hide it from you, the demand for Magic Fans in the other ces in the kingdom is still very high.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, thinking that this was an obvious matter.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been establishedst year and the Magic Fan was released, the people in Banta City and the surrounding cities all went into an uproar. It was enough to prove that the novel magic machines on the Sines Continent could affect people.

    There was no reason why the other people of the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t need the same things as the people of Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    But Leif was right, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce selling the Magic Fans under their names in the other parts of the kingdom hade from a suggestion from Xu Yi.

    At the Business Union conferencest time, Xu Yi had proved a point to the otherpanies. It was that the magic machine technology of the otherpanies was just too farcking when itpared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was almost impossible for them to steal business from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So Xu Yi had mentioned that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have mature channels, the otherpanies could use their channels to sell their Magic Fans to other parts of the kingdom, so they wouldn¡¯t need to worry about their sales.

    Although the otherpanies didn¡¯t give a clear stance on Xu Yi¡¯s proposal, Xu Yi learned afterwards that manypanies had indeed done this. Based on the news that they brought back, the results were quite good.

    After the otherpanies saw therge demand for Magic Fans in the other parts of the kingdom, even the ones that had thoughts of giving up on the magic machine market began producing Magic Fans again.

    There were even twopanies that bought another two sets of production lines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They brought them to two cities far away from Banta City to create a new Magic Fan factory and it¡¯s said that their sales were quite good.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi asked Leif, ¡°Since the sales are quite good, are you prepared to suggest to chairman Rank to keep investing and sell produce even more Magic Fans?¡±

    Leif looked around before moving in front of Xu Yi and saying in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really not nning to sell your Frestech Brand Magic Fans in other ces this year?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi gave a certain nod, ¡°Didn¡¯t I show my attitudest time at the Business Union conference? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have the strength to sell our products in every part of the kingdom. So at least for this year, our Frestech Brand Magic Fans will only be sold in Banta City and the surrounding three cities. Of course, starting next year, we will be trying to open up new business channels because all the people in Banta City have already bought our products, so the market is saturated.¡±

    Leif looked at Xu Yi for a while and seeing his serious expression, he gave a slight nod, ¡°Alright, I understand. Chairman Xu, I think our Sarank Chamber of Commerce still has a chance to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seeing that Leif was prepared to leave, Xu Yi quickly stopped him and asked, ¡°Let me ask you something else, what¡¯s the furthest ce you¡¯ve gone this time?¡±

    Leif looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°It isn¡¯t that far, the furthest was just Safran City.¡±

    ¡°Safran City?¡± Xu Yi thought about it, ¡°That ce is only four hundred kilometers away from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Four hundred kilometers is already very far.¡± Leif emotionally shook his head, ¡°Because we¡¯re afraid of damaging our cargo, we spent an entire week on this journey. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the Magic Fans sold fast, it would be impossible for us to be back today.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the horse carriages and he saw that the iron sheet around the wheel was already worn out. It could be seen that they had a hard journey.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over their carriage, Leif suddenly said with emotion, ¡°Chairman Xu, when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was building that road to the Falling Rain Valley, I thought that you must have gone crazy and had too much money. But after this trip, I¡¯ve found that what you said before, called¡­..called¡­...What was it again?¡±

    ¡°You have to build roads to be rich.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Right, right, you have to build roads to be rich. That phrase is just too urate! If all the roads in our Lampuri Kingdom were public roads, not only would we not have to worry about damaging goods, the horse carriages could run even faster. If we keep moving on public roads, a four hundred kilometer trip would only take three days. Like this, we could be back in just a single week, which is enough for us to do an extra run.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Of course, transportation is a basic problem when ites to business development, so the phrase having to build roads to be rich is correct. You should havee back from the direction of Saltan City, so you should have seen the road that the Fersen Carriage Company is currently building between Saltan City and Banta City, right?¡±

    Leif nodded, ¡°Un, I saw it. I thought that this road was also built by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but after asking around in the city, I found that it was the Fersen Carriage Company that paid for it.¡±

    ¡°Right, building roads is actually the most helpful for us merchants. When you see chairman Rank, help me remind him that if he doesn¡¯t make up his mind soon, he might not have the chance.¡±

    Leif looked at Xu Yi in surprise, not he didn¡¯t ask much and nodded in agreement.

    Xu Yi moved aside and Leif saw that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have anything else to say, so he bid him farewell and left with his horse carriages.

    Watching the horse carriages disappear around a corner, Xu Yi finally turned away. After thinking about it, he didn¡¯t head home and went in another direction.

    After ten minutes, Xu Yi came to the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s Banta City headquarters.

    As expected, as this time, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii was in his special room in the headquarters, getting some rare leisure time.

    Hearing that Xu Yi was here, he quickly sent someone to bring him in.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you actually came for a rare visit, this really is a pleasant surprise for me.¡± Chairman Pompeii said whileughing. He was showing Xu Yi to a special seat woven from fragrant grass while giving him apletely green ss that was filled with Firefly Flower Nectar that was worth a high thirty eight gold coins per liter.

    Xu Yi looked around the room and finally looked at the cup of Firefly Flower Nectar. He couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already heard from others that chairman Pompeii lives a luxurious life, but seeing it today, I¡¯ve found that whether it is everyone¡¯s descriptions or my imagination, it was farcking.¡±

    Chairman Pompeiiughed while waving his hand and saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, it¡¯s fine if normal people say this, but you are the chairman of the Banta Citypany earning the most right now. So you saying this is simply pping my face. If you¡¯re willing, you could live ten times as luxuriously without any pressure.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, not choosing to discuss the matter of luxury with him. After taking a sip of the refreshing Firefly Flower Nectar, he asked chairman Pompeii about the situation of the Fersen Carriage Company building a road.

    ¡°It¡¯s quite smooth generally speaking. Although there have been a few small problems, it isn¡¯t worth mentioning.¡± Mentioning the shared interests of the two, or rather their twopanies, chairman Pompeii¡¯s tone became very rxed, ¡°ording to chairman Cruise¡¯s estimates, that road will be finished in just another three months. They can finish it right before it bes cold. What about yours?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much the same.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°The roads our twopanies are building are both longer than the Falling Rain Road, so it¡¯s normal if it takes even more time. Not to mention that chairman Cruise has beenining to me that theripany doesn¡¯t have enough manpower, so theirpany can¡¯t work in full force.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii gave a helpless sigh, ¡°Not mentioning him, even I¡¯mining. There are many people from other citiesing to our Banta City, either visiting or staying, so our Fersen Carriage Company has had twice as many customers as before. I¡¯m also worried about not having enough people.¡±

    ¡°More customers means that your business is good, could it be that this isn¡¯t something to be happy about?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°I am happy, but my worries are still real. Tell me, should we give a suggestion to the Lord City Lord to have him write an application to his majesty to bring people over from other cities?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head to deny this, ¡°Even if it¡¯s his majesty, it isn¡¯t good for him to casually order people of the kingdom to move. Not to mention that they are citizens of the territory of other nobles, so his majesty doesn¡¯t have the power to do so. If you want to solve the problem ofcking manpower, the best method is to increase your advertisements. As long as the people of the kingdom know that our Banta City needsrge amounts of workers and the wages they receive aren¡¯t low, I think there¡¯s no need to force anything and many people will naturallye to Banta City.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii considered this and couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°Un, this should be a bit better. Everyone hopes that they can make more money, so if they know that there are many opportunities to earn money in our Banta City, there will be many people running here.¡± But then his expression became bitter, ¡°But as more peoplee, there are more customers for us. Where could we find more people to use in a short period of time?¡±

    ¡°This is your problem.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and paused before saying, ¡°But chairman Pompeii, have you ever thought of improving this situation yourself?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi and doubtfully said, ¡°How can I improve it myself?¡±

    ¡°For example¡­...Right now it takes yourpany¡¯s horse carriages two days to go from Banta City to Anvilmar City, but if this trip can be shortened to a single day, how would you feel?¡±

 Volume 2 60 - Tire

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 60 Tire</strong>

    ¡°Two days into one day?¡± Chairman Pompeii was stunned before he shook his head, ¡°How could that be possible? If you say a day and a half, I could have my subordinates work a bit harder and buy some better horses, perhaps it would be possible. But to shorten it to a day¡­..Only if there was a public road connecting Banta City and Anvilmar City.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t think about it for now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The two roads we are building right now is an experiment for his majesty. When these two roads are finished and his majesty feels the results are good, then the kingdom will start investing into building public roads. As for the road connecting Banta City and Anvilmar City, who knows how long we¡¯ll have to wait.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii gave a dejected nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. If every part of the Lampuri Kingdom was connected with roads, then it would be much easier for our carriagepany to do business.¡±

    ¡°This is my second time hearing someone sigh like this.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, as long as more people see the benefits of these roads, then I believe that all of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s roads will be turned into public roads.¡±

    ¡°I also believe this, but the problem is how long will it take? Right now I can¡¯t wait that long.¡± Chairman Pompeii gave another sigh before looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, didn¡¯t you say that we should change ourselves and not change the roads?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m talking about something more realistic. It is the horse carriage that yourpany currently uses.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Horse carriage?¡± Chairman Pompeii considered it before knitting his brows, ¡°How can we improve the horse carriages? Other than getting better horses, is there anything else we can do? The problem is that good horses cost more and eat more expensive feed, I can¡¯t support that.¡±

    ¡°Alright the horse can be reced with something else, we can¡¯t do that now. I came to you this time to talk about the carriage specifically.¡±

    ¡°Carriage?¡± Chairman Pompeii was even more confused, ¡°What part of the carriage can be improved?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a part.¡± Xu Yi gave a confident nod, ¡°I saw the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cavalcade just now and I noticed that all the horse carriages in their cavalcade were made of wood?¡±

    ¡°Of course, our carriages are horse drawn vehicles, whether it is transporting humans or goods, they are all made of wood. Is there some problem?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that you don¡¯t think¡­..horse carriages made from wood aren¡¯t durable and break easily?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m clear on this, but we can¡¯t make it out of metal, right? I tried making a carriage out of metal before, but the problem was that not only is metal heavy to the point that two horses couldn¡¯t even move it, it also costs quite a bit to make. Last time I tried making a four person carriage and it actually cost me two hundred gold coins! Do you think that I can afford this kind of price? You have to know that all our horse carriages are made of wood and they cost no more than twenty gold coins to make.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. A carriage madepletely out of iron? This chairman Pompeii really could think.

    ¡°I¡¯m not saying topletely make it out of iron, of course that won¡¯t work. My meaning is that for a carriage, the easiest thing to wear down and break is not the horse carriage itself, but rather the tires and rolles, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it is indeed like this.¡± Chairman Pompeii nodded, ¡°But I¡¯ve also tried this, making the wheels and rollers out of iron. It is still too heavy and is actually easier to distort than wood. Adding in the fact that it costs several times more than wooden tires, I had to give it up in the end.¡±

    ¡°It costs several times more to make it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°That isn¡¯t right, from what I can see, iron should be cheaper. Shouldn¡¯t it be more expensive to make wheels and rollers out of wood?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t understand. Although iron itself is much cheaper than wood, to build the same kind of wheel and roller, it costs more to pay a cksmith than a carpenter. Calcting this, it¡¯s more expensive to make a wheel out of iron.¡± Chairman Pompeii helplessly said.

    ¡°Pa¡ª¡ª¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly pped his hands before saying with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s it!¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Pompeii, if I told you that I could sell you wheels and rollers made of iron at a price lower than that of those made of wood, would you be interested?¡±

    ¡°Are you joking?¡± Chairman Pompeii curled his lip, ¡°How could iron be cheaper¡­..¡± He suddenly stopped talking and looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes, ¡°That¡¯s right, doesn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this! I really am stupid, I actually forgot something like this! Chairman Xu, can you really provide a cheaper wheel and roller made of iron?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I can even add something better that is called a tire.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ###

    It was close to night when he left the Fersen Carriage Company and when Xu Yi got home, the curtain of night fell.

    When he walked into the door, he saw a figure appear in front of him as Agnes suddenly came out.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re finally back!¡± Agnes excitedly called out. She grabbed Xu YI¡¯s hand and pulled him in through the door.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Agnes, you seem quite happy today.¡±

    ¡°This is because Agnes made dinner tonight.¡± Still¡¯s voice came from inside the room.

    When she saw Agnes pulling Xu Yi in by the hand, Still¡¯s expression changed slightly. She stood up and her expression didn¡¯t change as she stole Xu Yi¡¯s hand back from Agnes before saying with a smile, ¡°You were gone for so long, the dishes are almost cold.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Vivian on the side with surprise before looking back at Still, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you two were making dinner tonight, why did it be Agnes?¡±

    Still gave a shrug, ¡°You should ask Agnes. When she saw Vivian and me prepare to make dinner, I don¡¯t know what happened, but she suddenly said that she would make dinner. She wouldn¡¯t listen to us no matter what we said.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Agnes in surprise, ¡°Agnes, did you meet something that made you happy today?¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°No. When I saw Still and Vivian preparing to make dinner, I suddenly thought that I¡¯ve been here for so long, but I¡¯ve always eaten the food Vivian made. ording to what sir chairman told mest time about humans carrying their own weight, I thought that I should repay you by making dinner and returning your favours. Am I right, sir chairman?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Although it¡¯s notpletely right, it¡¯s not wrong. Very good, Agnes, you¡¯re learning more and more about the customs that we humans have. I believe that you¡¯ll soon be what elder Illusia wishes for and you¡¯ll truly be able to live in our human society.¡±

    Agnes said in a somewhat distressed voice, ¡°But every time I go out, there are many people who point at me and quite a few people surround me.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, who told them to be not used to you.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he patted Agnes¡¯ shoulder, ¡°Rx, humans get used to new things quite quickly. I believe it won¡¯t take long before everyone is used to the existence of you elves. Look, now that a hundred of yourpatriots havee, when they reveal themselves more in the city, everyone will gradually be used to this situation and will no longer point or surround you.¡±

    Agnes thought for a bit before nodding, ¡°I hope so. Alright, sir chairman, you¡¯re finally back, so let¡¯s quickly eat dinner. I don¡¯t know what human eating customs are, but Still and Vivian both said that the dishes won¡¯t be good if they¡¯re cold, so let¡¯s eat them before they get cold.¡±

    Hearing Agnes say that she didn¡¯t understand human eating customs, Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

    Last time when he went to the Night Song Tribe, elder Illusia had only given the three of them some simple fruits and water. This made Xu Yiin about the diet of the elves.

    Now that Agnes had emphasized this point, just what kind of appearance would the meal she made have?

    Seeing Agnes pull back the cover over the table, Xu Yi took a deep breath and calmed himself as he took a look.

    When he saw it, Xu Yi almost began to cry.

    The things in the three dishes and soup bowl werepletely ck, he couldn¡¯t tell what they were at all.

    If someone wanted Xu Yi to recognize this as a normal meal, it would just by too hard to do.

    Seeing the bright smile on Agnes¡¯ face, Xu Yi asked Still and Vivian, ¡°Hey, were these dishes made by Agnes alone? You just stood on the side without helping her at all?¡±

    ¡°This is because Agnes said that having people help wouldn¡¯t let her show her sincerity, so she chased both of us out.¡± Still casually replied before looking at Xu Yi with a secret smile, ¡°Dear sir chairman, Agnes said that since she came to the human world, you have helped her the most, so she wanted to make this meal to thank you. So¡­..you can¡¯t let down Agnes¡¯ good intentions.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, sir chairman, in order to show my gratitude, I made this entire meal by myself. How about you have a taste?¡± Agnes looked at Xu Yi with an expectant gaze.

    Seeing the happy expression on Agnes¡¯ face, as well as the secret smile on Still¡¯s face and the worry on Vivian¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart. He revealed a bright smile on his face and said to Agnes, ¡°Alright, let me give it a try.¡±

    He gritted his teeth after saying this and revealed a righteous look, as he took arge bite of the food Agnes delivered to his mouth.

    Instantly all kinds of strange tastes exploded in his mouth. Xu Yi felt like he had fallen into an amazing world and the surrounding space turned colourful.

    At this time, Agnes¡¯ voice rang in his ears.

    ¡°Sir chairman, does it taste good?¡±

    After a while, Xu Yi slowly spat out two words with difficulty, ¡°Tastes¡­...good¡­¡­¡±

    [TL Note: Moment of silence for our poor man¡­..]

 Volume 2 61 - What qualifications do you have to be arrogant

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 61 What qualifications do you have to be arrogant</h4>

    ¡°Chairman, why does your expression look so ugly?¡± Ankhto looked at Xu Yi in surprise, as he asked in a worried voice, ¡°Did you not sleep wellst night?¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his stomach. He had taken seventeen trips to the washroomst night, it would have been strange if he slept well.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, just a bit of difort, it¡¯s nothing special.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped Ankhto from further questioning him, ¡°Let¡¯s talk business. Ankhto, the Falling Rain Valley factories will be finished soon, so after a while, I¡¯m prepared to move part of the factory over to the Falling Rain Valley. Part of it includes the household magic machine workshop, which you are the manager of, so do you have any thoughts?¡±

    Ankhto thought about it before replying, ¡°Chairman, I feel that if we are moving, it would be best if we wait for the end of summer. Right now the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, and the Magic Refrigerator are all selling well and we¡¯re still taking orders. If we were to move, it will definitely affect production and we won¡¯t be able to finish those orders.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also considered this. So the first batch to move will be the production team for the Automatic Magic Rice Cookers, the Magic Bread Makers, and the Magic Lamps which aren¡¯t as rushed. As for the ones you said, we¡¯ll leave it for consideration next month.¡± Xu Yi said.¡±

    ¡°Will the workers also move over?¡± Ankhto asked.

    ¡°Of course. The production magic machines are secondary, the workers are the main thing.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Other than that, the Falling Rain Valley factory is bigger, so we can recruit a new batch of workers. Talk to the workers when you have time, ask if they have any friends or rtives that want to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as they qualify, I want them all.¡±

    Ankhto revealed a look of joy on his face, ¡°Great! Chairman, I already wanted to ask you about this matter. There are many people in the workshop that have asked me about this, saying that they had friends and rtives that wanted to work for ourpany because of our high wages and good benefits. But you have never mentioned recruiting new workers, so I¡¯ve never responded. Now that you¡¯ve said this, the workers will definitely be happy when I tell them about this.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°There is work everywhere in Banta City and the wages aren¡¯t much lower than ours, so why do they want to work for ourpany?¡±

    Ankhtoughed before replying in a proud voice, ¡°Of course it¡¯s because our ce is better. Chairman look, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce having high wages, we also give things to our workers as benefits. For example,st time you had me give every worker a tub of ice cream, when I took it home, whether it was my wife or kids, they all liked it. They finished it all in a day and they asked me if there was more.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing. He had just casually given out the ice cream made for their experiment, but it was actually treated as a good benefit.

    ¡°Other than this, there is another very important reason. It¡¯s because working in our factory is very rxed.¡± Ankhto pointed at the busy workers and said, ¡°Look, the workers just have to move their hands, there¡¯s no effort at all. This kind of rxed and simple work, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where would you find something simr?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face became even more strange.

    The mechanicalbour of the household magic machine workshop was called mindless and repetitive by countless people on earth, saying that it was very tiring. Now on the Sines Continent, it had be simple and rxed work.

    But thinking of the time when he visited the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s work site, Xu Yi understood.

    Compared to that work that was back breaking, the work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much more rxed.

    Xu Yi looked around the workshop and he couldn¡¯t help looking at the elves currently assembling some small parts.

    These hundred elves were naturally from the Night Song Tribe.

    They left the Falling Rain Forest and came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be normal workers because elder Illusia realized the faults of the elves after seeing the Magic Fan covers they madest time. So she sent some nsmen to Xu Yi following his request, having them specially train them.

    As for the so called special training, it was actually very simple.

    Without another word, Xu Yi three these hundred dwarves into the household magic machine workshop. He had them engage in the most boring and repetitive kind of work.

    It had already been half a month since they started working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. No matter how many times Xu Yi saw this scene, whenever he saw these noble, mysterious, and elegant elves working like normal workers from earth, doing this kind of simple and repetitive work, Xu Yi felt a bit conflicted.

    ¡°How are the elves doing now?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°They¡¯ve progressed quite a bit.¡± Ankhto nodded and praised them, ¡°They were indeed like you said in the beginning chairman, sloppy and without discipline. But after you scolded themst time, they¡¯ve be much better.¡±

    Hearing Ankhto mentioning the matter of him scolding the elves, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rubbing his face and revealing a bitter smile.

    This happened a week ago, there was a small conflict that erupted in the household magic machine workshop.

    This conflict happened between the elven workers and the human workers.

    Because the elves were sloppy, there were problems with the products that they assembled. It caused the human workers who inspected the boxes of finished products to have even more work.

    After a long time, contradictions umted between sides before finally erupting.

    Although the human workers worshipped the elves because of their mysteriousness at first, after working with them for a while, naturally they didn¡¯t seem that mysterious anymore.

    Because the elves created more work for them and affected the efficiency of the workshop, those human workers naturally felt dissatisfied. Finally because of a mistake, a human worker finally couldn¡¯t help insulting the elves.

    The elves had a proud personality, how could they take the crude insults of human workers? So the conflict between both sides erupted.

    If Xu Yi hadn¡¯te in time, the first armed conflict would have happened in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it would have been a conflict between races.

    When Xu Yi came and heard the entire story, he ruthlessly scolded both sides that caused trouble.

    Xu Yi was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, so he had a high position in the minds of the workers. After being scolded by him, the human workers naturally could only take it and couldn¡¯t refute him.

    But when had the elves ever been scolded like this? Not to mention that it was a human scolding them.

    Even if elder Illusia had strictly ordered them to listen to Xu Yi before they left the Night Song Tribe, in this kind of situation, the elves couldn¡¯t take it and refuted Xu Yi¡¯s scolding.

    But a few simple words made thempletely speechless.

    ¡°Everyone is doing the same work, but the human workers are faster and better than you, so what qualifications do you have to look down on them? What qualifications do you have to scream in front of me? Could it be the pride of you elves is acting shamelessly after making mistakes?¡±

    After that conflict, the hundred elves changed their sloppy attitude and began to work seriously like the human workers, strictly following the rules.

    Once they became serious, the elves¡¯ personality of chasing perfection and innate talents came out. The work they finished was much more beautifulpared to the ones made by the human workers.

    ¡°Although this is a good thing, it isn¡¯t good that there are antagonistic feelings between the elven workers and our human workers. If it stays like this, it will go against the intentions of elder Illusia.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying to Ankhto, ¡°Pay attention to this in the future and defuse as much tension as you can. For example, you can go and hold a banquet when there is free time, let the human and elven workers have contact with each other so they can understand each other better.¡±

    Ankhto nodded in response.

    After telling them this, Xu Yi began talking about business.

    ¡°ording to the n, ourpany will be making a tire factory after a period of time. This factory will be divided into three parts, making the bearing, casting the steel frames, and making the cover for the tire. This should split the work between three to five workshops.¡±

    ¡°Tires?¡± Ankhto was a bit confused, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to understand what it is now, I just need to you pick from among the current workers, some that are familiar with controlling the production magic machines and the Magic Punch Presses. I need to rely on these people to develop and make the first batch of tires. In the future, they will be the foundation for the tire factory.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright, around what time do you need them by?¡± Ankhto asked.

    ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, I need them by the end of the month. Also I need a group of these people to be elven workers. You should pick some elven workers who have a decent sense of discipline, I need them to make the cover of the tire.¡±

    Ankhto nodded to show he understood.

    Xu Yi said a few more things to him before leaving the household magic machine workshop, heading to the magic machine development workshop.

    Compared to the household magic machine workshop that only manufactured developed magic machines, the magic machine development workshop had the important role of studying magic machines. Their importance surpassed the magic research facility, so Xu Yi had always ced the most importance on this ce.

    Naturally, he gave Camby, Bordeau, and the other dwarves in charge the best treatment.

    Not mentioning Camby, because Bordeau was an outstanding talent and had yed a very important role in the research of thest few months, Xu Yi had raised his wage from fifteen gold coins a month to twenty five gold coins a month.

    But Xu Yi still felt that this wage was just too low.

    If the otherpanies know how important Bordeau was to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would still be very happy even if they had to start by doubling the wage of twenty five gold coins a month.

    It had to be known, on earth, some important high level research staff in somepanies had yearly sries of at least a million.

    Changing that into gold coins on the Sines Continent, that was equal to ten thousand gold coins!

    That meant a monthly sry of close to a thousand gold coins!

 Volume 2 62 - Engine

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 62 Engine</strong>

    Entering the magic machine development workshop, he was not surprised to see Bordeau and the other dwarves crowded together, talking while they surrounded a strange looking machine.

    Xu Yi walked over to take a listen and found that they were currently researching a problem with the kic energy parameters of this Magic Punch Press.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s initial design, this Magic Punch Press¡¯ kic power came from the Fourth Grade me Magic Array, the Burst Magic Array. It relied on the explosive force of the Burst Magic Array to drive the head through the mold.

    In the beginning, there was no problem with this design.

    But after it was used for a while, the dwarves gradually found that the force of the Magic Punch Press wasn¡¯t strong enough. Moreover, the recovery time before each explosion of the Burst Magic Array was rather long, so it seriously limited the efficiency.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received more and more orders, increasing the amount, the Magic Punch Press¡¯ efficiency clearly couldn¡¯t keep up.

    Although they could produce a few more Magic Punch Presses to solve this problem, this required a few more workers to operate these Magic Punch Presses which indirectly increased the cost.

    So while the dwarves led by Camby were researching new Magic Punch Presses, they didn¡¯t stop improving the old Magic Punch Presses.

    As for improving the Magic Punch Presses, Xu Yi had already given a new design to provide mechanical power for the Magic Punch Press.

    But because Xu Yi only knew the machine structures from earth, he needed to change the entire structure for it to work with Magic Arrays, so he had Camby and the dwarves finish the research for this.

    Bordeau and the other dwarves were currently studying the kic energy parameters of the old Magic Punch Presses to determine the force specifications of the old Magic Punch Presses. Then they would use this to design the new Magic Punch Presses.

    This was work that required precise calctions. This was not the customs of the dwarves before, but after working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a while, they were gradually influenced by Xu Yi.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Bordeau and the others stopped talking and handed over the estimates they had made to Xu Yi to let him take a look.

    Although Xu Yi tried to participate in this research as little as possible, whether it was to the dwarves of the magic machine development workshop or Evita and the other researchers of the magic researchb, he was the best magic mechanical engineer in their hearts.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the results of the dwarves and pointed out some mistakes. He then gave them a bit of exnation on where to proceed next before not saying anything else.

    He reduced his involvement to let Evita¡¯s group and the dwarves to develop their own minds for research and to build up their knowledge.

    After Xu Yi finished talking to Bordeau¡¯s group, Camby who had been waiting on the side asked, ¡°Chairman, since you are here today, do you have some new research for us?¡±

    Hearing Camby¡¯s question, the other dwarves realized something and all looked over at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, as he thought that all dwarves were workaholics.

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s a new task this time and it¡¯s quite the difficult one. Do you want to take it?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Camby curled his lips, ¡°Chairman, why are you asking this nonsense? We like difficult tasks the most. Speak, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Alright, there are a total of two tasks and the first one is rather easy.¡± Xu Yi took out two blueprints and spread the first one, ¡°I talked to the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii yesterday and I promised to help him design some tires, recing the wheels of his horse carriages. Look, this is the design.¡±

    The dwarves came over to look and Bordeau said in surprise, ¡°Chairman, this tire design is so simple, why do you need us to research this? We just need to change our current production magic machines up a bit.¡±

    ¡°So I said that the first task is rather simple.¡± Xu Yi spread the second sheet of paper, ¡°As for the second task, it¡¯s much more difficult.¡±

    The dwarves looked down at the paper and they all knit their brows.

    There was a very strange thing drawn on the second sheet. It was in the shape of a cube and had many leather belts tied together, as well as a series ofplicated and messy mechanical parts.

    With just a single look, the dwarves were certain that this thing was very troublesome.

    ¡°Chairman, what is this?¡± Bordeau couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This thing is powerful. If you can develop this, I dare to guarantee that there will be a giant change on the entire Sines Continent!¡±

    Camby disdainfully curled his lips, ¡°Chairman, you¡¯ve said these words countless times. Whenever you have us develop something, you will say this.¡±

    ¡°Then do you admit if what I said is a fact or not?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Camby was stunned before looking at the other dwarves, finding that they had no way to refute Xu Yi.

    The current Chamber of Commerce did not just rely on their few products to change Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    If they were given time, being able to affect the Sines Continent and changing the Sines Continent was a foreseeable matter.

    ¡°This thing that I¡¯m having you develop this time is even more powerful than the things I had you develop before and it can change the continent even more.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Because it has a powerful name. It¡¯s called the engine.¡±

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    Developing the engine was a difficult thing even if they were on earth.

    This is because the engine had high requirements. It not only required a high level of mechanical knowledge, it also required powerful foundation in materials, not a single one could be missing.

    But the engine was just a general term. If they were to be divided, there were car engines, boat engines, airne engines, spaceship engines, etc¡­...

    On this Sines Continent with a weak technological level, Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t expect to develop everything in one step, directly reaching the level of being able to develop a spaceship engine.

    What he had given to Camby and the other dwarves to research couldn¡¯t be considered a real engine, rather it was a crude gasoline engine model.

    In the engines on earth, the driving force used was burning of fossil fuels, but one the Sines Continent, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t even seen fossil fuels before nor had he ever heard of fossil fuels being mentioned before. Naturally he couldn¡¯t develop the same kind of engine.

    Of course, without fossil fuels, that didn¡¯t mean that they couldn¡¯t design an engine. Rather because they weren¡¯t limited by having to use fossil fuels as the driving force, Xu Yi could make a more natural engine design.

    For example, the engines on earth relied on internalbustion of fossil fuels to turn fan des which transferred the energy through mechanical devices. The most important part of designing an engine was to consider how to best use the power of burning the fossil fuels, so the designs were quiteplicated.

    On the Sines Continent, with its specialty of magic, Xu Yi¡¯s job in designing this was much easier.

    He even had two different choices to choose from.

    One was to imitate the engine design from earth, using Fire Magic to provide the force required, recing thebustion of burning fossil fuels to provide energy in moving the fans to provide moving force.

    To put it simply, he was using Magic Crystals to rece fossil fuels and a Fire Magic Array to rece the internalbustion.

    It should be said that with Xu Yi¡¯s rich mechanical engineering knowledge, it was easier for him to choose this design. Xu Yi just needed to design an appropriate Magic Array to rece the internalbustion unit.

    As for the other choice, it was the same as the Magic Fan. He would use Wind Magic to move the fans to generate power.

    This way Xu Yi could directly use the Wind Magic Array to provide the driving force, avoiding designing theplicated structures of an engine.

    The problem was thatpared to Fire Magic Arrays, Wind Magic Arrays werecking in terms of explosive power.

    Just like how the Magic Punch Press could use the Fourth Grade Burst Magic Array. If they used a Wind Magic Array to produce the same effect, they would have to use at least a Sixth Grade or higher Magic Array.

    In short, the Fire Magic Array design had a ready made example and had enough power. As for the Wind Magic Array design, it was simpler and easier to design, but it wascking in power.

    What Xu Yi gave the dwarves to study this time was the wind powered design.

    There was no relevant knowledge on the Sines Continent, so if he wanted to seed, naturally it was better to start simpler.

    Moreover, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much confidence in the fire powered engine design.

    After all, he didn¡¯t specialize in designing engines, so there were some concrete details he wasn¡¯t certain about.

    There was also the possibility of danger with this kind of research and Xu Yi didn¡¯t want any idents to happen to these valuable dwarves. He decided to study the wind powered design first and when the dwarves had enough knowledge, he would consider studying the fire powered design.

    When Xu Yi mentioned that the horses of the horse carriage could be reced to chairman Pompeii, he was referring to the engine.

    In the history of earth, the development of engines had gradually reced horses and things like horse carriages became things of the past.

    Now on the Sines Continent, with the appearance of Xu Yi, as well as his strong difort from sitting in horse carriages, the engine was developed ahead of time. The time that horse carriages disappeared into history had also been brought forward.

    Xu Yi wanted to research tires and engines because he wanted to stop the difort to his butt from sitting in horse carriages. He wanted to return to thefort of sitting in cars like on earth as soon as possible.

    But if he wanted to solve this problem, there was still an important problem that needed to be solved first.

    Xu Yi left the magic machine development workshop and entered the horse carriage he hated, heading off to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower.

 Volume 2 63 - Miniature Magic Array

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 63 Miniature Magic Array</h4>

    In this recent time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s frequency in developing new products gradually increased, so they needed more and more kinds of Magic Arrays.

    Even if the magic research facility¡¯s staff increased, Evita¡¯s school mates were at the same level of magic as Evita and Akali, so they couldn¡¯t meet the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s requirements.

    Sopared to before, the Cami Magic Tower received more and more research projects.

    ordingly, the Cami Magic Tower received more and more funding from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In just half a year, Xu Yi had already given the Cami Magic Tower over three thousand gold coins in research funds.

    Just based on this, it surpassed the Magic Tower¡¯s ie from all ofst year.

    With enough funds, Great Magician Cami finally realized the benefits of having money and he realized something important. While helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop magic machines, most of the time he was studying Magic Arrays which still belonged to the field of magic. Not only did this not dy his important magic research, but because of Xu Yi¡¯s requirements towards Magic Arrays, Great Magician Cami came to many new understandings and developed new knowledge towards magic. This without a doubt had increased Great Magician Cami¡¯s level of magic.

    Being able to earn money and raise the level of his magic, Great Magician Cami no longer rejected participating in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research. Rather he became more positive and whenever he saw Xu Yi, he would take the initiative to question him.

    ¡°Hey, kid, do you have a new project this time?¡±

    As long as it was someone who had been in contact with Xu Yi for a while, they would unknowingly learn a few new terms from him. Even Great Magician Cami was not an exception.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Not right now, but your excellency Great Magician, I want to ask you, has there been any progress with the miniature Magic Array that I¡¯ve asked you aboutst time? Ourpany needs this technology right now, so if you have had any sess, we can use it in many different kinds of magic machines.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows, ¡°There is progress, but¡­..we can¡¯t achieve the results you want.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°There¡¯s progress? It¡¯s good that there¡¯s progress. Come, your excellency Great Magician, what is the specific progress you¡¯ve made?¡±

    ¡°Actually it isn¡¯t that much progress. I just picked a few Magic Arrays to make smaller and have seeded a few times. The smallest ones were no more than ten centimeters and thergest one is no more than twenty centimeters, but it¡¯s far from the one centimeters that you mentioned¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Cami knit his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, this really is too difficult. You are also a magician and might even have a stronger understanding of Magic Arrays than me, so you should be clear that there is a high requirement for drawing Magic Arrays. Not mentioning making the Magic Array smaller, when it starts, the array lines will tremble intensely with magic power. It is hard to make the Magic Array keep its form, not to mention that you want it to be as strong as arge Magic Array, this is simply impossible.¡±

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t difficult, how could we have your excellency personally do this? Isn¡¯t it because you are a powerful magician, I wouldn¡¯t let the others research this.¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°There¡¯s no use in ttering me, this research is too difficult, I don¡¯t know when I¡¯ll finish it if I do it alone. Didn¡¯t you make some agreement with Great Magician Eisenkelst time? If you¡¯re in a rush, why don¡¯t you have him help with the research? He isn¡¯t just a Great Magician with the same level of magic as me, he has more connections and knows quite a few powerful magicians. If he joins in, I feel this research will be finished much faster.¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Eisenkel¡­..¡± Xu Yi hesitated a bit, not voicing the concern in his heart. Rather he asked, ¡°Speaking of him, I suddenly thought of something. Last time he came, didn¡¯t he say that the Magicians Guild is currently discussing the magic patent? Now it¡¯s been this long, what were the results?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°It¡¯s a real pity, but the efficiency of the guild¡¯s leaders is worse than you imagined. They¡¯ve already discussed it for several months and the results haven¡¯te, I really can¡¯t keep watching. But the good news is that thest guild periodic began to discuss the matter of the patent. Based on this trend, the guild should have made their decision to pass this. As for specifically when they¡¯ll pass it, I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that it can pass, that way we can boldly conduct our research and not have to worry that our hard to obtain results will be taken by others.¡± Xu Yi said with a satisfied nod.

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi and suddenly asked, ¡°Kid, when you say ¡®others¡¯, are you talking about Great Magician Eisenkel?¡±

    Xu Yiughed without denying or confirming it.

    Great Magician Cami gave a sigh and said with a look of pity, ¡°Ai, actually I have always supported the ideas of the guild that everyone¡¯s research should be shared. If every magician could do this, the magic level of our Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t have fallen down this much, even being far worse than during the race wars thousands of years ago.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, this is just your one sided wish, but there is no real value in this. The Magicians Guild can have this slogan because the organization needs it, but for each magician to believe in such selfless words, it¡¯s basically impossible.¡±

    Great Magician Cami unwillingly gave a slow nod, ¡°Actually, I know this, but I¡¯m just not willing to ept it. Now that I¡¯ve seen your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, I suddenly realize that what you said before was right. People are just selfish, if there are no benefits for themself, they wouldn¡¯t be willing to put in effort to do something. Look, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines bring benefits to many people, so not only in Banta City, but even the surrounding city have many people who want to join this business. I think that not long after, the entire Lampuri Kingdom will join this business. When that timees, there will be many magicians studying magic machines and I believe that the miniature Magic Array that you need will be easily developed.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°ording to normal logic, that is right, but first I¡¯m not willing to wait that long. Second, if it isn¡¯t our Frestech Chamber of Commerce that develops it, then it has apletely different meaning. So your excellency Great Magician, I ask you to try a bit harder.¡±

    Great Magician Cami said with a bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m not an Arch Magus, not to mention that it isn¡¯t even easy for an Arch Magus to solve this miniature Magic Array problem.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before taking out a blueprint from his chest.

    ¡°If you can¡¯t solve all the problems, then I ask you to solve the miniaturization of this Magic Array first.¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked over the paper and his brows jumped up as he said in surprise, ¡°This is the Eighth Grade Magic Array, the Cyclone Spell. You actually want to use such a powerful Magic Array in your magic machines? What kind of terrifying magic machine are you nning to make?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s not as terrifying as you think. It¡¯s just that this new magic machine requires a lot of power and I feel that even this Cyclone Spell might not be enough. But we have just started studying it and we can¡¯t suddenly use that powerful of a Magic Array, right? Your excellency Great Magician, do you think it is possible to limit this Magic Array to less than five centimeters?¡±

    ¡°Five centimeters?¡± Great Magician Cami looked over the paper for a while before nodding, ¡°It should be fine if it¡¯s five centimeters. But the Cyclone Spell is arge scale spell, so if you limit it to a small Magic Array, its power will be decreased. No matter how I study it, it¡¯s impossible to keep its original power.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine as long as it¡¯s half.¡± Xu Yi kept nodding, ¡°Not to mention that I¡¯m prepared to use the magic gradation technology with this Magic Array to limit its power anyway.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s like this, then there¡¯s no problem.¡± Great Magician Cami thought for a bit, ¡°Give me a month. I think with the experience from before, as long as it¡¯s just this Magic Array, it shouldn¡¯t be that much of a problem.¡±

    ¡°Just one month?¡± Xu Yi was pleasantly surprised and he couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, your magic power is truly strong, even more than I imagined. My respect to you flows more than the waters of a river and¡­..¡±

    ¡°Alright, stop ttering me.¡± Great Magician Cami snappily cut Xu Yi off, ¡°If you have this much free time, you might as well go apany Still. That girlined to mest night that you¡¯re always too busy and you never have time to spend with her.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Still really said that?¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at him, ¡°Do you think that I¡¯m lying? Let me tell you, kid, our Still being able to like you is your luck. If you don¡¯t cherish it and she¡¯s cheated away by some other fellow, I won¡¯t let you off.¡±

    Xu Yi scratched his head, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, ording to your words¡­..are you praising Still? Or settling on me?¡±

    Great Magician Cami angrily stared at Xu Yi, ¡°What do you care so much for? If I want you to be with Still, you just have to listen to me!¡±

    Xu Yi stood at attention and gave Great Magician Cami a military salute from earth, ¡°Reporting to your excellency Great Magician, I will definitely aplish this task!¡±

    Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t even want to look at Xu Yi anymore, but he smiled from Xu Yi¡¯s strange actions. In the end, he could only wave his hands, telling Xu Yi to scram.

    Xu Yi chuckled as he strolled out of Great Magician Cami¡¯s personalboratory, heading down the Magic Tower to find Still.

 Volume 2 64 - I also want to work

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 64 I also want to work</strong>

    We was sitting in the chair in a daze, staring nkly at her aunt sitting opposite of her talking at her.

    ¡°Baron Stanley¡¯s son looks quite good and has quite the good character. I¡¯ve heard people who know him say that he never liked to y around like the other noble sons in the city, he always stayed home and helped Baron Stanley manage the family business. Listen to me, although Baron Stanley is not arge noble in our Banta City, thend under him is not smaller than Viscount Leslie¡­...Oh, it should be under Baron Belil now. It¡¯s close to twenty hectares if it is all added up. If you marry him¡­¡­¡±

    We couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    This was the reason why she didn¡¯t like going home.

    She was from Banta City and her family¡¯s home was in a small vige that was less than five kilometers to the north of Banta City.

    Although she seemed to have a cold personality, she was a very filial daughter. Even when she went to Saltan City for work, she woulde back home once in a while to spend time with her parents.

    But what made it hard for her to ept was that every time she went home, there were some elders of the family that came to urge her to get married, which made her feel very irritated.

    When her rtionship with Rem hadn¡¯t changed yet, these people had urged her to settle with Rem and get married.

    But after they learned that she split up with Rem, everyone changed their goals. They introduced her to all kinds of men, even urging her to get married right away.

    ¡°Could it be that I can¡¯t be married?¡± Sometimes We couldn¡¯t help angrily thinking this.

    To be honest, she was already twenty five. On the Sines Continent, women who were twenty five and were still unmarried were consideredte.

    We¡¯s ssmates and the girls of the same age from her vige were all married, with some of them even having kids. She was the only one who was still left.

    Her personality was rather cold, but because Rem stuck to her without giving up, he finally received some approval from her. After they had split up, it would be strange if her family wasn¡¯t worried about her.

    Knowing that her aunt was thinking about her wellbeing and that this must be her parent¡¯s idea, even if We wasn¡¯t willing, she still had to listen through it.

    Her aunt heard We sigh and got the wrong idea, so she asked in a surprised voice, ¡°We, you¡¯re not satisfied with Baron Stanley¡¯s son? Let me tell you,he¡¯s already very good. No matter what he is still a noble and if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that you were a magician, he probably wouldn¡¯t even like you. Now that he¡¯s willing toe in contact with you and meet you, you have to grab this chance. What are you waiting for? You¡¯re already twenty five, if another two years pass, perhaps you won¡¯t even be able to get married. Look, your little brother is turning twenty this year and he¡¯s still not married yet. If you don¡¯t get married, your little brother can¡¯t get married. Could it be that you want your little brother to miss out on his happiness?¡±

    Hearing the cliches that she had heard a hundred times, We just kept silent.

    Baron Stanley¡¯s son? A real noble¡¯s son?

    Humph!

    We didn¡¯t believe this.

    Based on what her aunt said, Baron Stanley¡¯s son was already twenty six this year and he still wasn¡¯t married.

    ording to We¡¯s understanding of the sons of nobles, this fellow either hadn¡¯t yed enough, doesn¡¯t want to get married at all, or he just didn¡¯t like women.

    For a man that was twenty six and still wasn¡¯t married, it would be strange if there weren¡¯t any problems at all!

    But thinking about it, We suddenly remembered that Xu Yi seemed to be twenty eight this year and he still hadn¡¯t gotten married yet.

    Comparing this, wouldn¡¯t his problem be even bigger than Baron Stanley¡¯s son?

    Thinking of this, We couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    If Xu Yi and Still were to know about her thoughts, it really was unknown what kind of reaction they would have.

    ¡°Next time I see Xu Yi, should I remind him to propose to Still? Based on Still¡¯s appearance, she seems like she is dead set on Xu Yi anyway.¡± We didn¡¯t notice that her thoughts were filled with gossip just like her aunt.

    After a while, perhaps her uncle was tired of his wife¡¯s jabbering, so he found a reason to call her away and finally gave We a moment of silence.

    When they went out to calm down, a tall figure suddenly appeared beside We.

    ¡°Cousin We, can I ask you something?¡±

    We looked up and saw her cousin who was half a head taller than her. She said with a smile, ¡°What is it? Tell me.¡±

    Cousin Soob looked to the side at his parents not far away and pulled out of the room. They went to a remote corner outside the house and he said in a low voice, ¡°Cousin We, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is recruiting workers?¡±

    We was surprised. She thought about it before shaking her head and saying, ¡°I¡¯m not too clear on this, but I¡¯ve heard the chairman mention that ourpany would be expanding soon, so we should be recruiting workers.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great.¡± Cousin Soob excitedly shouted before mysteriously saying, ¡°I¡¯ve heard others say that if you¡¯re introduced from within, you¡¯ll receive priority. Is that right?¡±

    We looked at him and asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What? You want to work at ourpany?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Cousin We, you are from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and you¡¯re someone from that magic research facility, so you should be higher than normal workers, right? Can you take to chairman Xu? If you can, can you help me talk to him and introduce some work for me at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Cousin Soob asked with an excited look.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you have a good life staying home, why do you suddenly want to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± We asked in a strange voice, ¡°Then again there are manypanies recruiting people right now, so you can just go to any one of them. Why do you have to enter ourpany?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s quitefortable staying at home, but there¡¯s no money¡­¡­¡± Cousin Soob scratched his head and awkwardly said, ¡°The people who y with me in the vige have all run off to work forrgepanies and they can earn at least ten gold coins a month. They always run back with all sorts of bags when they get paid and I can only just watch them, so this is a bit ufortable. So I thought about it and I also want to work. Cousin We, can you help me?¡±

    We looked at her cousin and found this a bit funny, while also admiring him a bit.

    This cousin was what her aunt worried about because he had been spoiled since he was young. He wasn¡¯t willing to do farm work after he grew up and he didn¡¯t want to do any hard work, so he just stayed idle at home each day.

    Her aunt hadined to We¡¯s parents many times, but she never had a way to take care of him.

    Now that he took the initiative to find work, if her uncle and aunt knew, they definitely would be very happy.

    ¡°I can help you, but have you really decided to work? Have you thought this through?¡± We asked.

    Cousin Soob gave a strong nod, ¡°Un! I¡¯ve thought it through! Cousin We, I¡¯ve heard that a normal worker can earn more than ten gold coins a month at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If I have this money, I can buy two Magic Fans for our house and even a Magic Air Conditioner. If I put it in my parent¡¯s room, at least they wouldn¡¯t be that hot when they sleep at night.¡±

    We¡¯s heart was a bit moved. Although this cousin of hers was a bit spoiled, at least he knew how to be filial.

    She couldn¡¯t help raising her hand to pat her cousin¡¯s head. She said with a nod, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve thought this through, I¡¯ll help you this time. But cousin, although the work at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is more rxed than at otherpanies, it is also tiring so you should prepare yourself.¡±

    Cousin Soob gave a strong nod, ¡°I know. Anyway I¡¯ve made my decision this time and I want to work hard at earning money, or I won¡¯t be able to hold my head up in the vige.¡± He revealed an excited smile after saying this, ¡°If I work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they will definitely die of jealousy over me. They won¡¯t dare taunt me anymore!¡±

    We revealed a faint smile as she thought that he didn¡¯t want to earn money. But since he had this thought, it was a good change.

    Seeing the happy face on her cousin Soob, We couldn¡¯t help praising Xu Yi in her heart.

    The reason why there was this change with her cousin was because her cousin was being taunted by his friends who had money after finding jobs. The deeper reason for this was that because there were more jobs in Banta City now, so that all her cousin¡¯s friends could find jobs.

    It had to be known, it wasn¡¯t that these people didn¡¯t want to work, rather there was no work for them in Banta City. Those people could only be the same as her cousin, staying home doing nothing all day before finally bing normal farmers like their parents.

    But now that Banta City had changed, it had changed the lives of these people and had changed the fate and thoughts of her cousin.

    But why was there such arge change with Banta City?

    It was clearly because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather it was because of Xu Yi.

    We only admired Xu Yi because of his talent with magic machines before. Now she had found that Xu Yi inventing these magic machines wasn¡¯t just to bring benefits to the lives of people, rather there was an even more important change.

    ¡°It seems like Xu Yi wasn¡¯t exaggerating, these magic machines really will bring a change to this world that people haven¡¯t thought of before.¡±

    After We thought for a bit, she found that it was still too early for dinner, so she walked around.

    She didn¡¯t want to go back to hear her aunt¡¯s ¡°urging¡±, so she might as well rx before eating dinner.

    Wanting to take a walk by the familiar river by the vige, We found that after noting back for half a month, there was a tall factory that had been constructed by the river.

    After looking at it, We didn¡¯t find it too surprising.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n, there were all kinds of new small factories that appeared outside Banta City.

    When she wanted to look in to see what kind of magic machines they produced, We saw two figures in the distance walking out of the building.

    We was stunned because she recognized that one person of the two familiar figures was Rem!

    Although she didn¡¯t immediately recognize the other one, after carefully looking for a bit, she found that it was actually Cimirot!

    Seeing the two walking close together, an angry feeling filled We¡¯s heart.

    ¡°That fellow Rem, why is he with that bastard Cimirot!¡±

 Volume 2 65 - You can only want it if I give it to you

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 65 You can only want it if I give it to you</strong>

    Thoughts passed through We¡¯s mind before she quickly bent down, hiding her body behind a small tree.

    Her magic activated and used two small Wind Gathering Spells by her ears, allowing her to hear the sound of Rem and Cimirot¡¯s discussion.

    ¡°Give me a bit more time.¡± She first heard the familiar voice of Rem, ¡°I have basically won their trust right now and recently Evita has given me some important projects, so I already have quite a bit of important material in my hands. As long as you give me some more time, I can definitely get the most important technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    When she heard thest sentence, We¡¯s heart turned cold.

    What did Rem want to do?

    He wanted to take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most important technology and then what did he want to do?

    Based on his tone, it clearly wasn¡¯t anything good.

    ¡°The problem is that you¡¯ve already had enough time.¡± This time it was Cimirot who spoke, ¡°Rem, you¡¯ve already been at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for two months? But in these two months, you didn¡¯t do anything and didn¡¯t bring out anything useful. I can wait, but the people behind me can¡¯t. Do you know how many times those important people have urged me on?¡±

    ¡°I know.¡± Rem¡¯s voice sounded a bit difficult, ¡°But Cimirot, you should know that technology is the most important thing at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they clearly ce importance on it. I haven¡¯t entered the researchb for long and I¡¯ve just gained their trust, so it¡¯s good that I can even get any technology out. If you want it, you need to be a bit more patient.¡±

    Cimirot was silent for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°Rem, it can¡¯t be that after working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a while, your heart has changed and you¡¯re now loyal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Don¡¯t forget, I still have the things you took from the Frestech Chamber of Commercest time. You should be clear that if I were to announce these things, you know what kind of consequences you¡¯ll face.¡±

    Faced with this bare threat, Rem was silent even longer before saying with a sigh, ¡°Rx, I already have no path of retreat. If I can¡¯t beat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everything I¡¯ve done has no meaning. But Cimirot, are you certain that as long as you can get the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology, you can make better magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Cimirot asked back, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, we had no experience before and we could still make the Magic Fans for the Leo Chamber of Commerce. Now that we have the technological foundation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, of course we can make better magic machines.¡±

    We saw from the distance that Rem seemed to be shaking his head, ¡°I have already been at the researchb for two months and I¡¯ve found that everything is rted to Xu Yi. Without him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t develop all those magic machines, or make magic machines with such good quality. So I feel that even if we obtain this technology, at best we can only make copies of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.¡±

    ¡°No courage!¡± Cimirot scolded in a low roar, ¡°Rem, could it be that you¡¯re admitting defeat? Don¡¯t you feel anything after having We being stolen away by Xu Yi? Or do you n on never lifting your head in front of We ever again? Ah?¡±

    We eavesdropping on them was stunned.

    Why did the topic suddenlye to her? Moreover, what was he saying by ¡°stolen away by Xu Yi¡±?

    This was simply nonsense!

    Rem was silent for a bit before slowly nodding, as if making up his mind.

    ¡°Alright, I understand. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is currently developing an important piece of technology, so wait for my good news. When I obtain this technology, we¡¯ll use it to develop the magic machine before them and use it to suppress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Rem gave a coldugh, ¡°Humph, when the timees, I want to see if that fellow Xu Yi can maintain that loathsome smile.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it.¡± Cimirot patted Rem¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Good, let¡¯s leave it like this for now. We shouldn¡¯t be together for long, it¡¯ll be easy for people to find out. Speaking of, Rem, you chose to meet by We¡¯s vige, you still haven¡¯t given up on her. You aren¡¯t afraid that if We sees us together, she will be suspicious?¡±

    ¡°She won¡¯t see us. She should be ying with a friend somewhere else, she won¡¯t be home.¡± Rem said.

    We was stunned before remembering what happened. When she said that she was taking today off, Rem had heard it and asked her for the reason. She was worried that Rem would want toe together with her, so she didn¡¯t want to tell Rem the truth and told him that she was going out with a friend.

    She never thought that Rem believed her and secretly met with Cimirot here, allowing We to identally discover the secret between them.

    Cimirot and Rem talked about a few more things before Cimirot left first.

    Rem looked at We¡¯s vige for a while before turning to leave.

    We slowly stood up as she watched Rem leaving with eyes filled with rage.

    When she split up with Rem, the reason was because his personality had greatly changed after he came back. He was no longer as confident and open as back at the Cami Magic Tower, rather he had be silent and timid. He didn¡¯t have any opinions and was a small man that always tried to tter others.

    We hated this kind of personality very much, so she finally couldn¡¯t help deciding to break up with Rem.

    But she never thought that Rem joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time was for another goal!

    Thinking about how pitiful Rem looked before when he said that he had no ce to go, so he wanted her to help him talk to Xu Yi and let him join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, We was filled with disgust.

    Everyone said that people would change, but she never expected that Rem would be someone like this!

    ¡°No, I have to immediately tell Xu Yi!¡± After her anger passed, We woke up. She had tell Xu Yi about this important matter.

    If they didn¡¯t put up their guard and allowed Rem to steal thepany¡¯s important technology, it would create arge loss for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this really happened, it would mean that the person who introduced Rem to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have made arge mistake, which was We.

    When We was about to tell her parents that she had to leave, there were rustling sounds from a tree not far away from We as a person jumped out.

    We was stunned, surprised to see this person suddenly jumping out. She revolved her magic and a fireball gathered in her hands.

    ¡°Young miss We, please stop!¡± That person waved his hand and shouted to We, ¡°I am a reporter from the ?Banta Times?, I¡¯m not your enemy!¡±

    ¡°A reporter from the ?Banta Times??¡± We was stunned before instantly reacting, ¡°You were just following the two of them?¡±

    Thinking of this, We¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help changing.

    If this person really was a reporter from the ?Banta Times? and he was following Rem and Cimirot, that meant that Rem and Cimirot meeting in secret had already been noticed by the ?Banta Times?

    When thinking of Xu Yi¡¯s rtionship to the ?Banta Times?, We¡¯s expression became even more ugly.

    ###

    ¡°Ha, ha, We, you don¡¯t need to have such an ugly expression.¡± Xu Yiughed as he pointed at the chair in front of him, signalling to We to sit down, ¡°Your guess is right, I had already found the problem with Rem. So I entrusted the friends from the ?Banta Times? to help me watch him. I never thought that you would actually identally encounter Rem and Cimirot meeting. What do you think about this matter?¡±

    We saw the rxed Xu Yi and thought that Xu Yi had already noticed this, as well as preparing to deal with it.

    It was no wonder that after the reporter from the ?Banta Times? found her, he took the initiative toe out to tell her that he hoped she wouldn¡¯t confront Rem because Xu Yi had other preparations.

    ¡°What do I think?¡± We thought about it before saying with a serious face, ¡°Chairman, Rem has stolen the important secrets of ourpany and ording to ourpany¡¯s rules, I advise you to immediately fire him.¡±

    ¡°Fire?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He signaled to the reporter from the ?Banta Times? that brought We here and that reporter tactfully retreated.

    Seeing that it was only him and We left in the room, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    ¡°We, although I understand that you want to protect Rem¡­..¡±

    ¡°Wait, when did I want to protect Rem?¡± We cut Xu Yi off in surprise.

    Xu Yi looked at her and said with a faint smile, ¡°If you don¡¯t want to protect him, why do you want me to fire him? We, could it be that for the things he¡¯s done, just a simple firing would be enough?¡±

    We was stunned, but after thinking about it, she found that Xu Yi was right.

    They were certain that Rem was working with Cimirot to steal the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets and to bring them down.

    If they just simply punished him by firing him, it would be too light.

    ¡°Then¡­...chairman, what are you nning to do? Will you follow the contracts that we¡¯ve signed and make him paypensation?¡± We shook her head, ¡°He won¡¯t be able to take out that much money.¡±

    ¡°He can¡¯t pay it? The people behind him can pay for it.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    We knit her brows, ¡°Cimirot isn¡¯t willing to admit that there are people behind them, so how can you get them to pay thepensation?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°We, you still don¡¯t understand. Actually in this matter, Rem is just a small pawn, the main thing is the people behind him and Cimirot. It doesn¡¯t matter if they aren¡¯t willing to pay for Rem, I have many other ways to make them suffer arge loss. This time, I want those fellows to understand that it isn¡¯t a problem if they want to benefit from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m even willing to share many things to let everyone benefit. But there is something they have to understand, which is that they can only want it if I¡¯m willing to give it. If I don¡¯t give it, you can¡¯t steal or try to snatch it.¡±

    We looked at Xu Yi¡¯s smile in a daze, like it was her first time meeting him.

 Volume 2 66 - Gelert Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 66 Gelert Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    A half a month after We¡¯s talk with Xu Yi, apany called ¡°Gelert¡± had appeared in Banta City.

    Thispany¡¯s products were different from otherpanies. They were the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, specializing in making magic machines.

    In the beginning, the people of Banta City and thergepanies didn¡¯t pay much attention to this Gelert Chamber of Commerce. This was because since the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, apany that wanted to rely on magic machines like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to earn money wasn¡¯t that strange.

    Before this, there were many differentrgepanies of Banta City with the same thoughts, but after that Business Union conferencest time where Xu Yi crushed the ideas of the differentpanies, there wasn¡¯t anotherpany that had thoughts of trying topete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of magic machines.

    Although the Magic Fans selling in other cities had let thesepanies see a bit of hope and allowed somepanies to invest in magic machine research again, there wasn¡¯t anotherpany that thought that they could suppress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of magic machines.

    However after this Gelert Chamber of Commerce had just been established in Banta City, they had put arge banner up at the shop they had set up in the city.

    ¡°Gelert magic machines, they¡¯ll give you more enjoyment than the Frestech Brand magic machines.¡±

    When they saw this banner, the people of Banta City had all scoffed at it, treating it as a joke.

    The ?Banta Times? had even run a report on it, studying the authenticity of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s banner.

    But everyone knew that with the ?Banta Times¡¯? rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the so called pretentious analysis report was actually just to ridicule the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    But when the Gelert Chamber of Commerce began selling Gelert Brand magic machines produced by them, everyone was shocked to find that not only did the Gelert Chamber of Commerce have many kinds of magic machines, the quality of these weren¡¯t worse than the Frestech Brand.

    This shocked everyone in Banta City and several of the surrounding cities.

    Before this, although manypanies had studied the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines to produce their own brand of magic machines, in the end, the quality and abilities of the magic machines were farckingpared to the Frestech Brand.

    Based on this, there were manypanies that couldn¡¯tpete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This was the main reason for why they were forced to transport their magic machines to more remote parts of the Lampuri Kingdom to sell.

    However not only did this Gelert Chamber of Commerce use the same materials as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there was no difference with the Frestech Brand in terms of material properties, their craftsmanship also wasn¡¯tcking. It made their magic machines just a bit worse in terms of quality due to some minor details, but if one wasn¡¯t picky, it wasn¡¯t that much of a problem.

    What surprised people more was that the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines weren¡¯t worse than the Frestech Brand magic machines. It was even better than the Frestech Brand when it came to the Magic Fans and the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker!

    So the Gelert Chamber of Commerce attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Everyone felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had met a real powerful opponent this time.

    But with the appearance of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never gave their opinion. The reporters of Banta City and the surrounding cities had tried to interview Xu Yi about the Gelert Chamber of Commerce, but Xu Yi¡¯s response had been indifferent.

    No matter which reporter it was, Xu Yi always indicated that he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weed the appearance of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce. He even hoped that in Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom, there would be morepanies that had the same ability and interest in magic machines. As long as this happened, they could promote the status of magic machines across the Sines Continent.

    The Gelert Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t made any formal responses towards Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    But half a month after the Gelert Chamber of Commerce was set up, they suddenly sent invitations to all the reporters of Banta City and the surrounding cities. They weed everyone toe to a product announcement for the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    On the invitation, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce would be releasing a new kind of magic machine that even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t developed yet.

    The reporters that received these invitations reacted as this was the dream talk of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    Until now, of thepanies that dabbled in magic machines, there hadn¡¯t been a singlepany that had said such arrogant words.

    The response after this was that this was a good piece of news.

    If the Gelert Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t release a new magic machine at this product announcement, they would be shamed in front of everyone.

    Of course this was a small possibility.

    Since the Gelert Chamber of Commerce dared to invite all these reporters, it meant that they had confidence in their products. Otherwise they wouldn¡¯t take the risk of holding this product announcement that could ruin theirpany¡¯s future.

    If the Gelert Chamber of Commerce could really release a new magic machine that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t developed, that would be even bigger news.

    There were so manyrge and smallpanies that had been interested in magic machines, but not a single one had been able to develop a new magic machine. Other than proving that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was far ahead in terms of the magic machine domain, it also proved that magic machines were a very hard thing to grasp.

    If this Gelert Chamber of Commerce that appeared out of nowhere could do this, they would certainly leave a profound impression in everyone¡¯s minds.

    Not to mention that what the reporters noticed was that on the back of the invitation, it actually pointed out that the Gelert Chamber of Commerce had invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.

    Although the invitation was very polite, hoping that Xu Yi as the forerunner of the magic machine domain coulde point out some faults with the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new magic machine and give some suggestion, all the reporters knew that this was a clear challenge to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Would¡­...Xu Yi reallye?

    ###

    August 7th.

    This was a very normal day, but to many people of Banta City, it wasn¡¯t that normal of a day.

    This was because this was the day of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement.

    Cimirot was standing on the stage, looking down at the reporters from all the variousrge newspapers and all the Banta City residents who were curious about theirpany, feeling very smug.

    He had prepared himself for a long time, finally he had the chance to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi in front of him.

    Although it was impossible to rely on just this to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as everything went smoothly, with the power of the people behind him, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be pushed into an abyss without a chance to stand up again.

    ¡°When that timees, I want to see what kind of pitiful expression that fellow Xu Yi has.¡± Cimirot had a cruel smile on his face, as he couldn¡¯t stop himself from thinking of Xu Yi¡¯s pitiful appearance after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went bankrupt.

    In the beginning, Cimirot¡¯s hatred towards Xu Yi was just because Still and Xu Yi were very close.

    But as time passed, his current hatred for Xu Yi was mainly because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then there were his many times failing with magic machines, which caused his heart to bleed again and again.

    After umting for a long time, he had forgotten his original intention of catching Still¡¯s eyes and it turned into pure hatred for Xu Yi.

    After patiently waiting, he found that Xu Yi still had not appeared even though the product announcement was about to begin. Cimirot couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit disappointed.

    He really wanted to use the magic machine that they had developed from the research Rem stole from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to deal arge blow to Xu Yi in front of everyone. He never thought that Xu Yi would actually note.

    ¡°Coward! Weakling!¡± Cimirot cursed in his heart before calming his mind and announcing the start of the product announcement.

    After giving a short introduction, he introduced himself as the current chairman of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce. Cimirot didn¡¯t waste any more time as he gave an introduction of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines and then he had people bring up the product that everyone came for.

    Seeing the two people carrying a box that wasn¡¯t even as big as Cimirot¡¯s head, everyone under the stage gave a disappointed sigh.

    ¡°Chairman Cimirot, this small thing, could it be that this is the new magic machine you mentioned? Isn¡¯t this a bit too small?¡± A reporter couldn¡¯t help saying.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this small thing, it can¡¯t be that powerful even if it is new.¡± Another reporter added.

    Seeing the people under the stage discussing this, Cimirot said with a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯re wrong. To magic machines, size doesn¡¯t mean anything. Rather the smaller the magic machine, the more advanced the technology needed to make it. Think about it, Magic Arrays are very big, but to put theserge Magic Arrays into a small magic machine and having these magic machines disy amazing uses, it requires veryplex technology to aplish. So you can¡¯t look down on it because it¡¯s small. Actually our Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new magic machine has a technology that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has never used before, it is an era defining product!¡±

    Hearing Cimirot¡¯s excited speech, the people under the stage didn¡¯t look excited, rather they looked doubtful.

    In the end, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have precedents like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that allowed people to believe in them.

    If it was Xu Yi that said this, the people under the stage would look forward to seeing this magic machine that could be considered era defining.

    But if this unknown Cimirot was the one saying it¡­...they would wait and see first.

    Seeing that the people under the stage didn¡¯t seem excited, Cimirot couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit annoyed.

    These fellows, could it be that they don¡¯t believe me?

    Cimirot gave a soft snort and decided not to squabble with these people. Turning around, he opened the box and took out the new magic machine he had taken a long time toplete, shocking everyone under the stage.

    But at this time, there was amotion that came from the entrance of the hall.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is here!¡±

    ¡°Look, it¡¯s chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡­...

    With these shocked cries, a familiar figure that had appeared countless times in Cimirot¡¯s mind had slowly walked into the hall.

    Of course it was Xu Yi.

 Volume 2 67 - Shameless thief

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 67 Shameless thief</strong>

    Cimirot stared at Xu Yi walking forward with a faint smile, as his heart filled with hatred.

    This fellow didn¡¯te early orte, he hade right when he was about to reveal the product, right when he was about to demonstrate the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new magic machine. This was simply counted asing at the perfect time.

    He had worked hard to get everyone¡¯s appetite and now that he had gathered everyone¡¯s attention on the new product, Xu Yi had stolen it away the moment he walked in, wasting the effort that Cimirot had put in before.

    As thoughts passed through his mind, Cimirot took a deep breath and suppressed the hatred he felt. He forced himself to reveal an honest smile as he raised his voice to speak while walking towards Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I thought that you wouldn¡¯t daree.¡±

    Wouldn¡¯t dare?

    Hearing this, everyone under the stage couldn¡¯t help looking at Cimirot with strange expressions.

    Wasn¡¯t this Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman too arrogant?

    He actually said that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t dare? Why wouldn¡¯t he?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care at all, as he walked through the path that people made and came to the stage. He looked at Cimirot in surprise, ¡°Cimirot, long time no see. I never thought that you would be the chairman of this Gelert Chamber of Commerce, it really is surprising.¡±

    Everyone around them was even more shocked.

    The vice editor in chief of the ?Karma Times? Rhine couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you and chairman Cimirot know each other?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, we used to work together at the Cami Magic Tower and we used to be in the sameb.¡±

    Speaking of it, Cimirot¡¯s name was a bit simr to Great Magician Cami¡¯s. Back in theb, there were many people who used to tease Cimirot about it.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, everyone was stunned.

    Although everyone already knew that before Xu Yi made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that he worked under Great Magician Cami for some time, no one would have thought that Cimirot would be someone who worked in the sameb as Xu Yi.

    But with how the Gelert Chamber of Commerce treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Cimirot¡¯s attitude towards Xu Yi, it could be seen that there wasn¡¯t a good rtionship between the two of them.

    Cimirot gave a slight nod and a soft snort before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, there are any things that can surprise you. When you see ourpany¡¯s new productter, you shouldn¡¯t be so shocked that your jaw drops.¡±

    The people under the stage couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows.

    Not mentioning the other aspects of this Cimirot, just based on his aura, it was too petty.

    Xu Yi had tried to bring up old rtionships when he arrived, but every word he spoke had a hidden edge which made people feel ufortable.

    ¡°Oh? Let me guess, what is the new product you¡¯ll be announcing. Un¡­..¡± Xu Yi acted like he was thinking for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve guessed it. The product that you¡¯ll be announcing soon should be the Magic Kettle, is that right?¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    It was fine if Xu Yi was casually guessing, no one would treat it as something real, but he had actually said the name of the product. Wasn¡¯t this too much of a coincidence?

    Everyone looked back at Cimirot and found that he also had a look of shock and disbelief.

    This surprised everyone. Based on Cimirot¡¯s reaction, could it be that Xu Yi was right?

    Wasn¡¯t it a bit jarring?

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help looking back at Xu Yi and found that his smile was filled with confidence. It was like what he said wasn¡¯t a guess, but rather a fact.

    Seeing this scene, the people with more active minds beganing up with guesses.

    Based on the reaction of both sides, Xu Yi seemed to already know about the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new product, so he would be this rx appearing at their product announcement.

    But how did he know?

    Cimirot really wanted to ask this question, but at this time, he couldn¡¯t ask this in front of everyone.

    But even if he didn¡¯t ask, the people under the stage saw that he didn¡¯t reply, so some people couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Rhine asked in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Cimirot, please tell me, is the new product of your Gelert Chamber of Commerce really the Magic Kettle that chairman Xu just mentioned?¡±

    Everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto Cimirot.

    Cimirot looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a while before he revealed a forced smile and took a deep breath.

    He was very clear that he had prepared for this product announcement for over half a month. He had done quite a bit of groundwork, sessfully pulling in the attention of everyone from Banta City and the surrounding cities, just to create a shock at this product announcement.

    However when Xu Yi mentioned the name ¡°Magic Kettle¡±, the surprise and shock of everyone at the product announcement had disappeared.

    Thinking of this, Cimirot¡¯s heart was filled with even more hatred for Xu Yi.

    This fellow, why was it that everything he worked hard on was easily destroyed by him?

    However, now was not a good time to show his hatred for Xu Yi. Seeing the gazes of everyone under the stage, Cimirot could only force himself to reveal a smile as he said with a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu really does care about ourpany, you actually knew about the product we were announcing ahead of time. It seems like I must go back and ask who identally revealed this news.¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi again.

    Although Cimirot had confirmed Xu Yi¡¯s guess, the meaning of his words was that he was using Xu Yi of stealing the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change and he didn¡¯t react at all, as he pointed at the box that hadn¡¯t been opened yet and said, ¡°Chairman Cimirot, let us see the star of this product announcement first.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t argue back, so naturally Cimirot couldn¡¯t keep going. He took a deep look at Xu Yi before turning to open the box, taking out a silver kettle that was used in many households.

    Seeing the appearance of this thing, everyone didn¡¯t need Cimirot to give an introduction to understand that Xu Yi¡¯s guess was right.

    The era defining new magic machine that Cimirot mentioned was really this Magic Kettle.

    As expected, Cimirot raised this thing and loudly exined to everyone what use it had.

    Although his words were excited and passionate, because Xu Yi had revealed the name beforehand and the fact that the Magic Kettle not using firewood to head up water wasn¡¯t that special to begin with, people were very bored listening to him and couldn¡¯t resonate with Cimirot at all.

    Cimirot could clearly see the reactions that everyone had, but he couldn¡¯t do a single thing.

    If Xu Yi hadn¡¯t appeared, perhaps with his eloquence and innovation of the Magic Kettle, he could have gotten everyone¡¯s attention and have won fame for the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    But Xu Yi had just said a few words after he had appeared and the influence this product announcement had hit rock bottom.

    Seeing that everyone was not interested in his introduction of the Magic Kettle, Cimirot could only finish the long introduction that he had spent quite a while on preparing. In the blink of an eye, he suddenly asked Xu Yi under the stage, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you have any thoughts towards the Magic Kettle? Could it be that you don¡¯t think it is a pity?¡±

    ¡°What is a pity?¡± Xu Yi maintained his faint smile as he asked this back.

    No one noticed that his smile was like watching a y, like he was watching a monkey dance in front of him.

    Cimirot didn¡¯t notice the deeper meaning hidden in his smile, he just said in a proud voice, ¡°This Magic Kettle wasn¡¯t thatplicated to make, but your Frestech Chamber of Commerce never thought of it, rather our Gelert Chamber of Commerce came up with it first. As the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that is recognized as the furthest in magic machine research, don¡¯t you think that it is a pity?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a sigh, ¡°I really do think it¡¯s a pity, but what I pity isn¡¯t that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t invent the Magic Kettle first, rather I pity you, Cimirot.¡±

    Cimirot and everyone under the stage were stunned.

    ¡°Pity me?¡± Cimirot looked at Xu Yi in confusion, ¡°What is there to pity?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that even though Great Magician Cami praised your magic talent, you didn¡¯t properly study magic. It¡¯s a pity that you have many ideas on magic machines and your talent for studying magic machines is quite good, but you never truly focused on studying magic machines. It¡¯s a pity that although your character has some faults, you weren¡¯t a bad character, but you turned into a thief and a shameless liar.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s slow and clear words spread through the hall, stunning everyone.

    The previous words could be considered Xu Yi feeling pity about Cimirot¡¯s talents, but the final words were clearly a strict usation of Cimirot!

    Cimirot was stunned before angrily saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, based on what am I a thief and a liar? If you don¡¯t have any proof, I must demonstrate my great dissatisfaction and file aint to the Banta City public court that you¡¯re ndering me!¡±

    ¡°Proof?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You really want me to take it out?¡±

    Cimirot was a bit surprised. Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he found that he seemed to have fallen into Xu Yi¡¯s trap.

    But there was no way out for him right now, so he could steel his heart and say, ¡°That¡¯s right! If you can¡¯t take out any proof, I willin about your nder and I will have the public court give me justice!¡±

    ¡°Justice?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°You¡¯re not worthy of saying that! If you want justice, then what about the justice for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchers that worked hard to develop this Magic Kettle? They¡¯ve spentrge amounts of time and effort to develop this thing, but it was stolen by a shameless thief and now it is being dered as something that he developed himself in front of all these people! You really think this is fair?¡±

 Volume 2 68 - Proo

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 68 Proof</strong>

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s harsh words, the people in the hall were shocked.

    They thought that it was a grudge between Xu Yi and Cimirot, causing Cimirot to go against Xu Yi, with Xu Yi not showing Cimirot any politeness. But now it seemed like based on what Xu Yi said, this Cimirot had stolen this technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was just a thief and a liar!

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi in a daze before looking over at Cimirot.

    The vice editor in chief of ?Karma Times? Rhine reacted the fastest, immediately asking Cimirot in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Cimirot, is what chairman Xu said true?¡±

    The others also reacted at this time and began questioning Cimirot in loud voices.

    ¡°Chairman Cimirot, was the technology for this Magic Kettle really stolen from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Cimirot, if this is true, the other magic machines that your Gelert Chamber of Commerce made, did it have the same quality and ability as the Frestech Brand because of this stolen technology?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Cimirot¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    In everyone¡¯s heart, they naturally believed Xu Yi.

    This was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had clear aplishments since they were established.

    It could be said that without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wouldn¡¯t have been magic machines.

    After a year, in everyone¡¯s mind, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was equal to magic machines.

    If there was a problem with magic machines, they would choose to believe the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, believe in Xu Yi.

    So after Xu Yi used Cimirot and the Gelert Chamber of Commerce of stealing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology, everyone epted it. They all began questioning Cimirot.

    Cimirot looked at Xu Yi with a paleplexion.

    Of course he knew that Xu Yi¡¯s point was right and the questions of the people under the stage weren¡¯t wrong.

    The reason why the Gelert Chamber of Commerce could produce Magic Fans and Automatic Magic Rice Cookers of the same quality as the Frestechc Brand was because of the research Rem stole. When the Gelert Chamber of Commerce made these magic machines, they had very detailed data, so their magic machines produced were around the same as the Frestech Brand.

    The Magic Kettle that he was prepared to release was naturally made relying on the research Rem stole and some research they did themselves.

    It could be said that if Rem didn¡¯t steal the magic machine research from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have been able to make a single magic machine.

    But now that he was being used by Xu Yi and being questioned by everyone, how could Cimirot acknowledge this?

    He looked at the people under the stage with an ugly expression and raised his voice to say, ¡°That is just nder! That is just shameless nder! Chairman Xu, since we were old colleagues and you are the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you must have some ideas on magic machines, so I invited you to ourpany¡¯s product announcement. I never thought that you would shamelessly nder me in front of all these people! You really have disappointed me! You say that I am a thief and a liar, but where¡¯s the proof? Even if you keep talking, but there¡¯s no proof, you think people will believe you?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already asked you, are you certain you want me to take out proof?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Of course! Since you have shamelessly ndered me in front of everyone, could it be that you don¡¯t dare take out proof?¡± Cimirot said in a sharp voice, ¡°Come, if you can prove that I have stolen technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then I promise that I¡¯ll close the Gelert Chamber of Commerce. I, Cimirot will leave the magic machine industry and never appear in front of you again!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Cimirot like he found this funny, ¡°Close the Gelert Chamber of Commerce? Leaving the magic machine industry? Cimirot, you really are good to yourself. Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this first, you want proof? Good, then I¡¯ll give you proof. Come, please hold up the Magic Kettle in your hands and don¡¯t break it. Let me tell you, perhaps there are many things you don¡¯t know about this Magic Kettle.¡±

    ¡°For example, the capacity of this Magic Kettle is one liter, which is equal to a kilogram of water. Don¡¯t be in a rush to deny this, I know you want to say that the Magic Kettle in your hand can hold more than a kilogram of water, but you don¡¯t know what the at the top of the Magic Kettle is used for. Let me tell you, if you pour water into the Magic Kettle, when the water level is surface with the, it will be perfectly one kilogram. Other than this use, this will stop other water from entering the Magic Kettle to prevent it from impurities, keeping the water clean.¡±

    ¡°Other than this, I think everyone should have noticed it. On the Magic Kettle in chairman Cimirot¡¯s hand, the neck of the kettle is a bit longer than normal kettle. Actually in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s design, this neck just opens to a small opening and there isn¡¯t this long neck that affects the beauty. I think everyone knows that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce cares very much about the design of our products. Our slogan is easy to use, but also beautiful.¡±

    ¡°Next let¡¯s talk about the design of the container. Everyone can see that the container is a semi circle, but why is it designed like that? Actually it¡¯s because¡­..¡±

    ¡­...

    As Xu Yi pointed out the specialties of the Magic Kettle in Cimirot¡¯s hand, listing specifications one by one, Cimirot¡¯s face became uglier to look at.

    Everyone¡¯s face began to change from doubt to understanding.

    Xu Yi¡¯s analysis of the Magic Kettle was very urate and very logical. Adding in the series of precise details that he said, it made everyone believe that he had a deep understanding of this Magic Kettle. It far surpassed the introduction Cimirot had given for this Magic Kettle.

    As they listened to Xu Yi¡¯s slow analysis, everyone became certain that this Magic Kettle really was developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Gelert Chamber of Commerce and Cimirot had stolen the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and released it first.

    After speaking for over ten minutes, Xu Yi finally stopped. After pausing for a bit, he looked at Cimirot¡¯s pale face and said, ¡°Chairman Cimirot, do you think I¡¯ve given enough proof?¡±

    Cimirot rolled his eyes and kept going, ¡°How is this considered proof? You¡¯ve just mentioned some characteristics of the Magic Kettle, how could that be considered proof that I stole your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology? If I had to say something, it must have been your Frestech Chamber of Commerce that bought off one of our researchers to tell you all these details. Now you¡¯reing here to use us of stealing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology. Chairman Xu, I never thought that you would be such a shameless and petty person!¡±

    Hearing Cimirot¡¯s words, although no one under the stage believed him, they couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi and waiting to see what kind of response he would give.

    ¡°What? You¡¯re not willing to admit it?¡± Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. He pointed at the Magic Kettle in Cimirot¡¯s hands and said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give you the final proof and let your heart die. Cimirot, you are a magician, so you should be able to activate the Magic Array at the bottom of the Magic Kettle without a Magic Crystal, right?¡±

    Cimirot nodded in a daze.

    ¡°Good, then please raise the Magic Kettle so that it is facing everyone and use your magic to activate the Magic Array.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for water?¡± Cimirot couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°No need.¡±

    Cimirot knit his brows as he was filled with confusion, but he followed Xu Yi¡¯s instructions and added his magic into the Magic Kettle.

    The Magic Array of the Magic Kettle activated and after a while, the Magic Array at the bottom of the Magic Kettle began to warm up.

    After waiting for two minutes, there were no changes with the Magic Kettle. Cimirot couldn¡¯t help impatiently saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, where¡¯s your proof?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Be a bit more patient. You just need to wait around three minutes.¡±

    Everyone stared at the Magic Kettle as they patiently waited.

    After three minutes, there was a faint burnt smell that came from the bottom of the Magic Kettle because of the high heat. When everyone was about to impatiently question Xu Yi again, they suddenly heard a ¡°pa¡± sound from the Magic Kettle. Everyone found that the little red window at the bottom of the Magic Kettle had faded and the Magic Array on the base stopped working.

    Cimirot used his magic several times, but he found that there was no reaction from the Magic Array at the bottom of the Magic Kettle at all. He coldly looked at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you want to tell me that there are deficiencies with our Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Kettle?¡±

    ¡°No, just the opposite. The Magic Array at the base of the Magic Kettle stopped because it is a preventative measure.¡± Xu Yi replied. ¡°This is because if the Fire Magic Array at the base of the Magic Kettle keeps working and there is no water in the kettle, if this Magic Array is used for a long time, the Magic Kettle will be damaged from the high temperatures. With this design, if the Magic Kettle is identally turned on when it doesn¡¯t have any water, it stops it from being damaged from the heat.¡±

    Everyone suddenly understood and they couldn¡¯t help praising how well thought out this design was.

    Rhine couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°This style makes me think of the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made before. Those magic machines had many kinds of well thought out designs that people wouldn¡¯t have thought of.¡±

    Although he didn¡¯t clearly say it, he already confirmed that he believed Xu Yi¡¯s usations.

    Cimirot¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help bing uglier as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is indeed a well thought out design for our Magic Kettle. Since you¡¯ve bought out ourpany¡¯s researcher, it isn¡¯t strange for you to know about this. But how could this thing be used as proof?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re still not giving up?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, now tilt the Magic Kettle over and show the bottom to everyone.¡±

    Cimirot turned the Magic Kettle over in confusion and showed the base to everyone, while also looking over.

    At the base of the Magic Kettle, although the Magic Array had stopped working, there were red lines that came together to form a design that everyone was familiar with.

    Half flying wings, representing the Frestech Brand.

 Volume 2 69 - Rem and Cimirotâ€™s fates

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 69 Rem and Cimirot¡¯s fates</strong>

    After the reports of the major newspapers of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement quickly spread through Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Almost in a single night, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce became a gue that everyone denounced.

    The magic machines produced by the Gelert Chamber of Commerce lost all their sales and they were treated like gues that people avoided.

    Of course, sales were already no longer important to the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    This was because after their product announcement, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce announced that they were shutting down and the chairman Cimirot had already gone into hiding.

    Everyone knew that Cimirot and his Gelert Chamber of Commerce were thieves and liars, so there was no chance to stand up again.

    Moreover as for the Gelert Chamber of Commerce¡¯s and Cimirot¡¯s actions in the past month, everyone treated it like a little clown¡¯s dance and found it funny.

    Thinking of how the Gelert Chamber of Commerce said that they would surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, people turned their nose at them.

    But after this matter happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position in everyone¡¯s hearts was stabilized and raised.

    Now everyone believed that while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t strong, not being the biggestpany in Banta City or a first sspany of the Lampuri Kingdom, in the magic machine domain, there were nopanies or people that couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As well, people began putting more importance to the Frestech Brand of magic machines.

    After this matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had increased sales volume. Even though it was August and summer was about to pass, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, Magic Air Conditioner, and Magic Refrigerator that mainly relied on summer to sell well went on a strong rebound, once again reaching another peak.

    In the end of the month report, Xu Yi was surprised to find that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales this month wasn¡¯t just not lower than July¡¯s, rather it had even increased.

    This was a pleasant surprise.

    Xu Yi had done this thing to deal with the people behind Cimirot, using this to cause losses for them. Attacking the other side was to give them a warning, not to think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something they could take advantage of.

    Not only did he aplish his initial goal of making Cimirot suffer a strict punishment and the people behind him sufferingrge losses from investing in the Gelert Chamber of Commerce, he had also gained profits from this. This was really like killing two birds with one stone.

    So Xu Yi was quite happy during this time.

    Only when he saw the emotionless We, he couldn¡¯t keep his good mood.

    Xu Yi looked into We¡¯s eyes and without turning away, he looked at her for a while before finally giving a sigh. He slowly gave a determined shake of his head, ¡°No, We, I can¡¯t promise you. Rem¡¯s crime is too much this time, if I were to let him go because of you, then how could I face the other researchers? How could I face all the workers of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Perhaps I should be a bit more direct with you, I don¡¯t want to let him off.¡±

    We wasn¡¯t surprised with Xu Yi¡¯s response. Her brows raised a bit before her face calmed and she said, ¡°Why? I¡¯ve heard Evita say that haven¡¯t you been in cahoots with her for a long time? If it wasn¡¯t like this, Rem wouldn¡¯t haven¡¯t been able to take the research from the research facility that easily. To be honest, it¡¯s because you allowed it that he made such a big mistake.¡±

    ¡°No, you¡¯re wrong.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although Evita and I did guide him afterwards, We, if Rem didn¡¯t have this idea, would we have put on this y? Then again, ording to Cimirot¡¯s confessions, Rem already had bad intentions when he entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If I didn¡¯t identally find his intentions, ourpany would have suffered arge loss this time.¡±

    We was silent and the room fell into silence.

    Xu Yi looked at theplicated emotions on We¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help saying with a sigh, ¡°We, you¡¯ve already split with Rem, so why are you still thinking about him? You were someone who was never willing to ask for help from others, but now you¡¯ve asked me twice for him. Could it be that at this time, you think that he¡¯s still worth you doing this for him?¡±

    We couldn¡¯t keep the calm expression on her face any longer and she looked a bit depressed as she said in a low voice, ¡°He was after all once the closest person to me, I¡­...It¡¯s hard topletely give up on him.¡±

    Xu Yi had a bitterugh inside. He felt that while We seemed like a cold person on the surface, she was actually quite warm on the inside.

    Clearly it was We who felt that Rem¡¯s character wasn¡¯t suitable to her so she chose to split up with Rem, but she was still willing to lower her proud head for him.

    Although Xu Yi praised We for this, it didn¡¯t mean that he agreed to it.

    ¡°Sorry, We, I can¡¯t do anything for you on this. Rem did something wrong and he has to be punished for it. He is already an adult, he can¡¯t be allowed to make mistakes like a child.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious expression.

    We looked at Xu Yi again, but Xu Yi looked right at her without avoiding her gaze.

    Seeing the firm expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, We knew that she couldn¡¯t change his thoughts. She could only let her head droop as she gave a soft nod.

    ¡°Alright, I understand.¡±

    Seeing that We was about to leave, Xu Yi thought about it before secretly giving a sigh and calling out to stop her.

    ¡°We, I can¡¯t promise you anything else, but I can at least promise you that Rem will be able to keep his most basic reputation.¡±

    We¡¯s calm as water eyes lit up and a smile finally appeared on her face before she gave a serious bow to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman, thank you.¡±

    This was We¡¯s first time being this respectful to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and We turned to leave.

    Looking at the closed door, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving another sigh.

    This was because the business sector was less developed on the Sines Continentpared to earth, the countries of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have the same businessws as earth.

    Like this, even though Xu Yi had exposed Rem and Cimirot¡¯s shameless acts and have given irrefutable evidence, because there were no rtedws to this, he couldn¡¯t give them suitable punishment.

    Although ording to the customs of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sines Continent, stealing the secrets of anotherpany like this would result in revenge in secret from thepany that was stolen from, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on doing this. This was because using this to deal with Cimirot and Rem had no meaning.

    From Xu Yi¡¯s point of view, punishing the two of them was a small matter, rather establishing rtedws was the more important thing.

    So after having a private discussion with Count Sean, Count Sean had caught Rem and Cimirot, sending them to the kingdom¡¯s business management department in Anvilmar City.

    ording to the rules of the business management department, these two were forbidden from working for anypany and they weren¡¯t allowed to do any business that surpassed a certain amount.

    At the same time, because they were magicians, the two of them were also punished by the Magicians Guild.

    The Magicians Guild not only took away their status as magicians, they also banned the two of them from participating in any Magicians Guild certification exams for the next twenty years.

    Simply put, they were no longer magicians officially recognized by the Magicians Guild.

    Although with the punishment of the business management department and the Magicians Guild, which was equal to eliminating their status, greatly affecting the rest of their lives, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with this result.

    This was because if they followed the businessws on earth, the behaviour of the two could be considered business espionage which was a criminal offense, which would be enough for them to be jailed.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have these kinds ofws, so Xu Yi could only add more punishment based on the security contract that Rem signed.

    This punishment was very strict. ording to the contract, Rem had to pay arge amount ofpensation for selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets and he could never participate in the magic machine industry for the rest of his life.

    Thetter wouldn¡¯t affect Rem too much, but the highpensation was not something that Rem could afford to pay because it reached a high fifty thousand. Rem¡¯s current sry was around thirty gold coins a month, so this wasn¡¯t enough even if one considered all the money he made in his entire life.

    As for this point, the kingdom¡¯sws had added another rule.

    If a person¡¯s debt was very high, surpassing the amount a person madest year by a hundred times, it meant that they wouldn¡¯t be able to pay it.

    If one wasn¡¯t able to repay their debt, ording to thews of the kingdom, if a person couldn¡¯t prove within a year that they could pay it, then they would have to pay with all their possessions after a year.

    If after all their possessions were repossessed and a person still couldn¡¯t pay the debt, ording to thews of the kingdom, the debtor could only pay with themselves and be the ve of the creditor.

    Rem didn¡¯t have a stable iest year and even if it was calcted, it was no more than three hundred gold coins.

    A hundred times that was only thirty thousand gold coins, it was still a full twenty thousand from thepensation of fifty thousand.

    Rem¡¯s family wasn¡¯t well off, so even if they sold everything, it was still impossible for him to pay this amount in a single year.

    That meant that if nothing unexpected happened, in a year, Rem would be Xu Yi¡¯s ve ording to thews of the kingdom!

    Without a doubt, to Rem who used to be a magician with some status, this was an embarrassment that he couldn¡¯t ept.

    So even if We had split up with him, she couldn¡¯t help begging Xu YI because of this.

    Of course Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to let Rem off so easily, so after considering it, he promised We to leave Rem with his basic reputation.

    As for how to keep it, that was up to Xu Yi.

    Compared to Rem, Xu Yi wanted to punish Cimirot more.

    Although Rem was despicable, if it wasn¡¯t for Cimirot manipting him, he wouldn¡¯t have walked down this evil path. So if there was to be punishment, Cimirot was the main offender and should be punished more than Rem.

    But there was no contract between Cimirot and Xu Yi, so he couldn¡¯t punish him with the kingdom¡¯sws.

    The punishment he received was only from the business management department and the Magicians Guild.

    Compared to Rem¡¯s punishment of possibly being turned into a ve, Cimirot¡¯s public punishment was much lighter.

    Of course, that was only the public punishment.

    Actually when Cimirot was sent to Anvilmar City, he was taken by the northern army in the name of an emergency deployment, being sent to the northern battlefield.

    Although he wouldn¡¯t be sent to the battlefield to die a death of unknown causes, Viscount Leslie had clearly said to Xu Yi that this honoured magician Cimirot would be ¡°warmly weed¡± by the elite soldiers of the northern army.

    In less than half a year, this excellency magician¡¯s pride and butt would bepletely changed.

 Volume 2 70 - Selling technology

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 70 Selling technology</strong>

    Perhaps to the people of Banta City and the surrounding city, the Gelert Chamber of Commerce matter was very serious with very serious consequences, but to Xu Yi, he really didn¡¯t care about it that much.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, there would be all kinds of problems and all kinds of viins scheming against them. Xu Yi had already expected all of this, so it wasn¡¯t worth spending that much time on.

    For Xu Yi,pared to the final goal in his heart, this was just a few stones on the road to his goal. When he encountered them, he would just continue forward and the most important thing was to not dy his progress too much because of this.

    So after the Gelert Chamber of Commerce matter was over, Xu Yi began doing something else.

    In the beginning of September, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held a press conference.

    But it wasn¡¯t a product announcement and rather just a normal press conference.

    Therge newspapers who had received the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invitations were very confused.

    Everyone was familiar with a product announcement, but what was a press conference? Was it to release news?

    But things like news, wasn¡¯t that something that the major newspapers were to discover themselves? Did they need the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to release it?

    The reporters arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s press conference with their doubts. They found thatpared to the product announcement, this press conference was much smaller than before. The audience was mainly made up of reporters and it wasn¡¯t like before where there were some citizens who hade just for fun.

    Seeing this setup, the reporters understood that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was releasing news this time. It seemed like the audience they chose were the reporters.

    As for how big the news was, they would have to wait and see.

    Not long after, Xu Yi came in with two assistants and directly went onto the stage.

    When he sat down, a reporter from the crowd raised their hand to ask, ¡°Chairman Xu, can you tell us what news your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is releasing this time?¡±

    The surrounding reporters all looked at them.

    How could one just go up like this, didn¡¯t they understand the rules?

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head while replying, ¡°Before announcing the news, I want to raise one matter with everyone. This matter is rted to the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    In front of the reporter, Xu Yi recounted the matter of the Gelert Chamber of Commerce.

    Regarding this matter, even if the people of Banta City or the surrounding cities aren¡¯t clear on it, these reporters were all very clear on this matter.

    But hearing Xu Yi talk about this matter himself, it was another angle which interested everyone hearing it. From time to time, they could hear some different opinions from what Xu Yi said.

    ¡°.....Actually I¡¯ve said this a long time ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I wee otherpanies to join the magic machine industry, studying how to create magic machines with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Only like this can this industry truly develop.¡± Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic, ¡°But it¡¯s very strange that although I¡¯ve said this to many people, very few people believe me and there was even this Gelert Chamber of Commerce that tried to steal our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology. I find all of this a pity and I feel very helpless. Actually it isn¡¯t that hard to obtain technology from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why do you need to steal it?¡±

    Hearing this, the reporters under the stage were stunned.

    Wasn¡¯t Xu Yi¡¯s statement too inurate?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned so much money on magic machines, whichpany didn¡¯t want to obtain this technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? They wanted the ability to make their own magic machines and earnrge amounts of money.

    But up to this point, there hadn¡¯t been anotherpany that had obtained the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce keeping it a secret, what other reason was there?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if they don¡¯t steal it, how should they obtain this technology from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± A reporter asked in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Other than shamelessly stealing or snatching, what is the most normal way of obtaining something that we want?¡±

    The reporters all nkly stared at each other.

    This problem seemed quite insubstantial. Even if the reporters had sharp minds, not a single person could answer right away.

    Only a female reporter who seemed quite young like she had just entered the reporting business raised her hand and loudly said, ¡°I know, you buy it!¡±

    The other reporters all looked over at her.

    Nonsense, everyone knew that the mostmon method is buying, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to be willing to sell.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold the magic machine technology that only they owned, there would be arge group ofpanies that would want to buy it even if they broke their heads.

    What these reporters didn¡¯t expect was that Xu Yi actually gave a slight nod to this young female reporter¡¯s response.

    The reporters were all stunned before a reporter from the ?Saltan Morning News? asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you being serious? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to sell magic machine technology?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and gave a shrug as he said with a rxed look, ¡°Since people want it, then why wouldn¡¯t we sell it? The reason why I held this press conference today was to announce to everyone that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning to sell a part of our magic machine technology.¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, an uproar came from under the stage as all the reporters became excited.

    If Xu Yi wasn¡¯t joking, then this news was definitely the biggest piece of news!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling their magic machine technology!

    Didn¡¯t his mean that in Banta City, the surrounding cities, and even in the Lampuri Kingdom, there would be morepanies that couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in magic machines?

    If it was like this, it would really be like Xu Yi said, magic machines would quickly be popr across the entire kingdom. It would allow everyone in the kingdom to enjoy the benefits of magic machines.

    As for the historical change that the magic machine industry would bring to the Lampuri Kingdom that Xu Yi had mentioned many times, it wouldn¡¯t just be empty words.

    As the excited minds of the reporters created this beautiful scene, a calm voice came from the hall.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can I ask what part of the technology your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has are you willing to sell?¡±

    Like a bucket of cold water, all the excited reporters calmed down.

    That¡¯s right, Xu Yi had just said a part of their technology, it didn¡¯t mean that they would be selling all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine technology. This would just be too much.

    Seeing everyone paying attention again, Xu Yi gave a nod of praise with a faint smile to vice editor in chief Rhine from the ?Karma Times? and replied, ¡°Of course, it isn¡¯t possible for us to sell all of our technology, so we¡¯re picking a part to sell.¡±

    The hall filled with sighs, clearly the reporters were disappointed in Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I understand everyone¡¯s disappointment, but I ask everyone to understand, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to earn money too, right? If we sold all the technology that we owned, then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t exist anymore. You don¡¯t wish to see that, right?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before giving dryughs.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, of course we don¡¯t want to see your Frestech Chamber of Commerce cease to exist.¡± Rhine said with a serious face, ¡°That is because from what I can see, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the most innovativepany. Or perhaps it is more urate to say that chairman Xu is the most innovative person. Without you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have been able to develop all those new and easy to use magic machines. If there wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I even doubt that the magic machine industry would disappear from the continent.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But I have to say, even if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is no longer here, the magic machine industry will keep developing and won¡¯t be influenced by this. This is because people have realized the benefits of magic machines and have enough need for magic machines. Since there is this need, this industry will not disappear.¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t think there is apany that canpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather can¡¯tpare to you, chairman Xu.¡± Rhine firmly said.

    The surrounding reporters heard Rhine¡¯s words and couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    In the year the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, there were countless instances that proved Rhine¡¯s views.

    Not only these reporters, of all the people in Banta City and the surrounding cities, they had treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the same as magic machines.

    People wouldn¡¯t be able to imagine it, but if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines didn¡¯t exist, what would life be like?

    ¡°Many thanks for everyone¡¯s support, I really am deeply honoured.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°But let¡¯s return to the main topic. I just said that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be selling a part of our technology, so I will announce that the first batch chosen to be sold is the Magic Kettle technology that the Gelert Chamber of Commerce had stolen from us. We wee anypanies that are interested in these technologies toe talk to us. At the same time, I alo guarantee that when selling this technology, we will assist thepanies buying from us in understanding this technology and being able to make the Magic Kettles themselves. Of course, we hope that thepanies that purchase this technology can keep cooperating with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not¡­¡­¡±

    The reporters under the stage all focused on what he said while desperately writing every word that Xu Yi said in their notebooks.

    They vaguely felt in their hearts that today¡¯s press conference would change the entire Lampuri Kingdom, as well as the entire Sines Continent.

    Perhaps every word that Xu Yi said today would be written in the history books one day, being passed down by everyone.

 Volume 2 71 - Making your own patent law

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 71 Making your own patentw</h4>

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, I¡¯ve only been away for a month, but you actually made such a family ruining decision. Are you nning to anger me to death?¡± Heinz¡¯s face was red, as he angrilyined to Xu Yi, ¡°You don¡¯t sell anything else, but you choose to sell our technology? Could it be that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is reallycking money?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Heinz with a smile. Not only did he seem not angry from being scolded by him, rather he felt some inexplicable warm feelings.

    It was like Heinz said, Ria took the initiative to bring their child to Karma City, so he stayed there for a month withouting back.

    But he came back ahead of time just to find Xu Yi,ining about the decision he made at the press conference.

    ¡°Who says we¡¯recking money?¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°ording to Sebas¡¯ data, the profit of ourpanyst month was even a bit higher than July, reaching a shocking four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins. Adding in the fact that we hadn¡¯t spent much moneyst month, how could we becking money?¡±

    ¡°Then tell me, why are you selling the technology?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s uncaring expression, Heinz felt the mes of rage in his heart surge, ¡°Even if you sell technology, why are selling all the technology rted to the Magic Kettle?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that you thought a foolishpany would buy a part of the technology and wouldn¡¯t be able to make the Magic Kettle even after buying the technology?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no one that foolish, but I feel you are the fool this time!¡± Heinz loudly said, ¡°Didn¡¯t you tell me before that apany is supported by its technology, especially apany that relies on that technology to feed themselves like ours? Now you¡¯re selling the technology for the Magic Kettle, are you nning on not having us make the Magic Kettle?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m indeed nning on that.¡±

    Heinz thought that Xu Yi would exin himself, but he never thought that he would directly admit. He was immediately choked up by his anger.

    After panting a few times, Heinz calmed down his agitated heart and honestly asked Xu Yi, ¡°Honestly tell me, why? I know that no matter what decision you make, you always have your own ideas. But I really can¡¯t think it through, what benefits is there in selling our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology?¡±

    ¡°If I told you that selling our technology isn¡¯t thinking for the best of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time, what would you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°You!¡± Heinz¡¯s eyes popped out before immediately forcing himself to calm down. He took a deep breath and red at Xu Yi, ¡°I will be angered to death by you sooner orter. Alright, even if your decision this time wasn¡¯t for the good of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then tell what was it for?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Actually I was joking. This decision doesn¡¯t have any benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce now, but in the long term, it is very useful.¡±

    ¡°Where is it useful?¡±

    ¡°To be a bit more straightforward, I am trying to poprize magic machines faster, so I sold all the technology for the Magic Kettle. Like this, all thepanies that buy the technology can make their own Magic Kettles. I also promised that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t produce Magic Kettles this time, so they don¡¯t need to worry about our Frestech Brand Magic Kettles being better and they will invest without worry.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, we can do the same if we just make the Magic Kettle ourselves. So why are you just giving all the profits from the Magic Kettles to other people?¡± Heinz wasn¡¯t worried at this time, he calmly gave Xu Yi his analysis, ¡°ording to my estimates, because of how cheap the Magic Kettle is and how efficient it is, almost every family will use it. Once it is released, the sales would definitely be very high. I don¡¯t believe that I can calcte this, but I¡¯m sure you can.¡±

    ¡°Of course I can.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But Heinz, have you calcted how much profit we would receive from each Magic Kettle?¡±

    Heinz thought about it before saying with knit brows, ¡°Although it can¡¯tpare to the Magic Air Conditioner or the Magic Refrigerator, not even being able topare to the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, I feel that it should be around the same as the Magic Fan. Even if we can¡¯t earn one gold coin per unit, I feel it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to earn seventy or eighty gold coins. Adding in the high sales, the profit should be quite good.¡±

    Xu Yi slowly shook his head, ¡°No, you¡¯re too optimistic. Actually ording to my estimates, it would be hard for the price of Magic Kettle¡¯s price to be more than one gold coin, so no matter how high the profit margins are, it won¡¯t reach seventy to eight gold coins.¡±

    Heinz was a bit confused, ¡°Why can¡¯t you set the price a bit higher? As long as you don¡¯t sell the technology, only ourpany can produce this Magic Kettle. Even if the price is a bit high, I feel that people who would buy it would still buy it.¡±

    ¡°No, it is different this time. We could set the price before because indeed only ourpany could produce it, but the Magic Kettle was released ahead of time by the Gelert Chamber of Commerce, so everyone already knows about this thing. Without innovation and curiosity, the price will definitely be affected. Moreover, you should be clear that the technological content of the Magic Kettle isn¡¯t high and as long as apany is willing to invest in studying magic machines, they will be able to develop it.¡±

    ¡°But their Magic Kettle can¡¯tpare to our Frestech Brand, what is there to fear?¡± Heinz said in an unwilling to submit voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Our Frestech Brand magic machines are better than the magic machines of otherpanies because of our outstanding designs. This time the design of the Magic Kettle has already been revealed to everyone, so we don¡¯t have the same unique advantage as before. So the Magic Kettle of ourpany won¡¯t be much better than the otherpanies¡¯.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Heinz couldn¡¯t help angrily looking at Xu Yi, ¡°If you didn¡¯t reveal all the secrets at that product release, how could other people learn our unique design?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a grin, ¡°What if I told you that I did it on purpose?¡±

    Heinz was stunned, ¡°Could it be that you were already prepared to sell the Magic Kettle technology?¡±

    ¡°Of course, otherwise why do you think that I allowed Evita to let that fellow Rem steal part of the Magic Kettle technology?¡±

    Heinz couldn¡¯t help looking over Xu Yi before saying with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve suddenly found that you¡¯re quite the sinister fellow.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he continued, ¡°So, even if I didn¡¯t sell the Magic Kettle technology, it wouldn¡¯t have much meaning to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce anyway. We wouldn¡¯t profit that much from keeping it, so we might as well sell it.¡±

    Heinz looked over Xu Yi, ¡°Isn¡¯t this something you brought on yourself? If you had taken care of the problem as soon as you found the problem with Rem, how could all these things have happened?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, thinking that Heinz¡¯s petty nature would never change.

    In his eyes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered a loss, so he was very dissatisfied.

    But turning his thoughts, he was just thinking based on what he knew.

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying to Heinz, ¡°Actually this matter does have benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it¡¯s not all long term. Very soon, there will be great benefits.¡±

    Heinz revealed an interested expression, ¡°Really? There are benefits? Tell me.¡±

    ¡°First, we¡¯re not just selling the Magic Kettle technology to a singlepany and we¡¯re selling it to anypany that is willing to buy it at a fixed price with conditions. So in less than a week, there have been over twentypanies that have asked me about buying this technology.¡±

    Heinz was stunned, ¡°How is it? How many are willing to buy? How much are they willing to spend?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not clear right now, but based on how enthusiastic they seemed, I estimate that there are fifteenpanies that are very interested in buying. The price I¡¯ve given them is ten thousand for the technology and they also have to pay our Frestech Chamber of Commerce one silver coin every time they produce a Magic Kettle.¡±

    ¡°This seems like the cooperation model we had before with the Farsak Chamber of Commerce.¡± Heinz cut in.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s a bit simr. But this time, I¡¯m nning to use this model for a long time.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I was hoping that the Royal Parliament would release the patentw, but this has never happened. Since the Royal Parliament doesn¡¯t care, then we have to do it ourselves. As long as there are enoughpanies buying the technology from us and they sign a contract, that would be equal to buying a patent from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If this model was gradually epted by everyone, then this would mean that we¡¯ve made a patentw.¡±

    Heinz thought about it before nodding, ¡°Un, this is indeed quite a good method. But we are only earning a trivial one silver coin from each Magic Kettle, this is a bit too little¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Heinz sigh, Xu Yi patted his shoulder and said with a smile, ¡°You might consider this little now, but believe me, you¡¯ll find in the future that being able to get one silver coin from each Magic Kettle without doing a thing is actually quite a lot. This is because not long after, the era of explosive profits for household magic machines will end soon.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    No matter how unwilling he was to admit it, he had to admit that Xu Yi waspletely right.

    Althoughpetition would bring progress, thispetition would also dilute profits.

    This was a logic that was followed in every industry of the Sines Continent. Although the magic machine industry was a new industry, it definitely couldn¡¯t avoid this irond rule.

    The only thing Heinz could do was pray that this cameter than sooner.

 Volume 2 72 - Tire

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 72 Tire</strong>

    Three months passed and the current Falling Rain Valley hadpletely changed from when it had just developed.

    Not mentioning the towering factories that were at the entrance or the neat and stylish buildings in the far residence area, just seeing the cement roads crisscrossing in the Falling Rain valley gave people a new feeling and was quite shocking.

    But the entire Falling Rain Valley was not just made of ice cold cement roads and stone buildings.

    In all the visible gaps, there were all kinds of strange nts growing.

    This was because it was early fally and it was the best time for all nts to grow. Wherever one looked, there would be flowers and leaves. There was a sea of green and a sea of flowers along the factories and the road, looking very vibrant, making the Falling Rain Valley not seem ice cold.

    These strange nts were brought over by the Night Song Tribe at Xu Yi¡¯s request. To the elves that had lived for thousands of years in the Falling Rain Valley, this was their masterpiece.

    They used less than half a month and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand what methods the elves used to turn the Falling Rain Valley into this scene.

    This was because elves had a rigid and special talent for beauty, so the Falling Rain Valley seemed more like a work of art, rather than the industrial base that Xu Yi had imagined.

    Because of these nts, when walking in the Falling Rain Valley, not only could one smell all kinds of scents walking past the factories, one would be surrounded by a soothing fragrance that filled their hearts withfort.

    Chairman Pompeii jumped out from the horse carriage behind Xu Yi and seeing the scene in front of him, he was instantly shocked.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I thought that the industrial base you mentioned would be messy and dirty, but I never thought that it would look so beautiful! I even think that living here would be morefortable than living in Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°If you¡¯re willing to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then your wish is easy to fulfil. Here, don¡¯t you see those rows of buildings? That is the residence area built for ourpany¡¯s workers to stay in.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked at the houses hidden in the sea of nts and flowers and felt that those buildings had a special style. He couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh, ¡°It really is a pity, I don¡¯t have that luck. Chairman Xu, I suddenly feel that even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t produce magic machines, you can earn quite a lot creating a living area like this. I dare to guarantee that many people want to live in this kind of environment.¡±

    ¡°The problem is, how many people are willing to live fifty kilometers away from Banta City?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Chairman Pompeii alsoughed, ¡°So that means we must make horse carriages run much faster. As long as this happens, it¡¯ll be more convenient for everyone to ride horse carriages and arrive at their destination faster.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right.¡± Xu Yi smiled before gesturing for chairman Pompeii toe in. He led the way to a factory that wasn¡¯t far from the entrance.

    On the way, he saw the steel mill that had already started producing and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sigh with emotion. If it wasn¡¯t for the existence of this steel mill, he wouldn¡¯t have decided to sell the Magic Kettle technology.

    In fact, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have time to tell Heinz all the benefits that selling the Magic Kettle technology would bring.

    For example, the steel mill, they would be able to earn arge profit from it.

    Today, it had been half a month since the press conference. In this past half a month, there were a total of twenty sevenpanies that signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, buying the technology rted to the Magic Kettle.

    Since these twenty sevenpanies bought the technology, naturally they wanted to produce the Magic Kettle.

    But the Magic Kettle could only use the Silver Leaf Alloy. If they used normal iron, not only would it be not as beautiful, it also wouldn¡¯t be rust proof, not even being able to reach the industrial standard set. So the twenty sevenpanies that bought the Magic Kettle technology had to use the Silver Leaf Alloy if they wanted to produce Magic Kettles.

    As for the Silver Leaf Alloy, currently it could only be produced at this steel mill.

    Other than purchasing the Silver Leaf Alloy from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, those twenty sevenpanies had no other choices.

    If they hadn¡¯t set up this steel mill, just with the small steel factories in the Norma and Ang Tribes, it wouldn¡¯t have produced enough Steel Leaf Alloy for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to use. Naturally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have considered selling the Magic Kettle technology.

    But since this steel mill started producingst month, the sum they produced had surpassed the total of the small steel mills from the Norma and Ang Tribes added together, a shocking amount of fifty thousand tons!

    Of the fifty thousand tons of steel products, the Silver Leaf Alloy made up over half of it, a total of thirty thousand tons.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many different magic machine products, so they consumed around ten thousand tons each month.

    The current output could not only satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was even extra for them to earn from.

    This was the main reason why Xu Yi had decided to sell the Magic Kettle technology.

    Of course, the Silver Leaf Alloy wasn¡¯t just sold to those twenty sevenpanies.

    Because of how light, beautiful, and most importantly, rust proof the Silver Leaf Alloy was, it had widespread use. After manypanies learned that the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker was made using this Silver Leaf Alloy, they all approached Xu Yi to buy this special alloy.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t produce enough Silver Leaf Alloy for themselves to use, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t agree to sell it. But now that thisrge scale factory had been made and the Silver Leaf Alloy production had increased, sincest month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold some of the Silver Leaf Alloy produced.

    ording to the data, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold over ten thousand tons of Silver Leaf Alloy.

    ording to the price of four hundred gold coins per ton, based on Silver Leaf Alloy alone, the steel mill had made a terrifying revenue of four million gold coinsst month.

    Of course, this was not all profits.

    When giving the price, Xu Yi had tried to raise the price on these fellows who didn¡¯t understand the Silver Leaf Alloys. But these astute fellows didn¡¯t know about Silver Leaf Alloys, but they did understand smelting iron ores.

    Especially after the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgan publicly told everyone that it cost around four hundred gold coins to refine a ton of iron ore. So as long as Xu Yi gave a price of over four hundred gold coins, thepanies that wanted to buy the Silver Leaf Alloy all retreated.

    In the end, Xu Yi could only helplessly set the price at four hundred gold coins.

    To many people, they thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t earn much profit from selling the Silver Leaf Alloy, so the hesitantpanies happily decided to buy.

    But what they didn¡¯t know was that this steel mill used cutting edge technology Xu Yi had brought from earth. With the powerful Magic Array refining the ore, the costs were much lower than chairman Morgan¡¯s estimates.

    For each ton of Silver Leaf Alloy, the costs of the steel mill were around three hundred and ny gold coins.

    Although there wasn¡¯t much of a difference between four hundred and three hundred and ny, it was still a profit of around ten gold coins when calcting everything.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold ten thousand tons of Silver Leaf Alloyst month, so they earned a giant profit of a hundred thousand gold coins from this.

    If they were to sell all the alloys the steel mill produced, that would have been a shocking profit of four hundred thousand gold coins!

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that with just a single steel mill, it created profits that were equal to the entire household magic machine workshop and the magic machine workshopbined.

    Of course, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s market was limited to Banta City and the surrounding cities. If they waited until the magic machines had a bigger market, the free market space of the household magic machine workshop and the magic machine workshop was limitless.

    The most important function of this steel mill was to meet the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s needs, so naturally not all of the alloys could be sold.

    Of the amount demanded, that also included the amount the tire factory in front of Xu Yi and chairman Pompeii needed.

    The two walked into the factory and they heard the sound of metal nging.

    Chairman Pompeii looked around the factory and he found that he couldn¡¯t understand what the workers in the factory were doing at all.

    He could only see that these workers were using strange magic machines, perfectlybining the rim and frame that didn¡¯t seem strange at all together. Then they took out something that seemed like a wheel based on its appearance, but it waspletely made of metal.

    Chairman Pompeii lifted up aplete iron tire and found that this frame as wide as his waist weighed at least ten pounds, so he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the tire you mentioned? This is heavier than our wood wheels and isn¡¯t this no different from the iron wheel I mentioned to you before?¡±

    ¡°That is an iplete piece.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he led chairman Pompeii and these finished steel wheels to the other side of the factory.

    This ce had a bunch of steel wheels on one side and the other side had a bunch of ck round objects ced in a pile.

    On the side of the ck unknown objects, there was also a bunch of random things that he didn¡¯t know what use they had.

    ¡°What are these things?¡± Chairman Pompeii pointed at the ck things and asked.

    ¡°If I just told you what these things are, you wouldn¡¯t understand. So I can only tell you that if these things are put together, that is the real tire.¡±

    Xu Yi and chairman Pompeii went to the end of the production line.

    There was a tire that had just been finished. Xu Yi picked it up and ced it in front of himself, firmly standing the tire up.

    ¡°What do you think about this tire?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the tire on the ground as he asked chairman Pompeii.

    Chairman Pompeii knit his brows and carefully looked over the tire before shaking his head, ¡°To be honest¡­..I don¡¯t know. Chairman Xu, I¡¯m not afraid of you making fun of me, but I don¡¯t understand how you made this tire or even what this thing is. So if you ask me what I think¡­..I really don¡¯t know what to say.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and pointed at the tire while saying, ¡°Try pressing down on it.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii pressed down on the tire while feeling confused, but he felt a soft feelinging from his hand. The tire went down slightly when being pressed by him and once he let go, it bounced back to its original shape.

    Chairman Pompeii was shocked by this. He looked at the tired and thought for a bit before saying in a pleasantly surprised voice, ¡°Its surface is actually this stic! This is great! If this thing is used on the road, there¡¯s no problem even if there were a few bumpy ces! I dare to guarantee that it¡¯ll be much morefortable sitting in carriagespared to before!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Pompeii really is a professional, being able to see the wonders of this tire so quickly. That¡¯s right, with this tire, there will be much less jolting when ites to sitting in carriages. Moreover, there is much less resistance when ites to these tires, so it will definitely be much faster running across the roads.¡±

    ¡°I believe! I believe!¡± Chairman Pompeii excitedly nodded, grabbing Xu Yi¡¯s hand and shaking it, ¡°Chairman Xu, when you said that you wanted to change horse carriages, I thought that you were joking. But seeing this tire now, I finally believe that you weren¡¯t lying at all! Ha, ha, as long as we change to this tire, our horse carriages will greatly change! This is great!¡±

    Xu Yi calmly withdrew his hand and asked, ¡°Chairman Pompeii, are you willing to buy these tires?¡±

    When it came to buying, the excited expression on chairman Pompeii¡¯s face disappeared. He looked at the tire on the ground before tentatively asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, how much are you nning to sell it for?¡±

    Xu Yi raised three fingers with a smile, ¡°Not much, just three gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Three gold coins?¡± Chairman Pompeii quickly calcted this in his heart before revealing a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, we can discuss the priceter. Right now, can you let me test this tire? After all, without really using it, I¡¯m not certain if it¡¯s suitable or not, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Naturally. Not only are we selling tires, we will also take care of all the bearings and all post sale services. We guaranteeplete service, you definitely won¡¯t be disappointed.¡±

    Chairman Pompeiiughed, ¡°I¡¯m in full belief of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reliability.¡± He reached his hand out to Xu Yi after saying this, ¡°Chairman Xu, to a happy cooperation.¡±

    ¡°To a happy cooperation.¡±

    When shaking hands with chairman Pompeii, Xu Yi suddenly had a naughty idea. He gently pushed the tire when he reached out his hand.

    The tire slowly rolled across the smooth concrete floor of the factory, finally hitting the wall on the side before falling to the ground.

    Seeing this, the smile on chairman Pompeii¡¯s face became even brighter.

 Volume 2 73 - Urban public transport system

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 73 Urban public transport system</strong>

    When the first yellow leaves were blown down by the autumn wind, the road connecting Banta City and Karma City was announced to be finished.

    It was different from the Falling Rain Road. This road connecting Banta City and Karma City was the real intercity public road on the Sines Continent.

    Thepletion of this road could represent the public transport system on the Sines Continent entering a new era. It got rid of the bumpy gravel roads from before and now they could enjoy the benefits and speed of concrete roads.

    To the Lampuri Kingdom, this was a road with real and symbolic significance. So when this time it wasn¡¯t just Count Sean that came to the opening ceremony, even her highness Seveni came on behalf of the king.

    Other than the citizens that came from Banta City to watch the fun, the small andrgepanies all sent representatives.

    For thesepanies, the most important thing was to gauge the attitude of the kingdom¡¯s upper ss through Count Sean and her highness.

    Although Count Sean had expressed his support for the roads in many newspapers, to the public, the king had never disyed a concrete attitude.

    Even if he didn¡¯t disy a concrete attitude, he still secretly supported it. However if it wasn¡¯t said out loud, not everyone could feel confident.

    After all, after this road was finished, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building a toll booth to take tolls.

    Thepanies all cared about what attitude the king had towards this.

    So at the ceremony, although the representatives seemed like they were seriously listening to Count Sean¡¯s passionate speech on the surface, they had been secretly paying attention to her highness Seveni standing behind Count Sean.

    Standing beside her highness and smiling as they were talking about something was Xu Yi. Naturally everyone¡¯s heart was filled with jealousy towards him.

    But they never would have thought that her highness and Xu Yi were discussing an irrelevant issue at this moment.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I really pity your ability to pick names.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with his rxed smile and helplessly said, ¡°This road has such arge significance, but you¡¯re actually thiszy to call it a simple name like ¡°Banka Road¡±. This is simply¡­..This is simply wasting everyone¡¯s feelings!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s just a name, it¡¯s not something incredible. Then again Banka Road is easy to understand, one will know it¡¯s a road connecting Banta City and Karma City as soon as they hear it.¡±

    ¡°But this is the first public road in our Lampuri Kingdom, can¡¯t you put a bit more effort in the name?¡± Seveni angrily said.

    Xu Yi had an uncaring expression, ¡°There really isn¡¯t a need, right? The road is used by people to travel on, the name is just something to call it by. Not calling it Highway One was already good enough¡­¡­¡±

    Seveni helplessly shook her head and she rolled her eyes at Xu Yi.

    When she had just met Xu Yi, Seveni could still keep her grace and dignity as a princess. But when she met him more and more, she found that in front of Xu Yi, her attitude became more and more rxed. She lost more and more of her important calm and wit, rather it was quite easy for her to react to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Forget it, this is the road that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid for, so what it is called is the right of you as the chairman, so I don¡¯t care.¡± Seveni gave a sigh and decided not to continue with this question, ¡°But there is a problem that I hope you can give me your honest reply to.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Although royal father agreed to your n before, allowing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in building these roads and allowing you to build toll booths to collect tolls from them, don¡¯t you think that the toll you¡¯ve set is rather high?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Your highness, I remember that when we set the amount, didn¡¯t I already contact the king through Count Sean? Why do you feel that the price is too high? Then again, it¡¯s only fifty silver coins per carriage, I don¡¯t think that¡¯s high at all.¡±

    Seveni revealed an awkward expression and paused for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually this is my royal father¡¯s thoughts. This road is mainly used to serve the citizens of the kingdom, specifically the people between Karma City and Banta City. Taking a toll is something that shouldn¡¯t be done and for the price to be this high, it¡¯s even worse.¡±

    Hearing what Seveni said, Xu Yi¡¯s smile disappeared and he seriously said, ¡°Your highness, you should be clear that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested a total of four hundred and thirty thousand gold coins to build this road. Moreover we have to maintain the road, so that is also arge amount. If the price is too low, how long do you think before we can earn back the money that we invested?¡±

    Seveni was surprised and said in an embarrassed voice, ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, could it be that you don¡¯t have any sympathy for the citizens at all?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise, ¡°Your highness, haven¡¯t I discussed this matter with you before? It¡¯s fine if you ask me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to care about others, but can you request everyone else to do the same?¡±

    ¡°Although I hope this is the way, but that is something that is impossible to achieve.¡± Seveni helplessly nodded.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi continued without any politeness, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has built this road to set an example for all thepanies in the kingdom. We¡¯re telling them that not only will they not lose money on building roads, they can also earn money. If there wasn¡¯t this reason, do you think that the Fersen Carriage Company would choose to build a road between Banta City and Saltan City? If it wasn¡¯t for ourpanies paying, where would the kingdom financial department get this kind of money?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible.¡± Seveni shook her head with a bitter smile and took a deep breath. Her smile reappeared on her face, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, it¡¯s my problem, just treat it as I didn¡¯t say anything. After seeing this road being finished, I can¡¯t help feeling that if every road in our Lampuri Kingdom was like this, how moving of a scene that would be. Sometimes I get excited because of that.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni for a while before his tone rxed a bit.

    ¡°Your highness, I understand your feelings, but I ask you to understand reality. The kingdom isn¡¯t strong right now and can¡¯t rely on its finances to build these infrastructures, so we can only find other ways to solve this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s sincere tone and expression couldn¡¯t help moving Seveni¡¯s heart. There was a sh of light in her eyes as she honestly looked at him and continued listening to him.

    ¡°Anyway it¡¯s our Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking the infamy for the toll booths. The newspapers had announced that there were even people who protested in front of ourpany¡¯s service center, but that doesn¡¯t matter. To me, reaching the end goal is the most important and I can treat it like I¡¯ve heard nothing.¡±

    ¡°There were people protesting?¡± Seveni was a bit surprised, ¡°What reaction did Count Sean have?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°After the Lord Count learned of this, he wanted to send guards to our service center, but I rejected him. After all,pared to those who scold me and ourpany, most people of Banta City and Karma City support us constructing this road. Even if there is a toll, most people can understand.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Anyway, most people don¡¯t have personal carriages and your road doesn¡¯t take a toll for pedestrians.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s mind turned, ¡°Speaking of personal carriages, I thought of something that I wanted to ask your highness¡¯ help with.¡±

    After knowing Xu Yi for so long, Seveni was clear that other than when he used honorifics in the beginning, if Xu Yi suddenly changed to using honorifics, he must have some troublesome matter. So she vigntly asked him, ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°You just said that most people don¡¯t have personal carriages, so generally they would choose to walk and rarely would choose to ride in a horse carriage. But like this, it wastes quite a bit of time. I calcted it and just going from Banta City to our Sandton Manor workshop which is only a total of fifteen kilometers, it would still take two hours even if one moved quickly. Not mentioning the waste of time, it is quite tiring.¡±

    ¡°And then? You want to solve this problem? But how are you nning on solving it?¡± Seveni asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Right, I do want to solve this problem very much. For example, many workers for our factories live in Banta City or the surrounding viges, so they need to spend quite a bit of time on the road before and after work. Although ourpany has built dorms for workers to live in, there aren¡¯t enough right now and when we expand our factories, there would be even more of a deficit.¡± Xu YI said.

    ¡°You still haven¡¯t said how you n on solving this problem.¡± Seveni reminded him.

    ¡°Un¡­..To put it simply, it¡¯s to build an urban public transport system.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Urban public transport system?¡± This wasn¡¯t Seveni¡¯s first time hearing strange words from Xu Yi. Although she didn¡¯t understand it, she still carefully thought it over, ¡°You mean¡­...just like the Fersen Carriage Company? Using many horse carriages to transport around Banta City, connecting the all of Banta City together, allowing everyone to ride horse carriages to where they want to go?¡±

    ¡°Your highness truly is wise!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°But it has the same general meaning.

    Seveni thought about it before knitting her brows and saying, ¡°Although this sounds quite good, I feel that you should be discussing this matter with the Fersen Carriage Company or Count Sean, why are you discussing this with me?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Your highness, of course you can help because you can get something that can be reced in the long run, but can¡¯t be missing right now, which is the horse that will pull the carriages.¡±

 Volume 2 74 - The price of a horse

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 74 The price of a horse</strong>

    There wasn¡¯t anything worth noting at the Banka Road opening ceremony. The only highlight was that after Count Sean¡¯s speech, her highness Seveni said a few simple words.

    Although her highness didn¡¯t say much and was most likely her extending congrattions to the Banka Road, she had clearly revealed some important information in her words.

    That was that the king acknowledgedpanies investing in building roads and even showed support.

    So the representatives of thergepanies were all excited.

    Since this matter had the explicit support of the kingdom¡¯s royal family, that meant there were bright prospects.

    Now they just needed to see if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could earn money from this road.

    This question hadpletely disappeared after a horse carriage from the Fersen Carriage Company had arrived in Banta City.

    It was because this horse carriage had set off at the beginning of the ceremony and it didn¡¯t even take an entire morning for it to go an entire round trip!

    All the merchants understood that time was money.

    When the Banka Road hadn¡¯t been constructed, although Banta City was less than sixty kilometers away from Karma City, it would take most of a day even riding in the fastest horse carriage.

    Now that the Banka Road was open, a round trip actually only took a single morning! If this was converted to an one way trip, that was a trip of less than two hours!

    Compared to before, this without a doubt saved quite a bit of time.

    There was no need to mention that if a horse carriage galloped across sixty kilometers of gravel road, a person¡¯s butt would have been destroyed. If it was cargo, in order to protect the cargo, they could only move as slowly as possible, so it might take more than a day for an one way trip.

    But because of the new Banka Road¡¯s smooth concrete surface, their horse carriages didn¡¯t jolt when running across it.

    Adding in the fact that the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s carriage had swapped from the old wooden wheel to the new tire developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only did it lessen the shaking, it made the horse carriage lighter and allowed it to move much faster.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the help of this new tire, even if the Banka Road had this kind of iparably smooth concrete surface, it definitely wouldn¡¯t take just a single morning to run back and forth between Banta City and Karma City.

    So after the ?Banta Times? had run a special report on these new tires, there was a new wave that appeared in Banta City and the surrounding cities. All the horse carriages switched tires.

    In less than half a month, therge and small carriages in the streets of Banta City and the surrounding cities had all changed to the tires manufactured by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If there was a horse carriage that was still using the old wooden wheels, they wouldn¡¯t have the face to appear in public!

    ###

    Some night in the middle of September, the City Lord¡¯s Manor held another banquet. Almost all the chairman ofpanies and nobles were invited.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I really am filled with admiration towards you¡± The Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii raised his wine ss and nked it against Xu Yi¡¯s before saying with a sigh of admiration, ¡°Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been established, no matter what you¡¯ve researcher, it has led to a buying spree in Banta City and the surrounding cities. Ignoring the magic machines since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce specializes in it, I never thought that this tire that you casually took out would be this popr.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Chairman Pompeii, you can¡¯t underestimate the tire, this thing can¡¯t be casually taken out. You have to know that although this thing seems like a simple iron ring, there are many levels of things included in it. Just the cushion inside took the Armani Chamber of Commerce several tries before I was satisfied. Because of this, chairman Vincentined many times that I was being just too picky.¡±

    In all honesty, the most important part of the tire was the tire¡¯s cover.

    But on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi had never discovered the existence of rubber trees. Although he wanted to make the tire before, because there was no rubber, he could only give up.

    After the Night Song Tribe did all kinds of strange experiments with the resin following Xu Yi¡¯s requests, they identally came up with a resin that was close to rubber.

    This resin came from a nt that the elves called Tear Fruit.

    After this nt matured, it would grow fruits that were the size of a human head and it would release white liquid when split open.

    After this juice and several kinds of pollen were mixed together, then using the special magic of the elves, it became this kind of special resin.

    This kind of resin had simr characteristics as processed rubber, so when Xu Yi saw it, he immediately thought that he could use it for tires.

    In the end, after a series of experiments, the Night Song Tribe elves came up with this tire cover.

    Of course, this special resin was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce secret, so naturally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t divulge this to chairman Pompeii.

    Hearing Xu Yi mention chairman Vincent, chairman Pompeii broke out inughter, ¡°But now that the tires are selling well, their Armani Chamber of Commerce must be earning a lot, so chairman Vincent won¡¯t be ming you.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and looked at chairman Vincent chatting with nobles. He thought thatpared to the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s countless experiments, chairman Vincent would ratherin to him about the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still hadn¡¯t developed the Magic Loom that he wanted.

    But there was no other way, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had limited research staff and there were too many things to research. Xu Yi could only focus and choose to research certain things.

    Compared to the textile industry which wasn¡¯t that important, it was more important to research gathering and storing energy and the road building technology, which were more important for the development of an industrial system.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, I still haven¡¯t thanked you yet.¡± Chairman Pompeii suddenly said.

    ¡°Un? Thank me for what?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s to thank you for raising the request with her highness. Now her highness has agreed that the horses that can¡¯t be military horses will be sold to me. Although they are a bit expensive, to mypany, being able to have that many horses means being able to bring out more horse carriages, which means plenty of business.¡± Chairman Pompeii said with an excited red face.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, I just casually mentioned it to her highness.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, not caring at all. He then casually asked in a curious voice, ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Pompeii, how much does yourpany usually spend on a normal horse?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not set. The price will vary a lot based on the quality of the horse. The best kind of horses costs several hundred thousand gold coins, which mypany can¡¯t use. For a normal ones, other than the best horses being privately raised byrge nobles, most of them are given to the royal army. Ourpany uses inferior grade horses, which cost around one to two hundred gold coins each.¡± Chairman Pompeii replied.

    ¡°One to two hundred gold coins?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°If there was something that can rece a horse and pull a horse carriage just as fast, or even two to three times faster, how much money would you spend to buy it?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi in surprise. After a pause, his eyes popped out and he excitedly grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder while saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, is this true? Is there really such a thing? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already developed this? Quickly tell me! If it is true, even if it is two hundred gold coins¡­..No! I would definitely buy it at three hundred gold coins each!¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit speechless. When Xu Yi mentioned the tirest time, chairman Pompeii was also this excited. Now he had just heard a bit and he was already excited.

    He was still the chairman of argepany, was there a need to be this easily surprised?

    ¡°This¡­..it hasn¡¯t been developed yet and is still in the beginning stages.¡± Xu Yi moved away from chairman Pompeii¡¯s hands as he answered.

    ¡°Ah? Not yet.¡± Chairman Pompeii¡¯s excited expression became disappointed, ¡°That really is a pity, this kind of thing really is important for our Fersen Carriage Company. Chairman Xu, can you tell me when you will be able to develop it?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I can¡¯t give you an answer. This thing is veryplicated, it¡¯s not something that can be easily developed.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii considered it before saying to Xu Yi with a serious face, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu Yi, when you have finished developing this thing, you have to contact me and sell it to our Fersen Carriage Company first, alright?¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll see.¡± Xu Yi vaguely replied.

    The engine development was indeed very difficult and Xu Yi wasn¡¯t even certain if it could be developed, so how could he easily promise him this.

    Then again, if he really could develop the engine, there were many widespread uses for it, so Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t give any priorities.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s vague answer, chairman Pompeii knit his brows. He wanted to say something, but he saw that Count Sean had walked through the crowd, so he could only close his mouth and look over at Count Sean.

    In front of everyone, Count Sean slowly walked to the stage in the hall. Looking around, he raised his wine cup and said in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, wee to the banquet on studying how to make Banta City a better ce.¡±

 Volume 2 75 - New town effect

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 75 New town effect</strong>

    It had been two months since Count Sean showed Xu YI the n for Banta City, but progress in this aspect had been very slow.

    One reason was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce responsible for the first part couldn¡¯t find any free time. A second reason was because there were problems that came up during nning.

    In the first part of the n agreed upon between Xu Yi and Count Sean, other than two viges, there were several pieces of noble¡¯s privatend also included.

    Comparing it, although there were many vigers in the two viges, they were easy to take care of.

    Xu Yi brought the City Lord Manor¡¯s token and no one in the two viges argued with him, obediently following everything Xu Yi asked them to do.

    What caused trouble for Xu Yi and chairman Cruse was rather the several stretches of noblend that weren¡¯t that big.

    For the nobles of the Sines Continent, their territory was their property, so not even kings could take care of them. So if Xu Yi wanted to do something in the territories of the nobles outside Banta City, he had to get the agreement of those nobles first.

    The problem was that other than two open minded nobles who agreed to let the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build on their territory, the other nobles didn¡¯t understand this so called Banta City renovation n, so naturally they didn¡¯t agree.

    So this project had been dyed by these stubborn nobles and it progressed very slowly.

    Count Sean was very dissatisfied with this matter. After he learned the reason from Xu Yi and chairman Cruise, he specially held this banquet, not just gathering all the nobles in Banta City, he also gathered all thepanies together.

    Other than exining it to those stubborn nobles to make them understand the significance of this project, he also wanted to get funds from morepanies.

    After he finished his introduction, Count Sean quickly jumped on the main topic, exining the details to the n that he showed Xu Yi before.

    The people under the stage were a bit confused at first, but as Count Sean continued to exin everything, they revealed looks ofprehension.

    It should be said that Count Sean¡¯s ns to change Banta City were very good.

    Right now, because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many factories that appeared. Also because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, the production efficiency of the otherpanies had been increased, so they also developed.

    So right now there were countless new factories in Banta City and countless employment opportunities. That attracted many people to migrate here, which made the peaceful Banta City quite lively.

    This also brought a big problem along with it.

    Banta City was only a small city with less than fifty thousand people, so no matter what part of the city it was, it wasn¡¯t developed. Now that there were so many factories and people, this was like arge disaster for a small town.

    Not mentioning anything else, the waste that came out of Banta City had increased by several times, which created great pressure on the city administration.

    If this continued, Banta City would copse from the pressure eventually.

    ¡°Everyone, I think that everyone isn¡¯t willing to live in a chaotic city. So in order to change this situation, I have given careful consideration before deciding on this Banta City renovation n.¡±

    After saying this, Count Sean paused and looked around. Seeing everyone¡¯s thoughtful expressions, he gave a satisfied nod and continued, ¡°Of course, there is no way to change the inside of Banta City since Banta City is indeed too small and can¡¯t handle all these people. So my goal is outside the city. As for how to transform the outside of the city, we have to listen to a specialist of this subject, the ideas of chairman Xu from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi walked onto the stage in front of everyone with a faint smile. He took Count Sean¡¯s position and gave a slight bow to everyone before saying with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord is too generous with your praise, I¡¯m not a specialist. Just that when developing the Falling Rain Valley, I had some experience.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the Falling Rain Valley, everyone discussed in whispers.

    When the Falling Rain Road was open, many people had taken a horse carriage along the Falling Rain Road since they had nothing to do and naturally many people had seen the Falling Rain Valley.

    Everyone found that the Falling Rain Valley wasn¡¯t as deste as before, without a single specialty to mention. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed it, it had be a very beautiful and magnificent ce.

    There were many people who saw the beautiful industrial and residential areas of the Falling Rain Valley and they praised it like chairman Pompeii.

    So when they learned that Count Sean handed the renovation project to Xu Yi toplete, there weren¡¯t many people surprised.

    ¡°First, I want to show a few pictures to everyone.¡±

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s indication, two servants from the City Lord¡¯s Manor came out with a stand and rolls of pictures, which they unraveled one by one.

    Everyone¡¯s gaze fell onto the pictures and they saw the beautiful scenery.

    In the middle picture, the main angle was on a river, but this river was different from the one that everyone was used to.

    The sides of this river were not stacked with silt, rather there was something that created a beautiful river embankment.

    The river was clear and filled with ripples. There were also all kinds of trees and flowers nted along the side of the river.

    The sides of the river had a smooth cement road that wasn¡¯t too big and was surrounded by grass. There were countless men and women walking on the cement path, young and old strolling by the river, enjoying the cool breeze.

    And on the patches of grass by the roads, there were quite a few kids running around and ying with happy smiles of joy on their faces.

    Just seeing this picture, everyone couldn¡¯t help giving a gasp of surprise.

    When had a river ever been this clean and neat? Even they wanted to take a walk along it at sunset.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you took these pictures out just to tell us that the river in the picture is the river that is outside Banta City?¡± Someone under the stage couldn¡¯t help asking in a loud voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the river in the picture is the transformed river. What does everyone think?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°It is good, but how could that river be like the one in the pictures?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s already good that the river doesn¡¯t flood every year, how could it be so beautiful?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this must be your imagination. This can¡¯t be real.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing the people discuss this, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Who says it¡¯s impossible? You can ask chairman Cruise if you don¡¯t believe it, the river in the Falling Rain Forest has already be like this.¡±

    Everyone looked at the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Moon Cruise who was sipping red wine.

    Chairman Cruise put down his wine ss and revealed a proud smile to everyone.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is right, the river doesn¡¯t look that good now, but it isn¡¯t hard for it to be like the pictures. This is because during this year, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has been changing the banks of the river to the northwest of the Falling Rain Forest and now we¡¯re seeing the beginning effects. Although right now it doesn¡¯t look as good as the picture, it¡¯s not that far away.¡±

    ¡°Un, I had some matters to handle with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnds. I went upstream on the river and found that the river hadpletely changed to look like this, only it didn¡¯t look as good as it does in the picture. When I saw people working along the river bank, I never thought that it would be workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone looked over and found that the one who spoke was the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Renersa.

    Because of hispany¡¯s business, he asionally went to the beastmen tribe and went up the river.

    Since he said this, it seemed like it should be true.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s expression change, Xu Yi pped his hands and brought everyone¡¯s attention back. He pointed at another image and said, ¡°Everyone look at this picture. I think that everyone should be able to see that this is a picture from a high angle. Everyone please notice that the city here represents our Banta City and to the left, it is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Sandton Manor. As for the interconnecting straight white lines, I think that everyone has guessed that these represent roads.¡±

    Even though they could guess it, hearing Xu Yi mention it now, everyone was quite surprised.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, all these lines are roads? It can¡¯t be, right?¡± A smallpany¡¯s chairman couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°I can understand your Frestech Chamber of Commerce building a road from Banta City to Sandton Manor, but building all these roads, is there a need?¡±

    ¡°No need?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°No, there are no useless roads in this world. I marked all these roads on this image to tell everyone that I¡¯m nning to do all of this. I¡¯m nning tomission the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to inspect all the areas the roads will be ced and as long as there are no problems, these roads will begin construction.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has experience with building roads and since it¡¯s chairman Xu¡¯smission, we will definitely build good roads.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a nod, ¡°Also I want to remind everyone here that if anyone is interested in building roads, they can discuss with me at any time.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Cruise, I just hoped that you can confirm what I said, I didn¡¯t ask you to advertise yourself.¡±

    The people under the stage couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Of course, just chairman Cruise and I can¡¯t decide the roads ourselves, we still need everyone else¡¯s support.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the merchants under the stage all looked at the nobles on the other side.

    Everyone could understand that Xu Yi¡¯s words were said for those stubborn nobles.

    At this time, there was a cold snort that came from the crowd of nobles.

    ¡°Humph! Chairman Xu can really speak his mind. Do you think that Banta City belongs to you alone?¡±

 Volume 2 76 - Many changes with the small town

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 76 Many changes with the small town</h4>

    Hearing this voice, everyone¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    This was because the one who spoke was Baron Belil.

    When Baron Belil had juste to Banta City, he had expelled the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from his territory. Everyone could understand that he was breaking off all rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had moved to Sandton Manor, Baron Belil had unexpectedly be calm and didn¡¯t cause trouble for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like everyone expected.

    Based on this situation, everyone couldn¡¯t help guessing that Baron Belil expelling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from his territory was the Stagg Family¡¯s idea and not his own idea.

    But now, Baron Belil had made such a clear opposition that everyone was a bit surprised.

    Xu Yi looked at Barong Belil and he wasn¡¯t angry at all, as he said with a faint smile. ¡°Lord Baron, Banta City does indeed not belong to me alone. So if we can sessfully change Banta City, it will benefit all the people of Banta City.¡±

    Baron Belil gave another cold snort, ¡°Benefit everyone? Chairman Xu, you think you¡¯re cheating a little child? I think that this benefits only you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? Otherwise why would you work so hard?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Baron Belil and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°That means that the Lord Baron is against this overall transformation n?¡±

    Baron Belil coldly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Don¡¯t try to trap me with words. This n is the idea of the Lord City Lord, so of course I¡¯m not against it. I just will not be showing my support.¡±

    Everyone¡¯s expression became even stranger as they thought that his words were quite wonderful.

    Since it was raised by the Lord City Lord, not showing support was going against it, what else could you say?

    Xu Yi¡¯s reaction was even more wonderful.

    After hearing Baron Belil¡¯s words, he actually gave a simple nod and said, ¡°Alright, I understand.¡±

    He didn¡¯t n on discussing this matter with Baron Belil at all!

    Baron Belil was clearly a bit surprised, but since Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, if he were to take the initiative to argue with him, it would be a loss of face. So he could only close his mouth and couldn¡¯t say anything.

    Xu Yi exined the other images to everyone. Without an exception, these were all images of Banta City after this project was over as imagined by Xu Yi.

    Seeing the beautiful scenes in the pictures, the people under the stage almost didn¡¯t dare believe it.

    After all,pared to the current somewhat chaotic Banta City, the Banta City in the pictures were just too beautiful. It was something that even Anvilmar City couldn¡¯tpare to.

    But everyone still hoped that Banta City could be like the pictures. If this became true, Banta City would be a scene that everyone would be jealous of.

    After showing off these artistic paintings, Xu YI changed the topic.

    He was very clear that to the people under the stage, no matter how good the pictures were, it couldn¡¯tpare to the benefits that they received.

    So after introducing the images, he began exining the significance the n would have towards Banta City.

    After talking about the various benefits of having industrial and residential areas, one could see the eyes of thepany representatives lighting up. It was like they could smell the business opportunitying from Xu Yi.

    Most of the nobles didn¡¯t really care, but after Xu Yi described everything, their hearts were also moved.

    Xu Yi spent half an hour to finish exining the ns. The people under the stage no longer had the same confused looks as before, rather it was clear that they were thinking about all kinds of things.

    Seeing this scene, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi with a smile of admiration.

    This kid, he really was good at discovering benefits that everyone could enjoy, which made matters he wanted to do easier for people to ept.

    The banquet continued for the entire night and when it was finished, Xu Yi¡¯s throat was parched.

    At the banquet, there were representatives and nobles that kept asking Xu Yi about specific details, hoping to gain some information so they could know what kind of benefits they would receive.

    Xu Yi had to exin to them one by one and give them his analysis.

    Although the people left one by one feeling satisfied, Xu Yi had wasted his saliva, so his throat hurt from how dry it was.

    ¡°Ai, I won¡¯t do such a thankless job in the future.¡± After epting Count Sean¡¯s praise and bidding him farewell, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking this.

    It was currently night and Xu Yi looked up at the moon and stars. He gave up the idea of going home in a horse carriage and began walking home.

    The current Banta City waspletely different fromst year.

    Last year because of how cold it was in the autumn night, when it was night like this, all the people of Banta City would be at home resting and there wouldn¡¯t be a trace of people at all.

    But even though it was night now, Banta City¡¯s streets were filled with many open shops. They were brightly lit and all kinds of voices came out.

    There were even small stalls outside selling snacks, releasing all kinds of different fragrances. It attracted people who hadn¡¯t gone to sleep yet to take out silver coins from their pockets and enjoy a nice midnight snack.

    Compared to the peace ofst year, the current Banta City was lively even at night, just like a dense city on earth.

    There was only one reason for this, it was people.

    Banta City had only fifty thousand people before, but now there were over two hundred thousand people.

    With so many people stuffed in a small city, naturally there would berge changes.

    Xu Yi watched as a young man and woman walked through the night market and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    This scene really was like the life in a few cities on earth.

    The only difference was that Banta City didn¡¯t have street lights. Whether it was a stall on the street or a store, they were all lit up with a Magic Lamp.

    Thinking of street lights, Xu YI had a thought as he looked up.

    Although Banta City had history and it was hard topletely change, there were some improvements that were possible and necessary.

    For example, the street lights that were verymon on earth, but didn¡¯t exist in the cities of the Sines Continent at all, it was something with significance.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi immediately calcted the cost of building street lights.

    Because the Magic Lamps didn¡¯t need to be powered like the streetmps on earth, so they just needed to make a pole that was long enough and put the Magic Lamp on it, so it shouldn¡¯t cost much.

    But there were several problems with this.

    The first was that although Evita and Akali had a breakthrough in magic transmission technology, the limit of the Magic Crystal was only being able to transmit to Magic Arrays that were three meters away. But it wasn¡¯t stable at this distance, so it was still in an experimental stage and couldn¡¯t be used.

    No matter what, the streetmps had to be higher than three meters. If the Magic Lamps were to be put on a high pole, it would be a problem where to put the switch.

    Moreover, the street lights on earth were all linked to the same power source, so they could be remotely controlled together. Right now with the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was not something they could do.

    If they were to put the switch on themp post, then it would be hard to stop a bored fellow from turning it on and off.

    Although they could put a sealed space or a cage to prevent this from happening, not having the lights turn on and off at set times was a very troublesome matter.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi found that there were just too many problems and he couldn¡¯t help feeling a headache.

    ¡°Ai, in the end, there isn¡¯t enough technology.¡± Xu Yi sighed in his heart, ¡°If Evita and the others could improve on the magic transmission technology, giving it a limitless range and making the Magic Crystals transmit like electricity, it would be much more convenient.¡±

    Thinking about it for a bit, Xu Yi could only give a helpless sigh.

    Magic wasn¡¯t electricity in the end, it was impossible for it to transmit through a simple electric wire.

    But if he couldn¡¯t solve this problem, there would be a variety of problems to solve like when thinking about this street light.

    ¡°How to solve this?¡± Xu Yi quickly concentrated on this matter and forgot to watch the road.

    ¡°Peng¡ª¡ª¡±

    Xu Yi mmed his head into the pole that a shop was using to hold up their tent and he took a gasp of cold air from the pain, even seeing stars in front of him.

    The sound of his collision was quite loud and instantly attracted the attention of people having midnight snacks around him.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s look of pain, everyone couldn¡¯t help secretlyughing at him.

    The girl from the young lovers Xu Yi saw secretly pointed at him and said something to her boyfriend in a low voice with a smile.

    But quite a few people realized that the one who hit the pole was actually the famous chairman Xu from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    While everyone was stunned, Xu Yi suddenly jumped up and wildlyughed while being stared at by everyone like he was a lunatic.

    ¡°Ha, ha¡­..I really am dumb! Why do I need magic to rece electricity? Was my head fried? Ha, ha, there¡¯s such a simple method, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 2 77 - He just has good luck

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 77 He just has good luck</h4>

    A horse carriage left Saltan City and was quickly moving along the road towards Banta City.

    There were four people sitting across each other inside the carriage.

    Other than Baron Hannas, the other three people were a young man who was a bit younger than Baron Hannas, a beautiful girl who was younger than twenty, and finally a middle aged man who was balding and a bit chunky who looked to be around forty.

    After the horse carriage drove on the dirt road outside Saltan City for a while, the young man suddenly patted his butt and said with a sigh, ¡°After this horse carriage changed to that whatever tire, it really is much better than before. If I knew about this earlier, my butt could have been spared all those hard years.¡±

    Baron Hannasughed, ¡°Kennard, now do you believe what I said? Not mentioning anything else, just with the appearance of this tire, it changed our lives this much. There¡¯s no need to mention all those other Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic machines.¡±

    The young man called Kennard said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve never not believed what you said. But now that I¡¯ve experienced a few of those magic machines, I feel that with the appearance of the magic machines, perhaps it can change the entire continent. If I didn¡¯t think like this, why do you think I want to go to Banta City for a look?¡±

    When Baron Hannas was about to speak, the young girl on the side gave a soft snort and said, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that that whatever Xu Yi is that powerful. Big brother, Hannas, you say that him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are that great, but why do I feel that my life hasn¡¯t changed at all? What it was like before is how it is now. You keep saying that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will change the continent, but I don¡¯t think so.¡±

    Baron Hannas looked at Kennard and they both revealed smiles.

    ¡°Beloved Sophia, you really don¡¯t feel that your life has changed?¡± Baron Hannas asked, ¡°Is the bread you eat still made by hand like before? Is the water you drink now still boiled using firewood? Or to be more direct, does your family not have a single Magic Lamp? If your family¡¯s lives haven¡¯t changed at all, then I can only say that your family has fallen behind and it isn¡¯t rted to Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.¡±

    ¡°My family hasn¡¯t fallen behind!¡± Sophia stomped down and said in a slightly angry voice, ¡°But our family doesn¡¯t need any Magic Bread Maker or Magic Kettles. As for the Magic Lamp¡­..¡±

    Speaking of the Magic Lamp, Sophia fell silent and couldn¡¯t keep going.

    Baron Hannasughed, ¡°What about the Magic Lamp? Is it that it is so pretty that you¡¯re not willing to say you don¡¯t need it?¡±

    Sophia¡¯s face turned a bit red, ¡°So what if I like how pretty it is? Then again, the Magic Lamp is pretty because of the design of the elves, it isn¡¯t rted to Xu Yi.¡±

    ¡°But the appearance of the elves is closely rted to Xu Yi. If it wasn¡¯t for him, even if you walked all over our Lampuri Kingdom, you wouldn¡¯t be able to see a single elf.¡± Baron Hannas added.

    ¡°Humph! The elves didn¡¯t disappear, he was just lucky, it isn¡¯t anything special.¡± Sophia said in an unwilling to submit voice.

    Baron Hannas wanted to keep discussing with Sophia when Kennard waved his hand at him with a smile, ¡°Alright, Hannas. If you keep arguing with her, do you believe that you will make her hate Xu Yi?¡±

    ¡°I just don¡¯t like how to keep discussing that fellow in front of me and how you praise him all the time!¡± Sophia said in a loud unwilling to submit voice, ¡°He just invented a few things because of luck, how could he be that great?¡±

    ¡°Because no one else invented these things and he did, which means that he has abilities that other people don¡¯t have, so he¡¯s great.¡± Kennard said with a serious face, ¡°Sophia, no matter what you feel about Xu Yi, you have to acknowledge this logic. When other people have abilities that you don¡¯t have, you have to honestly study them and you shouldn¡¯t pick problems with them, understand?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t like those ice cold magic machines.¡± Sophia said with a snort, turning her head to look out the window.

    Seeing Sophia¡¯s attitude, Kennard could only helplessly give a sigh and turn back to Baron Hannas and said, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that the ?Banta Times? is thergest newspaper in Banta City and if they were to know that their founder was suddenlying to Banta City, would the ?Banta Times? do a big report?¡±

    Baron Hannas shook his head with a smile, ¡°How could they? Although I am the founder of the ?Banta Times?, the reason why this newspaper appeared was all because of Xu Yi. Whether it is the creativity of making the newspaper, the required initial funds for setting up the office, or even the Magic Printing Press, it is all rted to him. So to be honest, the founder of the ?Banta Times? is not me. Thinking about it now, this fellow instigated me to make the ?Banta Times? and waspletely using me.¡±

    ¡°But weren¡¯t you happy being used?¡± Kennard said.

    Baron Hannas said whileughing, ¡°That¡¯s right. Whenever I think of those days, I always feel very happy. So even though I¡¯m very clear on the fact that Xu Yi was just using me, I¡¯m very grateful to him. If it wasn¡¯t for him, I might still be bored at home and feeling that this world is very boring. But now, I¡¯ve found something that I¡¯m willing to offer my entire self to.¡±

    Hearing Baron Hannas¡¯ voice being filled with honest gratitude, even the spiteful Sophia couldn¡¯t help looking over at Baron Hannas¡¯ strange expression and feeling depressed.

    Is this Xu Yi really that great? He could actually create such arge change in Hannas¡¯ listful appearance.

    Humph! He was just lucky.

    Kennard said with a soft sigh, ¡°Hannas, I really envy you. Being able to find something that you¡¯re willing to devote yourself to, I still haven¡¯t thought of what I want to do yet.¡±

    Baron Hannas revealed a faint smile, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯ll be able to find it on his trip to Banta City?¡±

    Kennard shook his head. When he wanted to speak, the carriage trembled and his words were shocked back.

    The four people in the carriage knit their brows. They thought the road had changed, but after that, the four of them found that after the initial shock, the rest of the trip was iparably smooth and they didn¡¯t feel any jolting at all.

    The four of them were very curious and Kennard couldn¡¯t help pulling aside the curtains. When he looked out, he found that the scenery outside was flying by, obviously showing that the carriage was moving much faster than before.

    The horse carriage became faster, but the road was very smooth, which was a bit strange.

    Kennard and Sophia stretched their heads out the window and looked down on the ground under the horse carriage.

    The grey t road kept rolling under the wheels and looking forward, they found that the same grey road stretched all the way to the horizon. There were countless horse carriages that were moving along this road, looking very lively.

    ¡°This should be the public road, right?¡± Kennard pointed at the road under them as he asked Hannas.

    ¡°Un, it should be.¡± Hannas was currently looking out the other window, also looking at the smooth road, ¡°This is my first time seeing it. Xu Yi described this road to me before in his letters, saying how smooth it was, but after seeing it now, I¡¯ve realized that this road is smoother than I imagined.¡±

    ¡°Un, it has far surpassed my expectations.¡± Kennard said with a nod, ¡°I thought that your ?Anvilmar Times¡¯? report had exaggerated the situation with the road because I didn¡¯t believe that there would be a smooth enough road in this world that would allow a horse carriage to not feel a single jolt. Looking at it now, your report actually didn¡¯t describe it well enough. With this road, traveling conditions will be much better.¡±

    Hannas said with a sigh, ¡°Before seeing this, I also never expected it. You have to know that after this road is finished, it will connect Banta City and Saltan City, which is a long sixty kilometers!¡±

    Kennard looked back in the direction of Saltan City and found that there were people working on the side of the road with unknown machines ced beside them.

    ¡°Those should be workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. This road was built with money from the Fersen Carriage Company and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is building it. It seems like after the Amrit Chamber of Commerce built the Falling Rain Road, their speed has increased quite a bit from their experience. I thought that this road would take more time than the Falling Rain Road, taking at least half a year to finish, but now I think it¡¯ll take less than a month to finish. Taking the total, it should be around three months.¡± Baron Hannas exined.

    ¡°This road isn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Kennard asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s notpletely unrted. Look, the magic machines those workers are using to build the road, those were developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the concrete that is used to make this road, the most important parts are the cement and the steel bars used, which are products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Kennard was even more surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only make magic machines? They still make these cement and steel bars?¡±

    Baron Hannas pointed down, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, the tires used by this horse carriage are also produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Kennard¡¯s expression became a bit strange, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce can step in these many industries, can they manage it all?¡±

    ¡°You can just ask Xu Yi when you meet him. At least right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can handle it and there hasn¡¯t been a problem yet.¡± Baron Hannas looked forward and suddenly said with a smile, ¡°Alright, you¡¯ll be able to see a novel thing soon.¡±

    ¡°What novel thing?¡±

    Kennard and Sophia stretched their heads out to look forward and saw a small creek in the road in front of them. There was arge bridge over the creek and beside the bridge, there was a tall gate like building that was blocking the road.

    No matter which side of the door it was, there was a long line of horse carriages there that seemed to be waiting for something.

    Sophia looked at it and suddenly pped her hands, ¡°I know, this is the toll booth that many people haveined about, right?¡±

 Volume 2 78 - Different scenes of Banta City

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 78 Different scenes of Banta City</strong>

    Even though they were far away from the toll booth, there was still a deep look of disdain and hatred on Sophia¡¯s face.

    Kennard and Baron Hannas were happily discussing with each other, not caring about her at all. Rather they were discussing the fact that the toll of fifty silver coins per horse carriage was still rather cheap.

    Seeing the two of them ignore her, Sophia finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore and gave a strong snort.

    ¡°Humph! Building a road is to make it more convenient for people to travel and he¡¯s actually taking money, it really is too much!¡± Sophia¡¯s eyes popped out and looked to be filled with righteous indignation, ¡°You were still praising that fellow Xu Yi, but I¡¯ve heard that the idea of the toll booth came from him, right? This person is actually this greedy, he¡¯spletely corrupted!¡±

    Baron Hannas and Kennard looked at each other before they couldn¡¯t help shaking their heads with smiles.

    ¡°Sophia, I want to ask you a question. The Fersen Carriage Company invested a total of over four hundred thousand gold coins into building this road. If they didn¡¯t take tolls, how do you think they would earn back this investment?¡± Baron Hannas asked.

    ¡°Why do they have to earn it back?¡± Sophia loudly said, ¡°Since the road is something that is good for so many people, everyone should be rushing to do it. Since the Fersen Carriage Company is willing to pay to build this road, many people will thank them for it and praise them for their good deed. Why do they need to build this toll booth and be cursed by so many people?¡±

    Kennard gave a sigh and shook his head as he said, ¡°Sophia, you¡¯ll be eighteen soon and you¡¯re no longer a young girl. Can you still think like a child from now on? Even if what you said is correct about how if the Fersen Carriage Company didn¡¯t build this toll booth, they would be doing a great thing and would be praised by many people, can you ask all thepanies in the kingdom to be this selfless? This clearly isn¡¯t something that is realistic. If everyone didn¡¯t discover the benefits of building roads, how manypanies do you think would be willing to pay for this thing?¡±

    Although Sophia didn¡¯t really understand worldly matters, she wasn¡¯t a fool. Of course she understood what Kennard meant, but she was still a bit unwilling.

    ¡°Four hundred thousand isn¡¯t considered much for thosergepanies, isn¡¯t it good for them to build roads for everyone to use for free? Theirpany¡¯s fame will be better and their business will be better.¡±

    ¡°No one¡¯s money came from falling out of the sky, based on what are you requesting others to selflessly make such a contribution?¡± Kennnard said, ¡°Other than that, four hundred thousand definitely is not a small amount. Even if the Fersen Carriage Company is a pretty goodpany in our kingdom, it would take quite a bit of courage for them to take out that much to make a road. Speaking of this, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman is quite bold, actually choosing to build a road at the same time as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Un, Xu Yi has praised chairman Pompeii in his letters to me. He said that although this person is easily shocked, his eyes are indeed worthy of praise.¡± Baron Hannas said with a nod. He turned to Sophia and said, ¡°Sophia, you said that many people were cursing the toll booths, but do you know that the one who should be taking the infamy is our noble king and not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Fersen Carriage Company?¡±

    Sophia was stunned, ¡°How is this rted to his majesty? It¡¯s not the majesty that had them take tolls.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right. To be honest, his majesty really did make them take tolls.¡± Kennard took over and said, ¡°This is because in building the roads and improving the travel conditions of citizens is something a ruler should do, but our kingdom¡¯s finances iscking and his majesty can¡¯t take out any money to build roads with. At this time, Xu Yi could give such a perfect method to solve this problem. To be honest, I really do admire him.¡±

    ¡°He just wants to rely on this thing to earn money, what is there to admire!¡± Sophia immediately disagreed.

    ¡°If he is just doing this to earn money, he wouldn¡¯t just charge a trivial fifty silver coins per horse carriage. If it was me, it would be very likely that it would be several times higher. This is because after the pleasant sensation of traveling on these roads, I think no one will be willing to travel on those broken gravel roads again.¡± Kennard said, ¡°Sophia, don¡¯t you agree?¡±

    Although Sophia really wanted to refute it, as they were traveling on this road without any jolts to her butt, it was countless times better than traveling on the gravel roads. She didn¡¯t have the conscience to refute this.

    Seeing that Sophia had nothing to say, Kennard smiled and didn¡¯t force her to admit her mistakes. He turned to the middle aged man who had been sitting there without making a sound and said, ¡°Uncle Hank, after we return to Anvilmar City, you have to advise father that we should also build several roads. I dare to guarantee that we will be able to earn quite a bit of money on these roads.¡±

    The middle aged man nodded with a smile, ¡°I had the same thought. After personally experiencing thefort of these roads, I have a very good view of the road¡¯s future prospects. I even feel that if nothing unexpected happens, in just a few years, our Lampuri Kingdom will be linked up by these roads.¡±

    ¡°If it really is like this, that would be great.¡± Kennard said in an emotional voice, ¡°If the roads can be like this, I can imagine that when kingdom is connected by roads, the roads will have countless horse carriages traveling back and forth. The kingdom will be lively when the timees.¡±

    Hearing Kennard, Baron Hannas, and uncle Hank begin discussing business, Sophia suddenly felt very bored. She pursed her lips and leaned out the window, looking at the scenery outside.

    At this time, she once again felt the benefits of the road.

    If it was the same bumpy gravel road from before, if she dared to stick her head out of the window like this, not mentioning the fact that she would be very dizzy, she might even bite off her tongue from the shaking.

    But now that she leaned out like this, even though she felt the faint shaking from the ss, it didn¡¯t affect her at all.

    Traveling on this smooth road, the horse carriage naturally traveled much faster.

    Not long after, Sophia saw arge sign at the side of the road. It waspletely blue in colour and there were two rows of letters written on it.

    Wee to Banta City.

    We wish you a wonderful time.

    Sophia was a bit surprised.

    They hade from Anvilmar and passed several cities, but this was the first city that they saw this kind of sign by the road.

    This sign was this eye-catching, it was hard for people to ignore.

    Just based on this, Sophia felt a bit better about this Banta City that she had never visited before.

    When the horse carriage entered the vicinity of Banta City, there were changes in the scenery around the road.

    When they were still in range of Saltan City, although there were farnds by the side of the road, there was still quite a bit of destend.

    Although it was better than the other cities that Sophia saw where there was only destend, whenpared to Banta City, it was quitecking.

    The horse carriage walked past the blue sign and they were weed by arge bright patch of yellow.

    Looking over it, the sides of the roads were covered in wheat.

    Because it was close to the fall harvest, the wheat had produced their wide ears and it covered the farndpletely, not leaving a single gap.

    Sophia was greatly shocked.

    When she was still at the Lampuri Royal Academy, she had taken some political and agricultural sses. She knew that the Lampuri had ack of people, so there was ack of people avable for farming, causing most of the fertilend to be deste.

    But at this Banta City that was clearly on the edge of the Lampuri Kingdom, a tried and true small city, it could open up all the farmingnd under its name and show her such a rich harvest.

    Sophia at first thought that this was a special example, but as the horse carriage continued heading towards Banta City, she found that the farnd on the sides of the road didn¡¯t change at all. It looked all the same in the distance, like every ce in Banta City that could be open was filled with wheat.

    ¡°So much wheat, can they even harvest it all?¡± Sophia couldn¡¯t help muttering to herself.

    ¡°How could they not harvest it all?¡± Baron Hannas said with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget that Banta City is the base of the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce and the agricultural magic machines have be poprized here. Not mentioning Banta City¡¯s farms, I¡¯ve heard Xu Yi mention that some farmers in Banta City have formed small harvestpanies and they¡¯re nning to help other people harvest in the surrounding cities.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again¡­..¡± Sophia muttered. She turned back to look out the window and she was so angry that she ignored Baron Hannas.

    But as soon as she looked out the window, she saw that there was a bigger sign by the side of the road in front of them.

    And on this giant sign, there was peerless beauty on it with bright eyes and shining teeth.

    This beauty had a pearl ne with pearls of the same size on her neck and there were two bright glowing amethyst earrings on her ears.

    Although the ne and earring looked very refined, being able to tell that it was precious jewelry with a single nce, they didn¡¯t cover the beauty¡¯s glow at all.

    It could even be said that these two pieces of jewelry only shined this brightly because they were on this beauty¡¯s neck and ears.

    ¡°What is that?¡± Sophia couldn¡¯t help pointing at therge sign in surprise as she asked this.

    Baron Hannas stuck his head out beside Sophia and took a look before revealing a bit of a confused expression.

    ¡°Sarank Jewelry, it will make women shine even brighter? Strange, young miss Still is actually not doing advertisement for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and is doing one for the Sarank Chamber of Commerce instead. What is going on?¡±

    ¡°Young miss Still? Is she the beautiful girl in the picture?¡± Sophia asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Right, is she beautiful?¡± Baron Hannas asked.

    Sophia looked at the approaching sign and couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°Un, she¡¯s truly beautiful. How great it would be if I could be this beautiful. But Hannas, this is a picture, is there really such a person who is this beautiful?¡±

    ¡°No, I can guarantee that young miss Still is even more beautiful in person.¡± Baron Hannas looked at the disbelieving Sophia and he revealed a teasing smile, ¡°I can also tell you something else about young miss Still.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Young miss Still is currently Xu Yi¡¯s girlfriend.¡±

    Sophia showed a wonderful expression on her face.

 Volume 2 79 - Why is everything related to him?

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 79 Why is everything rted to him?</b>

    The scene in the wheat fields was not the only difference Banta City had from other cities.

    Sophia¡¯s group of four went down the road and not only did they see many different Magic Harvesters moving through the wheat with high efficiency, they also saw beautiful houses made of small bricks ced where there wasn¡¯t farnd.

    These small bricks were finely made and ced together row by row, forming beautiful little residences.

    Other than this, they saw that the fifty meter wide river outside Banta City had countless people working on the banks. They were transferring stone like things to the banks of the rivers, but it was unknown what they were doing.

    They saw in many deste ces, there wererge factories erected there that also had many people busily working on something.

    When the horse carriage finally entered the Banta City gates and they saw the lively crowd outside the carriage, Sophia couldn¡¯t help being surprised. She said in a shocked voice, ¡°Why are there so many people here? Isn¡¯t Banta City just a small city? Why do I feel that there are even more people here than in our Anvilmar City?¡±

    Baron Hannas looked outside the horse carriage before saying with a smile, ¡°For a small city that only had fifty thousand people to suddenly have more than two hundred thousand people, it¡¯s not strange if there are this many people. Of course, being honest, Banta City still has less people than our Anvilmar City. You have to know that ording to thest census, Anvilmar City had over five hundred thousand people.¡±

    ¡°But two hundred thousand people isn¡¯t small.¡± Sophia was still very surprised, ¡°A city with this many people can be considered arge city in the kingdom. Hannas, why are there suddenly so many people in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°The reason is very simple, it¡¯s because there are many work opportunities in Banta City. It could be said no matter whoes here, they can find work that will satisfy them. You have to know that ifrgepanies employ someone without any skills, the lowest wage they will receive is around ten gold coins per month.¡± Baron Hannas replied.

    ¡°Ten gold coins per month?¡± Sophia thought about it before asking Kennard, ¡°Is that a lot?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s quite a bit. Even if it is a normal worker in Anvilmar City, they only receive around six gold coins per month as a wage.¡± Kennard nodded, ¡°So for Banta City to suddenly have all these people, it isn¡¯t strange at all. Sophia, you should know that many people in our kingdom can¡¯t eat their fill. They can fulfil that need with just one job and they can earn a sry of over ten gold coins per month, that is a very satisfying thing for many people.¡±

    Sophia thought about it before finding it a bit strange.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right, Anvilmar City is the kingdom¡¯s capital, so the sry of the workers there should be the highest. How can Banta City¡¯spanies give people such a high starting sry? Do they have too much money?¡±

    ¡°Then you should go ask Xu Yi.¡± Hannasughed, ¡°Because that fellow is the first one to give such high wages, so thepanies in Banta City had no other choice and had to give their workers the same high wages, or their workers would have all been stolen by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Why is it rted to that fellow again?¡± Sophia muttered in a dissatisfied voice, ¡°Is everything in Banta City rted to that fellow?¡±

    Hannasughed, ¡°You¡¯re right. No matter what you see in Banta City right now, it is most likely rted to him. Who told the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have this much influence in Banta City right now.¡±

    ¡°Humph! I don¡¯t believe it.¡± Sophia pursed her lips and looked out the window, pointing at a store and saying, ¡°Look, that can¡¯t be rted to him, right?¡±

    Hannas looked at where Sophia was pointing and found that it was a woman¡¯s clothing store.

    Looking at the sign of the store, Hannas broke out inughter.

    ¡°Ha, ha, Sophia, I¡¯m afraid that you¡¯re wrong. Although that store sells women¡¯s clothing, that store sells the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. Just a while ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped the Armani Chamber of Commerce develop a Magic Loom, which all of the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cloth products are made off. Tell me, is this rted to Xu Yi?¡±

    Sophia¡¯s eyes popped out as she stared at the women¡¯s clothing store until it disappeared from the sight of the window. She indignantly turned back and looked right at Hannas and Kennard who were secretlyughing as she said with a cold snort, ¡°This Xu Yi, he really is too despicable! Why is he everywhere!¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sophia, do you really hate him this much? Then let me tell you some unhappy news. If nothing happens, in less than twenty minutes, you will be meeting him.¡±

    ###

    Twenty minutester, carriage of the four turned stopped at a quiet little alley in the west of the city.

    The four of them got out of the horse carriage and Sophia looked up at the beautiful little two floor house in front of her, revealing a surprised expression.

    ¡°That detestable fellow¡¯s ce is quite good. But since he has that much money, why doesn¡¯t he buy a manor outside of the city? Isn¡¯t it better than living here?¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi is a very frugal fellow. Based on what I¡¯ve seen, he doesn¡¯t care at all about his daily necessities, so normally he lives quite economically.¡± Hannas said, ¡°He was living in a small rented room before and I think that if it isn¡¯t because of Vivian, he wouldn¡¯t have changed to living in this small house.¡±

    ¡°Who is Vivian? This sounds like a girl¡¯s name. Doesn¡¯t he have young miss Still as his girlfriend? Why would he buy this small house for Vivian? Could it be that he is a disappointing fellow, ying around with this girl named Vivian even though he has a beautiful girlfriend like young miss Still?¡± Sophia immediately asked.

    Hannas didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. He couldn¡¯t help tapping down on Sophia¡¯s head as he reprimanded, ¡°What are you thinking? Vivian is a ve that he bought who is fifteen this year, she isn¡¯t even as old as you. Xu Yi has always treated her like a little sister.¡±

    ¡°Humph, he sees her as a little sister now, but it won¡¯t be the same in another two years.¡± Sophia muttered in a low voice. Seeing Kennard ring at her, she quickly closed her mouth and didn¡¯t dare say anything else.

    But in her heart, she had painted Xu Yi as someone who liked to y with ves and also trash who liked to cheat.

    Hannas ignored Sophia¡¯s thoughts and saw a figure moving on the second floor. It seemed like someone was home, so he called out.

    After a while, there were footsteps that came from inside the door. The door opened and a young and pretty face popped out.

    ¡°Hey, Vivian, after not seeing you for a few months, you¡¯ve grown quite a bit and you¡¯re much prettier than before.¡± Hannas raised his hand to greet her.

    Vivian looked at Hannas and immediately remembered him. She quickly gave a respectful bow, ¡°Hello Lord Baron. For you to suddenly show up today, do you need master for something?¡±

    ¡°Of course, if I¡¯m not here for him, why would Ie all the way here from Anvilmar City?¡± Hannas replied with a smile. He moved aside and allowed Vivian to see the three people behind him, ¡°Help me tell Xi Yi that I¡¯ve brought three friends to meet him.¡±

    ¡°Alright, Lord Baron. You and your three friends cane in first and I¡¯ll go tell master you¡¯re here.¡±

    Vivian led the three of them into the living room and poured some tea for them before excusing herself, running up the stairs.

    Seeing Vivian disappear up to the second floor, Sophia finally turned her eyes that had been staring at her away. She turned to Hannas and said with a voice filled with praise, ¡°She is Vivian? Why do I feel that she isn¡¯t like a ve at all?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why do you think that?¡± Hannas was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Because she looks so pretty and she has a bit of an aura, like the young miss of a noble family. How could she be a ve? Could it be that she¡¯s the daughter of a poor noble family? That isn¡¯t right, even if they are poor, they wouldn¡¯t let their daughter be a ve, right?¡± Sophia said in a confused voice.

    ¡°I never thought that your thoughts were thisplex. Vivian has always been a ve, the reason why she became like this was because after Xu Yi bought her, he had carefully trained her. When I saw her for the first timest year, she was just a normal looking little girl. I never thought that in less than a year, she would be this beautiful and her aura would even change. It has to be said, Xu Yi really is willing to pay to train her.¡± Hannas said.

    ¡°Humph, spending this money on a ve, it¡¯s definitely to satisfy his own wicked desires.¡± Sophia said with pursed lips.

    ¡°Sophia, mind your words!¡± Kennard suddenly said in a sharp voice,¡± If you don¡¯t change your attitude, you can go back tomorrow with uncle Hank, you won¡¯t be allowed to stay here.¡±

    Kennard actually pampered his little sister Sophia quite a bit, rarely speaking to her in a sharp voice. Sophia knew that once his tone became like this, it meant that he really was angry.

    So Sophia could only obediently stick out her tongue and give an un sound before not making another noise.

    After a while, there was a set of heavy and soft footsteps on the stairs.

    The soft ones were Vivian who had just gone upstairs and the heavy ones were Xu Yi.

    Hannas, Kennard, and Hank all suddenly got up.

    Sophia had been silently drinking her tea, but seeing the actions of the three, she woke up and quickly put down her teacup. She obediently stood up and looked towards the staircase.

    Although Sophia had heard Xu Yi¡¯s name from Hannas and Kennard countless times and had some understanding of this person from their discussion, even forming an image of Xu Yi in her mind, but no matter what, it couldn¡¯tpare to seeing him herself.

    Sophia¡¯s eyes were wide open and her face was covered in expectation and curiosity.

    A pair of feet appeared on the staircase first before long legs wearing normal cloth clothes. Then there was an upper body that had arge frame, but was rather thin, wearing an ugly blue linen shirt.

    Finally the face appeared.

    Sophia looked at it and she felt very disappointed.

 Volume 2 80 - Hannasâ€™ disciple

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 80 Hannas¡¯ disciple</strong>

    Although Sophia from hearing Hannas and Kennard continue to discuss Xu Yi and praise him, she had an inexplicable hatred for him, for a young girl like Sophia, even if it was a great viin, he should be someone with majesty and a strong presence.

    After all, even if Sophia hated Xu Yi, she had to admit that this was a man with very strong abilities, otherwise Hannas and Kennard wouldn¡¯t have praised him so much.

    Since it was a man with such powerful abilities, even if he wasn¡¯t handsome, he should be someone with an overwhelming aura or it wouldn¡¯t match his abilities.

    But when she came face to face with Xu Yi, Sophia found that her fantasies had beenpletely shattered.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s face was considered handsome still, the clothes he wore didn¡¯t show any presence at all. Rather it made him look quite normal, throwing him into the inconspicuous pile.

    What made it harder for Sophia to ept was that it seemed like this fellow hadn¡¯t showered in several days. Not only was his hair a mess like a chicken coop, there were spots and lines of ink that were on his face and in his hair, making him look quite disheveled.

    Moreover, his lips werepletely pale and didn¡¯t contain a trace of blood. Adding in the tworge circles around his eyes, he didn¡¯t seem to have any energy, just like he waspletely dispirited.

    What surprised Sophia was that even though there were two ck circles around them, his eyes were still bloodshot and they had a glow that scared people. Just by looking at them, it made people want to look away.

    ¡°Is this person really that capable?¡± Sophia couldn¡¯t help muttering in her heart.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, Hannas was first surprised before understanding what happened. He came forward with a smile and forcefully patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder as he asked, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, have you been studying something newtely? Can you tell me what it is? Let me enjoy it first.¡±

    Xu Yi pinched the bridge of his nose with his finger and recovered some energy. He looked at Hannas and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Why are you back again? You didn¡¯t inform me ahead of time and prepare something.¡± After saying this, he looked at the three people in the living room and nodded to them, ¡°Hello. Since you are Hannas¡¯ friends, there is no need to be polite. We can sit and talk.¡±

    The four of them sat down again and Xu Yi took a warm towel from Vivian to wipe his face before strengthening his body with magic. He cast a Spiritual Awakening Spell on himself and forced himself to return to normal.

    Like Hannas had said, for the past three days, he had been attacking this problem without stopping. His sleep in total over the past three days didn¡¯t surpass eight hours, so he was indeed quite exhausted.

    But after seeing the other three people, he knew that the talkter wouldn¡¯t be something casual, so he forced himself to wake up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, hello.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi was prepared to look over, Kennard took the initiative to stick out his hand as he said with a smile, ¡°Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Kennard Emma, she is my little sister Sophia Emma, and this is Hank Wilson.¡±

    ¡°Emma?¡± Xu Yi shook Kennard¡¯s hand and thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Are you rted to the Emma Family?¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°The Emma Family¡¯s current head is our father.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a look like he had expected this and looked over at Hank Wilson before saying, ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, this mister Wilson should be someone important from the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu truly reacts quickly.¡± Kennard gave augh, ¡°That¡¯s right, uncle Hank is one of the vice chairman of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, currently he¡¯s in charge of purchasing goods for thepany.¡±

    ¡°Purchasing goods?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help taking another look at Hank Wilson.

    Xu Yi immediately mentioned the name of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce after hearing the Emma name because many people in the kingdom knew that not only was the Emma Family one of thergest families in the kingdom, they were also the secretrgest shareholder behind the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    This Hank Wilsoning with the family head¡¯s son and daughter, looking this close and he had the special astute aura that only belonged to merchants, which meant that he was rted to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    The Walmart Chamber of Commerce mainly dealt in groceries, so goods purchasing was a rather important role. This Hank Wilson was in charge of this department, so his position in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was probably higher than the other vice chairmen.

    Of course, if his position wasn¡¯t high enough, how could he be called uncle by the biological son of the Emma Family¡¯s family head.

    ¡°Hello chairman Xu.¡± Only now did Wilson stretch his hand out to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi shook his hand before asking Kennard, ¡°I wonder, what business does young master Kennard have foring to Banta City with the Lord Baron anding to find me?¡±

    Kennard waved his hand and said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to be this polite. I am a good friend of Hannas who grew up with him and since you have a good rtionship with him, you can also treat me as a normal friend. As for my trip to Banta City this time, to be honest, it was to meet you.¡±

    ¡°Meet me?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused. He looked over at Sophia who had been looking over him with a curious gaze and said with a smile, ¡°Is there anything special about me?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Kennard gave a certain nod, ¡°Even in Anvilmar City, one can still frequently hear news about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, Hannas has frequently mentioned you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to me. After listening to him for a long time, I¡¯ve be very curious. Chairman Xu, just what kind of person are you? For you to make a proud fellow like Hannas praise you like this. It was a good thing that I wanted to take a break during this time and Hannas wanted toe to Banta City to see you, so I took this chance toe with him.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, showing he understood. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°But young master Emma¡­..Un, alright, I¡¯ll just call you Kennard. Kennard, on your trip here with young miss Sophia and mister Wilson, what do you specifically want to see?¡±

    ¡°Actually, on the way, I¡¯ve already seen quite a bit.¡± Kennard had a look of praise on his face, ¡°It has to be said, I am very surprised with the current changes in Banta City. Thirteen years ago, I came to Banta City once with my father. The impression Banta City left back then was a quiet and peaceful remote little town, but on my trip this time, I¡¯ve found that some shocking changes have appeared in Banta City, which has surprised me quite a bit.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually the Banta City construction n has just begun. If youe again in another two years, I guarantee you wouldn¡¯t even be able to recognize Banta City anymore.¡±

    ¡°I believe it.¡± Kennard said with a nod, ¡°Banta City can attract this many people to rush here for work, so it¡¯s not strange if all these changes urred. Chairman Xu, on the way here, I heard Hannas say that the Banta City renovation n was proposed by Count Sean and you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are the ones in charge of it?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Notpletely. I¡¯m just giving Count Sean a bit of small advice, the final decision is still held by Count Sean. Other than this bit of work, ourpany is just providing some magic machines and materials. The ones doing most of the work is the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Kennard¡¯s expression showed that he clearly didn¡¯t believe it, but he didn¡¯t keep asking about this. After pausing, he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, can you agree to a request from me?¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°I am very curious towards you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I really want to see how you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will change the entirety of Banta City. So¡­..for the next few days, can I follow you and observe how you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce work?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before he turned to look at Hannas.

    The request that Kennard made was the same as the one that Hannas had madest year.

    Could this fellow be a disciple that had learned Hannas?

    Hannas spread his hand with a helpless look on his face, showing that this was not rted to him.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately reply, Kennard continued, ¡°Chairman Xu, please be assured, I just want to take a look and I don¡¯t have any other ns. I guarantee that I definitely will not hinder you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s work and unless you agree, I won¡¯t look at anything I shouldn¡¯t look at.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and felt that this matter was a bit troublesome.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different fromst year when Hannas visited. Much of the work Xu Yi did involved secrets and if he allowed this Kennard to follow him, there would be many inconvenient times.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m different from young master Kennard. I came to Banta City this time to meet you to discuss the possibility of cooperation between the Walmart Chamber of Commerce and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so don¡¯t mind me.¡± Hank Wilson on the side suddenly said.

    These words on the surface was to separate him, but with Kennard¡¯s request, the meaning behind his words were clear.

    Xu Yi considered it and after hesitating a bit, he nodded to Kennard, ¡°Alright, but Kennard, you have to guarantee that you¡¯ll follow my arrangement if you follow me, understood?¡±

    Sophia couldn¡¯t help ring at him.

    Wasn¡¯t this Xu Yi being too arrogant?

    He was just the chairman of a smallpany and he dared to speak to her big brother like this, he simply didn¡¯t know what was good for him!

    Kennard immediately used his eyes to stop Sophia and said with Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Of course. I just want to take a look, as for how it is done, we¡¯ll follow chairman Xu¡¯s arrangements.¡±

 Volume 2 81 - Xu Yiâ€™s work

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 81 Xu Yi¡¯s work</h4>

    Xu Yi brought Kennard on his first job. It wasn¡¯t researching Magic Arrays, going to the magic machine workshop to conduct research, nor was it going to work at the factory, rather he brought him to arge piece of farnd outside the city.

    Right now it was the fall harvest and Banta City wasn¡¯t an exception, as the fall harvest began just likest year.

    But it wasn¡¯t likest year where everyone had toe out to work on the farnd. Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines had be popr and with the farmer support n, many normal farmers had agricultural magic machines. So the fall harvest was mainly left to the agricultural magic machines to finish and it didn¡¯t take that much manpower. It didn¡¯t dy the city renovation n and the efficiency was much higher than before.

    Xu Yi brought Kennard to a baron¡¯s territory to the north of the city. When the two of them arrived, there were several dozen small Magic Harvesters quickly moving across the farnd in the territory.

    In just the blink of an eye, arge patch of the dense wheat in the field had been cut down and there were many bags of packed wheat on the side.

    ¡°Hey, Baron Nazr, it seems like you¡¯ll be able to finish the harvest by today?¡± Xu Yi came to a middle aged man of around forty by the side of the field and greeted him.

    Baron Nazr turned to look at Xu Yi and the smile on his face became even brighter. He said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, it seems like it won¡¯t be a problem to finish the harvest today. Luckily we had the help of the agricultural magic machines from chairman Xu¡¯spany. Otherwise, I wouldn¡¯t be able to finish even if I had several hundred more people.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and epted Baron Nazr¡¯s praise without any politeness. He looked at the Magic Harvesters moving through the field and asked, ¡°Are there any problems with the machines?¡±

    ¡°No problems at all.¡± Baron Nazr shook his head, ¡°Then again, even if there are small problems, with chairman Cantona and his helpers here, they can solve it themselves.¡± After pausing, Baron Nazr asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, why did you suddenlye here? And these two are¡­..¡±

    Baron Nazr¡¯s eyes fell onto Kennard and Sophia who were looking over the fields and Xu Yi exined, ¡°These two are friends of Baron Hannas and they came here together with him from Anvilmar City to y. I came this time because I have something to discuss with chairman Cantona.¡±

    ¡°Is it rted to him bringing people to other cities to help with their harvests?¡±

    ¡°Un, he is bringing all those agricultural magic machines away from the city, so there are many things to pay attention to that I have to remind him of.¡±

    Baron Nazr couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°You can just send someone else to contact him about this, there¡¯s no need for you to personallye.¡±

    ¡°There are quite a few things to take note of, so they might not be able to exin everything.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for you toe here. You can just contact him and have hime find you. You are the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there¡¯s no need for you to personally handle this small matter.¡± Baron Nazr didn¡¯t seem to approve of Xu Yi¡¯s actions.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a faint smile, ¡°The customers are gods. Since chairman Cantona purchased products from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then ourpany has to provide service to him. No one is an exception to this, even the chairman like me.¡±

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I have also bought many products from yourpany and I am also your customer, so am I also a god? Speaking of this, can I call you to my house for a service call at any time?¡± Baron Nazr said with a smile.

    Of course Xu Yi knew that Baron Nazr was joking, so he replied with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s a real pity Baron Nazr, ourpany divides post sale service based on scale. There are few things that require the chairman like me to personally head out, so I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t have that chance.¡±

    Baron Nazrughed before pointing at a field in front and saying, ¡°Alright, go and find chairman Cantona. He¡¯s over there.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before turning back to Kennard and asking, ¡°Do you want to listen to my conversation with chairman Cantona?¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°The matter you¡¯re discussing will involve secrets of yourpany, so I won¡¯te with you.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no secrets, but it¡¯s fine if you don¡¯te. The field is rather dirty and while it¡¯s fine for the two of us, young miss Sophia might not want to go.¡± Xu Yi nodded before heading off in the direction Baron Nazr pointed out.

    After Xu Yi left, there were only Baron Nazr, Kennard, and Sophia standing by the field.

    Baron Nazr looked over the two of them curiously.

    Xu Yi said that these two people were Baron Hannas¡¯ friends, but Baron Hannas wasn¡¯t here, so why were the two of them following Xu Yi?¡±

    Noticing Baron Nazr looking at them, Kennard looked away from the Magic Harvesters moving in the field and nodded to Baron Nazr with a faint smile. He gave a simple introduction before pointing to Xu Yi talking to a person that looked like a farmer and asked, ¡°Lord Baron, does chairman Xu normally personally handle these matters?¡±

    Baron Nazr shook his head, ¡°You heard what he said just now, there aren¡¯t many things that he personally needs to handle. There are too many things the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to do now, if he were to personally handle each matter, even ten of him wouldn¡¯t be enough to keep up.¡±

    Kennard nodded before asking, ¡°Then can you tell me, what does this chairman Cantona do? Why does chairman Xu have to personallye and meet him for this matter?¡±

    Baron Nazr looked at Kennard in surprise, not understanding why he was interested in this matter. But thinking about it, he still answered.

    ¡°Cantona¡­..Actually he was just a normal farmer from a vige outside the city, but he earned a bit of money from participating in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s farmer support nst year. Then he united a bunch of farmers that had participated in this n and owned agricultural magic machines into a singlepany, specializing in harvesting fields for people.¡±

    ¡°Then this Cantona must have quite the mind for business.¡± Kennard praised.

    ¡°Hei, this fellow¡¯s mind is quite nimble, he¡¯s not like a normal farmer.¡± Baron Nazr said with a nod, ¡°As for why chairman Xu personally came here¡­..It¡¯s just like chairman Xu said, there are too many things to pay attention to and other people wouldn¡¯t be able to describe it clearly. Then again, chairman Xu was the one who gave Cantona the idea of going to other cities to help with the harvest, so chairman Xu puts a bit of importance in this matter.¡±

    ¡°It was chairman Xu who suggested that they take agricultural magic machines to other cities to help with the harvest?¡± Kennard was a bit surprised, ¡°I thought that this chairman Cantona thought of it himself, I was actually admiring him for having such good thoughts.¡±

    Baron Nazrughed, ¡°I¡¯ve said before that Cantona is just a normal farmer, him being able to unite the farmers together into apany is already good enough, how could he have thought this far ahead. Before he just wanted to do business in our Banta City and the nearby Karma City and Saltan City, but chairman Xu reminded him that he could have even more business if he headed to further cities, so he made this decision. If we¡¯reparing farsight, how could hepare to chairman Xu?¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Lord Baron, you seem to admire chairman Xu very much?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Baron Nazr had a natural look on his face, ¡°Chairman Xu has established the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for just over a year now and has developed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into such a powerfulpany, he¡¯s very powerful just based on this. Moreover, it is because of him that suchrge changes have happened in our Banta City in just a year and many people¡¯s lives have be much better. I wouldn¡¯t understand too much if you asked me, but if you asked the farmers outside Banta City, I guarantee that they will all worship chairman Xu. For example, if you were to ask Cantona, do you believe that he would praise Xu Yi into the sky?¡±

    Kennard gave a soft nod. He looked at Xu Yi talking to Cantona in the distance as he narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

    Even Sophia on the side couldn¡¯t help taking a few nces at Xu Yi. But after looking for a while, she gave a snort and turned her head, looking in another direction.

    After around twenty minutes, Xu Yi came back.

    After saying goodbye to Baron Nazr, he left with Kennard and Sophia, taking the horse carriage back to Sandton Manor.

    When Xu Yi had just arrived, the chairman of the smallpanies of the Sandton Manor¡¯s industrial sector came in. They came to discuss the possibility of expanding production with Xu Yi, preparing to buy some more magic production machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Naturally this wasn¡¯t a difficult matter. Xu Yi asked them to present theirst month¡¯s sale and output numbers and when he learned that they hadrge orders, he agreed to their requests.

    But as for the chairmen who asked to produce more than one kind ofponent, wanting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to provide them the magic machines and training to do so, Xu YI rejected them.

    ¡°There is a phrase from my hometown, it¡¯s called biting off more than you can chew. From what I can see, although the quality of the parts yourpanies produce isn¡¯t bad, just reaching the standard, there are many ces where it can be improved. For example, the bearing disc that chairman Geta¡¯spany produces, although it can be used, the size of the hole inside each disc is not consistent. Last time I held an examination, thergest margin of error was three millimeters.¡± Xu Yi seriously said.

    Chairman Geta who had been called out by Xu Yi scratched his head and awkwardly said, ¡°I¡¯ll tell the workers to pay attention when I head back.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Paying attention to improving the level of the part you make is more important than producing another part. You should be clear that the parts with higher quality will receive more orders, even receiving a higher price. Chairman Geta, if the margin of error for the bearing discs that yourpany makes can reach one millimeter, then when our Frestech Chamber of Commerce buys from you, we¡¯re willing to increase the base price by another silver coin.¡±

    Chairman Geta¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a smile and didn¡¯t respond.

    Chairman Geta pped himself and spat out, ¡°Pei, when has chairman Xu not kept his words, I¡¯m speaking nonsense. Alright, chairman Xu, since you¡¯ve agreed to this, I will work hard on researching when I get back. I will definitely get the margin of error to one millimeter and satisfy your needs!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ll be waiting for your good news.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi agree with chairman Geta, the other smallpany chairmen didn¡¯t want to fall behind and all made the same request of Xu Yi.

    Naturally Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject them.

    As long as these smallpanies could raise their level in producing theseponents, he wouldn¡¯t mind raising the price a bit.

    The more important thing was that he hoped to invoke apetitive atmosphere between these smallpanies, allowing them to put in all their effort into increasing their level.

    For an industrial system, the technological level of producingponents was just as important or even more important than materials.

    Especially at a stage where high precision CNC routers hadn¡¯t appeared yet.

    [TL Note: CNC routers areputer controlled cutting machines.]

 Volume 2 82 - Aloof Walmart Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 82 Aloof Walmart Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    Kennard and Sophia returned to the residence that Baron Hannas had prepared for them at night and they felt iparably tired.

    Kennard was alright, but when Sophia removed her shoes, her feet were a bit swollen.

    Seeing the feet that had increased by a size, Sophia couldn¡¯t helpining, ¡°This Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be doing this to us on purpose, right? He ran all around for a day and he didn¡¯t rest at all, even discussing business during meals, isn¡¯t he tired?¡±

    Although Kennard felt tired, he was still better than Sophia. He sat down beside her and said with a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t strange, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed this quickly is mainly because of Xu Yi. For him to be this busy, it¡¯s quite easy to imagine.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡± Sophia muttered, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that he is like this every day, so busy that he isn¡¯t even able to eat properly. If it really is like this, I think he¡¯ll die from exhaustion eventually.¡±

    ¡°I think you¡¯re exaggerating too much.¡± Kennard tapped Sophia¡¯s head with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu seems to pay attention to exercising, so he¡¯s full of energy, how could he die from exhaustion so easily? Other than that, didn¡¯t you think it was very interesting following him around today? Not only did we hear something interesting like ¡®the customers are gods¡¯, we¡¯ve also learned about ¡®millimeters¡¯. Other than that, we¡¯ve met all kinds of people and have learned how to solve all kinds of problems. I feel that I¡¯ve learned more today than an entire month in Anvilmar City.¡±

    ¡°Humph, only you feel that way. I only came along just to see the legendary elves, but I didn¡¯t see a single elf today. So today didn¡¯t have any meaning to me at all!¡± Sophia pursed her lips and said this.

    ¡°Rx. Didn¡¯t chairman Xu say that the hundred elves have been sent to live in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Falling Rain Valley production base? He will go to the Falling Rain Valley eventually, you¡¯ll definitely be able to see them if you follow him.¡± Kennardforted her.

    ¡°I¡¯ll go when he goes to the Falling Rain Valley. I won¡¯t follow him starting tomorrow, I¡¯m tired just from a single day.¡± Sophiaid down on the bed and looked like she was too tired to move.

    Seeing his little sister show this weary form that she wouldn¡¯t show in front of outsiders, Kennard couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile. Then he looked down at the ground.

    In the living room downstairs, Hank Wilson was currently discussing something with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m representing our Walmart Chamber of Commerce to discuss the possibility of cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what does chairman Xu think about this?¡± Hank Wilson asked.

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°The Walmart Chamber of Commerce is one of the biggestpanies in our Lampuri Kingdom, for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to catch your eye and want to cooperate with us, it really is our honour. Only, How are you nning to cooperate with us?¡±

    ¡°I think chairman Xu should know that our Walmart Chamber of Commerce has always dealt in groceries and we currently have thergest grocery stores set up in every city of the kingdom, which includes all kinds of products. This time, we want to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in hopes of having yourpany¡¯s magic machines appear in our stores. What does chairman Xu think about that?¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before asking, ¡°This means that your Walmart Chamber of Commerce is nning to buy the household magic machines that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces and sell them in the stores under your name? The method of handling this will be like the other products of your store, is that your meaning?¡±

    ¡°Right, that is what I mean.¡± Hank said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I may be direct, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t been established for long and you don¡¯t have distribution channels that belong to you in other parts of the kingdom. I can proudly say that our Walmart Chamber of Commerce has the most perfect distribution channels in all of the kingdom, not missing a single one. If you choose to cooperate with our Walmart Chamber of Commerce, I can guarantee that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products will appear in every city of the kingdom within the shortest amount of time. I think like this, your sales volume will greatly increase, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very correct.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°The biggest headache for me right now is indeed distribution channels. The markets of Banta City and the surrounding cities are bing saturated and the sales volume of ourpany¡¯s household magic machines have been dropping. I¡¯m currently working hard on a way to solve this problem and have considered the possibility of working with yourpany, but I never thought that our smallpany would catch your eyes, so I gave up on this possibility. I never thought that you would take the initiative toe to me.¡±

    Hankughed before waving his hand and saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to be this modest. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is currently very famous in the kingdom and even his majesty has praised yourpany, so how could you not catch the eyes of our Walmart Chamber of Commerce?¡± After pausing, he then added, ¡°That means that chairman Xu agrees to cooperating with us?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why wouldn¡¯t I agree to something that benefits both of us?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Good, then I¡¯ve brought a cooperation n that chairman Xu can look over.¡± Seeing Xu Yi agree, Hank immediately took out a document from the bag beside him for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took it and after seriously reading it, he knit his brows slightly.

    This n was indeed the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation n, but the model that was written on it made Xu Yi very dissatisfied.

    ording to the described n, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose to cooperate with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, not only would they have to give priority to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, they also had to give them a preferential price.

    Although bulk purchases giving a preferential price was an unwritten rule of the market, what the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was asking for was too much.

    They actually wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give them a 30% discount on their opening price!

    This meant that with the price of a Variable Temperature Magic being thirty gold coins, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold it to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, the price would be twenty one gold coins! This was a difference of nine gold coins!

    Even though it currently cost the Frestech Chamber of Commerce less than ten gold coins to produce and they would still be earning over ten gold coins in profit, this was suddenly cutting their profits in half, which Xu Yi could never ept.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s currently produced household magic machines had such high profits because there wasn¡¯t apetitor right now.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, there would be all kinds of magic machinepanies that will appear in the Lampuri Kingdom like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then the profit margin of the magic machines would be as low as on earth.

    If they kept selling at 30% off, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would lose money!

    Xu Yi put down the proposal and after considering it, he asked Hank, ¡°Vice chairman Wilson, can I ask you something? Is this your final decision?¡±

    Vice chairman Wilson shook his head, ¡°Of course not. The so called proposal is just a n right now. Chairman Xu, is there anything you¡¯re not satisfied with? If there is, you can just tell me. The reason I can this time was just to negotiate with you.¡±

    ¡°Instead of asking me what I¡¯m not satisfied with, you should ask me what I am satisfied with.¡± Xu Yi said without any politeness, ¡°To be honest, vice chairman Wilson, I¡¯m very dissatisfied with this proposal. I even think that based on this proposal, your Walmart Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have any sincerity in cooperating with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Vice chairman Wilson knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do you think this? Of course our Walmart Chamber of Commerce is sincere in cooperating with you. Otherwise I wouldn¡¯t have speciallye here, even bringing young master Kennard and young miss Sophia to visit.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Let¡¯s not mention why Kennard and young miss Sophia came, let¡¯s just focus on this proposal. Vice chairman Wilson, do you understand what a discount of 30% means?¡±

    Wilson revealed a look of understanding and said with a smile, ¡°So chairman Xu isn¡¯t satisfied with the price. That is simple, we can discuss this. Of course, our Walmart Chamber of Commerce has to earn money as well, so I hope that chairman Xu won¡¯t be too excessive.¡±

    ¡°Excessive?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Actually he wasn¡¯t most dissatisfied with the price or the priority uses, rather this proposal from head to toe had the aloof attitude of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    Many lines in the proposal had the tone of an order, like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to agree with them and there was no room for leeway at all.

    Although from an objective analysis, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was a first sspany of the Lampuri Kingdom with the most powerful distributionwork, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had no distribution channels for their magic machines, it was a very advantageous matter to cooperate with them. However, Xu Yi very much didn¡¯t like this aloof tone and didn¡¯t like cooperations where the other side held all the power.

    ¡°Alright, we can discuss the matter of the priceter, butpared to the price, the partnership model is more of a problem.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious expression, ¡°This proposal states that we have to fulfill the needs of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce first, which I disagree with. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is not a factory under your Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name, so the products we produce cannot be given to just yourpany. So I cannot agree to this use.¡±

    ¡°But chairman Xu, ording to what I know, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce only produces around several tens of thousands of household magic machines each month and our Walmart Chamber of Commerce supplies to customers of all of the kingdom¡¯s cities. There is a need for hundreds of thousands of units and if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t supply us first, we won¡¯t be able to match the customers¡¯ needs and not only will it affect the prestige of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, it will also affect the customers¡¯ trust in your Frestech Chamber ofmerce. I think that you¡¯re not willing to see this, right?¡± Wilson paused before saying with a sincere expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, we can discuss the price, but as for giving us priority, there is no discussion.¡±

    Xu Yi looked very sincere, but he didn¡¯t fear Wilson at all. After thinking about it, he suddenly said with a smile, ¡°If you¡¯re worried about not satisfying the needs of the customers, I have a very good suggestion¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 83 - Household magic machine store

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 83 Household magic machine store</h4>

    This autumn, the harvest of Banta City was not bad.

    Actually using ¡°not bad¡± to describe it wasn¡¯t right, it should be ¡°quite good¡±, ¡°very good¡±, or even ¡°so good that it was hard to believe¡± that would be more appropriate.

    This is becausepared tost year, after the fall harvest was over and everything was counted, the amount of wheat harvested was five hundred and seventy thousand tons. It was four times more thanst year¡¯s hundred and thirty thousand tons!

    Production of grain was very important to all the countries of the Sines Continent, but to the Lampuri Kingdom that had just recovered from their disaster, it was even more important.

    So after receiving the numbers, the Lord City Lord Count Sean was pleasantly surprised, so he specially called arge banquet and invited all the important people of Banta City.

    Of course Xu Yi was also invited.

    He wasn¡¯t willing to waste time on this kind of banquet, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines yed arge part in the sess of this autumn harvest, so Count Sean had invited him by name and naturally he couldn¡¯t refuse.

    The banquet began with an excited and lengthy speech from Count Sean. Then when it came to the free time part of the banquet, everyone went to find people they wanted to talk to.

    The Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank immediately came to find Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has shown off again. With how the Lord Count praised you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if anyone in Banta City wants to cause trouble for you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lord Count would be the first to go against them.¡± Chairman Rank said with a smile.

    ¡°The Lord Count has always supported ourpany.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course, this is all because of how useful the agricultural magic machines are, don¡¯t you think, chairman Rank?¡±

    ¡°Of course. This old man had experienced many famines, so I know for a person, the first problem they need to solve is how to fill their stomachs. Right now with the help of the agricultural magic machines, our Banta City can harvest much more wheat and let everyone fill their stomachs. This means that chairman Xu and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is doing a great thing. If someone dares to cause trouble for you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not mentioning the Lord Count, this old man wouldn¡¯t let them off.¡±

    After saying this, chairman Rank¡¯s eyes unknowingly moved over to Hank Wilson who was currently talking to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise not far away.

    Xu Yi followed his eyes to look at Wilson before revealing a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Rank, has the Walmart Chamber of Commercee to your Sarank Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Un, this Wilson came looking for me yesterday afternoon.¡± Chairman Rank nodded. Looking at Xu Yi, his expression became a bit strange, ¡°Chairman Xu, is it because you¡¯re not satisfied with the conditions of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce that you pushed him to us? I think that this Wilson wants to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most.¡±

    ¡°I just mentioned a new cooperation model to him.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°In the beginning, I was indeed dissatisfied with the conditions he gave. But when vice chairman Wilson began to worry about the production output of ourpany, I suddenly thought of this new method that everyone could benefit from. I think that vice chairman Wilson must have mentioned it when he came to see you?¡±

    ¡°Un, he said that your idea is to have the Walmart Chamber of Commerce set up a store for household magic machines and gather all kinds of different brands together, letting people choose what they want to buy?¡± Chairman Rank asked.

    ¡°Right, I did suggest this. What do you think of this model?¡±

    Chairman Rank slightly knit his brows and considered his words before thoughtfully saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t think that this is a very good method. You should be clear that the reason why ourpanies brought our Magic Fans to far off ces was because we couldn¡¯tpare to your Frestech Brand magic machines in Banta City or the surrounding cities. Now you want to put our household magic machines with your Frestech Brand household magic machines¡­...I¡¯m not afraid to say this, but if I was the customer, I would choose your Frestech Brand magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Thank you for your praise. But chairman Rank, you¡¯ve ignored an important problem. You can¡¯tpare to us in Banta City or the surrounding cities, although the quality is a reason, the main reason is that in Banta City and the surrounding cities, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has established a good reputation and everyone prefers buying our Frestech Brand magic machines. But the people of the other cities don¡¯t have this preference, so we are all at the same starting line.¡±

    Chairman Rank¡¯s expression didn¡¯t rx at all.

    ¡°But I have to admit that your Frestech Brand household magic machines have better quality than ours. Even if the people in the other cities don¡¯t know this at first, they will naturally understand afterparing them and we won¡¯t be able topete with you.¡±

    ¡°But isn¡¯t your price lower than ours?¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Actually in my opinion, the disparity in quality and performance isn¡¯t that big. If other people had the choice, there would be many people who would sacrifice a bit of quality and functionality for a cheaper price. So you don¡¯t need to worry about not being able topete with us.¡±

    Chairman Rank looked at Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression and couldn¡¯t help asking in a confused voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, we are yourpetitor, why are you thinking about us?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, I¡¯m making arge cake and I¡¯m not stealing the cake. When this industry is very, very big, not mentioning our Frestech Chamber of Commerce having our fill, even all thepanies in Banta City won¡¯t be able to have their fill. If everyonepetes with each other and hinders the growth of the industry, it¡¯s better to have goodpetition and develop together.¡± Xu Yi seriously said, ¡°In fact, I¡¯m prepared to release a bit of technology on producing household magic machines, allowing everyone to make household magic machines that aren¡¯t much worse than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s.¡±

    ¡°But you¡¯ll never give us all the technology that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has?¡± Chairman Rank said after seeing his chance.

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°Of course. If everything is given out, what will be left for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to feed ourselves with? Then again, leaving a bit of disparity gives everyone motivation to chase after us. Think about it, as long as you put in a bit of effort, you¡¯ll be able to surpass our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of household magic machines, how moving of a thing will that be!¡±

    Chairman Rank shook his head with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, should I call you generous or cunning?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not important how you describe me, the more important thing is that including you, chairman Rank, I want all of thepanies of Banta City to realize that I really want to develop this industry. Everything that I¡¯m doing right now is just working towards that.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious face.

    Chairman Rank gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, I can see it. Alright, since chairman Xu is nning to share more technology, I feel that if the Walmart Chamber of Commerce really makes a household magic machine shop, the otherpanies will be interested in participating.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If there are morepanies that participate, we can form a group to discuss conditions with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. In the end, we¡¯ll gain more advantages by discussing with them.¡±

    Chairman Rank looked at Xu Yi, ¡°It¡¯s more benefits for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°I won¡¯t deny that.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s good when everyone benefits, don¡¯t you think so, chairman Rank?¡±

    Chairman Rank helplessly shook his head and turned to leave, walking towards the Business Union members that were present.

    He came to find Xu Yi because he wanted to ask Xu Yi about this, but now that he knew what Xu Yi wanted to do, of course he went back to tell the otherpanies about this.

    Chairman Rank had just left and chairman Cruise had unknowinglye over.

    Looking at him, Xu Yi was surprised, but he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Cruise, didn¡¯t you go vacationing in the south? In less than a month, how did you be this ck?¡±

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s face was much darker, so the whites of his eyes were brighter. He snappily said, ¡°How could I have free time to take a vacation. I¡¯ve been running outside all this time and I¡¯ve been burnt ck.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking with a smile, ¡°So what happened in the end?¡±

    ¡°In the end?¡± Chairman Cruise revealed a very satisfied smile, ¡°The result was quite good. In going out for less than a month, I¡¯ve already signed agreements with four differentpanies. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce will be building seven different roads paid for by four differentpanies.¡±

    ¡°Seven roads?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°There are actually such boldpanies that are making more than one road?¡±

    ¡°You thought that the otherpanies are as poor as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Chairman Cruise was now quite close to Xu Yi, so he could joke around with him without hesitation, ¡°The Falcao Chamber of Commerce ordered three roads at once, a carriagepany that¡¯s around the same size as the Fersen Carriage Company ordered two roads, and the other twopanies only ordered one road.¡±

    ¡°The Falcao Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi turned over and looked around the banquet hall, finding chairman Morgan quite quickly, ¡°Which three roads are they nning to build?¡±

    Chairman Cruise said the names and Xu Yi recalled a map in his mind, finding that as expected, those three roads connected the mines of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and it also connected to Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi calcted it, it would require building around four hundred kilometers to build these three roads.

    Compared to the Falling Rain Road and the Banka Road, this was arge amount.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce really was one of thergestpanies in the Lampuri Kingdom, when they made their move, it was this shocking.

    When chairman Cruise described the general situation of the roads to Xu Yi, he found that if those seven roads were finished, although it was far from linking up all the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom, it would rece arge number of important roads.

    It could be seen that the heads of thesepanies all had farsight, they chose quite appropriately.

    Xu Yi was naturally happy to see this.

    He even thought that the seven fourpanies and seven roads chairman Cruise had gotten was far from enough.

    If possible, he wished that all thepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom would all move, covering the Lampuri Kingdom with smooth roads. It would greatly increase the traffic conditions of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, Xu Yi knew that this was simply wishful thinking.

    He patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and praised him with a nod, ¡°You did well.¡±

 Volume 2 84 - Can you live past forty?

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 84 Can you live past forty?</strong>

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t juste to report his deeds to Xu Yi, he also wanted to make another order with Xu Yi, buying more road work magic machines for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, he wished that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would speed up their development, researching faster and developing new magic machines as soon as possible.

    He also gave Xu Yi a very detailed list, describing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s road and river construction, as well as the difficulties that they had faced.

    As for the ces that could be reced with magic machines, they were detailed out on the list. The meaning was that he wanted Xu Yi to study these problems first.

    Xu Yi looked over the list, but he didn¡¯t say that he would be able to quickly solve these problems.

    There was no other way, the capacity of the magic research facility and the magic machine workshop were limited and there were countless problems to solve. Even if Xu Yi had a bunch of mechanical engineering knowledge that he brought from earth, he needed to cooperate with these two sides to develop the magic machines.

    Chairman Cruise of course knew this, so he could only urge him and he couldn¡¯t say anything else.

    When chairman Cruise finished with his list, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii came to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    He came to ask Xu Yi about the toll booth that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ced on the Banka Road.

    The Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s road between Banta City and Saltan City was close to being finished. Although there were already toll booths on the road and they earned quite a bit from the tolls, this was the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s first time doing this, so chairman Pompeiicked confidence.

    ¡°Rx, her highness has already promised me that as long as his majesty is in power, the agreement we signed with the royal family will never change. You can just keep charging tolls, there¡¯s no need to worry.¡± Xu Yi was very clear on what chairman Pompeii was worried about, so his words were very direct.

    As expected, when he heard Xu Yi say this, the expression on chairman Pompeii¡¯s face rxed quite a bit.

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good. I always felt that taking tolls on roads the people used seemed like being a bandit, so I felt a bit unsettled. Hearing you say that his majesty supports this n, I feel much more assured. Even if we are bandits, we are bandits approved by his majesty, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, ¡°Who said that we are bandits? Do bandits pay to build roads? Rx, the people who are scolding us are just people who don¡¯t understand new things. I guarantee that in a few years, when this matter is all over the kingdom, everyone will be used to it and no one will be scolding us any longer. Just now chairman Cruise told me that they would be starting construction on another seven roads. When the seven roads also have toll booths, you can see if people still curse us.¡±

    ¡°Another seven roads?¡± Chairman Pompeii was instantly overjoyed. ¡°At this speed, wouldn¡¯t our Lampuri Kingdom be filled with roads in just a few years? If it is like this, this would really be a great thing for our Fersen Carriage Company. Chairman Xu, do you know that after the Banka Road was opened, our house carriages have been running thirteen more trips each day between Banta City and Karma City! If all the kingdom¡¯s roads are changed, then our horse carriage business will be much better than before!¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless as he stared at the easily agitated chairman Pompeii. If he was this excited from thirteen extra trips a day, if the engine was developed and he could run over a hundred trips a day, wouldn¡¯t he faint from his excitement?

    After talking about the matter of toll booths, chairman Pompeii asked Xu Yi if they should build another two roads, connecting Banta City to the further Canberra City and Norton City.

    Although Xu Yi was very interested in this proposal, right now the Banta City renovation project was ongoing, therefore he didn¡¯t know how to deal with these two roads. Then again the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was building another seven roads for four otherpanies, so they couldn¡¯t spare manpower to build these two roads, so he would postpone this proposal.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if chairman Cruise could learn from you and share the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s road building techniques, wouldn¡¯t there be morepanies building roads?¡± Chairman Pompeii said in a voice filled with pity.

    Xu Yi looked at him, thinking that his words might be referring to something. Thinking about it, he softly said, ¡°The technique is not important, the more important thing is people. Chairman Cruise¡¯s hair is turning white from his anxiety, but he still can¡¯t recruit enough people. Their Amrit Chamber of Commerce is taking more and more work, so they arecking more and more people. Otherwise why do you think that after going out for a month, he only epted the projects for seven roads?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Hisck of people is still alright. Right now there are people from all overing to Banta City, so sooner orter he can recruit enough workers. But our Fersen Carriage Company iscking horses right now and they have to be horses that have the endurance to run long distances. This thing is harder to findpared to people, my hair is turning much whiter than chairman Cruise¡¯s.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, showing that he couldn¡¯t help.

    Although with Xu Yi asking, Seveni had allowed the Fersen Carriage Company to buy the horses that couldn¡¯t be military horse,pared to the people flooding into Banta City and bring all kinds of goods, the military horses were just a drop of water in the mes, it was far from being enough.

    Xu Yi wanted tofort chairman Pompeii by saying that as long as he developed the engine, he would be able to solve the horse problem.

    But thinking about how difficult it was and how he hadn¡¯t made any breakthroughs so far, he couldn¡¯t say this no matter what.

    After sighing with Xu Yi for a while, chairman Pompeii left. Chairman Vincent from the Armani Chamber of Commerce who had been waiting on the side for a while immediately came over.

    Before chairman Vincent even said anything, Xu Yi cut him off, ¡°There¡¯s no need to urge me, I¡¯ve already had Camby and the others test the producing spindles and cradles. This is rather simple, so I think it¡¯ll take less than a week for them to figure out how to mass produce them. Then we just need to find one or two smallponentpanies to teach them the technology and then you can just directly order from them. As for the ring, the bead hoop, and the needle, you don¡¯t need to rush. Sooner orter there will be aponent factory that can solve this problem for you.¡±

    Chairman Vincent was stunned before giving satisfied nods, ¡°I know that chairman Xu is reliable, but today I have some other matters to discuss with you today. There¡¯s another thing¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing chairman Vincent talking to Xu Yi in the distance, Count Sean shook his head and said to Kennard beside him with a smile, ¡°Look, that kid is actually this busy.¡±

    Kennard said with a faint smile, ¡°I already know this. After following chairman Xu for the past few days, even I¡¯m tired from just following, so I can imagine just how busy chairman Xu is.¡±

    ¡°Actually this kid can only me himself. With how developed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is, he doesn¡¯t need to be this busy. He can just safely and honestly develop those magic machines and sit at home while collecting money, so why is he doing this to himself.¡± Count Sean said.

    ¡°Lord Count, isn¡¯t this a veiled way of praising chairman Xu?¡± Kennard revealed a smile, ¡°If chairman Xu had such short sights and had no ambitions at all, would you support him like this?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Count Sean said in a certain voice, ¡°Actually, this kid has brought many pleasant surprises to me and helped me solve quite a few problems. If it wasn¡¯t for him, Banta City wouldn¡¯t be developing this quickly, this speed has even surpassed my expectations. But because of how involved he is, I¡¯m quite worried for him. First not mentioning how he has more things to do and more problems to deal with, just by making himself this busy, his body won¡¯t be able to take it eventually.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°There is no need to worry about his body, chairman Xu should soon be a Seventh Grade Magician. If he can keep setting aside time to study magic, he should be able to be a Great Magician by the age of forty. After bing a Great Magician, his body will be greatly changed by the magic particles and his lifespan will be much longer. You don¡¯t think that he can¡¯t even reach forty, right?¡±

    ¡°Forty years old?¡± Count Sean suddenly gave a sigh and looked at Xu Yi in the distance with worry in his eyes, ¡°This kid has caught the attention of many people. I¡¯m worried that if he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce keeps growing, he might step on the nerves of some people. No, not perhaps, this will definitely happen. So I really can¡¯t guarantee that he¡¯ll live to forty years old¡­..¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Isn¡¯t there someone as important as the Lord City Lord protecting him? Not to mention that her highness also supports him. With the protection of you and her highness, he doesn¡¯t need to worry about this at all.¡±

    ¡°Her highness¡¯ admiration and support? This isn¡¯t necessarily a good thing for him¡­..¡± Count Sean looked to the north where Anvilmar City was. After thinking for a bit, he turned to ask Kennard, ¡°For you to suddenlye here, does it mean that your father has made his decision?¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°Lord father hasn¡¯t made his decision yet, but the good news is that he¡¯s revealing his thoughts, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have let mee here.¡±

    Count Sean gave a slight nod, ¡°Just a bit of thought is enough. You are already here and have made contact with Xu Yi, it doesn¡¯t matter what your father is thinking because the main thing is what others see.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°I am not big brother.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Count Sean revealed a smile, but he didn¡¯t n on continuing with this topic. He looked at Xu Yi in the distance who had finished talking to chairman Vincent and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Then what about you? Have you made your decision?¡±

    Kennard also looked at Xu Yi as he said with a faint smile, ¡°I also haven¡¯t made my decision yet. But after being with him for a few days, I also have some thoughts. As for whether I can make a decision in the end or not, that will depend on my further observations.¡±

    ¡°I hope that you can make your decision soon.¡± Count Sean said with a nod, ¡°That kind Xu Yi is too busy, so busy that he hasn¡¯t even had time to spend time with Still, which is not a good thing. If there was someone to help him and take a bit of it for him, that would be great.¡±

    Kennard smiled without saying anything.

 Volume 2 85 - Magic Machine Business Union

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 85 Magic Machine Business Union</strong>

    Three dayster, Hank Wilson left Banta City.

    In these three days, he had meetings with manypanies of Banta City.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Wilson reached a preliminary agreement with thepanies that produced magic machines, including the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He was prepared to open a magic machine shop that would sell all different brands of magic machines that included the Frestech Brand.

    This agreement was not only beneficial to the rather small magic machinepanies, that allowed them to gain a stable distribution channel. Even to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was currently thergest magic machinepany, it also brought great benefits.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wascking distribution channels the most right now, so the Walmart Chamber of Commerce taking the initiative to partner with them was what they wished for.

    The reason for pulling in the otherpanies, the main concern was making the Walmart Chamber of Commerce give up on getting first rights to supplies.

    Also for this deal, chairman Rank had specially formed a Banta City Magic Machine Business Union, which would be an association for all thepanies rted to magic machines in Banta City. If the Walmart Chamber of Commerce wanted to do business with the entire Banta City magic machine industry like this, they could just go through the union.

    Because the sales of Magic Fans for the otherpanies were good in other ces of the Lampuri Kingdom, there were manypanies that had given up on making magic machines in Banta City that regained their hope. Adding in the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling the technology for the Magic Kettle, there were manypanies that rejoined the magic machine industry.

    In the small Banta City, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were already twenty three magic machinepanies! This also included powerfulpanies like the Sarank Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    This was just thepanies producing magic machines, there were also otherpanies that were rted to magic machines. For example, the sixty seven smallpanies that madeponents or Cantona¡¯s farmerpany that used agricultural magic machines to help people harvest their crops¡­...

    With all thesepanies added together, they numbered over a hundred!

    This proposal from chairman Rank obtained the support of most of the over a hundredpanies, so once the Magic Machine Business Union was formed, their scale almost surpassed the Business Union.

    Although this Magic Machine Business Union only managed matters rted to magic machines and it didn¡¯t have the same influence as the Business Union, it was still arge group in Banta City¡¯s business world, so its influence wasn¡¯t weak.

    Once the association was formed, naturally they had to pick a president to represent them. As for candidates, other than Xu Yi who had rmended chairman Rank, the rest of thepany representatives had all rmended Xu Yi.

    This was actually quite natural.

    The magic machine industry can be considered something made by Xu Yi and since this association dealt in magic machines, it meant that he couldn¡¯t avoid this responsibility.

    So Xu Yi didn¡¯t make any excuses and took the role of president.

    As soon as he became the president, Xu Yi immediately raised motions.

    First, he announced an industry standard.

    This standard affected all aspects, since there was a safety standard and a production standard. Whether it was thepanies making magic machines or the smallpanies that were just making parts, it affected them to a certain extent.

    Thepanies that joined the Magic Machine Business Union found that if they were to follow the industry standard that Xu Yi had announced, the factories under them would have to make quite arge change to meet these standards.

    Even though the association had just formed and it wasn¡¯t convenient for people to refute Xu Yi, it didn¡¯t mean that there weren¡¯t veiled criticisms.

    However Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about them at all, he just took out another set of standards to exin. Then he announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be selling magic machine technology to thergepanies that joined the Magic Machine Business Union, as well as adopting the patent method of selling like with the Magic Kettle. As long as they joined the association, they could buy it.

    After this announcement, the objections in the association all disappeared and everypany showed their intention of buying.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold the Magic Kettle technology, there were manypanies that had made Magic Kettles of quite outstanding quality. It was greatly weed whether it was Banta City or the other cities, so manypanies had earned arge amount from them.

    After tasting this sweetness, when thesepanies heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling their technology, naturally they wouldn¡¯t give it up.

    Because Xu Yi announced this, not only did all thepanies in the Magic Machine Business Union fill with excitement, even thosepanies who had chosen not to join the Magic Machine Business Union began to regret it, as they all began requesting to join the Magic Machine Business Union.

    In just a short time, Xu Yi¡¯s prestige in the Banta City¡¯s magic machine industry surged again. So when he took the position as the president of the Magic Machine Business Union, no one questioned him.

    ¡°Are you using carrot and stick here?¡± Still was panting a little since she had been jogging, as she asked Xu Yi this with a smile.

    Right now the sun was rising from the east, the bright sunlight fell onto Still¡¯s face that had a slight blush since they had been jogging, making her seem even more charming.

    Behind her ear, there beads of sweat dripping down her face and her slender neck. She was simply like a flower that was covered in dew in the morning at this moment.

    Xu Yi looked over and was instantly stunned.

    Before this, because Still went to Anvilmar City to attend a jewelry conference held by the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, she hadn¡¯t been in Banta City.

    Yesterday afternoon, Still finally came back from Anvilmar City and immediately came to find Xu Yi before even putting down her luggage.

    But when she saw Xu Yi, she was scared by how pale and tired Xu Yi looked.

    After asking Vivian, Still knew that not only was Xu Yi working during the day, he was also studying at night, so he made himself this tired. She was immediately angry and without another word, she stole the blueprint in Xu Yi¡¯s hands and forced him to go to sleep.

    After Xu Yi slept for two hours, he had dinner with Still. After that, Still stopped him from working and when the sky turned dark, she forced Xu Yi into bed, only leaving after she saw him fall asleep.

    So this morning, Xu Yi woke up much earlier because of how early he went to sleep.

    When he was thinking about using this chance to have a run since it was still this early, Still arrived at his door while wearing a set of exercise clothes.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was out of bed, Still threw the exercise clothes that she had prepared to him and had him change. Then she pulled him out of the house and began jogging together.

    Still wasn¡¯t that in shape and she didn¡¯t have a habit of running. She had done all of this for Xu Yi, so not long after they ran out of Banta City¡¯s city gates, she was already panting and covered in sweat.

    But when her appearance fell into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, it revealed a kind of beauty that mesmerized him.

    Not hearing Xu Yi respond, Still looked over in confusion and saw Xu Yi staring at her in a daze. Her face was covered in a blush again, but her heart was very happy as she asked, ¡°Do I look good?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi was stunned as he came back to his senses. He immediately nodded and said with a smile, ¡°Very good. Still, do you know that I¡¯ve had a dream before that there would be a beautiful girl jogging with me in the morning each day? Then I would have the motivation to keep up with my morning jobs. I never thought that on ear¡­.Un, this never happened before in the past, but now I¡¯m so happy that my heart is about to jump out.¡±

    Still broke out inughter, but because she hadn¡¯t caught her breath yet from running, she broke out in coughs.

    When she finally calmed down, she red at Xu Yi, ¡°You don¡¯t need to be this exaggerated, right? Isn¡¯t it easy if you want to run with a beauty, I¡¯lle with you every day then. If you¡¯re not satisfied, you can also drag along Vivian. I can see that her body isn¡¯t good either, she also needs to exercise.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course that¡¯s good. With thepany of a beauty, a boring thing like jogging will be interesting and it¡¯s easier to maintain this habit. But Still, to have me get up this early, I also have to sleep early. Without you supervising me, I¡¯m afraid I won¡¯t be able to sleep early. Could it be that you¡¯lle and watch me sleep every night as well?¡±

    Still was stunned before her face turned red. She didn¡¯t respond to Xu Yi at all, as she sped up and ran past him, running into the distance.

    Xu Yi was confused and wanted to call out to Still to ask why she¡¯s running so fast, but he quickly reacted.

    When he asked hisst question, it was too easy for people to misunderstand, no wonder Still¡¯s reaction was suddenly this strange.

    But Xu Yi thought about it and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    As long as he could marry Still, this question wouldn¡¯t be a mistake and it would be natural.

    Looking at Still who had run far away, Xu Yiughed. He forcefully stepped off and moved faster, as he quickly chased her.

    This slow morning job had turned into a quick race because they kept chasing each other.

    The two were far from Banta City and were about to leave its borders, but they took a circle and arrived at the river to the north.

    The river was still being improved, but the banks hadpletely changed, with tworge patches of grass on either side.

    The two had been running fast for a long time, so they were panting.

    Seeing that Still wasn¡¯t slowing down, Xu Yi slowly stopped and shouted to Still, ¡°St¡­.Still, stop¡­..Stop, I¡­..I can¡¯t run anymore.¡±

    Still slowed down and slowly stopped.

    She turned to look at Xu Yi bent over and panting. Still came over with a smile and patted Xu Yi¡¯s back as she proudly said, ¡°What, you can¡¯t catch me?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up. Because of the angle, the first thing he saw was Still¡¯s two peaks trembling from her gasping for air.

    No matter how calm Xu Yi¡¯s heart was, he couldn¡¯t stop it from skipping a beat at this moment.

    Although he suppressed his urge to grab them, he couldn¡¯t stop his desires. He suddenly stood up and opened his arms, tightly holding Still.

    ¡°Caught you!¡± Xu Yi loudly shouted.

    Still was scared before she couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°You¡¯re a cheat.¡±

    ¡°How could one not be a cheat when chasing girls?¡±

    Xu Yi hugged Still and felt Still¡¯s two tall peaks pressed against his chest, which made his throat even more parched.Seeing the blush on Xu Yi¡¯s face, feeling the heat and power that came from Xu Yi hugging her, and smelling the breath that came out of Xu Yi¡¯s nose, Still seemed to sense something. She stoppedughing and her face turned red with shyness, but she didn¡¯t lower her head like any other girl, rather she raised it and moved her lips towards Xu Yi¡¯s lips.

    Xu Yi naturally lowered his head without any reservations.

    When the two were about to kiss, there was an angry roar that came from beside the river.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you bastard! Even if I die and turn into a spirit, I won¡¯t let you off!¡±

 Volume 2 86 - Danger of the river

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 86 Danger of the river</strong>

    Xu Yi and Still were surprised at the same time, turning in the direction the sound came from.

    Xu Yi was very annoyed. He had a good atmosphere with Still just now, he was about to get a morning kiss, but this fellow had disrupted him.

    And this fellow couldn¡¯t scold anyone else, he had to scold him by name. How could he take it?

    Xu Yi let go of Still and walked over to the source of the sound with a frown.

    He really wanted to see which fellow was this blind.

    Who would have thought that when he walked over, there would be a ¡°putong¡± sound like something had fallen into the water.

    Xu Yi was shocked, as he turned to look at Still who was also shocked as they both shouted ¡°this is bad¡±. Without caring anymore, they used the Floating Wind Spell and flew over the river.

    When the two flew over the river and looked down, they found that in the broad river, there was something that was floating down it.

    While floating, that person was actually calling out for help.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling angry and finding it funny.

    All people who tried tomit suicide really were impulsive and when it came to death, they would regret it.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, as he flew down. He grabbed the back of that person¡¯s clothes and pulled him out of the river.

    He dropped that person on the side of the river. That person rolled on the ground several times and vomited out several mouthfuls of water before calming down.

    When he finally caught his breath, he looked up at Still and Xu Yi in front of him as he kept thanking them, ¡°Many thanks for saving my life, do you live around here? What are you called? I¡¯lle and thank you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over this person and found that while he looked quite sorry from being soaked in the water, this person¡¯s clothes showed that he didn¡¯te from a poor background. Also based on his actions and words that were very proper, he didn¡¯t seem like someone who would jump into the river because they were poor.

    Then he remembered that this fellow had scolded him before jumping in. Xu Yi found this funny as he asked, ¡°You were scolding me like that before and now you don¡¯t recognize me? Then again, not mentioning being able to recognize me, you can¡¯t even recognize Still?¡±

    Still didn¡¯t have time to react to Xu Yi¡¯s praise. She bent down and looked at that person as she coldly asked, ¡°Why did you scold Xu Yi? How has he offended you?¡±

    That person looked at Still in a daze before looking up at Xu Yi. Because the two of them had their backs to the sun, he wasn¡¯t able to recognize them. Now that he had changed his angle, he instantly recognized the two of them.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t wrong at all. As someone from Banta City, it was fine for him to not recognize Xu Yi, but it was impossible for him not to recognize Still.

    After he recognized the two of them, it was like that person had been shocked. With his hands on the ground, he pushed himself back several meters.

    When Xu Yi and Still both had strange expressions and wanted to keep questioning him, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and pointed at Xu Yi as he shouted, ¡°Xu Yi! You are Xu Yi! You bastard! Give me back my ships!¡±

    Xu Yi was even more confused. Looking at this person that was clearly angry, but didn¡¯t dare approach him out of what seemed to be fear, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, I don¡¯t even know who you are, how can I return your ships? Then again, I don¡¯t know anything about your ships to begin with, so what can I return?¡±

    Still looked at that person with knitted brows for a bit before suddenly pping her hands and saying, ¡°Oh, I remember now. You seem to be the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. You¡¯re called¡­..You¡¯re called Porter what again?¡±

    ¡°Cim Porter.¡± That person clearly never thought that Still would recognize him, so he was a bit surprised. The anger on his face faded as he said with a bitter smile, ¡°I never thought that after bing like this, young miss Still would still recognize me. That¡¯s right, I am the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, but the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡­..no longer exists.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still, hinting to her to talk to this Cim Porter first.

    Still gave a nod and thought for a bit before asking Cim Porter, ¡°Chairman Porter, I remember that thest time I met you was at the banquet held by the Sarank Chamber of Commerce. If my memories aren¡¯t wrong, your Porter Chamber of Commerce mainly deals in water transportation, right?¡±

    ¡°Young miss Still truly has a shocking memory.¡± Cim Porter praised, ¡°That¡¯s right, our Porter Chamber of Commerce mainly deals in water transportation, but now¡­..¡± After saying this, Cim Porter looked at Xu Yi with a look filled with hatred, ¡°.....But because of chairman Xu, ourpany couldn¡¯t get any business and was forced out of business. My beloved fleet was also sold off and they might have already been turned into boards by now.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman Porter, yourpany being forced out of business, how is this rted to me?¡±

    ¡°How is it not!¡± When replying to Still¡¯s questions, this Cim Porter was still calm, but when he heard what Xu Yi said, he immediately exploded. He said in a loud voice, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce building that damn road and if it wasn¡¯t for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce regting upriver, how could ourpany not have any business? How could it have been closed? It was all because of you! You dare say it isn¡¯t rted to you?¡±

    Xu Yi was very confused, ¡°I still don¡¯t understand, building the road and regting the river, how is it rted to your Porter Chamber of Commerce not being able to get any business?¡±

    Cim Porter red at Xu Yi and found that this wasn¡¯t the right way to keep talking to him, so he took two deep breaths and forced himself to calm down.

    ¡°You really think it¡¯s not rted, chairman Xu?¡± Cim Porter gave a coldugh, ¡°Let me tell you, it¡¯s very much rted! Before your Frestech Chamber of Commerce built that damn road, whether it was cargo or people, it was much faster to travel on the river than on the road and you could transport more at once. So before, almost half of the cargo in Banta City was transported by our Porter Chamber of Commerce. Then after you built that damn road, everyone found that it was faster to travel bynd and they could directly transport it to ces, so they didn¡¯t need to use ships. Like this, naturally there were lesspanies that chose to ship with ourpany.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right, river transport can transport bulk cargo and this isn¡¯t something thatnd transport can match yet.¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice.

    ¡°Bulk?¡± Cim Porter gave another coldugh, ¡°Did you forget the other reason I mentioned?¡±

    ¡°Controlling the river?¡± How is that rted?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Cim Porter pointed at the river flowing beside them and said, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is controlling the upstream at the northwest side of the Falling Rain Forest. You¡¯ve corrected the flow of the river, but the sediment is no longer stuck in the Falling Rain Forest, but rather has flowed to Banta City. Look closely at the river, can¡¯t you see that it¡¯s much muddierpared tost year?¡±

    Xu Yi and Still looked at the river at the same time. Xu Yi still hadn¡¯t found a problem, but Still said with a nod, ¡°Un¡­..I wouldn¡¯t have noticed it if you hadn¡¯t mentioned it. Compared to when I was younger, the river doesn¡¯t seem as clean.¡±

    Cim Porter gave a loudugh, ¡°Ha, chairman Xu, have you found the problem? Now that the sediment from upriver has flowed to Banta City, it doesn¡¯t just make the river muddier. Let me tell you, I have sailed these waters for several decades, so I¡¯m very familiar with these matters. I can guarantee that in less than a few years, the river level will rise because of the sediment. When that timees, there only needs to be a single storm for there to be a flood. I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve started something called the bank project, turning the two banks into a flower garden. Ha! Flower garden? When the floodes, this ce is more likely to turn into a graveyard!¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit as he walked over the river. He reached out a hand and used his magic, gathering a current out of the water and creating a ball of water in the air.

    Xu Yi and Still both looked up at this two meter wide giant ball of water and found that the colour of the water was quite muddy. The ball of water had stopped flowing because it was controlled by Xu Yi, so naturally there was ayer of silt that formed at the bottom of the river.

    The two looked at each other and saw the worry in the other person¡¯s eyes.

    Although Cim Porter was just saying things to scare people, based on the water situation of the river, this was indeed something to consider.

    The technology level of the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t high and the hydraulic engineering level wasn¡¯t high. No matter where a flood urred before, the consequences were all very dire.

    The river hadn¡¯t ever flooded before, so the people of Banta City never considered this problem, but looking at it now, this was a problem that was right in front of their faces.

    Xu Yi turned to look at Cim Porter and gave a nod to him before saying with a serious face, ¡°Thank you.¡±

    Cim Porter was stunned. He never thought that even though he was using such malicious words with Xu Yi, Xu Yi would actually give him sincere gratitude.

    ¡°Thank me for what?¡±

    ¡°Thank you for noticing the change with the river and telling me about these possible grave oues.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Although this can¡¯t be considered me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s responsibility, it is rted to me, so I have to take responsibility. So I want to thank you. If it wasn¡¯t for you bringing my attention to this matter, I¡¯m afraid it would have already been toote when a problem urred.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, Cim Porter¡¯s expression changed several times. After a while, he became depressed and waved his hand as he said with a sigh, ¡°Forget it, ourpany being shut down is all because my ability isn¡¯t good enough, it can¡¯t be med on you. It was wrong for me to scold you like that, please don¡¯t take it to heart.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s a small matter. But chairman Porter, what are you nning to do now?¡±

    ¡°Me?¡± Cim Porter gave a bitterugh, ¡°I don¡¯t even have a fleet and thepany¡¯s closed, what can I do? I don¡¯t even have the courage to kill myself, so I¡¯ll just find some work and feed myself while waiting for death.¡±

    ¡°That is not certain.¡± Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°Chairman Porter, if you believe in me, I have some work that is very suited to you. I dare to guarantee that it won¡¯t take much time before everyone focuses on the river. When that timees, I can help you build a new fleet. Are you¡­..willing to believe in me?¡±

 Volume 2 87 - You must treat the root cause if you treat a problem

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 87 You must treat the root cause if you treat a problem</strong>

    ¡°Control the river?¡± Count Sean knit his brows and looked out the window at the river before saying in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Xu Yi, you don¡¯t suspect that Cim Porter is deceiving you because of his grudge?¡±

    ¡°He can lie to me, but the water situation won¡¯t lie.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I didn¡¯t pay attention to this before, so I never noticed it. But after being reminded of this by chairman Porter, I¡¯ve carefully observed the situation and asked many fishermen about this matter, they¡¯ve all said that there were visible changes with the river during this time.¡±

    ¡°This change might not mean¡­..¡± Count Sean suddenly took a deep breath and shook his head before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°I was wrong. Since I am Banta City¡¯s City Lord, this is something that I should consider. You¡¯re right, since there is a hidden danger with the river, we should prepare for this ahead of time.¡±

    Count Sean lowered his head to think before calling for an aide, having him summon someone who was familiar with the situation of the river.

    When the aide left, Count Sean thought for a bit before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°If what this Cim Porter said is true and we really need to control the river, there will be a problem.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Count Sean spread his hands and said with a bitter smile, ¡°This is an old problem, there¡¯s no money.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He already expected this as he said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, since I was the one who brought up this matter, then our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will take care of it. But Lord City Lord, we have to agree on something before this. Managing the river is something that kingdom officials should be responsible for and I can help solve this problem, even help you pay for this, but we must make it clear that this amount is not an investment from ourpany. So the City Lord¡¯s Manor must return our money and give uspensation.¡±

    Count Sean helplessly shook his head, ¡°Although I know that what you said is reasonable, can¡¯t you give me the City Lord some face? Alright, you¡¯re right. Managing the river is my responsibility and as for returning your money and giving youpensation, we can talk about thatter.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, not continuing with this question with Count Sean.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could lose a bit of money from this,pared to earning the trust of Count Sean, he could handle this small loss.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi¡¯s main goal wasn¡¯t this. Compared to the interest that he could earn in the end, this bit of investment could basically be ignored.

    After solving the problem of money, there weren¡¯t any other problems.

    After a while, the official in charge of the river was called and Count Sean asked him about the situation of the river. After confirming that the river had indeed changed, he ordered him to perform a serious inspection of the river and detail what needed to be fixed in a detailed report.

    As for requests to Xu Yi, other than money, they also required some magic machine, which Xu Yi agreed to.

    Other than this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had experience upstream and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was responsible for the river project outside the city, so the Amrit Chamber of Commerce naturally couldn¡¯t be excluded.

    Only Count Sean needed to discuss with chairman Cruise and this was unrted to Xu Yi.

    After their initial talks, Xu Yi left the City Lord¡¯s Manor. Still came to wee him.

    Xu Yi was surprised to find that Sophia was actually following behind Still and looked at her with an expression of worship.

    As expected, Kennard was by Sophia¡¯s side.

    ¡°What did the Lord City Lord say?¡± Still asked Xu Yi.

    The Lord City Lord said that this matter is very important and he has already started convening people to deal with this.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°As for me, it¡¯s the same as before. I¡¯m taking out money and manpower.¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile and took Xu Yi¡¯s hand as she said, ¡°It¡¯s good that the Lord City Lord treats this matter as something important. I think that since they could change the river upstream, there¡¯s no reason why they can¡¯t clean up the sediment here.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t anything hard, but the problem is that these are only temporary solutions and not solutions for the root problem.¡± Xu Yi turned to look to the northwest.

    This was here the Falling Rain Forest and the upstream river was.

    Agnes had appearedst year because the river in the Falling Rain Forest was blocked with sediment, causing the flow of the river to change.

    After a year of fixing it, the Falling River Forest¡¯s river was nowpletely controlled. There were stable cement banks constructed on the sides of the rivers, forcing the river to return back to its normal flow, solving the problem of water for the Night Song Tribe.

    But this was also a temporary solution and not solving the root problem.

    If they couldn¡¯t stop the sediment flow problem, no matter how they controlled the river downstream, it was no use in the end.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi called out.

    ¡°Agnes,e out, I have something to ask you.¡±

    Still wasn¡¯t surprised, but Kennard and Sophia on the side were a bit confused.

    Who was Xu Yi calling?

    When they had this question in their heart, there was a strange spatial distortion beside Xu Yi and Agnes appeared out of space.

    Kennard and Sophia were both surprised, with Sophia even gasping in shock.

    Then when they saw Agnes more clearly, the shock on their faces became even stronger.

    Sophia¡¯s eyes popped out in disbelief and she covered her mouth as she shouted, ¡°Elf! My god! It¡¯s actually an elf!¡±

    While shouting this, she pulled on Kennard¡¯s clothes, ¡°Big brother, look! It¡¯s an elf! Do you see it? An elf!¡±

    Kennard¡¯s expression was more calm than Sophia. He was only surprised for a bit before calming down and talking to Agnes with a friendly smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already heard that chairman Xu has a beautiful female elf following him, but I haven¡¯t seen her after all those days of following chairman Xu. If those rumours were false, I would have been very disappointed, but I never thought that I could see you today. Being able to see the legendary beautiful elves, it really has opened my eyes. Young miss Agnes, is it? I am Kennard Emma, I¡¯d like to extend my regards.¡±

    After following Xu YI for a while, although Agnes didn¡¯t like appearing in front of strangers, she wasn¡¯t as against contact with humans like before.

    Seeing Kennard greet her, Agnes gave a slight nod, ¡°Hello mister Emma, I¡¯m very happy to see you.¡±

    Sophia quickly jumped out and reached out her hand towards Agnes with an excited look. She said in a very friendly manner, ¡°Big sister Agnes, hello. I am Sophia Emma, I am his little sister. I really am too happy being able to see you! I¡¯ve heard of the legendary elves since I was young and I have always wanted to meet one. I never thought that I would see one today! I¡¯m so happy that I¡¯m about to faint!¡±

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi with a confused expression.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and exined, ¡°This is this little girl¡¯s way of expressing her happiness, it doesn¡¯t mean that she¡¯ll really faint.¡±

    Agnes gave a nod to show she understood and looked back at Sophia. After thinking for a bit, she didn¡¯t reach her hand out and just gave a nod towards Sophia, ¡°Hello young miss Emma, I¡¯m very happy to see you.¡±

    Still couldn¡¯t help whispering in Xu YI¡¯s ear, ¡°Hey, it can¡¯t be that you only taught her this greeting, right?¡±

    Xu Yi said in a small voice with a bitter smile, ¡°This is already very good, alright?¡±

    When teaching Agnes how humans interacted, what gave Xu Yi the biggest headache was having her understand how to use different greetings in different situations.

    This was because although elven greetings were meaningful and elegant, their greetings were also very monotonous or even straightforward. It wasn¡¯t like humans were there were countless ways to answer many questions.

    Xu Yi had put in all that effort, but he could only have Agnes learn what to say when she met strangers for the first time.

    Sophia didn¡¯t care at all about Agnes¡¯ indifferent attitude. She just excitedly looked at Agnes and chirped out a bunch of questions.

    Agnes just looked at her and didn¡¯t answer a single question. She just calmly said, ¡°The chairman wanted to ask me a question, I need to answer him first.¡± After pausing, she seemed to have thought of something and added, ¡°I¡¯ll answer your questionster¡­..alright?¡±

    Sophia was stunned before looking at Xu Yi. Although she wasn¡¯t willing, she could only agree and move back.

    ¡°Agnes, how much do you know about the situation upriver?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Agnes thought about it before shaking her head, ¡°I just understand a bit, it shouldn¡¯t be much.¡±

    ¡°Then tell me, isn¡¯t the area upstream being upied by the beastmen tribe?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It should be like this.¡± Agnes replied with a nod, ¡°I¡¯ve gone to the ck Rice Wastnds and there isn¡¯t much water there, so the only ces with water will have beastmen tribes.¡±

    ¡°Then that means the area upstream should bepletely upied by the beastmen tribes.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before suddenly revealing a smile to Agnes, ¡°Agnes, it seems like you and I need to go on a business trip.¡±

    When his voice fell, Xu Yi suddenly felt killing intenting from beside him.

    Turning over, he saw that Still¡¯srge eyes had already been narrowed.

 Volume 2 88 - I want to fly into outer space

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 88 I want to fly into outer space</strong>

    ¡°Ha, ha, charman Xu, with a beauty like young miss Still as your lover, don¡¯t you think there is quite a bit of pressure?¡± Kennard looked at the bitter smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face and he gave a softugh.

    Xu Yi looked at him and let out a breath before saying with a sigh, ¡°I think that you are the same. You have such a beautiful and lively little sister, it must be quite a bit of pressure on you.¡±

    ¡°Beautiful and lively?¡± Kennard¡¯s face twitched a few times before his smile also became bitter, ¡°I can ept the appraisal of beautiful, but as for lively¡­..I rather that Sophia wasn¡¯t this lively.¡±

    The two looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Just this between them made the two of them seem much more friendly.

    Afterughing, Kennard asked with a serious face, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do you care about controlling the river? This matter no matter what shouldn¡¯t be rted to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°It seems like that on the surface, but Kennard, have you ever thought of the benefits thate with controlling the river?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Benefits?¡± Kennard thought for a bit before saying with a frown, ¡°Other than preventing floods, are there any other benefits?¡±

    ¡°No, preventing flooding is just a basic requirement. The real benefit is that after controlling the river, river transport can y a more vital role.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°River transport?¡± Kennard knit his brows even more, ¡°Chairman Xu, it can¡¯t be that you want to help chairman Porter after seeing his bitter experiences, right?¡±

    ¡°That is only one reason. The real reason is that the current Banta City indeed requires river transportation.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Kennard, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce deals in groceries, so what is the most important thing to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°That is¡­..¡± Kennard hesitated a bit, ¡°It should be having enough inventory, otherwise uncle Hank wouldn¡¯t have added the condition of being given priority.¡±

    Xu Yi knew that Kennard was speaking for Hank Wilson, so he revealed a smile to show he understood before he kept asking, ¡°Then how do you guarantee that all the cities of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce have enough inventory?¡±

    Kennard thought about it before his eyes suddenly lit up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand what you mean. You¡¯re saying that transportation is important for business?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a look of praise, ¡°Right now Banta City is developing this fast, so it could be imagined that it would be producing countless different goods. Since it¡¯s like this, Banta City needs a powerful transport system to send out all this produced cargo.¡±

    Kennard nodded, ¡°Right. Like the magic machines that you and uncle Hank talked about, if all those magic machines including the ones made by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t sent out and they just remain in Banta City, it would create heavy losses.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if it¡¯s just money losses, but the key is that without the support of a transport system, it would be a strong hit to the developing magic machine industry of Banta City. There are many smallpanies that have spent most of their money on building these magic machines, so if they can¡¯t sell them out, it would beplete destruction for them.¡± Xu Yi honestly said, ¡°I always hoped that there would be manypanies rted to magic machines in Banta City, so naturally I don¡¯t want to see this happen.¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi for a while before suddenly asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, after observing you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a few days, I¡¯ve always wanted to ask you something.¡±

    ¡°Speak, it¡¯s not good to keep questions in your heart.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°I want to ask, why does it seem like many things you do aren¡¯t for yourself, but rather to trainpetitors for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current lead, you can easily take away the entire magic machine industry. Like that, whether it is you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you will receive arge amount of benefits and be so big that people will find it hard to imagine. So why don¡¯t you do this?¡±

    ¡°You want to know the real answer?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course. I hope that chairman Xu can honestly answer my question because it is rted to arge decision that I have to make.¡± Kennard said with a nod.

    Seeing Kennard¡¯s honest expression, although Xu Yi was a bit surprised, he still honestly answered after thinking about it, ¡°Actually before you, there have been many people who have asked me this question. I¡¯ll repeat for you again. I studied magic machines and created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at first for money, but now, it is no longer just that goal. Do you believe me?¡±

    Kennard nodded without hesitation, ¡°I do. If you did it just for money, there are many things that you¡¯ve done that couldn¡¯t be exined.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re willing to believe this.¡± Xu Yi gave a smile before continuing, ¡°Since it¡¯s not for money, of course there is another goal, or rather it should be called a target. My target, or rather the closer one, is to let people enjoy the benefits of magic machines. I want to improve the quality of life of everyone on the Sines Continent and give everyone better lives.¡±

    ¡°This is only the closer target?¡± Kennard was a bit surprised, ¡°Then what is your further target?¡±

    ¡°The further target is to increase the magic and technological level of the Sines Continent and create arge change in the world. Not only will people be able to live on every part of the continent, they will be able to enter the bottom of the seas and fly in the sky. Even going to¡­..outer space.¡±

    ¡°Outer space?¡± This was a strange word that Kennard was hearing for the first time, ¡°What is that?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the sky and asked Kennard, ¡°You can see it now. There are clouds floating in the sky, but do you know what is above those clouds?¡±

    Kennard raised his head and looked at the untouchable sky before shaking his head.

    Although Wind Attributed Magicians have flown up very high before, up until now, there has never been a magician that has touched the clouds. Not to mention a ce above the clouds.

    ¡°Let me tell you, there is a ce even above the sky. It is iparably big, bigger than you can ever imagine. And in that space, separated by an incredible distance, there is a continent that is like the Sines Continent. I want to go to outer space and go see that continent in outer space because perhaps I can find my real home on that continent.¡±

    Seeing the inexplicable depressed expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Kennard was very confused.

    First not mentioning how Xu Yi knew that there was an endless void, what did he mean by him being able to find his true home on that continent?

    Could it be that calm and cool chairman Xu was actually a poet?

    Xu Yi was lost in thought as he stared into the sky. When he looked down, he looked back at Kennard.

    He saw Kennard¡¯s surprised face, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on exining, so he asked with a smile, ¡°How about it, do you know why I¡¯m training mypetitors? It¡¯s because I want this industry to develop as quickly as possible to ensure that I achieve my dream while I¡¯m still alive.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, thinking that chairman Xu¡¯s dream really was crazy.

    But it¡¯s said that everyone that achieved great things was a bit crazy in the end.

    Right now, chairman Xu was someone who had achieved great things.

    Thinking of this, Kennard made his decision in his mind.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, to realize your dream, it¡¯s not possible to do it alone. I think you need some helpers.¡± Kennard said, ¡°I¡¯ve heard Hannas say that you always wanted to hire someone to manage the general affairs for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­..Eh¡­..A general manager, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise as he nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am indeed looking for a general manager to take some work for me, but I¡¯ve never found the right candidate.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile and pointed at himself, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think I can be the general manager?¡±

    Although he had guessed it from Kennard¡¯s attitude, Xu Yi was still surprised when he heard Kennard say it.

    ¡°Kennard, you are the eldest son of the Emma Family¡¯s head, how can you work for ourpany?¡±

    ¡°I am not the eldest son, so I don¡¯t have session rights. Moreover, I don¡¯t have a title now, so there is no problem for me to enter the business world and be a merchant. In fact, the family has trained me since I was young to be a merchant and when I was fourteen, I¡¯ve already begun handling some matters for the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. Up until six months ago, I was the assistant to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman and was handling all kinds of small andrge matters in thepany. Chairman Xu, do you think that¡­..this kind of me is qualified to be the general manager of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Kennard asked.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded without any hesitation, ¡°But I¡¯m very unclear on why you want to be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general manager. With your identity, if you want to enter the business world, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce is clearly the better choice.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you just told me your dream and I also have a dream. Although my dream is not as big as yours, there is something inmon, which is that I hope to change the world with my power. I cannot see that hope in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, but at your ce, in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can see that hope. So I want to grab that hope and give my best effort to truly change the world.¡±

    Seeing Kennard with his honest and serious expression, Xu Yi fell silent.

    With Kennard¡¯s identity, his training from the Emma Family, and his experience in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, he was indeed very qualified to be the general manager.

    Although he was still a year younger than Xu Yi, in terms of business, he had more experience than Xu Yi.

    For such a person to want to be the general manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was beneath his skills.

    Xu Yi wanted to agree, but he was still worried about a few things.

    ¡°You are still someone from the Emma Family in the end and must return to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. If you work at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is basically a waste of time.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, although I was born in the Emma Family, that does not mean that I will be fettered by that family forever. The reason why I had Hannas bring me here was to see if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could give me the possibility of my dream of leaving the family. Now that I¡¯ve found this possibility, do you think I would let it go?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi looking like he was considering it, Kennard then said, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually I already received my father¡¯s approval beforeing this time, so you don¡¯t need to worry about pressure from the Emma Family. Other than that, you wouldn¡¯t lose anything from hiring me as the general manager, right? Even if I do leave, at least during my time here, I can contribute to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I believe that I¡¯m capable of achieving that. Since it¡¯s like this, what is chairman Xu worried about? Could it be¡­..you don¡¯t even have a bit of courage?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and thought for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t try to push me. Alright, since you¡¯re willing to be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general manager, then for this time, you will enter a probation period. I must remind you that although you have an outstanding background and experience, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is different from the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, so things will be done differently. If you can¡¯t do it, don¡¯t me me for not giving you face and directly dismissing you.¡±

    Kennard revealed a grin, revealing his shiny, white teeth.

    ¡°Please be assured, I definitely will not give you the chance to dismiss me.¡±

 Volume 2 89 - Adjusting the salary

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 89 Adjusting the sry</strong>

    Every action of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was closely paid attention to by many people in Banta City and the surrounding cities, so once the news came out that Kennard would be the general manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it created arge uproar.

    What people cared about first was Kennard¡¯s identity.

    It¡¯s said that Kennard was a blood rted junior from the Emma Family. ording to tradition, even if he wanted to go into business, he should enter the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. So why was he working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Next they cared about the meaning of the words ¡°general manager¡±.

    General manager? There wasn¡¯t a singlepany on the Sines Continent with this position, so what did it do?¡±

    ¡°The work of a general manager¡­..it¡¯s actually quite simr to a chairman. They are mainly in charge of managing the matters of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, like internal working arrangements, negotiations with otherpanies, and other duties. Of course, this doesn¡¯t mean that you have authority in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather you are helping me manage thepany.¡±

    For this matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even held a press conference.

    At the press conference, Xu Yi gave the same exnation.

    The reporters of the major newspapers there carefully thought it over and felt that although the name of general manager was very strange, the work it did was like the vice chairman of many otherpanies. It was just helping the chairman manage thepany, so it didn¡¯t feel that strange and they started paying attention to another issue.

    Although Kennard Emma came from the Emma Family and was known for being trained at the Walmart Chamber of Commerce since he was young, he was still only twenty seven. Moreover, the industries the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce were in werepletely different, so it could be said that Kennard Emma didn¡¯t know much about magic machines. Then if he were to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general manager, could he really do a good job?

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the questions of those reporters. Since I picked you, I definitely believe that you have these abilities.¡± After the press conference, Xu Yi patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder as heforted him.

    Kennard revealed a faint smile and his face was rxed like he didn¡¯t care about the reporters at all, looking like he was filled with confidence.

    ¡°Please be assured, chairman, I believe in me more than you.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. If you didn¡¯t even have this bit of self confidence, it really wouldn¡¯t be right for me to give you a starting wage of fifty gold coins a month.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Speaking of wages¡­..¡± Kennard said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Chairman, I¡¯ve been carefully investigating and I¡¯ve talked about it with manager Sebas, and I feel that ourpany¡¯s wage structure isn¡¯t right.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard who had quickly jumped into his work with surprise and asked him in an interested voice, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±

    ¡°Look, this is the report that I made yesterday.¡± Kennard took out a piece of paper.

    Opening it up, there was a simple graph written on it. It was disying all the different wages for different workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, clearly demonstrating everything.

    Xu Yi looked at it and he couldn¡¯t help giving a nod of praise.

    ¡°Not bad, Kennard, you really are a professional. Was this report finished by you alone? Although Sebas has the capability, he wouldn¡¯t do something like this.¡±

    Kennard revealed a modest smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t anything, manager Sebas just wouldn¡¯t spend time on this.¡±

    ¡°Un, good. Then which part do you think isn¡¯t right?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the report and asked.

    ¡°Chairman, look. Based on this graph, the lowest wage of ourpany¡¯s workersst month was 11.6 gold coins and the highest was 17.3, whiches to an average of 13.72 gold coins. Adding in the extra benefits that we give, the average ie of each worker is over fifteen gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Un, Sebas has already reported this to me. Is there some problem?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°After a small investigation over the past few days, I found that alone, ourpany¡¯s workers have the highest monthly sry in Banta City. Other than ourpany, the monthly sries for normal workers of otherpanies is around ten gold coins. Only the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers who are responsible for building the roads have higher sries than our workers. Butpared to this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers work over twelve hours a day and our workers only need to work eight hours a day. Even if they work overtime, they still receive overtime pay.¡±

    ¡°So? What is the problem?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°If you think that ourpany is paying our workers too much, then you can stop right there. Giving the workers this pay is something that I¡¯ve carefully considered and it would take too much effort to exin this reason to you, so I won¡¯t do it for now.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°No, chairman, I don¡¯t think that the worker wages are too high, rather the current wage structure isn¡¯t right. Compared to this, I feel that the worker wages are actually too low.¡±

    Hearing Kennard¡¯s words that were different from chairman Cruise¡¯s, saying that his wages were just too high, Xu Yi became a bit interested.

    ¡°Tell me, what ideas do you have?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this. Chairman, after studying the structure of ourpany for a few days, I¡¯ve found that for ourpany, the work of the normal workers isn¡¯t that important. Compared to workers of the otherpanies, it is less important.¡±

    ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    ¡°This is because most of the work of ourpany is given to magic machines, forming aplete production line. The work that each worker does is rather simple and any normal person can do it with some simple training. They can even be proficient after doing it for some time.¡± Kennard exined.

    ¡°So you think that their work isn¡¯t important?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not right to say that it isn¡¯t important, but it isn¡¯t that importantparatively speaking. This is because from what I can see, even in the same factory, different workers have different skills, so they require different amounts of time, energy, and techniques. Since it¡¯s like this, giving them the same wages clearly isn¡¯t right.¡± Kennard said with a serious face.

    ¡°That means that you want to divide the normal workers of the factory into ranks and then give them different wages ording to their ranks?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Kennard took out a sheet, ¡°This is statistical data that I¡¯ve taken of the workers on the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker production line from the household magic machine workshop. Based on the data, the workers responsible for the lid support beam have higher requirements because the lid support beam has high demands. The product is ruined even if there is a single millimeter difference, so the workers have to control the magic production machine and not allow a single deviation. I think that this work has the most difficulty and requires the most technique in this production line.¡±

    ¡°Then what has the least difficulty and requires the least technique? The workers in charge of assembling the parts?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Kennard was stunned. Xu Yi didn¡¯t even look at the data, but he said what he was thinking.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be surprised because I understand this issue better than you.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°But if you want to rank the work in a factory, to separate them based on the technique required is a task that requires a lot of energy and time. You should be very clear that Ick energy and time the most, so I¡¯ve never been able to do this before.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder with a smile and said, ¡°Before you came, no one else was capable of doing this. Now that you¡¯ve mentioned it, it¡¯s good that this can be your first task after joining our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In half a month, I hope that you can give me a detailed report.¡±

    ¡°Half a month?¡± Kennard¡¯s eyes opened wide in disbelief, ¡°Chairman, this work is soplicated and you¡¯re only giving me a single month? Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t do it?¡± Xu Yi looked over at him and gave a deliberate sigh, ¡°I thought that the elite merchant that the Emma Family focused on training would be exceptional, but you¡¯re only at this level.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°Chairman, are you trying to rile me up as revenge? Alright, half a month it is. Even if I have to go all out, I will finish this work perfectly.¡±

    Seeing Kennard¡¯s confident smile, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with gratitude.

    It had to be said, just based on the data that Kennard made over the past few days and the fact that he could catch this important point, a problem that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to fix quickly, it proved that he was indeed quite skilled.

    Although Xu Yi had found this problem before, neither Heinz or Sebas had the ability to solve this problem and he didn¡¯t have time.

    Now that Kennard was here, this problem seemed like it could be easily solved.

    ¡°That¡¯s good. General manager Emma, please work hard.¡±

    Xu Yi patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder and left him to mull over it on his own, as he headed to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower.

    When he opened the door to Great Magician Cami¡¯s privateb at the top, Xu Yi immediately called out.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, Still said that you had two pieces of good news for me. What good news is it?¡±

    Great Magician Cami was currently in the middle of an experiment, but hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, he looked up and didn¡¯t respond. He just waved him over, signaling to him to help.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. With Great Magician Cami¡¯s abilities, what magic experiment required his help?

    Looking down, Xu Yi gave a surprised gasp before his voice was filled with pleasant surprise.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you¡­..You actually finished it!¡±

 Volume 2 90 - Miniature Storm Array

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 90 Miniature Storm Array</strong>

    On the desk in front of Great Magician Cami, there was a small Magic Array that was around the size of Xu Yi¡¯s palm that was currently glowing with azure light.

    Above the Magic Array, there was a visible small tornado that was currently spinning.

    It was clear that this was the Ninth Grade Wind Magic Array, the Storm Array.

    What was more clear was that since this Storm Array was this small, it meant that Great Magician Cami had seeded in miniaturizing Magic Arrays!

    Moreover, although the Magic Array and tornado seemed very small, their might wasn¡¯t small.

    When Xu Yi wanted to approach, he felt an enormous suctioning towards him. If he hadn¡¯t used his magic to negate the wind elemental magic energy in the air in time, he would have been pulled right in.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t aplete sess.¡± Great Magician Cami pointed at the Miniature Storm Array, ¡°Other than to tell you this good news, I called you here to let you see how it should be modified to suit your needs.¡±

    ¡°Needs¡­..¡± Xu Yi carefully kept his distance from the powerful and small tornado of the Storm Array and carefully examined it. After thinking for a bit, he said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you should understand the structure and the principle of the Magic Fan. What do you feel would be the result if this Storm Array was ced in the Magic Fan?¡±

    ¡°Magic Fan?¡± Great Magician Cami knit his brows, ¡°This Storm Array is much stronger than the Magic Array used in the Magic Fan. If this is ced in the Magic Fan, once it is turned on, the entire Magic Fan would be ripped to shreds.¡±

    ¡°Un, I feel the same.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°So your excellency Great Magician, the problem that we need to solve is how to safely and effectively use the kic energy that this Storm Array generates.¡±

    ¡°That is your specialty, what do you think?¡± Great Magician Cami simply said.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s try this first¡­...¡±

    ¡­...

    Since Great Magician Cami had seeded in making the Storm Array smaller, it meant that his understanding of this Magic Array was very refined and he could casually modify it.

    So the experiment the two of them did went very smoothly.

    Following the experiments that Xu Yi proposed, Great Magician Cami kept changing the Storm Array. Xu Yi kept a detailed record of the process and result of every experiment.

    The two of them were currently experimenting on what would be the core power source of a wind powered engine, so any data would be very useful.

    Although their domains were different, Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami were crazy about research, so they forgot everything once they started and focusedpletely on it.

    When Xu Yi finally received preliminary data from this Miniature Storm Array, the two stopped and prepared to rest.

    But when they two stopped, there was a sound that came from their stomachs.

    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    The two had been so focused that they had forgotten to eat.

    Looking out the window, they found that it was already getting dark.

    Right now it was close tote September, so that means that it was around seven at night.

    Not only had the two of them missed lunch, they might even miss the dinner time of many households.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, let¡¯s tidy up and find a ce to eat.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t like eating out, it¡¯s better toe home. Still shouldn¡¯t have had dinner yet, I should be able to get him in time. You should juste along. I remember you saidst time that Vivian should be leaving Banta City for her school event.¡±

    ¡°Forget about me. Since the Great Magician isn¡¯ting, I¡¯ll just go find a casual ce to get dinner.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and rejected him.

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with a strange look, ¡°Hey, kid, I suddenly thought of a problem. Why are you never willing toe to my house for dinner? You¡¯re already in a rtionship with Still, isn¡¯t it normal for you toe to my house for dinner?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, it¡¯s because I have a promise with Still. She said that she owes me a handmade meal, so I want to save this for a special and meaningful time. So if I go to your house before this and identally bump into a meal that she¡¯s made, should I eat it or not?¡±

    Great Magician Cami was surprised, then he couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You young people really are¡­..Forget it, I¡¯m toozy to care about this. But kid, don¡¯t be in a rush to leave. Did you forget that I have two pieces of good news for you?¡±

    ¡°Oh? That¡¯s right, what is the other piece of good news?¡± Xu Yi asked with an expectant look, ¡°If this news can be as good as you sessfully miniaturizing the Magic Array, I might die from happiness.¡±

    ¡°I feel it¡¯s around the same, but you can take a look.¡± Great Magician Cami took the Magicians Guild periodical from his desk and threw it to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi opened it and immediately revealed a look of pleasant surprise.

    ¡°That means that the old fogies at the guild actually agreed!¡±

    In this issue of the Magicians Guild periodical, it was mainly about the topic of magic patents.

    But it was different from the past when they were discussing whether they should pass it or not. In this periodical, it was no longer discussing whether the idea of magic patents should be allowed or not, but rather they were discussing the details of magic patents.

    For example, the first article was about whether patents should include all kinds of magic.

    Turning the pages, he wasn¡¯t surprised to find Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s article.

    It was different from the cautious tone of the other articles. Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s article showed his support for magic patents applying to all magic from the beginning, even going on to provide some detailed rules for magic patents.

    It could be seen that he already expected the magic patents to be passed by the Magicians Guild, so he had already done his research.

    ¡°Based on this situation, if it is quick, magic patents will be adopted by the end of this year.¡± Great Magician Cami said, ¡°There will be an internal conference next month and all magicians of the Great Magician level have been invited. Great Magician Eisenkel and I have both been invited. Great Magician Eisenkel has already agreed and as for me¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami.

    Of course he hoped that Great Magician Cami would also participate because there would be another voice at the conference that supported the magic patents.

    Great Magician Cami deliberately kept Xu Yi waiting before nodding with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve also decided to participate.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his chest in an exaggerated manner, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you really scared me. It¡¯s not bad now, at least there is support from you and Great Magician Eisenkel. If you could let me see the other three Great Magicians of the kingdom, I can guarantee that I could convince them.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t get your hopes up too high.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°Although this decision should pass, because there are many magicians who disagree with this, even if this decision passes, it might not have the effect that you want.¡±

    ¡°A road is taken step by step, I¡¯m not in a rush.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug with a rxed look.

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you know.¡±

    When he left Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, it was already dark. Seeing Great Magician Cami reject his invitation again, Xu Yi didn¡¯t insist and bid farewell to Great Magician CAmi, as he walked towards the liveliest night market street in Banta City.

    While talking, Xu Yi thought of the good news he received today and felt quite happy.

    First there was the strong abilities that Kennard had, which allowed Xu Yi to let him take care of many matters in thepany, allowing Xu Yi to be much more rxed. It allowed him to invest more time and energy into the research that he liked and cared about the most.

    He could even spend more time with Still to avoid her alwaysining that he didn¡¯t spend enough time with her.

    Next, there were the two pieces of good news from Great Magician Cami.

    Compared to this, Xu Yi right now didn¡¯t really care about when the Magicians Guild would pass the magic patents.

    This is because while unveiling new products during this time, Xu Yi found a fact. It was thatpared to the Magic Arrays that acted as power supplies, the unique design of the machines was more important.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had better quality and performance than otherpanies because of the various machine designs that Xu Yi made with his rich mechanical engineering knowledge.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that Magic Array research wasn¡¯t important.

    For example, the miniaturization of the Storm Array had a very important significance.

    Great Magician Cami had not only miniaturized the Storm Array, he had also maintained most of the might of the Storm Array, making sure that the Magic Array provided enough power.

    Like this, Xu Yi just needed to link this Magic Array with the outer cover of the engine that Camby¡¯s dwarves were researching and he would be able to make a magic wind powered engine.

    As for the significance of developing an engine, there wasn¡¯t a need to say anything.

    Once the engine was developed, it would bring out another industry that was very important and couldn¡¯t be missing from a modern industrial system.

    As long as this industry was developed, it would be a matter of time before the industrial system was established on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi looked at the patches of light left on the ground by the windows on the sides of the road and looked at the irregr patches of light on the ground before revealing a faint smile.

    When this industry was developed, he would immediately set up streetmps for all the streets in Banta City, eliminating all the darkness outside the patches of light.

 Volume 2 91 - Will you be sad?

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 91 Will you be sad?</strong>

    A rare double horse carriage sped out of Banta City¡¯s west gate and its wheels rolled over the Falling Rain Road, as it charged towards the Falling Rain Valley.

    Xu Yi looked at the roads being built in the suburbs of Banta City before turning back to look at the people in the carriage. Finally his eyes fell onto Still and Agnes sitting with Sophia on the other side and he suddenly revealed a smile.

    Sophia immediately red at him, ¡°What are you smiling at?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, don¡¯t misunderstand. I¡¯m just surprised, why did you insist oning with us? The Falling Rain Valley is close to sixty kilometers away and even with the road, it isn¡¯t afortable matter to go there. I think that staying in Banta City is the better choice.¡±

    ¡°Humph, I like it, what do you care?¡± Sophia said in a firm voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head as he thought that he really didn¡¯t care.

    But he was indeed curious about why Sophia insisted on staying in Banta City instead of returning to Anvilmar City.

    She wasn¡¯t willing to leave when Hank Wilson headed back and said that she wanted to stay with Kennard. But now that Kennard was staying as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general manager, he would be staying in Banta City for a period of time, so it wasn¡¯t right for Sophia to stay here.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t right for Xu Yi to ask this question, otherwise it would seem like he was chasing Sophia away.

    ¡°Chairman, Sophia is just this willful, please forgive her.¡± Kennard apologized form beside Xu Yi.

    Before Xu Yi could reply, Sophia red at Kennard and pointed a finger as she lightly stomped her foot, ¡°Big brother, you¡¯re actually not helping me! Is it because now that you¡¯ve be his subordinate, everything is about him? You won¡¯t even help your little sister?¡±

    Kennnard looked up, ¡°I help whoever makes sense. The chairman is right, we are here because of official business, so why do you need toe with us?¡±

    ¡°So what if it¡¯s official business?¡± Sophia said with a cold snort, ¡°I¡¯m not following you guys, I¡¯m following big sister Still and big sister Agnes, so you don¡¯t need to care about me!¡±

    After saying this, Sophia pulled up Still and Agnes beside her without any reservation with a look sayinge bite me if you¡¯re not satisfied.

    Kennard knit his brows, but because Sophia pulled up Still and Agnes, it wasn¡¯t good for him to speak.

    However, Still and Agnes¡¯ reactions surprised Sophia.

    Still was still fine, only slightly knitting her brows. She helplessly shook her head and gave a sigh, looking like she had no way of dealing with this little sister Sophia.

    Agnes directly pulled her hand away from Sophia¡¯s and looked at her as she honestly said, ¡°Young miss Sophia, I am out on official business with the chairman, so please don¡¯t hinder me.¡±

    ¡°Hinder?¡± Sophia never expected that Agnes would say such impolite words, so she looked at Agnes with wide eyes, ¡°You¡¯re actually saying that I¡¯m hindering you? Big sister Agnes, you¡­..you¡¯re really making me sad!¡±

    ¡°Sad?¡± Agnes looked at Sophia before turning to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, you said that humans would cry when they are sad. But she isn¡¯t crying right now, so she must not really be sad.¡± She turned to Sophia after saying this and said with a strict expression, ¡°Young miss Sophia, the reason why us elves didn¡¯t like making contact with humans is because humans like to lie. If you really want to be friends with me, I hope that you will not lie to me again, or I will be very unhappy.¡±

    Seeing Sophia¡¯s helpless gaze, Xu Yi almost couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    For someone like Sophia who had grown up spoiled at home and had be a willful young miss, it wasn¡¯t easy for others to talk her down.

    To control her, you needed someone who was naturally dull like Agnes.

    The expression Kennard had was very bright.

    He was the most familiar with Sophia¡¯s willful attitude and how she causes scenes, normally not even their lord father could take care of her. But now she had be speechless from what Agnes said, which even made him want tough a bit.

    Of course, this was all based on the fact that Agnes was an elf.

    Otherwise if it was a human girl that Sophia deeply admired like Still who had said this to her, it would definitely make her unhappy and she might even talk back.

    Seeing the aggrieved nk look on Sophia¡¯s face and her little lips pouted, Still revealed a faint smile and exined to Agnes, ¡°Agnes, humans don¡¯t always shed tears when they are sad. There are some people who even if they are very sad, you can¡¯t see it on the surface at all. Some people will just show sad expressions. Only when a person is sad to a certain extent will they break out in tears.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Agnes looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful look.

    ¡°Un, it is like this.¡± Seeing Sophia revealing a real aggrieved expression, Xu Yi could only quickly mediate for her, ¡°I told you before that a human will cry when they are said, that is just a general description. There are other details that you need to pay attention to and are hard to describe. For example, humans can shed tears even when they aren¡¯t sad. There are some who will shed tears when they are happy. So to tell when a human is sad or not, just basing it on tears doesn¡¯t work.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Agnes gave a slight nod. After thinking for a bit, she couldn¡¯t help sighing, ¡°Humans really areplicated. We elves will just directly reveal whatever mood we are feeling.¡±

    Hearing this, Sophia forgot her aggrieved feeling and curiously asked, ¡°Then big sister Agnes, have you cried before when you were sad?¡±

    Agnes thought for a bit before nodding, ¡°Un. I remember that when I was young, there was a flower that gradually withered and I cried because I was sad about it.¡±

    Everyone in the carriage was speechless.

    Sophia was stunned for a bit before saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Big sister Agnes, you are this sensitive. If you can burst into tears over a flower withering, aren¡¯t you sad most of the time and cry all the time?¡±

    Agnes shook her head, ¡°No, not now. Because of the elder¡¯s teachings, I¡¯ve understood that life and death are natural rules and it is very normal, so there¡¯s no need to be sad. I think that even if you died in front of me, I wouldn¡¯t cry from sadness.¡±

    Everyone was speechless again.

    Although this was the personality of the elves, when Agnes said it directly in front of everyone, they all felt a bit cold.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Agnes, if I were to die in front of you, you wouldn¡¯t cry from sadness?¡±

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman, ording to the life span of humans, you still have quite a bit of time before you die.¡±

    ¡°I just said if because human life is filled with idents. If I were to die in front of you because of an ident, would you calmly ept it?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    Still looked at Xu Yi with knit brows. She thought about it and didn¡¯t say anything as she just looked at Agnes, waiting to see how she responds.

    With everyone watching, Agnes honestly thought for a bit before replying, ¡°I think¡­..it depends on what kind of ident. If the chairman was killed by an enemy, I would be very angry and kill your enemy to take revenge for you. It is because you are my friend and taking care of this is the responsibility of a friend.¡±

    ¡°Then if I wasn¡¯t killed by an enemy and killed by a natural ident, like if a rock fell out of the sky to kill me? Or for something more normal, if I were to suddenly die from an illness?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°If it is like this¡­..¡± Agnes thought for a bit, ¡°This should be the natural cycle of life and death that the elder mentioned, it happens to all living beings, so I don¡¯t think I would be sad.¡±

    Hearing this answer, everyone let out long sighs.

    Still looked at Xu Yi, ¡°What? Is the honourable chairman Xu disappointed?¡±

    Xu Yi clutched his chest and made an exaggerated hurt expression, as he wailed into the sky, ¡°I am far more than disappointed, I¡¯m simply filled with grief! I thought that I had a good rtionship with Agnes, but I didn¡¯t think that she wouldn¡¯t be sad if I were to suddenly die, not even to shed a single tear! I really am too disappointed!¡±

    Seeing that everyone else in the carriage broke out inughter after Xu Yi¡¯s actions, Agnes had a bewildered look on her face.

    Still saw that Agnes was still confused, so she exined it with a smile.

    The carriage continued forward while the three girls chatted and Xu Yi and Kennard discussed matters of thepany. After three hours, they finally arrived at the Falling Rain Valley.

    This was Kennard and Sophia¡¯s first time seeing the Falling Rain Valley. Although when in Banta City, there were many people that described the Falling Rain Valley to them, personally seeing it, the two of them were shocked by the beautiful and magnificent scene in front of them.

    ¡°Chairman, this really is a lot.¡± Kennard couldn¡¯t help saying with a sigh, ¡°I think that anyone with doubts towards you, as long as they see this Falling Rain Valley, their doubts will scatter like smoke.¡±

    ¡°Oh? You¡¯re saying that before seeing the Falling Rain Valley, you still had doubts towards me in your heart?¡± Xu Yi teased with a smile.

    Kennardughed, ¡°Of course I¡¯m the exception. If I had any doubts about you, I wouldn¡¯t have taken the initiative to be the general manager.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it.¡± Xu Yi made an inviting gesture with his hand, ¡°Then as the new general manager, let me show you where the real power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce lies.¡±

 Volume 2 92 - The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really isnâ€™t weak

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 92 The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really isn¡¯t weak</strong>

    The Falling Rain Valley was being developed before the Falling Rain Road was being built and now it had been over two months since the Falling Rain Road was open. Compared tost time when Xu Yi came with chairman Pompeii, the current Falling Rain Valley was moreplete. Whether it was the living area or the industrial area, it was much bigger than before.

    The current Falling Rain Valley had already truly be a production base for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now in the steel mill that stood firm, there was already a second furnace. After the initial tests, it would enter the production stage and the monthly output of the steel mill would surpass over a hundred thousand tons.

    But as magic machines became more popr in the Lampuri Kingdom and with the partnership with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, right now thepanies in Banta City were producing more and more magic machines, needing more and more alloys from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even a hundred thousand tons a month was basically not enough.

    As more and more alloys were being used, more and morepanies realized that these alloys were far better than normal iron. So other than being used in magic machines, there were otherpanies that had a strong need for these alloys.

    Justst month, disregarding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s needs, the various orders for alloy added up to over fifty thousand tons, even surpassing the production of the steel mill.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have let chief Siluka and chief Monto build a second furnace this quickly.

    When this second furnace began production, their monthly production would meet their requirements. Just based on this steel mill, they would be earning arge profit of hundreds of thousands of gold coins each month.

    Moreover, the factories that were earning money in this Falling Rain Valley was not just this steel mill.

    As the Falling Rain Valley was being opened up,rge amounts of other corresponding factories were being established. Xu Yi had already moved most of the production lines at the Sandton Manor over here.

    It was different from before where different production lines were put in the same factory. This time Xu Yi separated the production lines of different products, with each production line getting their own workshop, giving them a space that was several timesrger than before.

    At the same time, with this increase in space, Xu Yi added more production lines for each product, which greatly increased their output.

    For example, the Magic Bread Maker that was the most popr item in Banta City and the surrounding cities. Xu Yi had suddenly increased the one production line to four production lines, going from the previous output of ten thousand units a month to over thirty thousand units a month.

    Therefore, just for the Magic Bread Maker workshop, Xu Yi had recruited over a hundred people.

    If Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Refrigerator, and the Magic Air Conditioner workshops with greater demand were added in, the workers that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gradually hired were actually over a thousand people!¡£

    Right now just in workshops under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were over two thousand workers.

    Moreover, these were just human workers.

    Because of the hard work of chief Siluka and chief Monto, there were more dwarves that moved to the Falling Rain Valley. There were now over three thousand dwarves and close to a thousand of them were working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories.

    Then there were the hundred elf workers from the Night Song Tribe. Right now in the factories under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were over a thousand workers from another race, making up a third of the total workers.

    Not mentioning the Lampuri Kingdom, this was unique even on the entire Sines Continent.

    Otherpanies would hire at most several dwarven cksmiths, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired close to a thousand at once.

    Other people could live their entire life without seeing a single elf, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had stuffed a hundred elves into a single workshop.

    Even for someone as experienced as Kennard who had known about this and had prepared his heart, when he saw the dwarves running all over the Falling Rain Valley, his eyes popped out and his face was covered in shock.

    ¡°Chairman, I really want to know, where did you find all these dwarves? Not to mention that the iparably proud elves of legend are doing the simplest work for ourpany. You¡­..Do you have some special charm?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, you are not the first person to ask me this. There is only one exnation I have for this, it¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because I¡¯m handsome.¡± Xu Yi gave this narcissisticment with a big smile.

    Kennard wanted to roll his eyes at Xu Yi, but his good manners that had been taught to him since he was young stopped him from doing something this disrespectful.

    He visited the workshops of each factory while being led by Xu Yi and Kennard couldn¡¯t help being deeply shocked.

    Actually before he came to Banta City, he had some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from different channels.

    Although Hannas had high esteems of Xu Yi and was very optimistic about the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had to admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still a smallpany in Banta City. They weren¡¯t even considered second ss in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So at that time, Kennard had been feeling a bit of disdain for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at that time.

    But when he came to Banta City and personally witnessed the change that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, Kennard found that his understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been too superficial.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t just be measured with strength, it really couldn¡¯tpare to a first sspany like the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. But every product that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released, they all created trends in Banta City and the surrounding cities, even creating an entire industry.

    This was not something that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce could do.

    Now that they had arrived in the Falling Rain Valley and after personally witnessing the workshops and production lines inside the workshops, Kennard¡¯s understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was renewed.

    Just from the scale of the production base, the people who had underestimated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been wrong.

    Actually, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t weak at all.

    Not to mention that there was that magnificent steel mill inside the Falling Rain Valley.

    Witnessing the molten iron flowing out of the furnace, Kennard was certain of one thing.

    With just this steel mill, if they kept developing, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be a first sspany of the kingdom.

    Then with the entireyout of the Falling Rain Valley, Kennard felt even more admiration for Xu Yi in his heart.

    If it was said that he felt Hannas¡¯ appraisal of Xu Yi was exaggerated at first, right now, he even felt that Hannas¡¯ appraisal had been too conservative.

    Xu YI naturally didn¡¯t know this, he just took Kennard around the Falling Rain Valley to let him familiarize himself with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories as the general manager, meeting each person under him who was in charge. He unexpectedly had created a deep recognition of him in his heart.

    After giving Kennard to chief Siluka to entertain, Xu Yi went to the tire factory by himself.

    ording to his agreement with elder Illusia, the hundred elves would undergo some special training at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After observing them, they would decide what to do with them.

    Now the elves have been in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for several months and through Xu Yi¡¯s observations, he was certain that these elves had changed. He decided to use the chance of heading back to the elf tribe with Agnes to bring them back to elder Illusia to let her take a look.

    But the work of the tire factory was quite heavy, so suddenly taking away a hundred skilled elven workers would greatly affect it. So Xu Yi in the end only decided to take ten elven workers back for elder Illusia to appraise.

    When the group arrived at the tire factory, Sophia wasn¡¯t willing to leave no matter what after seeing the hundred elves. Xu Yi could only helplessly let Still and Agnes stay to pick who would go.

    Now that close to an hour had passed, Xu Yi came back to the tire factory to find that there were already ten elves standing by Agnes.

    Seeing the ten elves standing in a row by Agnes and that they were standing straight without shaking at all, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a satisfied nod.

    Compared to the sloppy elves from before, these ten elves had without a doubt trained their sense of discipline.

    Moreover, the elves¡¯ pursuit of perfection still remained. When standing in a row, there wasn¡¯t even a bit of difference in the space between them. Looking at it from the side, one would find that they were standing in a perfect line that was twenty feet long.

    After seeing these two points, Xu Yi was a bit speechless.

    He just followed elder Illusia¡¯s request to train a sense of discipline into these elves, but with this current situation, these elves had been trained into qualified soldiers.

    Compared to before, the difference was rather big. He didn¡¯t know what kind of reaction elder Illusia would have after seeing them.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s the ten of them.¡± Seeing Xu Yie over, Agnes immediately greeted him, ¡°The other nsmen say that they¡¯ve performed the best during this time.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded.

    Of course he understood what performing the best meant.

    Because of the conflict they had with the human workers in the household magic machine workshop in the beginning, the elves suppressed the anger in their hearts and tried to perform better than the human workers no matter what they did.

    These ten elves were recognized by the other elves as the best, so other than having a good sense of discipline, they were also the elven workers with the best techniques.

    Xu Yi thought about it and found that no matter what, he couldn¡¯t connect an elf with a skilled worker with a cutting machine.

    This really was just too strange.

    After stopping his mind from thinking about it, Xu Yi said to the ten elves with a smile, ¡°Very good. I think that after elder Illusia sees you all, she will be very happy. But I¡¯m not certain if the beastmen will be happy after seeing you.¡±

 Volume 2 93 - Night Song Tribe filled with â€œvitalityâ€

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 93 Night Song Tribe filled with ¡°vitality¡±</strong>

    ¡°You want to negotiate with the beastmen?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°If I said that I could solve the problem of the Falling Rain Forest¡¯s water source, would elder Illusia believe me?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi for a while before shaking her head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I won¡¯t believe it because you said itst time, you are a human merchant, so you wouldn¡¯t do something if there weren¡¯t benefits for you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You really are wise. If your nsmen could be as wise as you, you wouldn¡¯t need to spend that much effort in training them.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at the ten elven workers under the tree that Xu Xi brought back and said with a soft sigh, ¡°Actually in the race war from before, although our elven race was stubborn and sloppy, it wasn¡¯t serious enough that it needed to be changed. Only after living in the forest alone for several thousand years, we elves have lost many advantages that we had before.¡±

    ¡°The elder Illusia, what do you think of these nsmen after they¡¯ve been trained by me?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Elder Illusia looked at the ten elves for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°It should be arge change. Although I can¡¯t see concrete effects now, I feel that their performance is much better than if they had stayed in the tribe. Let¡¯s return to the topic we were discussing before, I still don¡¯t see what benefits there are in you going to negotiate with the beastmen.¡±

    ¡°It is because this river problem is not just affecting your tribe, it is even affecting the ces down river, affecting Banta City. ording to the calctions of the people in Banta City that understand rivers, if we don¡¯t care about the river, it is likely that in ten to twenty years, the river will turn into a big problem. If there is ever arge storm in summer, it could create a disastrous flood.¡±

    ¡°Flood?¡± Elder Illusia seemed to have thought of something as her expression changed, ¡°That is indeed a very terrifying thing, no wonder you¡¯re paying this much attention to this matter. But why do you need to bring the ten nsmen along with you? The beastmen have never had a good rtionship with us elves and the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd have had quite a few conflicts with our Night Song Tribe because of the river problem. If they were to see our ten nsmen, it might not be good for your negotiations.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because I want topletely solve the water source problem, so I need the help of the elves. If I can¡¯t seize this chance to reconcile between you two races, I might need to resort to a method that I don¡¯t want to use to control the river.¡± Xu Yi helplessly said.

    ¡°A method you¡¯re not willing to use?¡± Elder Illusia took a deep look at Xu Yi, but she didn¡¯t keep asking.

    But elder Illusia still agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    If it could solve the water source problem of the river, not only would it solve the hidden danger for Banta City, it would also solve the water problem of the Night Song Tribe, so naturally elder Illusia hoped that Xu Yi would seed.

    After deciding this matter, Xu Yi and elder Illusia went to the open air stic production workshop of the Night Song Tribe.

    Compared to when Xu Yi was herest time, the elves responsible for making stic were much more focusedpared to before and weren¡¯t sloppily handling their work.

    It seemed like after Xu Yi left, elder Illusia had conducted a lecture with her nsmen to avoid embarrassing the elves in front of Xu Yi again.

    But even if there was progress, it was far from being as efficient and organized as human workers.

    Elder Illusia had the ten elves brought by Xu Yi join the production line and immediately they showed efficiency that surpassed the other elves.

    The other elves had been unwilling to submit after seeing Xu Yi because they didn¡¯t understand why elder Illusia would send their nsmen to work under a human, epting his orders.

    To the proud elves, this was simply shaming them,

    But after seeing the efficiency of those ten elf workers, the anger and dissatisfaction of the other elves had disappeared.

    These ten nsmen had been the same as everyone before, but after working for that human for a few months, their performance had suddenly be this good.

    Although the elves were proud, they definitely wouldn¡¯t refuse to ept a fact.

    With the fact in front of them, the humans indeed were better than elves at doing things, so their unwillingness to submit to Xu Yi faded in their hearts.

    The elves of the Night Song Tribe were very clear on the worries of elder Illusia, so after seeing the performance of these ten elves, there were many elves who even asked elder Illusia to be sent for training in Xu Yi¡¯s factory.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think? Can your factory ept more nsmen to be trained?¡± Elder Illusia didn¡¯t agree right away and turned to ask Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at the excited elves and thought for a bit before replying, ¡°Elder Illusia, actually I came this time in hopes of convincing more elves to leave this enclosed forest and live in our human society. The most suitable choice is of course to have them work in our factory first and be familiar with the environment.¡±

    ¡°Then that means you agree?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Elder Illusia, I really want to say that just based on the crude stic production line here, it is far from being able to satisfy our needs. Do you know how many backed up tire orders ourpany had before I came here?¡±

    ¡°Based on your appearance, it should be quite a bit?¡± Elder Illusia asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s not just quite a bit, it¡¯s a lot!¡± Xu Yi stressed his words, ¡°Let me tell you, there are over a hundred thousand orders for tires that are piled up at ourpany!¡±

    Elder Illusia¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°It¡¯s actually this many? But we can only make at most ten thousand here.¡±

    ¡°So that means we must expand production.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°If we want to expand, it isn¡¯t enough just relying on this small ce and the people here. So I rmend that we move the entire tribe to the stic factory that I¡¯ve already prepared at the Falling Rain Valley to work for me. I have even researched a series of magic machines that can process stic, sopared to here, the efficiency will be greatly increased.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi and suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you have already prepared everything, you¡¯re not nning to let me reject you at all, right?¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°I am just preparing everything for myself. As for to what degree elder Illusia will agree, that is all up to you.¡±

    ¡°ording to the views of humans, are you trying to goad me into action?¡± Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile and turned to look at her busy nsmen for a while before giving a soft sigh, ¡°I have to admit, since cooperating with you and letting the nsmen work on the resin, although they¡¯ve been busy all day, it is very fulfilling and the tribe has been filled with life. Do you know? Just in three months, there were actually two newborns. This is an once in a thousand year miracle!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression instantly became very strange.

    Last time he heard elder Illusia say that the Night Song Tribe only had a single newborn in thest ten years, but now there were two more in just three months. Although this still couldn¡¯tpare to humans and the other races, it was still an incredible increase.

    But what caused this change¡­...Could it be that the hormones of these proud and cold elves had been stimted from the work and they were more willing to create humans?

    Of course there was a more important reason. It was that after epting the resin work that Xu Yi had given them, the Night Song Tribe had also receivedrge amounts of rewards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Elder Illusia had no interest in human gold coins, but there was a need for human goods, so she had Xu Yi exchange the gold coins into goods.

    Before although the Night Song Tribe could sustain themselves in the Falling Rain Forest, the resources were limited and could only support around a thousand elves. There would be problems if there were more elves.

    The elves had umted wisdom from their long lives, so they had strictly regted the number of elves in the tribe. This was an important reason why their tribe had a low birth rate.

    Now that they received daily necessities from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Night Song Tribe had more resources and could give birth to more elves.

    ¡°That means that you¡¯re agreeing to my suggestion?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, I do agree, but it is impossible to move all the nsmen right now since this is the home that we¡¯ve lived in for thousands of years.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°How about this, those hundred nsmen can keep working at the factory and I¡¯ll also select three hundred more nsmen to work at the factory. As for how you¡¯ll arrange them, that is up to you.¡±

    Seeing that elder Illusia agreed this readily, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°It will all be arranged by me?¡± Elder Illusia, you¡¯re putting quite a bit of courage on me.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at him with a teasing smile like a little girl, ¡°Could it be that this wasn¡¯t what you wanted?¡±

 Volume 2 94 - Building roads to the doors of the beastmen

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 94 Building roads to the doors of the beastmen</strong>

    Two dayster, Xu Yi, Still, Agnes, and the ten elf workers appeared in a small tone on the outskirts of the ck Rice Wastnd.

    This small town called Zamora was built by the river and was the human town closest to the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Although it could be said that the humans controlled almost the entire Sines Continent, the other races didn¡¯tpletely disappear. The strongest among them was the beastmen race.

    Although it was impossible for them to cause any threat to the human powers, it was still enough for them to control theirnds.

    Of course, the ck Rice Wastnds to the humans of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have any value since the wastnds were still wastnds, there wasn¡¯t anynd to cultivate at all. There were no human countries that were bored enough to contest this destend with the beastmen.

    Although the beastmen didn¡¯t know magic, most of them had strong bodies and had strong individual fighting strength. To steal thend of the beastmen, it would force the beastmen to go all out with the humans and the loss wouldn¡¯t be small.

    This was a business with guaranteed loss, so no human would do it.

    Xu Yi¡¯s group had just entered the small town that was less than two hundred meters wide with only two streets. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Renersa who had been waiting found them and immediately came over.

    ¡°Sorry, we made you wait.¡± Xu Yi apologized mainly to chairman Renersa.

    Chairman Renersa had a strong build and had a great ring to hisugh, looking very heroic.

    ¡°Ha, ha, it¡¯s nothing, we also just arrived. We were taking care of the carriages and were preparing to leave after chairman Xu arrived.¡± Chairman Renersa nodded to Still beside Xu Yi before his eyes fell onto Agnes and the other ten elves. He slightly knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, these elves areing with us?¡±

    If one was to say who in Banta City had seen elves the most, before Xu Yi, it was definitely chairman Renersa.

    This is because chairman Renersa always did business with the beastmen tribes of the ck Rice Wastnd, so chairman Renersa came to the ck Rice Wastnd frequently, even being the guest of several beastmen tribes. In the beastmen tribes, he had seen the elves several times before.

    But it was because of this that he was more clear than anyone that the rtionship between beastmen and elves weren¡¯t very good.

    Even if they didn¡¯t fight at first sight, there were still sparks that flew, so they couldn¡¯t have a normal exchange at all.

    When Xu Yi said that he wanted to go with his caravan to the ck Rice Wastnd to see the beastmen tribes, he didn¡¯t really care and agreed quite quickly.

    But now he found that Xu Yi actually brought elves along, which would be a very big problem.

    Xu Yi naturally saw the worries of chairman Renersa, so he said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Renersa, please don¡¯t worry. When we reach the beastmen tribe, these elves will use their Stealth Spell. They won¡¯t reveal themselves unless it was necessary.¡±

    ¡°That would be best.¡±

    Chairman Renersa nodded, but he couldn¡¯t help taking another look at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

    This chairman Xu, he could actually make elves be his bodyguards. It really was like the rumours, he had a special rtionship with the elves of the Falling Rain Forest.

    But he never knew that he had made a mistake.

    After chairman Renersa finished discussing with Xu Yi, chairman Cruise on the side walked over andined to Xu Yi, ¡°I say, chairman Xu, there are no roads here, I really am copsing from how tired I am. You had me run all this way, if there aren¡¯t any benefits, I¡¯ve done this for nothing.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You¡¯re right, having youe along was to see how to build a road between Banta City and the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    When his voice fell, chairman Cruise, chairman Renersa, and Still looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes at the same time.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you joking?¡± Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help raising his voice, ¡°What can you do if you build a road? You¡¯re making it easier for those beastmen to cause trouble in our human territory?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Chairman Cruise, you¡¯ve worked me for this long and you still don¡¯t know I am a person who won¡¯t do something if there aren¡¯t any benefits?¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows and doubtfully looked at Xu Yi, ¡°I know that you wouldn¡¯t do something without benefits, but how can I see what benefits there are in building this road?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at the sky, ¡°I¡¯ll tell you slowly on the way.¡±

    The Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan was quiterge, with thirteen horse carriages. Based on the mountain of goods packed in the horse carriages, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t just dealing with a single tribe.

    The rtionship between beastmen and humans wasn¡¯t that good, so if a caravan walked into the beastmen territory rashly, there was a high chance they would encounter some form of danger.

    So the Renekton Chamber of Commerce was different from mostpanies of Banta City, they specially trained their own caravan guards and also hired mercenaries as guards.

    Xu Yi sat in the back of a horse carriage and looked at the mercenaries on the side of the caravan. He couldn¡¯t help sighing as he said, ¡°Just based on their appearance, these guards are all veterans who have fought hundreds of battles. Chairman Renersa, if yourpany¡¯s guards were taken out, perhaps they might not be worse than the royal army.¡±

    Chairman Renersa revealed a confident smile, ¡°Actually these guards are all old soldiers who have retired from the army and each soldier has rich fighting experience. I dare say that if they had the same equipment as the royal army, a single toon could take out two toons from the royal army.¡±

    ¡°No wonder yourpany has done business in the ck Rice Wastnds for this long and no problems have urred.¡± Xu Yi praised.

    ¡°It would be a lie if no problems have ever urred.¡± Chairman Renersa said with a smile, ¡°There are over a hundred beastmen tribes in this ck Rice Wastnd and although ourpany has built rtions with most of the tribes, there are some blind beastmen who stille looking for us. We can¡¯t block them every time. Just four months ago, a caravan was robbed by an unknown beastmen. It was a good thing that the beastmen were smart and only took the cargo, not harming anyone. Otherwise our losses would have been big.¡±

    ¡°Only taking the cargo and not hurting people?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Beastmen actually understand customs?¡±

    ¡°Do they dare not?¡± Chairman Renersa said with a cold snort, ¡°From the beginning, those beastmen have dared to injure and kill when robbing. But each time this happened, I made a request to the royal army here and the robber¡¯s tribe would be bathed in blood. After many times, these beastmen understood the rules. Even if they do rob, they would only take the cargo and wouldn¡¯t dare hurt anyone. Even if they kidnap people sometimes, they just exchange them for some ransom. They wouldn¡¯t have the courage to really kill anyone.¡±

    Xu Yi was even more surprised, ¡°Since they don¡¯t dare kill, why do you need to pay them ransom?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chairman Renersa gave a dryugh, ¡°This is also the rule. As long as the beastmen don¡¯t kill people, the royal army can¡¯t make a move. If we don¡¯t pay them ransom, although the beastmen won¡¯t kill them, they won¡¯t let them go. If you let your workers stay in the beastmen tribe for long, they¡¯ll be useless even if they are saved.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, these rules aren¡¯t just aimed at beastmen, they¡¯re also aimed at you?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s pretty much like that. Right now the human merchants who do business with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd follow these rules. Doing business with the beastmen earns us quite a bit of money, so paying a bit isn¡¯t much.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He thought that the rules between beastmen and humans were really too barbaric and backwards, no wonder the beastmen were looked down on by humans and the other races. It was because their level of culture was just too low.

    When Xu Yi was reconsidering his strategy for negotiating with the beastmen, chairman Cruise came over.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, now can you tell me what benefits there are in building a road from Banta City to the ck Rice Wastnd?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him before pointing at chairman Renersa, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, at least chairman Renersa would say that there would be benefits.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Chairman Renersa revealed a wide smile, ¡°If there really was a road, our caravan could save quite a bit of effort. Chairman Cruise, if chairman Xu hadn¡¯t mentioned it, I was already considering having yourpany make a road for us. It wouldn¡¯t be far, it would be fine if it reached Samara.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not far?¡± Chairman Cruise red at him, ¡°It is at least a hundred kilometers from Banta City to Samara, right? Even if it was only built as wide as the Falling Rain Road, it would cost close to three hundred thousand gold coins. Are you willing to pay that much?¡±

    ¡°Three hundred thousand¡­..That isn¡¯t that much. If there are toll booths, even if I can¡¯t get back the cost, I wouldn¡¯t lose much.¡± Chairman Renersa thought about it before suddenly pping his leg, ¡°Good, it¡¯s settled! Chairman Cruise, when we get back to Banta City, I will discuss with yourpany on building this road. What do you think?¡±

    Chairman Cruise and Xu Yi were both surprised. It was Xu Yi looking for chairman Cruise to build a road, so how did it be chairman Renersa suddenly deciding to build a road?

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a smile, ¡°Chairman Renersa, it is good that you can see the benefits of building a road. But the road that I mentioned would pass through the ck Rice Wasteand, it would be far from being enough just reaching Samara.¡±

    This time, chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    This fellow actually wanted to build a road to the beastmen¡¯s home?

    He was crazy!

 Volume 2 95 - Non-ferrous ore vein

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 95 Non-ferrous ore vein</strong>

    Xu Yi looked up at a small hill that was in the distance on the ck Rice Wastnd. He pointed at the log cabins that were scattered around that seemed to be a vige and asked chairman Renersa, ¡°That should be the Voller wolfmen tribe, right?¡±

    Chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, how did you know? Have you been to the ck Rice Wastnd before?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve never been, but I know that there are some good things near the Voller wolfmen tribe.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he pointed at the small hill and said to chairman Renersa, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you didn¡¯t know the benefits of building roads to the gates of beastmen tribes? Let me tell you, as long as we dig out a few things from that small hill, it¡¯ll be enough to repay the costs of building a road.¡±

    Chairman Renersa and chairman Cruise looked at the normal looking hill and chairman Renersa shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve been here many times, but I¡¯ve never seen any treasures hidden in that small hill.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Even if there are good things, this wolfmen tribe would have already dug it out to sell, would they wait for you to dig it out?¡± Chairman Cruise also had a look of disbelief.

    ¡°First, they don¡¯t have the ability to dig the treasure out of the ground. Second, they can¡¯t recognize the treasure at all, even if they had the ability to dig it up.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Right now I have the ability to dig out these treasures and I know what use these treasures have, then who would dig it up if not me?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s smile that didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, chairman Cruise asked with knit brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what treasure is there underneath? Is it worth you speciallying to visit the beastmen?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Renersa, ¡°Chairman Renersa, are you also interested?¡±

    Chairman Renersa thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°Of course I¡¯m interested. I have done business with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnds for many years, but this is my first time hearing of a treasure hidden in this broken ce. Chairman Xu, please speak. If there are good things, everyone can work together to dig it out for money.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi deliberately said this in front of them, naturally he was nning on including them,

    To do something under the eyes of the beastmen tribes of the ck Rice Wastnd, it would be hard without someone that was familiar with this ce.

    Chairman Renersa was the best candidate for Xu Yi.

    ¡°ording to the information I have now, if there are no surprises, there is a rich non-ferrous metal lode under this hill. The main things hidden are aluminum and copper, with some tungsten and lead ores. If we can mine them, it would be very good towards developing an industrial system. Even if it isn¡¯t used in the magic machine industry, it can be used in other ces¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Humph!¡± Chairman Cruise lifted his hand to cut Xu Yi off, ¡°I say, chairman Xu, I can¡¯t understand a single word that you are saying. I know about copper because it is used when making copper coins. But what are non-ferrous metals? What aluminum, tungsten, and lead ores? What are you talking about?¡±

    Chairman Renersa on the side also looked confused, ¡°That¡¯s right, I know that copper is, but what are the non-ferrous metals you mentioned and what use do they have? What do they look like?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, but he remembered the reason. The Sines Continent didn¡¯t have many uses for non-ferrous metals, other than opening some copper mines to make copper coins. Because the industrial system hadn¡¯t been developed, there weren¡¯t even that many ces where iron was used.

    Not to mention that before being processed, the non-ferrous metals weren¡¯tparable to iron.

    ¡°Eh¡­..I¡¯m afraid I con¡¯t exin the properties and uses of non-ferrous metals in a short period of time. Let¡¯s put it like this, right now the Falcoa Chamber of Commerce is already selling a ton of iron ore for seven gold coins. Then do you know how much I¡¯m willing to pay for a ton of copper ores?¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows, ¡°Copper ore is mainly used in creating copper coins, so the kingdom officials strictly manage them. Even if you wanted to buy it, it is impossible for the Falcao Chamber of Commerce to sell it to you.¡±

    ¡°Un? Alright, let me change my example. Eh¡­..The difference in aluminum is too much, so I¡¯ll use lead. For a ton of lead, I¡¯m willing to buy it for twenty gold coins!¡±

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa were shocked at the same time, ¡°Are you serious?¡±

    ¡°Of course, what would I lie to you for?¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°Let me tell you, the uses of non-ferrous metals are more widespread than iron, it is demanded inrge amounts when ites to magic machines. Chairman Cruise, didn¡¯t you always want me to make you somerge scale magic machines? Mypany could never develop it before was not just because of the Magic Array research limit, but also the material limit.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because you need these non-ferrous metals?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s that. Just with iron and steel alloys, it¡¯s impossible to buildrge scale magic machines.¡±

    Actually these words were nonsense. To build arge scale road building magic machine, he could do it with pure steel.

    But now Xu Yi was pulling the two of them into a partnership, so he could take advantage of how they didn¡¯t understand and talk nonsense.

    As expected, when hearing Xu Yi¡¯s answer, chairman Cruise gave a nod, ¡°Un, I understand now. But it doesn¡¯t matter what use it has, I just need to know that these non-ferrous metals are valuable. Since they¡¯re worth money¡­¡­¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at chairman Renersa and he gave a cold snort, ¡°These valuable things will be wasted staying in the beastmennd. Anyway, these simpleminded beastmen will not understand the value of these things, so we might as well help them dig it out.¡±

    Xu Yiughed. He thought that chairman Renersa didn¡¯t know his own personality. He had spent time with the beastmen too much and had been affected by the barbaric nature of the beastmen.

    But it was good that he was willing to join, it didn¡¯t matter what personality he had.

    Of course, to want to hide the mining of non-ferrous metals under the eyes of the beastmen, they had to discuss their n.

    The three of them discussed this for a while before deciding on an initial n. First chairman Renersa would bring the two of them into the Voller wolfmen n for a look before deciding their actions.

    After deciding on an initial n, Xu Yi went to Still who was walking by the tall grass of the ins not far away.

    ¡°What is the situation?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Still had a serious face as she shook her head, ¡°Not good. Look¡­..¡±

    Still stomped down hard on the ground and there was a small hole that appeared.

    There wasn¡¯t any moisture in the hole at all, only sand.

    ¡°This wastnd has be like this, no wonder there was so much silt in the river.¡± Still said with a heavy voice, ¡°But I¡¯ve asked Agnes and the others about this. They¡¯ve said that although the ck Rice Wastnd has been deste, the ground had always been covered in grass and it wasn¡¯t as dry as sand as it is now.¡±

    ¡°It should be because of the beastmen¡¯s overgrazing. It¡¯s caused the vegetation of the wastnd to wither, so it caused the soil to erode.¡±

    Xu Yi leaned over and grabbed a handful from the ground, grabbing some scattered sand.

    He slightly opened his fingers and the sand flowed through his fingers just like water.

    With the feeling of sand running through his fingers, Xu Yi¡¯s heart filled with emotions.

    This scene was just like the northwest of China back on earth.

    Back on earth, he had visited the northwest provinces because of some mechanical engineering problems. When he saw how deste thend was and how it was covered in sand, he felt very shocked.

    He was very clear that if this situation wasn¡¯t controlled, thend would be changed by the sand and nobody could ever live on it again.

    The current ck Rice Wastnd was showing signs of bing a desert. If he didn¡¯t care about this, he believed that in less than a few years, this wastnd would be a desert.

    At that time, not mentioning the beastmen being unable to continue living here, even the Lampuri Kingdom closest to the ck Rice Wastnd would be heavily impacted by this.

    Compared to earth, the Sines Continent had arge advantage when it came to this, which was the existence of the elves.

    The elves known as the forest tribe and back in the times before the race wars on the Sines Continent, the elves normally lived in cities that were filled with trees.

    At that time, the Sines Continent could be said to be covered in green. Not mentioning wastnds, there were few ces that weren¡¯t covered in forests.

    With the passing of this history, elves had a special inheritance and power when it came to cultivating nts.

    The current ck Rice Wastnd was very hard for the technologically advanced earth, but to the elves, it wasn¡¯t a problem at all.

    Xu Yi looked around and found that there weren¡¯t any beastmen around, so he called in a soft voice, ¡°Agnes.¡±

    Agnes¡¯ figure silently appeared by Xu Yi. Xu Yi pointed at the sand on the ground and asked her, ¡°How about it? Can you change this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Agnes¡¯ certain answer calmed Xu Yi down, ¡°Actually the elder had sent people several years ago to discuss with the beastmen, hoping to nt a forest on the ck Rice Wastnd and changing the environment, but the beastmen disagreed.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Agnes. On the continent, forests really were the same as elves. You elves came to offer to nt a forest on their beastmen property, it was no different from you saying that you want to take territory from them, so it would be weird if they did agree.

    But this time, the ones who wanted to nt here weren¡¯t elves, but rather the human Xu Yi. What kind of feelings would the beastmen have?

 Volume 2 96 - Investing in a factory in the beastmen territory

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 96 Investing in a factory in the beastmen territory</strong>

    The Voller Tribe chief Leiming Voller turned hisrge wolf head to look over the three humans and his wolf eyes were filled with doubt.

    He knew chairman Renersa because once in a while, this human¡¯s Renekton Chamber of Commerce would bringrge amounts of salt, iron tools, and clothes that only humans could make to trade here.

    Although this human traded for many precious furs and rare materials from the beastmen tribes of the ck Rice Wastnd, when both sides agreed to this, it was considered a fair trade. So most of the beastmen tribe was quite polite to this chairman Renersa.

    But this time, chairman Renersa didn¡¯te alone, rather he brought two unknown humans.

    What surprised chief Voller was that the rather young and weak looking human actually immediately said that he wanted to partner with the Voller Tribe!

    Partners?

    Humans and beastmen?

    This was simply a joke!

    The continent¡¯s races had a deep pain caused by the human cunning. Because the beastmen weren¡¯t very intelligent, they had been tricked by humans countless times.

    So in the minds of the beastmen, humans were liars.

    As for human merchants, they were liars among liars.

    The Renekton Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies could do business with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd because they brought goods to the beastmen to trade, so there was no leeway for cheating.

    But even so, many beastmen had been swindled countless times. They traded their tribe¡¯s precious items for the lower quality goods of the merchants.

    So after hearing what Xu Yi said, chief Voller immediately recognized Xu Yi as arge swindler.

    If he said that he wanted to make a deal with the Voller Tribe, chief Voller could have chosen to try believing in him, but to be partners¡­..

    This was basically a joke!But because of chairman Renersa, chief Voller didn¡¯t immediately chase Xu Yi out. Rather he gave an inquisitive look before waving his hand and saying in a deep voice, ¡°We don¡¯t cooperate with humans. If you want to make a deal, first take out the goods for me to see.¡±

    Because of chairman Renersa¡¯s reminder from before, Xu Yi was not surprised by the cold response of chief Voller. He revealed a smile and continued, ¡°Sir chief, don¡¯t be in a rush to reject me. How about you hear the cooperation n first?¡±

    Chief Voller impatiently snorted. After thinking about it, he suppressed the irritation in his heart and said with a snort, ¡°What cooperation n? Isn¡¯t this your human¡¯s way of taking advantage of us?¡±

    ¡°If you still feel this way after hearing the cooperation n¡­..then I¡¯ll leave immediately and never bother you again. But before this, I hope that you can listen to the n. Actually, this n is very beneficial to your tribe.¡± Xu Yi still had the same smile as he spoke.

    ¡°Chief Voller, please let me interject.¡± Chairman Renersa suddenly said, ¡°Chairman Xu has a very good reputation in our Banta City. The human merchants who have cooperated with him have all received great benefits, so you don¡¯t need to worry about him cheating you. Other than that, I can tell you something that will shock you. In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that chairman Xu has set up, other than human workers, there are over a thousand dwarf and elf workers.¡±

    ¡°Dwarves and elves?¡± Chief Voller¡¯s eyes popped out, as his wide eyes filled with disbelief, ¡°How is this possible! I can still imagine the dwarves working in your humanpanies, but how could the elves possibly lower themselves to work for you humans? I don¡¯t believe it!¡±

    ¡°If you don¡¯t believe me, there are currently eleven elven workers from ourpany waiting outside. I can call them in for you to personally confirm.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chief Voller narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi and after thinking about it, he shook his head, ¡°Forget it, I don¡¯t like those fellows who always look down on people. Alright, chairman Xu, since you¡¯ve said all of this, then you can tell me your so-called cooperation n.¡±

    After finally moving chief Voller, Xu Yi let out a sigh and exined his ns in detail to him.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was first nning to open a mine in the Voller Tribe and mine the non-ferrous metal lodes near the Voller Tribe.

    Then because it would take too much effort to transport the ores, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be directly making a non-ferrous metal processing nt here.

    Adding in the fact that the byproducts of the non-ferrous metal processing nt was useful in making cement, they would also be building a cement factory here.

    But if they wanted to transport the refined non-ferrous metal out, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce would cooperate with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build a road from Banta City to Samara.

    Later they would first build a small road from the Samara to the Voller Tribe, as well as constructing other roads based on the situation.

    So like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be investing in building a mine, two factories, and a road in the Voller Tribe, which was arge investment.

    ¡°But what benefits are there to my tribe? What do you want to cooperate with me on?¡± After listening to Xu Yi, chief Voller said with a snort, ¡°Human, let me tell you, the mine you¡¯re talking about is in our Voller Tribe¡¯s territory, so we should be the one who decides on what to do with it, not you. Now since I know that I have this good thing, if you can¡¯t satisfy me, don¡¯t think of cooperating with me.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Since you said the word cooperation, it means that your heart has already been moved, ¡°Chief Voller, I understand that the non-ferrous metal vein is in your tribe¡¯s territory, so I specially came here to purchase this vein from you.¡±

    ¡°You want to purchase the entire vein?¡± Chief Voller narrowed his eyes and a rare cunning look shed in them, ¡°Alright, human, how much will you pay? I¡¯ve heard that you humans would spend quite a bit to buy iron mines.¡±

    ¡°Right, an iron mine can sell for quite a lot to humans, but chief Voller, what I¡¯m buying is not an iron minne. This will only produce non-ferrous metals and this is very rarely used in our human society, so it isn¡¯t worth that much. So I can¡¯t pay the same price for this mine as an iron mine.¡± Xu Yi said with a timely bitter smile.

    Chief Voller thought about it. With his understanding of human society, they rarely used non-ferrous metals. It seems that this human called Xu Yi shouldn¡¯t be lying to him.

    ¡°Even if it won¡¯t be the same price as an iron mine, it can¡¯t be too cheap. Speak, how much are you nning to offer?¡± Chief Voller asked.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, thinking that this chief Voller was really moved.

    Who said that beastmen were simple, at least this wolfmen chief only cared about money.

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Renersa and chairman Cruise. The both of them nodded to him, allowing him to decide.

    Xu Yi nodded to show her understood and he stretched out his palm to chief Voller.

    ¡°Five hundred thousand.¡±

    Instantly, Xu Yi could see countless stars in chief Voller¡¯s wolf eyes.

    ###

    Four dayster, Xu Yi, chairman Cruise, and Still were heading back to Banta City first.

    Agnes and the other ten elves remained at the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Following Xu Yi¡¯s request, they were investigating the situation of the ck Rice Wastnd. They were to draw aplete map of it.

    Other than inspecting how to control the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s desertification problem, their most important task was to clearly draw up the distribution of beastmen ns.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, cooperating with the Voller Tribe was only the first step the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was taking into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    With the materials he currently had, the ck Rice Wastnd didn¡¯t just have the non-ferrous vein near the Voller Tribe.

    The minerals hidden deep under the ck Rice Wastnd were rich. ording to his early estimates, it even surpassed all the non-ferrous metals hidden in the Lampuri Kingdom added together.

    As for why Xu Yi was so clear on this¡­...

    It was because the five dwarves Xu Yi had sent outst year to explore the minerals in each region of the Lampuri Kingdom had finallye back.

    In the span of a year, the five dwarves had explored in five different directions. They carried a detailed exploration of every part of the Lampuri Kingdom. One of the dwarves named Ramph had explored west, stepping foot into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    It had to be said, the dwarves really were talented in this aspect.

    In this year, the five dwarves had gone to every inch of the Lampuri Kingdom, learning everything about the underground minerals of every region.

    When Xu Yi had sent them out at first, they were mainly responsible for finding the distribution of iron ores.

    But the dwarves had found that most of the iron deposits had been found and over half of them had been explored, so the five dwarves focused on the non-ferrous metal veins that Xu Yi had mentioned.

    The conclusion drawn was that the ck Rice Wastnd containedrge amounts of non-ferrous metals.

    Even in the ore samples that Ramph brought, Xu Yi had actually found some rare earth elements!

    To control the danger of the river, he had to control the geological environment of the ck Rice Wastnd that was upriver. So Xu YI used this chance toe to the ck Rice Wastnd, looking to cooperate with these beastmen.

    The other humans had scruples about cooperating with other races, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t have this at all.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many dwarves and elves working there, so adding in a few beastmen wasn¡¯t considered anything.

    Of course, right now this cooperation was only at its beginning stages.

    Their group had remained in the Voller Tribe for two days and chief Voller had said that there was no discussion with the money.

    So Xu Yi¡¯s group could only give up for now and return to Banta City to discuss their next moves.

    It would cost around three hundred thousand gold coins to construct a road from Banta City to Samara. Then for the road from Samara to the Voller Tribe, it was narrow and it wasn¡¯t over ten kilometers, so it wouldn¡¯t cost more than two hundred thousand.

    Other than that, adding in the five hundred thousand to buy the mine and some other initial investments, calcting everything, Xu Yi, chairman Renersa, and chairman Cruise would have to invest over a million gold coins.

    Because Xu Yi was in charge of this matter and chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa didn¡¯t really understand the non-ferrous metals, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest six hundred thousand and take a 60% share. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce would invest three hundred thousand with a 30% share and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce would invest a hundred thousand with a 10% share.

    As for the toll for the road, they would divide it based on their shares.

    Moreover, this was only the profit distribution of the mine. As for the non-ferrous metal processing nt and the cement factory, it was financedpletely by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any shares.

    Actually, chairman Cruise had requested to buy stocks in the processing nt and the cement factory, but Xu Yi had rejected this.

    It was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sole possession of the technology used in these two factories, so if they cooperated with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it would be leaked eventually.

    Chairman Cruise naturally understood this, so after Xu Yi rejected his request, he didn¡¯t keep insisting.

    Because he had already discussed with chairman Cruise on what needed to be done on the road, after the horse carriage entered Banta City, Xu Yi rejected chairman Cruise¡¯s invitation to dinner for both him and Still and rushed back to Still¡¯s house with her.

    Because as soon as they entered the city, they received a shocking piece of news.

    Great Magician Cami had suddenly announced he was closing his Magic Tower!

 Volume 2 97 - Persuasive advertisement

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 97 Persuasive advertisement</strong>

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t understand why I closed the Magic Tower?¡± Great Magician Cami looked at the two anxious people in front of him with a smile as he asked this.

    Xu Yi and Still shook their heads at the same time.

    ¡°Of course we don¡¯t understand!¡± Still grabbed Great Magician Cami¡¯s arm with a worried face, ¡°Grandfather, didn¡¯t you say that your Magic Tower came from your lifetime of work? Didn¡¯t you want to focus on studying magic and be an Arch Magus or even a Great Magus? Why are you suddenly shutting it down? Could it be that you¡¯re giving up on studying magic?¡±

    ¡°Who says I¡¯m giving up on studying magic?¡± Great Magician Cami looked at her.

    ¡°Then why did you close the Magic Tower?¡± Still asked in a confused voice, ¡°You worked hard to establish this Magic Tower, how will you study magic if you close it?¡±

    Great Magician Cami shook his head. He reached out to pat Still¡¯s head as he said with a smile, ¡°Still, your understanding of magic is too shallow. Did anyone say you have to study magic in a Magic Tower? For example, isn¡¯t it the same at that magic research facility of Xu Yi¡¯s?¡±

    Xu Yi and Still were stunned at the same time. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, it can¡¯t be that you¡¯re nning to study magic at the magic research facility, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at him, ¡°What? I¡¯m not wee?¡±

    Xu Yi almost choked as he looked at Great Magician Cami with a look of disbelief.

    ¡°You¡­.Are you kidding? The magic research facility is¡­..is a ce that researches Magic Arrays for magic machines. If youe¡­..¡±

    ¡°I want to study Magic Arrays used in magic machines, can I not do that?¡± Great Magician Cami asked Xu Yi.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi and Still looked at each other, thinking that this was a bit unbelievable.

    Justst year, Great Magician Cami had abhorred mixing magic with business, even going as far as scolding Xu Yi several times.

    Although since the start of this year, Great Magician Cami¡¯s attitude had changed a bit and he started to agree to Xu Yi¡¯s requests, working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and helping them research Magic Arrays for magic machines. Even going as far as having the magicians of the Magic Tower help with the research, which helped Xu Yi solve quite a few problems.

    This was just Great Magician Cami helping when he had free time between experiments, which waspletely different from him joining the magic research facility.

    ¡°Grandfather, are you serious?¡± Still asked in a surprised voice, ¡°You¡¯re really nning to work at the magic research facility?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Great Magician Cami gave an earnest nod, not looking like he was joking at all. He said to Xu Yi, ¡°Hey, kid, are you weing me or not?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Of course¡­..Of course you¡¯re wee!¡± Seeing that Great Magician Cami was being honest, Xu Yi was pleasantly surprised. He kept nodding as he said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, if you¡¯re willing to join our magic research facility, it would be our honour and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s honour! But your excellency Great Magician, I still don¡¯t understand, why are you suddenly doing this? Could it be that you closed the Magic Tower because of this decision?¡±

    Still looked at Great Magician Cami with eyes filled with doubt.

    Seeing their confused looks, Great Magician Cami knew that if he didn¡¯t exin it, these two fellows wouldn¡¯t let him go. He pointed to stools on the side, signaling that they would sit and talk.

    ¡°Where to start¡­¡­¡± When the three say down, Great Magician Cami fell into thought for a bit before suddenly asking Still, ¡°Still, how long have you been to our old home?¡±

    ¡°Old home?¡± Still was stunned. She thought for a bit before replying, ¡°It seems to be three months ago¡­...Oh, no, it¡¯s close to four months now. What about it? Grandfather, you suddenly mentioned our old home, do you want me to go back with you? Alright, it¡¯s just outside the city and it isn¡¯t far at all, we can go whenever you want.¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t mean that.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°Let me ask you,st time you went back, did you notice anything that had changed?¡±

    ¡°Changes with the old home?¡± Still slightly knit her brows and carefully thought for a bit before answering in a confused voice, ¡°There weren¡¯t any changes¡­..Oh! If I had to mention a change, does the cousin from second aunt¡¯s house having a son count?¡±

    ¡°Although it counts¡­..But I¡¯m not talking about this.¡± Great Magician Cami slowly shook his head, ¡°If you go back now, you¡¯ll find that the old home ispletely different from before.¡±

    ¡°Completely different? Is it that exaggerated?¡± Still was a bit surprised, ¡°Mildan Vige has had the same appearance since I was young, it has never really changed.¡±

    ¡°That is because you haven¡¯t taken a look since going back and haven¡¯t really asked about it.¡± Great Magician Cami turned to look at Xu Yi, ¡°Actually, there is arge change with Mildan Vige right now and the reason why there are those changes is because of this kid.¡±

    ¡°Because of Xu Yi?¡± Still looked over at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi knit his brows to think before suddenly revealing a look of understanding.

    ¡°I remember now, Mildan Vige is it? I have some impression of that name. If my memories aren¡¯t wrong, it should be on the list for the first phase of the Banta City renovation. Un¡­..Chairman Cruise discussed it with mest time, this Mildan Vige¡­..It seemed to have been demolished.¡±

    ¡°Completely demolished?¡± Still was stunned and couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Why didn¡¯t you tell me about such an important matter!¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands with a bitter smile, ¡°You just said that you and his excellency Great Magician are Banta City natives, but not people from inside the city, how could I know that MIldan Vige was your old home?¡±

    Still thought about it and found that she had indeed never mentioned this to Xu Yi before. Her anger changed into a smile, ¡°Alright, it was my fault. But Xu Yi, Mildan Vige is my old home, so when chairman Cruise is demolishing it, you have to be good to them, you can¡¯t make them suffer.¡±

    ¡°How could I let them suffer? Chairman Cruise and I have already discussed this and we¡¯ve considered resettling the vigers after the demolishing, letting them live better lives. You can ask his excellency Great Magician if you don¡¯t believe me.¡± Xu Yiined.

    ¡°Un, I can guarantee that.¡± Great Magician Cami nodded.¡± Right now the vigers are just waiting for the demolishing.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Still was a bit surprised, ¡°Everyone who has lived in Mildan Vige has been there for a long time, so why is everyone willing to leave? Could it that they don¡¯t care about it at all?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Still, ¡°There¡¯s greater advantages to leaving, so why would they care? ording to the contract that the City Lord¡¯s Manor had them sign, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would separately build a ce for them to live in those¡­..What houses again?¡±

    ¡°Building apartments.¡± Xu Yi quickly added.

    ¡°Right, apartments. I¡¯ve seen those buildings and not only are they beautiful, they use decent bricks and stone, as well as that new technology from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Oh, it¡¯s called reinforced concrete, it¡¯s quite firm. It¡¯s much better than those broken wood and stone houses in the vige. So if you could exchange, would you?¡±

    ¡°Is it really that good?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi with a bit of disbelief.

    Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°It¡¯s that good. Other than building new residences for them, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Amrit Chamber of Commerce will invite the vigers to work for ourpanies. With the current wages that ourpanies are giving, I think that it should be a very good thing for many vigers.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is a good thing.¡± Still let out a sigh of relief. She revealed a smile and asked Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, this is the change you mentioned? But I still don¡¯t understand, how is this rted to your decision of closing your Magic Tower?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted?¡± Great Magician Cami let out a breath. His face looked a bit somber and a bit reminiscent, ¡°When I returned to the vige before, although the rtives in the vige respected me, I knew that they feared me more. They were afraid of my identity as a Great Magician. But when I returned a few days ago, I found that although the vigers were respectful to me, it wasn¡¯t the same as before and there was a bit of friendliness in the respect. Moreover, when they talked to me, they kept saying that I raised a good granddaughter.¡±

    ¡°Why is it rted to me?¡± Still said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Because you have a good boyfriend called Xu Yi and Xu Yi is the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Great Magician Cami said.

    Xu Yi awkwardly rubbed his nose, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, is there a need to praise me like this? I¡¯ll be embarrassed.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be embarrassed becausepared to how the vigers praised you, my bit of praise doesn¡¯t count for anything. In their eyes, you have be their saviour.¡±

    Great Magician Cami paused, as if he was thinking about what happened in Mildan Vige.

    ¡°Because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right now there are many more jobs in Banta Citypared to before. The vigers could only work on their farms all year round, which was not only tiring, they also didn¡¯t receive any ie. Now not only is it much easier for them to manage their farms with the agricultural magic machines, they also have time for other work. The lives of each family in the vige is much betterpared to before. I even saw each family getting to eat meat after heading back. It could be said that this is all the work of Xu Yi.¡±

    Xu Yi really felt embarrassed as he gave two dry coughs and said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you really are praising me too much. I just did what I wanted to do and what came after was nature taking its course, I didn¡¯t think that much.¡±

    ¡°But the lives of the vigers did improve because of what you did, isn¡¯t this true?¡± Great Magician Cami said with a serious face, ¡°Not only Mildan Viges, I¡¯ve seen the other viges around the city and there have been changes in everyone¡¯s lives. As long as you¡¯re not toozy, anyone can have a better lifepared to before. This kind of change is just too big.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°Right, your excellency Great Magician, this is the power of industry that I mentioned before. After developing the industrial system, you can raise production force and naturally increase the quality of life for people. These are the natural effects, it isn¡¯t that strange.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a soft sigh, ¡°I didn¡¯t understand this before, but after seeing the viges, I have to say that you werepletely right before. We magicians spend all day researching magic, but we only develop magic with destructive powers and nothing that helps people¡¯s lives. As for the magic machine industry that you¡¯ve developed, it¡¯s changed the lives of so many people in Banta City in such a short period of time. Compared to this, I as a Great Magician am no use.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say that.¡± Xu Yi quicklyforted him, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, right now many of the magic machines developed by ourpany is rted to you, so how can you say that you¡¯re of no use?¡±

    ¡°If I focus on studying it, there will be even more results.¡± Great Magician Cami honestly said, ¡°So aftering back from Mildan Vige, I¡¯ve thought about it seriously for two days and have decided that I will focus purely on studying Magic Arrays for magic machines. Xu Yi, you were right, magic isn¡¯t just just a tool for killing, it can also improve people¡¯s lives.¡±

    ¡°But grandfather, you don¡¯t need to close the Magic Tower just to join the magic research facility, right?¡± Still couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Even if you stay like this, couldn¡¯t you also focus on studying magic machines?¡±

    Great Magician Cami revealed a smile and looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of deep meaning.

    ¡°Still, you don¡¯t understand what I mean, but I think this kid understands.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s questioning and unwilling to give up gaze and said with a faint smile, ¡°Right, of course I understand. Actually, Still, you should understand that his excellency Great Magician is doing this purely for advertising.¡±

 Volume 2 98 - Extravagant worries

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 98 Extravagant worries</strong>

    Just saying that Great Magician Cami did this for advertisement was far from being enough.

    When Xu Yi specially announced at a press conference held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that Great Magician Cami would be joining the magic research facility, bing the top grade research staff for the facility, it caused all the reporters to jump out of their seats in shock.

    And when the newspapers spread this news as fast as possible, everyone¡¯s first reaction to this piece of news was disbelief.

    What kind of person was a Great Magician, how could he work for apany?

    This was definitely a joke!

    But when this news was confirmed, everyone was speechless in shock.

    What concept was a Great Magician?

    On this Sines Continent that hadn¡¯t had a Great Magus in many years, this was the strongest magician under an Arch Magus!

    Even in the two superrge empires, a Great Magician was someone that was aloof and was respected by everyone.

    In a small kingdom like the Lampuri Kingdom, because there were no Arch Magi, the five Great Magicians represented all the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    It could be said that any Great Magician was an important existence in the Lampuri Kingdom, there were even many people who felt that Great Magicians were on the same level as the king.

    So when Great Magician Cami announced that he was joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this created arge shock in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Not only did all the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom care about this matter, everyone in the kingdom that learned of this matter focused on it.

    And in this matter, the other lead was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and naturally it attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some fame because of their new magic machines, before this, there weren¡¯t many people who understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was because even if people bought the Frestech Brand magic machines, not many cared about what thepany that made the magic machine was called.

    But with this matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name spread to every corner of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Think about it, even the Great Magician was willing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so thispany had to be incredible!

    If one was to measure based on advertising effect, with the news of Great Magician Cami joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the most direct effect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received was that in less than half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received countless orders for their magic machines.

    And for some magic machines that had a wide range of uses, the orders during this time was more than the total orders over the past three months!

    Even the Magic Fan and the Magic Refrigerator that were out of season, they instantly received arge amount of orders.

    It could be said that just with this decision from Great Magician Cami, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a shocking profit of over a million gold coins!

    Speaking of advertisements, were there advertisements with this kind of terrifying effect?

    Of course, with the output potential of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would take quite a bit of time to digest these orders. So strictly speaking, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t earn this much in a short period of time.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be famous all over the Lampuri Kingdom because of this matter.

    The ones that came to ce orders with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were actually merchants from Phoenix City, that was to the northeast of the kingdom and over seven hundred kilometers away from Banta City!

    The benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gained were not just that. Putting aside the most direct benefits, because of the sudden decision from Great Magician Cami, it attracted the curiosity of the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom and even of the entire Sines Continent.

    Just what kind of attraction did this Frestech Chamber of Commerce have? It could even get a Great Magician to work for them?

    Before Great Magician Cami was a special magic advisor for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which wasn¡¯t anything special. There were manypanies that wanted to give Great Magicians titles and hope that relying on this title, they could receive some support from the Great Magician.

    Even if the title the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave Great Magician Cami was a bit strange, it was still within the eptable range.

    But it waspletely different from Great Magician Cami joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because like this, it meant Great Magician Cami was being employed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He would be the official employee of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Although there would be nopany that was arrogant enough to treat a Great Magician as a subordinate, but for the Great Magician to do this, this was without a doubt lowering his status.

    It had to be known that even if the king of the Lampuri Kingdom wanted a Great Magician¡¯s help, he had to be polite and show his respect for the Great Magician. Not to mention a smallpany?

    After this news spread, the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom and other countries of the Sines Continent headed to the small Banta City, looking for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone wanted to see what kind of charm the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had that could cause Great Magician Cami to make this decision.

    And among them, there were some magicians that had the same thought.

    ¡°This Frestech Chamber of Commerce can even get a Great Magician to join, so it should be attractive enough to me, right?¡±

    So in the half a month after the press conference, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received countless magicians.

    After making sure what kind of conditions and treatment the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them, there were many magicians that were neutral who were moved. They expressed their wishes to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility.

    Even those First and Second Grade Magicians who weren¡¯t strong enough to join the magic research facility asked about whether the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was recruiting magicians to draw Magic Arrays on magic machines. They all showed their willingness to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory.

    There were some low level magicians that joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory before shared their experiences. The magicians knew that by doing some simple work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory, they could earn over twenty gold coins a month.

    This ie was something that many low level magicians never even dreamed of before.

    In an instant, Xu Yi¡¯s problem ofcking magicians was solved just like that and there was even a bit of an excess.

    Actually there were just too many magicians that came to Banta City to ask about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. With the current scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they couldn¡¯t take all these magicians. After some careful consideration from Xu Yi, he declined the requests of some magicians to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For Xu Yi who had been worried about finding magicians to work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, this was quite the extravagant action.

    It would have been fine if Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject them, but because he did, it made those people who had little understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce feel it was a very special ce. That gave them the confidence in rejecting those people who came to apply, so it made them even more enthusiastic.

    As for this situation, it was quite a headache for Xu Yi because he really wanted to take all these magicians in and prepare them as reserves.

    But with the current output scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t need all these magicians and raising them for nothing would be arge burden.

    Moreover, for Xu Yi, in the magic research facility, the quality of the magician was more important than the quantity of magicians when it came to staff members.

    There were quite the number of magicians that applied to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The strongest of them was even a Seventh Grade Magician, who was a bit stronger than Xu Yi.

    Of the remaining magicians, most of them were Third Grade or lower magicians. Only a small half of them were Fourth Grade or higher, who were qualified to join the magic research facility.

    Compared to recruiting a hundred Fourth or Fifth Grade Magicians, Xu Yi would rather recruit a Great Magician who was on the same level or higher than Great Magician Cami.

    Of course, this was a wish that wouldn¡¯te true.

    Great Magician Cami chose to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than going back to Mildan Vige and seeing the improvements to the lives of the vigers, most of it was because of Still and Xu Yi¡¯s rtionship.

    Otherwise, with his status as a Great Magician, joining apany would just require a single word from him and all thepanies would line up for him to choose.

    So Xu Yi gave up this fantasy and worked to solve this problem.

    These magicians came to a small city like Banta City with great difficulty, so if he didn¡¯t seize this chance to keep them here, it would be too much of a pity.

    So Xu Yi used his identity as the president of the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union to hold a meeting. He talked to the representatives of the otherpanies, hoping that they could use this chance to recruit magicians to theirpanies.

    There were over tenpanies that were producing magic machines that were worrying about theirck of magicians, so they already wanted to recruit these magicians before Xu Yi even said anything.

    They thought that these magicians would all head to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it wasn¡¯t good for them to make a move.

    But with what Xu Yi said, how could thesepanies still hold back?

    In less than a month, of all the magicians that came to Banta City, as long as they were interested in studying magic machines, they were all taken in by thergepanies.

    In the final report by the City Lord¡¯s Manor, with the wave attracted by Great Magician Cami joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Banta City had suddenly gained over three thousand magicians!

    Of course, this was not all good news.

    For example, her highness Seveni who had arrived in Banta City again scared Xu Yi with the first thing she said after meeting him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you hired all these magicians, could it be that you want to use them to revolt?¡±

 Volume 2 99 - Negotiating with the army headquarters

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 99 Negotiating with the army headquarters</strong>

    Seveni had a ghost of a smile and with her serious gaze, it made it hard for people to tell if she was joking or not.

    Xu Yi quickly said with a smile, ¡°Your highness, you really can joke. I am a loyal andw-abiding citizen, how could I think about starting a rebellion? Then again, mypany has only recruited less than three hundred magicians, how could I have the ability to rebel?¡±

    ¡°You think three hundred magicians isn¡¯t much?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You have to know that even in the royal army, there are less than five hundred magicians in a single regiment. Not to mention that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a Great Magician!¡±

    ¡°Your highness, you can¡¯t misunderstand me like this.¡± Xu Yi quicklyined, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has recruited this many magicians because of our job needs, we aren¡¯t trying to cause a rebellion at all. Even Great Magician Cami is only in charge of studying magic machines, could it be that you think that I dare order an old man like him to rebel?¡±

    ¡°Of course you don¡¯t dare.¡± Seveni shook her head before saying with a soft sigh, ¡°But some people think you do. Do you know, because of this matter, there have been people advising my royal father that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have good intentions in recruiting all these magicians and all these people from other races. They hope that royal father will be more vignt of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even directly supervise it.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before knitting his brows, ¡°Aren¡¯t these people ndering me too much? Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is honestly doing our business. We hired the people from other races for the special ability of their races, how could it be for bad intentions? I think that his majesty wouldn¡¯t listen to this blind drivel, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course royal father isn¡¯t listening to this, but this shows that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has be more famous and people are starting to pay attention to you, wanting to take care of you. I hope that you will be more vignt in the future and don¡¯t leave too many things for people to take advantage of. For example¡­..your factory has recruited another three hundred elves, but you have never submitted the application forbour cards to the Royal Parliament. This matter could be used as proof for your ill intentions.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his head and said with augh, ¡°I¡¯ve been too busy during this time and I had forgotten. How about this, give me two days to make a list and then I¡¯ll apply for theirbour cards. I promise I won¡¯t let your highness worry about us again.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯d be strange if I wasn¡¯t worried.¡± Seveni gave a sigh. She shook her head and took out a document from her purse which she gave Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯ve already submitted the application for you. You just need to make a list of the names and then I¡¯ll add the names onto the application for you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the papers and found that they were all properly written, only missing a list of names.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a sigh, ¡°Your highness, you really do take care of me. I really don¡¯t know how to show my gratitude.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to show it, you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just need to finish your matters in Banta City.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that Great Magician Cami joined your Frestech Chamber of Commerce because he discovered that the things your Frestech Chamber of Commerce could improve the lives of Banta City¡¯s people. I am the same, as long as you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can keep doing this, I will support you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Since everyone can see that there are benefits for everyone in the things that I and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce does, why do people have ill intentions?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because these benefits aren¡¯t rted to them and because you are standing on a different side.¡±

    Seveni ambiguously replied and didn¡¯t exin any further. She waved her hand at Xu Yi and brought him to another secret room in the City Lord¡¯s Manor apart from the one they were talking in.

    There were two people sitting inside. When they saw Sevenie in, they immediately stood up and gave her a bow.

    Xu Yi looked over the two of them and found that one of them had a tense feeling to their actions and they were standing straight, while looking forward. It could be seen that these two came from the army.

    The other person was a middle aged man with a moderate build that had a friendly smile on his face, looking very kind. He seemed like a normal merchant.

    ¡°Let me give introductions, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.¡± Seveni first pointed at Xu Yi to introduce him to the two of them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I have long heard your name and finally being able to meet you today, it really fills me with deep honour.¡± The middle aged man who was like a merchant reached both hands out to tightly grip Xu Yi¡¯s hand, looking very friendly. ¡°Let me introduce myself, I am major MacConley of the kingdom royal army¡¯s logistics department, I¡¯m mainly in charge of handling the logistics for the soldiers. Helping the brothers buy their clothes, their food, and other things, mainly it¡¯s just doing odd jobs.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out his other hand and grabbed major MacConley¡¯s hands, as he also revealed a friendly smile.

    ¡°Like this, everyone¡¯s the same. I as the chairman am responsible for taking care of the odd jobs for mypany¡¯s workers.¡±

    Major MacConley gave augh, ¡°That is great, I¡¯m certain there are many things I can discuss with chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled. This major MacConley was quite modest, when in reality the logistics department was one of the most important departments of the royal army. For this major MacConley to be responsible for the logistics department, not mentioning his own abilities, his background must also be quite good.

    After having these thoughts, Xu Yi looked at the other person.

    That person looked to be around forty and seeing Xu Yi look over, he didn¡¯t reveal any expressions as he gave a slight nod to Xu Yi. He said without any emotions, ¡°I am Sah¡¯rhee.¡±

    Seeing that Sah¡¯rhee had apletely different personality from major MacConley, Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything else and just nodded with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m very happy to meet you.¡±

    Seeing that the three had introduced themselves, Seveni had everyone sit down before directly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, this time I came with major MacConley and major Sah¡¯rhee to see you to ask you about information on the weapon factory. We hope that you will cooperate with us.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s easy.¡± Xu Yi nodded before looking at major MacConley.

    Based on the expressions of the three, the one in charge of asking should be the one in charge of the logistics department.

    As expected, MacConley gave a soft cough and pulled back the smile on his face as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, first let me give you some good news. The weapon factory that the army headquarters was building is finished, right now we justck the corresponding magic production equipment to run it. I want to ask, when is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce nning to deliver the armour and weapon magic production machines that you promised?¡±

    ¡°Actually after deciding to build an arms factory after discussing it with her highness, ourpany has been secretly producing these magic production machines. Right now we have already finished enough for two production lines and they can be delivered at any time.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    MacConley and Sah¡¯rhee looked at each other with happy expressions.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, ording to the contract you signed with her highness, other than providing the magic production machines, you also need to provide corresponding technical personnel to assist the army headquarters learn how to use these magic machines and the various standards required. Have you prepared those personnel?¡± MacConley asked.

    ¡°There is no problem there either. The corresponding workers are people picked from the hundred ves under me and because of their identity, I can guarantee they won¡¯t divulge these secrets. Of course, for further consideration, I propose that I give those ves to her highness and let her highness control them. I believe that this will make it easier for the army headquarters.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seveni, MacConley, and Sah¡¯rhee all looked quite stunned.

    MacConley couldn¡¯t help giving a cough. Actuallyst time Xu Yi had already told Seveni that the workers would be chosen from ves under him and in this negotiation with Xu Yi, MacConley had nned on proposing this condition on behalf of the army headquarters, but he never thought that Xu Yi would mention it first.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to say, you really are wise.¡± MacConley praised before turning to ask Seveni, ¡°Your highness, what do you think?¡±

    Seveni took a deep look at Xu Yi before nodding, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll follow what chairman Xu said and transfer those ves to me. But chairman Xu, ording to my understanding of you, you wouldn¡¯t give me the ves under you for no reason, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Your highness really does understand me. Indeed, those ves are not just my precious private property, they are also valuable workers for ourpany. To suddenly lose them, it would be a great loss whether it was for me or mypany. If your highness and the army headquarters didn¡¯t give me properpensation, that wouldn¡¯t be right.¡±

    MacConleyughed, ¡°Chairman Xu is right, there is no free meal in this world. Since chairman Xu has paid the price, then you have the right to propose yourpensation. Chairman Xu, please tell us. As long as it¡¯s not too much, with her highness here, she can definitely make the decision for you.¡±

    Seveni didn¡¯t say anything and just gave a slight nod to show that she agreed.

    Xu Yi looked at the three slightly nervous people and said with a smile, ¡°Rx, I¡¯m not proposing anything that¡¯s too much. Un¡­...This is very simple. In the territory of the Sack Kingdom that the royal army will control, all the mining rights will be given to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    The expressions of the three changed at the same time.

    Seveni didn¡¯t even think as she blurted out, ¡°This is impossible!¡±

 Volume 2 100 - Vanilla Orchid Suburb

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 100 Vani Orchid Suburb</strong>

    Seveni hade to Banta City many times this year, but other than the first time, she had only stayed a few days each time before leaving.

    This time wasn¡¯t an exception.

    After discussing this issue with Xu Yi with MacConley and Sah¡¯rhee for three days, Seveni and the two left Banta City together.

    There was no official conclusion to the discussion this time because for Xu Yi¡¯s proposed conditions, although Seveni had never directly rejected again, she had never shown that she would agree.

    But Xu Yi was actually very generous. Although Seveni hadn¡¯t agreed to the condition he put forth, he still guaranteed Seveni that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would follow the contract they signed before and deliver the magic production machines the army headquarter factory would need. At the same time, on the day before Seveni¡¯s group left, he had prepared the ve contracts and signed the contract to transfer them to Seveni.

    After the contract was signed, the ves that would work at the weapon factory would be the property of Seveni.

    Xu Yi had done this so quickly that it made Seveni and MacConley feel a bit embarrassed.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that they really couldn¡¯t agree to Xu Yi¡¯s condition, Seveni and MacConley wouldn¡¯t have hesitated a bit to sign the contract.

    Actually, what Seveni and MacConley didn¡¯t know was that Xu Yi had never expected them to agree to this to begin with.

    Based on what Xu Yi knew, not only was all the iron ore in the Lampuri Kingdom controlled by the Jole Family, ording to the contract between the first king and the Jole Family, even when the royal army expanded the territory of the Lampuri Kingdom, the mining rights of the domain that they obtained for the kingdom would belong to the Jole Family.

    So even if Seveni and MacConley wanted to ept Xu YI¡¯s conditions, they couldn¡¯t avoid the Jole Family.

    But Xu Yi had proposed this condition that he knew was impossible for them to ept. To put it bluntly, he was asking a high price to make it easier to negotiate.

    Seveni and MacConley didn¡¯t agree to Xu Yi¡¯s condition because the condition included the iron ore, which meant that the Jole family would interfere.

    But Xu Yi had mentioned all ores and all ores was not just iron ores, but also non-ferrous metal ores.

    Although the Jole Family controlled all the iron mines and under the tacit understanding of the king, controlling all the copper mines, the other non-ferrous metals weren¡¯t important on the Sines Continent, so naturally the Jole Family didn¡¯t care about them.

    If Xu Yi wanted the non-ferrous metal mining rights or even the right to control them, he wouldn¡¯t be met with that much resistance.

    Of course, to mine ores under the Jole Family¡¯s eyes in the Lampuri Kingdom, naturally they would be met with all kinds of trouble. So even if Xu Yi had the ore distribution map that the five dwarves had made, his first goal was still the non-ferrous veins in the ck Rice Wastnd.

    His second goal was ced on the veins outside the country.

    Actually the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had been disputing over the northern border the entire time, with both sides pushing and retreating. After all these years, neither side had really controlled that area, so there was no need to mention either side turning it into their territory.

    So for the condition that Xu Yi raised, Seveni¡¯s group carefully considered it and found that it was no different from empty talk.

    So while the three of them were strongly opposed to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion in the beginning, they showed that there was room for discussion, but they needed to head back and carefully consider it first.

    This result was what Xu Yi expected and also what he had already nned for.

    His goal wasn¡¯t to reach a decision at once, rather it was to use these conditions to make the royal army ce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into their consideration. If there was anything like this in the future, they would consider Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So when he sent off Seveni¡¯s group, Seveni¡¯s group all had smiles from Xu Yi¡¯s quick response. Xu Yi also didn¡¯t feel a bit of loss and revealed a bright smile.

    Watching Seveni¡¯s group leave, Kennard who hade to send them off whispered to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, what do you think of her highness?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Just that¡­..do you feel her highness¡­...Un, is a person worth following?¡± Kennard said in broken words.

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard¡¯s unnatural expression and revealed a faint smile, ¡°I don¡¯t know if she is worth following, but with my current understanding of her highness, she is a person with the same ideals as me. We want to improve the lives of the kingdom¡¯s people with our abilities, so we move forward in the same direction. I think that as long as her highness doesn¡¯t change her ideals, I will support her.¡±

    Kennard didn¡¯t think that Xu Yi would answer so clearly, so he looked at Xu Yi in shock for a bit. He nodded with a serious expression and said, ¡°I also have the same pursuits, so I will work hard to help you, chairman.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and waved his hand, ¡°Alright, we are people who prove ourselves with deeds, let¡¯s not talk empty words. You said that you will work hard to help me, but what about the wage structure n? It¡¯s been more than half a month, it¡¯s almost three half months and I still haven¡¯t seen the n yet. You¡¯re still saying you¡¯re working hard?¡±

    Kennard immediately said with a bitter look, ¡°Chairman, you can¡¯t me me. I was almost done and had prepared the n, but I never thought that Great Magician Cami would make such a shocking decision. It caused the employees of ourpany to greatly change and wasted all the data I had collected.¡±

    ¡°Then when will you be able to hand the n to me?¡± Xu Yi asked without giving up.

    ¡°That¡­..¡± Kennard thought for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Because thepany has recruitedrge amounts of magicians that can draw Magic Arrays and with the increase in orders, we have also recruited more workers to increase production, it will take some time toplete the wage data. As for when exactly¡­..I can¡¯t say right now.¡±

    ¡°Shouldn¡¯t you give me a general time at least?¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Moreover, we don¡¯t need to wait until after the workers are recruited to make the wage adjustment. We should determine the standard wage before recruiting workers and use the standard right away after hiring the workers.¡±

    ¡°Un, I was thinking the same, so I¡¯ve been taking care of this during the past few days.¡± Kennard took a breath before confidently saying, ¡°Give me ten days, I will definitely have the n prepared.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°But chairman, I can take care of the wages of others, but there is one person I can¡¯t take care of.¡± Kennard added.

    ¡°Un? Can¡¯t take care of? Are you talking about yourself?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°How could I match the old man, I¡¯m talking about Great Magician Cami.¡± Kennard said, ¡°Chairman, you said that he would be a top grade researcher, so how should I set the standard wage for him?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and said with a bitter smile, ¡°I don¡¯t know the answer either. Last time I asked the old man how he should be paid and he just said that I should take care of it, he didn¡¯t care. After carefully considering it, I found that it is a very serious problem. It wouldn¡¯t be good to make it too low and it would be off to put it too high, which would destroy the confidence of the other researchers.¡±

    ¡°How about this, we won¡¯t set Great Magician Cami¡¯s sry too high, but with the reward system of the magic research facility, his excellency Great Magician will definitely earn quite a bit of rewards. How about we increase the reward amount, which not only indirectly raises his excellency Great Magician¡¯s sry, but also increases enthusiasm for the other researchers?¡± Kennard suggested.

    ¡°This is a good idea. Alright, carefully look this over when you head back and decide what is the most appropriate amount.¡± Xu YI waved his hand, ending this conversation.

    Seeing Kennard writing things down in his little book, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit pleased.

    Before Kennard came, he had to personally take care of many things for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that Kennard was his general manager, he just had to take care of therge things and give Kennard his thoughts to let him take care of it.

    Although he had only been in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for less than two months, Kennard had already disyed his excellent skills.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being managed by him, everything was running much more smoothly and efficiency had increasedpared to before.

    Xu Yi even felt that he was a treasure that fell from the heavens, often worrying that he would suddenly leave. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have no one to take over and might copse from this.

    Kennard didn¡¯t know that while he was writing, quite a few thoughts had passed through Xu Yi¡¯s head. After writing down everything, he looked at the sky and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, the opening ceremony for the Vani Orchid Suburb is about to begin, we should head over.¡±

    Xu Yi looked up to see the sun at a slight angle over his head and gave a nod. He called the prepared horse carriage and headed to the southwest of Banta City.

    ###

    The so-called Vani Orchid Suburb was the living area that contained the apartments that Great Magician Cami mentioned before.

    To be simple, it was a suburb.

    ording to the Banta City renovation n that Xu Yi discussed with Count Sean, the first step was renovating the outskirts of Banta City.

    In the first phase of the n, Mildan Vige that Great Magician Cami and Still came from was included in the three viges that would be demolished.

    This Vani Orchid Suburb was the prepared housing for the vigers of those three viges.

    Speaking of apartments, it made people think of the apartments that were all over China back on earth.

    They gave people the impression that they were of bad quality and had bad environments, with all kinds of shorings, making the vigers who were forced to move very unwilling.

    But this Vani Orchid Residential Area¡¯s apartments werepletely different.

    The quality of life for the people of the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t high and it was even lower for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom who had just recovered from the kingdom¡¯s turmoil.

    For a normal vige outside Banta City like Mildan Vige, the vigers all lived in small log houses that were made from rotten wood, or stone houses that were made from soil mixed with stone.

    There was no need to mention the quality of those two kinds of houses, they couldn¡¯t even achieve the most basic function of keeping out the cold. If there was a slightlyrge rain storm, the houses would leak all over.

    Living in these kinds of houses, the living standards of these vigers could be considered miserable for Xu Yi.

    This Vani Orchid Residential Area was built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce with financial support from Xu Yi. All the houses in themunity were built with reinforced concrete beams and walls made from a mix of cement, so it was very firm and steady.

    After it was built, the outside of the houses were coated in ayer of white lime that made the houses look pure white. The houses were designed by a specialist of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so they looked very elegant. It was simply the best quality housing.

    Not to mention that outside the buildings, Xu Yi had the elves of hispany help out, spending some time nting around the neighbourhood.

    After it was built, the neighbourhood had beautiful rows of two story buildings lined together with all kinds of strange nts that people of Banta City didn¡¯t recognize. The greenery provided shade and there was even a slight fragrance in the air, making it seem like a paradise on earth.

    After seeing these apartments, all the worries that the vigers from the three viges had about moving werepletely wiped away.

    After seeing the apartments, there were some vigers who weren¡¯t scheduled to move that asked to be moved.

    Faced with this, Xu Yi could only sigh in his heart.

    The poor had the advantages of being poor.

 Volume 2 101 - Building houses in noble territory

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 101 Building houses in noble territory</h4>

    The Vani Orchid Suburb¡¯s relocation could be considered the firstrge action from the Banta City renovation n. It represented that the renovation n was officially moving forward, so when the first group of vigers moved in, the City Lord¡¯s Manor specially held a ceremony for this and Count Sean even came personally.

    Other than Count Sean, thergepanies of the cities sent their representatives.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in charge of this project was focused on by everyone.

    When Xu Yi and Kennard arrived, the ceremony hadn¡¯t started yet. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise saw Xu Yi and immediately came forward to greet him.

    ¡°How about it? Chairman Xu, isn¡¯t this apartmentplex good?¡± Chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi with a proud look.

    Xu Yi looked at him and found it a bit funny, ¡°I¡¯ve already praised you many times, why are you still asking me this? If you want words of admiration, there, the Lord City Lord is over there, you can go look for him.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave to our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so now that the work is done, I have to report to the one paying first. As for the Lord City Lord, he¡¯s already praised me quite a bit earlier.¡±

    ¡°Since the Lord City Lord is also very satisfied, that is good.¡± Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Cruise, since the first project is done this well, the Lord City Lord won¡¯t give the other projects to otherpanies. If this Banta City renovation project ispletely given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, you¡¯ll be rich.¡±

    ¡°That is all because of chairman Xu¡¯s trust in us.¡± Chairman Cruise gave augh before moving in towards Xu Yi and saying in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I ask you a few things?¡±

    ¡°What things?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°The first question is, the Vani Orchid Suburb was finished by our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, but in front of you, I have to speak the truth. Didn¡¯t we take two hundred thousand from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce for this? Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce spent around one hundred and seventy thousand, so we earned around thirty thousand from this.¡±

    ¡°Un, chairman Cruise, it seems like you gave me some face and didn¡¯t take that much. I have to express my gratitude.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t want to talk about this. The question is that our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has indeed made money on this, but I still can¡¯t see it, how is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce earning money from this? This time you¡¯ve invested over two hundred thousand gold coins, I can¡¯t see how you¡¯ll earn those two hundred thousand gold coins back.¡± Chairman Cruise asked with a confused expression.

    ¡°Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten that thend the residential area takes is much less than the three viges?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Of course I know this, but this residential area is outside Banta City to begin with and the three viges are quite far away. The closest is Mildan Vige is close to five kilometers away from Banta City, based on this distance, the value of these pieces ofnd aren¡¯t the same at all. I don¡¯t think this is a business worth doing at all.¡± Chairman Cruise knit his brows as he thought about this and asked in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯re close, so if you have some special money making method, let me hear about it.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°Actually there isn¡¯t anything special. Although the three viges are farther from Banta City, haven¡¯t you ever thought that those three viges are included in the Banta City industrial sector and aren¡¯t that far from Sandton Manor. If nothing unexpected happens, the outer parts of Banta City will be the industrial sectors where all the factories in Banta City will be moved. Adding in the fact that your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is building roads, haven¡¯t you thought that¡­...would the value of thend still be as low as before?¡±

    Chairman Cruise thought about it and suddenly thought of something, as his eyes lit up. He revealed a smile of understanding towards Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really have far-sight, I admire you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile before asking, ¡°Alright, what is your second question?¡±

    ¡°The second question¡­..¡± Chairman Cruise turned to point at the countless people who were moving in and out of the Vani Orchid Suburb, ¡°This residential area was designed by yourpany and received the elves¡¯ help, so it looks very pretty after it waspleted. Not only is Lord City Lord satisfied, the people who are moving in are satisfied, and even the people visiting seem very satisfied. There are many people who have asked me if they could buy a house to live in, so I wanted to¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You want to build another living area and directly sell it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, how do you know what I wanted to say?¡±

    Xu yi revealed a smile. Hearing everything that you said before, it would be strange if I couldn¡¯t guess.

    The real estate industry was a very prosperous industry on earth, countless people had be rich in this industry.

    Chairman Cruise saw that this residential area¡¯s housing was weed, so it would be strange if he didn¡¯t want to earn money with this.

    Actually, when Xu Yi discussed the renovation n with Count Sean, he had considered this problem before.

    But whether it was Xu Yi or Count Sean, they didn¡¯t n on earning money from real estate. They just wanted to renovate Banta City, separating the residential area and the business area.

    So if chairman Cruise wanted to use housing like the Vani Orchid Suburb to earn money, he only needed to be afraid that Count Sean wouldn¡¯t agree.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, chairman Cruise was disappointed, ¡°I thought that with so many people in Banta City, there would be prospects in this industry. Ai, since the Lord City Lord isn¡¯t willing to agree, I can only forget about it.¡±

    Seeing the disappointed chairman Cruise, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was moved as he said, ¡°Actually it doesn¡¯t mean that it is impossible.¡±

    Chairman Cruise immediately revealed an overjoyed look, ¡°How do you think it could be done?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and said, ¡°The Lord City Lord hopes that you don¡¯t takend from the living area and hinder the Banta City renovation n, but domains outside this n is the loophole you can exploit. For example¡­..the private territory of nobles.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°Noble territory? That is their private territory, how could they agree to me building on them?¡±

    ¡°Whether they agree or not mainly depends on if there are benefits for them or not. Go tell them that they can earnrge amounts of money if they cooperate with you, do you think there will be a noble that will reject you?¡±

    Seeing chairman Cruise falling deep into thought, Xu Yiughed. If chairman Cruise was moved, then he will be able to move most of the nobles.

    When there aremercial buildings on the private territory of nobles, those territories won¡¯t really be private. When those buildings are built, it will be a public mark.

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t have much time to consider this because the ceremony was about to begin.

    First it was Count Sean who came up to the stage to give a lengthy speech. He first gave a general introduction to the renovation n that the City Lord¡¯s Manor was conducting and how the relocation of the three viges was the first step in this n, before he went on to talk about future steps.

    After he finished his introductions, it was Xu Yi and chairman Cruise¡¯s turn to speak.

    Of course their speeches weren¡¯t as long as Count Sean¡¯s. They just talked about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce supported the decision of the Lord City Lord and they would definitely use everything they had toplete the task the Lord City Lord issued¡­..

    When the speeches were finished, Count Sean announced the start of the move.

    With the help of the city guards, the first batch of vigers brought their furniture, cookware, and bedding to their new assigned homes.

    During this process, there were countless reporters who had been notified in advance that looked for their targets to interview.

    Suddenly the scene became very lively. Including the vigers, everyone had a happy smile on their face, looking very harmonious.

    When this scene entered Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, it made him of a popr term from earth, a show.

    That¡¯s right, the one who informed these reporters was the City Lord¡¯s Manor. Count Sean wanted to use this to put on a show, letting everyone know that not only was the Banta City renovation n inevitable, it would definitely seed.

    Although Xu Yi knew that a show was necessary, he wasn¡¯t used to this. After answering a few simple questions from reporters, he sent out his general manager Kennard and had him take their interviews while he secretly snuck out to the magic research facility.

    Compared to when there were only Evita and the other researchers, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility had increased by several folds because of the influx of over thirty magicians.

    The facility that used to have enough space for Evita and the others to study in while also giving them a ce to live was now not even enough to give each researcher ab, so many researchers were pushed into a singleb.

    Of course,pared to the working environment of many magicians, this magic research facility was much better, so there weren¡¯t anyints from the researchers at all.

    Of course, they didn¡¯t dare say it even if they did because Great Magician Cami was working in the same magic research facility.

    Compared to his excellency Great Magician, what did they count for?

    But even if no oneined, Xu Yi had considered buying another ce outside the city and specially building a research center for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The personnel responsible for research would all gather here and everyone would coordinate.

    But there weren¡¯t many ces like that, so all the magicians were gathered here for now.

    When Xu Yi had just walked into the research facility, he saw Akali walking over.

    Seeing the angry look on Akali¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

 Volume 2 102 - Security regulations and increasing power

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 102 Security regtions and increasing power</strong>

    ¡°Hey, Akali, who made you angry?¡± Xu Yi immediately asked.

    Akali looked up at Xu Yi and gave a snort, ¡°It¡¯s that bastard Schoch!¡±

    ¡°What happened with Schoch?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although Schoch had been cold to Xu Yi and even showed hostility, but he was very proper to other people and even was a gentleman to the girls, so why did Akali suddenly be so angry?

    ¡°He thinks he¡¯s so great! I told him that the Sun me Array can¡¯t take Wind Crystal Grass Essence because there would be problems with the conflicting attributes, but he wouldn¡¯t listen and said he had to give it a try. In the end, once the Magic Array was activated, it exploded!¡± Akali angrily said.

    Xu Yi was shocked,¡± Was someone hurt?¡±

    ¡°No one was.¡± Akali shook her head, ¡°Everyone reacted fast enough and had time to protect themselves, so nothing happened. But theb is in a mess from the explosion. I say that Schoch should fix his own problem and he dares talk back to me, saying that theb belongs to everyone! Humph! I¡¯m so angry!¡±

    Hearing that no one was hurt, Xu Yi calmed down and said with a smile, ¡°He¡¯s right, theb belongs to everyone and it¡¯s normal for idents to happen, so it¡¯s right that everyone cleans up.¡±

    Akali red at him, ¡°Sir chairman, then based on what you said, you think that he did nothing wrong?¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t say that.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Because of his mistake, the failed experiment has damaged theb, so the losses will all fall onto him. ording to the rules, the losses will be deducted from his next month¡¯s sry.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s final words, Akali suddenly broke out inughter.

    ¡°Ha, ha, let¡¯s see if he dares act so arrogantly next time. Right, deduct his sry and let him know the seriousness of this matter!¡±

    Seeing Akali¡¯s face covered in schadenfreude, Xu Yi shook his head. When he was about to ask Akali about the research progress, there was a cold snort from behind them.

    ¡°Sir chairman, there are normally failures when ites to magic research. If a researcher has to pay for the losses caused by their failure each time, does that mean that the researchers aren¡¯t allowed to do new experiments and do the safest thing? If it¡¯s like this, is there even a meaning for this research facility to exist?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to see Schoch¡¯s cold face and said with a serious look, ¡°No, it¡¯s the exact opposite. I very much encourage everyone to use their imagination and do all kinds of new experiments. But before this, my number one request is safety.¡±

    ¡°No one was hurt this time, so why are you punishing me?¡± Schoch wasn¡¯t willing to give up.

    ¡°Because you hadn¡¯t considered the consequences of your experiment failing. This time everyone reacted quickly and put up their guard, so nothing happened this time. If some people hadn¡¯t guarded themselves or if the explosion from your experiment failing was a bit too big, without ways to protect themselves, what do you think would happen if people were hurt or even killed?¡± Xu Yi said with a serious expression.

    Schoch didn¡¯t have any words.

    He indeed couldn¡¯t guarantee that magic experiments would seed each time, rather most of them ended in failure.

    He also couldn¡¯t guarantee that the destructive might would be in his area of control, so he couldn¡¯t answer Xu Yi¡¯s question at all.

    Seeing that Schoch wasn¡¯t speaking, Xu Yi ignored him. He asked Akali and after learning that Evita was in her personalb, he headed over.

    ¡°Establishing security measures?¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman, most magic experiments will fail, this isn¡¯t something strange, right?¡±

    ¡°Failure isn¡¯t strange, but I will not permit anyone being hurt or killed by these failures. Each magician, each staff member is precious, so if someone were to be injured or die from a failed experiment, I can¡¯t ept this loss.¡± Xu Yi had a serious expression, not looking like he was joking at all, ¡°For example, Evita, if you were injured from an experiment failing and it left a scar on your face, that is a loss that can¡¯t be recovered because wouldn¡¯t it ruin your beautiful face?¡±

    Evita¡¯s face was covered in a blush, ¡°Chairman, you think that I¡¯m beautiful?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before he naturally responded, ¡°Of course you¡¯re beautiful, isn¡¯t this easily seen?¡±

    Evita¡¯s blush became even darker and she lowered her head as she said in a low voice, ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s the chairman¡¯s request, then we¡¯ll set the security measures. But how should they be set?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care how they are set. Evita, you are the chief of the magic research facility, so you should make that decision. In short, my request is that when a researcher is performing an experiment, they have to pay attention to their own safety first.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seeing Evita keep her head down, Xu Yi thought it was because shecked confidence, so heforted her, ¡°Evita, you are the most careful girl I¡¯ve seen and you always consider every part of the issue. I believe that you will definitely be able to do this.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t see that Evita¡¯s lowered face turnedpletely red, he just heard her give a soft un sound.

    After he finished talking about the security measures matter, Xu Yi looked at the situation of theb and asked about the magic research facility¡¯s current progress.

    When speaking of research, Evita gradually calmed down and began telling Xu Yi about their progress during this time.

    Following Xu Yi¡¯s request, the magic research facility had been recently researching how to increase the power of various magic machines.

    Take the small Magic Harvester. Before there was a Third Grade Wind Magic Array drawn inside, the Wild Wind Array.

    With the power of this Magic Array, it was enough to satisfy the needs of the small Magic Harvester.

    But now that Xu Yi was nning to develop the medium andrge Magic Harvesters, the power of this Wild Wind Array wasn¡¯t enough.

    So the magic research facility was split into two directions of research.

    The first was quite direct, changing to a higher grade Magic Array to increase the power.

    Right now, they were set on three Fourth Grade Magic Arrays and a Fifth Grade Magic Array.

    ording to their research, those Fourth Grade Magic Arrays could be used since each one had a different characteristic.

    Xu Yi made arge move after learning of this and had the magic research facility study these four Magic Arrays. It would be best if they could create a proper magic output model for each Magic Array and then work with the magic machine workshop and the design department to make a concrete design.

    If it was the past magic research facility, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t have made this request because there was ack of people.

    But now that they had recruited thirty four more magicians, the magic research facility had increased their power and it wasn¡¯t too hard for them toplete this request.

    Xu Yi had made this request to make the Magic Harvester more adaptable.

    In the Lampuri Kingdom, or on the Sines Continent, it was impossible for thend to be as smooth as it was outside Banta City. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Harvester would be sold in many different ces, so naturally they had to adapt to them.

    As for the second direction of research, it was much moreplicated.

    This is because this direction was not changing Magic Arrays, but rather making adjustments to the Wild Wind Array and changing its output model, making it adapt to different requests.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had said that it would be best if they kept the Wild Wind Array and increased the power of this Magic Array, increasing the power output.

    When this idea was mentioned, it met the resistance of all the researchers.

    This is because the grades of Magic Arrays was the umtion of research over thousands of years, which included the wisdom of countless magicians.

    The Wild Wind Array was set as a Third Grade Magic Array, so there was logic behind it and it couldn¡¯t be easily changed.

    But when Great Magician Cami heard Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, unexpected to everyone, he said that this idea was feasible.

    The reason he gave was that Magic Array was different from magic.

    Although each Magic Array had a corresponding magic, with the Wild Wind Array having the Wild Wind Spell, the output of casting a spell depended on a magician¡¯s magic power and their knowledge of the spell, while a Magic Array was determined by the drawing of the array and the materials used.

    Just like how a spell¡¯s power could change because of different levels of magic power and understanding, a Magic Array¡¯s might could increase because of differences with the drawing and different kinds of materials.

    Since his excellency Great Magician said it was possible, the other researchers didn¡¯t have any arguments.

    After around a month of research, the magic research facility had initial results with this project.

    The current magic research facility¡¯s Wild Wind Array 3.0 had shown visible increase in might and the output model had been increased by 30%.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s calction, if this Wild Wind Array was ced on a small Magic Harvester, the efficiency of the small Magic Harvester would increase by at least 10%.

    Don¡¯t look down on 10%, in the machine industry, even a 1% increase was quite considerable.

    After hearing Evita¡¯s report, Xu Yi was very satisfied.

    After recruiting the thirty four magicians, the efficiency of the magic research facility had been increased quite a bit.

    The more important thing was that with Great Magician Cami here, the efficiency and enthusiasm of the researchers had all been greatly increased.

    The researchers would have all kinds of different strange thoughts, but it was hard to confirm if their thoughts would be effective.

    Before they suppressed all those ideas and didn¡¯t attempt them at all, but with Great Magician Cami here and with Xu Yi¡¯s endless encouragement, the researchers were willing to disclose those ideas and have everyone discuss them before Great Magician Cami made his decision.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, other than those ideas that were nothing but wild guesses, Great Magician Cami epted all different thoughts and encouraged everyone to experiment.

    So in just a short month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility had made a jump in terms of Magic Array research.

    When Xu Yi was fantasizing about recruiting another Great Magician or two, Evita suddenly said, ¡°Chairman, I think that the magic research facility should close temporarily.¡±

 Volume 2 103 - The researcherâ€™s work benefits

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 103 The researcher¡¯s work benefits</strong>

    Five dayster, a row of ten carriages with the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s symbol slowly rode into Anvilmar City.

    The motorcade came to the biggest inn in Anvilmar City, the Sheldon Inn. Staff wearing the uniform of the Sheldon Inn immediately came forward to wee them.

    The doors to the horse carriages opened and the researchers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce jumped out.

    Be saw the iparable beautiful Sheldon Inn that was four stories tall and took arge piece ofnd in Anvilmar City and couldn¡¯t help giving a shocked gasp.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯re really staying in such a good ce?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I heard it was very expensive here. It seems to take at least ten gold coins a night here!¡± ire couldn¡¯t help gasping from the side.

    Not only were these two shocked, the others all revealed shocked looks.

    The reason why these magicians chose to work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, putting all other reasons aside, it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them the best treatment.

    To put it from another angle, their economic situation was quite average.

    The Sheldon Inn was the best inn in all of the Lampuri Kingdom, so none of these magicians had ever stayed here before.

    Seeing the luxurious Sheldon Inn and thinking that they would be staying at this ce, many people couldn¡¯t help feeling excited.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s pretty much that price.¡± Xu Yi ambiguously said.

    Actually, he had booked twenty rooms at the Sheldon in a month ahead of time and this was for a whole week, so he spent a shocking two thousand gold coins.

    It must be known that this was enough to pay a month¡¯s sry for these researchers!

    The reason for doing this was because the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam that had been dyed by a month was finally beginning.

    Most of the researchers were under the Fifth Grade, so of course they wouldn¡¯t miss the chance to participate in the once in a year certification exam.

    The reason why Evita said that the magic research facility needed to close temporarily was because even her as the chief had toe to Anvilmar City to participate in the certification exam. The researchers left in the magic research facility couldn¡¯t continue their research.

    Evita had reported this matter to Xu Yi a month ago and after considering it at that time, he decided to give a week¡¯s vacation to all the researchers of the magic research facility, while also booking the twenty rooms at the Sheldon Inn ahead of time. They would be the residences for the researchers that wanted to take the certification exam.

    This decision had raised Xu Yi to the top of the researchers¡¯ minds in an instant.

    It had to be known that when it came to the certification exam each year, Anvilmar City would be filled with magicians. During this time, it wasn¡¯t easy to find a safe ce to live, not to mention an upscale ce like the Sheldon Inn.

    When those researchers came to participate before, they had to spend a lot of time solving their lodging issues. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had taken care of everything and stopped them from worrying, it allowed them to concentrate on the exam, which was a very advantageous thing.

    Even if they didn¡¯t mention the high wages of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just because of this work benefit, it was enough to make them not regret their decision to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After leading everyone to check in at the Sheldon Inn, the sharp-eyed Be saw that Xu Yi didn¡¯t check in, so she couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Sir chairman, why aren¡¯t you staying with us? Could it be that you¡¯re not participating in the certification exam with us?¡±

    ¡°Be, you idiot.¡± ire looked at her with a mysterious smile before she whispered in Be¡¯s ear, ¡°Did you forget? Great Magician Cami came a few days earlier to Anvilmar City with Still, naturally sir chairman is going to live in the same ce as Still.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Be gave a p and suddenly understood, ¡°Compared to staying with us, he¡¯d much rather enjoy his private time with Still, I really am dumb.¡±

    Seeing everyone¡¯s smiles, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. He shook his head and said, ¡°First, I haven¡¯t decided whether I¡¯m participating in the certification exam or not. Second, I¡¯m not staying here because I have many things to do in Anvilmar City this time and staying here isn¡¯t convenient. Alright, now that everything¡¯s been taken care of, go and rest. You¡¯ve been on the road for two days now, you all must be tired.¡±

    ¡°Right, after sitting in the horse carriages for two days, my bolt has been jolted into pieces.¡± Be rubbed her butt with a frown as sheined, ¡°Sir chairman, when will there be a road from Banta City to Anvilmar City? Then it won¡¯t be so hard for us toe to Anvilmar City.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, if there is a road, we might even be able to get here in a day and it wouldn¡¯t be so hard on the road.¡± The one who echoed Be this time was Akali who had finished going around the Sheldon Inn¡¯s main hall, ¡°Sir chairman, how about you pay to build that road?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You think that I can build it when I want? But as for the road, that is one of the reasons why I came to Anvilmar City. If it goes smoothly, perhaps that road will be finished by next year and your trip then won¡¯t be as bad.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Akali and Be cheered at the same time and high fived each other before Akali said with an excited look, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re the one who said it. If the road isn¡¯t built next year when wee for the certification exam, we¡¯ll me you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed. When he was about to urge them to rest, he saw Alexing in through the doors of the Sheldon Inn with five people.

    ¡°Chairman, I¡¯m here.¡± Alex greeted Xu Yi before looking at the magicians beside Xu Yi and asking, ¡°They are the researchers you mentioned in your letter?¡±

    ¡°Un, these people are.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he looked at the five people Alex brought, ¡°They are the best tailors in the city?¡±

    ¡°Definitely the best.¡± Alex patted his chest and said in a certain voice, ¡°I had Victor find them several days in advance. Chairman, if you don¡¯t believe me, you should believe in Victor¡¯s group of three, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, they are the local bullies here, I won¡¯t doubt their abilities.¡± Xu Yi responded before looking at Alex with slightly knit brows.

    When Alex came to Anvilmar City a year ago, he looked like a little boy that came from a small city. Whether it was his manners or appearance, they were all very rustic and when he heard that Xu Yi had him be the representative of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Anvilmar City, he didn¡¯t have any confidence.

    Xu Yi had been busy this year and didn¡¯t have the time toe to Anvilmar City. Now that he was seeing Alex a yearter, he found that he had greatly changed in this year.

    First he was wearing quite luxurious clothes. One look told that it was made from good materials and from fine craftsmanship, it definitely wasn¡¯t something cheap.

    Second, he waspletely filled with confidence and even a bit of pride. Other than being a bit courteous to Xu Yi, he held his head up when he looked at the magicians, like he was in amanding position.

    Xu YI was a bit surprised by therge change in him and didn¡¯t really like the slightly haughty feel he had, but because he was Heinz¡¯s favourite nephew, although he didn¡¯t like him, he didn¡¯t n on saying anything.

    He looked at the five people behind Alex and gave a nod before saying, ¡°Alright, since the people are here, then first have them take measurements for the researchers. Alex,e with me to the shop that Victor¡¯s group opened and let¡¯s go take a look.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Alex quickly replied and said a few things to the five behind them. The five of them took out tape measures and measuring tools before surrounding the researchers.

    The researchers were shocked to see the five of them taking their measurements. Akali couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, what is this?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid, I¡¯m just making some uniforms for you all. What, could it be that you don¡¯t like new clothes?¡±

    Akali and the others wanted to ask why they needed uniforms, but Xu Yi had already left the Sheldon Inn with Alex.

    It should be said that Victor¡¯s group of three didn¡¯t let down Xu Yi¡¯s evaluation of them as local bullies. In a ce like Anvilmar City where each inch ofnd was worth gold, they actually found a spot on the most prosperous street of Anvilmar City to open a household magic machine store.

    Although the store wasn¡¯t big, only being around fifty square meters, this shop was just for putting samples. In such arge space, there was more than enough space for them to put samples of the Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    Victor¡¯s group had put quite a bit of thought into the store, as the store had been specialized. Although it was a bit dim when one entered the doors, there were areas lit up by magicmps over their products, making people who came into the store unable to not focus on those household magic machines.

    Adding in the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines were made from the new steel alloys, with designs made by Agnes and Vivian working together, the designs under the light made them look like pieces of art, naturally attracting everyone¡¯s gaze.

    When Xu Yi and Alex walked into the store, there were exactly three people browsing the household magic machines inside.

    The ones helping them was not anyone from Victor¡¯s group, but rather the workers they hired.

    But those three listened to Xu Yi¡¯s advice and they always left someone at the store. The one there today was Urgot.

    Once he saw Xu Yiing in with Alex, Urgot was overjoyed and came forward to greet them with a bright smile.

    When Xu Yi saw hime over, he revealed a serious look.

    ¡°Urgot, your store, it¡¯s facing a crisis right now.¡±

 Volume 2 104 - Window for the public

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 104 Window for the public</strong>

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the bright smile on Urgot¡¯s face instantly copsed.

    He gave a sigh and shook his head. He brought Xu Yi and Alex to a room in the back and poured a cup of tea for Xu Yi beforeining to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, the crisis that we¡¯re facing now, it¡¯s all because of you to be honest.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You really think so?¡±

    Urgot¡¯s expression froze as he thought about it and honestly said, ¡°Right, if it wasn¡¯t for you agreeing to cooperate with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, how could they think about selling household magic machines? Other than that¡­..Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s idea to make a household magic machine store¡­..it was given to them by you?¡±

    ¡°Right, it was indeed my idea.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°How could you do this!¡± Urgot¡¯s voice was raised and he loudly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, how can you forget about us three brothers just to earn more money for yourpany? You have to know, if it wasn¡¯t for our hard work, how could the Frestech Brand household magic machines have such fame in Anvilmar City? How could it sell so well?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the excited Urgot and looked at the silent Alex as his heart filled with disappointment.

    This disappointment was not just from Urgot¡¯s words, but also from Alex¡¯s reaction.

    Clearly he was the one that gave Victor, Cell, and Urgot the chance to make money, letting them earn over fifty thousand gold coins in a year from selling Frestech Brand household magic machines, but they didn¡¯t have any gratitude to him at all. Once they heard that he had given the Walmart Chamber of Commerce the idea of making a household magic machine store, which posed a threat to their business, they actually directly used him.

    Alex was clearly the favourite nephew of Heinz and Xu Yi had groomed him, even giving the important and lucrative work of being the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative in Anvilmar City, but now he didn¡¯t say a single word about this situation and even agreed with Urgot.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what Alex had experienced in his year in Anvilmar City, but based on this situation, he wasn¡¯t the same humble youth from a small city as before. After being with Victor¡¯s group for a year, he had already changed.

    As thoughts passed through his mind, Xu Yi asked Urgot, ¡°Is this your thought or the thoughts of all three of you?¡±

    Urgot was surprised before he hesitantly said, ¡°It¡¯s¡­..It¡¯s the thoughts of all three of us. Anyway, Victor and Cell both think that chairman Xu¡¯s methods are too insincere.¡±

    Xu Yi gained somefort from this response. It seemed that Victor and Cell weren¡¯t as dumb and unclear about matters as Urgot, knowing that they still needed to rely on him to make money.

    But from Urgot¡¯s answer, he could tell that the three of them were a bit dissatisfied with Xu Yi because of this matter.

    He could understand this. The three of them had earned over fifty thousand gold coins in a year from opening this Frestech Brand household magic machine shop, so of course they weren¡¯t willing to lose this golden goose.

    Now that the shop was facing this serious threat, it was normal for them to be anxious.

    ¡°So isn¡¯t that why I came?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands as he said with a smile, ¡°I understand, this matter poses a threat to your business, but I hope that you understand that as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I am responsible for the development of mypany. Cooperating with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce not only greatly increases the sales volume of our Frestech Brand household magic machines, but it also increases the fame of ourpany, so of course I can¡¯t turn them down.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..But why didn¡¯t you think about us?¡± Of course Urgot understood that Xu Yi¡¯s words were logical, so he could only force himself to say this.

    ¡°I did. Look, as soon as I came to Anvilmar City, I didn¡¯t go anywhere else and came to find you. Do you think that I¡¯m not thinking about you?¡±

    Urgot looked at Alex and seeing Alex nod, his expression calmed down.

    ¡°Ke¡­..Chairman Xu, I was too excited just now, please don¡¯t mind it. Can you tell me how you are thinking about us?¡± Urgot looked at Xu Yi with an expectant gaze.

    Since listening to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion and earning arge amount from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, his heart was filled with admiration for Xu Yi.

    Moreover, in this year, he would frequently see reports on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi in the newspapers of Anvilmar.

    In those reports, they were always filled with praise for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Urgot was very clear that perhaps Xu Yi wasn¡¯t really an important person yet, but in his eyes, his experience and wisdom surpassed the average person.

    To put it simply, it wasn¡¯t wrong to listen to him.

    Seeing Urgot¡¯s obedient appearance, Xu Yi said with a smile and a nod, ¡°First, let me confirm something. The Walmart Chamber of Commerce is our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯srgest grocery store and with your small shop, you definitely can¡¯tpete with them.¡±

    Urgot nodded, ¡°So the three of us have been having headaches. Victor already asked around and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce is selling household magic machines at a lower price, so we can¡¯tpete at all.¡±

    ¡°You haven¡¯t thought this through.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Since you can¡¯tpete with them, then don¡¯t. Don¡¯t use your disadvantages topete with their advantages, you should disy your own advantages.¡±

    ¡°Our advantages?¡± Urgot knit his brows, ¡°What advantage do we have over the Walmart Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course you have some.¡± Xu Yi pointed at him, ¡°This store is a Frestech Brand store that is recognized by me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is your greatest advantage.¡±

    Urgot revealed a confused look, ¡°I don¡¯t understand, how is this an advantage?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile and took out a document from his bag for Urgot, ¡°Look at this, you¡¯ll understand after you see this.¡±

    Urgot took the document with a confused look and found that it was a contract. After looking at Xu Yi in a daze, he looked it over with Alex.

    At first, the two of them were confused, but after reading it, their eyes began to light up.

    After they finished reading it, Urgot closed the document and seriously thought for a bit before nodding his head in a certain manner, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to say, your ideas are just too good. Based on what you said, if this store bes something like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center in Banta City, I think that when the prices are around the same, most would pick our store to feel more assured.¡±

    ¡°Right, I will send technical support and personnel here to ensure that this ce will be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s window for the public in Anvilmar City.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression suddenly became serious.

    ¡°The quality of this window disy will determine our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame in Anvilmar City, so if you decide to sign this new contract, I will request that you strictly follow the rules of the contract. If you think that you can¡¯t do this, I advise you to reject this because with how important this is, I will not be lenient in implementing what is written on the contract.¡±

    Urgot couldn¡¯t say a thing because of Xu Yi¡¯s expression for a while, but he still hesitantly gave a nod.

    ¡°I will discuss this with Victor and Cell.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good.¡±

    When he left the store, the curtain of night was already falling and the skies of Anvilmar City became a bit dark.

    Xu Yi looked around the lively street outside the store and turned back to see Urgot greeting two customers with a smile before giving a sigh.

    Actually if there was a choice, he really wanted to stop cooperating with Victor¡¯s group because based on the attitude Urgot had just show, it would be hard for them to be outstanding partners.

    This is because they were too selfish and didn¡¯t have any foresight or ability to adjust.

    But to establish a window for the public for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Anvilmar City that Xu Yi talked about, with how Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any foundations in Anvilmar City, it would be a very difficult matter.

    So Xu YI could only depend on the three of them to maintain this window in Anvilmar City for now.

    Although Xu Yi had many doubts on whether the three of them could do this, there was no better choice, so he had no choice but to do this.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Alex walking beside him. If this fellow worked a bit harder in this year, he could have established his ownwork and Xu Yi could use some of his connections, with Alex as a core to create the window that he wanted.

    But Alex had only approached Victor¡¯s group during this year and didn¡¯t make any progress, so how could Xu Yi leave such a heavy responsibility to him.

    ¡°In the end, there just aren¡¯t enough talented people.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft sigh, ¡°It would be good if I could get a few more people like Kennard¡­...¡±

    Alex saw that Xu Yi¡¯s expression leaving the store wasn¡¯t good and now that he had heard him suddenly sigh, he thought about it before quickly saying, ¡°Chairman, it¡¯s already thiste, how about we get dinner first? I know a very good restaurant and there are many specialties from Banta City there. Then I¡¯ll lead you to a good ce to rest, Victor and I go there frequently and it¡¯s veryfortable. The girls there are all very beautiful¡­..¡±

    Alex couldn¡¯t say anything else because he found that Xu Yi¡¯s face had turned a frightening dark colour.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s ice cold eyes and face, Alex understood that he had said the wrong things.

    He understood, but didn¡¯t know how to exin, so he was speechless for a while.

    Xu Yi coldly looked at Alex for a while before he finally suppressed the disappointment and anger in his heart. He slowly took a deep breath and used all his strength to calm his voice as he said, ¡°No need for all that trouble, Still and Great Magician Cami should be waiting for me, so I¡¯ll go look for them.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the name ¡°Still¡±, Alex immediately understood.

    Before he had heard that the chairman was officially dating young miss Still, but he actually mentioned that kind of ce to the chairman, so it would be strange if he wasn¡¯t mad.

    Alex wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and quickly led the way, bringing Xu Yi to his destination.

 Volume 2 105 - Hungry market

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 105 Hungry market</strong>

    The second day that Xu Yi came to Anvilmar City, it was also the first day of the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam. Whenrge numbers of magicians came for the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, on the busiest street of the Anvilmar City, there was a giant store that started business.

    This store took over a thousand square meters on the most prosperous street in Anvilmar City, it attracted countless luxurious horse carriages with all kinds of noble crests on them when it started doing business, so it attracted many people¡¯s attention.

    When everyone saw the sign that hung on that store, they were all stunned. There was a familiar word on the sign which was ¡°Walmart¡±, but the following ¡°household magic machine shop¡± while being words that everyone knew, they didn¡¯t understand at all.

    That¡¯s right, the name of this shop was actually the Walmart household magic machine shop.

    Of course, these people didn¡¯t understand for only a short period and very soon, many people reacted.

    This was because half a month ago, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had already put up advertisements in all therge and small newspapers of Anvilmar City, as well as putting all kinds of advertisements on every street. They even hired people to hand out flyers while also shouting out advertisements.

    With such a strong advertising campaign, if the people of Anvilmar City still didn¡¯t know that the Walmart household magic machine shop was opening today, they either came from outside the city or they were death and blind.

    As for the concept of household magic machines, although many people in Anvilmar City had some understanding from the reports from the newspapers and the Frestech Brand Sore that Victor¡¯s group had set up, that didn¡¯t make up arge part of the popce and their understanding was too shallow.

    But whether you knew about this before or not, this time the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had gone all out, so everyone had some understanding of this matter.

    Everyone knew that the so-called household magic machine was a machine using magic that could make people¡¯s daily lives easier.

    For example, the Magic Air Conditioner could rece the function ofrge scale Frost Arrays and me Arrays. It allowed one¡¯s home to be at afortable temperature in the hot summers and the cold winters.

    Then there was the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker. As long as one put the right amount of water and rice inside, after pressing the switch, they didn¡¯t need to care about anything and wait for a bit to get freshly cooked right.

    Or for example¡­...

    ¡­...

    Because of the advertisements of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, everyone in Anvilmar City knew about the functions of the household magic machines. Before the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s store even began doing business, people were already expectant of it.

    When they started doing business, early in the morning, the store was already surrounded by a dense crowd. Itpletely filled the most prosperous street without leaving a single gap.

    ording to the advertisement of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, because it was their first day doing business, all the household magic machines would be sold at a 20% discount. The store¡¯s goods were limited, so it would be firste, first serve.

    At the same time, the customers that bought a household magic machine would receive a coupon that would give them a certain discount in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s grocery store.

    So at eight in the morning, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce sent a manager to give a short speech on the stage in front of the story before announcing the opening of the store. The crowd immediately charged through the open doors and it was like a flood thatpletely filled the doors.

    Hank Wilson watched down at the people charging in and couldn¡¯t help praising Xu Yi in front of him, ¡°Chairman Xu, the idea of limited supplies really was good. Look, those people are trying to buy the items as fast as possible and they aren¡¯t even seriously looking over the quality.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There is a special phrase which is called a ¡®hungry market¡¯. It¡¯s to make people feel that they won¡¯t be able to buy something if they¡¯rete and deliberately not meeting everyone¡¯s needs. Adding in the special deals you¡¯re offering, people think that they are getting an advantage, so they don¡¯t care that much.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu really understands the thoughts of the customers.¡± Sitting in front of Xu Yi was a grey haired old man who looked to be around sixty that was in high spirits. He was the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current chairman Colmar Rundst, ¡°From all the rumours, I thought that chairman Xu would be more like a magician who was more focused on research. After personally meeting you, I found that chairman Xu is more like an astute merchant.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Rundst is overpraising me.¡± Xu Yi gave a modest smile, ¡°It¡¯s only a small trick, it isn¡¯t much. The Walmart Chamber of Commerce has developed under chairman Rundst¡¯s lead for all these years to be a first ratepany of our Lampuri Kingdom, that is what¡¯s truly powerful. Kennard has often praised you in front of me and he is filled with admiration and respect for you.¡±

    ¡°Admiration and respect for me?¡± Chairman Rundst gave a soft snort, ¡°I¡¯ve watched that kid grow up and I saw that he was intelligent since he was young, as well as interested in doing business, so I nned on training him as my sessor. I wanted him to run the Walmart Chamber of Commerce for the Emma Family, but I never thought that after training him to a good point, he actually ran off to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be that¡­..general manager? It really angers me to death!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretlyughing. Was this chairman Rundst ming him for picking the fruit that he worked hard to grow?

    ¡°This¡­...Chairman Rundst, I think that Kennard shouldn¡¯t be working at ourpany forever. Letting him stay at ourpany to learn a different structure and to gain experience will be good for his growth, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Chairman Rundst looked at Xu Yi before giving a slight nod, ¡°Those words are quite right. Chairman Xu, there are many unique things about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that you run, so letting him study at your side is a good choice. But chairman Xu, you should know that it is impossible for Kennard to stay at yourpany, but you¡¯re giving him important work, will there not be any problems?¡±

    ¡°Not doubting useful people and not using doubtful people.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Since I chose Kennard as the general manager, then I believe that he will finish the work I give him. As for when he will leave in the end¡­...Changing workers is inevitable for everypany, I just need to take care of everything before that happens.¡±

    Chairman Rundst slowly shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°For that kid Kennard to meet a chairman like you, it really is his luck. Alright, let¡¯s not talk about that kid, let¡¯s talk business. Hank, give chairman Xu the n to read.¡±

    Hank Wilson on the side replied before giving a n to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi carefully looked it over and found that written in the n were the main cities that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was nning to open household magic machine stores in.

    ording to this n, if the sales numbers in Anvilmar City were good, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce would be implementing this n. Their ultimate goal was to set up a store like this in every city of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, to open these stores, naturally it required the support of thepanies producing magic machines led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from Banta City.

    So in the n, it proposed some requests for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies.

    After Xu Yi looked it over, he thought about it for a bit before saying to chairman Rundst, ¡°Based on today¡¯s situation, I¡¯m not worried about the sales numbers of this store. But chairman Rundst, I feel that this n is a bit too optimistic.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Where?¡± Chairman Rundst asked back.

    ¡°The reason why this store is so popr, although it seems to be because of the opening day deals and the attraction of the household magic machines themselves, in fact the most important thing is that the people of Anvilmar City have this consumption power.¡±

    ¡°Consumption power?¡± Chairman Rundst thought over this phrase for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. Anvilmar City is the capital of our Lampuri Kingdom, so naturally the people here will be richer than the people in other ces.¡±

    ¡°So that means that we can¡¯t use the situation here as a reference and apply them to other ces. Compared to Anvilmar City, the consumption power of people in other ces aren¡¯t as strong. Perhaps they want to buy these household magic machines, but there are many people who can¡¯t even eat their fill, so they don¡¯t have sufficient financial resources.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Although the household magic machines aren¡¯t considered that expensive, each one still takes several gold coins and some even take more than ten gold coins, so normal families won¡¯t be able to afford this.¡±

    Chairman Rundst thought about it for a while before asking with knit brows, ¡°But chairman Xu, based on what I know, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines have sold astonishing amounts in Banta City and Banta City is one of the poorest cities in the kingdom. Since this many household magic machines can sell in Banta City, then there shouldn¡¯t be a problem in other cities.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still a difference here.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°The main problem is the problem of transportation. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines can sell well in Banta City because they are locally produced products that don¡¯t include transport fees, so it¡¯s not a problem to sell them for a bit cheaper. But if you want to transport them to other cities to sell, because of the increase in transport costs, the price can¡¯t be kept as low.¡±

    ¡°Transport costs¡­¡­¡± Chairman Rundst knit his brows even tighter, ¡°I have also considered this problem before, but chairman Xu, based on what I know, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit margin is very high. Can¡¯t you just lower the selling price and exchange it for higher sales volume?¡±

    Hearing this question, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. After this chairman Rundst circled around for a while, he finally couldn¡¯t help revealing his real goal.

 Volume 2 106 - Street shopping

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 106 Street shopping</strong>

    ¡°And then? Did you agree to him?¡± Still asked Xu Yi with a curious look on her face.

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°He kept on talking and in the end, he just wanted our Frestech Chamber of Commerce take the lead in dropping the price, then the otherpanies in Banta City would all follow suit and reduce their prices. Like this, their Walmart Chamber of Commerce could lower their inventory costs and lower their prices.¡±

    ¡°If their purchase price decreases, the selling price in the store would also decrease.¡± Still said, ¡°I feel that chairman Rundst is right, if the price is lowered, the sales amount would be increased. With this, it is very likely the overall profit would be increased.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still and shook his head as he gave a soft sigh.

    Still didn¡¯t understand the market, so she said these words that were so one sided.

    First not mentioning if the Walmart Chamber of Commerce would lower the prices if their purchase price was lower, to Xu Yi, this was a very dangerous thing to do.

    Just like a phrase that was popr in the stock markets on earth before bing amon phrase, people bought low and sold high.

    If the price of the product could drop, then people¡¯s first thought would be not to be in a rush to buy it. They would think that since it could drop once, it can drop a second time or a third time¡­...Anyway, there was no need to rush to buy it.

    Moreover, once the matter of price dropping began, it would be hard to stop it.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dropped their price, even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, the otherpanies producing magic machines in Banta City would also drop their prices.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the lead in this, the otherpanies will find that this is a good method and will drop their prices even more to increase their sales volume.

    If there were manypanies that imitated this, it would be a price war like back on earth.

    The magic machine industry was a very weak industry. Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the power of a monopoly, so Xu Yi could implement the ideas that he wanted to implement.

    But now under his guidance, the otherpanies had joined this industry. So now Xu Yi had to consider the development of this industry and he had to consider the effect on the industry for everything he did.

    If there was a price war when the magic machine industry was just developing, it would decrease the profit margins of all thepanies that were engaged in this industry. It would also makepanies that had just entered the industry to lose confidence and interest, which would be arge blow to the entire industry.

    So after the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union was formed, Xu Yi and the chairmen of the otherpanies made the first decision that when anypany sold magic machines, they had to consult on a price and couldn¡¯t try to outbid each other.

    But now chairman Rundst had requested Xu Yi to take the lead in dropping the price, so naturally he couldn¡¯t agree.

    Of course, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was the most important partner for mostpanies in Banta City that produced magic machines, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t refuse chairman Rundst to his face. Although he couldn¡¯t lower the prices, Xu Yi provided another n which was to build roads.

    Since it would affect the most important factor of selling magic machines in other cities which was transport cost, it would also lower the cost of the goods.

    In front of chairman Rundst and vice chairman Wilson, Xu Yi took out the examples of the Banka Road and Bansa Road.

    ording to the data that Xu Yi took out,pared to before those two roads were constructed, the price in transporting the same amount of cargo from Banta City to Karma City and Saltan City had dropped respectively by 34% and 38%.

    And then there was also the consideration of taking tolls.

    For the Sines Continent that didn¡¯t have a developed transport system, transport cost was thergest hindrance when it came to transporting goods. For the Walmart Chamber of Commerce that dealt in groceries, they understood this better than any otherpanies.

    So when they heard Xu Yi mention the numbers of 34% and 38%, chairman Rundst and vice chairman Wilson were both shocked.

    After confirming that Xu Yi¡¯s data was not a joke, chairman Rundst almost immediately decided that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce would invest in building roads.

    It wasn¡¯t hard to guess from his appearance that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t just stop at a single road.

    ¡°Un, Xu Yi, tell me, why didn¡¯t you agree? I feel that this proposition isn¡¯t that bad.¡± Seeing Xu Yi deep in thought and not replying, Still couldn¡¯t help speaking up.

    ¡°Ah? Ah¡­...It¡¯s too much trouble exining this and this matter can¡¯t be decided by me alone, so at least I need to go back to Banta City and discuss this with chairman Rank, so I told chairman Rundst that I would consider it.¡± Xu Yi simply replied before quickly changing the topic and asking, ¡°Don¡¯t just focus on asking me, I also want to ask you, didn¡¯t his excellency Great Magician say that he would be bringing me to the Magicians Guild¡¯s conference? Why is it that now that I¡¯m here, he¡¯s not here?¡±

    ¡°Oh, there was someone from the Magicians Guild who came looking for grandfather and the grandfather went with him.¡± Still replied.

    ¡°Then did he leave any messages behind? Does he want me to wait here for him or what?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Still shook her head, ¡°Grandfather didn¡¯t say anything. It seemed like he was in a rush, I don¡¯t know if something happened or not.¡±

    ¡°In a rush?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°The old man has onlye here from Banta City for a few days, what rushed matter happened at the Magicians Guild that he had to go for?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about that.¡± Still shrugged her shoulders, ¡°Grandfather is a Great Magician in the end, if something big has happened at the Magicians Guild, since he is in Anvilmar City, they would definitely contact him.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit and found that he had too little information, so he could only give up.

    ¡°Then what do we do now? I¡¯ve already left this morning open, but now that his excellency Great Magician is busy, I have nothing to do.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that perfect?¡± Still hooked Xu Yi¡¯s arm with a smile and pulled him out, ¡°It¡¯s rare that we¡¯re in Anvilmar City together and we have some spare time, so if we don¡¯t take a stroll, it would have been a waste toe here. Come, I¡¯ll take you for a walk around Anvilmar City. From what I heard Viscount Leslie say, when you camest year, you were busy with all kinds of things and didn¡¯t have spare time at all. Really, it¡¯s hard enough to take this trip and you don¡¯t have time to y, that really is a pity! Today, this miss will lead you on a scenic tour of Anvilmar City!¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he was pulled along by Still.

    Because today was the first day of the Magicians Guild certification exam, the magicians participating in the exam were all at the test site outside the city. Even those magicians not participating went along to watch, so the city wasn¡¯tpletely filled with magicians like yesterday and it was rather peaceful.

    Of course, as the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom, Anvilmar City would be busy no matter what the time was. No matter where the two of them went, there were people all around them.

    Still had studied at the Lampuri Royal Academy for four years and had stayed in Anvilmar City for four years, so she was very familiar with this ce.

    Under her lead, the two of them avoided the most crowded ces and passed through the streets of Anvilmar City. From time to time, they went into a store and appreciated the goods that were inside. After a while, they rested by the Rhine River that ran through the city, appreciating the red leaves falling by the bank of the river, while having a street artist drawing their portrait.

    Seeing how happy Still was, Xu Yi let go of all his thoughts and apanied Still in happily wandering the city.

    For that time, it was like he was back on earth when he was young and a female colleague had dragged him around window shopping.

    After the two went around the city, Xu Yi suddenly told Still that he wanted to see the Lampuri Royal Academy.

    Still looked over, ¡°I think that you don¡¯t want to see the school, but rather the students studying magic, right? Be honest, you are nning to convince those students to work for ourpany after they graduate, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I do have this idea, but they are graduating from the top academy in the country, so I¡¯m afraid they won¡¯t care about our smallpany.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Still gave a soft snort, ¡°Didn¡¯t you even get an outstanding student like me to work for you? Isn¡¯t it the same with Evita and the others? Let me tell you, with how good ourpany treats our researchers, I think that not only do the students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy want to join ourpany, it¡¯s the same for the students of the Lampuri Royal Academy.¡±

    ¡°Of course it would be good if it was like this. But right now I feel that it isn¡¯t the best choice for those students toe work for ourpany.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°IF possible, I want to build a school that will specialize in teaching magicians magic mechanical engineering theory. The magicians that graduate from a school like this would be a real magic mechanical engineer that I could use.¡±

    ¡°Do it if you want.¡± Still said with a rxed expression, ¡°Anyway you aren¡¯tcking in money right now and you have the support of the Lord City Lord and her highness, so there should be no problem with the procedure. Not to mention that grandfather can take a role in the school which will attract many people toe study there.¡±

    ¡°Un, not bad. After you said all this, I feel that this idea is possible. Alright, when we head back, I¡¯ll discuss this with the Lord City Lord. As for right now, let¡¯s go to the Lampuri Royal Academy. I¡¯m very curious how they trained an outstanding girl like you.¡±

    ¡°Humph, that is my natural charm, it doesn¡¯t need to be trained.¡± Still gave a soft snort. When she grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s hand and was about to head in the direction of the Lampuri Royal Kingdom, her feet suddenly stopped.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised and pulled at the unmoving Still, but he found that she was looking at a path on the opposite side and she looked stunned.

    Xu Yi followed her gaze and found that on the other of the path, there was a young couple.

    The young man was also staring right at still with his eyes filled with shock and greed.

 Volume 2 107 - Illusions of youth

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 107 Illusions of youth</strong>

    As the goddess in the minds of countless people in Banta City and the surrounding cities, because of her outstanding appearance and aura, there were many people who turned on the street and she attracted people¡¯s gazes.

    When Xu Yi was window shopping with her, there would be countless looks of admiration and jealousy. There were even more looks of shock when looking at Still and there were even a few people who revealed looks of greed.

    But no matter how shocked those people were from seeing Still, they would have scruples and restrained themselves because of Xu Yi beside her.

    But this man that they met now, his eyes revealed an iparably strong look of greed that he simply didn¡¯t hide at all. When Xu Yi saw it, he immediately couldn¡¯t help tightly knitting his brows.

    When he turned to look at Still, he found that she had a strange reaction, so Xu Yi asked, ¡°Is he an acquaintance?¡±

    Still was only stunned for a bit before she revealed a deep look of disgust and gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, he is Vincent.¡±

    ¡°Vincent?¡± Hearing this name, the first thing Xu Yi thought of was the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent. After thinking for a bit, he finally remembered that Akali had mentioned this name before. It was the male student that Still had liked back when she attended the Lampuri Royal Academy.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned and seriously looked over this Vincent.

    Putting aside the look in his eyes that made Xu Yi very unhappy, based on just his outer appearance, this Vincent seemed like a very outstanding fellow. Not only was he tall and strong, his face was very good, with close to perfect proportions. Coordinating with the luxuriously made that he was wearing, if he was ced on earth, he could be considered a ¡°tall, right, and handsome man¡±.

    This kind of man was indeed like the white horse prince that many little girls dreamed of, it was no wonder Still liked him at first.

    After looking over Vincent, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the girl beside Vincent.

    This girl wasn¡¯t as shocking as Still, but she was still quite good looking with a weak aura to her. When she was ced by Vincent¡¯s side, it created a sharp contrast.

    Seeing Vincent holding the girl by the waist, Xu Yi asked Still in a somewhat strange voice, ¡°Who is this girl? It seems like she¡¯s quite close to him.¡±

    ¡°She is the one I mentioned before, Vincent¡¯s fiancee.¡± Still replied in a small voice. She took another look at Vincent before turning while holding Xu Yi¡¯s hand, preparing to leave.

    Who would have thought that when they prepared to leave, Vincent would suddenly cross the street and run in front of Still, blocking the two of them.

    ¡°Hey, beautiful Still, when did you arrive in Anvilmar City? Why didn¡¯t you contact me beforehand? I could have properly entertained you.¡± Vincent revealed a graceful smile, as he said to Still with a loudugh.

    ¡°What would I contact you for?¡± Still looked at Vincent. Although her eyes were filled with disgust, she didn¡¯t want to argue with him in public, so her expression was considered quite calm, ¡°Grandfather and I, as well as some friends had some business in Anvilmar City, so we didn¡¯t n on bothering anyone.¡±

    ¡°How is it a bother?¡± Vincent shouted in an exaggerated voice, ¡°We were the best of friends back in school and as long as youe to Anvilmar City, how could I not entertain you? Since Great Magician Cami is also here, then that is even better. Please tell his excellency Great Magician that I am sending my invitation right now and I hope that you and his excellency Great Magician wille to be our guests tonight, we will treat you with the highest honour.¡±

    ¡°Want to entertain us?¡± Still looked at him finding it a bit funny, ¡°I think you should ask the opinion of your fiancee first.¡±

    ¡°You mean Michelle? Rx, how could Michelle not agree, don¡¯t you think so dear Michelle?¡± Vincent turned to the girl who looked rather hopeless as she followed him.

    The girl called Michelle looked up at Still and a depressed look appeared on her face before she lowered her head again. She replied in a soft voice, ¡°Un¡­..I¡­..I don¡¯t mind.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still looked at each other, instantly noticing that Michelle had a rather weak personality. It was no wonder that even though Vincent had a fiancee, he dared to treat Still like that.

    ¡°Look, I told you Michelle would definitely agree. She is very hospitable, isn¡¯t that right, Michelle?¡± Vincent asked Michelle again.

    Michelle still had her head down as she softly gave an ¡°un¡± sound.

    Xu Yi knit his brows seeing this, thinking that if Michelle was to get married to Vincent, that wouldn¡¯t be a good marriage.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t care.

    Hearing Michelle¡¯s response, Vincent proudly looked at Still, ¡°See, Michelle doesn¡¯t care. Still, you shoulde by tonight with Great Magician Cami, I will head back now and have the servants prepare.¡±

    ¡°Hey, even if your fiancee agrees, it doesn¡¯t mean that I agree. Then again, even if I agree, you have to ask if he agrees or not.¡± Still pointed at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Him?¡± Vincent seemed like he only noticed Xu Yi and revealed a look of surprise as he looked over at him. His eyes passed over Xu Yi and Still holding hands and he narrowed his eyes as he revealed a look of hostility. He said with a cold snort, ¡°Who is this fellow?¡±

    ¡°Be more polite!¡± Still reprimanded him, ¡°He is Xu Yi and he¡¯s my boyfriend. If you want to invite me over, if he doesn¡¯t agree, I definitely won¡¯t go.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi?¡± Vincent looked over Xu Yi and shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve never heard this name before, you¡¯re not a noble from Anvilmar City, right? Could it be that you are a noble from that small Banta City?¡±

    ¡°You really are ignorant. Don¡¯t you know that Xu Yi is¡­¡­¡±

    Still wanted to give a brief introduction to who Xu Yi was, but Xu Yi stopped her.

    Xu Yi looked at Vincent and asked, ¡°Mister Vincent, I¡¯ve heard Akali mention you before. If I didn¡¯t remember wrong, you should be from the Jole Family, right?¡±

    Vincent was stunned, ¡°Akali mentioned me to you? That¡¯s right, I¡¯m from the Jole Family, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Since you¡¯re from the Jole Family, that¡¯s much more simple. I don¡¯t think you need to invite Still and me to be your guest. If nothing unexpected happens, we should being in two days.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°You¡¯reing?¡± Vincent looked at Xu Yi in surprise before giving a coldugh, ¡°You think that you¡¯re an honoured guest like young miss Still and Great Magician Cami? Our Jole Family wouldn¡¯t care about a little fellow like you,¡±

    Vincent turned to Still after saying this and revealed a pained look as he said, ¡°Still, if it is because I hurt youst time, so you found this fellow to be your boyfriend to make me angry, I really am sorry. Actually, after you leftst time, my heart has been filled with regret and I even went three days without eating and drinking. Do you know? I¡¯ve always been thinking about you during this time. When I saw you again today, my heart almost exploded from happiness, I¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Still reached out her hand to stop Vincent from continuing with his speech that made her break out in goosebumps. She looked at him with a look of disbelief, ¡°I say, Vincent, Michelle is here and she is your fiancee! You¡¯re actually saying all of this to me in front of her? You don¡¯t care about her feelings at all?¡±

    ¡°Fiancee?¡± Vincent turned to look at Michelle and he said with a bitter smile, ¡°Still, you should know that the so-called fiancee was an arrangement between families. You can ask Michell if you don¡¯t believe me, neither of us are willing to ept this. I only like you in my heart. If you give me a chance, I can even talk to the family and have them cancel this engagement! I will marry no one else but you!¡±

    Still looked at Vincent in a daze for a while, she simply couldn¡¯t believe that there was someone with such thick skin in this world!

    Turning to look at Michelle on the side, she saw that she was looking down without saying a word, as if silently agreeing with what Vincent said.

    After a long while, Still let out a long sigh and shook her head. Without another word, she pulled Xu Yi away.

    Vincent behind them kept calling out to Still, but she moved even faster and quickly disappeared around the corner with Xu Yi.

    When they couldn¡¯t hear Vincent¡¯s shouting anymore, Xu Yi finally couldn¡¯t hold back hisughter.

    ¡°What are youughing at?¡± Still snappily looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Because it¡¯s just too¡­..too funny.¡± Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s angry face and he couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°It really has opened my worldview today. There¡¯s actually such a shameless person, I¡¯m really dying fromughter.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Although I already knew that he was shameless from the matterst time, I never thought that he would be even more shameless than I thought. It really angers me to death!¡± Still angrily said.

    ¡°What are you angry about?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s like you saidst time, you should be happy. For such a shameless fellow, the sooner you can see his true colours, that is a good thing. To be honest, I really don¡¯t understand, what did you like about him before? Don¡¯t you think that this kind of person isughable?¡±

    Still¡¯s face turned a bit red as she angrily said, ¡°I was very weak before. I was still a young girl back in school and I only liked him because he was handsome, he also had quite the demeanor before. Actually I never had contact with him that much, so of course I didn¡¯t know that he was this shameless.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯m even more confused. Still, you are such a beautiful girl, for that fellow to not endlessly chase you back in school, it really is a bit unbelievable.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I was focused on studying when I was in school and had as little contact with male students as much as possible, so he didn¡¯t have a chance at all. To be honest, thinking about it now, when I said that I liked him, I only felt like he was the white horse prince of my dreams, I didn¡¯t really like him that much.¡± Still exined.

    ¡°This should be the fantasies that every young girl has, right?¡± Xu Yi teased.

    ¡°What? It was my unreal fantasy, you have an opinion about it?¡± Still red at Xu Yi.

    ¡°No, no, no, how could I have an opinion? I should be very blessed, that you abandoned this fantasy after meeting me. Otherwise with how I¡¯m not handsome, you wouldn¡¯t have liked me.¡±

    Still suddenly grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s face and said with an honest expression, ¡°You¡¯re not allowed to say that you¡¯re not handsome. Xu Yi, you have to remember that since I like you, you are the most handsome. Perhaps in the eyes of many girls, Vincent is very handsome, but now I can see that he is very weak and he doesn¡¯t even have ten thousandth of your charm.¡±

    Seeing the honest look on Still¡¯s face, Xu Yi felt a bit emotional. He kissed Still¡¯s hand and said in a soft voice, ¡°Thank you for your praise. Being able to receive your love, I feel very blessed.¡±

    Still revealed a bright as a flower smile before taking Xu Yi¡¯s hand and heading in the direction of the Lampuri Royal Academy.

 Volume 2 108 - Poor military logistics department

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 108? Poor military logistics department</h4>

    The morning of leisure passed very quickly.

    This time Xu Yi had many things to do in Anvilmar City, so naturally he didn¡¯t have as much free time as he did this morning.

    After having lunch with Still, Xu Yi and the people sent by the military headquarters brought Xu Yi to the military training ground not far to the west of Anvilmar City.

    Actually the army headquarters wanted Xu Yi toe, but Xu Yi was always busy and found it hard to find time toe to Anvilmar City. Since Xu Yi finally had the time toe, the army headquarters wouldn¡¯t miss this chance and had set a time with Xu Yi long ago.

    When Xu Yi passed through the strict checks, he found an acquaintance waiting for him.

    Of course it was major MacConley.

    When he saw Xu Yi, major MacConley came forward with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, chairmanh Xu, you¡¯re finally willing to visit, that really fills me with joy.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Major MacConley is being too polite. Actually I wanted toe a long time ago and this is a good opportunity, so of course I wouldn¡¯t miss it.¡±

    After the two of them exchanged greetings, major MacConley introduced Xu Yi to some other people on the training field.

    Other than some officers, there were some instructors and a total of twenty normal soldiers.

    After meeting Xu Yi, these people were very friendly to Xu Yi. Although it was their first time meeting, they already treated him like a good friend.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. Why were these people so friendly with him? It had to be known that he was just a normal merchant and it was normal for him not to get along with military people.

    ¡°The issue is that chairman Xu is not a normal merchant.¡± Major MacConleyughed, ¡°Those other merchants are people who only care about money that we military people look down on, but you are different. It is because you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have ensured that every brother can have a set of equipment. On the battlefield now, they can ensure that they have a greater chance of survival, so why wouldn¡¯t these people be friendly towards you?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, before the people of the logistics department had been worrying about the equipment our brothers had all day, but we couldn¡¯t solve it because we didn¡¯t have money. In the end, once chairman Xu made a move, you easily solved the biggest problem. How can we not treat you like a brother?¡± Another officer of the logistics department said with a smile.

    ¡°Oh? I don¡¯t seem to have this amazing ability, right? I actually solved such arge problem?¡± Xu Yi said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know how poor the logistics department was before? Let me tell you, before this, in the entire army, other than the northern army that had to fight with those Sack Kingdom bastards every day who had full support, for the rest of the army, one in five didn¡¯t even have aplete set of equipment! As for weapons¡­..Can you believe this? The brothers of the Leica Regiment were using iron swords that were over five years old? Those swords were rusty and just by touching them, they were almost turned into short swords!¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that bad, right¡­..¡± Xu Yi was a bit shocked.

    If the equipment of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army was really as bad as they said, the battle strength of the royal army was a bit worrying.

    If they really were to fight a war, they would bepletely routed if they met some powerful enemies.

    ¡°Who says it¡¯s not?¡±

    Once it came to going to war, those officers from the army headquarters were like recorders, incessantly saying the same thing.

    The group came together and keptining to Xu Yi.

    For a while, they talked about a conflict that had happened before where because of their bad equipment, they couldn¡¯t beat two thousand with three thousand. Not only did they lose the battle, there were over a thousand people who died, as well as being called waste by the nobles of the kingdom.

    For a while, another officer told the story of when he was ambushed as a soldier. After he woke up from his dream, he grabbed beside him and could only find an iron rod.

    Because they didn¡¯t have enough equipment, he could only use an iron rod as a weapon.

    Then another officer said¡­...

    ¡­...

    Hearing about the tragic stories the officers had, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling for them and also finding it strange.

    ¡°Since our royal army is this weak, why hasn¡¯t the Sack Kingdom ever sessfully invaded us?¡±

    Nonsense, naturally it¡¯s because our brothers are going all out.¡± An officer angrily said, ¡°Those old noble masters are calling us waste all day, but they don¡¯t know that our brothers are fighting all out every day. Our equipment isn¡¯t good, our brothers are going all out to stop them. In short, those grandsons from the Sack Kingdom won¡¯t be able to charge in.¡±

    ¡°Ai¡­¡­But fighting like this is tragic.¡± Major MacConley said with a sigh, ¡°The northern army¡¯s casualties are no less than five thousand each year. I think that if we keep fighting like this, the northern army will be crippled. At that time, who can withstand those fellows from the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    The officers looked at each other in nk dismay and after a while, an officer spat out, ¡°Pei, let those noble masters fight them!¡±

    Everyone knew that he was just saying empty words. After pausing for a bit, major MacConley said with a forced smile, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about these disappointing things. Today is chairman Xu¡¯s first time here, we can¡¯t just let him listen to everyonein, right? Then again, chairman Xu has already solved arge problem for us. I believe that everyone has seen the fifty thousand sets of armour, right? Let me tell you all, for these fifty thousand sets of armour, chairman Xu only charged me less than five hundred thousand gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Only five hundred thousand?¡± An officer looked at Xu Yi in surprise and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, does your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have too much money? If we were to buy these armours from the Jole Family, they would cost at least thirty gold coins per set of armour. Fifty thousand sets of armour would cost one and a half million gold coins.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, wouldn¡¯t you not only not make money, wouldn¡¯t you also lose money? Although we as soldiers hate merchants who only care about making money, we still know that you need to make money. If you do this¡­..wouldn¡¯t it be bad?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at those doubtful gazes in front of him. These officers might not be part of the logistics department, so they don¡¯t understand the situation, but major MacConley already knows about this. Could it be that he didn¡¯t exin it to the other officers?

    If it was like this, what were these officers here for today?

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s doubtful gaze, major MacConley pped his hands and attracted the attention of the officers. He said in a loud voice, ¡°Alright, brothers, whether chairman Xu earns money or not I think isn¡¯t a problem that you really care about and it¡¯s not something you need to care about. The reason why chairman Xu was invited today was because there¡¯s some technical problems that we need his consultation on, so we need to make the best use of this time. Chairman Xu is very busy, so if we miss this opportunity, it will be hard to get this opportunity again.¡±

    The officers all revealed looks of understanding and separated. After a while, there was someone who pulled one of the soldiers who was currently training over.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, look, the armour that he is wearing is one of the sets of armour from yourpany. I feel that there should be a change to the back. It would be better if the part there could be a bit thicker.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is also the armour from yourpany. I feel it¡¯s best if the joints are flexible, so the brothers can move their weapons more easily.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, look at this, this is the spear from yourpany. I felt that although it¡¯s sharp and firm, it should be a bit more lighter. I¡¯ve heard that you use that whatever alloy thing and although it¡¯s very good, there are many brothers who say they can¡¯t use them. Moreover, the force behind this isn¡¯t perfect, so there isn¡¯t enough force, can you change it?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Xu Yi looked over the soldiers one by one and heard the suggestions of the officers. He recorded everything down in the little notebook that he brought along and then he used the rulers and other tools that major MacConley had given him to take other measurements.

    After the suggestions of the officers were taken down by Xu Yi, they left satisfied. Then with major MacConley¡¯s instructions, the officers had the twenty soldiers perform a small scale engagement in front of Xu Yi to let Xu Yi see if there was anything that could be improved on.

    Xu Yi watched this exercise while asking major MacConley beside him in a small voice, ¡°For these kinds of problems, you just needed a few specialists from ourpany toe, so why did you have mee here?¡±

    Major MacConley had the same smile on his face as he casually replied, ¡°The brothers heard that we¡¯ve solved the equipment problem of many years because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they were very curious about you and wanted to take a look at you,¡±

    ¡°They only wanted a look?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°You have to know that we soldiers have straightforward personalities. You are helping us all, so everyone supports you. The help that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has given can let less of our brothers die, so naturally everyone is treating you as their closest brother. Having youe here is to let you meet everyone and get to know them, it will be much easier to do things in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying in a soft voice, ¡°I don¡¯t want to do anything, I just want to simply open my business.¡±

    Major MacConley looked over at Xu Yi and there was a deeper meaning to his smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, whether you¡¯re willing or not, there are some things that you¡¯ve already done.¡±

 Volume 2 109 - Stealing food from the tigerâ€™s mouth

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 109 Stealing food from the tiger¡¯s mouth</strong>

    Although Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing, he had to admit that major MacConley was right since there were things that he had already done. Moreover, the people who should have known already knew, so no matter what kind of attitude he had and no matter how much he wanted to avoid starting things, it was no use.

    Moreover, he had to do the things that he had to do.

    Major MacConley had specially invited him over, naturally it was not because he needed help solving these technical problems. It was like Xu Yi had said, for these simple technical problems, he just had to spend some specialists over.

    Naturally it also wasn¡¯t just to exin or even warn Xu Yi because if it really was for that, it would have been better for the two of them to talk alone.

    Other than this, the main thing was to have Xu Yi representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reach some kind of agreement with the army headquarters.

    First they had to take care of the ves that Xu Yi had transferred to Seveni. Like this, the workers that were chosen from the ves would belong to Seveni, which means that the backbone to the factory would be firmly held in Seveni¡¯s hands.

    Next was the order the army headquarters had major MacConley make with Xu Yi again.

    This order included magic machine production lines for weapons and armours, over a hundred thousand tires, and the logistics department wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop certain magic machines with some abilities.

    There wasn¡¯t a short delivery time tied with the order for the special magic machines. Strictly speaking, it as just an order for development, hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop the corresponding magic machines that would satisfy the needs of the logistics department.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very experienced in this aspect because there werepanies like the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who had made these requests before.

    The only difference was that the request of the army headquarters¡¯ logistics department was a bit special.

    For example, major MacConley hoped that a Magic Trebuchet could be developed to rece the giant wooden trebuchets that were very unwieldy that the royal army was currently using.

    When Xu Yi heard this request, he already thought of several good choices. He just needed to tell Camby and the other dwarves back in the magic machine workshop to research a few things and he would be able to create a product.

    So he very quickly signed this agreement with major MacConley.

    When major MacConley saw how quick and confident Xu Yi was when it came to signing this, naturally he was very happy.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signing this contract, it would be of great help to the logistics department because although the things the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced were expensive,pared to how it cost thirty gold coins for a single set of armour from the Jole Family, it was without a doubt cheaper.

    The more important thing was that working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it helped the logistics department with their poor financial situation. Not only could they meet the basic equipment requirement for the frontline, they could also increase the quality of the equipment and raise the battle strength of the soldiers.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that major MacConley didn¡¯t have enough authority, he would have directly broken the deal from before they had with the Jole Family and would work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi, by signing this contract, first they would be able to earn arge amount of profit.

    Even though it seems like they were supplying the army headquarters because of Seveni¡¯s support, so Xu Yi had given them a preferential price, just based on the hundred thousand tire order, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn a profit of over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    If the other orders were added in, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be earning over three hundred thousand from these orders.

    Other than the direct money profits, in providing equipment to the army and bing their supplier, it would help raise the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position in the kingdom.

    The Jole Family could be one of the top families in the kingdom, other than controlling the iron business, they also relied on this iron business to be the supplier to the army. Like this, it was equal to controlling the lifeline of the kingdom.

    Of course, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had inserted their foot, it was like stealing food from the tiger¡¯s mouth and would get a reaction from the Jole Family.

    But this was something that Xu Yi already expected.

    Talking to the Jole Family was something that Xu Yi had nned beforeing to Anvilmar City, so he told Vincent that he would be visiting.

    But before this, Xu Yi had another matter that he had to settle.

    Night had already fallen when Xu Yi came back to the housing that Count Sean had prepared for Great Magician Cami, Still, and Xu Yi. Great Magician Cami who had left early in the morning finally came back not long after Xu Yi had arrived.

    When he saw Xu Yi, he immediately asked, ¡°Kid, what level is your magic at right now?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, didn¡¯t you ask this a month ago?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, I naturally remember you telling me that you were close to being a Seventh Grade Magician a month again. I want to ask you that after a month, have you be a Seventh Grade Magician?¡±

    ¡°You really think highly of me¡­..But your guesses are right, I think that I have be a Seventh Grade Magician.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°Good.¡± Great Magician Cami gave a nod as he revealed a smile of praise, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, clear your schedule for the day after tomorrow and prepare to take the Seventh Grade Magician certification exam.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still were both stunned.

    Still couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Grandfather, don¡¯t you have to go to the City in the Sky for the Seventh Grade certification exam? The City in the Sky is over a thousand kilometers from here, how will Xu Yi rush over there by the day after tomorrow?¡±

    ¡°You think I don¡¯t know that?¡± Great Magician Cami red at Still, ¡°Let me tell you, I just received a notice today that those fellows in the guild have decided to change their ideas. From this year onwards, not only will Fifth Grade Magicians and below be able to take their certification exams at the Magicians Guild in their kingdom, those from the Fifth Grade to the Ninth Grade will also be able to take their certification exams in their kingdom. So, Xu Yi, you have just be a Seventh Grade Magician this year and you are in Anvilmar City right on time to take the certification exam.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still were stunned again.

    Still slightly knit her beautiful brows, ¡°Since the Magicians Guild made this decision, why didn¡¯t they give a notice sooner? It¡¯s starting the day after tomorrow, how is it possible to inform all the Sixth Grade to Ninth Grade Magicians in just two days? Even if they receive the notice, how could they get here in time?¡±

    ¡°Who told those fellows at the guild to be such scoundrels.¡± Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort before waving his hand to say, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about this matter.

    ¡°Then grandfather means that there are currently Sixth to Ninth Grade Magicians currently in Anvilmar City?¡± Still asked.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve seen quite a few familiar faces in the city over the past few days.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a nod, ¡°Then again after the Fifth Grade, it is hard for any magician to raise their grade again in a year. Adding in the fact that there are few Sixth to Ninth Grade Magicians, there are even less people participating in the certification exam, so there aren¡¯t many people who wille after receiving the notice this time.¡±

    ¡°Grandfather, did you forget about Xu Yi? He was only a Fifth Grade Magicianst year and he¡¯s already a Seventh Grade Magician this year.¡± Still looked at Xu Yi with a proud look, like the one who had increased by leaps and bounds was her.

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi and gave a strong snort, ¡°I¡¯ve already said that this fellow has talent, but it¡¯s a pity that he¡¯s not willing to work hard to study magic. Otherwise in less than ten years, he could be a Great Magician.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his nose and said with an awkward smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, we already said that we wouldn¡¯t discuss this topic again. Then again, even if I listened to you and focused on studying magic, my strength won¡¯t increase as fast as it does now since there¡¯s no shortcut to increasing your magic.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave another snort and didn¡¯t pursue this topic.

    ¡°Kid, it¡¯s up to you if you don¡¯t want to focus on studying magic, but you have to go to this certification exam. This time it¡¯s mainly Sixth to Ninth Grade Magicians of the kingdom at this exam, so when you participate, you can get to know those magicians better. If you can pull in a few people to join our magic research facility, the work in the future will be much easier.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded to show agreement, while also finding it a bit funny.

    Last year, Great Magician Cami had hated mixing magic with business. The current him had not only changed his mind, he had even joined the magic research facility and even took the initiative to give Xu Yi an idea that would let him bring more magicians in.

    This contrast was just too big.

    After having this thought, Xu Yi asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, your excellency Great Magician, ording to the rules, Fifth Grade and below magicians need a higher grade magician at their certification exam, so wouldn¡¯t Sixth to Ninth Grade certification exams be hard to hold? When has there been so many high level magicians at the Magicians Guild? For a level higher than the Ninth Grade, that would mean a Great Magician.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, so ording to the rules, the Sixth to Ninth Grade certification exams will have a Great Magician present. Because they are holding the conference and called us old fellows over and it¡¯s the first year they¡¯re making this change, for this year¡¯s high level magician certification exam, all five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom will be present.¡± Great Magician Cami replied.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly lit up, ¡°Then that means you¡¯re responsible for the exam? Then your excellency Great Magician, you already know the level of my magic, can you amodate me and just let me pass?¡±

    Great Magician Cami coldly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°What do you think?¡±

 Volume 2 110 - I like taking risks

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 110 I like taking risks</strong>

    Because the first day of the certification exam was for Primary Grade Magicians, there would be many people who wanted to be certified magicians, so naturally there were the most people.

    Sopared to the first day, when it came to the Second Grade exam on the second day, there were much fewer people.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t that much less.

    ording to the stats of the Lampuri Kingdom Magicians Guild, there were currently close to two thousand Primary Grade Magicians in the kingdom. The ones that felt they were strong enough to be a Second Grade Magician each year was over a thousand people.

    Xu Yi and Still arrived at the test site outside the city together and saw that it was a very noisy scene.

    With the current ability of the two, of course they wouldn¡¯t participate in this Second Grade Magician exam. They specially came to cheer for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians who were currently participating.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recruited close to three hundred magicians and other than the forty six who worked at the magic research facility, the rest were Third Grade or lower magicians who all worked at the factory drawing Magic Arrays.

    These magicians that entered as factory workers to do simple work either didn¡¯t have good talent and couldn¡¯t raise their strength by much, or they have poor families and didn¡¯t have the financial resources to support the growth of their magic power. So their power gain within a year wouldn¡¯t be too fast.

    But for each magician, even if they knew that their power couldn¡¯t reach the requirement, they still wanted to find a way to participate in the certification exam each year.

    Other than having the hope that they could pass by luck, they also coulde into contact with more colleagues and experience the atmosphere ofrge amounts of magicians gathering together.

    For many magicians, the certification exam each year was more like arge conference for magicians.

    So when Xu Yi gave the researchers their vacation, he also gave the workers of the factory the same seven days off to let them participate in the certification exam.

    Although there were too many magicians and even if Xu Yi was generous, he couldn¡¯t afford to let them all stay in the expensive Sheldon Inn. So he gave each person a subsidy of twenty gold coins and provided them a ticket to Anvilmar City and a ticket back to Banta City with the Fersen Carriage Company.

    Even like this, it caused many of the magicians to feel gratitude towards Xu Yi.

    It had to be known that because their levels were too low, the magicians couldn¡¯t rely on their magic to earn money. This meant that the trip to Anvilmar City each year was quite the expense for them.

    Now not only did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce give them vacation pay, they also gave them a subsidy. These really were good work benefits.

    So even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, these magicians would have already mentioned this to the colleagues they already knew and the colleagues they just met. They would all brag about the special treatment they received from working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with proud faces.

    When Xu Yi and Still appeared at the exam site, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians immediately noticed the two of them and in a short amount of time, this news passed through the exam site.

    Xu Yi and Still instantly found that almost all the eyes of the magicians on the exam site were focused on them.

    The two of them were used to being stared at, so Xu Yi asked Still with a smile, ¡°Still, your charm really is too much. Look, even these magicians who are usually mesmerized with studying can¡¯t help being attracted to you.¡±

    Still shook her head and doubtfully said, ¡°That¡¯s not right, why do I feel like they¡¯re all staring at you?¡±

    ¡°At me? What is there to look at with me?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug. His eyes swept over the magicians from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and when he was about to raise his hand to greet them, he found a familiar figure among them.

    After Xu Yi was stunned, he quickly went up and asked with a smile, ¡°Hey, Erwin, I thought that you were participating in tomorrow¡¯s exam. Why are you here today?¡±

    This familiar figure was Xu Yi¡¯s old ssmate Erwin from the Senkaiser School.

    When Xu Yi came to Anvilmar City for the certification exam, he had bumped into him.

    Back then Erwin had participated in the Primary Grade exam with Xu Yi and he was confident in passing the Second Grade exam, but he didn¡¯t pass in the end.

    Xu Yi thought that after a year of experience, his magic power should be above a Second Grade Magician¡¯s, even reaching a Third Grade Magician, so he asked this question.

    Erwin had a smiling face when seeing Xu Yi, but after hearing this question, he hung his head and waved his hand in a dejected manner, ¡°Don¡¯t mention it, I was thinking that I would be a Third Grade Magician in the end, but who would have thought that I would be taking so many adventures that I didn¡¯t have time to study magic at all. Even now, other than increasing my battle experience, my magic isn¡¯t that much higherpared tost year. It would be good if I could pass the Second Grade exam, how could I even think about passing the Third Grade exam.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. Although Erwin¡¯s magical talent wasn¡¯t as good as his, he was still considered quite good back at the Senkaiser School. Based on the general trend, after a year of growth, his strength should have greatly increased, so why did it increase so little?

    Erwin cursed before saying with a cold snort, ¡°I was tricked by those adventurer stories! The stories said that as long as you went on many adventures and engaged in realbat, you could quickly increase your understanding of magic and raise your strength! Bull shit! Indeed my understanding of magic has increased, but I haven¡¯t had time to study it at all, so how could my magic quickly increase?¡±

    Hearing this reason, Xu Yi was a bit speechless.

    Actually he had the same idea as Erwin before. If he hadn¡¯t invented magic machines and started the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he would have also picked this route.

    ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s not talk about these depressing things. This should be young miss Still, right? The newspapers said that you are Xu Yi¡¯s current girlfriend?¡± Erwin¡¯s eyes fell onto Still beside Xu Yi and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of shock.

    Still gave a courteous young woman¡¯s bow to Erwin with a smile, ¡°Yes, I am Still. Hello Erwin, I¡¯ve frequently heard Xu Yi mention his schoolmates from the Senkaiser School and he mentions you the most. I¡¯m very happy to meet you.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m also very happy to meet you.¡± Erwin looked over Still before suddenly grabbing Xu Yi¡¯s neck and saying in a low voice, ¡°You bastard! After not seeing each other for a year, you actually got such a beautiful girlfriend! If Roy and the others knew about this, they would definitely go crazy with jealousy!¡±

    Xu Yiughed and escaped from Erwin¡¯s grip.

    ¡°That¡¯s because my luck is good, you guys can¡¯t evenpare to me.¡±

    Erwin rolled his eyes at Xu Yi before suddenly giving a sigh, ¡°Being able to get a beautiful girlfriend like young miss Still perhaps is your good luck, but opening the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t your luck, right? You always liked making those strange things when we were back in school, I never thought that you could use those things to create such argepany. Even when I¡¯m out on adventures, I frequently hear the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name. Xu Yi, you really have developed well.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s alright.¡± Xu Yi gave a modest smile. Looking at theplicated expression on Erwin¡¯s face, his heart was moved as he asked, ¡°Erwin, since you¡¯re suffering this much going on adventures and it isn¡¯t that much help with increasing your magic power, how about you alsoe to work for ourpany? Rooney is currently earning over twenty gold coins a month and his magic power hasn¡¯t fallen at all. If you alsoe, I think it would be much better than going on adventures, right?¡±

    ¡°I know, Rooney already told me when I saw him earlier.¡± Erwin gave a sigh, ¡°You are right, going to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is indeed a very good choice, but¡­..I¡¯ve found that although going on adventures isn¡¯t effective and is unsafe, I want to go on adventures. I feel that I¡¯ve already fallen in love with this adventurer¡¯s life and I don¡¯t like an easy and calm life.¡±

    ¡°Are you being serious?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m serious.¡± Erwin nodded.

    Seeing that Erwin had made his mind, Xu Yi could only helplessly nod and say, ¡°Alright, everyone has their preference, I won¡¯t force you. But Erwin, I will leave a ce in ourpany for you if you ever get tired of the adventurer¡¯s life, you cane find me whenever.¡±

    Erwin patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder with a wide smile before turning to Still to say, ¡°Look, young miss Still, Xu Yi is someone who likes to think about others, so we followed him back in school. You are very beautiful and Xu Yi is very lucky to have a girlfriend like you, but I want to tell you that having a fellow like Xu Yi is also your good luck.¡±

    Erwin¡¯s tone wasn¡¯t too polite, but Still didn¡¯t mind. She revealed a sweet smile and said with a nod, ¡°Thank you for your reminder, but I¡¯m already very clear on this.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, then that¡¯s good.¡± Erwinughed again before turning to look at the surrounding magicians. He suddenly lowered his voice and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, actually if you want to recruit more magicians to yourpany, it is a very good chance right now. Let me tell you, many people have inquired about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the people who work at yourpany and I saw that many people were very interested. If you do the same asst year, I feel that you¡¯ll definitely find many people who will agree to join your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, many thanks for your reminder.¡±

 Volume 2 111 - Other peopleâ€™s technology

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 111 Other people¡¯s technology</strong>

    Erwin¡¯s reminder was of course good natured, but what he didn¡¯t know was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce waspletely different from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ofst year.

    When Xu Yi camest year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just started developing and had some fame in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while no one in Anvilmar City had heard of it before. So Xu Yi had to personally talk to each magician that came to the certification exam, extending his sincere wee for them toe work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even like this, Xu Yi received the cold shoulder countless times.

    However after a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be famous in the Lampuri Kingdom since Great Magician Cami joined, so magicians from all over came to them.

    Xu Yi even had to reject some magicians that wanted to join since there were too many of them.

    Moreover, after talking to the magicians that worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other magicians knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave great treatment and working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because they came in contact with these new Magic Arrays, it helped their understanding in drawing them which actually helped increase their magic power.

    So for many magicians, especially those low level magicians, working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very attractive option.

    So Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to go find them and those magicians came to find him.

    After Erwin finished talking to Xu Yi, there were some magicians who couldn¡¯t take it anymore and went to talk to Xu Yi.

    Whether they asked in an offhand manner or if they directly asked about it, they all had the same idea which was that they really wanted to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately agree and weed them on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although most magicians here didn¡¯t have a chance to be a Great Magician, what Xu Yi needed was to put the same idea in the mind of the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom. It was that studying magic machines at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was also a very good choice, which would be equal to a new outlet for magicians.

    After talking for a bit, the exam officially began and Xu Yi left with Still, heading off to handle separate matters.

    Still had to attend a jewelry expo that the Sarank Chamber of Commerce was holding as their spokesperson while Xu Yi was invited by Great Magician Eisenkel, so he headed to Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Tower.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first timeing to Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Tower.

    Compared to Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower, this Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Tower couldn¡¯t be described of as a tower, rather it was just a simple title.

    This was because Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Tower was a manor that took over five thousand square meters ofnd to the south of Anvilmar City. Other than a Magic Tower in the center of the manor, there were all kinds of other buildings around the tower that seemed to be protecting the tower.

    Just based on this, one could see that Great Magician Eisenkel deserved to be called the richest magician in the kingdom.

    After Xu Yi arrived, Great Magician Eisenkeol immediately came out to wee him. The manner he acted was even friendlier than back in Banta City.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it really is hard for you to make a trip. Come, let me take you on a tour. I think that you should have many opportunities in the future toe here.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel warmly led Xu Yi in, leading him around the manor on a tour.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised by Great Magician Eisenkel being this friendly because although both sides had the intention to cooperate, Xu Yi had some considerations. He didn¡¯t give the technology that belongs to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over to Great Magician Eisenkel like he wished, so the cooperation was considered quite shallow.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s Magic Tower some Magic Arrays to study, which resulted in them giving Great Magician Eisenkel around three thousand gold coins in research fund, but this was just a drop in the bucket for Great Magician Eisenkel. Of course it was not something that he cared about.

    So Xu Yi thought that Great Magician Eisenkel inviting him this time was only a formality, he never thought that he would show this kind of attitude. It was like they were close partners.

    ¡°Look, chairman Xu, this is the Magic Array researchb that I specially put aside for our cooperation.¡±

    When Xu Yi was pondering the question in his heart, Great Magician Eisenkel had already brought him to a courtyard with six two storied buildings.

    Hearing Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s introduction, Xu Yi looked over the little courtyard in front of him. He felt that this little courtyard was like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research facility, he just didn¡¯t know if the researchers were as strong as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s.

    ¡°Right now there are twenty Fourth to Seventh Grade Magicians who are currently researching the Magic Arrays and I also frequentlye here to do some research, so while it might be a bit worse than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research facility, it wouldn¡¯t be much worse.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said in a confident voice to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi secretly shook his head.

    First not mentioning therge difference in quantity between here and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just Great Magician Cami deciding to focus on studying magic machinespared to Great Magician Eisenkel just asionally studying it, this created a veryrge difference between them.

    The main research for the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Great Magician Eisenkel was here, so after this ce, Great Magician Eisenkel didn¡¯t take Xu Yi to any other ce. He brought him around to the small buildings before bringing him to the Magic Tower in the center of the manor.

    When they came close, Xu Yi found that the Magic Tower was thirteen stories tall. It was almost double the size of Great Magician Cami¡¯s seven story tower and the floors were twice as wide.

    This proved the difference in finances between the two Great Magicians.

    But the structure of the two Magic Towers were pretty much the same, with the top level being the Great Magician¡¯s private space.

    Great Magician Eisenkel led Xu Yi to the top floor and waved his hand for everyone else to leave. After he personally poured a cup of tea for Xu Yi, he sat down and looked like he wanted to have a conversation with Xu Yi.

    After a few polite words, Xu Yi asked about the research.

    The current cooperation was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide funds while Great Magician Eisenkel would provide manpower.

    The current research project that Xu Yi gave Great Magician Eisenkel was to stabilize the output power of Magic Arrays to allow the Magic Arrays to remain intact longer.

    After half a year of research, there had been breakthroughs in these two projects and had met the requirements that Xu Yi had set.

    But when Great Magician Eisenkel talked about the current progress, he said some thought provoking words.

    ¡°ording to the initial agreement, I can give this research to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but I can also give it to anotherpany if I choose to pay a penalty fee. Chairman Xu, there are manypanies that are interested in this research and have agreed to pay the penalty fee for me, as well as buying it for a high price.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he didn¡¯t know whether Great Magician Eisenkel was reminding him of this or warning him of this.

    ¡°Naturally that is your excellency Great Magician¡¯s choice, but I think that since you chose to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you aren¡¯t nning to ruin this rtionship, right? Otherwise, with your financial power, you don¡¯t need our research funds at all.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said with a nod, ¡°Compared to those otherpanies of the kingdom who don¡¯t have mature research with magic machines, of course I want to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So as long as chairman Xu can agree to my conditions, I will not only offer the two technologies as per the contract, I will also continue to help with your research.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t look surprised at all, ¡°I ask your excellency Great Magician to tell me your conditions.¡±

    ¡°ording to my initial n, we would share the technology that was developed. As long as there are anypanies that use this technology, they would have to pay the patent fee for using it. But right now whether it¡¯s the kingdom or the Magicians Guild, they haven¡¯t passed the patent act yet, so after careful consideration, I can only use the method that yourpany used before to process this technology.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said.

    ¡°Ourpany¡¯s method?¡± Xu Yi thought about it, ¡°You¡¯re talking about selling the technology and receiving a corresponding fee?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. I feel that this method is quite good. So right now this technology belongs to the two of us, so we should both receive benefits from selling this technology. What does chairman Xu think about this?¡±

    Xu Yi fell into thought before asking, ¡°There are two problems. How should we calcte the percentage we own? Also, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines will also be using this technology, so how will we calcte this?¡±

    ¡°Because these two pieces of technology came from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce paying and me providing the manpower, I think that half is a good choice on how to split it. As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce using this technology¡­..Chairman Xu, I think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to pay the same fee for using this technology, which we will take half from.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re saying that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to pay the corresponding patent fees to use this technology?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°I don¡¯t agree. If it is selling this technology to otherpanies, I agree with the n that your excellency Great Magician has proposed. But for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to use this technology, I hope that we won¡¯t be affected like this.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel didn¡¯t think that Xu Yi would reject it so straightforward and slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested in this technology, it has the efforts of me and the magicians under me. If it is like you said and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t need to pay to use it, we would lose quite a bit of ie. Do you feel¡­..this is fair?¡±

    ¡°This is unrted to whether it is fair or not, I just don¡¯t want the magic machines produced by mypany to be limited like this. To put it more simply, I don¡¯t like it.¡± Xu Yi directly said.

    Great Magician Eisenkel knit his brows even tighter.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope that you won¡¯t let your personal preference affect your judgement. I¡¯ve already said before, I can pay the penalty to yourpany and then take this technology for myself. Then if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to use this technology, you will have to buy it from me.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and leaned back in his chair. He spread his hands and said with a rxed face, ¡°If that¡¯s what your excellency Great Magician has decided to do, please do so.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s expression immediately changed.

 Volume 2 112 - Two foreigners

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 112 Two foreigners</strong>

    There was no conclusion in the discussion with Great Magician Eisenkel.

    Because whether it was Xu Yi or Great Magician Eisenkel, they stuck to their conditions and finally reached an impasse.

    But the two of them didn¡¯t get angry like little children. Seeing that they couldn¡¯t reach a conclusion, they put this topic to the side for now.

    Great Magician Eisenkel had invited Xu Yi here for another important discussion other than the problem of the technology patent. It was that he hoped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could invest in opening a household magic machine factory with him in Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi readily agreed with this proposition and after discussing it with Great Magician Eisenkel, they set an initial agreement.

    ording to this agreement, the household magic machine workshop would have three hundred thousand invested by both Great Magician Eisenkel and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide the corresponding production equipment and staff, while Great Magician Eisenkel would be responsible for thend.

    Compared to the impasse of the technology debate, this reached a happy cooperation for both sides.

    Xu Yi had been seeking a chance for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to enter Anvilmar City, so he kept cooperating with Victor¡¯s group even though he was dissatisfied with them. It was to continue cing a mark in Anvilmar City for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that he was opening a factory with Great Magician Eisenkel, it was exactly what he wanted.

    As for Great Magician Eisenkel, what he cared about was even more direct, which was mary gain.

    This joint household magic machine factory would be split half and half ording to their agreement. ording to Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s initial estimates, once the factory was open, it would earn at least five hundred thousand gold coins a year.

    If it was half of that, that was arge profit of two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    Even for the richest Great Magician in the Lampuri Kingdom, that was arge amount.

    Because they reached this deal, when Xu Yi left, Great Magician Eisenkel still had the same friendly smile.

    But Xu Yi could tell that his eyes held an unwilling look that wasn¡¯t hidden that well.

    Xu Yi was actually very clear that Great Magician Eisenkel insisted in keeping the technology advantage in their cooperation because he knew for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, technology was the most important thing. If he controlled the technology, only then could he meddle in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s real business.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current prospects were good, so if he could meddle with it, it would yield him rich ie in the future.

    But what Xu Yi hated the most was needing others¡¯ approval for the things that were most important to him, so he didn¡¯t give the slightest possibility of discussion when it came to this.

    As for the threat in Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s tone, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t afraid at all.

    It was like Great Magician Eisenkel had said, there was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was worth mentioning in the magic machine industry. Even if he sold this technology to otherpanies, their use of it and their ie wouldn¡¯t be that high.

    So even if Great Magician Eisenkel seemed determined, Xu Yi knew that he actually had no other choices.

    Moreover, this was their first time working together, which meant that they were probing one another. Xu Yi had to clearly demonstrate his attitude, or there would be countless problems in the future.

    When he returned to his residence, he found that Still and Great Magician Cami weren¡¯t back yet. Xu Yiid down on the bed and nned to get a good rest.

    Although it had only been a few days since he came to Anvilmar City, Xu Yi had been in negotiations with all kinds of people.

    Each meeting and negotiation had many things that needed consideration, so Xu Yi had spent much more energy than he thought.

    Xu Yi actually didn¡¯t like doing these kinds of things.

    Compared to negotiating, he rather liked to concentrate on research.

    Only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have a trustworthy person in this position, so he could only take care of everything himself.

    Perhaps after some training, Kennard could take over for some work, but with his identity of being from the Emma Family, Xu Yi had some scruples.

    As heid there on the bed pondering, Xu Yi unknowingly fell asleep after some time.

    Without knowing how long passed, there were the sounds of footsteps outside Xu Yi¡¯s door that suddenly woke him up.

    When he had just opened his eyes, he heard the sounds of quick footsteps approaching the door before opening it.

    Then he heard Hannas¡¯ loudughter.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, why are you sleeping in the middle of the day? Quickly get up. It¡¯s rare enough for you to be in Anvilmar City, so I have to properly entertain you.¡±

    Xu Yi pinched his nose and rubbed his temples before looking up at the excited Hannas. He forced out a smile as he replied, ¡°I thought that you would look for me yesterday, so why are you only here today?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t like when you first came to Anvilmar City, you must have things to do, so I gave you a day to take care of it. If I came looking for you today, you would definitely have time. I heard Housekeeper Lahm say that you were sleeping when I arrived. This really is strange, you wouldn¡¯t have been sleeping since early this morning, right?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s head ached from hearing Hannas speak, so he quickly shook his head and snappily red at him, ¡°Do you think I have time to sleep like that? I haven¡¯t been back long and I was just resting. Speak, are you nning on inviting me somewhere for lunch?¡±

    Hannasughed, ¡°Of course I¡¯m inviting you out to eat lunch, but it isn¡¯t on my invitation, but someone else¡¯s invitation.¡±

    ¡°Not your invitation?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Then why did youe find me? Who has this much face that they can have youe and send the invitation?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll know if youe.¡± Hannas pulled Xu Yi off the bed and pulled him out the door.

    After half an hour, Xu Yi in a private room of the Dritz Restaurant which was the best restaurant in Anvilmar City to see who had invited him.

    However this personpletely surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations.

    When he saw the middle aged man in front of him with the warm smile, it took Xu Yi a full two minutes before he remembered him.

    ¡°Mister Lewis, it¡¯s actually you!¡±

    This person was Lewis who had directly asked to buy a thousand Magic Fans from Xu Yi when he had first started working with Heinz!

    Seeing that Xu Yi remembered him, Lewis revealed a faint smile, ¡°It seems like chairman Xu hasn¡¯t forgotten about me, then why haven¡¯t you seen me once in your two trips to Anvilmar City? I have always been waiting to see chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile and dug around before taking out a golden piece of paper. It was the name card that Lewis had given himst year.

    ¡°Look, I¡¯ve kept this name card with me the entire time. It was just that there have been things that I¡¯ve been busy with thest two times, so I never had a chance to visit.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    Lewis saw the name card and gave a nod, ¡°I also know that chairman Xu is busy, just you having the intention is enough to satisfy me. Come, sit down before we talk.¡±

    Before Xu Yi sat down, his eyes fell onto the other two people in the private room.

    ¡°These two are¡­¡­¡±

    Those two had stood up with Lewis when Xu Yi hade in. Seeing that Xu Yi was looking at them, both of them revealed smiles and the shorter person took the initiative to reach his hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Hello, chairman Xu. I am Anklo, I¡¯m from the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Stantine Duchy?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s brows jumped up as he looked a bit surprised, ¡°Is it the Stantine Duchy that is beside the ck Rice Wastnd that is close to the sea?¡±

    Ankloughed, ¡°Chairman Xu has quite the understanding of geography. That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the Stantine Duchy that is locked between the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s beastmen and the heartless sea.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s words were filled with self ridicule and helplessness. Other than Xu Yi, even Lewis, Hannas, and the other person couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of pity.

    They revealed this expression because Anklo¡¯s words were true.

    This Stantine Duchy¡¯s domain was quite strange. They were like the South American country of Chile on earth, the entire domain was arge strip that was blocked by the sea to the west and the ck Rice Wastnd to the north. The entire domain was shaped like a curve, like it was hugging the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This duchy¡¯s area wasn¡¯t considered small, but because there wasn¡¯t room to develop with the sea being to the west and the stronger Lampuri Kingdom to the east, as well as having the north being blocked by the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd, they had to stay on this piece ofnd and didn¡¯t have any possibilities of developing further.

    The more important thing was that the temperament of the sea wasn¡¯t good, they didn¡¯t know when there would be hurricanes or tsunamis.

    Even on earth with its higher level of technology, they didn¡¯t have a way of resisting natural disasters like hurricanes and tsunamis, so there was no need to mention the more Sines Continent with even less technology.

    So half of the Stantine Duchy could be hit with a hurricane or tsunami at any time, so it was hard for them to develop with the constant natural disasters.

    Xu Yi had thought that the standard of living for the Lampuri Kingdom citizens was low, butpared to the citizens of the Stantine Duchy, it was much better.

    In the Stantine Duchy, being able to live from the hurricanes and tsunamis each year was already a hard thing¡­..

    His mind thought about the information on the Stantine Duchy that he had read in Count Sean¡¯s book collection and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of sympathy.

    But he realized that this wasn¡¯t polite, so he quickly looked at the other person.

    That other person reached out his hand to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Just call me Newman. I¡¯m also not from the Lampuri Kingdom, rather Ie from the Rudson Kingdom to the south.¡±

    Hearing this introduction, Xu Yi was even more surprised.

    It was eptable that Lewis was inviting him to a meal, but what did he invite two foreigners that he didn¡¯t know for?

 Volume 2 113 - Buying things and selling things

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 113? Buying things and selling things</strong>

    Meals on the Sines Continent was somewhat different from meals on earth, before they finished eating, they definitely wouldn¡¯t discuss business.

    So after they ate to their heart¡¯s content and the desserts were carried in, everyone had some tea before Lewis jumped into business.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I had Hannas invite you over for a meal today was first after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s quick development in a year, I really wanted to see chairman Xu to see if you¡¯ve changed fromst year. Second, my friends here had something that they needed chairman Xu¡¯s help with.¡±

    Newman from the Rudson Kingdom immediately said with a nod and a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I specially asked Lewis to set up a meeting with chairman Xu. Otherwise, I really don¡¯t know how to find you.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m the same. I came from this duchy this time just to see chairman Xu.¡± Anklo from the Stantine Duchy also said with a nod.

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas with a surprised look, but he just gave a shrug, clearly he didn¡¯t know the real intent behind this mean either. So Xu Yi turned over and looked at the two as he said with a faint smile, ¡°The two of you are too polite. Only what can I help you with?¡±

    The two looked at each other before Newman spoke first, ¡°It¡¯s like this, chairman Xu. I¡¯ve heard that your Lampuri Kingdom started to promote your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machinesst year and then they received arge harvest this year, with the grain yield being far greater than before. Did something like this happen?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­..I don¡¯t know the specific number, so it¡¯s hard to say if it¡¯s far greater than before, but I¡¯m guessing it should be like this.¡± Xu Yi replied in an uncertain manner.

    Of course he was lying.

    Actually after the fall harvest had ended in Banta City, he had already received the good news from Count Sean. ording to the statistics of the agricultural department, the total harvest output of this year¡¯s fall harvest in the Lampuri Kingdom was actually three times higher than before!

    Xu Yi had an important thing to do on his trip to Anvilmar City this time, which was to attend the special celebration banquet that the king was holding for this rich harvest.

    ording to information from Seveni, Xu Yi was treated as the greatest contributor to the increase in the harvest amount, so he would be receiving a special reward at the banquet.

    Of course, this matter didn¡¯t need to be disclosed to foreigners.

    Without understanding their real goal, of course he would choose to answer as ambiguously as possible.

    Newman didn¡¯t really care about Xu Yi¡¯s answer, it was clear that he had some understanding of this already.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that no one can deny the powerful abilities of the agricultural magic machines, so I want to ask you, is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce nning to sell those agricultural magic machines to other countries?¡± Newman asked.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Mister Newman, your meaning is that¡­..you want to buy agricultural magic machines?¡±

    Newman said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. There is even more deste farnd in our Rudson Kingdompared to your Lampuri Kingdom, so I feel that if we can purchase enough agricultural magic machines from yourpany, our Rudson Kingdom¡¯s grain yield will definitely increase.¡±

    ¡°Although from the perspective of a merchant, I hope that ourpany¡¯s products can have better sales, mister Newman, with all due respect, the agricultural magic machines is something that our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king cares about, so I can¡¯t arbitrarily sell it to you.¡± Xu Yi said in a somewhat helpless voice.

    Newmanughed, ¡°I think that chairman Xu shouldn¡¯t need to worry about this. Since mister Lewis is willing to let me see you, that means that his majesty should have already agreed to this.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked at Lewis with a confused gaze.

    Was this Lewis this powerful?

    Lewis gave a slight nod to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    It would be strange if Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried. This agricultural magic machine could be considered a strategic product of the Lampuri Kingdom and in a normal situation, it couldn¡¯t be exported without the king¡¯s approval at all.

    However Lewis wasn¡¯t willing to exin this situation, so Xu Yi could only look at Hannas who had been on the side doing nothing the entire time.

    Hannas immediately gave Xu Yi a nod, ¡°Rx, since uncle Lewis already said this, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°This fellow isn¡¯t reliable¡­..¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. He looked back to Newman and said after thinking about it, ¡°Mister Newman, as long as his majesty agrees, I would be very happy to carry out this transaction with you. But before this, I want to ask, how many agricultural magic machines are you nning to buy?¡±

    Newman stretched out a finger, ¡°I¡¯m nning to buy ten thousand units of each kind of agricultural magic machine. If the effects are good, perhaps I might even order more in the future.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand units of each kind?¡± Xu Yi was shocked.

    Currently the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced six kinds of agricultural magic machines. If this Newman wanted to buy ten thousand of each kind, ording to the price of them, this order would be over four million gold coins!

    With the terrifying profit margins of the agricultural magic machines, just based on this order, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive terrifying profits of close to three million gold coins!

    ¡°What? Does chairman Xu have a problem with this?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression change, Newman asked this.

    Xu Yi took a sip from the teacup on the table and calmed his excited mood before saying, ¡°Mister Newman, I¡¯m very curious of your identity.¡±

    Newman and Lewis looked at each other before he said with a smile, ¡°It seems like chairman Xu is doubting whether I can afford this order?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, since you were invited by mister Lewis, of course I don¡¯t doubt your ability to pay. I just feel that it is very strange, if mister Newman is a normal merchant, why would you want to buy this many agricultural magic machines? Even if you bring them back to the Rudson Kingdom to sell, I feel that you wouldn¡¯t earn much profit with the issue of the transport costs.¡±

    Newman suddenly broke out inughter, ¡°Chairman Xu, would you believe me if I said I¡¯m not doing this to earn money at all?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, clearly not believing this.

    ¡°Alright, it seems like if I don¡¯t exin, it would be hard to obtain chairman Xu¡¯s trust. Un¡­...My identity, to others it is the chairman of the Rudson Chamber of Commerce from the Rudson Kingdom, but in reality, I¡¯m a special manager that does business for the royal family, which is simr to what mister Lewis does. Now does chairman Xu understand my meaning?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately noted that Newman said that his status was the same as Lewis.

    This meant that Lewis was actually aprador for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family?

    No wonder Lewis and Hannas told Xu Yi not to worry that the king wouldn¡¯t agree to him selling agricultural magic machines. Perhaps this meeting today was set up by Lewis under the king¡¯s instructions.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. Since it was like this, why didn¡¯t anyone tell him ahead of time to let himself prepare his heart?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, actually if there isn¡¯t a need, I don¡¯t want to disclose my identity, so I hope you don¡¯t mind.¡± Lewis gave a slight bow to Xu Yi, speaking in an apologetic voice.

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, mister Lewis does not need to apologize. But since I know of you and mister Newman¡¯s identities, that is much easier. Alright, I can represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in epting this order.¡±

    Newman immediately poured a full cup of wine for him and Xu Yi, which the two of them raised and gently clinked together.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope we have a happy cooperation.¡±

    ¡°To a happy cooperation.¡±

    After Newman and Xu Yi reached an initial agreement, naturally it was Anklo¡¯s turn next.

    Xu Yi wiped the wine from the corners of his mouth before looking over at Anklo to ask, ¡°Mister Anklo, are you the same as mister Newman, are you also interested in buying agricultural magic machines from ourpany?¡±

    Anklo shook his head, ¡°No, I¡¯m different from him. He is here to buy things and I¡¯m here to sell things.¡±

    ¡°Sell things?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What do you want to sell to me?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you should be asking what the Stantine Duchy wants to sell to you.¡±

    Hearing the meaning in Anklo¡¯s words, Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat. He quickly asked, ¡°Then I wish to ask mister Anklo, what does the Stantine Duchy want to sell to me?¡±

    Anklo revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that chairman Xu has always been interested in buying mines, so how about we sell two iron mines and one copper mine to you for now?¡±

    ¡°Two iron mines? One copper mine?¡± Xu Yi looked at Anklo in disbelief, ¡°Mister Anklo, you wouldn¡¯t be joking, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not joking.¡± Anklo shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I specially asked mister Lewis to set up this meeting, it wasn¡¯t just to joke with you. How about it? I¡¯m currently representing Duke Stantine to ask if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will mine the two iron mines and one copper mine that the duke has personally picked, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, ¡°Mister Anklo, is this really the thoughts of Duke Stantine? I can understand two iron mines, but why is Duke Stantine choosing to sell me a copper mine?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s no use leaving it there, so the duke decided that we should use it to exchange for something that we need.¡± Anklo replied.

    Xu Yi immediately heard some hidden meaning in Anklo¡¯s words.

    ¡°That means that¡­..Duke Stantine doesn¡¯t want me to pay with gold coins? But what does the duke need?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can we not discuss that here?¡± Anklo looked over at Lewis, Newman, and Hannas on the side before asking Xu Yi with a serious face, ¡°I just want to ask chairman Xu, the duke wants to sell, do you want to buy?¡±

    Xu Yi sat straight up as his face became serious and he gave a slow nod.

    ¡°Yes! Very much!¡±

 Volume 2 114 - You know high grade magic?

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 114 You know high grade magic?</b>

    After Still was finished with the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s banquet and came back to the residence, she found that Xu Yi was piled on a table, seriously examining a map.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Ah? You¡¯re back?¡± Xu Yi looked up to reply before pointing at the map and saying, ¡°I¡¯m currently studying the terrain of the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Stantine Duchy?¡± Still tilted her head to think. She remembered when she had learned continental politics as an elective back at school and she had learned a bit about the duchy near the Lampuri Kingdom, ¡°Oh, it¡¯s that duchy in that crevie. Why are you suddenly studying their terrain?¡±

    ¡°Because in a while, I might have to take a trip there, so I¡¯m studying first to prepare myself.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°You¡¯re going to the Stantine Duchy?¡± Still was even more surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    Xu Yi roughly exined what happened at his lunch meeting. Still thought for a bit after hearing this and the first thing she talked about surprised Xu Yi.

    ¡°Un, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people are really pitiful. I heard the teacher in continental politics mention that the average lifespan of people in the Stantine Duchy is only forty years, it¡¯s much worse than our Lampuri Kingdom. Now they¡¯re even selling their copper mines, it seems like Duke Stantine really can¡¯t hold on.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit strange, ¡°I say, Still, why does it sound like I¡¯m a shameless personing in to take advantage of them?¡±

    Still pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°If it was another merchant, they would be taking advantage of someone. But you Xu Yi as a good person wouldn¡¯t do this, am I right?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t give me a good guy card¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering as he rubbed his nose. He then said with a serious face, ¡°You¡¯re right that I wouldn¡¯t take advantage of others. Actually, ording to what Anklo said, the Stantine Duchy is always in danger, so I¡¯ll be taking advantage of them whenever I go. But this time they came to find me, so I can¡¯t be considered shameless. It can only be considered¡­..everyone taking what they need.¡±

    ¡°Then what does the Stantine Duchy n on taking from you?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°I haven¡¯t discussed this with Anklo yet, but Anklo said that they aren¡¯t in need of gold coins, so it should be something that is difficult to buy with gold coins. I¡¯m guessing it¡¯s some kind of technology.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Technology?¡± Still said in a surprised voice, ¡°What technology do they need from you? They can¡¯t use the magic machine technology even if you give it to them, right? I feel that they might as well do the same as the Rudson Kingdom. They should first buy some agricultural magic machines back to let their people eat their fill.¡±

    ¡°No, they can¡¯t use the agricultural magic machines right now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and pointed at the Stantine Duchy on the map, ¡°Look, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s terrain is different from the other countries of the continent. Over half their territory is by the ocean, so it is frequently hit with hurricanes and tsunamis and half of the kingdom¡¯s grain yield is very unstable. It could make their entire year¡¯s worth of crops disappear into thin air because of a random hurricane or tsunami.¡±

    Still looked at the map for a while before giving a slight nod and a look of sympathy.

    ¡°The people of this duchy really are pitiful, they can¡¯t even grow crops. It¡¯s a good thing that they can depend on the sea for fish, otherwise I really don¡¯t know how they could keep living.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Actually although they encounter frequent hurricanes and tsunamis from half their territory being by the sea, this also gives them a natural advantage, but they haven¡¯t found how to use it yet.¡±

    ¡°Natural advantage?¡± Still looked at the map in a confused manner for a bit, but she couldn¡¯t find anything, ¡°What is this advantage?¡±

    ¡°The long coastline is their natural advantage.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Of course, not mentioning the Stantine Duchy, there isn¡¯t a single country on the Sines Continent that understands how important this is.¡±

    ¡°What advantage does the coastline give?¡± Still was even more confused.

    ¡°It¡¯s too early to talk about this now, but as long as we develop the engines, we can make full use of this advantage.¡±

    Seeing the mysterious smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Still couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at him.

    ording to her understanding of Xu Yi, Xu Yi was someone with long term ns. Because he didn¡¯t have confidence in them right now, no matter how she asked him, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t give a clear response.

    Still didn¡¯t keep asking him about this like a normal girl. After being with Xu Yi for this long, when she met this kind of situation, if she kept asking about it each time, it would make Xu Yi rather unhappy.

    Still was a smart girl, she wouldn¡¯t do something dumb like that.

    After the two went on to talk about the Rudson Kingdom, Great Magician Cami hade back from the lunch banquet at the Magicians Guild.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was here, Great Magician Cami asked him without any politeness, ¡°Hey, kid, you¡¯ll be participating in the certification exam tomorrow, have you prepared yourself?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and replied with a rxed expression, ¡°What is there to prepare for, I just need to demonstrate my abilities.¡±

    When Great Magician Cami looked over, Xu Yi¡¯s smile disappeared and he asked in a mysterious voice, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you are responsible for the exam tomorrow, can you tell me about the topics ahead of time?¡±

    Great Magician Cami knew that Xu Yi was joking, but he couldn¡¯t help ring at him as he snappily waved his hand, ¡°Scram!¡± After pausing for a bit, he added, ¡°The exam of a high grade magician is the same as the exam of a low grade magician, but they just added a high grade magic test. There isn¡¯t much of a difference, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°High grade magic?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    The so-called high grade magic was the higher grade variant of the four basic elemental magic of wind, water, fire, and earth.

    For example, the high grade magic of wind magic was thunder magic, the high grade magic of water magic was ice magic¡­..

    Properly speaking, after a magician reached the Sixth Grade, they would start grasping high grade magic. But for Xu Yi who thought that high grade magic didn¡¯t have much meaning when it came to magic machines, he rarely studied them. Although his magic power was at the same level as a Seventh Grade Magician, he had a weak grasp of high grade magic.

    To put it simply, he was quite biased in his magic research. He wasn¡¯t weaker than Eighth Grade or even Ninth Grade Magicians when it came to Magic Arrays, but his destructive magic was at most on par with a Sixth Grade Magician.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, Great Magician Cami and Still were a bit surprised. Still quickly asked, ¡°It can¡¯t be that you don¡¯t have a grasp of high grade magic, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This¡­..I¡¯m not that good¡­...Alright, strictly speaking, I still haven¡¯tpletely grasped a single high grade spell.¡±

    Great Magician Cami and Still¡¯s eyes popped out. Great Magician Cami angrily said, ¡°Kid, didn¡¯t you tell me that you had the strength of a Seventh Grade Magician? What Seventh Grade Magician are you if you don¡¯t know high grade magic!¡±

    Still slightly knit her brows as she said in a worried voice, ¡°Grandfather is right. If you don¡¯t know high grade magic, the Magicians Guild will not ept you as a high grade magician. Not to mention the Seventh Grade exam, you might even pass the Sixth Grade exam.¡±

    ¡°This damn kid, I already told you to spend some time researching magic, but you just wouldn¡¯t listen!¡± Great Magician Cami angrily said, ¡°What do we do now? You¡¯re participating in the high grade magician exam tomorrow, you can¡¯t just tell people that you don¡¯t know any high grade magic, right? That would be a great joke!¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t react as intensely as the two of them. His expression was more rxed as he said with a smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t that bad, right? I can just take the exam next year if I don¡¯t pass. I¡¯ll properly study high grade magic during this year and I think I¡¯ll definitely meet the requirements.¡±

    ¡°You say it so simply!¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s spit almost sttered on Xu Yi¡¯s face, ¡°Kid, at the lunch banquet today, I kept praising you in front of everyone. I said that with your talent, you would definitely pass the exam. Now you¡¯re telling me that you¡¯re nning to give me? You¡¯re not afraid of me losing face in front of others! Let me tell you, if you run away this time, do you believe I won¡¯t tell Still to stop associating herself with you?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi and Still were stunned at the same time.

    Still stomped her foot, ¡°Grandfather, what nonsense are you saying? How is this rted to our rtionship?¡±

    ¡°Humph! I¡¯m saying it like this. Kid, what are you nning to do?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and helplessly said, ¡°But even if I don¡¯t give up and go to the exam, I really don¡¯t know a single high grade spell, so I won¡¯t be able to pass the exam.¡±

    ¡°You really don¡¯t know a single one?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s expression was a bit ugly, ¡°Kid, I know there¡¯s no use in threatening you, but do you know that your performance in this exam will very likely affect the guild¡¯s attitude towards magic machines? If you perform well, the guild might pass the patent idea faster than you expected, but if you perform badly¡­..Even if this patent act passes, it wouldn¡¯t be as good as you imagined.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, why didn¡¯t you say this earlier? If I knew how serious this matter was, I definitely would have studied high grade magic.¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at him and angrily said, ¡°How did I know that you didn¡¯t study high grade magic at all!¡±

    Hearing what Great Magician Cami said, Still was also a bit anxious.

    Xu Yi had mentioned in front of her many times that if the patent act passes, how important it would be to the development of the magic machine industry, so he always hoped that a perfect patent act would be passed by the Magicians Guild.

    Now based on what Great Magician Cami said, Xu Yi¡¯s performance would affect the patent act, so this was a very important matter for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Grandfather, can¡¯t you think of a way? How about you properly teach him and see if he can grasp a high grade spell in a day?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Still and said with a cold snort, ¡°With this kid¡¯s talent, that isn¡¯t impossible. But do you think that in a single afternoon and night, he would be able to properly learn a high grade spell? If he goes to the exam tomorrow, he would just embarrass himself.¡±

    Still was already a Fifth Grade Magician and began having contact with high grade magic, so of course she knew that Great Magician Cami waspletely right.

    ¡°Then what do we do?¡± Still anxiously said.

    Seeing Great Magician Cami¡¯s tightly knit brows and Still¡¯s worried face, Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts kept turning.

    Actually he wasn¡¯t that worried.

    Even if the patent act passed by the Magicians Guild this time wasn¡¯t perfect, with the development of the magic machine industry, the Magicians Guild would realize how important this patent act was and would eventually change it in the direction that Xu Yi wanted.

    Moreover, Xu Yi could use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s special position in the industry to set some rules, so this patent act wasn¡¯t that important.

    But since Great Magician Cami and Still worried about him this much, he couldn¡¯t just seem like he didn¡¯t care at all and had to work hard for this.

    Countless thoughts passed in his mind and suddenly, there was a sh of brilliance that appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    Xu Yi revealed a confident smile to Great Magician Cami and Still, ¡°I thought of something. Actually I already grasped a high grade spell and I¡¯m quite skilled with it.¡±

 Volume 2 115 - I love you

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 115 I love you</h4>

    Perhaps it was because the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam had been pushed back by a month, so after the Primary Grade and Second Grade exams with the most people finished in the past two days, the Magicians Guild announced that the Third Grade to Fifth Grade exams would bepressed into two days.

    Other than the Third Grade exam that would be finished today at the exam site, the remaining Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade exams could be taken at any time.

    Xu Yi and Still arrived at the Sheldon Inn early in the morning and came together with the researchers.

    The magicians of the research facility went from Third to Seventh Grade, so there were one Seventh Grade Magician, three Sixth Grade Magicians, and eight Fifth Grade Magicians.

    These researchers were participating in the high grade magician exam with Xu Yi.

    The remaining thirty seven researchers were all Third and Fourth Grade Magicians and they were participating in the low grade magicians exam with Still.

    But when these forty nine researchers with Xu Yi and Still came together, they attracted quite a bit of attention.

    It was because the fifty one of them were all wearing the same magic robes and on the chest of the magic robe, they had the same half wing badge. One look could tell that these magicians came from the same organization.

    Although Anvilmar City had been filled with magicians who came for the certification exam, this was the first time that this many magicians had appeared with the same uniform.

    When this group walked out the door of the Sheldon Inn, it attracted the attention of everyone outside the inn.

    The people who didn¡¯t recognize the mark on their chests tried to guess what it symbolized.

    ¡°Hey, look, those magicians should be from the same ce, right? Look at them, could it be that they¡¯re from some cult?¡±

    ¡°Cult your ass! When has our Lampuri Kingdom ever had cults? Moreover, a cult that is filled with magicians? I think that you should go see a doctor to check if there is something wrong with your brain! If I had to guess, they should be under the same Great Magician because there would only be this many magicians under a Great Magician.¡±

    At this time, the people who recognized the badge looked at the people from before with looks of disdain and began teaching them.

    ¡°Two inexperienced fellows, you don¡¯t even know wh at the badge on their chest means? Let me tell you, that isn¡¯t any Great Magician¡¯s symbol and it isn¡¯t some damn cult, it¡¯s the symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Do you know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? It¡¯s the one that sells those strange household magic machines. Let me tell you, I bought a Magic Bread Maker a bit back and it¡¯s so easy to use¡­..¡±

    ¡­...

    After recognizing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s symbol, the crowd around them was even more shocked.

    Although there were manypanies that had some magicians, apany that could take out all these magicians at once like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was rarely seen.

    Just in terms of magicians hired, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fifty one magicians including Xu Yi and Still to everyone was enough to consider them a first sspany of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Moreover, some people with discerning eyes saw the magic robe they were wearing and they found that although they were wearing the same robes, the materials were all high grade and it was made from fine craftsmanship. One look could tell that it should have been made by a famous tailor.

    Not mentioning anything else, just these magic robes alone weren¡¯t cheap.

    It could be seen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was really something, just the cost of making a magic robe like this for each one of the magicians under them wasn¡¯t cheap.

    Not to mention that they had just walked out of the Sheldon Inn, it could be seen that the magicians had been living there during this time.

    Thinking of the high price of the Sheldon Inn, everyone guessed correctly that the magicians didn¡¯t pay the cost themselves, rather it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that paid for them.

    If it was like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s treatment of these magicians was really a bit too good.

    Moreover, that wasn¡¯t everything. These magicians waited at the entrance of the Sheldon Inn for a bit before ten carriages with white horses drove up and stopped in front of them.

    Seeing those magicians enter the horse carriages, the crowd was even more shocked.

    Not mentioning how the horse waspletely white without any impurities, just based on how magnificent the horse carriages were and the fine design that was drawn on the side, people recognized that these ten carriages had to be the most expensive ¡°Duke Level¡± carriages of the Fersen Carriage Company.

    It cost fifty gold coins a day just to rent a ¡°Duke Level¡± carriage and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rented ten at once!

    After calcting that just these ten carriages cost five hundred gold coins, everyone looked at them with iparable admiration. They watched as the horse carriages sped off towards the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam site outside the city.

    ¡°Ha, ha, look, those people must be dying from their envy!¡± In the first carriage, Akali wasughing as she pointed at the people watching from the street, looking quite excited.

    Be on the side was even more excited than her. She looked up at the fine drawing on the roof of the carriage and then she rubbed the real leather seats under her butt before opening apartment under the seats to reveal several bottles of red wine. She couldn¡¯t help gasping, ¡°God, this is the most luxurious carriage I¡¯ve ever ridden in my life! Sir chairman, I love you to death!¡±

    ire on the side looked at her, ¡°Hey, Be, be careful, Still is here. If you say things like this in front of her, be careful when Still gets mad.¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°What do I have to be angry about? Don¡¯t I understand Be? She likes to speak nonsense once she gets too excited.¡±

    Be looked over at Still and asked with a grin, ¡°Still, what if I¡¯m not speaking nonsense and I¡¯ve really fallen in love with sir chairman?¡±

    Still gave a shrug, ¡°You can love who you want, I don¡¯t care. It¡¯s fine as long as Xu Yi doesn¡¯t love you.¡±

    ¡°Humph, how do you know sir chairman doesn¡¯t love me?¡± Be looked at Xu Yi in an unwilling to give up manner, ¡°Sir chairman, I am giving you my confession. I love you, do you love me?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he shook his head, ¡°Alright, stop ying. We¡¯ll be at the exam site soon, you guys aren¡¯t nervous?¡±

    ¡°What is there to be nervous about?¡± Be sat back down with a frustrated look, ¡°Compared to being rejected by sir chairman, what is failing the test? Ai, sir chairman, when will your heart change. If you ever don¡¯t want Still anymore, remember that I will always be waiting for you.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes before saying, ¡°Alright, if it wasn¡¯t for advertising, I wouldn¡¯t rent such expensive carriages. Before we arrive at the exam site, you might as well enjoy it. I won¡¯t waste money like this in the future.¡±

    Be giggled before digging around in the secretpartment. But because she was about to take the exam, she couldn¡¯t drink, so she could only have a few small sips.

    ¡°Chairman, the advertisement you mentioned just now¡­..Then letting us live in the Sheldon Inn, giving us these robes, and renting these luxurious horse carriages was all for that? ire asked with a curious look.

    ¡°Not all of it. Letting you stay at the Sheldon Inn was to let you rest well during this time and let you be in better condition when ites to the exam.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°As for the magic robes, it¡¯s half and half. Look, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce badge on, it is very good advertisement. But normally you could take off those badges and you can still wear it, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    ¡°Un, these clothes are very beautiful and the material is also very good, I like it very much.¡± Akali looked over the robe she was wearing, looking very satisfied, ¡°Sir chairman, you mean that you¡¯re giving us these clothes?¡±

    ¡°Of course, what would I keep them for?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Akali, ire, and Be cheered as they gave each other high fives.

    They had asked for the price of these magic robes, each one was no less than ten gold coins.

    This to a magician with a normal background was a robe that was so expensive that they wouldn¡¯t be willing to buy.

    Now that Xu Yi had said that he was giving these magic robes to them, they were definitely very happy.

    ire couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, you really are a good person. If you don¡¯t like Be, you can also choose me. Even if you like Still at the same time, I don¡¯t mind.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at her, ¡°ire, you¡¯re also causing trouble like Be?¡±

    ireughed, ¡°I am being honest. Sir chairman is so young, handsome, rich, and generous, who wouldn¡¯t like him? Aren¡¯t I right, Akali?¡±

    Akali¡¯s reaction was a bit stiff. She looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit as her smile gradually disappeared, causing her expression to look a bit stiff.

    Seeing this reaction from her, ire and Be who had beenughing calmed down and looked at Akali in surprise with Still.

    Be with her open personality wanted to say something, but ire pulled her back and stopped her from talking.

    The small actions of the two made the atmosphere in the carriage even more awkward.

    Still¡¯s eyes passed over Akali and Xu Yi¡¯s faces which had the same strange expressions.

    She wanted to question them, but thinking about it, she could only swallow her questions.

    The noisy carriage instantly fell into a deathly silence, as they could only hear the sounds of the horse hooves and carriage wheels running over the dirt road.

 Volume 2 116 - Erenâ€™s resentment

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 116? Eren¡¯s resentment</strong>

    It was a good thing that the Magicians Guild¡¯s exam site wasn¡¯t that far away from Anvilmar City, so the awkward atmosphere didn¡¯tst long.

    When the ten horse carriages stopped outside the exam site, the magicians wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic robes jumped out of the horse carriages. All magicians waiting at the exam site for the exam to start looked over.

    As magicians, naturally they were more well informedpared to average people. Just yesterday, the ?Anvilmar Times? reported that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had prepared all their magicians to participate in the certification exam. Seeing the situation now, the magicians at the exam site were surprised, but they quickly reacted.

    But seeing the ten luxurious horse carriages and the magic robes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians were wearing, most magicians couldn¡¯t help revealing looks of admiration.

    Seeing the gazes of the surrounding magicians, Xu Yi revealed a satisfied smile.

    Although he had spent quite a bit of money for advertisement this time, as long as it was effective enough, it was worth it.

    Xu Yi gathered everyone and gave them a few words of encouragement. When he was going to wish them luck on passing the exam, there was a sinister voice that came from the side.

    ¡°Ai, I was wondering who had so much money that they didn¡¯t know where to use it, but it was chairman Xu. No wonder, no wonder¡­..This kind of overkill thing, it is something that only you can do.¡±

    Everyone turned and Xu Yi looked at the person walking out of the crowd. He said with a smile, ¡°So it¡¯s mister Eren. What? Are you here to participate in the Fifth Grade exam?¡±

    Anke Eren¡¯s expression turned stiff and after a while, he stuttered out, ¡°No, I¡¯m participating in the Fourth Grade exam.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny. Although this fellow had strangely be hostile to himst year and definitely was holding a grudge since he was injured by him, he was still just a child that had just reached maturity since he had answered the question so honestly.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t pretend that he didn¡¯t say what he said because he was young. He deliberately revealed a surprised expression as he said, ¡°Oh? I thought that you were confidentst year and were certain that you would pass the Fourth Grade exam, but I never thought that you would fail. That really is a pity.¡±

    Anke Eren¡¯s face turned white and blue and after his expression changed several times, he red at Xu Yi, ¡°Let me tell you, don¡¯t be so arrogant in front of me! Are you not worried that I¡¯ll make it so you can¡¯t pass this year!¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a faint smile, ¡°Young master Eren, you said the same thingst year, but it didn¡¯t happen. As for this year¡­..I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m participating in the Seventh Grade exam. The Fourth Grade exam that you are taking doesn¡¯t seem to be at the same exam site as me, so even if you want to stop me likest year, I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t have the chance?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the surrounding magicians understood the general situation.

    But everyone was a bit surprised. Properly speaking Xu Yi and Anke Eren¡¯s identities didn¡¯t go together at all.

    Why was it that there was such arge conflict between themst year? Anke Eren¡¯s current expression even looked like he wanted to eat Xu Yi alive?

    Of course, what was known was that for the conflict between them, the one who suffered was definitely Anke Eren.

    Thinking of how Anke Eren was the only son of the Magicians Guild¡¯s president Palmes Eren, everyone looked at Xu Yi with even stranger gazes.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very famous right now, based on their statuses, Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman was far from being able topare to the Magicians Guild¡¯s president Palmes Eren. Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had almost no fame in Anvilmar Cityst year.

    So after Xu Yi shed with Anke Eren, how did he safely get through Palmes Eren¡¯s anger?

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Anke Eren tightly clenched his fists in rage.

    After he was injured by Xu Yist year, he thought that his father would definitely take revenge for him. Who would have known that his father would never take action and when he protested to him, his father had taught him a lesson.

    He knew at that time that Xu Yi was not as simple as he seemed, so he could only helplessly give up his idea of taking revenge on Xu Yi.

    But suddenly seeing Xu Yi here today, he couldn¡¯t resist jumping at him.

    Even though he couldn¡¯t move against Xu Yi because of his father¡¯s warningsst night, he could still get some small revenge with taunting words.

    Who would have known that he was even less of Xu Yi¡¯s match when it came to words.

    Hearing what Xu Yi said, he actually couldn¡¯t say anything back at all.

    That was because what Xu Yi said waspletely right. Xu Yi was taking the Seventh Grade exam and he was only taking the Fourth Grade exam.

    The high grade and low grade magician exams were separated, so he didn¡¯t even have a chance to treat Xu Yi as his enemy like he didst year.

    Thinking of this, Anke Eren noticed an astonishing fact. He pointed at Xu Yi and called out in surprise, ¡°You just said¡­..you¡¯re taking the Seventh Grade exam? You must be lying! You barely passed the Fifth Grade examst year, so how could you have the strength to participate in the Seventh Grade exam this year? That is impossible!¡±

    Hearing Anke Eren¡¯s question, the surrounding magicians looked at Xu Yi in shock.

    At this time, there were many magicians who remembered that Xu Yi had be a Fifth Grade Magicianst year at his first certification exam. Back then, it had created quite arge stir in the magician circle of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But he was clearly a Fifth Grade Magicianst year, he actually dared to take the Seventh Grade exam this year?

    If he wasn¡¯t overestimating himself, being able to go from the Fifth Grade to the Seventh Grade in just a year, wasn¡¯t this speed just too terrifying?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care about his strength, so even though he knew it was a good chance to show off, he just casually gave Anke Eren a smile before saying, ¡°This question is not something you need to care about. Alright, the exam is about to begin, I¡¯m not gonna chat with you anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi turned and ignored Anke Eren after saying this, as he began to give words of encouragement to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers before their exam.

    Anke Eren wanted to taunt Xu Yi with a few more words, but seeing that Xu Yi was surrounded by those magicians with the same robes, he seemed to have thought of something. His eyes fell onto the badge on the chest of the magicians and his lips curled, as he revealed a satisfied and cruel smile.

    After waiting at the exam site for a bit, the staff of the Magicians Guild finally announced the exam was beginning. The magicians at the exam site were divided into two and they walked to their respective exam sites.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to the low level magicians and then raised his fist to Still before revealing an encouraging smile. Then he walked with the twelve high level magicians to another exam site.

    When he entered the exam site, he found that there were even less people here than when he participated in the Fifth Grade examst year.

    But this was also normal since the higher the grade of a magician, the harder it was to progress.

    There were around ten thousand magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom currently and there were no more than five hundred people who had passed the Fourth Grade exam. The magicians who felt they were strong enough to participate in the Fifth Grade exam each year were less than half.

    As for people like Xu Yi with Fifth Grade or higher magic power, it was less than five hundred people. But because it was hard to be stronger and there were few magicians who thought they were strong enough to advance, so there were even less people here.

    Actually the twelve high grade magicians of the magic research facility weren¡¯t certain that they were strong enough to advance, so the reason why they came to participate this time was mainly because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had provided transportation, lodging, and subsidies.

    Otherwise, there would be less than five of them who came here with the idea of testing their strength.

    Xu Yi looked over the exam site and found that including him, there were less than fifty people that hade for this high grade magician exam.

    It was no wonder the Magicians Guild had put the exam for high grade magicians together.

    For just these few people, Xu Yi even felt that it was a waste for five Great Magicians to be here at the same time.

    Thinking of the Great Magicians, Xu YI looked up and saw the five Great Magicians who were residing over the exam site.

    Great Magician Cami was sitting on the second seat from the left. Seeing Xu Yi look over, he gave a nod to Xu Yi in response.

    Sitting to his left was Great Magician Eisenkel. Compared to Great Magician Cami, he was much more friendly to Xu Yi, but he was also much more restrainedpared to when the two of them were discussing business, only revealing a warm smile.

    After all, he was here as an examiner, it wasn¡¯t good for him to be too close to Xu Yi.

    The two Great Magicians on the right were people Xu Yi had never met before and the Great Magician in the middle was someone that Xu Yi recognized. It was the Magicians Guild¡¯s president Palmes Eren that he had metst year.

    When Xu Yi looked at him, he was also looking at Xu Yi.

    When their gazes met, Palmes Eren slightly narrowed his eyes and gave a slight nod.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile in return as he wondered if he knew about Anke Eren provoking him earlier.

    If he knew that his son was still this stupid, the president definitely wouldn¡¯t be feeling good.

 Volume 2 117 - Somewhat special new Lightning Magic

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 117 Somewhat special new Lightning Magic</h4>

    Perhaps it was because this was the first time the high grade magician qualification exams were being held at the Magicians Guilds of the kingdoms, before they began the exam, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild held a small ceremony.

    At the ceremony, not only did they read the decision made by the Sines Continent¡¯s Magicians Guild, they also read out the rules of the high grade magician qualification exam.

    From what president Palmes Eren read, Xu Yi noticed something worth noting.

    Because not every country on the Sines Continent had a Great Magician present, those countries without Great Magicians were routed elsewhere. The high grade magicians of those countries that wanted to participate in the high grade magicians exam would be distributed to a nearby country with a Great Magician for their exam.

    In this division, because the nearby Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t have a Great Magician and adding in the fact that the Stantine Duchy was close to the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy and two small duchies that near the Lampuri Kingdom were all routed to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Hearing president Eren reading this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking over the high grade magicians who hade for the exam. He wanted to find the magicians who hade from the Stantine Duchy for this exam.

    But the magicians looked pretty much the same, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t tell based on their appearances.

    After the ceremony, chairman Eren introduced the other four Great Magicians. He told everyone that they were lucky enough to have all five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom present for their exam.

    ¡°This is a rare honour! Because from this year forth, the guild will only ask one Great Magician to supervise the exam, so you won¡¯t have the chance to show off your strength in front of five Great Magicians ever again. You have to properly seize this chance and show off your talents, understood?¡± President Eren asked in a loud voice.

    The magicians all had excited faces as they shouted back, ¡°Understood!¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit frightened by their excitement and fervor because to him, Great Magicians weren¡¯t that rare.

    So he was unable to understand that for the other magicians, Great Magicians were the goals and targets of worship in their hearts. To be able to show off in front of five Great Magicians, that truly was a great honour.

    After the ceremony was over, president Eren didn¡¯t waste any time and immediately announced the beginning of the exam.

    In short, the high grade magician exam was indeed like Great Magician Cami had said before. The flow and content was basically the same as the low grade magician exam.

    The exam also started with a written test, testing the magicians on their magic theoretical knowledge.

    This naturally wasn¡¯t that difficult for Xu Yi.

    The difficult part which was what Great Magician Cami also worried about was the high grade magic demonstration that came after the written exam.

    Seeing the magicians in front of him demonstrate their high grade magic one by one, Xu Yi became a bit uncertain.

    Although the method he chose to rece high grade magic was quite good and received the approval of Great Magician Cami, it wasn¡¯t really high grade magic. Perhaps if the other four Great Magicians noticed the truth, they might not approve of this.

    Very soon, the magician before Xu Yi finished his demonstration and it was Xu Yi¡¯s turn.

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with a questioning gaze.

    Xu Yi calmed down the anxiety in his heart and gave a nod to Great Magician Cami, as he revealed a confident smile.

    Great Magician Cami calmed down slightly and gave Xu Yi an encouraging smile.

    Great Magician Eisenkel naturally wasn¡¯t worried. He was the same as the other three Great Magicians, looking at Xu Yi with curiosity.

    In the magicians circle of the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi was quite famous.

    Other than the fact that he passed the Fifth Grade exam after participating in the certification exam for the first timest year, what made him more well known among magicians was the magic machines he studied.

    Before Xu Yi, magicians who used magic application weren¡¯t cared about by others. But after Xu Yi had invented the magic machines, magicians found that magic and machinesing together had practical applications.

    The more important thing was that the magic machines made so much money!

    There were many magicians who were filled with regret after learning of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.

    If they could use magic like this and invent magic machines before Xu Yi, wouldn¡¯t they be able to earnrge amounts of money?

    Magicians were the same as normal people, they also loved money. They even loved money more than normal people because as long as they had enough money, they could buy enough magic materials and conduct magic experiments at will.

    So in fact, the growth of each magician was supported byrge amounts of money.

    But even with many magicians entering the field of magic machines, they found that magic machines weren¡¯t easy to invent at all.

    There were countless magic machinepanies that appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom, but before they received technical support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany that could make magic machines that were on par with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom were even more curious about Xu Yi.

    This fellow, just how did he invent the magic machines?

    President Eren¡¯s thoughts were different from others. He was thinking about when Xu Yi had specially paid him a visitst year and suggested the magic patent act.

    After a year of discussions, the Magicians Guild had already made up their mind to pass this act.

    But there were certain details that weren¡¯t agreed on in the Magicians Guild.

    For example, the problem of charging fees. There were many magicians who didn¡¯t agree to fees and some that said fees should be taken and it should be arge amount.

    President Eren also supported charging fees and ording to what he knew about the policy makers of the Magicians Guild, the final decision would include charging fees.

    But as for how much¡­..that still needed to be discussed.

    President Eren looked at Xu Yi who had given this idea and he thought aboutst year when Xu Yi said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be willing to pay a high patent fee. The so-called ¡°high¡±, just how ¡°high¡± was it?

    So the five Great Magicians watched as Xu Yi came onto stage. Because of the different thoughts they had, the stage fell into an unexpected short silence.

    This strange situation made Xu Yi who was already the center of attention receive even more attention.

    The other magicians saw that the five Great Magicians were all staring at Xu Yi and their hearts couldn¡¯t help being filled with envy.

    This Xu Yi had not just relied on those magic machines to open the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and earn all that money, now he had the attention of all five Great Magicians, he really had good luck.

    After the awkward silence, president Eren reacted to the low reminder from the staff beside him. He gave a soft cough before letting Xu Yi begin his high grade magic demonstration.

    Xu Yi gave a salute to the five Great Magicians before saying to the Magicians Guild staff on the side who was responsible for his test, ¡°I excel in Wind Magic, so I will be demonstrating the high grade magic of Wind Magic, Lightning Magic.¡±

    The staff member was a Ninth Grade Magician who nodded after hearing this, ¡°Alright, please begin.¡± He moved back slightly after saying this and opened the surrounding magic barrier, leaving arge space for Xu Yi.

    With everyone¡¯splicated gazes watching him, Xu Yi raised his hands slightly as the magic energy inside him began to quickly flow.

    Other than Great Magician Cami, the four surprised Great Magicians and some of the more powerful magicians around knit their brows.

    Although Lightning Magic was advanced Wind Magic, Wind Magic waspletely different from Lightning Magic. When activating Lightning Magic, the magician would use magic energy to gather the surrounding Lightning Elemental Energy to form a spell.

    But with the flow of Xu Yi¡¯s magic, the surrounding changes were with Wind Elemental Energy and there was no trace of Lightning Elemental Energy at all.

    Other than that, even if it was Wind Elemental Energy, the fluctuations around were weak. Not to mentionparing it to Lightning Elemental Energy, just judging it as Wind Elemental Energy, Xu Yi¡¯s magic power didn¡¯t seem like a high grade spell.

    However, momentster, the powerful magicians that could sense the elemental energy in the air suddenly had their expressions change at the same time.

    This was because they suddenly felt that the Lightning Elemental Energy around Xu Yi had suddenlye alive.

    And this liveliness didn¡¯t seem like the orderly fluctuations of controlled magic, rather it wildly went in all directions like uncontrolled magic.

    Great Magician Eisenkel couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows as he said to Great Magician Cami in a low voice, ¡°It can¡¯t be that he can¡¯t control Lightning Magic, right? If it keeps going like this, I advise you to have him stop right away. Otherwise if it keeps going, perhaps there will be a problem since he can¡¯t control the Lightning Elemental Energy.¡±

    Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s fine, this is a new Lightning Spell that he developed, it¡¯s a bit special. There isn¡¯t any danger.¡±

    ¡°New Lightning Spell?¡± Hearing Great Magician Cami¡¯s response, Great Magicians Eisenkel and the three Great Magicians with sharp ears who had heard the conversation between the two were shocked.

    ¡°He can actually develop a new Lightning Spell?¡± President Eren couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Could it be that his talent for magic is actually this great?¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s expression was a bit strange. After a pause, he gave a slightly forced nod, ¡°Un, his talent is something that has always surprised me.¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Cami actually agree to this, the others looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with shock.

    It was already shocking enough that this fellow could go from the Fifth Grade to the Seventh Grade in a year, but he could actually develop a new Lightning Spell. It wasn¡¯t even enough to describe his talent for magic as shocking anymore.

    While everyone watched, Xu Yipleted his preparations for his spell. Everyone suddenly discovered that in therge exam space, all the Lightning Elemental Energy was wildly flowing.

    Even the magicians participating in the exam standing outside the magic barrier could feel the change in the air and their expressions all changed.

    Based on the intense fluctuations of this Lightning Spell, Xu Yi would be demonstrating quite the shocking Lightning Spell!

    When everyone had this thought, there were countless arcs of beautiful bolts of lightning that appeared around Xu Yi, instantly filling the entire exam site with pure white light.

 Volume 2 118 - Magic patent protection fee

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 118 Magic patent protection fee</h4>

    After a while, everyone slowly recovered from the intense light.

    After they clearly saw the scene of the exam site, everyone couldn¡¯t help taking a breath of cold air.

    In the space surrounded by the magic barrier, the entire ground had been turned ck and there were severalrge and small holes created from lightning strikes. Looking at it from a distance, it could be described as devastated.

    Just based on the damage to the ground, it could be seen how terrifyingly strong the Lightning Spell that Xu Yi had released was.

    Everyone stared at Xu Yi who acted like nothing had happened with dumbfounded looks and no one could say a word.

    ¡°Ah!¡± At this time, the Magicians Guild staff in charge of the magic barrier suddenly called out in shock and everyone looked over at him.

    President Eren looked at the staff member with knitted brows and asked in a ming tone, ¡°What is it? Making such a big deal?¡±

    The staff member swallowed a mouthful of saliva before pointing at the magic barrier he was responsible with. He said with a look of disbelief, ¡°Pre¡­.President, the magic barrier¡­..it seems to be a bit damaged.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Everyone was stunned again.

    The use of the barrier was to ensure that the magician undertaking the exam wouldn¡¯t hurt the others outside when using their spell.

    Because the ones participating today were Sixth to Ninth Grade Magicians, considering the might of the spells they used, president Eren had personally put down this barrier which was enough to block the might of a Ninth Grade Magician.

    But now that Xu Yi had cast his Lightning Spell, this magic barrier was actually damaged!

    Could it be¡­...The Lightning Spell that Xu Yi used had might that surpassed a Ninth Grade Magician?

    President Eren stood up to inspect the barrier and he couldn¡¯t help letting out a sigh of relief. He exined to everyone with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s nothing really. The Lightning Spell that Xu Yi used earlier was a bit special, so it countered out the magic barrier. It wasn¡¯t damaged because the might of the spell was too powerful.¡±

    Hearing this exnation, everyone let out a sigh of relief.

    That¡¯s good, that¡¯s good, it wasn¡¯t because Xu Yi¡¯s spell was too strong.

    If it really was because of this, that meant that he as a Seventh Grade Magician was stronger than a Ninth Grade Magician!

    This kind of shocking thing was not something that everyone was willing to believe in.

    Seeing that president Eren had finished inspecting the barrier, Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°Then sir president, did I pass this high grade magic demonstration?¡±

    President Eren looked at Xu Yi and couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You used such an exaggerated spell, so if I don¡¯t let you pass, do you think that the others would agree?¡±

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help giving a nod.

    If Xu Yi can¡¯t pass the high grade magic test like this, then based on what could those magicians that passed before pass?

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I felt that my control of the spell wasn¡¯t too good, so I wasn¡¯t certain if I would pass or not.¡±

    ¡°Alright, the control of the spell is another matter, but based on the might of the spell alone, you can pass.¡± President Eren looked at the other four Great Magicians, ¡°After seeing Xu Yi¡¯s high grade magic performance, I agree with him passing. What do you all think?¡±

    Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Eisenkel of course immediately agreed. The other two Great Magicians looked at each other before nodding in agreement.

    So the high grade magic test that Great Magician Cami was the most worried about was something that Xu Yi easily passed.

    Only Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with a very strange expression that was kind of angry, while also finding it a bit funny.

    There was another difference with the high grade magician and low grade magician exams, it was that since there were few high grade magicians, there wasn¡¯t a need to only pick a certain amount of people to pass. As long as you were strong enough, it didn¡¯t matter how many people could pass.

    So although there was also the same actualbat test in the high grade magician exam, it wasn¡¯t as strict as with the low grade magician exam.

    When it came to the actualbat test, although Great Magician Cami couldn¡¯te forth because he was Xu Yi¡¯s teacher, Great Magician Eisenkell came forward to test Xu Yi.

    The others naturally wouldn¡¯t reject this. Great Magician Eisenkel pretended to inspect him and Xu Yi was already at the level of a Seventh Grade Magician whether it was his magic power or his spells, so he easily passed this.

    After the exam was over, other than Xu Yi bing a Seventh Grade Magician recognized by the Magicians Guild, there were forty six other magicians who had passed, which was over half of the participants.

    There were only three people of the twelve from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who passed. They were all Fifth Grade Magicians who became Sixth Grade Magicians.

    Comparing it, almost no one could reach the average level.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t disappointed with this result, rather he was pleasantly surprised.

    High grade magicians had a good understanding of their own strength. Those researchers had said to Xu Yi that they didn¡¯t feel like they were strong enough to pass, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that they would pass the exam.

    But now there were three researchers that had passed, so it really was a bit unexpected.

    Then again, Xu Yi had achieved the advertisement effects he wanted. As for the other things that came, he didn¡¯t care.

    After the exam was over, the other magicians had all left the exam site and only Xu Yi was left here.

    President Eren had Xu Yi and the other four Great Magicianse into a room at the back of the exam site where they held a conference.

    As for the subject of this conference, it was on details of the patent act.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the right to say anything on this issue and was just listening in the beginning.

    However when it came to the topic of patent fees and how much they should set it at, president Eren actually asked Xu Yi for his opinion.

    ¡°Eh¡­..Your excellencies Great Magicians, as for this problem, I feel that there are two suitable methods.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°There are actually two methods?¡± President Eren was a bit surprised, ¡°Tell me about them.¡±

    ¡°The first one, it¡¯s to not link patent fees with patent royalties. The Magicians Guild will charge a certain fee for each magical study which requires the use of a patent. As for how much, that will depend on the grade of importance of the magical research and each grade will have a set amount.¡±

    ¡°Then how should the amount be decided? There is a different degree of difficulty for magic research, so it isn¡¯t right for them to have the same fee.¡± President Eren asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. If there is a magician that wants to use patent information for a First Grade Spell, with how unimportant and not difficult it is, it will be regarded as first grade and only ten gold coins will be charged a year. But if there is another magician who is using the patent information for a Fifth Grade Spell, then it is much more important and difficult than before, so it will be recognized as fifth grade and fifty gold coins or more will be charged each year.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°But there¡¯s another problem. If a magician is researching something rather important, but he can¡¯t because he can¡¯t afford the patent fee, is there still a meaning to this patent?¡± The one who asked this was one of the two Great Magicians Xu Yi didn¡¯t know who was called Sommelier Torres.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Torres, if a magician can¡¯t even afford a trivial patent fee, do you think they have enough funding to research a new kind of magic?¡±

    Great Magician Torres was stunned before he couldn¡¯t help giving a nod.

    Indeed, magic research was something that spent quite a bit of money, especially if it was for new magic that didn¡¯t have any magic theory to base on.

    ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, tell us about the other method.¡± President Eren urged him.

    ¡°Un, as for the second method, it¡¯s to not let the Magicians Guild set the patent amount, but rather for the magician that submits the patent to set it themself.¡±

    ¡°Set it themselves?¡± The Great Magicians were all stunned, ¡°How will it be set?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, if you feel that the information you¡¯re setting a patent for is very important, then you¡¯ll pay more to the Magicians Guild to set up this patent and the Magicians Guild will charge more for use of this patent. To put it in other words, to link patent fees and patent royalties together. The more you pay, the morepensation for use that others will have to pay.¡±

    The Great Magicians carefully considered this for a while before Great Magician Eisenkel couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°I like this method, it¡¯s like earning money. If you want to earn more money, you need to invest more money.¡±

    ¡°But the one thing that I¡¯m worried about is that as more and more magicians get patents for their research, when a magician wants to research a new kind of magic, wouldn¡¯t they have to pay arge amount?¡± The one who asked this was the other Great Magician Xu Yi didn¡¯t know, Como Teli.

    Xu Yi looked at him and thought that this should be one of the more conservative magicians of the Magicians Guild who were opposing the patent acts.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Teli, perhaps this worry of yours exists, but haven¡¯t you noticed that even before the patent act, it already wasn¡¯t easy for magicians to research new kinds of magic?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°At least it¡¯s better than paying to buy it, right?¡± Great Magician Teli said.

    ¡°No, you¡¯re wrong.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said without any politeness, ¡°Actually, most magicians would treasure their researched new magic and put it in their personal collection, so they won¡¯t easily share it. So after all these years, the reason why the level of the continent¡¯s magicians didn¡¯t increase that much was because even though magicians developed new kinds of magic and new understanding towards magic, most of them aren¡¯t willing to share them and will only teach them to their few disciples. As for the other magicians, they missed the chance to learn about this new research and these new discoveries.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a sigh and said with a nod, ¡°Xu Yi is right. I have always felt pity for this situation. If everyone took out their research to share, the level of the magic on the continent would surpass the level of the elves in the past. But after I met some elves through Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found that after several thousand years, our human magic still has many aspects that can¡¯tpare to elven magic.¡±

    The other Great Magicians were all silent.

    As Great Magicians, their eyes were different from low grade magicians.

    As for the limit on human magic that Xu Yi talked about, they were more clear on thispared to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and continued, ¡°So, Great Magician Teli,pared to not being able to learn even if you want to, using money to buy it is already arge improvement. The Magicians Guild can¡¯t expect every magician to be selfless and share their magic research with everyone. Then you might as well tell the magicians to sell their magic research. I think that with the power of money, not only will it convince many magicians to sell their research, it will urge many magicians to put more energy into researching magic because with the support of money, they will be able to conduct all kinds of magic experiments.¡±

    ¡°Pa!¡± Great Magician Eisenkel suddenly pped the table and said with a look of joy, ¡°Those are the words I¡¯ve been waiting to say. You all used me of falling into an abyss of money, but have you ever thought about how difficult it was for us to be Great Magicians? With the support of enough money, we might have be Great Magicians even faster!¡±

    Regarding Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s words, the other four Great Magicians thought about it and found they couldn¡¯t refute it.

    For magicians to increase their strength, other than having talent, the most important thing was constantly researching magic.

    But researching magic required money. Without the money to do experiments, naturally one would progress slower than others, this was a widely known fact among magicians.

    After a period of silence, president Eren said with a soft cough, ¡°Everyone should have no problems passing this patent act. What we need to decide now is which one of the two methods that Xu Yi mentioned will we use.¡±

    The other four Great Magicians looked at each other before Great Magician Eisenkel said, ¡°I support the second method.¡±

    Great Magician Cami said that both methods were fine, he didn¡¯t have any opinions.

    Great Magician Torres and Great Magician Teli didn¡¯t give any opinions, they felt that both of Xu Yi¡¯s methods were very reasonable and both could be reported to the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarters, representing the opinion of the Lampuri Kingdom branch.

    ¡°Very good, we¡¯ll report both methods.¡± President Eren made the decision before turning to say to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, I have to trouble you to help me and make a report for both methods. I¡¯ll submit them together to the headquarters.¡±

    Xu Yi naturally agreed to this.

    This thing that would leave his mark at the Magicians Guild headquarters and would greatly affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could he give up this chance?

 Volume 2 119 - Small Wind Generator

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 119 Small Wind Generator</h4>

    Since getting in the horse carriage on the way back, Great Magician Cami had a strange smile as he looked at Xu Yi the entire time.

    Xu Yi felt ufortable being stared at by him and couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, what are you smiling at? Didn¡¯t you ept what I used to pass the test? You can¡¯t say that I¡¯m cheating now, can you?¡±

    ¡°If I felt that you were cheating, I would have exposed you earlier.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head and said, ¡°I just feel that I still can¡¯t understand this thing even now. You were clearly using a simple Wind Spell, but through a small magic machine, you could trigger Lightning Elemental Energy and release a Lightning Spell? What is even stranger is that the might of this spell is this strong and even exceeds the limit of the magic that you can control.¡±

    ¡°So I didn¡¯t control it at all.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and said, ¡°If there wasn¡¯t the magic barrier at the exam site, the lightning would have spread in all directions and perhaps someone might have been injured.¡±

    ¡°Injured?¡± Great Magician Cami broke out inughter, ¡°Although the might of your spell was indeed big, since it wasn¡¯t consciously controlled, the power was scattered and didn¡¯t have any destructive might at all. It might not even be at the level of a Sixth Grade Magician, so who would you have injured?¡±

    ¡°Then what if I were able to control it?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Great Magician Cami seriously considered it and his expression became serious.

    ¡°If you could control it¡­..even I would have to seriously deal with it.¡±

    After pausing, Great Magician Cami stretched his hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Let me see that whatever generator again, I want to properly research it.¡±

    Xu Yi pulled up his sleeve and revealed the densely wrapped self made little generators around his arm. He took one off and gave it to Great Magician Cami.

    This little generator was the sudden idea he had that night on how to solve the streetmp problem.

    On earth, electricity was an important part of the industrial system.

    Xu Yi thought that he could use magic and Magic Arrays to create magic machines that would rece the machines from earth, so he had maintained this same thought process when it came to the streetmps.

    Then when he found how difficult it was to solve the streetmp problem, there was a thought that suddenly appeared in his mind.

    The electricity on earth could be transformed into different forms of energy, so based on this, magic power could also be transformed into electricity.

    He didn¡¯t first think about Lightning Spells, but rather he thought of a generator.

    The generator could be invented because the enclosed coils could turn inside this maic field which created an electrical current, converting kic energy into electric energy.

    On earth, the main types of energy that powered this system was heat, water, wind, as well as nuclear power.

    The first thing that Xu Yi thought of was wind energy.

    Do using the general structure of a wind turbine, Xu Yi had created a small wind generator after several days of research.

    When Hannas had brought Kennard, Sophia, and Hank Wilson to Banta City to see him, he was already researching this thing.

    As for how to provide wind energy, Xu Yi could only think of using a Wind Magic Array for now. He used the wind energy generated by the Magic Array to drive the maic coils.

    The initial experiment was considered a sess. Xu Yi had sessfully used the Wind Magic Array to turn the coil and this small Wind Generator had actually created an electric current.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s research was stuck at this point for now. As for how to control this current, how to store it, and how to make it stronger, he still didn¡¯t have a clue on how to progress.

    He didn¡¯t think that this was something urgent and had nned on slowly studying it, but after Great Magician Cami told him that he had to demonstrate high grade magic to pass the high grade magician exam, he could only helplessly think of this method.

    Although he really didn¡¯t know any high grade magic, as a magician whose magic power had reached the Seventh Grade, he had some understanding of high grade magic.

    And for him, he did excel in Wind Magic, so the high grade magic that he paid attention to was naturally Lightning Magic.

    When conducting experiments with this small Wind Generator, Xu Yi was surprised to find that the electric current released was simr to the Lightning Elemental Energy used with Lightning Spells.

    So he attempted to control these electric currents with the method of controlling Lightning Elemental Energy.

    The result was shocking, he could actually use magic to control these electric currents!

    This made Xu Yi understand that the so-called Lightning Elemental Energy was just controlling the electric charge in the air!

    ording to the theory of Lightning Magic, magicians used their magic power to influence the Lightning Elemental Energy. This was basically using magic to affect the space around them and controlling the electric charge in the air, creating Lightning Magic.

    There was very strong evidence to Xu Yi¡¯s analysis, which was that on stormy days, Lightning Attributed Magicians would be stronger.

    So when Xu Yi was thinking about the problem of the high grade magic demonstration, he thought about his experiments from before.

    And yesterday afternoon, he presented his ideas to Great Magician Cami and Still.

    Although Great Magician Cami and Still didn¡¯t understand or dare to believe in his ideas, but personally seeing Xu Yi induce Lightning Elemental Energy with the small Wind Generator and then controlling it with magic, the two of them were shocked and had to admit that this was indeed a good method of tricking people.

    Of course, the electricity generated by a single small Wind Generator wasn¡¯t much and there wasn¡¯t enough Lightning Elemental Energy, so even if it could be used to create a Lightning Spell, its power would be too small that people would be suspicious.

    So to be careful, Xu Yi had Housekeeper Lahm buy a bunch of material to make small Wind Generators and then he created over twenty of them with Great Magician Cami and Still¡¯s help. Then he tied them to his arms and created two series of Wind Generators.

    During that high grade magic demonstration, Xu Yi had poured his magic into the twenty small Wind Generators and activated the Wind Magic Arrays inside. He had the twenty small Wind Generators create electric currents at the same time and then generaterge amounts of Lightning Elemental Energy.

    The following was even more simple.

    Although Xu Yi couldn¡¯t control all that Lightning Elemental Energy with his magic right now, there wasn¡¯t a problem to simply guide it.

    He just needed to urge it with his magic power, controlling the Lightning Elemental Energy to explode in a line like a normal Lightning Spell.

    The fact proved that this was very effective.

    After the rushed training guided by Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi released this Lightning Spell at the high grade magic demonstration. He had shocked everyone with the might of the spell and easily passed this test.

    But even after seeing Xu Yi release electric currents with this small Wind Generator, Great Magician Cami still couldn¡¯t understand the logic behind it.

    After taking the small Wind Generator from Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami turned it around in his hands several times. He used the magic power inside him and the small Wind Generator came to life as the coils began to turn at high speeds, letting out a humming sound.

    In the blink of an eye, there was a magic current that came from it.

    Great Magician Cami was in thought for a bit before using his magic again, creating a small bolt of electricity in his hands that looked quite beautiful.

    ¡°Xu Yi, just how did you think of this thing? It really is too amazing, it haspletely subverted my understanding of magic.¡± After he stopped using magic, Great Magician Cami looked at the small Wind Generator in his hand and couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi this.

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami before looking at the small Wind Generator in his hand. If the people of earth knew that the magicians of the Sines Continent could directly control electric currents and create lightning, their world views would also be shattered.

    It had to be known, kids had been taught since young on earth that they couldn¡¯t y with electricity, that also included things that used electricity.

    It was alreadymon knowledge that you could be shocked to death with electricity.

    And in this world, not only did the powerful magicians not being shocked to death, they could even control lightning. This would subvert the thinking of the people from earth.

    For example, Xu Yi never thought that he could control electric currents produced by a generator at will and even use those electric currents as a weapon.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi found that it wasn¡¯t possible to exin the theory of a generator to Great Magician Cami and he didn¡¯t even know how to exin it. He could only vaguely reply, ¡°This was just something that I found when I was bored and experimenting, I can¡¯t actually exin it even if you ask me the principle.¡±

    Great Magician Cami nodded without even thinking. He looked over the small Wind Generator in his hand and put it in his pocket without any politeness.

    ¡°Let me study this thing.¡±

    Of course Xu Yi could only nod in response.

    But after looking at Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi suddenly found something that was even stranger.

    ording to the magic theory of the Sines Continent, for a Great Magician like Great Magician Cami, he could easily use arge scale Lightning Spell and even use forbidden grade spells that were even higher than high grade spells, which could evenpare to natural lightning.

    But if these Magicians were to release Lightning Elemental Energy with a steady output, wouldn¡¯t they be able to be a generator?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help imagining it.

    In the dark night, when their house suddenly had a ckout, Still called upstairs in a loud voice, ¡°Grandfather, it¡¯s a power outage, can you let out some electricity?¡±

    Then the honourable and respected Great Magician Cami would respond and release his magic, creating electric currents all around himself.

    In the blink of an eye, all the house¡¯s electronics would light up again¡­...

 Volume 2 120 - Anvilmar Cityâ€™s three big plagues

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 120 Anvilmar City¡¯s three big gues</h4>

    While giving free reign to his imagination to show strange scenes of Great Magician Cami generating electricity, Xu Yi had to use quite a bit of effort to stop himself fromughing. It really was quite hard for him.

    But this good mood hadpletely disappeared once he and Great Magician Cami returned to their residence.

    Other than Still, there were a bunch of Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers here wearing the same uniform.

    Seeing their looks of righteous indignation, with even Akali and Be revealing looks of rage, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised. He quickly asked Still, ¡°What¡¯s going on? Did something happen?¡±

    Still had her brows slightly knit. Although her expression was considered calm, once could see there was a trace of anger in her heart.

    ¡°At the magicians exam just now, there was a researcher who was injured.¡±

    ¡°Injured? Was it serious?¡± Xu Yi quickly asked.

    ¡°Very serious.¡± Still nodded and said in a deep voice, ¡°But we¡¯ve already asked Housekeeper Lahm to get the best doctor in the city and the doctor said that there wasn¡¯t any life threatening danger

    Xu Yi let out a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s good that there is no life threatening danger. Then are there anysting consequences, like¡­..being crippled?¡±

    ¡°It won¡¯t go as far as being crippled, but several of his bones were broken and he¡¯s still unconscious now. The doctor said that it would take at least half a year before he can recover.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good, as long as there¡¯s no threat to his life and he isn¡¯t crippled, everything else can be solved.¡± Xu YI finally calmed down, ¡°There¡¯s no problem healing for half a year. Since he is an employee of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then thepany will take care of him. I announce that he will receive his wage as normal for the next half a year and because he was participating in the exam under thepany, all his medical expenses for the next half a year will be paid for by thepany.¡±

    As for thetter half, Xu Yi had slightly raised his voice to let the other researchers hear this.

    Hearing what Xu YI said, the worried expressions on the researchers faces faded quite a bit, but there were still looks of indignation.

    Be loudly said to Xu YI, ¡°Sir chairman, Aleri suffered this heavy injury because of ourpany, so it is normal for thepany to heal him. But this just isn¡¯t enough, chairman, aren¡¯t you going to stand up for us?¡±

    ¡°Stand up? Stand up for what?¡± Xu Yi felt a bit confused at this point. After thinking about it, he finally reacted, ¡°Right, the low level magicianbat test is just to test the level of the magician, so who was the one in charge that dealt such a heavy injury to Aleri?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because the one who did it was named Anke Eren.¡± Still said with a sigh, ¡°At the exam, we don¡¯t know why, but Anke Eren was Aleri¡¯s examiner and he kept insulting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to Aleri. Aleri couldn¡¯t take it and used his full strength, but he was heavily injured by Anke Eren who used him of attacking an exam official.¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s that one called Eren!¡± Be loudly said, ¡°Sir chairman, that fellow ran over to provoke you when we were outside the exam site. I think that it¡¯s because he has a grudge on you and doesn¡¯t dare seek revenge on you, so he started attacking the people under you. He really is too shameless!¡±

    ¡°Anke Eren?¡± Xu YI tightly knit brows. He looked over at Great Magician Cami who had been watching the entire time with an inquisitive look.

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°President Eren¡¯s son was spoiled by him, not mentioning him meddling with the Magicians Guild exam at will, he even attacked a magician taking the exam so heavily. I can¡¯t just ignore this matter. Xu Yi, I¡¯ll go look for president Eren to properly talk about this.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before turning to the researchers and saying, ¡°Everyone, there¡¯s no need to worry. His excellency Great Magician Cami has already agreed to find president Eren for justice, I think that this Anke Eren will be punished ordingly.¡±

    Be still wasn¡¯t convinced as she shouted, ¡°But sir chairman, I¡¯ve heard that this Anke Eren is president Eren¡¯s only son. Even if Great Magician Cami goes looking for president Eren, president Eren wouldn¡¯t do anything to him, right?¡±

    ire on the side pulled Be back andined in a low voice, ¡°Are you a fool? You already know that this fellow is the Magicians Guild¡¯s president¡¯s son, what do you want sir chairman to do? Could it be that you want sir chairman to also heavily injure him? Don¡¯t forget that his father is the president of the kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild!¡±

    ¡°Why not? He dares to heavily injure other people, why can¡¯t he suffer the same punishment?¡± Be wasn¡¯t willing to give up as she pointed at Xu Yi and angrily said, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve always worshipped you, but if you don¡¯t get justice for Aleri, I won¡¯t like you anymore!¡±

    Xu Yi almost couldn¡¯t helpughing. Be was still twenty years old this year, how could she be as impulsive as a little girl?

    Of course, he wouldn¡¯t reallyugh, so he forced it back and said to Be with a nod, ¡°Rx, I will get justice for Aleri. But since Great Magician Cami has already said that he would talk to president Eren, we should wait until Great Magician Cami and president finish talking about this to decide what to do. If president Eren insists on shielding Anke Eren, then I will find another method to get justice for Aleri.¡±

    Be nodded with satisfaction, ¡°Sir chairman, this is what you promised me.¡±

    Still and Great Magician Cami on the side couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting their brows.

    Still wanted to say a few things to Xu Yi, but thinking about it, she didn¡¯t say it in front of everyone.

    Afterforting everyone, Xu Yi went in to see Aleri.

    Aleri¡¯s injuries were indeed very serious. He was currently unconscious, but the doctor in the room said that his life wasn¡¯t in danger and there weren¡¯t any side effects in the future, so Xu Yi rxed.

    After that, Xu Yi had the other researchers return to the Sheldon Inn to rest. He strongly refused Be¡¯s request to nurse Aleri, saying that he would spend money to find the best caretakers, so nothing would happen to Aleri.

    After sending off the indignant researchers with great difficulty, Great Magician Cami thought about it and decided to go see president Eren right now.

    Xu Yi remained and asked Housekeeper Lahm to help him with two things.

    The first was to find the best caretakers in Anvilmar City to nurse Aleri all day.

    The second was to have someone contact Baron Hannas.

    After an hour, Hannas rushed over to the residence.

    When he saw Xu Yi, he immediately asked, ¡°Who was injured? It wasn¡¯t you, right?¡±

    He went around Xu Yi after saying this, looking him up and down.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not me.¡± Xu Yi snappily pped down Hannas¡¯ outstretched hand that wanted to touch him, ¡°If it was me, do you think that kid Anke Eren would still be alright? He would be on the bed unable to move.¡±

    Hannasughed, ¡°It¡¯s good that it¡¯s not you. But when you talk about him being unable to move, I remember back tost year at the Magicians Guild exam. You had heavily injured that fellow and he was confined to his bed for a month before being able to go out, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    ¡°I did injure him, but saying that he was confined to his bed for a month is a little too exaggerated. I think that president Eren had confined him to home for a month.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Whether it is being confined to bed or being confined to home for a month, in short that kid didn¡¯te out for a month and Anvilmar City was much more peaceful. There were many people who apuded you for this.¡± Hannas said with a smile.

    ¡°Oh? This fellow is hated by this many people?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Of course. Let me tell you, there are three gues of Anvilmar City that you definitely shouldn¡¯t provoke, one of them is this kid. Do you think he is hated or not?¡±

    ¡°There are three gues? What are the other two gues?¡± Xu Yi asked in an interested voice.

    ¡°Other than this kid, the other two gues¡­..¡± Hannas suddenly broke out inughter, ¡°One of them is rted to you, it¡¯s Victor. But since that kid listened to you and started a store with Cell and Urgot, they rarely do the same things as the other gues. Speaking of this, although you haven¡¯te to Anvilmar City many times, you have made quite the remarkable contribution.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still on the side couldn¡¯t help smiling at the same time. Still couldn¡¯t hide her smile as she asked, ¡°Who is thest gue?¡±

    ¡°Thest one, speaking of him, he is a bit rted to Xu Yi because he¡¯s from the Jole Family. It¡¯s Vincent Jole.¡±

    Hearing this name, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Still.

    Still was stunned, never thinking that she would hear this name here.

    ¡°Why is he one of the three gues?¡± Still couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°When he and I were ssmates, although this person is indeed a bit loathsome, his reputation isn¡¯t that bad, right?¡±

    ¡°Not that bad?¡± Hannas looked at Still and gave a gratingugh, ¡°That is that kid putting on airs. Eren and Victor are called gues because they rely on their families¡¯ influence to bully normal people, but really it isn¡¯t anything that is that bad. But this Vincent is different. He is called one of the three gues because he often relies on his appearance and his family to trick innocent girls. Let me tell you, the girls that he¡¯s tricked and thrown away surpass at least ten!¡±

    After saying this, Hannas paused before asking Still, ¡°Young miss Still is this beautiful, has that Vincent never pestered you? But since you know that he is loathsome, you wouldn¡¯t be tricked by him. Let me tell you, being handsome doesn¡¯t mean everything. Although this Vincent is more handsome than Xu yi, he can¡¯te close toparing to him. You¡¯ve picked Xu Yi which means that your eyes are quite good.¡±

    Still¡¯s face turnedpletely red. Hannas thought that she was shy because he praised her for picking Xu Yi and wanted to keep talking, but Xu Yi suddenly gave a cough and stopped Hannas.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Hannas, I called you over here to help me investigate that Anke Eren.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Oh? What are you investigating him for? Could it be that you want to take revenge?¡± Hannas asked back.

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about that now. I just feel that Great Magician Cami won¡¯t receive any results from his meeting with president Eren, so I just want to prepare some things ahead of time.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Hannas nodded, ¡°President Eren¡¯s wife is famous for spoiling her son, so I think nothing wille of it. But are you really nning on doing something to Anke Eren? If that kid is really injured by you, president Eren wouldn¡¯t let you off.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°To make people feel pain doesn¡¯t mean there¡¯s only the choice of injuring them.¡±

 Volume 2 121 - Gambler

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 121 Gambler</h4>

    Great Magician Cami returned to the residence before lunch with a dark look on his face, it seemed like he wasn¡¯t in a good mood.

    As Xu Yi had expected, his meeting with president Eren really didn¡¯t yield any results.

    Although president Eren had apologized to Great Magician Cami for Anke Eren injuring Aleri and he was very surprised that Great Magician Cami personally came for this matter, when the discussion came to how Anke Eren should be punished, he avoided it with every possibility.

    Great Magician Cami asked several times and president Eren even said that being injured in the qualification exam was something that was allowed for in the rules, so any magicians who participated in the exam should already be prepared. So although Anke Eren had injured Aleri, there was nothing wrong with it!

    When they reached this point, Great Magician Cami already knew that nothing could be said because president Eren clearly wanted to protect Anke Eren, so he could only angrily leave.

    ¡°Damn! At the next headquarters meeting, I will definitely impeach him! As the branch president, he is actually using his power to shield his rtives and he doesn¡¯t care about the safety of other magicians, he doesn¡¯t deserve to be the president at all!¡± Great Magician Cami angrily said this.

    Although he had been scolded by Great Magician Cami, this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing Great Magician Cami actually being angry. He never thought that he would talk like a child and disregard all consequences when he was angry.

    As a Great Magician, impeaching a branch president at the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarter meeting was a very serious thing.

    Because of how special the identity of a Great Magician was, when a Great Magician was impeached, the Magicians Guild would ce great importance on this and thoroughly investigate this matter.

    No matter the result of this investigation, this would mean that Great Magician Camill and Palmes Eren would bepletely cutting off their rtionship.

    Everyone belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s not big Great Magician circle, so after this matter, no matter what the result was, neither side would benefit from this.

    ¡°What am I afraid of! He actually did this as the president, this is clearly neglecting his duties! If I cared only about my own benefits and didn¡¯t impeach him, what kind of person would I be?¡± When hearing Still¡¯s urgings, Great Magician Cami looked very angry, showing no signs ofpromising at all.

    Still was fully aware of Great Magician Cami¡¯s stubborn character and knew that she had no chance of persuading him, so she could only look at Xu Yi with a gaze asking for help.

    Xu Yi gave Still a look telling her to calm down before saying to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, it isn¡¯t hard to punish Anke Eren, there¡¯s no need to force president Eren to punish him. This fellow is president Eren¡¯s only son and his mother has spoiled him, so it isn¡¯t easy for president Eren to do anything.¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at him, ¡°So what? We¡¯ll let that little scoundrel off? Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten that you promised that little girl Be that you would get justice for Aleri?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, he never expected Great Magician Cami to care about this matter. His heart couldn¡¯t help being moved as he slowly shook his head.

    ¡°No, I am just saying that it isn¡¯t necessary for president Eren to do anything to punish Anke Eren. Your excellency Great Magician, give me two days, I will definitely make Anke Eren receive his punishment. Please be assured.¡±

    Great Magician Cami was stunned and he didn¡¯t believe it, ¡°It can¡¯t be that you¡¯re nning to go and fight him yourself, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Rx, I¡¯m not that dumb. As for how specifically¡­..you can just wait and see.¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with a confused look and after seeing Still¡¯s smiling on the side, he couldn¡¯t help muttering, ¡°I don¡¯t know what kind of strange thing you¡¯ve done this time. Alright, since you saw you have a way to take care of him, then do as you wish. But if you can¡¯t do it, I¡¯ll be making my move.¡±

    ¡°Rx, we won¡¯t let an old man like you personally make a move.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ###

    At a remote street to the south of Anvilmar City.

    When it was daytime, almost no one passed through here, but once it became night, it suddenly became lively.

    This was because this street had Anvilmar¡¯s City¡¯s biggest casinos and most upscale brothels. Every night, there would be many people looking for pleasure that indulge themselves in this ce.

    Anke Eren used a bit of force and pushed aside the girl who came forward with half her chest revealed before moving faster, heading to the brightly illuminated building that was luxuriously decorated in the center of the street.

    This was the street¡¯s and Anvilmar City¡¯s biggest casino, called the Awp Casino.

    Anke Eren was just eighteen this year, but he was already a frequent patron here. After entering the doors, he habitually gave the doorman two silvers as a tip and had him follow him to exchange a hundred gold coins before heading to a roulette table.

    Since he entered this casino for the first time three years ago, he woulde try his luck from time to time.

    Although three yearster, he had lost over five thousand gold coins here, he still always enjoyed himself.

    Anyway, even if he didn¡¯t have any money, he just needed to ask his mother for some and she would definitely give it to him, so there was no pressure on him at all.

    Looking at the roulette spinning, Anke Eren casually picked a spot and threw a gold coin on a small dot.

    The roulette stopped after a while and it stopped on sixteen, clearly showing that Eren had lost.

    But he didn¡¯t care at all. After ying several rounds and losing seven gold coins, he felt that his luck today wasn¡¯t good, so he nned on ying something else.

    But when he turned, he suddenly saw someone who had juste in throw a hundred gold coins onto the roulette table.

    The other gamblers at the table were all shocked.

    The gamblers in the hall didn¡¯t y with much, most of the time they just threw between one to ten gold coins, but this man had suddenly thrown a hundred gold coins. It seemed like he was quite rich.

    Anke Erene couldn¡¯t help looking at this rich man who suddenly came in. With the light of the Magic Lamp hanging in the hall, he was surprised when he saw this person¡¯s face.

    ¡°Urgot? It¡¯s actually you!¡±

    The rich man who suddenly came in was actually Urgot who Anke Eren was an acquaintance of.

    It should be known that when Anke Eren came to the casino the first time three years ago, he was brought here by Urgot.

    Two years ago, the two of them came to the casino together frequently.

    But in thest year, Urgot had gradually disappeared. He heard that he had gone to run some kind of business.

    He never thought that Urgot would suddenly appear in front of him and he would directly throw out a hundred gold coins like this!

    Hearing this cry, Urgot acted like it was his first time noticing Anke Eren and looked at him in surprise.

    ¡°Yi? It¡¯s actually the kid Eren. What? Why did youe here to y today?¡±

    ¡°Shouldn¡¯t I be asking you this? You haven¡¯te here in a year, why did you suddenlye here? Moreover¡­..¡± Anke Eren pointed at the hundred gold coins chip on the table and asked with some difficulty, ¡°You really are rich, you¡¯re actually throwing away a hundred gold coins at once?¡±

    Urgotughed, ¡°This isn¡¯t considered rich, it¡¯s just a bit of money earned from doing business with Victor and the others.¡±

    Anke Eren didn¡¯t keep asking as he turned to watch the roulette.

    He ended the talk and stared right at the roulette.

    The roulette finally stopped on neen and Urogt had ced his chip on fourteen, so naturally it missed.

    Anke Eren couldn¡¯t help sighing, ¡°Ai¡­..It missed.¡±

    Urgot gave a shrug with an uncaring look, ¡°It didn¡¯t hit, that¡¯s normal.¡±

    Seeing Urgot¡¯s rxed expression, Anke Eren¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    He had only brought a hundred gold coins, he felt hurt every time he lost a single gold coin. But Urgot had suddenly lost a hundred gold coins and he didn¡¯t seem to care at all.

    Since Urgot had appeared, Anke Eren didn¡¯t n on leaving and the two yed several rounds together.

    Urgot threw in a hundred gold coins each time and he chose only a single number each time, so naturally there was a high chance of losing.

    In the blink of an eye, he had already lost a total of a thousand gold coins.

    But Urgot¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change at all. The other gamblers at the table were silent as they watched this rich man, not knowing what to say.

    Seeing everyone look over, although he knew that they weren¡¯t looking at him, Anke Eren felt his face burning.

    He and Urgot clearly knew each other, but he only threw a single gold coin every time Urgot threw a hundred gold coins. Comparing them, it really was too embarrassing.

    Moreover, Urgot had lost a thousand gold coins without caring and he was already nervous from not even losing ten gold coins.

    Comparing them, there was arge difference.

    Perhaps it was because he lost ten times, Urgot felt that his luck wasn¡¯t good here and suggested to Anke Eren that they should find another table to y at.

    Anke Eren thought about it before agreeing.

    After taking a few steps with Urgot, Anke Eren hesitated a bit before suddenly gaining the courage to ask Urgot in a low voice, ¡°That¡­..Urgot, do you have a lot of money right now? How about you lend me some?¡±

    Urgot turned to look at him and narrowed his eyes, ¡°You really want to borrow some?¡±

    Since he had already said it, Anke Eren wasn¡¯t afraid of losing face, so he gave a strong nod, ¡°Un, I really want to borrow some. I¡­.I want to go all out. Of course, if it¡¯s not convenient, then¡­¡­¡±

    Urgot revealed a smile and forcefully pped Anke Eren¡¯s shoulder as he said, ¡°We¡¯re all brothers, there¡¯s nothing that¡¯s inconvenient.¡± He dug in his chest after saying this and took out a thousand gold coin bill for Anke Eren, ¡°Here, use this first. Tell meter if it¡¯s not enough.¡±

    Seeing therge number on the gold bill, Anke Eren¡¯s eyes popped out.

    Although he nevercked spending money since he was young, this was his first time seeing a gold bill with such arge value!

    Anke Eren took the gold bill with slightly trembling hands. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva before revealing a forced smile, ¡°I¡¯ll go exchange them for chips first.¡± He quickly left after saying this.

    Watching Anke Eren quickly leave, Urgot¡¯s lips revealed a thought provoking smile.

 Volume 2 122 - Marquis Jole

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 122 Marquis Jole</h4>

    While Urgot and Anke Eren were bravely fighting at the Awp Casino, Xu Yi had already entered the royal pce. He was currently participating in the celebration banquet that the king was holding for the rich harvest the Lampuri Kingdom had.

    As a major contributor designated by the king, not only did Xu Yi get called out by the king during the banquet to be praised in front of everyone, he also gave Xu Yi a special reward.

    In order to reward Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s contribution to this rich harvest, the king had specially promoted Xu Yi¡¯s title, turning him from a lord to a baron.

    The lord title could be considered an honorary title and wasn¡¯t considered a real noble, but bing a baron of the kingdom meant that Xu Yi had truly stepped into the circle of nobles, bing a true noble of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Hearing this reward, everyone who came to this banquet was very shocked.

    This was because ording to thews of the Royal Parliament, nobles of the kingdom weren¡¯t allowed to directly engage in business. So even if nobles of the kingdom wanted to engage in business, they had to find a representative for themselves and pull the strings from behind the scenes.

    However, the king had directly made Xu Yi, the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a baron. Although a baron was the lowest noble rank, this was still directly going against thews.

    The stranger thing was that the speaker of the Royal Parliament Duke Risedo was present and he didn¡¯t oppose this at all.

    So when Xu Yi received his title as a baron, he became the most special baron of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This let everyone know how much the king was favouring Xu Yi.

    While giving Xu Yi this rich reward, the reward the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received wasn¡¯t that special. He just gave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce an ¡°Honoured Kingdom Company¡± title.

    This title was just an honour and it didn¡¯t have any meaning.

    To speak of it, perhaps it would just give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce some fame.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that way.

    As a person who transmigrated from earth, he was very clear how highly approved officially recognized brands were to normal people.

    If there was apany on earth that received a directmendation from the government, this advertising effect would far surpass all kinds of advertisements on TV and in other forms of media.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received the title of an ¡°Honoured Kingdom Company¡±, it might leave doubts in the minds of the stubborn people on earth, but for the Sines Continent, all the citizens that believed in the Lampuri Kingdom would believe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a first ss trustworthypany.

    This was very advantageous to Xu Yi who wanted to spread the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products all over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, this reward had been something that Xu Yi had suggested to Seveni in private.

    The king wanted to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a more substantial reward, but Xu Yi had rejected it all and suggested that they be awarded just this title.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s insistence, the king could only agree with Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    Therefore the king had thanked Xu Yi through Seveni. Because of the kingdom¡¯s weak finances, if they really were to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a substantial reward, it would increase the burden of the kingdom finances.

    Now that Xu Yi had taken the initiative to deny this, it was equal to helping the king.

    ¡°Hey, as for substantial reward¡­...Can¡¯t his majesty just give me a few more mines?¡± Xu Yi thought of how apologetic Seveni looked and revealed a smile. His eyes swept over the hall and he locked onto his first target.

    Even if the king had given him the spotlight earlier, in the eyes of the nobles at the banquet, Xu Yi was just a small scale merchant who had entered the noble circle, so he didn¡¯t incite any special interest.

    But when these people saw him going to find Marquis Jole, they couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Marquis Jole was the current head of the Jole Family, his position was several times higher than a small merchant like him. For him to rashly look for him like this, wasn¡¯t he afraid of being embarrassed?

    But contrary to what people expected, although Marquis Jole was clearly surprised that Xu Yi would take the initiative toe find him, after thinking about it, he left the nobles that he had been talking to and went to find a rather private corner in the hall to talk to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, thank you for giving me the chance to talk to you.¡± Xu Yi raised his wine cup to Marquis Jole to show his gratitude.

    Marquis Jole was forty seven this year, but because he took care of his body, he seemed like he was in his early forties, still looking like a young man. His body wasn¡¯t that developed, but his eyes were beaming, one knew that he wasn¡¯t a normal person once they looked at him.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Marquis Jole gave a slight nod, ¡°Actually I have long wanted to talk to chairman Xu face to face, today seemed like a good opportunity.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. I know that the Lord Marquis¡¯ time is precious, so I won¡¯t beat around the bush.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Marquis, I came to find you mainly to discuss the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Marquis Jole took a slight sip of the wine in his hand before saying in a thoughtful voice, ¡°You should talk about this matter with chairman Morgan, I generally don¡¯t meddle with thepany¡¯s matters in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that the matter I wish to discuss isn¡¯t rted to Banta City, rather it is rted to the business of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in the entire kingdom. It even involves the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business in other countries.¡±

    Marquis Jole raised a brow, ¡°Oh? Chairman Xu, isn¡¯t your tone a bit too big? Although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed well, it doesn¡¯t have the qualification to discuss the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business in the kingdom, right?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Lord Marquis, can I ask you a question first?¡±

    Marquis Jole gave a slight nod, ¡°Ask.¡±

    ¡°ording to what I know, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce other than running the iron ore business and some copper mines, it hasn¡¯t participated in the business of any other non-ferrous metals, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Other non-ferrous metals?¡± Marquis Jole narrowed his eyes and thought for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has found some non-ferrous metal lodes on the ck Rice Wastnd, are you talking about that non-ferrous metal?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s smile couldn¡¯t help bing brighter. Based on this, although Marquis Jole didn¡¯t seem like he cared about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he actually cared about their actions quite a bit, even knowing their movements in the ck Rice Wastnd.

    ¡°Yes, I wanted to discuss with you matters rted to this non-ferrous metal vein.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°With all due respect, chairman Xu, I don¡¯t see any use for the non-ferrous metals that you mentioned. Those things have existed on the Sines Continent for several thousand years, but no one has discovered a use for them, so no one has ever mined them. I don¡¯t think that you or your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can discover a use for them.¡±

    ¡°Before humans refined iron from ores and made all kinds of iron tools, the elves ruled the continent for so long and they didn¡¯t discover the major uses of iron, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°Right now I know those non-ferrous metals have a very good use that isn¡¯t below that of iron and I know just how to use them. The Marquis Jole, are you willing to let the Falcao Chamber of Commerce work with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to mine those non-ferrous metals together?¡±

    Marquis Jole took another sip of wine before thoughtfully saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, now that you¡¯ve reminded me of the use of non-ferrous metals, with the strength of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, we canpletely mine those veins by ourselves. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to use them, you can just buy them from us. Since it¡¯s like this¡­.why would I cooperate with you?¡±

    ¡°Because in this world, only I know how to use those non-ferrous metals.¡± Xu Yi confidently said.

    Marquis Jole was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are thinking too highly of yourself. Before iron was discovered by humans, no one knew what use they had. But after they studied it, humans have fully discovered the uses of iron. Then even without you, I can also find someone to study the so-called uses of non-ferrous metals.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying¡­..that we¡¯ve fully discovered the uses of iron?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile of contempt, ¡°Perhaps not necessarily? If it was like this, how could our Frestech Chamber of Commerce have developed our special alloys?¡±

    Marquis Jole¡¯s expression changed slightly. He looked at Xu YI for a while before suddenly saying in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯re working with the army headquarters and you¡¯re specially making armour and weapons with magic machines?¡±

    Naturally it was impossible to hide this matter from the great noble Marquis Jole, so Xu Yi just honestly admitted it.

    ¡°Then do you know that because this factory was built, our Jole Family has lost arge order with the army headquarters?¡± Marquis Jole asked again.

    Hearing Marquis Jole¡¯s question with a slight tone of dissatisfaction and warning, Xu Yi actually felt much more rxed because he knew that since Marquis Jole had taken the initiative to change the topic, it meant that his words had moved his heart before.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, since the army headquarters has discovered that they can mass produce armours and weapons with magic machines, then it is natural that they would choose to build a factory. In fact, building armour and weapons with cksmiths is not just costly, it¡¯s also very inefficient. I think that you should already know the drawbacks of this, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course I know.¡± Marquis Jole gave a soft snort, ¡°But this order was lost because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, shouldn¡¯t you give me some kind of exnation?¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was set.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, I came to find you today to give you this exnation¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 123 - Battle for the throne

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 123 Battle for the throne</b>

    Xu Yi and Marquis Jole¡¯s discussionsted for an entire half hour before ending.

    In thisrge banquet hall that was filled with people, of course it was impossible for them to have an in-depth talk. But through this conversation, Xu Yi had demonstrated his attitude to Marquis Jole.

    It was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have ns to go against the Falcao Chamber of Commerce because strictly speaking, there were no conflicts in the areas they operated in. Rather, there were many ces where they could cooperate.

    For example, like in Banta City. The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had turned cold since they stole an iron mine from them, but after both sides worked with each other several times, although chairman Morgan wasn¡¯t friends with Xu Yi, their rtionship had basically returned to normal.

    As for an important person like Marquis Jole, the chairman of a smallpany like Xu Yi was naturally not something that couldpete with him. For him, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and the Jole Family¡¯s benefits were his highest priority.

    As for therge benefits that woulde from mining non-ferrous metals that Xu Yi had mentioned, this was equal to giving the Falcao Chamber of Commerce a brand new path.

    The Jole Family had controlled the iron mines in the Lampuri Kingdom since it had been founded. Although they had depended on this to earn arge ie, they were limited by this and didn¡¯t have any major breakthroughs.

    One day the iron in the kingdom would be mined cleaned and when that timees, what would the Jole Family do?

    Now Xu Yi was willing to mine the non-ferrous metal in the kingdom with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and confirmed that he would buyrge amounts of non-ferrous metals from them, this was equal to giving the Falcao Chamber of Commerce a new source of revenue.

    Not to mention the Jole Family having a good view of Xu Yi, even if he hated Xu Yi himself, for the benefit of the Jole Family, he would choose to ept the olive branch that Xu Yi presented and would cooperate with him initially.

    As for the matter of the army headquarter order, Xu Yi told him that using pig iron was limited. After iron is smelted into steel, it had all kinds of special characteristics that had much more value. So the old style of using cksmiths was already over and he advised the Jole Family to give up this venture.Visit website our Listnovel

    As for what changes they would take after giving this up?

    Xu Yi proposed that they could create a steel mill together, specially producing the materials needed to make the army headquarter¡¯s equipment.

    Like this, the Jole Family could maintain a close rtionship with the army headquarters, while also sessfully transitioning to what Xu Yi described as ¡°modern military enterprises¡±.

    It had to be said, even though Marquis Jole was forty seven, his thoughts weren¡¯t as stubborn as normal middle aged men. Rather he easily understood many of the concepts that Xu Yi put forth and epted part of them.

    The conversation was very smooth for both sides, so when Xu Yi and Marquis Jole separated, Marquis Jole took the initiative to ask Xu Yi to be a guest at the Jole Manor.

    Xu Yi remembered the scene with Vincent and he revealed a smile before agreeing.

    After sending off Marquis Jole, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes turned and saw that some people were staring at him.

    He looked in another direction, looking over towards Duke Stagg who was surrounded by a group of people.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Duke Stagg revealed a smile before turning away, clearly showing his rejection.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. Even if Duke Stagg took the initiative toe talk to him, it didn¡¯t mean that he was willing to talk to him.

    Right now Xu Yi was no longer an idiot who knew nothing about the Lampuri Kingdom politicalndscape likest year. With scattered bits of information from many people, as well as the information that he gathered, he was much more clear on the situation. Xu Yi was very clear that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s battle for the throne had reached a peak.

    The king¡¯s eldest son, prince Eric should be first in line for session based on tradition and he was the candidate that many people wanted to be the next king.

    However, prince Eric wasn¡¯t thatpetent. He never showed an ability for governance and his personality was bad, so the king had always been disappointed in him.

    Compared to him, although her highness Seveni was the king¡¯s youngest daughter and was a girl, she had shown a great talent for governing since she was young and she was beloved by many nobles and ministers.

    The current battle for the throne was centralized around these two.

    His highness Eric had the advantage of being the firstborn, while having the support of many great nobles.

    But her highness Seveni had the advantage of being outstanding and having a good reputation, receiving the support of many nobles and most of the people of the kingdom.

    Adding in the traditions left on the Sines Continent from the elves, there was prejudice against her highness, so Seveni had more of a voice than Eric did.

    The reason why Baron Belil who had reced Viscount Leslie had treated Xu Yi so strangely was because the Stagg Family had openly expressed their support for his highness Eric during this year, so the Stagg Family naturally had to drawn a line with Xu Yi who was close to her highness Seveni.

    If it was said that Xu Yi wanted to climb therge tree of the Stagg Family before through Viscount Leslie, the current him couldn¡¯t do a thing and it was basically impossible for him to be close to the Stagg Family.

    In everyone¡¯s opinion, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already joined her highness¡¯ side a long time ago.

    So although Duke Stagg was a bit interested in Xu Yi, he definitely couldn¡¯t take the initiative to see him and it was impossible for Xu Yi toe find him.

    After organizing the rtionships in his mind, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Although he knew that it was impossible for business to avoid politics, he still thought that being involved in politics was quite the troublesome matter.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, why are you sighing? Could it be because you aren¡¯t happy about your conversation with Marquis Jole?¡± There was a familiar voice that came from beside him.

    Xu Yi turned and saw Anklo carrying a cup of red wine. He shook his head with a smile, ¡°No, I was just feeling a bit emotional after thinking about a few things. Mister Anklo, I¡¯m actually very curious, why are you at this banquet?¡±

    Anklo clinked his ss against Xu Yi¡¯s with a smile and after taking arge sip, he said, ¡°Actually I wasn¡¯t nning oning, but after hearing that chairman Xu would also being, I asked our duchy¡¯s envoys to bring me along. My goal foring was meeting chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°You need to spend all that effort in meeting me? Didn¡¯t Hannas tell me where I lived? If you want to see me, why didn¡¯t youe looking for me?¡±

    ¡°I went, but you weren¡¯t there. The housekeeper told me that chairman Xu is always busy and rarely stays at the residence, so I was afraid that I couldn¡¯t find you, so I came to this banquet. Look, didn¡¯t I sessfully find you?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, mister Anklo, since you¡¯ve put in this much effort to find me, you must have something important to discuss with me, right? Is it rted to what we discussedst time?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± When it came to business, Anklo¡¯s face became serious, ¡°Chairman Xu, I want to ask you, have you considered what we discussedst time? If you agree to it, I hope that you can schedule a trip to our Stantine Duchy as soon as possible.¡±

    Xu Yi said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Although I have already confirmed that his majesty doesn¡¯t have any objections to us selling agricultural magic machines to the Rudson Kingdom and going to build a factory in your Stantine Duchy before the banquet, this matter is not small, so I hope that you can give me some time to consider.¡±

    Anklo shook his head, ¡°Although I also want to give you some time to consider, chairman Xi, our Stantine Duchy¡¯s situation is rather special. Other than winter each year, the weather of the other seasons aren¡¯t stable. If youe for an inspection after winter, you might be affected by the weather, so even if you do decide to invest, it will greatly influence you. Like this, it might dy this matter by an entire year and the citizens of our Stantine Duchy can¡¯t wait that long.¡±

    Seeing Anklo¡¯s heavy expression, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Mister Anklo, there is something I don¡¯t understand. Why are you so certain that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can help your Stantine Duchy? Why don¡¯t you sell the mines to otherpanies? I think that as long as there are benefits, anypany would be willing to invest in your duchy, right?¡±

    ¡°No, the otherpanies are different. We have tried this before, but those otherpanies were all scared off.¡± Anklo said.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Then why are you certain that I won¡¯t be scared off?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is different from otherpanies. Actually when I inspected Banta City a while ago, I saw the changes that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce had on Banta City and the surrounding cities. I feel that if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce cane to our Stantine Duchy, perhaps it could change our current situation.¡± Anklo honestly said.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°I have to say, you really think highly of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°urately speaking, I don¡¯t think highly of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather I think highly of you.¡± Anklo looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with expectation, ¡°Chairman Xi, I once again invite you on behalf of Duke Stantine, I hope that you can take a trip to our Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Seeing the sincerity on Anklo¡¯s face, Xu Yi considered a bit before finally giving a slow nod.

    ¡°Alright, after I return to Banta City, I¡¯ll be taking a trip to the ck Rice Wastnd and I¡¯lle take a look at your Stantine Duchy if I have time.¡±

    ¡°Is that a promise?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a promise.¡±

 Volume 2 124 - Special economic zone

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 124 Special economic zone</h4>

    When the banquet was half over, Xu Yi was led by a servant of the pce to a secret room to have a private meeting with the king.

    Compared to the first time, after the king saw Xu Yi, the smile on his face became much brighter and sincere.

    Just like he had said about Xu Yi in the banquet, for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s increase in crops this year, the biggest contributor was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines. But the biggest hero was of course Xu Yi who had invented the agricultural magic machines.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom or for any country on the Sines Continent, being able to solve the food and shelter problems of their people was the number one priority.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had problems dealing with this before, but now there was the help of the agricultural magic machines, they had solved this problem almost perfectly in just a single year.

    Even ording to the stats of the agricultural department, if they continued promoting the agricultural magic machines and allowed every piece ofnd in the kingdom to use them, the Lampuri Kingdom might not just be able to satisfy their own needs, they might even be able to sell excess grain to other countries!

    After the king learned of this good news, how could he not reveal a sincere and bright smile to Xu Yi?

    ¡°The agricultural department wants to export grains?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Your majesty, forgive me for saying this, but I feel that we need to reconsider this?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What needs to be reconsidered?¡± The king looked at Xu Yi with an interested gaze.

    ¡°First, the reason why our kingdom could have this rich harvest, other than having the help of the agricultural magic machines and opening much more farnd, the other important reason was that there weren¡¯t any natural disasters that decreased crop yields. But this is something that has to be considered. If I¡¯m not wrong, the turmoil ten years ago was caused by famine¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep speaking.

    The famine of the Lampuri Kingdom ten years ago was a taboo for everyone in the kingdom, they were unwilling to easily bring it up.

    And in front of a king who had taken his throne in this famine, it had a deeper impression on him than other people.

    The king didn¡¯t seem to mind as he said with a nod, ¡°Un, this is indeed something to consider. But the agricultural department has already considered this, so what else do you need to consider?¡±

    ¡°What else¡­...The agricultural department is saying that not only is this year¡¯s grain yield enough to satisfy the people¡¯s needs and is even enough to export, but I feel that is based on the previous grain needs of the kingdom. Actually from what I¡¯ve observed in Banta City and the surrounding cities, there are many families, especially those normal peasant families who can¡¯t fill their stomachs. I think that¡­..the agricultural department might have underestimated people¡¯s need for food.¡±

    ¡°You mean that because people couldn¡¯t eat their fill, now that they have much more foodpared to before to eat, they will eat more? It might raise the need for foodpared to before by several times?¡± The king asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s just that meaning.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi nod, the king suddenly broke out inughter.

    ¡°Ha, ha, I can understand this idea. Back during the famine, I even went hungry for several days. When there was enough food to eat, I let myself go and gained several pounds. Look¡­..¡± The king patted his round stomach and said in a voice of self ridicule, ¡°This was the weight gained several years ago and I still haven¡¯t lost it.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, thinking that the king was rather charming.

    The king patted the armrest of his chair and gave a nod as he said with a voice of praise, ¡°Not bad, I wanted to call you in to praise you alone and nned on asking if you needed any rewards, but I never thought that by talking to you, I¡¯ve found that you have quite the insight on how to govern the kingdom. Not bad, not bad¡­..I¡¯ve heard Count Sean report that you are currently working on the Banta City renovation n, right?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, but he quickly nodded and replied, ¡°Yes. Count Sean gave responsibility of this project to me, but the work has just started, so there isn¡¯t anything to show for it right now.

    ¡°To let Count Sean have the idea of renovating Banta City, that is already considered arge achievement.¡± The king said with a faint smile, ¡°Xu Yi, I have to say, since Banta City had your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it has had too many changespared to before. At least, it¡¯s be much richerpared to before, right? Otherwise, how could it undergo this renovation?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°The Lord Count alwaysins to me about this. I won¡¯t hide it from you, right now the City Lord¡¯s Manor owes ourpany several hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Let him keep owing you.¡± The king waved his hand with an uncaring expression, ¡°Actually even I want to owe yourpany several hundred thousand or even several million.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Your highness, ourpany hasn¡¯t developed to that point yet¡­¡­¡±

    The king revealed a faint smile, ¡°No need to be nervous, of course I¡¯m just joking. I just found that Banta City has some pretty good changes and I can¡¯t help thinking how good it would be if those changes could ur all over our Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Seeing the emotional look on the king¡¯s face, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was suddenly moved.

    ¡°Your majesty, it¡¯s not realistic to make the kingdom like Banta City in a short period of time. But how about you first consider to turn an area of the kingdom into a prosperous and lively area?¡±

    ¡°First choose an area to make lively?¡± The king knit his brows, ¡°What does this mean? How can it be done?¡±

    ¡°Actually, it¡¯s very simple, just make a special economic zone¡­..¡±

    ###

    After leaving the royal pce, Xu YI rode his horse carriage back to his residence. As soon as the horse carriage began moving, he suddenly couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    There was no other way, as long as he thought of what he just discussed with the king, he really wanted tough.

    In a half very half feudal society, to discuss the matter of a special economic area with the king of an kingdom really was somewhat funny.

    But the king had very seriously listened to what Xu Yi said.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s idea of building a special economic zone near Banta City, the king had actually agreed with it for now after thinking about it.

    He even analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of building this special economic zone with Xu Yi.

    The advantage was that they could gather manpower and policies to allow Banta City and the surrounding cities to develop faster.

    Even without the help of kingdom policies right now, because there was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this area was more prosperouspared to before and could be considered a spontaneous special economic zone.

    If they had the help of kingdom policies, this development would go even faster.

    The downside was that this could create dissatisfaction in other parts of the kingdom, especially in the territories of the other great nobles.

    Based on what was the special economic zone to be ced near Banta City and why wasn¡¯t it ced anywhere else?

    What specialty did Banta City have over other ces?

    Xu Yi really wanted to say that Banta City¡¯s greatest advantage was that it had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but of course he couldn¡¯t say this because this definitely wouldn¡¯t convince anyone.

    So he carefully proposed this to the king, only giving him the idea of a special economic zone. He didn¡¯t have the king tell everyone that this special economic zone would be ced near Banta City.

    To put it bluntly, Xu Yi wanted the king to look after the development of the area around Banta City. He wanted him to make certain policies that would facilitate the development of Banta City and the surrounding area.

    The king said that this suggestion would benefit everyone and he would seriously consider it.

    So when Xu Yi met the king a second time, the results made him very satisfied.

    But when he left, the king suddenly patted his shoulder and said a few words that made him vignt.

    The king had said, ¡°Very good, I¡¯m much more assured that Seveni has a helper like you.¡±

    These words really had deep meaning.

    When the carriage stopped at the entrance of the residence, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help continuing to ponder what the real meaning behind the king¡¯s words were.

    Seeing Still that came out, he could only forget about it and put those words in his heart, as he revealed a smile.

    ¡°Aleri is awake.¡± Still said.

    ¡°Oh? Then I¡¯ll go take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still quickly went to Aleri¡¯s room.

    When they came in, they heard a weak voice protesting from inside the room.

    ¡°Bel¡­.Be, don¡¯t¡­..If people see this¡­..it won¡¯t seem good.¡±

    Be¡¯s very easily recognizable loud voice sounded.

    ¡°Humph, what¡¯s not good? I am just taking care of a sick person. Come, open your mouth, don¡¯t be hesitant like a little girl. Ah¡­..¡±

    They heard the sound of a spoon touching a bowl and Xu Yi stopped. He pointed at the room and looked at Still with a questioning gaze.

    Still revealed an ambiguous smile and raised a finger to tell him to be silent. Then the two of them approached the door and tentatively poked their heads in.

    The situation inside was like what Xu Yi thought. Aleri was leaning back on his pillow with Be sitting beside him. There was a bowl of ck liquid that was unknown if it was medicine or soup, but Be was currently feeding it spoonful by spoonful into Aleri¡¯s mouth.

    Aleri¡¯s face was red as he opened his mouth to take the spoon. Xu Yi suddenly gave a soft cough and walked in, pretending to be surprised as he loudly said, ¡°Be, didn¡¯t you say you loved me yesterday? Could it be that your heart has changed in just a single day?¡±

    Be¡¯s hand trembled and almost dropped the spoon.

    Seeing Still and Xu Yi walking in, the two of them looked very embarrassed.

 Volume 2 125 - Visiting to apologize

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 125 Visiting to apologize</h4>

    Over the next two days, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t idle at all.

    After the discussions in the past few days, on his trip to Anvilmar City this time, he had suddenly reached several new cooperation deals.

    In these two days, he had been in meetings with these people, setting all kinds of details.

    For example, for the sixty thousand magic machines that the Rudson Kingdom ordered, the most important problem was how to transport them.

    Although Banta City was in the southwest of the Lampuri Kingdom, being not far from where the Rudson Kingdom and Lampuri Kingdom border was, if they were to transport it to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital of Curaca City like Newman said, it would be a journey of over seven hundred kilometers.

    If one side were to transport it, the transport expenses would be arge amount.

    But Newman insisted that these agricultural magic machines would only be transported to the borders of the two countries. So after both sides discussed this, they finally decided that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be responsible for transport in the Lampuri Kingdom and then they were no longer responsible.

    As for the transport costs, they would pay for their part in the transportation.

    This was without a doubt more beneficial to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because it was only two hundred kilometers from Banta City to the border. Comparatively, the transport expenses weren¡¯t that much.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was earning three million gold coins from this order. Although the transport costs weren¡¯t low, they weren¡¯t considered much.

    Another important matter was his further discussions with Marquis Jole.

    Xu Yi chose a night to visit Marquis Jole¡¯s manor and after a discussion with Marquis Jole thatsted several hours, they had decided on their terms of cooperation.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building a steel mill near the iron mine of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in Cramer City.

    This steel mill will produce special steel alloys that would be used to make the armours and weapons needed by the army headquarters, with the raw material being used naturally being the iron ores mined there.

    As for the steel making technology, Xu Yi would send rted specialists to guide them.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be guiding the Falcao Chamber of Commerce on how to mine the non-ferrous metal veins in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for the non-ferrous metal ores mined, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will buy them for now ording to the price of iron.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t hand over the non-ferrous metal processing technology for now.

    Finally, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Falcao Chamber of Commerce working together, they would develop even more mining magic machines while the Falcao Chamber of Commerce would guarantee first supply rights to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of iron ores, while also maintaining the lowest market price.

    It should be said that this cooperation was beneficial to both sides, even earning more profit for the Jole Family.

    So after his in-depth discussion with Xu Yi, Marquis Jole put down his prejudice against him and showed a friendly attitude towards Xu Yi.

    Because of this attitude, there was even a very interesting small interlude.

    When Xu Yi was bidding farewell to Marquis Jole, they bumped into Vincent who had juste back.

    When he saw Xu Yi, he immediately began insulting him.

    But when Marquis Jole who had juste out heard this, he flew into a rage. He fiercely scolded him and even had him apologize to Xu Yi immediately.

    Vincent had a look of surprise and rebellion, but he still obediently lowered his head to Xu Yi and apologized. Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this fellow before, he still felt a bit pleased.

    Of course,pared to Anke Eren who stood in front of him with a dejected look two dayster, the pleasure Vincent gave Xu Yi couldn¡¯tpare.

    Seeing the bruise on Anke Eren¡¯s lips that hadn¡¯t faded, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He raised a hand to stop the surrounding researchers from charging forward and asked Anke Eren, ¡°Young master Eren, can I ask what you are here for?¡±

    Anke Eren looked at Xu Yi with a trace of hatred in his eyes, but there was also a deep helpless look, as well as a trace of hope.

    He looked at the researchers who were ready to fight, Anke Eren raised the package in his hand that seemed to be a present and forced out a smile as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, is Aleri here? I¡¯m here to visit him¡­..¡±

    After saying this, Anke Eren hesitated a bit to think before gritting his teeth and saying with a reluctant look, ¡°I am here to apologize.¡±

    Hearing this, other than Xu Yi and Still, the surrounding researchers were all stunned.

    Because the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam ended today, they were nning to y in Anvilmar City before leaving. They came to see Aleri who was injured in bed first, but they never thought that Anke Eren would suddenly appear here.

    What surprised them even more was that Anke Eren was actually here to apologize to Aleri!

    Especially those researchers who had been at the low grade magician exam, their faces were filled with disbelief. When they were at the exam site and Anke Eren had injured Aleri, they still clearly remembered how arrogant he had looked.

    This fellow relied on the fact that his father was the Magicians Guild¡¯s president to act rampant to the extreme, why did he suddenlye here to apologize?

    Be couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°I don¡¯t think you¡¯re here to apologize at all, you just want to see if Aleri was killed by you!¡±

    The surrounding researchers echoed this.

    This Anke Eren had left quite the bad impression on them, of course they wouldn¡¯t believe that he was seriously here to apologize.

    Anke Eren¡¯s eyebrows raised and when he wanted to explode with rage, he suddenly saw Xu Yi looking at him from the side with a ghost of a smile. His heart sunk and he suppressed his rage, as he said in a deep voice, ¡°I¡¯m here to apologize. Chairman Xu, please bring me to see Aleri.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile and gave an inviting gesture.

    ¡°Come with me.¡±

    Seeing Anke Eren obediently following Xu Yi to Aleri¡¯s room, the researchers looked at each other in nk dismay.

    ¡°Could it be that this fellow really is here to apologize?¡± A researcher asked.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be¡­..This fellow was that arrogant, it isn¡¯t like you didn¡¯t see it. Do you think that he is someone who would apologize?¡± Another researcher asked back.

    ¡°This is hard to say. Why do I feel¡­..that he seems to be afraid of sir chairman? Could it be that sir chairman caught by the handle and is forcing him to apologize today?¡± Another researcher said.

    ¡°When you say this, I also found that after this fellow saw sir chairman, he became a bit unnatural. When that fellow couldn¡¯t even express his rage, it really was just too strange.¡±

    ¡°Un, perhaps it really is like this¡­..¡±

    ¡­...

    This group whispered among themselves as they followed Xu Yi and Anke Eren,ing to Aleri¡¯s room.

    In front of everyone¡¯s shocked gazes, Anke Eren actually put the present in front of Aleri¡¯s bed and then seriously apologized to Aleri.

    There was nothing wrong with his movements at all, they couldn¡¯t see any resistance at all. It actually made the researchers unable to find any fault, so naturally they couldn¡¯t suspect that he really wasn¡¯t here to apologize.

    The researchers couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi.

    They heard Be say that the sir chairman had promised that he would get justice for Aleri.

    They didn¡¯t expect that sir chairman would go and heavily injure Anke Eren, but seeing this arrogant fellow actually lowering his head to apologize to Aleri, it really dispelled their rage.

    Moreover, based on Aleri¡¯s appearance, he was also shocked and felt like his anger had been vented. He was revealing a very happy smile.

    Seeing everyone look at him, Xu Yi smiled and pointed at Aleri as he said, ¡°Alright, stay with Aleri for now. I have some matters to discuss with young master Eren.¡±

    Seeing Anke Eren and Xu Yi leave the room, clearly going off for a private meeting, everyone was more certain.

    For Anke Eren to have such arge change in attitude, it was definitely because the sir chairman had made his move.

    On the other side, Anke Eren came into a small room with Xu Yi and immediately threw off his face, ring at Xu Yi. His eyes were filled with mes of rage and he said through gritted teeth, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are bold, you actually dare to ensnare me like this. If my father were to know of this, do you know what kind of consequences there would be?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care at all as he asked back with the same smile, ¡°The problem is¡­..dear young master Eren, if president Eren knew that you were addicted to gambling and lost ten thousand gold coins, do you¡­...know what kind of consequences there would be?¡±

    Anke Eren couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    He was very clear that if his father knew about this matter, even if his mother tried to protect him, he was certain that his life would fall into darkness and he wouldn¡¯t have the same freedom as before.

    After losing this much money through gambling, no matter how much his mother loved him, he would be strictly managed in the future.

    Just by thinking about him facing this kind of life, Anke Eren was filled with fear.

    If it wasn¡¯t because of this, how could he lower his proud head ande here to apologize to Aleri?

    Thinking of this, Anke Eren gave a secret sigh and helplessly said, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I won¡¯t pursue the matter of you ensnaring me. But since I have alreadye here to apologize like you¡¯ve asked, can you give me the contract acknowledging the debt of ten thousand gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Young master Eren, you shouldn¡¯t think this naively. Do you really think that a single apology is worth ten thousand gold coins?¡±

    Anke Eren was stunned before he flew into a rage, ¡°You want to go back on your promise? Urgot had told me everything, if it wasn¡¯t for you wanting him to ensnare me, do you think I would have this much gambling debt? I¡¯m not haggling with you and you dare act this shameless? Do you really believe I won¡¯t be angry enough to not care about anything and tell this matter to my father?¡±

    ¡°Go ahead, I don¡¯t care.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug with an uncaring look.

    Anke Eren gave a snort of rage and turned to leave.

    But when he took two steps, he stopped on the third step and after a period of silence, he turned around again and looked at Xu Yi with aplicated gaze.

    When he took two steps, he remembered that he didn¡¯t have any proof that Xu Yi had harmed him. He didn¡¯t even have any proof that Urgot had ensnared him.

    From beginning to end, Urgot had never said anything to him and he was the one that had asked Urgot to lend him money in his excitement.

    But he never thought that once this happened, it would be like water spilling from a dam and he couldn¡¯t stop it.

    In just two days, he suddenly owed over ten thousand gold coins!

    Although he could infer this was ensnarement from Urgot telling him Xu Yi¡¯s request, how could he tell his father this matter?

    He was to tell his father that he had be addicted to gambling and had lost over ten thousand gold coins at once?

    It would be quite good if his father didn¡¯t break his legs!

    Moreover, in that moment, Anke Eren thought of something that made him feel even more helpless.

    Even if he really could prove that this matter was Xu Yi setting a trap for him and he told his father about this matter, even though his father was the president of the Magicians Guild, he couldn¡¯t do anything to Xu Yi.

    The current Xu Yi was no longer the same unknown Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman fromst year.

    Thinking of this, a trace of regret appeared in Anke Eren¡¯s heart.

    How good it would be if he didn¡¯t provoked Xu Yi when he first met himst year¡­..

    After a period of silence, Anke Eren suddenly gave a sigh and said with a helpless look, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, tell me what you want me to do. I don¡¯t believe that a chairman of argepany like you would care about a trivial ten thousand gold coins, so you must want me to do something for you. Tell me, what do I have to do?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Anke Eren in surprise before revealing a smile, ¡°Very good, I like talking to smart people. Actually, young master Eren, the thing I want you to do is very simple¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 126 - Cement production technology

    <b>Volume 2 Chapter 126 Cement production technology</b>

    Three dayster, when Xu Yi left Anvilmar City, he had a detailed list of magicians in the Sixth Grade and above from the Magicians Guild.

    This list was something that Xu Yi wanted a long time ago and had mentioned to president Palmes Eren before, but president Eren had rejected him to protect the privacy of the magicians who registered with the Magicians Guild.

    The register that he had now was something that Anke Eren had transcribed himself from the Magicians Guild¡¯s records room.

    Exchanging it for the contract acknowledging his debt of ten thousand gold coins, Xu Yi was the one who suffered a loss in this deal, so Anke Eren quickly agreed to this deal. He felt that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything if he obtained this register and nothing would happen.

    But to Xu Yi, this register was very important.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce neededrge amounts of magicians in the future, especially higher grade magicians.

    There was no need to mention Great Magicians, so Xu Yi¡¯s goal became Sixth Grade and higher magicians.

    With this register, he could use the situation of the high grade magicians in the register to target them with personalized invitations to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As the register clearly showed, the current Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild had less than five hundred Sixth Grade and higher magicians registered even including Xu Yi.

    Compared to the total number which was around ten thousand magicians. This without a doubt showed that the poption of the magician world was in the shape of a standard triangle.

    Xu Yi mainly focused on magicians who specialized in a single type of magic, especially magicians who specialized in Wind Magic.

    Most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s machines relied on Wind Magic Arrays and only a few parts used Magic Arrays of the other three elements.

    But ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n for development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only needed research on Wind Magic Arrays, they needed to perform research on Magic Arrays of the other three elements.

    Even though the current researchers had decent magic and they have adapted to the magic machine research work during this time, these researchers alone were far from being able to match Xu Yi¡¯s requirements.

    Just relying on this material, he wanted to use lucrative conditions to recruit some magicians to the magic research facility.

    As for how it would be done, he could only slowly think about it after returning to Banta City.

    Thinking of how Anke Eren had let out a sigh of relief when he obtained the contract from Xu Yi for this information, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    This fellow thought that everything would be fine if he got the contract, he really was too naive.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think that my proposition is feasible?¡± Newman sitting opposite him in the carriage saw Xu Yi suddenly reveal a smile and thought that he was showing agreement to what he said earlier.

    ¡°Oh, of course.¡± Xu Yi quickly gave a nod, ¡°Constructing a road from Banta City to the border between our countries, it would definitely strengthen the rtionship between Banta City and the Rudson Kingdom. When the road from Banta City to Anvilmar City isplete, it will also strengthen the rtionship between our countries and strengthen the alliance between our countries.¡±

    Newman said with augh, ¡°Chairman Xu ispletely right. The public roads are too convenient, once they are built, it will take less than two days to go from the border to Anvilmar City. It is much more convenientpared to the four or five days it used to take. But chairman Xu, just building roads on your side won¡¯t be enough, don¡¯t you think that our Rudson Kingdom should also construct some roads?¡±

    ¡°Your Rudson Kingdom also wants to build roads?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes as he looked at Newman. This fellow had been beating around the bush for a while and he finally spoke of his goal.

    This morning, when Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce members left Anvilmar City, Newman, Anklo, and Hannas had suddenly appeared and said that they wanted to go back to Banta City with Xu Yi.

    Hannas¡¯ reason was that he wanted to see what kind of changes had urred in Banta City recently. As for Anklo and Newman, they said that they wanted to return to their respective countries, so they would go with Xu Yi to Banta City before returning to their countries.

    If they left from Anvilmar City, whether it was returning to the Stantine Duchy or the Rudson Kingdom, it would be a detour to go to Banta City. It was very clear that these two fellows had matters to discuss with Xu Yi.

    As expected, once they entered the carriage, Newman had begun chatting with Xu Yi and he had finally revealed his goal.

    Hearing Xu Yi ask this back, Newman said with a smile, ¡°Of course. When I came to Anvilmar this time, I experienced the benefits of the public roads. I think that as long as it¡¯s a person with normal eyes and brains, they can immediately notice the benefits of the roads. Since it¡¯s like this, naturally our Rudson Kingdom would also like to build roads.¡±

    ¡°Since you understand the roads, you should also know that the one building the roads is not our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Why are you looking for me rather than the Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    Newman spread his hand and helplessly said, ¡°I did before, but the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman said that hispany has too much work right now, it is impossible for them to have time to go to our Rudson Kingdom to build roads.¡±

    ¡°Un, chairman Cruise is right. Just based on what I know, theirpany has close to ten roads to build that has a length that surpasses a thousand kilometers. With theirpany¡¯s current manpower, they really can¡¯t send people to your Rudson Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°So I specially came with chairman Xu this time to ask chairman Xu to help me ask if you ever see chairman Cruise. I heard that chairman Xu and chairman Cruise has a close rtionship, so I think that if chairman Xu says something, chairman Cruise would at least give you some face.¡± Newman said.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that isn¡¯t right? Even if chairman Cruise has a good rtionship with me, I can¡¯t change the fact that he doesn¡¯t have enough manpower.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem since our Rudson Kingdom has people, the problem is that we need the technology for building the roads.¡± Newman said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Cruise has already promised me to teach us the basic techniques of building roads, but as for construction materials, especially the most important cement¡­..that depends on chairman Xu.¡±

    Hearing the word ¡°cement¡±, Xu Yi immediately understood.

    This Newman had gone around in arge circle and even pulled in chairman Cruise, but his goal in the end was for him to provide the technology for creating cement.

    Seeing the expectant look on Newman¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    He was certain that this demand for the cement technology was not just from Newman, it also contained the wishes of chairman Cruise.

    He could understand chairman Cruise¡¯s wishes since no one wanted their most important thing to be held by anotherpany.

    But Xu Yi still had to feel emotional over this. Because the merchants of the Sines Continent were limited by their technological level, especially in terms of construction, it made their vision a bit narrow.

    On earth, there had never been a contractor that mastered the art of making cement as well.

    This was because there was no need at all. They could just buy cement if they needed it, there was no need for them to make it themselves.

    Of course, on the current Sines Continent, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a cement factory. So it was normal for chairman Cruise to be worried in this situation.

    However, after Xu Yi thought for a bit, he replied, ¡°Alright, I can support your Rudson Kingdom¡¯s idea of building a road. But our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a contract with the Amrit Chamber ofmerce, we will give priority to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in terms of produced cement. If you can convince chairman Cruise to sell it to you, I don¡¯t have any opinions.¡±

    Hearing this response, Newman immediately revealed a disappointed look. After thinking about it, he asked without giving up, ¡°It really is troublesome bringing cement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce back to the Rudson Kingdom, just the transport cost is not something we can ept. Since it¡¯s like this, how about chairman Xu just sell us the technology for producing cement? This is a good thing for both of us, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit and didn¡¯t express any opinion. Anklo who had been silent on the side suddenly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I wee your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to construct a cement factory in our Stantine Duchy. Our Stantine Duchy also wishes to construct roads, but we can¡¯t afford the technology nor can we afford to buy it. As long as yourpany builds a cement factory in our duchy, you can produce cement for us to use locally.¡±

    Newman slightly knit his brows and looked over at Anklo with a bitter gaze.

    If this fellow didn¡¯t say anything, he could keep pressing Xu Yi. Now that Anklo had proposed this kind of solution, how could he keep asking for the production technology?

    But thinking of it, he suddenly remembered that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a factory in his kingdom, that factory would be in the area controlled by hispany. It would be incredibly easy for him to obtain what he wanted from this factory.

    Thinking of this, Newman looked at Anklo with a look of praise instead.

    This rough looking fellow who seemed more like a farmer seemed rather humble, but actually he had quite the ns.

    Compared to directly selling the technology, Xu Yi was more willing to agree to Anklo¡¯s suggestion.

    However, what surprised Newman was that after Xu Yi finished thinking, he nodded at Newman with a smile, ¡°Alright, selling you the cement production technology is indeed more convenient. Only I wonder how much chairman Newman is willing to pay for it?¡±

    Newman and Anklo never thought that Xu Yi would agree to this request so easily, so both of them were stunned for a bit.

 Volume 2 127 - Electric resistant Camby

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 127 Electric resistant Camby</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡­..¡± Kennard looked at Xu Yi with tightly knit brows and he shook his head after a while, as he said with a sigh, ¡°When I talk to the other chairman of the city, they say that you are a wastrel. At first I don¡¯t know why they would call you this, but now¡­..I think that their appraisal is correct.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, as if he didn¡¯t care about this appraisal.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be considered a waste, the Rudson Kingdom has paid five hundred thousand gold coins for the cement production technology. Moreover, they agreed to give our Frestech Chamber of Commerce a preferential tariff rate when ites to ourpany¡¯s products that sell in their country in the future. Like this, I feel we earned quite a bit.¡±

    ¡°But sir chairman, ording to the financial stats that manager Sebas madest month, thepany¡¯s cement factory had a high profit of seventy thousand gold coins. Even if we obtained five hundred thousand from selling this technology, we have lost the entire Rudson Kingdom market, which is a loss that is far greater than ten times of five hundred thousand. Do you think this is cost effective?¡± Kennard asked with a pained look.

    ¡°Ten times of five hundred thousand? No, no, no, your estimate is too low. If the Rudson Kingdom starts building roads like our Lampuri Kingdom, their consumption of cement would be an astronomical amount. If you calcte it in the end, it should be over ten million gold coins.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then why did you agree to sell them the production technology?¡± Kennard couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Kennard, you haven¡¯t worked with me long enough, so you don¡¯t understand my intentions.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°If Heinz was here, although he would call me a wastrel, he would be able to understand my thoughts still.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°Of course I can¡¯tpare to vice chairman Heinz in understanding you and I indeed do not understand your thoughts.¡±

    ¡°Do you remember when you decided to be ourpany¡¯s general manager, do you remember what I said to you?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Kennard thought about it, ¡°Are you talking about ¡®flying to outer space¡¯?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I think that you should be very clear how remote my ideals are and how impractical they are. But to realize this goal, I have to constantly speed up advancement. So if you carefully study the things I did after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was established, you will find that I never cared about ourpany monopolizing our technology and frequently sold it, or even gave it away for free.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is something that I really can¡¯t understand.¡± Kennard gave an honest nod, ¡°If thepany kept all this technology, I dare guarantee that thepany¡¯s profit would be even more stable and wouldst longer.¡±

    ¡°But the time it would take would be longer.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°I know that as a normalpany, you should maintain some kind of rhythm. But if we kept this rhythm, there¡¯s no possibility of realizing my ideal in this life. So I have no choice but to increase the advancement speed and speed up the rhythm of the magic machine industry on the continent.¡±

    But how is this rted to your decision of selling the cement production technology to the Rudson Kingdom?¡± Kennard asked.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he pointed at the smooth road not far away from the window and said, ¡°The biggest limit to the continent¡¯s development is transportation. The public roads would greatly increase this problem, so even if Newman didn¡¯t ask about this, I was already nning on selling the cement production technology to let there be cement factories all over the Lampuri Kingdom and increase the speed of road production. Now is a good time. Kennard, host a press conference tomorrow and announce that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be selling the cement production technology.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi had made his mind, Kennard could only nod in response.

    Seeing the somewhat confused look on Kennard¡¯s face, Xu Yi smiled as he patted his shoulder and said, ¡°Kennard, as my general manager, you just need to hold your chest out and keep looking forward. Before reaching our goal, you don¡¯t need to think about anything unnecessary, understand?¡±

    Kennard revealed a bitter smile, ¡°But sir chairman, your steps are just too big, I can¡¯t catch up to you.¡±

    ###

    The second day after Xu Yi returned, Kennard held a press conference ording to his instructions.

    The news that Kennard announced at the press conference of selling the cement production technology created another stir.

    As soon as they received this information, countlesspanies from Banta City and the surrounding cities all came to inquire about the price of buying this technology.

    Although the high price of five hundred thousand scared most of thepanies away, there were still twopanies who still wanted to buy it.

    Like this, including the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, just in Banta City and the surrounding cities, there were threepanies that bought this technology.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a million and five hundred thousand gold coins from this.

    But this was just the beginning.

    A weekter, thepanies in the other ces of the Lampuri Kingdom received this news and all came forward. In the end, there were eight morepanies that purchased the cement production technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In total, just from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned five and half million gold coins from selling this technology.

    Adding in the five hundred thousand gold coins from the Rudson Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned six million gold coins from selling this technology!

    Seeing this terrifying ie, Kennard¡¯s opposition to Xu Yi¡¯s decisionpletely disappeared.

    It was like Xu Yi said, this cement production technology wasn¡¯t thatplicated. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already understood a part of it after using it for so long, so even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t sell, not longter, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would have developed it and wouldn¡¯t need to depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore.

    Instead of being passive at this time, it was better to sell it because they could obtain arge profit from it.

    Xu Yi¡¯s decision obtained quick results.

    The cement production technology had been sold for less than a week, but there were several small andrge cement factories that appeared in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Three of them werepanies who had bought the technology, as for the others¡­..

    Xu Yi was toozy to care how these cement factories appeared because he had something more important to do right now.

    ¡°Camby, be more careful! Don¡¯t use your hand, this thing has electricity, be careful or you¡¯ll get shocked!¡± Xu Yi¡¯s shout stopped Camby from moving his hand toward the generator.

    ¡°What is there to be afraid of?¡± Camby waved his hand like he didn¡¯t care, ¡°When I fought with a human magician a hundred years ago, I was hit by the Lightning Spells of that human magician several times, but it didn¡¯t do anything to me. I don¡¯t believe that this little thing is more powerful than high grade magic.¡±

    Camby ignored Xu Yi after saying this and reached out to touch the generator turning at high speeds.

    ¡°Ci, ci, ci, ci, ci¡ª¡ª¡±

    A terrifying electric current came out and everyone watched as Camby was covered in light blue electricity. That small and strong body kept twitching, which looked funny and shocking to everyone.

    Xu Yi immediately acted, as he quickly turned off the generator. He then used his magic power as he scattered the electricity around Camby.

    However, even if Xu Yi reacted fast, Camby had already been shocked quite a bit by the electricity.

    Although dwarves were strong by natural, with powerful resistance to magic, so Camby didn¡¯t receive any injuries from this, the electric current had already burnt all the clothes he was wearing. Even his brown hair was smoking and standing up straight, looking like he was a broom.

    Everyone saw Camby¡¯s current appearance and they couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Especially the other dwarves of the magic machine workshop, they were pointing at Camby whileughing, almost rolling around on the ground.

    Camby was stunned for a while before giving a tremble. He looked at the generator that had already stopped with a bit of fear before looking at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman, isn¡¯t this thing too strong? I feel that it¡¯s even stronger than your human magician¡¯s Seventh Grade Lightning Magic.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, ¡°Nonsense, a Seventh Grade Lightning Spell doesn¡¯t even have four hundred watts. This generator is small, but it can produce at least a kilowatt of power, so of course it¡¯s more powerful. How do you feel now after not listening to my warning?¡±

    Camby rubbed his standing straight hair andughed before asking, ¡°Chairman, the voltage thing that you mentioned, what is that?¡±

    ¡°Exining this is a bitplicated. When I write a book on elementary electricity for you to read, you will understand. Now, what do you think of the condition of the generator? It was running for an hour just now, right? If nothing goes wrong, this trial test can be considered a sess.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seeing the dwarves carefully approach the generator and only begin to inspect it after ensuring that there were no electric currents, Xu Yi found it a bit funny.

    These dwarves had relied on their thick skin to ignore his warnings about the danger of electricity, but now that Camby had received a lesson, they were much more cautious when dealing with the generator.

    Compared to the palm sized Wind Generator that Xu Yi had at the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, now that Xu Yi was back in Banta City, he had made a generator that was as wide as Camby¡¯s waists and it took up arge space when put on the ground.

    But the generators in power nts on earth, this was still only a small generator. Moreover, it relied on Wind Magic Arrays to generate electric currents.

    Compared to the generated output, the biggest problem of the generator was the material of the coil.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom strictly controlled the mining of copper ores, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the means to obtainrge amounts of copper to make the coil from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and could only substitute it with aluminum for now.

    However, even aluminum was a rare product on the Sines Continent, so the aluminum that Xu Yi used to make this generator was something the Falcao Chamber of Commerce worked hard to get.

    Making this generator from aluminum wasn¡¯t good since the quality wasn¡¯t good enough, so the generator could only run for an hour before problems urred.

    After three days of tests, they had ruined several aluminum coils. It seemed like they were about to use all the aluminum that Xu Yi had worked hard to get.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t only shake his head.

    It seemed like to experiment with generators, he first had to solve the problem of materials.

    For him to experiment even further, he could only wait until he opened those non-ferrous metal mines and hadrge amounts of aluminum and copper.

    As for Xu Yi¡¯s dream of letting Banta City use electricity to light the entire city, bing the cities on earth that were just as bright as night, that was still a dream.

    The dwarves gathered around the generator while Xu Yi looked out the window in the direction of the ck Rice Wastnd.

    To mine the non-ferrous vein near the Voller Tribe, he had to take a trip to the ck Rice Wastnd. Thinking of the ck Rice Wastnd, he also thought of the Stantine Duchy that shared a border with the ck Rice Wastnd.

    That fellow Anklo was still agonizingly waiting in Banta City, then when should he leave?

 Volume 2 128 - How about giving up

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 128 How about giving up</strong>

    Time passed and December came.

    The winds from the north became even colder. Even if the young researchers of the magic research facility were lively, they hid in theb to honestly do their research in this weather and weren¡¯t as lively as before.

    Evita¡¯s physique wasn¡¯t that good, so she was more sensitive to coldpared to normal people. At a time like this, she naturally tightly closed all the doors and windows to herb, not letting a single cool breeze blow in.

    Feeling the warm currenting from the Magic Air Conditioner, Evita rubbed her hands as she couldn¡¯t help feeling grateful towards Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi inventing the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner and installing one in everyb of the magic research facility before winter, Evia would be enduring the same cold asst year.

    Although she could use a fire to fight off the cold, this made the air of theb very bad, so Evita always hated doing this.

    Of course, there was another method that wouldn¡¯t affect the air quality which was arge scale me Array.

    However it cost at least a hundred gold coins to build this array and adding in the monthly costs of thirty gold coins, even with how generous Xu Yi was, he wouldn¡¯t put one in everyb.

    But thinking about it, Evita didn¡¯t feel that certain.

    ording to her understanding of Xu Yi, he was a chairman who cared about his workers.

    Back in Anvilmar City, he had fully demonstrated this through the Aleri matter.

    If it was the chairman of any otherpany, it would be good if they gave Aleri some money, but Xu Yi had actually made Anke Erene apologize to Aleri.

    The researchers had all been shocked at that time because they were clear on Anke Eren¡¯s identity and they were clear on how arrogant of a person he was.

    Xu Yi could make him bow his head and apologize in front of all these people, this really surprised everyone.

    Because of this matter, Xu Yi¡¯s image in the hearts of the researchers became even greater.

    In the minds of many researchers, he even became their idol.

    However, Evita¡¯s views were different from many people.

    Her first thought was that Xu Yi must have paid quite a bit to aplish this.

    If she was Aleri, she definitely wouldn¡¯t ask Xu Yi to do this for her because she didn¡¯t want Xu Yi to pay any price for her.

    But in that situation, of course it was impossible for her to say those words and she could only keep them in her heart.

    But feeling the warm wind from the Magic Air Conditioner and Evita thought of Xu Yi, she suddenly thought of a question.

    ¡°Actually¡­..why would I think of this?¡±

    When Evita was about to reach the real answer that her heart wasn¡¯t willing to acknowledge, there were knocks that sounded on the door.

    Evita was stunned and woke up from her distraction. Thinking of the strange things that she was thinking about, her face couldn¡¯t help turning red. After calming her thoughts, she opened the door that was locked from the inside.

    When the door opened, there was a guest that was unexpected to Evita outside.

    ¡°Still? Why are you here?¡± Evita moved aside and invited the tightly wrapped Still in.

    ¡°I was bored and I remembered that I never checked in here, so I ran here to take a look.¡± Still took the hot tea that Evita handed over and carefully took a sip before letting out a sigh, ¡°This damn weather, it really is freezing me to death.¡±

    Evita revealed a smile and sat down in front of Still as she said, ¡°I already dismissed you, it doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t report in.¡±

    Still was stunned before reaching out to pinch Evita¡¯s nose. She said with a smile, ¡°Alright, Evita, you have quite the power now that you¡¯re the chief? You actually dare dismiss me? Do you believe that I can make Xu Yi dismiss you as the chief?¡±

    Evita gave a soft snort, ¡°Then go ahead and see if he¡¯s willing to dismiss me.¡±

    When this was said, both of them were stunned.

    Still looked at Evita for a while and couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°I¡¯ve realized that Akali and Be have had a bad effect on you, you all like ying jokes on Xu Yi.¡±

    Evita¡¯s face turned a bit red as she pretended to lower her head to sip her tea. She said in a low voice, ¡°Be shouldn¡¯t be like that now, but Akali¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing the pity in Evita¡¯s voice, Still was stunned as aplicated expression appeared in her face. After a period of silence, she said with a soft sigh, ¡°Actually I can see it, but¡­..I can¡¯t just give Xu Yi to her, right?¡±

    Evita quickly shook her head and said, ¡°No, I didn¡¯t mean this. Still, you and Xu Yi both like each other, that is a very happy thing. You must cherish it and can¡¯t let go of it easily. Even if¡­..even if Akali is our good friend, this is something that you should be selfish with.¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile. She looked at the somewhat dark sky outside and suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that even though I¡¯m not willing to give up, I¡¯m worried that I can¡¯t hold it¡­..¡±

    Evita was stunned as she asked, ¡°What is it? Could it be that something has happened between you and Xu Yi? Haven¡¯t you been welltely?¡±

    ¡°No, there¡¯s no problem right now, only¡­..¡± Still slightly knit her brows and looked a bit worried, ¡°I just suddenly feel that he doesn¡¯t seem to care about me that much¡­..¡±

    Evita asked with a frown, ¡°Why would you suddenly think this? Did something really happen?¡±

    Still seemed to lose that dazzling glow of hers and it seemed like her confidence had also disappeared.

    Hearing Evita¡¯s question, she sipped her tea in a daze for a while before slowly saying, ¡°Evita, there is something that I¡¯ve never told you. Actually when we went to Anvilmar City, I met Vincent.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Evita was surprised, ¡°Why did you meet him? Where? Does Xu Yi know?¡±

    ¡°Un, he was with me at that time.¡± Still nodded.

    ¡°What reaction did he have? Was he angry?¡± Evita asked in a somewhat worried voice.

    Still gave a bitterugh, ¡°I¡¯m worried because he wasn¡¯t angry. After seeing Vincent, he wasn¡¯t angry at all and even seemed like he didn¡¯t care at all. He clearly knew that I liked Vincent before. I thought that after seeing Vincent, he would at least be a bit jealous and react a bit, but he didn¡¯t react at all¡­...¡±

    When she said this, Still revealed a hurt look. She bent over and put her head on Evita¡¯s legs, as she said in a soft voice, ¡°Evita, I feel that he doesn¡¯t care about me at all and doesn¡¯t really love me. Otherwise, how could he not react at all after seeing Vincent?¡±

    Evita reached down to stroke Still¡¯s beautiful golden hair as she said with a faint smile, ¡°What reaction do you want him to have? With my understanding of Xu Yi, I feel that he isn¡¯t putting Vincent in his eyes at all. Don¡¯t you think¡­...that Vincent can¡¯tpare to him at all? You think that an elephant would look down at an ant?¡±

    Still suddenly raised her head and snappily looked at Evita, ¡°Vincent is an ant, then am I also an ant for liking him before?¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t help smiling as she softly pinched Still¡¯s cheek.

    ¡°Even if you are an ant, at least you¡¯re a beautiful ant.¡±

    Still said with a sigh, ¡°But a beautiful ant is still an ant, it¡¯s not something an elephant would care about.¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t help shaking her head, ¡°It seems like our Lampuri Royal Academy¡¯s most beautiful and confident Still could lose all her confidence once she falls in love.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I don¡¯t have any confidence right now.¡± Still honestly nodded, ¡°If he really cared about me, why wouldn¡¯t he care about Vincent? If he really liked me, why¡­..why hasn¡¯t he proposed yet?¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at Still, ¡°Hey, I remember that you told Xu Yi several times that you haven¡¯t thought it through and weren¡¯t nning on marrying yet, right? Now you¡¯reining about him not proposing?¡±

    ¡°I¡­..I didn¡¯t want to agree to him that easily at first, but no matter how much I wanted it, he never mentioned this matter again, alright? Evita, tell me¡­..does he have no intentions of marrying me right now?¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t help flicking Still¡¯s forehead, ¡°You¡¯re the one saying everything and now you¡¯re ming Xu Yi. Do you believe that he will really not want you if he knew about this? Who said that a man has to propose to a woman? If you really like him and you¡¯ve decided to be with him, why can¡¯t you just tell him this?¡±

    ¡°How can I tell him?¡± Still asked in a daze.

    Evita helplessly shook her head, ¡°With my understanding of him, I feel that it isn¡¯t that he doesn¡¯t like you or doesn¡¯t care about you, he¡¯s just a bit slow when ites to these matters. So I feel that if you want something, you should just tell him. For example, you should tell him that you feel that he doesn¡¯t care about you since he didn¡¯t care about Vincent, or you can tell him that you¡¯ve thought it through and want to be with him forever.¡±

    Still¡¯s face was a bit red, ¡°How can I directly say that to him?¡±

    Evita said in a somewhat angry voice, ¡°You¡¯re lucky enough to find a good man like Xu Yi. If you don¡¯t want him, just give up and give him to me!¡±

    Still was stunned and Evita knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she gave two awkward coughs. She calmed herself down and changed the topic, ¡°Tell me, Still, what step have you two reached so far?¡±

    Still was still a bit stunned, ¡°What step?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s¡­..¡± Evita¡¯s face was a bit red, ¡°It¡¯s in that¡­..¡±

    Still only now understood Evita¡¯s meaning and her blush became deeper. She shyly lowered her head, ¡°We¡¯ve only kissed, we haven¡¯t done anything else.¡±

    ¡°It seems like that¡¯s the problem.¡± Evita thought about it before saying, ¡°Still, you¡¯ve been dating for half a year, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡±

    ¡°After all this time, you¡¯re still at kissing. If I was Xu Yi, I might think that you don¡¯t care about me. Since you don¡¯t care, it would be strange if he did anything.¡± Evita gave her analysis.

    Still immediately became nervous, ¡°Then what do I do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, follow what I said and clearly tell him your thoughts.¡± Evita honestly said, ¡°Believe me, Xu Yi is very slow in this aspect, otherwise I dare to guarantee that there would be countless pretty girls around him and he wouldn¡¯t be devoted to you.¡±

    Still thought for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°Alright, I understand.¡±

    ¡°Then you know what to do?¡±

    ¡°I¡­.will consider it.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t consider it.¡± Evita¡¯s expression became very serious, ¡°This is something you have to do! Otherwise, you really should give up!¡±

    ¡°And give him to you?¡± Still unexpectedly asked this.

    Evita was silent for a bit before answering seriously, ¡°If he¡¯s willing, I¡¯m also willing.¡±

    Still looked at Evita in surprise, but Evita seemed like she wasn¡¯t willing to admit defeat, so she didn¡¯t look away.

    Suddenly, the room fell into a strange silence.

 Volume 2 129 - Public transportation is a kind of benefit

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 129 Public transportation is a kind of benefit</h4>

    The reporters of Banta City and the surrounding cities suddenly found that sinceing back from Anvilmar City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu seemed to rarely appear in front of them.

    Not only did he rarely ept interviews, since the announcement that they were selling the cement production technology, he had general manager Kennard take care of everything and he didn¡¯t show himself at all.

    Even at the production announcement that they held for the first time in several months, Xu Yi didn¡¯t reveal himself and the host was still the general manager Kennard.

    Moreover, what made the reporters even more disappointed was that there was a shocking piece of news that would be announced at every Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement, so they all expected arge scoop when they heard the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding a product announcement. In the end, Xu Yi never showed up and there wasn¡¯t even arge scoop.

    Although the Magic Water Heater that was announced would be something that would attract attention because it wouldn¡¯t be troublesome to have hot water for baths in winter, which made it a very appropriate thing for this season.

    This product was not something that Xu Yi announced and there was norge scoop, so the reporters felt that something was missing.

    The most important thing was that Xu Yi had been absent from the press conference and the product announcement, as well as not revealing himself to the public recently, giving most of his work to general manager Kennard to handle. What was the deal with this?

    Could it be¡­..he was nning on stepping down?¡±

    ¡°This is simply nonsense, I¡¯m not even thirty yet, I¡¯m still young. Why would I be stepping down?¡± Xu Yi shook his head at Hannas in front of him and he couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°Have these fellows really be too sensitive after working as reporters for too long?¡±

    Hannas hade to Banta City with Newman and Anklo, but naturally it wasn¡¯t to send them off, rather he had specially made a trip to hold an inspection.

    On the surface, he was here to do a series of reports called ¡°Banta City this year¡± for the ?Lampuri Weekly?. Specially reporting on the changes that had urred in Banta City during this year.

    In secret, he had epted the king¡¯s request to specially survey and give positive promotion to prepare for the king designating this ce as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s special economic zone.

    This work couldn¡¯t be done in a day or two, so even after Newman had returned to the Rudson Kingdom and Anklo had gone back to the Stantine Duchy first under Xu Yi¡¯s urgings, Hannas was still here.

    Hannas hade looking for Xu Yi today, other than to ask the question that all his peers had been curious about was to do an interview with Xu Yi for the report he was writing.

    Now that he saw that Xu Yi had other ideas, Hannas immediately asked, ¡°Then why did you let Kennard take care of the press conference and the product announcement? Why didn¡¯t you appear at all?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and asked back, ¡°Then tell me, why are you not running around yourself to do interviews and are letting the reporters under you do it?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense. With all that news, can I even do that?¡± Hannas answered in a natural manner, ¡°The things that the subordinates can do will naturally be given to them. I can save this time and do more important things.¡±

    ¡°That is also my reply.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°I found a great general manager like Kennard with great difficulty, then if I didn¡¯t seize this chance to give him more things to do and relieve the pressure on my, wouldn¡¯t I be stupid?¡±

    Hannasughed, ¡°That is right. But Xu Yi,pared to you, Kennard gives just too little news. The peers from Banta City and the surrounding cities are very disappointed with this.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Then aren¡¯t you praising Kennard? He is ourpany¡¯s general manager and he does the real work, so isn¡¯t what I hope to see is that there is no news? If he created all kinds of news like me, that really wouldn¡¯t be a good thing.¡±

    ¡°That is where you and I have different opinions.¡± Hannas gave a shrug before continuing, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Let¡¯s talk about the next step of the Banta City renovation n that you¡¯re in charge of. After I finish this interview with you, the first part of my series report will be over, so you need to give me a good start and give me something that can attract people.¡±

    ¡°What is hard about this? There are all kinds of new and attractive things all around Banta City, just talk about any of them.¡± Xu Yi easily said.

    ¡°Then you can give an example first.¡± Hannas took out his notepad and prepared to write his notes.

    ¡°Eh¡­.There are just too many, I can¡¯t talk about all of them¡­..¡± Xu YI stroked his chin and thought about it before saying, ¡°That¡¯s right, did you not go to the Sandton industrial district yesterday? I think you should have taken the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s horse carriage, right?¡±

    Hannas gave a nod, ¡°Indeed. Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that yourpany has reached an agreement with the Fersen Carriage Company, right? I saw several Fersen Carriage Company carriages moving between Sandton industrial district and Banta City, never stopping. I even saw some that weren¡¯t filled with people, isn¡¯t this too wasteful?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand this?¡± Xu Yi broke out inughter, ¡°Let me tell you, this is a very new thing, you should remember it. Your guess is right, ourpany has reached an agreement with the Fersen Carriage Company and have asked for a Fersen Carriage Company carriage to leave for Sandton Manor every hour. At the same time, there must be a carriage leaving Sandton Manor heading towards Banta City. It starts at six in the morning and ends at eight at night.

    ¡°My god, then that means¡­..¡± Hannas found about it and found that he couldn¡¯t calcte it, ¡°There must be at least ten horse carriages running at the same time?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that exaggerated.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There is fifteen kilometers between Sandton Manor and Banta City and now that the roads have been built, a single trip adding in the stops in between would only take around an hour. So calcting this, there only needs to be four horse carriages to fulfill this need. Of course, in order to be safe, the contract I signed with the Fersen Carriage Company has at least six horse carriages running at the same time.¡±

    ¡°This is still too much. You rented those six carriages for the workers of yourpany? But I noticed that people from otherpanies are also riding those horse carriages.¡± Hannas said in a confused voice.

    ¡°No, I just reached an agreement with the Fersen Carriage Company, they signed the official contract with the City Lord¡¯s Manor. Whether it is the City Lord¡¯s Manor or ourpany, neither of us is paying a single copper coin, all the expenditure is being handled by the Fersen Carriage Company. Even¡­¡­¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°The Fersen Carriage Company needs to pay the City Lord¡¯s Manor a thousand gold coins a month.¡±

    ¡°How is this possible!¡± Hannas immediately shouted, ¡°This is something that makes it convenient for yourpany¡¯s workers and the people who work in the Sandton industrial district, it¡¯s fine if the Fersen Carriage Company doesn¡¯t ask money from the City Lord¡¯s Manor, but how could they even pay money? Is chairman Pompeii a fool?¡±

    ¡°You think that chairman Pompeii is a fool?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Rx, he isn¡¯t a fool at all. Let me tell you, although the Fersen Carriage Company is paying, these six carriages are earning daily profits for the Fersen Carriage Company. ording to what he told me before, he made close to a hundred gold coins on these horse carriagesst month.¡±

    ¡°A hundred gold coins per month?¡± Hannas knit his brows, ¡°That is not enough. Like this, he can only earn around a thousand gold coins a month, what is left after they make their payment?¡±

    ¡°This thousand gold coins isn¡¯t just for this line. Actually, these thousand gold coins is the payment the Fersen Carriage Company made to secure the transport system of the entire city. It¡¯s not even enough in my opinion and it¡¯s actually a bit too little.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Wait, the transport system for the entire city?¡± Hannas tapped his head and thought for a bit before suddenly crying out, ¡°I remember now, you mentioned this matter to me before, so it¡¯s like this¡­..That means that after the Fersen Carriage Company has paid this thousand gold coins, all the public transportation in the city will be given to theirpany?¡±

    ¡°Right, ording to the n, the line from Banta City to Sandton Manor is just the first trial transport line. Now that there haven¡¯t been many problems this month, there will gradually be more public transport lines opening soon. The final goal is toy roads all over Banta City and to connect them with public transport lines.¡±

    ¡°Let me calcte it¡­..¡± Hannas lowered his head to think for a bit, ¡°If even a far ce like the Sandton Manor is considered, there must be at least twenty different lines, right? But I still have a problem, because there are enough people going to the Sandton industrial district, there are enough people riding this transport line and the Fersen Carriage Company can earn money from this. But there aren¡¯t enough people going to the other ces of Banta City, right? Wouldn¡¯t the Fersen Carriage Company lose money from running these transport lines?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°The public transport system is something that a city should offer, how could he earn money on every line. It¡¯s already good that he isn¡¯t losing money. But you don¡¯t need to worry about the Fersen Carriage Company, right now the transport lines are connecting the ces with the most people. For example, the next transport line being opened will connect Banta City and the Vani Orchid Suburb. The Vani Orchid Suburb has expanded by several timers now and there are several thousand people living there. This line will be short, so the Fersen Carriage Company will be earning arge amount from it.¡±

 Volume 2 130 - Digging canals

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 130 Digging canals</h4>

    ¡°Wait, I still have a problem with this.¡± Hannas asked with a confused look, ¡°When I took the carriage yesterday, it cost me three silver coins for a trip. If this public transport system is something that the city provides like you said, isn¡¯t this price too high? When you and Count Sean discussed this, didn¡¯t you set the prices?¡±

    ¡°Of course we set it, this is the price that we set after discussing this with chairman Pompeii. After all, no matter how much the city should provide this, the Fersen Carriage Company needs to earn money, right? Otherwise, how could the Fersen Carriage Company agree to sign this contract?¡± Xu Yi said in a natural voice.

    ¡°But I feel¡­...Isn¡¯t this price too much for the citizens of Banta City?¡± Hannas said with a frown, ¡°One trip is three gold coins, that means that it¡¯s six silver coins each day. Although it is much cheaper than those long distance horse carriages, this still is close to two gold coins a month, which is a bit too much. I don¡¯t think those workers and normal people will be able to afford it.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Hannas, you¡¯re still stuck with the same old thoughts. How much do you think is the average ie for those citizens right now?¡±

    ¡°How much?¡±

    ¡°Let me tell you, don¡¯t be scared. ording to the City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s censusst month, the average wage for normal citizens in the Banta City area is over ten gold coins!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s impossible!¡± Hannas jumped out of his chair in shock, ¡°Even the average ie in Anvilmar City isn¡¯t ten gold coins, how could it be over ten gold coins in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Why is it impossible?¡± Xu Yi looked at Hannas with a smile, ¡°Is it because you¡¯re from Anvilmar City that you¡¯re not willing to ept this fact?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not willing to ept it, rather it is basically impossible!¡± Hannas loudly said, ¡°I would believe it if you told me that the average monthly ie for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers is over ten gold coins, I would even believe it if you told me that the workers of the otherpanies have an average monthly ie of over ten gold coins, but I won¡¯t believe that the normal citizens of Banta City have an average monthly ie of over ten gold coins even if you beat me to death!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head. He looked like he was looking at someone ignorant as he said, ¡°I thought that after running to Banta City and inspecting for so many days, you would at least understand the situation of Banta City, but I never thought that you wouldn¡¯t even understand this.¡±

    Hannas immediately said in an angry voice, ¡°You say I don¡¯t understand? I think you¡¯re just boasting!¡±

    ¡°Boasting?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°Alright, since your news has fallen behind, I might as well teach you or you¡¯ll disgrace yourself with the article you write. Ke¡­..Listen well, first let me tell you, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers don¡¯t just have an average monthly wage of ten gold coins. Justst month, ording to the data that Sebas put together a few days ago, it¡¯s already broken the realm of twenty gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Twenty gold coins? Average?¡± Hannas looked at Xu Yi with a look of disbelief, ¡°You¡­.When I visited the other chairmen and they said that you were a wastrel, I argued back for you, but I never thought that you really were a wastrel! You¡¯re giving your workers such a high wage? Even if yourpany earns a lot of money, you can¡¯t do this, right?¡±

    ¡°Calling me a wastrel?¡± Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°Those fellows aren¡¯t lower than me. The chairmen of the otherpanies didn¡¯t tell you that the wages of their workers aren¡¯t lower than ours? There are even severalpanies that have workers with higher wages than ours. We haven¡¯t been thepany with the highest wages in Banta City in a long time.¡±

    Hannas looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a while. After thinking about it, he sat down again and shook his head with knit brows, ¡°I really doubt that your Banta Citypanies are all crazy. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving high wages is because you as the chairman like to act as a wastrel, but why are they also giving high wages for? Are they being wastrels like you?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, it means theck of manpower in Banta City is just too much. There¡¯s plenty of work that needs people to do it, but no one can find people for it. You¡¯ve wandered around Banta City for a few days, have you seen any normal people who couldn¡¯t get jobs?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hannas thought about it for a while before shaking his head, ¡°I really didn¡¯t see that. It¡¯s very strange, could it be that there really are that many jobs in Banta City? There¡¯s clearly several times the people in Banta City right now, it¡¯s actuallycking in manpower?¡±

    ¡°You shouldn¡¯t ask me this, you should be asking the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°When ites tocking manpower, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is alright because there are many dwarves and elves to supplement for us. Rather the Amrit Chamber of Commerce really iscking in manpower, chairman Cruise has beenining to me about not having enough people whenever he sees me. Do you believe that if he had enough manpower, he would even go to the Rudson Kingdom to build roads?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..I mentioned this matter when I met chairman Cruise yesterday.¡± Hannas gave a nod, ¡°He said that chairman Newman had invited the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to go to the Rudson Kingdom to build five hundred kkilometers of road, but he didn¡¯t have enough people, so he could only reject him. He even said that it was a good chance to earn money, so it was a real pity that he had to give it up.¡±

    ¡°So you see, there is work for everyone in Banta City. The wage for every job is very high, so why isn¡¯t it eptable that people are getting an average monthly wage of ten gold coins?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hannas was stunned. He thought about it before giving a sigh, ¡°It seems like you¡¯re right, I am indeed stuck in the same old thoughts. I thought that when it came to ie, Anvilmar City should have the highest, but I never thought that Banta City actually surpassed Anvilmar City. The most important thing is that every person in Banta City can find work and there are a bunch of people in Anvilmar City who have nothing to do¡­..Comparing this, there really is a big difference.¡±

    ¡°No, you are mistaken.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°In the end, Anvilmar City is the kingdom¡¯s capital, so there are many things that Banta City can¡¯tpare to at all. If the king wants to, he could easily surpass Banta City.

    ¡°This is not something we should discuss.¡± Hannas gave a shrug. He recorded what Xu Yi said in his notebook before he continued on asking, ¡°Alright, other than the new public transport system, is there anything else worth mentioning?¡±

    ¡°Other than this¡­..¡± Xu Yi thought about it before looking aside, ¡°Let me tell you something even more explosive.¡±

    ¡°Even more explosive?¡± Hannas¡¯ eyes lit up, ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°After me and Count Sean has discussed this, we finally decided to start expanding the Sandy River, while also digging a canal between the Sandy River and the Rum River.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    ###

    The next day, Xu Yi and Count Sean stood by the north bank of the Sandy River to the east of Banta City, looking to the north.

    ¡°Lord Count, chairman Xu, look, if the Sandy River is dug here and connected to the Rum River, the topography will gradually sink. Moreover, there isn¡¯t arge mountain in the way, soparing it, I feel it¡¯s easiest to dig a straight canal.¡±

    The one pointing into the distance was the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cim Porter.

    Compared to how dispirited he was when Xu Yi saved him from the river, although his skin was much darkerpared to before, he was much more full of life and confidence. He seemed like he had regained his spirit from when the Porter Chamber of Commerce was at its peak.

    ¡°How long will this canal be?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°I gave a rough estimate and it shouldn¡¯t be more than fifty kilometers.¡± Porter said.

    ¡°Fifty kilometers¡­..¡± Count Sean said with a nod, ¡°Actually this doesn¡¯t seem like the Sandy River and the Rum River are very far apart. If this canal could be dug and the two rivers can be connected, our Banta City¡¯s water transportation will be much richerpared to before.¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, this can¡¯t just be described with this.¡± Porter said in a somewhat excited voice, ¡°Although the Sandy River reaches another river in the end, which is one of the most prosperous rivers of the continent, because it is controlled by the Marlow Empire and they don¡¯t let the ships of any other countries pass, the Sandy River could never be used. But if the Sandy River could connect to the Rum River, this would connect the Sandy River to the continent¡¯s number one river and any ship from Banta City could reach any ce on the continent through the Sandy River!¡±

    Speaking of this, Porter looked at Xu Yi on the side and his tone had a trace of gratitude.

    ¡°Whenever I saw the Rum River before, I thought how wonderful it would be if the Sandy River and the Rum River could be connected. But I knew that this matter was impossible, so I thought it was a fantasy. But when chairman Xu told me that this wasn¡¯t a fantasy and it could be realized, to be honest¡­...When I heard chairman Xu say this, I thought that chairman Xu was a bit¡­..too bold and wild.¡±

    Count Seanughed, ¡°This fellow¡¯s ideas have always been bold and even crazy, but chairman Porter, you must admit, this fellow has always realized his thoughts, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Porter forcefully nodded, ¡°It is because chairman Xu can always realize his ideas that I listened to his arrangements this time, spending several months exploring all the rivers. But chairman Xu, digging a canal is a very difficult matter. It would take an astronomical amount of money and I feel that just our Banta City won¡¯t be able to take out this much money.¡±

    ¡°This is the problem I¡¯m worried about as well.¡± Count Sean nodded before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°But I understand this fellow, if he wasn¡¯t confident, he wouldn¡¯t be so passionate. Speak, Xu Yi, how are you nning to solve this problem this time? Is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce going to pay for everything? If it is like this, I must properly thank you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and quickly waved his hand, ¡°Digging a canal will cost at least several million gold coins, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t afford that. But while I can¡¯t help with money, I can help with saving on the cost.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Let me hear it.¡±

    ¡°Recently, ourpany has made a breakthrough in ourrge scale machines and have sessfully developed arge Magic Excavator¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 131 - Year end meeting

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 131 Year end meeting</h4>

    As the year wasing to an end, the weather became even colder.

    But for the people of Banta City, this winter was much betterpared to before.

    This was because with higher ies, most families that could only look at the Variable Magic Air Conditionerst year could actually reach out for it this year.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new generation Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner had a new function, being able to deliver bursts of warm air in set intervals, the price hadn¡¯t changed. It was still thirty gold coins just likest year.

    So after entering winter, many families took out several months of saved wages and gritted their teeth as they purchased one or even more Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After these Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioners were installed in their homes, they could enjoy the warm air blown out of the air conditioner. After feeling that their homes were no longer as cold as previous years, everyone¡¯s pain from buying the Magic Air Conditioners disappeared without a trace.

    After getting home from work and feeling the warm air after entering their home, this was considered argefort for many people/

    If they wanted to take a bath after eating dinner, they could enjoy the convenience of enough warm water using the Frestech Brand Magic Water Heater. It chased away the fatigue of the day and they slept quite well at night.

    Last year, many people just regarded the magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as novel things. In just a single year, many people were used to living with their various kinds of magic machines and they could no longer live without them.

    If there was a family that was still using firewood to heat water or bake bread, it meant that your family had fallen behind. They wouldn¡¯t be able to raise their heads in front of their rtives and friends at all.

    When young people got married in Banta City, the men would have to just prepare some daily necessities and guarantee that the couple will have a normal life after getting married.

    But now when young people got married, if there weren¡¯t several magic machines prepared already, the girls wouldn¡¯t be willing to get married.

    Of course, there were differences in magic machines.

    Compared to small things like Magic Water Kettles, Automatic Magic Rice Cookers, and Magic Lamps, it was clear that Magic Air Conditioners and Magic Water Heaters were more popr.

    Even if there was no use for a Magic Refrigerator during winter, it was still popr.

    To buy a Magic Refrigerator during winter, at least it would mean that you¡¯re prepared to spend summer with your wife, right?

    Simrly, other than differences between different kinds of magic machines, there were differences among the same kind of magic machines.

    For example, when it came to Magic Bread Makers, if you bought a Frestech Brand Magic Bread Maker, it would prove your sincerity.

    If you bought a Magic Bread Maker of another brand, it would mean that you were stingy.

    Although the Frestech Brand Bread Maker was a bit expensive, it wasn¡¯t that much more expensivepared to the other brands. Moreover, the quality of the Frestech Brand was better and it was more beautifully designed, so why wouldn¡¯t you spend a bit more to buy the Frestech Brand?

    So with the increase in requests from girls, not only in Banta City, even in the other cities, people gradually came to an agreement.

    For a better life, you have to have magic machines.

    For better magic machines, you had to go with the Frestech Brand.

    ¡°So that means that in a year, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has had great sess. Not only do people in Banta City and the surrounding cities approve of our Frestech Brand magic machines, the people in other parts of the kingdom are gradually epting the existence of magic machines and are starting to recognize our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi said all this in a loud voice before raising his wine cup, ¡°Come, let¡¯s make a toast to our efforts and sesses this year!¡±

    ¡°Cheers!¡±

    Countless hands came up and countless wine cups clinked against each other before they filled countless mouths.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s year end meeting.

    ording to the traditions ofst year, when every year came to an end, Xu Yi would bring all the workers and the management of thepany together for a meal and to summarize the year for theirpany.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an extra Falling Rain Valley production bass, meaning that thepany now had over four thousand workers, even if Xu Yi wanted it, they couldn¡¯t gather all the workers together at once.

    So for the year end banquet held at the Sandton Manor tonight, only all the human workers of thepany were gathered.

    As for the year end banquet for dwarves and elves, it would have to wait until Xu Yi headed to the Falling Rain Valley to host it.

    Even like this, there were close to three thousand people at this year end banquet.; Sandton Manor¡¯s biggest open space waspletely filled up.

    For this year end banquet, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invited over a hundred chefs to man several kitchens to fill their requests. They had spent close to ten thousand gold coins on this.

    But this was worth it for Xu Yi because this event helped train the cohesiveness of his workers, enhancing their loyalty to thepany.

    Now that Banta City wascking in manpower all over, because these people worked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were weed by all the other magic machinepanies.

    Just from the beginning of winter, there had been over a hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers who had been poached with promises of higher wages.

    There were somepanies that were wild enough to poach a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker with a shockingly high wage of over thirty gold coins a month.

    Even if they were warned by Banta City¡¯s Magic Machine Business Union and obediently returned the workers, this was not a good start and it made Xu Yi vignt.

    He could use his identity as the Banta City¡¯s Magic Machine Business Union president to punishpanies that went overboard, but if they didn¡¯t go overboard and just offered slightly higher wages, he didn¡¯t have a good reason to issue a punishment.

    Not to mention that this was limited to Banta City. If there werepanies outside of Banta City that wanted to poach the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers with a wage of thirty gold coins or higher, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t stop them.

    Moreover, the workers weren¡¯t that important, the more important ones were the research staff.

    Evita had mentioned to Xu Yi a few days ago that there was an Anvilmar Citypany that had secretly contacted her, giving her a starting wage of fifty gold coins a month with a year end bonus of no less than two hundred gold coins. They wanted her toe over to theirpany.

    Although Evita had rejected this, Xu Yi didn¡¯t dare guarantee that the other researchers would reject this.

    So holding this year end banquet, it was not just to increase the loyalty and cohesiveness of the workers, it was also to use this chance to tell the workers that they would be gradually receiving better treatment.

    As expected, as soon as Xu Yi finished announcing this, it created deafening waves of cheers.

    As long as anyone had worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for three months, they would know that the chairman wouldn¡¯t easily make promises to workers.

    But as long as he made a promise, he had never failed to deliver.

    Now that he had dered that everyone would gradually receive better treatment, it would definitely be better.

    Seeing Xu Yi sit down while everyone was cheering, Heinz on the side said with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already giving people a high enough wage, if we raise it again, although we can bear it, it isn¡¯t the right way if we keep going. Don¡¯t you think so, Sebas?¡±

    Sebas gave a slight nod. He didn¡¯t need to take out his book of ounts as he said, ¡°ording to the data, the wage ourpany gave to our workersst month was over a hundred thousand gold coins already. This isn¡¯t including the various bonuses and holiday benefits. If you add those in, we spent over a hundred and twenty thousand gold coins on worker wagesst year.¡±

    ¡°See, we¡¯re giving a hundred thousand each month in wages alone, don¡¯t you think that¡¯s enough?¡± Heinz immediately turned to look at Xu Yi with wide eyes, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, ourpany didn¡¯t even make a hundred thousand gold coins a monthst year!¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t feel emotional that Heinz would never change how petty he was. He gave a shrug to Kennard and said, ¡°Look, I told you that there was a lot of pressure on me as the president. Do you see this, the vice chairman and the financial manager are putting pressure on me.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile before saying to Heinz and Sebas, ¡°Vice chairman, manager Sebas, although the wages of the workers are high, the profit of ourpany is also growing as well, right? Compared tost year, ourpany¡¯s profit each month has grown by several times, right?¡±

    Sebas replied with a nod, ¡°Yes, if we do not include the money earned from selling the cement production technology, ourpany had a gross profit of over five hundred thousand gold coins. Taking away the various costs, our final ie was still over five hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    Hearing this number, Heinz¡¯s knit brows rxed. He drank the fine wine before saying with a sigh and a smile, ¡°Ai, when I opened that general store at first, I just wanted to earn a hundred gold coins a year. Now I¡¯m the vice chairman of apany that earns five hundred thousand a month. Life really is unpredictable¡­..¡±

    Seeing Heinz¡¯s appearance, the other three felt it was funny.

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Vice chairman, you should feel gratitude towards the chairman, otherwise you wouldn¡¯t have your current life, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I have always been grateful to Xu Yi.¡± Heinz gave a serious nod, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for him picking my store to sell his Magic Fans in, I wouldn¡¯t have the chance to feel this emotional.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°If you didn¡¯t agree to sell my Magic Fan in your general store, how could I have earned that first batch of money?¡±

    ¡°No, the Magic Fan is something that people will discover the benefits of regardless, so it¡¯s all the same no matter where you put it. In the end, it¡¯s my luck that is good, letting you pick me.¡± Heinz seriously said.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, being emotional is the same. You¡¯re not even fifty this year, it isn¡¯t toote for you to tell me this in another twenty years. Let¡¯s change the topic, as for improving the treatment of workers, it doesn¡¯t just mean giving them a higher wage. There are other methods to let them feel the benefits of staying at ourpany, making them unable to leave as they wish.¡±

    ¡°It seems like sir chairman already has his own ideas, then can you tell us about it?¡± Kennard said with a smile.

    Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°First, we¡¯ll maintain the same tiered wage system to let the employees understand that the longer they stay at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the higher their wages. Next, I want to introduce something called a retirement pension n¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Retirement pension?¡± Heinz, Kennard, and Sebas all looked at each other in a daze, ¡°What is this?¡±

 Volume 2 132 - Friendly noble ladies

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 132 Friendly nobledies</h4>

    When it came to the end of the year, it wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce holding a year end meeting and year end banquet, Banta City was doing the same.

    It was the same asst year, on the night of the twentieth day of December, the City Lord¡¯s Manor held a grand year end banquet. It invited everyone with some form of fame in Banta City to participate.

    Naturally Xu Yi was included.

    Compared tost year where Xu Yi was only invited by Count Sean because of the contributions the agricultural magic machines had made to the fall harvest, this year Xu Yi participated because he had be a pivotal character in Banta City.

    In the Banta City business circle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was put on the same level as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and the Armani Chamber of Commerce, being called the five bigpanies.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the same scale or profit as the other fourpanies and they werecking in history, anyone could see that with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current speed of development, in just a few years, they would be able to catch up or even surpass the other fourpanies.

    Moreover, everyone was clear on the fact that the magic machine industry was an industry withrge growth potential. Other than starting to develop in the Lampuri Kingdom, even the other kingdoms had cast their gazes on it.

    The deal between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy hadn¡¯t been hidden, so everyone knew now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling magic machines to other countries. They even knew that Stantine Duchy had invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in building mines.

    A country¡¯s mineral veins was considered the foundation of a country. The Stantine Duchy was actually willing to use them to attract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it showed how much importance Duke Stantine had put on this.

    Other than his sess in business, the other thing that attracted people about Xu Yi was his other identity, a baron that was conferred by his majesty.

    Although barons were the lowest rank among nobles, Xu Yi was a noble that the king had conferred in front of countless people. Also, the Royal Parliament didn¡¯t protest towards Xu Yi¡¯s identity as a merchant at all, so it was enough to show that Xu Yi was different from others.

    The ones at the City Lord Manor¡¯s year end banquet were all therge and small nobles, as well as therge and small merchants. But the only person who had a noble title and was a known merchant was Xu Yi alone.

    So at the banquet, Xu Yi naturally became the center of attention for everyone.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want this kind of attention.

    Even though he participated in countless banquets during this year and was slowly bing used to this situation, he still didn¡¯t like banquets.

    Moreover, because Still wasn¡¯t feeling good tonight, she didn¡¯te to the banquet with Xu Yi. In the end, when they saw Xu Yi appear at the banquet alone, there were countless beautiful young nobledies who surrounded Xu Yi.

    There were some nobledies that were rather bold, actually ¡°openly¡± expressing their love for Xu Yi in front of everyone. There were a few who were even bolder and invited Xu Yi to spend a wonderful night with her in front of everyone.

    Even if Xu Yi had a strong mind and he rejected all the confessions and invitation of the nobledies, he was still a bit disturbed being pestered like this by them.

    After escaping the nobledies with difficulty, Xu Yi had a chance to catch his breath. When he was drinking some fruit juice to calm down, chairman Cruise hade over.

    ¡°Hey, young and handsome chairman Xu. Being surrounded by all those beautiful and noble youngdies, do you feel very happy about yourself?¡± Chairman Cruise said with an exaggerated smile.

    Xu Yi snappily stared at him, ¡°What is there to be happy about? How about you let them surround you? It¡¯s very strange, what is going on with those nobledies today? They were never this friendly when they saw me before.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at the nobledies staring at Xu Yi in the distance and whispering among themselves before saying with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s actually very simple, although you were young, handsome, and rich before, you were still a normal merchant in the end. In the eyes of the nobles, a merchant is amoner no matter how strong they are, so even if those nobledies loved you to death, they would never consider marrying you.¡±

    ¡°This means that now that I¡¯ve be a baron and have also be a noble, it means I have the status to marry those nobledies?¡± Xu Yi asked as he found this funny.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Chairman Cruise pointed at some nobledies in the distance and kept teasing him, ¡°Look at how passionate those nobledies are staring at you, I bet they even wish that they could swallow you up. Actually¡­..if I was you, I wouldn¡¯t mind developing some closer rtionships with a few of thosedies.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°I¡¯m not nning on marrying them, why would I develop a rtionship with them?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, developing a rtionship with them isn¡¯t rted to marrying them.¡± Chairman Cruise said in an experienced manner, ¡°The private lives of those nobledies are even more chaotic than you think, they don¡¯t mind these kinds of things. Rather, if you were to develop some rtionship with them, it is something that they could brag about to their friends. So if you¡¯re willing, you can choose one of them or even several of them to spend a beautiful night with.¡±

    ¡°Forget it, I¡¯m not interested.¡± Xu YI shook his head. He took a drink and turned away from those nobledies passionately looking at him as he said to chairman Cruise, ¡°You came looking for me, does that mean you¡¯ve decided on when to head out?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was talking about business, chairman Cruise revealed a serious expression as he said with a nod, ¡°Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, I can set out by the fourth of the new year. What about you?¡±

    ¡°Me¡­..I have to go see Still¡¯s family on the first, I have toe to the City Lord¡¯s Manor on the second, and then I have to see various colleagues¡­..Un, if it¡¯s rushed, I should be done by the fourth.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright, then let¡¯s push it back a day and set off on the fifth.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Although we¡¯ll miss the new year¡¯s banquet, we can¡¯t stall this matter any longer. Anklo sent a letter to me a few days ago urging me to quickly head to the Stantine Duchy. If I don¡¯t go, I¡¯m worried that he¡¯lle to Banta City and kidnap me.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°Of course he¡¯s in a rush. The Stantine Duchy¡¯s weather is different from our Lampuri Kingdom, it is indeed winter that is suited for starting businesses and all other times are too uncertain. But even if you head over now, it¡¯s impossible to start investing this winter. Him urging you to head over is just showing his attitude.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I also understand this, but since he has already given this attitude, I have to show my sincerity. After all, it isn¡¯t just the Stantine Duchy that wants to cooperate with mypany, I also want to cooperate with them.¡±

    Chairman Cruise thought about it before revealing a confused look.

    ¡°Xu Yi, actually I still don¡¯t understand, why do you want to cooperate with the Stantine Duchy? That duchy¡¯s environment isn¡¯t that good, so even if you wantrge amounts of minerals, not only are there a bunch in our Lampuri Kingdom, there¡¯s even a bunch in the Rudson Kingdom. I think that if you discussed this with chairman Newman, you might even be able to cooperate with the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°I have already sold the cement production technology, but I don¡¯t want to sell my other technology.¡±

    Chairman Cruise revealed an awkward expression, ¡°You still have to invest in the Rudson Kingdom one day, right?¡±

    ¡°Indeed I have to go one day, but that is not now. As for when¡­..it¡¯s better to wait until me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are strong enough.¡± Xu Yi took another drink and turned his head. He didn¡¯t look south in the direction of the Rudson Kingdom, rather he looked east, ¡°Not only the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom, when there is a chance, I want to go invest in every country of the continent.¡±

    ¡°Your ambitions are always very big.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m already almost fifty this year, I still don¡¯t know if I can see your Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop to that stage.¡±

    Xu Yi clinked sses with him with a smile and teased him, ¡°Or you can start studying magic now. As long as you be a Great Magician, you can expand your lifespan and you should have a chance to see that day.¡±

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°I¡¯ll leave this matter to you, I won¡¯t mind it. Speaking of this, chairman Xu, you really are the most special chairman on the continent. Not mentioning your title as a noble, you¡¯re actually this young and you¡¯re a powerful magician. I keep hearing Great Magician Cami say that it¡¯s very likely you¡¯ll be a Great Magician. I think that after you be a Great Magician, just based on that identity, it should make the noble youngdies send themselves to you, right?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps I will already be an old man when I be a Great Magician. Even if the nobledies throw themselves at me, I might not have the energy to do anything.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°To be honest, chairman Xi, the earlier you can be a Great Magician, the more benefits there are. So I¡¯m the same as Great Magician Cami, I hope that you can be a magician as soon as possible.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a serious face, ¡°If you be a Great Magician, there would be much less trouble for us on the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    ¡°You also received the news of action from the beastmen tribes?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this was something chairman Renersa told me. ording to his information, there are some beastmen tribes that learned of us putting up a factory at the Voller Tribe and paying them arge amount of money, so they also want to see if they can get some.¡± Chairman Cruise said in a somewhat worried voice, ¡°Although those beastmen don¡¯t dare threaten human lives, I¡¯m worried that if they cause trouble, it will dy our progress and cause losses for us.¡±

    ¡°This is something that needs to be considered. How do you think we should deal with it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no good method for now, we can only listen to chairman Renersa¡¯s suggestion and have hispany¡¯s guards follow our workers into the ck Rice Wastnd to protect them.¡± After saying this, chairman Cruise suddenly thought of something, ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, it doesn¡¯t seem like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has any guards, right?¡±

    ¡°Guards?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and shook his head, ¡°The kingdom is peaceful now, so ourpany hasn¡¯t needed any guards and I¡¯ve never thought about this. Hearing you say this, could it be that I need to get some guards?¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡± Chairman Cruise said in a natural voice, ¡°Whichpany doesn¡¯t have guards on the continent? Although the kingdom has been peaceful during these years, back in the disaster of ten years ago, there were bandits all over the kingdom. Then again, you just said that you wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to do business on every part of the continent, so it¡¯s impossible without guards. There¡¯s no insurance that your cargo wouldn¡¯t be stolen.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this serious?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°It seems like I neglected this before, this is indeed a problem I have to seriously consider. Alright, since we need to deal with those beastmen from the ck Rice Wastnd, I¡¯ll use this chance to get some guards.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was stunned, ¡°You¡¯re nning to construct a team of guards in such a short period of time? Where will you find all those suitable candidates?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, ourpany has many advantages that otherpanies don¡¯t have.¡±

    Chairman Cruise felt this was strange at first, but thinking about it, he instantly understood.

 Volume 2 133 - Lotteâ€™s night invitation

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 133 Lotte¡¯s night invitation</h4>

    After the City Lord Manor¡¯s year end banquet was over, it was already night time. Adding in the fact that there was no moon and few stars in the sky, once one left the light of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, they would be surrounded in darkness.

    Xu Yi was slowly walking in a dark corner and seeing that no one was chasing him, he let out a long sigh and rxed.

    When he walked out of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, there were several nobledies that chased him, proposing to Xu Yi and inviting him to spend the night.

    There was even one girl who made bold promises while taking Xu Yi¡¯s hand and cing it on her rich mound. The scared Xu Yi immediately pulled out his hand and ran off.

    Looking at his hand that had touched that rich mound, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. If he hadn¡¯t been thinking of Still, he might not have been able to hold on and would have been swallowed by those nobledies.

    After calming his heart, Xu Yi confirmed where he was and began heading home.

    Every time he left a banquet at the City Lord¡¯s Manor, he was used to walking home.

    One reason was because it wasn¡¯t far and a second reason was because he wanted time to think about the issues that he had encountered at the banquet.

    What he was thinking about now was the matter of guards that chairman Cruise had mentioned.

    It was like chairman Cruise had said, the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t as peaceful as China on earth. Because of the inconvenience ofmunication while transporting goods and adding in the backwards nature of society, there were many ces that still had bandits.

    So normallyrgepanies would have guards that belonged to them. Even when a smallpany transported goods, they would have some guards protecting the cargo.

    Otherwise, even if just a single load of cargo was taken, it would mean destruction for a smallpany.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was stable right now and he didn¡¯t need to worry about this problem, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was about to cooperate with the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, so it was hard to ensure that nothing would happen.

    Not to mention that there was the real problem of the beastmen tribes from the ck Rice Wastnd.

    If they established the mine and factory near the Voller wolfmen tribe, because the mine was built with cooperation from the threepanies, he could let the Armit Chamber of Commerce or the Renekton Chamber of Commerce take care of guard duty. At most, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give up some profits.

    But the non-ferrous metal processing nt was owned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone. When chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa wanted to cooperate, they were rejected by Xu Yi, so of course he couldn¡¯t just ask them for help with guarding it.

    So chairman Cruise was right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to train guards.

    As for the advantage that Xu Yi said the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, he was naturally referring to the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only had good rtionships with the dwarves and elves, they even hiredrge amounts of dwarves and elves as workers.

    With this rtionship, if Xu Yi were to ask for help, it wouldn¡¯t be hard to get dwarves and elves as guards for theirpany.

    On the Sines Continent, there were appraisals of each race. For example, humans had creativity and learning capabilities, the dwarves were naturally talented in forging, and the elves were specially talented in designing¡­..It should be said that these were their fortes.

    But when it came to appraising battle strength, humans were publicly known as one of the weakest when it came to single personbat abilities.

    Other than the powerful magicians among humans, there were few warriors that couldpare to other races when it came to personal battle strength.

    When the humans snatched the continent from the elves¡¯ hands in the past and suppressed the other races, they relied on the human¡¯s strong sense of discipline and powerful cooperation. Of course, the more important thing was the fertility of humans¡­..

    However, even though humans had already ruled the continent for thousands of years, one had to admit this difference in terms of single personbat ability.

    Based on public opinion, an adult elven warrior had the singlebat abilities that surpassed five normal human warriors. If they were fighting in the jungle or at night which elves excelled in, an elf could take out a whole human toon by themself.

    Although dwarves weren¡¯t as mysterious and hard to deal with as the elves, because of their shockingly powerful physiques and their natural mastery of weapons, an adult dwarf could take care of three to five human soldiers.

    And if it was a trained dwarven soldier, they could easily deal with ten human soldiers.

    The sense of discipline and teamwork among dwarves was the best apart from humans. If a group of dwarven soldiers came together, with their powerfulbat abilities, they could even push back the same number of elves.

    Of course, the weakness of the dwarves was that they couldn¡¯t learn magic.

    To make up for that, they had very high natural resistance to magic. Normal low level spells couldn¡¯t hurt them at all.

    In short, if apany could recruit guards from elves and dwarves, they would be much stronger than normal guards.

    Only after the race wars of thousands of years ago, the other races separated themselves from humans, so it was impossible forpanies to hire other races as guards.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could do this, naturally Xu Yi immediately thought of this.

    Xu Yi walked along while thinking about thepany¡¯s guards. Thinking of filling them with dwarves and elves, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    While lost in his thought, he didn¡¯t even realize that someone was calling out to him.

    Only when that person raised their voice and came closer did Xu Yi wake up from his daydream, looking over in a daze.

    ¡°Lotte?¡± With the light of the Magic Lamp from the house behind him, Xu Yi saw that the person calling to him was Lotte who he hadn¡¯t seen in a while.

    Since Great Magician Cami announced he was closing his Magic Tower, a portion of the magicians of the Magic Tower chose to follow Great Magician Cami to the magic research facility. But there were many magicians that chose to continue studying magic, choosing other paths.

    Lotte was one of those people. It was said that she had left Banta City and had gone to other cities to look for ways to increase her magic power.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care that much, but he never thought that she would suddenlye back today.

    Suddenly seeing this colleague that used to work in the sameb, Xu Yi was pleasantly surprised. He quickly came forward with a smile and said, ¡°What? You¡¯re back for new years? But isn¡¯t your family in Karma City? Why did youe here?¡±

    He looked at the small building behind Lotte, but he remembered that he had never gone to Lotte¡¯s home, so naturally he didn¡¯t know where she lived in Banta City before.

    ¡°I went out for a few months and found that I¡¯m more suited to living in Banta City, so I came back.¡± Lotte replied with a forced smile, ¡°Xu Yi, I heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is even stronger than before and you¡¯ve been conferred as a baron by the king?¡±

    ¡°Where did you hear that?¡± Xu Yi asked this with a smile while looking over Lotte.

    After not seeing her for several months, Lotte seemed thinner than when she was at theb and much paler. But her smile was as bright as ever, there was no differencepared to before.

    Thinking of how Lotte was the only person who treated him well when he first entered theb, a bit of warmth filled Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    ¡°I¡¯ve been back several days. I had a meal with We, Sarash, and the others yesterday, so I heard it from them.¡± Lotte exined, ¡°I was just walking around because I couldn¡¯t fall asleep, but I never thought that I would suddenly see you. I couldn¡¯t help being filled with joy, so I called out to you.¡±

    Seeing Lotte¡¯s somewhat excited appearance, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m also quite happy seeing you. How is it? Have you been well going out these past few months?¡±

    Lotte¡¯s smile faded a bit as she shook her head, ¡°It hasn¡¯t been good. I came back this time to¡­¡­¡±

    Lotte suddenly gave a yawn. She paused before turning and making an inviting gesture, ¡°It¡¯s so cold outside. Xu Yi, since we bumped into each other, how about youe in and we can have a chat.¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at the sky and knit his brows, ¡°It¡¯s thiste, it¡¯s not convenient.¡±

    Lotte covered her lips as sheughed, ¡°What? I haven¡¯t even said anything and you¡¯re afraid I will eat you up?¡±

    Xu Yi remembered this very friendly nobledies and thought that it wasn¡¯t anything impossible.

    Seeing that Xu Yi still wanted to reject her, Lotte suddenly revealed a pleading look, ¡°Xu Yi, let¡¯s go in and talk, I have some things I want to say to you. Other than that¡­..I actually have something I want to ask you¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Lotte¡¯s expression, Xu Yi guessed that she wanted to discuss something with him.

    ¡°Lotte, we are old colleagues, I¡¯ll help you with whatever I can help you with. But it¡¯s reallyte today and it¡¯s not right. How about this, let¡¯s meet somewhere tomorrow at noon and then we¡¯ll discuss this, alright?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying this.

    Lotte knit her brows and a deeply disappointed look appeared on her face. She shook her head, ¡°I knew it, you¡¯re rejecting me, aren¡¯t you? I¡¯ve heard these words many times before. For someone important like you, you must be trying to make excuses.¡±

    ¡°I wasn¡¯t¡­..¡±

    ¡°Then why aren¡¯t you even willing to sit down and talk!¡± Lotte cut Xu Yi off.

    Seeing Lotte¡¯s look of unwillingness and disappointment, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing. Thinking of how Lotte had taken care of him back in the Magic Tower, his heart turned soft and he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go and talk.¡±

    Lotte¡¯s expression instantly filled with joy. She quickly grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm with a smile and pulled him into the small building behind her.

    The two didn¡¯t notice that in the shadows of the street, there was arge pair of eyes watching them leave.

 Volume 2 134 - Letâ€™s get married

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 134 Let¡¯s get married</strong>

    Twenty minutester, Xu Yi rushed out of Lotte¡¯s home.

    After taking deep breaths of the cold air outside, Xu Yi finally calmed down his chaotic heart.

    Turning back at the closed door and the small building without any light, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    He never would have thought that after getting in, after talking to Lotte about the times they had back at Great Magician Cami Magic Tower, Lotte would actually lean in and take off the top half of her clothes. She actually openly tried to ¡°seduce¡± him!

    He saw Lotte remove the top part of her clothes and revealed the two red dots on her chest, Xu Yi immediately woke up from his shock. He suppressed the temptation and quickly left, almost running out of Lotte¡¯s home.

    Thinking of how Lotte acted just now, Xu Yi was still a bit afraid.

    He had been a bit stirred up because of the noble youngdies tonight, but he never thought that he would bump into Lotte. If he even hesitated a bit, he might have not been able to control himself and would have done something to Lotte.

    Thinking of the consequences of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t stop cold sweat from appearing on his forehead.

    Even though the matters between men and women on the Sines Continent was like that of many western countries on earth, being quite open, Xu Yi was already dating Still. If he had done something at this time, he definitely wouldn¡¯t be able to get Still to forgive him and he wouldn¡¯t be able to forgive himself.

    When he had thought about Still, Still suddenly appeared in Still¡¯s eyes.

    Xu Yi looked forward in a daze. Although it was dark and he could only see a faint figure from the weak light by the street, he was very familiar with Still¡¯s form, so he could immediately recognize her.

    ¡°Still, why are you here?¡± Xu Yi quickly went to the other side of the street and moved in front of her. He found that she was looking up a bit at the small building behind Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked behind him and his expression became a bit awkward as he quickly exined, ¡°Don¡¯t misunderstand, Lotte just had mee in and discuss a few things.¡±

    Perhaps it was in response to Xu Yi¡¯s words, but as soon as he said this, the light on the second floor went out.

    Still looked away from the small building and looked at Xu Yi with aplicated gaze for a while. Then she slowly shook her head and said with a soft sigh, ¡°Rx, I didn¡¯t misunderstand. You haven¡¯t even been in there for twenty minutes, there isn¡¯t time for you to do anything.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°How did you know I was in there for less than twenty minutes?¡±

    ¡°Because I saw you walk in with her.¡± Still replied.

    Xu Yi felt even more awkward as he could only keep exining, ¡°I didn¡¯t n on going in, it¡¯s thiste and it isn¡¯t good for me to be alone with a girl. But Lotte said some things¡­..Un, some things that weren¡¯t convenient to discuss in the street and she was leaving tomorrow, so I could only go up. Nothing happened, Still. Believe me, I don¡¯t have any ideas towards her.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi anxiously exin, Still suddenly broke out inughter, ¡°What are you exining to me for? Are you afraid that I¡¯ll misunderstand? I already said it, I don¡¯t think that you can even do anything in twenty minutes. It can¡¯t be that you can¡¯t evenst twenty minutes¡­..¡±

    After saying this, Still¡¯s face turned red and she hit Xu Yi with her fist.

    ¡°You bastard, what kind of embarrassing things are you making me say?¡±

    Seeing the dark expression on Still¡¯s face clear up, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief. He said with a smile, ¡°This is what you said, how is it rted to me?¡±

    Still gave a snort. She suddenly lowered her head to sniff Xu Yi and asked with slightly knit brows, ¡°There¡¯s a fragrance on your body. I think that even if you didn¡¯t do anything to Lotte, she did something to you, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°This is rted to Lotte¡¯s reputation, so you shouldn¡¯t speak nonsense. In short, I don¡¯t have that idea, so let¡¯s stop things here today, alright?¡±

    Still stood up again and looked at Xu Yi¡¯s honest expression before giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi took her hand with a smile, ¡°Still, do you know what I like about you?¡±

    ¡°What?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s your aura and confidence. Compared to other girls, you wouldn¡¯t be calcting over small matters. This is something that many girls don¡¯t have and something that I appreciate the most.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Aura and confidence?¡± Still gave a sigh and shook her head, ¡°Actually in front of you, I feel that I¡¯m gradually losing my confidence.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    Still didn¡¯t reply and just held Xu Yi¡¯s hand tighter. She pulled Xu Yi¡¯s hand as she slowly went deeper into the street.

    Xu Yi was confused, but he could only apany her on this slow walk on this winter night.

    After a while, Still still didn¡¯t say anything.

    When Xu Yi was thinking about what to say, Still suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Xu Yi, let¡¯s get married.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    ###

    After new years, when everyone was celebrating and enjoying the rare period of rest of each year, the ?Banta Times? suddenly revealed a shocking piece of news.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu and Great Magician Cami¡¯s granddaughter young miss Still, who was considered the ¡°Banta Goddess¡± by the people of Banta City and the surrounding cities were getting engaged!

    When this news spread, it immediately drew arge stir across Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Before this, although everyone knew that Xu Yi and Still were dating, since their rtionship wasn¡¯t developed, many people who liked Still had a bit of hope that Still would still break up with Xu Yi.

    However, when the news of the two getting engaged came out, the fantasies of those people¡¯s hearts were shattered.

    If it was normal people, there might be a few idents that ur when they got engaged, but Xu Yi and Still were not normal people.

    As the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi was not just famous in Banta City, he even had some fame in the entire Lampuri Kingdom. He was considered an important person.

    And Still was like a star to the people of Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Since these two got engaged, it was no different from them already getting married, which naturally destroyed the fantasies that many people had.

    Of course, other than the few people who cursed Xu Yi, most of the people in Banta City and the surrounding cities blessed them from the bottom of their heart.

    After all, Still was the Banta Goddess in those people¡¯s hearts. In the eyes of everyone, there wasn¡¯t a man that could match her, but Xu Yi was the only publicly recognized man who could match her.

    Not to mention that it was close to a year now since those two announced they were dating. If they were to suddenly split up, that would make everyone feel regretful.

    After those two announced their engagement, it was like confirming a small dream in many people¡¯s hearts.

    So when the ?Banta Times? announced this news, in just a few days, there were countless letters and gifts of congrattions to the two of them.

    Most people of Banta City knew Xu Yi¡¯s address, so those letters and gifts were sent directly to his home. The people of the other cities weren¡¯t too clear, so most of them were sent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center in Banta City.

    Other than the congrattions of normal people, thepanies of Banta City and the surrounding cities with rtions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent their congrattions and gifts.

    The most expensive one came from chairman Cruise.

    In order to congratte the two on getting engaged, he had privately sent the two of them a manor to the northwest of Banta City that was by a mountain and a river!

    This manor was something that chairman Cruise bought not long ago, spending two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins to buy it. Now that he had given this to Xu Yi, it was indeed arge move.

    Xu Yi even teased him about it, ¡°You¡¯re giving such an expensive gift for just an engagement, then what are you nning to give when Still and I get married?¡±

    Chairman Cruise heroically replied, ¡°When you get married, as long as I can give it and you want it, I¡¯ll send it!¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he epted this gift without any courtesy.

    With the close rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, this two hundred and fifty thousand gold coin manor seemed expensive to normal people, but to chairman Cruise, as long as Xu Yi was willing, he would give something even more expensive.

    And Xu Yi openly epting this gift had calmed him down, deepening the rtionship between them.

    Other than chairman Cruise, the otherrge and smallpanies all sent gifts.

    Even Freeman under the name of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce sent a precious gift to thank Xu Yi for all his support and help.

    Among the gifts, the most expensive ones were not the most special ones. The most special ones came from the king, her highness Seveni, and Count Sean.

    The gifts the three of them sent were very normal, but with their identities, the gifts didn¡¯t mean anything and just sending the gift had a strong meaning.

    Xu Yi and Still were just getting engaged and the noble king and her highness Seveni actually sent a gift to congratte them. It could be seen that Xu Yi had a high position in their minds.

    As for Count Sean¡¯s gift, this wasn¡¯t that unexpected because everyone knew that Count Sean has always supported Xu Yi.

    Now that Xu Yi and Still were getting engaged, it would be more surprising if he didn¡¯t send a gift.

    New years was a time of celebration and Xu Yi and Still suddenly announcing their engagement made many people in Banta City and the surrounding cities pay attention to this matter.

    This engagement was a happy thing and adding in the face that it was new years, it made Banta City and the surrounding cities even happier and more festive.

    But while everyone was celebrating, Xu Yi who had just announced his engagement to Still was setting off on another journey.

 Volume 2 135 - Magic Car

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 135 Magic Car</h4>

    The horse carriage was quickly moving across the Falling Rain Road, carrying Xu Yi and chairman Cruise off to the Falling Rain Valley.

    There was another horse carriage withrge amounts of cargo following them. Chairman Cruise looked at the horse carriage to the side and looked at the wheels on the road before suddenly saying to Xu Yi, ¡°This road should be expanded.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, I already considered this matter. When building this road at first, one reason was because there wasn¡¯t enough money and two, it was because you didn¡¯t have enough experience, so this road was only four meters wide. Looking at it now, it really isn¡¯t wide enough. It¡¯s best if we widen it again.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to widen it that much, I think that just another two meters is enough.¡± Chairman Cruise said.

    ¡°No, since it has to be widened, then it should be widened by a bit. After all, it wouldn¡¯t just be horse carriages on this road, there will be other kinds of vehicles¡­..¡±

    ¡°Other kinds of vehicles?¡± Chairman Cruise realized something, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard chairman Pompeii say that you would develop a new Magic Car for him within the year that can rece horse carriages and could drastically reduce the cost?¡±

    ¡°I was justforting him.¡± Xu Yi said in a somewhat helpless voice, ¡°Actually the main part of the Magic Car hasn¡¯t been developed yet, so I¡¯m not certain if the Magic Car can be developed in the year. If it wasn¡¯t for chairman Pompeii rushing me, I wouldn¡¯t have lied to him like this.¡±

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t care if Xu Yi wasforting chairman Pompeii or not, he just cared about the most important thing in Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    ¡°That means that the Magic Cars are real?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°What do you care about this thing for?¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t I care about it?¡± Chairman Cruise immediately asked back, ¡°If that Magic Car can be as good as you described to chairman Pompeii, being able to go forty kilometers an hour, it will definitely rece horse carriages. Moreover, this thing runs so fast, it definitely can¡¯t run on those normal broken roads. Since it¡¯s like this, it means that the demand for public roads will increase by several times, so it is greatly rted to me as the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You react quite fast. That¡¯s right, this Magic Car has a high demand when ites to road quality, so public roads must be popr for Magic Cars. Your Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s road construction business will be even more important.¡±

    ¡°Can you tell me when this Magic Car will be developed? Give me an urate guess so I can expand our road building team ahead of time, so I won¡¯t be caught off guard.¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    Xu Yi thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°I can¡¯t give you an urate guess. Doing experiments is something without certainty. For example, there is a researcher called Sancheli in ourpany who I gave a task to and he hasn¡¯t given me any results even after more than a year. But I can only wait patiently because there¡¯s no help even if you try to urge these things forward.¡±

    ¡°No achievements even after a year?¡± Chairman Cruise was a bit surprised, ¡°Xu Yi, you really are patient. I think that this fellow is just ying around in yourpany, right? No matter how hard the research, how could he not have any sess even after a whole year.¡±

    ¡°No, the thing he¡¯s researching isn¡¯t normal, it indeed is this difficult.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°As long as he can develop this thing, it doesn¡¯t matter if I feed him for ten or twenty years. Anyway, mypany can afford to raise him.¡±

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°This fellow, I can¡¯t not call you a wastrel. But speaking of this, you can¡¯t give me an urate guess, then can you give me a general time? For example, even if you can¡¯t do it this year, what about next year? If you can¡¯t next year, what about the year after?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­..Let me think¡­..¡± Xu Yi stroked his chin as he considered this. He slightly knit his brows and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Actually I don¡¯t even dare say that it can be made this year, so I can¡¯t tell you if it will be this year or next year. But I¡¯m certain that even if it isn¡¯t developed this year, with the progress they¡¯ve made, it will definitely be developed next year.¡±

    ¡°This means that it should be two years time?¡±

    After receiving Xu Yi¡¯s confirmation, chairman Cruise began to quickly calcte.

    ¡°Even if it is developed at the end of next year, that is two years time. Adding in the year that it would take to be popr, that is three years. This means that the most time I have is around three years and if it¡¯s fast, it should be around a year and a half. Like this¡­..¡±

    Seeing chairman Cruise reach a conclusion, Xu Yi thought about it and said, ¡°Actually before the Magic Cars are developed, don¡¯t you still need to quickly expand your road building team? There is demand for roads all over the kingdom and you¡¯re severelycking people, so why do you need to wait for the Magic Cars toe out?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s different.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head and said, ¡°Before the Magic Carse out, ourpany can invest a bit less in building roads, but once the Magic Carse out, we definitely need to increase our investment. So once this thing appears, it will decide the business n of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Then there¡¯s no other way, I can only give you a general time and can¡¯t give you an urate time.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug.

    ¡°That is enough. Actually, it¡¯s fine as long as you¡¯re certain that yourpany can develop this thing.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a smile, ¡°Many times, just a certain piece of news can affect many things.¡±

    ¡°This is something I deeply agree with.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he said with a bitter smile, ¡°For example, chairman Renersa has determined that there are three beastmen tribes that have ideas towards us, so I have no choice but to consider creating a group of guards.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and gave up the idea of investing in the non-ferrous metal smelting nt with him. He thought about it before saying, ¡°Actually if you can¡¯t do it, I know the leaders of some mercenary groups, so you can hire some mercenaries to be your guards for now.¡±

    ¡°That is ast resort. Mercenaries cost too much to hire and they are not people on our side, so it isn¡¯t assuring.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Un, that is right. For something easy to use and assuring, it¡¯s best to use yourpany¡¯s guards.¡± Chairman Cruise said with an emotional sigh, ¡°Actually I envy yourpany very much, you can hire dwarves and elves to be yourpany¡¯s guards. They are much strongerpared to normal human guards.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if I can even convince them yet.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The dwarves and elves can ept working for ourpany, but that doesn¡¯t mean they will be guards for us. This is because that is equal to theming over to protect humans, so I¡¯m worried that they will not ept it.¡±

    Facts proved that Xu Yi¡¯s worries weren¡¯t groundless.

    When the horse carriage carrying the two arrived at the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi and chairman Cruise went their separate ways. Chairman Cruise went ahead to Samara to meet with chairman Renersa and Xu Yi went to find chief Siluka and chief Monto in the steel mill who were sweating profusely.

    Of course, when he mentioned to the two chiefs that he wanted to create a guard group for thepany and he wanted to hire some dwarves to be guards, the two chiefs revealed awkward expressions.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this¡­..Although our brothers are all very willing to work for thepany, they are just working for money and being a guard is selling one¡¯s life. To sell their lives to humans, I¡¯m afraid many of our brothers aren¡¯t willing to do that¡­..¡± Chief Siluka said in an awkward manner.

    Xu Yi turned to chief Monto and chief Monto also shook his head as he said with an awkward look, ¡°Chief Siluka is right. It¡¯s fine to work for money, but there are many problems with selling their lives. In the end¡­..we¡¯re different races.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s expression was a bit ugly, chief Monto quickly waved his hands and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, chief Siluka and I don¡¯t have any other meanings, it¡¯s just¡­..It¡¯s just that to have us dwarves sell our lives to you humans, it really sounds quite strange.¡±

    Chief Siluka kept nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right. When we fought against the reign of the elves thousands of years ago, we dwarves worked together with humans. But us dwarves weren¡¯t willing to ept themands of you humans and weren¡¯t willing to sell our lives to the humans, so it¡¯ll be hard to tell just based on history.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a frown, ¡°Can¡¯t you treat being a guard as normal work? I can give the dwarven brothers a wage and I guarantee that it will be higher than the normal workers.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to give up, chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before helplessly saying, ¡°Alright then, we will discuss it with the brothers. But chairman, I can¡¯t guarantee the brothers will agree. Of course, we will do our best since we¡¯ve received your care for this long, so we will definitely help you now that you¡¯re in trouble.¡±

    Xu Yi could only helplessly say, ¡°Alright then, just do your best. Tell the dwarven brothers that this is just normal work and everyone can participate at will, I¡¯m not forcing anyone.¡±

    Compared to the dwarves, the elves were famous for being arrogant and looking down on humans.

    Xu Yi thought that since he was given the cold shoulder by the dwarves, it would be even more impossible with the elves.

    But when he came to the Night Song Tribe with a bit of hope and raised this request to elder Illusia, he was very surprised to receive a positive response.

    ¡°Why not?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi¡¯s look of disbelief and said with a faint smile, ¡°Although we elves are arrogant, we will always acknowledge facts. When we lost to you humans several thousand years ago, it means that you humans have aspects that are better than us elves. Not to mention that after the nsmen have received the special training from yourpany, raising their sense of discipline, it¡¯s given me hope for a new life. Even if you want them to be guards now, I also feel it would be helpful to them.¡±

    Hearing the appraisal of a ¡°new life¡±, Xu Yi became a bit vignt.

    Could it be that the elves want to fight back against the humans and regain control of the continent?

    But thinking this, Xu Yi felt that this idea was a bit funny.

    The elves couldn¡¯t beat the humans when they were at their strongest and now that there were so few of them, it was more impossible for them to fight the humans.

    The most important thing was that the elves had a low fertility rate. It was impossible for them to greatly increase their poption, so it was impossible for them to threaten the humans.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi rxed and asked elder Illusia, ¡°Then that means you¡¯re willing to let your nsmen be guards for thepany?¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course. Since I decided to let the nsmen put down their useless pride and have them enter yourpany as workers, denying this new work would be the same as denying everything from before, right? Chairman Xu, the greatest advantage of us elves is that we will finish everything that we¡¯ve epted and won¡¯t give up halfway.¡±

    Seeing elder Illusia¡¯s face that seemed to be glowing, Xu Yi silently said a few words in his heart.

    ¡°This advantage, if the view was changed could be considered stubborn.¡±

 Volume 2 136 - Signs of an ambush

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 136 Signs of an ambush</h4>

    When chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa saw Xu Yi bringing a bunch of fully armed elves with all kinds of leather armour, the two of them were shocked.

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s mouth twitched before he revealed a forced smile. He stretched his hand out to chairman Renersa, ¡°You have to ept a loss when betting, pay up chairman Renersa.¡±

    Chairman Renersa stared at the elves behind Xu Yi for a while before taking out a gold coin to give to chairman Cruise. He shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu really isn¡¯t a normal person, he actually got the elves to be his guards. This really has opened my eyes.¡±

    Seeing the actions of the two, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°You were betting?¡±

    Chairman Cruise carefully put the gold coin in his pocket with a smile before replying to Xu Yi with a nod, ¡°Un, I made a small bet with chairman Renersa. I bet that you could recruit elves as guards and he bet against it, but I¡¯m the winner now, ha, ha¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless. One of them was almost fifty and the other was also over forty, but they were bored enough to bet over this matter.

    What made people even more speechless was that theirpany made millions of gold coins each year, but they only put a single gold coin on this bet!

    Being toozy to care about these fellows who were betting on whether the elves would be guards for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi looked over at the carriages not far away and asked, ¡°Has everything been packed?¡±

    Chairman Renersa ended his argument with chairman Cruise and replied, ¡°Un, this is the first batch of mining equipment. Other than those mining magic machines from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce also provided some necessary equipment. They also sent a bunch of mining experts who are over there.¡±

    Chairman Cruise and Xu Yi looked at the people whose clothes and manners were different from the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers. He couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, did you secretly make some secret arrangement with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce? Otherwise, why would chairman Morgan agree to help and send this much equipment?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and ambiguously replied, ¡°When I went to Anvilmar City, I met Marquis Jole and had a small talk with him.¡±

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa looked at each other, seeing the shock in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Xu Yi had actually made a deal in secret with the Jole Family, this really was outstanding.

    Since everyone was here and the equipment had been prepared, their group no longer dyed and set out from Samara Town, heading off to the Voller wolfmen tribe.

    The threepanies were nning to open a mine at the Voller wolfmen tribe, therefore they had prepared arge variety of equipment. Therefore, there were thirty fourrge horse carriages in this motorcade, with drivers and guards from all threepanies, so this motorcade was quiterge.

    Before this, including the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, all the humanpanies only resold somemodities to the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd. Even if they formed caravans, it would be just a few horse carriages, there was nothing that couldpare to this scale.

    ording to what chairman Renersa had said, this current caravan was thergest human caravan that had ever entered the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The biggest would naturally attract attention.

    So as soon as the motorcade left Samara Town and entered the ck Rice Wastnd, the guards of the Renekton Chamber of Commerce reported that people were monitoring them.

    As soon as he received this news, chairman Cruise became a bit nervous.

    ¡°Chairman Renersa, is this news true? Are there beastmen watching us? Then do you know how many beastmen there are? Are they strong? Are our guards enough?¡±

    Chairman Renersa shook his head, ¡°I just know that there are beastmen watching us, but as for what tribe and how many there are, I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do?¡± Chairman Cruise was a bit worried, ¡°If there are too many beastmen, what do we do if our guards can¡¯t fend them off?¡±

    Chairman Renersaughed, ¡°Rx, the current beastmen aren¡¯t like the beastmen from several thousand years ago. Even if the beastmen really daree, there wouldn¡¯t be too many. We should be able to deal with them with our guards and then again, chairman Xu also brought fifty elven warriors. Just them alone can match several hundred human warriors, so there¡¯s no problem.¡±

    Hearing this, chairman Cruise finally rxed. He looked at the elves who had been silently following by the sides of the motorcade and he seemed to feelforted.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it would be even better if you brought elven guards.¡± Chairman Cruise suddenly thought of a problem, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m very curious. Why did you bring elven guards and not dwarven guards? Even the arrogant elves were willing to be guards for yourpany, so why weren¡¯t the dwarves willing?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly replied, ¡°This¡­..The reason can¡¯t be exined in a short period of time, in short, don¡¯t think about dwarven guards for now. Even these Night Song Tribe elven warriors, they cannot be considered guards of ourpany. If you really want to describe them, they can only be considered mercenaries.¡±

    ¡°Then will they listen to your orders?¡± Chairman Renersa noticed a key problem.

    ¡°They will listen to my orders, they just won¡¯t listen to my specific instructions since I don¡¯t know how elven warriors fight.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°It¡¯s good that they listen to your orders. If anything happens, I hope chairman Xu will have them cooperate with the guards of mypany.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s easy.¡±

    The beginning journey was considered peaceful, but ording to the reports of the Renekton Chamber of Commerce guards, there were more and more people surrounding them.

    Although these people didn¡¯t do anything, it made the atmosphere of the caravan quite anxious.

    ording to what chairman Renersa said, when hispany came to do business in the ck Rice Wastnd, they would be observed by beastmen most of the time. Those beastmen would normally obediently leave and they didn¡¯t take any action, there were only a few times they really tried to rob them.

    But no matter what time it was, there weren¡¯t this many people watching them.

    Based on this, not only did they make a big move, the beastmen side might also be making a big move.

    Moreover, since they openly made this big move, the beastmen might not be willing to leave like this and might choose to really attack.

    Hearing chairman Renersa¡¯s analysis, chairman Cruise became nervous again.

    He proposed that they ask the royal army to guard them, but this was rejected by chairman Renersa.

    This caravan was a private action and was unrted to the royal army.

    Without an order, the royal army definitely would not run over to be guards for apany.

    Although with the connections of the three, they could get Count Sean to give an order to the army, this matter was not just an one time urrence. Even if the royal army could guard them this time, could it be that they would have them guard them next time as well?

    Not to mention that the threepanies would be opening a mine at the Voller Tribe, they couldn¡¯t get the army to guard their mine, right?

    ¡°The beastmen are a race who care about force. If we can¡¯t use this chance to shock all the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd, even if we set up our mine, there will be all kinds of problems.¡± Chairman Renersa revealed his true n with a serious look, ¡°So this time, we have to use this chance to hurt the beastmen and make them remember to never offend us!¡±

    ¡°I agree.¡± Xu Yi immediately showed his attitude, ¡°Instead of guarding each day, we might as well get it over with.¡±

    The two of them showed their attitudes this clearly, so naturally chairman Renersa had nothing to say and showed his support.

    ording to chairman Renersa¡¯s experience, because beastmen have sharper senses than humans, they would most likely choose to attack at night.

    Based on the distance between Samara and the Voller Tribe, the trip would only take a day.

    So if the beastmen wanted to attack, they would only have a chance tonight.

    So when Xu Yi heard this analysis, he didn¡¯t care about the jolting of the carriage and immediately went to sleep.

    When night came, the motorcade prepared to camp out on the ins and Xu Yi woke up.

    Seeing chairman Renersa quickly getting the guards to set up camp, Xu Yi jumped out of the horse carriage and came to one of the Night Song Tribe elves to ask, ¡°Hey, Furio, how¡¯s it going?¡±

    This elf called Furio was the leader of the fifty elven warriors.

    ording to elder Illusia¡¯s agreement with Xu Yi, Xu Yi could give these elves orders for a target, but as for specific directions, that was up to Furio and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t interfere.

    Xu Yi naturally trusted Furio and naturally wouldn¡¯t talk to these elves if he had no reason, so he only came to ask about the situation now.

    No matter what Furio was thinking, he was very respectful to Xu Yi on the surface and replied after giving him a salute, ¡°Sir chairman, we have already smelled the evil scent of the beastmen on the wind and can feel their evil intentions. ording to our understanding of them, they should beunching their attack tonight.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good. You can help the other guards protect the caravan tonight.¡± Xu Yi paused before adding, ¡°But I hope that you will pay attention to your own safety. The cargo doesn¡¯t matter, but if you are injured or even killed, that is a loss that can¡¯t be recovered. Do you understand?¡±

    Furio¡¯s expression changed a bit before he replied with a nod, ¡°As per your order.¡±

 Volume 2 137 - Beastmen Independence Regiment

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 137 Beastmen Independence Regiment</h4>

    There was a crescent moon hanging in the sky tonight, so the moonlight wasn¡¯t that bright.

    Adding in the fact that the ck Rice Wastnd wasn¡¯t as illuminated as Banta City, when night came, there was only the mes of the bonfires at the caravan¡¯s camp site on the entire ins.

    This was a vast and empty area, so these bonfires were the most obvious goals. It guided the surrounding beastmen who already couldn¡¯t control themselves.

    In the deathly silence around them, there was suddenly a long wolf roar before there were echoes that sounded on the ins, as if countless horses were charging across it.

    Hearing this sound, chairman Renersa¡¯s expression changed.

    ¡°This is bad! It¡¯s actually the ox beastmen!¡±

    As soon as this voice fell, there were arge mass of dark shadows that appeared in the distance. They were charging forward with a wild aura.

    At the same time, there were countless shadows that appeared around them. Some were tall and some were thin, but they all revealed a sharp and fierce aura.

    ¡°Chairman, it seems to be the Beastmen Independence Regiment!¡± A Renekton Chamber of Commerce shouted to chairman Renersa with a shocked look.

    Chairman Renersa¡¯s expression changed again.

    Xu Yi on the side asked in surprise, ¡°What is the Beastmen Independence Regiment?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a group on the ck Rice Wastnd who aren¡¯t willing to ept humans, but they¡¯re actually a group of beastmen bandits. But they are different from the other beastmen who rob human caravans, these fellows have a deep hatred for humans and they will kill all the humans in the caravan when they attack. The royal army had encircled them many times before and I thought that since they hadn¡¯t appeared in a while, they had disappeared, but I never thought¡­..they would suddenly appear.¡±

    Seeing the dark expression on chairman Renersa¡¯s face, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Are they very strong?¡±

    Chairman Renersa looked at the quickly approaching beastmen with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s this many of them, can they not be strong?¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to ask something else, but there were countless arrows that suddenly flew through the sky. Then there were a group of beastmen who were still two hundred meters away that all fell down.

    Chairman Renersa was stunned before revealing a look of joy. He forcefully grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°It¡¯s a good thing that chairman Xu brought fifty elven guards, otherwise we might have died here tonight!¡±

    Compared to humans, although most beastmen had an advantage at night, if one really wanted topare battle efficiency at night, how could beastmenpare to elves that were called the children of the night.

    Although everything wasplete darkness, under Furio¡¯s instructions, the fifty elves released their feathered arrows and the beastmen fell one by one.

    To honour her cooperation with Xu Yi, the fifty warriors were the strongest elven warriors picked out by elder Illusia, so there was no need to doubt their battle strength.

    Once the battle began, they immediately revealed a battle strength that far surpassed human warriors.

    But there were too many beastmen who were attacking. Although the fifty elves could take out a beastman with each arrow, the killing power of a bow ended there and they couldn¡¯t stop the beastmen from approaching.

    In the blink of an eye, the beastman in front was already less than a hundred meters away from the caravan. They could even see the fierce wolf head of the beastman charging at them.

    Seeing this, chairman Renersa let out a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that those noble magicians look down on ourpany, otherwise if we had some powerful magicians, it would be even better.¡±

    When chairman Renersa was prepared to order his guards to attack the beastmen, Xu Yi suddenly gave augh from beside him. Then he saw a giant fireball that was as tall as a person suddenly fly out,nding on the dense group of beastmen in front.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The giant fireball suddenly exploded in between the beastmen.

    With thisrge sound, there were countless beastmen that were blown away by the force of the explosion.

    Sparks flew all around and countless beastmen were set on fire.

    In just the blink of an eye, the beastmen charging in chairman Renersa¡¯s direction werepletely routed.

    Chairman Renersa suddenly turned to look at Xu Yi and saw him throwing out another giant fireball.

    After being stunned, chairman Renersa finally understood.

    After being with Xu Yi for this long, he always treated Xu Yi as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But he hadpletely forgotten that Xu Yi had another identity, a powerful magician!

    Although chairman Renersa didn¡¯t know what grade magician Xu Yi was, for him to be able to casually throw out such a powerful fireball, his grade wouldn¡¯t be low.

    The more important thing was that there was actually the existence of a magician among the guards of the caravan.

    It had to be known, the magicians had a lofty position on the Sines Continent because magicians were powerful and they had a very important use during battle.

    It was because of this that many famouspanies would invite magicians as special guards.

    Although chairman Renersa had wanted to invite some magicians to be guards for the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, low grade magicians didn¡¯t matter and magicians that were strong enough forpanies to invite looked down on the Renekton Chamber of Commerce. So the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards never had a magician.

    Because there was no magician, he was somewhat worried when he saw those beastmen.

    But suddenly remembering that Xu Yi was a powerful magician, chairman Renersa was filled with confidence. He looked at the fierce beastmen and he felt that they didn¡¯t pose any threat at all.

    This sudden fireball didn¡¯t just return chairman Renersa¡¯s confidence, it also greatly increased the morale of the guards.

    Knowing that they had a powerful magician with them, the guards suddenly lost all their despair from earlier and were filled with courage.

    After Xu Yi had scattered the beastmen with several spells, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader gave a roar and charged forward with the guards, meeting the beastmen who had finallye over.

    The elves led by Furio also put away their bows and took out their elven shortswords, beginning to fight the beastmen in closebat.

    This closebat began to show the difference between humans, beastmen, and elves.

    Although the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were outstanding human warriors that chairman Renersa had recruited, once they began fighting with the beastmen, they were at a disadvantage.

    Especially when they were facing the strongest ox n beastmen, they even needed two or three people to deal with one of them.

    Even if the remaining wolfmen, tigermen, and other beastmen couldn¡¯tpare to the ox n, they were still at a disadvantage when it came to singlebat.

    The Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards added up to three hundred people, but they could only block a hundred or so beastmen. They had to defend with all their power to stop the beastmen from charging through them.

    There were only around two to three hundred beastmen that attacked this time. If it wasn¡¯t for the bows of the elves and Xu Yi¡¯s magic taking around a hundred of them out when they were charging, they wouldn¡¯t have been able to stop them with these guards.

    Comparing it, the elves blocking beastmen on the other side revealed battle strength that was on an even higher level.

    Although there were only fifty elves, they were also facing around a hundred beastmen and these fifty elves were much more rxedpared to the three hundred human guards.

    Xu Yi saw that the elves could maintain their graceful and elegants steps even in battle. Each action seemed fluid and beautiful.

    Even though these actions seemed light and weak, the beastmen kept falling one by one like they couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi believed that the elves could rule the continent several thousand years ago.

    They were super talented whether it came to close rangebat or long distance bow shooting, they could even be teachers to humans when it came to magic. If they couldn¡¯t control the continent, it would be strange.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the elves had a low fertility rate, that was slow and declining even when there was no turmoil, it would have been very hard for the humans to steal control of the continent from the elves.

    While thinking of these historical changes on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi¡¯s hands never stopped moving. He threw out a few spells when he had nothing to do and the beastmen who were about to break through the defenses were sent flying.

    The battle continued for around half an hour and more than half of the attacking beastmen had already fallen.

    The less than a hundred beastmen remaining saw the situation was bad. It was unknown which beastmen roared out, but all the beastmen forced their opponents back and turned to run.

    Chairman Renersa stopped the guards that wanted to chase and because the elves didn¡¯t receive Xu Yi¡¯s orders to chase, they also stopped.

    Seeing the remaining beastmen disappear into the dark and vast wastnd, chairman Renersa let out a long sigh of relief.

    ¡°Alright, even the Beastmen Independence Regiment was easily repelled by us. I think the other beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd won¡¯t blindly offend us.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the beastmen in pools of blood around the caravan and was silent.

    Although he wasn¡¯tpassionate enough to sympathize with these beastmen whose hands were soaked from the many humans who they had killed, this was still his first real battle.

    Even if he was just throwing out a few spells and didn¡¯t fight close range, it still made him a bit ufortable.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Renersa looked around and guessed why Xu Yi had suddenly fallen silent.

    Thinking about it, chairman Renersa patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and said in aforting voice, ¡°Rx, you¡¯ll get used to it in the future. In the end, the continent is not as peaceful as Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod.

    He knew that to change the continent, this was one of the key issues he had to face.

    Or perhaps his reason for changing the continent was to change the backwards primitive nature of the continent.

    Seeing the bloody scene in front of him, he deeply acknowledged something.

    The path that he chose would be very long and difficult.

    But for him, the only choice he had was to not look back and firmly continue down this road.

 Volume 2 138 - Worker issue

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 138 Worker issue</h4>

    By noon of the next day, the caravan finally reached the Voller wolfmen tribe.

    Not knowing if it was a mistake, Xu YI felt that chief Leiming Voller was treating him much more seriously this time.

    Especially when facing Xu Yi, his attitude had clearly changed.

    Last time chief Voller looked at Xu YI with disdain, but this time, he actually revealed a smile.

    Although his wolf head smile was very ugly and even scary looking, it was enough to show his friendliness towards Xu Yi.

    Of course, this was probably because he had received five hundred thousand gold coins from Xu Yi.

    Even beastmen also had to live their lives.

    With five hundred thousand gold coins, the Voller tribe could buy many goods they needed from humans and improve the lives of their nsmen. It would also consolidate his position as the tribe chief, so of course he was much more friendly to Xu Yi¡¯s group.

    The caravan rested at the Voller Tribe for a bit and after eating lunch, the guards and the caravans headed to the non-ferrous lodes by the Voller Tribe.

    Opening a mine was not something that could be done in a day or two. ording to their ns, the threepanies would be building a living area by this mine and letting the workers live there.

    Later when the equipment and people were transported over, the mine would be able to start operating.

    ording to their estimates, this would take around three to four months.

    Butpared to opening the mine, the real problem was with the logistics.

    This mine was in the ck Rice Wastnd after all, even the Samara Town was quite a distance away. It would be difficult to send all kinds of supplies over.

    For this, the three of them hade to a decision. First the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would send out a construction team who would create a road leading to the Voller Tribe from Samara Town.

    Like this, they could reduce the transport time from Samara Town to the Voller tribe by half a day, avoiding the robbery attempts of the beastmen.

    As for the transport of supplies, the threepanies would first store them in Samara Town and transport them when they needed them.

    To solve this initial problem, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would quickly build a road between Banta City and Samara Town.

    When they reached this suggestion, Xu Yi said that it was better to build a road from the Falling Rain Valley¡¯s road to Samara Town instead.

    Although it would still be quite a bit of a detour, with the total distance being increased by over ten kilometers, with the existence of the Falling Rain Road, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have to build a road that was over a hundred kilometers long at once. They just needed to build a sixty to seventy kilometer road between the Falling Rain Road and Samara Town, which would without a doubt save quite a bit of money and time.

    Other than supplies, the other thing troubling them was the problem with workers.

    The ck Rice Wastnd was the territory of the beastmen and to most humans, beastmen were repulsive and fierce, as well they weren¡¯t friendly to humans. So if there wasn¡¯t a need, there would be no humans who would go to beastmen territory.

    To mine this lode, they had to send many workers in the end.

    But to request humans to work in beastmen territory for a long period of time, this really was forcing people.

    When the threepanies were recruiting workers, they even promised a high wage that was close to thirty gold coins a month.

    Even like this, there were far from enough human workers who were willing toe.

    The three discussed this issue and each time they discussed it, they felt like there was no way forward.

    The three of them could only take their time and under the enticement of the high wages, recruit enough human workers.

    But arriving at the Voller Tribe and seeing the change in attitude of chief Leiming Voller, Xu Yi immediately thought of a new possibility.

    After having lunch, Xu Yi met with chief Voller and gave him his request.

    ¡°You want our nsmen to work for you?¡± Chief Voller¡¯s wolf eyes opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise. Could it be that this human was crazy?

    The rtionship between humans and beastmen was just taking what each side needed. They just did some superficial deals and then there was mutual ughter, no further rtionship.

    These humans opening a mine near their tribe and even paying them five hundred thousand gold coins was already enough to surprise him.

    Now this human actually wanted to hire his nsmen to work for theirpany, this really was too strange.

    ¡°Is there a problem?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, like he couldn¡¯t see chief Voller surprise at all, ¡°I think that chief Voller should know that in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there aren¡¯t just human workers, there are also dwarf and elf workers. If there are some more beastmen workers, do you think it would be strange?¡±

    Chief Voller did know about this, but he still felt it was a bit strange.

    ¡°Why are those dwarves and even those hateful elves willing to work for you? Did you give them some kind of benefit?¡± Chief Voller asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing special. I just gave them work and treated them like human workers, giving them wages and benefits.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands as he said this.

    ¡°It¡¯s that simple? Then those fellows are actually honestly working for yourpany?¡± Chief Voller clearly didn¡¯t believe it.

    ¡°It¡¯s just that simple.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If you feel that you can¡¯t ept it, whether it is the dwarves or the elves, they still need to be able to live right? Right now they can earn a stable ie by working for ourpany and then they can buy the things they need with that wage, what isn¡¯t good about that?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying¡­..they can use gold coins to buy what they need?¡± Chief Voller immediately asked.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. This is because I have applied forbour cards for them with the Royal Parliament and when thesebour cardse into effect, whether they are dwarves or elves, they will receive the same treatment as the normal human residents of the kingdom. So of course they can buy what they need.¡± After pausing, Xu Yi added, ¡°Of course, there are some things that even humans can¡¯t easily buy, so they can¡¯t buy it either.¡±

    ¡°Labour card? It¡¯s that powerful?¡± Chief Voller had a deep interest in this bour card¡±. He had Xu Yi exin it to him for a while before he finally understood what it was.

    ¡°This means that¡­..if our nsmen work for yourpany and you apply forbour cards for us, we can use gold coins to buy things from your human world? You guarantee that we¡¯ll be paying exactly the same as humans when we buy things?¡± Chief Voller asked.

    ¡°I can¡¯t guarantee this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But I can guarantee that if the product has a price tag of one gold coin and humans pay one gold coin when buying it, beastmen withbour cards can also buy it for one gold coin. Merchants won¡¯t charge you extra just because you¡¯re beastmen.¡±

    ¡°That is enough!¡± Chief Voller pped the table and his wolf face filled with joy, ¡°You damn human merchants¡­..Oh, sorry chairman Xu, I¡¯m not talking about you. In short, when we went to your human world to buy things, we could only use items to exchange for items and couldn¡¯t use money at all. There were many times that we used things that we knew were worth a lot in your human world, but we had no other choice. If we didn¡¯t exchange them, the human merchants wouldn¡¯t trade with us. If there is thisbour card, that would be much better.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chief Voller, you¡¯re worried about your five hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    Chief Voller opened hisrge mouth andughed into the sky.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s group had paid them five hundred thousand gold coins for this non-ferrous lode, as a wolfman, chief Voller knew that if he wanted to use this five hundred thousand to buy things that the tribe needed, he would be taken advantage of, so he was worried that this five hundred thousand gold coins wasn¡¯t enough.

    But now that Xu Yi had mentioned thisbour card thing, he began to see hope.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if you can help me, I can agree to your request and have the nsmen work for you.¡± Chief Voller said.

    Xu Yi smiled. Seeing the look of hope on chief Voller¡¯s face, he didn¡¯t need to guess what he needed help with.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid I really can¡¯t help you with this, you should discuss this with chairman Renersa.¡±

    ¡°Renersa?¡± Chief Voller sted out steam from his nose as he gave a cold snort, ¡°That despicable human has already tricked us for long enough, could it be you want me to believe in him?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and helplessly said, ¡°Chairman Renersa and I are partners, I can¡¯t hide the fact that I reached an agreement with you from him. The Renekton Chamber of Commerce is in charge of trade between beastmen and humans, so if I agree to this, there might not be the possibility of cooperating between chairman Renersa and me.¡±

    ¡°But if you don¡¯t agree to this, there¡¯s no possibility of cooperation between us.¡± Chief Voller said without any politeness.

    ¡°No, chief Voller, things are not this absolute.¡± Xu Yi was unmoved as he said with the same smile, ¡°Although I can¡¯t promise to solve this problem for you, I can discuss this with chairman Renersa for you and make him meet your needs. What do you think?¡±

    Chief Voller looked at Xu Yi doubtfully, ¡°You really want to help me?¡±

    ¡°To be more urate, I want to help everyone on the premise of achieving my goal. I named this win-win before, but now it is winning for everyone.¡±

    Chief Voller thought about it before giving a slow nod.

 Volume 2 139 - Moon Shadow Tribe

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 139 Moon Shadow Tribe</h4>

    ¡°You want to hire beastmen workers?¡± Chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi with a frown. He thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to say, this might not be a good idea.¡±

    Xu Yi had already expected this reaction from chairman Renersa, so he wasn¡¯t that surprised. He just smiled as he asked, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°The beastmen, dwarves, and elves are all different. They will not keep their promises like the dwarves and elves, properly doing their work. I have done business with the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd for a long time and I¡¯ve realized that beastmen are no different from beasts. They are all savage by nature, they have now at all. If you hire them as workers, I¡¯m afraid that consequences will be hard to predict.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I feel that this isn¡¯t a problem. Even if they are savage as beasts, they can still live with humans after being domesticated and ept human management. No matter how much beastmen are like beasts, they are still an intelligent race. Beforeing here, I¡¯ve studied the history of the continent and feel on the contrary that the reason why they are so savage ispletely because they don¡¯t have a proper living environment. At the same time, they don¡¯t have any special survival capabilities, so in order to keep living, they have to steal from other races, seeming like savages.¡±

    ¡°You think that as long as you give these beastmen a peaceful living environment, they will be able to live together with humans?¡± Chairman Renersa shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, your ideas are a bit too¡­..naive. Savageness is the nature of beastmen, just like beasts. Even if they are domesticated, you can¡¯t get rid of their nature.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll give you an example.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Voller Tribe behind the two and asked, ¡°Chairman Renersa, how long have you done business with this wolfmen tribe?¡±

    Chairman Renersa never thought that Xu Yi would bring the topic here. After being surprised, he thought about it and responded, ¡°Around¡­..twenty years.¡±

    ¡°Then in these twenty years, has the Voller Tribe done anything to humans?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Renersa gave a cold snort, ¡°Like he would dare! This tribe is the closest beastmen tribe to Samara Town, so if they dare do anything too excessive, they would have been ttened by the royal army. Even if the royal army doesn¡¯t cause trouble for them, as long as there are no human merchants that don¡¯t do business with them, they can¡¯t survive another day!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because everything they need for daily life is provided to them by human merchants, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, not mentioning something like salt which they definitely don¡¯tck, whether it is oil, vinegar, tea, or even the clothes they wear, it is all provided by us human merchants. Now that the beastmen of their tribe are used to living like humans, to have them go back to eating raw meat and relying on stealing to feed themselves, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be willing.¡± Chairman Renersa replied.

    ¡°Then can they steal what they need?¡±

    ¡°Steal?¡± Chairman Renersaughed, ¡°Although there are still beastmen who dare steal from us human merchants on this ck Rice Wastnd, there are fewer and fewer each year. The Beastmen Independence Regiment that we met yesterday is unique. Those beastmen aren¡¯t fools, since they can live better than before just by honestly doing business with us human merchants, why would they risk offending us and going back to their previous wretched lives¡­..¡±

    After saying this, chairman Renersa suddenly stopped. After looking at Xu Yi for a while, he suddenly revealed a look of understanding.

    ¡°I understand. Chairman Xu, you want to say that as long as we provide those beastmen with stable work and let them obtain lives simr to us humans, they wouldn¡¯t be dumb enough to destroy this new life?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, this is what I wanted to say. You just said it, the beastmen aren¡¯t fools, they also want a good life. They didn¡¯t have a choice before, so they had to steal from humans to satisfy their needs. But now that their strength is far below humans and they fear retaliation from stealing, don¡¯t you think that they would agree to a good life where they didn¡¯t need to steal?¡±

    Chairman Renersa thought about it before slowly nodding, ¡°I think I understand your meaning. But chairman Xu, there is still a problem you didn¡¯t consider.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, the beastmen aren¡¯t strong enough, so they are epting the option that we¡¯re providing them. But if you let them live a good life and they gradually increase their strength again, I feel that their nature wille out in the end and there will be big trouble.¡±

    ¡°Un, I admit that your worries are reasonable, but why do we need to let them increase their strength?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile of deep meaning, ¡°Although after increasing the quality of life for the beastmen, there is the chance of increasing their numbers and that poses a threat to us humans, but there is a very simple method to reduce this threat.¡±

    ¡°What method?¡± Chairman Renersa asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°This method is rted to the bour cards¡± that chief Voller longs to obtain. As long as it¡¯s like this¡­..¡±

    ###

    Three dayster, Xu Yi left the Voller Tribe and returned to Samara Town, arriving to see Anklo who was here to wee Xu Yi.

    When he saw Xu Yi, Anklo immediately opened his arms and tightly hugged him. He said with a very exaggerated sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really was anxious waiting for you.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling goosebumpse over him.

    If this was said from the mouth of a beautiful girl, he might enjoy it very much, but it sounded strange no matter how he heard iting from the mouth of a bearded middle aged man.

    Thinking of how there wasn¡¯t any discrimination against love between men on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi quickly moved out of Anklo¡¯s embrace and said with a forced smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t Ie in the end?¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu is someone who keeps his words and finally came.¡± Ankloughed before looking around and saying in a surprised voice, ¡°But chairman Xu, are youing alone this time? You¡¯re not bringing some assistants with you?¡±

    ¡°Assistants?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before calling out to his right, ¡°Agnes,e out and greet mister Anklo. When we reach the Stantine Duchy, you might need to contact him, so it¡¯s better to introduce yourself ahead of time.¡±

    In front of Anklo¡¯s surprised look, Agnes appeared out of the void and gave a slight nod to Anklo, ¡°Hello mister Anklo, I am Agnes. I am the chairman¡¯s subordinate.¡±

    Anklo was stunned, but he quickly reacted. He looked over Agnes with a smile and said, ¡°I already heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many elves, but I didn¡¯t have a chance to see them back in Banta City. I never thought that I would see one now. Hello young miss Agnes, since you are chairman Xu¡¯s assistant, perhaps there will be many things I will be asking your help for in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi saw Anklo¡¯s expression and said in a somewhat surprised voice, ¡°Mister Anklo, it¡¯s like you¡¯re not surprised to see an elf?¡±

    Anklo nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, our Stantine Duchy is different from your Lampuri Kingdom. We frequently see elves appear in the duchy, so I¡¯ve seen the elves quite a few times before, so naturally I wouldn¡¯t be surprised by the appearance of young miss Agnes.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Agnes in surprise. Agnes immediately understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning and said with a nod, ¡°The Moon Shadow Tribe is much bigger than our Night Song Tribe. I¡¯ve heard the elder mention that they have over three thousand elves, so they don¡¯t need to hide themselves from humans like us.¡±

    Hearing this exnation, Xu Yi instantly understood.

    To put it simply, there was arge difference in strength between the Night Song Tribe and the humans of the Lampuri Kingdom. In order to ensure their safety, the elves of the Night Song Tribe wouldn¡¯t appear in front of Lampuri Kingdom humans.

    The Stantine Duchy was a much weaker country and the Moon Shadow Tribe was stronger than the Night Song Tribe, so the Moon Shadow Tribe didn¡¯t have any scruples about appearing in front of the humans of the Stantine Duchy.

    ¡°But why haven¡¯t I heard of this before? Before seeing Agnes, almost everyone told me that the elves had almost disappeared from the continent.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°That is because our Stantine Duchy is too weak, so the other countries of the continent don¡¯t care about news from our duchy at all.¡± Anklo took over the duty of replying with a bitter smile.

    Xu Yi nodded. This was also because themunication level was too low on the Sines Continent, so no one cared about the news from the Stantine Duchy.

    If this same situation was ced on earth, for arge piece of news like elves appearing, not to mention a normal country like the Stantine Duchy, even if the elves appeared in a barren wastnd or a tropical rainforest, it would be dug out and would spread to every corner of the.

    But the main thing Xu Yi cared about wasn¡¯t this.

    The reason why he didn¡¯t bring anyone, rather having Agnes finish her work with the ten elves on the ck Rice Wastnd to apany him was because he had heard elder Illusia mention the Moon Shadow Tribe was in the Stantine Duchy.

    ording to what elder Illusia said, the Moon Shadow Tribe was very likely thergest tribe of elves on the Sines Continent right now.

    Since Xu Yi can create a good rtionship with the Night Song Tribe in the Lampuri Kingdom, he could use this rtionship to create a rtionship with the Moon Shadow Tribe and perhaps cooperate with them.

    Xu Yi knew almost nothing about the Stantine Duchy and if he could create a rtionship with the Moon Shadow Tribe, it would be very helpful to his work in the Stantine Duchy.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t ask anything else, Anklo immediately asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you are prepared, should we set off?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Agnes and seeing her nod to confirm that everything was prepared, he said with a smile, ¡°Let¡¯s set off.¡±

 Volume 2 140 - You will definitely bring changes

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 140 You will definitely bring changes</h4>

    Setting off for the Stantine Duchy from Samara Town required them to pass through the ck Rice Wastnd, but they went in the opposite direction of the Voller Tribe.

    Although Anklo was very sincere with Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t go overboard, only bringing a few assistants and three carriages.

    He thought that Xu Yi would bring some assistants, but he never expected Xu Yi to bring no one other than Agnes as his assistant. So the third carriage waspletely empty.

    The small motorcade left Samara Town and headed in a southwest direction. After going through fifty kilometers on the ck Rice Wastnd, Xu Yi felt the topography begin to sink and the temperature of the surrounding air begin to rise.

    After leaving the barrennd of the ck Rice Wastnd and not long after entering a forest, Xu Yi began to feel hot and couldn¡¯t help taking off his thick fur coat.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s action, Anklo who was in the same carriage couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is your first time in our Stantine Duchy, so you might not be familiar with the climate of our duchy. Actually the climate of our duchy is very different from most countries on the continent. There isn¡¯t a single period of time here that will make people feel cold and although it is winter right now, the temperature is actually a bit higherpared to your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s spring or fall.¡±

    Xu Yi wiped the sweat off his forehead and gave a nod, ¡°I can feel it. Based on this topography, your Stantine Duchy should be in a valley and since it is close to the ocean, as well as being the most southern part of the continent, it isn¡¯t strange to have this kind of climate.¡±

    Anklo was a bit surprised, ¡°It seems like chairman Xu is very skilled in geography, you truly are wise. No wonder her highness Seveni always praised you when she mentioned you to me.¡±

    ¡°Her highness mentioned me in front of you?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    Anklo revealed a faint smile, ¡°At first I mentioned you to her highness, but I never thought that mentioning chairman Xu, her highness would suddenly be in a great mood. She keptmending chairman Xu in front of me, she holds you in the highest esteem. It was also her highness¡¯ words that filled me with confidence in finding chairman Xu.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s form appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind as he said with a smile, ¡°What if I¡¯m not as good as her highness says, wouldn¡¯t this be a wasted trip?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯ve gone to the Lampuri Kingdom many times and have fortunately met her highness quite a few times. This was the first time her highness had praised someone like this. I had already done my own research on chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but with her highness¡¯ confirmation of chairman Xu, it has only given me more confidence and wouldn¡¯t affect my decision.¡±

    ¡°You really are too polite.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand. He thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Mister Anklo, actually even at this point, I still can¡¯t think it through, what do you want from me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? We are after all just a smallpany, I¡¯m afraid we can¡¯t do much to change the situation of the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Change starts bit by bit.¡± Anklo said with a serious look, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is not the biggestpany in the Lampuri Kingdom, but it is thepany with the greatest power to bring change. I¡¯ve carefully researched yourpany and found that the reason why there was such arge change in Banta City and the surrounding cities could be considered as the appearance of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So I thought that as long as I invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather invited chairman Xu to our Stantine Duchy, there would definitely be some kind of change.¡±

    Seeing the determined look on Anklo¡¯s face, Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Mister Anklo, although I do have confidence in bringing some changes to the Stantine Duchy, you saying this really puts pressure on me.¡±

    Anklo revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you¡¯re someone who is afraid of pressure?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Alright, I¡¯m not that afraid and even hope there is pressure because I always believed that pressure is a form of drive. Un¡­.Since there is pressure, then we should discuss how to change this pressure into drive. Mister Anklo, I want to ask something first. What is the road situation around the three mines that the Stantine Duchy wants to sell me like?¡±

    Anklo replied without hesitation, ¡°There are roads connecting the two iron mines and as for the copper mine, because no one cared about it before, there isn¡¯t a road connecting it right now.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no road at all?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Actually, of the two iron mines and the copper mine the Stantine Duchy was nning to sell to him, Xu Yi felt the copper mine was more important.

    Now that there was sess with developing the generator, the next step would be to createrger generators and then poprize the use of electricity.

    To poprize electricity, there was arge demand for copper.

    He couldn¡¯t get enough copper in the Lampuri Kingdom for now and there weren¡¯t anyrge copper veins in the mine near the Voller Tribe, so Xu Yi could only put his hopes into the Stantine Duchy¡¯s copper mines.

    If the road conditions around this copper mine were toocking, it would greatly affect his n.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Anklo quickly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, be assured. Although there isn¡¯t a road connected to the copper mine right now, our Stantine Duchy is covered in ins and the area around the copper mine is very t, so it won¡¯t affect the mining process too much.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..It would be best if it was like this. As long as a road can be built, everything can be discussed.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Speaking of building roads¡­..¡± Anklo hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you nning on building roads in our duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Isn¡¯t building roads something your duchy should do? Why are you asking me?¡±

    The smile on Anklo¡¯s face became a bit awkward, ¡°This¡­..Actually the cost of building roads is too high and our duchy can¡¯t afford it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Anklo in disbelief, ¡°Even building a hundred kilometer road only costs three hundred thousand gold coins, why can¡¯t you afford that?¡±

    The smile on Anklo¡¯s face became even more awkward, ¡°Actually¡­..Perhaps chairman Xu willugh at this, but our duchy¡¯s iest year was less than two hundred thousand gold coins¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    Although he knew that the Stantine Duchy was weak from the various sources of information he obtained, Xu Yi never would have thought that it would be this weak.

    A duchy didn¡¯t even have a yearly ie of two hundred thousand gold coins! It couldn¡¯t evenpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s half month of profits!

    No wonder Anklo, this trusted subordinate of Duke Stantine and an important character of the Stantine Duchy was this friendly and even submissive when he was facing Xu Yi.

    On earth, this would be called money is power.

    The Stantine Duchy was this poor, so Anklo naturally couldn¡¯t have an attitude in front of Xu Yi.

    Seeing the awkward smile on Anklo¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of those officials in rural areas meeting potential investors that were interested in developing the area.

    Perhaps to Anklo, Xu Yi was a god of wealth that he had worked hard to invite. Of course he would do everything he could to have Xu Yi invest, so he was as polite and friendly as possible.

    But thinking about it, even the Lampuri Kingdom that was stronger than the Stantine Duchy only had a yearly ie of two million gold coins. For the Stantine Duchy to have an ie of two hundred thousand gold coins, that was actually already quite good¡­..

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart. His expression didn¡¯t change on the surface as he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, when we reach the mountains, I will consider if there is a need to build roads. After all, just a normal road connecting the mines will be of great help to us when we mine the vein.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s rxed tone, Anklo¡¯s expression froze for a second before he quickly nodded with a smile, ¡°As long as chairman Xu needs something, everything can be discussed.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Anklo. So if I take out enough money, your Stantine Duchy would sell the entire duchy to me?

    The horse carriage left the ck Rice Wastnd and entered the territory of the Stantine Duchy.

    With the gradual increase in temperature, the scenery around them quickly changed.

    In the beginning, the roads were surrounded by all kinds of nts that would be found all over the Lampuri Kingdom. As they continued forward, the nts gradually changed into tropical nts that could only be found in tropical climates.

    Xu Yi had transmigrated onto the Sines Continent for five years now, so he knew that there were many different things about the Sines Continent and earth, but there were also many simrities.

    For example, when it came to nts. There were many nts on the Sines Continent that Xu Yi had never heard about on earth, but there were many nts on earth that the Sines Continent also had.

    For example, as Xu Yi looked at the trees on the sides of the horse carriages, he would find banana trees, mango trees, and pineapple trees¡­..

    All the way in the distance, he could even see some tall coconut trees.

    Xu Yi watched for a while before he couldn¡¯t help pointing at the nts and asking Anklo, ¡°Your Stantine Duchy has this many precious resources, why is your ie so low?¡±

    ¡°Precious resources?¡± Anklo asked back in a stunned voice, ¡°What precious resources?¡±

    ¡°These aren¡¯t previous? Not mentioning anything else, if you sell the fruits of these trees to other ces, you can earn quite a bit of money.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re talking about those fruits?¡± Anklo looked at the fruits Xu Yi was pointing at before revealing a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, we know that people of other countries like these fruits, but the problem is¡­..how do we transport them?¡±

    Seeing Anklo spread his hands with a helpless look, Xu Yi was stunned, but he quickly reacted.

    The Sines Continent wasn¡¯t earth, there wasn¡¯t the strong transport ability of sending something in just a day or two to sell.

    Although these tropical fruits were very good, with the current transport capabilities of the Sines Continent, not mentioning further ces, the fruits would all rot on the road just transporting them to the nearby Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi saying that the Stantine Duchy was wasting their treasures was actually a bit unreasonable.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi calmed down. He thought for a bit before saying to Anklo, ¡°If I had a method to transport these fresh fruits, what would you think?¡±

    Anklo¡¯s eyes immediately lit up and he pped his leg as he shouted in a joyful voice, ¡°Look! Chairman Xu, this is what I was talking about! You will definitely bring changes to our Stantine Duchy!¡±

 Volume 2 141 - Why is it this poor?

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 141 Why is it this poor?</h4>

    As the horse carriage kept moving forward, Xu Yi found more and more. The Stantine Duchy was very rich in terms of natural resources.

    Not only were there various kinds of fruit trees that bloomed around them like they were worthless, Xu Yi looked into the distance to findrge cacao trees and coffee trees. But more importantly, there were even rubber trees blotting out the sky!

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi didn¡¯t even have time to be surprised at the various kinds of tropical nts that grew in the Stantine Duchy just like one earth, he was justpletely shocked.

    With such rich natural resources, why was the Stantine Duchy this poor?

    Beforeing to the Stantine Duchy, whether it was from the books of the continents, or from people who had described the Stantine Duchy, or even if the descriptions of Anklo who came from the Stantine Duchy, they all gave the same information. The Stantine Duchy was a very weak country that was very poor.

    Beforeing to the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi was already prepared to see a country that was wrecked by hurricanes and tsunamis all year round.

    But he never would have thought that the Stantine Duchy¡¯snd was not only not barren, it was even more bountiful than he thought.

    With these rich natural resources, it was like a precious gift to them from the heavens!

    If this was ced on earth, this country might not be rich, but they would be described as broke.

    But on the way here, Xu Yi saw the scattered Stantine Duchy citizens through the window of his carriage. Based on the tattered clothes they wore and the wrecked log cabins they lived in, their lives were indeed quite bad.

    This really was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand.

    With this kind of natural resources, even though there was a limit to the Sines Continent¡¯s transportationwork and they couldn¡¯t deliver these resources out to make money, the citizens shouldn¡¯t be in such a destitute condition, right?

    With these doubts, Xu Yi began to shift his attention from the rich nts outside to the people of the Stantine Duchy.

    When the carriage finally came to a ce that was like a town, Xu Yi jumped out and looked over the scene in front of him, as he finally understood.

    Although the Stantine Duchy citizens had rich natural resources, perhaps it was because they had rich natural resources that they became this poor.

    This reason sounded very strange, but it was a very suitable analysis.

    When he was still back on earth, Xu Yi had gone to many tropical and subtropical countries when he went on inspections. For example, he had gone to the southern China penins and the Indian penins many times before.

    In those countries, Xu Yi had found a simrity which was that those people were veryzy.

    For the same construction project, perhaps it would only take apany in China two to three months toplete, but in those countries, not mentioning the low efficiency of the governments, just with theziness of the workers themselves, it was enough to stall the project for half a year without finishing it.

    Because of this problem, there were many managers who had secretlyined to Xu Yi.

    Clearly they only had to learn how to use a few machines and they would just work by sitting inside and controlling those machines, but those workers refused to learn how to do the most basic work.

    And if you made them do physicalbour, they would ck off.

    Because the efficiency of those workers were very low and dyed the progress of the project, there were manypanies who had directly spent arge amount to recruitrge numbers of workers from China.

    Even if their contracts with the local government meant that they had to recruit a certain amount of local workers, thosepanies would rather spend more money and just pay those workers for nothing, not relying on their efficiency at all.

    Xu Yi thought of theints of those managers and the local conditions of those countries,paring them to the scene in front of him before making this judgement.

    The Stantine Duchy was this poor, but ignoring all other reasons, the most important reason was that the people were toozy.

    Looking in from the entrance of this town, although there were quite a few people, whether they were strolling on the streets, sitting in a corner, or sunbathing on the ground, each person gave off azy feeling.

    It was like as long as there was nothing important to do, they definitely would not waste any energy doing anything.

    Although there were a few stalls in the streets, most of the time they had no customers. The bosses of those stalls didn¡¯t seem to care and didn¡¯t waste energy calling out. They even went as far as covering their eyes and going to sleep!

    Xu Yi thought about it and found that he could understand the thoughts of these normal people.

    Perhaps on earth where one could say that all things are equal, normal people had hopes of climbing up thedder.

    But the society of the Sines Continent was very backwards with a deep rooted social ss concept, so normal people would never think of going against nobles.

    So for the average person, being able to fill their stomachs and living normal lives was their first goal.

    For the Stantine Duchy that had rich natural resources, if one was hungry, they could just pick some fruits from the fruit trees by the side of the road to fill their stomachs.

    Since there was no pressure to survive and no hope to climb up thedder, a normal person naturally would just eat and wait to die by the side of the road.

    Of course, understanding didn¡¯t mean epting it.

    Seeing the scene in front of him, Xu Yi had the same feeling when he inspected those peninss, feeling sad and angry at these normal people.

    If they worked hard and were a bit more diligent, at least their lives could be better, so why didn¡¯t these fellows work harder?

    Anklo on the side saw that after Xu Yi got out of the carriage and was silent with a bad look on his face after seeing this town thought that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with this environment, so he quickly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, let¡¯s just rest here temporarily today. I¡¯ve already contacted the City Lord here to have him receive you in his manor. The environment of his manor is much better, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Xu Yi was toozy to exin his thoughts to Anklo, so he shook his head and headed into the town.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, Anklo was stunned before quickly following him.

    This town only had six streets and they were all very short. This town wasn¡¯t even a tenth of the size of Banta City, so Xu Yi had gone from one end to the other in less than half an hour.

    After going around the town, Xu Yi fell into deep thought before asking Anklo, ¡°What is the scale of this city in your Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Anklo was stunned before revealing an awkward smile and hesitantly replying, ¡°This is thergest city in the north of our duchy¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He raised a brow and looked at the city behind him again. He couldn¡¯t stop the absurd feeling that was rising from his heart and the twitching on his face.

    This ce that couldn¡¯t evenpare to a small town on earth was actually thergest city in the north of the Stantine Duchy?

    What a joke!

    Although Xu Yi tried his best to stop himself from revealing a strange expression, Anklo could only awkwardly exin, ¡°Chairman Xu, our Stantine Duchy strictly speaking has no concept of a city. This city is just to make it easier for the nearby people to trade and since it isn¡¯t the day of a market, it doesn¡¯t seem like there are many people. But if youe here on market day, this ce bes rather lively¡­..¡±

    Anklo exined for a while, but he really couldn¡¯t say anything else.

    He frequently went to the Lampuri Kingdom and not mentioning Anvilmar City, just Banta City that Xu Yi came from was already bigger than all the cities in the Stantine Duchy.

    Exining this in front of Xu Yi, it just became worse as he kept going.

    Seeing Anklo bing more quiet and looking more awkward, Xu Yi gave a sigh and turned to stop looking at this pitifully small ¡°city¡±. He said to Anklo, ¡°Alright, bring me somewhere to rest. After sitting in a horse carriage for a day, I¡¯m a bit tired.¡±

    Anklo quickly called the three horse carriages behind them over and asked Xu Yi to get in. They went on the only road that was considered rather wide and headed to the south.

    The City Lord Manor that Anklo mentioned actually surprised Xu Yi. It was veryrge and there were many buildings in the yard, taking up arge space, looking quite magnificent.

    Although it couldn¡¯tpare to the noble manors outside Banta City, with how wide it was, with the mountains and ponds it had, as well as the rather well built log cabins, the environment really didn¡¯t seem bad.

    ording to Anklo¡¯s introduction, the owner of this manor was this city¡¯s City Lord and this city took his family¡¯s name.

    His family was called the Wein Family and this city was called Wein City.

    The current head of the Wein Family was the owner of the manor called Swain Wein. He was a round middle aged fat man who wasn¡¯t that tall.

    After seeing Anklo and Xu Yi, Swain Wein had a very friendly manner and was very ttering in front of Xu Yi.

    When ttering someone, he definitely wanted something.

    This Swain Wein treated Xu Yi like this, so of course he had some requests for Xu Yi.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what kind of requests he had for now.

    But this question was soon answered at the wee banquet set out for him.

 Volume 2 142 - Canned fruit factory and rubber processing factory

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 142 Canned fruit factory and rubber processing factory</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu,e and have a cup of our special fruit juice. I guarantee it will be even better than drinking wine.¡± Swain Wein revealed a smile and his small eyes werepletely wrapped up in the fat on his face, not revealing anything at all.

    Xu Yi raised his cup to him and Anklo. The juice in the cup was a bit fragrant and it tasted like mango juice when he drank it.

    Compared to drinking wine, he actually preferred drinking fruit juice.

    Drinking wine would make people dizzy and this was not something that Xu Yi who always liked to stay sober and sharped liked to do.

    When he put down the cup, the young maid behind Xu Yi quickly came forward to fill it up.

    Seeing the pieces of clothes that didn¡¯t even cover up the key portions of the girl¡¯s figure, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretly shaking his head.

    The Stantine Duchy was poor, but that was just for the normal people. For a great noble like the head of the Wein Family that controlled arge part of the northern duchy, he was living quite the luxurious life.

    He was even living a more extravagant lifepared to the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s nobles were still promiscuous, they at least didn¡¯t have underage girls entertain guests while close to being naked.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for an honoured guest like you toe here, it really is my honour. Come, let¡¯s drink another cup.¡± Family head Wein raised his cup again with a smile.

    When Xu Yi finished, head Wein¡¯s small eyes turned over to Anklo before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard sir Anklo say that you havee to our Stantine Duchy this time because you are nning to invest in our duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised that he had jumped into this topic. He thought for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Then may I ask chairman Xu, on your way here, do you feel that there is anything in Wein City worth investing in?¡± Head Wein asked.

    ¡°This fellow really is straightforward.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Head Wein, I can¡¯t answer this right now, but based on what I¡¯ve seen already, there is potential for investment. If possible, I very much hope that I can invest.¡±

    This sounded like polite words, but these were Xu Yi¡¯s heartfelt words.

    Just based on the rich natural resources he saw on the way here, this ce had many money making opportunities worth investing in.

    The biggest barrier was actually the people who lived here.

    If he wanted to invest here, he had to hire the local workers.

    But based on the situation that Xu Yi saw, he didn¡¯t feel relieved hiring local workers.

    Head Wein didn¡¯t treat Xu Yi¡¯s words as polite talk and kept asking, ¡°Then if chairman Xu was to invest here, what ns do you have?¡±

    Seeing that Anklo put down his cup to pay attention, Xu Yi thought about it before saying, ¡°Currently speaking, I very much want to create a canned fruit factory here and a rubber processing nt. As for other things¡­..I don¡¯t know for now, I need to decide after examining further.¡±

    ¡°Canned fruit factory? Rubber processing nt?¡± Head Wein and Anklo looked at each other. He couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°I know about rubber, but what is a canned fruit?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­..To put it simply, it¡¯s cutting the fruit into slivers and mixing it with fruit juices in a ss jar or an iron can before being sealed. This canned fruit¡¯s benefit is that it can maintain the taste for a long time and after it is made, it can be transported to other countries to be sold. I think it should be quite weed.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Head Wein and Anklo¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

    ¡°There¡¯s this method of preserving fruits?¡±

    Head Wein¡¯s face fat even began trembling with excitement as he kept asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, if there is such a good method, we can sell our fruits! There¡¯s so much fruit that goes rotten each year that it pains me dearly! Chairman Xu, you muste and build a canned fruit factory here! No matter what requests you have, I will agree to it all!¡±

    Anklo gave a soft cough, stopping the excited head Wein from charging at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask, what is the rubber processing nt that you mentioned?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Mister Anklo, I think that you should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a tire factory, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I do.¡± Anklo nodded, ¡°When I was in Banta City, I found that the horse carriages had all changed to tires. I even sat on some and found that after they changed to tires, the horse carriage was not only more steady, it also ran much faster. Actually, I was nning on buying a few tires to bring back and put them on my horse carriages, but there were too many things to do that I forgot about them.¡±

    ¡°It seems like you know about the benefits that tires bring.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Ourpany currently uses a special material to make the tires and this special material has simr characteristics as rubber. Because I couldn¡¯t find rubber trees in the Lampuri Kingdom before, I had to use this special material. Now that I¡¯ve seen all these rubber trees, I have to consider if I can rece the special material with rubber.¡±

    ¡°You can! Of course you can! You definitely can!¡± Head Wein shouted before Anklo could speak, ¡°Chairman Xu, you just need to worry about opening the rubber processing nt. As long as youe, it will be the same as the canned fruit processing nt, we will prepare anything that you need!¡±

    Anklo slightly knit his brows. Head Wein speaking before him made him a bit ufortable, but he didn¡¯t say anything and just waited for Xu Yi¡¯s reaction.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t react, rather he just nodded with the same faint smile, ¡°Since head Wein is this inviting, I certainly will not disappoint your good intentions. I will be seeing the duketer with mister Anklo and if everything goes smoothly, I will seriously consider this matter.¡±

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t give an affirmative response, head Wein treated it like Xu Yi had agreed. His eyes narrowed as he smiled, making him look quite funny.

    Xu Yi¡¯s replies were airtight, so Anklo naturally couldn¡¯t say anything.

    So this wee dinner that wasn¡¯t especially grand came to an end with a happy atmosphere.

    After they finished dinner, it was already dark outside.

    Xu Yi was a bit tired after sitting in a horse carriage running on the Stantine Duchy¡¯s poorly made roads, so with the pretext of wanting to get some rest, he rejected head Wein and Anklo¡¯s invitation to participate in a bonfire outside Wein City.

    When he took a bath, he was surprised and not surprised to see that head Wein had sent two maids to take care of him.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t used to it at first, but the two maids exined that this was the lord head¡¯s orders. If he didn¡¯t let them take care of him, they would definitely be killedter. Xu Yi¡¯s heart softened and he let them take care of things.

    It was a good thing the two maids were trained, so they didn¡¯t do anything when Xu Yi was taking a bath, otherwise Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have been able to stop himself.

    After he finished his bath, the two maids naturally indicated they would go to bed with him.

    Xu Yi thought about it and agreed to theming to his room.

    But when the two maids took off their clothes, they both felt faint at the same time and lost consciousness.

    Xu Yi caught the two girls falling down and put them on the bed before covering them with the nkets. Agnes who had suddenly appeared in the room to use elven magic to knock out the two maids gave a nod, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    Agnes looked at the two maids in bed and hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Chairman, the illusion magic can make them see illusions, but it won¡¯t affect their bodies at all. If you really want to cheat others, I suggest you do something to their bodies.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°How will I do that? Do you want me to make a move on them? What a joke.¡±

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi and suddenly pped her hands, ¡°Oh, I remember now. Chairman, you saidst time that because humans are shy, they don¡¯t like having others nearby when copting, right? It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m not a human.¡±

    Xu Yi snappily looked at Agnes, ¡°We humans are shy, but could it be you elves aren¡¯t the same? I don¡¯t believe that when you elves copte, you like having others watch you!¡±

    Agnes seriously shook her head, ¡°We elves do not copte like you humans.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, this was his first time hearing this.

    ¡°Then how do you elves reproduce? Moreover, I¡¯ve seen that you elves have the same marriage rtionship as us humans.¡±

    ¡°The method that we use to give birth to descendants¡­..¡± Agnes tilted her head to think before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know. The elder said that I¡¯m still young. I have to be at least a hundred before considering giving birth to descendants.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes again, thinking that it really was a waste of time exining this to an elf.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop talking nonsense. You don¡¯t need to care about putting the two girls here, I didn¡¯t n on hiding everything from them. Agnes, how is your Shadow Dive Spell now? Can you guarantee you can bring me along?¡±

    Agnes hung her head in a depressed manner and said, ¡°Not that well.¡±

    ¡°What does that mean? You don¡¯t have confidence in bringing me out?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It should be fine if it¡¯s just going out of the manor.¡± Agnes replied.

    ¡°That¡¯s fine. Let¡¯s go.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Agnes replied as a faint green glow came from her body, surrounding Xu Yi as well.

    In an instant, the two of them disappeared without a trace from the room.

 Volume 2 143 - I am just delivering a letter

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 143 I am just delivering a letter</strong>

    In the woods a kilometer to the northeast of the Wein Manor, with a weak sh of green light, Agnes and Xu Yi appeared.

    ¡°Not bad. Agnes, you said that you didn¡¯t have confidence in bringing me out, but we came this far.¡± Xu Yi praised Agnes.

    Agnes¡¯ eyes narrowed as a smile appeared, looking like the crescent moon in the sky.

    ¡°It seems like I¡¯ve made progress.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, elder Illusia said that you were the one with the highest talent in magic in several hundred years for the Night Song Tribe. I didn¡¯t believe it at first.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You said you didn¡¯t even know the Shadow Dive Spell a few months ago when I asked you and now you¡¯re this good at using it. I think that not long after, you will be as powerful as elder Illusia.¡±

    Agnes shook her head with an honest expression, ¡°That is impossible. Elder Illusia is the one who has the highest talent in magic for our Night Song Tribe and she has practiced magic for several centuries, how could I catch up to her?¡±

    Xu Yi just gave a shrug. After being with Agnes for a while, she was much betterpared to before, but she still had that inborn foolish disposition. He really didn¡¯t know when she would be able to change.

    It can¡¯t be¡­..that she would be like Heinz who could never change how petty he was, right?

    Xu Yi thought about these random things while telling Agnes, ¡°Alright, contact the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe, we don¡¯t have much time.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡±

    After Anges replied, she lowered her head and ced her hands on her chest. She softly opened her mouth and a delightful song slowly drifted out, spreading in every direction of the forest.

    Even though he had seen how elves contacted each other many times before, Xu Yi¡¯s heart still skipped a beat whenever he saw Agnes using this method ofmunication.

    In the dim night, Agnes being covered in this faint green light really conformed to the fantasies of elves that Xu Yi had read about in fantasy novels. She was beautiful and filled with mystery.

    Not long after the singing drifted out, there were the sounds of leaves rustling that came from the forest.

    After a while, three slender forms fell from the tops of the trees.

    When both sides saw each other, the three elves who suddenly appeared were surprised.

    ¡°Human?¡± The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi in surprise before looking at Agnes with a confused look.

    Agnes greeted the three elves with a faint smile, ¡°Are you from the Moon Shadow Tribe? I am Agnes, I am from the Night Song Tribe of the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    The three elves were stunned again. The male elf in the middle nodded in response before he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Since you are from the Night Song Tribe, why are you with a human? And you used the magic that we elves use to summonpatriots with in front of him? Could it be that your Night Song Tribe elder didn¡¯t tell you that you can¡¯t do that?¡±

    Hearing the impolite tone of this male elf¡¯s voice, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    It seemed like although the elves of the Stantine Duchy revealed themselves to the people of the duchy and they frequently made contact with humans, that didn¡¯t reduce their hostility towards humans at all. It was even worse when Agnes had first met Xu Yi.

    ¡°He is not a normal human, so there¡¯s no problem using this magic in front of him. Even the elder agrees with this.¡± Agnes exined for Xu Yi, ¡°Moreover, I came with him this time with the hope of introducing him to you all.¡±

    ¡°Introducing a human to us?¡± The three elves were stunned again. The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi before suddenly drawing out the shortsword at his waist, pointing it at Xu Yi as he roared, ¡°Human, you must have used some despicable charm magic or threaten this young nsmen to bring you to us, is that right?¡±

    Agnes and Xu Yi were stunned. They never thought that the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe had such a deep prejudice against humans.

    Agnes quickly waved her hands and exined, ¡°No, he didn¡¯t use any charm magic on me or threaten me, I voluntarily brought him here¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing in his mind. It was fine if Agnes didn¡¯t exin, but this exnation really sounded like a bad lie.

    As expected, the three elves looked at Xu Yi with unkind gazes. The other two elves took out their weapons and prepared to attack him.

    Xu Yi pulled back Agnes who wanted to keep exining and took out a letter from his chest.

    ¡°Perhaps I have the power to charm or threaten a little elven girl, but you don¡¯t think I have the power to charm or threaten an elven elder, right? This is the letter that the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder Illusia had me bring, I am supposed to hand it over to elder Lisanya Shadow Song, she will be able to see the truth.¡±

    ¡°You actually know the elder¡¯s name?¡± The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi in surprise before looking at the letter Xu YI was holding, causing the shocked expression on his face to be deeper.

    As an elf, of course he could sense the powerful elven magic that was attached to the letter. If a person who wasn¡¯t strong enough tried to open the letter, they would be heavily injured by the magic on the letter.

    Just feeling the powerful magicing from the letter, he knew that this human was speaking the truth.

    No matter how strong he was, it was impossible for him to threaten an elf that could put such powerful elven magic on a letter.

    As for charming¡­..what a joke!

    Thinking of this, he rxed his vignce against Xu Yi a bit.

    After taking the letter to ensure that he didn¡¯t make a mistake, his eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with more doubt.

    He couldn¡¯t understand it. If what this human male and this young female elf said was true, why did the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder send a human male to bring elder Lisanya Shadow Song a letter?

    She even had an elf guide this man toe meet them.

    This human male¡­..what was his origin?

    ¡°How about it? Do you believe Agnes now?¡± Seeing the doubt on the elf¡¯s face, Xu Yi asked this with a smile.

    The male elf in the middle looked at the letter in his hand and couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°It should be true. But human, are you really just here to send a letter?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I did juste here to send a letter. As for whether there will be anything after, that will depend on elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s decision after seeing the letter. But I think that if nothing unexpected happens, after elder Lisanya Shadow Song sees the letter, she should choose to meet me.¡±

    The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi with knit brows, not understanding why he spoke with such a big tone.

    But looking at the letter in his hand, he took back his doubts. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°But if the elder decides to meet you, how should we find you?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. I will be in the Stantine Duchy for a bit and will be going to Duke Stantine¡¯s ceter. The matters I¡¯m taking care of will be quite big, so you¡¯ll easily be able to find news on me. I think it won¡¯t be hard to find me.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice filled with confidence, the elf who took the letter couldn¡¯t help looking over him a few times. After hesitating a bit, he still suppressed the questions in his heart and put the letter away.

    ¡°I will deliver this letter to the elder and pass your words to her.¡± The elf who took the letter said this. When he and his twopanions were about to leave, Agnes suddenly called out.

    ¡°Can I go with you back to your tribe?¡± Agnes asked.

    The three elves were stunned. The male elf who had been responsible for negotiating knit his brows and said, ¡°Although ording to the rules, I shouldn¡¯t reject a guest that hase from afar, but since you are with a human, I¡¯m afraid I can only say sorry.¡±

    ¡°No, you¡¯ve misunderstood. He¡¯s noting with me, it¡¯ll be me alone.¡± Agnes shook her head and said, ¡°I want toe with you to prove to elder Lisanya Night Song that this letter is real. Moreover, I feel that elder Lisanya Night Song will have many questions after reading this letter and I can exin it for her.¡±

    The three Moon Shadow Tribe elves looked at each other. The male elf thought about it before giving a nod, ¡°Alright. If the human isn¡¯ting, I represent the elder to invite you to our Moon Shadow Tribe as a guest.¡±

    Agnes nodded before turning to say to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, I¡¯ll be going.¡±

    Xu Yi gave her a smile, ¡°Un, go ahead. I hope that you can exin to elder Lisanya Night Song elder Illusia and my thoughts and let her understand them.¡±

    ¡°I will do my best.¡±

    Seeing that Agnes was about to leave with the three elves after saying this, Xu Yi hesitated a bit and he couldn¡¯t help calling out to Agnes.

    ¡°Sir chairman, is there anything else you need to say?¡± Agnes looked at the somewhat worried Xu Yi with doubt.

    ¡°Agnes¡­..Remember, no matter what happens, you have to consider your safety first. If there is something that is wrong, don¡¯t think about it that much and just keep yourself safe, nothing else is important. Do you understand?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the three elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe looked at Xu Yi with angry gazes.

    The male elf said in a deep voice, ¡°Human, you think that we elves are as shameless and despicable as you humans? She is our tribe¡¯s honoured guest, how could we let her encounter any danger!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and didn¡¯t argue with him, as he kept warning Agnes, ¡°Remember what I said. No matter what happens, nothing is more important than your safety. You have to remember that!¡±

    Although Agnes felt that Xu Yi¡¯s warning was a bit weird, when hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, her heart strangely felt happy.

    She gave a strong nod to Xu Yi and replied in a clear voice, ¡°I will. Sir chairman, wait for my good news.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile as he watched Agnes and the three Moon Shadow Tribe elves disappear into the forest.

 Volume 2 144 - Greedy people

    <strong>Volume 2 Chapter 144 Greedy people</strong>

    When he left the Wein Manor the next day, Xu Yi took the initiative to ask head Wein to give him the two maids who served himst night.

    Head Wein was already nning on doing this and now that Xu Yi had asked, naturally he was overjoyed. Without another word, he waved his hand to let the two maids follow their new master and he said that they should never go against him.

    As for the ve transfer process¡­..They would have to follow procedure in the Lampuri Kingdom, but in the Stantine Duchy, ves were just ves, they were no different from ordinary goods. If head Wein wanted to give them to Xu Yi, no one would say anything.

    The horse carriage left the manor being sent off by head Wein¡¯s happy gazes, as they headed to the capital of the Stantine Duchy, Faraday City.

    Anklo sitting opposite Xu Yi looked at Xu Yi for a while. After hesitating a few times, he finally couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, ording to my understanding of you, you shouldn¡¯t be someone who cares about beauties, right? Why did you ask head Wein for those two maids?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You think that Still isn¡¯t beautiful?¡±

    Anklo was stunned before shaking his head, ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t have that meaning. Young miss Still is like a goddess, there is nothing to say about chairman Xu¡¯s eyes. But based on what I¡¯ve observed, when ites to that¡­..eh¡­..you don¡¯t crave it that much. Moreover, I can see that those two maids are still virgins, so you didn¡¯t touch them at allst night. So I¡¯m very curious, why did you go against the norm to ask for them?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly stunned, ¡°You can actually see that the two of them are virgins?¡±

    Anklo revealed a promiscuous smile, ¡°This¡­..For an experienced man like me, I can see it. Moreover, not only could I see it, I believe head Wein can also see it.¡±

    ¡°Head Wein can also see it?¡± After hearing Anklo¡¯s certain response, Xu Yi fell into thought. Not only was he not surprised at all, he rather broke out intoughter, ¡°That is good. It¡¯s good that head Wein can see this. I asked for those two maids from him to show my attitude. Now that he knows that these two maids are still virgins, me asking for the two of them shows my attitude.¡±

    Anklo slightly knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean that you¡¯re really nning on cooperating with him?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°I wasn¡¯t joking yesterday when I was talking about the canned fruit factory and the rubber processing nt, I really think that there are prospects with these two factories. After I return to Banta City, I will prepare to build those two factories here. I might even¡­..open a few more factories.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Anklo¡¯s face, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°What is it? Mister Anklo, didn¡¯t you always try to get me to invest in the Stantine Duchy? Now that I¡¯m willing to build several factories other than buying the three mines, why does it seem like you¡¯re not happy?¡±

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not happy. If you can invest this much, I strongly wee you on behalf of the Stantine Duchy.¡± Anklo quickly said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m just a bit worried about head Wein.¡±

    ¡°Worried that I wouldn¡¯t be able to cooperate with him?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Anklo gave a bitterugh, ¡°Chairman Xu really is sharp. That¡¯s right, with my understanding of head Wein, he has no merit other than being greedy and he has no outstanding abilities. I am very worried that you chose to cooperate with him. I¡¯m worried that he might ruin your matters and make you lose confidence in our duchy.¡±

    ¡°Greedy? Being greedy is good, I¡¯m afraid if he isn¡¯t greedy.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, not caring at all, ¡°Greedy people have quite clear goals, so they are easier to deal with. As long as head Wein isn¡¯t excessively greedy over certain things, I think that I¡¯ll have a very good cooperation with him.¡±

    Anklo still had the same bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m afraid he¡¯ll be too greedy. Chairman Xu, perhaps you don¡¯t understand the personalities of the nobles of our duchy. For a fellow like head Wein where he wants to take everything in his arms, don¡¯t look at how friendly he was just now, he could be angry at any time for benefits.¡±

    Hearing the helplessness in Anklo¡¯s voice, Xu Yi thought about it and couldn¡¯t help asking him, ¡°Mister Anklo, I thought that you had me stay in Wein City intentionally to see this head Wein because you had an agreement with him about having me invest near Wein City. But hearing you say this, I think that this isn¡¯t your real intention?¡±

    Anklo paused for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Since chairman Xu has already seen through this, I won¡¯t hide it anymore. I did indeed have this agreement with head Wein. If you could stay in his manor for a night and give head Wein a chance to meet you, he would give me his support.¡±

    ¡°Un, I can understand this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But I still don¡¯t understand why you said all those depressing words to me. Could it be that you¡¯re suddenly dissatisfied with head Wein?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I¡¯m dissatisfied with head Wein¡­..Alright, that is right.¡± Anklo revealed a bitter smile, but there was a trace of sincerity in his smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually although I invited you to invest in our duchy, I didn¡¯t have much hope towards this. Because our duchy has been the same like dead water for a long time, I didn¡¯t feel that we could rely on just a single person or a singlepany to change it.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t that strange because I also feel that just based on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we can¡¯t change the entire Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    But after you spent a day in our duchy, I found that perhaps I was wrong.¡± Anklo looked at Xu Yi with a bit of hope in his eyes, ¡°The otherpanies might not be able to change the entire country, but chairman Xu, I really feel this possibilitying from you!¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before he quickly waved his hands, ¡°You have too much expectation in me.¡±

    ¡°No! It isn¡¯t much at all!¡± Anklo seriously said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve only been in our duchy for a day and only saw a few things, but you already came up with a canned fruit factory and a rubber processing nt. If you could examine the entire duchy, how many new ideas would you have? If you could realize each one of those ideas, I dare guarantee there will berge changes with our duchy!¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re too exaggerated.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Investing in factories is just something small, but to change the entire country, that would depend on the people of the country.¡±

    After hearing this, Anklo was stunned. Suddenly he went from a balloon filled with hope to someone who was quickly deting whether it was his expression or his body.

    ¡°People¡­..¡± Anklo turned to look out the window and gave another bitterugh. He said with a soft sigh, ¡°To change these people, how could it be that simple¡­..¡±

    Seeing the deste look on Anklo¡¯s face, Xu Yi suddenly felt that it was the first time since he went from a passionate man to someone who was incredibly lonely.

    After a morning passed, the horse carriage brought Xu Yi and Anklo to Faraday City. Xu Yi was quickly brought by Anklo to see Duke Stantine and the other ministers of the Stantine Duchy.

    After a short meeting with the same fat Duke Stantine and the other ministers, Xu Yi suddenly realized why Anklo had felt so alone.

    Before seeing Duke Stantine, Xu Yi had thought that since the duke had taken the initiative to sell the Stantine Duchy¡¯s three mines to an unknownpany of another country, he would be a bold leader. He was nning on using these three mines to attractpanies from other countries to invest, changing the situation of the Stantine Duchy.

    But after seeing Duke Stantine and having lunch with him, Xu Yi found that after talking to him, his guesses on Duke Stantine had beenpletely wrong.

    This duke was not just fatter than head Wein, he was even greedier than head Wein.

    After seeing Xu Yi, with just a few greetings, Duke Stantine quickly changed the topic to the three mines.

    What made Xu Yi surprised was that Duke Stantine hadpletely different views from Anklo.

    When Anklo negotiated with Xu Yi, he hoped to obtain some technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for these three mines, but Duke Stantine directly asked Xu Yi how much he would pay to buy these three mines.

    When Xu Yi said that he hadn¡¯t checked these mines out yet and couldn¡¯t decide on the price, Duke Stantine and the other ministers actually forced Xu Yi to give a general estimate. They said that if Xu Yi gave them enough, they could even decide to sell the three mines to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now.

    Xu Yi was helpless, so he could only give an estimate of around one million to one and half million gold coins.

    He had estimated the three mines to be around two million gold coins, but after seeing the expressions of Duke Stantine and the other ministers, he didn¡¯t dare say one million to two million.

    This was because after they heard his price, the eyes of Duke Stantine and the other ministers lit up. They immediately ignored the offer of a million and set the price on one and half million.

    Xu Yi was almost certain that if he had said one million to two million, these fellows would have set the price at two million gold coins.

    Thinking about what Anklo had said on the way and seeing the greedy and happy expressions of Duke Stantine and the other ministers, Xu Yi thought that Anklo¡¯s appraisal of these people before wasn¡¯t that severe, but rather it had been quite conservative.

    They were far greedier and more unreliablepared to head Wein.

    To Xu Yi, the leaders of this duchy, including Duke Stantine were all greedy and unreliable!

 Volume 2 145 - Really a country? Xu Yi only stayed in

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 145 Really a country?</h4>

    Xu Yi only stayed in Faraday City for a day, then he headed to the three mines while being apanied by Anklo and two ministers sent by Duke Stantine.

    When he got there, Xu Yi saw the two dwarves from the Norma Tribe he had sent a month earlier.

    ording to what the dwarves had discovered ahead of time, these mines were rich in minerals. The two iron mines were even bigger than the one that Xu Yi had stolen from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce from before.

    Just with an estimate of around seven hundred thousand per iron mine, the value of these two iron mines already surpassed one and half million gold coins.

    This valuation was something that was forst year. ording to the increasing price of iron ore, these two iron mines might have a value of over two million gold coins.

    Although they had to consider the cost of mining in the Stantine Duchy, the Stantine Duchy was selling the permanent exploitation rights of these mines and it wasn¡¯t for a limited time like in the Lampuri Kingdom, so it was rather cost-effective.

    Of course, the permanent exploitation rights in front of state power was just a lie.

    But considering the condition of the other copper mine, these risks weren¡¯t considered much.

    ording to the reports of the dwarves, the copper mine¡¯s mineral resources were even richer than the two iron mines.

    This was a pleasant surprise for Xu Yi.

    His main goal this time was the copper mine and if the copper mine was that rich in resources, it would be a rich harvest.

    Because the two dwarves had explored it ahead of time, Xu Yi heading to the three mines was just a formality. After casually looking it over, he inspected the roads and the surrounding area before heading back to Faraday City.

    Over the next three days, Xu Yi had been haggling for every penny with Duke Stantine and his subordinates.

    Perhaps it was because his subordinates had reported that Xu Yi was very satisfied with the mines or perhaps it was because Xu Yi¡¯s starting price of one and half million gold coins gave them confidence, when they began negotiating, Duke Stantine started with a high price of two million gold coins.

    Although honestly speaking, using two million gold coins to buy these three mines was arge gain for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for Xu Yi to agree this simply. So with strong opposition and describing the ws of these three mines, he pressed the price down to a million gold coins.

    Duke Stantine and his subordinates were very loud during the discussions, looking quite powerful, but in the end, Xu Yi was the one that had the initiative in these negotiations.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t any otherpany that was willing to invest in a backwards ce like the Stantine Duchy. Xu Yi was their only choice and they couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Not to mention that the ws Xu Yi picked out was spearheaded at the backwards nature of the Stantine Duchy, so they couldn¡¯t refute it at all.

    So when Xu Yi expected the negotiations to be very difficult, he solved it in just three days.

    The final price the Stantine Duchy and Xu Yi set was one million three hundred and fifty gold coins.

    For three mines that had such rich reserves, this was considered as cheap as vegetables, giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a great bargain.

    Of course, there was much preparation work that needed to be done before he could start mining these mines.

    The poor nature of the Stantine Duchy, especially how bad the roads were around the mines would seriously impact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So Xu Yi was nning on immediately contacting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build a public road to the Stantine Duchy as soon as he returned to Banta City.

    When Xu Yi told Duke Stantine of his decision, it immediately made Duke Stantine and his ministers cheer out, although they didn¡¯t know what a public road was.

    After he finished the negotiations and reached an agreement, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on staying in the Stantine Duchy and prepared to return to the Lampuri Kingdom the next day.

    The night that the negotiations ended, Anklo who Xu Yi hadn¡¯t seen in several days suddenly appeared.

    When he saw Anklo¡¯s drunken appearance, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    From the first moment he saw Anklo, no matter when Xu Yi met him, he was alwayspetent and energetic, like he would never fall. Moreover, Xu Yi knew from the banquet in Anvilmar City that his alcohol tolerance was quite good, so why was he drunk today?

    It had to be known that the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t really have wine, so it wasn¡¯t easy for Anklo to get drunk on wine found within the country.

    ¡°Xu¡­..Chairman Xu¡­..con¡­..congrattions¡­¡­¡± Anklo gave a burp as he said this to Xu Yi with a face that didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and he signaled to the two maids he received from head Wein to help Anklo into the two story small log house that Duke Stantine had prepared for him. Then the two maids put a towel soaked in cold water on his face.

    Although the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t that cold during winter, on winter nights, the water was still quite cold.

    Anklo was woken up by the water and sobered up a bit. He opened his eyes to look at Xu Yi before spitting out a mouthful of liquor smell. He used the towel to wipe his face before sitting up to look at Xu Yi for a while. He suddenly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, can you talk with me for a bit?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before waving his hand to send off the maids.

    Anklo struggled to sit up and he walked out of the small building, sitting down in front of a beautiful littleke in front of the building.

    Xu Yi sat down beside him and waited for him to speak.

    After a while, Anklo suddenly revealed a smile of self ridicule, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think that I am an idiot?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head in surprise, ¡°Why would you think that? If you are an idiot, I think that most people in this country are idiots, right?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Anklo suddenly broke out inughter and only slowly stopped after a while. He pointed at Xu Yi as he said with a nod, ¡°Good, chairman Xu, you¡¯ve finally said the words in your heart. So in your mind, most people of this country are idiots. That¡¯s right, they are all idiots!¡±

    Seeing Anklo¡¯s face suddenly fill with anger, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    He was a bit confused. Why was it that after not seeing each other for a few days, Anklo had suddenly begun hating the entire world?

    Could it be because Duke Stantine and those ministers had pushed him out of the negotiations?

    ¡°Anklo, what do you want to say?¡± Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on beating around the bush with a drunk, that had no meaning.

    Anklo looked at Xu Yi and gave another burp before saying whileughing, ¡°What do I want to say? I want to say¡­..I really am an idiot. If I¡¯m not an idiot, why would I take the initiative to sell my country?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about the three mines, I feel that your description is a bit too excessive.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s just a few mines, not to mention, doesn¡¯t this coincide with the benefits of the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Coincide with the benefits?¡± Ankloughed, ¡°You¡¯re talking about the one million three hundred and fifty gold coins? Let me tell you, those gold coins will only fall into the pockets of the duke and those other despicable fellows. The duchy will never get a single copper coin. Oh, that¡¯s right, perhaps when you build the road, the duchy will receive some benefits. But just a single road? Ha! What can a single road change?¡±

    ¡°You forget, if those three mines begin operating, there will be more work opportunities.¡± Xu Yi reminded.

    Anklo suddenly stared right at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, be honest, are you nning on hiring our duchy¡¯s people? Or are you nning on sending people over from the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi was at a loss for words because he did have that n.

    Seeing Xu Yi not respond, Anklo suddenly gave a coldugh.

    ¡°Was I right? That¡¯s right, actually not only you, even I can¡¯t keep watching the people of our duchy. They are toozy, even if they are given work, they might not be willing to do it. If it was me, I would also choose to send people from the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Anklo, I can see that you¡¯re someone who loves his country and you¡¯re sincere about doing something for the Stantine Duchy, to make it stronger. But I¡¯ve always wanted to ask something, you¡­..really think that the Stantine Duchy is a country?¡±

    Anklo was suddenly stunned. After a while, there were tears that came from the corners of his eyes.

    After a while, Anklo broke out in tears. He was wailing while crying, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t hear what he was saying at all.

    Perhaps he had been too excited while shouting, not long after, Anklo broke out in coughs and fell onto the ground, as he vomited into theke.

    Xu Yi turned to call the two maids to prepare washing implements for Anklo and to prepare a clean back. When he looked back at Anklo who was crying and vomiting on the ground, looking like he was filled with pain, he sighed in his heart.

    Actually he already had this question in his heart, but he never had a chance to ask it.

    Although he had only been in the Stantine Duchy for a few days, Xu Yi could tell that the so-called Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t have the concept of a country at all.

    First, the country was ruled by Duke Stantine in name, but Duke Stantine was just controlling the area around Faraday City. Strictly speaking, he had the same rank as head Wein, only the area he controlled was a bit bigger.

    Secondly, when Xu Yi talked to the citizens of the Stantine Duchy, they didn¡¯t have any nationlist ideas at all.

    For these citizens, they only knew which noble ruled over them and they didn¡¯t care about the Stantine Duchy at all.

    If they felt dissatisfied with the noble controlling them, they could just run into the territory of another noble or hide in some corner. As long as nothing special happened, they didn¡¯t care who was above them at all.

    To put it simply, the Stantine Duchy was just a geographic term and not a country at all.

    If one was to put it in earth terms, the Stantine Duchy was like the UN and chiefs who controlled areas like head Wein and Duke Stantine were joined together.

    Because Duke Stantine¡¯s family had always been the biggest among them, he had the most power.

    So Duke Stantine¡¯s words didn¡¯t apply in the entire Stantine Duchy. The reason why he could sell those three mines was because those three mines were in the area Duke Stantine controlled.

    If they were mines in the area of another noble, he wouldn¡¯t even be able to sell them.

    Because of this, Xu Yi asked Anklo this question.

    But he never thought that Anklo¡¯s reaction would be this strong.

    This person who always stood by the Stantine Duchy might have really treated the Stantine Duchy as a real country. He wanted to change the country for the better and give better lives to the people of the country.

    But reality was cruel. He brought Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy with great difficulty and seeded in convincing Xu Yi to invest here.

    But Duke Stantine and his so-called ¡°ministers¡± only wanted money from Xu Yi, they didn¡¯t care about the idea of the Stantine Duchy at all.

    With this kind of situation, how could Anklo not feel depressed?

 Volume 2 146 - I need reliable person

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 146 I need reliable person</h4>

    Early next morning, Anklo woke up from the bed that the two maids prepared for him. He first felt his head ache and then he instantly recalled everything that happenedst night.

    Thinking of what he saidst night to Xu Yi and how rude he had been, he hated himself for not being able to forget everything like other people when they got drunk, rather clearly remembering what happened.

    After he went downstairs to see Xu Yi, it became even more awkward.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reveal any strange expressions and pointed opposite him, ¡°Sit, I think that you must be hungry.¡±

    Anklo had a rare blush on his face. After thinking about it, he pulled back the stool and without another word, he grabbed at the breakfast that had already been prepared on the table.

    Although he ate very quickly, Xu Yi found that he chewed every piece of food that he ate carefully before swallowing.

    Based on this, this Anklo was definitely someone with very good self discipline.

    Not long after, Anklo finished his breakfast and wiped his mouth, as the expression on his face returned to normal.

    Seeing his expression, Xu Yi gave a nod of praise.

    To be able to recover this quickly in this situation, it was enough to show that Anklo¡¯s mind was strong enough.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I lost control of myselfst night, so I¡¯m very sorry.¡± Anklo calmly said.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said with a wave of his hand, ¡°No need to mind, every person will lose control when they drink. But mister Anklo, have you really lost hope in the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Anklo¡¯s expression changed slightly, but he didn¡¯t hide anything in front of Xu Yi. He shook his head and said, ¡°No, although I am a bit disappointed, it is not despair. I still believe that with the right method, this country can be what I imagined.¡±

    ¡°But is your ideal Stantine Duchy anyone else¡¯s ideal?¡±

    Anklo¡¯s mouth twitched before he revealed a forced smile, ¡°I don¡¯t promise anything, but I believe that the ideal Stantine Duchy in my mind will at least let most of the citizens live a better life.¡±

    Xu Yi stared at Anklo for a bit before giving a slight nod, ¡°I have to say, I really admire someone with an idea like you because I am the same. But mister Anklo, I think that I don¡¯t need to remind you and you already know this. In my opinion, the best choice is to throw you away and cooperate with the important nobles like Duke Stantine and head Wein. I think that cooperating with them will give me less problems than cooperating with you.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s face suddenly changed and he took a deep breath, but he quickly returned to normal. He seriously looked at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I admit that cooperating with them is much more simple. I guarantee that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will receive many benefits in the short term like this, but in the long term, you will definitely be disappointed.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°This is also the problem that I¡¯m worried about, but although I care about benefits in the long term and I hope that I can cooperate with a smart person like you, mister Anklo, in the Stantine Duchy right now¡­..I¡¯m afraid you don¡¯t have enough power.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s expression became a bit depressed, but after a period of silence, he slowly said, ¡°I don¡¯t have any right now, that doesn¡¯t mean I won¡¯t have it in the future. With the opportunity of cooperating with yourpany, I think that I will slowly gain some influence.¡±

    ¡°I believe in your ability.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But I don¡¯t have the time to wait for you to gain this power. Mister Anklo, you should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops very quickly, so if we can¡¯t obtain the things we need from the Stantine Duchy now, we might not need those things from the Stantine Duchy in two years.¡±

    ¡°No!¡± Anklo quickly said in a loud voice, ¡°The Stantine Duchy definitely has things you need. Chairman Xu, I can guarantee that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can get enough benefits investing here!¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, the most important thing is time.¡± Xu YI wasn¡¯t moved as he said in a manner that allowed no questions, ¡°On this trip to the Stantine Duchy, I¡¯ve already spent a week of my time. Counting the time I need to get back, it might even surpass half a month of time. If I can¡¯t see anything that I can believe in in half a month, I can only regretfully give up on this ce. Mister Anklo, don¡¯t you think that I¡¯m right?¡±

    Anklo was silent for a bit before asking Xu Yi in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you need to make this decision?¡±

    ¡°I need a leader who makes me feel relieved in investing in this ce.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression became very serious, ¡°But to be honest, whether it is Duke Stantine or head Wein, they aren¡¯t qualified to make me feel assured. If I had to mention one person who could make me feel assured, I think that it is only you, mister Anklo.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s breathing became heavy and he stared at Xu Yi for a while before slowly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, what are you trying to say?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Mister Anklo, you are someone I praise as intelligent, I believe you can understand my meaning. Other than that, I believe that you have enough courage and abilities. Of course, if you feel this is difficult, I don¡¯t mind providing you with some help.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s breathing became even heavier, as it could be clearly heard in this small building.

    After a while, he slowly said with iparable difficulty.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can I ask what kind of help you can give me?¡±

    Hearing this question, the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face instantly became much brighter.

    ###

    Xu Yi stayed another two days in Faraday City before bidding farewell to Duke Stantine.

    Before leaving, he promised Duke Stantine that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would begin working on those three mines as soon as possible and he hoped that Duke Stantine would cooperate with him when the time came.

    Duke Stantine naturally promised that he would do everything he could to help, he wouldn¡¯t let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce encounter any problems in the Stantine Duchy.

    Of course he had a friendly look because even though they had just signed a contract, Xu Yi had already given him fifty thousand gold coins at once.

    The Stantine Duchy had a yearly revenue of less than two hundred thousand gold coins and arge part of that had to be paid for expenses to maintain his luxurious lifestyle, so he didn¡¯t have that much money.

    Now that Xu Yi could casually give him fifty thousand gold coins, not only did it let him see the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it also made him much friendlier towards Xu Yi.

    Thinking that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened the mines, they would be paying him another one million and three hundred thousand gold coins, Duke Stantine couldn¡¯t help shaking his fat as heughed.

    When he left Faraday City, naturally Anklo saw him off.

    But this time Anklo didn¡¯t bring anyone along and he left with Xu Yi, as well as the two maids head Wein gave in a horse carriage.

    The route they took when they left was a bit different from when they came.

    After the horse carriage left Faraday City, they went on a detour to the east. They selected a secluded ce in the middle and drove into some forest.

    Xu Yi jumped out of the horse carriage and said something Anklo before heading into the dense forest.

    When he could no longer see the horse carriage, Xu Yi called out, ¡°Alright, Agnes, you cane out now.¡±

    With a softugh, Agnes¡¯ familiar figure appeared beside him and unexpected to Xu Yi, she threw herself at him.

    Feeling the warmth from Agnes and the soft fragrance she gave, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    ¡°Agnes, what¡¯s wrong? Were you bullied?¡± When Xu Yi asked this, his eyes looked over at three Moon Shadow Tribe elves that had appeared with an unkind gaze.

    The leader of the three elves was the one who received the letter from Xu Yist time. Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s unfriendly look, he immediately said with knit brows, ¡°Human, you¡¯re doubting us? I already saidst time, Agnes is a guest from afar, how could we bully her?¡±

    ¡°Yes, the Moon Shadow Tribe has been very good to me.¡± Agnes let go of Xu Yi and asked this with a curious gaze.

    How did she look like she was being bullied?

    ¡°Why are you suddenly hugging me if you¡¯re not being bullied?¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°You scared me, I thought that you were like a human girl, hugging me and crying after being bullied by someone.¡±

    ¡°Human girls will hug you and cry when they are being bullied?¡± Agnes was even more curious, ¡°But I just wanted to hug you after seeing you, there was no other meaning.¡±

    ¡°You just wanted to hug me?¡± Xu Yi looked at Agnes with wide eyes, ¡°Why did you suddenly want to hug me? You¡¯ve been with me for this long, I¡¯ve never seen you do this before.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, why was it like this this time¡­..¡± What made Xu Yi angry and what he found funny was that Agnes was seriously considering this question.

    Seeing her serious look of consideration, Xu Yi could only shake his head. He asked the elf, ¡°Since you sent people to see me again, does that mean that elder Lisanya Shadow Song is willing to see me?¡±

    The male elf nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, the elder had us invite you to our tribe as a guest. Please.¡±

    Seeing the other male and female elf curiously look over him, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He pulled Agnes who was still thinking it over and walked deeper into the forest while following the male elf.

    Before they took two steps, Agnes suddenly woke up and loudly said, ¡°I know why! Chairman I suddenly wanted to hug you because I missed you!¡±

    Xu Yi and the other three elves looked at Agnes in surprise.

    Seeing the smiling Agnes who let out a sigh of relief from finally solving this problem, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help patting his head.

    This Agnes, just how much of a natural fool was she¡­...

 Volume 2 147 - Moon Shadow Tribeâ€™s decision

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 147 Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s decision</h4>

    Like the legends said, although the elf tribe had an equal number of males and females, the ones in important positions were normal female elves.

    The Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder illusia was a female elf and the Moon Shadow Tribe had three elders who were all female elves.

    Elder Lisanya Shadow Song was the eldest of the three elders, so she was the elder with the highest position.

    ording to what elder Illusia had told Xu Yi, she was already close to four hundred years old and she was several decades older than elder Illusia.

    But just based on her appearance, she wasn¡¯t that different from a human girl who was in her early twenties. She seemed quite close to elder Illusia when it came to age.

    Because of the letter elder Illusia sent, elder Lisanya Shadow Song wasn¡¯t as vignt and hostile towards Xu Yi as the average elf, rather she looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with curiosity.

    ¡°Human, based on your appearance, there isn¡¯t anything special about you. Although you are a human magician, I can tell that you aren¡¯t that strong. I¡¯m very curious, why does Illusia have such a different view of you?¡± Elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s first words directly expressed the curiosity in her heart.

    Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Elder Shadow Song, I think that Agnes has told you many things about me in the past few days.¡±

    ¡°Yes, Agnes seems to like you very much. She has told me all about your merits, she even feels that you saved the entire elven race.¡± Elder Lisanya Night Song looked over Xu Yi again before shaking her head, ¡°But I don¡¯t see this possibility.¡±

    ¡°Elder Shadow Song, this matter can¡¯t be seen that easily. Of course, I don¡¯t feel that it¡¯s as exaggerated as Agnes says it is. Only I feel that if the elf race didn¡¯t close itself off and lived in harmony with us humans, there won¡¯t be any dangers to the elf tribe and there wouldn¡¯t be anything to save.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Live in harmony with humans?¡± Elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s expression was a bit depressed as she thought of the past, ¡°Before the race wars, humans did indeed live in harmony with elves for a long time. But after the humans felt they were strong enough, they immediately dered war without a care. Since then, there has been no chance of humans and elves living in harmony.¡±

    ¡°You care too much about history.¡± Xu Yi said without any politeness, ¡°Although we humans also respect history, we humans also know that history is just history. Things in the past have already passed. Now that there has been several thousand years since the race wars, the grudge between humans and elves have already disappeared. Since the Night Song Tribe elves can live in harmony with us humans, I think that the elves of other tribes can do the same.¡±

    ¡°I do admire Illusia¡¯s courage, she actually conquered her heart for the sake of her tribe¡¯s survival. But¡­..Our Moon Shadow Tribe isn¡¯t facing the same dangers as the Night Song Tribe, so we can still survive even if we don¡¯t live with humans. So, human, I have met you because of Illusia¡¯s letter, but I feel there is no need to continue this. Please leave.¡±

    Seeing the calm expression on elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    These elves, although they seemed to be uncaring, to Xu Yi, it was clearly their pride.

    The elves of the continent were clearly facing a matter of life and death, but she said that they weren¡¯t in any danger at all.

    Should it be said that the elves were too proud or she didn¡¯t notice the issue at all?

    Thinking of how the Moon Shadow Tribe had three thousand elves and how they acted with the humans of the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi felt it was more likely that it was thetter.

    After all, Xu YI knew many elves. Even if they were proud, they had the same advantage which was that they recognized facts.

    Since elder Lisanya Shadow Song said that she didn¡¯t think the Moon Shadow Tribe was in danger, this must mean that she really felt this way.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that he shouldn¡¯t beat around the bush with her. After thinking about it, he directly asked, ¡°Elder Shadow Song, you say that your Moon Shadow Tribe isn¡¯t in danger, then I want to ask something. May I ask¡­..How many elves does that Moon Shadow Tribe have right now?¡±

    Elder Lisanya Shadow Song asked back in surprise, ¡°What are you asking this for?¡±

    ¡°Because the poption is a measure of the race¡¯s prosperity. If the poption of a race keeps growing, that means that the race is in the process of increasing their prosperity. If the poption keeps falling, it means that the race is facing a crisis. Elder Shadow Song, has the poption of the Moon Shadow Tribe increased or dropped in thest ten years or hundred years?¡±

    Elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s expression changed slightly.

    As the oldest elder of the Moon Shadow Tribe, she was very clear that the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s poption hasn¡¯t changed much in thest ten years, butpared to a hundred years ago, the Moon Shadow Tribe didn¡¯t even have 90% of the same poption!

    In just a hundred years, the Moon Shadow Tribe had lost at least a tenth of their poption.

    Based on this trend, perhaps in less than a thousand years, the Moon Shadow Tribe would naturally disappear from the continent.

    Seeing the expression on elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s face, Xu Yi knew that his guesses weren¡¯t wrong.

    Actually it wasn¡¯t just the Night Song Tribe or the Moon Shadow Tribe, it should be said that after the race wars, the poption of the elves on the continent kept decreasing.

    The reason why elves were rarely seen on the Sines Continent, other than elves being unwilling to contact humans, the more important reason was that elves were bing even more scarce.

    ording to this trend, in just another thousand years, the elves would be a rare race like the pandas in China on earth.

    It was because of this terrifying trend that after elder Illusia met Xu Yi, she began chasing the possibility of elves living together with humans. She wanted the elves to return to the continent and give the elves a new lease on life with a new lifestyle.

    Elder Illusia made such a bold choice because of the Night Song Tribe¡¯s crisis and the Moon Shadow Tribe wasn¡¯t facing a crisis right now, so elder Lisanya Shadow Song didn¡¯t spare this idea a thought.

    But when Xu Yi mentioned this question, elder Lisanya Shadow Song couldn¡¯t help facing this fact.

    At this time, she suddenly remembered something elder Illusia had mentioned in her letter.

    In the letter, elder Illusia had said that since they started cooperating with humans, the Night Song Tribe actually had three newly born elves in just a short year!

    For the Night Song Tribe with a poption of less than a thousand elves, this was a birth rate that was unimaginable!

    Even back before the race wars, when the elves were at their peak, the entire elf n¡¯s birth rate never surpassed one in a thousand. Now for a small elf tribe like the Night Song Tribe, it actually reached three in one thousand!

    If adding in the fact that the elves had several times the lifespan of humans, this birth rate was close to reaching that of humans!

    Elder Illusia wasn¡¯t clear what the reason for this change was, but she had pointed out in her letter that whether it was this change in the birth rate or the change with her tribe¡¯s nsmen, it all happened after the appearance of this human called Xu Yi.

    Although she didn¡¯t know the reason, perhaps this Xu Yi was the key.

    Thinking of this and thinking about how there was the possibility of elves producing as fast as humans, elder Lisanya Shadow Song looked at Xu Yi with a friendlier gaze.

    ###

    Three dayster, Xu Yi¡¯s group returned to Samara Town.

    Compared to when they left, other than Xu Yi and Agnesing back, there were the two maids that head Wein had given Xu Yi and three female elves that hade from the Shadow Song Tribe.

    These three female elves had followed Xu Yi back to the Lampuri Kingdom because of elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s orders.

    ording to what elder Lisanya Shadow Song said, these three female elves were envoys she sent to the Night Song Tribe. Other than giving her regards to elder Illusia, they would also be following Xu Yi for some time, learning about the human world like Agnes.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t object to this, he didn¡¯t have any hope that a simple meeting would allow him to cooperate with the Shadow Song Tribe.

    To let elder Night Song understand his cooperation model with the Night Song Tribe with these three elves and then make her decision afterwards was also good.

    But what he couldn¡¯t understand was why elder Lisanya Shadow Song sent three elves at once and why they were all beautiful female elves.

    The strangest thing was that properly speaking, she should send elves with enough experience for this, but she had sent three elves who weren¡¯t even a hundred years old yet.

    Changing it into human years, it meant that they weren¡¯t even twenty years old.

    Three silly girls who weren¡¯t even twenty years old, what could they understand?

    Xu Yi had many questions about this, but looking at Agnes beside him, he took back those questions.

    Back then, elder Illusia had sent Agnes who wasn¡¯t even an adult in human years yet. What elder Shadow Song was doing now was probably a simple imitation of this.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t a problem for him.

    Rather he just wanted to show what the cooperation between him and the Night Song Tribe was like to elder Lisanya Night Song. These young girls would give the most simple reports, so it would be easier for elder Shadow Song to understand.

    As for the final result, Xu Yi was feeling very confident.

    Especially when he saw that the road that led to the ck Rice Wastnd outside Samara Town was almost done.

 Volume 2 148 - A present for Vivian

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 148 A present for Vivian</h4>

    The distance between Samara Town and the Voller Tribe was around twenty kilometers. When building the road, because they had to avoid some things, the distance was around thirty kilometers.

    For this road, with the previous Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s speed, it could be finished in around a month at the fastest.

    For Xu Yi¡¯s trip to the Stantine Duchy this time, it took a total of ten days and this road was already close to being finished.

    That meant that their work speed had increased by three times!

    Why was it this fast?

    Xu Yi had his doubts as he looked for chairman Cruise who was in Samara Town with several carriages of cargo that he was about to transport to the Voller Tribe.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s fast.¡± Chairman Cruise proudly said, ¡°This time I brought out two construction teams and they worked around the clock to finish this road, so it would be strange if it wasn¡¯t this fast.¡±

    ¡°Would there be problems with the quality?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows.

    ¡°There won¡¯t be.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°Actually the most important reason it was this quick was not because I brought two construction teams, rather ourpany used our newest technique to increase the construction speed, while guaranteeing the quality won¡¯t drop. How about it? Isn¡¯t it powerful?¡±

    Xu Yi was instantly curious. Whether it was the cement, the reinforced cement, or the concrete road technology, it was all given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce by him. Now that he could take out a new kinds of technique, it really was surprising.

    ¡°What technique? It can actually let you keep building roads in this kind of cold weather? Won¡¯t the road crack?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice.

    ¡°Want to know?¡± Seeing Xu Yi nod, chairman Cruise gave a proudugh and stretched his hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Isn¡¯t it easy if you want to know? Take out money to buy it, I¡¯ll definitely tell you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t want to say it. Anyway, mypany doesn¡¯t work on building roads, it¡¯s no use even if we know.¡±

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°Of course I know that it¡¯s no use to yourpany, but you¡¯ve always stretched your hands out to me to make me buy the technology, now I can finally do the same to you. Ha, ha, this feeling really is great!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll stop joking. The worker dorms near the mine have already been built, the problem is, how do we take care of the workers for the mine?¡± Chairman Cruise stoppedughing and asked Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°If we are hiring the beastmen, chairman Renersa¡¯s worries need to be solved as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ll look for Count Sean when I get back to Banta City and then I¡¯ll report it to her highness Seveni. I think that her highness should agree to my ideas, but it might take some time to make a decision. Before this, keep preparing the mine and doing what you two need to do.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s easy.¡± Chairman Cruise looked in the direction of the Voller Tribe and said, ¡°It is impossible for me to stay here. There are more and more people asking ourpany to build roads and after the City Lords of the other cities saw the Vani Orchid Suburb, they were very satisfied with it and were nning to build the same suburbs in their own territories. I¡¯m mainly busy with this work right now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Cruise with a bit of surprise. Could it be that the real estate market was blooming in the Lampuri Kingdom?

    Thinking about it, with the current poption and economic level of the Lampuri Kingdom, it didn¡¯t meet the demands of the real estate market, so there was no foundation for development at all.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t care about this. Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and said, ¡°Right now I also need you to build roads for me.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi wanted him to build a road from Samara Town to the Stantine Duchy, chairman Cruise wasn¡¯t that surprised. He said with a sigh, ¡°I knew it, you would definitely build roads wherever you do business.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course. Building roads to be rich was said by me first, how could I not follow this slogan?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine building the road, but chairman Xu, as for that Magic Car¡­..I hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop it as soon as possible. I¡¯ve already started recruiting arge number of workers, if your Magic Car keeps getting dyed, ourpany will incurrge losses.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t only give a bitter smile, ¡°You think I don¡¯t want to make it sooner? Let me tell you, once the most important thing is developed, not only the Magic Car, all kinds of things that you never would have imagined woulde out at once. I can say that these things can create a heaven shaking change on the continent!¡±

    Chairman Cruise dug in his ears, ¡°Alright, my ears are numb from hearing this already, say it when you¡¯ve developed this thing.¡±

    Faced with chairman Cruise¡¯s disdain, Xu Yi could only give a shrug.

    To let the people of the continent understand the life changing revolution brought by the engine, it really wasn¡¯t realistic.

    But if the engine was developed, Xu Yi could let everyone be shocked by the changes it brings!

    ###

    Xu Yi only had time to take a look at the Voller Tribe and then have a simple talk with chief Voller, further confirming the n to hire beastmen workers. Then he brought Agnes and the three Moon Shadow Tribe female elves to the Falling Rain Forest.

    After meeting elder Illusia and giving her a simple description of his meeting with elder Lisanya Shadow Song, Xu Yi left the Falling Rain Forest.

    The three female elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe arrived at the Night Song Tribe under elder Lisanya Shadow Song¡¯s orders, so there must be some secret elven information they had to discuss and it wasn¡¯t convenient for a human like Xu Yi to be there.

    The more important thing was that he had left Banta City for half a month and he missed Still.

    ¡°Ah, Xu Yi, you¡¯re finally back¡­.Wu¡­..¡±

    When Still saw Xu Yi, she had just called out in surprise before her mouth was forcefully covered by Xu Yi¡¯s lips.

    She didn¡¯t know what to do at first because of her pleasant surprise, but she passionately replied afterwards.

    When the two got engaged at new years, Xu Yi had left for half a month, so Still already missed him.

    Now that Xu Yi was this enthusiastic and passionate in seeing her, it instantly let her feel Xu Yi¡¯s feelings for her and filled her heart with joy.

    The two kissed for several minutes before finally splitting apart. Still¡¯s face was covered in a strong blush and her hands covered her eyes, but she could see through her fingers that Vivian was secretly spying on them. She stopped the blush of her face and hit Xu Yi as she reprimanded, ¡°Vivian is here, stop ruining kids like this.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Is Vivian still a child? She¡¯s already sixteen, she¡¯s a big girl now.¡±

    Vivian put down her hands and with a blush, she gave a strong nod, ¡°Un, I¡¯m already grown up.¡±

    Still¡¯s eyes passed over Vivian¡¯s chest that was growing with each day and found that she had made a mistake.

    When Xu Yi had bought Vivian, she was a frail and thin child, but after a year, she had be a beautiful young girl.

    ¡°Vivian, for your sixteenth birthday, I brought you a gift.¡± Xu Yi suddenly said with a smile.

    ¡°Gift?¡± Vivian and Still watched as Xu Yi walked out in confusion. He brought in two beautiful girls who were a bit bigger than Vivian with darker skin, but also looked healthier than her.

    ¡°These two are¡­..¡± Still looked at the two girls who suddenly appeared in surprise.

    ¡°Oh, I¡¯ll tell you where they came fromter. Liz, Linda, this is Still, she is my fiancee¡­..¡±

    When Xu Yi introduced Still, the two girls immediately kneeled down in front of Still and Vivian¡¯s shocked gazes. Their heads were very low as they said in a respectful voice, ¡°Greetings to the madame.¡±

    Still was shocked, but she reacted after thinking for a bit.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you bought two ves after going on a trip? And they¡¯re both beautiful young girls? You¡­..Are you a pervert?¡±

    ¡°How am I a pervert?¡± Xu Yi snappily looked at her. He pulled the two girls up and said to them with a serious look, ¡°You don¡¯t need to act like you did with head Wein at my ce, there¡¯s no need to kneel. Look, she is called Vivian, she is my ve in name, but she definitely won¡¯t bow to others easily. Isn¡¯t that right, Vivian?¡±

    Vivian looked over at the two girls before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Master, you bought more ves?¡±

    ¡°Un, how about it? I found twopanions for you. Their age is around the same and they have the same status, so you should havemon interests. Other than that, the two of them came from the Stantine Duchy, so you can talk to them about the Stantine Duchy. That ce has many interesting things, you will definitely be interested.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Vivian immediately broke out with a smile. She pulled Liz and Linda away as she kept asking them questions.

    Perhaps it was because Vivian was also a ve, so while Liz and Linda were cautious at first, they rxed not long after and began chatting with Vivian.

    Seeing the three young girls happily chatting, Still turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°What did you gain from the Stantine Duchy this time? Don¡¯t tell me that you only bought these two beautiful young girls back, right?¡±

    ¡°What if I said I didn¡¯t buy them and people gave them to me?¡± Xu Yi continued with a smile, ¡°Alright, other than them, I didn¡¯t get much this time from the Stantine Duchy. But I saw through a person and this person¡­..can very likely help me control the entire Stantine Duchy in the future¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 149 - Xu Yiâ€™s decision

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 149 Xu Yi¡¯s decision</h4>

    The ones that wanted to work during winter were not just the Stantine Duchy, it also included Count Sean.

    The flow of the river was weaker during winter, so they seized this chance to improve the Sandy River at Banta City and began cleaning up the silt.

    During this cleanup, therge Magic Excavator developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared for the first time.

    Compared to the small Magic Excavators used to transform farmnd, although the newly developedrge Magic Excavators couldn¡¯tpare to the ones on earth, being pulled by horse carriages, it still mimicked a foundational excavator arm. As long as it was in ce, it could dig up dirt like the small excavators from earth,

    With the help of magic machines, the river silt cleanup job went very smoothly. It only took two months and the silt that had built up near Banta City over the years had beenpletely removed. The entire river had dropped by close to five meters.

    At the same time, downriver of Banta City, the canal connecting the Sandy River to the Rum River was already being dug.

    ording to Porter who was in charge of this project, it would take around a year to a year and a half before this canal was dug.

    Considering the future of the Sandy River renovations and the canal being dug, Count Sean followed Xu Yi¡¯s decision to build a dam upstream of the river.

    Other than preventing floods, this dam had another function that Xu Yi hadn¡¯t told Count Sean about yet, which was to be used as an hydroelectric power station.

    If they followed Xu Yi¡¯s n, even if the flow of the river wasn¡¯t that strong, this hydro power station would be enough to provide energy for Banta City.

    But Xu Yi was only a mechanical engineer and wasn¡¯t that familiar with generating electricity. So even if he had developed the magic powered Wind Generator, he couldn¡¯t develop a Hydro Generator to create a corresponding hydro power station.

    So when constructing the dam, Xu Yi just told chairman Cruise about his ideas for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to leave enough space at the dam to build a hydro power station in the future.

    When researching the Hydro Generator, Xu Yi found an important problem.

    Perhaps he couldbine magic with his mechanical engineering theoretical knowledge, making all kinds of new magic machines in this world, but his abilities were limited in the end.

    For something like a Hydro Generator that waspletely out of his expertise, he didn¡¯t have much knowledge on this topic.

    To create an imitation, it wasn¡¯t impossible with his current abilities, but it would be very hard.

    Right now his time could be considered very precious, so he didn¡¯t have that much time to waste on this kind of research.

    So this was a very contradictory problem.

    He really wanted to copy the important parts of the industrial system from earth and create a simrlyplete industrial system on the Sines Continent, but he was not god, so it was impossible for him to do everything.

    ¡°Don¡¯t do the things you can¡¯t do, just give it to others.¡± Hearing Xu Yi talk about his worries, Still said with a rxed smile, ¡°Xu Yi, you are a person, not a god. There are definitely things that you can¡¯t do. If you¡¯re worrying about this, you¡¯re just causing trouble for yourself. Then again, why are you so impatient about finishing all these things?¡±

    Xu Yi could only shake his head and let out a sigh.

    Of course it was impossible for him to tell Still that he transmigrated from earth, so although he told her his worries, he could only vaguely say a few things. It was impossible for Still to understand why he was so troubled.

    ¡°Alright, stop wasting time thinking about this, you should use your time to do other things.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t get better, Still changed the topic, ¡°You said that other than magic machines, there are many things you can¡¯t do, so it¡¯s very simple. You just need to do your best when ites to magic machines. For example, it doesn¡¯t matter if you can¡¯t create that whatever Hydro Generator, didn¡¯t you already develop the Wind Magic Generator? You just need to finish that thing and I feel you can still aplish your goal.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t do the things I can¡¯t do?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still with a surprised expression as his eyes revealed an unwilling look.

    Still held his face and gave him an honest nod.

    ¡°Yes, each person has their limits, so even if you work very hard and surpass everyone I know, you will still have your limit. This is something that grandfather warned me about before, having me not waste time on magic that I wasn¡¯t good at when I was studying magic.¡±

    ¡°The magic world is limitless, a magician definitely can¡¯t explore everything. For a magician, the most important thing is studying the magic they excel in to the peak. If they can do this, they can be a powerful and outstanding magician, even changing the entire magic world. I think that this is something that is appropriate for describing you.¡±

    Hearing Still¡¯s gentle encouragement, Xu Yi fell into thought.

    After a while, his gaze gradually returned to normal.

    Still was right, a person¡¯s power was limited and it was impossible for them to achieve everything they wanted.

    Although he wanted to copy the industrial system from earth to the continent, the truth was that other than him, there was no one that had any knowledge on what the industrial system was.

    The industrial system was arge andplicated system, even if he was talented in mechanical engineering, having deep knowledge and understanding, it didn¡¯t mean that he had the same ability in other aspects.

    As a mechanical engineer, he should understand the meaning of the word ¡°efficiency¡± better than anyone.

    Since his efficiency in studying a domain he wasn¡¯t good at was low, that meant that he shouldn¡¯t waste his precious time studying this.

    Compared to this, it was better to focus on his strong points and further explore the domain he excelled in.

    Since magic machines were where his power was at, even being able to surpass the machines on earth, why wouldn¡¯t he just continue studying this and why would he waste time on other things?

    He didn¡¯t have knowledge on Hydro Generators, so the research speed was slow?

    Then he wouldn¡¯t study it for now.

    As long as the Wind Magic Generator and the Fire Magic Generator that Evita proposedst time worked, he could achieve his desired effects with them or even surpass them.

    Even with the Hydro Generator, Akali had proposed to directly use Water Magic Arrays to solve this problem, which could rece the use of a water current.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly found that it wasn¡¯t just him who had unique ideas in this world, other people weren¡¯tckingpared to him.

    After thinking of this, it was like a light bulb lit up in Xu Yi¡¯s mind and he couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Ha, ha¡­..Ha¡­..St¡­..Still, you¡¯re right, you¡¯re absolutely right!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t breathe from hisughing, which Still couldn¡¯t help being stunned by, ¡°Not doing the things I can¡¯t do. Un, how could I finish this all by myself? The things that I can¡¯t do, I¡¯ll just leave it for the people of the continent to do in the future. As for me, I¡¯ll just do the things that I can do and should do.¡±

    Although Still didn¡¯t know what Xu Yi meant by this, seeing how happy he was, she knew that he had thought it through, so she was also happy.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you just need to focus on what you excel in.¡± Still said.

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded before saying, ¡°But I also can¡¯t just ignore the other things. Although I can¡¯t do it, I believe that other people can do it. I just need to give the idea and then someone will finish those desires for me. Still, I think I know what I should do!¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi with a confused gaze.

    What was he nning on doing?

    ###

    Three dayster, the ?Banta Times? used the front page, the second page, and the third page to publish an article by Xu Yi.

    The title of this article was ¡°The world in my eyes¡±.

    Seeing this title, there were many people who were confused, but also curious.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a strangepany to people, so everyone was interested in Xu Yi. What would the so-called ¡°world in his eyes¡± be like?

    The introduction of the article immediately attracted the attention of everyone who read it.

    ¡°Why does the sun always rise in the east and set in the west? Why is lightning always followed by thunder? Why does an apple fall from the tree to the ground? In the minds of many people, perhaps these three questions are very dumb because this is what everyone considers natural, so there is no why. But to me, these questions all have answers¡­..¡±

    In the next few paragraphs, Xu Yi gave a general introduction to the movement of heavenly bodies, theyers of clouds in the sky, as well as the topic of gravity.

    Although he described it vaguely because of many problems, the people who read this article could see that what he said wasn¡¯t nonsense, rather it was quite reasonable.

    So this article easily attracted the curiosity of the people.

    That¡¯s right, why?

    There were many things that people were used to, so they didn¡¯t ask why it happened, but even if they were ustomed to it, there was some reason behind it.

    After evoking the curiosity of the reader, Xu Yi changed the topic and began to give a general description of the use of magic machines.

    After describing the impact and convenience of magic machines, Xu Yi used the final part of the article to describe the future prospects of magic machines.

    In his description, as long as magic machines could keep developing, not only Banta City or the Lampuri Kingdom, the entire world would undergo a world shaking change. Everyone¡¯s lives would bepletely different from before.

    Xu Yi used fine and careful description to paint a picture of what happened after magic machines became popr before announcing two pieces of news that people never would have imagined.

    The first was that in the future, he would be publishing a series of books on basic magic machine theory that would let everyone who was interested in magic machines know how they were made and why they had their functions.

    If the first piece of news was enough to shock everyone, when they saw the second piece of news, they were even more shocked.

    The second piece of news was that Xu Yi was prepared to open a school in his name!

    What was more unusual was that this school wasn¡¯t a magic school and wasn¡¯t a vocational school that taught various skills, rather it was a school that taught basic knowledge. It would let the students learn what Xu Yi considered basic knowledge and deepen their understanding of the world.

    This knowledge included the questions that he had included in this article.

    After seeing the article in the ?Banta Times?, not only did other people not understand what Xu Yi was doing, even the people by Xu Yi¡¯s side didn¡¯t understand.

    Still immediately looked for Xu Yi after seeing the article.

    ¡°I can understand your first decision since you have always hoped that the people of the Sines Continent can participate in making magic machines to promote the development of the magic machine industry. Although this would create manypetitors for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you don¡¯t really care.¡±

    Still knit her brows and looked at the ?Banta Times? in her hand again, as her eyes filled with confusion.

    ¡°But your second decision¡­.it¡¯s too strange. Why are you opening up this kind of school? Money isn¡¯t a problem for you, but what about time? Do you have that much time to teach kids?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t reply to Still¡¯s question. He tossed the Frestech Primary School¡¯s foundational n that he madest night over to Still.

    ¡°Take a look. After you read it through, you should understand.¡±

    Still looked it over doubtfully, as the confused look on her face gradually disappeared.

    After seeing this document that had Xu Yi¡¯s ns for the school, Still had a general understanding of Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts.

    But after thinking for a bit, she couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Although I understand what you¡¯re doing, I don¡¯t understand, why are you doing this? Will this help you promote magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Although this doesn¡¯t seem like it¡¯ll help promote magic machines and isn¡¯t rted, the so-called industrial system was not just the magic machine industry. I want to create this school toy seeds down on the Sines Continent. As for when those seeds will grow and what fruits they will bear, that is not something I am considering now.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit before shaking her head and saying with a sigh, ¡°There are times when I really don¡¯t know what you are thinking, but forget it. Since you are doing this thing, I will support it. Who told me to be your fiancee.¡±

    After saying this, Still gave Xu Yi a mischievous smile.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he reached out his hands to hug her and give her a kiss. Seeing the happy smile on her face, his heart was also filled with happiness.

    If Still hadn¡¯t helped him think things through, he would still be confused and wouldn¡¯t know what path he should be walking.

    Perhaps people wouldn¡¯t understand his two decisions, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t need them to understand.

    He just knew that after making these two decision, he was much more rxed and the n in his mind for the future became clearer.

    Although even Still didn¡¯t understand why he wanted to create this school, Xu Yi was certain that on the future Sines Continent, this school would spring up everywhere and their numbers would be several times that of magic schools.

    Of course, this was not something that the present Xu Yi who had thought things through considered.

    In the end, this school was just a bit offort for himself after he made his decision.

 Volume 2 150 - Magic Trebuchet

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 150 Magic Trebuchet</h4>

    While everyone was waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s books and his new school, Xu Yi had secretly gone to Anvilmar City alone.

    This time he didn¡¯t see anyone and just directly went to the army headquarters¡¯ logistics department to see Major MacConley.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that you went to the Stantine Duchy?¡± When major MacConley saw Xu Yi, he immediately asked this with a smile, ¡°What do you think about the Stantine Duchy? Do you feel that there¡¯s no cure for it at all?¡±

    Hearing this question, Xu Yi immediately understood. It wasn¡¯t just him who knew about theziness of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people and the greed of the upper ss, this wasmon knowledge among people.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that there¡¯s no saving them at all, but¡­..¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a bitter smile, ¡°To do things on that side is indeed difficult.¡±

    Major MacConleyughed as he patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°If you want to take care of things, you should just stay in our Lampuri Kingdom. Especially for someone with skills like yours, you don¡¯t need to waste your time in a ce like the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him. If thends of the Lampuri Kingdom were as wide as the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire, with resources as rich as those empires, he would be willing to develop in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom was just a small country on the Sines Continent and their resources weren¡¯t that rich. Most of the resources were already divided among the nobles, so there wasn¡¯t anything for Xu Yi and a new smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to handle.

    Just like with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Jole Family. ording to Xu Yi¡¯s real wishes, he would want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to control all the non-ferrous metal mines in the Lampuri Kingdom. But he was clear that the Jole Family wouldn¡¯t be that generous, so he could only adopt this method of cooperation to receive preferential treatment from the Jole Family.

    As someone who transmigrated from earth, Xu YI was very clear on the importance of controlling resources.

    There was no chance in the Lampuri Kingdom for now, so Xu Yi had to set his eyes on other ces.

    The reason why he went to the ck Rice Wastnd to mine non-ferrous metals under the eyes of the beastmen and even ran to the Stantine Duchy to buy three mines, not giving up even after finding out that Duke Stantine wasn¡¯t that reliable, it was because as long as he could control the resources in those two ces, they would bepletely controlled by Xu Yi.

    To control his most precious energy resources in his hands, it was fine even if he had to pay a price.

    Of course, to do this, he had to take care of a very important problem first.

    Xu Yi gave major MacConley a signal with his eyes and major MacConley looked around before bringing Xu Yi to a secret room.

    ¡°You already developed it this quickly?¡± As soon as the door closed, major MacConley looked at Xu Yi with a look of expectation and excitement.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took out a set of blueprints for major MacConley.

    Major MacConley quickly took them and didn¡¯t care about Xu Yi as he went over them.

    After taking a few looks, major MacConley¡¯s eyes began to light up. When he reached the end, he had a smile of joy and excitement.

    After reading the final page, major MacConley pped his thigh and broke out inughter.

    ¡°Great! Great! If we can use this Magic Trebuchet, our army¡¯s battle strength will greatly increase!¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course. Although we haven¡¯t done any tests yet, this Magic Trebuchet is madepletely out of steel and it has strong momentum, so in theory the greatest weight it can throw is one ton! Moreover, there is no need to adjust for a long time like with a traditional trebuchet. ording to our current estimates, it won¡¯t take more than half a minute to reload and set after each shot.¡±

    ¡°That means that as long as the stones can be loaded fast enough, it can even fire two stones in one minute?¡± Major MacConley asked withrge eyes.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°Moreover, this is just the first generation Magic Trebuchet. If you weren¡¯t in such a rush, I wanted to develop another generation of Rapid Fire Magic Trebuchets to bring over.¡±

    ¡°Rapid Fire Magic Trebuchets?¡± Major MacConley¡¯s bright eyes lit up even more, ¡°Could it be that it can fire continuously?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much. To be specific, the Magic Trebuchet can be filled with stones and after it is adjusted, it can fire all the loaded stones. The soldiers in charge of the Magic Trebuchet just needs to prepare enough stones to put into the ammo box of the trebuchet.¡±

    ¡°Ammo box?¡± Major MacConley knit his brows to think before reacting, ¡°This is a special box to put stones?¡±

    ¡°Un, the reason why I named it an ammo box was because to me, the stones of a trebuchet is its ammo.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi paused before a smile with a deep meaning appeared on his face, ¡°Actually if I have to say it, stones really can¡¯t be considered ammunition¡­¡­¡±

    Major MacConley looked at Xu Yi and had questions in his heart. But since Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to talk about this, he thought about it before asking questions rted to the Magic Trebuchet.

    After understanding the basic knowledge, Major MacConley gave a nod, ¡°Alright, this Magic Trebuchet is quite good. Although it needs to be discussed with the generals back at the army headquarters first, I think that it should pass. Chairman Xu, can I ask you, how long will it take for yourpany to produce Magic Trebuchets?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t being produced right now, so I can¡¯t give you an exact time. But ording to the estimates of the research facility, if we were to produce it, it would take at least a week at first to make one.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually only a week? This fast!¡± Major MacConley had a look of shock, ¡°I thought that with howplicated this thing was, it would take at least several months to make one.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he thought that he estimated the miracle of industry too much.

    This was because the industrial system of the Sines Continent was too weak. Even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯tpare to therge factories on earth, so it took them a week to finish a Magic Trebuchet.

    This Magic Trebuchet looked veryplex to major MacConley and had shocked him, but to a mechanical engineer like Xu Yi, it was very simple and wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    If this was ced in aplete industrial system like on earth, if it was given to a factory that made heavy machinery, it would only take a few days to make.

    If it was given to a factory with a production assembly line, it might not even take a day to build one.

    Major MacConley looked at Xu Yi with a hesitant look before asking, ¡°This¡­.Chairman Xu, this Magic Trebuchet, do you think our army headquarters could produce it ourselves?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately revealed a smile.

    As expected, as long as he took out the blueprint, the army headquarters would hope to grab the Magic Trebuchet in their hands.

    But it was different this time, Xu Yi shook his head without even considering it.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid not.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Major MacConley, I think that you should understand that the Magic Trebuchet is veryplex. It would even take quite a bit of effort for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make. I don¡¯t think that your army headquarters has this ability.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it enough to give us the blueprint and the technology?¡± Major MacConley kept asking, unwilling to give up.

    Xu Yi firmly shook his head.

    ¡°No, major, this is different from producing weapons and armours. The main part of producing weapons and armours is the magic production machines from ourpany. The workers just need to understand how to use them, so it isn¡¯t that difficult to make. But to produce something asplex as the Magic Trebuchet, even if I give you the corresponding technology, the army headquarters wouldn¡¯t be able to understand it.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi revealed a taunting smile as he said, ¡°Then again, although it isn¡¯t impossible for us to take out the corresponding technology, the army headquarters should n on using something topensate us for it.¡±

    Major MacConley fell into silence again.

    He knew that the army headquarters could rely on the kingdom¡¯s government to request these things from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi, they could even force the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to hand it over.

    But to obtain it free of charge was clearly something that was impossible.

    He could tell how strong this Magic Trebuchet was just by looking at the blueprint and if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army could have this, it would definitely increase their battle strength, so the army headquarters definitely needed this.

    But if the army headquarters was too forceful, causing Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be dissatisfied or to fight back, ignoring the dissatisfaction of the people who supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just losing the chance to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be anrge loss.

    To put it bluntly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was unique right now. Other than them, there were no otherpanies that could research military magic machines that the army headquarters needed.

    Even the concept of ¡°military magic machines¡± was something that Xu Yi had proposed.

    So even if major MacConley was the manager of the army headquarters¡¯ logistics department, he was very polite to Xu Yi.

    It wasn¡¯t just because of the importance her highness Seveni and the king ced on Xu Yi, it was because Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them the things they urgently needed.

    After he quickly calcted all the factors, major MacConley gave up the idea of having Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce give the technology to the army headquarters. After thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°Alright then, chairman Xu, may I ask¡­..how much is yourpany nning to charge us for a Magic Trebuchet?¡±

    Xu Yi stretched out a finger with a smile, ¡°One thousand per unit.¡±

    Major MacConley¡¯s face instantly turned pale.

 Volume 2 151 - Poor army headquarters

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 151 Poor army headquarters</h4>

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Major MacConley¡¯s mouth opened before he finally gave a long sigh. He said with a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, this price¡­..it¡¯s just too expensive¡­..¡±

    ¡°Expensive?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Major, I think that after you saw the blueprint, you should understand how powerful the Magic Trebuchet is. With this kind of power, do you think that the Magic Trebuchet would be cheap?¡±

    ¡°I know this, but¡­..¡± Major MacConley had a helpless smile, ¡°This price is still too high. I won¡¯t hide it from you, our logistics department¡¯s yearly budget is no more than three hundred thousand gold coins and we use less than a hundred thousand one equipment. If it wasn¡¯t because we made a weapon factory with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, decreasing our costs by several times, I might not even be able to take out a single copper coin.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. The Lampuri Kingdom really was poor, their annual ie was less than two million and the military expenses were only three hundred thousand, it really was pitiful.

    It was already a stretch to maintain the army with this bit of money, it was no wonder major MacConley keptining when he saw him.

    But sympathy was just sympathy, this price was one that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to bend by even a single copper coin.

    ¡°Major, although I also want to help you, the cost of the Magic Trebuchet is just too high. Not mentioning anything else, it takes over three tons of steel just to make a single Magic Trebuchet. As for this new kind of steel, ourpany is selling it at a hundred gold coins per ton. Other than the materials, thebour costs are also quite high and the most important part is the research cost. In order to develop this Magic Trebuchet, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians, including Great Magician Cami spent two whole months working on this, forgetting to eat, losing sleep, and even working overtime. You think¡­..that a thousand gold coins per unit is too high?¡±

    ¡°Indeed it¡¯s not high.¡± Major MacConley nodded before giving a sigh, ¡°But chairman Xu, the problem is that our army headquarters can¡¯t take out that much money. There¡¯s not much left in this year¡¯s budget and our army headquarters being able to buy three units is already good enough.¡±

    ¡°If you want to buy, it doesn¡¯t mean you have to spend gold coins¡­..¡± Xu Yi softly said.

    Major MacConley looked at Xu Yi with aplicated gaze.

    After thinking for a bit, he waved his hand, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this for now. Even if I want to buy it, let¡¯s wait until yourpany makes the thing and see if it moves the hearts of the people above me. It¡¯s still too early for us to discuss other things right now.¡±

    Major MacConley didn¡¯t n on discussing it, so Xu Yi could only stop here.

    Of course, other than this topic, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t mentioned his other important goal. Seeing major MacConley carefully putting away the blueprint, Xu Yi directly reached out his hand.

    ¡°Major, I¡¯ve already aplished what I promised you, what about the people you promised?¡±

    ¡°Come with me.¡±

    Major MacConley waved his hand to Xu Yi and brought him out of the office to the training field outside. He reached out to wave at arge man who had been standing there the whole time.

    Thisrge man jogged over and gave a clean military salute to major MacConley. He kept looking at major MacConley, not even sparing a nce for Xu Yi.

    Seeing his strong figure, his straight back, and his resolute expression, along with the scars that he had, this should be a veteran with quite a bit of experience.

    ¡°Come, chairman Xu, let me introduce you. He is Hart, he is a veteran who retired this year. Since Hart joined the army, he has been someone who has been fighting with the Sack Kingdom bastards up north, so he has rich fighting experience. The most important thing is that he used to be an instructor with the northern army and he has a group of brothers under him. He is definitely the most suited person if you¡¯re looking for a guard leader for yourpany.¡± Major MacConley pointed at therge man as he gave his introduction.

    Hearing major MacConley say this, Hart turned to look at Xu Yi.

    The two locked gazes and Xu Yi felt his scalp itch. There was a killing intent that came over him and instantly covered his body in goosebumps.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath, calming himself down before facing Hart straight on.

    Hart¡¯s eyes were bright and seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t evade his gaze, he seemed to be a bit surprised. There was a smile of praise that shed on his face.

    ¡°You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu?¡± Hart took the initiative to reach out his hand, ¡°You seem much better than I imagined.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out his hand to take his hand and asked with a smile, ¡°What kind of person am I in your imagination?¡±

    ¡°In my imagination, merchants are all trash with money in their eyes!¡± Hart said without any courtesy, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t the major who came looking for me and promised that chairman Xu is different from other merchants, I wouldn¡¯t havee to see you.¡±

    Major MacConley said with an awkward smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, Hart has this kind of personality, but don¡¯t mind him.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I like this kind of frank person. For a soldier like Hart, if he can be the leader of mypany¡¯s guards, I believe that no one will dare offend mypany.¡±

    Since Xu Yi and Hart were both satisfied, this first meeting was considered a sess.

    With major MacConley as a witness, Xu Yi and Hart signed a contract to hire Hart as the leader of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Other than Hart, major MacConley had also recruited two hundred retired veterans who were on the same level as Hart.

    These veterans were elite soldiers who had fought many battles, bing the biggest targets for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯spanies after retiring.

    If he didn¡¯t have a connection through major MacConley, if Xu Yi wanted to recruit two hundred veterans like this, it was not something possible.

    Of course,pared to the current cooperation between the army headquarters and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this request was just a small price that the army headquarters paid,

    After this matter was taken care of, Xu Yi left the army headquarters and went to see Marquis Jole.

    When he came to Anvilmar Cityst year, Xu Yi and Marquis Jole had discussed the matter of mining non-ferrous metals in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that several months had passed, the preparations for both sides had been finished and they had explored a non-ferrous metal vein outside Cramer City with the Norma Tribe dwarves, so they decided to start mining it.

    ording to the previous agreement between the two, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Jole Family would be setting up a steel mill together near Cramer City.

    Now that they had discovered this non-ferrous metal vein, Xu Yi directly expanded this steel mill to be able to make all the steel needed for the army¡¯s equipment, while also being able to use the non-ferrous metals.

    Like this, the size of this steel mill in the beginning could even match the steel mill at the Falling Rain Valley.

    Even for the Jole Family, this steel mill opening had a very important significance. So when Xu Yi came for a visit, Marquis Jole was very sincere in his treatment.

    The discussions between the two went very smoothly.

    Marquis Jole didn¡¯t reveal much of his intentions, but for an important person of the Lampuri Kingdom like him, as long as he didn¡¯t show an opposition, it meant that he supported this in his heart.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect him to bargain with him like chairman Morgan did, just being able to understand his basic intentions had already aplished his goal.

    The only surprise was that when Xu Yi was nning to leave the Jole Manor, he bumped into Vincent who came home.

    The instant he saw Xu Yi, Vincent¡¯s face became very splendid.

    Last time he had been scolded by his father in front of Xu Yi and was forced to apologize to him, even though Vincent¡¯s heart was filled with unwillingness and rage, he knew that Xu Yi was not someone he could match. No matter how much he envied and hated Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t dare do anything in front of him.

    So Vincent only red at Xu Yi before walking past him like he hadn¡¯t seen him at all.

    Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t argue with this kind of fellow, he just smiled as he left the manor.

    For his trip to Anvilmar City this time, Xu Yi was only staying for three days. After meeting major MacConley and Marquis Jole, he also went to meet Great Magician Eisenkel.

    Other than his important deal with major MacConley, as well as checking in on his previous deals with Marquis Jole and Great Magician Eisenkel, so he had toe meet them since he was in Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi also wanted to meet her highness Seveni. He could only ask the king, but he was told that her highness was inspecting the northern border and it was unknown when she would be back.

    In short, other than Xu Yiing to Anvilmar City to solve his biggest problem of taking care of thepany guards, he didn¡¯t aplish much else.

    But based on the response from major MacConley, Xu Yi was certain that as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced the Magic Trebuchet and showed the brass of the army headquarters the power of the Magic Trebuchet, this thing would definitely be sold.

    Although Xu Yi had told the truth about how high the cost of the Magic Trebuchet was, he had exaggerated it a bit still.

    ording to the data, after adding in the cost of research, a single Magic Trebuchet should cost around six to seven hundred gold coins.

    The research cost only existed before it was mass produced. Once this was developed, they could quickly producerge amounts and the research cost wouldn¡¯t be arge percentage anymore.

    ording to this, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold a Magic Trebuchet, they could earn arge profit of two to three hundred gold coins.

    The only hindrance was that the army headquarters didn¡¯t have money¡­..

    But to Xu Yik, this wasn¡¯t that big of a problem.

    Money, it wasn¡¯t like Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commercecked that.

    Comparatively, the things that couldn¡¯t be bought with money were more important.

 Volume 2 152 - Object of union

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 152 Object of union</h4>

    In the same season, the scenery in different ces werepletely different.

    In early February, the Stantine Duchy was covered in green with warm sunshine and soft breezes, and although it was no longer snowing in Banta City, it was still cold.

    But in the northern border of the Lampuri Kingdom, the sky was filled with snow and it was still ice cold winter.

    On a day that had heavy snow, Seveni was meeting Viscount Leslie in a northern army guard house watching the border.

    When she first saw Viscount Leslie, Seveni almost couldn¡¯t recognize him.

    Whether it waspared to when she met him back in Anvilmar City or after when she met him in Banta City, Viscount Leslie seemedpletely different.

    The current Viscount Leslie had an unruly stubble and his face was much darker, being no different from the men that Seveni had seen on her inspection of the northern army. He didn¡¯t have the same natural charm of a noble young master from before.

    ¡°Viscount Leslie, it seems like your days here are quite hard.¡± Seveni couldn¡¯t help saying.

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile.

    Compared to before, the only thing that didn¡¯t change was his smile.

    Although he seemed much rougher, once he revealed a smile, he had the same unique and calm feeling of a noble young master from before.

    ¡°It wasn¡¯t that hard, my life here is just the life of a normal soldier. Moreover, I received special treatment in the end andparatively, my situation is much better than most of the other brothers in the army.¡±

    Seveni fell silent and only gave a sigh after a while.

    ¡°Actually my royal father and I both know that the condition for soldiers in the army is bad and needs to be improved, but you should know how bad the kingdom¡¯s finances are right now. Even if royal father is anxious, he can¡¯t take out any money to change this situation right now.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very clear on this, so I wasn¡¯tining for my brothers, rather I was just stating a fact.¡± Viscount Leslie said with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, I have to tell you, the situation of the north is very grim. Before winter began, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s bratsunched a fierce assault and they haven¡¯t stopped even now. The northern army has been fighting with all their might for this long and has already been seriously damaged. If it wasn¡¯t for the army headquarters sendingrge amounts of equipment, we wouldn¡¯t have been able to hold on.¡±

    After saying this, Viscount Leslie paused and his expression became a bit strange.

    ¡°Your highness, I¡¯ve always had a question. Since the army headquarters didn¡¯t have enough money, what conditions did it give to satisfy that greedy fellow Xu Yi?¡±

    Hearing the name ¡°Xu Yi¡±, Seveni revealed a sincere smile and said while shaking her head, ¡°Chairman Xu isn¡¯t a greedy person. He has always said to me that he wants to develop the magic machine industry, so he needs a stable environment. The environment of the Lampuri Kingdom is not ideal, so he needs to support the kingdom until it is stable and strong. This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with the army headquarters to make a weapons factory and he paid quite a bit, never asking for anything in return.¡±

    ¡°No, I understand him, it is impossible for him not to ask for anything in return. Only the things he wants you can¡¯t give right now, so it¡¯s just a debt right now. When he asks for those things in the future, I feel you won¡¯t be able to afford it.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t agree.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Actually I¡¯ve had more contact with himpared to you, so I understand him better than you. Although he keeps emphasizing that he is a merchant who regards his own benefit as the most important thing, the benefits that he wants are different from other merchants. The most important thing for other merchants is how to obtain gold coins, but the most important thing for Xu Yi is returns that are greater than other merchants and other people can imagine. Even if he wants me to repay them in the future, I think I would be willing to ept it.¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Seveni¡¯s determined gaze with a bit of surprise. After thinking for a bit, he suddenly asked, ¡°What if he asks for you?¡±

    Seveni was stunned before she knit her brows, ¡°You mean having me marry him? No, that is impossible. Xu Yi has a deep love with Still and he doesn¡¯t give anyone else a chance, so it is impossible for him to request this.¡±

    ¡°That is not certain.¡± Viscount Leslie slowly shook his head, ¡°Your highness, if you seed the throne and be our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, if Xu Yi marries you, he will have the most powerful backing in this kingdom. Like this, it would be of great help in aplishing his ideas. If he really is a merchant, this deal is something he can ept.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, Xu Yi is not like the other greedy merchants.¡± Seveni looked at Viscount Leslie with a serious gaze and said, ¡°Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi has always told me that you helped him the most when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was established and you understood his thoughts the best, so he always treated you as a friend. Since you are his friend, I hope that you won¡¯t nder him like this.¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t ndering, this is just a rational guess. Other than that¡­..your highness, you didn¡¯t deny the possibility of marrying him, right? Could it be that you also have this intention?¡±

    A blush covered Seveni¡¯s face. She immediately calmed down and calmly looked at Viscount Leslie as she asked back, ¡°Are you seriously asking this question?¡±

    Viscount Leslie nodded, ¡°I am serious. Since Xu Yi treats me as his friend, then as his friend, I should help him rify this very important question.¡±

    Seveni looked at Viscount Leslie for a while before letting out a sigh. She replied with a calm look, ¡°Then I¡¯ll answer you, yes. Although ording to royal father¡¯s ideas, he hopes that I can marry the heir of arge noble to strengthen the royal family. Among the people chosen, the number one candidate considered by ro father is you, Viscount Leslie.¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°That is my honour.¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t agree to royal father¡¯s ideas.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Of the nobles of the kingdom, including your Stagg Family, each family has their own ideas. They wouldn¡¯t really just support the royal family because their heir married me, isn¡¯t that right? Viscount Leslie?¡±

    ¡°Very correct.¡± Viscount Leslie gave soft apuse to show his praise, ¡°Your highness, I have to say, you really have thought this through. Therge nobles have their own family, so the highest priority is their family¡¯s interests. Even for the royal family, they are just the strongest noble family in the kingdom. If your highness married someone, it would just be a symbolic marriage and wouldn¡¯t really mean anything. For two families to truly work together, it would forever depend on themon interests of those families.¡±

    ¡°So that means my marriage cannot decide anything. Sopared to marrying the heir of a great noble, it is better to marry a normal person who is more important to me.¡±

    ¡°For example, Xu Yi?¡± Viscount Leslie immediately asked.

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help closing her eyes and taking a breath. Only then did she open her eyes and calmly give a nod.

    ¡°Yes. Although Xu Yi is only a baron right now and there isn¡¯t anyone who is treating him as a noble, with his status being around the same as a normal person, his Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t normal at all. I can even guarantee that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can steadily develop like this, it might really change the Sines Continent like he said.¡±

    ¡°I also firmly believe in this.¡± Viscount Leslie nodded in approval.

    ¡°If I could marry him and let the royal family use the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be more helpful to the royal family than any other family. Compared to everything, this is the better choice.¡±

    Viscount Leslie thought for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Your highness, your analysis is very correct. But I feel that you have neglected arge issue. You marrying Xu Yi would greatly help the royal family, but have you considered your own feelings? Are you¡­..willing to marry Xu Yi?¡±

    Hearing this question, Seveni couldn¡¯t keep the same calm look on her face and she couldn¡¯t stop a blushing over it.

    After a while, she said with a nod, ¡°I think¡­..I¡¯m willing. Xu Yi is a charming person with a calm and powerful aura. I¡¯ve known him for a long time and as long as he was beside me, I felt very rxed. I would be affected by his strong confidence and feel confident about the future. I believe that if I could marry him, I would be much happier than now.¡±

    Viscount Leslie had only casually asked this, but he never thought that Seveni would agree to him. He couldn¡¯t help looking at Seveni in a daze with aplicated expression on his face.

    The two were silent for a bit before Viscount Leslie gave a sigh and shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Your highness, I¡¯m suddenly filled with sympathy for you. With your identity, it is definitely impossible to find someone who can match you and is approved by you, but now Xu Yi has suddenly appeared. If you¡¯re really willing, I think it is very likely that you can snatch him up, but I know that you¡¯re not willing to snatch him from young miss Still, right?¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh and shook her head. She looked at the snow outside the window and thought in silence for a bit before turning back to Viscount Leslie.

    ¡°Every person has something that they¡¯re not willing to change and Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t change his feelings for young miss Still because of me. It¡¯s like how you went against the benefits of yourpany and insisted on giving back the stocks to Xu Yi, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed another bitter smile, ¡°That¡¯s very correct, so I was exiled to this bitter coldnd by the family. Seeing the snow in the mind reminds me of my peaceful life back in the city.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°This is also a kind of life experience, right? When you return to Anvilmar City or Banta City, I think that the noble youngdies will definitely want to hear about your thrilling life here.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a shrug, ¡°I can¡¯t guarantee that. When I leave here, I might not even have the same handsome face.¡±

    Seveni and Viscount Leslie looked at each other and couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Theughter drifted on the endless snow and wind, spreading out all around them.

 Volume 2 153 - Agricultural industrialization

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 153 Agricultural industrialization</h4>

    Theughter naturally wouldn¡¯t pass through thousands of kilometers to reach Banta City.

    However, it was unknown if he sensed Seveni and Viscount Leslie discussing him, Xu Yi who was in the warm hall of the City Lord¡¯s Manor suddenly couldn¡¯t help giving a sneeze.

    This sudden sneeze interrupted Count Sean while he was reading his document and also attracted the attention of everyone in the hall listening attentively.

    Count Sean put down his report and said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°What is it? Chairman Xu, are you dissatisfied with the report that I currently hold in my hands?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly shook his head, ¡°No, no, I don¡¯t have any objections. Only¡­..I suddenly felt a bit cold.¡±

    ¡°Cold?¡± Count Sean looked at the two Magic Air Conditioners on the walls of the hall and said with a smile, ¡°These are Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioners from yourpany. If you are feeling cold while they are being used, I should be asking you as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman if there is a problem with them.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha!¡±

    Of course everyone knew that Count Sean was teasing Xu Yi, so they burst out intoughter.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That is impossible, the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioners are trustworthy and definitely have no problems. It¡¯s possible that after walking with Stillst night by the river, I caught a cold from the cold wind.¡±

    The hall was filled withughter again.

    Chairman Rank who was sitting not far away from Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu is young after all, you¡¯re going out on a stroll on such a cold night. For an old man like me, I¡¯m not willing to leave my home once it gets dark.¡±

    Everyone said the same as they teased Xu Yi.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger, Xu Yi¡¯s position in Banta City had also risen. Gradually he was treated on the same level as the chairman of the oldpanies of the city.

    Although everyone teased him because of his age, there was no one who looked down on him.

    Even chairman Morgan who had the greatest hostility against Xu Yi before, because Xu YI had reached an agreement with Marquis Jole and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working together with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, he no longer revealed any hostility towards Xu Yi. Instead, now he was quite friendly to Xu Yi whether it was in public or in private.

    After everyone was done with theirughter, the serious mood in the hall had rxed a bit.

    When everyone stopped talking, Xu Yi turned to say to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, I don¡¯t have any opposition towards this report, but I do have a proposal.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Let me hear it.¡±

    Not only Count Sean, even the others stopped talking and looked at Xu Yi, revealing attentive looks.

    After knowing Xu Yi for this long, everyone knew that every time that Xu Yi said something in this situation, it would have quite the influence.

    If it was a proposition from him, the Lord City Lord never rejected him and it would always be something big.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, in the report that you just read, Banta City is nning to reopen thends that were neglected before this year. I don¡¯t have any opinions on reiming more farnd and increasing the grain yield, but I feel that you¡¯ve neglected a very important problem.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡± Count Sean asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°That is people.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°I feel that if there aren¡¯t any rted measures, there will be less and less citizens who engage in agriculture and soon no one will farm thend.¡±

    Count Sean knit his brows, ¡°How is that possible? Right now there are over a hundred thousand farmers outside Banta City, how could there be ack of farmers? It¡¯s fine if it was when we couldn¡¯t nt anything, but now with the help of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, it¡¯s much easier to nt crops and it¡¯s more effective, so there¡¯s not a problem if there are fewer people. I only made this n after considering this point. Could it be that yourpany isn¡¯t nning on making agricultural magic machines in the future?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But Lord Count, you might have not noticed something. Although there are over a hundred thousand citizens outside Banta City, do you have stats showing how many of those people in viges are still engaging in farming?¡±

    Count Sean was stunned, ¡°Could it be that you¡¯re saying that those farmers aren¡¯t nting crops? What are they doing then?¡±

    Xu Yiughed before pointing at himself and the representatives from the variouspanies of Banta City, ¡°It¡¯s very simple, those farmers are working in factories.¡±

    Count Sean was stunned. He looked over Xu Yi and the otherpany representatives before suddenly looking like he understood.

    ¡°You want to say that those farmers are working in the factories of yourpanies, so they¡¯re not willing to farm anymore?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°The average wage of working in the factories ofpanies in Banta City is seven gold coins a month. Even those workers who are entering factories on probation earn at least four gold coins a month. Compared to before where they only earned a few gold coins a year by nting crops, it¡¯s clear that they have a higher sry if they enter factories as workers. If I were the farmers, I wouldn¡¯t be willing to nt crops and choose to work in factories.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..That is indeed a problem that I have neglected.¡± Count Sean thought about it with knit brows before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, how many workers does yourpany have right now?¡±

    ¡°Not counting the elves and dwarves, just yesterday, we went over four thousand workers.¡± Xu Yi raised four fingers as he replied, ¡°When the new canned fruit factory opens, we will recruit another five hundred workers. Other than that, ording to the estimates of general manager Kennard, we must recruit another thousand workers within the year.¡±

    ¡°That means that with just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you¡¯re taking five thousand people?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Count Sean asked the chairman of the otherrgepanies and received pretty much the same answer.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed more magic machines, the otherpanies changed their production model towards industrialization.

    As they produced more, they required more workers.

    Just an Amrit Chamber of Commerce had hired over twenty thousand workers.

    Other than the six thousand workers who still worked in the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general contracting, the remaining thirteen thousand workers were spread all over the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy, working hard in making roads.

    Compared to this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have that many workers.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce were added together, these fivergepanies had over seventy thousand people.

    Then adding the workers of the otherpanies together, there were over a hundred thousand people working in factories in Banta City.

    Then there were the people in other industries.

    If it was all added together, the people engaged in other industries other than farming were close to two hundred thousand.

    After getting this number, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help being a bit shocked.

    Since there were close to two hundred thousand people in other industries, adding in the women, the elderly, and the young who couldn¡¯t work yet, there weren¡¯t that many people who could go into agriculture.

    The poption of Banta City itself wasn¡¯t even two hundred thousand people. If there weren¡¯trge numbers of peopleing in from outside Banta City, thepanies wouldn¡¯t have such a terrifying amount of workers.

    Not to mention that even like this, thepanies headed by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce keptining to the City Lord that it didn¡¯t have enough workers. They hoped that the City Lord could find a way to getbourers from other ces.

    Thinking of this, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help looking at the report in his hand and looking at the final part of the report that he hadn¡¯t read yet.

    The subject of the conference was to report on the various workings of Banta Cityst year and the final part of the report was a tax revenue report for Banta City.

    The representatives of thergepanies were invited today because in this tax revenue report, thergepanies had outstanding performances.

    But after seeing the various numbers on the tax revenue report, Count Sean felt it was a bit unrealistic.

    ording to the final calctions of Banta City¡¯s tax department, justst year, Banta City¡¯s tax revenue reached a terrifying one million three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins!

    It had to be known that the Lampuri Kingdom had announced that their tax revenuest year wasn¡¯t even two million gold coins.

    ording to thew of turning over a third of local taxes, Banta City turned over four hundred and fifty thousand gold coins. This was close to being a fourth of the kingdom¡¯s entire yearly tax revenue!

    This was a terrifying result.

    That was because Banta City¡¯s tax revenue wasn¡¯t even fifty thousand gold coins the year before that. Of the twenty six cities of the kingdom, it was inst ce.

    Now in just two years, Banta City¡¯s tax revenue even surpassed the capital Anvilmar City, bing the city that paid the most tax revenue in the entire kingdom!

    If one looked at the sources of the one million three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins, one would find that even with the help from the agricultural magic machines, the taxes went from thirty thousand to close to a hundred thousand gold coins. Butpared to the tax revenue of over a million that came from the business sector, it wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    To put it in other words, the most important ie from the agricultural sector could now be ignored because the most important industry was the business sector.

    If this was divided again, one would find that among thepanies, just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid five hundred thousand gold coins in taxes. If these taxes were added to the other businesses that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dealt in, this number would be over seven hundred thousand which was two thirds of the total.

    This meant that if one really calcted it, the most important industry for Banta City¡¯s ie was the magic machine industry that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented.

    Thinking of this, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help ce even more importance on Xu Yi in his heart. He looked at Xu Yi and said with a faint smile, ¡°It seems like the problem chairman Xu mentioned does exist and is very important. Then chairman Xu, what do you propose?¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a nod, ¡°I¡¯m proposing the development of agricultural industrialization.¡±

 Volume 2 154 - Chairman Xu who could turn stones into gold

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 154 Chairman Xu who could turn stones into gold</h4>

    After the conference, Count Sean asked Xu Yi to remain alone again.

    No one was surprised because during the conference, Count Sean didn¡¯t ask Xu Yi about the ¡°developing agricultural industrialization¡± that he had mentioned, which meant that he wanted to discuss this with Xu Yi after the conference in detail.

    But contrary to what everyone believed, Count Sean didn¡¯t immediately ask Xu Yi about the ¡°agricultural industrialization¡± problem right away, rather he asked about another matter that many people had neglected.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when you said ¡®canned fruit factory¡¯ earlier, I remember you mentioning your ns to open them in the Stantine Duchy. You said that you recruited five hundred workers from Banta City¡­..Are you nning to bring these workers to the Stantine Duchy?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi immediately shook his head, ¡°Recruiting people and bringing them to the Stantine Duchy has a high cost. My idea was to first build a canned fruit factory outside Banta City. The location has already been chosen, it¡¯ll be beside Koror Vige.¡±

    ¡°Koror Vige?¡± Count Sean thought about it, ¡°That vige is not in the first batch of viges that are being relocated and it isn¡¯t close to Banta City. Why did you choose that ce and not near Sandton Manor?¡±

    ¡°The main reason is because most of Banta City¡¯s fruit trees are centralized around Koror Vige. After I discussed this with chairman Cantona, I decided to have it as the central location of Banta City¡¯s canned fruit factory. With the canned fruit factor built there, it will make it easier to process the fruits as soon as possible.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Chairman Cantona?¡± Count Sean slightly knit his brows, ¡°I seem to remember you mentioning this name before, isn¡¯t hispany mainly responsible for harvesting crops for normal farmers? Why are you discussing building a canned fruit factory with him?¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, this is rted to the ¡®agricultural industrialization¡¯ that I mentioned earlier. It could even be said that chairman Cantona is one of the key characters and hispany ys a key role.¡±

    Count Sean couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°I didn¡¯t mention it and you raised this topic first. Alright, since you took the initiative to bring it up, tell me about it in detail. How is chairman Cantona and hispany rted to the ¡®agricultural industrialization¡¯ that you mentioned? Just what exactly is this ¡®agricultural industrialization¡¯ that you mentioned?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi nodded and without any courtesy, he organized his thoughts before saying with a serious look, ¡°Lord City Lord, the ¡®agricultural industrialization¡¯ sounds veryplicated, but if you change your views, it¡¯s actually a very simple matter. To put it simply, this is to regard all farming matters as an industry and give it to someone else to do. The City Lord¡¯s Manor just needs to receive enough grains each year.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that just renting out farnd, what difference is there?¡± Count Sean knit his brows and asked, ¡°The farnds of Banta City are being rented to the farmers outside Banta City, the City Lord¡¯s Manor just needs to collect rent each year. Isn¡¯t it the same as that thing you mentioned?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not the same.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°It¡¯s also hiring them, but right now the farmers outside thend are just renting a small piece of farnd, so their ie each year isn¡¯t high. Therefore, the farmers aren¡¯t that interested in remaining as farmers and would rather choose to work in the factories. But if we conduct this agricultural industrialization, centralizing all those scattered farnds, they can focus on farming and liberate those farmers. They would give the farm work to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce who specialize in farming and it would increase the value of the farnds. Whether it is to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce or the City Lord¡¯s Manor, it would be very helpful.¡±

    ¡°But wouldn¡¯t those farmers not have any farnd for themselves?¡± Count Sean tightly knit his brows, ¡°To steal the farnd from those farmers, isn¡¯t that cutting off their path of survival?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Lord City Lord, you still have the same old thoughts. Didn¡¯t you hear what I said earlier in the conference? Right now there aren¡¯t many farmers that are willing to keep farming becausepared to working hard all year round just to earn less than ten gold coins, they would rather work in factories to earn over a hundred gold coins. With thisrge disparity, even if you give them farnd, they wouldn¡¯t be willing to grow crops.¡±

    ¡°Although you¡¯re right, I feel that this will cause trouble.¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°Although the wage working in factories is much higher, how can you guarantee they¡¯ll always have work? If the factories go out of business and the workers lose their jobs, they won¡¯t even have farnd to grow food on, so this will create arge problem.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I understand your worry, but Lord City Lord, I feel that you should have confidence in Banta City¡¯s situation. Compared to worrying about factories closing and workers losing their jobs, you should be worried that Banta City can¡¯t keep up with its current growth and satisfy the demand of thergepanies forbour.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Stop reminding me in an underhanded manner, I¡¯ve been getting more people, but the nobles of the kingdom care about the people in theirnd, so this isn¡¯t something that is easy to do. Alright, since you say there¡¯s no need to worry about this, let¡¯s not talk about this for now. Based on what you said just now, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce is nning on taking such arge piece of farnd?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. ording to my discussions with chairman Cantona, chairman Cantona has decided to rent all the farnd in Koror Vige, Kambia Vige, and Moxn Vige.¡±

    ¡°He, he¡¯s so bold, he wants to swallow three viges at once.¡± Count Sean said with a sigh of praise, ¡°But has he thought that if those vigers ever want to rent farnd and even if I give those farnd to him, it isn¡¯t easily taken back. How does he n on solving this?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately reply to Count Sean¡¯s question and after hesitating a bit, he cautiously said, ¡°Lord City Lord, actually¡­..From what I can see, the kingdom doesn¡¯t treat the farmers well. The farmers work hard on their farms all year round and most of their crops are taken away by the kingdom, they can barely live on what¡¯s left. This kind of life, I don¡¯t think those farmers have anything to yearn for.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with a frown and seeing that his expression was serious, not seeming like he was speaking nonsense, he gave a sigh and helplessly said, ¡°Although what you are saying is right, these are the customs. Not only for our Lampuri Kingdom, for all the kingdoms on the Sines Continent, the farmers don¡¯t have good lives.¡±

    ¡°So that means the Lord City Lord¡¯s worries aren¡¯t serious.¡± Xu Yi changed the topic, ¡°Cantona was a viger from Kambia Vige, so he is very clear on the attitude of those peasants on farming. When there is no other choice, farming is the only way to make a living. But now that there is another choice, there isn¡¯t a farmer who is willing to remain as a farmer.¡±

    ¡°You mean to say¡­..Those farmers are willing to let me take back their farnd and rent it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Yes. Actually Cantona wanted to bypass the City Lord¡¯s Manor and directly sublet the farnd from those vigers. He had investigated in those three viges and over 95% of the vigers were willing. But when he asked me about this, I rejected his idea.¡±

    Count Sean gave a cold snort, ¡°It¡¯s good you did. He was nning to hide this thing from me? He really doesn¡¯t know the immensity of heaven and earth.¡± After pausing, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Now you are raising this matter with me, does this mean you support him?¡±

    ¡°I want to support his idea, but that doesn¡¯t mean I support his approach, so I mentioned this to Lord City Lord and hope toe up with a more reasonable method.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then what do you think?¡± Count Sean asked back.

    ¡°My opinion is that I hope the Lord City Lord can agree to let those three viges be the first tests and agree to rent all the farnd in those three viges to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. The Lord City Lord should just treat the Cantona Chamber of Commerce as a normal farmer and take not a single copper coin less in tax each year. The only difference is that this farmer has rented a bit more farnd.¡±

    ¡°In theory, this idea is indeed not bad.¡± Count Sean nodded, ¡°But I have a very important issue. The same farnd could barely let the farmers make a living, so now that it has fallen into the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hands, how will you guarantee that they can still pay taxes and earn enough money?¡±

    ¡°To put it simply, it¡¯s through saving costs by industrializing their business. They change their structure and increase their benefits. Of course, this is a veryplicated matter, but this isn¡¯t rted to the Lord City Lord, right? You just need to focus on collecting taxes each year and as for how to obtain benefits, that is up to chairman Cantona to consider.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, but I¡¯m very worried that if theirpany can¡¯t earn enough money, they will give up and these farnds will be wasted.¡±

    ¡°I think you don¡¯t need to worry about this, I have already had multiple discussions with chairman Cantona on this. I can guarantee that theirpany will find methods of making money and they will definitely stick to this.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s confident smile, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help smiling as well.

    ¡°I actually forgot that since you¡¯re taking part in this, how could it not make money? Am I right? Chairman Xu who everyone recognizes as being able to turn stone into gold, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and nodded without any courtesy

 Volume 2 155 - Magic Array resonance technology

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 155 Magic Array resonance technology</h4>

    Even if the people of Banta City treated Xu Yi as someone who could turn stones into gold, he didn¡¯t make money immediately on every investment.

    For example, the most important project for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now was beginning to smelt the non-ferrous metal mined on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Up to this point, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had invested a total of seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    This didn¡¯t include what they paid chief Voller, which was five hundred thousand gold coins to use the metal vein.

    Among this, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was investing in the non-ferrous metal smelting nt alone, so just on this project alone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had spent over five hundred thousand gold coins.

    This was just the advance investment. To really open up the mine and open the non-ferrous metal smelting nt, it would take anotherrge amount of investments.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was bing bigger with more and more profits, with how much they were investing in this project, the financial manager Sebas couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows each time.

    If it was investment in other things, Sebas wouldn¡¯t mind, but because Sebas didn¡¯t understand the prospects of the non-ferrous metals and couldn¡¯t calcte their future profits, he would always tell Xu Yi to invest prudently.

    Of course, Sebas was still limited in this reminder and wouldn¡¯t actually object to anything.

    Xu Yi had proved his outstanding vision with many decisions, so even Heinz wouldn¡¯t have any objections to Xu Yi¡¯s decisions. Of course the other people of thepany had even less qualifications to do so.

    Moreover, ording tost month¡¯s financial report, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t sell more products from releasing new products when it came to household magic machines, so there wasn¡¯t any explosive growth, they still earned an extra three hundred thousand gold coins.

    And when it came to the magic machine workshop, because they finished the order of the first batch of ten thousand agricultural magic machines for the Rudson Kingdom, they suddenly earned six hundred and forty thousand gold coins, which gave them a profit of over four hundred thousand gold coins.

    Adding in the demand for magic production machines all over the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine workshop had a profit of over six hundred thousandst month.

    If the profits of the steel mill, the tire factory, the stic processing factory, and other factories were included, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a shocking one million five hundred and forty thousand gold coinsst month!

    Although as the scale of thepany grew and each month¡¯s fixed expenses increased, with the wages and benefits of workers surpassing a hundred thousand gold coinsst month, in the final calction, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profitst month was over a million gold coins.

    With the support of such powerful profits, although it cost quite a bit to invest in the non-ferrous metal mines, it was still in the eptable range.

    Sebas reminding Xu Yi was hoping that Xu Yi could focus his attention on their existing businesses and consolidate them, further enhancing their profits and not to think about opening new businesses.

    ¡°Ha, ha, I understand Sebas¡¯ worries, so I came here this time. I want to see if you developed anything new to let us earn arge amount.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he greeted Evita who was the chief of the research facility. Then he took the reports from Evita¡¯s hand to read over.

    Since he was enlightened by Still, Xu Yi started unintentionally leaving work for the magic research facility, not like before where he participated in every single project and exined all the important steps. Rather he just gave them some ideas and had the magic research facility staff think of the solution themselves.

    Although this method seemed counter productive at first, causing the research speed of the magic research facility to drop, after a while, the researchers had learned how to consider their own solutions based on the thoughts that Xu Yi provided them. They even began thinking of methods that Xu Yi had never considered before.

    For example, the idea that Xu Yi had of lighting up Banta City with street lights that he had put aside because he couldn¡¯t think of a suitable method.

    But when he tossed this idea to the magic research facility, this problem was quickly solved.

    ording to the research of Akali and the others, the streetmps could be powered with long distance magic transportation technology, guaranteeing that the high upmps would be brightly lit.

    Xu Yi had also thought of using long distance magic transportation to solve this and after Akali¡¯s hard work, she finally came up with the solution of using Magic Array resonance technology.

    This technology was actually something that Akali had identally discovered.

    While experimenting, Akali found that if two simr Magic Arrays were put together, there would be synchronization because of the simrities between the two Magic Arrays.

    To put it simply, if there were two Magic Arrays that were the same and in the situation where both Magic Arrays were supplied with magic, if one of the Magic Array was activated, whatever change urred with this Magic Array would ur with the other Magic Array.

    Akali kept researching this and found that as long as there was a special setting ced on the Magic Array, this special characteristic didn¡¯t just apply to a single Magic Array.

    Based on Evita¡¯s report, right now Akali could create twenty Magic Arrays that were the same and through a single control array, she could activate the other neen Magic Arrays.

    This was extended to solve the problem of controlling streetmps from arge distance that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t solve. They could use the same Magic Array for all the streetmps and then through a single control Magic Array, they could affect all the Magic Arrays in the streetmps, turning them on and off.

    ording to the reports Evita provided, Xu Yi found that after the experimentst time, the researchers had solved all the problems of applying this technology.

    Seeing the concrete details of the experiments, Xu Yi walked out and looked at the Magic Lamps scattered around the magic research facility. He turned to Akali and said, ¡°Come, demonstrate for me.¡±

    ¡°By yourmand!¡± Akali gave a mischievous bow before running to a tree in the courtyard. She pointed at a disc set up there and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Look, sir chairman, this red button is for turning it off and the green is for turning it on. As for this thing that can be twisted¡­..you¡¯ll know what it does in a bit.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. This Akali, she had to go slowly even for this.

    ¡°Alright, first turn it on for me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Akali replied as she pressed the green button. The Magic Lamps in the yard instantly lit up at the same time.

    These Magic Lamps were carefully chosen by Akali and the others. Not only was the shape of each Magic Lamp different, they released different kinds of light and were ced in special locations. Now that they lit up, they instantly filled the yard with all kinds of different colours, making it look quite beautiful.

    ¡°Alright, now you can turn that thing to let me see its effect. If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, it should control how bright the Magic Lamps are, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Akali looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, let me keep you guessing for a bit, why do you need to say it right away?¡±

    This was just talk, Akali still turned the dial and the Magic Lamps in the yard became weaker as it was turned.

    It was very clear that when setting up these Magic Lamps, Akali¡¯s group had used the magic gradation technology which could control how bright the lights were.

    After Akali turned it around and he saw how the Magic Lamps became brighter or dimmer, Xu Yi had Akali press the red button to turn them off.

    When the Magic Lamps turned off, Akali immediately jumped in front of Xu Yi and asked with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, how is it? Don¡¯t you think that our research this time is amazing?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s very amazing. I never thought that you would be able to get such significant results.¡± Xu Yi nodded, not hiding his praise at all.

    Seeing Xu Yi agree, Akali¡¯s smile bloomed like a flower. She turned to Be, Cecilia, and the others who helped and gave them a wink. She then rubbed her hands and asked Xu Yi whileughing, ¡°Then¡­..sir chairman, do you think¡­..this result is enough to give us bonuses?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°If this great innovation isn¡¯t worth a bous, then I don¡¯t think any of the innovations in the future are worth getting bonuses.¡±

    Akali and the researchers cheered because Xu Yi agreed to give them bonuses, but after hearing what Xu Yi said after, they were all stunned.

    After a while, Akali scratched her head and carefully asked Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, your evaluation of this¡­.is this high?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look, ¡°Akali, perhaps you don¡¯t realize how important your research is, but I know that it is a very excellent invention and can be described as great.¡±

    After hesitating a bit, she couldn¡¯t help stretching her hand out to touch Xu Yi¡¯s forehead.

    It was just a small discovery, the researchers didn¡¯t treat it as anything, but why was the sir chairman giving it such a high evaluation?

    Could it be that sir chairman¡­..had a fever?

 Volume 2 156 - What are you thinking that much for

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 156 What are you thinking that much for</h4>

    As March came, the winter cold gradually left Banta City. In the wilderness outside Banta City, there were patches of green that appeared. The wind blowing into people¡¯s faces no longer had the same bone chilling cold and when sitting under the sun, they even felt a bit warm.

    Xu Yi looked at Koror Vige not far to the left and pointed in the distance. After drawing a circle in the air, he finally pointed at the Sandy River flowing in the distance.

    ¡°Cantona, there¡¯s no need to manage the fruit trees here. However it was done before, do the same now. But in the ces where there aren¡¯t fruit trees, fill them all with fruit trees. This will be Banta City¡¯s future fruit production base, so it¡¯s best if nothing else appears here. Moreover, if possible, put the same kinds of fruits together as much as possible, that way not only is it easy to nt and harvest, it¡¯s easy to create tags.¡±

    While Xu Yi said this, Cantona nodded and took out a small notebook to write it all down.

    Seeing Cantona¡¯s messy words being written on the paper, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    This Cantona was just a normal farmer before and had never had a proper education. Even his reading and writing skills came from after he made the Cantona Chamber of Commercest year, so his writing was quite ugly.

    But Xu Yi appreciated his attitude very much.

    Cantona had rather good eyes for business and a flexible mind, while also being just thirty so he could still learn new things, so he could be considered something quite rare.

    He couldn¡¯t stand out before because he never had a chance.

    But after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided him with a small Magic Harvester for their farmer support n, he seized this chance. With just a single small Magic Harvester, he created the Cantona Chamber of Commerce in just a single year and took the business of harvesting crops for Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    During the fall harvestst year, just by harvesting crops in Banta City and the surrounding cities, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce earned over five thousand gold coins.

    With this money, he actually had the idea of renting arge piece of farnd for himself.

    When Xu Yi heard him mention this idea, he almost felt that this person had transmigrated from earth.

    Out of his appreciation of Cantona, Xu Yi immediately supported Cantona¡¯s idea and discussed the possibility of cooperating between them. He even took this opportunity to propose the idea of agricultural industrialization to Count Sean.

    ording to Xu Yi and Cantona¡¯s ns, when Cantona rented the farnd of Koror Vige, Kambia Vige, and Mexn Vige from the City Lord¡¯s Manor, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce will be responsible for nting crops in these Kambia Vige and Mexn Vige, such as rice and wheat.

    As for the farnd around Koror Vige, they would be nting all kinds of fruit trees.

    As for what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do, they would find the location for the first canned fruit factory near Koror Vige.

    This way they couldbine it with processing, saving costs for both sides. Whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, this was a very advantageous deal.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, the vigers of the three viges would also benefit from this cooperation.

    ording to Xu Yi and Cantona¡¯s n, for the vigers of the three viges, as long as they aren¡¯t working for anypanies in Banta City, a part of them could work for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce as farm hands while another part could for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as workers in the canned fruit factory.

    There were close to two thousand vigers in these three viges, other than the women, the elderly, the children, and the people working forpanies in the city, there were around six hundred normal workers.

    Three hundred of the strongest young men were taken by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Even with the help of the agricultural magic machines, farming was something that required quite a bit of strength.

    The Cantona Chamber of Commerce had taken the farnd for these three viges at once, so if he wanted to meet the yearly quota Count Sean had set for him, he had to work hard and weaker people couldn¡¯t take this much work.

    The other three hundred workers were taken into the canned fruit factory.

    The work in the canned fruit factory was quite rxed. They just needed to cook the food, fill it, and pack it, so even those who were weaker in physical strength could do it.

    Actually there were jobs all over Banta City right now, so if these six hundred workers were willing to go into the city to work, they could find suitable jobs.

    But the vigers of Banta City were influenced by the traditions of the Sines Continent and weren¡¯t willing to leave their viges, so they preferred to stay in their viges.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce were setting up arge scale farm and a canned fruit factory near them, many people were willing to join.

    Moreover, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had promised their workers that their monthly wages would be over seven gold coins, which was equal to their entire ie from farming all year round before.

    Although the sry for the workers of the canned fruit factory was lower, Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in saying that the lowest wage of the workers would not be less than five gold coins.

    Even those workers that were recruited to watch the gates would receive four gold coins a month.

    Cantona was someone from Kambia Vige, but people were doubtful of his promises, so the work in the three viges didn¡¯t go that smoothly.

    But once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce joined in, the attitude of the vigers quickly changed.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only been established for two months, the people of Banta City and the surrounding cities gave them more fame than those oldpanies.

    Moreover, the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were put in the reports of many papers. Even if one didn¡¯t read the papers, they could hear about it from people who did. Then there were the various advertisements for magic machines that were in Banta City, so it was hard for people not to know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, whether it was trust of fame, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much more reliable.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi came with people of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, obtaining the approval of the Lord City Lord.

    In the eyes of these vigers, the Lord City Lord was like a god. As long as the Lord City Lord approved something, the vigers wouldn¡¯t resist at all.

    So Xu Yi talked to the vigers of the three viges representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and received their approval immediately, allowing this project to proceed very smoothly.

    It was because of this that Cantona felt even more worship towards Xu Yi. As long as it was rted to the project, he would immediately follow him.

    Seeing Cantona writing down the main points of his words, Xu Yi nodded and headed towards the distant Koror Vige with him.

    Before they even entered the vige, there was a delicious fragrance that hit them.

    Xu Yi took a deep breath and enjoyed the fragrance, as he revealed a look of fond remembrance.

    ¡°It really has been a long time since I smelled this. Last time I ate canned fruit boiled in crystal sugar was at least twenty years ago¡­..¡±

    ¡°Twenty years ago?¡± Cantona on the side asked in a confused voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you weren¡¯t even ten years old twenty years ago. Were there people making canned fruits back then? Why have I never heard of this before? Such a good thing should have spread a long time ago.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly woke up and felt that he had identally said too much when he smelled this fragrance.

    ¡°It was eaten in my hometown. There was only an old grandfather who made it and I felt it was delicious, so I learned how to make it from him.¡± Xu Yi exined with some nonsense.

    ¡°Oh¡­..¡± Cantona didn¡¯t doubt him, as he said in a regretful voice, ¡°It would be good if this method spread a long time ago. The fruits of our viges wouldn¡¯t have been wasted by going rotten.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, I guarantee that not long from now, even if there aren¡¯t canned fruits, the fruits of Banta City can be transported to other ces of the Sines Continent to let them enjoy the fresh specialty fruits of Banta City.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible?¡± Cantona clearly didn¡¯t believe him, ¡°Not mentioning other countries, it takes several days just to transport to Anvilmar City. When it gets transported, it would have already spoiled.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe?¡± Xu Yi revealed a mysterious smile, ¡°Then just wait and see.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s confident steps, Cantona couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Although he had been with Xu Yi quite a bit during this time, the more he was with Xu Yi, the more Cantona felt that he couldn¡¯t understand his thoughts and couldn¡¯t keep up at all.

    If at first the impression Xu Yi left him was a young and energetic chairman with farsight and courage, in the eyes of the current Cantona, Xu Yi became more and more mysterious.

    If someone else told Cantona that fruits could be transported to other countries without going rotten, Cantona would have scolded them for spewing nonsense without even thinking about it.

    But when Xu Yi said it, although Cantona didn¡¯t believe him at first, once he thought about it and remembered all the miracles the Frestech Chamber of Commerce created over the years, bringing arge change to Banta City and the surrounding cities, he couldn¡¯t help gradually believing in him.

    Since chairman Xu said it could be done, even if it couldn¡¯t be done now, it could be done in the future!

    Thinking of this, Cantona suddenly pped his head.

    He was just a small character, how could he try to guess the thoughts of arge character like chairman Xu?

    What was he thinking this much for? It was better to follow chairman Xu and handle the things he could handle. Naturally he would depend on therge tree of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to earn money.

    Thinking this through, Cantona revealed a grin and quickly caught up to Xu Yi in front of him.

 Volume 2 157: Technological research of small companies

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 157: Technological research of smallpanies</h4>

    After inspecting Koror Vige, Xu Yi directly took his horse carriage to the Irnd Chamber of Commerce at the Sandton industrial sector.

    Compared tost year when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their smallpany support n, there were several more small factories producingponents near the Sandton Manor. It had gone from over sixty to over a hundredpanies.

    This kind of growth in just a year, other than proving that the magic machine industry was being recognized, it also meant there was promise in this field.

    Take the Irnd Chamber of Commerce that wanted to produceponents in the beginning.

    Last year when Freeman and the other vigers mentioned this idea with Xu Yi, when they founded the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, their total assets didn¡¯t even add up to two hundred gold coins.

    As for the three most important magic production machines in the beginning, it was something the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given them on a loan.

    To many people, this kind ofpany wasn¡¯t even worth being called apany and could barely be considered a workshop.

    However with this small workshop that couldn¡¯t even be considered apany, Freeman¡¯s group had earned over five thousand gold coins in less than half a year!

    The current Irnd Chamber of Commerce not only paid off their debt for their magic machines, but they also bought several more magic machines, even building a brand new workshop. No matter how one looked, this was quite the normalpany.

    Moreover, because the Irnd Chamber of Commerce was the firstpany to enter theponent producing business, they had the support of Xu Yi, and the hard work of Freeman and the others, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce was the leadingponent producingpany in Banta City. Not only did they produce all theponents for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had close rtionships with many otherpanies in Banta City.

    Last year the Irnd Chamber of Commerce earned over five thousand gold coins in half a month, that was already shocking.

    Only two months had passed this year and ording to what Freeman saidst time he met Xu Yi, they had already earned another five thousand!

    So no matter where Freeman went, he would always have a smile and a satisfied look on his face.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, how could I not be happy? I just discussed a deal for a hundred thousand spinning needles with the Armani Chamber of Commerce yesterday.¡± Freemanughed as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°I won¡¯t hide it from you, we¡¯ve earned several hundred gold coins just from this order.¡±

    ¡°Then I really have to congratte you.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯tugh at me. I know that the Armani Chamber of Commerce gave this order to us in the end because you mentioned our Irnd Chamber of Commerce to the Armani Chamber of Commerce chairman Vincent, right?¡± Freeman seriously asked this.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Who told you?¡±

    Freeman scratched his head, ¡°It was Kovac who told me. Last time he went to a banquet in the city, he saw you talking to the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. Then less than two dayster, the Armani Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to send people to give us this order, so you must have rmended us to the Armani Chamber of Commerce. Otherwise, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have chosen us.¡±

    ¡°Banquet?¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit. Freeman must be talking about the Lord City Lord traditional spring banquet that celebrated the passing of winter from five days ago.

    At that banquet, he had indeed talked to chairman Vincent, but the content was about bringing arge amount of goods to the ck Rice Wastnd. As for the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, chairman Vincent had asked him whichponentpany was the best and he had mentioned them.

    If it was said like this, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce receiving this order was mainly because of Xu Yi¡¯s rmendation.

    But Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t take undeserved credit.

    An order of less than ten thousand was arge order for the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, but he didn¡¯t put it in his eyes at all.

    So Xu Yi just patted Freeman¡¯s shoulder and said with augh, ¡°Don¡¯t mind it. If it wasn¡¯t because the quality of yourponents was good, I wouldn¡¯t have rmended you to chairman Vincent, right?¡±

    Seeing Freeman wanting to thank him still, Xu Yi quickly changed the topic. He looked around before asking, ¡°Where is the thing I wanted?¡±

    Freeman¡¯s words of thanks were stopped by Xu Yi and after being surprised for a bit, he immediately brought Xu Yi to a magic production machine in the corner that had been working the entire time.

    This magic production machine had created several hundred small round metal caps, which were the most importantponent in making the canned fruits.

    Xu Yi picked one up to look over and found that this cap felt smooth, without a single defect on the surface. He used his finger to touch the inside and could feel the smooth threaded surface.

    After taking a ss jar from Freeman, Xu Yi put on the bottle cap and gently twisted it. There was a click sound as the ss jar was capped and it didn¡¯t reveal a single gap.

    Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod and experimented with several other bottle caps. He found that all these bottle caps fit the ss jars perfectly.

    ¡°Very good, it seems like you¡¯ve already found the right trick. These bottle caps are all useful.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile of praise as he looked at Freeman.

    Obtaining Xu Yi¡¯s recognition, Freeman immediately revealed a happy smile.

    When Xu Yi gave them the order for the canned fruit caps, he only gave them a few blueprints and some specific details, he didn¡¯t give them anything else. He didn¡¯t give them the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce technical staff like when he had them produceponents, so they could only figure it out themselves.

    In the beginning, in order to make a suitable cap, they had failed countless times and wasted countless materials.

    Although they had made a batch of bottle caps that met the requirements, they had wasted over ten thousand bottle caps before making this batch.

    But it was like Xu Yi had said to Freeman and Kovac, if apany wanted to be bigger, they had to have some things that they truly understood. Just by following the guidance that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce would never grow.

    Freeman and Kovac understood this, so they didn¡¯t oppose him at all, rather they chose to experiment to develop this themselves.

    Although they had failed over ten thousand times, which created a loss of close to a thousand gold coins, they kept persisting.

    The achievements of persisting were clear.

    After this ¡°technical research¡± called by Xu Yi, Freeman found that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers were much more skilled when it came to operating the magic production machines.

    For example, the young fellow who was currently operating the magic production machine. He didn¡¯t know a single thing about the magic production machine when he entered the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, but now he was a skilled worker at operating the magic production machine.

    Xu Yi even gave him an appraisal of being at the same level of the dwarves in the magic machine workshop.

    It had to be known that although the dwarves had short and thick hands, they were highly talented in this.

    To be able to match a dwarf was already high praise.

    Other than this, the most important thing during failing these experiments was that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce discovered many problems, so it gave them quite a bit of new understanding and knowledge when it came to producingponents.

    Freeman was very confident that if one had to choose one of the hundreds ofponents workshops in the Sandton industrial district as having the best technique, it would definitely be the Irnd Chamber of Commerce!

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are satisfied with the bottle cap we produced, can we start officially producing them? How many do you need for the first batch?¡± Seeing that Xu Yi had finished measuring the measurements of the bottle cap with the Vernier Scale that he described, so Freeman asked this.

    ¡°There¡¯s no rush right now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The canned fruits factory needs two months before it can go into production. When that timees, I¡¯ll be able to know the quantity and types of canned fruits being produced. You also have a big order from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce right now, so you might as well do your best during this time.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Freeman nodded as he quickly agreed.

    After taking Xu Yi around the factory, Xu Yi decided to leave.

    After sending Xu Yi out, Freeman suddenly revealed a bothered expression and he kept hesitantly opening his mouth, but he could never say anything.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Just say it if you have something to say, you know that I don¡¯t like beating around the bush.¡±

    Freeman scratched his head and said with an embarrassed smile, ¡°It¡¯s like this, chairman Xu. There are many smallponentspanies in this industrial district and although there are many benefits, thepetition is too fierce. There are many times where there are conflicts betweenpanies for contracts and manypanies would choose to cut their prices. We already don¡¯t earn much on theponents and if the price is cut even more, no one will be able to earn money in the future.¡±

    ¡°So? You¡¯ve thought of a solution?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Freemanughed, ¡°Aren¡¯t I asking you because I haven¡¯t thought of anything?¡±

    Xu Yi snappily looked at him, ¡°Is it that you haven¡¯t thought of it or you¡¯re not willing to say it? What about Kovac? He¡¯s definitely the one who thought of asking me, so why are you asking instead?¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s in Karma City for some special business.¡± Freeman had the same shameless smile as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are the president of the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union, our smallponentpanies came from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n, so you can¡¯t just not care about us, right?¡±

    Seeing the pleading look on Freeman¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a nod with a sigh, ¡°Alright, theponent industry is part of the magic machine industry, so I can¡¯t just ignore it. At the next meeting, I will announce a bottom price for each magic machine rted product. If anypany goes below that price, it will be considered aggressivepetition and they will be kicked out of the union.¡±

    Freeman was immediately filled with joy as he cheered, ¡°That¡¯s great! As long as chairman Xu says a word, this problem can be easily solved. Thosepanies won¡¯t have to kill each other in the future!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the happy Freeman and shook his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s too early to be happy. In Banta City, I can help you solve this problem, but when you leave Banta City and move through the Lampuri Kingdom, or even walk out of the Lampuri Kingdom to the continent, I can¡¯t help you like this.¡±

    Freemanughed as he spread his hand in a natural manner, ¡°Isn¡¯t that simple? Right now chairman Xu¡¯s words are effective in Banta City and when we start moving through the Lampuri Kingdom, your words will be effective in the entire kingdom. When we move across the continent, your words will definitely be effective across the continent!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Freeman, you¡¯re overestimating me too much¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 158 - New city square

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 159 New city square</h4>

    Even though it was March and the cold winter had passed, it was still cold during the nights.

    Normally speaking, on these kinds of cold nights, most people of Banta City chose to stay in their homes. They either wrapped themselves in their nkets or enjoyed the warm wind of the Magic Air Conditioner.

    If nothing special was happening, no one was willing to go out.

    But tonight, the people of Banta City went against the norm. Once it became dark and after they finished dinner, they left their warm homes and entered the cold breeze as they headed to the city square at the center of Banta City.

    When itpletely became dark, the roads to the city square were filled with people and werepletely blocked.

    Even when it wasn¡¯t that cold, although there were countless people who walked around in the city square during the evening, it was never as crowded as this.

    The reason why this happened was that a week ago, the ?Banta Times? used arge title to announce that a weekter, the Banta City city square would have a new appearance and the entire square would be changed.

    The Lord City Lord had also expressed his views in the ?Banta Times?, indicating that this new city square would open everyone¡¯s eyes and shock them.

    Count Sean was the Banta City City Lord, but he rarely made this kind of exaggeration before. So after the ?Banta Times? report came out, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone in Banta City.

    This new city square, what kind of appearance would it have? If could even make the Lord City Lord describe it as ¡°unbelievable¡±.

    After this report, starting from the second day, there would be arge number at the head of the ?Banta Times? every day.

    The first day was six, the second day was five, the third day was four¡­..

    So everyone knew that the ?Banta Times? was making a countdown.

    As the day approached, everyone became more and more excited for this new city square.

    Although before the ?Banta Times? report came out, everyone found that the City Lord¡¯s Manor had suddenly sealed off the city square and blocked it off, making people unable to see into it.

    Although they could hear the sounds of constructioning in from it, doing this attracted people¡¯s attention more.

    When the day finally came, everyone¡¯s curiosity reached a peak and many people came to the new city square without even getting dinner, just to see the new city square as soon as possible.

    They didn¡¯t know if the City Lord¡¯s Manor did it on purpose, but the day that was chosen was a day in the period of two days where there wasn¡¯t a moon each month.

    Although they could see the stars in the sky since there were no clouds, once it became dark, the city square fell intoplete darkness.

    There were many smart citizens who had predicted this and brought their Magic Lamp from home.

    When the sky fell into darkness, there were many different colours of lights around the city square.

    If one looked down from above, they would be able to see that in the dense crowd, there would be countless different lights that looked like the stars above them in the sky.

    Everyone patiently waited while chatting with each other. When it finally reached eight at night that the ?Banta Times? had said,, there was a deep sound as the city square was unsealed. Then fireworks roared out into the sky and exploded, lighting up the night.

    Everyone instantly stopped talking because of this and the entire area fell into silence, as a deep male¡¯s voice rang out.

    ¡°Banta City residents, wee to the new Banta City city square!¡±

    As soon as this voice fell, the curtain surrounding the city square fell down and was pulled aside by an unknown force.

    The Banta City city square that had been sealed for close to a month had finally revealed its appearance.

    The crowd swarmed into the city square, as everyone wanted to see what the city square looked like as soon as possible.

    But just with the light of the Magic Lamps in their hands and the stars above them, they couldn¡¯t even see ten meters in front of them. How was it possible to see the entire city square with this many people here.

    Some people with better eyes could make outrge pirs that were in the city square with the faint light.

    When everyone was feeling impatient, there was suddenly a sound from the center as a firework flew into the air.

    After everyone¡¯s attention was attracted, there was a bright light that came from the center of the city square, as a figure that was bathed in light had appeared suddenly.

    On the stage, Count Sean was bathed in light. He had a faint smile on his face as he looked at the people around him, raising his hands to give a signal.

    When everyone calmed down, Count Sean said in a clear voice, ¡°Citizens of Banta City, I know that you have been waiting for this night for a long time, so I won¡¯t take up your time. I just want to remind you that everything you see tonight will definitely be something you never forget!¡±

    It was fine if he said nothing, but once he said this, the people under the stage filled with curiosity became even more impatient.

    There were some people who were so impatient that they shouted, ¡°Lord City Lord, what does it look like? Let us see it!¡±

    Hearing these shouts, the crowd echoed this.

    The sound surged forth and spread far away from the market.

    At this moment, it was impossible to find peace in Banta City.

    Count Sean raised his hand again and calmed everyone down, before nodding behind him.

    A slender girl who had a cute round face walked out while being illuminated by the light and handed a small box to Count Sean.

    Count Sean took the box and asked the girl a few things before turning around. He looked at everyone and raised the hand in his box as he said in a loud voice, ¡°Now is the time to witness a miracle!¡±

    After he said this, Count Sean reached out a finger to press down on the box.

    In an instant, there were bright lights that appeared above the city square, like several moons had appeared above them and lit up the city square like it was day time.

    This sudden change made people close their eyes, but when they opened them again, they were shocked to find that there was no longer night in the city square, it was just like day.

    This kind of light came from the giant Magic Lamps that were hanging on the poles around the city square.

    By the sides of the trees and flowers, there were also small poles that had small Magic Lamps hanging on them.

    These Magic Lamps didn¡¯t release the same white light as therge magicmps, rather they released light of all colours.

    This seemed a bit disorderly, but after the light shined on the nts, it created a beautiful arrangement.

    But it wasn¡¯t over yet.

    Everyone looked at the center and found that there was a fountain dug there, perfectly ced in the center with the tform in the middle.

    With the light above them, everyone could clearly see that there was a statue on the tform and by the four sides of the tform, there were Magic Lamps releasing all kinds of coloured lights ced in rows.

    The lights were all pointed at the statue, making it hard for people not to look at the statue.

    But when they saw the statue, people were confused.

    It was because this wasn¡¯t the statue of a person, rather it was a strange looking white horse with a horn on its head and wings on its back.

    ¡°What is this thing?¡±

    When everyone was confused, columns of water were shot out from around the tform and came together in the air. They suddenly gathered together to take the shape of a flower that slowly bloomed.

    With the different colours of light shining on it, this flowerpletely made of water was filled with different colours of light, looking incredibly beautiful.

    The people in the square saw this fantasy like show. They were shocked by the bright lights in the square, but now they saw the water turning into different shapes, they seemed like they were going to go crazy.

    In a room on the third floor of the City Lord¡¯s Manor not far from the square, Xu Yi looked away from the scene in the square and turned to look at Hannas on the side, as he said with sigh, ¡°It seems like the Lord City Lord isn¡¯t good at creating a show. This was a good chance to shorten the distance between him and the people, letting the people of Banta City know him better, but he wasn¡¯t willing to take my advice. It really is a pity, it¡¯s a waste of a good chance.¡±

    Hannas turned to Xu Yi and couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°What kind of person do you think the Lord Count is? Does he need to put on a show for the citizens? These citizens can¡¯t do anything to him.¡±

 Volume 2 159 - City symbol

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 159 City symbol</h4>

    Xu Yi thought about it, but he gave up exining this to Hannas.

    The Sines Continent¡¯s social system was different from earth. On earth, the politicians needed to earn the support of the people, but for the Sines Continent, a great noble like Count Sean didn¡¯t need to put on a show for the citizens at all.

    It was like Hannas said, those citizens couldn¡¯t influence Count Sean at all because it was impossible for them to choose the City Lord, decide Count Sean¡¯s title, and they couldn¡¯t influence the family behind Count Sean.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Hannas, after you saw this new city square, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi asked as he changed the topic.

    ¡°What do I think? This is just too shocking!¡± Hannas immediately gave an emotional sigh, holding nothing back, ¡°Xu Yi, how could I have never discovered this before, you were actually such an expert in building a city? This city square is just too creative. I dare say that on the entire Sines Continent, there isn¡¯t a single city with the same city square. Not mentioning the beautiful fountain in the middle, just the Magic Lights that can light up the entire square is shocking enough.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, thinking that Hannas really was inexperienced.

    Just a small city square was enough to shock him, then wouldn¡¯t he faint from his shock if he were to see those huge metropolises on earth?

    Of course, he was very clear on the fact that the Banta City square could be considered crude to him, but this was a very shocking new thing on the Sines Continent.

    Hannas kept praising him for a bit before suddenly changing the topic.

    ¡°This new city square is indeed quite good, but was it worth you having me speciallye from Anvilmar City?¡±

    ¡°Of course, you are the secret leader of Anvilmar City¡¯s newspaper business. If I don¡¯t find you, how can I show everyone in the kingdom the beautiful scene of Banta City¡¯s city square?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Hannas slightly knit his brows, ¡°Actually¡­..I¡¯m very curious. Xu Yi, why are you so passionate about this? You are just a normalpany¡¯s chairman and not Banta City¡¯s City Lord. Putting in this much effort for this matter and even advertising it like this, why are you doing this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, I did this to raise the fame of Banta City, to let everyone know that this small and remote city in everyone¡¯s mind is a new and impressive city filled with life. If Banta City bes famous, it would greatly help thepanies in Banta City.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi pointed at the city square in the distance and said, ¡°Do you see that unicorn in the center of the square? It is the name card of Banta City. When people introduce Banta City in the future, it will be the symbol of Banta City.¡±

    Hannas looked at where Xu Yi was pointing and muttered, ¡°That is a unicorn? I thought that it was a horse with a deformity¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    He thought that since this world had dwarves, elves, beastmen, and once had halfling and dragons, it meant that the divine beast of the western fantasy world, the unicorn would also exist.

    But when Count Sean asked about the design of the statue and Xu Yi proposed the unicorn, he was met with looks of bewilderment.

    When he gave the rough outline of the unicorn, whether it was Count Sean, Agnes, or even the elf in the factory, they had never seen this kind of creature before.

    Xu Yi could only helplessly ept the fact that there were no unicorns in this world, but Count Sean was very pleased by the image that he drew. After they had an artist draw it, they decided to have it as the statue that would represent Banta City.

    This unicorn had a very profound meaning.

    First the unicorn was in the shape of a horse and horses represented speed and endurance. Banty City was in a state of quick development and has kept it going all this time.

    Next, there was only a single horn on the unicorn¡¯s head. It meant that no matter what difficulties there were, Banta City would keep charging forward and break through everything.

    Finally it was the pair of wings which meant that Banta City would soar in the sky.

    When Xu Yi told Count Sean of all these meanings, Count Sean approved it even more.

    Count Sean even nned to publish a book on Banta City¡¯s history, which would not only describe the past, it would also describe the current Banta City. He was nning to show everyone the current Banta City through this book.

    This was also a part of the ¡°Banta City image construction n¡± that Xu Yi proposed.

    The other things like rebuilding the city square and calling Hannas over to use the newspaper to advertise Banta City all over the country was all a part of the n.

    In short, it was to build a star city in the Lampuri Kingdom, to let everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom know about Banta City.

    ¡°Then what is your real goal?¡± Hannas asked, ¡°You say that this is helpful to all thepanies in your Banta City, but I don¡¯t see how it will help. If you are nning to increase the fame of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and let it develop a bit faster, I can understand and there are many methods that can help you achieve this. But if you¡¯re talking about creating a symbol for Banta City¡­..I still have the same thing to say, that is something for Count Sean to consider and not something for a normal merchant like you.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Different societies had different understandings. For Xu Yi who transmigrated from earth, building the image of a city was a natural thing.

    But for someone from the Sines Continent, a city was just a city in the end. It was a ce with a bit more people living in it, but there was no special meaning.

    To let them understand the importance of a city¡¯s image was simply ying the fiddle for a bull.

    Even for Hannas who came from thergest Anvilmar City was the same.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi found that if he wanted to let Hannas understand the meaning of this matter and how it would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be a troublesome matter. He was toozy to exin and just asked him to help him advertise this without caring about the reason.

    As for the benefits it would bring to thepanies of Banta City and Banta City itself, Hannas didn¡¯t know now, but he would know in the future.

    After discussing how to advertise this with Hannas, Xu Yi had Hannas go meet Count Sean who returned to the City Lord¡¯s Manor as he went to a wing in the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    When he came into the hall, Xu Yi heard the uniqueughter of Akaliing through the door.

    ¡°Ha, ha, you really should have been on stage. When the surrounding Magic Lamps lit up, everyone closed their eyes. When they opened them again, almost everyone¡¯s mouths dropped in shock. Their expressions were really funny¡­..¡±

    ¡°Is that so? I feel their mouths weren¡¯t open as wide as yours right now, right?¡± Xu Yi smiled as he opened the door and walked in.

    The little hall had seven members of the magic research facility including Akali. They were the technical support staff for the Magic Lamps in the city square, they were mainly responsible for solving the problem of how themps would light up the entire square.

    The twentyrge scale Magic Lamps on poles around the city square and the smallmps by the nts, as well as themps in the fountain, were all designed by them.

    The chief designer was Akali.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Akali wanted to excitedly charge over, but hearing what Xu Yi said, she stopped and said with a soft snort, ¡°Sir chairman, I justpleted quite a meaningful job, can¡¯t you let me be happy for a bit?¡±

    ¡°Of course you can.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Not only can you be happy for a bit, you can keep being happy since I have some good news for you. With the sess of this city square improvement n, especially with how great the Magic Lamps were working, I¡¯ve decided to represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in giving you a special reward.¡±

    Hearing the words ¡°special reward¡±, all the researchers looked at Xu Yi with expectant looks.

    Xu Yi deliberately paused before giving a cough and saying in a loud voice, ¡°Other than Akali, the six of you will receive a third grade reward. This means that each person will receive one hundred gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Oh!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great!¡±

    ¡°Great!¡±

    ¡°Ah, ha, ha, ha.¡±

    ¡­...

    When Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, everyone immediately burst out in cheers.

    Akali rushed over in an excited manner and grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm while asking, ¡°Sir chairman, what about my reward? You saidst time that my magic resonating technology was a great discovery and I¡¯ve worked so hard, look how thin I¡¯ve be. Since it¡¯s like this, my reward can¡¯t be less than theirs, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said with a nod, ¡°Of course, you are the inventor of this technology and the leader of this research group, so your reward is definitely higher than the others.¡±

    ¡°Then I should be at the second grade right? Let me think¡­...The second grade is¡­..Is¡­..¡±

    ¡°No need. It¡¯s not the second grade, rather it¡¯s the first grade. That means you receive five hundred gold coins!¡±

 Volume 2 160 - Banta Cityâ€™s ambitions

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 160 Banta City¡¯s ambitions</h4>

    Hearing the number ¡°five hundred gold coins¡±, the six researchers who were cheering were stunned and the room fell into a strange silence.

    After a while, Akali asked Xu Yi with a look of disbelief in a trembling voice, ¡°Sir¡­..Sir chairman, you just said¡­..I¡¯m receiving a first grade reward?¡±

    ¡°Yes, first grade reward, five hundred gold coins. You didn¡¯t hear wrong.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look.

    Akali was stunned for a bit before suddenly cheering and jumping up.

    ¡°Ha, ha, that¡¯s great! Five hundred gold coins! I can buy so many new clothes!¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    This Akali in the end was just a young girl in her early twenties. Suddenly receiving thisrge reward, the first thing she thought about was buying new clothes.

    Seeing the other researchers looking at Akali with looks of envy, Xu Yi added, ¡°Don¡¯t be jealous of Akali. I will always be generous for breakthroughs in technology and Akali¡¯s achievements are worthy of this reward. If you want to receive the same reward as her, then you just need to properly study and make a breakthrough that canpete with hers.¡±

    The six researchers all gave strong nods.

    Although they were jealous of Akali, they knew that Akali yed the biggest role this time. It could even be said that this magic resonance technology waspletely developed by Akali alone.

    Being able to receive a hundred gold coins as a reward was already considered a pleasant surprise.

    Seeing Akali and the other researchers cheering in celebration, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Actually, ording to his ideas, Akali¡¯s magic resonance technology had many uses. Just using it to control all the Magic Lamps in this small city square was just a very simple application of this technology.

    If they continued researching this technology, they could use it in many different other ces. Even now based on what Xu Yi could think of, he already had three different ideas.

    Moreover, as they continued studying this, there would definitely be more applications/

    For a technology with such influence and such a broad area of use, Xu Yi felt that it was quite cheap only giving Akali five hundred gold coins.

    If it was possible, he felt that it was worth it even if he gave Akali fifty thousand gold coins.

    Of course, the reward system of the magic research facility was something that Evita made and Xu Yi recognized, so he couldn¡¯t just break the rules at will.

    Not to mention that only rewarding five hundred gold coins now, there would be more room to increase on in the future.

    When the magic research facility created more and more magic machines, with increasing importance, it would be inevitable that the amount given would increase.

    When that time came, perhaps it would be like thepanies on earth where a single piece of technology would be worth tens of millions.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned to look at Sancheli who had been sitting in the corner, looking excited, but also quite awkward.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Sancheli revealed a smile that seemed rather forced.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before sitting down beside him. He patted his shoulder with a smile and said, ¡°How about it? Your work is this outstanding, why do you have this kind of expression? Come, tell me honestly, what grade reward do you think you deserve?¡±

    Sancheli¡¯s smile became even more awkward as he kept waving his hand and saying, ¡°No, no, no. I¡¯ve already mooched off you for a year and now I can finally help, I¡¯m already very happy, how could I dare want some reward. Sir chairman, you not ming me for taking this long to develop something is already very good.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Sancheli for a bit before asking, ¡°So you always looked for a reason to avoid me because you felt ashamed?¡±

    Sancheli revealed a look of shame as he nodded and said with a deep voice, ¡°Yes, seeing the other colleagues have results all day and develop all kinds of products for thepany, I feel like I¡¯ve never done anything. Although sir chairman hasn¡¯t said anything, I feel quite sorry in my heart. If it wasn¡¯t for you, I might have starved to death in Anvilmar City. Not only did you save me and fulfil me wishes, letting me have my ownboratory and study the magic I want to study, I really don¡¯t know how to repay you. I thought that if I could make the programming technology that you spoke of, I could repay you, but¡­...I never thought that it would be this hard.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re surprised?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°To be honest with you, I didn¡¯t have any hope with this at all. I only had this idea when I saw the crystal ball that you made, so I decided to let you give it a try. I¡¯m very clear on how difficult this technology is, so I didn¡¯t have any hope of you developing this in a short period of time. This time you being able to apply a part of your technology and letting the Water Magic Array in the fountains create shapes was already a pleasant surprise. So there is no pressure on you, you just need to keep researching.¡±

    Xu Yi was very generous, so the look of shame on Sancheli¡¯s face became even stronger.

    It was like he said, Xu Yi had not only saved him, he had also given him what he wanted.

    If he didn¡¯t insist on studying his unique magic, with his decent talent in magic, he wouldn¡¯t havee close to starving himself.

    To him, his magic research was more important than his life.

    Now that he was at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had given him an environment to study the magic that he loved, almost giving him a new lease on life.

    ¡°Alright! I will definitely work hard!¡± Thinking of this, Sancheli gave a strong nod, ¡°Sir chairman, be assured, if I can¡¯t do it in a year, I¡¯ll do it in ten years! If I can¡¯t do it in ten years, I will use my entire life! I will definitely develop the programming technology that you want before I die! You don¡¯t need to give me a wage, I only need food and magic materials! I will dedicate my entire life to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°I already said so, there¡¯s no pressure, you just need to research it at your leisure. Also, through this performance, I¡¯ve realized that I¡¯ve neglected a problem. Akali could develop and apply this magic resonance technology so fast, other than her own talent, it was because she had six researchers helping her. Rather you have been working by yourself the entire time. So starting tomorrow, you will pick a few assistants to help with your research. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, right?¡± Sancheli said in a surprised voice, ¡°I can just research this thing by myself, there¡¯s no need for assistants.¡±

    ¡°Even Great Magicians have assistants when they research magic, why don¡¯t you need them? This matter has been decided. I¡¯ll give you three days to consider and then you can give the lists of assistants you want to Evita, as well as consult with her on assistants. When this list is finished,e talk to me.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi not giving him room to negotiate, Sancheli swallowed all his words of resistance and just nodded as he agreed.

    ¡°Other than this, my principle is that acts must be rewarded. The Magic Array dy technology you invented had very good results. Although it isn¡¯t as amazing as Akali¡¯s magic resonance technology, it is still very important. So I¡¯ve decided to give you a second grade reward, which is two hundred gold coins.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Sancheli was stunned. He wanted to reject, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s determined look, he couldn¡¯t say a thing and could only ept it.

    ¡°Alright, keep working hard. Although your performance this time wasn¡¯t as good as Akali¡¯s, I have always had good views of the Magic Array programming technology. I believe that it will be a very important technology and won¡¯t have prospects worse than the magic resonance technology.¡±

    Xu Yi patted Sancheli¡¯s shoulder again andforted him before saying goodbye to Akali and the others. He stood up to leave the room and being guided by a servant, he went to another small room to talk to Count Sean and Hannas.

    Those two were talking and when they saw Xu Yie in, they stopped and looked over at him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, were you just giving rewards to the researchers from your magic research facility just now?¡± When Xu Yi sat down, Count Sean asked this with a smile, ¡°We can hear their cheers from here, I think the reward shouldn¡¯t be small, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s not much, it¡¯s just one hundred gold coins per person.¡±

    ¡°Ha, a hundred gold coins per person isn¡¯t much?¡± Hannas shook his head with a sigh, ¡°Should I say the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is rich or that chairman Xu really is a wastrel?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s fine however you say it, I¡¯m very satisfied with their performance this time. Since I¡¯m satisfied, of course I will give them a satisfying reward. Otherwise, would they still be willing to work in the future?¡±

    ¡°This is right, but isn¡¯t a hundred gold coins per person too much? Even forpanies in Anvilmar City, it¡¯s already really good if they gave their workers ten gold coins as a reward.¡± Hannas couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice.

    ¡°That is your Anvilmar City¡¯spanies being too stingy, it¡¯s not rted to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort and said in a voice filled with disdain, ¡°Let me tell you, not only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if you ask around outside, even for the smallestpanies with a yearly revenue of less than five thousand gold coins, if their employee makes an innovation in their technology, they would receive at least fifty gold coins.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that exaggerated?¡± Hannas couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Are your Banta City¡¯spanies crazy? What technology innovations¡­..I¡¯ve seen those innovations in the ?Banta Times? and they are at most just small adjustments. Are they really that unusual? Does it need to be rewarded that much?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas and shook his head, ¡°So, Hannas, in the year you¡¯ve been away from Banta City, you¡¯ve fallen behind on the situation. As for thepanies of Anvilmar City, they are even more behind.¡±

    Hannas said in an unwilling to give up voice, ¡°What? You¡¯re saying that Anvilmar City can¡¯tpare to Banta City?¡±

    Xu Yi and Count Sean looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Xu Yi pointed at the small memo in front of Hannas and said, ¡°What do you think¡­..the Lord City Lord is carrying the Banta City image construction n for?¡±

    Hannas looked at Count Sean in a daze before finding that Count Sean also had a faint smile, not nning on exining for Xu Yi at all.

    After being surprised for a bit, Hannas couldn¡¯t help sighing in his heart.

    If Count Sean nned on making Banta City surpass Anvilmar City as the biggest city in the Lampuri Kingdom, that really was too ambitious.

    But seeing Xu Yi smiling on the side, Hannas suddenly realized something.

    This idea that seemed impossible, perhaps¡­...it really could be aplished¡­..

 Volume 2 161 - Is your brain made of stone?

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 161 Is your brain made of stone?</h4>

    To change the entire Banta City, this wasn¡¯t something that could be aplished by words or just advertisements.

    Other than the city square and Sandy River project that attracted the most attention, Banta City¡¯s tentative n to create new districts was slowly beginning.

    The first problem solved for these new districts was the problem of roads.

    When this city renovation n was createdst year, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been building roads where these districts were nned for outside the city the entire time.

    Now that over half a year had passed, the main transportation lines had been finished. The Fersen Horse Carriage Company was beginning to open public transportation lines to the various districts.

    Setting off from the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport stands, they could choose to ride the horse carriages to quickly go to many ces in the city. Compared to when one could only walk if they didn¡¯t have a personal carriage, it was without a doubt faster than walking.

    Hannas spent one gold coin and an entire morning to ride all eleven public transport lines in Banta City. When he came back, he was filled with praise for Xu Yi.

    ¡°It¡¯s too convenient! It really is too convenient!¡± Hannas still had the same slightly exaggerated tone from before, ¡°It just takes a few silver coins to ride afortable horse carriage to where you are going and it moves so quickly, it simply is too convenient!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°How is it? Who was it who said to mest time that although the idea of a public transport system was good, it wasn¡¯t practical to use it?¡±

    Hannas¡¯ face turned a bit red as he said with a smile, ¡°How could I know that your Banta City would develop so fast that you could build so many roads in such a short amount of time. Moreover, the Fersen Carriage Company really is working well with you. From what I can see, there aren¡¯t that many people riding the public horse carriages yet, so they are definitely suffering a loss.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s just because people aren¡¯t used to them yet.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Before everyone was poor and most of them didn¡¯t even have a single gold coin, so they are a bit against spending a few silver coins to ride the public horse carriages. But now that the ie in Banta City is much higher, when they understand that time is more valuable than money, I guarantee that there will definitely be many more people riding horse carriages. At that time, if you want to ride the public horse carriages, you¡¯ll have to push your way in.¡±

    ¡°How could it be that exaggerated¡­..¡± Hannas couldn¡¯t help refuting, but thinking about his investigation of Banta City in the past few days, he found that it wasn¡¯t that impossible.

    The poption of Banta City was quickly increasing and the ie of these people was much higher than when he camest time.

    If this trend continues, there mighte a time when everyone will be willing to spend money to ride the public horse carriages.

    At that time, there might be a situation where it would be crowded.

    ¡°Un¡­...This thing really is not bad, I will write in the newspapers when I get back to urge Anvilmar City to also get a public transport system.¡± Hannas thought about it before saying, ¡°With this, when we go out to y, we won¡¯t have to use our own horse carriages.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and coldly said, ¡°You think that Anvilmar City can have this thing?¡±

    ¡°Why not¡­¡­¡±

    Hannas suddenly stopped.

    He suddenly thought that Xu Yi¡¯s question wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    Could Anvilmar City¡­..really be connected by a public transport system?

    Banta City could create this because other than the support of the City Lord Count Sean, Banta City had builtrge amounts of roads. The horse carriages could quickly travel across these roads, which was not only fast, but also stable.

    As for the roads in Anvilmar City, it was made from paved stone. Since it wasn¡¯t as spacious and wasn¡¯t as smooth, the road conditions were much worse than Banta City.

    Other than that, the other important factor of building a public transport system was whether it could be maintained or not.

    Count Sean and Xu Yi were confident in the Banta City public transport system because the average ie had greatly increased in Banta City, so even the normal citizens could afford to pay a few gold coins to ride the horse carriages.

    Although Anvilmar City had gathered many great nobles andrge merchants, with enough people who could afford to use the public transport system, for those great nobles and merchants, they had money, so how could they be willing to take the same carriage as someone else? Why wouldn¡¯t they use their morefortable, exclusive carriage?

    As for the citizens who had the greatest demand for the public transport system, most of them weren¡¯t willing to pay for it or couldn¡¯t even afford it.

    For the citizens of Anvilmar City, even if it was only a few silver coins, they needed to carefully consider it.

    Thinking of this, Hannas found that when Xu Yi said that Banta City would surpass Anvilmar City, it wasn¡¯t just an empty boast.

    At least in terms of average ie for citizens, Banta City had far surpassed Anvilmar City.

    ¡°You want to ask how to raise the average ie of citizens?¡± Xu Yi looked at Hannas¡¯ honest questioning look and said with a smile, ¡°Aren¡¯t you in Banta City now? Instead of asking me, it is better to investigate yourself. Only by directly viewing it can you draw the most direct conclusions. I can only give you a suggestion, if you want to know the reason, go and observe the normal citizens in the viges outside the city.¡±

    Hannas nodded. When he wanted to write down Xu Yi¡¯s words, he suddenly thought of something.

    ¡°Actually I think thatpared to running around myself, it is better to follow you around. I can guarantee that the benefits of following you are better and I¡¯ll understand the change with Banta City more.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands and said, ¡°It¡¯s quite the coincidence, I¡¯m about to head out. I won¡¯t be in Banta City during this time, so I don¡¯t have time to spend with you.¡±

    Hannas was stunned, ¡°Where are you going?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m going to the ck Rice Wastnd to solve a few problems and I¡¯ll take a trip to the Stantine Duchy. There is a fellow there who is anxious from waiting for me and if I don¡¯t go soon, I¡¯m afraid he¡¯ll send someone to Banta City to kidnap me.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    An ambiguous smile appeared on Hannas¡¯ face and he raised a brow as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°It can¡¯t be that you found some little girl in the Stantine Duchy and abandoned the other side, right? Hei, hei, should I go tell Still and let her teach you a lesson?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°I did bring back two little girlsst time and now they stay with Vivian and Still all day, do you want to take a look?¡±

    Hannas revealed a surprised look before giving Xu Yi a thumbs up and praising, ¡°You really are quite good. Not mentioning you bringing back two little girls, you actually put them by Still¡¯s side, I really have to admire you.¡±

    ¡°What nonsense is this, it isn¡¯t what you think.¡± Xu Yi snappily reprimanded Hannas. He was toozy to bother with this meaningless issue and said, ¡°In short, I will be gone for at least half a month, so I can¡¯t go around Banta City with you. Actually if you want someone to take you around, just grab a reporter from the ?Banta Times?, they¡¯re much more familiar with Banta Citypared to me.¡±

    ¡°Un, I was just talking, I wasn¡¯t really nning on having someone as busy as you go around with me. But¡­..¡± Hannas suddenly revealed a strange smile, ¡°Xu Yi¡­..Let me tell you some news that I don¡¯t know if it is good or bad.¡±

    ¡°What news is it that you don¡¯t know if it¡¯s good or bad?¡± Xu Yi asked in surprise.

    ¡°It¡¯s that¡­..Sophia mighte over in a few days¡­..¡±

    ¡°She¡¯sing again?¡± Xu Yi was stunned before feeling a headache.

    Sophia¡¯s first time to Banta City with Kennard had strangely looked down on Xu Yi, even not sparing him a nce.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t bother with her since she was a little girl and was Kennard¡¯s little sister, he still felt a headache over this.

    Later when Kennard decided to be the general manager for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Sophia came here when she was bored.

    Although she said that it was to see her brother, she always came looking for Xu Yi and kept provoking him. Xu Yi felt it was bothersome, but he had no other choice.

    So whenever he heard Sophia wasing, Xu Yi felt a headachee over him.

    It was impossible for him to do anything to this mischievous little girl, but he couldn¡¯t let her keep pestering him.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s fine if shees now, I¡¯m leaving anyway. If she knows that I¡¯m not here, she will leave in a few days since she¡¯ll find it boring.¡± Xu Yi said in a somewhat happy voice, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what¡¯s the problem with her, why does she keep causing trouble for me whenever shees? Have I offended her?¡±

    Hannas looked at Xu Yi with a somewhat strange expression.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, do you sincerely feel this way, or is it deliberate?¡±

    ¡°What deliberate?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°You actually don¡¯t know why Sophia keeps looking for you? Is your brain made out of stone?¡± Hannas asked with a bit of disbelief.

    Xu Yi asked back in a confused voice, ¡°What do you want to say?¡±

    Hannas honestly looked over Xu Yi for a bit and seeing that his expression wasn¡¯t fake at all, he couldn¡¯t help covering his face and saying with a sigh, ¡°I really don¡¯t know why Still likes you and I don¡¯t understand even more how she can stay with you. For a slow fellow like you, could it be that Still was the one who confessed to you?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and replied, ¡°Speaking of this, she did take the initiative¡­...But how is that rted? I like her and she likes me, that is enough. What are you trying to say?¡±

    Hannas looked at Xu Yi with a defeated look.

    After a while, Hannas let out a sigh.

    ¡°Sophia, you really are an idiot¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas with a confused look.

    This fellow, just what was he trying to say?

 Volume 2 162 - We also want to hire elves

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 162 We also want to hire elves</h4>

    Even when Xu Yi was heading to the ck Rice Wastnd in a horse carriage the next day, he still didn¡¯t get the answer he wanted from Hannas.

    Xu Yi had asked him several times, but he gave up in the end.

    He had many things to do, so he didn¡¯t n on wasting time on this meaningless question.

    Compared to why Hannas had suddenly called Sophia an idiot, he paid more attention to the matters he was taking care of in the ck Rice Wastnd this time.

    Looking at chairman Vincent sitting opposite of him, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Chairman Vincent, why did you suddenly decide to take a trip to the ck Rice Wastnd?¡±

    Chairman Vincent touched the two small whiskers under his nose and replied with a faint smile, ¡°Our Armani Chamber of Commerce sells clothes, so of course I¡¯m going to the ck Rice Wastnd to see if I can sell more clothes.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before asking with a frown, ¡°It can¡¯t be because the Voller Tribe asked forrge amounts of clothes from us that you suddenly had this idea, right?¡±

    ¡°No, to be urate, I had this idea a long time ago.¡± Chairman Vincent said, ¡°The beastmen have never had the ability to weave clothes, so they just wore animal hides. I had thought about it a long time ago and as long as they be used to the clothes we humans make, it would be a veryrge market. But before this, if the beastmen had any resources, the first thing they would buy would be salt and all kinds of iron tools from humans, so they never asked for clothes. So I am very curious, why did the beastmen suddenly change their mind and decide to learn to wear clothes like us humans?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and waved his hand as he said, ¡°Chairman Vincent, I think that you¡¯re thinking too much. The Voller Tribe is requesting clothes from us because we bought the non-ferrous metal vein from them for five hundred thousand gold coins. These beastmen have never seen this many gold coins before, so they don¡¯t know how to spend them. I think that after chief Voller bought many necessities, he found that there was quite a bit of money left, so he decided to buy clothes. I don¡¯t think it¡¯s because their attitude has changed. As for the other beastmen tribe, it is impossible for them to have that much money, so they won¡¯t have the same ideas.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, for something like clothes, they won¡¯t be willing to take it off once they wear it.¡± Chairman Vincent had a confident smile, ¡°I guarantee that once the beastmen wear our Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s clothes, they will never be able to wear those tattered beast pelts anymore. As for money¡­...Now that chairman Xu is interested in this ck Rice Wastnd, I think that these beastmen will be somewhat rich like this dwarves.¡±

    ¡°You really think highly of me.¡± Xu Yi revealed a modest smile before thinking of an issue, ¡°Speaking of the dwarves having money¡­..Chairman Vincent, Cambyined to me a while ago that every time he and his dwarven brothers go to your Armani Chamber of Commerce to buy clothes, there aren¡¯t any sizes suited to them and they could only make a custom order. He even asked me, is your Armani Chamber of Commerce discriminating against them as dwarves and if you¡¯re doing it intentionally?¡±

    Chairman Vincent was stunned, but he quickly waved his hand and said, ¡°No, no, no. Ourpany naturally isn¡¯t discriminating against the dwarven brothers. As for not having anything in their size¡­..that is something that we have neglected. But chairman Xu, I think that you can understand that the dwarves purchase an amount of clothes that can be ignored by ourpany and the dwarves have quite special sizes¡­..¡±

    ¡°I can understand that. I¡¯m mentioning this to you this time to remind you that there are over a thousand dwarven workers now at ourpany and there will be even more in the future. These dwarves and their families will be buying clothes in Banta City. I have always rmended the Armani Chamber of Commerce to them, but if you keep ignoring the builds of the dwarves and their styles of clothes, you might lose arge group of customers.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright, I will remember this.¡± Chairman Vincent gave a nod before saying in an emotional voice, ¡°The current Banta City is changing too quickly. The previous Banta City didn¡¯t even have three dwarves and there weren¡¯t any elves, but now there are dwarves all over the streets and it¡¯s normal to see elves. It¡¯s reached the point where it¡¯s be nothing special to the people of Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°So that means the world is changing rather quickly. I will be going to the Falling Rain Forest in a while and chat with the elder of the Night Song Tribe. If nothing unexpected happens, you should see even more elves in Banta City in the future. As for dwarves¡­...everyone has already long be ustomed to them, right?¡±

    Chairman Vincent looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I¡­...ask you to help me with something?¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°Are you very close to the elves right now? You can even speak to their elder, so can you help me tell those elves that our Armani Chamber of Commerce sincerely invites them to work for ourpany as clothing designers?¡± Chairman Vincent asked.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°You want hire elves to be clothing designers for yourpany?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Not just one, I want a few if possible.¡± Chairman Vincent nodded before saying, ¡°Other than dress designers, I also want to hire several elves as models to be¡­...Un¡­..It¡¯s like how young miss Still is the spokesperson for yourpany and the Sarank Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Vincent with a bit of surprise before suddenly revealing a smile, ¡°Chairman Vincent, can I call this copying my creativity?¡±

    Chairman Vincentughed, ¡°It can be called this. Chairman Xu is this creative, so if I don¡¯t use it as a reference, it would be wasted.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he shook his head. He thought for a bit before saying, ¡°I can give this request to the Night Song Tribe elder, but I can¡¯t guarantee if she¡¯ll agree or not. Other than that, you still haven¡¯t told me what conditions you¡¯ll give them.¡±

    ¡°Alright, many thanks chairman Xu. As for conditions¡­..¡± Chairman Vincent thought for a bit before saying, ¡°For the clothing designers, ourpany gives our best designers a sry of a thousand gold coins per year, so if the elves are willing, as long as they can use their outstanding talent, their sry will be five hundred gold coins with room for increase based on the situation. As for the models and spokespeople, this is hard to decide. It will depend on how often they work and the amount of time they work, but I can guarantee that it will not be less than three hundred gold coins a year.¡±

    ¡°Alright, those conditions aren¡¯t bad, but you have forgotten one important thing.¡± Xu Yi reminded.

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°You have to apply for abour card in the name of the Armani Chamber of Commerce for them.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Compared to wages, the elves care more about obtaining the right to live a normal life in our human society.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a problem. But ourpany doesn¡¯t have experience with this, so I¡¯ll have to ask chairman Xu for your help when the timees.¡± Chairman Vincent said.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°No problem.¡±

    The motorcade carrying arge pile of clothes stopped at the Falling Rain Valley. Xu Yi bid farewell to chairman Vincent, letting him go to Samara Town first to meet chairman Renersa, while he entered the Falling Rain Valley.

    Even though spring wasn¡¯t truly here yet, the Falling Rain Valley had strange nts from the elves, so it was filled with bright flowers and green leaves. There were the metallic sounds of magic machinesing from all over the valley,bined with the sounds of people talking, it showed that the Falling Rain Valley was filled with life.

    Xu Yi entered the tire factory not far from the entrance and saw the tire production line before heading to a corner in the factory.

    There were a total of ten people here that included elves, dwarves, and humans. They were talking about a few tires on the ground that were narrower than the ones being produced in the production line.

    ¡°I suggest that we reduce the resin amount for the tire and add a few softeners to make the tire tube even softer, which makes it easier to pump air in.¡± The one pinching the tire made of soft resin was the dwarf craftsman Bordeau.

    The tire factory was designing a new tire ording to Xu Yi¡¯s requests, so the magic machine research workshop hade, mainly in charge of designing the rim of the tire.

    ¡°But if there are too many softeners, I¡¯m worried that once the weather gets warmer, the tire tube will start melting. Not mentioning if it could even be used, it might not even be able to maintain its normal shape.¡±

    The one who spoke was a male elf named Yldan. He was currently the elf who was best at handling resin of the hundred elves in the tire factory.

    When it came to developing this new tire, of course they couldn¡¯tck his participation.

    ¡°If there are many worries with this problem, we¡¯ll just test it a few more times until we reach the perfect ratio to guarantee that it will work properly and can withstand high temperatures. The chairman said that we shouldn¡¯t be afraid of failure. Rather even if we experiment ten times, a hundred times, or even a thousand times, we need to guarantee the quality of the product.¡±

    ¡°Pa, pa, pa.¡±

    Xu Yi who had just arrived heard these words and immediately gave his apuse as he praised them, ¡°Ankhto¡¯s words are quite good. You shouldn¡¯t be afraid when ites to experimenting, what¡¯s terrifying is the product failing after it is produced. No matter what kind of products are developed, we must guarantee that in any situation, at any time, the probability of a problem urring with the product is as low as possible.¡±

 Volume 2 163 - Dwarves also want face

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 163 Dwarves also want face</h4>

    ¡°Chairman.¡±

    ¡°Chairman.¡±

    ¡°Chairman, you¡¯re here¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing Xu Yi suddenly appear, the people who had been focused on their discussion all immediately politely greeted Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped Ankhto from getting a chair for him. He toko the tire from the ground and put it standing up, as he pressed down on it.

    Feeling the resistance from the tire that didn¡¯t even reach his waist and was less than five centimeters wide, Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°Not bad, it seems like it¡¯s taking shape. Next you just need to take care of some details and this tire will be considered finished.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi approved it, the surrounding people let out a sigh of relief.

    Bordeau smiled before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, did you speciallye to see this?¡±

    ¡°No, the elite researchers of ourpany have been gathered for this thing, so there¡¯s nothing to worry about. I just came to take a look since I was passing by.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before suddenly asking Yldan, ¡°Yldan, if otherpanies gave you a wage starting at three hundred gold coins a year, would you be willing to go?¡±

    Yldan was stunned, ¡°Three hundred gold coins a year¡­..That¡¯s just over twenty gold coins a month, which isn¡¯t much higher than what I receive here. With how well I¡¯m treated here, why would I go?¡±

    ¡°Then how about five hundred gold coins a year? That is much more than what you receive here.¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Yldan still shook his head, ¡°No, I wouldn¡¯t go even if it was a thousand gold coins. I¡¯m very good here at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and whether it is humans or dwarves, they all get along with me here. I don¡¯t want to run to an unfamiliar environment and start over again.¡±

    Seeing that Yldan¡¯s answer was firm, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    ¡°It seems like you elves don¡¯t like to change your environment. Although I as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman am happy to hear this from you, I¡¯m afraid elder Illusia wouldn¡¯t be that happy.¡±

    Yldan slightly knit his brows, ¡°Sir chairman, for you to suddenly mention this, is it because something has happened?¡±

    ¡°Un. It¡¯s because there¡¯s anotherpany that also wants to hire elves as workers and has given a wage of three hundred to five hundred gold coins. Before I ask elder Illusia, I wanted to ask you for your opinion.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°But based on your attitude, I¡¯m afraid the other elves here aren¡¯t willing?¡±

    Yldan gave a certain nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then will elder Illusia be moved by this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Yldan thought about it before slowly shaking his head, ¡°I can¡¯t guess what the elder would think. I think it¡¯s best if the sir chairman asks her yourself.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It seems like I can only do this.¡±

    After discussing the new tire with everyone, Xu Yi left the tire factory and headed to the most conspicuous steel mill in the Falling Rain Valley.

    In thisrge area, there were currently two brand new steel smelting furnaces prepared.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business expanded, there was more demand for all kinds of steel.

    Adding in the urgent demand of the army¡¯s weapon factory for steel, as well as the otherpanies in Banta City that needed steel products from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the current steel mill production already couldn¡¯t keep up.

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto had already asked Xu Yi to build some more furnaces to increase the production quantity of the steel mill.

    Although Xu Yi had already expected this, he didn¡¯t quickly agree. Rather he confirmed the cooperation with the army and then did a strict investigation with thepanies of Banta City, especially the ones that produced magic machines to get an urate analysis of the demand, did he decide to set up two new furnaces at once.

    When these two steel smelting furnaces were finished, the steel mill¡¯s monthly production would reach two hundred thousand tons.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimate, it should be able to satisfy the army and Banta City¡¯s steel needs for close to two years.

    If the produced amount reached two hundred thousand tons, just with a single steel mill, their sales revenue each month would be around eight hundred million gold coins.

    Although after deducting the cost, which puts it at around a million gold coins, this was still a terrifying amount.

    It had to be known that if the profits of the various household magic machines were added up, it would be a total of around three hundred thousand gold coins a month.

    Of course, the reason why the gross profit of the household magic machine department couldn¡¯tpare to this small steel mill was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current household magic machine market was centered around Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    But as the household magic machines were sold by the Walmart Chamber of Commerce around the Lampuri Kingdom, the market would grow by several dozen times and the profit would also explode.

    Just a while ago, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had made anotherrge order to the magic machinepanies of Banta City for three million gold coins.

    In this order, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the lion¡¯s share of one million and eight hundred thousands. The remaining one million and two hundred thousand was divided by the otherpanies.

    This was still because household magic machines were still being introduced in the other regions and many people hadn¡¯t epted this new thing yet.

    ording to what Xu Yi discussed with Hank Wilsonst time, the household magic machines had very good responses across the kingdom. This was why the Walmart Chamber of Commerce suddenly decided to submit arge order of over three million gold coins.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s analysis, this three million gold coin order wasn¡¯t enough to satisfy the needs of everyone in the kingdom.

    If every family in the Lampuri Kingdom had the same financial power as the people of Banta City, this order might not just be three million in time, it wouldn¡¯t be strange even if it reached thirty million.

    So based on this trend, the household magic machine market and the steel market were both very stable markets and the profits wouldn¡¯t differ.

    The reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill could have such profits was because the current steel market was being monopolized by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the two hundred thousand tons produced, it wasn¡¯t worth anything if it was ced on earth. It would be considered a very small steel mill and it couldn¡¯tpare to any steel mill on earth.

    In short, whether it was the household magic machine market or the steel market, they all had good prospects in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes. So he wasn¡¯t worried about the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    By the newly built steel mill, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised to see chief Siluka and chief Monto.

    But after seeing them, Xu YI¡¯s first question wasn¡¯t about any factories in the Falling Rain Valley.

    ¡°Chief Siluka, chief Monto, have you prepared the workers?¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before giving nods, signaling to Xu Yi to follow them.

    Following the two chiefs, they left the Falling Rain Valley¡¯s industrial sector and headed to the living area that was upriver. Shortly after, they came to an open area that was the size of a ser field.

    This area was something that Xu Yi had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce make when they made the living area, leaving it as an exercise area for the dwarves.

    In the field right now, Xu Yi saw rows of strong dwarven men with bare upper bodies, holding giant clubs in their hands as they roared out while sparring with each other.

    Hearing the strong thuds of the wooden clubs hitting the dwarven upper bodies, it had to be known that these people didn¡¯t hold back when they were training and each hit was filled with power.

    Xu Yi was certain that if he were to go up with his physique, just a single club would knock half his life away.

    ¡°These people are the ones you decided on?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the strong dwarven men in the field as he asked the two chiefs, ¡°There seems to be several hundred of them? Why are there this many of them?¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other again as their expressions became strange.

    Seeing the hesitant expression on their faces, Xu Yi was very confused.

    He hadn¡¯t known these two dwarven chiefs for a short period of time and the dwarves were very straightforward people, they wouldn¡¯t be hesitant over anything. It was like they were embarrassed about something?

    ¡°Two chiefs, just tell me if you have something to say. Could it be that you still trust me?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking with knit brows.

    ¡°No, no, no, of course we trust you, but¡­¡­¡± Chief Siluka scratched his head and revealed an embarrassed look, ¡°Chairman, we did pick these people out and we guarantee that these dwarven brothers are the strongest in the Falling Rain Valley, they definitely meet your needs. But¡­..But they aren¡¯t prepared to join the guards¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Not prepared to join the guards? What did you bring me here to see them for? I say, chief Siluka, what is wrong with you and chief Monto? Is there something you can¡¯t just say? If the dwarves aren¡¯t willing to sell their lives to humans and don¡¯t want to join thepany¡¯s guards, I definitely won¡¯t force them. You can just tell me.¡±

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t that the brothers aren¡¯t willing. Rather, hearing that the chairman wanted to formpany guards, the brothers unexpectedly rushed to register to join the guards.¡± Seeing that chief Siluka couldn¡¯t keep going, chief Monto continued for him, ¡°There are three hundred dwarven brothers here, they were picked out from a thousand dwarven brothers by me and Siluka. I guarantee that each one can fight ten of your strongest human warriors. There¡¯s no problems even if it¡¯s one against a hundred, I¡­.Ah, sorry, chairman, I wasn¡¯t looking down on you humans¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s fine, humans are regarded as the weakest in terms ofbat strength, this ismon knowledge and I won¡¯t deny this. Keep going. Since the dwarven brothers are willing, why did chief Siluka say that they weren¡¯t prepared to join the guards?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Chief Monto also hesitated a bit before nodding like he had made up his mind and he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, I heard that¡­..the fifty elven warriors from the Night Song Tribe didn¡¯t join the guards and were just working as mercenaries for thepany?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, elder Illusia clearly told me that the elves weren¡¯t willing to be used by humans, so her sending out the fifty elves was just based on cooperation. The elven warriors were not my subordinates and I didn¡¯t have any rights tomand them.¡±

    Thinking of this, a light bulb lit up in Xu Yi¡¯s mind and he suddenly understood.

    ¡°Two chiefs, you¡­..don¡¯t want the dwarven brothers to be inferior to the elves, so you don¡¯t want them to join the guards, right?¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto were both stunned before revealing bitter smiles.

    ¡°Chairman, you really are keen.¡± Chief Siluka said with an awkward look, ¡°That¡¯s right, since the elves didn¡¯t join the guards, if us dwarves join it, I¡¯m afraid our brothers won¡¯t be able to lift their heads in front of the elves. So me and chief Monto have discussed this and can we have the three hundred brothers work as mercenaries? But if the chairman isn¡¯t assured, we won¡¯t be like the elves and just say some nice sounding words. You will haveplete control over these three hundred warriors, they can do anything.¡±

    Seeing the somewhat disturbing smile on chief Siluka and chief Monto¡¯s faces, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    These dwarves really were straightforward to the point of being cute.

    Didn¡¯t they just want a bit of face in front of the elves, it wasn¡¯t anything that special. Why did they make it seem like it was weighing heavily on their minds?

    ¡°Alright, this is simple. Let me think¡­..How about this, we¡¯ll found a Falling Rain Valley dwarven guard group under the names of you two chiefs. This dwarven guard group will in name protect the dwarven brothers of the Falling Rain Valley from outside invaders, while also keeping the peace in the Falling Rain Valley, but they will also take orders from me. What do you two think of this arrangement?¡±

    Chief Siluka and and chief Monto looked at each other again before nodding at the same time.

 Volume 2 164 - Take the bait

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 164 Take the bait</h4>

    Three dayster, when Xu Yi brought a hundred fully equipped elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors into Samara Town, there was a stir that instantly filled the town.

    On the Sines Continent, this was already considered a very powerful military force.

    Not mentioning a small town like Samara, even if it was a city, it was hard to find a force that could stop this kind of attack.

    With the shock of this great power, there were many people on the scene who were confused.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, the elves and dwarves had never fought together before.

    Not to mention that their leader was actually a frail looking human!

    ¡°Am I that frail?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at an elf warrior who although was slender, was still quite strong. He immediately gave up the idea ofparing himself to those strong looking dwarves, as he honestly epted this appraisal, ¡°Alright, it seems like I am rather weak. But if those fellows knew that I was a Seventh Grade Magician, would they still say that I was weak?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi who was acting like a kid, chairman Renersa in front of him couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°In front of a hundred elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors, even if it is a Seventh Grade Magician, it still wouldn¡¯t be enough.¡± Chairman Renersa looked at the two groups of elves and dwarves gathered in the distance and he said in an emotional voice, ¡°Not to mention that they have such expensive equipment. Not mentioning the elves who have a tradition of using equipment that they make themselves, but the thick armour that the dwarves are wearing and the equipment they have, what is the deal with all those high quality equipment? Chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t be telling me that you gave them that equipment, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course. They are working for ourpany, so of course I have to give them the appropriate equipment, otherwise wouldn¡¯t I be taking their lives if I let them go out without anything?¡± Xu Yi said in a natural manner.

    Chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Even if you want to provide equipment for them, you didn¡¯t need to pick such high quality equipment, right? I think that you¡¯ve spent at least three hundred gold coins for a single set of equipment, right? For two hundred dwarven warriors, that is sixty thousand gold coins. Don¡¯t you think that is a bit too generous?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and suddenly approached chairman Renersa. He lowered his voice and said with a mysterious look, ¡°If I told you that a single set didn¡¯t even cost fifty gold coins, would you believe it?¡±

    ¡°How is that possible!¡± Chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help raising his voice, but then he suddenly realized his mistake and lowered his voice, ¡°Are you serious? I wouldn¡¯t make a mistake when ites to equipment and the material itself is already high grade, not to mention the craftsmanship. I¡¯m certain that to make this set of armour, it must be a cksmith with a high level of skills!¡±

    After saying this, chairman Renersa suddenly thought of something and revealed a look of understanding.

    ¡°Of, right, I forgot that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯tck dwarven cksmiths. But the materials for a set shouldn¡¯t be just fifty gold coins, so could it be that your dwarven master cksmiths are working for free?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°No, you¡¯repletely wrong. The weapons and armours were all made with magic machines. From head to tail, the master cksmiths were just responsible for making the molds and they didn¡¯t do anything else.¡±

    Chairman Renersa¡¯s eyes suddenly popped out. He wanted to say that it was impossible, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s confident smile, he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I give it a try?¡±

    ¡°Please.¡±

    Renersa called a human guard from the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi called a dwarven warrior.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s order, the dwarven warrior casually stood in front of the human guard and that human guard hesitantly lifted his sword as he shed down with all his might at the dwarven warrior¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    A very deep sound rang out as the sword in the human guard¡¯s hand was knocked back by the armour on the dwarven warrior¡¯s shoulder.

    Everyone¡¯s gaze fell onto the dwarven warrior¡¯s shoulder and found that other than a white mark left on the armour, there wasn¡¯t any damage to it at all!

    Everyone looked back at the sword in the guard¡¯s hand and found that there was arge mark left on the de of the sword!

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help giving surprised gasps.

    Even the dwarves had eyes that popped out as their faces were covered in disbelief.

    Although they believed that with a human¡¯s strength, it was impossible for them to be hurt while wearing armour, they never would have thought that the quality of the armour would be so strong. Not only did it defend against the human¡¯s attack, it seemed like the other side¡¯s decent quality sword had chipped from hitting it!

    All the dwarven soldiers couldn¡¯t help rubbing the armour they were wearing as they looked on with disbelief.

    When they set out from the Falling Rain Valley yesterday, Xu Yi had them change into these armours. At first they thought that these armours were a bit light, so the quality must be bad, so they wereining in their hearts that Xu Yi was a bit too stingy.

    But who would have thought that these sets of armours would have such quality, it really surprised them.

    Xu Yi on the side wasn¡¯t surprised by this at all.

    These sets of armour were made from the new alloy that chief Siluka¡¯s dwarves had developed. Not only was it strong against attacks, it was also wear resistant, so it was very suited for making armour.

    Xu Yi had nned on selling this alloy to the military to let them make a new set of armour. After he came up with the idea of recruiting dwarves for thepany guards, he had chief Siluka and chief Mont build a bunch of these sets of armour first and now he could use them.

    As for the weapons in the hands of the dwarven warriors, that was even more simple.

    Before the army built their factory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had produced fifty thousand sets of armour and weapons, so it was easy for them to make several hundred sets.

    ¡°Now try the weapon.¡± Xu Yi said to chairman Renersa.

    Chairman Renersa nodded. He didn¡¯t have a human guard try to take a hit from the dwarves, rather he had him take off his armour and put it on the ground, letting the dwarven warrior try out his weapon.

    Even if the dwarven warrior¡¯s weapon was disappointing, just with the strength of the dwarven warrior, they could beat a human guard half to death with just a simple stone.

    When the dwarven warrior was about to make a move, Xu Yi suddenly shouted, ¡°Use a bit less strength, otherwise the might of this axe can¡¯t be disyed.¡±

    The dwarven warrior was surprised, but he nodded to show he understood. He gently raised the axe that was even bigger than his head and without using much strength, the axe fell down with gravity.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    With a dull sound and after the dirt dispersed, everyone looked at the ground and found that the armour that the human guard had been wearing had been split in half.

    The de of the axe was even a finger¡¯s length deep into the ground, which showed just how sharp the axe was.

    Chairman Renersa looked at the smooth cut on the armour and after being stunned, he suddenly stretched out a finger to Xu Yi as he said with a serious face, ¡°One hundred per set, sell me three hundred sets.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    After fishing for a while, the fish finally took the bait.

    ###

    The next day, Xu Yi and chairman Renersa, along with chairman Vincent brought thisrge assembly of guards, who protected more than thirty horse carriages filled withmodities to the Voller Tribe. From the chief Voller to even the small wolfmen who were only a few years old, they were all shocked by this.

    When the threepanies decided to build that non-ferrous mine, chief Voller knew that these humans would be sending some guards, but he never thought that these humans would send such an impressive lineup.

    Forgetting the few hundred human guards, why were there one hundred elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors among the guards?

    When did elves and dwarves start cooperating with humans?

    Because of how shocked he was, chief Voller didn¡¯t hear what Xu Yi and chairman Renersa said, just following the two of them during themodity exchange procedure in a daze.

    But after the procedure was over, chief Voller watched the small mountain of goods and he slowly came back to his senses.

    Seeing the small wolfmen children dig out some small toys from the small mountain and happily ying with them, chief Voller¡¯s wolf face couldn¡¯t help revealing a heartfelt smile.

    The beastmen had been living bitter days on the ck Rice Wastnd. These children could barely feed themselves before, so not mentioning toys to y with, even having a single new piece of clothing was good enough.

    But after those three human merchants came and saw that strange non-ferrous metal vein, they suddenly gave five hundred thousand gold coins for it. This made chief Voller feel that it was like arge pie that fell from the sky.

    The most important thing was that these human merchants had kept their word. They really gave many things that they needed and the price wasn¡¯t that high, so it made chief Voller feel a bit of trust towards them.

    Although humans were untrustworthy in the hearts of beastmen, chief Voller was clear that these humans wanted the non-ferrous mine, so that mine was the most important thing to them and there was no need to lie to them about other things.

    Thinking of this, chief Voller suddenly thought of another important problem. Thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu,st time you said that our tribesman can go work for yourpany and you would apply forbour cards for them, letting them receive the same treatment in your human kingdom. Has there been progress in this matter?¡±

    Seeing the expectant look in chief Voller¡¯s eyes, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This chief Voller really was a chief, he had some experience. He knew thatpared to the five hundred thousand gold coins, the more important thing was solving their long term problem.

    ¡°Un, there¡¯s been quite a bit of progress. I have confirmed it with the kingdom¡¯s officials and you beastmen will be treated like the elves and dwarves. Even if you¡¯re from another race, as long as you¡¯re willing to work for our humanpanies, you can apply forbour cards.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chief Voller revealed a look of joy and when he wanted to say something, Xu Yi suddenly cut him off.

    ¡°But¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi deliberately paused, making chief Voller¡¯s heart jump to his throat as he looked at Xu Yi with a nervous gaze.

    ¡°But the premise of getting abour card is that you cannot be hostile towards humans. You have to follow the rules of humans if you work in human factories and can¡¯t go against thews of the human kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Chief Voller kept nodding, ¡°Chairman Xu can be assured, our Voller Tribe is very friendly towards humans, we have never attacked humans before. You can ask chairman Renersa if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    Chairman Renersa on the side nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, I can guarantee that the Voller Tribe has always been good in cooperating with us, they have never attacked humans before.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Other than these two important conditions, the kingdom officials have another limitation. It is that for each beastmen household, they can only receive onebour card.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Chief Voller looked at Xu Yi in surprise as his two big wolf eyes kept blinking in confusion,pletely not understanding what this limitation was for.

 Volume 2 165 - Advantage of beastmen workers

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 165 Advantage of beastmen workers</h4>

    After over two months of preparation, the preparations for the non-ferrous mine near the Voller Tribe was pretty much finished.

    After Xu Yi and chairman Renersa brought the goods that chief Voller needed, they had fulfilled the agreement between them and now they could officially start mining the non-ferrous metal vein.

    After meeting with chief Voller, the two sent thest batch of magic machines required to the mine. Then they held a small ceremony to announce that the non-ferrous mine jointly operated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was officially open.

    Since the non-ferrous metal smelting nt wasn¡¯t open yet, the non-ferrous metal mined would be temporarily stored in the Voller Tribe. Once the smelting nt was open, they would begin smelting the ores.

    They didn¡¯t achieve much on the first day, they didn¡¯t even mine one ton of non-ferrous metal ores.

    But Xu Yi and chairman Renersa weren¡¯t surprised by this, since the real part of the mineral deposit was hidden underground and they wouldn¡¯t be able to mine it in the beginning.

    Being able to mine ores on the first day was already enough to show how rich the mineral deposit was and that the vein was easy to open.

    ording to the investigations by the dwarves, this non-ferrous mine was rich in aluminum and copper. Of the less than one ton mined on the first day, most of it was copper ores.

    Based on the copper ores that were mined, there was arge amount of copper ores in this mine.

    ording to the data from an Ang Tribe dwarf from the copper mines under the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, the percentage of copper in these ores were much greater than the Falcao Chamber of Commerce mines.

    This was a result that Xu Yi was very satisfied with.

    Right now, because there was a breakthrough with the Wind Generator, where the teams led by Be and Camby had already stabilized a small Wind Generator, they needed arge amount of copper with stronger conductivity for the next part of their research.

    Of course, since he was reminded by Still, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t as rigid about developing electricity as he was before.

    After thinking about it andparing it, Xu Yi found that although electricity was widespread in the industrial system on earth and was very important, for the Sines Continent, because of the existence of magic, they could use magic to rece electricity in many things and it would even function better than electricity.

    For example, the air conditioners. Air conditioners on earth ran on electricity, so to maintain a stable temperature, it ran at three or four kilowatts, which spent three or four kilowatts per hour.

    With the most basic form of fossil fuel electricity, it meant that half a kilogram of coal was burned for an hour.

    This was a very high energy consumption rate.

    But when it came to the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner, it would only cost a Magic Crystal that was smaller than their palm to keep it running for three days.

    Averaging that, an hour of consumption was a Magic Crystal that wasn¡¯t even the size of a fingernail.

    With how there were Magic Crystal mines all over the Sines Continent and it contained rich magic energy, it could easily be seen that in this world, Magic Air Conditioners were more suitedpared to electric air conditioners.

    The most important thing was that Magic Crystals didn¡¯t have any pollution, so it was much stronger than fossil fuels just based on this.

    So although Xu Yi felt electricity being developed was important, it wasn¡¯t that important.

    For him, electric power was just a supplement for magic machines.

    Because magic couldn¡¯t solve all problems, so electric power could be used when it was needed.

    Other than the copper ores, Xu Yi also felt that the aluminum in the mine was also very important.

    Aluminum was also very widespread and important in the industrial system, all kinds of aluminum alloys were used on earth.

    Although it didn¡¯t have as many uses as iron, there were many ces where iron couldn¡¯t rece aluminum and aluminum alloys.

    For example, in the important fields of aviation, buildings, and cars, the special characteristics of aluminum and aluminum alloys yed an important role.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed many special steel alloys, they were limited to iron. No matter how they developed it, there were still some characteristics that they couldn¡¯t develop.

    Now that they had this non-ferrous metal mine, there was plenty of room to develop for chief Siluka and his dwarves.

    In the future, there would be more and more magic machines with different uses from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    While Xu Yi was watching the ores being mined, chairman Renersa had been watching the workers mining the ores.

    After reaching the agreement with chief Voller, chief Voller had sent ten nsmen to enter the mine today, to let them test this work out. It also allowed Xu Yi and chairman Renersa to see if they were suited for this kind of job or not.

    After watching them, chairman Renersa found that although these wolfmen were a bit clumsy since it was their first time having contact with magic machines, their efficiency was better than the skilled human workers.

    But that was because of the wolfman¡¯s natural physique, where they were stronger and more flexible than humans. As long as they didn¡¯t need to use the magic machines, their efficiency was higher than the humans.

    After watching for a bit, chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help saying to Xu Yi who had been observing the quality of the ores mined, ¡°I¡¯ve suddenly found that your idea of hiring beastmen workers is quite good.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at him in surprise. Although chairman Renersa had never rejected his idea, he had never been that supportive either, ¡°What? Did you see something?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Chairman Renersa nodded, ¡°I can tell that these beastmen have better physiques. Although they are a bit dumb, they are very suited for physicalbour. A mine is a ce where plenty of physicalbour is required, so it¡¯s faster to let the beastmen workers do itpared to our human workers.¡±

    ¡°So that means that any race has advantages and it¡¯s all good as long as they use their advantage.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Moreover, you¡¯ve forgotten an important thing, which is that the beastmen workers have much lower wagespared to the human workers.¡±

    Chairman Renersa gave a bitterugh.

    Xi was right. Because this non-ferrous metal mine was in the ck Rice Wastnd, on the territory of the beastmen, the threepanies could only give a higher wage to attract human workers.

    In the end, each human worker in this mine was earning over thirty gold coins a month!

    This far surpassed the average wage in Banta City.

    Moreover, because it was far from Banta City, it wasn¡¯t easy for these human workers to get supplies.

    So calcting it all, they needed to spend close to ten gold coins a month for each worker to ensure that they could live a normal life.

    This meant that for each human worker in the mine, they had to spend over forty gold coins a month on them!

    This cost was close to double what the cost of workers were in Banta City.

    Right now there were two hundred human workers at the mine, so the threepanies spent close to ten thousand gold coins each month on them alone!

    Comparing it, when Xu Yi and chairman Renersa talked to chief Voller, Xu Yi only gave the wolfman workers a wage of five gold coins a month which made chief Voller¡¯s eyes light up as his face was covered in joy.

    And these wolfmen lived right by the mine, so there were no living costs at all.

    Comparing it all, for a worker in the same mine, a single human worker cost as much as eight wolfman workers, this really was arge gap.

    ¡°It seems like your idea of hiring beastmen workers in the beginning was quite good.¡± Chairman Renersa said with a sigh, ¡°If the beastmen workers weren¡¯t that dumb and had difficulty working the magic machines, I feel that we wouldn¡¯t need human workers at all in this mine.¡±

    ¡°No, that is definitely impossible.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This mine needs to be mainly humans. We can hire beastmen workers, but humans have to make up the majority. Otherwise if it ispletely controlled by the beastmen, it is likely we¡¯ll lose control.¡±

    ¡°Un, your worries are correct.¡± Chairman Renersa nodded in agreement, ¡°The beastmen are mostly unruly and savage by nature, so if there were all beastmen workers here, they might want to take everything for themselves.¡± After pausing, chairman Renersa then asked, ¡°That¡¯s right, did you tell chief Voller that each beastman family can only get a singlebour card because you considered this?¡±

    ¡°That is only a part.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°The real goal is to use this limitation to make each family in the beastman tribe think about their family member working in our human factories and their tribe¡¯s right to obtainbour cards, so they will never dare have bad ideas towards us humans. Think about it, if those beastmen dare do anything to us humans, not only will the highest ranked member in their family lose their job, they might even implicate their entire tribe. Do you think they would dare do anything?¡±

    Chairman Renersa took a cold breath and looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when you wanted to hire beastmen back then, did you already think of this?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you before, there are methods to control the beastmen.¡±

    Chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi in surprise for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and saying with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really have considered everything, I¡¯m even a bit afraid of you. But how are you certain that the beastmen will have these kinds of worries? Isn¡¯t it just a single job? The beastmen didn¡¯t even have jobs before, but didn¡¯t they live normal lives?¡±

    ¡°That is because they¡¯ve never enjoyed afortable life before.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Believe me, when they can have stable jobs and bring good lives to their family with these jobs, they definitely will not give up this kind of lifestyle. Before the beastmen didn¡¯t fear not walking shoes, but after they¡¯ve put on shoes and have experienced howfortable they are, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be willing to take them off and walk barefooted anymore.¡±

 Volume 2 166 - New goddess

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 166 New goddess</h4>

    It was unknown if the other beastmen wore shoes, but at least in the Voller Tribe, they had never worn shoes before.

    It wasn¡¯t just not wearing shoes, based on what chairman Vincent saw, they had never even worn clothes before.

    So when Xu Yi left the Voller Tribe, chairman Vincent stayed behind with chairman Renersa.

    ording to what chairman Vincent said, the Voller Tribe¡¯s wolfmen were interested in the cotton clothes that humans wore, so he would definitely have every wolfman here wear clothes from his Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    Chairman Vincent even secretly told Xu Yi that he was nning on opening a textile mill in this Voller Tribe that specialized in manufacturing clothes for beastmen.

    Xu Yi expressed his admiration towards his bold thoughts and showed that he would support him.

    But this support was only oral because Xu Yi was only staying in the Voller Tribe for a few days. Then he would leave the elf and dwarf warriors behind to guard the mine while he would be heading to the Stantine Duchy to the south of the ck Rice Wastnd in a horse carriage alone.

    On his trip to the Stantine Duchy this time, he was just identifying a few more investments and wouldn¡¯t actually be doing anything, so he just went along the same route asst time with Anklo.

    First he met head Wein and confirmed that he would be investing in a canned fruit factory and a rubber processing factory near Wein City. Then he signed an official contract with Duke Stantine, officially giving the three mines to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as their property.

    As for when he would be opening the canned fruit factory and the three mines, Xu Yi decided to wait until the canned fruit factory in Koror Vige and the mine at the Voller Tribe to officially begin and to umte experience before he would make a move.

    This time, Xu Yi¡¯s spent a few days less on traveling and in just a week¡¯s worth of time, he left the Stantine Duchy again.

    Compared to when he entered the Stantine Duchy, he had two more contracts and had four hundred and thirty thousand less gold coins.

    Why was it that although it was only a deposit of three hundred thousand, it reached four hundred and thirty thousand gold coins?

    It was very clear, the extra hundred and thirty thousand gold coins was to deal with the greed of Duke Stantine, his ministers, and head Wein.

    After experiencing the greed of the fellows from the Stantine Duchy, when Xu Yi returned to Banta City, he felt that the air in Banta City was much more refreshingpared to the Stantine Duchy.

    What made him happier was that when he returned to Banta City, Agnes finally came back.

    After he went to the Stantine Duchyst time, Xu Yi had Agnes bring the three female elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe to see elder Illusia, but without knowing why, after two whole months passed, Agnes and the three Moon Shadow Tribe elves never came to Banta City to find Xu Yi.

    When Xu Yi went to the Night Song Tribe a few days ago to see elder Illusia, he had mentioned this matter to her. Elder Illusia told him not to worry, the three Moon Shadow Tribe girls were currently understanding the Night Song Tribe¡¯s situation.

    Now that Agnes was back, Xu Yi had to ask her what had happened. Why was it that for two months, they stayed in the Night Song Tribe without moving.

    ¡°It¡¯s only two months.¡± Agnes looked at Xu Yi with a perplexed look, ¡°Chairman, it¡¯s such a short time, they definitely won¡¯t be able to understand the cooperation between our Night Song Tribe and thepany.¡±

    ¡°They can¡¯t understand even in two months?¡± Xu Yi was in a bit of disbelief, ¡°It¡¯s a simple matter of how ourpany cooperates with your Night Song Tribe, they can understand in just a few days. Why did it take them this long? It can¡¯t be that those three fellows have such a low efficiency, right?¡±

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman, two months isn¡¯t that long, right? We elves don¡¯t have as short of a lifespan as you humans, so we don¡¯t think of time as being that important like you.¡±

    Seeing Agnes¡¯ natural expression, Xu Yi was speechless.

    Thinking about it, he could only helplessly ept Agnes¡¯ words as fact.

    The elves had a minimum lifespan of over five hundred years and it could be over a thousand years at most.

    The humans of the Sines Continent only had lifespans of several decades. To the elves, two months was like a week for humans, of course it wasn¡¯t considered long.

    The long lifespan made the elves quite indifferent, so they didn¡¯t care about solving things efficiently like humans.

    Now to mention that the three elven girls came from the Moon Shadow Tribe which was in the Stantine Duchy, so they might have been infected by theziness of the Stantine Duchy humans.

    Thinking of this, the three elven girls not being able to finish inspecting the Night Song Tribe in two months wasn¡¯t that strange.

    To be honest, it was rather that elder Illusia who was quite decisive that was different from traditional elves.

    Not only did she make contact with a human like Xu Yi, she was very decisive in doing things and had a high efficiency.

    For example, when Xu Yi talked to her about chairman Vincent hoping to recruit a few elves, in just a few days, she had sent five Night Song Tribe elves toe to Banta City with Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi turned to look at the five elves behind Agnes. He found that these three female and two male elves were exceptionally beautiful even among elves who had beautiful appearances.

    Especially the three female elves, they had even better figures than Agnes. Their figures were close to perfection and adding in the mysterious elegance of elves, just by wearing the simple leather clothes that the Night Song Tribe produced and naturally standing there, it made people unable to not look at them.

    As for the two male elves, even with Xu Yi looking at them with male eyes, he had to admit that they were outstanding whether it was their figure or their appearance. Based just on their outer appearance, they could instantly kill all the handsome men in Banta City.

    Xu Yi looked at them for a while before asking Agnes in a confused voice, ¡°Other than models, chairman Vincent also wants to recruit designers. Why didn¡¯t elder Illusia send anyone?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s them.¡± Agnes pointed at the five elves, ¡°The elder said we elves have a natural talent for beauty. Since I could be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s designer, then anyone can be clothing designers for chairman Vincent.¡±

    ¡°A designer can¡¯t just be someone that is sensitive to beauty¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi muttered before shaking his head, ¡°But forget it. Since chairman Vincent just wants to use the elves, with their figure and faces, chairman Vincent will definitely be satisfied with this.¡±

    Hearing what Xu Yi said, Agnes suddenly looked down at herself before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, do you think that my figure isn¡¯t good? I¡¯m not beautiful?¡±

    Xu YI was stunned. Turning to see Agnes¡¯ serious expression, he couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Why are you suddenly asking this question?¡±

    ¡°Because chairman Vincent wants to hire us elves as models to create advertisements for theirpany, but you only have Still do advertisements and never me. So I think that you must think that my figure isn¡¯t good enough and I¡¯m not pretty enough, so you never had me do advertisements, right?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°What nonsense are you saying? You¡¯re very beautiful and have a very good figure, you aren¡¯t worse than the five of them. The reason why I didn¡¯t have you do advertisements was because there was no need. What is important to me is your talent for design, not your figure or your appearance, understood?¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Agnes nodded, like she didn¡¯t really understand what he meant.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on exining this to her. He looked at the five elves curiously looking around them and thought that elder Illusia really was a bold elven elder. She actually epted having her nsmen work for another humanpany this quickly.

    When the Night Song Tribe elves worked in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just by being normal workers, they had suffered quite a bit interacting with the people around them.

    Now that these five elves would be hired by the Armani Chamber of Commerce, whether it was as models or clothing designers, they would be people who many people would pay attention to.

    These five elves, were they prepared to be surrounded by humans all day long?

    ###

    Facts proved that Xu Yi hadpletely underestimated the obsession of humans with elves.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had hired many elves, so that people could see elves appearing in Banta City frequently and they didn¡¯t react as strongly as when Agnes had first appeared, once the Armani Chamber of Commerce announced that they had hired five elves as clothing designers and models, Banta City and the surrounding city exploded.

    The Armani Chamber of Commerce held a special press conference for the five elves, having the five elves wear the special clothes the Armani Chamber of Commerce had designed for them at the press conference.

    With the appearance and figures of the five elves, adding in the carefully designed clothes, it attracted everyone¡¯s gazes.

    In just a few days, the five elves had be stars in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    There were many nobledies who when they saw the two male elves, immediately fell for their appearance and called them the gods of their heart.

    As for the three female elves, they became the new goddesses of the men in Banta City and the surrounding cities thanks to the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strong advertising.

    ¡°Why do I suddenly feel that I¡¯ve been forgotten by people?¡± Still looked at the portraits of the elves on the street and said in a voice that seemed like she found it funny, ¡°Seems like the title of ¡®Banta Goddess¡¯ will be given to someone else soon.¡±

    Xu Yi on the sideughed. He held Still¡¯s hand and said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s good if other people forget you. That way, you can just be the goddess of my heart.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Did you have this idea sincest year when you didn¡¯t let me go to otherpanies to do advertisements?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Wasn¡¯t it because I was afraid you would be tired? Anyway, didn¡¯t you want to give up being in the public?¡±

    ¡°Un, I was indeed already tired of being stared at by people when going out shopping.¡± Still looked around and said with a frown, ¡°But now I¡¯m finding that it feels worse without it.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget, you are a researcher of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. If you want something to do, go find Evita and Akali to research some magic.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Still shook her head and said with a bitter smile, ¡°The problem is that when I went to the magic research facility a few days ago, I found that I couldn¡¯t understand what Evita and Akali were researching at all.¡± After pausing, she tightly held Xu Yi¡¯s hand and a wistful look appeared in her face, ¡°Xu Yi, am I already useless?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit stunned. He knit his brows as he looked at Still¡¯s wistful appearance and knew thatforting her had no use right now.

    Countless thoughts quickly passed in his head and Xu Yi suddenly had an idea.

    ¡°I¡¯ve thought of a job that you¡¯ll like doing very much.¡±

 Volume 2 167 - Bicycle unrelated to magic

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 167 Bicycle unrted to magic</h4>

    Entering the middle of March, the winter cold hadpletely faded. The frozennd outside Banta City had begun to warm up and countless patches of green appeared through the soil.

    In this season, it was a good time for a walk. So whenever there was good weather, there would be countless noble young masters and young misses who would take their luxurious horse carriages to head out of Banta City, setting out for the verdant fields outside the city.

    Although Banta City had many smooth roads outside the city, the western suburb was dered to be an industrial sector by the Lord City Lord, so there were no traces of green at all. But the southern suburb was dered to be a recreation area by the Lord City Lord, which not only kept the forest, but also had a canal that drew in water from the Sandy River. This patch of wilderness had been turned into beautiful scenery, which was an excellent destination for a fine spring day.

    Today was a clear day. When the sun had just reached the middle of the sky, there were countless horse carriages of noble families that came out of the southern gate, heading to the patch of green to the south of the city.

    Countless noble young masters and young misses were nning to take advantage of this fine weather to walk around in nature and hold a fun pic outside.

    But today, it was different from normal.

    As countless horse carriages came out the door, there were two different things mixed in with them.

    The young masters and youngdies in the horse carriages heard the calls outside and opened their curtains to see that on the road, there were two people riding a t, strange thing that had an iron frame and two wheels that they had never seen before.

    The two of them were stepping on pedals and as they moved their feet, it quickly rotated a gear underneath them.

    As the gear turned, the two wheels on the iron frame turned and it kept moving the two of them forward.

    What surprised everyone was that the thing the two of them were sitting on looked very fragile and other than two wheels, it was only a frame. But it could allow the two people on top to quickly move forward, even surpassing several horse carriages and running in front of many noble young masters and young misses.

    Seeing the two quickly charge forward on those strange and unknown things, whether it was the noble young masters and young misses in the horse carriages or the people walking on the street, they were all stunned.

    What was the thing under the butts of those two people? How could it be so fast?

    But as the two of them disappeared into the distance, it made those people unable to get the answer for the questions in their hearts.

    The next day was also a clear day.

    Countless horse carriages went out the city gates like usual.

    But at the same nine in the morning, those two strange looking things carried two people out of the city, passing countless horse carriages and disappearing into the distance.

    The questions in people¡¯s hearts deepened.

    The third day was another clear day.

    The same thing happened again.

    The fourth day¡­...

    The fifth day¡­..

    ¡­..

    For an entire week, every day was a rare clear day and every day countless noble young masters and young misses went out for a pic. But every day, there were two people charing out of the city gates on strange things before quickly disappearing from everyone¡¯s sights.

    After the umtion of seven days, this strange thing spread all over Banta City and attracted everyone¡¯s curiosity.

    Some people who had nothing to do waited at the southern gates and had drawn the strange appearance of those two things.

    After analyzing it, everyone found that those two things had a very simple principle. Using two wheels to stand up and a frame to support it, they used a gear to power it and the person on the thing provided the power with the pedals.

    However, even though the principle seemed simple, it really was unbelievable that this thing could move so fast just relying on manual power.

    At first people didn¡¯t know a thing about this thing or where it came from, but some people with sharp eyes guessed something after seeing the tires.

    Tires were a thing that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce and adding in the fact that they made many strange things, these two strange things could be new magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    All their questions and guesses received their answers on the eighth day.

    On the morning of the eighth day, the new issue of the ?Banta Times? revealed the truth.

    Everyone¡¯s guesses weren¡¯t wrong, these two things were the newest product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but unexpected to everyone, this thing wasn¡¯t rted to magic at all.

    This thing called a bicycle was a machine that relied on manpower and it relied on manpower alone, it didn¡¯t contain any magic.

    But even though it was only powered by manpower, as long as the rider of the bicycle was strong enough, the bicycle could move very quickly.

    ording to inside information from the ?Banta Times?, it¡¯s said that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was testing the bicycle, someone riding the bicycle could rush to the Falling Rain Valley before noon if they set out from Banta City in the morning at top speed.

    It had to be known that the Falling Rain Valley was a full sixty kilometers away from Banta City, even the best horse carriage would take three hours to get there.

    [TL Note: For those questioning this, the general speed of an inexperienced bike rider is around 12 mp/h and converting that, it¡¯s around 20km/h.]

    The speed of this bicycle wasn¡¯t much slower than the best horse carriages!

    Seeing the report in the ?Banta Times?, everyone was filled with joy.

    With this good thing, it would be much easier traveling in the future!

    Although horse carriages were good, normal families couldn¡¯t afford horses at all.

    Although the Banta City public transport system was slowly being developed and they could take horse carriages to most ces they wanted to go, it cost money to take the horse carriages and they didn¡¯t go to many ces.

    Compared to this simple and light bicycle, horse carriages were without a doubt more troublesome.

    After confirming that this bicycle was a product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, countless people came to the doors of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center. Many people asked when this bicycle would be sold and everyone couldn¡¯t wait to buy one.

    ¡°It seems like there¡¯s no need to worry about the sales of the bicycle.¡± Xu Yiughed as he put down the ?Banta Times? in his hand. He turned to look at the bicycle that had its wheels being powered by a Wind Magic Engine.

    Strictly speaking, this bicycle was just a supplementary piece of research that Xu Yi came up with while developing the engine.

    Although the bicycle wasn¡¯t an important product in an industrial system, the bicycle had many important pieces of technology hidden within.

    For example, the power transfer system, the bearings, the gear casting, and different kinds of technology, they were all used in the production of the bicycle.

    Other than giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a new product, Xu Yi had Camby and the others study the bicycle to let them learn a bit about this technology through experimenting.

    This waspletely different from on earth.

    The mechanical engineers on earth learned theory first before conducting practical research.

    As for the Magic Mechanical Engineers represented by Camby, they first conducted practical research first under Xu Yi¡¯s guidance before gaining theoretical knowledge.

    There was no choice here, Xu Yi wanted to speed up the development of the industrial system, so he could only forcefully instill his knowledge into them.

    It was a good thing that dwarves like Camby had a strong talent for this. If Xu Yi just exined something for them, they could easily understand it and even extrapte other pieces of knowledge from it.

    Through researching the bicycle, Camby and the others became mechanical engineers that had a deep understanding of converting power.

    The next step was for Xu Yi to let thembine the Wind Magic Engine with the bicycle to a certain extent.

    If they could create a Magic Bicycle that was powered by the Wind Magic Engine, it meant that the Wind Magic Engine research would have practical applications.

    The experiment that Camby¡¯s group was doing right now was to test the stable output of the Wind Magic Engine and how strong the bearings were.

    This experiment had alreadysted ten days and the results were something that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with.

    First, the Wind Magic Engine couldn¡¯t maintain a stable output. Rather it would frequently stop without any warning and sometimes the efficiency would either get better or worse.

    After Xu Yi and the other magic researchers carefully looked it over, they found that when the wind of the Wind Magic Array inside the engine increased its speed, it would create chaotic wind currents. This would affect the Magic Array to a certain extent and affect its output.

    If this influence reached a certain point, the Magic Array would lose its ability temporarily and the engine would lose power.

    There was also an important issue, which was the materials.

    The bicycle¡¯s gears and bearings were fine at low speeds, but when it maintained high speeds for a long time, it would be worn down.

    ording to their estimates, if it maintained the Wind Magic Engine¡¯s highest speed, whether it was the gears or the bearings itself, it would be greatly worn down in just ten hours and could even break.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a way to solve this right now.

    Because this was a materials problem which was the hardest problem to solve.

    Although the industrial system on earth was close to perfect, it kept falling behind in terms of material.

    Xu Yi was a Chinese mechanical engineer, so he didn¡¯t excel in the field of materials. Adding in the limits of the country, it was impossible for them to obtain the most advanced material production technology.

    On this problem, he could only hope that the material research facility led by chief Siluka had results.

    Before this, the material research facility led by chief Siluka had already given Xu Yi many pleasant surprises.

    Xu Yi was giving this problem to them now and once the non-ferrous smelting nt on the ck Rice Wastnd began operating, Xu Yi was confident that chief Siluka would give him a satisfying answer.

    But before that, he could only patiently wait.

    Even if Xu Yi was anxious to develop the engine, this kind of technology didn¡¯t allow for a single bit of negligence.

    As a talented mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi had this belief and this patience.

 Volume 2 168 - Irreplaceable Kennard

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 168 Irreceable Kennard</h4>

    It was impossible for life to be free of problems and it was also impossible for it to always be filled with problems.

    Although he had met a bottleneck in the development of the engine, the supplementary bicycle that he had developed gave Xu Yi a pleasant surprise in terms of sales numbers that even surpassed his expectations.

    After the seven days of advertising and the announcement in the ?Banta Times?, when Kennard hosted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement and announced that the bicycles would officially be on sale, in just the first day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received an order for fifty thousand bicycles.

    In just a week, this number turned to a hundred thousand.

    Xu Yi thought that in a western fantasy world like the Sines Continent that had magic, elves, and dwarves, something like the bicycle would be epted that easily, so it would be as popr. He never thought that the sales numbers would be this terrifying.

    It had to be known, because the cost of the bicycles weren¡¯t low, the price the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set also wasn¡¯t low.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made different models for their product. The first batch of bicycles was separated into bicycles for men and women, with the men¡¯s bicycles having a price of eight gold coins and the women¡¯s bicycles having a price of six gold coins.

    This price was still expensive for many Banta City citizens even with their current wages because buying a bicycle would cost them half their monthly wage.

    Not to mention the citizens of other cities that didn¡¯t have as high as a monthly wage as Banta City citizens.

    But when the bicycles were put on sale, whether it was the Banta City citizens of the citizens of the surrounding cities, they were all wildly snatching them up.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on their first batch of ten thousand bicycles tost them a week, but it was all snatched up in just a single afternoon.

    Seeing therge number of orders that came in, Ankhto who was put in charge of the bicycle factory by Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce never expected the sales numbers of the bicycles to be this terrifying, so they only prepared a single production line. They had trained no more than two hundred workers.

    The current monthly production of the factory was only around five thousand units.

    Toplete the remaining ny thousand orders, it was impossible even if they took a year.

    Faced with this situation, Ankhto, Sebas, and Heinz who had speciallye back for this all strongly suggested to Xu Yi to create two more production lines and recruit more workers to satisfy the demand.

    However, Kennard had opposed this suggestion.

    ¡°Everyone, please take note of this, this is the sales distribution map that I made.¡± Kennard hung arge map on the conference board and pointed at the dense amount of red points he had drawn on the map, ¡°A single red point represents a thousand units and if everyone looks closely, it isn¡¯t hard to see a problem. It is that in our current order, it is mainly centralized around Banta City and the surrounding cities. If we go out a bit further, there is only a centralized area in Anvilmar City. As for the rest of the kingdom, it is very scattered.¡±

    The other people in the conference carefully looked over the Lampuri Kingdom map and found that other than the red points gathered around Banta City, although ces like Karma City and Saltan City had quite a few dots, it wasn¡¯t as dense as Banta City.

    Other than these three cities, there were far less dots in the further cities. There was only Anvilmar City where there were a few more red dots gathered, but it was around the same as Karma City or Saltan City, it was still far less than Banta City.

    As for further ces on the map, there might asionally be one or two red dots, which only represented a thousand or two units.

    ¡°Based on this sales distribution map, I think everyone should understand that although the sales numbers of the bicycle soared in the first week, we should notice that although it¡¯s been ten days past the first week, the sales numbers have never grown past a hundred and twenty thousand. It can be seen that the bicycle¡¯s market is far from being as exaggerated as everyone imagines it to be.¡± Kennard said in a deep voice, ¡°ording to my estimates, after this initial boom, the monthly sales numbers in the future won¡¯t be over five thousand units. If we rashly increase production lines, it will just be wasting resources.¡±

    Ankhto knit his brows, ¡°It can¡¯t be that little, right? This thing is popr in Banta City and the surrounding cities, even the people of Anvilmar City likes them that much, so I think that many ces in the kingdom will also ept it. It shouldn¡¯t just be at five thousand units.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it isn¡¯t this bad, right?¡± Heinz also said, ¡°Kennard, Xu Yi has praised your analysis skills and your farsight, but I think this time that you¡¯ve made a mistake. This bicycle is selling this well, how could it be that bad in the future?¡±

    Sebas didn¡¯t say anything, he just looked at Xu Yi, clearly wanting to hear his opinion.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything as he shook his head with a smile. He kept looking at Kennard, clearly he wanted everyone to keep listening to what Kennard had to say.

    Kennard didn¡¯t show any courtesy, as he cleared his throat and continued, ¡°Ankhto, vice chairman Heinz, I can understand your thoughts, but the bicycle isn¡¯t any different from any magic machines that ourpany has made before. Because of how remarkable the bicycle is, it can clearly increase people¡¯s speed of travel, so if they can¡¯t afford a personal carriage, they will normally have a demand for the bicycle.¡±

    ¡°Based on this, the sales numbers in the future should keep increasing. Why do you say that it¡¯ll be so little?¡± Ankhto asked in a confused voice.

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°When ites to selling goods, there are two factors. When a person decides to buy something, one, they look at their demand, which is whether they need this thing or not. Two, they look at their consumption power, which is whether they can afford it or not. As for the bicycle, most people would have this demand, but¡­..In the current Lampuri Kingdom, most people wouldn¡¯t have this consumption power.¡±

    ¡°Consumption power?¡± Ankhto and Heinz looked at each other, feeling confused, ¡°A man¡¯s bicycle only cost eight gold coins and a woman¡¯s bicycle costs six gold coins, how can¡¯t they afford it?¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Before Kennard even replied, Sebas on the side said with a nod, ¡°Yes, there are indeed many people who can¡¯t afford it. Ankhto, vice chairman, because you are in contact all day with people in Banta City and Karma City who have rather high ies, you¡¯ve forgotten that in our Lampuri Kingdom, most of the normal citizens are poor. A city like our Banta City where an average person can have a monthly ie of over ten gold coins is unique. So on the sales trend map that the general manager has made, we find that there are more sales in Banta City, even more sales in Anvilmar City. Moreover, Karma City and Saltan City is like Anvilmar City because most people in Karma City and Saltan City work forrgepanies for our Banta City, so their monthly ie is higher and they can afford the bicycle.¡±

    Ankhto and Heinz looked at each other and after a while, they couldn¡¯t help nodding.

    They finally understood, Sebas was right.

    To be honest, most of the Lampuri Kingdom was poor and many people couldn¡¯t even feed themselves, so how could they spend so many gold coins to buy a bicycle?

    Even Banta City was like this just a few years ago. Thinking about how if the bicycle was sold three years ago, even Heinz who was the owner of a small general store only made a hundred gold coins a year, how could he possibly bear to buy the bicycle.

    Thinking of this, the two suddenly felt this was a bit unbelievable.

    Based on the situation in the sales distribution map, could it mean that the people of Banta City were even richer than the people of Anvilmar City?

    How was that possible? Anvilmar City was the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom!

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to doubt it, these are the facts.¡± Seeing the shocked looks the two had after understanding the situation, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Perhaps there aren¡¯t as manyrge nobles and merchants in Banta Citypared to Anvilmar City, but the average ie of people is indeed higher than Anvilmar City. There¡¯s also another important reason, it¡¯s that people in Banta City have a high approval of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as it¡¯s a product from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the people of Banta City have full confidence in it. As long as they know the functions of the bicycle, they¡¯ll immediately buy it. As for the people of the other cities, they will wait and see.¡±

    ¡°Un, sir chairman is right.¡± Kennard said, ¡°If we advertise properly in the future, I believe that the bicycle sales numbers can still increase. But I don¡¯t think that it reaches the level where we need to add another two production lines, so I suggest that we should postpone this for now.¡±

    Ankhto and Heinz looked at each other before nodding.

    ¡°I agree.¡± Sebas also said.

    Kennard and the others looked at Xu Yi and he said with a faint smile, ¡°We¡¯ll listen to the general manager in this matter, I won¡¯t interfere.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, but he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    After this meeting was over, Heinz immediately went to find Xu Yi alone and asked with a worried look, ¡°Xu Yi, are you nning on handing thepany over to Kennard to manage?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°I believe that you are clear on Kennard¡¯s abilities now, do you feel that he isn¡¯tpetent?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I doubt his abilities, only he¡­..is someone from the Emma Family after all.¡± Heinz said with a sigh, ¡°He has to return to the Emma Family eventually, if you give him authority in ourpany, I¡¯m afraid¡­...it will be bad for thepany.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder and had him sit down, ¡°First, I trust Kennard¡¯s moral character. After working with him for s o long, I think that he is a very ambitious person, but he can realize his ideals in ourpany. So there are many times that he¡¯s indicated that he wants to keep working for ourpany and doesn¡¯t want to return to the Emma Family.¡±

    ¡°This probably isn¡¯t something that he can decide.¡± Heinz said with curled lips.

    ¡°So what if he returns to the Emma Family in the end?¡± Xu Yi still had a rxed look on his face, ¡°He is just a general manager, he isn¡¯t a major shareholder, so he is only responsible for some management and he can¡¯t do anything else to thepany. Then again, it is hard to find someone to rece such an outstanding general manager. Moreover, even if you find someone to rece him, how can you be sure that the person who reces him won¡¯t leave?¡±

    Heinz thought about it and found that this was indeed a problem that couldn¡¯t be solved.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a smallpany. As they became bigger, there were more and more things to take care of. If Xu Yi were to take care of everything like before, it wouldn¡¯t be enough even if they split him in half.

    Heinz was also clear on the fact that his abilities were limited, he wouldn¡¯t be able to help Xu Yi that much.

    After thinking for a while, Heinz could only give a sigh as he helplessly said, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll leave it like this for now. But we should find some people to help you as much as possible, otherwise if Kennard suddenly leaves, thepany will fall into chaos.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an appreciative smile, ¡°You finally understood, Heinz. Thepany can¡¯t be taken care of by me alone, only increasing the amount of people in management is the right solution. Here, take a look at something¡­¡­¡±

    Heinz took the documents from Xu Yi¡¯s hand and after looking at it, he saw arge title on top of it.

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce transformation n.¡±

 Volume 2 169 - Disappearing Great Magicianâ€™s Magic Tower

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 169 Disappearing Great Magician¡¯s Magic Tower</h4>

    Another year passed and it was another spring harvest.

    Even with the help of the various agricultural magic machines, Banta City¡¯s spring harvest efficiency had increased by countless timespared to before, all the countries of the Sines Continent treated the spring harvest as something important and it was the same in Banta City.

    Count Sean had already long given orders to thergepanies that when it was time for the spring and fall harvest, all thepanies in the city had to give their workers a week off to let the workers return home to help with the harvest and nting.

    So once it was time for the spring harvest, Banta City suddenly became peaceful.

    Xu Yi and Still were slowly riding their bicycles down the streets of Banta City. When they experienced the cold environment around them, they couldn¡¯t adapt to it.

    ¡°It really is strange. Banta City was much more peaceful just two years ago, but why can¡¯t I get used to it now?¡± Still looked at the closed stores along the street and slightly knit her brows.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That¡¯s natural, you¡¯re already used to the bustle of Banta City during these two years, so of course you can¡¯t get used to how calm it is now. Based on this, Still, you should be someone who is used to living in a big city. Since it is like this, why did youe back from Anvilmar City back then?¡±

    ¡°There was no other choice, mom and dad aren¡¯t home normally, so grandfather was alone in Banta City. I grew up with my grandfather, so I was afraid that he would be lonely in Banta City and came back to be with him.¡± Still replied while looking up at the sky above Banta City. From here, she could still vaguely see the Magic Tower not far away, ¡°The Magic Tower is about to be torn down, I wonder if grandfather will feel sad.¡±

    ¡°Be careful!¡± Xu Yi suddenly reached out to grab the handle of Still¡¯s bicycle, stopping her from identally falling into a ditch from being distracted, ¡°I say, you just learned how to ride a bicycle, don¡¯t be distracted. What would you do if you fell?¡±

    Still gave an unyielding snort and forcefully stepped on the pedals as she began moving faster.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head before he quickly followed her.

    ¡°Since grandfather has already closed the Magic Tower, it¡¯s good to tear it down. Otherwise, he will be distracted whenever he sees the Magic Tower. Don¡¯t look at me, this is his decision, I wouldn¡¯t seek my own death and suggest to him to tear down the Magic Tower.¡± Xu Yi looked up at the Magic Tower not far away and said in a somewhat sad voice, ¡°Actually I hope that grandfather will keep it. I also suggested to the Lord City Lord to keep this Magic Tower as andmark of Banta City, letting otherse and see it after theye to Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Grandfather isn¡¯t dead yet.¡± Still reprimanded before turning her bicycle and riding off in the direction of the Magic Tower.

    The bicycle was naturally much faster than walking. They arrived in front of the Magic Tower in just a few minutes, but there was a familiar figure under the tower.

    ¡°Grandfather.¡± Still flew off her bicycle and threw herself into Great Magician Cami¡¯s embrace.

    Xu Yi quickly reached out to grab Still¡¯s bicycle before putting away the bikes and quickly walking over. He said to Great Magician Cami with a smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you¡­..¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°What are you calling me? You¡¯ll be marrying Still next month and you¡¯re still calling me your excellency?¡±

    ¡°Hei, I¡¯m used to it.¡± Xu Yiughed and quickly changed his words, ¡°Grandfather, why are you also here? Did youe for one final look?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Great Magician Cami looked up at the twenty meter tall Magic Tower and said with a sigh, ¡°This Magic Tower was made the first year I became a Great Magician and now twenty years have passed. In the twenty years since bing a Great Magician, I¡¯ve spent most of my time here. Now that it¡¯s being torn down, I¡¯m a bit unwilling.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t tear it down if you¡¯re unwilling.¡± Still said in a sad voice, ¡°Grandfather, with your position, no one will dare tear it down if you don¡¯t want to tear it down.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that I want to tear it down.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°After being at the magic research facility for so long, I feel that the previous model of studying magic is over. For something like a Magic Tower, having other magicians ve under Great Magicians, this system should have been eliminated a long time ago. Since it¡¯s like this, there¡¯s no meaning in keeping this Magic Tower at all. Since it¡¯s like this, why not tear it down and turn it into something meaningful, isn¡¯t that right, Xu Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, your¡­...Grandfather, I guarantee that the thing newly built in this ce will give everyone a new understanding of magic.¡±

    ¡°Un, I believe you can do that.¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked up at the Magic Tower for a while,ing to the stairs in front of it and cing his hands on the stairs.

    Xu Yi and Still sat down to his left and right.

    Great Magician Cami thought for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°Xu Yi, let me tell you some good news.¡±

    ¡°Un? What good news?¡±

    ¡°The Magicians Guild has finally announced the ¡°magic patent¡±. ording to this, magicians can apply for a patent for any magical discovery that they¡¯ve made. This means that the thing that you¡¯ve been hoping for for over a year has finally seen results.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi was overjoyed, but he quickly asked, ¡°Then did they talk about how to apply for a patent? And how will it be protected?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Speaking of this, it¡¯s rted to you.¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi, ¡°The Magicians Guild will be acting on the rmendation in your proposal from before, they will be handling the fees paid for the magic patent in two different ways. One is to ask the Magicians Guild to evaluate it and charge a fee based on the evaluated grade, then the guild will offer different degrees of protection for different grades.¡±

    ¡°Two kinds? Then the second kind wouldn¡¯t be to let the magicians set things themselves, right?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    ¡°Right. The second kind is letting the magicians set the fees, they can set it as high as they want. But the Magicians Guild will also be evaluating its grade and offer protection based on the grade.¡± Great Magician Cami replied with a nod.

    ¡°Humph, those Magicians Guild fellows really are sly.¡± Still on the side gave a soft snort, ¡°Xu Yi gave two methods and they actually used both. Grandfather, since they used Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, shouldn¡¯t they give Xu Yi some reward?¡±

    ¡°What reward?¡± Great Magician Cami red at Still, ¡°Having your suggestion epted by the Magicians Guild is Xu Yi¡¯s honour. He should be happy, why would he want a reward?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a softugh, ¡°Let¡¯s forget the rewards. The Magicians Guild being able to pass the magic patent act is already the greatest reward for me. Like this, there are many things in our magic research facility that we can apply for patents for, it¡¯ll be much easier from now on.¡±

    Great Magician Cami took a deep look at Xu Yi before slowly shaking his head and saying in a deep voice, ¡°You can apply for patents with the normal things, but¡­..As for the most important things, don¡¯t take them out.¡±

    Xu YI was stunned. Seeing the serious look on Great Magician Cami¡¯s face, his heart trembled as he gave a nod.

    Three dayster, the Great Magician Cami Magic Tower that had stood in Banta City for twenty years was shattered to pieces in front of countless citizens by Great Magician Cami with a single giant fireball.

    Seeing the over twenty meter tall Magic Tower copse, the surrounding Banta City citizens were feeling a bit emotional and a bit unwilling.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had a total of five Great Magicians and one was living in the small Banta City.

    The Banta City citizens had always felt proud for Banta City. When facing the nearby Karma City and Saltan City citizens, they always had a sense of superiority.

    They would see Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower whenever they looked up and people always felt secure.

    This was because to normal people, being able to live in a city with a Great Magician made people feel secure.

    Now that the Magic Tower was being torn down, although Great Magician Cami would still be staying in Banta City, people felt like there was something missing.

    Actually when it came to Great Magician Cami¡¯s decision, Count Sean had also opposed and tried dissuading him.

    ording to his ideas, even if this Magic Tower didn¡¯t have a Great Magician, it could be kept as a symbol.

    But Great Magician Cami insisted on tearing it down, iming that there would be a new building filled with magic that wasn¡¯t built like a Magic Tower in the same ce.

    Count Sean couldn¡¯t dissuade Great Magician Cami, so he could only have the ?Banta Times? publicize this news. It was to remember the history of the Great Magician¡¯s Magic Tower that stood in Banta City and to release the news that Great Magician Cami said that there would be a new building filled with magic in the same ce.

    Once the ?Banta Times? released this news, everyone in Banta City was curious and expectant of this new building.

    Two days after Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower was torn down, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction team came in and built a fence around this area, only hanging arge sign outside.

    There was a clear line written on the sign.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new concept modern magic building will be arriving in three months, please look forward to it.¡±

    Seeing the words on this sign, the curious Banta City citizens were even more confused.

    New concept modern magic building? What was this thing?

    Moreover, how was this thing rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­...

 Volume 2 170 - Count Sean is leaving

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 170 Count Sean is leaving</h4>

    Because there were many agricultural magic machines, Banta City¡¯s spring harvest was quickly finished this year.

    In less than a week, all the farnd around Banta City had been harvested and rented.

    ording to the stats of the City Lord Manor, after the spring harvest this year, Banta City had harvested six hundred and thirty thousand tons in grains, which was only sixty thousand tons higherpared to the fall harvest. However it was close to doublest year¡¯s spring harvest of three hundred and sixty thousand tons.

    The reason it didn¡¯t increase that much was because after a year of opening new farnd, Banta City¡¯s farnd had all been opened. Other than improving their cultivation technology, there wasn¡¯t much room for increase.

    But this amount was still quite a lot.

    Banta City was a small city and the amount ofnd it had in Lampuri Kingdom was quite small. But since the fall harvestst year, Banta City¡¯s grain output had experienced explosive growth.

    The fall harvest from the year beforest had surpassed cities that had the same area as Banta City and even many cities that had even more area than Banta City.

    As forst year¡¯s spring harvest, the three hundred and sixty tons of wheat had ced them in the top rankings for cities that mainly cultivated wheat in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Then afterst year¡¯s fall harvest, Banta City had suddenly brought in five hundred and seventy thousand tons of wheat, bing the city that harvested the most wheat in the Lampuri Kingdom. It attracted everyone¡¯s attention and was even praised by the king and the agricultural department. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had the biggest contribution was given amendation and chairman Xu was promoted to the title of baron, making him the only person in the Lampuri Kingdom who was both a noble and a merchant.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity, although the spring harvest this year had a decent increase, it wasn¡¯t enough to promote your title again and make you a viscount.¡± Count Sean read the report in his hand as he said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Other than that, the harvest in the other cities has also greatly increased. Although the six hundred and thirty thousand in our Banta City is still at the top, it isn¡¯t that much higherpared to the other cities.¡±

    ¡°The title doesn¡¯t matter, I just hope that the agricultural magic machines that I developed can feed everyone in the kingdom. Now that the grain yield in the kingdom has greatly increased, I think that this goal should have been aplished.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Un, it can be considered achieved.¡± Count Sean gave a nod, ¡°ording to the agricultural department¡¯s report, not only can this year¡¯s harvest satisfy the needs of everyone in the kingdom, there is even arge surplus. This is the first time that this has happened since our Lampuri Kingdom has been founded, his majesty is quite happy about this. If it wasn¡¯t for the old nobles stopping him, he really was prepared to increase your title again.¡±

    Speaking of this, Count Sean slightly knit his brows and a trace of dissatisfaction filled his voice.

    ¡°Those old fellows, they really are too stubborn. Solving the food problem of the citizens is a great merit, is there any merit that canpare to that? It¡¯s just raising a title by another level yet they had to go against it, they really are ignorant.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, there¡¯s no need to be this angry. I don¡¯t really care about my title, so it really doesn¡¯t matter if it is increased or not. Anyway, my goal has been aplished, so I am satisfied. Since the basic food and shelter problems have been solved for the citizens, the next step should be to increase the living standards of our citizens. If we can let the people of the city have the same standard of living as our Banta City citizens, not only guaranteeing their basic necessities, but also have extra ie to buy stuff that increased their standard of living, that would be of great help to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t easily achieved.¡± Count Sean slowly shook his head, ¡°Our Banta City can develop this quickly because of the appearance of you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, driving the development of the entire city. Not only do all the citizens of Banta City have decent work, even the citizens of the other cities can find work, increasing their ie. It is all because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce creating many jobs in Banta City. Otherwise, Batna City wouldn¡¯t have developed this quickly.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly said with a modest smile, ¡°Lord City Lord¡¯s praise is too much. I was just doing what I wanted to do, the reason why Banta City could develop so quickly was because of your wise leadership.¡±

    ¡°Stop ttering me.¡± Count Sean taunted with a smile. He picked up a document and looked it over before a sad look appeared on his face, ¡°Two years ago, Banta City¡¯s ie was only over a hundred thousand gold coins, but after two years,st year¡¯s ie was already close to a million gold coins, which was an increase of ten times. Now I¡¯m holding the tax report forst month and Banta City in just a month has a tax ie of five hundred and seventy thousand gold coins. ording to this trend, this year¡¯s tax ie should be even higher thanst year.¡±

    ¡°That is the result of Lord City Lord¡¯s wise leadership.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Count Sean red at Xu Yi and said with snort, ¡°Do you have to force me to praise you? Of the five hundred and seventy thousand fromst month, just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid two hundred and eighty thousand, which is almost half of it. I think that there¡¯s no need for two years, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already the biggestpany in our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Lord City Lord, you can¡¯t randomly say things. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is just a smallpany, it could only arrive at this point because of the Lord City Lord¡¯s support. Right now we¡¯re still behind the establishedpanies of the city, so the Lord City Lord still needs to support us.¡±

    ¡°If chairman Rank were to hear this, would you believe he would die from anger?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi before suddenly looking out the window. After looking out in a daze for a while, he said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that even if I want to support you, I won¡¯t be able to.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Lord City Lord, what does that mean?¡±

    Count Sean turned back to Xu Yi and said with a serious face, ¡°I called you here today not just to praise you, rather it was to tell you in advance that in another two months, I will be leaving?¡±

    ¡°Leaving?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Where are you going?¡±

    ¡°ording to the arrangement of the kingdom, I will be heading to Sowell City to take over as City Lord.¡± Count Sean replied.

    ¡°Sowell City?¡± Xu Yi thought about it and he remembered the details of the city. He immediately said in a happy voice, ¡°Isn¡¯t that the biggest city in the north? Lord City Lord, I have to congratte you. Moreover, I remember that¡­..Sowell City seems to be the biggest piece of territory your family owns, right? That means that you can go all out in the ce that supports you the most.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi for a while and after confirming that Xu Yi¡¯s happy expression wasn¡¯t fake, he couldn¡¯t help saying with a sigh, ¡°From my angle, this is indeed a good thing. The kingdom has sent me to Sowell City, that means my position in the kingdom has been secured and I can go even higher in the future. But Xu Yi, for you, this is not a good thing.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Lord City Lord, who is taking over your post as Banta City¡¯s City Lord?¡±

    Count Sean paused for a bit before replying in a soft voice, ¡°It¡¯s Count Mannel Stagg.¡±

    ¡°Stagg?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened a bit wider.

    ¡°It seems like you understand what I mean.¡± Count Sean¡¯s expression became more serious, ¡°Xu Yi, I won¡¯t waste words you don¡¯t need to hear. You are an intelligent person, you should know the meaning of this surname.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a heavy nod. After thinking for a bit, he asked Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, leaving here isn¡¯t your original intention, right?¡±

    ¡°You are indeed an intelligent person.¡± Count Sean gave a slight nod as he revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Even if it is me, there are times when I can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    Xu Yi silently thought for a bit before suddenly revealing a smile.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, I don¡¯t think you need to worry about anything. No matter who bes the City Lord, their most important goal is making Banta City stronger, right? Since everyone has the same goal, there is a chance of cooperating.¡±

    Count Sean couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°You want to cooperate with a count? I really have to say, you really have quite a bit of courage.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°From my perspective as a merchant, everyone will have benefits that they want, so there is room to negotiate. Not to mention a count, even the king isn¡¯t an exception.¡±

    Count Sean shook his head, ¡°Then I hope that you can have a happy cooperation with Count Mannel Stagg.¡±

    Xu Yi discussed some work arrangements with Count Sean.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the City Lord¡¯s Manor had many projects, even the renovation project of Banta City waspletely being handled by Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If Count Sean leaves, these projects might be greatly affected.

    The new Count Mannel Stagg was from the Stagg Family, so he might not support Xu Yi as much as Count Sean did.

    What Count Sean and Xu Yi wanted to do now was to finish everything within the next two months.

    After discussing most of the details, it was already night time when Xu Yi left the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    Looking at the stars in the night, Xu Yi thought for a bit before rushing home in his horse carriage. He began writing two letters, addressed to her highness Seveni and Viscount Leslie who was far away at the northern border.

 Volume 2 171 - Agent

    <h4>Volume?2 Chapter 171 Agent</h4>

    Entering April, the people of Banta City suddenly found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had calmed down.

    It wasn¡¯t that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t calm before, it was just that people were used to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce releasing big news once in a while. It was either announcing a new product or some explosive piece of news, but no matter what, people¡¯s attention would be drawn to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After entering April, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been silent for a month.

    This silence didn¡¯t mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything at all.

    Rather, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories were still functioning and Frestech Chamber of Commerce products were leaving the factory, being sold in the various parts of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for the Banta City renovation n that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in charge of, it suddenly moved much faster.

    Before there was only one road construction team from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce working outside the city, only constructing one road at once.

    But now there were four of them, constructing four different roads at once.

    At the same time, the ?Banta Times? had indicated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was nning to install street lights in Banta City to light up the night, but since the technology was limited, they needed some time to prepare it. They could only strive toplete it within the year.

    Half a month after the report in the ?Banta Times?, many people in Banta City saw workers constructing somemp posts on the sides of the new city square, as they started installing Magic Lamps on them.

    Although some people thought that this was moving too fast, how could they start constructing it already when chairman Xu said that the technology wasn¡¯t ready? But most people supported this action.

    The Magic Lamps in the city square had already proved how important it was for the night to be as bright as daytime. If they could install Magic Lamps all around Batna City, it would no longer be as dark when it came to night and it would be as bright as day, making it just as lively as daytime.

    However, other than these improvements to the city, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything big in April.

    If one had to mention something, it was that the canned fruit factory near Koror Vige was rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But the canned fruit factory only produced canned fruit and they only used normal fruits, so it wasn¡¯t anything that special to people and naturally they wouldn¡¯t pay that much attention to it.

    So in short, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce seemed to have suddenly slowed down and didn¡¯t rush forward like they did before.

    ¡°They¡¯re saying that I¡¯m already satisfied with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and have lost my ambitions?¡± Xu Yi looked at the ?Karma Times? in his hand and couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Those fellows really are bold. ording to them, I shouldn¡¯t be allowed to rest at all?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that you can¡¯t take a rest, but everyone is already used to you taking out new things once in a while. Now that nothing new has appeared in such a long time, I think that everyone isn¡¯t used to it.¡± After Still replied, she turned around in front of Xu Yi and asked, ¡°How about it? Does it look good?¡±

    Xu Yi stuck up his thumb and said without holding back, ¡°It¡¯s very good!¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile as she looked down at the special milky white dress the top designers of the Armani Chamber of Commerce had made. She slightly knit her brows as if she wasn¡¯t satisfied with something.

    ¡°Although this dress isn¡¯t bad, why do I feel like this doesn¡¯t look as good on me as it does on Marta?¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible?¡± Xu Yi immediately refuted, ¡°Marta¡¯s figure isn¡¯t bad, but she is an elf in the end. She has a noble and aloof feel, she can¡¯tpare to your sunny vigor at all. You make people happy with just a single look, alright? This dress does look good on her, but it is far from being able topare to you!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Still gave a wink to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°You just have a sweet mouth, but if Marta were to hear this, she would definitely be hurt.¡±

    ¡°Che, what would they be hurt over. Even if they were here, I would still say the same. I¡¯m praising my wife, would they dare say anything? Then again, you are their agent right now, so they wouldn¡¯t have any opinions towards you, isn¡¯t that right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, I¡¯ll only be your wife in another three days, don¡¯t say random things.¡± Still reprimanded with a smile. She thought about it before shaking her head with a bitter smile, ¡°After being their agent for a while, I finally realize why you had me do this. Those elves really are¡­..un, it isn¡¯t dumb, but they don¡¯t understand our human customs. If they were to negotiate with an old fox like chairman Vincent, they might be sold by him and even count the money for him.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Chairman Vincent wouldn¡¯t do that, but now that they are big stars, there will be more people trying to reach out to them. If there isn¡¯t an agent helping them, something like this might really happen. I never asked you this, but Still, are you happy with your current work? If you don¡¯t like it, I can have you do something else. For example, the Frestech Academy is about to be finished and it¡¯s still missing a principal and many teachers, so you can be either.¡±

    ¡°Forget about that, I¡¯m very happy being their agent. These elves are very pure and it¡¯s quite simple being with them, also it¡¯s very fun. Being able to help them and letting them integrate into human life, I feel has a very great sense of achievement.¡± Still said.

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re happy.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod with a faint smile.

    Last time Still told him she had nothing to do and was feeling bored, even feeling a bit useless. Xu Yi had carefully thought about it and suddenly had the idea of Still bing the agent of the five elves working for the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    Although the Night Song Tribe elves had appeared in Banta City many times, the only humans that can go to the Night Song Tribe in the Falling Rain Forest were Xu Yi, Still, and Vivian.

    For the Night Song Tribe, only those three people could be truly trusted.

    Xu Yi was very busy with many things and there was no need to mention Vivian who was still in school, so only Still was very suited for doing this work.

    The so-called ¡°agent¡±, it was just like the agent of the big stars on earth. It was to help the elves negotiate with the Armani Chamber of Commerce, getting them the best treatment and better integrate with their work, making it safer and more convenient to make contact with humans.

    Before those five elves were cautious towards humans, so their work at the Armani Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t going well.

    But after Still became their agent, with Still¡¯s experience of being a star before and adding in the fact she had the trust of the elves, she took care of this quite easily. Not only did the elves¡¯ work be much smoother, they became much more rxed and were more rxed when it came to talking to humans.

    ¡°Basically there is no problem between them working with the Armani Chamber of Commerce, so I¡¯m very free right now. I don¡¯t have much work to do.¡± Still said, ¡°But I¡¯m very happy that I could be friends with Marta through this work.¡±

    ¡°If you are satisfied with this line of work, then have you considered expanding?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Expanding? How?¡± Still asked back in a surprised voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s that¡­..if nothing unexpected happens, there will be more elves, dwarves, and even beastmen who will work for humanpanies. Do you want to be their agent and help them with various things?¡±

    Still suddenly knit her brows, ¡°It¡¯s fine with the dwarves, but do you really want me to be with those barbaric beastmen all day?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that every beastmen is barbaric. Although there are many barbaric and fierce beastmen ns on the ck Rice Wastnd, there are also many beautiful beastmen who aren¡¯t barbaric. For example, when chairman Vincent went to the ck Rice Wastnd, he went to several fox and rabbit tribes, where the beastmen look simr to humans. Moreover, they are quite beautiful. Chairman Vincent told me that he was nning on recruiting some fox tribe and rabbit tribe girls to be models for the Armani Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Fox tribe? Rabbit tribe?¡± Still thought about it, but she couldn¡¯t put the words beautiful and pretty with the beastmen, ¡°Alright, even like this, I don¡¯t want to do it all alone.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, you can just create a talent age¡­..Oh, a talentpany. The business of thepany will be being agents for other races, helping them with the process of working for humanpanies. You can¡¯t do it alone, so you can find a few helpers. For example, if you¡¯re not willing to work with the barbaric looking wolf tribe or the bull tribe, you can just find someone who is willing to do this work.¡±

    ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad¡­¡­¡± Still honestly thought about it before saying, ¡°Marta and the others said that they were very happy working for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, it is much more enriching than a normal day in the Night Song Tribe. She even said that she wasn¡¯t willing to return to the Night Song Tribe. Based on them, there should be other races that are willing to work for humanpanies, living together with humans. Un¡­..there should be promise in this work, but you should let me consider whether I want to keep going first¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Still deep in thought, Xu Yi revealed a smile as he took her waist and ced a kiss on her cheek.

    ¡°You can consider whether you want to do it or not in the future. As for right now, you should prioritize marrying me in the most beautiful form as possible.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Could it be that I¡¯m not beautiful now?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately broke out inughter, ¡°Beautiful! Definitely beautiful! My Xu Yi¡¯s wife is the most beautiful at any time!¡±

    Still revealed a happy smile as she reached out her arms and gave Xu Yi a strong kiss.

 Volume 2 172 - Marriage

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 172 Marriage</h4>

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was calm in April, so calm that it made others unsettled, when May came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released a piece of shocking news that brought everyone¡¯s attention back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The shocking news was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi was finally getting married to young miss Still!

    The instant the ?Banta Times? released this piece of shocking news, Banta City immediately exploded.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was thepany that everyone paid attention to in Banta City. Xu Yi who was the chairman was young, handsome, rich, and also had a baron title that the king personally awarded.

    For an outstanding young man like this, he would have already be the dream lover of all the young girls in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Even after Xu Yi and Still began dating, there were countless girls who had boldly confessed to Xu Yi. There were even countless noble youngdies who attended the same banquet as Xu Yi, showing off their affection for him.

    But now that his wedding had been announced, it instantly broke the hearts of countless young girls who admired him.

    Compared to the influence that Xu Yi had, not only was Still not inferior, rather her influence was much stronger.

    As the recognized ¡°Banta Goddess¡± of Banta City and the surrounding cities, even if Still hadn¡¯t appeared in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advertisement in a while, she was still the goddess of many men¡¯s hearts.

    When Still announced that she was dating Xu Yi, it broke the hearts of countless men. After her engagement to Xu Yi was announced, it was like their hearts had been cut with a knife.

    Now that Still was announcing that she was getting married to Xu Yi, it shattered the hearts of countless men who secretly admired her.

    In the enbd, when the news of their wedding was announced, countless people in Banta City and the surrounding cities began weeping, creating a river of tears.

    But rather than being sad, more people chose to congratte them.

    To most people, Xu Yi and Still were a perfect match.

    A girl who could match Xu Yi was rare and a man who could match Still was even rarer.

    The two¡¯s union received everyone¡¯s blessing, it even included everyone¡¯s hope and desire towards love.

    If those two broke up, perhaps there would be more people who would be sad.

    Now that those two had gone from dating to being engaged, from being engaged to getting married, without any bad news during this time and always showing off the image of a sweet couple, it satisfied the hopes in everyone¡¯s hearts.

    The ?Banta Times? had appraised their wedding with one phrase, it was that if those two never married, it would be a betrayal of love and even god wouldn¡¯t let them go!

    The wedding was set for the third of May.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, he wanted it to be the seventh of June because that was the first day he met Still, so it was memorable.

    But Still¡¯s birthday was on the sixteenth of May, so after that day, Still would be twenty two.

    ording to a tradition of the Sines Continent that Xu Yi felt was weird, if girls married after the age of twenty two, they might not have a happy marriage. So girls on the Sines Continent either chose to marry before turning twenty two or after turning twenty three.

    But Xu Yi, Still, and Great Magician Cami wasn¡¯t willing to wait another year for them to be married, so they chose to get married before the sixteenth and set it for the third of May.

    ording to the legends of the Sines Continent, the third of May was the birthday of one of the Six Great Gods, the New Moon Goddess Irene Shuka.

    Getting married on this day would mean receiving the blessing of the goddess, giving them a blessed marriage.

    So not only for Xu Yi and Still, on the day of the third of May, there were many couples that chose to get married on this day.

    Of course, it was impossible for another couple¡¯s wedding to be as famous as Xu Yi and Still¡¯s.

    On the third of May, the greatest wedding in the history of Banta City was being held in a manor in the northwest suburbs.

    This manor was the engagement gift Chairman Cruise had given them. The two of them had been fixing it up after getting engaged and it was just finished half a month ago, so they would be moving in for the first time after their wedding.

    There was no need to mention how grand this wedding was, just the people who came to the wedding was enough to dazzle everyone.

    First, the host of the wedding was the Banta City City Lord, Count Sean Samo!

    A Lord Count who was a City Lord was actually the host of a wedding, this was simply an incredible matter.

    However, the Lord City Lord had done this and he seemed quite happy to do it.

    Next, the representative of the bride¡¯s side was his excellency, Great Magician Cami.

    As a Great Magician, his status was not below Count Sean¡¯s.

    Comparatively, although Still¡¯s parents sitting on both sides of Great Magician Cami were high grade magicians, they were much more inferior.

    Other than the two most important people in Banta City, all the nobles in Banta City hade to attend the wedding, bringing gifts and their blessings.

    Even Baron Belil Stagg that disagreed with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most had attended the wedding. He didn¡¯t seem reluctant when he gave his blessings and his smile was very sincere.

    Other than the nobles, all the leaders of Banta City¡¯spanies came.

    Not only did the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise, the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent, and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgane, even the chairman of all the small andrgepanies had attended the wedding without a single one missing.

    Forpanies with all kinds ofpetitive rtionships between them, to make all the chairmen gather together like this, it seemed like something impossible to do.

    However, everyone had gathered together at Xu Yi¡¯s wedding and everyone gave their sincere blessings to Xu Yi.

    Just based on this, it was enough to see Xu Yi¡¯s current position in Banta City¡¯s business world.

    If one thought about it seriously, they would find that it wasn¡¯t strange at all.

    Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had yed an important role in creating the current prosperity Banta City currently enjoyed.

    Whether it was directly or indirectly, almost all thepanies in the city had benefited from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There was no need to mention theponentpanies, they only appeared because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smallpany support n.

    These smallpanies had ies of several thousand gold coins a month. Before this, they were just normal people in Banta City who couldn¡¯t even earn a hundred gold coins a year.

    In the hearts of these people, naturally they were grateful towards Xu Yi.

    Other than these people, the people most grateful towards Xu Yi were the normal peasants in the viges outside Banta City.

    Since the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, first it was inventing agricultural magic machines, increasing the efficiency of farming in Banta City. Now in just two years, everyone no longer had to suffer the pain of being unable to eat their fill.

    After that, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had drove the development of Banta City, every peasant could find suitable work and their ie was much higher than before.

    Right now the citizens of Banta City not only had enough to eat, they even had extra gold coins to increase their standards of living.

    All of this came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So at this wedding, other than nobles and merchants, there were peasants who came from outside the city to congratte them.

    This was also a scene that was hard to see.

    A wedding for a great merchant like Xu Yi, normally the guests should only be nobles in the same position and other merchants. It really was strange to see normal peasants who didn¡¯t match Xu Yi¡¯s status at alling here.

    But Xu Yi had weed all the guests who came, inviting them all in.

    So perhaps this was Banta City¡¯s most grand wedding in history, it was definitely the only wedding in history that weed all guests in the history of Banta City.

    Althoughpared to weddings in China on earth, the Sines Continent¡¯s wedding traditions were more simple, with Xu Yi¡¯s status, this wedding had to follow every single step.

    First they were blessed by the priest they had specially invited from Anvilmar City, Xu Yi and Still had to make their vows to god. Then because Xu Yi was a noble, he had to swear to Count Sean who was the highest ranking noble here that he would protect Still forever. After that, because they were magicians, with Great Magician Cami¡¯s status as a Great Magician, they also had to make a magic vow.

    After all these vows were made, they received all kinds of blessings.

    This was a process that was only finished after an hour.

    ording to customs, as long as a guest came to the wedding, they were qualified to bless the couple.

    There really were too many guests that came this time. From Great Magician Cami and Count Sean down to the peasants from outside the city, even if one representative was sent from each group, there were still several hundred people who blessed Xu Yi and Still.

    After the wedding, naturally it was the intimate moment that the couple showed to everyone.

    If it was a normal girl, they would lower their head and look shy.

    But Still looked up at Xu Yi and went forward to give him a kiss.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and reached out to hold Still. His head came down and their lips came together.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    A cheer that was like thunder sounded through the manor.

    In front of everyone, the youths considered the best couple by everyone were finally married, fulfilling a wish that everyone had.

 Volume 2 173 - Coward

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 173 Coward</h4>

    A week after the wedding, Seveni surprisingly appeared in front of Xu Yi and Still.

    ¡°I¡¯m really sorry.¡± Seveni said to them with an apologetic look, ¡°I wanted to attend your wedding and personally give you my blessings, but I was dyed because of an ident. I truly am sorry.¡±

    Xu Yi honestly looked over Seveni and found that her face was covered in exhaustion, causing him to knit his brows. He waved his hand and said, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything important. Your highness is busy, so it is normal for you to be dyed. But your highness, I¡¯ve heard that¡­..your recent situation isn¡¯t good¡­..¡±

    Seveni revealed a surprised look as she looked at Xu Yi and asked back, ¡°Why are you asking this?¡±

    ¡°This is something that I¡¯ve inferred from the information that some people have revealed to me¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Does that include Count Sean?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°Count Sean didn¡¯t say anything, but he told me that his sessor was from the Stagg Family. I think¡­..that this is not something your highness wishes to see.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying, ¡°Other than that, Viscount Leslie¡¯s reply gave me some facts. Your highness, didn¡¯t those old nobles use to support you? Why are they suddenly changing their minds and supporting his highness Eric?¡±

    Seveni looked at Still.

    Xu Yi immediately said, ¡°Still is my wife, I don¡¯t need to hide anything from her.¡±

    ¡°I am happy and envious of the rtionship between you and Still.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile before shaking her head and saying, ¡°It¡¯s a real pity that I could never find someone who I could reveal everything to, so¡­..there are some things that aren¡¯t convenient for me to tell you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a self ridiculing smile, ¡°I thought that I was your highness¡¯ firm ally.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi suddenly using politenguage with her, how could Seveni not know that Xu Yi was showing the dissatisfaction in his heart? She could only say with a bitterugh, ¡°Xu Yi, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not willing to tell you, rather I can¡¯t. There are many things that if you knew, I think that with my understanding of your personality, you will definitely choose to interfere with. But right now, I don¡¯t want you to do this. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop well, so I hope that you will make our Lampuri Kingdom stronger. I don¡¯t wish for you to be destroyed before you can develop bigger. Do you understand my meaning?¡±

    Hearing the sincerity in Seveni¡¯s voice, Still reached out her hand to take Xu Yi¡¯s and shook her head at him.

    Xu Yi gave a deep sigh and looked at Seveni for a while before honestly saying, ¡°Your highness, I understand your thoughts, but I hope that you can also understand my thoughts. From what I can see, you are the most suited sessor in the kingdom. Because you really wish for the Lampuri Kingdom to be stronger and doesn¡¯t just want the crown like other people, so no matter what, I will support you with all my strength.¡±

    Although many people had connected Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to supporting Seveni, this was the first time that Xu Yi had actually indicated his attitude.

    When Seveni heard the seriousness in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, her heart couldn¡¯t help being moved. After hesitating a bit, she slowly shook her head and said, ¡°I¡¯m very happy that I can receive your approval and support, but please believe you, you really really aren¡¯t suited to knowing this matter right now. When the time is right, I will tell you.¡±

    Seeing that Seveni was this determined, Xu Yi knew that there was no meaning in continuing this conversation. He gave a nod and said, ¡°Alright, I hope that day wille soon.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile. She took a deep breath and the emotions that shouldn¡¯t have appeared on her face appeared.

    ¡°We should discuss business. Since you already know that the one taking over for Count Sean is Count Stagg, I think you should be clear on the influence this matter has on you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slow nod, ¡°Yes, but I only know that it will be bad and I don¡¯t know how bad it¡¯ll be.¡±

    ¡°I can only say¡­...it¡¯ll be worse than you imagined.¡± Seveni said with a serious look.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi and Still knit their brows at the same time, ¡°That means that your rtionship with his highness has reached the point where everything is being shown out in the open?¡±

    ¡°It can be said like that.¡± Seveni¡¯s voice had a trace of helplessness, ¡°Although this is not what I want to see, the facts are like this. Moreover, I can¡¯t resist this matter, so I can only remind you to be more careful. Don¡¯t give my royal brother any excuse to make a move, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows even tighter as he said with a bitterugh, ¡°Then you want me to be a coward?¡±

    ¡°Royal father once told me that if you want to achieve big things, you must learn to be patient. These are the words that I¡¯m giving you now.¡± Seveni said seriously.

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni and shook his head as he said, ¡°Your highness, these words are suitable for me, but they aren¡¯t suitable for you. If you still haven¡¯t resolved yourself, perhaps many people who have supported you will be disappointed. Do you really think that his highness Eric is more suited to taking the thronepared to you?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to discuss this.¡± Seveni shook her head and stopped this topic dead in its tracks, ¡°Chairman Xu, other thaning to offer my blessings to you and Still in person, I also have some important matters to discuss. The first matter is rted to the Magic Trebuchet.¡±

    ¡°Are there any problems with the Magic Trebuchet?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°In the letter from Viscount Leslie, the Magic Trebuchet have disyed incredible strength in the northern battlefront. The Sack Kingdom soldiers have been beaten back again and again, they can¡¯t even hold a formation.¡±

    ¡°Yes, the Magic Trebuchet is indeed very powerful, but because of its outstanding performance, the army headquarters doesn¡¯t wish for this technology to remain in someone else¡¯s hands. The army headquarters has decided that they wish the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give the Magic Trebuchet technology to the army headquarters and send technical staff that can help the army headquarters understand the technology.¡± Seveni said.

    ¡°Your highness, this is your intention?¡± Xu Yi seriously asked.

    Seveni paused for a bit before saying, ¡°This is the army headquarter¡¯s intentions.¡±

    Xu Yi instantly understood, ¡°Then can I reject?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid not.¡±

    Hearing this response, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh, ¡°Then can I ask, whatpensation is the army headquarters offering me?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a while before slowly replying, ¡°This is the decision of the army headquarters and the Royal Parliament. All military technology cannot be privately owned in the future.¡±

    ¡°So that means there is nopensation?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Seveni slowly shook her head.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi gave another coldugh, ¡°This means that I will be handing it over for free. It seems like the face of the army headquarters isn¡¯t that thick. They know that they are giving me an embarrassing request and they had your highnesse here as a shield. Good, I can choose to give this technology for free since I am just a normal merchant, I can¡¯t go against the army headquarters. But your highness, please tell the army headquarters and the Royal Parliament for me to properly consider the serious consequences of their actions.¡±

    Seveni revealed a bitter smile as she said with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I hope that you will not lose faith in the kingdom because of this. Royal father ces great importance on you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s this kind of great importance, it¡¯s fine if I don¡¯t have it.¡± Xu Yi said with a cold snort. After saying that, he looked at Seveni with a different kind of expression, ¡°As for losing faith¡­..I only ever had faith in your highness, I hope that you will not disappoint that faith.¡±

    Seveni was speechless and the room fell into silence.

    Feeling the awkwardness in the room, Still forced out a smile and said to Seveni, ¡°Your highness, this is the first matter, is there a second matter?¡±

    Seveni took a breath and calmed herself before replying to Still with a faint smile, ¡°The second matter is good news. Royal father has already decided that Banta City, Karma City, and Saltan City will officially be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s special economic zone. In this special economic zone, all trade in these three cities will receive special benefits and preferential treatment when ites to kingdomws.¡±

    ¡°This is a piece of good news, but isn¡¯t this too much of a coincidence?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s tone implied disdain, ¡°Right when Count Sean is being transferred and Count Stagg is taking over, this is announced. Your highness, are you certain that this isn¡¯t to pave the way and create momentum for Count Stagg?¡±

    ¡°No matter what you think, isn¡¯t this a good thing for Banta City?¡± Seveni said, ¡°After being listed as a special economic zone, all thepanies in Banta City will receive preferential treatment. For example, when the products of Banta City¡¯spanies reach the other parts of the kingdom, they will only have to pay a set tax instead of being influenced by the tax of the various regions. You should know that just based on this, how much benefits Banta Citypanies will receive.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is indeed a good thing.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have a unified standard tax, different ces were controlled by the various City Lords.

    For example, Banta City businesses had to pay a tax of 34%, Karma City had a tax of 37%, and Saltan City had a tax of 38%.

    Banta City¡¯s taxes were the lowest because Count Sean always supported the development of business. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce drove the development of Banta City, this was lowered again to promote business development in Banta City.

    A tax of 34% was already the lowest in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, they were much higher than these three cities, with some cities even reaching a shocking tax of 50%!

    From Xu Yi¡¯s point of view, this was clearly an idiotic tax rate.

    Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s business sector hadn¡¯t developed yet and in this situation, instead of lowering taxes to promote the development of the business sector and setting the taxes this high, it would be strange if the business sector could develop.

    Before, if thergepanies of Banta City wanted to sell products in other cities, they had to pay the tax rate for those cities. If they chose to transport their products to other cities, they needed to count the transportation fees, so most of the time they didn¡¯t earn as much as selling to Banta City and the surrounding cities. So most Banta Citypanies only sold their products locally and weren¡¯t interested in developing foreign markets.

    Now that the king had set this ce as a special economic zone, implementing a standard tax rate, it could promote the development of Banta City¡¯spanies.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t happy about this.

    First, this was the first time the Lampuri Kingdom was implementing a standard tax rate, so Xu Yi suspected that this wouldn¡¯t be implemented properly.

    Secondly, it was already good that this ce was set as a special economic zone, but the one taking over for Count Sean was Count Stagg.

    Ignoring the Stagg Family¡¯s attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would Count Stagg have the same boldness and foresight as Count Sean?

 Volume 2 174 - Company reorganization

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 174 Company reorganization</h4>

    Even if Xu Yi had worries in his heart, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development didn¡¯t slow down.

    After a quiet April, once they entered May, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first announced the marriage of Xu Yi and Still, then they released a new product, the Magic Freezer.

    To be honest, the Magic Freezer wasn¡¯t apletely new product, it was just an extension of the Magic Refrigerator.

    It was different from the Magic Refrigerator that could only keep things frozen. The Magic Freezer was divided into two levels, with the lower level keeping things frozen and the upper level only lowering the temperature, but not freezing things and just keeping them fresh.

    [TL note: I know that the previous refrigerator is actually a freezer, but the author used the chinese words for refrigerator (±ùÏä) instead and uses freezer (±ù¹ñ) for the new product which should be a refrigerator, so these terms will be kept the same.]

    Once the Magic Freezer came out, it was immediately weed by many families.

    Because the Magic Refrigerator could only keep things frozen, it had a single use, so its sales numbers were normal. There were only higher sales numbers in summer when ice cream and other frozen products were being sold.

    But the Magic Freezer was different, its dual function was quite practical for many households.

    Especially the top half¡¯s function of keeping things fresh. Dishes that weren¡¯t finished could be kept fresh in them to be eaten next time.

    This solved many problems for housewives, so naturally it was very popr.

    The Frestech Brand Magic Freezer was only released for a week and it had sold over twenty thousand units.

    Each unit had a price of twenty five gold coins, so in just a week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned five hundred thousand gold coins.

    Taking away the cost, the profit was over three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Adding in the Magic Refrigerator, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department now had the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Bread Maker, the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Lamp, the Magic Freezer, and the Magic Kettle, a total of eight products.

    Not including the Magic Freezer that was just released, the sales of the other seven products had stabilized after their explosive periods.

    The other seven products had sales of seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand, which was also steadily increasing.

    Taking away the costs, the household magic machine department was bringing a profit of around four hundred thousand gold coins a month to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This number was already quite shocking.

    So when Xu Yi announced that Ankhto would be managing the household magic machine department, although he was prepared since Heinz had told him, his breathing became faster and he was very nervous.

    ¡°I¡­..I will work hard¡­..Eh, to do well. I definitely won¡¯t let down the chairman¡¯s expectations of me!¡± Ankhto said in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°Alright, I believe in your abilities. Other than that, since your responsibilities have increased, your sry must also increase. Ankhto, as the manager of the household magic machine department, your current monthly wage will be fifty gold coins. How about it? Are you satisfied with this wage?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Fifty gold coins? Isn¡¯t that the same as general manager Kennard¡¯s?¡± Ankhto was shocked, ¡°How could that be, I can¡¯tpare to general manager Kennard.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be modest, you haven¡¯t been holding responsibilities in ourpany¡¯s household magic machine department for a few days, your abilities aren¡¯t bad. Other than that, I have other ns for general manager Kennard, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡± Xu Yi signaled to Ankhto to sit down with a smile before turning to Evita sitting beside Ankhto, ¡°Evita, although your magic research facility isn¡¯t in the same management area as thepany, the magic research facility is the most important department to me, so I¡¯ve decided to change the wage for the magic research facility. You are the magic research facility chief and you will be treated the same as the managers of the other department, so your sry will be fifty gold coins per month. As for the adjustment of the other members of your department, that is up to you as the chief. Give me a report in two days.¡±

    Evita was calmer than Ankhto. She just revealed a smile and gave a slight nod as she agreed to this.

    The conference today was to reorganize the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the people attending were all high and medium level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more and more products, bing bigger and bigger, Xu Yi found that for a medium level manager like Ankhto, there was a conflict of authority in unclear situations. So before this problem came up, he would reorganize the structure of thepany. The goal was to rify authority, letting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop even more smoothly.

    There wasn¡¯t much change to the overall authority structure of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was just rifying the distribution of authority, identifying what each person was in charge of.

    For example, Ankhto had received the job of being the manager of the household magic machine workshop from Heinz a long time ago and he had done an outstanding job the entire time. The household magic machine workshop was properly managed, so he could definitely be the manager of the household magic machine department, being responsible for managing all rted operations to the production of household magic machines.

    As for other aspects, there wasn¡¯t that much of a change. He was still in charge of what he was in charge of before.

    The only change was that Heinz left the job of being Karma City¡¯s factory manager and he was reced by someone that Heinz himself chose.

    After this reorganization, Heinz remained in thepany as Xu Yi¡¯s assistant, he didn¡¯t hold any concrete posts. ¡£

    The only thing worth mentioning was that the general manager Kennard after the reorganization became the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO.

    This was another new title Xu Yi came up with, but the responsibilities that Kennard had were still the same.

    The one thing worth noting was that since Xu Yi announced Kennard was to take the post of CEO, he also announced that he would no longer meddle in managing thepany or the direction of development of thepany.

    Hearing Xu Yi announce this, other than Heinz and Kennard, everyone else was shocked.

    In everyone¡¯s mind, Xu Yi was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He was the pir of thepany and if he wasn¡¯t taking part in managing thepany, was he going to give up thepany?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t as you think.¡± Faced with everyone¡¯s doubts, Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°How could I not care at all, thispany was made with my own hands, it is impossible for me to not care about thepany. I am just not going to manage it anymore because this wastes too much of my time and energy, I want to invest that time and energy into some other things. For example¡­..going on a honeymoon with Still¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha!¡±

    Everyone in the conference room broke out inughter.

    Of course they knew that Xu Yi was joking, but everyone understood because of this exnation. Xu Yi just didn¡¯t want to waste his precious time and energy on trivial things.

    After the reorganization meeting, there weren¡¯t many things that had changed. There were many people who were joking that Xu Yi was just using this reorganization to increase their wages.

    Actually, most of the high and medium level members had their wages increased quite a bit this time.

    Ankhto¡¯s previous monthly wage was less than twenty five gold coins and now it had suddenly doubled.

    Evita¡¯s previous monthly wage was only thirty gold coins, but now it became fifty gold coins.

    As for Kennard, because he was the one and only CEO, his wage of fifty gold coins had gone to eighty gold coins.

    This was a veryrge number.

    For thepanies of the Sines Continent, as long as they were leaders of apany, they would definitely receive shares of thepany. So them having a wage was just courtesy.

    For Kennard who didn¡¯t have any shares of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, receiving eighty gold coins a month with his wage alone was quite unique.

    Even for department heads like Evita, Ankhto, and Camby who were receiving fifty gold coins a month, that was unprecedented.

    ¡°I feel that this is a good chance to advertise.¡± After the meeting was over, Kennard found Xu Yi to give this proposal, ¡°Chairman, didn¡¯t you always say that ourpany wascking people with talent for management? If we advertise the high wages our managers receive, I believe that we can find some talents for management.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°You can make the decision yourself. Anyway, you are the CEO, this is what you should do. It isn¡¯t rted to me at all.¡±

    Kennard¡¯s lip twitched, as he wanted to smile, but he couldn¡¯t do so. After thinking about it, he asked with knit brows, ¡°Sir chairman, are you really nning on giving uppletely? I feel that thepany is still in an important period of development and it still needs your leadership.¡±

    ¡°I already said it, I¡¯m notpletely giving up. Rather, I¡¯m handing the management of thepany to you so I can have more time and effort to consider what direction thispany should develop in.¡± Xu Yi paused before suddenly giving a sigh. He looked to the northwest of the city and slightly narrowed his eyes, ¡°Actually ording to my original n, thepany just needed to walk forward step by step and it would naturally be stronger, bing the existence that could change the world like in my heart. But¡­..there will always be people who like causing unnecessary trouble for you.¡±

    Kennard took a deep look at Xu Yi and after thinking for a bit, he said with a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, sir chairman. As long as smart people can see the use of ourpany, I think that no matter what, these people will allow ourpany to keep our use. Not to mention, it isn¡¯t like her highness can¡¯t fight back at all, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and gave a slight now, ¡°I hope that it¡¯s like this.¡±

 Volume 2 175 - Indicating attitude

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 175 Indicating attitude</h4>

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom was in the southwest, the city that was closest to the south, Banta City weed summer earlier than the other cities of the kingdom.

    Xu Yi had arrived in Banta City in June two years ago, back then Banta City was as hot as the middle of the summer already.

    Now that Banta City was entering June, the weather was slowly bing warmer.

    But this special climate that the other cities didn¡¯t have created a special environment in Banta City.

    When June came, therge patch of summer fruit nts near Koror Vige had matured and it was harvest season.

    Just like past years, the beginning of June was a good time to harvest sand pears and star fruits. The vigers of Koror Vige were the same as past years, they were busy in their orchards, making use of this time to harvest the fruits.

    But different from previous years, where the harvested fruits were immediately sent to Banta City or the nearby cities like Karma City or Saltan City to sell, the sand pears and star fruits that the Koror Vige vigers harvested this year were sent to the canned fruit factory built near the vige and they were exported at all.

    This was because when the canned fruit factory was built, all the fruits in Koror Vige were bought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce usingst year¡¯s market price. They would all be turned into canned fruit.

    After the sand pears and star fruits were sent to the factory, they were first boiled. After they were boiled, they were packed into ss jars that were sealed with iron lids.

    As fruit kept being sent to the factory, the sweet fragrance of fruit being boiled drifted out and there was an enticing sweet smell that covered the entire Koror Vige.

    Still took a deep breath of this sweet air and couldn¡¯t help saying with praise, ¡°This smell is just too good, I even want to live here.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s not a problem to smell it for a bit, but if you smell it all day, do you believe that you would feel disgusted after seeing fruit not long after?¡±

    ¡°Is it that exaggerated?¡± Still doubtfully looked at Xu Yi. She took a deep breath when they approached the factory and had an infatuated look, ¡°Such a sweet smell, how could I get tired of it?¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he teased, ¡°Then do you want to stay here and work for a week to see if you¡¯ll get tired or not?¡±

    Still scrunched up her little nose and didn¡¯t seem convinced. A chubby middle aged man wearing a white work uniform said with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman is right. Madame Still, if you stay here, no matter how nice this smell is, it will be a bit disgusting. Look, all the workers are wearing masks. First, it is because of sir chairman¡¯s strict health regtions and secondly, it¡¯s to block out the smell even if it¡¯s just a little bit.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Still looked at the workers boiling the fruit in the factory and she saw that there wererge masks on the faces of all the workers. She curiously took a mask and began sniffing all around.

    Seeing that Still was interested in a tour, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He didn¡¯t go with her and asked the middle aged man who had just spoke, ¡°Factory head Will, the factory has been operating for half a month now, is it going smoothly?¡±

    Factory head Will responded with loudughter, ¡°Because we weren¡¯t experienced at first, there were quite a few problems, but with sir chairman¡¯s guidance, it wasn¡¯t that troublesome. Now the factory is running very smoothly and the workers are very enthusiastic.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that it¡¯s smooth. Then do you think you canplete the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first batch within the month?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hearing this question, factory head Will hesitated a bit.

    ¡°This¡­..Right now we can only produce less than two thousand cans of fruit each day, but the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first batch is for a hundred thousand cans¡­..I¡¯m afraid this is a bit difficult¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You have to think of a way to ovee if there is difficulty.¡± Xu Yi said without any courtesy, ¡°This is the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first batch of orders. If there are problems with the first batch, it will affect our future deals. So factory head Will, you have to properly think of a way to increase the efficiency of our workers.¡±

    ¡°Definitely, definitely.¡± Factory manager Will kept nodding, ¡°Since it¡¯s the order of sir chairman, I will definitely do my best to achieve it.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t rted to if it¡¯s my order or not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although this canned fruit factory is a factory under our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the workers in the facoory are all vigers of Koror, Kambia, and Mexn Viges, using the fruit harvested from Koror Vige. If this factory¡¯s efficiency is good, the ones who benefit the most are these three viges, especially the vigers of Koror Vige. So no matter what, just based on the benefits to you vigers and your viges, you have to do well.¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡± Factory head Will gave a strong nod, ¡°Sir chairman, I will definitely do my best to properly handle this factory!¡±

    ¡°Alright, I believe you.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he patted factory head Will¡¯s shoulder before reminding him, ¡°Of course, before raising efficiency, you have to ensure quality. You know that this factory is making edible things and if it isn¡¯t done safely, it might take someone¡¯s life.¡±

    Seeing how serious Xu Yi was, factory head Will firmly agreed.

    After saying a few more things, Xu Yi and Still went around the canned fruit factory being led by factory head Will before leaving Koror Vige. Their carriage headed down the Falling Rain Road, heading towards the Falling Rain Valley.

    Still turned back to look at Koror Vige disappearing into the distance before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Why did you go to this canned fruit factory in the middle of nowhere? If I had to say something, this canned fruit factory should be the most unrted ce to magic machines under thepany right now.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because it¡¯s unrted to magic machines that I chose toe here.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Since I announced that I wanted to give uppletely and no longer manage thepany, then I have to show it. But if Ipletely ignore everything and run off on a honeymoon with you, the people of thepany will feel worried.¡±

    ¡°Humph, what is there to worry about? Could it be that only they are allowed to take a vacation and you¡¯re not?¡± Still said with pouty lips.

    ¡°This is not a problem of taking a vacation, it is rted to confidence. If I don¡¯t care about anything, certain people will feel that I¡¯m really nning to give up. Then I¡¯m certain that many people in thepany will lose trust in thepany andrge problems will ur.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I couldn¡¯t tell, but you¡¯re quite narcissistic.¡± Still poked Xu Yi¡¯s cheek, ¡°Chairman Xu, based on your words, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t keep going without you? Aren¡¯t you too arrogant?¡±

    ¡°I am this arrogant.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Do you dare deny that my words aren¡¯t facts?¡±

    Still wanted to refute Xu Yi, but she found that she couldn¡¯t do it.

    This was because Xu Yi¡¯s words were facts.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldck anyone, it couldn¡¯tck him as the chairman.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that Xu Yi was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason why thispany that was established two years ago could expand this quickly, bing a pivotalpany in Banta City in this short period of time, even having a certain influence on the entire Lampuri Kingdom was all because of Xu Yi.

    If theycked anyone else, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could keep operating, but without Xu Yi, there would berge problems that urred like Xu Yi said.

    Seeing Still¡¯s speechless appearance, Xu Yiughed. He pinched Still¡¯s face and said, ¡°So, I want to make my attitude clear to everyone. It makes it easier for Kennard to take care of managing thepany and it lets people understand that I am still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. It is very hard to assure people, but thinking about it, I found that this canned fruit factory is a very good choice. Because the canned fruit factory isn¡¯t rted to the main business of mypany, if Ie to inspect this ce, it won¡¯t affect Kennard taking care of the main business. Moreover, did you not notice? When I was talking to factory head Will, not a single word as rted to how the factory was managed.¡±

    Still tilted her head to think and found that Xu Yi waspletely right.

    But thinking about it, Still couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows and saying with a soft sigh, ¡°Why are you going through all this trouble? Everyone understands that you are the only chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no matter what you do, it is impossible to reduce your standing in everyone¡¯s mind. Thinking this much about it, aren¡¯t you tired?¡±

    Xu YI gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s because I¡¯m tired that I have to do everything I can to increase Kennard¡¯s authority. Only then can I let Kennard take care of management for me and I can have the time to do other things. Look, if this was before, how could I have a whole day to spend with you? Aren¡¯t you happy?¡±

    Still revealed a sweet smile and kissed Xu Yi before saying in a gentle voice, ¡°Of course I¡¯m very happy. If you can be more rxed and don¡¯t have to worry about all kinds of things like before, how could I not be happy.¡±

    Xu Yi kissed her back before revealing a smile. He looked out the carriage and he gave a sigh in his heart.

    Although on the surface, he could withdraw from managing thepany, having more time and effort.

    But in reality, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept developing, there were more andplicated things that he had to take care of as the chairman.

    Moreover, these things involved many variables. If one thing was done wrong, it could create arge problem.

    Compared to before, he actually wasn¡¯t that much more rxed.

 Volume 2 176 - Other race agent

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 176 Other race agent</h4>

    The horse carriage slowly entered the Falling Rain Valley. Xu Yi didn¡¯t go inspect the various factories like before and directly went looking for chief Siluka and chief Monto.

    The two dwarven chiefs were contacted by Xu Yi ahead of time and when they saw himing over with Still, they immediately understood his intention.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I don¡¯t feel like there is a need.¡± Siluka looked over the document that Still had handed him for a while before saying with knitted brows, ¡°You and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are trusted by all the dwarves. Since we have already signed a contract with you, why do we need to go through all the trouble of signing another contract with young miss Still?¡±

    ¡°In other words, isn¡¯t this just troublesome?¡± Chief Monto on the side also said, ¡°We dwarves keep our promises and since we believe in sir chairman, there isn¡¯t even a need to sign a contract. Not to mention that going through all these procedures just makes my head swell.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chief Monto¡¯s head that was bigger than his and he couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°It is my honour that you two choose to believe me, I¡¯m very happy. If it was just you cooperating with me, there is indeed no need for a contract. But you can¡¯t guarantee that all the dwarven brothers trust me like you do, right? Moreover, even I can¡¯t guarantee that I won¡¯t change in the future, even changing the things that I promised you. So that means that my taking care of everything, it will be a safeguard for the benefits of the dwarven brothers.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi is right.¡± Still took over, ¡°You can¡¯tpletely believe in oral agreements. There is also another important problem, it¡¯s that the contract that you and the other dwarven brothers signed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before doesn¡¯t conform with the kingdom¡¯sws, so it isn¡¯t protected by thews. That means that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to go against the contract and fire any dwarves, you won¡¯t be able to resist.¡±

    ¡°I believe in the chairman, he won¡¯t do this.¡± Chief Siluka said in a certain voice.

    ¡°My too.¡± Chief Monto also said.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t a matter of believing in Xu Yi or not, the validity of the contract is another thing.¡± Still said, ¡°Two chiefs, could it be that you¡¯re not worried that Xu Yi will change his mind in the future?¡±

    Siluka looked at Still before asking in a confused voice, ¡°Young miss Still, you¡¯ve just gotten married to the chairman, so why does it feel like you trust him less than us? You keep saying bad things about him?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, young miss Still, it can¡¯t be that a problem has urred between you and the chairman, right¡­..¡± Chief Monto asked with a puzzled look.

    Still was speechless from what they said and she suddenly turned to hit Xu Yi¡¯s arm. She said in an angry voice, ¡°It¡¯s all your fault, you had to have me take care of this matter. Now the two chiefs are doubting our rtionship!¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he quickly exined to the two chiefs, ¡°The two of you mustn¡¯t misunderstand, Still didn¡¯t want to do this, but I forced her. Still is right, this matter will ensure the benefits of the dwarven brothers, it isn¡¯t about whether you trust me or not. As the chiefs of the Ang and Norma Tribes, you should first think about your nsmen first and then the benefit of the dwarf race itself, so I advise you to seriously consider this and it¡¯s best if you sign this contract.¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before giving helpless nods, ¡°Since the chairman is insisting on us doing this, then we¡¯ll agree.¡±

    Seeing that chief Sikuka and chief Monto were signing the delegated authority contract that Still took out, Xu Yi gave a nod. Then he had Still take out another series of contracts which he had chief Siluka and chief Monto sign.

    Just like Still had said, although the dwarves had signed a contract before working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have aw about other races working in humanpanies, the contract wasn¡¯t protected by the kingdom¡¯sws.

    This meant that in theory, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted it, they could dismiss dwarven workers without giving any reasons and they wouldn¡¯t shoulder any responsibilities.

    Although this was only in theory and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t want to give up any dwarven workers that had strong techniques and knew how to work hard, Xu Yi was someone who transmigrated from earth and he ced importance in this kind of safeguard. That was why after he convinced the kingdom¡¯s government to givebour cards to other race workers, he also proposed a set ofws rted to other race workers to Seveni.

    A while ago, when Seveni came to see Xu Yi, she told him that the Royal Parliament had already passed the other race workerws that he had proposed before.

    ording to thesews, when humanpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom hired other race workers, they had to apply forbour cards for them first. Then they had to undergo a series of identity registration and security checks before they could be a recognized worker of a humanpany, being treated the same as a normal human worker.

    But this procedure was a bitplicated and to let the Lampuri Kingdom that had a human society, as well as no experience hiring other race workers before, it really was forcing them out of their element.

    If they allowed thepanies who hired the other race workers to do this, although it was theoretically possible, it would be too tedious since the government would have to check with every humanpany. Therefore, the Royal Parliament had rejected this.

    In the end, Seveni proposed Xu Yi¡¯s idea to the Royal Parliament, which was authorizing a special organization to conduct these procedures ording to the situation.

    This organization¡¯s current full title was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s other race hiring management department, it was mainly responsible for taking care of rted matters when humanpanies hired other race workers.

    This department didn¡¯t directly talk to the other race workers, rather the human agents of those other race workers.

    In other words, if other races wanted to work for humanpanies, they had to find a human agent, who would take care of all the rted procedures for them. Otherwise, the government wouldn¡¯t acknowledge them.

    Because the agent can¡¯t be from thepany that hired the other race worker, after consulting with Xu Yi and Seveni, Still created apany in the end that specializes in representing other races for money, helping the other race workers enter humanpanies.

    Xu Yi was currently the most trusted human by other races in the Lampuri Kingdom and Still was his wife, so she had a natural talent in obtaining the trust of other races.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s dwarf and elf workers, if they knew that Still was to be their agent, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have any problems.

    From what chief Siluka and chief Monto could see, this actually waspletely unnecessary.

    They hadplete trust in Xu Yi. When Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign a contract with them before, they were very disdainful, confused, and even angry, feeling that Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe in them.

    Now that this was bing even moreplicated, naturally they were a bit unwilling.

    But with Xu Yi and Still¡¯s patient exnation, the two dwarven chiefs understood. Human society was different from dwarven society, the dwarves found these procedures to beplicated, but since they were choosing to work in humanpanies, they should follow the human customs.

    But when Still took out the contracts to exin to the two chiefs, the two of them directly rejected her. They took the pen and signed their names on the contracts.

    Seeing the actions of the two chiefs, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Chief Siluka, chief Monto, you¡¯re signing without even reading the contracts, aren¡¯t you afraid of me selling you?¡±

    Chief Silukaughed, ¡°I believe in the chairman, what is there to fear.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Even if you do sell us, do we really have to follow it? At worst we¡¯ll bring our brothers back to the mountains and we can just live like before.¡± Chief Monto said.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s differentpared to before. Two chiefs, you have to admit, the lives of the dwarven brothers are much better now. Could it be that you want them to abandon this kind of life and return to a life where they couldn¡¯t even drink any wine?¡±

    Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before shaking their heads with bitter smiles.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, since the brothers started working for thepany, their lives are much better than before. To let the brothers live the same bitter lives as before, they wouldn¡¯t be willing at all.¡± Chief Siluka said in an emotional voice before asking, ¡°But how is it rted to us signing these contracts? After being with the chairman for close to two years, even if we dwarves don¡¯t understand humans, we still know that the chairman is trustworthy. So as long as you are here, there are no problems at all.¡±

    ¡°But what if I¡¯m no longer here?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°First let¡¯s not mention the possibility that I might no longer be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, this is a question that you can¡¯t evade. I am a human in the end, I will die eventually. The lifespan of us humans is at most a hundred years, it¡¯s far from being able topare to you dwarves and elves with your hundreds of years. When I die, I think most of the dwarven brothers will still be living. Do you think that there will be another human you can trust as much as me?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi keep mentioning ¡°dying¡±, Still on the side couldn¡¯t help reaching her hand out to tightly grab Xu Yi¡¯s and leaned in closer to him.

    The two chiefs were also stunned. After looking at Xu Yi for a bit, they scratched their heads, ¡°This is indeed a problem.¡±

    When Xu Yi was about to exin his real intentions to the two chiefs, there was a voice that suddenly sounded from beside the three of them.

    ¡°Since chairman Xu is worried that your lifespan is too short, you can just increase it.¡±

 Volume 2 177 - The elves also want to open a factory

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 177 The elves also want to open a factory</h4>

    The two humans and two dwarves were stunned when they looked in the direction of the voice. They saw space distort as several figures slowly appeared.

    Xu Yi looked closer and was shocked.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, why are you¡­..¡± Xu Yi looked around, ¡°Why did you leave the Falling Rain Forest?¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you thought that I spent my entire long life in the Falling Rain Forest?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Of course not. But since I first met you two years ago, I have never seen or heard of you leaving the Falling Rain Forest, so I¡¯m not used to it when the first timees.¡±

    After saying this, his eyes fell onto the elves that came with elder Illusia. He revealed a smile to Agnes standing by elder Illusia before looking at the three girls from the Moon Shadow Tribe, as he asked them, ¡°Three beautifuldies, have you finished your inspection of the Night Song Tribe?¡±

    The female elf in the middle who was slightly taller said with a nod, ¡°Yes, we already understand how the Night Song Tribe cooperates with you humans. Now we¡¯ve asked elder Illusia to bring us along so we can discuss with chairman Xu on how to experience living together with you humans officially.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s very simple.¡± Xu Yi said in a rxed voice, ¡°There are many Night Song Tribe elves who are working in ourpany, they are currently learning and experiencing how to live with humans while working at ourpany. If you¡¯re willing, we also wee you to join ourpany. I will do my best to help you.¡±

    ¡°No, we aren¡¯t nning to join your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± This female elf whose name Xu Yi remembered to be Stasia shook her head, ¡°Our Moon Shadow Tribe is different from the Night Song Tribe. We have had contact with humans normally in the Stantine Duchy, so we don¡¯t need to adapt to this. ording to the instructions of the elder, we need to experience officially living together with you humans.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then what do you have in mind or what do you have to propose?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    The three Moon Shadow Tribe girls looked at each other before Stasis replied, ¡°ording to what Agnes said, there are five elves from the Night Song Tribe who are working for the Armani Chamber of Commerce in Banta City. We want to be like them, we want to experience working for a humanpany other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Xu, can you help us with this?¡±

    ¡°You want to enter otherpanies?¡± Xu Yi looked over the three elven girls. Seeing their expectant looks and the trace of excitement in their eyes, he couldn¡¯t help wanting tough.

    These three elven girls, it can¡¯t be that they were like human girls who treated this thing as an adventure, right?

    ¡°Right.¡± Stasia nodded.

    ¡°Alright, you can talk to Still first and have her act as an agent for you, helping you take care of all the basic procedures.¡±

    The three Moon Shadow Tribe girls were brought to Still be Agnes and Xu Yi had the time to ask elder Illusia, ¡°Elder Illusia, did you intentionally keep them in your tribe for so long?¡±

    ¡°I thought that your first question was about how to increase your lifespan.¡± Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you curious about what I just said?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course I¡¯m curious. Although I talked about it so easily you chief Siluka, of course I¡¯m afraid of death as a human. Not to mention that it will take a long time to achieve my dream and it is hard to see this dream achieved with the lifespan of a human, so I want a method that can increase my lifespan. But the lifespan of a race is limited, so I can¡¯t just increase it, right?¡±

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t that you can¡¯t increase it.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head.

    Xu Yi doubtfully looked at elder Illusia, not understanding why she insisted on this question. Thinking about it, she asked, ¡°It can¡¯t be that you¡¯re hoping that I¡¯ll be a Great Magician, right? Although bing a Great Magician can increase lifespan normally, it is only an estimate and there¡¯s no urate number to how much it increases it by. The Great Magicians in the history of the Sines Continent generally lived to be over a hundred, but most of the Great Magicians only lived for ten more years.¡±

    ¡°The lifespan of a Great Magician naturally isn¡¯t long, but the lifespan of an Arch Magus is different.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°The recorded lifespan of human Arch Magus on the Sines Continent is over two hundred years. Other than that, the lifespan of human Grand Magus even surpasses the average lifespan of us elves.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s mouth twitched as he waved his hand, ¡°I don¡¯t even dare think about bing an Arch Magus, not to mention a Grand Magus. I remember that since humans learned magic from the elves, it has been more than five thousand years and there are less than a total of twenty Grand Magi? Do you think that I could be one of those legends? If you said that I would be a legendary merchant, that would be more credible.¡±

    ¡°Humans are a race filled with miracles and possibility. Chairman Xu, although your talent for magic isn¡¯t outstanding, Grand Magi aren¡¯t people who all had outstanding talent for magic. Based on my understanding towards seven human Grand Magi, they were able to be Grand Magi because of opportunity more so than talent.¡± Elder Illusia said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia with a confused look and he finally couldn¡¯t help asking the question in his heart.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, why do you care that my lifespan is so short?¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at chief Siluka and chief Monto on the side before saying with a faint smile, ¡°I think the two chiefs understand why I care this much.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, chief Siluka paused for a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman, you are a rare person who can honestly cooperate with us dwarves and improve the lives of us dwarves. Just like you said earlier, if you¡¯re no longer here, it will greatly affect us. If possible, I hope that you can increase your lifespan so that we dwarves can cooperate with you for a long time, allowing our nsmen to keep this good life. I think¡­..that elder Illusia should have these thoughts.¡±

    Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°Right. Chairman Xu, you are a rare human trusted by us elves. Based on your performance and my observations, you have won myplete trust. This is a very rare matter, so whether it is for our Night Song Tribe or for me personally, I really hope that you can live a long life. To be honest, the current you is very important to our Night Song Tribe. If you¡¯re not here, I can¡¯t guarantee that we could keep cooperating with humans.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the serious chief Siluka and chief Monto before looking at the calm looking elder Illusia who didn¡¯t seem to be joking at all. He couldn¡¯t help rubbing his nose in embarrassment as he said, ¡°You ce such importance on me, I really feel quite a bit of pressure. Let¡¯s talk about these distant things in the future. Elder Illusia, let¡¯s discuss business. I think that for you to leave the Falling Rain Forest and toe here to see me, you should have something important to discuss with me. If there¡¯s anything that I can do for you, I would be happy to do so.¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu. This time, I came out of the Falling Rain Forest to see the atmosphere of this Falling Rain Valley. I¡¯ve heard Agnes say that this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base?¡±

    ¡°Yes, ourpany¡¯s main production base is here. It could be considered the core of ourpany.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Then are factories that don¡¯t belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce allowed to be established here?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why are you asking this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because I want to ask chairman Xu, if our Night Song Tribe were to open a factory in the Falling Rain Valley, are we allowed to do so?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    Not only Xu Yi, chief Siluka and chief Monto on the side were also stunned.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia in a daze for a while. After a long time, he swallowed his saliva and with great difficulty, he said in a voice of disbelief, ¡°Elder Illusia, you¡­..you¡¯re saying that your Night Song Tribe is nning to open their own factory? Did I hear wrong!¡±

    ¡°No, you didn¡¯t hear wrong. Our Night Song Tribe indeed wants to open our own factory.¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi and was confused, ¡°Why is chairman Xu so surprised? Could it be that it is so unbelievable that our Night Song Tribe would open a factory?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..It is indeed difficult for me to link elves with opening a factory¡­..¡± Xu Yi honestly admitted, ¡°This is because in my memories, elves are noble existences and something like opening a factory is something that a crude human merchant like me would do. It really is too hard for me to link the two together.¡±

    ¡°This is your human misconception of our elf race.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°Actually we elves also need to live normal lives, just like humans. We elves also need food, sleep, to excrete, and even copte. Many things that humans do, we elves do the same. Why is it strange for us to open a factory like the humans?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. Although elder Illusia¡¯s words were reasonable, it was still too shocking.

    If a human had to think about it, they would never associate elves with opening a factory.

    Xu Yi had to sort the intense emotions in his heart with great difficulty. He shook his head and said, ¡°Alright. The Falling Rain Valley is big enough, so if the Night Song Tribe is willing to open a factory, I can represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to wee and support you. But elder Illusia, what kind of factory are you nning to open?¡±

    ¡°The only technology our Night Song Tribe has right now is the production of stic, so we can only open a stic processing factory.¡± Elder Illusia replied, ¡°Other than that, Agnes has told me that rubber processing is simr to stic processing, so I also want to work in rubber processing.¡±

    Xu Yi looked into the distance where Still was talking to the three elf girls from the Moon Shadow Tribe. Other than Agnes who had revealed a part of this, these three fellows couldn¡¯t escape responsibility.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi nodded to elder Illusia with a smile, ¡°Since elder Illusia has these thoughts, I wee it very much. Compared to working in our humanpany, participating in trade with humans will make it easier to deepen the elves¡¯ understanding of humans, also making it easier to live with us humans.¡±

    Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°This is also the main reason why I¡¯m considering this.¡±

 Volume 2 178 - Significance of setting up a factory

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 178 Significance of setting up a factory</h4>

    Since the race wars thousands of years ago and humans took control of the continent from the elves, the humans kept taking the space of the other races, not leaving much room for them to survive.

    Elder Illusia chose to work with Xu Yi and kept supporting Xu Yi because she hoped that through cooperating with Xu Yi, she could find some way for elves to obtain a ce to live.

    Cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gradually allowed elder Illusia to see the changes to the Night Song Tribe elves that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or more urately, Xu Yi had brought. Moreover, she was very happy and willing to see these changes, it made her see the possibility of elves living together with humans.

    Elder Illusia was an elven elder with courage and foresight. Since she saw this possibility from Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she wanted to increase this possibility.

    To be specific, she wanted to deepen the cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while allowing elves to truly be a part of human society.

    Business was what elder Illusia considered the mostplicated matter in human society, there were countless things that needed to be considered. The elves always felt it was troublesome and even disdained building rtions with humans, so elder Illusia decided to let her nsmen engage in trading this time.

    Setting up the stic processing factory was a very good choice.

    Through cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Night Song Tribe had grasped the basics of processing stic. After being taught by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the nsmen were no longer as rxed when working as they were before. Their current work efficiency could even reach that of human workers, so elder Illusia was confident enough to open this stic processing factory.

    For elder Illusia, this was the Night Song Tribe¡¯s first step into human society.

    If this stic processing nt could exist in human society and it could develop steadily, it meant that the elves have the ability to live with humans.

    And if humans were willing to ept elves opening a factory, treating them like normal humans, it would achieve elder Illusia¡¯s goal.

    Of course, elder Illusia was very clear that the Night Song Tribe currently wasn¡¯t prepared to step into human society, not having the strength and environment to open a factory. So, she chose to open this stic processing factory in the Falling Rain Valley, wanting to depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to take this first step.

    If Xu Yi was a normal humanpany chairman, he would definitely reject this proposal because the Night Song Tribe was only a small contractor when they were working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was clear that it was easier to control this contractor without any authority, making it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to squeeze value out of the elves.

    But Xu Yi was not a normal human merchant.

    Compared to just making money, he cared more about realizing his dreams.

    To establish a magic machine industrial system that was led by magic on the Sines Continent, he couldn¡¯tck the elves.

    Human magic was learned from elves to begin with. Although afterwards, with human innovation, the elven magic became moreplicated and power magic in the hands of the humans, elves were the source of magic. There were some unique aspects of magic that humans couldn¡¯t understand.

    So Xu Yi always wanted the elves to participate in researching magic machines. Just like the dwarves, if the special knowledge and skills of their race was used to study magic machines, it would further advance and develop the magic machine industry.

    Xu Yi never understood elder Illusia¡¯s thoughts before, so he was waiting until they had better rtions before slowly giving elder Illusia his ideas.

    But unexpectedly to Xu Yi, elder Illusia took the initiative to open a factory and invest in the magic machine industry, so naturally Xu Yi weed it.

    Of course, he understood this matter better than elder Illusia.

    With how the elves don¡¯t understand how tomunicate with humans and adding in the fact they didn¡¯t really understand human society, if they were to rely on themselves to create their ownpany, they would be beaten back by human society that was several times moreplicated than the elf tribe and there was no chance of sess.

    In order to maintain elder Illusia¡¯s curiosity and hope, even if she didn¡¯t mention it, Xu Yi would have offered his help to elder Illusia to open the stic processing factory.

    The Falling Rain Valley covered over ten square kilometers, so a stic processing factory that didn¡¯t even take a thousand square meters naturally wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    Compared to the location, the most important thing was taking care of the procedures.

    Elves, or even any other races that wanted to create apany or a factory in human society, there was no precedent.

    Even though thews of the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t perfect, withws that couldn¡¯tpare to thews of normal countries on earth, since elder Illusia wanted to use this stic processing nt to let elves enter human society, it was best to follow the normal procedures.

    It was a coincidence that Xu Yi and Still were at the Falling Rain Valley taking care of matters, helping other race workers obtain official status from the government. Now that elder Illusia had raised this matter, Xu Yi was nning on writing a report on this matter for Seveni.

    With the king and the Royal Parliament¡¯s current attitude towards other race workers, he believed that after this was examined, the other races would be allowed to open a factory in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    It would take some time to receive a response, so before this, Xu Yi suggested to elder Illusia to prepare some things ahead of time.

    For example, picking a location to build the factory, the flow of products through this factory, and most importantly, how they would sell the products.

    Before the Night Song Tribe just needed to finish the stic processing orders that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them, they didn¡¯t need to consider these things.

    Now that they wanted to take care of all these things, elder Illusia found that to run a factory like a normal human merchant, there really were manyplicated things to consider.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on taking care of everything. In order for elder Illusia to gain understanding of human business, Xu Yi only offered instruction at critical moments and most of the time, he just had elder Illusia learn on her own.

    Every time he saw elder Illusia listening to him with rapt attention and honestly learning, Xu Yi had a strange feeling in his heart.

    Elder Illusia was over six hundred years old and was learning basic business from him like a grade schooler, this scene was a bit strange.

    But elder Illusia didn¡¯t find it strange at all. She was very focused when Xu Yi exined a question and she kept asking questions based on her own thoughts.

    When he first met Agnes, Xu Yi found that although the elves didn¡¯t seem that different from humans, there were many thoughts and personality traits that were different from humans.

    For example, for a human merchant like Xu Yi, the most simple knowledge was limiting costs.

    But for elder Illusia, if she really needed to make something, she first cared about whether that thing could be perfectly made and didn¡¯t care about the cost at all.

    After Xu Yi raised this point, elder Illusia nodded in understanding.

    ¡°As apany, the highest priority is making profits.¡± Xu Yi taught elder Illusia with a serious face, ¡°Profit to put it bluntly is a simple matter, it¡¯s whether after taking away all the costs, can the product earn money from being sold. It¡¯s not a problem to chase after perfection, but as the leader of a factory, you have to ce priority on profit. So you have to do everything you can to reduce the costs.¡±

    Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°Although I don¡¯t like this kind of profit centered thought, setting up apany is to gain profits to begin with. Since I chose to open this factory, that means that I shouldn¡¯t consider those meaningless problems.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Elder Illusia should be considered the most enlightened one of the Night Song Tribe, she was actually choosing to go against the basic character of an elf and could ept profit centered evaluations.

    This time, Xu Yi spent several days to teach elder Illusia the basic rules of the market.

    As for the rest that wasn¡¯t easy to teach, he would have to wait for elder Illusia to learn about it herself.

    In these days, Still was gradually taking care of the procedures for the other race workers in the Falling Rain Valley.

    Including the five elf workers at the Armani Chamber of Commerce, right now Still¡¯s New Moon Chamber of Commerce was managing a total of one thousand two hundred and seventy six other race workers.

    Now the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had to report the identities of the other race workers they collected and reissue theirbour cards, then these other race workers could be treated the same as human workers, enjoying the protection of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯sws.

    Processing the information of all the other race workers was a big project. Although Still was very happy being this busy, Xu Yi still seriously rmended to Still that she should find some people with the same interests, so she could rx a bit.

    Seeing Still rush back and forth all over the Falling Rain Valley collecting this information and being delegated authority by the other race workers, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Before Xu Yi was the one who was always busy and Still had plenty of free time, so it was always Xu Yi who didn¡¯t have time to spend with Still.

    But now that Xu Yi had free time, Still was the one who was busy. She didn¡¯t even have time to take a sip of water, there was no need to mention her being able to take a stroll with Xu Yi like before.

    Changing like this, it really was a change in karma.

 Volume 2 179 - One last matter before leaving

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 179 Onest matter before leaving</h4>

    Xu Yi and Still stayed at the Falling Rain Valley for a full week before leaving.

    Compared to when they came, they had much morepanions when they left.

    Other than the three elf girls from the Moon Shadow Tribe and Agnes who was going back to work, there was an extra male and female elf from the Night Song Tribe.

    These two elves were chosen by elder Illusia, she was nning on having them be managers of the stic processing factory the Night Song Tribe was opening.

    The male elf was called Amelud, in charge of internal affairs and the female elf was called Delil, in charge of negotiating with others on behalf of the factory.

    Elder Illusia had the two of them follow Xu Yi to Banta City was other than to represent the Night Song Tribe, it was also to hand in the application to the Lampuri Kingdom for starting a factory. It was also to learn how to manage a factory and apany with Xu Yi¡¯s help.

    With Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current standing in Banta City, he could easily find them an opportunity to learn.

    The other ones that needed Xu Yi¡¯s help were the three elf girls from the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    They wanted to work forpanies other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which wasn¡¯t really that difficult for Xu Yi.

    After the Armani Chamber of Commerce hired those five elves, it created quite a stir in Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    That was because the elves only worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before. No matter how much the otherpanies offered the elves, the elves didn¡¯t even spare them a nce, so the otherpanies had already given up.

    But now the elves had joined apany other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, igniting their hopes again. They all contacted Xu Yi, hoping that they could also hire elves.

    Not mentioning anything else, with just the high publicity elves had, it was enough for them to give the elves a high sry.

    So if Xu Yi had released the fact that there were three elves that wanted to join anotherpany, all thepanies in Banta City and the surrounding cities would charge forth.

    For Xu Yi, what he needed to consider wasn¡¯t whatpany to choose, rather what kind of work was suited for the three girl elves.

    Still was their representative and agent, so she had asked them this question before, but since they didn¡¯t understand human work, it was hard to determine.

    So after Xu Yi and Still brought them to Banta City, they first nned on letting them do a bit of work before deciding.

    But thinking about how they had spent four months to inspect the Night Song Tribe, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    The Night Song Tribe was a small tribe of around a thousand elves. It¡¯s this simple, yet they had spent four months to understand it. If they were to work in human society that was moreplicated, wouldn¡¯t they need to spend a year or two before getting a basic understanding?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t asking Agnes who was riding in his horse carriage, ¡°Agnes, what did Stasia and the others do in the Night Song Tribe over these months? I don¡¯t believe that they needed four months to understand how your tribe cooperates with ourpany, that is too exaggerated.¡±

    Agnes tilted her head to think, ¡°They didn¡¯t do anything, they just lived with us. Chairman, is four months a very long time?¡±

    ¡°What do you think?¡± Xu Yi snappily asked back.

    Agnes thought about it before saying with a look of understanding, ¡°Oh, right, four months is very long for humans. With this much time, I could have made several new designs with Vivian.¡±

    ¡°Look, don¡¯t you know that time is very precious?¡± Xu Yi said in a happy voice.

    Agnes was the elf who had followed him the longest and under his unceasing influence, she was already gradually getting used to considering problems from the mindset of a human.

    Perhaps it was because elder Illusia had seen this encouraging change from Agnes that she suddenly decided to take this step.

    ¡°But it was because the elder wanted them to stay in the tribe a bit longer.¡± Agnes guessed, ¡°Although the elder didn¡¯t tell me, I¡¯ve noticed the elder talking to them frequently. She was asking them about the Moon Shadow Tribe, I think the elder wants to understand the Moon Shadow Tribe from talking to them.¡±

    ¡°There is this possibility, but I think that elder Illusia doesn¡¯t just want to understand the Moon Shadow Tribe¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi thought of how elder Illusia had included rubber processing when setting up the stic processing nt, which confirmed his guess.

    The Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have any rubber trees, but there were quite a few in the Stantine Duchy.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe was the only elf tribe in the Stantine Duchy. Elder Illusia wanted to deepen their rtionship with the Moon Shadow Tribe, it was very likely she wanted to cooperate with the Moon Shadow Tribe in producing processed rubber.

    Of course, elder Illusia¡¯s main goal wasn¡¯t just to cooperate, rather her true goal was to deepen the rtionship between the two tribes.

    The elves of the Sines Continent were spread all over and with how elves rarely left the region they lived in, elves of different tribes rarely contacted each other, even though they were the same race.

    Now that there was this chance, elder Illusia naturally wouldn¡¯t give it up.

    While talking to Agnes about her impressions of Stasia and the Moon Shadow Tribe, the carriage smoothly went from the Falling Rain Valley back to Banta City.

    After entering Banta City, Xu Yi and Still acted separately.

    Still brought the three Moon Shadow Tribe elf girls and the two Night Song Tribe elves to Sandton Manor, while also preparing a ce for them to live.

    Xu Yi and Agnes headed to the City Lord¡¯s Manor together.

    It was already the middle of June and ording to the time Count Sean had disclosed to him, it was close to the day he left Banta City.

    After Xu Yi entered the City Lord¡¯s Manor, he saw the signs of the servants packing up their luggage.

    When he saw Count Sean, Count Sean didn¡¯t evade him and directly said, ¡°Three days, that is when Count Stagg wille to Banta City and I¡¯ll hand things over. So, Xu Yi, you only have three days left. If you need anything, quickly tell me within the next three days.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Lord City Lord, you¡¯ve already helped me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enough, you should take care of your matters during these three days. Please be assured, Count Stagg bing the City Lord doesn¡¯t mean doomsday ising, right? Although there will be many problems, I have already made enough preparations, so I think it will not affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re confident.¡± Count Sean gave Xu Yi a rare pat on the shoulder, openly disying his appreciation of Xu Yi, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has you at its helm, I¡¯m certain that it will always develop smoothly. Of course, if there are any troubles, I hope that you can discuss it with her highness. The main reason I supported you was actually because her highness supported you.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Lord City Lord, her highness¡­..has her situation be better?¡±

    Count Sean gave a softugh, ¡°You know that caring for her highness is a good thing, but I suggest you don¡¯t care about this for now. Since I will be leaving soon, I¡¯ll be direct with you. Xu Yi, although you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have enormous prospects, her highness and I both have favorable views of you, right now you are just too weak and can¡¯t participate in this matter. Since her highness and I both regard you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s potential as important, naturally you just need to steadily develop and not destroy yourself halfway. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slow nod, ¡°Yes,st time her highness exined this to me. I just¡­..am a bit unwilling.¡±

    ¡°What unwilling.¡± Count Sean said with a serious look, ¡°Remember, you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to develop is her highness and mine¡¯s true wish. You don¡¯t need to care about other things right now!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a long sigh as he nodded with a helpless bitter smile, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll remember it. Right, Lord City Lord, let¡¯s not discuss these unpleasant things, rather let¡¯s discuss business. ording to the time, today is when the people major MacConley promised me would arrive, are they on time?¡±

    ¡°Come with me.¡±

    Xu Yi followed Count Sean to the back of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    After passing the corner, he heard all kinds of shouts, that seemed to be at least several hundred people.

    Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Could it be they¡¯re training in the City Lord¡¯s Manor?¡±

    Count Seanughed, ¡°Actually they arrived yesterday, but it wasn¡¯t convenient to keep them in the city guard barracks, there wasn¡¯t a suitable ce for them and you weren¡¯t here to take care of them, so I put them here for now.¡±

    Xu Yi touched his nose in embarrassment and exined, ¡°I thought that they would only arrive on the day of the agreement. Moreover, I had somethinge up in the past few days, so I couldn¡¯te back ahead of time.¡±

    Count Sean shook his head, ¡°No need to exin, handing these people safely to you is thest thing I can do for you in Banta City, so it isn¡¯t much.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart filled with warmth. He gave a slight nod, but he didn¡¯t say anything as he followed Count Sean, arriving at a small field behind the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    There was a group of strong men in the field being led in training by Hart. Their movements seemed to be quite uniform, which seemed shocking.

    When Xu Yi looked over them, he counted them silently before being surprised.

    ¡°Why are there so many people?¡±

 Volume 2 180 - Five hundred elites

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 180 Five hundred elites</h4>

    When Xu Yi had discussed this with major MacConley, he hoped that he could find three hundred veterans for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to establish a guard group.

    But the guards being led by Hart, it wasn¡¯t just three hundred no matter how he counted them.

    ¡°No need to count, there¡¯s a total of five hundred of them and I can guarantee that they were all elites before retiring.¡± Count Sean said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi looked at the training men with a confused gaze before asking Count Sean, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand? Actually, it was her highness¡¯ idea. She specially contacted major MacConley to have him exceed the quota of your request. So major MacConley not only helped you find an extra two hundred people, he specially chose elites. It isn¡¯t exaggerated to say that if these five hundred soldiers didn¡¯t retire and formed a battalion, with just a bit of training, they could match any brigade within any army.¡±

    Count Sean actually looked at Xu Yi with a bit of envy. It was unknown if he was envious of the five hundred elites that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtained, or if he was envious of the special care her highness Seveni gave Xu Yi.

    ording to the organization of the royal army, a brigade was made of three battalions, for a total of one thousand and five hundred people.

    Count Sean said that these five hundred people just needed some training and they could match a brigade, which was enough to show that these five hundred people really were elites.

    Although Xu Yi was grateful for Seveni¡¯s special care, he was also doubtful.

    Since these five hundred were elites in the army, how could the army suddenly be willing to give them to him?

    If had to be known, when Xu Yi made the request to major MacConley, he just wanted three hundred retired soldiers to be guards for hispany and he didn¡¯t expect much.

    In his opinion, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the background of an oldpany, so they would start from nothing when creating a guard group and slowly build up strength.

    So his idea was just to create a foundation, just obtaining the first batch to act as manpower.

    He never would have thought that major MacConley would actually get him not only an important instructor from the northern army, he would actually give him five hundred elite veterans.

    Even with the special care of her highness Seveni, this wasn¡¯t too likely.

    With Seveni¡¯s special care, perhaps major MacConley could choose a few based on his loyalty to the royal family, but he wouldn¡¯t give him five hundred.

    ¡°Stop guessing. Major MacConley gave you these five hundred elites, other than her highness Seveni¡¯s special care, the most important reason was that his highness gave his order.¡± Count Sean saw the doubt in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and exined it to him.

    Xu Yi finally understood.

    If the king personally spoke up on this matter, it wasn¡¯t impossible to achieve this effect.

    ¡°Of course, even with his majesty speaking up, major MacConley could give you those five hundred elites because no other faction of the army headquarters said anything.¡± Count Sea looked at Xu Yi and clicked his tongue twice before shaking his head, ¡°Do you know, for the royal army that is filled with factions, it is an incredible thing for them to agree on a single matter? No matter how small a matter was before, the royal army would be filled with fighting and it was very hard toe to a decision.¡±

    ¡°Why did this happen?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand, ¡°Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is cooperating with the army headquarters, the army headquarters has given me favours. For them to not have any objections¡­..isn¡¯t it a bit strange? Like the people who oppose her highness Seveni, there should be people who don¡¯t like our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the army headquarters, right?¡±

    ¡°You can treat it aspensation for the Magic Trebuchet technology.¡± Count Sean replied before turning to Hart training the five hundred elites, speaking in a soft voice with a sigh, ¡°Recently there has been all kinds of victory reports from the north and after the army headquarters analyzed it, they confirmed that this sudden turn in the north was mainly because they started cooperating with you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not discussing the massive firepower of the Magic Trebuchets, just the first batch of gear your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced was very helpful.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I know a bit from Viscount Leslie¡¯s letter, but he didn¡¯t go into the details. Just how useful has it been?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear on the specifics since I¡¯m not someone from the army, so I don¡¯t have intelligenceworks for that. If you want to know, you can ask her highness.¡± Count Sean continued, ¡°But I know that the reason why the army headquarters didn¡¯t have any objections this time is because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help in increasing their battle strength. With soldiers, their primary goal was winning. Being able to win with the help of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it isn¡¯t anything to give you a trivial five hundred elites.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°If they care that much, then they wouldn¡¯t force me to hand over the Magic Trebuchet technology if they had the skills.¡±

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile. He patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Although I understand the anger in your heart, I need to advise you that with your current strength, it isn¡¯t good to resist the army headquarters. Being able to receive the recognition of the important people at the army headquarters and making them re-evaluate the importance of their cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is already a victory for you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as for the Magic Trebuchet¡­¡­¡±

    Count Sean suddenly lowered his voice and said with a bit of mysteriousness, ¡°ording to the information I¡¯ve obtained, the army headquarters might send someone to discuss the matter of the Magic Trebuchet with you, you need to prepare your heart.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, but after thinking about it, he felt that this should be good news.

    The army headquarters had forced Xu Yi to hand over the Magic Trebuchet technology and although he wasn¡¯t willing, he couldn¡¯t fight the army headquarters.

    It was like Count Sean said, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, they couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    If he didn¡¯t choose to hand it over, there wouldn¡¯t have been these five hundred elites.

    Moreover, the army headquarters wasing to discuss the Magic Trebuchet with Xu Yi¡­..

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his heart as his eyes filled with a trace of disdain.

    Those fellows at the army headquarters, did they really think that if he handed over the Magic Trebuchet technology, they could handle it?

    They never would have thought that while Xu Yi was handing over the technology, he had already created arge hole for them to jump into.

    Now that they wereing to talk to Xu Yi, this was them jumping into that hole.

    The following might not be up to them at all.

    These thoughts passed in the blink of an eye and Xu Yi¡¯s face returned to his gentle smile, as he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, I will await the people from the army headquarters. But before theye, I still have to wee the new soldiers for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to greet Hart and the five hundred elites, but once Xu Yi appeared, those five hundred veterans didn¡¯t seem that friendly at first and there were some people who revealed hostility and disdain in their eyes.

    Before they were sent here, they were informed of their goal ining here.

    Actually they were elites in the army and almost half of them were still in active service. Not only were they the main forces for their units, they didn¡¯t have any thoughts of retiring.

    However, the army headquarters had forced them to retire and gathered them together, sending them here and telling them that they would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    As for this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although these soldiers had heard about them, their understanding wasn¡¯t better than normal people¡¯s.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had forced them to retire, they didn¡¯t have good feelings towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, in the eyes of these army elites, a normalpany¡¯s guards wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    Now they were running to be guards of apany, this was simply shaming them.

    So of course they wouldn¡¯t be friendly towards Xu Yi and even revealed hostility.

    However, when Xu Yi finished his weing speech and began announcing the various benefits that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would receive, the hostility and disdain in those people¡¯s eyes were reced by looks of shock and disbelief. There was also a feeling of pleasant surprise that washed over them.

    ording to the conditions Xu Yi announced, after they became guards for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would be first level guards in the beginning and receive the benefits of a first level guard.

    ording to the rules of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a first level guard would receive a wage of fifteen gold coins per month.

    Just this was enough to cause the eyes of the five hundred elites to all light up.

    Even if they were elites of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army, the Lampuri Kingdom was poor, so the army headquarters was naturally poor as well. They couldn¡¯t even provide every soldier with a set of armour and weapons, so naturally there was no need to mention their sries.

    ording to the rules of the army headquarters, each soldier received a set subsidy each year. Normal soldiers received around twenty gold coins per year and because they were elites with greater merits, they received over thirty gold coins per year.

    But it was rare for those subsidies to be paid and these five hundred people werepletely poor.

    Moreover, even if they received it, it was only thirty gold coins per year. A first level guard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive fifteen gold coins per month, which was a hundred and eighty gold coins per year!

    Good god, not a single person of these five hundred people had seen a hundred and eighty gold coins before!

    Just by hearing this basic sry, it made the hostility in the hearts of these people towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce disappear.

    Moreover, when they heard Xu Yi announce their benefits, it filled their hearts with an excitement that they couldn¡¯t control.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, other than receiving their basic sry, first level guards would also receive some basic benefits.

    For example, they would receive a set amount of rice, flour, condiments, and other daily necessities each month. Moreover, whenever holidays came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide additional benefits.

    These things perhaps seemed normal, but they were very beneficial items. It easily grabbed the hearts of these soldiers who came from normal families.

    Other than these benefits and the sry, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards also received some insurance.

    For example, if a guard was injured or even killed while working for thepany, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay thempensation.

    If they were injured, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay for their medical fees and would pay their sry while they were injured.

    If they were crippled or killed, they would receive massivepensation.

    They heard Xu Yi promise that if a guard was killed while on a task for thepany, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay their designated recipient with a thousand gold coins. This instantly gave many people the idea of selling their lives to Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for their family¡¯s being poor, a normal person wouldn¡¯t choose to enter the army.

    So although these five hundred people were elites, their families had their troubles.

    Because of how poor the royal army was, they could only support themselves and couldn¡¯t change their family situations at all.

    For them, not only had they never seen a thousand gold coins, it was an amount they had never dreamed of before.

    If someone offered a thousand gold coins to buy their lives, they would have been killed countless times on the battlefield. These elite soldiers who were indifferent to death would be very happy.

    Even at that moment, there were many people who secretly had the idea of immediately dying in the line of duty after joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    If their families could receive a thousand gold coins aspensation, that would be worth it!

    However, when they heard what Xu Yi said afterwards, this idea instantly disappeared.

    This was because ording to what Xu Yi said, their guard levels could increase based on their time in service and their merits during missions.

    The higher level guards would receive a higher sry and better insurance.

    A first level guard would receive a thousand gold coins for dying in the line of duty.

    A second level guard would receive a thousand and five hundred gold coins.

    A third level guard would receive two thousand gold coins.

    But if they became a third level guard, who would be silly enough to seek their own death?

    A third level guard had a monthly sry of thirty gold coins!

    Not to mention that if they worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for twenty years, they could receive different jobs in thepany and receive a retirement pension after they turned sixty!

    This kind of life, for those soldiers who had lived a hard life, it was simply like heaven!

    Count Sean saw that the hostility that these soldiers had towards Xu Yi at first gradually turned into fanaticism and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a helpless bitter smile.

    He was worried how Xu Yi would take care of these unruly soldiers, but he never thought that Xu Yi would easily take care of this.

    Xu Yi had used a very direct method, one that Count Sean never even thought of and one that he couldn¡¯t believe.

    It was smashing them with money¡­...

 Volume 2 181 - Magic Array Stabilizer

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 181 Magic Array Stabilizer</h4>

    Using money to smash them really had a good effect.

    When Xu Yi announced therge sry of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and after Count Sean gave his promise, the five hundred elites immediately treated themselves as part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although before this they were required to sign a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and go through a series of procedures to obtain their true wishes, seeing their happy and expectant looks, one knew that they weren¡¯t against bing guards at all.

    Xu Yi first had Count Sean draw up a contract in the name of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, validating these five hundred elites joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then he had Count Sean send someone to get Kennard who was at Sandton Manor and have him take care of everything.

    Kennard rushed over with several assistants and began verifying the status of all five hundred elites starting with Hart before signing the employment contract with them.

    Many of these five hundred elites were literate and after seeing that the benefits written in the contract were no different from what Xu Yi had promised, even being more detailed than he described, they became assured and each person happily signed the contract.

    Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t need to meddle with these affairs and watched Kennard work for a bit. He then said a few words to Kennard and left the City Lord¡¯s Manor, heading to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.

    When he came in, Lotte was the first one Xu Yi saw.

    After seeing Xu Yi, Lotte immediately revealed a bright smile.

    Although Xu Yi returned this smile, he couldn¡¯t help thinking of how Lotte had tried to seduce him that night.

    Although it had already been half a year and Lotte had joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce eventually, that night was Xu Yi¡¯s first time having a girl openly trying to seduce him like that, so it left a deep impression on him.

    Actually to be honest, Lotte¡¯s actions that night had actually made Xu Yi and Still¡¯s rtionship even better.

    It was that night that Still had proposed to him.

    Afterwards, Xu Yi even considered Lotte to be his and Still¡¯s matchmaker.

    Of course, this matchmaker¡¯s actions were a bit hard to say.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, are you here on an inspection today?¡± Lotte greeted Xu Yi with a happy look. It didn¡¯t seem like her actions from before had left a single mark on her.

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it many times, Lotte, you are an old friend and an old coworker. Don¡¯t call me sir chairman all the time, it sounds very ugly. Just be like before and call me by my name.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Although I also want to return to before, I am part of thepany and am your subordinate, so customs have to be retained.¡± Lotte said with a smile, it was unknown how much of her words were serious.

    Xu Yi shook his head and decided not to pester her with this. He looked at the crystal ball in her hand and asked, ¡°Is Sancheli still studying the crystal ball?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve been assisting team leader Sancheli research the influence of programmed magic on crystal balls. As for now¡­..the progress is rather slow. Sir chairman, are you very disappointed in us?¡± Lotte asked back.

    ¡°What do I have to be disappointed in? His research is veryplicated and I already knew that it would take a long time for him to make progress.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Lotte looked down at the crystal ball and doubtfully asked, ¡°Sir chairman, why are you so confident in this research? Team leader Sancheli said that he hasn¡¯t had any progress in the year since he joined thepany, but you¡¯re still confident in him and let him continue his research.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because magic programming technology is a technology with wide application that is very much worth studying. I¡¯m very clear on the importance of this technology and know howplicated it is, so I¡¯m rather patient on this aspect.¡± Xu Yi exined slightly before saying to Lotte with a smile, ¡°But it has to be said, your eyes really are good. Other researchers aren¡¯t interested or confident in this research, but only you joined Sancheli¡¯s team in the end. This research will take a lot of time and there¡¯s no limit, so you¡¯ll never have to worry that you won¡¯t have work to do.¡±

    Lotte said with a smile, ¡°Naturally it¡¯s good if there is work to do. Of course, I hope that I can help team leader Sancheli obtain some results, otherwise we would be letting down sir chairman¡¯s expectations.¡±

    ¡°Help me tell Sancheli that he can¡¯t rush with this research because it is very precise research, it requires very strong patience.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if he doesn¡¯t have any results, I¡¯ve already waited two years, it doesn¡¯t matter if I wait another two years.¡±

    Lotte nodded. She looked at Xu Yi before suddenly giving a sigh and saying in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re this patient with team leader Sancheli and you¡¯re willing to give him all those chances, why can¡¯t you be more patient with me and give me a few chances?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°You¡¯re helping Sancheli with his research, so I¡¯m very patient with you. Of course, I will also give you many chances to disy your ability like with Sancheli.¡±

    Lotte revealed a bitter smile and took a step forward, pressing herself against Xu Yi. She looked into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and shook her head, ¡°Xu Yi, you should know that I¡¯m not talking about that. I want to say, why can¡¯t you be more patient with me and give me more chances, allowing yourself to understand me better?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and took a step back. He thought about it and said, ¡°Lotte, I¡¯m married.¡±

    ¡°Marriage isn¡¯t an obstacle. As long as you¡¯re willing to give me a chance, I can give you all of me!¡±

    Seeing that Lotte wanted to approach again, Xu Yi reached out a hand to stop her. He took a deep breath and said with a serious look, ¡°Lotte, this is my warning to you. If you keep acting like this, I¡¯m afraid that I can¡¯t be friends with you anymore and I¡¯ll ask you to leave the magic research facility.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi heavy intonation on the word ¡°friends¡±, Lotte deeply knit her brow. After looking at Xu Yi for a while, she slowly asked, ¡°What if I sincerely like you and I¡¯m not just trying to seduce you?¡±

    ¡°Then I can only say that I¡¯m sorry.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Lotte gave a sigh and took a step back. She fixed her hair and her expression returned to a faint smile. She said to Xu Yi with a nod, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I understand what you mean. I will be careful in the future.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi gave her a nod and moved away.

    Watching Xu Yi enter the chief¡¯s room, Lotte gave a soft snort.

    ¡°Humph, I don¡¯t believe that your heart isn¡¯t moved at all.¡±

    Xu Yi who had entered the chief¡¯s room naturally didn¡¯t hear this. Moreover, there was another important matter on his mind right now, he had already thrown away the unimportant matter with Lotte.

    ¡°Evita, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve made a new breakthrough with the long distance transmission research?¡± As soon as he came in, Xu Yi immediately asked Evita this.

    ¡°Yes, chairman.¡± Evita who was currently in the middle of an experiment replied with a happy look on her face.

    ¡°Then what specifically is this breakthrough?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°It mainly deals with transmission range and stability.¡± Evita exined, ¡°Of course, these two influence each other, so it is because of a breakthrough in stability that the transmission range has increased. Because we wanted to increase the transmission range, we found a way to stabilize it.¡±

    ¡°This is what I said to you before, different research in the same system is actually rted to each other. Then what new discovery have you made this time that could make a breakthrough in these two important aspects?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Evita took a long and white thing from theb bench that seemed like a noodle.

    ¡°Chairman, look, this is our newly developed Magic Array Stabilizer. Using this stabilizer to wrap up a magic power line will greatly reduce the amount of magic that is lost in transmission, stabilizing and increasing the efficiency of magic transmission. Moreover, with this wrapped around the line, a normal magic line would be very weak against outside influences, but we can protect the Magic Array inside our magic machines. This will increase the lifespan of ourpany¡¯s magic machines and will reduce the possibilities of problems urring.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t express his opinion. He first took the stabilizer made of an unknown material from Evita¡¯s hand and then he drew a Second Grade me Array on Evita¡¯sb bench. He attached one end of the line to the Magic Array and the other end to his finger.

    A trace of magic came from Xu Yi and poured into the me Array through the line.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    A me suddenly came out of the me Array.

    Xu Yi carefully looked at the mes temperature and brightness,paring it with the reference in his mind. He was happy to find thatpared to the normal me Array, the effects of this me Array with the stabilizer was only a bit weaker.

    It had to be known that Magic Arrays normally couldn¡¯tpare to normal magic. Not to mention that Xu Yi was injecting magic from a distance with the line, recing a Magic Crystal.

    This Magic Array actually wasn¡¯t that different from a normal spell. Other than proving that Xu Yi¡¯s me Array was outstanding, it also proved that there was almost no consumption when injecting magic through this line.

    This was a very powerful function.

    Because if injecting magic into a Magic Array took no consumption, that meant that there was no limit to distance when it came to magic transmission.

    Xu Yi twisted the noodle like string in his hand that Evita called a stabilizer and he suddenly had a thought.

    This thing, doesn¡¯t it look like an electrical wire?

 Volume 2 182 - Tentative Magic Power Grid

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 182 Tentative Magic Power Grid</h4>

    Of course, this idea only existed in theory.

    ording to the data from Evita, although the stability of magic transmission was increased after the stabilizer was wrapped around the magic line, it wasn¡¯t zero consumption. The current limit was that it could transmit magic a total of five hundred meters and still maintain basic function, fulfilling the request of the Magic Array.

    Once it went past five hundred meters, the magic would be unstable because of the consumption and it couldn¡¯t activate the Magic Array.

    Althoughpared to the distance of a hundred meters from before, this was five times longer,pared to the electrical wires on earth that could transmit even thousands of kilometers away, the disparity was just too big.

    But Xu Yi changed his thoughts and thought of another question.

    Although when conducting electricity on earth, they just need to set a power grid and could transport the electricity, in reality when electricity uses a conductor, a part of it will be consumed.

    The reason why earth can transmit electricity hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away from the power nt is because there wasn¡¯t just a single connection, rather there were electric substations between points that ensured that the electricity was at a certain level, so it could satisfy electrical needs.

    Another reason was that the output was much higher than the voltage actually needed, so even if it was consumed in transfer, there was still plenty of room for adjustment once it reached the electric substations.

    If this theory could be applied to magic power transfer, it should be using Magic Crystals to release a high energy magic power with a facility that adjusted the frequency of this magic in between and then releasing the magic from this station, allowing it to have the power needed to activate a Magic Array.

    When Xu Yi told Evita this tentative n, Evita¡¯s eyes lit up and they filled with excitement.

    ¡°This idea is great! Chairman, you really are a genius!¡± Evita excitedly walked around theb bench several times as she became more excited the more she thought about it, ¡°This idea can definitely work! Great! Why didn¡¯t I think of this before? If we can use this, we could even transfer magic power from Banta City to Anvilmar City!¡±

    Thinking of this possibility, Evita couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Evita normally had a calm and cool appearance, but this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing her lose it like this. It could be seen just how excited she was at this moment.

    Seeing how Evita couldn¡¯t keep herposure from her excitement, Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t be happy too early. If you want to achieve this n, there are many important problems to solve first. First, how will you adjust the intensity of the magic power? Although there is a difference in intensity and frequency for magic power, the magic power from Magic Crystals aren¡¯t stable at all and different Magic Crystals release different intensities, so how can we turn this magic power of different intensity into the magic power we need to activate the same Magic Array?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Evita stopped moving as her brows knit and she sunk into deep thought.

    After a while, Evita¡¯s expression suddenly changed as she said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, I got it. You said before that when you want to mass produce something, you need to standardize it. When the product produced has the same standards, we can guarantee that there is no need to worry about different parameters of the same product. I think that¡­..this idea can also be applied to magic power?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod with a smile of praise, ¡°This idea is very good. That¡¯s right, magic power can also be standardized, but how do you think that this can be aplished?¡±

    Evita fell into deep thought again before replying, ¡°What determines the intensity of the magic power released from Magic Crystals is the magic power contained within it, so that depends on the structure of each Magic Crystal. There are small differences in each piece of Magic Crystal, so naturally there are differences in the output. So I think¡­..if we want to standardize magic power transfer, we need to use the simplest method of changing the source, which is standardizing Magic Crystals.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He thought about the specialty of electricity transfer back on earth, so he chose to discuss this with Evita. He wanted to see if it could be referenced for magic power transfer, but he never thought that Evita would realize all these things from his suggestion. He kept asking in a happy voice, ¡°Then how should we standardize Magic Crystals?¡±

    Evita thought about it before drawing two Magic Arrays on theb bench.

    ¡°Chairman, look. These Magic Arrays can extract magic from Magic Crystals and instantly explode. When using this Magic Array, one could disy a good battle strength if they had enough Magic Crystals. But everyone found afterwards that this Magic Array was very inefficient in using Magic Crystals because the method of releasing magic from Magic Crystals was very crude. It didn¡¯t undergo any magic¡­..processing, so it was actually very wasteful.¡± Evita pointed at one of the simple looking Magic Arrays as she gave this exnation.

    Xu Yi looked down and with his strong understanding of Magic Arrays, he could tell that this Magic Array¡¯s functions were very simple.

    ¡°Then you mean to say that you want to use this Magic Array to draw out magic from the Magic Crystals and then use another Magic Array topress the gathered magic?¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, as her eyes were filled with admiration.

    ¡°Right, sir chairman, you shouldn¡¯t recognize this Magic Array, right? It¡¯s because I saw this one in a very old book a few years ago and there aren¡¯t any magicians who know about this.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I just guessed based on the characteristics of the Magic Array. Evita, you even know this unpopr Magic Array and can instantly think of these two Magic Arrays, you really are incredible.¡±

    Evita¡¯s face turned a bit red as she said with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman¡¯s praise is too much. I just considered this problem when I was doing research before, but I never thought that it could be used like this. If you didn¡¯t remind me of this, it would have been wasted.¡±

    ¡°Alright, no need to be modest. Since you already considered this problem before, you should have some ideas, right? Do you think that with these two Magic Arrays, you can standardize Magic Crystals?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I can¡¯t say that for now.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°Because the second Magic Array¡¯s development wasn¡¯t finished, so there¡¯s no way to gather magic power from Magic Crystals andpress them.¡±

    ¡°Un, based on this array, it shouldn¡¯t be finished.¡± Xu Yi looked down at the second Magic Array for a bit before falling into thought and giving a nod, ¡°This isn¡¯t a problem. Since it isn¡¯t finished, then we can just finish it. Based on this array, this Magic Array was heading in the right direction. The problem we need to solve now is to finish the magic gathering Magic Array and not waste the magic contained within Magic Crystals. Then we must standardize the Magic Crystals that we¡¯ve collected and even control their quality, letting them release the intensity of magic power that we want.¡±

    ¡°Un, this must be done.¡± Evita gave a nod before giving a smile, ¡°Otherwise, wouldn¡¯t refining Magic Crystals lose their meaning?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right. Do you have confidence in doing this?¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Evita thought about it before giving a calm and confident nod.

    ¡°Good, Evita, I¡¯ll give you this project of refining Magic Crystals and standardizing them.¡± Xu Yi immediately made his decision, ¡°This research is very important, so I approve a special research fund of ten thousand for you as the chairman.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand gold coins? Isn¡¯t this too much?¡± Evita asked in a surprised voice, ¡°At most research projects only received a fund of five thousand gold coins before.¡±

    ¡°This is because it is very important to me, do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Evita nodded with a serious expression, ¡°I understand. Chairman, I will do my best to research this topic.¡±

    ¡°Evita, I¡¯ve never had any doubts about your abilities.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°But Evita, I¡¯m happy that you will work hard, but I hope that you will not spend all your time on this. I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯re always stayingte in theb and choose to work overtime all day, this is not a good thing. Although magic research takes arge amount of time, what I think is more important is a person¡¯s body. If you tire yourself out too much and hurt yourself, the gains are not worth the losses.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the chairman¡¯s care, I will be careful.¡± Evita said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Other than your body, you also need to spend some time on your personal life. Look at all the other researchers going out to y, I¡¯ve heard that Be has even gotten close to a noble young master and her rtionship with him is quite good. Why don¡¯t you learn from her?¡± Xu Yi asked in a very gossipy manner.

    Evita pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°Be and Rabuka¡¯s rtionship is quite good, I think they just need to announce it.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re not jealous? You haven¡¯t thought of finding a boyfriend? I¡¯ve heard Still say that you¡¯ve never dated back at school, isn¡¯t this a bit strange?¡± Xu Yi began gossiping even more.

 Volume 2 183 - Complete relocation

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 183 Complete relocation</h4>

    Evita looked at Xu Yi before shaking her head with a soft sigh.

    ¡°I wasn¡¯t interested in this before and I¡¯ve never met a man who moved my heart. After I met him, it was already toote.¡±

    ¡°Late? What do you mean?¡± Hearing that Evita¡¯s heart had been moved by a man, Xu Yi became curious.

    This was because when Still described her friends and ssmates to him, Evita¡¯s personality was the one she praised the most. But Evita was also the only one who never showed any interest in men before.

    When her ssmates talked to each other, they always felt pity.

    This was because Evita wasn¡¯t an arrogant and hard to approach girl, rather she was very warm and gentle. She treated people in a friendly manner, making everyone who approached her feelfortable.

    Adding in the fact that although Evita wasn¡¯t as beautiful as Still, she was still a beauty and that she had a unique elegant feel to her, even though the amount of boys chasing her didn¡¯t match Still¡¯s, she wasn¡¯t that far behind.

    However, Evita had never shown any interest at all, she chose not to interact with any male students.

    Still and Akali had even teased her, saying that she didn¡¯t like men at all, rather she liked women.

    Xu Yi, who had heard this from Still was suddenly interested in what kind of man had moved Evita¡¯s heart. Even if he didn¡¯t really like to gossip, his heart exploded with curiosity in this moment.

    However, Evita looked at Xu Yi for a while and slowly shook her head. She said in a soft voice, ¡°This is my personal matter. Chairman, you shouldn¡¯t ask about this.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, but he quickly reacted. He revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Right, that was my fault. I hope you don¡¯t mind.¡±

    ¡°I won¡¯t mind.¡± Evita took a breath and her face returned to normal before she continued, ¡°Chairman, even if we standardize Magic Crystals, that only solves the initial problem. If you want to achieve what you described, being able toy a Magic Power Grid that can transport magic power over hundreds of kilometers away, there are still many other problems to solve. For example, the stations in between that would adjust the magic power transferred, I think it would take arge amount of time to research those.¡±

    ¡°That is certain.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°But the ideal in my heart is very far. I have always been prepared to spend arge amount of time on this, it might not even be aplished after I die. But as long as we work hard enough and build these foundations, the people behind us will realize these ideals for me. So it doesn¡¯t matter if we spendrge amounts of time on this, it¡¯s fine as long as there are results. Evita, remember what I told you earlier. Although this task is important, I hope that you won¡¯t feel too much pressure because you also need to live a normal life, alright?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Thank you for your care, I will pay attention.¡±

    ¡°Good. After discussing the research, it¡¯s time we discussed your identity as the chief researcher.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°This is your real goal in finding me this time, right?¡± Evita asked with a smile.

    ¡°What? I¡¯m not wee?¡± Xu Yi deliberately red at her, ¡°You are the chief of the magic research facility, who would I find if not you? Could it be that you think that the sry of fifty gold coins a month is easy to obtain?¡±

    Evita broke out inughter, ¡°I already said it. Alright, chairman, in order not to waste the fifty gold coins a month sry you give me, please tell me what you need me to do.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it.¡± Xu YI gave a snort before saying with a serious look, ¡°After some consideration, thepany has decided topletely relocate the magic research facility.¡±

    ¡°Relocate?¡± Evita was stunned, ¡°Relocate to where?¡±

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    ¡°To the Falling Rain Valley.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Why?¡± Evita was even more stunned, ¡°Isn¡¯t it good that the magic research facility is in Banta City, why does it need to relocate to a faraway ce like the Falling Rain Valley?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because the Falling Rain Valley is the production base of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The magic research facility was to develop new products for ourpany, so it¡¯s easier if it was close to the production base. Moreover, the magic machine development workshop will be moved there soon as well, so as the magic research facility that works with them, you can¡¯t be too far away.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    Evita was a bit curious, ¡°Chairman, why is even the magic machine development workshop being moved? If you want tobine the two, making it easier tobine Magic Array research and practical application, I feel that Sandton Manor is clearly the better choice. The Falling Rain Valley is so far away, if we moved there, it will affect the lives of many researchers.¡±

    ¡°Your idea was my first tentative n, but now changes have urred, so it isn¡¯t possible to realize this n.¡± Xu Yi said while shaking his head.

    ¡°Why?¡± Evita asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Just like how you¡¯re not willing to tell me which man has moved your heart, it isn¡¯t convenient for me to reveal this reason.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Evita couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, I never thought that you would be so petty.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I am this petty. Anyway, this is the final decision. You can give your opinion as the chief of the magic research facility, but it has no use. You should quickly take the time to tell everyone and have the researchers prepare themselves to move.¡±

    Evita¡¯s expression looked a bit difficult.

    ¡°Chairman, most of the researchers are used to living in Banta City. If you have them leave here to go to the Falling Rain Valley that is sixty kilometers away, I¡¯m afraid that they won¡¯t be used to it and many people will oppose this.¡±

    ¡°Tell them that for this relocation, thepany will give each researcherpensation and solve their daily necessities in the Falling Rain Valley, so they shouldn¡¯t worry. Other than that, you can tell them some other good news. Thepany has decided to change their day off from once half a month to once a week, so they have time toe to Banta City. Moreover, thepany will contact the Fersen Carriage Company to open up a public transport line to the Falling Rain Valley, so they cane back and forth at any moment.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, there will be fewer people who oppose.¡± Evita said with a nod.

    ¡°If there are still people who oppose, tell them that it is the decision of the chairman and they can¡¯t oppose.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand as he said in a domineering voice.

    Evita pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°Chairman, I can talk to the other researchers like this, but there¡¯s one that I can¡¯t treat like this.¡±

    ¡°Who is this arrogant?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m talking about the only top grade researcher, his excellency Great Magician Cami.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s speechless expression, Evita gave a few secretughs.

    ###

    ¡°Moving this quickly, are you afraid that Count Stagg will do something to you?¡± After hearing Xu Yi exin his reason foring, Great Magician Cami asked this with a frown.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Grandfather, you also know?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°What? You thought that I was a foolish old man who didn¡¯t know anything?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°Of course not, I was just surprised that you cared about these trivial matters.¡±

    ¡°If it was anyone else, I would be toozy to care, but you are my only granddaughter¡¯s husband, so of course I have to care a bit.¡± Great Magician Cami said with another snort, ¡°If those fellows are causing trouble for you and I don¡¯t care about it, it would be strange if Still didn¡¯t me me.¡±

    Xu Yi said in an apologetic voice, ¡°It seems like my matters have caused you to worry, I¡¯m very sorry.¡±

    ¡°No need to apologize to me, we are now a family. Your matter is also my matter. Speak, what do you need me to do? Although I don¡¯t have any influence, I¡¯m still a Great Magician. As long as I say something, they would still have scruples no matter who they were.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°No need, grandfather, it¡¯s not the time to use a trump card like you yet. Although there will be a bit of trouble, I believe that I can deal with it without any problems.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, I believe you. But kid, when you need me, don¡¯t be polite. You and Still living a good life is my biggest hope. Even my most favourite magic research can¡¯tpare to it.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, you are my rtive, so I wouldn¡¯t be polite with you even if I¡¯m polite with others, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Great Magician Cami wasforted by Xu Yi¡¯s words and his mood was suddenly much better. He pulled Xu Yi over to hisb bench and pointed at theplicated Magic Array on it as he said, ¡°The relocation matter is a small issue, it¡¯s fine as long as you prepare a house for me at the Falling Rain Valley. Compared to this small matter, the Magic Array that I spent several days developing is more important.¡±

    Xu Yi looked down at the Magic Array and he slightly knit his brows, ¡°This Magic Array¡­..it¡¯s very strange¡­..¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed, ¡°How about it? Even with how good your talent is in studying Magic Arrays, you can¡¯t see through this Magic Array?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he looked at Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, you are a Great Magician. Even if I am talented, could Ipare to you? Alright, stop stalling and tell me what the use for this Magic Array is.¡±

    ¡°Come, I¡¯ll give you a demonstration.¡± Great Magician Cami took a small piece of metal that was as wide as his finger and around the size of his nail and ced it in the middle of the Magic Array. Then he tapped the Magic Array andrge amounts of magic entered it.

    A strong brown colour instantly lit up from the Magic Array, showing to Xu Yi that this should be an Earth Magic Array.

    When he was curious what effect the Earth Magic Array would have on the small piece of iron, Xu Yi was surprised to find that the small piece of iron ced in the center was actually melting!

    It was melting at a strangely quick speed and in less than five minutes, this small piece of iron had turned into molten iron.

    What surprised Xu Yi the most was that this small piece of iron had turned into molten iron, but it didn¡¯t disy any signs of being highly heated.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of iron, he knew that the melting point of iron was high. If iron was turned into molten iron, it would be at a state where the temperature was very high.

    With this kind of terrifying heat, the air above the molten iron would be distorted by it.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t notice this phenomenon from this molten iron. He didn¡¯t give up as he put his hand over the molten iron, but he didn¡¯t feel any heating from it at all.

    ¡°Stop trying, it¡¯s molten iron, but it¡¯s cold.¡± Under Xu Yi¡¯s shocked gaze, Great Magician Cami directly tapped the molten iron with his finger and then dipped his finger on the back of Xu Yi¡¯s hand.

    When his skin touched the molten iron, Xu Yi could feel that this molten iron was actually still cold!

    Thispletely went against Xu Yi¡¯smon sense!

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Great Magician Cami, waiting for his exnation.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s questioning gaze, Great Magician Cami¡¯s heart was filled with satisfaction. Heughed for a bit before exining, ¡°You should be able to see it, this is an Earth Magic Array. urately speaking, it¡¯s the high grade magic of Earth Magic, Rock Magic. Stop asking me why, I don¡¯t know why Rock Magic has this kind of effect on iron. It has to be said, it¡¯s most likely because iron is refined from ores, so it is considered a part of Rock Magic.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression was strange, ¡°Isn¡¯t this exnation putting the cart before the horse? As a Great Magician, could it be that you don¡¯t even understand the use of Rock Magic?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You think that magic is really that easy to understand? Let me tell you, humans have learned magic from the elves for five thousand years, but after all this time, the more it seems that the magic world is endless and it is impossible to understand it all. So it isn¡¯t strange at all that I¡¯ve found a new kind of Magic Array. Then again, why do you care this much? You just need to tell me, is this Magic Array useful to you or not?¡±

    ¡°Useful, useful, definitely useful!¡± Xu Yi kept nodding, ¡°As for the use, there¡¯s simply too many of them! The magic machine industrial system of my dreams requires steel the most. This magic can change the shape of steel at a normal temperature, so if it is properly developed, there are many ces where it could be used. I can¡¯t even imagine just how many uses it has!¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a satisfied smile as he nodded, ¡°I knew that it would be useful. It seems like my method of looking for breakthroughs was correct. I was thinking about how Fire and Wind Magic could be used in magic machines, but Earth and Water Magic that are from the same series of Elemental Magic couldn¡¯t be used. This didn¡¯t seem right.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That means¡­..Grandfather, are you also studying Water Magic? Did you find anything?¡±

    Great Magician Cami stared at Xu Yi, ¡°You think that magic research is as simple as eating and sleeping? It can be done instantly? Just this Magic Array took quite a bit of effort and time from me, how could I have the free time to research Water Magic Arrays. If you want research in that aspect, you have to wait.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, he indeed wasn¡¯t in that much of a rush.

    Magic research, or rather the magic industry was just beginning on the Sines Continent. Being able to make a small breakthrough was already rare enough.

    He could gain two important research results from Evita and Great Magician Cami today, that was already rare enough. It was already to the point where it was worth celebrating, so how could he expect even more?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s heart calmed down. He looked at the Magic Array and the molten iron that was slowly solidifying on theb bench and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°That¡¯s right, grandfather, what is this Magic Array¡¯s name?¡±

    ¡°I was focused on studying, I didn¡¯t think of a name.¡± Great Magician Cami said with an uncaring look, ¡°Since you¡¯re using this Magic Array, you can give it a name.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the iron that was about to solidify and he suddenly had a fun thought.

    ¡°This Magic Array can shape steel, so how about calling it¡­..the Diamond Distorting Array?¡±

 Volume 2 184 - Small companiesâ€™ demands

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 184 Smallpanies¡¯ demands</h4>

    After spending quite a bit of time at the magic research facility, when Xu Yi came back to the City Lord¡¯s Manor, Kennard and his assistants had already finished the process of hiring Hart and the five hundred elites.

    As the first group of employees for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, Xu Yi extended a warm wee to them on behalf of thepany.

    But weing them was different from the other employees. They didn¡¯t choose to bring these guards to any restaurants, but rather Kennard had an assistant bring them directly to the Falling Rain Valley.

    In the Falling Rain Valley, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already prepared arge area for their guards.

    This close to ten thousand square meter area was the living space for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, also where they trained and where they gathered.

    At that ce, their first job was to protect the Falling Rain Valley.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently moving all their important facilities to the Falling Rain Valley. The Falling Rain Valley could be considered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundations, so it wasn¡¯t too much for them to have a strong defensive force there.

    After sending off the five hundred elites, Xu Yi and Count Sean discussed the matter of when Count Stagg would take over in three days. Then he left the City Lord¡¯s Manor with Kennard and headed off to Sandton Manor together in a horse carriage.

    After entering Sandton Manor, Kennard went off to take care of the relocation while Xu Yi headed to his personal office, nning to pack up his personal belongings.

    Less than ten minutes after arriving, the chairmen of the smallpanies of the Sandton industrial area all came to visit.

    Seeing over a hundred people filling his office, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking with a smile, ¡°What is going on today? Everyone is gathered here together, could it be that everyone is taking a vacation today?¡±

    The group looked at each other before they all finally looked at the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Kovac.

    Kovac paused for a bit before replying to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, we are all gathered together to ask you a question.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What is it? Speak.¡±

    Although the Irnd Chamber of Commerce had Freeman as their chairman, it was Kovac who suggested to Freeman to form the Irnd Chamber of Commerce back then. After the Irnd Chamber of Commerce was formed, Kovac held the position of vice chairman, but he was always the one in charge of decisions and Freeman was just in charge of the production side.

    In other words, Freeman and Kennard were in the same CEO position and Kovac was the same as Xu Yi, in charge of the main decision power for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Sopared to Freeman, Kovac¡¯s words represented the Irnd Chamber of Commerce more.

    Adding in the fact that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce led the Sandton industrial district¡¯sponent producing factories, they became everyone¡¯s representative.

    There were many times that Kovac represented the smallpanies of the Sandton industrial district.

    Now that all these people had gathered and they had elected Kovac as their representative to talk to Xu Yi, it seemed like this wasn¡¯t a small matter.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s tone was rxed, his expression was very serious.

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    Although theseponent factories were very small, they were the foundation of the magic machine industry and its future, so Xu Yi had ced a lot of importance on them.

    Kovac hesitantly asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡­..We¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is preparing to relocate?¡±

    ¡°Where did you hear this news?¡± Xu Yi looked over everyone here.

    ¡°Is there a need to hear it?¡± A smallpany¡¯s chairman shouted out, ¡°There have been things moving in the Sandton Manor for a few days and we even saw you moving out several magic production machines. Could it be that it isn¡¯t because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is moving?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Chairman Xu, are you really nning to move?¡± With people taking the lead, the others all began asking their questions.

    ¡°Why are you moving? Is there something wrong with this ce?¡±

    ¡°Before leaving, why didn¡¯t chairman Xu tell us at all? We didn¡¯t make any preparations at all¡­..¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, will your Frestech Chamber of Commerce not return after leaving?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you moving because Banta City is changing City Lords?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Everyone, please calm down.¡± Kovac suddenly shouted and calmed everyone down, ¡°If so many people ask questions at the same time, how can chairman Xu answer our questions?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before looking back at Kovac.

    Seeing that everyone calmed down, Kovac gave a satisfied nod before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, everyone came this time because of the matter of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving. Why is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving? Are you not nning on staying here?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kovac with a surprised look as he thought that this guy really was good at leading. He paused for a bit before replying, ¡°The reason is to gather ourpany¡¯s research and production facilities together, to make it easier for ourpany¡¯s future operation and something that I already decided. As for not nning on staying here, this is only a big manor, we can¡¯t just leave it as we wish, right?¡±

    ¡°Then why didn¡¯t you inform everyone before moving? You made us ask around before confirming this news.¡± Kovac¡¯s voice filled with a ming tone.

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°This move is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s matter, is there a need to contact you?¡±

    ¡°How is there no need?¡± Kovac¡¯s was clearly dissatisfied, ¡°Chairman Xu, our smallpanies have cooperation agreements with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If there is a change with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you should contact us so we can prepare ourselves.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kovac with even a stranger gaze, ¡°What do you need to prepare?¡±

    ¡°For example, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce leaves, how will the cooperation between ourpanies and yourpany continue?¡± Kovac asked.

    ¡°I don¡¯t understand your meaning.¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice, ¡°Our cooperation is protected by a contract, you should do what you need to do. How is this rted to us moving?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s different.¡± Kovac shook his head, ¡°To give an example, chairman Xu, when we took orders from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, we just sent the final products to Sandton Manor. If you all move to the Falling Rain Valley, that is over fifty kilometers away. With how far it is, if we have to send our products over, isn¡¯t it a bit too much?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately understood his meaning, ¡°This means that you¡¯re not willing to pay for the transportation costs?¡±

    Kovac nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right. Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is big, you wouldn¡¯t care about the transportation costs of a trivial fifty kilometers, but even a single gold coin is important for our smallpanies. The transportation costs for fifty kilometers isn¡¯t a small figure for ourpanies, so I feel that you should have discussed this matter with us beforehand.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I admit that I neglected this.¡± Xu Yi nodded before looking at the other chairmen and asking, ¡°Is this also your intentions?¡±

    Everyone didn¡¯t make a sound, they just gave nods.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s response, Xu Yi understood.

    These smallpanies had this n, but because of Xu Yi or perhaps the overwhelming power of the Frestech Chamber of Commercepared to them, they didn¡¯t dare directly ask Xu Yi. They gathered together and wanted to use their collective power to get Xu Yi¡¯s attention.

    Xu Yi felt happy and disappointed by their intentions.

    If it was from the perspective of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi was naturally very disappointed.

    These smallpanies developed because of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support, but they were now haggling with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over this small matter. This was simply being ungrateful.

    But if it was his personal view, Xu Yi was a bit happy to see this happen.

    This is because these smallpanies were gaining awareness, meaning they were gradually adapting to their environment, understanding to gather together. It meant that these smallponent factories were slowly building confidence.

    For Xu Yi¡¯s ideal industrial system, this was a very happy thing.

    So Xu Yi thought about it before saying, ¡°Since everyone is here, then you can tell me the worries you have. As long as it¡¯s a reasonable request, you can raise it. Although we¡¯re all business partners, there are some things that are easier if they¡¯re said out loud. Don¡¯t you all think so?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the expressions of the smallpany chairmen rxed.

    Actually there was arge amount of pressure on them when it came to making demands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not mentioning how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped them making them unwilling to haggle with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just their scale and position, as well as them being the leader of the magic machine industry was enough to give them pressure.

    If Xu Yi ignored their requests, they couldn¡¯t do anything and they didn¡¯t even have a ce toin.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi had always been tolerant of them and now he was even letting them speak freely.

    ¡°Right, right, very right. Chairman Xu, it isn¡¯tfortable to keep things in one¡¯s hearts. If they are said, everyone can discuss a solution to the problem, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Actually we came this time mainly because we were worried that if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, our hearts would feel empty like something was missing and we wouldn¡¯t be able to continue forward with steady steps.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce supports everyone and if you suddenly move, we thought that you were giving up on us. It even turned my face pale in fear.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, you¡¯re too exaggerated. Aren¡¯t we clear on what kind of person chairman Xu is? How could he give up on us?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­..¡±

    ¡­...

    Xu Yi had the same smile as he listened to everyone, but his heart was quickly thinking about the problem they had just mentioned.

    Kovac was right, the transportation cost for fifty kilometers wasn¡¯t much for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it was very important for these smallpanies.

    This problem was all because the contract wasn¡¯t perfect, creating this loophole.

    It was also because of both sides¡¯ mentality.

    Before this, those smallpanies all took orders from Xu Yi before, so they had never dared to discuss conditions with Xu Yi.

    But now it was different. These smallpanies had developed and had their own demands, so naturally they wanted to discuss conditions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t against this at all.

    He hade from earth where trade had been prosperous, so from his viewpoint, a business deal should be more extensive. The more details that went into a contract, the less chances that a loophole would appear.

    But the problem was, Xu Yi and the chairmen of these smallpanies weren¡¯t professionals. They weren¡¯t any different from other people when discussing a contract, so it was impossible to make it perfect.

    Now that these problems had appeared, Xu Yi began to seriously consider this issue.

    But the biggest problem was, where would he find a professional for this?

 Volume 2 185 - Such a large hat

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 185 Such arge hat</h4>

    Three dayster, when the people of Banta City woke up in the morning, they found that Banta City was different from normal.

    The most obvious thing was that the streets were filled with fully armoured city guards. Each crossroad had two guards standing there and all the streets were guarded.

    After looking carefully, they would find that all the small andrge streets had been cleaned very strictly.

    The stalls that were along the normal roads had all disappeared today, it was like they had been erased by someone.

    The stores by the roads were all different from normal. They didn¡¯t disy their products outside and had taken them all into the store, cing them neatly without a single speck of a mess.

    On the streets that would be a bit messy normally, they had beenpletely cleaned today. It was even so smooth that people could see their reflection.

    Everyone was a bit surprised at first, but they soon quickly reacted.

    Three days ago, the ?Banta Times? had already announced something big would be happening today! The changing of City Lords!

    Since the current king took the throne, Count Sean had been the City Lord and fifteen years had already passed.

    After such a long time, everyone in Banta City was already used to him being there.

    For most people in Banta City, when they mentioned the Lord City Lord, it was referring to Count Sean. Many people in Banta City even forgot the Lord City Lord¡¯s name, they just knew that he was the Lord City Lord.

    After being used to something for so long, now that the City Lord was suddenly changing, Banta City¡¯s people felt a bit strange after learning this matter.

    In the fifteen years that Count Sean had been the City Lord, he had been very proper.

    Although for the first ten years, because of Banta City itself, Count Sean couldn¡¯t make Banta City richer, to the citizens, the City Lord had always fulfilled his basic duties.

    In the first ten years, Count Sean didn¡¯t drive the economic development of Banta City, but he had properly managed the city.

    In these ten years, although Banta City didn¡¯t have a high standard ofw and order, it was still in good order without any major turmoil.

    Moreover, what the citizens praised the most was that he didn¡¯t allow the small andrge nobles to bully the citizens.

    Under his management, there were few events each year where the nobles bullied normal citizens. Moreover, if it was discovered, the noble thatmitted the crime would be heavily punished by Count Sean.

    To the citizens, just this alone was enough to make them support this Lord City Lord.

    After these first ten years, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, driving the development of Banta City and greatly increasing the economy, Count Sean didn¡¯t hesitate to use the extra taxes collected to increase the standard of living for Banta City.

    In these two years, Banta City hadpletely changed.

    First, not mentioningrge projects like the Sandy River bank project and roads connecting all over the ce outside the city, just the fact that Banta City had a public transportation system made it much easier for people.

    Just a few days ago, there were Magic Street Lamps that were installed on the major streets of Banta City.

    It was like in the new city square, every night, those Magic Street Lamps would light up and illuminate those streets. It would allow the people of Banta City to walk around on those streets without heading into the darkness like before.

    The streetmps were just the first phase. ording to the n announced by the City Lord Manor, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building streetmps on every street of Banta City during the next period of time, lighting up the entire city. It would be like Count Sean had said in the ?Banta Times? before, Banta City would be the ¡°city without a night¡±.

    The people of Banta City were waiting and expecting that day toe.

    But since three days ago, when they saw the news in the ?Banta Times? that the City Lord would be changing, people couldn¡¯t help feeling unsettled.

    If Count Sean was to leave, all the city changes that were good to citizens in Banta City, would they continue as nned?

    ¡°There is no need to worry at all.¡± Count Sean had the same confident smile as he said to the ?Banta Times? editor in chief Nakhi, ¡°Although I am leaving Banta City, chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are still here. The Banta City changes that you mentioned, most of them came from chairman Xu¡¯s suggestions to me. Even most of the money used to implement these projects came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the City Lord¡¯s Manor doesn¡¯t have that much money. So that means that as long as chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are here, everyone doesn¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    The two of them were waiting with arge crowd of people outside Banta City¡¯s northern gate.

    Today was the day Count Stagg would take over, so as the previous City Lord, Count Sean had led all the people with power in Banta City toe greet Count Stagg.

    Before Count Stagg arrived, Nakhi was having a short interview with Count Sean.

    ¡°But most of the projects could only continue with the support of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.¡± Nakhi said with a frown, ¡°Now that Lord City Lord is leaving, everyone is worried that the new City Lord Count Stagg won¡¯t support these city renovation projects like you did.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, there is no need to worry.¡± Count Sean¡¯s smile disappeared and he said with a serious look, ¡°Since Count Stagg is taking over for me, naturally he will work hard to develop Banta City. These city renovations are all helpful to Banta City, so Count Stagg will definitely continue supporting them on behalf of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.¡±

    Nakhi hesitated a bit as he secretly gritted his teeth. Then he asked, ¡°But Lord City Lord, I¡¯ve heard that the Stagg Family is very biased against chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You¡¯re not worried that after Count Stagg bes the City Lord, he will stop supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of this and even suppress them?¡±

    Count Sean¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Where did you hear this from? Get it clear, even if the Stagg Family is biased against Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is not rted to Count Stagg holding the position of Banta City¡¯s City Lord. Count Stagg will be the City Lord of Banta City from this day forth and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is one of the most importantpanies in our Banta City, for the development of Banta City, naturally he will support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like me. How can you make wild guesses!¡±

    Although Count Sean¡¯s tone was very strict, while Nakhi nodded in response, his lips couldn¡¯t help curling slightly, revealing his true thoughts.

    Because Count Sean¡¯s words sounded very righteous, it sounded like he supported Count Stagg, but if one carefully analyzed his words, they would find that he was trying to put him in an awkward position before he even arrived.

    ording to the meaning of Count Sean¡¯s words, since Count Stagg was the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, of course he has to consider the development of Banta City. That means that he would have to support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that is very important to the development of Banta City.

    If he didn¡¯t support them, it would mean that he didn¡¯t care about the development of Banta City.

    With such arge hat on him, how could Count Stagg not have any scruples at all,

    Moreover, Count Sean had even put a definition to this support, which was ¡°supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as much as him¡±.

    How did Count Sean support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As long as it was people who frequently read the ?Banta Times?, they would be able to see how Count Sean supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the articles in the ?Banta Times?.

    Moreover, the current Banta City renovation n that the citizens paid attention to, Count Sean had given responsibility to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was treating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as part of the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    This kind of support was not something a normal City Lord would give.

    But if Count Stagg didn¡¯t do this, it would be him not caring about the development of Banta City.

    It had to be known that the ?Banta Times? sold over fifty thousand copies a day. The people of Banta City were already used to getting information from the ?Banta Times?.

    Now that Nakhi had interviewed Count Sean at such a sensitive time, naturally it would be reported in the ?Banta Times?.

    This meant that Count Sean¡¯s words would be known to all of Banta City¡¯s people through the ?Banta Times?.

    To the citizens, the words that Count Sean had said waspletely a warning for Count Stagg.

    If Count Stagg didn¡¯t do well, he would lose the trust of the public.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when Count Sean meets Count Staggter, will he focus on introducing you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± In the crowd not far away, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi this in a low voice.

    ¡°Probably not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I specially mentioned this matter to the Lord City Lord yesterday, I hoped that he wouldn¡¯t introduce me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which he agreed to.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Chairman Cruise was a bit confused, ¡°Although I understand that you want to remain low key in front of Count Stagg, do you think that¡¯s possible? Count Stagg had definitely researched our Banta City beforeing here and adding in the Stagg Family¡­..Ke, it¡¯s impossible he wouldn¡¯t notice you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°This is what Count Stagg needs to consider, it isn¡¯t rted to me.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and casually said, ¡°Without a need, I would rather stay as low key as possible.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..¡±

    Before chairman Cruise could keep asking, he heard the sounds ofing from around him.

    Looking into the distance, they saw a line of horse carriages slowly heading in this direction.

    There was no need to guess, this was the arrival of Count Stagg.

 Volume 2 186 - Which identity would you choose?

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 186 Which identity would you choose?</h4>

    Count Stagg and Count Sean were around the same age, they were both over fifty years old this year, but Count Sean seemed much more vigorous. Count Stagg was only a few years older, but his appearance was much older and his face was much more strict.

    After getting out of the carriage, other than revealing a friendly smile when looking at Count Sean, when he met the others, he had a strict look that wasn¡¯t easily moved at all.

    Moreover, when his expression was different when it came to facing nobles or merchants.

    His face still had the same strict appearance, but when he was facing nobles, his expression could be considered normal.

    But when he was facing the merchants, although it wasn¡¯t clear with his strict appearance, it was very easy to perceive the disdain that it carried.

    The only exception was when he met Xu Yi.

    When Count Sean led him to Xu Yi, Count Stagg¡¯s serious expression became a bit rxed and his expression became a bit strange.

    After looking at Xu Yi for a bit, Count Stagg suddenly shook his head and gave a soft snort, ¡°It was hard enough for his majesty to give you a noble title, but you continue lowering your status to be a merchant. It really is a waste of his majesty¡¯s recognition of you and losing face for us nobles!¡±

    The surrounding business circle representatives have ugly looks on their faces.

    Although their position as merchants in the Lampuri Kingdom was below that of nobles and couldn¡¯t evenpare to the farmers, even if the nobles felt disdain towards the merchants, there was no noble that would put it so straightforward in front of the merchants

    The merchants had very low positions, but sessful merchants hadrge amounts of money.

    Money was always easy to use, whether it was earth or the Sines Continent. As long as one had enough money, even if the merchants didn¡¯t have a high status, they lived better than most peasants and even nobles whose households were in bad conditions.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t easy forrge nobles to engage in business with their status, so they mostly used representatives to do business or directly cooperated with merchants.

    In the end, one couldn¡¯t feed themselves with their position no matter how high it was.

    If they wanted to live a high scale life of luxury, if they didn¡¯t depend on business to make money, normal nobles weren¡¯t that much better than peasants.

    So there had always been a strange rtionship between nobles and merchants in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The nobles looked down on merchants, but they wanted to live the same luxurious lives as them.

    The merchants envied the nobles¡¯ positions, but they actually looked down on those nobles who felt superior and didn¡¯t actually know what the real situation was.

    Both sides had what the other side needed, so cooperation was the best choice for both sides.

    In the end, the nobles and merchants had close knit business deals, while looking down on each other.

    This rtionship seemed messed up and even twisted, but this was the real situation in the Lampuri Kingdom and most of the other kingdoms on the Sines Continent.

    Take therge merchants of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    First, not mentioning the Falcao Chamber of Commerce that was clearly set up by therge noble family of the Jole Family, even the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and the Sarank Chamber of Commerce that didn¡¯t seem rted to any nobles actually had nobles behind them to some extent.

    The chairman of thesepanies frequently came in contact with nobles, but this was the first time that a noble had been so straightforward with his disdain towards merchants.

    If it was a small noble, for veteran merchants like chairman Rank, chairman Cruise, and chairman Vincent, they wouldn¡¯t care at all and could even reprimand that noble without any courtesy.

    But the one who said this was a Lord Count and it was a Lord Count that came from the Stagg Family, one that would take over as Banta City¡¯s City Lord.

    No matter how dissatisfied they were, they could only lower their heads. They didn¡¯t dare look at Count Sean and they didn¡¯t dare reveal a single bit of their true feelings.

    Only Xu Yi slightly raised his lead and looked at Count Stagg before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Count Stagg, I don¡¯t feel that being a merchant is lowering my status and it isn¡¯t losing face for nobles. To me, this noble status was just one that his majesty granted me and the status that I really care about is my status as a merchant.¡±

    Count Sean raised a brow, ¡°What? You want to wallow in degeneracy?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk slightly before he said with a serious look, ¡°Lord Count, I don¡¯t understand what you mean. If you¡¯re saying that me being willing to be a merchant is wallowing in degeneracy, I don¡¯t agree with this view.¡±

    The surrounding people were surprised.

    No one thought that Xu Yi would actually contradict Count Stagg in front of all these people.

    Count Stagg came to Banta City today to take over the City Lord¡¯s position. ording to customs, he would definitely do some things to establish his authority.

    Everyone knew that at this time, it was better to be as honest as possible in front of Count Stagg and not face the muzzle of his gun, otherwise the consequences would be dire.

    So even if they were dissatisfied with Count Stagg¡¯s words that had no traces of courtesy, the business circle representatives here didn¡¯t dare say a thing.

    Now that Xu Yi was directly opposing his words, it was simply turning the muzzle onto himself.

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s heart skipped a beat. He couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi, wanting to signal to him to withdraw his words with his eyes, but he found Count Stagg¡¯s ice cold eyes looking over him. He quickly lowered his head and didn¡¯t dare breathe too loudly.

    When he lowered his head, he realized something.

    The meaning of Count Stagg¡¯s ice cold gaze was that he specially came here to provoke Xu Yi.

    When he thought of the attitude the Stagg Family had towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, chairman Cruise¡¯s heart turned cold.

    Xu Yi might be in trouble this time¡­...

    As expected, after Count Sean was silent for a bit, like he was surprised that Xu Yi dared to contradict him, he asked in a deep voice, ¡°What? Why don¡¯t you agree? Did I say something wrong?¡±

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi again, praying with all his heart that Xu Yi could admit his mistake. It was easier to talk once he avoided this problem.

    As long as he passed today, even if Count Stagg wanted to cause trouble for Xu Yi, he had time to deal with it.

    However, chairman Cruise¡¯s prayers were all disappointed.

    With his understanding of Xu Yi¡¯s character, he knew that this person either didn¡¯t express his opinion or if he did, he definitely wouldn¡¯t change it easily.

    If it was described in a good light, it was considered tenacious and in a bad light, it was considered stubborn.

    As expected, once he heard Count Stagg¡¯s question, Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Yes, Lord Count, I think that there is a problem with your views. ording to thews of the kingdom, nobles do enjoy more benefits than normal people and merchants, so their positions are higher. But I have always believed that for a person, no matter what status they have, they will have corresponding duties when enjoying rights. Since nobles enjoy more benefits, they must also fulfill more duties. Otherwise, what difference is there between them and bugs?¡±

    ¡°Ah!¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, there were cold gasps from around them.

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi in shock, simply not daring to believe the words that came from his mouth.

    Perhaps he wasn¡¯t wrong, these were his real views.

    But he actually dare to say them in front of a Lord Count and he had said them after Count Stagg had expressed his views, this was simply nning on going against the Lord Count!

    Wasn¡¯t this seeking death?

    Count Stagg slightly narrowed his eyes and they betrayed a trace of surprise. He clearly didn¡¯t think that Xu Yi would not only not take back his words, he would make them even more intense.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you saying that we nobles are bugs? Don¡¯t forget, you are also a noble!¡± Count Stagg said in a cold voice.

    Seeing the surrounding Banta City nobles expressed looks of doubt and shock, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he shook his head and said, ¡°No, this isn¡¯t my meaning. I just wanted to say that whether it is a noble, a merchant, or a peasant, no matter who they are, if they can¡¯t fulfill their duties and responsibilities, they are a bug. Lord Count, do you think that I¡¯m right?¡±

    Count Stagg really wanted to say that Xu Yi was talking nonsense, but he found that he couldn¡¯t refute the righteousness in Xu Yi¡¯s words. He could only give a reluctant nod as he said, ¡°These words are indeed correct, but chairman Xu, your words didn¡¯t have this meaning earlier, right? You¡¯re saying that the nobles have more benefits, so they should have more duties. This is using most nobles that they aren¡¯t fulfilling those duties, right?¡±

    Xu Yi in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Lord Count, I think that you¡¯ve misunderstood me. I only want to say that nobels need to put in more effort to maintain their high positions. If you¡¯re not willing to put in the effort to enjoy more benefits and a higher position, this doesn¡¯t sound reasonable, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Count Sean said with a strong snort, ¡°What isn¡¯t reasonable? If one cannot have a higher position and enjoy more benefits, is there a need for nobles? For example, chairman Xu, if his majesty were to take away your noble position, would you be willing?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°His majesty is wise, how could he take away my noble status without any reason?¡±

    ¡°Just the fact that you¡¯re both a noble and a merchant, that is enough to take away your noble status.¡± Count Stagg said with a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, let me make it clear to you. The Royal Parliament is currently considering your dual status and once the Royal Parliament considers you holding both positions uneptable, you will be forced to pick one. When that timees, do you still want to remain as a noble?¡±

    Everyone was stunned again.

    No one had thought that the Royal Parliament was conducting special considerations towards a small baron like Xu Yi.

    And Count Stagg¡¯s question was very correct. When the timees, what will be Xu Yi¡¯s decision?

 Volume 2 187 - Business Union that survived in name only

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 187 Business Union that survived in name only</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­.really are too impulsive.¡± Chairman Rank looked at Xu Yi and said this with a soft sigh.

    After meeting the new City Lord Count Stagg, Count Stagg said that he didn¡¯t need any merchants to apany him. So the Banta City merchants had all scattered and then gathered at chairman Rank¡¯s private hotel.

    At this temporary conference of the Business Union, Xu Yi once again became the center of attention.

    Although many people admired Xu Yi secretly, thinking that he had refuted Count Stagg to the face because of how he treated merchants, most people thought that Xu Yi was too impulsive and he didn¡¯t consider the consequences.

    Count Stagg was the new City Lord, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were in Banta City, so they would be in his jurisdiction.

    Now that Xu Yi had gone against Count Stagg so openly, it would be strange if Count Stagg didn¡¯t cause trouble for him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Why are your expressions so serious today?¡± Compared to everyone else, Xu Yi had a rxed expression, ¡°The one who refuted Count Stagg to his face was me and not you, Count Stagg will definitelye looking for me to cause trouble, he definitely won¡¯t go looking for you.¡±

    The others looked at each other before revealing bitter smiles.

    Chairman Vincent gave a sigh before shaking his head and saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, what everyone is worried about isn¡¯t him causing trouble for one person, rather it is the attitude that the new Lord City Lord had.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Chairman Cruise also gave a sigh, ¡°This new Lord City Lord doesn¡¯t like us merchants, so I suspect it¡¯ll be hard to do business in Banta City in the future.¡±

    ¡°This¡­.shouldn¡¯t be that serious, right?¡±

    Through the public transport system that was a core part of Banta City, the Fersen Carriage Company had also joined the Banta City Business Union. This time chairman Pompeii was taking part as a non-voting delegate. Seeing his peers sigh around him, he couldn¡¯t help speaking up for the first time.

    ¡°Now that Banta City¡¯s developed much faster andst year¡¯s tax ie is around ten times more than usual, not being modest, it is all because of us merchants. We pay for most of the tax revenue and with how much Count Stagg looks down on merchants, once he received this information, wouldn¡¯t he try to do something to us?¡±

    ¡°Humph, he won¡¯t do anything?¡± Chairman Cruise said with a snort, ¡°Didn¡¯t you see what happened today? If we¡¯re talking about contributions to Banta City¡¯s development, who would be able to say that they couldpare to chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? He was clearly deliberately looking for trouble with Xu Yi! Of course, speaking of this, Xu Yi, you really were too impulsive. Even if Count Stagg causes trouble for you, you shouldn¡¯t oppose him that strongly, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Since I know he is causing trouble for me, what meaning is there in avoiding it? He is the new Banta City¡¯s City Lord, how could I avoid it if he wanted to cause trouble for me?¡±

    ¡°But there¡¯s no need to offend him, right?¡± Chairman Cruise said with knit brows.

    ¡°You think that¡­..a great person like Count Stagg would be insulted by a few trivial words from me? His attitude towards me was already set before he came here, it can¡¯t be changed.¡±

    Chairman Cruise fell silent.

    It was because everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi was on the same side as her highness Seveni. The Stagg Family had already announced their support for his highness Eric to be the next king.

    Count Stagg causing trouble for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t just because of a few words. Rather it was already decided before he became Banta City¡¯s City Lord.

    The conference hall fell into a strange silence. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

    After a while, a thin looking merchant with sharp eyes said, ¡°Actually I feel that¡­..even if Count Stagg is aiming at chairman Xu, it doesn¡¯t mean he will aim at all of us Banta City merchants. So I think¡­..I think¡­..that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdraws from our Business Union, wouldn¡¯t it be better for everyone?¡±

    Everyone¡¯s gaze fell onto the thin merchant. Their eyes were filled with shock, doubt, confusion, and a trace of excitement.

    ¡°Chairman Lawrence! What do you mean?¡± Without waiting for Xu Yi to speak, chairman Cruise pped the table. He pointed at the thin merchant and angrily said, ¡°At this time, you actually want to make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdraw from our Business Union? Don¡¯t you have a bit of conscience at all? Did you forget? Yourpany almost went bankrupt and it was because Xu Yi didn¡¯t charge you a single cent for the Magic Kettle technology, renting the magic production machines to you for free, and sending technical staff to help you that yourpany coulde back to life. What is the meaning of your words now? You truly are ungrateful!¡±

    Chairman Lawrence¡¯s face turned red in shame and he lowered his head as he refuted in a soft voice, ¡°I¡­..We miss paying him back a single copper coin afterwards¡­..¡±

    Chairman Cruise was even angrier as he pped the table again and cursed out, ¡°You think that Xu Yi didn¡¯t help you because you paid him back? If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi helping you, you might have jumped into the Sandy River and killed yourself! What qualification would you have to sit here now and say these kinds of words?¡±

    Chairman Lawrence was probably angered by chairman Cruise¡¯s straightforward words, so he suddenly raised his head and said with a red face, ¡°That¡¯s right! Chairman Cruise did help us before, but I am thinking from the viewpoint of all the small merchants in Banta City! We are just small and weak merchants, how could we resist the Lord City Lord? Now that the Lord City Lord has set his eyes on chairman Xu, we can¡¯t just use ourselves to block him, right?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! You¡¯re clearly someone who has no gratitude, but you dare act this righteously, it really is disgusting!¡± Chairman Cruise spat onto the ground and prepared to curse at him more, but Xu Yi reached out a hand to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, chairman cruise, let¡¯s stop. Although I am very disappointed with chairman Lawrence, his proposition is quite good. I have already epted being targeted by Count Stagg¡¯s rage, but I don¡¯t want to implicate my peers. So I¡¯ve decided¡­..¡± Xu Yi turned to chairman Rank, ¡°President Rank, from this day forth, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is withdrawing from the Business Union.¡±

    The hall was silent for a second before it suddenly exploded.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you joking?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re actually leaving the Business Union? Is this a mistake?¡±

    ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is one of the biggestpanies in our Banta City, how could it just leave the Business Union?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. If even your Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdraws, what meaning will there be in this Business Union?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t really withdraw right? I think that chairman Lawrence is just blind with worry.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you don¡¯t need to¡­..¡±

    ¡­..

    Everyone chattered for a bit, but Xu Yi just listened with a smile without saying a word.

    After a while, people just naturally stopped.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, everyone understood that Xu Yi had already made his decision and there was no changing it.

    Chairman Rank shook his head with a bitter smile and said, ¡°Chairman Cruise, why do you always do things so intensely?¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°Because time waits for no man. I don¡¯t have time to use a gentle method to achieve my goals.¡±

    Chairman Rank gave a deep sigh, ¡°I can see that. The ideal in your heart is much bigger than my imagination. Alright, since you¡¯ve made your decision, I have nothing to say. As the Business Union¡¯s president, I authorize your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s application to withdraw from the Business Union.¡±

    ¡°Alright, many thanks for president Rank¡¯s understanding.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod before saying to the others, ¡°I pledge to everyone as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is withdrawing from the Business Union, we will still be everyone¡¯s best partners. Withdrawing from the Business Union will not affect our cooperation. Of course, that depends on if you have the courage to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ha, ha¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s joke was too cold, no one could reveal a smile.

    The others just looked at Xu Yi. Some wanted to say something, but they found that there was no meaning at all, so the conference hall fell into silence.

    After a while, chairman Cruise suddenly pped the table and said to chairman Rank, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, that¡¯s fine. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce also wishes to withdraw from the Business Union. President Rank, please approve this.¡±

    The others looked at chairman Cruise in shock.

    Xu Yi was someone in his twenties, so it was understandable that he was young and impulsive. But Cruise was a fifty year old middle aged man, how could you be as impulsive as Xu Yi?

    However, this astonishment was just beginning. After chairman Cruise, there were over ten different chairman that also applied to withdraw from the Business Union.

    To qualify for joining the Business Union, naturally thatpany had some status in Banta City. Although thepany of those ten people couldn¡¯tpare to chairman Cruise¡¯s Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they weren¡¯t smallpanies.

    Now that they had withdrawn from the Business Union, half of thepanies at this conference had chosen to withdraw.

    Chairman Rank revealed a bitter smile as he looked at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, the Banta City Business Union has been formed for close to a hundred years. I never thought that it would only survive in name once you withdrew today. I really don¡¯t know whether to be angry with you or to admire you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before saying with a sigh, ¡°President Rank, you should be clear that this isn¡¯t my meaning, rather it¡¯s everyone¡¯s choice. I can only say that¡­..the times are changing.¡±

    Chairman Rank looked at the chairmen who had chosen to withdraw before finally looking at Xu Yi. He said with a slow nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, the times are changing¡­..¡±

 Volume 2 188 - It was intentional

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 188 It was intentional</h4>

    Count Stagg¡¯s response came very quickly.

    When Count Sean gave him Banta City and he officially became the City Lord, in just a week, the City Lord¡¯s Manor released new measures.

    There weren¡¯t any problems with it on the surface because the new City Lord was taking office, so deciding to inspect Banta City, especially how thend was being used was a good way to familiarize himself. This was a measure that had good intentions.

    But this operation was soon targeted at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The first goal was aimed at Sandton Manor.

    Sandton Manor used to be the private residence of Viscount Sandton, but after Viscount Sandton¡¯s family went bankrupt, he was forced to sell the manor attached with the territory. It was bought by Xu Yi at a high price and then rebuilt into a small scale production base for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by Xu Yi.

    When Count Sean was City Lord, no one had thought there were any problems.

    But when Count Stagg became the City Lord, after checking thend use in Banta City, he raised problems with Sandton Manor¡¯s current use.

    ording to the notice of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, because Sandton Manor used to be the private residence of Viscount Sandton, thisnd was considered private use property.

    ording to thews of the Lampuri Kingdom, private property couldn¡¯t be used formercial use.

    That meant that although Xu Yi could buy this manor from Viscount Sandton, he could only use it as his private residence and couldn¡¯t use it as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base.

    For this situation, the City Lord¡¯s Manor stated that Xu Yi had to change Sandton Manor immediately. He had to move the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory from there as soon as possible, otherwise the City Lord¡¯s Manor would have to follow the kingdom¡¯sws and seize the rights for Sandton Manor.

    Once this notice was released, it immediately rousedrge amounts of disapproval in Banta City.

    Sandton Manor had already been the production base of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a year now and no one thought there were any problems with it. Even the previous City Lord Count Sean didn¡¯t say anything about it, so why did Count Stagg suddenly order Xu Yi to change it?

    But the ?Banta Times? published an issue with the headline ?Lampuri Kingdomnd usews?.

    ording to thews, Sandton Manor¡¯s current situation was indeed going against it and the City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s actions were following thews, so there was nothing wrong with them.

    Moreover, the ?Banta Times? even stated in a corresponding article that there was no avoiding this situation.

    If after buying Sandton Manor, Xu Yi had applied to the Royal Parliament to change its use tomercial use and received their approval, there wouldn¡¯t have been any problems.

    Although in thews of the kingdom, the territory of nobles was their personal property, so it was their business how they handled their territory and no one had the right to interfere.

    Thisnd belonged to Viscount Sandton theoretically. If he used it formercial use, indeed no one had the rights to say anything.

    But Xu Yi had bought thisnd from Viscount Sandton. So ording to thews of the Royal Parliament, although the property rights belonged to Xu Yi, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the same freedoms as Viscount Sandton on how he used it.

    In short, the City Lord¡¯s Manor¡¯s notice to Sandton Manor didn¡¯t have any problems on the surface.

    ¡°Pei!¡± Chairman Cruise viciously spat on the ground, ¡°There¡¯s no problem on the surface, but who would only care about that? This Count Stagg, he is clearly aiming at you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°What? You only learned this today?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at the rxed Xu Yi with a confused look and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, aren¡¯t you worried about this at all? Count Stagg is starting to move against you, what are you nning to do?¡±

    ¡°What else can I do?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°You already said it, there¡¯s no problems with this on the surface. Moreover, he is after all our Banta City¡¯s City Lord, so no matter how he handles things, he has his justifications. I am just an ordinary merchant of Banta City, how could I go against the City Lord¡¯s Manor which has thew behind them?¡±

    Chairman Cruise said in a depressed voice, ¡°Then you¡¯re just sitting here waiting for death?¡±

    ¡°What waiting for death?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Didn¡¯t I already expect this matter and already start making my preparations?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was stunned, but he soon understood and his eyes popped out. He looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°I say¡­...It can¡¯t be that you already expected him to aim for Sandton Manor, so you moved ahead of time, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if it was said like this, but I already expected him to make a move against me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I made my preparations. I never expected him to attack Sandton Manor right away, he really is impatient.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°Since you already know this, why didn¡¯t you prepare everything? With your rtionship with her highness Seveni and Count Sean, can¡¯t you just casually solve a procedural matter like this? How could Count Stagg grab your handle and make you so passive?¡±

    ¡°If I said¡­..I did it on purpose, would you believe it?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°On purpose?¡± Chairman Cruise was surprised before he asked with a frown, ¡°Why did you give him a handle to grab? Now you have to change Sandton Manor, what advantage is there to you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are advantages. Although we¡¯ll bear some losses from Sandton Manor, in the long run, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundations are at the Falling Rain Valley, so the research department needed to be moved eventually. It¡¯s more convenient to take care of them together.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°As for my benefits¡­...you should be asking what disadvantages there are for Count Stagg.¡±

    ¡°Disadvantages for Count Stagg?¡± Chairman Cruise was even more confused, ¡°What disadvantages? His actions leave no room for error at all, even if her highness Seveni supports you, it can¡¯t be that she can create losses for him because of this matter, right?¡±

    ¡°There are some losses that can¡¯t be seen on the surface.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile with deep meaning. He didn¡¯t n on exining to chairman Cruise, so after pausing, he changed the topic by asking, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s discuss this problem in the future. How about we discuss what yourpany should do next?¡±

    ¡°What is there to do?¡± Once it came to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, chairman Cruise immediately became angry as he said with a cold smile, ¡°Our dear Lord City Lord needs to make his inspections, so he¡¯s ordered us to stop all our construction projects in the city. Not being able to work, ourpany¡¯s people have been bored in their homes without anything to do in the past few days! It seems like we shouldn¡¯t think about working at all in the future!¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that good?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You were alwaysining about ack of manpower and how there are many things you couldn¡¯t do. Now that you¡¯re being forced to stop, you can use the freed manpower in other ces. Isn¡¯t it simple to work? Just me alone has a bunch of projects for yourpany.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a sigh and shook his head as he said, ¡°Actually I¡¯m not worried that mypany has no work, rather I¡¯m worried that ourpany¡¯s Banta City foundations will be destroyed. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce was founded in Banta City and grew stronger in Banta City. If Count Stagg insists on doing this, I might have to transfer the Amrit Chamber of Commerce out of Banta City like you did.¡±

    ¡°What? You also had this idea?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    He didn¡¯t think that chairman Cruise was as irreconcble like him and Count Stagg, so he definitely would leave Banta City like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did to avoid Count Stagg¡¯s control and influence.

    He never thought that not only would chairman Cruise leave the Business Union with him, he would actually make the same important decision as he did.

    ¡°Of course, if there is a possibility, I¡¯m not willing to leave with our Amrit Chamber of Commerce. But based on the current situation, I¡¯m afraid there isn¡¯t much hope.¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Based on the attitude of our new Lord City Lord, he should be aiming at us who are working with you. If he won¡¯t let you off, of course he won¡¯t let me off.¡±

    Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and said with a sigh, ¡°Sorry, I implicated you.¡±

    Chairman Cruiseughed as he shook his head, ¡°What implication. If it wasn¡¯t working with you, how could our Amrit Chamber of Commerce develop to such a scale in this short period of time? It¡¯s because of you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that I realized the dream of our Amrit Chamber of Commerce being able to match the toppanies of the kingdom. I only feel gratitude towards you, how could I be implicated by you?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, I won¡¯t say any meaningless words to you. Since you¡¯ve chosen to retreat with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we will have the same cooperation in the future. Rx, I¡¯m confident that as long as you cooperate with me, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce will not just be thergestpany in the Lampuri Kingdom, it¡¯ll be apany that is second to none on the Sines Continent!¡±

    Chairman Cruise broke out inughter, ¡°Of course I¡¯m confident in you, but Xu Yi, before this, shouldn¡¯t you find a way for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to survive? Otherwise, these words don¡¯t have any meaning at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed before looking in the direction of the City Lord¡¯s Manor. He narrowed his eyes and he revealed a smile of ridicule.

    ¡°Just let the new Lord City Lord act like this. I think that he definitely doesn¡¯t know that he¡¯s acting to the script that I wrote for him a long time ago.¡±

 Volume 2 189 - Freemanâ€™s decision

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 189 Freeman¡¯s decision</h4>

    The Sandton industrial district has been a bit cold recently.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received orders from the City Lord¡¯s Manor, the remaining bit of workers and magic production machines in Sandton Manor had been moved out and the factory inside had been demolished. Sandton Manor was restored as a manor and it was like the entire Sandton industrial district lost their energy, bing much more peaceful.

    If it was before, the Sandton industrial district every morning would be filled with the sounds of magic production machines, creating noise that filled the entire Sandton industrial district.

    But since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, although there were still lingering sounds, people felt that itcked any energy and these sounds sounded like they had no strength.

    ¡°Chairman, this is the finished product. Take a look.¡± A worker had handed a polishedponent to Freeman who was at the entrance of the factory, waking him up from his daze.

    Looking over theponent and then touching it a few times, Freeman immediately knit his brows and handed theponent back to the worker.

    ¡°No, the surface isn¡¯t smooth enough. The connecting joint needs to be polished again. Also, you should measure the length, I¡¯m certain it¡¯s too long.¡±

    The worker took a Vernier Scale to measure it and he found that thisponent really was a millimeter too long. He looked at Freeman with a face covered in admiration, ¡°Chairman, you really are a god! You can actually see how long it is just by touching and looking at it. But it¡¯s less than a millimeter too long, isn¡¯t this nothing special?¡±

    Hearing this, Freeman¡¯s body trembled as he knit his brows. He looked over the worker and suddenly gave a cold snort. He pointed at him and said, ¡°Just based on this, you¡¯ve lost your bonus this month.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± The worker was surprised, ¡°Chairman, it can¡¯t be? Why did you deduct a month¡¯s bonus just based on these words?¡±

    Seeing that the worker dared talk back, Freeman angrily said, ¡°Humph! You actually dare say that it¡¯s ¡®less than a millimeter¡¯ too long? Don¡¯t you know that we are working in a very refined industry? Not mentioning one millimeter, we can¡¯t even have a deviation of a tenth of a millimeter! Do you understand?¡±

    The worker wanted to say a few things, but he was pulled away by the workers by him.

    One of them said in a low voice while dragging him away, ¡°You idiot, can¡¯t you see the chairman is in a bad mood recently? If you annoy him at this time, isn¡¯t that seeking death?¡±

    The worker wouldn¡¯t give up as he said, ¡°So what if his mood isn¡¯t good? Can¡¯t I give my opinion? I just said a single thing and he wants to take away my bonus for this month? Damn, he really annoys me! I won¡¯t work here anymore!¡±

    ¡°You won¡¯t work here anymore?¡± Another worker said with a coldugh, ¡°I say, Rayleigh, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce has the highest wage and bonus in this industrial district and it has the least amount of overtime. Where would you go if not here? Then again, you did make a mistake just now. Let me tell you, for ourponent factory, it¡¯s good to be very precise. Do you know why our Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business is the best? It¡¯s because we make the best quality items! If you don¡¯t even understand that, you might as well not work here anymore.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Rayleigh, your words were wrong just now. Do you know, the chairman is so strict withponents because he was taught by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu like this. Chairman Xu is the person who our chairman admires the most, so if you dare look down on his words, it isn¡¯t strange for the chairman to scold you.¡±

    ¡°Humph, that Xu Yi isn¡¯t the king, why are his words absolute?¡±

    Rayleigh still wasn¡¯t convinced, but since he was being dragged away, he didn¡¯t keep acting stubborn. After the other whispered a few more things to him, he began to honestly do his work.

    Freeman who was still standing at the entrance had clearly heard their conversation and only after seeing Rayleigh working properly did his cold gaze rx a bit. He leaned against the door again and looked over in the direction of Sandton Manor as he tightly knit his brows.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving from here, first not mentioning how it affected the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, it made Freeman as an individual very depressed.

    Freeman had been a farmer from Irnd Vige and he was so poor that he couldn¡¯t even feed his family.

    Since winning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s eatingpetition and then meeting Xu Yi, his life hadpletely changed.

    When he first obtained the Magic Harvester from Xu Yi, Freeman had made several dozen gold coins from a single short harvest season. This greatly improved the living conditions of his family.

    Then after that, following Kovac¡¯s advice and setting up the Irnd Chamber of Commerce with vigers from the same vige, Xu Yi had not just helped him very much, giving them not only the machines, but also manpower and technology. Even the first order after thepany was established was given to them by Xu Yi.

    It could be said that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce developing to this scale and bing the leader of Banta City¡¯sponent processing industry, earning a profit of over ten thousand gold coins a year that Freeman never dreamed of was all because of Xu Yi.

    So Freeman¡¯s heart was always filled with gratitude and admiration towards Xu Yi.

    For Freeman, Xu Yi was even on the same level as his parents.

    However, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left Sandton Manor. It made it feel like there was something missing from this lively atmosphere and this empty feeling was very ufortable.

    Freeman wasn¡¯t an emotional person, but this strange feeling made him very agitated.

    Leaning on the door and looking at Sandton Manor in the distance in silence, Freeman was in a daze for a while before suddenly spitting onto the ground.

    ¡°Damn Count Stagg, he had to go causing trouble for chairman Xu. Now that chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have been forced out, I want to see how he¡¯ll stay on as the City Lord.¡±

    Not mentioning scolding the Lord City Lord, the previous Freeman didn¡¯t even dare have any disrespect towards the Lord City Lord in his heart.

    But now that Count Stagg was aiming at Xu Yi, this simple and honest person couldn¡¯t help exploding with anger and had been bold enough to scold him like this.

    After cursing Count Stagg several times, Freeman suddenly looked at a horse carriage that was slowly passing in the distance.

    Freeman recognized it as the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport carriage. He thought of something and went forward.

    The Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s carriage stopped at the road in front of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce and Kovac jumped out.

    Freeman immediately went over and pulled him aside as he asked in a low voice, ¡°How is it?¡±

    Kovac knit his brows and slowly shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not good. I went to the city to ask around and because the Lord City Lord stopped many construction projects, manypanies are losing business, so even we¡¯re losing quite a few orders. I¡¯m worried that if it remains this way, Banta City will stagnate and die.¡±

    ¡°Humph, if it wasn¡¯t for our new Lord City Lord forcing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce away, how could Banta City be like this?¡± Freeman said with a cold snort, ¡°It was good when Count Sean was here, but this Count Stagg hasn¡¯t even been here for a month and the lively Banta City has already be like this. He really is skilled.¡±

    Kovac shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no use inining. He is after all the aloof Lord City Lord, even chairman Xu had to make concessions when he caused troubles for him, so what can small people like us do?¡±

    Freeman agitatedly walked around a few times before suddenly giving a nod as he made his decision.

    ¡°Kovac, how about we also move?¡±

    Kovac was surprised, ¡°Us moving? Where would we go?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the Falling Rain Valley, near the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Freeman said, ¡°This Count Stagg clearly said in the ?Banta Times? that he thinks agriculture is the foundation of a kingdom, business isn¡¯t really important. So he will focus on developing agriculture while he¡¯s in the seat of Banta City¡¯s City Lord and won¡¯t develop business like Count Sean. Since it¡¯s like this, what reason is there for us to stay here? We might as well leave.¡±

    ¡°This is right, but Freeman, the Falling Rain Valley is thend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly rents from the royal family and the Banta City¡¯s City Lord can¡¯t meddle there. To the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, thatnd is very important, you think that they¡¯ll agree to us building a factory there?¡± Freeman asked with a frown.

    ¡°How will we know if we don¡¯t try?¡± Freeman looked at him, ¡°Chairman Xu has always supported ourpany, I think that this wouldn¡¯t be an exception. Then again, didn¡¯t you sayst time that manypanies wanted to leave Banta City? Even the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is thinking about this. Since even thosergepanies are leaving, then we shouldn¡¯t hesitate.¡±

    Kovac carefully thought about it before giving a slow nod.

    ¡°This seems to be the only method. This new Lord City Lord is going against chairman Xu, but he is also involving us smallerpanies. We don¡¯t have the capital to resist the Lord City Lord, so it seems like we can only run.¡±

    Freeman patted Kovac¡¯s shoulder andforted him, ¡°Rx, our Irnd Chamber of Commerce could be founded and developed all because of chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it isn¡¯t rted to that idiot City Lord at all. I¡¯m confident that as long as we stay with chairman Xu, this bit of loss won¡¯t be anything. In the future, we¡¯ll definitely earn it back several times over!¡±

    Kovac gave a bitterugh, ¡°Although I have this confidence, leaving Banta City is¡­..¡±

    After saying this, Kovac stopped. He looked in Banta City¡¯s direction and gave a sigh before shaking his head, ¡°If our smallpanies leave, what difference is there between Banta City and its past? It was hard to develop such a good environment and now it¡¯s about to be ruined, I really feel pity for Banta City.¡±

    Freeman gave a cold snort, ¡°This is an issue that our great Lord City Lord has to manage, I couldn¡¯t care less.¡±

 Volume 2 190 - The past Agnes was very proud

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 190 The past Agnes was very proud</h4>

    All therge and smallpanies of Banta City were currently anxious over the actions that Count Stagg had taken after taking over as City Lord. While everyone was worrying, the Falling Rain Valley that was sixty kilometers away from Banta City was bustling, it was a scene filled with vitality and vigor.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t affected by being forced out of Sandton Manor, everyone was busy with their work just like before.

    Thepany was operating very smoothly. Not to mention thepany¡¯s leader Xu Yi not feeling anything, even the ordinary workers were very calm, without the slightest bit of unrest.

    This wasn¡¯t strange.

    Perhaps to the otherpanies and citizens of Banta City, Sandton Manor was a very important ce for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that Count Stagg was hostile towards Xu Yi and forced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to move, causing them to lose this important base, which was a serious attack on Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which would createrge losses.

    In reality, Sandton Manor was far from being as important as other people had thought.

    In the beginning, Sandton Manor was indeed very important to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been forced away from Viscount Leslie¡¯s territory. They only had a single magic machine workshop and the household magic machine workshop left.

    Although Sandton Manor wasn¡¯t big, it was equal to all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base, so it was clear how important it was.

    However, after developing for a year and making progress in the Falling Rain Valley, the main production base of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already been shifted to the Falling Rain Valley.

    In the current Falling Rain valley, just the number of household magic machine workshops had already reached eight.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced household magic machines, they put them all in the same factory. The space was very crowded and the environment could be considered bad.

    Now that the workshops in the Falling Rain Valley had beenpleted, Xu Yi provided a workshop for each household magic machine.

    For example, there was a specific Magic Fan factory in charge of making Magic Fans.

    This Magic Fan factory was even bigger than the two workshops at the Sandton Manorbined. The space and environment were naturally much better.

    So when the Falling Rain Valley gradually started producing products, the two workshops at the Sandton Manor hadn¡¯t been producing as much.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, it had gradually changed into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s machine development center.

    It was different from the magic research facility that studied Magic Arrays that powered these magic machines, this development center was in charge of how the machines were designed.

    Camby and the other dwarven magic mechanical engineers had made amazing progress at Sandton Manor, just this year¡¯s agricultural magic machines had a total of thirteen improvements.

    This year¡¯s Banta City¡¯s spring harvest went very smoothly and it went by even faster thanst year, this development center had the greatest merit for this achievement.

    So that meant that the machine development center was also very important to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but its importance was different from the production lines. The production line¡¯s most important parts were the workers, location, and the machinery. If they were forced to move, it would greatly impact the normal work of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But for the development center, the most important thing was the data they had received from their experiments.

    These things wouldn¡¯t be affected by the move and at most it would just dy them by a day or two.

    So in short, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was being forced out of Sandton Manor, it didn¡¯t affect their work at all.

    Rather because the workers of the machine development center were dwarves, now that they were at the Falling Rain Valley, allowing them to be with their dwarven friends and family in the Falling Rain Valley, it made Camby and the other dwarven workers much more enthusiastic.

    Among these people, the only ones affected who didn¡¯t seem to adapt that well were the researchers of the magic research facility.

    The magic research facility used to be in Banta City, so they could stroll around in Banta City in their free time.

    But the Falling Rain Valley was a full sixty kilometers from Banta City. Even though the Fersen Carriage Company had opened a public transport line on Xu Yi¡¯s request, it wasn¡¯t convenient to go back and forth.

    But even if they didn¡¯t adapt that well, not a single researcher had aint.

    After all, it was rare to see Xu Yi have such a strong stance on them moving. The researchers were already used to working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and if they lost this hard earned job by angering Xu Yi, it was not something that anyone was willing to ept.

    Moreover, life in the Falling Rain Valley was not as they imagined, being boring just because it was far away from Banta City.

    On the contrary, after Xu Yi¡¯s investment that spared no expense, adding in the highest quality construction work from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the beautiful decorations from the elves of the Night Song Tribe. With over four thousand dwarves that had settled here, the current environment of the Falling Rain Valley was something that everyone praised.

    There were many researchers who weren¡¯t satisfied with working in such a remote ce, but once they got out of the horse carriages, they were immediately sucked in by the environment and forgot all theirints.

    After half a month, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers who had moved from Banta City quickly adapted to life in the Falling Rain Valley. They integrated with the dwarven and elven workers of the Falling Rain Valley and lived in harmony.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like you were right. Humans really are a race with strong adaptive abilities. As long as there is something that brings both sides together, humans can quickly be friends with other races.¡±

    Elder Illusia watched several elven nsmen who were walking and chatting with human workers, even revealing happy smiles when they were being teased by the humans workers. She couldn¡¯t help revealing a happy smile.

    Before cooperating with Xu Yi, she never would have imagined that her nsmen could create such a harmonious scene with humans.

    Xu Yiughed as he curiously looked at the elven and human workers in the distance before saying, ¡°Actually without much contact with the elves, we humans thought that elves were proud and inessible. But after being together for some time, everyone has found that the elf n is just a bit proud on the surface, but they are actually clean, pure, and easy to get along with. For example, when I first met Agnes, she seemed very proud and seemed very hard to approach. But now I see her as a normal little girl, I even hit her head when I am angry, not caring that she is an elf at all.¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile. When she was about to speak, there was a sudden distortion in the space behind them and Agnes had appeared. She looked at Xu Yi with a stubborn look, ¡°Chairman, I¡¯m already eighty six years old! I¡¯m several times older than you, I¡¯m not some young girl!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°But Agnes, eighty six years old for you elves is underaged for us humans, what problem is there in me treating you like a little girl?¡±

    Agnes kept thinking, but she couldn¡¯t think of anything to refute Xu Yi with. She could only keep exining, ¡°When I first met you, I wasn¡¯t that proud, right?¡±

    ¡°Not proud? Do you remember the first thing you said to me?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°The first thing?¡± Agnes knit her brows and after thinking for a bit, she shook her head, ¡°I forgot.¡±

    ¡°I still remember. The first thing you said was ¡®human, I don¡¯t trust you¡¯. You actually dare say that you weren¡¯t that proud?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Agnes thought for a bit and finally remembered the scene of her first meeting with Xu Yi, ¡°I wasn¡¯t being proud, I was just speaking the truth. The elders of the n told me since I was young that humans were deceitful and I couldn¡¯t easily believe in humans. When I first saw that the chairman was a human, of course I couldn¡¯t believe you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia andined, ¡°Honourable elder Illusia, you¡¯ve always taught your nsmen like this? You should at least teach Agnes that there are benefits and disadvantages in our human world, right? Not every human is deceitful, for example, me¡­¡­¡±

    Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°There was no other way, Agnes was still young and didn¡¯t have the ability to judge if humans were trustworthy.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug before looking back to Agnes, ¡°See, didn¡¯t I say that you were young?¡±

    Agnes gave a soft snort and turned around, acting like she was ignoring Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    The Agnes before wouldn¡¯t perform such a human-like action, but now she had be like this. She was even acting like a spoiled human girl, it was definitely Still¡¯s influence.

    Thinking of Still, Xu Yi thought of another question. He asked elder Illusia, ¡°Elder Illusia, now that Banta City has changed City Lords, what I promised you about Still being your agent and being able to help you create an elvenpany might not work.¡±

    ¡°Why? Didn¡¯t you tell me there wasn¡¯t a problem before? Why is it not possible now?¡± Elder Illusia was a bit doubtful.

    ¡°That was because Count Sean was the City Lord before, so I was confident that any request I had would pass. But now that there is a new City Lord¡­..his rtionship with me isn¡¯t good¡­..¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t understand, why do you humans have all those rules andws, but many times you don¡¯t follow those rules andws and make decisions based on the rtionship between sides. Are rtionships that important for you humans?¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°To give an analogy, elder Illusia, if me and a person you¡¯re not familiar with asks you the same request and you could only help one of us, who would you choose?¡±

    ¡°Of course you.¡± Elder Illusia replied without any hesitation.

    ¡°See, this is the use of rtionships.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Elder Illusia pondered this for a bit before giving a slow now, ¡°I understand now, but the rtionships between you humans is just tooplicated.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that why you wanted your nsmen to study rtionships by integrating with us humans?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Elder Illusia thought for a bit before revealing a smile, ¡°You¡¯re right. Alright, chairman Xu, I think you already have a solution for this matter? Otherwise, I don¡¯t think you would take the initiative to bring it up.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he gave elder Illusia arge thumbs up.

    ¡°See, you at least understand me now. Yes, although you can¡¯t establish an elvenpany right now, there is an alternative method.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying with a serious face, ¡°That method is to be an affiliate.¡±

 Volume 2 191 - Viscount and territory

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 191 Viscount and territory</h4>

    The so-called affiliate was actually a fraud method.

    On earth, manypanies without the corresponding business documents would choose to attach theirpany to anotherpany with those documents, obtaining those documentations for themselves.

    This method was verymon on earth, but it wasn¡¯t seen that much on the Sines Continent.

    When Xu Yi was thinking about how to solve the issue of establishing a factory for the Night Song Tribe, he had thought of this widespread method on earth.

    After careful consideration, Xu Yi proposed to elder Illusia the idea of opening the stic processing factory under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.

    In name, the stic processing factory belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but whether it was the workers or the managers, they would all be from the Night Song Tribe.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only have rights in name for the stic processing factory, but when it came to the business of the stic processing factory, no one from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the rights to interfere, even including Xu Yi.

    So in reality, this stic processing factory belonged to the Night Song Tribe and it wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Actually, this was using a loophole in the kingdom¡¯s businessws.

    In the businessws of the Lampuri Kingdom, because there aren¡¯t any uses on other races establishingpanies, this part could be used very flexibly.

    Xu Yi could rely on his good rtionship with Count Sean to help the Night Song Tribe with this problem, but because of the appearance of Count Stagg, he couldn¡¯t pass this request through the Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor.

    Because of this situation, it meant there were no restrictions and Xu Yi could use this loophole. He could have all the workers that elder Illusia had prepared for the stic processing factory be Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers, avoiding many issues when applying for theirbour cards.

    However, in secret, Xu Yi signed another contract with elder Illusia. It stated clearly that all the rights to the stic processing factory would belong to the Night Song Tribe and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any influence.

    ording to thews of the Lampuri Kingdom, as long as private contracts didn¡¯t go against thews, it was something that couldn¡¯t be broken. This made this contract legal and binding, without any problems.

    Like this, not only could this factory carry out business like a normal humanpany and operate without being hindered openly, allowing elder Illusia to achieve her goal of letting her nsmen engage in human trade, it also allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to not be questioned on this.

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible for you not to be questioned.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°But there are indeed many loopholes with the kingdom¡¯sws, so what you¡¯re doing is only considered fair.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni with a bit of curiosity, ¡°Your highness, based on the meaning of your words, they aren¡¯t prepared to revise thews to make up for this loophole?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible during this time at least.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°The kingdom¡¯s upper strata is currently debating whether they should pay more attention to agricultural development or business development. During this time, no one will care about a minor loophole in the businessws.¡±

    ¡°What¡¯s the result?¡± Xu Yi immediately asked in a concerned voice, ¡°Are the people who focus on agriculture winning against the people who focus on business?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no result right now, otherwise Count Stagg wouldn¡¯t keep aiming at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi and said in an apologetic voice, ¡°This has implicated you, I¡¯m sorry.¡±

    ¡°No, I wasn¡¯t implicated.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°To me, the kingdom supporting business development is a very important thing. If the kingdom was filled with stubborn old men who only think that agricultural development is the best foundation, it will be difficult for me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Rx, this situation wouldn¡¯t appear.¡± Seveni shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°Actually, the nobles of the kingdom will always struggle because of personal disputes, differences, and their respective benefits. Count Stagg is aiming at you like this is actually because of the Stagg Family. The Stagg Family are the nobles with the most territory in the kingdom, of course they would want to support agriculture.¡±

    ¡°This is locations decides their decisions.¡± Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh, ¡°It is impossible for them to see the benefits of business development and it is even more impossible for them to see agricultural and business development progressing together, having no actual contradictions. So in the end, Count Stagg didn¡¯t do this to suppress our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather to guarantee the Stagg Family¡¯s position.¡±

    ¡°These words are correct, but Count Stagg has only been in charge of Banta City for a month and most of Banta City¡¯s prosperity has disappeared. When I walked around Banta City yesterday, I found that there were much fewer people in the streets and most of the shops on the roads were closed. The entire street seemed quite bleak.¡± Seveni said with an emotional sigh, ¡°To have thisrge transformation in the city in less than a month, I really have to admire Count Stagg¡¯s abilities.¡±

    ¡°Are you and his majesty going to keep watching him act like this?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help disrespectfully rolling his eyes at Seveni, ¡°I think that your highness hase looking for me this time must be to tell me some good news on Count Stagg finally being transferred, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that this isn¡¯t possible.¡± Seveni heard theint in Xu Yi¡¯s tone and rather revealed a smile, ¡°Count Stagg has only been in Banta City for a month and he hasn¡¯t made a mistake on the surface, even my royal father can¡¯t find a reason to transfer him. Moreover, you should be clear that him holding the position of Banta City¡¯s City Lord is actually a tacit understanding between all the nobles in the kingdom. Everyone wants to see if agricultural development or business development is more beneficial.¡±

    ¡°So Banta City has be a test?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°I have to say, there really isn¡¯t a meaning to this decision. There is no need to show anything with this issue, agricultural development is to build the foundations of a kingdom and business development is to make the kingdom stronger. Banta City had be prosperous because of the magic machine industry and now it is actually destroyed by this damn decision. Could it be that his majesty doesn¡¯t know the gravity of this situation?¡±

    Actually, Xu Yi wanted to say that these nobles and even the king were brain damaged for having this idea.

    Which country that was developing currently would use Banta City that could be the economic center of the Lampuri Kingdom for a damn experiment?

    Moreover, it was clear that those who supported agricultural development had the advantage because the one in charge of Banta City was currently Count Stagg.

    Of course, in front of Seveni, Xu Yi didn¡¯t dare say that the king was brain damaged¡­...

    ¡°Royal father knows, but he has no choice in this matter.¡± Seveni said with a sigh, ¡°To suppress the objections, you have to show facts that everyone can see and Banta City was the most suitable ce. For Banta City, right now whether it¡¯s the internal reports for the Royal Parliament or the major newspapers in Anvilmar City, I think that everyone can see the changes in Banta City.

    ¡°Then since they can see it, why would they continue this experiment? They are just letting Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom sustain this loss?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°The time is too short.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°No matter what, Count Stagg has only been here for a month. To let everyone see the most clear result, he has to be here for at least the fall harvest and the end of the year.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that more than half a year?¡± Xu Yi immediately knit his brows, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, your highness, I think my previous proposal should be used. Otherwise when Banta City is destroyed by Count Stagg, there will be no chance to restore it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s already being used.¡± Seveni gave a nod, ¡°I came this time to give you some truly good news. I think that after you hear it, you will jump with joy.¡±

    Seeing the rare mischievous smile on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being curious. Was it really some very good news?

    ¡°Listen well.¡± Seeing the expectant look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Seveni revealed a faint smile before saying with a serious look, ¡°Dear Baron Xu Yi, in light of your outstanding contributions to the Lampuri Kingdom and after the Royal Parliament¡¯s decision, they have decided to increase your rank from baron to viscount. Congrattions Xu Yi, from now on, you are an honourable viscount. When you see Viscount Leslie, you¡¯ll be on the same level as him.¡±

    Xu Yi disdainfully curled his lips, ¡°Che, what good news is this. Although I¡¯m happy that I don¡¯t need to use titles when I see Viscount Leslie, this is just an empty title and doesn¡¯t give me any benefits.¡±

    ¡°You think that¡­..if there weren¡¯t any benefits, royal father and I would specially raise your title by a rank?¡± Seveni asked back.

    ¡°Raising my title by a rank¡­..is there any special meaning?¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit, but he couldn¡¯t think of anything.

    Seveni said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ll give you a hint. ording to the rules of the Royal Parliament, if any nobles of the kingdom want to own any territory, they have to be at least a viscount.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as his eyes popped out, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right?¡±

    Seveni gave a nod with a faint smile, ¡°Xu Yi, don¡¯t faint from happiness. Because you have been promoted to a viscount, you have the right to own territory. So through her highness Seveni, which is my proposition and through the agreement of his majesty and the Royal Parliament¡¯s decision, in the end, they¡¯ve decided to grant you private territory.¡±

 Volume 2 192 - Keeping the seeds of flame

    <h4>Volume 2 Chapter 192 Keeping the seeds of me</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t faint from happiness, but he did almost jump from joy.

    Having private territory, that was one of his dreams since he came to this world.

    Understanding the society of the Sines Continent, he knew the importance of having territory.

    When he set up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially when Baron Belil had expelled them from the Stagg Family¡¯s territory in Banta City, he wanted his own territory even more.

    There were many advantages to having his own territory. Other than not being casually expelled by others, Xu Yi could change his territory as he wished and no one would dare say anything because that was his right as the lord of the territory.

    Other than that, the most important thing for Xu Yi was that after receiving territory, Xu Yi could boldly create the foundations for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce there and make a long term n based on it. He didn¡¯t need to worry about strange circumstances that he would have to deal with passively.

    To put it simply, Xu Yi was king in this territory, he could do whatever he wanted and other people couldn¡¯t interfere.

    So when he heard Seveni say that he would be receiving territory, Xu Yi immediately gave out an excited cry. He pumped his fist before quickly asking Seveni, ¡°Where is this territory? It¡¯s best if it¡¯s not that far from Banta City and it¡¯s best if it¡¯s not too small. You should at least let me put down a few factories, don¡¯t you think, your highness?¡±

    When Xu Yi treated Seveni courteously before, it was because he was dissatisfied and wanted to object, but this time he was too happy and had unknowingly used it.

    Seveni saw Xu Yi¡¯s ttering look and couldn¡¯t help pursuing her lips into a smile. After a bit, she said, ¡°Honourable Lord Viscount Xu Yi, if you had to choose your territory, where would you want it? And how big do you want it?¡±

    Xu Yi replied without any hesitation, ¡°Of course it¡¯s the Falling Rain Valley. As for the size, it would be best if you could give me all of the Falling Rain Valley, but I know that this idea is too much, so¡­..¡±

    ¡°No, this idea isn¡¯t too much.¡± Seveni cut Xu Yi off.

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Could it be¡­..Could it be¡­..you¡¯re really giving the Falling Rain Valley to me?¡±

    Seveni nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. I¡¯ve discussed it with royal father and we¡¯ve fought with the Royal Parliament to give you the Falling Rain Valley as your territory. Moreover, it¡¯s even been expanded to a total area of twenty square kilometers. How about it, are you satisfied with this?¡±

    ¡°Yes! Very much!¡± Xu Yi immediately broke out inughter as he excitedly looked around, not knowing how to express the emotions in his heart. He suddenly came forward and hugged Seveni, patting her on the back as he loudly shouted, ¡°Your highness, I really have to thank you! From this day forth, I am your loya fan!¡±

    Seveni was scared by Xu Yi¡¯s sudden action, but feeling the strength in Xu Yi¡¯s arms and smelling the scent that came from him, her face couldn¡¯t help turning red.

    Actually, this was her first time being this intimate with a man other than her royal father, she didn¡¯t even hug her two big brothers. Now that she was being intimately hugged by Xu Yi, she wasn¡¯t used to it, but strangely she didn¡¯t dislike it, rather it felt quitefortable.

    This feeling was something she felt when her royal father hugged her when she was younger, she hadn¡¯t felt it in a long time.

    In the end, Xu Yi reacted and quickly let go. He took two steps back and exined to Seveni with an awkward look, ¡°This¡­..your highness, sorry. I was too excited and I couldn¡¯t help myself¡­..I didn¡¯t do it on purpose¡­..¡±

    The blush on Seveni¡¯s face slowly disappeared. She shook her head before saying with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I understand the excitement in your heart. After all, it has been a long time since our Lampuri Kingdom has granted a noble territory. But Xu Yi, I always thought that you would keep your calm and wit, I never thought that you would be like this when you became excited.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. All people have this time, I¡¯m not an exception. It¡¯s harder to control yourself when you be excited.¡±

    Seveni suddenly gave a soft sigh, ¡°It seems like you¡¯ll only show your true appearance when you¡¯re with young miss Still, it¡¯s hard for others to see it.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°If you want to see it, you could just get along with me like Still.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Seveni¡¯s face turned red again. Xu Yi was surprised before he reacted.

    These words were too crude, it could even be considered sexual harassment.

    It would be too meaningful to exin at this time, so the two of them fell into a strange silence.

    After a while, Xu Yi gave a soft cough before asking Seveni, ¡°That¡­..your highness, why is the Royal Parliament suddenly agreeing to give me territory after the Lampuri Kingdom hasn¡¯t granted territory in several hundred years? Am I really that special?¡±

    ¡°Giving you special treatment is of course because they have a special request for you.¡± The blush on Seveni¡¯s face slowly faded as she said to Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°Xu Yi, royal father and I hope that you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can keep researching more military magic machines. Although we have the advantage in the north against the Sack Kingdom, it¡¯s far from being able to defeat the Sack Kingdom. In order to solve the problem of the northern border permanently, royal father hopes that you can create some more easy to use military magic machines and assist in defeating the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Your highness, although I understand his majesty and your thoughts, let me speak the truth for a bit. Although a war seems to be apetition between the ability and equipment, or military weapons of countries, it is actually apetition of economic conditions. Don¡¯t you feel that the kingdom spends quite a bit of money on the northern border each year?¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this, but there¡¯s no other way here. The Sack Kingdom and our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grudge hasn¡¯t faded since the day our Lampuri Kingdom was formed. If we don¡¯t fight back, our country will be destroyed by the Sack Kingdom.¡± Seveni said in a helpless voice.

    ¡°I¡¯m not saying that fighting the Sack Kingdom is wrong, rather I wanted to say that money is an important factor in deciding a war. To give an example, the Magic Trebuchet is easy to use, but it costs the army headquarters one thousand gold coins to buy one. With the current situation of the army headquarters, how many can they even afford?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a look of hidden bitterness, ¡°Isn¡¯t that because your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s price is too high?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately said in an aggrieved voice, ¡°Your highness, this isn¡¯t because of our high price, it¡¯s because the costs are high. Not mentioning anything else, just the steel required for a Magic Trebuchet costs several hundred gold coins. Then there¡¯s no need to mention manpower, research, and other aspects. For the Magic Trebuchets that we sold to the army headquarters, ourpany is close to losing money!¡±

    ¡°It would be strange if I believed you.¡± Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Although you might not earn much, I wouldn¡¯t believe that you would be losing money.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, even if we don¡¯t lose money, we are apany and we do need to earn a bit.¡±

    Seveni helplessly shook her head, ¡°No matter what, you¡¯re right. The army headquarters and the kingdom can¡¯t withstand the heavy military budget, so royal father and I gave you this territory in hopes that you would make some contributions to the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°If people pay me, I¡¯ll help them with their disaster. Since I¡¯ve received thisrge benefit, I should give something in return.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°But your highness, it¡¯s still the same problem. Even if mypany develops more military magic machines, how will the army headquarters pay for them? If you want ourpany to pay for it, we can¡¯t do that. So in the end, to solve this problem, you have to develop the economy of the Lampuri Kingdom and raise its financial power.¡±

    ¡°The problems that you mentioned are things that royal father and I are clear on, otherwise do you think that royal father would take such arge risk on Banta City and ept those old stubborn fools¡¯ test? Why would we insist on giving you this piece of territory at this time?¡± Seveni asked back.

    Xu Yi thought about it before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, I understand. It seems like his majesty and your highness wants to put your hopes in me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there really is quite a bit of pressure¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°With great poweres great responsibility and pressure. I think that you remember that you said this to me before.¡± Seveni said, ¡°Xu Yi, you have already proved that you have the ability to change Banta City. Royal father and I believe that you have the same ability to change the Lampuri Kingdom. The sess of a single city like Banta City isn¡¯t important. If you can shut the mouths of those stubborn conservative nobles, allowing royal father to promote the magic machine industry across the entire kingdom, bringing prosperity to all the cities of the kingdom that rival Banta City, it¡¯s worth it even if Banta City was destroyed.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that you want to preserve our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this seed of me?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni gave a nod with a serious face, ¡°Xu Yi, you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are the hope of the magic machine industry, this seed of me. As long as you and the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce are preserved, I believe that this seed of me will erupt into a greater me in the future that will light up the entire Lampuri Kingdom. Do you believe this?¡±

    ¡°Who do you think I am?¡± Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°I am certain that this seed of me will turn into a powerful me of industry that will not only light up the entire Lampuri Kingdom, it¡¯ll sweep across the entire Sines Continent!¡±

    (Volume 2 ?Fires of Industry? end.)

 Volume 3 1 - Volume 3 The Force of a Prairie Fire - Reverse at the borders

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 1 The Force of a Prairie Fire ¨C Reverse at the borders</h4>

    At the border of the Sack Kingdom to the south was the Lampuri Kingdom, there was a long stretch of mountains that weren¡¯t too tall.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom was founded, they stole arge piece ofnd from the Sack Kingdom to the south of these mountains. In the end, the two kingdom took these Muerto Mountains as their borders, with the north being the Sack Kingdom and the south being the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So for this reason, from the king to the citizens of the Sack Kingdom, they all hoped to steal back theirnd from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even after the Lampuri Kingdom had been founded for several hundred years, the dispute between these two kingdoms hadn¡¯t been settled yet.

    Although these countries didn¡¯t have the courage and economy to dere all out war, small skirmishes continued to happen.

    Each year the Sack Kingdom would cerge amounts of manpower and resources into this border. On average, they lost several thousand men each year, causing theoretical losses in the hundreds of thousands.

    Although before the Sack Kingdom had gained some advantage on this broder front, it didn¡¯te cheaply.

    After all these years, they only advanced from the foot of the mountain range from the early days of the Lampuri Kingdom to just over the mountain peak. Every time they wanted to advance, they would be met with the fierce resistance of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    At the beginning of the year, under the suggestion of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s king, their army headquarters came up with a n to use the Hungry Wolf Regiment that guarded the southern kingdom tounch superrge sneak attacks that were different from before.

    Faced with the abnormalrge scale attacks from the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army was caught off guard and couldn¡¯t fight back at all. In just a short week, they lost the area they controlled to the Hungry Wolf Regiment and the Muerto Mountains had fallen into the Sack Kingdom¡¯s hands.

    The Sack Kingdom waspletely thrilled by this victory.

    For the Sack Kingdom citizens, it held a great symbolic meaning. It meant that the bnce between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom had finally broken and the Sack Kingdom had won for the first time. This was their first time being the winning side.

    For the Sack Kingdom military, this was a joyful victory. Because as long as they controlled the Muerto Mountains, it meant they had the geographical advantage.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army, if they wanted to fight back, they had to fight from the low ground, so it was much harder to attackpared to fighting on t ground.

    The facts were like this.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment took the foothold from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army and in order to secure it, they built many fortifications on the Muerto Mountains. Faced with fighting on low ground and the firm defenses of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, they couldn¡¯t win at all and helplessly retreated after throwing away thousands of lives.

    To the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military, this meant that the Sack Kingdom had control over the Muerto Mountains.

    From now on, with the absolute geographical advantage, the Sack Kingdom could use the Muerto Mountains to advance or retreat. The north of the Lampuri Kingdom was under the fangs of the Hungry Wolf Regiment and they could attack at will.

    This good outlook didn¡¯tst long.

    At the beginning of the year, after the cold winter, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern armyunched another attack. The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment found that the northern army¡¯s attack was actually very fierce this time and they couldn¡¯t resist.

    In less than a month, the Hungry Wolf Regiment lost two mountain peaks and their defenses in the entire mountain range had been heavily hit.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army headquarters taking the initiative to send strong support to the Hungry Wolf Regiment, even diverting another Strong Tiger Regiment to help, they might have lost the Muerto Mountains that they had worked so hard to obtain.

    The reason why the northern army¡¯s battle power had suddenly increased was only for one reason, which was that they had better equipment now.

    Before this, although the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment had the advantage against the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army, to the Hungry Wolf Regiment, they had a high appraisal of the battle strength of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s soldiers.

    It was becausepared to the full armours of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s soldiers¡¯ equipment really were hard to look at.

    When fighting the Hungry Wolf Regiment before, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army didn¡¯t even have armour for each soldier, so many soldiers were wearing broken leather armour.

    Moreover, their weapons were all very worn out. Whether it was their sharpness, weight, or quality, it couldn¡¯tpare to the weapons of the Sack Kingdom soldiers.

    It was clear to soldiers how good equipment could change their battle efficiency, so the Hungry Wolf Regiment were filled with admiration for the northern army who could guard the Muerto Mountains and could keep them at only a slight advantage.

    The Hungry Wolf Regimentmander Chalon Linear had expressed his feelings to his chief staff officer Ivy Joao in secret many times. It was a good thing the Lampuri Kingdom was too poor, otherwise if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had the same equipment as the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the Muerto Mountains would be stolen by the Lampuri Kingdom.

    And now, Chalon Linear¡¯s greatest fear had urred.

    In this counterattack, Chalon Linear who was supervising the front lines personally witnessed the northern army soldiers charging at the defenses of the Hungry Wolf Regiment covered in bright and shiny new armour. At the same time, the weapons in their hands were sparkling and looked very sharp.

    Chalon Linear and the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers were shocked to find that the armour of the northern army soldiers were very firm. Even charging into a sea of arrows that blotted out the sky, they werepletely unharmed.

    As a veteran general, Chalong Linear was helpless as he saw a northern army soldier¡¯s armour only having a slight mark left on it when he was aimed at by over ten arrows. Not only did it not prate, it didn¡¯t even leave a scratch!

    When the northern army soldiers rushed over the peak and began engaging in closebat with the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers, the Hungry Wolf Regiment were shocked to find that the quality of the weapons in the hands of the northern army soldiers could actually match theirs. When the weapons shed at full force, the ones that broke were the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers¡¯ weapons.

    Even some of the lower quality weapons in the hands of the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers were shattered by the weapons of the northern army soldiers.

    With this difference in equipment and adding in the strength of the northern army soldiers being greater than the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers, there was no surprise how the battle ended.

    Even though the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers had advantage in numbers and terrain, they couldn¡¯t fight back against the northern army at all.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the northern army choosing to leave after gaining some victories, in the first week, the Hungry Wolf Regiment wouldn¡¯t have just lost two mountain peaks.

    After the fierce attack of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army, the Hungry Wolf Regiment was filled with joy and doubt from this.

    They were joyful that the northern army chose to retreat and didn¡¯t break the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s line at once.

    But they were also doubtful about this.

    The northern army had the advantage in this battle, but they actually chose to retreat. Why was that?

    They learned the answer half a monthter.

    After the first surprise attack on the Muerto Mountains, the northern army stopped for half a month beforeunching the second attack.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment was prepared to attack the northern army with their advantage in equipment, but they never thought that the northern army wouldn¡¯te up the mountains at all. Rather they brought severalrge and strange machines to the bottom of the mountain.

    Then they saw countlessrge stones flying out from those strange giant machines, uratelynding on the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s defenses on the peak of the mountain.

    Under this unceasing offense from the giant stones, the Hungry Wolf Regiment couldn¡¯t even hold out for an hour before announcing they were retreating.

    Each time the Hungry Wolf Regiment wanted to use their terrain advantage to attack the giant stoneunching machines, they were met with a dense volley of arrows. As soon as the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers came out of their camps, they were turned into hedgehogs and chased back.

    They couldn¡¯t guard or attack, the Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers knew the situation was bad, so they could only announce their retreat.

    But this time the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army didn¡¯t retreat. After capturing a position, they didn¡¯t give any time as they attacked the next position.

    When the Hungry Wolf Regiment found that there were only three of thoserge machines, they wanted to attack these positions that weren¡¯t guarded. But they were faced with a volley of arrows and adding in the fact that the northern army wasn¡¯t disadvantaged anymore in terms of equipment, the Hungry Wolf Regiment came back without any results.

    The battle onlysted a month and the Hungry Wolf Regiment actually lost the Muerto Mountains. They were evenpletely expelled out of the Muerto Mountains by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    So in just three months, the situation of both sides had beenpletely reversed.

    Now that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had the terrain advantage and with their excellent equipment, as well as them using arrows like it didn¡¯t cost them money, coordinating with the threerge machines with incredible might, the Hungry Wolf Regiment didn¡¯t have any hopes of fighting back.

    But faced with this result, including Chalon Linear, every person in the Hungry Wolf Regiment wasn¡¯t angry, rather they were all filled with doubt.

    When did the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army suddenly be this rich?

 Volume 3 2 - Different thoughts on different sides of the mountain range

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 2 Different thoughts on different sides of the mountain range</h4>

    Compared to the doubts in their hearts, the Hungry Wolf Regimentmander Chalon Linear was worried about the state of the war.

    ording to the strong battle strength that the Lampuri Kingdom northern army disyed before, as long as they chased after their victory, Chalon Linear didn¡¯t have confidence to stop them with the Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    Even if the Strong Tiger Regiment helped, it would be troublesome.

    But it was a good thing that after the Lampuri Kingdom northern army seized the Muerto Mountains and chased the Hungry Wolf and Strong Tiger Regiments to fortifications they had made ten kilometers away, did the northern army slow their advance. They didn¡¯t invade the Sack Kingdom¡¯s territory to the north of the Muerto Mountains and began building fortifications on the Muerto Mountains, showing signs of strong defense.

    ording to the analysis of the chief staff officer Ivy Joao, this should be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army fearing going too far into the Sack Kingdom and being swallowed by the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army, so they wanted to stabilize themselves first.

    There was another possibility. It was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strong resistance was because they had used their full power to fight back because of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s actions from before.

    With the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strength, suddenly being able to provide all these weapons and armours to the northern army, as well as shooting arrows without care for the costs and the three powerful strange machines that surpassed Chalon Linear and Ivy Joao¡¯s knowledge, they must have assembled all the forces in their kingdom.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem to maintain this consumption for a few battles, but if they continued for a long time, not mentioning the Lampuri Kingdom that has always been poorer than the surrounding kingdoms, even the Sack Kingdom that was more powerful than most kingdoms couldn¡¯t keep it up.

    So after Chalon Linear and Ivy Joao discussed this, they even began considering steps for counterattacks.

    Although the northern army had the terrain advantage now and counterattacks would make the Hungry Wolf Regiment suffer, if they let the Lampuri Kingdom control the Muerto Mountains, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s southern territories wouldn¡¯t have any defenses in front of the enemy.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army recklessly invaded the Sack Kingdom and created turmoil, without waiting for the army headquarters to send someone to question him, Chalon Linear might as well cut off his own head.

    But being persuaded by Ivy Joao, Chalon Linear finally gave up the idea of counterattacking.

    ¡°Before we¡¯re clear on the situation of the other side, we shouldn¡¯t act rashly. The army headquarters staff officers have already noticed this situation and I think that not long after, we¡¯ll receive a corresponding report. When we know what the situation is, it isn¡¯t toote to make a decision.¡±

    After working with Ivy Joao for over ten years, Chalon Linear trusted his judgement. He gave up the idea of attacking and began patiently waiting.

    The northern army acted like Ivy Joao had guessed, they never attacked once.

    So after fighting for three months and undergoing the reversal, both sides entered a strange period of peace.

    When they entered mid August, a messenger from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital Taran City arrived at the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s camp not far away from the Muerto Mountains.

    Other than bringing the orders of the army headquarters, this messenger also sent a special report.

    The order was for the Hungry Wolf Regiment not to act rashly and give up thoughts on counterattacking. It was best to properly defend the kingdom¡¯s southern border.

    As for the report, it described the reason for why there was such an intense equipment change for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    After reading the report, Chalon Linear¡¯s face was covered in disbelief. He said to Ivy Joao in a daze, ¡°This is simply a joke! Ivy, do you believe this? We weren¡¯t defeated by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army, but rather we were defeated by a smallpany of the Lampuri Kingdom whose name I¡¯ve never even heard before!¡±

    ¡°What is going on?¡± Ivy Joao looked over the report in a confused manner.

    After finishing without missing a word, Ivy Joao fell into deep thought. There was a bit of disbelief on his face, but there was more worry.

    ¡°If this report is true, our future will be even worse. Think about it, if the Lampuri Kingdom northern army fellows don¡¯t need to worry about equipment and they even have several times more arrows than us, adding in those terrifying Magic Trebuchets, how can we fight them at all?¡±

    Chalon Linear¡¯s expression instantly became heavy. After taking the document and looking over it, he deeply knit his brows.

    ¡°If those northern army fellows can maintain their offense, the brothers indeed can¡¯t stop them. Could it be¡­..that our Sack Kingdom can¡¯t even fight back against the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t impossible.¡± Ivy Joao said in a deep voice, ¡°If we can¡¯tpare in terms of equipment, it won¡¯t just be a guess and it¡¯ll be reality.¡±

    ¡°But our kingdom doesn¡¯t have a damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡± Chalon Linear spat onto the ground. Then he took a finger and slid it across his neck, ¡°Since that Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s core is their chairman, that fellow named Xu whatever, why don¡¯t we just kill that one surnamed Xu to stop him and that Frestech Chamber of Commerce from helping the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°If it was possible, don¡¯t you think that staff officers would have already done it?¡± Ivy Joao said with a bitter smile, ¡°If we could get rid of an important person of the Lampuri Kingdom so easily, the Lampuri Kingdom would have been destroyed by us already.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do? Do we just watch the northern army be stronger and finally take care of us?¡±

    ¡°Rx, since the information department has received this information, they must have taken action already.¡± Ivy Joao patted Chalon Linear¡¯s shoulder andforted him, ¡°Moreover, didn¡¯t the report say that those idiotic Lampuri people keep tripping themselves and are suppressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? It was no wonder the northern army¡¯s offense stopped. Without the support of this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the northern army can¡¯t maintain the supplies of these powerful equipment.¡±

    ¡°Hei, those Lampuri people really are stupid. If our Sack Kingdom had this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be strange if it wasn¡¯t treated like a treasure. It¡¯s fine if those Lampuri people don¡¯t support it, but they¡¯re actually suppressing it. I really don¡¯t know what kind of shit is in their brains.¡± Chalon Linear said in a voice filled with schadenfreude.

    ¡°No matter what, they have given us time to react.¡± Ivy Joao said with a faint smile, ¡°Believe me, with the abilities of the staff officers, they will definitely create advantages for us.¡±

    Chalon Linear gave a soft snort, ¡°I don¡¯t like the methods of those staff officers, it¡¯s too sinister.¡±

    ¡°No matter what methods they use, it¡¯s fine as long as it helps us.¡± Ivy Joao said with a faint smile, ¡°I only hope that that fellow name Xu Yi isn¡¯t too hard to deal with.¡±

    ###

    While the two leaders of the Hungry Wolf Regiment were making their analysis, on the mountain peak of the Muerto Mountains ten kilometers away, the northern army¡¯s third brigade fifth squad leader Leslie Stagg was currently frowning at something that looked like a bow, but operatedpletely differently.

    Taking one to look over, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t figure out how it worked. He asked the northern army quartermaster who had delivered this item, ¡°How is this thing used?¡±

    The chubby quartermaster revealed a ttering smile as he took out a piece of paper from the box used to deliver the weapons.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, please look at this. These are the instructions for operating these Magic Repeating Crossbows. I think that with your knowledge, you will understand just by seeing it once.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that simple?¡± Viscount Leslie looked at the instructions and found that there was a sequence of steps on the instructions that really were easy to understand.

    After looking it over twice, Viscount Leslie took a Magic Repeating Crossbow and he took out a half a meter long and around twenty centimeters in diameter cylinder that weighed around five kilograms. ording to the instructions, the first step was to install the cylinder into the Magic Repeating Crossbowuncher.

    After installing the cylinder, Viscount Leslie held up the Magic Repeating Crossbow with both hands. He aimed at a tree that was twenty meters away and pulled the trigger of the Magic Repeating Crossbow.

    ¡°Sou¡ª¡ª¡±

    With an explosion, a feathered arrow flew out into space. Viscount Leslie only saw a shadow before it entered the tree.

    Viscount Leslie looked into the distance. With his Fifth Grade Warrior battle strength, he could see that most of the arrow was embedded into the tree.

    ¡°It¡¯s actually this strong?¡± Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Although he came from the Stagg Family, he had a strict education and adding in his natural talent, he was outstanding at shooting from horseback.

    He was clear that even if he used the precious special elf made long bow from his family, he couldn¡¯t shoot an arrow that had this kind of astonishing effect.

    Thinking of the instructions, Viscount Leslie raised the Magic Repeating Crossbow again and aimed at the tree as he pressed another button.

    ¡°Sou, sou, sou, sou¡ª¡ª¡±

    A series of sounds filled the air followed by the sounds of impact.

    The quiver of fifty arrows had been shot in less than five breaths, all piercing deeply into the tree.

    When thest arrow was fired, the dense amount of arrows that had already pierced the tree and with the force of the final arrow, therge tree was split in half from the middle. The top half of the tree fell to the ground and sprayed dust everywhere.

    Viscount Leslie was astonished by the terrifying scene in front of him. He lowered the Magic Repeating Crossbow in his hand and he couldn¡¯t help cursing in a low voice. He shook his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°That Xu Yi, he could actually develop this kind of terrifying magic machine. It seems like¡­..the grandsons of the Sack Kingdom are in trouble.¡±

 Volume 3 3 - Badly battered Count Stagg

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 3 Badly battered Count Stagg</h4>

    Count Stagg had been feeling dissatisfiedtely, even feeling somewhat battered.

    He had already taken over for Count Sean for three months now and not a single thing that he did had seeded.

    Beforeing to Banta City, he thought that his family having him take this small role as a City Lord was a waste of his talents.

    In his opinion, Banta City¡¯s problems were a piece of cake. They could randomly send someone here, even Baron Belil, the one who had been in Banta City, who he considered a small child was not a problem.

    But he still came in the end only because Banta City had be the center of the battle between the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s two major factions.

    The Stagg Family had paid a veryrge price to take this position as the City Lord, so naturally there could be no mistakes.

    Banta City was just a small city, so it was impossible for Duke Stagg as the head of the Stagg Family to take over. In the end, they chose Count Mannel Stagg.

    As the blood rted younger brother of Duke Stagg, he had the absolute trust of Duke Stagg. At the same time, because he was older and had quite a bit of experience, people were assured of leaving this matter to him.

    Before this, Count Stagg was quite rxed because he felt that he could easily aplish his family¡¯s goal. He could let everyone see that Banta City was a city with agriculture at its base, which was definitely more important than a city that focused on business.

    But when he came to Banta City, other than the matter of dealing with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being smooth in the beginning, nothing else had gone smoothly.

    The first thing he did aftering to Banta City was evaluate thend usage of Banta City and he carried out his impable n. He had driven the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of Sandton Manor, not letting Xu Yi not even dare to fart.

    But he implemented this policy not only to expel the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. His real n was to survey all thend in Banta City, so that all the usablend in Banta City could be opened before the fall harvest, greatly increasing the harvest amount.

    But his final result caused him to vomit out a mouthful of blood.

    This was because in the survey data, all of Banta City¡¯snd had already been reimed and there wasn¡¯t a spare hectare ofnd at all!

    Like this, it meant that he couldn¡¯t reim anynd at all and increase Banta City¡¯s harvest yield. He had lost the possibility of creating great merit.

    On the contrary, if he didn¡¯t even meet Banta City¡¯s harvest yield fromst year¡¯s fall harvest or even fell behind, it would mean that he would havepletely failed in taking over as the City Lord.

    Now mentioning him disappointing the family, he would even cause the Stagg Family to be med by the other nobles in their faction.

    The more important thing was that if he couldn¡¯t show any results, he couldn¡¯t prove that Banta City was better managed by him than it was when Count Sean was in charge. This would allow the king to have enough reason to reject the suggestions of the nobles from their faction, allowing him to promote business development in the kingdom.

    Like this, including the Stagg Family, their prestige in the kingdom would be greatly affected.

    This was something their faction couldn¡¯t ept.

    So even if he wanted to vomit blood, Count Stagg worked hard to find a chance to increase productivity.

    There was no way to reim morend, so the only way was to increase manpower.

    However, when he was thinking of how to fix the problem of manpower, Count Stagg found arge joke.

    Through the survey data, Count Stagg found that there was a Cantona Chamber of Commerce that had obtained arge patch of farnd from citizens and were farming on thisnd themselves.

    ording to the statistics of the City Lord¡¯s Manor, this Cantona Chamber of Commerce was actually sublettingnd from seven hundred and forty six peasants. It was and that exceeded twenty hectares, which was even more than what the Stagg Family had in Banta City!

    After seeing this problem, Count Stagg¡¯s eyes lit up.

    This Cantona Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have a noble behind them, but they actually grabbed so much farnd. Not only was this unreasonable, it could even be considered treason!

    So Count Stagg through the City Lord¡¯s Manor ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to return thend to the peasants, guaranteeing that they would havend to farm.

    Count Stagg thought that he would receive the approval of the people from this because to him, this Cantona Chamber of Commerce certainly had some shady connection with Count Sean. They used Count Sean¡¯s influence to forcefully take thend from these farmers.

    For all the normal peasants in the Lampuri Kingdom, theirnd was their only way of supporting their family. If they didn¡¯t even havend, these normal peasants could only starve to death.

    So Count Stagg felt that his actions were indeed righteous and he was prepared to ept everyone¡¯s praise.

    But he never expected how things would turn out.

    When he ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to return thend, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had expressed their protest. They imed that their renting of thend had been approved by the City Lord¡¯s manor and it was all reasonable without any problems.

    Count Stagg was already prepared for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s protests. He directly said that the previous City Lord¡¯s contracts weren¡¯t rted to the current City Lord, so all the contracts signed with the City Lord¡¯s Manor had be invalid. They had to investigate whether these contracts were reasonable before reinstating them.

    However, this reply was angrily spread by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Not only did the ?Banta Times? report on this, even the newspapers in the cities around Banta City had reported on this.

    Count Stagg thought this was only a small matter and it would only create some noise in Banta City and the surrounding city for some time. Moreover, it was something that would give support to Count Stagg and nothing else.

    Even the nobles that Count Stagg thought would be on his side stayed silent and there were even some nobles that had opposed this.

    The response of the citizenspared to the nobles was much more intense.

    After the report came out in the ?Banta Times?,panies of Banta City and even the surrounding cities came to the City Lord¡¯s Manor. They requested Count Stagg to approve the contracts that they had signed with the City Lord¡¯s Manor.

    There were manypanies that had tactfully or explicitly said to Count Stagg that because of Count Stagg¡¯s actions, they had lost their trust in the City Lord¡¯s Manor. They requested that their contracts be invalid and they requested the City Lord¡¯s Manor to settle ounts.

    Faced with this situation, Count Stagg was surprised. When he had the City Lord Manor¡¯s officers count the contracts with thepanies, he was shocked to find that the Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor under Count Sean had signed contracts with seventy threepanies!

    These seventy threepanies had all kinds of products and services, going from improving the banks of the Sandy River to even the dish clothes that the City Lord Manor¡¯s kitchen used.

    If the contract between thesepanies and the City Lord Manor became invalid and all transactions with the City Lord Manor stopped, Banta City would instantly be paralyzed.

    At this time, Count Stagg found that he had done something very stupid. He had created a situation where he and the City Lord Manor¡¯s officers had fallen into a panic.

    Actually, to be honest, this wasn¡¯t his fault.

    It was because based on the experience of other ces in the Lampuri Kingdom, there weren¡¯t anypanies that dared to go against the City Lord Manor. That was becausepared to a City Lord, a smallpany wasn¡¯t anything.

    But Banta City was different from the other ces of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Almost everypany in the city dared to bare their teeth at the City Lord Manor for their own benefits and they were all justified.

    Like the small Cantona Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t put Count Stagg in their eyes at all. When faced with the casual response from Count Stagg, they didn¡¯t swallow their anger and obey, rather they didn¡¯t care about the risks of angering Count Stagg and directly exposed this matter to everyone.

    The more important thing was that the newspaper industry in Banta City and the surrounding city was very developed. Even a small piece of news in the newspaper would be known by everyone, not to mention an explosive piece of news like this.

    If everything was ced in front of everyone, Count Stagg naturally didn¡¯t dare use power to suppress the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Rather he had to deal with the requests of the seventy threerge and smallpanies.

    However¡­...speaking of this, the thing that went against Count Stagg¡¯s expectations the most in this matter was the reactions of the peasants.

    Count Stagg thought that by helping the peasants take back theirnd from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, those peasants would definitely be grateful to him.

    But he never thought that when he sent someone to inform the peasants that they would be regaining theirnd, he would be met with cold faces and there were many peasants who scolded them for meddling in other people¡¯s businesses.

    What was even more exaggerated was that several peasants in their anger scolded the City Lord Manor for not caring about them peasants and that Count Stagg wasn¡¯t worthy of being the City Lord.

    When faced with the opposition of these people, Count Stagg could stillfort himself by saying they didn¡¯t understand, but when he was met with the curses of the peasants, he really couldn¡¯t calm himself down.

    He didn¡¯t understand. He was clearly helping the peasants take back theirnd, so why did they react like this?

    Could it be¡­..the peasants didn¡¯t want theirnd?

 Volume 3 4 - Investigation

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 4 Investigation</h4>

    ¡°Nonsense! If I farm, it¡¯s good enough if I can keep my family from going hungry, but I can¡¯t keep a single copper coin. But if I work on things other than farming, not mentioning anything else, if I go find some work at somepany in the city, I can earn at least ten gold coins a month and that¡¯s over a hundred gold coins each year! Even if it means buying grain for an entire year, I would still have at least fifty gold coins left to buy other things! Why do you think I don¡¯t want to keep farming?¡±

    Sarkozy rolled his eyes, looking at the investigative officer sent from the City Lord¡¯s Manor with disdain. He thought that this officer who followed the idiot City Lord was also an idiot.

    Was there a need toe and ask this obvious fact?

    This was the most basic problem, even a sixty year old farmer like him who had never gone to school could easily understand this and a fellow like him who was wearing such a precious looking uniform couldn¡¯t. Could it be that the officers helping the idiot City Lord were all the same, only having straw in their heads and not understanding a thing?

    Seeing the clear disdain on the old man¡¯s face, officer Moya didn¡¯t feel good.

    If it was any other time, he would have disdained this old farmer who looked to be of lowly birth and had old callused hands. If it wasn¡¯t for the special instructions of the Lord City Lord, how could hee to a remote, dirty, and backwards ce like Mexn Vige to do some damn investigation?

    Thinking of the Lord City Lord¡¯s serious instructions, Moya suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and maintained what he considered to be a friendly smile. He kept asking Sarkozy, ¡°But as long as you have this farnd, you can at least guarantee that your family won¡¯t starve. However, if you go work for apany, although your monthly wage might be high, you might lose this job at any time and lose this money, right?¡±

    It would have been fine if Moya didn¡¯t ask this, but once he did, Sarkozy¡¯s eyes suddenly popped out. He angrily pped the iron shovel in his hand on the ground and began pointing at Moya as he scolded him.

    ¡°You¡¯re not embarrassed to ask this? If it wasn¡¯t for your City Lord Manor¡¯s whatever promoting agriculture policy, the Sundial Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have left Banta City and my son wouldn¡¯t have lost his job at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce! Do you know, his wage at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce was close to twenty gold coins! Because of you all, not only did he lose his job, he can¡¯t find any other work in the city! This was all caused by you!¡±

    Moya didn¡¯t expect Sarkozy¡¯s sudden angry outburst. After being surprised for a while, he touched his face and found that there were several specks of saliva from the old farmer, causing his heart to be filled with disgust.

    After working hard to suppress the idea of turning and leaving, Moya took a deep breath and forced himself to calmly say, ¡°This is the Sundial Chamber of Commerce¡¯s decision, it can¡¯t be med on our City Lord Manor, right?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit! If it wasn¡¯t for your City Lord Manor chasing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce away, how could the Sundial Chamber of Commerce leave? If the Sundial Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t leave, would my son lose his job? Moreover, you¡¯re doing that bullshit agriculture promotion policy that is forcing our Banta City¡¯spanies away, so there are much less jobs in Banta City! It¡¯s not just me ming you, if you ask the people who came all the way to our Banta City for work, do you think they wouldn¡¯t scold you?¡± Sarkozy¡¯s eyes were wide open as he asked without any politeness.

    Moya took several steps back before avoiding the spit from Sarkozy¡¯s mouth. He quickly refuted, ¡°The Lord City Lord is promoting this agricultural support policy for the good of you farmers, why don¡¯t you understand the Lord City Lord¡¯s pains?¡±

    ¡°For our good? Bulshit!¡± Sarkozy said with a coldugh, ¡°Our good is making us lose jobs with high paying wages? To make us obediently run back to those damn fields? To make us work hard all year without being able to ensure we can feed ourselves? This is for the good of the farmers? Don¡¯t think we don¡¯t know! The Karma City¡¯s newspaper said that the Lord City Lord is doing all this for his own achievements!¡±

    Moya¡¯s expression changed. He never thought that a normal old farmer from Mexn City would actually read the newspaper from Karma City that was several dozen kilometers away and he could understand the meaning of the word ¡°achievements¡±.

    Thinking about it, Moya kept exining, ¡°Isn¡¯t increasing Banta City¡¯s harvest yield good for you all? Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten how hungry you were before?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit! We did starve before, but when did our Banta City¡¯s people starve in thest two years?¡± Sarkozy refuted without any courtesy, ¡°Report to the Lord City Lord, all our Banta City¡¯s farnd has been opened in the past two years by the City Lord! Even if he has everyone return to the fields, the yield won¡¯t increase by much, so have him give up!¡±

    Hearing Sarkozy actually mention the matter that the Lord City Lord worried about the most right now, Moya finally understood that this seemingly normal old farmer actually knew more than he imagined.

    This was something that was much better than the other farmers who didn¡¯t understand anything in the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although from the viewpoint of his investigations, it was easier to obtain answers from people who were smart, for Moya himself, he would rather talk to farmers who didn¡¯t know a thing.

    It was clear the Lord City Lord also thought the same.

    If the farmers of Banta City were like the ignorant farmers of the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, how great that would be. That way the Lord City Lord wouldn¡¯t have such arge headache about how to return thend to the farmers and how to raise Banta City¡¯s harvest yield.

    Thinking of this, in order to have something to report to the Lord City Lord, Moya suppressed his anger and said to Sarkozy, ¡°The Lord City Lord¡¯s n is for the long term, you can¡¯t possibly understand it now, but you must trust the Lord City Lord. He is definitely doing this for the good of you farmers. As long as you listen to the Lord City Lord¡¯s ns, I dare say that not only will you not starve for two years, you¡¯ll never have to worry about starving in the future. Rather if you support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t make any food for you to eat.¡±

    ¡°Forget it.¡± Sarkozy gave augh, ¡°You¡¯re looking down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? If you have the skills, have the Lord City Lord give the order that Banta City won¡¯t use the stuff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? If you have the skills, stop using the agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Moya was instantly speechless.

    Whether it was him or the Lord City Lord, even if they hated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their hearts, they had to admit that if they lost the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agricultural magic machines, not mentioning increasing the harvest yield, they wouldn¡¯t even be able to open all that farnd in Banta City.

    Seeing that Moya wasn¡¯t saying anything, Sarkozy gave a coldugh, ¡°You don¡¯t know shit and you¡¯re still asking questions, wasting my time. Forget it, I still have to go to Koror Vige for a meeting, I don¡¯t have time to waste words with you. Goodbye.¡±

    After saying this, Sarkozy put his shovel on his shoulder before turning to leave.

    Moya watched Sarkozy leave in a daze. After thinking for a bit, he couldn¡¯t think of anything to say to make this old farmer who was rather intelligent to stay.

    After being in a daze for a while, Moya turned to look at the vigers who watched the two of them talk. He wanted to continue his investigation, but when those vigers saw him look over, they immediately avoided him like he was the gue. They instantly scattered and only left Moya by himself standing in the road.

    Moya looked at Mexn Vige not far away and let out a bitterugh. Although he had talked to sixteen vigers for this investigation, the sixteen vigers had all strangely said the same thing. They all had strong opposition for the Lord City Lord¡¯s agricultural promotion policies.

    Based on this result, there was no meaning in this investigation because the results were clear.

    But Moya knew that if he brought these results to the Lord City Lord, all that was waiting was a storm.

    In a normal situation, the Lord City Lord wouldn¡¯t care about the ideas of the peasants at all.

    But at this time, the Lord City Lord¡¯s number one goal was to increase Banta City¡¯s harvest yield to prove that his policies are in the right direction, while also proving that the noble faction behind the Lord City Lord is correct.

    With the help of the agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the previous City Lord Count Sean had reimedrge amounts of farnd in Banta City. He had almost alreadypletely cleaned Banta City out of all its potential.

    If the current City Lord Count Stagg wanted to improve the harvest yield, he had to have the support of the farmers with many years of experience in farming.

    Especially an old farmer with rich experience like Sarkozy, he was now a treasure for the Lord City Lord.

    So even if Moya wasn¡¯t happy, he didn¡¯t reveal it to Sarkozy and kept trying to convince him.

    However, Sarkozy was as stubborn as a rock, not giving Moya a chance at all.

    ¡°Should I just go back like this?¡± Moya thought for a bit with a bitter smile. He suddenly saw three farmers walking in front of him who had simr clothes to what Sarkozy had been wearing.

    His eyes swept over the face of the farmer in the middle and Moya¡¯s eyes lit up as he quickly went forward to talk to him.

 Volume 3 5 - Acting a play for the Lord City Lord

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 5 Acting a y for the Lord City Lord</h4>

    Sarkozy entered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s office set up in Koror Vige and immediately causedughter.

    ¡°Hey, old man Sarkozy, what are you carrying that iron shovel for? Could it be that you¡¯re nning to go farming?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, didn¡¯t you always hate the new Lord City Lord? Could it be that you¡¯ve changed your mind and want to go back to the farm?¡±

    ¡°Old man Sarkozy, you¡¯re being insincere like this. Everyone agreed to ignore that idiot City Lord, now you¡¯re betraying us?¡±

    ¡°Betraying your head!¡± Old man Sarkozy put the shovel on his shoulder by the wall and said with a strong snort, ¡°Even if I die, I will never listen to that idiot City Lord¡¯s words! If Lord Count Sean came back to ask us to go back to our farms, I might consider it.¡±

    ¡°What is there to consider?¡± A man who looked to be around thirty loudly said, ¡°Not to mention this Count Stagg, even if Count Sean came back to be the City Lord, I wouldn¡¯t consider going back to farming. Farming is so hard and it doesn¡¯t earn any money, I would rather be punished then go back to it.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say this.¡± A man who looked to be around fifty shook his head and said, ¡°It¡¯s wrong if you don¡¯t have anything to eat. So no matter what, some people have to farm, so we can¡¯t say that Count Stagg is wrong.¡±

    ¡°Pei! Isn¡¯t it easy to have food?¡± Old man Sarkozy said in disdain, ¡°With the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines in the past two years, our farming has be much simpler. A single person can take care of several mu ofnd just by themselves, why do we all need to be here? I think that this Count Stagg is just doing this for his own achievements. He did all this because he was aiming at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Xu.¡±

    There were several coughs in the room. Cantona stood up from the other side of the table and waved at old man Sarkozy, signaling for him to sit down.

    ¡°Alright, since old man Sarkozy is here, we will officially start the meeting.¡± Cantona looked at the several faces at the table and seeing everyone looking at him, prepared to listen, he nodded before continuing, ¡°I think that everyone understands why I held this meeting today. Because of the City Lord Manor¡¯s orders, our Cantona Chamber of Commerce needs to return the farnd we rented from you before, so I¡¯m here to ask everyone¡¯s opinions.¡±

    ¡°What is there to ask, I don¡¯t agree.¡± The thirty year old man waved his hand and said, ¡°If we give your Cantona Chamber of Commerce the farnd, not only do we not need to pay rent to the City Lord Manor each year, we can receive rent from yourpany. Why would I be bored enough to return to the farm and work myself to death?¡±

    ¡°Right, I also don¡¯t agree.¡±

    ¡°I also won¡¯t do it. Who would give up a rich and easy life to torture themselves?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, those fellows at the City Lord Manor have no brains, but we can¡¯t just be the same, right?¡±

    ¡­...

    The surrounding people echoed this and they reached a unified opinion not long after. They all expressed their opposition to this.

    Cantona nodded before shaking his head and saying with a nod, ¡°I understand everyone¡¯s thoughts and agree to your opinions, but everyone has to understand that the City Lord Manor¡¯s orders are things we can only carry out. So the farnd that ourpany owns must be returned to you, otherwise the City Lord Manor will definitely cause trouble for ourpany. You also know that even argepany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t take the pressure of the City Lord Manor, so how could a smallpany like our Cantona Chamber of Commerce do anything against them? I hope that everyone can understand our difficulties.¡±

    ¡°Then ording to what you said, we have to take back this farnd and then throw away our good jobs to return to farming?¡± The thirty year old man indignantly said, ¡°The City Lord Manor¡¯s fellows really are crazy! We peasants have just lived two good years and they want to ruin it. Those noble masters, can¡¯t they see that we peasants have good lives?¡±

    ¡°Ai, you can¡¯t randomly say that. The bastards at the City Lord Manor can¡¯t be med on the nobles, at least Count Sean thought about us before. Then again, I¡¯ve heard that chairman Xu is also a viscount now, so he could be considered a noble.¡± Another farmer from Mexn Vige said.

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­..But the noble masters like Count Sean and chairman Xu are just too little.¡± The young man said in an emotional voice.

    ¡°Alright, this is all useless.¡± Old man Sarkozy waved his hand and cut them off. He turned to Cantona to say, ¡°Chairman Cantona, for you to specially bring us here, isn¡¯t it to specially tell us something?¡±

    Cantonaughed, ¡°Old man Sarkozy is right. That¡¯s right, I had everyonee here today to think of an appropriate solution. Everyone can think of a solution to solve this without the City Lord Manor causing trouble for us.¡±

    Sarkozy looked at Cantona before saying with a snort, ¡°Alright, look at you. You already have your ideas, just say it, there¡¯s no need to keep it from us.¡±

    ¡°Alright!¡± Cantona gave a strong p, ¡°Old man Sarkozy is right, we¡¯re all friends here, I won¡¯t beat around the bush. That¡¯s right, I already thought of a method to solve this and I just want to know if everyone will agree to it.¡±

    ¡°Cantona, just say it. As long as it stops me from going back to the farm, it¡¯s all good!¡± The thirty year old man loudly said.

    ¡°Right, as long as I can keep my current job, everything else is easy to take care of.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Cantona, just tell us.¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll just tell everyone.¡± Cantona gave a nod and said with a serious look, ¡°My idea is that our Cantona Chamber of Commerce will return the farnd on the surface, but we¡¯ll still be operating it like we discussed before.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How will it be done?¡± Sarkozy asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°The specifics is that the farnd will be given back to you in name, but the ones cultivating them will be our Cantona Chamber of Commerce. As for the crop and rent, we will manage it ording to our previous agreement. To be honest, it¡¯s just changing names.¡±

    That means that we will be working with your Cantona Chamber of Commerce to put on a y for the City Lord Manor?¡± Sarkozy asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s said to be a y¡­..but there¡¯s actually no problem with the procedure.¡± Cantona said with augh, ¡°That is because in name, we have given the farnd back to you and you¡¯re looking for our Cantona Chamber of Commerce to help you farm. I think that the Lord City Lord wouldn¡¯t send people to force you back to farm, right?¡±

    ¡°Would he dare?¡± Sarkozy knit his brows and said, ¡°Those fellows have already caused my son to lose his job, do they want to kill our entire family? Do they believe I wouldn¡¯t go all out against them?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. It¡¯s our field, we can look for whoever we want to grow them, as long as it doesn¡¯t go against the kingdom¡¯sws. What can the City Lord Manor do to us? Cantona, your idea isn¡¯t bad, I support it.¡±

    ¡°I also support it. Since we can¡¯t do anything against the Lord City Lord, then we¡¯ll just follow him. As for how we do it¡­..he won¡¯t care since we¡¯ll still be giving him our harvest and rent each year.¡±

    ¡°Good, we¡¯ll do this. Cantona, can you tell us how we should put on this y?¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Everyone, let¡¯s not be hasty. Come, let¡¯s first take a look at the contract that I have prepared and if there are no problems, please consider signing it.¡± Cantona waved his hand and a young girl who had been silent distributed a pack of documents to these people.

    Sarkozy looked over the document before throwing it on the table. He looked at Cantona and walked out.

    After a while, Cantona followed him and asked in a soft voice with a smile, ¡°Old man Sarkozy, is there a problem? If there is anything you want to request with the contract, please tell me.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care about the contract, I believe you.¡± Old man Sarkozy shook his head. He looked around before hesitating a bit and asking in a low voice, ¡°That¡­..Cantona, do you frequently see chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu?¡± Cantona shook his head, ¡°How could I possibly see someone as important as him frequently? Do you need him for something?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t anything big¡­..¡± Old man Sarkozy was a bit conflicted and hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Cantona, you know that my son, that kid Qurik lost his job at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce. He¡¯s already been at home for half a month without a job, I¡¯m very anxious seeing this. I wanted to¡­..ask chairman Xu if he could give my son a chance to work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It doesn¡¯t matter what the wage is, it¡¯s fine as long as he has work. What do you think?¡±

    Cantona saw the expectant look on Sarkozy¡¯s face before saying with a bitterugh, ¡°Old man Sarkozy, it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t want to help you, but my rtionship with chairman Xu isn¡¯t that good. You should know howpetitive jobs for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are in our Banta City, if chairman Xu was willing, everyone in Banta City would go begging him. Do you think¡­..I can help you?¡±

    Seeing that Cantona didn¡¯t agree, Sarkozy gave a deep sigh, ¡°Actually I know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t easy to enter. That kid Qurik didn¡¯t seize the chance to join before and now it¡¯s even harder. Ai, it¡¯s all that damn Count Stagg and that agricultural promotion policy, his head was simply kicked by a donkey. It¡¯s all good now, a bunch of people in Banta City have lost their jobs from his damn policies, he doesn¡¯t care if we live or die at all.¡±

    Cantona had a strange look as he stared at Sarkozy. After thinking for a bit, he asked with knit brows, ¡°Old man Sarkozy, to be honest, although manypanies have left the city and many jobs have disappeared, didn¡¯t the ?Banta Times? say that now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had moved to the Falling Rain Valley, manypanies are moving there too. In the end, there are a lot of jobs at the Falling Rain Valley, so why don¡¯t you have Qurik go take a look?¡±

    ¡°He doesn¡¯t want to leave Banta City, that¡¯s why he didn¡¯t go with the Sundial Chamber of Commerce to the Falling Rain Valley. Otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have lost his job.¡± Old man Sarkozy gave a sigh, ¡°But are there any good jobs in Banta City right now? Not to mention one with a wage of more than ten gold coins a month¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°More than ten gold coins a month?¡± Cantona knit his brows before suddenly opening his eyes wide open, ¡°Right, I suddenly thought of something. When I was talking to chairman Xu, he said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was opening something in the city and wanted to recruit some people with flexible minds. They need to know how to speak¡­..Right, it was called publicizing products. I remember that kid Qurik has a quick mind, why don¡¯t you have him take a look?¡±

    Sarkozy¡¯s eyes immediately lit up, ¡°Really? Is there really such a job in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Really, chairman Xu was the one who told me. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t started recruiting yet, so if you have Qurik go to the Falling Rain Valley to ask and if chairman Xu likes him, perhaps he could be hired ahead of time.¡± Cantona said in a certain voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s great! I¡¯ll go tell that kid Qurik right now and have him take the public transport carriage to the Falling Rain Valley right away! The sooner the better!¡± Sarkozy excitedly turned and left.

    ¡°Hey, old man Sarkozy, you forgot your shovel and you haven¡¯t signed the contract yet!¡±

    ¡°Just leave the shovel there and you can just sign my name on the contract, I agree anyway.¡±

    Sarkozy¡¯s voice quickly faded as he had already disappeared from sight.

 Volume 3 6 - Banta City that has fallen into darkness

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 6 Banta City that has fallen into darkness</h4>

    Qurik jumped out of the public transport carriage and was immediately scared by what he saw.

    This was his second time at the Falling Rain Valley, but he found that it was several times more livelypared to when he delivered cargo with the Sundial Chamber of Commercest time.

    Not only were there a surge of people from the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, creating a lively scene, even in the space across the Falling Rain Road were a bunch of factories.

    Qurik looked over and saw the familiar symbol of the Sundial Chamber of Commerce among these factories.

    Thinking of how he wasn¡¯t willing to go to a far ce like the Falling Rain Valley, losing his job at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce, Quirk couldn¡¯t help feeling some regret.

    The reason he wasn¡¯t willing to leave was other than being too far from his parents, he didn¡¯t want to be too far from Banta City. It was definitely remote and not lively, so it wouldn¡¯t be fun at all.

    Aftering here and taking a look, he found that although this ce wasn¡¯t as lively as Banta City, it wasn¡¯t far off.

    Moreover, based on the flow of people here, it wasn¡¯t impossible for it to be as lively as Banta City in the future.

    Qurik was very clear on why this had happened.

    It was because the new Lord City Lord was suppressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the lead in leaving Banta City and developed the Falling Rain Valley.

    Because the Lord City Lord also took out this agricultural promotion policy that everyone cursed in secret, it caused the otherpanies to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and leave Banta City.

    With the drive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only did thergepanies from before develop, there were several hundred medium and small sizedpanies rted to magic machines.

    There were over five hundredpanies in Banta City now and because of this policy, over half of them had left.

    Among them, almost all the smallpanies rted to magic machines all chose to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and set up factories outside the Falling Rain Valley.

    Although in theory the Falling Rain Valley was outside Banta City¡¯s range, ording to the report from the ?Banta Times?, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had recently be a viscount and what shocked people was that he had been granted territory.

    That territory was thend of Falling Rain Valley and the surroundingnd.

    Because this was the private territory of Viscount Xu Yi, the policies that Count Stagg implemented didn¡¯t apply here at all.

    In the statement that Xu Yi issued in the ?Banta Times?, he explicitly weed allpanies rted to magic machines toe to Falling Rain Valley to create a magic machine industrial base with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So with the Irnd Chamber of Commerce taking the lead, in just a few months, the smallponent processingpanies had all moved to thend outside the Falling Rain Valley in just a month.

    Among them included the Sundial Chamber of Commerce Qurik was a part of before.

    This sudden move naturally created serious economic losses for these smallpanies.

    But Xu Yi had announced apensation matter. The smallpanies would have reduced rent for the first five years to help them move over safely, allowing them to boldly develop here.

    To many people, Xu Yi¡¯s method was forcefully stealing all thepanies rted to magic machines from Banta City.

    But no one thought he was going too far, rather many people were excited.

    Now that the Banta City Lord City Lord had announced he would be suppressing business development, thesergepanies were greatly affected and the smallpanies were naturally even more affected. Now that Xu Yi had given them this chance, how could those smallpanies not seize this chance to leave Banta City?

    Rather because thosergepanies had many assets and were well established in Banta City, it wasn¡¯t easy for them to move.

    The smallpanies had been here for less than a month and they had already resumed their normal production, this was clearly the flexibility advantage of a smallpany.

    Following these smallpanies, there were manypanies rted to daily necessities.

    On the sides of the Falling Rain Road, there were rows of buildings and there were stores opening.

    Based on the dazzling amount of products, the prosperity of this ce wasn¡¯t less than Banta City.

    Qurik looked at the Sundial Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory and the stores along the road and he shook his head. He suppressed the bit of regret in his heart and walked into the Falling Rain Valley.

    After he entered the Falling Rain Valley, Quirk was stunned.

    Compared to when he was herest time, the Falling Rain Valley had greatly changed.

    Other than people, there were several more workshops in the valley. There was even an extra steel mill that Qurik had paid attention to the mostst time.

    The road in the valley was much betterpared to before. In the empty spaces along the roads, there was grassid everywhere, as well as many different kinds of flowers, creating a beautiful contrast in the valley. When people looked at it, they would even think they were walking through arge garden, rather than walking through an industrial district.

    What Qurik noticed first was the three meters tall iron poles on the sides of the roads that were ced several meters apart.

    Those iron poles had a beautiful Magic Lamp hanging on it, it was clearly being used as a streetmp.

    Seeing the streetmps running across the road and not being able to see the end, Qurik couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    If it wasn¡¯t for that damn new Lord City Lord aiming for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, stopping their renovation projects in Banta City, all of Banta City¡¯s streets would have had streetmps installed already.

    But now that it stopped, the streetmp project was only half finished. In the end, when it came to night, only half of Banta City¡¯s streets were lit up and the other half were still in darkness.

    What made people worried the most was that in the streets withmps installed, for some unknown reason, there were somemps that didn¡¯t light up at night.

    The people of those blocks had gone to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center to ask about this. They were told that city matters were the internal affairs of the City Lord Manor and the City Lord Manor ordered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to stop meddling. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t solve this problem and they could only ask the citizens to ask the City Lord Manor for a response.

    However when the citizens asked the City Lord Manor, the response they received was that the City Lord Manor would investigate and they received no other response.

    The ?Banta Times? naturally wouldn¡¯t let go of this abnormal situation and specially gave a report, calling it ?Banta City that has fallen into darkness?.

    This report focused on this issue and raised many questions that many people were worried about.

    Banta City had many projects that were proposed by Xu Yi and were handled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left Banta City and even specially ordered not to meddle in city affairs by the City Lord Manor, the streetmps that could chase out the darkness of Banta City would only be extinguished one by one until Banta City fell into darkness again.

    After this article came out, the words ¡°fallen into darkness¡± had a double meaning and different people had different views¡­...

    Qurik didn¡¯t think that deeply. He just knew that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City, the Banta City that had developed to be rich and prosperous in two years was now deteriorating at even a quicker speed, at a speed that even the naked eye could see.

    ¡°That idiot City Lord¡­..¡± Thinking of this, Qurik cursed in his heart. Then he looked around and found a young man dressed in the uniform of a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker as he asked, ¡°Hello, do you know where chairman Xu is right now?¡±

    The young man looked at Qurik in surprise, ¡°Who are you? What are you looking for sir chairman for?¡±

    ¡°I am Qurik, I¡¯m here to find work from chairman Xu.¡± Qurik replied, ¡°I heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is opening a new post in Banta City to recruit people to publicize products, so I wanted to give it a try.¡±

    The young man had a surprised look, ¡°Publicizing products? Why haven¡¯t I heard of it before?¡±

    Qurik was surprised, ¡°It can¡¯t be, big brother Cantona personally heard it from chairman Xu, it can¡¯t be wrong, right?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re talking about chairman Cantona from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce?¡± The young man was a bit surprised, ¡°Are you close to him? If it was he who said it, then he might have learned something from sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Then it¡¯s true?¡± Qurik immediately asked in an excited voice, ¡°Then can you tell me where chairman Xu is? I want to ask him now.¡±

    The young man looked over Qurik and disdainfully curled his lips, ¡°Who do you think you are, you can see sir chairman just because you want to? Let me tell you, sir chairman is very busy, how could he just see whoeveres?¡±

    Qurik didn¡¯t care about this obvious disdain at all, he just said with augh, ¡°Even if I can¡¯t see chairman Xu, it¡¯s fine if I can see the person in charge of hiring. Anyway I¡¯m just here looking for a job, it¡¯s fine as long as I can achieve my goal.¡±

    The young man was amused by Qurik¡¯s optimism and couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°Your eyes are quite clear. Alright, since you¡¯re here looking for a job, just follow this road to the end and then turn left, you¡¯ll see the office building for ourpany there. If you ask there, there should be someone who can help you. I can¡¯t do anything else for you.¡±

    Qurikughed as he patted the young man¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, thank you for your help. What is your name? We can be friends.¡±

    The young man shook his head, ¡°Forget it, we don¡¯t know if we¡¯ll see each other again. Then again, I have to remind you, what time is it now? You still want to work in Banta City? If you want to work, there are plenty ofpanies in the Falling Rain Valley looking for workers, why don¡¯t you give it a try?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, my parents are old and they only have me as a son, so I can¡¯t be too far from them.¡± Qurik gave a shrug.

    The young man¡¯s smile became solemn as he said with a nod, ¡°I never thought that you were a filial son. But to be honest, Falling Rain Valley is only sixty kilometers away from Banta City, it isn¡¯t far. Right now it only takes the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport carriage less than four hours for a trip. Once ourpany¡¯s Magic Car is developed, it might not even take an hour, so it¡¯s not far.¡±

    ¡°Magic Car?¡± Qurik¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°What is that?¡±

    The young man suddenly realized he made a mistake. He gave an awkwardugh and quickly covered up his words, ¡°I¡¯m not too clear on this, I heard the other people mention this the other day.¡±

    Understanding the meaning of the young man, Qurik didn¡¯t keep asking. He said with a smile, ¡°Alright, when I see chairman Xu, I can personally ask him.¡±

    The young man shook his head, thinking that this person was very confident.

    The sir chairman was that important, how could just anyone see him?

    But after that, he and Qurik turned to look at the soundsing from the distance. Looking over, they were instantly surprised.

    There was a group of people walking down the path and the one leading them, wasn¡¯t it Xu Yi!

 Volume 3 7 - The Rudson Kingdom welcomes you to invest

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 7 The Rudson Kingdom wees you to invest</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your industrial base has really opened my eyes. If possible, I really want to move this ce to our Rudson Kingdom.¡± Newman looked at the contrast between the green flowers and the clean factories and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    ¡°Ha, ha, if chairman Newman is willing, how hard would it be to really move it?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°As long as your Rudson Kingdom agrees, it would be an easy matter for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in another industrial base.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Newman looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am not joking, I really want to bring everything back. At least when we want to buy agricultural magic machines, we wouldn¡¯t need to run this far.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m also not joking.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Newman, if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce invests in a factory in your Rudson Kingdom, can you give us some preferential treatment?¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, Newman immediately gave a serious expression. He looked at Xu Yi for a while before saying, ¡°I think that our king will be very happy to hear this news. When he heard my reports of Banta City, our king has always hoped that he could be introduced to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine production methods. If chairman Xu is willing to satisfy this request, I think that our king will give you enough preferential treatment and guarantee that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can smoothly invest in our Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. Even though Newman looked weing on the surface, his words werepletely different.

    He proposed setting up a factory in the Rudson Kingdom, but Newman had asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for their magic machine production method.

    In theory, it wasn¡¯t impossible for Xu Yi to agree to this because only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had all the technology right now. He hoped that all thepanies of the Sines Continent could grasp the magic machine production technology, promoting the magic machine industry on the continent, creating a perfect magic industrial system.

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t agree that easily.

    Whether it was for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s benefits, for Banta City¡¯s benefits, or the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s benefits, he couldn¡¯t easily hand over this technology.

    ¡°As long as your country¡¯s king is willing to ept our investment in a factory, we will definitely give priority to this.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Although the Lampuri Kingdom has many cities that have invited ourpany to invest, I have always treated bing a first sspany on the continent as the goal for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so opening a market in other countries is definitely something to consider.¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t agree to giving up technology, Newman wasn¡¯t surprised. He just smiled and didn¡¯t keep asking.

    This matter was very important, it couldn¡¯t be decided with a casual conversation between the two of them.

    Using this to investigate Xu Yi¡¯s intention was already enough. Hearing that Xu Yi was willing to invest in a factory in the Rudson Kingdom made Newman very satisfied.

    Not mentioning anything else, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can invest in an agricultural magic machine factory in the Rudson Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom could produce agricultural magic machines locally. They wouldn¡¯t have to transport it from far away, which would save countless amounts of time and save the most important thing, money.

    Take the most important small Magic Harvester that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, the current factory price was seventy gold coins.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took care of the transportation to the border, there was still several hundreds of kilometers from the border to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital city.

    This long path, even with the cheapest transportation method that Newman could think of, it cost around one gold coin for each small Magic Harvester.

    It wasn¡¯t much for one, but for a three hundred thousand units, this was close to four hundred thousand gold coins that couldn¡¯t be neglected.

    Even if the finances of the Rudson Kingdom was better than the Lampuri Kingdom, consuming this much was not something Newman or the king was willing to see.

    Not to mention that these agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just the beginning.

    Last time Newman went back to the Rudson Kingdom, he had brought five of each kind of magic machine the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced back with him.

    When Newman brought those products back to the Rudson Kingdom, it attracted the attention of countless people.

    Newman was certain that if magic machines could be promoted in the Rudson Kingdom, they would be greatly weed.

    When that timees, what they needed to consider wasn¡¯t just importing agricultural magic machines, they also needed to include the other magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    If it cost an average of one gold coin to transport each magic machine, this would be an astronomical number.

    So beforeing here, the king had made a request for Newman. No matter what, he had to attract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in a factory in the Rudson Kingdom. If he could get the magic machine production methods from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would even be better.

    Before this, Newman had already purchased the production methods for the Magic Kettle and the cement on behalf of the Rudson Chamber of Commerce.

    Because theycked the corresponding materials and production infrastructure, the Rudson Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t produce the Magic Kettle right now, but they had started producing cement.

    Right now the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had three construction teamsying down cement roads all over the Rudson Kingdom. With the Rudson Kingdom producing local cement, there wasn¡¯t a need to purchase from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over a thousand kilometers away.

    So, the Rudson Kingdom royal family had saved over three hundred thousand gold coins onying these roads.

    Compared to this, the roads were beingid down quite quickly in the Rudson Kingdom.

    With the support of the royal family¡¯s finances and the three construction teams from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, as well as the escort of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army, the Rudson Kingdom had alreadyid down five hundred kilometers of road in less than three months.

    One of the roads was from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s border to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s royal capital, linking up to Banta City.

    At the same time, the hundred kilometer road from Banta City to the border was also finished and could be used at the end of the month,

    Newman came from Curaca City to the Falling Rain Valley, which was a trip of over eight hundred kilometers, going on all roads. It took less than three days and they traveled over two hundred kilometers each day, which was twice as fast as before.

    Moreover, this trip was much morefortable. Even in the horse carriage, because it didn¡¯t bump around, Newman could even fall asleep.

    After experiencing this journey that was much morefortable, Newman had even more trust in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather in Xu Yi¡¯s abilities. He had a strong interest and yearning for the magic machines production technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    However, Xu Yi tightly held this technology and didn¡¯t reveal a thing, so Newman couldn¡¯t do anything.

    But he didn¡¯t feel despair because of this. Based on the fact that Xu Yi gave away the production methods for the Magic Fan, the Magic Kettle, and cement, Xu Yi was different from the otherpanies of the continent. He didn¡¯t treat his technology as exclusive and reserved the right to disclose them.

    Newman believed that as long as he was patient enough, Xu Yi will give the rted technology eventually.

    So Newman wasn¡¯t in a rush. At this time, he felt that it was better to guarantee that both sides had a good rtionship first.

    When he was about to change the topic back to the fifty thousand agricultural magic machines, a figure suddenly charged forward in front of them.

    Qurik didn¡¯t even reach Xu Yi when he was stopped by the guards following the two of them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m not here to cause trouble.¡± Quirk quickly raised his hands and stopped, as he loudly said to Xu Yi, ¡°I just want to ask you for work.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Qurik like he found it funny, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m not in charge of hiring people. If you want a job, you can go find ourpany¡¯s human resource development to take a test.¡±

    ¡°But the job I want isn¡¯t something you¡¯re openly hiring for, I only came after hearing it from big brother Cantona.¡± Qurik continued in a loud voice.

    ¡°Cantona?¡± Xu Yi looked at Qurik and thought for a bit. He waved his hand at a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker and after saying a few things to him, the worker moved towards Qurik and whispered a few things for him, taking him away to thepany office in the center of the Falling Rain Valley.

    Seeing Qurik walking away with this worker while looking around, Newman couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very popr. Are there young people who are introduced to you by acquaintances whoe looking for you all the time?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, it seems like everyone recognizes ourpany. Actually if we¡¯re talking about sry, ourpany¡¯s workers don¡¯t have the highest in Banta City. You should know that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers building roads in your Rudson Kingdom, the highest wage they receive reaches thirty gold coins a month.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the same. Those people are moving away from their hometowns and even going to another kingdom for work. If the Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give them enoughpensation, not many people would be willing to go.¡± Newman paused before saying, ¡°Actually, I made a suggestion to chairman Cruise to let him hire local Rudson Kingdom workers, which is not only convenient, it also saves money, but he didn¡¯t ept my suggestion. Chairman Xu, can you help me talk to chairman Cruise?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Newman and gave a softugh. Your suggestion isn¡¯t to help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, you just want to put people in the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and steal their road building technology.

    Chairman Cruise was a smart person, how could he listen to your suggestion?

    But Xu Yi thought about it before nodding to Newman, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll find a chance to talk to him.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t just say this out of courtesy, Newman was overjoyed.

 Volume 3 8 - Only having lords in eyes

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 8 Only having lords in eyes</h4>

    After visiting the Falling Rain Valley, Newman returned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s office with Xu Yi.

    When the two had a meeting alone, Newman invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again while also deepening their conversation.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, to be honest, I very much don¡¯t understand why this country would suppress yourpany. After King William learned of this matter, he was very surprised and also very confused. Apany that could help an entire kingdom develop like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t support them, but to actually suppress it, King William and I are both angry for you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Newman said in an indignant manner.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for you and King William¡¯s care and support, but I think that chairman Newman shouldn¡¯t ask about our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s internal matters.¡±

    Newman shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I acknowledge that this is an internal matter for your Lampuri Kingdom and I believe that you can solve it with your abilities. But I have to sincerely represent our King William to say that our Rudson Kingdom will always have our doors open to you. If you change your mind one day and want to develop in our Rudson Kingdom, King William will openly wee you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I hope that day will nevere.¡±

    It had to be said, Newman was already putting it rather straightforward.

    His words were clearly digging around the corner. If this was earth, it would be immediately considered espionage.

    But the Sines Continent¡¯s society was different from earth¡¯s. The countries of the Sines Continent were strictly speaking just a gathering of nobles, a king couldn¡¯t evenpare to some of the more powerful nobles of the two greatest empires.

    If the royal family wasn¡¯t strong enough, the other nobles that belonged to that kingdom could go independent, which wasn¡¯t a strange thing on the continent.

    For example, because of the famine in the Lampuri Kingdom, their national power had weakened. There was a patch ofnd controlled by a count to the kingdom¡¯s north that had gone to the northern Sack Kingdom.

    Although this noble was called a shame and a traitor of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was differentpared to earth. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s public didn¡¯t react that much on this matter.

    To the citizens, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family had weakened and couldn¡¯t control all the nobles in the kingdom. It was natural for this situation to ur, there was no need to freak out about it.

    For the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom or the citizens of the Sines Continent, they didn¡¯t have much national identity and just continued their normal lives. They only cared about the lord that ruled over them.

    For example, when Count Sean ruled over Banta City, everyone had a happy and prosperous life. Thesest two years had quickly developed Banta City and made everyone¡¯s lives even better, creating a high support rate among the Banta City citizens.

    When the Royal Parliament transferred him, the Banta Citizens cursed the Royal Parliament for being idiots.

    What angered the citizens even more was what Count Stagg had done after taking over as City Lord which almost ruined the prosperity that Banta City had before. There were many people¡¯s lives that were affected by this.

    So the Banta City citizens didn¡¯t have a favourable impression of Count Stagg, rather they even began secretly despising him.

    There were many incited citizens who when heard that Xu Yi became a viscount and received territory, they wanted to pledge allegiance to Xu Yi and be people governed by Lord Viscount Xu Yi.

    On the Sines Continent, this was a very meaningful matter.

    That was because if this was really done, it meant that the citizens would be the citizens of Viscount Xu Yi¡¯s private territory. They wouldn¡¯t receive the same protection from thews of the Lampuri Kingdom and would take him on as their lord.

    This meant that Xu Yi as the lord could use his identity as the lord to do anything he wanted to people who swore loyalty to him. Other people wouldn¡¯t be able to do a thing, not to mention being able to speak up.

    Perhaps to put it a bit more simply, it meant that the citizens would be Xu Yi¡¯s ve based on his title as a viscount, but their statuses were different from that of ves.

    Although Xu Yipletely rejected all thoughts of people pledging loyalty to him, he could see based on this that on the Sines Continent, the citizens didn¡¯t have the same sense of belonging or national identity. They only cared about nobles who they worked for or were noble to.

    So in theory, Newman¡¯s invitation to Xu Yi wasn¡¯t something casually said.

    As long as Xu Yi was willing, he could separate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the Lampuri Kingdom and join the Rudson Kingdom.

    Of course, if Xu YI dared to do this, first not mentioning the otherpanies that wouldn¡¯t let go of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just the royal family wouldn¡¯t let go of Xu Yi.

    So Xu Yi hoped that day would nevere. If he really was in that position, it would mean that he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s situation in the Lampuri Kingdom was very bad.

    Xu Yi just wanted to develop the magic machine industry, he wasn¡¯t willing to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he dreamed of falling so low.

    Although the stubborn nobles that Count Stagg represented were suppressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everything was still under control. Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried, so naturally he rejected Newman¡¯s invitation.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Newman felt he had acted a bit too rushed. He smiled and didn¡¯t raise this matter again as he changed the topic, beginning to discuss the matter of buying agricultural magic machines from Xu Yi again.

    Before this, the first batch of agricultural magic machines had already been delivered to the Rudson Kingdom and had yed arge role in the spring harvest a few months ago.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s King William and the other nobles saw the enormous use of the agricultural magic machines, so they immediately had Newman go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to order even more agricultural magic machines.

    This was an order of fifty thousand kinds of magic machines to be transported to the Rudson Kingdom this month, then they would be assigned to the various parts of the kingdom for the fall harvest.

    ¡°ording to the estimates of our kingdom¡¯s agricultural department, the kingdom needs a total of five hundred thousand agricultural magic machines.¡± Newman said with a serious look, ¡°With such arge demand, if we buy it from here and transport it back, I feel that it would be an enormous waste. So, chairman Xu, you not being willing to move the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce to our Rudson Kingdom is something I can understand, but can yourpany at least construct an agricultural magic machine factory in our Rudson Kingdom? Or perhaps¡­..you can just transfer the agricultural magic machine technology to us?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not possible to transfer the technology, but we can consider investing in a factory.¡±

    Hearing the rxed tone Xu Yi had, Newman was filled with joy as he quickly said, ¡°Then let¡¯s decide like this. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will invest in an agricultural magic machine factory in our Rudson Kingdom and then the order can be handled by that factory. What do you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t be in a rush.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Producing agricultural magic machines isn¡¯t as simple as constructing a factory, the most important thing is the staff and materials. First, let¡¯s not mention the materials, the ones who are proficient in making the agricultural magic machines are the dwarves in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Do you think that the dwarves that I send to your Rudson Kingdom will be able to live a normal life?¡±

    ¡°Dwarves?¡± Newman knit his brows.

    The treatment of other races on the Sines Continent was the same for every country.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem of differentmunication between other races and human countries.

    Every country was serious in how they treated other races.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom was represented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, setting a very good example, proving that it wasn¡¯t as difficult for humans and other races to live together. No matter who they were, they were very cautious on this matter.

    Newman naturally wasn¡¯t an exception. After thinking for a bit, he finally said, ¡°In that case, I have to go back first and report to King William before making a decision.¡± He gave a sigh after saying this and continued, ¡°Only this will dy this matter by quite a bit and when the final decision has been made, it might take a year for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a factory.¡±

    ¡°A year isn¡¯t long.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Moreover, I have another suggestion. Although the main workers for producing agricultural magic machines and magic production machines are dwarves, ourpany¡¯s household magic machine workers are allpletely humans. So I feel that before investing in a magic machine workshop, it¡¯s better to invest in a household magic machine workshop first.¡±

    Newman was a bit surprised, ¡°Household magic machine workshop?¡±

    ¡°Yes, the household magic machine workshop has lower demands and it just requires human workers, so I feel that we can invest in a household magic machine workshop in your Rudson Kingdom first. I think that it should focus on producing Magic Fans and Magic Rice Cookers first because your Rudson Kingdom already has this technology, so you can produce it with ourpany.¡± Xu Yi added, ¡°The main consideration here is for us to test our cooperation first to make it easier to deepen our cooperation in the future.¡±

    Newman couldn¡¯t help nod as he praised, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really have considered everything, not bad. We can definitely try working first and then it¡¯ll be easier to cooperate in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°Yes, if this initial cooperation is good, it isn¡¯t impossible for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to produce agricultural magic machines with your Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s tone was very calm, Newman was shocked as he couldn¡¯t help staring at Xu Yi with wide eyes.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s idea of ¡°joint capital¡±, it meant that he really would transfer the technology for producing agricultural magic machines?

 Volume 3 9 - Endless equipment

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 9 Endless equipment</h4>

    In any event, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opening a factory in the Rudson Kingdom was arge matter, so it couldn¡¯t be possibly set with a simple conversation between Newman and Xu Yi.

    After Newman confirmed Xu Yi¡¯s intentions, he spent three days solving the problem for this batch of agricultural magic machines before bringing back three thousand agricultural magic machines from this batch with him.

    ording to his ideas, as long as he returned to Caraca City, he would immediately transfer Xu Yi¡¯s idea to King William. He believed that with how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to King William, there wouldn¡¯t be too big of a barrier in this matter.

    Three dayster, watching Newman leave the Falling Rain Valley with the agricultural magic machines loaded into his horse carriage, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help stroking his chin. He turned to look in the direction of the Stantine Duchy to the southwest.

    Although he hadn¡¯t gone to the Rudson Kingdom for an inspection, he was certain from the enthusiasm that Newman demonstrated and the attitude that King William demonstrated through Newman, going to build a factory in the Rudson Kingdom would be much easierpared to the Stantine Duchy.

    Moreover, ording to the introduction of the surrounding countries from acquaintances, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s people weren¡¯t aszy as the Stantine Duchy¡¯s. King William was a determined king and the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s national strength progressed with each day, already far surpassing the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Thinking of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national strength, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Sometimes he couldn¡¯t help feeling, why didn¡¯t he arrive in a stronger country when he transmigrated? For example, the two big empires of Candra and Marlow?

    If he was in such a powerful country, the magic machine industry he single handedly built would be easily recognized by the upper echelon of the country and there would be quite the room to develop. It wouldn¡¯t be like in the Lampuri Kingdom where every single step was hard.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national strength was weak, there were many things that they couldn¡¯t support Xu Yi in. It made him also have to consider the development of the Lampuri Kingdom while developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The more important thing was that for a weak country like the Lampuri Kingdom, it was easy for things like power struggles to appear.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the old stubborn fools that Count Stagg represented aiming for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, forcing Xu Yi to relocate the foundation of thepany and even transferring Count Sean who supported him away, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, Banta City would have already be the economic center that would createrge strides for the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom. It wouldn¡¯t have been forced down this step like how Count Stagg treated it now.

    The Banta City citizens reviled and cursed Count Stagg, but if one was to talk about real hatred, no one couldpare to Xu Yi.

    To Xu Yi, this fellow was not just a criminal in Banta City, he was a criminal to the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    But Xu Yi was helpless on this matter. Count Stagg represented the Stagg Family and the Stagg Family represented the will of the conservative stubborn old fools.

    If this became more serious, those stubborn old fools were backing the eldest son to take the throne and openly supported his highness Eric. It meant that they would definitely be ipatible with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who supported her highness Seveni.

    It wasn¡¯t that Count Stagg didn¡¯t see the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought to the development of Banta City, but he was stuck in his ways and decided to aim for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was a good thing that although the king didn¡¯t explicitly show any attitudes towards the issue of session, he was currently supporting Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through her highness Seveni.

    Whether it was making Xu Yi a baron before, making him the only person who was both a noble and a merchant, or when he made Xu Yi a viscount and broke conventions by giving him the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding area as his territory. It all demonstrated the king¡¯s full support of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was because of this that although Count Stagg wanted to deal with the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, he could only make moves with reasonable cause and couldn¡¯t force his way.

    Now that he had his own territory, Xu Yi could boldly develop as per his n and didn¡¯t need to worry about another Count Stagg issue again.

    Turning back to look at the Falling Rain Valley that he was familiar with after living here for some time, Xu Yi thought for a bit before heading towards the residential district.

    The current Falling Rain Valley residential district was very differentpared to before.

    After the workshops at Sandton Manor and the magic research facility in Banta City were moved, there were much more humans in the Falling Rain Valley. A new area was opened in the residential district for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce human workers to live in.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had over six thousand workers. Dwarves and elves took up over a thousand of them, with the rest being human workers.

    But the dwarves moved their tribe to the Falling Rain Valley, while only a part of the human workers chose to live in the Falling Rain Valley since it was so far away. So while there were over ten thousand people in the Falling Rain Valley, humans only made up less than half of that and were far lesspared to dwarves and elves.

    Xu Yi entered the residential area and walked along a road that passed through the dwarf and human living areas. After a while, he came to arge training field outside of the residential area.

    There were several hundred people on the training field currently training in three groups. They were separated into close to three hundred human warriors, one hundred dwarf warriors, and a hundred elf warriors.

    The human warriors were conducting drills under Hart¡¯s lead and the dwarf warriors were currently dueling with each other.

    The elf warriors werepletely different, they could be considered shockingpared to the human and dwarf warriors who sshed sweat all over. The elves had a calm and elegant appearance while training, but they were just stretching and jumping around, doing simple movements.

    Just based on this training, one could see a veryrge difference between the three races.

    Humans viewed everything seriously, dwarves focused on theirbat strength and physical strength, while elves emphasized bnce and coordination.

    So on a person fighting scale and in a small scale battle, the elves and dwarves were stronger, but if the numbers increased to a certain amount, humans were stronger.

    Of course, there were only three hundred human soldiers here. If they were to fight the hundred dwarves or the hundred elves, they would definitely be destroyed.

    When Xu Yi came to the training field, he stopped and remembered what he said to Hart before thinking about a few things, then making up his mind. If he wanted to maintain the bnce with the hundred dwarf and elf warriors, even adding in the two hundred guards who were on duty in the ck Rice Wastnd, it still wasn¡¯t enough. He would have to at least recruit another three hundred human guards.

    But right now the five hundred elite human guards for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce all came from major MacConley, so wanting to find another three hundred was too much. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t do that for now.

    But right now whether it was the dwarves or the elves, they all had good rtions with Xu Yi. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi was the leader in name, there was no need to worry about this for now.

    After considering this a bit, Xu Yi walked onto the training field and called the leaders of the humans, dwarves, and elves over.

    First he encouraged them before Xu Yi told them his goal foring here.

    ¡°I promised you allst time that suitable equipment would be provided for you. You¡¯ve already been here for several months, so you should be used to living here and I¡¯ll be fulfilling this promise. Come, tell me what equipment you need and I will write it down to have someone make them for you.¡±

    The leader of the dwarves Omar and the leader of the elves Furio looked at the leader of the humans Hart.

    Hart didn¡¯t show any courtesy and directly said, ¡°Sir chairman, we don¡¯t have any special requests. We just hope that you can provide us with a full set of armour. It doesn¡¯t need to be anything special, it¡¯s already pretty good if it¡¯s the same equipment used by the northern army.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before looking at Omar and Furio.

    Furio gave an inviting gesture to Omar who nodded his big head, saying in a strong voice, ¡°Sir chairman, we elves have thick muscles and don¡¯t need armour, but we need good weapons. Moreover, those weapons need to be heavy, that way it¡¯ll be strong when we use them.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If you like, with the technology of ourpany, we can cast giant steel axes that weigh several tons. Do you want those?¡±

    ¡°Several tons?¡± Omar¡¯s eyes popped out as he waved his hand, ¡°That¡¯s too much, even if I have confidence in my strength, I can¡¯t pick up an axe that weighs several tons. It doesn¡¯t need to be big, just one or two hundred kilograms is enough.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    What is ¡°just one or two hundred kilograms is enough¡±? These dwarves really had terrifying strength.

    After receiving Omar¡¯s opinion, Xu Yi looked at Furio.

    Furio shook his head, ¡°Chairman, we elves use equipment we make ourselves, we don¡¯t need anything else.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°But elder Illusia told me that the warriors with equipment in the Night Song Tribe is less than three hundred. Moreover, because of how hard it is to make your feathered arrows, each shot is very precious and you don¡¯t even have a means to recycle it after they are shot, right?¡±

    Furio nodded, ¡°Yes, these resources are hard to obtain and must be treasured.¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression that didn¡¯t seem to think the same, Furio added, ¡°I think that this is the same for both humans and elves because it is hard to make any kind of equipment, so people don¡¯t want to waste them.¡±

    Hart and Omar both nodded.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we dwarves really liked making small throwing axes before, but it was too much of a waste and we gradually stopped using them.¡± Omar said.

    Hart gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, Ie from the northern army, so based on what major MacConley has told you, I think you know how tragic our situation was.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, but he still revealed a smile, ¡°Then if I told you that you can use equipment without worry of using them up, would you believe me? For example, Furio, if I told you that you could have arrows that you could never finish shooting, how would you feel?¡±

    ¡°That is impossible!¡± Furio immediately said in a firm voice.

 Volume 3 10 - Plastic arrow

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 10 stic arrow</h4>

    ¡°Furio didn¡¯t believe you?¡± Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, looking as bright as a human girl with that smile. It made people unable to imagine her real age, ¡°It seems like I need to find some time to talk to him. If his thoughts don¡¯t change, he might not be able to keep up with the changes in the world.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t me him, after all, one had to be quite prudent when shooting arrows before. For an elven archer who has strict discipline to suddenly be wasteful when ites to shooting arrows, it really is a bit hard.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s a good thing that this matter won¡¯t happen again in the future.¡± Elder Illusia looked at the stic processing line not far away making arrow shafts, ¡°With this assembly line, we can make over three thousand stic arrows a day, so there¡¯s no need to worry about wasting them.¡±

    ¡°A daily output of only three thousand arrows isn¡¯t enough.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The thirty Magic Repeating Crossbow I sent to the northern army received high praise and now the army headquarters has sent an order for five hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows which I¡¯ve epted. But because of how many arrows the Magic Repeating Crossbows consume, if they used arrows when they were fighting the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment, it really would be too much of a waste. So I¡¯ve suggested these new stic arrows to the army headquarters and I think it won¡¯t take long before they send someone to inspect them. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be arge order.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll Amelud and Delil to properly take care of this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia and suddenly asked, ¡°Elder Illusia, I always wanted to ask, why didn¡¯t you choose yourself to negotiate for the Night Song Tribe, why did you send out Delil? With your intelligence, if everything was taken care of by you, it would make things much smoother.¡±

    Elder Illusia said with a shake of her hand and a sigh, ¡°I¡¯m already old. The Night Song Tribe¡¯s future will be in the hands of young people like Amelud and Delil, so I didn¡¯t take the post of negotiating for the tribe. I will also give less orders to the tribe in the future, so they can adapt to not having me ahead of time.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia¡¯s face that seemed like a beautiful young human girl in her twenties and knit his brows in surprise, ¡°I don¡¯t think that you¡¯re old at all. I feel that based on your appearance, you are like a young person to us humans, there¡¯s no need to consider your retirement yet, right?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise, but my age is a fact. No matter how my appearance looks, I¡¯m already old for an elf. The reason I look like this is because of the specialty of us elves.¡± Elder Illusia paused before suddenly asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think Agnes is beautiful?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Agnes is indeed beautiful, why?¡±

    Elder Illusia just nodded and didn¡¯t continue this topic.

    Xu Yi kept his confusion inside. He followed elder Illusia¡¯s lead and continued discussing the problem of producing the stic arrows.

    The new stic arrows were made from a new stic material that the Night Song Tribe had made through their experiments. It had a very hard characteristic and when used to make arrows, it wasn¡¯t worse than arrows made with the best wood.

    Moreover, because they were using batch production, whether it was the length, thickness or weight of the arrows, they were all the same. Adding in the custom made arrowheads, the arrows were all the same.

    Like this, when firing them, the arrows could adapt to any situation easier. They were more suited for Magic Repeating Crossbows that had a stricter requirement for arrows.

    When the northern army fought the Sack Kingdom in the Muerto Mountains for several months, although the northern army had disyed powerful battle strength to steal back the mountains, this all came from their powerful equipment.

    Putting aside their weapons, armours, and the Magic Trebuchet, in all the fights, the most important thing that wasn¡¯t the most dazzling was the consumption of arrows.

    Because they shot arrows without caring about the costs, they were able to press down the Sack Kingdom, making them unable to fight back at all.

    But this kind of suppression had a terrifying consumption when it came to arrows.

    In the final confrontation, although it was less than half a month and there were less than twenty battles, they had consumed a total of over a hundred thousand arrows.

    The northern army could have this many arrows because the weapon factory had createdrge amounts of steel arrows, which guaranteed the massive consumption of the northern army.

    The problem with these steel arrows was that they cost too much and they had to spend a minimum of thirty silver coins per arrow.

    A hundred thousand arrows, that was over thirty thousand gold coins.

    For the poor royal army, winning this war and capturing the important Muerto Mountains was without a doubt encouraging, but the cost of thirty thousand gold coins for a hundred thousand arrows was not something they could support.

    Adding in the expense of the Magic Trebuchet and theplete sets of armour the soldiers had, in this battle against the Sack Kingdom, the army headquarters had invested a hundred thousand gold coins into the northern army.

    Not mentioning the other things, at least the armours and Magic Trebuchets could be reused. But after the arrows were fired, even if they could take back the ones on the battlefield, they still consumed over half of them.

    In the end, the army headquarters counted everything and they found that they spent over ten thousand gold coins in arrows.

    Last time Xu Yi saw major MacConley, he had heard him discuss this problem, his mind turned and he suggested recing arrows with stic arrows.

    Although stic arrows weren¡¯t as deadly as steel arrows, blotting out the sky with arrows was mainly for suppression and the might of the stic arrows weren¡¯t bad. They were even stronger than the iron or wooden arrows that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army used before, so they could be used on the battlefields of the Sines Continent.

    After a few days, major MacConley received the stic arrow that Xu Yi sent. After learning that the arrows only cost eight gold coins each, he immediately decided that the army headquarters would use these stic arrows in the future.

    Based on the reply major MacConley sent Xu Yi, as long as the army headquarters was satisfied with the stic arrow, the lowest number in their order would be at least five hundred thousand arrows.

    ording to the price of nine silver coins per arrow that the army headquarters gave, five hundred thousand arrows was forty five thousand gold coins.

    For the newly established rubber processing factory that the Night Song Tribe had established, it really was a grand opening for them to have such arge first order.

    ¡°Actually, ording to my real thoughts, I don¡¯t want to receive this order.¡± Elder Illusia picked up one of the stic arrows and after looking it over, she said with a sigh, ¡°The goal of establishing this rubber processing factory was to let my nsmen have deeper contact with humans, not to participate in the wars between you humans.¡±

    ¡°For humans, war is eternal and you can never avoid it.¡± Xu Yi said with a helpless sigh, ¡°You and I both hate war, but I don¡¯t resist it when I can¡¯t avoid it. If you don¡¯t want the next order, I can ept it under the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as you send out several technical personnel, I believe that ourpany can smoothly make the stic arrows.¡±

    ¡°No need. Since we have already decided to join human lives, we can¡¯t avoid it. Although doing this can be considered being involved in your human wars, if it is treated as just selling normal products, it isn¡¯t too hard to ept.¡± Elder Illusia said.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Elder Illusia wasn¡¯t a pure hearted little elven girl like Agnes, she really didn¡¯t simply hand over important stic processing technology.

    ¡°How about this, elder Illusia, when I head back to Banta City tonight, you can have Delile with me and I¡¯ll introduce her to the chairman of thergepanies. As for how you should introduce the business of your rubber processing factory, I won¡¯t interfere and let Delil handle it. What do you think?¡± Xu Yi suggested in a thoughtful voice.

    ¡°ording to the customs of us elves, this is giving us something and I should reject it.¡± Elder Illusia revealed a smile, ¡°But since we want to join your human society, we should follow your human methods. This can be considered cooperation between us and I¡¯m very happy that chairman Xu is helping us.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That¡¯s right. We¡¯re all partners, there¡¯s no need to treat it as a gift. If you want to make it fair, then you can just repay for thister. Wouldn¡¯t this be a very simple transaction?¡±

    ¡°Yes. I¡¯ll go tell Delil and have her learn from you on how to be a human merchant.¡± Elder Illusia said with a nod, ¡°When she went to Banta City on business for the rubber processing factory, I wasn¡¯t satisfied with her work. I hope that this time her gains will be greater when she goes with chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s an honour.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

 Volume 3 11 - New life concepts

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 11 New life concepts</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t held a press conference in a long time.

    Whether it was a product release or a news conference, the people of Banta City were used to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing new magic machines or big pieces of news. Now that it had been close to four months since thest press conference announcing the bicycles, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t made any moves and people couldn¡¯t get used to it.

    So when the ?Banta Times? announced three days ahead of time that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be holding a press conference on the twenty fourth of July, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone in Banta City.

    Not only because it was the first press conference in several months, it was also because the press conference was held in a different cepared to before.

    First, this press conference was only a press conference, it wasn¡¯t to announce a new product and it was just a news conference to announce something.

    Second, the press conference was being held at night and not at noon like before.

    The final thing that people paid attention to was that this press conference was actually being held at the old position of Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower.

    Seeing this news, almost everyone reacted immediately.

    Three months ago, Great Magician Cami personally demolished his Magic Tower. He had surrounded the site with a fence and covered it up, not letting anyone see what was inside.

    Finally there was a sign ced on the ruins that had remained to this point that had written ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new concept modern magic building will be arriving in three months, please look forward to it.¡±

    Calcting the time, it had indeed been three months.

    When the people of Banta City passed by Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower and saw this sign, but were unable to see the situation inside, they were all very curious about this ¡°new concept modern magic building¡±.

    Now that they saw the news in the ?Banta Times? and they knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding a press conference, they immediately knew that this announcement was rted to this ¡°new concept modern magic building¡±.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should announce this ¡°new concept modern magic building¡± at this press conference.

    So curiosity in the hearts of the Banta City people had reached a peak. As soon as evening came, countless Banta City people rushed to the old site of Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower.

    Thest time that people rushed into the night to gather in one ce like this was when the city square project was finished. Seeing this situation again, everyone couldn¡¯t help linking the two together.

    Last time the city square had opened the eyes of the Banta City people. They believed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t disappoint this time and this ¡°new concept modern magic building¡± would definitely be a novel experience for everyone.

    But different from the new square openingst time, although it was night time, Banta City wasn¡¯tpletely covered in darkness. Because of the streetmps, only half of Banta City was covered in darkness. People didn¡¯t have to carry magicmps when heading out likest time.

    Everyone came out with expectant feelings, quickly gathering in the empty space in front of the old site of Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower. They easily filled the few streets around here and it was a repeat of the scene when the city square was opened.

    But this time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t make people wait as long.

    It was because it was summer, so the sun set ratherte. When it became eight like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced in the ?Banta Times?, it wasn¡¯t that long past the sun setting.

    Even if the dim night arrived, the surrounding streetmps gradually lit up. Everyone saw these bright streetmps and they fondly remembered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.

    At this time, the curtain covering Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower was suddenly pulled away. When everyone couldn¡¯t see clearly what was under the curtains, there was a bright orange light that appeared.

    This light was bright, but not dazzling. Everyone used these lights to see the situation around them.

    What appeared in front of everyone was a normal looking two storied building.

    Everyone was surprised. They never thought that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made them wait three months and after holding everyone¡¯s curiosity, what appeared in front of them was just this normal looking two storied building?

    What was good about this?

    While everyone was confused, a familiar figure walked out of the orange lights.

    After seeing this person¡¯s figure, the crowd was filled with a stir.

    ¡°Chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°God! It¡¯s actually chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? Could it be that chairman Xu is hosting this press conference?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..This is too unbelievable! It¡¯s actually chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, long time no see!¡±

    ¡­...

    Seeing Xu Yi standing in the orange light, the people who saw his face right away began to cheer and call out to Xu Yi.

    Since announcing that Kennard would be the general manager for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t appeared in public after that.

    Although the ?Banta Times? would report some news on him, without actually seeing him, the people of Banta City always felt that something was missing.

    Especially after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City, Xu Yi hadn¡¯te back to Banta City for close to two months now.

    This made everything think, did Xu Yi give up on Banta City? Did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce give up on Banta City?

    The people of Banta City were aware of the changes Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought Banta City. They were clear that if it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would have been impossible for such arge change to happen in Banta City in just two short years, greatly changing everyone¡¯s lives.

    So although no one had stated it, in their hearts, the people of Banta City ced Xu Yi even higher than Count Sean and Great Magician Cami.

    Now that Xu Yi had appeared in front of everyone after several months, everyone¡¯s hearts were filled with fondness and joy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce held a press conference in Banta City and Xu Yi had appeared, it meant that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give up on Banta City! Banta City still had hope!

    Seeing the excited looks on everyone¡¯s faces under the streetmps, Xu Yi waved his hand at everyone with a smile, which created another wave of cheers.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling happy. He might have already be a star in the hearts of Banta City¡¯s people.

    After clearing his throat, Xu Yi raised his right hand to have everyone calm down. Then he used voice amplifying magic to say, ¡°Good evening everyone, wee to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce press conference. After not holding our press conference for a long time, does everyone miss it?¡±

    The crowd broke out inughter immediately.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s been too long!¡±

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, if you didn¡¯t hold another press conference, we would have already forgotten your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t speak nonsense. There are Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic machines all over our homes, how could we forget.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, we fondly remember your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product announcement. Chairman Xu, what new things are you introducing to us all this time?¡±

    ¡°Right, what new things are there, quickly tell us. I was just talking to others about what kind of new magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would introduce next.¡±

    ¡°Un, we¡¯re very curious. Chairman Xu, quickly tell us.¡±

    ¡°Quickly, we can¡¯t wait any longer!¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing the unified cries from the crowd, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He raised his hand to have everyone quiet down and turned to the two storied building behind him, ¡°It¡¯s a real pity that for this press conference, I¡¯m not introducing a new product to everyone, rather it¡¯s a new living concept.¡±

    Seeing the doubt on everyone¡¯s face, Xu Yi didn¡¯t wait for anyone to ask before pointing at the two storied building and saying, ¡°I think that everyone already knows that we hung a sign here and it wrote that this is the new concept modern magic building. Then I will tell everyone right now that this so-called new concept is a new living concept. The so-called new living concept is to make everyone forget their past life styles and from this day forth, you¡¯ll live a new life based on the power of magic. First, please look at this Magic Lamp¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the two Magic Lamps at the entrance of the building letting out orange light and raised a finger to press down beside them while everyone was watching.

    The Magic Lamp suddenly went out which created shocked gasps.

    Everyone realized that this was the long distance Magic Lamp controlling technology. The ?Banta Times? had reported that this was because of the long range magic transfer technology that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed.

    What used this technology right now in Banta City were themps on the streets and themps in the city square.

    Now it was clear that these orange Magic Lamps also used this technology.

    Xu Yi pressed again and the orange Magic Lamps lit up again, once again illuminating the empty space in front of the small building.

    ¡°Everyone look, this light switch is ced by the door. Like this, you can press it when you¡¯re walking to the door and light up the space in front of the door, so you don¡¯t have to enter in darkness.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice sounded again, ¡°Also, you don¡¯t need to worry about turning it off. On the other side of the door, there is also another switch. As long as you press that switch, you can control this Magic Lamp and guarantee that you¡¯ll turn off the light after entering the door. This also guarantees that you can turn on the light before heading outside, lighting up the path outside.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, everyone couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    Although this design seemed very simple, it was a very well thought out idea. Itpletely considered people¡¯s needs when going out the door. It could be considered the same as the household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made before, it considered everything and made peoplefortable when using them.

    ¡°Although this doormp is very simple, it represents the new life concept that I talked about today, which is convenience,fort, and speed.¡± Xu Yi had a faint smile as he kept exining, ¡°Moreover, this doormp is just the beginning. In this room that doesn¡¯t seem to have any unusual magic, there are other concepts hidden within, so I ask everyone to follow along with my exnation¡­..¡±

 Volume 3 12 - Experiencing a new life

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 12 Experiencing a new life</h4>

    Just the double switch design controlling themp at the door was of course not enough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to demonstrate this new life concept.

    Following Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, the people outside gradually understood this so-called new life concept. It was to have people live in a different mannerpared to before,bining all parts of their lives with various household magic machines, making things more convenient, quick, andfortable.

    For example, after passing through the lit up door, they could also press another switch and turn on the Magic Lamp hanging above the living room ceiling, lighting up the entire room.

    After a day of work anding home, if one wanted to drink a cup of soothing warm water, it was very simple. One just needed to press a switch to boil a pot of steaming hot water with the Magic Kettle in just five minutes. There was no need to drink leftover half warm water and there wasn¡¯t a need to do something as troublesome as lighting the stove to boil the water anymore.

    It was also very easy to eat a meal. With a Magic Bread Maker or Magic Rice Cooker in the kitchen, one just needs to put the ingredients in and turn on the switch, then you can just wait for freshly cooked rice or bread toe out.

    You also want to eat dishes? That was also simple. With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed Magic Stove, one just needed to put in a Magic Crystal and press the switch, then there would be mes that would appear on the Magic Stove. There was no need to do something as troublesome as getting firewood to start a fire.

    Moreover, the switch on the Magic Stove could be adjusted to change the size of the me. That way, you could use a small me to stir fry while having a small me to boil.

    Compared to the traditional firewood stove, the Magic Stove¡¯s biggest advantage was that it didn¡¯t take up much space.

    It didn¡¯t need over a square meter of space and was as tall as one¡¯s waist like a giant firewood stove. The Magic Stove was less than forty centimeters long and less than thirteen centimeters tall, so it could be easily ced onto a desk and used for cooking.

    What? Are you worried about the fumes?

    Please, haven¡¯t you had enough of the fumes with a firewood stove already? The Magic Stove stove was much better, alright? Because the mes of the Magic Stove were made from a me Magic Array, it didn¡¯t produce smoke like when burning firewood.

    If one had to talk about the fumes that came from stir frying, it was very simple. One just had to use the newest Magic Kitchen Fan that was inside this room.

    Putting the Magic Kitchen Fan above the Magic Stove, one just needed to press the switch when cooking and the Magic Kitchen Fan would automatically produce suction. The fumes created by the Magic Stove would all be sucked away and then dispelled through a special stic pipeline that the Magic Kitchen Fan was connected to, not leaving a single bit in the room.

    Alright, after making the food, you could take out some ale that you had already cooled in the Magic Refrigerator ahead of time, which you could enjoy with your freshly cooked meal.

    After eating your fill and taking a rest, it would be very easy to sweat in the summer heat, so you had to take a bath, right?

    There was no need to worry, there was a special bathroom in the magic house. Moreover, with prepared pipelines, as long as you press the switch, the Magic Water Pump underwater would bring water from the underground water storage to even the highest attic.

    The water storage could hold a ton of water, which was enough for a family of four to use all day.

    If one didn¡¯t like using cold water to wash, it didn¡¯t matter. As long as one pressed the switch for the Magic Water Heater, one could enjoy a warm bath.

    Alright, after taking a bath, there was something that you had to do yourself which was changing into clean clothes.

    If you¡¯re too tired to do this, you can just wait a while, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Magic Washer is currently being developed. ording to what Xu Yi said, this new product wille out within the year and it would save you time on doingundry.

    So after working hard all day, you would find that as long as you lived in this magic building, there are few things that you would have to do yourself. You would be much less tired and you would also save quite a bit of time.

    When one wanted to rest and needed quiet, one just needed to press the master switch and all the magic machines would stop working. The magic room would be silent and you could have a nice rest.

    This kind of life, wasn¡¯t it moving?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know if people were moved, but he was certain that after he finished exining, everyone here showed moved expressions.

    When Xu Yi announced that the magic room was open and everyone was allowed to visit it, people desperately charged forward to be the first to experience the dream-like new life concept that Xu Yi described.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi tell everyone to calm down and to line up, this magic room that hadn¡¯t even been finished for a week would have been shattered by these wild people.

    Seeing that Qurik was allowing five people to enter in the first batch, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and retreated into the darkness.

    Although Qurik had taken the initiative toe after hearing Cantona¡¯s description, through the tests of the human resource staff and Kennard, they made certain that he was a person with a quick and clear mind, as well as someone who was good at talking. He was very suited for being responsible for this new life concept magic room and to guide people through it, so Xu Yi was assured of leaving it to him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are we setting out now?¡± After Xu Yi walked behind the magic room, Delil came out of the darkness.

    Xu Yi looked at the sky and found that the crescent moon was halfway up. He gave a nod, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    The two went out the back door and walked to a different peaceful alley. They entered the horse carriage that was already waiting there and headed towards the City Lord Manor.

    After the carriage set off, Xu Yi looked over Delil sitting in front of him. Seeing the tense look on her face, he couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°I thought that you elves never got nervous.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please stop teasing me.¡± Delil shook her head with a bitter smile.

    Although she was the candidate that elder Illusia specially chose to be in charge of negotiating for the Night Song Tribe¡¯s rubber processing factory, so that meant that she was rather good with dealing with people.

    That was only within the Night Song Tribe. When she began dealing with humans and even starting dealing with business that was very difficult for elves, there was quite a bit of pressure on her.

    Last time when Delil came to Banta City to fill out the applications to create a rubber processing factory with Still, even though she had Still¡¯s help, she had encountered many problems. So this had made her feel very nervous.

    ¡°Actually there¡¯s no need to be nervous.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You don¡¯t need to treat this matter as thatplex, the trade business of us humans is just buying and selling. You are representing your rubber processing factory right now, so the position of your factory is just selling rubber products. So you just need to think about how to sell these things and what price to sell them at, you don¡¯t need to think about anything else right now. You can slowly learn about the process when you encounter themter.¡±

    ¡°Un, many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s guidance.¡± Delil nodded before knitting her brows, ¡°But we don¡¯t know what we can sell right now because no matter what rubber product we make, it is all assigned to us by chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before looking out the window for a while and suddenly calling for the driver to stop. He then waved his hand to Delil, ¡°Come and take a look.¡±

    Delil was confused as she came out of the carriage with Xu Yi, but then she entered a clothing store that wasn¡¯t closed yet with Xu Yi.

    This clothing stored clearly didn¡¯t have any business and a thirty year old woman was bored leaning over the counter right now. When she heard peopleing in, it was like she had changed as she immediately revealed a smile and came forward.

    When she was about to greet them, she suddenly saw that it was Xu Yi who came in. The smile on her face twitched before it bloomed even brighter as she eximed in an exaggerated voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you here?¡±

    ¡°What? I¡¯m not wee?¡± Xu Yiughed. He looked around and found a Magic Air Conditioner that seemed new on the wall. He pointed at the Magic Air Conditioner and asked, ¡°Big sister Sara, when did you change your Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    This store was the one that Xu Yi had gone shopping in with Stillst year, the store owner was a woman named Sara.

    Last year she hadined to Xu Yi that the Magic Air Conditioner she used was rusting and Xu Yi had told her that they would be making a rust resistant Magic Air Conditioner soon.

    Now it seemed like she had decisively decided to exchange for a SIlver Leaf Alloy Magic Air Conditioner.

    ¡°I exchanged it when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was doing the new Magic Air Conditioner event, now it¡¯s already been here for over a year.¡± Big sister Sara replied with a smile. Then she looked over at Delil who was following behind Xu Yi with a curious look and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you nning to choose clothes for this elven young miss today?¡±

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although the people of Banta City were still a bit surprised when seeing elves, their reactions weren¡¯t as intense as before.

    Especially someone like Sara who operated a clothing store. She often saw the female elf workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commercee here to buy human clothes, so naturally she wasn¡¯t surprised at all to see the elven girl following Xu Yi.

    To be honest, she was more curious why Xu Yi would be appearing here today.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Sandton Manor and developed in the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t appeared in Banta City for several months.

    ¡°No, I¡¯m just taking her around for a look. Perhaps not long from now, your store will be using things personally made by elves.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile before turning to look at Delil, ¡°How about it? Do you see anything that you can make?¡±

 Volume 3 13 - Delilâ€™s first business deal

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 13 Delil¡¯s first business deal</h4>

    Delil didn¡¯t react immediately, rather she looked around this store that didn¡¯t seem that big. After carefully looking around every corner, she came in front of big sister Sara and pointed at a clothes hanger with clothes on them before asking, ¡°Can I ask how much you spend to buy those?¡±

    Big sister Sara was surprised before revealing an apologetic smile, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, it¡¯s not convenient for me to reveal the clothing price.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not asking about the clothes, rather I¡¯m asking about that¡­..You humans seem to call it a clothes hanger?¡± Delil asked.

    ¡°Clothes hanger?¡± Big sister Sara looked at Delil in surprise before looking at Xu Yi with a questioning gaze.

    Xu Yi gave her a slight nod, ¡°Big sister Sara, how much you spend to buy these clothes hangers isn¡¯t anything you can¡¯t reveal. If you tell her, you might be able to benefit from her.¡±

    ¡°Benefit?¡± Big sister Sara doubtfully looked at Delil. She didn¡¯t feel that she could receive any benefits from this beautiful female elf, but she believed in Xu Yi so she honestly replied, ¡°If it¡¯s the clothes hangers, I buy them from the Tiremay Chamber of Commerce and they cost an average of¡­..around seventeen silver coins.¡±

    ¡°Seventeen silver coins?¡± Delil thought about it before turning to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Is this price high?¡±

    ¡°Whether it¡¯s high or not is rtive.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Delil, if there is a cheaper substitute, then the price is considered high. But if there isn¡¯t, there isn¡¯t the concept of high or not.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Delil nodded before asking big sister Sara, ¡°Then can I ask, if I¡­..could sell you something that had a simr use, but was even better at holding clothes that only cost fifteen silver coins each, would you buy it?¡±

    Big sister Sara was surprised again, ¡°Nonsenses, if there was a better and cheaper thing, of course I would buy it, but is there a better and cheaper clothes hanger? Right, you elves live in the forest, so could it be that you make wooden clothes hangers?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not talking about this.¡± Delil shook her head and patted around before taking out a piece of paper for big sister Sara, ¡°Big sister Sara, let me introduce myself. I am the Night Song Tribe¡¯s rubber processing factory¡¯s business manager. This is my name card, please take it.¡±

    Big sister Sara was stunned for a bit before looking at Xu Yi in disbelief. She found that his expression was also very strange and looking like he was suppressing hisughter, so she became even more confused.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­..Eh¡­..No¡­..It¡¯s nothing, no need to be surprised.¡± Xu Yi used quite a bit of effort to stop himself from smiling.

    Seeing an elf girl seriously pull out her name card and reporting that she was the business manager of apany, even if this scene was designed by Xu Yi himself, he almost couldn¡¯t suppress the feelings and almost broke out inughter when he saw it.

    ¡°Big sister Sara, let me exin. This elven young miss Deliles from a rubber processing factory. As for this rubber, you should know a bit from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advertisements, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, I know a bit, but I don¡¯t know much.¡± Big sister Sara honestly replied.

    ¡°Actually many of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products use rubber. For example, the cover for our newest Magic Fan is made from rubber. Not only is it light, it is also very durable. It¡¯s evenparable to the iron cover we used before.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Un, I know. My husband has bought every single generation of Magic Fan and the newest Magic Fan¡¯s rubber cover is much lighterpared to the first generation¡¯s iron cover. It¡¯s much easier when moving it around.¡± Big sister Sara said with a smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Delil was asking about your clothes hanger just now, I think that she wants to make stic hangers to rece the wooden hangers. To me, stic clothes hangers would be much easier to use because the stic surface is very smooth. The surface of the wooden clothes hangers you use is very rough, so it¡¯s very easy to damage the clothes.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I talked to the Tiremay Chamber of Commerce about this problem, but they couldn¡¯t do anything, so I have to be very careful when hanging up clothes. But I sell clothes and it isn¡¯t good if I don¡¯t hang them out to disy. I¡¯ve spent quite a bit of brainpower on this problem.¡± Big sister Sarained.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and winked at Delil.

    Delil understood and quickly said, ¡°There won¡¯t be this problem if you use the stic clothes hanger were produce because we guarantee that they will be as smooth as skin, there won¡¯t be any sharp thorns at all.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Big sister Sara doubtfully looked at Delil.

    Delil looked at Xu Yi, but he just smiled without saying a word. She thought about it before replying, ¡°If you need it, we can make a product for you to test first. If you¡¯re satisfied, then you can make your order.¡±

    ¡°It would be fine like this.¡± Big sister Sara thought for a bit before looking at the card she received from Delil, ¡°The Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic factory? I remember¡­...Chairman Xu, isn¡¯t the elf tribe your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a good rtionship with called the Night Song Tribe? This stic factory was made by them?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi found big sister Sara¡¯s surprised look a bit funny, ¡°There¡¯s no need to doubt their ability because all of ourpany¡¯s magic machine stic products alle from the Night Song Tribe. Think about it, they even make theplex Magic Fan covers so perfectly, there definitely wouldn¡¯t be a problem with a small clothes hanger, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..The things that the elves make will definitely be perfect¡­..¡± Big sister Sara thought about it before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll first order a hundred stic clothes hangers to test. If I¡¯m satisfied with them, I will rmend them to my friends.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your business.¡± Seeing that her efforts paid off, Delil revealed a happy smile. She quickly set up a way to deliver the product and the delivery time with big sister Sara.

    After everything was taken care of, Xu Yi and Delil left. After getting into the carriage, the smile on her face was very bright.

    ¡°Congrattions Delil, although this order is very small, it is still the first deal that you made with your own efforts. It is very meaningful.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°This is all because of chairman Xu¡¯s help, this can¡¯t be considered my efforts alonepletely.¡± Delil quickly said.

    ¡°No need to be modest, you relied on your own abilities to think of the stic clothes hangers, I didn¡¯t say anything.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before saying, ¡°But now that you¡¯ve taken the most important first step, I do have to tell you something.¡±

    ¡°Please.¡± Delil revealed a look of apt attention.

    ¡°Although you did good to thinking of using stic clothes hangers to rece wooden clothes hangers, you should expand your horizons even more. Think about it, although you can use the clothes hangers to disy clothes to everyone, just hanging the clothes on the clothes hanger can¡¯t disy the specialty of the clothes, right?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Delil thought about it before asking, ¡°You mean¡­..to make something that can support the clothes to let it disy its specialty?¡±

    Xu Yi gave Delil a thumbs up and praised her, ¡°Very good! Delil, no wonder elder Illusia chose you for business negotiations. I really have to say that your reactions are quite fast and your mind is quite flexible. I think that it won¡¯t take much time for you to be a qualified business manager.¡±

    Delil was an elf in the end, she didn¡¯t have the same emotions as normal humans. After saying a few pleasantries, she said with a nod, ¡°I will work hard. Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve thought about it. To perfectly support the clothes while demonstrating their specialties, it requires one¡¯s body. I think that we can make a model that has the same size and shape as a human body, that way we can put the clothes on and achieve this effect.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Although he was referring to the human figure, he never thought that Delil would think of this so fast.

    It could be seen that while elves couldn¡¯tpare to humans when it came to creativity, it wasn¡¯t worth disregarding at all.

    Rather, at least Delil showed good creativity to Xu Yi today.

    The two discussed clothes hangers and human models on the way and soon the horse carriage arrived in front of the City Lord Manor.

    Xu Yi jumped out and looked at the City Lord Manor he hadn¡¯t visited in a long time. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a sad look.

    A few months ago, he frequently came to the City Lord Manor. In these days, he didn¡¯t evene to Banta City, so there was no need to mention the City Lord Manor.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t understand. Why do you ept the Banta City¡¯s City Lord¡¯s invitation when he is so unfriendly towards you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Why did youe to the banquet?¡± Delil asked Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Delil, now that you are officially a merchant, you need to remember one thing.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°For a qualified merchant, grudges have no meaning. The only thing that affects a merchant¡¯s decision will always be benefits.¡±

 Volume 3 14 - New source of profit

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 14 New source of profit</h4>

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, it really has been a long time.¡± Count Stagg had a seemingly friendly smile as he weed Xu Yi.

    Compared to when he became the City Lord a month ago and how he demonstrated hostility towards Xu Yi, it waspletely different. It seemed like Count Stagg was apletely different person, treating Xu Yi like an old friend. It made the people around them unable to stop their eyes from popping out.

    Xu Yi also wasn¡¯t as hostile as he was the first time he met him, rather he had a friendly smile on his face as he respectfully came forward to greet Count Stagg.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, for you to personallye greet me, it truly is an honour.¡±

    ¡°How so, how so. Chairman Xu, you are an honoured guest that I specially invited, of course I have to properly wee you. Come, pleasee in.¡± Count Stagg invited Xu Yi in, as his eyes doubtfully looked over Delil behind him.

    ¡°This is the business manager of the rubber processing factory under ourpany, young miss Delil.¡± Xu Yi immediately exined, ¡°As you can see, shees from the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elves.¡±

    In front of Delil, Count Stagg wasn¡¯t as friendly. He just gave a slight nod to Delil before leading the way to the City Lord Manor.

    Xu Yi entered the familiar banquet hall following Count Stagg and he saw the chairmen of the otherrgepanies of Banta City who were already here.

    Seeing that Count Stagg was personally leading Xu Yi in, chairman Cruise raised a hand to greet Xu Yi from not far away with a taunting smile on his face.

    Of course this wasn¡¯t aimed at Xu Yi, rather it was because of Count Stagg¡¯s actions.

    Count Stagg had only seeded as City Lord for a short month, but because of his agricultural promotion policies, thepanies of the city had been suppressed to different degrees.

    Among them were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who left with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, who received the most direct influence. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City, so they weren¡¯t affected that much, but because the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had a deep foundation in Banta City, they simply couldn¡¯t withdraw in a short period of time. They were affected more and incurred more losses.

    Because of this, chairman Cruise was very dissatisfied with Count Stagg. Now that he had no choice but to change his attitude, even bringing the chairmen of thergepanies together and even personally greeting Xu Yi, naturally chairman Cruise was very happy.

    Because in his eyes, this meant that Count Stagg was being forced to lower his arrogant head.

    For this, chairman Cruise was very much filled with schadenfreude.

    Other than chairman Cruise, when the other chairmen saw Xu Yie in, they all greeted him.

    Although no one did the same thing as chairman Cruise, based on the rxed smile on everyone¡¯s face, they were all excited about the sudden change in Count Stagg¡¯s attitude.

    In the end, thesepanies werepanies of Banta City. Count Stagg was the City Lord of Banta City, so if he decided to suppress business and focus on agriculture, suppressing thergepanies, thesepanies might have the support of different forces, but they wouldn¡¯t have any good methods to contest Count Stagg.

    But speaking of this, because there were different forces behind thesergepanies, Count Stagg suppressing them had caused those forces to suffer losses. So even if Count Stagg represented the stubborn old fools of the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as having the support of the Stagg Family, he couldn¡¯t be forceful in this matter and had to make some concessions.

    But he didn¡¯t personally greet anyone other than Xu Yi, it really did provoke some thought.

    When Xu Yi came into the hall, there were another three groups of guests that came. After all the guests had arrived, Count Stagg went onto the stage for a short speech before announcing the start of the banquet.

    Chairman Cruise immediately looked for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, is our dear Lord City Lord trying to target you?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°That shouldn¡¯t be.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Everyone knows that it isn¡¯t possible for him and I to have rtions, so no one will doubt me. He is doing this just to indicate his attitude towards me.¡±

    ¡°His attitude? You wouldn¡¯t think that he would suddenly support you, right?¡± Chairman Cruise said.

    ¡°That is clearly impossible. Based on my guess, he wants to cooperate with mypany, as well as easing the pressure he¡¯s putting on everyone.¡±

    ¡°What do you have that he wants to work with you for?¡±

    ¡°You should ask him that.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug. He leaned a bit and revealed Delil behind him, ¡°Come, let¡¯s not discuss this meaningless matter. Let me introduce you, this is¡­..¡±

    ¡°Young miss Delil, right? Last time young miss Still came to Banta City with her and we met.¡± Chairman Cruise cut Xu Yi off and gave a slight bow as he extended his right hand to Delil, ¡°I¡¯m very happy to see you again, beautiful young miss Delil.¡±

    Delil hesitated a bit before reaching her hand out to allow chairman Cruise to kiss it. She replied, ¡°I¡¯m also very happy to see you, your excellency chairman Cruise. Last time young miss Still told me that you are chairman Xu¡¯s best partner.¡±

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°Of course. You can ask chairman Cruise if you don¡¯t believe it. Other than me, can you find anyone else in Banta City who is a closer partner to him?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Cruise is right. Right now, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the closest rtionship with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. But¡­..I don¡¯t know whether we¡¯ll be able to maintain this once the Amrit Chamber of Commerce develops in other countries.¡±

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s expression changed as he ignored Xu Yi¡¯s teasing. He asked Xu Yi, ¡°What have you discussed with Newman?¡±

    ¡°Nothing really, but I feel that there isn¡¯t a problem with this arrangement. Newman asked me before leaving if I could ask your Amrit Chamber of Commerce to recruit some local workers, making it easier for them to support you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°You agreed to him?¡±

    ¡°So aren¡¯t I asking you now?¡± Xu Yi said while spreading his hands.

    Chairman Cruise was a bit surprised, ¡°Why did you agree to this proposition? Could it be that you don¡¯t know that by recruiting local workers from the Rudson Kingdom, ourpany¡¯s techniques will be stolen eventually?¡±

    ¡°The technology is all here, it¡¯s not that easy to steal.¡± Xu Yi pointed at his head, ¡°Not to mention that if you want to maintain a lead, the best method is not to prevent technology from being leaked, rather it is to develop new technology, maintaining this lead. Remember, technology is the foundation of industry.¡±

    ¡°You make it sound good.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a bitter smile, ¡°You¡¯re not worried about this because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many advanced technologies, so you won¡¯t miss one or two. But our Amrit Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have much leading technology, we can¡¯t be as luxurious as you.¡±

    ¡°Have you ever heard of exchanging technology for market?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°To put it simply, it¡¯s releasing your technology to let everyone experience the benefit of this technology. By touching everyone with this technology, people will need it. Like this, it creates a natural demand for this technology. With your Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current situation, the faster youy down the roads, the more benefits there are for yourpany.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Cruise thought about it for a bit before nodding, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, but I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to be in a rush. As long as ourpany keepsying down roads, we¡¯ll finish the roadwork eventually. At that time, everyone will understand the benefits of the roads and ourpany wouldn¡¯tck business.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing deep down.

    Compared to him, chairman Cruise was a true merchant. He wanted the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to quicklyy down roads and finish thework, just to advance his ns quickly, but from the angle of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, he definitely wasn¡¯t willing to do this.

    That was because like this, it was equal topressing their gross profits and shortening their profit cycles.

    For apany with hundreds of years of history like the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, naturally they paid attention to length.

    Xu Yi knew that it was definitely impossible to convince chairman Cruise with just words.

    Using the words he had just taught Delil, the only thing that can move a merchant was benefits.

    ¡°Alright, Cruise, let¡¯s make a deal.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying this.

    Hearing that Xu Yi was actually saying his name without adding ¡°chairman¡±, chairman Cruise¡¯s brows jumped up. He immediately understood that Xu Yi was going to talk about something very important, so his expression became serious and he nodded at Xu Yi, ¡°Speak then.¡±

    ¡°If your Amrit Chamber of Commerce can finish the roadworks in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, as well as the ck Rice Wastnd in five years, I will create a source of profit for yourpany with a wide prospect. What do you think about this deal?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in disbelief. If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, he would have thought that Xu Yi was joking.

    If Xu Yi¡¯s deal involved money, technology, or actually goods, he wouldn¡¯t have felt this strange. But he never would have thought that Xu Yi would actually give hispany a source of profits.

    Did he think that something like this could be gained easily?

    If there was such a good thing, why didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce use it themselves?

    ¡°It¡¯s because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is apany focusing on the magic machine industry. Although this source of profits is good, with infinite potential, it belongs to your Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s operational range and I¡¯m not interested in meddling.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in confusion for a while, ¡°Belongs in ourpany¡¯s operational range? You wouldn¡¯t be talking about construction, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s construction.¡±

 Volume 3 15 - Investing in the beastmen

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 15 Investing in the beastmen</h4>

    Seeing chairman Cruise walking away with a thoughtful look on his face, Delil couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that for a merchant, the most important thing is benefits? But ording to what you described just now, this new source of profit has great benefits, so why are you giving it to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s notpletely giving it to them.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°You should be able to hear that this new source of profits has benefits for both the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If we work together and the effects are good, both sides would win. Although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would earn more, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have any foundations in the construction business at all. If we were to do this ourselves, not mentioning if it would seed or not, it would consume quite a bit of effort and time. For me, the thing Ick the most are those two things.¡±

    Delil was silent for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°No wonder the elder was worried about your lifespan. Chairman Xu, if you could live several hundred years like us elves, that would be great.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°There is life and death. I am a human, I have to ept the limited lifespan of humans. For me, only when I have a limited lifespan can I use my full power to do what I want to do. Then again, don¡¯t I have a chance to be an Arch Magus or a Grand Magus?¡±

    Delil didn¡¯t say anything.

    ¡°Alright, you know life is short and time is precious, we shouldn¡¯t waste time here. Come with me.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand at Delil and moved towards the other chairmen in the hall.

    The reason for bringing Delil was to use this chance for her to meet some of the chairmen at this banquet. It was good to see if there was a chance to cooperate with thesergepanies.

    Between giving Xu Yi face and their curiosity towards elves, the other chairmen naturally wouldn¡¯t reject talking to Delil.

    Delil was nervous at first, but she quickly adapted to talking with everyone.

    Although she couldn¡¯t be as smooth as a normal merchant, with her status as an elf, her reactions made it easier to obtain the trust of the other side.

    So with just a few short conversations, there were manypanies that wanted to cooperate with the Night Song Tribe¡¯s rubber processing factory.

    Of course, thosepanies were the same as big sister Sara, they had some need for stic.

    They guaranteed that as long as Delil could give them suitable stic products, they would certainly make an order to the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory.

    Seeing Delil gradually adapt to this environment, Xu Yi moved to the side and let her face it alone.

    The Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent who was already waiting on the side leaned over.

    Xu Yi saw him and immediately asked with a smile, ¡°Hey, chairman Vincent, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve been inspecting on the ck Rice Wastnd for two months now, what are the results?¡±

    Hearing this question, chairman Vincent¡¯s expression became strange, ¡°I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s good or bad. The good news is that the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd indeed can¡¯t make clothes and they have a favourable impression of wearing human clothes, so in theory there is a very broad market.¡±

    ¡°Then what is the bad news?¡±

    ¡°The bad news is that the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s beastmen are very poor. To them, even if they exchange the few resources they have with us humans, they prioritize things that they need like salt and other necessities. As for clothes¡­..I went to many beastmen tribes and found that many beastmen don¡¯t care about wearing clothes. I even saw over ten beastmen tribes where they were walking around naked, looking no different from beasts.¡±

    Seeing the bitter smile on chairman Vincent¡¯s face, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°This reminds me of a joke from my hometown. There were two sales staff that were sent to inspect a beastman tribe. One of the sales workers was very depressed when he came back and reported that they didn¡¯t wear shoes. The other sales staff was overjoyed as he reported that it was great that the beastmen didn¡¯t wear shoes!¡±

    Chairman Vincentughed, ¡°Chairman Xu, are youughing at my indecisive feelings?¡±

    ¡°I just want to remind you that for something like a market, it can be made if one doesn¡¯t exist. For example, look at the Voller Tribe, aren¡¯t they wearing clothes now?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Beastmen didn¡¯t wear clothes before, so we can have them wear clothes. However there¡¯s still the problem of creating a condition where they wear clothes.¡± Chairman Vincent knit his brows in thought again.

    ¡°I¡¯ll give you some notice. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning on investing in a household magic machine assembly nt near the Voller Tribe this year, specially used to assemble household magic machines.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Vincent was surprised, ¡°Why? If you want to do assembly work, should it be done in the Falling Rain Valley? No matter how you look at it, it¡¯s much more convenient and safepared to the ck Rice Wastnd, right?¡±

    ¡°The key point is the cost.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°Speaking of the ck Rice Wastnd, perhaps everyone feels that it is a bit far, but actually you¡¯ll find thatparing it, it¡¯s closer to the north of the kingdompared to Banta City and it has a direct border with the Sack Kingdom to the north. Adding in the smooth terrain, if we build roads, it¡¯ll be easier to transport to the north part of the kingdompared to transporting from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°You mean that you¡¯ll save on transport costs like this? But I feel that putting a factory in the beastmen controlled ck Rice Wastnd is very unsafe.¡± Chairman Vincent shook his head and said.

    ¡°Then do you think that our threepanies building the mine and ourpany¡¯s non-ferrous metal smelting factory near the Voller Tribe is safe?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s also unsafe, otherwise your threepanies wouldn¡¯t have put so many guards near the mine.¡±

    ¡°That is only now. After a while, you¡¯ll find that it will be very safe. If someone attacks the mine and the non-ferrous metal smelting factory, I dare guarantee that the Voller Tribe¡¯s wolfmen and the surrounding tribes¡¯ beastmen will respond even more intensely than us.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Why?¡± Chairman Vincent was instantly stunned.

    ¡°Because there are many workers hired from the Voller Tribe and the surrounding beastmen tribes being hired at the mine and the factory. If the mine and factory are attacked, they will no longer be able to work and it would affect their wages. You think¡­..that after finally being able to get a fixed wage and being able to buy things from humanpanies at will, the beastmen who have lived their dream lives for just a few months will give up and let it be destroyed?¡±

    Seeing the strange smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Vincent couldn¡¯t help asking in a daze, ¡°Chairman Xu, it can¡¯t be that this was your n from the beginning, right?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without responding.

    Chairman Vincent was silent for a bit before letting out a long sigh.

    ¡°I think I understand your meaning. Letting these beastmen obtain stable ies from stable work and then living stable lives, they will naturally be unwilling to return to their lives of poverty from before. But like this, it is equal to destroying the beastmen¡¯s wild nature and taming them. Moreover, this will allow the beastmen to have the beastmen to gradually have the finances to purchase other things than daily necessities. For example, clothing from our Armani Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°Not bad, chairman Vincent. Now do you know why I said that a market can be created? ording to my ideas, these beastmen in the future will not just wear clothes. Each beastman family will be using our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines. There are over five hundred thousand beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd, this is a huge market equal to several Banta Cities.¡±

    Chairman Vincent couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really have to say, you really are thinking too far ahead. Beastmen are no different from beasts right now, but you want them to use magic machines which are even considered luxuries for us humans. I really don¡¯t know whether your idea is really far ahead or if it¡¯s crazy¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, sometimes super advanced ideas are no different from crazy ideas.¡± Xu Yi said whileughing, ¡°Whether I¡¯m treated as a prophet or a lunatic will all depend on if it seeds or not. So chairman Vent, even if you didn¡¯te looking for me, I would havee looking for you. How about it? Are you interested in being the same as me, investing in a few cotton factories on the ck Rice Wastnd? I promise you that investing in the ck Rice Wastnd can save many costs. Other than transportation costs, the biggest thing you¡¯ll be saving is human costs.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What does that mean?¡± Chairman Vincent asked in a curious voice, it was clear he was moved.

    ¡°Do you know how much we¡¯re offering the beastmen workers every month at our mine?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°ording to your ideas, it shouldn¡¯t be less than the human workers at the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s mines, right? It should be¡­..no more than fifteen gold coins?¡± Chairman Vincent guessed.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s only five gold coins!¡± Xu Yi stretched out his hand.

    ¡°This little?¡± Chairman Vincent¡¯s eyes popped out in shock, ¡°How could those beastmen agree to such low wages?¡±

    ¡°Just the opposite, the beastmen are very satisfied with this wage and even chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa have thanked me many times for this. As for the wages of the workers at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s non-ferrous metal smelting factory, it¡¯s even less. It¡¯s only four gold coins a month and those beastmen show their gratitude to me as the chairman. They always offer sincere blessing to me whenever they see me.¡± Xu Yi said in a proud voice.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Chairman Vincent was still in a bit of disbelief, but after thinking about it, he found it was very reasonable.

    The beastmen couldn¡¯t get any gold coins at all, even when they exchanged things, they just received normal items from the human merchants.

    Now that they could receive those shiny gold coins and use those gold coins to buy the things they needed from the humans, greatly increasing their standard of living.

    To them, being able to receive a wage was already good enough, how could they receive the same high wages as the workers in Banta City?

    Chairman Vincent quickly calcted the difference in wage and transportation fee and whenparing it in the end, he was shocked to find that ording to the wages of the beastmen workers that Xu Yi mentioned before, if he opened a factory on the ck Rice Wastnd, it would greatly decrease his costs!

    After drawing this conclusion, chairman Vincent¡¯s expression looking at Xu Yi became very strange.

    This fellow, just how did he think of this?

 Volume 3 16 - Drake Duchy

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 16 Drake Duchy</h4>

    After discussing some details with chairman Vincent, Count Stagg sent people to bring Xu Yi to the side to talk like he had expected.

    But what came to a surprise to Xu Yi was that after entering the room, other than Count Stagg, there were two people he didn¡¯t recognize.

    ¡°Come, chairman Xu, let me introduce you. These two are young miss Caroline and mister Anduin from the Drake Duchy.¡± Count Stagg saw that Xu Yi came in and stood up to introduce the others before pointing at Xu Yi and saying, ¡°Young miss Caroline, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.¡±

    Xu Yi noticed that when Count Stagg had given his introduction, he had ced young miss Caroline first, which meant that her status was higher than this Anduin.

    As expected, hearing Count Stagg¡¯s introduction, young miss Caroline stretched out her slender right hand to Xu Yi as she revealed a bright smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve long heard your name and I¡¯ve always wanted to meet you. To be able to finally see you in person today, I really am very happy and honoured.¡±

    When his eyes fell onto young miss Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

    Aftering to the Sines Continent for over five years, Xu Yi had seen countless beautiful young girls. Before this, he had never seen a girl who couldpare in beauty to Still.

    But now Still had actually met an opponent.

    This young miss Caroline¡¯s appearance was actually not worse than Still¡¯s by a single bit.

    But she was different from the bright appearance that Still had. This young miss Caroline¡¯s face was very gentle and with her calm as water eyes, she gave off a charming taste that waspletely different from Still¡¯s.

    Xu Yi reached out a hand to gently hold hers as he said with a smile, ¡°Being able to receive the praise of a beautiful young miss like yourself, it really is my honour. But young miss Caroline, why did you always want to see me?¡±

    Young miss Caroline revealed a faint smile. She looked at Xu Yi with a charming gaze, ¡°Of course it¡¯s because I¡¯ve seen the magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, so I was curious about the person who could invent these magic machines. Chairman Xu, I really am very curious, just how did you invent these novel and easy to use magic machines?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...You can treat it as a sh of inspiration.¡± Xu Yiughed before turning to Count Stagg, ¡°Lord City Lord, you specially called me here and invited me to see these two honoured guests, it must be because you want to discuss something, right?¡±

    Count Stagg slightly knit his brows before rxing them. He nodded with a faint smile as he indicated to Xu Yi and the other two to sit down.

    After everyone sat down, Count Stagg said to Xu Yi with a soft cough, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think I should first give you an exnation. During these days, there have been rumours all around Banta City saying that the agricultural promotion policies that I¡¯ve implemented, as well as renning how to usend were all deliberately aiming at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I want to saw that that was not my intention, it¡¯s just that some people have misinterpreted me.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the sincere expression on Count Stagg¡¯s face and forced himself not to smile. He gave a slight nod before forcing himself to also say in a sincere voice, ¡°I understand. If the Lord City Lord really wanted to aim for me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would our Frestech Chamber of Commerce be able to live well now? Don¡¯t you think, Lord City Lord?¡±

    Count Stagg¡¯s face twitched a bit before he gave augh, ¡°Of course that¡¯s not possible. As the Banta City City Lord, although I believe that agricultural development is important, I also am not setting death traps for thepanies of our Banta City. That is clearly something that isn¡¯t possible. So chairman Xu, you must understand this, or other people will misunderstand.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He was toozy to waste meaningless words with Count Stagg, so he continued by asking, ¡°So Lord City Lord, let¡¯s talk business then?¡±

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu treats his time so preciously, no wonder you can be this sessful.¡± Count Stagg praised before nodding at young miss Caroline and mister Anduin, then he continued talking to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, when I introduced young miss Caroline and mister Anduin, I only told you their names and where they came from, but I didn¡¯t tell you their statuses. Now I¡¯ll introduce them to you. Young miss Caroline is Duke Drake¡¯s youngest daughter and mister Anduin is the business minister of the Drake Duchy.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised before standing up again and giving a respectful bow to the two of them.

    ¡°So it was your highness princess Caroline, I¡¯ve truly been rude.¡±

    Princess Caroline and Prime Minister Anduin both stood up to give a bow. Princess Caroline said with a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t a formal asion, Viscount Xu does not need to mind.¡±

    Because Xu Yi addressed her as a noble, Princess Caroline had turned ¡°chairman Xu¡± to ¡°Viscount Xu¡±.

    Anduin also said with a nod, ¡°Viscount Xu does not need to mind this. In fact, the princess and I came to see you in hopes of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so we hope that you will remain as ¡®chairman Xu¡¯. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Business cooperation?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Stagg in confusion.

    This Count Stagg was clearly suppressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why did he take the initiative to bring in such guests?

    As for this Drake Duchy, ording to the geography books that Xu Yi crammed, he knew that it was on the northeast border of the Lampuri Kingdom, while also sharing a border with the Sack Kingdom. It was considered a small duchy that was between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom.

    Although it was also a Duchy, the Drake Duchy was much stronger than the Stantine Duchy because being able to survive in a small crevice between the Lampuri Kingdom and Sack Kingdom for several hundred years, it could be seen that the ducal family had some skills.

    But this Drake Duchy was connected to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northeast border and Banta City was in the southwest of the Lampuri Kingdom, so there was close to a thousand kilometers between them.

    This Princess Caroline and Prime Minister Anduin were clearly important people of the Drake Duchy, but they spent this long time and traveled this long distance to see Xu Yi, it could be seen that this was quite important.

    But Xu Yi was very curious about the fact that if this was a normal business cooperation, this business minister Anduin would have been enough for meeting with Xu Yi, so why did this Princess Caroline alsoe?

    ¡°It¡¯s because I really wanted to personally meet chairman Xu.¡± In front of Xu Yi¡¯s question, Princess Caroline said with a sweet smile, ¡°I¡¯ve been very interested in magic since I was young, but because I wasn¡¯t talented, my magic power has always beencking. So I could only be interested in a few small toys made from magic. Since I was small, I imagined that since magic was so fantastic, it meant that fantastic things could be made from magic that could achieve things that humans couldn¡¯t do based on their own powers. There were few things like this on the continent before and I didn¡¯t have the skills to research them, so I always felt regret over this. But after seeing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop these magic machines, I¡¯ve found that my regrets have finally been fulfilled! Chairman Xu, can you understand my excitement when I saw those magic machines?¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline approach and the excited smile that appeared on her face while she was talking, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He lifted his head a bit, to avoid seeing the patch of snow white skin on her chest if he looked down.

    ¡°I never thought that Princess Caroline had the same interests as me. Making these magic machines, it came from a fantasy I had since I was young. Being able to make all kinds of magic machines is a dream in my heart.¡±

    Princess Caroline said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, how good it would have been if I could have met you when I was younger. Then we could have grown up with the same dream and studied magic machines together.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft cough, feeling that the words Princess Caroline said were a bit ambiguous.

    Then again, he grew up on earth. Even if Princess Caroline had the same dream as him, it was impossible for them to grow up together.

    ¡°If Princess Caroline still has this dream, it isn¡¯t impossible to start studying magic machines now.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before turning to Anduin, ¡°Mister Anduin, the business cooperation that you mentioned just now, what were you referring to specifically?¡±

    Anduin hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is cooperating with the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, if our Drake Duchy wants to have a more intimate cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, are you willing to ept?¡±

    ¡°I am just a merchant.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°As long as there is enough money, there¡¯s no problem with an intimate cooperation. But mister Anduin, what kind of cooperation are you talking about specifically?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..I¡¯ve heard that the Rudson Kingdom has purchased tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines from yourpany. Although our Drake Duchy also needs these strange agricultural magic machines, I feel that simply buying them will not solve the problem.¡±

    ¡°So?¡±

    ¡°So I represent Duke Drake to sincerely invite your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in our Drake Duchy. Not only to build a factory that manufactures agricultural magic machines, but also a factory that manufactures all the magic machines that yourpany produces.¡± Anduin said with a very grand wave of his hands.

    ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad and I agree with this theory very much, but¡­..¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The concrete operations aren¡¯t too realistic.¡±

 Volume 3 17 - Count Staggâ€™s request

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 17 Count Stagg¡¯s request</h4>

    The three of them were stunned at the same time.

    Princess Caroline asked in surprise first, ¡°Why? Chairman Xu, since you agreed to invest in the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, why can¡¯t you invest in our Drake Duchy?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I can¡¯t, rather mister Anduin¡¯s idea isn¡¯t very realistic. Or perhaps it¡¯s not realistic at this stage.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t it realistic?¡± Princess Caroline kept asking.

    ¡°Because of distance.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Your highness, mister Anduin, I think that you should know that the border between the Drake Duchy and our Lampuri Kingdom is close to a thousand kilometers away from our Banta City. This is a very far distance right now and with ourpany¡¯s current strength, going to such a remote ce to invest isn¡¯t something that is very assuring.¡±

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t it assuring?¡± Princess Caroline asked, ¡°The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital city is also close to a thousand kilometers away, it isn¡¯t any closer than our Drake Duchy. Why do you feel assured investing in the Rudson Kingdom and not our Drake Duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your highness, the Rudson Kingdom and our Lampuri Kingdom are close allies. There is no danger investing in the Rudson Kingdom, so I¡¯m very assured.¡±

    Princess Caroline knit her brows, ¡°Could it be that you think our Drake Duchy isn¡¯t safe enough?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not worried about your Drake Duchy, rather I¡¯m worried about your good neighbours.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Princess Caroline and Anduin understood at the same time.

    ¡°So you¡¯re worried about the Sack Kingdom.¡± Princess Caroline looked at Anduin before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you don¡¯t need to worry about this at all. Although the Sack Kingdom has a hostile rtionship with your Lampuri Kingdom, they have always been friendly to our Drake Kingdom. This won¡¯t affect yourpany investing in our kingdom at all.¡±

    Anduin also said, ¡°The princess is right, even if the Sack Kingdom is hostile towards your Lampuri Kingdom, it isn¡¯t rted to yourpany investing in our duchy at all. This is just a normal business cooperation, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t move against yourpany in our Drake Kingdom because of this. If they really dare to do this, this would be considered a hostile action towards our duchy. This is something that the Sack Kingdom has avoided doing for years, so you don¡¯t need to worry about it.¡±

    Xu Yi of course knew that Anduin¡¯s words were facts. The Drake Duchy could survive between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom for so long, other than them not being weak, it was also because both the Lampuri Kingdom and Sack Kingdom wanted to pull them over, so they didn¡¯t dare easily offend them.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom were close in power, as long as the Drake Duchy joined one of them, this could lean the bnce in one direction and suddenly change the situation.

    This was not something either side wanted to see, so the Drake Duchy had always been friendly to both sides.

    But Xu Yi rejected Anduin¡¯s proposition not because of a safety issue, rather it was because if he went to invest in the Drake Duchy at this time, it would disrupt his ns for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to his long term n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to develop first andy a stable foundation in Banta City.

    This was already achieved. Even if Count Stagg had forcefullye and aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯t do anything to them.

    Next, it was for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop all over the Lampuri Kingdom, spreading the magic machine industry across the entire kingdom, changing the face and national power of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This was actually being hindered for now by the unclear political situation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So Xu Yi had taken a few steps forward, which was investing in other countries. It would expand the scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would spread them to more ces across the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi had been very discrete with this step. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been very careful whether it was investing in the Stantine Duchy or the Rudson Kingdom. Without at least 80% assurance that nothing would happen, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to invest.

    So although it seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many deals with the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, in reality, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t formally established many factories there.

    At this time, the Drake Duchy that was far off suddenly invited Xu Yi to invest in them with all his power, so of course Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t immediately agree.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t just block them off, since the Drake Duchy was a country that had a border with the Lampuri Kingdom. In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s long term n, it was a region they had to cover.

    Seeing the sincere expressions that Princess Caroline and Anduin had, Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying, ¡°How about this, it¡¯s not realistic to have ourpany investpletely in your Drake Duchy, but there¡¯s no problem with some small cooperation. There is a saying in my hometown, don¡¯t forget that eating too much will make you fat. So our cooperation can proceed step by step and after umting to a certain extent, we can fully invest. But before this, I hope that you will not be too impatient.¡±

    Princess Caroline and Anduin looked at each other before Anduin gave a nod, ¡°I admit that chairman Xu is being very reasonable. Then chairman Xu, where do you think we should start?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, but he quickly came back to his senses. Perhaps this Anduin already knew that he wouldn¡¯t agree to invest fully in the Drake Duchy.

    He was just giving a sky high price and going down to a reasonable price.

    He didn¡¯t agree to fully invest in the Drake Duchy, but he had unknowingly agreed to cooperate with the Drake Duchy.

    After understanding this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    A person who had be the finance minister of a duchy really wasn¡¯t some hot blooded youth who wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest fully right away.

    But there wasn¡¯t much influence here since Xu Yi wasn¡¯t against investing in the Drake Duchy.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know much about the Drake Duchy, so I should be asking you where we should start. What your duchy needs and what ourpany can provide, after we determine this, how about we talk about the concrete details of our cooperation after that?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Right.¡± Anduin said with a big smile, ¡°But chairman Xu, these things require us to understand a few things about yourpany. So in the next period, the princess and I will be disturbing you.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re definitely wee.¡± Xu Yi revealed a warm smile, ¡°To have guestse from so far to inspect ourpany, it really is our honour.¡±

    ¡°Alright. Chairman Xu, starting tomorrow, we hope that we can inspect Falling Rain Valley. We hope that you can prepare everything.¡± Anduin said.

    ¡°Definitely.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯ll see youter.¡± Princess Caroline waved her hand at Xu Yi before leaving the room with Anduin while smiling.

    ¡°See youter?¡± Xu Yi was confused. He watched Princess Caroline and Anduin walk out before turning to the silent Count Stagg. The smile on his face disappeared as he calmly asked, ¡°Lord City Lord, what do you need to talk to me alone about?¡±

    ¡°It really isn¡¯t anything, I just need your help with something.¡± After Princess Caroline and Anduin left, Count Stagg¡¯s smile also faded by a bit. Although there was still a faint smile, there was a coldness to it.

    ¡°Oh? You need my help? The Lord City Lord is too polite, please tell me what you have to say.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Count Stagg looked at Xu Yi and seeing that he didn¡¯t object, he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, on the behalf of the City Lord Manor, I have a¡­..request for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that Banta City is entering the fall harvest, in order to ensure that everything proceeds smoothly and to guarantee Banta City¡¯s harvest yield, I ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to maintain all of the agricultural magic machines in Banta City in half a month. If there is anything damaged, it must be fixed or reced within half a month. Do you understand my meaning?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t understand.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Lord City Lord, the agricultural magic machines in Banta City are all sold by our Frestech chamber of Commerce, so they are all insured by ourpany. If there are any problems with the agricultural magic machines, the buyers can just report in at our service center. I think there¡¯s no need for us to check everything, right?¡±

    ¡°I just said it, it¡¯s to ensure that the fall harvest progresses smoothly.¡± Count Stagg said with knit brows.

    ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s the City Lord Manor¡¯s request, I will ept on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But¡­..¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Stagg with a faint smile, ¡°As for the extra cost, can I ask the Lord City Lord who will bear them?¡±

    Count Stagg gave another cold snort, ¡°What? The fall harvest is the most important thing in Banta City, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t even make this small contribution? Chairman Xu, in front of important matters, I urge you to not show your face as a merchant. Don¡¯t forget, other than being a merchant, you are also a noble of the kingdom!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Alright, I understand. I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to ept the Lord City Lord¡¯s arrangements.¡±

    Count Stagg gave another snort before continuing, ¡°Other than this, ording to the statistics, I¡¯ve found that to nt on all the reimednd in Banta City, we need around another three thousand agricultural magic machines. I represent the City Lord Manor to ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to provide three thousand various agricultural magic machines to the City Lord Manor within a month.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s brows jumped up as he raised his voice, ¡°Lord City Lord, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many orders and it¡¯s very hard to produce them. If we provide three thousand agricultural magic machines to the City Lord Manor within half a month, it will affect our other orders.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care. This is the City Lord Manor¡¯s orders, you must ept.¡± Count Stagg said with a wave of his hand.

    Seeing Count Stagg give this unreasonable demand, Xu Yi gave a sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair. He looked at Count Stagg and asked with a smile, ¡°Then may I ask the Lord City Lord, should the cost of these three thousand agricultural magic machines also be paid by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Count Stagg¡¯s face twitched before he said through gritted teeth, ¡°No, these three thousand agricultural magic machines will be paid for by the City Lord Manor.¡±

    The smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face instantly became even thicker.

 Volume 3 18 - Staying in someone elseâ€™s home

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 18 Staying in someone else¡¯s home</h4>

    The Falling Star Manor was very quiet at night, but this month was different from the deathly silence of the other nights. Other than the sounds of insects outside the Falling Star Manor that came with summer, there were also the sounds of pots nging and the sounds of food being cooked in those pots.

    Vivian, Liz, and Linda were focused on a cooking a meal that was two hourster than normal.

    The reason why they were cooking sote was because today Xu Yi hade back from the Falling Rain Valley.

    Although he had to go to the banquet the Lord City Lord was hosting, he had contacted Vivian and the others that he wouldn¡¯t be eating much at the banquet, so he woulde back to fill his stomach.

    So Vivian and the others had postponed their dinner and calcted the time. When the City Lord Manor¡¯s banquet was about to end, they finally began cooking dinner.

    Although chairman Cruise had given Xu Yi this Falling Star Manor as a gift for his and Still¡¯s engagement and Xu Yi and Still had treated it as their residence after getting married, Still and Xu Yi had spent most of this month at the Falling Rain Valley and hadn¡¯t been living here.

    Because Vivian was studying at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy, it wasn¡¯t convenient for her to go sixty kilometers every day to be with Xu Yi, Xu Yi had her live here. He had Liz and Linda, the two ve girls from the Stantine Duchy stay here to be with her.

    The three of them had lived in the Falling Star Manor for over a month and was used to living here. They were living quite the easy andfortable life.

    ¡°Hey, Agnes, can you go out and see if master is back yet?¡± Vivian saw that the food was about done, she called out to Agnes by the door who she had forbidden from making any dishes.

    Agnes looked out into the darkness outside before turning back to look at the kitchen that she couldn¡¯t help in at all. After hesitating a bit, she agreed. When she wanted to turn back, her sharp ears suddenly piqued and she revealed a happy look, ¡°The chairman is already back.¡± After a bit, she suddenly became doubtful, ¡°Strange, it seems like he¡¯s not alone.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Master brought some guests back?¡± Vivian turned to look at the excessive feast in the kitchen and didn¡¯t panic. She then asked, ¡°Can you hear how many people?¡±

    Agnes¡¯ expression became even more doubtful, ¡°It¡¯s just a single guest and based on the footsteps, it seems to be a girl.¡±

    ¡°A girl?¡± Vivian was also a bit curious this time, ¡°Big sister Still clearly went with Stasia¡¯s group to Anvilmar City, what girl would master bring back?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Agnes shook her head. After thinking for a bit, she guessed, ¡°Perhaps the chairman has a new sweetheart? I¡¯ve heard that this kind of thing is very normal for humans with high enough positions.¡±

    ¡°Perhaps¡­..¡± Vivian looked a bit hesitant, ¡°But I feel that master is not that kind of person¡­¡­¡±

    After thinking for a bit, Vivian shook her head, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter that much. Even if it is master¡¯s sweetheart, they are still a guest. Liz, Linda, you can stay and finish the final dishes. Agnes, we¡¯ll go out and greet master.¡±

    Vivian and Agnes came to the entrance of the manor, seeing the two shadows walking out of the darkness and entering the Magic Light shining down at the entrance.

    Vivian¡¯s eyes fell onto Xu Yi before falling onto Princess Caroline beside him and her eyes popped out in shock, as she gave a gasp, ¡°Wa, this girl is actually as beautiful as big sister Still. Could it be that she really is master¡¯s sweetheart?¡±

    Agnes looked over Princess Caroline, but she revealed a look of doubt, ¡°Is that so? Why do I feel that she isn¡¯t as pure as young miss Still. Based on the aesthetics of us dwarves, this girl isn¡¯t beautiful at all. Could it be that the chairman¡¯s eyes are this bad?¡±

    Vivian looked at Agnes in surprise, not understanding why she had this kind of appraisal of the girl beside Xu Yi who was just as beautiful as Still. She immediately thought that the tastes of elves and humans were different and didn¡¯t argue with her, as she went forward to greet them.

    ¡°Master, you¡¯re back.¡± Vivian said to Xu Yi with a sweet smile.

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He looked at Agnes following her and asked in a strange voice, ¡°Agnes, why are you here today? Weren¡¯t you on the ck Rice Wastnd a few days ago?¡±

    ¡°The matter on the ck Rice Wastnd has already been taken care of, so I¡¯m back to report.¡± Agnes replied with a smile before nodding at Princess Caroline, ¡°Chairman, who is this human miss?¡±

    Seeing the curious look on Vivian¡¯s face, Xu Yi introduced her to the two of them, ¡°This is the Drake Duchy¡¯s Princess Caroline. She here this time to discuss the matter of cooperation between the Drake Duchy and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Agnes nodded, not giving any special reactions. After Vivian heard that this girl was actually a princess, she couldn¡¯t help bending her knee and giving her a bow.

    Xu Yi grabbed her and said with knit brows, ¡°Vivian, did you forget all the times I¡¯ve talked to you?¡±

    Vivian was surprised before her face turned red. She lowered her head and said in a low voice, ¡°Sorry, master, I forgot.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head before saying to the somewhat confused Princess Caroline on the side, ¡°Your highness, this elf girl is called Agnes, she is a designer for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and this girl is Vivian, she is also a designer for ourpany. Many of our household magic machines were designed by the two of them working together.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Agnes and Vivian in surprise, ¡°God, I always suspected that the beautiful designs of the magic machines were made by someone, but I never thought that it would be such a beautiful elf girl and a cute little human girl. It really is surprising!¡±

    Agnes didn¡¯t really react, but Vivian¡¯s face turned red and she never said a word.

    ¡°Your highness, you aren¡¯t surprised to see an elf? Could it be that elves are frequently seen in the Drake Duchy?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s been several hundred years since elves have been seen in our duchy.¡± Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°But since I saw those new magic machines, I began paying attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Xu, so I knew that yourpany has a close rtionship with elves. You even hire quite a few elves, so I¡¯m not surprised to see them. Of course, this is my first time seeing a real elf, so I¡¯m actually very pleasantly surprised.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yiughed. He didn¡¯t care that much as he invited Princess Caroline in.

    Liz and Linda had already prepared dinner at this time. Seeing the dishes on the table, before Xu Yi could invite her, Princess Caroline said that she didn¡¯t eat much at the City Lord Manor¡¯s banquet and hoped that she could have a taste of these sumptuous looking dishes.

    Naturally Xu Yi couldn¡¯t reject her, so he took a seat with Princess Caroline.

    Because there was an outsider like Princess Caroline present, the mood was a bit down.

    But Princess Caroline was very good with people, so she easily changed the atmosphere of the table by asking Vivian about how she designed the magic machines.

    Thiste dinner finished with a happy atmosphere. Right after, Xu Yi brought Princess Caroline to find a guest room before having Liz prepare some clothes and a bath for her.

    When Princess Caroline left, Vivian asked Xu Yi in a curious voice, ¡°Master? Is this princess your sweetheart?¡±

    Xu Yi spat out the mouthful of water he had and looked at Vivian in shock as he asked back, ¡°What sweetheart? What nonsense are you saying?¡±

    Vivian had a depressed look, ¡°If she isn¡¯t your sweetheart, why did shee back to the residence alone with you? Isn¡¯t it too strange?¡±

    ¡°Not just you, I also feel it is strange.¡± Xu Yi snappily waved his hand.

    After their discussion was over, Princess Vivian had said see you soon to Xu Yi. He didn¡¯t understand what it meant, but after he finished his conversation with Count Stagg and was prepared to head back to the Falling Star Manor to rest, Princess Caroline had appeared again with Count Stagg. Then to Xu Yi¡¯s surprise, she hoped that she could stay the night at Xu Yi¡¯s manor.

    The reason she gave at the time was to discuss the details of their cooperation, so Xu Yi agreed without saying anything.

    But when Xu Yi found that she boarded his carriage alone and Anduin didn¡¯te, even if Xu Yi was a bit dense to matters between men and women, he knew that there was a problem like this.

    But this was clearly his first time meeting Princess Caroline, so why did she do this?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that he was that charming, he wasn¡¯t at the point where he could make the princess follow him with just a single meeting.

    ¡°Then what will you do tonight?¡± Vivian was a bit surprised, ¡°If she¡¯s not your lover, I think that big sister Still will definitely be unhappy when she learns that you brought her home.¡±

    Xu Yi was also stunned before he asked back, ¡°You mean that if she was my lover, Still would be happy instead?¡±

    ¡°Yes, with the master¡¯s identity, it¡¯s strange that you don¡¯t have a lover.¡± Vivian said in a natural manner, ¡°Big sister Still said to mest time that if you found a lover, she definitely had to be happy, or she would find it embarrassing. This Princess Caroline is very beautiful, I think that big sister Still would be very satisfied.¡±

    ¡°What nonsense is this.¡± Xu yi waved his hand, ¡°Still was just teasing you. If I really found a lover, do you believe that Still would chop me up?¡±

    ¡°Big sister Still wouldn¡¯t be that fierce, right?¡± Vivian patted her chest that was slowly growing and said in a somewhat fearful voice, ¡°I was thinking about telling big sister Still about tonight¡¯s matter to make her happy as soon as she came back, so it wasn¡¯t like this.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    ¡°Alright, you can just treat her as a normal guest. Anyway, I¡¯m heading to the Falling Rain Valley tomorrow and she won¡¯t stay here for more than a few days. I¡¯ll have as little contact with her as possible in the future, otherwise Still will be angry.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before standing up to say, ¡°I¡¯m going to the study, don¡¯t let anyone disturb me. Right, Agnes,e with me, I have some things to tell you.¡±

    Agnes agreed as she followed Xu Yi to the study.

    Vivian watched Xu Yi left before looking in the direction of the bathing Princess Caroline. Her eyes were filled with doubt.

 Volume 3 19 - Count Stagg who almost couldnâ€™t hold on any longer

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 19 Count Stagg who almost couldn¡¯t hold on any longer</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t talk to Agnes about much, it was mainly concerning the design department.

    Now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced more and more magic machines, with different models between each kind of product.

    For example, the first time there were different models was with the bicycle, separated into male and female. Next there would be adult and children models and they would be divided even further, going into luxury models, fashionable models, and simple models.

    For the household magic machines, Xu Yi was also nning on dividing them into different models.

    For example, the Magic Air Conditioner currently had the cold version and the variable temperature version. When it was promoted before, Xu Yi had only made those two versions, but now that the Magic Air Conditioner research was getting more in depth, changing the effectiveness of the warming and cooling functions, Xu Yi followed the same division of air conditioners on earth. They were separated into different efficiencies for different needs.

    The same division was used with the other household magic machines, so there was a problem with this.

    Since there were different versions of the same product, if they had the same design, it would seem very boring.

    ording to the customs from earth, different products naturally needed different designs. Not only did it make it easier to differentiate between versions, it made them look better to people.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current design department that only had Agnes and Vivian just wasn¡¯t enough.

    Vivian was currently still studying at Baron Rickto¡¯s Magic Academy and she couldn¡¯t work long enough. This meant that most of the designs were made by Agnes.

    Even if the elves were filled with energy, Agnes¡¯ time was still limited. So Xu Yi talked to Agnes, hoping that she could find a few elf designers from the Night Song Tribe to join the design department, helping Agnes finish these designs.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s request, Agnes¡¯ face was covered in joy.

    ¡°Chairman, even if you didn¡¯t say anything, I was prepared to raise this issue with you.¡± Agnes said, ¡°I have already thought that I don¡¯t have enough time. Other than making designs, I¡¯m also responsible for the forestation changes on the ck Rice Wastnd, so I really am busy.¡±

    ¡°Un, so I thought of finding people to help you take some of this work.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Since you were here today, I was just informing you of this. Agnes, based on your good performance, I as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman appoint you the chief of the design department. You will be in charge of everything with the design department.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Agnes was stunned, ¡°You want me to be chief? This¡­..This isn¡¯t right, right? Chairman I don¡¯t know anything¡­..¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine as long as you understand designs.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The design department recruiting new staff will all be handled by you. So whether you can find useful designers will all be up to you.¡±

    Agnes thought about it and didn¡¯t really hesitate as she gave a nod in response.

    ¡°Alright, then I will work hard.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Right, I suddenly thought of something that I kept forgetting. The Stantine Duchy is smaller than the Lampuri Kingdom, but the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribe has over three thousand elves. By that logic, your Night Song Tribe shouldn¡¯t only have a thousand elves, right? Based onmon sense, there should be other elf tribes in the kingdom.¡±

    Agnes thought for a bit before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t really know because I¡¯ve rarely left the Falling Rain Forest since I was young and I¡¯ve never heard the elders mention this before.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll ask elder Illusia about thister.¡±

    Xu Yi said a few more things to Agnes about recruiting people for the design department before having her leave the study. He went over to a giant map hanging on the wall of the study.

    This map was different from the map he had hanging in the office of the factory. Other than the Lampuri Kingdom, this map also included the countries around the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For example, the Stantine Duchy that Xu Yi visited before, the Sack Kingdom that has always been hostile towards the Lampuri Kingdom to the north, and the Rudson Kingdom that Xu Yi was nning to invest in.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over the map before falling onto the top right corner, looking at the Drake Kingdom that shared a border with both the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom.

    Based on the map, the Drake Duchy was a bit smaller than the Stantine Duchy.

    But the Stantine Duchy had a special geography and it was quite remote, soparatively speaking, while the Drake Duchy was smaller, it was much more important.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, they had less than a fifth of the area, but it was still very important.

    If either side had the support of the Drake Duchy, it would mean that they would be able to obtain the advantage and it wasn¡¯t impossible for them to eliminate the other side.

    ¡°If we can win over the Drake Duchy, with this great advantage, would the support for Seveni surpass his highness Eric?¡±

    Xu Yi tapped his finger on Banta City on the map before drawing a line to the Drake Duchy in the upper right corner. After calcting it, he found that it was over seven hundred kilometers away.

    This distance wasn¡¯t much on earth, but for the Sines Continent that hadn¡¯t developed their transport system yet, this was a distance that was considered quite far.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanting to take this far step and putting their influence in the Drake Duchy that was over seven hundred kilometers away, this wasn¡¯t very realistic.

    Calcting a few things in his heart, Xu YI tapped a few parts of the map.

    These points were cities that directly connected Banta City to the Drake Duchy. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could proceed slowly and first develop in those cities, moving forward step by step, it was very likely they could enter the Drake Duchy in the end.

    ¡°In the end, the foundation in the Lampuri Kingdom hasn¡¯t been established yet and wanting to develop in another country isn¡¯t a realistic idea.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh before his eyes finally fell onto Anvilmar City.

    ¡°How good it would be if Seveni could take the throne right now. She supports the magic machines industry and we could develop much more quickly in the Lampuri Kingdom. It would also save me the headache of thinking about how to develop foundations in other countries.¡±

    It was a real pity that Xu Yi didn¡¯t excel in this matter and could be considered helpless.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing well right now, they were far from enough to be able to interfere with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s politics.

    ¡°The only thing I can do now is to let the new Lord City Lord properly enjoy the taste of defeat.¡±

    Thinking of the pained look Count Stagg had when he agreed that the City Lord Manor would pay for the three thousand agricultural magic machines, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    In the past two years, with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce driving Banta City¡¯s development, Banta City¡¯s tax revenue had greatly increased. When they paid their share of the kingdom tax, they had left a surplus of over a million gold coins.

    This was a veryrge amount for a small city like Banta City, but under Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Count Sean had used that money in city construction ns to improve Banta City, creating a long term n for Banta City.

    Calcting it all, when Count Sean was the City Lord, although Banta City¡¯s tax revenue had increased, the money they spent was even more.

    When Count Sean was reced as City Lord, if the ountant had calcted everything, the City Lord Manor didn¡¯t even have a single copper coin left. Because of the various construction projects around the city, they owed quite arge amount to thepanies of the city.

    Taking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as an example, the City Lord Manor owed arge amount of one hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

    As for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who took most of the projects, ording to what chairman Cruise had told Xu Yi, the City Lord Manor owed them over seven hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.

    If all the debts of the City Lord Manor were added together, Xu YI estimated that their debt would be over one million and five hundred thousand gold coins.

    If Banta City followed the same trend as before, while this debt seemed to keep increasing, it would have been paid off in just a few years.

    But now that the City Lord position had been taken by Count Stagg who had other ns, in order to demonstrate the political opinions of the Stagg Family and the old fools he represented, in the two months since taking the office, he had first forced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce away and then implemented his agricultural promotion policies, causing thepanies of Banta City to leave Banta City.

    The reason for Banta City¡¯s two years of high tax revenue, most of that came from business taxes.

    Now that most of that tax was gone, where would the City Lord Manor find money to deal with theserge expenditures?

    Although three thousand agricultural magic machines cost less than two hundred thousand gold coins, which wasn¡¯t much, the City Lord Manor couldn¡¯t even take out twenty thousand gold coins, not to mention two hundred thousand.

    Because this was the decision of the City Lord Manor, even if Count Stagg wanted to aim at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce pay for everything because this was no different from stealing.

    Xu Yi was very clear on this situation, but when Count Stagg requested for three thousand agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he agreed without even blinking an eye.

    Actually, Xu Yi would have rather preferred for Count Stagg to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce pay for everything.

    But it was a pity that Count Stagg wasn¡¯t that much of a fool.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    ¡°Hei, I want to see how long this Count Stagg can remain this stubborn.¡±

    At this time, there were two crisp knocks on the door.

 Volume 3 20 - What can you exchange

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 20 What can you exchange</h4>

    Xu Yi knit his brows. After thinking for a bit, he gave a sigh before opening the door.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that you haven¡¯t even taken a bath and went to work, you really do work hard.¡± Princess Caroline flipped her hair that had a trace of steam to it. Adding in the loose sleeping robe she was wearing and thezy look she had, she was filled with charm, seeming like she was full of seduction.

    Xu Yi thought of the problem Vivian had just now and seeing Princess Caroline¡¯s charming face and body, he slightly knit his brows. After hesitating a bit, he still moved aside and let her in.

    Princess Caroline looked around the study and her eyes fell onto the map Xu Yi had been looking at. She looked at the various strange marks on the map before asking Xu Yi in a curious voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do these marks mean?¡±

    ¡°These are my considerations for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s long term n.¡± Xu Yi ambiguously said.

    Princess Caroline reached out a slender finger and tapped the Drake Duchy in the upper right corner. She asked with a faint smile, ¡°Then chairman Xu, does your n include our Drake Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Temporarily not.¡± Xu Yi simply shook his head.

    ¡°That really is a pity.¡± Princess Caroline said with a look of regret, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t know much about our Drake Duchy, so you don¡¯t know that our duchy is very suited for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development.¡±

    ¡°This¡­..Without actually inspecting it, I can¡¯t be sure.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Princess Caroline turned to Xu Yi and knit her brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do I feel that you¡¯ve put more distance between us after I¡¯ve taken a bath? Back at the City Lord¡¯s Manor, you had clearly agreed to cooperate with us.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell over Princess Caroline¡¯s white and almost transparent sleeping robe, thinking that a problem might ur with how powerful your attraction was.

    Seeing the faint smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face and distant look in his eyes, Princess Caroline knit her brows to think for a bit. After a while, her smile came back as she said, ¡°Alright, it seems like I was too rushed. This is my first meeting with chairman Xu and we don¡¯t know about each other, so it¡¯s not right to discuss such a deep topic. Since it¡¯s like this, let¡¯s not talk about official business tonight. Chairman Xu, how about we have a private conversation?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows. Since we¡¯re not close, then clearly it¡¯s even more wrong for us to have a private conversation.

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t appear to aloof. So he forced out a smile to be polite as he asked, ¡°I wonder, what kind of topic the princess is interested in?¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a faint smile that was filled with curiosity, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯re already married? And your wife is the most beautiful girl in Banta City?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, never thinking that she would actually ask about this.

    ¡°Un, yes. My wife is called Still. We¡¯ve been married for less than three months, but our rtionship is good.¡± Xu Yi specially emphasized the part ¡°our rtionship is good¡±.

    But it was like Princess Caroline misunderstood something as she said with a nod, ¡°Un, I can see that because I¡¯ve found that the three maids here are all virgins.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned again. He never thought that a young beauty like Princess Caroline would say something this ¡°crude¡±.

    ¡°This¡­..Your highness, your conclusion¡­..is a bit strange¡­..¡± Xu Yi said in a slightly awkward voice.

    Princess Caroline saw the strange look on Xu Yi¡¯s face and said with a faint smile, ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, you really aren¡¯t like a noble. At least you¡¯re not like the nobles I¡¯m familiar with. I¡¯ve heard that if those nobles had three young and beautiful ves like yours, they wouldn¡¯t be able to remain virgins for more than three days.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Your highness, I think that hearing these words from your noble and beautiful self is a bit improper.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi before suddenly breaking out inughter.

    ¡°So I say, chairman Xu, you really aren¡¯t like a noble. For a noble, this isn¡¯t anything important. To be honest, I used the pretext of staying over tonight in hopes of spending the night with you. If I could use my body to advance our cooperation, I feel that it would be a very worthwhile matter. I thought that since you didn¡¯t reject my request, it meant that you agreed to this, but now it seemed like you hadn¡¯t considered the issue at all?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Your highness, honestly I didn¡¯t think that much, but I did think of thister. Only it was toote when I did think of this and I can¡¯t just send you back halfway, right? But what I¡¯m rather curious about is why are you being so straightforward with this matter? Based on your tone, you aren¡¯t nning on doing this now?¡±

    ¡°No, just the opposite, I want to do it even more.¡± Princess Caroline approached Xu Yi with soft steps and a seductive look appeared in her eyes, ¡°Not only is it to deepen our cooperation, it is also because you have a charm that has mesmerized me.¡±

    Xu Yi took two steps back and shook his head, ¡°I said it earlier, I have a very good rtionship with my wife.¡±

    ¡°Look, this is the charm that has mesmerized me.¡± Princess Caroline had a surprised look, ¡°As a noble, you¡¯re actually rejecting me for your wife, this really is too shocking to me.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Your highness, it isn¡¯t every noble that desires their ves.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi understood a bit about why back at the Banta City banquets, the nobledies would show those mesmerized looks and why theirnguage was so bold, making him unable to hold on.

    That was because based on Princess Caroline¡¯s expression, this kind of thing for the nobles of the Sines Continent really wasn¡¯t anything special.

    Rather because he had transmigrated from earth, he was the conservative noble that was the outlier.

    Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help secretly feeling happy. It was a good thing that Still wasn¡¯t a nobledy and came from a magician family with a strict education.

    ¡°Un, I believe this, but I¡¯ve never seen it before.¡± Princess Caroline still had the same faint smile, but her eyes narrowed a bit and they didn¡¯t have the same teasing look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am very curious and very unconvinced by your wife. What kind of charm does she have to make you so dead set on her? Could it be that I really can¡¯tpare to her?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Your highness, there¡¯s no point in asking this kind of rhetoric. I would rather discuss official business with you right now. I¡¯ve said it before, I am a merchant and as long as there are enough benefits, there is a chance to cooperate between us. But I¡¯m very sorry, at least right now I can¡¯t see any ways to benefit from the Drake Duchy.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi talk about official business, Princess Caroline¡¯s ambiguous look disappeared. After thinking for a bit, she said with a serious look, ¡°Actually I had considered this problem on the way here. Perhaps chairman Xu is right, our Drake Duchy is too far from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it is indeed very difficult to invite you to invest in our Drake Duchy right now. But why don¡¯t we think about it in another way?¡±

    ¡°Another way?¡± Xu Yi said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Chairman Xu,e, take a look at this.¡± Princess Caroline waved her hand at Xu Yi and signaled for him toe look at the map on the wall. She pointed at the space between Banta City and the Drake Duchy on the map, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are worried the most about investing in our Drake Duchy because it¡¯s too far from Banta City, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Moreover, it is another country, so it doesn¡¯t make me feel as assured as being in the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Even if it was in the Lampuri Kingdom, you wouldn¡¯t bepletely assured, right? I¡¯ve heard that¡­...Alright, let¡¯s not discuss this issue. Let¡¯s look at this¡­¡­¡± Princess Caroline pointed at a city in the upper right near the Drake Duchy, ¡°Chairman Xu, ording to my information, the previous City Lord Count Sean has been transferred to this Sowell City, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked closely and he found that Princess Caroline was pointing at the city marked Sowell.

    ¡°Right, Count Sean was filled with pity over this. He was suddenly sent to a ce so far away from Banta City, it wouldn¡¯t be convenient for him toe back and take a look in the future.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s not convenient for Count Sean, but chairman Xu, isn¡¯t this convenient for our cooperation?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi could guess Princess Caroline¡¯s meaning, so he revealed a bit of interest.

    ¡°Look, this Sowell City is only a hundred kilometers from our border. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce were to construct a production base on Sowell City, it would be convenient whether it was transporting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods to our Drake Duchy or transporting what yourpany needs from our Drake Duchy. Moreover, the City Lord of Sowell City is Count Sean, so you should be able to trust him, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the map in thought before nodding, ¡°This n is indeed feasible, but your highness, you still haven¡¯t told me, what advantages would I receive from your Drake Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Although our Drake Duchy isn¡¯t big, we have very rich natural resources. For example, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs iron the most in producing magic machines, our Drake Duchy has quite a bit of this.¡± Princess Caroline said.

    ¡°Iron is indeed a very important resource, is your Drake Duchy willing to take it out?¡± Xu Yi asked with a frown.

    ¡°Why not? Iron left there isn¡¯t any use, if we can exchange for things that we need, we would dly do it. As long as the people of our duchy can live the same lives as the people in Banta City, we¡¯re willing to take out everything in exchange.¡± After saying this, Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi with a teasing gaze, ¡°That even includes me.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s a real pity, your highness. From my perspective, your charm is less attractive to mepared to your iron mines.¡±

 Volume 3 21 - Building another Banta City

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 21 Building another Banta City</h4>

    The next morning, Xu Yi brought Agnes, Princess Caroline, as well as the group of people from the Drake Duchy led by Anduin to the Falling Rain Valley.

    In the morning, Xu Yi led them around the various factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently had, bringing out praise from Princess Caroline and Anduin without any surprise.

    After they finished their lunch, Princess Caroline and Anduin said they wanted to look around alone, so naturally Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject their request. He had two people go around with them before going off to find Kennard to hold a small meeting.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is ourpany¡¯sst month¡¯s financial report. Please take a look.¡± Kennard gave him a document.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over it and he found thatpared to the previous months of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit had dropped slightly.

    This was clearly the effect from moving out of Banta City.

    But this effect wasn¡¯t big and even if there was a drop, their profit each month was still over five hundred thousand gold coins.

    ¡°Very good. ording to this trend, we might be able to reach a million gold coins a month within three years.¡± Xu Yi praised with a nod, ¡°If we¡¯re able to achieve this standard, ourpany could be considered a truergepany.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you are being too modest.¡± Kennard said with a smile, ¡°Even our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strongest Falcao Chamber of Commerce only barely makes more than a million gold coins a month. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has only been established for two years and we have a monthly profit of over five hundred thousand, that is already a miracle. Lord father¡¯s letters to me are always filled with praise, saying that you are the most talented merchant in the history of the Sines Continent.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This result is not because of my abilities as a merchant, rather it¡¯s all because of our technology. Ourpany can maintain this rapid growth in profits because ourpany has the advantage when ites to technology. So we must keep investing more money into technology and maintaining this lead.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand.¡± Kennard nodded, ¡°So I¡¯ve already increased the budgets of the magic machine workshop and the magic research facility by 40%, reaching five hundred thousand and four hundred thousand gold coins respectively.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s still not enough.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°ording to my ideas, half of the profit of thepany should be invested in development. This would guarantee that we would hold the lead when ites to technology.¡±

    Kennard said with an awkward look, ¡°This perhaps isn¡¯t good. Sir chairman, first we don¡¯t have that many researchers. Even if we gave them that many gold coins, they wouldn¡¯t spend it all on research. Moreover, it is impossible for us to put half of our profits into development because although we earn quite a bit, there are many ces where we are spending money.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know, so I came looking for you to determine a n for spending our capital.¡± Xu Yi stood up and walked over the map on Kennard¡¯s office wall, pointing at the map as he exined his ideas to Kennard, ¡°First, we must guarantee the stability and the development of the Falling Rain Valley because that is our core.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Kennard nodded in agreement, ¡°Currently we are investing a minimum of a hundred thousand gold coins to maintain and develop the Falling Rain Valley each month. Other than that, every single factory in the Falling Rain Valley is profiting, so there isn¡¯t much pressure there.¡±

    ¡°Let me see¡­..¡± Xu Yi looked down atst month¡¯s financial report again.

    ording to the data, of the four hundred and eighty thousand profit of the Frestech Chamber of Commercest month, the two steel mills had over half of that, providing a total of two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins in profit.

    As for the magic machine and household magic machine departments, because the market had stabilized and adding in the effect of movingst month, their product numbers had dropped, which decreased their profits. They only reached one hundred and seventy thousandst month.

    As for the remaining sixty thousand gold coins in profit, that came from the tire factory and the bicycle factory.

    These two factories currently had the fastest growing profits, especially the explosive growth of the bicycle factory in the past two months.

    Once the new method of transportation of riding bicycles was promoted, it was immediately weed by the people of Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Because for an average person, a private horse carriage was too expensive, they couldn¡¯t gain back what they spent at all. Moreover, the horse carriages had various limitations, making them not convenient at all.

    So when the bicycle that wasn¡¯t much slower than the horse carriage and was more convenient than horse carriages came out, it became the most wee choice of most people.

    Not mentioning normal people switching over to bicycles, even the rich nobles or merchants bought one or several bicycles, riding in the wind for leisure.

    Because of the appearance of bicycles, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s business had been affected, so chairman Pompeii hadined to Xu Yi several times.

    ¡°Alright, the Falling Rain Valley investment can¡¯t be reduced. Then other than this hundred thousand gold coins, the ce we need to invest the most in after this is the ck Rice Wastnd?¡± Xu Yi looked at the financial report as he asked this.

    ¡°Right. The ck Rice Wastnd is in the early investment stage, so currently we can only see investment without any return. This is equal to spending around one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins each month.¡± Kennard said, ¡°But now that the initial investment hase to an end, I think that not long from now, the mine and the non-ferrous metal smelting factory on the ck Rice Wastnd should be giving ourpany rich returns.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Very good, it really was the right choice having you be the CEO Kennard. If it was Heiunz, he would only be worried seeing therge investments each month without any return.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°The vice chairman has experience, that is something that I can¡¯tpare with.¡±

    ¡°This kid knows how to talk.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°But it¡¯s a real pity that although there are rich returns from the ck Rice Wastnd, we can¡¯t turn them into gold coins. That is because whether it is the products of the mine or the non-ferrous metal smelting factory, ourpany will be digesting it internally and won¡¯t be able to sell them.¡±

    Kennard hesitated a bit before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, since you¡¯ve stressed that we need to control our resources, why do you still purchase iron from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce? ording to our current data, ourpany consumes two hundred and eighty tons of iron each month. Just this alone costs us two and half million gold coins, which is a veryrge burden. Ourpany already has an iron mine, so why don¡¯t we gradually decrease our cost that way?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because the current iron ore is cheap and the iron ore we have is limited. If we don¡¯t buy the iron ore from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce when it¡¯s cheap, do we have to wait to buy it when it bes expensive?¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°As for the iron mine, we¡¯ll open itter, but that must wait until the price of iron increases. ording to my estimates, it should take at least another five years.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re this certain?¡± Kennard asked in a doubtful tone.

    ¡°Of course. I believe that the magic machine industry will quickly spread across the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sines Continent. When the timees, everyone will snatch the iron needed to make magic machines and it would be strange if the price didn¡¯t increase.¡± Xu Yi said in a certain voice.

    Kennard had been with Xu Yi for over half a year, so of course he knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a person who spoke casually. Since Xu Yi was certain, he must have his reasons.

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then we should grab several iron mines while we can, or simply the more the better.¡± Kennard said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Most of the iron mines in the Lampuri Kingdom are controlled by the Falcao Chamber ofmerce, so it¡¯s difficult to snatch them from their hands.¡±

    ¡°So that means we need to aim at other ces.¡± Xu Yi tapped the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and finally the Drake Duchy on the map, ¡°Since we could find such rich non-ferrous metal veins on the ck Rice Wastnd, I dare guarantee that it also has rich iron veins. So we need to further invest into the ck Rice Wastnd. As for the Stantine Duchy, we¡¯ll leave those three iron mines there for now because I¡¯m waiting for a certain person¡¯s response. What we need to discuss now is the Drake Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, ording to your words, the two guests from the Drake Duchy have already reached an agreement with you?¡± Kennard asked.

    ¡°Pretty much, but it¡¯ll take a bit of time to really take the resources we need from the Drake Duchy.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Princess Caroline gave me a very good proposition and I think that it is feasible. Look, Count Sean holds the post of Sowell City¡¯s City Lord right now. Our current goals should be achieving the support of Count Sean and developing the magic machine industry in Sowell City, creating another Banta City there.¡±

    Kennard looked at Sowell City¡¯s position on the map and slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this Sowell City¡¯s position¡­..it¡¯s not too good. Although it is rather close to the Drake Duchy, it is even closer to the Sack Kingdom. If the Sack Kingdom has some ideas, it will be dangerous.¡±

    ¡°That is very simple, we¡¯ll just think of a way for the Sack Kingdom to not think about us.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

 Volume 3 22 - Carolineâ€™s determination

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 22 Caroline¡¯s determination</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, is it hard to put up these streetmps?¡± Princess Caroline pointed at the streetmps beside the road and asked Xu Yi.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t hard from my point of view.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°The meaning is that it¡¯s hard from my point of view?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, ¡°That¡¯s right. Although the technology for the streetmp isn¡¯tplicated, the only ones who have this technology right now is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So of course it¡¯s hard for other people.¡±

    ¡°I heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has sold quite a few pieces of important technology before, it can be seen that chairman Xu is not someone who has to hold things in his hands. Then I want to ask right now, if we want to purchase the technology for the streetmps, what conditions do we need to give?¡± Princess Caroline asked.

    Seeing that Princess Caroline was revealing an attractive look and stance, Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, currently we do no n on selling this technology because this technology includes some of the most advanced Magic Arrays that ourpany has developed, so we can¡¯t reveal them.¡±

    Princess Caroline wasn¡¯t actually disappointed as she kept asking, ¡°Then can you reveal other pieces of technology? For example, the techniques for manufacturing the agricultural magic machines. I think that doesn¡¯t contain any specially important technology, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a real pity that although those agricultural magic machines don¡¯t have anything that can¡¯t be revealed, to make those agricultural magic machines, the most important thing is not the technology, but rather the skilled workers making them. I think that¡­..other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no other ce has these qualified workers.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Princess Caroline thought about what she had seen in the Falling Rain Valley in the past few days and found that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t lying to avoid the truth at all.

    Those dwarves and humans who manufactured the magic production machines were all very skilled. Any one of them were not people that they could match.

    After confirming this situation, Princess Caroline turned away and didn¡¯t raise this question, rather she kept walking around the Falling Rain Valley with Xu Yi.

    After what seemed like a guided tour was over, Princess Caroline stopped and said to Xu Yi with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, although it really is a pity, I have to say that our tour of the Falling Rain Valley is over. I¡¯m afraid I must return to the Drake Duchy.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I regret this very much. I hoped that the princess could stay a few more days and understand our Frestech Chamber of Commerce better.¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a naughty smile, ¡°Actuallypared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m more interested in understanding you, chairman Xu. You are the most special man I¡¯ve ever seen and you helped me aplish my dream from when I was young. If you weren¡¯t married, I would definitely be determined to snatch you up. Of course, even now, as long as you¡¯re willing, I still wee you to do something with me at any time¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Your highness, please stop teasing me. The beginnings of a cooperation has been made between us, so there are many chances to meet in the future. I¡¯m very worried that if you stay like this, there will be a day I won¡¯t be able to control myself and I¡¯ll do something that is unfair to my wife.¡±

    Princess Caroline let out a bell likeugh, ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, you really are too cute. I¡¯ve already said it many times, this isn¡¯t anything special. Even your wife definitely wouldn¡¯t mind it.¡±

    ¡°But I mind it.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°Alright, alright, I know. Chairman Xu is a proper man, I promise I won¡¯t tease you in the future, alright?¡± Princess Caroline gave a wink to Xu Yi. He could tell from a single nce that this promise was just something she casually said.

    Seeing her expression, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a headache.

    If it was anyone else, he would just not meet them in the future and avoid them. If nothing unexpected happened, the Drake Duchy would be an important partner to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was impossible for Xu Yi topletely avoid her.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Princess Carolineughed again before waving at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, Anduin has already talked to you about the trivial matters. Let¡¯s end our private matters here and we¡¯ll discuss it again when we meet in Sowell City next time.¡± She revealed a teasing smile to Xu Yi after saying this. She came in two steps and said in a soft voice, ¡°Next time I¡¯ll prepare the bed ahead of time, I¡¯ll just be waiting for chairman Xu¡¯s honourable self to visit.¡±

    After saying this, Princess Caroline didn¡¯t wait for Xu Yi to say anything as she turned around and entered the carriage prepared behind her.

    After a while, Princess Caroline opened the window of the horse carriage and blew Xu Yi a kiss before the horse carriage quickly left the Falling Rain Valley.

    Seeing Princess Caroline getting further, Xu Yi shook his head with another bitter smile.

    Although this Princess Caroline always had an unconventional appearance in front of her, because of how straightforward and bold she was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t really dislike her.

    But thinking of how he would be harassed every time he saw her, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a deep helplessness.

    In the end, if girls were to be deviants, it was truly more terrifying than if men became deviants.

    Not to mention such a beautiful deviant¡­...

    Completely different from Xu Yi who was giving a helpless sigh, when the horse carriage left the Falling Rain Valley and quickly sped across the road towards Banta City, Princess Caroline closed the window again. The smile on her face had disappeared without a trace and she became iparably solemn, as well as having a dignity that couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    It was like in the blink of an eye, she had turned from a female deviant into a real princess.

    Seeing the change with Princess Caroline¡¯s expression, Anduin sitting opposite her let out a sigh and sincerely said, ¡°Your highness, it really has been hard on you the past few days.¡±

    Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°No, it wasn¡¯t hard at all. This Xu Yi is a true gentleman, so he didn¡¯t make it feel awkward for me at all during the past few days.¡±

    ¡°But didn¡¯t we didn¡¯t achieve our goal in the end, right? If we go back like this, we can¡¯t say anything to the Sack Kingdom.¡± Anduin said with a depressed look.

    Princess Caroline looked at Anduin and gave a soft snort, ¡°Why do we need to tell them anything? Actually I was already against lord father working with those fellows from the Sack Kingdom. Even if we help them obtain the information they need on Xu Yi, how will they help us? Our Drake Duchy has always been able to live in the bnce between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, doing our best not to be partial to either side. Now that lord father has made this decision, I don¡¯t agree to it very much.¡±

    Anduin knit his brows, ¡°The duke has no other choice. Although our Drake Duchy could survive like this before, once the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom make up their minds, it would be hard for us to protect ourselves.¡±

    ¡°So I¡¯ve never approved of this kind of life. Compared to letting others control our destiny, it is better to control our own destiny.¡± Princess Caroline said.

    ¡°It¡¯s a bit too hard to do this.¡± Anduin said with a sigh, ¡°Your highness, we are after all only a small duchy, we can¡¯t contend with two kingdoms that are stronger than us without any power.¡±

    ¡°I also felt that we couldn¡¯t do this before, but after being forced here to meet Xu Yi, I found that there is a trace of possibility.¡± Princess Caroline¡¯s eyes filled with an excited look, ¡°Anduin, you should know thatst monthy the Sack Kingdom suffered a tragic loss against the Lampuri Kingdom at the Muerto Mountainsst month?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army¡¯s equipment suddenly became very powerful, making it so the Sack Kingdom couldn¡¯t resist. This caused them to lose the Muerto Mountain Range.¡± Anduin said with a nod, ¡°It is because of this that the Sack Kingdom reached a secret deal with the duke, giving us benefits to have the princess gain information.¡±

    After saying this, Anduin paused before giving a sigh, ¡°Actually I also hoped that the duke wouldn¡¯t make this decision. Your highness is not this kind of person to begin with, but to act like this because of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s staff officers¡­...This undignified appearance really is hard for you.¡±

    ¡°This is nothing.¡± Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°If it can gain benefits for our Drake Duchy, even my body is considered nothing. But I have to say, the Sack Kingdom fellows really have underestimated this Xu Yi, he isn¡¯t a person that a simple beauty can capture. Moreover, after being with him for a few days, I¡¯ve found that it was a bit strange.¡±

    ¡°What is strange?¡±

    ¡°I feel that¡­..Xu Yi doesn¡¯t seem to care about the Lampuri Kingdom. He said to me more than once that his greatest wish is for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines to spread across the continent, letting everyone of the continent live afortable new life.¡±

    ¡°This is just him boasting to you, right?¡± Anduin curled his lips in disdain, ¡°These words aren¡¯t worth mentioning. It¡¯s good enough to cheat a little girl, but how could your highness be tricked?¡±

    ¡°Why would he lie to me?¡± Princess Caroline asked back, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, I was clearly trying to seduce him, so he didn¡¯t need to use sweet talk to trick me. As long as he was willing, I could have had rtions with him at any moment. Moreover, I could really feel the sincerity in his words, so I feel that whether it is us or those fellows from the Sack Kingdom, we¡¯ve all misjudged him.¡±

    Anduin looked at Princess Caroline in shock, ¡°Your highness, you¡­..you wouldn¡¯t have really fallen for him, right?¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a sweet smile, ¡°To be honest, I might really like him a bit. But like he said to me, I¡¯m not as attractive to him as two iron mines. As for his attraction on me, it can¡¯tpare to my desire to see our Drake Duchy be much more powerful.¡±

    ¡°But you just said¡­...¡±

    ¡°Right, I¡¯ve noticed that there is the possibility of our Drake Duchy bing stronger from him.¡± Princess Caroline honestly said, ¡°So this time, I really want to cooperate with him.¡±

 Volume 3 23 - Five year plan

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 23 Five year n</h4>

    Entering September, this year¡¯s fall harvest was slowly approaching.

    The people of Banta City were surprised to find that although the City Lord Manor didn¡¯t change on the surface with their agricultural promotion n, they had implemented some concrete changes. They no longer suppressed business all over the city, rather they implemented a fewmon policies that actually promoted business in Banta City.

    For example, just a week ago, the City Lord Manor announced a new policy that announced they would continue the Banta City renovation ns. They would follow the n from when Count Sean was still City Lord and change all of Banta City, creating a new and beautiful city.

    The people of Banta City were clear that the Banta City renovation n was mainly undertaken by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Since Count Stagg took over as City Lord, he was aiming at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he ordered the temporary stop of these renovation ns.

    Now Count Stagg had suddenly changed his mind and was continuing with this n, this was simply pping his own face to everyone.

    However after the City Lord Manor announced this, everyone found that Count Stagg attached great importance to saving face.

    Because ording to the regtions from the City Lord Manor, although this city renovation n was continuing, it was no longer controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather controlled by the City Lord Manor. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only one of thepanies announced to be cooperating with this n.

    That meant that Count Stagg wasn¡¯t nning to treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce special like Count Sean had done and was maintaining an aloof stance. Please go and support our new domain MangaBob.Thanks!He was treating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as apany that the City Lord Manor could call at any time.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reaction?

    They didn¡¯t react at all.

    As for the City Lord Manor¡¯s policies that would rx on suppressing thepanies of Banta City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t react at all.

    There were manypanies in Banta City who became lively again after seeing this, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t develop in Banta City at all. Rather halfway through September, they announced several unrted pieces of news through the ?Banta Times?.

    The first was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the Armani Chamber of Commerce to invest in the ck Rice Wastnd. Their first phase was to build a small production base on the ck Rice Wastnd. That included a household magic machine factory and a mining magic machine factory from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and arge textile mill from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    The second was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been preparing for half a year and now their three mines and the canned fruit factory in the Stantine Duchy was beginning initial investment, nning to officially open them by the end of the year.

    The third was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached a deal with the Rudson Kingdom, nning to construct an agricultural magic machine factory near the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern border near the Rudson Kingdom in Mand City, to satisfy the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s needs for agricultural magic machines.

    The fourth was the most shocking, which was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced a five year n in the ?Banta Times?.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the next five years was nning to first in the nearby Karma City and Saltan City, as well as the further Canberra City and Norton City to build a production base in the next two years. They wanted to increase the scope of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s produced magic machines even further.

    Then in the following three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be using this experience to create factories all over the Lampuri Kingdom, spreading magic machines all over the kingdom.

    It had to be said, this five year n was filled with ambition. Compared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that built up steadily before, it was apletely different style.

    Not to mention that with the other three pieces of news, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had changed their style. They were leaving Banta City and investing in other ces, beginning to expand in the blink of an eye.

    Faced with this situation, everyone was a bit doubtful. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only been established for two years and they were apany with a strong background. Although they developed very quickly and their strength wasn¡¯t bad, wanting to expand this quickly, weren¡¯t they in too much of a rush?

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t think we¡¯re in too much of a rush.¡± Kennard looked at the reporters under the stage with a faint smile as he shook his head. After handling the press conferences and facing these reporters many times, he wasn¡¯t as nervous as he was the first time, ¡°Rather, ourpany has put deep research into this n and ensured its feasibility before promoting it. This five year n was the result of our research.¡±

    ¡°But CEO Kennard, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s previous investments¡­...They were just small actions,but now you¡¯re expanding on such arge scale, even investing in ces like the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom, I don¡¯t think you¡¯ll be able to maintain thatrge consumption, right?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about funds, then I can tell you we don¡¯t have any problems.¡± Kennard¡¯s smile was filled with confidence, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have the same background as olderpanies, but ourpany¡¯s profit situation is very good and we won¡¯t have any problems with funds.¡±

    The reporters under the stage couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    People could doubt various aspects of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they definitely couldn¡¯t doubt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s funds.

    That was because since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was established, every single product was sold in waves, therefore the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had arge amount of ie.

    Moreover, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept innovating new technology, every single product was being renewed constantly. Even the Magic Fan that had been out for two years, this was a household magic machine that wasmon to everyone, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept improving it. So these improved magic machines would always have an increase in sales after being released.

    For example, take this year¡¯s summer as an example. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce released three different kinds of Magic Fans at once.

    The first was a small Magic Fan that one could put on a desk that was the same as the Magic Fans from before. There wasn¡¯t much change with it, but the material and design had been improved, making the new Magic Fan lighter and more stylish.

    The second was a Magic Fan with a longer foundation that could be put on the ground, which could be moved at will.

    This Magic Fan¡¯s advantage was that it had foundational support and could adjust its angle at will, so there was much more freedom.

    The third was a Magic Fan that was suspended from the ceiling.

    Compared to the other two models, this suspended Magic Fan was ced right on the ceiling, so there was no freedom at all. Butpared to the other two Magic Fans, the suspended ceiling was more effective, so naturally it blew out even more wind.

    If the suspended Magic Fan was ced in the living room, once it was turned on, the entire living room would be filled with a breeze.

    During this summer, the first model had the same sales asst year and only increased a bit, but there was an explosion in sales for the other two models.

    ording to inside information from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the ?Banta Times?, in the three months of summer, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold one hundred and sixty thousand standing Magic Fans. As for the suspended Magic Fans, it reached eighty thousand units in sales.

    With how the standing Magic Fan cost six gold coins and the suspended Magic Fan cost eight gold coins, just with these two Magic Fans, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned sales of one and half million gold coins.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t disclose their real profits to the ?Banta Times?, ording to the estimates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned at least five hundred thousand from these two Magic Fans.

    That was just from a single product. During the summer, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Air Conditioners and Magic Refrigerators were also best sellers. Adding in the stable sales of the other household magic machines, just from the household magic machines alone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned at least a million gold coins during this summer.

    As for the magic production machines that were just as important as the household magic machines, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give concrete numbers, there were manypanies in other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom that produced magic machines and their magic production machines all came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just based on this, one knew that the sales numbers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic production machines weren¡¯t inferior to the household magic machines.

    With these two added together, of course one could easily conclude that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would never have problems with funds.

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not doubting your funds, rather your manpower.¡± The reporter who asked this question kept asking, ¡°Mister Kennard, I¡¯ve asked chairman Xu many times when I interviewed him, why was it that with how popr the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were, why didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce build factories in other ces. He replied that the time wasn¡¯t right and to be specific, there wasn¡¯t enough manpower. But now your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is suddenly announcing that you¡¯re investing in so many ces, could it be that you solved your manpower problem?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that the manpower issue is still a very big problem, it hasn¡¯t been resolved yet.¡± Kennard said with a regretful sigh.

    ¡°Then aren¡¯t there problems foring up with such a hasty n?¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman has said that problems will certainly exist, butpared to waiting in ce for a situation, it is better to walk forward and face these problems. If we don¡¯t take the initiative to grab things, they will not jump into our hands. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this five year n to give ourselves pressure, urging us to vigorously develop.¡±

    The reporters under the stage couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding their heads.

    ¡°Chairman Xu really is a bold chairman, I deeply admire him.¡± The reporter couldn¡¯t help praising with a nod.

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise, I think that the chairman will be very happy after hearing this.¡± Kennard said with a smile, ¡°Alright, other than announcing this five year n, I also have something else to announce. In one month, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be holding a Frestech Cycling Race outside Banta City, we hope that everyone interested will participate.¡±

    The reporters under the stage were stunned.

    Cycling race? What was this thing¡­...

 Volume 3 24 - Frestech Cycling Race

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 24 Frestech Cycling Race</h4>

    At thest press conference, CEO Kennard had represented Xu Yi in announcing in fervent words that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be entering a high speed expansion phase.

    However, in everyone¡¯s eyes, this chairman Xu in this month really was¡­..ignoring his job.

    In the beginning when Xu Yi announced in the ?Banta Times? that he would be releasing three theoretical magic machine books and announcing that he would be opening a Frestech Academy, making people stunned.

    It had been a long time since Xu Yi said he would be opening a school, but after everyone learned the curriculum, they were all confused.

    It was fine for him to set up a magic school, but why was therenguage, math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, and history¡­...Why were there all these different curriculums?

    To many people, the useful things were astronomy and geography, but as for whatnguage and math¡­..Teaching people how to be literate and learning simply math, wasn¡¯t this something that should be taught when kids were young?

    As for the response that Xu Yi gave in the ?Banta Times?, he said that teachingnguage wasn¡¯t anything special, but math, physics, chemistry, and the other topics were all rted knowledge for the foundation of magic machines, they were all things that could greatly promote the magic machine industry.

    ording to this exnation, the school could be considered rted a bit to his work.

    But as for the following matter, people couldn¡¯t rte it to Xu Yi¡¯s work at all.

    After a month of preparation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Cycling Race was being held on a crisp fall day in the middle of October.

    After being promoted by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in all the major newspapers and in posters all over Banta City, not only did people of Banta Citye, even people of the other cities knew about this race.

    They knew from the advertisements that this cycling race was apetition held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The contents of thepetition were very simple, it was topete in who rode bicycles faster.

    ording to the rules of thepetition, thepetitors started in Banta City and rode to the end point of the Falling Rain Valley, going in a line of over sixty kilometers.

    Because this was the firstpetition, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that this was just the beginning and didn¡¯t offer prizes that were too rich. But the first cepetitor would still earn a full set of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    Calcting this, this set of household magic machines had a value of over two hundred gold coins, so it wasn¡¯t little.

    Other than first ce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had second ce prizes for tenpetitors. They could receive a set of Frestech Brand kitchen household magic machines, which had a value of close to a hundred gold coins.

    After that, there were fifty third ce prices. They could receive a Frestech Brand Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, with a value of thirty gold coins.

    With so many enticing prizes, it drew many people to participate. There were many people who hadn¡¯t bought a bicycle before who had bought one to practice all month, nning to use this training to receive a prize.

    When it came to the day of thepetition, there were a terrifying ten thousand people who had participated.

    Because this surpassed their expectations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced these ten thousand people would be divided into five groups. Then they would have their rank determined based on their time of start and their arrival time at the goal.

    Because it was like this, thepetition that they expected to be held in the morning was extended to all day.

    But the over ten thousand people participating didn¡¯tin at all.

    After all, in the opinion of most people, participating in a cycling race was already a novel experience. The prizes were just an additional part, it was good if they got them and there was no problem if they didn¡¯t.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given everyone a pleasant surprise. Before thepetition began, Xu Yi actually rode in with Still and Great Magician Cami who hadn¡¯t been seen in a long time to line up at the starting line. They were actually nning to set off with the first batch of contestants!

    Seeing the honest gazes around him, Xu Yi teased Still beside him, ¡°Hey, don¡¯t you think that these fellows have suddenly be more excited after seeing the three of us?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes, ¡°Anyway, it¡¯s not you.¡± She took her hands off her handles after saying this and raised both hands to wave at the crowd, instantly drawing out loud cheers. Then she revealed a proud smile to Xu Yi, ¡°How about it?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, as he thought that Still still acted naughty in front of him, it was the same even after getting married.

    ¡°Let¡¯spare then.¡± Seeing Still¡¯s actions, Xu Yi became more childish. He raised his hands like Still and exhibited a stance that he considered very handsome as he waved to the people around him.

    The crowd was filled with a cheer again, but this time there were the voices of females that covered up the male voices.

    Still gave a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, I never thought that you were so weed by girls.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I¡¯m unworthy of this praise.¡±

    The two looked at each other before breaking out inughter. Then they looked at Great Magician Cami on the side.

    Great Magician Cami red at them, ¡°What are you looking at me for? Could it be that you want me to be aspetitive as you kids?¡±

    The twoughed before looking at each other. They suddenly came off and came to Great Magician Cami¡¯s side, as they both grabbed a hand and raised them at the same time.

    Seeing the appearance of the three, the surrounding people erupted in an ear shattering cheer. It was clearly much louderpared to before and it was filled with excited shouting.

    ¡°See, grandfather, you have a very high position in the minds of Banta City¡¯s people. So you shoulde out more and let everyone see you, they will feel much more assured.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Right, grandfather, you shoulde out more when you have nothing to do. It isn¡¯t good to stay in theb all day.¡± Still also said.

    Great Magician Cami looked at the two of them before revealing a happy smile. He shook his head and said, ¡°Alright, I know you¡¯re worried about my body, but there¡¯s nothing to worry about. Let me tell you, I¡¯ve already reached the threshold and perhaps not long from now, I¡¯ll be a Fifth Grade Great Magician. I want to try hard to be a Arch Magus and live a few more years.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still were stunned at the same time.

    ¡°Wa! Grandfather, you¡¯re about to be a Fifth Grade Great Magician? This fast?¡± Still called out with a face covered in pleasant surprise.

    Great Magician Cami revealed a faint smile, ¡°I don¡¯t know why, but after I started researching magic machines, I¡¯ve found that my magic level has grown fasterpared to before.¡± He looked at Xu Yi after saying this, ¡°Hey, kid, even an old man like me is about to break through, you shouldn¡¯t loaf around. Otherwise if you can¡¯t even be a Great Magician before I be an Arch Magus, that wouldn¡¯t be right.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a bitter smile, ¡°I will work hard.¡±

    Still took Xu Yi¡¯s hand with a smile, ¡°Grandfather, be assured, I will definitely urge him to be a Great Magician. When our family has two Great Magicians, mom and dad will definitely die of happiness.¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed before he waved his hand and said, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s talk about thister, we¡¯ll participate in this bicycle race today. Speaking of this, this kid Xu Yi, you really have all kinds of ideas. You¡¯re actually holding apetition to sell bicycles.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t just for promotion, this kind ofpetition also promotes being healthy, right?¡± Xu Yi said in an aggrieved voice.

    ¡°Un, I agree with this. So you two don¡¯t need to care about me today, I will ride the sixty kilometers myself!¡± Great Magician Cami heroically waved his hand, not giving Xu Yi and Still a chance to say anything.

    The two could only nod in agreement.

    It was a good thing that although Great Magician Cami was close to seventy, because of his physique as a Great Magician, his body wasn¡¯t weak. As long as he didn¡¯t think about thepetition, it wasn¡¯t hard for him to slowly ride these sixty kilometers.

    The three chatted for a bit and the host specially invited brought the atmosphere of thepetition to a climax. The time for thepetition came and the host loudly announced the beginning of thepetition. After an explosion, with Xu Yi, Still, and Great Magician Cami in lead, the first batch of two thousandpetitors raced forward.

    Seeing that Great Magician Cami was taking the lead, Xu Yi and Still smiled at each other before slowing down together.

    The otherpetitors passed the two of them and there were people who greeted them from time to time before charging forward with a roar.

    After a while, the two of them had fallen to the back of the pack. All around them werepetitors who were focusing on thepetition.

    In this kind of nice fall weather, bathing in the warm fall sun and riding along the streets, it was quite an enjoyable time.

    The two of them didn¡¯t have any idea of going fast, as they slowly went along while chatting, feeling quite rxed.

    Xu Yi looked at the shining ears of wheat in the farnd around them and he suddenly said with augh, ¡°Speaking of this, I really have to thank these wheat for this race being held.¡±

    ¡°Because Count Stagg wanted a smooth harvest, he had topromise with you and ept your conditions?¡± Still said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Right, our dear Lord City Lord will ept any condition to obtain a good result in this fall harvest. Not mentioning agreeing to hold this bicycle race that doesn¡¯t have much influence, he would even ept reopening the Sandton industrial district if I asked for it.¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t feel he receives much benefit from this.¡± Still doubtfully pointed at the wheat on the sides of the road, ¡°Inst year¡¯s fall harvest, Banta City¡¯s wheat fields were as full as now and Count Sean said that there wasn¡¯t much room to increase the harvest yield in Banta City. Even if Count Stagg thinks of solutions, I feel that it isn¡¯t likely to increase the fall harvest by too much?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Rx, our dear Lord City Lord isn¡¯t a fool, he definitely has his ways.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi before looking at the golden wheat besides the roads, still looking confused.

 Volume 3 25 - Changing the place to farm

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 25 Changing the ce to farm</h4>

    After the fall harvest, Banta City¡¯s harvest yield had shocked everyone because it had reached a terrifying seven hundred and sixty thousand tons!

    Compared to the five hundred and seventy thousand tons fromst year, it had increased by one hundred and ny thousand tons!

    Not mentioning the old harvests of Banta City, even the cities that were much bigger than Banta City couldn¡¯tpare.

    Because of this harvest yield, Banta City had been in the limelight for the Lampuri Kingdom. With the increase ofst year and the year before, Banta City became the only city that his majesty and the agricultural department praised at the same time.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom that had been in turmoil for ten years because of famine, grain was a very important thing and no one dared to neglect it.

    Count Stagg as the Banta City¡¯s City Lord could make the astonishing grain yield of five hundred and seventy thousand jump to seven hundred and sixty thousand, it immediately obtained everyone¡¯s praise.

    Because Count Stagg¡¯s agricultural promotion policies had caused Banta City¡¯s economic development to stagnate, affecting the prosperity of Banta City, some people had spoken veiled criticism of Count Stagg. After learning this harvest yield, they immediately closed their mouths.

    So Count Stagg was in danger as the City Lord before the fall harvest, but he consolidated his position right after the fall harvest. The appraisal of the kingdom¡¯s upper caste soared, as if he instantly surpassed all the other City Lords in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    However, Count Stagg who had achieved this result didn¡¯t have a high appraisal with the Banta City¡¯s people. In their secret discussions, there were many people who looked down on him.

    ¡°Pei! When Count Sean was in charge of the fall harvestst year, he had already calcted the stats for all of Banta City¡¯s farnd. He had all our people help him and he confirmed that even if they nted wheat all over Banta City and harvested everything, it would be impossible to surpass seven hundred thousand tons. In the end, this Count Stagg had brought it up to seven hundred and sixty thousand tons. If you say that there isn¡¯t fraud, I wouldn¡¯t believe it.¡± Old man Sarkozy said with a look of disdain.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to guess alright?¡± Jashari beside old man Sarkozy who also came from Mexn Vige rolled his eyes and said, ¡°My wife has a rtive from Jord Vige and they told my wife that before the harvest, the City Lord Manor sent a group of people to recruit viges from Jord Vige. They said that they would be opening canals and ensuring they guaranteed that the fall harvest would be taken over by the City Lord Manor, so they wouldn¡¯t need to worry. When the fall harvest was over, good fellow, how much wheat do you think their Jord Vige harvested?¡±

    ¡°How much?¡± The group including old man Sarkozy asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°A full eighty thousand tons!¡± Jashari loudly said.

    ¡°How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°What are you talking about?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, Jord Vige is that big, how could it harvest over eighty thousand tons of wheat? Our Kambia Vige only harvested sixty thousand tons!¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing this reply, everyone started to deeply doubt this eighty thousand tons.

    Everyone here was born in Banta City and they had been working in the farms for dozens of years, so they were very clear on the grain yield of every vige around Banta City.

    Before this, Jord Vige was remote and didn¡¯t have good terrain, so a vige that didn¡¯t have that much farnd only harvested around thirty thousand tons of wheat and that was with a full harvest.

    But this year they reached eighty thousand tons, this really seemed impossible.

    ¡°Hei, hei, you don¡¯t know? Let me tell you, after my wife¡¯s rtive returned to his field, he found that there was double the straw left and it seemed like there had been this many nts nted in his field. Moreover, didn¡¯t you read the ?Banta Times?? The City Lord Manor announced that for this fall harvest, they obtained a new wheat seed from the Drake Duchy, which has a higher output, so the wheat they harvest is much morepared to before.¡± Jashari said with augh.

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Old man Sarkozy immediately reprimanded, ¡°If there was such a good seed, why would the Drake Duchy give it to Count Stagg? Wouldn¡¯t they keep it for themselves?¡±

    Jashari gave a shrug, ¡°Who knows? Perhaps the Lord City Lord gave the Drake Duchy some special benefits, making them take out even such a good seed.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Old man Sarkozy angrily said, ¡°Didn¡¯t a princess and a ministere from the Drake Duchy a while ago? They were walking around the Falling Rain Valley each day and chatting with chairman Xu, my son personally saw this. How could they cooperate with Count Stagg.¡±

    ¡°Who knows? The matters between important people can¡¯t be understood by peasants like us.¡± Jashari said in an uncaring voice, ¡°Then again, Banta City¡¯s grain yield increasing is a good thing, we¡¯ll have more face in the future.¡±

    ¡°Are you an idiot?¡± Old man Sarkozy cursed him, ¡°Do you not understand what this means? Now that Banta City¡¯s grain yield has increased, that Count Stagg can steadily sit in the City Lord position. If he continues his agricultural promotion policies, we will keep losing jobs. Could it be that you want to work to death on a farm like before?¡±

    Hearing old man Sarkozy, Jashari and the surrounding people were stunned. Then they thought for a bit and found that old man Sarkozy was very correct.

    The reason why they disliked the Lord City Lord was because of his agricultural promotion policy that put thepanies of Banta City in danger. It caused many people to lose theirfortable and high ie jobs.

    Now that Count Stagg had stabilized his position as the Lord City Lord with this sudden strange increase in grain yield, the Banta Citypanies would be in an even worse position.

    They might not even be able to keep their jobs with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    At the right time, Cantona who everyone was waiting for came in.

    When they saw him, everyone asked him the questions they were worried about.

    Cantona waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Everyone, be assured. Although our Cantona Chamber of Commerce is apany in name, we mainly deal with farming, so there¡¯s no conflict with the Lord City Lord¡¯s n. Last time the Lord City Lord even specially met with me and praised ourpany. We have to keep helping the Banta City farmers with their farms just like before.¡±

    ¡°Really? Could it be that he doesn¡¯t know about your rtionship with chairman Xu?¡± Jashari asked.

    ¡°So what if he knows? For those important people, whether they can receive what they need is the most important.¡± Cantona said with a faint smile.

    Old man Sarkozy looked at Cantona with knit brows, ¡°I say, Cantona, it can¡¯t be that that fellow gave you a bit of praise that you threw yourself at his feet, right?¡±

    Cantonaughed, ¡°Old man Sarkozy, you¡¯re looking down on me too much. Although the Lord City Lord has praised ourpany, it doesn¡¯t benefit ourpany at all. Rather he added that the influence of the canned fruit factory was bad, making Koror Vige only nt fruits and not a single bit of wheat. If Koror Vige were to nt wheat, Banta City¡¯s grain yield would have already broken eight hundred thousand tons.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Hearing this, everyone stood up, ¡°Based on your words, he¡¯s nning on shutting down the canned fruit factory?¡±

    Cantona said with a helpless sigh, ¡°He doesn¡¯t dare force the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to close their factory, but he actually requested ourpany to help Koror Vige to remove all their fruit trees after the fall harvest. He wants to nt grain in all the farnd.¡±

    ¡°He dares!¡± The vigers from Koror Vige instantly jumped up and angrily roared, ¡°We worked hard to nt those fruit trees and it¡¯s only been two years, based on what can he make us dig them up?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s hard enough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to buy up all the fruit. I was nning on nting a few more fruit trees tomorrow.¡±

    ¡°Damn, I can earn three hundred gold coins a year on those two mus of fruit trees, how much can I earn from nting wheat? Can it even reach thirty gold coins? If he wants to dig up those fruit trees, will he give me that money?¡±

    ¡°Not only that, my wife and daughter are both working at the canned fruit factory and they are earning close to thirty gold coins a month. If we dig up our fruit trees, how could the canned fruit factory keep operating? Wouldn¡¯t my wife and daughter not have a job anymore?¡±

    ¡°Why doesn¡¯t this idiot City Lord die? Our family is relying on this to earn several dozen gold coins a month and now that the canned fruits are selling well, with even better future prospects, he doesn¡¯t want us to do it anymore! This is simply not letting us live!¡±

    ¡°Damn, father can¡¯t take this anymore, I¡¯ll go and find that damn city lord and go all out!¡±

    ¡­...

    If it was talking about the grain yield from before, everyone was just chatting with a bit of doubt. Now that they suddenly heard that this matter was rted to their own benefits, everyone instantly became riled up.

    Of course, just with the ie from the canned fruit factory and the orchard, the vigers of Koror Vige were living better lives. Now that they were to lose that with an order from the City Lord Manor, to have them return to their poor lives from before, how could anyone ept that.

    This group cursed out, but they couldn¡¯t do a single thing.

    In the end, they were just weak peasants, they could only scold the aloof Lord City Lord, but they really couldn¡¯t do anything about it.

    Only old man Sarkozy was calm. After thinking for a bit, he noticed that Cantona had a smile on his face and his mind turned before he asked, ¡°Cantona, the idiot Lord City Lord is doing this and the canned fruit factory is about to close, how did chairman Xu react to this?¡±

    Cantona gave old man Sarkozy a nod of praise. Seeing everyone looked over, he said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu naturally already has his ns. I called you all here this time to ask what you think about these ns.¡±

    ¡°Just tell us, chairman Xu¡¯s arrangements must be good.¡±

    ¡°Right, only chairman Xu can make life better, following this idiot City Lord is walking the path to death.¡±

    ¡°Un, Cantona, tell us. Whatever ns chairman Xu has, we¡¯ll follow them.¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°It¡¯s fine to listen to chairman Xu on other things, but this time I feel you should honestly consider it.¡± Cantona said, ¡°Because chairman Xu¡¯s arrangements are for everyone to farm in another ce.¡±

    ¡°Farm in another ce? Where?¡± Everyone doubtfully asked.

    Cantona revealed a smile. When he heard of Xu Yi¡¯s ns at first, his heart was shocked and when these people finished hearing them, they would be even more shocked than him.

    ¡°That ce¡­..is the Stantine Duchy.¡±

 Volume 3 26 - Elder Illusiaâ€™s pleasant surprise

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 26 Elder Illusia¡¯s pleasant surprise</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you really nning to close the canned fruit factory at Koror Vige?¡± Elder Illusia slightly knit her brows as she looked at Xu Yi with a trace of worry, ¡°I think that making concessions with Count Stagg like this isn¡¯t good because he will be more and more excessive.¡±

    ¡°If we don¡¯t make concessions, we can only fight head on. It¡¯s a real pity that me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have the strength right now.¡± Xu Yi smiled, as if he didn¡¯t care about this matter, ¡°Of course, I will not always make concessions. When the timees, naturally I will fight back. Count Stagg is currently in his peak condition, but after a while, he will be a sacrifice.¡±

    ¡°Because of the political struggle in your Lampuri Kingdom?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi with a look of deep meaning.

    Xu Yiughed. He didn¡¯t go any further into this topic and returned to elder Illusia¡¯s first question.

    ¡°As for this canned fruit factory, although there is no way of running it right now, I will not close it and keep it there.¡±

    ¡°Why? Without any work, is there any meaning in keeping the factory?¡± Elder Illusia asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°No, there is a big meaning. First is a symbol, meaning that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is not giving up the idea of canned fruits. Next, I¡¯m very satisfied with the location of this factory, so as long as the time is right, it can be opened at any time in the future.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But haven¡¯t you already moved the workers of the factory to the Stantine Duchy through the Cantona Chamber of Commerce?¡± Speaking of this, elder Illusia praised, ¡°Speaking of this, I really thought that chairman Xu was this bold, actually renting a hundred thousand hectares ofnd from the Stantine Duchy. That is equal to one fifth of the farnd in the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t much.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Actually if possible, I want to rent all of the farnd in the Stantine Duchy. But it¡¯s a pity that although the Stantine Duchy has some boldness, it isn¡¯t enough.¡±

    Elder Illusia pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you might as well say that you want to buy the entire Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°If Duke Stantine was willing to sell, I would really want to buy it.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°Of course, with ourpany¡¯s current strength, we can¡¯t swallow the Stantine Duchy at once, so we can only move slowly.¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi for a while before slowly shaking her head and saying with a sigh, ¡°I feel that the Stantine Duchy has invited a tiger into their home. I¡¯m very curious why Duke Stantine was willing to rent such arge piece ofnd to you, could it be that he doesn¡¯t know the drawbacks of this?¡±

    ¡°He knows, but he doesn¡¯t care.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Compared to the future of the Stantine Duchy, Duke Stantine only cares about his current benefits. Not to mention that the people of the Stantine Duchy are veryzy, so even if we didn¡¯t rent it, thatnd would be uncultivated anyway. Now that ourpany has rented thisnd, not only will we pay him three hundred thousand gold coins each year, we also pay thirty percent of the wheat to the Stantine Duchy. There is no loss here, so why wouldn¡¯t he agree?¡±

    Elder Illusia thought about it before shaking her head with another sigh, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand you humans. Why are some humans as astute and industrious as chairman Xu, while there are humans that arezy and stupid like Duke Stantine?¡±

    ¡°So I told you a long time ago, there are big differences between humans. It isn¡¯t like the dwarves and elves where their personalities are basically the same.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Perhaps this is the w that us other races have.¡± Elder Illusia then asked, ¡°But chairman Xu, yourpany not only has to pay three hundred thousand gold coins per year, but you also have to leave the Stantine Duchy 30% of the grain harvested. I don¡¯t understand, how will yourpany earn money from this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia and seeing the look of asking for guidance in her eyes, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Since the Night Song Tribe established their rubber processing factory, not only Amelud in charge of the factory and Delil in charge of external affairs started learningrge amounts of human business knowledge, even elder Illusia took the opportunities to learn business experience from Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was happy to see them seed and didn¡¯t hide anything. He replied, ¡°If you go to the Stantine Duchy to investigate this area, you¡¯ll find that the duchy is filled with natural resources. Thend of the Stantine Duchy is very fertile and suited for growing nts. If one were to nt there, they just needed to throw the seeds into the field and they could have a rich harvest without doing a thing. The one problem is that there are natural disasters.¡±

    ¡°Is it really that exaggerated?¡± Elder Illusia looked surprised, ¡°No wonder the Moon Shadow Tribepatriots far surpassed our Night Song Tribe, it should be because of the good environment.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to envy them. Right now the Night Song Tribe¡¯s conditions are much betterpared to before and isn¡¯t your poption quickly growing?¡±

    Speaking of this issue, elder Illusia revealed a heartfelt smile.

    ¡°Right, this year isn¡¯t over yet and there are two newborn elves in our tribe, this really is a pleasant surprise.¡±

    Seeing elder Illusia¡¯s happy appearance, Xu Yi was a bit speechless.

    The Night Song Tribe had a poption of around a thousand and if they were humans, they would be giving birth to several dozen children each year.

    Even for the Lampuri Kingdom hit with famine, as long as it was peaceful, the birth rate was no lower than 20% the poption.

    The Night Song Tribe only had two newborn elves in one year and it actually made elder Illusia this happy, it was clear how low the birth rate of the elves were.

    Because the elves had much longer livespared to humans, the birth rate being low was natural, but this birth rate was a bit too low.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special ideas. Anyway the low birth rate of elves was a good thing for humans, at least they didn¡¯t need to worry about there being many elves and being a threat to humans.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is beginning to build a canned fruit factory and mines in the Stantine Duchy. Next when the Cantona Chamber of Commerce can stand firm in the Stantine Duchy, I n on building a production base in the Stantine Duchy. Does your Night Song Tribe wish to use this opportunity to build a stic processing factory in the Stantine Duchy? When I went therest time, I found that there were many rubber trees there and they were very useful. If you grab this industry, you wouldn¡¯t need to worry about your survival in the future.¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    Elder Illusia nodded, ¡°Chairman Xu mentioned this matter to mest time and I already had this n. With this opportunity, we can also be closer to the Moon Shadow Tribe, so I¡¯m very happy.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s good. Next time chairman Cantonaes back from the Stantine Duchy, you should send your best people to investigate the Stantine Duchy with him, while also contacting the Moon Shadow Tribe.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    After she finished discussing this with Xu Yi, elder Illusia didn¡¯t immediately return to the Falling Rain Forest and went to the Night Song Tribe¡¯s rubber processing factory for an inspection.

    Since the Night Song Tribe built their rubber processing factory in the Falling Rain Valley, elder Illusia changed her idea of almost never leaving the Falling Rain Forest. Now she came to the Falling Rain Valley asionally to take a look.

    Other than discussing business with Xu Yi, the most important goal was to care about the working conditions of the factory.

    It should be said that after the factory was established, it ran quite good for a few months.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s help and Delil¡¯s efforts, the rubber processing factory had opened a market in Banta City.

    After making the hundred stic clothes hangers for big sister Sara, they received high praise for her and received an order for another thousand clothes hangers.

    Then with big sister Sara¡¯s advertisements and advertisements in the ?Banta Times?, the stic clothes hangers became all the rage in Banta City.

    These stic clothes hangers were very smooth and there was no need to worry about the rough wood damaging clothes. They would even order them in various colours and designs, which was quite convenient to use.

    The most important thing was that the stic clothes hangers were cheaper than the wood clothes hangers.

    Big sister Sara¡¯s wood clothes hangers were of normal quality and they were rather cheap, so they cost on average around seventeen silver coins.

    The stic clothes hangers from the Night Song Tribe¡¯s rubber processing factory only cost thirteen gold coins, so there was no doubt it was much cheaper.

    So in only a month, the rubber processing factory had sold over forty thousand stic clothes hangers. The clothes hangers in the various clothing stores of Banta City were all made of stic.

    For the rubber processing factory, because the materials came from the Falling Rain Forest and their workers were all elves, their cost was basically negligible. So of the five thousand gold coins gained from the forty thousand stic clothes hangers, it was basically all profit.

    Although this wasn¡¯t much, other than some help in the beginning from Xu Yi and Still, the other work was all done by the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elves alone. So to them, these five thousand gold coins brought them a sense of aplishment and satisfaction that surpassed the value of the five thousand gold coins themselves.

    It was because of this that elder Illusia and the elves of the Night Song Tribe were grateful towards Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi¡¯s support and help, if they worked alone, they might not have been able to take a single step even with a hundred years.

    Moreover, along with selling the stic clothes hangers, after the Night Song Tribe promoted their human shaped models, all the businesses rted to clothing, including the Armani Chamber of Commerce immediately made their orders.

    Moreover, there were many otherpanies that asked Delil if they could make other products that they could use out of stic.

    So during this time, whether it was Delil or the rubber processing factory, they were all very busy.

    Of course, this kind of busy made them happy.

    Seeing elder Illusia walking with a bit of a quick pace, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He turned to walk to the Falling Rain Road and his eyes fell onto a motorcade that was over two hundred meters long. Finally his eyes fell onto chairman Cruise, chairman Renersa, and chairman Vincent who had been waiting for a while and he waved his hand.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s set off.¡±

 Volume 3 27 - Joint business operations

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 27 Joint business operations</h4>

    This over a hundred meter long motorcade headed across the ck Rice Wastnd. If one looked at it from above, it would look like an earthworm that was quickly moving across thend.

    Xu Yi floated in the air and looked a wisp of green in the distance, as he revealed a faint smile.

    The elves really were worthy of being the race of the forest, they had such a strong affinity with nts.

    The ck Rice Wastnd was not suited for growing nts, but the elves of the Night Song Tribe used less than a year to create a patch of forest in the wilderness outside the Voller Tribe.

    ording to the report from the garrisoned elf warriors, the woods around the Voller Tribe had already surpassed thirty hectares and had even gone past the range of what the Voller Tribe could control.

    In order to promote the forestation n of the ck Rice Wastnd, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached an agreement with the four tribes around the Voller Tribe. In the end, they agreed to let the elves transform the nts around their tribes.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to pay a price of hiring no less than a hundred beastmen as workers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as workers, taking care ofbour cards for these beastmen.

    This n made it seem like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very passive, epting the demands of the beastmen to nt forests on the ck Rice Wastnd, but actually this was all part of Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    He was very clear that if he wanted to calmly and steadily take root on the ck Rice Wastnd, it wasn¡¯t a sane choice to collide with these beastmen. The best method was to adopt an appeasement policy like with the Voller Tribe, integrating them into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s system.

    Because there were over a hundred of them working in the non-ferrous mine and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s non-ferrous metal smelting factories, even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, the Voller Tribe would protect their hard earned work, meaning they would protect the mine and factory.

    On the first time, Xu Yi had left a hundred elf warriors and two hundred dwarf warriors here, but after relieving the garrisonst time, it became fifty elf warriors and one hundred dwarf warriors.

    And now, as for the humans who had been recruited as guards, there were no more than a hundred of them.

    Even like this, because of the attitude change of the Voller Tribe, the danger of this mine and the smelting factory had greatly dropped.

    This was something that was effective with the other tribes.

    After seeing the lives of the Voller Tribe changing after cooperating with the humans, the four closest beastmen tribes also had the thought of cooperating with humans.

    At this time, the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent came and gave them that chance.

    Through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Voller Tribe, the four beastmen tribes reached cooperation deals with these four humanpanies.

    In a deeper ce near the Voller Tribe, these fourpanies were building a small production base, building their own factories.

    Compared to the household magic machine workshop that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set up, the Armani Chamber ofmerce¡¯s textile mill needed more workers.

    But because the request for each job was different, the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory recruited some of the smarter beastmen with more flexible hands.

    For example, the fox and rabbit tribes that had a majority of females. The Armani Chamber of Commerce recruited them to their factory and now there were over five hundred of them.

    The magic machine workshop that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened only recruited around two hundred beastmen workers. To satisfy the conditions of the beastmen tribes, he was forced to recruit another two hundred beastmen workers, but they were ced under the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Those beastmen workers followed the technical staff of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build the production base and to set up a cement factory.

    Other than these threepanies that had deep cooperation, although the Renekton Chamber of Commerce had dealt with beastmen before, they didn¡¯t have any experience in opening a factory. However, with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had created a small medicinal herb processing factory.

    Although it was smallerpared to the factories of the other threepanies, because of the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame among the beastmen and with how the beastmen are already used to trading with them, this factory was more popr than the other three factories.

    This time the fourpanies brought arge amount of cargo here to prepare building the production base and striving to have it operational by the end of the year.

    Xu Yi looked at the trees surrounding the Voller Tribe and he looked to the left, looking deeper into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Looking thirty kilometers further in, it was the production base of the fourpanies.

    This position was in the middle of the Voller Tribe and the surrounding four beastmen tribes, so ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, they would slowly turn this base into a city until it became the first foothold of humans on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    If everything went smoothly, Xu Yi was nning to gradually open the ck Rice Wastnd and integrate all the beastmen tribes into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s system. He wanted all the beastmen to work for humanpanies,pletely cutting off the idea of beastmen attacking humans.

    But to achieve this, he still needed to deal with some problems.

    After looking into the distance, Xu Yi circted his magic and fell from the air,nding right on a carriage in the middle of the motorcade.

    Chairman Cruise lifted the curtain and sat on the roof of the carriage with Xu Yi as he asked, ¡°How is it? Did you see anything?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°If it could be easily seen, the beastmen would be too weak.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked forward and tightly knit his brows, ¡°I don¡¯t know if chairman Renersa¡¯s information is correct. If it¡¯s just the Beastmen Independence Regiment thates, it¡¯s not a problem. But if the other beastmen tribes want to cause trouble, it would be bad.¡±

    ¡°Whether my information is urate or not, you¡¯re worried that we can¡¯t resist it?¡± Chairman Renersa also lifted the curtain to sit on Xu Yi¡¯s other side, ¡°The beastmen have no iron weapons, not to mention any excellent weapons. Look at the equipment that our guards have, there is a clear difference. Not to mention that I¡¯ve brought five hundred guards from ourpany this time, there¡¯s no need to worry at all.¡±

    Hearing chairman Renersa mention excellent equipment, chairman Cruise and Xu Yi looked at the guards on both sides of the motorcade. They were the guards of thepanies with bright armours and sharp weapons.

    Although these guards came from the fourpanies, they were all wearing the same armour. If one didn¡¯t look at the different badges on their chest, they would have thought they came from the same unit.

    Other than that, although they had different kinds of weapons, they were simr if they were the same kind. If they had been carefullypared, people would have thought that they had been cast from a mold.

    Of course, they had indeed been cast from a mold.

    Because the equipment these guards were using all came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other threepanies had bought them from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Renekton Chamber of Commerce had bought seven hundred sets, the Armani Chamber of Commerce had bought six hundred sets, and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had bought the most, a total of one thousand and two hundred sets.

    This was also coordinating with the number of guards at eachpany.

    The Amrith Chamber of Commerce now had over twenty thousand employees and they were sending them to different regions for construction projects, so only having a thousand guards was actually a bit too little.

    Rather it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that surprised the otherpanies.

    Last year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t even have a guard team.

    And now, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had six hundred human guards in name, everyone knew that the two hundred elf warriors and the three hundred dwarf warriors belonging to the Falling Rain Valley guards were actually under Xu Yi¡¯smand.

    That meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had even more guards than the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that half of them were powerful elf and dwarf warriors, so in terms ofbat power, they could defeat over several thousand human warriors.

    So in the joint operation between the fourpanies, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards that were in charge. The guards of the other threepanies only yed a supporting role.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since the elves are willing to do normal work for otherpanies, then shouldn¡¯t it be possible for them to be guards? Why haven¡¯t the elves officially joined yourpany¡¯s guards?¡± Chairman Renersa looked at the elf and dwarf warriors at the back of the convoy with an envious gaze as he asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°I said it before, the elves are very proud and they¡¯re not willing to sell their lives to us humans. So I didn¡¯t force them to join the guards.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Rather it¡¯s already good enough that they listen to my orders, what they are in name doesn¡¯t pose any problems.¡±

    Chairman Renersa shook his head, ¡°There is still arge difference. If the elves go back on their word now, you have no power to stop them.¡±

    ¡°Could it be that after they join the guards, I have the ability to stop them from leaving?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Having the elves help me depends on what benefits I can bring them, I do rather well in this aspect. As for what happens in the future, we¡¯ll just have to wait and see.¡±

    Chairman Renersa knit his brows as his eyes fell onto the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s human guards. He thought for a bit before pointing at the human guards and saying, ¡°Actually those human guards aren¡¯t bad. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has money and can provide them with equipment, so you can just recruit a few more human guards.¡±

    Xu YI could only reveal a bitter smile at this.

    Chairman Renersa thought those human guards were easy to get? For these elites who retired from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had paid quite arge price.

 Volume 3 28 - Crushing the beastmen resistance

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 28 Crushing the beastmen resistance</h4>

    Chairman Renersa didn¡¯t keep asking about the guards and he quickly changed the topic to their goals.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t really seem to care about this topic, he was thinking that since it waste, he wanted to go into the carriage and sleep.

    The motorcade didn¡¯t stop near the Voller Tribe, rather they continued heading towards their destination.

    When the motorcade arrived at their destination, night had arrived.

    Xu Yi jumped off the carriage and called the guardmanders over to ask about the situation.

    But the three of them didn¡¯t notice anything unusual, so Xu Yi could only wave his hand at them and let them continue to be on alert.

    It was already night, so it was impossible for them to create a camp. The motorcade could only gather around and form a simple camp, nning to spend the night here.

    The weather was already close to October weather and there was no cover on the ck Rice Wastnd, so after it became night, the surrounding air became a bit cold.

    Xu Yi wrinkled his nose and couldn¡¯t help saying with emotion, ¡°If it was me, my first choice would be to go home and sleep. I wouldn¡¯t handle such dangerous business on a cold night like this like those idiot beastmen, you might even lose your life.¡±

    Chairman Renersa on the sideughed, ¡°The beastmen were raised in this hard environment, they aren¡¯t as pampered as chairman Xu. Of course, running a fruitless errand and losing your life isn¡¯t right, but who told them to have ideas about us?¡±

    ¡°In other words, you¡¯re saying they should learn from the Voller Tribe and cooperate with us. There¡¯s money and afortable life, that is good. Why is there a need to suffer like this?¡± Xu Yi said in an emotional voice.

    ¡°It really is a pity, I want to cooperate, but the beastmen in the Beastmen Independence Regiment are racist and say that we humans want to corrupt the beastmen. So they will resist us while shouting their slogans.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Corrupt? Their meaning is that beastmen should live a life without wearing clothes, not having enough to eat, and live in a house that can¡¯t even block out the wind? I think that as long as beastmen have a bit of intelligence, they wouldn¡¯t listen to these words.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll be disappointed to find that many of the beastmen approve of their views. ording to the estimates from my information, the beastmen tonight might far surpass our expectations.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a motley crew, they¡¯re not worth mentioning.¡± Xu Yi tilted his lips in disdain.

    Last time the Beastmen Independence Regiment attacked, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been prepared enough and had to personally make a move to stop them.

    But this time he hade prepared. Xu Yi was confident that no matter how many beastmen came, they couldn¡¯t do a thing to him.

    The beginning of the night was calm, but once it entered deep night when the light was the most dim, something had appeared.

    Looking at therge patch of ck in the distance and feeling the tremorsing from the ground, chairman Cruise¡¯s face changed as he called out in surprise, ¡°This is bad, isn¡¯t there too many of them?¡±

    Xu Yi and chairman Renersa looked at each other beforeughing.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, this didn¡¯t surpass my expectations.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and the human guard leader Hart, the dwarf warrior leader Omar, and the elf warrior leader Furio came forward together, ¡°Act ording to the n. I will not interfere with your orders, but I only have a single request.¡±

    Seeing the three looking at him with serious looks, Xu Yi raised his arm and said in a deep voice, ¡°Rout them with all your strength! Completely destroy the fighting spirits of these damn beastmen! Let them never dare have any thoughts of resisting in the future! Understood?¡±

    Hart and Omar loudly agreed while Furio gave Xu Yi a serious bow and then the three of them left.

    Chairman Renersa on the side said whileughing, ¡°Chairman Xu, good words! We should beat these damn bastards and let them know that it is best to never have ideas about us ever again, saving us the trouble!¡±

    Chairman Renersa also gave the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader his orders.

    Chairman Cruise saw the two looking ready to fight and he helplessly shook his head. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader couldn¡¯te since he was busy, so he called over the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader and after saying a few things to him, he had him lead the guards of the twopanies.

    The fourpanies had brought all the guards of the fourpanies this time, bringing the total to one thousand and five hundred human warriors, two hundred elf warriors, and three hundred dwarf warriors.

    In a normal situation, this strength would make people look away.

    The beastmen that were baited in by the fourpanies tonight had far surpassed the number of beastmen who attackedst time.

    With the dim light, they found that there were over five thousand beastmen who were attacking this time.

    However, faced with the enemies that surpassed the numbers from before, although chairman Cruise had a slightly worried look, he wasn¡¯t as scared asst time and was even calm enough toin to Xu Yi.

    ¡°If we knew that there would be this many beastmen, we should have made more preparations.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, these preparations are already enough. Just wait and see.¡±

    While the two were talking, the beastmen charging in front were less than five hundred meters from their camp.

    Xu Yi shouted, ¡°Prepare the trebuchets!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, several cotton sheets were lifted off in the camp and then there were the sounds of machines starting. There was the light from four Magic Arrays that appeared as four Magic Trebuchets went from scattered parts into aplete object.

    ¡°Hear my orders, one, two, three¡­..fire!¡± This time it wasn¡¯t Xu Yi shouting, rather it was Hart.

    With this order, four boulders that were half a meter wide shot out from the Magic Trebuchet, flying over four hundred meters and falling into the beastmen.

    The giant stones were thrown with the enormous force of the Magic Trebuchets and when they mmed down, they created arge explosive sound. They directly created a hole in the ck Rice Wastnd that was close to ten meters wide.

    The beastmen who were hit by the stones had no choice of escaping. As for the beastmen on the side, even if they didn¡¯t lose their lives, they spat out blood from the powerful shockwaves and lost all ability to fight.

    But these four stones were just the beginning. After firing the first batch, in half a minute, the four Magic Trebuchets shot again. They brutally mmed into the beastmen formation, creating a rain of blood.

    Personally witnessing the terrifying might of the Magic Trebuchets, chairman Renersa and chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help popping out in shock.

    Chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help crying out, ¡°This Magic Trebuchet really is terrifying. It was no wonder with just three Magic Trebuchets, the northern army was able to easily rout the Sack Kingdom and take back the Muerto Mountains. If the northern army had several more of them, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to resist the northern army and even their capital would be taken?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°That is not possible. Although this Magic Trebuchet is strong, there is a clear weakness. First, it¡¯s not flexible enough, so it¡¯s easy to use when fighting in formation, but they can¡¯t be used when facing enemiesunching quick assaults. It¡¯s good enough to deal with these dumb beastmen, but when facing the Sack Kingdom, they would be wiped out by the Sack Kingdom¡¯s cavalry.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is indeed a problem.¡± Chairman Renersa gave a nod, ¡°This thing is very good in attacking a fortified position, but it is limited when used in defense. Then other than it being not flexible, what other ws are there?¡±

    ¡°The other ws aren¡¯t that fatal. As for the w in flexibility, ourpany can increase the mobility of the Magic Trebuchet, but we haven¡¯t been able to solve this other w yet.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Oh? What w is there that even yourpany can¡¯t ovee?¡± Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s too expensive.¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. He pointed at the Magic Trebuchets that were loading stones after they finished firing the first round and said, ¡°Our first batch of Magic Trebuchets, it costs at least a thousand gold coins to give the northern army a single one. This current batch of Magic Trebuchets, although they fire faster and are of better quality, the costs are even higher, reaching one thousand and three hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°That can¡¯t be considered expensive.¡± As the chairmen of tworgepany, whether it was chairman Cruise or chairman Renersa, they didn¡¯t feel a thousand gold coins was anything, ¡°A weapon this powerful, not mentioning one thousand and three hundred gold coins, even if it was three thousand and one hundred gold coins, there would be countless people rushing to buy them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m more worried about you using them this openly and attracting the attention of other countries.¡± Chairman Cruise said in a worried voice.

    ¡°They already noticed it.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, not caring about this, ¡°As for you not finding it expensive, that is because you are rich. But it¡¯s a real pity that our kingdom¡¯s army is terrifyingly poor. I was prepared to sell these four Magic Trebuchets to the army, but they said that because they spent too much money taking the Muerto Mountains, they couldn¡¯t even take out a trivial five thousand gold coins. I felt that since they were idle, I might as well use them for a test on this expedition.¡±

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa looked at each other as they felt speechless.

    Although they knew that the kingdom finances were bad, they never thought that the kingdom¡¯s army wouldn¡¯t even have a trivial five thousand gold coins. This really was too poor.

 Volume 3 29 - Steamrolled

    <strong>Volume 3 Chapter 29 Steamrolled</strong>

    Seeing the expression on their faces, Xu Yi continued, ¡°If the finances of our Lampuri Kingdom could be better, I feel that the Sack Kingdom couldn¡¯t be our opponents at all. How could it hurt us so much just to take back a single Muerto Mountain Range.¡±

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa revealed bitter smiles.

    They certainly understood this, especially after experiencing the terrifying might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s four Magic Trebuchets. They firmly believed this without any doubt.

    But they were also very clear that the Lampuri Kingdom hadn¡¯t been poor for just a few days, it was easier said than done to change for the better.

    ¡°Actually, it¡¯s very easy.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Did you forget just how poor Banta City was a few years ago? Why did it suddenly change for the better in these two years?¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to boast at this time, right? Who doesn¡¯t know that the change in our Banta City is driven by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I wasn¡¯t just boasting, I was just reminding you. The development of Banta City is because of the magic machine industry developing, so why can¡¯t the entire Lampuri Kingdom follow Banta City¡¯s pattern? Think about it, how much didst year¡¯s tax revenue go up by? If the Lampuri Kingdom had this kind of growth, not mentioning buying four Magi Trebuchets, the army headquarters wouldn¡¯t even have problem buying forty or four hundred.¡±

    Chairman Cruise had the same bitter smile, ¡°You make it sound easy, but the problem is that it isn¡¯t easy to spread the magic machine industry across the Lampuri Kingdom. Can¡¯t you see that there is a big problem just in Banta City alone?¡±

    ¡°The Lord City Lord, he¡­..¡± Chairman Renersa said a few words before closing his mouth with a bitter smile.

    He and chairman Cruise both had a helpless look on their faces.

    As the chairmen of thergepanies of Banta City, they knew better than the normal citizens the real reason why Count Stagg was aiming at Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But it was because of this real reason that made them feel even more helpless in their hearts.

    They were outstanding merchants and not outstanding politicians.

    This level of political matter, with their current statuses, they couldn¡¯t meddle in at all.

    Even if they felt the treatment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was unfair and they suffered from the changes in Banta City, they couldn¡¯t do a thing in the end.

    Xu Yi discussed this matter with them naturally wasn¡¯t because he wanted to obtain support from them.

    Actually, he just wanted to test their real stances.

    There was no need to mention an old ally like chairman Cruise, but Xu Yi cared about chairman Renersa¡¯s stance.

    That was because the Renekton Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as long as the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. So the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude represented the attitude of mostpanies in Banta City.

    Now it seemed like mostpanies in Banta City supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and were dissatisfied with Count Stagg.

    This was all just idle talk.

    After Count Stagg came, he immediately executed his agricultural promotion policies. Thergepanies in Banta City all suffered losses from this, so it would be strange if the merchants liked Count Stagg.

    While they were leisurely chatting, the fighting around them had never stopped.

    But there really wasn¡¯t much to say about the fight.

    Although there were over five thousand beastmen in this ambush, after being bombarded by the Magic Trebuchets without stop, the beastmen had suffered heavy losses going from five hundred meters away to two hundred meters away. Their formation had beenpletely scattered.

    When they saw that they were close and the four Magic Trebuchets were no longer bombarding them, as soon as they became excited and were prepared to charge again, they found that the sky was covered in a dense rain of arrows.

    Seeing the beastmen in the distance falling under the rain of arrows, chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa were speechless once again.

    After the two were in a daze for a while, they couldn¡¯t help turning to Xu Yi.

    Chairman Renersa said with a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do I feel that it was enough just for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards toe. You didn¡¯t need our guards toe at all.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, how is this a fight, it¡¯s aplete ughter.¡± Seeing how unexpectedly easy this fight was, chairman Cruise¡¯s nervous look gradually disappeared and he was even rxed enough to crack jokes.

    ¡°This is a joint operation between our fourpanies, it can¡¯t be that just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will send out forces, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Then again, it¡¯s better to be more prepared.¡±

    Chairman Renersa gave a nod. He looked at the situation of the battle before looking at the Magic Repeating Crossbow of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you sell those things?¡±

    ¡°I really want to sell them, but it¡¯s a real pity that it¡¯s the same as the Magic Trebuchets, they are weapons limited by the army headquarters. Unless the army headquarters approves, we can¡¯t sell them to anyone.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°Even if we use it for ourselves, it is because of my identity as a viscount and lord and not because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.¡±

    Chairman Renersa didn¡¯t look too surprised. For a weapon that was as powerful as this, of course it was specially restricted by the army headquarters.

    Otherwise if it was to fall into the hands of another country, like the Sack Kingdom, it could pose a threat to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards holding arrow boxes that were half as tall as a person, chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, this Magic Repeating Crossbow is easy to use, but doesn¡¯t it consume too many arrows? I think that in a matter of time, a single guard has used close to ten arrow boxes. ording to what you said about how each box has twenty arrows, which costs close to three hundred silver coins, this consumption¡­..is a bit too high.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Fighting is about using money. In my opinion, spending money is better than letting people die. Money can be earned, but lives can¡¯t be taken back.¡±

    Chairman Renersa just gave a bitterugh. He looked at the rain of arrows that blotted out the sky and the beastmen who were being shorn like wheat, he shook his head and said, ¡°If the army headquarters could be as luxurious as you, the Sack Kingdom would have already been trampled by us.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying anything.

    The army headquarters being this luxurious? That was simply a joke.

    In order to deal with this joint operation, Xu Yi hadpletely taken out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s funds. He did this to ensure that this operation went perfectly and to check the effectiveness of these things.

    From what he saw, the effects were excellent, but the problem was that the consumption was too high.

    In order to achieve this current effect, if everything that Xu Yi had invested had been converted to gold coins, it would be at least thirty thousand gold coins.

    This was just fighting against the motley beastmen. If this was converted to the northern army fighting a proper army like the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army, the consumption would increase by several times.

    Major MacConley told him that after the Muerto Mountain Range campaign, the army headquarters couldn¡¯t take out five thousand gold coins, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all.

    If one wanted to rely on equipment to suppress enemies, one had to spend money.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards pulled out the Magic Repeating Crossbow, it meant that the ambush of the beastmen hadpletely failed.

    It was just two hundred meters, but for the beastmen, it was like a moat that they couldn¡¯t pass through at all.,

    Under the endless rain of arrows, the charging beastmen dropped one by one, unable to fight back at all.

    Compared to humans, the beastmen were already in worse living conditions, so it was impossible for them to have good weapons. Being able to resist was by depending on the strength of their body, having an overwhelming might when it came to fighting humans at close range.

    But when Xu Yi used powerful weapons like the Magic Trebuchets and with the support of the Magic Repeating Crossbows, the beastmen couldn¡¯t engage in close rangebat at all.

    The over five thousand beastmen broke through the rain of arrows, but there were less than a thousand of them left.

    Moreover, these less than a thousand beastmen were all heavily injured and their battle strength dropped.

    The guards of the fourpanies had been saving their strength and their morale was at a peak, so with an order, they charged forward like tigers jumping off their mountains.

    The beastmen finally had a chance to fight the human guards in close range, but they were terrified to find that the armours the human guards were wearing were very firm and their weapons were very sharp.

    With this difference in equipment, the battle efficiency of the armoured humans came very close to the beastmen who were fighting with no armour and were using sticks and stones as weapons.

    Then adding in the fact that one side had high morale and the other side had just been battered, when both sides began fighting in close range, there was a clear disparity.

    After just ten minutes, half the thousand beastmen who charged in had fallen. The remaining several hundred beastmen knew that this was bad and couldn¡¯t help turning to run.

    However, once they pulled away a bit, they heard the sounds of giant stones flying through the air that made their hearts tremble.

    The four Magic Trebuchets that hadn¡¯t been put away fired again and the giant stones fell onto the escaping beastmen. Although the formation of the beastmen were scattered since they were running, so the chances of hitting them weren¡¯t high, it still crushed half of the beastmen running away and shattered thest bit of fighting will that they had.

    Seeing the remaining hundreds of beastmen disappear into the dark horizon, Xu Yi felt it was a bit of a pity.

    If he had prepared some war horses, perhaps the guards could have chased down the remaining beastmen and prevented any further problems.

    But it was a pity that war horses were a scarce resource in the Lampuri Kingdom. Even if Xu Yi had a close rtionship with the army headquarters, it was impossible for their guards to receive some.

 Volume 3 30 - The following of a shocking battle

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 30 The following of a shocking battle</h4>

    Compared to Xu Yi, the other people were very satisfied with this victory, but they were shocked and in disbelief.

    ording tomon sense, five thousand beastmen warriors against less than two thousand human soldiers, even if there were two hundred elf warriors and three hundred dwarf warriors, it should have been one sided.

    Even if the beastmen didn¡¯t have proper weapons or equipment, decreasing their battle strength a bit, they should still have the advantage.

    However, the victory in front of everyone was that only a hundred of the five thousand beastmen escaped and the rest were wiped out.

    On their side, only three human guards were heavily injured in the final short rangebat and a hundred people were lightly injured. There wasn¡¯t even a single casualty!

    This kind of result, if one heard about it and didn¡¯t experience it, no one would believe it. Even those that experienced this battle couldn¡¯tpletely believe it.

    Everyone looked up at the four Magic Trebuchets. They all knew that being able to achieve this kind of result, the four Magic Trebuchets yed the biggest role.

    If they used the old trebuchets the army used, it would be impossible to defend because the old trebuchets were very inefficient in firing. It would have been pretty good if they could even fire one or two boulders as the beastmen charged in.

    These Magic Trebuchets fired a boulder less than every half a minute, with a firing range that was further than the old trebuchets, reaching a terrifying five hundred meters and even the beastmen charging suffered from the Magic Trebuchets. It fired close to ten giant boulders andpletely changed the scope of the battle.

    The second greatest merit were the Magic Repeating Crossbows in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    These Magic Repeating Crossbows fired very quickly and they were very simple to fire. One just needed to install the arrow chest and then aim them before pulling the trigger. All of the twenty arrows inside a single arrow chest would be fired in less than half a minute.

    The worse thing was that because the arrows in the Magic Repeating Crossbows were fired by Magic Arrays, their firing rate and distance were much better than normal bows.

    A single Magic Repeating Crossbow didn¡¯t seem like much, but with five hundred guards holding Magic Repeating Crossbows and everyone was provided with enough arrow chests, the firing of five hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows could be described as terrifying.

    If four Magic Trebuchets had routed the formation of over five thousand beastmen, the decisive factor was the continuous rain of arrows from the Magic Repeating Crossbow. They yed the greatest role in killing the beastmen.

    As for the final close rangebat, the reason why the guards of the fourpanies could fight so well was because the armour and weapons provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were too good.

    ording to the appraisal of veteran guards, the weapons and armours they received from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was even better than the weapons and armours from the best cksmiths.

    So in summary, the reason why they were about to achieve this victory that almost no one dared believe in this disparate situation was all because of the difference in equipment.

    But even with this kind of shocking victory, Xu Yi who was the most important person in achieving this victory had a frown like he wasn¡¯t satisfied.

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi why he was dissatisfied and Xu Yi replied after thinking, ¡°My original thought was to kill all the beastmen before they could charge in, but there were still a thousand beastmen who came in. If there were a bit more of them, it wouldn¡¯t have been as easy to take care of them.¡±

    The two rolled their eyes at Xu Yi.

    You wanted to kill them all before the beastmen could charge in? How was this possible, the beastmen weren¡¯t dumb enough to stand there and let you kill them, right?¡±

    Seeing the looks of disbelief on their faces, Xu Yi looked at them with disdain.

    Humph, these inexperienced fellows. If they knew that the armies on earth could eliminate enemies from thousands of kilometers away, wouldn¡¯t they faint in fear?

    After the battle was over, achieving this shocking victory meant that the joint operations of the fourpanies was a great sess.

    The reason why theyid this trap, deliberately bringing arge amount of cargo onto the ck Rice Wastnd in this dangerous situation was to lure in the beastmen who had strong hostility against humans, led by the Beastmen Independence Regiment out. They would defeat them and solve the problems that the fourpanies would meet here at once.

    They believed that with the power the fourpanies demonstrated, there shouldn¡¯t be any blind beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd who would challenge the fourpanies. It would make the future factories of the fourpanies set up here in the future much more secure.

    Of course, to Xu Yi, the best method to peace wasn¡¯t ughter, but rather cooperation.

    As long as the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd realized that they could live better lives by cooperating with humans, then he believed the beastmen would cause trouble for the human merchants in the future.

    But most of the beastmen revered experts and only by disying his strength could the fourpanies smoothly invest in the ck Rice Wastnd. So Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind showing his powerful strength in this operation, routing all the resistance of the beastmen in one fell swoop.

    Facts proved that the effects of doing this were quite good.

    In the following days, when the caravans of the fourpanies began constructing their production base, there wasn¡¯t a single blind beastmen who dared do anything. The four beastmen tribes that were cooperating with the fourpanies sent out beastmen to assist the workers finish their construction.

    After seeing the change in the lives of the Voller Tribe, these beastmen were filled with expectations and hope for this life. They wanted to fill their stomachs and wear clothes as soon as possible.

    While construction was being held fifty kilometers into the ck Rice Wastnd, Xu Yi left this ce and went to inspect the mine and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s non-ferrous smelting factory by the Voller Tribe.

    The mine was operating normally, being able to bring out over twenty tons of non-ferrous metal ores a day and there was nothing to worry about.

    But there was some hindrance in the operation of the non-ferrous smelting factory.

    Although smelting non-ferrous metals seemed like smelting steel on the surface, the concrete operations were different.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t specialize in smelting non-ferrous metal, so he could only use some reference from when he inspected non-ferrous metal smelting factories on earth. The rest would be solved by the workers of the factory.

    It was a good thing that while the Frestech Chamber of Commercecked things, they didn¡¯tck dwarfs who were skilled in smelting metals.

    When Xu Yi opened this non-ferrous smelting factory, he had sent close to three hundred dwarf workers and five hundred human workers who had experience working in the Falling Rain Valley smelting factories, to ensure that this non-ferrous smelting factory could start producing as soon as possible.

    Although currently speaking, the non-ferrous metal smelting technology hadn¡¯t been fully developed, with the dwarf workers with their rich experience, they made progress quite fast. He believed that by the end of the year, they could finish smelting non-ferrous metals ording to his requests.

    If this non-ferrous smelting factory could finish their research, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would haverge amounts of non-ferrous metals to work with, speeding up their research and developing many products. There was also another important strategic significance, which was the non-ferrous metal mines that he had established with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ording to the investigations of the dwarves, the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t rich in iron, but it was very rich in non-ferrous metals.

    For modern industry, steel was the most important material, but non-ferrous metal was also indispensable and wasn¡¯t as readily avable as iron.

    So based on this, the Lampuri Kingdom had a natural advantage in resources.

    Of course, that was all very far into the future.

    Currently speaking, the investment that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made into the mine and smelting factory near the Voller Tribe didn¡¯t make them any profits at all right now.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush. Establishing a magic machine industrial system was a mammoth task, it couldn¡¯t be rushed at all.

    As a mechanical engineer, he was much more patientpared to others.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was operating very smoothly right now. Because of the poprization of magic machines, although they spent quite a lot, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily deal with it with their finances.

    The only problem was probably the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s internal political struggles.

    As for this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of a single solution.

    Although he had risen in the ranks of the Lampuri Kingdom nobles, he was still far from being able to meddle in the higher political situation of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, this didn¡¯t mean that he was unable to support Seveni.

    Rather, he was able to support her quite a bit.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi revealed a confident smile.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t taste any benefits, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to affect anything, but now that the army headquarters had tasted the easy victory of the Muerto Mountains, Xu Yi believed that they wouldn¡¯t remain aloof.

 Volume 3 31 - Wanting benefits again?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 31 Wanting benefits again?</h4>

    Lampuri Thirteenth was sitting in a small garden in the back of the royal pce. There was a wool nket on his legs and the winter sun weed him as he read the document in his hand.

    This was the document the royal army submitted a few days ago and it was his third time reading it, but he was seriously reading it over.

    Because this was a summary report of the Muerto Mountain Range campaign. As the king who had taken the throne during the ten year turmoil and then calming the turmoil in the worst situation, stabilizing his throne, the current king Lampuri Thirteenth understood military affairs better than his predecessors and ced more importance in them.

    After holding the throne for more than ten years, he fully understood how important the conflict with the Sack Kingdom to the north was to the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because of the suppression from the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom had to spendrge amounts of gold coins on the northern army each year. The army headquarters had to use most of the military expenses on the northern army, only being able to barely block the Sack Kingdom.

    However, this sucked the Lampuri Kingdom in and they had to spendrge amounts on military spending each year, which couldn¡¯t be avoided at all.

    Actually Lampuri Thirteenth was well aware of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s strategy. The Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t dere war on the Lampuri Kingdom to rely on their stronger national strength to slowly drag the Lampuri Kingdom down, then they would easily defeat the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Rather if they threw the dice down and started a war, perhaps the Lampuri Kingdom would put up a fierce resistance, so the Sack Kingdom would be greatly damaged even if they could win. At that time, there might be another country that will swoop in.

    But even if he knew, the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t solve this problem. Because the Sack Kingdom was stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom and had the initiative, the Lampuri Kingdom being able to hold on was already good enough. How could they think of a way to fight back?

    In this Muerto Mountain Range campaign, although the Sack Kingdom was aggressive in the beginning, like they wanted to start a war, they didn¡¯t continue pushing forward after taking control of the Muerto Mountains.

    This action was just to increase pressure on the Lampuri Kingdom, forcing them to invest more into the northern army. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on like this.

    But the Sack Kingdom never would have thought that the Lampuri Kingdom would suddenly change equipment and prepare those terrifying Magic Trebuchets. Adding in the fact that they used steel arrows without caring about the costs, they were able to forcefully take back the Muerto Mountain Range.

    Now the northern army had control of the Muerto Mountain Range and createdrge pressure on the Sack Kingdom, forcing them to invest more into their armies to defend against the northern army.

    As for attacking the Muerto Mountains¡­..With the strong equipment of the northern army, they didn¡¯t have this thought at all for now.

    But in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army¡¯s report, they didn¡¯t ask the king for their merit, rather they were asking for help.

    ording to the statistics of the royal army, in the Muerto Mountains campaign, although they had a great disy and captured the important Muerto Mountains, the army headquarters had invested over one hundred and seventy gold coins. They had basically emptied the army headquarters¡¯ budget for this year.

    In order to maintain control of the Muerto Mountains, the northern army had to spend at least forty thousand gold coins each month.

    It had to be said, just the cost of transporting goods was over ten thousand gold coins,

    And that was even when the army headquarters racked their brains to think of ways to save money.

    In the report, the royal army had uratelyid out all the data and clearly indicated that the royal army had no money. If the kingdom finances didn¡¯t provide them more funds, the army headquarters wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on and they would lose the Muerto Mountains again.

    This report seemed like a threat to the king for more money, but Lampuri Thirteenth was very clear that the army headquarters were just reporting facts.

    Because he knew the kingdom finances better than anyone else in the kingdom.

    The kingdom had no money, so naturally the army had no money.

    But this was a problem that had to be solved, otherwise the northern army¡¯s actions before would all go to vain and the Lampuri Kingdom would be put in a passive position.

    But if they found a way to increase the military budget, it would bring down the Lampuri Kingdom and make the kingdom finances even worse, forming an endless loop.

    How could they solve this endless loop?

    Lampuri Thirteenth thought for a bit before picking up another report to his side.

    This report was a fall harvest summary from the kingdom¡¯s agricultural department.

    In this report, Banta City was in a very good position.

    The reason was very simple, in this year¡¯s fall harvest, Banta City had splendid results that far surpassed the other cities in the kingdom.

    In the report, the agricultural department profusely praised the current Banta City City Lord Count Stagg, calling him the number one contributor to Banta City receiving such a high harvest and that he should be greatly rewarded. They said that if every city in the kingdom has such high grain yield, the Lampuri Kingdom would be able to cast off theirck of grains and every citizen wouldn¡¯t be troubled by famine anymore.

    After carefully reading this report, Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly gave a snort as a cold smile appeared on his face. He took another report and after looking at it for a while, his lips curled as the smile on his face turned joyful.

    This report was actually a confidential report with several dozen pieces of paper thickly stuck together.

    If Xu Yi was here, he definitely would have been surprised.

    That was because in this thick report, it was all matters rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Lampuri Thirteenth read this report more carefully than the ones from the army headquarters and the agricultural department. There were many times when he stopped to think before he continued reading.

    It took him close to an hour to finish reading this report. Lampuri Thirteenth put down this report and leaned back in his seat, closing his eyes to enjoy the warm sunlight. It seemed like he was nning to rest, but his lips and brow twitched from time to time, showing that he was currently deep in thought.

    After a while, a set of soft footsteps entered the garden, awakening Lampuri Thirteenth from his thought.

    He didn¡¯t need to open his eyes to know that his favourite youngest daughter Seveni was here.

    ¡°Royal father, you actually have time to rest today?¡± When the footsteps stopped in front of him, Sveni¡¯s pleasantly surprised voice sounded.

    Lampuri Thirteenth opened his eyes and revealed a warm smile to Seveni. He pointed at the chair opposite to him, signaling for her to sit.

    ¡°Speak.¡± When Seveni sat down, Lampuri Thirteenth spoke these brief words.

    Seveni knew that her royal father didn¡¯t like wasting time, so she nodded before giving a document to Lampuri Thirteenth.

    ¡°It¡¯s rted to that fellow Xu Yi again?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t reach out to take it, rather he asked Seveni this with a teasing smile.

    Hearing the teasing tone in his voice, Seveni¡¯s face turned a bit red. She reached out towards Lampuri Thirteenth with the document again.

    ¡°You¡¯ll know once you see it.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a smile and took the document. After looking it over twice, his expression immediately became serious and he actually sat straight up.

    After carefully looking over the document, he thought for a bit before asking Seveni with a serious look, ¡°How confident are you?¡±

    Seveni thought for a bit before replying, ¡°With my understanding of Xu Yi, since he said this and gave you this proposal, I think that he is at least 50% certain.¡±

    ¡°Alright, being 50% certain means it¡¯s worth doing.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at the document in his hands and gave a smile of self ridicule.

    ¡°Hei, I never thought that something I¡¯ve worried about for over ten years would be easily solved in the hands of this kid. It¡¯s a good thing that he¡¯s nning on going to the Stantine Duchy. Although I knew that the Stantine Duchy was fertile and could deliver arge amount of grains, I never had the strength to do it and could only give up this idea.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Royal father, Xu Yi said that there are many things in this world that can be solved with money and doesn¡¯t require force. He also said that things that can be solved with money aren¡¯t considered important matters.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth couldn¡¯t help staring at her, ¡°This kid said is so easily. His Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns quite a bit, so of course he can say this, but our kingdom¡¯s finances aren¡¯t as ample as hispany. If he has the skills, why doesn¡¯t he have our Lampuri Kingdom earn as much?¡±

    Seveni said with a smile, ¡°Royal father, if Xu Yi really had a way to make the kingdom as rich?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth was stunned. He looked at Seveni with a frown, ¡°Seveni, I know that you¡¯ve always admired Xu Yi and I agree that the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has changed the entire Banta City, but a country, apany, and a city are different, it¡¯s not that simple.¡±

    ¡°How do you know without trying.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Royal father, our Lampuri Kingdom has been on the same path for hundreds of years, but there has been no improvement. Now that there is a chance to change, why aren¡¯t you willing to give it a chance?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Seveni for a while before giving a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t know this, but Seveni, there are many things in the kingdom that I can¡¯t easily decide.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Seveni gave a slight nod, ¡°I¡¯m not hoping that you will make anyrge changes, I just hope that you¡¯ll give some help to these changes.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenthughed, ¡°I knew that you came this time to get more advantages for that kid. If he wasn¡¯t already married, I would doubt that you nned on marrying him.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s face turned red, but she didn¡¯t refute anything. She just stared at Lampuri Thirteenth, ¡°Royal father, I am being serious. Xu Yi is being treated by Count Stagg like this and is still thinking about our entire kingdom, if we don¡¯t show him a bit of support, he will definitely be disappointed. I feel that no matter what, we can¡¯t lose him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t agree, but you haven¡¯t told me what benefits you want to get for him, so how can I agree?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth said with a smile, ¡°If you¡¯re requesting territory for him, then don¡¯t say anything because I will definitely not agree. Last time the nobles almost turned the world upside down when he was given territory, so if we give him any more, I¡¯ll be bothered to death.¡±

    Seveni paused before replying with a serious look, ¡°I hope that you can give free trading rights to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth was stunned before saying in a sharp voice, ¡°That is impossible!¡±

 Volume 3 32 - Immigration

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 32 Immigration</h4>

    As the king and princess of the Lampuri Kingdom, all their decisions were naturally important matters for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But for the father and son pair of Afaylia and Archie, these important matters didn¡¯t matter to them. The problem they cared about now was the life of their little family.

    Actually in all fairness, Afaylia¡¯s family were living better livespared to before.

    Although Afaylia still went hunting in the mountains, he was no longer using the prey hunted to exchange for money and was just doing it to provide them with a sumptuous meal.

    That was because the current Afaylia family no longer needed to rely on his ie from hunting.

    Afaylia had three sons and two daughters, they were all working in factories in Banta City. Every one of them had sries of over ten gold coins a month and they brought in a total monthly sry of over seventy gold coins.

    This much money was something that their family couldn¡¯t earn in a single year before.

    With this increase in ie, Afaylia¡¯s family¡¯s lives naturally became much better.

    Not only did the prey Afaylia hunted be a good meal, their small shack had been dismantled and learning from the other families of the vige, they had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build a two story house out of brick that everyone approved of.

    At the same time, their house was filled with household magic machines that improved their lives by several times over.

    However, this good life had disappeared with the changing of Banta City¡¯s City Lord.

    Although they didn¡¯t go back to the same situation from several years ago where they couldn¡¯t feed themselves, with the agricultural promotion policies of the new City Lord, it mande many factories in Banta City move out or close down. In the end, of the five children that Afaylia had, three of them had lost their jobs and the remaining two had to go to the Falling Rain Valley that was several dozen kilometers away to find new jobs.

    Now their family¡¯s monthly ie had turned from over seventy gold coins to a trivial twenty gold coins. It had greatly decreased and made their lives much harder.

    Of course, that was still much higherpared to before, but now that everyone had a higher standard of living, going from seventy gold coins a month to twenty gold coins a month was without a doubt difficult.

    The important thing was that Afaylia¡¯s family¡¯s ie had increased in these two years, so he quickly took care of his second son¡¯s marriage and married out his two daughters, turning one household into several households and increasing their burdens.

    The even more important problem was that his youngest son Archie was turning eighteen this year. ording to the traditions of the vige, if he wasn¡¯t married by the age of twenty, others would gossip behind his back.

    This kid Archie had actually found a good girl in the vige and their rtionship wasn¡¯t bad.

    After Afaylia saw that girl, he was very satisfied and was nning to take care of their wedding this year or next year.

    But the parents of the girl had given their condition. They wanted Archie to prepare a new house for them when they got married and they wanted the house to be filled with household magic machines, which had to be from the Frestech Brand.

    This request couldn¡¯t be considered excessive because as living conditions became better, the girls in Banta City had simr requests when they got married.

    But the Newiqa Chamber of Commerce that Archie used to work for moved to Canberra City that was over a hundred kilometers away and Archie wasn¡¯t willing to go, so he lost his job. How could he take out all the money to fulfill this condition?

    Afaylia and Archie had calcted it, if they wanted to satisfy the request of the girl¡¯s parents, they had to take out at least two hundred gold coins.

    Although Afaylia¡¯s family¡¯s ie in these two years were very good, they had spent quite a bit in improving their lives and didn¡¯t save much.

    So the wedding matter could only be dyed for now and Archie¡¯s mood was getting worse with each day.

    Seeing the silent Archie sitting in front of him, Afaylia remembered how his son used to be full of energy and alwaysughing. He gave a sigh in his heart before looking to the southwest, silentlying to a decision in his heart before saying, ¡°Archie, staying like this isn¡¯t a way, you should think of a way to solve this, right?¡±

    Archie gave a bitterugh as he helplessly said, ¡°How do we solve it? Our family doesn¡¯t have that much money.¡± He paused after saying this before a trace of pain appeared on his face and he continued, ¡°How about we forget it? Leia¡¯s parents insist on this high condition, so I might as well not marry her. There are many girls in this world, I can just find another one in the future.¡±

    ¡°Stop speaking nonsense!¡± Afaylia immediately reprimanded him, ¡°Leia is a good girl and her parents¡¯ condition can¡¯t be considered high, since they want Leia to live a good life. How about this, Archie, don¡¯t stay in this vige anymore. Go out to another ce and find a good job. Get some money and thene back to marry Leia.¡±

    Archie was stunned, ¡°How can I do that? Big brother and second brother all moved out, I have to stay here to take care of you and mom.¡±

    Afaylia red at him, ¡°Your mother and I both have hands and feet, why do we need you to take care of us? Listen to me, leave this ce and find a good job. When you have money, Leia¡¯s parents will be assured in marrying Leia to you.¡±

    Archie looked at the expression on Afaylia¡¯s face and knew that his dad had already made his decision. He knew that refuting would only make him angry, but he still revealed a bitter smile after thinking about it, ¡°But dad, where should I find a job? The Falling Rain Valley is filled with people, how can I find a good job if I go there? Then again, a wage of over ten gold coins a month isn¡¯t enough, it would take at least two years to save up two hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°You can go further if the Falling Rain Valley doesn¡¯t work.¡± Afaylia shook his head.

    Archie was stunned, ¡°Dad, you wouldn¡¯t be wanting me to work at the ck Rice Wastnd, right? Although the wages there are quite high, that is the beastmen¡¯s territory and it¡¯s very dangerous.¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not willing to have you go to that dangerous ce. I¡¯m saying go a bit further, which is the Stantine Duchy.¡± Afaylia said.

    Archie waspletely startled and only after a while did he say with a look of disbelief, ¡°Dad, you¡¯re actually agreeing to me going to the Stantine Duchy? That ce takes at least a week to travel to by horse carriage. If I go, it¡¯ll be hard toe back. If something happens to you and mom, I wouldn¡¯t be able toe back in time.¡±

    Afayliaughed, ¡°Who said you¡¯re going alone? Let me tell you, me and your mom will be going as well this time. Didn¡¯t you see the joint job posting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce put in the ?Banta Times?? As long we old farmers with experience are willing to migrate to thend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rented from the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will directly pay us a hundred gold coins. Then we can work for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce and be contract farmers, which not only leaves us with enough grains each year, we¡¯ll also receive a yearly sry of a hundred gold coins from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Just with me and your mom, that is two hundred gold coins a year.¡±

    ¡°What about me?¡± Archie asked back, ¡°What will I do?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t listen when I say read the ?Banta Times? more.¡± Afaylia looked at his youngest son with disdain, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is opening a mine and a canned fruit factory in the Stantine Duchy, so as long as you¡¯re willing to go, how can you not find work?¡±

    Archie thought for a bit before he asked with a bit of difficulty, ¡°But dad¡­..Like this, aren¡¯t we moving away from here? Running to the Stantine Duchy to start a new life?¡±

    ¡°What are you worried about? Our house is still here, would anyone dare tear it down?¡± Afaylia looked in Banta City¡¯s direction before giving a cold snort, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t that new damn City Lord, we wouldn¡¯t need to move. But that damn fellow won¡¯t let us live, so what are we staying here for?¡±

    Archie looked at Afaylia like he was seeing him for the first time.

    This was his first time noticing that even though his dad was over fifty years old, he still had more of a sense of adventurepared to a twenty year old.

    Leaving Banta City he had lived in for decades and running to another country that was over a thousand kilometers away to start a new life, what kind of courage and will did that require?

    If it wasn¡¯t for worrying about his and Leia¡¯s wedding, would his dad make this kind of decision?

    Thinking of this, Archie couldn¡¯t help being filled with deep guilt before remembering an important issue.

    ¡°But dad, if our family moves to the Stantine Duchy, what about Leia? We won¡¯t be here, so Leia¡¯s family might marry her to someone else.¡±

    Afayliaughed, ¡°What? Kid, you talk about Leia all day and you didn¡¯t hear about this important issue? Let me tell you, I talked to Leia¡¯s dad yesterday and her dad told me that he has already decided to go to the Stantine Duchy to farm for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. He even asked if I wanted to go together.¡±

    Archie¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Could it be that their entire family is moving?¡±

    ¡°Leia¡¯s dad wasn¡¯t certain if their entire family was moving because Leia told her dad that she wants to stay with you. Hei, kid, a girl that is this unreasonably in love with you and you say you don¡¯t want to go, you really don¡¯t know good from bad.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Archie was stunned. Seeing the mischievous look on his dad¡¯s face, other than the sweet feeling in his heart, there was a shy anger.

    After all this time, his dad had been ying with him!

 Volume 3 33 - The impact of free trading rights

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 33 The impact of free trading rights</h4>

    The City Lord¡¯s Manor was brightly lit even at night.

    Although the busiest fall harvest was over, as the Banta City City Lord, Count Stagg¡¯s work didn¡¯t decrease at all.

    Compared to the previous Count Sean who liked leaving work to his subordinates, Count Stagg liked taking care of everything himself, doing all the big and small things.

    He liked this feeling of being in control.

    However the price for this was that he was much busier than Count Stagg.

    Right after he finished a small conference, he returned to the City Lord Manor office and before even resting, he began looking over documents.

    Because there was such a splendid result for this year¡¯s fall harvest, Banta City received the praise of both the king and the agricultural department. Count Stagg was even speciallymended by the Royal Parliament, which increased his reputation in both the kingdom and his family, creating another political star from the Stagg Family.

    But Count Stagg was very clear that just how much of his performance was real and how fake it was.

    So in order to not let things funnel out, he had to spendrge amounts of time and energy on the aftermath.

    Because he was also clear that although the family and their allies had pushed him to this position, recing Count Sean as the City Lord, the burden he bore was quite important. There were many families who opposed his family and there were countless eyes fixed on him, so as long as he made a single mistake, there would be a violent storm that greeted him.

    Before embarking, the family head who was his biological big brother Duke Stagg had told him that if he couldn¡¯t handle things well here, if there were any problems that urred, if there was a need, he would be treated as a sacrifice by the family.

    So after Count Stagg arrived in Banta City, he put a strong disy to ensure that he would create a result that his family and their allies would be satisfied with. At the same time, he shut the mouths of people who doubted him.

    Of course, that was on the premise he wouldn¡¯t make any mistakes.

    There were certain parts that other people couldn¡¯t do, so Count Stagg had to do them himself.

    It was a good thing that his family also gave him great support in this matter.

    For example, there were clearly problems with the data from Banta City, but with his family¡¯s control of the agricultural department, the agricultural department didn¡¯t conduct an exhaustive investigation on this matter. They just went around and approved of the data, allowing this data to light up the eyes of all the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With this data, not only had Count Stagg¡¯s reputation increased, the faction led by the Stagg Family that insisted on agriculture in the Royal Parliament was at an advantage.

    During arguments, this faction took out the harvest yield from Banta City.

    Because ording to the calctions of the agricultural department, if all the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom followed the same policies as Banta City, the grain yield would greatly increase in the entire kingdom.

    If they could reach the same level as Banta City, the entire Lampuri Kingdom could cast off their famine problems in just three to five years, even creating a grain surplus each year.

    Everyone had to admit that maintaining the nation was the most important factor, letting all the citizens eat to their fill.

    As long as the citizens can survive, the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be in the same turmoil several years ago.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t in turmoil, they could rest and gather their strength, naturally bing stronger over time.

    This was the truth of the Sines Continent, so the faction that refuted the Stagg Family couldn¡¯t say anything.

    Even the king had to recognize the Stagg Family¡¯s point, but he still had some reservations and didn¡¯t truly believe that agricultural development was the most important factor.

    Unexpected to everyone, a few days ago, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s business department suddenly announced a new decision. In order to promote business development in the Lampuri Kingdom, they decided to give approvedpanies free trading rights.

    This free trading right was to allowpanies to easily trade with other countries, without the need to report to the business department or the Royal Parliament. It allowed thepanies to be more flexible when dealing with other countries, savingrge amounts of time.

    Of course, themodities had to not be on the banned list of the kingdom and of course there was still tax that needed to be paid to the kingdom on trade.

    Because there were different tax rates in different cities, in order to make things more convenient, thepanies that received free trade rights would be paying taxes directly to the kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t be paying to any of the cities in the kingdom.

    Once this policy came out, everyone understood that the king was finding a means to solve the kingdom¡¯s finances, trying to take part of the cities¡¯ taxes for the kingdom finances.

    But business in the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t developed, so there were fewpanies that could trade with other countries, so this policy didn¡¯t apply to most cities andpanies in the kingdom. Naturally, it didn¡¯t draw much sound or argument.

    On the list ofpanies that received free trading rights, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was on there.

    At first Count Stagg as the Banta City¡¯s City Lord didn¡¯t care because he knew that Xu YI was close to her highness Seveni, as well as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being heavily favoured by her highness and even the king. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to receive the free trading rights through their rtionships was natural.

    But when Count Stagg was reminded by the Banta City financial staff, he was shocked to find that once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received free trading rights, it would greatly affect Banta City.

    ording to the tax statistics from the City Lord Manor, in the past two years, starting from just being able to pay several hundred gold coins a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s tax revenue kept increasing.

    In this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid more than two hundred thousand gold coins a month. In June, they even paid an astonishing four hundred and thirty thousand gold coins, even surpassing the oldpanies in Banta City. They made up for arge portion of Banta City¡¯s total tax revenue.

    Starting from July, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s tax revenue kept dropping. They fell to two hundred and sixty thousand in July, to one hundred and ny thousand in August, and just barely over a hundred thousand in September.

    Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce evading taxes? Of course that was impossible.

    The reason for this was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was forced to move their business to the Falling Rain Valley by Count Stagg.

    Because the king had given Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding area to Xu Yi as his territory as a viscount, ording to thews of the Royal Parliament, the ie in the territory of a noble belonged to them. They only needed to pay a portion of it as tax to the kingdom and didn¡¯t need to answer to anyone else in the kingdom.

    So after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce moved to the Falling Rain Valley, other than some businesses that stayed in Banta City, they didn¡¯t need to pay taxes to Banta City on most of their other ie.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received free trade rights, ording to the exnation given by the business department, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could directly pay the tax on their business with otherpanies to the kingdom finances, Banta City couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    So in short, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a Banta Citypany in name, only the product service center and the new concept modern living magic room needed to pay taxes to Banta City. The other businesses didn¡¯t need to care about Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor at all.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development speed was known to all. They were currently cooperating with the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, while also cooperating with the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be developing faster and faster, generating more and more profit.

    ordingly, would be missing out on the tax revenue that would be more and more important.

    Count Stagg conducted his agricultural promotion policies, but he was clear that for Banta City, most of the taxes came from thergepanies. If it wasn¡¯t a problem with his stance, he would have be like Count Sean, developing both business and agricultural.

    But now because he was forced to take the stance of the Stagg Family and their allies to force the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of Banta City, he could only take responsibility for this bitter fruit that he had nted.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many otherpanies who had lost faith in Banta City because of the agricultural promotion policies, leaving Banta City to head to other cities. There were evenpanies like the Amrith Chamber of Commerce that invested in the ck Rice Wastnd, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Among the first batch ofpanies that received free trade rights, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Sarank Chamber of Commerce from Banta City were all included.

    The staff under Count Stagg¡¯s control made some rough estimates and came to a conclusion.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leaving Banta City, Banta City¡¯s tax revenue had decreased by three hundred thousand. Now that those fourpanies had received free trade rights, the Banta City tax revenue would decrease by at least two hundred thousand.

    Last month Banta City¡¯s tax revenue was just over five hundred thousand, which meant that they had lost half their tax revenue, which was without a doubt a serious blow.

    The present Banta City went back to the same state as several years ago, it could no longer be considered the quickest developing city in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The more important thing was that with the decrease in tax revenue, it proved that Banta City was falling backwards under Count Stagg¡¯s rule, which was a serious blow to the conservative faction led by the Stagg Family.

    So while Count Stagg was taking care of the aftermath of the fall harvest, he was also racking his brain to improve Banta City¡¯s tax revenue to avoid this situation.

    While he was busy with his work, at this time, Count Stagg saw the next document and his eyes suddenly shrank.

 Volume 3 34 - Make a bet

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 34 Make a bet</h4>

    These documents only had a small matter on them. They said that there were some vigers in the surrounding viges that wanted to work in the Stantine Duchy, so they were reporting it to Banta City ahead of time, keeping their identity as Banta City citizens.

    There were some matters like this before, but Count Stagg didn¡¯t care that much. He just authorized them ording to the customs from before.

    But seeing the same document again and again, Count Stagg suddenly had a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

    After carefully thinking about it, he noticed why this strong sense of crisis had appeared.

    The reason was very simple, it was rted to the Banta City tax revenue problem that he had been worrying about.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left and the otherpanies following them, as well as the business department suddenly giving out free trade rights, this year¡¯s Banta City tax revenue would return to the level of several years ago.

    Losing the revenue that came from thergepanies, it was equal to someone taking arge chunk of Banta City away.

    And now, the citizens of Banta City were actually leaving Banta City. For a traditional noble like Count Stagg, this was basically shaking the foundations of Banta City.

    When Count Stagg recalled the documents from a few days before, he found a shocking fact. The citizens that were leaving Banta City were actually normal farmers from the viges outside the city.

    For Count Stagg that ced great importance on agriculture, these normal farmers were the foundation of Banta City.

    One or ten farmers leaving wouldn¡¯t affect anything, but if a hundred or even several hundred left, it would create a shocking effect.

    Recalling the documents over the past few days, Count Stagg was shocked to find that in a short time, there had been close to a hundred peasant families that had put in their applications.

    If this trend continued, wouldn¡¯t Banta City¡¯s foundations be shaken?

    Thinking of this, Count Stagg looked at the document in his hand again and found that several vigers wanted to leave Banta City. They wanted to work in the Stantine Duchy, all of them were going to work on thend that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had rented.

    To put it in other words, they were changing from farming in Banta City to farming in the Stantine Duchy.

    In the past documents, the other farmers had given the same reason. Thinking of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recent actions, Count Stagg¡¯s eyes turned cold as he gave a strong snort.

    ¡°That damn Xu Yi, you actually dare steal the most important old and experienced farmers from me. You want to dig a hole for me?¡±

    Count Stagg thought about it before denying this application.

    Although in theory he didn¡¯t have this right, as the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, he had many methods to force the normal farmers to stay.

    When he finished replying to the document, there was a soft knock on the door to the office.

    Based on the frequency, Count Stagg could tell that it was his trusted subordinate manager Chekhov, so he let hime in with a deep sounding reply.

    After Chekhov came in, he gave a bow to Count Stagg, ¡°Lord Count, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is here for a meeting.¡±

    Count Stagg was stunned, turning to look at the dark night outside.

    Why did Xu Yie for a meeting at this time?

    Ten minutester, Count Stagg saw Xu Yi in a small room in the City Lord Manor.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it really is rare for you to visit thiste at night.¡±

    Now that the City Lord Manor had received the three thousand agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and finished the fall harvest, Count Stagg¡¯s attitude when meeting Xu Yi had greatly changed.

    Xu Yi saw that after the first confrontation, Count Stagg always revealed a polite manner when meeting him and this time wasn¡¯t an exception.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, I¡¯m very sorry for bothering you thiste.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But I might set off for the Stantine Duchy in two days, so I wanted to discuss some things with the Lord City Lord ahead of time.¡±

    Hearing the words ¡°Stantine Duchy¡±, Count Stagg¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Very good, chairman Xu, since you took the initiative to raise the Stantine Duchy, I have something to ask you. Since yourpany has rentednd in the Stantine Duchy, why don¡¯t you employ local Stantine Duchy workers to help you develop it, why are you poaching our Banta City¡¯s old and experienced farmers? Do you know how much impact this will have on our Batna City¡¯s agricultural development?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s smile didn¡¯t change, ¡°I do know about this, so I specially came to discuss this with the Lord City Lord to solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°Solve this problem?¡± Count Stagg gave a cold snort, ¡°You make it sound so easy. Do you know how important these old and experienced farmers are to Banta City? If you take them away, can you take responsibility for the crime of affecting our Banta City¡¯s grain yield?¡±

    ¡°Of course I can¡¯t take responsibility.¡± Xu Yi honestly said with a smile, ¡°Grain production is arge matter in our Lampuri Kingdom, even if I am bold, I can¡¯t do something like this. But Lord City, if I may, although grain yield is closely rted to people, you don¡¯t need this many people.¡±

    Count Stagg knit his brows, ¡°What? Are you here to sell me your theory of recing manpower with magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t feel like there¡¯s a problem with this theory. If with the help of magic machines, people can do more things, isn¡¯t this a good thing?¡±

    ¡°Humph, magic machines are dead things in the end and people are living. There are many things that magic machines can¡¯t rece that humans can do.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. There were also many things that magic machines could do that humans couldn¡¯t do.

    But he didn¡¯te to discuss this problem with Count Stagg. He thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Lord City Lord, no matter what, I think that you should admit that without the help of the agricultural magic machines, our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grain yield wouldn¡¯t have increased this much, right?¡±

    Count Stagg was silent.

    No one could deny that the agricultural magic machines had helped raise the grain yield of the Lampuri Kingdom, even the conservative faction led by the Stagg Family couldn¡¯t deny this because they were one of the greatest beneficiaries.

    Just based on this, although Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported her highness Seveni, it was the reason why they could stay safe.

    ¡°Of course, I didn¡¯te this time to take credit from the Lord City Lord. I want to tell you the reason why our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is bringing the Banta City farmers to the Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Count Stagg looked at Xu Yi before giving a slight nod, ¡°Speak.¡±

    Xu YI gave a sigh. He thought that even if Count Stagg was against himself and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, when it was rted to Banta City and his interests, he would still be willing to listen to his suggestions.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, I think that you¡¯re worried that by bringing Banta City farmers to the Stantine Duchy, it will affect the grain yield of Banta City, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Count Stagg said with a cold snort, ¡°Banta City¡¯s farmers are limited and if you take some away, it would be strange if it wasn¡¯t affected!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°I feel that the Lord City Lord doesn¡¯t need to be this worried. First, we are currently nning to recruit no more than two thousand people from Banta City. I think thatpared to the over forty thousand farmers outside Banta City, it isn¡¯t considered much, right?¡±

    ¡°Only two thousand people?¡± Count Stagg was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce rent over a hundred thousand hectares from the Stantine Duchy? How is two thousand people enough?¡±

    ¡°ording to our contract with the Stantine Duchy, we have to recruit no less than five thousand local workers.¡±

    Count Stagg slightly knit his brows, ¡°Even with five thousand people, isn¡¯t this not enough? It¡¯s over a hundred thousand hectares. ording to my estimates, you could barely have enough with ten thousand people.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Lord City Lord, to be honest, the people of the Stantine Duchy are a bit¡­.zy. So I¡¯m not counting on the five thousand people to be of any help because their abilities will be worse than the two thousand people we recruited from Banta City.¡±

    Count Stagg gave a soft and proud snort, ¡°The Stantine Duchy¡¯s people are veryzy, I know this. Yourpany is insisting on investing in a ce like that, you¡¯re already skilled if you don¡¯t lose money.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the Lord City Lord¡¯s concern.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, what I want to say is that for this hundred thousand hectares ofnd, ording to me estimates, just the two thousand people from Banta City would be enough.¡±

    ¡°This is impossible!¡± Count Stagg firmly said, ¡°Our Stagg Family has several hundred years of experience with farming, we understand this better than you. ording to my experience, you need at least ten thousand people for a hundred thousand hectares ofnd. Just two thousand people? You don¡¯t even need to consider it!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and suddenly said, ¡°Then Lord City Lord, how about we make a bet?¡±

    Count Stagg revealed a vignt look, ¡°What bet?¡±

    ¡°If our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t open thisnd with just these two thousand people, then ourpany will return these two thousand people to Banta City and pay the correspondingpensation to them. At the same time, we¡¯ll pay the City Lord Manor five hundred thousand gold coins aspensation for decreasing Banta City¡¯s grain yield. What does the Lord City Lord think?¡±

    Count Stagg looked at Xu Yi in a daze, ¡°Are you serious?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very serious.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If the Lord City Lord doesn¡¯t believe me, I can sign a contract on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the City Lord Manor.¡±

    Count Stagg looked at Xu Yi in a bewildered look and asked, ¡°How can you consider it reimed? What is standard for this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, what decides whether it is reimed or not is the grain yield. The Stantine Duchy is suited for rice paddies, so we¡¯ll use the standard of two times the output from Karma City to decide this. The hundred hectares ofnd should produce around two hundred thousand tons. If it is lower than this number, it¡¯ll be considered my loss.¡±

    ¡°You really want to do this?¡± Count Stagg looked at the serious Xu Yi with a look of disbelief.

    To him, it wasn¡¯t easy to open up a hundred thousand hectares ofnd and Xu Yi wanted to aplish this mammoth task with just two thousand people, this was simply impossible.

    Of course, this didn¡¯t matter to Count Stagg. After thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Then what if you aplish this task?¡±

    ¡°That means I win and I hope the City Lord Manor will agree to my request.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°What request?¡± Count Stagg asked in a curious voice.

    This Xu Yi knew that he was targeting him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he came here to discuss him agreeing to a request. Did his brain burn out?

    ¡°This request is actually beneficial to Banta City. It¡¯s like this¡­..¡±

 Volume 3 35 - Things you want to do

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 35 Things you want to do</h4>

    When Xu Yi came out of the City Lord Manor, he looked at the stars filling the sky and let out a long white breath. There was a bitter smile that appeared on his lips as he shook his head.

    How good it would be if Count Sean was still the City Lord, that way he wouldn¡¯t need to beat around the bush and have to consider all these various unrted matters.

    Count Stagg agreed with his bet in the end, signing a contract with him, but in reality, this bet didn¡¯t have many benefits for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the request he had for Count Stagg was to hope that Count Stagg could promote machine farming reforms in Banta City.

    This matter was good for promoting agricultural development in Banta City and as for benefits to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with the machine farming reform, it could liberate the farmers and allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gain workers more easily.

    But actually, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame, whether it was the citizens of Banta City or the people who came from other cities looking for work, as long as they wanted work, their first choice was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they didn¡¯tck people.

    The only consideration was manpower in other ces.

    Speaking of this, Xu Yi had to feel emotional. The Lampuri Kingdom, or rather the poption of the entire Sines Continent was too small.

    A remote city like Banta City had a poption of no more than fifty thousand people and the Lampuri Kingdom had a poption of less than five million, it wasn¡¯t even as many people as arge city on earth.

    Although he didn¡¯t have the exact statistics for the entire Sines Continent, based on books that he had read, the poption was a bit better than the Lampuri Kingdom, but it wasn¡¯t much better. For the entire continent, there were around two to three hundred million people.

    It was because of this that Count Stagg would be very sensitive towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bringing Banta City farmers to the Stantine Duchy, even opposing it.

    Because Banta City only had that many people and if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took a part away, it might really have serious effects on the agricultural business.

    But Xu Yi had promised to take no more than two thousand farmers and had used real data to show Count Stagg that with the help of agricultural magic machines, they didn¡¯t need that many workers when farming, Count Stagg reluctantly agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s analysis.

    As for this bet that only brought benefits to Banta City, Count Stagg of course agreed without hesitation.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had promised that even if he won the bet, he would give five thousand agricultural magic machines for free to Banta City, guaranteeing the agricultural development of Banta City.

    With these excellent conditions, even if Count Stagg was doubtful on why Xu Yi was doing this, Count Stagg agreed in the end with a contract as a guarantee.

    But even like this, when the two were signing the contract, there was a fierce argument before initial details were set reluctantly.

    Thinking of Count Stagg¡¯s doubtful look, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitter smile.

    In order to develop the magic machine industry, he had taken great pains.

    Shaking his head to forget theints he had towards Count Stagg and the conservative faction led by the Stagg Family, Xu Yi began thinking about what he needed to do next.

    After receiving a guarantee that Count Stagg wouldn¡¯t interfere with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hiring farmers from Banta City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s next move was to take those two thousand farmers and settle them in the Stantine Duchy as soon as possible. Then they would begin investing in the hundred thousand hectares ofnd they had rented.

    Now that it was the beginning of November, if they didn¡¯t hurry, they might not be able to finish nting before spring. With a season¡¯s worth of crops missing, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain that he could win against Count Stagg.

    It was a good thing that the Stantine Duchy¡¯s environment was naturally good. It wasparable to the tropics where crops could even be grown in the winter, it wasn¡¯t like the Lampuri Kingdom where thend was dormant during winter.

    Based on his inspections, Xu Yi was certain that the Stantine Duchy could have three growing seasons each year.

    Just based on this, the grain yield would be much higher than the Lampuri Kingdom.

    And this was also where Xu Yi gained the confidence to beat Count Stagg in this bet.

    Other than rushing to open up this hundred thousand hectares ofnd, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce officially started mining in the three iron mines they bought from the Stantine Duchy.

    ording to the dwarves they had sent before, these three mines had high quality iron ores, which meant that the amount of iron in these three mines were higherpared to theirst survey.

    Being able to purchase these three mines from the Stantine Duchy for one million three hundred and fifty thousand gold coins was already quite cheap for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    At the same time, through contact with Anklo, Xu Yi had purchased seven Magic Crystal mines from the nobles of the Stantine Duchy.

    Because Magic Crystal could be found all over the Sines Continent and they had few uses, these things weren¡¯t very important. In a ce like the Stantine Duchy where there were few magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce purchasing these Magic Crystal mines was a blessing to the Stantine Duchy nobles. In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce spent five hundred thousand to purchase these seven Magic Crystal mines, including thergest Magic Crystal mine in the Stantine Duchy.

    As for this deal, many people were confused, but Xu Yi was clear that no long after, the Magic Crystals would be an important resource that many people fought over. He would definitely earn arge amount from this deal.

    Other than the Stantine Duchy, the second most important thing was investing in the ck Rice Wastnd.

    After the fourpanies dealt a heavy blow to the Beastmen Independence Regimentst time, the fourpanies had quickly built their small production base on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    In just a month, the base was already taking form. ording to calctions, it should be operational by the beginning of next year.

    Chairman Renersa who had stayed behind to take care of the production base had already started recruiting beastmen tribes. Other than the four beastmen tribes that had signed a contract with the fourpanies, several beastmen tribes that were deeper into the kc Rice Wastnd said they were willing to work for the human factories.

    ording to this trend, once the base wasplete and the factories of the fourpanies were operational, this base would affect up to a hundred kilometers deep into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Xu Yi believed that in less than two years, in the range of this influence, human order would be established.

    If they went deeper and deeper like this, all of the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd would be absorbed into human factories and solve the problem that was behind the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Then there was the northern matter.

    Xu Yi turned his head to the northeast.

    Thinking of going to Sowell City to invest, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of Count Sean who was currently Sowell City¡¯s City Lord.

    If Count Sean wasn¡¯t suddenly transferred and stayed in Banta City to support Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in this half a year, Banta City would have changed. It wouldn¡¯t have stagnated or even degraded like it had currently.

    Looking further northeast, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of Princess Caroline.

    That appearance that wasn¡¯t inferior to Still¡¯s and that style that was several times bolder than Seveni had left a deep impression on Xu Yi.

    It wasn¡¯t because of her openly trying to seduce Xu Yi, but because Xu Yi could see traces of Seveni on her.

    Xu Yi could see that while Princess Caroline seemed frivolous on the surface, her real wish was for the Drake Duchy to be stronger. So in the days she visited the Falling Rain Valley, she kept asking questions and absorbing information on all the new things she saw.

    Princess Caroline acting like this was actually more attractive to Xu Yi than when she tried charming him.

    Thinking of the final words Princess Caroline said, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help being moved. He quickly shook his head and threw away these distracting thoughts.

    After calming down, Xu Yi turned in a direction and headed towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Banta City service center.

    This was his habit. Every time he came to Banta City, he would listen to the report of the service center.

    Because the service center directly interacted with the customers, it directly received feedback from the customers. Hearing these opinions could allow Xu Yi to make proper judgement on how to improve products.

    When he turned a corner, there was a figure that was shakily walking through the alley. Before it even took two steps, the body went limp and fell onto the wall on the side. The figure weakly slid off the wall to the ground before not moving at all.

    Xu Yi was surprised, but he quickly went over to lean over and look over this body. He found that this weak looking person was actually a girl and she seemed quite young, looking to be around twenty years old.

    Based on her closed eyes and weak breathing, she seemed like she had fainted.

    Xu Yi shook her shoulders, but the girl wouldn¡¯t wake up at all.

    Seeing that there was no one else around, Xu Yi hesitated a bit before helplessly shaking his head. He bent down to pick up the girl and using his Wind Control Spell, he flew towards the Falling Star Manor outside of the city.

 Volume 3 36 - Running into a troublesome girl

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 36 Running into a troublesome girl</h4>

    The next morning, Xu Yi woke up as per normal.

    Looking around him, Xu Yi finally reacted. He hade back to the Falling Star Manor to rest upst night.

    The bedroom door was opened and Liz and Linda came in.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t often stay in the Falling Star Manor, through talking to Vivian, the two of them firmly remembered that Xu Yi had a habit of waking up at seven in the morning. So every time Xu Yi came to stay, the two would always be on time to help him get out of bed.

    ¡°What about the girl I brought back yesterday? How is she now?¡± Xu Yi washed up while casually asking.

    ¡°Vivian has put her in the guest room and she still hasn¡¯t woken up yet.¡± Liz replied.

    Xu Yi nodded in confirmation. He quickly washed up and then did a few simple exercises. After moving his body, he went to the kitchen with Liz and Linda.

    The breakfast prepared by Liz and Linda was already in the kitchen, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t show any politeness and sat down to eat.

    When he was halfway down, the door was suddenly opened.

    Xu Yi looked up and his eyes lit up.

    Because there wasn¡¯t much light in the streetst night and because Xu Yi didn¡¯t look carefully when Xu Yi brought the girl back, he only knew that the girl didn¡¯t look good and paid attention to nothing else.

    Now that he saw her again, he found that after this girl changed clothes and washed up, because she had just woken up, she was much more energetic. It was like she was apletely different person, no longer looking like the weak person Xu Yi sawst night, but rather she looked like she was glowing with health.

    Xu Yi secretlypared her to Still and Princess Caroline, the prettiest girls he had ever seen. He found that although this girl didn¡¯t have the same kind of dazzling beauty that Still and Princess Caroline had, she had delicate features and tender white skin, making her a rare beauty.

    Adding in the shy and timid look she had, it was easy to incite a desire to protect her in people. To normal people, her attraction wasn¡¯t less than Still or Princess Caroline¡¯s.

    After the girl entered the kitchen, she looked over the three faces inside before her eyes fell onto Xu Yi.

    Meeting Xu Yi¡¯s gaze sizing her up, a faint blush appeared on the girl¡¯s face and she lowered her head. She took soft steps and came in front of Xu Yi, giving him a polite bow.

    ¡°Thank you for helping me, I hope that Stik¡¯s blessing will always be with you and bless you with health.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and didn¡¯t acknowledge anything. He just pointed at the chair by the table and said, ¡°There¡¯s no need to be polite, please sit down. I think that you should be hungry.¡±

    A blush came over the girl¡¯s face again and after giving Xu Yi another bow, she sat down at the ce that Vivian had set.

    The girl indeed was quite hungry. When the food that Liz and Linda prepared was ced in front of her, her eyes filled with hope.

    However, even like this, she lowered her head first and closed her eyes, as she put her hands together, acting like she was praying. Then she revealed a faint smile to Xu Yi before picking up her knife and fork to eat.

    Although her movements were a bit fast because of her hunger, it could be seen that this girl was strictly educated. All her movements were strict and polite, not making a single sound when she was eating.

    Xu Yi had already finished eating and he didn¡¯t disrupt the girl. It seemed like she would still be eating a while and stood up to leave.

    Who knew that when he stood up, it was like the girl was shocked and quickly put down the knife and fork in her hand. She stood up in a bit of a panic.

    ¡°You can eat, you don¡¯t need to care about me.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before preparing to head out.

    The girl wanted to push the chair back, but she identally hit her knee on the corner of the chair and her face scrunched up as she leaned over.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head, signaling to Vivian to help her back into the chair.

    ¡°What are you worried about?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°You should be very weak right now, so you have to eat more. There¡¯s no rush.¡±

    The girl took a step back in pain. She looked up at Xu Yi and a blush came over her face before she lowered her head. She hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°I still don¡¯t even know your name.¡±

    ¡°Oh, I¡¯m Xu Yi.¡± Xu Yi replied in an indifferent voice, ¡°What about you? What is your name?¡±

    ¡°I am Teresa, Teresa¡­..Ica¡­¡­¡± When she said her surname, the girl¡¯s voice became much softer.

    Seeing the expression on the girl¡¯s face, Xu Yi thought for a bit before sitting down and seriously asking her, ¡°Miss Ica, you seem like you¡¯ve encountered some problems. If you don¡¯t mind, can you tell me so I can see if I can help you with anything?¡±

    Teresa Ica shook her head and didn¡¯t reply.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. This girl might not be willing to reveal her troubles to him, so he signaled to Vivian with his eyes before leaving the kitchen.

    Vivian followed him and Xu Yi brought her to a corner to say in a low voice, ¡°Keep her here for a few days and let her rest up before leaving. Also, give her some money when she leaves. Un¡­..I think that one hundred gold coins should do. She should reject it, so secretly put it on her. If she has some troubles that you can¡¯t solve, you can tell me, understood?¡±

    ¡°Just this?¡± Vivian asked in a daze,¡± Master, she must have encountered somerge problem, otherwise a noble young miss like her shouldn¡¯t be like this. You should help her.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s only possible if she¡¯s willing to tell us.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Anyway just do this for now. You can ask her over these days and if she¡¯s willing to tell you and I am capable of helping her, of course I will help her. But if she¡¯s not willing to talk, I can¡¯t help even if I want to, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Vivian nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll ask her. She must have some big problem, master will definitely help her!¡±

    Seeing Vivian¡¯s confident look, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry. He pinched Vivian¡¯s little face before turning to leave the Falling Star Manor.

    Although he could tell that this girl named Teresa Ica was in some trouble, he didn¡¯t have enough time and energy to waste on this little girl.

    Saving her and letting her stay in the Falling Star Manor was already kind enough.

    Of course, if this Teresa Ica was willing to tell Xu Yi what her troubles were and Xu Yi could help her, he would show kindness to the end.

    As for now, he would let Vivian take care of it.

    After leaving the Falling Star Manor, Xu YI went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center as scheduled. After hearing some customer feedback, he headed to the Falling Rain Valley.

    It was merely sixty kilometers, but Banta City and the Falling Rain Valley werepletely different ces.

    Banta City had already lost its vigor and the Falling Rain Valley was now a bustling scene.

    Not mentioning that every Frestech Chamber of Commerce factory was in full force, just the factories of the smallpanies outside the Falling Rain Valley were all bustling.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the smallpanies that followed them to the Falling Rain Valley settled in, the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding area were gradually matching each other. ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, it was already divided into living areas and industrial areas.

    So even if there wererge amounts of factoriesing in, it wasn¡¯t messy. Rather it was quite systematic, dividing everything with roads that had already been built. Not only was the industrial area filled with people, even the living areas were filled with stores and business was good.

    With this scene, the ?Banta Times? had even called the Falling Rain Valley a new city and it seemed like it was developing better than Banta City.

    Because¡­...the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here.

    When Xu Yi jumped out of the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport carriage and he was waving goodbye to the workers that had taken the carriage with him, Freeman had suddenly popped out.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you just came back from Banta City, so you shouldn¡¯t have had lunch yet, right? Can you give me some face and let me invite you to lunch?¡±

    Seeing Freeman looking quite awkward, Xu Yi found it a bit funny.

    ¡°Hey, Freeman, when did you learn to tter me? This isn¡¯t like you. You can just tell me if you need something, you don¡¯t need to do all of this.¡±

    Freeman became even more awkward as he gave a sillyugh and scratched his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, this isn¡¯t ttering you. Me and mypany have received your care many times, so isn¡¯t it normal for me to treat you to lunch? How about it, can you give me some face?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re being sincere, I¡¯ll let you treat me.¡±

    Freeman was instantly overjoyed. He pulled Xu Yi as he headed to a newly opened restaurant in the living area outside the Falling Rain Valley.

    It seemed like it wasn¡¯t Freeman¡¯s first time here. He brought Xu Yi to a private room on the second floor and called for some wine. He poured a cup for himself and Xu Yi and without another word, he drank it all down.

    Xu Yi smiled as he sipped his wine before putting it down, ¡°I have matters in the afternoon, so I can¡¯t drink much. Alright, Freeman, we can be considered old acquaintances, just tell me what you have to say. You know what kind of temperament I have, I won¡¯t decline if I can help you.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, chairman Xu has always looked after me, I know this. But this matter¡­..¡± Freemanughed as he revealed an awkward look. After hesitating for a while, he leaned in and asked in a low voice, ¡°That¡­..Chairman Xu, do you think¡­..our Irnd Chamber of Commerce can also produce Magic Fans?¡±

 Volume 3 37 - We want to try

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 37 We want to try</h4>

    Xu Yi looked at Freeman in surprise, ¡°Why did you suddenly have this idea?¡±

    Freeman touched his head and replied with augh, ¡°Actually the reason is very simple, making magic machines earns more than makingponents¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Making machines is moreplicated than makingponents. You¡¯re doing well with makingponents and it seems quite promising to me, so why do you suddenly want to change industries?¡±

    Freeman looked at the doubtful look on Xu Yi¡¯s face and carefully asked, ¡°Then¡­.you don¡¯t approve of us making Magic Fans?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Xu Yi honestly thought for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t approve since your Irnd Chamber of Commerce is your ownpany, I can¡¯t make a decision for you. But I have to remind you that makingplete machines andponents are two different things. Although your Irnd Chamber of Commerce is rather good at makingponents, having a good degree of technology, there are more things to pay attention to when ites to making machines. It has a higher demand when ites to techniques, so are you certain you can do this?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t dare say that we are confident.¡± Freeman honestly shook his head, ¡°But I feel that we can give it a try. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re determined to give it a try, I will support you. But if this attempt fails, you will suffer heavy losses. Are you prepared to ept these heavy losses?¡± Xu Yi then asked.

    Freeman gave a strong nod, ¡°Yes, everyone is clear that to make machines, it will be very difficult. But if we don¡¯t even dare give it a try, it wouldn¡¯t make sense. So we have discussed it and we have decided to give producing Magic Fans a try.¡±

    Seeing the honest expression on Freeman¡¯s face, Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, since you have made your decision, I have nothing else to say. Speak, how do you need me to support you? Give you all the technology for making Magic Fans? Actually I don¡¯t think that you can afford it. When we sold this technology to the otherpanies in Banta City, it required a hundred thousand gold coins to buy it. With your current abilities, I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t have enough.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand this, but chairman Xu, we don¡¯t want to purchase all the Magic Fan rted technology from you. We just wish to purchase the Magic Array technology.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Although the Magic Array is the core of the Magic Fan, you can¡¯t make the Magic Fan just with this. From what I can see, for the Magic Fan, the most important thing other than the Magic Array is the design and the parts assembly.¡±

    ¡°We are confident in this.¡± Freeman said in a confident voice, ¡°Our Irnd Chamber of Commerce has worked inponents for over a year now, so everyone is confident in making suitableponents. I won¡¯t hide it from you, we have already understood the basic structure of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan. Everyone believes that as long as we work hard, we can even produce a Magic Fan that is like your Frestech Brand Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°Ah, you have enough confidence.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But Freeman, I feel that you¡¯re making this a bit too simple. For a magic machine, it isn¡¯t just assembling the parts, rather it includes quite a bit of knowledge on machines. If you don¡¯t have this, I think that you¡¯ll have difficulty when ites to making the Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°I know.¡± Freeman was still confident, ¡°But I want to try it with everyone. Chairman Xu, can you give us this chance?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course I can. To be honest, I am very happy hearing this idea from you. I won¡¯t hide it from you, if it was possible I want morepanies to have the courage to make higher grade magic machines like yours. Because only then will the magic machines industry develop even faster.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s answer, Freeman was pleasantly surprised. He grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s hand and forcefully shook it as he asked, ¡°Then Chairman Xu, are you willing to give us the Magic Array technology for the Magic Fans to us?¡± After saying this, Freeman revealed an embarrassed look, ¡°But¡­..chairman Xu, you also know that ourpany doesn¡¯t have that much money. Can you¡­.sell it to us cheap?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Since I agreed, I won¡¯t make it hard on you.¡± Xu Yi stretched out a finger, ¡°Ten thousand gold coins, that is the fee for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce transferring the technology to your Irnd Chamber of Commerce. How about it? Can you ept this?¡±

    Freeman¡¯s worries disappeared as he broke out inughter.

    ¡°Yes, yes! Of course! It¡¯s only ten thousand gold coins, this is too cheap! Chairman Xu, I won¡¯t hide it from you, our initial estimates were¡­..¡± Freeman suddenly stopped.

    Seeing Freeman¡¯s expression, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile, ¡°Was it Kovac who told you not to tell me the price in your heart?¡±

    Freeman awkwardly rubbed his hands and after hesitating a bit, he made his decision, ¡°That kid Kovac was thinking too much, there¡¯s nothing to hide in front of chairman Xu. Actually our estimates in the beginning were at least thirty thousand gold coins. I never thought that you would be this generous, only wanting ten thousand gold coins from us. This really is too cheap!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Ten thousand and thirty thousand gold coins isn¡¯t much of a difference to me. But for you guys, it¡¯s arge difference. Since I want you to develop magic machines to another level, then I have to think of you guys as well. If you save twenty thousand gold coins, you can invest that money into research and save yourself some trouble.¡±

    Freeman had a face filled with gratitude as he said with an emotional sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really have to say that you really are the benefactor of me and my brothers. If it wasn¡¯t for you, me and my brothers would still be normal vigers in Irnd Vige, how could we have apany like we do now that is earning several tens of thousands of gold coins a year.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to say anything else.¡± Xu YI waved his hand, ¡°Listen well, I can give you the technology, but since you¡¯ve decided to conduct this research, don¡¯t ask for any help from me. This time you have to do this alone as the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, otherwise I will be disappointed in you. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Freeman quickly nodded, ¡°I understand. Chairman Xu is thinking about our long term development.¡±

    ¡°Very good, then this matter is set.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°You can prepare over the next two days and make an official application to ourpany. I will inform CEO Kennard and chief Evita to have them authorize this application.¡±

    Freeman¡¯s face was filled with gratitude, but he paused before saying, ¡°Other than this, chairman Xu, can you help me with another small favour?¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡±

    ¡°That¡­..We also want to recruit some magicians¡­..Can you¡­..introduce a few of them to us?¡± Freeman asked in a worried voice.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a small favour.¡± Xu Yi looked at Freeman with a deep gaze, ¡°Other than this, Freeman, it seems like your Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ambitions aren¡¯t small¡­..¡±

    Freeman justughed, but he gave silent eptance.

    ¡°Alright, magicians with real power won¡¯t go to a smallpany like yours. I will give you a suggestion, of the magicians who graduate from Baron Rickto Magic Academy this year, there are some who haven¡¯t found jobs yet, so you can try there.¡±

    Freeman immediately understood and nodded with a bright smile.

    After Freeman thanked him continuously, Xu Yi finally returned to the small house that he and Still had been living in. He found that Still had been waiting for him for a long time.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you say you wereing back for lunch? Why are you only back now?¡± Still sniffed Xu Yi and smelled the scent of alcohol, so she asked with a frown, ¡°What happened? Who did you go drinking with?¡±

    ¡°I met the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Freeman after getting off the carriage and he dragged me off to a meal since he had something to discuss.¡± Xu Yi exined before asking Still about her trip to Anvilmar City.

    ¡°It can be considered good.¡± Still had Xu Yi sit down before saying with slightly knit brows, ¡°The Royal Parliament isn¡¯t too strict aboutbour cards for dwarves and elves and they agreed with me being their agent. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce is the onlypany in the kingdom with this qualification. But as for the beastmen workers, the Royal Parliament has opposed this.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why are they opposing it?¡±

    ¡°Basically they are worried that the beastmen are savage by nature. Even if they are willing to work for humanpanies, if they ever expose their true nature, it would be very easy to harm humans.¡± Still said.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that their worries are unjustified, but they haven¡¯t noticed that it¡¯s different this time, they can¡¯t just see this problem in the same old way.¡± Xu Yi said in an emotional voice. He thought for a bit before asking Still, ¡°I remember that there was a famous singing troupe in Anvilmar City? Or were they a performing troupe?¡±

    Still was very surprised that Xu Yi would suddenly ask this and after staring at him, she replied, ¡°It¡¯s the Morgana Opera Troupe. They mainly perform operas, not song and dances or performances.¡±

    ¡°Oh, opera, that¡¯s even better.¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°Still, are you interested in starting an opera troupe and suppressing the Morgana Opera Troupe?¡±

    Still was even more confused as she asked back in a daze, ¡°Why are you suddenly caring about an opera troupe? What do you actually want to say?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I was just thinking that if we create an opera troupe with humans, elves, dwarves, and also various beastmen, if they were to perform to those important people in Anvilmar City, wouldn¡¯t it reduce their vignce towards other races?¡±

    Still¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

 Volume 3 38 - The farmers of two different countries

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 38 The farmers of two different countries</h4>

    The Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t as cold as the Lampuri Kingdom in winter, rather it was much more refreshing once the temperature dropped and it was no longer as hot and moist.

    In this season each year, because they didn¡¯t need to worry about hurricanes and tsunamis, Swain Wein would leave hisrge manor outside Wein City to head to a manor by the sea to spend the winter.

    But it was different this year. This year head Wein only stayed by the sea for two days before bringing his subordinates and maids to the sea, heading twenty kilometers northeast, arriving at arge in.

    Seeing the vastnds and the people working in them controlling the agricultural magic machines, head Wein couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    The people from the Lampuri Kingdom were more industriouspared to the people of the duchy. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s over a thousand hired workers had just arrived half a month ago and they were working every dawn since dawn, only stopping when the sun set.

    With their hard work, this patch of destend that no one cared about in the beginning, in just half a month, it was looking like it would be reimed and could be cultivated soon.

    Every time he saw this, head Wein couldn¡¯t help being secretly happy.

    This hundred thousand hectares ofnd in his hand wasn¡¯t worth a cent, but after renting it to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only would they pay three hundred thousand gold coins in rent each year, they would also give him 30% of the yearly crops.

    This was equal to him sitting there doing nothing all year and earning three hundred thousand gold coins and 30% of the crops.

    ording to the estimates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, once thisnd was reimed, it could produce at least a hundred thousand tons of rice each year. 30% of that was thirty thousand tons.

    It had to be known, inst year, he had received just over twenty thousand tons of grain from all his territories.

    Thinking of this, head Wein couldn¡¯t help praising his own brilliance.

    Then thinking about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promised to open a canned fruit factory and a rubber processing factory, as well as building roads all over thend, connecting his territory, head Wein was ecstatic.

    Let all those short sighted fools down self die from regret! See how I, Swain Wein can see into the future. As long as I cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, my territory will far surpass the territory of you bastards to the south!

    Head Wein looked over the busynd before him and then a vein suddenly popped up on his forehead, as a trace of anger filled his face.

    In his line of sight, not everyone was busy working in thend. There were quite a few peoplezing off, only pushing the agricultural magic machine in their hand asionally.

    Seeing these people cking off, head Wein gave a cold snort. He picked up a leather whip from a subordinate and walked over to the closest person. Before that person could react, the whip had alreadye down.

    That person was stunned before a look of fear shed on his face, but he didn¡¯t dare dodge at all. He just hugged his head and ducked down, as he waited for the leather whip to fall down.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    The leather whip fell onto the back of that person and with a crisp sound, that person¡¯s clothing was ripped. A bloody mark appeared on his back, showing just how strong head Wein had whipped him.

    The sound attracted everyone¡¯s attention. The people from Banta City looked at head Wein¡¯s actions in a daze and they revealed an unwilling look, but no one said a thing.

    They were citizens even in the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had seen nobles oppressingmoners before.

    If this was Banta City, they might have resisted, but this was the Stantine Duchy, so they wouldn¡¯t interfere in the business of others.

    ¡°Pa, pa, pa.¡±

    The whip fell onto the back of that person again and again, as head Wein kept cursing him.

    ¡°Damn, you piece of trash! It was rare enough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to hire you toe work here, that means your luck is good, but you actually dare to bezy! Do you believe I won¡¯t beat you to death? Ah?¡±

    After a while, the person¡¯s back was covered in bloody marks. Even when the whip came down, drops of blood came off it, making the scene very hard to look at.

    That person on the ground had already gone limp, like he was about to faint when there was a shout from afar.

    ¡°Stop!¡±

    Head Wein angrily turned around, who dared to stop him from teaching this trash a lesson?

    After a while, the anger on his face turned into a smile and he threw away the whip as he came forward.

    ¡°Chairman Cantona, good morning. Are you still busy getting them to work?¡±

    Seeing the change in head Wein¡¯s expression, Cantona anger came up, but he couldn¡¯t release it. After pausing, he swallowed back his anger and forced himself to reveal a smile to head Wein.

    ¡°Ah, I was in the middle of it. Head Wein, this is¡­..¡± Cantona pointed at the person who was twitching on the ground.

    ¡°Oh, it¡¯s nothing. I just saw this fellow who waszing off and I was teaching him a lesson for you.¡± Head Wein replied with a smile while kicking that person on the ground, ¡°This damn trash, it was hard enough for him to find some good work, but he won¡¯t do it properly. Don¡¯t you think he should die?¡±

    Cantona¡¯s face twitched, thinking that you nobles who only know how to humiliate your citizens should die.

    But this was the other side¡¯s domain, so Cantona suppressed the anger in his heart and said with a forced smile, ¡°This¡­..head Wein, it is indeed his fault that he was beingzy, but you shouldn¡¯t beat him to this point, right? Look at him now, how can he still keep working?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re worried about this?¡± Head Wein tilted his lips and disdainfully said, ¡°This damn trash, there¡¯s nothing wrong with killing him. If you¡¯re worried aboutcking people, it¡¯s very simple, I¡¯ll just grab a few more people for you.¡±

    Cantona¡¯s eyes twitched and he almost couldn¡¯t help cursing him.

    It was a good thing since the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was formed, he had be more experienced and had undergone many situations. Comparing it to the City Lord Manor, he could still endure.

    ¡°Head Wein, you can¡¯t say it like that. He is in name an employee of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who is helping them reim thisnd. So, strictly speaking, he is a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even if he is beingzy, how he is handled should be decided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Cantona knew that if he took out his Cantona Chamber of Commerce, head Wein wouldn¡¯t have cared. So he could only emphasize that the local workers in name belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As expected, after hearing Cantona¡¯s words, head Wein knit his brows in thought before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, since this trash has been given to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, chairman Xu should decide how to handle him. I indeed shouldn¡¯t have meddled. But chairman Cantona, can you help me tell chairman Xu that he can take care of these trash as he wishes. Even if he wants to beat them all to death, there won¡¯t be a single problem. He can handle them as he wishes, there¡¯s no need to worry.¡±

    Cantona was toozy to be angry with him, he just nodded in agreement. Then he had two people drag off the unconscious unlucky fellow who was twitching on the ground away for medical care.

    The other people scattered and the anger faded from head Wein¡¯s face, as heughed while pointing to thend in front and asking Cantona, ¡°Chairman Cantona, with this speed, how long before thisnd will be reimed?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..If nothing unexpected happens, I think that we should be able to reim it in less than a month.¡± Cantona thought for a bit before replying, ¡°If we can move a bit faster, we should be able to sow seeds by the beginning of next year. With the climate of your Stantine Duchy, we¡¯ll be able to see our first harvest in the next spring.¡±

    ¡°Definitely, definitely.¡± Head Wein kept nodding, ¡°Chairman Cantona, you can be assured. Our Stantine Duchy can¡¯tpare to your Lampuri Kingdom, but we are stronger than your Lampuri Kingdom when ites to farming. I won¡¯t joke with you, the hundred thousand hectares ofnd I rented to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are all good farnd. As long as you finish and throw some seeds down, you don¡¯t even need to care and there will be crops growing in a few months, do you believe that?¡±

    Cantona looked at head Wein. He really wanted to say, if the Stantine Duchy¡¯snd was this good, why would you leave all this farnd here to waste away?

    But thinking about how head Wein had just whipped someone, Cantona suppressed the question in his heart.

    Actually, seeing that fellow being taught a lesson by head Wein, Cantona¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t take it, but there was a bit of satisfaction deep down.

    Before arriving in the Stantine Duchy, when Xu Yi told Cantona about the Stantine Duchy, he already told him that the people of the Stantine Duchy were exceptionallyzy. So when opening the hundred thousand hectares ofnd, he shouldn¡¯t rely on the five thousand people from the Stantine Duchy and give most of the work to the farmers from Banta City.

    Cantona at first thought that Xu Yi was exaggerating because no matter what, the five thousand people recruited locally were much more than the people brought from Banta City. The main force for reiming thisnd should be the people of the Stantine Duchy.

    But when Cantona arrived in the Stantine Duchy, he found that Xu Yi had underestimated the farmers of the Stantine Duchy.

    Actually, the farmers that head Wein had delivered were evenzier than Cantona had imagined.

    The farmers from Banta City started working as soon as the sun rose and only left when the sky became dark, taking only two hours in the middle to rest.

    The people of the Stantine Duchy waited for the sun to be in the sky to start working and left as soon as the sun even came close to the horizon.

    Moreover, they used all kinds of sly tricks while working to secretlyze off.

    Cantona took some data and found that in the same day of work, a Banta City farmer could open up five to seven mu ofnd with agricultural magic machines and a Stantine Duchy farmer could only open up at most a single mu ofnd.

    Although there was the fact that the Banta City farmers were more used to working with agricultural magic machines, they had already been here for half a month, so this can¡¯t be considered the main reason.

    So the summary was that the workers of the Stantine Duchy were just toozy¡­...

 Volume 3 39 - Sea port

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 39 Sea port</h4>

    These words naturally couldn¡¯t be said to head Wein because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired these farmers because of the agreement signed with head Wein. It can be considered helping head Wein solve the daily living necessities for five thousand people in his territory.

    Moreover, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s investigations and Cantona¡¯s understanding of the situation, although these five thousand people worked here and took the wages offered by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were considered citizens of head Wein¡¯s territory, so most of their wages were handed over to head Wein.

    So head Wein could teach thiszy worker as he wished, but Cantona had to keep him even if he was dissatisfied with thiszy fellow.

    After all, to head Wein, killing a person had no influence. At worst he could just change the person.

    But for Cantona, even if that person waszy, he was already used to using the agricultural magic machine after half a month, so he could be considered a skilled worker.

    Even if he was dissatisfied with the work of the local farmers, he at least had some use. If they changed that person, he had to teach them from the beginning.

    Looking at head Wein¡¯s fat face, Cantona felt emotional.

    A noble that was this repulsive and cruel could receiverge amounts of benefits from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce each year because he controlled thisnd.

    Other than the rent and the crop yield each year, the five thousand workers had a monthly sry of five gold coins. He took away at least twenty thousand of the twenty five thousand gold coins a month, which was over two hundred thousand gold coins a year.

    Roughly calcting it, just by renting out this hundred thousand hectares ofnd, head Wein was gaining at least six hundred thousand gold coins a year.

    Thinking of thisrge number, Cantona couldn¡¯t stop the pain in his heart.

    If this money didn¡¯t need to be given to this fellow head Wein and used in other ces, how many things could be done¡­...

    But Cantona was clear that this was the fee that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was spending to open the door to the Stantine Duchy.

    But only someone as bold as Xu Yi would be able to have this kind of determination, right?

    At least Cantona wouldn¡¯t dare.

    ¡°Chairman Cantona, I still have a question.¡± Head Wein¡¯s voice pulled Cantona¡¯s wandering mind back.

    ¡°Un? What question does head Wein have? Please ask.¡± Cantona quickly replied with a smile.

    Head Wein pointed at the agricultural magic machines moving through thend and asked, ¡°Those agricultural magic machines should be produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? I wonder¡­..Is chairman Xu willing to sell those things to me?¡±

    Cantonaughed, ¡°Of course. Head Wein, do you think that chairman Xu had me bring all these agricultural magic machines just to open this piece ofnd? Let me tell you, chairman Xu had privately told me that I had to seize the chance to promote these agricultural magic machines. It would be best if all the nobles were to use them. Do you think he is willing to sell?¡±

    Head Wein immediately revealed a smile, ¡°That¡¯s good. Alright, chairman Cantona, can you help me tell chairman Xu that I want to buy a thousand various agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? I hope that he can help me solve this as soon as possible.¡±

    Cantona shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need, chairman Xu will be here in a few days. Wouldn¡¯t it be better for you to tell him yourself when the timees?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Chairman Xu is reallying?¡± Head Wein immediately revealed a pleasantly surprised look, ¡°Great! After chairman Xues, I will definitely take good care of him!¡±

    Seeing the fat scrunch up on head Wein¡¯s face when he smiled, Cantona couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He thought that it was no wonder head Wein was happy to hear that Xu Yi wasing.

    If someone knew that a person who could bring them six hundred thousand gold coins a year wasing, they would definitely be as happy as head Wein.

    After discussing thend with Cantona for a while, head Wein was satisfied as he led his subordinates and maids away. Cantona thought for a bit before heading towards the sea.

    Thisnd was close to the sea and that ce was gradually changing. Other than a ten meter tall sea gate that was a kilometer away from the cliff, there was also a road that connected thisrge piece ofnd to a port being built by the sea.

    This coast was a small bay, blocking off monsoons andrge waves, so it formed a natural harbour.

    Xu Yi had Cantona lead people to open up thisnd, while also having the Amrit Chamber of Commerce send a construction team here to build a harbour.

    After half a month, the harbour had taken initial shape, with a pier that had a steel frame that led into the ocean.

    ording to manager Riley from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who was in charge, they only needed to finish the construction with the cement and the harbour would take shape.

    But the Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have experience with concrete wharfs and building wharfs was hard enough, so manager Riley wasn¡¯t very optimistic about the progress.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t rush them, even giving them a work period of five years.

    This made Cantona and manager Riley confused when they were having a private conversation.

    Since Xu Yi was not in a rush, why did he build this harbour so early?

    The more important thing was how would building this harbour help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t even have any ships¡­...

    Not to mention that even if they did, there were many rivers on the Sines Continent, so why would they sail into the endless sea that was filled with hidden dangers?

    When the two came to the Stantine Duchy, although they saw many fishing boats in the water, they never went past ten kilometers away from the coast. If they went any further, even the most veteran fisherman didn¡¯t dare go.

    ¡°Who knows¡­..Chairman Xu can see far further into the future, perhaps he might have some other ns.¡± Manager Riley gave a shrug with an uncaring look on his face, ¡°Anyway, we are just doing work for him for money. As for what he is thinking, we don¡¯t need to care. At least in the two years that I¡¯ve known chairman Xu, I¡¯ve never seen him do any business that has lost him money, so this time shouldn¡¯t be an exception.¡±

    Cantona looked at manager Riley in surprise. He thought that although he admired chairman Xu very much, he couldn¡¯tpare to the blind faith that manager Riley had.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like this, even chairman Cruise is filled with admiration towards chairman Xu, so Cantona, you don¡¯t need to doubt it.¡± Manager Riley said with augh, ¡°Look, if it wasn¡¯t for chairman Xu being skilled, would a smallpany like your Cantona Chamber of Commerce be able to receive a hundred thousand hectares ofnd? It¡¯s a hundred thousand hectares! How much farnd does our Banta City have in total? The farnd in your hands is more than all the farnd our Banta City nobles have.¡±

    Cantona gave a bitterugh, ¡°There¡¯s enough fields, but I¡¯m worried about whether we can earn money or not.¡±

    Manager Riley rolled his eyes at him, ¡°What are you worried about? The field isn¡¯t being rented by your Cantona Chamber of Commerce, you just have to properly use the people to open thend and hand the grains over to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You don¡¯t need to care if it¡¯ll earn money or not.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not worried about myself, I¡¯m worried about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Cantona shook his head, ¡°Because I have calcted it, I found that even if there are three harvests a year here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will suffer a loss in the end. You¡¯ve never seen chairman Xu lose money, but this matter¡­..I think he will definitely lose money.¡±

    ¡°Rx.¡± Manager Riley patted Cantona¡¯s shoulder, ¡°I just said it, chairman Xu is much better than us. Perhaps he might lose money from your point of view, but that is different from business because money can be represented by many things. Perhaps chairman Xu will lose a bit of money from this, but he will definitely receive something else. Only the two of us can¡¯t see it right now.¡±

    Cantona looked at manager Riley in speechlessness, thinking that his faith in Xu Yi really was blind.

    But thinking about it, this matter wasn¡¯t rted to him. The Cantona Chamber of Commerce was a smallpany and instead of wondering if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would lose money, or if someone important like Xu Yi had made a mistake, it was better to study up on how to develop his ownpany.

    Thinking of this, Cantona took manager Riley¡¯s shoulder and raised a brow before revealing a lewd smile, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this. After work tonight, how about we get some wine together? I¡¯ve heard that the figures of the Stantine Duchy girls aren¡¯t bad, do you want to experience it together?¡±

    Manager Riley swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but he shook his head, ¡°No, I have a shipment of new materialsing tonight and I have to have someone take care of it. It¡¯s better to do it myself to make sure nothing goes wrong.¡±

    Cantona was a bit disappointed, ¡°That really is a pity. I wanted to say that we could drink some more wine and be closer friends. Perhaps we might be working together in this ce for a long time, it wouldn¡¯t be good if we didn¡¯t have a good rtionship.¡±

    Manager Rileyughed, ¡°Rx, there¡¯ll be a chanceter. There are things to do now and when it is more rxed, we can y however we want. Do you believe that after we take care of things here, head Wein will be inviting us? When that timees, wouldn¡¯t it be a single word from head Wein if you want to experience any girls?¡±

    Cantona thought about it before saying with a sigh, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll talk about itter. But whenever I see head Wein, I think that with how fat he is, if he presses down on a girl, he might squash her to death¡­¡­¡±

    Manager Riley smiled. When he was about to respond, he saw someone dashing over and stopped.

    Seeing manager Riley¡¯s appearance, Cantona looked over and found that it was someone from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce running over.

    That person came in front of Cantona and without time to rest, he said in a panting voice, ¡°It¡¯s¡­..It¡¯s¡­..It¡¯s a fight!¡±

    Cantona knit his brows, ¡°What fight?¡±

    ¡°Our¡­..Our¡­..people and¡­..and those¡­...thosezy fellows¡­...started a fight¡­¡­¡±

    Cantona was shocked.

 Volume 3 40 - Not treating them like real workers

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 40 Not treating them like real workers</h4>

    ¡°What is going on?¡± Xu Yi looked at Cantona with scratches on his face and manager Riley who had bruises on his face and felt it was a bit funny as he asked, ¡°Could it be that you two were bored and fought with each other?¡±

    Cantona gave an awkwardugh and manager Riley gave a bitterugh before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t tease us. I don¡¯t believe that you don¡¯t know what happened. As for this, we need you to give us advice on how to handle it.¡±

    Seeing the bitter looks on their faces, Xu Yi stopped teasing them. After thinking for a bit, he felt that this problem was a bit troublesome. It was no wonder that these two didn¡¯t deal with it and waited for a few days, waiting for him toe to let him deal with it.

    Four days ago, on this hundred thousand hectares ofnd the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rented from head Wein, the thousand Banta City farmers from the Lampuri Kingdom had suddenly broken out in conflict with the five thousand local farmers.

    ording to the count after, there were a total of three hundred Banta City farmers and five hundred local farmers that were a part of this. Although there hadn¡¯t been any casualties, there were close to a hundred people who were seriously wounded and four hundred people who were lightly wounded. Even Cantona who was responsible for this farm work and manager Riley who wasn¡¯t rted at all had also been lightly injured.

    Because of this serious incident, all work at the Frestech Farm had stopped temporarily. Cantona had been busy processing these fellows and hadn¡¯t slept well in a few days.

    ¡°As for the matter itself, it isn¡¯t that hard to take care of.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying to Cantona, ¡°For our Banta City farmers, Cantona, you can go and talk to them privately. As for the local farmers, I will go find head Wein and I believe that as long as certain disciplinary punishments are given, no one will dare cause trouble again.¡±

    Cantona was a bit hesitant, ¡°Although no one would dare cause trouble, but¡­...Chairman Xu, I think that our Banta City farmers are right. The Stantine Duchy Farmers are just toozy, not willing to do any work at all, yet they take the same wages. This already makes me dissatisfied, but those fellows aren¡¯t satisfied and they came to use us of giving higher wages to the Banta City farmers, saying that it isn¡¯t fair. Humph, who knows who it¡¯s unfair for.¡±

    Xu Yi asked Cantona with a serious look, ¡°Are these your real thoughts?¡±

    Cantona was stunned and after hesitating for a bit, he nodded with gritted teeth.

    ¡°Yes, these are my true thoughts. Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve been in charge for half a month, so I¡¯ve seen just howzy those Stantine Duchy fellows are. ording to what I¡¯ve seen, our Banta City¡¯s farmers¡¯ single day of work is equal to five of theirs, but each of them are receiving five gold coins. Our Banta City¡¯s old farmers who came here are only receiving a hundred gold coins per year, which isn¡¯t even an average of ten gold coins a month, which would be twice their wage.¡±

    ¡°But in reality, they are receiving a higher wage than the Stantine Duchy people, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°So from the perspective of the Stantine Duchy workers, their dissatisfaction is reasonable.¡±

    ¡°Pei! If they have the skills, can¡¯t they do a bit of work? If it was me, we should follow the rules of our Banta City and give them money based on how much work they do. They earn more if they work more and they earn less if they work less, if they don¡¯t do a single thing, they won¡¯t receive a single copper coin!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad, but it¡¯s a pity that the situation with the Stantine Duchy is different. So this can¡¯t happen in reality.¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t it?¡± Cantona asked in an unconvinced voice.

    ¡°Because I think that you should know most of the wages these workers receive end in head Wein¡¯s pockets.¡±

    Cantona was stunned. He immediately realized something and looked around before asking in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, ording to your words, this matter was actually instigated by head Wein? It was no wonder those Stantine Duchy fellows had always been good and sudden created trouble two days before you came. In the end, they just wanted to raise this condition with you.¡±

    Manager Riley on the side gave a cold and angry snort, ¡°Humph! That damn fatty, he was justmending chairman Xu in front of us a few days ago, I never thought that he would use such an underhanded method. He simply deserves to die!¡±

    As the one this was about, Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care. He waved his hand with a smile, ¡°You don¡¯t need to react this strongly. This matter is just my guess, there¡¯s no proof. We have to keep cooperating with head Wein in the future, so we can¡¯t just ruin our rtionship.¡±

    ¡°Then you want to ept his threat?¡± Cantona said in a very unconvinced manner, ¡°Chairman Xu, this damn fatty¡¯s greed knows no bounds. If you agree to him this time, I guarantee that he will keep doing this in the future.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this kind of person definitely thinks like this. As long as you admit defeat to him once, he will get even worse. Chairman Xu, I think that you should not let him seed this time, otherwise it will never end.¡± Manager Riley also said.

    ¡°Rx, I have my ideas.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°If it was only for money, I wouldn¡¯t be worried. Then again, even if he had enough money, it would be a problem of if he had a life to use it¡­¡­¡±

    Cantona and manager Riley were stunned at the same time. They looked at each other and could see the astonishment in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s words, there was a grim meaning that could be heard.

    ¡°Alright,forting the farmers from Banta City will be mainly left to you, Cantona. Manager Riley, we are old friends, so you helping where you can with this matter, I have to first thank you.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu is too polite.¡± Manager Riley waved his hands, ¡°With our rtionship, this is just a small matter. But I feel that if they were personallyforted by you, the effects would be better. To be honest, most of our Banta City farmers were willing to leave Banta City ande here to farm, it was all because of you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Un, of course I will act, but I can¡¯t stay here for long and there are many other things to do, so most of the work needs to bepleted by you all.¡± Xu Yi nodded before saying to Cantona, ¡°Remember, you have to stabilize the mood of our Banta City farmers, don¡¯t let them feel worried about staying here and reiming thend.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do my best.¡± Cantona nodded in response. He thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think¡­...we shouldpensate them to make them feel more assured?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and rejected this suggestion, ¡°They were in the wrong a bit in this matter, so if we¡¯re processing this normally, we also need to punish them.¡±

    ¡°Punish them?¡± Cantona was shocked as he said, ¡°I¡¯m worried that they might just stop working.¡±

    ¡°So this is only processing on the surface. On the surface, we must punish their behavior to avoid this kind of conflict in the future. But you can secretly tell them the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s real attitude. It isn¡¯t convenient for me to do this, so I¡¯ll have to leave it to you, Cantona.¡±

    Cantona nodded to show he understood.

    ¡°Other than that, the method of farming needs to change. Since the local farmers aren¡¯t easy to use, then don¡¯t let them work together with our Banta City farmers in the future. In any case, there are so many agricultural magic machines, just with our Banta City¡¯s people, it¡¯s enough to reim thend.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°What about the five thousand locals?¡±

    ¡°There are many things they can do. For example, they can be responsible for building the infrastructure, fixing the roads, and other buildings.¡±

    Manager Riley revealed a bitter look, ¡°Chairman Xu, the people that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce don¡¯t want, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce aren¡¯t willing to use either. I know howzy those fellows are and if they were sent out, wouldn¡¯t they be a burden for us?¡±

    ¡°Their wages will be paid by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what are you afraid of?¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°If you¡¯re worried they¡¯ll be a burden, then have them work on things that don¡¯t require any skills at all. Building roads and the port only requires simple manualbour work, so you can just give it to them. Although they arezy, there are still five thousand of them, so they can do a bit.¡±

    Manager Riley knit his brows before doubtfully asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do I feel¡­...like you don¡¯t ce those five thousand people in your eyes, not treating them as real workers for yourpany?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Whenever those people change theirziness, I¡¯ll treat them as real workers for ourpany. Have you not found that other than the wage of five gold coins a month, they don¡¯t enjoy a single benefit that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s employees enjoy?¡±

    ¡°Then aren¡¯t you throwing away twenty thousand gold coins a month?¡± Manager Riley was bbergasted.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this is a price that must be paid.¡± Xu Yi stood up, ¡°Manager Riley, I¡¯ll have to trouble you to help Cantona take care of this, I¡¯m going to have a chat with head Wein.¡±

    A surprised look shed on their faces before Cantona said in a worried voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, it can¡¯t be that¡­...you want to expose that damn fatty, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the time yet.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m just¡­..going to make a deal with him.¡±

 Volume 3 41 - Special right

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 41 Special right</h4>

    Seeing Xu Yi again, head Wein¡¯s fat face revealed a bright smile. One couldn¡¯t see a trace of him secretly having the workers cause trouble at all.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for your visit this time, are you nning on officially opening the canned fruit factory and the rubber processing factory?¡± Head Wein asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, I brought personnel and equipment this time, I¡¯m prepared to begin the construction. I came to see head Wein this time to discuss a matter with you.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please speak. As long as I can help, there definitely won¡¯t be any problems.¡± Head Wein patted his chest that was even bigger than the young girl beside him as he said this in arge voice.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything troublesome.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Head Wein, there is nothing to mention with the canned fruit factory, but because the rubber processing factory has to have elves, I think that there will be many elves working in this rubber processing factory. I hope that you can prepare your heart to ept them ahead of time.¡±

    Head Wein was stunned, ¡°Elf workers? It can¡¯t be, right? When did elves start working in our human factories?¡±

    ¡°Hasn¡¯t Cantona mentioned this to you before?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has had elves for a long time, this isn¡¯t anything special.¡±

    ¡°They never mentioned this to me before.¡± Head Wein shook his head as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are skilled. You actually got those proud elves to work in your factory. They¡¯re actually willing to listen to the direction and leadership of humans?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be considered that. This is only a cooperation and everyone receives what they need.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°For example, only the elves can make the Magic Array needed in the rubber processing factory, so we can¡¯t separate ourselves from the elves. We need the techniques of the elves and the elves need something from ourpany, so right now both sides are happy with the cooperation.¡±

    ¡°Oh, this sounds quite good.¡± Head Wein nodded like he didn¡¯t really understand, ¡°Then will you be hiring our Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elves for this rubber processing factory?¡±

    ¡°That hasn¡¯t been decided yet. I wanted to have a discussion with the Moon Shadow Tribe this time.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°But to not dy the progress, we¡¯ll set up the rubber processing factory first. At the same time, we need to collect rubber ahead of time to guarantee there is enough rubber to process when the timees. Head Wein, I hope that you can help us with purchasing this rubber.¡±

    Head Wein¡¯s smile became even brighter.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were saying that he was handing the responsibility of collecting rubber to him, this would give him arge profit.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if I may ask, how much is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce nning to purchase the rubber for?¡± Head Wein asked.

    ¡°Un¡­...I have to see the rubber¡¯s quality, but for now I can set it at twenty gold coins per ton. What does head Wein think of this price? Do you have any opinions?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°None, none, this is a very good price! I don¡¯t have any objections!¡± Head Wein couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter, not concealing the pride and wild joy in hisughter at all.

    The rubber trees could be found all over the Stantine Duchy. Normally no one dealt with processing rubber, so they werepletely wasted.

    Now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to buy this thing that was no different from trash in head Wein¡¯s eyes for a high price of twenty gold coins per ton, this was simply money falling from the sky. How could he not be filled with wild joy.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please be assured, I will immediately have people start gathering the rubber and guarantee that there will be enough to use when your factory opens!¡± After pausing, head Wein asked, ¡°But chairman Xu, how many tons of rubber can your factory use each month? If we gather too much¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry. You just need to care about gathering it, we can buy as much as you collect.¡± Xu Yi said in a certain voice.

    Head Wein was filled with joy again. ording to his estimates, if he gathered from all the trees in his territory, he could gather around a thousand tons of rubber each month. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bought it all, that was equal to earning twenty thousand gold coins a month.

    In a year, that was a profit of over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Adding in the rent, the crops the Frestech Chamber of Commerce handed over, and the wages from the local workers, after head Wein counted everything, he would be receiving a huge ie of seven hundred thousand gold coins a year from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Before this, although head Wein was the biggest noble in the north of the Stantine Duchy, havingnd that was equal to a fourth of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s total territory, his ie each year was just around three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here to invest, his yearly ie had tripled!

    So head Wein looked at Xu Yi with a very passionate gaze, so much so that even Xu Yi felt goosebumpse over him.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help moving his shoulder, avoiding head Wein¡¯s loving gaze as he continued saying, ¡°Head Wein, other than this, I still have something I need your help with.¡±

    ¡°Please speak. No matter what it is, I will agree.¡± Head Wein said with a smile.

    ¡°A few days ago, the workers in the field had a serious conflict, mainly between our Lampuri Kingdom workers and your local workers. I have already had Cantona deal with our Lampuri Kingdom workers, so I hope that head Wein canfort your local workers.¡±

    ¡°Comfort?¡± Head Wein shook his head, ¡°Is there a need to use polite words with those trash? Chairman Xu, if you are dissatisfied with them, you can just teach them a lesson. Rx, they definitely won¡¯t dare fight back.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have this meaning.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Teaching them a lesson doesn¡¯t have a meaning, I hope that they can understand. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is here to invest and if everyone works well, there are benefits to both sides. But if there is always trouble, I might lose confidence in this ce and give up my ideas of investing. I think like this, not only will there be a loss for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there should be arge loss for head Wein¡¯s side.¡±

    When it came to the final words, Xu Yi looked into head Wein¡¯s eyes as he said this with a serious expression.

    An awkward look appeared on head Wein¡¯s face. Xu Yi was warning the local workers on the surface, but it was also a warning towards him.

    It was like Xu Yi said, if Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied, he might lose confidence in this ce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would take away their investment. The biggest loss would be on Head Wein¡¯s side, or more urately speaking, it would be for head Wein himself.

    Now that he could anticipate arge profit of seven hundred thousand gold coins from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this year, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, this would mean he would be losing arge profit. This was something that head Wein definitely couldn¡¯t ept.

    So although he was a bit dissatisfied that Xu Yi had warned him to his face, even threatening him, head Wein still nodded with a wide smile, ¡°Be assured, chairman Xu, I will definitely teach those trash. I guarantee that they won¡¯t cause trouble again!¡±

    ¡°Good, I believe in head Wein.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression disappeared before he said with a faint smile, ¡°Head Wein, let me tell you some other good news. After knowing that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested in the Stantine Duchy, the otherpanies in Banta City have also disclosed their intentions in investing here. So I suggest that head Wein should improve the environment here, strengthening their confidence in investing here.¡±

    ¡°There are otherpanies that want toe? This is great!¡± Head Wein¡¯s eyes lit up as he quickly asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, what you said¡­..Improving the environment here, how should it be done?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually very simple. First, we need to do this¡­¡­¡±

    It was like Xu Yi went back to when Count Sean was the Banta City¡¯s City Lord and he gave the city renovation n again.

    Of course,pared to Count Sean with boldness and foresight, this fatty head Wein had nothing.

    But he did have a merit. It was that as long as he promised that there would be money to gain, he didn¡¯t care and just agreed to whatever Xu Yi told him.

    When Xu Yi suggested improving the environment of head Wein¡¯s territory, head Wein didn¡¯t have any objections. He just supported everything that Xu Yi wanted to do.

    But¡­..When Xu Yi mentioned the costs of improving the environment, head Wein¡¯s face twitched and his expression became ugly.

    ¡°This¡­.chairman Xu, ording to your estimates, how many gold coins would this cost?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and put up two fingers, ¡°The initial estimates are two million.¡±

    ¡°What? Two million?¡± Hearing this figure, head Wein went againstmon sense and jumped high up as his face filled with disbelief, ¡°No, no, no, this is impossible! Chairman Xu, you must have made a mistake! It¡¯s just a few roads and smoothing the ground, how could it cost over two million gold coins? Based on what I can see, it¡¯s already pretty high for it to cost two hundred thousand!¡±

    Xu Yiughed secretly, thinking that this greedy fatty really wasn¡¯t willing to take out a single copper coin.

    He had already expected this, so he wasn¡¯t surprised. He had the same smile as he said, ¡°Head Wein, it¡¯s fine if you¡¯re not willing to pay this much, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will take care of everything.¡±

    Head Wein was first happy before looking at Xu Yi with a vignt look, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is two million gold coins, are you sure your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to pay? Do you¡­..need me to do something?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t need you to do anything, I just want a special right for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes as he revealed a faint smile.

 Volume 3 42 - Just when can it be developed?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 42 Just when can it be developed?</h4>

    ¡°Spending two million gold coins and just having the right to have five hundred guards?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in disbelief before asking with a frown, ¡°Xu Yi, why do I feel that aftering to the Stantine Duchy, it seems like your mind has burned out and you¡¯re always doing business that costs you money?¡±

    ¡°Costs me money?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You have to first understand that although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is paying this two million gold coins, it¡¯s used to improve the environment here. The ones who benefit the most from this would be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so this can be considered investment in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that this is the Stantine Duchy after all. Your Fretech Chamber of Commerce can invest here now, but good things can¡¯t be taken away. If one day you can¡¯t stay here anymore, wouldn¡¯t those things be wasted?¡± Chairman Cruise said in a confused voice.

    ¡°Who said I¡¯ll leave in the future?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°You might not be able to stay, this ce¡­..¡± Chairman Cruise suddenly stopped and looked at Xu Yi in surprise. He looked around before suddenlying closer and lowering his voice as it trembled while he asked, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, it can¡¯t be that you¡¯re thinking of¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I won¡¯t tell you.¡±

    Chairman Cruise closed his mouth and narrowed his eyes, looking at Xu Yi with a gaze of deep meaning for a while. Only then did he stand back and look over Xu Yi like it was his first time meeting him. He shook his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve noticed today that your ambitions are much greater than I thought. But do you think¡­..just five hundred people are enough? Aren¡¯t you looking down on the Stantine Duchy too much?¡±

    ¡°What do you think about the battle strength our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards demonstratedst time on the ck Rice Wastnd?¡± Xu Yi asked this seemingly unrted question back.

    Chairman Cruise was surprised and after thinking for a bit, he said with a frown, ¡°Very strong, but to keep this battle strength¡­..wouldn¡¯t it be very hard?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not what we¡¯re discussing right now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°To be honest, perhaps I won¡¯t need to do anything and the Stantine Duchy itself will change.¡±

    ¡°The people here want to just sleep all day, how could they change?¡± Chairman Cruise gave a cold snort.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder, ¡°What? You also realized that the people here arezy?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a snort as he said, ¡°I really am surprised, how can a person be thiszy? Of the five thousand people you¡¯ve thrown over, I¡¯ve sent two thousand of them to do the simplest work and what do you think happened? It¡¯s been a week now and those two thousand people¡­..Two thousand people! They actually only leveled ten kilometers ofnd. With their efficiency, I think that I might die from waiting before they can finish building the roads.¡±

    ¡°So I said, don¡¯t count on the efficiency of the workers from here, it¡¯s best if we bring people from the Lampuri Kingdom. Then again, I¡¯m not willing to waste precious wages on the people here. If there¡¯s money, I¡¯d rather give it to our Lampuri Kingdom citizens.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve already decided. When I head back in a few days, in Banta City, oh, no, not just Banta City, I will recruit workers from all the surrounding cities as well. Otherwise, we won¡¯t be able to keep up.¡±

    ¡°That would be best.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°I dare confirm that not only will there not be less road work for you, there will be more and more work. It¡¯s to the point that you won¡¯t be able to sit down.¡±

    ¡°That is certain.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a proud smile, ¡°After realizing the benefits of roads, there are many people who want us to build roads for them. Not only have we constructed over a thousand kilometers of roads in the Lampuri Kingdom, we¡¯ve even constructed three hundred kilometers of roads in the Rudson Kingdom. Adding in this ce, we¡¯ll be building over a thousand and five hundred kilometers of road next year.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s still too little.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°ording to my estimates, to connect every part of the Lampuri Kingdom, it¡¯ll take over fifty thousand kilometers of road. It¡¯s far too little right now.¡±

    ¡°Fifty thousand kilometers?¡± Chairman Cruise was bbergasted, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated? Do you want to put roads all over the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Do you feel that this isn¡¯t appropriate?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Chairman Cruise paused before he couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°Un, I feel it¡¯s very appropriate, but now I have a question. Xu Yi, although it¡¯s very convenient building roads, the improvement to transportation and economy that you mentioned before hasn¡¯t urred yet. The horse carriages can only run a bit faster and smoother, there isn¡¯t much of an increase.¡±

    ¡°Ask about the Magic Car if you want, is there a need to beat around the bush?¡± Xu Yi snappily said.

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°It¡¯s good you know. Then be honest with you, when will that Magic Car that you mentionede out?¡±

    Xu Yi looked to the northeast, in the direction of the Falling Rain Valley.

    ¡°Beforeing here, the research facility said that they made a major breakthrough in developing the Magic Car. If I can see that they had real research progress this time when I get back, I might be able to give you a more urate answer.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a disappointed sigh.

    ¡°I¡¯ve waited a year for your Magic Car and it¡¯s still not done.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s not just you, including me, I don¡¯t know how many people are waiting for the Magic Car toe out. But this matter can¡¯t be rushed, there are many things with the Magic Car design. If they aren¡¯t done properly, there will be many problems.¡±

    Chairman Cruise could only give a helpless shrug, ¡°Alright. I¡¯ve already waited for a year, it doesn¡¯t matter if I wait a bit longer.¡±

    ¡°Un, before this, you just have to focus on building roads.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Otherwise when the Magic Carse out and because there aren¡¯t enough roads, they can¡¯t run at all, that would be a tragedy.¡±

    Chairman Cruise said with a cold snort, ¡°Rx, I¡¯m already adjusting the focus of ourpany. With ourpany¡¯s current efficiency, we cany down around two to three hundred kilometers of road each month. When you finish this Magic Car, I can guarantee that you can go to any city in the Lampuri Kingdom on roads.¡±

    ¡°That would be great.¡±

    Xi Yi praised with a smile as he put down the matter of the Magic Car. He began discussing with chairman Cruise the n that he had for the territory in the north under head Wein¡¯s name.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s initial thoughts, of course he wouldy roads across this territory and solve the transportation issue.

    Through chairman Cruise¡¯s estimates, to reach Xu Yi¡¯s basic requirements, it would take at least two hundred kilometers of roads.

    At the same time, although the Falling Rain Valley¡¯s road to Samara Town wasplete, they had to construct a road from Samara Town, through the Voller Tribe and the ck Rice Wastnd to reach the Stantine Duchy.

    This road was close to a hundred kilometers long, so the initial n was to put down over three hundred kilometers of road.

    With the special climate of the Stantine Duchy, they could start the construction even though it was winter. So chairman Cruise was prepared to bring construction teams here when they couldn¡¯t build anything in other ces during winter, building the two hundred kilometers of road before winter was over.

    This n was naturally supported by Xu Yi. He even cooperated with the Fersen Carriage Company to start a public transport line between Banta City and the Wein City in the Stantine Duchy, especially used to send Banta City citizens between the two cities.

    The only problem was that even with the road, with the speed of the horse carriage, it would take twenty hours for the trip. So in the end, it would take two to three days for a trip.

    So the question from before was asked to Xu Yi again by chairman Cruise.

    ¡°When will the Magic Car be developed?¡±

    If the Magic Car could reach the speed of buses on earth, maintaining a minimum of sixty kilometers an hour, it would take around seven to eight hours to travel the four hundred kilometers between here and Banta City. It would take a single day for that journey.

    But it was like he told chairman Cruise before, the Magic Car wasplicated, so how could it be easily developed.

    After he finished talking to chairman Cruise, Xu Xi left Wein City. He went to meet Agnes, Delil, as well as Stasia who had been waiting by a road in the forest.

    This time he was going to meet the elder Lisanya Shadow Song of the Moon Shadow Tribe. Agnes could be considered his contact, Delil could be considered the representative of the Night Song Tribe, and Stasia was the observer from the Moon Shadow Tribe, able to give advice to elder Lisanya Shadow Song.

    Although it was a rubber factory in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, through this chance, Xu Yi had proposed to elder Illusia to have Delil represent the Night Song Tribe to ask the Moon Shadow Tribe to cooperate with them.

    Because they were both elves, elder Lisanya Shadow Song would be less vignt and there was a higher chance of sess.

    Not to mention, Stasia was also here.

 Volume 3 43 - Secret of the elves

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 43 Secret of the elves</h4>

    Meeting elder Lisanya Shadow Song was not as hard as the first time. With Stasia leading them, Xu Yi¡¯s group easily came to the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Hearing that the one in charge of discussing the cooperation this time was Agnes and Delil who came from the Night Song Tribe and that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t meddle, elder Lisanya Shadow Song was surprised before bing more rxed. Her gaze towards Xu Yi had also be friendlier.

    Seeing Agnes and Delil following elder Lisanya Shadow Song, entering a small elven hut with Stasia to discuss business, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He looked around and found a ce to sit down in the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Xu Yi was very satisfied with the discussions this time.

    Delil had been learning for some time and now was experienced with business discussions. Although she wasn¡¯t as shrewd as some of the veteran human merchants, it was more than enough to discuss business with elder Lisanya Shadow Song.

    Not to mention that no matter what angle of this cooperation it was, there were only benefits for the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Even if the rubber processing factory in name belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was like the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory in the Falling Rain Valley. It was actually controlled by the elves and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only owned it in name.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could put their orders to the factory, ensuring that the factory would always have work to do.

    As for the rubber processing technology, the Night Song Tribe and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would research it with the Moon Shadow Tribe, allowing them to master this rubber processing technique.

    In short, the Moon Shadow Tribe didn¡¯t need to care about anything, they could gainrge amounts of ie just by sending manpower.

    For such a good thing, Xu Yi believed that elder Lisanya Shadow Song wouldn¡¯t ignore it.

    While sitting and patiently waiting, Xu Yi was thinking about the ns for the rubber processing factory in his heart.

    The first time he came to the Stantine Duchy and he saw that there were rubber trees all around, Xu Yi¡¯s first reaction was that rubber actually existed on this continent. Like this, he wouldn¡¯t need to use resin to make the tires and could make rubber tires.

    So when he wanted to make this rubber processing factory, it was just to create rubber tire covers for the tire factory.

    But arriving in the Moon Shadow Tribe now, seeing that there were more elves herepared to the Night Song Tribe, Xu Yi found that his thoughts before had been too small.

    Although the main use for rubber on earth was to make tires, the use of natural rubber wasn¡¯t limited to just this alone.

    Moreover, from the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory, Xu Yi found that there were facts that he had ignored before. This was after all not earth, so there were many things here that couldn¡¯t be found on earth.

    The elves had more kinds of magicpared to humans. Since the Night Song Tribe could study stic processing, creating different kinds of stic with different kinds of magic and forms, the Moon Shadow Tribe that was even bigger than the Night Song Tribe would definitely have a greater breakthrough.

    So the first step was for the Moon Shadow Tribe to manufacture rubber based on the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi would also propose building ab in the Moon Shadow Tribe, dedicated to processing rubber.

    Pursuing research at any time, that was Xu Yi¡¯s creed. He hoped that he could teach this creed to the elves he was gradually pulling into the magic machine industry.

    After patiently waiting for a while, although the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elves were curious why there was a human here, there wasn¡¯t a single elf that took the initiative to approach him.

    Xu Yi was happy being alone, passing the time thinking about various issues and time quickly passed.

    After around an hour, Stasia came out and invited Xu Yi in.

    After hinting for Xu Yi to sit down beside Agnes, elder Lisanya immediately asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce certain that they won¡¯t interfere with the rubber factory?¡±

    Hearing this question, Xu Yi was certain that elder Lisanya had already agreed to Agnes and Delil¡¯s proposal, agreeing to build the rubber processing factory.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Elder Lisanya, ourpany will keep the rights to the name of the rubber processing factory, but it is to evade some problems. After all, elves setting up apany is rarely seen in our human society, so if it is set up alone, there will be some problems. If you use our Frestech Chamber of Commerce name, you can avoid some of these problems.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Elder Lisanya nodded, ¡°But I still have a problem. Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is keeping the rights to the name, it can help us avoid some problems, but if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce uses that right to make our rubber processing factory do something, doesn¡¯t that mean we are helpless?¡±

    Before Xu Yi replied, Delil already came in, ¡°Elder Lisanya, you don¡¯t need to worry. Chairman Xu is a human who keeps his promises. Our Night Song Tribe has worked with chairman Xu for so long and he has never broken his promise, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem with our cooperation.¡±

    ¡°Yes, the chairman is a good person, he wouldn¡¯t do this.¡± Agnes on the side also supported him.

    Elder Lisanya was a bit surprised by Agnes and Delil before looking back at Xu Yi. She gave a slight nod as she praised, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are a human, but you can make the Night Song Tribe elvenpatriots have this much trust in you. It really is rare.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I am just simply keeping my promise and thinking of things from the perspective of the Night Song Tribe elves.¡±

    ¡°This is already rare.¡± Elder Lisanya thought for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°Since you can receive elder Illusia¡¯s trust and rmendation, then I can choose to trust you. But chairman Xu, this trust is for you alone and not for other humans, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°I understand. I will personallye for any deals with the rubber processing factory in the future.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But elder Lisanya, I hope that through cooperating with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you can choose to trust a few humans that youe in contact with. After all, there are many times that I can¡¯t split myself. Then again, this cooperation willst a long time and elder Illusia and the two dwarf chives have worried that I will die of old age one day, so if you only trust me, that will create a serious problem.¡±

    ¡°I will consider your proposal, but¡­..¡± Elder Lisanya looked at Agnes and said, ¡°When elder Illusia mentioned this problem in her letter to mest time, what I couldn¡¯t understand was that since she¡¯s worried about this problem, why doesn¡¯t she find a way to help chairman Xu quickly increase his magic power? Why doesn¡¯t she make him quickly be a Great Magician, an Arch Magus, or a Grand Magus to increase his lifespan?¡±

    Agnes and Delil looked at each other, both shaking their heads with bewildered looks.

    ¡°This can¡¯t be med on elder Illusia.¡± Xu Yi took over, ¡°It isn¡¯t easy to increase the magic power of a magician, I can only depend on my own hard work. So elder Illusia wants to solve this problem for me, but she can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    ¡°Actually, there is a way.¡±

    ¡°There is a way?¡± Agnes asked in a confused voice.

    Delil expression changed and after thinking for a bit, she asked elder Lisanya in an uncertain voice, ¡°Honoured elder, you wouldn¡¯t be talking about¡­..the legendary Moon Goddess Blessing, right?¡±

    Elder Lisanya shook her head, ¡°The Moon Goddess Blessing is very hard for us elves to obtain, not to mention humans.¡±

    ¡°Then how can you quickly increase magic power?¡±

    Elder Lisanya didn¡¯t immediately respond, she turned to look at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, we elves don¡¯t like owing other people things. Although I am willing to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to open a rubber processing factory, to increase the conditions of our tribe, because it is impossible for us elves to take out gold coins, we can¡¯t help pay for the initial fees to setting up the factory.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and said with a smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t much. Elder Lisanya, you can just treat it as an investment. I can see the prospects of this factory, so I am investing in your Moon Shadow Tribe, so no one owes anyone anything. If you keep insisting, then it¡¯s very simple. When the factory starts making ie, you can slowly pay me back. This is a very normal thing in our human business world.¡±

    ¡°No, this is not a method that we elves are willing to ept, at least our Moon Shadow Tribe isn¡¯t willing.¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head. After thinking for a bit, she suddenly stood up, ¡°Chairman Xu, because you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I will think of a way we elves can repay you. I believe that thepensation given to you should bnce out the gold coins yourpany is investing.¡±

    Xu Yi doubtfully stood up and looked at Agnes and Delil who both had confused looks. He could infer from the words that elder Lisanya said earlier that thispensation should be rted to quickly increasing his magic power.

    But Xu Yi had been on the Sines Continent for over five years and had contact with magic for over five years, he had never heard of a method that could quickly increase magic power.

    Could it be¡­..that the elves were hiding a secret that humans didn¡¯t know about?

 Volume 3 44 - Strange phenomenon

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 44 Strange phenomenon</h4>

    ¡°The elves¡¯ achievement in magic? If it was before the race wars, it would definitely be much better than the humans. But after the race wars, over three thousand years have already passed and the level of magic for the elves might not be higher than the humans.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think so. The elves have much longer life spanspared to humans, so their inheritances are moreplete. Adding in the fact that elves don¡¯t have things encumbering them like us, they can focus on studying magic, so their level of magic should only be getting higher and higher.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid that isn¡¯t correct. The creativity of the elves can¡¯tpare to us humans. We humans have been constantly improving our magic during these three thousand years and the elves rarely do that. This is something that was clear before the race wars. From what I can see, perhaps the level of magic for us humans has already far surpassed the elves.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Creativity? You take the creativity of humans as an honour, but all of you told me that although the magic machines are very novel, they aren¡¯t reallyplicated. Why did we have to wait until a low Fourth Grade Magician like Xu Yi to show up before it was invented? Why did none of us Great Magicians develop this?¡±

    When president Eren¡¯s words were said, the others fell silent.

    This was the routine conference between high level members of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild. The ones attending were just the five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The topic of the conference was to make a summary report for the qualification exams this year, letting the other four Great Magicians give their opinions.

    But when discussing this topic, the Great Magicians discovered a strange phenomenon. It was that there were more low level magicians participating this year, even being close to double that ofst year. Compared to previous years, it was over four times that number.

    This was a very strange phenomenon because in the magicians circle, there were many low level magicians, but most of these low level magicians were all very old. Their magic levels didn¡¯t increase by much and they were considered magicians without any future.

    For these magicians, because they weren¡¯t talented enough in magic, it was hard for them to increase their levels. So most magicians gave up the idea of increasing their magician rank and because it was hard to increase their rank with their limited talent, they didn¡¯t participate in the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam.

    Normally speaking, the low level magicians who participated in the exams were all talented young magicians.

    But it was different this year, there were far more magicians taking the exam and there were many of them who were older magicians who didn¡¯t have a future.

    It had to be known that the exam was not free. Just the registration fee was five gold coins and they had toe to Anvilmar City to participate in the exam. The travel expenses and the amodation expenses were not cheap.

    So unless their magic power had greatly increased and they were confident in passing the exam, there weren¡¯t magicians who would waste their time, effort, and money toe to the exam.

    Of the magicians that came for the exams this year, many of them didn¡¯t increase their magic power by much, but they still came to participate.

    There were even magicians who were at risk of having their rank removed by the Magicians Guild that came to try taking the higher grade exams.

    This was actually very strange, so when they were discussing this report, the Great Magicians began discussing this phenomenon.

    These low grade magicians did this because there were benefits, otherwise no one would waste their time, effort, and money to take thisrge risk.

    But where did the benefitse from?

    After discussing for a while, Great Magician Eisenkel gave a possibility. It could be rted to the magic machinepanies that had appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With the drive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom saw the great benefits and potential of magic machines. So especially this year, there were all kinds of magic machinepanies that appeared in every city of the Lampuri Kingdom like mushrooms.

    Since they produced magic machines, they naturally had arge demand for magicians who could draw Magic Arrays.

    When drawing Magic Arrays, what they didn¡¯t need were high grade or powerful magicians, just normal low grade magicians could do this. Just to draw a magic array, there wasn¡¯t a high requirement for magic power.

    So like this, there were demands for low grade magicians all over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Before this, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s low grade magicians lived lives that weren¡¯t better than normal people. Unless they went to be guards forpanies, there weren¡¯t any good paths.

    Now that there was simple work that was rted to magic like drawing Magic Arrays, naturally it would be wee by all the low grade magicians.

    Of course, the choice was two sided. Magicians could choosepanies to work for, but thepanies could also choose magicians to hire.

    Even if it was the most simple work, of course they wanted higher grade magicians.

    Not to mention thatpanies with ambition wanted to study the magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce monopolized. To earn thisrge amount, naturally they needed a higher grade magician.

    For thesepanies, how could they judge how strong a magician was? The best qualification was naturally the qualification from the Magicians Guild.

    So the poption had increased starting fromst year¡¯s qualification exam. There was arger boom this year, as the magicians that came to participate in the exam ounted for two thirds of the magicians registered with the magicians guild!

    There were even many magicians who had never participated in the exam and never registered with the Magicians Guild who had suddenly appeared.

    ¡°Of course they want to increase their grade. Right now there is a price tag in Anvilmar City. There¡¯s no need to mention Primary Grade Magicians, Second Grade Magicians have a monthly sry of ten gold coins, Third Grade Magicians have a sry of fifteen gold coins, and the lowest sry for a Fourth Grade Magician is twenty five gold coins. As for magicians who are Fifth Grade or higher, their sry is discussed in person.¡±

    Hearing these words from Great Magician Eisenkel, including Great Magician Cami, the other four Great Magicians were all stunned.

    Faced with this phenomenon, the most conservative Great Magician Teli couldn¡¯t help saying something.

    To him, magicians should focus on studying magic. These low grade magicians weren¡¯t focused on studying magic because they were focused on producing these magic machines for thesepanies for a trivial sry of ten gold coins. This really lost dignity for magicians.

    Great Magician Eisenkel said with a coldugh, ¡°Can dignity feed you? These low grade magicians don¡¯t receive financial support from the kingdom like us, they can¡¯t just earn arge amount based on their fame. Don¡¯t forget, they are humans, they also need to live. Not to mention that magic studies requires arge amount of gold coins, so if you don¡¯t want them to earn money, do you want them to wait to die?¡±

    Faced with Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s rebuttal, Great Magician Teli had nothing to say.

    Under the testimonies of Great Magician Cami, the other three Great Magicians knew that this strange phenomenon was indeed because of the demand for magic machines that appeared in the various regions of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because of this, the five Great Magicians couldn¡¯t help changing the topic to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and naturally that shifted the topic to Xu Yi.

    When talking about Xu Yi, Great Magician Eisenkel asked Great Magician Cami about Xu Yi¡¯s whereabouts.

    Because Xu Yi didn¡¯t participate in the exams this year, the other three Great Magicians also expressed a bit of concern.

    After they learned from Great Magician Cami that Xu Yi was in the Stantine Duchy to invest, the other Great Magicians couldn¡¯t help feeling disappointed.

    Because to them, Xu Yi was talented in magic and if he focused on studying, perhaps the Lampuri Kingdom might have a sixth Great Magician soon.

    When hearing Great Magician Cami mention that Xu Yi was going to the Stantine Duchy to discuss cooperating with the Moon Shadow Tribe, the Great Magicians turned the topic to elven magic. They were discussing whether the humans or the elves had a higher level of magic.

    Regarding this issue, Great Magician Cami and president Eren were neutral, feeling that the level should be around the same.

    Great Magician Teli and Great Magician Torres were more conservative, thinking that the magic the elves had inherited for several thousand years was at a higher level.

    As for a radical like Great Magician Eisenkel, who was also a human supremacist, he confidently said that the level of magic for humans was already higherpared to elves.

    But when president Eren asked why magic machines weren¡¯t developed by these Great Magicians and were developed by Xu Yi, the other four Great Magicians couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Especially Great Magician Eisenkel who couldn¡¯t help feeling shame in his heart.

    Compared to the other four Great Magicians who focused on studying magic, Great Magician Eisenkel paid great attention tobining magic and business. But after many years, he had never considered magic machines, rather it was developed first by a low grade magician like Xu Yi who he thought wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    ¡°This¡­..It can only be considered that our thought processes are rigid¡­¡­¡± After being silent for a bit, Great Magician Eisenkel said with a bitter smile, ¡°Moreover¡­.It has to be said, that kid Xu Yi really is talented. There are many ces where even I feel inferior.¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t curl into a smile.

    Xu Yi was now Still¡¯s husband and was growing under him, so praising Xu Yi made him happier than if he received praise.

    ¡°Speaking of this, I don¡¯t know if this kind of phenomenon is a good thing or a bad thing¡­¡­¡± After president Eren was silent for a bit, he said with a frown, ¡°Although with the lead of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are manypanies that produce magic machines, allowing many low grade magicians find jobs and solving a problem for our Magicians Guild, but like this the magicians working for thesepanies are focusing on studying Magic Arrays and not magic. This might not be a good thing in the future¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Studying Magic Arrays can also increase your magic level.¡± Great Magician Cami said in an indifferent voice, ¡°I still haven¡¯t told you yet, since closing my Magic Tower and going to study Magic Arrays at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, my magic level has increased quickly. I¡¯m already at the level of a Fourth Grade Great Magician.¡±

 Volume 3 45 - The praise of the Great Magicians

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 45 The praise of the Great Magicians</h4>

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s tone was very indifferent, but the four Great Magicians who heard this looked like they had been hit by lightning.

    ¡°What? Cami, you actually leveled up?¡±

    ¡°My god! Cami, after all these years, you actually leveled up!¡±

    ¡°This really is too unbelievable! You actually really leveled up!¡±

    His reaction was a bit different from the other three Great Magicians. President Eren was shocked, but he was also happy. He leaped out of his chair and grabbed Great Magician Cami¡¯s hand as he excitedly shook his head, while saying with a look of pleasant surprise, ¡°Great! Great! Our Lampuri Kingdom has be stronger again!¡±

    As the president of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, although president Eren was also a Great Magician, he cared more about the overall level of magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For the kingdom¡¯s magician level, the greatest demonstration was the strength of Great Magicians.

    Although Great Magician Cami only went up a single rank, it was countless times harder for a Great Magician to increase in rankpared to a low level magician.

    Not to mention that Great Magician Cami hadn¡¯t increased his rank in close to ten years. President Eren thought that his magic power had reached its peak and it would be very hard for him to rank up, but he never thought that he would suddenly rank up, which was a great cause for joy.

    After everyone celebrated for a bit, Great Magician Eisenkel asked, ¡°Cami, based on what you said, is it because you started focusing on studying Magic Arrays that your magic power increased and you even went up a rank?¡±

    The other three Great Magicians looked at Great Magician Cami, caring about this question very much.

    Great Magician Cami was silent for a bit before nodding with a faint smile, ¡°It should basically be like this. Although it can¡¯t bepletely because I focused on studying Magic Arrays, after focusing on it, I¡¯ve received many new inspirations from studying Magic Arrays. There are many inspirations that have given me a new understanding of magic, so it quickly increased my magic power.¡±

    The other four Great Magicians looked at each other before nodding at the same time.

    At the level of Great Magicians, they naturally understood that magic power was not increased by continually studying magic, rather it was increased by deepening their understanding and knowledge towards magic.

    But after bing Great Magicians, they had a deep understanding of magic already, so it wasn¡¯t easy to rank up.

    Now that Great Magician Cami had focused on studying Magic Arrays that weren¡¯t considered important, finding new inspiration that deepened his understanding of magic, raising his magic power, that was a very good sign for them.

    ¡°Cami, since you are at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, you should be researching the Magic Arrays used in the magic machines, right?¡± Great Magician Teli asked.

    ¡°Right. Of the Magic Arrays used in most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, they all have my research.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a nod.

    ¡°But those magic machines all use low level Magic Arrays, so how can you draw inspiration from those low level Magic Arrays?¡±

    It wasn¡¯t just Great Magician Teli, the other three Great Magicians were all curious.

    ¡°You¡¯re looking down on the Magic Arrays in the magic machines too much.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head with a smile, ¡°Although the grade of the Magic Arrays they use are low, to satisfy the needs of the magic machines, the research we do on the Magic Arrays are different and they are all finely tuned. To put it in terms of difficulty, they aren¡¯t lessplicated than high grade Magic Arrays and might even be moreplicated.¡±

    ¡°Is it that exaggerated?¡± Great Magician Torres on the side didn¡¯t believe this, ¡°I¡¯ve also bought several of the Frestrech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines and I¡¯ve opened one when I was bored¡­..Oh, right, it was called the Magic Water Heater. The me Array used inside wasn¡¯t all that rare.¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Great Magician Torres andughed, ¡°You didn¡¯t study it in depth enough. Let me ask you, if you want to stabilize the heat of the me Array, how would you do it?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s very simple. You just need to stabilize the magic power supplied and the Magic Array wouldn¡¯t have any fluctuations.¡± Great Magician Torres curled his lips in disdain.

    ¡°It¡¯s not as simple as you think.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°If you stabilize the magic power, it will stop the Magic Array from creating fluctuations, but this Magic Array isid on the foundation and it will affect the material of the foundation, even affecting the foundation itself. So if you want to stabilize the Magic Array, you need to consider how to guarantee the Magic Array itself won¡¯t be damaged and this is something that needs plenty of corresponding research.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that difficult, right?¡± Great Magician Torres slightly knit his brows.

    Although he said this, he didn¡¯t show the same look of disdain as before.

    ¡°No, this is very hard.¡± This time it was Great Magician Eisenkel who spoke. He shook his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°Torres, don¡¯t think that this is simple. I have been trying to solve this problem for over half a year and I still haven¡¯te up with a perfect solution. Cami, how did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce solve it?¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed before replying while shaking his head, ¡°Eisenkel, you know that is a secret for ourpany, I can¡¯t possibly tell you that.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel said with a bitter smile, ¡°That kid Xu Yi must have told you to say this. Ai, where did the Great Magician Cami who wanted all magicians to share their research to quickly promote the overall level of magic go?¡±

    Great Magician Cami naturally knew he was joking, so he said with augh, ¡°That was before, now I understand. That kid Xu Yi is right, to have all magicians share their carefully researched magic, it would actually decrease the level of magic. Haven¡¯t you noticed that since the guild announced the magic patents, there are all kinds of new researching from all over the continent?¡±

    President Eren immediately said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. In the internal periodicst time, in just this month, there were over three thousand people who applied for patents and there were over five thousand different research data. The guild has conducted a survey of this research and they found that although most of them aren¡¯t much use, there are over a thousand kinds of magic research that can help raise the level of magic.¡±

    Great Magician Teli and Great Magician Torres looked at each other before Great Magician Teli said in an emotional voice, ¡°I even opposed Xu Yi¡¯s proposal before, but I never thought that once the patent act was release, the effects would be this good. A thousand new kinds of research, this is as good as the research that magicians have announced in thest fifty years.¡±

    Great Magician Torres said with a bitterugh, ¡°We old fogies don¡¯t understand people as well as that kid Xu Yi. He was right, knowing that your research could be used to make money, now magicians of the continent are bing more open, not hiding their discoveries like treasures that they were unwilling to take out.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, although you need to spend a bit to receive the knowledge protected by the patent, using a bit of money to solve the problem that couldn¡¯t be solved before isn¡¯t considered anything.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said with a nod, ¡°So when that kid Xu Yi proposed the patents the first time, I approved and supported it very much. Now look at it, the effects are quite good.¡±

    ¡°Right, I really don¡¯t know how that kid grew up, why can hee up with these strange, but useful ideas?¡±

    Hearing the other four Great Magicians including president Eren praise Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami¡¯s old face revealed a happy smile.

    After a while, president Eren gave a cough and stopped everyone¡¯s praise and discussion, bringing the topic back to the subject of this meeting.

    Because there were more magicians participating in the exam this time, there was more work for the Magicians Guild this time. Adding in the fact that the continent¡¯s Magicians Guild required a Great Magician to be present for high grade magician exams, none of the five Great Magicians had any free time for this year¡¯s Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s certification exam.

    This way can¡¯t be continued, so president Eren held this meeting to discuss how to manage this, increasing efficiency with less people.

    After discussing for a bit, the five Great Magicians reached a temporarypromise. If there were more magicians that participated in the exam next time, there would be two Great Magicians that would be present other than president Eren and the other two woulde next time.

    President Eren was the president of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, so naturally he couldn¡¯t avoid this duty.

    Aftering to an initial agreement, the other three Great Magicians left, but Great Magician Cami was asked to stay by president Eren.

    When the others left and there was only president Eren and Great Magician Cami left in the room, the words president Eren said had shocked Great Magician Cami.

 Volume 3 46 - Official business and private business

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 46 Official business and private business</h4>

    ¡°Cami, do you think¡­..¡± President Eren hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Is there any chance of our Magicians Guild cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at president Eren in surprise, ¡°The guild wants to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? What kind of cooperation?¡±

    President Eren slightly knit his brows. He could tell that from the words ¡®our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯, for the current Great Magician Cami, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was where he belonged, more than the Magicians Guild.

    But president Eren wasn¡¯t happy to see this. For him, all the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom should put the Magicians Guild as first in their hearts.

    But he wasn¡¯t qualified to say anything. Not mentioning that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was Great Magician Cami¡¯s grandson inw, Great Magician Cami was the highest special grade researcher in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. It¡¯s said that he receives a minimum of ten thousand gold coins a year from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just based on this, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Magicians Guild couldn¡¯tpare.

    Thinking of this, president Eren gave a secret sigh before saying with a smile, ¡°Look, doesn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce need arge number of magicians to help with your research? You also said just now that after focusing on studying Magic Arrays, a Great Magician like you has had inspiration about magic and that even raised your magic power. Then I think that if the Magicians Guild cooperates with you and the magicians under the guild were to study Magic Arrays, wouldn¡¯t it also increase their magic power?¡±

    Great Magician Cami thought for a bit before nodding, ¡°I feel that would be right. The magic power of the researchers are quickly increasing and there are more researchers that came to this year¡¯s exampared tost year.

    ¡°So that means that you think thating up with a n for our Magicians Guild and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to cooperate, allowing our guild¡¯s people to research magic machines would be feasible?¡± President Eren quickly asked, ¡°I think that Xu Yi should be very happy having this many magicians working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Un, that kid has alwaysined that there weren¡¯t enough researchers and it greatly affected our research progress.¡± Great Magician Cami gave a nod, ¡°But I can¡¯t promise you this since he is the chairman. I¡¯ll discuss this with him when I head back.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Hearing Great Magician Cami¡¯s response, president Eren was overjoyed, ¡°Xu Yi has many different ideas that are all advanced, I believe that he can find a proper method for our guild to cooperate with hispany. Cami, I¡¯m counting on you for this.¡±

    In his opinion, the reason why president Eren raised this cooperation n was to get some benefits for the magicians under the Magicians Guild. This was something that he as the president should do.

    Great Magician Cami gave a nod and didn¡¯t say anything. As one of the five Great Magicians of the kingdom, naturally he was obligated to support this matter.

    As for whether Xu Yi would agree or not, Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t feel there would be a problem.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wascking researchers and the magicians under the guild were all looking for work, so both sides had what each other needed and wouldn¡¯t hinder each other.

    After chatting for a bit and deciding the basic cooperation n, president Eren paused for a bit before rubbing his hands and asking Great Magician Cami in an embarrassed manner, ¡°Other than official business, there is a private matter that I¡¯m hoping you can help me with¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Cami revealed a smile and asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What private matter does the president have with me?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s rted to the kid from my family.¡± President Eren¡¯s expression was a bit awkward, ¡°That kid Anke kept saying to me that the magic machines were selling well in Anvilmar City, he knew quite a few people who have earned a lot from this, so he was a bit moved. He also wants to learn this trade, but there was no way in for him, so do you think¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing president Eren¡¯s expression, Great Magician Cami immediately understood and said with a smile, ¡°If you¡¯re thinking of letting him cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you can take out a n and I¡¯ll give it to Xu Yi. As for whether Xu Yi will agree or not, I can¡¯t guarantee it. After all¡­..Ke, you also know that there has been some bad blood between him and Xu Yi¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°That is all in the past.¡± President Eren waved his hand, ¡°Anke said that he had already solved this with Xu Yi and I trust that Xu Yi is magnanimous enough to not care about this small matter. Alright, since you¡¯ve agreed, I¡¯ll tell you that kid¡¯s idea. He wants to set up a factory with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce outside Anvilmar City, that way he could make Frestech Brand magic machines and sell them in Anvilmar City. Wouldn¡¯t that save him on transport cost?¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at president Eren, thinking that this idea didn¡¯te from Anke Eren, but rather president Eren himself.

    If it was Anke Eren, how could that kid be bold enough to want to set up a factory with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that it would take tens of thousands of gold coins to set up a factory, how could Anke Eren take all that out.

    If it was before, perhaps Great Magician Cami would have said that president Eren should think about the Magicians Guild and not care about his own personal gain. But after being influenced by Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami had already changed his thoughts and began considering what benefits this could bring to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was different from the official cooperation with the Magicians Guild, if they cooperated with president Eren, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could secretly earn his support. This would be useful in giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce influence in the magic circle in the future.

    After considering this issue, Great Magician Cami gave a nod, ¡°Alright, I will tell Xu Yi. But just like I said just now, I can¡¯t guarantee whether he will agree or not.¡±

    President Eren had a happy look as he quickly said, ¡°No problem, no problem, it¡¯s fine as long as you tell Xu Yi. I think that he will seriously consider it.¡±

    After they settled this official and personal business, Great Magician Cami saw that there was nothing else to discuss and stood up to leave.

    After leaving the Magicians Guild, Great Magician Cami looked at the bustling crowd and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a bitter smile and a sigh.

    What that kid Xu Yi told him before was really correct.

    Magicians were also people, they needed to live. Because they needed more money than normal people for research, people like Great Magician Cami who only focused on studying magic weren¡¯t right.

    As expected, now that there were benefits, from president Eren down to the low grade magicians, everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom were moved.

    There were more low grade magicians that came to the certification exam, it was just to increase their wages when working for magic machinepanies.

    President Eren proposed working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to seek benefits for the magicians under him.

    As for the final private matter, it was clearly trying to gain benefits for himself.

    Everything proved that Xu Yi¡¯s perspective was correct.

    Yes, magicians needed the support of money otherwise they might not even be able to live a proper life, not to mention studying magic.

    Actually regarding this, Great Magician Cami just had a bit of veiled criticism towards president Eren trying to earn benefits for himself, but he was very supportive of getting benefits for low grade magicians. He even made up his mind to convince Xu Yi to officially cooperate with the Magicians Guild.

    Because before this, the higher ups of the Magicians Guild had always worried about the living conditions of lower grade magicians.

    Unlike Great Magicians who received the support of the kingdom and other funds, the normal low grade magicians, especially the lowest grade magicians weren¡¯t much different from normal people.

    Because the low grade magicians didn¡¯t have powerful magic, whether it was the army orpanies, they didn¡¯t have high demand for them. So the lowest grade magicians that made up thergest part of the magic circle were in the most difficult positions among magicians.

    Normally speaking, these lowest grade magicians could only join adventurer groups or mercenary groups because they weren¡¯t strong enough to join the army or differentpanies. They would risk their lives all day or they would be forced to give up magic and return to the life of a normal person.

    Because there was no way to solve the problem of lower grade magicians, there were many low grade magicians forced to stop studying magic. Among there were many young magicians with decent talent.

    The Magicians Guild had always wanted to solve this problem to promote the quality and quantity of magicians, but the Magicians Guild didn¡¯t have much ie themselves, so they were limited. Although they wanted to earn money with things made of magic, there weren¡¯t many things to make. Even if there was the asional sess, it couldn¡¯t provide much ie.

    For example, the Magic Lamp that Xu Yi received before, it was made by several Great Magicians working together. But because it cost too much, making the price quite high, there was no one who bought them and it had a poor ending.

    So the emergence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new magic machines, a market for them with future prospects made the low grade magicians realize that they finally had a chance. They could use their weak magic power to earn a decent wage.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that the appearance of magic machines gave all the low grade magicians a chance to survive, changing the entire magician circle in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If one went a bit further, as the magic machines kept being promoted, perhaps all the magicians on the continent might receive arge change from these magic machines.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Cami thought about the Magic Fan that Still had brought him the first time.

    At that time, how could he have imagined that that crude looking thing would have such a deep influence?

    ¡°I never thought that I¡¯ve still underestimated that kid Xu Yi¡­..¡± Great Magician Cami revealed a bitter smile as he gave a happy shake of his head.

    When he entered the horse carriage outside the Magicians Guild, the corners of his eyes caught Alex.

 Volume 3 47 - Trade

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 47 Trade</h4>

    Since being appointed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative in Anvilmar City two years ago, being responsible for most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business in Anvilmar City, Alex¡¯s life hadpletely changed.

    Before this, although he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s assistant factory manager, receiving a wage of twenty gold coins a month that greatly changed his life, Banta City was a small ce and the experiences there were limited.

    After he came to Anvilmar City, because he was mainly responsible for being in contact with Victor, Cell, and Urgot in the beginning, coordinating with them to transport the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods from Banta City, he became quite close with them.

    Because he was close to Victor¡¯s group, Alex had experienced the lively scene of Anvilmar City being led by these three local bullies. It was a novel experience that couldn¡¯tpare to Banta City.

    For example, the luxurious feast of the Amy Restaurant, the surprise parties at the Royal Vis, the lively scene in the Awp Casino, or the pleasant touch of the young girls in the small building beside the Awp Casino¡­¡­

    But all of this took money. Although Victor¡¯s group had paid in the beginning, not letting Alex take out a single copper coin, Alex couldn¡¯t keep letting them treat him and had to return the favour.

    As it kept going, Alex¡¯s wage of twenty five gold coins a month by being the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative was far from being enough to use.

    So Alex was a bit worried recently because after using a rough estimatest month, he found that he owed over two thousand gold coins to Victor¡¯s group!

    With his monthly wage, even if he didn¡¯t eat anything, it would take him seven years to repay everything.

    But to have him give up this luxurious life and return to the same poor life as before, Alex wouldn¡¯t ept it.

    Although if he honestly told his uncle Heinz this matter, Heinz would definitely repay this for him.

    Since Heinz was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman and had 20% shares in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He earned hundreds of thousands of gold coins each year, so two thousand gold coins was nothing in his eyes.

    But Alex didn¡¯t dare tell him.

    What would happen if he told Heinz that he owed two thousand gold coins because he was ying around in Anvilmar City all day?

    Even if Heinz didn¡¯t break his legs, he would pull him out of Anvilmar City and would never let him go out ever again.

    However, if he didn¡¯t ask Heinz for help, what could Alex do?

    When people were forced, they could be forced to do anything. After considering this problem for several days, Alex finally found a solution to this problem.

    It was the time for the certification exam and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchers came to Anvilmar City. During this time, Alex was in charge of taking care of them on the chairman¡¯s orders. Because he took good care of them, he became very close with the researchers and hung out with them regrly.

    With his identity as vice chairman Heinz¡¯s nephew, they didn¡¯t have any vignce towards him.

    During a lively banquet, Alex easily obtained the things he needed.

    And today was the time to use these things.

    When Great Magician Cami saw Alex, he was currently walking into an alley by the Magicians Guild. After thinking about it, he didn¡¯t need to greet Alex, so he entered his horse carriage and left the Magicians Guild.

    Alex wandered around the alley and after going in circles several times, he went into a small door that was on the side of the alley. He went through the back garden and came to a small room, seeing a middle aged man who was already waiting for him.

    ¡°Did you bring the thing?¡± It clearly wasn¡¯t the first time the middle aged man was meeting Alex. After seeing him, he didn¡¯t greet him and asked this question.

    Alex leaned over and nodded at the man with a smile. He dug around in his chest and took out a small notebook to hand over.

    The middle aged man seriously looked over the book and stopped to think from time to time. After he finished reading the book that was less than ten pages and was written by Alex, he knit his brows to think before asking Alex, ¡°Only this little?¡±

    Alexughed, ¡°This¡­.isn¡¯t little, but¡­..¡±

    Seeing the expression on Alex¡¯s face, the middle aged man gave a cold snort. He took the book on the side and after opening it, he took a gold note that he pped on the table.

    Alex immediately revealed a smile as he saw this and seeing the number ¡°two thousand¡± on it, as well as the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sign, his smile became even brighter. He took a thicker notebook from his chest and respectfully gave it to the middle aged man.

    The middle aged man didn¡¯t look it over carefully and just flipped through it before putting away the two notebooks. Then he said to Alex, ¡°Alright, the deal ends here. Don¡¯t let others know about this matter, you should know what to do, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, yes.¡± Alex kept nodding his head.

    ¡°Of course, if you have more of this thing, we can still make a deal in the future. As for the price¡­..It¡¯ll depend on the value of the things you bring.¡± The middle aged man said.

    ¡°No, no, no, just this once, there¡¯s no next time.¡± Alex desperately shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t talk about next time. If my uncle were to learn of this, he would definitely break my legs! Even chairman Xu wouldn¡¯t forgive me, so there¡¯s definitely no next time, goodbye!¡±

    After throwing down these words, Alex was afraid that the middle aged man would make him stay, so he quickly opened the door and left the little yard.

    The middle aged man watched as Alex disappeared through the door before his lips curled into a cold smile of disdain.

    ¡°Hei, a cat that¡¯s had the fish, how could he control himself? Kid, you really are too innocent.¡±

    The middle aged man looked at the two notebooks that Alex had handed over before taking out another notebook and transcribing everything over. After thinking about it, he left this small room and the courtyard, heading to the Magicians Guild not far away.

    He was clearly a frequent guest, as no one stopped him when he entered and he went right to the president¡¯s private office.

    After talking to Great Magician Cami, president Eren who had been working looked up. When he saw the middle aged mane in, he raised a brow.

    ¡°Did you get it?¡±

    The middle aged man replied before closing the door and looking at president Eren.

    President Eren understood and said with a smile, ¡°Rx, this office has always been protected by a sound cancelling Magic Array that I personally set up, no one can hear anything from inside here.¡±

    The middle aged man rxed a bit. He sat down in front of president Eren and took out the transcribed notebook from earlier.

    President Eren took the notebook and inspected the notebooks in a more serious mannerpared to when the middle aged man received the notebook from Alex.

    Butpared to the middle aged man, president Eren looked through them much faster, finishing in less than ten minutes. He put it away without any courtesy and nodded at the middle aged man with a smile, ¡°Not bad, this is indeed what we need. But I¡¯m very curious, where did you get these things?¡±

    The middle aged man revealed a faint smile, ¡°President Eren, this isn¡¯t what you care about, right?¡±

    President Eren slightly knit his brows, but he didn¡¯t refute the middle aged man. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°That¡¯s fine, I like people who can stay quiet, it¡¯s better for everyone.¡±

    After saying this, president Eren took out three pieces of one thousand gold bills to put on the table while saying, ¡°If you have simr things in the future, I¡¯ll take them all.¡±

    The middle aged man didn¡¯t waste words, as he nodded and took the three gold bills. He gave a bow to president Eren as he stood up before turning to leave the office.

    After the office door was closed, president Eren took out the notebook and after looking at it, he put it away again. He stood up to leave the office and the Magicians Guild, heading to his personal carriage and quickly driving out of Anvilmar City.

    The horse carriage came out of Anvilmar City and went ten kilometers south, before heading two kilometers west and stopping.

    There was a stretch of opennd here, but it had turned into a construction site. There were many people working in therge rooms on this stretch ofnd.

    Looking at its appearance, it seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the Falling Rain Valley.

    Entering these factories that were close to beingplete, there weren¡¯t any magic production machines. There were just a few workers putting the finishing touches in.

    Seeing president Erene in, a man who was around thirty in magician robes came over.

    ¡°Sir president, why are you here?¡± The young magician respectfully asked.

    President Eren ignored him and looked around, but he found that Anke Eren who was supposed to be here wasn¡¯t here. He couldn¡¯t help deeply knitting his brows and giving a strong snort.

    The young magician understood president Eren¡¯s meaning and quickly said with a smile, ¡°Anke is going to the city to investigate, he¡¯s not cking off.¡±

    ¡°Alright, you don¡¯t need to cover for him. I know that kid better than you.¡± President Eren gave another cold snort, but he wasn¡¯t willing to talk about this anymore. He took out the notebook for the young magician, ¡°Go and study these things. If you can understand them, it¡¯ll save us quite a bit of time.¡±

    The young magician looked over the notebook as his expression became more and more shocked.

    ¡°Sir president, this¡­..how did you get these things? Aren¡¯t these the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most important secrets?¡±

    President Eren looked at him and softly said, ¡°This isn¡¯t something you should ask.¡±

    The young magician was surprised, but he quickly nodded, ¡°Yes, I understand.¡± Thinking for a bit, he hesitantly said, ¡°But sir president, aren¡¯t you nning on working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Is there a need for us to study these things?¡±

    ¡°Naive! Do you think that Xu Yi would give his real technology to others? Then again, could it be that we want to be led by the nose by him? Just properly study this thing for me, it¡¯s best if we can develop something that belongs to us. If we really want to earn money, we can¡¯t just rely on other people, do you understand?¡± President Eren said in a sharp voice.

    The young magician gave a strong nod, ¡°Sir president is right, we have to properly study and not waste these things you worked hard to obtain.¡±

    Seeing this nervous looking magician, president Eren gave a sigh. He looked south as he thought about the first time Xu Yi came to meet him, he wasn¡¯t afraid at all, he always seemed like he was full of confidence.

    Perhaps it was because of this that he could develop all those new magic machines?

    The talented magicians under him couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi.

    Thinking of this, president Eren suddenly felt jealous of Great Magician Cami for the first time.

    If he had a beautiful daughter like Still and not that brat Eren, wouldn¡¯t he be able to pull Xu Yi to his side?

    If it was like this, it would save him plenty of effort and time¡­..

 Volume 3 48 - Moon Goddess Baptism

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 48 Moon Goddess Baptism</h4>

    ¡°Si, achoo!¡±

    A cold breeze came in through the window of the horse carriage, making Xu Yi who was caught off guard unable to stop himself from giving a violent sneeze.

    Chairman Cruise sitting opposite of him was hit with this sneeze and immediately revealed a bitter look.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, no matter what you are still a high grade magician, right? How can you not even handle this small cold breeze?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile as he gave chairman Cruise a handkerchief. He gave a shrug because he was a bit numb from sitting in the horse carriage before helplessly saying, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, I¡¯m not a Great Magician, it is impossible for me to interact with the elemental energy around me like a Great Magician. Of course I would feel cold like a normal person.¡±

    ¡°Wearing this little when you can¡¯t handle the cold, aren¡¯t you asking for it?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi¡¯s light clothing and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Xu Yi replied with a shrug, ¡°Sinceing back from the Stantine Duchy, I forgot that it was colder here. Other than that¡­..I want to do an experiment.¡±

    ¡°What experiment?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and didn¡¯t reply.

    He couldn¡¯t tell people about this experiment, especially chairman Cruise who didn¡¯t understand magic.

    The experiment he was talking about was just interacting with the elemental energy around him like he had just said.

    ording to what the elves said, this should be called aplete sensation of magic elemental energy.

    But after hearing elder Lisanya Shadow Song exin this, Xu Yi called it frequency interaction.

    Because this so-called sensation from Xu Yi¡¯s understanding was just using the magician¡¯s magic power to induce the surrounding magic elemental energy. It created resonance between the two to create a frequency.

    Like this, one could affect the magic elemental energy that their magic power had contact with, controlling them with their magic and interacting with it. So ording to the science from earth, it should be called frequency tuning.

    ording to themon knowledge of magicians on the Sines Continent, being able to aplish this proved that a magician was already at the Great Magician level.

    Xu Yi still wasn¡¯t able to aplish this, so that meant he wasn¡¯t a Great Magician yet.

    Of course, he was also in too much of a rush.

    When he was at the Moon Shadow Tribe, elder Lisanya Night Song had imed that there was a method to raise Xu Yi¡¯s magic level. That method seemed very simple, but it was the Moon Goddess Baptism that shocked Agnes, Delil, and Stasia when they heard it.

    The so-called Moon Goddess Baptism was actually just making Xu Yi take a cold bath in the sacred moonlight of the Moon Shadow Tribe for an hour.

    Although when Xu Yi had soaked in the moonlight, he could feel that his sensation of the surrounding magic elemental energy had greatly increased, his magic power didn¡¯t increase that much.

    After soaking for an hour, Xu Yi¡¯s magic power level didn¡¯t soar as he imagined, rather it didn¡¯t change by much.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t care. He came this time to cooperate with the Moon Shadow Tribe and he didn¡¯t hope for any repayment. So even if the effects of the Moon Goddess Baptism that Elder Lisanya Shadow Song and the other elves treated as important were like this, it wasn¡¯t something important to him.

    But since elder Lisanya Shadow Song treated this matter seriously and imed that Xu Yi¡¯s physique was special, that the effects of the Moon Goddess Baptism was very good, that Xu Yi¡¯s magic power would increase after undergoing the Moon Goddess Baptism, being far higherpared to before.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that elder Lisanya Shadow Song would be fooling him. He epted this situation and focused on the changes with his body since the day after.

    After some time, Xu Yi found that elder Lisanya Shadow Song as an elf really didn¡¯t have a habit of lying to him.

    He could sense the surrounding magic more sharply and when he meditated, his magic power increased much faster.

    Compared to before, when using the same spells, he now consumed much less magic power and released the magic much faster.

    To put it simply, although his strength didn¡¯t instantly increase, he had gained arge increase speed and space for increase.

    Before Great Magician Cami said that Xu Yi could be a Great Magician by the age of forty if he focused on studying magic.

    But now Xu Yi judged that if he was willing to focus on studying magic, he could reach this five years ahead of schedule!

    Bing a Great Magician by the age of thirty five!

    This was rarely seen in the history of the Sines Continent!

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much. Compared to his own magic power rising, the more important thing to him would always be creating a magic industry system.

    Because he had to rush back to Banta City before the New Years, Xu Yi¡¯s inspection of the Stantine Duchy onlysted a month and it went very smoothly.

    During this time, Xu Yi mainly determined business deals with head Wein and then met with Duke Stantine, confirming the progress of the three mines. He also signed a contract with Duke Stantine, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a road from the ck Rice Wastnd to the Stantine Duchy¡¯s capital.

    With gold coins paving the way, the requests that Xu Yi had were all satisfied. For example, he wanted to deploy guards to protect the mines, to prevent idents from happening. Duke Stantine and his ministers didn¡¯t object to this at all, allowing each mine to have no more than two hundred guards each.

    Of course, Xu Yi had to pay Duke Stantine five hundred thousand gold coins a year as a ¡°increasing the security of the Stantine Duchy¡± fee.

    Adding in the ¡°small gifts¡± he gave Duke Stantine and the ministers under him, on this trip to the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had close to a million gold coins that weren¡¯t recorded on the records invested.

    Chairman Cruise who knew the situation kept talking to Xu Yi about it on the way, not understanding why he insisted on investing in a ce like the Stantine Duchy.

    Instead of throwing money into a country without a future filled with greedy nobles andzy people, it was better to invest in a more promising ce.

    For example, after the production base of the fourpanies started being built on the ck Rice Wastnd and after true contact with the beastmen, chairman Cruise found that that ce had more of a future than the Stantine Duchy.

    Because those beastmen were not as savage as he had thought they were, they actually had the same intelligence as humans once you got past the difference in appearance.

    The fox n and cat n beastmen had flexible limbs like humans, so they could easilypleteplexbour.

    Compared to the ten gold coins a month sry for human workers in Banta City, after employing these beastmen, just giving them several gold coins a month was enough to satisfy them.

    As for benefits? The beastmen never dreamed of them.

    Every time he thought of this, chairman Cruise gave a deep sigh andined to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Actually the monthly wages of Banta City workers were the same as the beastmen before, we didn¡¯t need to pay them overtime or give them any other benefits. It was all because of the appearance of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, suddenly changing the appetites of the Banta City people. For a worker now, if you don¡¯t give them at least ten gold coins a month, they won¡¯te back.

    Xu Yi¡¯s response to this was very simple.

    ¡°Could it be that our Banta Citypanies aren¡¯t earning more moneypared to before?¡±

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t refute this since this was fact.

    Although thebour cost in Banta City had increased, because of this, it increased the standard of living in Banta City. There wererge demands for all kinds of products in Banta City, so this made the businesses of thepanies in Banta City much better.

    In short, all thepanies were earning much morepared to before.

    But the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was the best example of this.

    The current Amrit Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t like the previouspany that was limited to construction products in Banta City, now they employed over twenty thousand people and had construction projects all over the Lampuri Kingdom. They even had projects in the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom, turning into a transnationalpany that Xu Yi had described.

    And with the poprity of roads in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame kept spreading with the roads, with many people understanding the strength the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had in construction.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just send construction teams for building roads, they were also building other structures.

    For example, there were many City Lords across the Lampuri Kingdom who learned of Banta City¡¯s Vani Orchid Suburb. After inspecting the environment and the construction quality, they invited the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build the same suburb in their cities, making it easy to n their cities and they even directly sold them.

    With this, Xu Yi¡¯s im of creating a new type of profit for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce finally came true.

 Volume 3 49 - I am also a magician

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 49 I am also a magician</h4>

    When they arrived in the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi jumped out and bid farewell to chairman Cruise.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t ask chairman Cruise toe in to rest because he knew that chairman Cruise must be thinking about the new profits that he mentioned on the way here, so he wanted to rush back to Banta City to consider it.

    Xu Yi was even certain that after chairman Cruise returned to Banta City, he would immediately explore the shores of the river that he mentioned before. If nothing unexpected happened, he would meet Count Stagg and would want to buy the river bank to developmercial housing.

    That¡¯s right, the new method of earning profit Xu Yi gave the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was to developmercial housing.

    To put it strictly, this wasn¡¯tpletely new becausemercial housing was a construction project that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was good at before, but now they were expanding on it.

    But the real concept ofmercial housing hadn¡¯t appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom or on the Sines Continent yet because there were few people and plenty ofnd. For most of the normal people, they just wanted a house that could keep out the elements, they didn¡¯t need a high quality for the house.

    After Xu Yi proposed this, chairman Cruise immediately gave his opposition.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce has been in the construction business for so many years, so naturally they understood the industry very well. Chairman Cruise fully understood that thismercial housing had no market at all.

    But after hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, chairman Cruise gradually changed from doubt to belief, trusting everything that Xu Yi told him.

    Xu Yi was right, the people of the continent didn¡¯t have requirements for their houses because there wasn¡¯t money before. Another reason was thatmercial housing suited formoners hadn¡¯t appeared yet.

    Before this, because there was arge gap between the poor and rich when the rich nobles and merchants wanted to find a dwelling, they would always choose independent manors. It was safe and peaceful, it was something that housing formoners couldn¡¯tpare to.

    For themoners that couldn¡¯t afford these manors, other than theserge manors, the only residences avable were tattered huts for the poor or two story wooden buildings, like the one that Xu Yi rented before.

    These houses to Xu Yi were not suited for humans to live in, so when he made his proposition to the doubtful chairman Cruise, he took out the new conceptmercial housing that he had Vivian draw before.

    When he saw the new concept buildings that Xu Yi had stolen from earth, chairman Cruise who had spent a long time in the architecture business didn¡¯t need long to see the convenience and advancements of these designs.

    The more important thing was that Xu Yi had added the concept of a magic room to these designs, integrating the use of household magic machines,ying down awork of magic wires inside these rooms. Not only did the room seem artistic, life would be very convenient living in one.

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s heart skipped a beat after seeing this design. Not only did he immediately agree to Xu Yi¡¯s idea ofmercial housing, he even requested that Xu Yi change the manor he was currently living in, so he could also enjoy theforts of this new concept magic room.

    Xu Yi naturally agreed, but as for the design¡­...that was a matter for the genius designer Vivian.

    When he was thinking about Vivian, Vivian had appeared in front of Xu Yi.

    Seeing Vivian run over and the beautiful girl behind her with a blush on her face, Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He asked Vivian who had already run over, ¡°Why are you here today? You don¡¯t need to go to school? Or¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit and remembered that this beautiful girl behind Vivian wasn¡¯t her ssmate. It was the girl he had saved on the streets of Banta Cityst time, that Teresa Ica.

    ¡°It¡¯s already vacation time for school.¡± Vivian replied with a smile, ¡°Master, you must have been very busy and forgotten, right? It¡¯s almost the New Years, what sses could there be?¡±

    ¡°Oh, right¡­...I was in the Stantine Duchy during this time, that ce was very warm and it didn¡¯t feel like the New Years at all.¡± Xu Yi patted his head before looking at Teresa Ica, ¡°Young miss Ica, have you been well during the time I¡¯ve been away?¡±

    After saying Teresa Ica, Xu Yi had thrown her to the Falling Star Manor, letting Vivian, Liz, and Linda take care of her. He didn¡¯t care about her at all and this was Xu Yi¡¯s second time meeting her.

    Compared to when he had saved her a month ago, she looked much better now. She was no longer as weak as before and her mood was better. At least her mood had calmed down, only she still wasn¡¯t smiling.

    When she saw Xu Yi was asking her a question, Teresa gave a curtsy before giving Xu Yi a bow and replying with a soft voice, ¡°Many thanks for your concern, I¡¯ve been very well during this time. Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve never thanked you before. I sincerely thank you for reaching out your hand and saving me when I was in danger.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be polite, it¡¯s good that you¡¯ve been well during this time.¡± Xu Yi turned back to Vivian, ¡°Then Vivian, why did youe to the Falling Rain Valley with young miss Ica today?¡±

    ¡°Because we heard that master ising back today.¡± Vivian said with a smile, ¡°Teresa wanted to thank you face to face, so hearing that you would be back today, she had me bring her here early in the morning. We¡¯ve been waiting for several hours now.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I already said that you don¡¯t need to be this polite.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said to Teresa, ¡°Young miss Ica, you don¡¯t need to care about this matter. No matter who it was, if they say you passed out on the street, they would help you. This is something that a normal person should do, it¡¯s not much.¡±

    ¡°No¡­...There are many people who wouldn¡¯t reach out their hands when in danger like you. Instead they would push you into the abyss¡­¡­¡± Teresa had a depressed look on her face as if she was feeling emotional.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows. He could see that this Teresa should have encountered something painful and was seriously hurt. Otherwise a noble young miss like her wouldn¡¯t be fainting on the side of the road.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional for her.

    A beautiful girl like her, being able to escape to another city in this situation alone wasn¡¯t easy, she must have suffered quite a bit of hardships on the way.

    Xu Yi wanted to help her, but since she wasn¡¯t willing to tell him what troubles she encountered, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to force her to tell him.

    ¡°Then¡­..Young miss Ica, since you and Vivian are here, you can just y around for two days. The Falling Rain Valley has many fun things to y with, I believe you¡¯ll have a good two days. When I¡¯m done with my business, I¡¯ll be going back to the Falling Star Manor to spend New Years with Still. Un¡­..¡± Xu Yi hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°If you¡¯re willing, I sincerely invite you to stay here and spend New Years with us at the Falling Star Manor.¡±

    Vivian on the side gave an excited p, ¡°Look, Teresa, I told you that master would invite you to stay. Stay, you don¡¯t have anywhere else to go, right? It¡¯ll be fun celebrating New Years with us, I promise you¡¯ll be happy.¡±

    Teresa Ica looked at Vivian and Xu Yi, but she still shook her head after hesitating a bit, ¡°Chairman Xu, thank you for your good intentions, but I¡¯ve already stayed at the Falling Star Manor for a long time, how could I keep bothering you? Actually if it wasn¡¯t for thanking chairman Xu, I would have left already.¡±

    ¡°Where are you nning to go?¡± Xu Yi asked without any courtesy, ¡°If you keep roaming like this, are you nning to die by the side of the road? Young miss Ica, I hope that you can consider your life, the things that have passed are in the past.¡±

    Teresa Ica looked at Xu Yi with a confused gaze. After hesitating a bit, her gaze became firm and she gritted her teeth as she gave a strong nod, as if making up her mind.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard Vivian saw¡­..your¡­..your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is recruiting magicians? Do you think¡­..I would do?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He seriously looked over Teresa Ica before asking in a surprised voice, ¡°You know magic?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Teresa Ica gave a nod, ¡°Although I never took the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam, my magic teacher told me before that I should be at the level of a Fourth Grade Magician.¡±

    ¡°Fourth Grade Magician?¡± Xu Yi was even more surprised.

    Based on her appearance, Teresa Ica was still a year or two younger than Still.

    Still was only a Fourth Grade Magician just a year or two ago. If Teresa Ica was also a Fourth Grade Magician, wasn¡¯t she a girl talented in magic just like Still?

    Seeing that Xu Yi was a bit doubtful, Teresa Ica raised her right hand. Xu Yi felt the fluctuation of magic elemental energy around them and after a while, a powerful tornado formed around Teresa Ica. It pulled up the leaves that were around her to spin around inside the tornado.

    ¡°Fourth Grade Tornado Spell, not bad.¡± Xu Yi praised with a nod.

    From Teresa Ica¡¯s Tornado Spell, she was indeed a Fourth Grade Magician.

    Although she didn¡¯t really seem familiar with it, whether it was her control of magic or the spell itself, she was very skilled. It could be seen that she had been trained strictly in magic.

    ¡°Very good. Since you are a Fourth Grade Magician, you are qualified to work for ourpany¡¯s magic research facility. Vivian, take her to see Evita, she should know what to do.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi had agreed, Vivian immediately gave an excited reply before taking Teresa Ica¡¯s hand, heading to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s office in the center of the Falling Rain Valley.

    Teresa Ica was pulled alongside Vivian, but she didn¡¯t forget to give a nod towards Xu Yi.

    Seeing that there wasn¡¯t a smile on Teresa Ica¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a sigh before throwing this matter to the back of his mind. After calming himself and psyching himself up, he headed towards the magic machine development center.

 Volume 3 50 - Test machine

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 50 Test machine</h4>

    When he came into the development center, Xu Yi saw a bunch of dwarves and humans standing in the center. They were all holding their breath as they focused on what was inside their circle.

    From that circle, there was a rhythmic sound that came out that sounded very familiar to Xu Yi.

    Hearing this sound, Xu Yi was stunned before running over. He pushed into the crowd of dwarves and poked his head in.

    In the circle, there was a strange looking iron mass that was supported by four tires. The sound wasing from this iron lump.

    As the mass continued making this noise, the four tires seemed to have received some force and were pushing this iron mass forward.

    There was a circr track on the ground and the tires were running around and around on the track, not stopping at all.

    Seeing this track and the iron te being carried by the tires, it was like Xu Yi found a treasure as his eyes filled with excitement. He patted Camby on the shoulder who had suddenly appeared and loudly praised, ¡°Great, great, did you finally seed in developing this?¡±

    Camby¡¯s dwarves and the human researchers looked at each other, feeling surprised that Xu Yi was this excited.

    They had developed many magic machines before, but Xu Yi had always been calm and would give many suggestions for the magic machines they had just developed.

    ¡°This¡­..can¡¯t be considered a sess yet, there are still many ces that need to be improved.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t raise any suggestions, so Camby gave them himself. Then he asked in a curious voice, ¡°Chairman, why are you so excited seeing this thing?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and patted his shoulder again, ¡°Because you don¡¯t understand the significance of this thing. Let me tell you, you can say that I¡¯m boasting when I say the other magic machines can change the Sines Continent, but this thing can indeed change the entire world!¡±

    Camby and the other researchers rolled their eyes.

    They were already tired of hearing the sir chairman say this. If what he said was true and all the magic machines they developed changed the world, the world would havepletely changed already.

    But they were still eating and working every day, there was no differencepared to before¡­...No, if they thought about it carefully, the magic machines were actually slowly changing their lives.

    When it came to their meals, they could use the Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Bread Maker, and the Magic Stove to cook them. It wasn¡¯t as troublesome as before, having to light a fire to make food.

    As for sleep, first you could use the Magic Water Heater to make it more convenient to take a bath, no longer needing to spend all that time heating up water to take a bath. That way they could sleep quitefortably.

    Next because there were Magic Air Conditioners, even if the summers were hot and the winters were cold, the room could maintain a normal temperature and it was betterpared to before.

    Even for work, first not mentioning that their work was now developing magic machines, just when it came toing to work in the morning, riding the horse carriage on the roads was much faster and morefortable.

    But speaking of the speed of horse carriages¡­...

    Everyone looked at the iron sheet rolling around on the track and thought that if this thing could be developed as sir chairman wanted, its speed could easily surpass horse carriages.

    ¡°Hey, Camby, did you do the test on the stability of the Wind Magic Engine?¡± Xu Yi observed the Wind Magic Engine carried by the iron sheet and asked Camby this.

    ¡°Un, we did it.¡± Camby replied with a nod, ¡°ording to the stability tests we ran before, this test machine can run at a speed of a thousand revolutions per minute for three days straight without any problems.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Not bad.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°Then what about the efficiency? What is the max power output?¡±

    Hearing this, Camby gave a sigh as he looked at Xu Yi admiration, ¡°Sir chairman, I have to admit, this Magic Engine really is good! ording to our tests, just this test machine that hasn¡¯t reached your requirements yet has a max power output of three horses!¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°A max output of only three horsepower? This is far from being enough¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re still not satisfied?¡± Camby was surprised, ¡°This is only a small test machine, the output is already three horsepower. Could it be that you¡¯re only satisfied if it has ten horsepower?¡±

    ¡°Even ten horsepower isn¡¯t enough to satisfy me¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he muttered this.

    But for Xu Yi who came from earth, although three horsepower wasn¡¯t exactly like three horses, even if it was like three horses, it wasn¡¯t considered much for Xu Yi.

    The engines on earth had far more than the power of three horses. The output of some of therger engines on earth were equal to three hundred or three thousand horses, so what was three horses?

    Of course he knew that the engines were just being developed on the Sines Continent, so Camby and the others being able to develop a Wind Magic Engine that worked normally was already enough to make him excited.

    So Xu Yi looked at Camby and the other researchers who had ugly expressions from his words and threw his wish to improve the engine as much as possible to the side. He gave augh and loudly said to everyone, ¡°Although this test machine¡¯s output isn¡¯t something I¡¯m satisfied with, I know that it is just the start! With all your cooperation, I believe that we will definitely be able to create a bigger Magic Engine that can satisfy me! Do you all believe?¡±

    Camby and the other researchers raised their fists as they loudly said, ¡°Of course!¡±

    ¡°Alright! In order to reward you for developing the world¡¯s first Magic Engine, I represent thepany to give everyone here a second level reward! Everyone will receive three hundred gold coins!¡±

    The researchers were stunned before they broke out in a heaven shaking cheer.

    With the excited roars of the dwarves led by Camby, the cheers almost copsed the roof above them.

    When everyone was finished being excited, Xu Yi raised his hands to have everyone calm down as he said, ¡°Of course, this test machine still has a bit to go before it is finished. What I want to see the most right now is for everyone to finish this Magic Engine,pleting the dream I¡¯ve had for several years. How about it? Do you have enough confidence?¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡± With the excitement of the bonus, the researchers were even more excited and their replies were filled with energy.

    Xu Yiughed. He had Camby discuss a few details of the Magic Engine with him before leaving the development center.

    After leaving the development center, there was a cold breeze that hit him and he woke up from his wild feeling.

    However, his heart was still excited.

    Although after receiving the notice that the magic machine development center had arge breakthrough, even guessing that it was a breakthrough rted to the Magic Engine.

    Seeing the test machine with his own eyes, Xu Yi was very excited and a bit lost.

    Because he understood better than anyone just how significant the development of the engine was to establishing an industrial system.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that the current industrial system on earth was from the development of the engine.

    With the engine providing all kinds of power, the modern machines could do things that normal people couldn¡¯t do.

    Although this test engine¡¯s power was stillcking, being far worse than the engines from earth, being able to develop this test machine meant that Xu Yi¡¯s idea towards Magic Engines was correct. This meant that they could create an engine with his ideas.

    The most important problem now was to further develop the various details of the Magic Engine, making them as strong as the engines on earth in the end.

    When that timees, there would be a heaven shaking change on the Sines Continent. It wouldn¡¯t be like now where there was poor cirction and blockage just because a few hundred miles.

    Thinking of how chairman Cruise kept asking about when the Magic Car would be developed on the way back, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    Now that this test engine had been developed, it wouldn¡¯t take long before the problem that chairman cruise and the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii worried about would be solved.

    But to solve this problem, it wasn¡¯t enough just with a single Magic Engine. There was also another important issue that needed to be solved.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before heading to Great Magician Cami¡¯sb.

 Volume 3 51 - Magic Welding Technology

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 51 Magic Welding Technology</h4>

    When he opened the door to the privateb, he saw Great Magician Cami holding two steel tes that were ten centimeters long, five centimeters wide, and a centimeter thick. The two steel tes were put together and there was a small took with a strange probing head, currently slowly moving along the two steel tes.

    He couldn¡¯t see what Great Magician Cami was doing by the door, but when he came to theb bench, he saw that wherever Great Magician Cami¡¯s small tool moved, the area of steel on the two steel tes quickly melted.

    After the head went by, the molten steel congealed. After the head went around once, the two steel tes were firmly stuck together.

    Xu Yi took the two steel tes from Great Magician Cami¡¯s hand and turned it around, finding that the two steel tes were tightly fused. It didn¡¯t shake at all from his movements, like they were linked to each other.

    ¡°Grandfather, you truly are powerful. You made a breakthrough in this short period of time. Look now, isn¡¯t this Magic Welding Technologyplete?¡± Xu Yi praised.

    Great Magician Cami gave a sigh and shook his head, taking back the steel tes from Xu Yi¡¯s hand before forcefully bending them.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    With a clean sound, the two steel tes that seemed tightly sealed split apart.

    Great Magician Cami turned to Xu Yi beside him and said, ¡°Do you see it, currently it can¡¯t go past a depth of three centimeters. It can¡¯t fuse the two steel tes together at all, so this technology is far from beingplete.¡±

    Xu Yi took the two steel tes and put them back together before looking it over. He couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Grandfather, I never thought that your progress would be this quick, so I forgot to remind you. If you want to weld two steel tes together, you can¡¯t do it with the steel tes themselves. It¡¯s too difficult to fuse the steel tes together, so you need to use a welding wire to satisfy this need.¡±

    ¡°Welding wire?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..¡± Xu Yi looked around. He took a piece of scrap iron from the table filled with steel and handed it to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Try using this welding wire and melt it between the two tes, see how it works?¡±

    Great Magician Cami took the small wire and carefully looked at it for a bit before cing two steel tes back on the table, putting them together. Then he put the thin iron te between the two steel tes and took the small tool with his right hand, as he moved it along the line of the iron bar.

    There was a dark yellow light that came from the head as the thin iron bar quickly turned into molten iron. In the crevice, the molten iron began to melt the surrounding metal.

    Great Magician Cami carefully moved this head across the iron. When the thin iron te was melted, only two thirds of the steel tes had been welded and there wasn¡¯t a space to continue welding.

    Xu Yi quickly gave him another iron te. Great Magician Cami took it and moved a bit faster as he finished welding the rest of the steel tes.

    When he was done, Great Magician Cami carefully looked over the fused steel tes and found thatpared to the previous experiment, the steel tes were much more firmly connected.

    When he picked up the steel tes to bend, he found that he couldn¡¯t move them at all. He couldn¡¯t break them even if he used his full force.

    ¡°This is more like it.¡± Great Magician Cami gave a satisfied nod as he gave the steel te to Xu Yi, ¡°Can you break it? If a young man like you can¡¯t break it, this should be good.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not stronger than you. If you can¡¯t break it with all your strength, I can¡¯t do it.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then this welding technology isplete?¡± Great Magician Cami asked.

    ¡°Not certain.¡± Xu Yi took the steel te and pulled the table, creating a small space in theb bench. He put the steel te inside before taking another steel te and smashing it towards it.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    With thisrge sound, the welded steel te was broken and fell off the table, falling to the ground.

    Great Magician Cami revealed a disappointed look.

    ¡°This won¡¯t work, what should we do?¡±

    Xu Yi picked up the two pieces with a smile and after looking it over, he turned back to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Look, there is an air bubble inside, so it didn¡¯t weld properly. As long as we solve this small problem, the quality should be ensured.¡±

    ¡°But I feel that even like this, it is impossible for it to be solid. When it is hit by a strong force, it will still break off.¡± Great Magician Cami said with knit brows, ¡°Could it be that this Magic Welding Technology is useless in the end?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and shook his head, ¡°Grandfather, you can¡¯t be depressed. This Magic Welding Technology is not useless, rather it is very important. You just don¡¯t know enough about welding, so the welding quality isn¡¯t good and this result urred. In this regard, I think that you¡¯re no good, but the dwarven craftsman should be better. I feel that you should work together with them to continue this research.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right.¡± Great Magician Cami nodded, ¡°I am only good in magic, this smelting should be left to the cksmiths.¡±

    ¡°Right, then again, this Magic Welding will not be used to weld things together. It¡¯ll mainly be used to connect things and seal things, so it won¡¯t be hit this hard and there¡¯s no need to be this strict.¡± Xu Yi then added, ¡°Then again, this technology has arge room for improvement, so there¡¯s no need to rush.¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°Camby¡¯s group has already finished the Magic Engine, if I can¡¯t solve this Magic Welding problem, wouldn¡¯t I be losing face?¡±

    ¡°So the concrete use isn¡¯t something you need to study, you just need to focus on this.¡± Xu Yi took the small tool Great Magician Cami put on the side, ¡°The Magic Welding Torch is what you need to seriously study. Just right now, it could be considered finished. You just need to carve the transforming array on this Magic Welding Torch and then give it a concrete blueprint. As for how to build it, you can just leave it to Camby¡¯s group to study.¡±

    ¡°Why do I feel I¡¯ve be useless based on what you said?¡± Great Magician Cami knit his brows as he said this.

    ¡°How could that be possible!¡± Xu Yi quickly refuted it, ¡°Grandfather, you are studying magic machines, magic is the most important part, so how could you be useless? If it wasn¡¯t for you developing this Magic Array, this Magic Welding Torch wouldn¡¯t have appeared! So you y the most vital part, no one canpare to you!¡±

    ¡°Alright, stop ttering me. I know what I have to do.¡± Although Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, he was still amused by Xu Yi. He asked with a smile, ¡°Also, what happened with your trip to the Stantine Duchy this time? Did it go smoothly?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°In front of the edge of money, could there be problems that can¡¯t be solved?¡±

    ¡°What? How much money did those greedy fellows want from you?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°It would be good if they just said what they wanted, but the problem is that they want some face, so most of the time they just give me hints and not an actual number. In the end, I have to guess their real intentions and I have to be afraid that they are not happy because it isn¡¯t enough when I give them money. Ai, it really brings tears to my eyes. It¡¯s so hard to give people money now.¡±

    ¡°Humph, those fellows will sell the Stantine Duchy eventually.¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi and pointed at him, ¡°Perhaps you might be the one who buys it.¡±

    ¡°If possible, I really want to buy it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Although the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people aren¡¯t that great, they have quite the good natural resources. If I could get that piece ofnd for myself, it would be good.¡±

    ¡°You think I don¡¯t know what schemes a kid like you has?¡± Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°In my opinion, a ce that you like will eventually end up in your hands, right? But that¡¯s good, with how greedy those people are, it is better for you to take over. At least you care about giving the normal citizens a good life.¡±

    ¡°As long as Count Stagg in the Lampuri Kingdom understood my pains like you did, it would be enough.¡± Xu Yi said in an emotional voice.

    ¡°In your dreams, his granddaughter didn¡¯t marry you.¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly said, ¡°But I heard that Count Stagg¡¯s youngest daughter hasn¡¯t been married yet and she¡¯s twenty seven this year, are you interested?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°Grandfather, please don¡¯t make this kind of joke. If I really had this idea, wouldn¡¯t you beat me up before Still could?¡±

    ¡°Humph, it¡¯s good you know!¡± Great Magician Cami turned back to hisb bench as he said, ¡°Still already knows about that little girl called Teresa, take care of it yourself.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpining to himself, he had only met Teresa twice.

    The reason it created this misunderstanding should be because Teresa was staying in the Falling Star Manor.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi said goodbye to Great Magician Cami and headed for the new magic research facility in the Falling Rain Valley.

 Volume 3 52 - One Ev

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 52 One Ev</h4>

    ¡°You¡¯re worried that Still will misunderstand?¡± Evita pursed her lips and couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Chairman, aren¡¯t you¡­..worried too much?¡±

    ¡°How could it be too much? Great Magician Cami just warned me, can I not worry?¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°If Still had the same idea as Great Magician Cami, wouldn¡¯t it be terrible?¡±

    Evita looked at Still and she gradually revealed a sigh.

    ¡°Chairman, I really am envious of Still. She has an outstanding husband like you who is devoted to her, she really is blessed.¡±

    ¡°Is this not normal?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a confused voice, ¡°If you don¡¯t devote yourself to your wife, what kind of man are you?¡±

    ¡°No, chairman, your idea is rarely seen not just in the Lampuri Kingdom, it¡¯s rarely seen on the entire Sines Continent.¡± Evita said with a shake of her head.

    ¡°Could it be that all the men on the Sines Continent are unfaithful?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Evita said with a sigh, ¡°For men, being unfaithful doesn¡¯t exist because for the people of the Sines Continent, a man is onlyplete if he has at least three girls by his side.¡±

    ¡°You want to say that I¡¯m not aplete man?¡± Xu Yi red at her, ¡°Could it be that you girls all want your husbands to look for other girls?¡±

    ¡°From the perspective of us girls, of course not.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°But this is the truth that everyone recognizes on the continent, one that can¡¯t be changed at all. For example, although the chairman has a good rtionship with Still and is devoted to her, no matter who it is, including yourself, cannot guarantee that this won¡¯t change in the future. You might have a rtionship with another girl, right?¡±

    Xu Yi honestly thought about it before giving a nod with a bitter smile, ¡°You¡¯re right, as a strict engineer, I can¡¯t deny the possibility of this matter.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just possible, it should be certain.¡± Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman, with your outstanding ability, your great wealth, and the fact you¡¯re a young noble, I think that there isn¡¯t a girl who doesn¡¯t like you. Actually as long as you¡¯re willing, you can pick any girl in Banta City. Only you are exceptionally conservative and haven¡¯t done this yet.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about the girls who openly seduced him at the banquets and he couldn¡¯t help revealing another bitter smile.

    That¡¯s right, if his mind wasn¡¯t firm enough, perhaps he might have had this idea and had already fallen.

    ¡°Chairman, since you¡¯re worried about Still, then I¡¯ll tell you a small secret.¡± Evita suddenly seemed like she had decided something and said this through gritted teeth.

    ¡°Oh? What secret?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Actually Still secretly told our circle of friends about this a few days ago. She expressed that she could ept you having a few lovers because she knows that you are outstanding, so she can¡¯t stop you from having lovers. Not to mention that she would be med by everyone if she did this, so she doesn¡¯t mind this matter at all. You don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Evita in shock, ¡°Are you kidding? How could Still ept my having lovers? Although she is a magnanimous girl, she couldn¡¯t justify this no matter what.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not lying to you. Still did say this and I can guarantee that these are her true thoughts. She said that as long as you don¡¯t publicize these lovers, she wouldn¡¯t interfere.¡±

    Seeing Evita¡¯s serious expression, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help skipping a beat.

    If what Evita said was true, didn¡¯t that mean that he had special permission to find a lover outside?

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi shook his head.

    First not mentioning Great Magician Cami, even he wouldn¡¯t be able to forgive himself.

    Xu Yi was a very traditional person and before meeting Still, he never felt anything special for girls.

    So for him, instead of wasting time on girls, it was better to spend more time on research or something else more meaningful.

    Not to mention that he felt that he didn¡¯t spend enough time with Still, so he left work for thepany to other people.

    If he used this hard earned time to spend with another girl, that was putting the horse before the carriage.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi shook his head and got rid of all his random thoughts. He looked at Evita and turned to another ce in theb. He looked around before asking, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this, let¡¯s talk about work. How is it? Has there been any progresstely?¡±

    A trace of disappointment appeared in Evita¡¯s eyes before she quickly calmed down. She gave a nod and took a piece of paper from theb table before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, look, this is the Magic Crystal Refining Array that I finishedst week. After testing it for a few days, I¡¯ve confirmed that after Magic Crystals have been refined by this array, all the parameters will be normalized.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That¡¯s great.¡± Xu Yi seriously looked over this piece of paper and ran some calctions in his mind before giving a nod of praise, ¡°Based on this blueprint, it is indeed quite good. But Evita, are you certain that everything will be the same when refining different quality of Magic Crystals?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Evita took a notebook from the table and flipped to a page for Xu Yi, ¡°This is the data that I¡¯ve recorded from refining Magic Crystals over the past few days. Look, before refining them, I chose Magic Crystals of the same size with the same quality. The Magic Crystals produced at all the same, with a percentage error of less than 1%.¡±

    ¡°This is already quite precise, but how did you obtain this data?¡± Xu Yi looked over the notebook and was suddenly surprised, ¡°One Ev? What unit of measurement is this?¡±

    Evita¡¯s face turned a bit red, ¡°This¡­..was a name I casually came up with¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Casually?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Data can¡¯t bee up with casually. Come, tell me, what does one Ev represent?¡±

    Evita¡¯s face turned even redder as she lowered her head and replied in a low voice, ¡°One Ev¡­..It¡¯s the magic power in the Magic Crystal that can maintain the me Array for an hour¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh, this unit of measurement isn¡¯t bad. Then¡­..¡± Xu Yi took a fist sized Magic Crystal from the desk and asked, ¡°How many Evs does this Magic Crystal have?¡±

    Evita looked over it and said while shaking her head, ¡°That is a Magic Crystal that hasn¡¯t been refined yet, so there¡¯s no way to get an urate number.¡±

    ¡°Oh, then find a Magic Crystal that has already been refined for me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Evita took a rectangr Magic Crystal that was only the size of Xu Yi¡¯s thumb from theb bench, ¡°This Magic Crystal was refined from a Magic Crystal of the same quality and size as the one you just mentioned. ording to my estimates, it should be around a hundred Evs.¡±

    ¡°This small piece was refined from thatrge Magic Crystal?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help gasping as he said, ¡°It seems like Evita¡¯s Magic Array is quite strong. This is no longer refining, it is fine tuning!¡±

    Xu Yi took the small Magic Crystal from Evita¡¯s hand and carefully looked it over. He found that although the Magic Crystal was small, it was actually quite clear and dense. It was no wonder that this small Magic Crystal couldpare to therge Magic Crystal that hadn¡¯t been refined yet.

    ¡°But this small piece is a hundred Evs, it seems like one Ev is too small. In the stronger Magic Crystals, wouldn¡¯t they contain several tens of thousands of Evs?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°This is nothing, it can be changed. For example, this piece can be one Ev¡­..¡± After saying this, Evita lowered her head again.

    Xu Yiughed and patted Evita¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, Evita, there¡¯s nothing embarrassing about this. This was invented by you, so of course you can name it. Calling it one Ev isn¡¯t anything, if it was me, I wouldn¡¯t hesitate to call it one Xu. Eh¡­.Alright, one Xu doesn¡¯t sound good, it can¡¯tpare to one Ev. Un, that¡¯s decided, Evs will be used as the unit of measure for Magic Power. One Ev will be the magic power needed to maintain the me Array for a hundred hours, what do you think?¡±

    Evita¡¯s face waspletely red and she didn¡¯t dare refute it, she could only give a soft sound of agreement.

    Xu Yiughed and yed with the Magic Crystal in his hand. He looked at Evita with a serious look and asked, ¡°Now do you understand why I wanted to conduct research into standardizing Magic Crystals?¡±

    Hearing this question, Evita was no longer shy. She looked up to think before saying with a nod, ¡°I understand. It¡¯s because it¡¯s the same as the magic machines ourpany produces, we have to standardize it first before mass producing it. Moreover, by standardizing magic power, it¡¯ll be much easier when conducting research into magic machine production.¡±

    ¡°The significance of standardizing isn¡¯t just this. The most important thing is that with a standard, we can integrate all magic machines into this standard and create a magic power line. We can even connect all magic machines in Banta City to this magic power line, which makes it much easier to use. I can definitely say that this thing has an era creating significance. So Evita, you have to continue studying this topic.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Evita gave a strong nod, ¡°I will.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I believe in your abilities.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But before that, I hope that you can write a book with me.¡±

    ¡°Write a book?¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Right, this book will be called ?Standardizing Magic?.¡±

 Volume 3 53 - Doubt towards ideas

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 53 Doubt towards ideas</h4>

    This New Years was colder than thest two years in Banta City.

    In thest two years, because of the economic development in Banta City, everyone came to Banta City looking for work.

    At its peak, there were over two hundred thousand people that were registered in Banta City and over thirty thousand people who weren¡¯t registered. This was several times more than the fifty thousand locals that lived here.

    Although many people headed back during the New Year, there were many people who didn¡¯t go back because their home was too remote, staying in Banta City to celebrate the New Year. Or perhaps they were working during the vacation to earn a higher wage than normal during these days.

    So the past two years have been very lively in Banta City. Whether it was the stream of people or the richmodities, it created a bustling scene. It even made Hannas who came to Banta City during this time sigh that Anvilmar City couldn¡¯t evenpare.

    But this had stopped with the arrival of Count Stagg.

    Because of Count Stagg¡¯s agricultural promotion policies, thepanies of Banta City had all left and they left with their workers.

    Other than those workers who came from other cities, there were many workers that belonged to Banta City that left because they weren¡¯t willing to give up their jobs.

    Looking out the windows of the City Lord Manor, the street was very cold. One couldn¡¯t see the New Year celebration in Banta City at all, making Count Sean unable to stop himself from sighing.

    Turning back to his desk and looking over his documents, Count Stagg knit his brows even tighter.

    This document was Banta City¡¯s financial report for this year.

    ording to the report, Banta City¡¯s tax revenue this year was one million one hundred and seventy thousand gold coins, which was a drop fromst year.

    Although this drop wasn¡¯t considered much, based on the monthly report, Banta City had an increasing trend from January to July. Just these seven months alone brought in a revenue of close to a million gold coins.

    Once August came, this number had dropped and it kept dropping in the following months. There was even a deficit in thest two months, causing the tax revenue of the final five months to be a trivial two hundred thousand gold coins.

    With this trend, Banta City would be in a financial deficit by next year.

    Even if Count Stagg had confidence in keeping the same strong grain yield next year, a city that was always in a financial deficit would receive a negative score from the Royal Parliament.

    With this ending, he would basically be announcing the failure of his experiment in Banta City.

    The more important thing was that with his failure, it meant that the conservative faction led by the Stagg Family had also failed. This was something that Count Stagg couldn¡¯t ept.

    The problem was¡­..Was there a way to solve this problem?

    Count Stagg was reading the financial report in his hand as he began feeling doubt.

    Actually in the past few years, although Banta City didn¡¯t have a high tax revenue, there wasn¡¯t a deficit like this. For there to be a deficit this year, it waspletely because Count Stagg invested arge amount in improving the crops of Banta City.

    Moreover, Count Stagg had secretly spent arge amount of money with the Drake Duchy to ensure the shocking harvest of this year.

    Although it was impossible for this money toe from Banta City, to make up for his losses, he had taken back some money for himself aspensation from other ces.

    This meant that if he wanted to keep the same harvest yield next year, Banta City¡¯s financial deficit would be even worse.

    But to solve this problem, the best method that Count Stagg knew was to restore the policy from when Count Sean was City Lord, supporting business development. This would restore Banta City to the same level of tax revenue as thest two years.

    But first not mentioning Count Stagg not being willing, even if he was, he had already expelled thepanies of Banta City with his agricultural promotion policy, so how could he have them move back with just a few words?

    Thinking of this, Count Stagg couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    Actually when he learned that he would be Banta City¡¯s City Lord, he had already investigated Banta City. He knew the reason that Banta City could develop so quickly in these two years was because of the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it was in terms of objectives, Count Stagg would have done the same as Count Sean as the City Lord. He would have chosen to support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machine industry, speeding up the growth of Banta City.

    But Count Stagg couldn¡¯t do this, so even if he wasn¡¯t willing, he had to disy that attitude towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when he came to Banta City. He even had to use the agricultural promotion policies to prove that the conservative faction was right.

    But now this thought turned bitter fruit that had been swallowed by Count Stagg had even made him doubt it.

    Just by ensuring that there were enough grains, would they be able to let the citizens live satisfied and safe lives?

    Seeing the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner hanging in his office, Count Stagg revealed a bitter smile as he fell into deep thought.

    This thought didn¡¯tst long because there was a sudden knock that came from the door.

    Count Stagg gathered his thoughts and sat back down as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Come in.¡±

    When the door opened, Count Stagg¡¯s assistant came in and reported in a low voice, ¡°Lord City Lord, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is here to see you.¡±

    Count Stagg was stunned. Why did Xu Yie to see him today?

    After thinking for a bit, Count Stagg gave a nod, ¡°Have hime in.¡±

    The assistant looked at Count Stagg in surprise before leaving with a sound of agreement.

    After a while, the door was opened again and Xu Yi was led in by the assistant.

    After Xu Yi and Count Stagg exchanged greetings and the assistant closed the door, Xu Yi had a private meeting with Count Stagg.

    ¡°Sit.¡± Perhaps it was because of the thoughts he had before, Count Stagg pointed at the chair in front of his desk. This was his first time being polite to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he sat down after thanking him. He said to Count Stagg, ¡°Lord City Lord, I thought that you would return to Anvilmar City for the New Year, I never thought that you would stay in the City Lord Manor. You really are a City Lord who works hard.¡±

    Count Stagg gave a cold snort, ¡°These wordsing from other people, I can only treat it as poor ttery, but from you, I feel like it is sarcasm. You think that I¡¯m a good City Lord? What a joke!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although I don¡¯t approve of the Lord City Lord¡¯s administrative ideas, that is unrted to you fulfilling your duties, so my praise is sincere.¡±

    ¡°Alright, stop rambling on with words you don¡¯t even believe.¡± Count Stagg waved his hand as he looked at Xu Yi and asked, ¡°Why did you suddenlye looking for me today? Just say it, stop beating around the bush.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll be direct.¡± Xu Yi paused for a second before saying, ¡°Lord City Lord, I came this time to discuss next year¡¯s agricultural development for Banta City with you.¡±

    ¡°You want to discuss agricultural development with me?¡± Count Stagg looked at Xu Yi in a daze, like he had heard the funniest joke, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t get enough of just making magic machines and want to dabble in farming?¡±

    Faced with Count Stagg¡¯s taunting tone, Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change as he said with a faint smile, ¡°If I could increase the grain yield of Banta City, does the Lord City Lord think I¡¯m qualified?¡±

    Count Stagg knit his brows and said with a cold smile, ¡°You have a method? What a joke, our Stagg Family has several hundred years of history in farming, could it be that we can¡¯tpare to someone like you who isn¡¯t even thirty?¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, I think that even you have to admit that the agricultural magic machines that I developed have great use in increasing grain yield, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Count Stagg¡¯s face scrunched up.

    This was something he couldn¡¯t refute because even if he targeted Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, at the important part of the fall harvest, he had asked for Xu Yi¡¯s help in the form of agricultural magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It could be said that without agricultural magic machines, the harvest yield would have greatly decreased.

    Thinking of this, Count Stagg¡¯s face rxed as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°What? Did your Frestech Chamber of Commerce create some new kind of agricultural magic machine?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and replied.

    Count Stagg was instantly angered, ¡°Then are you just here to waste my time?¡±

    ¡°No, how could I dare.¡± Xu Yi quickly waved his hand and said, ¡°Lord City Lord, agricultural magic machines can only help open farnd, but they don¡¯t help much with the yield. This time I came looking for you to tell you that I have a method to increase the yield itself.¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible!¡± Count Stagg gave a snort with a look of disbelief, ¡°Our Stagg Family has over several hundred years of experience with farming, how could we not know this method that you know.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Lord City Lord, I admit that your Stagg Family has several hundred years of experience with farming, but can youpare to the thousands of years of knowledge the elves have?¡±

    ¡°The elves?¡± Count Stagg was stunned as his eyes looking at Xu Yi became serious.

 Volume 3 54 - Canal project starting again

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 54 Canal project starting again</h4>

    When Xu Yi came out of the City Lord Manor, Cim Porter who had already been waiting immediately came over.

    ¡°How is it?¡± Cim Porter asked with an expectant look.

    Xu Yi gave him a smile, ¡°No problem. Although Count Stagg didn¡¯tpletely agree, he said that the Lampuri Kingdom has nows against apany doing business. So no matter whatpany does business in Banta City, the City Lord Manor wouldn¡¯t interfere.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then that means that our new Lord City Lord has finally admitted defeat?¡± Cim Porter was ovee with joy, ¡°Ha, ha, I knew that he wouldn¡¯t be able to keep up his agricultural promotion policies. Isn¡¯t it good now, now he¡¯s suffering.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and signaled to Cim Porter to get into his carriage waiting outside. After the carriage started moving, he said in a low voice, ¡°Although Count Stagg should have realized his mistakes, his attitude definitely won¡¯t change. So we can continue the things that stopped with his tacit approval, but we can¡¯t make it too obvious or speak too arrogantly. If we trigger a reaction from Count Stagg, then my efforts from before will be wasted.¡±

    Cim Porter gave an honest nod, ¡°I understand. Chairman Xu, you could convince him to agree to us continuing the canal project, so you must have paid arge price, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that I paid any price. Strictly speaking, I just made a deal with him, but this deal is very helpful to developing Banta City¡¯s grain yield which he considers the most important.¡±

    Cim Porter looked at Xu Yi and had some questions, but he stopped after thinking for a bit.

    Rather he cared the most about the canal project. With Count Stagg shutting it down six months ago, they could finally start it again, so he was already happy enough.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, did the Lord City Lord say when we could start?¡± Cim Porter asked, ¡°I hope that it can be as soon as possible. With the winter dry season, it will be easier than normal to construct the canal.¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re willing, we can start tomorrow.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Since Count Stagg had made his stance clear, then that means the City Lord Manor won¡¯t interfere. As long as you stay low key, I think that there won¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great!¡± Cim Porter excitedly gave a p. After being in a daze for a bit, he said with a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you must be kidding, right? Tomorrow is the first day of the new year, who would be willing to work during that time?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you know.¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°You can¡¯t be in a rush. Let¡¯s start seven days after New Years, it¡¯ll also give me some time to prepare ourpany¡¯s second generation excavators for you, which should be able to speed up the work.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s also a new Magic Excavator to use? That¡¯s great!¡± Cim Porter immediately gave a happyugh.

    Seeing the excited, vigorous Cim Porter who didn¡¯t seem like he could run out of energy, no one would have thought that he was the same suicidal fellow that Xu Yi had met way back then.

    The canal project being handed to him really was appropriate.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, a while ago when I was helping Eiffel City clear out the Rum River, the Eiffel City¡¯s City Lord asked me about the Magic Excavator, Magic Drill, and other magic machines we used and I rmended your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to him. I think that after New Years, Eiffel City should be sending people to discuss buying these magic machines from yourpany.¡± Cim Porter added.

    ¡°Oh? Then you¡¯ve helped ourpany pull in some business? Ha, ha, should I give you some salesmission then?¡± Xu Yi teased him.

    Cim Porter quickly waved his hand, ¡°Chairman Xu, stop joking with me. I look forward to when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines spread over our Lampuri Kingdom. At that time, my fleet would be able to freely ess the entire kingdom.¡± After pausing, he asked, ¡°That¡­..Chairman Xu, speaking of my fleet, what about the Magic Boats that you mentioned before?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, I can¡¯t give you an urate time.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But I can tell you that the most important parts of the Magic Boat have been developed, so I¡¯m certain that this thing will be made in the future. ording to me estimates, when the canal connecting the Sandy River and the Rum River is finished, you should be able to drive a fleet through it.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Cim Porter excitedly brandished his fists as he looked at Xu Yi whileughing, ¡°Chairman Xu, there are times I don¡¯t know whether to hate you or thank you. If it wasn¡¯t for you, my fleet wouldn¡¯t have been reduced to the point of having no business and I wouldn¡¯t have thought of killing myself. But if it wasn¡¯t for you, I wouldn¡¯t have been saved and would be able to have a dream fleet.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°As you wish, you can hate me or thank me. Anyway I hope that you can do the things you want to do, that is enough.¡±

    ¡°Un, your words are very reasonable.¡± Cim Porter gave a strong nod, ¡°But I have to say, chairman Xu¡¯s spirit is bigger than normal people. I don¡¯t have to worry about many things when I¡¯m cooperating with you, it¡¯s much smoother.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good you¡¯re satisfied, there are many opportunities to cooperate in the future.¡±

    The two of them discussed the canal project for a while as the horse carriage drove out of Banta City. Cim Porter declined Xu Yi¡¯s invitation to be a guest at the Falling Star Manor and changed horse carriages, heading to the river entrance south of the Sandy River.

    It seemed like he wasn¡¯t nning to wait for New Years and was rushing to start clearing the canal.

    Xu Yi admired his work ethic, but he didn¡¯t have the same thoughts as him.

    To him, he could spend all his time on work during other times, but New Years wasing. During this time, the most important thing was to be with family and spend the New Years together.

    The horse carriage arrived at the Falling Star Manor and Still came out first.

    After seeing Xu Yi, Still had a ghost of a smile that was very strange.

    Xu Yi touched his face and said in a confused voice, ¡°Nothing happened, right? What are you looking at me like this?¡±

    Still came over and pinched Xu Yi¡¯s cheek, as she gave a soft snort, ¡°I don¡¯t care if you want a lover, but why did you discuss this with Evita? Do you have some ideas towards Evita?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before quicklyining in a loud voice, ¡°When did I want a lover? Then again, how is it rted to Evita? I was just asking her about your thoughts.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s nervous appearance, Still wanted to keep her face straight, but she couldn¡¯t helpughing. She even held her stomach and bent over as sheughed.

    Seeing her happy appearance, Xu Yi knew that she was not angry and rxed.

    When Still calmed down, Xu Yi took her in his arms and pulled her in. He looked at her as he said with a soft snort, ¡°I really underestimated the friendship between you and Evita. She even tells you these kinds of things, you¡¯re not afraid I will cause trouble for her?¡±

    ¡°You wouldn¡¯t.¡± Still gave a snort, ¡°Our honourable chairman Xu is a peerless and honest man, how could he be petty enough to cause trouble for a girl like Evita? Don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Xu Yi snappily looked at her, ¡°What? Did Evita also tell you this?¡±

    ¡°Of course not. Don¡¯t you know what kind of personality Evita has? She was praising you all day to me and she said to cherish you, saying that a good man like you is unique. I can¡¯t make you hate me, so I have to treat you well. Hei, to be honest, Xu Yi, what do you think about Evita?¡±

    ¡°What are you asking me this for?¡± Xu Yi asked with knit brows.

    ¡°First answer my question.¡±

    ¡°What aspect do you mean?¡±

    ¡°I mean her as a girl. From your perspective as a man, what do you think of her?¡± Still kept asking.

    ¡°This¡­..very good. I feel that Evita is gentle, treats people well, and will think abo-ut others, so she¡¯s a very good girl.¡±

    ¡°Do you think that she is pretty?¡± Still asked.

    ¡°Un¡­..Although she¡¯s not as pretty as you, but she can be considered pretty. The most important thing is that she isforting to look at, so I think that any man will like this kind of girl.¡± Seeing Still¡¯s honest expression, Xu Yi honestly answered.

    ¡°Then do you also like her?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows again, ¡°Still, what is with you today? Why do you have to ask these kinds of questions? I feel that Evita is a very good girl, but this isn¡¯t rted to liking her at all.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi for a while as her mind turned before she suddenly showed a bright smile. She ced a soft kiss on Xu Yi¡¯s lips and pulled him into the manor, not nning on continuing with this matter.

    Xu Yi was confused by Still¡¯s strange expression, but after remembering how people said that girls were hard to understand, he shook his head with a smile and didn¡¯t keep asking.

 Volume 3 55 - People who spend New Years outside

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 55 People who spend New Years outside</h4>

    The morning sun came over the eastern horizon and the white dazzling light fell over the ck Rice Wastnd.

    It had just snowedst night. Although it stopped before the sun rose, there was thick snow on the ground. When Cook stepped on it, it covered him up to his thigh.

    Shaking his head as he pulled his right leg out, Cook continued step by step forward until he was around the non-ferrous metal smelting factory.

    As the manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s non-ferrous metal smelting factory by the Voller Tribe, Cook naturally had more responsibilitiespared to the others. Even if it was the first day of the new year, he still chose to guard his post, inspecting the factory as soon as he got out of bed.

    But because there was a vacation for the New Years, the factory had been shut down for several days. There was no one here now, so Cook didn¡¯t find anything unusual after walking around, ending his day¡¯s work.

    When he was thinking about whether to head back to the warm dormitory with the Magic Air Conditioner to go back to sleep or to go inspect the mine, a wolfman quickly came out of the Voller Tribe.

    Cook looked at him and found that it was Wulf who worked at the factory as a transporter, so he raised his hand in greeting.

    ¡°Hey, Wulf, it¡¯s the first day of the new year. Why aren¡¯t you at home with your wife and kids, what did youe to the factory for?¡±

    Wulf gave a bigugh with his wolf mouth and ran over to grab Cook¡¯s arm, ¡°Manager Cook, the chief had mee here to invite you to the tribe, soe with me.¡±

    ¡°Invite me to the tribe?¡± Cook was stunned, ¡°I am a human, it isn¡¯t right for me to run to your tribe on the first day of the new year, right?¡±

    ¡°What? Manager, are you looking down on us wolfmen?¡± Wulf looked at him with wide eyes as he asked this.

    ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t mean that. I just feel that today is the first day of the new year, so you wolfmen should have your own activities. It isn¡¯t right for a human like me to participate in them.¡±

    ¡°What isn¡¯t appropriate?¡± Wulf revealed a grin and said in an uncaring voice, ¡°We¡¯ve worked together for half a year and you¡¯re treating yourself as an outside? The chief said that you must be bored by yourself for New Years, so he had me invite you over and to let you experience how us wolfmen spend the New Years.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..¡±

    ¡°Alright, stop talking about it. You weren¡¯t this hesitant when you came drinking with mest night,e!¡±

    Without another word, Wulf pulled him along.

    Cook couldn¡¯t resist the power of an adult wolfman like Wulf, so he was pulled along by Wulf towards the Voller Tribe.

    When he entered the Voller Tribe, Cook found that the tribe was differentpared to normal. Other than each household being decorated with red cloth, there was a strong meat scent that wafted out of each window, stirring the appetites of anyone who smelt it.

    After seeing Cook, every wolfman in the tribe, regardless of gender or age all revealed a friendly smile towards him.

    Although these wolf smiles didn¡¯t look that good, one could feel the friendliness that came from them.

    Cook couldn¡¯t help feeling touched.

    When he had just been sent to this non-ferrous metal smelting factory by sir chairman, the Voller Tribe¡¯s wolfmen all looked at him with doubt and vignce, there were even some bad gazes.

    But in just half a year, the attitudes of the wolfmen had greatly changed.

    Actually the reason was very simple, it was because the mine had started and the non-ferrous metal smelting factory that Cook was responsible for was built, so each wolfmen family had someone who was working there, allowing them to earn a few gold coins a month.

    When it came to the year¡¯s end, each wolfman worker was the same as human workers, receiving a bonus of no less than thirty gold coins.

    With this kind of stable ie and the human products they purchased with thebour card, the Voller Tribe¡¯s wolfmen had their lives improved.

    For example, not only did chief Voller¡¯s house have a Magic Air Conditioner, making the room as warm as spring, there was also a Magic Stove, a Magic Water Kettle, a Magic Bread Maker, and all kinds of other household magic machines.

    Of course they were all Frestech Brand items.

    Cook looked over the household magic machines and he couldn¡¯t help secretlyughing.

    When CEO Kennard came to inspect the non-ferrous metal smelting factoryst time, he had talked to Cook in secret about selling Frestech Brand household magic machines to the Voller Tribe.

    ording to their stats, in just half a month, the wolfmen had purchased three hundred Magic Air Conditioners and five hundred Magic Stoves, as well as one or two of the other household magic machines.

    With the household magic machines they sold, it could be said that their wages from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was taken back. It was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not spending any money to hire these wolfmen workers.

    These wolfmen workers were grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even being friendly and respectful towards Cook.

    In the end, his life was much betterpared to before.

    Now the wolfmen of the Voller Tribe were most envied by the surrounding beastmen tribe. When the other beastmen saw the good living conditions the Voller Tribe had, they quickly changed their attitudes from the past vignt to taking initiative to wee them.

    The production base of the fourpanies that wasn¡¯t far from the Voller Tribe, it had taken initial form in just two months.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that it was winter and it was rather cold on the ck Rice Wastnd, so they had to stop their work, one or two factories would have already been finished.

    ¡°Come, manager Cook, I¡¯ll toast a cup to you.¡± Chief Voller¡¯s voice woke Cook from his thoughts.

    Seeing the giant cup in chief Voller¡¯s hand, he gave a bitterugh in his heart before drinking it all.

    ¡°Good! Truly refreshing! I like humans like you, manager Cook.¡± Chief Voller praised before filling up Cook¡¯s wine cup again, ¡°Come, let¡¯s toast this cup to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu. Although he isn¡¯t here, I represent all my nsmen to thank him. If it wasn¡¯t for him choosing to invest near our tribe, our tribe¡¯s lives wouldn¡¯t have be this good. Come, let¡¯s drink!¡±

    Cook couldn¡¯t refuse this toast. Looking at the giant cup in his hand, he shook his head a bit thinking that he never would have imagined that he would be spending the first day after the new year getting drunk in a beastmen tribe.

    ¡°Come, drink!¡± After this thought, Cook raised his cup to clink chief Voller¡¯s cup before drinking it all down.

    ###

    While Cook was having his second cook, old man Afaylia had just brought Archie out. They were nning to visit the other families that came from Banta City to greet them for the New Years.

    Seeing the sun over them and feeling the warmth that came over him, old man Afaylia mumbled something before shaking his head with a strange expression.

    He was fifty four this year, but he was spending New Years away from Banta City for the first time. This feeling really was strange.

    Moreover, the weather in the Stantine Duchy was different from the Lampuri Kingdom. If they were in Banta City, even if it hadn¡¯t snowed yet, the weather would be very cold. Whenever they went out to greet the neighbours for New Years, old man Afaylia would put on a thick cotton coat.

    But now that they were in the Stantine Duchy, the weather here was simr to their spring or fall. Old man Afaylia only needed to put on a coat before heading out.

    Archie was young, so he was only wearing a single shirt and didn¡¯t have a coat on.

    Of course, what was different was that Afaylia and Archie were wearing clothes made from new materials. Compared to before, where they were wearing clothes that were patched up, it was much better.

    Looking at Archie who was energetic as he wore his clothes that cost thirteen gold coins, old man Afaylia felt gratitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again. He patted Archie on the shoulder before heading towards Leia¡¯s house.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruitment, there were over two thousand farmers that came from Banta City. There were many of them who were like Afaylia and Leia¡¯s family who all moved.

    When they came here, they moved into the uniform houses that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already prepared. They naturally formed a vige made of the farmers from Banta City.

    Even before this, most farmers weren¡¯t close to each other. However, aftering to a foreign country, they naturally talked with each other a lot and their rtionships had be much closer.

    Because the Stantine Duchy was too far from Banta City, taking around a week for a round trip, most of the farmers didn¡¯t choose to go back over the New Years and decided to celebrate it here.

    After Afaylia and Archie came out, they gave countless people on the way New Years greetings.

    When they came to Leia¡¯s house, Leia¡¯s father was also prepared to head out. When he saw Afayliaing over, he quickly came forward to greet them.

    Archie greeted Leia¡¯s parents and wished them a happy new year before heading in and pulling Leia who was also wearing new clothes.

    Seeing Archie and Leia who looked much better after wearing new clothes, Afaylia had an idea. He looked at Leia¡¯s father and signaled him with his eyes.

    Leia¡¯s father understood and waved his hand at Archie and Leia, ¡°Alright, you two can go y. You don¡¯t need to worry about the matters at home, just remember toe back at noon for lunch.¡±

    Archie happily took Leia¡¯s hand, ¡°Come, Leia, let¡¯s go y by the sea. I¡¯ve already rented a ship from a local fisherman, we can go out and y. Think about it, being able to go out to sea on the first day of the new year, how fun it would be!¡±

    Leia also had an excited look. She looked at her dad for approval and after obtaining it, she gave a bow to Afaylia before happily running off with Archie.

    Seeing the two quickly leaving, Afaylia revealed a smile before turning to Leia¡¯s father, ¡°I think¡­..those two children are this well suited, how about we let them get married?¡±

    Unexpectedly, Leia¡¯s father didn¡¯t hesitate at all as he gave a straight nod.

    ¡°Un, I was already thinking this. After New Years, we¡¯ll find a good time to let them get married.¡±

    Leia¡¯s mother on the side also nodded, ¡°Right, we should let them get married early, otherwise something might happen since they have nothing to do.¡±

    Afaylia looked at Leia¡¯s mother and he couldn¡¯t refute it after thinking about it.

    If young people like Archie and Leia were together for long, they really couldn¡¯t tell if something were to happen.

    But Leia¡¯s parents had agreed, so Afaylia was very satisfied.

    Thinking about how easily they agreed, it must be because his family had also moved here. They could earn over a hundred gold coins a year, Afaylia felt even more gratitude for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s discuss this¡­¡­¡±

    While Archie and Leia were running to the sea, they never thought that their wedding was already decided by their parents.

 Volume 3 56 - Viscount Leslieâ€™s determination

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 56 Viscount Leslie¡¯s determination</h4>

    In a situation of not knowing they had an engagement, it wasn¡¯t just Archie and Leia alone.

    In the north of the Lampuri Kingdom, at the Meurto Mountains that were over a thousand kilometers away from the farm, Viscount Leslie was looking at a letter in his hand. He gave a coldugh before ripping the letter to pieces in his hand and throwing it into the mountain stream behind him.

    There were countless scattered pieces of paper that fell, just like snow falling in the mountains.

    Seeing the pieces of paper disappear without a trace, Viscount Leslie was silent before looking at his northern armyrades. He thought that they must be the same as normal people, being jealous of him for being the descendant of arge noble family like the Stagg Family, but they didn¡¯t know that the descendants of therge families had ces where they had no choices.

    For example, in the letter that his mother had just sent indicating that the family had decided his engagement, not allowing him to reject it at all.

    The one who would be his wife was the youngest daughter of the head of the Aleman Family. She was twenty three this year and her mother had said that she was very beautiful and had a gentle personality, she was very suited to bing a wife. She wanted Viscount Leslie to finish his two years in the northern army before heading back to Anvilmar City to get married.

    Regarding his mother¡¯s evaluation of young miss Aleman, Viscount Leslie could only respond with a coldugh.

    Perhaps this young miss Aleman was very beautiful and kind, but Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t believe that his mother was drawn to this. He was certain that young miss Aleman would be his wife because it was rted to the Aleman Family.

    A marriage between nobles wasn¡¯t unusual, Viscount Leslie already expected this day toe for him.

    He had already resisted this matter for close to ten years and now he was over thirty years old, so he couldn¡¯t drag it out any longer.

    Looking at the letter that was more simple in his hand, Viscount Leslie revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Comparatively, that fellow Xu Yi is more free than I am. At least he can be with a girl that he truly loves.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a sigh and seriously read over the letter that Xu Yi sent.

    Xu Yi¡¯s letters naturally didn¡¯t have family gossip, rather it described the progress of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time and asked him about the situation of the northern army.

    The main thing he asked about was the northern army¡¯s equipment.

    If this was anyone else asking, they would be charged with attempting to steal military secrets, but Xu Yi held an honorary title with the military headquarters and the logistics department had an intimate rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi was qualified to know about this.

    Xu Yi could ask major MacConley these issues, but he would only obtain general statistics from him and not the real situation. Of course it was someone like Viscount Leslie who was a part of the northern army that understood the situation the best.

    But after seeing the questions Xu Yi had in the letter, Viscount Leslie gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°How to respond to this?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at hisrade who was using a Magic Water Kettle that had been knocked to the ground identally to boil water. He thought that if the logistics department didn¡¯t give them any more supplies, the northern army wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on. It wouldn¡¯t take long before they lost the Muerto Mountains and it would fall into the hands of those fellows from the Sack Kingdom again.

    In the campaign of the Muerto Mountains at the end ofst year, although the northern army had used arge amount of equipment to take the Muerto Mountains and keep the Hungry Wolf and the Strong Tiger Regiments within the northern borders of the Sakk Kingdom, the two regiments never gave up the idea of attacking during this half a year.

    Even facing the powerful weapons of the northern army, the two regiments didn¡¯t win any battles and the Muerto Mountains were still firmly held in the hands of the northern army, because of the frequent fights, the northern army used up most of their equipment.

    From the second half of the year, the logistics department suddenly weakened their support of the northern army. In the end, other than shipping a few coats for winter, they didn¡¯t provide any other equipment.

    The other soldiers could onlyin in secret, but they didn¡¯t know anything. Viscount Leslie on the other hand knew the reason.

    It was very simple, the army headquarters had no money.

    In the battles of the Muerto Mountains, the army headquarters had providedrge amounts of funds, allowing the northern army to disy their might, but it cost them quite a bit.

    Although they saved money on making the uniform equipment from the newly built weapons factory, the army headquarters still couldn¡¯t keep up with thisrge consumption.

    Xu Yi had mentioned this question in a letter to Viscount Leslie. He had said that although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling the equipment to the army headquarters at base cost, the army headquarters couldn¡¯t afford to buy them still.

    Xu Yi was deeply worried about this situation.

    If the army headquarters didn¡¯t have enough funds, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t give things away for free. Perhaps there would be a problem with the equipment for the northern army.

    Once the Sack Kingdom started attacking when spring came, the Muerto Mountains would be dangerous.

    In the letter, Xu Yi had suggested to Viscount Leslie that if it became dangerous, he should leave as soon as possible to keep his life.

    In this recent letter, Xu Yi had expressed his worries even more.

    The army headquarters hasn¡¯t made an order with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for three months, it showed that they couldn¡¯t keep up with the consumption at all.

    This proved that the northern army situation was already very dangerous.

    Seeing Xu Yi mention at the end of his letter that if the situation seemed bad, he had to find a chance to leave, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a sigh.

    Of course he knew Xu Yi meant well, but he had been with the northern army for two years now. Even if he was responsible for work in the back, he had experienced many bloodbaths with hisrades, so he was very attached to the northern army.

    Although he knew the situation with the northern army wasn¡¯t good, Viscount Leslie wasn¡¯t nning on running away.

    But he knew that his power alone was limited. With his current abilities, he can¡¯t solve the real problem of the northern army at all, which was that the army headquarters had no money.

    Thinking of theck of money, Viscount Leslie felt a deep dislike for the far away Count Stagg of Banta City, who was his uncle. He also felt hatred towards his family for always being so stubborn.

    The better way was clearly to let the kingdom be richer, but those stubborn old fools disregarded this for their own benefits, even working hard to suppress this.

    In their eyes, could it be that the entire kingdom¡¯s fate and the living conditions of themoners, couldn¡¯tpare to the fate of their family?

    ¡°Humph! A bunch of idiots! The world has changed with the appearance of Xu Yi, but they insist on their obsolete thoughts. If this continues, you¡¯ll be the criminals who eliminate the family!¡±

    Viscount Leslie narrowed his eyes and fell into thought before taking out two pieces of paper. First he wrote a response to Xu Yi, describing the difficulties the northern army faced and hoped that Xu Yi could solve this problem for them.

    The second letter was a response to his mother.

    In this letter, Viscount Leslie said that he would agree to the family¡¯s arrangements, agreeing to marry young miss Aleman when he returned to Anvilmar City. At the same time, he used a serious tone to disclose another thought.

    He, Leslie Stagg would be doing his best to take the position of the family head!

    ###

    While Viscount Leslie was writing his letters, Lampuri Thirteenth was in the royal pce with the yearly fiscal report of the Lampuri Kingdom, revealing a faint smile.

    The yearly fiscal report was better thanst year. Compared to the ie of less than two million gold coinsst year, the kingdom¡¯s finances had broken three million gold coins, which could be considered arge leap.

    However, as the king, Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t look at this problem simply.

    Two years ago, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly revenue was only over a million gold coins and starting fromst year, it rose for two years straight.

    The reason for this obvious change can be seen from the financial report. It was that 90% of it came from business taxes.

    If one looked at the business tax, from the reports of the business department, one could see that in this 90%, as high as 40% of it came frompanies that produced magic machines.

    In the report, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was mentioned constantly.

    Justst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid over three hundred thousand gold coins to Banta City and only one hundred and ten thousand gold coins entered the state treasury.

    In the second half of the year, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went to Viscount Xu Yi¡¯s private territory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s taxes were given to Xu Yi before reaching the state treasury. It reached a total of two hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

    Also because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received free trading rights, in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s deals with other countries, they aren¡¯t taxed by Banta City and directly go to the state treasury.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s investments in the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom were just beginning, it still paid a tax of a hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

    So in just a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid taxes of over five hundred thousand gold coins to the state treasury.

    This didn¡¯t add the taxes paid bypanies that produced magic machines that were affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this was all added together, then of the three million gold coins taxed by the Lampuri Kingdom, over one and half million of that was influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover in the otherpanies, although they didn¡¯t produce magic machines, they were also affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Take the Armani Chamber of Commerce that produced clothes in Banta City. Because of the help of the Magic Loom that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, it greatly increased their productivity. Although the clothes were sold at different prices, because of the increase in sales, their profit had leaped up.

    ording to the data, the Armani Chamber of Commerce paid a business tax of three hundred and twenty thousand gold coinsst year.

    Then adding in the Amrit Chamber of Commerce whoid roads all over the kingdom, who had paid two hundred and sixty thousand gold coins in business taxesst year.

    Then there¡¯s the Renekton Chamber of Commerce¡­...

    ¡­...

    After reading it, Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly found that just thergepanies of Banta City actually paid a total of one and half million in business taxes to the state treasury all together.

    The total taxes that Banta City paid this year was just one hundred and ny thousand gold coins.

    Compared tost year, it was without a doubtcking.

    Seeing thisrge contrast, Lampuri Thirteenth couldn¡¯t help letting out a coldugh.

    ¡°I want to see what those fellows have the face to say now.¡±

 Volume 3 57 - Fertilizer

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 57 Fertilizer</h4>

    The continent¡¯s year 3782 of the new era had entered its second month and the people of the continent lost the festivities of the New Year, going back to their normal lives.

    But for the people of Banta City, at the start of this year, there were changes in Banta City.

    When Count Stagg held the post of City Lordst year, he focused on the agricultural promotion policies and aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, reducing trade in Banta City to almost zero.

    But this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held a press conference in Banta City, announcing that theirpany would continue developing new magic machines this year and improving the lives of Banta City¡¯s people.

    Everyone had thought that Count Stagg would move against them for doing this, but unexpectedly, Count Stagg didn¡¯t suppress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like everyone imagined. Rather he openly announced in the ?Banta Times? that Banta City¡¯s agricultural development relied on the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines. He hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would work hard to develop new agricultural magic machines and advance Banta City¡¯s agriculture even further.

    As soon as this issue of the ?Banta Times? came out, it was immediately snatched up. Everyone was shocked by this situation.

    Because based onst year, Count Stagg should have a grudge against Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he shouldn¡¯t give them any leeway at all.

    But with Count Stagg¡¯s statement, did it meant that the two had given up their past enmities and were working together now?

    What happened next seemed to have proved everyone¡¯s guesses.

    The next day after Count Stagg published his opinion in the ?Banta Times?, the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cim Porter announced in the ?Banta Times? that the canal project connecting the Sandy River and the Rum River was starting again. The Porter Chamber of Commerce was recruitingrge amounts of workers to clear the canal.

    This canal project was proposed by Xu Yi when Count Sean was still City Lord, it was a joint operation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    After Count Stagg took over as the City Lord, this canal project had been inspected and had been put aside for wasting the Banta City people¡¯s taxes.

    Now the Porter Chamber of Commerce was announcing the start of the canal project again in such an open manner, but Count Stagg and the City Lord Manor hasn¡¯t said anything. It meant that Count Stagg¡¯s attitude had rxedpared to before.

    But not long after this, the ?Banta Times? reported another shocking piece of information. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be setting up an agricultural fertilizer nt in the Sandton industrial district.

    Everyone was shocked that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was opening a factory in the Sandton industrial district because to everyone, it would be normal if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never returned to Banta City after being suppressed by Count Staggst year. But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t just opening a new factory, they even announced it in the ?Banta Times?, telling everyone that this fertilizer factory was actually set up under the special instructions of the City Lord Manor!

    Everyone couldn¡¯t understand what was happening. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this, were they submitting to the City Lord Manor?

    But facts proved that it was different because in the report of the ?Banta Times?, it said that this fertilizer factory wasn¡¯t rted to the City Lord Manor and waspletely owned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Didn¡¯t this mean¡­..Xu Yi and Count Stagg had reached a deal in secret?

    That seemed a bit impossible¡­...

    While everyone was specting over the secret deals of Xu Yi and Count Stagg, people also expressed deep interest in this so-called ¡°fertilizer¡±.

    ording to the introduction of this ¡°fertilizer¡± by the ?Banta Times?, this ¡°fertilizer¡± was used to improve thend and increase grain yield.

    Everyone didn¡¯t believe this, could it be that the grain yielded wasn¡¯t already determined? Why could it be increased after this fertilizer was spread? This seemed like nonsense.

    Buting from a deep trust in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone just waited to see.

    In just a few days, an order from the City Lord Manor sent a stir through Banta City again.

    ¡°They¡¯re actually forcing us to buy this fertilizer? What is our new City Lord thinking?¡± Sarkozy looked at Cantona sitting in front of him with a faint smile of confidence and asked, ¡°Hey, Cantona, what do you think this is? Could it be that what everyone says is true and chairman Xu is now relying on the Stagg Family?¡±

    Cantona wanted to maintain the stance of an observer and watch everyone¡¯s reactions, but hearing this question from Sarkozy, he couldn¡¯t keep calm.

    ¡°What nonsense are you saying? Old man Sarkozy, I thought that you were smarter than these fellows, how could you believe that kind of stuff?¡± Cantona curled his lips in discontent, ¡°Although chairman Xu has reached a deal with Count Stagg, how is that rted to him relying on the Stagg Family? ording to me, it¡¯s clearly chairman Xu bringing the Lord City Lord to his side.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t care about the matters of important people, just tell me, why is the City Lord Manor forcing every farmer to buy fertilizer? There are many people doubting that the Lord City Lord forced chairman Xu to open this fertilizer factory and he¡¯s taking the money of us farmers.¡±

    ¡°Forget it, how much money could normal farmers have? How could chairman Xu and Count Stagg care about that?¡± Cantona didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be honest with you, this fertilizer really is a good thing. You just have to scatter it ording to the methods of the City Lord Manor and I guarantee your harvest will be much better than normal.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that amazing?¡± Sarkozy and the other vige representatives gathered by Cantona looked at him with doubtful looks.

    ¡°Of course!¡± Cantona gave a certain nod, ¡°You should know that I just came back from the Stantine Duchy, right? Let me tell you, before I came back, the Frestech Farm had their first harvest of rice¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Ah? Isn¡¯t it still winter, how could they harvest rice?¡± A farmer asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Idiot, he already said that it was the Stantine Duchy, the weather there is different from here. Isn¡¯t that right, Cantona?¡± Another farmer said.

    ¡°Un, the Stantine Duchy is warm all year round, so even their coldest climate is the same as our spring. So there are three farming seasons there and the crops grow quite quickly. Before I came back, they just harvested the rice they nted during winter. Can you guess how much they harvested?¡±

    Seeing the mysterious look on Cantona¡¯s face, everyone knew that the number had to be higher than normal.

    Sarkozy thought for a bit before saying, ¡°ording to the standard of Karma City, one hectare of rice paddies should give a harvest of around two tons. Based on your appearance, it should be higher than this, so I¡¯ll say it was three tons per hectare, right?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s even higher.¡± Cantona shook his head with a smile, ¡°Let me tell you, in the over twenty thousand hectares ofnd reimed this year, there was a harvest of seventy thousand tons. It was around four tons per hectare!¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be!¡±

    ¡°How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°This is a joke!¡±

    ¡­...

    Including Sarkozy, all the farmers stood up in shock.

    For old farmers like them who had been in the fields for years, the amount of crops yielded by the farm was very limited.

    Sarkozy was already very bold guessing that each hectare could produce two tons because even in Karma City where rice farming was developed, they could only produce around two tons of rice per hectare.

    It had to be a rich harvest for this to happen, it was very hard to obtain normally.

    ¡°Why would I joke with you? Let me tell you, this is the strength of the fertilizer. In the over twenty thousand hectares ofnd reimed, we all used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed fertilizer and the effects are really good. If you don¡¯t believe me, you can go ask the people who came from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°They are in the Stantine Duchy now, can we go that far to ask them?¡± Sarkozy gave a snort before asking, ¡°Alright, Cantona, I believe you and believe the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Xu. Since this fertilizer is this useful, then we¡¯ll have Banta City¡¯s farmers use it. But Cantona, can you tell me why this fertilizer is this useful?¡±

    ¡°Right, tell us what¡¯s going on with this, it¡¯ll be easier when we talk to other people.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, if this fertilizer is this useful, why didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce take it out sooner?¡±

    ¡­...

    ¡°Hey, could it be you¡¯re ming chairman Xu?¡± Cantona looked over them, ¡°Let me tell you, this fertilizer is a secret recipe chairman Xu worked hard to obtain from the elves. The elves have abilities in growing nts, you wouldn¡¯t be doubting that, right?¡±

    ¡°Elves?¡± Everyone looked at each other and revealed looks of understanding.

    Everyone would doubt it if it was exined in another way, but no one would doubt it if it was considered the elves¡¯ secret recipe.

    The elves had a history of tens of thousands of years, they were much older than humans and many other races. Everyone knew that the elves were good with nts, they could even create a forest in barren wilderness, so it wasn¡¯t strange for them to make something that could increase the yield of rice paddies.

    Seeing the expression on everyone¡¯s face, Cantona shook his head and gave a sigh in his heart.

    To him, Xu Yi being able to receive this important secret recipe from the elves must have paid arge price.

    As far as he knew, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t earn any money from this fertilizer factory, since it was controlled by the elves. Xu Yi had spent so much to solve this problem waspletely him thinking about the farmers of Banta City.

    However even like this, he was still being doubted by the farmers of Banta City. It really made people feel it wasn¡¯t worth it for him.

 Volume 3 58 - Changing City Lords again?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 58 Changing City Lords again?</h4>

    ¡°Stop looking at me like that, I¡¯m not that great and I¡¯m not as bored as you think I am.¡± Xu Yi looked at Hannas sitting in front of him and shook his head as he said, ¡°This is just doing something that I mentioned to you a long time ago, which is to liberate the farmers.¡±

    ¡°Then having them invest in the magic machine industry that you talked about?¡± Hannas kept asking.

    ¡°Right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Don¡¯t you think that our Lampuri Kingdom iscking in terms of poption?¡±

    ¡°Lacking?¡± Hannas¡¯ eyes opened wide, ¡°Why don¡¯t I think so? Our Lampuri Kingdom is only a small kingdom, it¡¯s quite a lot having several million people, so why do you think it¡¯scking? Could it be that you want our Lampuri Kingdom to have the same poption as the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°There is no need for that, only it is a bitcking when ites to my current requests. Haven¡¯t you noticed that even after Banta City had over two hundred thousand people, it wasn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°But that was because there were too many jobs in Banta City.¡± Hannas said with a frown, ¡°Moreover, Banta City having all those work opportunities was because yourpanies were selling products to the other cities of the kingdom, spending on the people of the other ces in the kingdom to support them. If you want to turn the entire Lampuri Kingdom into Banta City, who do you think will support all these people?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the other countries.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Not mentioning the Lampuri Kingdom having five million people, it could easily be supported even if there were fifty million people. Moreover, I¡¯m not just talking about making a livelihood, I¡¯m talking about living a good life.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t your thought¡­..too naive?¡± Hannas shook his head, ¡°Our Lampuri Kingdom isn¡¯t strong on the Sines Continent. How could the other countries be dumb enough to support us for free?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas, thinking that it was too troublesome exining how great of a change an industrial revolution could bring to a country. Not to mention that he might not understand, so he gave up this idea.

    Anyway Hannas hade to Banta City to collect information on the fertilizer factory, secretly collecting information for the kingdom¡¯s higher up on the fertilizer. Instead of discussing something that could affect the Lampuri Kingdom like this with him, it was better to wait for Seveni toe to discuss this.

    Thinking of Seveni, Xu Yi had a thought before asking Hannas about her highness¡¯ recent whereabouts.

    Sinceingst year with major MacConley, it had been a while since Seveni came to Banta City. Compared to Seveni who hade whenever she had nothing to do, it really was strange.

    ¡°Of course, Count Stagg is the City Lord here, so her highness wouldn¡¯te here when she has nothing to do. As for during this time, when I left Anvilmar City, I heard that her highness was preparing to head to Sowell City for an inspection.¡± Hannas suddenly raised a brow and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, isn¡¯t this matter rted to you?¡±

    ¡°How is it rted to me?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Could it be that I can decide where her highness can go?¡±

    ¡°You dare say it¡¯s not rted to you? I heard that Sowell City is preparing to develop an industrial district, so her highness is nning to inspect it. Then again, the current Sowell City City Lord is Count Sean, you dare say that the development of this industrial district isn¡¯t rted to you?¡±

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I dare?¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°To be honest with you, Count

    Sean developing an industrial district in Sowell City was something he came up with, I didn¡¯t give him any suggestions. Of course, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is indeed nning on investing in Sowell City, but we have to wait for at least the second half of the year before doing this.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of this, I remember a few months ago that the Drake Duchy¡¯s Princess Caroline came to Banta City. Sowell City is close to the Drake Duchy, so is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in Sowell City rted to Princess Caroline? Hei, Xu Yi, I heard that Princess Caroline is very beautiful. Did you get mesmerized by her?¡±

    Seeing Hannas¡¯ lewd smile, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    This fellow really was keen. He never told him about this matter, but he could infer facts just from these small clues, he really was born to be a journalist.

    But this matter was temporarily a private agreement between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Drake Duchy, so it wasn¡¯t right to reveal it.

    Moreover, it was very awkward meeting Princess Carolinest time, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to talk about it and just vaguely exined it.

    Naturally Hannas didn¡¯t believe it and kept asking, but was firmly rejected by Xu Yi.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s firm attitude, Hannas had no other choice and could only focus on the topic at hand, the fertilizer factory.

    In their talk just now, Xu Yi had already told Hannas that after farnd had fertilizer sprinkled over it, it could produce half or even double the amount. Moreover, this was proven by the hundred thousand acres ofnd the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rented in the Stantine Duchy.

    Hannas was very shocked by these results, so he was very confused why Xu Yi would choose to build the fertilizer factory in Banta City. As well, why would he cooperate with Count Stagg who never saw eye to eye with Xu Yi.

    In his opinion, Xu Yi could use this easy to use fertilizer and if he built the fertilizer factory in the Falling Rain Valley, he could easily earn arge amount.

    In the exnation Xu Yi gave, he wanted to free the farmers that Count Stagg had forced back into the fields. He wanted to liberate the farming workforce confined to the fields and invest them back into developing the magic machine industry again.

    Hannas didn¡¯t understand this too well and Xu Yi was toozy to exin to him.

    But Hannas couldn¡¯t just ask this single question. He went into more detail for the questions that he really needed to ask.

    ¡°Generally speaking, how much fertilizer is needed for a mu of farnd?¡± Hannas took out a small notebook and prepared to write.

    ¡°That depends on the crop and what kind of fertilizer is used, it can¡¯t be generalized.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°For example, what we nt in the Stantine Duchy is rice, so currently we are using the number one fertilizer. ording to our experiments, it uses around twenty five to thirty kilogram of fertilizer for each mu of farnd. As for wheat, we¡¯ve currently developed a number two fertilizer that is specialized for wheat. As for how much of it needs to be scattered, we can only determine that after some more experimentation.¡±

    ¡°One mu needs twenty five to thirty kilograms, let me calcte this¡­...Then just to meet the needs of Banta City, there needs to be several tens of thousands of tons of fertilizer? This factory is this small, can it produce that much?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°You can be assured. Currently the monthly output of the fertilizer factory is around fifty to sixty thousand tons. Although it can¡¯t meet the needs of Banta City¡¯s spring nting, when ites to the fall harvest, there should be no problems.¡±

    ¡°But if the effects of the fertilizer are good, the entire kingdom will have arge need for this thing. Isn¡¯t your single factory far from being enough?¡± Hannas asked.

    ¡°That is something forter, I can¡¯t guarantee anything now.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Seeing the smile of deep meaning on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Hannas gave a sigh. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Then as for this fertilizer, I heard that it was developed between your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the elves. Can you tell us the specifics?¡±

    ¡°Speaking of our cooperation¡­..Actually it was just us who raised the idea, but the fertilizer was all developed by the elves and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do a thing.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°So if you want to ask me about how the fertilizer is made, I can¡¯t answer this.¡±

    Hannas knit his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, this isn¡¯t good. If the fertilizer is as important as you said and the important form and production methods are in the hands of the elves, isn¡¯t this bad for us?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas and smiled without saying a thing.

    Hannas immediately understood and crossed out this problem, as he began asking other questions about the fertilizer factory.

    Afterpleting the interview, Xu Yi was nning to invite Hannas to lunch, but Hannas said he wanted to take this time to interview Count Stagg and rejected Xu YI¡¯s invitation.

    ¡°Right, Xu Yi, let me tell you some good news.¡± Just before leaving, Hannas looked over at Xu Yi, ¡°ording to the rumours I¡¯ve heard, his majesty seemed to have made his decision. If nothing unexpected happens, that Count Stagg won¡¯t stay as the City Lord for long.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, but he wasn¡¯t all that happy.

    Actually, although since Count Stagg became the City Lord, he kept aiming at Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was just changing the development method of Banta City.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce moved to the Falling Rain Valley which was Xu Yi¡¯s private territory, because Banta City had been lost to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had changed their development objective ahead of time.

    Ther Frestech Chamber of Commerceying down foundations in the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy now, it had to be said that it was rted to this.

    Not to mention that Count Stagg¡¯s attitude had changedtely and he began epting deals with Xu Yi.

    Although recing him as the City Lord would save Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many troubles in their ns in Banta City, it didn¡¯t affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce too much.

    And to change the City Lord in such a short time, Banta City¡¯s development would surely be impacted.

    Xu Yi¡¯s only hope was that the new City Lord would be like Count Sean, thinking about Banta City as a whole and not caring only about their personal position.

 Volume 3 59 - Why must you farm?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 59 Why must you farm?</h4>

    As they entered April, in the farnd outside Banta City, it was once again dyed with yellow wheat.

    After the farnd was improved and had water conservation facilities, as well as with the help of the other agricultural magic machines, as long as there wasn¡¯t a serious natural disaster in Banta City, there would be the scene of a rich harvest each year.

    However faced with this kind of rich harvest, the farmers outside Banta City weren¡¯t happy. Rather most of them actually had depressed looks.

    After spending half an hour, Baltro who had ridden a bicycle from Luke Vige that was ten kilometers away, entered Mexn Vige. After seeing the wheat around him, he forgot to pedal with his shock and almost twisted off his bicycle.

    It was a good thing that he could stop himself. Baltropletely ignored his treasured bicycle that he had saved for two months to buy and ran to the wheat in the field. He bent over and held the wheat with trembling hands.

    Feeling the heavy touch of the wheat, Baltro trembled before cursing and turning around. He grabbed his bicycle and forcefully pedaled, charging into Mexn Vige not far away.

    Seeing Baltro ride his bicycle over like a maniac, the vigers of Mexn Vige made way for him. After cursing, they saw that the one riding it was Baltro and they beganughing at him, with theirughter filled with ridicule.

    Hearing theughter of the vigers, Baltro¡¯s face turned red, but he ignored them. He charged forward on his bicycle to a two story house that seemed newly built at the edge of the vige and he jumped off his bicycle, charging through the door.

    ¡°Hey, Sarkozy, get out here for me!¡±

    Hearing Baltro¡¯s shouts, old man Sarkozy slightly knit his brows and came down from the second floor.

    After seeing Baltro, Sarkozy broke out inughter. He pointed at Baltro and said with a proud look, ¡°What? Baltro, you¡¯re here to admit defeat?¡±

    Baltro¡¯s dark face turned even darker as he charged forward to grab Sarkozy¡¯s cor, while loudly shouting, ¡°Sarkozy, you bastard! We¡¯ve been friends for so many years and you knew the fertilizer was good to use, so why didn¡¯t you properly convince me! It¡¯s good now, perhaps our Luke Vige doesn¡¯t even have half the harvest of your Mexn Vige, are you happy?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy knit his brows and pinched Baltro¡¯s wrist to make him let go. He said with a cold snort, ¡°Baltro, since we¡¯re old friends, I won¡¯t haggle with you over your fit of rage just now. But you should know that when I told you that our vige is ordering fertilizer from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you¡¯re the one who said that you¡¯re not willing to get that unreliable fertilizer when I asked if your Luke Vige wanted some. Now you¡¯reing here to me me for not properly convincing you? What? You want to me me?¡±

    Baltro angrily looked at old man Sarkozy and old man Sarkozy looked back without showing any weakness.

    After a while, Baltro was like a deted balloon and sat down in a chair on the side with a depressed look. He used his fist to hit his head.

    ¡°Why was I so dumb back then! Why didn¡¯t I believe that this fertilizer was this useful? I really hurt the vigers! I really am dumb!¡±

    Seeing Baltro ming himself, Sarkozy forgot about his unreasonable appearance. After thinking about it, he sat down beside him and patted his shoulder whileforting him, ¡°Alright, you just missed the spring nting, you can just wait for the fall harvest. Anyway the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already said that although their fertilizer nt can produce enough for the whole city for the spring nting, there will be no problem at the fall harvest. I¡¯ll talk to Cantona ahead of time and have him order some fertilizer for your Luke Vige.¡±

    Baltro looked up at old man Sarkozy with a gaze of self me and pain.

    ¡°But our vige¡¯s spring nting is over. Do you know, the people in the vige know about how I refused buying the fertilizer back then, so now they all curse me. Our entire family doesn¡¯t even dare go out now!¡±

    ¡°Pei! A bunch of uncultured fellows, why do you care?¡± Old man Sarkozy tilted his lips in disdain, ¡°Rx, do you believe that if I go tell them that your vige will be first to buy the fertilizer when the fall harvestes, they¡¯ll go and kiss your butt?¡±

    Baltro¡¯s face twitched. He really wanted to say yes, but since they were from the same vige, he couldn¡¯t be that straightforward, so he could only give an awkwardugh.

    ¡°After all, I caused our vige¡¯s spring harvest to be worse than the other viges, it¡¯s normal for them to curse me.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± OId man Sarkozy cursed without any courtesy, ¡°I say, are all the fellows from your vige all stubborn? What kind of age is this, do they only want to farm in fields? Let me tell you, there¡¯s no use no matter how much you harvest! Even if you don¡¯t need to pay grains for rent and sell it all, how much money can you earn?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say that, right?¡± Baltro argued, ¡°Look, our family has rented seven mu ofnd and we should be able to harvest over two thousand pounds of grain. If they were all sold, it would be over ten gold coins. If we were to use fertilizer, we might get over four thousand pounds of grain which would be around thirty gold coins. Without the fertilizer, we¡¯ve lost over ten gold coins, how could you not feel pained?¡±

    ¡°So I say you fellows are stubborn. Is thirty gold coins a lot?¡± Old man Sarkozy said with a smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t you tell mest time that your kid found a job at the Cameron Chamber of Commerce and earns over ten gold coins a month? Now you¡¯re going crazy over just ten gold coins, don¡¯t you find it embarrassing?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Baltor looked a bit awkward, ¡°It¡¯s not the same, he earns his money, so I can¡¯t just bezy. Farms can guarantee that your entire family can be fed at least, right?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it when I call you stubborn?¡± Old man Sarkozy red at him, ¡°If you want to farm, why not go to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce? Or just go to the Stantine Duchy to farm for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You don¡¯t need to spend any money on food and you can earn a hundred gold coins. Isn¡¯t it better than guarding just a few mu ofnd?¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t feel that it¡¯s secure¡­..Those ces, if something happens, the farnd would be gone¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What nonsense. If you want to talk about secure, is farming under a noble master that secure? Perhaps some order mighte down and they would take back the farnd. Even if you keep the farnd,you still have to pay arge part of it as rent and it¡¯s hard to feed your family with the remainder, what else can you do? For example, your kid is already at the age to get married, can you help him get married by farming?¡± Old man Sarkozy asked.

    Baltro gave a bitterugh, ¡°I really can¡¯t. That kid likes a girl from another vige, but their family wants us to have a new house that is filled with Frestech Brand household magic items. How can I take out that much money? My kid is working himself to death at the Cameron Chamber of Commerce, isn¡¯t it just to take out the money for this wedding?¡±

    ¡°So I said that guarding several mus ofnd has no future at all, so why do you care so much about this farnd? Even if you scatter fertilizer on it to increase the yield, what use does that have? There¡¯s no money at all, isn¡¯t it better to do something else.

    ¡°But other than farming¡­..what else can I do?¡± Baltro asked with a confused look, ¡°Then again, leaving the farm here isn¡¯t good, I still need to pay rent each year¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, just give it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. You don¡¯t need to care about anything and the rent is paid by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, while you can earn a bit of money from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce each year. No matter what, it¡¯s better than farming yourself.¡± Old man Sarkozy waved his hand and said, ¡°As for what to do if you¡¯re not farming¡­..that¡¯s even simpler. Right now there are manypanies in the city, you can just go to one of them to learn a craft and find a job. It might not be much each month, but there¡¯s no problem earning at least ten gold coins a month.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..I¡¯m this old, what if I can¡¯t learn it¡­..¡± Baltro asked in a worried voice.

    ¡°Why can¡¯t you learn it?¡± Sarkozy red at him, ¡°Let me tell you, it¡¯s not as hard as you think. I went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the Falling Rain Valley and those people were doing very simple things. It seemed like they only needed to repeat a few things, there are only a few people who need to learn techniques. You don¡¯t need to learn any techniques, you shouldn¡¯t have a problem with normal work, right? If you can¡¯t even do that, don¡¯t you still have your strength? Go and work for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Hasn¡¯t the Amrit Chamber of Commerce been working on the Sandy River and aren¡¯t they recruiting a bunch of people, you can go and try?¡±

    Hearing Sarkozy say this, Baltro¡¯s expression gradually cleared up and a trace of hope and excitement appeared in his eyes.

    Sarkozy was right, the era was different. For normal farmers like them, they no longer needed to stay home to watch their farms to earn a living.

    Whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or any otherpany, there were many jobs in Banta City. Whether it was the required energy, time, or ie which was the most important, it was all better than farming.

    Since it was like this, why did he have to keep farming?

    Thinking of this, Baltro¡¯s feeling of anger, self me, and panic had instantly disappeared. It was like he suddenly had an epiphany and the path forward was suddenly opened.

 Volume 3 60 - Before leaving

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 60 Before leaving</h4>

    The result of the spring harvest this year in Banta City was dazzling.

    When it was the spring harvestst year, the wheat harvested in Banta City was six hundred and thirty thousand tons. It was already a veryrge number, being in the front ranks of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For a small city like Banta City that was at the bottom of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s ranks, this was a very hard to obtain performance. Everyone thought that Banta City with the help of the agricultural magic machines had already dug out all its potential and couldn¡¯t raise this number again.

    But after this year¡¯s spring harvest was over, the City Lord Manor reported that Banta City harvested a total of eight hundred and seventy thousand tons of wheat!

    It was even two hundred and forty thousand tons more thanst year!

    It had to be known in the year beforest, because of the farnd improvement project Count Sean had carried out, all the farnd that could be opened was already opened with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agricultural magic machines. Now every year in Banta City, they were nting wheat in every ce possible.

    So theoretically, Banta City¡¯s grain yield had already reached a peak byst year.

    There was only one reason for this shocking breakthrough, which was the important product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the fertilizer.

    In this spring harvest, ording to the data, the farms that used fertilizer produced much more than the farms that didn¡¯t use fertilizer.

    The most exaggerated part was that one mu ofnd provided almost double the amount of crops!

    During the winter, many viges under the lead of Koror Vige, Kambia Vige, and Mexn Vige used fertilizer. The final output that they received was from using fertilizer in their fields.

    ording to the calctions of the City Lord Manor, if all of Banta City¡¯s farms used fertilizer, with a conservative estimate, Banta City¡¯s seasonal grain yield could break over a million tons.

    This was a very shocking number.

    It had to be known that in the past, Banta City¡¯s grain yield was only two hundred thousand tons and now it was possible to break over a million tons.

    If this transformation was brought over the Lampuri Kingdom, with such an astonishing grain yield, not only could they easily feed their citizens, they could even have arge surplus.

    In the eyes of many Banta City citizens, this was an unbelievable matter because it was already pretty good for the Lampuri Kingdom citizens to eat their fill, how could there be a surplus?

    But in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, this was a very normal matter.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom was a small kingdom, it had a very good geographical position. Most of itsnd was suited for farming and most of itsnd was t, so it was suited forrge scale cultivation.

    With such a good terrain, it was a joke that they wouldn¡¯t be able to feed themselves.

    Normally speaking, the Lampuri Kingdom should be a great nation exporting grains.

    Of course, the Lampuri Kingdom was a bit remote. After all, in these two years, the Lampuri Kingdom was finally able to solve the basic issues of their citizens with the help of the agricultural magic machines.

    Although now that the output of grain increased in Banta City, the extra grain wouldn¡¯t be wasted.

    Of the eight hundred and seventy thousand tons of grain harvested, six hundred and twenty thousand tons was turned over to the City Lord Manor and five hundred tons of that was turned to the agricultural department to enter the kingdom¡¯s granary. The final one hundred and twenty thousand tons of grain was controlled by the City Lord Manor.

    But in reality, how to deal with this was a problem for the City Lord Manor.

    When Banta City only harvested two hundred thousand tons of grain, the City Lord Manor only had around ten to twenty thousand tons, it was just a drop in the bucket. There wasn¡¯t anything left after giving everyone a share and they even needed to subsidize a part of it to use for expenditures.

    Now that they had over one hundred and twenty thousand tons of wheat, the City Lord Manor didn¡¯t know how to deal with it.

    If it was before, it would have been very simple. They would have just sold the wheat and earned several tens of thousands which would be used to pay the expenditures of the City Lord Manor.

    But with Count Stagg being more lenient to business in Banta City, the business tax since the beginning of the year had increased for Banta City. Just the tax for April alone was already close to a hundred thousand gold coins.

    So there was no financial pressure on Banta City right now and it wasn¡¯t worth it to sell this wheat anywhere.

    So after considering it, Count Stagg constructed a granary outside of Banta City, specially used to store this extra hundred and twenty thousand ton of wheat. He also sent the city guards to guard that ce.

    Setting up a granary outside a city was a first for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This action had created a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Regarding Count Stagg¡¯s idea, everyone had praise and opposition.

    The people who praised him said that Count Stagg¡¯s actions were looking to the future, ensuring the stability of Banta City.

    If Banta City ever met a disaster that resulted in a famine, this hundred thousand tons of wheat would be the greatest hope during this time of turmoil.

    The people who opposed this said that Count Stagg¡¯s actions were too selfish.

    Since Banta City had this much surplus wheat, then why didn¡¯t he give this hundred and twenty thousand tons of wheat to the agricultural department and have them separate it evenly? Wouldn¡¯t it be better to use it to support the areas that werecking in grain?

    As for this argument, whether the kingdom¡¯s cities should keep their grain or not, people even had the idea that Count Stagg might be thinking of rebelling.

    And after half a month, the order from the Royal Parliament shut the mouths of everyone.

    The order was very simple, because it was a transfer order. It said that with Count Stagg¡¯s outstanding performance in Banta City, the Royal Parliament after careful consideration has assigned him to take the post of City Lord of the northern Lorren City. With his strong agricultural development abilities, it would help Lorren City solve its agricultural problems.

    This transfer order was very simple, but it was very thought provoking.

    First was the time.

    Count Stagg hadest July to take over as Banta City¡¯s City Lord and it was currently May of the next year, he had only been the City Lord for ten months.

    He was transferred after this short time, doesn¡¯t that mean he wasn¡¯t suited for being the City Lord?

    But if one looked at Count Stagg¡¯s new position, they would find that he wasn¡¯t being demoted.

    Because Lorren City was one of the biggest cities in the north and holding the position of Lorren City¡¯s City Lord was much better than being Banta City¡¯s City Lord. This was the same as when Count Sean took over as Sowell City¡¯s City Lord, it could be considered a promotion.

    Everyone was very doubtful, this transfer order from the Royal Parliament, was it to praise Count Sean or to demote him?

    What was even more thought provoking was that this transfer order even said that Count Stagg had strong agricultural development abilities, so they were having him be the City Lord of Lorren City to solve their agricultural development problem. It hadn¡¯t mentioned anything else.

    This waspletely different from the transfer order that Count Sean had received.

    Of course, no matter how outsiders discussed or how mighty the waves of the inside story was, in the days before Count Stagg had transferred, Banta City continued moving forward like normal.

    Although Count Stagg didn¡¯t announce he was loosening his suppression of trade activities, based on his rxed actions and the rumours of him leaving, the sharppanies had reacted quite quickly.

    Banta City had be stagnant, but it gradually became more active in the past two months. There were small andrge shops that reopened in the streets with colourfulmodities disyed on shelves, while the streets were once again filled with people.

    All of Banta City seemed to have regained its prosperity from before Count Stagg hade.

    Seeing the people outside the streets of the City Lord Manor, Count Stagg gave a deep sigh. He turned to look at Xu Yi who had summoned for the first time with a veryplicated look on his face.

    After being silent for a while, Count Stagg slowly shook his head and said, ¡°Xu Yi, congrattions, you win.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed and he revealed a helpless smile. He replied in a soft voice, ¡°Lord City Lord, if you¡¯re referring to our bet, I can confidently say that you are correct. But if you¡¯re talking about something else¡­...I don¡¯t dare agree.¡±

    Count Stagg knit his brows, ¡°What? I¡¯m being transferred and you¡¯re not satisfied?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a serious look, ¡°Lord City Lord, you should know that I don¡¯t mean this. Although your perspective is not the same as mine, I approve of your thoughts of improving Banta City very much. In this regard, there is no meaning in winning or losing because our goals are actually the same. The only difference is¡­..the method.¡±

    ¡°Method?¡± Count Stagg had a smile of self ridicule. After thinking for a bit, he waved his hand and said, ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no meaning in this. I asked you here because I am about to leave this ce, so I wanted to talk to you onest time and ask you a few questions. The first question, Xu Yi, do you treat yourself as a merchant or as a noble?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. This question was something that Count Stagg emphasized the first time they met. It seemed like he had always taken note of this question.

    ¡°First, I am a person, then I am a person of the Lampuri Kingdom and a person of Banta City, finally I am a merchant or a noble. Moreover, these two identities don¡¯t really mean anything to me. Lord City Lord, are you satisfied with this answer?¡±

    Count Stagg gave a slight nod, ¡°I can understand your meaning. It seems like I¡¯ve really underestimated you, your goals are far wider than I thought. But Xu Yi, before I leave, I have to remind you of something. Merchants and nobles are different, there will be a day when you have to make a choice.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, neither confirming or denying this.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s indifferent response, Count Stagg wasn¡¯t surprised. He nodded before asking, ¡°The second question, Xu Yi, do you really not favour his highness Eric?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s casual look instantly became serious as he narrowed his eyes to look at Count Stagg.

    Count Stagg asked such a sensitive question at this time, what answer did he want?

 Volume 3 61 - Middle class

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 61 Middle ss</h4>

    No matter what answer Count Stagg wanted, Xu Yi didn¡¯t give him any answers.

    This is the response that Xu Yi should give. Even if he wanted to support her highness Seveni, he definitely couldn¡¯t express any distrust or denial of his highness Eric because first, that was disrespectful.

    Not to mention that even if Count Stagg wanted to have a honest conversation with Xu Yi, Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that he would reveal his true feelings as someone from the Stagg Family and the conservative faction.

    In the end, the two were on different sides. What decided their actions didn¡¯te from their own thoughts.

    Especially someone like Count Stagg who represented the Stagg Family. Perhaps every word he said and every question he asked represented the will of the Stagg Family.

    So Xu Yi didn¡¯t answer this question, he just gave a vague attitude. He had never met his highness Eric before, so he doesn¡¯t understand him at all, so he can¡¯t say anything about favouring him or not.

    Regarding Xu Yi¡¯s answer, Count Stagg was very disappointed, but he felt a bit rxed. He didn¡¯t keep asking and just asked Xu Yi about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s next ns before ending the conversation.

    When leaving the City Lord Manor, Xu Yi felt that he had missed something.

    But carefully thinking about it, he found that it was impossible for him to miss anything from Count Stagg. So he just thought about it before Xu Yi gave up this question.

    After leaving the City Lord Manor, Xu Yi headed to the Fersen Carriage Company. He went and found chairman Pompeii who by habit was tasting teas in his office.

    Chairman Pompeii was very happy after seeing Xu Yi. He wanted to invite Xu Yi to taste some tea with him, but after Xu Yi said something, an agility that didn¡¯t match his body made him jump up.

    ¡°What? The Magic Car has been developed?¡± Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes as his face was covered in shock and joy, ¡°Really? Where is it? Quickly take me to have a look!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and hooked his finger, as chairman Pompeii followed him with a smile.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately bring chairman Pompeii to the magic machine development center in the Falling Rain Valley. Rather he brought him to the Clear Water Blue Sky Neighbourhood that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was developing by the Sandy River.

    This bank had been transformed and the environment had be quite clean. Also in this small neighbourhood by the river bank, it was filled with vis with new concept magic rooms that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce designed.

    Because they were built with the new magic room concept, these houses were filled with household magic machines and enjoyed a stockpile of Magic Crystals. The people who lived here would all experience a different kind of life.

    For normal people, this concept was not only very new, it was also very practical.

    So even if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce were selling these vis for a price of eight thousand gold coins, they had sold a hundred of them in less than two months, which was half of the neighbourhood.

    It was because of this that chairman Cruise was filled with even more admiration for Xu Yi.

    At first he thought that because the cost of these new concept magic houses were too high, so the price would be high and not many people would be able to afford them.

    The truly rich people wouldn¡¯t want small vis like this, so the sales wouldn¡¯t be good.

    However, when determining the price, Xu Yi had chairman Cruise raise the price from five thousand up to eight thousand.

    When they began selling it, the situation had surpassed chairman Cruise¡¯s expectations.

    Just by selling these hundred vis, it allowed the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to gain over two hundred thousand after subtracting the costs.

    If the entire neighbourhood was sold, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would be able to earn arge profit of over five hundred thousand gold coins!

    In this situation, although chairman Cruise heard Xu Yi¡¯s analysis, he was still very confused.

    Because to him, the people of Banta City were very poor, they couldn¡¯t afford this kind of home. As for the very rich people, they would buy their own manors.

    This kind of housing in the middle was something that no one should care about.

    But Xu Yi told him that there was something called ¡°middle ss¡± in Banta City right now. Those people aren¡¯t considered very right, but they weren¡¯t considered poor either.

    These houses that were different from normal homes, but were less expensive that manors, would suit the needs of these people.

    Facts had proven Xu Yi¡¯s analysis.

    Chairman Cruise had a wide social circle in Banta City, but the ones who bought these new concept magic homes were all normal citizens that he didn¡¯t have any impressions of.

    If he had to mention one that he knew, it would be the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Kovac.

    Seeing Kovac who was just a peasant of Irnd Vige two years ago suddenly take out ten sheets of thousand gold coin banknotes and request to buy a vi, chairman Cruise¡¯s mouth fell down in shock.

    When did a peasant that he didn¡¯t even care about be able to pull out ten thousand gold coins at once?

    When chairman Cruise passed his thoughts to Xu Yi, he was brutally ridiculed by Xu Yi.

    The Irnd Chamber of Commerce had developed fast in the past two years and was the leader of theponent industry in Banta City. In thest half a year, they even began producing magic machines.

    For example, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Kettle that came out this year, because it had good quality and was cheap, they even stole quite a bit of the market in Banta City from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The current Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monthly profits by Xu Yi¡¯s estimates was at least over twenty thousand gold coins.

    As the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman and thergest shareholder other than Freeman, Kovac being able to take out ten thousand gold coin at once wasn¡¯t anything surprising.

    Chairman Cruise kept expressing his shock while asking Xu Yi why he raised a tiger.

    Since he knew the Irnd Chamber of Commerce had decent potential, why didn¡¯t he stop them ahead of time from actually stealing the market from them?

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing, not exining anything.

    Of course he wouldn¡¯t tell chairman Cruise that he had done this on purpose.

    Otherwise he could have killed the Irnd Chamber of Commerce while it was still developing.

    But this was indeed raising a tiger, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t refute chairman Cruise.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, tell me¡­..do you think I should run a public transport line here?¡± Chairman Pompeii¡¯s voice pulled Xu Yi back from his memories, ¡°Look, the environment is good here, so there will be peopleing here to y. Although this isn¡¯t considered far from Banta City, it still takes half an hour to walk here so it isn¡¯t considered close. If there¡¯s a transport line that runs here, there should be many people who ride it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Pompeii in disdain, can¡¯t you have a bit of prospect?

    ¡°Although opening a line here, it would mostly benefit the residents here, so you shouldn¡¯t think of making money off this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Although this ce is far by walking, chairman Pompeii, you shouldn¡¯t forget that there are bicycles now. It would only take ten minutes to ride here by bicycle.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the bicycle, chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi with an aggrieved look as he said, ¡°I say, chairman Xu, can you not mention that damn bicycle? Because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing the bicycle, people aren¡¯t taking our carriages now. There are even people who ride bicycles from our Banta City to Karma City or Saltan City. I really don¡¯t understand, it¡¯s sixty to seventy kilometers, but they¡¯re actually willing to ride a bicycle instead of a horse carriage!¡±

    ¡°Of course, the bicycle doesn¡¯t require money.¡± With augh from behind them, chairman Cruise who had been contacted walked over, ¡°Then again, the bicycle isn¡¯t slower than the horse carriage, so why would they spend money?¡±

    ¡°Humph, at least it¡¯s morefortable.¡± Chairman Pompeii red at chairman Cruise before turning to Xu Yi with a wide smile, ¡°But when chairman Cruise develops the Magic Cars, I think that every will choose to ride in our Magic Cars. Don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and said with augh, ¡°I heard chairman Xu mention thisst year, but I never thought that it would take up to now to develop. I really want to see how amazing this thing is, causing me to agonizingly wait for over a year for it.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile. He called the two of them to board chairman Pompeii¡¯s luxurious horse carriage and quickly sped off towards the Falling Rain Valley.

    When the horse carriage started, Xu Yi pulled out a map of the Lampuri Kingdom and ced it in front of the two. He looked at the two doubtful people and said with a serious look, ¡°This time I called you here to participate in the first official test drive of the Magic Car. Other than showing you the merits and performance of the Magic Car, there¡¯s an important cooperation proposition for the two of you. If we can reach a deal, this will probably bring arge profit to yourpanies that will surpass your imaginations.¡±

    Chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii looked at each other, being able to see the lights in each other¡¯s eyes. Then they nodded to Xu Yi, ¡°Speak.¡±

    Seeing the expectant looks the two had, Xu Yi revealed a smile and pointed at a road between Banta City and Anvilmar City. He said with a serious look, ¡°The Fersen Carriage Company has cooperated with us like this before, but it isn¡¯t something that has a system yet. If I summarize it, it is the transport ofmodities across regions, which will be called logistics.¡±

 Volume 3 62 - Why would I develop it if it wasnâ€™t good?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 62 Why would I develop it if it wasn¡¯t good?</h4>

    Logistics was extremely developed in the modern world, but on the Sines Continent, it was currently limited to human transportation and some goods transportation.

    As for major transportation, in the Lampuri Kingdom, it was mainlypanies transporting theirpany¡¯s goods and not otherpanies transporting goods for them.

    On the surface, the Sines Continent¡¯spanies didn¡¯t have this habit, but it was actually because it was limited.

    First, the biggest problem was the road.

    Before the Falling Rain Road, the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have any smooth roads suited for transportation. The cargo would be jolted on the road and there would be heavy losses like that, so thepanies that made these products were not willing to give their important products to otherpanies to transport.

    Because the key issue was that it was hard to transport items far on the Sines Continent. Because of limitations of the road and transport speed, it was likely to lose everything on the road.

    For example, the various household magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made were famous in Banta City and the surrounding cities, but they hadn¡¯t spread across the Lampuri Kingdom in over two years. The biggest problem was their transportation problem.

    Next was the transportation vehicle.

    The main travel method on the Sines Continent was by horse, so the transportation vehicle used was the horse carriage.

    First not mentioning the speed and the endurance of the horse carriage, just buying a horse required a lot of money and the cost of horse breeds made it even higher. So it wasn¡¯t easy to create a carriage motorcade to transport their products.

    These conditions limited the development of logistics, impeding the cirction of products.

    Xu Yi found chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii because chairman Cruise solved the road problem with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and chairman Pompeii would represent the Fersen Carriage Company to solve the transportation vehicle problem.

    ¡°ording to our current experiments, the Magic Car¡¯s main driving force is the Wind Magic Engine, which can reach the same power as six horses at most. At the same time, it can maintain high speed revolutions, traveling at a speed of over thirty five kilometers per hour¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait? Thirty five kilometers per hour?¡± Chairman Pompeii cut Xu Yi off in the middle of his description of the first generation Magic Car, ¡°That means that this thing can run thirty five kilometers in an hour? It¡¯s actually this fast?¡±

    Chairman Cruise on the side also had a look of disbelief, shaking his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°I thought that chairman Cruise telling me before that the Magic Car could run forty kilometers an hour was just boasting, but I never thought it would be true.¡±

    Xu Yi snappily looked at them. He thought that if you¡¯re this shocked by thirty five kilometers an hour, if you saw those F1 race cars from earth that could reach speeds of three hundred and fifty kilometers an hour, would your jaws drop in shock?

    Of course, the horse carriages on the Sines Continent could only maintain a speed of twenty kilometers an hour and that wouldn¡¯tst long, so it was no wonder they were shocked by the speed of the Magic Car.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, you just mentioned that this was when it was empty. How much would the speed be reduced if it was full of cargo? Also how long would itst? Is it faster or slower than a horse carriage?¡± Chairman Pompeii thought for a bit before asking.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s faster than a horse carriage, otherwise why would I develop this?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes and said, ¡°Let me tell you, ording to our experiments, the first generation Magic Car can transport less than a ton of products and can maintain a speed of thirty kilometers per hour, while also being able to go up a slope of no more than thirty degrees, so¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi turned to chairman Cruise and said, ¡°In order to coordinate with the first generation Magic Car, I¡¯ll have to trouble your Amrit Chamber of Commerce to reduce the angle of the slope when paving down roads. If there is a need, the slope can¡¯t be more than thirty degrees.¡±

    ¡°This¡­..I¡¯m afraid is a bit hard.¡± Chairman Cruise was in a bind, ¡°Although our Lampuri Kingdom is mainly t ground, there are still some mountains. To pave a road on a mountain, it is impossible for there not to be a curve.¡±

    ¡°Un, for mountains and viaducts, I¡¯ll talk to youter, this is just a reminder for now. Anyway, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce isying roads on t ground, so it shouldn¡¯t create too much of an angle.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Moreover, this is the limit of the first generation Magic Car. When the Magic Car is more developed, an angle wouldn¡¯t matter at all.¡±

    ¡°Mountain roads and viaducts?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes lit up.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s words, these two things were important things for constructing roads. Chairman Cruise felt impatient, as he wished he could discuss this with Xu Yi now.

    But right now chairman Pompeii was asking Xu Yi other questions first.

    ¡°Can the Magic Car only transport a ton of items at most?¡± Chairman Pompeii¡¯s eyes lit up even brighter than chairman Cruise¡¯s, ¡°God! Our Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s dual horse carriage can only transport five hundred pounds of goods at most!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I said it before, if this Magic Car can¡¯tpare to the horse carriage, why would I spend all this time developing it?¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, I know that you wouldn¡¯t do anything this meaningless.¡± Chairman Pompeii kept nodding. After pausing, he had a ttering smile as he asked Xu Yi with augh, ¡°This¡­..That¡­..Chairman Xu, can I ask what price your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is setting this Magic Car at?¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll talk after you see the Magic Car. Without testing it first, I think that you wouldn¡¯t ept any price I give you.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Chairman Pompeii and chairman Cruise looked at each other before nodding. They thought that since Xu Yi was like this, the price of the Magic Car wouldn¡¯t be low.

    But this wasn¡¯t strange. If this Magic Car was really as good as Xu Yi described, then it was normal for the price to be higher.

    ¡°During this time, we should discuss the matter of logistics.¡± Xu Yi brought the topic back to what he said earlier, ¡°I think that you should be clear on the importance of transporting cargo, so I won¡¯t waste words with that. Right now we should talk about the concrete details of our cooperation. Come, take a look at the map¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at Banta City and then drew a line from Banta City, reaching all the way to Anvilmar City on the map.

    ¡°Look, currently the Amrit Chamber of Commerce has already finished a road between Banta City and Anvilmar City. What is even better is that this road is also being connected to other cities along the way. So right now if we head to Anvilmar City from our Banta City, we¡¯ll be on the road the entire way. Whether it is speed orfort, it¡¯s much better than before. Chairman Pompeii, you should know this better than me or chairman Cruise, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Chairman Pompeii nodded, ¡°Compared to before, right now there are more people willing to take the horse carriage to travel to Anvilmar City or the cities in between because it takes half the time, taking one day instead of three days. Moreover, from the reviews of our customers, right now it¡¯s much morefortable sitting in horse carriages.¡±

    ¡°See, this is the importance of solving the transportation problem. Then what about transporting goods?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°As for goods¡­¡­¡± Chairman Pompeii gave a helpless shrug, ¡°Thergepanies have their own caravans, so they don¡¯t look for ours at all. As for smallerpanies¡­..They don¡¯t have much cargo even if they are transporting goods, so it isn¡¯t cost effective to help them.¡±

    ¡°Then if your Fersen Carriage Company could transport it faster, would the bigpanies be willing to let you transport for them?¡±

    ¡°Of course they would!¡± Chairman Pompeii replied without hesitation before bing discouraged again, ¡°But chairman Xu, even if the Magic Car is strong, the otherpanies would buy their own Magic Cars to form a caravan, so why would theye to us?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I came looking for you first, which is your Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s advantage. Could it be that having an advantage over others, you can¡¯t seize an opportunity?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Chairman Xu, tell me, how can we seize an opportunity? What advantages would we have over others?¡±

    ¡°There are many ces to give you the advantage.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°For example, you could be apany that specializes in transport, so you¡¯ll be better than otherpanies whether it is in terms of quantity or scale of Magic Cars because you can be more flexible with processing business.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand. Whether it is arge or small amount of cargo, we can eat it all up. Is there anything else?¡± Chairman Pompeii asked with an expectant look.

    ¡°For example, because you are buying arge amount of Magic Cars from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you have a better rtionship with us and receive the support of ourpany for your Magic Cars. For example, training Magic Car drivers is one of them.¡±

    ¡°Drivers?¡± Chairman Pompeii and chairman Cruise were stunned, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°To put it simply, they are responsible for driving the Magic Car, which is no different from a horse carriage driver, but¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression suddenly became a bit strange.

    ¡°Because the Magic Cars are a bit more dangerous to drive, the drivers have to take a test before they are allowed to drive them. I have written a letter to her highness Seveni to ask her to propose something to the Royal Parliament. I want all drivers to have a certificate for driving a Magic Car from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which will be called a driver¡¯s license.¡±

 Volume 3 63 - Decided to buy

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 63 Decided to buy</h4>

    On the way to the Falling Rain Valley, chairman Pompeii and chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t understand the meaning and value of the driver¡¯s license that Xu Yi mentioned.

    To them, a horse carriage was quite hard to drive and it couldn¡¯t be done without several years of training, but they had never heard of a horse carriage driver needing a license to drive their carriages. Why would you need a license to drive a Magic Car?

    But when the two of them arrived and saw the Magic Car speeding across the special course built near the northern cliff, they were shocked. They instantly understood why Xu Yi required drivers to test for a driver¡¯s license before driving the Magic Car.

    ¡°This¡­..Isn¡¯t this too fast!¡± Chairman Cruise saw the car that was speeding by before quickly turning into a blur, leaving behind only a small ck dot and muttered in a stunned voice, ¡°Gods above, if one was hit by this thing, how could they keep going.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii was also excited other than looking stunned.

    He narrowed his eyes and stared right at the speeding ck dot. Comparing it in his heart, he found that this thing was only just a bit slower than when a horse was charging at full speed!

    But if a horse charges at full speed, it wouldn¡¯tst long. Since he saw this Magic Car, it had maintained this speed for ten full rotations of the track, running at least ten kilometers!

    ¡°Xu¡­..Chairman Xu, this¡­..I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s not just thirty five kilometers an hour¡­..¡± Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi with a tremble in his voice.

    Xu Yi¡¯s face twitched as he looked at Camby inside the Magic Car that had just finished ap, not knowing whether to be happy or angry.

    When the Magic Car was developedst time and Camby gave him the first official demonstration, it was kept at thirty five kilometers an hour. Why was it that this fellow made this Wind Magic Engine that Xu Yi didn¡¯t consider outstanding to start out at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour?

    Although this performance had shocked chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii, leaving a deep impression of the Magic Car on them, Xu Yi knew that to maintain this speed, for the first generation Magic Car that wasn¡¯t considered perfect was actually a burden. It consumed a lot of energy from this Wind Magic Engine and couldn¡¯t be maintained for long.

    Naturally this technical issue wasn¡¯t something that he could exin to chairman Pompeii, so Xu Yi could only say with a nod, ¡°Un, this Magic Car¡¯s max speed is over fifty kilometers per hour, but I don¡¯t suggest maintaining this speed since it will damage the Magic Car¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, no matter what, sell one to me first!¡± Before Xu Yi finished, chairman Cruise cut Xu Yi off.

    ¡°Right, it doesn¡¯t matter what the price is, sell me one as well!¡± Chairman Pompeii had the same excited look, even brandishing his fist in excitement.

    Xu Yi looked at the two of them in surprise, ¡°You¡­..are you buying it for yourselves? Why?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re still asking why?¡± Chairman Cruiseughed. He pointed at the Magic Car moving at high speeds and loudly said, ¡°Look, a Magic Car that can move that fast, how refreshing is this! Then again, I have to buy one for myself to satisfy my craving!¡±

    Chairman Pompeii also said, ¡°Right! It must be refreshing to drive this thing. I¡¯ve always had a dream of flying across thend on a horse, but my body doesn¡¯t allow me to do that. Now that I¡¯ve seen a Magic Car that can actually run as fast as a horse, wouldn¡¯t I be excited?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless. There was a saying on earth that a car was a man¡¯s second wife and it seemed like this phrase was the same on the Sines Continent.

    It had to be said that chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii were people with experience. Now that they were seeing this Magic Car that Xu Yi considered imperfect and couldn¡¯tpare to the cars from earth, they were actually this excited.

    It was no wonder that although the top race cars on earth were expensive, there were countless people who wanted them and they looked proud buying them.

    ¡°This¡­..If you want it, it¡¯s very simple. Since we are partners, I can specially order two for you based on your specifics, but you should first tell me, are you satisfied with the performance of this Magic Car?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s serious question, the two gradually calmed down. Chairman Pompeii looked at the Magic Car that stopped in front of them with Xu Yi¡¯s signal and after thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°I¡¯m satisfied with the max speed, but chairman Xu, how will this Magic Car transport goods and people? It¡¯s this small¡­..¡±

    This Magic Car wasn¡¯t big, strictly speaking, it was just four wheels on an iron sheet. Then there were metal frames that secured the Wind Magic Engine and the other parts with a driver¡¯s seat included. It was considered the most simple structure.

    After all, this was the first generation Magic Car, so Xu Yi¡¯s requests were to make it as simple as possible. Therefore the magic machine development center worked with the design department to finally create this design.

    It was simple, but it didn¡¯t look good. It was close to what a tractor looked like on earth and it didn¡¯t even have a windshield.

    This simple car wouldn¡¯t be able to transport goods or people, so chairman Pompeii asked this question.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply and he waved his hand. The workers on the side ran to a warehouse to pull out a carriage with four wheels. Then they connected the carriage to the back rim of the Magic Car in front of chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii.

    ¡°See, as long as the trailer is added on, you can put in goods.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and the workers put all kinds of things inside.

    Chairman Pompeii secretly calcted it and he couldn¡¯t help feeling surprised when he saw that these things surpassed at least a ton.

    When the things were loaded in, Xu Yi called out to Camby who wasn¡¯t willing to get out and he started the Magic Car again.

    With the hum from the Wind Magic Engine, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretly knitting his brows when he heard this.

    It had to be said, the Wind Magic Engine wasn¡¯t strong enough.

    This wouldn¡¯t appear when there was no cargo, but this was demonstrated when it was transportingrge amounts of cargo.

    But chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii didn¡¯t know anything about this, so they couldn¡¯t tell that something was wrong like Xu Yi.

    They only saw that after the Magic Car made some noise, it began slowly moving. In a while, it was running down the road at high speeds with over a ton of cargo.

    Although it was clearly slowerpared to before, it still surpassed their expectations. It was clearly much faster than when horse carriages were used to transport cargo.

    The two watched the Magic Car tow this cargo around the track ten times at high speeds before chairman Pompeii suddenly turned to Xu Yi. He asked with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, give me your price.¡±

    Xu Yi asked with a faint smile, ¡°What? You decided to buy?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii gave augh, ¡°Let those damn horse carriages be damned! Alright, chairman Xu, give me a fair price, I¡¯ve already decided to buy it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at hairman Cruise and saw that he was waiting for his answer, so he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ###

    Mercado left his home early in the morning.

    Although the sun had juste up, it was hot because it was mid June. When he arrived at the Fersen Company¡¯s stop by his house, he was already covered in sweat.

    However, the heat from his body couldn¡¯t counter the excitement and expectation in his heart. He didn¡¯t feel any difort at all.

    Great! That damn Count Stagg was finally getting the hell out of Banta City!

    When he thought of the report in the ?Banta Times? that Count Stagg would be leaving soon, Mercado really wanted to break out inughter.

    Because that bastard insisted on carrying out his agricultural promotion policies, thepanies had all left Banta City. It caused people like him who couldn¡¯t leave Banta City for work to lose their jobs for thest half a year. In the end, he had to stay home for the past half a year and rely on his savings to pass his days. He couldn¡¯t even bear to repair his Magic Air Conditioner when it broke.

    But now it was good, that bastard was finally leaving and thepanies wereing back. As for Mercado, he could find a job without having to leave Banta City!

    Thinking of how he would be riding the public horse carriage to the Sandton industrial district, Mercade became excited.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened a new fertilizer factory in the Sandton industrial district, the otherpanies seemed to have received a signal. They began opening all kinds of factories in the Sandton industrial district, with many of them flying the banner of supporting the agricultural sector.

    Now that the Sandton industrial district seemed as prosperous as two years ago, the factories were all recruiting workers.

    Mercado decided to head to the Sandton industrial district today. He heard that severalpanies were hiring, so he wanted to test his luck.

    He believed that with his experience working for the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, it wouldn¡¯t be hard for him to find another job.

    When he was thinking about how to introduce himself in the interviewster, Mercado felt that there were more people around him.

    He knew that the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport carriage wasing, so he stopped thinking and looked in the direction of the public transport carriage.

    But when he looked up, he was as stunned as everyone around him.

 Volume 3 64 - Medium sized Magic Passenger Car

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 64 Medium sized Magic Passenger Car</h4>

    From the distant corner, what slowly came to the stop wasn¡¯t the same horse carriage that he was familiar with. Rather it was a white and green iron box that was rectangr with a width and height of three meters and a length of five to six meters!

    This giant iron box had green tilted square ss windows that were reflecting the light of the morning sun. It created a slightly green glow as it headed over.

    Seeing this strange sight, many people were shocked.

    When that giant iron box stopped in front of everyone, one person suddenly reacted and loudly shouted, ¡°I remember now, this is that medium sized Magic Passenger Car that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has just invented for transporting people!¡±

    With this reminder, everyone started reacting.

    ¡°Right, right, the ?Banta Times? had reported this a while back, how could I forget?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, so it was the medium sized Magic Passenger Car. It doesn¡¯t seem like the picture in the ?Banta Times? at all, so I didn¡¯t recognize it.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I couldn¡¯t see anything from the picture in the ?Banta Times?, but seeing it now, hei. Although it does seem a bit rough, it does seem solid.¡±

    ¡°Right, this thing was made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it should be as solid as the other magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll know once you get on.¡±

    When this was said, everyone woke up and began heading towards the open door in front of them.

    When they entered this medium Magic Passenger Car, everyone found that the space inside was much bigger than the horse carriages from before.

    There were over ten people at this stop and if it was the public transportation horse carriage from before, they would have filled a single horse carriage without any extra space.

    But in this medium sized Magic Passenger Car, there was arge space to freely move around in.

    Moreover, there were rows of seats that one could easily fit in. After they entered the vehicle, almost everyone could easily find a seat to sit in.

    ¡°Not bad, it¡¯s quite cool.¡± Mercado sat down in a seat by the window and feeling the sensation from under his butt, he gave a satisfied praise.

    The seat should be made of stic, it should have been made by the Night Song Tribe stic processing factory that the citizens of Banta City were gradually bing familiar with. It felt cool to sit on, it was perfect for winter.

    When everyone was looking around, the person who was sitting in the first seat on the left side of the Magic Passenger Car turned around and shouted to everyone, ¡°Hey, you guys, don¡¯t just look at the car and pay the fare first!¡±

    Everyone was stunned before looking at that person. They noticed that this person was the public transport carriage driver that they were familiar with, Krush.

    After being surprised, everyone broke out inughter. Then one person asked in a worried voice, ¡°Hey, Krush, this medium sized Magic Passenger Car seems better than the horse carriage from before. Does that mean the fare is more expensive now?¡±

    Hearing this question, the others looked at Krush with concerned looks.

    Compared to what this medium sized Magic Passenger Car looked like, this was the question they cared about the most.

    Krush curled his lips before saying with augh, ¡°Rx, although the carriage has changed, the fare has actually dropped. If you¡¯re riding from here to the Sandton industrial district, the fare has gone down from three silver coins to two silver coins.¡±

    Hearing that the price had dropped, everyone let out a sigh of relief even though they were surprised. They praised the Fersen Carriage Company for being apany with a conscience. They had changed to a better vehicle, but the fare had decreased instead.

    However, Krush added in, ¡°But I must remind you, this public transport line now has unmanned fees. As long as you get in the car, you have to throw two silver coins into this box. It¡¯s two silver coins no matter where you go, it won¡¯t be more or less.¡±

    Everyone looked at the box that Krush was pointing at beside him and Mercado couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Then you¡¯re saying that if I¡¯m only heading two stops up, it still costs two silver coins?¡±

    Krush replied with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Isn¡¯t this too much?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it costs two silver coins for a little bit of road, it¡¯s too expensive. I might as well walk.¡±

    ¡°Hey, I just said that the Fersen Carriage Company was apany with a conscience and now it¡¯s this ck hearted. Are you ying me?¡±

    ¡­...

    Hearing everyone¡¯s arguments, Krush said with augh, ¡°If you¡¯re not satisfied with this price, that¡¯s fine. You can get off and ride a public transport horse carriage, it still follows the same price as before. But don¡¯t me me for not reminding you when you regret itter.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other. There were five people who hesitated before getting out. It was clear that because their travel distance was short, it wasn¡¯t effective for them to spend two silver coins.

    Krush looked at the remaining eight and asked, ¡°Then you¡¯ve decided to ride this car?¡±

    The eight all nodded.

    ¡°Alright, thene over and throw in two silver coins. Remember, if you¡¯re riding this car in the future, throw your money in when you¡¯re getting on. I won¡¯t be reminding you.¡±

    Seeing the eight throw in two silver coins, Krush pressed a button on the control panel in front of him and the door that was open was automatically closed.

    Seeing this, eight people in the car couldn¡¯t help praising it.

    This medium sized Magic Passenger Car was something made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it really was amazing.

    ¡°Alright, side down, we¡¯re about to start moving!¡± Krush suddenly called out. He didn¡¯t move at all, but everyone felt the car shake. There was a slight humming that came from below them as the giant car slowly began moving forward.

    Although from the series of reports that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put in the ?Banta Times?, they knew that this Magic Car didn¡¯t need a horse to start moving, when they experienced it moving themselves, they couldn¡¯t help staring at it in shock.

    There were clearly no horses pulling and there wasn¡¯t anything else pushing it, so how could thisrge iron box move the eight of them and Krush forward?

    This¡­..This was simply too amazing!

    This medium sized Magic Passenger Car was quite slow at first, but as it began moving forward, it gradually began moving faster. After a while, it actually surpassed the speed of a public transportation horse carriage.

    When they drove out of Banta City and got on the road to the Sandton industrial district, the Magic Passenger Car began moving even faster.

    When the speed finally became steady, the eight people saw the scenery flying past them in the window and they opened their eyes in shock, being unable to say a thing.

    With their current speed, wouldn¡¯t they reach the Sandton industrial district in just over ten minutes?

    Mercado looked at the scenery outside in a daze. After thinking about it, he went to Krush¡¯s side and looked at the round thing that was in Krush¡¯s hand. When he turned it left, the Magic Car turned left and when he turned it right, the Magic Car turned right, as if it was aware of this change.

    ¡°Hey, Krush, is this round thing what controls it?¡± Mercado asked.

    ¡°Don¡¯t talk to me!¡± Unexpectedly, Krush didn¡¯t reply to his answer and just quickly said this to him.

    Mercado was stunned and seeing the nervous expression on Krush¡¯s face, he instantly understood.

    It seemed like Krush wasn¡¯t skilled with driving this medium sized Magic Passenger Car, so he needed to fully concentrate when he was driving it.

    Understanding this, Mercado no longer bothered him and sat back down.

    This Magic Car went at a speed that was twice the speed of the horse carriages on the road outside the city. It stopped at several stops and two people got on before they arrived at the Sandton industrial district.

    Finally when they stopped at the stop outside Sandton Manor, Mercado roughly estimated that it took them around twenty minutes toe here from Banta City.

    Compared to before when it took half an hour or over forty minutes to reach this ce, it saved quite a bit of time.

    Watching the other passengers get off, Mercado thought for a bit. He didn¡¯t get off the car and went to the Krush sitting in the front. He asked Krush with a smile, ¡°Hey, Krush, how about you tell me about this thing? You seem nervous, is it your first time operating this?¡±

    Krush looked at him and said with a cold snort, ¡°How could it be the first time? Let me tell you, to drive this thing, you have to get a driver¡¯s license from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. To get a driver¡¯s license, of course you have to pass the various training and tests of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If you can¡¯t pass, you can¡¯t get a driver¡¯s license and you can¡¯t drive it.¡±

    After saying this, Krush had a somewhat proud look on his face like having a license was something to be proud of.

    Mercado was a bit surprised, ¡°Driver¡¯s license? What is that?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± Seeing that Mercado was confused, Krushughed before bing more proud. Seeing that no one was getting on, he calmed down and exined to Mercado, ¡°You saw it when you were in the car, right? This car goes so fast and if it were to hit someone, or if I were to hit a ditch in the side of the road, wouldn¡¯t it be bad?¡±

    Mercado thought about it before nodding, ¡°Un, indeed. With how fast it is, something definitely would have happened.¡±

    ¡°So this driver¡¯s license means that you are confident in driving and the driver¡¯s license proves that you are confident. Let me tell you, at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s test, the scenarios were even harder than driving this. The worst test was when they had me park this in between two cars with only just a single iron sheet¡¯s width between the cars, that¡¯s considered hard¡­..¡±

 Volume 3 65 - Taxi

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 65 Taxi</h4>

    After listening to Krush, Mercado gave up on finding work at the Sandton industrial district. Rather he headed to the Falling Rain Valley, nning to participate in the driver¡¯s license exam at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After personally experiencing the speed andfort of the Magic Car, Mercado was certain that this thing would rece horse carriages. It would be the most used method of transportation in the Lampuri Kingdom and even the Sines Continent.

    Then that driver¡¯s license would be necessary in the future. If he passed the test ahead of time, it meant that he would have an advantagepared to others.

    But while Mercado was excited when he rode Krush¡¯s Magic Car to the Falling Rain Valley, after he arrived, he was heartlessly rejected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, we aren¡¯t holding driver¡¯s license exams right now. If you want to apply, please patiently wait for a notice from ourpany.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s receptionist was young, beautiful, and had a nice voice, but he was dissatisfied when he heard this.

    ¡°Why?¡± Mercado angrily pped the desk in front of him, ¡°This Magic Car is clearly produced by yourpany and you¡¯re the ones who want people to take the exam, so now you¡¯re telling me that you¡¯re not holding exams? Are you ying me? Doesn¡¯t this mean that if I go and buy a Magic Car, but because I don¡¯t have a driver¡¯s license, wouldn¡¯t I have bought it for nothing? Because I can¡¯t drive it at all! Tell me, how do you do business like this!¡±

    Mercado¡¯s raised voice echoed through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s lobby, immediately attracting everyone¡¯s attention.

    The receptionist¡¯s face turned a bit red as she quickly shook her head and said, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, this sir, I didn¡¯t mean that. This is the policy of ourpany. Moreover¡­..ourpany currently isn¡¯t nning on selling Magic Cars to individuals right now¡­..¡±

    ¡°Not selling to individuals?¡± Mercado¡¯s eyes popped out again, ¡°Then who are you nning to sell to? Only to the Fersen Carriage Company? Could it be that we normal people aren¡¯t qualified to buy it?¡±

    Seeing Mercado¡¯s fierce expression, the receptionist¡¯s face turnedpletely red. She could only shake her head and couldn¡¯t say a single word.

    Although she had been the receptionist for some time, the guest that came here all admired the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they were very polite to her. How could they be as fierce as Mercado was now? It really made it hard for her to adapt.

    Seeing that the receptionist was speechless, Mercado became even angrier.

    Because he had been unemployed for half a year, Mercado had a lot of pressure. Now that he had finally found a chance for better work with the driver¡¯s license, but he was told that he couldn¡¯t test for one, it immediately made the anger he had over thest half a year explode.

    ¡°Let me tell you, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t let me test for a driver¡¯s license, you¡¯re discriminating against us normal people. I¡¯ll tell¡­..¡±

    Mercado had just said this when he felt someone tapping his shoulder and he angrily waved his hand.

    ¡°Scram!¡±

    That person tapped his shoulder once again.

    Mercado¡¯s anger surged and without caring, he turned and sent out a punch.

    However, this punch seemed like it had hit a soft but firm wall, scattering all the power behind this fist.

    Mercado looked at the tornado that surrounded his right fist in a daze before looking up at the person in front of him, immediately bing shocked. It was like a tub of cold water fell over him and his legs turned soft as he fell to the ground.

    Xu Yi shook his head and waved his hands at the guards, stopping them froming over. He reached out towards Mercado on the ground and said with a faint smile, ¡°This sir, no matter how you feel about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you don¡¯t need to yell at such a young girl like this, right? Getting angry doesn¡¯t solve your problem. If you have opinions, you can calmly express them. If we can solve them, then I think that we will be happy to help you.¡±

    Mercado looked at Xu Yi in front of him. That anger that filled his mindpletely disappeared and all that was left was shame. He wished that he could dig a hole to jump into.

    Too embarrassing!

    It really was too embarrassing!

    He had actually yelled at a young girl in front of all these people and had even cursed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their domain!

    The most important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had seen him!

    ¡°I¡­..I¡­..I don¡¯t have any opinions, just¡­..I just lost control of my emotions¡­..¡± Mercado couldn¡¯t meet Xu Yi¡¯s eyes at all, as he kept looking around while answering, ¡°That¡­..Xu¡­..Chairman Xu, you¡­..you shouldn¡¯t mind it. I¡­..I was just impulsive and¡­..didn¡¯t mean anything.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I can understand that everyone will feel like that sometimes. But this sir, I heard you say that you wanted to take the test for a driver¡¯s license?¡±

    Hearing this question, Mercado remembered his goal. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was in front of him, how could he miss this great chance?

    He ignored his shame and embarrassment as he looked at Xu Yi with an expectant look and said, ¡°Right, I rode the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s new public transportation line and heard the driver mention that a Magic Car requires a license, so I came to ask about it. Chairman Xu, why aren¡¯t you holding tests for driver¡¯s licenses right now? I feel that there is a lot of promise with these Magic Cars, so there will definitely be people who want to test for driver¡¯s licenses in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a bit of surprise, ¡°You just heard it from a driver and you wanted to take the test?¡±

    ¡°Un, because I feel that the Magic Cars will definitely rece the horse carriages, so it¡¯s better to get the driver¡¯s license as soon as possible.¡± Mercado said with a nod.

    Xu Yi smiled as he looked over Mercado again. He thought that this fellow who looked hysteric just now had quite the insight.

    ¡°It will definitely be opened, but it is currently being prepared and there are many things that haven¡¯t been finished yet, so it isn¡¯t open for now.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°If you really want to take the test, you can wait for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to announce it.¡±

    Although it was the same answer, Mercado definitely didn¡¯t dare shout at Xu Yi. He could only honestly agree, but he didn¡¯t give up as he asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, why will the Magic Cars be sold to normal people like us?¡±

    Xu Yi asked back in an interested voice, ¡°What are you nning on buying the Magic Car for?¡±

    Mercado scratched his head and said in an embarrassed voice, ¡°This¡­..I was riding on the medium sized Magic Passenger Car and felt that with how fast it ran and howfortable it was, it would definitely be popr for traveling long distances. So I thought¡­..You see, there are many ces the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport system doesn¡¯t reach and if there was a Magic Car that specially brought them to those ces which could be called at any time, it would definitely be popr.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Mercado with a look of surprise. If he didn¡¯t misunderstand, this Mercado actually wanted to buy a Magic Car to use as a taxi?

    This fellow didn¡¯t seem that special, but he never thought that his mind for business would be this good. He was able to step ahead of everyone else ande up with the concept of a taxi!

    Seeing the strange expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Mercado thought that he had said something wrong. He revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This¡­..Chairman Xu, do you think that my idea isughable?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s notughable at all.¡± Xu Yi quickly shook his head, ¡°It should be that I admire your idea, but just one or two is too petty. How about this, you can go to the Fersen Carriage Company to see chairman Pompeii and say I¡¯m introducing you. I think that chairman Pompeii will definitely be interested in your idea and would be very happy to discuss it with you.¡±

    Xu Yi actually took a piece of paper from the receptionist and wrote a simple letter of introduction, which caused Mercado¡¯s heart to almost explode with excitement.

    Chairman Xu was actually rmending him to the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii! He also said that chairman Pompeii would be interested in his idea!

    Great! I, Mercado can have a day like this!

    Being able to connect with important people like chairman Xu and chairman Pompeii, he would definitely be rich!

    Xu Yi put his personal seal on the letter of introduction and gave it to Mercado who didn¡¯t know what to do with his excitement. He patted him on the shoulder and had a guard on the side send him off before returning to the people who had been waiting on the side.

    ¡°Sorry, I¡¯ve made you wait for a small matter.¡± Xu Yi said to everyone with a smile.

    ¡°How so?¡± The Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank waved his hand with a smile, ¡°We¡¯ve seen how magnanimous chairman Xu is through this small matter. You could have just chased this fellow out, but you actually listened to him, helped hime up with a n, and even introduced him to chairman Pompeii. It really is admirable.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Although I always thought that chairman Xu is a generous person who didn¡¯t care about the small stuff, I never thought that chairman Xu¡¯s heart is this open. You¡¯re even willing to calmly talk to this kind of person, I really can¡¯t admire you anymore.¡± The Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent also had the same praise.

    Even the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgan who didn¡¯t always have the best rtionship with Xu Yi also nodded as he praised, ¡°Indeed, chairman Xu makes me feel ashamed. I think that you wouldn¡¯t make us look that badter, don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the three of them and gave a coldugh in his heart.

    These three fellows were calling him ¡°magnanimous¡± and ¡°open hearted¡± was to remind him to make some concessionster.

    But it was a pity that for the Magic Car technology that they wanted, he couldn¡¯t give relent at all and could only make them disappointed.

 Volume 3 66 - Why canâ€™t you sell it publicly?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 66 Why can¡¯t you sell it publicly?</h4>

    In the conference room facing the other three chairman, Xu Yi didn¡¯t speak definitively.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t impossible to transfer the Magic Car technology, but not right now.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Three sirs, although the Magic Car is a magic machine, it is much moreplex than the other magic machines that ourpany has developed. It includes many different kinds of technology, some of which ourpany hasn¡¯t fully developed yet, so there¡¯s no meaning in me transferring it to you right now.¡±

    Chairman Rank said with a faint smile, ¡°We are not that greedy. Chairman Xu, actually we didn¡¯t want you to transfer the Magic Car technology to us this time, we just hope that since we are all old friends, you can put us on the same starting line as the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Fersen Carriage Company. Don¡¯t treat us too differently.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Rank and said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Rank, I think¡­..you should be clear on the reason why I have a special rtionship with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Fersen Carriage Company.¡±

    Their expressions changed and chairman Rank¡¯s smile became a bit awkward.

    Last year when Count Stagg took over as City Lord and began aiming at Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi announced that he would withdraw from the Business Union. The otherpanies had remained silent and only the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Fersen Carriage Company had followed Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber ofmerce. Chairman Cruise even went crazy at the meeting and scolded the otherpanies for being petty people who swayed with the wind.

    Because thepanies of the Business Union led by chairman Rank didn¡¯t support Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they wouldn¡¯t be able to receive the same treatment from Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi directly pointed this out and the three of them couldn¡¯t refute this.

    As for chairman Morgan and chairman Vincent who represented the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and the Armani Chamber of Commerce that cooperated on a deeper level than the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, they had even more awkward looks.

    Because of this matter from before, theirpanies had many cooperations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so normally they always imed to be partners when speaking privately to Xu Yi.

    However, at this critical moment, these two partners disyed less conviction than the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise.

    It was better for chairman Morgan. He had a bad rtionship with Xu Yi at first and only after the Jole Family and Xu Yi reached an agreement did he start treating Xu Yi better.

    The Armani Chamber of Commerce had a deep cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even building the production base on the ck Rice Wastnd with the Armit Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of how they were cooperating on the ck Rice Wastndst year, where Xu Yi supported them in various aspects, chairman Vincent couldn¡¯t help feeling ashamed.

    But chairman Vincent was a man with decades in the business world, calming down after a minute. He instead used this point to say to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, we were indeed wrong in the past, but this matter is over. Don¡¯t we have a good cooperation now? Since we can cooperate in other matters, I believe we can also cooperate on this matter, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Chairman Rank and chairman Morgan looked at chairman Vincent, thinking that this fellow really could react fast.

    But business deals were like this, there were only ever benefits. Friends and enemies meant nothing, deals were made based on the situation.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the mine from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, chairman Morgan and Xu Yi were like mortal enemies. After the Jole Family and Xu Yi reached an agreement, their rtionship slowly became better.

    Moreover, just two months ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened a non-ferrous mine and a non-ferrous smelting nt in Cramer City with the Falcao Chamber of Commerce. Now when chairman Morgan saw Xu Yi, he would smile more and became more considerate.

    Comparatively, chairman Rank treated Xu Yi with the same friendly tone with a bit of politeness. Since they weren¡¯t close and they didn¡¯t hate each other, it didn¡¯t really change.

    ¡°Un, I agree with chairman Vincent, but I¡¯m sorry, what I said just now is the truth. It isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not nning on spreading the Magic Car technology, the timing isn¡¯t right.¡± Xu Yi paused for a bit before deciding to put it more straightforward for them, ¡°If I can be a bit rude, the Magic Car technology is above the level of your magic machine technology right now. Even if I give you the technology, you wouldn¡¯t be able to digest it at all and it would be useless.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were rather impolite and the other three chairmen couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows.

    Chairman Morgan gave a soft snort and asked in a deep voice, ¡°You mean that ourpanies aren¡¯t qualified?¡±

    ¡°This is a bit much, but¡­..it¡¯s the truth.¡± Xu Yi nodded without any courtesy, ¡°In terms of technology, there can¡¯t be any lies. Yourpanies have obtained the production methods for the Magic Fan, the Magic Kettle, and other magic machines from ourpany, so I believe you should be clear on this. Although these magic machines seem simple, the technology contained is very deep. Even with the same material and same manufacturing standards, there are still differences in the end product produced.¡±

    The three chairmen were silent, but they couldn¡¯t help nodding.

    Xu Yi waspletely right. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle production method, so now there were many otherpanies that produced the two in Banta City.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce said they wouldn¡¯t produce the Magic Kettle, there is no difference.

    But when it came to the Magic Fan, even within the same technology and standards, the quality and performance of the Magic Fans produced by the otherpanies wereckingpared to the Frestech Brand.

    Although this difference was smallerpared tost summer, it was still quite obvious.

    As for this summer, most of thergepanies started selling their Magic Fans, but the Frestech Brand took most of the market. The otherpanies either had to lower their prices or transport them to other cities to sell, avoiding directpetition with the Frestech Brand.

    The three chairmen came looking for Xu Yi wasn¡¯t to have him transfer the technology for the Magic Fan. Rather it was because they had some objections to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only providing Magic Cars to the Fersen Carriage Company.

    But they didn¡¯t expect that Xu Yi would expand the topic this far from chairman Rank¡¯s single reminder.

    Regarding the issue of technology, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had their monopoly, the three of them couldn¡¯t dispute this with Xu Yi at all.

    Moreover, from Xu Yi¡¯s tone, it showed that he could transfer the Magic Car technology in the future, which was enough for the three of them.

    So the three were silent for a bit before looking at each other and exchanging a look. Chairman Rank gave a cough before revealing a smile, returning to the main goal of looking for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you aren¡¯t willing to transfer the technology, of course we can¡¯t force you. But we want to buy the Magic Cars that you produce, this can¡¯t be considered too far, right?¡± Chairman Rank said.

    ¡°I understand your demand for the Magic Cars, but it¡¯s a pity that I can¡¯t help you.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and replied in a helpless voice.

    ¡°Why?¡± Chairman Morgan knit his brows, ¡°Could it be that you haven¡¯t decided who you¡¯re nning to sell the Magic Cars to?¡±

    ¡°To be honest, if possible, I want to sell the Magic Cars to as many people as possible, but¡­..There is an important problem limiting this, which is that ourpany can¡¯t produce that many units.¡± Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°ording to our statsst month, we are currently producing two thousand cargo transporting Magic Cars a month and the Fersen Carriage Company only has two hundred medium sized Magic Passenger Cars. It is hard enough to meet the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s demand, so how could we sell to the public?¡±

    ¡°So, why are you only willing to sell to the Fersen Carriage Company and why are you not willing to divide a bit of that to ourpanies?¡± Chairman Morgan directly asked.

    ¡°This¡­...It¡¯s because ourpany can¡¯t produce enough, so I hope that our limited supply can be used where it is needed the most. As for the other demand, it can only wait.¡±

    ¡°You mean to say¡­..the Fersen Carriage Company needs these Magic Cars more than us?¡± Chairman Morgan tightly knit his brows, ¡°Based on what?¡±

    ¡°Because the Fersen Carriage Company is a specialized logisticspany and you¡¯re not.¡± Xu Yi replied in a simr direct manner.

    ¡°Logisticspany? What is that?¡± The three were stunned.

    Xu Yi smiled and patiently exined the concept of logistics to the three of them, then he roughly exined the logisticswork that he had discussed with chairman Pompeii for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°In short, I think that something like logistics is more efficient if we handed it to apany specializing in it. It can save ourpanies that produce the product arge amount of manpower, effort, and energy which we can use for our core business, so it¡¯s actually a good thing.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But it doesn¡¯t save money, does it?¡± Chairman Morgan gave a strong snort, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that the Fersen Carriage Company can make money from this, then wouldn¡¯t we need to pay more?¡±

    ¡°Believe me, letting the Fersen Carriage Company transport your goods is definitely much cheaper.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Moreover, I didn¡¯t say that we wouldn¡¯t sell Magic Cars in the future. If you¡¯re not satisfied with the Fersen Carriage Company and want to transport goods yourself, you cane and buy some when the timees. As for now, I¡¯m sorry, but ourpany can¡¯t provide the products.¡±

    The three chairmen looked at each other a few times before chairman Morgan asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, when do you think that yourpany can start selling Magic Cars?¡±

    ¡°Three months.¡± Xu Yi stretched out three fingers, ¡°In three months, we¡¯ll be able to satisfy the initial needs of the Fersen Carriage Company and then sell the Magic Cars.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Chairman Morgan pped the table, ¡°I want to make an order now, will you ept it?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course. Ourpany¡¯s Magic Cars are to be sold, how can I not take orders?¡±

 Volume 3 67 - The industry is brutal

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 67 The industry is brutal</h4>

    ¡°One thousand for the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, one thousand for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and for the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡­..three thousand?¡± Kennard looked at the orders Xu Yi gave him and raised his brows in surprise, ¡°ording to the pricing, shouldn¡¯t we give a discount? Shouldn¡¯t we give them some benefits? This is too strange, sir chairman, don¡¯t they care about the price?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s because they aren¡¯t qualified to make a counter offer. Then again, how could we take the initiative to give a discount or benefits right now?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Kennardughed, ¡°This Magic Car can only be produced by ourpany, there¡¯s no need to care about the thoughts of the buyers. But speaking of discounts and benefits¡­...Sir chairman, there are many otherpanies that areunching discounts for their household magic machines now that summer is here, do you think we need to do the same?¡±

    ¡°You are the CEO of ourpany, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°At first, I did consider whether we should give a discount or not and steal back the markets of the otherpanies. But after seeing this Magic Car, I gave up this idea.¡± Kennard replied.

    ¡°Oh? Why? Let me hear it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because the Magic Car is much better than the horse carriage when ites to transporting ability and speed, as well as being much more secure. With the roads, we can easily transport goods to the other parts of the kingdom, so even if we lose markets in Banta City and the surrounding cities, we can open markets in other ces. With the high quality and good performance of our Frestech Brand magic machines, we can easily open these markets.¡±

    ¡°This idea is very correct.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I discussed logistics with chairman Cruise and chairman Pompeii before, currently the goal is to promote goods cirction in the Lampuri Kingdom, allowing the goods of each city to be easily transported to the other cities. The era is different now, we can¡¯t limit our vision to just Banta City and the surrounding cities, we should be looking further out.¡±

    ¡°Un, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be apany that can affect the entire Lampuri Kingdom, there¡¯s no prospect in just staying in Banta City. So sir chairman, I approve of the long term n that you have very much.¡± Kennard paused before saying, ¡°But there is a problem right now.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    Kennard stood up and moved to the superrge Lampuri Kingdom map on the wall of his office, pointing at small dots of various colours in the map with a serious expression.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look. These dots on the map show the distribution of the magic machines of otherpanies in our Lampuri Kingdom that I¡¯ve graphed based on my rtionship with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi stood up and looked over the map. He gave a nod of praise, ¡°Not bad, it¡¯s much morepared tost year. It seems like the magic machine industry is finally rising in our Lampuri Kingdom, I¡¯m very happy.¡±

    Kennard gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, the problem is because you are very happy¡­..¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean by that?¡±

    Kennard shook his head and pointed at the map as he said, ¡°ording to the stats, thepany that produces magic machines, most of them have obtained a part of their technology from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce before producing magic machines. I had people collect samples and found that there is arge difference in quality between most of their magic machines and our Frestech Brand magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Where¡¯s the problem there? Didn¡¯t you say that we would be able to easily open up the new markets with the quality and high performance of our Frestech Brand magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s indeed like this, but¡­¡­¡± Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a bit of a helpless look, ¡°Sir chairman, I understand very clearly that you wish for the magic machine industry to develop on the entire Sines Continent and the growth of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is second. That¡¯s right, with the high quality and performance of our Frestech Brand magic machines, no matter where we go, we can easily defeat all those lower grade magic machines. But like this, we would suppress these developing magic machinepanies, wouldn¡¯t that be going against what you want?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise, never expecting that the highly skilled CEO who had a strong mind and insight who he trusted very much would actually be thinking about this.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi waved his hand and said, ¡°Although I do want the magic machine industry to develop, this doesn¡¯t conflict with developing our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If some smallerpanies that produce magic machines can¡¯t resist the impact of our Frestech Brand magic machines, it is a pity, but they weren¡¯t suited for the business.¡±

    Kennard hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°But¡­..don¡¯t they represent the me of hope that you mentioned before?¡±

    ¡°Remember this, machines are cold and industry is brutal. For something like the machine industry, we can¡¯t be careless and have low quality. If they don¡¯t have the skills to survive, then we don¡¯t need to feel pity for them.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°If you feel it is a pity, you can think about the other magic machinepanies of our Banta City. Compared to thepanies of other ces, thepanies in Banta City can survive and develop while being in directpetition with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Since our Banta Citypanies can do this, why can¡¯t they?¡±

    ¡°This¡­..¡± Kennard thought for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°I understand what you mean. Sir chairman, after our Frestech Chamber of Commerce enters other cities, we¡¯ll be treated normally.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Xu Yi looked at the map before saying with a smile, ¡°I also want to remind you not to be too arrogant. There are many times that the quality of a product will correspond with the sales, there are many other factors.¡±

    Kennardughed, ¡°Be assured, sir chairman, I have a deep understanding of this from the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    After saying this, Kennard suddenly moved back to the dest. He looked over his desk before taking a thick document and handing one page from it over to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took this paper and looked over the title, seeing that it had the words ¡°sample testing results report¡± written inrge font.

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t I just say that I had people bring back magic machines produced by the otherpanies of the kingdom? This is the sample testing report. Through this report, we can grasp the technological level and quality of the otherpanies, making it easier for me toe up with countermeasures.¡± Kennard exined.

    Xu Yi gave a nod of praise, ¡°Very good, Kennard, you really are an outstanding CEO.¡±

    Xu Yi looked back at the one page that Kennard gave him and found that it was a product evaluation report for the ¡°Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce¡±.

    ¡°Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows in thought, ¡°Isn¡¯t this thepany that we founded with the Magicians Guild¡¯s president under his son¡¯s name? What about it? Is there a problem?¡±

    Kennard¡¯s expression became a bit strange, ¡°Sir chairman, when we examined the magic machines produced by the otherpanies, we found that they had a decent grasp of the technology, so the quality and functions of their magic machines weren¡¯t bad.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is very normal. Look at the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Irnd Brand Magic Fan that theyunched in a week. Whether it is in quality or performance, it could match our brand¡¯s Magic Fan.¡± Xu Yi gave a happy nod as he said, ¡°This is a result that I¡¯m happy to see.¡±

    ¡°But¡­...When appraising the Magic Fans produced by the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, Camby and the others found a few problems¡­¡­¡± Kennard said in a hesitant voice.

    ¡°A few¡­..problems?¡± Xu Yi felt it was a bit strange. He looked down at the report and said in a confused voice, ¡°There are differences in the statspared to ourpany¡¯s magic machines, which is normal. Where is the problem?¡±

    ¡°Camby and the others found that although the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines can¡¯tpare to our Frestech Brand, still¡­..in their magic machines, there were many details that were the same as ourpany¡¯s magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°We had an agreement with president Eren, so the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce received special treatment. This isn¡¯t strange.¡±

    ¡°No, sir chairman, although we have provided some technical guidance to the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce under your instructions¡­..the parts Camby and the others found were never told to them. For example, the Magic Array linking technology for our new generation of Magic Fans, because we applied for a patent, we haven¡¯t given it to the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce. But in the magic machines produced by the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, we found this technology present.¡±

    Seeing the hesitant look on Kennard¡¯s face, Xu Yi was surprised for a bit before understanding.

    ¡°You mean that¡­..our technology was divulged?¡±

    Kennard¡¯s expression became serious as he gave a slow nod, ¡°Sir chairman, I believe¡­..that there is a traitor in ourpany.¡±

 Volume 3 68 - Magic Airship Model

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 68 Magic Airship Model</h4>

    When mentioning divulging technology and traitors, Xu Yi immediately thought of Rem.

    Under Cimirot¡¯s prompting, he entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility with his rtionship to We. He had stolen many pieces of technology from the research facility, including divulging the details for the Magic Kettle, causing the Magic Kettle to be released ahead of time by Cimirot¡¯spany.

    Although this was done deliberately by Xu Yi, making Cimirot reveal his plot in front of everyone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered losses because of this.

    The main reason for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce deciding not to produce Magic Kettles and chose to transfer this technology was this.

    For Xu Yi who came from earth with its developed business world, he had heard countless cases of corporate espionage. Moreover, he was already prepared for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to encounter this sooner orter.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered thepany with the most special technology in the Lampuri Kingdom and even on the Sines Continent. Moreover, they had mane magic machines that only they could produce, so if the technology they had didn¡¯t attract people, it would be strange.

    But hearing Kennard confirm that there was a traitor in thepany, Xu Yi¡¯s heart sunk and he was quite unhappy.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s wages weren¡¯t the highest in Banta City, their benefits were much better than the otherpanies.

    If you work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as you didn¡¯t make any big mistakes, you could live a carefree life.

    In this situation, there was someone who was willing to be a traitor and sell their technology, which of course hurt Xu Yi.

    But that was only for a second. Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a naive child, of course he understood that in the face of enough benefits, anyone could be moved to betray them.

    After being depressed for a bit, Xu Yi asked Kennard for the details.

    What made him feel assured was that the technology divulged wasn¡¯t too serious. It was some small details that was divulged and the core parts of the technology couldn¡¯t be seen from the magic machines from the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce.

    Although this could mean that the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t use it for now, the situation was still quite good.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to spread this matter for now.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before telling Kennard, ¡°Secretly investigate this. There aren¡¯t many people with contact with this technology, so it shouldn¡¯t be hard to investigate.¡±

    I understand.¡± Kennard nodded as a trace of anger filled his voice, ¡°This fellow dares to do something like this under my eyes, I definitely won¡¯t let him off when I catch him!¡±

    Seeing Kennard¡¯s expression, Xu Yi smiled and patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, don¡¯t mind it too much. You are ourpany¡¯s CEO, you should be thinking about how to adjust the security of ourpany through this matter and try to prevent this matter from happening again.¡±

    ¡°I will seriously consider this.¡± Kennard gave a strong nod.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said a few more words to Kennard before leaving his office, heading to the magic research facility.

    ¡°Evita, I came to talk to you about a few things¡­¡­¡±

    When he opened the door to Evita¡¯sb, a ck shadow suddenly came out to wee Xu Yi. Xu Yi never expected something to fly out of Evita¡¯sb, so he didn¡¯t dodge in time and it hit him in the head.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    With this sound, Xu Yi suddenly felt dizzy as he took in a cold breath, holding his head as he leaned over.

    ¡°Ah? Chairman? You¡­..¡± Evita called out in surprise before the quick sounds of her footsteps rang out. She leaned over by Xu Yi¡¯s side and took Xu Yi¡¯s face as she asked, ¡°Chairman, are you alright? Are you injured? Does it hurt? I¡­..I¡¯m sorry, I identally¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his forehead and knit his brows as he looked at Evita¡¯s eyes filled with tears. He forced out a smile, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m just a bit dizzy.¡±

    ¡°Dizzy? Oh,e, lie down and rest first.¡± Evita quickly supported Xu Yi by the arm to lie down on the sofa she had prepared in theb. Then she poured some hot water and got a towel which she put on Xu Yi¡¯s forehead. She poured a cup of tea and held it in both hands before sitting by the sofa, looking at Xu Yi with concern.

    Although Xu Yi had be a bit dizzy from being suddenly hit, he was already better after a while.

    Looking at Evita¡¯s eyes that were filled with concern and apology, Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, no need to be this nervous. I¡¯m already better.¡±

    Xu Yi got off the sofa after saying this, but Evita pushed him back down.

    However, she was still holding the teacup and reaching her hand out in a panic, she found that it was likely the entire cup of tea would be poured over Xu Yi.

    Evita was in a panic and quickly reached out her left hand with the teacup, but because she was prepared to press Xu Yi down with her right hand, she had lost her bnce and fell straight forward.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    The teacup mmed onto the ground and shattered to countless pieces, as the hot tea sshed on the ground, but the room was filled with a deathly silence.

    Feeling the gentle touch on his lips, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide in disbelief. He had seen this damn thing in the cartoons on earth, but he never thought¡­..that it would happen in real life!

    Evita¡¯s eyes were also wide open as she looked at Xu Yi in a daze. She wanted to say something, but when her lips moved, she could feel the warmth that wasing from Xu Yi¡¯s lips even more clearly.

    Then she felt the breath that came from Xu Yi¡¯s nose hit her face and Evita¡¯s face turnedpletely red. She finally reacted and forcefully pushed off, standing up and turning her back to Xu Yi. It was like her body was stiff and she couldn¡¯t help trembling as she moved.

    Xu Yi touched his lips and remembered the feeling just now. Seeing Evita¡¯s trembling back, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    He never would have thought that this kind of ident would happen with Evita.

    After the room was silent for a bit, Xu Yi gave a soft cough, ¡°That¡­..Evita¡­¡­¡±

    Evita suddenly trembled and after calming herself, she gave a strong nod while taking a deep breath before turning around.

    Although her face waspletely red, her expression had been forced back to normal.

    ¡°Chair¡­..Chairman, you¡­..are you alright?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..I¡¯m fine, I¡¯m really alright.¡± Xu Yi looked at Evita acting calm and felt that it was better to forget this embarrassing matter as soon as possible. After thinking about it, he looked at the door and asked Evita, ¡°What were you doing? What flew out?¡±

    When Xu Yi asked this, Evita looked more rxed, but there was a trace of regret. She calmed down and ran to the door, picking up the thing that had fallen to the ground after hitting Xu Yi. Then she closed the door beforeing in front of

    ¡°This is the Magic Airship Model that I¡¯ve researched over a few days, please take a look.¡±

    ¡°Magic Airship?¡± Xu Yi took the thing that seemed to be made of stic that was the same size as his hand that looked like a ship from Evita in surprise. Carefully looking at it, he found that there was a small Magic Array in the center of the model, ¡°This is¡­..a Wind Controlling Array?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s a Wind Controlling Array.¡± Speaking of research, Evita¡¯s emotions gradually returned to normal, ¡°Look, as long as magic power is injected, this Magic Airship Model can float.¡±

    Evita reached out her slender finger to tap the Magic Airship Model and sent a bit of magic power into the Magic Array.

    With a light blue flow, Xu Yi felt like the Magic Airship Model lost all weight and slowly floated up from his hands.

    Seeing the Magic Airship Model floating there, Xu Yi remembered the feeling of when he first encountered magic after transmigrating to this world.

    Flying was rather easy in this world¡­...

    ¡°Evita, do you want to develop a real Magic Airship by studying this thing?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Right.¡± Evita nodded with a smile, ¡°I read in a book before that when the elves were at their strongest, they had made severalrge Magic Airships that allowed them to easily move around the continent. But after the elves were defeated in the race wars, the Magic Airship technology was lost. Although there were some human magicians that wanted to study Magic Airships, because there were too many requests needed for one, there hasn¡¯t been a magician who has seeded.¡±

    ¡°Then why are you determined to study this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has stronger research in magic machinespared to other magicians, don¡¯t you think, sir chairman?¡±

    Seeing Evita¡¯s smart aleck smile, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help but also smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines are real magic machines. What other magicians develop are just toys. Alright, Evita, then tell me now, how far have you gone in your research of this Magic Airship?¡±

    Evita looked at the Magic Airship Model that almost reached the ceiling and turned to the Magic Array carved on a log on her bench. She exined to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, look, there is the same Wind Controlling Array on this. Then using the Magic Array Resonance technology that Akali developed, I can control this Magic Airship from a distance.¡±

    As Evita put magic into the Magic Array on the log, the Magic Airship Model in the air stopped moving up.

    ¡°Other than being able to make it elevate and descend from a distance, I can also control its flight.¡±

    There was a faint blue light that came from the log in Evita¡¯s hand and the Magic Airship Model in the air. The small Magic Airship Model began quickly moving around in theb.

 Volume 3 69 - Act like the chief

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 69 Act like the chief</h4>

    Seeing the Magic Airship Model flying around above him, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit emotional.

    This world really was different from earth.

    The existence of magic made many things easier to developpared to the industrial system on earth, moreover, there were many advantages that the machines from earth didn¡¯t have.

    Take the Magic Car, although it took a long time to develop the engine, because of the power of magic, the Magic Car¡¯s greatest advantage was that it used Magic Crystals, instead of burning gasoline. So there wasn¡¯t pollution that was produced, so there was no need to care about exhaust.

    At the same time, the Magic Car had a high efficiency when it came to consuming energy. As long as the Magic Crystals were refined, they could bepletely consumed. Because there was no need to worry about impurities, the consumption of the Magic Engine was small and the lifespan was longer.

    Of course, there were still ws. Compared to cars from earth, the Magic Car relying on the Wind Magic Engine wasn¡¯t strong enough. Even if the speed of the Magic Cars couldpare to the cars from earth, they were more like electric cars rather than gas powered cars.

    But the Magic Engine was still being developed and Xu Yi believed that as long as the output of the Magic Engine was increased, they could slowly increase the speed of the Magic Cars.

    This was just the advantage of the current Magic Car. If one was to talk about the Magic Airship Model in front of him,pared to the nes from earth, there were even greater advantages.

    The first problem for flying vehicles on earth was first solving the problem of flight.

    In order to break free of the shackles of gravity, the people in the history of earth worked hard to study flying items. They thought of every method they could to reach their goal.

    As for the nes and helicopters of the modern earth, to break free of the fetters of the ground, they first had to guarantee a strong propulsion.

    On the Sines Continent, because of the existence of magic, the hardest part which should be getting off the ground became strangely easy. Only a single Magic Array was required to easily enter the air.

    Then adding in the Magic Array Resonance that Akali developed, they could easily control it from a distance.

    Although right now the Magic Airship Model that Evita developed was on the same level as the model airnes on earth, this represented a feasible direction of research.

    The Magic Airship Model¡¯s Wind Controlling Array didn¡¯t have much magic from Evita and after flying around a few times in the air, it returned to Evita.

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Airship Model in Evita¡¯s hand and found that this model was very simple. It was just a simple model made of stic that Evita had put a Wind Controlling Array on, there was nothing else to it.

    ¡°Evita, are you confident in developing a Magic Airship that can bring people into the air?¡± Xu Yi asked after thinking about it.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Evita revealed a confident smile, ¡°Otherwise how could I have made this model?¡±

    ¡°Alright, I authorize the magic research facility to begin this Magic Airship research project and you will be the project leader. I authorize you to have second grade authority on my authority as the chairman, you can use any resources you want from thepany.¡±

    ¡°Second grade authority?¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi in pleasant surprise, ¡°That¡¯s great! Chairman, I never thought that this thing would be this important to you.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t hard to fly in the sky for us magicians, but for the millions of normal people, that is something that they dream about. The Magic Airship has such a great significance, how could it not be important to me?¡±

    Evita took the Magic Airship Model from Xu Yi¡¯s hand with a smile and carefully put it back on theb bench, as she let out a long sigh.

    ¡°I was worried that my research wasn¡¯t important, but now that the chairman has affirmed this, I can be assured.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you many times, any research rted to magic machines, you have to boldly attempt it and I will support you. Not to mention that there is a lot of promise in the research of Magic Airships, so what are you worried about?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m worried about spending money.¡± Evita perhaps was too happy, so she stuck her tongue out to Xu Yi and gave a naughty smile, ¡°In the first half of the year, our magic research facility has already received five hundred thousand gold coins in fungs, but we didn¡¯t achieve much. It makes me feel like we¡¯re wasting money. Last time Kennard told me that we have to use the research funds properly, we shouldn¡¯t use them for research that won¡¯t help the development of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Kennard told you this?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised as he slightly knit his brows, ¡°That fellow, I told him countless times about the importance of research and he said these words to you. What is he doing as the CEO?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s face sink, Evita was scared and quickly waved her hands, ¡°No, no, no, Kennard said that our magic research facility has been spending on research funds on things we don¡¯t need. I was nning on checking on this and eliminating unnecessary projects. No matter what, we can¡¯t waste the funds thepany gives us.¡±

    ¡°Your idea is good, but Evita, you have to listen to me on this.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°No matter what research it is, as long as it is rted to the development of the magic machine industry, it¡¯s worth it no matter how much money is spent. If Kennard looks for you about this again, you can just tell him what I said. When ites to investments in the magic machine development center and the magic research facility, not just five hundred thousand, even one million isn¡¯t much.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s determined look, Evita opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say anything and could only nod in agreement.

    Xu Yi rxed his expression and said with a smile, ¡°Alright, it isn¡¯t good to let you negotiate with Kennard, so I¡¯ll go tell him. Evita, your thoughts are correct, you are the magic research facility¡¯s chief and you should have some understanding of the projects here. As for which projects are useful or not, I trust your judgement.¡±

    ¡°But there are many times when I can¡¯t even tell¡­..¡± Evita muttered.

    ¡°Then it¡¯s very simple, when you aren¡¯t certain, let me make the decision.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Evita, there¡¯s something I always wanted to tell you. Since you are the magic research facility¡¯s chief, then you have to act like one. Your personality is too gentle, so when you aren¡¯t strict enough dealing with the researchers under you, that is not a good thing.¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi and with her intelligence, she could naturally understand what he meant.

    Xu Yi exined the matter of the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce to her and Evita¡¯s expression changed when she heard this.

    ¡°Chairman, you are doubting our magic research facility¡¯s researchers?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not suspecting them now because if there was a researcher that wanted to betray thepany, the things leaked wouldn¡¯t be some technology that isn¡¯t rted to the core technology. I wanted to tell you this so you can secretly keep an eye out. I want you to see if there are any researchers that identally revealed anything to otherpanies.¡±

    Evita softly bit her lip and had a look of guilt, ¡°Chairman, it was my fault, I didn¡¯t manage the magic research facility properly.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t rted to you.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and said, ¡°Moreover, right now, there aren¡¯t any losses. I just hope that you will sharpen up and manage the researchers under you¡­..Eh¡­..Just take it as a reminder and tell them the importance of maintaining secrecy. After all, they have signed the confidentiality use with thepany, so neither thepany nor them want to see any trouble ur.¡±

    Evita gave a strong nod, ¡°Yes, I will.¡±

    ¡°Of course, don¡¯t disclose this matter, just pretend that it¡¯s a kind reminder.¡± Xu Yi added.

    ¡°Un, I know what to do.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Although Evita was young, she had a steady personality and did things well, so Xu Yi believed that she could handle this.

    And in the end, the magic research facility wasn¡¯t that big, so it was quite easy to handle.

    This matter was just a small test from Xu Yi to Evita.

    ¡°Right, chairman, didn¡¯t you say that you had something to talk to me about? Other than this, is there anything else?¡± Evita asked.

    ¡°Oh, because I was hit by your Magic Airship, I almost forgot.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Evita looked at the Magic Airship Model on the table. She thought of how worried she was when Xu Yi was hit and then she remembered the awkward matter, causing her face to turn red.

    ¡°The other matter is rted to the Magic Crystal refinement.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°Since your research on this is practically finished, then the next step is to officially integrate it. ording to the n, I n on building a Magic Crystal refinement factory in three months. While the factory is being prepared, you and the magic machine development center will be cooperating on developing equipment for refining Magic Crystals.¡±

    ¡°Un, that shouldn¡¯t be a problem. I discussed this with Camby and the others before and they said that there were no problems.¡± Evita said with a nod.¡±

    ¡°Alright then, I¡¯ll wait for your good news.¡±

    After talking about these matters, Xu Yi saw the blush on Evita¡¯s face and thought that it wasn¡¯t right for him to tease Evita like before. After thinking about it, he stood up and left.

    Evita was silent as she watched Xu Yi leave.

    Only Evita¡¯s expression was veryplicated as she watched him leave, as she revealed aplicated look that was between hope and disappointment.

 Volume 3 70 - Stubborn Amelud

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 70 Stubborn Amelud</h4>

    After leaving the magic research facility, Xu Yi went around the factories of the Falling Rain Valley, focusing on the situation of the tire factory.

    Because of the appearance of the Magic Car, even if the tire factory had magic production machines developed for making tires, because there was arge demand for Magic Cars, there was arge demand for Magic Car tires.

    Adding in the fact that there were many orders for many horse carriage tires and bicycle tires, the work for the tire factory was very heavy. The workers in the factory were almost always working overtime.

    Butpared to the people of earth whoined about overtime, the workers of the tire factory were very happy to work overtime.

    Becausepared to normal working hours, the wages for overtime were much higher. So including the overtime wages, the workers of the tire factory normally earned twice their monthly wage and most workers had earned close to forty gold coins alonest month.

    For many of these workers who had worked as farmers before, they might not even earn as much money working for a whole year.

    With the encouragement of money, their enthusiasm for work surged.

    And if they stayed overnight to work overtime, they could enjoy the meals provided by thepany.

    It had to be known, Xu Yi was very willing to spend money on worker benefits, so the meals thepany provided were very delicious and rich, so they were loved by the workers.

    Not long ago, there were even workers who asked thepany to build arge cafeteria in the Falling Rain Valley to take care of the three meals a day for their workers. At worst the cost for their meals could be taken from their wages, it was better than rushing home to eat every day.

    Kennard had attached great importance to this request and after handing it to Xu Yi for approval, Xu Yi immediately agreed.

    Right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was choosing a ce in the center of the Falling Rain Valley, nning to build a cafeteria.

    Xu Yi had a high prestige in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When he arrived at the tire factory to inspect their work, it was like the workers working hard were hit with stimnts and began working even harder.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much. He looked around and pulled the manager of the tire factory over to talk about the security issues and the rest of the workers. He looked over the hundred elf workers in the factory before leaving this ce.

    Thinking of the hundred elves working hard, Xi Yi headed towards the Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic processing factory.

    Right now the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory was as busy as the tire factory.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce received an order for a thousand medium sized Magic Passenger Cars from the Fersen Carriage Company, but each Magic Car required thirteen stic seats, so there were a total of thirteen thousand stic seats required.

    Xu Yi had given all of this to the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory.

    Just with this order, it was enough for the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory to be busy for a long time.

    Not to mention that the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory was already bing famous in Banta City and the surrounding cities, so now there were more people finding ways to rece things with stic, which made it easier to use and much cheaper. So the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory gradually had more and more orders, causing the elves to be much busier.

    When he walked into the factory, he saw that even the factory manager Amelud was a part of the production line. He was personally packing the products, which made Xu Yi unable to stop himself from shaking his head before calling him to the side.

    ¡°Chairman, do you need something?¡± Because it was busy, Amelud hadn¡¯t rested in a long time. He was much differentpared to the handsome appearance he had when Xu Yi met him for the first time.

    Xu Yi looked him over and shook his head. He pointed at the busy scene in the factory and said with a sigh, ¡°Amelud, are you nning to continue like this?¡±

    Amelud was surprised, ¡°What?¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Xu Yi really wanted to hit him on his head to wake him up, but thinking that elves were stubborn, he gave up this idea, ¡°Hey, Amelud, when elder Illusia had you take responsibility for the stic processing factory, what did she say to you?¡±

    Amelud looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°The elder wanted me to properly manage the factory and let it produce products smoothly. Right, the elder also said that if there¡¯s anything that I don¡¯t understand, I could ask the chairman for help.¡±

    Speaking of this, it was like Amelud finally understood as he asked, ¡°Chairman, do you feel I¡¯ve done something wrong? Please don¡¯t have any scruples and tell me directly.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°You still don¡¯t understand what I mean? Look at the current appearance of the factory, if you continue like this, how will your nsmen have any rest?¡±

    ¡°They won¡¯t.¡± Amelud honestly shook his head, ¡°But chairman, there is this much work, I don¡¯t have a choice.¡±

    ¡°Then have you thought about ways to improve the situation?¡± Xu Yi asked without expecting anything, ¡°I¡¯m not talking about turning down some of the smaller orders because I know you aren¡¯t willing to do this.¡±

    ¡°Un, Delil worker hard to get these orders, so how could I let down her hard work.¡± Amelud said with a nod.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°So I was toozy to say this. The current problem is that you can¡¯t reduce the orders or the work, so you should think of a way to increase efficiency. Look at how chaotic the factory is right now, this low efficiency makes it so you can¡¯t have any free time.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Amelud looked around the busy factory and didn¡¯t think that it was as chaotic as Xu Yi said it was.

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe me?¡± Xu Yi looked at Amelud, ¡°Do you believe that if you go to any other factory of ourpany in the Falling Rain Valley and see how they work, would their efficiency be higher?¡±

    Amelud revealed an awkward smile as he said, ¡°Chairman, I don¡¯t have time to visit the other factories and¡­..I feel that doing this isn¡¯t appropriate because our stic processing factory is an elven factory and is different from your human factories.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit that it¡¯s not the same!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help cursing, ¡°They¡¯re all factories producing goods, how could it be different? Are you looking down on human factories? If you¡¯re talking about efficiency, any factory in the Falling Rain Valley is better than yours, do you believe that?¡±

    Amelud¡¯s expression became more awkward as he said with a bitter smile, ¡°I believe, but chairman, I feel that our elven factory can¡¯t have the same model as your human factories. After all¡­..there are only elves here.¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh as he shook his head, ¡°Do you believe that elder Illusia would be angered to death by this? The elder agreed to set up this factory with me to have youe in contact with humans, so you can learn the advantages we humans have, but what are you doing now? You¡¯re keeping your nsmen working in a dry factory all day and rejecting toe in contact with us humans. This ispletely ignoring the elder¡¯s expectations, isn¡¯t this putting the cart before the horse?¡±

    Amelud knit his sharp brows and thought about it before honestly saying, ¡°Chairman, you¡¯re right. I was just thinking about how to manage the factory and forgot about what the elder instructed me. Can the chairman please tell me what I should do?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t direct you.¡± Seeing Amelud honestly admitting his mistake, Xu Yi¡¯s anger faded. He waved his hand and said, ¡°The suggestion I can offer is to improve your nt management and raise your efficiency, giving your nsmen some time to rest. It¡¯s best that you start visiting the humans and the dwarves of the valley.¡±

    ¡°Then chairman, how should I increase efficiency?¡± Amelud asked again.

    ¡°Un¡­..How about this? Vice chairman Heinz is back and he has plenty of experience with this. You can go to Banta City tomorrow and ask for his help, or you can invite him to your factory to give you some guidance. With him helping you, I think that you can quickly change this situation.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Other than that, I need to talk to Delil so she understands that now that your factory has some fame, there¡¯s no need to ept all the orders. Actually, for some smaller businesses, you can learn from me and give it to some smallerpanies to handle.¡±

    ¡°You mean letting the Irnd Chamber of Commerce produceponents for you? But ourpany mainly creates finished stic products, we can¡¯t do this, right?¡±

    ¡°That depends on you, I don¡¯t care that much.¡± Xu Yi said with a shrug, ¡°Elder Illusia wants you to manage the factory so that you can be more flexible, you should think about this.¡±

    Amelud thought about it and gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I will properly consider this. Many thanks for the chairman¡¯s guidance.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and turned to look at the elves working in the factory, before thinking about the hundred elves he saw at the tire factory. These elves really aren¡¯t a flexible race, no wonder they were eliminated in history and reced by humans.

    But this is good, it meant that they couldn¡¯t be any threat to humans. Xu Yi could work hard to integrate them into human society and there would be no need for extra worries.

 Volume 3 71 - About to have a child!

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 71 About to have a child!</h4>

    ¡°ording tost month¡¯s stats, right now, there are a total of eight thousand four hundred and fifty one people who applied forbour cards through our New Moon Chamber of Commerce. The biggest part of that is dwarves, with a total of four thousand seven hundred and ny two people, then it¡¯s beastmen with two thousand four hundred and forty seven people, and finally it¡¯s elves with one thousand two hundred and twelve people.¡±

    Still finished her report before looking at Xu Yi with a confused expression.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m very curious. Why do you insist on letting other races be a part of our human society?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s because other races have abilities that humans don¡¯t have, sopared to separating them from human society and even having them oppose us, wouldn¡¯t it be better for them to be a part of our society and contribute to developing that society?¡±

    ¡°I understand you need the elves and dwarves since the elves have magic knowledge that humans don¡¯t have and dwarves are naturally skilled at crafting. But as for the beastmen¡­..I don¡¯t see any part of them that is stronger than us humans.¡± Still still had a confused look.

    ¡°Of course there is. For example, they are stronger, so many physical jobs in factories are given to beastmen. A single beastmen worker is equal to three human workers and their wages are lower, so it¡¯s more convenient to use them.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Then again, the fox and rabbit beastmen have their own specialties. Look, didn¡¯t the first performance of your performance troop create quite a stir?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°That is only because everyone was curious about the beastmen girls and the performance you mentioned was very new. However, those beastmen girls don¡¯t stand out that much, the one in charge of teaching them performance art isn¡¯t satisfied with them at all.¡±

    ¡°Then be a bit more patient.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°I only hope that the beastmen girls can be a window for us humans to look into the lives of the beastmen, so everyone won¡¯t fight the beastmen anymore and it¡¯ll be easier to hire more beastmen.¡±

    ¡°Un, those beastmen girls are also working hard. Also they¡¯re very obedient, they do whatever I tell them to do.¡± Still looked at Xu Yi and suddenly revealed a faint smile, ¡°Xu Yi, those fox and rabbit girls are very beautiful, do you want me to introduce you to a few of them? They are very interested in you.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes and pinched Still¡¯s face.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have the time to meet them. I¡¯ll leave this performance troupe to you, I won¡¯t meddle. If you don¡¯t do well, humph, humph, see how I take care of you.¡±

    Still looked over at Xu Yi, ¡°Humph,e if you have the skills, I¡¯m not afraid of you¡­..¡±

    Halfway through her words, Still suddenly knit her brows. Her expression became a bit pained and held her stomach as she bent over to throw up.

    Xu Yi was scared and softly patted her back. He asked in a worried voice, ¡°What is it? Where do you feel ufortable?¡±

    Still¡¯s sudden reaction didn¡¯tst long and she returned to normal after throwing up for a bit.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine.¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s worried gaze, Still shook her head andforted him, ¡°It¡¯s just that I¡¯ve felt a bit of difort recently and wanted to throw up. But there¡¯s nothing else wrong, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°Is it because it¡¯s been too busy at the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and you¡¯re tired?¡± Xu Yi said with a frown, ¡°How about you hand this matter to your assistant and rests for a bit?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s really nothing.¡± Still waved her hand, ¡°I¡¯ll go see a doctor tomorrow, it should be a small matter.¡±

    Xu Yi seriously looked over Still¡¯s face and he kept asking about her body, but Still kept telling him that she was fine, so he calmed down.

    ¡°Alright, tomorrow morning, I¡¯ll take you to the doctor. No, I¡¯ll have someone bring the doctor over now.¡± Xu Yi stood up and when he went out to find someone to have them bring the best doctor to the Falling Rain Valley, there were two figures that appeared at the door. It was Agnes and elder Illusia.

    ¡°Chairman, where are you going?¡± Agnes saw the anxious Xu Yi and asked this.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised to see elder Illusia, but he quickly replied, ¡°Still¡¯s sick, I wanted to get someone to bring a doctor over from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Still¡¯s sick? I¡¯ll go take a look.¡± Agnes charged into the room without another word.

    Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you don¡¯t mind, let me take a look at young miss Still. I¡¯ve done some research into your human medicine before?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at her in surprise, ¡°You actually studied our human medicine?¡±

    ¡°We elves have very long lives, so we have to find things to do.¡± Elder Illusia exined, ¡°Although my level can¡¯t bepared to your human doctors, I do have a bit of confidence.¡±

    Xu Yi had known elder Illusia for a long time, so he knew that she didn¡¯t speak nonsense. Since she was confident, it meant that her human medicine knowledge wasn¡¯t weak.

    After also inviting elder Illusia in, he found that Agnes was by Still, questioning her with a concerned look.

    Seeing this situation, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Without knowing it, Agnes and Still had be quite close.

    Elder Illusia came to Still¡¯s side and reached her hand out towards still. She looked into her mouth and after a few questions, she revealed a happy look before turning to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, congrattions.¡±

    ¡°Congrattions?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Congratte me on what?¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Still with a wide smile before saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Young miss Still isn¡¯t sick. If I¡¯m not wrong, she should be pregnant. Giving birth to a descendant is something worth congratting.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi was stunned.

    Agnes on the side excited grabbed Still¡¯s hand, ¡°Still, that is great! You¡¯re actually pregnant! You¡¯re about to have a child! That really is great!¡±

    Still was a bit surprised at first, but she was a girl and had guessed it a bit on the first day this urred, so she was prepared. She quickly reached and although she was happy and she had an open personality, her face couldn¡¯t help turning a bit red in shame.

    At this time, Xu Yi finally forced himself to react. He looked at Still in a daze for a bit before his eyes fell onto her stomach.

    ¡°Still¡¯s pregnant? That means¡­..I¡¯m about to have a child?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was stunned and filled with disbelief.

    In the over twenty years he was on earth, because of his personality and his experiences, he had never had a single girlfriend.

    But aftering to this world, not only did he meet Still, he even married her and was about to have a child!

    Xu Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva in difficulty. He went forward and leaned down, as he stretched out his trembling hand to touch Still¡¯s stomach.

    ¡°Fool, how could you feel it now?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi and said in a shy, angry voice.

    Xu Yiughed like a fool while scratching his head. He looked at elder Illusia and asked, ¡°This¡­..Elder Illusia, what should we do now?¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing you have to do. Although the birth of a life is a matter worth being happy about, it takes a long time for it to grow. During this time, you need to take care of young miss Still¡¯s health, so that she can smoothly give birth to this child.¡±

    Xu Yi calmed down and finally recovered from his dazed appearance.

    ¡°Alright, Still, as for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, you can just stay home and rest for now.¡± Xu Yi took Still¡¯s hand and said with a serious look, ¡°Nothing is important anymore, understood?¡±

    Still knit her brows and shook her head, ¡°No, I don¡¯t agree. Although I understand the importance of my child, I don¡¯t want to stay home bored all day. I¡¯ll keep working, but I won¡¯t let myself be as busy.¡±

    Xu Yi also knit his brows, ¡°How could that be? It¡¯s the most dangerous time right now, what if something happens¡­..¡±

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t want to be useless.¡± Still firmly shook her head, ¡°Although the New Moon Chamber of Commerce was something you proposed, I¡¯ve put plenty of blood, sweat, and tears into it, so I won¡¯t give it up.¡±

    ¡°No one wants you to give it up, I just hope that you will rest for now. After this period passes, you can do whatever you want.¡± Xu Yi patiently exined to her.

    ¡°But this is the most important period for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, if I¡¯m not there, all my efforts might be wasted.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that exaggerated. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce is the onlypany with representation rights, so even if you¡¯re not there, they just need to take care of a few things. It¡¯s not thatplicated.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you questioning my work?¡± Still suddenly said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi was stunned. Seeing the expression on Still¡¯s face, he understood that Still was serious.

    ording to his understanding of Still¡¯s personality, if he didn¡¯t agree, Still would ept his decision in the end, but she would be unhappy.

    But now that Still was pregnant, he hoped that she could stay home and remain safe.

    In the end, their family didn¡¯t need Still¡¯s work to support them.

    This was Xu Yi and Still¡¯s first real argument because of a disagreement in opinion. Seeing theplicated and unwilling look on Still¡¯s face, Xu Yi¡¯s logic told him that if they continued, this argument would reach the level of quarrel if they continued and he wasn¡¯t willing to see that.

    After considering it, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He shook his head and said, ¡°How could I doubt your work, I¡¯m just worried about you.¡± He turned to elder Illusia, ¡°Elder Illusia, what does Still need to pay attention to right now?¡±

    When Xu Yi and Still were arguing, elder Illusia and Agnes had awkward expressions. Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, elder Illusia immediately revealed a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re too worried. Although young miss Still needs to care for her body now that she¡¯s pregnant, a pregnant mother isn¡¯t as weak as you think, so there¡¯s no need to be this worried. For young miss Still, the most important thing is to be in a good mood. But¡­..young miss Still, being pregnant is veryplicated and it is a very rare experience. I ask you to pay attention to your body, otherwise it¡¯ll be your biggest regret if something happens.¡±

    With elder Illusia mediating, Xu Yi and Still calmed down at the same time.

    The two looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

    Still pulled Xu Yi squatting in front of her up and pulled him to sit beside her, before putting his hand on her belly and said with a charming smile, ¡°Xu Yi, the old rules?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately nodded, ¡°Alright, the old rules.¡±

 Volume 3 72 - The matter of successor

    Volume 3 Chapter 72 The matter of sessor

    ¡°Thank you, elder Illusia.¡± Xu Yi sincerely expressed his gratitude to elder Illusia, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you, I might have started fighting with Still.¡±

    Elder Illusia shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°No, chairman Xu, you were already calm, right? I believe that with your love towards young miss Still, you wouldn¡¯t have really argued with her.¡±

    Xu Yi looked back into the room and saw Vivian who had received the news and Agnes whispering with Still,ughing from time to time. He shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Right, how could I be willing to fight with her? But I¡¯m really worried that she won¡¯t pay attention to her body. If something really happens, it¡¯ll be toote to regret it.¡±

    ¡°I said just now, a pregnant mother¡¯s body is stronger than you think, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡± Elder Illusia looked back into the room and said in an emotional voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve lived in this world for a long time and actually understand many things about you humans. To me, a man who cares about his wife this much is very rare.¡±

    ¡°If you can¡¯t treat your wife well, that man is a failure.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Not to mention that Still is such an outstanding wife.¡±

    ¡°I agree, young miss Still is very outstanding. Since I first saw her, I was moved by her innocence that wasn¡¯t weaker than us elves.¡± Elder Illusia looked back at Xu Yi and said with a smile, ¡°But¡­..chairman Xu, it would be good if you could be this gentle to others.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before he revealed a smile, ¡°What? Did Ameludin to you about me?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not as exaggerated asining.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°He just told me that you criticized him a few days ago and he was grateful to you. Because of your criticism, he began confronting the problems of the factory and he invited vice chairman Heinz to help him to teach him how to manage the factory better. Now the factory is much more efficientpared to before and he and the nsmen are much more rxed.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°My goal was to see him increase efficiency, so he and the nsmen won¡¯t stay in the factory all day. That way they have more time to do other things and they won¡¯t let down your hopes in them.¡±

    Elder Illusia took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m very grateful for your concern towards me and my nsmen. Being able to have a noble human as you as a partner, I am very happy.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, this is what I just promised you, so of course I would fulfill it.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile.

    ¡°There aren¡¯t many humans like you with such virtue, otherwise we elves wouldn¡¯t be this careful towards humans and be worried about being lied to by humans.¡± Elder Illusia said with a sigh.

    ¡°Actually there are many humans who lie and hurt each other, but there are also many cases of human friendships.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The difference is that we humans know how to distinguish people, knowing that being hurt and lied to is just one person and not rted to the whole human race. So elder Illusia, I support your idea of letting elvese in contact with humans. As long as there are more exchanges, you will understand better and avoid being lied to as much as possible.¡±

    ¡°I understand, but there is a problem now.¡± Elder Illusia said.

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°Although our Night Song Tribe has worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for close to two years, we don¡¯t have many chances toe in contact with humans. So there are many people who don¡¯t understand us elves and we haven¡¯t really been integrated into human society, being epted by humans.¡±

    ¡°You mean¡­..you want to find another method to let the elves have more contact with humans?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Elder Illusia nodded, ¡°Chairman Xu, Agnes told me that young miss Still¡¯s New Moon Chamber of Commerce recruited some young beastmen girls into a performance troupe to demonstrate the other side of beastmen to humans, changing their image of beastmen. Then do you think that there is a simr way to demonstrate another side of us elves to humans?¡±

    ¡°It would be good if there were televisions in this world¡­..¡± Xu Yi muttered to himself. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°Elder Illusia, I think that you won¡¯t ept performing in front of the humans, right?¡±

    ¡°I indeed am not willing.¡± Elder Illusia gave a nod, ¡°My nsmen wouldn¡¯t ept doing this, so chairman Xu, can you think of another way for us? I know that you have a very clever mind, so you should be able to think of a way.¡±

    ¡°You really are overestimating me.¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, but he began thinking more seriously.

    Elder Illusia made this request to him, which meant that she trusted him very much.

    Otherwise, something that would change how humans saw elves and would decide the future development of the elves was something that she would not discuss with him.

    Moreover, this meant that elder Illusia was nning to take another step forward into human society, which was something that Xu Yi was very happy to see.

    Xu Yi¡¯s mind thought of the various advertising methods from earth, but he found that there were few that suited the elves. If they wanted to achieve something that was long term and stable, it was even harder.

    Xu Yi kept walking back and forth in thought out of habit. After walking around a few times, he looked at Still in the room and suddenly had an idea, turning back to elder Illusia with a smile.

    ¡°I have an idea.¡±

    ###

    Only a few people knew about Still being pregnant at first, but in just a few days, it quickly spread. There was even a special report in the ?Banta Times? about this, quickly spreading the news of Still being pregnant around Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    Knowing that their Banta Goddess was not only married and was actually pregnant, there were deep sighs that came from Banta City and the surrounding cities.

    But Still and Xu Yi had been married for a year, so everyone had basically stoppedining about Xu Yi. After knowing that Still was pregnant, everyone gave sincere blessings and all kinds of gifts to the two of them.

    A few days after the report in the ?Banta Times?, whether it was the Falling Star Manor or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters in the Falling Rain Valley, they received gifts from many different people from all over.

    Just the gifts received at the Falling Star Manor was enough to fill two full rooms.

    This didn¡¯t include the gifts that were so precious that they couldn¡¯t be put in the rooms.

    For example, after learning that Still was pregnant, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise bought thend near the Falling Star Manor and announced that he would build a luxurious manor there with the best construction team, building it for Xu Yi¡¯s unborn child.

    Chairman Cruise spent two hundred and thirty thousand gold coins just to buy thisnd and to construct this manor, it would cost at least two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Adding it together, this gift was worth over four hundred and fifty thousand gold coins!

    ¡°This really is a big one, I can¡¯tpete at all.¡± Hannas shook his head with a sigh. He dug in his chest and took out a fine looking card to give to Xu Yi, ¡°Compared to this, my gift is rather cheap.¡±

    ¡°The gift isn¡¯t important, I¡¯m very happy that you could speciallye here from Anvilmar City.¡± Xu Yi casually received the card, but he was surprised after seeing it, ¡°A lifelong membership card for the Shelton Inn? Hey, I say Hannas, are you nning on making me move to the Shelton Inn? But this thing is useless to me, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not for you, it¡¯s for your child. Don¡¯t you see that the card doesn¡¯t have a name on it?¡± Hannas pointed at the card and exined, ¡°This membership card can allow you to get five rooms at the Shelton Inn for free. If your child goes to Anvilmar City, they could stay at the Shelton Inn at any time.¡±

    ¡°When he goes to Anvilmar City, why can¡¯t he have you find a ce for him, why would he go to the Shelton Inn?¡±

    Hannasughed, ¡°You don¡¯t understand? The young people do things that they don¡¯t want us old people to know about. For example, if he likes some girl from Anvilmar City and wants to do something, he can¡¯t just bring the young miss to some uncle or aunt¡¯s house, right?¡±

    Xu Yi snappily looked at Hannas, ¡°Do you want my son to be a dandy in the future? Then again, it might not be a boy, it could also be a girl.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just preparing this ahead of time, I don¡¯t care what it is.¡± Hannas gave a shrug, ¡°Speaking of this, Xu Yi, do you want your first child to be a boy or a girl?¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, but I rather hope that it is a girl because I like daughters better.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But you don¡¯t seem to have any other family members, right? If you don¡¯t have a son, doesn¡¯t that mean your family won¡¯t have a sessor?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°You nobles really are¡­..The first thing you think about is the matter of your family¡¯s sessors.¡±

    ¡°You act like you¡¯re not a noble!¡± Hannas immediately shouted, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, you are now a viscount, you are even higher than me as a baron!¡±

    ¡°Hei, that¡¯s you not working hard enough.¡± Xu Yi teased Hannas before continuing, ¡°Besides, so what if my first child is a girl? Still and I are still young, we can just give birth again, it¡¯s not like we can¡¯t afford to raise them. It can¡¯t be that Still can never give birth to a son, right? Not to mention that a girl can also inherit the family title.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still a difference in the end.¡± Hannas shook his head, ¡°Look at the case of his highness Eric and her highness Seveni¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Those old conservative fellows are opposing her highness Seveni because she is a girl?¡±

    ¡°Not really, it¡¯s mainly because of benefits.¡± Hannas shook his head again, ¡°But that is one of the main reasons the conservative faction is using to oppose her highness Seveni.¡±

    ¡°Then what does his majesty think?¡±

    ¡°His majesty¡­..who knows what he is thinking.¡± Hannas had a very strange expression, ¡°His majesty has been making very surprising decisionstely. Xu Yi, I promise that you¡¯ll definitely be surprised soon.¡±

 Volume 3 73 - You have to take responsibility

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 73 You have to take responsibility</h4>

    ¡°Although Hannas told me ahead of time, seeing you now, I¡¯m still very surprised.¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni in a daze as he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°What? Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t wee me?¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile. Although her skin had be a bit rougher from being in the north, she still had the same friendly look on her face.

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Xu Yi quickly denied it, ¡°Knowing that you¡¯ll take over as City Lord for Banta City, I almost jumped up in happiness! You can ask Hannas if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    Seveniughed as she shook her head, ¡°There¡¯s no need to ask, I believe that you should wee me very much. Otherwise when I asked royal father to transfer me to Banta City, wouldn¡¯t this be considered unrequited love?¡±

    After saying this, Seveni found that her words were a bit ambiguous, so she quickly gave a cough. After pausing, she reached her hand to Xu Yi, ¡°In short, chairman Xu, now that I am Banta City¡¯s City Lord, I hope that we can work well together since you are the most important leader in Banta City¡¯s business world.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile. He reached out his hand to take Seveni¡¯s, ¡°Your highness, why does it seem like your words seem unnecessary? We haven¡¯t known each other for just a few days. I¡¯ve already said before, if you be Banta City¡¯s City Lord, we can cooperate even better. Now that this dream hase true, I¡¯m very happy.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Count Stagg might not have anything against your words, but chairman Xu, don¡¯t forget that if Count Sean knew that you had this idea when he was the City Lord, he would be very dissatisfied.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°How could Count Sean be that stingy of a person? Then again, even if it was him, he would be very happy to see this situation, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, when I was in the north half a month ago and left Sowell City, Count Sean had discussed Banta City with me. He told me that he had a bit of regret. If he had insisted on staying as the City Lord for a bit longer, Banta City¡¯s development wouldn¡¯t have been hindered and dyed for so long. Now that I¡¯m the City Lord, he must be very happy.¡±

    ¡°Of course, if we¡¯re talking about care for Banta City¡¯s development, Count Sean has a deeper investment since he has been the City Lord for over ten years. Even now, when I talk to the people of Banta City, they can¡¯t forget Count Sean, saying that he was the best City Lord in the history of Banta City.¡± Xu Yi confirmed this.

    ¡°Oh? That means quite a bit of pressure on me.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°Compared to Count Sean, I¡¯m much younger. Do you think that the people of Banta City will ept me?¡±

    ¡°Rx, the people of Banta City have simple requests, which is to let them live better lives. They will support anyone, even without care for your identity as the princess. At least¡­..you can¡¯t be more unpopr than Count Stagg, right?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s evaluation of Count Stagg, Seveni was silent for a bit before shaking her head with a sigh, ¡°Count Stagg¡¯s abilities aren¡¯t bad, but he could only use the methods he needed because of his stance. Because he had no achievements in Banta City during a year, after he heads back, his days won¡¯t be good.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Not good? Didn¡¯t he take over as the City Lord of Lorren City? Lorren City is several times bigger than Banta City, so this should be considered a promotion, so why wouldn¡¯t he have a good time?¡±

    ¡°It seems like you didn¡¯t receiveplete information.¡± Seveni shook her head and said, ¡°Since you know that I¡¯m taking over as Banta City¡¯s City Lord, you should know that my two royal brothers are also City Lords of other cities. The city that my brother Eric chose was Lorren City.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Then what about Count Stagg?¡±

    ¡°You heard from Hannas that Count Stagg was taking over as Lorren City¡¯s City Lord, right?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°Right, like how you¡¯re taking over as Banta City¡¯s City Lord, I heard it all from Hannas.¡± Xu Yi replied with a nod.

    ¡°No wonder you don¡¯t know thetest changes. Actually, Count Stagg taking over as Lorren City¡¯s City Lord was the primary decision of the Royal Parliament, it hadn¡¯t been decided yet. Just three days ago, brother Eric chose to be Lorren City¡¯s City Lord and Count Stagg position was left aside to be nnedter.¡±

    Xu yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Count Stagg didn¡¯t have any opinions?¡±

    ¡°He may have it, but this was the decision of the Stagg Family, so his opinions mean nothing. I think¡­..you should understand why the Stagg Family did this, right?¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yi nodded with a bitter smile, ¡°Of course I know. It seems like the Stagg Family is steeling their hearts to announce to everyone that they are supporting his highness Eric. Speaking of this, what about the ones supporting you, your highness? There isn¡¯t anyone as determined as the Stagg Family?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t there you?¡± Seveni gave Xu Yi a wink.

    Xu Yi was stunned before saying with a smile of ridicule, ¡°Your highness, you must be joking. I am just a small merchant, even if I decide to support you, what influence would I have? I can¡¯tpare to a giant like the Stagg Family.¡±

    Seveni pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t underestimate yourself. When Count Stagg was handing things over to me, he greatly praised you. He said that if you weren¡¯t on different sides, he would have supported you fully. You could even subdue Count Stagg with just a short year, I am in admiration of your abilities.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Count Stagg said this?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°I thought that he hated me to death deep down.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ve mistaken him.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Actually I admire Count Stagg very much. He aimed at you because of the Stagg Family¡¯s decision, so it was just an issue of different sides. When I talked to him, he exined every detail of Banta City¡¯s development to me, saying that Banta City¡¯s development was closely rted to every action of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He even urged me that I should support your Frestech Chamber of Commerce if I want Banta City to develop.¡±

    ¡°That can¡¯t be right, right?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Even if he is no longer Banta City¡¯s City Lord, his stance can¡¯t change, right? Why would he praise me and even give you this suggestion? Could it be that he wants to change stances and betray his family to support you?¡±

    ¡°This is not something that I know.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°In short, those were his words.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused for a while, but he couldn¡¯t think of anything and could just throw this question to the back of his head. He asked Seveni, ¡°Alright, your highness now that you are our Banta City¡¯s new City Lord, what are you nning to do?¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile and unexpected to Xu Yi, she gave him a half bow and said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Viscount Xu Yi, as for how to develop Banta City, I have to ask for your support and suggestions.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Hey, you¡¯re the Lord City Lord, alright?¡±

    Seveni revealed a mischievous smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°But whether it is royal father or the previous two City Lords, they all told me to listen to the suggestion of you as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman when ites to developing Banta City. So, chairman Xu, I have to ask you to bear this responsibility.¡±

    Seeing the happy smile on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, not knowing what to say.

    ###

    Her highness Seveni taking over as Banta City¡¯s City Lord was immediately announced by the ?Banta Times?.

    On the day this news was announced, the people of Banta City suddenly found that Banta City had be much more lively. The Banta City that had be bleak because of Count Stagg¡¯s agricultural promotion policies had suddenly be more prosperous.

    The stores that were forced to close seemed to havee to an agreement, opening on the same day and there were countless people on the streets.

    Even if it wasn¡¯t as prosperous as two years ago, it wasn¡¯t as bleak as when Count Stagg was City Lord.

    It was just a change in City Lord and it was like Banta City had changed, bing full of life.

    In this situation, there weren¡¯t many people who had noticed that when the ?Banta Times? announced that her highness Seveni was taking over as the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, there was another piece of news.

    His highness Eric was taking over as Lorren City¡¯s City Lord.

    Almost everyone ignored the exnation and analysis the ?Banta Times? had made for these two appointments.

    ording to the information the ?Banta Times? received, the reason the king had surprisingly ced his highness Eric and her highness Seveni as the City Lords of Banta City and Lorren City, was to test their governance to prepare to choose his sessor.

    If they could do well in this City Lord position, naturally they would receive high marks in the king¡¯s mind and would increase their position in the final decision of who would take the throne.

    So to the citizens of Banta City, it was just a change in City Lords. For those with longer perspectives, it might decide the next king of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for the other prince Mifam that the ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t mention, without knowing why, he waspletely ignored by everyone¡­...

 Volume 3 74 - Too quick witted

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 74 Too quick witted</h4>

    ¡°Hello, mister Mercado, this is your driver¡¯s license, please confirm and receive it.¡±

    After receiving the finely made and high ss driver¡¯s license from the beautiful Frestech Chamber of Commerce receptionist, Mercado looked at his name and picture on the driver¡¯s license before excitedly waving his hand. He turned and ran out of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car test center.

    When he ran out, there was someone else who came in. Mercado couldn¡¯t dodge in time and hit them.

    It was a good thing that Mercado reacted fast. He quickly turned to move to the side, but he still hit that person with his shoulder.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    With a thud, Mercado felt that the person was very light. He only shook, but the other side was pushed back several steps and fell on their butt, letting out a sharp cry of pain.

    Hearing this charming moan of pain, Mercado¡¯s heart filled with panic.

    It was actually a girl!

    Mercado quickly bent over as he awkwardly reached out his hand. He said in a voice filled with apology, ¡°Sorry, sorry. I¡­..I didn¡¯t look properly, I really am sorry¡­..¡±

    The young girl slightly narrowed her eyes as she looked at Mercado. The two looked at each other and were stunned.

    ¡°It¡¯s you?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s you!¡±

    This girl was the receptionist who had denied his request to take the driver¡¯s license test and to buy a Magic Car when he came to the Falling Rain Valleyst time.

    After realizing who this girl was, Mercado became more awkward.

    Last time he had angrily shouted at this girl because his great expectations had been rejected. If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xuing out to exin, he would have created even more of a mess.

    Thinking of how aggrieved the girl had looked back then, Mercado felt even more guilt. After thinking about it, he braced himself as he said, ¡°This¡­..This young miss¡­..I really am sorry. Not just this time, but alsost time. Last time I was too rude and I was filled with regret whenever I thought about it because chairman Xu was right. No matter what, I shouldn¡¯t have acted that way to a beautiful girl like you. I always wanted to apologize and since I bumped into you, I¡­..I¡­¡­¡±

    Mercado hesitated for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°Can I treat you to a meal?¡±

    Erica looked at Mercado with surprise. She thought that this person was very strange, he was just apologizing to her and now he was asking to treat her to a meal?

    Wasn¡¯t this what the male coworkers who wanted to chase after her said?

    But thinking about it, Erica understood. He should be using this meal to express his apology, so she waved her hand.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, I didn¡¯t put it in my heart, so you don¡¯t need to be this polite.¡± Erica hesitated a bit and reached her hand out to let Mercado pull her up, while curiously looking at him.

    She really didn¡¯t put it in her heartst time. Although she had been shouted at by Mercado in front of all those people, this matter had alerted the aloof chairman Xu of Erica¡¯s heart and the chairman even personally helped her. This had made Erica very happy and she had bragged about this matter to her coworkers and friends for a long time.

    Because of this matter, thepany ced more importance in receptionists like her. With the CEO Kennard¡¯s orders, they had received special training for being scolded and even her wage had increased. It went for eight gold coins a month to twelve gold coins a month, increasing by 50%!

    So to be honest, although Mercado had been very excessive in how he treated her, she had received benefits because of this. So she didn¡¯t feel any hatred towards Mercado and was even curious about him.

    Why did this person care that much about a driver¡¯s license and owning a car?

    Why did he look so disappointed and was even rude after she told him that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only selling Magic Cars to the Fersen Carriage Company?

    Could it be that Magic Cars are that important to him?

    Erica curiously looked over him and Mercado¡¯s awkward expression became deeper. He thought that Erica was thinking about what happened before and didn¡¯t n on forgiving him.

    Seeing that Erica didn¡¯t reply to his invitation, Mercadoughed at himself and gave Erica a bow before turning to leave.

    ¡°Hey¡­..That¡­..Mister Mercado, please wait.¡± Who would have thought that when he took two steps, Erica would suddenly call out to him.

    Mercado looked back at Erica in a daze before saying with a look of pleasant surprise, ¡°This young miss, are you nning to ept my invitation and to forgive me?¡±

    ¡°No, I didn¡¯t care about that, but¡­..¡± Erica shook her head and pointed at the small green book that Mercado had, as she asked, ¡°The thing in your hand should be a second grade driver¡¯s license from ourpany, right?¡±

    Mercado quickly nodded as he replied, ¡°Yes, this young miss, you know this is a second grade driver¡¯s license? Oh, sorry, my mistake. You are an employee for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it isn¡¯t strange to know this. Sorry, I didn¡¯t mean to offend you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing.¡± Erica didn¡¯t mind, ¡°I was just quite curious. Ourpany has started holding tests for driver¡¯s licenses for less than half a month and you already received one, it seems like you really care about the Magic Car. Now that you have a driver¡¯s license, are you nning on buying one?¡±

    Hearing this question, Mercado couldn¡¯t help raising his chest as he said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am prepared to buy a Magic Car.¡±

    After looking at Erica, Mercado suddenly had an idea, ¡°This young miss, you seem familiar with the Magic Car, can you help me select what kind of Magic Car to buy? I don¡¯t understand it very well and if you help me, that would be great.¡±

    Erica hesitated for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Alright, helping solve problems for customers is my responsibility. Pleasee with me.¡±

    Seeing Erica agree and leading the way, Mercado couldn¡¯t help giving himself a thumbs up.

    Mercado, you really are quick witted!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car demonstration center was by the driving center, so Mercado followed Erica to quickly arrive at that ce.

    Actually Mercado¡¯s only goal was to purchase a medium sized Magic Passenger Car, but with Erica¡¯s patient exnation, he couldn¡¯t help listening to her exnation of the different kinds of Magic Cars.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only currently producing the medium sized and the cargo Magic Car, there weren¡¯t any other kinds of Magic Cars and there were only a total of seven models. So it didn¡¯t take much time to exin them all.

    After hearing Erica¡¯s exnation, Mercado acted for a bit by seriously considering it before saying that he wanted to buy a medium sized Magic Passenger Car.

    ¡°Mister Mercado, the current price for ourpany¡¯s medium sized Magic Passenger Car is eight hundred and sixty gold coins, can you afford this?¡±

    ¡°Eight hundred and sixty gold coins?¡± Mercado was surprised.

    This price wasn¡¯t something that Mercado had expected. Based on his thoughts, for an era defining magic machine like the Magic Car, it should cost the same as several horse carriages. The price must be the price of several horse carriages added together.

    For the mostmon single horse horse carriage, it cost a total of at least four hundred gold coins. So Mercado expected the lowest price to be at least a thousand gold coins.

    However, this medium sized Magic Passenger Car that Mercado thought was stronger than the horse carriage only cost eight hundred and sixty gold coins!

    Seeing the expression on Mercado¡¯s face, Erica thought that Mercado thought it was too expensive, so she quickly said, ¡°Right, mister Mercado, this is ourpany¡¯s current price, but ourpany will provide benefits since this is the first batch sold. Take this medium sized Magic Passenger Car, if you order it now, you can also receive a free Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner or Magic Freezer.¡±

    ¡°Oh? This is very good. Are there any other benefits?¡± Mercado calmed down and asked.

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, that is the only benefit so far.¡± Erica shook her head.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­..¡± Mercado looked over the demonstration medium sized Magic Passenger Car and after thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, I decided to buy one. How do I pay?¡±

    ¡°One medium sized Magic Passenger Car?¡± After receiving confirmation from Mercado, Erica brought him to the sales desk to help him finish the process.

    When everything was taken care of, Mercado looked out the window and found that it was past noon. He said to Erica, ¡°Miss Erica, can I invite you to lunch? Other than apologizing to you, I still have some other things to ask you.¡±

    Erica hesitated a bit before asking back, ¡°Is it rted to the Magic Car?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Mercado nodded, ¡°Because this is the first Magic Car that I¡¯m buying, there are many things that I want to rify to avoid troubleter. I think that you have experience with the medium sized Magic Passenger Car, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem asking you, right?¡±

    Erica considered this a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Alright. Actually, mister Mercado, I¡¯m actually very curious why you insist on buying a medium sized Magic Passenger Car. If I can learn your goal in buying it, I think that it would be very helpful to the development path for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I never thought that you¡¯re such a good employee. If I¡¯m lucky enough to see chairman Xu again, I will definitely pass on praise to him.¡± Mercado couldn¡¯t help teasing.

    Erica¡¯s face turned a bit red as she shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m just doing my job.¡±

    Mercadoughed, ¡°It¡¯s good whether it¡¯s work or not. Beautiful miss Erica, shall we go?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Looking at the beautiful face of Erica walking beside him, Mercado secretly gave himself another thumbs up.

    Mercado, you really are too quick witted!

 Volume 3 75 - Unreasonable request

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 75 Unreasonable request</h4>

    It was a nice meal.

    In order to show how sorry he was, Mercado had taken Erica to the newly opened high ss restaurant outside the Falling Rain Valley. He acted as much of a gentleman as he thought while also relying on themon interest of Magic Cars to create a good atmosphere.

    Adding in the fact that Mercado was a charming person, Erica was very happy during the meal and they had a good discussion.

    When this lunch was over, Mercado used the excuse of discussing Magic Cars again in the future to obtain Erica¡¯s agreement ining to look for her in the future.

    After walking Erica back to the Falling Rain Valley for work, Mercado watched as she left and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a proud smile.

    He never thought that through this incident, he would meet a rare beauty like Erica. He really was lucky.

    But thinking about the Magic Car, Mercado put aside all the other thoughts and left the Falling Rain Valley. He took the medium sized Magic Passenger Car outside the Falling Rain Valley that had just arrived back to Banta City.

    When he took the public transport horse carriage, it would take at least four hours to travel the distance of sixty kilometers between the Falling Rain Valley and Banta City.

    Now that they were using the medium sized Magic Passenger Car, a trip only took a little bit over two hours. Because it saved them half the time, it was quickly weed by everyone.

    In the beginning, the Fersen Carriage Company only used a single medium Magic Passenger Car per line as a test because it was too new, so some people might not ept it at first.

    But once they experienced riding it, everyone found thatpared to horse carriages, this Magic Car was much morefortable and more importantly, was much faster than horse carriages.

    So after a test trial of half a month, countless people requested the Fersen Carriage Company to rece all horse carriages with Magic Cars.

    There were many people who said that if the Fersen Carriage Company continued using horse carriages, they wouldn¡¯t ride them.

    So for the public transportation lines of the Fersen Carriage Company, there were more and more Magic Cars taking recing horse carriages.

    But because of the production limits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Fersen Carriage Company couldn¡¯t rece all their horse carriages with Magic Cars. There were still a mix of horse carriages and Magic Cars on most of the transport lines.

    Of course, for the line connecting Banta City and the Falling Rain Valley, it was immediatelypletely changed to Magic Cars.

    Two hourster, Mercado jumped out of the medium sized Magic Passenger Car and headed to the recentlypleted Fersen Carriage Company headquarters outside Banta City.

    This headquarters was justpletedst month. The main reason was that the Banta City public transport system was bing more developed, so the Fersen Carriage Company had more and more horse carriages and Magic Cars to manage. If they remained in Banta City, it would be too small and would be hard to rebuild.

    This was the trend in the current Banta City.

    With the development of Banta City, the small city was bing more and more crowded. It caused many of thepanies and even some of the normal citizens to begin moving out of Banta City.

    Moreover, two years ago when Count Sean was the City Lord, there was the concept of suburbs already. Now that roads had beenid outside Banta City, with the work put in by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the suburbs had been developing well outside Banta City.

    If one was topare it, the cities outside the city were much better. Not only was it more spacious, there were even more facilities, like the streetmps on the streets.

    Moreover, now that that fellow Count Stagg who stopped Banta City¡¯s development had left and it had surprisingly changed to her highness Seveni taking over as the City Lord, Banta City¡¯s liveliness instantly exploded. In the month that her highness Seveni took over, the suburbs seemed to be changing each day andpared tost year, it waspletely different.

    The Fersen Carriage Company new headquarters was in the most lively suburbs, being just two kilometers away from Banta City¡¯s west gate. Thend it upied was wide, being equal to a fifth of the area of Banta City.

    When Mercado entered the headquarters, he went to the central office. After he showed his identification, he was quickly brought to the chairman¡¯s office to see chairman Pompeii.

    ¡°Come, Mercado, please sit.¡± Seeing Mercadoe in, chairman Pompei pointed at the spot in front of him with a smile, signaling for him to sit down.

    From chairman Pompeii¡¯s casual actions, one could tell that this wasn¡¯t Mercado¡¯s first time meeting him.

    Mercado gave a slight bow before sitting in front of chairman Pompeii. He took out the purchase contract for the medium sized Magic Passenger Car from his chest and handed it over.

    ¡°Oh? You already bought it?¡± Chairman Pompeii roughly swept it over and said with a sigh, ¡°It seems like chairman Xu really is showing preference to you. He clearly hasn¡¯tpleted the orders for ourpany and the otherpanies, but he already sold one to you?¡±

    Mercado quickly said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu is a generous person, he knows that I am buying a Magic Car to rent out, so he is supporting me. It was chairman Xu who rmended me toe see you, chairman Pompeii.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii nodded, ¡°Un, if it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi¡¯s introduction letter, I wouldn¡¯t see you.¡± He looked at Mercado after saying this and said with augh, ¡°Actually to be honest, the thing you want to do is consideredpetition for ourpany, so I shouldn¡¯t see you at all.¡±

    Mercado revealed a ttering smile, ¡°Chairman Pompeii and chairman Xu are both generous, you couldn¡¯t care about stealing a bit of food from a small person like me.¡±

    ¡°Stop ttering me, I know I can¡¯tpare to chairman Xu.¡± Chairman Pompeii shook his head before looking at the contract in his hand and returning it to Mercado. He continued by saying, ¡°To be honest, since chairman Xu has ced such importance on you and said that this taxi industry has great prospects, I believe that this industry will be very promising. Since it¡¯s like this, ording to my approach from before, I will definitely grab this industry in my hands. How could I let you take it from me?¡±

    Mercado revealed an awkward smile and didn¡¯t dare say anything.

    He could act freely in front of Erica, but in front of an important person like chairman Pompeii, he was actually a bit nervous.

    There was no other way. Although he had some money, even being able to afford a Magic Car that cost over eight hundred gold coins,pared to someone important like chairman Pompeii who controlled the Fersen Carriage Company, the difference was just too big.

    Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that when he talked to chairman Xu, he didn¡¯t feel this nervous.

    It was like chairman Xu had a natural aura that made people feel rxed in front of him, while also trusting him.

    Is this¡­..the aura of a truly important person?

    Chairman Pompeii naturally didn¡¯t know that his words created all these thoughts in Mercado¡¯s mind. He looked at Mercado¡¯s ttering and respectful smile before giving a satisfied nod.

    ¡°But I have discussed this matter with chairman Xu and he always stressed that I should give others room to develop. I agree with this idea, so I¡¯ll give you a chance to cooperate with ourpany. So you have to remember, although this chance was something that you fought hard to earn, you can¡¯t forget chairman Xu¡¯s help.¡±

    Mercado quickly nodded, ¡°Definitely, definitely. I won¡¯t forget chairman Xu¡¯s help. Of course, in my mind, chairman Pompeii is helping me the most. I will definitely follow your instructions in the future, I will do whatever you want me to do.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii waved his hand, ¡°No need to be that exaggerated. Since I¡¯m letting you do this, just do it properly. Come, take a look at this contract first. If you don¡¯t have any problems, you can sign it.¡±

    Mercado took the contract and carefully looked it over. He confirmed that the terms written were what he discussed with chairman Pompeii.

    Although there were a few slight deviations, it wouldn¡¯t have much influence and there were a few deviations that benefited him.

    After he finished reading the contract, Mercado had a bit of gratitude on his face as he nodded to chairman Pompeii, ¡°There¡¯s no problem.¡±

    ¡°Good, then sign it.¡± Chairman Pompeii said.

    Mercado took a pen from chairman Pompeii and when he was about to sign his name, he suddenly thought of something. He opened the contract and seriously read over a line before hesitating a bit to point it out to chairman Pompeii.

    ¡°This¡­...Chairman Pompeii, this Magic Car is my personal property, there¡¯s no need for yourpany to conduct an examination each year, right? You didn¡¯t mention this when we discussed thisst time.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked over this line and casually said, ¡°Oh, this isn¡¯t my idea, it was raised by chairman Xu when we discussed this matterst time. The reason for this is to create a standard. Taking care of your personal Magic Car is thinking for our Banta City and it won¡¯t affect you that much.¡±

    Mercado knit his brows, ¡°Isn¡¯t this¡­..a bit unnecessary? This is the Magic Car that I bought, people can just find me to rent it, it shouldn¡¯t be rted to others, right? Why do I need to conduct an examination each year and see if it meets standards?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii shook his head and said with a bitter smile, ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I don¡¯t why chairman Xu was this serious in his request of this. But you shouldn¡¯t think of going against this, even our Fersen Carriage Company has to follow these rules, so you can¡¯t go against it.¡±

    ¡°Haven¡¯t you protested this to chairman Xu?¡± Mercado asked with a bit of disbelief.

    Chairman Pompeii knit his brows as he looked at Mercado, saying in a slightly discontent voice, ¡°I don¡¯t think that much like you. Chairman Xu said that it was a consideration for the safety of the industry, it¡¯s considering the long term development of the industry. I believe in his judgement, so I won¡¯t refute it. As for you¡­..If you¡¯re not willing to ept it, I don¡¯t mind if you don¡¯t sign this contract.¡±

    Mercado was surprised, never thinking that chairman Pompeii would be this firm about this. After thinking about it, he didn¡¯t say anything else as he signed his name on the contract.

    However, even after he finished signing this contract with chairman Pompeii and walked out of the Fersen Carriage Company, he still couldn¡¯t think it through.

    Why would chairman Xu raise such an unreasonable request? The stranger thing was that chairman Pompeii was such an important person, why would he ept this kind of request?

 Volume 3 76 - Great hidden danger

    <h4>?Volume 3 Chapter 76 Great hidden danger</h4>

    ¡°Actually there is a great hidden danger in Banta City.¡± Xu Yi said to Seveni with a serious look, ¡°If it¡¯s not taken care of, there will be many problems that ur.¡±

    Seveni had been in Banta City for over a month now and because she was new or perhaps because there was nothing that happened, she hadn¡¯t done anything during this month. She had stayed in the City Lord Manor to take care of a few basic things, causing the people who were waiting for her to take some major action after taking over to be disappointed.

    Her leaving the City Lord Manor anding to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fertilizer factory at Sandton Manor were Seveni¡¯s biggest actions since taking over. The ?Banta Times? that received the news immediately sent a reporter over.

    The three reporters sent by the ?Banta Times? were surprised and pleased to find that her highness Seveni treated them very warmly, even allowing them to follow her, conducting a report on her entire inspection. She had even patiently answered quite a few of their questions, which made the three reporters feel their trip wasn¡¯t in vain.

    What made them happier was that because of her highness¡¯ inspection, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had rushed back from the Falling Rain Valley to apany her.

    Following the two of them, they received quite a bit of news that was worth reporting on from listening two these two important people of Banta City.

    For example, the chairman Xu had just told her highness that there was a great hidden danger in Banta City. It made the three reporters from the ?Banta Times? perk up their ears and focus on listening.

    Seveni was also very surprised, but she knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t someone who said things to scare people. So she asked in the same serious tone, ¡°What hidden danger?¡±

    ¡°Your highness, you should know that Banta City is currently growing at a rapid rate and there are many new things that have never been seen before.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°You¡¯re talking about your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Seveni asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi nodded without any courtesy, ¡°Indeed, the various magic machines from ourpany are all very novel, but because these things are novel, people are experiencing things that they¡¯ve never experienced before. So as these things be more popr, without enoughws, these things will be problems. The one I¡¯m worried about the most right now is the Magic Car.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean?¡± Seveni asked in an interested voice.

    ¡°For example, when our Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells Magic Cars, we request the people who buy the Magic Car to have a driver¡¯s license from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It¡¯s because the Magic Car is much faster than horse carriages, so if you¡¯re not skilled at driving one, it¡¯s very easy to create an incident. If it¡¯s serious, people might even die.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression was serious, so people knew that he was not joking.

    ¡°We developed the Magic Car to improve people¡¯s lives and naturally we hope that it won¡¯t cause any loses, so we are very serious when ites to this.¡±

    ¡°Un. I¡¯ve seen the Magic Car before, it is indeed much faster than horse carriages, so there are more risks. You asking people to have driver¡¯s licenses to drive them is necessary and is a very responsible approach.¡± Seveni nodded as she praised him.

    ¡°But the problemes now.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and helplessly said, ¡°Although when we sign the contract with the buyer, the contract states that the driver must have a driver¡¯s license, we are apany in the end and don¡¯t have any binding power. So if someone wants to break this contract and drive a Magic Car without a license, we don¡¯t have any means to punish them.¡±

    ¡°I understand. You want to have our City Lord Manor create a correspondingw, right?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°Right.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Actually, to be honest, I hope that the Royal Parliament can make a set ofws that will specialize in regting the operation of Magic Cars. I want to avoid any problem urring while also setting punishments for breaking thews.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid there¡¯s no way for now¡­..¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°Passing aw through the Royal Parliament is a very serious matter, it¡¯s not impossible to do this easily. Although I agree with your ideas, the Magic Cars don¡¯t have enough influence right now and the Royal Parliament won¡¯t consider this issue.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, understanding Seveni¡¯s worries.

    Aw for a kingdom would be a very serious matter. The Royal Parliament wouldn¡¯t make aw just for the Magic Cars that easily, they would definitely choose to observe it for a while first.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t wait, he needed apletew now. It wasn¡¯t just out of consideration of safety, it would affect the development of the Magic Cars.

    Just the day before yesterday, there was a bad piece of news from the Fersen Carriage Company.

    There was a horse carriage driver that wasn¡¯t convinced that his colleague was earning two gold coins more because he was driving the medium sized Magic Passenger Car, so to prove that the Magic Cars weren¡¯t that difficult to drive and that he could do it, he boarded the Magic Car and imitated his colleague in trying to drive it.

    But since he wasn¡¯t experienced and had no understanding of the Magic Car, without going far, he mmed into a wall at high speeds.

    Although he didn¡¯t lose his life, he was seriously injured and was still unconscious.

    When chairman Pompeii told Xu Yi about this matter, he had also mentioned that the family members of this horse driver were causing trouble at hispany. They were saying that the vehicle injured the horse driver and wantedpensation.

    If this news was spread, it would without a doubt make people afraid of Magic Cars. It would be a great hindrance to promoting the development of Magic Cars that Xu Yi wanted.

    So Xu Yi had to urgently create an official set ofws. He needed to increase the limits of driving Magic Cars to avoid such a tragedy from happening again.

    The reason why he invited the reporters from the ?Banta Times? was to convey his thoughts on this topic through the ?Banta Times?. He wanted to change the impressions that people had on the concepts of vehicles.

    ¡°The Royal Parliament indeed have their own considerations, so I¡¯m not hoping that they¡¯ll adopt a neww right away. But your highness, you are Banta City¡¯s City Lord, so you should consider the safety of Banta City¡¯s people. You should give aw as soon as possible and strictly control this problem.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, Magic Cars are the most important recent products from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If you request for me to put such limits on driving the Magic Cars, aren¡¯t you worried that it¡¯ll affect your sales?¡±

    Xu Yi had a serious look as he said in a righteous voice, ¡°Compared to selling a few more Magic Cars, ourpany attaches more importance to the safety of people. I think that when the City Lord Manor releases thesews, it should instill a corresponding feeling of safety in the Banta City citizens.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s lips curled slightly as she took a deep look at Xu Yi before giving a slight nod, ¡°Alright, I will seriously consider this after heading back. Of course, chairman Xu should also participate in this matter since there¡¯s no one who understands Magic Cars better than you.¡±

    ¡°Of course, this is my duty.¡± Xu Yi gave a strong nod, ¡°But Lord City Lord, thews I mentioned aren¡¯t perfect. It shouldn¡¯t just be for Magic Cars, there are many other problems.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Seveni gave a nod, ¡°But I¡¯m here to inspect the fertilizer factory today, so let¡¯s put aside these questions forter. You can tell me about them in the future, but as for now, let¡¯s take a look at this mysterious fertilizer.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile and invited her in with his hand. He led the way for Seveni and the three reporters from the ?Banta Times?.

    This was Seveni here, but it was also the first time for the ?Banta Times? reporters.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always kept the factory mysterious. They didn¡¯t disclose anything, everyone just knew that this factory involved the elves.

    But when Seveni and the three reporters entered the factory, they were shocked to find that it was filled with elves and there wasn¡¯t a single human!

    ¡°Chairman Xu¡­...This¡­...Where did you hire all these elves from?¡± Although Seveni had heard Xu Yi mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was cooperating with the elves on this fertilizer factory and they were in charge, seeing the situation now, Seveni was still quite shocked.

    The three reporters were even more shocked as they looked around the factory with looks of disbelief.

    Although they knew the elves were close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even setting up the Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic processing factory, seeing the factory that were filled with over three hundred elves, they almost didn¡¯t dare believe their own eyes.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Seveni and the three reporters definitely couldn¡¯t tell that the elves in this factory were different from the elves at the Night Song Tribe factory.

    That was because the elves here were all from the Moon Shadow Tribe.

 Volume 3 77 - These two donâ€™t contradict

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 77 These two don¡¯t contradict</h4>

    This fertilizer factory, it was the project that Xu Yi discussed when he went to visit Elder Lisanya of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribest time¡­...

    Xu Yi had mentioned to elder Lisanya that they could use the special research elves had towards nt growth to create a material that could help nts grow, which would be greatly weed by humans.

    Elder Lisanya had considered this and agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s idea, using several months to develop this material.

    Strictly speaking, this thing couldn¡¯t be considered normal fertilizer because the raw materials came purely from various nts. Adding in the fact that this used the special magic that the elves created, with a series of magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce designed.

    Only Xu Yi was used to the name fertilizer from earth. When he was discussing the concept of fertilizer with elder Lisanya, elder Lisanya didn¡¯t care about the name, so it was decided like this.

    When Xu Yi discussed this with elder Lisanya, their first ns were to establish a fertilizer factory in the Stantine Duchy as a test, but elder Lisanya proposed to Xu Yi that they should directly enter the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So after preparing for some time and through Xu Yi¡¯s various connections, it was the same as the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory, this fertilizer factory was set up at the Sandton Manor under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.

    The reason why it was set in Sandton Manor and not the Falling Rain Valley was firstly, elder Lisanya requested it to be closer to human society. Secondly, it was because the fertilizer made was all natural fertilizer, so it didn¡¯t have any pollution and there were no smells created when it was produced, which made it much better than the fertilizers from earth.

    When Seveni and the three reporters from the ?Banta Times? finished touring the factory, Xu Yi didn¡¯t go into details about this ce. He just simply answered some of their concerns, for example, the output.

    ¡°Last month there were eighty seven thousand tons produced and we might reach over a hundred thousand tons this month.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the busy fertilizer production line and exined, ¡°Based on this, before the fall harvest, not only can fertilizer factory produce enough for Banta City, it can even produce a portion to sell outside the city.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t sell the extra portion for now, first keep it as a stockpile.¡± Seveni said, ¡°If chairman Xu is worried about the loss, I can represent the City Lord Manor to spend a portion of our funds to purchase it at the price yourpany sells it at.¡±

    ¡°Your highness is treating me like an outsider. As long as it¡¯s your request, I can follow it. But your highness, it¡¯ll be the fall nting in just two months, you should n ahead for the fall nting because the best effectse from coordinating with the fertilizer factory.¡±

    ¡°No problem, I have already made this n.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°After all, agriculture is the base of our Banta City, we can¡¯t be careless at all.¡±

    The three reporters on the side focused on recording the conversation of the two were surprised. After looking at each other, one of the older reporters hesitantly asked Seveni, ¡°Your highness, you mean¡­...you are the same as Count Stagg and think that agricultural development is the most important thing for Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seveni nodded without any hesitation, ¡°Agriculture is something basic. In a situation where you can¡¯t feed yourself, it is a waste of time to consider other things, so no matter what, we have to develop the agricultural industry. The reason I came to the fertilizer factory today was to demonstrate my stance.¡±

    The three reporters were stunned before revealing ugly expressions.

    The reporter who asked the question just now knit his brows in thought before asking again, ¡°Your highness, can I interpret that as you having the same n as Count Stagg, focusing everything on agriculture and suppressing business?¡±

    After asking this, the three reporters all looked at Seveni without even blinking.

    ording to what everyone thought, because her highness Seveni always supported Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, now that she had taken over as the City Lord from Count Stagg, she would change Count Stagg¡¯s n and support Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, prioritizing business development.

    So in the month that Seveni took over as City Lord, thepanies of Banta City became lively again and Banta City was prospering after just a single month.

    But if her highness Seveni suddenly announced that she had the same n as Count Stagg, it would be a shock to these livelypanies and it would be a heavy hit.

    The more important thing was that it would cut off the hope for Banta City again, no longer letting them have any hope for Banta City.

    If it became like this, Banta City might be even worse than before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared.

    As locals of Banta City, as well as reporters that had witnessed Banta City¡¯s development in the past few years, they weren¡¯t willing to see this happen.

    Seeing the nervous gazes of the three, Seveni revealed a faint smile and said with a shake of her head, ¡°No, why would you feel that agricultural development has to suppress business development? To me, these two don¡¯t contradict each other and they cane together, developing together, which is more efficient than developing by themselves.¡±

    The three reporters were surprised. The older reporter couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Your highness, do you really think that this is possible?¡±

    ¡°Why is it impossible?¡± Seveni pointed a slender finger at the busy fertilizer factory, ¡°In front of you now, isn¡¯t this the best example of a fusion of agriculture and industry?¡±

    The three reporters looked at the factory and around at the fertilizer that hadn¡¯t been packed yet, as they realized something.

    That¡¯s right, this fertilizer factory is a business, but the fertilizer produced is greatly beneficial to the development of agriculture.

    The fertilizer used the spring nting a few months ago proved the use of fertilizer to agriculture, so no one could deny the importance of fertilizer in the development of agriculture in Banta City. There were people who even wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to expand their fertilizer factory to produce as much as possible, allowing every inch of farnd in the Lampuri Kingdom to use this good thing.

    ¡°Other than this fertilizer factory, I feel that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s canned fruit factory in Koror Vige is also promoting agriculture. When you mention agriculture, you immediately think of wheat and rice, but to me, everything that can be nted is an important part of agriculture.¡± Seveni then said, After witnessing the powerful effects of the fertilizer, I¡¯m certain that our Banta City¡¯s people will not need to worry about filling their stomachs. From now on, we should be trying to live a better life!¡±

    Seeing the confident expression on Seveni¡¯s face, the three reporters were surprised. They turned to Xu Yi and found that he had the same confident smile.

    The three suddenly realized something.

    It seems like her highness not only was not nning to suppress business development, rather she had a deep cooperation with chairman Xu and was thinking about the long term.

    Compared to Count Stagg that only wanted to suppress business, her highness¡¯ approach was much stronger.

    That fertilizer factory wasn¡¯t big, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t need long to bring them around.

    When the tour was over, the morning wasn¡¯t even over yet. Xu Yi invited Seveni and the three reporters to lunch as the host, but the three reporters rejected his invitation.

    Her highness clearly wanted to have a private meeting with Xu Yi, discussing something that wasn¡¯t suited to be announced, so they were just a bother if they stayed.

    As reporters for the ?Banta Times?, how couldn¡¯t they be flexible and have sharp eyes?

    So the three reporters went back to summarize their report, leaving the factory after declining Xu Yi¡¯s insisting.

    After sending off the three reporters, Xu Yi and Seveni entered the office of the fertilizer factory.

    When the door closed, Seveni¡¯s straight body suddenly turned weak and she lost all her strength. She sat down on the sofa in the office and leaned back on it as she closed her eyes, slowly letting out a breath.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s appearance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He put a cup of water in front of her and sat down in front of her as he asked with a smile, ¡°What? You¡¯re this tired from just a small factory tour?¡±

    Seveni didn¡¯t reply. After a while, she finally opened her eyes and sat back up. She took a sip of the water before letting out a sigh. She revealed a smile again and shook her head at Xu Yi, ¡°The tour isn¡¯t tiring, but it¡¯s tiring to act. How about it, Xu Yi, what do you think about my performance today?¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he gave Seveni a thumbs up, ¡°Very good. Seveni, I feel like you could win best actress at the Oscars.¡±

    ¡°Best actress at the Oscars?¡± Seveni was confused, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­..It¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s just a reward for the best actress, saying that she acted very well.¡± Xu Yi vaguely exined before quickly changing the topic, ¡°But the y is just beginning today since your governing principles will be announced in the ?Banta Times? tomorrow. You have to handle all other matters ording to this principle, otherwise your three years in Banta City will be wasted.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile as her eyes looked very determined.

    ¡°I will.¡±

 Volume 3 78 - Want to drive a F1 race car?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 78 Want to drive a F1 race car?</h4>

    Watching Seveni heading off in the horse carriage with the City Lord Manor symbol, Xu Yi waved his hand at Seveni who stuck her head out the window. Then he watched as the horse carriage carrying Seveni quickly headed off towards Banta City as he fell into thought.

    ording to the decree of the king through the Royal Parliament, whether it was her highness Seveni or his highness Eric, the time they had as City Lords was a term of three years.

    Three yearster, they would have to leave as City Lords no matter how good their performance was, so they only had three years to prove their ability to govern.

    If they couldn¡¯t give results in these three years and prove themselves to everyone, it would without a doubt be a great disadvantage to them when it came to the battle for the throne.

    Of course, if they could create good results, it would be giving themselves a good chip to use.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what the situation in Lorren City was and didn¡¯t care what his highness Eric nned to do, but he supported Seveni from the bottom of his heart. So since Seveni arrived at Banta City, he went to see her almost every day to talk to her.

    Other than helping her understand Banta City, he also gave her all kinds of proposals.

    Seveni had a very good advantage, which was that Count Stagg hadn¡¯t been the City Lord for long, so he hadn¡¯t seeped into the various ces of Banta City. Compared to Count Sean who had been at Banta City for over ten years, his influence couldn¡¯tpare.

    Although Count Sean had already left Banta City, his foundations were quite deep here and he supported Seveni. So after Seveni took over as City Lord, because of Count Sean, she easily controlled Banta City, enabling her to easily implement her ideas.

    Adding in the fact that Xu Yi supported her and now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a strong influence in Banta City, it made it much easier for Seveni.

    Developing agriculture and business together was something that Seveni had decided on with Xu Yi.

    No matter what, agriculture is the base of the Lampuri Kingdom. Even if Seveni ced importance on business development, she couldn¡¯t give up on agriculture, so she had to attach importance to it.

    But Seveni also knew how important business was to Banta City. Naturally she couldn¡¯t promote agriculture while suppressing business like Count Stagg did.

    So, Xu Yi¡¯s idea of changing agriculture torge scale production, as well as including crops other than wheat and rice was approved by Seveni. Then they used this day as a chance to put on a y for the three reporters to reveal this matter to the public.

    Thinking of thezy appearance Seveni had in his office, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling again.

    This was his first time seeing this kind of Seveni.

    Perhaps it was because this matter would decide her path in the next three years, so she was very exhausted and couldn¡¯t help revealing this kind of appearance.

    Of course, this proved her trust towards Xu Yi, otherwise she would have maintained her appearance as a royal and wouldn¡¯t show this kind of improper appearance.

    Xu Yi shook his head, not knowing if this was a good or bad thing.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi turned back into the fertilizer factory.

    When he was thinking about talking to the elven factory manager Eric about the production problem, a medium sized Magic Passenger Car quickly came over and stopped in front of the fertilizer factory.

    Xu Yi had just entered the door when he turned to see the sound.

    He saw Cantona jump out of the driver¡¯s seat and Xu Yi said with a frown, ¡°I say, Cantona, how many times have I told you that you can¡¯t drive that fast? Are you not afraid of causing an ident? Then again, your car won¡¯t be able to handle it if you drive like this.¡±

    Cantona waved his hand in an uncaring manner, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m used to it, nothing will happen. Then again, chairman Xu, when can your Frestech Chamber of Commerce create faster Magic Cars? When I drive this thing, I feel like the speed doesn¡¯t satisfy my cravings.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°You want to drive a F1 race car? I guarantee it¡¯ll satisfy your cravings.¡±

    ¡°F1 race car?¡± Cantona¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°What kind of car is that? Is it very fast? How fast is it?¡±

    ¡°How fast?¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort and pointed at the end of the road in the distance, ¡°Do you see that? For the fastest F1 race car, it can reach that end in the blink of an eye. Do you think it¡¯s fast?¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Cantona excited raised his brow before giving a bitterugh, ¡°Forget it, chairman Xu must be tricking me, how could there be such a fast Magic Car? If it was really that exaggerated, you could reach Anvilmar City in less than an hour.¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips and was toozy to call him uninformed. He looked at the transport Magic Cars on the road and asked Cantona, ¡°What? You¡¯re here for more fertilizer?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s almost the harvest season for the Stantine Duchy, so I have to quickly bring fertilizer over ahead of time.¡± Cantona said with a nod.

    ¡°Un, I haven¡¯t been there during this time, so I don¡¯t understand the situation. Have you made an estimate of how much rice we¡¯ll receive this time?¡±

    Hearing this question, Cantona immediately broke out in a wide smile and happily shook two fingers at Xu Yi.

    ¡°ording to the estimates of the old Banta City farmers, it¡¯s at least over two hundred thousand tons!¡±

    ¡°Oh? This much?¡± Hearing this number, Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed a bit.

    ¡°Un! It¡¯s this much.¡± Cantona gave a joyful nod, ¡°When I came back a few days, I specially looked over the fields and that scene¡­..Ze, ze, it really is too shocking! All the fields were filled with rice and each stalk of rice was bulging! Just a single nce could tell that the harvest would be shocking.¡±

    ¡°Un, the Stantine Duchy is already very good and adding in the fact that we¡¯re using fertilizer, as well as having reimed over forty thousand hectares ofnd already, it would be strange if we didn¡¯t harvest this much.¡±

    Xu Yi looked in the direction of the Stantine Duchy before looking in the direction Seveni left in, feeling a bit sad.

    When he made a bet with Count Staggst year, he promised that the harvest for his hundred hectares ofnd in the Stantine Duchy would surpass two hundred thousand tons.

    Before thend waspletely reimed and only two harvests hade, he had already surpassed this amount.

    If Count Stagg knew about this, it was unknown how he would feel.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since I bumped into you, I want to ask about the matter fromst time¡­..Is it finished?¡± Cantona asked with a nervous look.

    Xu Yi gave him a smile, ¡°There¡¯s no problem and it¡¯s even better than you thought. Not only has her highness agreed to contract thend from Koror Vige, Kambia Vige and Mexn Vige to your Cantona Chamber of Commerce, she even agreed to give you even morend. As long as yourpany can work with the City Lord Manor, everything is fine.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Cantona immediately became excited, ¡°Great! Ourpany will definitely work with the City Lord Manor! Whatever her highness wants us to do, we will do!¡±

    ¡°Good. The first request her highness has is to guarantee the fall harvest. If you can¡¯t exceed fifty thousand tons of wheat from these three viges, don¡¯te and see her in the future.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Fifty thousand tons?¡± Cantona calcted in his heart beforeughing, ¡°A small matter, just let her highness wait and see.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. The farnd in Banta City this season was supported by the fertilizer and thend in these three viges surpassed twenty thousand hectares, so it was indeed a small matter to surpass fifty thousand tons.

    Butpared to basic food production, Xu Yi cared more about the deeper issue of processing food.

    The reason why Seveni mentioned that agriculture could develop with business came from the confidence that Xu Yi could process these crops to increase their value.

    The simplest example of this was the canned fruit factory at Koror Vige.

    Right now the canned fruit factory was producing a hundred thousand cans per month, which was selling well in the surrounding cities.

    Although the price of each can was different, averaging them all together, with the output of a hundred thousand each month, this small canned fruit factory had sales of close to ten thousand gold coins with profits of over five thousand gold coins.

    Although this sales number and profit was smallpared to the other factories, from the perspective of the agriculture industry, this was a very shocking number.

    It had to be known, for the vigers of Koror Vige before, they earned less than a thousand gold coins in total.

    Now that there was this canned fruit factory, the vigers of Koror Vige had brand new houses and new Frestech Brand magic machines, increasing their standard of living.

    Evenst month, the vige head had gathered funds from the vigers to buy three medium sized Magic Passenger Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They were used to transport Koror Vige viges to Banta City or other ces.

    Because they witnessed the change with Koror Vige, Kambia and Mexn Vige under the Cantona Chamber of Commerce also asked to change their crops and nt fruit trees to provide fruits for the canned fruit factory.

    What the Cantona was doing now was for the vigers. He hoped that they could keep a bit of thend for basic crops to satisfy the needs of the City Lord Manor.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked at Cantona with a hint of a teasing look.

    This fellow, does he really think the City Lord Manor¡¯s request was that easy to achieve?

    When the requests of the City Lord Manor shed with the requests of the vigers, let¡¯s see how he takes care of it.

    But this matter was Cantona¡¯s headache alone. Compared to the agriculture industry, Xu Yi cared more about developing the industrial system.

    Looking at the transport Magic Cars slowly driving by near them, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    With these things, it was equal to giving wings to developing the industrial system.

 Volume 3 79 - Transport business

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 79 Transport business</h4>

    A medium transport Magic Car was quickly moving along the road from Norton City to Cramer City.

    Although forty kilometers an hour was considered slow on earth, for a world that still relied on horse carriage for transportation, this was already very fast.

    Seeing the trees on both sides quickly passing by, Baltro gripped even tighter on the wheel as he stared right at the road in front of him, not daring to rx at all.

    Sarkozy on the side saw Baltro¡¯s tense appearance and said with augh, ¡°I say, Baltro, why are you so nervous? You¡¯re not even going that fast, what are you afraid of?¡±

    Baltro stared at the road without turning, but he angrily said, ¡°Nonsense, I just got my driver¡¯s license a few days ago, of course I¡¯m nervous.¡±

    Sarkozyughed, ¡°That¡¯s why I told you to get the license sooner, but you weren¡¯t willing. Look at me, I¡¯m very rxed when I drive this thing.¡±

    Baltro was even angrier and wanted to scold him, but because he was too excited, his hand trembled and the wheel turned. It caused the vehicle to suddenly turn and almost fall off the road.

    Sarkozy on the side was terrified and quickly reached out to grab the wheel, bringin the car back to the road and stabilizing them.

    Baltro released the gas pedal and wiped the cold sweat off his head. Then he found time to re at Sarkozy as he angrily said, ¡°Stop inciting me, we almost got into an ident!¡±

    Sarkozy was too shocked. Normally he would argue back, but he just nodded his head in a daze without saying anything.

    The car maintained a speed of less than twenty kilometers an hour for a while, but Baltro couldn¡¯t help moving faster again.

    After the experience from before, he had learned some tricks now. He no longer tightly held the wheel like before, rather he was much more rxed in driving the Magic Car.

    After running on the road for a while, Baltro curled his lips and said in an emotional voice, ¡°No wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs everyone who drives a Magic Car to have a driver¡¯s license. If you don¡¯t practice, it¡¯s quite easy for problems to ur.¡±¡±

    Sarkozy looked at Baltro and found that he was more rxedpared to before. He was secretly surprised before he said, ¡°Right. Didn¡¯t you see the Magic Car management rules from the City Lord Manor? There are many things there that I found troublesome, but after driving this car for some time, I felt that these were very reasonable. For example, the rules say that one must have a seatbelt when driving, otherwise they would be fined. Look, if you hadn¡¯t put on the seatbelt just now, someone might have been thrown out and something bad could have happened to us.¡±

    Baltro gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, I have to tell my two kids about this when I go back. They also want their driver¡¯s license and if they¡¯re not serious, it¡¯ll be toote to regret it if something happens.¡±

    Sarkozy looked at Baltro andughed, ¡°What? Are you scared?¡±

    ¡°Scared my butt!¡± Baltro angrily said, but this time, he firmly held the wheel while getting angry and didn¡¯t let it affect his driving likest time.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s fine if you¡¯re afraid, it¡¯s not something embarrassing. I was also quite afraid when I was driving for the first time, but it¡¯s it fine once you get used to it?¡± Seeing that Baltro really was worried, Sarkozy didn¡¯t tease him this time and gave him some rare words offort, ¡°Then again, if you want to earn money, how could you not face a bit of danger. Look, as long as we deliver this stock of goods to Cramer City, we¡¯ll be able to earn three gold coins. We can do this in a day at its quickest, so how much money is that.¡±

    ¡°This is the transport fee that other people are paying you, did you not calcte how much money we¡¯re spending on the road?¡± Baltro asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s not much spent on the road, at most it¡¯s the lunch that we eat. Oh, if you want to talk aboutrge consumption, it¡¯s the Magic Crystal¡­..Wait, let me take a look¡­..¡± Sarkozy suddenly sat up and looked at the gauge on the dashboard before saying, ¡°It¡¯s pretty much done. We¡¯ll have to change the Magic Crystals when we reach Cramer City, otherwise we can¡¯t get back home.¡±

    Baltro looked at the gauge and remembered the knowledge he learned when he was trying to get his driver¡¯s license. He confirmed that this gauge meant that more than half of the Magic Crystal had already been consumed.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t we fill it up when we left Banta City? Cramer City is only two hundred kilometers away, how did we use it all?¡± Baltro said with a frown, ¡°Like this, wouldn¡¯t we have to carry arge batch of Magic Crystals if we want to go even further? This thing consumes Magic Crystals too quickly.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, Magic Crystals are cheap anyway. A single run only uses ten silver coins, so it¡¯s less than thirty silver coins for a round trip which isn¡¯t considered much.¡± Sarkozy waved his hand, not caring at all.

    ¡°I¡¯m not talking about this. My meaning is that if a Magic Crystal is consumed just from two hundred kilometers, how is the Fersen Carriage Company sending cargo to Sowell City that is over a thousand kilometers away?¡± Baltro asked.

    ¡°What are you worried about? You can buy Magic Crystals in any city, you can fill it up at any time.¡± Sarkozy said.

    ¡°But when I was learning for my driver¡¯s license, the Magic Car has a high request for Magic Crystals. There¡¯s not enough power if it isn¡¯t a high grade Magic Crystal, which will affect the car. Moreover, even for high grade Magic Crystals, the difference in quality will affect the performance of the Magic Car. So doesn¡¯t this affect it a lot?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Sarkozy gave a careless shrug, ¡°Anyway, we¡¯re only responsible for driving the car, what do you care so much?¡±

    Baltro shook his head. He was filled with doubts, but seeing that Sarkozy wasn¡¯t interested in this question, he gave up.

    The transport Magic Car quickly moved across the road and after another hour, they finally arrived in Cramer City.

    This transport Magic Car was filled withponents that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce had them deliver. They were being sent to a newpany in Cramer City that was producing Magic Fans and Magic Kettles.

    After entering Cramer City, because there were more people, Baltro handed the car back to Sarkozy to drive.

    With Sarkozy¡¯s skilled driving, the transport Magic Car went in a half circle outside the city and arrived at the factory built outside Cramer City.

    This was clearly not Sarkozy¡¯s first delivery. When they saw the transport Magic Care over, the guards at the entrance of the factory didn¡¯t ask anything as they opened the door, letting theme in.

    A middle aged man wearing blue overalls came out of the factory, looking at the Magic Car with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, old man Sarkozy, you really are fast. I sent someone to Banta City to ce the order three days ago and you¡¯re already here.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile, ¡°With your speed, you should earn quite a bit in a month, right?¡±

    Sarkozyughed, ¡°It¡¯s not bad, butpared to you earning several thousand gold coins a month here, it¡¯s far from being able topare.¡±

    The middle aged man waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s not that much, I¡¯m just trying to feed myself. Moreover, I have to thank other people for noting here to steal my business. Otherwise, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or other bigpanies build factories here, I would immediately have nothing left.¡±

    Sarkozy curled his lip, ¡°Forget it, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to steal your business, how could you earn that much? You wouldn¡¯t even be able to do business.¡±

    ¡°So I¡¯m always grateful to chairman Xu, thanking him for letting our smallpany have a path to live by.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile, ¡°Of course, the Magic Fan and Magic Kettle are all filled with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology. It could be said that without chairman Xu or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I would still be guarding my small patch ofnd each day, how could I have such a good life?¡±

    Sarkozy looked back at Baltro andughed.

    Of course Baltro knew that he wasughing at him being unwilling to give up hisnd, so he gave a cold snort. He ignored old man Sarkozy and said to the middle aged man in a confused voice, ¡°Chairman Cherno,e take inventory of the goods. The sooner we hand it over, the sooner we can head back.¡±

    Cherno nodded with a faint smile. He personally came to the back of the Magic Car and after carefully taking inventory, confirming that the goods were here, he handed three gold coins to Sarkozy.

    ¡°Come,e, old man Sarkozy, it¡¯s hard for you to deliver all these goods here, so take this delivery fee.¡±

    Sarkozy took the gold coins and didn¡¯t look over them as he threw them into his pocket. Then he and Baltro worked together with the employees Cherno called over to move the goods.

    After everything was finished, old man Sarkozy declined chairman Cherno¡¯s invitation for lunch. He grabbed Baltro and waved his hand as he said, ¡°Come, it¡¯s rare for you toe to Cramer City. I¡¯ll take you to get a drink and have some local specialties, I promise you¡¯ll like them.¡±

    The two entered their Magic Car and as soon as they drove out of the factory, they noticed a ck shadow in the distance that was driving in their direction.

    Looking carefully, it was a motorcade of at least twenty transport Magic Cars.

 Volume 3 80 - Attitude towards a competitor

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 80 Attitude towards apetitor</h4>

    There was no need to guess, being able to create a motorcade of over twenty Magic Cars, there was no one else other than the Fersen Carriage Company.

    Since the Fersen Carriage Company announced their transport fleet madepletely of Magic Cars, they had taken all the transport business in Banta City in just a single month.

    Sarkozy could make a living transporting the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods to Cramer City because there wasn¡¯t much cargo, so there was no need to give this business to the Fersen Carriage Company. The most important reason was that he knew the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Freeman through Cantona, so he received this job through rtions.

    Of course, his price being lower than the Fersen Carriage Company was also an important reason.

    But no matter what, Sarkozy was just a small transporter taking a risk with a single Magic Car, he was far from being able topare to the Fersen Carriage Company.

    For those that could transportrge amounts of cargo, only the Fersen Carriage Company had this ability currently.

    Sarkozy looked at the powerful motorcade with a look of envy. He pped the shoulder of Baltro who was in a daze and said in a sunken voice, ¡°Let¡¯s go, don¡¯t look anymore. Baltro, just work with me in the future. If we work hard for a few days, we can buy a few more Magic Cars and can transport more goods. If we umte a few cars, perhaps we can even open a transportpany.¡±

    Baltro nodded before taking a look in the distance again. He saw that there was a familiar symbol on thest Magic Car at the rear.

    ¡°Yi? It seems like this motorcade is carrying things for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is finally opening a factory in Cramer City?¡±

    Sarkozy looked back, but he didn¡¯t have the same good eyes as Baltro, so he couldn¡¯t see anything. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything strange. Didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announce a few days ago that they would be developing the magic machine industry? They were preparing to invest in more ces in the kingdom. They have already built a production base on Norton City and Canberra City, so it isn¡¯t strange for them to be in Cramer City.¡±

    ¡°Un, I just feel that it¡¯s a bit too fast. This Frestech Chamber of Commerce just built a branch factory in Karma City a few days ago and now they¡¯re starting to expand outwards, investing in all these different cities at once. Isn¡¯t their appetite a bit too big?¡± Baltro said.

    ¡°What does it matter to you?¡± Sarkozy looked at him, ¡°How could we understand what an important person like chairman Xu is thinking? Anyway, you know that he is more intelligent than us, what is there to worry? If you have free time, you might as well think about what we should eat, I¡¯m already starving.¡±

    Baltroughed and thought that Sarkozy was right. This was not something that they should think about, so he shook his head to throw these thoughts away. He entered the Magic Car with Sarkozy and they drove off towards Cramer City.

    What the two didn¡¯t know was that in the motorcade, in one of the Magic Cars, there were two people discussing Sarkozy.

    ¡°Do you see that transport Magic Car by the doors of the Fit Chamber of Commerce? If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, that should be the car of the one called Sarkozy from Mexn Vige.¡± Chairman Pompeii pointed at the Magic Car in the distance outside the window.

    Ankhto looked in that direction and doubtfully asked, ¡°Chairman Pompeii, he should also be delivering goods from Banta City, right? Doesn¡¯t that mean that he is apetitor of yourpany?¡±

    ¡°Competitor?¡± Chairman Pompeii revealed a proud smile and waved his hand, ¡°He¡¯s still far fromparing. For a small driver that only has a single car, how could he be apetitor for ourpany? At most he is just taking a few leftovers out of our mouth.¡±

    Ankhto revealed a faint smile, thinking that chairman Pompeii really was confident.

    But he was right,pared to the Fersen Carriage Company that had over a hundred Magic Cars and all the transport business in Banta City, this kind of small driver wasn¡¯t worth being considered apetitor.

    Looking at the two in the distance, Ankhto put down this issue and looked forward before asking, ¡°We should be there soon, right?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii turned and gave a nod, ¡°Un, we¡¯ll see it after passing the curve in front. Then again, Ankhto, why did chairman Xu send the household magic machine department manager here this time? We¡¯re just sending some non-ferrous smelting equipment, it shouldn¡¯t be rted to you.¡±

    ¡°It was my request.¡± Ankhto replied with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m mainly here to see if there is room to develop the household magic machine market here, then I heard that there were some Magic Fanpanies that had made some breakthroughs, which made some Magic Fans with some originality. I wanted toe and study them.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii said with a smile, ¡°What a joke, does your Frestech Chamber of Commerce need to study otherpanies? If their Magic Fans can even be half as good as your Frestech Brand, it would already be good, but how could they be better than yours.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say this.¡± Ankhto shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the Magic Fan sooner, we can¡¯t always be in the lead. For example, take the Fit Chamber of Commerce you just mentioned, their Magic Fan has some new ideas when ites to the other structure, which the researchers from ourpany feel is quite good. So they wanted me to take a look at this Fit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seeing that Ankhto didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, chairman Pompeii gave a praise of sigh, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is this ahead of others and you¡¯re still this careful, it really is admirable. But what are you nning to do? I think that you want to at least get this structure, right? If you can¡¯t, you could just buy the Fit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°No, we can study it, but I won¡¯t do anything to the Fit Chamber of Commerce. Rather, I came this time because sir chairman specially told me to encourage and praise the Fit Chamber of Commerce, supporting them in developing these new structures. Sir chairman even said that if the Fit Chamber of Commerce is interested, we could consider giving them some more household magic machine production methods and helping theirpany develop.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu really said all this?¡± Chairman Pompeii was stunned, ¡°It¡¯s fine if he doesn¡¯t move against this Fit Chamber of Commerce, but he actually wants to help them develop? He¡¯s not afraid that the Fit Chamber of Commerce will be a threat to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce after it develops?¡±

    Ankhto gave a shrug, ¡°If this Fit Chamber of Commerce really is strong enough to pose a threat to ourpany, then sir chairman will only be happy and won¡¯t have any other ideas.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii was speechless. After being silent for a bit, he shook his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°I really can¡¯t understand chairman Xu. He told me before that apany can¡¯t take all the business, we have to leave room for others to develop, so I didn¡¯t meddle in the taxi business that is appearing in Banta City and even allowed small transporters like Sarkozy to keep some work. Butpared to chairman Xu who even develops hispetitors¡­..I really can¡¯t understand.¡±

    ¡°I often don¡¯t understand what sir chairman is thinking.¡± Ankhtoughed, ¡°But it doesn¡¯t matter as long I just do my work ording to sir chairman¡¯s thoughts. I believe that sir chairman won¡¯t make a mistake.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii shook his head, as if not agreeing with what Ankhto said, but he didn¡¯t say anything.

    The two chatted for a bit and the motorcade had traveled over ten kilometers. They turned a corner to see a mountain and a valley appear in front of them.

    In this valley that was surrounded by severalrge mountains, the left side mountain already had several mines. There were small cars that were transporting colourful ores out of the mountain, sending them torge factories that upied half of the valley.

    Looking at it from the outside, the factory was simr to the steel mill in the Falling Rain Valley, so one could tell that it was used to smelt ores.

    That¡¯s right, this was the non-ferrous metal mine and smelting factory that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce invested in together.

    From being nned on Xu Yi¡¯s trip to Anvilmar Cityst year and his discussion with Duke Jole, after eight months of preparations, it had finally opened and started productionst month.

    Because there was already the experience from the non-ferrous metal smelting factory at the Voller Tribe, once this factory was open, its smelting efficiency was very high.

    In just less than twenty daysst month, this small factory produced seventy three tons of pure copper, thirty two tons of tungsten, and two hundred and thirty thousand tons of lead ingot, as well as one ton of various test metals.

    The non-ferrous metal vein outside Cramer City was very rich, with all kinds of variety. The copper that was smelted before was mainly used to satisfy the coin needs of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than copper which had some special use, the other non-ferrous metals were being used by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which they prepared to ce in their various magic machines.

    Right now the production of this non-ferrous metal smelting mine was much lower than the factory at the Voller Tribe. For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the significance of this factory was mainly to partner with the Jole Family¡¯spany, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to enter the kingdom¡¯s mineral trade.

    So although the investment was high for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than managing production, they didn¡¯t meddle in this matter at all.

    Ankhto was justing here to take a look to disy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s importance in this ce, so this was just purely a symbolic visit.

    But when Ankhto entered the smelting factory, he found that his trip wasn¡¯t in vain.

 Volume 3 81 - You think you can harvest it at will?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 81You think you can harvest it at will?</h4>

    ¡°Ankhto, take a look, this is the newly developed aluminum tungsten alloy. There¡¯s a bit of Moonweed Flower Dew in this and although it isn¡¯t as hard as pure steel, it is much tougher and has better corrosion resistance. The most important thing is¡­...Give it a try¡­..¡±

    Ankhto took the silver alloy that had a trace of dark brown on it. The dwarf Porto immediately asked with an excited look, ¡°How is it? Isn¡¯t it light?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s very light.¡± Ankhto weighed the alloy in his hand and he couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°It seems like there¡¯s a high proportion of aluminum in this. I¡¯m very clear on tungsten, it¡¯s much heavier than iron.¡±

    ¡°What heavy, that¡¯s called density!¡± Porto looked at Ankhto in disdain, ¡°Didn¡¯t you read the chairman¡¯s newly written ?Industrial Material Basic Standards?? You should call this thing dense and not heavy, it doesn¡¯t sound professional.¡±

    Ankhto couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. Porto had just asked him if it was light or not and now he¡¯s ming him for using the word ¡°heavy¡±.

    But when it came to sir chairman¡¯s ?Industrial Material Basic Standards? that was published half a month ago, Ankhto had read it as soon as possible and knew that Porto was right, so he couldn¡¯t refute it.

    Moreover, Porto and the other dwarves were sent to provide guidance to this non-ferrous metal smelting factory. They had been conducting research in this rich non-ferrous metal vein for several months and now that he had sess, it was understandable that he was excited.

    ¡°Alright, this aluminum tungsten alloy has a lower density than normal steel alloys and it is tougher with greater corrosion resistance as well. So what are the ws?¡± Ankhto thought for a bit before asking.

    ¡°If you have to mention ws, it isn¡¯t hard enough.¡± Porto gave a sigh as he shook his head, ¡°Look, if there is a tube that has the same thickness as my finger, I can bend it with a bit of strength. It¡¯s much worse than a steel tube.¡±

    Ankhto looked at Porto¡¯s thumb that was twice asrge as two of his fingers and thought that if it was like this, the aluminum tungsten alloy should have worse impact resistancepared to steel alloys.

    But thinking of the shocking natural strength that dwarves had, Ankhto thought that this shouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem.

    After thinking seriously for a bit, Ankhto said, ¡°Then ording to this, this material should be suitable for use in outer covers for household magic machines and some internal bracing. As long as they are parts that don¡¯t have too much pressure, they can be used. Right now many household magic machines that ourpany produces have parts that can¡¯t be reced with stic, so we can only use some steel parts for now. This thing will fit perfectly.¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, we also did this when we used this thing for testing.¡± Porto cracked a smile before saying, ¡°Right, I found that this thing is quite good for making windows. Look, this thing is stronger than wood and is corrosion resistant, so it canst much longer.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Based on what you said, not just for making windows, there are many ces in the house that this thing can be used for.¡± Ankhto thought for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°I suddenly feel that this aluminum tungsten alloy has many ces where it can be used, at least there are many ces it can be used in a normal house. Alright, I¡¯ll report to sir chairman once I head back. I think that he can discuss this with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they should need this thing very much.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll leave this matter to you, I won¡¯t care.¡± Porto waved his hand. He suddenly looked around before approaching Ankhto, saying in a low voice with a mysterious look, ¡°Other than this aluminum tungsten alloy, there¡¯s another research project that I need you to bring back to sir chairman.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Porto¡¯s face, Ankhto understood and didn¡¯t say anything as he asked with his gaze.

    Porto looked around again before waving his hand at Ankhto. He had him enter an inner room in the non-ferrous metal smelting factory¡¯s research room.

    ¡°Come, what do you think of this thing?¡± After entering the inner room, Porto closed the door and took out a piece of ck metal for Ankhto.

    Ankhto reached out to take it and felt it sink in his hand, so he quickly reached out his other hand to hold it.

    ¡°It¡¯s this heavy¡­..It¡¯s this dense?¡± Ankhto looked at the unknown ck metal piece in his hand, ¡°What kind of alloy is this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s mainly lead, with a small part of tungsten, blended with a bit of iron and zinc.¡± Porto replied, ¡°This thing is very dense, but it is also incredibly resistant and quite tough. Isn¡¯t thepany nning on improving the magic production machines and the agricultural magic machines, but sir chairman, Camby, and the others couldn¡¯t find a strong enough material? I think that this thing will work very well.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t anything special. Sir chairman said that as long as we can get rid of some impurities in the steel alloys, it will meet our requirement. But it¡¯s better if we use this thing that is even better.¡± Ankto looked at the metal in his hand in thought before asking, ¡°The key question, how much does this thing cost?¡±

    ¡°Cost?¡± Porto was surprised before revealing an awkward smile, ¡°This is hard to say. Anyway, there¡¯s quite a bit of this material in this vein and I think that since there¡¯s this much here, there should be more in other ces.¡±

    ¡°That is hard to say.¡± Ankhto shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°It was no wonder sir chairman always valued minerals, it would be good if ourpany had some non-ferrous metal lodes.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think that it¡¯s that difficult. With us dwarves here, are you afraid that we can¡¯t find metal veins?¡± Porto asked.

    ¡°So what if you can find them? Could it be that you want to mine in the Candra or the Marlow Empires?¡± Ankhto rolled his eyes at Porto.

    Porto was instantly speechless.

    The two discussed the recent results of theb and after Ankhto gave some suggestions in development direction, he left the researchb. After heading back to the factory, he found the manager from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce to give him the order for non-ferrous metals this time.

    This was the reason why Ankhto was feeling emotional earlier.

    Even if this non-ferrous metal smelting mine had investment from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t have full rights. Even if this mine had all kinds of non-ferrous metals, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to buy them through normal channels to use them.

    Because of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very restricted.

    For example, the magic research facility and the magic machine development center wanted some pure copper to experiment with, but because copper was used to manufacture copper coins, they were strictly controlled in the Lampuri Kingdom. The Falcao Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t consider selling it to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Other than copper, the non-ferrous metal smelting factory couldn¡¯t follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s needs.

    Take the household magic machine department that Ankhto was in charge of. Because various household magic machines had newer materials in them, they had a high demand for aluminum and zinc.

    But the Falcao Chamber of Commerce insisted on smelting copper, so the output of aluminum and zinc wasn¡¯t high.

    The non-ferrous metal smelting factory near the Voller Tribe producedpletely to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s demand, but that ce was mainly filled with aluminum and lead. They hadn¡¯t found a single trace of zinc, so they could only obtain zinc from this ce.

    So Ankhto who never cared about this matter before couldn¡¯t help hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could control more non-ferrous metal veins, so they wouldn¡¯t be restricted by others.

    But since the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom was quiteplex, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t do anything here. It was impossible for them to obtain several mineral lodes here in a short period of time.

    Ankhto and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative quibbled for a while before he finally got them to promise to mine a bit more zinc.

    As for the actual results, only god would know¡­¡­

    A dayter, Ankhto watched as chairman Pompeii led the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s Magic Cars to load up seventeen tons of various non-ferrous metals to bring back to Banta City, then they headed to the Fit Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department manager?¡±

    The Fit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Cherno looked at the card Ankhto gave him before looking at his young face. No matter how he looked at Ankhto who didn¡¯t seem to be over thirty years old, he thought that if it wasn¡¯t for a testimony from an old friend like Sarkozy, he never would have believed that such a young person was a department manager from argepany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°That¡­..Manager Ankhto, may I ask what business you have with our Fit Chamber of Commerce?¡± Cherno looked at Ankhto with a vignt look.

    A person representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hade to a smallpany like his that made Magic Fans and Magic Kettles, it made him feel that he didn¡¯t have any good intentions.

    Ankhto revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Cherno, I remember that your Fit Chamber of Commerce bought the production methods for the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle from ourpany in March and June ofst year respectively. You spent a total of sixty three thousand gold coins and seventy two thousand gold coins, right?¡±

    Chairman Cherno narrowed his eyes and his gaze looking at Ankhto became more vignt.

    This fellow had clearlye prepared, it meant that nothing good wasing.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, manager Ankhto. What do you want to do raising these things?¡± Chairman Cherno asked in a cold voice.

    Ankhto had the same smile as he said after pausing, ¡°Chairman Cherno, when I visited your factory just now, I found that yourpany¡¯s Magic Fan and Magic Kettle weren¡¯t perfect, you were missing several models. Since you spent this much money to buy the production methods, are you willing to spend a bit more money to buy all the rted technology?¡±

    Chairman Cherno was stunned.

    Based on Ankhto¡¯s words, could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were prepared to release all their information on producing Magic Fans and Magic Kettles?¡±

    Thinking of this possibility, chairman Cherno¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help beating fast.

 Volume 3 82 - Feminist

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 82 Feminist</h4>

    ¡°Xu Yi, is yourpany nning to give up all the business rted to Magic Fans and Magic Kettles?¡± Seveni asked Xu Yi with obvious curiosity.

    ¡°Releasing all rted technology is different from giving it all up, dear Lord City Lord.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Even if they have the same level of technology, I can guarantee that the quality of the Magic Fans and Magic Kettles of otherpanies can¡¯tpare to ourpany¡¯s. Do you believe that?¡±

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I believe it?¡± Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°You think I know nothing about magic machines? Other than the production technology, there are many factors that decide the quality of a magic machine. For example, the material, the techniques used¡­..Don¡¯t forget, you taught me this before.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Having a Lord City Lord that is this familiar with producing magic machines really is lucky. Since it¡¯s like this, dear Lord City Lord, you should agree to the draft n of further expanding the industrial district outside the city, right?¡±

    Seveni nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Of course. Such a good proposal, wouldn¡¯t people scold me if I didn¡¯t ept it? But Xu Yi, there is a problem with your n.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What problem?¡± Xu Yi looked at the n he put on the table in surprise. This n was something that Kennard and all the chairmen of the variousrgepanies had decided together, this n should have nned for everything and there shouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°Look¡­..¡± Seveni pointed at the map of Banta City nearby, ¡°It¡¯s fine if this industrial district expand around the Sandton Manor, but haven¡¯t you seen that if you follow this n, it will consider expanding along the banks of the river and will start approaching the Falling Star Manor?¡±

    ¡°So what?¡± Xu Yi looked confused.

    ¡°You men¡­¡­¡± Seveni had a look that didn¡¯t expect much. She gave a sigh and said while shaking her head, ¡°Xu Yi, you only think about your own convenience, didn¡¯t you forget to think about Still? Still is pregnant right now, you¡¯re not afraid that building the industrial district near the Falling Star Manor will disturb her?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in a daze.

    He waspletely thinking about how advantageous this new industrial district would be to Banta City, he didn¡¯t think about his personal problems. He didn¡¯t think that Seveni as the City Lord would be considering this for him.

    ¡°Many thanks for your concern¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi fell into thought before nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right, I was negligent. You¡¯re right, if the construction is too close to the Falling Star Manor, it will seriously affect Still. Since it¡¯s like this¡­..how about we change it slightly here?¡±

    Xu Yi drew two lines on the map, removing the part of the industrial district near the Falling Star Manor and cing it somewhere else.

    Like this, even if the industrial district is built, it would be over two kilometers away from the Falling Star Manor and wouldn¡¯t affect the surrounding area.

    However, Seveni looked at the map and drew another circle on the map. She had ced the industrial district even further, being at least five kilometers away from the Falling Star Manor.

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    He felt that moving the industrial district two kilometers away was already quite a big gesture, but he never thought that Seveni would be more decisive, moving it more than double the distance away!

    ¡°This¡­..Seveni, if we do this, wouldn¡¯t it be abusing our power?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying.

    Seveni looked at him and gave a soft snort, ¡°This is my decision as the City Lord, do you have any objections?¡±

    Of course Xu Yi could only shake his head.

    Seveni looked over the map again and after changing some details, she pushed it back to Xu Yi.

    ¡°What do you think now?¡±

    Xu Yi took it and gave a bitterugh, ¡°If this n was shown to chairman Rank and the others, they would definitely scold me.¡±

    Seveni red at him, ¡°Based on what? If you tell them that it was for Still, what would they still say? If they really say anything, you can have them find me.¡±

    Seeing the rare firm look from Seveni, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny.

    He never thought that the gentle and calm Seveni who treated people kindly was a feminist, this wasn¡¯t vague at all.

    ¡°Alright, I believe that even if chairman Rank and the others have objections, they won¡¯t say anything.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Since you have already confirmed this, then this Banta City Magic Machine Industrial District has officially been decided. As for the concrete path, you need to discuss this with chairman Cruise. His Amrit Chamber of Commerce is very experienced in this, I think you¡¯ll be satisfied.¡±

    ¡°I believe that.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°At least with how smooth the Banta City renovation is going, everyone is filled with praise for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re satisfied.¡±

    The two discussed a few more details before Xu Yi nned to leave, but Seveni suddenly called out to him.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have anything to do today, I¡¯ll go take a look at Still.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised as he looked at Seveni, but after making sure she wasn¡¯t joking, he agreed after considering it.

    After the two came out of the City Lord Manor together, Seveni looked at the luxurious horse carriage waiting outside and slightly knit her brows. She asked Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi,st time you told me that yourpany had developed personal Magic Cars for family use and that it was veryfortable, it was even better than riding medium sized Magic Passenger Cars. Was that true?¡±

    ¡°Of course it was.¡± Xu Yi thought about the luxury cars that ran across the streets on earth and gave a certain nod, ¡°I guarantee that we will definitely develop this product and it will be well received by everyone.¡±

    ¡°Then when can you develop it? I really want to ride it now.¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m not certain on this. Right now the magic machine development center is mainly improving the transportation and the passenger Magic Cars, they are putting aside other research projects for now.¡±

    ¡°Un, those two are more important.¡± Seveni nodded before looking in the direction of the Fersen Carriage Company, ¡°I have to admit, your words before about how the Magic Car¡¯s appearance could change the entire continent wasn¡¯t exaggerated at all. If there wasn¡¯t this Magic Car, our Banta City couldn¡¯t transport our cargo so easily to every part of the kingdom. Moreover, if I want to return to Anvilmar City from Banta City, if I head out in the morning, I could even rush back to eat dinner. I cane back whenever I want.¡±

    ¡°Actually the current Magic Car is far from being fast enough. In theory, Anvilmar City is less than two hundred kilometers away from Banta City, so if the Magic Car of my heart was developed, it would only take three to four hours to get there. That way you can set out in the morning and you could even reach Anvilmar City to grab lunch.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°That fast?¡± Seveni was a bit doubtful.

    ¡°A speed of sixty kilometers an hour isn¡¯t considered fast.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. If the F1 race cars he mentioned to Cantona before were developed, those monsters that could reach three to four hundred kilometers an hour wouldn¡¯t even need an hour to travel this measly two hundred kilometers.

    Of course, the F1 race car had a high requirement for their track, so normal roads couldn¡¯t handle this speed.

    If he wanted to keep increasing the speed of the Magic Car, other than upgrading the Magic Car itself, he also had to upgrade the conditions of the road.

    But he was thinking too far ahead.

    Only Banta City could barely be considered covered in roads in the Lampuri Kingdom and that was only on main roads. The roads to each vige haven¡¯t beenpleted yet, so there was no need to mention other cities.

    As for the Sines Continent, only the Lampuri Kingdom had over two thousand kilometers of road. For the other kingdoms, only the Stantine Duchy had over two hundred kilometers of road.

    As for the Rudson Kingdom, because there were some details that the Rudson Kingdom and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t agree on, the current speed was slow and they were far from being finished.

    Of course, what Xu Yi was looking forward to the most right now was the Magic Airship that Evita was working hard to develop.

    Compared to the Magic Car, the Magic Airship had more prospects if it was developed.

    Moreover, although the speed of the Magic Airship couldn¡¯tpare to Magic Cars, the Magic Airships weren¡¯t constrained by geography and could link different ces together. Just this alone saved quite a bit more timepared to the Magic Car.

    The more important thing was that because of the amazing functions of Wind Magic, the hardest part for airnes on earth, which was lifting off was actually quite simple.

    After solving this important problem, now they just needed to develop a suitable power source and the progress would go much faster.

    When Xu Yi went to check on Evita in the magic research facility four days ago, Evita had told Xu Yi that her newly developed Magic Airship could already carry items as heavy as ten kilograms into the air.

    With this speed, they would be able to achieve manned flight soon.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what are you thinking?¡± Seveni reached a hand to wave in front of Xu Yi¡¯s face, pulling him out of his thoughts.

    ¡°Oh¡­..I was thinking about what kind of personal Magic Car you would like.¡± Xu Yi came back to his senses and said this with a smile.

    ¡°It can be customized?¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°Of course.¡±

    ¡°Good, I like something a bit smaller and something that doesn¡¯t look as rectangr as the current medium sized Magic Passenger Car, looking so crude. I also like a rather light and elegant colour, as well as some flower designs¡­..¡±

    ¡°Come, we¡¯ll talk after getting in.¡±

    Seveni looked at the horse carriage on the side and said with a sigh, ¡°You¡¯ve hooked my interest and now I¡¯m not interested in riding horse carriages at all.¡±

    ¡°But we can¡¯t just walk, right?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile. He gave an inviting gesture and entered the horse carriage that had been waiting a long time with Seveni.

 Volume 3 83 - How are you treating her?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 83 How are you treating her?</h4>

    Seveni¡¯s arrival caused a stir in the Falling Star Manor.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a habit of hiring servants, so up to this point, there were only Liz and Linda who he had brought back from the Stantine Duchy that had taken care of the manor. Because Vivian spent most of her time at school, she didn¡¯t take care of this at all.

    To entertain Seveni now, Liz and Linda did everything they could. They took out the best things to wee her, so naturally they were busy.

    Seeing the two maids moving around and even seeing Still doing a few things for Xu Yi, Seveni couldn¡¯t help shaking her head as she said to Still, ¡°I know that Xu Yi doesn¡¯t like treating others as ves, but why there¡¯s no problem if he hires a few servants, right? You are pregnant right now, why doesn¡¯t he find a few more people to take care of you? He can¡¯t be that stingy, right?¡±

    Still was in her third month of pregnancy, so her stomach was sticking out a little. She touched her belly when she heard this and replied with a smile, ¡°This was my idea since I don¡¯t like having too many people around, it¡¯s too noisy. Liz and Linda have been here rather long, so Xu Yi and I both treat them like family. If we find some people we¡¯re not familiar with, I wouldn¡¯t be used to it.¡±

    ¡°You wouldn¡¯t feel assured?¡± Seveni asked, ¡°If you¡¯re worried about this, I can find several people for you who are definitely trustworthy. Moreover, they would be experienced with dealing with pregnant women, so you would be more assured.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your highness¡¯ goodwill, but forget it. I feel it¡¯s quite good now.¡±

    Seeing that Still was determined, Seveni didn¡¯t insist. She then began asking Still about the condition of her body.

    Seeing the two talking to each other and bing more and more excited by the conversation, Xu Yi didn¡¯t just stay on the side and went to help Liz and Linda.

    When dinner was almost ready, Vivian came back from school and she came back together with Teresa.

    Seeing Vivian, Xu Yi suddenly remembered something. There was another wave of graduates from Baron Rickto Magic Academyst month and quite a few of them had epted the special assistance fund the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided. So ording to their contracts, many of these graduates would be entering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating.

    Other than a few students that had no talent and had limited room for growth and some students that needed money, so they entered the factory to imprint Magic Arrays, most of the students had been enrolled by Xu Yi into the new Frestech Academy for further education.

    For example, Orin Zetaman who had left a deep impression on Xu Yi had asked him about the requirements for studying at the Frestech Academy. Right now his performance at the academy was very good.

    Xu Yi wanted to ask how the students were feeling about this arrangement.

    Because Xu Yi was the chairman, he couldn¡¯t obtain a real answer from the students. Vivian was a student at Baron Rickto Magic Academy and was in contact with these students more, so she should be able to get a real answer.

    ¡°They are all very satisfied.¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Vivian replied with a natural look, ¡°I¡¯ve asked many people. They said that they are all very happy learning the new knowledge from the Frestech Academy.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi rxed before turning to Teresa, ¡°Teresa, then how do you feel about working in the magic research facility?¡±

    Compared to when Xu Yi had saved her, the current Teresa was much better. Although she was still silent most of the time, at least she would reveal a smile when Xu Yi asked her a question.

    ¡°It¡¯s very good.¡± Teresa gave a nod, ¡°The colleagues at the research facility are all very good to me. The work is very fun and researching magic machines is very interesting, so I like it very much.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? It¡¯s good that you¡¯re happy.¡± Xu Yi hesitated a bit before giving up the idea of asking Teresa about the things she was hiding in her heart.

    She wasn¡¯t willing to disclose these matters, so it wasn¡¯t a good thing to press her for an answer.

    After dinner was prepared, Seveni saw Teresa at the table for the first time and couldn¡¯t help asking her a few questions. However, Teresa was very silent with unfamiliar people, so she either nodded or shook her head to Seveni¡¯s questions. She only answered with reluctant un when she did answer, so Seveni naturally felt there was no meaning in asking anything else, so she turned back to talk to Still.

    But when she was leaving after eating dinner, Seveni specially called Xu Yi to the side.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what is going on with that Teresa?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t you ask just now? I saved her when she fainted on the side of the road in the middle of the night.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking this.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°I want to ask, how are you treating her?¡±

    ¡°How else¡­...She has no family right now and since I saved her, I¡¯ll help her to the end. Right now she¡¯s working at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and normally lives in the Falling Star Manor, there¡¯s nothing else.¡±

    ¡°You really haven¡¯t thought about anything else?¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°She¡¯s very beautiful.¡±

    ¡°She is, but so what?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    Seveni seriously looked at Xu Yi¡¯s expression for a bit before suddenlyughing. She waved her hand and said, ¡°Alright, I was worrying too much. Our chairman Xu¡¯s mind should be filled with ice cold magic machines and don¡¯t have time to think about other strange things, am I right?¡±

    Xu Yi was even more confused, ¡°I say, your highness, what are you trying to say?¡±

    ¡°Nothing, just stay with Still tonight. She is in the beginning stages of her pregnancy and has mood swings, so you should care for her more.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I specially moved back to the Falling Star Manor from the Falling Rain Valley just to be with her. Other than the Falling Star Manor¡¯s condition being better, I also have some things to take care of in Banta City during this time, so it¡¯s easier for me to be with her.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you pay attention to this.¡± Seveni gave a nod of praise before waving her hand at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, go back and be with still, I¡¯ll be leaving first. Don¡¯te to the City Lord Manor tomorrow morning, we¡¯ll gather at Koror Vige directly.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then I¡¯ll have to thank the Lord City Lord¡¯s consideration.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile and turned to enter her horse carriage.

    Watching the horse carriage disappear into the night, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    Seveni¡¯s visit today was purely personal. Although this showed her good rtionship with Xu Yi, if others were to know about this, they would certainly have an opinion.

    Although chairman Sarank and the others didn¡¯t show it, from their different signs, they had veiled criticisms in their heart.

    If Seveni was very close to him, it would influence some things.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi revealed a smile of self ridicule.

    Why was he worrying about this? Seveni caring about him was something that everyone already knew. Instead of wasting time thinking about this, he should be thinking about how to spend time with Still.

    Thinking of this, he remembered the questions Seveni had asked him today, as well as the serious way she talked to him before leaving. Xu YI couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit strange about this.

    Why did Seveni pay special attention to Teresa? Could it be that she thought that he had some special ideas towards her¡­...

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi shook his head. He headed back into the Falling Star Manor and headed to his room.

    After taking care of Still for around an hour, Liz and Linda led Still off to take a bath before heading to bed. Xu Yi took this time to head to his study and start on a bit of work.

    The new industrial district he discussed with Seveni today was around the Sandton Manor. The idea was to expand and rebuild the Sandton industrial district.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, many smallpanies that built magic machines orponents built factories around the Sandton Manor, creating a small Sandton industrial district.

    But this industrial district that wasn¡¯t nned at all was a bit messy, so problems would ur if it was left like this.

    The most obvious thing was that it wasn¡¯t convenient to build roads and other buildings.

    Because of Count Stagg, the smallpanies had left the Sandton industrial district and now it had be empty again.

    Now that Seveni had taken over as the City Lord, she wanted to develop the industrial district outside the city and she began this n by starting around the Sandton Manor.

    ording to the preliminary ns, they would tear up all the original buildings andy down the roads, water pipes, street lights, and other facilities first. Then they would use a distribution n to give eachpany space to construct a new factory.

    But there was an important problem. Because of Count Stagg, many new small factories had lost faith in Banta City.

    Because to those smallpanies, they didn¡¯t have the same resistance asrgepanies like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If any small changes urred, it would severely injure them and they might even go out of business.

    Because of Count Staggst time, these smallpanies mostly transferred out of Banta City and had sufferedrge losses.

    Even though Seveni had taken over as the City Lord and indicated that she would support business development, especially that of the magic machine industry, most of the smallpanies were waiting and didn¡¯t dare take a risk.

    In the end, no one could guarantee that Seveni would still be the City Lord in three years and what kind of attitude the new City Lord would have.

    Seveni and Xu Yi were mainly discussing how to let these smallpanies regain confidence in them.

 Volume 3 84 - Expand

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 84 Expand</h4>

    For this, Xu Yi¡¯s first suggestion was to advertise and his second suggestion was to give tangible preferential treatment.

    Advertising was simple because the ?Banta Times? was biased towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and because of Hannas, since he was also firmly behind Seveni. Since Seveni took over as City Lord, he spared no effort in advertising for Seveni.

    Adding in the fact that Seveni had a good reputation and prestige in the minds of the citizens, only after being the City Lord for less than two months, she had a high prestige in Banta City already.

    As for the actual policies, Banta City had an advantage that the other cities didn¡¯t have, which was the policies that were included in determining this ce as a special economic zone two years ago.

    Adding in Seveni¡¯s identity as a princess, she had more rights than others.

    So when Xu Yi gave the suggestion of giving benefits, Seveni immediately announced a few ns for Banta City¡¯s business development.

    For example, what allpanies paid attention to was the tax paid. Seveni announced that the City Lord Manor would reduce the business tax while encouraging growth of the magic machine industry, reducing the taxes ofpanies rted to producing magic machines even more, while also giving them some preferential treatment.

    Although many people secretly used Seveni of using her position as the City Lord to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after this was announced, all thepanies in Banta City began producing magic machines, quickly entering the magic machine industry.

    Somepanies that had only dabbled in the magic machine industry before were now saying that they wanted to fully enter the industry, developing new magic machines.

    Of course, this was just talk and the results were another thing.

    There were many advertisementsst month about Magic Fans with different internal and external structures, which was the result of this announcement.

    But among these Magic Fans, most of them were failed products to Xu Yi.

    But with these failed products, thesepanies could have the sign of producing magic machines, which meant that they enjoyed the reduced taxes.

    Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t like this situation.

    This policy was used to develop the magic machine industry in Banta City, but thesepanies were using it as a loophole.

    Whether it was to help Seveni or develop the magic machine industry, Xu Yi had to solve this problem.

    But it was like he had said to Seveni, if they wanted thepanies that only cared about benefits to return, other than properly supervising them, the most important thing was giving them enough benefits.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before turning to the giant Lampuri Kingdom map that hung on the wall of the study.

    Right now, the red dots on the map had be even more dense and were getting further and further away from Banta City. This meant that thepanies rted to the magic machine industry were beginning to spread to every part of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Thisrge change had urred in thest two months, with the main reason being the appearance of the Magic Car.

    With the efforts of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, there was over two thousand kilometers of roadid in the Lampuri Kingdom. Moreover, this was increasing at a rate of over fifty kilometers per month.

    Now all the cities of the Lampuri Kingdom were connected with roads, so the circtionpared to before was like the difference between heaven and earth.

    With the appearance of the Magic Cars, because the Magic Cars were much faster than horse carriages, magic machines and equipment for magic machines could be transported to every city in the Lampuri Kingdom. This had greatly increased the speed of the development of the magic machine industry.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sst month stats, the household magic machine department had lost sales in Banta City. The Frestech Brand Magic Fan was selling 30% lesspared tost year.

    But when it came to total sales numbers, it was actually twice the amount ofst year!

    The extra close to twenty thousand Magic Fans were naturally being sold in the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other magic machinepanies in Banta City were also selling their goods in other locations and greatly increasing their sales.

    ording to the stats from the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union, during this summer, the Magic Fans sold by the various brands reached over one hundred and thirty thousand units! This included sales from every city in the Lampuri Kingdom!

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magic Fans of the otherpanies were just a bit worse than the Frestech Brand and their prices were much lower, so they were selling in the countries bordering the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The most exaggerated one was the Sarank Chamber of Commerce. It was unknown what rtionship they drew in, but they sold five thousand Magic Fans to the Sack Kingdom, which was unexpected to Xu Yi.

    Chairman Rank had even said that the Magic Fans were very wee in the Sack Kingdom, so he invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to also sell their household magic machines in the Sack Kingdom.

    Xu Yi supported this idea of exporting, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity couldn¡¯t even satisfy the internal needs of the Lampuri Kingdom, so they could only postpone exporting to other kingdoms for now.

    Thinking of production capacity, it was also something that gave Xu Yi a headache.

    The magic production machine research was limited, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory production capacity was also limited, but the world¡¯s demand for magic machines was increasing.

    Adding in the transportation convenience the Magic Cars brought, there was arge demand increase for magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity was getting further and further from being enough, forcing them to give up markets in many cities to the other magic machinepanies.

    Although a part of this was because Xu Yi wanted to promote the development of the magic machine industry, the seriousck of production capacity still existed.

    When there are many otherpanies that can produce Magic Fans and Magic Kettles, this problem isn¡¯t very obvious.

    But the otherpanies couldn¡¯t produce Magic Air Conditioners, Magic Freezers, and other household magic machines. Because only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce it right now, it meant that the output couldn¡¯t keep up to the demand.

    Right now all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine factories were working overtime, but they still couldn¡¯tplete all their orders.

    To solve this problem, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to expand their production.

    But because the people in Banta City were limited and Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on stealing workers from otherpanies, he had started shifting his eyes onto other cities. He was nning to move Frestech Chamber of Commerce production bases into other cities.

    In this month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been building household magic machine production bases in Saltan City, Norton City, and Canberra City, reducing the pressure on the Falling Rain Valley.

    When the otherpanies of Banta City saw the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions, they followed their footsteps and built factories in those three cities.

    Adding in the small magic machinepanies in those cities, the three cities became like Banta City over two years ago, quickly entering a phase of development.

    The average monthly wage for the workers of those cities was only five gold coins a month, but now it was over ten gold coins a month.

    Even though it was less than the average monthly wage in Banta City,pared to the previous average level of ie in those three cities, it was several times better.

    After those three cities, Xu Yi was nning on expanding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into further cities like Cramer City before affecting Anvilmar City and the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    If the entire Lampuri Kingdom could develop the magic machine industry, the scene that Xu Yi wanted to see would appear sooner.

    Other than expanding outwards, he could find people to relieve the pressure.

    Xu Yi releasing the technology for the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle was considering this.

    Other than these two, Xu Yi was nning to gradually transfer the technology for other household magic machines to otherpanies. In the end, there would be manypanies with the ability to produce various kinds of household magic machines.

    Like this, not only could morepanies truly enter the magic machine industry, it could force a fewpanies to invest in research to reach the same level of quality as the Frestech Brand, developing the magic machine industry even further.

    Seeing the red dots densely packed on the map, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He took a pen and starting from Banta City, he drew several red lines to Karma City, Saltan City, Norton City, and Canberra City, connecting these cities. Then he drew two dotted lines from Banta City to Cramer City and Sowell City in the northeast of the Lampuri Kingdom, marking the next steps for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After doing this, Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod.

    As long as they followed this n, Banta City would connect with many Lampuri Kingdom cities, pushing the entire kingdom into the magic machine industry.

    ¡°Du, du.¡±

    At this time, two soft knocks came for the door of the study.

 Volume 3 85 - Chaotic night

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 85 Chaotic night</h4>

    The door opened and Linda came in.

    ¡°Did you take care of Still already?¡± Xu Yi naturally understood why she knocked on the door and tidied up the study before heading towards the bathroom.

    Without knowing why, before she was pregnant, Still would y with Xu Yi in the water sometimes. But after she became pregnant, it was like she became much more shy and didn¡¯t allow Xu Yi to enter the bath with her, even doing the deed as a couple much less.

    Xu Yi had asked Still about this. The response he received was that Still didn¡¯t want Xu Yi to be disgusted by her body since she was pregnant, so she didn¡¯t want him to see her that much.

    Xu Yi naturally snorted at this strange worry, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t force this since Still insisted.

    So Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been that intimate with Still during this time, making him feel like it really was a pity.

    But Xu Yi never cared about this before, so it didn¡¯t really affect him.

    Aftering to the giant bathroom that Still had specially requested, Xu Yi beckoned for Linda to retreat, but he was surprised to find that Linda didn¡¯t retreat like normal and rather took a step forward. She took the initiative to reach out to help him take off his clothes.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and shouted, ¡°Linda, what are you doing?¡±

    It was like Linda was scared by Xu Yi¡¯s tone and quickly took a step back. She lowered her head and said in a soft voice, ¡°It was the mistress¡¯ orders¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Still gave you this order?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows even deeper. After thinking about it, he felt that Linda wouldn¡¯t dare lie to him about this, so he asked, ¡°What did she order you to do? Could it be that she doesn¡¯t know that I¡¯ve never wanted you to do this?¡±

    Linda looked up at Xu Yi and softly bit her lip. She slowly shook her head and said, ¡°The mistress said¡­..She couldn¡¯t satisfy you during these days, so she wanted us to rece her.¡±

    ¡°Rece?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, not knowing whether tough or cry, ¡°What kinds of things is she thinking? Really¡­..Alright, you can go out. I don¡¯t need others to serve me and I don¡¯t want her to do things that you don¡¯t want to do. Right, it¡¯s the same with Liz, help me tell her that.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m willing, it¡¯s the same with Liz!¡± Seeing that Xu Yi wanted to chase her out, Linda panicked. She quickly exined, ¡°You are a rare good master. After Liz and I came here, you have been very good to us, so Liz and I are very happy and lucky. We¡¯re willing to give you our bodies, anyway¡­..Anyway, since head Wein gave us to you, we already belonged to you!¡±

    After saying this, she gritted her teeth and suddenly pulled off her clothes.

    She didn¡¯t have anything on inside, so once she took it off, it exposed her naked bodypletely to Xu Yi.

    When he saw Linda nakedst time, it was when head Wein had sent her and Liz to his bedroom.

    They were still young back then and their bodies weren¡¯t as developed. Now that over a year had passed, her body had matured much more and Linda had developed well. Her chest stood high and proud, even being a bit bigger than Still¡¯s.

    Xu Yi saw this and felt his blood surge.

    Because Still had been pregnant, to be safe, it had been a long time since he had bedded with Still.

    It was fine usually, but with such an enticing body in front of him, even if Xu Yi¡¯s will was good, it was hard to stop his heart from being moved.

    Liz naturally could sense the change in Xu Yi¡¯s attitude and body, so her face turned a bit red. Gritting her teeth, she walked over towards Xu Yi and ced his hand onto her chest.

    There was a soft sensation from his fingers, causing Xu Yi to tremble. His eyes suddenly opened wide, but he quickly closed them and took a deep breath to calm himself before opening his eyes again. It took him great effort to take his hand off Linda¡¯s chest before he picked up the clothes that Linda had dropped on the ground.

    Linda watched Xu Yi put on her clothes in a daze and felt him carefully put on her belt before her tears came out.

    ¡°Master¡­...Do you¡­...Do you not like me and Liz?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I like you?¡±

    ¡°But I¡­..I¡¯m already like this and you still don¡¯t want me, you must think that a ve can¡¯t match you. Actually Liz and I don¡¯t need any status, we¡¯re¡­...we¡¯re just willing to give you our bodies.¡± Linda said while crying.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know what you two and Still are thinking.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Could it be that you think that a girl¡¯s body is something that can be easily handed over? Linda, remember, although you are a ve, you should know that I¡¯ve never treated you like this, so you don¡¯t need to look down on yourself. I hope that you can think about it clearly before deciding what to do. You shouldn¡¯t give away your most precious thing because Still is confused, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Linda wiped her tears and looked at Xu Yi in confusion before saying in a weeping voice, ¡°But master, this really was my idea. Because the mistress was there, Liz and I never dared to have thoughts, but now¡­..now the mistress has agreed, so why aren¡¯t you willing to ept me?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the spring scenery that was revealed because Linda¡¯s clothes hadn¡¯t been put on properly. He gritted his teeth before pushing her out of the bathroom.

    ¡°Un¡­...I can¡¯t exin this properly, just treat it as I¡¯m not willing today. Rest up first, remember that it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t like you, rather my heart is not prepared. It¡¯s not your problem.¡±

    With Xu Yi¡¯sfort, although Linda wasn¡¯t willing, she still obediently headed to her and Liz¡¯s bedroom.

    Xu Yi looked around the bathroom and thought for a bit before heading to his and Still¡¯s bedroom.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Still who was leaning on the head of the bed while Liz was helping herb her hair gave a chuckle.

    ¡°Was your bathfortable?¡±

    Xu Yi grinned and without a word, he came to the side of the bed, flipping her over with one hand and his other hand heavily fell down.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    Still called out in surprise. Rubbing her soft butt, she looked at Xu Yi with an aggrieved look, ¡°What are you hitting me for?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°What do you think? Is there another wife like you? Having another girl entice your own husband, has your brain gone silly now that you¡¯re pregnant?¡±

    Liz on the side was smiling seeing them fight, but hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, she lowered her head as her face turned red.

    Seeing Liz¡¯s reaction and thinking about Linda just now, Xu Yi understood. He raised his hand again andnded another p on Still¡¯s butt.

    ¡°Speak! Other than Linda, did you n on having Liz do the same?¡±

    Still rubbed her butt and asked back with an unfazed look, ¡°What is the problem? I can¡¯t be with you during this time and you¡¯re a man, so you have needs. Instead of having you find a girl from who knows where, I¡¯m more assured in having Liz and Linda satisfy you.¡±

    Seeing Still¡¯splicated expression, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. After thinking for a bit, he gave a sigh and sat down on the bed, softly taking Still¡¯s waist. He said in a gentle voice, ¡°Still, weren¡¯t you always confident? Do you think that I would be moved by another girl with an outstanding wife like you?¡±

    Still revealed a happy smile, but she still shook her head, ¡°Men will always change, I don¡¯t have confidence when ites to this. At least¡­..that Princess Caroline and Teresa are both more attractive than me, right? Not to mention that I¡¯m pregnant now, I¡¯m much uglierpared to before¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Xu Yi immediately reprimanded, ¡°You are the most beautiful in my mind! Moreover, it¡¯s fine if you mention Princess Caroline, but why are you also dragging Teresa in? Although she is indeed very beautiful, she is only a little girl, what are you thinking?¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s two years older than Vivian.¡± Still suddenly tapped Xu Yi¡¯s nose and asked, ¡°Also what do you mean by it¡¯s fine to mention Princess Caroline? Could it be that you think it¡¯s fine for you to develop a rtionship with her?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless. He thought that Seveni really was right, girls that were pregnant really made no sense.

    ¡°I was just saying that Princess Caroline was at least openly seducing me, but Teresa is innocent, so don¡¯t speak nonsense. She already has a very sad life, we can¡¯t tarnish her reputation.¡±

    ¡°I was just casually speaking.¡± Still gave a snort. She let go of Xu Yi¡¯s nose and went into thought before asking, ¡°Right, what do you think Teresa¡¯s story is? I never heard her mention it, so I¡¯m very curious.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°How could I know if she doesn¡¯t tell me. But don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ve already asked some people to help me investigate, I believe they¡¯ll get back to me soon.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­...It seems like she¡¯s a noble, so it should be rather easy to investigate.¡± Still said with a nod.

    Xu Yiforted her a bit longer. He wanted to lie down and sleep with Still, but she reminded him that he still hadn¡¯t taken a bath yet, so she drove the sweaty him out.

    But while chasing him out, Still didn¡¯t forget to tease Xu Yi. She asked if he wanted Liz instead since he wasn¡¯t satisfied with Linda.

    Seeing Liz¡¯s expectant look, Xu Yi immediately fled under Still¡¯s charmingughter.

 Volume 3 86 - New agricultural base

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 86 New agricultural base</h4>

    With Seveni¡¯s special approval, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have to leave the Falling Star Manor early in the morning the next day.

    But he still followed his normal biological clock and woke up at around six. He carefully moved away from Still beside him who was still asleep and pushed aside the surprised Vivian, Liz, and Linda aside as he personally made breakfast. Then he personally served it to Still who only woke up at eight.

    ¡°Xu Yi, normally people who¡¯ve done something wrong would be this attentive. Could it be that you¡¯ve done something to wrong me?¡± Still had a warm smile as she looked at Xu Yi, she couldn¡¯t help following up with a smile towards Liz and Linda standing behind him, ¡°Could it be that you broke your promise in the endst night and went to find Liz and Linda when I was asleep¡­..¡±

    ¡°Eat your breakfast and don¡¯t speak nonsense.¡± Xu Yi put the spoon in Still¡¯s mouth and blocked it.

    Still revealed a faint smile. With Xu Yi¡¯s care, she slowly enjoyed the rare breakfast that Xu Yi personally made.

    While taking care of Still, Xu Yi also discussed the matter that he discussed with herst night.

    Because of Still¡¯s actionsst night, Xu Yi felt that she must have been having strange thoughts that didn¡¯t match her personality because she was trapped inside the Falling Star Manor for this long.

    So in order to solve this problem, Xu Yi seriously considered it and decided to agree to Still¡¯s request of continuing her work from before.

    Although Still hadn¡¯tpletely given up her work because of her insistence, she had strictly controlled her work load, causing Still to be bored almost every day.

    Now that it caused Still to have these random thoughts and it wasn¡¯t good for Still¡¯s body or mind, Xu Yi decided to ease up on these limitations. He was discussing with Still how she could work more, while also deciding how she would get enough rest.

    Still had seriously considered this problem before, so when Xu Yi proposed this idea, she was very happy while also seriously discussing this with Xu Yi.

    The two of them were both smart and they didn¡¯t have any contradictions, so they were very happy to discuss this and it didn¡¯t take them long to reach a decision.

    ording to Xu Yi and Still¡¯s agreement, after Still had been pregnant for three months, she could return to her job and act as the representative for the various other races working in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence grew, thepanies in Banta City and many other cities gradually epted hiring other races to work in theirpany.

    ording to Still¡¯s current stats, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the otherpanies had more beastmen than dwarves and there were over a thousand of them that had been hired.

    The dwarves followed behind them with over three hundred people, most of them being hired as magic mechanical engineers.

    The least was of course the elves, only reaching no more than twenty people.

    When faced with the other race workers, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament had opposed this at first.

    But now, the Royal Parliament began epting them. They were controlling them from Still¡¯s New Moon Chamber of Commerce, while also rxing their restrictions, starting to allow other races withbour cards to live the same lives as humans in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Speaking of this, most of the other races in the Lampuri Kingdom are entering otherpanies for work, right?¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°They can be said to have begun entering human society, but the other countries on the continent will definitely be different from our Lampuri Kingdom. Have you ever considered going to other countries to recruit other races?¡±

    ¡°Other countries?¡± Still slightly knit her brows, ¡°We can¡¯t avoid the people in those countries, right?¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, let the other races working in ourpany contact them first, we won¡¯t meddle. Look, didn¡¯t Camby and the other contact a Rudson Kingdom dwarf tribe just a while ago? They said that they were nning to have those dwarves move to Banta City and to let me consider receiving them. The dwarves moving is not something that human countries will care about, so we need to take care of this right now. Otherwise when the other countries realize the value of other races, it might be hard to do this in the future.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..This worry is right.¡± Still nodded, ¡°At least I know that if the Frestech Chamber of Commercecks dwarves, most of our production would stop.¡±

    ¡°So that means that we need to dig out as many as we can right now. You have to know, human resources are more important than any other resources.¡±

    He discussed this with Still while enjoying breakfast together. When they finished their breakfast, the sky was already halfway in the sky.

    When Xu Yi arrived at Koror Vige, he found that a group of people were already waiting there.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, I heard that you were at home with your wife and that¡¯s why you¡¯re thiste, right?¡± Seeing Xu Yi who came thiste, chairman Cruise said this whileughing.

    There was a wave of goodwillughter mixed with a hint ofplication that made Xu Yi give an awkwardugh before he saw Seveni standing in the middle of the group.

    Seveni looked up and gave Xu Yi a somewhat proud smile. She looked up at the sky and announced, ¡°Alright, since chairman Xu is here, then I will announce that we will officially open Banta City¡¯s new agricultural base!¡±

    With Seveni¡¯s lead, the representatives of thepany, including Xu Yi all dug the ground a few times. Then the magic machines that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already prepared came forward, digging out thend that had already been set apart.

    As the demonstration of business and agricultureing together that Seveni had announced before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s canned fruit factory in Koror Vige had received plenty of attention and advertisement.

    After agreeing with the otherpanies in the city, Seveni represented the City Lord Manor to create a new agricultural development base near Koror Vige.

    This new agricultural development base was like the canned fruit factory, developing the mix of business and agriculture in Banta City. It would raise the value of the agricultural goods and increase the ie of the normal farmers.

    This idea was the experiment that Seveni had for Banta City¡¯s future development.

    If it was used in the entire Lampuri Kingdom, it would be too advanced.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grain yield had been increasing, but it wasn¡¯t enough to support them yet.

    The kingdom¡¯s other cities had headaches on solving the problem of feeding their citizens, but Banta City was already changing the structure of farming itself, improving the lifestyles of the farmers. This really was a big difference.

    Because of Banta City¡¯s actions, there was arge stir at the Royal Parliament.

    There were many members of parliament that said if Banta City was this rxed, why didn¡¯t they first help the other locations of the kingdom develop their agriculture first?

    For example, after Banta City proved the uses of the fertilizer, why didn¡¯t they focus on producing more of it?

    Isn¡¯t it much better than some strange mix of agriculture and business that couldn¡¯t be relied on?

    As for a small portion of the members, since Banta City was developing well now, they should let Banta City develop independently. They shouldn¡¯t do the same as when Count Stagg was the City Lord, causing Banta City to greatly regress.

    Although there were fewer people who approved of Seveni¡¯s actions, because Count Stagg¡¯s actions had greatly affected Banta City when he was City Lord, there wasn¡¯t much confidence behind the opposition.

    Not to mention that the king had indicated his stance. Since Banta City was a special economic zone, it should stay as a special ce.

    As for whether the effects were good or not, they would just wait for the results.

    The final result was that they gave Banta City a goal.

    Banta City wanted to be special? Fine.

    But since you want to be special, you have to give a special result.

    ording to the final decision of the Royal Parliament, when reports were taken at the end of the year, Banta City¡¯s harvest yield and tax revenue had to be at least 30% higherpared tost year. Otherwise, they would revoke Banta City¡¯s designation as a special economic zone.

    ¡°Hei, should I say that those nobles are too inexperienced or they¡¯re giving up on their IQ because they are so set on their ways?¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He gave an appraisal without any mercy at the Royal Parliament¡¯s decision, ¡°30%? Humph! This year¡¯s fall harvest is already out, don¡¯t they know that it¡¯s more than 50% higher thanst year?¡±

    ¡°They don¡¯t really care about grain yield, the reason they made this request was to limit me into putting my energy into developing business.¡± Seveni shook her head as she exined, ¡°The key point is tax revenue. They think that if I can¡¯t do better than when Count Stagg was City Lord, this doesn¡¯t exin anything.¡±

    ¡°Is this an excuse for Count Stagg?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°But aren¡¯t they looking down on our Banta City too much? If it wasn¡¯t for Count Stagg,st year¡¯s tax revenue in Banta City would have been over a million gold coins. The amount handed over would have been more than the past two yearsbined. As forparing this year withst year? He, he¡­¡­¡±

    Seveni saw Xu Yi¡¯s cold smile and she didn¡¯t mind it. Rather she felt it was funny as she asked, ¡°Then confident chairman Xu, how much do you think our Banta City will hand over in taxes this year?¡±

    Xu Yi reached out a hand and said in a certain voice, ¡°At least five hundred thousand and that¡¯s not including my Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seveni revealed a surprised look, ¡°Although I have confidence in meeting the requirements of the Royal Parliament, but five hundred thousand¡­..and that¡¯s not including your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, isn¡¯t that too exaggerated? Doesn¡¯t that mean that our Banta City had a tax revenue of over one and a half million gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a confident smile. He pointed at the construction of the agricultural base that was beginning, ¡°Your highness, how about we make a bet? Do you believe that just the Cantona Chamber of Commerce alone has surpassed over two hundred thousand gold coins when ites to tax revenue?¡±

    Seveni slowly shook her head, ¡°Although I don¡¯t know the exact amount, the amount of taxes that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce paid shouldn¡¯t be over a hundred thousand gold coins. Right now there¡¯s only four months left before the end of the year, how could it surpass two hundred thousand?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe me?¡± Xu Yi reached his hand out to Seveni, ¡°Then dear Lord City Lord, should we make a bet?¡±

 Volume 3 87 - Willful chairman Xu

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 87 Willful chairman Xu</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you trapping me?¡± Cantona looked at Xu Yi with a bitter smile, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s current gross ie this year isn¡¯t even two hundred thousand gold coins, how can we hand over two hundred thousand in tax revenue? If we disappoint her highness, ourpany doesn¡¯t need to stay in Banta City in the future.¡±

    ¡°Why would I trap you?¡± Xu Yi gave Cantona a confident smile and patted his shoulder, ¡°Rx, if I didn¡¯t have confidence, how could I make this bet with her highness?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was certain, Cantona thought of the various miracles that Xu Yi had created and saw a bit of hope.

    ¡°Then¡­..Chairman Xu, what idea do you have?¡±

    ¡°Come, I¡¯ll ask you a question. What do you think¡­..of ourpany¡¯s canned fruit factory?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un? It¡¯s very good, what about it?¡± Cantona looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Then do you know what the canned fruit factory¡¯s profit this year is?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Cantona was more confused. After thinking about it, he hesitantly said, ¡°I don¡¯t know the specific number, but from what I heard from manager Will, it shouldn¡¯t be that bad, right? Let me guess¡­...it should be at least over ten thousand gold coins, right?

    ¡°You¡¯re looking down on manager Will.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and reached out five fingers, ¡°Let me be honest with you, this year so far, this canned fruit factory has sold over one million cans of various canned fruits, earning a total profit of close to fifty thousand gold coins!¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Cantona was shocked, ¡°This canned fruit factory is this small and it earns this much profit?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°Let me tell you, this is just the beginning. After the transport Magic Cars, the canned fruits can be transported to various parts of the kingdom. Not long ago, ourpany signed a deal with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. In the future, the canned fruits will be sold on the shelves of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stores in each city. The sales numbers of these canned fruits will only increase and the profits will follow.¡±

    Cantona waspletely shocked as he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really have to say, a casual idea of your can earn this much money. I really do admire you.¡±

    ¡°Then do you believe me when I say that I think the Cantona Chamber of Commerce can surpass a tax revenue of two hundred thousand this year?¡±

    ¡°I do!¡± Cantona gave a very firm nod before asking, ¡°But chairman Xu, what are you nning on having me do?¡±

    ¡°First tell me, what is the main business of your Cantona Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s contracting farnd.¡± Cantona had a bitter look, ¡°Although it does make money, it isn¡¯t flexible and the money made each year is fixed. I estimate that even if we get everything, our tax revenue this year won¡¯t surpass one hundred thousand, so there¡¯s no need to think about two hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡°You just said that you believed me and now you¡¯re giving up this quickly?¡± Xu Yi looked at him before patting his shoulder, ¡°Rx, I didn¡¯te here because I had nothing to do, of course I have a goal. Come with me.¡±

    Cantona followed behind Xu Yi feeling confused. They arrived in a normal looking room in the magic machine development center at the Falling Rain Valley.

    ¡°Come and take a look.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the metal cylinder that was over a meter tall and had a diameter of close to a meter in the corner.

    Cantona looked over and found that there was a dome on this cylinder. After receiving Xu Yi¡¯s permission to open it, he found that the cylinder was empty, but there was a metal pole inside that had many sharp metal des attached, looking quite fierce.

    ¡°This is the new magic machine developed by yourpany? What is it used for?¡±

    ¡°This thing is called the Magic Juicer. Currently its main design is to squeeze the juice out of fruits.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Squeeze fruit juice?¡± Cantona looked at the scary des inside the cylinder and understood a bit, ¡°After the fruit is ced inside, the des will cut it to pieces and squeeze out the juice, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Cantona thought about it before his eyes lit up, ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean that we can use this thing to squeeze out juice to sell?¡± Then his eyes dimmed again, ¡°But while fresh fruit juice is delicious, it doesn¡¯tst long. At most you can sell it in Banta City. I don¡¯t have the ability to open stores in other cities, so this thing isn¡¯t that useful to me.¡±

    ¡°I always thought that your mind worked fast and you would understand my meaning.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh before giving a p, ¡°Miranda,e out.¡±

    After hearing the footsteps, Cantona turned his head in a daze. There was a door that opened on the left and a slender female elf came into the room.

    ¡°Come, let me introduce you.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the female elf as he said to Cantona, ¡°This elven beauty is Miranda, shees from the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribe. Miranda, this is the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cantona that I mentioned before. You will probably be working for a long time together in the future, so you should be introduced.¡±

    Cantona was surprised before quickly reaching his hand out towards Miranda, ¡°Hello, hello, beautiful elven miss. It really is my honour being able to meet you.¡±

    Miranda looked over Cantona for a bit before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you certain that I should work with him?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Cantona is someone that I trust.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll believe your judgement.¡± Miranda gave a nod. She looked at Cantona¡¯s outstretched hand and thought for a bit before reaching her hand out to softly shake his hand, ¡°Chairman Cantona, I¡¯m very d to meet you.¡±

    Although Cantona had contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, seeing the elves regrly, to discuss cooperation with them like this¡­...

    Wait! Chairman Xu just said¡­...he would be cooperating with this beautiful elf? What was going on?¡±

    ¡°You said that only fresh fruit juice is delicious, but it is limited because of its short storage time? Then do you think that if fruit juice could be kept longer, what would the sales be like?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°It would definitely sell like crazy!¡± Cantona shouted in an excited voice, ¡°Moreover, I¡¯m certain that this thing will be even more popr than canned fruit! Because it is troublesome to squeeze fruit yourself, so it would be weed by everyone if they could be provided with fresh and cheap fruit juice!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re confident.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile before pointing at Miranda, ¡°Alright, you can discuss the problem of keeping juice fresh with Miranda. When you¡¯re done talking, we can discuss our next steps.¡±

    Cantona excitedly talked with Miranda and Xu Yi left the room.

    When he walked out, he bumped into Camby who had rushed over.

    Camby looked into the room and asked Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°Chairman, fruit juice is definitely something good that will sell, so why did you give it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce? Why didn¡¯t ourpany do it ourselves? This should earn more money than the canned fruit factory, right?¡±

    ¡°This will indeed earn more money and in the long run, if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce does it ourselves, we would earn a lot of money. But Camby, there are too many things in this world that can earn money and if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce keeps everything, that¡¯s not how to work with others. Remember, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a magic machinepany.¡±

    Camby shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t understand. Although our main business is magic machines, it isn¡¯t a problem to earn money from other businesses, right?¡±

    ¡°You can treat it as me being willful. In short, I hope that ourpany will focus on magic machines and not other things. Even the canned fruit factory, I¡¯ve already discussed it with her highness and I¡¯m nning on choosing a good time to hand it to the Koror Vige vigers, letting them take care of it.¡±

    ¡°That really is a pity.¡± Camby knit his brows, ¡°At the meetingst time, Sebas said that the development for the canned fruit factory is very good and profits would only grow. To give it up like this¡­..it really is a bit¡­...a bit too wasteful¡­..¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m a prodigal, you should be used to it.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you really are the strangest human I¡¯ve ever seen.¡± Camby helplessly shook his head, ¡°The chief discussed this with me a few days ago, he was nning on having our tribe create a factory with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now it seems like you¡¯re not interested.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Chief Siluka saw that the Night Song Tribe opened a factory and wasn¡¯t willing to fall behind?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Cambyughed, silently agreeing to Xu Yi¡¯s guess.

    ¡°Tell me, what kind of factory is chief Siluka nning on opening?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°Un¡­..The chief said that Banta City has had rich crops for several years and with the fertilizer, the wheat is growing even better, so Banta City wouldn¡¯t becking wheat. He was nning¡­..on opening a brewery with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Brewery?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°This really is the style of you dwarves. What? The wine at the Sachi Manor can¡¯t satisfy you anymore, you have to open your own brewery?¡±

    ¡°That is one of the reasons.¡± Camby scratched his big head and said with augh, ¡°But the main reason is that the chief thinks that we dwarves are so skilled in brewing, so it is a waste if we don¡¯t use it. There weren¡¯t enough grains to eat before, so we didn¡¯t have anything to use for brewing. But now that Banta City¡¯s grain yield has increased and ourpany¡¯snd in the Stantine Duchy is producing well, there would be extra grains, so we might as well use it for brewing.¡±

    ¡°Un, this idea isn¡¯t bad, I support it very much.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, right now Banta City¡¯s granary has over a hundred thousand tons of wheat stored. Her highness had discussed how to process this wheat with me before. I think that I can convince her to take out a small part of this for brewing, which will create some ie for our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Great!¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Camby excitedly pumped his fist, ¡°The chief was worried that we dwarves weren¡¯t good enough to buy that much wheat. Now that sir chairman is helping, this will be much easier.¡±

    ¡°This is a matter where both sides win, I¡¯m very happy to facilitate it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But I am only just an intermediary. As for the specifics, you should learn from the Night Song Tribe and solve your own problems, I won¡¯t meddle.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we understand humans better than those stubborn elves, there definitely won¡¯t be a problem!¡± Camby patted his chest as he said in a confident voice.

    ¡°I hope that you can tell me that there is no problem when I ask you about the development of the new magic machines.¡±

    Hearing this, Camby who had a confident look on his face instantly copsed.

 Volume 3 88 - Automatic magic production machine

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 88 Automatic magic production machine</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, about the new magic machine¡­...whether it is the magic research facility or our magic machine development center, we already had some ideas¡­..But as for the concrete research, we¡¯vee across an important problem and there doesn¡¯t seem to be a way to solve it¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the awkward look on Camby¡¯s face, Xu Yi immediately guessed without even thinking, ¡°Is it a problem with the materials?¡±

    Camby was stunned before quickly saying, ¡°Right, it¡¯s the material problem. Chairman, your main request for these new magic machines is to increase their power. I understand your idea, you want to rely on stronger magic production machines to create stronger magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Right, if the specifications of the magic production machines are too low, we¡¯re limited if we want to makerge magic machines. So we have to first solve the problem of this magic production machine.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    Camby said with a bitter smile, ¡°But after increasing the power of the magic production machines, the requirements for the materials increase much more. For example, when we were developing the new medium Magic Punch Press, the new machine couldn¡¯t withstand ten thousand repetitions before it was seriously broken and couldn¡¯t be sued anymore.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand repetitions?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too little? Have you thought of another way to solve it?¡±

    ¡°We did, for example covering the outeryer to counter the vibrations and dulling the pressure of the punch press, but the effects weren¡¯t clear.¡± Camby said with a sigh, ¡°In the end, to obtain the proper functions, the punch press needs to bear the pressure, this is something that can¡¯t be avoided. So my final analysis is that we need to change the materials of the magic production machines themselves to solve this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi also gave a bitterugh, ¡°There¡¯s no way, I also can¡¯t solve this problem. Material research isn¡¯t something that can be rushed, there¡¯s no shortcut for this.¡±

    Every time he discussed the issue of materials with Camby and the others, Xu Yi regretted not learning about materials back when he was on earth. He had no way of using his experience on earth to develop this aspect for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But material research was broad, so even if Xu Yi had this idea back then, he wouldn¡¯t have had the time.

    He had used his mechanical engineering knowledge to create the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce in three years, so this can¡¯t be considered wrong.

    In the end, the industrial system was veryplicated and wasn¡¯t something he could take responsibility for alone.

    ¡°It¡¯s a good thing that we have many kinds of non-ferrous metals right now, we can only research more. I always want new breakthroughs in developing materials, to find the best alloy to resist the strong pressure of magic production machines.¡± Xu Yiforted Camby, ¡°But as for now, do your research with these limits.¡±

    ¡°We can only do this.¡± Camby gave a nod before bing excited again, ¡°Chairman, it isn¡¯t all bad news when ites to developing the new production magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That means there are still breakthroughs. Tell me, what aspect did you make a breakthrough in? Is it the high speed de problem fromst time or is it the uracy of the punch press that Bordeau mentionedst time?¡±

    ¡°Those are all small problems, how could I report them to you?¡± Camby shook his head and said with a proud look, ¡°Actually, it¡¯s the issue of automatic control that you mentioned countless times.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before bing astonished, ¡°It can¡¯t be? Could it be that you¡¯ve developed automatic production magic machines? How could that be possible!¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei,e with me and see.¡±

    Xu Yi followed Camby to the magic machine development center with a look of disbelief. He saw the new production magic machine in the center of the room and Bordeau preparing to put a square meter iron te into it.

    ¡°Wait, Bordeau, let the chairman see.¡± Camby called out to Bordeau in a loud voice.

    Bordeau looked up to see Xu Yi and he stopped. When Xu Yi and Camby came over to the production magic machine, he used slow movement to put this iron te into the slot on the magic production machine.

    The iron te had just been put in and Bordeau pressed a key on the production magic machine before taking two steps back, clearly showing that he wasn¡¯t nning on doing anything.

    Xu Yi saw the production magic machine automatically start, turning the iron te and cutting off the corner to turn them into half circles.

    After this was done, the production magic machine turned the iron te and sliced off the other corners.

    After repeating this and cutting off all four corners, the iron te sunk down. Both sides of the iron te were grabbed by mps and they were bent up before being sent to Bordeau.

    Xu Yi was surprised to see this iron te that had greatly changed before looking at the production magic machine with an excited look.

    That¡¯s right, although this automation was very simple and the work was rather simple too, no one had controlled this production magic machine during this time and it had done it all alone!

    This meant that with some more research, they might be able to create the automatic machines that earth had on the Sines Continent!

    Xu Yi took a breath and calmed his excited heart, having Bordeau put another iron te into the machine.

    Bordeau agreed and Xu Yi saw the iron te undergo the same process before being sent out.

    Xu Yi put the two tes together topare and he was surprised to find that they werepletely the same!

    He even had Camby bring over a Vernier Scale and found that the error of degree was less than 0.1 millimeters!

    Although this was still far from being able topare to the precise machines on earth, for the level of industry on the Sines Continent, it was already very shocking.

    Xu Yi had Bordeau repeat this several times and afterparing the tes that were processed, he found that the highest margin of error was no more than 0.2 millimeters.

    ¡°Great!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shouting out before pping Camby and Bordeau¡¯s shoulders, excitedly saying, ¡°You guys did great! With this thing, ourpany¡¯s production efficiency will greatly increase and I won¡¯t have to worry about our output! Ha, ha, great! I have to give you a reward on behalf of thepany! I¡¯ve decided, I¡¯ll give you guys¡­..¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Camby suddenly cut off the excited Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, it wasn¡¯t us who developed this automatic production magic machine, it was Sancheli. If you want to give a reward, you should award him first.¡±

    ¡°Sancheli?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before digging out the person that matched this name, ¡°So it was him, no wonder¡­¡­¡±

    Sinceing up with research used in the Magic Fountain in the new city square, Sancheli hadn¡¯t made any new research progress in close to two years, so Xu Yi had forgotten about this person.

    He never thought that Sancheli was the one who made this automatic production magic machine that excited Xu Yi and solved the production problem that he had for the longest time.

    Xu Yi was surprised for a bit before asking Camby, ¡°You¡¯re saying that Sancheli participated in developing this production magic machine.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not right to say he participated. To be more urate, the idea of the automatic production magic machine came from him first.¡± Camby replied, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for him telling us that we could establish automatic movement with magic, we never would have thought of this. Moreover, the most important Magic Array in this production magic machine was developed by him, so he should be considered the biggest contributor.¡±

    ¡°Un, we just changed the production magic machine¡¯s structure to match it, it wasn¡¯t much. It¡¯s far from being able topare to him solving the problem of the Magic Array. The magic research facility had the same idea, they think that the biggest contributor is Sancheli.¡± Bordeau also said.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before suddenly giving a cold snort, ¡°Such important research, why did no one tell me about this? You guys have already finished developing this automatic production magic machine and I¡¯m finally learning about this? Do you even put me as the chairman in your eyes?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s dark look, Camby and Bordeau were scared. Camby quickly waved his hands and exined, ¡°Sir chairman, please don¡¯t misunderstand, we weren¡¯t trying to hide this from you. It was that Sancheli strongly requested that we didn¡¯t tell you about this beforehand.¡±

    ¡°Right, Sancheli said that he had been in thispany for several years and has done nothing, so he feels like he¡¯s wronged you. If this automatic production machine could be developed, it could be considered his repayment. If it failed, he didn¡¯t have the face to see you, so he didn¡¯t dare let you find out.¡± Bordeau exined at the same time.

    ¡°Humph, so only now does he have the face to see me?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was still displeased, ¡°Since he won¡¯t take the initiative to find me, I won¡¯t look for him either. Help me tell him, when this automatic production magic machine is developed, I will reward all the people who participated in this. If he doesn¡¯t appear at that time, he should never appear in front of me again!¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi turned to leave the magic machine development center.

    But after moving a hundred meters, Xu Yi¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help stretching as heughed from the bottom of his heart.

    Compared to how much money thepany was making, he was always happy to see thepany making breakthroughs when it came to technology.

    Of all the technology, the most important thing was the production magic machine that was the mostmon and the most required thing for the industrial system.

    Before this, the idea of automatic production magic machines had always been a thought in his mind because he knew how hard programmed Magic Arrays were, so he was always patient towards Sancheli.

    But now, Sancheli through secretly working with the magic research facility and the magic machine development center had actually developed the automatic production magic machine!

    No matter how simple it was right now, being far from being able topare to the automated machines from earth, this meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finally taken the first step in this research.

    If they kept developing this, they would eventually reach the standard from earth.

    Receiving this kind of great news, how could Xu Yi not be filled with extreme joy?

 Volume 3 89 - From the city

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 89 From the city</h4>

    Old man Anduin came out and looked at the destend that had once been bountiful since the harvest was over. After hesitating a bit, he sat at the door and took out his homemade pipe to take a few puffs as he tightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Yi? Old man, why aren¡¯t you going to the farm, why are you sitting here?¡± Aunt Vera was just about to go out for a stroll when she saw old man Anduin sitting at the door, immediately bing curious.

    ¡°I was considering something.¡± Old man Anduin tapped the ground with his pipe and indicated for Vera to sit down, ¡°How do you think¡­..we should take care of our field?¡±

    ¡°What how to take care of it? Of course we nt it. Could it be that we let it turn wild instead of nting on it?¡± Vera looked at old man Anduin with a strange look.

    But she noticed that old man Anduin had more white hairpared to yesterday and seeing the wrinkles on his face, her heart became soft.

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t want to nt it anymore. Our two sons and daughter have all found work in the city and their sries aren¡¯t low, so we can just have them give us a bit to take care of us. We raised them for so long, there should be a bit of filial piety.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Old man Anduin rebuked Vera, ¡°Although those kids have jobs and good wages, they still have their own families and their own expenses. Don¡¯t you remember? Last time our eldest son came back, he said that he was nning on sending his kid to the Frestech Academy, so their expenses shouldn¡¯t be low. We old people still have hands, so why should we increase the burden for our children.¡±

    Vera wasn¡¯t happy being reprimanded by old man Anduin for consoling him, so she red at him, ¡°Then what do you want to do?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want anything, I¡¯m just a bit hesitant. Do you think¡­...we should nt wheat on ournd or should we nt something else?¡±

    ¡°Something else? What?¡± Vera asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t the Cantona Chamber of Commercee to our vige a few days ago, saying that they wanted to rent ournd to nt fruit trees? I was thinking whether we should rent ournd to them or nt it ourselves. We have nted fruit trees for several years, so we have experience. If we do it ourselves, we¡¯ll definitely earn more money than renting it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Vera rolled her eyes at old man Anduin, ¡°If you really want to earn money with thisnd, it¡¯s better to rent it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Our family has over ten mu ofnd, that is at least thirty gold coins a year. Instead of idling, you can go find some work at somepany, would you earn less money that way?¡± Vera couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    With her understanding of Anduin after being married for thirty years, although he looked hesitant sometimes, he had already made his decision.

    ¡°Alright, since you want to do this, then just do it. Anyway earning a bit more money is good and it won¡¯t be losing that much, so it won¡¯t matter.¡± Vera expressed her support for Anduin like normal.

    ¡°Hei, hei, since you said this, then it¡¯s decided.¡±

    Receiving Vera¡¯s approval, Anduin made his decision and immediately thought it through. He knocked his pipe on the ground before standing up.

    ¡°I¡¯ll go to the city now and ask about how they¡¯re selling the fruit tree saplings. If it goes smoothly, I¡¯ll start nting tomorrow!¡±

    Seeing Anduin looking so rushed, Vera snappily said, ¡°Don¡¯t you see what time it is? You¡¯re still going to the city?¡±

    ¡°What are you afraid of? Our vige is connected by a road now and there¡¯s the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s public transport. If I ride the public transport, I¡¯ll be back in less than two hours, it¡¯ll be quick.¡±

    Anduin had this kind of charging forward temper. After saying a few words, he headed out of the vige.

    Although their Prana Vige that was over seventy kilometers away from Banta City was just connected by the roadst month, the Fersen Carriage Company still opened a transportation line here. But to satisfy the needs of the surrounding viges, the stop was outside the vige and he needed to walk a bit.

    Who would have thought that before he reached the entrance of the vige, there would be sounds that came from the entrance. Anduin looked over and he saw a medium sized Magic Passenger Car driving across the unfinished road in front of the vige.

    Anduin was stunned. Did the Fersen Carriage Company suddenly move their stop into the vige? Why did the public transport suddenlye into the vige!

    Looking closely, he found that this Magic Car didn¡¯t have the logo of the Fersen Carriage Company. Rather there was a sign on it that said ¡°for rent¡±.

    Anduin was surprised for a bit before reacting. This should be the rentable medium sized Magic Passenger Cars that have been popr in Banta City for the past two months, the people in the city called them taxis.

    But he heard that renting this thing was even more expensive than using the public transport, so only the rich people in the city can ride these things.

    Moreover, to use this taxi toe to Prana Vige that was this far away, it must have cost quite a bit.

    Thinking of this, Anduin quickly moved aside.

    Although the nobles and the rich merchants were good when Count Sean was the City Lord and they were even better after her highness Seveni took over,pared those masters, his identity as a lowly farmer was humble and he didn¡¯t dare block their paths.

    The stranger thing was that the Magic Car actually stopped beside Anduin.

    The ss window near Anduin opened and an attractive young miss who looked sweet and gentle who didn¡¯t belong in a ce like this poked her head out, revealing a sweet smile to Anduin.

    ¡°Hello, can I ask if this ce is Prana Vige?¡±

    Anduin looked inside the car in surprise and found that other than this young and beautiful girl, there were two dwarves, a male elf, and three human males. One was younger than the others and the other two looked to be at least over forty years old.

    ¡°Ah, that¡¯s right, this is Prana Vige.¡± Anduin nodded, ¡°You are from Banta City? Why did youe to our vige?¡±

    ¡°We¡¯re here for an inspection.¡± The young girl replied. After thinking for a bit, she turned to get out from the side before telling the driver, ¡°Find an empty ce to stop, we¡¯re already here.¡±

    The driver drove off and the young girl came to Anduin¡¯s side, asking with a sweet smile, ¡°Hello, I am Evita and I¡¯m from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. May I ask who you are?¡±

    ¡°Just call me Anduin.¡± Anduin looked over Evita and he couldn¡¯t help saying with a sigh, ¡°You can be sent on an inspection for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you must have a high position, right? You¡¯re this young and have this kind of skills, you really aren¡¯t simple. Right, what did you want to inspect? Our Prana Vige doesn¡¯t have anything special to inspect, right?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise.¡± Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°We¡¯re here to inspect the nearby Magic Crystal mine. Anduin, are you a local of Prana Vige? You should know the situation of the nearby Magic Crystal mine, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve lived here my entire life, I dare say that few people know this ce better. The Magic Crystal mine you¡¯re talking about should be in that direction¡­¡­¡± Anduin pointed to the southwest of the vige, ¡°When the Falcao Chamber of Commerce mined there for a few months, I went there for some part time work.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you¡¯re familiar with it.¡± Evita said with a happy smile, ¡°Can I ask if you have free time now? Can you bring us there to take a look? We are currentlycking a guide. If we take up your time, we¡¯re willing to repay you, it should satisfy you.¡±

    Anduinughed and waved his hand, ¡°What repayment, no need, it¡¯s just leading the way, there¡¯s nothing special about it. Alright, I¡¯m not that busy right now, so I can take you there.¡±

    ¡°Really? Then I really have to thank you.¡± Evita turned to the people who got out after the car found a ce to stop, calling them over.

    When everyone came over, Evita first tapped the ground and said to the middle aged man with a full beard, ¡°Manager Dusa, it doesn¡¯t seem like your Amrit Chamber of Commerce has paved this road well. The road doesn¡¯t evene into the vige, this won¡¯t do.¡±

    The middle aged man called manager Dusa said in an aggrieved voice, ¡°Young miss Evita, you can¡¯t say that randomly. This project was proposed by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu and ourpany received a notice from the City Lord Manor, saying that we can¡¯t ck off or skip on materials at all. The reason why there are no roads in the viges was because we wanted to connect all the viges first. As forter, we¡¯ll definitelyy roads inside the viges.¡±

    Anduin on the side heard their conversation and couldn¡¯t help interrupting, ¡°That¡¯s right, this young miss, theri Amrit Chamber of Commerce has already done well enough. When our vige didn¡¯t have any roads, we could only walk to Banta City and it would take more than a day for a trip. With this road, even if I don¡¯t want to ride the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s horse carriages, I can get there in just a single afternoon with my bicycle. It¡¯s much more convenientpared to before.¡±

    ¡°This is two different matters.¡± Evita shook her head before saying to manager Dusa, ¡°No matter what, the current roads won¡¯t do. If the Magic Crystal mine is opened in the future, we can¡¯t transport the Magic Crystals on this kind of road.¡±

    ¡°This is easy, as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce invests, not only will wey roads to the vige, we¡¯ll eveny roads to the mines.¡± Manager Dusa proudly said, ¡°Of course, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has money, so it shouldn¡¯t be much toy down a road.¡±

    Evita shook her head, but she didn¡¯t say anything.

    After Anduin talked to Vera, he led the people to the mountain to the southwest of the vige.

 Volume 3 90 - Glorious work

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 90 Glorious work</h4>

    ¡°Ya!¡±

    While walking on the mountain road, Evita suddenly misstepped and her body twisted.

    The young magic research facility member who came with her, who was also part of the Magic Crystal refining team Tibbers had quick reactions, so he quickly reached out to grab her.

    When Evita stood firm again, she couldn¡¯t help pulling away her hand from Tibbers and muttering a soft thank you.

    Tibbers had a trace of disappointment in his eyes.

    Among the young male researchers, most of them had affections for this young, beautiful, gentle, and friendly chief and he was not an exception.

    But although Evita was very friendly, she didn¡¯t demonstrate any special feelings for anyone.

    Looking at Evita¡¯s gentle demeanor, Tibbers gave a sigh in his heart. He said with a frown, ¡°Chief, I already said that it was fine for me toe alone, there was no need for you to make this trip. This mountain road is very difficult to walk on and you¡¯re a girl, so it¡¯s not easy for you.¡±

    Evita shook her head, ¡°There¡¯s no easy for this work. Then again, I asked the chairman about this Magic Crystal mine, so I have to be serious and can¡¯t disappoint the chairman¡¯s expectations in me¡­...in us and we can¡¯t waste the previous funds thepany gave us.¡±

    ¡°But this is just confirming the quality of the Magic Crystals, it isn¡¯t anything hard. I feel that I can easily do this alone.¡± Tibbers was still not willing to give up.

    Evita revealed a warm smile at him, ¡°I believe in your ability, but this Magic Crystal mine is ourpany¡¯s first official Magic Crystal mine, so it is important. The chairman has attached great importance in standardizing Magic Crystals, so I don¡¯t want a single oversight on this matter.¡±

    ¡°Doesn¡¯t this still mean that you don¡¯t believe in me¡­..¡± Tibbers mumbled in an aggrieved voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t trust you¡­..But Tibbers, your familiarity with the Magic Crystals refining array can¡¯t be higher than mine, right? Can you analyze each Magic Crystal urately within a 0.1 Ev margin of error?¡± Evita asked with a serious look.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Tibbers thought for a bit before giving a bitterugh while shaking his head, ¡°I can¡¯tpare to you when ites to this since you are the expert in this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Evita rxed her tone, ¡°I just said, it¡¯s because this is our first official Magic Crystal mine, so it must be strictly tested and we can¡¯t make any mistakes. Moreover, I need to personallye and investigate to be familiar with the Magic Crystal mine, so I can make changes with specific details.¡±

    Of course Evita had a good view of Tibbers, that was why she brought him on this inspection and patiently exined her thoughts to him.

    Hearing Evita¡¯s exnation, although Tibbers didn¡¯t agree with it, he could only honestly nod his head.

    Seeing that Tibbers no longer opposed, Evita revealed a smile. She moved a bit quicker and caught up to the people in front.

    Anduin looked at Evita and hesitated a bit before slowing down. When Evita came up beside him, he asked, ¡°This¡­..young miss Evita, what chief are you in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Un, I am the magic research facility¡¯s chief.¡± Evita replied with a nod.

    Anduin was shocked as he looked at Evita in disbelief.

    ¡°You¡¯re actually the chief of the magic research facility! I really never would have thought¡­...This kind of important person is such a young and beautiful little¡­..ke, young and beautiful girl!¡±

    Evitaughed, ¡°What? Mister Anduin, you don¡¯t believe it?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I believe. There¡¯s nothing to gain from lying to me.¡± Anduin quickly waved his hand. After pausing, he hesitantly asked, ¡°This¡­.young miss Evita, since you are an important person in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, can I ask you something?¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just that¡­...my second son is working at the Rimet Chamber of Commerce, he¡¯s mainly in charge of operating the production magic machines to produceponents. His mind is sharp and his ability is good, so he¡¯s receiving good treatment at the Remit Chamber of Commerce, but¡­..He has always wanted to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what do you think?¡±

    When Anduin said this, Evita naturally knew what he meant.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became more famous, Evita had heard this countless times. They all hoped that she could help someone arrange a position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The one that were the most direct were her rtives.

    Knowing that Evita was the magic research facility¡¯s chief, her rtives had alle looking for her, hoping that she could help them or their family members find work in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Evita couldn¡¯t withstand the pressure from her rtives and her parents, but she wasn¡¯t willing to ask for Xu Yi¡¯s help with this matter, so she had been worrying about this for a long time.

    In the end, Xu Yi noticed the strangeness with her and took the initiative to ask about it. In the end, he used his privilege as the chairman to give her several positions that she could give to her rtives.

    Finally with Evita¡¯s help, three rtives had passed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s test and officially began working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although she didn¡¯t let all her rtives enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this result made many people happy.

    Among her rtives, as long as they mentioned Evita, all the rtives would praise her and it was a glorious matter for her parents.

    But because of this, Evita felt like she owed Xu Yi quite a bit, so her heart couldn¡¯t help changing when she was facing Xu Yi.

    Of course, she couldn¡¯t reject helping her rtives, but she could do so for people that she wasn¡¯t close to.

    Hearing Anduin¡¯s question, Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°If your son is skilled, I think that he would be qualified to work at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Anduin immediately revealed a look of joy, ¡°Really? Then I¡¯ll go tell that kid after I head back and have him apply for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°In terms of procedure, I wee you on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Evita paused before continuing, ¡°But mister Anduin, although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is currently worse than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the wage it gives isn¡¯t low. The most important thing is that it is a smallpany, so your son has plenty of room to grow. I don¡¯t think it¡¯ll be worse than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Anduinughed as he rubbed his head, ¡°Actually, he knows this too, but if he can work for yourpany, it would be good to talk about. That kid still isn¡¯t married yet and if he enters your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I think that many girls will like him.¡±

    Hearing Anduin¡¯s response, Tibbers, manager Dusa, the other middle aged man, and the two dwarves all couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Manager Dusa loudlyughed as he said, ¡°I say, mister Anduin, although working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gives face, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t that bad. Ask your second son, is he willing toe to our Amrit Chamber of Commerce? Ourpany has been mass recruiting peopletely, he should meet the requirements.¡±

    ¡°Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡± Anduin looked at manager Dusa before shaking his head, ¡°That won¡¯t do, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce works in the dirt all day, you¡¯ll be covered in dust when working. Our vige had two people whoid roads for your Amrit Chamber of Commerce and they were covered in dirt when they came back to the vige, they looked so ugly. If he looks like this, how could he find girls?¡±

    Evita couldn¡¯t take it this time and broke out inughter.

    Manager Dusa had an awkward look as he said in a somewhat angry voice, ¡°Who says that working for ourpany will cover you in dirt? Look at me, do I look like that?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re a manager, you¡¯re different from normal workers.¡± Anduin shook his head.

    ¡°Our normal workers don¡¯t work until they arepletely covered in dirt either!¡± Manager Dusa couldn¡¯t help raising his voice, ¡°Who are those two fellows from your vige? I¡¯ll have them properly clean themselves after I go back so they don¡¯t tarnish the name of ourpany!¡±

    Anduin shook his head, not willing to speak.

    Manager Dusa gave a cold snort. Even if Anduin didn¡¯t say anything, he was a manager for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so he could easily find out.

    When he was thinking about how to take care of those two fellows, Evita suddenly said, ¡°Manager Dusa, I feel that you should attach importance to what mister Anduin said. This isn¡¯t just a problem with the image of your Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it is also rted to the health of the workers. I suggest that you provide a showering facility for workers at work sites, making it easier for them to clean themselves after working. For example, you could put several Magic Water Heaters and the newly developed Magic Water Pump from ourpany at each location. As long as there is arge water tank, it could be enough for a hundred people to shower without worry.¡±

    Manager Dusa naturally attached importance to Evita¡¯s words. After thinking about it, he gave a nod, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give this suggestion to chairman Cruise after heading back.¡± He suddenly reacted after saying this and gave Evita a smile, ¡°Young miss Evita, are you trying to promote yourpany¡¯s Magic Water Heaters and Magic Water Pump?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Isn¡¯t this suggestion very effective?¡±

    She turned to Anduin after saying this and said, ¡°Mister Anduin, if your son has toe work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we wee him, but I suggest that he wait for a while. Ourpany is currently conducting worker skill inspections and we are inspecting all our workers to evaluate their skill levels before giving them a corresponding wage. I feel that it would be best if he came after the inspection.¡±

    Anduin hadn¡¯t said anything before manager Dusa asked in a surprised voice, ¡°This suggestion isn¡¯t bad, who came up with it?¡±

    Evita revealed a sweet smile, ¡°¡±Of course it¡¯s sir chairman. Other than him, who else could it be?¡±

 Volume 3 91 - Inspection

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 91 Inspection</h4>

    Of the people who came with Evita, Tibbers was her assistant, manager Dusa came at the request of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to inspect the mine¡¯s surrounding on behalf of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, solving the matter of transportation.

    The two dwarves were sent by Xu Yi to appraise the condition of the Magic Crystal vein and the other middle aged man was the representative from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was very skilled in opening mines and because they had mined this Magic Crystal vein before, Xu Yi had contacted chairman Morgan to invite this Crick who had over twenty years of experience managing mines for the Falcao Chamber of Commerce to help with this inspection and to provide advice.

    The group led by old man Anduin walked for around an hour and a half before arriving at the mine.

    Based on the outside, the mine had some traces of when the Falcao Chamber of Commerce mined here. Even if Crick wasn¡¯t in charge of this mine before, based on the traces left behind, he could see the situation of the mine.

    ¡°It seems like ourpany gave up on this vein since it was too hard to open.¡± Crick pointed at the abandoned mine passage, ¡°Look, the Magic Crystals here are buried too deep, so it isn¡¯t easy to mine.¡±¡¯

    The two dwarves looked at the mine passage and shook their heads, indicating that it wasn¡¯t a problem.

    For the dwarves, this mine wasn¡¯t that hard to open.

    Then again, with the various mining magic machines developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was much easier to develop minespared to before.

    Crick naturally was also aware of this, but he could only sigh with emotion before continuing his own inspection of the mine.

    Compared to others who would walk around to inspect the mine, Evita brought Tibbers to follow the two dwarves to the mine tunnel. Then with the help of the dwarves, they dug out a sample of the Magic Crystal.

    Magic Crystal ore was different from iron ore.

    Iron ore was a natural mix of iron and stones, so it needed to be refined.

    But Magic Crystals were a natural congealment of magic, so they dug outplete Magic Crystals. The only difference was the size and quality.

    The two dwarves used small tools to easily dig out a few pieces of Magic Crystals of different sizes. Evita looked over them and found that the quality of these Magic Crystals were above average.

    If all the Magic Crystals here had the same quality, this Magic Crystal vein could be considered outstanding.

    She hinted to the dwarves to continue digging out other Magic Crystal samples. Evita and Tibbers came out of the mine, finding an empty spot to use the magic materials they had to create a Magic Crystal refining array.

    Evita¡¯s research into this Magic Array was rather refined, so after putting the Magic Crystal in the center and using her magic power, not long after, all the magic power was extracted from this Magic Crystal before being congealed into a smaller rectangr Magic Crystal.

    There was a bit of waste product left in the center of the Magic Array.

    Evita took this new refined Magic Crystal and after investigating it with her magic power, she slightly knit her brows.

    ¡°Chief, how is it? Is the quality of this Magic Crystal not good enough?¡± Tibbers asked.

    Evita shook her head, ¡°It seems like it was right for me toe this time. Different Magic Crystals have different qualities and it seems like the Magic Crystals in this mine aren¡¯t very stable. Look, it¡¯s only been dug out for a short period of time and its grade has already visibly dropped. As a result, the magic in this refined Magic Crystal doesn¡¯t follow the standard.¡±

    Tibbers took the refined Magic Crystal from Evita¡¯s hand and after investigating with his magic power for a bit, he found that this refined Magic Crystal was indeed a bit different from the Magic Crystal that he had developed with Evita.

    ¡°Chief, you really are amazing, you can even tell such a small difference.¡± Tibbers couldn¡¯t help saying in a voice of admiration.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t much, I¡¯ve been studying a lot recently, so I¡¯m rather sensitive.¡± Evita casually replied. She took the refined Magic Crystal again and used her magic again before falling into thought. She then used her magic materials to create another refining Magic Array.

    With a few adjustments to the refining Magic Array, this Magic Crystal was refined again and the magic it contained finally had the same parameters as the Magic Crystals refined in theb.

    Tibbers was filled with admiration for Evita. She could make changes to the array so quickly and create this perfect result, she really had a shocking talent.

    Evita didn¡¯t care at all as she shook her head, ¡°If you want to talk about talent in Magic Arrays, I can¡¯tpare to the chairman. If he was here, I think that he could think of a better solution.¡±

    Hearing Evita mention sir chairman again, Tibbers slightly knit his brows. He felt a bit dissatisfied whenever he heard Evita mention sir chairman.

    But Tibbers knew thatpared to sir chairman, he was far from being able topare. He wasn¡¯t even qualified to bepared, so he could only remain silent.

    Evita didn¡¯t notice the change in Tibbers¡¯ mood. She waspletely focused on how to refine the Magic Crystals in this mine into standardized Magic Crystals.

    This was a veryplicated job, so even Evita with strong knowledge in this field met all kinds of problems.

    After a while, the two dwarves brought arge amount of Magic Crystal samples from all over the mine back to Evita.

    Evita took the Magic Crystals from different ces to test first before experimenting with the refining array, confirming her guess from earlier.

    Although the quality of Magic Crystals in this mine were rather high, perhaps it was because it wasn¡¯t properly protected after it was openedst time, so now the Magic Crystals in this mine were unstable.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem to mine Magic Crystals here, but if they wanted to refine them, there were many problems.

    Evita thought for a bit and decided to use a Magic Array to prevent the spill of magic power from this mine for now.

    But when it came to the price ofying this superrge array, Evita couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows.

    The reason why she applied to Xu Yi to investigate this Magic Crystal mine on behalf of the magic research facility was to through her own efforts, she wanted to reduce the mistakes and save as much as possible for thepany.

    However, this protection method would cost at least twenty thousand gold coins, which would raise the costs quite a bit.

    After considering it for a bit, Evita realized that there was no better method for now. She could only have Tibbers gather all the Magic Crystals, preparing to bring them back to study.

    At this time, manager Dusa and the others had finished inspecting the mine. Their group was led down the mountain and back to Prana Vige by old man Anduin.

    Evita declined old man Anduin¡¯s invitation, but before she left, old man Anduin couldn¡¯t help asking Evita about his son again.

    ¡°Mister Anduin, I told you before, ourpany will soon be conducting a skill test for our workers in the future. Then ording to the wishes of the chairman, he will be opening these tests to the public for allpanies rted to magic machines. So I suggest that your son waits a while until the tests are open to the public before taking them. If he can receive a senior certification, I think that he could go to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce or any magic machinepany and it would be easy for him to find a job.¡± Evita sincerely said.

    Old man Anduin thought it over before nodding, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll tell that kid to go. I¡¯ll have him increase his level of skill, that way he can directly reach the senior level.¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile before bidding farewell to old man Anduin with everyone else.

    With the Magic Car manager Dusa rented from the Mercado Taxi Chamber of Commerce, it only took them an hour to reach the Falling Rain Valley that was thirty kilometers away.

    After their group had reported to the CEO Kennard about the situation of the Magic Crystal mine, it was already past noon.

    Kennard invited everyone to lunch on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but Evita declined this invitation.

    She had Tibbers bring the Magic Crystals back to the magic research facility in the Falling Rain Valley before Evita dived into researching them.

    Seeing Evita¡¯s focused look, Tibbers couldn¡¯t hide his look of praise.

    He liked seeing Evita focusing on her research the most.

    He always felt that Evita was most beautiful like this and his heart was always moved when he saw this.

    But when he thought of the heartfelt smile on Evita¡¯s face when she mentioned sir chairman, Tibbers¡¯ heart couldn¡¯t help filling with pain.

    Although Tibbers admitted that he couldn¡¯tpare to sir chairman and Evita being in love with sir chairman was a normal thing¡­..Sir chairman was already married to young miss Still who was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen and they were very close, so there were no chances for Evita at all.

    But Evita still wasn¡¯t willing to give up like this?

    Actually Tibbers knew that Evita, this seemingly gentle girl, actually had quite firm emotions.

    The things she recognized couldn¡¯t be changed by anyone.

    Only¡­..Tibbers still wanted to try.

    ¡°Chief¡­¡­¡± Tibbers looked at Evita¡¯s beautiful appearance while she was focused on studying, making her seem like she was glowing and he finally worked up his courage to speak.

    ¡°Un?¡± Evita turned over, ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Towards sir chairman, you¡­..¡±

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    When Tibbers had just started, the door to theb was suddenly pushed open and he was cut off.

 Volume 3 92 - Central family remote control system

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 92 Central family remote control system</h4>

    ¡°Hey, Evita, you¡¯re back from the mountain?¡± Akali came over with an excited look before looking over at Tibbers on the side and making a face, ¡°What? Tibbers, Evita caught you to go experiment with her? Isn¡¯t this too much, she wants you to work even though it¡¯s lunch time. I already told you toe to my team, do you regret it now?¡±

    Tibbers gave a bitterugh. He had worked up the courage to confess to Evita, but it was broken up by Akali.

    If he said anything to Evita now, it would be hard to have this kind of courage again.

    ¡°I don¡¯t regret it, I like the chief¡­..¡¯s topic of refining Magic Crystals. I feel that it¡¯s more promisingpared to the magic resonance technology.¡± Tibbers tried hiding it.

    ¡°You dare say that the magic resonance technology I study has no future?¡± Akali suddenly raised her voice, ¡°Let me tell you, sir chairman personally told me that it had potential! You dare look down on it?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t mean this. I just prefer the chief¡¯s topic.¡± Tibbers quickly waved his hands.

    ¡°Humph, do you prefer this topic or do you prefer Evita?¡± Akali suddenly nced at Tibbers as she said this.

    Tibbers¡¯ face turned red and when he was about to argue, Evita raised a hand to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s useless to argue this matter with Akali.¡± Evita revealed a smile. She looked out the window before saying to Tibbers, ¡°Akali is right, it¡¯s lunch time right now, I won¡¯t keep you here for work. Go and eat your lunch.¡±

    ¡°But, these¡­¡­¡± Tibbers pointed at therge pile of Magic Crystals on the table.

    ¡°I don¡¯t need your help with this.¡±

    Hearing the certainty in Evita¡¯s voice, Tibbers left theb feeling a trace of disappointment.

    Seeing Tibbers close the door to theb, Akali narrowed her eyes and asked Evita, ¡°What do you think of him?¡±

    ¡°Not bad, he is very talented with Magic Arrays and his mind is very sharp, so he¡¯s very suited for research.¡± Evita said.

    ¡°You know I¡¯m not talking about this.¡± Akali rolled her eyes and came up beside Evita, taking her arm. She pushed her round cheeks forward and said with a smile, ¡°What do you think of him? Do you like him? I can see that you¡¯re always doing experiments with himtely.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Evita¡¯s face was a bit red as she reprimanded Akali, ¡°I¡¯m just treating him as an assistant, what other ideas are there.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s easy to be close to your assistants.¡± Akali said whileughing, ¡°You¡¯re both young, it¡¯s normal for something to develop over time, what is there to be shy about? Then again, Tibbers doesn¡¯t look bad.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m telling you it¡¯s not that.¡± Evita snappily threw off Akali and said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯m warning you, you can¡¯t speak nonsense. If it affects my rtionship with my assistant, I won¡¯t forgive you.¡±

    Akali stuck out her tongue and acted scared, but then she said with a smile, ¡°The point is that he clearly likes you, don¡¯t tell me that you can¡¯t see it.¡±

    Evita was stunned, ¡°He likes me? Are you joking?¡±

    Akali looked at Evita in surprise. After a while, she pped her forehead and said in a pained voice, ¡°I thought that you were the smartest one out of all of us and the one with the deepest thoughts, but now it seems like you¡¯re as dense as sir chairman! Think about it carefully, how does Tibbers normally treat you? If he doesn¡¯t like you, then my eyes must be blind!¡±

    Evita knit her brows and carefully thought about what Akali said. She remembered her interactions with Tibbers and she found that what Akali said might be true.

    ¡°This¡­..isn¡¯t good.¡± Evita looked awkward, ¡°I don¡¯t feel that way about him, it¡¯ll be more awkward when I work with him in the future.¡±

    ¡°What is awkward about it? If you really don¡¯t like him, just find a chance to exin it to him. There¡¯s no one forcing you to like him.¡± Akali said in an uncaring voice, ¡°Look, I like the chairman, but the chairman doesn¡¯t like me. Everyone knows this, but it¡¯s not awkward between us because this is a very normal thing.¡±

    Evita looked at Akali in surprise, ¡°You¡¯re actually admitting it this openly now? Why do I feel that you aren¡¯t acting so calm because you don¡¯t like the chairman anymore?¡±

    ¡°Humph, I thought it through. Like is like, not liking is not liking. Me liking the chairman is my matter, it doesn¡¯t affect me if he likes me or not.¡± Akali looked at Evita with a deep gaze, ¡°Anyway, I¡¯m not like a certain someone who clearly likes someone, but isn¡¯t willing to admit it, so they bottle it up inside.¡±

    Evita¡¯s expression became stiff. After thinking for a bit, she slowly shook her head, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this. You came looking for me not to talk about this kind of thing, right? Do you need something?¡±

    Akali looked at Evita for a while before giving a sigh, but she didn¡¯t continue this topic. She said with a serious look, ¡°There is something. Evita, how far have you progressed in standardizing Magic Crystals?¡±

    ¡°This is hard to say, what aspect are you talking about?¡±

    ¡°You should know that our group has been deepening our study of resonance technology and we¡¯re nning to build a central family remote control system, right?¡± Akali asked.

    Evita thought about it and remembered it.

    ¡°It¡¯s the remote that you use to control all of your family¡¯s household magic machines without needing to personally flip the switch that you mentionedst time, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s that.¡± Akali gave a nod, ¡°Right now we¡¯ve had some sess with it. We can use a precise Magic Array to resonate with the Magic Arrays of different magic machines, allowing us to control them from a distance. But there is a very important problem¡­..¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because there isn¡¯t the same magic frequency, right?¡± Evita suddenly asked.

    Akali giggled as she reached out to poke Evita¡¯s face.

    ¡°Our Evita is the smartest. That¡¯s right, that is the problem. To let all the household magic machinese under the control of the same remote control system, we need the magic frequencies of the Magic Arrays in these magic machines to be the same. But different Magic Arrays have different parts and we can modify the Magic Arrays to have the same magic frequency, but we can¡¯t ensure that the Magic Crystals used won¡¯t influence this. So, Evita, has your Magic Crystals been standardized?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s notplete yet, but it¡¯s close to beingplete.¡± Evita said with a smile, ¡°Did you forget? Kennard held a press conference a few days ago and proposed that all magic machines should be standardized, avoiding any problems that coulde from magic machines not following a standard.¡±

    ¡°Oh? He said all this? You should know that I¡¯m not someone who listens toplicated things, so I didn¡¯t pay attention to it.¡± Akali thought for a bit before excitedly saying, ¡°Then that means this project is about to seed? Great! The more I study these things, the more I feel that what sir chairman said before was right. The more precise things are, the more they need a standard or things will beplicated.¡±

    ¡°The chairman sees far into the future, his words won¡¯t be wrong.¡± Evita softly said.

    ¡°You really do like the chair¡­¡­¡± Seeing Evita narrow her eyes, Akali tactfully swallowed her words, ¡°Ah¡­..Since the Magic Crystals will be standardized soon, there won¡¯t be a problem with our remote control system. Think about it, Evita, if you¡¯re sitting at home in the future, you can take the remote and press a button to automatically start a magic machine that isn¡¯t close to you. Don¡¯t you feel that is amazing?¡±

    Evita rolled her eyes at her, ¡°What are you saying this to me for? You should be telling these things to people who don¡¯t understand a thing.¡±

    ¡°Che, advertisements are for the sales department, I don¡¯t care.¡± Akali had a thought and suddenly changed the topic, ¡°Right, Evita, Still has been pregnant this long and we only went to see her once. Do you think we should find some time to see her? We can also call ire and the others if they have time.¡±

    Evita gave a slight nod, ¡°We should go see her again. We¡¯ve been busy with experiments during this time, our ssmates haven¡¯t gathered in a long time. How about we wait for our research to finish and then we can give ourselves a day off.¡±

    ¡°Great idea! I¡¯ll go and tell ire and the others!¡± Akali gave Evita a thumbs up before running out the door.

    Halfway out, she suddenly stopped and turned back to Evita. After hesitating, she asked, ¡°But Evita, if you go and see Still pregnant with sir chairman¡¯s child, you won¡¯t feel¡­..Ke¡­..That thing?¡±

    Evita gave a softugh, ¡°Someone like you who clearly likes sir chairman doesn¡¯t mind, what do I have to mind?¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes at Evita before turning to leave.

    Seeing Akali running out, Evita gave a sigh. She shook her head to clear theplicated thoughts in her mind before returning to her desk to continue her research.

    But when she prepared to start, there was another knock on the door.

    Evita slightly knit her brows, thinking that she really couldn¡¯t do her experiments today.

    She looked at the door and saw the eternal timid appearance of Teresa standing right outside the door.

 Volume 3 93 - The girls who care about Xu Yi

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 93 The girls who care about Xu Yi</h4>

    ¡°Do you need something?¡± Evita took the initiative to wee her.

    Teresa had already been working in the magic research facility for close to three months. In these three months, because of her cute and weak appearance that made people want to protect her, adding in her polite and educated personality, she was weed by everyone at the magic research facility.

    Not to mention all the male researchers liking her, even most of the female researchers were treating her like a little sister.

    Evita wasn¡¯t an exception, butpared to Teresa¡¯s appearance and personality, she appreciated her abilities in magic research more.

    Teresa was younger than Still and the others, but her level of magic was only a bit worse and she was very talented in magic research. She had been in the magic research facility for less than three months and she made great contributions to many projects, making people feel fond towards her.

    As the magic research facility¡¯s chief, Evita naturally liked and ced importance on this kind of subordinate.

    After Teresa entered the room, seeing her awkward appearance, Evita asked with a faint smile, ¡°Just tell me if you have something, there¡¯s no need to feel awkward.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Teresa looked up at Evita and softly biting her lips, like she had resolved her heart, she said, ¡°Chief¡­..I¡­..Can I go take a look in the reference room?¡±

    Evita was surprised, ¡°Reference room? What do you need to enter the reference room for?¡±

    ¡°Chief, I¡¯ve been researching the new Magic Lamptely and I need intermittent magic supplying technology. I¡¯ve heard the others say¡­..this technology is something that ourpany already had, but it¡¯s been locked in the reference room. But if we need it, we need your approval, so I¡¯m asking you now.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Evita gave a nod. After thinking about it, she shook her head and said, ¡°I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t approve of this. ording to the rules of our magic research facility, only level three or above researchers can enter the reference room and you are only a junior researcher, so¡­¡­¡±

    A trace of disappointment shed on Teresa¡¯s face. She lowered her head and said with a sigh, ¡°I thought that I could finally contribute a bit to thepany and repay the chairman¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this, Evita¡¯s expression changed. She thought for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°I just said that you can¡¯t enter the reference room for now, but that doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t see the data. If you just need the date for the intermittent magic supplying technology, I can take it out of the reference room for you to see to help with your research. What do you think? Do you need it?¡±

    Teresa suddenly looked up with a happy expression as she asked, ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Really.¡± Evita nodded with a faint smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s great!¡± Teresa immediately became excited, ¡°As long as I have this piece of technology, I can develop the new Magic Lamp. I feel that this Magic Lamp will be very popr, so sir chairman will definitely be happy after he hears of this!¡±

    Seeing Teresa being happy about being able to repay Xu Yi, Evita couldn¡¯t help smiling as she felt a bit of emotion in her heart.

    Sir chairman, just how many girls have set their eyes on you?

    ###

    If Xu Yi knew the thought in Evita¡¯s heart, he would definitely feel wronged.

    He never tried to get any girl¡¯s attention, making the other side care about them.

    Rather, since he had been scared by those noble young misses and madams at the banquets, Xu Yi was very low key in front of girls to avoid any trouble.

    Since he married Still, he became even more low key. It had already been a long time since he participated in the banquets in the city. If he was free at night, his first choice was apanying Still.

    However, matters in this world wasn¡¯t decided just by his will. He wanted to hide from other girls to avoid trouble, but this ¡°trouble¡± in his eyes would find their way to him.

    Of this ¡°trouble¡±, the biggest one that Xu Yi recognized was Sophia.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, I¡¯m here to y again, how about it? Do you wee me?¡±

    Seeing Sophia¡¯s smile and the cunning and proud look that she didn¡¯t bother hiding, Xu Yi gave a bitter smile. He revealed a warm smile on his face as he said while nodding, ¡°Of course, how could I not wee you?¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good.¡± Sophia gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Since you wee me, I¡¯ll y some more here this time. If I¡¯m satisfied, I might stay here in the future!¡±

    ¡°Ah? Stay here?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Why would you stay here? What would you stay here for?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s finding some work, what else is there?¡± Sophia looked at Xu Yi and gave a soft snort, ¡°I can tell that you were just lying to me. You don¡¯t wee me at all and you don¡¯t want me to stay, right?¡±

    Seeing Sophia pouting her lips, Xu Yi felt a headachee over him. He quickly waved his hands with a smile, ¡°No, no, no, of course not. I was just a bit¡­..surprised. Why would you want to stay here for work? If you want to work, you can just find some work at the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Humph, I¡¯ve been in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce since I was young, what fun is there. Then again, I am a magician and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t need one. Could it be that you want me to be a guard at apany?¡±

    ¡°This¡­...A girl like you isn¡¯t suited for being a guard¡­...But Sophia, you don¡¯t have toe to our Banta City for work, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°This ce is far from Anvilmar City, it won¡¯t be convenient to go back home in the future.¡±

    ¡°What isn¡¯t convenient?¡± Sophia red at Xu Yi, ¡°Didn¡¯t the Fersen Carriage Company say in their advertisement that they had your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cars, now it only takes half a day to go from Banta City to Anvilmar City?¡±

    ¡°Alright, the inconvenience I¡¯m talking about includes you living here. Think about it, you grew up in Anvilmar City, you wouldn¡¯t be used to living in a small city like Banta City¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi kept trying to convince her.

    ¡°Big brother can adapt, why can¡¯t I?¡± Sophia refuted without giving up, ¡°I¡¯ve been here many times and I¡¯m already familiar with this ce, how can I not adapt?¡±

    She turned and revealed a sweet smile to Xu Yi, ¡°Then again, isn¡¯t there chairman Xu here? Big brother told me that you are a very influential person in Banta City. If I stay here, wouldn¡¯t an important person like you take care of a young girl like me?¡±

    Seeing the fox like smile on Sophia¡¯s face, Xu Yi had the same bitter smile. He looked at Kennard and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Hank Wilson who came with Sophia who were both watching from the side and he asked them, ¡°You two aren¡¯t opposing this at all.¡±

    Kennard gave a bitter smile while giving a shrug and saying in a helpless voice, ¡°Sir chairman, you should already understand what kind of personality my little sister has, right? I can¡¯t take care of her.¡±

    Hank Wilson clearly already knew of Sophia¡¯s decision, so he said with a faint smile, ¡°The Lord Count and the madame also support letting young miss Sophiae out to see the world, so they have already agreed to young miss Sophia¡¯s decision.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°Seeing the world doesn¡¯t meaning to our Banta City, right? Your Walmart Chamber of Commerce has branches in every city in the kingdom, why can¡¯t you find a better ce for Sophia?¡±

    ¡°Humph, I knew that you didn¡¯t wee me!¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Sophia immediately became unhappy as she angrily said, ¡°I don¡¯t care! Whether you wee me or not, I¡¯ve already decided to stay here! Moreover, I will work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce! Xu Yi, you don¡¯t like me, but I insist on sticking to you!¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his head, ignoring Sophia who had entered her fierce mod and looked at Hank Wilson.

    ¡°Actually, young miss Sophia is right. The reason for choosing here is first because young master Kennard is here. The second reason is because of chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± From Hank Wilson¡¯s reply, Xu Yi could hear that he couldn¡¯t refute this matter at all. After thinking about it, he looked at Sophia again, ¡°Alright, since Sophia likes it, you can stay here. But if you want to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­..I¡¯m afraid¡­..¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t I!¡± Sophia¡¯s voice became even louder, ¡°I am a Third Grade Magician! Why can¡¯t I work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t say you can¡¯t¡­..¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°My meaning is that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very strict, so there¡¯s no problem if you want to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but you have to pass the test like everyone else. If you can¡¯t pass it, I can¡¯t open a back door for you.¡±

    ¡°Humph, I knew that you looked down on me.¡± Sophia slightly raised her head and she looked as proud as a cock, ¡°Let me tell you, I will definitely pass this test. When I be a member of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯ll look for you all day and bother you to death!¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh. If you really became a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that would be better.

    Do you really think workers at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had nothing to do?

    Not mentioning the people in the factory line who worked overtime all day because there were too many orders right now, even in the magic research facility, those researchers were working hard all day on their research. How could she have time toe and bother him?

 Volume 3 94 - The goal is other countries

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 94 The goal is other countries</h4>

    Hank Willson came to Banta City this time for two important things other than apanying Sophia.

    The first was to discuss a new cooperation agreement on behalf of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    After cooperating for over a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had sold quite well in the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stores.

    Just the Magic Stove alone, ording to the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reports fromst month, the sales from the branches all over the Lampuri Kingdom reached over a hundred and seventy thousand units.

    Although the Walmart Chamber of Commerce received a revenue that averaged no more than one gold coin per Magic Stove, this was just from the Magic Stove alone. If they counted all the other household magic machines, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce earned over three hundred thousand gold coinsst month from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because of this, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s contract hadn¡¯t reached its end, but they decided to renew their contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a year ahead of time.

    In the contract that Hank Wilson took out, Xu Yi only looked over it and found that the conditions in the contract were much more preferential than thest contract that they signed.

    For example, in the first contract, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would bear the transportation fees and they wouldn¡¯t have any responsibilities.

    In this contract, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce offered to cover the transportation fees for the first three hundred kilometers. After three hundred kilometers, they would decide based on the circumstances.

    There was another condition which was that for ces with roads, even if it surpassed three hundred kilometers, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce could pay for the transportation. They didn¡¯t need the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to find another transport method.

    But after seeing this, Xu Yi shook his head and pointed it out as he said to Hank Wilson, ¡°As for the matter of transportation, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to approve and thank you for the Walmart Chamber of Commerce taking the initiative to bear the transportation fees, but when ites to transportation, ourpany has a contract with the Fersen Carriage Company and all our transportation business is handed to them. I¡¯m afraid that I can¡¯t hand this to you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? There¡¯s such a contract?¡± Hank Wilson thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, did you reach this agreement with the Fersen Carriage Company because they bought arge amount of Magic Cars from you?¡±

    ¡°It could be said like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile

    Actually this was only one of the reasons. The real reason was that Xu Yi hoped to use this cooperation in having the Fersen Carriage Company change from horse carriages to Magic Cars to change the method of transportation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, once the Magic Car was released, because of how much faster and safer it waspared to horse carriages, it was epted by everyone in a short period of time.

    In just a few months, not only did thepanies in Banta City adapt to this new method of transportation, starting to let the Fersen Carriage Company ship their cargo, even thepanies of nearby cities and further cities were cing orders with the Fersen Carriage Company.

    The Fersen Carriage Company had already set up branches in the surrounding cities, taking care of this business.

    Of course, the Fersen Carriage Company developing this fast was greatly rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only selling Magic Cars to them for now.

    During this time, countlesspanies had wanted to buy Magic Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they were all rejected on the basis of not enough production.

    But now, Hank Wilson hade with the same request on behalf of the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Other than this new cooperation agreement, the main task this time was hoping to buy some Magic Cars.¡± Hank Wilson looked at Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, chairman Rundst ces great importance on these Magic Cars, so he told me that I had to buy some from you no matter what.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t directly reject him and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°You want to form your own transport group?¡±

    Hank Wilson revealed a faint smile, ¡°Shouldn¡¯t it be called a logistics group, chairman Xu?¡±

    Hearing the word ¡°logistics¡±ing from Hank Wilson, Xu Yi understood. It was clear that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had already investigated the Magic Car, so Hank Wilsoning to Banta City meant that the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was very serious about buying Magic Cars.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s a transport group. Can I ask, how big of a logistics group are you nning to set up?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°If possible, the bigger the better.¡± Hank Wilson said with a smile, ¡°But right now, our goal has been set on five hundred Magic Cars for now. As for the passenger cars, ourpany isn¡¯t nning to meddle at all.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Only five hundred?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    He thought that for a toppany like this Walmart Chamber of Commerce, they wouldn¡¯t be worse than the Fersen Carriage Company, but he never thought that they would only want five hundred.

    It had to be known, just the Fersen Carriage Company had over two thousand transport Magic Cars.

    Even at this time, most of them were rolling along the roads of the Lampuri Kingdom. It could be said that they were greatly driving the flow of goods in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Yes, the initial n is to buy five hundred medium sized transport Magic Cars.¡± Hank Wilson nodded as he exined, ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯re clear on your attitude towards the Fersen Carriage Company, the young master has told me about this before. You don¡¯t need to worry, ourpany won¡¯t bepeting with the Fersen Carriage Company over the transport business in the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Notpeting for the kingdom¡¯s transport business? Then isn¡¯t five hundred too much?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, but after thinking about it, he suddenly understood. He said in a surprised voice, ¡°Could it be that your goal is the other countries?¡±

    Hank Wilson nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu truly has a sharp wit, you can guess it this easily. That¡¯s right, ourpany wants to form this logistics group mainly to transport goods to other countries, rather than transporting goods in the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the confident and proud gaze that he had and he felt emotional.

    The Walmart Chamber of Commerce really was one of the toppanies in the kingdom. While he was still racking his brain on how to spread the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence over the Lampuri Kingdom, the other side was already setting their eyes on other ces.

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, I think that five hundred won¡¯t be enough.¡± Xu Yi said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°No matter what surrounding country it is, they are much further than transporting within our Lampuri Kingdom. If it¡¯s just five hundred¡­..I¡¯m afraid that you can only open a few transport lines.¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s our initial n.¡± Hank Wilson said, ¡°ording to the n of ourpany, these five hundred Magic Cars can open several paths into the Sack Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, Rhine Kingdom, and two smaller duchies. As forter, we can expand this logistics group as the situation develops.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is a prudent n, I support it very much.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Since chairman Xu supports this n, then shouldn¡¯t you give us some support?¡± Hank Wilson immediately pushed, ¡°The initial five hundred transport Magic Cars, I think that chairman Xu should be able to provide this to us, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile. Since Hank Wilson said this, if he didn¡¯t agree, he wouldn¡¯t be giving the Walmart Chamber of Commerce face. It would have a serious impact on their cooperation in the future.

    Xu Yi still ced importance on the Walmart Chamber of Commerce that was still a giant retailpany of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So Xu Yi seriously considered it before slowly nodding, ¡°If it¡¯s just five hundred, I think that I can bring out a bit. But vice chairman Wilson, with the contract between us and the Fersen Carriage Company, I must discuss this matter with them before agreeing to this. I¡¯m afraid that I can¡¯t agree to this right now.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not a problem.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi agreed, Hank Wilson revealed a bright smile, ¡°But I hope that chairman Xu can move quickly. It¡¯s best that you can give me a definite answer before I leave, so I can bring it back to thepany to discuss.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not a problem.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good, chairman Xu. Please look over the new contract again. There¡¯s some space for development that our Walmart Chamber of Commerce is proposing to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, please consider it.¡±

    Xu Yi took the contract again and looked at the back before being surprised.

    In thest part of the contract, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was proposing a cooperation in other countries with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    In short, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce was proposing to use their sales channels to sell the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines in other countries. Then after using these magic machines to open up markets in other countries, both sides would invest in opening a factory in those other countries to increase production.

    It had to be said, this was a very attractive proposal.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently selling Frestech Brand magic machines to the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom, ignoring the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any foundations in the Rudson Kingdom. So Xu Yi had always controlled the investment progress in the Rudson Kingdom, not going too fast.

    But it was different from the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    As a toppany of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had some background foundation in the surrounding countries. If they invested in the other countries by working with them, it would save them plenty of trouble and would be easier to open markets.

    But this would also bring up a problem.

    If they worked with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, since both sides had different levels of influence in other countries, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce would be in a dominant position in this cooperation.

    Xu Yi cared very much about this because the one in the dominant positions decided the method of development.

    Many of Xu Yi¡¯s ideas went against the traditional idea of apany because his goal was to develop the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, creating an industrial system. There were many times where he didn¡¯t care about benefits at all.

    Just this would create contradictions between him and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    Looking at the expectant Hank Wilson, Xu Yi fell into deep thought.

 Volume 3 95 - Most important source of wealth

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 95 Most important source of wealth</h4>

    ¡°Chairman, why didn¡¯t you agree to that contract?¡± Kennard watched as Hank Wilson¡¯s horse carriage disappeared along the road before turning to ask Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°This question, are you asking from the position of the Emma Family¡¯s sessor or as our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO?¡±

    Kennard was surprised. After being silent for a bit, he answered with a serious look, ¡°Whichever position it¡¯s from, I feel that this is a contract worth signing. If it is from the Emma Family¡¯s position, cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can earn arge amount of benefits for the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, but it can also open the magic machine market in other countries, so it is very beneficial.¡±

    ¡°Then what about from the position of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°From the position of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this contract is very beneficial to us. Ourpany¡¯s goal is to eventually enter other countries, instead of attempting it by ourselves in the future, it is better to cooperate with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. It would save us plenty of trouble and would be very helpful to ourpany.¡± Kennard replies.

    ¡°I have to say that your ideas are very correct, but¡­..I don¡¯t want ourpany¡¯s development to be controlled by others, do you understand?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi in surprise. He was surprised by his answer and he was more surprised that his answer was so blunt.

    In the end, he was someone from the Emma Family. Him giving this reason, was it for him to understand? Or was it for the Emma Family to understand?

    But seeing the calm smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he couldn¡¯t understand what he was thinking at all.

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help giving a secret sigh in his heart.

    The longer he worked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the more he was in contact with Xu Yi, the more he felt he couldn¡¯t see through him.

    ¡°But you don¡¯t need to worry. Although I didn¡¯t sign this contract, it doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m against it, right?¡± Seeing the expression Kennard had, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°At least I still hope that we can continue developing our cooperation with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. For example, regarding the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s proposition of selling our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines in different countries, I support it very much.¡±

    Kennard thought for a bit before giving up on asking Xu Yi his real intentions. He said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°But chairman, you agreeing to sell the Walmart Chamber of Commerce five hundred Magic Cars, I¡¯m afraid it¡¯ll be a bit difficult. Currently we still haven¡¯t finished the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s order and you agreed to take the orders of the otherpanies after the Fersen Carriage Company, how will you produce all those units?¡±

    ¡°Rx, Camby and the others have developed the automatic production magic machines further. You¡¯ll find that it¡¯ll greatly increase our production efficiency, so there¡¯s no problem squeezing out five hundred Magic Cars for the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Even if there are the automatic production magic machines, I still feel that it will be very hard.¡± Kennard said with a frown.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This trouble is a headache for you as the CEO, this is your responsibility.¡±

    Kennard said with a bitter smile, ¡°Sir chairman, you really know how to give me trouble.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°Don¡¯t you forget, I still need to take care of a bigger problem and this problem has a deep rtionship with you.¡±

    Kennard could only give a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, I hope that you can look after Sophia while she¡¯s here.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh, thinking why must he be a nanny?

    ###

    The leaves in Banta City fell once again andte autumn came.

    It was different from the bleakness ofst year. Because Seveni took over as the City Lord this year, Banta City¡¯smerce had greatly improved and it was like the city was filled with life.

    Although there was a slight chill that came with the autumn wind, there were crowds all over the streets that served to make the city very lively.

    Seveni looked at the prosperous market filled with people that was in the distance from the City Lord Manor and she couldn¡¯t help revealing a heartfelt satisfied smile. She said with a soft sigh, ¡°If our entire Lampuri Kingdom can be as prosperous as this, it would be good.¡±

    ¡°Be assured, your highness, I believe that your expectation will be a reality.¡± There was a middle aged man standing respectfully behind Seveni who said this with a faint smile.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni turned around and looked at the middle aged man. She sat back down in her seat, but she didn¡¯t have the middle aged man sit down like she normally did with Xu Yi. There was a slight seriousness in her eyes as she said to the middle aged man, ¡°Norwi, royal father sent you here to examine Banta City under my govern. After seeing it, what do you think?¡±

    The middle aged man named Norwi lowered his head slightly and respectfully said, ¡°Based on what I saw, Banta City¡¯s prosperity can evenpare to Anvilmar City. There are many ces where it is even better than Anvilmar City in. For example, the Magic Lamps on the streets, that is something that Anvilmar City canpare with.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°If you knew that it cost two hundred thousand gold coins to fill Banta City with street lights, you wouldn¡¯t hold it in such esteems.¡±

    Norwi revealed a smile as he said, ¡°This just proves that Banta City¡¯s finances are very good, being able to take out two hundred thousand gold coins toy down Magic Street Lamps. Your highness, Banta City¡¯s finances being this good is naturally rted to your govern.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise, but since I became the City Lord, there weren¡¯t many things to do. Banta City being able to have such good finances is all because of thergepanies in the city. Let me tell you some figures, ording tost month¡¯s financial report, just the business tax turned over by thergepanies of Banta City had surpassed five hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    Norwi raised a brow, as he revealed a shocked expression.

    ¡°Five hundred thousand gold coins in a month? In a year, wouldn¡¯t that be at least over five million gold coins?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s smile had a trace of satisfaction, but she humbly shook her head, ¡°That is not true. The business tax isn¡¯t fixed and they were able to pay this muchst month because manypanies finishedrge ordersst month. That is why their business taxes were that high.¡±

    Norwi nodded and sunk into thought before suddenly asking, ¡°Your highness, may I ask, how much did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce pay?¡±

    Seveni looked like she expected this and said with a faint smile, ¡°Less than two hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t correct, right?¡± Norwi knit his brows, ¡°From the numbers that I know, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monthly business taxes shouldn¡¯t be only two hundred thousand. Why is it that the otherpanies increased their taxes while they lowered theirs?¡±

    ¡°Norwi, it seems like royal father hasn¡¯t exined everything to you. Let me remind you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is one of thepanies with free trading rights.¡±

    Norwi was surprised before instantly understanding.

    ¡°That means¡­...The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main businessst month was deals with other countries?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°Actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is cutting down on local businesses because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is moving their factories to other cities. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s biggest dealst month was selling three thousand magic production machines to the Rudson Kingdom. As for their other deals, most of it is conducted with other cities in the kingdom. ording to the kingdom¡¯sws, our Banta City can only levy a small business tax from these businesses.¡±

    Norwi knit his brows, ¡°Why would it move out? Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is giving up on Banta City? Your highness, if I may be frank, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the most importantpany in Banta City and its most important source of revenue. I suggest that you limit the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, otherwise Banta City will lose its most important source of wealth.¡±

    ¡°Norwi, your sight is too shallow.¡± Seveni slowly shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t oppose the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions, rather I support them. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has brought arge change to Banta City, making this small city the most prosperous city in the entire kingdom, Xu yi is right. Changing Banta City alone is limited in helping the Lampuri Kingdom, only by changing all the cities can the Lampuri Kingdom truly be stronger.¡±

    ¡°That is what chairman Xu said?¡± Norwi was surprised.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seveni gave a certain nod, ¡°Xu Yi¡¯s goals and ideals are beyond what you can imagine. So¡­..you can¡¯t measure him with the standard of a normal person.¡±

    Hearing Seveni¡¯s evaluation, Norwi was very surprised. He looked at Seveni in surprise for a while before saying with a slight nod, ¡°Alright, I will pass these words to his majesty.¡±

    ¡°I believe in your loyalty to royal father.¡± Seveni said with a nod, ¡°Then Norwi, can you tell me what my dear brother has been doing in the past few months?¡±

    Norwi¡¯s expression became a bit strange and a bit awkward. After hesitating a bit, he said with a bitter smile, ¡°When I left Lorren City, his highness was reorganizing the northern army.¡±

    ¡°Reorganizing the army?¡± Seveni deeply knit her brows, ¡°What does he want to do?¡±

    Norwi was silent for a very long time before saying with a soft sigh, ¡°His highness said that he is a man, so naturally he had to prove his value using man¡¯s method. The greatest ce to prove a man¡¯s value was on the battlefield.¡±

    Hearing this answer, Seveni knit her brows even deeper.

 Volume 3 96 - His highnessâ€™ invitation

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 96 His highness¡¯ invitation</h4>

    In the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern borders, the temperature dropped quicker than in other ces.

    Shortly after fall came, there was a chill that filled the morning air. Even the healthy Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help tightly covering himself with arge military coat and shrinking into it.

    Feeling the faint warmth that the thin coat brought him, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t the army headquarters say that they were improving the gear for our northern army? It¡¯s almost winder and the new coats haven¡¯t been sent yet?¡±

    Walking beside him was Muller who was a colleague in the northern army logistics department. He gave a bitterugh when he heard this and he said, ¡°The army headquarters says that every year, but you¡¯ve already been in our northern army for over two years, when have you seen it happen once?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t correct, right? Compared to the magic machines sentst year when we were attacking the Muerto Mountains, just a few coats shouldn¡¯t cost that much, right?¡± Leslie was a bit confused.

    The bitter smile on Muller¡¯s face became deeper.

    ¡°I say, Leslie, you¡¯ve been in the logistics department for two years now, how can you not know what situation our northern army is in? Although the magic machines were expensive, they didn¡¯t send that many, so it was only several tens of thousands of gold coins. If they want topletely change the gear of our northern army, that is much more money. Not mentioning anything else, our northern army has thirty thousand people, so even if it is just a new coat for everyone, that would be at least fifty thousand gold coins. Adding in the various daily necessities, do you think that the army headquarters can bear this?¡±

    ¡°Thirty thousand coats cost over fifty thousand gold coins? Isn¡¯t that an average of close to two gold coins per coat?¡± Viscount Leslie deeply knit his brows, ¡°I¡¯ve only been in charge of assigning goods in the logistics department for thest two years, so I¡¯ve rarely asked the price of the items. Why is it this expensive?¡±

    Muller took a deep look at Leslie, ¡°Leslie, you¡¯re about to leave soon, so I¡¯ll bring up the courage to tell you today. To be honest, the coat that you¡¯re wearing costs one gold coin and eighty silver coins, but the actual cost is only around ny silver coins.¡±

    Leslie narrowed his eyes, not asking Muller where the other ny silver coins went.

    After all, he was from arge noble family like the Stagg Family, he experienced things that normal people didn¡¯t. Adding in the fact that he had found some secrets in his two years of working for the logistics department. Now that Muller was reminding him of this, how could he not guess that there were some tricks here.

    Thinking of how many soldiers he had seen in the past two years losing their lives or being crippled, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh before not saying another word.

    The two continued walking along their route. Muller knew that the atmosphere was heavy, so he forced out a smile as he said, ¡°Leslie, your transfer order should already be here, right?¡±

    Leslie nodded, ¡°It was approved the day before yesterday. I could have left tomorrow, but I decided to stay another two days and head out tomorrow.¡±

    Muller looked at Leslie and thought for a bit before saying, ¡°You¡¯re being recalled to the officer branch of the army headquarters. I think that with your family¡¯s influence, you¡¯ll quickly rise up at headquarters. Before you leave the northern army, I have a few things to tell you. If possible, help our northern army however you can. The northern army has been hard during these past few years¡­..¡±

    Leslie slowly nodded as his expression became serious, ¡°I will.¡±

    Muller gave a strong pat on Leslie¡¯s shoulder. After hesitating a bit, he gave a sigh and didn¡¯t say the rest of what he wanted to say.

    Leslie shook his head and also patted Muller¡¯s shoulder.

    The two fell into silence once again.

    After they finished their patrol, Muller¡¯s expression returned to normal as he said to Leslie with a smile, ¡°Since you are leaving tomorrow, do you want me to find our colleagues tonight to give you a farewell party?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need.¡± Leslie shook his head, ¡°Didn¡¯t you already give me one two days ago when you found out? If you do it again, you¡¯ll just be using my name to drink. Of course, I want to drink with all of you again, but it¡¯s a pity that I have something to take care of today. I¡¯ll be leaving soon.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Mulled looked at Leslie for a while before suddenly reaching out his hands to hug him, ¡°Then I hope that you can get promoted in the future.¡±

    Leslie also hugged Muller before patting him on the back. He said in a deep voice, ¡°Take care.¡±

    The two hugged once more before separating. Muller waved his hand and walked back.

    Seeing Muller leave without turning back, Leslie thought that a soldier who was experienced really was different, he didn¡¯t hesitate at all.

    Turning to look to the north for a while, Leslie then turned back to head back to his private room.

    Butler Brunei already had two servants tidy up Leslie¡¯s things. Seeing that Leslie was back, he said, ¡°Young master, we¡¯re leaving? The prince has been waiting for you for a long time.¡±

    ¡°His highness¡­¡­¡± Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile of contempt, but he quickly drew it back. He nodded to Butler Brunei, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    Leslie leaving the northern army didn¡¯t create many responses because in his two years here, other than a few people in the northern army which included Muller, not many people knew that he was from the Stagg Family.

    There also weren¡¯t many people who knew his transfer to headquarters.

    For the over thirty thousand people in the northern army, he was just a normal person.

    Of course, there were only a few people in the northern army that could have his highness Eric personally host a banquet for.

    Leslie followed Butler Brunei to a small city closest to the Muerto Mountains and there he met his highness Eric who had speciallye for an inspection of the northern army.

    When they met, his highness Eric immediately pulled Leslie into a hug. He loudlyughed as he said, ¡°Ha, ha, Leslie, we haven¡¯t met in two years, but you¡¯re much darkerpared to before. When you return to Anvilmar City like this, you won¡¯t be as weed by those young misses like before.¡±

    Leslie touched his cheeks with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the border is very dry during the winter, so I couldn¡¯t maintain my skin. Then again, since I was a soldier, it wouldn¡¯t be right if it was too white, right?¡±

    His highness Eric broke out inughter again, ¡°Ha, ha, it seems like after staying in the northern army for two years, you¡¯ve really changedpared to before. Come,e, sit down. Let¡¯s eat while we talk.¡±

    Although time was tight, the banquet that his highness Eric treated Leslie to was quite rich.

    In this small city near the border, he had actually prepared a set of previous silver tableware and had spread a fine print velvet tablecloth. Adding in the fragrance from the table and the fine dishes made, just a single nce was enough to tell that quite a bit was spent on this meal.

    Leslie looked over the table and silently calcted the cost of his meal with his highness Eric. He remembered how he had just put on the used military coat and he couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    His highness Eric had been paying attention to Leslie¡¯s expression the entire time, so this small change couldn¡¯t escape his eyes. He quickly asked, ¡°What? Leslie, you¡¯re not satisfied with these dishes? That¡¯s easy, I¡¯ll just have someone remake these, but we¡¯ll have to wait a while and you have to remain hungry for a bit.¡±

    Leslie quickly took back the strange look on his face. He waved his hand with a smile as he said, ¡°It¡¯s not that I¡¯m not satisfied. I¡¯ve just been eating rough food during my time in the northern army, so it¡¯s been a long time since I¡¯ve had delicacies like this. I was worried that my stomach couldn¡¯t handle it.¡±

    His highness Ericughed, ¡°It seems like you¡¯ve suffered in these past two years, but that doesn¡¯t matter. When you return to Anvilmar City, I guarantee that you¡¯ll adapt to your previous lifestyle. Come, sit down, today¡¯s meal will be a celebration of your leaving behind the harsh days of being in the army.¡±

    Leslie silently sat down and looked at the rich spread over the table. He finally couldn¡¯t take it as he shook his head with a soft sigh, ¡°It wasn¡¯t just me alone who went through harsh days. There are thirty thousand soldiers in the northern army, they are all the same as me and many of them have had worse days than me.¡±

    ¡°Of course, how could your life be good as a soldier. Didn¡¯t you prepare your heart when you decided to go to the northern army two years ago?¡±

    Seeing that his highness Eric didn¡¯t care about the meaning hidden in his words, Leslie gave a nod and didn¡¯t continue this topic. He changed the topic to discussing the matters of Anvilmar City.

    While eating, Leslie suddenly asked in a casual manner, ¡°Right, your highness, I heard that you¡¯re nning to reorganize the northern army and attack the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± His highness Eric put down his dining utensils and said with a serious look, ¡°In our conflict with the Sack Kingdom over the years, the Sack Kingdom always had the advantage. Now that we finally have control over the Muerto Mountains, we should take the initiative. If we don¡¯t use this chance to attack the Sack Kingdom, it would be too unjustified. Right, Leslie, why are you calling me your highness? You¡¯re regarding me as an outsider. With our rtionship, we don¡¯t need this, right? Just be like before, call me by my name.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s differentpared to before.¡± Leslie shook his head with a faint smile. After thinking for a bit, he said, ¡°Based on the situation, we do indeed meet the requirement for attacking, but your highness, have you thought about how much money it¡¯ll cost to attack the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Cost?¡± His highness Eric knit his brows as he looked at Leslie. Then he revealed a gentle smile, ¡°Of course it¡¯ll cost money to go to war, but with the full support of your Stagg Family, this shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    Leslie looked over at Butler Brunei who gave him a slight nod.

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this¡­..¡± Leslie nodded in acknowledgement before raising his cup to his highness Eric, ¡°Then I hope that this attack operation will be a sess.¡±

    His highness Ericughed as he held up his ss to toast Leslie¡¯s before drinking the entire cup.

    Leslie tilted back his head, using the wine cup to hide his lips that had curled into a cold smile.

 Volume 3 97 - Skill test

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 97 Skill test</h4>

    Different from the chill in the north, Banta City at the end of October was only slightly cold at dawn and at night. It was clear during daytime and was warm most of the time. When it came to the afternoon, it was still a bit warm.

    The ces that had more people were naturally warmer.

    In a ce that was less than ten thousand square meters outside the Falling Rain Valley, there were several thousand people here today thatpletely filled up this area.

    The heat from countless people came together, causing the temperature in this area to be much higher than other ces. Adding in the anxiety in everyone¡¯s heart, everyone felt hot and dry.

    Mick was squeezed in the crowd. Other than looking up to see if the crowd in front of him had changed, most of them he was reciting from the book in his hand in a small voice.

    For him who had been born in Prana Vige, because he had never gone to school before, he didn¡¯t even recognize the letters that normal peasants did. Although he had bought this ?Vocational Skills Basic Theoretical Knowledge? half a month ago and had someone read it to him, studying it every day, it was like a heavenly book. He could only understand a few things, but he couldn¡¯t understand their meaning.

    But he had no choice in this. Who had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hold this theoretical knowledge test. If he wanted to obtain a high ss certification, he couldn¡¯t be careless.

    Compared to these things that could just be memorized, Mick was more worried about the practical application problems.

    He heard that in this Frestech Chamber of Commerce vocational skill test, the ones in charge were actually the best magic mechanical engineers. Compared to them, Mick felt like he was far from being able topare.

    But the small advantage that he had was that he had worked for the Rimet Chamber of Commerce. The production magic machines he operated were the new ones promoted this year, which had the same specifications as the production magic machines currently used by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was also the same as the production magic machine used in this exam, so this made this exam a bit easier for him.

    ording to what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced in the ?Banta Times?, this vocational skill test was separated into seven different kinds. Mick was confident in bing a high ss punch press worker, then he felt that he could take the exam for a high ss carver. As for the other five kinds, he didn¡¯t have any ns currently.

    When he was silently paying attention to the numbers on the boook, while repeating the various conditions of the production magic machine to himself, Mick suddenly felt a stire over the crowd.

    He looked up and saw that the doors to therge building that was just builtst month open. A young man wearing the standard blue uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came up the stage built of several wooden blocks, ¡°Everyone don¡¯t push and don¡¯t be so loud, listen to me finish first!¡± That young man seemed like he was specially chosen since his voice was very loud. When he shouted, his voice suppressed the voices of thousands of people.

    Everyone looked at the young man and silence gradually came over them.

    Seeing that the situationw as under control, the young man gave a nod before continuing, ¡°Hello everyone, I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department¡¯s manager, Ankhto. I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to wee everyone to the vocational skills test. In order for this test to progress smoothly, I hope that everyone can follow the rules of the test.....¡±

    After that, Ankhto repeated the rules that were announced in the ?Banta Times? before officially announcing the beginning of the exam.

    Mick looked at the registration card that he receivedst week and found that his number was 00372, knowing that he had registered quite early.

    Based on the situation, if he hadn¡¯t listened to his father advice to register in advance, he might not have been able to enter the exam today.

    While it still wasn¡¯t his turn yet, Mick quickly used his time to recite the ?Vocational Skills Basic Theoretical Knowledge?.

    When he was prepared to read it a second time, he found that it was his turn.

    He entered the giant exam site with a bit of nervousness. Mick found that this ce was quite simr to the Rimet Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory, but it was different since it didn¡¯t only have a few production magic machines like in the Rimet Chamber of Commerce. This ce had all different kinds of production magic machines, overwhelming Mick when he looked at them.

    ¡°Hey, kid, do you want to take the exam or not?¡± A rough voice woke Mick from his shock at seeing all these strange and new magic machines.

    Looking over, he found that there was a dwarf who was only at his waist, but had a much rounder waist than him.

    Mick quickly handed over his registration card in a respectful manner. The dwarf took it and had Mick follow him to a magic machine, throwing him two square steel tes.

    ¡°Come, cut them into circles.¡±

    Mick measured the steel tes in his hand and asked back, ¡°What diameter do you want?¡±

    The dwarf had a look of praise in his eyes. He nodded as he said, ¡°A diameter of twenty centimeters and the error margin can¡¯t be more than three millimeters.¡±

    Mick immediately calmed down.

    Although the Rimet Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯tpare to the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, but it still had a bit of fame in Banta City¡¯sponent production circle. Mick was considered one of the best at operating the production magic machine in the Rimet Chamber of Commerce, so naturally this wasn¡¯t hard for him.

    He took the measuring tool from the dwarf and marked the appropriate lines on the steel te. Mick picked up the steel te and in less than ten minutes, he created a circle.

    The dwarf took the steel te to look over and found that the margin of error was less than one millimeter, so he couldn¡¯t help giving a satisfied nod. He took Mick¡¯s registration card and went to a small book beside him to write something down.

    Mick stretched his head and saw his mark of eighty five in the book with his good eyesight, but he was a bit unconvinced.

    ¡°My work is this good, why is it only eighty five points? Shouldn¡¯t it be at least ny points?¡±

    The dwarf looked at Mick and gave a cold snort. He turned back to pick up a steel te circle to give to him.

    ¡°How does your workpare?¡±

    Mick took the steel te and didn¡¯t need to measure it at all. He knew just from the feel that the quality of this steel te was much stronger than his.

    ¡°How many points is this?¡± Mick asked in an unwilling voice.

    ¡°Ny.¡± The dwarf replied.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? This is only ny? Then what does a hundred take?¡± Mick instantly said in a shocked voice.

    ¡°One hundred? Stop dreaming. Unless you can have an error margin of zero, then you can get a hundred points. Can you do it?¡± The dwarf said with augh of disdain.

    Mick was speechless.

    Margin of error of zero? That was clearly impossible.

    ¡°What¡¯s the point of having full points then? That is clearly impossible.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s to give you a goal, you¡¯re treating it seriously?¡± The dwarf waved his hand, ¡°Alright, stop wasting words, do you still want to take the test? If you don¡¯t continue, it¡¯ll be considered you giving up.¡±

    ¡°Yes, of course I do!¡± Mick quickly replied.

    The dwarf didn¡¯t say anything as he gave Mick a blueprint and a steel te.

    Mick naturally understood what this meant. He carefully looked over the blueprint and then he drew some lines on the steel te before using the production magic machine.

    He took longer this time, using twenty minutes to process the steel te ording to the blueprint.

    The dwarf looked over it and gave a satisfied nod. In front of Mick, he gave him a score of eighty.

    Although Mick was a bit depressed, he wasn¡¯t surprised.

    When he was processing this part, perhaps of his mood, he had made several mistakes. Being able to get eighty points was already quite good.

    ¡°Alright, the application exam ends here, next is the theory exam.¡± The dwarf pointed at the door.

    Mick nodded and walked out of the test sight. When he was prepared to head to another small room for the theory test, he looked up to see a familiar figure.

    ¡°Hey, miss Evita!¡± Mick quickly ran over and excitedly greeted Evita who was passing by.

    Evita turned and saw Mick, waving her hand at him with a faint smile. Then she saw the test room behind him and asked, ¡°Did your application test just end? How was it?¡±

    Mick shook his head in a depressed manner, ¡°Not too good, I feel that I won¡¯t be able to be a senior mechanic.¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°You don¡¯t need to feel discouraged, ording to sir chairman¡¯s standard, there isn¡¯t anyone qualified for bing a senior mechanic. You just need to pass the beginner exam and be an official mechanic, so you¡¯ll be qualified to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    This Mick was old man Anduin¡¯s second son. Last time when Evita went to Prana Vige to inspect the Magic Crystal mine, old man Anduin had asked her about Mick working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Evita had suggested that Mick participate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vocational skill exam and old man Anduin agreed, letting Mick register as soon as possible.

    Then Evita went to Prana Vige several times and met Mick, so they could be considered acquaintances.

    Hearing what Evita said, Mick couldn¡¯t help being surprised, ¡°This was what your chairman said? His requirements are that high?¡±

    ¡°The chairman¡¯s requirements have always been high.¡± Evita said with a smile, ¡°But this is a good thing since it urges us to continue forward, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Mick nodded like he didn¡¯t really understand.

    Seeing his appearance, Evita shook her head. She pointed at the theory test room in the distance, ¡°Go, the test time is very tight today, don¡¯t dy it.¡±

    ¡°Un, then I¡¯m going. Miss Evita, when the test results are out, I¡¯ll tell you some good news!¡± Mick waved his hand before turning to run to the theoretical test room.

    Seeing his back full of life, Evita revealed a faint smile. She looked at the tide of people and turned to the road outside the Falling Rain Valley, entering a Fersen Carriage Company public transportation Magic Car that was preparing to head to Banta City.

 Volume 3 98 - Installment payment

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 98 Installment payment</h4>

    The public transport Magic Car stopped outside Banta City and Evita got out. She looked at the finely built two storied buildings designed by elves employed by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce built by the Sandy River, as well as the calming atmosphere and she couldn¡¯t help feeling moved.

    It would be good if she could buy a house and live here.

    But when she thought about how the lowest price for a house here was five thousand gold coins, Evita gave up on that thought.

    After finding her way, Evita headed to the newly built high end magic machine neighbourhood that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce built by the Sandy River.

    Although thismunity hadn¡¯t beenpleted yet, looking around, she could see quite a few people moving in. There were even a few people who took the initiative to greet Evita when they saw her.

    These people recognized Evita because there were high level members of the smallpanies outside the Falling Rain Valley here. As for those that didn¡¯t know her, they still recognized her because they wanted to be closer to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After Evita greeted them, she asked about her destination.

    After being guided by two people who had lived here for a while, Evita smoothly came to the house with the best environment by the Sandy River. Then she saw Akali and her two assistants that had been there for a long time.

    ¡°Hey, Evita,e and take a look.¡± Seeing Evita, Akali waved her hand at her in an excited manner.

    Evita came over and stood with her by therge window of the living room, looking in the direction she was pointing in.

    ¡°How about it? Isn¡¯t it very pretty?¡± Akali had a very happy smile on her face and an immersed look, ¡°Think about it, if you live here, you can be woken up by the sunlight and you can see the beautiful Sandy River when you open your eyes. When you are bored, you can even ride a small boat in the river. That is simply amazing!¡±

    Evita looked at the Sandy River that was several times more attractive after being renovated by the little house and after being silent for a bit, she suddenly knocked Akali¡¯s head, ¡°Alright, stop daydreaming. How is your work going? If you¡¯re done, let¡¯s go around the city and choose a gift, otherwise we won¡¯t have time to go visit Still.¡±

    Akali touched her head and muttered in a low voice, ¡°So what if I have a dream? Then again, it might notpletely be a dream.¡±

    But in the end, hearing Evita mention serious matters, Akali turned her attention from the beautiful scene outside the window and looked at the assistants working in the room, as she replied, ¡°Based on the situation of this morning, there should be no problem. With a conservative estimate, give us about a week and I should be able to install the central control system in this room.¡±

    ¡°A week?¡± Evita thought about it and shook her head, ¡°Young miss Sophia might now be able to wait.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no way even if she can¡¯t wait.¡± Akali gave a shrug, ¡°There are precise requirements and various household magic machines have to be customized, so how could it be done that quickly?¡±

    ¡°This shouldn¡¯t be a problem, right? I think that since young miss Sophia wants to buy this house, the household magic machines she wants should all be our Frestech Brand. You just need to tell her that she can just pick ourpany¡¯s newest generation of household magic machines, that way it follows a standard and will be easier to integrate into the central control system.¡±

    ¡°It should be like this, but what if young miss Sophia wants to buy magic machines from otherpanies?¡± Akali refuted.

    ¡°The otherpanies don¡¯t produce that many household magic machines, it shouldn¡¯t be that hard to change it, right?¡± Evita slightly knit her brows. She thought for a bit before continuing, ¡°Speaking of this, the chairman mentioned a while ago that he would be selling other household magic machines to otherpanies. He should be using the standard that we came up with, right?¡±

    ¡°We should use a standard if we have one, otherwise it¡¯ll be harder in the future.¡± Akali said in a natural voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s not certain, there will be somepanies who think they are better.¡± Evita shook her head and thought about apany from Banta City that had just joined the Magic Fan industry who had plenty of technical problems, then they invited her through various rtionships.

    When she went over, she found that thispany¡¯s Magic Fans were chasing innovation. They forcefully changed the parameters of the Magic Fan and there were many parts of the Magic Fan that didn¡¯t work with each other, making it easy for problems to ur.

    Other than researching Magic Airshipstely, Evita had been mainly focused on standardizing Magic Crystals, so she was sensitive to standardizing. She reprimanded the technical staff of thatpany without any courtesy and corrected the parameters of the Magic Fan they produced, integrating them to the Frestech Brand Magic Fan standards.

    ¡°I don¡¯t care about that. If we receive any change requests from young miss Sophia, it¡¯ll be a change for our small group to study ourpetition. As for how to do it, naturally it will be following the request of young miss Sophia.¡± Akali said.

    Evita nodded and said nothing else, as she turned to watch Akali and her assistants work.

    This so-called central control system was actually using the resonance technology that Akali developed. It would allow long distance control of other Magic Arrays, allowing one to control these household magic machines with the Magic Arrays within them.

    In the Banta City square, Akali had used this technology to control the Magic Lamps in the square.

    Then after researching it further, Akali could now use different frequencies in the same Magic Array to influence different Magic Arrays. Thus, through a Magic Remote, she could control all different kinds of magic machines.

    Because there were more and more household magic machines in Banta City, once this control system was developed, there would be plenty of uses for it.

    But this was Akali¡¯s first time actually installing it in a home. If it wasn¡¯t for young miss Sophia¡¯s insistence, she wouldn¡¯t have been willing to install it since this technology wasn¡¯t mature yet in her opinion.

    Evita waited for some time, as Akali brought her three assistants to install the appropriate Magic Arrays in the household magic machines. Then Akali took out a remote control that she had already prepared, preparing to control the different Magic Arrays with this control.

    Facts proved that the arrangement of these Magic Arrays in a room was different from these Magic Arrays in theb.

    Although the remote control could still affect each Magic Array, the effects were weaker.

    ¡°How about it? Will it work?¡± Seeing that the Magic Arrays weren¡¯t working normally, Evita asked this in a worried voice.

    ¡°It seems like there are some problems......¡± Akali knit her brows as she made some slight changes to the Magic Remote in her hand before continuing her test, ¡°But it¡¯s not a big problem, it can be revised based on the situation. Right now, the biggest problem is that there is a disparity in the standard of the Magic Arrays in our Frestech Brand household magic machines.¡±

    ¡°I think you should report this issue to the chairman, he also attaches great importance to standardization. If he agrees, I think that he will request the magic machine industry to study standardization for Magic Arrays.¡± Evita said.

    ¡°Sir chairman should agree, but we have to solve the issue of young miss Sophia¡¯s room first.....¡± Akali thought for a bit before saying, ¡°How about this, Evita, let¡¯s pick the ones with the closest frequencies from the household magic machine department and give them to young miss Sophia. As for the other problems, we¡¯ll research themter.¡±

    ¡°Un, let¡¯s satisfy young miss Sophia¡¯s needs first.¡± Evita nodded, agreeing to Akali¡¯s suggestion.

    After conducting this test, they just need to collect some simple data. Akali looked at the sky outside the window and said a few things to her three assistants before leaving with Evita to head to Banta City.

    They hadn¡¯t walked out far and they saw a horse carriage with the symbol of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce slowlye over, stopping in front of the two.

    Chairman Cruise who the two had met many times jumped out and greeted them with a smile, ¡°Chief Evita, young miss Akali, what do you think of ourpany¡¯s upscale neighbourhood? Does it conform to the concept of the modern magic room from yourpany?¡±

    Akali raised her nose and said with a soft snort, ¡°It is good, but it¡¯s too expensive!¡±

    Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°This is a high end home, if it isn¡¯t expensive, how could it be considered high end? Young miss Akali, if you think that it¡¯s too expensive, does that mean you also want to buy one?¡±

    ¡°I do.....¡± Akali red at chairman Cruise, ¡°But your Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s lowest price is five thousand gold coins, how could I afford it?¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t afford it? That¡¯s not true.¡± Chairman Cruise narrowed his eyes, like an old fox seducing a hen, ¡°Young miss Akali, I received a new idea from your chairman Xu, which is installment payments. How about it? Are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Installment payments?¡± Akali and Evita were both stunned.

 Volume 3 99 - Conditions for attracting magicians

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 99 Conditions for attracting magicians</h4>

    ¡°Installment payments?¡± Still touched her belly that had very clearly swelled a bit. After thinking about it, she said with a nod, ¡°Right, this is indeed the idea that Xu Yi gave chairman Cruise. What about it? Are you interested?¡±

    Akali looked at Evita before nodding, ¡°Un, I feel this idea isn¡¯t bad. Look, if you divide it into ten years of payments, it would be five hundred gold coins a year. Evita and I are currently earning around eight hundred to a thousand gold coins per year, so we can afford this.¡±

    ¡°That is true.¡± Still turned to Evita, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Evita slightly knit her brows, looking a bit conflicted.

    ¡°Although we can indeed afford to pay five hundred gold coins a year, but.....that doesn¡¯t mean that we¡¯ll have that high of an ie each year. If there¡¯s a problem where we can¡¯t pay the funds, ording to the contract, the house would be taken back by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and they will not refund the money to us.¡±

    ¡°What are you worried for?¡± Akali said with a snort, ¡°Could it be that you¡¯re worried we will lose our jobs? Or are you worried that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will close?¡±

    Evita helplessly looked at Akali. This fellow, she was saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would close in front of Still, it really was a slip up, ¡°Look, Still already said this, we should make our decision, right?¡± Akali quickly urged Evita, ¡°Think about it, as long as you buy the house, we can live in that beautiful environment and our lives would be much happier.¡±

    Evita still shook her head, ¡°You forgot an important problem. We work in Falling Rain Valley every day, this ce is over sixty kilometers away from there. Do we have to spend two hours on public transport each day toe back?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about this. Aren¡¯t we currently researching personal Magic Cars? We can both buy one when the timees and we¡¯ll just drive our Magic Cars home each day, it¡¯ll be very stylish.¡± Akali said in an excited voice.

    Still looked at the hesitant Evita and paused before saying, ¡°How about this, Evita, if you feel that it isn¡¯t safe for you and Akali to pay in installments to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I can lend you the money first. You can slowly return the money to me in the future, just like the installment payment, but you should be more assured with me, right?¡± Still revealed a faint smile. She pinched Akali¡¯s face before looking at Evita, ¡°Evita, what about you? You are my old ssmate and friend, there¡¯s no need to be polite with me.¡±

    Evita took a deep look at Still and her eyes passed over her stomach. Then she looked around before taking a final look at Still while slowly shaking her head.

    ¡°No need, I¡¯m not as interested in a house as Akali.¡±

    ¡°Why? It isn¡¯t anything to borrow a bit of money from Still, right? It isn¡¯t that we can¡¯t repay it, then again.....¡±

    Akali only finished half her words before Still covered her mouth.

    ¡°Since Evita isn¡¯t willing, then forget it. But I believe that with Evita¡¯s abilities, you¡¯ll be able to receive five thousand gold coins within a year. When that timees, you won¡¯t need to consider installment payments, right?¡±

    Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°I hope it¡¯s like this, but that will depend on if sir chairman will be generous.¡±

    ¡°Oh? When have I not been generous?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice suddenly came from the door.

    The three turned over and saw that behind Xu Yi, Be, ire, and Cecilia walked in together.

    ¡°Hey, Still, your belly is much bigger now.¡± Be immediately came to Still¡¯s side, staring at her belly as she said with a sigh.

    ire and Cecilia also came over and put down the gifts in their hand. They gathered around Still¡¯s belly to talk to her, pushing aside the topic the three of them had been discussing.

    Seeing the girls talking to each other, Xu Yi shook his head and told Liz and Linda to prepare lunch.

    Evita and Still¡¯s other old ssmates were here to visit her, so he had to properly entertain them.

    When he walked out, there was the sound of footsteps behind him. When he turned around, he saw that it was Akali pulling Evita over.

    ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Did something happen?¡± Seeing Akali¡¯s rare slightly worried look, Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°This......It¡¯s nothing big.....Sir chairman, Still just said......¡±

    After hearing what Akali discussed with Still, Xu Yiughed and waved his hand, ¡°I thought it was something important. Since Still already agreed, I don¡¯t mind at all. But you are good friends with Still, so based on our rtionship, it is very normal for us to lend you money.¡±

    Akali happily ran over to grab Xu Yi¡¯s arm and shook it a few times, ¡°I knew that sir chairman is the most generous. Ai, it would be great if I met you before Still, I would definitely chase you and then I wouldn¡¯t need to worry about buying a house like this. Right, sir chairman, how about I use my body to repay you?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he shook his head, ¡°Alright, stop joking, Still is here.¡±

    He looked at Evita afterwards and wanted to console her, but he gave up this idea after considering it.

    Every person was different. Akali could ept borrowing money like this, but Evita wasn¡¯t willing, so he couldn¡¯t force her.

    But after thinking, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something that he asked Evita, ¡°Right, Evita, I haven¡¯t asked about ourpany¡¯s recruitment in a while. How many new researchers do we have right now?¡±

    Evita was surprised that Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic, so she thought for a bit before saying, ¡°A total of thirty nine, what is it?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The growth isn¡¯t fast. There were over three hundred peoplest year, but this year it¡¯s only thirty nine. It really is too little.¡±

    ¡°Too little?¡± Akali said in a surprised voice, ¡°Sir chairman, there are less than two hundred magicians under Great Magician Eisenkel and ourpany has over three hundred magicians, it¡¯s already very shocking.¡±

    ¡°I still feel it¡¯s too little. Don¡¯t you feel that we¡¯recking people when we¡¯re conducting research?¡±

    Evita and Akali thought about it before nodding at the same time.

    ¡°Actually......I wanted to find a few more assistants for me recently, but everyone has their own research topic and they are all very busy.¡± Akali said.

    Evita said with a sigh, ¡°Right, currently there are many research topics and I have a bunch of research projects from the magic machine development center, but I can¡¯t find any people for these projects. If we could get another two hundred.....another hundred, it would be good.¡±

    ¡°Then why do you think other magicians aren¡¯t willing to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Evita and Akali looked at each other before replying, ¡°It isn¡¯t that they¡¯re not willing since ourpany is already famous, many of our ssmates have asked us about thepany before. I think that many magicians are unwilling because they don¡¯t want to work in an unknown city, they¡¯re worried that they won¡¯t be able to adapt to life here.¡±

    ¡°Look, this is a very important reason.¡± Xu Yi gave a p, ¡°You two have worked for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for over two years and you still have to consider your residence in Banta City, it¡¯s no wonder magicians are worried they can¡¯t adapt to life here. I feel that if we can solve their housing problem, making magicians not have to worry about anything aftering to work for ourpany, there would be more magicians willing toe.¡±

    Evita and Akali looked at Xu Yi in surprise, thinking that this sir chairman¡¯s thoughts really could jump around.

    They were clearly talking about the two of them buying houses, how did he suddenly think of this?

    Xu Yi ignored the surprised expressions on their face and after thinking for a while, he suddenly walked out.

    After taking less than two steps, it was like he suddenly thought of something as he turned to say, ¡°Right, help me tell Still that I need to go see grandfather. I won¡¯t be back for lunch, so you guys can just enjoy yourselves.¡±

    After waving his hand to them, he turned to leave.

    The two watched Xu Yi enter a horse carriage in a daze, heading off into the distance before they finally reacted.

    ¡°Sir chairman really is something. We came to see Still today, but he as the husband ran off, what is this.....¡± Akali couldn¡¯t help muttering.

    ¡°He should have thought of something important, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t do this.¡± Evita exined for Xu Yi.

    Akali looked at Evita and pinched her cheek before saying with a smile, ¡°What¡¯s wrong? You protect him so much, but it¡¯s a pity that you¡¯re a coward and don¡¯t dare tell him your emotions. It doesn¡¯t matter how much you protect him.¡±

    Evita rolled her eyes, ¡°It¡¯s still better than you openly saying that you would repay him with your body, right? What do you think you are? It¡¯s not good to be this confident, right?¡±

    Akali gave an indifferent snort, ¡°I¡¯m happy, you don¡¯t have to care!¡±

    Evita helplessly shook her head, pulling Akali back into the room.

 Volume 3 100 - Raising your wage

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 100 Raising your wage</h4>

    When Xu Yi saw Great Magician Cami, he couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Great Magician Cami was currently wearing the light blue uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He pinched two steel tes in his left hand as he held a Magic Welding Torch in his right, currently focusing on the slit between the two steel tes, moving the torch bit by bit.

    If he had a face mask on, he would have looked exactly the same as the welders from earth.

    Seeing Great Magician Cami focusing on the steel te and Magic Welding Torch, Xu Yi didn¡¯t disturb him as he stood at the door watching his actions.

    Compared to when the Magic Welding Torch had just been developed, Great Magician Cami was much more skilled when it came to welding the two steel tes together.

    Although the Magic Welding Torch in his right hand wasn¡¯t moving quickly, it moved at a very stable speed, so it didn¡¯t tremble at all.

    Just based on this, he was on par with the welders on earth with years of experience.

    When Great Magician Cami finished welding these two steel tes together, Xu Yi took two steps forward to take a look. He found that there wasn¡¯t a trace of welding between the two tes and it was like they were naturally linked together, being part of a whole.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing with praise as he picked up the welded steel tes. He put his hands on opposite sides and tried to bend them, but the steel te wouldn¡¯t bend at all.

    Great Magician Cami saw what Xu Yi did andughed, ¡°Kid, you think that I¡¯m the same as before?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. After the first bending test of Great Magician Cami¡¯s sess, he put the steel te down on a table and left a space in the middle before picking up another steel te. He lifted it high up and mmed it down.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    With a heavy sound, the steel te bounced off the desk and fell to the round, but it didn¡¯t show any signs of loosening.

    Xu Yi picked it up from the ground and honestly looked at the space between the steel tes, finding that it didn¡¯t show any signs of breaking apart. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a surprised gasp.

    ¡°This is just too strong! Grandfather, how did you do this?¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed before saying in a proud voice, ¡°Actually it was just changing the method of welding. I heard that a welding rod had to be put between the steel tes to fill the space, so I always thought about how to solve the problem of a welding rod. But after thinking about it, since I wanted to use a welding rod to fuse the two, wouldn¡¯t it be better to fuse the two steel tes together instead of using a welding rod?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Melt the steel te? Can this be done? The welding rod can melt because it is thin and somebustion aids are added......¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi was stunned.

    He suddenly remembered that when Great Magician Cami did his welding tests, the welding rods didn¡¯t use anybustion aids at all because Great Magician Cami had developed the ¡°Diamond Distorting Array¡± that Xu Yi joked aboutst time. He could dissolve the metal itself, so why would he still need to use supporting methods?

    Since it was like this, Great Magician Cami¡¯s thoughts were correct.

    Anyway, since he could easily melt steel, why would he need a welding rod to connect them? Compared to welding methods that weren¡¯t as reliable, of course it was better to fuse the two steel tes together.

    Xu Yi looked at theplete steel te in his hand and he felt emotional.

    He had been influenced by the concepts of earth too much, he kept approaching things with the methods from earth.

    But in reality, because of the existence of magic, there were some things that couldn¡¯t be achieved on earth that could be easily solved with magic.

    For example, Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t need to develop a high temperature Magic Array to weld the metal. It was much easier than using the high temperature welding method from earth and it was easier to use.

    ¡°Let me show you another of my new welding methods.¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly picked up two steel tes and he tapped them with his finger.

    Xu Yi could see that there were several small Magic Arraysid on the two steel tes, but because it was too small, he couldn¡¯t clearly see what kind of arrays they were.

    After a while, Great Magician Cami stopped his hands and held up the two tes for Xu yi. Then he squeezed both tes together by the sides that had Magic Arrays on them.

    Xu Yi felt some magic fluctuations from where the steel tes came together. When Great Magician Cami rxed his hands, the two steel tes were connected like they had been welded.

    ¡°How did this weld together?¡± Xu Yi took the steel te from Great Magician Cami¡¯s hand in a confused manner, carefully looking over where they were connected.

    Although these two steel tes weren¡¯t seamlessly connected like the one from before, it was still quite tightly attached. Xu Yi hit it again, but it didn¡¯t show any signs of cracking.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, I arranged several small Smelting Arrays on the steel tes. You just need to connect them and inject some magic power to activate the Magic Arrays, which will melt the steel tes and naturally weld them together.¡±

    Xu Yi simted the situation in his mind and understood.

    This welding method wasn¡¯t as firm as the other method, but its advantage was that it kept the steel smooth. There was no need to process it afterwards like with the other welding method, so naturally it¡¯s more convenient.

    Moreover, this welding method had many ces where it was better. For example, one needed to use the Magic Welding Torch for welding things together, but it was greatly restricted because of space and angle. But if one used this method, they just needed to prepare the Magic Arrays ahead of time and they would be able to weld them by sticking them together, it wasn¡¯t hard at all.

    Moreover, because the Magic Arrays were installed ahead of time, if they were in a rush, they would quickly weld them together to satisfy the needs in special situations.

    Xu Yi thought of all the ces that they would use this new welding method and he couldn¡¯t help giving Great Magician Cami a thumbs up.

    ¡°Grandfather, you really are a Great Magician, you can think of all these methods.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Ai, if we could get several Great Magicians like you to invest in researching magic machines, that would be good.¡±

    Great Magician Cami rolled his eyes, ¡°You think that Great Magicians are like vegetables? You can find them whenever?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course Great Magicians aren¡¯t that easy to find, but higher level magicians shouldn¡¯t be that hard, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami narrowed his eyes and gave a cold snort, ¡°Kid, what kind of scheme do you have? Be honest, I know that you wouldn¡¯t find me for no good reason.¡±

    Xu Yi immediately said in an aggrieved voice, ¡°What no good reason? Could it be that meing here to increase your wage isn¡¯t a good thing?¡±

    ¡°Increase my wage?¡± Great Magician Cami was surprised, ¡°Why would you increase my wages? I¡¯m already earning over three thousand gold coins a year, why would I need more? Then again, thepany provides me with the magic materials for my research, so I don¡¯t need to pay at all. If you have too much money, it¡¯s better to provide more funds for the magic research facility.¡±

    ¡°I already considered increasing the funds, but raising your wages is also necessary, otherwise how could we attract more magicians toe work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi said with augh.

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning.

    ¡°You mean......you want to increase my wages to have me be an advertisement?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Look, you are the only Great Magician in ourpany right now, you are the sign of ourpany. If something happens to you, many magicians would pay attention, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°That is correct, but......¡± Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi and doubtfully said, ¡°How are you nning to use me this time? Only increasing my wages? I don¡¯t think that would have any effects. My wages are already high enough, so increasing it won¡¯t have any effects.¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, it¡¯s because we haven¡¯t added enough. To make a real stir, we can¡¯t be too stingy.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows, ¡°How much are you nning on giving me? Five thousand per year? Isn¡¯t that too much?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile before sticking up a finger.

    ¡°No, five thousand isn¡¯t much, how could it have the advertising effect that I want? This time, I n on raising your wage to ten thousand gold coins a year!¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand gold coins?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°Xu Yi, are you crazy! You¡¯re giving me a wage of ten thousand gold coins a year? You think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s moneyes from nothing?¡±

    ¡°If you want good results, you have to be willing to invest.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, saying in an uncaring voice, ¡°Although ten thousand gold coins isn¡¯t little, I feel that if we used it to weigh your worth as a Great Magician, it¡¯s too little. To me, just your worth alone already surpasses a trivial ten thousand gold coins. Not to mention that I have other goals in giving you this kind of wage.¡±

    ¡°You want to move the hearts of other Great Magicians?¡± Great Magician Cami asked.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

 Volume 3 101 - Donâ€™t change jobs

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 101 Don¡¯t change jobs</h4>

    After knowing Xu Yi¡¯s real goal, Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t continue to oppose.

    As a Great Magician, of course he had the pride of a Great Magician.

    Although Great Magician Cami was shocked to hear the wage of ten thousand gold coins.

    But thinking about it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce offering him such arge wage was not his value as a Great Magician, but rather to demonstrate the difference between him and other mages.

    So Great Magician Cami wasn¡¯t that prideful and agreed after considering it.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman was Xu Yi, who was his grandson inw, so they were family. Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t have anything to be embarrassed about.

    ¡°Grandfather, do you think......a wage of ten thousand gold coins a year will attract a Great Magician other than you? If it isn¡¯t enough, I can still add a bit more. As long as it can attract another Great Magician to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I think that it is worth it no matter how much we invest.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Un......I think that ten thousand is already enough.¡± Great Magician Cami thought for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°Actually to be honest, although magicians are respected by many people and a Great Magician like me has a high position, a high position isn¡¯t rted to whether you have money or not. You have to know, my Magic Tower from before only received two thousand gold coins in funding before and didn¡¯t have any other sources of revenue.¡±

    ¡°That was because you were.....ke.....too convervative. If you were like Great Magician Eisenkel, using your magic power to connect to thepanies and nobles of the kingdom, your ie would already be over ten thousand gold coins.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°I don¡¯t want to be the dogs of those fellows. That Eisenkel, he only thinks about falling into money!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile as he reminded him, ¡°Grandfather, don¡¯t forget, you are also working for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce......¡±

    ¡°How can that be the same?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°The things I develop are good things that can change people¡¯s lives! The people of Banta City can live such good lives because of the magic machines that ourpany has developed! Compared to Eisenkel being a goon for those nobles and merchants, I am countless times better!¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit helpless and found it a bit funny. Although Great Magician Cami was stubborn before, after joining the magic research facility, his thoughts had really changed and he felt that his work was glorious now.

    Of course this was good. Xu Yi wished that all the magicians in the kingdom could think like this, so he wouldn¡¯t have to rack his brain on how to recruit stronger magicians.

    Xu Yi tactfully didn¡¯t persist on this topic and said with a nod and a smile, ¡°Alright, grandfather, since you¡¯ve agreed, then that¡¯s good. As for the advertising.....¡±

    Great Magician Cami waved his hand, ¡°You can arrange it, I don¡¯t care.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi replied. He saw that it was still early outside, so he said, ¡°Grandfather, how about you stop your experiment ande back to the Falling Star Manor with me? We should be able to get there in time for lunch. Still¡¯s old ssmates came to see her today and they¡¯re staying for lunch.¡±

    ¡°A bunch of little girls, why would I join in the fun? Kid, why aren¡¯t you heading back yet? It¡¯s hard for Still right now, you want her to take care of the guests alone?¡± Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Un, then I¡¯ll head back.¡±

    Xu Yi had taken two steps when Great Magician Cami called out to him.

    ¡°Right, kid, it¡¯ll be the certification exam soon. Are you going to skip it again this year?¡± Great Magician Cami asked.

    ¡°No, I¡¯ll be heading to Anvilmar City and there are many things to take care of. I might as well take the certification exam since I¡¯m there.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Hearing this, Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°That means......Kid, did your magic power increase?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t reply. He just waved his hand to Great Magician Cami before turning to leave theb.

    ###

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vocational skill testssted a week before finally ending.

    After several days of intense testing, the first batch of people passing the test had been released.

    ording to the stats, there were a total of three thousand nine hundred and fourteen people who passed. Among them, there were one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine punch press workers, seven hundred and sixteen carvers, and a total of one thousand four hundred and fifty nine workers of the other five types.

    The reason for this was mainly because other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other magic machinepanies used mostly the same magic machines. So there were few kinds of work in theirpanies and most workers didn¡¯t master many skills.

    Among thesepanies, especially those that producedponents, the ones who did this most basic work had thergest passing rate.

    Although there were over three thousand people who passed,pared to the twenty thousand people who came to the test, this passing rate was still considered low.

    So after Mick received his certification for a junior grade punch press operator and carver from the receptionist at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vocational skill center, his hands couldn¡¯t help tremble slightly.

    As far as he knew, there weren¡¯t many people who passed this vocational skills test and someone that had passed two tests like him were even more scarce.

    Looking at the two certifications in his hand, Mick took a deep breath. He calmed himself down before asking the receptionist, ¡°That.....Am I qualified to work at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce now?¡±

    The receptionist revealed a sweet smile, ¡°Mister, I think that with your level of techniques, you should be able to pass ourpany¡¯s entrance exam. But I suggest that you consult with the Rimet Chamber of Commerce first to avoid and conflicts.¡±

    ¡°Ah? I.....Right......¡± Mick was stunned before reacting. He was currently an official employee of the Rimet Chamber of Commerce, if he ran to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce without saying a single word, not mentioning the Rimet Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t ept him.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go back for now.¡±

    Thinking of this, Mick waved his hand to the receptionist and turned to quickly move out of the vocational skill center, before running out of the Falling Rain Valley. He ran all the way to the small factory the Rimet Chamber of Commerce had outside the Falling Rain Valley.

    Mick had ran off to the vocational skill center during his lunch break, so there wasn¡¯t anyone in the workshop. Mick went to the office to find the Rimet Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, Enzori Rimet looking over some documents.

    Seeing Mick, chairman Rimet immediately revealed a bright smile. When he saw the two certifications Mick was holding, Rimet gave augh, ¡°Mick, congrattions.¡±

    Mick was stunned, ¡°Congratte me on what?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s to congratte you on passing two vocational skills tests.¡± Chairman Rimetughed as he patted Mick¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Our Rimet Chamber of Commerce had several people pass their vocational skills exams, but you¡¯re the only who passed two! Good kid, I wasn¡¯t wrong about you!¡±

    Mick scratched his head as he said in an embarrassed voice, ¡°Chairman, thanks for your praise, but I came looking for you to......¡±

    ¡°I know.¡± Chairman Rimetughed as he cut Mick off, ¡°Actually I know without you saying anything. You have such a good performance, it really isn¡¯t right to increase your wages. I¡¯ve decided that starting next month, your wage will go up from fifteen gold coins to twenty five gold coins! It¡¯s gone up by ten gold coins, what do you think? Are you satisfied? Other than that, I will promote you to ourpany¡¯s production leader, specializing in technical problems for ourpany, are you confident in that?¡±

    Mick was dizzy from what chairman Rimet had said.

    He hade looking for chairman Rimet to resign and then apply for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He never thought that chairman Rimet would immediately raise his wage and would increase it by ten gold coins!

    Twenty five gold coins a month!

    Even at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how many people could receive such a wage?

    Not to mention that chairman Rimet had wanted him to be the production leader? What was that?

    Although Mick didn¡¯t understand, he could tell that it sounded quite powerful.

    Seeing how stunned Mick was, chairman Rimet patted his shoulder and said with a serious look, ¡°Mick, you are my most important worker, I¡¯ve always thought highly of you. You being the production leader now is just to train you. If you do well, when our Rimet Chamber of Commerce develops, I definitely won¡¯t treat you unfairly. When the timees, not mentioning these twenty five gold coins, it¡¯s no problem even if your wage is doubled!¡±

    Mick¡¯s eyes lit up. Doubled? Wouldn¡¯t that be fifty gold coins a month?

    Seeing Mick¡¯s expression, chairman Rimet knew that he had finally persuaded Mick. With a smile, he patted his shoulders a few more times while saying, ¡°Alright, you rest first. We¡¯ll sign a new employment contract for you tomorrow and write out the details of your wage increase.¡±

    Mick just replied in a daze, leaving the office not knowing what to do.

    Watching Mick walk out, chairman Rimet let out a long sigh. He picked up a piece of paper from his desk and he had a look of gratitude in his eyes.

    ¡°Chairman Xu really is a sincere person. If he didn¡¯t have someone tell me, I¡¯m afraid our Rimet Chamber of Commerce would have lost our most important skilled workers. Ourpany really would be broken at that time.¡±

    There were several names on this piece of paper, which clearly stated which one of the Rimet Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers had passed the vocational skills exam.

    Mick¡¯s name was on top and there was a description by his name.

    ¡°This person has perfect basic skills and a certain degree of foundations in theory. If he is trained some more, he will be an important technological backbone of yourpany, so please treat him well.¡±

    ¡°Hei, that kid Mick already wanted to run off to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it¡¯s a good thing I reacted fast and stopped him in time. Otherwise, if he really ran off, we can¡¯t make up for this loss.¡± Chairman Rimet gave a proud smile before picking up another piece of paper from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, slightly knitting his brows as he looked it over, ¡°Only of these pieces of technology.....which one should I choose?¡±

 Volume 3 102 - Arch Magus Thorneâ€™s notes

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 102 Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes</h4>

    Anvilmar at the end of October was filled with the autumn breeze and it became dark early, the air reverberated with a chill.

    But the streets of Anvilmar City were still filled with people, being very crowded.

    That was because today was the day of the monthly auction. The auction house at the center of the most luxurious street in the city, Elysee Street was even more boisterous. The sun had just set and countless people pushed in,pletely filling up therge auction hall.

    As per usual, among the people here, one could easily find nobles andrge merchants.

    For them, since this was a ce to show off their wealth, it was a very important social gathering. As long as they were qualified toe, they definitely wouldn¡¯t miss it.

    This monthlyrge auction was the most important topic in Anvilmar City.

    During these discussions, what came up the most was which noble orrge merchant would use arge amount of money to buy what precious item.

    For example, inst month¡¯s auction, a painting that came from thest elven dynasty three thousand years ago reached a price of three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins, creating a stir in the entire city.

    But the person who bid for that painting refused to reveal their identity. So even now after a month, there were countless people who secretly discussed this person who had actually thrown down a giant amount of three hundred and seventy thousand to buy a single painting.

    As for this month¡¯s auction, the topic that everyone cared about was what precious goods would appear and what high price they would sell for.

    For example, could it beat the record setst month by the painting for three hundred and seventy thousand?

    When Xu Yi entered the auction, he found the seats that he had reserved ten days ago with Hannas and sat down. Hearing the issues being discussed by the people around him, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    Three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins wasn¡¯t considered arge amount for him now, but if he had this much money, he would rather invest it in researching magic machines. He wouldn¡¯t be willing to spend even a single gold coin on luxury goods that didn¡¯t have any meaning to him.

    And on his trip to Anvilmar City this time, he came to this auction not for some luxury goods, but he had a goal.

    After patiently waiting for some time, it reached seven. An auctioneer came out and the crowd immediately became silent.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help nod. Based on this, this Nessing Auction House really was thergest auction house in Anvilmar City and the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    The auctioneer gave arge introduction to the auction before entering the main topic.

    Xu Yipletely ignored all the strange things. He just listened to the people around him call out bids and watched the atmosphere surge under the auctioneer¡¯s control.

    The first auction reached a final price of less than five hundred gold coins. When it reached the tenth item, that price had broken ten thousand gold coins.

    Seeing the surrounding people bid, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Based on this situation, it seemed like there were quite a few rich people in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the strange thing was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial situation wasn¡¯t that good.

    Even if it increased greatlyst yearpared to the past years, it was still less than three million gold coins. It was only slightly higher than the revenue of the Frestech Chamber of Commercest year.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand this situation and had asked Seveni, but he didn¡¯t receive a clear answer.

    As one item finished bidding, the price increased and the atmosphere in the auction hall became more lively. Every person who participated in the auction became very excited, like they had lost their mind.

    However, when the auctioneer took out the seventeenth item, it became cool again.

    ¡°One volume of Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes, a minimum price of three thousand gold coins. Each increase will be no less than two hundred gold coins. Everyone please start bidding.¡±

    When the auctioneer¡¯s voice fell, the hall was silent. Everyone looked at each other and most people were confused.

    Although everyone knew the meaning of the words ¡°Arch Magus¡±, the notes of Arch Magus Thorne didn¡¯t have any use to most people.

    If it was a famous Great Magus, based on the fame this Great Magus had on the continent, any item rted to them would sell for a sky high price.

    For example, in an auctionst year, there was a pen that was used by Great Magus Lifer. It had reached a shocking price of one hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

    But an Arch Magus was not a Great Magus. It was only a single grade, but the difference was like heaven and earth.

    Because on the Sines Continent, there were always Arch Magi and they weren¡¯t that scarce. For example, there were currently twenty seven Arch Magi on the Sines Continent.

    But a Great Magus is rare. Since humans started studying magic, in the four thousand years, there were only a few Great Magus that had appeared in human history. One might not appear even in several hundred years.

    Compared to this, Great Magus were naturally more rare, so they had a higher position in people¡¯s minds.

    Xu Yi waited for a bit, but seeing that no one was bidding and the auctioneer was about to raise his gavel to end this auction, he raised his hand while shouting, ¡°Three thousand.¡±

    Hearing this, the auctioneer let out a sigh of relief. He immediately brought his gavel down and pointed at Xu Yi while saying withughter, ¡°Mister number thirty nine, three thousand gold coins. Is there anyone else who wants to bid?¡±

    Everyone at the auction turned to look at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t wearing magician robes today, so everyone couldn¡¯t see his identity as a mage and couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit confused.

    What does this young fellow want to buy Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes for? Could it be that he wants to raise his magic power with this note?

    Based on his young appearance, he might not understand it even if he read it, right?

    Xu Yi ignored everyone¡¯s faze and looked at the auctioneer, using his gaze to pressure him.

    The auctioneer naturally understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning. Waiting to see that no one was bidding, he continued with a nod, ¡°Number thirty nine, three thousand gold coins going once. Is there no one else bidding? If there¡¯s no one else, Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes will go to this mister.¡±

    Still, no one replied.

    The auctioneer waited a bit longer before helplessly calling out, ¡°Number thirty nine, three thousand gold coins going twice. There is only one chance left, is there anyone interested in Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes willing to bid? Arch Magus Thorne was the first Arch Magus of our Lampuri Kingdom and the symbol of pride for our Lampuri Kingdom. His notes definitely have great value, so I don¡¯t think that everyone is willing to miss out on it, right?¡±

    Perhaps the auctioneer¡¯s words had some effect as a voice called out, ¡°Three thousand and five hundred.¡±

    The auctioneer¡¯s spirits jumped up and he pointed in that direction, ¡°Good! There¡¯s someone bidding! Mister number forty seven, three thousand and five hundred gold coins! Is there anyone else bidding?¡±

    When he asked this, the auctioneer naturally looked in Xu Yi¡¯s direction.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t disappoint him as he called out without even batting ash, ¡°Four thousand.¡±

    The crowd began discussing again.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s current appearance, it was clear that he was determined to take this.

    Number forty seven who had bid before could feel Xu Yi¡¯s attitude and didn¡¯t give up, so he shouted ¡°Five thousand gold coins.¡±

    Seeing this, all the people in the auction hall became excited.

    For the people who came to the auction, they liked seeing people bid the most because this would increase the excitement of the auction.

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi expectantly who after a bit of thought gave a price of ¡°five thousand and two hundred gold coins¡±.

    ¡°Che.¡±

    Hearing this bid, everyone was a bit disappointed.

    He was increasing it by five hundred before, but now he changed to the lowest of two hundred. Could it be that this young fellow was strong on the outside and weak on the inside? Could it be that he used all his savings just to buy these notes?

    Number forty seven was surprised by Xu Yi dropping the bid and shouted a price of five thousand and five hundred after pausing for a second.

    Xu Yi hesitated for a while before calling out a bid of ¡°five thousand and seven hundred¡± when the auctioneer reached his third count.

    Number forty seven shook his head. It was like he was very disappointed in Xu Yi and gave up this bid.

    So Xu Yi used a bid of five thousand and seven hundred gold coins to take Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes.

    This kind of auction disappointed everyone, so after throwing this aside, they continued bidding on other things.

    Xu Yi remained silent as he watched the performance of the people around him, silently waiting for his next target to appear.

    After around half an hour, the staff of the auction carefully brought out a red box that was the size of a palm.

    Seeing the careful appearance of the staff, everyone¡¯s curiosity was piqued.

    There were so many things that came out before, but the staff were never this careful. Why did they act this way once this thing came out?

    There was only one exnation. The thing inside this little box must be more precious than everything from before!

    Thinking of this, everyone¡¯s breathing became a bit quick.

    Everyone knew that the final act of this auction was about to begin.

    And with the appearance of the final act, there would be a storm.

 Volume 3 103 - Take out proof

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 103 Take out proof</h4>

    ¡°I think that everyone is very curious about what is inside this box, right?¡± The auctioneer pointed at the box and looked around before saying with a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to rush, I will introduce it to everyone.¡±

    The auctioneer slowly took the handles at the sides of the box and opened it.

    Everyone looked over and saw that there was actually a ne inside the box.

    This ne waspletely dark green and it was unknown what material it was made from. With the glow of the Magic Lights in the auction hall, it released a faint orchid coloured glow.

    The glow flowed around the ne like it was alive, looking very mysterious.

    ¡°Now, I will be honoured to introduce this to everyone. This ne is called Deep Blue Sea, it is made from legendary blue coral found in the depths of the sea. Just this material gives it a shocking price. The most important thing is that this ne was made by the legendary Great Magus Lifer!¡±

    The crowd immediately broke out in an uproar after hearing thisst part.

    This ne was actually made by Great Magus Lifer! Even if this ne wasn¡¯t made from a precious material, it would be incredibly precious!

    It had to be known that in an auction fromst year, the pen that Great Magus Lifer used was already sold for a sky high price of one hundred and thirty thousand gold coins!

    The auctioneer could feel everyone wasn¡¯t shocked enough, so he continued, ¡°Other than this, this ne has a very practical use. This ne contains a Water Magic Array personally inscribed by Great Magus Lifer. Although no one can activate this Magic Array right now, ording to legends, this Water Magic Array could cast a Forbidden Spell!¡±

    The crowd was filled with another uproar.

    Forbidden Spell?

    This ne actually had a Forbidden Spell attached to it? Wouldn¡¯t that mean as long as one could incite the Magic Array on the ne, they could cast a Forbidden Spell?

    Of course, since no one had activated this Magic Array before, it meant that it was very hard to activate it. Perhaps it was something that normal people couldn¡¯t do.

    But this didn¡¯t hinder people¡¯s wildness towards this item.

    So what if they couldn¡¯t activate it? Letting people know that they had a ne with a Forbidden Spell attached was already enough!

    ¡°Alright, enough words, let¡¯s begin the bidding!¡± The people under the stage couldn¡¯t take it anymore.

    ¡°Right, quickly begin! We can¡¯t take it anymore!¡±

    ......

    The auctioneer revealed a faint smile and said with a nod, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s begin the auction. The ne with the Forbidden Spell made by Great Magus Life, the starting price will be a hundred thousand gold coins and each increase must be at least five thousand gold coins!¡±

    Hearing this price, everyone under the stage took a cold breath.

    Gods above, just the starting price was a hundred thousand and it was five thousand per bid, wasn¡¯t that too much!

    Just hearing this price scared off half the people, but there wasn¡¯t ack of rich people in Anvilmar City. Not to mention that which one of the people here wasn¡¯t incredibly rich? So after the hall was silent for a bit, people began wildly bidding.

    In less than ten minutes, the price had quickly gone from a hundred thousand to over two hundred thousand.

    After this price, the amount of people bidding dropped and there were only three people who continued.

    It was at this time that Xu Yi stood up.

    Seeing Xu Yi suddenly stand up, the people sitting around him were surprised.

    What did this fellow want to do? When he was bidding for Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes, he seemed like he was pained to death just spending five thousand gold coins. Now he wanted to bid for this ne?

    He must be crazy!

    With everyone¡¯s shocked gazes on him, Xu Yi stood up and raised the sign in his hand, as he said in a clear voice, ¡°Two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.¡±

    When this was said, the crowd was shocked.

    Before Xu Yi made a bid, the price was just two hundred and ten thousand gold coins and the other two were hesitating. No one thought that Xu Yi would just out at this time, suddenly bringing the price to two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins!

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi in surprise. They recognized him as the person who made a bit for Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes, so their shock became even heavier.

    This fellow......was he really this rich?

    Number seven who had called out the bid of two hundred and ten thousand saw the otherpetitors hesitating and saw the light of victory, but now that Xu Yi had appeared, after being surprised, he angrily pointed at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Hey, who are you? I¡¯ve never seen you in Anvilmar City before, you must be from outside the city, right? This hick, can you even afford two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, naturally disdaining from arguing with him.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, number seven became even more angry. He turned to the auctioneer and shouted, ¡°Is this how your Nessing Auction House handles things? You actually let this fellow create a mess?¡±

    The auctioneer awkwardly looked at Xu Yi before giving a slight bow to number seven, ¡°Young master Foledo, you should know the rules of our auction. The people who can bid have all passed their certification check.¡±

    ¡°Just him? Then tell me,how did he pass your certification? I don¡¯t believe that he can take out that many gold coins!¡± Number seven still didn¡¯t give up.

    The auctioneer said in an awkward voice, ¡°This......This is a guest¡¯s personal information, please forgive me since I can¡¯t provide that.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit! I¡¯m doubting his qualifications, what will your auction house do?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± The auctioneer turned to Xu Yi with an imploring look. He wanted Xu Yi to take out some qualification that would satisfy young master Foledo.

    Of course Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t ept his unreasonable request, as he said in an indifferent voice, ¡°ording to the rules of the auction, if no one else makes a bid, shouldn¡¯t you start counting down?¡±

    The auctioneer¡¯s face turned red. He looked at the still angry young master Foledo before helplessly raising his gavel, ¡°Number thirty nine two hundred and fifty thousand, is there anyone else bidding? If not, I will start counting down. Two hundred and fifty thousand going once......¡±

    ¡°Stop for me!¡± Young master Foledo angrily roared at the auctioneer. He angrily pointed his finger at Xu Yi and roared, ¡°Hey, do you not understand what I just said? I don¡¯t believe you can take out two hundred and fifty thousand and if you don¡¯t prove it to me, I¡¯ll make you scram! Don¡¯t ruin this young master¡¯s things!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Then this young master Foledo, how are you qualified to doubt me? Moreover, before requesting something of someone, shouldn¡¯t you prove it yourself?¡±

    Foledoughed into the sky, ¡°Ha! Who doesn¡¯t know me, Foledo in Anvilmar City, what do I need to prove?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, I don¡¯t know you. If you insist on me proving that I can pay two hundred and fifty thousand gold coins, then please make it fair and show proof that you can pay two hundred and ten thousand gold coins first.¡±

    ¡°How is a hick like you worthy of saying what is fair in front of me?¡± Foledo pointed at Xu Yi and angrily said, ¡°I¡¯ll tell you again, if you don¡¯t scram, don¡¯t me me for not showing courtesy!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This young master Foledo, can I take your unreasonable actions as you can¡¯t outbid me, so you want to drive me out with underhanded actions and win the ne at a low price?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Foledo was filled with rage, ¡°Why can¡¯t I outbid a hick like you? What bullshit!¡±

    Xu Yi made an inviting gesture, ¡°Then please bid. If you can¡¯t, can the auctioneer start counting?¡±

    Foledo red at Xu Yi before turning to roar at the auctioneer, ¡°Two hundred and eighty thousand gold coins!¡±

    He had actually increased Xu Yi¡¯s price by thirty thousand gold coins.

    Seeing the provoking look from Foledo, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and raised his sign.

    ¡°Three hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    The other people all looked at Xu Yi in disbelief. They really couldn¡¯t think it through, this person who hesitated at five thousand and seven hundred, why was he suddenly so bold?

    He even dared to shout a sky high price of three hundred thousand!

    It wasn¡¯t just Foledo, many other people doubted that Xu Yi had this ability to pay.

    This fellow from outside the city, did he really have this much money?

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s price, Foledo¡¯s face twitched a few times and he hesitated.

    It would be his grandmother¡¯s eightieth birthday in a few days. He wanted to buy this ne as a gift for his grandmother to warm her heart.

    Although his father was the family head, Foledo knew that his grandmother was the one who controlled the family.

    As long as he got close to his grandmother, it would help his father who was in the position of family head and it would be very helpful to him inheriting the family head position, so he was willing to pay.

    And he was certain that while his father normally didn¡¯t approve of his spending, he would support him this time, so he was willing to bid a sky high price of over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    It had to be known, although he was someone who was born into money, two hundred thousand wasn¡¯t a small amount for him.

    But the other side had actually raised it to three hundred thousand. Even if it was Foledo, he had to seriously consider it.

    But when he saw the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Foledo couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He wasn¡¯t willing to consider anymore as the blood rushed to his head and he turned to shout at the auctioneer, ¡°Three hundred and twenty thousand gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Three hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.¡±

    Without waiting for the auctioneer or the others to react, Xu Yi called out another bid.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes opened wide.

    Three hundred and fifty thousand gold coins? Wasn¡¯t this only just twenty thousand gold coins from the record?

    Everyone looked at Foledo with expectant gazes.

    As long as Foledo made another bit, it would very likely break the record!

    Foledo¡¯s cheeks bulged and after hesitating a bit, he deted and sat back down.

    ¡°Ai.¡±

    The auction hall was filled with disappointed sighs.

    Foledo acting like this clearly meant he was admitting defeat.

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help turning to look at Xu Yi.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s casual appearance, if Foledo didn¡¯t give up and continued bidding, this fellow would have definitely made another bid.

    But because Foledo gave up, they couldn¡¯t see the auction record being broken.

    When looking at Xu Yi, everyone¡¯s mind was filled with a strong curiosity.

    This person who didn¡¯t have any fame in Anvilmar City who was clearly from outside the city, why did he have so much money? Just who is this person?

 Volume 3 104 - One year deadline

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 104 One year deadline</h4>

    ¡°Five thousand and seven hundred and three hundred and fifty thousand, ze, ze......¡± Hannas looked at the two items in Xu Yi¡¯s hands and kept sighing, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, isn¡¯t this difference just too much? I would also be the same as Foledo and think that you were causing trouble.¡±

    ¡°I personally wanted this Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes, so it was good for the price to be as low as possible. If I didn¡¯t act poor, how could I have gotten it for five thousand and seven hundred? Based on my estimate, the lowest price for this should be at least a hundred thousand.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°At least a hundred thousand?¡± Hannas took the notes from Xu Yi and flipped through them in a confused manner. Seeing that they were the same as other magicians¡¯ notes, only recording a few details about magic research with nothing too strange, he couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°What is special about this thing? You¡¯re actually willing to spend that much?¡±

    ¡°If even you could see its specialty, how could I have gotten it so easily?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile. He took back the notebook and carefully put it away, ¡°I can only tell you that with the things inside, I can develop new things that can bring millions in profit for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Hey, aren¡¯t you boasting too much?¡± Hannas was a bit unconvinced, ¡°If you say that you can use this thing to earn several hundred thousand for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I would believe it with your ability. But as for millions? Are you kidding!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t believe.¡±

    Hannas gave a cold snort before pointing at the ne in a box in Xu Yi¡¯s other hand, ¡°Then what about the ne? Was it worth you spending three hundred and fifty thousand? You¡¯ve never been this luxurious before, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the box and said with a smile, ¡°There was no other choice, public rtions are things that you have to spend money on. In order to tter the Lifer Family, three hundred and fifty thousand isn¡¯t enough. I wanted it to be as high as possible, so I deliberately angered Foledo hoping that he would bid against me so I could raise the price. I never thought that such an arrogant fellow would only stop at a trivial three hundred and fifty thousand, I really was disappointed.¡±

    Hannas found this funny and angering as he stared at Xu Yi, ¡°You think that everyone can control as much money as you? This is because yourpany has good sales and high profits, so you can control arge amount like three hundred and fifty thousand at will. If it was the chairman of any otherpany, they wouldn¡¯t be as wasteful as you. As for Foledo......Although his family has money, he isn¡¯t the family head, so how could he be as domineering as you?¡±

    ¡°Since he didn¡¯t have the confidence, why did he act so arrogantly? I misjudged his strength and had great expectations in him.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a sigh.

    Hannas rolled his eyes, ¡°Enough you, if Foledo were to hear this, he would be angered to death.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about him. Did you take care of contacting the Lifer Family for me?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re not assured with me? It¡¯s fine, I already contacted a certain kid I know from their family, you¡¯ll be able to see him tomorrow evening.¡±

    ¡°A certain kid?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°My goal was to talk directly to the family head, is there any use in seeing this kid?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because this kid is the current family head¡¯s son and it¡¯s his only son.¡± Hannas exined, ¡°Let me tell you, although the Lifer Family has declined, they are still very proud. You want to see the family head, it¡¯s not enough based on your status. Even Great Magician Camiing out might not make them meet you. So you have to take it step by step.¡±

    ¡°Three hundred and fifty thousand isn¡¯t enough to open their gates? Isn¡¯t this threshold a bit too high?¡± Xu Yi looked at the box and couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    It was a good thing that this ne was finely made and it was beautiful with a mysterious appearance. Adding in the face that Great Magus Lifer personally made this, it would be a good present if he gave it to Still, but he was still losing out a bit on spending three hundred and fifty thousand on this.

    ¡°Nonsense, they are descendants of a Great Magus, of course the threshold is high.¡± Hannas looked at Xu Yi and warned him, ¡°I¡¯ve arranged it for tomorrow night, so remember to set time aside. Don¡¯t miss this meeting, otherwise you¡¯ll lose this chance.¡±

    ¡°Un......Tomorrow night.....There should be no problem, I¡¯ll arrange it.¡± Xu Yi nodded in agreement.

    Hannas nodded before continuing after some though, ¡°Alright, now that this has been settled, let¡¯s discuss the matter of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce advertising in the ?Anvilmar Times?.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t we reach an agreement before? What is there to discuss? Did something change?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Hannas had an awkward look on his face, ¡°There¡¯s no problem on my side, but you know that I¡¯m not the only one who makes decisions when ites to the ?Anvilmar Times?. I have reported the matter of yourpany wanting to advertise, but there were some people who didn¡¯t agree.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°What people? What did they object to?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not convenient for me to tell you who, but as for their objections......It¡¯s because they think that our ?Anvilmar Times? is the biggest newspaper in the Lampuri Kingdom, so it can¡¯t be justified that we¡¯re helping your Frestech Chamber of Commerce advertise.....¡±

    ¡°So? What do they need?¡± Xu Yi cut Hannas without any courtesy.

    Hannas¡¯ expression became more awkward, hesitating a bit before saying, ¡°The people above think that it¡¯s fine to do advertisements, it¡¯s normal for us as a newspaper. But our ?Anvilmar Times? is the biggest newspaper in the country, so if you want to advertise, you have to show enough sincerity.....¡±

    ¡°Alright, I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Is a hundred thousand gold coins enough?¡±

    Hannas was shocked, ¡°A hundred thousand? Xu Yi, are.....are you kidding?¡±

    ¡°What? You think it isn¡¯t enough?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t think it¡¯s enough. Oh, no, I definitely think it¡¯s enough. Those people that wanted me to discuss with you thought that ten thousand was enough, but you immediately took out a hundred thousand? I say, do you have too much money?¡± Hannas said in an anxious voice.

    ¡°Ten thousand?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The people of this world really didn¡¯t know the power of newspapers or their appetites wouldn¡¯t be this small.

    Hannas was right, because Hannas was the editor in chief and there were manyrge nobles, even the royal family behind the ?Anvilmar Times?, it was now the biggest newspaper in the Lampuri Kingdom. It was being released in every single city in the kingdom.

    For a newspaper with such influence and arge area, if one wanted to publish an advertisement on it, ten thousand gold coins really was too low.

    ¡°How about this, Hannas. We are old friends, so I don¡¯t need to beat around the bush with you. A hundred thousand gold coins, but my request is that the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? cannot publish any negative reports of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Also during this month, the ?Anvilmar Times? will publish advertising for ourpany, not epting advertisements from any otherpanies. Also, this advertising contract willst for one year and we¡¯ll adjust the contract in a year ording to the situation. What do you think?¡±

    Hannas was in thought for a while before looking hesitant, ¡°I¡¯m fine with the other conditions, but to have the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? not publish any negative reports pertaining to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is.....is......To be honest, it goes against my principles. Xu Yi, you should know that I am very passionate about this profession because it exposes facts that people wouldn¡¯t know, bringing evil to light. Although I don¡¯t think that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do those things, but if by some chance......¡±

    Xu Yi smiled. Hannas had been in the newspaper industry for close to three years, but he could still maintain this pure mentality and passion, it really was rare.

    ¡°Alright then, we¡¯ll limit it to a term of one year. During this year, whether it is the ?Anvilmar Times? or the ?Lampuri Weekly?, they aren¡¯t allowed to publish any negative reports on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for what to do after that year, it¡¯s your choice.¡±

    Hannas hesitated for a bit before asking with knit brows, ¡°Xu Yi, why do you insist on this request? Moreover, what do you mean by a term of one year?¡±

    ¡°To put it simply, it¡¯s because this year is the most important time for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I want it to be rxed during this year. For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or more urately the magic machine industry to develop in every corner of the Lampuri Kingdom, I don¡¯t want anything to happen.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°I think I understand. Yourpany has been investing in factories in other cities for this development n, right?¡±

    ¡°This is just the beginning.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°My goal is to have a factory rted to magic machines in every city, so every person in the kingdom can work at a job rted to these factories. In the future, I want every city to be as prosperous as Banta City.¡±

    Hannas took a deep look at Xu Yi before slowly nodding, ¡°I believe you can do this. Alright, for your goal, I will go against my principles this time and agree to your condition. But Xu Yi, remember, this is only for a single year. Moreover, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce does anything bad during this year, I will remember it and reveal it a yearter!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he spread his hands, ¡°As you wish.¡±

 Volume 3 105 - Iâ€™m not going back!

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 105 I¡¯m not going back!</h4>

    Connecting to the Lifer Family and getting advertisement in the ?Anvilmar Times?, these were just two important things out of all the countless things that Xu Yi had to do on his trip to Anvilmar City this time.

    After talking to Hannas, Xu Yi immediately went to three other ces. He met the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Colmar Rundst, Great Magician Eisenkel and president Eren who he already had meetings set up with.

    When he dragged his tired body back to Count Sean¡¯s residence, the sky was alreadypletely ck.

    Housekeeper Lahm who had been waiting for Xu Yi saw hime in and warmly went forward to wee him.

    Although Count Sean was no longer the Banta City City Lord, this residence was still retained by him and served as the temporary residence for Banta City¡¯s people on business in Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi lived here the past few times he was in Anvilmar City and this time wasn¡¯t an exception.

    Because of Count Sean¡¯s many urgings, Housekeeper Lahm had always been respectful when seeing Xu Yi, not daring to neglect him.

    Seeing Housekeeper Lahm having a servant prepare the bath water, Xu Yi had the idea of buying a house in Anvilmar City.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely open more businesses in Anvilmar City, he would being to Anvilmar City more and more. It wasn¡¯t convenient to keep living here, it was always better to own a ce of his own.

    Although it wasn¡¯t easy to buy a residence in Anvilmar City, with his connection to Hannas and the fact that he was willing to spend, it wouldn¡¯t be that difficult.

    But thinking about how he spent close to five hundred thousand in just a single day, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    In this expenditure, three hundred and fifty thousand had gone to the Lifer Family, a hundred thousand had been paid for advertisement, which were all investments that didn¡¯t bring benefits in the short term.

    Only the five thousand and seven hundred spent on Arch Magus Thorne¡¯s notes might be used very soon.

    Xu Yi looked over the notes and confirmed that the contents were the same as rumoured. It recorded some of Arch Magus Thorne¡¯ster work, which included his research into Magic Airships.

    This would be useful to Evita¡¯s research. If it wasn¡¯t for other magicians not paying attention to this, it was impossible for Xu Yi to buy this iparably precious book of notes for only five thousand and seven hundred.

    After organizing the content of the notes in his mind, Xu Yi closed the book. When he was nning to return to his bedroom, he suddenly noticed someone swaying as they walked up behind him.

    Xu Yi took a look and that this unsteady fellow was actually Alex.

    ¡°Alex, where did you go? Why are you getting back thiste?¡± Xu Yi looked at Alex who was clearly drunk and he could smell the scent of alcohol on him, so he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Alex looked up and saw Xu Yi, instantly being scared. His drunkenness mostly disappeared and he forced himself to stand straight, as he said with augh, ¡°This.....I went out.....to see a friend to discuss some things, that¡¯s why I¡¯m sote. Chairman, when did you get here?¡±

    ¡°Friend? Discuss some things?¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply to Alex¡¯s answer. He looked at the alcohol and smeared vomit on his boy, as well as the well made golden ne on his neck and amethyst bracelet at his wrist that were made of precious materials that were clearly not cheap. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a cold look.

    ¡°Un.....he.....he.....they wanted to buy some of ourpany¡¯s Magic Freezers, so we were discussing the price.¡± Alex wiped the sweat from his forehead as he replied.

    ¡°Oh? What was the final price?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Alex wiped his sweat away before hesitantly replying, ¡°It¡¯s.....it¡¯s alright. They agreed to a price of twenty eight gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Oh? This isn¡¯t bad.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Although it¡¯s a bit off of our standard pricing of thirty gold coins, if they buy enough, it can be epted.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, they bought many units, so I gave them a few benefits.¡± Alex kept nodding, ¡°Chairman, didn¡¯t you say that I.....could act ording to the situation.....and adjust the price?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I said that before. It¡¯s your right as the branch manager, so it¡¯s not a problem.¡± Xu Yi nodded. After pausing, he asked, ¡°But Alex, since I bumped into you, I want to ask you something.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Chairman, please ask.¡±

    ¡°Before I came to Anvilmar City, I talked to your uncle Heinz and discussed calling you back to Banta City......¡±

    ¡°Ah? How could that be! I don¡¯t want to go back!¡± Before Xu Yi finished, Alex quickly waved his hand and loudly said, ¡°I don¡¯t want to go back to a small ce like Banta City. I¡¯m living well in Anvilmar City, is there a need to call me back?¡±

    Xu Yi calmly watched the anxious Alex and after he stopped, he continued, ¡°I didn¡¯t finish yet. Although it was Heinz¡¯s suggestion, I didn¡¯t agree yet. I came here this time to ask your opinion since you are Heinz¡¯s nephew. If something happens to you, Heinz will care about you, so he hopes that you can make your decision.¡±

    ¡°In short, I don¡¯t want to return to Banta City. I¡¯ve already been in Anvilmar City for two years, I¡¯m used to living here. If you want me to return, I definitely won¡¯t be able to adapt!¡± Alex said in a loud voice.

    ¡°You¡¯re certain?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alex, you¡¯re used to working hard all day here? Or are you used to a life of debauchery here?¡±

    Alex was stunned. Seeing the fake smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, his body trembled as he lowered his head, avoiding Xu Yi¡¯s gaze.

    ¡°Chair.....sir chairman, I.....I don¡¯t know what you mean.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t? Forget it then.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as a look of regret shed in his eyes, ¡°In short, you have two days to think. Before I leave Anvilmar City, I hope that you can make a decision.¡±

    Xu Yi paused before giving a sigh and saying in a sincere voice, ¡°Alex, I¡¯ll say it again, Heinz is an old partner who created thispany with me. You are his dearest nephew, although I¡¯m not much older than you, I have treated you as a junior. So I don¡¯t care what you¡¯ve done wrong, Heinz and I will give you a chance to make up for it.¡±

    Alex was silent for a bit before looking up at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, I don¡¯t understand what you mean? What have I done wrong? Please tell me directly, I can change.¡±

    ¡°Change?¡± Seeing the expression on Alex¡¯s face, Xu Yi smiled and waved his hand, ¡°Alright, treat it like I said nothing. It¡¯ste, go get some sleep.¡±

    Alex gave Xu Yi a bow before turning to leave.

    Watching him disappear into the night, Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Heinz, I hope that you won¡¯t me me for not taking care of an old partner.¡±

    ###

    It was different from two years ago, this year¡¯s Magicians Guild certification exam finally went as scheduled.

    When the time came, Anvilmar City was like before, being filled with magicians from all over.

    Compared to past years, there were more magicians that came to participate. Anvilmar City waspletely filled with people wearing magician robes, as if turning Anvilmar City into a city of magicians.

    If one paid attention, one would find that there were more high grade magicians that came to the exam this year.

    Because it was hard to rank up as high grade magicians before, magicians that didn¡¯t have assurance in passing the exam wouldn¡¯te to take it.

    But there were many high grade magicians that camest year also came this year.

    This was a very strange phenomenon because in just a single year, most magicians over Grade Five wouldn¡¯t be able to increase their magic level in this short period of time.

    What did theye to the exam for?

    ¡°You don¡¯t know this? Didn¡¯t you read the ?Anvilmar Times?? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Banta City made a new rule, the magicians that want to work for them must have a certification from the Magicians Guild that was issued in the past two years. This proves that they have the corresponding level of magic power.¡±

    In a small tavern across the Sheldon Inn, a group of people were talking. The one who said this was a middle aged fat man of this group.

    ¡°Impossible. This Frestech Chamber of Commerce is this arrogant?¡± Hearing what the fat man said, the surrounding people revealed looks of disbelief, ¡°Magicians are noble people, being willing to work at apany is already thinking highly of them, but now they want these noble magicians to use certifications to prove their strength? Could it be that the magician masters don¡¯t think this is shameful?¡±

    ¡°Che.¡± The fat manughed, ¡°In front of wages of several dozen gold coins to a hundred gold coins, what is nobility? What is dignity? What are they? Can you eat them?¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    ¡°Wages of several dozen gold coins to a hundred gold coins? That much?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has too much money? They give any magician a wage of up to a hundred gold coins? If they hire several hundred magicians, wouldn¡¯t that be several tens of thousands of gold coins a month?¡±

    ¡°Tens of thousands?¡± The fat man raised his head, looking as proud as if he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman himself, ¡°You¡¯re looking down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Let me tell you, I have a friend who works at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who told me that the wages they pay to their employees is already over a hundred thousand gold coins a month!¡±

    Everyone broke out in an uproar.

    For these normal people, a hundred thousand gold coins was a sky high number.

    And now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was paying over a hundred thousand to their employees each month, this really was hard to imagine.

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t believe it?¡± The fat man pointed at the Sheldon Inn in front of the tavern, ¡°Let me tell you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magicians that came for the exam, do you know where they are living?¡±

    Everyone looked at the splendid building in front of them. Although they could look at it, they normally didn¡¯t get to visit the Sheldon Inn.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, they¡¯re living at the Sheldon Inn?¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, you guessed it. My friend said......¡±

    The fat man was about to talk about his ¡°friend¡± when he found that there was a noise from the corner. After a while, over ten iron box like monsters slowly drove around the corner and stopped in front of the Sheldon Inn.

 Volume 3 106 - Want to sell?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 106 Want to sell?</h4>

    Akali jumped out of the Magic Car in front and when she touched the ground, she stretched herself out.

    ¡°Great! We¡¯re finally here! Really, sitting in here for such a long time really is tiring.¡±

    ire followed behind Akali and rolled her eyes at her, ¡°Really you, we were in there for less than eight hours, alright? What is there to be tired about? Don¡¯t forget, when we were riding horse carriagesst year, we spent over two days to get here.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, with the Magic Cars, it¡¯s much easier toe here.¡± Be who came from behind her also looked down on Akali, ¡°I think that you¡¯re a fellow who just enjoys things and forgets about all the suffering from before.¡±

    Akali curled her lips in an unwilling to give up manner, ¡°Who says? I haven¡¯t even rode in the Magic Car many times, alright? Then again, no matter what, it really is hard to sit in it for over eight hours. When can it be like sir chairman said, using only two or three hours to get here? Then I won¡¯t have anything toin about.¡±

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman also said that it¡¯s fine if you want it to be two or three hours, but you just need to invent the new Magic Engine.¡± ire added.

    ¡°You say it like it isn¡¯t rted to you!¡± Akali immediately refuted, ¡°ire, don¡¯t forget, the internal magic recycling system that your team is in charge of is also very important, alright?¡±

    ireughed, ¡°Our team is about to develop this soon, but what about the central control system that your team is responsible for? Have you even finished half of it yet?¡±

    ¡°Of course! We¡¯ve already standardized the magic frequencies, now we just need to.....¡±

    Before Akali could finish, Evita who had just gotten out red at her and she quickly shut her mouth.

    Seeing Evita look over, ire and Be stuck out their tongues, lowering their head in embarrassment.

    ¡°Don¡¯t discuss our technology outside, how many times do you need me to remind you of this?¡±

    Evita reprimanded the three of them before waving behind her, calling three researchers toe over.

    ¡°Watch over the people of your team, don¡¯t get lost. During the days we¡¯ll be in Anvilmar City, if anything happens with your teams, you all will be ones held responsible, understood?¡±

    The three researchers nodded with serious expressions.

    ¡°Goood, let¡¯s go in now. Everyone¡¯s been sitting for a long time, so you must all be tired. Let¡¯s rest early today, so we don¡¯t have to run around.¡±

    Seeing Evita walking towards the front door of the Sheldon inn, Akali came to ire and Be¡¯s side, as she said in a small voice, ¡°Hey, don¡¯t you guys think that Evita is bing more and more serious? There are times when I don¡¯t dare talk back to her.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, so it wasn¡¯t just me thinking too much.¡± Be nodded.

    ¡°I also wanted to say this.¡± ire said, ¡°Evita really seems to have the aura of leadership. I think that after being the chief for some time, she naturally became like this?¡±

    Akali tapped her chin, ¡°If I knew this earlier, I would have asked sir chairman for the position of chief. Having the same aura as Evita, it really would be good.¡±

    ire and Be rolled their eyes together, ¡°You as the chief? Forget it, you aren¡¯t suited at all.¡±

    Akali red at them, ¡°It seems like you¡¯re saying you¡¯re suited.¡±

    ¡°We never said that.¡± Be quickly denied it, ¡°If it was me and I really had to choose, Evita really is the person most suitable. It has to be said, sir chairman¡¯s eyes really are good, he has a good judge of character.¡±

    ire gave a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity, why is sir chairman so slow when ites to emotions? He caused our magic research facility to have so many unwanted girls......¡±

    Seeing ire look over, Akali became angry with shame and reached out to twist ire¡¯s waist.

    ire dodged with a chuckle and ran off towards the Sheldon Inn.

    Akali and Be called out as they chased her. Soon, the Sheldon Inn¡¯s lobby was filled with these Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers that came from afar, bing very lively.

    While Akali chased ire into the lobby, Evita was talking to a young man who was properly dressed and looked a bit handsome.

    After seeing this person, Akali forgot about chasing ire and after thinking for a bit, she came over.

    ¡°Chief Evita, the arrangements over the next few days are like this. If you or the other researchers are dissatisfied with anything, you can call me at any time and I¡¯ll change it for you.¡± Alex said to Evita with a bright smile, ¡°Sir chairman told me that receive you all well and n everything for you in Anvilmar City over the next few days, so you don¡¯t need to be courteous with me.¡±

    Evita gave a slight nod, ¡°Then I¡¯ll trouble you, manager Alex.¡±

    ¡°What does this count for, it¡¯s an honour for me.¡± Alex looked at Akali who came over and nodded to her before looking at the other researchers in the lobby to say, ¡°Today is your first day here and there are still two days before the certification exam. How about I bring you all to a wee banquet and entertain you all?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for this trouble, we¡¯re already very......¡±

    Akali had just spoken when Evita cut her off, ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll have to trouble manager Alex. But there¡¯s no need for tonight¡¯s banquet to be luxurious, just sincerity is enough.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then it¡¯s settled.¡± Seeing Evita agree, Alex immediately gave a nod, ¡°If there¡¯s nothing else you need, I¡¯ll be leaving first. I¡¯ll see you tonight.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Watching Alex walk out the front door, Akali looked at Evita in surprise as she asked, ¡°Could it be that it¡¯s about to begin?¡±

    Evita looked at Akali and said with a chuckle, ¡°If we don¡¯t solve this soon, could it be we should only do something when we sufferrge losses? This is the chairman¡¯s idea, which is also consideration for vice chairman Heinz.¡±

    ¡°Vice chairman Heinz......¡± Akali looked at the door and slowly shook her head as she said with a sigh, ¡°Why don¡¯t I have such a good uncle?¡±

    ###

    When Alex came out of the Sheldon Inn, Xu Yi had just entered a restaurant called the Forest Shade Hut.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, over here.¡±

    At a corner of the restaurant, Hannas¡¯ voice sounded out.

    Xu Yi followed the sound and saw that in the corner opposite the entrance, Hannas was sitting there with someone else.

    ¡°First get me a cup of lemon vani juice, thank you.¡± After talking to the waiter, Xu Yi turned to look at the young man sitting opposite Hannas, as he stretched his hand out, ¡°Hello, I am Xu Yi.¡±

    This man seemed younger than Hannas, looking to be in his early twenties, but whether it was his clothes or his expression, they were all very mature. It gave people a feeling that he was more mature than Xu Yi who was already thirty.

    He looked over Xu Yi before slowly standing up, stretching out a hand to give Xu Yi a quick shake before taking it back.

    ¡°Hello, chairman Xu, I am Murna Lifer.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile before indicating for both of them to sit down.

    ¡°Mister Lifer, since you called me chairman Xu, I think that Hannas must have introduced me to you, even.....telling you my reason foring?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Murna Lifer nodded, ¡°Yes, Hannas didn¡¯t hide anything about you or your goals.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas who just gave a shrug, spreading his hands.

    Xu Yi turned back to Murna Lifer and said, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then it¡¯s very simple. I think that I can directly propose my ideas to you. Mister Lifer, may I ask......is your noble family willing to sell Great Magus Lifer¡¯s research notes or research from before he passed?¡±

    Murna Lifer seemed surprised that Xu Yi was this forward. After looking at Xu Yi in surprise, he shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Even the ne that grandmother holds the dearest was sold, do you think that there¡¯s anything we won¡¯t sell?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a ghost of a smile.

    It was easy if they were willing to sell, he was just afraid they weren¡¯t.

    ¡°Then may I ask mister Life, can you represent your noble family this time? I am saying......can I discuss the price for buying these research notes?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°You can discuss it, but I can¡¯t make the final decision.¡± Murna Lifer replied.

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I understand. That¡¯s good, mister Lifer, I know that in Great Magus Lifer¡¯ster years, he had done some research on magic machines and had left behind some research data. I¡¯m currently interested in the data that he left behind. May I ask if your noble family has kept that data and if you¡¯re willing to sell it?¡±

    ¡°Naturally we retained this important data, but chairman Xu, I¡¯m very curious, doesn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have good results with magic machine research? Why do you want to obtain great grandfather¡¯s research data?¡± Murna Lifer asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s a saying in my hometown. If three people walk together, one of them will be my teacher. The meaning is that no matter what, you can learn things from other people. Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has sess in developing magic machines, Great Magus Lifer is a legendary magician at the Great Magus level, so I think that if he performed some research on magic machines, he must have some unique views that we can study.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°I agree with this very much.¡± Murna Lifer said with a nod, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a chairman like you, no wonder it could develop this quickly. Alright, I represent my father in agreeing to sell the data to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce temporarily.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Then I ask mister Lifer to give a price, how much gold coins? I think that as long as it¡¯s not too excessive, I can ept right away.¡±

    Murna Lifer revealed his first smile which had a trace of cunning to it.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I never said that the research data would be sold for gold coins, right?¡±

 Volume 3 107 - Night deal

    <h4>Chapter 107 Night deal</h4>

    ¡°He is an intelligent person.¡± Xu Yi watched Murna Lifer walking out as he gave a sigh.

    Hannas on the side rolled his eyes, ¡°Nonsense, Murna is the most talented person in the Lifer Family following Great Magus Lifer. He is the most likely person to be a Great Magus, how could he not be smart.¡±

    ¡°You know that I don¡¯t mean that.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°He didn¡¯t trade for gold coins, rather he used the research data to carry out long term cooperation with ourpany. I have to say that he made a very wise choice. Like this, he would be able to receive a steady ie. The final amount would be more than just receiving a single amount.¡±

    Hannas rolled his eyes again, ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you boasting too much? You¡¯re that certain that they can make more by cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Hannas was stunned, not being able to say a word.

    Even if Hannas didn¡¯t want to praise Xu Yi, he had to admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prospects were broad. The choice of a long term cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would grant more rewards. Hannas still red at Xu Yi, ¡°Aren¡¯t you also a magician? Can¡¯t you see that his magic power is very strong? You have to know, he¡¯s two years younger than me and already a Sixth Grade Magician.¡±

    ¡°Un, being a Sixth Grade Magician at such an age means that he has talent.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°No wonder the Lifer Family needs money. After all, to increase his magic, he definitely needs arge amount of magic materials to research magic.¡±

    Hannas gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s gold coins behind any powerful magician, even the poorest Great Magician Cami isn¡¯t an exception. Look, since he started having you as his back and didn¡¯t have to worry about magic, Great Magician Cami went up a level in just three years. He is a Great Magician!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°If Great Magician Cami were to hear this, do you believe he would kick you? Money is important, but the talent of a magician is more important. Are you denying his talent with magic?¡±

    ¡°This.....I really wouldn¡¯t dare.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Didn¡¯t you hear what I said, the Lifer Family needs money to raise the magic power of Murna Lifer.¡±

    ¡°Un, for this, they are even willing to sell the previous relics of Great Magus Lifer.¡± Hannas said in an emotional voice, ¡°When Great Magus Lifer was still alive, the Lifer family was very famous on the continent, how could theyck money?¡±

    ¡°They won¡¯tck money from now on.¡± Xu Yi had a confident smile, ¡°With the valuable research from Great Magus Lifer, their family will definitely receive enough benefits from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So Murna Lifer definitely won¡¯tck money for magic research.¡±

    ¡°Why do you like showing off so much today......¡± Hannas rolled his eyes before suddenly having a thought. He turned to Xu Yi to ask, ¡°Right, Xu Yi, speaking of this.....Youing to Anvilmar City this time, there¡¯s the important matter of attending the certification exam, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, what about it?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just a bit curious. Whenever I see Great Magician Cami, he says that you¡¯re very talented in magic. If you focused on studying magic, you wouldn¡¯t have a problem bing a Great Magician. Then I want to ask, you must be certain about raising your rank since you decided to participate this year, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Let me think......You passed the Seventh Grade Magician exam the year beforest, right? Based on your appearance, you should be able to pass the Eighth Grade Magician exam at least. I¡¯m curious, is there a possibility of you passing the Ninth Grade Magician exam?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°When I participate in the exam in two days, you¡¯ll know.¡±

    ###

    After twelve and entering early morning, even for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯srgest city, Anvilmar City had entered silence and darkness.

    Alex quickly moved through the shadows to the city¡¯s southte at night. After passing two rods, he suddenly went into a small alley to his left.

    After moving forward around two hundred meters in this small, dark alley, he reached out to knock on a worn out wooden door on the side of the alley.

    After two short and one long knocks, the wooden door squeaked open and revealed an average looking middle aged man.

    Alex looked at him and slightly knit his brows before entering.

    The wooden door closed and there was a small building that could be seen all over the south of the city.

    The two entered a small room and the middle aged man tightly closed the door and windows before stretching a hand out towards Alex.

    Alex looked at the hand stretched out, but he didn¡¯t take out the thing hidden in his chest like usual. After hesitating a bit, he said, ¡°The thing for this time, I hope you can raise the price.¡±

    The middle aged man seemed surprised before saying with a smile, ¡°What? Alex, did something happen that gave you the guts to give me this condition?¡±

    Alex gave a cold snort, ¡°I saw sir chairman today.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi? So what?¡±

    ¡°So what?¡± Alex suddenly became angry as he stretched out a finger to poke the middle aged man¡¯s chest, shouting in a low voice, ¡°Do you know that sir chairman gave me a warning?¡±

    ¡°A warning?¡± Hearing this, the middle aged man had no time to care about Alex¡¯s rude behaviour. He knit his brows and asked back, ¡°What did he say? Could it be that he knows?¡±

    Alex was stunned, but after a while, he shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know, sir chairman didn¡¯t state it clearly, but I could see that he definitely knew something, so he gave me a warning. In short, this is ourst deal. After you give me the money, there won¡¯t be any rtions between us. I never seen you before and you¡¯ve never seen me, understood?¡±

    The middle aged man silently looked at Alex for a while before giving a coldugh, ¡°Alex, it seems like you don¡¯t know your position?¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Alex said in a deep voice.

    ¡°You think.....that this matter is something you can do because you want to? You think......that if I said everything you did and your sir chairman knew that you sold all those secrets of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how will he take care of you?¡±

    Alex¡¯s face became ugly and after being silent for a while, he forced out a smile as he shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman wouldn¡¯t do that to me. His warning yesterday was because of my uncle. No matter what mistakes I made, he would give me a chance, so this threat has no meaning at all.¡±

    The middle aged manughed, ¡°You really are naive. Alex, do you understand what kind of things you¡¯ve done?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just selling you the things I heard from the researchers, what is important about that? I don¡¯t believe that sir chairman would do anything to me because of this. Then again, my uncle is his earliest partner, so he would definitely hesitate.¡± Alex said with a forced smile.

    The middle aged man looked over Alex for a while before stretching his hand out with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, let me see the thing you brought first. If it¡¯s good, I can raise the price. I guarantee you¡¯ll be satisfied.¡±

    Alex hesitated a bit before nodding, taking out the notebook from his chest.

    The middle aged man looked through the book and shook his head, ¡°Alex, your writing is so ugly.¡±

    Alex angrily said, ¡°What does that matter? Then again, I was afraid that I would forget, so I quickly wrote it all down. It would be strange if it looked good.¡±

    ¡°Alright, as long as the content is right.¡±

    The middle aged man continued looking over the notebook with a smile. After reading it twice, he revealed a surprised look.

    ¡°Alex, the goods this time are quite good.¡±

    Alex revealed a proud look, ¡°Of course, this time I weed chief Evita and the team leaders. They are the core researchers of the research facility, naturally they know more. How about it? Since you think the things are good this time, as for the price.....¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem with the price.¡± The middle aged man looked over the book again and after thinking about it, he took out a banknote for Alex.

    Alex took it and was surprised.

    ¡°Three thousand? It¡¯s actually this much?¡±

    ¡°You can give it back if you think it¡¯s too much.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile.

    Alex quickly put the gold note away before waving his hand at the middle aged man, ¡°Goodbye.¡±

    Seeing that Alex was about to leave, the middle aged man suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°If I was you, I wouldn¡¯t choose to leave now.¡±

    Alex suddenly stopped as he asked with knit brows, ¡°What do you mean? Are you threatening me?¡±

    ¡°No, I just feel pity for you.¡± The middle aged man said.

    ¡°Pity me?¡±

    ¡°I received a new order just now which is for some research from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The other side gave a pretty high price, just themission I¡¯m making is already very good, not to mention what you are receiving. But now you said that you don¡¯t want to do this anymore, it really is a pity......¡±

    Alex had a look of struggle on his face and after a while, he asked in a soft voice while gritting his teeth, ¡°What price did the other side give?¡±

    The middle aged man stretched out a finger and the smile on his face looked very strange with the lighting of the room.

    ¡°Ten thousand.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand?¡±

    Alex¡¯s breath instantly became very quick.

 Volume 3 108 - Magic patent protection fee

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 108 Magic patent protection fee</h4>

    This year¡¯s Lampuri Kingdom Magicians Guild certification exam was very likely thergest one yet.

    ording to the stats of the Magicians Guild, the number of magicians that came surpassed over eight thousand!

    It had to be known, there were just over a total of ten thousand magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In other words, the amount of magicians that came this time was actually 80% of the magicians in the entire Lampuri Kingdom!

    Even if the number of magicians that camest year surpassed five thousand and suggested this trend, there were actually over eight thousand magicians that came to the certification exam this year. Itpletely swamped the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild.

    If it wasn¡¯t for president Eren nning ahead of time, the Magicians Guild would be filled with chaos this time.

    But even if he had made preparations, because the amount of people participating had greatly increased, the original schedule that put the exam in a period of a week was forced to be half a month.

    Even if the time was doubled, the exams each day were still very rushed. It made the Magicians Guild staff work all day without any time to rest at all.

    But no oneined because it was different from before. During this year¡¯s certification exam, president Eren announced that during this exam period, due to the fact that the workload had increased, it meant that each person would receive a specialpensation which was set for two gold coins a day per person.

    Two gold coins a day meant that in half a month, they would be receiving an extra thirty gold coins.

    For the staff of the Magicians Guild, this wasn¡¯t a small amount, so naturally it made their passion for work increase. Even if they were incredibly busy during this time, no oneined and focused entirely on their work. It made the certification exam proceed smoothly with barely any problems.

    ¡°I say, president Eren, these normal workers are receiving specialpensation, shouldn¡¯t we Great Magicians also receive a specialpensation?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel teased president Eren sitting in the main seat.

    President Erenughed, ¡°Eisenkel, don¡¯t joke. With your wealth, do you still need to ask for apensation of several dozen gold coins from me? Then again, it was hard enough for our Magicians Guild to create a surplus to reward our staff, would you as a Great Magician fight them for this?

    The other three Great Magicians including Great Magician Cami sitting on the side revealed smiles.

    This was a meeting the five Great Magicians held for this year¡¯s certification exam, mainly discussing the contents of the higher grade magicians test at the end.

    Great Magician Eisenkel heard president Eren exin how to solve the burden on the workers and he couldn¡¯t help cracking a joke.

    ¡°Speaking of this, why does our Magicians Guild have a surplus this year? Couldn¡¯t we only barely hold onst year from the allotment from the main guild?¡± Great Magician Teli asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°To be honest, it was mainly because of Xu Yi¡¯s merit.¡± President Erne looked at Great Magician Cami who was silent like usual and said with a smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for his magic patent idea, how could our guild have excess funds?¡±

    ¡°Oh? This means that there are many magicians applying for patents?¡± Great Magician Torres also asked with a curious look.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± President Eren nodded, ¡°ording tost month¡¯s statistics, right now there are a total of over thirteen thousand patents registered at the guild and the patent protection fees has already surpassed two hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Great Magician Teli and Great Magician Torres both revealed surprised looks.

    Great Magician Eisenkel knit his brows, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too little? Thirteen thousand patents and only over two hundred thousand coins. On average, that is less than two gold coins per patent, right?¡±

    [TL Note: I know the math is wrong, but just ept it.]

    President Eren said with augh, ¡°Because there are some magicians who are paying low fees for their patents, which doesn¡¯t even cost a single gold coin to use.¡±

    ¡°Then what did they apply for a patent for?¡± Great Magician Teli said in a surprised voice, ¡°With such a low price, it can¡¯t protect it at all.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand.¡± Great Magician Torres gave augh, ¡°Teli, getting a patent for your studies is a very popr thing right now, even I have more than ten of them. Of course, I didn¡¯t pay much when it came to protection fees, it¡¯s a total of less than a hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Great Magician Teli was a bit confused, ¡°There¡¯s no need, so why apply for a patent?¡±

    ¡°To be honest, it¡¯s to give yourself face.¡± Great Magician Torres said, ¡°Think about it, for two magicians, one has over ten special patents and one doesn¡¯t have a single one. Wouldn¡¯t you think that the level of magic for the magician without any patents would be low?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Great Magician Teli considered this a bit before giving a nod, ¡°It does seem like this.¡±

    ¡°So that means that many magicians are creating patents for themselves as a sort of important symbol. Teli, I suggest that you apply for some patents. Otherwise when we have several dozen patents and you don¡¯t even have a single one, it would make you feel that something is off, right?¡±

    Great Magician Teli gave a bitterugh, ¡°That¡¯s right, it seems like I have to consider this.¡± After saying this, he turned to Great Magician Eisenkel and Great Magician Cami, ¡°What about you guys? Even Torres has over ten magic patents, you two should have more, right?¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel revealed a faint smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have much, I only applied for thirty two patents. But I¡¯ve paid more than three thousand gold coins to protect those thirty two patents, it¡¯s just a bit more than Torres.¡±

    ¡°How could I be as rich as you?¡± Torres rolled his eyes.

    Great Magician Eisenkelughed before pointing at Great Magician Cami, ¡°If you want to talk about having money, I can¡¯tpare to Cami. I¡¯m certain that Cami has the most patents out of all of us and he¡¯s spent the most in protection fees.¡±

    Including president Eren, the four Great Magicians all looked at Great Magician Cami.

    Great Magician Cami slowly shook his head, ¡°My identity is the top grade researcher for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. Even if it¡¯s patents, it¡¯s patents under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name and not my name. The fees for the patents are all paid for by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s not rted to me.¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is so rich, so they must be paying quite a lot in protection fees, right?¡± Torres kept asking.

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear on this because Xu Yi always had people take care of it, I never care about that.¡± Great Magician Cami replied.

    Everyone looked at president Eren.

    President Eren gave a cough before looking at Great Magician Cami. He said with a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, all the magic patents of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians were all under the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I don¡¯t know what patents Cami has developed. But I know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a total of five hundred and sixty three magic patents. The one worth the most is an entire ten thousand gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand gold coins?¡± Even Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s eyes popped out as he had a look of disbelief, ¡°Just for a single patent?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± President Eren nodded.

    Great Magician Eisenkel had an idea before asking, ¡°Then.....President, what is the patent?¡±

    President Eren shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t disclose the details, but I can tell you that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to transfer this information, I would definitely be willing to spend ten thousand or several tens of thousands to buy it.¡±

    Great Magician Torres and Great Magician Teli exchanged shocked looks. Great Magician Teli¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help being moved as he asked president Eren, ¡°President Eren, I heard that the magic machine factory you made is profiting quite well, right?¡±

    President Eren¡¯s expression changed slightly before he waved his hand, ¡°It was opened by that kid Anke, it¡¯s not rted to me, but the profits.....are indeed quite good.¡±

    Seeing the slightly proud look in president Eren¡¯s smile, Great Magician Teli hesitated a bit before turning to ask Great Magician Cami, ¡°That.....Cami, do you think.....I......can also open a magic machine factory?¡±

    Hearing Great Magician Teli¡¯s question, the other four were surprised.

    If one had to mention conservative, Great Magician Cami was far from being able topare to Great Magician Teli.

    When they were talking about the patents, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and the new magic machines, Great Magician Teli was always against it.

    Now he was actually asking if he could open a magic machine factory? This really was unthinkable to the other four Great Magicians.

    Didn¡¯t this world change too quickly? It even changed the most conservative Teli!

    After Great Magician Cami was surprised, he asked back in a confused voice, ¡°Teli, why did you suddenly ask this? Why do you want to set up a magic machine factory? Didn¡¯t you deny these things the most before?¡±

    Great Magician Teli gave a deep sigh, ¡°To make it short, I really need money right now. So can I do it or not?¡±

    ¡°This.....I¡¯m not certain.¡± Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°Opening a magic machine factory isn¡¯t an easy thing. I feel that.....with your personality, you might not be able to do it.¡±

 Volume 3 109 - Give me a few years

    <strong> Volume 3 Chapter 109 Give me a few years</strong>

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Great Magician Teli¡¯s eyes dimmed.

    Seeing Great Magician Teli¡¯s appearance, the other four Great Magicians looked at each other and could see the doubt in each other¡¯s eyes.

    With Great Magician Teli¡¯s status, he actually talked about his problems in public like this?

    Great Magician Cami slightly knit his brows, ¡°Teli, if you really urgently need money, I think I can help you. Actually if you can¡¯t hold on, I can talk to Xu Yi and there¡¯s no problem in him lending you some money.¡±

    ¡°No, that would only solve it for some time, but it wouldn¡¯t solve the problem. Then again, it would be hard for me to return this amount.¡± Great Magician Teli shook his head as he said with a bitterugh, ¡°I¡¯m not as flexible as you all, I don¡¯t excel when ites to making money. Perhaps you are right, even if I open a magic machine factory, it might be likely that it would close.¡±

    Great Magician Torres, Great Magician Eisenkel, and president Eren looked at each other before remaining silent.

    Although there were only five Great Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, that didn¡¯t not mean that there was a good rtionship between them.

    It was just the opposite. Other than Great Magician Cami who was rather low key and had normal rtionships with the other four, the other Great Magicians didn¡¯t really have good rtions.

    Although Great Magician Teli had encountered arge problem, they weren¡¯t willing to rashly stick out their hand to help.

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows in thought for a bit before saying to Great Magician Teli, ¡°If you need a stable long term ie, I have a good proposal. Teli, do you want to hear it?¡±

    ¡°What? What proposal?¡± Great Magician Teli asked after regaining his spirits.

    Great Magician Cami pointed at himself, ¡°Do you know what my wage at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently is?¡±

    Great Magician Teli was surprised, ¡°You want me to work at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? How could that be possible, Xu Yi is not my grandson inw.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t toote to let me finish before you make your decision.¡± Great Magician Cami raised a finger, ¡°Let me tell you, I¡¯m currently earning ten thousand gold coins a year at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand?¡± It wasn¡¯t just Great Magician Teli, even the richest Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s eyes popped out in surprise, ¡°That much?¡±

    Great Magician Cami smiled, ¡°What do you think now?¡±

    Great Magician Teli was silent for a bit before it seemed like he had made a decision as he gave a nod, ¡°Cami, can you arrange a meeting between me and Xu Yi?¡±

    ###

    It was a rare sunny winter day, Lampuri Thirteenth came to the back royal garden when the sun was in the sky out of habit. He sat down in hisfortable seat and wrapped a wool nket over his legs. He enjoyed bathing in the sun while looking over the official documents in his hand.

    Most times, Lampuri Thirteenth had a calm look on his face.

    As someone who took the throne during chaos and the one praised as the wise king by most people in the Lampuri Kingdom, Lampuri Thirteenth had been through countless storms in the years he had taken the throne. Normal matters naturally couldn¡¯t cause any emotional fluctuations from him.

    But when he saw the official document from Lorren City, he slightly knit his brows and gave a sigh.

    ¡°Your majesty, do you feel any difort?¡± His personal bodyguard on the side quickly asked out of concern.

    Lampuri Thirteenth turned to look at his personal bodyguard that had grown up with him who had served him for forty years. He shook his head and after being silent for a bit, he asked, ¡°Dema, what do you think about that kid Eric?¡±

    Dema was a bit surprised before lowering his head, ¡°I don¡¯t dare randomlyment on this.¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, I¡¯m just chatting with an old friend today, there¡¯s no need to be this constrained. I just want to hear the views of an old friend who grew up with me.¡±

    Dema raised his head and saw Lampuri Thirteenth serious expression. He thought about it before saying in a thoughtful voice, ¡°I feel......that Eric is very ambitious......¡±

    ¡°Ambitious?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth gave a cold snort, ¡°Although being ambitious is good, if you don¡¯t have any brains, you might as well not have any ambition! His so-called ambition might destroy the good situation of our kingdom!¡±

    Dema was surprised, ¡°It isn¡¯t that serious, right?¡±

    ¡°How could it not be this serious?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly became angry. His hand trembled as it held the document and he said in a deep voice, ¡°Did you see what that fellow did? He¡¯s actually reorganizing the northern army and wants to attack the Sack Kingdom! Does he want to give away the entire northern army?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that bad......¡± Dema was confused, ¡°Didn¡¯t the northern army fight a great fight in the beginning of the year? They even took back the Muerto Mountains. There shouldn¡¯t be a problem in attacking the Sack Kingdom, right?¡±

    ¡°How could there be no problems? Do you know how much the kingdom spent on the northern army in the beginning of the year? An entire five hundred thousand gold coins! It was close to a third ofst year¡¯s kingdom revenue! Now that we¡¯ve finally captured the Muerto Mountains and can stabilize the situation, letting the kingdom have a period of peaceful development, this fellow actually wants to start a war! Does he know that the kingdom finances can¡¯t support a war! If we really fight the Sack Kingdom, it mightpletely destroy our current situation! This......¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly stopped.

    Dema who had his head down while Lampuri Thirteenth vented looked up in surprise and was shocked to find that Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s face waspletely red, even turning purple. He had a pained look on his face and seemed like he couldn¡¯t speak.

    Dema was shocked, ¡°Your majesty, what is wrong?¡±

    When he wanted to move forward, Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s lips quivered and a sliver of blood came out.

    Seeing the red blood with a trace of dark reding out of the corners of Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s mouth, Dema was stunned.

    After a while, his body trembled before he turned to run off.

    At this time, he should bring the royal doctor back as soon as possible.

    But before he even took two steps, Lampuri Thirteenth called out to stop him.

    ¡°Dema, sweep it clean, don¡¯t let anyone know.¡± Lampuri Thirteenthmanded in a deep voice.

    ¡°But your majesty, you should let a doctor take a look at your body......¡± Dema immediately refuted.

    ¡°This is an order, don¡¯t ask that much.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth said with a serious look.

    ¡°This.....Alright.¡± Dema reluctantlyplied. He looked around and because the back royal gardens was his majesty¡¯s favourite ce to rest, so there was no one that came around here normally, he calmed down. He turned back to the nearby lounge and prepared to grab something to clean up.

    Seeing Dema leave, Lampuri Thirteenth used his hand to wipe the blood from his mouth. After looking at his hand for a while, his lips curled into a bitter smile.

    ¡°Why can¡¯t you give me a few more years?¡±

    ###

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, I passed the Fifth Grade Magician exam. Aren¡¯t I powerful?¡± Akali said with a proud smile, raising her little hand at Xu Yi in the distance.

    The other magicians participating in the exam all looked at her. Some gave a snort showing they weren¡¯t convinced and some looked low spirited as they lowered their heads to walk away.

    Only Evita beside Akali tapped her raised arm and snappily said, ¡°Alright, put your arm down. You¡¯re this loud, you¡¯re not afraid of others hearing you?¡±

    Akali raised her head high, ¡°Humph, I want other people to know. I am now a Fifth Grade Magician, can¡¯t I be proud of myself?¡±

    Evita shook her head, pointing at the smiling Xu Yi, ¡°The chairman is participating in the Ninth Grade Magician exam, what is there to be proud of in front of him?¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi immediately waved his hand, ¡°That is not certain, I have to pass the Eighth Grade Magician exam first.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, sir chairman is several years older than me, the eighth grade isn¡¯t that far from the fifth grade.¡± Akali immediately said.

    ¡°Forget about you, the eighth grade and fifth grade aren¡¯t far away? Do you believe that you can be an Eighth Grade Magician at the chairman¡¯s age?¡± Evita asked.

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I be confident? Look, in the two years since I entered thepany, I went from close to a Fourth Grade Magician to a Fifth Grade Magician. In a few years.....right, sir chairman, you¡¯re already thirty years old?¡± Akali suddenly turned to ask Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ah.....I¡¯m thirty, what about it?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I¡¯m only twenty four this year, it¡¯s still six years before thirty. Why can¡¯t I be an Eighth Grade Magician in six years?¡± Akali immediately said.

    ¡°Alright, you will be an Eighth Grade Magician, but it¡¯s not now, so restrain yourself a little.¡± Evita was toozy to argue this anymore, so she turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, the researchers taking the low grade exams are done. Now you¡¯ll have to lead the researchers taking the high grade exams.¡±

    ¡°Un, there are only a few high grade researchers, so there¡¯s no difference if I lead them or not.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Speaking of this, Evita, Akali already passed the Fifth Grade Magician exam, so you should have no problem, right?¡±

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, what does that mean? Could it be that I can¡¯tpare to Evita?¡± Akali said in an unconvinced voice.

    ¡°What do you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°I.....¡± Akali opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say anything.

    She was inferior to Evita whether it was in talent or diligence, so naturally her magic power was a bit weaker. This was a fact that she couldn¡¯t deny even after so many years.

    Evita said with a smile, ¡°Yes, I also passed the Fifth Grade Magician exam. But I¡¯m still a bit from bing a Sixth Grade Magician, so I can¡¯t take the high grade magician exam with you this year.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s fine, keep working hard and try to take the exam next year.¡± Xu Yi encouraged her with a smile. He looked up at the sky and waved his hand to the two of them, ¡°Let¡¯s go, it¡¯s about time. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first magic machine production technology exchange in Anvilmar City is about to begin, we can¡¯t becking two essential people like you two.¡±

 Volume 3 110 - Observing our standards

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 110 Observing our standards</h4>

    The Sga Art Hall was in the west of Anvilmar City. It was thergest hall and was used to disy various pieces of art, like paintings or sculptures, but today, the products disyed within didn¡¯t seem like they were rted to art......

    ¡°Who says it¡¯s not rted!¡±

    The manager of the Sge Art Hall Anlisol waved his hand as he loudly refuted the reporters from the ?Anvilmar Morning News?.

    ¡°Take a look at the iparably finely made household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, look at how beautiful their designs are, how graceful the lines are, and how soulful the structure is. You can feel a strong artistic sense from every part of it! Do you know, each household magic machine is rted to the master of the arts, the elf n, and you dare say that it is unrted to art!¡±

    ¡°But these household magic machines are things that normal people use in their daily lives, how could they be considered works of art?¡± The young female reporter still firmly asked this.

    Anlisol waved his hand and gave a cold snort, ¡°Who told you that art is separate from life? Let me tell you, it¡¯s the exact opposite! In my daily life, there is the greatest work of art! Do you see the fruit trees outside the window? Every leaf on them is a unique masterpiece in my opinion! Also the chair on the side, look at the unique design it has......¡± There were only a few reporters gathered around manager Anlisol, but there were countless reporters that surrounded Xu Yi which really left no room around him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is the goal of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in holding this magic machine production technology exchange?¡± A reporter from the ?Anvilmar Times? asked in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi nodded in acknowledgement to the reporter and replied with a faint smile, ¡°The production technology exchange is of course to exchange technology. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main business is magic machines, so the technology we¡¯re exchanging is naturally the technology for producing magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you said this is an exchange, does that mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning on taking out magic machine production technology that they solely own?¡± Another reporter asked in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi looked at the surrounding reporters and could see the hope in their faces. With a faint smile, he gave a slight nod, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Hearing this response, all the reporters instantly became excited.

    Although through the advertisements and reporters about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce posted in the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly?, everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on selling magic machine production technology, only after Xu Yi admitted it did people feel like it was real. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany that had only been established for three years, during these three years, their speed of development shocked everyone.

    Using the appraisal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the ?Anvilmar Times?, it was basically a miracle!

    In just over three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became a top sspany in Banta City with connections in the Stantine Duchy, the ck Rice Wastnd, and the Rudson Kingdom, starting out with nothing at all.

    At the same time, the various magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had prated every aspect of the kingdom, entering every household.

    No matter which household you walked into right now, you would find at least one or several magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, with the drive of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a small remote town like Banta City had be a pivotalrge city to the kingdom. It had even gradually be the economic center of the entire kingdom.

    ording to the stats from the kingdom¡¯sbour department, the local and foreign workers in Banta City had surpassed a shocking three hundred thousand!

    In Banta City, there were people from all different cities of the Lampuri Kingdom. There were even dwarves, elves, and beastmen workers, bing the most advanced city in the kingdom.

    Even the people who lived in Anvilmar City who felt superiority over others since they lived in the capital, when Banta City was mentioned, they revealed a bit of yearning.

    The reason for these changes was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce having this ability is naturally because of the magic machines they produced.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transferred the technology for the Magic Fans and the Magic Kettles. Just with these two pieces of technology, it was like mushrooms sprouting after the rain, asrge and smallpanies producing the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle appeared all over the kingdom.

    And just with the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle, it supported countless people and countless workers that worked for thesepanies.

    And now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was transferring technology for other magic machines!

    The reporters surrounding Xu Yi could imagine that after this news was spread, many people in the kingdom would go wild.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask what kind of technology your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning on transferring? Could it be that any kind of technology would be transferred?¡± A reporter asked in a loud voice.

    ¡°No, of course it¡¯s not all our technology.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Currently ourpany is considering transferring technology for household magic machines. As for the other pieces of technology, we¡¯re not nning on transferring them for now.¡±

    Hearing this response, the reporters were a bit disappointed, but after thinking about it, they became excited again.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that you¡¯re not nning on transferring them for now. Does that mean yourpany will consider transferring them in the future?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing impossible in this world.¡±

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The reporters exploded again.

    This response from Xu Yi clearly meant that there was a possibility in the future.

    Everyone understood that the household magic machine department was not a very important part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In contrast, the production magic machines and the other technology they weren¡¯t transferring for now were more important.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, in this technology transfer, will it be the same as the Magic Fan and the Magic Kettle? You will only not only transfer technology, but also provide guidance?¡±

    ¡°No, this time ourpany will be even more thoroughpared to before.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk a bit, ¡°In fact, after transferring the technology for the Magic Kettle and the Magic Fanst time, I was very dissatisfied with the development. So in order to pursue better results, ourpany will have higher requests and standards when transferring other household magic machine technology.¡±

    The surrounding reporters were stunned.

    ¡°Higher requests and standards? What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°To be precise, I hope that the otherpanies will observe the standards of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and won¡¯t make random changes.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were a bit impolite, causing the reporters to be a bit surprised.

    After a bit of silence, a reporter raised his hand to ask, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I take that to mean that when otherpanies want to buy technology from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they have to follow the standards you give them when they produce magic machines?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Then what if the otherpanies want to make a breakthrough with this technology? Doesn¡¯t this restrict them? I remember you saying before that you encouraged otherpanies to conduct more research, you even said that you would be happy if anotherpany surpassed your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Could it be that your thoughts have changed?¡±

    ¡°No, observing standards and making breakthroughs don¡¯t contradict. The standard is for people in the same industry to develop together, saving time and effort, so it is a very important thing. To give an example, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Brand Magic Fan currently uses three types of screw bolts, which is the current standard. If apany uses another model of screw bolt, thepanies that produce screw bolts will have to conduct new research which would be an unnecessary waste of time and effort.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, why can¡¯t otherpanies set the standard, why must it be your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± A reporter asked in an unconvinced voice.

    After asking this question, that reporter found that the other reporters were all looking at him like he was an idiot.

    This idiot!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the undisputed boss of the magic machine industry, who would decide the standard if not them?

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Currently speaking, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the otherpanies don¡¯t have the ability to make other magic machines. So only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is qualified to create this standard. If the otherpanies don¡¯t want to follow it, I can only say sorry.¡±

    The reporter who had asked this question gave a low growl, but he didn¡¯t dare say anything else.

    After asking these basic questions, the reporters turned their attention to the details of the technology transfer.

    At this time Xu Yi moved back and Akali and Evita who were already prepared on the side came up to the stage.

    For technical questions, of course it would be answered by technical staff.

 Volume 3 111 - Rather we suffered a loss

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 111 Rather we suffered a loss</h4>

    The product exchange conference was scheduled for three days, but there was a shocking piece of news that came on the first day.

    After learning the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce selling household magic machine production technology from the various newspapers, there were countlesspanies that rushed to Anvilmar City, arriving in time for this product exchange conference.

    When the first day was over, there were seventy sixpanies that reached an initial agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the stats, these seventy sixpanies had a total of one hundred and twenty seven transfer agreements. The total for this reached an astonishing ten million gold coins!

    And this was just the ie from transferring the technology. If one included the added fees for training workers and providing technical guidance, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned thirteen million gold coins from these one hundred and twenty seven agreements!

    And this was just in terms of technology. Since thepanies wanted to buy the production methods for household magic machines, they would also have to buy the corresponding production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Production magic machines weren¡¯t cheap, it would cost quite a bit to buy an entire production line.

    The profit from this couldn¡¯t be calcted for now, but the one hundred and twenty seven contracts needed at least one hundred and twenty seven production lines, so that was a profit of three million gold coins.

    This meant that in a single day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned over fifteen million gold coins!

    This was naturally a dazzling amount. Even the always calm Evita was shocked to the point of being unable to speak after hearing this number from Xu Yi.

    As for the excitable Akali, her mouth dropped wide open and her eyes popped out as her face filled with disbelief.

    ¡°Sir......Sir chairman......This much gold coins......how will you spend it......¡± After a while, Akali finally stuttered this out.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s estimates in the passion of the otherpanies were a bit low, he had prepared his heart ahead of time. He wasn¡¯t actually shocked by this amount, rather he shook his head with a smile, ¡°You think that this is a lot?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Evita let out a sigh. She patted her chest like she had been shocked, ¡°Fifteen million gold coins! Chairman, don¡¯t you think that¡¯s a lot?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, ourpany has been open for three years and we haven¡¯t earned that much after adding everything up. In just a single day, we earned this much, chairman, you don¡¯t think that¡¯s enough?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that it¡¯s not enough, but......¡± Xu Yi looked at the thick pile of contracts and slowly shook his head, ¡°To be honest, ourpany isn¡¯t earning anything, rather we suffered a loss.¡±

    ¡°A loss?¡± Evita and Akali both had wide eyes, ¡°How could that be possible!¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re only looking at today¡¯s profits, but have you thought about if ourpany kept this technology, when we maintain a monopoly on all these household magic machines, how much could we have earned from it?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Akali and Evita looked at each other and fell into thought.

    After a while, Evita said with a nod, ¡°I understand. Chairman, we might really be suffering a loss. Ourpany is earning at least a million gold coins a year from the household magic machines and if we pushed these household magic machines to every part of the kingdom or even other countries, we might be able to earn several million gold coins each year. Although fifteen million gold coins is a lot, as long as ourpany developed smoothly, we would definitely earn much more than this in the future.¡±

    ¡°But what if ourpany doesn¡¯t develop smoothly?¡± Akali thought before asking this.

    Evita red at her, ¡°What nonsense are you saying? With the chairman here, how could ourpany not develop smoothly?¡±

    Akali knew that she had said something wrong, so she stuck out her tongue in embarrassment. She then said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, it was just nonsense, don¡¯t mind it. Evita is right, with you here, ourpany will definitely develop well. Then in the end, sir chairman, since you know that ourpany can rely on this technology to earn a lot of money, why did you transfer it?¡±

    ¡°This is for our long term strategy......¡±

    Xu Yi simply exined the idea of establishing a magic industrial system.

    It was a bit different from the real thoughts he told Heinz and Kennard before. Evita and Akali both seriously listened to him, not asking as many questions as Heinz and not exploring how feasible it was like Kennard. Rather they looked at Xu Yi in surprise, while their eyes filled with admiration.

    Before Xu Yi finished exining, Akali grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm and excitedly said, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re really great! I love you to death!¡±

    Although Evita didn¡¯t act as exaggerated as Akali, based on her look, her thoughts weren¡¯t that far from Akali¡¯s.

    Xu Yiughed before tapping Akali¡¯s head, ¡°Stop that. If you keep saying this and others hear it, you might be able to get married in the future.¡±

    ¡°Humph, so what if I don¡¯t get married. It¡¯s fine if sir chairman likes me, I can just be your lover at worst.¡± Akali said with a smile.

    ¡°You should convince Still first.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes before pulling out his arm. He said a few things to the two of them and told them to organize some data before leaving the Sga Art Hall.

    He looked up to see that night wasing and Xu Yi headed to Count Sean¡¯s residence.

    When he came in, Housekeeper Lahm came forward with a strange look.

    ¡°Sir chairman, there is a guest for you.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Is it Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli?¡±

    ¡°The two Great Magicians are a group. Other than them, there are three other groups of guests for you.¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm looked at Xu Yi in surprise, thinking that chairman Xu was more popr than Count Sean. Even if Count Sean came to Anvilmar City, he wouldn¡¯t have this many guests.

    ¡°There are three other groups?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Who are they?¡±

    ¡°One group is from twopanies in the city, one group is from the West Hawk Kingdom, and the final group is from the Stantine Duchy. They didn¡¯t tell us their identity, but they had a token from chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°Token? Let me see it.¡±

    Taking the half broken jade pendant from Housekeeper Lahm, Xu Yi immediately understood after taking a look. After thinking about it, he said to Housekeeper Lahm, ¡°Put this guest in a private room and have him wait a bit. As for the other two groups of guests.....¡±

    The twopanies came looking for Xu Yi, he could guess that they came from the product exchange conference. They wanted to meet in secret to discuss details with Xu Yi, not choosing to sign an agreement at the conference.

    As for the representatives of the West Hack Kingdom, this was a bit strange.

    This West Hack Kingdom was a kingdom to the east of the Lampuri Kingdom. Although they had a good rtionship with the Lampuri Kingdom, they had never been rted to Xu Yi.

    Now that they sent people to see Xu Yi, based onmon sense, they should have another reason other than the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Arrange them in another room for now and help me stall them for a bit. I¡¯ll go see the two Great Magicians first.¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm nodded before turning to leave.

    Xu Yi came to his private courtyard in the residence and when he came in, he saw Great Magician Cami talking to Great Magician Teli in a low voice.

    Great Magician Teli had an awkward look and Great Magician Cami was clearly consoling him, while also trying to convince Great Magician Teli.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Great Magician Cami shook his head, ¡°Alright, now that this kid Xu Yi is here, you can just ask him what you want to ask.¡±

    Xu Yi also didn¡¯t show any courtesy. With a smile, he sat down in front of the two Great Magicians and asked Great Magician Teli, ¡°You still haven¡¯t made your decision yet?¡±

    Yesterday, Great Magician Cami had told Xu Yi that Great Magician Teli wanted to meet him and he also told him that he seemed a bit moved by the ten thousand gold coins annual wage.

    Xu Yi was naturally overjoyed when he heard this. If Great Magician Teli was willing to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be of great help whether it was raising the ability of the magic research facility or raising the fame of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally he weed it.

    But Great Magician Teli clearly had many scruples, so he wanted to meet Xu Yi to discuss them.

    Seeing his current appearance, it seemed like he couldn¡¯t make a decision.

    Great Magician Teli looked at Xu Yi and slightly knit his brows. After thinking for a bit, he hesitantly asked, ¡°Xu Yi, if I be a top grade researcher at yourpany like Cami, my yearly wage will be ten thousand gold coins, right?¡±

    Hearing Great Magician Teli¡¯s tone rxing, Xu Yi was filled with joy. He kept nodding as he said, ¡°Of course, if a Great Magician like you is willing toe to ourpany, it would be ourpany¡¯s honour. Of course you would be treated the same as Great Magician Cami. Other than the yearly wage of ten thousand, there are also many other benefits that would certainly satisfy you!¡±

    Great Magician Teli nodded and after considering it a bit, he had a look of struggle on his face. After hesitating a bit, he spoke in a somewhat embarrassed voice.

    ¡°This wage.....can it be a bit higher?¡±

 Volume 3 112 - For the people of the hometown

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 112 For the people of the hometown</h4>

    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami were surprised at the same time.

    Great Magician Cami looked at Great Magician Teli in surprise before he couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Hey, Teli, I always thought that you were the one who cared the least about money among us old fogies, but I never thought that you would change so much and care about money more than me! Ten thousand gold coins a year isn¡¯t enough for you? Then how much do you want?¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Teli¡¯s embarrassed and ashamed appearance, Xu Yi shook his head at Great Magician Cami. He turned and spoke to Great Magician Teli in a very calm voice, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that I can only say sorry. Ourpany has strict rules on our wages, so it can¡¯t be increased at will. Moreover, you have just joined ourpany, so if your wage is higher than Great Magician Cami¡¯s, we can¡¯t really say anything.¡±

    Great Magician Teli gave a sigh before nodding, ¡°I understand, I was being too greedy.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and said, ¡°I say, Teli, what problems did you encounter? You need money this badly?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a long story.¡± Great Magician Teli shook his head and stood up, ¡°Ten thousand a year is far from being enough and since Xu Yi can¡¯t give me a higher wage, I can only think of another solution.¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Teli was about to leave, Xu Yin quickly stood up and stopped him.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, if you have a problem that requires arge amount of money to solve, I think that I can help you. How about you tell me what kind of problem you have and let me think about how to solve it for you?¡± Xu Yi sincerely said.

    ¡°It¡¯s no use.¡± Great Magician Teli gave a long sigh, ¡°That ce is a bottomless hole, I can¡¯t just keep borrowing money from you, right? Moreover, I might not even be able to repay you.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. If you¡¯re willing to be a researcher of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and you develop some excellent technology, the bonuses wouldn¡¯t becking.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°No matter how much the bonus is, it can¡¯t be forty to fifty thousand gold coins a year, right?¡± Great Magician Teli gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°Forty to fifty thousand?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows. After exchanging a look with Great Magician Cami, he fell into thought before saying to Great Magician Teli with a serious look, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, if you need forty to fifty thousand in funds each year, I think you should sit down and discuss this matter with me. Perhaps I¡¯m not skilled in other aspects, but when ites to earning money......I think that no other magician in the Lampuri Kingdom canpare to me, right? Even Great Magician Eisenkel can¡¯tpare.¡±

    ¡°Right, I always said that this kid Xu Yi was talented in magic, butpared to his ability to earn money, his talent for magic is nothing.¡± Great Magician Cami supported him, ¡°If his power to earn money was simr to his talent in magic, I can guarantee that this kid will be a Great Magician in the future!¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked at Great Magician Cami before looking at Xu Yi and after considering it, he sat back down.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I suddenly remembered that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been investing in different parts of the kingdom during this time, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, looking a bit surprised, ¡°I never thought that you would care about this matter.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s no other way, I¡¯ve been racking my brain on how to earn money during this time.¡± Great Magician Teli gave a self deprecatingugh, ¡°Xu Yi, if I invited your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in a location, can you guarantee that you can help the people there earn forty or fifty thousand gold coins a year?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°That depends on what ce you¡¯re talking about. If it¡¯s a wild ce without a single thing, even with my abilities, I wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.¡±

    Great Magician Teli said with a bitterugh, ¡°That¡¯s right, the ce I¡¯m talking about is no different from the wilderness. Caraska Ind, have you heard of this ce before?¡±

    ¡°Caraska Ind?¡± Xu Yi thought about it, ¡°Isn¡¯t it an ind that isn¡¯t far off the west coast of the ck Rice Wastnd? Isn¡¯t it filled with pirates?¡±

    ¡°Filled with pirates?¡± Great Magician Teli gave another bitterugh, ¡°Although I want tomend you on your knowledge, actually knowing about Caraska Ind, but to say it is filled with pirates.....Alright, this can¡¯t be considered wrong. Who made living on the ind so hard that they have no way to make a living unless they are a pirate.¡±

    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami looked at Great Magician Teli in surprise. Why did he suddenly mention Caraska Ind? Could it be that he was rted to this well known pirate ind?

    ¡°Stop guessing, I was born on Caraska Ind and grew up there.¡±

    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami were both surprised.

    They never would have thought that Great Magician Teli would be born on this pirate ind!

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami and he shook his head.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me. Although I¡¯m old friends with Teli, I¡¯ve never heard him mention his background.¡±

    ¡°Being born on Caraska Ind isn¡¯t anything to be proud of, of course I wouldn¡¯t casually mention it.¡± Great Magician Teli gave a sigh, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for having hope in Xu Yi, I wouldn¡¯t have told you.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your trust.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°Then your excellency Great Magician, you want forty to fifty thousand a year at least, could it be that you want to support the people of your hometown by yourself?¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°You can actually guess this?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t hard to guess. If it wasn¡¯t for this reason, I don¡¯t know why a Great Magician like you would be this worried.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, your guess is right. Caraska Ind is my hometown, but the living conditions are just too bad. I grew up there and by coincidence I learned magic, bing a Great Magician in the end, so I thought that I could rely on my abilities to change the living conditions of the people of my hometown, so I¡¯ve been helping them over the years. But.....I can¡¯t hold on any longer.¡±

    ¡°No wonder you were always poorer than me.....¡± Great Magician Cami muttered, ¡°I say, Teli, since the living conditions of Caraska Ind is that bad, why don¡¯t you just move them out? With your identity, it isn¡¯t a problem to request residency from the Royal Parliament, right?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s a very big problem.¡± Great Magician Teli¡¯s bitter smile didn¡¯t disappear, ¡°I wanted to make this request of the Royal Parliament, but I was rejected by them. Do you know the reason?¡±

    ¡°Because of the pirates?¡± Great Magician Cami guessed.

    ¡°Right.¡± Great Magician Teli¡¯s smile became more bitter, ¡°Although I refuted the reason they gave, there was no way. Actually, it isn¡¯t wrong to call Caraska Ind an ind of pirates. If I hadn¡¯t left the ind to learn magic in the past, I might have be a pirate......¡±

    ¡° A Great Magician level pirate?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Teli with a strange gaze before returning to normal.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, based on your words, I think that your initial idea is to rely on yourself to provide forty to fifty thousand to the people of the ind to increase their standard of living?¡±

    ¡°Right, I was nning on doing this. There are close to five thousand people on the ind, so even forty to fifty thousand isn¡¯t enough. But it is barely enough for the ind to obtain some kind of self sufficiency. Actually I want them to have a stable life, so they no longer go pirating. Then in a few years, I can apply to the Royal Parliament again and let them move to our Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi was in thought for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking his head, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I have to say that your idea is just too.....naive.¡±

    Great Magician Teli¡¯s eyes popped out, Great Magician Cami also looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    This kid, he actually dared to call a Great Magician naive? He simply didn¡¯t know the depths of heaven and earth!

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, a person¡¯s greed is limitless. I can guarantee that even if you give them that much money, they will also want to live a better life. Even if they receive the money from you, they will keep on being pirates because they can live better lives that way.¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked a bit dejected, ¡°How could I not know this? But I feel that¡¯s just because I haven¡¯t given them enough help. If they could lead stable lives, who would be willing to risk their lives and reputation to be a pirate?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing as he shook his head again.

    Perhaps Great Magician Teli wasn¡¯t naive, rather his sentiment towards his home Caraska Ind was too deep.

    Xu Yi was unable to understand the price he paid for this sentiment, but that didn¡¯t affect his understanding of Great Magician Teli¡¯s ideas.

    ¡°Alright, your excellency Great Magician, I understand your meaning, but I must remind you that even if you give them forty to fifty thousand, or even a hundred thousand, it won¡¯t work. For the close to five thousand people of Caraska Ind, this bit of gold coins won¡¯t change anything.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°I just want to help.¡± Great Magician Teli said with a sigh.

    ¡°There are many methods to help. To be honest with you, the method you chose is the most ineffective method.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°If I had a choice, I would definitely use another method.¡±

    Great Magician Teli¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That means that Xu Yi, you have some good method to solve this problem?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course.¡±

 Volume 3 113 - Anklo making a decision

    <strong>Volume 3 Chapter 113 Anklo making a decision</strong>

    Great Magician Cami watched as Great Magician Teli disappeared into the dark before giving a sigh and shaking his head.

    ¡°I¡¯ve known Teli all these years and only today did I learn that he came from Caraska Ind, while also shouldering the pressure of supporting everyone on the ind. This really is......¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami who didn¡¯t know what to say. He thought that even the conservative Great Magician Cami wouldn¡¯t approve of Great Magician Teli¡¯s approach.

    Even if the idea of changing the living conditions of his hometown wasn¡¯t wrong, to Xu Yi, Great Magician Teli using the approach of gold coins was wrong. He was even a bit too naive.

    Xu Yi deeply understood that if one wanted to change a person¡¯s life, first you had to change their thoughts. Directly giving them money could change them for a while, but it was the most inefficient method for changing people.

    So after an in depth talk with Great Magician Teli, Xu Yipletely denied Great Magician Teli¡¯s idea of sending forty to fifty thousand gold coins back a year.

    Although to Xu Yi, Great Magician Teli was worth forty to fifty thousand or even more, it was fine for him to give this money to Great Magician Teli, but giving it to thezy people of Caraska Ind was not something Xu Yi could do.

    But Great Magician Teli indicated that as long as Xu Yi could help him solve this problem, he wouldn¡¯t need to give him a single cent and he would happily join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If he couldn¡¯t he could only find help elsewhere.

    Xu Yi naturally would let a chance to recruit a Great Magician go, so he made a proposition to Great Magician Teli. He would find some time to make an inspection of Caraska Ind and determine how to invest to improve the living conditions there.

    Before this, Xu Yi would first donate some daily necessities to Caraska Ind in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, improving their living conditions temporarily.

    Great Magician Teli happily epted this proposition and he said that he would seriously consider working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the final decision, it would depend on if Xu Yi could aplish his goal.

    ¡°Actually......Xu Yi, although Teli is a Great Magician, for you to do so much for him, I feel it isn¡¯t worth it.¡± Great Magician Cami suddenly said this.

    Xu Yi looked at him andughed, ¡°What? Grandfather, are you jealous?¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°What am I jealous of?¡±

    ¡°Jealous that I don¡¯t as much for you as I do for him.¡±

    ¡°Pei! You are Still¡¯s husband, we are a family, do you still need to say things like this? I just feel.....even if you can recruit a Great Magician, it wouldn¡¯t help to increase the level of magic research of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by that much, right?

    ¡°No, it would greatly help.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°When ourpany makes more and more magic machines, there will be more and more projects to study. Grandfather, you can¡¯t take care of all these projects, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°That is because it is too low level and I don¡¯t care about them.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and ignored Great Magician Cami¡¯s forceful boasts as he continued, ¡°No matter what, another Great Magician level researcher is always good. At least it will let others know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has recruited two Great Magicians. I think that like this, ourpany will have a great attraction to other magicians.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense. If you can recruit all five Great Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom into ourpany, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will not only be thergestpany in the Lampuri Kingdom, it would also be first ss on the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, if this was possible, I would even recruit several Arch Magi. Grandfather, do you know any Arch Magi? Can you introduce me to them?¡± Xu Yi said with a greedy look.

    Great Magician Cami rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Stop dreaming. Any Arch Magus is an important character in their country. Such an important person, how could they work for apany?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, knowing in his heart that this was wishful thinking.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to recruit Great Magician Cami was because of Still, otherwise why would Great Magician Cami choose to join a weakpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that there was a chance to recruit Great Magician Teli, Xu Yi naturally would do his best not to miss this opportunity.

    After Great Magician Cami left, Xu Yi thought for a bit before heading to meet the representatives from the twopanies and the West Hack Kingdom.

    As he expected, the representatives of the twopanies were here to discuss transferring technology with him.

    These twopanies were smallpanies and they couldn¡¯t swallow the technology alone, so the two wanted to work together to buy the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hade to ask Xu Yi if this was feasible.

    Naturally Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject them. Instead he told them that selling the technology was to release it, making thepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom interested in magic machines, further promoting the creation of the magic machine industry of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Making money was secondary. Anyway, these twopanies working with each other wasn¡¯t rted to him, as long as they could bring enough gold coins to buy the technology, it was enough.

    As for how they would divide the benefits after receiving the technology, that wasn¡¯t rted to Xu Yi.

    As for the guests from the West Hack Kingdom, they were here on behalf of the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s ambassador in the Lampuri Kingdom to invite Xu Yi. They were inviting him to a feast at the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy tomorrow evening, it was an invitation that personally came from the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s ambassador.

    It was different from Banta City, Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject this invitation and said that he would be there on time, politely sending off the guests from the embassy.

    It was already night time when he finished meeting these two groups of guests. After sending off the guests from the West Hack Kingdom, he talked to Housekeeper Lahm beforeing to a small room in the residence.

    Seeing the guest from the Stantine Duchy who had waited patiently, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Anklo had youe?¡±

    That person didn¡¯t say anything and vigntly looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°You are quite discrete, it seems like Anklo at least has a bit of strength.¡± Xu Yi smiled. He took out the half jade pendant from his chest and put it with the half jade pendant Housekeeper Lahm gave him, perfectlying together.

    Seeing this, that person became a bit less vignt and said with a nod, ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, sir Anklo sent me to bring you some news.¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s finally prepared to take action?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes, but sir Anklo said that he still needs chairman Xu¡¯s help.¡±

    ¡°Oh? It isn¡¯t that I can¡¯t help him, but did he say what he would give me in return?¡±

    ¡°Sir Anklo said that as long as you¡¯re willing to help him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can enjoy any kind of privilege in the Stantine Duchy in the future.¡±

    ¡°This repayment is too vague.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°But you can tell Anklo for me that I¡¯m willing to go all in to support his actions in the Stantine Duchy because he is the only hope for the Stantine Duchy. To our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, working with a smart person is much better than a group of greedy insects.¡±

    ¡°Good, I will pass these words to Sir Anklo.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then tell me, what help does Anklo need?¡±

    ¡°Mainly weapons. Sir Anklo said that he hopes that he can buy some special uniform alloy weapons from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°He is quite anxious.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, no problem. Anything else?¡±

    ¡°Sir Anklo said that if you could provide some Magic Trebuchets or military magic machines, he would be deeply grateful.¡±

    ¡°Military magic machines?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and pinched his forehead. After seriously considering it, he shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t agree to this for now. Tell him that weapons aren¡¯t a problem, but there are too many factors rted to the military magic machines, I can¡¯t just give them to him.¡±

    The person had a disappointed look, but he wasn¡¯t willing to give up, ¡°Sir Anklo said that if you agree to this request, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will receive greater benefits in the Stantine Duchy in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Tell him that we¡¯ll discuss this when he can speak for the Stantine Duchy. As for right now, there¡¯s no need to consider this.¡±

    The person was silent before giving a slow nod.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, sir Anklo also hopes that you can make a trip to the Stantine Duchy to discuss this with him. There are many things that aren¡¯t convenient for me to say.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a problem. Tell him that I¡¯ll make a trip to the Stantine Duchy in theter half of the year.¡¯¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    After talking about a few things with Xu Yi, the person immediately said goodbye to Xu Yi.

    When he opened the door, Xu Yi called out to him.

    ¡°There¡¯s something you need to tell Anklo for me.¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°Tell Anklo that since he¡¯s made up his mind, he can¡¯t hesitate at all. Otherwise, the one that will be harmed isn¡¯t him, but rather the entire Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    That person narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Yi for a while before slowly nodding, ¡°Sir Anklo already knows this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Give my blessings to him, I hope that he can aplish his dream.¡±

    ¡°Thank you.¡±

 Volume 3 114

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 114 The Sack Kingdom also has Magic Trebuchets</h4>

    ¡°You were correct. The military magic machines are very strong, it can be considered the core equipment of our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army, so you can¡¯t casually sell it to other countries.¡± Major MacConley gave a nod, expressing his support to Xu Yi rejecting the Stantine Duchy¡¯s request to buy military magic machines.

    After seeing the envoy Anklo sentst night, Xu Yi met Major MacConley at the military training ground outside the city the next day.

    Other than talking about the things they nned to talk about, he also told Major MacConley a part of his meeting with Anklo¡¯s envoyst night.

    Military magic machines were different from normal household magic machines, so they should be limited.

    Normal weapons were fine, but the military magic machines were very important to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army. Naturally he had to inform the army headquarters ahead of time and obtain their agreement.

    But the army headquarters didn¡¯t want such an important thing to flow out of the Lampuri Kingdom, so major MacConley support Xu Yi¡¯s decision very much.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Since the army headquarters treat the military magic machines as core equipment, why don¡¯t they order a few more?¡±

    Major MacConley gave a hollowugh, ¡°This.....We need to discuss this a bit more before deciding.¡±

    Xu Yi said in a curious voice, ¡°This isn¡¯t right. The army headquarters didn¡¯t have money before and still made all those orders. The kingdom¡¯s finances are much better this year, so your budget must have also increased, so why are you hesitating to buy military magic machines?¡±

    Major MacConley slowly shook his head. After hesitating a bit, he said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu is very close to her highness Seveni, so you must have heard that his highness Eric is trying to organize the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°I have indeed heard her highness mention this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But how is that rted to the army headquarters hesitating to buy military magic machines? If you really want to attack the Sack Kingdom, shouldn¡¯t you be focusing on buying military magic machines? Ourpany has already finished developing two new kinds of military magic machines recently, if they were provided to the northern army, it will definitely make the attack much smoother.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very clear on this and I also believe in the abilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but......¡± Major MacConley revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, the northern army is currently beingmanded by his highness Eric and with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rtionship to her highness Seveni......¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before he knit his brows, ¡°His highness wouldn¡¯t be this ignorant right? Even if ourpany is rted to her highness, there is doubt about the abilities of the military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°I know this, you know this, even his highness knows this, but......Chairman Xu, you and his highness not being on the same side determines many things, I think you can understand that.¡±

    ¡°I understand?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    Although he hadn¡¯t met with his highness Eric yet, just based on the decisions that he had made, it could be seen that his highness Eric really had short sights.

    Even if they were on different sides, attacking the Sack Kingdom was an important matter to the Lampuri Kingdom. When it was a national affair, if you give up an advantage because of differing positions, wouldn¡¯t it be wasting the lives of the soldiers and ignoring the benefits of the Lampuri Kingdom?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something.

    ¡°Has his majesty expressed anything towards his highness¡¯ decision?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Although he hadn¡¯t much contact with his majesty, through the short time that he had met him, Lampuri Thirteenth really was worthy of being called a wise king. He had courage and foresight, as well as the ability to make decisions.

    Xu Yi believed that he wouldn¡¯t be able to miss the problem hidden behind his highness Eric¡¯s decision.

    ¡°His majesty didn¡¯t say anything.¡± Major MacConley shook his head, ¡°Because during the period while his two highnesses and her highness are dispatched, his majesty said that he wouldn¡¯t interfere in their decisions.¡±

    ¡°But his highness Eric¡¯s matters are rted to the entire Lampuri Kingdom, could it be that his majesty wants to sit by and do nothing?¡± Xu Yi was startled.

    ¡°Don¡¯t try to guess his majesty¡¯s ideas.¡± Major MacConley shook his head before saying, ¡°But I think that his majesty wants to see his highness Eric¡¯s abilities through this......¡±

    ¡°Using the entire northern army to test his highness Eric?¡± Xu Yi tightly knit his brows, ¡°His majesty isn¡¯t worried that this might put the Lampuri Kingdom in a bad position?¡±

    ¡°I said it before, don¡¯t try to guess his majesty¡¯s thoughts.¡± Major MaConley honestly warned Xu Yi. He patted his shoulder before continuing, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop talking about this matter. I had youe here today to let you see something.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused as he followed Major MacConley to a warehouse. When he came in, what he saw was a giant object in the center of the warehouse.

    Looking at it, Xu Yi was stunned.

    ¡°This is a.....Magic Trebuchet?¡± Xu Yi walked to the Magic Trebuchet that seemed like the one produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After seriously looking it over, he shook his head, ¡°No, this thing is very different from ourpany¡¯s Magic Trebuchets. Major MacConley, could it be that your army headquarters has been secretly studying how to develop Magic Trebuchets?¡±

    ¡°You think that our army headquarters has that much money? With your Frestech Chamber of Commerce providing Magic Trebuchets, why would we develop it ourselves?¡± Major MacConley shook his head. He looked at the Magic Trebuchet in the warehouse before his voice became serious, ¡°This Magic Trebuchet was captured by the northern army when the Sack Kingdom attacked the Muerto Mountains.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°That means......the Sack Kingdom made this Magic Trebuchet?¡±

    Major MacConley carefully looked over Xu Yi¡¯s expression and after seeing that it wasn¡¯t fake at all, he slowly nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became very serious. He went around this Magic Trebuchet several times and even crawled up to the top to take a careful look.

    When he finished carefully looking it over, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit more serious.

    ¡°How is it? Chairman Xu, how does this Magic Trebuchetpare to the Magic Trebuchet your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces?¡± Major MacConley asked.

    Xu Yi looked at him and asked back, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Major MacConley gave a shrug, ¡°I feel that it is farcking. Although this Magic Trebuchet looks quite big, it¡¯s farckingpared to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Trebuchet whether in terms of might or frequency. In short, it¡¯s much weaker inparison.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also think so, but......¡± Xu Yi looked at the Magic Trebuchet that was three times his height and he had a trace of confusion in his eyes, ¡°The Sack Kingdom could actually copy this Magic Trebuchet, I really can¡¯t underestimate them. Other than the Magic Trebuchet, did they also copy the Magic Repeating Crossbow?¡±

    ¡°We haven¡¯t seen this yet.¡± Major MacConley shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I let you see this mainly to ask, do you think......this Magic Trebuchet is simr to the Magic Trebuchet from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes, ¡°Are you doubting ourpany?¡±

    ¡°I am indeed.¡± Major MacConley gave a serious nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve said before that although the Magic Trebuchet look very rough, they are very precise magic machines. If there is even a single deviation, it won¡¯t work properly, so it is very difficult to produce them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I have said this before.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Trebuchet beside him, ¡°This Magic Trebuchet uses several tons of steel and has over two hundredponents. Every singleponent has a precise requirement and if there is even the slightest deviation, not mentioning it working properly, it would be very hard to assemble it.¡±

    ¡°So I want to ask......How could the Sack Kingdom make this Magic Trebuchet that is so precise and hard to make?¡± Major MacConley¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi became iparably sharp, like they were two de poking into him.

    Xu Yi matched major MacConley¡¯s gaze and didn¡¯t back down at all. He slowly said in a serious voice, ¡°I understand you doubting us, but major MacConley, I must seriously tell you that ourpany definitely would give such an important thing to another country in secret, so there¡¯s no need to mention an enemy country like the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Major MacConley looked at Xu Yi for a while before giving a nod, ¡°If I didn¡¯t believe you, chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t be here talking to me and would have already been locked in a dungeon.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If I wanted to betray the Lampuri Kingdom, it definitely wouldn¡¯t be as simple as a single Magic Trebuchet.¡±

    Major MacConley¡¯s face changed slightly. He was clearly thinking about the serious consequences of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce betraying the Lampuri Kingdom. After thinking about it, he revealed a smile to Xu Yi once again.

    ¡°I believe chairman Xu¡¯s loyalty to the kingdom, but the Sack Kingdom has made these Magic Trebuchets, so I hope that chairman Xu can give our army headquarters an exnation. If chairman Xu can¡¯t do this, the army headquarters will have to send people to help you.¡±

    Thest words could be considered a threat and a warning, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about major MacConley¡¯s words at all.

    Compared to the threat from Major MacConley, the more important question was whether the Sack Kingdom had imitated this Magic Trebuchet after seeing the northern army use it, or if they stole research material from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before developing this.

    If it was thetter, the problem would be much more serious.

 Volume 3 115 - Stillâ€™s observer

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 115 Still¡¯s observer</h4>

    To clear the matter of the Magic Trebuchet was not a matter of one or two days.

    Because Major MacConley refused to let Xu Yi take this Magic Trebuchet back to the Falling Rain Valley to study, after discussing it with major MacConley, Xu Yi wrote a letter back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have Bordeau and the other magic mechanical engineers in charge of the Magic Trebuchet toe to Anvilmar City.

    They would work with the researchers who were currently in Anvilmar City for the certification exam, that way they could conduct a detailed appraisal of this Magic Trebuchet.

    Other than confirming the source of this Magic Trebuchet, they had to assess the might and quality of this Magic Trebuchet. They had to guarantee that if the northern army fought with the Sack Kingdom again and they encountered this Magic Trebuchet, they had some ideas of how to deal with it.

    After doing these things, the morning had passed. Xu Yi rejected major MacConley¡¯s invitation for a meal at the training grounds and got into his rented horse carriage, heading to the south Anvilmar City gate.

    Looking up at the sky and seeing that the cold winter sun was already above his head, Xu Yi felt that the time was about right.

    As expected, after waiting for ten minutes, on the road connecting to the south of Anvilmar City, there were several dozen Magic Cars that were driving across the t surface.

    Although the people of Anvilmar City knew from the various newspapers that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the Magic Cars, and they frequently saw Magic Cars moving between Banta City and Anvilmar City, this was their first time seeing such arge motorcade. The people on the sides of the road couldn¡¯t help stopping and looking at the motorcade in a daze.

    The one at the front of the motorcade was a passenger Magic Car. It slowed down when it approached Xu Yi and stopped by Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    When the door opened, the one who came out was Kennard.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the first batch of goods is here. Do you want to look it over?¡± Kennard asked with a smile.

    ¡°When have I ever felt unassured when you handle things?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile. He looked at the two passenger Magic Cars following and saw a bunch of slender young girls with two rabbit ears and a long furry tail on their butte out.

    ¡°Still had you bring the New Moon Troupe in the end?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, she said that since sir chairman is in Anvilmar City, she knew that you would arrange everything and she of course couldn¡¯t miss this chance, so she had the New Moon Troupee with me. Sir chairman, how do you want to arrange them?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a good thing I¡¯m already prepared.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Let theme into the city with me and as for their living arrangements.....¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard and then asked, ¡°Right, shouldn¡¯t you go home first? What about Sophia? Why didn¡¯t shee back with you?¡±

    ¡°Sophia said that since you weren¡¯t there, she would look after Still for you, so she didn¡¯te back.¡± Kennard said with a smile.

    ¡°She¡¯s taking care of Still?¡± Xu Yi had a look of disbelief, ¡°It would already be good if she didn¡¯t cause trouble for Still......¡±

    Kennardughed, ¡°I think that since she hadn¡¯t left that long, she¡¯s not willing toe back yet. As for taking care of Still.....I think it will be hard for her.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He tilted his head and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar figureing out of the Magic Car.

    ¡°Linda, why are you here?¡± Xu Yi was surprised to see Linda who was curiously looking around and asked, ¡°Why aren¡¯t you at home taking care of Still? What are you doing here?¡±

    Linda looked around before looking at Xu Yi. Her face turned a bit red as she lowered her head and said in a low voice, ¡°It was the madame who had mee.¡±

    ¡°Still made youe? Why?¡± Xu Yi was more confused.

    ¡°The madame said that since you would be away for a long time and would need to go to Sowell City, you can¡¯t just not have anyone serve you, so she had mee.¡± Linda replied.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t my first time leaving home alone for so long, what is there to serve?¡± Xu Yi rolls his eyes.

    Linda looked up before quickly looking down again, saying in an even smaller voice, ¡°The madame said.....For master¡¯s trip to Sowell City, you should be meeting Princess Caroline......¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before quickly understanding, finding this a bit angering and a bit funny.

    ¡°Alright, so she was worried about this, so she sent you as an observer.....¡± Xu Yi shook his head before looking at the worried Linda. He gave a sigh, ¡°Forget it, since she sent you here, you can stay. Having someone I can rely on by my side would save me quite a bit of trouble.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Linda happily gave a reply and quickly stood by Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you still haven¡¯t said how you¡¯re arranging the beastmen girls from the New Moon Troupe.¡± Kennard reminded him.

    ¡°Oh......¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the beastmen girls who were looking around with gazes even more curious than Linda¡¯s. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°Let them live with me at Count Sean¡¯s residence, it¡¯ll be more convenient for me to arrange things for them.¡±

    ¡°Alright. Then sir chairman, when are you nning to leave for Sowell City?¡± Kennard then asked.

    ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, I¡¯ll participate in the certification exam tomorrow morning and I¡¯ll set off at noon. Count Sean must be getting impatient.¡±

    ¡°I understand, I will take care of everything else.¡± Kennard said with a nod.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. Since Kennard became the CEO of thepany, he really saved quite a bit of time and energy. For example, for Count Sean¡¯s invitation this time to go to Sowell City to invest in a production base, there were many things to take care of, but Xu Yi just had to tell Kennard and he could ignore everything as he let Kennard take care of it. Moreover, he had smoothly brought over all the needed manpower.

    Moreover, Xu Yi could feel relieved leaving the matters of Anvilmar City to Kennard, he didn¡¯t need to stay here for long.

    ¡°It¡¯s been hard on you over the past few days. Go and see your parents, then go take a rest.¡± Xu Yi patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder to show his appreciation.

    ¡°This can¡¯t be considered hard. Sir chairman, I think when I get back, lord father might invite you to be a guest at our family. Are you willing?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why wouldn¡¯t I be?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that you would be here soon, I would have visited Count Emma during these days. But as for the specific time, I have to rush to Sowell City soon.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I will discuss this with father.¡±

    After these greetings, Kennard brought these Magic Cars filled with products to the warehouse that Xu Yi had already rented outside the city. Xu Yi took two passenger Magic Cars with him, bringing Linda and the beastmen girls from the New Moon Troop into Anvilmar City.

    The two Magic Cars attracted countless gazes on the road and when they stopped at Count Sean¡¯s residence, there was a crowd. When the cute beastmen girls jumped out of the car, there were even more gazes that were attracted.

    After Xu Yi got out, a middle aged man came out of the crowd and asked Xu Yi in a loud voice, ¡°Hello, I am reporter Rector from the ?Anvilmar Times?, may I ask if you¡¯re the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi?¡±

    ¡°Yes, am Xu Yi. Hello, reporter Rector.¡± Xu Yi politely greeted him.

    Rector¡¯s face was shining as he looked over the beastmen girls behind Xu Yi and he asked with an interested look, ¡°Chairman Xu, based on the appearance of these girls, they should be from the beastmen race, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you can see it from their appearances. Theye from the fox n, the cat n, the leopard n, and other ns respectively, they are all young girls from beastmen ns.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, the surrounding people were shocked.

    To most humans, the beastmen were ugly and violent, but these beastmen girls were quite pure and beautiful. Adding in the beastmen characteristics they had, it made them even cuter. They didn¡¯t look cruel and violent at all.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I know that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hires many workers from other races, are these beastmen girls also employees of yourpany? What kind of work do they do in yourpany?¡± Rector asked.

    ¡°No, they are members of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s New Moon Troupe, they are unrted to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°New Moon Troupe?¡± Rector looked surprised, ¡°Could it be that these beastmen girls dance and sing?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Xu Yi smiled before turning to wave his hand at a fox girl, ¡°Come, Avril, give everyone a song.¡±

    Being stared at by the crowd, Avril had a bit of stage fright, but she worked up the courage after Xu Yi patted her shoulder and she opened her mouth.

    A simple and beautiful voice with a strong charm came from Avril¡¯s mouth. The people who heard it had their hairs stand on end. It made them feel veryfortable listening to it and made their hearts itch.

    Without knowing why, the surrounding people were attracted by this singing and they all listened with rapt attention.

    Seeing the reaction of the crowd, Xu Yi nodded in satisfaction.

    When he had heard Avril sing for the first time, he was more surprised and also deeply attracted.

    Now that he had seen this response in her first appearance, the fame of the New Moon Troupe would definitely explode.

    With such a strong advertising base, the New Moon Troupe would find it much easier to establish a new image for beastmen.

 Volume 3 116 - Neglect

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 116 Neglect</h4>

    The level of technology on the Sines Continent was inferior to earth. The so-called embassy naturally wasn¡¯t as grand as the embassy on earth, but as one of the few countries that was at peace with the Lampuri Kingdom, the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy in Anvilmar City wasn¡¯t small.

    But the West Hack Kingdom clearly didn¡¯t care about this embassy. The entire embassy was like a normal residence, other than a g hanging on it that represented the West Hack Kingdom, there wasn¡¯t anything else that made it feel like an important building.

    Xu Yi had heard on earth that when a country constructs an embassy in another country, since it represented their country¡¯s image, they would attach great importance to it.

    These words seem to also apply on the Sines Continent. To Xu Yi, the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy in the Lampuri Kingdom was this normal was most likely not because they didn¡¯t care about their country¡¯s image, rather they didn¡¯t care about the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After all, the West Hack Kingdom was one of the kingdoms that couldpare to the Candra or the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom that had finally regained some strength after ten years of chaos, they were not on the same level. So when Xu Yi arrived at the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy, although they treated him very warmly and the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s ambassador had greeted him with a smile, Xu Yi could easily feel the disdain from his actions.

    Xu Yi thought that the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy sending people to invite him meant there was something important to discuss, but after seeing the scene, if he didn¡¯t see a few acquaintances at the banquet, he would have turned to leave since he didn¡¯t want to waste his time here.

    ¡°Chairman Rank, based on how Ambassador Palomas treated you, this shouldn¡¯t be your first time being invited to this banquet, right?¡± The first acquaintance that Xu Yi ran into was the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank who also came from Banta City.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, at the end of the year, Ambassador Palomas would invite all our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s merchants. This can be considered drumming up a bit of business for their West Hack Kingdom.¡± Chairman Rank replied. He looked at Xu Yi like he found it funny, ¡°But this Ambassador Palomas might have made a joke this time. It was hard enough to invite chairman Xu here and he¡¯s neglecting you, isn¡¯t he afraid of offending your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s representing the West Hack Kingdom, only we merchants who want something from the West Hack Kingdom are afraid of offending him, how could he be afraid of offending me?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°But no matter what, the West Hack Kingdom really is a market I want to open. Chairman Rank, since we are old friends, can you tell me what the investment environment is like in the West Hack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°The investment environment.....¡± Chairman Rank sipped his red wine before thoughtfully saying, ¡°It is good in general, the West Hack Kingdom hasn¡¯t had any turmoil recently and their politics are stable. The living conditions of the people there are much better than our Lampuri Kingdom and they have better consumption power, so the market is very broad. The only problem is.....¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    Chairman Rank looked at a merchant speaking to Ambassador Palomas and lowered his voice.

    ¡°The West Hack Kingdom¡¯s political situation is very good, but it¡¯s been stable for too long......The officials are bing more and more bold......¡±

    Xu Yi instantly understood.

    Chairman Rank¡¯s words meant that the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s internal problems were very serious.

    Xu Yi pointed at Ambassador Palomas, ¡°What about this Ambassador Palomas?¡±

    Chairman Rank took another sip of his wine and revealed a strange smile, but he didn¡¯t say anything.

    Xu Yi understood and just revealed a smile without asking anything else.

    After chatting to chairman Rank, Xu Yi saw the merchant by Ambassador Palomas leave and he went over.

    ¡°Ambassador Palomas......¡±

    ¡°Ambassador Palomas......¡±

    Two calls came at the same time. It was another Lampuri Kingdom merchant who came over and called Ambassador Palomas at the same time as Xu Yi.

    The two were surprised as they looked at each other. Xu Yi found that the person who had the same idea as him was the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Colmar Rundst.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Rundst, hello. I saw you earlier, but I never had time to greet you.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to wave at him.

    Chairman Rundst returned Xu Yi¡¯s smile and looked at Ambassador Palomas before giving Xu Yi a nod, ¡°Since you have a matter for the ambassador, then you can talk to him first. Sir ambassador, I¡¯lle find youter.¡±

    After saying this, chairman Rundst raised his wine ss to Xu Yi and Ambassador Palomas before turning to leave.

    Ambassador Palomas took a look at chairman Rundst before turning to look at Xu Yi in surprise.

    The Walmart Chamber of Commerce was a first sspany in the Lampuri Kingdom, of course he recognized chairman Rundst.

    To Ambassador Palomas, the merchants that canpare to chairman Rundst in the Lampuri Kingdom could be counted on one hand. In a normal situation, it should be the small merchant he didn¡¯t recognize in front of him that made the concession.

    But unexpectedly, the one who retreated was actually chairman Rundst!

    When he remembered chairman Rundst¡¯s attitude towards Xu Yi, Ambassador Palomas put away his contempt for Xu Yi and revealed a faint smile, ¡°May I ask who you are.....¡±

    ¡°Sir ambassador, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Ambassador Palomas had a thoughtful look before a smile bloomed on his face and he said in a warm voice, ¡°So it was chairman Xu, hello, hello.¡±

    Based on his reactions, Xu Yi could easily tell that this fellow definitely didn¡¯t know who he was.

    ¡°It seems like ourpany still isn¡¯t famous enough.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering in his heart. He had the same smile as he said, ¡°Sir ambassador, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is apany that produces magic machines. Our current products include......¡±

    ¡°I know, it¡¯s the Magic Fans and the Magic Freezers, right?¡± Ambassador Palomas cut Xu Yi off without any courtesy, ¡°Your Lampuri Kingdom has had manypanies that produce these things in the past two years. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is one of thosepanies that¡¯s doing quite well, am I right?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny.

    He could tell from the ambassador¡¯s words that not only did he not know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t understand the magic machine industry at all.

    He actually said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was one of thepanies that were doing well.....This industry was established by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, alright!

    Xu Yi was very doubtful now. The invitation to the banquet was not from this ambassador, perhaps he didn¡¯t even bother with them at all.

    Otherwise, how could he be this ignorant?

    Although he was filled with disdain towards this Ambassador Palomas, Xu Yi still maintained a respectful smile as he replied, ¡°Yes, ourpany is doing quite well. So, sir ambassador, do you think......ourpany is qualified to invest in the West Hack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Qualified?¡± Ambassador Palomas looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Is yourpany qualified to invest in our West Hack Kingdom? Chairman Xu, this is not something to joke about. You have to know, even a casual investment would mean several hundred thousand gold coins.

    Xu Yi gave a nod with a smile, ¡°Yes, I understand. Ourpany is nning to invest a million gold coins right now to build two factories, producing some household magic machines for ourpany. Sir ambassador, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°A million gold coins?¡± Ambassador Palomas looked at Xu Yi in surprise. He clearly never thought that this young looking fellow would immediately open with a million gold coins!

    Hearing this figure, the somewhat careless Ambassador Palomas suddenly revealed a bright smile as he led Xu Yi to a corner in the hall.

    ¡°Come,e, chairman Xu, let¡¯s sit and talk......¡±

    ......

    Half an hourter, Xu Yi returned to the crowd in the hall with a faint smile.

    Chairman Rank was the first one toe over.

    ¡°How is it? Did you reach a deal with him?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s only in the preliminary stages.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But Ambassador Palomas really is passionate. After talking to him, it even makes me feel guilty if I didn¡¯t invest in the West Hack Kingdom.¡±

    Chairman Rankughed, ¡°To the West Hack Kingdom and to him, there are plenty of benefits, so of course he is passionate. How about it? When he was talking to you, did he......¡±

    Chairman Rank raised a brow and signaled with his eyes, not clearly saying what he wanted to express.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°After all, he is the ambassador, so how could he be impatient. But from the ambassador¡¯s warm disy, I can deeply feel his sincerity and will give my best response.¡±

    Chairman Rankughed, but he didn¡¯t ask how Xu Yi replied to ambassador Palomas. He just said with a nod, ¡°I have to admit, although the people of the West Hack Kingdom are a bit greedy, as long as you can satisfy them, you can rely on them to handle things.¡±

    ¡°That is good.¡± Xu Yi praised, ¡°I¡¯m most afraid of greedy and useless fellows, they are the worst.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re talking about the Stantine Duchy?¡± Chairman Rank looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh and shook his head before saying with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a long story. In short, as an old friend, I really hope that our Banta City colleagues won¡¯t invest in the Stantine Duchy, you would be asking for trouble.¡±

    Chairman Rank patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about the Stantine Duchy. Chairman Xu, the Sack Kingdom business that I mentionedst time, are you still interested?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up in surprise at chairman Rank¡¯s wrinkled and glowing old face, suddenly there was an idea that popped in his mind.

    It can¡¯t be, right.....

 Volume 3 117 - Not taking the high end road

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 117 Not taking the high end road</h4>

    Xu Yi quickly threw away his own guesses.

    The Sarank Chamber of Commerce had been established for close to a hundred years, they had developed from a smallpany to one of the biggestpanies in Banta City, even gaining footing in the entire Lampuri Kingdom. For apany like this, they definitely wouldn¡¯t take the risk of betraying the country by selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets to the Sack Kingdom, there were no benefits for them.

    Even if the Sarank Chamber of Commerce had this idea, they didn¡¯t have this ability.

    Since the Rem matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been very strict about protecting their technology. Without passing a test and bing truly trusted, they wouldn¡¯t be able to touch this technology at all.

    To think that the Sarank Chamber of Commerce sent a spy to steal the data, it was more likely that the core researchers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had betrayed them.

    And the people who could touch this research at will could be counted on a single hand. They were the magic research facility¡¯s chief Evita, the top grade researcher Great Magician Cami, the magic machine development center¡¯s manager Camby, and Xu Yi himself.

    Xu Yi definitely didn¡¯t believe that Evita, Great Magician Cami, or Camby would betray thepany. The Sack Kingdom being able to manufacture that Magic Trebuchet was most likely them getting some materials on the Magic Trebuchet from another channel and then making this from that.

    As for this channel......Xu Yi didn¡¯t state it clearly in front of major MacConley, but he was seriously doubting the northern army, or even the army headquarters.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, is there a need to consider this long?¡± After seeing Xu Yi being in thought for so long after hearing his question, chairman Rank couldn¡¯t help asking this in a confused voice.

    ¡°Ah? Oh.....¡± Xu Yi reacted and said with a smile, ¡°Of course I¡¯m interested, but chairman Rank, is the business channel between you and the Sack Kingdom safe? If we transport arge amount of cargo to the Sack Kingdom, but they found an excuse to confiscate all of it, that would be arge loss.¡±

    Chairman Rankughed, ¡°Rx, I haven¡¯t been in this business for only a day or two. Moreover, other than our Sarank Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t anotherpany that can do something like this. Actually, there is arge demand for magic machines on the Sack Kingdom side and the people on the side have requested this many times. If it wasn¡¯t too inconvenient, they would even want to personally contact you.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded before giving some thought, ¡°Alright, give me some time to consider this. When I return from Sowell City, I¡¯ll give you a response.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Chairman Rank nodded before asking, ¡°Speaking of this, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is investing in Sowell City, so you should be heading to meet Count Sean, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course, Count Sean is now Sowell City¡¯s City Lord and he has always supported our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So now that he wants to develop Sowell City and needs our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support, of course I wouldn¡¯t reject.¡±

    Chairman Rank was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Sowell City isn¡¯t far from the Sack Kingdom. If you¡¯re willing to trade with the Sack Kingdom, it¡¯s easier to open the channel from Sowell City. Chairman Xu, you can discuss this matter with Count Sean when you meet him, I think that the Lord Count should support this.¡±

    ¡°I will.¡±

    After he finished discussing this, Xu Yi found that there was no meaning for him to stay at this banquet, so he found an excuse to leave early.

    When he returned to the residence, he found that two Magic Cars containing the girls from the New Moon Troupe were alsoing back.

    Xu Yi was attending the banquet at the West Hack Kingdom¡¯s embassy tonight, so he also arranged for the beastmen girls to attend a banquet that Hannas was hosting. His goal was to let the New Moon Troupe gain a bit of fame among the Anvilmar City nobles.

    However, based on the unhappy looks on the faces of the beastmen, this seemed to have failed.

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas who came out of the first Magic Car with a confused look.

    ¡°What happened?¡±

    Hannas had an awkward look on his face. He gave a sigh and shook his head before pointing at the door of the residence.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go in and talk.¡±

    After having Housekeeper Lahm arrange for the girls to rest in the other rooms, Xu Yi and Hannas went into Xu Yi¡¯s room.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s questioning gaze, Hannas gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°Xu Yi, sorry, I might have screwed up tonight.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°What does that mean? Why do you say you screwed up?¡±

    ¡°I nned for the New Moon Troupe to sing and dance at my banquet to add to the fun. I thought that with their dancing, their singing, the beautiful appearance of the beastmen girls, and their uniqueness of being from the beastmen race, the nobles would definitely like them......¡±

    ¡°In the end?¡± Xu YI was a bit curious, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that the nobles of this city would dislike these beastmen girls.¡±

    ¡°They indeed liked them, but.....they liked them too much.¡± Hannas said with a bitter smile, ¡°After seeing the dance performance, several nobles directly asked me to sell these beastmen girls to them.¡±

    ¡°Sell?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Did they treat these beastmen girls as your ves?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Hannas said with a sigh, ¡°But you can¡¯t me them since when beastmen girls appeared in our human society before, they were ves and there were no other possibilities. Moreover, these beastmen girls are this young and beautiful, so they all thought that these were beastmen ves that I obtained.¡±

    ¡°And then? How did you respond?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course I rejected them.¡± Hannas immediately replied, ¡°I told them that these beastmen girls were from the New Moon Troupe, they were not ves. They worked as performers and they were no different from the other performance troupes in the city.¡±

    ¡°This exnation is very correct, so how did you mess up afterwards?¡±

    Hannas gave a cold snort as a trace of anger appeared on his face.

    ¡°Those fellows, there really is no cure for them! Although I clearly exined it, they didn¡¯t care at all. They even tried to touch these beastmen girls in front of me, so I got angry and argued with the worst fellows on the spot. In the end they left the banquet in a bad mood, so naturally I messed up.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Hannas with a somewhat helpless look. He was at least a tycoon in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s newspaper business, how could he be this hot blooded and so impulsive?

    But Hannas couldn¡¯t have been considered wrong from his standpoint, rather he felt that Hannas did very well.

    As a noble of Anvilmar City, Hannas actually fought with the other nobles for these beastmen girls. It was enough to see that he took the matter Xu Yi handed him very seriously.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi patted Hannas¡¯ shoulder and honestly said, ¡°It¡¯s been hard on you. If it wasn¡¯t to help me, you wouldn¡¯t have had a conflict with those nobles.¡±

    ¡°Humph, those fellows really were too much. Even if it wasn¡¯t for you and the beastmen girls, I wouldn¡¯t have been able to keep watching!¡±

    Seeing Hannas who was filled with righteous indignation, Xu Yiughed. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°This matter is my fault if we¡¯re being honest. Based on the situation you just mentioned, I overestimated some qualities of the nobles in the city. In the end, I made the New Moon Troupe walk on the wrong path.¡±

    ¡°You mean you don¡¯t want to take the high end route? Then how will you quickly integrate the New Moon Troupe into Anvilmar City?¡± Hannas asked in a daze.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°We actually ignored a problem. The goal of establishing the New Moon Troupe was to let the people in the kingdom change their views of beastmen, so even if these beastmen girls aren¡¯t epted by the nobles, it¡¯s fine as long as they are epted by the people. Just based on this, we have a very big advantage.¡±

    ¡°What advantage?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at Hannas, ¡°It¡¯s you.¡±

    ¡°Me?¡± Hannas pointed at himself in a daze. After thinking about it, he suddenly thought it through and gave a strong p, ¡°Right, I have the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? under me, I can just give them some advertising. I say, Xu Yi, you must have thought of this in the beginning, so why didn¡¯t you have me advertise for them? Could it be that you¡¯re not willing to spend the money?¡±

    ¡°I said it before, I overestimated the nobles of Anvilmar City.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s a good thing we have time to change this. Come, Hannas, let me tell you what to do. The first step is to start with public performances......¡±

    ......

    Half an hourter, Xu Yi finished his instructions.

    Hannas looked at Xu Yi for a while before slowly shaking his head. He said in a voice of praise, ¡°Xu Yi, although I¡¯ve been taught by you many times, I still want to say, how did you grow that brain? Why are there so many strange ideas? Clearly......Clearly these ideas are all useful!¡±

    ¡°This is called talent, you can¡¯t be envious.¡± Xu Yi gave a proud smile, ¡°How about it? Do you think this is feasible?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Hannas nodded, ¡°I even suspected that you didn¡¯t care about the New Moon Troupe, otherwise you would have already thought of this great idea.¡±

    ¡°The New Moon Troupe is under Still¡¯s name, so how could I casually interfere in her work? Other than that, you should help me hide my involvement in this and say that you came up with this idea. I¡¯ll just give the New Moon Troupe to you and you can take care of them, understand?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Hannas was surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Because this work is very important to Still, I don¡¯t want her to know that I helped. To her and her enthusiasm......as well as confidence, it might harm them, so I don¡¯t want to see that happen.¡±

    Hannas looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes for a while and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He said with a soft sigh, ¡°Still really is lucky to have you as a husband. If I was a girl, I might even fall in love with you.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Scram, damn homo!¡±

 Volume 3 118 - The allure of high wages

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 118 The allure of high wages</h4>

    The Magicians Guild certification exam had alreadysted for ten days and only then did they finish the Fifth Grade and lower exams.

    ording to the stats of the Magicians Guild, in thest ten days, there were over seven thousand Fifth Grade and below magicians that had taken the exam!

    In these seven thousand magicians, there were close to five thousand Primary and Second Grade Magicians.

    Only the two thousand remaining were from Third to Fifth Grade Magicians.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s standard, magicians that wanted to join the magic research facility had to be at least a Third Grade Magician. Otherwise without having understood some basic fundamental theories of magic, they naturally couldn¡¯t develop the Magic Arrays that had precise requirements.

    But Primary and Second Grade Magicians were qualified to do the simplest work of engraving Magic Arrays. If they join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were responsible for the core work of engraving the Magic Arrays onto magic machines. They received a higher wage than normal workers and were more important.

    So in these ten days, Xu Yi kept advertising in the ?Anvilmar Times? through Hannas, recruiting the magicians in the city.

    The results had been quite good.

    In ten days, there were over a thousand magicians that requested to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For these magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce organized them into a group every two days, sending them back to Banta City with the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s Magic Cars. They went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base in the Falling Rain Valley to be tested.

    Based on the reports, there were over five hundred magicians that had immediately signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, officially bing workers.

    The only regret was that the ones who had received Evita¡¯s approval and joined the magic research facility numbered twenty four.

    But even if there were only twenty four, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility became stronger. Evita and Akali were very happy with these people.

    Akali even dered that after returning to thepany, she would choose a few assistants from these people and no one was allowed to steal from her.

    ¡°If you don¡¯t want others to steal them, you should go back early. Otherwise, aren¡¯t you afraid that the other research teams will snatch up all these new researchers?¡± Xu Yi said to Akali who was brandishing her little fist, like she was prepared to fight anyone who would steal for her.

    ¡°Humph, like they would dare!¡± Akali wrinkled her little nose as she looked at Xu Yi. After having a thought, she grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm with a smile, ¡°Of course,pared to this, it¡¯s more important to personally witness sir chairman¡¯s exam. Right, sir chairman, how confident are you in passing the Ninth Grade Magician exam?¡±

    ¡°I remember that I¡¯m only participating in the Eighth Grade Magician exam.....Then again, before taking the exam, how could I say that I¡¯m confident.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and pulled his arm away. He looked at Evita on the side, ¡°Then that means you two are nning to leave after you see the results of my exam?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Evita gave a slight nod, ¡°You are our chairman. Since you want to take the exam, everyone wants to receive the good news from you before leaving.....¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s quite the pressure on me.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If I m my face and can¡¯t even pass the Eighth Grade exam, wouldn¡¯t I lose face?¡±

    ¡°Pei, pei, pei, sir chairman, can you not talk such nonsense?¡± Akali quickly stopped Xu Yi and after calming down, she said in a loud voice with a serious and fervent look, ¡°I dare guarantee that you¡¯ll pass the Ninth Grade Exam! Do you have confidence?¡±

    Seeing her appearance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He gave her a high five and loudly said, ¡°I¡¯m very confident!¡±

    ¡°Good, then go!¡±

    Xu Yi gave Akali a salute.

    ¡°Chief Evita, this subordinate is heading out now!¡±

    Evita gave augh and Akali¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help twisting as she broke out inughter.

    Xu Yiughed and turned to enter the exam site with the magicians who had been curiously looking at the three of them.

    It was different from when Xu Yi participated in the exam the year beforest. There were only a hundred people who participated in the exam with Xu Yi the year beforest, but once Xu Yi entered the exam site, he found that it was filled with people. They were all wearing the purple robes that low grade magicians couldn¡¯t wear.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t participate in the examst year, he heard Great Magician Cami say that the one in charge of the High Grade examst year was president Eren alone.

    This year was like the year beforest, all five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom were here.

    Xu Yi looked at president Eren sitting in the middle. He thought, in the original conference between the five Great Magicians, it should be one Great Magician in charge of the exam, but there were many more magicians taking the exam this year, so they might have forced all five Great Magicians out.

    Based on this, didn¡¯t president Eren suffer a lossst year?

    Perhaps he could sense the strangeness in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, but president Eren looked at Xu Yi and gave him a smile and a nod, looking quite friendly.

    Xu Yi nodded back with a faint smile, but he was thinking about what Kennard said to him before.

    President Eren¡¯s son Anke Eren had set up a magic machinepany in Anvilmar City, which was a result of president Eren working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This wasn¡¯t a problem, but the performance of their Magic Fans were only a bitckingpared to the Frestech Brand, far surpassing the other Magic Fans in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many simr deals with otherpanies, but only their Magic Fans had such quality. It was impossible for it to not attract the doubt of Kennard and vignce of Xu Yi.

    Thinking of Alex, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and gave a sigh in his heart.

    It was a good thing that Alex came looking for him yesterday, saying that he was willing to return to Banta city and change his job at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters. Otherwise, if he continued doing what he did before, Xu Yi really didn¡¯t know what to say to Heinz.

    After a while, the official beginning of the exam came. The staff announced the beginning of the exam and Xu Yi arrived in front of Great Magician Teli in charge of the Eighth Grade exam.

    Although there were over a thousand people at the exam, there were only thirty people who were here for the Eighth Grade exam.

    Xu Yi was an outlier in this group. One, it was because he was only thirty and he was surrounded by a bunch of old magicians with silver hair. Two, it was because he didn¡¯t have any certification of a magician, he wasn¡¯t even wearing the magic robe that he should have been wearing in this exam.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t just have fame among the kingdom¡¯s merchants, he was also famous among magicians.

    Three years ago when Xu Yi first participated in the exam, he had be a Fifth Grade Magician, shocking the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    When Xu Yi participated two years ago, he passed the Seventh Grade Magician exam.

    Such a shocking speed of increase had shocked all the magicians in the kingdom.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t participatest year, since he was here this year, all the magicians that knew him knew that he was confident in passing the Eighth Grade exam, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t be here.

    Although Xu Yi was an outlier among these magicians, that didn¡¯t stop the magicians giving him kind smiles.

    Even if it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi¡¯s strength or to give Great Magician Cami face, just based on Xu Yi¡¯s identity as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, it was worth others smiling at him.

    It had to be known, the ?Anvilmar Times? released arge piece of news a few days ago. Great Magician Cami was actually earning a shocking ten thousand gold coins a year at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Although Great Magician Cami was Xu Yi¡¯s grandfather inw, so they had this rtionship and this wage was most likely a joke, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researcher wages weren¡¯t fake.

    ording to the reports of the ?Anvilmar Times?, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s junior researchers could earn twenty five gold coins a month and chief Evita was currently earning more than eighty gold coins a month!

    Adding in the bonuses, Evita was earning close to two thousand gold coins a year!

    Thinking about it, the Lampuri Kingdom only gave two thousand gold coins a year to Great Magicians, but Evita was only a Fifth Grade Magician and could earn almost two thousand gold coins a year at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    What about a magician at an even higher grade?

    Seeing the magicians smiling at him, Xu Yi returned their smiles with an even friendlier smile.

    Although they had recruited over five hundred low grade magicians a few days ago, Xu Yi had always focused on research, so Sixth Grade and higher magicians were more important to him.

    These High Grade magicians had more understanding of magic, so if he could recruit them to the magic research facility, they would definitely be useful in developing new magic machines.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to study countless kinds of magic machines, so Xu Yi felt that even if he recruited all the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, it wouldn¡¯t be enough.

    Since there was this two way choice, everyone had this mentality and the scene was quite harmonious.

    However at this time, there was a cold snort from the crowd.

    ¡°This fellow clearly isn¡¯t a magician, why did he evene here? Is the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild this careless in doing things?¡±

 Volume 3 119 - Bucares who always said the wrong thing

    <strong>Volume 3 Chapter 119 Bucares who always said the wrong thing</strong>

    Everyone looked in the direction of the voice in surprise. They found that the one who spoke was a very thin magician who was as tall as a child with half his hair turning white.

    Great Magician Teli who was in charge of the Eighth Grade exam knit his brows and looked at the report in his hand before saying in a deep voice, ¡°You are Bucares from the Mirando Duchy? I don¡¯t me you for doubting Xu Yi since you don¡¯t know him, but you actually dare doubt our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild? Who gave you this courage?¡±

    The thin magician named Bucares slightly raised his head and gave a cold snort, ¡°So what? Your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild won¡¯t let anyone speak the truth? This kid doesn¡¯t seem like a magician no matter how you look at him, so why is he here? This is simply an insult to us magicians participating in the exam!¡±

    The other magicians present looked at each other before rolling their eyes, finding this a bit funny.

    ¡°Hey, didn¡¯t Great Magician Teli say that it isn¡¯t your fault if you don¡¯t recognize Xu Yi? But now that Great Magician Teli even mentioned Xu Yi¡¯s name and you¡¯re still saying this, I think that you¡¯re the one insulting our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, right?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t even know Xu Yi and you¡¯re not embarrassed about speaking nonsense, you really don¡¯t know the depths of heaven and earth.¡±

    ¡°Looking down on Xu Yi? He might be young, but he is a genius. You¡¯re much older than him, but your magic power might not be able to match him.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, even I can¡¯t guarantee that I¡¯m stronger than Xu Yi, so how are you this confident in insulting him?¡±

    ¡°This is simply a joke......¡±

    ......

    The words of the surrounding magicians made Bucares¡¯ face turn white and green, not being able to say anything for a long time.

    Based on the response of Great Magician Teli and the surrounding people, he had clearly said the wrong thing. This kid who didn¡¯t seem like a magician at all was famous in the Lampuri Kingdom, even being famous as a genius among magicians.

    This was clearly his mistake, but you have him admit it in front of everyone and apologize to Xu Yi, he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Although he wanted to turn and leave, it was hard enough for him toe to this certification exam. If he left just like this, this would be a waste of an opportunity.

    Even if he was a Seventh Grade Magician, it wasn¡¯t easy toe to Anvilmar City from the Mirando Duchy, so he couldn¡¯t waste this chance.

    Seeing Bucares¡¯ expression bing awkward from everyone¡¯s words, Xu Yi who was the cause couldn¡¯t take it. With a smile, he came to Bucares¡¯ side and stretched out his hand.

    ¡°Hello, magician Bucares, please let me introduce myself. I am Xu Yi, a magician, but I am also the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. Actually, you were not wrong, I don¡¯t indeed think of myself as a magician because I care more about my identity as a merchant.¡±

    Great Magician Teli couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brow.

    In front of a group of magicians, Xu Yi openly admitted that he cared more about his identity as a merchant than his identity as a magician, this would have some adverse effect on the Magicians Guild.

    But Xu Yi had already said this and most magicians had recognized Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, so he endured it and didn¡¯t point out this problem.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman?¡±

    Bucares looked at Xu Yi in a daze. Seeing the honest smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, the prejudice in his heart against him faded and he even had a favourable impression of him.

    ¡°You can take the Eighth Grade exam at your age, you must have an extraordinary talent for magic, so why are you the chairman of apany? Right, you said the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? I seemed to have heard of thispany before.....¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a smile, ¡°You are the first one who said this to me. But in realitypared to magic, I prefer studying magic machines, so my main identity is that of a merchant.¡±

    ¡°Magic machines? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Bucares knit his brows in thought before his eyes suddenly lit up, ¡°I remember now! Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces magic machines, right? This thing is quite popr in your Lampuri Kingdom and it¡¯s frequently mentioned by the people of our Mirando Duchy. I remember.....there were several magic machines at the Duke¡¯s Manorst time.¡±

    ¡°Since you know this, you should know what I do.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°Magician Bucares, what is the appraisal of your Mirando Duchy¡¯s people of our magic machines?¡±

    Bucares shook his head, ¡°Although the level of magic in these things aren¡¯t that great to me, the people of our duchy find them easy to use, so they are very weed. But our Mirando Duchy is very poor, so most people can¡¯t afford to buy these things.¡±

    When he finished, Bucares¡¯ eyes dimmed a bit.

    Xu Yi only paid attention to one part of his words.

    ¡°You think.....the magic machines produced by ourpany don¡¯t have that great of a level of magic?¡±

    Bucares was surprised and quickly realized he made a mistake. He kept waving his hand as he said, ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t mean anything else, I just.....I just feel that the level of magic for these magic machines are quite simple, they are all fundamental applications of magic. I wasn¡¯t trying to decrease the value of the magic machines themselves, don¡¯t misunderstand.¡±

    A Lampuri Kingdom magician on the side gave a cold snort, ¡°You actually dare look down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines? Let me tell you, even with how many magicians are in our Lampuri Kingdom, there are few that canpletely understand them. So you can do it?¡±

    Bucares clearly couldn¡¯t take these words, so hearing this, he immediately stuck his head up and angrily said, ¡°So what? I feel that these magic machines don¡¯t have that high of a level of magic. You not being able to understand it means you have a low level of magic!¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a long sigh.

    As expected, Bucares¡¯ words was like a broom sweeping all the Lampuri Kingdom magicians, causing them to be filled with anger.

    The surrounding Lampuri Kingdom magicians all insulted Bucares.

    ¡°You saw we aren¡¯t good enough? Then why don¡¯t you give it a try? I¡¯m not gonna mention theplicated magic machines, just make a Magic Freezer. If you can understand what is inside, then you can make one and that will be considered your skills!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, look at how poor you are, I know that you haven¡¯t touched a magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before. You still dare say that it is simple in front of everyone?¡±

    ¡°Che, you talk so fierce, but have you ever really studied the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines before? If it was easy to understand, our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯spanies wouldn¡¯t need to ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the technology, right?¡±

    ¡°Let me tell you, if you can understand the technology in the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, arge number ofpanies woulde looking for you. If you¡¯re this powerful, do you believe that you wouldn¡¯t have a problem making several tens of thousands in one year?¡±

    ¡°What tens of thousands, it would be at least several hundred thousand!¡±

    ......

    Bucares was stunned by what everyone said.

    Based on the umted reactions, he had made a mistake once again.

    But with his stubborn character, naturally he wouldn¡¯t admit his loss and retorted back at these people.

    Seeing the magicians arguing with a magician from another region, Great Magician Teli knit his brows. His magic flowed and a bone chilling wind filled the exam site, making everyone feel like they had been frozen.

    Everyone immediately calmed down after being hit with this chill.

    Looking at each other, they realized that they were at the exam. Everyone suppressed the anger in their heart and obediently lined up in front of Great Magician Teli again.

    These magicians were all famous people in their respective cities, but when they came to the Magicians Guild and were standing in front of Great Magician Teli, they could only be cautious and didn¡¯t dare act arrogant at all.

    Seeing that everyone calmed down, Great Magician Teli gave a cold snort. He shot Xu Yi a look before announcing the beginning of the exam.

    It was different from a normal exam. The exam itself was actually quite normal.

    The ones participating were all High Grade magicians, so they had been in the business of magic for several decades and naturally they could see the level of magic another magician used.

    With Great Magician Teli here, the judging was quite easy. A magician only needed to use a few spells before their magic level could be determined, deciding whether they passed the Eighth Grade exam or not.

    More than ten magicians quickly finished their exams and when it was Xu Yi¡¯s turn, everyone turned to him.

    In this entire exam site, Xu Yi was the one that most people paid attention to.

    Because of his age and also because of his identity.

    Thinking about it, if Xu Yi could pass the Eighth Grade exam, that meant he would be an Eighth Grade Magician at the age of thirty.

    Even on the entire Sines Continent, this was a shocking aplishment.

    It had to be known that there were less than ten Eighth Grade Magicians as young as Xu Yi!

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had another important identity, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed this quickly in these years and Xu Yi as the chairman had to spend a lot of time managing it, so naturally he didn¡¯t have as much time to study magic.

    But in this situation, Xu Yi¡¯s magic power could actually grow this quickly.

    If he were to focus on studying magic, then with his shocking talent and the fact that he didn¡¯t need to worry about money, his magic power would increase at an even more shocking rate.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, the youngest Great Magician was thirty seven. With Xu Yi¡¯s current condition, he might be able to break this record!

    ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, start by demonstrating the Eighth Grade Magic that you¡¯ve grasped. You need to sessfully cast three spells, otherwise you won¡¯t be able to pass the exam.¡± Great Magician Teli exhibited a fair appearance, speaking to Xu Yi without emotion.

    Xu Yi nodded and went to the center of the exam site. Under everyone¡¯s gaze, he raised his right hand and a trace of electricity appeared in the center of his palm.

 Volume 3 120 - Rare earth resources

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 120 Rare earth resources</h4>

    As an Eighth Grade Magician, it was the fundamental requirement to grasp High Grade Spells.

    Because he studied magic machines, Xu Yi excelled in Wind Magic, so what he demonstrated to Great Magician Teli was the high grade version of Wind Magic, Lightning Magic.

    Lightning Magic¡¯s essence was speed.

    Not only was the magic as fast as lightning, it also increased the speed of the spell.

    To pass the Eighth Grade Exam, one had to disy an Eighth Grade Lightning Spell without any hindrances at all.

    Not only did Xu Yi demonstrate the ¡°Chain Lightning Spell¡±, the ¡°Explosive Thunder Spell¡±, and the ¡°Purgatory Lightning Net¡± in front of everyone, his speed was incredibly quick and he didn¡¯t pause at all in the middle.

    Seeing him demonstrate these three spells, the surrounding magicians all had shocked and natural looks on their faces.

    They were shocked because Xu Yi had such good control of Eighth Grade Lightning Spells. They were natural because Xu Yi was at the Eight Grade like everyone had guessed.

    Only Bucares was stunned looking at Xu Yi, only showing shock on his face.

    This young kid that didn¡¯t seem like a magician was actually an Eighth Grade Magician!

    Bucares was fifty two this year and he didn¡¯t have confidence that he would pass the Eighth Grade exam this year.

    Compared to Xu Yi, he was simply living like a dog at his old age!

    Thinking of this, Bucares gave a sigh and silently left the crowd. He was prepared to depart while no one noticed him.

    But Xu Yi had already noticed him. Seeing that he was leaving, he loudly called out to stop him.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s call, the other magicians noticed what Bucares was doing and understood what he was thinking.

    Thinking of everything Bucares had said, the other magicians immediately began taunting him without any mercy.

    Bucares was dejected, but he didn¡¯t have the mood to refute them. He looked at Xu Yi and shook his head, preparing to leave without caring about anything.

    Xu Yi pulled him back.

    ¡°Magician Bucares, it¡¯s hard to make this trip. If you go back now, wouldn¡¯t you be wasting this chance?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Bucares saw the honest expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face and thought that after this fellow acted as a magician for too long, did his acting be this good?

    Could it be that he didn¡¯t know that the reason he was suffering today was because of him?

    ¡°It¡¯s embarrassing to stay here, let it be a wasted chance.¡± Bucares shook his head. He waved his arm, wanting to throw Xu Yi off.

    Xu Yi firmly held his arm and wasn¡¯t willing to let go. He even took a step forward and said in a low voice, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you waste your own chance, but do you want to waste the chance of the Mirando Duchy?¡±

    Bucares looked at Xu Yi with a stunned look.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°After the exam, I want to have a talk with you. I¡¯m very interested in the Mirando Duchy. If possible, perhaps ourpany can cooperate with the Mirando Duchy, changing the lives of the citizens living there.¡±

    Bucares looked over Xu Yi with knit brows. He really couldn¡¯t see any fakeness in his actions, so he turned around after hesitating a bit.

    Seeing that he changed his idea, Xu Yi let go of his arm with a smile.

    Xu Yi and Bucares had been talking in a low voice and Xu Yi had used Wind Magic to form an insting barrier, so the magicians around naturally couldn¡¯t hear what they said. They just saw that Bucares had changed his mind after Xu Yi had said a few words, deciding to stay at the exam, so they couldn¡¯t help expressing their admiration.

    Because Xu Yi had kept Bucares here, the other magicians couldn¡¯t just keep insulting him, so the exam proceeded very smoothly.

    After half an hour, everyone finished their exams. Bucares wasn¡¯t very familiar with the three Eighth Grade Spells he used, but Great Magician Teli gave him a ¡°barely passed¡± grade, allowing him to pass the exam. Bucares¡¯ mood became much better and when he talked to Xu Yi, it was his first time revealing a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I just talked to a few other magicians and understand a bit more about your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I have to say that I¡¯m sorry, I underestimated yourpany before.¡± Bucares said in a sincere voice.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, but he quickly waved his hand, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything big, there¡¯s no need to worry.¡±

    Bucares nodded before asking, ¡°But chairman Xu, although based on the introductions of others, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is capable of changing the lives of the people of our Mirando Duchy, I still have a question. Since you are a merchant, you must be trying to gain some benefit from our Mirando Duchy, right? But our duchy is very small and doesn¡¯t have anything special, what benefits will you be gaining?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Everybody and every ce has their special value, just no one has noticed it yet. Perhaps the Mirando Duchy has no value to other people, but I know that the Mirando Duchy has a very unique precious resource.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Bucares looked at Xu Yi with a confused gaze, ¡°I¡¯ve lived in the Mirando Duchy for over fifty years, why have I never heard of this before?¡±

    ¡°That is because no one noticed it before.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But from the various samples brought to me by the caravans that came from the Mirando Duchy, I¡¯ve found this precious resource, which gave me the idea of cooperating with the Mirando Duchy, but I never had a chance before. Now that magician Bucares has appeared, you have granted me this opportunity.¡±

    ¡°What does that mean?¡± Bucares knit his brows, ¡°I¡¯m not the duke, I can¡¯t decide anything in the Mirando Duchy, there¡¯s no use in finding me. If you want to cooperate with the duchy, you should just find the duke. I think that the duke should wee you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Those words are correct, but it is very important to have a breakthrough point. Magician Bucares, you are the most outstanding magician in the Mirando Duchy, this is the most appropriate breakthrough point.¡±

    ¡°I still don¡¯t understand what you mean, I don¡¯t know anything about business.¡± Bucares shook his head, ¡°But if you want to contract our duchy¡¯s duke through me, I would be d to help you.¡±

    ¡°That is enough.¡± Xu Yi paused before pointing at Bucares, ¡°Other than this rare resource, magician Bucares, you are also a kind of very precious resource.¡±

    Bucares knit his brows, feeling a bit unhappy, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t like this kind of joke.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, I won¡¯t kid. Magician Bucares, with my identity as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invite you to work for our magic research facility. May I ask if you¡¯re willing to ept?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Bucares looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    ¡°You just said that the level of magic in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines weren¡¯t that great, right? Then with your strength as an Eighth Grade Magician, you must have some other ideas. So I want to invite you to ourpany, helping our researchers conduct relevant magic machine research.¡±

    Bucares¡¯ face turned red, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re still bearing a grudge?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m sincerely inviting you.¡± Xu Yi quickly shook his head, ¡°For a magician as strong as you, ourpany is always needing people like you. If you don¡¯t believe me, I can sign a contract with you now.¡±

    Bucares looked over Xu Yi doubtfully. After thinking about it, he hesitantly asked, ¡°That......I heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchers have high wages......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If you choose to work for ourpany, I think that with your strength, you will quickly be a senior researcher. At that time, your monthly wage wouldn¡¯t be less than fifty gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Fifty gold coins!¡± Bucares¡¯ eyes popped out. After taking a deep breath, he calmed down and gave a slow nod, ¡°Alright, I will seriously consider it.¡±

    Watching Bucares leave with his head down in deep thought, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    Based on Bucares¡¯ reaction, he definitely must have been moved by the monthly wage.

    If he really decided to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi would naturally be very happy.

    In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, other than Great Magician Cami who was in charge, the strongest researcher was only a Seventh Grade Magician. Most of the other magicians were Fourth or Fifth Grade Magicians like Evita or Akali.

    There was arge gap between them and Great Magician Cami, so this made many projects hard to assign.

    When things were rted to high grade Magic Arrays, only Great Magician Cami could study them. But no matter how strong he was, his time was limited, so it was impossible for him to finish many projects at once.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on developingrge magic machines, they needed to research high grade Magic Arrays, so now the research power of the magic research facility was a bit weak.

    If Bucares joined the magic research facility, it would definitely fill this space.

    The more important thing was that Bucares was a sign, attracting other magicians who were close to bing a Great Magician to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of how he talked to the other High Grade magicians and they all rejected him when he invited them. Then thinking of how moved Bucares was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Just how poor was the Mirando Duchy that an Eighth Grade Magician like Bucares was moved by a wage of only fifty gold coins a month......

    If the Mirando Duchy understood the value of the resources they had, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have be this poor.

    Because this previous resource was even rare on earth, they were called rare earth elements.

 Volume 3 121 - Magic Car shock mitigation system

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 121 Magic Car shock mitigation system</h4>

    A row of over twenty transport Magic Cars and one passenger Magic Car quickly moved across the road in the northeast province of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The cars were much faster than horse carriages, so when the cars jolted on the ground, they couldn¡¯t help shaking.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    There was another deep hole and the rtively small passenger Magic Car trembled, shaking the over ten passengers sitting inside.

    Xu Yi¡¯s butt fell back down on the seat. Even if the specially made soft seats could bnce out most of the shock, it still hurt his butt. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°This road really is too poorly made......¡± Camby sitting by Xu Yi had the strong body of a dwarf, but he couldn¡¯t helpining.

    ¡°This kind of road can be considered a public road?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s much worsepared to the roads by our Banta City. It can¡¯t be that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce skimped on too muchbour and material when they built this road, right?¡±

    ¡°Who is the one who owns this road? If the road is this bad, I think that they¡¯re the ones who should take the main responsibility. This isn¡¯t rted too much to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°How is it not rted? This road was built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the person who owns this road can¡¯t have them build it this poorly, right?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain......¡±

    ......

    The other Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers who came from the magic machine development center all rubbed their butts andined.

    Hearing theirints, Xu Yi opened the window and poked his head out.

    He looked over the surface of the road and the road in front and Xu Yi deeply knitted his brows.

    It was fine if it was just one or two parts that were bad. After all, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s road building techniques couldn¡¯tpare to earth, so the quality of the road would definitely be worse.

    But now that Xu Yi looked over the road, he found that there were bumps all over the road. Other than it being covered in cement which showed that it was a road, it was simply worse than the dirt roads that had been all over the Lampuri Kingdom before.

    Xu Yi turned to the side of the road and after taking two looks, he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

    This road wasn¡¯t even ten centimeters thick, it was no wonder it became this tattered after such a short time.

    That was also because currently the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s main source of transportation was still horse carriages, so their cargo didn¡¯t surpass one ton.

    Trading in this area meant that the cargo vehicles were holding several dozen or even a hundred tons, so they would instantly shatter the cement road under them.

    After criticizing a few times in his heart, Xu Yi took his head back and closed the door, avoiding the cold breeze blowing in. Then he looked down at the map in his hand and searched for a bit, pointing at abel on the map.

    ¡°We should be here, right?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the map.

    Camby looked over, ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. We¡¯ll be in Lamarte City soon.¡±

    ¡°Lamarte City......¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before slightly knitting his brows.

    ording to the information he gathered before, the City Lord of the Lamarte City was from the Will Family. The Will Family were one of the stubborn traditional families and had long announced they were supporting prince Eric, so their attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was bad.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to expand before, building a production base in every city of the Lampuri Kingdom, even proposing to set up a factory in Lamarte City, they had been decisively rejected by the City Lord.

    ¡°I wonder if the state of the road is connected to this......¡± Xu Yi muttered. He turned to Camby to say, ¡°Camby, write this down. After going back, we have to develop a shock mitigation system for the Magic Cars. We can¡¯t count on every road on the continent to be as t as the Falling Rain Road, so we have to make sure that the Magic Cars we produce can adapt to all situations.¡±

    ¡°Shock mitigation system?¡± Camby was stunned, ¡°What do we do with this thing?¡±

    ¡°Un.....It¡¯s hard to describe it, I¡¯ll do some research with the magic research facility when we head back. The preliminary idea is to use cushioning Wind Magic for the body, weakening shock from the road being not t. As for how to do it, I have to study it first when we get back.¡±

    ¡°It mitigates shock for the body?¡± Camby knit his brows, ¡°Then you need to create a space for the Wind Magic, but how will you connect it to the body of the car?¡±

    ¡°Do you still remember the suspended structures I proposed before?¡± Xu Yi reminded him, ¡°Although the passenger Magic Car we are riding now is using this technology, I found that it isn¡¯t enough after traveling on this road. Since there is something as convenient as Wind Magic, we should use it.¡±

    ¡°Un.....Using Wind Magic to make a cushion, it is naturally better than hard springs. But as for how to make this structure......¡± Camby fell into thought for a bit before talking to the researchers beside him.

    These researchers weren¡¯t all dwarves, it included the human researchers who were talented in mechanical engineering who joined after. After hearing Xu Yi propose the shock mitigation system, they excitedly gave their ideas.

    Suddenly, the car was filled with enthusiastic discussion.

    Hearing the lively discussion of Camby and the others, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He didn¡¯t get involved and went back to the map in his hands.

    This map of the Lampuri Kingdom was simr to the one in his study at the Falling Star Manor, there were also parts that were coloured red on it.

    The ces that were covered red represented the cities that magic machine rtedpanies had entered.

    In the area around Banta City, there was arge red spot that covered all of Banta City, as well as Karma City, Saltan City, Norton City, Canberra City, Cramer City, and Anvilmar City. It spread out to several hundred kilometers away from Banta City, which represented the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or apany rted to magic machines had entered those cities.

    Other than the cities being developed, there were many cities in the Lampuri Kingdom marked with a small red circle. It represented that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or magic machine rtedpanies were about to invest in a factory in those cities, integrating them into the influence of the magic machine industry.

    However, there was arge part of the map that remained the same, not being dyed with red.

    Lamarte City was a part of that.

    Seeing this part that wasn¡¯t moved at all, Xu Yi deeply knit his brows.

    These ces weren¡¯t influenced by the quickly growing magic machine industry because these ces all belonged to prince Eric¡¯s sphere of influence.

    The reason why they rejected the magic machine industry was to oppose her highness Seveni and show their support to his highness Eric.

    This was just a political reason, there were no other reasons.

    Xu Yi hated this situation very much, but he was helpless.

    Political factors weren¡¯t something that he could influence, so right now he could only wait and see.

    As for the king who yed a decisive role in this, he had gone into hiding during this time. There were no sounds or any instructions from him.

    Xu Yi was most confused by the fact that even though his highness Eric was reorganizing the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, the king didn¡¯t oppose at all.

    Although major MacConley said that during the times her highness and the two his highnesses were City Lords,the king wouldn¡¯t meddle in their decisions, the Lampuri Kingdom attacking the Sack Kingdom was rted to the entire kingdom. Yet his majesty didn¡¯t say a single word, this was clearly very strange.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t know anything about the military, when the northern army faced the Sack Kingdom before, they could only barely keep up their defenses. When they attacked the Muerto Mountains in the beginning of the year, it was all because of the support of their new equipment.

    Now that prince Eric refused to buy the various military magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, the northern army¡¯s battle efficiency couldn¡¯tpare to before. How could they be able to attack the Sack Kingdom?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that his majesty couldn¡¯t see this, but his majesty didn¡¯t say anything about prince Eric¡¯s actions. This really was too confusing.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that his majesty is nning on watching his highness Eric send himself to his death, right......¡±

    Xu Yi was scared by the terrifying thought that appeared in his mind and quickly shook his head.

    This thought was just too absurd. Even if his majesty was merciless towards his highness Eric, the northern army was innocent. His majesty wouldn¡¯t let the northern army be buried with his highness Eric.

    ¡°Perhaps his highness Eric has some other ns? His majesty should have some idea, so he didn¡¯t express his opinion?¡±

    Xu Yi had juste up with a reasonable exnation when the car shook and stopped.

    ¡°What happened?¡± Xu Yi looked up in surprise, finding that the entire motorcade had stopped.

    There were the sounds of arguing that came from in front.

    Xu Yi the voice of Ankhto who was in charge of the motorcade up front and couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    After a while, one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff in charge of transporting goods ran over.

    Seeing Xu Yi who poked out his head to look at the situation, he said while gasping, ¡°Sir chairman, to road ahead has been sealed!¡±

 Volume 3 122 - Upgrading the road network

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 122 Upgrading the roadwork</h4>

    ¡°Sealed?¡± Xu Yi looked forward in surprise. After thinking about it, he stood up and got out.

    In front of the motorcade, he found that there were a bunch of logs that were used to block the road, keeping the motorcade out.

    Xu Yi looked into the distance to find that there were no signs of construction ahead and that there were several horse carriages

    It seemed like they were the only ones being blocked.

    There were ten soldiers wearing armour behind the blockade and based on the symbol on their chests, they were not from the royal army, but rather they were Lamarte City¡¯s guards.

    The one currently arguing with Ankhto seemed to be a team captain.

    ¡°Ankhto, what is it?¡± Xu Yi looked at Ankhto whose face waspletely red with anger and asked him this.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this fellow actually dares to only block us. I think that they are just trying to make it hard on us!¡± Ankhto pointed at the soldiers and indignantly said, ¡°I clearly saw them letting the horse carriages go through earlier, but they actually stopped us when we tried to go through.¡±

    ¡°Hey, didn¡¯t I just tell you earlier?¡± The team leader pointed at the road behind him, ¡°This road is currently being fixed, so your heavy carriages can¡¯t go on them. Do you not understand that?¡±

    ¡°But I clearly saw arge cargo horse carriage let through, the cargo they had wasn¡¯t any less than ours, right?¡± Ankhto said without giving up.

    ¡°How do you know they are heavier than you?¡± The team captain looked at Ankhto before looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Hey, you are the chairman? Let me tell you, this road is closed, take a detour.¡±

    ¡°Be more polite to our sir chairman! Let me tell you, sir chairman is......¡±

    Xu Yi raised his arm and stopped Ankhto. After thinking for a bit, he came in front of the captain and said with a faint smile, ¡°This official, can we step to the side and talk?¡±

    The captain looked at Xu Yi and gave augh. He waved at Xu Yi and moved to a tree at the side of the road.

    Xu Yi followed him and they came behind the tree. Without another word, he took out a small purse from his chest.

    ¡°Official, can you tell me why this road is sealed?¡±

    The captain didn¡¯t show any courtesy and took the purse. He weighed it and could tell that there were at least twenty gold coins based on the weight. The serious expression on his face disappeared and he revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Hei, about that......Actually I don¡¯t know what is going on.¡± The captain exined with a smile, ¡°In any case, the Lord City Lord gave an order a month ago and said that all Magic Cars weren¡¯t allowed on the road. Before you came, I¡¯ve already stopped the Magic Cars of severalpanies.¡±

    The captain turned back to look at the motorcade on the road and asked in a curious voice, ¡°Speaking of this, whatpany are you from? This is my first time seeing apany with this many Magic Cars.¡±

    ¡°He, he, just a smallpany, this official definitely hasn¡¯t heard of us.¡± Xu Yi vaguely replied before asking, ¡°Official, is there a chance of bending the rules? We¡¯vee this far and if we turn back, it¡¯ll be arge waste of time. Moreover, we wouldn¡¯t be able to find a ce to rest, right?¡±

    While saying this, Xu Yi took out another purse.

    Seeing that this one was much bigger, the captain couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva. After struggling a bit, he still shook his head.

    ¡°No, the Lord City Lord gave a strict order this time. If I let you through, I might be caught by the Lord City Lord.¡±

    Seeing that the captain had a firm look, Xu Yi knew that there wasn¡¯t a chance at all. After thinking about it, he gave a nod. He looked at the distant road before turning back to the cars.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how about it?¡± Ankhto immediately asked in a low voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Turn around, we¡¯ll change roads.¡±

    Ankhto immediately knit his brows, ¡°We¡¯re turning back now? But sir chairman, there is only this road near Lamarte City.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not like we can¡¯t take other roads, then again don¡¯t you think that normal roads would be better than this road?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Ankhto looked at the bumpy road under him and gave a coldugh. He looked back at the ten soldiers standing by the road before turning to get in the car.

    Seeing Ankhto going to the first cargo Magic Car that he was driving to turn it around, Xu Yi returned to the passenger Magic Car in the middle of the motorcade.

    After exining it to Camby and the others, they were all confused.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if they were fixing the roads since such a broken road should be fixed, but why are they only stopping Magic Cars?¡± Camby knit his brows, ¡°Could it be they are going against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the road in the distance and found that he couldn¡¯t even see Lamarte City¡¯s walls. He shook his head and said, ¡°I don¡¯t know. Perhaps there is this reason, but it isn¡¯t important. After all, this ce isn¡¯t Banta City, I¡¯m toozy to waste time negotiating with the Lamarte City¡¯s City Lord. Moreover, like I told Ankhto just now, instead of taking this road, wouldn¡¯t it be better to take the normal dirt roads?¡±

    Everyone in the car broke out inughter.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, such a poor road, it might not even be as smooth as an old dirt road.¡±

    ¡°Che, the old road in our vige is better than this broken road.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll look down on those Amrit Chamber of Commerce fellows when we get back. Making such a broken road, they really aren¡¯t embarrassed.¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t join in their teasing and he opened the map again. His finger fell onto Anvilmar City before connecting it to Sowell City.

    Other than stopping on Lamarte City, his finger also stopped on another two cities.

    The other two cities were simr to Lamarte City, they all rejected the investment request of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to support his highness Eric.

    Xu Yi was now worried that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade was refused entry into Lamarte City, they might meet the same treatment in the other two cities.

    Lamarte City not letting Magic Cars through because they needed to fix the road seemed like there was no problem, but Xu Yi could feel something diforting from this.

    If this matter was Lamarte City aiming at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi needed to consider this problem more.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is going to invest in Sowell City because other than Count Sean inviting them, it was because it was more convenient to cooperate with the Drake Duchy from Sowell City. The more important thing was that this yed a very important role in spreading the magic machine industry across the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So based on this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t make mistakes. He had gathered all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s elites and had evene personally.

    Now that they had been obstructed in Lamarte City, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help considering a very real question.

    Sowell City was over a thousand kilometers from Banta City and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to transport arge amount of people and cargo to invest there, so the transportation problem was the biggest problem.

    To quickly transport things, Magic Cars and roads were necessary.

    But because the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom were funded by the variouspanies or the cities, they were controlled by the cities they linked to.

    For example, if Lamarte City doesn¡¯t want to let Magic Cars pass, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade couldn¡¯t pass.

    If Lamarte City and the other two cities all limit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce trying to transport things from Banta City to Sowell City will be affected.

    So Xu Yi seriously considered this problem. The roadwork in the Lampuri Kingdom should be improved ahead of time.

    Because there were limited funds and there was ack of understanding of the roads, the kingdom¡¯s roads werepleted by the various cities. Although there were over three thousand kilometers of road in the kingdom, they were split into small parts by the various cities.

    ording to the standards of earth, they were only considered county roads, they weren¡¯t even considered provincial roads yet.

    So while they had a roadwork that connected all the cities in the kingdom, there were still many problems.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce met one of these problems today.

    Other than this, because each road invested different amounts in roads, the quality of the roads were different. Adding the fact that the roads only connected cities, there were many twists and turns, so it was much longer than just heading straight towards the city.

    Take the distance between Banta City and Sowell City, there was less than seven hundred kilometers between them, but if one measured in terms of roads, it was over a thousand kilometers of roads. This increased the distance by a half.

    First not mentioning the travel expenses, just the time traveled made Xu Yi feel it was a waste.

    Xu Yi had considered this problem before, but he felt that it wasn¡¯t time yet, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about it.

    Now that he met this problem in Lamarte City, he had to seriously consider how to solve it.

    Xu Yi drew a straight line between Banta City and Sowell City, then he began looking at the situation of thend near that line. He was considering if it was feasible to create a seven hundred kilometer long highway that would be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s first transnational highway.

 Volume 3 123 - You want to betray his highness?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 123 You want to betray his highness?</h4>

    Looking at the motorcade that waspletely made up of Magic Cars disappearing into the distance, the Lamarte City¡¯s third squad captain Kota took out the purse Xu Yi gave him. He counted a total of twenty five gold coins in the purse and he revealed a satisfied smile.

    He turned to look at the subordinates looking at the purse in his hand and he gave a snort, ¡°A bunch of kids who only care about money.¡±

    After saying this, he still took out a gold coin and threw it to them.

    The third squad soldiers who received this coin revealed a smile as they kept thanking Kota.

    Kota scolded them before calling to his adjutant, ¡°Watch properly here. If those fellowse back and still want to go through, stop them for me. If even a single person or a single car gets through, you know the consequences.¡±

    The adjutant agreed.

    Kota gave a nod and then waved his hand as he shouted, ¡°Let¡¯s go to the Forest Inn tonight after work, it¡¯ll be my treat!¡±

    His subordinates cheered and Kota got on a horse waiting at the side, turning to head off towards Lamarte City.

    After half an hour, Kota¡¯s horse entered Lamarte City¡¯s walls. He passed through the streets that weren¡¯t considered spacious and went to the City Lord Manor at the center of the city.

    After being notified, Kota met the Lord City Lord who was very hard to meet, Count Scandi Will.

    ¡°Did you clearly see the symbol on the Magic Cars, are you certain they were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s?¡± Count Will narrowed his eyes as he closely stared at Kota, asking this in a deep voice.

    Kota quickly lowered his head and didn¡¯t dare match Count Will¡¯s gaze. He said in a very certain voice, ¡°Reporting to the Lord City Lord, this subordinate saw it clearly. The motorcade waspletely filled with Magic Cars and each Magic Car had the same symbol. It was the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s symbol you had this subordinate see before.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain you didn¡¯t see it wrong?¡± This issue seemed very important to Will, as he confirmed it again.

    ¡°Yes, this subordinate uses his life to guarantee that it definitely wasn¡¯t wrong.¡±

    Count Will slightly knit his brows, as if he still didn¡¯t believe. He wanted to keep asking, but the skinny middle aged man on the side suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Count Will, I think you don¡¯t need to doubt him. Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only the Fersen Carriage Company could have this many Magic Cars in the Lampuri Kingdom. Since this motorcade had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s symbol, it should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade.¡±

    Count Will hesitated a bit before nodding.

    ¡°Since Count Michelle says this, then it should be right. Alright, you can leave.¡±

    Watching Kota walk out, the man who was younger than Count Sean and Count

    Michelle who looked to be around forty sitting in front of Count Michelle knit his brows before giving a sigh.

    ¡°Actually I always felt, are we doing the right thing?¡±

    Count Will and Count Michelle looked at him in surprise. Count Will¡¯s expression sunk and he shouted, ¡°Count Longley, it can¡¯t be that you can¡¯t understand the reason why we decided to do this, right? Or are you nning to give up your family¡¯s status and betray his highness Eric?¡±

    Count Longley shook his head, ¡°How could I betray his highness Eric, but I feel that......we don¡¯t need to be this excessive towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is thepany with the most momentum in the kingdom and the magic machines will definitely be popr, so we don¡¯t need topletely offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Count Will gave a cold snort, ¡°Count Longley, you are still too young. Based on your recently deceased father, I¡¯ll warn you that there is no possibility ofpromise on this matter. Since we have chosen to support his highness Eric, then anyone who supports her highness Seveni is our enemy. We¡¯re doing this to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give him a warning. When the timees, humph, humph......¡±

    Seeing the cold look in Count Will¡¯s eyes, Count Longley couldn¡¯t help sighing in his heart as he shook his head, but he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Seeing Count Longley being silent, Count Will was toozy to exin it further to him.

    To Count Will, this young man who had inherited his father¡¯s position as a count, who had also be the City Lord of Basaru City wasn¡¯t worthy of discussing important matters with him and Count Michelle.

    ¡°Count Michelle, I have already demonstrated our Lamarte City¡¯s stance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, now it¡¯s your Dketon City¡¯s turn.¡± Count Will said to Count Michelle.

    A cold look that couldn¡¯t be understood shed in Count Michelle¡¯s eyes. He gave a nod with a faint smile, ¡°I know what to do.¡±

    ¡°Good, then let¡¯s put this small matter aside for now and talk about proper business. We were just talking about how to support the army that his highness Eric is raising. Our Lamarte City is nning on giving three hundred thousand gold coins of goods in support, we¡¯ll talk about the detailster. What are your Dketon and Basaru Cities nning to do?¡±

    Count Michelle touched the neat beard on his chin and thought about it before saying, ¡°Since Count Will has already made his decision, our Dketon City can¡¯t fall behind. We¡¯ll also take out three hundred thousand gold coins worth of goods.¡±

    Count Will nodded in satisfaction.

    Actually to be honest, Dketon had always been the richest city in the northeast province of the Lampuri Kingdom, they always had much more money than Lamarte City.

    However, now that Count Michelle only chose to give three hundred thousand gold coins in support, this waspletely giving him face.

    Like this, Count Will and Lamarte City will look better before his highness Eric and will bring more benefits to Count Will.

    As for how the investment was used, he didn¡¯t care at all.

    After asking Count Michelle, Count Will turned to Count Longley and there was a hint of teasing in his voice, ¡°Then what about Count Longley? Will you also take out three hundred thousand?¡±

    Count Longley shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Count Will, don¡¯t joke with me. Our Basaru City is famous for being poor, how could we take out three hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    ¡°Then how much are you nning on bringing? If it¡¯s too little, it can¡¯t be justified to his highness Eric.¡± Count Will narrowed his eyes and there was a hint of danger in his smile, ¡°Or are you not nning on supporting his highness? Are you nning on betraying him?¡±

    Count Longley gave a sigh. Seeing Count Will and Count Michelle¡¯s gazes bearing down on him, he considered for a bit before answering, ¡°Our Basaru City really has no other choice. I think that I can at most take out around a hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    Hearing this, Count Will and Count Michelle looked at each other before smiling.

    They were naturally aware of Basaru City¡¯s situation, so they knew that this number could be considered Basaru City¡¯s limit.

    Like this, it showed that Count Longley didn¡¯t have any disloyalty towards his highness Eric for now.

    Moreover, the hundred thousand was much less than their three hundred thousand, so Count Longley and Basaru City wouldn¡¯t make a good impression on his highness.

    ¡°Very good, since this has been decided, we should quickly move into action.¡± Count Will said in a deep voice, ¡°ording to his highness¡¯ n, it is very likely that we¡¯llunch our attack once winter passes, so we must send all the goods to the northern army before that. Remember, his highness¡¯ actions are very important this time, they definitely can¡¯t fail, so we must do our best. We can¡¯t make a single mistake with the provisions!¡±

    Count Michelle softly replied and Count Longley gave a bitterugh before agreeing.

    The three of them discussed a few more things before ending their discussion.

    After their discussions, Count Will kept Count Michelle and Count Longley for lunch, but Count Longley used the excuse of preparing the provisions to reject this invitation.

    Although Count Will didn¡¯t feel happy about this, he couldn¡¯t keep Count Longley here. He just said a few perfunctory words and then let him leave.

    Count Longley rode his personal horse carriage when he left Lamarte City. When he came out of the city gate, he let out a long sigh of relief and his expression rxed.

    After lifting the curtain to take a look at Lamarte City¡¯s gate behind him, Count Longley deeply knit his brows.

    He didn¡¯t like Count Michelle¡¯s calm look that didn¡¯t let others see his ideas and he hated Count Will¡¯s domineering attitude even more. If it wasn¡¯t for his father cooperating with them before, Count Longley didn¡¯t want to have any contact with these people.

    Not to mention that his father and these two people firmly deciding to support his highness Eric was not something that Count Longley agreed with.

    Why must he support his highness Eric? Was it because his highness Eric was a prince and the firstborn son?

    To Count Longley, the one to take the throne shouldn¡¯t be decided by this. Rather it should be decided by who could bring better development to the Lampuri Kingdom in the future.

    When it came to this, Count Longley preferred her highness Seveni.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that everyone recognized as supporting her highness, Count Longley wasn¡¯t prejudiced against them at all, rather he had a favourable impression of them.

    Before his father passed and he hadn¡¯t taken over as the Basaru City City Lord, he had secretly gone to Banta City for half a month because he was curious.

    In his half a month in Banta City, he had been deeply attracted by the various novel things. He had been deeply convinced by the quick breakthrough Banta City had made in just a few years.

    And through some people, Count Longley deeply understood that the honour of transforming Banta City which was a small city like Basaru City was mainly due to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Aftering back from Banta City, Count Longley had always considered an issue.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came to Basaru City, would Basaru City develop as quickly as Banta City?

    Thinking about this question now, Count Longle¡¯s expression became very conflicted.

    After a while, the conflicted look disappeared and changed into determination.

    Count Longley called out to the driver and changed directions. He came off the road outside Lamarte City and headed off onto the same dirt path as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade.

 Volume 3 124 - Must make a choice

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 124 Must make a choice</h4>

    Being kept out by Lamarte City, naturally it destroyed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade¡¯s n to rest in Lamarte City.

    When the motorcade left the road and entered the only dirt path road that connected to the north, their speed couldn¡¯t help falling.

    Before they left Lamarte City, it was already gettingte.

    Seeing night fall, Xu Yi gave up the idea of finding a vige to stay in and ordered the motorcade to camp in the open.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi attached importance on this trip from Banta City to Sowell City, so he had prepared for everything before setting off. So naturally he had expected things outside his n to ur and had made other ns.

    The cargo Magic Cars didn¡¯t just have the production magic machines for the factory in Sowell City, there were also daily necessities.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s orders, the staff began working. They moved the emergency living supplies like tents and nkets out, quickly setting up a small campsite on the side.

    Other than these daily necessities, they also took out several household magic machines from the cars.

    They had prepared several Magic Crystals, so there were several Magic Stoves that were ignited in the campsite, quickly filling the campsite with the fragrance of meat.

    The dwarves took out arge barrel of wine from the Magic Cars and gave everyone in the motorcade arge cup.

    With the wine and meat, the entire campsite suddenly became lively. It didn¡¯t seem like a long range transport group at all, rather it was like a group of campers who hade out for fun.

    Xu Yi looked at Camby who had an awkward look as he tightly held the barrel of wine that was as thick as his waste. Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°Camby, I remember you telling me that you didn¡¯t allow drinking during work? Why did you secretly bring along the wine this time?¡±

    Camby gave an awkward smile, ¡°Sir chairman, aren¡¯t we already off work now.....You can be assured, I guarantee that not a single drop was drunk during the day and it definitely didn¡¯t affect business!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a snort, but he still lifted the cup beside him.

    Camby was filled with joy, raising the barrel to fill up Xu Yi¡¯s cup.

    It can be seen that he was very familiar with this, lifting up therge cask and he actually poured Xu Yi¡¯s cup perfectly without spilling a single drop. There wasn¡¯t a single bit of waste.

    Xu Yi gave it a sniff and felt the wine hit his nose, so he couldn¡¯t help praising it.

    ¡°Good wine!¡±

    Cambyughed, ¡°How about it? Chairman, this wine isn¡¯t bad, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, it doesn¡¯t smell bad, I just don¡¯t know how it tastes.¡±

    Xu Yi took a sip and felt the wine go down smoothly, but the wine taste was strong. It felt like it was going topletely melt his mouth.

    Waves of heat came from his stomach to his throat, but it didn¡¯t feel like it burned. It just felt like his body was releasing heat that kept away all the cold in the world.

    Even if Xu Yi wasn¡¯t someone who liked drinking, he felt that this wine didn¡¯t taste bad, so he couldn¡¯t help taking anotherrge sip.

    He felt the heat that came from the wine and Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Very good, this taste isn¡¯t bad. It can help keep the cold away, so it is very suited for our situation.¡±

    Finally obtaining Xu Yi¡¯s approval, Camby¡¯s smile became very bright as he said whileughing, ¡°I knew that the chairman would like this.¡±

    Xu Yi took another sip and thought about it before saying, ¡°This wine doesn¡¯t seem to be from the Sachi Manor, was it wine from your brewery?¡±

    ¡°Right, it was our dwarven brewery¡¯s first batch of wine. Chairman, how do youpare this wine to the Sachi Manor¡¯s wine?¡± Camby asked with a proud look.

    Xu Yi gave him a thumbs up, ¡°It¡¯s quite good, it isn¡¯t any worse than the Sachi Manor. Right, your dwarven brewery has been built for so long, so why haven¡¯t you prepared to mass produce and sell this wine? I remember that you prepared all the wine making equipment two months ago, right?¡±

    ¡°The chief and chief Month said that we can earn some fame during New Years, so we¡¯re waiting for a bit.¡± Camby replied.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Xu Yi looked at the pure and fragrant wine in his hand before looking at therge barrel by Camby and then knitting his brows, ¡°I say, it can¡¯t be that you¡¯re nning on selling it like this, right?¡±

    Camby was surprised, ¡°What about it? Is there a problem?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He thought that Camby had been with him for this long, but he didn¡¯t learn about business at all.

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand how to package it?¡± Xu Yi pointed at therge barrel and said, ¡°Could it be that you¡¯re nning on selling thisrge barrel?¡±

    Camby scratched his head and had a confused look, ¡°Is there a problem? Don¡¯t they all sell it like this.....¡±

    Xu Yi thought about how the wine came inrge barrels when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ordered from the Sachi Manor, so he understood.

    The Sines Continent¡¯s advertising of fine wine was still based on word of mouth, it was far from being promoted based on packaging like on earth, so it was no wonder chief Siluka and chief Monto didn¡¯t think of this.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi waved for Camby to sit down, preparing to exin to him the various methods of packaging wine.

    While he was talking about using different packing for different guests, the guard captain Hart came to find Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, do you think we should strengthen tonight¡¯s defenses?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. He turned to look at the trees and bushes that were bathing in the cover of night and after thinking about it, he gave a slight nod.

    ¡°We are in the wild, so it¡¯s good to be careful. You can arrange the specifics, I won¡¯t meddle with it.¡±

    Seeing Hart leave, Camby gave a cold snort, ¡°That Lamarte City¡¯s City Lord really is strange. He has to keep us outside the city, could it be that he doesn¡¯t know there¡¯s a bunch of cities desperately asking ourpany to invest? He isn¡¯t afraid that by offending us, we won¡¯te back again?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. This matter involved the politics of the human kingdom, so it wasn¡¯t good for Camby to hear about it.

    ¡°Every person is in a different position, there¡¯s nothing good to use them off.¡± Xu Yi replied before suddenly remembering a problem, ¡°Speaking of this, Camby, there are quite a few of your dwarves on the continent, right? Could it be that you only live in your tribes and don¡¯t have deeper rtions like us humans? You don¡¯t fight between each other?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible. Although we dwarves aren¡¯t as maniptive as you humans, we do have different opinions. But you humans are just too strong, it¡¯s hard enough for us dwarves to make a living, how could we have time to have infighting?¡±

    ¡°That is right......¡± Xu Yi nodded. He thought that if the dwarves had better living conditions, would they also have fissures among them like humans?¡±

    Then thinking about the elves who were even less and thought about increasing their poption, if they were split into several factions like human countries and fought each other......

    Xu Yi really couldn¡¯t imagine that image.

    After instilling some more basic knowledge on packaging wine into Camby, the two went back to discussing the shock mitigation system for the Magic Car. As they talked, the night got darker and darker.

    Since they were camping outside, naturally there wasn¡¯t any entertainment and adding in the fact that they had to get up early tomorrow, not long after they finished eating, the people went to sleep in the tents surrounded by Magic Cars.

    As the chairman, Xu Yi naturally had some privileges, meaning he could have a tent to himself. But perhaps it was because this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time camping like this or perhaps it was because it was cold, but when Xu Yiid down, he couldn¡¯t fall asleep. He kept tossing and turning, as he kept thinking about what happened outside Lamarte City today.

    Being rejected at Lamarte City¡¯s gate was not something hard for Xu Yi to ept, but he had to attach importance to the significance of this.

    Although because Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supporting her highness Seveni meant that their business in the areas where they supported his highness Eric were impacted, it had never been too big of a hindrance.

    But this time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade was stopped from entering Lamarte City, they couldn¡¯t even see the city gates. This clearly indicated Lamarte City¡¯s attitude.

    Xu Yi was now worried that if this matter was decided by Lamarte City or if it came from his highness Eric.

    If it was the former, then it would be at most giving up on Lamarte City which didn¡¯t influence them much.

    But if it was thetter, the situation was more worrying.

    With the current internal situation of the Lampuri Kingdom, the side that supported his highness Eric still had the absolute superiority.

    Because the side supporting his highness Eric were the conservative faction, they had a deeply rooted sphere of influence in the kingdom, so they could affect more than her highness Seveni.

    If his highness Eric wanted topete with her highness Seveni and used strong measures against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then at least a third or even half of the cities in the kingdom would strongly oppose them like Lamarte City, rejecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this really happened, Xu Yi¡¯s n to develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom and spread the magic machine industry all over would be heavily hit.

    Although Xu Yi always supported her highness Seveni very much, he just appreciated her highness Seveni¡¯s eptance of something new like the magic machines and her real attitude of considering the people, but he never actually fully supported her.

    To Xu Yi,pared to developing the magic machine industry, the battle for the throne was an insignificant matter, so he never held too much malice towards his highness Eric. He even thought that there would be a chance to cooperate with his highness Eric.

    But the facts told Xu Yi that it was hard for business to avoid politics and the battle for the throne was the highest political struggle in the kingdom. It was more direct than he imagined and there was nopromise at all.

    His highness Eric, or rather the people who supported him were already forcing Xu Yi to make a choice.

    Should he continue his neutral attitude or should he openly support her highness Seveni?

    Thinking of how he would one day be forced to make a choice, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help give a sigh.

    There was her highness Seveni¡¯s warm and kind smile that appeared in his mind. Although Xu Yi was hesitant, he still couldn¡¯t help feeling more partial to her highness Seveni¡¯s side.

    At this time, Xu Yi suddenly felt a slight tremble from the ground.

    After a while, a shrill and pitiful cry rang through the wild, clearly spreading into his tent.

 Volume 3 125 - Flame Magic Arrow

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 125 me Magic Arrow</h4>

    Xu Yi jumped up and rushed out of the tent.

    There were the sounds of horse hoovesing from the wild in the northwest which reverberated through the camp, waking up everyone who had already fallen asleep.

    The guards that were in charge of the night shift showed the efficiency of their daily training. They immediately reacted and put on their equipment, gathering to form defenses around the camp.

    There was Hart¡¯s shouts from the camp. He ran over and saluted Xu Yi before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s an enemy trying to sneak attack us.¡±

    Seeing the calm look on Hart¡¯s face, Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°You can take care of the defenses, I won¡¯t meddle with it. If you need me to do something, you can tell me.¡±

    Hart looked at Xu Yi in surprise, but then he remembered that sir chairman was actually a High Grade Magician.

    For guards, if they could have a High Grade Magician, it would greatly increase their battle strength.

    But because of Xu Yi¡¯s identity as the chairman, Hart had always neglected having Xu Yi fight, making him forget Xu Yi¡¯s identity as a magician.

    After hesitating a bit, Hart said with a serious look, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, sir chairman, I hope that you can join in at any moment.¡±

    Watching Hart leave after he was finished, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Hart didn¡¯t reject having him participate, which meant that the situation wasn¡¯t good.

    ¡°Chairman, are there enemies ambushing us?¡± Camby¡¯s voice came from behind Xu Yi, ¡°Who dares to attack our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Are they courting death?¡±

    Xu Yi turned back and found that Camby and the dwarves didn¡¯t look worried at all, rather they looked quite excited. He couldn¡¯t help smiling at this.

    These dwarves, they really were worthy of being called the ¡°battle race¡± by the other races of the Sines Continent.

    But these dwarves were the magic mechanical engineers of the magic machine development center, so they could be considered treasures of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even if Xu Yi believed that they were very strong, he didn¡¯t dare make them take the risk of entering the battlefield.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi stopped the eager Camby and the others. He made them stay in the camp with the other staff who couldn¡¯t fight before he walked out of the camp.

    Although they were rushed when pitching the camp, Hart and the other guards had used the surrounding Magic Cars to make a small barricade. Currently they were gathered behind this crude fortification and focusing on the direction of the horse hooves.

    ¡°What is the situation?¡± Xu Yi came over and focused on where the sound came from, but it was all dark and he couldn¡¯t see a thing.

    ¡°The situation isn¡¯t too good.¡± Compared to earlier, Hart¡¯s current expression was even more serious, ¡°The three guards I sent in that direction haven¡¯te back yet, I can only assume that the situation is worse. Based on the horse hooves, there are at least two hundred riders attacking us.¡±

    ¡°Two hundred riders?¡± Xu Yi deeply knit his brows, ¡°With so many mounts, they definitely aren¡¯t normal bandits.

    Hart nodded. He looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder, ¡°We¡¯ll talkter. First let¡¯s deal with this, otherwise it might be a problem whether we¡¯ll survive this or not.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Hart gave a heavy nod. He looked at the trees near the camp and shouted, ¡°Isos, what is the situation?¡±

    With the rustle of leaves, an elven guard jumped down and nodded at Xu Yi, but his expression was also serious.

    ¡°They¡¯re within four hundred meters.¡±

    ¡°Very good, they are in our firing range. There¡¯s no need to greet them, everyone prepare your bows!¡±

    Hart gave an order and the guards all touched their Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    ¡°Release!¡±

    Hart¡¯s right hand heavily fell and the sounds of arrows flying through the air sounded by Xu Yi¡¯s ear.

    After a while, countless arrows filled the dark night and the pitiful screams came as humans and horses fell to the ground.

    Xu Yi had provided the Magic Repeating Crossbow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards in the beginning of the year, using the new improved Magic Repeating Crossbow. Not only did it fire much faster, there were more arrows stored in the chest, so it shot close to 30% more arrowspared to the previous Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    Although there were only forty guards right now, with each person holding a Magic Repeating Crossbow, they were shooting even faster than five hundred archers in the royal army.

    The continuous arrows filled the darkness and the sounds of people and horses crying came out, it was clear that the enemies had been seriously injured.

    When Xu Yi though that the enemies might not even reach the camp if it continued like this, there was a pale blue light that came from the darkness in front and created a semicircle in the wild.

    ¡°Deep Blue Barrier?¡±

    Seeing this light blue barrier, Xu Yi was surprised.

    This light blue barrier was the Eighth Grade Water Spell Deep Blue Barrier!

    This meant that the enemies attacking them actually had a High Grade Magician that could use Eighth Grade Spells?

    The rain of arrows mmed down on this light blue barrier and like a wall keeping out water, they just created ripples on the barrier, but they couldn¡¯t prate it at all, falling down outside the barrier.

    Seeing this scene, Hart¡¯s face sunk. He turned to Xu Yi and after hesitating a bit, he said, ¡°Sir chairman, it seems like we need you to make a move.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the enemy cavalry that was clearly illuminated under the light barrier and he found that there were over a hundred riders that had survived, instantly knitting his brows.

    Such arge cavalry unit, they definitely weren¡¯t normal bandits, they seemed more like a proper army.

    Even based on theirplete equipment and their uniformed motions, it seemed like they had undertaken coordination training. Even the normal city guards couldn¡¯tpare to them.

    Where did these fellowse from? Why did theyunch a sudden ambush on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade at night?

    However, it wasn¡¯t the time to think about this. Hearing Hart¡¯s request, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not the best time for me to make a move yet. Hart, change and use the Magic Arrow Boxes.¡±

    Hart¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Sir chairman, we¡¯re really using them?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, if we don¡¯t use them now, should we leave them for our children?¡± Xu Yi refuted.

    Hart swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty before giving a hand signal to the surrounding guards.

    The guards had looks of disbelief as they looked at each other. After hesitating, they changed the arrow boxes of their Magic Repeating Crossbows, changing to an arrow box that seemed very special.

    Seeing that the guards had all changed them, Hart looked at Xu Yi with a difficult look.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are we really using them?¡±

    ¡°Stop wasting words, can¡¯t you see that the enemies are already this close?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the cavalry that had slowed down under the Deep Blue Barrier.

    ¡°Alright......¡±

    Hart looked at the enemies who weren¡¯t far away and took a deep breath before shouting, ¡°Fire!¡±

    It was different from when the sky was filled with countless arrows. Although the firing of the arrows were still grating to the ears, it was much softer, like it had suddenly be more gentle.

    Moreover, when these arrows crossed the sky, there were red lines behind them, like there were tails behind each arrow.

    The Magic Repeating Crossbows kept firing countless arrows into the sky, instantly filling it with countless fine fire red lines that lit up the entire sky.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    When the first arrow hit the blue light barrier, it didn¡¯t bounce off like those other arrows and directly exploded.

    With the sh of red light, a deafening explosion sound rang into the wilderness.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong......¡±

    Following the first arrow, countless arrows hit the light barrier and created countless powerful explosions.

    The light blue barrier rippled under the countless explosions and it continued to dim, as if the light barrier became much less unstable, like it would disappear at any moment.

    But after a while, the light barrier stabilized again. It became even brighter as it covered the cavalry once again.

    ¡°Hei, this fellow is quite strong.¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh before saying to Hart, ¡°Keep firing, I want to see how long he canst.¡±

    Hart gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, why bother? Didn¡¯t you tell usst time that a single me Magic Arrow costs thirty silver coins and to have us use them sparingly? But we¡¯ve already fired over forty me Magic Arrow boxes, which is close to eight hundred me Magic Arrays. The total costs.....is around two hundred and forty gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Oh, that¡¯s not considered much. If you can take care of a magician with only two hundred gold coins, I think that¡¯s rather cheap.¡± Xu Yi said in an uncaring voice, ¡°Alright, stop talking and just keep firing. Could it be that you want those fellows to charge into the camp? Don¡¯t forget, the things in the camp are more expensive. If they charge into the camp, the cost will be more than ten times two hundred and forty gold coins.¡±

    ¡°But sir chairman, you can clearly make a move and take care of that magician, that way it would be no problem for us to take care of the cavalry. Why do we need to waste this much money?¡±

    ¡°First, if I can not make a move, of course I won¡¯t make my move. Being able to solve problems with money, why would I personally do it?¡± Xu Yi looked at the cavalry that was a hundred meters away and said with a coldugh, ¡°Second, this is to give certain people a warning. I want to tell them that the power of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already surpassed their expectations.¡±

    Hart knit his brows, ¡°Sir chairman, shouldn¡¯t we keep this matter a secret?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°You don¡¯t understand. Even if it¡¯s something like this, it also needs to be advertised.¡±

 Volume 3 126 - Iâ€™m still too naive

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 126 I¡¯m still too naive</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed me Magic Arrows, each one would trigger the miniature st Array drawn inside the arrow whenever they hit, with the power of a Third Grade Fire Spell.

    Althoughpared to the Eighth Grade Deep Blue Barrier, a Third Grade Fire Spell wasn¡¯t that strong, while one Third Grade Spell couldn¡¯t do anything to a Deep Blue Barrier, ten, a hundred, or even a thousand Third Grade Fire Spell added together was apletely different matter.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s orders, Hart and the other guards kept loading the Magic Repeating Crossbows with Fire Magic Arrows. The night sky was filled with dense red tails that didn¡¯t seem like they were going to stop at all.

    The endless me Magic Arrows mmed into the Deep Blue Barrier, triggering a dense amount of explosions sounding at the same time. It was like fireworks lit up the dark night as they mixed with the blue glow of the magic.

    The magician at first could use his powerful magic to maintain the barrier, but a magician¡¯s magic was limited. Even if this magician was strong, he couldn¡¯t stand the constant bombardment of me Magic Arrows.

    The Deep Blue Barriersted for less than half a minute before it dimmed under the rain of arrows and couldn¡¯t be kept up any longer.

    And because of the power of this rain of arrows, the cavalry only dared to charge under the barrier. They became very slow and in less than half a minute, they only moved forward less than fifty meters, not even hitting the side of the camp.

    At this time, the Deep Blue Barrier began to scatter under the bombardment of the me Magic Arrows.

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort and suddenly waved his hand forward.

    ¡°Chi.¡±

    An intense bolt of lightning appeared in front of Xu Yi and streaked across the night sky, mming into the barrier.

    The barrier trembled before it scattered into deep blue light, disappearing without a trace.

    After the lightning hit the barrier, it fell onto the cavalry and released a blinding white light.

    The one hundred riders in formation under the light barrier had beenpletely routed by the lightning.

    With a loud call, the remaining cavalry turned around and were prepared to escape in various directions.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi gave a cold snort and gave Hart an order, ¡°Capture a few live ones, the rest aren¡¯t allowed to leave.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Hart gave the order and the guards changed back to normal arrows, creating another storm of arrows. The few cavalry left were all swept down like rice being harvested.

    This time, the ten elves that came as guards silently moved through the night. Since Hart ordered the guards to take back their Magic Repeating Crossbow, they took out their daggers and charged forward.

    Seeing the ten elves disappear into the darkness, Hart and the others controlled the battlefield. Xu Yi gave a nod and returned to the camp.

    The people of the camp were all awake and were gathered at the center discussing this.

    The difference was that the dwarves looked excited and while some humans were excited, there were a few who were nervous, and quite a few who were scared.

    Seeing Xu Yie back, the group all gathered around him.

    ¡°Chairman, how is it?¡±

    ¡°Chairman, is the situation tense? Do you need us to fight as well?¡±

    ¡°I say, do you even need to ask? Can¡¯t you see the chairman smiling, it¡¯s definitely nothing. Right, chairman?¡±

    ¡°Chairman......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said while waving his hand, ¡°Alright, the enemies have been taken care of, there¡¯s no need to panic, you can all go and rest. We¡¯ll be heading off tomorrow morning, so take your time to rest.¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re taken care of? Isn¡¯t this too fast?¡± Everyone was surprised.

    But seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on exining, everyone talked to each other a bit before returning to their tents.

    As for whether they were nning to rest or not, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care.

    He returned to his tent to patiently wait a bit before the sounds of footsteps came from outside and Hart¡¯s lowered voice sounded.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the battlefield has been cleaned.¡±

    Xu Yi opened the tent toe out and he saw Hart and Isos covered in blood.

    ¡°Sir chairman, Isos and the others caught three people, how do you want to take care of them?¡± Hart asked.

    ¡°Interrogate them properly, see who was the one who sent them.¡± Xu Yi gave the order before looking at the blood over Hart and Isos before asking, ¡°What are our losses this time?¡±

    ¡°The three scout brothers are dead, but there are no other losses.¡± Hart replied.

    A dispirited look appeared on Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    Although when forming this guard group, Xu Yi had already expected this day, when he was faced with a guard actually dying, he couldn¡¯t help sighing inside.

    This continent, it was a far less peaceful and stable cepared to earth.

    Waving his hand to let Hart and Isos interrogate the captives, Xu Yi turned to look back at his tent. He found that he didn¡¯t want to sleep at all, so after thinking about it, he sat cross legged at the campfire in the center of the camp.

    Watching the firewood piled high releasing sparks in all directions, Xu Yi felt like his heart was a wick that continued to burn.

    Although tonight¡¯s ambush seemed a bit calm on the surface, without causing any threat to them, that waspletely because the other side had underestimated the defenses of the motorcade. They never expected that the guards would be armed with the Magic Repeating Crossbow or the newly developed me Magic Arrows.

    In a normal situation, the other side¡¯s two hundred well trained cavalry were very strong and with the magician that released the Eighth Grade Deep Blue Barrier, this was strong enough to destroy a small city. It would have been easy for them to deal with the fifty Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    Such a strong force was clearly not normal bandits, rather they should be an army sent from somewhere.

    Xu Yi was doubtful, these cavalry and the magician that could be considered elites even in the royal army, just where had theye from?

    Based on the other side¡¯s performance tonight, they clearly didn¡¯t expect any resistance from the motorcade.

    But Xu Yi was unable to determine, was the other side nning on destroying the motorcade or plundering them?

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi found that he couldn¡¯t get an urate answer without the proper information, so he gave up.

    ¡°I hope that Hart and Isos can get something useful......¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the darkness outside the camp. Hart and Isos were currently interrogating the prisoners, but what surprised Xu Yi was that he had never heard any pitiful cries. He couldn¡¯t help wondering what kind of methods Hart was using.

    Giving up on thinking about this, Xu Yi began to consider another problem.

    Xu Yi was a bit vignt about the ambush tonight.

    When he was concentrating on developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although he had been warned by Count Sean, chairman Cruise, her highness Seveni, and others directly or indirectly to be on guard against people plotting against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had developed smoothly, so Xu Yi had let down his guard.

    However, after tonight¡¯s attack, it reminded Xu Yi of a cruel fact.

    The Sines Continent wasn¡¯t as peaceful as earth, this world was quite direct, the most simple method to solve a problem was violence.

    Xu Yi wanted to solve everything with business, but other people didn¡¯t think like this.

    ¡°To put it simple, I really was too naive......¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh as heughed at himself.

    Turning to look beside the camp and the corpse of the three guards that had been wrapped up, Xu Yi slightly narrowed his eyes.

    Perhaps.....it was time to change his ideas.

    After sitting by the campfire for a bit, a guard came over and told Xu Yi that captain Hart was looking for him.

    Xu Yi followed that guard to see Hart and Isos outside the camp who had finished the interrogations. Seeing the strange expressions on their faces, he understood that they must have gotten some answers that really surprised them.

    ¡°How is it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hart and Isos looked at each other with very serious expressions. Hart hesitated a bit before approaching Xu Yi and replying in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, the fellows who attacked us came from.....the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment.¡±

    ¡°Sack Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi looked at the two in disbelief, ¡°How could that be possible! This ce is two hundred kilometers away from the border, how could the Sack Kingdom¡¯s soldierse this far away from the border to attack our camp?¡±

    Hart shook his head with an ugly look, ¡°I also don¡¯t know what is going on, but based on the response of the captives, they received the order this morning before setting off. They hadn¡¯t stopped at all on the way and then theyunched this surprise attack on our camp.¡±

    ¡°No resistance at all?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes. He looked at heart before giving a snort, ¡°Hart, tell me, what is the range of the northern army¡¯s defenses?¡±

    Hart said with a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, the northern army guards the entire northern border in name, but they are very limited and can¡¯t dispatch troops to guard every single spot. So other than the Muerto Mountains that are the most important, the other ces are given to the border cities to defend.¡±

    ¡°I got it.¡± Xu Yi took the record from Hart and carefully looked it over, but he didn¡¯t see anything too valuable, ¡°This captive said that they were following orders toe here, so who gave them the orders?¡±

    Isos shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, sir chairman, the magician and one knight was too strong, so we couldn¡¯t catch them. I think that they should be the captains of these riders.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, not ming Isos. In that short fight just now, that magician had disyed quite powerful magic.

    If such a powerful magician was set on escaping, with a decently strong soldier, it was very easy. It was almost impossible to catch them.

    Flipping through the records again, Xu Yi thought about it before giving the records to Hart and saying, ¡°Hart, I¡¯ll give you a cargo Magic Car. You pick some guards and bring this report and the captives back to Banta City, hand them over to her highness Seveni.¡±

    Hart was surprised. He doubtfully looked at Xu Yi, but he didn¡¯t ask much and agreed.

    But after thinking about it, he couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, if I take several guards away, wouldn¡¯t the defenses of the motorcade be too weak? If someone attacks us again.¡±

    ¡°They won¡¯t. After the ambush tonight failed, it is impossible for the other side tounch a simr attack in a short period of time. The price is too much, they can¡¯t afford it. You just need to follow my orders to give these things to her highness, her highness will know what to do.¡±

    Hart hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°What about the battlefield? It isn¡¯t good to leave so many corpses here, right......¡±

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°Rx, naturally there will be people taking care of the matters here, so we don¡¯t need to trouble ourselves.¡±

 Volume 3 127 - Changing attitudes

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 127 Changing attitudes</h4>

    ¡°Then you just escaped like this?¡±

    Count Michelle narrowed his eyes as he looked at the two people in front of him who looked very distressed with burnt hair and a dangerous cold glow appeared in his eyes.

    Magician Dr¡¯s ck magic robe had turned into several pieces of rags, but he didn¡¯t avoid Count Michelle¡¯s look and couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

    ¡°Count Michelle, the reason we became like this was all because your information was wrong. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade was hiding a weapon that surpassed our expectations and their chairman Xu isn¡¯t just a trivial Seventh Grade Magician. I¡¯m certain that he is at least a Ninth Grade Magician!¡±

    Count Michelle gave a cold snort as he narrowed his eyes to look at magician Dr, ¡°So what? Are you using me?¡±

    Magician Dr was filled with rage and wanted to say something, but Everton on the side whose armour had been turned ck by the Fire and Lightning Magic stopped him.

    ¡°No, Count Michelle, we didn¡¯t mean to me you, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade was indeed far beyond what we expected. I led an elite team of two hundred cavalry, but we couldn¡¯t even approach their camp. I think.....that this was not something you expected, right?¡±

    Count Michelle was silent for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I also never thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade would be this terrifying.¡± Count Michelle looked at their sad appearances and knit his brows, ¡°You¡¯re saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed a new Magic Arrow? And they can beunched consecutively with the Repeating Magic Crossbow?¡±

    Everton nodded, ¡°Yes. Magician Dr could keep off the normal arrows by himself, but these Magic Arrows are a great threat to magicians. I think that even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t act, we wouldn¡¯t have been able to break through the defenses of these Magic Arrays and charged into the camp.¡±

    ¡°Magic Arrows......¡± Count Michell tapped his finger on the table. After thinking for a bit, he took a deep breath and stood up. He stretched his hand out towards the two of them, ¡°Alright, magician Dr, general Everton, my information wasn¡¯t urate enough this time and you suffered losses, causing you to be defeated. But through this, we¡¯ve discovered the important information that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce secretly developed Magic Arrows. I think thatmander Linear will attach great importance to this information, so I hope that you can tell him clearly once you head back.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡±

    Half an hourter, after this secret meeting was over, magician Dr and Everton left Count Michelle¡¯s private manor outside Dketon City without a sound.

    Watching those two leave into the darkness, Count Michelle tightly knit his brows and fell into though.

    This wasn¡¯t his first time cooperating with the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment, but Count Michelle knew the dangers hidden in this cooperation, so he was very cautious every time.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the threat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, Count Michelle wouldn¡¯t have chosen to use the Sack Kingdom to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He secretly lured the Hungry Wolf Regiment to act and induced Count Will to intentionally keep the Frestech Chamber of Commerce outside the city, creating a good chance for a night attack.

    ording to Count Michelle¡¯s thoughts, as long as he killed Xu Yi, he would get rid of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s core power. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would naturally disintegrate and it would weaken the support of her highness Seveni, creating a heavy loss to the side supporting her highness Seveni. It would further reduce her threat towards his highness Eric.

    Although Count Michelle also favoured the prospect of the magic machine industry advocated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right now he couldn¡¯t support them.

    Rather even if he got rid of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as his highness Eric received the throne, there would be the chance to develop the magic machine industry in the future.

    But right now the strength the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had now far surpassed Count Michelle¡¯s expectations.

    ording to magician Dr¡¯s descriptions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had fifty guards, but they had forcefully opened magician Dr¡¯s Deep Blue Barrier with their Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    What shocked Count Michelle even more was that with the newly developed Magic Arrows, normal guards could force back a powerful Eighth Grade Magician like Dr, forcing him to escape.

    If theypared the strength of the two sides, it would be the well equipped and well trained two hundred cavalry from the Hungry Wolf Regiment with an Eighth Grade Magician against the fifty normal guards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with Xu Yi whose strength was unknown, but Dr said that he was at least a powerful Ninth Grade Magician.

    If the magicians cancelled each other out, there was no doubt that the Hungry Wolf Regiment whounched a sneak attack was stronger.

    But other than taking care of three guards in charge of scouting in the beginning, they didn¡¯t even touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade. As for their two hundred cavalry, not a single one escaped other than the powerful magician Dr and Everton.

    The result in the end made Count Michelle have to reassess the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To most people, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used the new magic machines to earn quite a bit of money, but their backing and strength couldn¡¯tpare to the oldpanies of the kingdom.

    But through tonight¡¯s surprise attack, Count Michelle found that while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the same background as those oldpanies, their strength couldn¡¯t be underestimated.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop these Magic Arrows that could even threaten a powerful magician, if they were given time to develop, what other kinds of new things would they develop?

    Thinking of this, Count Michelle suddenly realized that his assessment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a bit wrong.

    Thispany that always created miracles, it might not be a smallpany he could take out at any time like he had thought.

    Count Michelle fell into thought before taking a piece of paper and started writing a letter.

    ¡°Dear, your highness Eric, when ites to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I have a new suggestion.....¡±

    ###

    The next morning, everyone crawled out of their tents as soon as the sun came up.

    There was no need for Xu Yi to give the order, everyone quickly put away their stuff and ate a few dry rations. Then they packed onto the Magic Cars and sped off towards Sowell City.

    After what happenedst night, no one was willing to stay here any longer.

    In this unfamiliar ce, perhaps they could only feel safe in Count Sean¡¯s territory.

    When the motorcade set off, Hart chose five guards to escort the three prisoners from yesterday. They would be driving a cargo Magic Car back to Banta City based on the old route.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s orders, they wouldn¡¯t stop at any city on the way and would try to remain as secretive as possible. They would return to Banta City as quickly as possible to report what happened yesterday to her highness Seveni.

    Xu Yi was worried that the three captives would cause trouble on the way, but Isos gave each of the three prisoners a bowl of medicine. The three prisoners fell asleep like they were dead, making it impossible for them to move, so it made Hart and the others much more rxed.

    After the motorcade split, Xu Yi led the Magic Cars along the road at their maximum speed, using only the morning to leave Lamarte City and return to the cement road once again.

    What surprised Xu Yi was that after driving on the road for two hours, they suddenly discovered a break in the road in front of them.

    Although the road looked spacious, it was an old road made of dirt and crushed stones.

    Although this road looked rough, it was considered smooth and the condition of the road wasn¡¯t bad. But the sudden split between concrete road and dirt road had really surprised Xu Yi.

    ¡°I know, this should be because we entered Basaru City.¡± A human researcher from the magic machine development center was a native of a northeastern city. Seeing that Xu Yi was confused, he exined, ¡°Basaru City is the poorest city in the northeast.¡±

    ¡°They can¡¯t even afford to build a road?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This.....If they really want to build it, they should be able to build it.¡± This researcher said in a somewhat sad voice, ¡°But the old Basaru City City Lord had a very good reputation. It¡¯s said he wasn¡¯t willing to increase the burden on his people to build roads, so he refused to gather capital to build roads like the other cities.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. This decision could be considered caring for the citizens from the viewpoint of the citizens, but it was very dumb when it came to the viewpoint of the City Lord.

    This road would cost a few hundred gold coins at most. Although it would bring some financial burden to the city, once the road was finished, the ie to the city would far surpass the investment.

    The best examples were the cities around Banta City. Based on the long run, this investment was very effective no matter how one looked at it.

    This Count Longley had such short vision, Xu Yi looked down on him.

    ¡°Right, you said ¡®old City Lord¡¯? That means that Basaru City has a new City Lord?¡± Xu Yi noticed something.

    ¡°Un, actually the old City Lord is the old Count Longley. He passed away at the beginning of the year because of his illness and now his son has inherited his title as a Count and as the City Lord.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Xu Yi nodded. He thought of information he received on the three northeastern cities that supported his highness Eric. They were Lamarte City which they had been blocked out of yesterday, this Basaru City in front of them, and Dketon City.

    If the old Count Longley that supported his highness Eric had already passed, then would the young Count Longley who inherited his title and his position as the City Lord change his attitude?

 Volume 3 128 - Small city that was even worse than Banta City

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 128 Small city that was even worse than Banta City</h4>

    Although in Xu Yi¡¯s information, Basaru City¡¯s old City Lord Count Longley and Lamarte City¡¯s City Lord Count Will both openly supported his highness Eric, it was different from Lamarte City where they had been kept out. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade came to Basaru City, they weren¡¯t actually blocked off.

    Xu Yi was worried that they would be rejected outside the city and would have to rush through the night to avoid camping out again, but he felt relieved when he saw that Basaru City didn¡¯t react specially when dealing with them.

    Perhaps it was like his guess, the young Count Longley who took the title and the position of City Lord would have a different political stance as his father, the old Count Longley.

    When it was close to evening, the motorcade finally entered Basaru City.

    Seeing the low and worn out city walls, as well as the rust covered city gates clunked in the wind, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t believe his own eyes.

    He had been in this world for over six years now and had experienced many cities of the Lampuri Kingdom. He had thought that Banta City was the smallest and most remote city, but this Basaru City in front of him brought this to a new level.

    This city seemed even worse than Banta City three years ago when Xu Yi first saw it. This ce that was so small that it couldn¡¯t be considered a city, only a fortress was actually Basaru City?

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Although he had seen how poor Basaru City was from the scenes around Basaru City, when he actually entered the main city and saw it was like this, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit surprised.

    In thest half a year, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had started implementing their expansion strategy, Xu Yi had personally inspected many cities of the Lampuri Kingdom. There were poor cities among them, but no matter how poor those cities were, the main part of the city was still properly constructed.

    No matter what, the poor ones should be the normal cities, it isn¡¯t rted to a noble like the Lord City Lord, right?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt a bit of respect for the old Count Longley who had passed.

    Based on this, he wasn¡¯t a fellow that cared about riches, rather he was someone who sincerely thought about the citizens under his govern.

    Of course, his choice of supporting his highness Eric was still worth discussing.

    The magic machine industry created by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was gathered in the southern part of the Lampuri Kingdom, there were fewpanies that produced household magic machines in the northeast province. As for something that could be considered the most advanced magic machine, Magic Cars were rare in the northeast province and were basically never seen in a small town like Basaru City.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade of over twenty Magic Cars came through the city gates, it immediately attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Seeing the rows of Magic Cars slowlye to a stop, the officer in charge of the city gates was stunned. He looked up at the magic car that was like a monster that was twice his height and couldn¡¯t speak for a while.

    When Ankhto came out of the car and came up to him, did the officer react. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty and gave a strong cough before putting on an official stance, saying with a serious look ,¡±Hey, which caravan are you? What did youe to our Basaru City for?¡±

    Ankhto handed over the caravan pass with a faint smile.

    The officer looked over it and his eyes opened wide in surprise.

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Seeing the Magic Cars lined up, the officer understood, ¡°That¡¯s right, other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which otherpany has this many Magic Cars?¡±

    Ankhto was a bit surprised. He never thought that the city guard officer of a small town like Basaru City would actually know about their Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There was a bit of pride in his heart. Even people like this knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could be seen that they had quite the fame in the kingdom.

    ¡°Right, we are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from Banta City. We¡¯re transporting goods to Sowell City and passed by here, so we wanted to stay the night.¡± Ankhto exined.

    ¡°Oh......¡± The officer looked at the caravan pass and looked at the motorcade behind Ankhto before knitting his brows, ¡°It¡¯s no problem letting you in the city, but with so many Magic Cars.....I¡¯m afraid that we can¡¯t arrange them once they are in.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Ankhto was surprised once he looked into the city and found that the path connected to the gate was small and narrow. It was less than four meters at its widest and the most narrow ce wasn¡¯t even three meters.

    Although they could get the Magic Car in, the Magic Car wouldn¡¯t be able to turn non such a narrow street.

    Moreover, this path was connected to the city gate, so it should be the widest path. If even this street was this narrow, it could be imagined just what the other streets were like.

    ¡°This.....¡± Seeing this situation, it was a bit difficult for Ankhto. After thinking about it, he went into the Magic Cars to ask Xu Yi for instructions.

    Xu Yi was also curious why it took so long for Ankhto to talk to the city guards and he was also surprised after hearing Ankhto¡¯s exnation.

    Although he had already thought that Basaru City was small, he never thought that the situation inside the city would be this bad.

    ¡°Chairman, how about we just set up camp outside the city?¡± Camby proposed, ¡°Since we¡¯re near the city, there won¡¯t be any problems, right?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°Alright. Ankhto, go tell everyone else, we¡¯ll camp outside the city tonight. The ones that don¡¯t want to can go look for a hotel in the city and thepany will reimburse them.¡±

    Ankhto went off. Xu Yi fell into thought beforeing to the city gate and talking to the guard officer.

    Hearing that the motorcade wanted to camp outside, the guard officer was a bit hesitant.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid this isn¡¯t good.....If you stay outside the city, it will bother other people.....¡±

    After learning that Xu Yi was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the guard officer¡¯s voice couldn¡¯t help bing a bit weaker. If it was anyone else proposing this, they would have already been chased away.

    ¡°We will choose a ce where it won¡¯t bother others, it¡¯ll be fine if we have some empty space.¡± Xu Yi patiently exined, ¡°Moreover, we¡¯ll only be here for one night and we¡¯ll leave tomorrow, so we won¡¯t bother you.¡±

    Seeing the guard officer hesitate, Xu Yi looked around. He drew the guard officer over and with his back facing the others, he took out a purse from his chest.

    ¡°This money can be considered our entrance fee, but we won¡¯t enter the city, what do you think?¡±

    The guard officer looked at the purse in Xu Yi¡¯s hand and could see that the gold coins far surpassed the normal fee. He couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva before looking around, taking the purse from Xu YI¡¯s hand. He gave a soft cough and said with a serious look, ¡°Alright, since you are in a hard position, I won¡¯t make it hard on you. You can go find an empty spot on your own, but remember, you can¡¯t bother others.¡±

    Xu Yi agreed with a smile. When he turned to leave, he found that the guard officer¡¯s expression had changed. He had gone from smiling while holding the purse to looking like he had seen a ghost, bing filled with terror.

    ¡°What is going on?¡± Xu Yi turned around in a confused manner and followed the guard officer¡¯s wide gaze. He was a horse carriage quickly charging over, creating dust behind it.

    ¡°Wait!¡± When Xu Yi was thinking why the guard officer was so terrified from seeing this horse carriage, the guard officer suddenly grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm. He handed the purse back into Xu Yi¡¯s chest and said in a low voice, ¡°Remember, I didn¡¯t say anything just now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the guard in surprise. He saw his expression quickly change as he revealed a ttering smile,ing outside the city gates with the other guards to wee this horse carriage.

    It was clear that this horse carriage was carrying someone important the city guards recognized.

    But when Xu Yi looked over the horse carriage, he found that it was very normal there wasn¡¯t anything expensive on it at all. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of who was sitting in this horse carriage to actually make the guards change attitudes so quickly.

    But after a while, the horse carriage rushed across the dirt road and ignored the guards that came forward to greet it, as it went past them without even slowing down and stopped in front of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and raised his right hand, as he gathered his magic power, generating some wind to stop the dust that came from the horse carriage.

    When the dust faded, a middle aged man who seemed to be in his forties jumped out and grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s hand, as he said with an excited look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I finally caught you!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at this middle aged man in surprise. He found that he was rather exhausted and his clothing that was made of decent materials was wrinkled, but he was quite excited and his eyes were filled with happiness.

    ¡°You are......¡±

    ¡°Oh, I forgot to introduce myself.¡± The middle aged man pointed at Basaru City behind Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, please allow me to introduce myself. I am the current Basaru City¡¯s City Lord, Count Revel Longley. This is our first time meeting, so i ask chairman Xu to take care of me in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the middle aged man without a noble aura in surprise. Based on the attitude of the guards, this middle aged man shouldn¡¯t be lying, he was indeed the young Count Longley who was Basaru City¡¯s City Lord.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand, Basaru City clearly supported his highness Eric, so why would he be so polite to him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman? He would even be this excited to see Xu Yi?

    Could it be.....Xu Yi¡¯s guess from before was actuallying true?

 Volume 3 129 - Please stay another day

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 129 Please stay another day</h4>

    No matter how the old Count Longley thought of the people, unwilling to spend excessively, he was still a noble in the end and couldn¡¯t avoid certain things.

    For example......having arge manor as a noble......

    ¡°Chairman Xu, pleasee in.¡± Count Longley warmly invited Xu Yi in, calling several servants to entertain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce members in the Magic Cars, ¡°This manor isn¡¯t that good, so I hope chairman Xu doesn¡¯t mind.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and said with a smile, ¡°No matter what, this is better than camping outside, right?¡± After pausing, Xu Yi softly added, ¡°Not to mention that in this manor, I don¡¯t have to worry about encountering any danger.¡±

    Count Longley stopped and looked at Xu Yi. After hesitating a bit, he looked around and signaled for Xu Yi to follow him.

    The two came to a side hall alone and after the servants served hot tea, Count Longley waved them off. After being silent for a bit, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, the ones ambushed really were youst night?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Why do you say really?¡±

    ¡°Because starting yesterday, I had been following your motorcade the entire time. In the end, in the morning, I saw some.....¡± Count Longley knit his brows, ¡°Scenes that really makes one fill with regret......¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just regret?¡¯ Xu Yi seriously looked at Count Longley¡¯s expression, trying to see if he was rted to this matter at all.

    Although Count Longley¡¯s expression wasplicated, it was mostly helplessness and a bit of concern that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was attacked.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand. You might suspect me because of Basaru City¡¯s attitude before, but please believe me that I only feel deep regret and anger in this matter.¡± Count Longley paused before changing the topic, ¡°Chairman Xu, your lossesst night.....were they serious?¡±

    ¡°Very serious.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk as he revealed a bit of pain, ¡°In the ambushst night, ourpany lost three loyal guards. I am very saddened and angry about this. When I return to Anvilmar City, I will definitely report this matter to the Royal Parliament and get properpensation for those three guards.¡±

    Count Longley was shocked, ¡°You only lost three guards?¡±

    Xu Yi gave him a look of light warning, ¡°Only? Count Longley, in my opinion, all the guards are ourpany¡¯s precious employees, so even losing one is a loss we can¡¯t sustain.¡±

    ¡°Ah, no, chairman Xu, you¡¯ve misunderstood, I didn¡¯t mean that. Only......¡± Count Longley waved his hand as he revealed a look of disbelief, ¡°In that situation, you actually only lost three guards.....I have to say, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards really are strong.¡±

    ¡°What? Count Longley, you know what happenedst night?¡±

    Count Longley quickly shook his head, ¡°No, no, I just calcted it based on the marks of battle I saw this morning. If I¡¯m not wrong, the ones that attacked you were a group of elite cavalry.....¡±

    ¡°Was this just your calctions?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Longley with a ghost of a smile.

    Seeing Xu Yi always doubting him, Count Longley gave a helpless smile. He didn¡¯t know how to continue.

    He didn¡¯t speak and Xu Yi also didn¡¯t speak, so the room fell into silence.

    After a bit of awkwardness, Count Longley gave a cough and revealed a smile again as he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you heading to Sowell City this time?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Last time I went to Sowell City and met Count Sean, he mentioned that he invited your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in Sowell City. If I¡¯m not wrong, your motorcade this time is rted to this?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi put down his teacup. He looked at Count Longley and thought that if he took the initiative to ask this, could it be that his guesses were right and he had some special thoughts?¡±

    Count Longley hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Then chairman Xu, can you tell much how much yourpany is nning on investing in Sowell City?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he stretched out one finger, ¡°Right now we¡¯re nning on investing one million gold coins.¡±

    ¡°One million gold coins?¡± Count Longley¡¯s eyes popped out, as his breathing became a bit fast. It seemed that even with his identity as a City Lord, he was shocked by this amount, ¡°It¡¯s only in the beginning?¡±

    ¡°Right, our final goal is to build a production base in Sowell City, treating it as ourpany¡¯s headquarters in the northeast. We will use it to trade in the northeast province and even the surrounding countries. One million gold coins is just the initial investment, with our final estimates, the investment should be no lower than five million gold coins.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Five million gold coins.....¡± Count Longley gave a soft sigh, as his tone was filled with shock and praise, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is rich. This is just a single Sowell City and you¡¯re willing to invest five million gold coins already.¡±

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°I am a merchant, investments naturally are for earning money. I believe that investing five million gold coins in Sowell City will definitely earn more than five million back.¡±

    ¡°I believe that chairman Xu can definitely do it.¡± Count Longley nodded before asking, ¡°But chairman Xu, can I ask another question?¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°Yourpany has decided to invest five million in Sowell City. Although I believe that chairman Xu is capable of gaining more than you invested, where are you nning on investing this five million? Can Sowell City develop as quickly as Banta City with yourpany¡¯s investments?¡± Count Longley asked with a serious look.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. A city being able to develop, other than needing investments, the most important thing is that the person making decisions is strong enough. Of course, when Count Sean was the City Lord of Banta City, I had a good experience cooperating with him. I believe that for Sowell City this time, we should be able to have another good cooperation. As long as we take care of a few details, Sowell City should be able to develop quickly.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, Count Longley fell into deep thought.

    Although his expression didn¡¯t really change, based on the look changing in his eyes and his unconscious tapping of his finger on the table, it could be seen that his heart was filled with struggle.

    After a while, when Xu Yi¡¯s cup of tea had cooled down, Count Longley stopped tapping his finger. His eyes gradually became firm as he said to Xu Yi with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you have passed by our Basaru City, can you stay an extra day and let me entertain a rare guest like you?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Longley with a profound gaze, ¡°Count Longley, it wouldn¡¯t be convenient for you to have me as a guest, right?¡±

    Count Longley revealed a faint smile, ¡°Haven¡¯t you already decided to be a guest, what is inconvenient about it? Moreover, I have many things to consult with chairman Xu, so I hope that chairman Xu can stay for an extra day.¡±

    Xu Yi pretended like he gave it thought. After thinking for a bit, he gave a nod, ¡°Alright, since Count Longley is kind enough to invite me, me and my subordinates will disturb you for another day. As for consulting, Count Longley is too polite. You can discuss whatever you want with me freely.¡±

    Count Longley¡¯s smile became even brighter, ¡°Definitely.¡±

    ###

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    The beautiful amber jade bottle that was made by master Panda that was sold at the auction for thirteen thousand gold coins in Anvilmar Cityst time fell to the ground, shattering to pieces.

    The surrounding servants were shocked, but they didn¡¯t dare reveal anything on their faces. They just lowered their heads, not even daring to breathe too loudly.

    They knew that when Count Will was angry, it was best not to attract his attention or it would be hard to guess the consequences.

    Lamarte City¡¯s City Lord Manor¡¯s clerk Levan knit his brows as he looked at the pieces on the ground. He waved his hand and it was like the servants were pardoned, as they quickly left the room.

    Seeing the final servant close the door after leaving, Levan waited for a bit before saying to Count Will, ¡°Lord Count, you should make your decision.¡±

    ¡°Decision? Decide my butt!¡± Count Will angrily roared, ¡°An ambush on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade on my territory? They actually dared bring in those brats from the SacK Kingdom! It¡¯s clearly him trying to bring me down! That damn Michelle, this was definitely down by that old fox! I won¡¯t let this end!¡±

    Levan tightly knit his brows. After thinking for a bit, he said with a sigh, ¡°Lord City Lord, if this matter really was done by Count Michelle, I think we definitely won¡¯t be able to find any evidence. Moreover......¡± Levan gave a bitterugh before continuing, ¡°I suspect that it was the prince who instructed him to do this.¡±

    ¡°The prince instructed him?¡± Count Will was stunned. After thinking about it, he revealed a cold glow in his eyes, ¡°Why would his highness want to harm me? What benefit is there to him?¡±

    ¡°No, it is likely his highness ordered for the removal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Michelle doing this in our Lamarte City was his own decision.¡± Levan made an analysis, ¡°Count Michelle has always been trying to take the position of the leader of the northeast province from Lord City Lord, so if he could topple you through this matter, he would have achieved his goals. Even if he couldn¡¯t topple you, as long as the Royal Parliament became vignt towards you over this matter, it would also achieve his goal.¡±

    ¡°In his dreams!¡± Count Will gave a cold snort. He walked in circles in deep thought for a bit before waving his hand at Levan.

    Levan immediately came closer.

    Count Will came to his ear and softly said, ¡°Listen well, this time......¡±

    After hearing Count Will¡¯s orders, Levan looked at him in shock.

    If he really followed Count Will¡¯s orders, wouldn¡¯t it mean Lamarte City waspletely breaking off rtions with Dketon City?

    But seeing the dark look on Count Will¡¯s face and the fierce look in his eyes, Levan didn¡¯t dare say anything.

    He knew that Count Will in this condition was at his most dangerous.

 Volume 3 130 - Hot spring

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 130 Hot spring</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you see the river in front? This is our northeast province¡¯s biggest river, the Banau River. It flows through the entire northeast province before heading east into the Drake Duchy and the Fenno Kingdom, before connecting to the Gain River.¡± Count Longley pointed at the silver waters in front of them as he introduced this river to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked up at the waves in front of him and the reflected bits of broken sunlight on the river, finding it a bit strange.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t winter in the north very cold? Why isn¡¯t the river frozen?¡±

    Count Longleyughed, ¡°That is because of the river¡¯s biggest specialty. Although this is in the north of the kingdom, it actually never freezes in winter.¡±

    ¡°The reason?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t considered the most northern part of the continent, the temperature in winter was still negative ten to twenty degrees. This river wasn¡¯t considered wide, so it should freeze.

    Count Longleyughed, ¡°You¡¯ll understand the reasonter.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, he never thought that this Count Longley had this bad habit of keeping people in suspense.

    The horse carriage headed across a dirt road with the two of them before finally stopping at a vige that wasn¡¯t considered that big.

    Count Longley¡¯s horse carriage had just stopped when a group of people came forward.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, you¡¯re here again.¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, are you here for another soak?¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, the weather is good today, so it¡¯s right for a long soak.¡±

    ¡°Right, Lord City Lord, you haven¡¯t been here in a few days. Come,e,e, let¡¯s have a meal at our house first. I went to hunt for some deers yesterday and I kept the leg, so you came right on time.¡±

    ¡°Lord City Lord, I want to eat candy......¡±

    ......

    Seeing the vigers happily surround Count Longley, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Back in Banta City, Count Sean could be considered popr, but he wasn¡¯t the same as Count Longley. He couldn¡¯t let the vigers feel no pressure when they saw him and treated him like an old friend.

    Count Longley also had a smile as he happily greeted everyone, he even reached out his hand to pick up the child who wanted to eat candy. He waved his hand at Xu Yi before heading to the house of the senior who invited him for a meal.

    Xu Yi followed him into the vige and whenever they passed by a house, there would be someone who greeted Count Longley.

    When they arrived at the old farmer¡¯s house, Count Longley put down the child and gave him a piece of candy. He patted the little kid on the but and had the kid go home, only then did he invite Xu Yi in like this was his house.

    When they came in, Xu Yi immediately smelled a mix of scents that almost choked him and he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    The old farmer in front had already guessed that Xu Yi¡¯s reaction was from the scent, so he turned back to look at Xu Yi with an embarrassed smile, ¡°This guest might not be able to bear the smell, but there¡¯s no other way. It¡¯s like this in the countryside, so please bear with it.¡±

    Count Longley on the side exined, ¡°It¡¯s too cold today, so they had to use some methods to keep the room warm.¡±

    Xu Yi looked in and found that there was a stove in the less than twenty square meter room. There were several logs burning in the stove and it was releasing a faint smoke that seemed to wrap around the room like smog.

    Adding in the pan on the stove that was giving off an unknown fragrance, it really was strange.

    On a worn out bed in the corner of the room, the bedding was so dark that its original colours couldn¡¯t be seen at all.

    Two children wrapped up in the bedding who didn¡¯t seem to be more than ten years old saw the two guestsing into the room. After a while, the two children jumped out of the bed and into Count Longley¡¯s embrace, cheerfully weing him.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi looked at the old farmer with an apologetic look with a smile and said, ¡°It¡¯s fine, if the Lord City Lord can bear with it, of course I don¡¯t have a problem.¡±

    The old farmer revealed an honest smile and walked into the back, calling out to someone.

    After a while, the old farmer and an olddy came back and gathered around the stove.

    Count Longley and the two kids were already sitting by the stove together with smiles on their faces, waving for Xu Yi toe over.

    ¡°Come, chairman Xu, sit down. Old Hal¡¯s roasted deer leg is a rare delicacy, even I haven¡¯t eaten it many times. Your luck is good today, you can eat it on your first day.¡±

    Hearing Count Longley¡¯s praise, the old farmer called old Hal revealed a smile. He kept throwing many different ingredients into the pot that Xu Yi didn¡¯t recognize at all.

    When old Hal finished cooking the deer leg and put a full bowl of soup in front of Xu Yi did he finally feel that today was a bit strange.

    He thought that Count Longley had him stay another day to discuss something special, but he never thought that he would bring Xu Yi around Basaru City without saying a thing.

    This morning, he had surprised Xu Yi by bringing him to this small vige outside the city and now he was having him eat the deer leg that this old farmer had caught.

    ¡°This Count Longley, did he make up his mind or is he still hesitating?¡± Xu Yi asked in his heart, but his expression didn¡¯t change. He thanked old Hal before taking the soup, blowing it and then taking a sip.

    The rich fragrance exploded in his mouth and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving old Hal a thumbs up.

    ¡°This is good! No wonder Lord City Lord specially brought me here, so it was because he was hungry!¡±

    Receiving Xu Yi¡¯s praise, old Hal revealed a bright smile. It was unknown where he turned to pull out what seemed to be ambskin sack. He took out another bowl and pulled the plug of thembskin sack, releasing the scent of wine from within. What was kept inside was actually good wine.

    ¡°Come, eat the deer meat and drink some wine, that is the best way to enjoy it.¡± After Count Longley came here, it was like he was a different person, he didn¡¯t seem like a noble at all. He took the bowl of wine from old Hal and toasted Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi clinked bowls with him and drank it all. He found that although the wine wasn¡¯tparable to the wine from the Sachi Manor, it couldn¡¯t evenpare to the wine the dwarves made, but it was still quite good.

    So the four adults and two children gathered around the stove. Even the children sipped the wine as they enjoyed the deer soup. After a while, therge pot of deer soup was finished and there wasn¡¯t even a drop of liquid left at the bottom.

    After eating to their content, Count Longley rested for a bit before calling to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Come, chairman Xu. With today¡¯s weather, after we eat our fill, we should go and take a bath. It definitely will feel good.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused, but he didn¡¯t n on asking anything.

    It seemed like Count Longley was nning on not saying anything until the end, so of course he would patiently wait and wouldn¡¯t force him.

    If Count Longley¡¯s thoughts were the same as his guesses, then this matter must be a very difficult decision for him. It was normal for him to feel hesitant.

    After leaving old Hal¡¯s house, Count Longley didn¡¯t walk up the mountain, but he took out two packages from his horse carriage. He threw one to Xu Yi while holding the other. He went forward on the road in front and headed up a small mountain.

    It was good to take a walk after eating, but climbing up a mountain was a bit hard.

    Xu Yi¡¯s physique wasn¡¯t that good and in this condition, he was panting after climbing up the mountain, causing Count Longley to break out inughter.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that you were a magician. Do all magicians have such weak bodies as you?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, but he was too weak to refute it.

    At least in the magicians that he knew, there weren¡¯t many with better physiques than him.

    It was a good thing this mountain wasn¡¯t high and Count Longley didn¡¯t go all the way to the peak, bringing Xu Yi off on a small road.

    After walking for a bit, the sshing sounds of water came from in front as mist drifted over them.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi was surprised.

    Why did this seem like something he had experienced back on earth?

    Walking forward a bit, the water vapor became stronger, but he could still see clearly. There was arge basin in front that was around a hundred square meters wide.

    The water in the basin was rather warm, sending out steam on such a cold day, making the entire basin look like an immortal¡¯s mountain.

    That¡¯s right, there was a hot spring here!

    Seeing the surprised Xu Yi, Count Longleyughed before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are someone from the south, so it should be your first time seeing our special product, the hot spring, right?¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to say that he had experienced this thing many times on earth, but he still nodded in agreement.

    ¡°Since this is your first time, you have to properly experience it. Let me tell you, in this kind of weather, soaking in the hot spring is the best feeling.¡±

    After saying this, Count Longley took off his clothes without any hesitation at all before entering the hot spring.

    Seeing Count Longley waving from the hot spring, Xu Yi helplessly shook his head before taking off his clothes and entering as well.

    It had to be said, in this kind of cold weather, soaking in a natural hot spring and being able to see scenery from high up really was enjoyable.

    But because Count Longley had brought him here, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t rx and enjoy.

    While the two soaked, they also talked.

    After a while, Count Longley suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°Although old Hal has this kind of natural enjoyment, they have to worry about what to eat every day, so they can¡¯t enjoy it at all. It really makes one feel sympathy for them, don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the vige at the foot of the mountain before turning back to Count Longley.

    This fellow was finally going to talk after waiting for an entire day?

 Volume 3 131 - Xu Yiâ€™s worries

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 131 Xu Yi¡¯s worries</h4>

    Two dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce motorcade that had stayed in Basaru City for three days finally headed on the road to Sowell City.

    The Magic Car kept bumping across the dirt road outside Basaru City, shaking Xu Yi and the other researchers from the magic machine development center inside the Magic Car.

    The researchers were led by Camby to use their time before they reached Sowell City to discuss research, making the atmosphere inside the car lively.

    However, Xu Yi was very silent. He didn¡¯t even watch the scenery passing outside the window, rather he had his brows slightly knit as he was in deep thought the entire time.

    His eyes fell onto the worn down houses that passed on both sides and Xu Yi¡¯s expression became more serious.

    He was currently facing an important choice, but he couldn¡¯t make up his mind since there were many worries.

    Camby who had stopped discussing turned to see the strange look on Xu Yi¡¯s face and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman, what¡¯s wrong? Since you went out with Count Longley the day before yesterday, why have you had this expression? Could it be that Count Longley did something that made it hard for you?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitterugh.

    ¡°Although Count Longley didn¡¯t do anything to make it hard on me, it is actually me that¡¯s making it hard on me.¡±

    ¡°What does that mean?¡± Camby looked confused.

    Xu Yi looked at the viges filled with worn down houses in the distance for a while and suddenly asked, ¡°Camby, if doing something could help many people, but you would be in a very dangerous situation, how would you choose?¡±

    Camby knit his brows, ¡°It depends on if these people are worth helping and how dangerous the situation is. What is it? Chairman, did Count Longley say something to you? Does he want to invite you to invest in Basaru City?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Camby in surprise.

    He had always thought that dwarves like Camby reacted slowly, he never thought that he would be able to discern the truth right away.

    ¡°Un, Count Longley has indeed invited me and he is very sincere. I have to admit, I¡¯ve been moved by him.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    Thinking of his contact with Count Longley over the past few days, Xu Yi had a strange feeling in his heart.

    During these years, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quickly developed, Xu Yi had made contact with most of the nobles in the kingdom and he could tell that there were good and bad nobles among them.

    The good nobles could peacefully coexist with their citizens, even extending their hand to help the citizens within their territory. The bad nobles would rely on their rights to suppress citizens and satisfy their own greed.

    But most of the nobles received the traditions of nobles, being in a different sspared to normal citizens. They werepletely unrted, like they were people from two different worlds.

    But no matter what, Xu Yi had never seen a noble like Count Longley, being able to be on the same level as normal citizens. He even put all his efforts into letting his citizens live as good of a life as possible.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain that Count Longley wasn¡¯t acting this way, but based on the people¡¯s evaluation of the old Count Longley, as well as the time he spent with Count Longley, he could see the way the citizens of Basaru City acted and that Count Longley¡¯s attitude should be real.

    After all, it was easy for him to fake it alone, but it was hard for all the citizens to fake it.

    Even disregarding whether it was fake or not, just based on the attitude Count Longley had and his suggestions towards this matter, Xu Yi had to seriously consider this.

    Investing in Basaru City wasn¡¯t considered hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although Basaru City was indeed poor and this city didn¡¯t have any good resources, through his inspections over the past few days, Xu Yi had already found several methods to develop Basaru City. After considering it on the spot, he felt that they were quite feasible.

    Basaru City was justcking in money and this was not something the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce wascking.

    If he agreed to Count Longley¡¯s invitation and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started investing in Basaru City, there was an even deeper meaning. It meant that Basaru City that openly supported his highness Eric would begin cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that supported her highness Seveni.

    No one would think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changed to his highness Eric¡¯s side, rather people would feel that Count Longley would want to betray his highness.

    The reason was that there really was a disparity in terms of power between both sides.

    Although Count Longley was a City Lord and a Count, Basaru City was the weakest, smallest, and poorest City in the northeast province. Count Longley didn¡¯t have much as the City Lord.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different.

    As the newpany without limits that developed the quickest in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already held quite a bit of strength and potential. It was far from something a poor City Lord couldpare to.

    Both sides also differed greatly when it came to support of his highness Eric and her highness Seveni.

    But even like this, the symbolic meaning of this was too big.

    If Count Longley really chose to invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in Basaru City, starting to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be considered a betrayal by his highness Eric¡¯s side.

    Moreover, this gave many people a bad sign. It meant that the side supporting his highness Eric wasn¡¯t unified and had many fissures among them.

    If this became fact, Xu Yi could imagine how angry his highness Eric would be, so the consequences would be serious.

    So when he heard that Count Longley wanted to invite him, even if Xu Yi was prepared, he was still surprised.

    ¡°Count Longley, are you certain you want to do this? You do know what the consequences of this will be, right?¡±

    Xu Yi still remembered that when Count Longley replied, there was a bitter and helpless look hidden in his expression, but there was also a look of firm determination.

    ¡°Of course I know, butpared to giving the tens of thousands of people of Basaru City the basic standard of living, a bit of betrayal isn¡¯t considered much. For this goal, our Longley Family has worked hard for several generations. Now that this chance is in front of me, if I don¡¯t grab it, how could I face my ancestors, how could I face the people of Basaru City!¡±

    ¡°Are you certain that if you do this, your father in the ground wouldn¡¯t think that you¡¯re betraying him?¡±

    ¡°Father chose to support his highness Eric back then because his highness clearly guaranteed that all the citizens would be able to eat their fill, but now he doesn¡¯t care about the lives of the citizens for his own military achievement. Instead, he is making Basaru City undertake a burden that it can¡¯t bear. If lord father knew of this, he would immediately reprimand him.¡±

    Count Longley¡¯s explicit response made Xu Yi understand why he made this decision that would surely shock everyone, making it harder for Xu Yi.

    After going around Basaru City with Count Longley over these past few days, naturally he wasn¡¯t just ying around. He had carried out a careful inspection of Basaru City under Count Longley¡¯s leadership.

    In these few days, Xu Yi found that Basaru really was worthy of being the poorest city in the northeast. Not only were the citizens outside the city like old Hal, not even being able to solve the most basic food and shelter problems, the families in the city were only a bit better and could barely make a living.

    Not to mentionparing it to Banta City before it started developing, this city couldn¡¯tpare to any city that Xu Yi had seen before.

    Of course Xu Yi hoped that Basaru City could develop with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s investment and they could change the lives of these poor people.

    But if they did this, not only would Count Longley face a serious problem, Xu Yi would also face problems.

    His highness Eric¡¯s side would think that Count Longley betrayed them, but they would also think that this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s challenge to them.

    If it really was like this, it could break the fragile bnce between the two sides, shattering the peace that was barely maintained.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t take the responsibility of splitting the Lampuri Kingdom apart, so he couldn¡¯t easily agree to Count Longley. He could only tell Count Longley he would consider it to give him a bit of hope.

    As for whether he would agree or not, Xu Yi had to return to Banta City and discuss it with her highness Seveni first.

    This matter was already no longer a matter for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone.

    Count Longley naturally knew Xu YI¡¯s worries and didn¡¯t force Xu Yi to agree. Rather he continued to warmly entertain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade to show his sincerity.

    But when Count Longley¡¯s look had made it hard for Xu Yi when he was leaving.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh.

    How good it would be if Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t have this many children or if he just chose a sessor. That way everyone wouldn¡¯t need topete for the throne and waste the resources of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The current situation in the Lampuri Kingdom was something that he as the king had to take responsibility for.

    But after such a long time, the kingpletely removed himself from this. He didn¡¯t make any final decisions and didn¡¯t favour any side.

    It was like......he was deliberately trying to make things like this.

    This king, just what was he thinking?

 Volume 3 132 - Three orders

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 132 Three orders</h4>

    Today was a rare warm winter day, however Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t do the same thing as usual, choosing to enjoy the sun in the back garden. Rather he was covered in a thick nket as heid on the threeyered bed, slowly going over the documents in his hands.

    Dema on the side saw Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s face that was so pale that it almost didn¡¯t have any blood in them and a deeply worried look appeared in his eyes. He wanted to tell Lampuri Thirteenth to rest, but he couldn¡¯t say a single thing when he opened his mouth and just made the Magic Lamp in the room brighter, making it easier for Lampuri Thirteenth to see.

    ¡°Hei, this kid Eric, he really has a bunch of pigs.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth had finished reading the document in his hand and gave a coldugh. He turned over to Dema, ¡°Dema, what has Seveni been doing in the past few days?¡±

    Dema was surprised, but he quickly answered after thinking about it, ¡°Her highness has been in Banta City, working on renovating Banta City. The canal between the Sandy River and the Rum River has finally been finished during this time and she personally went to preside over the ceremony.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a slight nod, ¡°Banta City¡¯s development really is good. If all the cities in the kingdom can be as careless as Banta City, how would I need to worry about the threat of the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Dema hesitated a bit before carefully saying, ¡°Your majesty, to be honest, although the greatest contributor to Banta City¡¯s development is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if it wasn¡¯t for her highness supporting them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have developed so smoothly.¡±

    ¡°What? You want to remind me of Seveni¡¯s excellent eyes?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Your majesty is wise, you can definitely see it.¡± Dema quickly lowered his head.

    Lampuri Thirteenthughed, ¡°I know what you are thinking, but Dema, you should know. Even if I want to appoint Seveni as my sessor, there would be much opposition. You should also know what those fellows would be opposing.¡±

    Dema said with a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s because his highness guarantees their benefits while her highness cares more about the kingdom¡¯s benefits and improving the living conditions of the citizens.¡±

    ¡°So.....I have to give Seveni enough time and let her be strong, only she.....¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly gave a strong cough.

    Dema quickly brought a cup of warm water over.

    Lampuri Thirteenth took two sips before knitting his brows. He pointed at the cab in front of his bed.

    ¡°Bring that over.¡±

    Dema was surprised, ¡°Your majesty, you have to eat less of that thing, your body.....¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth red at him and Dema obediently went to the cab. He took out a small jar from inside and took out a small red pill from that.

    Taking the pill from Dema¡¯s hand, Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a self-deprecating smile. He coughed again and knit his brows before swallowing the pill with the water in his hand.

    After a while, a red flush came back to Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s face. He instantly became much more spirited and he even stopped coughing.

    Dema saw the restored Lampuri Thirteenth and the worry in his eyes became thicker.

    Lampuri Thirteenth closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were glowing like he had returned to the prime of his life several years ago. He became the king that everyone worshipped in the kingdom.

    ¡°Dema, bring me pen and paper, I¡¯ll send three royal decrees.¡±

    ¡°First, order the third regiment of the royal army to Sowell City and heavily guard the northern border, make sure the Sack Kingdom can¡¯t invade southward. After the third regiment has entered Sowell City, they will be controlled by Sowell City and will wear their local armaments.¡±

    Hearing this first order Dema¡¯s eyelids jumped up.

    With this order, it turned the third regiment into special city guards of Sowell City.

    The third regiment wasn¡¯t only controlled by Sowell City in name, they also bore their armaments, which meant that Sowell City would have a firm grasp over them.

    Count Sean was known as an astute City Lord, so how could he not understand his majesty¡¯s meaning. He would firmly hold the third army in his hands.

    ¡°Second, order the Royal Parliament to conduct the royal status audit for Eric, Seveni, and Durant. I, as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king, officially grant them titles as the princes and princess, giving them their full rights.¡±

    [TL Note: I know that the second prince¡¯s name changed, but that¡¯s how it is in the raw.]

    Hearing this second order, Dema tightly knit his brows.

    Although the three royal children had the identity of royal children, that was only in name. Before the Royal Parliament¡¯s official audit, they only had the name and didn¡¯t have the rights.

    For example, a true prince could participate in the Royal Parliament. Before they officially received their titles, they wouldn¡¯t be able to officially participate in the Royal Parliament.

    And among the numerous rights, the most important one was that before they were received their official title, although the three royal children had guards, these guards belonged to his majesty in name. It was his majesty who sent them to protect the safety of his children.

    After they were officially titled, the three of them had the right to appoint their own personal guards.

    They were different from normal nobles. With their identities as royals, they could recruit up to five thousand private guards and they could recruit from the public.

    This meant that as long as they received an official title, if they had enough money and power, they could create an elite guard squad that belonged to them.

    These private guards were the core power for these three royals, so it was something very important.

    Although there was the tradition of granting the right of a royal before deciding on a sessor in the Lampuri Kingdom, in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom, normally the king would decide on their sessor and then grant them the rights of a royal to train that sessor.

    Now Lampuri Thirteenth hasn¡¯t picked a sessor yet and decided to give all three children royal rights. This had only happened three times in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    And during these three times, very bad consequences came out of every time. The most serious one even created a civil war in the kingdom.

    After that, there wasn¡¯t a single king who chose to do this.

    Dema hesitated a bit, but he still couldn¡¯t resist the deep doubt in his heart as he said to Lampuri Thirteenth, ¡°Your majesty, this......wouldn¡¯t this be improper? You¡¯re not worried that something will go wrong?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Dema and softly replied, ¡°Who do you think this order will influence the most?¡±

    Dema was surprised. After thinking about it, he suddenly understood.

    With the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s current situation, although his highness Durant had the right of a sessor, no one had thought that he would actually be able topete with his highness Eric and her highness Seveni.

    Since Eric had the support of many of the established nobles, although he didn¡¯t have a private guard on the surface, he didn¡¯tck troops that he could direct.

    Adding in the fact that he was the City Lord of Lorren City, obtaining influence over the northern army, it increased the military might in his hands.

    Compared to her highness Seveni who didn¡¯t interfere with the military, what she could move right now was only the guards that his highness had given to her before.

    Even if the nobles that supported her highness Seveni sent their private armies,pared to his highness Eric, there was without a doubt arge difference.

    So with this order, it affected her highness Seveni the most.

    If her highness Seveni could recruit five thousand personal guards, it would without a doubt greatly increase the power she had.

    The most important thing was that Seveni had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So the armament of her private army would definitely surpass the other troops in the kingdom.

    But the worry in Dema¡¯s heart wasn¡¯t reduced.

    Although his majesty had indirectly increased her highness Seveni¡¯s strength, wouldn¡¯t this be forcing his highness Eric and her highness Seveni to face each other?

    It was like......he was afraid that they wouldn¡¯t fight......

    Dema saw the calm look on Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s face that revealed nothing, he didn¡¯t believe that this order that he thought was dumb came from Lampuri Thirteenth.

    But the years of following Lampuri Thirteenth made him obediently record this order and he didn¡¯t dare refute him.

    Seeing the doubt on Dema¡¯s face that wasn¡¯t hidden, Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a faint smile, but he didn¡¯t n on exining. After Dema had written down the second order, he paused before continuing, ¡°Third, have the business department conduct an inspection of the surrounding countries, see if it is possible to trade with them¡±

    Dema was surprised again, he never thought that the third order would be for the business department.

    ¡°Your majesty, you¡¯re nning on opening up the foreign trade market?¡± Dema asked.

    When discussing this, Dema¡¯s tone was much more rxed.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth gave a nod, ¡°The reason we didn¡¯t open up the market before was because our country was much more undevelopedpared to other countries. If we had opened the market, the merchants of the other countries would have taken the money of our kingdom¡¯s citizens. As for now.....it is our turn to take their money.¡±

    Dema¡¯s expression was a bit strange, ¡°Your majesty, aren¡¯t you too confident in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Our kingdom only has a singlepany that is superior to otherpanies, but what if they can¡¯t bear this heavy responsibility?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a soft snort, ¡°That fellow Xu Yi is more bold than you think. Even if he didn¡¯t have the support of the kingdom, he would have extended his hand into many different countries. I¡¯m helping him now so he could develop a bit faster, otherwise if he remains in the kingdom, he might be swallowed by those fellows one day.¡±

    Dema knit his brows as he looked at Lampuri Thirteenth. If his majesty was worried about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being swallowed by people if they remained in the kingdom, isn¡¯t he worried that after they go to other kingdoms, they would be swallowed by the even greedier fellows in those kingdoms?

 Volume 3 133 - Reinforced concrete city walls

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 133 Reinforced concrete city walls</h4>

    No matter what angle it was from, Princess Caroline couldn¡¯t be described as greedy or cruel. However, when Xu Yi led the motorcade into Sowell City, seeing the beautiful girl with the warm smile beside Count Sean, the smile on his face couldn¡¯t help bing awkward.

    ¡°Hey, dear chairman Xu, you¡¯re finally here.¡± After Princess Caroline saw Xu Yi, her smile became even brighter as she waved towards him, ¡°I¡¯ve been waiting for some time now.¡±

    Xu Yi calmed himself because he was slightly perturbed by what happened before. He said with a faint smile, ¡°I made your highness wait, but constructing a production base in Sowell City is an important matter, so there are many things to prepare ahead of time. Naturally it will take some time.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know this.¡± Princess Caroline rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Only I¡¯m very worried and wanted to see you again.¡±

    Seeing the smile Count Sean had, Xu Yi gave a dry cough and gave a nod before turning to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, how are your preparations here?¡±

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile, ¡°What? We haven¡¯t seen each other in a year and you¡¯re already doubting my skills?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°How could I dare. But I just want to understand the details and start nning the construction as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to rush.¡± Count Sean looked over Xu Yi and fell onto the Magic Cars behind him, as he gave a satisfied nod, ¡°You¡¯ve just arrived today, so take a rest first and we can discuss work tomorrow. Moreover, Princess Caroline came a week early to wait for you, so she must have many things to tell you.¡±

    Seeing the inviting and sweet smile on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Count Sean. He turned and waved to call the researchers into the city.

    Compared to Banta City and the even smaller Basaru City, the first ss Sowell City of the northeast province was much bigger.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the walls of Sowell City was two times taller than Basaru city and was very taller than Banta City¡¯s. The most shocking thing was that when walking through the city gates, Xu Yi saw that the walls by the gates were over five meters thick. Although it was impossible for the other parts to be this thick, it was still thicker than Banta City¡¯s walls.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over the walls, Count Sean who had been following beside him said with a faint smile, ¡°Sowell City is close to the northern border, so we have to guard against the Sack Kingdom. That¡¯s why it¡¯s normal for us to have thicker walls.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before thinking of another question.

    ¡°In terms of being close to the borders, Banta City is less than hundred kilometers away from the kingdom¡¯s southern borders, so why aren¡¯t its walls as thick?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because the Rudson Kingdom are old friends with our Lampuri Kingdom. Since the founding of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom have been our loyal allies. They¡¯ve never betrayed us, so there¡¯s no need to be that on guard.¡± Count Sean exined.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a slight nod, but he still didn¡¯t ept it in his heart.

    Although based on history, the Rudson Kingdom had always been the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s allies, there were only benefits between kingdoms. Old friendships were not things that could be relied on.

    To Xu Yi, Banta City choosing not to reinforce their walls was mainly because they had no money.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances weren¡¯t good, so other than the funds needed to keep the kingdom running, most of their funds were used to defend against the Sack Kingdom, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t guard against other ces.

    Even if Banta City had money now, in the renovation n that Xu Yi and Count Sean came up with, they never considered improving the city wall.

    Because Xu Yi had transmigrated from earth, he never considered the issue of strengthening the wall to deal with enemies. As for Count Sean, he just chose to ignore it.

    ¡°Actually, your Banta City¡¯s walls are already higher than most city walls in our Drake Duchy and much thicker.¡± Princess Caroline walking on Xu Yi¡¯s other side gave a sigh as she looked at Sowell City¡¯s walls, ¡°As for such thick city walls, I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t find a simr one in all the cities of our Drake Duchy.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her. Your Drake Duchy being able to survive in between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom was not relying on your walls.

    After thinking of something, Xu Yi said to Princess Caroline, ¡°Your highness, if you have thoughts of improving city walls, I have a very good method. As long as you change the walls ording to my n, I guarantee that unless an Arch Magus makes a move, there won¡¯t be a problem with your city walls.¡±

    Princess Caroline and Count Sean were both shocked as they asked at the same time, ¡°Really? What kind of walls are these?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and turned to point at the road outside Sowell City.

    ¡°Your highness and Lord City Lord, you must know that the roads are mainly made of concrete. You should understand how firm the concrete roads are, right?¡±

    Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°I have experienced the roads in your Lampuri Kingdom, but I don¡¯t know about how the roads areid.¡±

    ¡°Your highness, if you want to develop your Drake Duchy, my first suggestion to you is to build roads.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°As long as you solve the problem of transport and guarantee easy and unobstructed transport, it will make it easier for your economy to develop.¡±

    ¡°Un, when I went to Banta Cityst time, I saw the roads in Banta City and the surrounding cities, as well as the countless horse carriages moving between them. I waspletely shocked by what I saw then. If our Drake Duchy could be like this, it would mean that our duchy would be able to develop.¡± Princess Caroline said in an emotional voice.

    ¡°That day will definitelye.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Thank you.¡± Princess Caroline gave Xu Yi a sweet smile, ¡°But chairman Xu, let¡¯s not bring the topic that far yet. How about you tell me first what kind of city wall you have that a Great Magician can¡¯t break through?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately reply and turned to ask Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, the reinforced concrete use in the Sandy River bank construction, do you still have an impression of that?¡±

    Count Sean¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°I do. You mean.....using reinforced concrete to build a city wall? But can the structure support such a tall city wall?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°In theory, as long as there are enough steel bars and concrete, the reinforced concrete can be constructed into the sky.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked up at the sky above Sowell City and revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you boasting? How could it reach that high?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile. If you could see the hundreds of meters tall skyscrapers from earth that pierced the clouds, you might not even believe your eyes.

    Moreover, since Xu Yi had mentioned it, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise had been experimenting. He believed that it wouldn¡¯t take long before a truly tall building that surpassed the architectural standards of the Sines Continent appeared.

    ¡°Alright, that is only in theory. But Xu Yi, since you said this, I assume that constructing something as tall as a city wall isn¡¯t a problem, right?¡± Count Sean said with a nod, ¡°But there¡¯s another important question, how much would it cost?¡±

    Hearing this, Princess Caroline¡¯s beautiful eyes looked at Xu Yi with a look that said she cared very much about this.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, to construct such a city wall, how much does a hundred square meters cost?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Sowell City that was getting further away and asked this question.

    ¡°For Sowell City......¡± Count Sean fell into thought before replying, ¡°If we don¡¯t countbour, it costs around thirty to fifty thousand for a hundred square meters.¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Xu Yi was shocked.

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, ¡°Is this much?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°If a hundred square meters costs thirty to fifty thousand, Sowell City¡¯s wall is over ten kilometers, wouldn¡¯t that cost three to five million gold coins? Could it be that isn¡¯t much?¡±

    ¡°No, Sowell City¡¯s wall cost around six million gold coins because you didn¡¯t add in the archer towers and the city gate.¡± Count Sean added, ¡°Xu Yi, if you think this costs too much, then a hundred square meters of reinforced concrete wall costs much less, right?¡±

    Seeing the look of disbelief and hope on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course. The main part of the reinforced concrete is the steel bars and the concrete costs much less. ording to the current estimates, if you want to build a hundred meter wide wall that is three meters deep and five meters tall, it wouldn¡¯t cost more than ten thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this cheap?¡± Count Sean and Princess Caroline both had looks of disbelief.

    But after a while, the two changed to looks of pleasant surprise.

    Because the two knew that Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t joke about this matter with them.

    Princess Caroline blinked herrge eyes before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, the reinforced concrete you mentioned, do we have to buy it from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°What do you think I¡¯m selling this reinforced concrete wall for?¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi and gave a soft snort, ¡°But you can¡¯t just make us run all the way to Banta City to buy it, right?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right. So after ourpanyes to Sowell City, the first thing we¡¯re building is a cement factory and then a steel mill.¡±

 Volume 3 134 - Wanting benefits

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 134 Wanting benefits</h4>

    In order to wee the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade, when night came, Count Sean held a grand wee banquet at the City Lord Manor. Not only did he invite everyone from the motorcade, he even invited all the important people of Sowell City, including the nobles, the merchants, and even the officers of the city guards.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t want Count Sean to hold this wee banquet, feeling that it was too troublesome, but he also knew that this was something that Count Sean had to do to quickly integrate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into Sowell City, so naturally he didn¡¯t reject.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t like these banquets and dealing with these people, in order to not let down Count Sean¡¯s hard work and since he was one of the main characters of this banquet, so Xu Yi had to invigorate himself. He talked to all the guests that came and noted down their names, backgrounds, and various other information.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to develop in Sowell City, even if they had the support of the City Lord Count Sean, that didn¡¯t mean that others in the city would work with them.

    After dealing with the people who came, Xu Yi had made contact with all the guests that came and finally had an opportunity to catch his breath.

    When he took a sip of his wine, Princess Caroline suddenly appeared.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you very tired?¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline¡¯s energetic look, Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Aren¡¯t you tired? Your highness, I think that you are more popr than me.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re jealous?¡± Princess Caroline raised her wine ss with a smile and clinked it with Xu Yi¡¯s before taking a sip. She suddenly gave a sigh and looked at the banquet as she said in a soft voice, ¡°Although I am very popr, most of the ones who came are all men. They are only interested in my body, it isn¡¯t like chairman Xu where they are interested in your power.¡±

    ¡°Your body is also a part of your strength. I hope that they would be more interested in my body, at least that would mean that I have some confidence in my own charm, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Princess Carolineughed and gave Xu Yi a wink as she said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are already very handsome and I am interested in your body.¡±

    While saying this, Princess Caroline approached Xu Yi and stood on her tiptoes a bit, putting her face by Xu Yi¡¯s face. She let out a soft breath and the fragrance mixed with liquor hit Xu Yi¡¯s face before she said in a charming voice, ¡°I said it before when I was in Banta Cityst time, chairman Xu, I will prepare my bed in Sowell City and I¡¯m waiting for your honourable self to visit. Now that I¡¯ve already prepared my bed, are you interested in spending the night with me?¡±

    ¡°Your highness, you are drunk.¡± Xu Yi took half a step back and turned slightly to not look directly at Princess Caroline.

    The drunk Princess Caroline was very charming and very lethal. He didn¡¯t dare guarantee that if he was charmed like this, he would be able to hold on.

    Princess Caroline giggled, but she no longer approached. Rather she quickly changed the topic, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am still thinking about the reinforced concrete walls you mentioned this morning. I want to ask, if our duchy can produce our own steel and cement, how much would we save on the cost?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t suggest you do this, at least not now. The reinforced concrete is strong other than the structure itself, the most important thing is the quality of the steel and concrete. It¡¯s fine with the concrete, but the quality of the steel can¡¯t be guaranteed with the current level of technology of your Drake Duchy. If you try to rashly solve the problem of the materials, the consequences will be serious.¡±

    Princess Caroline had a bitter smile, ¡°Although I want to say that you are trying to deceive me as a merchant, I¡¯m very clear that chairman Xu isn¡¯t that kind of person. I think.....it is impossible for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give us the steel and concrete technology, then is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce willing to invest in a factory in our Drake Duchy? If we produce it locally, at least we can save on basic materials, right?¡±

    ¡°I think that you should be clear that that decision isn¡¯t on me, rather it¡¯s on the Sack Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Princess Caroline slightly knit her brows. She sipped her wine while seriously considering this.

    It had to be said, the flirty appearance that Princess Caroline normally revealed was very tempting to Xu Yi, but to Xu Yi, he preferred Princess Caroline when she was deep in thought.

    To him, the most attractive and what leaves the best impression on him was a woman who had her own thoughts and made her own decisions.

    Still had moved his heart in the beginning and made him choose to marry Still was because Still very clearly demonstrated this.

    After thinking for a bit, Princess Caroline put down her wine ss and revealed another faint smile.

    ¡°Alright, it seems like our cooperation has to proceed step by step, it can¡¯t be rushed. Chairman Xu, I have a small request for you now, can you agree to it?¡± Princess Caroline asked.

    ¡°As long as it isn¡¯t inviting me to spend the night with you, it can be discussed.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Princess Caroline was stunned before she couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think of me as a nympho? Be assured, I won¡¯t eat you.¡± Princess Caroline rolled her eyes at Xu Yi with hidden bitterness before saying with a serious expression, ¡°What I wanted to request is that when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce builds your construction base in Sowell City, I can watch over the entire process.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, but you have to leave when there are some secret things.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Receiving Xu Yi¡¯s agreement, Princess Caroline was very happy as she reached her hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, here¡¯s to a happy cooperation.¡±

    Xu Yi also reached out his hand to softly hold hers.

    When he felt her smooth and soft hand, Princess Caroline suddenly pulled Xu Yi in towards herself and then Princess Caroline got on her tiptoes, quickly nting a kiss on Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I won¡¯t close my doors tonight. I¡¯ll be waiting for you.¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline leave whileughing, Xu Yi rubbed his face with a bitter smile. He looked around and found that many people were looking at him with a surprised look.

    Xu Yi also felt a bit strange.

    With Princess Caroline¡¯s image as a social butterfly, she shouldn¡¯t disy her feelings towards him so openly.

    It can¡¯t be that she really liked him, right?

    Xu Yi shook his head and threw out this thought.

    Turning to the side and seeing Count Sean waving at him not far away, Xu Yi quickly walked over.

    ¡°Come Xu Yi, let me introduce you. This is our Sowell City¡¯s city guardmander, general Maral. There might be many things you need to work together on in the future, so you should get to know each other.¡± Count Sean pointed at the well built and straightforward looking middle aged man beside him as he spoke to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi quickly reached his hand out to Maral, ¡°Hello general Maral, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will need you and your guard brothers to take care of us in Sowell City in the future.¡±

    Maral gave a refreshingugh and said, ¡°Chairman Xu is too polite. The lord City lord has already told me about you. He said that once your Frestech Chamber of Commerce came, we city guards needed to work with yourpany to let yourpany develop safely in our Sowell City. Be assured, I can guarantee that you will not receive any trouble in Sowell City.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll have to thank general Maral for your care.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, if someone is taking care of you, you need to give them a bit of benefits.¡± Count Sean suddenly said with a smile, ¡°Without any benefits, how could it be possible to have Maral give his all?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised and seeing that Maral was also smiling, he immediately understood. Xu Yi said with a wide smile, ¡°Of course, of course, the Lord City Lord¡¯s advice is correct. Then may I ask, general Maral, what benefits do you and your city guard brothers want?¡±

    Maral broke out inughter and patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Good, I like straightforward people like chairman Xu. The brothers don¡¯t want much. Didn¡¯t yourpany provide a set of weapon and armour for each person in the northern army, it¡¯s good enough if you provide a set to the brothers in our city guards.¡±

    Xu Yi immediately asked Maral, ¡°General Maral, how many brothers are there in the city guards?¡±

    ¡°No much, just over eight thousand.¡± Maral replied in an uncaring manner.

    ¡°Eight thousand?¡± Xu Yi took a cold breath and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    The set of armour the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided to the northern army cost as high as fifty gold coins per set. For eight thousand sets, it would be over four hundred thousand gold coins!

    Although it wasn¡¯t that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t deliver and if it was calcted at the cost, it would only be around two hundred thousand gold coins, Xu Yi still couldn¡¯t help feeling some pain giving out that much at once.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you thinking? It isn¡¯t you giving it for free, look at how scared you are.¡± Count Sean scolded him with a smile, ¡°I hope that you can provide eight thousand sets of fine steel weapons and armour at base price to our Sowell City¡¯s guards.¡±

    Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief and waved his hand, ¡°Since it is Lord City Lord¡¯s request, that is simple. Eight thousand sets isn¡¯t enough to show my sincerity, so ten thousand sets! General Maral, are you satisfied?¡±

    ¡°Satisfied! Satisfied! Definitely satisfied!¡± Maral nodded whileughing before pping Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Chairman Xu, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs anything from us city guards, you cane find me and I guarantee I will do everything I can!¡±

    Watching Maral leave, Xu Yi rubbed the shoulder that was sore from being patted by Maral. He knit his brows as he asked Count Sean, ¡°Lord Count, secretly changing the equipment of the city guards under you, would there be a problem?¡±

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°Although it is a small problem, it isn¡¯t big. Moreover, not only do I want to change their equipment, I also want to open an arms factory in Sowell City. Xu Yi, can your Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this?¡±

    ¡°Arms factory?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Sean in shock, ¡°Lord Count, are you nning on revolting?¡±

 Volume 3 135 - The meaning of serving you

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 135 The meaning of serving you</h4>

    ¡°What nonsense are you saying?¡± Count Sean snappily looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Why do you want to build a weapon factory if you don¡¯t want to revolt?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice, ¡°Shouldn¡¯t this thing be controlled by the army headquarters alone?¡±

    ¡°Who told you only the army headquarters had weapon factories?¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°It seems like you don¡¯t know much about our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military policies.¡±

    ¡°I am only a merchant.¡± Xu Yi said with augh.

    ¡°Let me tell you, although the military is controlled by the royal army, each city and each noble have the right to hold a certain amount of military force. Not to mention that Sowell City is near the northern border, so they have greater rights. I have already submitted the n to build a weapon factory in Sowell City and it has already been approved by the king and the army headquarters.¡±

    ¡°Are you really not afraid of people thinking you will revolt.....¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering.

    ¡°As long as his majesty has the most power, no one will think of revolting.¡± Count Sean softly replied, ¡°Alright, you haven¡¯t replied to my question, can your Frestech Chamber of Commerce build a weapon factory?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before replying, ¡°Ourpany can prepare the production magic machines for the weapon factory, but as for building the weapon factory.....Ourpany doesn¡¯t work in this line.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to care, I¡¯ll arrange it myself.¡± Count Sean nodded, ¡°Since yourpany can do this, then I represent Sowell City to officially order the production magic machines for weapons from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When can you provide them?¡±

    ¡°I think.....at the quickest, it should be next year.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°As for officially beginning production, I think it would take at least next summer.¡±

    ¡°Alright, my estimate was starting production before the end of next year, it¡¯s best if it can be before that.¡± Count Sean said.

    ¡°That should be no problem.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod. After hesitating a bit, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Lord City Lord, can you tell me what you are nning on building a weapon factory for? If it¡¯s to equip the Sowell City¡¯s guards, I feel that it is more convenient to buy from ourpany and the cost would be lower.¡±

    ¡°I wanted to solve the problem of equipping all the cities in the north and to stop ordering from a distant ce like Banta City. Especially when ites to maintaining the weapons of the northern army, it¡¯s more convenient to transport from Sowell City. Then again, ording to his majesty¡¯s orders two days ago, the third army will be moving up, so there¡¯s even more of a need for this weapon factory.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. His majesty had sent the third army that was the most well equipped, the best trained, and the most elite unit in the royal army to Sowell City at this time, it was clearly to defend against the attacks of the Sack Kingdom.

    But since he made these preparations, why didn¡¯t he order his highness Eric to not attack the Sack Kingdom?

    After thinking it over, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t guess his majesty¡¯s thoughts and could only give up.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll prepare the production magic machines for the weapon factory as soon as I get back and send them as quickly as possible.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°But Lord City Lord, this ce isn¡¯t far from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s borders, so if a weapon factory is built here, it might make the Sack Kingdom very vignt and greedy. This might put Sowell City in a very dangerous position.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know this.¡± Count Sean gave a cold snort, ¡°As long as those Sack Kingdom fellows daree, I¡¯ll definitely teach them a lesson.¡±

    Seeing Count Sean¡¯s confident look, Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything else. After discussing a few details with Count Sean, Count Sean saw that it was gettingte and ended the banquet.

    To wee the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people, Count Sean had prepared a residence in the City Lord Manor for them.

    Xu Yi as the chairman received a small private courtyard.

    He didn¡¯t know if Count Sean did it on purpose, but the courtyard he prepared for Xu Yi was actually only separated by a single wall from the courtyard that Princess Caroline had moved into a few days ago.

    Seeing Xu Yi enter his courtyard, Princess Caroline who had left the banquet with Xu Yi threw him a tempting look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this wall shouldn¡¯t be able to stop a powerful magician like you, right? Then.....I¡¯ll be waiting for you.¡±

    ¡°This.....I¡¯ve been traveling all day and I¡¯m very tired, I want to get some rest early.¡± Xu Yi waved to Princess Caroline before entering his room without even looking back.

    Behind him came Princess Caroline¡¯sughter that was as clear as bells and was quite charming.

    Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t go right to sleep. After taking a bath, he would summarize everything that had happened today out of habit before sleeping, while also nning his work for the next day.

    Because he would start working on constructing a production base in Sowell City tomorrow, Xu Yi had to prepare himself ahead of time.

    At the banquet tonight, Xu Yi had told Princess Caroline that they were first preparing to construct a cement factory and then a steel mill, which wasn¡¯t a lie at all.

    If he wanted to construct anything in Sowell City, he had to have a cement factory. Then the foundation of the magic machine industry were steel products, so the steel mill had to be constructed right away.

    With these two factories, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could even build a production magic machine factory in Sowell City. They could produce the production magic machines here and wouldn¡¯t need to transport them from Banta City that was over a thousand kilometers away.

    Xu Yi put the Sowell City map Count Sean gave him on the table. On this map, Count Sean had put several marks ahead of time for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base.

    The addresses were what Count Sean had discussed with Xu Yi before, so naturally there weren¡¯t any problems.

    But after hearing Count Sean mention he wanted to build a weapon factory in Sowell City, Xu Yi had to consider something else.

    If they built the weapon factory, this news couldn¡¯t be hidden from the Sack Kingdom. That meant that the Sack Kingdom would definitely be interested in this weapon factory.

    If the Sack Kingdom realized the high value of the weapon factory and tried to take it, if Sowell City couldn¡¯t stop them, then Sowell City and Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t just lose some equipment, they would be losing some important information.

    So what Xu Yi had to consider now was how to maintain normal functioning of the Sowell City¡¯s production base and the weapon factory while also protecting the secret material.

    This was a very contradictory matter. If they wanted to produce things, they had to use the rted material. If they wanted to protect it, they would limit those materials which would hinder production.

    ¡°In the end, if there wasn¡¯t war on the continent and everyone lived in peace, properly developing the economy, wouldn¡¯t living conditions be much better?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh as he shook his head. He knew that his thoughts wereplete nonsense.

    Whether it was in ancient times or the highly developed earth, fighting between humans was inevitable.

    For the half feudal society of the Sines Continent, war between countries was normally seen.

    Like bitter enemies between the Sack Kingdom and Lampuri Kingdom, it couldn¡¯t be easily solved.

    ¡°If I could kill in all directions like the novels and unify the continent, making everyone obey my orders and focus on researching magic machines to develop the industry, how good that would be.....¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help letting his mind wander and thinking about this.

    When he thought for a while, the door was opened and Linda came in.

    Seeing that Linda¡¯s hair was still wet, Xu Yi waved his hand at her with a smile, ¡°You can just go to sleep if you¡¯re done washing up. I still have some things to do, you don¡¯t need to serve me.¡±

    Linda shook her head and came up behind Xu Yi, putting her hands on Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and pinching.

    This was considered something that Linda had been doing every night. Her technique was quite good and Xu Yi quite enjoyed it, so he didn¡¯t stop her.

    When he was going to continue looking over the map, Linda asked in a soft voice, ¡°Master, are you going to Princess Caroline¡¯s ce tonight?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why would I go?¡±

    ¡°Because I saw how Princess Caroline seems to be tempting you. She is that beautiful, your heart should be moved, right?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he turned to look at Linda, ¡°She is indeed very beautiful and my heart is moved, but that doesn¡¯t mean that something will happen between me and her. What are you asking this for?¡±

    Linda bit her lip before suddenly taking Xu Yi¡¯s hand and putting it on her high chest.

    Xu Yi immediately knit his brows, ¡°Linda, didn¡¯t I tell you before that you can¡¯t do this kind of thing casually?¡±

    Linda wasn¡¯t scared off by Xu Yi likest time and raised her head to match his gaze.

    ¡°Master, after you reprimanded mest time, I¡¯ve thought it through very clearly. You are the best master and I really do love you, so I definitely wouldn¡¯t regret giving you my body. If you don¡¯t want me this time, perhaps I won¡¯t have the face to remain by your side any longer.¡±

    Feeling the warm and soft feelinging from his hand, Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Linda, you¡¯re thinking too much. I never treated you or Liz as ves, so you don¡¯t have to act like other ves and offer your body to guarantee your position. I don¡¯t like doing something that you don¡¯t want to do.¡±

    ¡°No, these are my real thoughts. I like you, master, I am willing!¡± Linda had a serious look on her face. She moved her hand and pulled Xu Yi¡¯s hand on her chest into her bathrobe, touching her smooth skin.

    Feeling the smooth and curved bunch in his hand, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help skipping a beat as his blood surged.

    After seeing Princess Caroline today and being teased by her constantly, his heart was already palpitating.

    If it wasn¡¯t for his will being strong enough, he might have really gone to Princess Caroline¡¯s room next door.

    Now Linda was giving him a taste, it was harder for him to suppress and he really wanted to do something.

    Not to mention that Still had given Linda to himst time, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any scruples in his heart.

    But when he thought of this, he couldn¡¯t help reacting.

    Linda¡¯s eyes fell onto the bulge on Xu Yi¡¯s lower half and her face turned red. She gave a sweet smile as she came to Xu Yi¡¯s side, saying with a faint smile, ¡°Master, the madame wanted me to take care of you on this trip just for this.¡±

    After saying this, Linda put her hand down Xu Yi¡¯s chest and went down his clothes, going all the way to the part between Xu Yi¡¯s leg and grabbing.

    Hearing this, Xu Yi¡¯s final line of defense copsed. He picked up Linda and headed towards the bed.

 Volume 3 136 - The strange study

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 136 The strange study</h4>

    ¡°Aiya.¡± Still suddenly called out as she slightly knit her brows.

    Liz who was helping Still prepare for bed on the side suddenly asked her in a concerned voice, ¡°What is it? Madame? Do you feel ufortable?¡±

    Still shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s just this little fellow kicking me again.¡±

    Liz revealed a smile, ¡°It seems like the young master is more mischievous than the master, he likes to cause trouble in the stomach when he¡¯s bored.¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°It¡¯s not certain that it¡¯ll be a boy. Actually, I would rather have a daughter.¡±

    ¡°But a daughter can¡¯t be a sessor. The master not only has a title, he has therge Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Does the madame not want a son to inherit this?¡± Liz said.

    Still knit her brows as she looked at Liz. She wanted to refute this, but she knew that Liz was right.

    Although there were female sessors and even queens on the Sines Continent, ording to tradition, it would be normally the son who inherited the family property.

    Otherwise, his highness Eric wouldn¡¯t be able to be in a much higher position than her highness Seveni with the support of the traditional nobles.

    ¡°It¡¯s still good. Xu Yi always said that he preferred a daughter, so even if it is a daughter, he would be very happy.¡± Still touched her belly as sheforted herself.

    Perhaps it could feel the touch of its mother, the child in her belly became restless again which made Still knit her brows.

    ¡°This little fellow.....There¡¯s still two more months, he just can¡¯t wait toe out?¡± Still couldn¡¯t help smiling. Thinking about it, she stood up, ¡°Forget it, Liz, let¡¯s go walk around a bit and let him stop.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll take the young master for a walk.¡± Liz supported Still with a smile and headed out.

    After Xu Yi left, the Falling Star Manorcked its master and seemed more lonely than usual. Then after Linda was sent off by Still, it became even more lonely. Now that it was night, there were only four people in the manor including Vivian and Teresa, so it was naturally very quiet.

    But Still liked this quiet. Adding in the fact that she didn¡¯t like outsiders, she never agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s idea of hiring more servants.

    Looking at Liz beside her, Still thought that although Liz was a ve brought back by Xu Yi from the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi had never treated her and Linda like ves. He had always treated them like family like Vivian.

    Now that everyone had been together for a long time, Still was used to them and had also treated them like family.

    Thinking of Linda, Still suddenly asked Liz, ¡°Liz, I sent Linda this time and kept you here, so do you hate me?¡±

    Liz had a smile on her face, but when she heard Still asked this, she jumped up in fear. She had a shocked look and kept shaking her head, ¡°Madame, how could I hate you? Please don¡¯t misunderstand, I would definitely not! Really!¡±

    Seeing Liz panic, Still patted her hand with a smile andforted her, ¡°Don¡¯t be nervous, I didn¡¯t mean this. I just wanted to ask you, are you a bit dissatisfied that you didn¡¯t get to go take care of Xu Yi with Linda? Be honest.¡±

    Seeing Still¡¯s serious expression, Liz hesitated a bit before nodding, ¡°Un.....I¡¯m very jealous of Linda. She can serve master alone and be with master.....Ah, no, madame, I don¡¯t mean that I don¡¯t like serving you, I also like being with you......¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s normal that you like to serve Xu Yi since he is your master.¡± Still said with a smile.

    ¡°Un.....Actually I¡¯m very jealous of Linda mainly.....mainly because......Master is out there alone and is lonely at night, so Linda can be with him.....¡± Liz¡¯s face turned red and she lowered her head.

    Still gave a softugh, ¡°You don¡¯t need to be jealous, you don¡¯t know if that blockhead Xu Yi can understand Linda¡¯s intention and will ept her.¡±

    Hearing this, Liz couldn¡¯t help raising her head and saying to Still with a bitter smile, ¡°Madame.....don¡¯t be angry if I tell you the truth.¡±

    ¡°Speak, what is there to be angry about?¡±

    Liz hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Actually there are many times where I¡¯m curious if master is slow in this aspect. Back then.....how did you get with him? Of course, you are the most beautiful woman I have seen, but I feel that master shouldn¡¯t care about appearance.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right.¡± Still said with a nod, ¡°This blockhead Xu Yi, he really is slow when ites to this. I got together with him because we had a lot of contact in the beginning, I knew him before the others. If we were put on the same ying field, Evita might have even a bigger advantage.¡±

    ¡°Chief Evita?¡± Liz knit her brows in thought, ¡°Madame, since you are worried about chief Evita, why do you have her have less contact with master?¡±

    ¡°This matter, doing more makes it easier to create the opposite effect. And Xu Yi is just together with Evita for work, so how could I stop them?¡± Still shook her head, ¡°Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t like me doing something as petty as this. I think the reason why he liked me in the beginning should mainly be because of my personality, so I have to remind myself that I shouldn¡¯t be someone he dislikes.¡±

    Liz gave a sigh, ¡°Madame, you really do love master, caring so much about his thoughts.¡±

    ¡°You say it like you don¡¯t care.¡± Still pinched Liz¡¯s cheek and felt how smooth it was. She remembered that Liz and Linda were only just a few years younger than her and she couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Although I look good, people will get old in the end. Xu Yi said that he cares about personality and not their appearance, so I hope that I can keep touching him like this. As for appearance, I¡¯ll let little girls like you and Linda touch him.¡±

    Liz¡¯s face had a blush to it and she couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows, ¡°But master doesn¡¯t seem to care about our appearance.....or our bodies.¡±

    Still said with a faint smile, ¡°Rx, even if he is a blockhead, isn¡¯t he a normal man in the end? The child in my stomach, doesn¡¯t that clearly prove that? Linda will be with him the entire way, I don¡¯t think he will be able to take it. When he and Lindaes back, I¡¯ll find a chance for you to be alone with him and whether you can seize that opportunity or not will depend on you.¡±

    Liz¡¯s face was filled with joy, ¡°Really? Then I really have to thank the madame!¡±

    Seeing Liz¡¯s happy face, Still shook her head.

    Although Still acted very generously on the surface, as a woman, how could she not care at all if her husband was with another woman?

    But Still knew that with Xu Yi¡¯s current position, there would be plenty of seduction he would face. Even if he had strong self control and his heart was firm, he wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on one day.

    Since it was like this, it was better to give up these thoughts.

    At least if Liz and Linda were with Xu Yi, Still wouldn¡¯t find it that hard to ept.

    The two talked about whether something happened between Xu Yi and Linda while strolling through the manor.

    After walking for around ten minutes, they had gone through most of the manor and approached Xu Yi¡¯s study.

    Seeing the door to the study, Still remembered how busy Xu Yi normally was. When he came back to the Falling Star Manor at night, he would be working in this study. She couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional and after thinking about it, she had Liz open the door to the study and she walked in.

    The Magic Lamp lit up the room and Still looked around before sitting at the desk.

    When she thought of how Xu Yi would be focused on working at night, Still couldn¡¯t help strongly missing Xu Yi. She leaned on top of the desk and tried to feel the warmth of Xu Yi being at home from the desk.

    But when she leaned over it, Still knit her brows and a surprised look appeared on her face.

    ¡°Madame, what is it?¡± Seeing the strange look on Still¡¯s face, Liz quickly asked this.

    Still waved her hand and moved her hand away. She put her face on the desk and even moved it a bit.

    Seeing Still¡¯s actions, Liz had a strange look.

    But she knew that her madame wouldn¡¯t do this since she was bored, there had to be a reason.

    Still put her face on the desk and fell into thought, as if she was considering something.

    After a while, Still raised her head and carefully looked over the desk. She looked at the books and documents on the table before leaning over, looking all over the desk, while also opening the drawers to look through them.

    Liz was a bit surprised, Still¡¯s movements made her look like a thief in this study.

    But although this Falling Star Manor had no guards and was quitex in security, the master and mister Xu Yi and Still were High Grade Magicians and adding in the fact that Still¡¯s grandfather was a powerful Great Magician, there were actually manyplex Magic Array traps all over the Falling Star Manor. It was impossible for a thief to easily enter this manor.

    After inspecting the desk, Still went to the bookshelf on the other side of the room and looked at a shelf in the center of the bookshelf.

    Still didn¡¯t open the ss pane, rather she tapped her finger on it and sent out magic power, searching through the bookshelf.

    After a while, a bit of faint blue light appeared on the pane.

    In the beginning, the faint blue light was very stable, just like a smallmp on the pane, but after Still sent in her magic, this blue light gradually became unstable. It glittered for a while before suddenly disappearing.

    Still opened the pane and looked at the small Magic Array inside as her face turned dark.

    All the discoveries proved that someone had secretly entered this study.

    But just.....who was that person?

 Volume 3 137 - Slime Magic Crystal

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 137 Slime Magic Crystal</h4>

    The kingdom¡¯s north entering December was naturally much colder than Banta City in the south.

    Especially with the breeze blowing across the river, making one feel a chill entering their hearts.

    Even if Xu Yi was prepared, wearing very thick clothes, he still couldn¡¯t keep out the cold. He had to use a bit of magic to maintain a miniature Fire Magic Array under him and Count Sean, keeping the temperature around them at an eptable degree.

    Feeling the temperature rising, Count Sean looked at the red glowing Magic Array that was under Xu Yi¡¯s feet.

    Even if Count Sean wasn¡¯t a magician, he could still tell that it required a high level of magic to maintain such a Magic Array.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I haven¡¯t seen you in a year and your magic power is much stronger. Before you came, you should have participated in the qualification exam in Anvilmar City, right? How is it? What grade are you now?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I just passed the Eighth Grade exam, I¡¯m not that strong.¡±

    ¡°An Eighth Grade Magician isn¡¯t strong?¡± Count Sean couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Then what kind of magician is considered strong to you?¡±

    ¡°To me, I feel that no matter how strong a magician is, he can¡¯t be considered strong since he is just a single person.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Compared to a single person¡¯s strength, I think it is also better to use industrial production to increase one¡¯s strength.¡±

    Count Sean couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°This fellow, you really are a merchant and not a magician. You only think this way because you haven¡¯t experienced how strong really powerful magicians are. If you experience the power of an Arch Magus or a Great Magus, I think that your thoughts would definitely change.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Lord City Lord, have you witnessed the power of an Arch Magus or a Great Magus before?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    Count Sean looked to the east and his eyes were a bit lost.

    ¡°Back then, I witnessed a battle between the Candra and the Marlow Empires. There were a total of four Arch Magi. In that battle, as long as an Arch Magus made a move, a powerful Forbidden Spell would destroy an area and even change the colour of the sky, shaking the ground. Even when facing thousands of soldiers, for the powerful Arch Magus, it was just a matter of waving their hands. Even remembering it now, my heart is still filled with shock.¡±

    ¡°Arch Magi are that powerful?¡± Xu Yi thought of the scene Count Sean described. If an Arch Magus could destroy thousands of soldiers with a wave of the hand, it was no wonder the people of the continent worshipped them, ¡°Then what about Great Magi? How much stronger are they?¡±

    ¡°I haven¡¯t been lucky enough to see a Great Magus make a move and there hasn¡¯t been one on the Sines Continent in many years.¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°But ording to legends, Great Magi are several times stronger than Arch Magi. It¡¯s said that as long as a Great Magus makes a move, he can even tten an entire city.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Sowell City in the distance. Sowell City could be considered one of the biggest cities in the north, butpared to the real cities on earth, it was countless times smaller. It only took an area of less than ten square kilometers.

    The most terrifying weapon on earth, the nuclear bomb could even destroy arge city on earth.

    This meant that although Great Magi were powerful, they couldn¡¯tpare to a nuclear bomb in destructive might.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t convinced, Count Sean was a bit confused.

    Xu Yi himself was considered a magician with decent talent and he was already an Eighth Grade Magician, so he could be considered one of the higher ranked magicians. But why did he not care about his magic power and even disdained it?

    But Count Sean didn¡¯t care about this. Seeing that Xu Yi was interested in this topic, he transitioned into discussing proper business with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Do you see that side of the river?¡± Count Sean pointed at the open space by the river and drew arge circle with his arm, ¡°This is the ce that I¡¯ve put aside for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked it over and gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°Very good. The Lord City Lord had experience with this in Banta City, so you chose a very suitable ce for us and I don¡¯t have any opinions, but there is still a small problem.....¡±

    ¡°Oh? What problem?¡±

    ¡°Look, Sowell City is this cold and this Sera River ispletely frozen during the winter. Even if we build the production base by the river, we won¡¯t be able to use it, so it is a bit wasteful.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this is the north, it¡¯s different from the weather in the south. Naturally it can¡¯tpare in terms of natural conditions.¡± Count Sean said in a helpless voice, ¡°But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory¡¯s production won¡¯t be affected by the weather, so there should be no problem.¡±

    ¡°Un, there shouldn¡¯t be any influence, but there are some small details that I need to discuss with my staff here.¡±

    Xu Yi was about to wave to his staff that hade to investigate this area when Camby suddenly ran over.

    ¡°Chairman, I found something strange. Come take a look.¡± Camby indeed at Count Sean before giving Xu Yi a blood red crystal that was actually letting out steam in this cold weather.

    After Xu Yi took it, he found that the crystal was soft in his hand, like a piece of fruit jelly, rather than being a real crystal. The surface of it was warm and it was veryfortable holding it.

    ¡°This is our special product, the Slime Magic Crystal. This is red, so it should be a crystal containing Fire Magic.¡± Count Sean on the side took a look before exining.

    ¡°This thing is actually a Magic Crystal?¡± Xu Yi looked at the red crystal that was like slime in his hand. He used his magic to focus on examining it and he found magic fluctuationsing from the crystal, reacting to Fire Elemental Energy the strongest.

    But there was a low concentration of magic in this Slime Magic Crystal, it was far from being able topare to the standardized Magic Crystals that Evita developed. It couldn¡¯t evenpare to the Magic Crystals that were being sold all over.

    ¡°Un, because this thing has a low concentration of magic, no one is willing to mine it. Otherwise this thing is found all over our Sowell City, so Sowell City would have be rich just from this. How could we specially invite your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Count Sean said.

    Xu Yi yed with the Slime Magic Crystal and after thinking for a bit, he had Camby and Count Sean move away as he started releasing his magic.

    ¡°Hong.¡±

    There was a powerful me that soared into the sky, reaching several meters andpletely covering Xu Yi.

    Camby and Count Sean on the side were scared. When they wanted to call someone to help, they saw the me disappear and Xu Yi standing there looking like he wasn¡¯t affected at all.

    ¡°Hu......¡± Camby let out a long sigh, ¡°Chairman, you almost scared me to death.¡±

    Count Sean also knit his brows, ¡°Doing magic experiments is dangerous, you should be more careful.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°There¡¯s nothing to worry about, I am a magician. How could I do something as dumb as ying with fire? But this Slime Magic Crystal.....It really is a bit interesting.¡±

    Count Sean and Camby looked at Xu Yi¡¯s hand and they found that the Slime Magic Crystal had disappeared. There was only a ck powder left in Xu Yi¡¯s hand that seemed to be the impurities left by the Slime Magic Crystal.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, other than this Slime Magic Crystal that has an affinity for Fire Magic, are there other kinds?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I heard my subordinate say there were, but I¡¯m not clear on what kinds there are.¡± Count Sean shook his head.

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Camby, go tell the others to have them collect some Slime Magic Crystals while they are investigating. Bring back whatever coloured or quality crystals there are, I want to use them for an experiment.¡±

    Seeing Camby leave, Count Sean asked in a curious voice, ¡°What? You think this thing has a use?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t draw a conclusion now, but based on the experiment, I think this thing has its uses.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Oh? It would be great if there really was a use.¡± Count Sean said in a happy voice, ¡°This thing is found all over and if it has value, that would be opening a new source of wealth for Sowell City, which would help develop Sowell City.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Lord City Lord, are you addicted to developing cities? Now that you¡¯re not satisfied with Banta City, you came all the way to Sowell City to satisfy your cravings?¡±

    Count Sean didn¡¯t smile and said with a sigh, ¡°Having the ability to change the lives of the citizens and letting them live better lives, which City Lord wouldn¡¯t be willing to do this?¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent because he remembered Basaru City¡¯s Count Longley.

    Although their political stances were different, because he had the same idea as Count Sean, Count Longley was willing to take the title of traitor. He actually wanted to invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in Basaru City and would do his best to work with them.

    He did this just to change the poor conditions of Basaru City, to let the citizens live better lives.

    ¡°I¡¯ve met the young Longley who took the title justst year. I can see that he is a person with ideas, he isn¡¯t the same as his father.¡± Hearing Xu Yi mention this matter, Count Sean gave his praise for Count Longley, ¡°If he can really do this, it would be a good thing for Basaru City. But this matter.....it can¡¯t be done just because he wants it. It depends on how he will handle his rtionship with his highness Eric.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a bitterugh, ¡°I¡¯m worried about this.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi, ¡°It¡¯s the same with you. If you want to work with Basaru City, you should do your best to contact her highness.¡±

    Xu YI nodded, ¡°Naturally.¡±

 Volume 3 138 - The wishes of the Sowell City companies

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 138 The wishes of the Sowell Citypanies</h4>

    Just doing the preliminary examination of thisnd already took an entire morning.

    Camby and the others stayed to continue investigating while Count Sean and Xu Yi headed back to Sowell City first.

    Count Sean wanted to bring Xu Yi back to the City Lord Manor for lunch while also discussing the schedule of the production base, but once they came into the city, they bumped into the representative of the Sowell City Business Union who invited Xu Yi to a feast.

    ¡°You go, it¡¯s good to talk to your peers in the city.¡±

    Seeing Count Sean leave after saying this, Xu Yi gave a shrug and had the representative lead the way, arriving at the biggest restaurant in Sowell City.

    This entire restaurant had beenpletely booked by the Sowell City Business Union. Almost all the merchants with a bit of status in the city were all here and only Xu Yi was the only guest that was alone.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi naturally had his awareness and was polite with everyone, showing a humble stance.

    When the lively banquet was half over, the president of the Sowell City Business Union, who was also the chairman of the biggestpany, the Meierda Trading Company, Ladis Sampson who was sitting with Xu Yi raised his cup to toast him before drinking it all. Then he revealed a friendly smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce building this production base in Sowell City is something that me and mypanions all wee. We¡¯ve already heard that all therge and smallpanies of Banta City have earned quite a bit from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the recent years. I wonder if you¡¯ll lead our Sowell City peers like you have helped the Banta Citypanies on your trip to Sowell City this time?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s finally here.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and looked around. He saw that all the representatives of thergepanies of Sowell City cared about this.

    ¡°Chairman Sampson is too serious. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is new here, there are many things that we need help from you oldpanies of Sowell City, how could we be qualified to talk about leading?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, in terms of magic machines, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is definitely qualified. Even in the entire Lampuri Kingdom or the continent, there is nopany that canpare to yourpany in this.¡± Chairman Sampson waved his hand as he said this.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is without a doubt the leader of the magic machine industry. Our smallpanies hope that we can cooperate with you, we just want to get a bit of that soup.¡± A chairman on the side echoed.

    ¡°Right, right.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Sampson is right. Since you¡¯re here in Sowell City, we¡¯re colleagues and shouldn¡¯t we help each other?¡±

    ¡°Right, everyone cooperating will bring benefits all around. It¡¯s good for everyone, don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    ......

    Seeing the representatives of thergepanies echo this, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    Some of them were moved by emotions and some by reason. Although there were some that weren¡¯t direct, the meaning in their words clearly had some coercion.

    But no matter what, they had the same idea, which is that they wanted a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine business.

    Xu Yi was already prepared in his heart, so without them mentioning anything, he was already nning on having the otherpanies of Sowell City participate.

    His idea for the magic machine industry couldn¡¯t bepleted by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, so if otherpanies were willing to join the industry, he would always support them.

    ¡°I understand everyone¡¯s thoughts very much, so beforeing to Sowell City, when I was corresponding with the Lord City Lord that I indicated that I hoped that when our Frestech Chamber of Commerce came, we could develop the magic machine industry in Sowell City. It won¡¯t just be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce earning money, that would go against my wishes.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Hearing this, the eyes of the surrounding people all lit up.

    Chairman Sampson immediately asked, ¡°That means.....Chairman Xu, you¡¯re nning on giving ourpanies technology to let us enter the magic machine industry?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why not?¡± Xu Yi nodded. He took out a small booklet from his chest for chairman Sampson, ¡°In this is the magic machine technology that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to transfer this time. Chairman Sampson and the other friends of Sowell City can take a look. If there are any pieces of technology you are interested in, you can discuss with ourpany any time.¡±

    Chairman Sampson quickly took the book to look over.

    The other chairman couldn¡¯t wait and came up behind chairman Sampson, lowering their heads to look at the small book in his hand.

    Hearing the breathing of chairman Sampson and the other chairmen bing heavier, the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face became wider.

    Because Sowell City was close to a thousand kilometers away from Banta City, it was very far for the Sines Continent that didn¡¯t have a developed transport system. It could be considered as far as the horizon.

    So even if the magic machine industry had developed in Banta City and the surrounding cities, there wasn¡¯t a single trace of the magic machine industry in Sowell City even now.

    Even the magic machines in the city only gradually increased after Count Sean became the City Lord.

    But even like this, it still couldn¡¯tpare to Banta City. It couldn¡¯t evenpare to most of the other cities that had a trace of the magic machine industry in them.

    But no matter what, thepanies of Sowell City had better newspared to normal people and naturally knew that magic machines were popr in other ces in the kingdom. After knowing that this was the kingdom¡¯s most promising industry, of course they also wanted a piece.

    If it wasn¡¯t Xu Yi being invited by Count Sean and being fully supported by him, thesepanies wouldn¡¯t have dared to move randomly. They might not have used a simple method like inviting Xu Yi to this feast and tactfully telling his ideas, rather they would have used different methods to contact Xu Yi.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly felt that he was very lucky.

    When he created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Banta City three years ago, meeting the enlightened Count Sean in the beginning allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop to this degree.

    Although there were some difficult times when Count Stagg took over as the City Lord, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had thick foundations and the support of her highness Seveni. Not only did they hold on, they had even forcefully changed Count Stagg¡¯s thoughts.

    Now that they were in Sowell City and were being supported by Count Sean, he didn¡¯t need to consider these trivial things and could focus on how to develop.

    While Xu Yi was pondering this, chairman Sampson and the other merchants had finished reading the booklet.

    Chairman Sampson gave the book to others and after thinking for a bit, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, the list of technology in the list, are they all things your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to transfer?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Other than some speciallybeled that can only be produced by working together, the transfer of the other pieces of technology can all be discussed.¡± Xu yi said with a nod, ¡°Chairman Sampson, do you have any other questions?¡±

    ¡°Un.....Chairman Xu, can we step aside to talk?¡±

    Xu Yi agreed and walked to a secluded balcony with chairman Sampson.

    After the door was closed, all the sound from inside was cut off.

    Although the balcony wasn¡¯t high, it was still on the third floor and with the cool breeze, it was a bit cold.

    Seeing Xu Yi shrinking his neck back, chairman Sampson said with an apologetic smile, ¡°Sorry, chairman Xu, my question can¡¯t be heard by others, so I made it hard for you.¡±

    ¡°This is a small matter, there¡¯s no need to mind.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I wonder, what question does chairman Sampson have?¡±

    Chairman Sampson hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I seriously looked over the list on the small booklet you took out and I found that above the household magic machine rted technology, there weren¡¯t any other magic machine technology avable.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at him in surprise as he thought that chairman Sampson should have properly investigated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He actually knew that these pieces of technology were all rted to the household magic machines, ¡°Chairman Sampson, are you interested in other technology?¡±

    Chairman Sampson said with a smile, ¡°Actually I¡¯m more interested in technology other than magic machines. For example.....the steel producing technology.¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked over chairman Sampson who was skinny and looked like a normal withered old man. He thought that his eyes were quite keen, being able to see that steelmaking was the basis of the industrial system.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, chairman Sampson continued, ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce charges around hundreds of thousands of gold coins when transferring household magic machine technology, the most expensive is no more than five hundred thousand gold coins, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Xu Yi was even more sure that this chairman Sampson already investigated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t be so clear on this.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi had a bit of vignce towards chairman Sampson.

    He had investigated this clearly and even mentioned the steel making technology, what was his goal?

    Chairman Sampson took a step closer and lowered his voice, saying in a voice that only Xu Yi could hear, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you¡¯re willing to transfer the steel making technology to me, I¡¯m willing to pay a million gold coins as a fee. What do you think?¡±

 Volume 3 139 - Non transferable core technology

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 139 Non transferable core technology</h4>

    ¡°A million gold coins?¡± Count Sean gave a heavy snort, ¡°This Sampson, when I discussed Sowell City¡¯s renovations with him, I wanted him to take the lead in investing in this project, but he avoided it in every way possible. He kept saying that this Meierda Company didn¡¯t have this amount. Now he¡¯s actually taking out a million for this piece of technology.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, the city construction project isn¡¯t a matter of hispany, so of course he isn¡¯t willing to take out money. As for the steel making technology.....I feel that his price of one million is actually too low.¡±

    ¡°One million is too low for you?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Is the steel making technology worth that much?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi gave a certain nod, ¡°Lord City Lord, you should know about ourpany¡¯s two steel mills at the Falling Rain Valley, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, the second mill wasn¡¯t finished when I left. What? Has it already started producing?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Right.¡± Xu Yi revealed a meaningful smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, can you guess how much profit ourpany earnedst year from those two steel mills?¡±

    Count Sean knit his brows and said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Look at your proud look, it shouldn¡¯t be little. In a year.....You said before that the monthly profit of a single steel mill was a hundred thousand gold coins. Then if this steel mill is a bit bigger than before, it should be around two hundred thousand a month, so in a year......¡±

    After calcting in his mind, Count Sean was stunned.

    Because he found that with his calctions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned three hundred to close to four hundred thousand gold coins from the steel mills each month!

    If they had the same profit for an entire year, that meant that just with two two steel mills, wouldn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be able to earn four to five million gold coins in profit?

    Count Sean waspletely shocked by this number.

    In the two years he was Banta City¡¯s City Lord, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed quickly, he thought that their background and abilities could match the oldpanies of the city.

    But looking at it now, he found that while their backing wasn¡¯t as good since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was newly founded, in terms of the biggest representation of apany¡¯s strength, in terms of profits, they might have surpassed all the otherpanies in Banta City!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could earn four to five million a year just from two steel mills. If he added in therge amount from the other magic machines, with their terrifying profit, wouldn¡¯t that mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was earning over ten million gold coins a year?

    ¡°This.....Although the profit is considered good, Lord City Lord, ourpany spends a lot in other ces.¡± Xu Yi gave a yawn before continuing, ¡°Look, my initial estimates in the investment in Sowell City was already a million gold coins. After adding everything together, I think that we need to spend at least five million gold coins.

    Count Sean red at him and said with a cold snort, ¡°You think that I don¡¯t understand you? Kid, with your abilities, you¡¯ll definitely earn back several times your investment.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t refute it.

    Count Sean waved his hand, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s good that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns more, there are more benefits for me. I actually want to see you guys earning more and more. But Xu Yi, are you nning on transferring the steel making technology to the Meierda Company?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I said it already, one million gold coins is too little. Although this chairman Sampson has boldness and foresight, he still hasn¡¯t seen therge profit from the steel making technology in the future.¡±

    ¡°Then if he increases the price? Will you sell?¡±

    ¡°Still no.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before saying with a serious look, ¡°To ourpany, there are many technologies that can be transferred, but there are technologies that can¡¯t. One of them is the steel making technology.

    Count Sean was a bit confused, ¡°Why? I think that steel making is very simple, it¡¯s far lessplex to studypared to the household magic machines, so why can you transfer the household magic machine technology and not the steel making technology?¡±

    ¡°Because steel products are the foundation of industry. Steel making is a coreponent of the magic machine industry, so if this is transferred, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be losing arge advantage.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Moreover, I don¡¯t feel relieved giving otherpanies this technology. Materials are the most important things in the magic machine industry, especially steel. There are too many ces where it is used, so if the quality iscking, it would be a heavy hit to the magic machine industry. I definitely will not allow this to happen.¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Count Sean gave a slight nod.

    ¡°Since you think this, then we¡¯ll follow your ideas. The magic machine industry was built by you alone, so other than you, there isn¡¯t anyone else qualified.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the Lord City Lord¡¯s approval.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But Lord City Lord, while I¡¯m not nning on transferring the steel making technology, I am nning to build a steel mill here. Before I was preparing to invest in it alone, but hearing that chairman Sampson wishes to buy the steel making technology, I have a better idea and it should be very helpful to you.¡±

    Count Sean became interested, ¡°Oh? Let me hear it?¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he revealed an expression like an old fox.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, are you nning on buying stocks of this steel mill?¡±

    ###

    After he finished talking to Count Sean, Xu Yi decided to head back to his room to rest.

    He was tossingtest night and he woke up early today, so he had been feeling rather tired today.

    He had things to do before, so he could hold on.

    But now that there was nothing, his exhaustion caught up to him.

    When he entered the small yard, he saw Linda was currently washing his clothes from yesterday.

    Seeing the pained look on Linda¡¯s face and her knit brows, as well as her squatting on the ground, Xu Yi immediately came over and grabbed her hand that was preparing to enter the water basin. He shouted, ¡°Are you crazy? Why aren¡¯t you resting, what are you doing!¡±

    Putting his hand in the water, Xu Yi knit his brows even more.

    ¡°The water is this cold, do you not care about your own body?¡±

    Xu Yi took Linda into the room and took a towel to wipe off the water on her hands and body.

    ¡°Right now.....Ke.....Your body is weak, how can you just do work? You¡¯re not taking care of your body at all. It¡¯s just washing clothes, just give it to the servants of the City Lord Manor to handle.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi carefully fussing over her and the concerned look on his face, Linda¡¯s eyes misted over. Her heart skipped a beat and she couldn¡¯t help tightly holding Xu Yi.

    ¡°Master, I finally understand......why the madame likes you so much. You really are the best man in the world. I.....Giving myself to you was simply the best decision in my life!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Alright, stop feeling moved and rest up. Just now.....Un.....That thing, you have to take care of yourself. I will have the Lord City Lord send some servantster, you don¡¯t need to do a thing over the next few days.¡±

    ¡°But I like washing clothes for master......¡± Linda said in a soft voice.

    ¡°Then you can wait a few days.¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°Alright, rest first, I¡¯ll go see the Lord City Lord......¡±

    ¡°No need, if you need servants, I can lend you two.¡± There was a clear and charming voice that came from behind.

    Xu Yi turned around and found that Princess Caroline was wearing a tight fitting fur jacket today. Although it tightly hugged her body, it still revealed all her graceful curves. It made people want to look down her snow white neckline to see what was inside.

    Butpared to the flower like smile from yesterday, Princess Caroline had a look of hidden bitterness. She pursed her lips as she stared at Xu Yi, like Xu Yi had done something to wrong her.

    Xu Yi looked at her with a slightly confused look and then seeing the two maids who followed her from the Drake Duchy, he shook his head, ¡°I have to decline your good intentions. I only need a servant to handle some housework, it might not be convenient for your maids.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked over Xu Yi and gave a soft snort, ¡°What? What isn¡¯t convenient? Could it be that chairman Xu is worried that you can¡¯t hold back and would do something to my maids? Of course, if you really want to do something, I wouldn¡¯t mind. As for my two maids, I think that they would be as willing as your ve.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit startled as he watched Princess Caroline pointing a slender finger at Linda, instantly understanding. Princess Caroline must know that something happened between him and Lindast night.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s face turned a bit red. He gave a cough and waved his hand before awkwardly saying, ¡°What nonsense are you saying, how could I do anything to your maids? I feel that since they are your servants, it isn¡¯t convenient for me to use them. I should still go talk to the Lord City Lord.¡±

    Princess Caroline slowly shook her head as she said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you really need to be this polite with me?¡±

    After taking another look at Xu Yi, she waved her hand and the two maids behind her left.

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this. Chairman Xu, I¡¯m here to discuss serious business with you this time.¡±

    Seeing her serious expression, Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying to Linda, ¡°Alright, you go and rest.¡±

    Linda gave a bow to Princess Caroline before heading back into the room.

    When Linda retreated, Princess Caroline suddenly came in front of Xu Yi. She stared at him with a with a ghost of a smile, but her eyes were filled with sadness.

 Volume 3 140 - Two similar girls

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 140 Two simr girls</h4>

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling awkward being stared at by Princess Caroline, so he turned his head.

    But when he turned his head, Princess Caroline suddenly reached out her hand to grab his waist and forcefully twisted.

    Xu Yi was caught off guard and winced in pain before turning to look at Princess Caroline in surprise.

    This move, wasn¡¯t it the divine move that a girlfriend uses to punish her boyfriend that he read in novels and saw on TV back on earth?

    The problem was that Princess Caroline wasn¡¯t his girlfriend, why would so do this?

    Then again, he had never heard of this custom on the Sines Continent before, so where had she learned this......

    Before Xu Yi could ask, Princess Caroline gave a cold snort filled with resentment, ¡°I waited so long in my roomst night, but I never thought that I would hear you and your beautiful ve in bed all night! Humph! Chairman Xu, I can¡¯t tell that with your serious and aloof appearance, you became very fierce after going to bed. You were going sote that I couldn¡¯t sleep wellst night. Speak, how are you going to repay me?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry at Princess Caroline¡¯s bullied appearance. Was the instion effect of the City Lord Manor¡¯s walls really that bad? His night time even with Linda was actually heard by Princess Caroline next door.

    It was no wonder she had a bitter look today, so she knew what had happened.

    Count Sean intentionally put Princess Caroline next door to him to make it easier for them to interact, but did he expect this kind of problem?

    Thinking of what he did with Lindast night and Princess Caroline hearing everything, Xu Yi¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help being covered in embarrassment.

    ¡°This.....Ke......I am a normal man......¡± Xu Yi reluctantly exined, ¡°It¡¯s normal for this to happen......¡±

    Princess Caroline gave a heavy snort, ¡°Why do you not know how to choose the time, why did you choosest night? Don¡¯t think that I don¡¯t know, you clearly took the virginity of your vest night! Speak, why did it have to best night? You¡¯ve never done it before when you were with her, why did you choose to do it after you saw me? Are you deliberately trying to anger me?¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline¡¯s angry appearance, Xu Yi shook his head. He gave a bitterugh before saying with a sigh, ¡°Your highness, if I said that this is all your fault, would you believe me?¡±

    ¡°My fault? How could it be my.....¡± Princess Caroline refuted before suddenly stopping. Thinking about it, she gave augh, ¡°I understand.....Ha, ha.....I understand......Hei, chairman Xu, is it because you couldn¡¯t hold back from my teasing and you¡¯re too embarrassed toe looking for me, so you vented yourself on that ve of yours?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Don¡¯t say anything about Linda. Although she is my ve in name, I have always treated her as part of the family. This matter would have happened sooner orter, it isn¡¯t rted to venting at all.¡±

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s my fault, I apologize.¡± Princess Caroline said with a smile. She poked Xu Yi¡¯s chest and looked at him with big charming eyes, ¡°But chairman Xu, I already said it very clearly before, what is there to be embarrassed about? If you really can¡¯t hold on, you can knock on my door or even jump the wall, I wee you very much.¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep breath before saying with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, although I admit that you¡¯re a very charming woman that has even moved my heart, I don¡¯t like this kind of woman. I hope that you can treasure yourself. Moreover, we are partners, I don¡¯t want our personal matters to affect our cooperation, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi in surprise when he said these words.

    But after a while, she gave augh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are the most conservative man I¡¯ve ever seen. A man like you is definitely unique on the continent, but it¡¯s a good thing that I like men like you the most. If it was said that I was just trying to seduce you before, then now.....¡± Princess Caroline pointed a finger at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really am interested in you. I announce that I will definitely catch you and make you obedientlye to my bed!¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline¡¯s serious expression, Xu Yi could only shake his head and couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    After being in this world for long, he knew that matters between men and women weren¡¯t conservative on the continent.

    When he was in Banta City, there were many noble young misses and madams who were even more wild than Princess Caroline, they had even directly sexually harassed Xu Yi before.

    But this matter happening with Princess Caroline who had status and beauty, it really made him feel it was unbelievable.

    If Princess Caroline was more open, it would be fine since this was normal among nobles of the Sines Continent.

    But when Xu Yi discussed Princess Caroline with Kennard before, he heard that Princess Caroline was clearly still a virgin.

    Kennard wasn¡¯t as conservative as Xu Yi, he had been with countless girls in Anvilmar City, so there was no problem with his judgement.

    But the problem was, since Princess Caroline wasn¡¯t an open young miss, why did she always try to seduce Xu Yi like this?

    Was it just to develop a rtionship with Xu Yi so that she would receive more benefits from their cooperation?

    Not mentioning if Xu Yi would do this, did Princess Caroline believe that she would get such a big return on her body?

    As these thoughts shed through Xu Yi¡¯s mind, he took a deep breath and said to Princess Caroline with a smile, ¡°Alright, your highness, since you want to chase me, you have to make me like you first, right? But my character has always focused on business, so what is the business you wanted to discuss?¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s beautiful eyes turned over and she didn¡¯t refute Xu Yi¡¯s words. With a faint smile, she elegantly sat down in a chair on the side and pointed at the opposing chair for Xu Yi to sit down.

    ¡°Of course there is business and it isn¡¯t just one piece.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then tell me about the first one.¡±

    ¡°The first matter is that our Duchy Parliament has already proposed allowing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce invest in our Drake Duchy and it has been passed with unanimous agreement. This means that from now on, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to invest in our Drake Duchy, engaging in trade, you will have the full support of our duchy which will make many aspects much more smoother.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as he wasn¡¯t surprised.

    The Drake Duchy wanted to invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest, so how could they reject their investment application?

    ¡°The second matter is rted to technology.¡± Speaking of this second matter, Princess Caroline¡¯s expression became more serious, ¡°Chairman Xu, I proposed to you before that I hoped that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine technology could be sold to our Drake Duchy like the otherpanies of your Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Yes, as long as it is technology ourpany is currently selling to the otherpanies, your Drake Duchy can purchase at a simr price no matter what it is. Of course, you can also exchange for it using resources.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But we also want some other pieces of technology, I wonder if chairman Xu is willing to transfer it.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Then it depends on what technology you want.¡±

    ¡°For example......What we currently want the most is yourpany¡¯s construction magic machine technology, would you be willing to transfer it?¡±

    ¡°Construction magic machine?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Why are you interested in this technology? I thought that you would be like the Rudson Kingdom, you would request the agricultural magic machine technology.¡±

    Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°Our duchy has fertilends and rich grains, so our grain yield has never been a problem. Moreover, our duchy doesn¡¯t have muchnd, so just buying agricultural magic machines from yourpany is enough to satisfy our use. Gaining this technology isn¡¯t worth it.¡±

    ¡°I can understand that. Then why do you want the construction magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°I don¡¯t feel like it is any use to your duchy.¡±

    ¡°That is because you haven¡¯t inspected our duchy before. Actually our duchy¡¯s terrain is veryplex and if we want to solve the transportation problem like your Lampuri Kingdom to keep developing, there are many projects that need help from the construction magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Then why don¡¯t you buy it from ourpany? It is like you said before, your Drake Duchy isn¡¯t that big and I don¡¯t think you need that many construction magic machines.¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice.

    ¡°Our duchy¡¯s terrain is moreplicated than you can imagine, there are many ces that need specially designed construction magic machines. We can¡¯t just order from yourpany all the time, right? That would cost too much.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Then you think the cost of grasping this technology and then developing it is very low?¡±

    ¡°At least if we have the technology, it¡¯s easier to adjust when we have a new demand, right?¡± Princess Caroline said with a faint smile.

    Seeing the determination in Princess Caroline¡¯s smile, Xu Yi secretly gave a sigh. He felt that Princess Caroline really resembled her highness Seveni when it came to this aspect.

    The two were both daughters of their respective country¡¯s leaders and cared about national affairs. They both had good vision and foresight, as well as determined characters.

    If they could be the rulers of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy, what kind of scene would that be?

 Volume 3 141 - Welfare policy

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 141Welfare policy</h4>

    Seveni put down the quill pen and pinched the bridge of her nose. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

    When she opened her eyes, she looked around and confirmed that there was no one else in the City Lord¡¯s office. She spread out her arms and forcefully stretched herself out.

    Because of thefort that came from stretching her body, Seveni felt a bit better. She couldn¡¯t help sticking out her tongue and revealing an embarrassed smile.

    She had been strictly taught growing up in the royal family, so she always kept a perfect image in front of others. Even something as normal as stretching out was something that she could secretly do when no one was around.

    Even so, although it made her feel like she was doing something bad, she still couldn¡¯t stop.

    But there was no other way, she was just too tired.

    It was already the end of the year and as Banta City¡¯s City Lord, there was a lot of work Seveni had to finish.

    All the various things came together made her unable to sleep properly for close to a week, so she was now feeling incredibly tired.

    But this was her first year as the City Lord and she was shouldering her royal father¡¯s expectations, so naturally she couldn¡¯t ck off at all.

    To her, the best constion was that during the work of these days, through the various reports, she had seen all the changes that had shocked and pleasantly surprised the people of Banta City.

    ording to the financial report from this year, so far, Banta City¡¯s total tax revenue was five million seven hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

    Because this year wasn¡¯t over yet, if they counted the final month¡¯s tax revenue, then Banta City¡¯s total tax revenue would be over six million gold coins!

    Moreover, if it wasn¡¯t for Count Stagg¡¯s promoting agriculture policies, causing the tax revenue from the first half of the year to drop.

    With the trend of the second half, Banta City¡¯s total tax revenue could have even broken ten million gold coins!

    Thinking of this number, Seveni felt her eyes fill with golden glow, making it really hard for her to believe this matter.

    It had to be known, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s total tax revenuest year was only two million gold coins.

    Now just a single Banta City had taxes that could have broken the ten million mark.

    Although ording to the rules of the Royal Parliament, each city in the kingdom only needed to turn over a small portion to the kingdom as taxes, if every city in the Lampuri Kingdom was like Banta City with a tax revenue that broke the ten million mark, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances would bepletely different.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly taxes could break the ten million mark and wasn¡¯t a pitiful one or two million like it normally was, the Lampuri Kingdom would be much stronger.

    Since whether it was for an individual or a country, being rich was a very important matter.

    Of course, although Banta City had high tax revenue, it also spent quite a bit of money.

    Since Seveni became the City Lord, Banta City restarted the renovation projects that Count Stagg stopped. Banta City had turned into arge construction site in half a year, with all kinds of new roads and facilities all over.

    The Banta City renovation project took a lot of money. In just half a year, they had spent over one and half million gold coins.

    And ording to estimates, in the next two to three years, they had to invest at least four million gold coins to finish the projects.

    But since Banta City now had money, there were many things that couldn¡¯t be thought of before since there was ack of money were brought back up. Xu Yi proposed many things and now various welfare policies were being implemented for the citizens of Banta City.

    These welfare policies also spent money, but Seveni still continued carrying them out. Even if Banta City¡¯s tax revenue was very high, at the end of the year and after paying to the kingdom finances, Banta City was only left with one million and two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Now that the new year was approaching, even if Seveni wasn¡¯t willing, she had to spend some of this money on social expenses.

    At the beginning of the next year, Seveni might not even have half a million gold coins left.

    Thinking of this, Seveni shook her head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°It really is no money no worries, but there¡¯s plenty of problems after you get money.¡±

    She looked at the tax reports and Seveni thought for a bit before closing the report. She looked out the window and found that it was noon. It was rare good weather for a winter day like this and the sun was bright, lighting up everything outside.

    After hesitating a bit, Seveni changed into a casual set of clothes and decided to take a walk.

    When she pushed open the door, the workers of the City Lord Manor were all stunned.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s casual attire, several workers looked at each other with smiles, but they didn¡¯t say anything.

    Her highness stayed in the office all day, so it was too tiring and she should go out for a walk.

    Seveni gave them a smile before taking a scarf to cover the lower half of her face and then walking out of the City Lord Manor.

    She had already heard the noise from inside the City Lord Manor, but once she came out onto the street, there were even more people and it was very lively.

    Right now there are over three hundred thousand people in Banta City and not counting the people passing, there might be over four hundred thousand people in and out of Banta City.

    This number was a terrifying number for the Lampuri Kingdom because the most lively capital city of Anvilmar City only had less than two hundred thousand people.

    Of course, with this poption, there was a corresponding prosperity.

    Banta City¡¯srge and small streets were filled with people and as long as it was by the street, there were all kinds of stores. Looking at it, one would see all kinds of products that would dazzle anyone.

    In these stores, there were many products that were worth tens of gold coins or up to a hundred gold coins that most people in Banta City couldn¡¯t touch before.

    But although these luxury goods were expensive, their sales were quite good in Banta City.

    Because ording to the City Lord Manor¡¯s statistics, the average yearly ie of a Banta City resident was already over three hundred gold coins.

    If a family had several members, their yearly ie would be even over a thousand gold coins.

    With this high ie, an item that was worth up to a hundred gold coins that were shown off by nobles and merchants before had be normal products for Banta City citizens.

    Seveni looked around the street and found that the clothes and ornaments that many young girls were wearing weren¡¯t worse than those found in Anvilmar City.

    Although many girls were limited by their tastes, their clothes didn¡¯t seem that good to Seveni, at least it represented that they had decent economic abilities.

    As the City Lord, Seveni was naturally d to see this situation.

    Walking through the streets, she turned into an alley and Seveni stood under a sign that said ¡°City Lord Manor Stop¡±, patiently waiting for the next public transport Magic Car.

    ¡°Hey, Ronnie, you¡¯re also waiting?¡± A fat middle aged man came up beside Seveni and waved to the thin man on Seveni¡¯s right who was around the same age as him.

    The thin man revealed a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m going to Falling Rain Valley. Shaq, what about you?¡±

    The middle aged man named Shaqughed, ¡°I¡¯m not going that far, I¡¯m just going to the hospital outside Banta City.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re sick?¡± The thin man Ronnie asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°How could that be? Look at how good I am, what part of me is sick?¡±

    ¡°Then why are you going to the hospital?¡± Ronnie was a bit confused.

    ¡°You don¡¯t know? The ?Banta Times? reported a while ago that the City Lord Manor is promoting the hospital insurance policy. As long as you are a citizen of Banta City, each person only needs to pay five gold coins a year and they can enjoy this insurance. The ?Banta Times? said yesterday that the system is already in ce and you have to go to the hospital outside the city to sign up, so I¡¯m finding some time to go there.¡±

    ¡°Hospital insurance policy?¡± Ronnie knit his brows, ¡°What is this thing? We even need to pay money?¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re afraid of suffering a loss? Let me tell you, this thing is quite good. We only need to pay five gold coins a year and you can get a reduced rate next year. For example, if you ever be sick, you would need to spend ten gold coins to go to the hospital, but you can get a 70% discount with this health insurance, so you only spend three gold coins. How about it? Isn¡¯t that cost effective?¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Ronnie was pleasantly surprised, ¡°There¡¯s actually such a good thing? Then what if I don¡¯t get sick all year?¡±

    ¡°Then you just paid for nothing if you didn¡¯t get sick, you think that you can get that money back?¡±

    ¡°For nothing?¡± Ronnie¡¯s joy faded and he said in a pained voice, ¡°Then if I don¡¯t get sick next year, I handed over five gold coins for nothing?¡±

    ¡°I say, you¡¯re worried about this?¡± Shaq curled his lips, ¡°It¡¯s just five gold coins, are you evencking that money now? You can enjoy benefits if you pay this price and if you don¡¯t pay, you¡¯ll really lose out when you need it.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right......¡± Ronnie nodded, ¡°Let me consider it.....Right, when is the deadline to apply for this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the end of the year, you have to consider quickly or you might not make it in time.¡± Shaq warned him.

    ¡°Alright, I will properly think about it.¡±

 Volume 3 142 - Must become the queen

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 142 Must be the queen</h4>

    Seveni smiled while listening to the two talk as her heart filled with joy.

    Although the thin man named Ronnie felt pain because it cost five gold coins to join the insurance program, with Shaq¡¯s persuading, he was moved and began seriously considering whether he should add his entire family into the program.

    If she didn¡¯t want to hide her identity, Seveni wouldn¡¯t have been able to take it as she would have exined that out of all the programs Xu Yi proposed, this was the first one she implemented after considering it.

    ording to Seveni¡¯s thoughts, she was nning on not having the citizens pay five gold coins a year and would have tried to finance this program with Banta City¡¯s finances alone.

    But Xu Yi had stopped Seveni from doing this.

    Perhaps in the beginning stages, the Banta City residents wouldn¡¯t consider visiting the doctor when they were ill out of habit, but once the insurance program was in ce and if the citizens found that it didn¡¯t cost much to see the doctor, they would definitely properly use this system.

    If this situation appeared, no matter how good Banta City¡¯s finances were, they wouldn¡¯t be able to support this.

    Even with Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, with each person paying five gold coins a year, ording to the estimates of the City Lord Manor, even if it was the hospital that the City Lord Manor built outside the cityst month, it would cost them close to two hundred thousand gold coins a year.

    In order to ensure the quality of the Banta City Citizen¡¯s Hospital, Seveni had personally acted and invited several skilled doctors from Anvilmar City.

    Of course, these doctors received high wages, with the lowest being a thousand gold coins a year.

    This money was naturally paid for by Banta City as part of the investment for this hospital.

    Shaq and Ronnie discussed for a while and the next public transport Magic Car stopped. The two of them stopped and got into the car, while Seveni followed behind them.

    This public transport Magic Car went from Banta City to the terminal station of Fallin Rain Valle. If one took the entire trip, the Fersen Carriage Company charged thirty gold coins. Seveniter announced that Banta City would be paying a subsidy for this and each trip¡¯s fare would be reduced to twenty five gold coins.

    Although it was just five gold coins, this policy from the City Lord Manor was immediately praised by everyone in Banta City.

    Even though she had been the City Lord for less than half a year, Seveni already had high prestige in Banta City. She was called the ¡°great, respected, and beautiful Lord City Lord¡± by the ?Banta Times?.

    There were even some Banta City citizens who had called her the other ¡°Banta Goddess¡± following Still.

    But it was different from Still who obtained the title from her beauty and fame, Seveni obtained this title because of the gratitude and love the Banta City citizens had for her.

    Shaq and Ronnie continued discussing after getting in the Magic Car. After talking about the policy of the City Lord Manor, naturally they began praising Seveni.

    Hearing the praise from the two, although it was all the truth, Seveni¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help turning a bit red as she lowered it.

    If people recognized her as the City Lord, it would make people feel awkward.

    After the carriage drove off, it picked up a few more people from other stops.

    Some passengers heard Ronnie and Shaq¡¯s discussion and couldn¡¯t help joining in. The group of people enthusiastically discussed the various policies that City Lord Manor implemented.

    Among them, most of them praised the policies, but there were some that didn¡¯t like them and spoke out against them.

    For example, when it came to the Banta City renovations, most people felt that it was a good n. However, there were two people who said that there were constructions all over the city, creatingrge amounts of dust and noise. They were even working at night which affected their rest.

    Also for example, the agriculture and business ns that Seveni hade up with, some people didn¡¯t agree that they could develop together.

    To them, Banta City was currently focusing on business. Even ifrge numbers of people came from abroad, they were working for the variouspanies of Banta City and wouldn¡¯te all this way to farm.

    Since it was like this, City Lord Seveni should be more bold and transform Banta City into a business city and fully support thepanies.

    As for agriculture? Isn¡¯t there the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, just give it to them.

    Hearing these people who were clearly small merchants that could be seen in the city recently discussing the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, Seveni couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Xu Yi had made a bet with her before, iming that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would pay over two hundred thousand in taxes by the end of the year, but Seveni didn¡¯t believe it at all.

    Because the taxes from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce added up before was only fifty thousand. To Seveni, it was impossible for them to reach two hundred thousand in taxes in just four months.

    Who would have thought that when Seveni saw the tax report, she found that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had already paid two hundred and thirty thousand in taxes already.

    If they added in this month¡¯s tax, it might even reach over three hundred thousand gold coins!

    It had to be said, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had really surprised Seveni this time.

    Because even Seveni had thought that agriculture couldn¡¯t match business. The main business of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was agriculture, so it was very difficult for them to gain arge profit, so their tax payments couldn¡¯t surpass the other smallpanies.

    But the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could pay this much tax was mainly because of the new important product they hadunched, the Green Source Fruit Juice.

    This was fresh squeezed juice that was made with the unique form of the elf race. Not only did it taste like fresh juice, the fact that it could be stored for a long time was weed by the market.

    Not only could you find this juice of various vours in Banta City, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was sellingrge amounts of this product to various cities through the Walmart Chamber of Commerce.

    The most important thing was that with this juice selling well, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had the three viges they contracted better treatment, making theses three viges more enthusiastic about nting fruit trees.

    The three viges from nting those fruit trees earned more than the other viges, so there were many viges that applied to the City Lord Manor to grow fruits next year.

    If it was before where it was hard to guarantee basic food production, Seveni wouldn¡¯t have agreed to this request.

    But now there was fertilizer and the grain yield was greatly increased. Only the Kambia Vige of the three viges the Cantona Chamber of Commerce contracted produced basic grains, but the grains harvested was equal to the grains harvested from the three viges before.

    Thinking of this, Seveni thought about the fertilizer factory the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built in the Sandton Manor.

    The fertilizer had demonstrated its strong use during the two harvest seasons. Although there were some people who doubted that there would be problems caused by the food grown by fertilizers, two months after the fall harvest, the fertilizer factory were receivingrge amounts of orders from all over the kingdom.

    ording to what Xu Yi had told Seveni before leaving, currently the orders for the fertilizer factory reached a terrifying four million tons.

    The current output was limited, so before the spring nting next year, they could only produce at most seven hundred thousand tons.

    Other than leaving a portion for Banta City, Xu Yi gave the rest to Seveni to process, letting her decide which ones toplete first.

    Seveni was clear that Xu Yi had given her a big favour.

    Fertilizer was effective in increasing grain yield, so whichever city received the help of the fertilizer would have a rich harvest.

    Currently for the Lampuri Kingdom that ced importance on agriculture, whichever city could satisfy their required grain yield would mean appreciation from the City Lord of that city.

    To put it simply, Seveni controlled the distribution rights of the extra fertilizer, deciding which city would enjoy the benefits.

    This would be very important in earning support for her.

    Xu Yi understood this, so he gave the decision power to Seveni.

    Thinking of this, Seveni couldn¡¯t help feeling deeply grateful and a strange feeling towards Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi¡¯s existence, Banta City wouldn¡¯t have be this rich and Seveni would be able to see hope of changing the entire kingdom.

    If possible, Seveni wanted to support Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more, letting Xu Yi improve the entire Lampuri Kingdom faster. If the Lampuri Kingdom became stronger, the people could enjoy the same treatment as Banta City, not worrying about having enough food and would have extra ie to spend on improving their lives.

    But to achieve this, Seveni¡¯s current status was far from being enough.

    If she really wanted to give Xu Yi the support he needed, Seveni need to take the throne that everyone was paying attention to.

    As long as she became the queen, she would be qualified to truly support Xu Yi.

    But to take the throne, other than receiving the support of the kingdom¡¯s nobles, she also needed the support of the citizens.

    Hearing the approval for her in their conversation, feeling the gratitude and love, Seveni revealed a faint smile. She thought that if she could let everyone in the kingdom enjoy the same treatment as the people of Banta City, they would definitely support her like these people.

    But at this time, there was a cold snort that filled the carriage.

    ¡°You fellows treat that Seveni as a god, but I think that she¡¯s nothing but shit!¡±

 Volume 3 143 - A crowd causing trouble

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 143 A crowd causing trouble</h4>

    There was silence in the car as everyone looked in the direction of that voice in a stunned manner.

    Even the car shook before returning to its normal speed. It was clear that the driver in front was also shocked to hear these words and he couldn¡¯t help losing control from this shock.

    Seveni was thinking about how to change various policies based on the discussion of these people. When she heard this, she was stunned and looked to the left, finding a man who was around fifty years old looking at everyone else looking at him with a challenging look on his face.

    ¡°What? You refuse to ept it? If it was me, I would say that her highness doesn¡¯t have any brains at all! She only knows how to let her subordinates do what they want and listen to that Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Xu Yi, she can¡¯t do anything herself. It¡¯s fine if she remains as the princess for her entire life, but she came here to be the City Lord and even wants to be our queen? That is simply a joke!¡±

    Hearing this, the people in the car immediately became angry.

    Shaq poked his nose without any courtesy and shouted, ¡°This fellow, you really are bold! Can you speak nonsense about her highness? How are you qualified?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you actually dare say her highness doesn¡¯t have any abilities? Do you think that everyone is blind?¡± Another passenger echoed, ¡°When Count Stagg was the City Lord, the good days that everyone had was ruined. Now that her highness has taken over as City Lord for less than a year, haven¡¯t you seen how much the city has changed? What kind of lives everyone is living?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. You can talk about others, but you still dare talk about chairman Xu? If it wasn¡¯t for the chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving our Banta City all those new things, would everyone be living such good lives? Doesn¡¯t everyone think so?¡±

    ¡°Right. It¡¯s because chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce drove Banta City¡¯s development that everyone could live such good lives.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t just talk about chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. During the year Count Stagg was the City Lord, chairman Xu couldn¡¯t do anything. So you have to give her highness the greatest merit. Once she became our City Lord, our entire Banta City started developing again.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. It if was me, I¡¯d rather have her highness not be the queen and continue to be our City Lord, that way we would always have such good days.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right. If her highness became the queen, I believe that our entire Lampuri Kingdom would be as good as our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s also true......¡±

    ......

    The group kept talking, once again praising Seveni while also saying a few words for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The middle aged man had the same cold smile, but he didn¡¯t say anything else, so the crowd couldn¡¯t cause trouble for him.

    But with a target like him, the crowd started talking even louder and their words became more sharp.

    Perhaps he felt that it would be meaningless to stay in this car or perhaps he was at his stop, when the Magic Car stopped at the next stop, the middle aged man got off.

    Seveni thought about it before following him off.

    Looking around when she got off, Seveni found that this stop wasn¡¯t far from the Sandy River. This was near the Dawn High ss Vi Neighbourhood that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had built recently.

    That middle aged man headed to the neighbourhood after getting off, which made Seveni even more curious.

    Based on his clothes, that middle aged man shouldn¡¯t be that rich. No matter what, he couldn¡¯t be someone who lived in this high ss neighbourhood, so what was he doing here?

    If it was said that he was acquainted with someone who lived here, this ce was for people who had profited from Banta City developing and could afford an eight thousand gold coin vi, so how could they be acquainted with him?

    Seveni followed the man from afar and seeing him approach the vi, the two guards at the gates noticed him and came forward to stop him.

    But the man stopped not far away from the gates of the neighbourhood and reached into his chest. He suddenly took out some cloth that was rolled up and shook it, opening it up to reveal two iron rods stuck to either side of the cloth.

    The middle aged man inserted one iron rod into the dirt and pulled out the cloth, going to the other side of the road to insert the other iron rod.

    When the white cloth was revealed, there were blood red leathers written on it.

    ¡°The Amrit Chamber of Commerce is heartless! They destroyed our homes! Her highness Seveni has no humanity! She colludes with merchants!¡±

    Seeing these letters, Seveni was instantly shocked.

    It was fine to say that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was heartless, by why was he saying that she had no humanity?

    As for colluding with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.....To develop Banta City, the City Lord Manor cooperated with all thepanies of Banta City, the best representative of that was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This person didn¡¯t choose the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chose to call out the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, what reason was it for?

    Seveni thought for a while and found that because the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had construction projects all over Banta City and had a wide range of cooperation with the City Lord Manor, she couldn¡¯t make a guess at all.

    The two guards of the neighbourhood saw this and after being stunned, they quickly went over to the middle aged man, looking like they wanted to question him.

    Who would have known that when he saw the two guards approach, the middle aged man would suddenly take out a dagger from his chest.

    The two guards were shocked before they continued to approach whileughing.

    For the two guards that had retired from the army, a middle aged man that didn¡¯t seem that strong only holding a dagger didn¡¯t pose any threat at all.

    However, the middle aged man didn¡¯t use the dagger to attack them. He turned his hand and pointed the dagger at his throat as he shouted, ¡°Don¡¯te over! If you keeping over, I¡¯ll stab!¡±

    The two guards were stunned and they couldn¡¯t help stopping.

    This fellow threatening to kill himself really made the two guards worry.

    When the two guards and Seveni were stunned, a Magic Car on the road behind them stopped and a crowd of people charged out. They came to the middle aged man¡¯s side and surrounded him. Then they all took out daggers and pointed it at their own necks, looking the same as the middle aged man.

    Seeing that there were men and woman, old and young in this crowd, even having two children who weren¡¯t even ten years old yet, Seveni tightly knit her brows.

    What did the Amrit Chamber of Commerce do to force these normal citizens to this point?

    ###

    ¡°Your highness, I¡¯ve been wronged!¡± Chairman Cruise had a tearful look as he turned to Seveni with an aggrieved expression, ¡°You should know how ourpany handles matters, how could we do anything heartless? These fellows.....these fellows are just causing a scene!¡±

    Seveni looked around and didn¡¯t say anything.

    Chairman Cruise understood and waved his hands for the others to leave.

    There were only the two of them left in the room. Chairman Cruise nervously looked at Seveni as his heart was unsettled.

    When he received the news, he didn¡¯t care at first since this was not the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first time encountering this situation.

    But when he came over and found that her highness Seveni was also here, he was terrified.

    Although this matter in his opinion was not the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fault, if arge matter happened, it would have a bad effect and her highness Seveni would definitely be angry.

    But from when she saw him until now, her highness Seveni didn¡¯t look that angry, but chairman Cruise didn¡¯t dare be negligent.

    ¡°Speak, just what has happened?¡± Seveni looked over chairman Cruise and calmly asked, ¡°Why did these citizens say that yourpany destroyed their homes?¡±

    Chairman Cruise rubbed his hands and thought about it before saying, ¡°Your highness, you should know that the construction of the Sanng River Canal, right?¡±

    Seveni nodded, ¡°I do, what about it? Is this rted to the Sanng River Canal?¡±

    ¡°Un, these people are from a vige near the Sanng River Canal, but because the canal passed through their vige, we had to take some farnd from them. The reason they¡¯re causing trouble is because of this farnd.¡±

    Seveni knit her beautiful brows, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell chairman Porter that he had to properly take care of the matters of the Sanng River Canal? Moreover, why did these citizens not look for the Porter Chamber of Commerce and cause trouble for your Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Chairman Cruise said with a bitter smile, ¡°Because the one in charge of this project was mypany, so these citizens only know that our Amrit Chamber of Commerce dug up their farnd and me ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Then why did they agree at first and nowe here to cause trouble?¡± Seveni asked with a confused look.

    ¡°Chairman Porter agreed at first that after we dug up their farnd, we would give them some gold coins aspensation and arrange for them to work for somepanies in Banta City, giving them a stable ie. They agreed to this at first, so we started digging, but who would have thought.....¡±

    Speaking of this, chairman Cruise suddenly stopped.

    ¡°What?¡± Seveni looked at him.

    Chairman Cruise gave a bitterugh and shook his head. His expression showed that he didn¡¯t know whether to be angry or find this funny?

    ¡°When I negotiated with those people and asked them why they were causing trouble, they said that they had all been fired. They¡¯ve lost their jobs and don¡¯t have any ie, so they can¡¯t live like this and came to create trouble.¡±

    Seveni was stunned, ¡°Why were they fired? Didn¡¯t chairman Porter arrange for them to work at thosepanies?¡±

    ¡°I asked a few people and can you guess why were they fired by thosepanies?¡±

    Seveni shook her head.

    Chairman Cruise said with a strange look, ¡°Chairman Porter looked for chairman Xu¡¯s help when he organized things for them, so chairman Xu arranged for these people to work for magic machinepanies in the city with his rtions. But these people didn¡¯t have any skills and refused to learn, so they didn¡¯t meet the work requirements so they were all fired.¡±

    Seeing the strange expression on Seveni¡¯s face, chairman Cruise quickly added, ¡°Your highness, you have to believe that if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that they didn¡¯t have skills, I think that to give chairman Xu face, they wouldn¡¯t have fired them no matter what.¡±

    Seveni gave a nod, ¡°I understand, but this matter had reminded me of a problem.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡± Chairman Cruise asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Xu Yi had mentioned this problem to me before. He said that as the magic machine industry developed quickly, there would be a higher demand for skills among the workers and there would be a higher demand for qualified individuals. Just depending on training from thepanies of Banta City would be far from being enough.¡±

    Chairman Cruise immediately agreed with a nod, ¡°Un, I have a deep understanding of this. Normally the work of ourpany relies on physical strength and doesn¡¯t require any techniques, but as there are more projects and more magic machines being used, ourpany can¡¯t find enough workers to operate those magic machines and it has affected many of our projects.¡±

    ¡°So the problem raised by Xu Yi before is very important. How to change people in the required work force, we need to invest arge amount.¡± Seveni thought about it before saying to chairman Cruise, ¡°Chairman Cruise, send some people, I want to build a vocational training school outside of the city.¡±

 Volume 3 144 - Her highnessâ€™ article

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 144 Her highness¡¯ article</h4>

    When Xu Yi entered Count Sean¡¯s office, he saw Count Sean putting down the newspaper in his hands and knitting his brows with a bit of worry.

    ¡°Did something happen?¡± Xu Yi asked. His eyes fell onto the newspaper and found that it was the ?Banta Times? he was familiar with, so he couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised, ¡°When did the ?Banta Times? start selling here?¡±

    ¡°Of course it doesn¡¯t.¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°I have someone gather it each week and specially deliver it from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Specially deliver?¡±

    Xu Yi was secretly speechless.

    Banta City was over a thousand kilometers away. Even if one took a Magic Car, they would have to drive without stopping all day, so it would take at least two days to deliver it over here.

    The most important thing was that arranging someone to purchase the ?Banta Times? would require a shocking amount of money.

    Count Sean was not a noble that liked luxuries, but he put in this much money and effort for a ?Banta Times?, it could be seen that he was still very concerned about Banta City even after leaving the post for a year and a half.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t strange.¡± Count Sean said with a smile, ¡°I have been the City Lord of Banta City for over ten years, so I should have deep sentiment there. Not to mention.....her highness is the current City Lord, so I should care about that.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded to show he understood before asking, ¡°Then what has happened in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°Take a look.¡± Count Sean pointed at the ?Banta Times? on the table.

    Xu Yi picked up the newspaper and saw that based on the date, this ?Banta Times? should be from three days ago.

    Looking at the front page headline, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up and his heart filled with joy.

    ¡°Ha, her highness is finally putting importance on this issue? Great! With this vocational training school and the other training facilities, the human resource issue in Banta City should be soon solved. It would be a great help in the development of Banta City and the entire Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, did you give this idea to her highness?¡± Count Sean asked.

    ¡°Un, actually I already noticed this problemst year, but Count Stagg was the City Lord and I didn¡¯t raise it to him. When her highness took over, I mentioned this before, but her highness didn¡¯t care about this matter before, so it had been dyed. Now that her highness is finally putting importance on this matter, it really is great.¡±

    Count Sean shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Did you notice when her highness started attaching importance to this?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. He carefully read through the article and noticed that her highness making this decision was because something had happened in Banta Ciuty which was in another report.

    Flipping the page, he found that there was a detailed report on the second page of the ?Banta Times?.

    Reading through the lines about the Sanng River farnd, Xu Yi thought about it and confirmed that this matter had indeed happened.

    Chairman Porter had asked for his help before, but he didn¡¯t care. He just told Kennard to arrange things and didn¡¯t pay it any attention.

    He never thought that this matter would develop into such a serious incident.

    ording to the report in the ?Banta Times?, this matter had not just aroused interest in Banta City, even many other cities had paid attention to this and several newspapers in Anvilmar City had reported on this.

    After he finished reading the report, Xu Yi thought about it before giving a shrug and saying with a smile, ¡°Although the influence of this matter isn¡¯t good, it made her highness pay attention to training human resources, so it can be considered a good thing.¡±

    Count Sean narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi before asking with knit brows, ¡°Do you really only think this?¡±

    Xu Yi was taken aback, ¡°What about it?¡±

    Count Sean shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Kid, it seems like you¡¯re really not suited for politics, you actually can¡¯t see the matter hidden in this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the ?Banta Times? in his hands with confusion and asked in a confused voice, ¡°What is the problem?¡±

    ¡°You haven¡¯t thought that even though this matter is a small matter, it¡¯s caused so much trouble?¡± Count Sean asked back.

    ¡°How is this matter small......¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly stopped when he had just started.

    Because he suddenly realized that he had neglected a problem.

    This was the Sines Continent, it was very different from earth.

    If this matter happened on earth, it would be reported as a very serious matter. It would definitely have a serious impact on the Banta City local government and would seriously damage the ountability of Banta City¡¯s leaders.

    But on the Sines Continent, because the farnd taken for the canal belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom and not the farmers themselves, they didn¡¯t have any rights to cause trouble.

    And for the Sines Continent that had a half feudal and half ve society, if normal citizens were taken advantage of by nobles, how could they have the courage toin?

    If this matter happened in any other country, or other cities in the Lampuri Kingdom, the City Lord Manor wouldn¡¯t even need to talk to the farmers before digging on their farnd. If they wanted to dig, the farmers wouldn¡¯t even dare talk and wouldn¡¯t darein, how could theye out in numbers to cause trouble.

    If it was a tyrannical City Lord, it wouldn¡¯t have been a problem for them to cut the heads of the farmers who caused trouble.

    Because ording to thews of the Lampuri Kingdom, gathering together to cause trouble and even threatening with weapons could be considered an act of rebellion, so the City Lord could deal with them as they wished.

    Now these fellows not only had the guts to gather in Banta City, they had even made it a big matter and had the newspapers of the kingdom report on it. How could it seem like something normal citizens could do.

    If it was said that there was no one supporting them and directing them, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t believe it even if he was beaten to death.

    Thinking of people supporting them, Xu Yi grabbed the newspaper and seriously read over the rted reports.

    This time, he found some problems that he hadn¡¯t noticed before in these reports.

    For example, in the report of the ?Banta Times?, it¡¯s said that these farmers used daggers to cause trouble. The leader hade alone and the rest had taken a Magic Car to rush over.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the Magic Car was a big problem.

    Based on the price of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car, one could cost up to eight hundred gold coins. These farmers had lo9st their jobs and didn¡¯t have a source of ie, so not mentioning buying one, they wouldn¡¯t even be able to take out the money to rent one.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh, ¡°This means that someone wants to target her highness. They are using this matter to destroy the fame of her highness?¡±

    Count Sean gave a slight nod, ¡°You¡¯re not dumb. Take another look at these......¡±

    Taking the pile of newspapers Count Sean pushed over, Xu Yi roughly nced through them and found the articles rted to this matter.

    But the key points were differentpared to the article in the ?Banta Times?. In these reports, they mainly described the poor conditions of the farmers, how the farmers were forced into doing this......It was like they were the farmers themselves.

    If one only read the reports of these newspapers, they would feel deep sympathy for these farmers and would have a deep hatred for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Although there wasn¡¯t any direct criticism towards her highness Seveni in these newspapers, with the meanings in between the lines, they disclosed that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce did these things because of the decisions of the City Lord Manor. Naturally the people who read these reports would feel dissatisfied with the City Lord Manor and her highness Seveni.

    ¡°Ah, these fellows really are bold, they dare move against her highness.¡± After he finished reading, Xu Yi didn¡¯t get angry and revealed a smile, ¡°Since they have the courage to report this matter, why don¡¯t they just say that her highness doesn¡¯t care about people¡¯s lives at all?¡±

    Of course they wouldn¡¯t dare.¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°ndering her highness, this could be treated as treason. But affecting her highness¡¯ reputation like this is enough, they can¡¯t topple her highness at once because they know that it would be impossible.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows and thought for a bit. Then he said with a serious look, ¡°Lord CIty Lord, we have to fight back. It isn¡¯t good for her highness to act, so we have to help her.¡±

    ¡°You think that her highness is an idiot in politics like you?¡± Count Sean said with augh, ¡°Rx, her highness has already noticed the hidden problem and she has taken care of it very properly.¡±

    After saying this, Count Sean revealed a look of praise as he said, ¡°Speaking of this, although her highness is young, she is from the royal pce. Her abilities are far from what a fellow like you canpare to. This matter would affect her reputation, but with how she handled it, she has taken the opportunity to reveal her foresight in terms of governing and even helped you out.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How did her highness handle it?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice.

    ¡°Can¡¯t you see it yourself?¡± Count Sean pointed at the ?Banta Times? in Xu Yi¡¯s hand.

    Xu Yi curiously flipped through the ?Banta Times? until he found arge heading.

    ¡°Importance of the magic machine industry to economic development.¡±

    There was a subtitle under it.

    ¡°Developing human resources to enhancepetition.¡±

    It was signed at the end with Seveni Lampuri.

    Seeing this title, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became very strange.

    Her highness Seveni, when did she steal the skill to write an article from him?

 Volume 3 145 - Watch his highness send himself to death?

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 145 Watch his highness send himself to death?</h4>

    The paper her highness posted in the ?Banta Times? was only a small part, the full text was in front of Lampuri Thirteenth and was a total of thirty seven pages. It was quite thick when it was folded together.

    Lampuri Thirteenth spent three hours reading the over thirty thousand characters on the pages and he had a serious look the entire time, not even taking a sip of water.

    After he finished, he closed his eyes to rest for a while before letting out a sigh, revealing a happy smile.

    Out of his three children, he was most satisfied with his youngest daughter Seveni.

    She was very smart and had great control since she was young. Not only was she serious with her learning, she was very good atprehending and had an understanding of politics since she was young.

    When she was a bit bigger, she already started expressing her own opinion towards politics and her views were very certain. Some opinions were even approved by Lampuri Thirteenth.

    When she was twenty years old, she began participating in politics and she had an ability that was far above her two older brothers. She took care of everything properly and had helped Lampuri Thirteenth solve many problems.

    Although her two older brothers couldn¡¯t be considered fools, they didn¡¯t have the same control as Seveni since they were younger. They were never serious with their studies and after growing up, their abilities were farckingpared to Seveni and Lampuri Thirteenth was never assured.

    If Seveni wasn¡¯t his daughter, or even if she was his oldest daughter instead of his youngest, Lampuri Thirteenth would have already made her the sessor to his throne.

    But Seveni was his youngest daughter and because of this, there were many hindrances to Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s idea of making her his sessor. It was even hard keeping her in her current status.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the dominating performances Lampuri Thirteenth revealed in those years, the Royal Parliament would have rejected the idea of giving her her current status.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s detailed report on the magic machine industry, Lampuri Thirteenth was determined about his thoughts again.

    If he had to choose someone to take the throne, the right choice was definitely Seveni.

    In this report, Seveni stated that after the magic machine industry appeared, she had analyzed the influence that it had in Banta City in an exhaustive report, with all kinds of detailed forms and data sheets. She made this report very easy to see through and one could directly see the effects the magic machine industry had on Banta City.

    Actually other than Banta City, many kingdoms in the Lampuri Kingdom had experienced the magic machine industry brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. However, Seveni didn¡¯t have detailed data from these cities, so she didn¡¯t include them in this report.

    Lampuri Thirteenth appreciated Seveni¡¯s realistic approach because he was very clear that although many parts of government are forced to be ambiguous, the parts that shouldn¡¯t should not have a single bit of ambiguity.

    With this report, one could clearly tell that Banta City waspletely different from four years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t appeared yet.

    The most direct data was that this year¡¯s Banta City tax revenue had broken six million gold coins. Compared to the tax revenue of less than five hundred thousand from four years ago, it had already increased over ten times.

    Other than this, Banta City¡¯s grain yield had also greatly increased.

    With the use of the fertilizer and the agricultural magic machines, Banta City¡¯s grain yield had broken a shocking one million ton.

    It could be said that with just the grain yield of Banta City, it would have been enough to feed a fifth of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    And ording to the report Seveni had submitted before, when the fertilizer factory¡¯s output increased, they would have enough fertilizer for every farm in the kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have to worry about food.

    If they really could do this, it would have solved the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s biggest problem in several hundred years.

    Even ignoring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s other contributions, just with the agricultural magic machines and the fertilizer, it wouldn¡¯t be too much for Lampuri Thirteenth to give them any reward.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi being too young and his length as a noble being too short, Lampuri Thirteenth would have raised his rank again.

    Other than the most important tax revenue and the grain yield, there was another change in Banta City which was the growth in poption.

    Banta City that had less than one hundred thousand stable citizens had three hundred thousand people from all other parts of the Lampuri Kingdom, making it the most popted city in the south of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Adding in the fact that Banta City¡¯s economy had developed and business was good, the current Banta City was the economic center of the kingdom¡¯s south.

    ording to what the report had said, right now there were over five thousand transport horse carriages that came from Banta City each day.

    And of these transport teams, there were more Magic Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even surpassing the amount of horse carriages.

    Adding in the fact that the Sanng Canal wasplete, people could enter the kingdom¡¯s north through the canal and quickly develop the shipping industry of Banta City.

    But in this report, Seveni mentioned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently developing a Magic Boat. Once the Magic Boat was developed, Banta City¡¯s ship transport system would definitely prosper.

    Seeing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing the Magic Boat, Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly remembered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce seemed to have invested in a port in the Stantine Duchy.

    Could it be that Xu Yi had already thought of the Magic Boat then and wanted to use the Magic Boats to connect to the sea?

    If it really was like this, Lampuri Thirteenth had to re-evaluate Xu Yi.

    Perhaps this fellow had more foresight than he thought.

    When he was considering the impact of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Dema came in.

    ¡°Your majesty, Viscount Leslie is asking for an audience.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth put down the report, ¡°Let hime in.¡±

    After a while, Viscount Leslie was brought to Lampuri Thirteenth reception room by Dema.

    After Viscount Leslie gave a bow, Lampuri Thirteenth looked him over and gave a nod. He praised with a faint smile, ¡°Not bad, after being disciplined by the northern army, you seem much more pleasing to the eye now.¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°I think that what your majesty is talking about is different from what the young misses and madams in the city are talking about, right?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth broke out inughter.

    Viscount Leslie came from the Stagg Family, but he had been close to the royal family since he was young. Viscount Leslie had grown up with the two princes and the princess Seveni, so he was quite close to Lampuri Thirteenth and naturally wasn¡¯t as cautious as others.

    ¡°Actually, although your skin is a bit rougher, the young misses and madams might like a rougher man like you. The tender looking you from before might not be as weed as you are now.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth teased, ¡°So that means sending you to the northern army actually benefited you.¡±

    Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    He already heard that Lampuri Thirteenth was uninhibited when he was young, but he could see a trace of that now.

    ¡°If you say it like that....I do feel I¡¯ve benefited. But as for what, it¡¯s lettinge in contact with different people through service and encountering many.....different things.¡± Viscount Leslie said.

    ¡°Different things?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth took a deep look at Viscount Leslie. He waved his hand at Dema and had him leave, ¡°Come, tell me about it. What different things have you encountered that you can¡¯t forget?¡±

    Viscount Leslie thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Your majesty, I think that what made the deepest impression on me should be the attack on the Sack Kingdom. I think that you also wouldn¡¯t forget it.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth nodded, ¡°This is our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s first time attacking the Sack Kingdom and it was a magnificent victory, we even recaptured the Muerto Mountains. This is the greatest victory since our country has been founded, how could I forget it?¡±

    ¡°Yes, this victory inspired the people and when I was in the northern army, I could feel the high morale among the army. Everyone was filled with excitement, wishing we could take this momentum to capture the entire Sack Kingdom.¡± Viscount Leslie recalled with an emotional sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s thinking too much in wanting to capture the entire Sack Kingdom, we aren¡¯t that strong right now.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth shook his head as he said this.

    ¡°I understand, but your highness, have you thought.....why did the northern army have the ability to fight the Sack Kingdom and take the entire Muerto Mountains back?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth narrowed his eyes, ¡°What do you want to say? Just be direct, there¡¯s only the two of us here and I won¡¯t force you to take responsibility, so just talk freely.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Viscount Leslie nodded and revealed a serious expression, ¡°Your majesty, I think that you should be more clear of this than me. The reason why the northern army had this powerful battle strength at the beginning of the year waspletely because the northern army¡¯s equipment had been greatly improved. Whether it was their weapons, the Magic Repeating Crossbows, or the Magic Trebuchets that had the greatest effect, it could be said that after getting this new equipment, the northern army had the ability to defeat the Sack Kingdom and take back the Muerto Mountains. At the same time, we could guard against the wild attacks of the Sack Kingdom in the following half a year.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth fell into thought before giving a slight nod, ¡°Of course I understand this, but Leslie, what do you want to say raising this now?¡±

    Viscount Leslie had a serious look as he said in a serious voice, ¡°Your majesty, since you understand this, then may I ask you a question? Right now the northern army isn¡¯t buying equipment from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of his highness Eric, so do you think they have the ability to attack the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth was silent.

    Viscount Leslie didn¡¯t wait for him to reply and continued in a serious tone, ¡°No, your majesty, you certainly don¡¯t think they have this ability. But you clearly know this and you won¡¯t give the decree to stop his highness Eric. Are you.....trying to send his highness Eric to his death?¡±

 Volume 3 146 - Choosing to lose

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 146 Choosing to lose</h4>

    Lampuri Thirteenth was silent for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Eric is my son, why would I send him to death?¡±

    Viscount Leslie slowly shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know, but your majesty, I think that you are trying to do this now. Eric is my friend who I grew up with, so as his friend, I have toe and ask you this.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a smile that had a bit of ridicule to it.

    ¡°I know that after you left the northern guard, Eric invited you to his ce for a bit. But the problem is, this isn¡¯t Eric who had youe ask me this, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie revealed a bitter smile as he said with a sigh, ¡°Indeed he didn¡¯t make mee ask, this was my own decision.¡±

    ¡°Then did you tell Eric your analysis? Did you advise him not to attack the Sack Kingdom?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth asked.

    Viscount Leslie was silent for a while before giving a sigh and shaking his head.

    ¡°No, Eric is confident in his attack on the Sack Kingdom, so he won¡¯t listen to any objections. So I hope that your majesty can give the order for him to stop.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth tapped the armrest of his chair and looking at Leslie, the ridicule in his smile became deeper.

    ¡°Then do you know that Eric being this confident is actually because of the support of those people in the kingdom? Which naturally includes your father.¡±

    Viscount Leslie became even more silent. Of course he knew what part the Stagg Family represented by his father yed in this.

    He was even more clear that in order to support his highness leading the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, the Stagg Family had already invested at least five million gold coins in funds and resources.

    As for the human resources of the Stagg Family, it was impossible to calcte.

    Other than the Stagg Family, the other major nobles that supported his highness Eric also provided all kinds of support for the northern army. Right now the northern army had plenty of equipment and it could be considered the most abundant time in the northern army¡¯s history.

    It was because of this that his highness Eric was filled with confidence in attacking the Sack Kingdom. He felt that with the support of the major nobles in the kingdom, he would definitely be able to easily defeat the Sack Kingdom, setting the record for the most amazing military exploit in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With this military exploit, naturally he could beat Seveni and the other prince Mifam that everyone ignored, bing the only royal sessor.

    Seeing that Viscount Leslie had nothing to say, Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s smile disappeared. He gave a soft snort and said in a deep voice, ¡°Leslie, do you know that even if It was me, I can¡¯t order Eric to stop his attack on the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Viscount Leslie thought about it before giving a sigh and nodding.

    At this time, his highness Eric leading the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom had reached a point of no return, they had to send it.

    Even if his highness Eric suddenly changed his mind, therge families behind him wouldn¡¯t let him do this.

    Otherwise therge amount of manpower and resources therge family had invested in the northern army would all be wasted.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that whether it was his highness Eric, the northern army, or even therge nobles that were supporting his highness Eric, they had all been tied to the same chariot.

    This chariot had to drive to the Sack Kingdom and no one could stop them.

    Even his majesty with the most power in the kingdom couldn¡¯t stop this chariot by force.

    After all, even if it was the most prestigious king, he couldn¡¯t stop a bunch ofrge noble families that were represented by the Stagg Family.

    Thinking of this, Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh. He looked at Lampuri Thirteenth and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Your majesty, I don¡¯t believe that you didn¡¯t know about this beforehand. But why didn¡¯t you stop it ahead of time? If you immediately gave the order, I think you could have stopped it.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth was silent for a bit before replying, ¡°Sending the three of them out was a test for them. This is Eric¡¯s choice, I of course will not interfere.¡±

    Viscount Leslie suddenly became angry as he shouted, ¡°But this isn¡¯t just rted to Eric alone, it¡¯s rted to the millions of soldiers of the northern army! Could it be that you want to watch those innocent soldiers of the northern army send themselves to death?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Leslie before suddenly revealing a smile.

    ¡°It seems like your two years in the northern army has created some emotions for the northern army. Not bad, not bad......¡±

    Seeing that Lampuri Thirteenth avoided his question, Viscount Leslie became even more angry, but his reasoning told him that he definitely couldn¡¯t keep forcefully asking the king questions. He suppressed his anger and took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

    After staring at Lampuri Thirteenth for a while, Viscount Leslie said, ¡°Your majesty, I don¡¯t know what ideas you have, but.....Please forgive me for being disrespectful, but I feel your current approach is wrong. If you continue doing this, our Lampuri Kingdom will sufferrge losses and these losses are something that even you can¡¯t withstand.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth turned his head and looked to the northwest, as a sad look appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°Yes, I might not be able to bear the loss of this, butpared to an even more terrifying loss, I have no other choice. Leslie, these two are both very serious, but one is a loss that can be used to exchange for something, so which would you choose?¡±

    Viscount Leslie was silent for a bit before saying in a deep voice, ¡°I only know that dead people can¡¯te back to life, I hope that your majesty can seriously consider this.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a faint smile, ¡°Dead people are just a small loss. Leslie, you are still young, you don¡¯t understand.¡±

    Viscount Leslie took a deep breath and shook his head. He gave Lampuri Thirteenth a bow and turned to leave.

    After walking out of the royal pce, Viscount Leslie looked at the somewhat overcast skies over Anvilmar City today, feeling that his mood was as dreary as the sky.

    He didn¡¯t obtain the results he wanted in his talk with the king, but it made him more clear on the king¡¯s thoughts.

    And the more he knew, the more terrified he was.

    If his majesty knew the consequences and didn¡¯t take any action, that meant that he was already prepared to make a move against his highness Eric.

    But it was this that made Viscount Leslie scared.

    His highness Eric was his majesty¡¯s son, he was really nning on sitting and watching his son go into danger?

    ¡°If Eric was me and his majesty was my father, what would my father choose?¡±

    Viscount Leslie fell silent and discovered an even more terrifying fact.

    If he went against the interests of the Stagg Family, then he was certain that his father would definitely give him up without any hesitation, even being more heartless than his majesty.

    ¡°This is the fate of being born in arge noble family?¡± Viscount Leslie shook his head with a bitter smile.

    When he turned, he saw that by the street outside the royal pce, there was a shop that had magic machines being disyed in the window.

    Inside there was a Magic Air Conditioner that kept running, blowing out warm air, causing ayer of condensation to form over the windows that was very cold from the winter chill.

    Seeing these household magic machines, Viscount Leslie¡¯s heart that was as cold as the season filled with a bit of warmth.

    Because seeing these household magic machines, Viscount Leslie thought of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and once he thought of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he naturally thought of Xu Yi.

    Strictly speaking, he and Xu Yi weren¡¯t in contact for long, but he could see that Xu Yi was someone with a long term goal and was filled with fervor because of this goal.

    And the goal in his heart was something that Viscount Leslie praised, so whenever he thought of Xu Yi, there would be a bit offort in his heart.

    ¡°If everyone in the kingdom could be like Xu Yi, working hard to improve the lives of everyone, how much better would the living standards of the kingdom be.¡±

    After thinking for a bit, Viscount Leslieughed at himself.

    He was clear that even if it was Xu Yi, it was impossible to have such naive ideas.

    Looking around, Viscount Leslie got into a horse carriage and arrived at Count Sean¡¯s residence in Anvilmar City.

    Seeing Viscount Leslie suddenly appear, Housekeeper Lahm was surprised as he came forward.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, when did youe back?¡±

    ¡°I just came back yesterday.¡± Viscount Leslie said with a smile before looking inside, ¡°Is Alex here? Have hime out, I have something to discuss with him.¡±

    Housekeeper Lahm shook his head, ¡°Alex went back to Banta City a month ago, didn¡¯t you know? Oh, right, you just came back yesterday, so of course you didn¡¯t know. Look at my stupidity......¡±

    ¡°Returned to Banta City?¡± Viscount Leslie was stunned, ¡°Did he go back temporarily? Did he say when he woulde back?¡±

    ¡°No, he¡¯s already no longer the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s manager in Anvilmar City. He said that after returning to Banta City this time, he wouldn¡¯t have a chance toe to Anvilmar City again.¡± Housekeeper Lahm said.

    ¡°Not the manager anymore? Why?¡± Viscount Leslie was a bit curious, ¡°Wasn¡¯t he sent out by Xu Yi? Could it be that he¡¯s being promoted this time?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear, but it shouldn¡¯t be a promotion. Rather it seemed......It seemed like he was being punished......¡± Housekeeper Lahm said in an uncertain voice, ¡°When chairman Xu came to Anvilmar City before, he didn¡¯t have a good expression when he looked at Alex. I think that Alex did something that made chairman Xu unhappy.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi¡¯s expression was bad?¡± Viscount Leslie knit his brows, ¡°To let that fellow who has a good temper have a bad expression, it seems like Alex really did something wrong. Alright, now that he¡¯s here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should have sent someone to take over, right? Who¡¯s the manager now? Do you know where they are?¡±

    ¡°The one who took over is manager ime, but this morning......Yi? Isn¡¯t that manager ime¡¯s horse carriage, he¡¯s back!¡±

    Viscount Leslie turned around and saw a thirty year old man jump down from a horse carriage.

    Before Viscount Leslie could speak, manager ime already came forward with a smile and gave Viscount Leslie a bow, ¡°Lord Viscount, if sir chairman knew that you were back in Anvilmar City, he would definitely be very happy. I think that when hees back from Sowell City, he will definitely make a trip to Anvilmar City to see you.¡±

    ¡°You know me?¡± Viscount Leslie asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I¡¯ve seen the Lord Viscount several times in Banta City, but of course the Lord Viscount wouldn¡¯t remember a small person like me.¡± Manager ime said with a smile.

    Viscount Leslie nodded, not caring about this question and asked, ¡°You are the new Frestech Chamber of Commerce manager here? Then do you have the power to represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Manager ime hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°I can represent thepany on basic things.¡±

    ¡°Good, I came this time to discuss cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I want to open a magic machine factory, can you make this decision?¡±

    Manager ime looked at Viscount Leslie in surprise. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Lord Viscount, are you representing yourself or is this on behalf of the Stagg Family?¡±

    Viscount Leslie replied with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m only representing myself.¡±

    Manager ime¡¯s expression immediately became very strange.

 Volume 3 147 - Give them a taste of the sweetness

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 147 Give them a taste of the sweetness</h4>

    As deep winter approached, Sowell City became colder with each day.

    This morning, the sky was already filled with snowkes and each piece was like cotton that mmed against each other. In just a single morning, the entirety of Sowell City waspletely covered in snow.

    From the window of the City Lord Manor, other than seeing the snow, there were the ck stone walls that became even more prominent. It was like seeingrge scars in this world of white.

    ¡°Count Sean, I have to say, the colour of the houses in Sowell City doesn¡¯t look good. It¡¯s very clear after it snows.¡± Princess Caroline looked out the window and shook her head as she said this to Count Sean with a sigh.

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi on the side beforeughing, ¡°Your highness, don¡¯t you think that ck houses give people a warm feeling? Your Drake Duchy is even further north, so you should be able to easily understand this.¡±

    ¡°No, the houses in our Drake Duchy are all red. Compared to this dark ck colour, I feel that a me red colour gives a better warm feeling during winter.¡± Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°More importantly, doesn¡¯t red look better than ck?¡±

    Count Sean shook his head, deciding not to continue arguing this with Princess Caroline.

    Many years of life experience told him that when discussing with a woman, especially when it came to aesthetics, it would mean asking for trouble and it wasn¡¯t worth it.

    Xu Yi on the side continued with a smile, ¡°In theory, the colour should affect your mood to a certain degree. Butpared to making someone feel warm on the inside, directly making someone feel warm from the outside is much more effective, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s beautiful eyes turned and she revealed a faint smile. She sat down beside Xu Yi without any courtesy and asked Xu Yi in a gentle voice, ¡°Then chairman Xu, have you considered setting up a household magic machine workshop in our Drake Duchy like I proposed? If we can directly produce Magic Air Conditioners in our duchy, I think that it won¡¯t matter what the colour of the houses our people have.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cough and leaned away from Princess Caroline¡¯s passionate gaze before replying, ¡°I have also said before, it isn¡¯t a problem to invest in a factory in your Drake Duchy, but how can your Drake Duchy ensure that ourpany¡¯s factory won¡¯t be threatened by the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Princess Caroline gave a soft snort, ¡°Sowell City is only less than a hundred kilometers away from the Sack Kingdom border, why aren¡¯t you worried about the factory here being threatened by the Sack Kingdom? Moreover, if my information isn¡¯t wrong, wasn¡¯t your motorcade ambushed on the way to Sowell City? I don¡¯t think that the Lampuri Kingdom is much safer than our Drake Duchy.¡±

    Xu Yi and Count Sean looked at each other. This information was something that even Princess Caroline knew, so anyone in the Lampuri Kingdom who cared would immediately know of this.

    ¡°Your highness, I don¡¯t agree.¡± Count Sean said, ¡°Right now Sowell City not only has eight thousand well equipped guards, his majesty has also sent the third army out. Our Sowell City has over thirty thousand soldiers, so there is more than enough to protect Sowell City.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Count Sean. She thought for a bit before pping her hand, ¡°Alright, I was just joking. Indeed, chairman Xu might have some worries about investing in our duchy right now. Then you don¡¯t need to worry about our cooperation here, right?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile. It seems like Princess Caroline¡¯s bargaining just now was all for putting up a factory in Sowell City with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, Xu Yi was nning the same, so he didn¡¯t refute it. He just said with a nod, ¡°Of course there¡¯s no problem, but your highness, if you want to invest in a magic machine factory with ourpany and want to participate in magic machine research, I can¡¯t agree to this. Construction magic machine technology isn¡¯t being distributed by ourpany right now, we will not cooperate with anyone on this.¡±

    ¡°Stingy.....¡± Caroline rolled her eyes at Xu Yi as she revealed a charming look, ¡°Not letting me join in development is fine, but chairman Xu, I¡¯ve mentioned it before, our duchy needs construction magic machines. I think that we can cooperate on a magic machine workshop and although we won¡¯t participate in the development, the magic machines should be developed to our needs. There isn¡¯t any problem, right?¡±

    ¡°We can, but you have to remember we¡¯re just following your needs for the development and it isn¡¯t decided by you. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seeing Xu Yi agree, Princess Caroline¡¯s smile was like a flower blooming. She came near Xu Yi and took his arm, as she teased him, ¡°You are a man, naturally you want to be in control.¡±

    Feeling the soft touch from his arm, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. He shook his head and stood up before saying to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, it¡¯s time, let¡¯s go.¡±

    Count Sean also stood up, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s just send those things to the factory, that way it¡¯ll save us another trip to the city.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Princess Caroline. He thought that she would definitely follow, but he never thought that she would shake her head with a smile.

    ¡°You go. I have to seriously consider the cooperation for a magic machine factory.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and put on arge coat like Count Sean before walking out of the City Lord Manor.

    Count Sean¡¯s personal luxurious horse carriage took the two out of the City Lord Manor and headed towards Sowell City¡¯s south gate.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you really nning to cooperate with the Drake Duchy on a magic machine factory?¡± Count Sean looked at the City Lord Manor behind them before asking Xu Yi with knit brows, ¡°Even if you refuse the Drake Duchy¡¯s participation in the research, since the magic machines are being developed ording to their specifications, there must be a part of the technology that would be leaked.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Actually, I did this deliberately.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What did you consider? Tell me about it.¡± Count Sean asked in a curious voice.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking back, ¡°Lord City Lord, you should know thatpared to the Drake Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom has a greater threat to our Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course, the Drake Duchy is a small duchy, it¡¯s impossible for them to be any real threat to our Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Count Sean said with a nod.

    ¡°Then Lord Count, do you think.....if we win over the Drake Duchy, it would be a threat to the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Count Sean narrowed his eyes and after thinking for a bit, he nodded, ¡°I understand what you mean. If the Drake Duchy coulde to our side, it would be of great help to our Lampuri Kingdom. But have you thought that the Drake Duchy could survive between us and the Sack Kingdom for so long because they stayed back and let us fight? If they really choose a side, what might await them is destruction. Do you think that they would do this?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°No matter how small a country is, it won¡¯t give up on bing more powerful, so Princess Caroline hopes that I can give the magic machines, especially the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom. Of course I wouldn¡¯t agree to these conditions, but letting them have a taste of the sweetness isn¡¯t a problem. After they had a taste, it might not be up to them to make the decision.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Xu Yi in surprise for a bit before shaking his head and giving a sigh, ¡°There are times I really don¡¯t know how to appraise you. You are an idiot when ites to politics, but you are keen when ites to certain things. But are you really certain about this?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll need the Lord City Lord to pay attention to this.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, I¡¯ll be leaving here in three days and heading back to Banta City. I can¡¯te here frequently in the future, so I¡¯ll have to watch from afar. As for the specifics, I¡¯ll have to ask the Lord City Lord to take care of it.¡±

    Count Sean nodded, ¡°This is my responsibility as the City Lord.¡±

    The horse carriage went out the south gate and continued for around twenty minutes. There was snow that covered the road in front, but a motorcade of Magic Cars slowly approached.

    Compared to the motorcade that Xu Yi had led, these Magic Cars were much bigger and there were fifty transport Magic Cars!

    The car that was in front stopped and the first one to jump out was actually the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised as he jumped out of the horse carriage and came over.

    ¡°Chairman Pompeii, why did you personally deliver this batch of cargo?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii¡¯s face was red from the wind and he was trembling. When he saw Xu Yi, he immediatelyined, ¡°Chairman Xu, I never thought of this before, but this time I¡¯ve found that in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cars, can¡¯t you install a Magic Air Conditioner? This won¡¯t cost much, right? Moreover, it¡¯s very practical. If there was one, it wouldn¡¯t even be a problem for me to pay an extra hundred gold coins for a Magic Car!¡±

    Xu Yiughed. The parts of the Magic Car need to be installed part by part, how could it be rushed. Moreover, it had to have a scaling price, of course he couldn¡¯t just get everything.

    Of course there was no need to tell chairman Pompeii. Xu Yi just nodded with a smile, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll tell the development center after this and let them consider this problem. It¡¯s been hard on you this trip, but chairman Pompeii, why did youe personally?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it to see the Lord Count?¡± Chairman Pompeiiughed as he came down and bowed to Count Sean, ¡°Lord Count, look, our Fersen Carriage Company brought so much cargo all the way from Banta City. What do you think about our transporting ability?¡±

    Count Sean nodded and praised, ¡°Very outstanding. I think that in the entire Lampuri Kingdom, other than your Fersen Carriage Company, there¡¯s no otherpany that can transport thisrge amount of cargo in this weather.¡±

    Chairman Pompeii had a smile bloom on his face.

    ¡°Then Lord Count, do you think our Fersen Carriage Company is qualified to take the Sowell City¡¯s transport business?¡±

    Xu Yi and Count Sean looked at each other before revealing wide smiles.

    This chairman Pompeii, in order to widen the scope of business for the Fersen Carriage Company, he really went all out.

 Volume 3 148 - Magic Car that can only seat one person

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 148 Magic Car that can only seat one person</h4>

    Chairman Pompeii had personallye this time to send the production magic machines needed to set up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cement factory and steel mill in Sowell City.

    Other than this, since this ce was just too far from Banta City and they would be cooperating with the Drake Duchy, Xu Yi nned on building a magic machine workshop here, producing some production magic machines that weren¡¯t convenient to ship this far.

    The most important thing was to prepare for building the weapons factory.

    Of course, the coreponents wouldn¡¯t be something that Xu Yi produced outside the Falling Rain Valley.

    Although Sowell City had Count Sean as the City Lord and it was safe to a certain degree, this ce was too close to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s borders. If the Sack Kingdom had any thoughts towards Sowell City, then it was hard to guarantee that a problem wouldn¡¯t happen.

    Even if Count Sean patted his chest and gave his guarantee, Xu Yi had to be discrete and naturally couldn¡¯t help but worry about this.

    After boarding the Magic Car with Count Sean and chairman Pompeii, the car started moving. Xu Yi felt the chill that was inside the carriage and couldn¡¯t help tightening the coat he was wearing.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, Count Sean also tightened his neckline. He turned to look around the Magic Car and asked Xu Yi with knit brows, ¡°Xu Yi, chairman Pompeii was right just now. Since people are riding this Magic Car, you should consider making it morefortable. For example, adding a Magic Air Conditioner would feel much better. Also, I feel that there are parts of the car that are letting in the cold wind.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t hard to add a Magic Air Conditioner, but to put it together with the car isn¡¯t easy.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s development center is currently testing this. I believe that not long now, we will be able to improve on the Magic Car. As for drafts......there¡¯s no other way. Our welding technology isn¡¯t at the right level right now.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of this.....chairman Xu, since yourpany has called this a medium sized Magic Car, then does that mean there will be small andrge Magic Cars?¡± Chairman Pompeii on the side asked.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Compared to the medium sized passenger Magic Car that can seat thirteen people, ourpany¡¯s nning on making smaller Magic Cars that can only seat a few people or even just a single person. It would be a Magic Car that a person could drive alone. Other than this, there are some bigger ones that can seat several dozen people.¡±

    ¡°Only one person?¡± Chairman Pompeii was surprised, ¡°How much is yourpany nning on selling this small Magic Car?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not certain yet, but this Magic Car¡¯s price isn¡¯t determined by how many people can ride in it, there are also many other factors. So the small Magic Car that you¡¯re asking about could have a price of several hundred gold coins or a price of tens of thousands of gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Tens of thousands?¡± Count Sean couldn¡¯t stay calm, ¡°Xu Yi, are you kidding? It can only seat one person, you want to sell it for tens of thousands? Who would be silly enough to spend that much to buy an impractical thing?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, other than practicality, there are many people who chase afterfort and enjoyment. For example, if you had a Magic Car that you could sit in feeling asfortable as your own home and going over a hundred kilometers an hour, or even two hundred kilometers, would you spend tens of thousands to buy it?¡±

    ¡°One to two hundred kilometers an hour? How is that possible!¡± Count Sean and chairman Pompeii were both shocked.

    Chairman Pompeii said in an excited voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, if yourpany can really develop such a fast Magic Car, not to mention tens of thousands, even if it was hundreds of thousands, there would be many people who would buy it!¡±

    Count Sean knit his brows and shook his head.

    He was a noble that cared about practicality, so he looked down on excessive luxury. Someone who didn¡¯t want to spend irrationally couldn¡¯t understand the strong attraction this Magic Car had on people who pursued luxury.

    But that didn¡¯t stop him from agreeing with chairman Pompeii.

    Right now most transportation was done with horse carriages, which could only reach a top speed of thirty kilometers an hour.

    The Magic Car developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only went forty kilometers an hour and it was greatly weed by everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could create a Magic Car that could reach one to two hundred kilometers an hour, it would definitely create a stir on the continent.

    There were rich people all over the continent. For these people, not mentioning tens of thousands, even if they spent hundreds of thousands, for a Magic Car that could reach incredible speeds wasn¡¯t a problem at all.

    ¡°I want to take out this Magic Car now, but it¡¯s a real pity that right now.....At least we can¡¯t achieve this for a few years.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with regret.

    Right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cars use the Wind Magic Engine. Although this engine was good in terms of endurance and was very stable, it didn¡¯t have enough explosive power.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s calctions, the limit of the Wind Magic Engine was around eighty kilometers an hour and it was hard to break one hundred kilometers, so there was no need to mention two hundred kilometers.

    To reach this high speed, the only thing Xu Yi thought could reach it was the Fire Magic Engine.

    But the development of the Fire Magic Engine was just beginning and there were many problems that needed to be solved. When this Fire Magic Engine took shape and could be used, Xu Yi¡¯s most optimistic estimate was at least in five years.

    With normal estimates, it would take at least ten years.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s reply, Count Sean and chairman Pompeii were not just not disappointed, they let out a sigh of relief.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really could make a heaven defying Magic Car in this short period of time, they may have to suspect that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a person.

    The motorcade passed Sowell City and went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base to the city¡¯s west.

    The motorcade Xu Yi had brought before came here and had already built workshops.

    They just needed the corresponding production magic machines and they could officially start production.

    This was the part that was more convenient on the Sines Continentpared to earth.

    Because all production magic machines used Magic Crystals as power, they didn¡¯t need to be connected with electric wires like in factories on earth.

    As for the issue of water, because they were close to the river, it was easy to solve.

    These days, Camby and the other workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already put together the first batch of goods.

    Camby and the others had even established a small magic machine development center, testing how these magic machines would operate in these new working conditions.

    The results showed that since Sowell City was in the north and winter was very cold, the magic machine would be affected by the cold winter weather. They would be affected and couldn¡¯t operate like normal.

    This wasn¡¯t hard for Xu Yi. In the batch of magic machines that chairman Pompeii had delivered, there were a bunch of household magic machines, which included ten Magic Air Conditioners.

    After these Magic Air Conditioners were installed in the workshops and enough Magic Crystals were ced in them, they began sting out warm wind and it didn¡¯t take long for the workshops to warm up.

    Feeling the warm winding out of the Magic Air Conditioners. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking chairman Pompeii who was curiously looking around, ¡°Since you were cold on the road, why didn¡¯t you take out the Magic Air Conditioners first?¡±

    Chairman Pompeii looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you doubting me? Our Fersen Carriage Company is a specialized logisticspany, how could we use the cargo that our customers entrust us to deliver? This would seriously affected the reputation of ourpany!¡±

    Xu Yiughed and gave a nod of praise. He turned to Count Sean, ¡°Lord City Lord, look, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s reputation is quite good. You really should consider giving them the Sowell City transport business.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, chairman Pompeii gave Xu Yi a grateful look before expectantly looking at Count Sean.

    Count Sean pointed at Xu Yi as he found this a bit funny, ¡°Tell me, what advantages has the Fersen Carriage Company given you to make you endorse them this much?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just telling the truth, aren¡¯t I?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug before continuing, ¡°Lord City Lord, I¡¯m serious. As more and more rtionships develop between Banta City and Sowell City and as Sowell City develops, they will have rtionships with other cities, the Drake Duchy, and even other countries. You will need a specialized logisticspany to take care of this.¡±

    ¡°Then why can¡¯t I look for a local Sowell Citypany?¡± Count Sean asked back.

    Xu Yi signaled chairman Pompeii with his eyes who immediately patted his chest and loudly said, ¡°Lord Count, our Fersen Carriage Company intends to set up a branch in Sowell City and ask for the Lord Count¡¯s support!¡±

    Count Sean looked at chairman Pompeii before turning back to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, actually you should know that it¡¯s no use if I agree. In the northeast province, there isn¡¯t just our Sowell City. Did you forget what happened to you on your way here?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes had a cold glow, ¡°I will not give those people another opportunity.¡±

 Volume 3 149 - Poor cities and rich cities

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 149 Poor cities and rich cities</h4>

    Dketon City was more south than Sowell City, but the wind and snow from the north still reached Dketone City andpletely covered the city in white.

    Count Michelle put down the book in his hand and looked out the window.

    The snow covered everything and there were icicles hanging from the branches. It looked very beautiful and could have also meant that Dketon City would have a prosperous harvest next year.

    But Count Michelle¡¯s heart wasn¡¯t happy at all, rather he was a bit worried.

    His highness Eric was clearly very dissatisfied with Count Longley meeting Xu Yi privately and even inviting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in Basaru City. He had even angrily rebuked in his return letter to Count Michelle that Count Longley was a traitor, not only to his highness Eric, but also to his dead father.

    Perhaps it was because he was angry at Count Longley, his highness Eric even asked Count Michelle if he should be dissatisfied with working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. His words were filled with questioning towards Count Michelle, asking Count Michelle if he also wanted to be a traitor.

    Count Michelle wasn¡¯t surprised by his highness Eric¡¯s response, but he was very disappointed with his highness Eric being angry with this situation.

    Before he truly understood why Count Longley contacted Xu Yi, deciding that Count Longley was a traitor, Count Michelle thought that this was a very petty way of handling things.

    Count Longley might have made contact with Xu Yi and have invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in Basaru City, but this waspletely different from betraying his highness Eric. It didn¡¯t mean that the Longley Family and Basaru City would switch her highness¡¯ side.

    In this situation, the right thing was for his highness Eric to investigate everything and understand Count Longley¡¯s ideas before making a decision. He shouldn¡¯t just push Count Longley away right away.

    He had called Count Longley a traitor, so even if Count Longley didn¡¯t n on betraying his highness Eric, he would be forced away in this situation.

    His highness Eric didn¡¯t have many supporters in the northeast province, there was only him, Count Longley, and Lamarte City¡¯s Count Will.

    Now that he called Count Longley a traitor and doubted him, could it be that he was nning on giving up on the support of the northeast province?

    Although Count Will¡¯s Lamarte City was the biggest city, Lamarte City wasn¡¯t enough to represent the northeast province.

    Not to mention thatpared to Sowell City¡¯s Count Sean who firmly supported her highness Seveni, Count Will wasn¡¯t much better.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently investing in Sowell City. If Count Sean and Sowell City had several years, developing Sowell City like Banta City, then the northeast province would probably depend on Count Sean.

    Thinking of this, Count Will suddenly felt very tired.

    His highness Eric¡¯s attitude made him a bit unhappy and his highness Eric¡¯s method of handling things made him disappointed.

    He even felt that his decision back them was a bit of a mistake.

    ¡°Perhaps......It¡¯s better to support her highness Seveni?¡±

    This thought grew in Count Michelle¡¯s mind before he quickly threw it out.

    As an old noble who was almost sixty and experienced many political changes, he knew some truth.

    That was that during times of struggle, there were winners and losers, but the ones most unwee were those who wavered.

    Count Michelle gave a sigh and rubbed his forehead. He rxed his expression and rang the bell on the table, calling his housekeeper over.

    ¡°Go investigate what Count Longley and Xu Yi did in the two days they were together. Also investigate what they said as much as possible.¡± Count Michelle said first, ¡°Then send a gift to Count Longley in my name and tell him a few things.¡±

    The housekeeper paid rapt attention to Count Michelle.

    Count Michelle paused and thought for a bit before continuing, ¡°Tell him that I hope that he can inherit the best part of old Longley and properly be the City Lord of Basaru City.¡±

    The housekeeper¡¯s expression was a bit strange, this was his first time hearing such an ambiguous order from Count Michelle.

    But the housekeeper didn¡¯t question at all, he just honestly wrote down those two orders.

    ¡°Right, has the goods for his highness Eric been prepared?¡± Count Michelle asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s already been prepared and can be loaded at any time.¡± The housekeeper replied.

    ¡°Horse carriages?¡± Count Michelle revealed a smile that had a bit of ridicule, ¡°Alright, load it up and set off. Our prince doesn¡¯t like waiting any longer.¡±

    The housekeeper agreed before hesitating to speak.

    ¡°Speak.¡± Count Michelle said in a deep voice.

    The housekeeper quickly said, ¡°Lord Count, when collecting those goods, there were a few people who tried to resist. The guards were a bit negligent and their hand was a bit too heavy, so in the end......¡±

    Seeing the difficult expression the housekeeper had, Count Michelle¡¯s face sunk, ¡°How many died?¡±

    The housekeeper had a bitter smile, ¡°Currently there¡¯s thirteen dead and fifty six heavily injured. There are over twenty people among them who can¡¯t support themselves anymore.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that close to forty people who¡¯re dead?¡± Count Michelle¡¯s face sunk even more, ¡°I had them collect the goods, not have them kill people!¡±

    The housekeeper could see the anger in Count Michelle¡¯s eyes and was afraid, but he had to exin, ¡°Lord Count, it¡¯s already the end of the year, so these citizens don¡¯t have much in their houses. If it is forcefully taken, of course they would go all out. The guards had no choice but to retaliate and then......¡±

    The housekeeper didn¡¯t dare continue. Seeing the expression on Count Michelle¡¯s face, he doubted that if he continued in this situation, even he might suffer.

    Count Michelle was silent for a while before taking a deep breath. He waved his hand and said, ¡°Since they¡¯re already dead, forget it. Fine each of the soldiers who beat those people to death a hundred gold coins and if they can¡¯t pay, send them all to jail.¡±

    The housekeeper was shocked, ¡°Lord Count, there might be problems with this......¡±

    Count Michelle red at him and the housekeeper immediately swallowed his words.

    ¡°Alright, go and prepare the goods to be loaded onto the truck.¡± Count Sean waved his hands, signaling for the housekeeper to leave.

    Seeing the exhausted look on Count Michelle¡¯s face, the housekeeper didn¡¯t dare say anything else and left with a bow.

    Count Michelle stood there for a while before suddenly giving a sigh, as he revealed a smile of self-ridicule.

    ¡°So our great Dketon City has a bit of trouble collecting three hundred thousand gold coins worth of goods?¡±

    ###

    ¡°Lord City Lord, this is the ount of what was paid to the kingdom, please look over it.¡± The finance manager of Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor Fumar submitted an ount to Seveni.

    Seveni looked it over before putting it down with a nod.

    ¡°I¡¯m clear on this ount, so there¡¯s no need to check.¡± Seveni said with a faint smile, ¡°Our Banta City has turned over seven hundred thousand gold coins to the kingdom¡¯s finances this year, we can¡¯t forget everyone¡¯s hard work. It¡¯s been hard on you all, so I want to express my gratitude on behalf of my royal father.¡±

    The officers of the City Lord Manor all quickly stood up and gave Seveni a bow.

    ¡°Your highness, this is our work, we can¡¯t take your gratitude.¡±

    They said this, but everyone had a happy look on their face and there was a happy feeling that filled the room.

    Banta City¡¯s tax revenue this year was much higher thanst year, so everyone¡¯s lives in Banta City were much better. When these officers left the City Lord Manor, they were respected wherever they went.

    ¡°It is all because of your outstanding work that our Banta City could develop so well. It¡¯s normal for me to express my gratitude to you all.¡± Seveni said, ¡°Alright, everyone sit down and let¡¯s discuss how Banta City will develop next year. Baron Fumar, tell me, after paying the kingdom finances and settlingst year¡¯s ounts, how much is left in our Banta City¡¯s finances?¡±

    Baron Fumar didn¡¯t look at any records and directly replied, ¡°There¡¯s still one million two hundred seventy six thousand and three hundred forty six gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Then it¡¯s close to one million two hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°What suggestions does everyone have on how to spend this money?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and hesitated.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to be afraid, just express your ideas. I want to see if there are any feasible ideas you have.¡± Seveni encouraged them to speak.

    ¡°Then.....Lord City Lord, I¡¯ll make a suggestion.¡± Baron Fumar raised his hand.

    Seveni nodded at him, encouraging him with a smile.

    Baron Fumar sat up and said with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, I propose that we take out some funds and renovate the old part of Banta City. Now that our Banta City is the most prosperous city in the kingdom¡¯s south, the old part of town still has the same appearance as before. I feel that it doesn¡¯t fit the position that our Banta City currently has.¡±

    ¡°Right,pared to the beautiful and clean new housing, the old part of town is another world.¡± Another officer agreed, ¡°Right now the people in the old part of town want to move to the new districts. If I wasn¡¯t trying to save some money to buy a vi from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I would have moved already.¡±

    ¡°Right, the old part is small and crowded, it isn¡¯t convenient. We can renovate it to make it more beautiful, which is quite good.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also think the same......¡±

    ......

    Hearing everyone¡¯s discussion, Seveni thought about it before nodding, ¡°This is a good suggestion. Then Baron Fumar, since you have raised this suggestion, how much money do you think this proposition needs?¡±

    Baron Fumar had clearly considered this before and he replied in a confident manner, ¡°Lord City Lord, it is impossible to make earth shattering changes to the old part of town, so I suggest that we restore the parts that are worn out and of no use. So we should construct some public facilities, repair some broken down parts, and make improvements in certain ces. ording to my initial estimates, fifty thousand gold coins should be enough to use.¡±

    ¡°Only fifty thousand?¡± Seveni was a bit surprised, ¡°You really are economical. Alright, take the fifty thousand gold coins. Our surplus is over one million and two hundred thousand. Does anyone else have any other suggestions?¡±

    Baron Fumar was a bit surprised, ¡°Lord City Lord, do you want to use the entire one million and two hundred thousand?¡±

    ¡°Of course we can¡¯t spend it all, but is there a use in leaving it? The people of Banta City have paid these taxes, so of course it should be used to improve their lives. Come, give me some more suggestions.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and couldn¡¯t think of a good idea.

    Seeing the difficult looks on their faces, Seveni gave a sigh. She thought that if Xu Yi was here, he would definitely have all kinds of strange ideas.

    This fellow was really good at earning money, but he was also good at spending money.

    But Seveni suddenly felt that this was a bit funny.

    The other cities in the kingdom would worry about their finances at the end of the year, but she was worried about how to spend their money next year, this really was a very luxurious worry.

 Volume 3 150 - Name in history

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 150 Name in history</h4>

    It was already less than half a month from the new year. Even if the people of Banta City were focused during work because of the high wages, many people were preparing for new years during this time and had stopped their work.

    Akali announced that her two research teams would be on vacation two days ago, so they had been busy preparing everything for when they were gone after two days and preparing the year end report.

    Xu Yi attached great importance to work in the magic research facility, not only did he read their research reports, he needed each research team to hand in a year end report. He also appraised their development progress for next year and confirmed their next year¡¯s research direction.

    Akali hated this kind of reporting work the most back when she was in school.

    But now that she was the leader of two teams, she had to do this herself and the others weren¡¯t qualified.

    Then again, Akali was very willing to show off in front of Xu Yi, so although writing this report was very tedious, she stillpleted it very seriously each year.

    After writing thest word, stretched herself out.

    After finishing the report, it meant that this year¡¯s work was over.

    Now it was time for their new years vacation and she could properly rest up.

    Seeing the cold weather outside, Akali wondered whether it would snow today.

    Thinking of snow, she thought of her hometown in the north. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be covered in snow now.

    Thinking of how, Akali couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit homesick.

    Although she was very happy working at the magic research facility and her wages were high, because it was far from her hometown, she could only go back to celebrate new years.

    Now that she hadn¡¯t seen her family for a year, Akali missed them very much.

    ¡°I¡¯ll go pack up after finishing up, then I can just go home tomorrow.¡±

    Akali always did what she said. After tidying up in theb, she headed to the chief¡¯s room with her report.

    Each team¡¯s annual report was submitted to Evita and she gave them to Xu Yi, Akali wasn¡¯t an exception.

    She came to the chief¡¯s office, but the door was shut.

    She came to Evita¡¯sb and although the door wasn¡¯t closed, she couldn¡¯t see Evita inside.

    Akali looked around before turning to leave the magic research facility.

    Evita was not in the office or herb, so she should be at that ce.

    When she came out of the magic research facility, Akali found that the Falling Rain Valley was much calmerpared to normal as most of the workers were on vacation.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had plenty of orders, Xu Yi had announced at the meeting that no matter how heavy the work was, they couldn¡¯t dy their new years vacation. So before Xu Yi left, he had announced that all thepany¡¯s factories would shut down for vacation.

    Although manypanies in Banta City were dissatisfied that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make this decision for so many orders, since Xu Yi had made a decision, the otherpanies couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    After all, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were no otherpanies that could provide them with magic machines.

    Akali supported Xu Yi in this decision, even praising Xu Yi in secret, but getting a bitter smile in return from Xu Yi.

    ¡°It is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly, so we can act arrogant, but we can¡¯t ignore the feelings of the customers. But this approach isn¡¯t good. I¡¯m d to see that there¡¯s strong enoughpetition in the business that ourpany has to ept every order, but you have to consider the consequences if you take a vacation.¡±

    Akali didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi was worried about, she only knew that ording to Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have to care about others when taking vacations for the next few years.

    As a third grade researcher of the magic research facility and leading two research teams, Akali knew better than others just how terrifying of an advantage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in terms of technology.

    At least the things that Evita was studying, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany or a single other person studying it.

    Even for the magic research facility, it was something that Evita and several dwarves were studying, even Akali didn¡¯t participate.

    After leaving the magic research facility, Akali headed to the depths of the Falling Rain Valley.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built more factories, the entrance had already been developed and the Falling Rain Valley took up ten square kilometers of space. There was still arge part of the valley that hadn¡¯t been developed yet.

    Other than the depths of the valley that had been ttened to facilitate future development, the other parts of the valley were still the same.

    Moving not far away from the industrial district, Akali looked up to see a ck spot moving around in the sky not far away.

    As she moved in the direction of the ck spot, Akali found Evita who was on a hill,pletely focused on the ck spot.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re standing this high up, you¡¯re not afraid of the cold?¡±

    Evita didn¡¯t notice someone appearing beside her, so she was surprised when she heard Akali¡¯s voice.

    After seeing Akali, Evita looked at her, ¡°You finished your work? Why did youe here looking for me?¡±

    ¡°Un, the report was over and I was nning on handing it to you, but I found that you weren¡¯t inside, so I knew that you were here doing experiments.¡± Akali looked up at the ck spot in the sky and asked, ¡°How is it? Has the Magic Airship shown any improvements?¡±

    Evita shook her head, ¡°There¡¯s no problem withunch and flying, but there is a problem for long range journeys. With how it is now, it can fly at most for two hours and various problems will ur. This is either because the Magic Crystal supply is unstable or the Magic Array inside is strained from the experiments, creating a bunch of trouble.¡±

    ¡°Why do I feel that this isn¡¯t our magic research facility¡¯s problem?¡± Akali said in a confused voice, ¡°If there is a problem with the material, it should be something for research material to deal with.¡±

    ¡°This won¡¯t work.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°The chairman said that material research takes too much time and it¡¯s hard to get improvements in a short period of time, so we can only find a solution with our current material. For example, I considered attaching an Earth Magic Array near the parts that easily distort, raising the hardness of the material, so it couldst a bit longer.¡±

    ¡°Doesn¡¯t this thing use a Wind Magic Array as an output? If you include an Earth Magic Array, wouldn¡¯t it easily sh? Doesn¡¯t that make it more difficult?¡± Akali was a bit confused.

    ¡°Difficulty can be ovee, it¡¯s much better than having no way of solving the material problem.¡± Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°The magic research facility just needs to focus on Magic Arrays, we don¡¯t need to care about anything else.¡±

    Akali muttered in a somewhat indignant voice, ¡°Sir chairman really is something, he always raises high requests to our magic research facility. Look at my group studying Magic Array resonance, sir chairman keeps saying that to develop this, we need to have aplete data system. He is such a strong magician, doesn¡¯t he know how hard it is to create aplete data system for magic?¡±

    ¡°Doesn¡¯t this mean sir chairman has expectations for you?¡± Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Moreover, isn¡¯t sir chairman organizing the theoretical system? In the ?Magic Machine Fundamental Power System Theory? he publishedst month, there were many descriptions of this. I feel.....he¡¯s thinking far further aheadpared to us.¡±

    ¡°Humph, if he has the skills, he can develop it himself. Why would he need us researchers?¡±

    Seeing the indignant Akali, Evita shook her head with a smile. She pressed the remote in her hand and the ck spot in the sky slowly came down.

    When it came down from its high altitude, one could tell that it was a round shaped Magic Airship.

    If Xu Yi was here, he would have recognized this as the Magic Airship that had hit him in the head, but it was at apletely different scale.

    The one that hit Xu Yi was only palm sized, but now this one was three meters long, one meter wide, and there was a hole in the center, so it wasn¡¯t a problem to seat a person.

    Akali saw the Magic Airship slowlynding in front of her and was a bit stunned.

    ¡°Hey, Evita, I haven¡¯t seen it for some time, but your test ship is already this big?¡± Akali said this while walking around the Magic Airship, bing more surprised, ¡°Wa! There¡¯s actually such arge piece of iron inside! This thing can still fly that high? This is too powerful!¡±

    ¡°This iron is only a hundred pounds, it¡¯s not as heavy as a person.¡± Evita shook her head. My Magic Airship would be able to bring a person into the air, so it is still farcking.¡±

    Akali clicked her tongue twice before praising, ¡°If you can really develop this thing and bring someone into the sky, you would be amazing! I feel that if there really was this thing, you could record your name in the history books of the continent!¡±

    Evita rolled her eyes, ¡°The chairman already said that if you develop the Magic Array resonance technology, you could also record your name in history.¡±

    Akaliughed, ¡°What? You¡¯re envious of me?¡±

    Evita slowly shook her head, ¡°If I really envied someone, I wouldn¡¯t envy you and would rather envy the chairman. No matter what the two of us develop, our names can¡¯t be carved as deeply as his in history.¡±

    Akali was silent for a bit before giving a slow nod.

 Volume 3 151 - Settling in Banta City

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 151 Settling in Banta City</h4>

    After the two had a simple discussion on the Magic Array of the Magic Airship, Evita suddenly asked, ¡°Right, Akali, you already finished your report, so shouldn¡¯t you be preparing to go home?¡±

    Akali was surprised, but then she immediately replied.

    ¡°Right, other than to hand over the report, I also wanted to ask, are you nning to go back? Do you want to go with me? I want to head out tomorrow.¡±

    ¡°I haven¡¯t decided for now.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°But I definitely won¡¯t go back tomorrow. There¡¯s a bunch of work at the magic research facility and the Magic Airship is currently at its most essential stage. If I go back for new years ande back, I¡¯ll have forgotten some things.¡±

    ¡°How can that be?¡± Akali immediately said, ¡°We research these things every day, how could you forget after less than a month away? Aren¡¯t you looking down on yourself too much?¡±

    ¡°In short......Although the vacation this time is long, I¡¯m not nning on heading back so early. Perhaps.....I might not go back.¡±

    ¡°Ah? You¡¯re not going back?¡± Akali was stunned, ¡°It¡¯s the new years! You¡¯re not nning on going home? If your mom and dad knew this, they would definitely be angry.¡±

    Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m just saying that I¡¯m not going back, I didn¡¯t say that I¡¯m not nning to spend time with my parents.¡±

    Akali was surprised, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Because I¡¯m considering whether to bring my family from my hometown to Banta City for new years.¡± Evita replied, ¡°The north is very cold and our house¡¯s condition isn¡¯t good. With just the Magic Air Conditioner, it isn¡¯t asfortable as living in Banta City. Instead of letting them spend new years in our hometown, it is better to bring them over.¡±

    ¡°Un......You only have your parents and not any rtives, so this idea isn¡¯t bad.¡± Akali thought about it before saying in a dejected voice, ¡°But I can¡¯t do this since other than my parents, I have a bunch of rtives. If I just bring my mom and dad here, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be willing.¡±

    Evita looked at depressed Akali and after pausing a bit, she asked with a serious voice, ¡°Other than bringing my parents over for new years, I¡¯m actually nning on having them settle in Banta City. Akali, haven¡¯t you thought about this?¡±

    ¡°Settle?¡± Akali was stunned, but thinking about it, she gave a nod, ¡°Not bad, but I said before, you don¡¯t have many rtives, so it¡¯s fine if you have your parentse for new years or settle here, it isn¡¯t a problem. But I can¡¯t do the same with my family.¡±

    ¡°But haven¡¯t you considered something?¡± Evita¡¯s expression had a trace of worry.

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Did you forget? Last time we went to see Still, didn¡¯t we hear the chairman say that it is very likely that his highness Eric will lead the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom next spring?¡± Evita asked.

    Akali had a strange look, ¡°What does that matter to us? This is a matter for important people like his highness Eric and her highness Seveni to consider. What use is there in you worrying about this? Then again, how is this rted to what you said?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Evita had a serious expression, it didn¡¯t seem like she was joking at all, ¡°His highness wants to attack the Sack Kingdom, it is fine if he wins, but if the situation goes bad and the Sack Kingdom attacks us, the north part of the kingdom will be very unsafe. I want to bring my parents to settle in Banta City because I¡¯m worried about this.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible.....¡± Akali wanted to refute when she suddenly knit her brows and a trace of worry appeared on her face, ¡°Right, we heard sir chairman say that his highness is rejecting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and never ordered any military magic machines from us, so the northern army isn¡¯t that strong. If they really lose......¡±

    ¡°Now do you know why I¡¯m considering this?¡± Seeing the expression Akali had, Evita asked, ¡°Moreover.....In the letter from my father a few days ago, my father said that Lorren City and the surrounding cities are all aggressively taxing the citizens. They are requesting citizens to take out at least ten gold coins or equivalent goods to be used for the northern army. The citizens in those cities are allining about this.¡±

    ¡°His highness is the one who wants to fight, why does he need us citizens to pay!¡±

    Akali angrily said before calming down. After thinking for a bit, she gave a heavy nod.

    ¡°I understand, this matter is indeed very important. Evita, you¡¯re right, if the northern army loses, my family is close to the northern border, so it will be very dangerous for them. No, I have to rush back tomorrow and convince my parents and rtives to move here. Anyway, I¡¯m making quite a bit of money, so it shouldn¡¯t be a problem helping them move out here.¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s best if you have theme to Banta City.¡± Evita gave a nod, ¡°Right now Banta City is developing this well and we can be considered to have a bit of sess, as least we earn enough money to support our families. Moreover, Banta City has many work opportunities, so even if theye, they will be able to find jobs. No matter how you look at it, it¡¯s better than staying in our hometowns.¡±

    ¡°Right, I rather give my taxes to her highness than to be exploited by his highness Eric like that!¡± Akali angrily reprimanded his highness Eric before giving the report in her hand to Evita, ¡°I can¡¯t wait, I have to pack now and rush home this afternoon! Evita, I haven¡¯t inspected this report yet, so please help me look it over.¡±

    Seeing Akali say this before running to her residence, Evita couldn¡¯t help shaking her head whileughing. After putting away the report, she pressed the remote in her hand and the Magic Airship steadily floated down. When it was at the height of her chest, she controlled it to head to the magic research facility in the distance with her.

    ###

    Still touched her swelling belly and looked out the window. She found that Great Magician Cami was still in the yard and was staring at the parked Magic Car in front of him in a daze, she couldn¡¯t help finding it a bit funny.

    As grandfather became older, he became more like a child, actually being angry with a Magic Car.

    At the beginning of the month, Great Magician Cami had been stimted by something and suddenly decided to take the test for a driver¡¯s license.

    Although Xu Yi and Still were a bit surprised, since he had asked them this, the two couldn¡¯t refute him.

    But what was unexpected was that this powerful Four Star Great Magician didn¡¯t have any talent when it came to driving a Magic Car. After half a month, he still hadn¡¯t passed the most basic driver¡¯s exam.

    In a rage, Great Magician Cami had ordered a Magic Car from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as an individual and he drove it around the Falling Star Manor when he had free time.

    But the results were terrible. Right now the broken trees all along the Falling Star Manor was proof of this.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Great Magician Cami having powerful magic, using his magic to stop the out of control Magic Car, the Falling Star Manor wouldn¡¯t just have a few broken trees.

    Still looked over the freshly cracked trees before looking up at the sky. Then she shouted to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, it¡¯s about to snow, how about you leave it here for today?¡±

    Great Magician Cami turned back to Still before turning back to the Magic Car. His expression wasn¡¯t willing, but he had no choice as he gave a sigh and headed back inside.

    Seeing how he was, Still finally couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    From her memory, her grandfather was always omnipotent. Everyone had respected him, even Still had been very popr.

    This caused Still to revere Great Magician Cami since she was young, but she never thought that a day woulde when there was something hard for him to do.

    Thinking of how the Magic Car that stumped him was made by her husband Xu Yi, even the idea of testing for a driver¡¯s license came from Xu Yi, Still found it even more funny.

    When she wanted to stand up to wee Great Magician Cami back in, Still saw horse carriage moving along the newlyid road outside the manor.

    As she looked at the symbol on the horse carriage, Still immediately understood. She stood up and said to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, I need to go out. You can just have lunch here, Vivian and Agnes will be back soon and they will make lunch with Liz. If you want to eat something, you can just tell Liz.¡±

    Liz on the side quickly looked at Great Magician Cami, waiting for his order.

    Great Magician Cami waved his hand and doubtfully asked Still, ¡°What are you going out now for? It¡¯s about to snow, you should just stay home and rest. You need to take care of yourself at this time, you can¡¯t let anything happen.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s some work that I need to personally take care of, otherwise it won¡¯t work.¡±

    Still replied. The horse carriage came to the entrance of the manor and without stopping, it went to therge area in front of the manor.

    The door of the horse carriage opened and chairman Porter¡¯s wife Mia jumped out, walking over with a smile.

    ¡°Madame, everything is prepared, they¡¯re just waiting for you.¡±

    Mia was respectful facing Still, just like she was a subordinate or a servant. She came to Still¡¯s side and took Still¡¯s arm from Liz without any courtesy, carefully supporting her.

    Still had met her several times and Still wasn¡¯t used to how respectful she was each time, but she couldn¡¯t say anything and could only nod at her with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m also prepared, let¡¯s set off.¡± After saying this, Still turned to Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, I¡¯m heading out.¡±

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and shook his head, ¡°You¡¯re like this and you¡¯re going out in this weather. If Xu Yi was here, he definitely wouldn¡¯t let it happen.¡±

    Still revealed a naughty smile as she gave a soft snort, ¡°This is my work, Xu Yi already agreed. Even if he was here, he wouldn¡¯t oppose me.¡±

    Great Magician Cami naturally understood Still¡¯s personality. He gave a sigh and waved his hand, ¡°Alright, go ande back early. Be careful. Right, Liz, go with Still and take care of her on the way. You can¡¯t let anything happen to her.¡±

    Liz hesitantly looked at Still.

    Still knit her brows, ¡°Grandfather, I¡¯m not a child, I know what to do.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a strong snort, ¡°You¡¯re differentpared to before, you can¡¯t be willful!¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Cami was really a bit angry, Still could only stick out her tongue and didn¡¯t dare refute.

    Liz quickly came over and took Still¡¯s arm from Mia¡¯s hand to help support her.

    Watching the three board the horse carriage and gradually disappear, Great Magician Cami gave a soft snort.

    ¡°That kid Xu Yi, he¡¯s spoiled Still too much. When hees back, I¡¯ll properly teach him, he can¡¯t just let Still do everything. He is Still¡¯s husband and should care about the things he should take care of.

    Looking around, Great Magician Cami waved his hand around with a bit of annoyance.

    ¡°It would be good if Sowell City had a Communication Array, I could teach that kid a lesson right now.¡±

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Cami was stunned. He stood there for a while before suddenly pping his hand and revealing a look of joy, while his eyes lit up.

    ¡°Right! Isn¡¯t the Communication Array a Magic Array, can¡¯t it be put in a magic machine using the old method!¡±

 Volume 3 152 - Planning ahead of time

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 152 nning ahead of time</h4>

    The horse carriage took Still, Mia, and Liz out the Banta City east gate,ing to the lower reaches of the Sandy River not far away from Banta City.

    When they stopped at the newly built wharf on the Sandy River leading into the Sanng River Canal, they saw several dozen human workers and over a hundred different beastmen workers.

    Seeing the horse carriage approach, chairman Porter who led the humans and a tiger beastman who seemed to be in charge of the beastmen came over.

    Still came out of the carriage with Liz supporting her. Chairman Porter took a look at her stomach and said with an apologetic look, ¡°Madame, I¡¯m really sorry. To make youe out in this weather, it really is hard on you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine.¡± Still waved her hand with a faint smile before turning to the tiger beastman, ¡°Lockhan, are all your people here?¡±

    The tiger beastman opened hisrge mouth, ¡°They are all here. You can see they are all waiting.¡±

    Still looked over these beastmen and gave a satisfied nod. She then asked chairman Porter, ¡°Chairman Porter, have you inspected these beastmen? Are they qualified?¡±

    Chairman Porter kept nodding with a smile, ¡°Satisfied, very satisfied. Our crew just needs strong people and as long as they are strong enough, they are suitable.¡±

    Still turned back to Lockhan to ask, ¡°Then what about you guys? Are you satisfied with the work conditions the Porter Chamber of Commerce has put forth?¡±

    Lockhan gave a strong nod, ¡°Un, we¡¯re also very satisfied. The brothers all said that working here is much better than staying home.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good. Since neither side has any objections, we can sign the employment contract and I can be the witness.¡± Still said.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Chairman Porter and Lockhan agreed at the same time. They came to a small hut by the wharf and prepared to sign the contract.

    Actually the matter between them had already been decided, but because this was Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s first time hiring beastmen workers, they needed the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, the onlypany in the kingdom qualified to deal in foreign racebour as a witness.

    Actually it didn¡¯t matter if Still came or not, but since this was the first time, Still personally came.

    ¡°Madame, the wind is big and cold, shouldn¡¯t you go inside?¡± Liz reminded in a small voice.

    Still shook her head. She came to the beastmen and looked over them.

    These beastmen were like the beastmen she had seen before, they were all wearing tattered clothes or not even wearing clothes, exposingrge amounts of their skin.

    Even if the beastmen had better physiques than normal humans, there were many beastmen who were shivering and had ugly expressions.

    The two weaker fox and rabbit beastmen who seemed quite young had blue faces, looking like they would freeze at any moment.

    Still couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows as she turned to call Mia over.

    ¡°First arrange a ce for them to live in, don¡¯t let them stand here. If they freeze, they might not be able to work.¡± Still said.

    Mia had an awkward look, ¡°They aren¡¯t workers of ourpany, it isn¡¯t good to......¡±

    ¡°They will be in a while.¡± Still red at her, ¡°First arrange it for them and also it would be best if everyone was given a set of clothes.¡±

    Mia became more hesitant, ¡°A set for each person......that will take quite a bit of money.....Ourpany has just reopened, we don¡¯t have much money......¡±

    Still was a bit angry, ¡°How much could one set for each person cost? If you¡¯re afraid of spending money, just treat it as buying uniforms for them and can¡¯t you just deduct it from their wages? If you worried about spending too much, then buy it from the Armani Chamber of Commerce. Say that it is for me and have the Armani Chamber of Commerce give you a cheap batch.¡±

    Seeing that Still¡¯s tone was a bit heavy, Mia didn¡¯t dare refute and quickly agreed.

    After calcting it, she revealed a happy look.

    Since young miss Still had spoken, then as long as she went to the Armani Chamber of Commerce, she would definitely be able to buy a bunch of clothes at a low price.

    Then if she deducted it from the beastmen¡¯s wages based on the market price, wouldn¡¯t they be able to earn a bit?

    Mia¡¯s happy expression couldn¡¯t be hidden from Still. She understood what Mia was thinking and couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit angry while finding it funny.

    Chairman Porter was clearly someone who was bold with foresight, he was called a promising merchant by Xu Yi, so why did he marry someone who was so stingy, calctive, and didn¡¯t have any foresight?

    You could draw in the hearts of the beastmen workers with these clothes, but she was still thinking about these things.

    If chairman Porter knew what she was thinking, it would be strange if he wasn¡¯t angered to death.

    Thinking of this, Still was suddenly surprised.

    When she did things, did she unconsciously act the same way?

    If she was like Mia, Xu Yi would definitely be disgusted.

    Not to mention Xu Yi being disgusted, even she couldn¡¯t ept herself bing this kind of woman.

    After knitting her brows to think for a bit, Still waved her hand to have Mia take care of things for the beastmen workers.

    Not long after, chairman Porter and Lockhan walked out.

    Still took the two copies of the employment contract from the two of them and after confirming there were no problems, she stamped it with her seal and returned it to them.

    After taking the contracts, chairman Porter and Lockhan let out a sigh of relief. The two looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Chairman Porter reached his hand out to Lockhan, ¡°Lockhan, the ships of ourpany will depend on the strength of you and the beastmen brothers.¡±

    Lockhan gave a bigugh, ¡°Rx, we beastmen all keep our promises. The contract has been signed, we will definitely properly do our jobs.¡±

    Although the two had a happy discussion, Still dropped a bucket of cold water over them.

    ¡°Chairman Porter, as the employer, if Lockhan and the other beastmen break the contract in any way, you have the right to fire them. But please remember, since you¡¯ve signed the contract, you have to treat them the same as any human workers and cannot discriminate against them.¡±

    ¡°Definitely, definitely, the madame can be assured.¡± Chairman Porter nodded with a faint smile.

    ¡°Lockhan, since you and the other beastmen have epted this contract, you have to act ording to the contract and work properly, you can¡¯t make mistakes. If you are fired because you broke the contract, ording to thews, based on how serious that is, you might lose yourbour card and can¡¯t apply for another for two to five years. So you have to properly treasure this job.¡±

    Lockhan patted his chest and loudly said, ¡°We beastmen definitely aren¡¯t petty or contradictory people, we will definitely do what we promise!¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Still gave a nod before saying to chairman Porter, ¡°Alright, my work is done, I¡¯ll be going back to rest. If there are any issues with the beastmen workers, I wee chairman Porter toe to our New Moon Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Chairman Porter stopped Still who was about to leave and said in a serious voice, ¡°Madame, I have something I need your help with.¡±

    Still doubtfully looked at him.

    This fellow, why didn¡¯t he say he had something else before?

    Chairman Porter revealed an awkward smile. He had Mia prepare things for the beastmen workers as he led Still to a small hut on the other side of the wharf.

    This small hut was constructed close to the river, being right on top of the surface.

    After entering the small hut, she saw three small boats floating on the surface of the water.

    Still looked at these three boats before looking at chairman Porter with his smile. Her mind turned and she could guess what was going on.

    But her expression didn¡¯t change. She just had the same smile as she waited for chairman Porter to speak.

    Chairman Porter was silent for a bit before rubbing his hands and asking in an awkward voice, ¡°Madame, I heard that.....the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is developing a new magic machine called, the Magic Boat?¡±

    As expected.

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your informationwork is quite quick, is it because Xu Yi mentioned this before?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu had mentioned this concept to me before, but I know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has only started developing this recently. Madame, do you know.....how far this Magic Boat has been developed? When will it be developed and be sold?¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°I only know that they have been researching thistely, but as for the progress.....I¡¯m not clear. Moreover, even if I did know, it¡¯s not good for me to tell you. You should know that.¡±

    ¡°I do, I do, this is a secret.¡± Chairman Porter kept nodding, ¡°But I¡¯m not asking about the secret, it was just to.....know the information a bit ahead of time. That way if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could really develop this Magic Boat, I could buy it immediately.¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t even a trace of the Magic Boat now, you still want to buy it?¡± Still asked.

    ¡°Of course!¡± Chairman Porter was very certain as he said, ¡°Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed this thing, it must be very powerful. I¡¯m certain that this Magic Boat will be the same as the Magic Car, there won¡¯t be a shortage of demand. I¡¯m not willing topete with others, so I hope that......Ke, I hope that the madame can talk to chairman Xu to let ourpany buy a few Magic Boats ahead of time.¡±

 Volume 3 153 - Trade invasion

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 153 Trade invasion</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, no matter what technology your Frestech Chamber of Commerce transfers, our Vidal Chamber of Commerce wants one share. Don¡¯t forget.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it isn¡¯t just their Vidal Chamber of Commerce, our nka Chamber of Commerce also wants a share.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the same for our Manxin Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Also us.....¡±

    ......

    Seeing the passion of the Sowell Citypany representatives, Xu Yiughed. He said in a loud voice with a nod, ¡°Everyone be assured, as long as our Frestech Chamber of Commerce releases a new piece of technology, the Sowell Cityrades will be considered for the first batch like the Banta Cityrades. As long as Count Sean holds the post of City Lord, this promise will never change.¡±

    Sitting on the side, Count Sean who was here to supervise this Frestech Chamber of Commerce technology exchange conference looked at Xu Yi and gave a nod with a faint smile, as his eyes filled with praise.

    Xu Yi adding this condition to his promise was clearly showing support for him.

    As expected, when they heard Xu Yi¡¯s words, all the representatives said that they would support Count Sean¡¯s work and properly develop Sowell City, consolidating Count Sean¡¯s ce in Sowell City forever.

    Hearing this, Count Sean couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Are you blessing me or cursing me? If I stay as the City Lord forever, wouldn¡¯t I never be promoted again?¡±

    The representatives allughed, reprimanding the words the others had said. This scene was auspicious and the atmosphere was harmonious.

    At the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology transfer conference, everyone received a satisfying result.

    Count Sean received the support of manypanies and thepanies of Sowell City received the production methods for various household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the contract they signed with Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would not only provide them with the technology, they would also help them with setting up a factory. They guaranteed that they would turn this technology into products.

    Xu Yi also promised that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t establish a household magic machine factory in Sowell City, which meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯tpete for the market with them.

    This was very good news for thesepanies because they knew that even if they obtained the production technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the household magic machine they produced couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very famous in the Lampuri Kingdom now. If people bought household magic machines, they would always go for the Frestech Brand.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a household magic machine factory in Sowell City and produced Frestech Brand household magic machines, they wouldn¡¯t be able topete at all.

    Even if they bought the production technology, it would be hard for them to develop it and apply it, not to mention using it to earn money.

    It was because of Xu Yi¡¯s promise that thosepanies that were hesitant in buying household magic machine production methods made up their minds. It caused this Frestech Chamber of Commerce technology transfer conference to be very lively. The representatives all smiled at Xu Yi and were very polite.

    For Xu Yi, there was a considerable amount of harvest.

    Through selling this technology to Sowell City, just with the transfer contracts he signed in one day, he had earned over three million gold coins.

    Although this was much worsepared to the fifteen million he earned in Anvilmar City, this was just the harvest from Sowell City alone.

    If he could earn this much from every city in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn a shocking amount just from transferring technology.

    Other than the ie, what was more important to Xu Yi was that through transferring technology, more than over half of Sowell City¡¯spanies were participating in the magic machine industry.

    Although this was a bit far from integrating them into the magic machine industry, Xu Yi believed that with Count Sean here, the effects would be great.

    The more important thing was that integrating Sowell City into the magic machine industry would mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could build a solid foundation in the northeast. If they went through Sowell City, they would be able to integrate the entire northeast province into the magic machine industry.

    If this goal could be achieved and adding in the magic machine industry around Banta City and the surrounding cities, and Anvilmar City, eventually over half of the Lampuri Kingdom would be integrated into the magic machine industry.

    At that time, the mes of industry that Xu Yi stoked would be a raging me across the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After the sess of the conference, as the host, Xu Yi invited thepany representatives to thergest restaurant in Sowell City.

    But after this lunch banquet, Xu Yi, Count Sean, and the representatives of the threergestpanies in Sowell City came together for a smaller meeting.

    This included the Meierda Trading Company¡¯s chairman Sampson

    ¡°Chairman, I am the same as before. I have no objections towards the steel mill constructed by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the City Lord Manor, but isn¡¯t it a bit unjustified that you won¡¯t pass the steel producing technology to us?¡± Chairman Sampson¡¯s expression wasn¡¯t as happy as the conference earlier.

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, we threepanies are very sincere in wanting to buy shares in the steel mill, but you aren¡¯t even letting us touch the steel making technology even after we pay. What are we taking out our money for?¡± Chairman Duan Serop from the Mobil Chamber of Commerce said with knit brows.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, chairman Xu, each of ourpanies paid three hundred thousand gold coins for a share, you might as well just give us the steel making technology and our threepanies can take out at least one million to buy it. If you feel that this price isn¡¯t enough, we can still discuss. Having us buy stocks instead, I feel like there is no meaning.¡± The Rofelle Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Scanno Orwell agreed.

    Xu Yi looked over the three of them and said with a faint smile, ¡°Inviting you to invest is of course to have everyone earn money together. Otherwise, why would our Frestech Chamber of Commerce invite you to invest in our steel mill? The three of you, do you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have enough funds, that¡¯s why we invited you all to invest?¡±

    The three looked at each other before shaking their heads.

    Who didn¡¯t know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently the most profitablepany in the kingdom? Wherever the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced magic machines, they would be immediately snatched up.

    To say that they didn¡¯t have enough funds was simply a joke.

    Seeing that all three were speechless, Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°To be honest, I invited the three of yourpanies to invest in the hope that you could unite the colleagues in Sowell City. The reason I had the City Lord Manor participate is so you three can support the Lord City Lord. Otherwise, why would I do something so unnecessary?¡±

    Chairman Sampson knit his brows and was a bit dissatisfied, ¡°Chairman Xu, even if you don¡¯t do this, we would still support the Lord City Lord.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t exin. He looked at the three of them and said, ¡°I know that you want to obtain the steel making technology, but I¡¯m very sorry. I might consider this in the future, but at least I don¡¯t do it for now. The steel mill isn¡¯t just for making money, it¡¯s for important military equipment work, so we can¡¯t be careless.¡±

    ¡°Military equipment?¡± The three looked at Count Sean in surprise.

    Count Sean took a sip of his tea and gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, the steel material made from this steel mill will be used for Sowell City¡¯s military equipment. As for how it will be made, you shouldn¡¯t ask too much.¡±

    The three quickly nodded.

    After looking at each other, chairman Sampson asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you just said that you would consider transferring this technology in the future, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Then how about we sign another contract? If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce ever transfers the steel making technology, our threepanies will have priority.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid not. I can only guarantee that you would be within the first batch considered. As for how it will be transferred, it will depend on the situation.¡±

    The three looked at each other again and they all had helpless looks.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s tone was very strong and didn¡¯t give them any leeway, with the overwhelming advantage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had now, they couldn¡¯t do anything even if Xu Yi was firm.

    After considering it a bit, chairman Sampson gave a slow nod, ¡°Alright, our Meierda Trading Company will invest three hundred thousand into the steel mill.¡±

    Chairman Serop and chairman Orwell looked at each other before nodding.

    After sending the three off, Count Sean looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, trapping their threepanies, it isn¡¯t just as simple as supporting me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a wronged look, ¡°Lord City Lord, how can you say this? I¡¯m fully considering your position and you¡¯re still doubting me!¡±

    Count Sean waved his hand, ¡°Alright, with this, how could I not understand you? If there aren¡¯t any advantages for you, it would be strange if you wanted to do it.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This.....I am a merchant, it is natural to strive for benefits for myself.¡±

    Count Sean nodded, ¡°This is more like it. But Xu Yi, why can¡¯t I see the advantage your Frestech Chamber of Commerce gains from this? I remember that the steel mill should be the most stable source of ie for yourpany, right? If you give these threepanies a part for free, where¡¯s the benefits for you?¡±

    ¡°This is not a benefit that is weighed in gold coins.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, did you find themon ground between these threepanies?¡±

    Count Sean knit his brows, ¡°I just know that they are the biggestpanies in our Sowell City.¡±

    ¡°That is not important.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Themon ground I¡¯m talking about is that all threepanies trade with the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Count Sean was a bit surprised. He looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes and said in a deep voice, ¡°What do you want to do?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled and he revealed a smile of deep meaning.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, have you ever heard of a trade invasion?¡±

 Volume 3 154 - If you want, thereâ€™s no option

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 154 If you want, there¡¯s no option</h4>

    After staying in Sowell City for half a month, Xu Yi was finally leaving.

    On this journey, since leaving Banta City, a month had already passed. It was even longer than when Xu Yi went to the Stantine Duchy.

    There was only ten days before new years and Xu Yi naturally had to rush back to Banta City before then to spend new years with Still and Great Magician Cami.

    Different from Xu Yi, the staff that hade along had to spend new years in Sowell City.

    Sowell City¡¯s production base was still being built and there was quite a bit of work to be done, so other than Xu Yi having a bit of privilege as the chairman, how could the others avoid this?

    There were over a hundred people before, but now the only one going back with Xu Yi was Linda.

    Even the fifty caravan guards were all kept here by Xu Yi, to guard the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base.

    The night before leaving Sowell City, Xu Yi as the chairman held a New Years party at the production base. He gathered all the staff being left here and gave them a sumptuous feast, which could be considered celebrating new years early for them.

    The next morning, Xu Yi rubbed his head that hurt a bit from his hangover. He called out to Linda beside him and prepared to leave as soon as possible.

    Seeing Linda revealing her skin after stretching out, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. He waspletely drunk, so how could he fight several rounds with Linda aftering back? Could it be that his mind went crazy after drinking?

    ¡°Alright, quickly get up, we have to move fast. I n on getting to Anvilmar City by tonight.¡± Xu Yi patted Linda¡¯s plentiful behind and urged her.

    Linda called out and struggled to stand up.

    When she was prepared to help Xu Yi dress, the door suddenly opened and a person came in.

    Linda called out in fright and quickly went back into the sheets.

    Xu Yi looked at Princess Caroline who came to the bed and helplessly said, ¡°Your highness,ing into a man¡¯s bed early in the morning, this isn¡¯t good, right?¡±

    Princess Caroline looked over with her big eyes and looked over Linda who was half naked in Xu Yi¡¯s bed, as she revealed a lewd smile.

    ¡°What isn¡¯t good about it? Anyway, I¡¯ve already heard enough over the past few nights, it isn¡¯t a surprise anyway.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his head and he cursed the thin sound instion of the City Lord Manor. He said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, your highness, what are you here this early for? If it¡¯s business, I think we finished our discussion yesterday, right? Even if there is business, please go out first and let me put on some clothes first, alright?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s business and it¡¯s more serious than the business we discussed yesterday.¡± Princess Caroline revealed a faint smile. She didn¡¯t seem like she was leaving and sat down beside the bed, stretching out a slender finger to tap Xu Yi¡¯s chest before sliding down.

    Xu Yi grabbed Princess Caroline¡¯s hand that was about to reach his abdomen and said with knitted brows, ¡°Your highness, I have already said it before, joking like this won¡¯t raise my affection for you. I hope that you can restrain yourself.¡±

    Princess Caroline turned to look at Linda for a bit. Seeing that Linda was hiding behind Xu Yi, she turned back to Xu Yi with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you think that I¡¯m such an open woman?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think so, but your actions are too frivolous and I don¡¯t like it.¡±

    ¡°Then do you know why?¡± Princess Caroline asked.

    Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Let me tell you, chairman Xu, I wasn¡¯t joking when I said that I liked you. I really do like you and I want you for myself. The one thing my father taught me since I was young was that as long as I want something, I should do everything to obtain it. You should be happy this isn¡¯t the Drake Duchy, otherwise I would forcefully bring you to my bed. It wouldn¡¯t be like now where I can only listen to you in bed with your beautiful ve every night.¡±

    Seeing the iparably serious look on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi really didn¡¯t know whether she was teasing him or she seriously thought this way.

    Whether on earth or after arriving here, Xu Yi had never met a girl as bold as Princess Caroline.

    If it was said that he wasn¡¯t moved by Princess Caroline at all, that would be impossible.

    No matter what, Princess Caroline was very beautiful, she had a good aura, and a good figure. This kind of woman, no normal man wouldn¡¯t not be moved.

    But it was like Xu Yi said, he didn¡¯t like this attitude and adding in his scruples, he didn¡¯t have any ideas towards Princess Caroline.

    After being silent for a while, Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Your highness, it¡¯s my honour to receive your liking, but I have a wife, so it¡¯s impossible for anything to happen between us. I hope that you can understand this and you don¡¯t need to do this. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce cooperating with the Drake Duchy was decided after my careful considerations and wouldn¡¯t be changed by our rtionship, so you can be assured that this cooperation will go well and focus on properly developing.¡±

    ¡°In other words, you still don¡¯t believe that I¡¯m moved by you?¡± Princess Caroline shook her head in a very disappointed manner. She looked at Linda behind Xu Yi before revealing a smile and standing up, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I¡¯ll give you ten minutes to get out of bed. Before you leave, there is something I want to confirm.¡±

    Seeing Princess Caroline leave and close the door, Xu Yi let out a sigh. He revealed a helpless smile and shook his head, lifting the nket to get out of bed.

    Who would have thought that as soon as the nket was lifted, the door would suddenly open again.

    Xu Yi looked up in surprise and was met with Princess Caroline¡¯s hot gaze.

    He saw that Princess Caroline didn¡¯t match his gaze, but she was looking down. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking down and saw that his little brother was standing straight up since he had just woken up.

    Xu Yi was shocked and quickly pulled the nket back over. When he looked up, he angrily looked at Princess Caroline.

    Princess Caroline gave Xu Yi a wink and gave a delicateugh before turning to leave.

    After Xu Yi was dressed and he came to the living room, he saw Princess Caroline sitting in a chair, currently drinking a cup of hot tea.

    After seeing Xu Yi, Princess Caroline¡¯s eyes went down to Xu Yi¡¯s lower half.

    Xu Yi¡¯s face turned red and quickly sat down in front of Princess Caroline and covered his body. He covered up his awkwardness and angrily said to Princess Caroline, ¡°Your highness, don¡¯t you fear I¡¯ll retaliate if you y these kinds of jokes?¡±

    When he said this, Xu Yi immediately realized his mistake.

    As expected, when she heard this from Xu Yi, Princess Caroline gave a chuckle. She revealed a weing stance as she said, ¡°I wee chairman Xu¡¯s retaliation at any time, but will chairman Xu reallye?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He knew that he would suffer as long as he talked about this with Princess Caroline.

    ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s not waste words. Your highness, what did you want to confirm? Didn¡¯t we already finish discussing yesterday?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, Princess Caroline stopped joking and put down her tea before seriously saying, ¡°I received some news today, my father wants to deepen our cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He wants to use the two mines near the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s borders to exchange for some technology from yourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Your highness, you should know that there are some technologies ourpany won¡¯t exchange. It won¡¯t work even if you use two mines.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know this, but the ones that I want are included in what we discussed before. To be more urate, these are therge construction magic machines. Chairman Xu said that you would transfer the technologyter, but father wishes to obtain them as soon as possible, so our duchy can absorb as much as possible.¡± Princess Caroline said.

    ¡°Which ones specifically?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Specifically, it¡¯s the coaxial drive, the radius arm, and the set point technology that we want.¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes.

    These didn¡¯t seem that special, but when they came together, theirmon ground was that they were rted to the Magic Trebuchets.

    Combined with the Drake Duchy¡¯s enthusiasm forrge scale machines, Xu Yi was certain that the Drake Duchy was interested in the Magic Trebuchet and wanted to produce a copy.

    To go a step further, they wanted to develop a fewrge military magic machines.

    This made Xu Yi a bit confused.

    If it came to raising the strength of their army, the Drake Duchy was most suited for the Repeating Magic Crossbows that had a low cost, easy use, and had decent might. Why did they set their eyes on theserge military magic machines?

    But this question wasn¡¯t important to Xu Yi because this request didn¡¯t stray from the discussion he had with Count Sean before.

    So after Xu Yi considered it for a while, he nodded in agreement.

    Seeing Xu Yi nod, Princess Caroline¡¯s face bloomed with a smile. She stood up to walk towards Xu Yi and stretched out her hand.

    Xu Yi also stood up and stretched out his hand, nning to shake Princess Caroline¡¯s hand.

    Who would have thought that when his hand touched hers, Princess Caroline would suddenly pull Xu Yi towards her, while alsoing forward.

    Xu Yi was caught off guard and could only watch as Princess Caroline stood on her tiptoes as her face approached.

    This was different from the sneak attack at the banquet, Princess Caroline¡¯s lips didn¡¯t touch Xu Yi¡¯s face, rather they were directly pressed on Xu Yi¡¯s lips.

    When his lips touched Princess Caroline¡¯s hot lips, there was a small tongue that came through and opened Xu Yi¡¯s lips, quickly diving into Xu Yi¡¯s mouth.

    While Xu Yi was stunned, Princess Caroline¡¯s tongue pulled back as she opened her lips, biting down on Xu YI¡¯s lip.

    ¡°Si.¡±

    Xu Yi felt the pain from his lips and couldn¡¯t help drawing in a cold breath.

    Touching his lip, he felt a bit of blood. They had actually been bitten open by Princess Caroline.

    Xu Yi looked at her not knowing whether tough or cry, feeling veryplicated.

    Princess Caroline gave Xu Yi a very happy smile as she waved her lips.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, goodbye.¡±

 Volume 3 155 - Viscount Leslieâ€™s determination

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 155 Viscount Leslie¡¯s determination</h4>

    ¡°Master, does it still hurt?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi touch his lip, Linda asked in a concerned voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°It does hurt, but with this appearance, it won¡¯t be good if I go home. If Still were to see this, how would I exin it.....¡±

    Linda covered her mouth tough.

    ¡°Who had master be careless and let Princess Caroline force a kiss. If the madame saw this, she would definitely know what happened.¡±

    Xu Yi angrily red at her, ¡°If Still asks, I¡¯ll just say you bit me!¡±

    ¡°The madame wouldn¡¯t believe this, she knows that I wouldn¡¯t be this bold.¡±

    Seeing Linda secretlyugh, Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh as he thought that he wouldn¡¯t be able to exin this.

    The best method was honestly just to tell Still and try his best to get her to forgive him.

    Seeing that the Magic Car was about to enter Anvilmar City, Xu Yi shook his head and didn¡¯t think about this.

    After getting off, Xu Yi brought Linda to Count Sean¡¯s residence.

    Housekeeper Lahm received a notice from Count Sean two days ago and knew that Xu Yi would arrive today, so he prepared everything. When he saw Xu Yi and Linda appear, he came forward to wee them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas are already waiting for you.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Viscount Leslie? When did hee back?¡±

    Before Housekeeper Lahm could answer, augh came from inside.

    ¡°I¡¯ve been back for half a month, I never thought that I would be able to see you today.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over with a gaze of pleasant surprise before moving over with a smile.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, long time no see!¡±

    Viscount Leslieughed, ¡°Xu Yi, you are a viscount yourself, you can¡¯t address me this respectfully anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve always been respectful to Lord Viscount. This isn¡¯t rted to thews of the Royal Parliament, it¡¯s purely because of the respect in my heart.¡±

    Viscount Leslie turned to Baron Hannas nearby, ¡°Look, after not seeing each other for two years, Xu Yi¡¯s be better at speakingpared to before. It¡¯s no wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is developing this well.¡±

    Baron Hannas gave a shrug, ¡°I think that he¡¯s right, otherwise wouldn¡¯t I have to call you Lord Viscount every time I saw you?¡±

    Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s ignore the rules of the nobles. We¡¯re all old friends, we can call each other what we wish. Xu Yi, just act like Hannas and call me Leslie. No matter what, you are a very famous person in the kingdom, you¡¯re not a small merchant like before, you can¡¯t be as respectful to me as before.¡± Viscount Leslie said.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, Vis.....Un, Leslie, do you have any ns now that you¡¯re back?¡±

    ¡°There is something that I wanted to discuss with you. I discussed with yourpany¡¯s manager ime before, but he told me that he couldn¡¯t make the final decision and needed to wait for you.¡±

    ¡°Discuss with me?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused. He looked over at Hannas with a questioning gaze.

    Baron Hannas shook his head. Viscount Leslieughed as he took Xu Yi and walked out.

    ¡°Come, I¡¯ve already ordered a room at the Chanel Restaurant! You can¡¯t leave without getting drunk tonight!¡±

    Xu Yi could only helplessly look at Housekeeper Lahm to take care of Linda before he was pulled out by Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas.

    ###

    ¡°Speaking of the northern army, it really was difficult.¡±

    Viscount Leslie gave a deep sigh as his eyes filled with memories and emotions.

    ¡°You might have never thought that in the cold environment of the north where one could freeze to death at any time, there were many soldiers that didn¡¯t even have a coat.¡±

    ¡°Wouldn¡¯t many people freeze to death?¡± Baron Hannas on the side couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Not that many froze to death.¡± Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°But the few people who did freeze to death weren¡¯t lies.¡±

    Baron Hannas and Xu Yi looked at each other, as they revealed a slight trace of unwillingness.

    The banquet was half over and the wine was half gone. When Viscount Leslie heard the two of them asking about the northern army, it was like a recorder had been turned on and he kept spewing out words.

    ¡°Why are the physiques of the northern army soldiers good? It¡¯s because of the cold days that they have to keep practicing to stop themselves from freezing to death. But because there aren¡¯t enough supplies, they can¡¯t eat their fill, and there¡¯s plenty of training, their bodies can¡¯t keep up. But they freeze to death if they don¡¯t train. So every winter, the northern army decides the training based on their supplies. They even need to change the n every few days or people will die.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°I heard major MacConley say that the northern army¡¯s expenses each year is at least two hundred thousand gold coins. Although they don¡¯t have enough for good equipment, shouldn¡¯t it be enough for them to eat their fills?¡±

    Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi and gave a coldugh, ¡°Two hundred thousand? Do you know how much is actually used on the northern army soldiers in the end?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    Although he didn¡¯t have much contact with this, he could guess from the rumours from major MacConley that there was serious corruption in the royal army. The kingdom¡¯s finances distributed two hundred thousand gold coins for expenses, but there were less than fifty thousand gold coins used on this.

    In this situation, the northern army could hold on for so many years and not let the Sack Kingdom take a step forward, it could be seen how strong and determined the northern army was.

    ¡°Then what about these days? His highness Eric is leading the northern army, so there wouldn¡¯t be ack in provisions, right?¡± Baron Hannas asked, ¡°His highness wants to win this war and build prestige for himself, so I think that he definitely wouldn¡¯t mistreat the northern army soldiers.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Before Viscount Leslie left the northern army, his highness Eric had invited him to a luxurious meal. He gave another coldugh and didn¡¯t say a thing.

    When Viscount Leslie stopped speaking, they fell into silence.

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas in deep thought, so he gave a light cough and asked Viscount Leslie, ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about these discouraging matters. Vis.....Leslie, you said that you have something you wanted to discuss with me and it was rted to your ns? What is it?¡±

    Viscount Leslie put down his wine and said with a serious look, ¡°I discussed this matter with manager ime before, but he couldn¡¯t contact you, so I¡¯ll say it again. Xu Yi, I want to build a household magic machine workshop with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°You want to cooperate with ourpany? In your name or in the name of your Stagg Family?¡±

    Viscount Leslie said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m not the family head, of course I can only represent myself.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Your family won¡¯t object to you doing this?¡±

    ¡°This is my matter, they aren¡¯t qualified to object.¡± Viscount Leslie waved his hand, ¡°Xu Yi, just say it, is it possible or not?¡±

    ¡°Of course it is. Actually, Leslie, you had shares in ourpany before and if you didn¡¯t give them up, you would be a major shareholder in ourpany and wouldn¡¯t need to discuss cooperation with me.¡± Xu Yi sincerely said.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to mention things of the past and to be honest, I¡¯m d that I made such a smart decision back then. Otherwise because of the stocks I had in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, those fellows back at the family might try to force me to do things.¡±

    Xu Yi and Hannas looked at each other, they could see the worry in each other¡¯s eyes.

    They could tell from Viscount Leslie¡¯s words that the situation wasn¡¯t good in the Stagg Family after his return.

    And in this situation, he actually wanted to build a household magic machine factory. Wasn¡¯t this clearly going against his family?¡±

    ¡°Leslie, have you thought of the consequences?¡± Xu Yi asked in a deep voice.

    Viscount Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, I know better than you when ites to this matter.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and took a deep breath before saying, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve made your decision, I¡¯ll fully support you as your friend. Speak, what kind of magic machine factory do you want to open? How do you want to cooperate with ourpany?¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°The type of factory and type of cooperation doesn¡¯t matter, I just need to work with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Hearing this response, Xu Yi and Baron Hannas both took a cold breath.

    If they were just guessing earlier, they were now certain.

    Viscount Leslie was clearly going against the Stagg Family and facing them head on!

    But although he was the eldest son of the current head and the most likely sessor, going against the family like this wouldn¡¯t be good for him.

    The Stagg Family was one of the most powerful noble families in the kingdom, their power was not something one person couldpare to.

    What would Viscount Leslie use to go against his family?

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before slowly asking, ¡°Leslie, standing with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and supporting her highness is something that I want you to do, but as your friend, I sincerely hope you won¡¯t do this since there¡¯s no benefits to you.¡±

    ¡°Right, you¡¯ll only suffer doing this. How about you forget it?¡± Baron Hannas also advised.

    As someone from arge noble family, Baron Hannas knew better than Xu Yi what kind of courage and price one would need to pay if one went against their family.

    Viscount Leslie shook his head, ¡°In this world, there are some things that you want to do even disregarding the price.¡± After pausing, he added, ¡°Especially after two years of training in the northern army.¡±

    Seeing Viscount Leslie¡¯s determined expression, Xu Yi knew that it was no use trying to convince him. After thinking about it, he reached his hand out to Viscount Leslie.

    ¡°Alright, Leslie, I officially wee you into the magic machine industry.¡±

 Volume 3 156 - Beastmen girls who became stars

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 156 Beastmen girls who became stars</h4>

    After the banquet was over, Viscount Leslie returned home alone while Xu Yi and Baron Hannas went to the same ce. They came to a secluded courtyard in the east of Anvilmar City.

    Before they walked in, they saw several luxurious horse carriages turning the corner and stopping at the door.

    After a while, the girls that were beautiful by human standards that had beastmen characteristics jumped out of the horse carriage.

    After seeing Xu Yi, the Now Moon Troupe beastmen girls all cried out in happiness and came over.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re back.¡± The one in front was the fox girl Avril.

    Xu Yi looked over the sparkling essories that she had and the luxurious clothes that were made of fine materials that seemed like it was made just for her by a craftsman. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m back. Have you girls in the New Moon Troupe had a happy time in Anvilmar City?¡±

    ¡°Very happy!¡±

    ¡°Yes, we¡¯re living quite well!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s much better here than the ck Rice Wastnd, I don¡¯t want to go back!¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to go back either, it¡¯s much better to stay here. Sir chairman, can we stay in Anvilmar City?¡±

    Hearing a girl with a cat tail asking this, all the other girls stopped talking and they looked at Xu Yi with hope.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You should ask Still that, she¡¯s making the arrangements. After all, she is your chairman, not me.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you are chairman Still¡¯s husband, she will definitely listen to you. How about you make the decision for us to stay? Chairman Still will definitely agree.¡± A rabbit girl said in a high voice.

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman, how about you agree?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman......¡±

    ......

    Seeing the beastmen girls moving towards him, Xu Yi quickly raised his hands, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll mention this to Still, but I won¡¯t care what decision she makes.¡±

    ¡°Great!¡± The beastmen girls all cheered out, ¡°We can stay!¡±

    Seeing the happy looks of these beastmen girls, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    The living conditions of beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd were just too bad. It was no wonder that after these beastmen girls arrived in Anvilmar City and saw the better life here, they wouldn¡¯t think of home.

    He waved his hands to let the beastmen girls go in and Xu Yi followed behind in thought. Then he said to Baron Hannas, ¡°Although you said that you would take care of them, I¡¯m certain that the essories and clothes they¡¯re wearing isn¡¯t something you bought for them, right?¡±

    Baron Hannas shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°How could I afford it? Do you see the ne on Avril¡¯s neck? That was sold for six thousand gold coins at thest auction. Moreover, it was another noble that bought that for Avril, do you think that I can afford to give it?¡±

    ¡°Which noble was it? Did Avril go to the auction with him?¡± Xu Yi asked with knit brows.

    Baron Hannas looked at Xu Yi with a strange expression.

    ¡°It was Foledo.¡±

    ¡°Foledo?¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before remembering. Foledo, was the arrogant guy who had bid against him at thest auction,, ¡°Oh, how did he pull Avril to the auction?¡±

    ¡°Hey, stop ying silly, could it be you don¡¯t know what Foledo wants? He is clearly thinking about chasing after Avril.¡± Baron Hannas said with a look of disdain.

    ¡°I can guess this, but Avril is a beastmen after all, would he still want to chase her?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Baron Hannas looked like he was defeated by Xu Yi.

    ¡°I say, are you really silly or acting silly? Avril is a beastmen, but look at her looks, is there any difference from a beautiful human girl? If you want to mention it, her fox tail and ears actually make her more charming than human women, alright? Let me tell you, Avril is a big star in Anvilmar City, a bunch of nobles all want to chase her.¡±

    ¡°Since the nobles want to chase her, what skills did Foledo use to get her?¡± Xu Yi was even more curious.

    ¡°Who told you that he seeded?¡± Baron Hannas rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Let me tell you, Foledo only gave her that six thousand gold coin ne, the nobles in the city have given her things even more expensive than that ne. But even now, Avril hasn¡¯t shown any special interest in anyone.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He couldn¡¯t tell that this fox girl Avril was a master of socializing, easily making contact with this many nobles and making them willing to pay for her.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be surprised. It isn¡¯t just Avril, every beastmen girl is very weed in Anvilmar City. Although Avril is the most popr, the other girls aren¡¯t being treated worse than her.¡± Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Baron Hannas continued.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°That means.....I was too worried in the beginning? I never thought that the people of Anvilmar City would ept these beastmen girls that easily.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, these beastmen girls are all pretty and their beastmen characteristics increase their charm. It would be strange if they weren¡¯t popr.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I thought that most humans would hate beastmen.¡±

    ¡°That depends on who. If it¡¯s a bunch of beastmen who look like monsters, do you believe that they would be driven out of Anvilmar City right away? Then again, there isn¡¯t a race war ongoing and we humans are actually very curious towards other races. You making this New Moon Troupe could be considered satisfying the curiosity of many people.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is reasonable.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go back and discuss with Still on how to arrange the New Moon Troupe. During this time, I¡¯ll have to trouble you to look over them.¡±

    Baron Hannas gave a bitterugh, ¡°It¡¯s fine to look after them for a while, but if I keep looking after them.....I can¡¯t take the pressure. In order to guarantee that these girls remain pure, I¡¯ve offended quite a few nobles to stop them from doing anything to these beastmen girls. Do you know that Foledo has warned me several times over this?¡±

    ¡°Have hime find me if he has the skills.¡± Xu Yi softly said.

    Baron Hannas looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Xu Yi, I haven¡¯t seen you in half a month, why do I feel that you¡¯ve be much more aggressive?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Because I¡¯ve thought it through. There are some things where it isn¡¯t good to be too passive.¡±

    ¡°Good, I like how you are now. Because you acted weak, there were many things that needed to be endured and I didn¡¯t feel good about it. Actually, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t weak at all right now. You¡¯re someone who many people ce importance in and your magic isn¡¯t weak, so why do you have to act weak.¡± Baron Hannas praised.

    Xu Yi broke out inughter, ¡°So I was like this in your eyes? Alright, I¡¯ll let you see something different from now on.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m waiting for it.¡± Baron Hannas gave twoughs before revealing a bitter look, ¡°But Xu Yi, you can be impolite to Foledo and those fellows, but you can¡¯t be this way to the beastmen girls, right?¡±

    ¡°Why do you say this?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Because......¡± Baron Hannas looked around and after confirming that the beastmen girls were all in their rooms, he lowered his voice to say, ¡°You also saw it, these beastmen girls are very satisfied with living in Anvilmar City and aren¡¯t even willing to return to the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    ¡°This is also normal. The ck Rice Wastnd living conditions are that bad, I wouldn¡¯t want to go back either.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°The important thing is that these beastmen girls are very popr in Anvilmar City, there are many rich nobles and merchants chasing them. With the contact with these nobles and merchants, their hearts are also moved. There have been many beastmen girls meeting these nobles and merchants in secret.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Then have they done anything?¡±

    Hannas shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m only taking care of their daily necessities while also warning those nobles and merchants not to act unreasonable. But if they¡¯re willing themselves, I can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit ugly.

    He had Still arrange this New Moon Troupe to change the impression of beastmen in the heart of the Lampuri Kingdom humans. He wanted to make it easier for the people to ept beastmen workers and co-exist with beastmen.

    But if thee New Moon Troupe became something that the nobles and merchants in Anvilmar City used for pleasure, then how would it be different from when humans caught beastmen as ves? Not only did it not help achieve the goal he wanted, it actually might go against it.

    Although purely from the perspective of humans, it was normal for male beastmen to do hardbour while the beautiful beastmen girls served them, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes weren¡¯t this narrow and he wanted the two races to work together.

    After knitting his brows in thought, Xu Yi said to Baron Hannas, ¡°I¡¯m not going back tonight, I¡¯ll stay here.¡±

    Hannas was surprised as his eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with a strange look. Then he pointed at the yard where the beastmen girls lived and gave Xu Yi a wink. When he wanted to speak, he was stopped by Xu Yi¡¯s re.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, Hannas immediately swallowed the joke he wanted to say.

 Volume 3 157 - Choose for yourselves

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 157 Choose for yourselves</h4>

    As night gradually fell, this courtyard fell into silence.

    Hearing the sounds of the beastmen girlsughing and ying gradually fade, Xu Yi had a sh of disappointment on his face.

    He had been waiting for two hours, but not a single beastmen girl hade looking for him.

    Of course, he wasn¡¯t waiting for the beastmen girls toe offer themselves, rather he wanted to see if there was some consciousness among the beastmen girls.

    Two hours ago, Xu Yi had announced to the beastmen girls that he would be returning to Banta City tomorrow and if there were any girls that wanted toe with him, they could go together.

    He had also said that after returning to Banta City, he would discuss the future ns of the New Moon Troupe. If any girls wanted to stay with the New Moon Troupe, of course they could stay. If they didn¡¯t want to stay and wanted to find another path, he would also wee it and do his best to n this for them.

    In order to let these beastmen girls understand his meaning, Xu Yi had clearly told them that he wanted the New Moon Troupe to be a method for beastmen to demonstrate themselves to the humans of the Lampuri Kingdom, changing their image in the minds of humans. He didn¡¯t want it to be a simple springboard to help them live a better life in the human world.

    ¡°To put it simple, I don¡¯t want you to be the toys of human nobles or merchants.¡± In the end, Xu Yi even threw down these direct words.

    However, after saying all of this, Xu Yi patiently waited in the room Hannas prepared for him, but there wasn¡¯t a single beastmen girl who came looking for him.

    Xu Yi was naturally very disappointed.

    But thinking about it, he felt that his request for the beastmen girls was too high.

    For these beastmen girls, because they lived the rough life on the ck Rice Wastnd, now that they had arrived in Anvilmar City and experienced the better lives of humans, being seduced by this was something that was natural. Xu Yi shouldn¡¯t force his request on them, this wasn¡¯t reasonable.

    ¡°Perhaps I should have been more cruel?¡± Xu Yi looked at the final Magic Lamp dim where the beastmen girls were resting and a bit of hesitation appeared in his heart.

    Since this New Moon Troupe contained his expectations, when the New Moon Troupe went in a direction that went against his expectations, he should forcefully turn them back.

    If he and Still were to control these beastmen girls, it would have been easy.

    But Xu Yi thought of the happy smiles of these beastmen girls when they talked about living in Anvilmar City and Xu Yi felt a bit unable to make this decision.

    ¡°Has there never been a human who considered this much for beastmen before? Since this is the path they¡¯ve chosen, then just let them be.....¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh and slowly shook his head. He stood up and prepared to go to sleep.

    When he opened the door, he saw a white figure appear on the path in front of the door.

    Looking at Avril walking over, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°What? Avril, you¡¯re not asleep yet?¡±

    Avril shook her head and her furry ears trembled in the night wind. It gave her a naughty look and adding in her fine features, it was no wonder all those nobles and merchants chased after her.

    ¡°Sir chairman, can I disturb you for a bit?¡±

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    When they entered the room, Avril took the initiative to pour Xu Yi a cup of tea before respectfully standing in front of Xu Yi. Only when Xu Yi indicated for her to sit down did she sit down.

    ¡°If you have something you want to say, just say it.¡± Xu Yi had the same gentle tone and expression as he spoke.

    Avril gritted her teeth and looked a bit hesitant. After a while, it was like she made her decision and gave a strong nod.

    ¡°Sir chairman, actually......Actually, we understand what you said just now and everyone is very grateful towards you because we know that based on the way you¡¯ve treated us, you¡¯re a rare human who treats us equally. As for those nobles and merchants who are chasing us, they are just treating us as toys.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Avril in surprise for a bit, thinking that these beastmen girls really did have a brain.

    ¡°It seems like you¡¯re the representative they¡¯ve sent?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Alright, tell me your ideas and decision.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, actually......Actually, you may look down on us, but to us, even if we¡¯re being treated as toys by the human nobles and merchants, we¡¯re willing to be toys as long as we can live a better life.....This isn¡¯t anything......¡±

    ¡°Then say it clearly what you want.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If this is your final decision, then I have no objections. But I must tell you, if anyone makes this decision, they must withdraw from the New Moon Troupe because I need to maintain the purity of the New Moon Troupe.¡±

    Avril shook her head, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re mistaken. Actually we just want a peaceful andfortable life since everyone has lived on the ck Rice Wastnd in poor conditions before, you should know this. Now that they have a chance to get a better life, they wouldn¡¯t want to miss it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°I already said it, this is your decision, I won¡¯t interfere. But I have the right to interfere in this performance troupe.¡±

    Avril gritted her silver teeth and revealed a bitter look. She shook her head and said, ¡°Sir chairman, you still don¡¯t understand our meaning. Actually, we.....we are very anxious.¡±

    ¡°Anxious?¡± Xu Yi looked at her in surprise. Seeing the mix of fear, hesitation, and anxiousness on Avril¡¯s face, he gave a nod, ¡°You havee from the ck Rice Wastnd to live in our human world, it is normal to be anxious. But I feel that putting your hope in the nobles and merchants chasing you isn¡¯t a good choice.¡±

    ¡°We also understand this, but sir chairman, what choice do you want us to have?¡± After saying this, Avril¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi revealed a bit of bitterness, ¡°Actually.....Sir chairman, we sisters have chatted in secret and we believe thatpared to the nobles and merchants of Anvilmar City, you are countless times better. If you¡¯re willing to take us, we would be very happy.¡±

    Seeing the expectation in Avril¡¯s eyes, there was an awkward look on Xu Yi¡¯s face. He gave a cough and waved his hand, ¡°If I did this, how would I be any different from those nobles and merchants who just treat you as toys? So don¡¯t mention this again.¡±

    Avril had a disappointed look. She gave a sigh and shook her head, ¡°No, sir chairman, you are different because you want to treat us equally. You aren¡¯t like those nobles and merchants from Anvilmar City who only respect us on the surface.¡±

    ¡°Since you think that I treat you equally, it is even more impossible for me to do this.¡± Xu Yi took a deep breath and said with a serious look, ¡°Alright, I understand your thoughts. I also said that I won¡¯t interfere with your decisions, but I can promise you one thing.¡±

    Avril¡¯srge eyes calmly looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°If you choose to remain in the New Moon Troupe, then I will do my best to find a path for you to independently walk in this world without needing to depend on other humans. I can¡¯t guarantee there is a 100% chance of this, but I will do my best. If you believe me, stay. If you don¡¯t, I won¡¯t interfere with your other choices.¡±

    Avril opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she didn¡¯t say it after pausing.

    After thinking for a bit, Avril gave Xu Yi a respectful bow and left.

    When Avril left, Baron Hannas came into the room.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why are you doing all this for these beastmen?¡± Baron Hannas knit his brows and revealed a confused look, ¡°Actually, isn¡¯t your goal just to have other people in the kingdom ept other race workers? I feel that¡¯s very simple, there are many other race workers in yourpany and everyone already knows the benefits they bring, so it isn¡¯t that hard to ept.¡±

    ¡°This is different.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has me, that¡¯s why we ept other race workers this quickly, but other people are different. Even in Banta City, the other race workers are still being discriminated against.¡±

    Baron Hannas still said, ¡°Do you think it¡¯s possible for humans to treat other races equally? That is definitely impossible.¡±

    ¡°How do you know without giving it a try?¡± Xu Yi looked at him.

    Hannas was a bit confused, ¡°Xu Yi, I still don¡¯t understand. Why are you trying to let humans coexist with other races? If you want something from the other races, with the advantage that we humans have right now, you can just force them to take it out. Why are you putting in this much effort?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand. The other races are other races, so that means there are some differences between them and humans. There are some things that we humans can¡¯t learn even if they take them out. Forcing them could give us some benefits, I could never obtain the thing I really want. So in order to gain the best thing from them, we need them to willingly give it up.¡±

    ¡°What? Has your Frestech Chamber of Commerce received many benefits from other races?¡± Baron Hannas asked.

    ¡°Of course. I can even say that the other races have contributed quite a bit to how fast our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed. If we didn¡¯t have their work, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have be this powerful.¡±

    Hearing the confidence in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Baron Hannas couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Alright, powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, I hope that you can still smile like this when you see those old fellows of the Royal Parliament tomorrow.¡±

    Xu Yi deeply knit his brows.

 Volume 3 158 - Royal Senate

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 158 Royal Senate</h4>

    On this trip to Anvilmar City, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t just passing by. Actually when he was still in Sowell City, he received a summon from the Royal Parliament to have hime to Anvilmar City to participate in the Royal Senate, to evaluate his status as a noble.

    Being qualified for this to Xu Yi was considered good and bad news.

    The good news was that the Royal Parliament requiring a noble to appear before the Royal Senate was to evaluate the qualifications of that noble. Normally this was conducted to see if a noble was qualified to be promoted.

    This meant that as long as Xu Yi received a good evaluation, there was a chance his title would be increased.

    He was now a viscount and in less than half a year, he had a chance to be a count, which was a title that few held in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Moreover, he was promoted from amoner and could be promoted this quickly without any military achievements, this really was rare.

    The bad news was that.....Xu Yi might receive a bad evaluation which would mean that his title would never increase.

    In the end, it was almost impossible for Xu Yi who had been amoner before to increase in rank again in such a short period of time.

    So when he was still in Sowell City, Count Sean had stated that the Royal Parliament summoning Xu Yi was with bad intentions.

    Once he came to Anvilmar City and after seeing Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas, the two agreed with Count Sean¡¯s judgement.

    The Royal Senate held for Xu Yi this time didn¡¯t seem good.

    So the next morning, Xu Yi arrived at the splendidly made gates of the Royal Parliament and seeing therge golden words ¡°Lampuri Kingdom Royal Parliament¡± on it, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    He just wanted to develop the magic machine industry, why did people always cause trouble for him?

    After reporting his name, Xu Yi was quickly led by the guards at the entrance to a small waiting room.

    After a while, a young person wearing the robes of the parliament who looked to be around thirty came in.

    When he saw Xu Yi, he immediately revealed a friendly smile and reached out both hands.

    ¡°Viscount Xu, I¡¯ve long heard your name and it truly is an honour to meet you today.¡±

    Xu Yi grabbed his outstretched hand and said with a faint smile, ¡°You are too polite. May I ask......¡±

    ¡°Oh, let me introduce myself. I am Salt Lim, I am a viscount like you.¡±

    ¡°Viscount Lim, it is also an honour for me to meet you. Are you a member of the parliament? When does the senate begin?¡±

    Viscount Limughed, ¡°Viscount Xu really is a merchant who cares about time, but the senate needs a bit of time to prepare, so I came to inform you while also.....telling you about the contents of the senate. Viscount Xu, you haven¡¯t participated in a Royal Senate before, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    Whether it was when he became a baron or when he became a viscount, it was his majesty that had conferred these titles and he didn¡¯t need to appear before the Royal Senate.

    Because ording to thews of the Royal Parliament, for titles under count, his majesty had rights to confer them and didn¡¯t need evaluation from the Royal Parliament.

    But this right was rarely used by the king because if the nobles didn¡¯t agree or raised an issue with this, it would have some effect on the prestige of the king. So the king rarely used this right to promote a noble, not to mention using it twice on one person.

    Of course, the Royal Parliament wouldn¡¯t raise any objections normally if the king were to use this right.

    But now that Xu Yi was a viscount, not does he need to have an evaluation done if he wants to rise in rank, the Royal Senate could call him in for an evaluation of his qualifications as a noble.

    ¡°Then first I¡¯ll tell you about the flow of this evaluation. Viscount Xu, you don¡¯t need to do anythingter, you just need to answer the questions that they pose.¡± Viscount Lim said with a smile, ¡°Of course, you have to reply honestly. Otherwise if you are appraised as dishonest, it will seriously affect your evaluation.

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. The parliament members asked questions and he could only reply, wasn¡¯t this an interrogation?

    ¡°Normally speaking, every member that participates might ask you a question and these questions could include many different topics. I hope that Viscount Xu is prepared.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and nodded, as nothing unexpected came up.

    Since he was already here, there was nothing special to consider.

    The Royal Parliament was different from the kingdom¡¯s parliament, at most they could just mess with his noble title. The thing that countless people in the kingdom dreamed of, he didn¡¯t care about his noble title at all, so there was no pressure at all.

    Viscount Lim was a bit surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s calm expression and after looking at him in surprise, he didn¡¯t say anything. After chatting with Xu Yi for a bit, he brought him out of the waiting room and to a side hall.

    There were quite a few staff along the way. Seeing Viscount Lim walking with Xu Yi, they all looked over Xu Yi curious gazes.

    It seemed like they knew that Xu Yi was here for an evaluation today.

    And someone like Xu Yi who was both a noble and a merchant was indeed rare.

    Adding in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame in the Lampuri Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t strange that they were curious about Xu Yi at all.

    After walking into the hall, there was a circr space there that was surrounded by two rows of seats. There was a space in the center that didn¡¯t have a chair, only a small railing.

    Seeing this arrangement, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows as his heart beat faster.

    This really did seem like they were interrogating a criminal.

    Xu Yi definitely didn¡¯t believe that all the rooms were like this and his first evaluation was in a ce like this, it was clear the other side had other intentions.

    Thinking of what Count Sean, Viscount Leslie, and Baron Hannas had said, Xu Yi gave a cold snort in his heart. He looked up at the members sitting in their high chairs.

    This hall wasn¡¯t too big and there were around fifty seats in total surrounding him. They weren¡¯tpletely filled and less than twenty members wearing purple robes were present.

    Xu Yi looked over them while they looked over Xu Yi.

    It was clear that they were also curious about Xu Yi.

    After both sides looked over each other for a while, the one sitting in the first row to the north who looked to be sixty gave a cough and said in a clear voice, ¡°Since Viscount Xu is present, let¡¯s start this senate.¡±

    After saying this, he looked at Xu Yi and asked with a serious look, ¡°Viscount Xu Yi, do you know why the parliament had youe to this senate today?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No one told me the reason yet.¡±

    ¡°Un.....Good, I¡¯ll tell you the reason now. The reason for this evaluation was because the parliament received many reports that Viscount Xu Yi as a noble of the kingdom had been doing many things that didn¡¯t conform with the status. In order to verify the truth, the parliament has asked you to participate in this evaluation. If you have indeed done this, then the parliament will assess a proper punishment for you.¡±

    ¡°He, only talking about punishments?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his heart.

    The old parliament member set the mood right away, it really was as bad as he had expected.

    Seeing Xu Yi was silent, this sixty three year old vice president of the Royal Parliament for over twenty years, Count Basa was a bit unhappy. His face sunk as he continued, ¡°Viscount Xu Yi, let me first ask you a question. Do you have another identity as the chairman of Banta City¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Do you control the majority of shares in this Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, do you participate in the business side of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°The ie thates from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, do you also receive the majority of that?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t correct. Most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie is invested, so I don¡¯t personally gain that much.¡±

    ¡°You just need to reply, do you receive ie from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a cold smile before giving a nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then Viscount Xu Yi, do you know that the Royal Parliament has a rule for nobles that they aren¡¯t allowed to meddle in business as nobles?¡±

    ¡°I do.¡±

    ¡°Then why do you choose to do business?¡± Count Basa pped the table in front of him and his expression became severe, ¡°Do you know that not only does this go against the rules of the parliament, you¡¯re also throwing away all the face of the nobles?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him like he found this funny, ¡°It does go against the rules of the parliament, but as for throwing away the face of all nobles.....Isn¡¯t that a little too exaggerated?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re not allowed to quibble!¡± Count Basa red at him, ¡°Viscount Xu Yi, since you have vited the rules of parliament and with your bad attitude, this senate decides that Viscount Xu Yi¡¯s status as a noble will be revoked and he will return to being amoner!¡±

 Volume 3 159 - Eliminate and grant

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 159 Eliminate and grant</h4>

    Hearing this judgement, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all, rather he revealed a happy smile.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, Count Basa and the surrounding parliament members were stunned.

    Count Basa knit his brows and roared, ¡°What are you smiling at? This is the sacred kingdom parliament, you cannot be this audacious!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I just find it a bit funny. It¡¯s that hard to obtain the title of a noble, but it¡¯s this simple to get rid of it. Just a few words from the vice president and you can directly eliminate my status. He, he, don¡¯t you think that this is too careless?¡±

    Count Basa¡¯s expression fell, ¡°This is the decision the parliament came to after careful deliberation. To let you participate in this senate was to give you a chance to exin yourself, but you gave no argument at all. Then do you think that there is a problem with this punishment?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a problem at all, I just really want tough.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and said with a smile, ¡°When i was told I was requested to participate, I was a bit nervous, but I never thought that it would be this simple and the result had already been decided. If I knew it was like this, I wouldn¡¯t havee. This is simply a waste of time.¡±

    ¡°Audacious!¡± Count Basa angrily roared, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m warning you once again, this is the sacred Royal Parliament, you can¡¯t be this audacious here!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Lord vice president, you seemed to have forgotten something. You just said that the parliament has decided to strip me of my status as a noble, so I am only amoner now. Since I am amoner, why does the Royal Parliament care about me? If the lord vice president is discontent about something, you can make an appeal to the kingdom parliament or the public security department.¡±

    Count Basa pointed his finger at Xu Yi and his body was trembling in rage, but he couldn¡¯t find a single problem with Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    Because ording to thews of the kingdom parliament, although the Royal Parliament had the rights to manage nobles, that was only limited to nobles. They didn¡¯t have any rights to take care ofmoners because that was managed by the kingdom parliament.

    Xu Yi was right. Since he was no longer a noble and was now amoner, it meant that the Royal Parliament couldn¡¯t control or limit him at all.

    If Xu Yi was a normalmoner, the Royal Parliament could find ten thousand ways to deal with him.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a normalmoner and there were powerful people standing behind him. The Royal Parliament wanted to deal with Xu Yi because of a few people¡¯s orders, so they had to use this Royal Senate and couldn¡¯t make a mistake in their procedure at all.

    The other members all looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    They thought that Xu Yi would argue for himself and strongly oppose the decision of the Royal Parliament.

    But they never thought that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t argue at all. After hearing the decision of Count Basa, he didn¡¯t show any signs of being agitated, rather he strangely epted this.

    Actually they didn¡¯t n on eliminating Xu Yi¡¯s status as a noble because it was a very serious matter, the Royal Parliament couldn¡¯t make this decision so easily.

    They thought that if Xu Yi wanted to exin, they could lower Xu Yi¡¯s punishment and achieve their real goal. They wanted to weaken the benefits Xu Yi enjoyed as a noble, for example, his territory, his taxes, his policy benefits, and other advantages to weaken the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Only Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin and just epted this judgement, as well as acting like this towards Count Basa. Even if Count Basa wanted to carry out his original n and take back the decision of revoking Xu Yi¡¯s title, he couldn¡¯t say it now.

    Watching Xu Yi stand there with a faint smile, Count Basa and the other members didn¡¯t speak for a while.

    Xu Yi looked around and saw that everyone was looking at him in a daze, so he said with a faint smile, ¡°Is there nothing else? If there¡¯s nothing else, I¡¯ll be leaving then. I have many other things to take care of, I can¡¯t just stay here and y with you.¡±

    When he was about to turn, Count Basa angrily shouted, ¡°Stop!¡±

    Xu Yi stopped halfway and turned back to look at Count Basa with a frown, ¡°Lord vice president, please note your demeanor as a noble. Shouting at amoner like this, isn¡¯t it too disrespectful?¡±

    Count Basa almost choked on his spit. After coughing a few times, he said while panting, ¡°You can¡¯t leave, there¡¯s something else to take care of.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    Count Basa calmed down and took out a bunch of documents that had already been prepared from under the table.

    Now that you¡¯ve lost your status as a noble, the rights you enjoyed as a noble must be taken back. This is the rted document, you must sign them before leaving.¡±

    Xu Yi took the documents from the hands of a young member and looked it over. He found that the documents were rted to taking back the private territory Xu Yi had as a viscount.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this, but Xu Yi raised a few objections to the details of this.

    ¡°Lord vice president, ording to this ?Reiming Territory Contract?, wouldn¡¯t I have to give back all of the Falling Rain Valley outside Banta City? Then what about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories and other facilities in the Falling Rain Valley?¡±

    Hearing this question, Count Basa and the other members let out a sigh of relief.

    Count Basa revealed a confident smile, ¡°How these facilities are handled is unrted to the parliament. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t turn over the territory in time, everything in the territory would be taken along with it.¡±

    ¡°This means that the parliament is nning on chasing our Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of the Falling Rain Valley?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Count Basa revealed a strong appearance, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m warning you, if you nder the parliament, I guarantee the kingdom parliament will take care of you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, thinking that this vice president was clearly shameless, it was no use talking to him.

    After reading the contents of the document, Xu Yi casually tossed it to the side and said to Count Basa with a serious look, ¡°Lord vice president, I must remind you that in the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding areas, my personal territory isn¡¯t that big. Most of thend is directly rented from the royal family. Although the Royal Parliament can take away my noble status and take back mynd, they have no right to meddle in thend that is rented.¡±

    Count Basa gave a cold snort, ¡°You think that the parliament would make such a decision without verifying it? Thend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rents from the royal family will not be taken care of, but you must turn over the ten square kilometers ofnd you have in the Falling Rain Valley!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a shocked look, ¡°Lord vice president, who told you that I had close to ten square kilometers of personalnd? I am only a viscount, how could I have such arge piece of private territory? You must have made a mistake!¡±

    Count Basa waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t try to lie, the parliament has an archive of your personal territory, how could it be wrong.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I only applied for several thousand square meters ofnd from his majesty, just to build a private manor. How could I requestnd that was close to ten square kilometers. Even if I did ask for it, his majesty clearly wouldn¡¯t give it to me. So you must have made a mistake. I ask the lord vice president to confer with his majesty if you don¡¯t believe.¡±

    Count Basa gave augh and was sure that Xu Yi was only putting up ast minute struggle, so he said in a cold voice, ¡°No need, the parliament only needs to make a concise decision based on the material we have. Then again, we can¡¯t disturb his majesty for such a small matter......¡±

    When he was half finished, Count Basa suddenly stopped as he looked behind Xu Yi like he had seen a ghost.

    The other members all had the same expression, looking behind Xu Yi in a daze.

    Xu Yi turned around and saw a middle aged man who didn¡¯t look that special or talk slowly walk into the hall.

    The middle aged man nodded at Xu Yi before asking Count Basa, ¡°Vice president Basa, has Xu Yi¡¯s senate ended? Has the resulte out?¡±

    Count Basa¡¯s expression was very ugly and he hesitated a long time before replying, ¡°It¡¯s already over and as for the result.....¡± Count Basa looked at Xu Yi and his expression became even more ugly, ¡°Viscount Xu Yi has gone against the rules of the parliament, so he has lost his title as a noble.¡±

    The middle aged man gave a nod before turning to Xu Yi to ask, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you now amoner?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi searched his mind and he seemed to have remembered seeing this middle aged man when he met the king.

    Based on how respectful Count Basa and the other members were, it was clear that this middle aged man who didn¡¯t seem special was very likely a close confidant of the king.

    ¡°Very good, since chairman Xu is already amoner, then I¡¯ll read the decrees his majesty has for you.¡±

    The middle aged man took a decree with the king¡¯s seal from his chest and Count Basa¡¯s heart skipped a beat as his face turned dark.

    ¡°In light of Xu Yi¡¯s contributions to the kingdom, his majesty has decided to promotemoner Xu Yi to the title of baron for his achievements.¡±

    While Xu Yi was stunned, the middle aged man took out another order and continued to read.

    ¡°In light of Xu Yi¡¯s contributions to the kingdom, his majesty has decided to promote Baron Xu Yi to the title of viscount for his achievements.¡±

    Other than having different titles, there was nothing else special about these decrees.

    It could be seen that the middle aged man was already prepared and specially came for Xu Yi.

    Count Basa on the side heard these two decrees and his face looked very ugly, ¡°This.....Manager Dema, Xu Yi was just stripped of his titles by our Royal Parliament and his majesty is promoting him back to a noble at this time......This isn¡¯t that good, right?¡±

    Dema looked at him and calmly said, ¡°I don¡¯t care about this, I was ordered by his majesty toe. His majesty said that as long as Xu Yi was stripped of his title, I would read these two orders. As well, these two orders will always be in effect.¡±

    Hearing Dema¡¯s words, Count Basa and the surrounding members all had faces like dying embers.

 Volume 3 160 - Legal smuggling

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 160 Legal smuggling</h4>

    ¡°Your majesty, I thank you for your support and your help, but wouldn¡¯t doing this be.....too forceful? Those parliament members, they will definitely have some opinion on your approach.¡± Xu Yi asked in a careful voice.

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Xu Yi, ¡°What? You really want your status as a noble to be taken away?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t care that much about my noble status, it¡¯s better to just let it be taken away. The issue is your majesty¡¯s methods, it might make the Royal Parliament dissatisfied with you. Just for a single viscount title, this doesn¡¯t seem worth it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if I feel it¡¯s worth it.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth slowly shook his head. He took a deep look at Xu Yi and asked in a deep voice, ¡°Xu Yi, if I didn¡¯t pay attention to this matter and you lost your title as a noble, as well as losing your personal territory, what would you have done?¡±

    ¡°I wouldn¡¯t do anything.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t go against the decision of the Royal Parliament and since they must do this, I can only give them back the territory.¡±

    ¡°What about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? How would you n on handling that?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth asked.

    ¡°I could develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from nothing and now that there¡¯s our current foundation, I¡¯m definitely confident I can develop it in another ce.¡± Xu Yi said with a confident smile, ¡°The ce doesn¡¯t matter, as long as I¡¯m here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be there.¡±

    ¡°Your confidence is quite strong.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth gave Xu Yi a nod of praise, ¡°But while you don¡¯t care where you develop, I care very much. For something as important as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if I let it leave our Lampuri Kingdom, I would be considered a criminal to the country.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Your majesty, I never thought that you ced such importance on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°How could I not?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth patted a pack of documents on the side, ¡°There¡¯s endless data here that proves the positive effect the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has on the kingdom. If I don¡¯t put importance on you, how am I qualified to be the king?¡±

    Xu Yiughed before thinking, ¡°Your majesty, since you put such importance on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how about giving us some rights?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth found it a bit funny, ¡°This kid, you know how to y, but I¡¯ll give you a chance. Speak, what right do you want? If it¡¯s reasonable, I can agree.¡±

    He never thought that Lampuri Thirteenth would be this easy to talk to. Xu Yi was overjoyed in his heart as he quickly said, ¡°Your majesty, although you authorized our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s free trade rights, I feel that this right isn¡¯t enough.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What else do you need?¡±

    ¡°Un......Although ourpany can freely trade with other countries and regions with this free trade right, trading with enemies is strictly forbidden, so......¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth narrowed his eyes, ¡°What? Could it be that you want to do business with the Sack Kingdom? Could it be that you think the Sack Kingdom isn¡¯t strong enough? Do you want to give them money to make them stronger?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Your majesty, although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce always creates deals that benefits both sides, that is for doing business. To only make money from the other side isn¡¯t that hard. When trading with the Sack Kingdom, it won¡¯t make the Sack Kingdom stronger, rather it will drain their resources and money, weakening them.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth was shocked as he asked in a curious voice, ¡°How would you do it?¡±

    ¡°To give an example. Your majesty, if ourpany sells one Magic Air Conditioner to the Sack Kingdom, would that increase their power?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth shook his head, ¡°The Magic Air Conditioner can only be used for daily life, it clearly doesn¡¯t help increase the strength of a nation.¡±

    ¡°But ourpany¡¯s current Magic Air Conditioner is worth twenty eight gold coins. If we sell one to the Sack Kingdom, that would be taking twenty eight gold coins from the hands of the Sack Kingdom. This is equivalent to weakening the finances of the Sack Kingdom and strengthening our ownpany.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth thought for a bit before giving a slight nod, ¡°I understand what you mean, but the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be that dumb. They will want what you sell them, but there will be restrictions.¡±

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°Your majesty, I think that even you should know about smuggling, right?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth face sunk and he gave a cold snort, ¡°Apany¡¯s chairman is talking to me about smuggling, you really are bold!¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t afraid, rather he said with a cheeky smile, ¡°Your majesty, not only am I mentioning smuggling, the right that I wanted is rted to smuggling.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth found this funny, ¡°What? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to smuggle?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, but I want it to be legal smuggling.¡±

    ¡°What¡¯s legal about smuggling? Are you joking?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Of course not.¡¯ Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°As long as it is approved and supervised by your majesty, it would naturally be legal.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t joking, Lampuri Thirteenth thought for a bit before suddenly revealing a slightly sly smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are a merchant, you should know that you have to pay a price for benefits, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh and spread his hands, ¡°Your majesty, I¡¯m already here, so please butcher me however you want.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenthughed, ¡°Then I won¡¯t hold back.¡±

    ###

    When Xu Yi returned, Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas were waiting for him.

    When they saw Xu Yi, they had strange expressions.

    Although there weren¡¯t many people watching at the Royal Parliament, for the noble circle of Anvilmar City, the matters of the Royal Parliament weren¡¯t a secret, especially one that was this shocking.

    His majesty had personallye out to forcefully maintain Xu Yi¡¯s title as a viscount!

    Manager Dema had announced the king¡¯s orders in front of everyone, so for the nobles of the city, this was like two ps on the face of the Royal Parliament.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom had several hundred years of history, with the king and the Royal Parliament not seeing eye to eye many times, even directly shing, something like this where the Royal Parliament¡¯s face was directly pped rarely happened.

    The king had simply told everyone that they couldn¡¯t touch Xu Yi.

    Before this, although many people knew that the king ced importance on Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no one had thought that the king ced this much importance on Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He didn¡¯t even hesitate to p the face of the Royal Parliament.

    This one matter made Xu Yi the noble who received the most attention in the Lampuri Kingdom noble circle, it made countless people admire him.

    However, when Viscount Leslie and Baron Hannas saw Xu Yi, they didn¡¯t look that happy.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I feel that you are being used by his majesty.¡± Baron Hannas shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Although forcefully protecting you from the Royal Parliament is very imposing, guaranteeing that no one will easily move against you, this will make the fellows at the Royal Parliament hate you to their bones and will cause more trouble for you in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°You think they wouldn¡¯t cause trouble for me for no reason? The decision of the senate wasn¡¯t suddenly decided.¡±

    Baron Hannas thought about it before saying with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, those old men in the Royal Parliament stand on his highness Eric¡¯s side, so they will definitely mess with you. His majesty using you is to give them a warning.¡±

    ¡°So that means it¡¯s fine to be used. You have to know, there are many people who want to be used by the king and aren¡¯t qualified.¡±

    ¡°You have seen this through.¡± Viscount Leslie couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I was worried that you would be dejected because of this attack, but now it seemed like you aren¡¯t influenced by it at all. I¡¯m relieved.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not right if I¡¯m notpletely influenced.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°At least I¡¯ve understood one thing through this matter. It is that whether I¡¯m willing or not, I¡¯ve already been marked with her highness Seveni¡¯s mark. Just like you, Leslie, now matter what you think, everyone will always think you are someone from the Stagg Family.¡±

    Viscount Leslie shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t just this, if I can cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone will think that the Stagg Family has suddenly changed their stance. The chain reaction of this will definitely be very interesting.¡±

    Xu Yi and Baron Hannas looked at him in surprise. Baron Hannas couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, Leslie, it can¡¯t be that you¡¯re doing this because you thought of this, right?¡±

    Viscount Leslie just smiled without saying a thing.

    Xu Yi said with a frown, ¡°Leslie, if you really do this, isn¡¯t this clearly going against your family?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Viscount Leslie gave a shrug, ¡°If I didn¡¯t do this before I was kicked out of the house, wouldn¡¯t it be a waste of the status of the eldest son?¡±

    Seeing Viscount Leslie revealing a self-deprecating smile, Xu Yi and Baron Hannas looked at each other and they could see the helplessness in each other¡¯s eyes.

    They knew that once Viscount Leslie decided to do something, it wasn¡¯t easy for someone to change his mind.

    And based on his appearance, he had clearly nned out this matter and wouldn¡¯t be influenced by others.

    But the problem was, even if he was the Stagg Family¡¯s eldest son, resisting the Stagg Family like this would bring about his own destruction.

 Volume 3 161 - Magic Boat sail test

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 161 Magic Boat sail test</h4>

    Bringing along the worries of Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi left Anvilmar City and headed back to Banta City after being away for a month.

    What made him happy was that when he left Anvilmar City, out of the thirty seven beastmen girls of the New Moon Troupe, including Avril, a total of thirty five of them returned to Banta City with him.

    A fox n and a rabbit n girl chose to remain. Xu Yi didn¡¯t make it hard for them, making them sign a statement that they were withdrawing from the New Moon Troupe and then provided them apensation of five hundred gold coins before sending them off.

    In addition to Xu Yi and Linda, a total of thirty seven people were stuffed in two Magic Cars and were heading off to Banta City.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s initial n, he nned on stopping in several cities on the way back to inspect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bases, but because he had been outside for too long and Xu Yi was missing Still, he ordered them to directly head to Banta City.

    Banta City and Anvilmar City had long been connected by a road, so with the full power of the Magic Car, it only took a single afternoon for them to almost reach Banta City.

    Looking at the Sandy River glowing under the golden sunlight, Xu Yi felt a bit of excitement about returning home.

    He had been in this world for close to seven years. He had struggled to survive for the first three years, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a sense of a home in this world.

    But once he settled in Banta City, he created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, got married, and his child was about to be born. This made him feel like he had truly integrated himself into this world, also making Banta City his hometown in this world.

    The Falling Star Manor was naturally his home.

    After the Magic Cars went across the newly built Sandy River Bridge, Xu Yi had the driver not go into Banta City and to go along the road outside Banta City to head to the Falling Star Manor.

    Driving on the road by the river, Xu Yi found that there were a bunch of people gathered at the bank and he didn¡¯t know what they were doing.

    Xu Yi curiously looked out the window and he discovered a familiar figure in the crowd.

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t she at home? What did shee all the way here for?¡±

    As soon as he thought this, with a shocked cry from the beastmen girls, he used a Wind Control Spell to fly out the window. He crossed the span of a hundred meters in an instant and fell into the crowd.

    Suddenly falling into the crowd caused the crowd to call out in surprise.

    When they saw that person¡¯s face, everyone cried out again.

    ¡°Chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu is back!¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi ignored the crowd around him and looked at the pleasantly surprised Still who was looking at him in disbelief as she covered her mouth. He pulled her into his embrace and pulled aside her hand, moving his head down to give her a kiss.

    The crowd around them exploded again. Several people whistled and there were some that even apuded.

    After a while, Xu Yi let go of Still. Seeing her red face and her panting, he said with a faint smile, ¡°Still, I¡¯m back.¡±

    Still revealed an iparably happy smile as she reached out to touch Xu Yi¡¯s face before saying with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯ve be thinner and much more tan. Has it not gone well this time?¡±

    ¡°Being outside isn¡¯t asfortable as being at home, this is very normal.¡± Xu Yiughed before adding, ¡°This isn¡¯t rted to Linda, but you can¡¯t say that she didn¡¯t take care of me.¡±

    Still thought for a bit before ring at Xu Yi and giving a soft snort, ¡°Of course she took care of you well, would I not know this?¡±

    Hearing how Still emphasized ¡°took care¡±, Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile. He quickly changed the topic and asked, ¡°Right, why aren¡¯t you staying at home, what did youe here for? It¡¯s this cold today, you¡¯re not taking care of yourself.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not that weak.¡± Still shook her head and turned in the direction of the river, ¡°Look, wouldn¡¯t you know what is going on if you just wait a bit?¡±

    He never thought that Still would keep him guessing. Xu Yi could only chat with Still while wondering and watching the river.

    In less than a minute, there was a ck sport that appeared on the river that quickly approached.

    After a while, Xu Yi looked carefully and found that this ck spot was a boat.

    When it came closer and he could see it clearly, he saw that it was a small boat that could only fit one person.

    The small boat quickly moved along the river and guessing with his eyes, this boat was moving at least thirty kilometers an hour. It didn¡¯t take that long for it to quicklye from not far away.

    Looking at this small boat, Xu Yi was pleasantly surprised.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Those fellows clearly said that it would take a long time to develop this, how could they have already developed it on a single trip?¡±

    Still pursed her lips into a smile, ¡°That was them lying to you.¡±

    Xu Yi watched as the small boat came closer and stopped by the bank near the crowd. He saw the boatman walk off the boat and he was surprised.

    This boatman was actually Great Magician Cami!

    Xu Yi had asked Still in a low voice with a strange expression, ¡°Hey, Still, grandfather still hasn¡¯t learned how to drive a Magic Car yet, how could you let him drive a boat? Aren¡¯t you afraid that it¡¯ll turn over?¡±

    Before Still could reply, Great Magician Cami already spoke in a loud voice.

    ¡°Hey, kid, my ears are very sharp, don¡¯t think that I can¡¯t hear you! Let me tell you, I¡¯m not good at driving the Magic Car, but that doesn¡¯t mean I can¡¯t drive the Magic Boat!¡±

    Xu Yi quickly turned and came forward with a smile.

    ¡°Grandfather, I didn¡¯t say that you couldn¡¯t drive well, only.....This should just be an experiment, why did they pull you out?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m willing. What? You have an opinion?¡± Great Magician Cami red at him.

    ¡°No, no, no, how could I have an opinion? It¡¯s good that you¡¯re happy.¡±

    Xu Yi turned and found several magic machine development center researchers in the crowd before immediately pulling them out.

    ¡°Hey, aren¡¯t you already on vacation? Why are you doing an experiment instead of going on vacation?¡±

    The researchers didn¡¯t care about Xu Yi¡¯s reproving tone and excitedly said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, look! We¡¯ve done a total of seventeen tests today! The facts prove that the fastest speed of the Magic Boat is thirty seven kilometers an hour! It¡¯s pretty much the same as the Magic Car!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Hearing this figure, Xu Yi didn¡¯t continue to reprove them. He took the records from their hand and seriously looked it over, finding that they had been experimenting all day.

    The experiment had a starting point of one kilometer upriver on the Sandy River and this was the stop point.

    It could be seen that the first test took the longest and then it became faster and faster.

    The most recent one which was the one that Xu Yi saw, this Magic Boat took less than two minutes toe over from a kilometer away.

    Then after he finished reading the data, Xu Yi knit his brows.

    ¡°It¡¯s only following the current? What about against the current?¡±

    The researchers looked at each other with awkward expressions.

    ¡°This......Sir chairman, this small Magic Boat is only in the experimental stage. The Magic Engine isn¡¯t strong enough, so the results of going against the current.....is just too ugly.¡±

    Xu Yi red at them, ¡°You don¡¯t record if it¡¯s ugly? Didn¡¯t I say it many times, experiments are for finding problems and then finding a solution to those problems? You¡¯re actually neglecting data that doesn¡¯t look good, then what meaning does this experiment have?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t me them, I had them not record it.¡± Still suddenly cut in.

    ¡°You?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still in confusion, ¡°Why?¡±

    Still didn¡¯t respond and just pointed at Great Magician Cami who was talking to the crowd about the pleasant feeling of driving the Magic Boat.

    Xu Yi looked at the excited Great Magician Cami and could guess a few things, so he gave the data back to the researchers.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s end today¡¯s experiment here. Remember, when you do experiments, try not to attract the attention of many people. It isn¡¯t only to protect our secrets, it¡¯s also to keep things safe, understood?¡±

    The researchers all agreed.

    ¡°Moreover......In light of the fact that you have made a major breakthrough with the Magic Boat, in my name as the chairman, I grant you a third level reward.¡± Xu Yi added with a smile.

    The researchers were stunned before they cheered out.

    The year was about to end and if they could get a third level reward, it would be great!

    Seeing the researchers take away the small boat, Great Magician Cami felt a bit unwilling, but Xu Yi convinced him that Still needed to go back to rest, so he gave up.

    ¡°Hey, kid, when this thing is developed, I want to be the first to drive it, understand?¡± On the way back, Great Magician Cami warned Xu Yi with a strict look.

    Xu Yi agreed not knowing whether tough or cry.

    This Great Magician Cami was clearly conservative, so why did he crave to test these new magic machines?

    Whether it was the bicycle from before or the Magic Car, he was very interested.

    This Magic Boat was clearly in its developmental stage and he actually came here to volunteer to drive it.

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because he can¡¯t learn to drive a Magic Car that he wants to reverse the situation with the Magic Boat?¡± Xu Yi guessed in his heart.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi thought of the Magic Airship Evita was developing.

    When the Magic Airship was to be tested, because it was flying in the air, it would be very dangerous. When that timees, one would need a magician skilled in flight magic to test it.

    It seemed like Great Magician Caml was a pretty good choice.

 Volume 3 162 - Customized household magic machines

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 162 Customized household magic machines</h4>

    After returning to the Falling Star Manor, Still went to arrange the girls of the New Moon Troupe. After receiving the news that Xu Yi was back, many guests came.

    The first one to visit was chairman Cruise.

    When he saw Xu Yi, chairman Cruise immediatelyughed and spread his arms to pull Xu Yi into a hug.

    Seeing his face that was glowing with health, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman cruise, it seems like you¡¯re in quite the good mood. It seems like the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit this year isn¡¯t bad?¡±

    ¡°How so, how so. Although it is good,pared to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it is farcking.¡± Chairman Cruise was modest, but he couldn¡¯t suppress the proud look on his face, ¡°If I really have to mention it, the most profitable projects for ourpany are all made with your help. So I should give a portion of this profit to you.¡±

    ¡°I just made a suggestion, I didn¡¯t really do anything.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Speaking of this.....Has your newly builtmunities been selling well?¡±

    ¡°Un, half a month ago, the high ssmunity waspletely sold out. I¡¯m looking to continue developing in the new year, so I came to get some more suggestions from you. How about it? Chairman Xu, do you have any better suggestions?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve already given you everything. If I really have to give you a suggestion, it would be to strengthen the rtionship between the houses and household magic machines because household magic machines are things that every household needs. So you need to consider this.¡±

    ¡°That is certain.¡± Chairman Cruise nodded, ¡°Moreover, I¡¯m not only considering this, I also want to discuss a new method of cooperation with you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What new method? Tell me about it.¡±

    ¡°Look, after buying a new house, they need to buy a set of household magic machines. Since they have to do this, why don¡¯t we help them prepare a set of household magic machines when they buy their houses?¡± Chairman Cruise said.

    ¡°You mean.....selling the house and furniture together?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°This might not be good because this will take away the power of choice from the people who buy the hose and will affect the decision of many people to buy these houses.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing to worry about.¡± Chairman Cruiseughed, ¡°If the houses are all filled with the Frestech Brand, I think that no one will mind. After allpared to the household magic machines of otherpanies, the Frestech Brand is better whether it is quality or performance. Moreover, having the Frestech Brand gives a lot of face, it¡¯s much better than the other brands.¡±

    Xu YI found this a bit funny, ¡°Although I¡¯m very happy with you saying this, we can¡¯t follow our wishes since it will influence others.¡±

    Chairman Cruise seemed like he was prepared and said in a confident manner, ¡°Then what if the houses had custom made Frestech Brand household magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Custom made?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°You mean......to let us custom develop household magic machines to match the houses?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu understands quickly.¡± Chairman Cruise gave Xu Yi a thumbs up, ¡°Think about it, if they have specially designed Frestech Brand household magic machines, just this would attract plenty of people. Not to mention that the custom made household magic machines woulde together with the design of their house, looking very beautiful. I¡¯m certain that these houses would attract plenty of people and it would sell out.¡±

    Seeing the confident chairman Cruise, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This wouldn¡¯t work.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was stunned like he had been hit with a bucket of ice water.

    ¡°Why not? Not only would our Amrit Chamber of Commerce sell more houses, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce would sell more household magic machines. Since it is custom, you can raise the price of the household magic machines, so you can earn quite a bit.¡±

    ¡°Because this wastes ourpany¡¯s design resources.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Household magic machines can¡¯t be changed as you wish. Even if you change a bit, it will affect the overall dynamic of the structure, so you need to conduct a lot of research to change it even a bit. But ourpany¡¯s design and research department doesn¡¯t have enough resources, so how could we possibly custom design household magic machines?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was firm in his words, chairman Cruise was a bit depressed.

    ¡°So it¡¯s impossible?¡±

    ¡°At least it¡¯s impossible now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said.

    Chairman Cruise gave a sigh and didn¡¯t pursue this matter. He changed to another important topic for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce,ying down roads.

    ¡°The stats from this year are out. In this year, ourpany hasid down eight thousand three hundred and seventy six kilometers of cement road in the kingdom, connecting all the cities in the kingdom.¡±

    Speaking of this, chairman Cruise had another confident look.

    ¡°Of course, we¡¯veid down over a thousand kilometers of road in our Banta City alone, connecting all the viges. If all the other cities in the kingdom did the same as Banta City, we would have toy down several tens of thousands of kilometers of road.¡±

    ¡°It takes a lot of time and money to improve the roadwork, it can¡¯t be rushed.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If you want the other cities to connect all the viges with roads like our Banta City, the other cities need to be as rich as our Banta City first.¡±

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Right, speaking of connecting every city, I suddenly remembered something. When you went to Banta City, did you pass by Basaru City? It is one of the few cities that doesn¡¯t have a single road. Is that ce really that poor?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands, ¡°It¡¯s just that poor. Let me tell you, the Basaru City City Lord Count Longley, his family doesn¡¯t even live as well as themon citizens of our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Is it that exaggerated?¡± Chairman Cruise revealed a shocked look, ¡°He is a Lord Count! How could he live a worse life than our Banta Citymon citizens?¡±

    ¡°This is a fact because when I passed by Basaru City, I personally witnessed it when I stayed with Count Longley for two days.¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡° Perhaps he was just acting in front of you. Anyway, I don¡¯t believe that a count¡¯s family would be this poor.¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if it was an act or not, Basaru City really is poor. Also Count Longley has invited our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest, so I wanted to ask, are you interested ining with me? If I want to invest there, I have to at least build some roads.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°Since it¡¯s that poor, what benefit is there in investing?¡±

    ¡°Even if they are poor, it doesn¡¯t mean there¡¯s no value there. Rather, I found a very precious resource in Basaru City. As long as we use it properly, it isn¡¯t hard to earn arge amount.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°As long as chairman Xu has decided to go, I will definitely go with you. Anyway, I believe that going with you, I definitely wouldn¡¯t suffer a loss!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then I have to thank you for your trust.¡±

    Once chairman Cruise left, Kennard came into the Falling Star Manor.

    Seeing chairman Cruise disappear into the night in his horse carriage, Kennard asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Cruise must have asked you about the custom household magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°What? Did he talk to you about it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, he discussed this matter to me ten days ago and I agreed with it, but I said that we would wait for the chairman toe back to decide. You didn¡¯t agree to it?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before asking, ¡°Why did you agree?¡±

    ¡°This......I felt that this could be a new method of development for the household magic machines, increasing their sales, so I approved it. Then chairman, why didn¡¯t you agree with it?¡±

    ¡°Your idea isn¡¯t wrong, but you¡¯ve neglected a problem. Ourpany¡¯s most important thing isn¡¯t increasing the sales of household magic machines, rather it is to continue promoting magic machines to let the entire kingdom and even the entire continent ept the existence of magic machines.¡± Xu Yi paused before asking, ¡°Do you remember the dream I told you before?¡±

    ¡°Flying into outer space and chasing the stars?¡± Kennard looked up to see many stars in the dark night and a yearning appeared in his eyes, ¡°Chairman, I understand what you mean. In front of this dream, increasing the sales of household magic machines really doesn¡¯t matter.¡±

    After a while, Kennard¡¯s expression returned back to normal.

    ¡°But chairman, if you reject chairman Cruise¡¯s proposal, it is very likely he will cooperate with anotherpany that produces household magic machines. We might lose this opportunity in the future.¡±

    ¡°Have I given up few opportunities?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Not to mention, if it wasn¡¯t for me, thosepanies wouldn¡¯t even have opportunities, right?¡±

    Kennardughed, ¡°That¡¯s right. Sir chairman, you really are the strangest merchant I¡¯ve seen, but I like it very much.¡±

    Afterughing, Kennard¡¯s face suddenly fell as he said with a sigh, ¡°Only it¡¯s a pity.....sir chairman, I have to say goodbye to you.¡±

 Volume 3 163 - Two naive people

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 163 Two naive people</h4>

    Watching Kennard¡¯s Magic Car heading to Anvilmar City and disappearing on the road, Xu Yi gave a chuckle and shook his head.

    ¡°This Kennard, isn¡¯t it just going back home for New Years? Why did he make it sound so serious and tell me ¡®goodbye¡¯. He almost scared me to death, I thought he was nning to resign.¡±

    Heinz on the side slightly knit his brows, ¡°This isn¡¯t impossible. I heard that the Emma Family has stepped into the magic machine industrytely. It¡¯s quite reasonable to call back someone like him who has worked as our CEO for two years now.¡±

    ¡°Because the Emma Family wants to step into the magic machine industry, they won¡¯t do something like this because if Kennard remains as the CEO for ourpany, it will help them develop in the magic machine industry.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°In the end, if anypany wants to step into the magic machine industry, they have to build rtions with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Heinz broke out inughter, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found that you¡¯re bing more like those important people, you¡¯re always confident when you speak.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at him and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Baron Hannas seemed to have said the same thing to me, could it be that my personality really has changed?¡±

    Heinz shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think your personality has changed, but.....How to say it? It should be because ourpany is stronger, so you as the chairman naturally will have more confidencepared to before, so you¡¯ve be more oppressive.¡±

    ¡°Why does it sound like I¡¯ve be a viin......¡± Xu Yiughed at himself, ¡°Could it be that that kid Alex told you this?¡±

    Hearing the name ¡°Alex¡±, Heinz¡¯s face fell and he gave a strong snort.

    ¡°Don¡¯t mention that kid to me, I¡¯m angry once he¡¯s mentioned!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Heinz hade to send off Kennard with him today, if it wasn¡¯t for Alex, he wouldn¡¯t have believed it.

    After Alex came back with him from Anvilmar City, he had remained home for a while. Xu Yi had already told him what he and Heinz had discussed to let Alex prepare his heart.

    Only Xu Yi never thought that Heinz wouldn¡¯t be able to calm down. The second day he returned from Sowell City, he came to find him.

    It could be imagined that Alex staying at home put a lot of pressure on Heinz.

    But he wouldn¡¯t talk about it and acted like it didn¡¯t matter. He continued to ask, ¡°Right, speaking of Alex, since he came back from Anvilmar City, what are you nning to do with him? He¡¯s still young, he can¡¯t just keep staying at home.¡±

    ¡°Un, I think the same. This......¡± Heinz revealed a very awkward smile and even ttered Xu Yi a bit, ¡°Xu Yi, I have scolded this kid over these days and he regrets it very much, he was very muddled during that time. So.....I hope that you can give him another chance. Look......¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t something that can be exined as being confused.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a serious look, ¡°Heinz, you should be very clear that if I didn¡¯t find out about this early and he continued to reveal the secrets of ourpany, it would have created serious consequences that he couldn¡¯t take. Moreover, to be honest, he even had contact with people of the Sack Kingdom before, wanting to betray the secrets of ourpany to the Sack Kingdom. Do you know that this can be considered treason?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that bad......¡± Heinz¡¯s expression was very ugly, ¡°He really was just confused, he didn¡¯t have these thoughts. He regrets it now, he shouldn¡¯t have sold thepany¡¯s secrets for a bit of money. Xu Yi.....You.....Just forgive him and give him another chance, alright? I¡¯ve never asked you for anything in these years, just treat it as me asking you for a favour this time, alright?¡±

    Seeing Heinz¡¯s begging appearance, Xu Yi gave a deep sigh and patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder, ¡°He is your nephew, you are doing your best for him. When this kid grows up and needs your help, would you dig out your flesh to help him?¡±

    Heinz gave a bitterugh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, he is my only nephew. My big brother and his wife died in the turmoil ten years ago and they entrusted him to me when he wasn¡¯t even ten years old. I have a responsibility to take care of him.¡±

    ¡°Taking care of him doesn¡¯t mean pampering him.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He took another look at Heinz and gave another sigh, ¡°Alright, although this goes against thepany¡¯s rules, since you¡¯ve already said this, I¡¯ll give him another chance. Thepany will be forming a transport fleet soon, have him take the driver¡¯s exam and then he can join the fleet as a driver. As long as he is willing to endure, it isn¡¯t impossible for him to be the leader of the transport fleet or even manager of the transportation department. I hope that he will seize this chance and do his best.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi finally agree, Heinz¡¯s eyes lit up and he was filled with joy. He grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s hands and shook it, ¡°Good, good, good. Thank you, chairman, thank you for giving him this chance. I¡¯ll tell him now and have him work properly!¡±

    Seeing Heinz turn to leave, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Actually, he didn¡¯t feel good about Alex.

    The matter of Alex selling thepany¡¯s secrets for money in Anvilmar City waspletely because he was corrupted by Anvilmar City.

    He¡¯s already used to the life of luxury, could he really suffer and work hard as a driver?

    Xu Yi was doubtful.

    Even though there were plenty of other jobs for Alex in thepany, Xu Yi had already lost faith in him, so naturally he wouldn¡¯t give him any chance to touch the secrets of thepany.

    It was like he had told Heinz earlier, the things Alex did could be considered treason. Xu Yi had forced him back from Anvilmar City was all because of Heinz.

    If he wanted to enjoy a good job again, it wouldn¡¯t be fair to others and it would be irresponsible when it came to thepany.

    Thinking of how Heinz was begging for Alex, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving another sigh.

    ¡°Others pity the parents of the world, but what about Heinz? Pity the uncles of the world?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile. He turned to his horse carriage and headed to the City Lord Manor.

    When she saw Xu Yi, Seveni was on her rare break.

    When she saw Xu Yi, Seveni put down the hot drink at her mouth and revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re finally back.¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to greet her with a casual look on his face.

    ¡°Hey, your highness, I¡¯m back. Have you been well during this time?¡±

    Seveni pointed at the pile of paperwork on her desk, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This is the work of a City Lord. When you be queen, I guarantee there will be several times more paperwork.¡±

    Seveni said with a sigh, ¡°Right, I¡¯ve seen my father at work before, I was scared by the amount of paperwork he faced, so I¡¯m hesitating now. If I want to take the throne, I have to face this difficulty and I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t handle this.¡±

    Hearing the hidden meaning in Sevenin¡¯s words, Xu Yi knit his brows and said with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, you can¡¯t just give up because you want to. If you want to give up, it means giving up on the people who have supported you.¡± After pausing, Xu Yi pointed at himself, ¡°Or to put it more directly, people like will be sold out by you.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi and said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, even if I wanted to sell you out, I need people to buy you, right? Don¡¯t forget, your current value has reached a point where others are willing to collude with the Sack Kingdom to get rid of you.¡±

    Hearing Seveni mention this, Xu Yi deeply knit his brows, ¡°What about the captives I sent back? If i wasn¡¯t prepared this time, I might not havee back at all.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve handed them to father, so I don¡¯t know about them right now.¡± Seveni replied.

    ¡°His majesty?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it. The king used a forward method to deal with the Royal Parliament this time, which also showed his support for him. Other than deterring those fellows with bad intentions, this was also a warning to the nobles and the reason for that was here.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi stopped discussing this matter.

    Now that the matter had been handed over to his majesty, he no longer needed to meddle.

    But there were other things that needed to be done. So after Xu Yi thought about, Xu Yi mentioned another important matter to Seveni.

    ¡°Noble private armies?¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows and looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°Why are you thinking about this? Didn¡¯t you oppose nobles having private military equipment, feeling that it would destabilize the kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That is to protect oneself, your highness should understand the reason.¡±

    Seveni let out a deep sigh, ¡°I can understand your ideas, but ideas have even been changed by you, so I feel that this world really is disappointing.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug with a bitter smile, ¡°Your highness, we are no longer children, so we should expect this sooner orter. Only I never thought that the other side would be in such a rush to force me to bring this day sooner. I think that if you had been there when our motorcade was attacked, you would definitely understand my urgent mood.¡±

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°No, even if I was there, I can still understand your idea and support it very much. But.....Xu Yi, do you know that I¡¯ve always been moved by your great ideal? So I hope that you can keep acting this pure , but now it seems like you can¡¯t avoid this fate. Actually.....I¡¯m very disappointed, but it isn¡¯t disappointment in you.¡±

    ¡°The idea that you have, could it be that you idealize me too much, or wouldn¡¯t this be called naive by others?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Seveni, perhaps it was because of this that we attracted each other and started walking together?¡±

    When he said this, Xu Yi immediately reacted. These words were a bit too much.

    However, it was toote to change his tone, so he just gave a cough and turned his head. He quickly changed the topic, ¡°That.....Your highness, you still haven¡¯t told me how big of a private army nobles can have.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s face was a bit red, but she still looked at Xu Yi and said with a faint smile, ¡°In theory, there is no limit.¡±

 Volume 3 164 - Traffic jam

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 164 Traffic jam</h4>

    When leaving the City Lord Manor, it was already close to noon.

    Xu Yi looked at the sky and thought that since he had juste back, he had to go back to the Falling Star Manor today to enjoy lunch with Still. Since he didn¡¯t have time to visit anyone, he got into his horse carriage and headed to the Falling Star Manor.

    As he swayed with the horse carriage on the road, Xu Yi thought about the answer Seveni had just given him.

    In theory, there were no limits to a noble¡¯s private army because the parliament and the Royal Parliament didn¡¯t put any limitations on this.

    Because if one carefully analyzed the structure of the Lampuri Kingdom, they would find that the entire Lampuri Kingdom was just a group ofrge nobles.

    As for the royal family, they were just the strongest noble family.

    The army that the royal family had was the strongest in the kingdom, so the royal family controlled thergest influence in the kingdom and the head of the royal family was the one who was king.

    If one day the royal family couldn¡¯t keep this superiority, it was very likely they would be reced by anotherrge noble family and the ruler would change.

    This wasn¡¯t that different from the history of earth, but it wasn¡¯t as open as it was in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    On the Sines Continent, other than some small duchies and small countries, all the other countries, including the Candra and Marlow Empires all had this same system. So Xu Yi¡¯s problem didn¡¯t seem to be a problem for Seveni.

    Of course, this only existed in theory.

    First, the most important issue was cost.

    To build an army, it wasn¡¯t as simple as bringing men together to create a private army.

    This army would be a motley crew without any strength.

    If one wanted strength, they needed soldiers of a certain quality.

    The Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have a high poption and the living conditions have never been good, so there weren¡¯t enough people physically capable of being soldiers, decreasing the quality of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s armies. Even the strongest northern army had no more than thirty thousand people.

    Second, there had to be enough supplies.

    A single soldier other than their personal quality needed equipment to increase their battle strength.

    To guarantee that a soldier always had this, one had to give corresponding supplies and at least let the soldier eat their fill.

    The investment in this would be without a doubt very terrifying.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army had less than fifty thousand people, but they spent over three hundred thousand gold coins in military expenses each year.

    This investment was already considered very low.

    Not only could itpare to the Sack Kingdom, it was even worse than the smaller countries like the Drake Duchy.

    There was no other way since the Lampuri Kingdom was poor before.

    So that meant that to have a limitless army, you had to have limitless funds to invest.

    Of course this was impossible. So for the second strongest Stagg Family after the royal family, they only had three thousand people in their private army.

    Of course, how many soldiers the Stagg Family really had was not an urate answer.

    But if one was bold with their calctions, it would be at most five thousand people.

    Because even if the Stagg Family is willing to invest, there was another important question other than the costs which was suppression from the royal family.

    Since the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s political system decided that the strongest family was the royal family, the royal family had to strictly limit the private armies of the other nobles.

    Although through the unwritten rules among nobles and the customs of the Sines Continent, the royal family couldn¡¯t force the Royal Parliament to make a decision and limit the amount of troops a noble had, as the family that had the most power in the kingdom, the royal family naturally had countless methods to achieve this.

    For example, Lampuri Thirteenth once gave a decree on the grounds of protecting the kingdom that therge nobles had to send a certain amount of their private armies to the northern army, to defend against the Sack Kingdom.

    The northern army had a high casualty rate, so if they sent a portion of their army, the bigger the private army, the higher the loss of the nobles.

    So with the other methods of the royal family, the armies of the nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom were gradually stabilized.

    For an army like the Stagg Family¡¯s that had three thousand soldiers, it was already the kingdom¡¯s highest standard.

    The other nobles of the kingdom had around two thousand soldiers.

    For a trivial viscount like Xu Yi......

    Want to own a private army? Are you crazy?

    Of course Xu Yi wasn¡¯t crazy, naturally Seveni didn¡¯t think this way.

    She knew that Xu Yi¡¯s meaning behind this question was, so after giving Xu Yi a detailed analysis of the kingdom¡¯s noble armies, she gave him a suggestion.

    It was best not to announce that he wanted a private army and he could hire several hundred guards for this territory.

    Although this would attract the attention of countless people, it would at least be eptable since many nobles in the kingdom used this method.

    Xu Yi happily epted Seveni¡¯s suggestion, but only a few hundred people were far from enough in his eyes.

    If he really needed them, several hundred people weren¡¯t any use at all.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t worry about investing like the other nobles and with the weapons they could manufacture, Xu Yi could easily build an army that was over several hundred people.

    To avoid the suppression of the royal family, there were also many other methods.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t need to discuss this with Seveni.

    The horse carriage slowed down aftering out the west gate of Banta City.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi asked the driver in a confused voice.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s a traffic jam.¡±

    ¡°Traffic jam?¡± Hearing this word that was familiar on earth, but strange in this world, Xu Yi was surprised.

    He opened the curtain to the horse carriage and found that the road was indeed blocked.

    The road was eight meters wide and could hold four horse carriages, but now that there were Magic Cars that were heading to the Falling Rain Valley, it blocked up the road.

    It seemed like there was an ident in front. He could see two horse carriages on the ground and could hear the sounds of arguing in front.

    Seeing the anxious looks people had and hearing their discussions, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This scene really was a fond memory for him.

    ¡°Old Bell, are traffic jams normal?¡± Xu Yi asked Bell who was the driver of his personal horse carriage.

    ¡°There weren¡¯t that many before, but there were more in thetter half of this year.¡± Old Bell replied before suddenly looking at Xu Yi with a strange gaze, ¡°Sir chairman, to be honest, it only started after ourpany started selling Magic Cars and many people in traffic jams curse us.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°They will adapt sooner orter.¡±

    Looking up to see that the situation wasn¡¯t improving and seeing that there were more and more vehicles, even extending to the city gates in the distance. Xu Yi remembered that there weren¡¯t things like traffic police that could be sent to direct traffic.

    After hesitating a bit, Xu Yi used his Wind Control Technique to fly over the blocked horse carriages and Magic Cars.

    He flew up front to see that it was a Magic Car and two horse carriages that caused the ident.

    The two horse carriages were on the ground and looked like they were about to break, clearly having been hit very hard.

    That Magic Car was standing on the side, looking like it wasn¡¯t damaged at all.

    He looked over the people arguing and Xu Yi found an acquaintance.

    ¡°Old man Sarkozy, it¡¯s you. What happened here?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy looked at Xu Yi who had fallen down from the sky in surprise before revealing a happy look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you here as well? I was just transporting goods from Cramer City. Look, this car has goods from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s about to go to the Falling Rain Valley. I never thought that I would hit them here.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at where old man Sarkozy was pointing and the people arguing with old man Sarkozy were small nobles of Banta City. It was no wonder they had these pretty good personal horse carriages.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, the several nobles beganining.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t listen to his nonsense! We were clearly heading along the road and he mmed into us. Look, our horse carriages are almost broken! We¡¯re also injured, could it be that this is our fault?¡±

    ¡°Whose fault would it be if not yours? Who told your horse carriages to run all wild and run so fast? Are your horses crazy?¡± Old man Sarkozy immediately refuted.

    The expression on the faces of the nobles froze before they roared back, ¡°I think you¡¯re crazy! Our horse carriage and horse have been in the family for over ten years, how could they be worse than this Magic Car that came out of nowhere? You......¡±

    When the nobles said this, they remembered that Xu Yi was on the side. They had actually spoken ill of the Magic Cars in front of Xu Yi, wasn¡¯t this seeking death?

    Turning to see Xu Yi¡¯s face sink, their hearts were filled with fear.

 Volume 3 165 - Settling down

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 165 Settling down</h4>

    Although Xu Yi was in name a normal merchant, being at most a viscount, no one looked at him this simply.

    Just with the close rtionship between him and the City Lord her highness Seveni, it was enough for these small nobles to be respectful to him.

    Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t look good, the nobles that were just cursing old man Sarkozy gave Xu Yi a smile, ¡°This.....Chairman Xu, I wasn¡¯t saying that the Magic Cars aren¡¯t good, I was just saying he wasn¡¯t driving well. Look, we were nning on going to the Falling Rain Valley to test for our license and to get a Magic Car to y with......¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, stop wasting words. Argue on the side, don¡¯t block the way here. Don¡¯t you see how many people you are dying?¡±

    Looking back, old man Sarkozy and the small nobles revealed embarrassed smiles. Then looking at the two horse carriages on the ground, they revealed difficult looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this horse carriage is very heavy, how will we move it......¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He came to the side of the two horse carriages and leaned over, using his magic. He slid his finger across the horse carriages and soon heid down two Magic Arrays.

    Sending magic into the Magic Arrays, the two lit up with a light blue glow and the two horse carriages floated into the air, easily floating there.

    Old man Sarkozy, the small nobles, and the surrounding people were stunned.

    Although everyone knew that Xu Yi was a magician, because of his identity as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, people always forgot about this fact.

    However, seeing the scene in front of them, everyone knew that Xu Yi was not just a magician, he was also a powerful magician.

    Otherwise, how could he casually make two horse carriages fly up with just a few flicks of his finger?

    Moreover, the two horse carriages were firmly floating in the air without shaking at all. It could be seen that Xu Yi had very good control of this Magic Array, clearly having good skills with magic.

    Not to mention that with this amazing magic was something that no one had even heard of before.

    ¡°Chairman Xu can actually develop this amazing magic on his own, he really is too strong!¡±

    If Xu Yi knew what people were thinking, he definitely would have been embarrassed.

    Because this Magic Array wasn¡¯t something he developed, it was something he learned from Evita.

    Evita had been researching the Magic Airship recently. She had reached the peak of this Floating Array, it far surpassed the normal magician¡¯s understanding of this Floating Array.

    Xu Yi had learned a portion of it from her, which was enough to achieve this amazing effect.

    These two horse carriages floated at waist height and Xu Yi pushed them. These two horse carriages that were over five hundred kilograms added together floated to the side of the road.

    A few pushes cleared the road and Xu Yi put down the horse carriages as he stopped his magic.

    ¡°Alright, you wait here and discuss what just happened. I¡¯ll be back to listen to the resultster.¡±

    Xu Yi said this and entered old man Sarkozy¡¯s Magic Car. He opened up the road beforeing back to direct the traffic.

    Although Xu Yi never did this before, he had seen this countless times on earth, so he did it decently after learning a bit.

    Not long after, the vehicles that were blocked for several hundred meters were cleared and the road was unobstructed again.

    Several horse carriages and Magic Cars passed. A normal looking horse carriage stopped in front of Xu Yi.

    The curtain opened and it revealed Evita¡¯s pleasantly surprised face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I never thought I would see you here.¡±

    Xu Yi was also surprised, ¡°Evita, shouldn¡¯t you be going back home? Why are you still in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°I did go back, but I came back.¡± Evita smiled with a rarely seen teasing tone to it.

    ¡°Why are you back?¡± Xu Yi was more confused, ¡°Aren¡¯t you nning on celebrating new years with your parents?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that......¡± Evita shook her head. After thinking for a bit, she had the driver bring the carriage to an open spot on the side of the road before jumping off.

    There were two people who followed her, but they were a middle aged man and woman. Based on their appearance, they seemed like a couple.

    Looking over the middle aged couple, Xu Yi found that their appearances were simr to Evita¡¯s.

    He looked at how close Evita was with this middle aged couple and Xu Yi instantly understood.

    ¡°These two.....would they be your parents?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Evita nodded with a faint smile, ¡°You really are sir chairman, you guessed it right away. Sir chairman, let me introduce you, they are my parents. I went back a few days ago to pick them up from my hometown, we¡¯re nning on spending new years in Banta City. Dad, mom, this is the sir chairman that I mentioned before.¡±

    The middle aged couple had respectful and nervous smiles as they gave a bow to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chair......Sir chairman Xu, our Evita has always had you looking after her at yourpany and has caused you trouble......¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he raised his hand, helping the two up, ¡°Evita is the most important magic research facility chief of ourpany, she has made a big contribution to ourpany and has helped me with many things, so how could she cause me trouble. To be honest, if Evita wasn¡¯t working at ourpany, I really would have a headache. Speaking of this, I have to thank you for raising such an outstanding daughter.¡±

    Evita¡¯s parents clearly never thought that Xu Yi would be this polite to them and were immediately stunned, but hearing Xu Yi praise Evita like this, they couldn¡¯t help revealing proud and happy smiles.

    After saying a few words to the two of them, Xu Yi turned to ask Evita, ¡°You don¡¯t have any rtives in Banta City, so isn¡¯t it inconvenient spending new years here?¡±

    ¡°Actually we don¡¯t have any rtives in our hometown.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°Moreover, sir chairman, I brought my parents to Banta City this time not just to spend new years, I want to let my parents settle down in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Settle down?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    Because transportation was inconvenient on the Sines Continent, most people rarely left their hometowns and it made people very unwilling to leave their hometowns.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the average wage in Banta City far surpassed other ces, there wouldn¡¯t be so many people who came from afar to Banta City.

    But even if Banta City had over two hundred non-natives each year, there were few that were willing to settle in Banta City.

    Most people would return to their hometowns during new years to spend it with their families and rtives.

    Evita gave a sigh and replied in a low voice, ¡°Because I¡¯m worried my hometown will be covered in the mes of war soon, so it¡¯s dangerous for them to stay in our hometown.¡±

    ¡°mes of war?¡± Xu Yi thought about it and remembered that Evita¡¯s hometown was near Lorren City, moreover, it was quite close to the border.

    If his highness Eric led the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, it was fine if it went smoothly, but if the Sack Kingdom fought back, the northern part of the kingdom would be covered in the mes of war.

    Evita¡¯s worries weren¡¯t unreasonable.

    ¡°Un.....This is also good. Banta City is much more prosperouspared to before, so if you live here, the living conditions should be better.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod with a smile to Evita¡¯s parents, ¡°I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in weing you and I hope that you have a happy life in Banta City.¡±

    Evita¡¯s parents nodded and thanked Xu Yi with smiles.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you can¡¯t just wee them, I also need your help.¡± Evita suddenly said, ¡°I wanted to go to the Falling Star Manor to look for you, but we can talk here since I bumped into you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you need my help with? Is it rted to your parents settling down?¡±

    Evita revealed a sweet smile, ¡°Un, sir chairman really is wise. I asked about it before and if people of other cities want to settle in Banta City, the procedure is troublesome. So I hope that sir chairman can help me talk to her highness and help my parents settle down?¡±

    ¡°There shouldn¡¯t be a problem, Banta City iscking people right now and her highness is weing outsiders to settle in Banta City. Moreover, the kingdom doesn¡¯t have any limit on people moving, so I think the procedure shouldn¡¯t be that troublesome.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as he replied. But after thinking about it, he found that perhaps settling Evita¡¯s parents was a small matter, but to deal with Banta City¡¯srge transient poption was a big problem.

    ¡°It seems like I have to raise this to her highness Seveni the next time I see her.¡±

    While Xu Yi remembered the various methods from earth on how to deal with the transient poption, Evita said, ¡°Right, sir chairman, other than me, there are many people in my hometown who said that they also wanted to settle in Banta City when they heard about my parents moving. Sir chairman, do you have a solution for this?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it with a frown and found that he had to solve this problem before his highness Eric led the northern army to attack next year, so time was quite tight.

    ¡°It seems like I have to discuss this with Seveni as soon as possible.¡± Xu Yi thought about it for a bit before nodding to Evita, ¡°Alright, I will seriously consider this. Take care of your parents first, if something happens,e looking for me.¡±

    ¡°Un, thanks sir chairman.¡± Evita revealed a sweet and gentle smile before getting in the horse carriage with her parents and heading off towards the Sandy River.

    Under Akali¡¯s urging and the enticement of the installment payment that chairman Cruise mentioned, she finally bought a vi in the upscale neighbourhood near the Sandy River bank.

    Xu Yi had seen her busily fixing up her house and teased her that she seemed more enthusiastic about decorating than Akali when she was so opposed to buying it.

    But now it seemed like Evita had already considered the problem of bringing her parents over to settle.

    Watching the horse carriage head off into the distance, Xu Yi had a strong premonition in his heart.

    Although Evita¡¯s parents were only two people, the fact that the two of them were here represented an important scene wasing.

 Volume 3 166 - Who says I canâ€™t afford it

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 166 Who says I can¡¯t afford it</h4>

    After watching Evita leave, Xu Yi came to old man Sarkozy and the small nobles on the side.

    It waspletely different from how they were arguing before. Both sides had smiles now and they were much calmer.

    Seeing Xu Yie over, the small nobles took the initiative to reconcile. They said that their horse carriage wasn¡¯t driving properly and hit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport Magic Car, it couldn¡¯t be med on old man Sarkozy.

    Old man Sarkozy knew that he was being bathed in the light of the ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡± and Xu Yi. He was very willing topensate the small nobles for their losses, including the repair fees for their two horse carriages and the medical costs for their injuries.

    The small nobles naturally acted like important people, saying that old man Sarkozy didn¡¯t need topensate them, they didn¡¯t care about this small matter at all.

    Everyone was happy, so one of the small nobles said with a smile, ¡°These two horse carriages have high repair costs, so you might not be able to afford them. Giving chairman Xu some face, we won¡¯t haggle with you that much.¡±

    These words made old man Sarkozy angry as he shouted with wide eyes, ¡°What? You¡¯re looking down on this old man? Your horse carriages cost a lot to repair? Then tell me and let¡¯s see if I can afford it or not?¡±

    That small noble also realized that he had misspoke, but he wasn¡¯t willing to lose face in front of an old farmer, so he raised his neck and said, ¡°What? One horse carriage costs three hundred gold coins to build, can you afford that?¡±

    ¡°Not just three hundred gold coins, it¡¯s just six hundred gold coins for the two horse carriages and I thought it was a lot of money.¡± Old man Sarkozy gave a cold snort and dug in his chest, taking out a sparkling golden bill, ¡°Here, there¡¯s a thousand gold coins there! Give me four hundred in return!¡±

    The small nobles looked at this gold bill and found that it was indeed for one thousand gold coins, as well asing from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. This instantly stunned them.

    To these people, old man Sarkozy was just a normal old farmer. Even if he earned a bit from transporting cargo for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn¡¯t earn that much. How could he take out several hundred gold coins?

    But they never thought that old man Sarkozy would take out a thousand gold coins!

    The small noble who argued with old man Sarkozy swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He reached out for the gold bill, but a hand from the side stopped him.

    ¡°Old man Sarkozy, take back your money.¡± Xu Yi grabbed the small nobles hand and looked at him, forcing that small noble to shrink his head back, ¡°You do have topensate them since they are injured, but based on what you just discussed, old man Sarkozy, you just need to pay them a bit of repair fees and mental damagepensation. I think.....fifty gold coins should be enough. Do you guys have any objections?¡±

    The small nobles all shook their heads.

    Although their horse carriage had fallen to the ground and seemed seriously damaged, it wasn¡¯t that exaggerated. It would be no problem as long as they brought it back for repairs.

    As for their injuries.....It was just a few scrapes, what injuries were there?

    As for the mental damagepensation that Xu Yi mentioned, they didn¡¯t know what it meant at all.

    In short, fifty gold coins had already surpassed their expectations.

    They thought that old man Sarkozy didn¡¯t have money at all and they couldn¡¯t gain anything. It was no use even if they killed old man Sarkozy, so they were prepared to count it as bad luck.

    But of course they were satisfied with fifty gold coins aspensation.

    Old man Sarkozy naturally didn¡¯t have any objections.

    When he took out the thousand gold coin bill, he actually regretted how impulsive he was. Now that Xu Yi had helped him mediate, of course he would take advantage of this opportunity. He dug around in his purse and took out fifty gold coins for the nobles.

    With both sides reconciling, Xu Yi nodded and prepared to leave.

    He had nned on heading back to have lunch with Still, but he had wasted quite a bit of time on this matter.

    When he turned to leave, the small nobles stopped him.

    ¡°This.....Chairman Xu, can you tell us, this.....Un.....This old man Sarkozy, does he just help yourpany transport goods?¡± A small noble pointed at old man Sarkozy and asked.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be considered that because old man Sarkozy bought the Magic Car for himself and was only helping ourpany transport goods this time. Normally he would be helping otherpanies.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    The small nobles all looked at old man Sarkozy.

    Old man Sarkozy nodded, ¡°Un, I help transport goods for manypanies in the city, but I¡¯ve helped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more.¡±

    ¡°Just this?¡± The small nobles kept asking, ¡°You didn¡¯t do anything else?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean by that?¡± Old man Sarkozy was confused by their questions, ¡°I¡¯m only responsible for transporting goods, what else can I do?¡±

    ¡°You can earn that much money from transporting goods?¡± The nobles didn¡¯t believe this, but they had no choice but to believe when they thought about how old man Sarkozy took out a thousand gold coin bill earlier.

    After whispering among themselves for a bit, the small nobles asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu.....Do you think.....if we gathered a bit of money, can we buy a few transport Magic Cars from yourpany?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You can, why can¡¯t you? What? You were moved after hearing that old man Sarkozy earned all this money from transporting goods?¡±

    The small noblesughed. It was clear that Xu Yi had hit their ideas.

    Old man Sarkozy looked at the nobles and gave a snort, ¡°Just with your soft appearances, how can you suffer at all?¡±

    The small nobles angrily red at him, ¡°What? You think that we can¡¯tpare to you?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy gave a coldugh and said nothing else.

    Seeing his appearance, the nobles became more angry, but they didn¡¯t argue with him as they turned to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, then we¡¯ve decided. We will buy two or three Magic Cars first and make the order with you now, how about it?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and said in a helpless voice, ¡°I do wee this, but right now ourpany¡¯s Magic Car capacity is limited and there are many unfinished orders. I¡¯m afraid we won¡¯t be able to sell personal Magic Cars for a while.¡±

    The small nobles were surprised as they pointed at old man Sarkozy and asked, ¡°Where did he buy it from?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°To put it urately, old man Sarkozy¡¯s Magic Car doesn¡¯t belong to him, rather to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Old man Sarkozy just bought it from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to use for transporting.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± The small nobles thought for a bit and looked at each other. They didn¡¯t keep asking questions and bid farewell to Xu Yi.

    When they drove the other horse carriage that wasn¡¯t that badly damaged away, old man Sarkozy said with knit brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you tell them this, I¡¯m afraid Cantona will be bothered to death by them.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Cantona¡¯s in the Stantine Duchy right now, they can go find him if they have the skills.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Afterughing for a while, old man Sarkozy looked to the southwest and a sad look shed on his face.

    ¡°Speaking of this, that fellow Cantona isn¡¯t back even now. Could it be he¡¯s not nning oning back for new years?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°This fellow is living quite well in the Stantine Duchy, of course he¡¯s not willing toe back.¡±

    ###

    Cantona didn¡¯t feel like he was living well at all because he was just too busy.

    Taking the hundred thousand hectares ofnd under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt arge opportunity. In his opinion, it would be a good chance to turn the Cantona Chamber of Commerce into a first sspany.

    But for thisrge piece ofnd, there was a lot of work to do to properly manage it.

    At the beginning of the year, there was less than forty thousand hectares ofnd reimed and Cantona was busy from morning to night. He didn¡¯t have time to rest at the beginning of the year, not to mention spending several days returning to Banta City.

    As for going back to Banta City to celebrate new years, this was a very luxurious thought for him since he didn¡¯t have time at all.

    But he didn¡¯t have many rtives and because of the things here, they already moved with him from Banta City. Adding in the fact that there were many people from Banta City here, he didn¡¯t feel that lonely with everyone here.

    Moreover, because Xu Yi required Cantona to open ny thousand hectares ofnd next year, only leaving behind ten thousand hectares to use on other things, Cantona took his task even more seriously.

    As soon as he opened his eyes each day, his mind was thinking about how to reimnd. He was even thinking about this while eating and going to the bathroom, never idle for a minute.

    This morning, he had woken up early and went to inspect the farnd like usual. When he came to the road connecting to the farm, he waited for something with other members of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    After waiting for around half an hour, there was dust in the distance. There were over ten Magic Cars that were currently driving over.

    Seeing this motorcade, Cantona was shocked and went forward with his subordinates.

    Although this motorcade had the signs of the Fersen Carriage Company, they were transporting Frestech Chamber of Commerce goods.

    Cantona was clear that the cargo was agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To reim even more farnd, naturally they needed the help of agricultural magic machines.

    But these agricultural magic machines weren¡¯t bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because Cantona couldn¡¯t afford to buy them. Rather they were directly sent to the Frestech Farm in the Stantine Duchy, used to reim morend.

    The first transport Magic Car stopped by Cantona.

    Seeing the driver that jumped out, Cantona was surprised.

    ¡°Why is it you?¡±

 Volume 3 167 - Mysterious cargo

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 167 Mysterious cargo</h4>

    Ankhto revealed a bright smile, ¡°What? Why can¡¯t it be me?¡±

    Cantona looked at the motorcade behind him and was confused, ¡°It¡¯s just sending a few goods, but you actually came, isn¡¯t this strange? Then again, these are agricultural magic machines, how is it rted to the manager of the household magic machine department?¡±

    ¡°Because this time it isn¡¯t just agricultural magic machines, there are some other things.¡± Ankhto replied with a smile.

    ¡°No wonder.....I felt it was strange. Although three hundred agricultural magic machines are a lot, there¡¯s no need for this many transport Magic Cars. So there are other things.¡± Cantona looked at Ankhto and asked, ¡°What? Did chairman Xu send you here to sell household magic machines in the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Ankhto gave Cantona a thumbs up, ¡°Smart. Sir chairman had mee this time to bring household magic machines over and open up the Stantine Duchy market. How about it? You¡¯ve been in the Stantine Duchy for a while, you should be familiar with this ce, right? Do you have any suggestions?¡±

    Cantona shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I feel that chairman Xu and you will be disappointed. The people of the Stantine Duchy are very poor and there aren¡¯t many people who can afford household magic machines.¡±

    Ankhto didn¡¯t look disappointed as he said with a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, the people of Banta City also couldn¡¯t afford household magic machines a few years ago. But now every household in Banta City is filled with household magic machines. The people of the Stantine Duchy can¡¯t afford it now, but that doesn¡¯t mean they can¡¯t afford it in the future.¡±

    Cantona couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Was this what chairman Xu said?¡±

    ¡°Right, sir chairman told me this before I left.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu is also confident, I admire him very much.¡± Cantona said with a nod.

    ¡°But sir chairman¡¯s confidence has never been blind, right?¡± Ankhto said.

    Cantona thought about it beforeughing. He didn¡¯t discuss this any longer as he looked over the motorcade before moving to the side.

    ¡°No matter what, let¡¯s let the motorcade go in to rest. You came all the way here from Banta City, it must have been very hard. I¡¯ve already had people prepare a meal, so first fill your stomachs.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Ankhto replied with a smile. He waved at the motorcade behind him and the powerful Magic Cars moved past the two of them, heading into the farm.

    When the final Magic Car passed by Cantona, Cantona looked inside and was surprised to find that sitting in the passenger seat was the leader of the human Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    ¡°Why is he also here?¡± Cantona was even more confused.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had several hundred guards, these guards weren¡¯t weak. Hart was the leader of three hundred human guards and could be considered in a high ce in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he wouldn¡¯t easily leave it.

    When he came out as a guard before, it was because Xu Yi had tagged along or they were transporting important cargo.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t here this time, but he still came.

    This meant.....there was something important among the cargo?

    But this motorcade only had some normal agricultural magic machines and some household magic machines, what was important about it?

    When Cantona was about to ask Ankhto, Ankhto softly patted his shoulder and he had a ghost of a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Cantona, there are some things that you shouldn¡¯t ask, so don¡¯t ask them.¡±

    Cantona¡¯s heart filled with a chill. He quickly nodded with a few dryughs before leading Ankhto into the Frestech Farm.

    After a while, the motorcade entered the living area at the center of the farm. However, only the first half of the motorcade stopped and over ten Magic Cars didn¡¯t slow down at all as they headed to the sea.

    Cantona was doubtful, but remembering Ankhto¡¯s warning, he could only keep this down. He began seriously entertaining Ankhto and the motorcade that was left.

    The motorcade that Ankhto brought didn¡¯t just have arge amount of agricultural magic machines for reimingnd and household magic machines to sell in the Stantine Duchy, there were also arge amount of everyday goods.

    ording to Ankhto, Xu Yi told him to bring these, which could be considered a New Years present for all the workers at the Frestech Farm.

    Seeing the rich goods in the truck, Cantona couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Chairman Xu really considered everything. Although he was far away in Banta City, he didn¡¯t forget these details.

    There were a lot of goods, but it didn¡¯t cost that much. However, there was no doubt that it would increase favorability of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers that were here.

    Although Cantona had already considered giving Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers gifts, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t transport goods as well as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He could only buy some local Stantine Duchy goods which couldn¡¯tpare to the things from Banta City.

    Butpared to this, the thing that Cantona cared the most about were the ten Magic Cars that had gone away.

    Ankhto was acting this mysteriously and adding in the fact that chief Hart was the one in charge of escorting them, just what kind of goods were in those Magic Cars......

    Cantona suddenly had a guess and his heart was shocked. He couldn¡¯t help looking at the sea with eyes filled with shock.

    ###

    The ten Magic Cars went at a moderate speed until they came to the sea and stopped by the wharf.

    This steel wharf wasn¡¯tplete right now, but the finished part could allow some ships to enter from the sea.

    Hart jumped down from the Magic Car and looked up, finding several dark spots on the sea quickly approaching.

    ¡°It seems like they¡¯re on time.¡± Hart nodded and moved towards a middle aged man who came out of a building on the wharf.

    ¡°Hello chief Hart.¡± The middle aged man revealed a very friendly smile and gave a strong shake of Hart¡¯s hand, ¡°I¡¯ve already waited here for two days.¡±

    He looked at the motorcade behind Hart after saying this and kept praising, ¡°These are the Magic Cars developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? They really are more powerful than horse carriages. I thought that it would take you several days toe from Banta City, but I never thought it would only take two days. This really surpassed my expectations.¡±

    Hart looked at him and said with an emotionless look, ¡°If mister Anklo was here, he wouldn¡¯t be surprised.¡±

    The middle aged man revealed an awkward smile, ¡°I am naturally not as experienced as mister Anklo. This is my first time seeing a Magic Car, I¡¯m a bit surprised.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll get used to it in the future.¡± Hart went to the sea and pointed at the dark spots, ¡°Those should be your boats, right?¡±

    The middle aged man quickly nodded, ¡°Right, right, we saw your motorcade arrive, so I already gave the signal. I ask chief Hart to wait a few minutes, they will be here soon.¡±

    Hart nodded and came to the wharf with the middle aged man, watching those dark spots approach.

    The middle aged man kept talking to Hart and Hart gave him a short and concise answer each time. The man felt helpless and stopped talking, as the two waiting in silence.

    After around twenty minutes, those dark spots approached and they were thirty boats that weremonly seen in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although they were boats, they weren¡¯t as big as the boats that sailed on the Sandy River. Rather they were smaller, with each boat being less than ten meters long and three meters wide, they were all small boats.

    Seeing these small boats, Hart couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    The middle aged man on the side noticed this and asked, ¡°What is it? Chief Hart, is there a problem?¡±

    Hart asked with a frown, ¡°These boats are too small, how will you transport the goods back?¡±

    The middle aged manughed, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about this. Although these boats are small, it¡¯s quite easy for us to transport the goods in these ten Magic Cars.¡±

    Hart nodded and didn¡¯t ask anything. He went to the boats by the wharf and bumped into Anklo who had just gotten out.

    ¡°Chief Hart, hello.¡± Anklo wasn¡¯t as excited at that middle aged man, but how he kept looking at the Magic Cars showed the trace of anxiety in his heart.

    Hart and Anklo shook hands before he pointed at the Magic Cars, ¡°The things have been transported. Mister Anklo, please inspect the goods.¡±

    Anklo didn¡¯t hold back at all as he came to the Magic Cars with Hart. He went into the back of one of the Magic Cars and lifted up the cloth.

    With just a look, Anklo couldn¡¯t help taking a deep breath.

    Under the cloth were weapons that let out a bright and cold glow.

    Just based on the glow of these weapons, he knew that they were of splendid quality. They far surpassed the normal goods that could be bought from a cksmith in the cities.

    As for the standard weapons of the Stantine Duchy, they couldn¡¯tpare to these weapons at all.

    Anklo just took a look and immediately pulled down the cloth. He turned to Hart and found that Hart was very calm, not moved at all.

    ¡°I was excited about these weapons, but in chief Hart¡¯s eyes, these are just normal things.¡± Anklo secretly gave a sigh before looking over the other Magic Cars with Hart.

    The first seven Magic Cars were filled with weapons and armours and in the eighth and ninth Magic Cars, they were filled withrge amounts of Magic Repeating Crossbows and arrow boxes.

    Seeing these Magic Repeating Crossbows, Anklo became more excited.

    He knew the might of these Magic Repeating Crossbows. If they had these Magic Repeating Crossbows, as long as they had enough arrows, their enemies couldn¡¯t approach them.

    When he came to the final Magic Car that Hart personally escorted, when Anklo pulled back the cloth, his breath couldn¡¯t help stopping.

 Volume 3 168 - No alternative

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 168 No alternative</h4>

    Looking at the scattered steel pieces that formed an unknown machine under the cloth, Anklo¡¯splicated expression returned to normal in the end. He turned back to Hart and gave a nod, ¡°Chief Hart, please express my gratitude to chairman Xu. He is helping us this much, I will forever remember this in my heart.¡±

    Hart said without any expression, ¡°Chairman Xu told me before leaving that this is just a very normal transaction, everyone is getting what they want.¡±

    Anklo was surprised. After pausing for a bit, he knit his brows as he pointed at the scattered pieces and asked, ¡°But I have a question. Chief Hart, why do the parts of the Magic Trebuchet look this small? If they are assembled, wouldn¡¯t it be much smaller?¡±

    ¡°This is ourpany¡¯s second generation Magic Trebuchet. Although it is much smaller than the first generation, it isn¡¯t weaker and is rather stronger, so it is a bit strongerpared to the first generation Magic Trebuchet. Moreover, because it is smaller, it is easier to carry. Look, we only needed one Magic Car to transport it over.¡± Hart exined.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Anklo looked at the parts of the Magic Trebuchet and still had some questions, ¡°But how do we assemble this thing together? We don¡¯t have anyone for that.¡±

    Hart took out a small book from his chest for Anklo.

    ¡°There¡¯s the assembly instructions for the Magic Trebuchet on this and it also includes the main maintenance parts for the Magic Repeating Crossbows, as well as the armours and weapons. After you finish transporting these things, you have to study them. Otherwise, if it breaks because you didn¡¯t maintain it, ourpany won¡¯t provide any repair services.¡±

    Anklo took the small book and didn¡¯t read it as he kept asking, ¡°Chief Hart, why didn¡¯t you just provide a technical personnel to guide us on these things? Wouldn¡¯t that be more convenient?¡±

    Hart shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman said that this is simply a transaction between our two sides. If we send people, it will be interfering in the internal affairs of your Stantine Duchy. He felt that mister Anklo wouldn¡¯t be willing to see that.¡±

    Anklo was silent for a bit before giving a slight nod.

    ¡°Chairman Xu had considered everything, but......¡± Anklo looked at the ten Magic Cars and said with a bitter smile of self ridicule, ¡°Actually, this is equivalent to you participating......¡±

    Hart was silent.

    Anklo was quite for a bit before taking a deep breath and regained his energy.

    ¡°Alright, chief Hart, I have confirmed these goods and now we¡¯ll do the trade.¡±

    Hart nodded and took out a list of the cargo for Anklo. After Anklo had confirmed it, he gave Hart a signed contract.

    This contract was to give an iron mine and a Magic Crystal mine in Anklo¡¯s territory to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have the rights to exploit these mines forever.

    In other words, this iron and Magic Crystal mine waspletely handed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was no longer rted to Anklo or the Stantine Duchy anymore.

    These two mines were used by Anklo to pay for these weapons from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although it was just the cargo of ten Magic Cars, their total value was two hundred thousand gold coins.

    The new Magic Trebuchet was already worth ten thousand gold coins.

    As for the three hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows with the arrow chests, each set sold for a high price of four hundred gold coins and three hundred equaled one hundred and twenty thousand gold coins.

    As for the remaining weapons and armours, they had a total of seventy thousand gold coins.

    Actually, these two mines had a value of over two hundred thousand gold coins, it was no less than three hundred thousand.

    But Anklo couldn¡¯t take out that much money, so naturally he could only trade resources for things he needed from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If he had the choice, Anklo wouldn¡¯t want to give up the resources under his name because he knew the importance these resources had in developing the Stantine Duchy.

    But he had no alternative.

    Because if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to spend money and he had to spend arge amount of money.

    With Hart¡¯s directions, his subordinates loaded the goods from the ten Magic Cars into their boats. Anklo had aplicated expression, as his eyes revealed anxiety as his lips had a bitter smile.

    ¡°I hope that these sacrifices will bring a good result, otherwise I¡¯ll be the most condemned person in the history of the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ###

    Anklo was worried about the future because of his decision and the people of Banta City were happy about their bright future, as they weed the new year with great enthusiasm.

    With another year passed and since her highness Seveni took over Banta City in theter half of the year, Banta City was once again filled with life. It waspletely different from when it was dead and spiritless when Count Stagg was City Lord.

    In just half a month, not only did Banta City recovered the prosperity from before, it became even more lively.

    As the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce entered the hearts of the people, there were more and more people in Banta City dragged into this industry. In Banta City now, everyone could find a satisfying job and wouldn¡¯t need to worry about food or clothing. They could even enjoy a luxurious life that they wouldn¡¯t dare dream of a few years ago.

    For example, for things that you didn¡¯t buy because you were stingy or for other reasons, when New Years came, naturally you would make up for it.

    So when New Years came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department hadrge sales.

    Just in a single week, their sales numbers were as good as the past two months added together.

    ording to the data, in just a short week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a shocking five hundred thousand gold coins just from household magic machines.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high profits, in just a single week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a profit of three hundred thousand gold coins just from household magic machines.

    If this was three years ago, Xu Yi would have been wild with joy when he saw these stats.

    But when he saw these stats now, Xu Yi found that he didn¡¯t feel anything. Rather he was trying to see if there were any errors from the data, seeing if there were any ces that he could improve on.

    There was no other way. ording to this year¡¯s stats, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had broken through to the ten million gold coin mark, so how could Xu Yi feel joy from a trivial three hundred thousand?

    Of course, the more they earned, the more they also spent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits were shocking, but they also made shocking investments.

    Not mentioning the wages that reached a shocking three million, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started investing in production bases in the second half of the year because of their expansion n, as well as investing in the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and Sowell City in thest two months, they had already spent over five million gold coins.

    Counting this, by the end of the year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had an excess of a million gold coins.

    Compared to the current scale of thepany, this bit of money wasn¡¯t considered anything. When finance manager Sebas was going over the year end reports, he keptining to Xu Yi and kept reminding Xu Yi to bnce out the revenue disbursement next year, or thepany might really have a deficit.

    However, Xu Yi just smiled at his warning and didn¡¯t care.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested this much this year because of the development n he had made.

    When the production bases are finished next year and start producing, these investments would turn intorge amounts of profit.

    At that time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit would increase. It wouldn¡¯t be strange for it to increase by several times.

    The more important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadid down their foundation. They wouldn¡¯t be influenced by the changes of a single city anymore. They could adapt to any situation and wouldn¡¯t have to be passive because a single noble was aiming at them.

    ¡°Of course the normal nobles no longer dare plot against you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Royal father had already disyed his attitudest time at the Royal Parliament, so there is no noble that would dare anger royal father on this matter.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi who was sitting in front of her looking rxed and shook her head.

    ¡°Xu Yi, to be honest, I don¡¯t understand, why do you always have a confident expression when you are always in danger? Tell me, why are you recruiting so many guards? It can¡¯t be that you want to increase the guarding power of yourpany, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Much? It isn¡¯t much, it¡¯s only five hundred people. Compared to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce that has over two thousand guards, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce with our less than a thousand guards can¡¯t be considered much.¡±

    Seveni red at him, ¡°Stop acting! Yourpany has elf guards, dwarf guards, and even those beastmen guards you just recruited on the ck Rice Wastnd. Right, there¡¯s also the guards that you recruited from the Stantine Duchy that don¡¯t count to your total. If you add them all together, it¡¯s already past two thousand, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed into the sky, but he didn¡¯t give an answer.

    Seeing his reaction, Seveni was a bit angry. She pped the table and knit her brows. It was rare to see her raise her voice and shout in an angry voice, ¡°Xu Yi, the battle strength of those elves, dwarves, and beastmen are all higher than normal humans. If youpare battle strength, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards canpare to an army of five thousand. Just what do you want to do?¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s serious expression, Xu Yi gave a sigh and spread his hands, ¡°Your highness, I don¡¯t want to do anything, I just want to protect myself. You just said that no nobles dare aim at me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but does that include his highness Eric?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes trembled as she gave a sigh before not saying a thing.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s reaction, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and continued, ¡°Alright, your highness, let¡¯s not discuss what everyone is aware of, what is the meaning of that? Let¡¯s discuss business, what standard of equipment do you want for your five thousand private guards?¡±

 Volume 3 169 - Like protecting a child (End of Volume 3)

    <h4>Volume 3 Chapter 169 Like protecting a child (End of Volume 3)</h4>

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a hint of bitterness in her eyes.

    ¡°I¡¯m not rich like a certain chairman who not only can give high grade equipment to each of his guards, he can even give them the upscale Magic Repeating Crossbows. For the private guards of a poor person like me, being able to give them a set of armour and weapon is already good enough.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head, ¡°Alright, dear your highness, since you are a poor person, on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯ll let you buy on credit. What do you think?¡±

    Seveni revealed a trace of happiness as she pursed her lips into a faint smile, ¡°How does that seem right?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t mind, so what are you embarrassed about. It¡¯s settled, your five thousand private guards will receive top grade equipment and I¡¯ll also give you two new Magic Trebuchets. As well, you¡¯ll receive fiftyrge scale transport Magic Cars which we¡¯ll be promoting next year.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you forcing me to buy?¡± Seveni said, ¡°The equipment that you mentioned should cost at least a million gold coins, right? I can¡¯t take out the cash to pay you.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, it¡¯ll be on credit.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Then what¡¯s the time limit on this?¡± Seveni kept asking.

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni, ¡°Don¡¯t ask this kind of meaningless question again. In short, it¡¯s settled. If you really feel embarrassed, you can think about how topensate me in another method.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi for a while before her expression became serious.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I have to remind you, although I support you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and thank you for your support of me, if you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce does anything to hurt our Lampuri Kingdom, I definitely won¡¯t be polite with you. Moreover, I will not let you take anypensation that will harm the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Rx, at least I¡¯m satisfied with this kingdom now and don¡¯t n onmitting treason. Moreover, I really wish for the Lampuri Kingdom to be stronger, the benefits of the kingdom also benefit me.¡±

    Seveni nodded and ended this topic. She took out the n for Banta City of next year and discussed it with Xu Yi.

    After the discussion was over and Xu Yi left the City Lord Manor, it was already close to evening.

    Because it was close to New Years, most of Banta City¡¯s foreign workers had gone back home and Banta City was much more quiet.

    But because it was close to New Years, all the households in Banta City were prepared to celebrate New Years and were filled with happiness.

    With the magic machine industry driven by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the economy in Banta City soared and each family had much better iepared to before. When they celebrated the new years this year, the households of Banta City prepared much morepared to before.

    As the new year came, many citizens in Banta City were worried about how to spend the new year and this year they were worried about how to spend the New Years better.

    Food was no longer a concern for them, so the citizens of Banta City were now looking for a better life.

    So with the new concept magic room that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed became popr in Banta City. Almost every household purchased every kind of household magic machine and arranged the new concept magic room the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed.

    Because of this request, the ?Household Magic Machine System Construction? that Akali had published before had sold over ten thousand copies in just three months. Whether people could read or not, they had a deep understanding of the magic room in Banta City.

    When the people of Banta City chatted, they would be looked down on if someone said they didn¡¯t understand this magic room.

    It was because of this that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine sales had exploded in Banta City, suddenly almost doubling.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly felt that the proposal chairman Cruise had about working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to design custom household magic machines would definitely bring about good results.

    Of course, Xu Yi already felt that this idea was good when chairman Cruise raised this idea.

    But other than theck of developmental resources, there was another important reason why Xu Yi had declined chairman Cruise¡¯s suggestion. It was that Xu Yi was not willing to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce take all of the household magic machine market, he wanted to leave some opportunities for the other household magic machinepanies.

    Just two days ago, Xu Yi held a conference for the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union. In this conference, he put the proposal forward forpanies that made household magic machines to cooperate with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build custom household magic machines.

    Xu Yi even promised that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay attention to this project and would give a certain amount of technological support.

    This proposition was immediately weed by thosepanies. With Xu Yi making the contracts, they reached an initial agreement with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and were nning to enter the research phase next year.

    In fact, although the Frestech Brand household magic machine had an absolute advantage in Banta City and the surrounding cities, capturing over 70% of the market, the Frestech Brand¡¯s sales weren¡¯t that high in the further cities.

    The reason was very simple, household magic machines from the other brands were cheaper and it wasn¡¯t just by a bit.

    Take the Magic Air Conditioners now that winter was here. The Frestech Brand¡¯s Magic Air Conditioner cost twenty six gold coins and the highest price among the other brands was twenty gold coins. The lowest price was only at twelve gold coins.

    For the other cities that weren¡¯t as rich as Banta City, if they had a choice for a cheaper Magic Air Conditioner, why would they choose the Frestech Brand?

    Although the Frestech Brand¡¯s performance and quality was the best, also it was much better designedpared to the others, whenparing these factors, price was the most important.

    So when it came to Banta City and the surrounding cities and the further cities, the sales of the Frestech Brand and other brands were very prized.

    All the nobles, even those that weren¡¯t rich all bought the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner.

    Then when it came to the nobles and slightly rich citizens, most of them bought the Frestech Brand.

    As for the rathermon families, there were few who bought the Frestech Brand and most of them chose other brands.

    There were far moremon families than nobles and rich merchants. Although the profit was much less, when calcting it in the end, the Frestech Brand¡¯s sales in other regions were much lower than the other brands.

    For this reason, Kennard, Sebas, Heinz, Ankhto, and even Still had asked Xu Yi before, why didn¡¯t he lower the price of the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner?

    With the Frestech Brand¡¯srge room for profits, even if they decreased the price from twenty six gold coins to twenty gold coins, they would still earn more than ten gold coins.

    Like this, they could take part of the market back from the other brands.

    Counting it, it would increase their total profits in the end.

    But their proposals were all rejected by Xu Yi.

    It was the initial development phase of the magic machine industry, if they started a price war now, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would gain in the short run, it would actually hurt the other magic machinepanies in the long run. This would be a fatal blow to the development of the magic machine industry.

    Xu Yi naturally wasn¡¯t willing to see this.

    He already treated the magic machine industry as his child. He wanted it to develop well, so he racked his brain for ideas to protect it.

    However, while protecting the development of the magic machine industry, he also needed to pay attention to the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    How to guarantee that the benefits of the otherpanies weren¡¯t infringed which guaranteed the development of the magic machine industry, while also guaranteeing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had their advantage so they could lead the development direction of the magic machine industry, that was a problem that Xu Yi needed to seriously consider.

    So far, it should be said that Xu Yi was doing well.

    ording to the stats of Banta City¡¯s Magic Machine Business Union, the sales for all the magic machine rtedpanies had reached a total of over fifteen million gold coins.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took half of that, the otherpanies had earned at least seven million from participating in the magic machine industry.

    Even if the profit margins of the otherpanies couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they earned at least a profit of three million from this seven million ie.

    Even if eachpany didn¡¯t receive that much, for the emerging industry to earn this much in just a single year, it was a very exaggerated matter.

    For example, with the smallpany support n of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were over a hundred smallpanies rted to magic machines. Their chairmen and investors were nothing more than normal farmers before, earning no more than a hundred gold coins before.

    But after establishing a magic machinepany with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they now earned over ten thousand gold coins a year.

    Compared to before, this was arge difference.

    And take the Irnd Chamber of Commerce that had the best performance, their revenuest year was over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    When he saw Freemanst time, he proudly said that he had received a bonus of twenty thousand gold coins and had be the richest man in Irnd Vige.

    Thinking of how Freeman kept smiling when he said this number, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Twenty thousand was a sky high figure for Freeman, but it was far from being enough to him.

    The development of Banta City shocked many people, but it was far from being enough for Xu Yi.

    To develop even better, he had to let the fires of industry burning in Banta City spread, not only burning through the Lampuri Kingdom, even spreading across the entire Sines Continent.

    (Volume 3 The Force of a Prairie Fire End)

 Volume 4 1 - Throne - Uncertainties

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 1 Throne ¨C Uncertainties</h4>

    Year 3783 of the new continent calendar had passed for a week and a cold wind swept across the Muerto Mountains.

    The thick snow had started falling since morning and didn¡¯t stop at all even at noon.

    The entire sky was dyed white with snow and not only did it cover the barrennd burned from the mes of war, it also covered the bloodstains that dyed the field. It made the Muerto Mountains look as white as the snow.

    The Hungry Wolf Regimentmander Chalon Linear looked at the fuzzy outline of the mountains in the snow for a while. He was already covered in snow and he had turned into a snowman.

    Although he couldn¡¯t see the Muerto Mountains in the distance clearly because of the snow, Linear knew that it was covered in the northern army¡¯s soldiers.

    Just like how they were on guard against the northern army, the northern army was also on guard against them attacking to take back the Muerto Mountains.

    This confrontation had continued since the northern army had taken over the Muerto Mountainsst year.

    Both sides were unwilling to retreat because once they did, it would be equal to giving the border to the other army and they couldn¡¯t predict the consequences.

    But in this kind of weather, neither side could attack, so they enjoyed a rare peace.

    But Linear was dissatisfied with this peace.

    Now that the Muerto Mountains that the Sack Kingdom controlled for ten years had been taken, many people in the Sack Kingdom were calling for recing Linear as themander, so Linear had been passive during this time.

    Butpared to how passive he was, what Linear cared about was the shame that came with losing the Muerto Mountains.

    As a soldier, not being able to protect his post was a ruthless p to the face for Linear.

    Every time he looked at the Muerto Mountains, he would feel his face sting and the mes of rage appear in his heart.

    However, when he thought about the battle strength the northern army had disyed, it was like a bucket of cold water falling onto Linear¡¯s head that instantly calmed him down.

    He was very clear that if the northern army had the same battle strength as before and if the Hungry Wolf Regiment didn¡¯t change, the Hungry Wolf Regiment would be defeated without a doubt if they fought again.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army hadn¡¯t approached the Sack Kingdom in half a year, so Linear could tell that it wasn¡¯t because they were afraid of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, rather they were afraid of the difference in national power.

    However, the more he knew this, the more ashamed Linear became.

    ¡°Just wait, there will be a day when I take back the Muerto Mountains!¡±

    Urged by his guards, Linear gave a snort and took onest look at the mountains before turning to return to his tent.

    When he shook off the snow on him, the p of the tent opened again and a chill came in that made Linear unable to stop his shiver.

    When he turned to call out, he found that it was his chief staff officer Ivy Joao that came in. Linear immediately changed to asking a question.

    ¡°What is it? Is it urgent?¡±

    Ivy Joao rubbed his hands and he didn¡¯t seem worried at all, rather he looked a bit happy.

    After warming his hands by the fire in the tent, he carefully took out a bundle of paper and gave it to Linear.

    Linear doubtfully took it and found that there were strange drawings on the map, looking like a design for some machine.

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    Joaoughed, ¡°Your long awaited thing.¡±

    Linear¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Could it be the blueprint for the Magic Trebuchet?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Hearing Joao¡¯s answer, Linear quickly rifled through them and focused on reading it.

    But he didn¡¯t know anything about this, so he couldn¡¯t understand it even if he was focused.

    But he could see a few clues from these designs and could confirm that the thing on the blueprint was the Magic Trebuchet that the northern army took outst year, the one that caused the Hungry Wolf Regiment to suffer and made their lines copse.

    ¡°Where did you get this thing?¡± Linear asked.

    ¡°The headquarters got it from the Lampuri Kingdom and I only brought you a copy.¡± Joao took the thing from Linear¡¯s hand and carefully put it away, ¡°This was something the headquarters paid a high price to get. It took me quite a bit of effort to get a copy for you.¡±

    Linear was a bit surprised, ¡°The headquarters really is good. Something as important as this is something the Lampuri Kingdom would strictly protect, how did they get it?¡±

    Joaoughed, ¡°We don¡¯t care how they got it. I want to tell you some good news, the king has ordered for this thing to be quickly studied. I think that it won¡¯t take long before we also have Magic Trebuchets.¡±

    Linear didn¡¯t have a happy look on his face, rather he deeply knit his brows.

    ¡°I¡¯m not as optimistic as you. The kingdom¡¯s magic department fellows studied this before and in the end? They smashed several people to death in the end! I don¡¯t think that they can make it even with the blueprint.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s better to try than to not.¡± Joao shook his head, ¡°Otherwise, you think that we can win if we fight those northern army fellows again?¡±

    Linear¡¯s face sunk and after a while, he slowly shook his head with a sigh.

    ¡°Those things are just too strong, we can¡¯t stop them. There are many times that I think, if Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were in our Sack Kingdom, we might have already defeated the Lamuri Kingdom. How could we still be suffering like this.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that that fellow is in the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Joao said with a sigh, ¡°But it¡¯s fine, ording to the report of the magic department, their progress with the blueprint is going very smoothly and we just need to wait for their good news.¡±

    Linear gave a cold snort, ¡°Then did they say how long they want us to wait? Don¡¯t forget, there was news from the other side that the onemanding the northern army is now the eldest prince Eric. That kid wants to use military exploits to take the throne, so he¡¯s preparing to attack our Sack Kingdom. I think that once winter passes, that kid will be unable to wait. If we still don¡¯t have a weapon to resist them, should we just wait and watch them attack our kingdom?¡±

    Joao gave augh, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about that. ording to the reports from headquarters, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are supporting Seveni, so prince Eric is drawing a line with him. He didn¡¯t buy any military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the northern army isn¡¯t as strong asst year.¡±

    Linear shook his head with a frown, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what this kid is thinking. He¡¯s clearly not using those convenient military magic machines, does that kid think that he could defeat our Hungry Wolf Regiment?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t look down on him.¡± Joao said with a serious look, ¡°There are many nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom supporting him to the throne, so they¡¯ve supported his attack on our Sack Kingdom very much. So this time the northern army that we¡¯re facing is a northern army with the best supplies, so we can¡¯t look down on their battle strength.¡±

    ¡°As long as they don¡¯t have military magic machines, I¡¯m not worried about the northern army.¡± Linear revealed a look of disdain, ¡°If I have to say it, the northern army fellows might even be weaker after eating their fills and wearing warm clothes. Adding in the idiot prince, it would be strange if they became more powerful.¡±

    ¡°No matter what, it¡¯s good to be careful.¡± Joao said.

    ¡°Of course, I still know that.¡± Linear nodded. After thinking for a bit, he suddenly said, ¡°Actually, I strongly suggest that headquarters think of a way to take care of that kid Xu Yi. That kid is the biggest uncertainty. If he creates some more powerful military magic machines and if the people of the Lampuri Kingdom aren¡¯t as dumb as that prince Eric, our situation might really be bad.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t good.¡± Joao shook his head, ¡°The headquarters think he has high value and if we can find a way to bring the things he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops into our hands, it would be of great benefit to our Sack Kingdom. You have to understand, the target of our Sack Kingdom isn¡¯t just the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Linear knit his brows in thought before saying with a sigh, ¡°I understand that your words are reasonable, but I feel that.....letting that fellow stay alive, it might ruin our matters in the end. In the end......our Sack Kingdom might even be defeated by the Lampuri Kingdom......¡±

    Joaoughed as he patted Linear¡¯s shoulder, ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national strength is much worse than our Sack Kingdom. Moreover, they still haven¡¯t decided their next ruler yet and the kingdom isn¡¯t stable. Even if Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are uncertainties, what kind of threat can they give us? Not to mention.....the headquarters has already started watching that kid Xu Yi, what kind of new thing can he think of that we can¡¯t expect?¡±

    Linear was silent for a bit before giving a slow nod.

    ¡°I hope it¡¯s like this.¡±

 Volume 4 2 - New home

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 2 New home</h4>

    A Magic Car drove across the hundred meter long and ten meters wide reinforced concrete bridge newly built over the Sandy River, arriving at the newly built checkpoint that was two kilometers away from Banta City¡¯s north gate.

    Sevi had wide sparkling blue eyes as he watched out the window. Although there was a stream of people, it looked very neat and wasn¡¯t disorderly at all, causing him to have a look of excitement.

    It took four days from his hometown in the north. First they rode a horse carriage before changing to a Magic Car. They traveled over a thousand kilometers to reach the Banta City that his big sister described countless times. Sevi was a bit worried that he wouldn¡¯t be able to adapt to living here.

    But as soon as he went past the magnificent bridge, he already broadened his world view and felt that he was very lucky toe to a city like this.

    And seeing therge checkpoint that he couldn¡¯t see through and never imagined before, seeing the Magic Cars going in and out from it, Sevi felt that Banta City really was the most advanced city that far surpassed other cities like his big sister said.

    Even staying in Anvilmar Cityst night, Sevi thought that it was more luxurious, but it was far from being as shocking as the Banta City he saw now.

    Whether it was the roads that led all over or the Magic Cars that drove on those roads, it showed that this ce was different from other cities.

    What Sevi felt was that the people here were bursting with life and filled with vigor. They moved very quickly, not like the spiritless who walked around his hometown or the other people he saw who seemed like ¡°lost souls¡±.

    Alright, the term ¡°lost souls¡± came from his big sister and Sevi didn¡¯t understand it before, but seeing the people of Banta City, he immediately understood what it meant.

    ¡°Hey, Sevi, what are you in a daze for, we¡¯re getting off.¡± His parents beside him had already gotten out. Seeing that Sevi was looking out the window, they called out to him.

    Sevi replied before jumping out.

    This young man who was eighteen, Sevi was filled with energy. He took the bags from the hands of his parents and put them on his back as he jumped out. He ran over to his big sister who had gone out to speak with the people at the checkpoint.

    The official was patiently exining, ¡°Miss Akali, you are a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there¡¯s no need to inspect you. But your parents and little brother have never registered in Banta City, so we must perform the necessary inspections. Please understand.¡±

    Akali knit her brows, ¡°Why? They are my family, I can act as a guarantee for them, so why do they need to be inspected? Isn¡¯t this too much? There wasn¡¯t this rulest year.¡±

    It was hard enough to convince her parents and little brother toe from their hometown, she thought that she could easily settle them and give them a good life. She never thought that once she reached Banta City, she would be stopped like this, so she couldn¡¯t help being a bit angry.

    ¡°These are the new rules announced by the Lord City Lord this year, it was the reason why this checkpoint was built.¡± The official knew that Akali was a high ranking researcher of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from her identification, so they were very polite to Akali. They continued to exin in a patient voice, ¡°This isn¡¯t aiming at anyone, this is just to better manage the non-native poption entering Banta City. I think that since miss Akal is a wise magician, you should understand this, right?¡±

    Hearing the official call her a ¡°wise magician¡± and how polite they were, Akali naturally didn¡¯t remain angry. She thought about it before spreading her hand, ¡°Alright, inspect what? Please hurry up, I still have to bring them home to rest.¡±

    ¡°Un, please wait a moment.¡±

    Actually this inspection was just checking their luggage and then confirming their identity, before checking if they worked or lived in Banta City before. The process was very simple.

    When their inspection was over, it took no more than five minutes.

    Other than Akali, there wasn¡¯t anyone with the courage to question the official, so actually it was only the people behind Akali who were dyed.

    But seeing how polite the official was to Akali, the others naturally knew that Akali¡¯s identity wasn¡¯t low and there wasn¡¯t anyone whoined.

    When their family came out of the checkpoint, Sevi turned back to the long line of people at the checkpoint before turning to Akali. He couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Big sister, I thought that you were boasting before, but I never thought that you really were an important person in Banta City. Even the officials were polite to you.¡±

    Akali giggled, ¡°I¡¯m not an important person, I¡¯m just borrowing the glow of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If you want to talk about someone important, wait until you see chairman Xu and her highness, then you¡¯ll know what an important person is.¡±

    Sevi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°I can meet chairman Xu and her highness? That is great!¡±

    Akali hesitated a bit, ¡°This.....It¡¯s not a problem seeing chairman Xu, but as for her highness.....that is hard to say.¡±

    Sevi was a bit disappointed, but then he became excited again, ¡°It¡¯s good even if it¡¯s just chairman Xu, he is my idol! I have long wanted to meet him!¡±

    Akali gave a softugh, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu is easy to meet. If you want to see him, I¡¯ll bring you to thepany tomorrow and you should be able to meet him. As for now, let¡¯s head home to rest, mom and dad should be tired.¡±

    ¡°Un!¡± Sevi gave a strong nod and held the luggage before looking around, looking a bit confused, ¡°Big sister, where are we walking?¡±

    ¡°What walk, my new house is several kilometers away. It¡¯s fine for you to walk, but do you want mom and dad to also walk there?¡± Akali red at him.

    ¡°Then what do we do?¡±

    ¡°Wait.¡± Akali left the three and came to a patch ofnd near the checkpoint.

    There were several Magic Cars stopped there. Seeing Akalie over, a middle aged woman came to wee here.

    ¡°This miss, are you here to rent a car? Come ride my car, as long as it¡¯s in Banta City, we can go wherever you want.¡±

    Akali looked at the sign on her Magic Car and asked, ¡°Are you with the Mercado Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, we are with the Mercado Chamber of Commerce. Our cars are very credible, there definitely won¡¯t be any problems.¡± The middle aged woman kept nodding.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll rent one.¡±

    ¡°Rent one?¡± The middle aged woman was surprised, ¡°Miss, you¡¯re nning to rent an entire one?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Hearing this, the middle aged woman¡¯s expression became more respectful.

    ¡°Where does this miss want to go?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not far, it ¡®s the new city¡¯s Dawn Neighbourhood.¡±

    ¡°Dawn Neighbourhood?¡± The middle aged woman gave a gasp and looked at Akali in surprise. Her expression was a bit strange, but she had an exaggerated smile on her face, ¡°So it¡¯s the Dawn Neighbourhood, no wonder.¡±

    Akali was toozy to care about the meaning in her smile. She called her parents and her little brother to get into the car before passing the old city and heading to the Dawn Neighbourhood near the shore of the Sandy River outside the west of the city.

    When they sat down, Akali¡¯s parents and Sevi were surprised by the scene outside the car. When the Magic Car approached the Dawn Neighbourhood, the three were even more shocked.

    Akali¡¯s mother had a look of disbelief as she asked Akali, ¡°Good daughter, you¡¯re saying that your new house is here? Such a beautiful house, how much did it cost?¡±

    Akali revealed a faint smile as she patted the back of her hand andforted her, ¡°Mom, don¡¯t worry about how much, just rx and stay here. Be assured, I¡¯m making over a thousand gold coins a year, it¡¯s not much to buy a house like this.¡±

    Although they had already heard Akali mention her ie, this number was just too far away for her parents. They had no idea if it was true, they just thought Akali wasforting them or boasting to them.

    But when they saw these houses, they started to seriously consider Akali¡¯s words.

    A thousand gold coins a year? Wasn¡¯t that too much?

    It had to be known, adding up the ie of all hundred families in their vige, their yearly ie wouldn¡¯t reach a thousand gold coins!

    After a while, the Magic Car stopped in front of a three story vi right by the bank of the river.

    Akali took out five gold coins for the middle aged woman driver and stepped out of the car first. She came to the entrance of the vi and spread her hands as she said, ¡°Mom, dad, Sevi, this is our new home!¡±

    Akali¡¯s parents and Sevi came out of the car and were stunned by this magnificent and luxurious vi that took up over five hundred square meters. They were stunned for a while.

    After a while, Akali¡¯s mom asked in a stutter, ¡°Daughter.....This.....This.....Is this really your house?¡±

    Akali shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°No, mom, you¡¯re wrong. This isn¡¯t my house, this is our house because we¡¯ll live here together from now on.¡±

    Akali¡¯s mother looked at the vi in a daze before her eyes filled with tears and she said in a choked voice, ¡°I.....I thought that.....that we would have to wanderter, but.....But I never thought.....thought that we would be able to live in such a beautiful house, it really.....it really.....¡±

    Akali¡¯s father took his wife by the shoulder and gave a nod to Akali before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Akali, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡±

    Seeing her parents like this, Akali felt her nose stuff up and a few tears couldn¡¯t helping out of her eyes.

    Only Sevi who was careless didn¡¯t feel moved at all, rather he had a look of excitement and joy.

    ¡°Mom, dad, big sister, why are you crying? We get to live in such arge and beautiful house, we should be happy.¡±

    Akali¡¯s dad wiped the corner of his eyes and said with a sigh, ¡°I was just feeling emotional after leaving our hometown and settling here.¡±

    Sevi curled his lips, ¡°What is there to be emotional about? We left that broken ce because we couldn¡¯t stay there anymore.¡±

    Before waiting for his parents or Akali to react, Sevi charged into the vi.

    Seeing how impatient he was, Akali¡¯s father gave a sigh before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Right, we can¡¯t stay there anymore, so there¡¯s no need to feel emotional. Come, let¡¯s see our new home!¡±

 Volume 4 3 - Population doesnâ€™t equal manpower

    <strong>Volume 4 Chapter 3 Poption doesn¡¯t equal manpower</strong>

    Seveni was reading the report in her hand as she slightly knit her brows.

    ¡°It seems like Banta City has even more foreign poption thanst year. This is only the report for the first half a month after the new years, but there are already over fifty thousand foreigners in Banta City, this doesn¡¯t even include the people that can¡¯t be counted. If it was all added together, it might be close to a hundred thousand people.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Is there something wrong with that? Banta City iscking manpower all over, we can¡¯t satisfy thisrge demand with just the Banta City locals, so we need foreign poption. Don¡¯t forget, at the peakst year, there were over two hundred thousand foreigners.¡±

    ¡°But based on this trend, there might be more than two hundred thousand. Perhaps....there might even be more than three hundred thousand.¡± Seveni shook her head and said this with a worried look.

    ¡°The more the better.¡± Xu Yi gave a careless shrug, ¡°Not only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I think that all thepanies in Banta City will be very happy to see this. There¡¯s no other way, there¡¯s just too much of ack in manpower.¡±

    Seveni looked at him, ¡°You don¡¯t need to care, so of course you feel rxed. You have to know that the local poption of Banta City is less than a hundred thousand and now there are over two hundred thousand.....or even three hundred thousand peopleing in. As the City Lord, there¡¯s a lot of pressure on me.¡±

    ¡°Pressure is a good thing.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Dear your highness, the more pressure there is, wouldn¡¯t you be able to manifest even more outstanding abilities? Think about it, Banta City has over three hundred thousand foreigners this year, then the poption.....could even surpass Anvilmar City, right?¡±

    Seveni gave a slight nod, ¡°Un, ording to the stats fromst year, Anvilmar City¡¯s poption is around two hundred thousand and adding in the foreigners, it should be around four hundred thousand.¡±

    ¡°So that means if you can develop such a city, this should be something that others admies. If you can do this brilliantly, I think that all those who oppose you can only admire your ability for administration. This would be very helpful to you when you want to take the throne.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°Take the throne?¡± Seveni gave a bitterugh before looking at the report in her hand. She said with a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s a strange problem with this report. Most of the people that came this yeare from the northern and northwestern province, which is near the border to the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and gave a soft snort, ¡°Although themoners in the north don¡¯t have a high position, that doesn¡¯t mean they are dumb. Instead of staying there to be exploited by a certain prince and facing danger in the future, it is better to escape that ce. Our Banta City is one of the best choices.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise, ¡°Where did you receive this information?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I didn¡¯t pay attention to this issue. It was just that a few days ago, the rtives of two researchers from ourpany moved from the northern border and were nning to settle in Banta City. When I saw them, I asked them about the situation in the north and why they wanted to settle in Banta City, so I know the situation.¡±

    ¡°Two researchers? Is it chief Evita and high ss research Akali?¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Your highness, you know quite a bit.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t reply to the doubt in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes. She pointed at the report in her hand and continued asking, ¡°Then chairman Xu, there could be over three hundred thousand foreigners thate this year. Taking away the two hundred thousand that camest year, can we digest this close to a hundred thousand extra people?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°This is something that you as the Lord City Lord should consider, how is it rted to me?¡±

    Seveni revealed a sly smile, ¡°Who had your Frestech Chamber of Commerce be the City Lord Manor¡¯s closest partner and for chairman Xu to be the most capable helper of this City Lord?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°I say, Lord City Lord, aren¡¯t you pulling me down?¡±

    ¡°So what?¡±

    Seeing the naughty smile Seveni had, Xu Yi rolled his eyes and stood up.

    ¡°This matter is rted to all of Banta City. You can¡¯t just have ourpany deal with it alone, you can¡¯t let go of the fellows outside.¡±

    The two left Seveni¡¯s office and came to thergest conference hall in the City Lord Manor.

    There were representatives from all therge and smallpanies in Banta City sitting in the hall. It didn¡¯t just include the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgan, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Rank, and the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent, it also included the chairman of several smallerpanies.

    Even the Irnd Chamber of Commerce that hadn¡¯t been in the city for more than two years, their vice chairman Kovac was also here.

    Of course, his position was in a corner and wasn¡¯t that conspicuous.

    Seeing Seveni and Xu Yi enter the room together, the chatter of the representatives came to a stop.

    As they looked at Xu Yi and Seveni, these people didn¡¯t look surprised at all, rather there was a faint smile on their faces.

    Xu Yi and Seveni were close, everyone in Banta City was very clear on this.

    Although this conference was being held by her highness Seveni in the name of the City Lord Manor to discuss business in the next year, so all thepanies that were gathered were of a certain size.

    She would have a private discussion with Xu Yi first and no one would have any objections towards this.

    Not to mention that the city renovation n was being run by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce surpassed all thergepanies to be the highest tax payingpany in Banta Cityst year, so Xu Yi was qualified for this right.

    Although there were people that filled all the seats, the left hand side seat of the center seat was tactfully left open by everyone.

    Xu Yi took this position without any courtesy and smiled as he greeted the surrounding chairman before turning back to Seveni.

    Everyone looking at Seveni didn¡¯t make her nervous at all. After being the City Lord for half a year, she was already used to holding this position. When she faced the representatives of the variouspanies, she was very rxed. She didn¡¯t seem like a twenty year old girl, she seemed like a mature politician.

    ¡°Representatives of all the variouspanies, happy New Years to you all.¡± Seveni first gave a greeting before taking out a pile of documents. She had her assistant distribute them before entering a brief speech.

    Although this speech wasn¡¯t long, the contents weren¡¯t simple.

    In these few words, Seveni praised thepanies for their contribution to Banta City and encouraged everyone to do the same in the new year.

    After that, she set out a special request.

    For example, in the new year, she hoped that variouspanies could keep their reputation and wouldn¡¯t do anything to harm the reputation of Banta City.

    Next, she asked thepanies to participate in the construction of Banta City, disying a bit of responsibility to theirmunity.

    On this, Seveni heavily praised the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and praised the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be taking out a hundred Magic Cars to strengthen Banta City¡¯s public transport system.

    Hearing Seveni¡¯s words, the various chairmen all stated that they would learn from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Morgan suggested building an aid station outside the city, helping all the citizens of Banta City.

    The Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Vincent proposed giving a set of winter clothing and bedding for all old people over the age of sixty in Banta City, also suggesting care for old people who had no one to take care of them, guaranteeing their basic living conditions.

    The otherpanies all suggested free subsidizations based on the scale of theirpanies, responding to Seveni¡¯s summons.

    After this was done, Seveni quickly changed into a practical topic.

    The first one was how to digest therge number of peopleing into Banta City.

    Hearing this issue, the representatives of the variouspanies all revealed rxed smiles.

    Everyone indicated that that all theirpaniescked people, so everyone was looking forward to seeing more peoplee to Banta City.

    Not mentioning a hundred thousand extra people, even if it was two hundred thousand, they were all confident in swallowing them up.

    However, at this time, Xu Yi raised a question.

    ¡°Everyone, please calm down first.¡± Xu Yi stood up and looked around. When everyone calmed down and were looking at him, he said with a serious expression, ¡°I understand that everyone is looking for workers and all thepanies in the city are missing workers, but I think that.....everyone has neglected a very important problem.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before chairman Morgan asked with a frown, ¡°What problem?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This problem is that poption doesn¡¯t equate manpower.¡±

 Volume 4 4 - Expansion

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 4 Expansion</h4>

    Everyone was stunned.

    ¡°What does that mean?¡± Chairman Morgan asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. To give an example, chairman Morgan, for yourpany, do you think that you can find anyone to work in the mine?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Chairman Morgan shook his head, ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible. Even if working in the mine is just some simple hard work, the work is very dangerous. If we don¡¯t teach them first, there would be problems.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. I¡¯ll give another example. Everyone should be familiar with Magic Cars, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Everyone revealed a smile.

    The Magic Car had already been out for half a year and although this wasn¡¯t long, because Magic Cars were better than horse carriages in terms of speed, load, or cost, all thepanies had realized the advantage of Magic Cars. Now they all epted that Magic Cars could rece horse carriages.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t keep up with production, Banta City¡¯s horse carriages would have disappeared and have been reced by Magic Cars.

    ¡°The Magic Cars need a driver¡¯s license or to be more exact, they require a certain amount of skills to be driven. Even if one obtained the license, they need to be familiar with driving and need time to train their driving. So one can¡¯t just grab anyone to drive these Magic Cars.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand what you mean.¡± Chairman Vincent followed him, ¡°You¡¯re saying.....although Banta City will have more people this year, there aren¡¯t that many of them who can be used? You¡¯re saying that they have no meaning towards ourpanies?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s pretty much this meaning, but of course it¡¯s not that they have no meaning at all.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°For example, if there is some simple work that doesn¡¯t require any technique, it can be given to the foreign workers. Moreover, I have discussed this with her highness earlier, we are nning to create a vocational training program in Banta City. We want everyone in Banta City to gain one or more vocational skills, that wouldn¡¯t just benefit those people, it would also benefit our Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Vocational skill training?¡± The chairmen all looked at each other before nodding.

    ¡°Your highness, how do you n on carrying out this vocational skill training?¡± Chairman Rank turned to ask Seveni.

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Right now, I n on building arge vocational training school in the name of the City Lord Manor. All of yourgepanies can set up a training area in this school, training the vocational skills that yourpany needs.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do with the people trained?¡± Chairman Morgan asked, ¡°If we spend all that time training them and they run to anotherpany, wouldn¡¯t we suffer a loss?¡±

    ¡°If you can¡¯t win them over to yourpany while training them, wouldn¡¯t that be called a failure?¡± Seveni asked back with a smile.

    Chairman Morgan was surprised before giving two dryughs and saying nothing else.

    ¡°Other than the vocational training, the City Lord Manor will also promote a detailed andprehensive vocational skill grading. As for the grading standard, we will refer to the magic machine vocational skill grading from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the exact grades, we¡¯ll have to discuss it with everyone present.¡± Seveni said.

    Everyone¡¯s gaze fell onto Xu Yi again. Of course they knew that this proposal came from Xu Yi.

    But everyone felt that this proposal was necessary.

    With a clear and precise grade, thergepanies will save plenty of effort when recruiting people, they wouldn¡¯t need to spendrge amounts of time and effort training them again.

    As for promoting the vocational skill training system Seveni mentioned, if they could be linked, it would be of great help to thergepanies.

    So after considering it, everyone showed their approval for these two suggestions.

    After that, Seveni announced the City Lord Manor¡¯s n for business development in the next year and after discussing it with everyone, the conference came to an end.

    Although Seveni only announced some general ns and rarely announced details, this was helpful information for therge and smallpanies of the city. It would help them adjust to the City Lord Manor¡¯s n for next year.

    In short, this City Lord Seveni who took over from Count Stagg was still showing support to business development in Banta City.

    Just this made everyone assured. After the conference ended and they left the City Lord Manor, everyone had sincere smiles on their faces.

    ¡°Everyone, how about we take this chance and find a ce to gather so we can continue discussing. What does everyone think about that?¡± When they came out of the City Lord Manor, chairman Rank suddenly proposed this.

    Everyone stopped and looked at each other before revealing smiles. They all showed their support for chairman Rank¡¯s suggestion.

    They all came to a restaurant built by the Sarank Chamber of Commerce in the new part of the city and they booked the entire restaurant.

    A bunch of representatives were at a meeting, this wasn¡¯t just for eating a meal.

    After taking their seats, everyone went to look for their targets to talk to.

    There were many people who wanted to find Xu Yi, but the first one to do so was chairman Rank.

    ¡°Chairman Rank, as for the idea you mentioned about selling things to the Sack Kingdom, I have a suggestion.¡±

    When Xu Yi said this, chairman Rank was stunned.

    He had mentioned this matter to Xu Yi before, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t care, so he thought that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t interested and never mentioned it again.

    He never thought that Xu yi would take the initiative to mention this, also he had a new idea?

    Could it be that he had some new channel to the Sack Kingdom?

    ¡°I have indeed grasped control of a new channel, but the key thing is that it¡¯s in Sowell City.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Sowell City?¡± Chairman Rank was surprised. He suddenly remembered that Xu Yi took a trip to Sowell Cityst year.

    Sowell City was one of the cities in the north nearest to the border. Xu Yi creating a channel there wasn¡¯t that surprising.

    ¡°Alright, what suggestion do you have?¡±

    Xu Yi had a strange smile on his face, ¡°Chairman Rank, I want to ask, just what is the scale when yourpany sells to the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Chairman Rank slightly knit his brows. He wanted to say that this was a business secret of the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, how could he easily reveal this.

    But seeing the strange expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Rank thought about it before replying, ¡°It should be around two to three hundred thousand gold coins a year. It isn¡¯t much, it can just be considered an extra path.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, not caring that much as the smile on his face became wider.

    ¡°Then chairman Rank, do you want to increase this scale? For example.....two to three million per year?¡±

    Chairman Rank looked at Xu Yi in surprise. Seeing the strange smile on his face, his heart was moved.

    ¡°What? Chairman Xu, what suggestion do you have?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and approached chairman Rank, speaking in a low voice.

    After a while, chairman Rank had a look of joy and disbelief on his face when he left. The Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Kovac who had been waiting on the side quickly came forward.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡± Kovac had a very exaggerated ttering smile on his face, ¡°Can I talk to you?¡±

    Xu Yi calmly looked at him and gave a slight nod.

    Xu Yi always thought that this Kovac was very cunning, so he never really liked him.

    If he wasn¡¯t for the fact that he was Freeman¡¯s most efficient helper, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t want to see him.

    Kovac was clear on Xu Yi¡¯s attitude towards him. Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s indifference, he couldn¡¯t help giving two awkward dryughs before continuing, ¡°Chairman Xu, I came to discuss two things with you today.¡±

    ¡°Un, speak.¡± Xu Yi indifferently replied.

    ¡°This.....The first thing is......Ourpany received many orders from other cities, of course they were all for magic machine parts.¡± Kovac said.

    ¡°This is a good thing.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I always told Freeman, I hoped that your Irnd Chamber of Commerce could leave Banta City and sell yourponents to every part of the Lampuri Kingdom. Now that there are other sides cing orders with you, it means you¡¯re doing very well.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s support.¡± Kovac kept nodding. After pausing, he revealed a difficult look, ¡°But because of these orders, ourpany has met a problem.....¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°What is it? You¡¯re afraid you can¡¯t handle them?¡±

    Kovac was a bit surprised before nodding, ¡°Un.....Yes. With ourpany¡¯s current production, it¡¯s already hard for us toplete your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders, not to mention dealing with even more orders......¡±

    ¡°You just said that you just epted many orders from other cities?¡± Xu Yi cut him off.

    Kovac hesitated a bit before giving a forced nod, ¡°Yes.....But chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry, we will definitely finish your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders first. Moreover, we will guarantee the best quality and the best workers!¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not worried about this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But hearing your words, after you finish ourpany¡¯s orders, you have some new ideas?¡±

    Kovac gave a dryugh and looked around before saying to Xu Yi with a difficult look, ¡°This.....Chairman Xu, it was hard for us to get orders from other cities, so we want to grasp this opportunity and promote ourpany to the entire Lampuri Kingdom. Didn¡¯t you always tell us that you hoped the magic machine industry would take root in many different ces in the kingdom? If ourpany¡¯sponents are sold to other ces, it will definitely help your idea and.....¡±

    ¡°Be more direct, you¡¯re nning on stopping the orders to ourpany?¡± Xu Yi cut him off again.

 Volume 4 5 - Away from the standard

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 5 Away from the standard</h4>

    Being seen through by Xu Yi, Kovac was stunned for a bit before saying with an awkward look, ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯re not.....no, we just.....It¡¯s a rare opportunity, so we want to grasp it......This doesn¡¯t mean we¡¯re not willing to supply your Frestech Chamber of Commerce withponents, really! You have to believe me, we will definitely do our best to process the final batch ofponents! We definitely won¡¯t.....¡±

    Xu Yi raised a hand to stop him again.

    ¡°Alright, don¡¯t say anything, I understand your meaning.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, not showing any anger like Kovac was worried about, ¡°I don¡¯t me you, but Kovac, tell me, is this your idea or Freeman¡¯s idea?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Kovac¡¯s awkwardness became deeper, but he honestly replied, ¡°This is my idea, Freeman doesn¡¯t agree with this at all.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded.

    Freeman was an honest fellow, he always wanted to repay Xu Yi for his kindness, so he definitely wouldn¡¯t give up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders for other orders.

    But it was because of this that Kovac this ¡°astute¡± person could easily control the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. Kovac had more right to speakpared to the chairman Freeman, so the Irnd Chamber of Commerce made this decision in the end.

    Xu Yi considered it a bit before saying, ¡°Alright, I understand your choice and also support it. Because from my perspective, I do wish the magic machine industry would spread over the Lampuri Kingdom and even the entire Sines Continent. The morepanies that step out of Banta City like yours, the more help it is to my goal.¡±

    Kovac kept nodding, ¡°Yes, yes, chairman Xu, I also think this way. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is even developing in other countries and although our Irnd Chamber of Commerce can¡¯tpare, we should also have ambitions, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, this idea is correct.¡± Xu Yi nodded to show support before changing the topic, ¡°But Kovac, I must remind you, if you want to consider development of yourpany, throwing away our Frestech Chamber of Commerce this quickly isn¡¯t a smart choice.¡±

    Kovac had a look that didn¡¯t think this, but he immediately revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re misunderstanding. How could we want to throw away your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? There definitely isn¡¯t this matter. This is just a good opportunity and the capacity of ourpany can¡¯t keep up, so we have to stop our supply to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for now. When our capacity catches up, we will definitely want to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.¡±

    Xu Yi just smiled, neither confirming or denying.

    ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve already made your decision, I have no objections. Once this batch is finished, I will find otherpanies to solve ourponent problems. Right, you just said that you had two things to discuss. This is the first one, so what is the second one?¡±

    ¡°The second matter......¡± Kovac said with augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think......ourpany¡¯sponents can stop following the standards of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at him with a surprised gaze, ¡°Why do you have this idea?¡±

    ¡°Because when I went to inspect the other magic machine factoriesst year, I found that many magic machines didn¡¯t follow the standards of our Banta City, but they sold very well. If we want to processponents for them, they wouldn¡¯t fit if we followed the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So I was thinking.....when it came to orders for otherpanies, we wouldn¡¯t need to continue following our Banta City¡¯s standards?¡±

    Kovac looked at Xu Yi with a hopeful look.

    Although in theory, the Banta City¡¯s standard was suggested by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was forcefully stipted among the magic machinepanies, it wasn¡¯t too strictly enforced. So the Irnd Chamber of Commerce going against it isn¡¯t much.

    But out of fear of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Kovac felt that he should get Xu Yi¡¯s approval first.

    Xu Yi looked at Kovac and revealed a ghost of a smile, ¡°When you inspected thosepanies, did you think their magic machines were good?¡±

    ¡°Of course they couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand.¡± Kovac immediately said, ¡°But I felt that they weren¡¯t worsepared to the magic machines of our Banta City and they sold quite well.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve already made up your mind, I don¡¯t have any objections. These standards aren¡¯t being forced, so it isn¡¯t a problem that your Irnd Chamber of Commerce is choosing not to follow them.¡±

    Kovac looked at Xu Yi¡¯s expression and carefully asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you really not angry?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a happy look, ¡°Why would I be angry? This is a decision from your Irnd Chamber of Commerce, as a peer, I can only give you suggestions and can¡¯t do anything to you. Of course, as a peer, I must give you some advice.¡±

    ¡°Please.¡±

    ¡°When ites to making goods, especially industrial goods, it¡¯s good to have a standard. Not only does the standard bring limits, it also gives you advantages. Perhaps you might not realize it now, but I think you¡¯ll realize it soon.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Kovac¡¯s expression still thought otherwise, so Xu Yi was toozy to exin to him.

    Just like he said, this is the decision of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, so currently he had no method to punish them.

    Although with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position in Banta City, they could make the Irnd Chamber of Commerce suffer, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to do this.

    Let them suffer their losses and realize the benefits of a standard, it was much better than Xu Yi forcefully stopping them.

    To put it more cruelly, if the Irnd Chamber of Commerce suffered a loss, this could be considered a setting an example for the otherpanies.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could support an Irnd Chamber of Commerce, so of course they could support morepanies.

    The only thing that Xu Yi felt pity for was that Freeman was a good person.

    Watching Kovac turn, feeling quite assured, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile before turning to the group of people who had waited a long time for him.

    The things that these representatives discussed with Xu Yi was mainly regarding magic production machines.

    Because the magic machine industry had developed well and thepanies that joined in the past two years earned quite a bit, as well as her highness Seveni stating that she would be supporting business development, especially the magic machine business, thesepanies naturally wanted to increase their production.

    Moreover, there were many peopleing to Banta City this year, which could relieve theirck of manpower, so it was a good chance to expand their production.

    So these representatives came looking for Xu Yi to make more orders for magic production machines, to prepare expanding their production scale.

    Xu Yi casually talked with these people and confirmed over a hundred orders for various magic production machines.

    There were evenpanies that orderedplete production lines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to their production scales from before, this could be considered arge step.

    Xu Yi naturally agreed to everything and with a rough estimate, just with this discussion, Xu Yi had earned orders that added up to a total of over five hundred thousand gold coins.

    This order could be considered the first deal of the year for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was arge opening.

    When everyone left, chairman Cruise came over with an emotional look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, there are many times when I envy you. Just by sitting here, business woulde to you. If ourpany could have such an exciting scene, I might die of happiness tomorrow.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, ¡°You make it sound like your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is about to starve. It¡¯s fine if you put on an act in front of others, but why are you acting in front of me? I know that your Amrit Chamber of Commerce has signed a contract with the Rudson Kingdom for a thousand kilometers of road. Just the amount of this contract is over four million gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, the surplus and profit is different, don¡¯t tell me you don¡¯t know that.¡± Chairman Cruise revealed a wronged look, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can turn five hundred thousand in sales to four hundred thousand. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce earns less than four hundred thousand from this four million in sales!¡±

    ¡°Then what about the high ss vis in the cities connected by the roads? Don¡¯t tell me you¡¯re earning little money from that.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Ha, ha......This......Ha, ha......¡± Chairman Cruise gave a few dryughs, but he didn¡¯t reply to Xu Yi at all.

    Xu Yi shook his head. The real estate industry was an industry withrge profits on earth, he didn¡¯t think it would be different on the Sines Continent.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had developed the Dawn Neighbourhood by the Sandy River and each vi had cost at least nine thousand gold coins.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimate of the materials, a single vi¡¯s cost would be around four thousand gold coins.

    Even counting the cost ofbour and the cost of thend, the average cost of a vi would be no more than six thousand gold coins.

    Calcting it, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could earn over three thousand gold coins from each vi.

    There were a total of one hundred and eighty eight vis in this neighbourhood. Just with this neighbourhood, they earned over six hundred thousand gold coins.

    This was just a single neighbourhood. If they counted the neighbourhoods built in Saltan City and Karma City, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would be earning a profit of close to two million if they sold everything.

    Adding in the ie from the roadsst year, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit was higher than any otherpany other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Ke.....Chairman Xu, it isn¡¯t that you don¡¯t know. Although we earn a lot, we also spend a lot. Moreover, we¡¯re not earning money in every ce, rather there are ces where we are suffering a loss. For example.....We¡¯re currently losing quite a bit from the investment on the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    Hearing chairman Cruise finally mention the ck Rice Wastnd, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    This beastmen ce, it really was filled with worries.

 Volume 4 6 - Beating them until they submit

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 6 Beating them until they submit</h4>

    After a while, Xu Yi gave a soft sigh.

    ¡°What? Did they cause more trouble?¡±

    At the beginning ofst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce built a production base on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    At first this production base went smoothly, hiring many beastmen from the ck Rice Wastnd and reducing the cost of workers, allowing the fourpanies to enjoy plenty of benefits.

    But in theter half of the year, the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd started harassing the production base. It forced the production base to stop working again and again, creating serious losses.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just the other beastmen tribes causing trouble, even the workers in the factories caused trouble. They had shed with the humans more than once and had almost killed someone.

    With all these idents, it was hard to maintain the production base. When they calcted their finances at the end of the year, the fourpanies had actually lost money on this production base.

    Although not a singlepany pulled out because of the loss, if this situation continued, they wouldn¡¯t be able to support the production base any longer.

    ¡°It¡¯s not that.¡± Chairman Cruise spread his hands helplessly, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand what those beastmen are thinking, you know? Everyone can clearly earn money by working together, it¡¯s good for everyone, but those fellows have to cause trouble when there¡¯s nothing to do. Not mentioning them stopping our production and causing us losses, don¡¯t they suffer losses themselves?¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his head and said with a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the beastmen are just that dumb. They have unruly instincts and aren¡¯t convinced in letting us humans manage them, so there¡¯s no way.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not right to say there¡¯s no way.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°When the elves controlled the continent, the beastmen were all as obedient as kittens. There weren¡¯t any beastmen willing to cause trouble, not to mention resisting the elves. In the end, the ones who stood up against the elves were the humans that beastmen normally looked down on and felt were too weak.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What methods did the elves have to make the beastmen obedient?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing that special, it¡¯s very simple. They just beat them.¡± Chairman Cruise replied with a look of disdain, ¡°Let me tell you, the beastmen bully the weak and fear the strong. If you are a bit stronger and force them to submit, they wouldn¡¯t dare resist at all. But if you aren¡¯t forceful and they think you don¡¯t have any abilities, they would start throwing insults at you.¡±

    ¡°Why is that like a certain race on earth?¡± Xu Yi found this a bit funny in his heart, ¡°Then what is your opinion?¡±

    ¡°My opinion......Honestly speaking, chairman Vincent, chairman Renersa, and I have the same opinion. We don¡¯t think that chairman Xu is forceful enough, that is why the beastmen think ourpanies are weak.¡± Chairman Cruise honestly said.

    ¡°Just say that I¡¯ve been weak.¡± Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°Alright, what do you think.....is weak or strong? Should I run over and kill a few beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd? The problem is that we¡¯re trying to earn money, not ughter people.¡±

    ¡°How is it that exaggerated?¡± Chairman Cruise waved his hand, ¡°The three of us think that we should strengthen the guards. We should at least be able to protect the production base and safely leave it. That way we can show our strength to the beastmen, making them afraid and won¡¯t dare harass us anymore.¡±

    ¡°So? How do you n on strengthening them? Don¡¯t forget, manpower, especially qualified guards are hard to find. Ourpany has spent all that time and we still don¡¯t have over a thousand guards yet.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°If you have the skills, how about including the elven guards, the dwarf guards, and all the other guards?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi before waving his hand, ¡°But I don¡¯t mean this. It isn¡¯t easy to find qualified guards, but to increase their strength doesn¡¯t just mean increasing their numbers, right? For example.....giving them better weapons?¡±

    Seeing the profound smile on chairman Cruise¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny.

    ¡°Alright, Cruise, you¡¯ve gone around in arge circle. In the end, you want to buy some military magic machines for yourpany¡¯s guards from me.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Since Xu Yi had seen through him, chairman Cruise didn¡¯t try to cover it up, ¡°I had this idea. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has those easy to use military magic machines and strong equipment. If you can give the same to the guards of ourpany, we can increase their battle strength and how would we need to worry about the beastmen harassing us?¡±

    ¡°This idea is very good, but there¡¯s a problem.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s fine for normal weapons and armours, but the stronger military magic machines are controlled by the royal army. Normalpany guards aren¡¯t allowed to have this equipment.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at him, ¡°Then how can your guards have them?¡±

    ¡°Because they are not only mypany¡¯s guards, they are also the personal troops of me as a viscount. What? Are any of your three chairmen also nobles?¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, ¡°This fellow......There is only you in the entire Lampuri Kingdom who is both a noble and a merchant, why are you asking when you already know this?¡±

    ¡°So even if I want to do this, I don¡¯t have any way, right?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands.

    ¡°No, of course there is a way.¡± Chairman Cruise revealed a sly smile. He took out a document for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took it and found that it was a standard noble order form.

    He found that the one who issued this was a small noble from Banta City called Baron Kiri. The content of the form was that this Baron Kiri wanted to take a trip to the ck Rice Wastnd and because he was worried about the beastmen there, he wanted to get three hundred guards like the Royal Parliament allowed.

    In order for those three hundred guards to protect him better, he wanted to increase their battle strength. So he would be ordering three hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows and three portable Magic Trebuchets.

    After he finished reading this, Xu Yi looked at Baron Kiri¡¯s seal on the bottom for a bit before looking at chairman Cruise with a surprised look.

    ¡°You really can think of ways, but are you sure this won¡¯t bring the kingdom¡¯s parliament¡¯s attention to you and bring your trouble?¡±

    Chairman Cruise revealed a faint smile, ¡°What is there to worry about? It isn¡¯t just ourpany who¡¯s done this. Where do you think the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s two thousand guards came from?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before nodding. He looked back at the order and it was like a door was slowly opening in front of him.

    ###

    As the new year passed, winter was leaving with each passing day.

    As spring bloomed, Banta City became more and more lively with each passing day as the stream of people came in.

    Banta City¡¯s renovation n started with the first breeze of spring and once work began, there wasn¡¯t a single idle day.

    The entire Banta City turned into arge construction site and there were all kinds of buildings being built.

    It was like Banta City was changing with each day.

    In the new part of the city, the roads were extending further out. Not only was every vige in Banta City connected now, there were roads in every direction, so people could ride the newly improved public transport system with their Magic Cars to any ce they wanted.

    In the new city, not only were there arge number of factories, there were many different buildings that the people of Banta City had never seen or heard of before.

    For example, the nursing home beside the hospital, which was said to be donated by the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    In this nursing home, as long as one was over sixty, they would be able to receive a set of winter clothes and bedding, as well as other daily necessities.

    If they had no one to take care of them, an old person who had lost their vitality could directly move into the nursing home. Naturally there would be people who took care of you, so you didn¡¯t need to worry about anything.

    Other than the nursing home, there was also an aid station not far away constructed by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    This aid station was to help people who had run into trouble. As long as it was someone in trouble, they could ask for help here.

    The aid station not only provided basic food and board, based on the decision of the one in trouble, they could introduce some work to him or send them to their friends and family.

    Moreover, not far away from the aid station was the vocational skill training school built under the coboration of the variouspanies and the City Lord Manor.

    One didn¡¯t need to pay fees, anyone could choose to learn a vocational skill here.

    As for the price they paid, after they finished their training, they had to work for at least three years in a Banta Citypany that fell into their field of training.

    If they broke this rule, all thepanies in Banta City would cklist them and they would never be able to find a job in Banta City again.

    In these new buildings, everyone found variouspanies were involved, but they never saw the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name.

    Everyone was confused by this.

    Wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a pany that cared about themunity¡± like chairman Xu had said? Why was it that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t participate in these things that helped themunity?

    Perhaps it was in response to the doubt of the public that at this year¡¯s spring bicycle race, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced a piece of information.

    In a week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be holding a product release press conference that they hadn¡¯t held in a long time.

    And the one in charge would actually be Xu Yi himself.

 Volume 4 7 - Daughter

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 7 Daughter</h4>

    Everyone was waiting for Xu Yi to make a rare appearance, but Xu Yi was outside a bedroom in the Falling Star Manor, anxiously pacing back and forth. He kept looking at the door from time to time with a look of hope.

    The door to the bedroom was shut tight and he could only hear the asional screaminging from inside, as well as Still¡¯s moans.

    The human females of the Sines Continent were no different from earth, they also carried their children and would give birth to them nine monthster.

    That¡¯s right, Still was about to give birth!

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what mood he was feeling, he just felt it was veryplex and hard to describe.

    When he was on earth, he focused on his research and had few opportunities toe in contact with girls, not to mention dating. But after arriving on the Sines Continent, he had bumped into Still and not only did he get married, he was about to have a child with her!

    Although he already expected this when he married Still, for it to reallye, Xu Yi felt a bit stunned and didn¡¯t know what to do.

    He was about to be a dad?

    But what should he do as a dad?

    Would the child Still gave birth to be a boy or a girl?

    What should he call it if it was a boy? What if it was a girl?

    Would they take his surname?

    If the surname was Xu, what should be the name?

    ......

    A bunch of questions filled Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    He had been in this world for more than six years, but this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time not thinking about machines.

    However, when the door was opened, all those questions turned into a single question.

    ¡°How is Still? Is anything wrong with her?¡± Xu Yi looked at the nurse who was in charge of Still and asked with a nervous look.

    Since Still felt pain from her stomachst night, the private doctor that Xu Yi invited said that she would be going intobour. Now close to ten hours had passed, but Still hadn¡¯t given birth yet, so Xu Yi was worried.

    The nurse didn¡¯t seem nervous at all, rather sheforted Xu Yi with a faint smile, ¡°Be assured, chairman Xu, madame Still is still very healthy. Her strength is fine, she shouldn¡¯t haven¡¯t any problems.¡±

    ¡°Then why hasn¡¯t she given birth yet?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    The nurse revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think it¡¯s easy giving birth? How could it be that fast? This is madame Still¡¯s first child, it¡¯s impossible it would go that smoothly. But you can be assured that her body is fine and nothing will happen to her.¡±

    Hearing the certain tone of the nurse, Xu Yi calmed down a bit.

    ¡°Alright, don¡¯t disturb them, let them focus on helping Still.¡± Great Magician Cami on the side patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, telling him to calm down.

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded, letting the nurse go back in.

    When she left, the door was suddenly opened again.

    Xu Yi quickly turned over and saw Agnes walking out.

    ¡°Hey, Agnes, did you see how Still is?¡± Xu Yi quickly asked her.

    Agnes had a strange look on her face, ¡°She¡¯s quite good, I think that she should have no problems.....But chairman you humans give birth to a child just like us elves. I thought that it would be different for different races.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°What? You¡¯ve seen your nsman giving birth before?¡±

    ¡°Un, in our tribe, giving birth is an important matter that the elder attaches importance to. But there are only a few elves in our tribe, so at this age, I¡¯ve only seen less than ten children being born.¡± Agnes replied.

    Although Agnes looked like a twenty year old girl, she was actually already over eighty years old. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help understanding the issue that elder Illusia hadined to him about many times.

    The fertility of elves was too low, in the years that Agnes had understood things, there were only ten kids who were born. That really was a pitifully small number.

    It was no wonder that elder Illusia was worried that without influence from the outside, the elves would be eliminated by their low fertility rate.

    After looking at Agnes, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something.

    ¡°Right, Agnes, you should have reached the age you give birth, right? Is there any handsome male elf that you like? Have you thought about getting married and giving birth to a child? If you like a male elf from your tribe, I can help introduce you.¡±

    Agnes didn¡¯t look shy like a human girl being asked this question, rather she seriously thought about it before shaking her head, ¡°No, I¡¯ve never thought about being with someone from my tribe. To be honest, chairman, I rather like you.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before waving his hand, ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m a human and you¡¯re an elf, how can you marry me? That is clearly impossible.¡±

    ¡°Is it?¡± Agnes was confused, ¡°So humans and elves can¡¯t get married?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°Isn¡¯t thismon sense? Could it be that elder Illusia never taught you this?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Agnes shook her head and was a bit sad, ¡°So elves and humans can be together, it really is a pity. I thought that since I like being with the chairman, I could have you agree to be mypanion in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi was defeated by Agnes. After thinking about it, he patted Agnes¡¯ shoulder and said, ¡°Don¡¯t be too disappointed. Actually you¡¯re quite beautiful and I like your personality, so you must be popr among the elves. Alright, stop thinking about impossible things. I¡¯ll give you a task, go and be with Still. If something goes wrong, immediatelye out and tell me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Agnes gave a strong nod and turned back to head into the room.

    When the door was closed again, Xu Yi knit his brows. He turned to Great Magician Cami andined, ¡°I say, what is this damn custom? Why is it that as Still¡¯s husband, I¡¯m not allowed to be with her at this crucial time? I can only wait outside? This is inhumane!¡±

    Great Magician Cami patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder andforted him again, ¡°It¡¯s a very important and secret matter for girls to give birth, of course they don¡¯t want to be seen by men. Moreover, girls look very ugly when giving birth. Still isn¡¯t willing to let you see her with this ugly appearance, so just think of it as consideration for Still.¡±

    Of course Xu Yi was still a bit indignant and heined a few times, but he couldn¡¯t do anything and kept pacing outside the room.

    But it was a good thing that good news came after half an hour.

    ¡°Chairman, the child¡¯s head is out!¡± The first one toe to report was Agnes who Xu Yi had just sent in.

    ¡°Master, the child¡¯s arm is out!¡± This was Vivian.

    ¡°Master, the child is halfway out!¡±

    ¡°Master, the child is almost out!¡±

    ¡°Master, the child¡¯s feet are out!¡±

    ......

    Hearing these reports, Xu Yi became more and more excited.

    After patiently waiting for a while, the door was suddenly opened again. The nurse that came to report came to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, congrattions, the child is out!¡±

    Xu Yi was filled with joy and charged forward with a smile.

    ¡°How is Still right now? What about the child? Can I go in now? Is it a boy or a girl? What do they look like?¡±

    The nurse opened a slit in the door and signaled for Xu Yi to go in.

    He never thought that the nurse would keep him guessing. Xu Yi immediately opened the door and went in.

    The room was filled with people. Agnes, Vivian, Liz, and Linda were all surrounding the bed in the middle, crowding around Still lying in the bed.

    Xu Yi forced his way to the side of the bed and seeing Still¡¯s pale face, his heart tightened. He quickly grabbed her hand and asked, ¡°How is it? Still? How do you feel?¡±

    Still was a bit weak and she slowly opened her eyes to see Xu Yi, revealing a faint smile.

    ¡°I¡¯m good, but.....Xu Yi, I¡¯m sorry......¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Sorry? Why are you sorry?¡±

    Still had aplicated expression, ¡°Because I gave birth to a girl.¡±

    Xu Yi was more confused, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with a girl? Why are you saying sorry?¡±

    Still shook her head and closed her eyes, as if she no longer had the strength to speak.

    Xu Yi looked at everyone else and found that other than Agnes who had a normal expression, everyone else including Vivian all had awkward looks.

    Xu Yi knit his brows in thought before suddenly understanding.

    After thinking about it, he leaned over and kissed Still¡¯s cheek. He looked into her eyes that opened again and said with a determined look, ¡°Still, I already told you that you don¡¯t need to worry about this, I will make you feel at ease.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi got up and spread his hands to the nurse, ¡°My daughter? Give it here, I haven¡¯t even seen what she looks like as the father.¡±

    The nurse felt the atmosphere was a bit strange. She looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before picking up the child from the cradle beside the bed.

    Xu Yi took the wrapped up baby and opened the cloth. Seeing her scrunched up face that was like that because she had just been born, which definitely couldn¡¯t be considered beautiful, there was a strange feeling that filled his heart.

    This was his child?

    After staring at his daughter for a while, Xu Yi took a deep breath. He looked at Still who was on the bed and nodded at her before turning to Great Magician Cami who just walked in and was beside the bed, finally he looked over everyone in the room and raised his daughter high up.

    ¡°From now on, I announce......¡±

 Volume 4 8 - Magic Car show

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 8 Magic Car show</h4>

    Because it was in the south of the Lampuri Kingdom, which could be considered the south part of the Sines Continent, winter was already leaving Banta City in March.

    When the morning sun came out, the entire city was filled with warmth.

    Being under the sun was veryfortable for people.

    Perhaps to enjoy the sunlight, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t hold their product release in one of the halls, rather they held it in the square on the banks of the Sandy River outside the city.

    Of course, this was because there were too many products they were announcing this time, so they needed plenty of space and the conference halls of Banta City weren¡¯t big enough.

    When they rode the public transport Magic Car out of Banta City and came to the square, the first thing they saw was also a Magic Car.

    However,pared to the public transport Magic Car, this one was much bigger.

    The public transport magic cars were around five meters long and less than two meters wide, but this Magic Car was over ten meters long and was double the size of the public transport Magic Car, reaching close to four meters!

    As for the height, it was even more exaggerated. The medium sized Magic Car was a little bit more than two meters tall and normal people could touch the roof if they jumped. As for thisrger Magic Car, it was over three meters tall and normal people couldn¡¯t touch the roof no matter how they jumped.

    ¡°Everyone, please take a look, this is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newrge sized passenger Magic Car. It is arranged with thirty seven seats and can take thirty seven adults on a ride. If there is a special scenario, it can at most amodate fifty people. Moreover, this carriage has thetest anti shock system, so it¡¯s much morefortable to ridepared to the old Magic Cars.....¡±

    Hearing the beautiful youngdy¡¯s introduction, everyone¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°This looks better than the medium sized Magic Car, it¡¯s also this big and can carry that many people at once, it¡¯s much more convenient.¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s much morefortable to ride. If the Fersen Carriage Company changes to these Magic Cars for their long distance trips, it would be much better.¡±

    ¡°I will definitely suggest the chairman buy one! That way when ourpany goes out in a group, it¡¯ll be much more convenient!¡±

    ......

    While these people were looking at thisrge sized passenger Magic Car, there was a group of people staring at a superrge Magic Car on the side.

    This Magic Car from a single nce could be told it was a transport Magic Car.

    But it was different from the medium sized transport Magic Car the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released before. This Magic Car was clearly much biggerpared to before.

    ¡°Hey, young miss, how much can be stored in this?¡± A person who was wearing normal clothes, but revealing the eyes of an astute merchant asked the young miss beside the car.

    The young miss said with a dazzling smile, ¡°This sir, thisrge sized transport Magic Car has a standard load of ten tons.¡±

    ¡°Ten tons?¡±

    Hearing this response, everyone took a cold breath.

    ¡°God, can this carriage really carry ten tons? We needed several trips for that before, now can we do that in just one trip?¡± All the people couldn¡¯t help calling out in surprise.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated! This car can really carry ten tons? Can it really pull it?¡± There were some people who were doubtful.

    ¡°Not only can it pull it, it can also maintain a speed of over forty kilometers an hour when it isn¡¯t carrying more than the standard load.¡± The young miss said with a smile

    ¡°You can go forty kilometers carrying this much? Isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡± This time, everyone was shocked and found it somewhat unbelievable, ¡°Hey, miss, are you sure you¡¯re not boasting? How many things is ten tons, this thing can go forty kilometers an hour carrying that? Isn¡¯t this impossible?¡±

    The young miss was very professional and her expression didn¡¯t change at all, as she had the same kind smile.

    ¡°Sir, these are the facts that ourpany has proved after many experiments, there aren¡¯t any lies at all. Please believe in the prestige of ourpany, we wouldn¡¯t intentionally tell any lies.¡±

    Without waiting for the doubtful people to speak, the others started using them.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always done what they do, what is there to brag about?

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what¡¯s the point of boasting at this point? They would be seen through right away.¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has good prestige, I believe them.¡±

    ¡°Un, forget about the otherpanies, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is definitely the best when ites to magic machines.¡±

    Everyone kept talking and the person who raised the question couldn¡¯t say a thing. Then they began asking about the specifics of therge sized transport Magic Car with everyone else.

    Once they went past the entrance and moved past the two giant Magic Cars guarding the gate, they came to the center of the hall.

    Looking around, what attracted everyone¡¯s eyes was a finely made Magic Car in the center that looked a bit strange.

    This Magic Car was like a smaller medium sized Magic Car and whether it was in terms of length, width, or height, even the overall contour was finely made. The exterior lines were smooth and the surface was covered in ayer of sparkling paint.

    Under the sunlight, beams of light were reflected off the Magic Car, making it even brighter. Many people were unable to look straight ahead, but they weren¡¯t willing to look away.

    No matter which angle it was looked at, it was much better than the medium sized Magic Car. With the luxurious design it had, it instantly made people feel like it was high ss.

    So naturally there were many people who surrounded this Magic Car, most of them were the nobles andrge merchants of the city.

    As for the normal citizens, just by looking at the appearance of the car, they knew that it was a high ss good that they couldn¡¯t afford. They could only watch from afar, they didn¡¯t didn¡¯t even dare ask about it.¡±

    ¡°Nine thousand nine hundred and ny nine gold coins for one?¡± Hearing the response of the miss, Baron Belil was a bit surprised, ¡°It¡¯s this expensive?¡±

    But turning to look at this finely made Magic Car, Baron Belil felt that this price was very suitable.

    Such a high ss and beautiful looking Magic Car, if it wasn¡¯t a bit more expensive, how could it show off how special it was?

    He attended this product release other than being bored, he wanted toe here to cause a bit of trouble for Xu Yi. But he never thought that as soon as he came in and saw the Magic Car, he was immediately drawn in. He even forgot his goal and was seriously asking about the Magic Car.

    After walking around the Magic Car, Baron Belil thought about it before pointing at it and asking, ¡°Can I go and sit in it?¡±

    The miss opened the front left door with a smile and made an inviting gesture.

    Seeing the other nobles and merchants looking at him, Baron Belil revealed a happy smile and carefully entered the car.

    When he sat down, he immediately felt the leather under his butt and the soft cushion on it, it felt veryfortable sitting there.

    When he leaned back, he felt the samefortable cushion on his back. Moreover, there were special cushions that supported his waist, so he didn¡¯t need to use any strength at all as he sat up straight, feeling veryfortable.

    Barong Belil felt that he wouldn¡¯t feel ufortable even if he sat there for an entire day.

    ¡°It really is good, just this seat alone is worth it!¡±

    Baron Belil couldn¡¯t help praising. He raised his hands and found that he could only barely hold the steering wheel, so he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    The miss who was on the side bent over and said with a faint smile, ¡°Sir, if you think that this position isn¡¯tfortable, you can adjust it at will.¡±

    ¡°You can adjust it?¡± Baron Belil was surprised.

    ¡°Yes, do you need to adjust it?¡±

    ¡°Un, move the seat a bit forward, it¡¯s hard for me to hold the steering wheel.¡±

    ¡°Alright, please take a look here......¡±

    The miss leaned under the seat and used a bit of strength, as Baron Belil felt that the firm seat became more rxed.

    His body loosened and the seat moved forward with his body.

    Baron Belil praised this in his heart. He reached under the seat and grabbed the rod, then when he pulled it, the seat became loose again.

    He moved it forward a few more times until Baron Belil found a veryfortable position.

    Sitting straight, he ced his hands on the steering wheel and looking forward, Baron Belil thought this felt very good!

    He turned to find that there was a small control panel on the side.

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    ¡°This controls the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Lamp, the trunk, and various other parts.¡± The miss exined.

    ¡°Wa, there¡¯s even a Magic Air Conditioner and a Magic Lamp in here?¡±

    Hearing this miss¡¯ response, not only was Baron Belil surprised, even the surrounding people were surprised.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too powerful?¡± A merchant couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Then isn¡¯t this no different from sitting in your house?¡±

    The miss revealed a faint smile, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s idea in making this Magic Car is to let the passenger feel he¡¯s bringing his home with him, allowing them to enjoy the warmth andfort of home on a journey.¡±

 Volume 4 9 - Looking down on horse carriages?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 9 Looking down on horse carriages?</h4>

    ¡°Why are you disying all these Magic Cars at once?¡±

    While the miss was receiving questions from the guests, Xu Yi was also answering various questions, but the people he faced were the reporters from the various newspapers.

    It had been half a year since the Frestech Chamber of Commercest held a product release and they announced today¡¯s product release a week ago, so it was enough to see that they ced importance on this product release and naturally the newspapers of Banta City and the surrounding cities ced importance on this.

    After the reporters arrived at today¡¯s product release, they immediately found that it was very worth it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s past product releases only released one product, but this time they suddenly released over ten different products at once.

    Although the main topic was Magic Cars this time and all these new products could be considered a form of Magic Car, seeing this many kinds of Magic Cars with all kinds of different appearances and functions really was enough to make one feel shocked.

    Especially the Magic Car called the Magic Sedan by Xu Yi in the center, it attracted everyone¡¯s eyes.

    The reporters were more experienced than normal people, so naturally they could tell with a single nce that although this Magic Sedan was expensive, it actually satisfied the wants of the merchants and the nobles.

    If it was priced too low, the noble and merchants that came today wouldn¡¯t care about it that much.

    And this Magic Sedan whether it was in terms of appearance, function, orfort, it was all top ss and could even be considered a work of art, so it was natural that it was well epted.

    Butpared to the Magic Cars that shocked everyone, the reporters cared more about why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released this many kinds of Magic Cars at once.

    Compared to the previous press conferences, it was different from what Xu Yi said before about ¡°eating bite by bite or taking step by step¡±.

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi looked over the reporters and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Because through this product release, we want to tell everyone a fact. It¡¯s that there are many development opportunities for Magic Cars and there are many kinds that can be developed. It isn¡¯t just the medium sized passenger and transport Magic Cars that ourpany promoted before.¡±

    The reporters all nodded.

    Indeed, beforeing to this product release, everyone only knew the two types of Magic Cars the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted before. Now that there were many kinds of Magic Cars at this product release, especially after seeing this Magic Sedan, everyone realized that there were indeed endless possibilities when it came to Magic Car.s

    It could be said that because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product release, everyone had suddenly changed their mentality.

    From the Magic Cars they saw at this product release, everyone could think of more types of Magic Cars.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, in the future, ourpany will make even more kinds of Magic Cars with different uses. We will also improve the quality and performance of our current Magic Cars.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and confirmed everyone¡¯s guesses.

    ¡°For example, this Magic Sedan, we used thetest steel alloys. It¡¯s made the Magic Sedan much more resistant and stronger against contour changes. So don¡¯t just think that this Magic Sedan is smaller than the medium sized Magic Car, it isn¡¯t less safe to sit in it at all. You don¡¯t need to worry about losing your life in a crash. At least it¡¯s safer than riding horse carriages.¡±

    The reporters looked at each other before one of them suddenly raised their hand to ask in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that you look down on horse carriages, is that true?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and recognized him as a reporter that specialized in gossip. He shook his head and said, ¡°That isn¡¯t urate. urately speaking, I¡¯m looking down on the abilities of a horse carriage, not on the horse carriage itself.¡±

    The reporters under the stage were stunned, ¡°Is there a difference?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I look down on the abilities of a horse carriage because whether it is in terms of safety,fort, or the most important factor when ites to transportation, speed, they don¡¯t satisfy me. Compared to the Magic Cars, the horse carriages can¡¯tpare at all. Don¡¯t you think that since ourpany has developed Magic Cars, why shouldn¡¯t I look down on the performance of horse carriages?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can I take it as you trying to sell the Magic Cars of yourpany that you have this attitude?¡± That reporter kept asking.

    Xu Yi looked at him and couldn¡¯t help smiling. He spread his hands and asked, ¡°Do you think.....I need to go all out to sell the Magic Cars?¡±

    Seeing the other reporters looking at him like he was an idiot, that gossip reporter understood and felt that his question was really stupid.

    Xu Yi waspletely right, he didn¡¯t need to sell the Magic Cars at all, he didn¡¯t even need to in the beginning. Because after seeing the performance of Magic Cars far surpassed the horse carriages, all thepanies of Banta City and manypanies from other cities were all hounding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for Magic Cars.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t match the demand, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car factory was the one that was always working overtime.

    Even like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had orders that surpassed their production by several times, even nning their orders into next year.

    In this situation, did Xu Yi need to put on an attitude to sell the Magic Cars?

    It had to be known, people were begging to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to buy Magic Cars, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to sell them at all.

    Seeing that the reporter no longer spoke, Xu Yi continued with a smile, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve asked this question, I¡¯ll take this chance to give you my ideas in detail.¡±

    The reporters were all shocked before focusing on Xu Yi.

    ¡°I just said, I look down on the performance of horse carriages becausepared to Magic Cars, horse carriages really can¡¯tpare and can¡¯t match the needs of the people. The most important thing is that it can¡¯t satisfy therge transport demands.¡±

    Xu Yi paused before pointing at therge transport Magic Car at the entrance.

    ¡°Take a look, thatrge sized transport Magic Car has a standard load of ten tons. If we used horse carriages, even the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯srgest transport horse carriage that has a total of eight horses pulling can¡¯t load more than three tons, it can¡¯t even reach four tons.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯tcking by that much that people can¡¯t ept it.¡± A reporter refuted.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯ve forgotten two important problems. One is investment cost and one is operation expenses.¡±

    Oh? Chairman Xu, please exin.¡±

    ¡°First let¡¯s talk about investment cost. Do you know, how much does it cost to construct arge horse carriage for the Fersen Carriage Company? Let me tell you, chairman Pompeii personally told me that they had to custom order therge horse carriages. In order to support such heavy cargo, they have to use the most durable material, so each horse carriage has a high cost of three thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°But yourrge sized transport Magic Car costs five thousand gold coins, it¡¯s much higher than therge horse carriage.¡± A reporter on the side said in a loud voice.

    ¡°Did you forget about the eight horses?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    That reporter instantly fell silent.

    ¡°Horses that can pull three to four tons are of course the best horses. So the Fersen Carriage Company spends at least five thousand gold coins on these eight horses. So in total, the Fersen Carriage Company spends over eight thousand to construct arge horse carriage.

    The reporters looked at each other, unable to say anything.

    Xu Yi took out real facts and numbers, they couldn¡¯t refute it at all.

    ¡°Now that we¡¯re finished with investment cost, we¡¯ll talk about operating costs.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°ording to the data chairman Pompeii gave me, if one wants to use therge horse carriage, they need to spend at least twenty gold coins a day to buy feed for the horses. As for the maintenance cost of therge horse carriage, it costs up to two thousand gold coins a year. If you average it to every day, it¡¯s over fifty gold coins a day. In total, to use therge horse carriage, it would cost at least seventy gold coins a day and it costs more the further one goes.¡±

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, how much does yourrge Magic Car cost to maintain each day?¡± A reporter asked

    ¡°Thisrge Magic Car has two parts when ites to consumption. One is the daily maintenance and by the standard ourpany puts, if nothing big happens, thisrge Magic Car¡¯s maintenance is probably three to five hundred gold coins a year in a normal situation.¡±

    ¡°This little?¡± The reporters didn¡¯t really believe it, ¡°How much is that when counted on a daily basis?¡±

    ¡°This is already considered a lot.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°If ourpany makes new breakthroughs with the Magic Cars, we can further reduce the maintenance costs.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the other part? The horses eat grass, so it¡¯s impossible that your Magic Cars don¡¯t need anything to run, right?¡± Another reporter asked.

    ¡°Of course, to make a horse run, you need to feed the horse. I think that you should be very clear that Magic Cars use Magic Crystals. Then for thisrge scale transport Magic Car, there isn¡¯t any difference and also consumes Magic Crystals. ording to the initial tests of ourpany, thisrge Magic Car going at a normal speed would consume thirteen Evs of magic per one hundred kilometers. If you use the standardized Magic Crystals that ourpany has made, it would cost a total of thirteen gold coins.

    ¡°This means that if you want to pull ten tons of goods a hundred kilometers, it would cost thirteen gold coins?¡± The reporters all had looks of disbelief.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There is another important factor which is speed. Carrying a normal load of ten tons, thisrge Magic Car can go at a speed of forty kilometers an hour. What about the horse carriages?¡±

    The reporters look at each other before smiling.

    Horse carriages? Not mentioning carrying ten tons, even if they ran without any goods, they could only run for an hour at thirty kilometers an hour.

    Seeing the reaction of the reporters, Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Now, tell me, why can¡¯t I look down on horse carriages?¡±

    The reporters allughed.

    After this, the gossip reporter raised their hand again.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, after several questions about the Magic Cars, I want to ask a personal question. It¡¯s about your newly born daughter, are you willing to answer it?¡±

    The other reporters looked at him with frowns as they couldn¡¯t help revealing a trace of disdain.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product release, why are you asking a personal question.

    However, after hearing that this question was about Xu Yi¡¯s daughter, all the reporters focused to look at Xu Yi with looks of hope.

    ¡°It really dide.¡± Xu Yi revealed an understanding smile before nodding, ¡°My mood is good today, so you can. Ask me then.¡±

    ¡°Alright. Chairman Xu, I heard that you named her your sole heir the day your daughter was born, is this true?¡±

 Volume 4 10 - Explicit stand

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 10 Explicit stand</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hesitate at all as he nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, the reporters broke out in an uproar.

    A bunch of arms were raised under the stage.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you certain you want your daughter as your sole heir?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when you mention your sole heir, does that mean that you won¡¯t leave any family property to any family members other than your daughter?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if you have a son, will you really not consider letting him inherit your property?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡±

    ......

    When the excited mood of the reporters fell and they calmed down again, everyone stared at Xu Yi. He gave a smile and asked back, ¡°Why are you asking this? She is my daughter, isn¡¯t it right for her to be my sessor?¡±

    ¡°The key point is sole!¡± A reporter under the stage shouted, ¡°Chairman Xu, the meaning of sole, does it mean that you¡¯re not nning on giving any family property to any of your other children?¡±

    ¡°I think that your understanding is a bit different.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Sole inheritor means that my daughter is the only person to inherit my title. As for my property.....that is a different matter.¡±

    ¡°Title?¡± The reporters were stunned, ¡°It isn¡¯t rted to property? What about the title of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman? Is that also unrted?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the reporter who asked this with a confused gaze.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t belong to me, why would my children inherit the position of chairman? Not to mention that even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce belongs to me, the chairman position should belong to someone capable. If my children aren¡¯t good with business, could it be that I should watch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce decline in their hands?¡±

    The reporters thought about it and felt that Xu Yi was reasonable. But this didn¡¯t follow the traditions of the Sines Continent.

    ording to tradition, for Xu Yi who had absolute control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn¡¯t be willing to give it to anyone else.

    No matter what, he would train his sessor as the next chairman or he would secretly control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    But from Xu Yi¡¯s attitude, it seems like he would use the second method.

    After all, if his children inherit his title, they would be nobles.

    His children might not be special like Xu Yi, being able to be a noble and a merchant, so secretly controlling thepany was the best method.

    Thinking of this, the reporters understood.

    However, after thinking this through, they thought of more problems.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that your daughter would inherit your title, why didn¡¯t you consider leaving it for your son?¡± A reporter asked, ¡°There are many people who say that you are showing your support for her highness Seveni by doing this, is this true?¡±

    This question was what all the reporters really cared about.

    If Xu Yi¡¯s answer was that he wanted to officially demonstrate that he was showing his support for her highness Seveni, it would meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be entering her highness Seveni¡¯s camp.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t do this, everyone thought this. If Xu Yi didn¡¯t show his stand, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could change stands at any time, which would mean that they would have buffers for many things.

    If Xu Yi showed his stance now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would find it hard to change. Xu Yi doing this would be equivalent to betting on her highness Seveni.

    If her highness Seveni couldn¡¯t take the throne in the end and his highness Eric became king, one could imagine the results waiting for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So although Xu Yi was just setting his daughter as his sole inheritor, which seemed like a private matter, because of Xu Yi¡¯s sensitive identity and the importance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this wouldn¡¯t be just a family matter because there were many factors.

    How could Xu Yi not see the ideas the reporters have and understand the significance of what they were asking? But he made this choice after careful thought, so naturally he wouldn¡¯t panic when faced with this question.

    ¡°First, I don¡¯t have a son now.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Second, if Still and I have another crystallization of our love and it is a son, since I have already decided one my sessor, I won¡¯t change it. Because the more important a problem is, the more you can¡¯t go back on it, or it won¡¯t be good for anymore. I hope that our children can live in harmony and I¡¯m not willing to see them be dissatisfied with each other or even feud with each other because of their inheritance.¡±

    The eyes of the reporters all opened wide as they filled with shock.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, can I take these words as ming the king?¡± A reporter couldn¡¯t help asking in a loud voice.

    Xi Yi gave a chuckle and spread his hands, ¡°This is your understanding, it isn¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    The reporters didn¡¯t pay attention to Xu Yi¡¯s vague words, they just wrote what Xu Yi had said word for word in their books.

    After a while, another reporter asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, you still haven¡¯t replied to thest question. Did you deliberately set your daughter as your sole inheritor as a way to show support to her highness Seveni?¡±

    ¡°You can think of it this way because it holds a part of my thoughts.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But to me, this is my first child with Still, so it is very important in my heart. Since she was born, I wanted to give everything I had to her. As for my titles or the position of chairman, that isn¡¯t important. This is a normal thought for a father, I think that you can all understand.¡±

    Although the reporters wrote theter half down, they all thought that his reply in the first part was more important.

    Xu Yi confirmed the questions of the reporters, which meant that he really was using this decision to show support for her highness Seveni.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s importance in the Lampuri Kingdom, her highness Seveni receiving Xu Yi¡¯s support was equal to giving Seveni a very important chip. It would be very helpful to Seveni taking the throne.

    Xu Yi¡¯s methods were a bit backhanded, but doing this was clearly meant to incite the king.

    Could it be that doing this wouldn¡¯t make the king go against him, forcing the king to make his highness Eric the royal sessor?

    ###

    ¡°Forget about what those idiot reporters thing, what do you think, Dema?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth had just finished speaking when he broke out in coughs again.

    Although spring was here, Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s body didn¡¯t look better and he was clearly weaker.

    Even though he didn¡¯t have to stay in his bedroom all day since winter was over, he didn¡¯t leave the room that much.

    ¡°Deciding a sessor affects the entire kingdom, how could I use feelings? Whether it is Eric, Seveni, or Mifam, whoever takes the throne must be decided who has contributed the most to the kingdom, it can¡¯t be decided based on who I like.¡±

    Dema nodded before saying, ¡°But your majesty, I feel that Xu Yi is a bit correct. Being able to decide on a sessor and not letting the highnesses fight each other, whether it is to you, them, or the entire kingdom, it is very good. Why don¡¯t you just decide it?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re ming me?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a faint smile before giving a deep sigh, ¡°You think I don¡¯t want to do this? But the royal family isn¡¯t like a small family like Xu Yi¡¯s, the sessor has many important factors, it can¡¯t be easily decided. Didn¡¯t Xu Yi say it? If his children aren¡¯t good enough, he wouldn¡¯t want to leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to them and see them ruin it, right?¡±

    ¡°But Xu Yi can give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to others, you can¡¯t give the kingdom to someone else. This throne, it must be decided from among your children, so......¡± Dema paused before gritting his teeth and making up his mind, ¡°Your majesty, please make the decision as soon as possible. If it¡¯s dyed, I¡¯m afraid......¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth silently stared at Dema before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Dema, you never expressed your opinion in front of me, so why are you being this active today?¡±

    Dema revealed a bitter smile and didn¡¯t reply.

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave another sigh.

    ¡°Alright, I understand what you mean. You¡¯re worried about my body, right? Do you think that I can¡¯t hold on much longer?¡±

    Dema looked down and after a while, he slowly looked up with two lines of tears on his face.

    ¡°Your majesty.....I.....I¡¯ve silently watched over you.....as you became weaker with each day, I really can¡¯t think of a way to save you. I¡¯m actually.....very hurt. I know that the most important thing in your mind is the kingdom, so I hope that you can determine this important thing for the kingdom as soon as possible. Then once you¡¯re assured, you can......you can......¡±

    ¡°Pass out my final days in peace?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth revealed a faint smile. He waved his hand at Dema for him toe over.

    When Dema was at his side, Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly raised his hand and swept out.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    Dema felt the stinging on his face and looked at Lampuri Thirteenth in surprise.

    ¡°What? Do you think that I¡¯m someone who¡¯s just waiting for death?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth who was very weak was like an angered lion. Although his body was weak, his aura was very strong, like it couldn¡¯t be resisted at all.

    ¡°I am the king! I don¡¯t need the pity of others and cannot be pitied by others! Since I am the king, I must take responsibility for the kingdom! Picking a worthy sessor is the final and most important responsibility for me, I must seriouslyplete this responsibility. So as long as I¡¯m not dead, I will put all my effort into this matter, understood?¡±

    Dema looked at Lampuri Thirteenth in a daze before slowly nodding after a while/

    ¡°Yes, your majesty. I have offended you, please forgive me.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a strong snort before reaching his hand out towards Dema.

    ¡°I¡¯ve already finished reading about Seveni¡¯s side. Bring me the report from the north, let me see what that kid Eric¡¯s been up to during these days.¡±

 Volume 4 11 - Losing the chance of cooperating

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 11 Losing the chance of cooperating</h4>

    The kingdom¡¯s north was naturally different from the south. Banta City was in spring, but Lorren City that was less than two hundred kilometers from the northern border was still in the chill of winter.

    However, his highness Eric was filled with mes right now. Not only did it easily surpass the chill in the air, it even surpassed spring and burned with the heat of summer.

    It was time to perform his merit!

    Looking at the thirty thousand northern army soldiers full of vigor and well equipped outside the city, his highness Eric had never been as confident as he was right now.

    He even felt that with the thirty thousand northern army soldiers, he could not only attack the gate of the Sack Kingdom, he could even reach their capital and make the entire Sack Kingdom fall under him.

    At that time, with this unparalleled military merit, who would be qualified topete with him for the throne?

    However, hismon sense told him that this wasn¡¯t realistic.

    The thirty thousand northern army troops seemed like they were stronger, it was all because of the various goods therge nobles of the kingdom sent him. The logistics problem that always puzzled the northern army was solved, so the northern army¡¯s mentality changed and it seemed like their battle efficiency increased.

    But even like this, it was impossible to rout the entire Sack Kingdom with the thirty thousand northern army troops.

    While conducting strategy meetings with Duke Stagg, Duke Stagg had explicitly warned his highness Eric that he can¡¯t expect to defeat the Sack Kingdom.

    Even the Lampuri Kingdom of several hundred years ago couldn¡¯t do this, it was impossible to achieve even with the powerful support he had now.

    The reason forunching this war was to give his highness Eric military merits that would increase his chips when it came topeting for the throne.

    So Eric¡¯s goals were clear this time, it was to defeat the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army several times and take some advantages from the Sack Kingdom. It wasn¡¯t to go too deeply into the Sack Kingdom.

    As long as he had the merit of defeating the Sack Kingdom, it would be a very powerful chip.

    If he really wanted topletely defeat the Sack Kingdom, that was asking for trouble.

    Thinking of Duke Stagg¡¯s urgings, his highness Eric couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows and giving a soft snort.

    ¡°We couldn¡¯t defeat the Sack Kingdom before because you nobles weren¡¯t willing to contribute your strength. After I take the throne, I will definitely take the kingdom in my hand. When I mobilize the entire strength of the kingdom at that time, I don¡¯t believe I can¡¯t defeat the Sack Kingdom!¡±

    Of course, his highness Eric only dared to think of this, he never mentioned it before.

    It was only because of the support of therge nobles led by Duke Stagg that he could have the advantage when it came topeting for the throne.

    Otherwise, with his own strength and not to mention that he didn¡¯t have any military merits, it would be hard to even maintain his five thousand private guards.

    Thinking of his five thousand private guards, his highness Eric looked past the northern army and fell onto another group before his brows knit even deeper.

    This formation was crooked andpared to the uniform one of the northern army, it was like their formations were drawn without using a ruler.

    The soldiers of this formation were veryzy and they were very dispirited. Compared to the northern army soldiers that were filled with vigor, these soldiers werepletelycking.

    In these few months, his highness Eric had spent most of his time in military camps, so he was no longer someone who understood nothing about military matters.

    The current him could see with one look that if his five thousand private guards were to face an equal number of northern army soldiers, he was certain that his five thousand private guards would copse without being able to resist at all.

    But he couldn¡¯t do anything about this. Although his father had announced that he was one of the sessors and had the right to a private guard of five thousand, his power was limited and it was impossible for him to raise these many guards.

    The five thousand people were given to him from the private armies of the nobles, so he could imagine their quality.

    His highness Eric didn¡¯t believe in these five thousand people, so naturally he didn¡¯t put importance on them.

    Of course, he hoped that he could train five thousand trusted subordinates in the future because that would be his own strength.

    But his own strength was just too weak right now. The main reason was that he didn¡¯t have money, so he couldn¡¯t consider this.

    Thinking of this, his highness Eric couldn¡¯t help feeling jealous and envious of Seveni.

    ording to his reports, Seveni had also finished recruiting her five thousand guards.

    Compared to his five thousand guards that had no battle strength at all, one part of Seveni¡¯s five thousand guards was picked from the elites of the private forces of the nobles supporting her, so their battle strength waspletely different from his subordinates.

    The other portion were people recruited by Seveni.

    With Seveni¡¯s good reputation in the kingdom and adding in the good treatment of her guards, the guards she recruited were all elites and had good battle strength.

    The most important thing was that Seveni¡¯s five thousand guards were all equipped with military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just in terms of battle strength, Seveni¡¯s private guards could even match several times their numbers when it came to northern army soldiers, not to mention his highness Eric¡¯s private guards.

    Moreover, other than the personal military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had equipped Seveni¡¯s private guards with several Magic Trebuchets. It didn¡¯t state their specific uses, but they were certainly powerful military magic machines.

    Like this, even if they both had five thousand guards, the battle strength between the two was like heaven and earth.

    The most important reason for this gap was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, a bit of regret appeared in his highness Eric¡¯s heart.

    When Viscount Leslie came to meet him in Lorren City, he had urged him not topletely go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because Xu Yi wanted to develop the Lampuri Kingdom, he wasn¡¯t against cooperating with his highness Eric.

    His highness Eric didn¡¯t even consider Viscount Leslie¡¯s proposal since he wanted to separate himself from Seveni.

    Later when Dketon City¡¯s Count Michelle wrote a letter that suggested cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, his highness Eric also refuted it.

    Then when the news came several dayster that Xu Yi had stated his attitude to everyone at the product release, showing support for her highness Seveni, it meant that there was no possibility of his highness Eric being able to cooperate with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    His highness Eric didn¡¯t care about this news when he heard it a few days ago, thinking that Xu Yi really was stupid.

    But now that he thought about the difference in battle strength, he thought about the strong support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could provide to the other side, he found that he might have really missed out on something.

    But since matters had reached this point, his highness Eric was clear that he couldn¡¯t turn back and there was no meaning to regret.

    Since Xu Yi showed his support for Seveni, then Eric would clearly mark the border with him or he would arouse the suspicions of therge nobles and that would be disadvantageous to him.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, once I get my military merit and take the throne, I¡¯ll control the entire kingdom. A trivial Frestech Chamber of Commerce will still fall into my hands.¡±

    His highness Eric clenched his fist as his face revealed a confident smile once again.

    ¡°Your highness, it¡¯s about time. We should prepare for our pre battle mobilization.¡± Count Stagg reminded him from the side in a small voice.

    Before his highness Eric came, Count Stagg would have held the title of Lorren City¡¯s City Lord.

    He had held the post of Banta City¡¯s City Lord for less than a year before being transferred. He thought that he would be in Lorren City for some time before being moved somewhere else, but he never thought that in less than a month, his highness Eric woulde out of nowhere and take the position of City Lord from him.

    Although Count Stagg had received instructions from his family and had been helping his highness Eric during this time, he found that as more time passed, Count Stagg felt more and more doubt towards his family¡¯s decision to support his highness Eric.

    It should be said that his highness Eric wasn¡¯t stupid, rather he was quite the intelligent person and could be considered brave and diligent. In the half a year since he came to Lorren city, he had obtained a certain amount of prestige and built a foundation in the northern army, so his performance could be considered good.

    But after being with his highness Eric for a while, Count Stagg noticed a very prominent shoring. It was that he was very stubborn, which coulde from his own pride.

    As long as he was certain on something, he wouldn¡¯t ept any suggestions that other people made.

    Even if he looked like he was considering it, when it came to actually doing it, he still followed his own ideas and didn¡¯t adapt at all.

    This was clearly shown in how he treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After being the City Lord of Banta City for a year, Count Stagg¡¯s impression of Xu Yi was differentpared to before.

    Before leaving Banta City, he had a new look of Xu Yi and wasn¡¯t filled with hostility towards him like when he first arrived in Banta City.

    He not only understood the value of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he even seriously started considering the possibility of the Stagg Family cooperating with Xu Yi.

    Because of this idea, Count Stagg had even proposed to his highness Eric not topletely shut out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But his highness Eric had denied Count Stagg¡¯s suggestion and even doubted Count Stagg of being misled by Xu Yi during his year in Banta City. He even suggested that Count Stagg was going against the Stagg Family.

    From that moment on, Count Stagg knew that there was no chance of his highness Eric cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it was also impossible for the Stagg Family.

    Looking at the vigorous northern army troops that seemed very strong, Count Stagg gave a deep sigh in his heart.

    ¡°Even if he disagreed with cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as he bought those military magic machines from them, wouldn¡¯t the northern army¡¯s battle strength soar? Rejecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this, is it really good?¡±

 Volume 4 12 - This is supplying the enemy!

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 12 This is supplying the enemy!</h4>

    When the northern army was focused on preparing for war, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army to the north of the Muerto Mountains naturally weren¡¯t idle.

    His highness Eric didn¡¯t conceal his attempt to lead the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, so naturally it didn¡¯t escape the informants of the Sack Kingdom.

    Although the Sack Kingdom had the advantage over the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t dare show any neglect in this rare attempt by the Lampuri Kingdom to attack them.

    Because his highness Eric had the support of manyrge nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom, the northern army was even stronger than the Hungry Wolf Regiment. Also the northern army demonstrated a powerful battle strengthst year when they attacked the Muerto Mountains, even forcing the Sack Kingdom to give them up.

    If the northern army was as strong asst year and with the strong supplies his highness Eric received from therge nobles supporting them, the Sack Kingdom definitely couldn¡¯t easily resist them.

    But the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯smander Chalon Linear had a decisive piece of good news.

    Through his reports, because chairman Xu of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce showed his support for her highness Seveni, his highness Eric had refused to buy any military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to show his stance.

    The current northern guard, other than a few military magic machines they boughtst year, they had just a few military magic machines the royal army headquarters bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which they gave the northern army.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military had always been poor and adding in the fact that Lampuri Thirteenth had never supported his highness Eric¡¯s attack on the Sack Kingdom, so the army headquarters didn¡¯t give many military magic machines to the northern army. The northern army wasn¡¯t really increased.

    Commander Liear¡¯s greatest worry about the northern army were those strange military magic machines, especially the powerful Magic Trebuchet, which he couldn¡¯t find a way to deal with yet.

    If his highness Eric had the full support of therge nobles and the northern army had military magic machines, Linear wouldn¡¯t have been confident in resisting them.

    ¡°Ha, ha, it¡¯s a good thing this prince is an idiot, what different stands when you¡¯re going to war! This is simply breaking his own hands and feet!¡± Linear pped the map on the table and broke out inughter, ¡°When this idiot charges forward with that pitiful northern army, brothers, we¡¯ll give them something good to see and take revenge forst year!¡±

    The officers in themand center all cheered out at the same time.

    Seeing hisrades being filled with confidence, Linear gave a satisfied nod.

    Although they had been beaten by the northern armyst year and lost the Muerto Mountains.

    Because of their long time superiority over the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom and especially the soldiers of the Hungry Wolf Regiment all felt superior over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Last year¡¯s loss made everyone¡¯s fighting will surge, pledging to wash off the same fromst year.

    After discussing a few more details with the defense, chief officer Ivy Joao walked in.

    Following behind him were his personal bodyguards.

    Linear couldn¡¯t help looking at the thing Joao¡¯s bodyguards had been holding.

    ¡°What is that thing?¡± Seeing the rectangr box like thing wrapped in a sheet that was releasing a silver glow, Linear couldn¡¯t help asking in a surprised voice.

    ¡°A good thing.¡± Joao revealed a faint smile. He had the guards put the square thing on the wall of the room and then he took out another small and white rectangr box made of an unknown material before asking Linear, ¡°Hey, Linear, do you think this room is warm or cold?¡±

    Linear was even more confused, ¡°What do you want to do?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll know in a bit.¡± Joao shook the little white box in his hand, ¡°First tell me, do you feel warm or cold?¡±

    Linear knit his brows and looked at Joao with a strange look.

    But he had been with Joao for many years and knew that he didn¡¯t have a personality of creating mischief, so after thinking about it, he pulled on his cor.

    ¡°There¡¯s too many people in this room, I feel that it¡¯s a bit stuffy, so it should be a bit warm.¡±

    ¡°Warm?¡± Joao turned to the others in the room, ¡°What about you? Do you also feel warm?¡±

    The others all nodded.

    There were over ten strong men stuffed in a small room and adding in the fact that it was early spring and the temperature was getting warmer, naturally they felt a bit warm.

    ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re warm, then I¡¯ll make it a bit cooler. I¡¯ll let you see.....what air conditioning is like......¡± Joao looked at the small white box for a bit before pointing it at the box hanging on the wall and pressing it.

    ¡°Ding.¡±

    With a soft and pleasing sound, there was a red light that suddenly appeared on the box on the wall. Then the lower half of the iron box slowly came up and revealed a ck hole.

    When everyone was confused, the red band that was under the iron box began moving and there was a cool breeze that came out, hitting everyone in the face, causing everyone to feel much cooler.

    Feeling theforting breeze from the iron bax, Linear thought for a bit before asking Joao, ¡°Hey, Joao, this thing.....It wouldn¡¯t be that Magic Air Conditioner, right? I remember that it was mentioned in the report on the Frestech Chamber of Commercest time.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the Magic Air Conditioner.¡± Joao said with a nod, ¡°How is it? Is itfortable?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s much morefortable, but how did you get this thing?¡± Linear asked with a frown, ¡°It can¡¯t be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came to sell things in our Sack Kingdom, right?¡±

    Joao looked at him and didn¡¯t respond. He put away the white box in his hand and looked over the others in the room.

    The others understood and gave the two a bow before leaving the room.

    Seeing Joao¡¯s actions, Linear knit his brows even more. When the others left, he immediately asked, ¡°What? Is there a problem with the background of this Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Joao nodded, ¡°Without a problem, how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things appear here?¡±

    ¡°That is right......¡± Linear reacted and after thinking about it, he asked, ¡°How did this thing get here? If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, it should be some damn merchants that smuggled it in from the Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡±

    ¡°It was indeed smuggled in, but you can¡¯t look down on those merchants this time. If it wasn¡¯t for their help, we couldn¡¯t obtain the easy to use magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Don¡¯t you think the effects of the Magic Air Conditioner are quite good?¡±

    Linear looked at the Magic Air Conditioner blowing out the cool breeze and looked at the white box that Joao put on the table before shaking his head, ¡°It is easy to use, but there¡¯s no need for us to have this thing. Anyway, smuggling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things, isn¡¯t this helping them earn money? There¡¯s no benefits here.¡±

    ¡°What? You want the people of the kingdom to ignore the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products?¡± Joao looked at Linear before giving augh, ¡°Let me tell you, this is impossible. Chairman Walker who gave me this Magic Air Conditioner said that in the bunch of household magic machines he smuggled this time, they were sold out a month in advance. He just needs to transport them and he would be earning arge amount.¡±

    Linear gave a strong snort, ¡°He just cares about earning money, but doesn¡¯t he think abou the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earning money? If it was me, he ismitting treason by supporting the enemy!¡±

    Joao gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t be this close minded. We actually can gain quite a bit from this. Think about it, the military magic machines are produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, these household magic machines alsoe from them. After we receive these household magic machines, those old men in the magic department might receive inspiration from them, helping them study the military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°What? Is this the arrangement of the headquarters?¡± Linear asked back.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Joao nodded in confirmation, ¡°Other than bringing in goods from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to help the magic department¡¯s research, we can also have direct contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through these transactions. Do you need me to tell you the benefits we can receive from this?¡±

    Linear thought for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I can understand the reason for this arrangement, but just like you said, a bunch of people in the kingdom want to buy household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, isn¡¯t that letting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce take money from them? This doesn¡¯t seem good, right?¡±

    Joao gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are good to use. Not just them, even I¡¯m moved. Right, I¡¯m nning on having chairman Walker get some magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for our regiment, but I don¡¯t know if he can get them or not.¡±

    Linear was stunned, ¡°What do we need those for? No, I don¡¯t agree!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t be so quick to judge.¡± Joao took out a piece of a paper with a smile, ¡°Look, this is an introduction to all the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces. Look, the Magic Air Conditioner isn¡¯t something we need for the entire regiment, but I think we should at least get ten thousand of these Magic Lamps, right? Because it¡¯s easy to turn on, there¡¯s no need for mes and it canst a long time with just a bit of a Magic Crystal.......¡±

    ¡°Also this Magic Freezer. It¡¯ll be summer soon and the logistics department will be shipping all kinds of meat and vegetables to us. We lose quite a bit of them on the way when they are shipped. If we have the Magic Freezer, we can preserve them for longer and save on transportation costs.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of the transportation problem, look at this transport Magic Car. This thing can load several tons of cargo and this thing is much sturdier and faster than horse carriages. If the logistics department uses these transport Magic Cars, we don¡¯t need to worry about logistics in the future. Of course, this thing is too big and it¡¯s not easy to smuggle it.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s also this Magic Stove. I feel like we definitely need this thing because we can use a stove without lighting a fire. Adding in the Magic Rice Cooker, it¡¯ll be much easier to cookpared to lighting a fire. Whether it is in the barracks or out in the wild, it¡¯s very easy to use.¡±

    ¡°Of course, there¡¯s still this......¡±

    ......

    Hearing Joao introduce the magic machines one by one, although Linear kept struggling with the idea that this was ¡°supporting the enemy¡±, he couldn¡¯t help being attracted by Joao¡¯s introductions.

    Even if it was him, he had to admit it.

    The magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really were too damn easy to use!

 Volume 4 13 - Sales strategy

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 13 Sales strategy</h4>

    ¡°No!¡±

    Xu Yi slowly shook his head. Although his expression was calm, always having a faint smile, there was a firm tone in his voice that made it easy for people to understand his meaning.

    ¡°I can give a portion of the normal household magic machines to you all, but the Magic Cars aren¡¯t even enough to support the needs of Banta City and the surrounding cities, so naturally I can¡¯t give them to you.¡±

    The Meierda Trading Company¡¯s chairman, Ladis Sampson had a disappointed look, ¡°You really can¡¯t bend the rules at all? Chairman Xu, I came all the way here from Sowell City, you can¡¯t just have me go back empty handed, right?¡±

    ¡°How are you going back empty handed?¡± Xu Yi acted surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t I say that we can discuss the normal household magic machines and we can even consider selling the scarce bicycles, but we really can¡¯t do the Magic Cars. Ourpany can¡¯t meet our local demand and we have arge number of orders that we haven¡¯tpleted yet, so we can¡¯t take any more orders.¡±

    ¡°But the Sack Kingdom side said that as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to sell, they can even offer ten thousand gold coins for one!¡± Chairman Sampson didn¡¯t give up, ¡°Ten thousand gold coins for one! Chairman Xu, doesn¡¯t yourrge sized transport Magic Car only sell for five thousand gold coins per car? If you¡¯re willing to sell for ten thousand gold coins for one, putting aside the transport cost and the possible danger, you could earn at least two thousand gold coins extra from each one. Aren¡¯t you moved by this?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m very moved.¡± Xu Yi nodded, but his tone didn¡¯t rx at all, ¡°But no means no. Ourpany¡¯s capacities are limited, we can¡¯t supply them.¡±

    ¡°It is really like this?¡± Chairman Sampson looked at Xu Yi with doubt and after pausing, he said in a pleading tone, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t just divert a part of the orders? That side is honestly requesting Magic Cars and if you can satisfy their requests, I think it¡¯ll be very smooth to cooperate with them in the future. Just using a few Magic Cars to create this rtionship, I think it¡¯s very worth it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and spread his hands, as he said with a helpless look, ¡°If it was possible, I want to do it too. But facts show that it¡¯s impossible. Alright, chairman Sampson, let¡¯s not raise this matter. Let¡¯s discuss what magic machines you are ordering this time.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t budge at all, chairman Sampson was helpless. After being silent for a bit, he shook his head with a look of regret.

    ¡°Alright, ording to the information from that side, the Sack Kingdom has a high demand for household magic machines and the highest demand is for Magic Fans. So, chairman Xu, I have to ask you to provide me with enough Magic Fans this time. I think.....it has to be at least a hundred thousand units.¡±

    ¡°A hundred thousand units?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°It seems like the Sack Kingdom¡¯s demand has exploded after seeing the benefits.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the weather is getting hotter. The Magic Air Conditioners are rather expensive and not anyone can use it, so the cheaper Magic Can is the most popr one.¡± Chairman Sampson said with a smile, ¡°Actually, it¡¯s the same for our Sowell City. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base has just started and there are people who want to order Magic Fans ahead of time.¡±

    ¡°This is a good thing. As a merchant, seeing my products being weed like this makes me very happy.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Chairman Sampson kept nodding, ¡°So, chairman Xu, we need at least a hundred thousand Magic Fans. As for the others.....I need at least five thousand Magic Rice Cookers, the same for Magic Stoves, also around five thousand of them. As for Magic Lamps, there¡¯s a bigger demand for them, so I need at least two hundred thousand of them and all the various kinds of them, including.....¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Xu Yi suddenly raised his hand to stop chairman Sampson.

    ¡°What?¡± Chairman Sampson was surprised before knitting his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, is there a problem? Could it be that you want to tell me that you can¡¯t meet my request for these household magic machines?¡±

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Of course, urately speaking, that is correct.¡±

    Chairman Sampson was surprised before bing angry, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you¡¯re ying me? You just said to me that we could discuss these household magic machines, right? Now that I¡¯ve made this order, you can¡¯t satisfy it? Don¡¯t forget, you were the one that connected to ourpany in Sowell City and said that you wanted to smuggle magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, now you have this attitude once we start cooperating? I really have misread you!¡±

    Xu Yi remained calm and waved his hand. He said with a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t be angry now, listen to me first. My meaning is for the amount that you proposed, although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can provide it all, I hope that chairman Sampson would consider another n. It¡¯s to take a part of this order and give it to the otherpanies.¡±

    ¡°Otherpanies?¡± Chairman Sampson was a bit confused, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know the profit from selling to the Sack Kingdom? You want to take a part of that and share it with the otherpanies? Could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t want to earn money?¡±

    ¡°We do, of course we do.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But I think that it shouldn¡¯t be just ourpany making money and everyone should earn money together, what do you think?¡±

    Chairman Sampson looked at Xu Yi for a while before shaking his head with a look of doubt.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know what chairman Xu is thinking. If you¡¯re proposing this, it isn¡¯t impossible since the magic machines of the otherpanies are cheaper. Although their quality is worse than your Frestech Brand, the Sack Kingdom fellows can¡¯t tell, so I can earn more by selling it to them. But chairman Xu, wouldn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce lose profit like this? Are you certain you want to do this?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded, not looking like he was joking, ¡°Moreover, I have another request, which is to separate prices based on the prices in our Lampuri Kingdom. When you sell these brands in the Sack Kingdom, you should have the same difference in prices.¡±

    ¡°Which means.....even if I¡¯m selling it in the Sack Kingdom, the price of your Frestech Brand magic machines should be higher than the other brands?¡± Chairman Sampson waspletely confused, ¡°Chairman Xu, the Sack Kingdom fellows haven¡¯t used household magic machines before, so they¡¯ll definitely choose to buy the cheaper ones. Don¡¯t me me for not reminding you, but if you do this, your Frestech Brand magic machines won¡¯t be favoured when the Sack Kingdom market is opened.¡±

    ¡°I understand, but this is ourpany¡¯s sales strategy.¡±

    Chairman Sampson looked at Xu Yi for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and saying with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I really don¡¯t understand you.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯tment on this at all.

    After considering it for a bit, chairman Sampson finally epted Xu Yi¡¯s proposal.

    After all, just like he had reminded Xu Yi, if he chose the household magic machines of other brands, he could reduce the cost much more. Then when he sold it to the Sack Kingdom, his profit would be much higher, so naturally he would be happy to choose this method of cooperation.

    But he wasn¡¯t willing to give up on the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In the end, the Frestech Brand magic machines were much better than the other brands when it came to quality and performance. Even if it was a bit more expensive, with therge demand in the Sack Kingdom, he didn¡¯t need to worry about sales.

    Generally speaking, the Sack Kingdom had no household magic machines flowing in the market, so it was the first time household magic machines were flowing into the Sack Kingdom with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce cooperating with thepanies led by the Meierda Trading Company.

    The people of the Sack Kingdom were like the people of the Lampuri Kingdom before the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were very curious about this new thing.

    Moreover, after using the household magic machine, they would definitely want it like the people of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Actually, if it wasn¡¯t for the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom being enemies, the Sack Kingdom would be trying to import all kinds of magic machines like the Rudson Kingdom.

    After they finished discussing this, Xu Yi gave the list he already prepared for chairman Sampson.

    This list had some household magic machinepanies rmended by Xu Yi. If chairman Sampson wanted to buy from other brands, he would naturally pick from this list.

    Xu Yi had spent quite a bit of time on this list.

    As the chairman of the Banta City Magic Machine Business Union, he naturally needed to give precedence to the Banta Citypanies.

    But taking in more consideration, which included his agreement with the king, Xu Yi also needed to consider the household magic machinepanies of other cities.

    To satisfy the need here, Xu Yi had to guarantee that chairman Sampson¡¯s benefits weren¡¯t harmed, so when he chose these magic machinepanies, Xu Yi had performed a serious inspection of eachpany to ensure that there weren¡¯t any major quality issues with thesepanies.

    Although this was Xu Yi giving thesepanies a chance to break into arge market, this was also a challenge for them.

    If there was a problem because of a quality issue, it would create a bad impression of magic machines in the Sack Kingdom and harm their future development.

    As for chairman Sampson, naturally he didn¡¯t have any objections with this list.

    He didn¡¯t understand much of the magic machine industry, he didn¡¯t know any other magic machinepanies other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi was in the dominant position in this cooperation, so all he could do was check the list a few times and carefully pick thepanies.

    After reaching an initial agreement with chairman Sampson and agreeing to go to thepanies on the list with him tomorrow, by normal standards, Xu Yi should have invited chairman Sampson to a meal.

    But Xu Yi exined to chairman Sampson that he would call Kennard to continue this discussion with chairman Sampson, as well as discussing a few details of the Frestech Brand household magic machines. Meanwhile, he himself would be leaving the Falling Rain Valley.

    There was a more important matter waiting for him in Banta City.

 Volume 4 14 - The destroyed Magic Sedan

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 14 The destroyed Magic Sedan</h4>

    There was a brand new white Magic Sedan from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that slowly drove to the Falling Star Manor.

    The Magic Sedan stopped at the parking lot behind the entrance and Xu Yi came out. He couldn¡¯t help looking at another pure ck Magic Sedan that had all different kinds of dents in it. He couldn¡¯t helpughing as he shook his head.

    This Magic Sedan was the exclusive one to Great Magician Cami and to this day, he had had it for a month.

    In just a single month, this Magic Sedan with a high price of nine thousand nine hundred and ny gold coins was battered like this. Now only was it covered in scratches, there were many dents all over the body. It could be seen how it had been ¡°mistreated¡± in the past month.

    A month ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce unveiled the new Magic Sedan at their product release. Because of itsfort and quick speed, not only was it weed by the nobles and merchants of Banta City, it was also weed by the nobles and merchants of other cities.

    In just a single month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received three thousand orders for this Magic Sedan.

    With the price of nine thousand nine hundred and ny nine gold coins, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned thirty million gold coins from this Magic Sedan alone.

    Moreover, when this Magic Sedan was developed, it was aimed at the high end market, so it had a higher price.

    The cost of a single Magic Sedan was less than four thousand gold coins.

    Which means that from a single Magic Sedan, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a profit of over six thousand gold coins.

    For three thousand of them, that was close to eighteen million gold coins!

    When Sebas brought out these stats, other than Xu Yi who was already prepared, the other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all stunned.

    Even Kennard who was from the Emma Family and had more experience than others was stunned by this figure.

    It had to be known, even for the Walmart Chamber of Commerce, their yearly profits were less than thirty million gold coins. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned eighteen million gold coins from the orders of a single month.

    Comparing this, no one could match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s speed in generating profits.

    Of course, the orders in a single month didn¡¯t mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned this much in a month.

    With the poor production rate of less than one hundred Magic Sedans a month, it would take at least two years to get thisrge profit of eighteen million gold coins.

    Production capacity was what Xu Yi worried about the most.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to worry about orders when they didn¡¯t release things, but there were too many orders once they released things and their production couldn¡¯t keep up, so there were many orders they couldn¡¯t fulfill right away.

    Although because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s lead that almost gave them a monopoly, even if they couldn¡¯tplete the orders in time, the other side had no other way. They could only patiently wait, but this wasn¡¯t a good thing.

    Even if Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing, from Kennard to the ordinary workers, they all voluntarily took overtime shifts. There were almost no holidays for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories and their working hours were normally very long.

    Although this meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business was good and Xu Yi as the chairman should be happy to see this, he didn¡¯t want to see this from his personal perspective.

    He hoped that the workers could have normal rxation time and wouldn¡¯t be working all day, which would hurt their bodies eventually.

    In the environment of the Sines Continent, it was impossible for him to ask the workers not to work overtime, so he could only find another way of solving this problem.

    While considering this, Xu Yi headed towards the manor.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re back.¡±

    Still¡¯s voice pulled Xu Yi out of his thoughts.

    Looking up, he saw Still sitting on a balcony outside the room. She was leaning in a deck chair and was enjoying the warm, but not burning sunlight of the spring.

    ¡°You¡¯re not afraid of being tanned like this?¡± Xu Yi teased her with a smile. He walked over and gave her a kiss on the cheek before picking up his daughter who had been sleeping in the baby carriage on the side.

    The baby who was a month old grew very fast. After not seeing her for a day, Xu Yi felt that she was much more grown uppared to yesterday. Her features were more developed and her face was rounder, making her look much more proper.

    ¡°Still, who do you think she looks like?¡± Xu Yi casually asked.

    Still looked at her daughter in Xu Yi¡¯s arms and after thinking about it, she said, ¡°Other people say that the daughter looks like the father and I think it¡¯s the same. Look, her features seem like yours. Look at this nose, it¡¯s simply the same as yours.¡±

    ¡°Is it?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s bad if it¡¯s like mine. She is a girl, she should be like you, the mother and be a beauty like you after she grows up. Don¡¯t you think so, darling?¡±

    Although she was used to being praised for her appearance, Still still gave a happy smile. After poking her daughter¡¯s cheek, she said with a faint smile, ¡°If she really bes beautiful when she grows up, she will move the hearts of many boys. When that timees, I wonder if any boy will take advantage of her?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed and he gave a soft snort, ¡°She¡¯s still young, there¡¯s no need to consider this.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi and like she could see Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, she gave a secret smile.

    Xu Yi looked at Still and wanted to say something, but Great Magician Cami walked in.

    ¡°Hey, kid, you came back right on time. I was looking for you.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Great Magician Cami¡¯s face, Xu Yi knew this wasn¡¯t good.

    But he had nowhere to hide and could only brace himself as he said with a smile, ¡°I saw your Magic Sedan in the yard, so I knew you were back. What? Do you need me for something?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s rted to that Magic Sedan.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a nod, ¡°I don¡¯t know what happened, but I couldn¡¯t start that fellow no matter what this morning. I asked Camby and he told me that there might be a problem with the engine, so he wants me to bring it in to fix it when I have time.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Camby was the manager of the magic machine development center, he could be considered the top Magic Mechanical Engineer in the entire Frestech chamber of Commerce. He should be in charge of important research, but now he was being used as a mechanic by Great Magician Cami.

    But of course he didn¡¯t dare speak his real thoughts and just nodded with a forced smile, ¡°Un, Camby is rather familiar with the Magic Sedan, so it¡¯s no problem to let him fix it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s no problem to let him fix it, but the problem is I don¡¯t have a Magic Sedan to drive during this time. I was just having fun, so find another one for me.¡±

    Great Magician Cami said it in a very rxed voice, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter look.

    He was just thinking about theck of production capacity for the Magic Sedans, but now Great Magician Cami was asking for another Magic Sedan to ¡°abuse¡±.

    It had to be known, countless nobles and merchants in the surrounding cities were all waiting for a Magic Sedan, but Great Magician Cami was already nning on ¡°ying¡± with his second Magic Sedan.

    ¡°Grandfather......this......if you don¡¯t have a Magic Sedan to y with, how about you y with the Magic Boats? The Magic Boat that Bordeau and them have developed could reach a max speed of forty kilometers an hour, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami revealed a look of disdain, ¡°Too slow, it¡¯s only forty kilometers an hour, what is that? You have to know, this Magic Sedan can reach sixty kilometers an hour! It¡¯s much more interesting to drive this!¡±

    Xu Yi waspletely speechless.

    It was no wonder the Magic Sedan became like this in just a single month, so Great Magician Cami was driving it at full speed the entire time.

    Adding in his terrible road sense, only breaking after a single month was already considered a miracle......

    After considering it, Xu Yi said with a serious expression, ¡°Alright.....grandfather, I¡¯ll have Camby arrange another one for you, but.....could you be careful when you¡¯re driving this time? If you break it again, I might not be able to get another one for you. You should know that whether it is in Banta City or the other cities, there are many people waiting for Magic Sedans.¡±

    ¡°What? Who dares steal from me?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes popped out. After pausing, he said with a nod, ¡°Rx, my skills are much better than before, it won¡¯t break that easily. Right, Xu Yi, when ites to the Wind Magic Engine, I feel that the speed of the Magic Sedans are limited. So I¡¯ve decided to join the Fire Magic Engine development team and join their research.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before being filled with joy.

    Although work in the Fire Magic Engine had started long ago, because it was still in its initial stages, Xu Yi had focused on the Wind Magic Engine, so the progress with the Fire Magic Engine has always been slow.

    Now that there was a bit of sess with the Wind Magic Engine and they had some data for it, Xu Yi was nning on focusing on researching the Fire Magic Engine.

    At this time, Great Magician Cami said that he wanted to join, which was no different from giving the greatest propent to this research.

    With a Great Magician joining the development team, the research of the Fire Magic Engine would definitely be smoother than the development of the Wind Magic Engine!

    Although Great Magician Cami was a top grade researcher, because of his special identity, no one could force him to participate in any research and it all depended on his interests.

    He never thought that because of his interest in driving Magic Cars, he would want to participate in developing the Fire Magic Engine.

    With his current enthusiasm, he would definitely put plenty of focus on this research.

    This really was a pleasant surprise for Xu Yi.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Grandfather, you should have told me earlier that you wanted to participate in the Fire Magic Engine development. If you told me earlier, not mentioning one or two Magic Sedans, even if it was ten or twenty, I could arrange them for you!¡±

    Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression instantly froze and he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

 Volume 4 15 - Cleaning up the beastmen

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 15 Cleaning up the beastmen</h4>

    Seeing Great Magician Cami walk away with an angry look, Stillughed.

    ¡°Grandfather really is something, why does he seem more like a child the older he is?¡±

    Xu Yi had a helpless look, ¡°That¡¯s right. He opposed magic machines so much before, but now that his attitude has changed, he¡¯s more positive than anyone. Especially a strange new thing like the Magic Sedan, he¡¯s more passionate about it than anyone. Moreover.....he actually wants to race cars! The Magic Sedan¡¯s highest permitted speed is only fifty kilometers an hour, but he¡¯s actually driving more than sixty kilometers an hour!¡±

    Still said with a smile, ¡°Who told him to be a Great Magician? With his magic, just with his Wind Magic, he could go faster than sixty kilometers an hour, so naturally he feels it is slow. Moreover, he¡¯s so strong, he doesn¡¯t need to worry about danger like others.¡±

    ¡°Humph, such an old person and wants to study the same stimting things as young people, I really don¡¯t understand.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort.

    Still couldn¡¯t help smiling as she tapped Xu Yi¡¯s forehead.

    ¡°You say that grandfather is like a child, but what about you? You¡¯re clearly in your early thirties and you¡¯re like an old man all day, isn¡¯t that very boring? Actuallypared to this, I prefer how high spirited you were before, always being filled with excitement.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is no longer a smallpany and I¡¯m no longer a small person, so I have to consider my every move, so naturally I¡¯ll seem older. Actually I¡¯m not willing to be this way, but there are many people I have to consider, so I have no choice, don¡¯t you think so? What about our darling daughter?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t use your daughter as an excuse.¡± Still rolled her eyes at him and sat back down. She patted beside her and said to Xu Yi, ¡°Come, you came right on time. I want to discuss a few things with you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave his sleeping daughter to Liz on the side and sat down with Still without any courtesy.

    ¡°Speak, is it rted to the beastmen?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Still gave a nod before knitting her brows, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that you are nning on making an expedition with chairman Cruise and the others to clean out the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnds?¡±

    ¡°I am nning this.¡± Xu Yi replied with a nod, ¡°Recently the beastmen have harassed us at the production base and have plotted against us many times. In order to avoid any more trouble and to make it safer for the workers, I¡¯ve decided to show the beastmen our strength. I want them to be afraid so they won¡¯t dare do these things in the future.¡±

    ¡°Then......how far are you nning to go?¡± Still asked.

    Xu Yi looked at her and after thinking about it, he asked back, ¡°Are you asking for the beastmen?¡±

    ¡°Un, this news has spread on the ck Rice Wastnd and all the beastmen are a bit worried. The beastmen girls under our New Moon Chamber of Commerce are all very worried, they are afraid that their tribes will also be targeted by you. So there are many people who want me to ask you about this. Also there are many beastmen tribes that have good rtionships with me that want to know the situation so they can handle it.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°What? Now they are afraid? Rx, as long as they are beastmen who are friendly to humans, of course they won¡¯t be our targets. This n is just to shock them and not to create any real trouble. In the end, our foundations on the ck Rice Wastnd aren¡¯t deep enough.¡±

    Still was silent before giving a nod.

    ¡°Un, I understand most of it, I will tell the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re gonna tell them you might as well also tell them that the goals of ourpanies are to earn money, so as long as the beastmen don¡¯t stop us from making money, we¡¯re not interested in making trouble for anyone. In the end, as long as they properly cooperate with us, everyone can receive benefits, so why are they causing trouble?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no use talking to me about this.¡± Still gave a shrug, ¡°The beastmen who talk to me are all willing to be friends with humans. The beastmen that attack the production base won¡¯t even listen to your words.¡±

    ¡°There are some things that letting the beastmen tell each other is better than us telling them.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly turned around, ¡°Also pass on some more words for me. If I find that the beastmen tribes that are attacking our production base are rted to the ones working at it, I won¡¯t be polite.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi¡¯s rare serious expression and was a bit confused.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why are you putting this importance on the beastmen tribes of the ck Rice Wastnd? If you¡¯re really not satisfied with them, can¡¯t you just stop making contact with them and stop hiring beastmen workers?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°I don¡¯t have the strength to remove the beastmen from the ck Rice Wastnd and I¡¯m not willing to do this even if I was strong enough because what I desire the most is all the races of the Sines Continent focusing on developing magic machines.¡±

    ¡°As for letting go of the ck Rice Wastnd......I¡¯m even less willing to do that. ording to the survey of the dwarves, there are rich metal veins under the ck Rice Wastnd. To be more direct, there¡¯s basically a house of treasures under it. Could it be that you want me to just give it up?¡±

    Still tilted her head to think, ¡°Alright, since you have already thought it through, I won¡¯t say anything. I¡¯ll just pass your words to the beastmen and hope that they won¡¯t be so stupid.¡±

    After they finished discussing this, Xu Yi talked to Still about the New Moon Troupe.

    The beastmen girls were beginning to learn about human culture, to make it easier for them to integrate into human society.

    At the same time, they didn¡¯t stop improving their dance techniques. The schedules of the beastmen girls were currently packed.

    They worked very hard. ording to what Still said, they treasured this chance to learn new things and many beastmen girls even forgot to rest when they were studying.

    Avril practiced singing until her throat went sore and Still convinced her to rest.

    Hearing this, Xu Yi¡¯s mood was much better.

    When he was in Anvilmar City, forcefully bringing them back was the right decision.

    He believed that after they trained like pop stars, they would definitely shock the crowd when they appeared in front of humans again.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop here. I¡¯ll go take a bath, her highness ising so I need to prepare.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi walk in, Still waved with a smile, but when Xu Yi went in, her expression couldn¡¯t help change like she thought of something.

    But after a while, it was like she thought of something else and she revealed a proud smile.

    Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t see Still¡¯s expression change. When he was with chairman Sampason, he went over some problems with Camby and the others rted to the Magic Sedan, so he was covered in oil.

    He didn¡¯t have time to shower at the Falling Rain Valley, he could only wait until he came back to the Falling Star Manor. Of course he wanted to see Seveni after he tidied himself up.

    Coming into the bathroom, he took off his clothes and when he opened the door, Xu YI was suddenly stunned.

    After a while, Xu Yi quickly turned around and said with an awkward look, ¡°Liz, why are you also bathing? I didn¡¯t hear a sound. That Still, really, she didn¡¯t tell.......¡±

    Halfway through, Xu Yi suddenly felt a soft body press on his back. A pair of arms tightly wrapped around him as he felt two soft bundles on his back.

    ¡°Master......Are you.......Are you here for me?¡± Liz didn¡¯t hear Xu Yi¡¯s words at all and her voice was trembling, but it was also filled with pleasant surprise.

    Xu Yi¡¯s body was a bit stiff being hugged by Liz.

    After a while, he forced himself to calm down and gave a cough before saying in an awkward voice, ¡°That.....Liz, I¡¯m not......I¡¯m just here to bath and I didn¡¯t know you were in here. Sorry, I was careless......¡±

    ¡°No, master, you don¡¯t need to apologize to me. My being belongs to you, as long as you want to see, you can see any time!¡± Liz said this as she let go of Xu Yi and came in front of him.

    Seeing Liz¡¯spletely naked body in front of him, Xu Yi wanted to turn his head. But then there was a thought in his mind as he didn¡¯t turn around, looking her up and down and appreciating the view.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, Liz revealed a happy smile and spread her arms. Although her face was red, her smile was very happy.

    ¡°Master, does it look good?¡±

    ¡°It does.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But you¡¯ll catch a cold if you stay naked like this.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Liz¡¯s face was covered in disappointment and she lowered her head when she heard this, ¡°Master, you.....you aren¡¯t willing to take me? You already.....did that with Linda, but you still don¡¯t want me.....Could it be you don¡¯t like me?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and went forward to lift up Liz¡¯s face by the chin.

    Seeing the tears in Liz¡¯s eyes, Xu Yi suddenly raised his hand and pped down on her big and round butt.

    Liz looked at Xu Yi in surprise and confusion.

    ¡°Alright, put on your clothes. I have to see her highness in a bit, I can¡¯t do it now even if I wanted you.¡± Xu Yi smiled and said beside Liz¡¯s ear in a soft voice, ¡°Come find me tonight, you¡¯re not allowed to say now.¡±

    Liz¡¯s eyes opened wide as she looked at Xu Yi in disbelief.

    After a while, the tears came out, but there was a happy smile on her face.

    Seeing Liz¡¯s reaction, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    When he epted Linda, he was destined to also ept Liz.

    Otherwise, Liz might not have a way to stay in this home anymore.

    The two of them had already obtained Still¡¯s approval and were willing to give themselves to Xu Yi, so Xu Yi had no scruples about epting them.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this......considered a harem?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking.

 Volume 4 16 - Here, you are a queen

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 16 Here, you are a queen</h4>

    At noon, a pale gold Magic Sedan with a unique shape drove into the Sandton Manor.

    When the door opened, Xu Yi came out of the passenger seat on the right and from the left hand driver seat came Seveni.

    When the door was closed, Seveni looked at Xu Yi¡¯s face and asked in a concerned voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, after sitting in my car, how do you feel? I only got my beginner driver¡¯s license half a month ago, don¡¯t you feel worried?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Why would I? Although you are a beginner, you drive very steadily, I¡¯m not worried about anything. Then again, after sitting in Great Magician Cami¡¯s car, I feel that anyone who drives is better than him, so it¡¯s impossible for me to feel scared.¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    She had not only heard Xu Yi mention this a few times, she had even heard Stillin about Great Magician Cami several times. He normally hit all kinds of things when he was driving his Magic Sedan, so there was already a deep impression of his driving.

    Now that she heard Xu Yi saw that her beginner skills were better than Great Magician Cami, Sveni found it funny and found it a bit strange.

    Great Magician Cami was someone who could be a Great Magician, whatever aspect one looked at it from, his intelligence should be much greater than normal people. Why was he so bad at driving a Magic Car?

    ¡°I asked this before and taught him how to drive the Magic Car several times, but in the end.....This really isn¡¯t rted to intelligence, it¡¯spletely rted to his personality. Think about it, a person who hasn¡¯t even gotten his driver¡¯s license yet dares to drive that fast on his first time, but he refuses to repent. It would be strange if he knew how to drive.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s helpless look, Seveni couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Great Magician Cami was a Great Magician respected by everyone and was Still¡¯s grandfather, so no matter what, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t deal with him and he must have suffered quite a bit in this matter.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t true, he is a Great Magician in the end. He won¡¯t create any trouble and at most he¡¯ll just break a few Magic Cars, this is something I can still take.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and looked at the Magic Sedan between them before asking, ¡°What about you? I haven¡¯t asked you yet, how do you feel driving this Magic Sedan?¡±

    ¡°Great!¡± Seveni nodded with a smile as she praised without holding back, ¡°I have to say, taking this Magic Sedan is much morefortable than riding a horse carriage. There¡¯s no jolting on the road, it is very fast, and it is easy to operate. Since I got it, I would run around whenever I¡¯m free.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? If you¡¯re this happy, I think his majesty should also like it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Very good,e to the Falling Rain Valley in a few days if you¡¯re free. You can tell me what the king likes and I can have them build one ording to his preferences.¡±

    Actually, Seveni¡¯s Magic Sedan was custom made for her by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than the unique pale gold colour, this Magic Sedan was built ording to Seveni¡¯s build, it was much smaller than the other Magic Sedans. The lines were more gentle and it looked rather cute, it seemed more like a car for a young girl.

    Xu Yi did this to win favour with Seveni while also trying to open the Magic Sedan market for girls.

    It had to be known, whether it was the rich nobles or merchants, preparing a Magic Sedan for the women of their household wasn¡¯t something they couldn¡¯t ept.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give you a blueprint in a few days.¡± Seveni nodded in response. After hesitating a bit, she said, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re nning to give one to royalf father, are you really not nning on giving one to my two brothers?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not that dumb¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I do n on giving one, but the problem is.....will they ept it?¡±

    Seveni fell silent.

    Perhaps her second brother Mifam might ept Xu Yi¡¯s gift, but her big brother Eric had clearly shown his attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even if Xu Yi¡¯s gift was in front of him, he wouldn¡¯t ept it.

    ¡°Ok, let¡¯s not think about these depressing things. Come, Seveni, I¡¯ll inspect the fertilizer factory with you today, let¡¯s take care of business first. The things in here are more important than a few gifts.¡± Seeing theplicated look on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi spoke up.

    ¡°Un, let¡¯s go.¡± Seveni nodded and walked into Sandton Manor with Xu Yi.

    Now that it was mid March, it was time for this year¡¯s spring nting.

    Although Banta City¡¯s business sector had developed well with the lead of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with most of their tax revenueing from businesses, agriculture was still the foundation, this was the point that never changed.

    Moreover, when Seveni took over as the CIty Lord, she proposed developing both agriculture and business, which became her ruling policy.

    So as the spring nting approached, Seveni as the City Lord naturally ced importance on agriculture and came to inspect the fertilizer factory, which was her stating her position.

    A male elf came over to wee them.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to greet him.

    ¡°Hey, Yardo.¡±

    Although the male elf called Yardo by Xu Yi moved quickly, he still had the same grace of the elves. He arrived in front of the two and gave Seveni a deep bow before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, I wee you again.¡±

    Seveni looked at him in surprise before reaching her hand out, ¡°Hello, are you the new manager Yardo of this ce?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I took the position of manager of this factory two months ago. Beautiful highness, it is an extreme honour to meet you for the first time.¡± Yardo looked at Seveni¡¯s outstretched hand and after hesitating a bit, he reached out to softly take it.

    The handshake didn¡¯t exist among the elves, it wasn¡¯t even popr among the humans of the Sines Continent, but when Yardo left the Moon Shadow Tribe, he was warned by elder Lisanya many times that he should follow human customs in human society, so he chose to ept this.

    ¡°Alright, manager Yardo, since you are in charge of the fertilizer factory now, then can I ask you to lead us in?¡± Seveni said.

    ¡°Alright, this is my honour. Lord City Lord, chairman Xu, pleasee this way.¡±

    The two followed Yardo into the factory and casually looked around. They found that the fertilizer factory was even bigger than when Seveni visitedst year.

    Not only had the elven workers inside close to doubled, there were even two more fertilizer production lines.

    Wherever they looked, there were elves busily working. They didn¡¯t even have time to cast curious gazes towards Xu Yi and Seveni.

    Seeing this scene, Seveni revealed a satisfied smile before asking Yardo, ¡°Manager Yardo, what is your production now? Is it enough to satisfy our Banta City¡¯s needs?¡±

    Yardo revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, may I ask what production you mean?¡±

    Seveni was a bit surprised, ¡°What do you mean by that?¡±

    ¡°Eh.....let me exin.¡± Xu Yi took over, ¡°Lord City Lord, this factory no longer produces just a single kind of fertilizer. Other than fertilizer for wheat and rice, they also produce a kind of fertilizer that helps grow fruit trees and flowers.¡±

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s like this?¡± Seveni looked at Yardo and slightly knit her brows, ¡°Your production of fertilizer for wheat and rice isn¡¯t even enough, why are you producing other kinds of fertilizers?¡±

    ¡°The other fertilizers are an attempt for us. Lord City Lord, it was a suggestion from chairman Xu.¡± Yardo threw the ball back to Xu Yi.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s questioning gaze, Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If we just produce only fertilizer for simple grains, the products would be too unitary and it would be bad for the development of the fertilizer industry in the future. So I hope that they can develop different kinds of fertilizers. Right now, the effects are good. After the orchards in Koror Vige used this fertilizer, not only is there more fruits growing, their quality is even better. The canned fruits of the canned fruit factories are much more delicious and they are selling more.¡±

    Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°In the end, the canned fruit factory belongs to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You think that you can throw away the benefits of our Banta City just for the benefits of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately looked aggrieved, ¡°How could that be! Lord City Lord, because of your urging fromst year, I specially had the magic machine workshop create two more production lines for the fertilizer factory. You can see that now.¡±

    ¡°What about the effects?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi like she found this funny, ¡°If there isn¡¯t fertilizer for the simple grains in our Banta City, I really have to condemn you.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Yardo, ¡°Then let¡¯s have manager Yardo reply.¡±

    Yardo looked at Seveni with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, I think you don¡¯t need to worry about this. Since chairman Xu provided us with these two production lines, our fertilizer factory¡¯s production rate has broken three hundred thousand tons a month. Because of the request of chairman Xu, most of the fertilizer is for simple grains, averaging around two hundred and fifty tons a month.¡±

    ¡°Two hundred and fifty tons?¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°Then that should be good. Do you think there is enough for Banta City¡¯s needs?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s definitely no problem.¡± Yardo gave a certain nod, ¡°In order to guarantee Banta City¡¯s needs, we¡¯ve kept a stockpile each month and now there are over a million tons. Adding in what we produce this month and next month during the nting, it¡¯ll be over one and half million tons. Other than supplying Banta City, I even think we can take a portion out for other cities.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry about other cities, first let me have my subordinate take count of Banta City¡¯s fertilizer needs.¡± Seveni turned to Xu Yi and revealed a smile of deep meaning, ¡°Chairman Xu, I remember.....you promised me that I have the rights to assign the distribution rights for this fertilizer, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Right, Lord City Lord, you are the queen here.¡±

    Hearing the word ¡°queen¡±, Seveni was stunned before looking at Xu Yi.

    But seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, Seveni gave a sigh in her heart and said nothing else.

 Volume 4 17 - Drunk driving

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 17 Drunk driving</h4>

    After inspecting the fertilizer factory, Seveni didn¡¯t drive off and went with Xu Yi in the golden Magic Sedan to Koror Vige that Xu Yi mentioned before.

    Although wheat and rice was the basis of agriculture, Koror Vige¡¯s fruit trees were considered an important industry. Moreover, it had developed quickly in two years and brought quite a bit of ie to the people of Koror Vige, so naturally it drew Seveni¡¯s attention.

    ¡°Based on the fall harvestst year, I feel that there should be a shocking harvest this spring.¡± Looking over the golden fields, Xu Yi said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Seveni, I feel.....that Banta City has enough basic food products, so we can definitely try developing new agricultural businesses like the canned fruit factory.¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re only considering Banta City, there¡¯s no problem. The problem is that we¡¯re not just considering Banta City.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Although because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, arge amount of farnd has been reimed and the grain yield has increased, ording to the stats ofst year, it wasn¡¯t enough to support the needs of the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°It isn¡¯t enough even with the hundred thousand tons of grains we transported from the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Not enough.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°ording to the stats of the agricultural department, there are currently six to seven million people in the kingdom. Even if it¡¯s just giving everyone a basic amount of food, that requires one million and two hundred thousand tons a year. The total grain yield of the kingdom fromst year was less than million tons, so even with the hundred thousand tons you transported, it wasn¡¯t enough to meet our basic needs.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, he never heard this data before.

    From Banta City¡¯s situation, he had thought that the current Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t need to worry about food anymore.

    ¡°Could it be that.....there are still people starving to death?¡±

    ¡°They aren¡¯t starving to death, but they can¡¯t eat their fill.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi and revealed a happy smile, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve always been grateful towards you. If it wasn¡¯t for you inventing the agricultural magic machines and greatly increasing the kingdom¡¯s grain yield, there would be many people who starved to death each year.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything worth praising.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before saying with a frown, ¡°If you want to talk, we should promote the fertilizer. If every city in the kingdom was like our Banta City, then people would be able to eat their fills and not worry about food anymore.¡±

    ¡°This is your duty.¡± Seveni pointed at Xu Yi, ¡°I know that this fertilizer factory isn¡¯t managed by yourpany and is managed by the elves, but Xu Yi, since you have the ability to attract the elves to open a fertilizer factory, I believe that you can make them set up even more factories. Enough to meet the needs of the kingdom or perhaps......learn the method of producing fertilizer from them.¡±

    Hearing Seveni¡¯s clear words, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh.

    It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t want to learn the form from them, but the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe weren¡¯t dumb and were strictly on guard in terms of this. Every time Xu Yi came to the fertilizer factory, he never saw anything concrete. Even now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t gained any worthy information on the form.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that worried.

    No matter what, the Moon Shadow Tribe opened the factory under his name, it was impossible for them to strictly guard it forever.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had heard many people in secret that he should chase out the elves after getting the secret form, it wouldn¡¯t be as dangerous to run the fertilizer factory himself.

    This world¡¯s fertilizer factory was different from the one on earth, instead of relying on chemistry to make fertilizer, it was all based on the ancient studies of the elves. A form that came from the work of several thousand years.

    There were many things that even if they took, other than the elves, the normal humans wouldn¡¯t be able to do properly.

    So to Xu Yi, the best method was one where they could keep working together.

    Letting the elves develop fertilizers based on the need of humans is the best way to use the value they had hidden.

    Although the elves would earn some benefits, through the control and mediation of Xu Yi, these were all eptable.

    In the end, the demand of the elves and humans didn¡¯t conflict that much.

    ¡°Seveni, I feel that.....perhaps you should give me some morebour cards and I can have more of the Moon Shadow Tribe elves enter Banta City, starting another two fertilizer factories. Or perhaps......I can just start one in the Stantine Duchy instead. The Moon Shadow Tribe is there, so their production scale will berger. Anyway, the road to the Stantine Duchy is nowplete and with therge sized transport Magic Cars, it¡¯ll be easier to ship it over.¡±

    ¡°Un.....These two suggestions aren¡¯t bad. I¡¯ll consider it and perhaps we can do both. Also I feel that......¡±

    Seveni turned and as soon as she was about to tell Xu Yi her thoughts, she suddenly saw Xu Yi¡¯s face change as he jumped forward.

    ¡°What are you doing.....¡±

    Seveni had just said those words with a surprised look when Xu Yi pressed her down and then she heard a ¡°tong¡± sound.

    It was like Magic Sedan was hit by something. The car suddenly shook and mmed into the farnd by the road, only stopping when it hit the dirt.

    When the Magic Sedan stopped, Seveni understood what had happened.

    It was a car ident.

    Seveni couldn¡¯t stop her mind from going nk.

    Although she had many reports pertaining to traffic idents, when it happened to her, she didn¡¯t know what to do.

    However that onlysted a minute as she immediately came back to her senses.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you alright?¡±

    The moment of the crash, Seveni had clearly heard Xu Yi give a grunt of pain.

    Xu Yi¡¯s arms were currently over her and they seemed powerful, but his expression was filled with pain. It seemed like his wounds were quite heavy.

    ¡°Si.¡± Xu Yi took a deep breath before spitting out. The expression on his face became more rxed and seeing the worried Seveni, he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m fine. I had my magic defenses, it isn¡¯t much.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with doubt, but she didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Xu Yi carefully looked at Seveni and after confirming that she wasn¡¯t injured, he calmed down.

    However when he calmed down, he found that their position was quite bad.

    If one looked at it from the side, Xu Yi was currently pushing Seveni down.

    ¡°Ke......Alright, let¡¯s get out first. If we just stay in the car, we might be in danger.¡± Xu Yi gave a dry cough and moved his body away.

    Pushing open the door, they found that other than a bit of damage to the front of Seveni¡¯s golden Magic Sedan, there wasn¡¯t any other damage.

    However, when they looked at the road, they found that on the other side, there was a Magic Sedan that was upside down lying there.

    ¡°I want to see which bastard was driving this crazy.

    Xu Yi tightly knit his brows and went over to the Magic Sedan. When he looked at the driver¡¯s seat, he saw a young man who seemed to be around twenty years old unconscious there.

    ¡°Why does he seem a bit familiar?¡± Xu Yi thought about it. He pulled on the door and carried the young man out of the car.

    When he put him on the ground, he found that this young man was actually Baron Belil!

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°This fellow has big opinions about me and ourpany, but he still can¡¯t resist the enticement of the Magic Sedan and bought one.¡±

    Xu Yi leaned over and patted Baron Belil¡¯s face, making him slightly knit his brows. He mumbled a few times before opening his eyes.

    When he saw it was Xu Yi, Baron Belil¡¯s eyes suddenly opened wide.

    ¡°Why is it you?¡±

    When Baron Belil spoke, Xu Yi could smell the strong scent of alcohol from him and he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort, ¡°Why can¡¯t it be me? Baron Belil, let me tell you, you caused an ident.¡±

    Baron Belil turned to look at the Magic Sedan with difficulty and there was a bit of pain in his heart. When he turned back to Xu Yi, his eyes became fierce again and he gave a snort, ¡°ident? Humph, even if I mmed your car, how is this considered trouble? Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve told you many times, don¡¯t treat yourself so highly. You are just a lowly merchant, how are you qualified to act arrogantly in front of me?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, I am indeed a lowly merchant, but do you dare look down on her highness Seveni?¡±

    ¡°Her highness?¡± Baron Belil was stunned. He followed Xu Yi¡¯s head and saw Seveni who came out of the other car in the fields.

    Seeing the light gold colour of the Magic Sedan, Baron Belil¡¯s expression changed.

    This light gold Magic Sedan had caused quite a stir in Banta City¡¯s noble circle because this was the only other colour than the ck and white colours the Magic Sedans came from. It was the gold colour that nobles loved very much.

    There were many nobles and merchants that ordered Magic Sedans that hoped they could get a light gold one, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rejected them on the premise it was only supplied to her highness.

    So as long as they saw this light gold Magic Sedan, everyone knew that it was her highness¡¯ personal car.

    For Baron Belil who loved Magic Sedans and had also tried to get a light gold one, how could he not know this?

    He had actually hit her highness!

    How would this matter end?

 Volume 4 18 - From which angle?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 18 From which angle?</h4>

    ¡°Very troublesome.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with deeply knit brows.

    ¡°Troublesome?¡± Xu Yi had a confused look.

    Just half an hour ago, he hade into Banta City to take care of something and had bumped into Baron Belil on the street. He found that he was currently walking around the street with an unknown girl, looking very carefree, so he immediately came to the City Lord Manor to ask Seveni about this.

    It had only been three days since Seveni¡¯s ident. When the two cars crashed, although Seveni and Baron Belil weren¡¯t seriously injured, Baron Belil was still taken to the City Lord Manor for questioning.

    Xu Yi thought that for such a serious matter, Baron Belil would be locked in prison for a long time to teach him a lesson, but he never thought that he would be out on the streets in just three days. He also looked so rxed, like nothing had happened at all.

    This confused Xu Yi very much.

    Such a serious thing had happened and Seveni was nning on letting it go this easily?

    ¡°What can I do if I don¡¯t let it go?¡± Seveni gave a sigh, ¡°On the second day, the Stagg Family sent someone out to deliver five hundred thousand gold coins to me. ording to the rules between nobles, making Baron Belil sincerely apologize to me and having Duke Stagg apologize to royal father is already giving me enough face. If I continued to do anything to Baron Belil, it would cause the other nobles to be dissatisfied, making them think that the royal family were bullying nobles.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Is there a mistake? Seveni, you are a princess! Such a serious traffic ident and it just ends with a simple apology?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that serious, right?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi, thinking that Xu Yi¡¯s reaction was a bit strange, ¡°I wasn¡¯t injured at all and Baron Belil spat out several mouthfuls of blood, didn¡¯t you see it?¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s the one who caused trouble first! Even if he died, it would all be his responsibility, he deserved it!¡± Xu Yi angrily said, ¡°That fellow had even been drinking at that time! If one wanted to talk about responsibility, it all lies on him. If it was me, I would have locked this fellow in jail, otherwise he might really kill someone one day!¡±

    ¡°You think I don¡¯t want to?¡± Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi before giving a helpless sigh, ¡°But Xu Yi, even going through all the rules of the kingdom, there isn¡¯t one about sentencing someone for hitting someone else with a Magic Car. Or it could be said that there isn¡¯t a rule specifically for Magic Cars. He was only forced to apologize because he hit me, but if he hit a normal person, even if he killed them, it wouldn¡¯t be considered deliberate murder. He might just have to pay a few gold coins and wouldn¡¯t even need to apologize.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before revealing a bitter smile.

    That¡¯s right, the Magic Cars for the Lampuri Kingdom and even the Sines Continent was a novel thing. How could there bews for Magic Cars?

    Actually if Baron Belil wasn¡¯t unlucky enough to crash into Seveni, nothing would have happened to him.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before continuing, ¡°Alright, your highness, whether Baron Belil should be responsible or not, could it be that you¡¯re not nning on using this to do something? I feel.....that you could even use Baron Belil of deliberately trying to kill you. Trying to assassinate your highness, wouldn¡¯t that be a very serious crime?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°I understand your meaning, but.....now is not the time.¡±

    ¡°Not the time?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows.

    ¡°Yes, not the time, I can¡¯t do anything now.¡± Seveni paused before adding with a nod, ¡°This is what many people think, you don¡¯t need to doubt it.¡±

    ¡°Does that include Count Sean?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent before nodding, ¡°Alright, I won¡¯t handle this matter because I don¡¯t have the ability for now. But Seveni, at the very least, I hope that you can use this matter to show the kingdom the importance of Magic Cars. If the traffic regtions that I suggested before could bews, I think that it would be a very good thing for the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m finding someone to handle this matter now.¡± Speaking of this, Seveni suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Speaking of this, because of this matter, no one has objected to my suggestions and it has gone very smoothly. Xu Yi, shouldn¡¯t you be thankful for this ident?¡±

    Xu Yi stared at Seveni with a serious expression and slowly shook his head, ¡°No, I rather have the trafficws not be established than to have you be in danger.¡±

    Seeing the rare serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Seveni suddenly felt a surge of warmth inside her and her face couldn¡¯t help turning a bit red.

    After a while, she couldn¡¯t take Xu Yi¡¯s gaze and lowered her head. After pausing for a second, she looked up again.

    Although the blush became deeper on her face, she still met Xu Yi¡¯s gaze without turning away.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I never got to thank you for this. Thank you for protecting me that day.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything. No matter what angle you look at it from, it¡¯s something I should do.¡±

    ¡°No matter what angle?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of deep meaning, ¡°What angle specifically?¡±

    ¡°This.....first it¡¯s the basic angle of being a human. Seeing someone in danger, as a normal human, wouldn¡¯t I want to help them?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then from what other angles?¡± Seveni was a bit unwilling to give up.

    Xu Yi smiled and replied, ¡°There¡¯s also the angle of how you¡¯re her highness. Think about it, using my body to protect your highness, that is an important merit.¡±

    Seveni also smiled as she looked at Xu Yi. After pausing, she still asked, ¡°Then.....are there any other angles?¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s intent gaze, Xu Yi awkwardly moved his head to the side. After hesitating a bit, he said in a soft voice, ¡°If I have to say it, it¡¯s because you are a girl and I am a man. As a man, it¡¯s a natural thing to protect girls.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Seveni gave a happy p, ¡°So you actually treat me as a normal girl.¡±

    Xu Yi snappily stared at her, ¡°I say.....are you kidding with me? Putting aside your status, not only are you a girl, you¡¯re a very beautiful girl, alright?¡±

    Seveni narrowed her eyes and giggled, ¡°I¡¯m very happy to hear this appraisal. Then Xu Yi, I hope that you can treat me as a normal girl more from now on and don¡¯t always treat me as her highness, alright?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s hard for me to agree to this because you can¡¯t change your identity. But speaking of this, I¡¯m the one who treats you the least like her highness, right? Others wouldn¡¯t act like this around you in private, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I like this feeling very much. I hope that you can keep treating me like this.¡±

    Seeing the happy look on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi found it a bit funny.

    Although since he first saw Seveni, she had always acted like a suitable princess, always looking dignified, wise, and calm, in the end she was still a girl in her early twenties and had the same side of an ordinary girl.

    Perhaps she wanted someone who could interact with her normally.

    After discussing trafficws with Seveni for a bit and discussing the feasibility of implementing them in Banta City, Xu Yi finally left the City Lord Manor.

    When he walked out, a ck Magic Sedan suddenly quickly drove over.

    When Xu Yi wanted to move aside, the Magic Sedan suddenly made a sharp screeching sound and stopped just two meters away from him.

    Xu Yi looked at this Magic Sedan with a frown and then he saw that the one driving the Magic Sedan was actually Baron Belil.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Baron Belil gave Xu Yi a provoking hand gesture.

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh and knocked on the window, signaling for Baron Belil toe out with his finger.

    Baron Beliul opened the door and stood there looking at Xu Yi with a provoking stance.

    ¡°Hey, isn¡¯t this chairman Xu? What? You just saw her highness? Did you go andin to her highness about me? I just told you, don¡¯t waste your time. Her highness can¡¯t touch me, so a small merchant like you shouldn¡¯t even dream about it!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him before ignoring him. He looked at the person sitting in the driver¡¯s seat and signaled for him to also get out.

    When the person came out, Xu Yi recognized him as a small noble. He should be rather close with this Baron Belil.

    ¡°This Magic Sedan is yours?¡± Xu Yi asked him.

    That small noble was also as arrogant towards Xu Yi as Baron Belil. When he heard Xu Yi¡¯s question, he raised his head into the sky and gave a cold snort, ¡°So what? It¡¯s mine? Does chairman Xu have a problem?¡±

    Xu Yi ignored him after looking at him. He walked over to the front of the Magic Sedan and raised his right hand, gathering his magic.

    There was a fireball that condensed in Xu Yi¡¯s palm.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s action, Baron Belil and the small noble were stunned.

    ¡°What do you want to do?¡±

    As soon as their voices fell, Xu Yi¡¯s right hand fell and the fireballnded on the Magic Sedan.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

 Volume 4 19 - Why did you do this?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 19 Why did you do this?</h4>

    The fierce explosion attracted the gazes of everyone on the street in front of the City Lord Manor. When everyone saw the Magic Sedan that was left after the explosion, they were all stunned.

    Someone that could afford a Magic Sedan was either a noble or a rich merchant,moners couldn¡¯t offend them.

    Who dared to do this? Who had the ability to do this?

    All their doubts vanished as soon as they saw Xu Yi standing in front of the Magic Sedan.

    Xu Yi used a Water Magic Array on the Magic Sedan and covered up the explosion fragments, naturally it didn¡¯t affect Baron Belil and the small noble who were standing on the side.

    Those two were shocked by Xu Yi¡¯s actions. After a while, the small noble finally reacted and angrily jumped up.

    ¡°Xu Yi, what are you doing! You.....¡± Seeing the remains of his Magic Sedan, his expression twisted from the pain he felt, ¡°Are you god damn courting death! You dared to ruin my Magic Sedan!¡±

    Xu Yi calmly looked at him and suddenly asked, ¡°Do you have a driver¡¯s license?¡±

    ¡°Driver¡¯s license?¡± The small noble was taken aback, ¡°Of course, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Since you have a driver¡¯s license, you should know that when you took the test, there were rules. You can¡¯t give your Magic Car to someone without a driver¡¯s license to drive, otherwise you¡¯ll lose the right to have a driver¡¯s license. I¡¯m telling you now that you broke this rule, so as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I announce that your Magic Sedan has been suspended. If you have any objections, you are wee to sue the Banta City¡¯s Magic Machine Business Union.¡±

    The small noble and Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, like he had just told them the biggest joke ever.

    ¡°I.....I say, Xu Yi are you crazy?¡± The small noble couldn¡¯t help cursing in a loud voice, ¡°Because I lent my Magic Sedan to Belil, you just broke it like that? What kind of god damn reason is that! EVen if I broke the rules and lost my rights to a driver¡¯s license, how can you destroy my car like that?¡±

    Baron Belil was also shocked and angry, ¡°Xu Yi, you must be crazy! When did you be qualified to destroy a Magic Sedan? Who gave you this courage! Then again, when did I lose my driver¡¯s license? I just got it a few months ago!¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Baron Belil, ¡°Because from the moment you hit her highness while drunk driving, your license had already been suspended.¡±

    Hearing this, Baron Belil whose face was filled with anger calmed down. He took a deep breath and pointed at Xu Yi as he gave two coldughs, ¡°Good, very good! Xu Yi, you¡¯ve made up your mind to meddle in this? I¡¯m warning you, you are just a small merchant, you just earned a bit of money with a bit of cleverness, don¡¯t think that you¡¯ve be someone important! If you dare meddle in this matter, you won¡¯t even know how you died!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug with a rxed look, ¡°I¡¯m just following the rules, you can interpret this however you want. Right, Baron Belil, I have to remind you of something. Because you were drunk when you crashed into her highness, ording to the rules of the exam, you won¡¯t be able to get another driver¡¯s license for another five years.¡±

    Baron Belil¡¯s expression changed. He red at Xu Yi before giving a cold snort, ¡°Don¡¯t think that just because you control magic machines that you can control everything. Let me tell you, there are many things that you aren¡¯t qualified to decide!¡±

    After throwing this down, Baron Belil pulled the small noble away.

    The small noble looked at his Magic Sedan in an unwilling manner, but he was still pulled away by Baron Belil.

    Watching the two leave, Xu Yi shook his head. He turned back to the City Lord Manor and saw the guardsing out.

    After a while, Xu Yi saw Seveni again.

    ¡°Why did you do this?¡± After staring at Xu Yi for a while, Seveni finally asked this with knitted brows.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t anything, I just felt unhappy seeing Baron Belil acting this arrogantly in front of me.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Seveni clearly didn¡¯t believe this, ¡°Is it really just this?¡±

    ¡°Just this.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look.

    ¡°When did you be like a child?¡± Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Such a spiteful approach doesn¡¯t suit your style.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Still was just saying a few days ago that I¡¯ve be older and she didn¡¯t like it, so shouldn¡¯t I appear as more youthful? Look, this makes people think ¡®easily angered youth¡¯, doesn¡¯t it?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi talk nonsense with a serious look, Seveni couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Afterughing for a while, Seveni looked at Xu Yi and shook her head. She waved her hand and said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t know what you were thinking, but I won¡¯t ask if you don¡¯t want to talk. I believe in your ideas, but I must remind you, tearing away face from Baron Belil like this, it might be considered a provocation towards the Stagg Family. I think.....you should be more careful.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°The Stagg Family already hated me anyway, right? It doesn¡¯t matter if this is added in.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s uncaring look, Seveni said with a bit of worry, ¡°Xu Yi, the Stagg Family is the biggest noble family in the kingdom, they are much stronger than you think. You can¡¯t just look down on them or treat them lightly.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing.

    Seveni knit her brows and honestly said, ¡°Just treat it as listening to my advice. You have to be careful, alright?¡±

    Seeing how serious Seveni was, Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t refuse to give her face. He nodded and agreed with a serious look.

    The two were silent for a bit before Seveni gave a nod, ¡°Alright, you go back first. I think that you must have many things to arrange after doing this. Remember, if you need any help, you don¡¯t need to worry ande looking for me first.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Of course. In the end, Seveni, this is venting anger for you.,¡±

    Seveni gave a smile, ¡°I got it.¡±

    ###

    Xu Yi smashing a Magic Sedan on the street in front of the City Lord Manor spread through Banta City like it had gained wings, it even spread to the surrounding cities. In just a few days, it appeared in all the newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For the newspapers that focused on facts, they just reported on the details of the situation. They repeated the words that Xu Yi had told Baron Belil and the small noble named Pl. At most they quoted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rules on driver¡¯s licenses.

    As for the newspapers that focused on gossip, there were all kinds of different reports.

    Those tabloids naturally went into detail on the grudge between Xu Yi and Baron Belil.

    Because of some taboos that everyone knew, those tabloids didn¡¯t dare say that Xu Yi was using this to disy his contradictions to the Stagg Family¡¯s political views. They mainly spected that Xu Yi was using this to settle their grievances from the past.

    The ones that were more reliable talked about how Baron Belil chased the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of his territory when he arrived in Banta City, creating this grudge.

    The ones that weren¡¯t reliable guessed that Xu Yi and Baron Belil had a grudge because they both liked the same noble girl, therefore they couldn¡¯t stand each other. As for Baron Belil targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore and exploded.

    As for who the nobledy was, it was left to the imagination......

    But no matter what, because of the people involved in this matter, whether it was Xu Yi, Baron Belil who came from the Stagg Family, her highness Seveni who was rted to this, the new Magic Sedans, words like ¡°car ident¡±, ¡°drunk driving¡±, or ¡°driver¡¯s license¡± that people of the other cities didn¡¯t understand, the value of the news hidden in this made all the various newspapers wildly report on this.

    It could even be said that during this time, this was the most newsworthy matter for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi, Baron Belil, and the Magic Sedans became the most spoken words for people.

    ¡°I say, sir chairman, did you already expect this result, so you deliberately did this?¡± Kennard looked at the various newspapers scattered on the table and the report of the influence of this matter his subordinates had brought. He couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a sigh as he asked Xu Yi this.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t reply.

    After this matter, countless people were like Seveni and Kennard, asking him why he did this.

    His only response was ¡°he didn¡¯t feel good looking at Baron Belil¡±.

    But there wasn¡¯t a single person who believed this response.

    Because no matter what, he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he wasn¡¯t a small person like Baron Belil. Even the young noble named Pl who had suffered was considered a small character by most of the poption.

    The matter between them couldn¡¯t be treated as a small matter no matter what.

    Not to mention that based on the way Xu Yi had always acted, he wasn¡¯t someone who acted on impulse.

    So countless people were guessing, just what ns did Xu Yi have that he chose to do such a shocking matter?

 Volume 4 20 - Boycott the Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 20 Boycott the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    Kennard naturally didn¡¯t believe what Xu Yi said.

    He had been with Xu Yi for close to two years, so he knew how Xu Yi handled matters and definitely wouldn¡¯t act as impulsive as this.

    There was arge influence for this matter, so Xu Yi must have thought this through and didn¡¯t act just on impulse.

    However, the strangest thing was that Xu Yi didn¡¯t tell anyone his real thoughts. Even when Kennard asked Still, he didn¡¯t receive the real answer which confused Kennard.

    But he couldn¡¯t do anything if Xu Yi insisted on not exining.

    Kennard thought about it and gave up on guessing about this. He looked at the various reports in his hands and there was a bit of worry in his eyes.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not worry about this. Anyway, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has benefited and suffered losses from this.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What benefits? What losses?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°In short, is the good better than the bad?¡±

    ¡°That depends on how you look at it.¡± Kennard shook his head, ¡°As for the good, because of this matter, the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has once again spread. It has also made the newspapers advertise our Magic Sedans for free. I believe that everyone in the kingdom should ept the new Magic Sedans.¡±

    ¡°Un, just with this, it can save us quite a bit of time on advertisements, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Just based on this, I think we¡¯ve earned quite a bit this time.¡±

    Kennard gave a bitterugh, ¡°The problem is that the negative influence is also quite serious. With the influence of this matter, there are cries to boycott the products of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There are thirteen cities that have announced they will not permit any of our products to enter. They¡¯ve closed off the retail spots that we¡¯ve opened in them already.¡±

    ¡°Un, which cities?¡±

    ¡°The first is Lorren City, then there¡¯s......¡±

    After Kennard reported the thirteen cities, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    ¡°Ah, as expected, it¡¯s all the cities that stand with his highness Eric.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°What about Basaru City? What is their reaction? Also, why didn¡¯t I hear Dketon City being included?¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi and his expression was a bit strange.

    ¡°Basaru City and Dketon City haven¡¯t made any clear statements, but the people of Dketon City have been targeting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. They¡¯ve deliberately smashed the various household magic machine stores to give a demonstration. As for Basaru City.....nothing has happened yet.¡±

    ¡°Very good, it seems like we¡¯ve already gained a reliable ally.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Moreover, there might be another one......¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, I feel like you shouldn¡¯t be too enthusiastic about this. Forget about Basaru City, but Dketon City is just waiting and seeing. There¡¯s also another piece of bad news that I think that the situation in Dketon City will end soon. It won¡¯t take long before Dketon City will also announce that they are boycotting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°The bad piece of news.....should actually be a very good piece of news for the people of our Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Kennard gave a bitterugh again, ¡°Yes, the wise and great highness Eric has led the northern army to defeat the Sack Kingdom army several times, they are even marching their way into the Sack Kingdom. This is the biggest victory in the history of our Lampuri Kingdom! This to most people in the kingdom would be considered very good news.¡±

    ¡°So we should be happy about this, right? After all, we are citizens of this country, so why is it bad news?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    He didn¡¯t believe that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know the importance of this news to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were so many cities that announced they were boycotting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of it came from the influence of this piece of news.

    Because his highness Eric had created such a shocking merit, there were many cities that were on the face that quickly expressed their loyalty to his highness Eric. There were even many City Lords andrge noble families that wanted to support his highness Eric in taking the throne.

    His highness Eric had a great weight in the kingdom, he suddenly far surpassed her highness Seveni, almost bing the only candidate to seed the throne.

    However, the king never said anything. He only sent normal congrattions to the northern army and didn¡¯t write a single word on his highness Eric which really provoked thought.

    ¡°So that means.....it¡¯s too early to tell and these cities jumping sides this quickly isn¡¯t a good thing.¡± Xu Yi revealed a confident smile and asked Kennard, ¡°Kennard, with so many cities announcing that they are boycotting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how were our salesst month?¡±

    Kennard¡¯s expression became even stranger, ¡°This.....ording to the data, our household magic machine sales increased by 17% and the magic machine workshop increased by 28%, so the situation could be considered good.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Look, there are still many sensible people in the world. These thirteen cities can boycott us if they want, since they are willing to live such backwards lives, then they can do it. Anyway most people still yearn to be like the people of our Banta City, they want to live a convenient and self sufficient life.¡±

    Kennard alsoughed, ¡°Sir chairman, you are very correct.¡±

    ¡°Alright, this is something we can¡¯t influence, so let¡¯s not worry about it. We should do what we should do for now.¡± Xu Yi stood up and after thinking for a bit, he said to Kennard, ¡°Right, help me send a letter to chairman Rundst. Tell him that with so many cities boycotting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he should consider taking our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines from the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shelves to avoid being affected.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman, you said this toote. In the cities that announced they were boycotting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many people in those cities that have already been smashing the Walmart Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stores in those cities. The Walmart Chamber of Commerce has had a loss of three hundred thousand gold coins in just half a month.¡±

    Xu Yi had an apologetic look on his face, ¡°They¡¯ve been implicated by us in the end? Help me pass my apologies to chairman Rundst.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything. Since the Walmart Chamber of Commerce has chosen to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they chose to ept the risk. Lord father has already made his decision on this matter and he had chairman Rundst take care of this matter, he couldn¡¯t let this affect our cooperation.¡±

    ¡°Very good, help me thank Marquis Emma for his understanding.¡±

    Xu Yi said this and gave Kennard a nod before walking out of the CEO office, heading into the depths of the Falling Rain Valley.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, people had greater demand for household magic machines. The household magic machine factories from before were far from being able to keep up with this demand.

    Starting from theter half ofst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had nned on moving the various magic machine workshops into the depths of the Falling Rain Valley, leaving the outside area for household magic machine factories.

    So when the magic machine workshop was moved deeper in, so was the magic machine development center and the magic research facility.

    Moreover, it was different from the other workshops that were managed loosely and allowed outsiders to enter. No outsiders were allowed to enter the magic machine development center or the magic research facility, even employees of other departments that wanted to enter had to obtain authorization first.

    As for Xu Yi who was the chairman, he also needed to show identification before being allowed to enter.

    After giving his identification to the guard outside the door, Xu Yi gave a nod to the bowing guard. Then he looked over him and asked, ¡°How does this new set of equipment feel?¡±

    The guardughed and kept nodding, ¡°Very good! With this new set of armour, I can beat most of the dwarves when I¡¯m dueling them.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Although I knew the effects were good, I didn¡¯t know they were this good.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod.

    It had to be known that through normal evaluation, a dwarf was at least as strong as five human soldiers.

    The dwarf guards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were elites, so they could match at up to ten human soldiers.

    Now that this guard with the new Magic Barrier Armour of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could actually duel most of the dwarven guards, this really was an exaggerated increase in battle strength.

    ¡°It was no wonder Camby and chief Siluka have been asking me to give the dwarves this new Magic Barrier Armour as well, so it¡¯s because they can¡¯t even beat you guys.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then do you think that if the dwarves put on the same armour, you could still beat them?¡±

    The guard shook his head, ¡°That should be impossible. The dwarves are already stronger than me, I definitely can¡¯t beat them. But I feel that even if the dwarves are strong, it would be hard to injure me, so it might end in a tie.¡±

    ¡°Very good, that just shows that the effects of this Magic Barrier Armour is satisfying.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before suddenly stretching out a finger. With a bit of lightning, he quickly tapped the guard¡¯s chest.

 Volume 4 21 - Forbidden human experiments

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 21 Forbidden human experiments</h4>

    The guard was surprised and wanted to dodge, but he was forced to stop once he started to move. He had no choice but to take Xu Yi¡¯s tap directly.

    The sparks of electricity came from Xu Yi¡¯s finger and when it touched the surface of the armour, it immediately created a light blue glow from the armour which scattered the dazzling lightning.

    ¡°Un, very good. It seems like the Magic Barrier is quite firm.¡± Xu Yi nodded in satisfaction as he reached his hand out to the guard, ¡°Come, give me your weapon.¡±

    The guard was surprised before understanding. He quickly gave the sword at his waist to Xu Yi with both hands.

    ¡°Are there any problems?¡± Xu Yi took the sword and asked.

    ¡°No problems!¡± The guard patted his chest and said in a confident and loud voice, ¡°Sir chairman, please chop down, it definitely won¡¯t injure me!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll do it.¡±

    Swinging with both hands, the sword in his hand fell down on the guard¡¯s chest.

    Just like before, the moment the sword touched the surface of the armour, there was a light blue glow that stopped it.

    Xu Yi felt like he was cutting down on something soft. Not only did it not make impact with the armour, there was something that stopped him from using force, feeling quite strange.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi was even more satisfied. He pulled back with a nod and handed the sword back to the guard. He patted him on the shoulder and headed towards the magic machine development center.

    ¡°Sir chairman!¡± The guard behind him suddenly called out.

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi was surprised as he turned back, ¡°Is there something you need?¡±

    The guard hesitated a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, can you add people to the list heading to the ck Rice Wastnd? Look, I¡¯m wearing such good armour and have such a good weapon, if I just stay here watching the gates, this.....wouldn¡¯t be too good, right?¡±

    ¡°Just tell me if your hand is itchy. Don¡¯t you feel off trying to justify it?¡± Xu Yi scolded with a smile, ¡°Let me tell you, guarding the magic development center is very important work. Letting you watch the gate is my trust in you, you shouldn¡¯t look down on this work.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m not looking down on this work, just......I finally got this good equipment and if I don¡¯t fight, I feel like it¡¯s a waste. Don¡¯t you think so?¡± The guard said with augh.

    ¡°So you want to go fight, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    The guard rubbed his head with augh, neither confirming or denying it.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shake his head, ¡°Rx, we¡¯re not just clearing out the blind beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd, we¡¯re also letting you get some experience with this new equipment. I want everyone to get some experience, so naturally it won¡¯t becking your share. Just wait and after the first groupes back, it might be your turn.¡±

    The guards revealed a look of joy, ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Xu Yi snappily looked at him and was toozy to care as he walked into the magic machine development center.

    When he walked through the door, Xu Yi heard a loud ¡°tong¡± sound.

    Looking over, he found that in a corner of the magic development center, there was a tattered Magic Sedan that had crashed into a wall made of iron.

    Based on the tattered front of the Magic Sedan, it had been moving quite fast when it crashed into the wall.

    Xu Yi walked over and saw the only elf engineer Yldane out of the front. He was shaking his head like he was about to copse from dizziness.

    ¡°How is it? How is it?¡± Camby and the other dwarf engineers on the side came forward, ¡°Do you still feel good? Are you injured?¡±

    Yldan stood there for a while before taking a deep breath. He was back to normal when he opened his eyes and said with a faint smile, ¡°It should be no problem, I don¡¯t feel like I¡¯m injured.¡±

    The surrounding dwarf and human engineers cheered at the same time.

    ¡°This is great! It¡¯s a sess!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha! I never thought it would be this easy, this really is great!¡±

    ¡°It really is great, the experiment is a sess!¡±

    ......

    Watching these cheering engineers, Xu Yi shook his head. He came over withrge steps and shouted, ¡°What is there to be excited about!¡±

    The engineers were stunned and stopped cheering. They turned to look at Xu Yi and Camby came forward with a smile.

    ¡°Chairman, this Magic Sedan¡¯s protection system has been finished, why shouldn¡¯t we be happy?¡±

    ¡°Happy your head.¡± Xu Yi red at him, ¡°Tell me, did you have Yldan sit inside for the entire experiment?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, only Yldan has the same figure as humans, we can¡¯t do the same with us dwarves.¡± Camby replied with a natural look, ¡°As for Cuff and the other humans, they can¡¯t take the tests.¡±

    ¡°You all......¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°You¡¯re worried that Cuff can¡¯t take it, so why don¡¯t you worry that Yldan can¡¯t take it?¡±

    Camby was stunned, ¡°How could that be? Yldan is an elf, his physique is even a bit better than us elves, how could he not take a bit of impact? Isn¡¯t that right, Yldan?¡±

    Yldan quickly nodded, ¡°Yes, sir chairman. The impact in the experiments isn¡¯t considered anything to me, there¡¯s no problem.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°So you can just use a live person in an experiment? Camby, I¡¯m warning you, you¡¯re definitely not allowed to do this in the future, do you understand?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious tone that they had never seen before, although Camby was confused, he still agreed.

    ¡°Actuallypared to you using a living person, I¡¯m more angry that you used one of ourpany¡¯s top magic engineers, why can¡¯t you think this through? If you want to experiment, it isn¡¯t that hard to make a dummy, why did you have Yldan take this risk?¡± Xu Yi kept reprimanding them, ¡°If something happened to Yldan, can you take this loss?¡±

    ¡°But there wasn¡¯t an ident......¡± Camby muttered, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s dark look, he didn¡¯t continue trying to refute and kept nodding, ¡°Un, I got it, I¡¯ll be careful in the future. But chairman, we can¡¯t tell the direct feeling if we use a dummy.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s better than using a living person! This is something I definitely cannot ept, remember this for me! If I see you doing this in the future, do you believe that I wouldn¡¯t make you as the magic machine development center¡¯s manager take responsibility?¡± Xu Yi angrily shouted.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was this angry, everyone including even Camby didn¡¯t dare refute and just agreed.

    Seeing that everyone was being good, Xu Yi calmed his anger and said with a sigh, ¡°Camby, you have to remember, you engineers are more important than anything else to me. I can¡¯t ept any losses at all, so when you do experiments, I want you to ce safety above everything. Moreover, for this kind of experiment, you can just have the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory make several stic dummies for you, why are you testing it on yourselves?¡±

    ¡°Because the dummies can¡¯t give us the same direct feeling that Yldan can.¡± Camby scratched his head, ¡°I don¡¯t want to waste time on all those experiments.¡±

    ¡°The dummies can¡¯t get injured or even die like Yldan.¡± Xu Yi said with a cold snort, ¡°Also, who said that dummies can¡¯t give you a direct feeling? I¡¯ve always told you that the most important thing for magic mechanical engineering is data. Although dummies can¡¯t give you the feeling, you can control the quality of the dummies, so you can infer data about the impact based on that.¡±

    ¡°Un.....with the chairman saying this, I understand.¡± Camby patted his head, ¡°I¡¯m still dumb. This is clearly a very simple problem, I just have to make the Night Song Tribe factory make dummies that are shaped exactly like humans.¡±

    ¡°You are not dumb, rather you didn¡¯t even think about this in the first ce!¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°Also, all of you, especially you Yldan, you actually went forward when Camby wanted you to test it out yourself. Have you not considered your own safety?¡±

    Yldan shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I really never thought about it because I never thought that such a hit could hurt me.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s because the Magic Sedan¡¯s aren¡¯t fast right now. If it was a race car that can reach over a hundred kilometers an hour, would you still be fine from crashing it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Camby¡¯s group were stunned, ¡°Over a hundred kilometers an hour? How is that possible?¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t it be possible?¡± Xu Yi red at them, ¡°Before the Magic Sedans appeared, did you think that a Magic Car could surpass sixty kilometers an hour?¡±

    ¡°But sixty kilometers an hour and over a hundred kilometers an hour arepletely different things......¡±

    ¡°The Fire Magic Engine and the Wind Magic Engine are two different things.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Let me tell you some good news, Great Magician Cami is already focusing on developing the Fire Magic Engine. ording to the report from the magic research facility, they have already made a major breakthrough in the most important Magic Array. As for you all, you just need to prepare to develop the structure for the Fire Magic Engine.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi arrange new tasks for them, the engineers didn¡¯tin at all. Instead, they were all filled with excitement and even began discussing what they needed to do for the Fire Magic Engine.

    Seeing their excited looks, Xu Yi felt happy in his heart.

    It was because he had these engineers who were this enthusiastic about magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could make suchrge progress in developing magic machines, bringing him closer to his dream of establishing a magic machine industry.

 Volume 4 22 - Care about safety

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 22 Care about safety</h4>

    In fact, the Magic Barrier Armour and the protective system for the Magic Sedan that Camby¡¯s group was studying all came from the same system. Naturally they all came from Seveni¡¯s car crash.

    When designing the Magic Sedan, Xu Yi had already designed a system that was like the airbags on earth to protect the driver, but because there was a problem with the research, the first batch of Magic Cars wasn¡¯t equipped with this.

    Moreover, from Xu Yi¡¯s perspective, the max speed of the Magic Sedan was only sixty kilometers an hour, so even if two cars crashed, it wouldn¡¯t cause that much damage. Facts had proven that it was as he suspected.

    The Magic Sedans had been out for more than a month and there were had been several crashes in Banta City, but because it wasn¡¯t fast enough and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used reliable steel alloys and wood, as long as they had their safety belts on, they would at most feel a bit of pain on their chest.

    But Seveni¡¯s traffic ident wasn¡¯t the same.

    Because Baron Belil had been drunk driving, maintaining its fastest speed, the hit had been quite intense when they did crash.

    Even if Seveni and Baron Belil didn¡¯t get injured in this ident, thinking of how Seveni as her highness was almost in an ident, Xu Yi realized that it would be toote if an ident really happened. He ordered the magic research facility and the magic machine development center to create an anti crash system for the Magic Sedans.

    In the end, when the Magic Sedan crash system was developed, a human engineer who was good friends with the human guards suddenly had an idea, thinking that it would be good to use the same system in the armours. So, this gave birth to the Magic Barrier Armour that Xu Yi equipped the guards with.

    This idental discovery was something that Xu Yi encountered frequently on earth, so it wasn¡¯t that rare.

    After giving Camby and the others his suggestions towards the Magic Sedan crash protection system, Xu Yi left for the magic research facility not far away.

    When he came in, he bumped into Akali who was running out.

    Xu Yi was caught off guard and he bumped into her chest.

    ¡°Ah? Chairman, why are you here?¡± Akali jumped back like a frightened rabbit, looking like she was shaken as she patted her chest, ¡°You scared me to death.¡±

    Xu Yi found it a bit funny, ¡°You¡¯re clearly the one who ran into me, alright? Yet you were the one frightened. Speak, where are you going? Why are you in such a rush?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m going......¡± Akali thought about it beforeughing and changing her tone, ¡°Not telling you.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I say, are you secretly running out while working and you¡¯re even hiding it from me as the chairman? Do you not want to stay anymore?¡±

    ¡°What? Sir chairman, do you want to fire me?¡± Akali didn¡¯t look afraid at all.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head and waved his hand, ¡°Alright, get out of here if you don¡¯t want to tell me, don¡¯t be an eyesore.¡±

    Akaliughed and gave Xu Yi a bow, ¡°Roger! Reporting to sir chairman, I¡¯ll get out now!¡±

    Watching Akali run away, Xu Yi rolled his eyes before entering Evita¡¯s privateboratory.

    ¡°Akali? She should be going to see her little brother.¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi with a faint smile, ¡°Her little brother is taking the driver¡¯s license test today and she¡¯s feeling anxious, so she asked me for leave yesterday. She said that she wanted to cheer for her little brother today. She didn¡¯t dare tell you because she was afraid that you would say she wasn¡¯t working properly.¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s caring about her little brother, why would I scold her?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Speaking of this.....her little brother seems to be only fifteen years old, he¡¯s actually testing for a driver¡¯s license? If he gets it, what does he want to do? He wants to be a transport driver?¡±

    ¡°Un, ording to what Akali said, after her little brother saw you, he was filled with admiration and said he wants to work for you, so he can be in the samepany as Akali. After getting his license, he wants to join ourpany¡¯s transport team and be a transport driver.¡±

    ¡°Does he think that he can enter ourpany¡¯s transport team that easily?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°He is a bit too young, I wouldn¡¯t let a kid run around in a Magic Car all day.¡±

    ¡°Is fifteen considered young?¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°There are many parts of the kingdom where fifteen year old boys can already get married.¡±

    ¡°Married at fifteen?¡± Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°They don¡¯t even know anything at that age, what are they getting married for?¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Sir chairman, what age do you think that people should get married?¡±

    ¡°What to say.....At least at your age?¡± Xu Yi looked at Evita. He thought about something and wanted to ask Evita if she had considered this, but then he remembered Still saying that Evita was interested in him, so he quickly swallowed back those words.

    Seeing Xu Yi stopping himself, Evita could guess something. Her face turned a bit red and she turned away. After pausing, she asked in a soft voice, ¡°Sir chairman, you suddenly came to the magic research facility, it should be to ask about the research progress, right?¡±

    ¡°Ah.....Un, right. First tell me, how is your research with the Magic Airshop going? Have you made any progress?¡± Xu Yi immediately changed the topic.

    ¡°There is some progress.¡± Speaking of the Magic Airship, the blush on Evita¡¯s face faded a bit, ¡°The material research team have created a new alloy that is very light and very hard, while also being quite sensitive to magic. It¡¯s very suited for being the main material for Magic Airships.¡±

    ¡°Un, with the material problem solved, that should be half the problem solved. And then? Did you have Camby use the new alloy to help you make a Magic Airship?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Evita revealed a happy smile, ¡°Moreover, I¡¯ve already experimented with the airship several times. I¡¯ve already done three manned flights and the effects are quite good. Chairman......¡±

    ¡°Wait! Manned flight?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed as he raised a hand to cut Evita off, ¡°You mean.....you had people sit in the Magic Airship while performing experiments?¡±

    ¡°Right.¡± Evita was a bit surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, ¡°Right now the Magic Airship can have a control device installed inside, so of course I need people to sit inside to conduct experiments.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, seeing that he had to repeat what he had just said to Camby and the others.

    ¡°Remember, this is my bottom line. You can¡¯t perform an experiment that puts a person¡¯s life in danger, understood?¡± Xu Yi warned Evita with a serious look.

    ¡°Un, I understand.¡± Evita nodded, ¡°But during these experiments, I did it myself and personally performed the experiments. Sir chairman, you wouldn¡¯t think that I would be in danger with my level of magic, right?¡±

    ¡°You did the experiments yourself?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Right, you also said that these experiments are very dangerous, so I don¡¯t feel assured letting normal people sit in them. I didn¡¯t let the other researchers help me, so I did it myself. Moreover, by experimenting myself, it¡¯s much more convenient when collecting data.¡± Evita replied with a smile.

    ¡°Un.....if you go yourself, I can ept this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But Evita, even if you can fly, you have to be careful. If something happens and you can¡¯t get out of the airship, you will also be in danger.¡±

    ¡°I understand, so I installed the crash protection system on the Magic Airship, so it would counter most of the impact in a crash. Moreover, I¡¯ve also considered installing the ejector seat that you mentioned, so I could just jump out if there is any danger. Moreover, if something goes wrong, I can just escape from the Magic Airship if it is destroyed.¡±

    ¡°You have thought of everything.¡± Xu Yi praised, ¡°Not bad, Evita, you are much more prudent and meticulouspared to Camby and those fellows. If those fellows at the magic machine development center were like you, I could worry less.¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°But my research progress is a bit slow, so it¡¯s not a good thing.¡±

    ¡°Whether it is slow is another thing, the most important thing is safety.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°You are all precious talents for ourpany, I can¡¯t ept any losses at all. As long as you are all here, there is hope for any research. So no matter what, your first priority should be your own safety.¡±

    After pausing, Xu Yi expression rxed a bit and he said in a gentle tone, ¡°Even putting official business aside, you are Still¡¯s friend and we¡¯ve known each other for a while, so we can be considered friends. I don¡¯t want to see anything happen to you, do you know what I mean?¡±

    Evita opened her mouth, but she didn¡¯t say anything. She just lowered her head and gave an ¡°un¡± sound.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t notice the change in Evita¡¯s expression. He looked around before asking, ¡°Alright, other than the Magic Sedan and the Magic Airship, I want to ask about the progress of other projects. Is there any good news?¡±

    ¡°Un, there¡¯s quite a bit. The magic resonance technology that Akali is in charge of has had another breakthrough. The resonance technology can now not only reach a distance of close to a kilometer, its precision has increased by quite a bit. Now it can use the same Magic Array to control two different Magic Arrays.¡±

    ¡°Oh? This is good news, but I told Akali that while studying this technology, she also had to find a method for stopping counterattacks. I hope that we won¡¯t be forced into a passive position if someone breaks through this technology.¡±

    ¡°Will that happen?¡± Evita doubtfully looked at Xu Yi, but she still nodded.

    ¡°Then other than Akali, is there any other good news?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°As for the other important breakthroughs, they all focus around Great Magician Cami.¡± Evita suddenlyughed, ¡°Sir chairman, if you want to talk about safety, I feel the one you should warn the most is Great Magician Cami.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his head with a bitter look and waved his hand, ¡°You don¡¯t need to care about him, I can¡¯t do anything to him.¡±

    Seeing the helpless look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Evita covered her mouth and secretly revealed a smile.

 Volume 4 23 - Careful, itâ€™s hot

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 23 Careful, it¡¯s hot</h4>

    The spring sunlight was warm, but Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t feel that warmth of theforting sunlight at all. Instead his body waspletely cold and he couldn¡¯t help wrapping himself tighter in his nket.

    Seeing Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s action, Dema on the side couldn¡¯t help revealing a sad look.

    His majesty¡¯s body was getting worse with each day, but whenever Dema tried to convince him, he wasn¡¯t willing to rx for even a second. He would always reply to official documents like normal, taking care of all the troubles in the kingdom. It was like no different from when he handled the kingdom several years ago.

    Oh, it isn¡¯t that there¡¯s no difference. His majesty held less meetings and even if he did hold one, it didn¡¯tst long.

    Even though Lampuri Thirteenth gave a decree and Dema as the pce manager had strictly instructed the workers, the news of his majesty¡¯s illness had still been spread.

    This news had already reached all the nobles in Anvilmar City and it created unrest among the nobles.

    Anvilmar City looked calm on the surface, but under the surface, there were already undercurrents.

    Everyone was waiting to see the king¡¯s condition, waiting to see if he would.....die or not.

    ¡°Ke, ke.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly gave two coughs.

    Dema¡¯s heart tensed and he quickly came forward, but when Lampuri Thirteenth released his hand around his mouth, there was a dark red patch in the center of his palm.

    ¡°Your majesty.¡± Dema had a look of grief as he called out, but he couldn¡¯t say anything.

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked at therge patch of blood in his hand and gave a smile. He casually took a handkerchief from the side to wipe his hand before saying to Dema, ¡°Alright, stop crying like a woman, you know I don¡¯t like seeing this.¡±

    Dema wiped his eyes and agreed. He took a deep breath and wanted to force himself to calm down, but seeing Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s face that didn¡¯t seem to have any meat on them, he found that he was unable to calm down.

    Seeing the change in Dema¡¯s expression, Lampuri Thirteenth knit his brows, ¡°Don¡¯t just know how to cry, listen to me properly.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Dema was stunned before waking up. He quickly stood up and stared right at Lampuri Thirteenth.¡±

    He had followed Lampuri Thirteenth for many years now, he knew that the king was about to give a very important order.

    ¡°First, send orders to Eric, Mifam, and Seveni, have theme back to see me.¡±

    Dema agreed with a nod.

    When he thought about how the king knew that he didn¡¯t have long left and wanted to call his three children over to give them his final words, he felt sad again and his eyes misted over.

    ¡°I told you not just to cry! Listen to my order, you can¡¯t make any mistakes!¡± Lampuri Thirteenth roared.

    Dema quickly wiped his eyes again and took a deep breath as his expression returned to normal.

    ¡°Your majesty, please give your order.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is more like it.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Second, give Sowell City an order. Have Count Sean strengthen the defenses and stop the Sack Kingdom from entering the northern border.¡±

    Dema was surprised, ¡°The Sack Kingdom is being suppressed by the northern army, how could they possibly invade?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a cold snort, ¡°That idiot Eric can¡¯t see it, but you also can¡¯t see it? If the Sack Kingdom was this easy to defeat, I would have already taken care of them.¡±

    Dema fell silent.

    Although he suspected that the Sack Kingdom was ying a ploy and leading the northern army led by his highness Eric into the Sack Kingdom, based on the news that came from the frontlines, the northern army had caused great losses for the Hungry Wolf Regiment and had entered the Sack Kingdom¡¯snd.

    Even if the Sack Kingdom had a n, they wouldn¡¯t let it go this far, right?

    If it kept going, they might even have to pay for it.

    ¡°Third, have the kingdom¡¯s second army go north and enter the northwest province, taking over control of the defenses for now.¡±

    Dema was surprised by Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s third order.

    ¡°Your majesty, how can this be? If the second army also leaves, then wouldn¡¯t there only be the royal guards and the first army left in Anvilmar City? With this force.....if something happens in Anvilmar City, what would we do?¡±

    ¡°Do you think there would be a change in Anvilmar City?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth took a deep look at Dema.

    ¡°Of course, if you......¡± Dema suddenly stopped.

    ¡°If I die, something might happen in Anvilmar City?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth gave a coldugh, ¡°This is not maybe, it is certain. There¡¯s no meaning in leaving the second army here, it is more important to ensure the safety of the northwest province.¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, you have this little confidence in his highness Eric?¡± Dema found it a bit strange.

    ¡°I don¡¯t feel assured about the fellows behind him.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth shook his head, ¡°If they really fully supported the royal family attacking the Sack Kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t need to wait here. In the end, that kid Eric has turned into a tool for them.¡±

    Dema¡¯s expression became more strange.

    ¡°Your majesty, since you know all this, why are you not willing to make your decision? If you determined the sessor ahead of time, his highness Eric wouldn¡¯t have been instigated into doing all this by the nobles, right?¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a deep sigh. He turned to look at the north west with a bit of helplessness in his eyes.

    ¡°Actually I already knew that among the three of them, only Seveni was right for taking the throne. But Seveni¡¯s feelings are too soft and if she wants to take the throne, she must harden her feelings. I didn¡¯t make this decision to give Eric a chance, but he.....has disappointed me.¡±

    Dema was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°Actually.....your majesty, if you exined everything to them, I think it wouldn¡¯t have reached this situation.¡±

    ¡°Are you ming me?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth looked at Dema and said with a faint smile, ¡°Look at you, people can only speak the truth like this when you are dying, but it¡¯s the easiest to listen to the truth. Dema, you have been with me for many years, this is your first time being this direct with me.¡±

    Dema gave a bitterugh and shook his head, ¡°Anyway, I¡¯m about to die, so there isn¡¯t anything I don¡¯t dare to say.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Lampuri Thirteenth was a bit surprised, ¡°Why are you about to die? Is your body also bad?¡±

    Dema looked at Lampuri Thirteenth with aplicated gaze, ¡°Because I¡¯ve already decided that as long as your majesty leaves this world, I will follow you.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth was moved. He looked at Dema for a while before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Alright, being able to have someone with me is considered quite good.¡±

    Dema also smiled. After a while, he asked Lampuri Thirteenth in a rxed voice, ¡°Your majesty, this means that you¡¯re calling the two princes and her highness Seveni to announce who will be the royal sessor?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Perhaps it was because of Dema¡¯s disy, Lampuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t hide it anymore and just gave a simple nod.

    ¡°Then....if my guess isn¡¯t wrong, it should be her highness Seveni, right?¡± Dema asked.

    Lampuri Thirteenth gave a sigh, ¡°Eric has disappointed me too much, Mifam has always been not good enough. Although Seveni¡¯s heart is a bit soft, her other abilities have no problems. Moreover.....she has a very important supporter who is Xu Yi.¡±

    Hearing Lampuri Thirteenth mention the name ¡°Xu Yi¡±, Dema couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°Your majesty, is this Xu Yi worth this importance?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Lampuri Thirteenth said with a serious look, ¡°If Xu Yi and his Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared ten years earlier, I would have fully supported him because I¡¯m certain that as long as I gave him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enough support, he could have changed the entire Lampuri Kingdom and the entire continent. But it¡¯s a real pity that the time he appeared in wasn¡¯t good. I can only hope.....that he can keep helping Seveni and slowly change the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°If Xu Yi knew that your majesty ced such importance in him, he would definitely be honoured.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. That kid seems very modest on the surface, but I can tell that he is very proud deep down. Don¡¯t forget, when those old fellows from the Royal Parliament wanted to take away his status as a noble, he didn¡¯t care about it at all and wanted to throw it away. It¡¯s a pity that I wasn¡¯t there and couldn¡¯t see those fellows¡¯ faces at that time, it really would have been interesting. Ha, ha......¡±

    Afterughing twice, Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly broke out in coughs.

    ¡°Your majesty, do you want......to drink some more medicine?¡± Dema asked.

    Lampuri Thirteenth knit his brows and hesitated a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, bring it over.¡±

    Dema turned to a shelf and searched around.

    When his hand touched the bottle inside, Dema had aplicated look on his face which quickly returned to normal.

    After he took out the medicine and prepared it, Dema carried it over for Lampuri Thirteenth.

    Seeing Lampuri Thirteenth prepare to eat it, Dema suddenly called out, ¡°Your majesty.....¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth looked up in surprise, ¡°What is it?¡±

    Dema revealed a forced smile, ¡°Nothing, it¡¯s just.....be careful, it¡¯s hot......¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth shook his head with a smile and drank it all down.

    As soon as the medicine entered his stomach, Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s expression suddenly changed. His face filled with pain before also filling with rage. He red at Dema with wide eyes, but he couldn¡¯t say a word.

    Dema gave a sigh and ced a hand on Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s shoulder before pushing him back down in the bed.

    ¡°Your majesty, rest well.¡±

    [TL Note: Long live the king]

    Seeing Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s angry look, Dema looked aside and avoided his gaze.

    ¡°Your majesty, I know that you must have many questions. I can only say I¡¯m sorry and when this is over, I promise that I¡¯ll leave this world with you. No matter what you want to do to me then, I won¡¯t resist at all.¡±

    Lampuri Thirteenth suddenly opened his mouth and spat a mouthful of blood on Dema¡¯s face.

    After that, he fell back in the bed and didn¡¯t make a sound.

    Seeing Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s wide eyes, the look of rage and unwillingness on his face, Dema gave a deep sigh. He reached out to close Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s eyes before pulling back the string by the bed.

    After a while, a tall and strong figure entered Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s resting chamber.

    ¡°Manager Dema, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡±

    Dema looked at this person without any expressions, ¡°Duke Stagg, you¡¯re the one it¡¯s been hard for.¡±

 Volume 4 24 - Did youâ€¦..cry?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 24 Did you.....cry?</h4>

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯smander Chalon Linear stood on a high hill and looked at the ins in the distance in a daze. Watching the ck spots slowly disappearing into the distance, he had a look of disbelief.

    Watching those ck spots going for a while, he suddenly spat out and asked his chief staff officer Ivy Joao, ¡°How about.....we chase them?¡±

    Chief staff officer Joao firmly shook his head, ¡°No. Although the northern army¡¯s formation doesn¡¯t seem good and their retreat is quite rxed, their overall strength is there. If we charge at them rashly, we might not win when we sh. Not to mention.....we have no way to ensure if this is a trap that is set by them.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit trap!¡± Linear waved his arm, ¡°That idiot prince had been led by us by the nose the entire time, hismand is all trash, how could he understand how to set a trap? If he had those skills, why would he let us bait him here so easily?¡±

    ¡°Then how do you exin how he chose the right time to retreat?¡± Chief staff officer Joao pointed at the ck mass in the distance that represented the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army, ¡°They just needed to move forward another two kilometers and they would have been surrounded by us. But they chose to retreat at this distance, making us unable to defend or chase from here. From what I can see, this is simply a wise move to trick us.¡±

    ¡°Damn!¡± Linear cursed out, looking at the northern army retreating in the distance with an unwilling gaze, but he didn¡¯t give the order to chase them in the end.

    It was like Joao said, the northern army suddenly choosing this time to retreat made him feel a bit of vignce in his heart.

    If the northern army saw through the trap that they hadid over a month and through various losses, it meant that his highness Eric wasn¡¯t an idiot like they had thought. Rather he was a very astutemander.

    If they really chased them, they might fall into a trap the other side had set.

    Thinking of this, Linear couldn¡¯t help angrily cursing again as his heart filled with a strong unwillingness.

    This n that he hadid over a month while paying out losses had put great pressure on his Hungry Wolf Regiment that had ¡°always suffered losses¡±. However when they were about to seed, they had to watch this fat piece of meat leave, so how could he be willing?

    But as amander, he knew that he would pay a painful price if he was impulsive. So no matter how unwilling he was, he could only force down the urges in his heart.

    ring at the northern army in the distance, Linear gave a snort as he turned around with a face filled with rage.

    If he kept watching, he might not have been able to hold it in anymore.

    Seeing Linear¡¯s reaction, Joao shook his head with a bitter smile while also feeling helpless.

    After looking at the northern army in the distance, he also went down with Linear.

    When they were halfway, there was a horse that suddenly came over.

    Hearing the sounds of this horse, Linear was filled with rage.

    ¡°Which bastard is it? Don¡¯t you know I¡¯ve already ordered an issue to be silent? Pull him away and cut him down!¡±

    Joao looked up with a frown and quickly blocked Linear¡¯s personal guards that were about toe forward.

    ¡°It seems to be a messenger from the military intelligence department.¡±

    ¡°Intelligence department? What are theying here for!¡± Linear gave a strong snort, but he didn¡¯t have his personal guards go forward. He just stopped and coldly watched as the horse approached.

    After a while, the horse ran up the mountain and stopped in front of them. A strong young soldier wearing his uniform jumped off the horse.

    ¡°Greetings sirmander! This is thetest information from the intelligence department, please receive it!¡±

    Linear gave a cold snort, but he didn¡¯t reach out his hand.

    Joao shook his head with a bitter smile. He knew that Linear was venting his anger on this messenger because of this defeat, so naturally he didn¡¯t care about this messenger.

    When he took the report and opened it, his eyes lit up after he was stunned for a bit.

    ¡°Linear, quickly look! This is good news! This is great news!¡±

    ¡°What good news is there?¡± Linear gave a cold snort, clearly not believing it, ¡°How could there be great news? Let me see it.¡±

    Linear took the report from Joao and after looking at it, he was stunned.

    After a while, he suddenly turned to dash up the hill.

    Watching the northern army disappear into the horizon, Linear gave a stomp and a sigh, ¡°Damn! That trash prince Eric, he didn¡¯t see through our trap at all! We missed such a good chance!¡±

    Joao came up from behind with a wide smile. He patted Linear¡¯s shoulder and said, ¡°It¡¯s fine if we miss it. Anyway, we just need to wait and watch the good y. Letting those fellows take each other without doing a thing, isn¡¯t that better?¡±

    ¡°I like killing them personally.¡± Linear looked at Joao before looking at the report in his hand again. He looked at the northern army in the distance and suddenly broke out inughter, ¡°But you are right, watching the dogs biting each other is also fun. Ha, ha......¡±

    Joao revealed a dangerous smile, ¡°Of course, we can¡¯t just watch. When the timees, we need to help them a bit......¡±

    ###

    The silver white Magic Sedan made a screeching sound as it stopped in front of the City Lord Manor.

    When Xu Yi opened the door to get out, he looked at City Lord Manor that wasn¡¯t considered the tallest in Banta City and couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    ording to the n, he should be with chairman Cruise and the others on the ck Rice Wastnd. The guards of their fourpanies would be sweeping out those beastmen who didn¡¯t have eyes right now.

    But when he met chairman Cruise at the Voller Tribe, he received a shocking piece of news. He immediately rushed back as quickly as possible.

    When he saw the giant white rose in front of the City Lord Manor, Xu Yi gave another deep sigh.

    ¡°Your majesty, you really don¡¯t know how to pick the right time.¡±

    Looking at the City Lord Manor that was silentpared to its usual noisy state, Xu Yi shook his head and walked into the City Lord Manor.

    When he came in, all the staff he met had solemn looks. They didn¡¯t greet Xu Yi as normally as they would have and just gave him a nod before heading off.

    Feeling the heavy atmosphere in the City Lord Manor, Xu Yi knit his brows and headed to the City Lord¡¯s office.

    When the door opened, Xu Yi saw Seveni standing in front of the window, looking out.

    The City Lord¡¯s office was very big and the windows that went from floor to ceiling were very big. When the slender Seveni stood in front of the window, her back seemed very frail.

    Normally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t feel this way, but at this moment, he could feel a deep sadness and lonelinessing from this back.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart. Even someone as bold as him could feel this way, so he could tell how Seveni was really feeling at this moment.

    ¡°I said it before, let me be alone.¡± Hearing that someone opened the door, Seveni didn¡¯t turn around and just spoke in a soft voice.

    Her tone sounded very calm, but it had lost theforting and friendly tone that it normally had.

    Of course Xu Yi didn¡¯t go out and took two steps forward.

    Hearing the footsteps, Seveni turned around with slightly knit brows. When she was about to reprimand that person, but saw that it was Xu Yi, she was stunned.

    ¡°Why is it you?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s me.¡± Xu Yi honestly looked at Seveni. He found that her expression was as calm as usual and there weren¡¯t any ripples in her eyes, looking no different from her usual self.

    However, for someone like Xu Yi who knew Seveni, he knew that she would always have a faint smile on her face whenever, making people feel that she was friendly because she always gave people a warm feeling.

    But Seveni had lost that smile, she had be like dead water, calm and deathly still.

    ¡°You¡¯re also here to change my mind?¡± Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t talk, Seveni asked this.

    ¡°Change your mind?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s to get me to take the throne from my big brother, what else would it be?¡± A bitter look shed on Seveni¡¯s lips, ¡°Xu Yi, you supported me that much before, wasn¡¯t it so I could take the throne and help your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing you to be stronger?¡±

    Xu Yi deeply knit his brows, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, but Seveni, I have to tell you that for the current you, this is a small matter. It isn¡¯t important.¡±

    ¡°Small matter? Isn¡¯t important?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise before shaking her head, ¡°No, you must be lying to me. How could this be a small matter? How could it not be important? This is rted to the most important thing for countless people, you aren¡¯t an exception.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what people have said to you during these days, but I came looking for you today not to discuss these meaningless things.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Oh? Then what did youe for?¡± Seveni had a taunting smile on her lips, ¡°You wanted to tell me that since my big brother has taken the throne, I should give up and support him to stabilize the kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Did people tell you this?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised before he said with a cold snort, ¡°Let me tell you, they are just bullshitting!¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh and shook her head, ¡°Good, then Xu Yik, what did youe looking for me for?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni and after a while, he asked with a serious look, ¡°I just wanted to ask you, Seveni, did you......cry?¡±

 Volume 4 25 - Exceptionally smooth coronation

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 25 Exceptionally smooth coronation</h4>

    Seveni was surprised, ¡°Why do you ask this?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Isn¡¯t this the normal thing to ask? When you encounter something like this, I feel that crying is a very normal reaction, so isn¡¯t this natural to ask? Moreover, normally speaking, crying can help vent the emotions you feel, so it is good for a person.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with aplicated look before shaking her head, ¡°No, I¡¯ve long lost this right, your question has no meaning to me. Xu Yi, since you are here, I want to discuss something with you. Now that royal father has passed and big brother has taken the throne ording to royal father¡¯s orders, I think.....you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should make some preparations.....¡±

    Seeing that Seveni was hesitating, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Your highness, what standpoint are you giving me this warning from?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s.....as the standpoint of a friend.¡± Seveni said with a sigh, ¡°Because I¡¯m no longer the highness you speak of. After some time, I should no longer be the City Lord of Banta City.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni, ¡°This means that you are nning on epting this?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Seveni gave a bitterugh, ¡°Royal father¡¯s biggest desire was to make the kingdom stronger, I don¡¯t want the kingdom to fall into turmoil because of me and to ruin royal father¡¯s hopes.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Your decision will make many people disappointed.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Does that include you?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    The smile on Seveni¡¯s face became more bitter.

    ¡°It seems like you are the same as those other people, because I can¡¯t take the throne and give you the benefits you want, you are disappointed in me.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not disappointed in you because of this, rather.....I feel disappointed in your stupidity.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s direct evaluation, Seveni couldn¡¯t help being surprised and narrowing her eyes.

    ¡°Stupidity? Perhaps. Butpared to your hopes, I feel that this decision wouldn¡¯t let down royal father¡¯s hopes. Since royal father has chosen big brother, naturally I should support him and not let the kingdom fall into turmoil right after royal father¡¯s passing.¡±

    ¡°I understand your idea, but it has to be said.....this idea is very stupid.¡± Xu Yi said without any courtesy, ¡°Seveni, let¡¯s not discuss the problem hidden in his majesty¡¯s final orders, do you really think.....his highness Eric taking the throne is good for the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Seveni deeply knit her brows and looked at Xu Yi with a serious gaze, ¡°Xu Yi, although you are my friend, I must seriously warn you that I don¡¯t want to hear any doubts towards Eric from you in the future. This isn¡¯t just disrespecting him, this is also disrespecting me.¡±

    Seeing the serious Seveni, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    ¡°Alright, I won¡¯t discuss this with you, but Seveni, are you going to Anvilmar City to participate in his majesty¡¯s funeral?¡±

    Seveni suddenly knit her brows, ¡°What? Are you the same as those people and are urging me not to go?¡±

    ¡°No, I wouldn¡¯t be like those others and I know that you definitely wouldn¡¯t ept it.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But I really hope.....you.....will be careful.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve already made my decision. Big brother wouldn¡¯t do anything towards me at this time.¡±

    ¡°I hope so.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve seen the tragedy of many sessions from the history books, so I hope that the Lampuri Kingdom can have a smooth session with your wise decision. Perhaps this will be a good thing for the kingdom.¡±

    Seveni gave a heartfelt smile for the first time.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you are the first one who spoke to me like this and the one who understands my thoughts the best.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t agree or disagree.

    After pausing, Xu Yi said, ¡°Since you¡¯ve made your decision, then I don¡¯t have the right to change it. I just hope that you can take care of the matters properly. As for me......Just like you said, there are more things for me to preparepared to you. Because the trouble that I and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce face might be more serious.¡±

    ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve already talked to my big brother and he promised not to make it hard on you, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni¡¯s smile that had recovered its normal warmth and gave a sigh in his heart.

    Why could Seveni keep this naive personality even though she grew up in the royal family?

    If he was as naive as Seveni, there might not even be a bit left of him in the end......

    ###

    Although Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s illness had beenmon news and people weren¡¯t that surprised by this ending, there were still many people that were worried that there would be turmoil in the Lampuri Kingdom from the passing of the throne.

    After all, before this, his highness Eric and her highness Seveni going against each other for the throne was a well known fact. There were many nobles in the kingdom that had been divided into two factions that supported them.

    Now that Lampuri Thirteenth had passed, everyone was worried that the two sides would start a civil war for the throne,

    However, all of this worry had disappeared because of an announcement from her highness Seveni.

    In a public statement in the ?Banta Times?, her highness Seveni showed her support for Lampuri Thirteenth, supporting his highness Eric in taking the throne. She also expressed that she would step down as the City Lord of Banta City, while also stepping down from her various responsibilities in the kingdom, including her important seat in the kingdom parliament.

    Once this announcement was made, her highness Seveni did as she announced. Once this announcement was made, other than revealing herself once at Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s funeral, she had disappeared in front of everyone and there was no news on her.

    Because of everything Seveni did and adding in prince Mifam¡¯s statement, his highness Eric smoothly followed Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s order and took the throne. He officially became the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s news king and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s worry about a civil war disappeared.

    Everyone could see that this was without a doubt a very good situation.

    Being able to smoothly crown the new king was the best news for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Without any civil strife, with the development speed of the Lampuri Kingdom, it wouldn¡¯t take long for them to be a truly powerful kingdom!

    ###

    Three months after Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s funeral, Banta city had already recovered from the sadness from before. Now that the heat of summer was here, the entire city was covered in a zing heat.

    Although Banta City had a new City Lord, making her highness Seveni¡¯s time as City Lord even shorter than Count Stagg, leaving in less than a year, during these months, the new City Lord didn¡¯t act like Count Stagg with his agricultural policies.

    So Banta City was as lively as before, it was even more lively than when Lampuri Thirteenth had passed.

    Now that summer was here, for the magic machinepanies, their best selling season wasing. Banta City¡¯s magic machinepanies had long been prepared and they were promoting their household magic machines.

    Among them, the most popr was the Magic Fan.

    Other than the most popr Frestech Brand Magic Fan, there were now seventeen other brands of Magic Fans in Banta City.

    Because the Magic Fan was the earliest piece of technology transferred and there wasn¡¯t a high requirement for producing them, after a few years of development, the Magic Fans of the other brands, whether it was quality, performance, or in other aspects, they were no longer worse than the Frestech Brand Magic Fan.

    Adding in the fact that their prices were lower, their sales volume were now quite good.

    Perhaps it couldn¡¯t be seen in Banta City, but in the surrounding cities, the other brands of Magic Fans were slowly taking the market and gradually meeting the sales of the Frestech Brand.

    Other than Magic Fans, there were many otherpanies that were producing Magic Air Conditioners, Magic Refrigerators, Magic Freezers, and many other household magic machines suited for summer that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transferred.

    Even if these household magic machines werecking inparison to the Frestech Brand items, because their prices were lower, they also obtained a part of the market in other ces.

    So although it was already summer, the factories of Banta City¡¯srgepanies were working in full force all day, non stop in producing all kinds of household magic machines.

    Even on the roads to Banta City, there would always berge amounts of transport Magic Cars and transport horse carriages that hadn¡¯t been reced yet.

    Every single vehicle was filled with cargo, setting out from Banta City, transporting across the Lampuri Kingdom to other ces inside and even outside the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For example, Stantine Duchy, the Drake Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom, and even the Sack Kingdom......

    Other than the Fersen Carriagepany being in charge of thend transport, because of the Sanng Canal, Banta City¡¯s water transportation was also being developed.

    The Porter Chamber of Commerce already had thirty forrge transport ships and seventy three medium and small sized transport ships. Because of the convenience of loading it, it was very wee by thergepanies of Banta City. The one hundred and seven transport ships were filled with cargo each day, using this canal to transport along the Sandy River and the Rum River, transporting to the cities connected to this river.¡±

    ¡°If royal father could see this prosperous scene, I think he would definitely be very happy......¡±

    A sigh came from the banks of the Sandy River not far away from Banta City.

 Volume 4 26 - Banta City prosperous on the surface

    <strong>Volume 4 Chapter 26</strong>

    <strong>Banta City prosperous on the surface</strong>

    Xu Yi turned over with a faint smile, ¡°Isn¡¯t it the same for you to see it for his majesty now?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps......¡± Seveni nodded with a smile.

    Three months had passed and Seveni was no longer filled with grief like when she received the news that Lampuri Thirteenth had passed, there was the same gentle smile as before. Compared to before, her smile was even more gentle, making one feel close to it.

    Thinking of what Seveni did during this time, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of admiration in his heart.

    Being able to remain calm in front of great change and keeping to one¡¯s mind without falling to the great seduction of power, there were only few people in this world that had a will as firm as her¡¯s.

    ¡°Speaking of this, you are still only calling royal father king.¡± Seveni looked at the Porter Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ships passing along the river and she suddenly said, ¡°After big brother took the throne, he hasn¡¯t done anything to you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why are you still unwilling to ept him?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not whether I ept him or not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This is just a habit. I¡¯ve only see one king in my life and as for his highness Eric......I can¡¯t look at him at all, so I can¡¯t call him this. Then again, I am just a normal merchant, it doesn¡¯t matter what I call him.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, your old habit is out again.¡± Seveni revealed a naughty smile and reached out her hand to tap Xu Yi, ¡°You always look down on yourself. Are you really just a small merchant? There might not be a single person in the kingdom that canpare to you. If even a person who can affect the decisions in half the cities in the kingdom is a small merchant, then what are the other merchants in the kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Your highness, don¡¯t tease me.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Those cities made those decisions to earn some money, it isn¡¯t rted to me. If your words fall onto his highness Eric¡¯s ears, I might be in trouble.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s another one of your bad habits.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Whenever you don¡¯t mean what you say, you talk formally. Rx, big brother has agreed to treat you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce well, he has done that based on everything you can see. Look, big brother has taken the throne for three months, but he has never done anything to you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So you can be a bit more bold and continue to develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like before.¡±

    Xu Yi looked, ¡°You¡¯re here to speak for his highness Eric?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m here to speak for the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Seveni shook her head as her expression became serious, ¡°Xu Yi, please don¡¯t give up on the Lampuri Kingdom, alright?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying, ¡°I never said I would give up on the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°But you are doing this.¡± Seveni said with a serious look, ¡°In the past three months, you haven¡¯t been expanding the Falling Rain Valley base like you told me before and the personnel in the Falling Rain Valley have been moved out. From what I know, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and magic machine development center have been moved to yourpany¡¯s base in the Stantine Duchy, right?¡±

    Xu Yi had no expression as he neither confirmed or denied this, ¡°Where did you learn this?¡±

    ¡°Could it be you thought that suchrge movements could be hidden from everyone?¡± Seveni asked back without any courtesy, ¡°Other than this, Still and your daughter Freya have already been sent to the Stantine Duchy. Doing this, could it be that you don¡¯t want to leave the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The Stantine Duchy climate is much better than here, so sending Still and Freya there is for them to have a better life.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t lie to me.¡± Seveni red at Xu Yi and said in a firm tone, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve known you this long, how could I not see what you¡¯re thinking? You have already made your n and are implementing it step by step. Actually to be honest, you already had this idea when you first went to the Stantine Duchy over two years ago, right?¡±

    After looking at Seveni¡¯s eyes for a bit, Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°I am just leaving a way out for myself. Your highness, didn¡¯t you urge me to prepare ahead of time three months ago? Now you¡¯re using me, what is this?¡±

    Seveni had a sad look on her face before gritting her teeth and saying, ¡°I understand your ideas, but Xu Yi.....can¡¯t you be a bit more patient? Have some confidence in big brother, at least make your decision when he starts moving against you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, alright?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯ll be toote then.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°You want me to have more patience and confidence? Seveni, if you took the throne, I can give you patience and confidence, but as for his highness Eric.....He,he.....¡±

    ¡°But I feel that in the three months big brother has taken the throne, he¡¯s already done very well. At least he isn¡¯t like you worried, moving against you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as soon as he took the throne, right?¡± Seveni didn¡¯t give up.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi asked back. He looked at Seveni for a while before suddenly asking, ¡°Your highness, I heard that after handing over your duties, you¡¯ve been in your own territory and never left, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°This is to make big brother feel assured. Coming to see you is my first time leaving my territory in months.¡±

    ¡°Did his highness Eric ask you toe see me?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No, this was my decision. Big brother just informed me of the situation.¡± Seveni replied.

    ¡°That¡¯s no different from asking you.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It seems like his highness Eric really has an understanding of your character. Alright, it doesn¡¯t matter what the reason is, but you¡¯ve lived in seclusion in your territory for months, so you don¡¯t know the outside situation.¡±

    ¡°What? Is the situation different?¡± Seveni was a bit confused, ¡°I didn¡¯t notice anything strange on the way here? Rather when I came to Banta City, I felt that it¡¯s be more prosperous, so I¡¯ve been very happy.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t see it on the surface, as for the real situation.....I¡¯ll give an example. Seveni, did you know that the tax has been adjusted for thepanies of the cities recently?¡±

    ¡°Tax adjustment?¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°How was it adjusted? Was it higher or lower?¡±

    ¡°What do you think?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°Just six days ago, the City Lord Manor announced thetest business tax rate for Banta City. ording to this rate, the magic machine industry which includes our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a new industry, so it enjoys the new business tax rate. To put it simply, this is a protection tax on the magic machine industry, going from 5% to 8%.¡±

    ¡°Extra taxes?¡± Seveni knit her brows even more, ¡°The previous taxes didn¡¯t change?¡±

    ¡°No, the previous taxes are also higher. Take our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for example, our yearly ie is over five million gold coins and belong to the first sspany ssification. The tax rate for first sspanies went from 43% to 56%, going up a high 13%.¡±

    ¡°13%?¡± Seveni was stunned, ¡°Why did it suddenly increase this much? Adding in the extra taxes, wouldn¡¯t it be raised by close to 20%?¡±

    ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t just at 20%, it¡¯s over that.¡± Xu Yi said with a cold smile, ¡°Of course, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of the otherpanies don¡¯t sell magic machines, so their taxes haven¡¯t been raised that much. The highest is the Amrit Chamber of Commerce which received around a 17% increase.¡±

    ¡°This is crazy!¡± Hearing the data from Xu Yi, Seveni¡¯s expression sunk, ¡°Raising it suddenly by this much, how much profit do you even have left?¡±

    ¡°Your highness, if I told you that over half of our yearly profits are taken because of this tax rate, would you believe it?¡± Xu Yi said with a taunting smile.

    Seveni was silent before nodding with a slightly confused look.

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, why does Banta City seem more lively? Look, there is cargo being sent all over and most of them are magic machines, why is that?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, with the drop in profit margins, if they don¡¯t sell more of it, they can¡¯t earn money at all. This is a problem for maintaining the basic operation of apany.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Seveni, when you wandered around the city earlier, didn¡¯t you realize that there were far fewer smiles?¡±

    Sevenin thought of when she went around Banta City with Xu Yi in the Magic Sedan, she found that he was right.

    Banta City did seem more prosperous and more goods were being transported, but the people didn¡¯t have brimming satisfied smiles like when she had been the City Lord. All their faces were serious and their brows were tightly knit, like they were under a lot of pressure.

    ¡°Thepanies can¡¯t make money, so naturally they find ways to cut costs. The most important cost is the worker wages.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°Just in thest month, there were over fifteen riots in the factories of thergepanies, all protesting the drop in wages.¡±

    Seveni looked at the distant Banta City in silence.

    ¡°The workers are unhappy, but most of the merchants in the city are even more unhappy. There have been many magic machinepany¡¯s chairman who haveined to me, saying that they can¡¯t hold on.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was also ugly, ¡°I can¡¯t do a thing and can only tell them to hold on.¡±

    ¡°Then.....can they hold on?¡± Seveni hesitantly asked.

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Seveni looked at Banta City in the distance again, falling into thought and not saying a word.

 Volume 4 27 - Holding the butcherâ€™s knife

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 27 Holding the butcher¡¯s knife</h4>

    When his highness Eric took over, the kingdom was going to change and many people in Banta City were worried.

    When her highness Seveni was the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, Banta City was like Seveni¡¯s back garden, full of her faithful supporters.

    Now that his highness Eric had taken the throne, then ording to normal conventions, the previous situation would have been taken care of. For Banta City that explicitly showed their support for Seveni, it would definitely be something his highness Eric took care of.

    Of all thepanies in Banta City, the most worrying was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the closest to her highness in Banta City and chairman Xu was a firm supporter of her highness Seveni, rejecting his highness Eric in public many times, so he hadpletely made a break with his highness Eric before.

    To everyone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a thorn in his highness Eric¡¯s eyes, so once he took the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to escape his sights.

    It was because of this worry that Xu Yi had to put his n in ce ahead of time, forcing him to stop developing the Falling Rain valley and moving the most precious resources over to the Stantine Duchy. It was all in case his highness Eric made a move.

    But facts surprised everyone.

    After his highness Eric took over the throne, he didn¡¯t make any excessive moves on Banta City and didn¡¯t start with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like everyone expected. He even made a statement thatmended the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for all they¡¯ve done in developing Banta City which made everyone¡¯s jaws drop.

    Moreover, although the new City Lord was appointed by his highness......Alright, it should be King Eric now. After he arrived in Banta City, he was very friendly towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It wasn¡¯t like how Count Stagg immediately aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce once he took over.

    Other than this, the new City Lord indicated that he would support the development of the magic machine industry. He would go around the foundations her highness Seveni built and develop Banta City to be one of the most prosperous cities in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Everyone was confused by what King Eric and the new City Lord did.

    His majesty Eric.....just what was he thinking?

    For this question, his majesty Eric had epted a special interview from the ?Lampuri Weekly? to explicitly show his position.

    He imed in the interview that he was just a normal prince and because he waspeting for the throne with Seveni, naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that supported her would be his enemy and he would try to take them down.

    But once he became king, he began thinking from the angle of a king and he found that the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was of great help to the development of the kingdom.

    Since he was the king, the thing he had to think about first was the development of the kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machine industry was good for the kingdom, so of course he would support their development. It wasn¡¯t strange for him to change his attitude towards them.

    Through King Eric¡¯s statement, everyone understood.

    It had to be said, King Eric¡¯s exnation was quite reasonable.

    He was already the king, so naturally his eyes couldn¡¯t be narrow. He had to consider the benefits of the kingdom before doing anything.

    It was said that.....after this interview was published to the entire kingdom, the regions that had been opposed to his highness Eric taking the throne stoppedining. The prestige of King Eric in the kingdom had increased without a doubt.

    Even Banta City that was most worried about King Eric had many new voices that supported the king.

    Suddenly, the Lampuri Kingdom became like how Seveni described it to Xu Yi before.

    With the stable throne, the Lampuri Kingdom would be able to develop in the most stable manner.

    Seeing the situation in Banta City and the kingdom, even Xu Yi had hesitated a bit.

    However.....facts proved that everyone was happy to soon, especially Xu Yi.

    A month after his highness Eric took the throne, it was little by little at first, but if one looked carefully, bad news kepting for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    First it was inspections on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the various other cities.

    In name, it was because the king cared about the development of the magic machine industry, so they wanted to conduct an inspection of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But in truth, during this inspection, there were many production magic machines and even entire production lines that were taken away as part of the investigation. There were even some workers and some engineers that were taken away.

    Although the people were released, the magic machines had nevere back.

    After that, the kingdom¡¯s parliament had established a magic machine industry management department.

    As the name suggested, this was a department that managed all thepanies involved in the magic machine industry in the kingdom.

    The one that bore the brunt of this was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the rules of the magic machine industry management department, as long as apany was involved in the magic machine industry, they would be managed by the department.

    This so-called management was requesting eachpany to work with the magic machine industry management department. For example, the department required all thepanies involved in the magic machine industry to have a certificate from the department before they started producing.

    On this certificate, the department gave different certificates for different magic machines.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that produced over a hundred kinds of magic machines, they needed over a hundred different certificates.

    For each certificate, not mentioning theplicated process, just the payments made weren¡¯t small.

    For just the Magic Refrigerator certificate, if it was approved, it would take three hundred gold coins for a certificate.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received the certificate for all their magic machines, they had spent over forty thousand gold coins on this.

    As for the amount that couldn¡¯t be avoided during the process, it wasn¡¯t less than this number.

    This meant that just to apply for certificates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had paid over eighty thousand gold coins.

    Those certificates onlysted a year......

    If having to pay tens of thousands of gold coins a year wasn¡¯t considered much, the other rule that the department made was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t ept.

    In the name of developing the kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry, they requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give all their unique technology to the otherpanies to help the other magic machinepanies grow stronger.

    This was a request that Xu Yi firmly rejected.

    Moreover, when the department asked the opinions of the otherpanies, they were rejected by most of the otherpanies.

    Almost all thepanies thought that this wentpletely against the basic principles of business.

    If the department enforced this, it would be equal to breaking the ironws of all thepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    To care about their reputation, nopany dared to support the department.

    Because of the strong opposition, the department gave up in the end.

    However, through this matter, Xu Yi knew the true ideas of King Eric.

    It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather he wanted to very much.

    But whether it was because he was worried about Seveni or his own throne that he had just taken, he had to remain reserved for some times, otherwise others would have ideas towards him. He couldn¡¯t be this direct.....or it could be said that his table manners weren¡¯t ugly.

    In short, he was using slow and gentle methods that didn¡¯t attract people¡¯s attention to attack the magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented.

    Xu Yi of course could guess his true thoughts.

    As a king, he would want to tightly grasp something that could deeply affect the Lampuri Kingdom like the magic machine industry in his hands.

    As for the tax changes in Banta City, that to Xu Yi seemed like he couldn¡¯t wait any longer.

    This business tax was clearly a butcher¡¯s knife over the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The intention was to cut away the fattest piece of meat and then fill it with the nobles that had supported him to the throne.

    When he thought of the tax changes, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    His highness Eric had taken the throne with the support of the nobles, but how could those nobles support him for free?

    The greedy nobles wanted him to pay many times what they paid him, even more than ten times over.

    Duke Stagg who had be the prime minister was also the chief of the magic machine industry management department, which clearly proved this point.

    But there were only Xu Yi¡¯s guesses, he couldn¡¯t say it to Seveni.

    Seeing Seveni in thought, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    He didn¡¯t know how much Seveni knew about this situation.

    If she knew about his highness Eric¡¯s actions, would she regret letting down the people that had supported her by giving up the throne?

    A young man wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform ran over. He was panting as he stood in front of Xu Yi, shaking Xu Yi and Seveni out of their thoughts.

    ¡°Did something happen?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, he had said that no one was allowed to disrupt his discussion with Seveni if nothing happened.

    ¡°Sir.....Sir chairman, Kamado.....The Lord City Lord is there.¡± The young man replied while panting.

    ¡°Oh? The Lord City Lord is here again?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before turning to smile at Seveni, ¡°Your highness, are you interested in seeing a good y?¡±

 Volume 4 28 - Another Lord City Lord

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 28 Another Lord City Lord</h4>

    He was different from the other three City Lords that Xu Yi had experienced, the new City Lord Canero Kamado didn¡¯t have Xu Yie to the City Lord Manor. During these three months, he would frequentlye looking for Xu Yi.

    Using the words Kamado told Xu Yi in secret, it was because the magic machine industry was a very important industry for Banta City. Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman was someone that he naturally needed to win over.

    He said this and he also did this.

    In these three months, not only did hee seeking Xu Yi, he would always be very polite to Xu Yi when he met him. He didn¡¯t seem like a noble Lord City Lord that wasing to see a normal merchant.

    Other than this, on many public asions, he had called Xu Yi the ¡°business leader¡± of Banta City many times. He imed that most of Banta City¡¯s development fell onto Xu Yi and he as the City Lord only yed a secondary role.

    These views were not opposed by anyone because they all knew the use of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was a fact that was clear to everyone in Banta City.

    But Xu Yi had never epted this.

    He was clear that although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed well, they hadn¡¯t been established for long, so they were stillcking when they werepared to the olderpanies.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that Xu Yi wanted to expand. He could only recruit some dismissed wandering soldiers, he couldn¡¯tpare to an oldpany like the Falcao Chamber of Commerce that had the Jole Family behind them. With just a single word, they could recruit several thousand powerful guards.

    Moreover......There had to be other motives for this.

    Canero was a City Lord, but he was this polite towards Xu Yi, this definitely wasn¡¯t normal.

    It had to be known, the new business tax that was aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies, they all came from the City Lord¡¯s hands.

    When Xu Yi came back to the Falling Star Manor, once he walked in, he saw City Lord Kamado pacing in the garden.

    When he saw Xu Yi, City Lord Kamado came forward with a wide smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are busy. Every time Ie to the Falling Star Manor toe looking for you, you are never home resting.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, there are many things to take care of at thepany. It¡¯s only possible toe home and rest when it is veryte. Moreover, there are many times where I stay at the Falling Star Manor and don¡¯te home. Lord City Lord, if youe look for me here, you¡¯ll end up empty handed most of the time.

    City Lord Kamado said with a smile, ¡°That isn¡¯t right, with madame Still here, chairman Xues home regrly. Could it be that now that madame Still isn¡¯t here, chairman Xu has a reason for noting home? Could it be.....chairman Xu has a new lover while the madame isn¡¯t home?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Even if I wanted to find one, I wouldn¡¯t dare. Look, Still has left an informer to watch me.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi pointed at Liz on the side who was serving the tea that Still had left behind to serve Xu Yi, ¡°Liz, go and prepare lunch. It¡¯s about time, the Lord City Lord will have lunch here.¡±

    When Liz replied, City Lord Kamado quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, without the mistress here, I won¡¯t disturb and I¡¯ve already agreed to have lunch with chairman Cruise. Xu Yi, have this beautiful maid bring out two stools, we¡¯ll just sit in the garden and discuss business.¡±

    ¡°You have a meeting with chairman Cruise?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at chairman Kamado, but he didn¡¯t ask. He had Liz bring out two chairs and a small table like chairman Kamado said, as well as serving some tea and desserts. Then he turned to City Lord Kamado and waited for him to speak.

    City Lord Kamado paused and looked around the garden before suddenly shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, not having a mistress in this manor really is different. I remember the first time I came here, the garden was all neat and tidy with all kinds of flowers in bloom. But now.....don¡¯t you feel that it is a bit disorderly?¡±

    When City Lord Kamado brought up Still, Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his heart, but he still said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord is right, I¡¯ve never been someone to care about this. With Still not here, naturally there¡¯s no one taking care of it. There is only Liz in this manor and it¡¯s already hard enough for her to take care of me, so naturally she doesn¡¯t have time for other things.¡±

    ¡°Un.....I can understand this. But chairman Xu, madame Still has already been gone for a month, is she not nning oning back?¡± City Lord Kamado asked.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This......She¡¯s very happy in the Stantine Duchy and Freya is also used to living there. Since they are happy, then they can y there for a bit and I didn¡¯t have theme back.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± City Lord Kamado looked at Xu Yi with a deep gaze and a smile, but he didn¡¯t keep asking about this.

    After talking about a few things, Liz brought out the furniture and the two sat down in the garden.

    The sun wasn¡¯t too strong today and there was a breeze, so it was veryfortable sitting in the garden.

    The two drank their tea while chatting. City Lord Kamado suddenly put down his cup and revealed a serious look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I came looking for you today is for the matter fromst time. I want to ask, have you considered it?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yi revealed a difficult look, ¡°I told the Lord City Lordst time, carrying out aprehensive cooperation with the kingdom¡¯s magic research department is something that is rted to ourpany¡¯s development. Even if I am the chairman, I can¡¯t make the decision alone. So.....we are currently discussing this in ourpany and haven¡¯t reached an answer yet.¡±

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, do you think it will pass?¡± City Lord Kamado looked at Xu Yi with a forceful gaze, ¡°Or perhaps, is this chairman Xu¡¯s attitude towards this cooperation? With your influence in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to mention this. As long as you approve, I think that there¡¯s great hope for this matter.¡±

    ¡°As for me.....Of course I approve this principle.¡± Xu Yiughed into the sky, ¡°Cooperating with the kingdom¡¯s magic research department and developing magic machines, whether to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the kingdom, this is very beneficial. How could I be against it?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you are a wise and farsighted person, naturally you can see the advantages.¡± City Lord Kamado nodded, ¡°ording to the king¡¯s instructions, as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce agrees, the kingdom¡¯s magic research department will transfer any resource you need to yourpany. This means that all the magicians in the kingdom¡¯s magic research department, yourpany can have them work for you. I think......with the help of these powerful magicians, yourpany will definitely achieve better results.¡±

    ¡°Un, I deeply understand that.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But Lord City Lord, you should know that this is a big matter, so I hope that you can give us some time to consider this, alright?¡±

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, City Lord Kamado thought about it before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, I understand your worries. But chairman Xu, I hope that you can give us an answer as soon as possible. His majesty has had ample patience with you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I hope you won¡¯t disappoint him.¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡± Xu Yi had a full smile, he didn¡¯t seem unwilling at all.

    City Lord Kamado looked at Xu Yi before taking a sip of his tea. Then he casually said, ¡°Right, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve heard that yourpany has transferred a new batch of military magic machines to Sowell City recently?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem surprised and said with a confident look, ¡°Un, this was to prepare the equipment for the third army. This was the order of his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth before he passed.¡±

    ¡°I know, but.....Chairman Xu, you should stop this. It¡¯s fine to transport normal goods to Sowell City, but you should stop sending military magic machines.¡± City Lord Kamado waved his hand.

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°This was the order of the thirteenth majesty, I am just following hisst wishes.

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the ¡°thirteenth majesty¡±, City Lord Kamado couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    ¡°The situation in the kingdom is different now, naturally you can¡¯t follow the orders from before. Remember, all the military equipment in the kingdom is managed by the royal army, so you can only transport them after receiving approval. This includes the military equipment you¡¯ve been transporting to the Stantine Duchy, understand?¡±

    ¡°Is this a clear warning?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the serious looking City Lord Kamado and thought that if others could see City Lord Kamado¡¯s tone and expression right now, would they still think that the new Lord City Lord was giving Xu Yi preferential treatment?

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Then Lord City Lord, what about normal household magic machines? Ourpany had received the thirteenth majesty¡¯s authorization to sell household magic machines to other countries, it wouldn¡¯t be taken back now, right?¡±

    City Lord Kamado shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need, since normal household magic machines wouldn¡¯t improve the safety of the kingdom. But there is a new rule for selling products to other countries.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How about the Lord City Lord tell me?¡±

    ¡°ording to the instructions of his highness, the goods being sold to other countries and regions will receive a corresponding tariff. As for the specific amount......if nothing unexpected happens, it should be announced at the end of the month. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is thepany with the most foreign trade in Banta City, chairman Xu should prepare yourself.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi found this funny as he asked, ¡°Then is it being increased or lowered?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no concrete information, so chairman Xu shouldn¡¯t try guessing.¡± City Lord Kamado shook his head and after pausing, he said, ¡°But I ask chairman Xu to remember that any adjustment to the tax rate is to strengthen the Lampuri Kingdom, so I hope that you can understand his majesty¡¯s decisions.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his heart, but he still nodded with a faint smile.

    ¡°I understand.¡±

 Volume 4 29 - The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is closing!

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 29 The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is closing!</h4>

    City Lord Kamado rode his personal horse carriage away from the Falling Star Manor and Seveni came out of a small building close to the garden.

    When she came to Xu Yi¡¯s side, she watched the horse carriage leave the manor and Seveni slightly knit her brows as she gave a sigh.

    ¡°He¡¯s actually riding a horse carriage. How can people believe that he is supporting the development of the magic machine industry, supporting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise.

    ¡°What you pay attention to really is strange......But as for this, everyone in Banta City including me was already aware of this. Although this Lord City Lord seems like he supports us on the surface, the things he¡¯s done are all aimed at the magic machine industry. Or to be more urate, it¡¯s all aimed at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seveni thought for a bit before asking, ¡°For the cooperation between yourpany and the kingdom¡¯s magic research department, what are the specifics?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°The Lord City Lord represented King Eric to make this request. There are a bunch of conditions, but there are also many benefits for us. To summarize it, they want ourpany to give all technology rted to magic machines to the magic research department.¡±

    ¡°Give everything?¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°Big brother.....is he crazy?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t know about this, but during this time, City Lord Kamado has looked for me on this matter many times, with his tone bing more serious each time. You heard his words just now, the Lord City Lord could already be considered threatening me. If I still don¡¯t choose to obey.....your highness, what do you think.....will be the fate waiting for me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a long time as her expression gradually became serious.

    ¡°No! I can¡¯t let big brother do this! He is not only breaking the fundamental rules of the kingdom, he is also damaging yourpany¡¯s trusts in the kingdom which will have a great impact on the prestige of the royal family. I will definitely discuss this issue with big brother when I get back, I can¡¯t let him make this mistake!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the rare indignant look on Seveni¡¯s face and shook his head.

    ¡°No, Seveni, it¡¯s best if you don¡¯t do this. When you announced that you would give up the throne, you had already lost this right. If you want to do this, it will create suspicion in King Eric and this isn¡¯t good for you.¡±

    ¡°Then what do I do? Could it be that you¡¯re nning on epting?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with knit brows before suddenly shaking her head, ¡°No, Xu Yi, I know you, you aren¡¯t someone to suffer easily. So you¡¯re choosing to gradually move the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and your family to the Stantine Duchy, you¡¯re nning to give up on the Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, neither admitting it or denying it.

    ¡°Then your highness.....Now that you know this, do you still want to try convincing me?¡±

    Seveni fell silent again.

    After a while, she shook her head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.....Let me give it a try first, if big brother listens to me and corrects his mistakes, then there¡¯s still hope, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart and was toozy to try to convince Seveni.

    Although Seveni came from the royal family, she had always seemed naive to Xu Yi.

    If Eric listened to her on correcting his mistakes, how could they have reached this point?

    Actually, in the end, there are many things that King Eric nned to do. To Xu Yi, he was just a pitiful puppet that is being controlled by therge nobles of the kingdom.

    After hearing the conversation between Xu Yi and City Lord Kamado, seeing the situation in Banta City wasn¡¯t as good as it seemed on the surface, there wasn¡¯t a single bit of the good mood Seveni had when she arrived left.

    She lost interest in ying in Banta City and after having lunch, she drove off from Banta City. Xu Yi gave her the silver white Magic Sedan that didn¡¯t seem that outstanding and she left Banta City in it.

    Based on the direction she was leaving in, she shouldn¡¯t have given up and was heading to Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi was certain that there was no use in her meeting with King Eric, but he didn¡¯t want to stop her.

    He would let Seveni do her best, even if it had no meaning.

    After sending Seveni off, Xu Yi quickly went back to his busy state.

    It wasn¡¯t as easy to relocate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like when Baron Belil first arrived.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had two small factories then and also two production lines. They just had to move some magic machines and the relocation was finished.

    But the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over five hundred people just in the magic research facility and the magic machine development center alone, it was at a giant scale.

    It had been a month since Xu Yi made the decision to move and they had just passed the halfway line.

    As for the thirty seven factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the Falling Rain Valley, to move them all wasn¡¯t just a difficult problem, it was basically impossible.

    Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan to the Falling Rain Valley and when he stopped, he was surrounded by many workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform.

    ¡°Aren¡¯t you all on the clock? What are you doing here?¡± When Xu Yi got out, he was surrounded by workers, so he asked them this with knit brows.

    The workers looked at each other and after hesitating for a while, a young woman who looked to be around thirty wearing the uniform of the bicycle factory asked in a loud voice, ¡°Sir chairman, can you tell us the truth? Is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce closing down?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman, are we really closing down? It was hard enough for me to enter ourpany, if it really closes, where would we go to find jobs?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, please don¡¯t close thepany. Our family depends on my wages here to survive, if I lose this job, our entire family might not be able to feed ourselves.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, there¡¯s been manypanies rted to magic machines that have closed down recently. My little brother already lost his job and if I lose my job, our family will be finished.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, is this true? Ah?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman......¡±

    ......

    Seeing the hopeful and uncertain looks around him, Xu Yi knit his brows and reprimanded, ¡°Who told you that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is closing? Nonsense!¡±

    ¡°Then why did the magic research facility and the magic development center move out? I¡¯ve heard that the steel mill and the magic machine workshop will be moving away too soon.¡± It was the young woman who asked in a loud voice again.

    ¡°Right, I also heard that several household magic machine workshops were closed.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi raised his hand and cut everyone off. He looked around and said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯m seriously telling everyone now that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t a smallpany, of course it can¡¯t close when we want. Also, I want to tell everyone that ourpany¡¯s current profit situation is good. Un.....In short we are able to earn plenty of money. Haven¡¯t you seen that our orders haven¡¯t decreased, but rather increased?¡±

    ¡°But I¡¯ve heard people say that making magic machines means owing money and we owe more the more we make.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at the person who said this, ¡°If it was true, I would have announced it already. Why would I continue doing this if we were earning money and why would I take more orders?¡±

    ¡°Un.....That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, sir chairman is more intelligent than us, how could he do something as losing money?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, that¡¯s right, we were just thinking too much.¡±

    ......

    Looking at the workers who were in better moods, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    These normal workers really changed quickly.

    Of course, strictly speaking, he didn¡¯t lie to them.

    ¡°Alright, everyone should go back to work. Thepany is just making some changes based on the long term, it doesn¡¯t mean thepany is closing. You can be assured, even if all the other Banta Citypanies closed, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce won¡¯t. How about it? Are you confident now?¡±

    The workers looked at each other before cheering.

    ¡°We¡¯re confident!¡±

    ¡°Good, then you can scatter.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand. The workers looked at each other before scattering whileughing.

    Xu Yi who had experienced this small event quickly walked into the CEO office and pped down on Kennard¡¯s desk.

    ¡°Investigate this, find out who is spreading these rumours.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    Kennard looked at Xu yi and said in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, perhaps.....these aren¡¯t rumours. Could it be that you aren¡¯t doing this with thoughts of closing down?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard with a serious look.

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, the magic research facility and the magic machine development center moving was just consideration for the long term, it isn¡¯t rted to anything else. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked hard to put down foundations in Banta City, how could I give it up so easily?¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman, you aren¡¯t willing to tell me the truth?¡±

    ¡°This is the truth.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°People want to suck our blood, so let them suck. As long as we don¡¯t die, then I will let them keep sucking. I want to see who can¡¯t take it anymore first.¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi in a daze with a look of disbelief.

    Was sir chairman.....dering war?

 Volume 4 30 - No longer being a noble

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 30 No longer being a noble</h4>

    The hot summer had already mostly passed and it was already September.

    In the past two years, it would have been the busiest time for the household magic machinepanies and the smallerponentpanies because during this time, there was the highest demand for seasonal household magic machines.

    But Banta City this year was different.

    Just like a branch that could only hang in the burning summer sun, thepanies in Banta City all were helpless when it came to making magic machines. They didn¡¯t operate like before and there were manypanies that had already stopped producing magic machines.

    As for the reason? It was very simple, naturally they couldn¡¯t earn money.

    When the new City Lord Kamado announced the tax changes, collecting more taxes for magic machines, although the magic machinepanies of Banta City suffered arge blow, they felt that they could still earn money like this. At worst, their profit margin would drop, but if they worked a bit more, they could make up for their losses.

    But in the past few months, the brutal facts told everyone that with the current tax policy, it was almost impossible to earn money making magic machines. They might even owe money by producing them.

    So after struggling for several months, thepanies that had low profit margins could only stop to avoid increasing their losses.

    WIth the first one, there would be a second one.

    In just the two short months of summer, more than ten magic machinepanies of Banta City stopped producing. At the same time, there were manypanies that were producing less, being a step away from stopping production.

    Among thesepanies, the only exception was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The otherpanies all stopped production, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went beyond expectation. Not only did they not leave Banta City and move their Falling Rain Valley base to the Stantine Duchy, they even created more production lines in the Falling Rain Valley. They absorbed the workers from thepanies that stopped producing and they went full force in their production.

    Because of the new production lines and the skilled workers from the otherpanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce increased the output of the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Refrigerator, the Magic Freezer, and the other household magic machines that were scarce this summer.

    And because there were lesspanies in Banta Citypeting with them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine sales increased during this summer.

    With just the Magic Air Conditioners, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold two hundred thousand units in two months, doubling their sales numbers fromst summer.

    Then adding in the various other household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold at least double the amount of household magic machines this year.

    The other people were confused by why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this at first, but then they understood.

    The otherpanies had their profit margins decreased from the new tax changes and even lost money, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit margin were always very high, so even if it dropped a bti from the new tax changes, they still earned quite a bit.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used higher sales volume to make up for the losses brought from the increased taxes.

    However, this was something that made the otherpanies envious.

    The Frestech Brand magic machines could keep this decent profit margin in this situation because the Frestech Brand had always been much more expensivepared to the other brands.

    Although the Frestech Brand had lost quite a few markets from this in the past two years, in this situation, the Frestech Brand could keep surviving and theirpetitiveness.

    For the Frestech Brand to have so many people buying it even though it was so expensive, other than the Frestech Brand being at a higher quality than the other brands of household magic machines, it was because the Frestech Brand had been building their brand over the years.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s advertisements, people always believed the Frestech Brand was the highest brand. Purchasing the Frestech Brand meant having face.

    Just this alone created the disparity between the Frestech Brand and other brands. As for the difference in quality and performance, it was even greater.

    So because of these two reasons, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could keep up their sales and profits while the otherpanies couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    ¡°Those other fellows don¡¯t need to envy us.¡± Heinz looked at thest month¡¯s financial report that Sebas had just given him and gave a deep sigh, ¡°Although this year¡¯s sales are twice that ofst years, in the end, our profitst month was just under one hundred and thirty thousand gold coins. It isn¡¯t even a third of what it wasst year, this really is.....¡±

    Kennard on the side tightly knit his brows as he stared at the calm looking Xu Yi, feeling confused.

    Xu Yi had said to him two months ago that he could let those fellows suck the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s blood, he could ept it as long as they didn¡¯t suck the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dry.

    In these two months, he had seen the effects of Xu Yi¡¯s decision and felt very confused.

    If Xu Yi had expected this and expanded the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production scale to take back most of the household magic machine markets in the kingdom, Kennard would feel admiration for Xu Yi¡¯s foresight.

    But after being with Xu Yi for so long, he knew that Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about how far the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop, rather he cared much more about how the magic machine industry developed as a whole.

    Now that all the magic machinepanies in Banta City other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was beaten half to death by City Lord Kamado¡¯s policies, this was not what Xu Yi wanted to see.

    ¡°Could it be that sir chairman has changed? He doesn¡¯t care about his ideals and bes someone who cares about his own interests?¡± Kennard guessed in his heart.

    Although he knew in his heart that choosing to do so meant one was a qualified merchant, only Xu Yi who couldn¡¯t qualify as a merchant before was filled with charm. It was because he was an arrogant person like everyone imed that he was willing to be Xu Yi¡¯s subordinate, working for two years under him.

    Kennard stared at Xu Yi as he tried to guess his thoughts. Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over everyone¡¯s face and seeing their knit brows, he revealed a smile.

    ¡°Alright, I think that everyone understands the problems ourpany is facing, right?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and nodded with sighs.

    The household magic machine department manager Ankhto said with a bitter smile, ¡°Sir chairman, to be honest, I don¡¯t think that our household magic machine department will be able to earn a hundred thousand gold coins this time. This really.....makes me feel useless.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t rted to you.¡± The dwarf Naru who was in charge of the steel mill gave a snort, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for that idiot City Lord creating this damn tax policy, how could ourpany earn so little in a single month? Damn! The two steel mills under me actually lost moneyst month! This is simply a shame to us!¡±

    Ankhto looked at him with sympathy, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, manypanies have stopped producing, so naturally there is a decrease in demand. Adding in the fact that City Lord Kamado has added a security tax because there are too many dwarven workers, it¡¯s good that you¡¯re not losing too much.¡±

    ¡°Security my ass!¡± Naru angrily said, ¡°So what if there are many dwarven workers? Why is it unsafe? This ispletely that Kamado discriminating against us dwarves! I want to report him to the kingdom¡¯s other race management department!¡±

    ¡°Wake up, Naru, the other race management department already rarely givesbour cards, they couldn¡¯t care. I think that there will be an announcement soon that other races won¡¯t be allowed to work in humanpanies anymore.¡± Amelud who managed the Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic factory on the side said with a sigh, ¡°Your steel mill is being forced to pay a security tax, but our stic process factory is being forced to shut down or be transferred to human management.¡±

    ¡°Right, speaking of this, what did you do in the end? Are you really shutting down?¡± Naru asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°No, we¡¯re nning on moving to the Stantine Duchy. Other than us, the fertilizer factory of the Moon Shadow Tribe is nning on leaving with us. Anyway, the Moon Shadow Tribe already lives in the Stantine Duchy.¡± Amelud replied.

    Naru turned to Xu Yi with knit brows, ¡°Sir chairman, I say, are your human officials idiots? They are chasing us away, what advantages would they gain from that?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You should ask them that. Alright, since everyone understands thepany¡¯s difficult position, I will announce something that I think most people shouldn¡¯t be surprised by.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone couldn¡¯t help looking at him.

    Naru asked, ¡°Sir chairman, are you really announcing that ourpany is shutting down?¡±

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The thing I want to announce is.....I¡¯ve already given my application to the Royal Parliament to resign as a viscount.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    The room was filled with a shocked cry.

 Volume 4 31 - In depth cooperation

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 31 In depth cooperation</h4>

    The nobles were only something to themoners.

    On earth, this clear social ss divide had already been eliminated, but for a half feudal and half ve society on the Sines Continent, there was a very clear and very wide social divide.

    At the topyer there were nobles.

    ves were people with no rights and could be killed at will. For themoners, nobles not only enjoyed respect, with their higher status, they earned many privileges.

    For example, nobles could be officials, nobles could reduce taxes, nobles could have their personal horse carriages, nobles could not kneel when seeing his majesty, nobles could......

    In short there were many rights that only nobles had. There were clear differences between nobles andmoners, so having a noble status meant being at a stage higher thanmoners, allowing them to look down onmoners.

    Even if nobles had strict divisions among them, to themoners, this was almost a different world. So no matter who it was, once they became a noble, they would do everything to increase their status and do everything they could to keep, allowing them to enjoy the rights a noble had.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, it had always been nobles losing their rights after abusing their status, there had never been a noble who asked to give up their titles.

    Most of these stories belonged in the fantasies that girls loved to hear. A noble male lead gave up his status for amoner girl, going against his family¡¯s wishes and running away with thatmoner.

    But in reality, if there was a noble that did this, even the girls who loved reading love stories would call that noble an idiot.

    Giving a noble status to their lover was also the dream of themoner girls, but once a noble lost their status, what meaning did that dream have?

    So that meant no matter what angle it was viewed from, it would be impossible for a noble to give up the noble status that was hard to earn because he would be given up plenty of rights as a noble.

    Unless that person was an idiot.

    But.....was Xu Yi an idiot?

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman who created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bringing it to be one of the toppanies in the Lampuri Kingdom, single handedly promoting the creation of the magic machine industry and turning a small city like Banta City into the economical center of the kingdom, who would call this kind of person an idiot?

    But Xu Yi did something that everyone considered very idiotic.

    He actually gave up his noble status with the Royal Parliament!

    When this news was spread by the ?Banta Times? and confirmed by the ?Lampuri Weekly?, everyone was stunned.

    No one thought that Xu Yi was an idiot, but no one could understand why he gave up his status as a noble. So....why?

    Why did he do this?

    ¡°I¡¯ve already said this before, I never cared about this status as a noble. Giving it up is fine, it¡¯s not much.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi for a while with her eyes filled with doubt.

    ¡°I know that the status as a noble isn¡¯t important to you, but Xu Yi, you have to admit, doesn¡¯t this noble status bring many conveniences to you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? At least, it is because you are a viscount that you can have such arge territory. You can ce all the facilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on thisnd and save quite a bit of money for yourpany. Isn¡¯t this what you told me before?¡±

    ¡°Un, it is indeed like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded before changing the topic, ¡°But Seveni, have you ever thought that my status, mynd, and the benefits brought to me by thatnd, where did all of thise from?¡±

    ¡°Is there a need to ask? Of course it¡¯s because you......¡± Seveni suddenly stopped.

    She suddenly remembered that Xu Yi had strangely be a noble from a citizen because of the recognition of Lampuri Thirteenth.

    Later when Xu Yi became a viscount, what had approved of giving him territory and allowed Xu Yi to remain as a merchant was all because of the praise that Lampuri Thirteenth had for him.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth was still alive, of course there was no problem.

    But the problem now was that Lampuri Thirteenth was no longer here.

    ¡°But there¡¯s no need to give it up, right?¡± After thinking about it, Seveni was still confused, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, after losing your status as a noble, the Falling Rain Valley will no longer be your territory. You will no longer enjoy the benefits of it being your territory and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be managed by Banta City, so there might be many problems.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s worried look, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    ¡°Alright, in order to stop you from worrying, I¡¯ll tell you the truth. In reality, I have already reached an agreement with his majesty Eric through City Lord Kamado. Un.....It can be considered a trade.¡±

    ¡°Trade?¡± Seveni knit her brows, ¡°But I can¡¯t see any benefits your Frestech Chamber of Commerce could gain from this.¡±

    ¡°Benefits......If I said that ourpany has real free trading rights, what would you think?¡±

    ¡°Real free trading rights? What do you mean?¡± Seveni asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°Specifically, it¡¯s that ourpany can freely control our trades with other countries and don¡¯t need to report to the kingdom¡¯s parliament or the business department. When ourpany trades with other countries, it will be much more convenient.¡±

    Seveni deeply knit her brows, ¡°Doesn¡¯t this mean supporting you in smuggling?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°Hey, your highness, you can¡¯t say random words. Although we don¡¯t need to report each time, we do have to report to the business department from time to time. Moreover, the taxes that we pay aren¡¯t little, so how could it be considered smuggling?¡±

    Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you would spend this much effort to get this condition to be good.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I think that King Eric didn¡¯t believe either, but he still agreed to my condition. Why do you think so?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s because the condition you agreed to is too good.¡± Seveni gave a deep sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I don¡¯t know what you are thinking, but I must warn you that by losing your noble status, you¡¯ve lost the best protection for the production methods of yourpany. If.....I am saying if, if big brother Eric wants to do something to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯ll be much easier.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You think he¡¯ll have scruples if I¡¯m a noble? Don¡¯t forget, when the previous king was here, the Royal Parliament had tried to take away my noble status. If they were toe again, there would be nothing stopping them.¡±

    Seveni was silent for a while before asking, ¡°The trade between you isn¡¯t that simple. I think....that whether it is you or Eric, neither of you are willing, right?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Of course, if it was just to obtain free trading rights for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this deal doesn¡¯t have any meaning to me at all. So giving up my noble status and returning mynd to the parliament, letting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fall under the management of Banta City is all part of the agreement I had with his majesty Eric.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi and after thinking for a bit, she asked, ¡°Based on your words, this should be rted to the overall magic machine industry in Banta City, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, the condition I gave King Eric is that he would cancel the special tax on magic machines and he would give the same treatment to all magic machinepanies of the kingdom. At the same time, I asked the kingdom¡¯s parliament to introduce several policies that would help the development of the magic machine industry. It would be best if they continued the preferential policies of Banta City from before.¡±

    ¡°He agreed?¡± Seveni was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t he agree?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already made it very clear through City Lord Kamado, the kingdom¡¯s finances need money which is understandable, but squeezing the magic machine industry like this isn¡¯t a long term n. Only by promoting the magic machine industry¡¯s healthy growth would the kingdom receive the greatest benefits. King Eric isn¡¯t an idiot, how could he not understand such a simple idea?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that he doesn¡¯t understand, but he won¡¯t do this.¡± Seveni gave a sigh, ¡°The people behind him are forcing him too much. Xu Yi, you made him agree to this condition, you must have paid arge price, right? It isn¡¯t just enough to integrate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°Those greedy fellows only care about benefits, so I gave them the greatest benefit. Through an agreement with King Eric, we will deepen our cooperation with the kingdom¡¯s magic machine department. We will be transferring the full production methods for the magic machines ourpany has to tenpanies designated by the department.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi in shock, ¡°Are you crazy?¡±

 Volume 4 32 - Private elf guards

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 32 Private elf guards</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t already didn¡¯t know how many people had asked if he was crazy.

    Since he announced that he was giving up his noble title at the high level member Frestech Chamber of Commerce meeting, everyone who knew him well would always ask him this question.

    Even those people who didn¡¯t know him well and were only acquaintances, even thought they didn¡¯t ask him directly, it was easy to guess that they were thinking the same in their hearts.

    When he told them that he agreed to City Lord Kamado¡¯s countless request, deepening their cooperation with the kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry management department. After transferring a series of the magic machine technology only theirpany owned, not just Seveni called him crazy. Even his subordinates that admired him and followed his orders to the best of their abilities also looked at him with doubt.

    Was sir chairman......really crazy?

    Otherwise with sir chairman¡¯s wisdom, how could he not see the serious consequences for agreeing to the requests of the department?

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that although the department was just having the Frestech Chamber of Commerce give a portion to the tenpanies, it could be seen that from now on, the department would have more requests and even force orders onto them.

    When that timees, Xu Yi who had lost his noble status and the two strong backers of Lampuri Thirteenth and her highness Seveni, how would he be able to resist King Eric and therge nobles behind him?

    To be more precise, Xu Yi agreeing to this condition was no different from submitting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into the hands of the greedy nobles!

    This was what everyone could see, it was impossible that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see this, so why did he do this?

    Among the people who knew Xu Yi, other than a few didn¡¯t understand a few things and were unwilling to ask him like Stil or Great Magician Cami, or those that followed Xu Yi blindy like Agnes or Vivian, the only one who understood and supported Xu Yi¡¯s decision wasn¡¯t human.

    ¡°Actually I think that your choice is vey smart, I don¡¯t understand why your subordinates worry so much.¡±

    There was a confused look on elder Illusia¡¯s face that was like that of a young girl.

    ¡°Since the biggest backers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have disappeared from the Lampuri Kingdom, it is impossible to develop as easily as before. Isn¡¯t choosing to withdraw and finding another path a very normal thing?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s a saying in my hometown, it¡¯s that the observer can see clearly and those too close to the problem are muddled. Elder Illusia, you are an elf, so you can see things more clearly in our human society. Rather the subordinates of ourpany, because their benefits are closely linked to thepany, of course they can¡¯t see the true meaning behind my decision.¡±

    ¡°Perhaps this is it.¡± Elder Illusia gave a nod before looking at Xu Yi with a bit of curiosity, ¡°You say that your subordinates are muddled, then what about you? If one¡¯s talking about benefits rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no one canpare to you, right? Why can you see this clearly and make such a straightforward decision? No matter what, aren¡¯t you considered a part of this?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, thinking that he wasn¡¯t considered a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wasn¡¯t even considered a part of this world.

    This was the natural psychological advantage of transmigrating, it was hard to clearly state it.

    ¡°It¡¯s because the goal I¡¯m chasing is bigger than anyone has imagined.¡± Xu Yi gave a vague exnation with a smile. He looked around before saying, ¡°Let¡¯s not discuss this insignificant matter, let¡¯s talk about the real business. Elder Illusia, in the conditions City Lord Kamado put forth from the kingdom parliament and the management department, it also includes the stic processing factory your Night Song Tribe owns. Their request is that your Night Song Tribe masters would share the stic processing techniques, what is your opinion on this matter?¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Although elder Illusia¡¯s reply was calm, there was a strong conviction in it, ¡°These techniques are things that only our Night Song Tribe possesses, we can¡¯t give it to them easily.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, looking like he wasn¡¯t surprised.

    ¡°Good, then ording to the message from City Lord Kamado, since the Night Song Tribe isn¡¯t willing to share the technology, the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory will not be considered a part of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. ording to thews from the kingdom¡¯s parliament, because the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory do not belong to any humanpanies, they are no longer acknowledged by the kingdom¡¯s business department and must be demolished within a certain deadline.¡±

    ¡°What about the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer factory?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s taken care of the same.¡±

    ¡°The greedy ones among you humans really are greedy.¡± Elder Illusia revealed a taunting smile, ¡°It¡¯s no wonder chairman Xu contacted us to prepare ahead of time, you already expected the reaction of these humans.¡±

    ¡°I was just preparing for a rainy day.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°In short, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t protect ourselves now, so of course you guys also need to prepare ahead of time.¡±

    ¡°Un, it isn¡¯t hard to prepare for this, but......¡± Elder Illusia slightly knit her brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you certain about us creating a factory in the ck Rice Wastnd? That is the territory of the beastmen, it won¡¯t be convenient. In my opinion, it is better to build the factory in the Falling Rain Forest, the humans can¡¯t bother us there for now.¡±

    ¡°But you wouldn¡¯t be able to go out as easily, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Elder Illusia, I think that you are very clear on the importance of industrial development. It¡¯s no doubt safe in the Falling Rain Forest, but because transport is inconvenient, it will hinder the transport of raw materials and products, so it will be quite bad for the development of your factory.¡±

    Elder Illusia thought for a bit before nodding.

    ¡°That is right. When we chose to settle in the Falling Rain Forest, it was because it was hard for humans toe in, so we wouldn¡¯t be harassed by humans that much there. Looking at it now, it is indeed unfavourable.¡±

    ¡°Other than the transport problem, there is another important problem. It is that for the stic processing factory to be stronger, you wouldn¡¯t be satisfied with just one factory, right? In the Falling Rain Forest, you are limited by the terrain and which limit your prospects for development. This is a very realistic issue.¡±

    ¡°Un, I have to admit, you have more experience than me in this aspect, so you think further into the future.¡± Elder Illusia considered it a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, I will let Amelud go pick a ce in the ck Rice Wastnd suited for the factory. But moving to the ck Rice Wastnd and transporting stic goods to Banta City, wouldn¡¯t the transport cost be higher because of the distance?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, just add some of the cost to the price.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce uses quite a bit of stic products in your magic machines.¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You just need to treat everyone equally. As for the pressure brought on by the increase in the price of stic products......it isn¡¯t just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce who would feel it.¡±

    Elder Illusia thought that Xu Yi was feeling schadenfreude, not understanding why he would be so rxed in this situation.

    After determining the matter of moving the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory, Xu Yi thought of another request elder Illusia had made.

    Because Xu Yi gave up his title, the Falling Rain Valley had been taken back. This meant that the guards for the Falling Rain Valley that was made up of dwarves and elves had disappeared.

    These guards that had two hundred dwarves and one hundred and fifty elves were no longer guards in name. The two hundred dwarves joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, but the elves kept the pride of the elves and didn¡¯t make the same choice.

    Xu Yi had naturally wasn¡¯t requesting elder Illusia to have those hundred and fifty elves join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, rather he hoped that they would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ck Rice Wastnd production base¡¯s guards.

    In name, it was because the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory would be moving to that base, so they could be the guards for the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory.

    As for protecting the base, they could do it since they had time.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s description, elder Illusia suddenly broke out inughter.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Elder Illusia, is there something funny? I racked my brains toe up with this n to preserve the prestige of the elven warriors, can you ept this or not?¡±

    Elder Illusia smiled like a flower as she looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Actually, chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to think that much. I think.....even if you had them be your personal guards, they wouldn¡¯t reject.¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible!¡± Xu Yi had a look of disbelief, ¡°I thought of every way to have them be ourpany¡¯s guards, but they never agreed. Agnes also told me that it is basically impossible because it went against the principles of the elves. Since they don¡¯t want to join ourpany¡¯s guards, how could they be my private guards?¡±

    ¡°Because there¡¯s a difference between you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a humanpany, so naturally we elves can¡¯tpletely ept it. Joining the guards of thepany is bing the forces of humans, so this would go against the principles of us elves.¡±

    ¡°Then why does it not vite it to be my private guards? I am a human.¡± Xu Yu said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This is different.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head, ¡°Although you are a human, because you have solved the problem with our tribe¡¯s water source, you have already been recognized by everyone in our tribe. Our Night Song Tribe doesn¡¯t treat you like a normal human, rather you are one of us. Bing your private guard isn¡¯t a difficult thing to ept for the warriors of our tribe.¡±

    Xu Yi blinked his eyes in a daze, ¡°It¡¯s that simple?¡±

    ¡°Just that simple.¡± Elder Illusia nodded with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you have never asked Furio and the others if they were willing to be your private guards, right?¡±

    ¡°I haven¡¯t.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I thought that they definitely wouldn¡¯t ept it, so I never thought of asking.¡±

    ¡°Alright, ask them now. I think that Furio and the others would be very d to do so.¡±

    Receiving the encouragement of elder Illusia, Xu Yi became excited.

 Volume 4 33 - Technology development is key

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 33 Technology development is key</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, did you really have to ask the elder about such an obvious fact?¡± Agnes looked over at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°If we didn¡¯t approve for you, it was impossible for the nsmen to work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. For example, if I didn¡¯t truly ept you, why would I stay by your side?¡±

    ¡°You are different from them.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°You are the first elf I met, so you staying by my side at first was because I pried your from elder Illusia¡¯s hand. Moreover, if after being with me for this long, if you still don¡¯t recognize me, I really have to re-evaluate my character.¡±

    Agnes giggled, ¡°There¡¯s no need. Sir chairman, although your mind isn¡¯t as pure as big sister Still or Vivian, you are outstanding among humans. Anyway, I like staying by your side and if you chase me away, I will be unhappy.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help pinching her nose, ¡°Could it be that you want to stay with me forever? Sooner orter you have to marry an elf and live your own life.¡±

    Agnes thought for a bit before pping her hand and excitedly saying, ¡°Right, speaking of this, I suddenly thought of something. Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you tell me before that it was impossible for elves and humans to be together? But I asked the elder and she told me that it isn¡¯t impossible. Rather before the race wars, there were humans and elves that married and gave birth to children, the legendary half elves.¡±

    ¡°And then?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Those half elves definitely weren¡¯t epted by the elves, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.....that seems to be the case, but that was several thousand years ago, it is different now. Sir chairman, your words were wrong before, we can get married. Moreover, I¡¯m certain that the half elf children we give birth to will definitely be epted, so there¡¯s no need to worry.¡±

    ¡°You really aren¡¯t shy!¡± Xu Yi reprimanded before tapping his index finger on Agnes¡¯ head, ¡°I say, you¡¯re this young and what kind of things are you thinking about? Are you not shy?

    ¡°Shy? Why would I be shy?¡± Agnes rubbed her forehead and revealed a confused look, ¡°A race between different sex and leaving offspring is a very normal thing. You are a male human and I am a female elf, is there anything to be embarrassed about when discussing the possibility of using together to leave offspring? Moreover, sir chairman, I¡¯ve said it many times, I¡¯m eighty years old! I¡¯m much older than you!¡±

    Xu Yi was defeated by the innocent Agnes and he couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    ¡°Alright, if you don¡¯t feel shy, I feel shy. In short, you shouldn¡¯t discuss this topic in a loud voice in front of others, alright?¡± Xu Yi looked at the people looking at him with strange gazes and ruthlessly stared them down, ¡°If you really care about this topic, we can discuss it next time we go see elder Illusia.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I also have many questions to ask the elder.¡± Agnes happily pped her hands and quickly agreed.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head and turned to look at Vivian waving in the distance.

    ¡°Come, Vivian, take Agnes over to Kennard and exin your designs to the officials sent from the magic machine industry management department. It¡¯s the first time the department is officially inspecting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you have to seriously take care of them.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡±

    Vivian pulled Agnes who still was in thought. A middle aged man who looked normal, but could be seen as a noble with a single nce came to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    ¡°Those two are the most outstanding designers for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? They really are young.¡± The middle aged man watched Vivian and Agnes leave as he spoke with a sigh.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t anything, they¡¯ve just been here longer, so practice makes perfect.¡± Xu Yi casually replied before turning to look at this middle aged man, ¡°Speaking of outstanding designers, I think those tenpanies should have the help of the kingdom¡¯s most outstanding artists who definitely won¡¯t lose to the two of them. Am I right, director Russell?¡±

    The magic machine industry management department¡¯s director Dino Russell revealed a faint smile as he shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should know better than anyone else that masters of art are different from designers. That beautifully elven young miss Agnes isn¡¯t just a designer, she is also a master artist recognized by everyone in the kingdom. But as for those artists, not a single one of them can be called a designer.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, let them design more and as time passes, they will naturally be designers.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Director Russell looked at Xu Yi with a faint smile and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like you are still dissatisfied with the technology transfer.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him before slowly shaking his head, ¡°No, I¡¯m not dissatisfied. It¡¯s just that it¡¯s taken quite a bit of time and effort to study these things, I just feel a bit of difort from suddenly giving them to someone else.¡±

    Director Russeelughed, ¡°I understand chairman Xu¡¯s feeling, but we all have to look forward on this matter, right? Although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce seems to be suffering a loss from transferring the technology, first let¡¯s not discuss the transfer fees thosepanies had to pay, just the help thesepanies bring to the magic machine industry from entering it, I think chairman Xu knows in his heart, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his heart.

    Transfer fees?

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold the Magic Stove, the Magic Furnace, the Magic Air Conditioners, and the other household magic machine production methods, the lowest transfer fees was at least a hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for these ten magic machinepanies assigned by the department?

    The most they paid was only thirty thousand gold coins!

    This thirty thousand also included an entire magic machine production line!

    If they calcted everything, it was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving it to them for free!

    The so-called transfer fee was nothing to Xu Yi, but these fellows wanted to make a big deal over it.

    As for the development of the magic machine industry brought by these tenpanies, Xu Yi didn¡¯t refute it.

    These tenpanies had the old andrge nobles behind them, so with this solid backing and the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, these tenpanies could charge into the magic machine industry and speed up its development.

    The more important thing was that because these tenpanies are participating, those conservative nobles that were against the magic machine industry no longer opposed it, rather they all became supporters of the magic machine industry.

    For example, one of the conditions that Xu Yi gave to King Eric through City Lord Kamado was to take back the tax aimed at magic machines.

    When Xu Yi transferred the technology, this condition got a quick response.

    Just half a month ago, the Banta City tax ¡®proved to be an unsuitable experiment¡¯, so it was abolished.

    Because of this, the smaller magic machinepanies in Banta City that were close to bankruptcy recovered and all of Banta City regained their vigor.

    But Xu Yi was not optimistic towards their prospects.

    These tenpanies received all kinds of benefits and preferential treatment, so if thesepanies without any foundation from Banta City wanted topete with them, it was a losing battle.

    Even if it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be hard for them to continue under their attack.

    They didn¡¯t swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce now because they couldn¡¯t digest all the technology they had. There was still value in keeping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Whenever he thought of this problem, Xu Yi kept sighing in his heart.

    It really was too hard for business to break free of the influence of the government.

    It was a good thing that he already knew this and had made his preparations.

    Everything he did now was just to found the industrial system that he always dreamed of.

    To leave Banta City or the Lampuri Kingdom a spark of the magic machine industry, he had done everything he could. As for whether this spark could continue and set the prairie alight like when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led the magic machine industry, that was not something the current Xu Yi could decide.

    Taking a deep look at director Russell, Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°I believe that after these tenpanies enter the magic machine industry, they will definitely help the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom develop. But there¡¯s one phrase that I hope that director Russell can pass to the managers of those tenpanies.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi being serious, director Russell¡¯s expression also turned serious.

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°Transferring all the technology that ourpany has isn¡¯t that hard of a thing for me to ept. Actually, before this, ourpany had already transferred out many technology.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand. Regarding chairman Xu¡¯s selfless actions, there are many people who have expressed their admiration when they talk privately to me.¡± Director Russell said with a nod.

    ¡°I want to say, directly taking the mature technology from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the most convenient method, but have you ever considered a problem? Once you take all the technology from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what will you do then?¡±

    Director Russell revealed an awkward smile, ¡°I understand what chairman Xu means. Chairman Xu has always stressed that the development of the magic machine industry can¡¯t leave technology development, so I think the tenpanies understand this and you don¡¯t need to worry. Then again, isn¡¯t there the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led by chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, you don¡¯t understand, neither do they. Developing technology is just words, but if you really want to do it, it isn¡¯t as simple as you imagine. If I can be frank, whether it is in terms of personnel, foundations, or even basic workers, there isn¡¯t a singlepany that canpare to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Director Russell knit his brows, ¡°Then chairman Xu, do you have any good suggestions?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have any good suggestions, I just....wish you luck.¡±

    Seeing the fake smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, director Russell¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help changing.

 Volume 4 34 - Banta Cityâ€™s changes

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 34 Banta City¡¯s changes</h4>

    The year 3783 on the continent passed very quickly for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    To the people of Banta City, it seemed like it passed in the blink of an eye.

    His highness Eric had led the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom in the beginning of the year and received a victory. Then his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth fell to his illness, causing his highness Eric to suddenly turn from a prince to a king.

    When his highness Eric took the throne, her highness Seveni was no longer the City Lord.

    The new City Lord didn¡¯t change Banta City too much at first, so people thought that Banta City would develop smoothly like normal.

    But facts proved that it wasn¡¯t as simple as everyone thought.

    When summer came and when the weather was burning hot, there were a series of dazzling changes in Banta City.

    First the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed to the requests of the magic machine industry management department and in order to develop Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry, they decided to give a part of their magic machine technology to thepanies decided by the department.

    This was different from when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold their technology.

    ording to the ?Banta Times?, when these tenpanies received these technologies, they only paid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a symbolic amount of transfer fees. If they added in the manpower and machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested, it was almost equal to giving it for free.

    Even if the ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t say it directly, anyone with a brain could see that this wasn¡¯t a normal transfer. It was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was being forced by the department, or rather being forced by King Eric to agree to this.

    A week after the ?Banta Times? released this report, the editor in chief Nakhi announced his leave, as if he was verifying this guess.

    In less than half a month after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transferred this technology, there were several dozen small andrgepanies that appeared in Banta City in one night.

    Among these newpanies, there were the tenpanies that had been named by the department.

    As for the remaining unknown smallpanies, naturally many of them had unclear rtionships with the tenpanies.

    The appearance of thesepanies didn¡¯t affect Banta City at first, but once the burning summer passed and the slightly cool autumn wind swept through Banta City, everyone in Banta City felt that thesepany, or rather the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transferred brought some clear and unclear changes to the city.

    ##

    The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan was feeling a bit annoyed recently.

    It was close to the end of the year, which meant that they were getting closer to the year end report the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to conduct.

    Before this, chairman Morgan never felt annoyed over this because the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main industry was iron. It had always been stable without waves, so he as the chairman only had to get good stats and he could easily do his job.

    But this year was different.

    Or rather, from three years ago, it was already different.

    Three years ago, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appearing and driving the magic machine industry in Banta City and the entire Lampuri Kingdom, because people demanded more and more magic machines, naturally the demand for iron increased.

    With thisrge demand, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s iron sales soared each year. Just withst year¡¯s iron sales, it had beaten the sales from five years of when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still hadn¡¯t appeared.

    Because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill, with iron being reced by steel in various ces, most of the iron the Falcao Chamber of Commerce produced went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be refined to steel. The remaining bits were sold to people who still used normal cast iron.

    Even if Xu Yi had reached a deal with Duke Jole in secret, as there was more and more demand, the price of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s iron ores eventually grew higher and higher.

    Justst year, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce made a profit of four million gold coins just selling to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the estimates of chairman Morgan, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce expandedst year, with production bases in the various cities of the kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s iron demand would increase again. It meant that the profit the Falcao Chamber of Commerce could earn from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone would break five million gold coins.

    At first it was going well, but chairman Morgan never would have thought that his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth would suddenly pass away, turning Batna City into this.

    Among the tenpanies assigned by the department, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce received the steel smelting technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In just two short months, they had built five steel mills with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s two steel mills, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce¡¯s five steel mills were bigger and produced more, smelting more than three times as much steel as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from before.

    Naturally they had a high demand for iron smelting all this steel.

    Properly speaking, chairman Morgan as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman should be happy to see an increase in the sale of iron, but he didn¡¯t feel happy at all. Rather he felt quite annoyed.

    The reason was very simple, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce gave a very low price.

    When the Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because of the agreement from before and even with preferential treatment, they sold it for ten gold coins a ton.

    But the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce actually cut that price in half, only offering five gold coins per ton!

    This price was even lower than the price the Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold iron at before the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    But chairman Morgan didn¡¯t have a choice, he had to sell the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce what they needed.

    As for the reason? It was naturally because the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce had the kingdom¡¯srgest royal family, the Stagg Family and even King Eric behind them.

    Even Duke Jole couldn¡¯t do a thing against them.

    For this situation, Duke Jole had already given instructions to chairman Morgan a month ago. He had chairman Morgan sell to the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce at the price of five gold coins a ton.

    Because of this low price, chairman Morgan was very clear that the figure at the end of the year would be very ugly.

    However, Duke Jole couldn¡¯t do anything, so naturally he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    The only thing he could do was curse Xu Yi in his heart.

    ¡°That idiot! Why did he have to give the steel smelting technology? It¡¯s good now, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel is ten gold coins cheaper than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, I want to see how long your steel mill can continue!¡±

    But even if he did cuse, when he thought of Xu Yi, even chairman Morgan who didn¡¯t like him at first couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    ¡°Just where did that fellow run off to? Could it be that he really wants to give up the developed Banta City?¡±

    ###

    The Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii was more annoyed than chairman Morgan.

    Chairman Morgan was just worried that their profits would drop, but chairman Pompeii was worried that the Fersen Carriage Company might suffer a loss!

    When he cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, focusing on bing a logisticspany, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s profits had quickly increased.

    In just a single month, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s profits had surpassed two hundred thousand gold coins after taking away their expenses.

    If this trend continued, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s total yearly profit might reach over two million gold coins or even reach three million gold coins.

    But all of this had disappeared without a trace after the order from the City Lord Manor came.

    This order was very simple. It said that to better manage Banta City, the City Lord Manor would be putting the Banta City¡¯s public transport system under the control of the City Lord Manor.

    There didn¡¯t seem to be a problem with this order, but when it was implemented, chairman Pompeii was filled with rage.

    ording to the rules of the City Lord Manor, since the public transport system was managed by the City Lord Manor, there would be a set of rules.

    There was no problem with this, but the problem was that in these rules, the City Lord Manor said that the Fersen Carriage Company had to restructure the public transport system. All the Magic Cars under the Fersen Carriage Company used for the public transport system had to be changed to the Magic Cars dictated by the City Lord Manor.

    And the one chosen by the City Lord Manor.....was of course not the Frestech Brand.

    Among the tenpanies the department had given technology to, one of them was the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce that had taken a part of the Magic Car production method.

    With the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce used two months to build their first medium sized passenger Magic Car.

    Chairman Pompeii was surprised at first. Since the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce had taken the Magic Car technology, why did they first make the medium sized Magic Car and not the most lucrative Magic Sedan.

    But once the City Lord Manor¡¯s orders came, he understood.

    The Lafaye Chamber of Commerce was working with the City Lord Manor, they had prepared everything!

    But even if he knew about this, chairman Pompeii couldn¡¯t do anything.

    When he was faced with the order of the City Lord Manor that came from King Eric, what could he use to resist?

    Looking at the investment analysis of switching to the Lafaye Brand Magic Cars, chairman Pompeii¡¯s forehead was covered in a cold sweat.

    If he followed the City Lord Manor¡¯s orders, the Fersen Carriage Company had to invest at least two million gold coins.

    Moreover, ording to the request of the City Lord Manor, the Fersen Carriage Company had to pay five hundred thousand gold coins a year to the City Lord Manor as fees.

    With this, not only would they definitely lose money this year, it might be impossible to get back their investments in the future.

    After a while, chairman Pompeii suddenly threw the report on the table and angrily shouted out.

    ¡°Damn! Since we can¡¯t do it anymore, then father won¡¯t do it!¡±

 Volume 4 35 - From Caraska Island

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 35 From Caraska Ind</h4>

    If the people of Banta City saw the current Xu Yi, they definitely wouldn¡¯t think he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    Compared to when he was in Banta City, Xu Yi was currently much darker or rather, there was a healthy feel from his bronze skin.

    With the light on him, Xu Yi who was only wearing shorts was like a child. He jumped off the cliff and dove into the sea water.

    ¡°Putong.¡±

    This part chosen by Xu Yi was deep enough. When Xu Yi jumped in, he sank like a stone in water and made a deep sound.

    After a while, he came out of the water with a fish that was half as long as his arm that waspletely white.

    ¡°Hey, Still, I have tonight¡¯s dinner!¡± Xu Yi raised the fish in his hand and happily shouted to Still on the coast.

    Still used one hand to block the sun that was shining down on the coast as she looked at the fish in Xu Yi¡¯s hand. She found that there were traces of lightning flowing on the fish, which she couldn¡¯t helpughing at.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re using Lightning Magic for a fish? Isn¡¯t this too wasteful?¡±

    Xu Yiughed as he suddenly flew out of the sea. With a ssh of water, he flew to the coast and fell by Still¡¯s side.

    ¡°What is a waste? As a powerful magician, should I not use my useful magic and catch it with my bare hands?¡±

    Xu Yi threw the fish into the bucket that Still had prepared on the side as he gave a snort with a look of disdain.

    ¡°I¡¯m not like those relics in Anvilmar City, I would say that being primitive is best. Humph, isn¡¯t it because humans learned how to use tools that we became the masters of this world?¡±

    Still couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at him, ¡°Alright, I just said it casually and you say all this. It seems like you aren¡¯t as uncaring as you say you are.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and sat down. He took still by the waist and felt the feeling of her exposed midriff in her swimsuit.

    ¡°It¡¯s a lie if I say I don¡¯t mind at all, but.....Since I¡¯ve decided to throw them away, there¡¯s nothing to be said. I just feel disappointed at how those fellows won¡¯t change their ideas.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it only a small part?¡± Still took the towel and helped Xu Yi wipe his hair while saying in a gentle voice, ¡°Most people in the kingdom have already epted the new magic machines. Moreover, King Eric has also attached great importance to the magic machine industry, as well as promoting it, iming that he would do his best to promote the magic machine industry?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong snort, ¡°They just think that the magic machine industry will earn them money, but which one of them is sincere in developing the magic machine industry?¡±

    ¡°If they can¡¯t earn money, it would be impossible to be this positive, right?¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°Anyway, no matter what, at least the magic machine industry has been epted by those stubborn nobles and they have invested in it. At least there were few stubborn old men left.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the sun that was close to set and after a while, he shook his head wtih a sigh.

    ¡°Forget it, I won¡¯t think about those things. Anyway, I have left the foundation for them, so it can be considered quite tolerant, I can¡¯t just keep caring about them.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right.¡± Still nodded with a faint smile before pointing at the Frestech Farm in the distance, ¡°Look, you can make a new start here, isn¡¯t that quite good?¡±

    Xu Yi turned and looked at the new factory on the Frestech Farm, thinking that this experience was different from having no experience at all.

    In the beginning, he felt very difficult just building one factory in Karma City, but now that the main body of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been moved here, they used only three months to build a factory. This was quite therge difference.

    ording to their estimates, before the end of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should be able to officially establish their Stantine Duchy production base.

    When that timees, it would be equal to a new start in the Stantine Duchy. They wouldn¡¯t be affected by all kinds of things like when they were back in Banta City.

    But speaking of not being influenced......

    Xu Yi turned back to look in the direction of the south of the Frestech Farm. If he really wanted to create a magic machine industry that he controlled that wasn¡¯t influenced by anything, he needed to solve a very important problem first.

    ¡°Look, grandfather is back!¡± Still beside him suddenly called out and cut through Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts.

    Turning over and looking at the sea, he saw ten ck spots quickly approaching.

    After a while, those ten ck spots turned into small boats. They created ten lines in the water and cut through the water as they approached.

    In the center was naturally Great Magician Cami.

    Seeing Great Magician Cami standing on the bow facing the wind, looking quite valiant and proud, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help turning to say to Still, ¡°I feel....that grandfather really is getting younger.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that a good thing?¡± Still smiled before getting up to go down to the wharf to wee them.

    Xu Yi shook his head and followed her.

    When they came to the sea, Great Magician Cami had already charged in with the first boat.

    He didn¡¯t slow down and when he was about to m into the wharf, his boat suddenly stopped and created a wave that flew right at Still and Xu Yi on the wharf.

    Still casually raised her hand and a blue barrier appeared in front of her and Xu Yi, blocking off this wave.

    When the water fell, Still snappily looked at Great Magician Cami.

    ¡°Grandfather, how many times will you use this trick before you¡¯re satisfied?¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed, ¡°I¡¯m just seeing if you¡¯re beingzy with your magic practice, this is for your good.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes and ignored him. Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Teli who was sitting in the boat with a pale look and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, are you.....alright?¡±

    Great Magician Teli took a deep breath before slowly letting it out, only then did his face look a bit better. He gave Xu Yi a bitter smile and shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not that good.¡± Then he turned to Great Magician Cami and said with a serious look, ¡°Camilly, I¡¯ve known you for so many years and I¡¯ve only learned today that you¡¯re a maniac! I firmly believe that I won¡¯t ride any magic vehicles with you in the future, whether it is the Magic Boat or the Magic Sedan!¡±

    Great Magician Cami curled his lips and said in disdain, ¡°That¡¯s because your body is bad. To be honest, Teli, you should train your body a bit, otherwise you might not be able to live that long. Look at those fellows that also came from Caraska Ind, why aren¡¯t you like them?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, they are all twenty year old young fellows, how could mIpare to them!¡± Great Magician Teli angrily said, ¡°Then again, which one of them is driving the Magic Boat like you, wildly charging forward?¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed, ¡°You just didn¡¯t see it. Let me tell you, when those fellowspete with me, they are all more wild than me. It¡¯s definitely because a Great Magician like you ising back for a rare visit to his hometown that they are a bit more restrained.¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked at the ten Magic Boats not far away and gave a snort before being toozy to argue with Great Magician Cami.

    Seeing the two had finally stopped, Xu Yi quickly asked Great Magician Teli, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, now that you¡¯ve returned to Caraska Ind after several years, do you feel it¡¯s greatly changed?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi ask about Karaska Ind, Great Magician Teli¡¯s anger at Great Magician Cami disappeared. After thinking for a bit, he revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°It changed greatly. Compared to when I lived on the ind when I was younger, the current Caraska Ind haspletely changed. Not only do the people on the ind not have to worry about their livelihoods, they also have new clothes, new houses, and even the children have toys to y with. I was really happy when I visited the ind this time. Xu Yi, the agreement I made with you back then really was the best decision I made in my life!¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re praising too much.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Since I agreed to help solve the daily worries of the Caraska Ind residents, no longer forcing them to work as pirates, naturally I would do my best. I¡¯ve only solved their living problems now, that is far from being enough for me.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Great Magician Teli asked Xu Yi in an excited voice, ¡°What are you nning to do next? Caraska Ind is only so big, I feel that it¡¯s very hard to develop, right? Unless......you move them all off the ind.¡±

    ¡°I did have this idea, but too many people on the ind didn¡¯t agree. They didn¡¯t want to leave after living there so long. Moreover, I don¡¯t feel there is the need for this. Even if they stay on the ind, there is a chance to improve their lives.¡±

    ¡°Really? Tell me about it, what are you nning to do?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Great Magician Teli, to achieve this goal, we can¡¯tck your help.¡±

    Great Magician Teli was a bit surprised before he couldn¡¯t helpughing. He reached out to point at Xu Yi, ¡°I knew it, this kid wouldn¡¯t suffer a loss in a deal. Alright, I¡¯ve already seen the changes you¡¯ve brought to Caraska Ind, I believe that you can improve their lives. Since it¡¯s like this, I¡¯ll follow our agreement and join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, officially bing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s researcher.¡±

 Volume 4 36 - Another Great Magician

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 36 Another Great Magician</h4>

    On the surface, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t changedpared to before, but the people who knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce knew. Actually when his highness Eric announced that he was taking the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already nned to move out of Banta City.

    Although there were various Frestech Chamber of Commerce factories in the Falling Rain Valley, with all kinds of different equipment that didn¡¯t seem to change on the surface, most of the important personnel and material had always been controleld by Xu Yi. In a nned method, they had moved the headquarters in the Falling Rain Valley bit by bit.

    Perhaps others didn¡¯t understand that meaning of Xu Yi¡¯s actions because to many people, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the factories and the equipment inside.

    Only with this equipment could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be considered apany, producing all those kinds of novel Frestech Brand magic machines that were weed by all.

    Without this equipment, wouldn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be empty?

    However, to Xu Yi, it was the exact opposite.

    The equipment of thepany wasn¡¯t important to him, the most important thing would always be people.

    The so-called ¡°people¡± were him the chairman to the workers down below, they were all more important than the equipment.

    Xu Yi always believed that no matter what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce turned into, he could found a brand new Frestech Chamber of Commerce at any time if the people were there.

    If he spoke even a bit bolder, as long as he was there, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce existed.

    Of course, the staff other than Xu Yi had scales in Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    To him, the workers were the foundation of apany, but workers could be recruited and trained, so they weren¡¯t as important.

    Compared to them, the researchers and the magic mechanical engineers, those were the really important personnel.

    Technology was the base of industry, so these researchers and mechanical engineers represented technology.

    With them, even if Xu Yi gave the important technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to those tenpanies, he wasn¡¯t worried at all.

    Because the otherpanies can take their technology away, but without a good enough research team, they will never make any real breakthroughs and would never be able to surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When Xu Yi talked to the director Dino Russell, he actually meant this.

    Of course, not all the researchers were willing to ept Xu Yi¡¯s n of leaving Banta City and the Falling Rain Valley that they had lived in for so long and restart at the Frestech Farm in the Stantine Duchy.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t force them and asked for everyone¡¯s opinions. He separated the magic research department, creating a branch in the Falling Rain Valley and the Frestech Farm in the Stantine Duchy.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s ns, the Falling Rain Valley magic research department would research more in depth into their existing technology, but they would no longer conduct research on new technology.

    As for the Stantine Duchy branch, they would focus on developing new magic machines and new technology.

    Although it was split like this, making both sides happy, it inevitably weakened the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.

    For example, for the two research teams under Akali, more than half of the people in these two teams wanted to stay in the Falling Rain Valley, so there were only less than ten researchers that followed Xu Yi to the Stantine Duchy. She could only focus on the magic resonance technology that she cared about the most and couldn¡¯t study anything else.

    So Xu Yi was faced with an important problem, or perhaps it was a problem that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always faced. But in this situation, it became more serious.

    This problem was theck in research staff.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had fame in the Lampuri Kingdom and the magic machine industry was now approved by most people in the kingdom, to most magicians, studying magic and the magic machine industry weren¡¯t rted. The ce where magicians could realize their true value was studying profound magic.

    This was something that even the researchers that had worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for several years now didn¡¯t change their opionion on, not to mention other magicians.

    In this situation, Great Magician Teli announcing that he would be a researcher would wihtout a doubt be a strong stimnt to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, making Xu Yi very excited.

    Although Great Magician Cami joining the magic research facility had created a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom, to most people, it was because Xu Yi was Still¡¯s husband. He was Great Magician Cami grandson inw, so it wasn¡¯t strange for Great Magician Cami to work in the magic machine industry.

    Now that Great Magician Teli also announced this, it meant somethingpletely different.

    Great Magician Teli didn¡¯t have a granddaughter to marry to Xu Yi......

    The more important thing was that a Great Magician joining the magic research faciltiy meant that there were two Great Magicians there. Although it was just one person, it meant somethingpletely different.

    One could be a special circumstance, but would two be one?

    It had to be known, there were only five Great Magicians in the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that two of those Great Magicians joined the magic research facility, it could be imagined how shocking this would be to the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After hearing Great Magician Teli say that he was willing to join, Xu Yi was filled with excitement while his brain began to tunr. He was calcting how to circte this news to create the biggest stir possible.

    But when he thought of how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was changing and they needed to be low key, this created a contradiction that was hard to coordinate.

    After seeing Xu Yi look happy before knitting his brows, Great Magician Teli couldn¡¯t help saying in a strange voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, could it be that it¡¯s hard for you to let me join the magic research facility? Could it be that you can¡¯t pay my wages?¡±

    Great Magician Teli¡¯s mood was much better after seeing the living conditions change on Caraska Ind, so he actually made a joke with Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi quickly stopped thinking and said with augh, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician is willing to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is something I honestly wish for. You just just speak and as long as ourpany can afford it, we¡¯ll agree to however much you want!¡±

    ¡°Ah, chairman Xu really is rich. Alright, my request isn¡¯t high, it just has to be a single gold coin higher than Cami.¡± Great Magician Teli said with a smile.

    Great Magician Cami red at him, ¡°What? Are you trying to provoke me?¡±

    Great Magician Teli shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°No, I just feel.....I¡¯m not that close to Xu Yi, so how could I be courteous with this kid? So I have to be a bit higher than you.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°I only receive one gold coin a year, if you¡¯re willing to take two gold coins a year, that¡¯s up to you.¡±

    ¡°Who are you trying to fool with this? Don¡¯t forget, when you just joined the magic research facility, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced your giant wage of ten thousand gold coins a year. Do you think I wasn¡¯t paying attention at that time?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s just for tricking others, I only take one gold coin a year anyway, you can believe it or not.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t believe it, Xu Yi, what do you say?¡±

    Seeing the two Great Magicians arguing with each other, Xu Yi waved his hand with a bitter smile. After getting the two to stop, he decided Great Magician Teli¡¯s wage in front of Great Magician Cami.

    Since Great Magician Teli was a strong Great Magician, so when he entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he directly became a top grade researcher and received the same wage and treatment as Great Magician Cami.

    His wage was set at ten thousand gold coins a year. As for the other treatment, he received a free vi, all his clothing, food, medical needs would be fulfilled, and his family would travel for free......As well as some other benefits.

    Although Great Magician Teli did a bit better than Great Magician Cami before, in a year, he only earned around five thousand gold coins.

    When he heard that Great Magician Cami would receive ten thousand gold coins a year, he didn¡¯t believe it. He felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just apany, how could they give arge wage of ten thousand gold coins a year to a magician?

    Now because Xu Yi had fulfilled his promise and really changed the living conditions of the Caraska Inds, he agreed to be a researcher for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he never thought that he would really receive ten thousand gold coins a year. Then other than dazzling him, there were various other benefits that he had never heard of before.

    With all these benefits counted up, they would be spending at least over two thousand gold coins a year on him.

    This was equal to him earning twelve thousand gold coins a year for working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    With this ending, Great Magician Teli¡¯s hesitationspletely disappeared and there was only one question left.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you just said that you would improve the living conditions of the Caraska Ind residents, what is your n?¡± Great Magician Teli asked with a serious look, ¡°If you don¡¯t say it clearly, I might be able to stay even if I join the research facility.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    A Great Magician really was a Great Magician, he could say these words to him without any fear.

    ¡°The concrete n will take a bit long, but we.....¡±

    Xu Yi wanted to invite Great Magician Teli to his manor by the sea to discuss, but he suddenly heard a buzzing sound from above him.

    When he looked up, Xu Yi revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Right on time, the report I needed is back. Your excellency Great Magician, with this report, I can exin my n to you. I can guarantee that you will definitely be satisfied once you hear my n.¡±

 Volume 4 37 - Island with strategic value

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 37 Ind with strategic value</h4>

    Everyone looked up and found a ck spot moving through the sky. It created arge shadow on the ground which covered up the wharf.

    Great Magician Teli looked at it and asked in surprise, ¡°What is this thing?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯ll know once you take a look.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi invited Great Magician Teli. He used the Wind Control Spell on himself and flew towards the cliff.

    Great Magician Teli had a curious look, but he also flew over to take a look.

    The weakest among them was Still who was a Sixth Grade Magician, so naturally she could fly herself. They all flew up and after a while, the strange ¡°ck cloud¡± in the sky flew to the cliff,nding at the open area outside Xu Yi¡¯s manor.

    Still who was the slowest had justnded when the ¡°ck cloud¡± in the sky alsonded.

    When itnded, everyone looked over and found that this ¡°ck cloud¡± was a round ship that was thirty meters long and ten meters wide.

    ¡°This thing.....is it a Magic Airship?¡±

    Great Magician Teli curiously went around the Magic Airship as his face was covered in praise.

    ¡°Cami told me before that yourpany was currently developing a Magic Airship that people could ride, but when he mentioned it, he said that it was only several meters wide and could only fit one person. But this ship now.....I think it can take at least ten to twenty people?¡±

    ¡°The limit for people is eighteen right now, it isn¡¯t at twenty yet.¡± Xu Yi exined with a faint smile.

    ¡°That is quite incredible still.¡± Great Magician Teli couldn¡¯t help saying in surprise, ¡°Eighteen people, if everyone is at an average of fifty pounds, that added up is close to a ton. Being able to bring a ton of things into the sky and being able to fly this quickly, this is simply astounding!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, thinking that an airship with a weight of less than a ton was enough to shock Great Magician Teli like this. If he could see the giant cargo liners on earth, wouldn¡¯t he faint from fright?

    The Magic Airship suddenly gave a soft sound and the door that could fit two people opened, as Akali charged out from inside.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯re back!¡± Akali waved her hand at Xu Yi. Then she looked at the others and when she saw Still, she charged over to take Still¡¯s hand, shaking it as she excitedly called out.

    ¡°Still, you really shoulde with us on the Magic Airship, it really is exciting! I never thought that I would be able to look down from so high up and it¡¯s so steady, it¡¯s simply incredible!¡±

    Still looked at her, ¡°You can use flight magic to fly in the sky, why are you this excited?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t the same.¡± Akali shook her head, ¡°Although you can also fly in the sky with flight magic, at the highest you can only go.....no more than ten floors. It¡¯s around twenty meters, no more than thirty meters. But sitting in the Magic Airship, you can fly up several hundred meters! Let me tell you, looking down from several dozen meters and looking down from several hundred meters, this ispletely two different things!¡±

    ¡°Of course, don¡¯t you know? When you look down from several hundred meters, the people on the ground are as small as ants, you can¡¯t see them clearly at all! When I was looking down, I felt like I had suddenly be giant!¡±

    Even if Akali¡¯s words were exaggerated, this was Still¡¯s first time seeing her this excited because of something, so she became a bit interested.

    ¡°Alright, when the Magic Airship sets off next time, I¡¯ll give it a try. Xu Yi, is that alright?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You shouldn¡¯t ask me this, you should ask Evita. After all, she is the one in charge of the Magic Airship project, so she has the most right to speak since she is the expert. If she agrees to let you go, I don¡¯t have any objections.¡±

    Evita had just walked out of the Magic Airship and seeing Xu Yi throw the problem to her, she nodded with a faint smile, ¡°No problem. After all these tests, I¡¯m certain that the Magic Airship is secure to a certain degree. Then again, Still is a magician, so if something happens, nothing will happen to her.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi and Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Alright, since Evita has agreed, then I won¡¯t object.¡±

    Ignoring Still and Akali who discussed the feeling of riding this Magic Airship, Xu Yi came to Evita¡¯s side and asked in a low voice, ¡°Is it done?¡±

    Evita nodded and reached into her chest, taking out a thick leather scroll and giving it to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t open it when he took it, he just called Great Magician Teli who had been looking over the Magic Airship and gathered the group to head into the manor.

    Everyone came into the most inner room of the manor and Xu Yi opened the leather scroll Evita gave him, spreading it on the table in the room.

    This leather scroll wasn¡¯t that small when it was rolled up, but when it was opened, it was over two meters long and one meter wide.

    There were all kinds of lines andbels on the surface and when Great Magician Teli looked over it carefully, he was suddenly surprised.

    ¡°This.....seems to be a map of the surrounding area?¡±

    ¡°Right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile before tapping on the leather scroll, ¡°Look, this is Caraska Ind. Un.....It seems rather far when staring at it riding a Magic Boat on the sea, but based on this map, it doesn¡¯t seem that far. Evita, what is the scale, you used to make this map?¡±

    ¡°It should be one five hundred thousandth.¡±

    ¡°One five hundred thousandth? Let me see.....If it¡¯s like this, the distance between here and Caraska Ind should be no more than one hundred kilometers.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°That¡¯s right, it takes two hours to get there with the Magic Boats, so it should be that far.¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked at this map before looking at Xu Yi with a confused gaze.

    ¡°Xu Yi, how did you get this map? Moreover.....how did you make such a detailed map? Other than this, there¡¯s also the entire Stantine Duchy, the ck Rice Wastnd to the north, and even the Sack Kingdom¡¯s coastline even further to the north. This really is too strange.¡±

    ¡°How did I get this? I had Evita draw it from the sky using the Magic Airship. Otherwise, you think that a map could be this detailed? Moreover, it has such a standardized size?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a natural look.

    ¡°Un......This is indeed very detailed and as for the standard size.....it is also quite good. At least for the surrounding area, it¡¯s like seeing it from the sky.¡± Great Magician Cami on the side who had been carefully looking over the map nodded as he gave his praise.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s more urate than you seeing it from the sky because you can¡¯t get that high when you¡¯re flying and you won¡¯t stay in the sky for that long when you have free time, right?¡±

    ¡°That is true.¡± Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t deny it, ¡°If you fly high, you can naturally see higher. These Magic Airships can fly several hundred meters up in the sky, even a Great Magician like me can only reach around a hundred meters. It can see much further than me......¡±

    When he listened to Akali describing the sensation of flying in the sky, Great Magician Teli only half believed it. Now that he heard Great Magician Cami confirm it, Great Magician Teli became more shocked.

    This was just a magic machine, but it could fly higher than a Great Magician, this really subverted his views.

    The most important thing was that this Magic Airship wasn¡¯t slow at all.

    Adding in the fact that it could take people who weren¡¯t magicians into the sky, it was more useful than a magician.

    ¡°Great Magician Teli, look here, this is Caraska Ind. Have you noticed that Caraska Ind¡¯s position is key?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s question pulled Great Magician Teli back from his shock.

    ¡°Un? Why is it key?¡± Great Magician Teli looked at the map for a while and he couldn¡¯t see anything.

    He had grown up on Caraska Ind, he had never seen any key positioning on this ind before.

    ¡°Look at this.....¡± Xu Yi pointed with his right hand, first pointing at the spot of Caraska Ind on the map before pointing out a few points on the coastline on the map, ¡°Look, first, Caraska Ind is less than a hundred kilometers away from us. Then, if you look here, Caraska Ind is even closer to the ck Rice Wastnd, it isn¡¯t even a hundred kilometers away.....¡±

    ¡°Wait.¡± Great Magician Teli raised a hand to cut Xu Yi off, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you mention Caraska Ind being close to here, but why are you mentioning the ck Rice Wastnd? Is there any meaning?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He pointed at the coastline on the ck Rice Wastnd closest to Caraska Ind and said, ¡°If we set up a harbour here, do you think there would be any meaning?¡±

    Great Magician Teli looked at where Xu Yi was pointing and his eyes lit up before dimming again.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t realistic. If there really is an ind, it would be of great significance to Caraska Ind, but there¡¯s the ck Rice Wastnd here and it¡¯s close to the depths, where the most savage beastmen tribes live. It would be basically impossible to set up a harbour there.¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t anything impossible.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually, I already solved this problem. As long as everything goes smoothly, we will take care of the beastmen who are the biggest problems sooner orter, then we can smoothly establish this harbour.¡±

    Great Magician Teli knit his brows, ¡°We don¡¯t need to wage a war right? The beastmen are quite strong and they are in the depths of the ck Rice Wastnd, so it is too difficult to take care of them. If it is for just Caraska Ind.....even if it was me, I wouldn¡¯t find it worth it. It¡¯s better to think of another method.¡±

    ¡°No, your excellency Great Magician. I am not just doing this to improve the living conditions of the Caraska Ind citizens, there is another important reason. But right now to me, the most important reason for me to do this is the strong strategic significance of Caraska Ind.¡±

    ¡°Strategic significance?¡± Great Magician Teli looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    For someone like him who had been born on Caraska Ind, all the appraisals he heard of it was negative. This was the first time that someone had linked it with ¡°strategic significance¡±.

    This Xu Yi.....was he being serious?

 Volume 4 38 - Revolutionaries

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 38 Revolutionaries</h4>

    Great Magician Teli was very satisfied when he left the Stantine Duchy.

    Although he had joined the magic research facility, as one of the five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom, his actions were paid attention to by everyone and he couldn¡¯t do what he wanted.

    Joining the magic research facility would influence many things, so he had to return to the Lampuri Kingdom to take care of these things before he could join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were many things to consider, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on having him be the same as Great Magician Cami. He didn¡¯t want him to move to the Stantine Duchy and wanted him to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi even proposed setting up a research facility that belonged only to Great Magician Teli, that way he could stay in Anvilmar City and he wouldn¡¯t even need to move.

    But this was rejected by Great Magician Teli.

    Because for Great Magician Teli, since he decided to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯t just do it on the surface. He should work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for real and make contributions.

    So after discussing this, Great Magician Teli decided to enter the magic research facility branch at the Falling Rain Valley, bing the key researcher there.

    Because of the attention Great Magician Teli gave to Caraska Ind, the first research project he took after joining was the Magic Boat.

    When he heard from Xu Yi that the transport capacity could break ten thousand tons, Great Magician Teli was filled with enthusiasm towards the Magic Boats. He instantly surpassed Great Magician Cami who was very interested in the Magic Boats before.

    As for the development n Xu Yi gave for Caraska Ind, Great Magician Teli gave his approval. He was even more determined on joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not long after sending Great Magician Teli off, there was another guest that arrived at Xu Yi¡¯s manor on the cliff.

    It was Anklo who he hadn¡¯t seen in a while.

    When he saw Anklo in the reception room, Xu yi found that Anklo had greatly changedpared to when he saw himst.

    Not only did his skin be darker and thicker, he was also much thinner and his build had changed quite a bit. There was a very notable change that had appeared in the aura around him.

    The past Anklo had a sharp feel to him, letting people see the astuteness in his eyes, understanding that he wasn¡¯t a simple person.

    Moreover, Anklo had been filled with ideals at that time. He worked hard for his goal and he was always in high spirits.

    However, the current Anklo had suddenly be very calm, there wasn¡¯t a sharpness to him at all.

    Looking at him, people would ignore his existence and couldn¡¯t see his talents at all.

    But after Xu Yi seriously looked him over, he found that whether it was in expression or aura, the current Anklo was much deeper than before. Perhaps it could be said that he was deeper and no one dared to show him any contempt.

    What surprised Xu Yi more was that when he approached, he could smell the faint scent of blood on him. It made people feel that there was a dangerous feeling to him.

    But it onlysted in Xu Yi¡¯s heart for a second before he calmed down.

    No matter who it was, if they experienced the same environment as Anklo for a year, they would change as much as he did.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi revealed a smile and carried over the wine that Liz had already prepared.

    ¡°How is it? After not seeing each other for a year, have you been well?¡±

    Anklo took the wine and revealed a faint smile, as the serious expression on his face rxed a bit.

    ¡°Still good, at least everything is under my control.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? That is good.¡± Xu Yi nodded and sipped his wine before falling silent.

    He didn¡¯t speak and Anklo didn¡¯t speak either. The two of them just drank their wine in silence.

    When they finished the bottle of wine, seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t say a thing, Anklo finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think.....you should know why I came this time.¡±

    Xu Yi put down the wine and gave a slight nod to him.

    ¡°You want more weapons?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s no problem giving you more weapons, but Anklo......¡± Xu Yi paused before knitting his brows and continuing, ¡°Last time you bought weapons from ourpany, there were a total of three hundred and sixty thousand gold coins that were unsettled for. If I keep supplying you.....I can¡¯t say anything to the others in thepany.¡±

    Anklo already expected Xu Yi to bring this up, so he wasn¡¯t surprised. He said with a nod, ¡°Yes, I understand, but chairman Xu, this was an investment for you to begin with, right? Based on the results, your investments have been very sessful. At least that is proven by how you can sit here and drink wine with me.¡±

    ¡°Un, I admit it.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°But I could have still achieved this without you, I could have even gotten better results. Moreover, ourpany doesn¡¯tck troubleing here, so tell me, are there advantages in continuing to invest in you?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Anklo puffed out his chest and confidently said, ¡°Because I am different from the other lords of the duchy, as long as I be the master of this duchy, I will use all my power to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing the magic machine industry be the most important industry in our Stantine Duchy! Other than me, there is no one else like this. Even your Lampuri Kingdom king isn¡¯t like this!¡±

    Hearing Anklo mention the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    ¡°Alright, I admit that your words are very reasonable, but Anklo, you are just a small Viscount and your territory isn¡¯t even as big as our Frestech Farm, how can I believe that you will be the ruler of this duchy?¡±

    ¡°As long as you keep supporting me and give me enough weapons, I can guarantee this will be a fact!¡± Anklo gave a coldugh of disdain, ¡°The lords of the duchy only have fat on their brains, their armies are only a flock of sheep, how could they stop me?¡±

    ¡°Un......I do approve of this. You¡¯ve fought with more than tenrge and small lords just this year and you¡¯ve always won, this battle strength is indeed shocking.¡± Xu Yi praised with a nod.

    ¡°That means that as long as you keep supporting me, you won¡¯t even need to guess the result.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, to be honest, I already made a decision when I came to see you. I can keep supporting you, but Anklo, not seeing any returns on my investment doesn¡¯t make sense, you should understand this.¡±

    Anklo smiled and took out a stack of thick papers for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at it and found that they were contracts for two more iron mines and four Magic Crystal mines, the ones that would receive them was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Six mines? That¡¯s quite a lot.¡± Xu Yi reached out to flick these contracts before looking at Anklo, saying with a faint smile, ¡°If my memory isn¡¯t wrong, these six mines aren¡¯t controlled by you, so how can you give them to mypany?¡±

    ¡°They aren¡¯t controlled by me new, that doesn¡¯t mean they won¡¯t be in the future.¡± Anklo revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as chairman Xu agrees to my request, I can guarantee that in the next half a year, these six contracts will slowlye into effect.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked over the six contracts before slowly nodding, ¡°Alright, deal.¡±

    Anklo immediately broke out inughter, ¡°Alright, I knew that chairman Xu is a wise person, you really are straightforward. Then based on the old rules, I¡¯ll send people tomorrow to collect the goods. Other than that.....Chairman Xu, I heard that you¡¯ve developed some new military magic machines?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and casually said, ¡°Noment.¡±

    Anklo looked at Xu Yi for a while before suddenly smiling.

    ¡°Alright, then let¡¯s leave it like this. If chairman Xu is willing to discuss with me in the future, I would be happy to listen.¡±

    Anklo stood up after saying this and gave Xu Yi a bow before leaving.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to keep him, but when he went to the door, he suddenly said, ¡°Anklo, I¡¯ve heard.....in the south of the duchy, there are many people calling you a traitor?¡±

    Anklo trembled and stopped for a while before turning. His face was as calm as water as he said with a cold snort, ¡°They are just dogs howling after being defeated, it¡¯s not worth paying attention to.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡±

    Anklo was silent for a bit before suddenly giving a sigh and saying in a low voice, ¡°Perhaps many people will call me this, but how many people of this country can really consider this ce a country? The Stantine Duchy? He.....has this so-called duchy ever existed?¡±

    Seeing the bitter look on Anklo¡¯s face and thinking of the sadness Anklo showed before, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart, but he didn¡¯t do anything tofort him.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s fine if I¡¯m a traitor, butpared to the trash that suppresses most people in the country, it is better to overthrow them ande up with a new method. As long as I can help the people of this country live their true lives, what does a few insults count for?¡±

    Seeing Anklo disappear into the night outside the manor, Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh.

    Someone like Anklo had appeared many times on earth, they were called revolutionaries most of the time.

    On the Sines Continent, with Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of the history of the continent, he was the first.

    There were good and bad results for revolutionaries on earth, but as for Anklo?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel optimistic.

 Volume 4 39 - Multi speed racing bicycle

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 39 Multi speed racing bicycle</h4>

    Now that the fall season was here, it was time for the annual bicycle race.

    Old man Sarkozy came out early and rode his Frestech Brand male style twenty eight bicycle that he had bought a year ago. He left Mexn Vige and headed down the Falling Rain Road.

    There were many people who had woken up early to ride their bicycles like him. When they left the vige, they gathered around old man Sarkozy and they headed towards the start of the race, Banta City that was over forty kilometers away.

    With Mexn Vige bing smaller behind them, Sam who had been riding by old man Sarkozy¡¯s side the entire time couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Hey, old man, are you really nning on entering the bicycle race with this broken twenty eight style bicycle?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy looked at this younger generation that he was a bit rted to and gave a cold snort, ¡°What? It isn¡¯t good enough?¡±

    ¡°It is.....But just with this bicycle......you can¡¯t ride fast enough at all, what race are you going to participate in?¡± Sam said with knit brows.

    Old man Sarkozy said with a smile, ¡°Hey, I¡¯m not like you young people, doing this to win. I just want to exercise, I don¡¯t care if I can win or not, it¡¯s already good if I can make it to the end.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....that is more like it.¡± Sam nodded, ¡°But if you want to exercise, there¡¯s no need to ride this very heavy model twenty eight bicycle. Look at how light mine is, it¡¯s so light and easy to ride.¡±

    As if to prove himself, Sam stepped on his pedals and charged away from old man Sarkozy.

    Old man Sarkozy shook his head with a smile. After catching up to Sam who had slowed down, he looked at the bicycle underneath him and found that this bicycle didn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce logo.

    ¡°Of course, this bicycle is the newly promoted one from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce. The Angelt Chamber of Commerce specializes in bicycles, the bicycle that I¡¯m riding was specially developed for this race. They used the new super light alloy, which makes it ten pounds lighter than the Frestech Brand. Moreover, the shape has been optimized, so it¡¯s easier to ride than the Frestech Brand and naturally much faster.¡±

    Sam proudly pointed behind him.

    ¡°Look, there are quite a few people with the Angelt Brand in our vige, it¡¯s all for this year¡¯s bicycle race.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy looked back and among the group behind him, there were ten young people from Mexn Vige who raised their hand.

    When he looked under them, he found that the bicycles they were riding had the same logo as the bicycle under Sam, they were all from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce.

    Old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Could it be that the Angelt Brand is better than the Frestech Brand? I don¡¯t believe it.¡±

    Samughed, ¡°Old man, you¡¯ve fallen behind. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the best magic machinepany, the magic machines they produce aren¡¯t all the best. Look, this bicycle is the biggest example.¡±

    Looking at how rxed Sam looked while riding his bicycle, old man Sarkozy wanted to refute this, but he didn¡¯t know how.

    He just thought that it seemed inconceivable that the other magic machinepanies would surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce one day.

    In these years, the people of Banta City were deeply influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Everyone was already used to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being in the absolute lead when it came to magic machines.

    In everyone¡¯s hearts, only the Frestech Brand magic machines were the best. The magic machines from otherpanies were naturally beneath the Frestech Brand.

    Although the bicycles couldn¡¯t be considered true magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed them first. Now that the otherpanies were surpassing them, it was hard for old man Sarkozy to ept.

    ¡°What is hard to ept?¡± A young person like Sam looked down on old man Sarkozy¡¯s thoughts, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is strong, but the world will change. It is normal for them to be surpassed by otherpanies. Then again, chairman Xu even said that he wants the otherpanies to surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what can¡¯t you ept?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t made a move in several months. From what I can see, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might just close down soon.¡± Another young person added.

    ¡°They won¡¯t close, but these newpanies are all very strong. Moreover, they¡¯ve taken the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I think they¡¯ll surpass them sooner orter.¡±

    ¡°Un.....this is actually quite good. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are good, they are expensive. If the otherpanies can make magic machines better than theirs, I think the Frestech Brand would reduce their prices?¡±

    ¡°Right, didn¡¯t chairman Xu say that he wanted morepetitors to appear? Then again, with this situation, isn¡¯t this chairman Xu transferring his technology and personally creating hispetitors? If it was me, I say that he reaped his own consequences.¡±

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu really is dumb, why did he do this? If he didn¡¯t spread his technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have been able to keep making money, right?¡±

    ¡°You think he¡¯s willing? I heard that it was the king this time.....¡±

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Old man Sarkozy suddenly shouted in an angry voice, cutting off the discussion of the young people.

    Sam and the others were stunned. Seeing the dark look on old man Sarkozy¡¯s face, they all knew to be silent.

    ¡°You don¡¯t know shit!¡± Old man Sarkozy kept reprimanding them, ¡°How can you guess the thoughts of those important people? Whether chairman Xu was forced or not, I will keep supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You should all think about it, without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could you have such good jobs? Could you live such good lives? You actually dare to say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t good and that chairman Xu is stupid? Let me tell you, if I hear this again, I will beat you all to death for your parents!¡±

    Old man Sarkozy had some prestige in Mexn Vige and now that he started a transportpany with Baltro, making decent money, they became the idols of many young people. So naturally they had a deterrent effect on them.

    Now that he was reproving them, the young people could only be timid and didn¡¯t dare talk back.

    But they still weren¡¯t convinced in their hearts.

    Sam mumbled, ¡°It¡¯s fine to be grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but good things are good things, you can¡¯t just make us not buy them, right?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy coldly looked at the Angelt Brand bicycle under Sam before saying with a cold snort, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, this Angelt Chamber of Commerce amse made from technology stolen from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what are you so proud of?¡±

    Sam couldn¡¯t refute this and didn¡¯t dare refute, he just honestly shut his mouth.

    This group rode on in silence, but they rode quite quickly. In less than two hours, they already reached the Banta City west gate.

    There was less than an hour before the official start of the race, but the space outside the gate was already filled with people.

    Naturally, everyone was either riding or pushing a bicycle.

    Old man Sarkozy looked around and found that many of the people participating were using the Angelt Brand bicycle. There were evenbinations of other brands mixed among them. It wasn¡¯t likest year where there were only Frestech Brand bicycles wherever one looked.

    When Sam saw old man Sarkozy looking around, he couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Old man Sarkozy red at him, but he was also too tired to say anything else.

    Their group waited for a while before several people suddenly came from a tform built in the square. It was actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Heinz, the bicycle department¡¯s manager Brew, and a young man that Sarkozy had some impression of, but couldn¡¯t think of his name.

    After Heinz came up to the stage, he announced a few rules rted to the bicycle race before giving his position to Brew.

    ording to the ceremony of each past race, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bicycle department¡¯s manager Brew woulde onto stage to give a short speech. He would give the importance of the bicycle race, but also brought out announcements that helped promote the bicycle.

    However, what people didn¡¯t expect was that after Brew came up, he didn¡¯t talk about this. He announced to everyone that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was using this race to unveil a new model of bicycles.

    Everyone was surprised to see that young man who was with Heinz and Brewe out, bringing out a new model bicycle.

    ¡°This is ourpany¡¯s newly developed multi speed bicycle. Not only is the body light, it¡¯s also easy to ride, and has special tires for running across roads. When this bicycle is riding across the road, it will not be hindered at all and can quickly reach its max speed. This bicycle is also equipped with the new gear change system.....¡±

    Brew waved at the young man beside him and that young man easily raised the bicycle high up.

    Seeing how rxed he was in raising this bicycle, everyone understood that this bicycle was very light.

    ¡°Everyone look, the gear shift is by the back tire and the controls are on the handles. Through fine adjustment, you can control the amount of force that is pushed into the wheels, allowing you to adjust your speed. As for how to use it properly, that¡¯ll depend on how everyone rides.¡±

    Seeing that the people under the stage were stunned, Brew revealed a smile and announced another piece of news.

    ¡°In order to show off the performance of this multi speed bicycle, we will send out a chosen yer, which is him, Alex, who will participate in this race with everyone. Of course, his results won¡¯t count in thepetition, so everyone doesn¡¯t need to worry about him stealing first ce. But.....we will add a reward. As long as anyone can arrive at the finish line before Alex, they will receive a hundred gold coins special reward from our bicycle department!¡±

    There was a stir under the stage.

    As long as they could finish before this fellow, they could receive a hundred gold coins. This was arge enticement for everyone.

    Old man Sarkozy looked at the young people who came from the same vige, he saw that they were all eager to try, it seemed like they were filled withpetitive spirit.

    ¡°Hei, you really think you can easily pass this Alex? Naive!¡± Old man Sarkozy gave a coldugh in his heart.

 Volume 4 40 - Then letâ€™s not cooperate

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 40 Then let¡¯s not cooperate</h4>

    Sam¡¯s face was dark as he pushed his bike towards the finish line.

    Seeing Alex with a smile being congratted by everyone, Sam spat out on the ground and cursed in a low voice.

    This wasn¡¯t cursing Alex who reached the goal first, but rather that Angelt Brand bicycle that was beside him.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this damn bicycle, he might have been able to cross the finish line first. Not only would he have received the rich rewards for being first, he would have received the hundred gold coins extra reward.

    But everything was ruined by this damn bicycle!

    If this damn bicycle¡¯s chain didn¡¯t keep falling off during the race, causing him to stop to put it back on, he would have wasted all that time and wouldn¡¯t have reached the finish le.

    It had to be known, when Sam participatedst year, although he didn¡¯t take the championship, he still finished the sixty kilometer race in less than three hours. He had been in the top ten and shown off.

    Thinking of the difference between this year andst year, Sam¡¯s heart was filled with anger. He couldn¡¯t help stomping on the back wheel of his bicycle.

    But with a single kick from him, there were several ttering sounds that came from the back wheel as several screws fell off.

    After that, the entire back wheel of the bicycle fell off the frame andnded on the ground.

    Sam stared at the back wheel on the ground in shock as his face filled with disbelief.

    Was there a mistake!

    He had bought this bike less than a week ago and in order to prepare for the race, he hadn¡¯t even ridden it for more than five hundred kilometers. It was actually this bad?

    ¡°Ha, ha, there¡¯s someone even worse than me.¡± There wasughter of ridicule behind him and Sam turned around with a face filled with rage.

    But he was stunned when he turned.

    Behind him, there were many young people who were around the same age as him pushing their bicycles over the finish line.

    Sam looked over and found that these people were all pushing the Angelt Brand¡¯s bicycle.

    ¡°Hey, your bicycles all broke too?¡± Sam wasn¡¯t angry and couldn¡¯t help asking this in a surprised voice.

    These people looked at each other before giving bitter smiles.

    ¡°Right, I only got halfway before my pedal fell off, so I couldn¡¯t go faster at all.¡±

    ¡°You only had your pedal fall off. Look at me, my handlebars were twisted by me! I couldn¡¯t even control my direction.¡±

    ¡°Forget it, at least your bicycle is stillplete. Look at my, I walked the entire way and all theponents fell off. Although my back wheel hasn¡¯t fallen off like this brother, I think the entire thing will break apart if I ride it much longer.¡±

    ¡°Ai, me too. There¡¯s too many problems, I had to walk over here.¡±

    ¡°Me too.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m the same......¡±

    ......

    After everyone was doneining, a young man suddenly gave a sigh into the sky, ¡°I should have listened to my mother and bought the Frestech Brand. This damn Angelt Brand bicycle, it¡¯s the same quality as shit.¡±

    ¡°Right, I used the Frestech Brand bicycle for over two years and I ride it to work every day, I ride close to twenty kilometers each day. After all this time, other than being a bit worn down and a bit dirty, it looks no different from a new bicycle, not to mention looking like it¡¯s about to break.¡±

    ¡°Un, my Frestech Brand bicycle is the same. It can ride on any broken road and it is very sturdy, there¡¯s rarely any problems with it.¡±

    ¡°Me too. Ai, why didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promote their multi speed bicycle earlier? If it came out earlier, I wouldn¡¯t have bought this damn Angelt bicycle and wasted ten gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Right, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took out the bicycle earlier, I wouldn¡¯t have bought anything from anotherpany.¡±

    ¡°Right, right......¡±

    ......

    Hearing everyone fondly recall the quality and durability of the Frestech Brand bicycle, Sam couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    He had ridiculed old man Sarkozy for falling behind, only recognizing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not understanding new things. Now that he had been taught a lesson, Sam realized that old man Sarkozy was right.¡±

    ¡°Hey, everyone, we can¡¯t just forget about this, right?¡± A person suddenly said.

    ¡°Un? What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Look, isn¡¯t the oldest Angelt bicycle here no older than half a month? But now that the bicycles have be like this, causing trouble in such a short period of time, shouldn¡¯t we ask forpensation from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Hearing the word pensation¡±, everyone became excited. Only one person was a bit worried.

    ¡°There seems to be a strong backing behind the Angelt Chamber of Commerce, how do we make thempensate us?¡±

    ¡°Humph, no matter how strong their backing is, can they just sell us such shabby products? They dare to notpensate? Then we¡¯ll cause trouble! If we create enough trouble, who would still buy theirpany¡¯s things!¡±

    ¡°Right! We¡¯ll do this!¡±

    ¡°Alright, we should do this and this......¡±

    ###

    While these young people were discussing how to getpensation from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce, the chairman of the Angelt Chamber of Commerce, Viro Angelt had a look of rage on his face as he requestedpensation from Heinz.

    ¡°Vice chairman Heinz, you didn¡¯t tell us at all about your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new bicycle? Don¡¯t you know that if you suddenly push this new product, how much impact it will have on the bicycle sales of ourpany? How are you going topensate us for the loss this will cause?¡±

    Heinz slightly knit his brows and wiped the spittle from chairman Angelt off his face before calmly saying, ¡°Ourpany is releasing a new product, there isn¡¯t a need to inform you ahead of time, right?¡±

    Chairman Angelt flew into a rage, ¡°Of course there is! Did you forget? When the chairman Xu signed the technology transfer contact, it was clearly written that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce would share all your technology and research with us. Not only have you developed a new product, you also haven¡¯t shared any of the rted technology with us, are you nning on breaking the contract?¡±

    Heinz shook his head, ¡°This isn¡¯t secretly developing a new product, this is just the same technology as the new road bicycles that you released.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Chairman Angelt angrily said, ¡°It¡¯s fine if the other things are the same, but what about the gear box?¡±

    Heinz shook his head without changing his expression, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, that gear box was not created by ourpany. We don¡¯t have that technology, so we can¡¯t take it out even if we wanted to.¡±

    ¡°Impossible!¡± Chairman Angelt firmly said, ¡°How could it be possible that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t develop this thing? Other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is there anotherpany with this kind of research ability?¡±

    Heinz acted shocked as he looked at chairman Angelt, ¡°Chairman Angelt, I remember clearly that when chairman Xu warned you that the most important and fundamental thing in the magic machine industry was developing technology, you confidently said that since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the ability to develop new technology, your Angelt Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have a problem.¡±

    Chairman Angelt¡¯s expression froze and after a bit of silence, he awkwardly waved his hand, ¡°Forget about this. In short since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the gear box technology, you should share it with us ording to our previous agreement.¡±

    ¡°I said it just now, it¡¯s not ourpany¡¯s technology, I can¡¯t casually give it to you. This is something that has a patent protecting it.¡±

    Seeing that Heinz was this firm, chairman Angelt¡¯s mind turned before changing his tone, ¡°Alright, tell me whichpany this technology came from, I¡¯ll get it from them.¡±

    Heinz shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, the other side wants to keep this a secret, so.....I can¡¯t do a thing.¡±

    Chairman Angelt flew into a rage, ¡°Vice chairman Heinz, what is this meaning? Forget it if I want you to hand over the technology and you say it doesn¡¯t belong to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now that I¡¯m asking whichpany developed it, you¡¯re not willing to tell me? Do you even want to keep cooperating with us? Ah?¡±

    Heinz¡¯s face sunk as he said with a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Angelt, I have to remind you, you¡¯re the one that wants to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it isn¡¯t ourpany that wants to cooperate with you. You said that you don¡¯t want to cooperate with us? Alright, then let¡¯s end this cooperation, I have no objections!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Chairman Angelt never thought that Heinz who normally smiled and was always kind would actually be so overbearing.

    They really wanted to stop cooperating? Not mentioning chairman Angelt, no chairman from any of the tenpanies dared to say this.

    If he really broke off with Heinz and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped sharing technology with their tenpanies, the people behind him wouldn¡¯t leave him with aplete corpse!

    Thinking of this, chairman Angelt broke out in a cold sweat. He scratched the back of his head and he quickly revealed a smile.

    ¡°This.....vice chairman Heinz, I was just casually speaking, don¡¯t take it seriously. Since thatpany wants to keep it a secret, then it¡¯s right that you don¡¯t tell me. This is rted to the prestige of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I went too far, I¡¯m sorry.¡±

    Heinz gave a strong snort, ¡°Toote!¡±

    After saying this, Heinz took out a document for chairman Angelt.

    ¡°This is a document signed by our chairman, it will take effect now. I am officially representing the chairman to tell you that the technology sharing agreement between ourpanies will stop now. All the contracts that were signed before are now expired!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Chairman Angelt looked at Heinz in a daze, not daring to believe his ears.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce.....actually broke the contract between them?

    They must be crazy!

 Volume 4 41 - Do you regret it?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 41 Do you regret it?</h4>

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like that, I know what you are thinking.¡±

    When Seveni looked at the smiling Xu Yi, she couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at him.

    ¡°Rx, I came this time not to ask you why you stopped cooperating with the magic machine industry management department. Rather this isn¡¯t your first time doing something no one can understand, I¡¯m already used to it.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Since you aren¡¯t here for this matter, dear highness, what did youe all the way to the Stantine Duchy to see me for?¡±

    ¡°Other than official business, I can¡¯te and see you?¡± Seveni snappily said.

    ¡°Private business?¡± Xu Yi was more confused, ¡°What private business do you have with me?¡±

    ¡°Because it¡¯s a matter of my territory, it can be considered my private business.¡± Seveni replied, ¡°Didn¡¯t we reach an agreementst time that you would help me build a small production base in my territory? I didn¡¯t have time before when I was the Banta City¡¯s City Lord, so now that I¡¯ve resigned from being the City Lord for half a year, there shouldn¡¯t be a problem. So aren¡¯t I here to ask you when you¡¯re nning on officially starting?¡±

    ¡°Oh? This, it¡¯s simple.¡± Xu Yi nodded and said with a rxed look, ¡°Ourpany is very skilled in building production bases. Your territory isn¡¯t big and there aren¡¯t many citizens, so there aren¡¯t any strict demands. It should be easy to build one. But Seveni, have you thought of the most important choice of the production base?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve already considered it very clearly. My territory doesn¡¯t have rich resources, so it isn¡¯t good to process materials. Moreover, I don¡¯t have many people, so I can¡¯t work inponents that require a lot of manpower. So after thinking about it, I¡¯ve decided that this is the best. Take a look.....¡±

    Seveni took out a document and Xu Yi was surprised when he looked it over.

    ¡°I say, your highness.....you are nning to steal business from me?¡±

    This document had Seveni¡¯s n to create arge fruit production base on her private territory, then she would build arge canned fruit factory and arge fruit juice factory.

    Only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was involved in these two businesses because the otherpanies weren¡¯t interested since they thought the profit margins weren¡¯t high.

    Now that Seveni wanted to join these two industries, naturally it was equal to stealing business from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°How can this be considered stealing?¡± Seveni revealed a rather sly smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, you¡¯ve said many times to me that we shouldn¡¯t let people snatch pieces of the same cake, rather we should make his cake bigger so everyone could eat their fill? I¡¯m joining now not to steal this cake from you.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, then how about you tell me how I can make this cake bigger? Right now the Lampuri Kingdom has a limited average living standard, there¡¯s no increase in demand for canned fruits or fruit juice and the market of a rich city like Banta City is saturated. We went all out in expanding the market, but we have no ways.¡±

    ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom is saturated, then we should look outside the Lampuri Kingdom. Don¡¯t you normally do this?¡± Seveni asked back, ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like this, I know that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have the right to sell goods to other countries, but I am different. I am the princess, I still have this bit of privilege.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering, ¡°Damn privilege.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s unconvinced expression, Seveni couldn¡¯t helpughing before giving a sigh.

    ¡°Who told you to give up your title as a noble? Moreover, you broke the contract on your own and stopped cooperating with the magic machine industry management department. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce enjoyed many benefits, but your decision has angered many people in the Lampuri Kingdom. Even I can¡¯t talk to them for you.¡±

    ¡°I know that you would be unable to let this go.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, since you can¡¯t help mentioning it, then I¡¯ll exin. When I chose to cooperate with the department, it was because the situation forced me and because I already decided to transfer the technology to develop the magic machine industry in the kingdom. This was something that I think that you should already know about.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know your desire.¡± Seveni said with a look of regret, ¡°But it¡¯s a pity that big brother Eric and many people in the kingdom can¡¯t understand your ideas. Even if they didn¡¯t force you, you would have released this technology sooner orter. Now that they have snatched this from you, I¡¯m very dissatisfied and I¡¯veined to big brother Eric many times.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your care and help.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But these two aren¡¯t the main reasons. The main reason I decided to cooperate with them was because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t prepared before.¡±

    ¡°Not prepared?¡± Seveni knit her brows and looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°This means.....that you¡¯re prepared now? So you decided to break this cooperation? Xu Yi, do you know the seriousness of this? Do you know that because of your decision, many nobles behind those tenpanies sufferedrge losses. The powerful people in the kingdom have decided to use forceful methods against your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Forceful methods?¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°You think.....their methods before were gentle? Although it was considered cooperation, how was it any different from stealing?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a while before saying with a sigh, ¡°No matter what, Xu Yi, you¡¯re too impulsive this time. I don¡¯t know what you¡¯ve prepared, but you¡¯ve offended the most powerful people in the kingdom this time. Yourpany¡¯s days in the kingdom will be very hard, it might even be possible.....that you can¡¯t stay open anymore.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu yi didn¡¯t look worried at all. He spread his hands and gave a shrug as he said in a strangely rxed voice, ¡°It¡¯s fine if we can¡¯t stay open. If they feel that this is for the best for them and the Lampuri Kingdom, I don¡¯t care.¡±

    Seveni deeply knit her brows, ¡°Xu Yi, what are you thinking? Wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce single handedly created by you, the treasure in your palm? Could it be that you¡¯re giving it up?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, Seveni, I think you¡¯ve made a mistake.¡± Xu Yi shook his finger, ¡°I¡¯m not giving up on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom. Do you understand the difference?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s expression became a bit ugly.

    ¡°Are you really nning on giving up on the Lampuri Kingdom? No! You can¡¯t do this! Xu Yi, don¡¯t forget, Banta City¡¯s prosperity was brought by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You giving up on the industry you¡¯ve set up in the Lampuri Kingdom is giving up on the people of Banta City!¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re exaggerating too much. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is just a normalpany and I¡¯m just a normal merchant, I can¡¯t take that heavy responsibility. Moreover, as for giving up......¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°Your highness,pared to how you gave up, this can¡¯t be considered anything, right?¡±

    Seveni trembled and her agitated look calmed down, as her expression became more pale.

    After a while, Seveni gave a long sigh.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯ve finally said your true feelings. You¡¯re not happy that I gave up the throne in the end, right? You hate me in your heart, right?¡±

    Xu Yi slowly shook his head, ¡°That isn¡¯t urate. I am unhappy since I have imagined many times that after you took the throne, with how you supported the magic machine industry, my dream would have be a reality. However, you gave up the throne just like that, how could I be unhappy? As for hatred.....it isn¡¯t that far.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Really.¡± Xu Yi gave a serious nod, ¡°I¡¯ve said it, no matter what the decision is, it is your decision, I don¡¯t have the right to interfere. If you¡¯re talking about hate, there are many people in the kingdom more qualified. But at this time, I have something that I can¡¯t help asking. Seveni, when you made this decision, did you really not regret it?¡±

    Seveni had a pained look on her face. After struggling for a bit, she shook her head and said with a sigh, ¡°I don¡¯t know.....¡±

    ¡°You really don¡¯t know? Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Your highness, I¡¯m afraid you¡¯re just not willing to face the truth, right? How Banta City has changedpared to when you were the City Lord, I don¡¯t think you don¡¯t know. Think about it, if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce continued staying in Banta City, what would it look like now?¡±

    The pain on Seveni¡¯s face deepened and she struggled to refute, ¡°I think.....no matter what, it is better than having civil strife......¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, not willing to continue discussing this.

    The position he had was different from Seveni. To him, if the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to be stronger, it had to change. The most possible change was Seveni taking the throne, supporting the development of the magic machine industry to change the kingdom.

    But to Seveni, she didn¡¯t want to cause civil strife and put the stability of the kingdom first.

    It can¡¯t be said that this idea was wrong since now that Eric had taken the throne, the kingdom had fallen into the control of the stubborn nobles that had supported him to the throne.

    The so-called support of the magic machine industry was to gather wealth for them through those tenpanies.

    It was impossible for Seveni not to see this, but she didn¡¯t have the decisiveness that Xu Yi hoped for.

    Of course, if she really had this character, she wouldn¡¯t have given up on the throne in the first ce.

    Comparing Seveni to Anklo he met just a few days ago, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sighing.

    If he couldbine the personality of the two together, that really would be perfect.

    Of course that was impossible. Xu Yi could only dream about this, but he gave up on this fantasy. He looked at the sky outside before standing up.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about these meaningless things. Seveni, it¡¯s about time, let¡¯s head out together. For this joint operation, you are themander in name.¡±

 Volume 4 42 - Luxurious Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 42 Luxurious Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a production base at the Frestech Farm, while at the same time, to the north of a farm, in a ce that was twenty miles away from the ck Rice Wastnd border, they had opened a stretch ofnd to create barracks for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The ce that Xu Yi and Seveni was talking was at this base.

    When the two came out, there were two neat groups that were gathered on the drilling grounds. The ones on the left were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and the ones on the right were Seveni¡¯s five hundred private guards.

    Based on this, the idea that Anklo always felt emotional about and Xu Yi deeply understood that ¡°the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t a real country¡± was very urate.

    Otherwise, how could a princess of the Lampuri Kingdom like Seveni bring five hundred private guards into a country under another¡¯s sovereign, that would be impossible.

    But for here, Xu Yi just told Count Wein about this before Seveni easily brought her private guards into the Stantine Duchy.

    The people on the drilling grounds were in two lines, with a clear difference between them.

    Seveni¡¯s five hundred personal guards were all the same. They were wearing the same symbol of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family and the most important thing, they were all humans. Standing in a line, it looked very uniform and it was aplete square formation from as far as the eye could see.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were a bit chaotic.

    The most obvious thing was that it was quite a mix when it came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    There were also five hundred people, but only a hundred of them were humans. Of the other four hundred, there were a hundred and fifty elves, two hundred dwarves, and the remaining fifty were beastmen guards who had just been recruited not long ago.

    Moreover, because each race had a different custom, these guards were all wearing different equipment.

    The elves were used to wearing soft armour, the dwarves preferred armour that was as heavy as possible, the beastmen didn¡¯t like putting on armour at all. If Xu Yi didn¡¯t force them to wear the Magic Barrier Armour, they wouldn¡¯t fear going into battle just wearing cotton clothing.

    Those hundred humans were all wearing the same armour, which had the Magic Barrier ability, but their weapons were strange. There were all kinds of weapons.

    Xu Yi had asked the human guard leader Hart about this before, feeling that these random weapons might affect their battle strength, but Hart confirmed that it wasn¡¯t an issue.

    Having the same equipment was necessary for arge army, but there was no need for a small group of guards.

    If they really wanted to discuss battle strength, for a mixed group of guards like this, because there were elves, dwarves, and beastmen warriors with powerful battle strength, they were far stronger than human warriors of the same scale.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had all kinds of military magic machines. The battle strength of just a single guard was not something a normal human warrior could match.

    Seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ equipment, Seveni couldn¡¯t help sighing in her heart.

    ¡°Xu Yi, when you said that they wanted to change the equipment of my five thousand guards, were you nning to equip them like this?¡±

    ¡°Un.....Probably not this far because we hadn¡¯t developed much of this equipment yet. For example, the miniature Magic Repeating Crossbow and the Magic Rupturing Arrows, they were developed not long ago.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Miniature Magic Repeating Crossbows and Magic Rupturing Arrows?¡± Seveni looked over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, but she couldn¡¯t find these equipment anywhere.

    ¡°Only the human guards are equipped with this, they are all hiding it and won¡¯t take them out easily.¡± Xu Yi exined with a smile, ¡°Other than the human guards, the guards of the other races disdain small things and it doesn¡¯t suit them, so they didn¡¯t equip it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Seveni nodded and paused before asking, ¡°If my guards were equipped with the same equipment, how much would it cost?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her andughed, ¡°This.....If they each had their individual military magic machines, it would cost three hundred gold coins each right now. How about it? Your highness, are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Three hundred gold coins?!¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°This expensive! Yourpany¡¯s guards already surpass one thousand people, right? If each guard gets one set, isn¡¯t that over three hundred thousand gold coins? This.....This is close to our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army¡¯s yearly budget!¡±

    ¡°If we were topare expenditure with the royal army, we would without a doubt surpass them.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile.

    Seveni naturally understood the meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s words and after a moment of silence, she sighed and shook her head, ¡°I also want to equip my guards with this set, but I never thought each one would cost three hundred gold coins. For five thousand sets, that is a full one and half million gold coins, I don¡¯t have that much money.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Actually I don¡¯t have that much money either, so the only ones who are equipped fully with military magic machines are the hundred human guards. As for the guards of the other races, they just picked the equipment they liked the best.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it.¡± Seveni gave a sigh. She looked over the two rows of guards before continuing, ¡°Alright, since you are all prepared, then let¡¯s begin this operation.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an inviting gesture, ¡°Please, your highness.¡±

    Seveni nodded and went onto the prepared stage. She looked over the guards and cleared her throat before saying in a clear voice, ¡°Warriors, you are gathered here today because some beastmen havemitted a crime that can¡¯t be forgiven.¡±

    ......

    When Seveni ended her brief and empowering speech, the Magic Cars entered the drilling grounds.

    These Magic Cars were different from the Magic Cars from before. Their body was covered in thick steel tes and werepletely sealed, with two pieces of thick ss right in front.

    These Magic Cars looked fierce no matter what angle one looked at it from, people felt that it was releasing a dangerous aura.

    Seeing these strange Magic Carse in, Seveni was surprised before asking Xu Yi, ¡°This is the Magic Armoured Vehicles you mentioned before?¡±

    ¡°Right, the cars are custom made whether it is the body or the tires, they can take a certain amount of damage without affecting the people inside, so it is very suitable for carrying soldiers to the battlefield.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Seveni looked at the fifty Magic Armoured Vehicles that came forward and was a bit speechless.

    This was called ¡®able to take a certain amount of damage¡¯?

    Just with the thick steel tes, it was enough to stop any kind of attack, alright?

    Not to mention that there was the glow of magic on these steel tes, there were clearly Magic Arrays engraved on them.

    There was no need to guess, these were definitely barrier arrays. They could greatly increase the defense of the Magic Armour Vehicles, even being able to resist the effects of magic spells to a certain degree.

    Sitting in this Magic Armour Vehicle meant one could charge right onto the battlefield!

    ¡°It¡¯s not that exaggerated.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, even ignoring the powerful magicians, there are also the powerful Magic Trebuchets.¡±

    ¡°How could magicians of this strength act freely? Attacking these Magic Armoured Vehicles is a waste of one¡¯s magic.¡± Seveni red at Xu Yi before turning back to these Magic Armoured Vehicles, then she couldn¡¯t help shaking her head with a sigh, ¡°If the Lampuri Kingdom had the same equipment as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, there¡¯s no need to worry about the Sack Kingdom at all.¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yi gave a dryugh, ¡°That is clearly impossible. I¡¯ve spent over five hundred thousand gold coins just on the equipment of my guards, not to mention the other expenses, as well as the supplies and training equipment. One average, each guard costs over eight hundred gold coins, can the royal army really spend that much?¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh, ¡°The army headquarters doesn¡¯t even have five hundred thousand gold coins a year, how could they be as luxurious as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.¡±

    ¡°The most important thing is that those fellows in the kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t spend their money on the army, rather they would prefer stuffing it in their own pockets.¡± Xu Yi revealed a cold smile, ¡°I¡¯ve heard.....the management bureau in the name of promoting the magic machine industry is nning on decreasing the tax rates on those tenpanies? Hei, this fellows, when making money for themselves, they don¡¯t want any face.¡±

    Seveni knit her brows and shook her head after a bit of silence, ¡°I don¡¯t want to discuss this. Xu Yi, have them begin.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s tired appearance, Xu Yi gave a sigh on the inside. He stood on the stage and looked over the prepared guards. After giving a nod, he shouted, ¡°I now announce the purge of the ck Rice Wastnd will begin!¡±

 Volume 4 43 - Consequences

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 43 Consequences</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce working with her highness Seveni to purge the beastmen n on the ck Rice Wastnd, it didn¡¯t attract too much attention in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even the ?Banta Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? that paid special attention to Xu Yi and her highness Seveni didn¡¯t mention this matter because Xu Yi cared about this matter.

    However, the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t be considered uneventful.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ended their cooperation with those tenpanies, the magic machine industry management department had stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had broken the contract one sidedly, so the department would cancel the right to produce any magic machines in the kingdom for theirpany.

    Unexpectedly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t resist this at all.

    When this decision was made, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce closed their production bases in six cities of the Lampuri Kingdom in half a month, stopping the production of all magic machines.

    The others didn¡¯t stop, there were only the service centers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in many cities left, providing post sale services to many people who bought the Frestech Brand magic machines.

    As for the others, they were moved out of the Falling Rain Valley. The magic research facility and the magic machine development center had been moved to the Sandton Manor.

    Moreover, these two ces only improved on the current products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not creating any new products and they didn¡¯t produce any magic machines, so they didn¡¯t break the rules of the department.

    Other than this, the only normal running factory was the canned fruit factory left in Koror Vige.

    So in an instant, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went from thepany with the most prospects in the Lampuri Kingdom to apany that couldn¡¯t produce any magic machines. Many people thought that this was a death sentence to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    A Frestech Chamber of Commerce that couldn¡¯t produce magic machines, was that still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Of course, people didn¡¯t just show sadness for this current situation, there were many people who were shocked and even enraged.

    When the magic machine industry management department forced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to release their technology and work with the tenpanies, everyone thought that this was breaking the basic rule of business and stealing from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that chairman Xu couldn¡¯t take this and broke the unfair agreement, the department would actually take the full yard and deal a fatal blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t reject this, but there were many voices in the kingdom that questioned this.

    In many of the kingdom¡¯s cities, there were many citizens that gathered together. They gathered in front of the service centers the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up and openly expressed their support for them.

    In the newspapers of the cities, there were many articles that supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Among them, the most direct was the headline in the ?Lampuri Weekly?.

    ¡°The magic machine industry management department = gang leaders?¡±

    With this appropriate title that made people a bit shocked, there was an even more direct and sharper article.

    In the article, the spear head was pointed at the magic machine industry management department. They imed that the department wasn¡¯t worthy of managing the magic machine industry, they were just helping the tenpanies openly rob the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were just leaders of a gang of robbers!

    This article didn¡¯t use vaguenguage like the other newspapers, rather they called out the magic machine industry management department. As for the end of the article, they even mentioned therge nobles behind the tenpanies, which gave them the strong support to dare treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this.

    When the people who had some inside understanding saw this, they had a heart attack,

    This ?Lampuri Weekly? was actually daring to open fire at the magic machine industry management department and daring to expose the people behind it, this was seeking death.

    However, when people saw the name of the author, they couldn¡¯t help understanding.

    It was actually an article published by Baron Hannas, that could be understood.

    But thinking about it, the people who had some inside knowledge were even more shocked by this.

    Baron Hannas could arrange this ?Lampuri Weekly? and the reason why the ?Lampuri Weekly? could be based in Anvilmar City, bing one of the most influential newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom was naturally because of the support of the important people behind him.

    Now that he published this article, it represented the will of the people behind him, which explicitly showed their attitudes.

    The article was this intense, the people behind him that supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really were dissatisfied with the magic machine industry management department this time.

    Among these people the one who reacted the strongest was Sowell City¡¯s Count Sean who made his attitude the most clear.

    When the department decided to raise the taxes for magic machines, Count Sean had done the opposite by giving more tax cuts to magic machines, allowing thesepanies to bnce out the tax payments to the department.

    Moreover, at the same time, Count Sean had taken a very bad attitude towards the special taxes. It caused the magic machinepanies in Sowell City to do much better than the other magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom this year.

    Because of Count Sean¡¯s policies, there were many magic machinepanies that had moved to Sowell City.

    Surrounding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s previous production base, there was arge magic machine industrial zone being built outside Sowell City.

    Although it couldn¡¯tpare to the previous Banta City, this magic machine industrial zone contained manypanies rted to all the magic machines released, so it could be considered a perfect little industrial zone.

    When the department announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t produce magic machines in the kingdom anymore, Count Sean didn¡¯t give them any face and directly announced that he wouldn¡¯t follow the rules of the department, he would go against it.

    As a City Lord, going against the rules of the kingdom¡¯s department was a very serious matter, but Count Sean firmly sat in the position as Sowell City¡¯s City Lord, not being moved at all.

    Of course, the battle of the people above was far out of reach for themoners of the kingdom.

    For thesemoners, they only noticed one thing. It was that now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was banned from making magic machines in the kingdom, therge number of jobs created by them had been lost and many people directly lost their jobs.

    Although the tenpanies began recruiting people, the wages that they gave were just far toocking and there were many welfare policies that were gone. Naturally it caused many people to be dissatisfied.

    Other than this, the most seriously affected by this other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were the smallpanies that depended on them.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped producing magic machines, the smallpanies that were rted to them were naturally all influenced.

    For example, the smallpanies that producedponents for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped producing magic machines and the tenpanies had their ownponent producing system, it was hard for these smallpanies to receive orders.

    In just a month after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they stopped producing magic machines, there were more than tenpanies that specialized inponents in Banta City that had closed down.

    Adding in the otherpanies that had stopped after the special taxes on magic machines, in less than half a year, Banta City had lost half thepanies rted to magic machines.

    The current Banta City could still be considered prosperous, but it was far from being able topare to half a year ago.

    The most important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s logo disappeared from the streets. The half wing symbol that could be found everywhere had gradually disappeared and what reced them were the logos of the tenpanies.

    Everything seemed to be announcing one fact.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce disappeared from Banta City.

    However.....would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really disappear?

    Eyes shifted from Banta City to the southwest, arriving at the ck Rice Wastnd around two hundred kilometers away from Banta City. Or perhaps going a bit more south, going to the Stantine Duchy, they would find that not only had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not disappeared, they had quickly grown in these two ces.

    Through the roads in the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy, there were countless transportation Magic Cars that ran, shipping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines to different ces.

    The department had only forbidden the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from producing magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom, but they didn¡¯t forbid them from selling them.

    The reason?

    It was very simple, this matter was for the kingdom¡¯s business department, the magic machine industry management department couldn¡¯t meddle with this.

    Even if the business department wanted to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could they dare issue this ban while everyone¡¯s anger was cresting?

    Even King Eric didn¡¯t dare give this order.....

 Volume 4 44 - Being king isnâ€™t a happy matter

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 44 Being king isn¡¯t a happy matter</h4>

    Eric stared at the document in his hand and deeply knit his brows.

    After a while, he let out a long sigh and put the document down. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to rx a bit.

    After reviewing documents for an entire afternoon, taking no breaks other than going to the washroom, he was naturally very tired.

    Looking at the high pile of documents on the table, Eric couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Before taking the throne he had fantasized that it would be a very happy and satisfying matter if he could be this country¡¯s king.

    But now that he had taken the throne, other than being happy for the first few days, he had been working without stop for the past half a year, having no time to rest at all.

    This very busy life made him think fondly of the time when he could lounge around as a prince.

    At that time, he didn¡¯t need to think of national matters, he could eat, sleep, and y whenever he wanted.

    But now that he was king, because he was too busy, he couldn¡¯t sleep well, he barely had time to eat every day and didn¡¯t have a moment of free time.

    As for ying? He was even reviewing documents in his dream!

    He didn¡¯t care when he saw his father busily managing documents, but now that he was doing it himself, he understood that being a king really wasn¡¯t afortable thing.

    Actually, he knew that the reason why he felt tired was because he wasn¡¯t satisfied.

    Why did he want to be king? Naturally it was because being king gave you the greatest power in this kingdom.

    But after he became king, he found that he didn¡¯t control any power at all.

    No one cared when he spoke or gave an order, so what meaning was there in being a king?

    ¡°Du, du.¡±

    There was a knock from the door and before Eric could answer, it was opened and a familiar figure came in.

    Seeing this middle aged man who always walked casually in front of him and acted like a ruler slowlye up in front of him, Eric forced out a smile.

    ¡°Duke Stagg, do you need something?¡±

    Duke Stagg bent his waist slightly, which could be considered a bow to Eric.

    ¡°Your majesty, I¡¯ve disrupted you now is to tell you that the military budget conference ising up in three days.¡±

    Duke Stagg¡¯s tone was calm without any waves, but Eric¡¯s heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

    After being silent for a while, Eric finally asked, ¡°Duke Stagg, is there something you wish to mention regarding this?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Duke Stagg nodded, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that your majesty wants to increase the budget this year, especially the budget for the northern army, right?¡±

    Eric knit his brows. He only started a slight rumour and this Duke Stagg came right away, not giving him any room at all.

    But he was only thinking this and still had the same smile, ¡°Un, I did have this idea. ording to the reports, the Sack Kingdom is preparing to cause trouble. In order to protect the border, it¡¯s appropriate to increase the military budget. Moveover, the kingdom¡¯s revenue has been good this year, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem with increasing the budget.¡±

    Duke Stagg was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Your majesty, have you not considered a very important problem?¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°At the beginning of next year, the loan that you owe many nobles will expire. If you can¡¯t pay this debt when the timees, you¡¯ll lose many important supporters......¡±

    ¡°Debt?¡± Eric deeply knit his brows.

    This so-called debt was the investments the nobles had made in him before he took the throne.

    Only those fellows had called it a donation before. But once he took the throne, these donations immediately became debts and they requested Eric to repay these debts.

    The tenpanies that the magic machine industry management department chose were backed by these fellows.

    Eric had always found the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a nuisance, so using this, not only did he cleanse the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he also repaid his debt. This was killing two birds with one stone.

    Moreover, having the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hand over the technology was very good for the kingdom.

    So Eric had always tolerated the small actions the department took against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, his main goal was to steal ie from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But it was still too short and adding in the fact that the tenpanies couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence on the market, they couldn¡¯t take much of the ie during this time. The debt that the nobles talked about was something that Eric worried about a lot.

    ¡°If the funds are allocated to repay this debt, the kingdom¡¯s finances will be tight next year.¡± Eric said in a helpless voice.

    After taking the throne for half a year, Eric found thatpared to a king, he was more like a merchant.

    Because every moment of every day, he was always worried about money. He was even worrying about small things like one gold coin that he never cared about before.

    Only after bing the king did he understand how bad of a situation the Lampuri Kingdom was currently in.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s tax revenue had greatly increased in the past two years, the stats still estimated that the tax revenue this year wouldn¡¯t surpass three million gold coins.

    It was fine if this was in a city, but for a country, this was a very pitiful matter.

    Not to mention just covering military expenses.

    In the reports from when Eric led the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, they spent around fifty to seventy thousand gold coins a day.

    After fighting with the Sack Kingdom for less than a month, they had already spent over a million gold coins.

    This battle wasn¡¯t that intense. If they were to fight a real war, the military expenses would be several times that.

    Of course, in order to create momentum for Eric at the time, the nobles in the kingdom had investedrge amounts into the northern army, which was far beyond the normal consumption of the normal army.

    But even with the standard consumption of the northern army, they required one hundred thousand gold coins even if they didn¡¯t fight.

    Adding in the other armies of the kingdom, the previous military budget of three hundred thousand was already very stretched.

    Eric had been on the battlefield, he had seen the fierceness of the Sack Kingdom. He naturally understood that he had to raise the strength of the northern army to increase the safety of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the problem lied in.....money.

    The kingdom¡¯s finances were around three million gold coins a year. Taking aside the basic expenses of one million gold coins, adding in the benefits the nobles received, that cost another million gold coins.

    For the remaining million coins, a part had to be taken out for the kingdom¡¯s infrastructures.

    For example, the agricultural department had proposed building farms that were like that around Banta City, which had an initial cost of two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Then adding in the other things, there weren¡¯t much gold coins left.

    To squeeze out at least five hundred thousand gold coins for military expenses like Eric wanted wasn¡¯t easy.

    ¡°Your majesty, I understand your concerns.¡± Seeing the difficult look on Eric¡¯s face, Duke Stagg said with a faint smile, ¡°First, enhancing the military strength of the kingdom to protect the kingdom is of course necessary. But you don¡¯t need to consider increasing the military budget, right?¡±

    Eric was surprised, ¡°If I don¡¯t increase the military budget, how can I increase the army¡¯s strength? I have been in the northern army, I know that without money, the soldiers can¡¯t even eat their fill, how could they have any strength?¡±

    ¡°That is correct, but your majesty, haven¡¯t you ever thought that the kingdom¡¯s military budget is limited and it is hard to increase. Instead of supporting arge number of soldiers with this limited budget, which means not being able to maintain the battle efficiency of these soldiers, it is better to reduce the amount of soldiers and train elite soldiers. This makes it easier to increase battle strength.¡± Duke Stagg said.

    ¡°Elite troops?¡± Eric deeply knit his brows, ¡°Duke Stagg, our kingdom¡¯s army has less than fifty thousand troops, it¡¯s already very hard to defend the kingdom with these numbers. If we reduce them again, wouldn¡¯t there be holes all over the kingdom? Even if we can defend against the Sack Kingdom, what else can we do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Duke Stagg was clearly prepared as he said with a smile, ¡°The royal army will mainly be in charge of the defenses, as for the other tasks, nobles like me naturally have a duty to defend the kingdom.¡±

    Eric was stunned, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Take the northern army guarding the northwest province. Currently in order to prevent the Sack Kingdom¡¯s invasion, not only do they have to guard the northern border, they also leave troops in the northwest province, but I don¡¯t think there is a need. The northwest province has seven private noble territories, so just have those seven noble families be in charge of guarding their territory. We have them share the duty of defending the border.¡±

    Eric shook his head, ¡°How can that be? That is the responsibility of the royal army, the guards of a noble are only in charge of defending their territory, how could they be involved with defending kingdom territory?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, when you led the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, you also received the help of many private guards from nobles. Why won¡¯t you allow them to share this responsibility now?¡± Seeing that Eric was hesitating, Duke Stagg added, ¡°The most important thing is that the expenses of these private guards are taken care of by the nobles, the kingdom¡¯s finances won¡¯t matter. Wouldn¡¯t this help with saving on military spending?¡±

    Eric knit his brows and fell into deep thought.

    After a while, his right hand unconsciously patted the table as he softly said, ¡°This.....it seems like it might work.....¡±

 Volume 4 45 - Move

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 45 Move</h4>

    A medium sized transport Magic Car quickly raced across the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The road the tires rolled across was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invested road made with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed technology. This road was not only more than ten meters wide, being able to hold fourrge Magic Cars, it was also smoother than before.

    Even running at close to fifty kilometers an hour, one wouldn¡¯t feel any jolting at all and they wouldn¡¯t feel any difort.

    Actually this speed already passed the speed limit set by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but for an old driver like old man Sarkozy, it was a normal thing to pass the speed limit.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this Magic Car only being limited to fifty kilometers an hour, he definitely would have been driving faster.

    Old man Sarkozy had one hand on the wheel as his other hand was holding a bottle of fruit juice, drinking it down.

    It was already winter, so after the fruit juice was put there for a while, it was a bit cold. Drinking it down, old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t help shivering.

    It was easy to get tired while driving, drinking the cold juice not only stimted his mind, it could also supplement his nutrition. It was something that old man Sarkozy often did when transporting cargo.

    Putting the bottle of fresh juice down, Baltro in the back woke up. He gave a yawn and got up to look outside before asking old man Sarkozy, ¡°Where are we now?¡±

    ¡°We just arrived in the ck Rice Wastnd.¡± Old man Sarkozy casually replied.

    Baltro looked around outside before nodding, ¡°Un, that¡¯s good. Alright, let me drive, you¡¯ve already been driving for several hours.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine.¡± Old man Sarkozy declined, ¡°We¡¯ll be at the production base soon, we can swap out there. Wake up properly before we talk about this.¡±

    Baltro thought about it and didn¡¯t insist. He leaned over to crawl into the passenger seat before sitting down.

    After looking out the window for a while, Baltro suddenly asked, ¡°Hey, Sarkozy, are you really nning on moving?¡±

    Sarkozy didn¡¯t expect him to ask this question right after waking up. After being surprised, he nodded and confirmed it.

    ¡°I¡¯ll take a proper look at how the Stantine Duchy is this time and then decide if I¡¯ll really move. But I¡¯ve heard those people from the vige who¡¯ve lived in the Stantine Duchy for a year say that the Stantine Duchy really is good. The weather is good and they¡¯re livingfortable lives. So I think.....I¡¯ll most likely decide to move.¡±

    Baltor knit his brows. He turned to look at Sarkozy¡¯s expression and confirmed that he didn¡¯t seem like he was joking at all.

    ¡°This.....Your family has lived in Mexn Vige for over a hundred years, right? You¡¯re really moving? How can you bear to give it up?¡±

    Sarkozy gave an uncaringugh, ¡°What can¡¯t I bear to give up? Can¡¯t I live anywhere? In the end, I can live a good life there, so naturally I would choose that ce. The current Banta City has been ruined by thosepanies, so if I stay there, there isn¡¯t anything good left for me.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that bad.....¡± Baltro refuted, ¡°Although thosepanies can¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, at least with thosepanies there, Banta City can still recover, right?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe?¡± Sarkozy gave a cold snort, ¡°Those fellows forcefully chased out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, is there anything they can¡¯t do? Even discussing this, just in our family, our three kids have all lost their jobs. If they work in Banta City, they can only work for those threepanies, but do you know what wages they give? Six gold coins a month! It isn¡¯t even half of what their monthly wages were before!¡±

    Baltro said in a depressed voice, ¡°It isn¡¯t that you can¡¯t live on six gold coins, we could still live before without that much money each month.¡±

    ¡°The past is the past, if you want me to live those days where I couldn¡¯t even fill my stomach, I¡¯m definitely not willing.¡± Sarkozy said with a cold snort, ¡°Our three kids aren¡¯t willing either, so after discussing it, we¡¯ve decided to move. As long as we work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we can earn close to twenty gold coins with any job we get, it¡¯s much better than staying in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°That is true, but Sarkozy, haven¡¯t you thought of a problem?¡± Baltro then asked, ¡°ording to the new rules of the City Lord Manor, moving out of Banta City means giving up on the status of a Banta City citizen. This means that if you move out, it will be hard toe back. I¡¯m worried that.....the kingdom parliament might have the same rules soon. If you move out and you aren¡¯t recognized as a citizen by the kingdom, what will you do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if they don¡¯t ept us.¡± Sarkozy didn¡¯t care at all, it was clear that he had already thought of this problem, ¡°I said it just now, I¡¯ll go wherever I can live a good life. It isn¡¯t rted to Banta City or the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°But we are from the Lampuri Kingdom, leaving like this.....are you really willing?¡±

    ¡°Why am I not willing? Now that damn king is ruining everything, not caring about us citizens, why wouldn¡¯t we be willing? For citizens like us, we don¡¯t care about the matters of the country. Anyway, those important people don¡¯t even put us in their eyes.¡± Sarkozy said with a look of disdain.

    Baltro was silent for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Although he felt that Sarkozy¡¯s attitude wasn¡¯t right, he couldn¡¯t find any reason to refute him.

    Because Sarkozy¡¯s words were all true.

    After the new king Eric took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom and Banta City had changed.

    The glorious and prosperous Banta City had be a toy for the tenpanies.

    Other than forcing out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they pushed aside the other magic machinepanies and took over the magic machine industry. Those tenpanies were now expanding their hands into other domains, gradually taking markets from the oldpanies of Banta City.

    Although those oldpanies fought with their backgrounds, they found it harder and harder, gradually showing signs of copse.

    If it was just normalpetition, there wouldn¡¯t be any direct rtionship tomoners like Sarkozy and Baltor. They might even be able to benefit from thepetition between thesepanies.

    But the problem lied in the fact that after those tenpanies took over the domains, it deeply affected the lives of themoners.

    For example, just like Sarkozy had just mentioned, those tenpanies now controlled the magic machine industry in Banta City, so now they had suddenly lowered the average wage of Banta City. It was something that all themoners that had been involved in this industry couldn¡¯t ept.

    Then when it came to the transport business the two of them were in, when they transported goods from Banta City to Anvilmar City, the fee would be thirty cold coins. Taking away the consumption along the way, there would be at least more than ten gold coins left.

    If they ran at least ten trips a month, that would be close to two hundred gold coins a month.

    Splitting it evenly, they both received close to a hundred gold coins. Even in the previous Banta City, this was considered a high ie.

    However, now that those tenpanies controlled Banta City¡¯s transport business, they greatly reduced the transport fees. If they transport to Anvilmar City now, they would earn fifteen gold coins per trip, which meant it had been cut in half!

    With such low fees, taking away their consumption, they would only earn a few gold coins each trip.

    If there was a problem on the way, they might even not break even or lose money.

    So after running two of these trips, Sarkozy decided that they wouldn¡¯t take any orders from the tenpanies. He went back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, helping them transport between the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and Banta City.

    Although these trips were a bit long and he was much more tiredpared to before, the fees the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave were sincere. Their profits were lowerpared to before, but it wasn¡¯t much worse.

    There were many private transporters in Banta City, so other than a few that couldn¡¯t keep going, the rest of them were all choosing to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.,

    And because of the suppression of those tenpanies, taking most of the transport business in Banta City, the Fersen Carriage Company found it hard to continue and might not even be able tost.

    Baltro had bumped into chairman Pompeii when he was in Banta Cityst time. He had a dark look on his face and he was much slimmerpared to before.

    Thinking of the dark look on chairman Pompeii¡¯s face then, Baltro suddenly felt that Sarkozy really made sense.

    Since they couldn¡¯tst in Banta City, why would they insist on staying there?

    For the important people of the kingdom, they¡¯ve never cared about the lives ofmoners.

    Since they didn¡¯t care, why should he care about them?

    After thinking this through, Baltro seemed like he had seen the light and he became much more refreshed.

    After thinking about it, he said to Sarkozy, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll take a look at the Stantine Duchy as well, I hope that it¡¯s really as good as everyone says it is.¡±

    Seeing Baltro finally change his view, Sarkozy broke out inughter.

    ¡°Rx, that ce is definitely better than you can imagine.¡±

    Baltro nodded, as he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit more hope towards this trip.

 Volume 4 46 - The beastmen actually have weapons!

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 46 The beastmen actually have weapons!</h4>

    Compared to two years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies had just built this production base, it was now took up ten times the area. It was even past ten square kilometers wide, so it couldn¡¯t be described as just a ¡°base¡±.

    Other than the factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built in thest half a year, because there were too many people, this ce gradually became like a city.

    During the initial nning phase, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already nned for the surrounding area.

    It was the same when nning the new city area for Banta City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had separated the industrial and living areas. This ce was very simr to the new city in Banta City.

    For example, there were roads spreading in all directions. Other than the road that connected to the road to Banta City, there was a road south that connected to the Stantine Duchy and there was a road that went west into the depths of the ck Rice Wastnd. It was said that it even reached the endless seas.

    There was even a road north included in the ns.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement, this northern road would reach the border between the ck Rice Wastnd and the Sack Kingdom to the north, before connecting to the roadwork in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s north.

    If this became true, the ck Rice Wastnd would be a transportation line that connected all ces.

    With the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s special position, it had be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s, or rather the entire western continent¡¯s closest hub to the sea.

    To speak in terms of now, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving many factories here and building tworge steel mills, this ce had already be very prosperous.

    Countless small andrge Magic Cars delivered cargo for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies. They kept going out in all directions, transporting goods and transporting more goods.

    Sarkozy and Baltro received an order from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time. They were delivering non-ferrous metals from Cramer City to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill.

    In a normal situation, they would have headed back after delivering this cargo, but Sarkozy already made the decision to move to the Stantine Duchy from Banta City. So after resting here for a bit, he would head out to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new base in the Stantine Duchy to inspect it.

    In order not to waste their time, they wanted to see if there was a transport job from here to the Stantine Duchy.

    It should be said that their luck wasn¡¯t bad. After delivering the non-ferrous metal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill, the manager of the steel mill who Sarkozy was close to give him a job to transport the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s precise refined alloys to the Stantine Duchy.

    Although the fees of this trip weren¡¯t high, only being a trivial twenty gold coins, Sarkozy still agreed.

    Leaving their Magic Car in the steel mill to be loaded, Sarkozy and Baltro left the steel mill to the living quarters on the side, preparing to find a ce to rest for the night.

    Walking through the streets of the living quarters, Sarkozy looked at the crowd around him before seeing the familiar Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s special streetmps. Then he looked at the familiar factories on the side and he couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh.

    ¡°Look, this ce is no different from the new city in Banta City.¡±

    Baltro nodded, ¡°Un, since this was nned by chairman Xu, the style shouldn¡¯t be different. After he finished, he looked in the distance with a strange expression, ¡°We haven¡¯t been here in a few days and there are that many trees. With this speed, wouldn¡¯t the ck Rice Wastnd no longer be considered a wastnd?¡±

    Sarkozy looked into the distance to see the green and let out a sigh, ¡°The elves are so good at nting trees, they can even turn the ck Rice Wastnd into this. If they did it sooner, the ck Rice Wastnd would have already been transformed.¡±

    ¡°You think the elves don¡¯t want to do this? It was just that the beastmen controlled the ck Rice Wastnd before and didn¡¯t let the elves in.¡± Baltro said with a sigh, ¡°It should be because of chairman Xu that the beastmen and the elves can peacefully be in the same ce. Moreover, the beastmen allowed the elves to change the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    ¡°The beastmen aren¡¯t silly. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is letting them live good lives, of course they would listen to chairman Xu. Then again, you think the beastmen want to live on a wastnd? If the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s environment improves, they definitely would be happy.¡± Sarkozy said.

    ¡°Un, after all, there¡¯s nothing of value in the ck Rice Wastnd before. But if it is changed.....perhaps many people will be moved. I wonder, has chairman Xu considered this problem before?¡± Baltor said in a worried voice.

    ¡°Moved?¡± Sarkozy gave augh and pointed in the distance, ¡°Do you not see it? If they are moved, they should ask them first.¡±

    Baltro looked at where Sarkozy was pointing and saw that on the road that led into the ck Rice Wastnd, there was a row of more than ten Magic Cars that were covered in steel tes raising dust, as they quickly drove off.

    ¡°Those......Could it be that it¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sw enforcement team?¡± Baltro looked at those fierce looking Magic Cars and he waspletely shocked, ¡°God! Just with those Magic Cars, couldn¡¯t they just run over anyone?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that. Look at those Magic Cars......They should be called Magic Armoured Vehicles. Look at the outside, isn¡¯t that blood?¡±

    Baltro narrowed his eyes and saw ayer of dark red over the Magic Armoured Vehicles, which were probably blood stains.

    ¡°Just how many beastmen did they kill?¡± Baltro couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    ¡°How do I know? Anyway, I just know that the beastmen are much more obedient, this ce hasn¡¯t been harassed or attacked by the beastmen in a long time.¡± Sarkozy said with augh, ¡°Those beastmen really deserve it, they had to make chairman Xu angry. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sw enforcement team goes out every two days, they know to be more obedient.¡±

    ¡°The beastmen bully the weak and fear the strong.¡± Baltro also revealed a smile.

    Turning over, they found that many people came over to see the Magic Armoured Vehicles and there were many different kinds of beastmen among that crowd.

    However, Baltro was confused by this. When these beastmen saw these Magic Armoured Vehicle, their faces were filled with joy and excitement, they didn¡¯t seem unhappy at all.

    Baltor was confused by this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sw enforcement team were taking care of beastmen, so it was right for them to be angry from being from the same race, so why were they happy?

    Could it be that these beastmen were uncaring people?

    These twenty Magic Armoured Vehicles didn¡¯t stop at the industrial or living districts, they passed through the crowd and drove to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard base to the northeast.

    Before the cars stopped, Hart jumped out and without even stopping, he headed to the office.

    ¡°You¡¯re back?¡± How did it go this time? How many did you kill?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s dwarf guard leader Omar was in the office lifting arge dumbbell since he was bored. When he saw Harte in, he immediately asked this with a smile.

    The elf guard leader Furio on the side was more tactful than Omar. When he saw Hart¡¯s slightly ugly expression, he was surprised.

    ¡°What? Did something unexpected happen? Were the losses big?¡±

    ¡°There weren¡¯t any losses, those beastmen brats can¡¯t hurt our brothers, but something did happen.¡± Hart replied in a deep voice. He reached to his waist and put a sword on the table.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Omar and Furio looked at the sword in surprise.

    ¡°This was what I took from a beastman.¡± Hart exined.

    Omar didn¡¯t react, but Furio said with a surprised voice, ¡°Those beastmen actually have weapons?¡±

    Furio took the sword to look over carefully as he slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°This sword¡¯s craftsmanship isn¡¯t bad, it doesn¡¯t seem like something the beastmen can make.¡±

    Hart nodded, ¡°It isn¡¯t just this, take a look at this......¡±

    Hart took the sword from Furio¡¯s hand and turned the sword hilt to them, pointing at the de there, ¡°Look at this curve, there¡¯s a small opening. I¡¯m certain that this sword came from the Sack Kingdom!¡±

    ¡°Sack Kingdom?¡± Omar and Furio were stunned, ¡°How is it rted to the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That I don¡¯t know.¡± Hart shook his head, ¡°When I was with the northern army, I fought with those Sack Kingdom fellows many times, so I can recognize it. But I don¡¯t know how those beastmen were connected to the Sack Kingdom. If it was just one sword, I can guess that the beastmen got it from somewhere. But these beastmen that we bumped into, each one of these fellows had a weapon, so this wasn¡¯t normal.¡±

    Omar and Furio looked at each other before their expressions became serious.

    It was like Hart said, the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd didn¡¯t know how to forge and they were poor. It was hard enough to get their daily necessities, so they didn¡¯t have any care for weapons.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards swept the ck Rice Wastnd, beating the beastmen into submission, other than the guards being powerful, the main reason was the disparity in weapons between the two sides.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were all well equipped and they had many personal military magic machines. The beastmen didn¡¯t have any armour and their only weapons were worn out rods or even stones.

    With this difference in equipment, how could the beastmen stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards armed with the Magic Armoured Vehicles?

    But now, Hart found that the beastmen tribe he met this time were all equipped with weapons.

    Although they weren¡¯t any threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, this situation was very unusual which made the three of them cautious.

    Furio was silent for a bit before saying to the other two, ¡°No matter what, we should report this situation to the chairman first.¡±

    Hart and Omar looked at each other before nodding.

 Volume 4 47 - You stole all the spotlight

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 47 You stole all the spotlight</h4>

    Xu Yi put down the report Hart¡¯s group sent and fell into thought. He had Liz on the side take a pen and write down a letter for the messenger that was waiting there.

    ¡°Send my orders to Hart, have them increase their vignce while also investigating the situation in the ck Rice Wastnd as much as possible. See how many beastmen are cooperating with the Sack Kingdom. Also have them bring this news to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s west guards. As for this letter, bring it to the chief officer under her highness, he will find a way to send this to her highness.¡±

    The messenger agreed and after taking the letter, he had some doubts.

    ¡°Sir chairman, why not directly send it to her highness? There might be problems if it changes hands midway.¡±

    ¡°No need, this is a very special period, I should have less direct contact with her highness.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    The messenger was more doubtful, thinking that if there really was a downside to contacting her highness, why did you have her highness¡¯ guardse purge the ck Rice Wastnd?

    Then no matter what, in the minds of the people of the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were deeply connected to her highness Seveni, so there¡¯s no way of downying their rtionship.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin, so naturally the messenger didn¡¯t dare ask too much. Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any other orders, he gave a bow and left.

    After the messenger left, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    He could naturally see the doubt and understood why there was this doubt.

    Indeed, the rtionship between him and Seveni was hard to weaken and he didn¡¯t n on weakening it.

    But he had decided to reduce the rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom. Doing this was all for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Since the other side clearly didn¡¯t want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have influence in the Lampuri Kingdom, he would clearly tell the other side that he didn¡¯t care about this.

    ¡°Perhaps Seveni will have arge objection towards this?¡± Thinking of how Seveni kepting toin to him, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    After thinking this, Xu Yi shook his head to stop considering this and he turned to a corner.

    ¡°Avril, why did you stop? Continue.¡±

    Avril¡¯s two fox ears shook a bit before she said with a smile, ¡°I saw that sir chairman was considering something, so I was afraid of disturbing you.¡±

    ¡°Oh, it¡¯s nothing and it¡¯s not important.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Practice one more time and let me hear it. You¡¯ll be performing at the banquetter and if you make a mistake, Archie and Leia won¡¯t be happy.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Avril nodded. She raised her hands again and the ten slender fingers fell onto the piano keys in front of her, creating a beautiful flow of notes.

    The other aspects of the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t as developed, but since the elves ruled the continent before, music was very developed and there were many kinds of instruments. There was even the piano that was the same as the one on earth.

    The first magic machine that Xu Yi made aftering to this world wasn¡¯t the Magic Fan, rather it was automatic piano model that could y a few notes that he had made at the Senkaiser School.

    Still had only agreed to keep Xu Yi at Great Magician Cami¡¯s Magic Tower because she saw this piano model.

    As proof of the two¡¯s meeting, that piano model was hidden by Still like a treasure and she wouldn¡¯t easily take it out.

    But Still had many different real instruments, they were all being used by the girls of the New Moon Troupe for training.

    With these instruments, Avril chose the piano.

    It had to be said, her choice was very correct.

    The piano was a very elegant instrument and with the natural charm that Avril had a fox race beastman, it created a very different kind of charm.

    Xu Yi was certain that if the current Avril yed her piano in front of everyone in Anvilmar City, she would definitely create arge stir.

    But before the New Moon Troupe finished their training, Avril¡¯s only true performance was for Xu Yi alone.

    It wasfortable to listen to and with the flow of music that came out, Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod from time to time while focusing on listening.

    This piano song came from his memory, it was a famous wedding song from earth.

    This song was very lively, but it was also serious, so it was suited for ying at a wedding.

    Today was Archie and Leia¡¯s wedding and Afaylia had sent Xu Yi an invitation. Xu Yi decided to go with Still and then Avril suddenly came to Xu Yi after asking what kind of gift to give them.

    After Avril came here, she bumped into Leia and now they were good friends. Now that it was Leia¡¯s wedding, naturally she invited Avril.

    After Xu Yi seriously considered it, he felt that instead of having Avril give them a shy and impractical gift, it was better to give them a piano performance which had a more special significance.

    Avril agreed with Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion very much, but she was worried about which song to choose. Xu Yi suddenly had an inspiration and extracted this wedding song from his memories for Avril.

    After practicing for a few days, Avril had already gotten used to this song. Although she still made a few mistakes while ying, Xu Yi believed that anyone who hadn¡¯t heard it before wouldn¡¯t be able to recognize a difference.

    Before Avril finished, still walked in.

    Xu Yi turned and his eyes lit up.

    Because she was going to a wedding, Still had dressed up for once.

    She was already beautiful, but with these clothes, she glowed even more. It made one unwilling to look away for a single second.

    ¡°Hey, Still, you¡¯re dressed this beautifully, are you nning on stealing Leia¡¯s spotlight?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile.

    Still knit her brows and reached out to pull at her waist.

    ¡°I don¡¯t think so. These clothes feel a bit tight now, it seems like I¡¯m fatterpared to before.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not good to be too thin.¡± Xu Yi came over and took her waist gently as he began rubbing around. With augh, he said, ¡°It feels better to touch with a bit more meat, right?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at him, ¡°Avril is still here.¡±

    ¡°Avril isn¡¯t an outsider, right?¡± Xu Yi turned to Avril whose face was a bit red, ¡°Alright, Avril, you¡¯re already quite good with this song. It¡¯s about time, we should head off.¡±{

    Avril nodded before standing up.

    Xu Yi looked at her and shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I think that Afaylia will regret inviting you two to his son¡¯s wedding. I¡¯m sure that you will attract everyone¡¯s attention at the wedding, no one will look at the new bride Leia.¡±

    Because Avril was going to the wedding, she had carefully dressed up.

    With her natural charm as the fox race, she was covered in a strong charm.

    Even standing with Still, she was only a bit weaker, which made Xu Yi let out this emotional sigh.

    Avril¡¯s face was a bit red after being praised by Xu Yi. She lowered her head and followed Xu Yi.

    Seeing Avril¡¯s appearance, Still couldn¡¯t help smiling. She moved to Avril¡¯s side and said in a soft voice, ¡°If Xu yi can ept you, I don¡¯t mind.¡±

    Avril¡¯s face turned even more red and she lowered her head, not saying a word.

    Xu Yi was already almost out the door, but he heard Still mutter something behind him and turning to see Avril¡¯s shy appearance, he was confused.

    But there was no time to ask. He urged the two of them and the three left the manor, heading to the living area of the Frestech Farm.

    Archie and Lei¡¯s wedding couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi and Still¡¯s wedding form before, but it was still quite grand.

    Because they were the first couple to get married out of the people who came from Banta City and they were conducting it in foreignnd like the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi felt it had a great significance. He had sent the regards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and came as the chairman.

    Since Xu yi wasing with his wife Still, the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were naturally all here.

    Other than the high level members, even the lord of this ce Count Wein had personally attended.

    For him as a lord of the Stantine Duchy,ing to the wedding of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s citizens was rare.

    Of course, this was without a doubt giving Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce face.

    But no matter what, having so many important peoplee to his son¡¯s wedding, although his daughter inw¡¯s spotlight was stolen by madame Still and young miss Avril, Afaylia was still very happy.

    He felt that meeting Xu Yi in the past really was the luckiest moment in his life.

    And the decision to migrate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy was the right one.

    The wedding was very grand and Afyalia and the other guests all had smiles, looking very happy.

    However, not everyone could enjoy this happy atmosphere.

    For example, Xu Yi and Count Wein.

    The two had a conversation during the wedding which made the atmosphere around them a bit tense and even a bit unhappy.

 Volume 4 48 - Exchanging land for technology

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 48 Exchangingnd for technology</h4>

    The main topic of their talk was actually a deal.

    After the news that his highness Eric took the throne, Xu Yi asked Count Wein to rent morend from him. He wanted to use thisnd to expand the Frestech Farm, as building factories and research facilities.

    Count Wein was very quick at first, agreeing to rent the same amount ofnd to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as before, which was a total of a hundred thousand hectares.

    Moreover, Count Wein said that Xu Yi could choose from thend under his name. That way, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, he could link the twond together and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a veryrge base in the Stantine Duchy, allowing them to develop however they wanted without problems.

    But as the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom changed and the situation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce seemed a bit bad, Count Wein¡¯s generous attitude had begun to change.

    As for Xu Yi¡¯s request for renting morend, Count Wein started dying and wasn¡¯t as fast as before.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was banned by the magic machine industry management department from making magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom, there was arge change in Count Wein¡¯s attitude. He became much harder towards Xu Yipared to before.

    It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t want to rent the Frestech Chamber of Commercend, rather he was charging a sky high price.

    For the same hundred thousand hectares ofnd, it would have cost them three hundred thousand gold coins before. But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was requesting another hundred thousand acres ofnd, Count Wein had suddenly charged them a shocking million gold coins!

    This was more than three times greater!

    Of course Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to agree to Count Wein¡¯s request, so the two sides had been at a deadlock.

    During these months, Xu Yi had negotiated with Count Wein many times, but they never reached a satisfying conclusion.

    Without knowing the reason why, after learning that Xu Yi wasing to Archie and Leia¡¯s wedding, Count Wein also attended. He took the initiative to find Xu Yi and raised this topic again.

    But it was the same as before, Count Wein still insisted on the sky high price of a million gold coins.

    This made Xu Yi a bit annoyed.

    Since you weren¡¯t nning on yielding, why did youe to negotiate?

    To be honest, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to open new ground in the Stantine Duchy, so they needednd and Xu Yi thought that this was the most suitable ce in the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already begun developing on the ck Rice Wastnd. If the talks with Count Wein didn¡¯t go anywhere, Xu Yi could move the factories with heavier workloads to the ck Rice Wastnd, he didn¡¯t need to expand here.

    Count Wein¡¯s attitude had been firm this entire time, so Xu Yi wasn¡¯t as anxious as before since he made his preparations.

    Count Wein was still acting like this in this situation, naturally Xu Yi wasn¡¯t happy.

    ¡°Count Wein, I¡¯ve already said it many times, ourpany can¡¯t ept this price.¡± Since he was on the domain of the other side, Xu Yi suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice, ¡°Moreover, ourpany has invested quite a bit this year, so suddenly taking out a million gold coins to rentnd that we can¡¯t use yet, it isn¡¯t a smart choice.¡±

    Count Wein looked at Xu Yi and revealed a fake smile, ¡°Of course I know that yourpany has invested a lot this year, since you are building factories everywhere. I understand this, but chairman Xu, I came looking for you today because I found another solution.¡±

    ¡°Of? What is it?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that yourpany can¡¯t take out a million gold coins because you¡¯ve invested too much, I understand this. But our deal doesn¡¯t have to bepleted with gold coins.¡± Count Wein narrowed his small eyes as he spoke with a smile.

    ¡°Not using gold coins?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. He looked at Count Wein for a bit and seeing the clear greed on his fat face, he understood a bit, ¡°What do you want?¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, chairman Xu is a smart person.¡± Count Wein¡¯s face fat trembled fromughing, ¡°Compare to gold coins, there is something else I¡¯m interested in. For example, the technology that yourpany has......¡±

    Xu Yi really was shocked this time.

    He never would have thought that the things Count Wein wanted was the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    When he made deals with Xu Yi, his mind was only filled with gold coins and he never wanted anything else.

    Why did he suddenly care about this technology?

    Was he stimted by something?

    ¡°This.....I want to ask first, Count Wein, which kind of technology are you referring to?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the technology for making magic machines.¡± Count Wein said in a natural voice, ¡°There are manypanies in your Lampuri Kingdom who have be rich thanks to the technology from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I¡¯ve be very interested in them.¡±

    ¡°This means......you want to invest in a magic machinepany?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Count Wein nodded.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    It can¡¯t be considered strange for Count Wein to have this idea since if he did it well, being able to produce magic machines was much more lucrative than just charging rent.

    But Xu Yi could never connect Count Wein with magic machines, he couldn¡¯t even connect the entire Stantine Duchy to magic machines.

    The reason was very simple, the people here were toozy.

    There were many natives at the Frestech Farm, butpared to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people who moved here, the people here were just toozy. Their efficiency wasn¡¯t even a fifth of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Count Wein and the friendly attitude that these people had, Xu Yi would have already chased out all these native workers.

    Now that Count Wein wants to create apany that produced magic machines, even if Xu Yi gave him the technology and equipment, he could only hire the local workers.

    With the low efficiency of the local workers, what kind of future would this factory have?

    Of course, Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t have said this. He just smiled and asked, ¡°Alright, Count Wein, what kind of technology are you interested in?¡±

    ¡°This......first the canned fruit factory, I want to make one myself. There¡¯s no need to worry chairman Xu, I won¡¯t be stealing business from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Yourpany¡¯s canned fruits don¡¯t use all the fruits that our Stantine Duchy has, so there won¡¯t be any conflict between us.¡± Count Wein said.

    ¡°Un.....Also?¡± Xu Yi neither denied or epted this.

    ¡°Other than that, I¡¯m interested in several household magic machines. The ones I¡¯m most interested in are the Magic Refrigerator, the Magic Freezer, and the Magic Air Conditioner. You also know that our Stantine Duchy is very hot all year round, so these things are very popr here.¡±

    Xu Yi found this funny in his heart.

    If one looked at the climate here, the Stantine Duchy was suited for these magic machines.

    But if one looked at the level of corruption, the Stantine Duchy was far from being qualified.

    The Stantine Duchy had a greater gap between rich and poorpared to other countries. Other than the lord Count Wein, most of the people weremoners who had trouble keeping the clothes on their back and there were even more ves here than the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This market was bad, so how could you sell that many household magic machines?

    It had to be known, the cheapest Magic Refrigerator cost at least twenty gold coins.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the specific data, he was certain that within the Stantine Duchy, over 98% of the people couldn¡¯t afford the cheapest Magic Refrigerator.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t tell Count Wein this as he just nodded with a smile, ¡°This idea isn¡¯t bad. Then Count Wein, it isn¡¯t impossible for us to transfer our technology, but this technology isn¡¯t cheap.....¡±

    Count Wein raised a fat finger towards Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ten thousand hectares ofnd for a year for one piece of technology, how about it?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, almost breaking out inughter from joy.

    Count Wein¡¯s initial price was a million gold coins for a hundred thousand hectares ofnd. So with the conversion scale of technology tond, this meant that he was hoping to buy each piece of technology for around a hundred thousand gold coins.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transfer fees were currently over a hundred thousand, even going over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Count Wein naturally knew this, so he thought that this price was very appropriate.

    If Xu Yi agreed, based on the way the fees were calcted, he might even gain quite a bit.

    But to Xu Yi, he had even given many of this technology to the tenpanies for free and had given them to manypanies of the Lampuri Kingdom, so this technology wasn¡¯t kept that secret. Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much about it.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s mechanical engineering theory from earth and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful research resources, they would definitely be able to create magic machines that surpassed the current magic machines.

    These technologies weren¡¯t worth a thing to Xu Yi.

    If he could use them to exchange fornd the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed, it was clearly them who gained quite a bit.

    Xu Yi deliberately knit his brows and acted like he had to consider it. Then with a difficult expression, he discussed with Count Wein for a while before acting like he was helplessly epting this.

    After the deal was finished, Count Wein was very happy since it took several months. He took Xu Yi¡¯s hand to shake and said whileughing, ¡°Very good, chairman Xu, let¡¯s have even further cooperation in the future. I hope that we can maintain this good rtionship.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Definitely.¡±

    Count Wein¡¯s mind turned before he suddenly approached Xu Yi and asked in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, yourpany¡¯s military magic machines.....¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Xu Yi directly cut him off and firmly said, ¡°The importance of this technology is too much, ourpany won¡¯t transfer this to anyone.¡±

    ¡°Un, un.....It should be like this, it should be like this.....¡± Count Wein kept nodding before asking, ¡°Then.....Chairman Xu.....not talking about the technology, how about buying some military magic machines from yourpany.....There wouldn¡¯t be any problems, right?¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at Count Wein as he felt a bit surprised.

    Was Count Wein trying to push him on the path of no return of an arms dealer.....

 Volume 4 49 - Becoming a foreign company

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 49 Bing a foreignpany</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman......¡±

    Sebas handed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sst month financial report to Xu Yi with a strange look on his face.

    ¡°What is it? Is there a problem?¡± Xu Yi took it and asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem, just.....ourpany¡¯s revenuest month.....actually increased!¡±

    Seeing Sebas¡¯ look of disbelief, Xu Yiughed. He went through the report in his hand and found that it was as Sebas had said.

    ording to the stats, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit after deducting all costsst month had broken a million gold coins!

    This was not just arge increase from the previous months, it was even an increase from this monthst year.

    It was no wonder Sebas had a strange expression. It was because ording to the original estimates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be affected by the ban and their performance would drop, which meant their profits would fall.

    However, facts were different from what most people had expected.

    Although in the first month after the ban, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits and gross sales had dropped, in the second month, this drop had stopped and kept climbing. It even reached the point wherest month had surpassed the same month fromst year.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything strange.¡± The CEO Kennerad on the side said with a smile, ¡°Although we¡¯ve been banned from producing magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom, the business department hasn¡¯t banned us from selling magic machines in the kingdom, so there really isn¡¯t that much of a difference.¡±

    ¡°Un, although relocating the factories affected the production, such a long time has passed and ourpany is back to normal production. Actually we aren¡¯t that different from before, but if you mustpare it, we are no longer as restricted as we were in the Falling Rain Valley. Rather we have quite a few more factoriespared to before, so our production capacity has increased.¡± The household magic department¡¯s head Ankhto added.

    ¡°Right, I really don¡¯t know what the idiots at the department were thinking with that damn ban. Didn¡¯t it make the people in the kingdom want to buy our magic machines more?¡±

    ¡°Right, right. There¡¯s even a movement in Banta City now, calling everyone to only buy the Frestech Brand magic machines and to boycott the magic machines of the tenpanies.

    ¡°I also heard that this movement has gotten bigger and even the surrounding cities are joining in. Now thosepanies can¡¯t even sell products in Banta City or the surrounding cities......¡±

    ......

    Hearing the discussion in the room, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    The people at the department making this ban for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were clearly trying to put them in a death trap.

    However, they never would have thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to build a new production base in the ck Rice Wastnd in such a short period of time. It only took them a month to get back to normal production.

    And the department targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had triggered the doubt and anger of many people in the kingdom.

    In the newspapers and advertising agencies close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was a surge of support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, resisting the wave of the magic machine industry management department.

    It was because of this wave that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales had increased in the past few months. It even made a breakthrough in thest month, surpassing a record of a million gold coins in one month.

    And ordingly, of the household magic machines made by the tenpanies, they were being boycotted by the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom and their sales were very bad.

    There were even quite a few cities that erupted in protests against those tenpanies. The ones that were a bit excessive even destroyed the stores of those ten kingdoms. It could be considered quite a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After learning of this, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    Compared to the public, he knew more and could see things more clearly.

    He knew that the public¡¯s support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is real, but the riots being initiated weren¡¯t that simple.

    It was likely that these citizens were being used by someone.

    The cities that these things happened in were cities that had supported Seveni before. It could be said that they were on apletely different sidepared to the current King Eric and the conservative nobles represented by the department.

    This was a clear indication of their attitude to the other side.

    The department¡¯s ban on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them a good excuse.

    To put it strictly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was being used.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much about that.

    King Eric¡¯s side clearly didn¡¯t show any support for him and suppressed him in all ces, so naturally he didn¡¯t need to consider anything for them.

    If Seveni was willing to stand out, it was possible that Xu Yi could support her.

    However, when he thought of Seveni, Xu Yi just gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    Since bringing five hundred guards herest time and helping Xu Yi with purging the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd, Seveni had returned to her territory and hadn¡¯t taken a step out of her territory in thest two months.

    Her methods clearly showed everyone that she wasn¡¯t willing to interfere with the business of the kingdom.

    Those cities that supported her did things, which was just a waste of time.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, I have no ns for the Lampuri Kingdom for now.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart, lifting his hand to stop the discussion in the room.

    Everyone looked over and Xu Yi looked at the report in his hand as he said to Sebas, ¡°Sebas, don¡¯t be happy too early. I¡¯m certain that next month, the month after that, or even the following few months, ourpany¡¯s finances won¡¯t be that good.¡±

    Sebas¡¯ expression changed, ¡°Sir chairman, have you thought of some new investments? I have to remind you, ourpany has invested too much this year and we don¡¯t have much funds left. If you¡¯re not careful, we¡¯ll be in a difficult situation.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to remind me, I know.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Things like investments are to make money, but we can¡¯t go into financial trouble for them, wouldn¡¯t that be a pit? Moreover, of all the investments that I¡¯ve made now, have we suffered a loss?¡±

    Everyone in the room fell silent.

    Everyone recalled the investments that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made so far and found that it was like Xu Yi said, there was no loss. Rather whichever investment it was, they weren¡¯t determined good at first and people even called Xu Yi crazy, but it had been a great source of ie for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After experiencing this many times, there was no one in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that questioned Xu Yi¡¯s investments.

    But to be honest, if Xu Yi¡¯s investments this time failed and they failed greatly, it would have a profound influence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    That was the investment in her highness Seveni.

    Of course, this political investment was different from business investments.

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I won¡¯t question your investments, but I want to remind you that you need to take care of thepany¡¯s current finances.¡± Sebas fell into thought before tactfully saying, ¡°If it isn¡¯t a necessary investment, I advise we wait several months. At least we should wait until the base on the ck Rice Wastnd is finished before considering it.¡±

    ¡°I will remember this suggestion. But Sebas, I¡¯ve suddenly found.....I¡¯ve been misled by your words. Actually I wasn¡¯t talking about any new investments, rather I received some news which makes me think that thepany¡¯s finances will be bad for the next few months.¡±

    ¡°What news?¡± Everyone curiously looked at Xu Yi.

    A piece of news that could make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits drop for several months? This was just too unbelievable.

    Xu Yi put down the finance report and his expression became serious.

    ¡°ording to this new information, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s business department will be implementing new rules that will ssify the various products that circte in the kingdom. Those produced in the kingdom will be one kind of product and will be considered internal products. Those that are produced in another country and brought in to sell will be considered imported goods.....¡±

    ¡°Then what about us who produce somewhere else and sell in the kingdom?¡± Ankhto couldn¡¯t help cutting Xu Yi off.

    Seeing the anxious Ankhto, Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°This is the same as producing it in another country and selling it in the Lampuri Kingdom, it will be considered imported goods.¡±

    Kennard¡¯s brows jumped up, ¡°This means that we will be treated the same as otherpanies and will have to pay tariffs?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    As soon as his voice fell, everyone in the room couldn¡¯t help shouting out.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Ourpany is a Lampuri Kingdompany, how can this be considered importing?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we are apany under Banta City, so we¡¯re clearly a localpany. Why do our things be imported goods? Could it be that by building foreign production bases, we are considered a foreignpany?¡±

    ¡°Humph! What is there to not understand? It¡¯s clearly those tenpanies being unable topete with us, so they thought of this new shameless move!¡±

    ¡°Right, it must be this! Those fellows really are shameless!¡±

    ¡°Too low! Too shameless!¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi silently waited for a bit and when everyone slowly calmed down, they turned their eyes back to Xu Yi.

    ¡°I understand your anger, but to be honest, I wasn¡¯t that angry when I received this news, rather I found it very funny.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Look at it, they even had the magic machine industry management department ban us from producing magic machines in the country, so what is strange about this?¡±

    Kennard knit his brows, ¡°But sir chairman, like this, our costs will greatly increase if we sell magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom because of the tariffs. Our profits will greatly drop.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why I said that in the next few months, our finances will look ugly.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a smile, ¡°After all, the Lampuri Kingdom is ourpany¡¯s biggest market right now, it will definitely seriously impact us.¡±

    Ankhto thought for a bit before loudly saying, ¡°Sir chairman, how about we increase our prices?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Why not?¡± Ankhto was confused, ¡°This is a problem of the business department, if we increase our prices with the high tariffs, what¡¯s not eptable about that?¡±

    ¡°Transferring the problem of the business department to the normal people who need to buy magic machines, that is not what I want to do.¡± Seeing that Ankhto still wanted to speak, Xu Yi¡¯s tone became heavier, ¡°I have already made my decision on this matter, there¡¯s no need to discuss it.¡±

    Ankhto paused and could only swallow the words that were in his mouth.

    Kennard looked at Ankhto. He thought that after this fellow had been with sir chairman for this long, he still didn¡¯t understand sir chairman¡¯s personality?

    Thinking about it, Kennard asked Xu Yi, ¡°Then sir chairman, what should we do next?¡±

    With everyone looking at him, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve said it long ago, ourpany needs to make a big cake and we shouldn¡¯t steal from others. Since the Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t wee us, then we¡¯ll just turn our eyes to ces that do wee us. The Lampuri Kingdom isn¡¯t the only country on this continent, right?¡±

 Volume 4 50 - Ampriston Town

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 50 Ampriston Town</h4>

    Ampriston Town was on the southwest corner of the Mirando Duchy. It bordered the Rudson Kingdom to the south and was surrounded by the Lampuri Kingdom to the north and west.

    Rivers flowed into the center of this town before flowing further east.

    This river was called the Sandy River in the Lampuri Kingdom, but it was called the Mirando River in the Mirando Duchy.

    The reason for this was because any river that was more than fifty meters wide in the Mirando Duchy could be considered a river.

    Other than this river, Ampriston Town wasn¡¯t any different from the other towns of the Mirando Duchy, it was just as peaceful and calm.

    This Ampriston Town had existed for several hundred years on the continent. No matter how the continent changed, no one would be interested in this small town without any special characteristics.

    The people of Ampriston Town thought the same. They had lived for several hundred years like this, living peaceful lives every day until the day they died.

    However, when the continent entered the second half of year 3783, the peace of this town was broken.

    It was a certain day when severalrge boats floated down the Mirando River.

    There was the mark of the Lampuri Kingdom on these boats, but other than some men who spoke with the ent of Banta City that wasn¡¯t far away upriver, there were alsorge beastmen with strange appearance who looked quite fierce!

    However, what surprised the people of Ampriston Town was that theserge beastmen didn¡¯t run around killing and piging. Rather after they got off the boat, they began working under the directions of the humans.

    After watching for some time, people found that these beastmen weren¡¯t the legendary beastman ves.

    Because the humans on the boat didn¡¯t restrict the beastmen, rather they treated them no different from normal people.

    As time passed, when people looked away from the strange beastmen, they noticed something else surprising.

    Before they realized it, there was actually arge wharf that had been built by the Mirando River!

    And not far away from this wharf, there was a giant building. It was almost double the size of thergest church in town.

    Everyone was surprised by this building.

    They couldn¡¯t understand it at all, why did these Lampuri Kingdom peoplee to this small town to build such arge wharf and to build this unknown building?

    Even if these people were apanied by the mayor and there were even important people like Counts that came to inspect these things that the duchy had approved of, people were still worried.

    But that worry didn¡¯tst long. It didn¡¯t take long before the people of the town realized that these people brought them many benefits.

    There were over a hundred humans and beastmen who came from that boat. Although they brought all kinds of goods off the boat, they didn¡¯t prepare any food or clothing. If they wanted to solve that problem, they naturally had to turn to the town.

    Theserge men all seemed to be rich and they were generous. When they ate a meal, they gave several silver coins which was several times more than what the ingredients had cost.

    Moreover, other than when they eat, theserge men work hard, so they love drinking wine at night.

    Although the wine of Ampriston Town wasn¡¯t considered that good, these men, especially the beastmen took everything and drank it all down.

    Once they were addicted, they might even lose a gold coin.

    In just over a month, the people of the town were surprised to find that because of this mysterious fleet, they had gained many surprising benefits.

    It was a pity that this didn¡¯tst. After the wharf and the unknown building were finished, these men left the town.

    But before they could be disappointed for more than a few days, there were several hundred human men who had arrived in this town.

    These men didn¡¯te from the Mirando River, rather they were riding a strange thing called the Magic Car when they arrived.

    After stopping at this town, these men started to walk around the town.

    They said that they were preparing to build a road.

    Road?

    Ampriston Town shared a border with the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had heard of this thing that had been all over the Lampuri Kingdom. However, why did theye here to build this thing?

    But the answer didn¡¯t matter to the people of the town. The most important thing was that because these people were here, the board and lodging business in the town became prosperous.

    Even well informed merchants started moving after asking these people, building a restaurant on the newly built wharf just to cater to these people.

    After a few months, there were three more roads in this town.

    One led to the west, extending to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The other went to the east, extending towards the capital of the Mirando Duchy.

    As for the final road, it was strange that it entered the Rudson Kingdom to the south, but they didn¡¯t know where it led to.

    After the road and the wharf were finished, anotherrge group of people flooded into the city overnight.

    There were a bunch of strange metal things that were brought into that strange building. Then there was a notice on the town¡¯s government board, announcing that the city was recruiting workers.

    Looking at the wage on the post, there was a wave of people that charged to the door of the strange building.

    You¡¯re asking why?

    Nonsense! Ten gold coins a month! Moreover that included lunch! There were even rewards for holidays!

    Who wouldn¡¯t want to snatch such good work?

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had some fame in the Lampuri Kingdom recruited a hundred workers in this town. They went into the strange building not far away from the wharf.....no, the rare earth resources smelting factory.

    The rest that weren¡¯t recruited weren¡¯t too disappointed. ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would be building several household magic machine factories here in the future and would be recruiting workers.

    ording to the slightly fat middle aged man who came to recruit workers, he even guaranteed that not long after, every person in Ampriston Town will have a decent job. Not only would they not have to worry about food or clothing, they could even enjoy a better life.

    No one doubted his words because as people of a small town, they weren¡¯t worth lying to at all.

    Everyone was waiting for the end of winter with hope.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman said that when spring came and the weather changed, it would be easier to build factories.

    For the people of the town, they could already see the beautiful jobs entering their hands.

    At this time, no one noticed that from time to time, there would be a bunch of goods that were moved out of the rare earth resource smelting factory. It was either loaded into the boats on the wharf or were loaded intorge Magic Cars.

    Their final destination was to the west, entering the Lampuri Kingdom.

    While everyone was immersed in the fantasies of tomorrow, there was a boat that came upstream from the Mirando River and stopped at the wharf.

    At the same time, there was a normal horse carriage that entered the town from the east and stopped at the entrance of the town¡¯s government building.

    Magician Bucares came out of the horse carriage and the mayor of Ampriston Town, Baron Lofik came forward.

    ¡°Greetings your excellency Bucares. Chairman Xu isn¡¯t here yet, how about we sit on the side and wait?¡±

    ¡°No need, I¡¯ll wait here.¡± Magician Bucares waved his hand and stood at the entrance, looking at the entrance to the town with a hopeful look.

    ¡°This.....Your excellency Bucares, if you stand here.....it attracts too much attention. I don¡¯t think chairman Xu will like this.¡± Baron Lofik reminded him in a low voice.

    ¡°Oh? Oh......that¡¯s right.¡± Magician Bucares reacted and after thinking about it, he entered the government building.

    Baron Lofik let out a sigh before quickly following him.

    Along the way, Magician Bucares suddenly remembered something and turned to nod at Baron Lofik, saying with a look of praise, ¡°Baron Lofick, based on the situation outside, Ampriston Town really has changed. I feel that the people in your town are much more spirited and they are clearly much richer. When I was walking along, I could even smell the fragrance of meat.¡±

    Baron Lofikughed, ¡°Indeed it is like this, our Ampriston Town is much better than before. But this is all thanks to Magician Bucares¡¯ grace. If you didn¡¯t direct the Frestech Chamber of Commerce here, our town would have never be like this.¡±

    ¡°Then you should thank the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Xu, what are you thanking me for?¡± Baron Bucares waved his hand and after pausing, he suddenly said in a deep voice, ¡°But I¡¯ve heard.....Baron Lofik, in this half a year, you¡¯ve made some unreasonable request to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You¡¯ve demanded a bribe five times from the one in charge of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Baron Lofik¡¯s expression changed and he forced himself to stay calm as he shook his head, ¡°How could that be possible! The Duke and Count Plimpton have told me countless times to satisfy all the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could I make it hard for them?¡±

    ¡°Is that so? But Count Plimpton was the one who personally told me this before leaving, I hope that it wasn¡¯t just him believing in rumours, right?¡± Magician Bucares said in a dark voice.

    Baron Lofik was covered in cold sweat, but when he wanted to speak, there was aughter that came from the door that cut him off.

    ¡°The Lord Count must have made a mistake. Ourpany has a happy cooperation with the Lord Baron, how could such a thing happy?¡±

    Baron Lofik looked as happy as drinking a bowl of warm soup during winter. He turned to see Xu Yi walking in and he greeted him with a look of gratitude.

 Volume 4 51 - Cautious Mirando Duchy

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 51 Cautious Mirando Duchy</h4>

    Seeing Baron Lofik approach, Xu Yi had a ghost of a smile.

    Actually Magician Bucares was right, this Baron Lofik had indeed tried to make it hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in the past half a year. He had even openly demanded a bribe from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative, which had left a very bad impression on Xu Yi.

    But this fellow had an advantage. As long as his greed was satisfied, he would support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in whatever they wanted to do.

    He had some merit in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able toplete their project in half a year in this small town. If a new mayor came, both sides had to form rtionships again and they might not be as easy to use as this Baron Lofik.

    Not to mention that although he demanded bribes frequently, his appetite was rather small.

    Now that half a year had passed, the investments the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made in him was no more than five thousand gold coins added together.

    Compared to his position of a mayor that controlled this important thing, this was considered rather cheap.

    If every powerful fellow in the Mirando Duchy was as easy to satisfy as him, Xu Yi would be quite happy.

    ¡°Baron Lofik, I¡¯m very happy to see you again. When Phil reported backst month, he was filled with praise about you for me, saying that with your help, our rare earth resources smelting factory was progressing smoothly. He said that he was very assured in cooperating with you.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    How could Baron Lofik not understand what Xu Yi mean? He quickly revealed a wide smile and shook Xu Yi¡¯s hand as he said in a warm manner, ¡°I thank manager Phil for his trust in my work. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in our Ampriston Town is our honour. As the mayor, I¡¯m very happy with the changes you¡¯ve brought to our town, so of course I¡¯ll properly help you work.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°The goal of ourpany in investing is to bring riches to the people. I have already discussed this with his excellency Bucares and I have personally made this promise to Duke Mirando. But based on the current situation, we¡¯re far from reaching that goal.¡±

    ¡°How so, how so, our town has already greatly changed. Magician Bucares was just praising you on this.¡± Baron Lofik turned his head to Magician Bucares with a look of hope in his eyes.

    Magician Bucares narrowed his eyes to look at Baron Lofik. He gave a soft snort before turning to Xu Yi and revealing a smile as he gave a nod, ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, it¡¯s already been two months since Ist came here, but in this short period of time, Ampriston Town has already greatly changed. I can¡¯t help feeling shocked by the ability of yourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything. I¡¯ve said it, this is just the beginning. Your excellency Bucares, you¡¯ve been to Banta City before and you should know what Banta City has be. My goal is to turn Ampriston Town into another Banta City.¡±

    Magician Bucares immediately shook his head, ¡°How could itpare to Banta City? From what I can see, the prosperity of Banta City could alreadypare to the biggest cities in the Candra and Marlow Empires. As for the novel things Banta City has, there isn¡¯t another ce on the entire continent that has the same. Ampriston Town is only a normal town in our Mirando Duchy, how could itpare?¡±

    Baron Lofik on the side also said in an emotional voice, ¡°That¡¯s right, when I went to Banta City before, it really shocked me. The current Banta City, I think that it has already surpassed all the other cities on the continent when ites to the era.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Baron Lofik in surprise. He was a fellow that Phil called ¡°doesn¡¯t understand anything other than making money¡±, but he could tell that Banta City already surpassed every other city when it came to the era, it seemed like he really wasn¡¯t empty.

    ¡°But.....Chairman Xu, to be honest, I¡¯ve been to Bnat aCity several times, but the current Banta City.....it¡¯s a bitcking when ites to before. After your Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City, Banta City¡¯s prosperity has suddenly dropped.¡± Magician Bucares knit his brows and said, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand what your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king is thinking, forcing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This is simply.....the dumbest thing to do!¡±

    Hearing Magician Bucares¡¯ impolite evaluation, Xu Yi smiled. He shook his head and said, ¡°That is their decision, I have noment. Alright, your excellency Bucares, let¡¯s not discuss these unpleasant things, let¡¯s talk about business.¡±

    Magician Bucares nodded and looked at Baron Lofik.

    Baron Lofik immediately understood and said to the two of them with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ll go take a look at the road, you can take your time.¡±

    When Baron Lofik walked out and closed the door, Magician Bucares took out a piece of paper for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the results of the study that me and our duchy¡¯s High Grade Magicians have done during this time. Please take a look and give us your opinion.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t polite as he looked it over. He found that it was a blueprint and there was aplicated Magic Array on it. There were also exnations and details to the Magic Array on the side.

    After Xu Yi finished looking it over, he fell into thought. Magician Bucares asked in a hopeful voice, ¡°How is it? Chairman Xu, how is this liftoff boost Wind Magic Array of the Magic Airship?¡±

    ¡°Un.....there shouldn¡¯t be a general problem and there¡¯s no problem with the Magic Array, but......¡±

    ¡°But?¡± Magician Bucares immediately became nervous.

    ¡°But you¡¯ve ignored a problem. You¡¯ve only considered generating force with this Magic Array on takeoff, but you¡¯ve ignored the mechanical issue. Although this idea is correct, with the Magic Airship being able to take off more smoothly with more force behind it, you have to consider the problem of the machine itself being able to take this stress. If you use this Magic Array, the service life of the Magic Airship will be greatly deceased.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Magician Bucares took back the blueprint to look it over and after lowering his head to think, he suddenly felt a bit embarrassed, ¡°This.....chairman Xu, to be honest, we don¡¯t know that much about the machine itself, so I don¡¯t really understand the situation you¡¯re describing. But chairman Xu is a specialist, so it should be as you said. It seems like we neglected this in our design.¡±

    Seeing the ashamed look on Bucares¡¯ face, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, no one knows everything from the moment they were born. If you learn a bit more magic mechanical engineering knowledge in the future, you¡¯ll naturally be able to consider everything. Moreover, I¡¯ll bring this blueprint back, there are several good parts here. If I give it to Evita, it should help with her research.¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ll have to ask chief Evita for her help.¡± Magician Bucares gave the blueprint back to Xu Yi. After pausing, he hesitantly said, ¡°This....Chairman Xu, if we don¡¯t grasp this magic mechanical engineering knowledge, is it impossible to invest in a factory together?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t true.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There are many other methods. If you¡¯re willing, we can provide the technology for now and you can prepare thend and workers. We will just provide technology and receive a share based on that.¡±

    ¡°Then aren¡¯t we unqualified to touch this technology?¡± Magician Bucares asked with a frown.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    The Mirando Duchy was a small duchy. For the same request, those fellows of the Lampuri Kingdom just directly requested the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Magician Bucares was one of the top magicians in the Mirando Duchy, so he was this careful when he discussed this with Xu Yi.

    But this suited Xu Yi¡¯s will. If the Mirando Duchy had a strong appearance like the Lampuri Kingdom, he wouldn¡¯t have considered a deeper cooperation.

    ¡°Rx, ourpany has enough experience with transferring some of the household magic machine technology. If nothing unexpected happens, it will only take a year and you should be able to learn the technology. When the timees, you will be ready to produce these household magic machines yourself and won¡¯t need to cooperate with ourpany.¡± Xu Yi patiently exined.

    Magician Bucares nodded, but then he was a bit confused.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t understand. Considering this from the view of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s more favourable for you to keep the technology and cooperate with us. If you really give the entire technology to us, we don¡¯t need to cooperate with you anymore. Wouldn¡¯t this be bad for you?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°If you understood the things ourpany has done since we were established, you wouldn¡¯t be asking this. It¡¯s hard for me to exin the specifics to you, so just treat it as me being willful.¡±

    Magician Bucares looked at Xu Yi with a frown, clearly not understanding.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on exining to him, so he didn¡¯t keep asking. He flipped through the bag he brought before giving Xu Yi another document.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the transfer contract that the duke has signed for the Magic Crystal and rare earth resources mines that you wanted, please take a look.¡±

 Volume 4 52 - Itâ€™s quite important to become a Great Magician

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 52 It¡¯s quite important to be a Great Magician</h4>

    Seeing Xu Yi focused on reading the contract, as if he wasn¡¯t willing to let a single character pass by him, Magician Bucares¡¯ heart filled with doubt.

    Even after knowing Xu Yi for a year and officially beginning their cooperation, so he met Xu Yi countless times, he felt that the more he met Xu Yi, the less he understood him.

    For example, when it came to this contract, Duke Mirando was just giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the right to exploit a rare earth resource and a Magic Crystal Mine. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was transferring household magic machine technology to the Mirando Duchy, as well as cooperating with the Mirando Duchy to build five magic machine factories in the Mirando Duchy.

    No matter how Magician Bucares looked at this deal or Duke Mirando, it was clear the Mirando Duchy benefited more from this cooperation.

    Because the rare earth ores that Xu Yi mentioned, no one in the Mirando Duchy knew how to use them anyway.

    Using these things that didn¡¯t have any use to exchange for things could be considered a stablepensation for the Mirando Duchy, not to mention exchanging for the important household magic machine technology.

    For Duke Mirando, the most important thing was the factory they were setting up together.

    ording to the results of their inspection of Banta City, the Mirando Duchy had reached an understanding.

    It was that there were prospects to the household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had and it could generate many jobs.

    If they set up the factories with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and there were these five factories in the Mirando Duchy, for the Mirando Duchy that was just three to four times bigger than Banta City, it would be of great help.

    Although the Magic Crystal mine was considered more valuable than the rare earth resources, Magic Crystals could be found all over the Sines Continent. It could also be found all over the Mirando Duchy, so it wasn¡¯t something that was worth money.

    Even if the Magic Crystal mine that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the biggest one in the Mirando Duchy, ording to the estimates, it was still worth less than a hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for any of the household magic machine technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transferred, any one of them had a transfer fee of over a hundred thousand gold coins.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi also proposed constructing a rare earth resource smelting nt and a Magic Crystal refining nt in the Mirando Duchy. They also agreed to recruit a certain number of locals as workers.

    Just these two factories were enough to bring great benefits to the Mirando Duchy.

    For example, the rare earth resource smelting factory had been in Ampriston Town for less than two months, but they¡¯ve paid a tax of three thousand gold coins to Ampriston Town and recruited a hundred local workers.

    Ignoring the various benefits, just the wages of these workers were ten gold coins a month.

    This wage was second to none among all the industries of the Mirando Duchy.

    So everyone was envious of the workers who could work at the rare earth resource smelting factory.

    For the people of Ampriston Town, they took being able to work at the factory as an honour.

    When they heard the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build another canned fish factory and a fertilizer factory, needing to recruit two hundred workers, there was no need to mention the people of Ampriston Town wanting to fight for these jobs. Even the people of the surrounding towns and cities were prepared to fight as well.

    Once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce confirmed when they were recruiting workers, they would be crushed by a swarm of people.

    It had to be said, Xu Yi had kept his promise, bringing development and prosperity to Ampriston Town. Just this was enough to make Magician Bucares satisfied with him.

    However, it was also because of this that Magician Bucares was filled with doubt towards Xu Yi.

    To Magician Bucares, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions greatly increased their costs. Xu Yi had many different ways to reduce his costs.

    For example, even if he gave a wage of five gold coins a month to the people of Ampriston Town, Magician Bucares was certain that these people would stille in swarms.

    But Xu Yi insisted on doing this and promised many things to Duke Mirando.

    In the beginning, Magician Bucares didn¡¯t believe in Xu Yi¡¯s promises at first because he felt that the promises of merchants weren¡¯t reliable.

    But everything the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi did in this half a year, it proved that Xu Yi had fulfilled his promises one after another.

    When he thought of the many times he had contact with Xu Yi during this half a year, as well as the various changes to Ampriston Town, Magician Bucares was filled with emotion.

    Being able to meet Xu Yi at the Magicians Guild¡¯s certification exam really was a lucky thing.

    Thinking of the certification exam, Magician Bucares suddenly thought of something.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, your current strength.....how far has it progressed?¡± Magician Bucares couldn¡¯t help suddenly asking.

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi had just finished reading the contract and was thinking about some details. When he suddenly heard this question, he couldn¡¯t help being surprised. After thinking for a bit, he hesitantly said, ¡°This.....I haven¡¯t tested it, but it shouldn¡¯t be at the level of a Great Magician yet.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....That¡¯s good......¡± Magician Bucares let out a sigh.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°What is good about it?¡±

    Magician Bucares was stunned before he reacted by waving his hands, ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, don¡¯t misunderstand. I just felt.....that if you became a Great Magician at your age, it would be too terrifying. But thinking of your shocking talent with magic, I feel that it isn¡¯t something impossible......¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Rx, I¡¯m not that strong. Although I¡¯m a Ninth Grade Magician right now, Great Magician Cami said that I¡¯m still far from being able to reach a Great Magician. I still have to work hard if I want to be a true Great Magician.¡±

    Magician Bucares nodded, ¡°Un, his excellency Great Magician Cami is right. Although there is only a step between a Ninth Grade Magician and a Great Magician, it is a very difficult step. Chairman Xu, if you want to be a Great Magician, you have to work very hard. But chairman Xu.....you are busy running the Frestech Chamber of Commerce every day, you don¡¯t have that much time to practice magic, right?¡±

    ¡°Indeed I don¡¯t have much time.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and a helpless sigh, ¡°You should also know that ourpany has experienced many things this year and other than resting in the Stantine Duchy for two days, I was busy for the rest of the time. How could I have time to study magic?¡±

    Magician Bucares gave a sigh, ¡°Even like this, chairman Xu is already a Ninth Grade Magician. It has to be said, chairman Xu, your talent for magic is just too shocking. I feel that Great Magician Cami is right, if you could find enough time to study magic, you might be a Great Magician soon. I think that you should understand that once you be a Great Magician, your status will bepletely different.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this. Don¡¯t forget, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce now has two Great Magician researchers. I am with them normally, so of course I know the gap between them.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°But I have no other choice,pared to my magic level, I care more about developing mypany. In the end, I am just a person and my time is limited, I can¡¯t focus on both.¡±

    Magician Bucares knit his brows as he said with a strict look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I feel that you should focus on magic first. I feel that you don¡¯t truly understand the significance of a Great Magician. Let¡¯s put it like this, if you were a Great Magician, I think that the Lampuri Kingdom would have scruples if they wanted to do anything to you. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s matters in the Lampuri Kingdom would have met another ending.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, Great Magician Cami has been by my side the entire time and I didn¡¯t feel like they had any scruples when dealing with mypany.¡±

    ¡°This......Great Magician Cami is Great Magician Cami in the end, it isn¡¯t the same as you being a Great Magician yourself.¡± Magician Bucares said, ¡°Of course, your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s approach makes me confused. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany of our Mirando Duchy, I dare guarantee that Duke Mirando would fully support your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He wouldn¡¯t do anything this excessive.¡±

    ¡°Forget about the past, let¡¯s not mention them.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook the contract in his hand, ¡°I¡¯ve already read the contract and there aren¡¯t any problems. Please tell Duke Mirando that I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to agree to this contract.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi took out a pen and his personal seal to sign his name on the contract, as well as putting on his seal.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t answer him, Magician Bucares was a bit disappointed. But seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any problems with signing, he immediately became happy.

    Although they had cooperated for half a year, this was the first time that Xu Yi had personally signed a contract. This significance meant that their cooperation was entering a deeper step.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t juste this time to sign a contract.

    After verifying the contract he took from Xu Yi, Magician Bucares said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, ording to the news mister Newman sent a few days ago, he should be here in two more days. We ask you to patiently wait another two days here.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°After all, this is rted to arge matter between our three sides, it isn¡¯t much to wait two more days.¡±

 Volume 4 53 - Withdrawing from the city public transport system

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 53 Withdrawing from the city public transport system</h4>

    On the final day of year 3783, the ?Banta Times? published a conspicuous piece of news on the second page of their paper.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Mirando Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom have signed a three way cooperation contract. ording to this contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will provide some technological support to the Mirando Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom. They will be constructing jointly owned household magic machine factories in these two countries and the Mirando and the Rudson Kingdom will be granting mineral rights to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Although many people saw this news in the ?Banta Times?, to most people, this news didn¡¯t create that big of a stir in Banta City.

    In the end, because of the department¡¯s ban, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t been producing magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom. Then with the new rules from the business department, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold fewer magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For the people of Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had disappeared from their world for half a year.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still operated their service centers in most of the cities, as well as keeping a canned fruit factories and a few research facilities open in Banta City, the only part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was left in the lives of most people was the remaining household magic machines they had bought before.

    People had bad memories and after half a year, most people in the Lampuri Kingdom had gradually forgotten thepany that had created countless waves in their kingdom.

    It was only in Banta City that many people would asionally remember them, feeling fondly about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s chairman Pompeii was one of the people who missed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most.

    Although he was very unhappy being forced by the City Lord Manor to buy the Magic Cars that the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce produced, since they still made a profit from operating the public transportation system and keeping it open helped with the prestige of the Fersen Carriage Company, chairman Pompeii didn¡¯t choose to give it up in the end after considering it. He followed the rules of the City Lord Manor and changed everything to the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cars.

    But less than four months after changing, chairman Pompeii found that not only had he not made any money from running the public transport system, rather he had lost over fifty thousand gold coins.

    Before this, although the Fersen Carriage Company followed the idea of her highness Seveni and listened to Xu Yi¡¯s advice of keeping the prices low, they were still able to make a profit.

    The profit wasn¡¯t much, it was at least ten to twenty thousand gold coins a month.

    But now that there was a loss and this loss wasn¡¯t small, after the Fersen Carriage Company checked everything, they found that this loss was all because of one reason. It was because the Lafaye Brand Magic Cars had problems with their quality.

    Justst month, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s three hundred and seventy four Lafaye Brand Magic Cars had been damaged one hundred and seventy six times. In order to maintain them, they had invested twenty three thousand six hundred and twenty five gold coins.

    Because of this high rate of damage, it had seriously affected the public transport system. There were situations where they had to make recements.

    The Fersen Carriage Company had to pay at least three thousand gold coins in operation costs.

    Other than this, there were cases of big damages. If it was serious enough, it caused rather serious idents.

    The most serious one was when one of the Lafaye Brand Magic Cars had suddenly lost control in the new part of the city, crashing right into a store.

    Although it hadn¡¯t been driving fast, so no one was killed, it had seriously injured thirteen people and lightly injured twenty four people.

    The Fersen Carriage Company had to pay over five thousand gold coins in medical fees andpensation.

    Adding this together, justst month, the Fersen Carriage Company had to pay an extra forty thousand gold coins to manage the public transport system.

    Putting aside profit, they had lost over twenty thousand gold coins.

    It had been like this for several months and now chairman Pompeii felt that operating the public transport system was a burden for hispany.

    But maintaining the public transport system not only helped the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s fame in Banta City, they also received preferential treatment from the City Lord Manor, earning a lot of care from them. Even if he lost money, chairman Pompeii still wasn¡¯t determined to give it up and kept trying to maintain it.

    However, there was a new rule from the City Lord manor in the past few days that forced him to make his mind.

    The Fersen Carriage Company couldn¡¯t continue the public transport system.

    The rules were very simple, starting from tomorrow, Banta City would cancel the special subsidies for running the public transport system.

    The City Lord Manor¡¯s reasons were righteous. They said that to promote fair businesspetition in Banta City, they couldn¡¯t give anypany special subsidies.

    But how could chairman Pompeii not know that this was all just the City Lord Manor not being willing to take out money anymore.

    The reason why they didn¡¯t change the rule this time was because the subsidies for the public transport system was decided at the beginning of the year, it was decided by the City Lord then, her highness Seveni.

    If they changed it this year, it would be without a doubt disrespecting her highness Seveni.

    But now that it was the new year, if the City Lord Manor changed this policy, it was a natural matter. Even her highness Seveni couldn¡¯t say a thing about this.

    It was very clear that chairman Pompeii also couldn¡¯t say anything, so he could only silently ept it.

    And after several days of calctions, chairman Pompeii realized that if they lost the special subsidy of the City Lord Manor, the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s loss from the public transport system would be two hundred thousand gold coins or even three hundred thousand gold coins.

    If it was like the past two years and the Fersen Carriage Company had over a million gold coins in yearly profit, they could ept this loss for the prestige and the City Lord Manor¡¯s support.

    But now the City Lord Manor clearly didn¡¯t support the Fersen Carriage Company and the tenpanies lowered the price of transport, causing the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s profits to drop. If counting their finances this year, their total profit didn¡¯t even surpass five hundred thousand gold coins.

    Not to mention that this profit included the high profit margin from the first half of the year.

    If it was just the second half, their profits were less than two hundred thousand gold coins.

    In this situation, the Fersen Carriage Company couldn¡¯t take the huge loss of the public transport system.

    Feeling hopeless, even if chairman Pompeii didn¡¯t want to disappoint her highness Seveni and Xu Yi¡¯s hope in him, he had no choice but to announce that he was giving it up.

    So on the final day of year 3783, on the final issue of the ?Banta Times?. Before anything that had to do with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be on the front page, but today it was pushed to the second page.

    Because on the front page was a shocking piece of news from the Fersen Carriage Company.

    The Fersen Carriage Company announced that starting next year, the Fersen Carriage Company would be withdrawing from Banta City¡¯s public transport system!

    In just a single morning, this news had already all over Banta City.

    Everyone who received this news was stunned.

    The Fersen Carriage Company pulling out, did that mean that there would be no more public transport Magic Cars to ride?

    But the people of Banta City were already used to riding the convenient and quick Magic Cars to wherever they wanted to go. If it was suddenly gone, if they wanted to go somewhere, how would they do it?

    There was no problem for rich people, most of them had already purchased Magic Sedans from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But what about the people who couldn¡¯t afford them? Would they have to rely on bicycles?

    Banta City¡¯s people had been used to the public transport system in these two years and for it to be gone suddenly, these people were stunned.

    After being stunned, many people became angry.

    When the Fersen Carriage Company took the public transport system with the support of her highness Seveni and chairman Xu, they made money off it. Now that her highness Seveni and chairman Xu were gone from Banta City, they suddenly didn¡¯t want to do it?

    What did they take Banta City¡¯s people for!

    But after calming down, these people realized a crucial problem.

    Why did the Fersen Carriage Company withdraw?

    To merchants, earning money definitely came first.

    If they could earn money from operating the public transport system, even if someone held a de to chairman Pompeii¡¯s neck, he definitely wouldn¡¯t announce he was giving it up.

    Because of this question, people began reading the report in the ?Banta Times? on this.

    Although the ?Banta Times? report didn¡¯t go into details, itid out two important points. First was that the City Lord Manor was taking away the subsidies for the public transport system and the second was the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly on the Magic Cars used for that system.

    As long as some smart people say this and thought for a bit, they would roughly understand the problem.

    It was very clear that the City Lord Manor was protecting one of the tenpanies and suppressing the Fersen Carriage Company who was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before.

    If one thought about all the things the City Lord Manor did to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the second half of the year and the actions of the tenpany,paring it to when her highness Seveni was the City Lord and when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in Banta City, the people of Banta City would have a strong resentment in their heart.

    On the final day of year 3873, Banta City seemed calm on the surface.

    But on the first day of the new year, Banta City wasn¡¯t happy at all, rather there were was hidden currents under the calm surface.

 Volume 4 54 - Escaping refugees

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 54 Escaping refugees</h4>

    Her highness Seveni¡¯s territory was in the northeast province, it was situated near the kingdom¡¯s eastern borders and was around seven hundred kilometers away from Banta City.

    The distance was far and with Seveni showing her attitude, she didn¡¯t inquire about matters outside her territory, so naturally she didn¡¯t know what was happening in Banta City.

    However, on the first day of year 3784, Seveni¡¯s mood was the same as the people of Banta City, it wasn¡¯t that good.

    Around half a month before the end of the year, there were refugees that had flooded into her territory from the west and northwest.

    At the beginning, they were in rags and very skinny, clearly looking like refugees. Seveni immediately had the subordinates under her take care of things.

    But as time passed, there were more and more refugees that came to her territory.

    To this day, with all the data, in just half a month, there were over two hundred refugees that came to her territory.

    This made Seveni very surprised.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines being spread across the kingdom, the grain yield of the kingdom had greatly increased.

    Then because of the use of fertilizers, the grain the kingdom produced each year was enough to satisfy the demands of the people, there were even extra grains that could be sold to the neighbouring countries.

    Normally speaking, even if there was some natural disaster, the kingdom should have enough grains and there wouldn¡¯t be refugees.

    Not to mention that the kingdom had good weather this year, so there weren¡¯t any natural disasters.

    But now there were refugees in front of her, this caused doubt in Seveni¡¯s heart.

    There was a sacrifice to the death of Lampuri Thirteenth on the first day of the new year. When Seveni thought of her father¡¯s urgings before his death, she couldn¡¯t help finding the refugees that arrived in her territory to question them.

    After a few simple questions, Seveni got an answer that she never would have imagined.

    These refugees didn¡¯t escape because they didn¡¯t have enough to eat, they were escaping conscription.

    ¡°Conscription?¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°Other than conscription into the royal army, there has never been any kind of conscription before. What are you escaping from?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, your highness, you¡¯re mistaken.¡± The one who answered was a middle aged man who escaped from the northwest territory. He shook his head and said, ¡°We aren¡¯t evading conscription from the kingdom, we¡¯re escaping the conscription of the local lords.¡±

    Seveni was stunned, ¡°Conscription of the local lords? What did they want to conscript you for?¡±

    ¡°It was to make us work in the factories. They wouldn¡¯t give us seeds if we didn¡¯t work, so we wouldn¡¯t have anything to eat.¡± The middle aged man said with a sigh, ¡°But working in the factory means going early in the morning and onlying back at night. It¡¯s like this for every day and I¡¯ve done this for several months, so I can¡¯t take it anymore.¡±

    ¡°Right, we are the same. There are times that we work all night and are only given a few hours to sleep. There were two people who worked themselves to death in our vigest month.¡± A man who was skinny and shouldn¡¯t have been that old, but looked like a man of thirty to forty agreed.

    ¡°Right, right, there were many people who worked themselves to death on our side. We were afraid of the same, so we took the chance to escape.¡± The one who spoke this time was a middle aged woman, ¡°Our entire family ran away this time, otherwise if anyone stayed, they would have been caught. If we kept working, our entire family would have died of exhaustion.¡±

    Seeing all thin and pale refugees all saying the same thing, Seveni was shocked in her heart.

    ¡°Where did they make you work? You¡¯re actually this tired?¡±

    ¡°It was working in the factories, we seemed to be making magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s those magic machines. Those damn magic machines, I even see them in my nightmares!¡±

    ¡°Un, I was making something called the Magic Kettle? It seems to be this. It¡¯s a simple thing and wasn¡¯t hard to make, but doing it all day long, I really couldn¡¯t take it anymore.¡±

    ¡°Of, we were making the Magic Air Conditioners.¡±

    ¡°We were making Magic Stoves.....¡±

    ......

    Hearing the discussion of the refugees, Seveni¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    If she didn¡¯t hear wrong, when these refugees were caught by the lords, they were actually being forced to make magic machines without stopping?

    But in Seveni¡¯s mind, wasn¡¯t working in a magic machine workshop supposed to be simple? Wasn¡¯t it easier than working in the field?

    ¡°Your highness, you haven¡¯t done it before. Let me tell you, that work is indeed very simple, but doing the same thing from morning to night, doing it over ten thousand times, no one can take it. Moreover, we can only rest a bit during our meals, we don¡¯t get any time to rest at all.¡± A refugee exined to Seveni.

    Seveni asked in a stunned voice, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Could it be that you¡¯re not working only eight hours a day? Don¡¯t they pay you extra for working overtime?¡±

    ¡°Overtime?¡± The refugees were the ones who were stunned this time, ¡°What is overtime?¡±

    Seveni was speechless, it seemed like these refugees didn¡¯t know what overtime was at all.

    ¡°Then your wages? You work such long days, you should receive quite a bit, right? Twenty gold coins a month.....Oh, no, that¡¯s impossible. Ten gold coins a month?¡±

    ¡°Ten gold coins?¡± The refugees looked at Seveni with wide eyes, like they had heard something incredible.

    Seeing their expressions, Seveni immediately understood she made a mistake.

    Perhaps for Banta City, ten gold coins a month was the normal wage, but for the rest of the Lampuri Kingdom, this was already a very high wage.

    ¡°Your highness, perhaps to you ten gold coins isn¡¯t much, but we......haven¡¯t even seen ten gold coins before.¡± A refugee couldn¡¯t help saying.

    ¡°Right, I¡¯ve only seen gold coins once in my life. It was that person who went to Banta City for work who showed it to me. He said that he was getting thirteen gold coins a month for his work in Banta City.¡±

    ¡°That much? Why didn¡¯t you go to Banta City as well?¡±

    ¡°I wanted to go too, but my parents are too old and I didn¡¯t dare go too far.¡±

    ¡°What about now? I remember that you said on the road that your parents were beaten to death by the lord, you don¡¯t have this burden anymore, right?¡±

    The young man who said this had a sad look on his face as he lowered his head and said with a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s nothing to gain even if I go now. That person from our vige said that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City, those tenpaniespletely control Banta City now. I might be sent back to the same ce if I go there now.¡±

    After saying this, the young person suddenly looked up and begged Seveni, ¡°Your highness, can you take pity on us and not send us back? If we¡¯re sent back, we will be beaten to death by the lord eventually!¡±

    Seveni was stunned and didn¡¯t reply. The other refugees also reacted and began begging Seveni together.

    ¡°Your highness, I heard that you were the most benevolent. Please forgive us for the crime of escaping! We just want to keep living.¡±

    ¡°Yes, your highness, we really didn¡¯t want to escape, but we didn¡¯t want to die from exhaustion.¡±

    ¡°Your highness, please forgive us......¡±

    ......

    She looked over the begging faces and Seveni gave a sigh. She stood up and told the people in charge to take care of the refugees before leaving this temporary residence.

    The refugees behind her kept begging, but she hardened her heart to ignore them.

    It wasn¡¯t that she wasn¡¯t willing to ept, rather from the responses of these refugees, they were clearly citizens of private territories. ording to the rules of the Royal Parliament, even if she was the princess, she wouldn¡¯t interfere in the territories of other nobles.

    These refugees were citizens under other nobles, so those nobles would decide how to handle them.

    Although she could ept them temporarily, she didn¡¯t have the right to handle them.

    The only thing she could do was take care of them temporarily. She could pretend that she didn¡¯t know anything and could hide it for some time.

    If the nobles of these refugees came, ording to the rules of the Royal Parliament and the unspoken rules between nobles, Seveni couldn¡¯t keep them here.

    She walked along the road that wasn¡¯t considered spacious in her territory and Seveni thought about what she talked about with those refugees, feeling bitter in her heart.

    She thought that by solving the problem of grains, she could let the citizens live a better life.

    But she never thought that the citizens would still be suffering.

    Although she didn¡¯t ask clearly, based on the response of the refugees, they were forced to work in the magic machine factories. Not mentioning overtime pay, they didn¡¯t even receive a wage.

    Because they were conscripted and conscription was naturally volunteer work.

    Thinking of this, Seveni couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    When she saw the worker rules that Xu Yi made for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she was surprised since she thought that Xu Yi was thinking too much.

    Because she felt that since those workers were employed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they should follow their arrangements, there was no need to make so many rules to follow. Moreover, the working times seemed so rigid.

    Of course, Xu Yi had said that Seveni¡¯s ideas represented nobles suppressingmoners, but Seveni didn¡¯t admit it.

    Looking at it now, Xu Yi waspletely right.

    The bitter experiences of these refugees perfectly demonstrated this.

    Thinking that the work of these refugees were rted to magic machines, Seveni felt even more emotional.

    Although this meant that the magic machine industry was developing in the Lampuri Kingdom, this wasn¡¯t the kind of development that Xu Yi wanted to see, right?

    Thinking of this, Seveni began feeling a bit ofint and a strong missing of Xu Yi.

    This fellow who had abandoned the Lampuri Kingdom and Banta City, what was he doing on the first day of this year? Does he know about the situation of the Lampuri Kingdom now?

 Volume 4 55 - Almost no way to make a living

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 55 Almost no way to make a living</h4>

    If Xu Yi knew that Seveni wasining that he abandoned the Lampuri Kingdom and Banta City, he would definitely say that he was being wronged.

    Because in the first half a month of the new year, he brought his family back to the Falling Star Manor of Banta City.

    Moreover, just yesterday, he even went to a New Years banquet at the City Lord Manor, having a ¡°nice and friendly¡± conversation with City Lord Kamado. Then he had some wine with some old friends of Banta City to the point that when he woke up on the first day of the New Years, his head still hurt from his hangover.

    But the pain couldn¡¯t affect his n.

    ording to his n, he would be meeting people on the first day. That not only included his old partners in Banta City, it also included City Lord Kamado and the representative of the tenpanies.

    Although their contracts had been broken, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept some facilities in Banta City, so they were a Banta Citypany in name, so there had to be some courtesy on the surface.

    As for the thoughts of City Lord Kamado and the tenpanies, they had the same idea as Xu Yi. Even if they wanted to show no courtesy to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, when Xu Yi came, they were respectful and didn¡¯t dare show any disrespect.

    Although it was very easy to understand the courtesy of both sides, chairman Cruise was still very impatient because when he came to the Falling Star Manor for New Years greetings early in the morning, he never thought that Xu Yi would spend an entire morning greeting City Lord Kamado and the representatives of the tenpanies. When Xu Yi finally came back, it was already noon.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, those fellows did all those things to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why are you still so polite with them?¡± Chairman Cruise saw Xu Yi who was looking very happy when he came back and knit his brows to ask, ¡°Could it be that you are counting on those fellows to change their attitudes?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Those are just normal greetings and I¡¯m not giving them face, rather I¡¯m giving Banta City face.¡±

    ¡°Giving Banta City face?¡± Chairman Cruise gave a cold snort, ¡°Banta City¡¯s face has already been lost by them.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why do you say this?¡± Xu Yi sat down on the sofa and looked at chairman Cruise in surprise.

    ¡°Our Banta City has been the best in the area for the past few years, right? We weren¡¯t even that much worsepared to Anvilmar City. But look at this year, those fellows have ruined Banta City, so there¡¯s no need to mention Anvilmar City, we can¡¯t evenpare to the nearby Karma City and Saltan City anymore.¡± Chairman Cruise said with an angry look.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right?¡± Xu Yi said in a surprised voice, ¡°Banta City has been developing well in the past few years, even if they ruin things, it would still be better than the other cities, right?¡±

    ¡°Humph, it is indeed stronger now, but that might not be the case in another year or two.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a snort, ¡°Right now other than those tenpanies, all the otherpanies are nning to move. Take a look, Banta City¡¯s prosperity was driven by the development of ourpanies, of course your Frestech Chamber of Commerce yed the biggest role. Now that those fellows have chased out your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we otherpanies are also having our livelihoods being taken away, so what prospects does Banta City have?¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t make a living anymore?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Is it that exaggerated?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Chairman Cruise raised his voice, ¡°Do you know what bullshit policies that City Lord Manor has made during this time?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What? It¡¯s rted to your Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course! The City Lord Manor has contacted us thatying roads and building houses will involve the kingdom¡¯snd, so it will be managed by the kingdom¡¯s parliament. Thepanies that are involved in these two industries must ept the arrangement of the City Lord Manor which they decide after researching. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, whether it isying down roads or building houses has to submit a report to the City Lord Manor and finish it under the supervision of the City Lord Manor.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and didn¡¯t see anything wrong with this.

    Becausend was a limited resource and because of the existence of nobles, there wasn¡¯t muchnd the kingdom controlled, so it was necessary for the kingdom¡¯s parliament to strictly control thesends.

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Chairman Cruise angrily waved his hand, ¡°I have no objection if that¡¯s all they care about, I don¡¯t care about giving a bit of money either. But the City Lord Manor said that they were assigning the Meiya Chamber of Commerce as thepany in charge of inspecting thend, which means they are clearly targeting our Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Do you know that thispany is doing?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it to evaluate thend usage of yourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Chairman Cruise gave a strong snort, ¡°It¡¯s fine if it¡¯s just this! But the City Lord Manor has requested that ourpany has to cooperate with the Meiya Chamber of Commerce on all road building or construction projects. We can only start building after receiving approval from the Meiya Chamber of Commerce and during the construction, we need approval from the Meiya Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Alright, this is considered normal. I don¡¯t feel it¡¯s anything important.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t considered much?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Do you know what the person from the Meiya Chamber of Commerce said?¡±

    Seeing the angry look on chairman Cruise¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Could it be that they gave excessive conditions?¡±

    ¡°Excessive?¡± Chairman Cruise gave a coldugh, ¡°It¡¯s not just excessive, it¡¯s simply shameless! The Meiya Chamber of Commerce said that they wanted 30% of the shares in all road and construction projects ourpany will undertake! Moreover, they requested us to give them our various building techniques for them to check!¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, but then he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Ha, ha, they are using the methods for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce on your Amrit Chamber of Commerce? Based on this, once the Meiya Chamber of Commerce gets your techniques, they will quickly release a rule stating that your Amrit Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t qualified to take construction projects?¡±

    ¡°Look, I knew you would understand.¡± Chairman Cruise spread his hands and helplessly said, ¡°Tell me, isn¡¯t this taking away my livelihood?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and shook his head, ¡°Alright, if it was really this, you wouldn¡¯teining to me. Tell me, what are you nning on doing?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was asking about the main topic, the anger and helplessness disappeared from chairman Cruise¡¯s face and he said with a serious look, ¡°Xu Yi, if our Amrit Chamber of Commerce moves to the Stantine Duchy, do you think that would work?¡±

    Although he had already guessed chairman Cruise¡¯s n, hearing him say it now, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had business all over, so they weren¡¯t apany affected by Banta City. Even chairman Cruise had this idea now, perhaps all of Banta City¡¯spanies other than the tenpanies might be having this idea.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I have discussed this with chairman Vincent and the others, they all have this idea.¡± Chairman Cruise nodded to confirm Xu Yi¡¯s guess, ¡°The City Lord Manor isn¡¯t just targeting our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they are even moving against the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, and even the Falcao Chamber of Commerce. Thepanies losing their livelihoods isn¡¯t just our Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help deeply knitting his brows.

    The City Lord Manor had the support of the kingdom¡¯s parliament, but forgetting about moving againstpanies with deep backings like the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Armani Chamber of Commerce, they even moved against the Falcao Chamber of Commerce. Could it be that they weren¡¯t worried about offending the Jole Family behind them?

    Or could it be.....that the conservative nobles led by the Stagg Family were beginning to move against the other nobles of the kingdom?

    If it was like this, the Lampuri Kingdom would not be peaceful.

    ¡°Un.....If you really want to move to the Stantine Duchy, there is no problem.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°It¡¯s easy to make connections on the Stantine Duchy side, I can help you with this. But haven¡¯t you considered a problem? Your situation is different from ourpany, if you want to get rid of the rules of the City Lord Manor, you just have to register your Amrit Chamber of Commerce in another ce.¡±

    ¡°Of course I thought of this.¡± Chairman Cruise said in a deep voice, ¡°I know what you are worrying about. Indeed, like this, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce would no longer be a Banta Citypany and would be losing the foundation that we built over many years. As for avoiding the restrictions of the kingdom¡¯s parliament, we can just be a foreignpany.¡±

    ¡°Can you ept this?¡± Xu Yi asked with a serious look.

    ¡°So what if I can¡¯t ept it?¡± Chairman Cruise gave a sigh, ¡°Those clearly want to run ourpany to death, if I let it end myself, I would be an idiot. Since I¡¯m not qualified to fight and I can¡¯t offend them, I can only hide.¡±

    Xu Yi could only give a sigh.

    Since his highness Eric became king, he expected this one day, but he never thought that the other side would move this quickly, this directly, or this fiercely.

    Right now, they were a bit restrained dealing with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but dealing with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who didn¡¯t have a strong enough backing made their methods direct.

    It was clear the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t the onlypany they wanted to deal with. From the actions of the City Lord Manor in the past half a year, their goal was to give Banta City to the tenpanies. To put it differently, they wanted to give it to the nobles behind those tenpanies.

    The problem was, were they really that confident?

    Were they certain that after chasing out the otherpanies, they can run Banta City as well as before?

    Xu Yi deeply doubted this.

 Volume 4 56 - Wave going out

    <strong>Volume 4 Chapter 56</strong>

    <strong>Wave going out</strong>

    In the past few years, when New Years passed, there would be countless peopleing from other cities to Banta City looking for jobs.

    These people surpassed the local poption by several times, so every year at this time, Banta City would be filled with people and was very busy.

    But as soon as the new year passed this year, the people of Banta City found that there were far fewer people from other regions in Banta City.

    Although there were peopleing in from other ces on the Fersen Carriage Company¡¯s Magic Cars, there were far less than before.

    Therge drop made the citizens who were familiar with the scene of several years ago feel that Banta City had be lonely this year.

    When the new year slowly passed, the people of Banta City noticed something shocking.

    Because of the increase in people and the increase in ie, thergepanies of the city would build countless shops that satisfy the needs of these people.

    But now there were shops that were announcing they were closing.

    At first the Amrit Chamber of Commerce announced that they were closing the house selling store outside the city, then the Armani Chamber of Commerce closed two clothing stores.

    Then, there were manypanies that quickly announced they were closing stores.

    Every night when the people of Banta City slept, they would find that there were many stores that closed when they looked out again.

    If it was said that the fewer people in the streets made people feel depressed, then the stores closing down made this feeling even deeper for people.

    It was like in the blink of an eye, Banta City that was even more prosperous than Anvilmar City had suddenly dropped.

    If this trend continued, it wouldn¡¯t take long before Banta City returned to being the small and remote city of before.

    Even if there were people who thought that Banta City had lost the peace of before from being too lively, everyone had to admit that this prosperous Banta City had allowed everyone to live better lives.

    It was good to return to their peaceful lives, but that would make Banta City poor again. People lost their jobs and their lives became difficult again, which was not something that anyone could ept.

    But whether they could ept it or not, whether they could stop it or not was a different matter.

    Moreover, the fact in front of everyone was that this trend couldn¡¯t be stopped. Banta City....seemed like it was already walking on this road without being able to return.

    Seeing the signs of the familiar shops announcing their closing, only leaving the ten gs of the tenpanies floating around Banta City, the people of Banta City couldn¡¯t help feeling hatred when they looked at those gs.

    If it wasn¡¯t for these fellows, how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leave?

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t leave, how could Banta City be like this?

    The people who felt hatred, it wasn¡¯t just the people who lost their good jobs. These tenpanies had taken away benefits from manyrge and small nobles.

    These nobles used to just need to invest in apany in Banta City, then they would be able to benefit each year and live good lives.

    But with these tenpanies pushing out the otherpanies, these nobles had suffered major losses.

    If one was topare hatred, these nobles hated them more than themoners.

    This situation wasn¡¯t good, so these nobles could only hide their hatred.

    If they waited for a good time, this hatred would definitely erupt.

    But different from those nobles who couldn¡¯t vent since they were nobles, themoners felt hatred, but the most important things to them were their lives.

    Now that those tenpanies had taken most of the jobs in the city, they pushed down the wages and made them work much harder than thepanies of Banta City had before.

    If they stayed in Banta City, it was clear that they wouldn¡¯t be able to obtain a good job.

    So after considering it, the people of Banta City made a decision to leave Banta City and find jobs in other ces.

    Actually before this, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went to build the Frestech Farm in the Stantine Duchy, they had recruited many old farmers and many of them had moved their entire families over.

    Adding in therge number of people who came from other ces each year, it wasn¡¯t that hard of a thing to ept for the people of Banta City to go to other ces looking for work.

    Before the first month had passed, there was a different situation in Banta City.

    In the past, countless people came from all over, but this year there were people leaving Banta City.

    Some went to the Mirando Duchy to the east.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working with the Mirando Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom, so they decided to build a new production base in Ampriston Town of the Mirando Duchy. They were now recruitingrge amounts of workers and they needed workers familiar with magic machines.

    At the same time, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had also entered the Mirando Duchy. They were nning to create roads that connected all of the Mirando Duchy, so they neededrge amounts ofbour.

    As well, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, and the oldpanies of Banta City moved many of their factories to Ampriston Town, so they were also recruiting workers that were willing to move with them.

    It was said that the Mirando Duchy had givenrge cuts in taxes and plenty of policies of support to attract thesepanies to invest there.

    Although this meant that the products produced in Ampriston Town would be considered foreign goods if it was sold in the Lampuri Kingdom, thepanies had announced that they weren¡¯t nning on selling these goods in the Lampuri Kingdom at all.

    After all, there were many otherrge markets on the continent other than the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Some went directly for the Rudson Kingdom to the south.

    Last year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and the Amrani Chamber of Commerce had invested in factories in the Rudson Kingdom. This year, the Rudson Kingdom was working with them even more deeply.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom requested these threepanies to recruit local workers, these threepanies still needed to recruit arge number of Banta City workers to satisfy their needs for skilled workers.

    At the same time, the Rudson Kingdom had also obtained the household magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they needed skilled workers for their factories.

    The Rudson Kingdom naturally didn¡¯t have this kind of people, so naturally they looked for skilled workers from Banta City.

    Moreover, the Rudson Kingdom was giving out an even higher wage than these threepanies.

    For a highly skilled carver, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only offering a wage of fourteen gold coins, not adding in overtime. The Rudson Kingdom factory was offering at least eighteen gold coins and several high level benefits.

    Other than going south or east, the rest of the people went west.

    Most of them entered the ck Rice Wastnd and stopped there. They were looking for work at the production base the fourpanies and now many otherpanies of Banta City had invested in.

    The final part went to the south of the ck Rice Wastnd, entering the Stantine Duchy.

    These people mostly entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the Stantine Duchy. A part of them were recruited by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, building the newest Waterfront Garden Neighbourhood for them.

    There were many people who came to Banta City looking for jobs, but after arriving and learning of the situation, most of them went in one of these directions and left Banta City again.

    In the first month of the new year, Banta City was very chaotic from people who kepting in and out.

    Once the first month passed, halfway through the second month, one would find that in this city that people called the city of miracles, it hadpletely be empty.

    When the cold breeze of early spring came, there was a ball of rolled up paper that rolled around several times beforending at Seveni¡¯s feet.

    Looking down at it, Seveni carefully picked it up and opened it. On it, she found that it was an advertisement for the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s clothing store.

    There were many beautiful images on it and when she looked up at the cold and lonely street without any people, Seveni couldn¡¯t help feeling pain in her heart.

    She remembered that this Banta City was even more prosperous than Anvilmar City and its people were always smiling, so why did it be like this?

    Although she knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leaving would definitely affect it, Seveni never thought that they would affect the city this much.

    Banta City had be prosperous at first because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, developing the magic machine industry and developing Banta City itself.

    But now that Banta City had been ruined because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left.

    Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this important to Banta City?

    Actually there was no need to ask this question, Seveni already knew the answer.

    She wouldn¡¯t feel regret over things that had already passed. She came to Banta City this time, other than looking for Xu Yi to help with the refugee problem of her territory, she had something else important to do.

    The current Banta City was also the same appearance as the current Lampuri Kingdom.

    This change wasn¡¯t a good change and Seveni saw many dangers from this change.

    Even if she didn¡¯t want to interfere with the kingdom¡¯s affairs, as the princess and as Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s daughter, she had to do something for this country.

    The first thing had to start from Banta City.

 Volume 4 57 - Seveni Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 57 Seveni Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    City Lord Kamado had a very strange look on his face as he looked at the application form.

    This form came from a newpany, it was to apply to set up apany in Banta City.

    Normally speaking, this kind of normal application wasn¡¯t something that the City Lord like him would look at.

    But this form really wasn¡¯t normal.

    First, when all thepanies other than the tenpanies were moving out, there was someone that wanted to open apany here. That was already very strange.

    What was even more unusual was that on the application form, it wrote the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    City Lord Kamado was clear that this Seveni Chamber of Commerce was apany that was opened with the support of her highness Seveni.

    Around a month ago, her highness Seveni had suddenly arrived in Banta City and she didn¡¯t hide herself. So City Lord Kamado had invited her over on behalf of the City Lord Manor.

    At this banquet, her highness Seveni had expressed her idea of opening apany to City Lord Kamado.

    City Lord Kamado had thought that her highness Seveni had been joking.

    Although most of the nobles ignored the rules of the Royal Parliament and participated in business, her highness Seveni had always strictly adhered to it and never participated in business.

    Even when she was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi, her highness Seveni had never show any real interest in benefits from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, her highness Seveni wanted to set up her ownpany now? How was that possible?

    But the form in front of City Lord Kamado clearly told him that this wasn¡¯t a joke.

    Moreover, thepany¡¯s name was Seveni Chamber of Commerce. The person who made this application and was the chairman was actually one of Seveni¡¯s most trusted subordinates. Seveni had even introduced that person to City Lord Kamado at the banquet and had asked him to take care of him.

    ¡°Take care?¡± City Lord Kamado couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    When Seveni firmly made the decision to give up on the throne, Seveni¡¯s fame in the Lampuri Kingdom had greatly increased. Whether it was in the hearts of the citizens or the nobles, she had a very high reputation.

    This Seveni suddenly wanted to open apany, investing herself into business. Even if she didn¡¯t use a representative and came forward herself, the nobles might not even dare criticize her.

    Having City Lord Kamado take care of the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was a joke.

    If he wanted to speak of this, he should be asking her highness to take care of him.

    However, there lied the issue that puzzled City Lord Kamado.

    Her highness Seveni wanted toe back to Banta City to open apany, so he had no reason to reject this.

    But City Lord Kamado and the tenpanies had finally driven out the otherpanies who wouldn¡¯t listen, letting them control Banta City. Now that there was a Seveni Chamber of Commerce that appeared, it would definitely destroy this good situation.

    Because it was apany created by her highness Seveni, the tenpanies couldn¡¯t take care of it like they had taken care of the otherpanies.

    But if her highness Seveni broke the tacit agreements of these tenpanies, it would affect the overall situation.

    City Lord Kamado was certain that her highness Seveni would break the standards that they had worked hard to set.

    The reason was very simple, the application had clearly indicated that the main business of the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was magic machines.

    ¡°Her highness wants to ruin this?¡± City Lord Kamado deeply knit his brows.

    With the close rtionship between her highness and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, City Lord Kamado wouldn¡¯t believe it at all if it was said the Seveni Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was forced out back then and unexpectedly, they didn¡¯t fight back at all.

    City Lord Kamado had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely find a chance to fight back, but he never thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make such a big move. They could actually make her highness Sevenie out for them.

    ¡°How should I deal with this?¡± City Lord Kamado pondered this question, feeling it was very tricky.

    ###

    Even if City Lord Kamado wasn¡¯t willing, the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was set up.

    On the day it began, the Seveni Chamber of Commerce held arge ceremony in the shop they rented, announcing to everyone they were starting their business.

    The ?Banta Times? and reporters from the surrounding cities came. There were even reporters from the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly?.

    Theunch of the Seveni Chamber of Commerce caused quite a stir. When it just opened, all of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people knew about it.

    If it were people familiar with her highness Seveni, they would have noticed that this approach didn¡¯t conform with her low key attitude.

    In half a month after the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was set up, countless magic production machines were transported to the idle factory the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left in the Falling Rain Valley.

    After that, countless people from who knows where began working in the Seveni Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories.

    At the same time, the Seveni Chamber of Commerce recruited workers from Banta City.

    In their recruitment, the Seveni Chamber of Commerce had clearly marked that the lowest wage for each person would be ten gold coins a month.

    Although this was far from the high wages of Banta City from before, it surpassed the wages that the tenpanies had set.

    Because of this, there were many citizens who were nning on leaving Banta City for other ces that had remained, applying for the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    There were quite a few people who stayed and most of them had experience working in the otherpanies. They were all pulled into the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, the Seveni Chamber of Commerce suddenly set up ten factories, producing various household magic machines. This increased the demand for workers, allowing them to digest all the people who stayed.

    In just a month, the Falling Rain Valley¡¯s factories that had been shut down for half a year were filled with the sounds of magic machines again, creating a busy scene.

    In the blink of an eye, the Falling Rain Valley was like back when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was there.

    Seeing this scene, the people who stayed in Banta City couldn¡¯t help seeing a bit of hope.

    With the appearance of her highness, Banta City might be able to return to its previous prosperity.

    Although there were some people that were worried that the tenpanies would target the Seveni Chamber of Commerce for doing this.

    But because of her status as the princess and adding in the fact that since the Seveni Chamber of Commerce started, neither the tenpanies, the magic machine industry management department, or even the Royal Parliament and the kingdom¡¯s parliament didn¡¯t make a sound. It made the people of Banta City feel more confidence in the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    These fellows dared to shamelessly target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but even if they had more guts, they wouldn¡¯t dare use the same methods against her highness Seveni!

    ###

    ¡°Too naive.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh and put down the ?Banta Times? in his hand, looking at Banta City¡¯s direction in the northeast with aplicated gaze.

    Before Seveni set up herpany, she had met him before and discussed this with him. Then she contacted him many times, asking for his opinion.

    Xu Yi was very against her doing this because she had given up the throne back then. She should have followed her idea of just staying in seclusion, why would she interfere in the matters of the Lampuri Kingdom?

    But Seveni was very determined and she already had an idea. Xu Yi knew that he couldn¡¯t convince her, so he could only give up this idea and didn¡¯t offer any suggestions. He just worked with her requests, doing things ording to her ideas.

    The Seveni Chamber of Commerce had opened with nothing, but the reason why it could build all this in a short period of time and take less than two months to get out their first products was all because Xu Yi had spared no efforts in supporting them.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a good view of the Seveni Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prospects.

    Although those fellows had scruples with Seveni¡¯s status and wouldn¡¯t deal with the Seveni Chamber of Commerce in the same crude way as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, still they wouldn¡¯t let the Seveni Chamber of Commerce continue.

    Even without a crude method, Xu Yi could think of countless methods to stop the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    Among them, there was a very direct and effective method that Seveni definitely couldn¡¯t deal with.

    Xi Yi was very clear on the consequences, but he didn¡¯t n on warning Seveni.

    First, even if he did, Seveni might not believe him.

    Moreover, Xu Yi also wanted these fellows to use this method to make Sevenipletely give up.

    Then Seveni would give up and whether she returned to her territory to live a good life or thought of a better way to change the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi was willing to see either.

    The only thing hindering Xu Yi was his conscience.

    ¡°Capitales from the world, from head to toe, each pore is covered in dirt and blood.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh and looked down at his hands, ¡°My hands might be dirty and bloody soon.....¡±

 Volume 4 58 - Phase Shifting Hurricane Array

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 58 Phase Shifting Hurricane Array</h4>

    Four months had passed of year 3784 and even on the north of the continent, it was currently entering spring and the cold weather was leaving.

    However, in the south Stantine Duchy, it was bing a bit warm and dry.

    The sweat flowed from Xu Yi¡¯s forehead and condensed on his chin, falling down as drops of sweat. It fell bit by bit on theb bench in front of him, creating a patch of sweat.

    Evita on the side took a towel and cautiously helped him wipe off that sweat, as her eyes filled with worry and concern.

    If it was normal, Xu Yi¡¯s mind might wander from Evita¡¯s actions, but currently he didn¡¯t have any thought to spend on her. He waspletely focused on the Magic Array on the bench, he wasn¡¯t even blinking.

    After looking at the Magic Array for a while, Xu Yi slowly reached out his hand and took the Magic Array materials that Evita had prepared.

    When Xu Yi took this, he used his magic and instantly refined these materials. With the surging magic that came from him, there was a faint blue glow that appeared on the magic wand in his right hand.

    Xu Yi¡¯s hand came down and the glow touched the half finished Magic Array. The blue light flowed along every line and instantly lit up the entire Magic Array.

    The wand moved along the Magic Array, creating a new line that continued to develop the Magic Array.

    As Xu Yi¡¯s hand kept moving, the lines of the Magic Array came out, making the Magic Array more and moreplex.

    Evita focused on watching Xu Yi as her heart filled with admiration.

    Although this Wind Magic Array was only a Seventh Grade Array, so it wasn¡¯t considered that high a level that even she could draw it at her level.

    She definitely couldn¡¯t move as smoothly as Xu Yi. He didn¡¯t make a single mistake from the beginning and each line of the array was the same as the blueprint, without the slightest bit of deviation.

    Moreover, from the magic that came from Xu Yi, his level of magic had already surpassed the normal Ninth Grade Magician.

    Even if Great Magician Cami said that he wasn¡¯t at the level of a Great Magician, Evita thought that he wasn¡¯t far.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t even thirty five this year, so at the rate of his improvement, there was no problem with him bing a Great Magician before he turned forty.

    To Evita¡¯s knowledge, in the history of the Sines Continent, there had never been a magician who became a Great Magician before forty.

    If Xu Yi really became a Great Magician before turning forty, he would be making history.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi had never spent all his time on studying magic. Rather he only spent a bit of time on it, so little that even Evita felt it wasn¡¯t right.

    But even like this, his magic level was increasing this quickly.

    It had to be said, this was a difference in talent.

    But Evita also admitted that studying magic machines was actually very good for increasing knowledge towards magic.

    Not mentioning the researchers, just Evita herself.

    She was only a Fourth Grade Magician when she joined the magic research facility.

    And now that she had been here for three years, she was already close to bing a Seventh Grade Magician.

    She was certain that even if she spent all her efforts and time into studying magic, she wouldn¡¯t have been this fast.

    Evita didn¡¯t understand why this was, but a talk with Xu Yi had answered her doubts.

    Xu Yi told her that in truth, magic in the end was just magicians using magic tobine magic elemental energy.

    Studying magic machines meant needing finesse, logical thinking, and awareness of spatial structures. If one could grasp these, they would be able tobine the appropriate magic elemental energy and it would be easier to create spells.

    Evita had thought through Xu Yi¡¯s words and found that this exnation seemed correct.

    When studying magic machines, she found that she had learned these strange things from Xu Yi.

    This not only included aerodynamics, high level algebra, and basic physics that she learned when she was studying the Magic Airship, she found that she had also learned logical inference and reverse thinking which helped increase one¡¯s thinking process.

    As she studied magic machines, Evita felt that it was easier for her to study magicpared to before.

    Moreover,pared to when she was at a lower level, now that she was learning high grade magic, it was easier than when she studied the low grade magic. She had to admit that there was some merit there.

    But every time she considered this problem, Evita felt admiration towards Xu Yi.

    The strange knowledge that Xu Yi had in his mind, Evita was certain that no one else on the Sines Continent had the same.

    And he naturally had this knowledge, so it could be seen that he was an outstanding talent.

    At least when it came to magic machines, Evita felt that she wasckingpared to Xu Yi.

    For example, the ¡°Phase Shifting Hurricane Array¡± that Xu Yi was currently making. It was a Magic Array that Evita had developed to change speeds for the Magic Airship.

    But when it came to the experiment, Evita found that no matter how she adjusted it, she couldn¡¯t let the Magic Array fuse perfectly with the Magic Airship. She couldn¡¯t change the Magic Airship¡¯s speed like she wanted.

    At first Evita had asked Great Magician Cami about how to adjust the Magic Array to fix this problem.

    But Great Magician Cami still couldn¡¯t achieve the effects that Evita wanted with his adjustments to the Magic Array, so Evita could only ask Xu Yi.

    It had to be said, no matter how much the researchers of the magic research facility or the magic machine development center grew, when it came tobining magic and machine machines, no one couldpare to Xu Yi.

    After being requested by Evita, Xu Yi had recognized the problem with just a single nce and quickly gave the solution.

    The two had been studying together for a week and had finally created this Magic Array.

    Because this Magic Array was tooplicated, Evita didn¡¯t have the confidence to finish in one time, so she gave the first time to Xu Yi.

    After around twenty minutes, Xu Yi¡¯s hand finally stopped and he let out a long breath.

    Evita quickly came over with a towel in hand, wanting to wipe Xu Yi¡¯s sweat.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t react at first, but when Evita¡¯s hand touched his face, he was awakened. He quickly took the towel from Evita¡¯s hand and wiped his face.

    Evita had a look of disappointment in her eyes before turning her attention to the Magic Array.

    After carefully looking it over and finding that there were no mistakes, Evita reached out a finger.

    With the injection of magic, this Magic Array immediately lit up with a dark blue glow before a breeze came from it.

    When Xu Yi felt this breeze, he felt much cooler. He looked at the Magic Array before nodding to Evita, ¡°Shift the gears.¡±

    Evita agreed before adjusting the Magic Array with her left hand while her right hand injected magic, causing the wind from the array to change.

    Then Evita made several adjustments and each adjustment would make the wind from the Magic Array stronger.

    When they reached the final one, the wind from the Magic Array was already making the bottles shake on the table.

    ¡°Very good, it¡¯s a sess!¡± Xu Yiughed and had Evita stop, ¡°Evita, you just need tobine this Magic Array with the Magic Airship now.¡±

    ¡°Un, many thanks for sir chairman¡¯s help.¡± Evita said with a faint smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you, I don¡¯t know when I would solve this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Even without me, I believe that you would have solved it sooner orter. Actually, I wasn¡¯t willing to solve it for you because you know that I¡¯ve always wanted you to solve your own problems. Only I want to develop the Magic Airships a bit faster, so I agreed to your request.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Evita nodded before asking with a bit of doubt, ¡°But sir chairman, you are clearly better than anyone when ites to magic machines, why are you researching less and less now? I feel that if you spend more time on research like before, we would be able to develop many more products.¡±

    ¡°I said just now, I want you to solve your own problems because I am just a single person, I can¡¯t participate in everything. I want to see you developing new products on your own and I just need to wait to enjoy them.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°In the end, this world can¡¯t be changed by me alone, right?¡±

    ¡°Is it the same thinking that made you not care about the Lampuri Kingdom?¡± Evita asked.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°It can be said like this. But the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s matters are moreplicated, I can¡¯t just do whatever I want with them.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to discuss this, Evita tactfully changed the topic and began discussing the Magic Array again.

    When they finished, Xu Yi left Evita¡¯s personalb and came to the Frestech Farm. He looked to the east side of the farm and found that on the road, there were a bunch of Magic Armoured Vehicles stirring up the dust as they headed over.

 Volume 4 59 - How about giving you a piece of territory?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 59 How about giving you a piece of territory?</h4>

    Starting from the purge of the beastmen fromst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base on the ck Rice Wastnd had seen their attacks drop.

    Entering the new year, starting fromstst month, it had already been close to three months since any beastmen had dared to cause trouble, not to mention attacking it.

    Of course, even with the peace, one couldn¡¯t let down their guard.

    Although the five hundred guards from Seveni had left after finishing their task and were now situated in the Falling Rain Valley where the Seveni Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base was, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies who cooperated with them strictly guarded the base. They would go from time to time to sweep the ck Rice Wastnd of blind beastmen.

    ording to the agreements of thepanies, eachpany had to provide a set amount of two hundred guards for protection on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would change their guards every month. Other than letting those guards on the ck Rice Wastnd getting some rest, ording to Hart¡¯s suggestion, it would let each guard of thepany get some battle experience and increase their battle strength.

    For Xu Yi, there was another goal in changing this rotation. It allowed him to upgrade the military magic machines the guards had and could use realbat to test these military magic machines.

    The ones being transported back to the Frestech Farm on these Magic Armoured Vehicles were the guards that were being swapped out from the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Xu Yi used a Wind Control Spell and flew to the guard base to the west of the farm. After being inspected by the guards, only then did hee in.

    After patiently waiting for a bit, the first Magic Armoured Vehicle entered.

    Xu Yi was surprised to see that behind the Magic Armoured Car, there was a gold Magic Sedan that followed them.

    This Magic Sedan clearly wanted to enter the base, but was stopped at the door.

    The driver rolled down the window and a young man with the characteristics of the Stantine Duchy poked his head out, shouting at the guard at the gate, ¡°Are you blind! Don¡¯t you see this is the car of the lord? Why aren¡¯t you moving!¡±

    The guard said with an indifferent look, ¡°Sorry, this is a restricted military area. Without permission, those that are unrted are not allowed to enter.¡±

    ¡°Unrted your butt! This is the lord¡¯s territory, do you dare stop him? Do you believe that I won¡¯t run you over now?¡± The driver arrogantly shouted.

    The guard didn¡¯t reply and took out his weapon, aiming it at the Magic Sedan, making his intentions clear.

    Seeing the reaction from the guard, the driver was filled with rage. He cursed out and turned the Magic sedan on, preparing to drive right in.

    Seeing this scene, the guards at the gate were prepared to attack. Even the medium sized Magic Trebuchets hidden inside the base were activated. Xu Yi knit his brows and walked out.

    Seeing Xu Yie out, the guards rxed a bit, but they still red at the Magic Sedan.

    The driver poked his head out again to look at Xu Yi and asked, ¡°Hey, are you the manager here? Quickly make this blind fellow move!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and ignored him. He looked in the back seat of the Magic Sedan and raised his voice, ¡°Lord, please get out. No vehicles are allowed to enter this base, so please forgive us.¡±

    After a while, there was a cough from the Magic Sedan. Lord Wein opened the door and came out with a faint smile.

    He first looked at the gate of the base before Lord Wein looked at Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Sorry, sorry, I fell asleep just now and didn¡¯t know we were here. Chairman Xu is right, this ce is yourpany¡¯s important guard base, outsiders like us can¡¯t be allowed in.¡±

    Hearing Lord Wein¡¯s intonation on the word ¡°outsiders¡±, Xu Yi knit his brows and said, ¡°Lord, your words are too heavy. Lord, for you to suddenlye here, do you need something?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on letting him in, Lord Wein¡¯s expression fell, but he still revealed a smile. He pointed at the Magic Armoured Vehicles stopped behind him and said, ¡°I met them on the way and after asking them, they said that you were in the base, so I came alone.¡±

    ¡°This means that the lord is looking for me? Do you need something?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Actually this is rted to the Magic Armoured Vehicles.¡± Lord Wein gave two dryughs before saying, ¡°I came to ask this time, chairman Xu, are you nning on selling these Magic Armoured Vehicles?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°What? Is the lord interested in this?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Lord Wein nodded, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should know that I¡¯ve had a bit of a conflict with Count Fran to the south, so I feel that.....since your Magic Armoured Vehicles are so very easy to use, if you sell me a few, I would feel more confident.¡±

    ¡°A bit of conflict?¡± Xu Yi felt this was a bit funny.

    It was clearly Count Wein who kept provoking them and finally Count Fran couldn¡¯t take it as he dered war. Now they were trying to kill each other and this was considered ¡°a bit of conflict¡±?

    Xu Yi always thought that the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t like a country and this matter proved it.

    Count Fran controlled thend to the south of Count Wein. He was of the same rank as Lord Wein, they were both counts of the Stantine Duchy.

    But they didn¡¯t have a good rtionship and now they were fighting.

    This situation was like the situation in the Dark Ages, the lords did what they wanted on their territory, just like small kingdoms.

    Although these two lords didn¡¯t get along, they lived peacefully. The reason for this sudden change was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Lord Wein had asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sell some military magic machines to rent somend and Xu Yi had guessed his ideas.

    But Xu Yi never thought that Lord Wein would be in such a rush.

    Just a month ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed to give him some military magic machines that he needed. In the end he kept provoking Count Franst month and now they were fighting this month.

    Only half a month had passed and there had been more than tenrge and small fights.

    During these fights, Count Weing had won without exception, taking more than half of Count Fran¡¯s territory.

    If they kept fighting, it wouldn¡¯t take long for Count Wein to defeat Count Fran and take all his territory.

    For the Stantine Duchy, this kind of action was something that everyone tacitly agreed to.

    As long as Count Wein was strong enough to take Count Fran¡¯snd, Duke Stantine would confer thisnd onto him and wouldn¡¯t question it.

    Based on this, Xu Yi thought of Anklo to the south of the Stantine Duchy.

    With the support of weapons from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Anklo had built himself up from several hundred warriors to owning arge piece of territory in the south of the Stantine Duchy in just over a year.

    ording to the person who came to the tradest time, Anklo was prepared to submit a request to Duke Stantine to make this territory his personal territory, which he was certain would pass.

    As long as he became a lord of the Stantine Duchy, Anklo would be the same as Lord Wein. He could fight other lords and take their territory.

    Anklo¡¯s idea was to control the entire Stantine Duchy and then change it based on his ideals.

    As for the process, there was no doubt it would be long......

    ¡°Chairman Xu.....Chairman Xu?¡± Seeing that Xu Yi fell into thought, Lord Wein thought that he was considering his idea. Then he found that he turned to the south and looked a bit lost, so Count Wein raised his voice.

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....Sorry, my mind wandered.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile. He gave a cough and said with a serious look, ¡°Lord, the Magic Armoured Vehicles are the news military magic machines of ourpany, you should know this. Normally, the newest type of military magic machines aren¡¯t easily sold......¡±

    Hearing this, Count Wein revealed a happy smile.

    There was a meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, this thing could be sold.

    As expected, Xu Yi said in a disguised voice, ¡°But.....since ourpany came to the Stantine Duchy, the lord has taken care of us. Ourpany being able to smoothly develop to this scale can¡¯t forget the lord¡¯s support.¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Count Wein nodded with a smile, ¡°For apany like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce that helps improve everyone¡¯s lives, of course I need to support you. Not to mention that the duke has given the order that I should help you as much as I can.¡±

    Xu Yiughed in his heart.

    Whether it was Lord Wein or Duke Stantine¡¯s support, it relied on one thing and that was money.

    In order to smoothly develop in the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid more than five hundred thousand gold coins to build rtionships.

    As for their expenditures, it was also over a million gold coins.

    If there was no return on thisrge investment, it would be unbelievable.

    ¡°Un......In short.....Lord, it¡¯s not that we can¡¯t discuss it if you really need this Magic Armoured Vehicle, but.....¡± Xu Yi deliberately paused and looked at Count Wein, revealing a ghost of a smile, ¡°The price of this Magic Armoured Vehicle, each one is much more expensive than your Magic Sedan, so......¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t discuss price with me, I don¡¯t have that many gold coins.¡± Lord Wein cut Xu Yi off and he said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, didn¡¯t you always wantnd that belonged to you? How about I give you a piece right now?¡±

 Volume 4 60 - Territory that truly belonged to oneself

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 60 Territory that truly belonged to oneself</h4>

    ¡°Ke, ke, ke......¡±

    Xu Yi almost choked on his own saliva.

    He was just trying to increase the price with Lord Wein, trying to increase it bit by bit. In any case, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce the Magic Armoured Vehicles and if Lord Wein needed it, he would be led by the nose no matter what price Xu Yi gave.

    But Xu Yi never thought that this would happen. At most he wanted some real benefits from Lord Wein such as mines, renting somend, extending hisnd renting agreement, or changing the amount of local workers he recruited, but Lord Wein immediately spoke of giving him territory!

    Xu Yi looked at Lord Wein in a daze for a while before asking with wide eyes, ¡°Wait! Lord, what did you say? You want to give me territory? What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°It means this, what else could it mean?¡± Lord Wein replied with a natural look, ¡°Didn¡¯t you tell me many times that if you had territory that belonged to you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have been forced away? I can satisfy this desire now and give you a piece of my territory.¡±

    ¡°This works?¡± Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Giving a piece of your territory to me, would Duke Stantine agree to this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine as long as I agree. As for whether the duke would agree or not.....Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t need to teach you how to make the duke agree, right?¡± Lord Wein said with a sly look.

    Xu Yi nodded to show he understood.

    Of course he knew the method of making Duke Stantine agree, it was the only method that had worked before, using money.

    Xu Yi considered it a bit before calming down and asking Lord Wein, ¡°Alright, Lord, are you really nning on doing this? How muchnd are you nning on giving me? If it¡¯s too little, it won¡¯t be enough.¡±

    Lord Wein pointed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard base and said with a smile, ¡°How about that piece? Didn¡¯t you say that outsiders weren¡¯t allowed to enter? As long as it is your territory, you can say this with confidence.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi knit his brows, Lord Weinughed, ¡°It¡¯s just a joke, chairman Xu shouldn¡¯t mind it. Rx, since I have decided to do this, naturally I wouldn¡¯t be stingy. How about this, chairman Xu, I¡¯ll hand over the two hundred thousand hectares ofnd that yourpany is currently renting from me, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up, but after thinking about it, he shook his head at Lord Wein, ¡°Lord, aren¡¯t you being too stingy? Two hundred thousand hectares is far from being enough.¡±

    Lord Wein¡¯s face became a bit ugly, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t be too greedy. You should know how important things like territory are, you should know how big of a decision it is to transfer a piece to you.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this, but two hundred thousand hectares ofnd is barely enough for ourpany to keep developing. Ourpany naturally needs to develop in the future, so it¡¯s good to have a bit more space. Don¡¯t you think so, lord?¡±¡£

    ¡°Things like territory are set, so if I give you a piece, I¡¯ll have one piece less. Do you think I can casually give you more?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this very simple, why doesn¡¯t the lord get more territory from other ces then? Of course, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can give all our support to the lord.¡±

    ¡°This.....doesn¡¯t seem like it doesn¡¯t work, but......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi and Lord Wein kept bargaining, but finally both sides reached an agreement. To the sea that wasn¡¯t far from the Frestech Farm, all thend from the river at the Frestech Farm to the sea belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the map that Xu Yi had Evita make with the Magic Airship before, thisnd was around two hundred and forty thousand hectares.

    After discussing the area of the transfer, next came the price.

    Lord Wein started off with a price of ten million gold coins for thisnd.

    Although Xu Yi knew that this price was very low and if this was earth, this would be equal to being given for free, he still bargained with everything and lowered the price to eight million gold coins in the end.

    For such arge transaction, naturally it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pay in gold coins and Lord Wein didn¡¯t want gold coins.

    ording to the agreement between them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give Lord Wein one hundred Magic Armoured Vehicles, one thousand Magic Repeating Crossbows, fiverge Magic Trebuchets, and three thousand personal military magic machines.

    Other than armaments, Lord Wein also requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to help him set up three canned fruit factories and five household magic machine factories on his territory, as well as giving him the rted production technology.

    With this, the added value of these things actually didn¡¯t even reach five million gold coins.

    What made Lord Wein agree in the end was actually Xu Yi taking the initiative to offer that in critical times, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could send out the guards to help him.

    Although Lord Wein had never seen the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, just with the fact that there were many elf and dwarf soldiers, as well as the human soldiers all looking very fierce, he was certain that they were all very powerful.

    Moreover, the news from the ck Rice Wastnd had spread. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had fought the fiercest beastmen tribes there and had maintained absolute dominance.

    Even now, there wasn¡¯t a single Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard who had died and there wasn¡¯t even a single one who had been seriously injured.

    If he could have guards that were this terrifyingly strong to help him, it would greatly increase Lord Wein¡¯s confidence.

    After the two reached an agreement, they signed an initial contract.

    ording to the contract, as long as Xu Yi could obtain the agreement of Duke Stantine, then this contract would be immediately ced in effect.

    After sending off Lord Wein, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help breaking out in happyughter.

    When he was in the Lampuri Kingdom, although he had obtained a noble title and territory before.

    Not mentioning the fact that this territory was small, it was controlled by the Lampuri Kingdom still and wasn¡¯t considered his territory.

    After the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom had changed, he announced that he had given up his noble title and also gave up his territory.

    It was because he was clear that if he didn¡¯t give it up, the Royal Parliament would have done the same as when Lampuri Thirteenth was alive, taking away his title as a noble and taking back his territory.

    So strictly speaking, the territory he had in the Lampuri Kingdom would never be territory that belonged to him.

    In the end, with the strength he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, there was no chance of having territory that belonged to him in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But in the Stantine Duchy, he could have this.

    The Stantine Duchy¡¯s national strength was very weak and lords fought with each other. Duke Stantine didn¡¯t want to manage them and also couldn¡¯t manage them.

    If Lord Wein defeated Count Fran, he would obtain Count Fran¡¯s territory.

    As for now where Lord Wein transferred his territory to Xu Yi, this was something that would have been impossible in the Lampuri Kingdom, but it was definitely possible in the Stantine Duchy.

    Xu Yi was very certain in handling Duke Stantine, he could obtain the approval of Duke Stantine and be a lord here.

    If he could do this, Xu Yi would finally have territory that would truly belong to him.

    Although this territory was only two hundred and forty thousand hectares, which meant an area of two hundred thousand square kilometers, it wasn¡¯t a piece ofnd that was considered small.

    And Xu Yi could control everything on thisnd, he didn¡¯t need to care about anyone¡¯s opinion.

    The only premise was that he needed to be strong enough to defend this territory.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have this confidence in the Lampuri Kingdom, but he had no problem with this in the Stantine Duchy.

    Lord Wein¡¯s ten thousand soldiers was considered quite a lot in the Stantine Duchy and after being equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, they would be able to smash Count Fran¡¯s forces that were equal to his.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were less than a thousand people,pared to the battle strength of Count Wein¡¯s scattered forces, they definitely weren¡¯t inferior and even far surpassed them.

    With this kind of force, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce perhaps wasn¡¯t qualified to participate in the fights between lords, but there was no problem defending their territory.

    Turning and looking around himself, Xu Yi found that his mentality had changed.

    Beforeing here, he only felt that he was a traveler and there wasn¡¯t a ce that he could call home.

    But after signing this contract with Lord Wein, he immediately regarded this ce as his private property. He felt that wherever he looked, there was a warm feeling.

    After looking around for a bit, Xu Yi took a deep breath and returned to normal. After pausing, he went to the guard training base again.

    The guard who had returned had gotten out of the Magic Armoured Vehicles and had formed a neat square formation on the training grounds under Hart¡¯s orders.

    Although there were quite a few elf and dwarf warriors, they still followed Hart¡¯s orders without hesitation at all.

    After fighting for close to a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards of different races had a deep friendship and there weren¡¯t any barriers between them.

    Even the proud elf warriors were willing to listen to the orders of the human guard leader Hart.

    Seeing the firm looks on the faces of the guards, Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile. He gave a short speech to them, praising the contribution they made during this time before dismissing them.

    The guards alpl scattered. Hart came to Xu Yi¡¯s side with a strange expression, first giving Xu Yi a bow before giving Xu Yi a bag.

    Xu Yi was surprised as he took it, ¡°Did you bring back a present for me?¡±

    Hart shook his head, ¡°Now, these are the orders I received.¡±

 Volume 4 61 - Individual Magic Bazooka

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 61 Individual Magic Bazooka</h4>

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°There¡¯s actually this many?¡±

    Hart said with a bitter smile, ¡°Yes, I never thought that the fellows on that side would be crazy. There were many people who wanted to take the equipment that we were wearing.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit speechless.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent their guards to the ck Rice Wastnd to purge the beastmen, while also letting them test the new military magic machines.

    At first there was no interest when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards moved alone. But when they worked with Seveni¡¯s guards and the guards of the otherpanies, through fighting together many times, countless people were shocked by the battle strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. They were interested in the military magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards used.

    At first only the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi to buy some military magic machines for hispany¡¯s guards, but then as they worked together more and more, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the otherpanies that moved to the ck Rice Wastnd requested military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the guards of thesepanies were equipped with military magic machines and they found their battle strength clearly increased, the military magic machines became more popr and more orders came in.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had their profits impacted from shifting out of the Lampuri Kingdom half a year ago, but now that because they opened the market for military magic machines, their gross profits actually surpassedst year.

    Just in thest month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s gross profits surpassed one million gold coins.

    For the household magic machines, although it increased a bitpared to before, reaching four hundred thousand gold coins, it was stillckingpared to the same timest year.

    Other than this, the production magic machine department¡¯s profits had increased from selling Magic Sedans andrge transport Magic Cars, surpassing three hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for the remaining three hundred thousand in profits, that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s arms department that had been created for less than a year.

    Most of it came from selling military magic machines to the guards of the otherrgepanies.

    This time when Hart led the two hundred guards to the ck Rice Wastnd, he had brought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest military magic machine with the hope of trying to promote it.

    Although Xu Yi was confident that the otherpanies would be very interested in this, he never would have thought that Hart would be bringing back arge stack of orders.

    Opening up the bag, he found that there were a total of thirty seven orders inside.

    Other than thepanies that had moved to the ck Rice Wastnd, there were somepanies that were still in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Did you tell them that if they wanted to buy it from inside the Lampuri Kingdom, because of the tariffs, it would be more expensive?¡± Xu Yi asked Hart.

    ¡°I said it, but the people sent by thosepanies said that price wasn¡¯t an issue, they just wanted the goods.¡± Hart replied.

    Xu Yi took the thirteen orders from the Lampuri Kingdom andughed.

    ¡°Hart, tell me.....of thesepanies, how many haverge nobles behind them?¡±

    Hart revealed a grin, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m afraid you¡¯re wrong. In my opinion, you should be asking how manypanies don¡¯t have nobles behind them.¡±

    ¡°Un, you¡¯re right.¡± Xu Yi looked through each order before shaking his head with a simple, ¡°Forget it, we don¡¯t care what kind of lord nobles are behind them, we just need to know that they¡¯ll give us money. Hart, did you exin to them how the orders will go?¡±

    ¡°I told them.¡± Hart nodded, ¡°They will send people to the ck Rice Wastnd to take our goods, exchanging money for the goods. We don¡¯t need to care about anything that happens next.¡±

    ¡°Very good, it seems like these lord nobles aren¡¯t willing to attract attention which suits me.¡± Xu Yi fell into thought for a bit before saying to Hart, ¡°Since the other side wants to buy, then we have nothing we¡¯re not willing to sell. Give Kennard these orderster, he will take care of it.¡±

    Hart nodded. After hesitating a bit, he reached into his chest and took out a letter for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused since there weren¡¯t any clear markings on this letter. When he opened it, he found that it was a letter from the current Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s western armymander Varian Lantis.

    Xu Yi had only met thismander Lantis once through Seveni¡¯s introduction, but why was he now writing a letter and having Hart bring it over, acting all mysterious?

    Opening the letter, Xu Yi understood.

    There were no pleasantries in this letter. This letter only had a single meaning, it was that the western army wanted to buy military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After he finished reading the letter, Xu Yi deeply knit his brows, ¡°Although I heard that armies in the royal army have the right to govern themselves, they still have to receive approval from the royal army, right? Commander Lantis is buying these military magic machines from ourpany, has he obtained the approval of the royal army?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not too clear, but the personmander Lantis sent said that I don¡¯t need to care about the internal problems of the Lampuri Kingdom. If the western army could solve their armament problem, the royal army would be happy and definitely wouldn¡¯t oppose it.¡± Hart said.

    ¡°But that¡¯s the problem.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom transferring this right is because the royal army doesn¡¯t have enough money, so they can¡¯t provide enough equipment to all the armies in the kingdom. If the western army wants to arm themselves, that is a good idea, but where does their moneye from?¡±

    ¡°The personmander Lantis sent told me to pass on some words. Commander Lantis said that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to develop on the ck Rice Wastnd, they can¡¯t forget the assistance of the western army. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helps the western army solve their armament issue, the western army would return this favour.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Hart with a strange expression, ¡°Should this be considered a threat or a sincere request to cooperate?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Hart shook his head, ¡°But there¡¯s no doubt of the western army¡¯s influence on the ck Rice Wastnd. The beastmen acted this honestly on the ck Rice Wastnd for all these years, the western army yed arge role. If ourpany earns the support of the western army, it would be much more convenient for us to develop on the ck Rice Wastnd.¡±

    ¡°Un.....I believe that¡¯s correct, but the problem is.....how do we cooperate?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows as he looked at the letter in his hand. After thinking for a bit, he said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll write a reply tomander Lantis first and you can help me bring it to him. No matter what, there¡¯s no harm in building a rtionship first.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I also think so.¡± Hart nodded to show he agreed.

    After reading through the orders, Xu Yi had Hart report to Kennard, but first he asked a very important question.

    ¡°How are the personal Magic Bazookas?¡±

    Hearing this question, Hart was filled with excitement.

    ¡°It¡¯s very useful!¡± Hart said in an exaggerated tone, ¡°Sir chairman, do you know that when we took these things out, the otherpanies didn¡¯t understand and thought that they seemed crude, hard to use, and weak. They felt strange that we would waste all that time to develop this trash.¡±

    ¡°And then?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Then when some blind beastmen attacked us, those fellows were dumbfounded.¡± Hartughed, ¡°You didn¡¯t see it, but I carried the Magic Bazooka and shot out a single shell, then over a hundred beastmen were blown up. The remaining beastmen were all too afraid to fight back, so they were killed by a single round of shots. This was the easiest fight that I¡¯ve ever won, it could be said that I didn¡¯t do anything at all.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that happy, rather he asked in a surprised voice, ¡°You used a round of rockets for just a hundred beastmen? I say, Hart, do you know how much each rocket costs?¡±

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Hart knew that this was bad. After thinking about it, he awkwardly scratched his head, ¡°This....Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you say that this is our first time using it, so we had to create a shocking effect to make them want to buy it? When we shot that round of rockets, more than a hundred beastmen were blown up, so it created a very shocking scene. Look, there¡¯s all these orders, there are many of them that want to buy the Magic Bazooka.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°These things had just been developed, so they are far from being close to being mass produced. We can only look at these orders and can¡¯t take out the goods at all. As for your single round, ourpany used an entire week to make the rockets that you used. Moreover, each rocket costs eight to ten gold coins to make, so how many gold coins did your single round cost?¡±

    Hart¡¯s expression became ugly.

    ¡°This.....We had one hundred and we shot fifty of them, so we spent.....four hundred to five hundred gold coins.¡±

    After calcting the gold coins he wasted, Hart¡¯s expression became more ugly.

    ¡°This.....Sir chairman, I didn¡¯t think that much then.....I¡¯m sorry, because of my mistake, I made thepany suffer this big loss. You can take this out of my wages......¡±

    Hart wanted to say that it should be taken out of his wages, but he suddenly remembered that although his yearly wage and benefits were high, they didn¡¯t reach four hundred gold coins.

    If it really was deducted, he would be working for free this year.

    ¡°Alright, stop wasting words.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Ourpany can take several hundred gold coins and I don¡¯t care. However, I don¡¯t want you to have a habit for wasting resources like this. You can clearly take care of a hundred beastmen with just a few rockets, yet you shot off fifty of them at once. This is just too wasteful.¡±

    ¡°Yes, yes, yes, sir chairman is correct, I will definitely remember this.¡± Hart kept nodding.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep pursuing the topic and just asked a few things, taking thebat notes of the Magic Bazookas from Hart before leaving the guard base.

    When he came out, he headed towards the sea. Xu Yi headed towards the newly built Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.

    When he came in, he bumped into Great Magician Cami who wasing out.

    Seeing Xu Yi, Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes lit up. He dug around in his chest and took out something.

    ¡°Hey, kid, I¡¯ll give you a fun little thing.¡±

 Volume 4 62 - Cell phone in the magic world

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 62 Cell phone in the magic world</h4>

    Xu Yi reached out his hand in a confused manner and found that Great Magician Cami had tossed a silver white metal box that was twenty centimeters long and five centimeters wide.

    This metal box felt very light, so it should have been made from the new light rare earth element alloy that had just been developed.

    This new rare earth element alloy was not only light, it was also very firm, and it had a very good magic pration. When Magic Arrays were ced on this rare earth element alloy, the Magic Array would have a better effectpared to when it was on a normal metal.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were gradually using this rare earth element alloy for their Magic Array core, as well as updating all their previous products.

    The new generation of deless variable speed Magic Fan that were going to the market this summer, the core Magic Array for them would be made from this rare earth element alloy.

    ording to the results of the magic research facility, because of this change, the new Magic Fan¡¯s output would be increased by 17%. It was even better than directly increasing the grade of the Magic Array by one.

    Because there weren¡¯t many rare earth elements from the Mirando Duchy, there weren¡¯t many alloys made. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was careful with the use of these alloys, they were even stingy. They only used it to build the power supply and to perform a few magic experiments.

    Great Magician Cami was a top researcher of the magic research facility and had the rights to use various research materials, but even he wouldn¡¯t casually use them.

    Then.....what was this metal box used for?

    ¡°You¡¯ll know if you inject some magic.¡± Great Magician Cami pointed at the metal box as he said this to Xu Yi with a smile.

    ¡°What is this new magic machine that you developed?¡± Xu Yi was very confused because he couldn¡¯t tell what kind of machine this was.

    ¡°Try it, you¡¯ll know after you try it.¡± Great Magician Cami urged him.

    Xu Yi was speechless at how Great Magician Cami became more childish as he aged. He rolled his eyes before sending his magic into the metal box.

    The box as expected released the glow of a magic array.

    But unexpectedly, the light that came from the slit in the metal box wasn¡¯t the glow of the four normal magic elements, rather it was a strange purple glow.

    While Xu Yi was stunned, there was a familiar voice that suddenly came from the metal box.

    ¡°Xu Yi.....can you hear me? Hey? Are you there? Xu Yi, is grandfather beside you?¡±

    ¡°Still?!¡± Xu Yi was instantly shocked.

    Although it was a bit different from the original voice, Xu Yi could easily tell that this was Still¡¯s voice.

    Xu Yi looked at the metal box in his hand in surprise. Could it be that this thing could record voices? Did it record Still¡¯s voice?

    However, he found that his guess was wrong.

    Still¡¯s voice came from the metal box again.

    ¡°Is that you, Xu Yi? I heard your voice, are you beside grandfather? Did grandfather give you his Magic Communicator?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    Could it be that this thing didn¡¯t record, but rather transmitted Still¡¯s voice in real time?

    Xu Yi calmed himself and said into the metal box, ¡°Right, it¡¯s me. Still, are you also holding another Magic Communicator? Are you having a real time conversation with me?¡±

    ¡°Right, how did you know?¡± Still¡¯s voice had a bit of surprise, ¡°Did grandfather tell you?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami and found that there was a bit of surprise on his face.

    ¡°No, grandfather just gave me this thing. Are you at home right now?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m at home. Akali is with me, she brought this Magic Communicator to me and said she wanted to give you a pleasant surprise.¡± Still¡¯s voice showed a clear joy, ¡°This thing really is good. Although I¡¯m at home, I can talk to you, it really is convenient.¡±

    ¡°Un, it is indeed convenient. But you should tell Akali for me that as a researcher of the magic research facility, she¡¯s actually hiding research results from me, the chairman. I will deduct her bonus this month.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Based on what!¡± When Still gave augh, Akali said in a worried and unconvinced voice, ¡°Chairman, this was Great Magician Cami¡¯s idea. He wanted to hide it from you, why don¡¯t you take his bonus away first!¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I don¡¯t care, I¡¯m taking your bonus away this month!¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t do it, chair.....¡±

    Akali¡¯s voice suddenly stopped, but it was Xu Yi who stopped injecting magic into the metal box.

    Seeing the normal looking metal box in his hand, Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami with a face filled with pleasant surprise.

    ¡°Grandfather, how did you think to study this thing? What is the Magic Array inside this? Is there any hope of making it popr? What is the maximum range of thismunicator? How many people can talk at the same time? Can it divide between different people¡¯s frequencies? Can you set up a middle station and.....¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Great Magician Cami raised his hand and cut off Xu Yi¡¯s questions.

    He knit his brows as he looked over Xu Yi before Great Magician Cami asked with a confused look, ¡°I thought that you would be very surprised by this new thing, but I¡¯ve found that you don¡¯t seem surprised at all and even feel familiar with it? Could it be that someone told you ahead of time?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh. This cell phone was very popr on earth, this thing was just as crude as a walkie talkie, so it could never surprise him.

    But to be honest, he was a bit surprised. Only he wasn¡¯t surprised by this Magic Communicator itself, rather he was surprised that there was a Magic Array that could have this effect.

    If this thing could be developed in the way he wanted, could it be that he could create cell phones in this world?

    Thinking of a cell phone in a magic world like the Sines Continent, Xu Yi¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help bing a bit strange.

    ¡°No one told me ahead of time, but didn¡¯t you mention before that you wanted to make a magic machine that makes it easier to contact each other?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Did I?¡± Great Magician Cami knit his brows to think, why couldn¡¯t he remember that he had mentioned this to Xu Yi before?

    But this wasn¡¯t important. Compared to this, Xu Yi had just mentioned several things that he cared about.

    ¡°There¡¯s a small Space Array inside this. This array is a transfer array, but after studying it, I changed it to a Magic Array that only sends sound through space.¡± Great Magician Cami said.

    ¡°Space Array?¡± Xu Yi took a deep breath.

    Space Arrays were something that one coulde in contact with after bing a Great Magician. However, even for Great Magicians, space arrays were still very difficult.

    A Great Magician¡¯s grasp of Space Arrays was a demonstration of his strength.

    Among Space Arrays, Transfer Arrays were a difficult kind of magic.

    Before this, the magicians of the Sines Continent had used this Transfer Magic to create Transfer Arrays, which were used to transport humans.

    But aplete Transport Array was very hard to build and it was very expensive to maintain. So on the entire Sines Continent, there were only a few countries that had kept less than twenty Transfer Arrays.

    Even the City in the Sky where the Magicians Guild headquarters was only had two Transfer Arrays left.

    Great Magician Cami being able to use Transfer Arrays wasn¡¯t surprising, but the fact that he could change it into an array that could only transfer sound, it really was too shocking.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a Great Magician and couldn¡¯t use Space Arrays, so he didn¡¯t understand how Great Magician Cami had achieved this.

    But that didn¡¯t stop him from understanding how difficult this was.

    The cell phones on earth could contact each other using precise mechanical instruments to decode sound waves before sending them off and turning them back into sound at another cell phone.

    Theplexity of that was self evident.

    On earth, the cell phone had taken many discoveries to create. But for this ce, Great Magician Cami just changed a single Magic Array and finished this experiment, which made Xu Yi feel was incredible.

    Looking at the metal box in his hand, Xu Yi suddenly had an idea.

    ¡°Grandfather, did you work together with Akali for your research this time?¡±

    ¡°Un, so I had Akali give the other Magic Communicator to Still while I came looking for you.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a sigh, ¡°Based on her voice, Still seemed quite happy, but you weren¡¯t surprised at all by this. It really makes me disappointed.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I am very surprised, but my surprise isn¡¯t the same as Still¡¯s. Grandfather, since you are working with Akali, you should know about the Magic Array resonance that she normally studies, right? If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, the Magic Array inside the metal box that Still and I have should be the same, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami revealed a faint smile, ¡°This kid, you really are smart. Right, this thing has this design, what? Do you have some opinion on this?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have any opinions right now since I only learned about this thing today.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°But grandfather.....you can¡¯t imagine just how much influence this thing will have on the world.¡±

 Volume 4 63 - Cantona facing a difficult choice

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 63 Cantona facing a difficult choice</h4>

    The season was about to enter spring.

    At this time in the past, Cantona was the most busy, but it was also his most happy time.

    Because the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had ten farming magic machines. So when the spring harvest came, there were many people in Banta City and the surrounding cities who invited the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to help with their harvest.

    Although it was very busy, not only did this work earn quite a bit of money, it also umted quite a bit of fame from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. So although the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was no longer a smallpany with a few agricultural magic machines, Cantona still put importance in this work.

    However, Cantona was actually worried this year.

    It was for nothing else, it was because the City Lord Manor sent out a new rule.

    The City Lord Manor requested that for the spring harvest to progress smoothly, the agricultural magic machines assigned by the City Lord Manor had to be used in Banta City.

    As for the brand, of course it was the Hayada Chamber of Commerce¡¯s brand picked out by the department.

    Everyone knew why the City Lord Manor made this rule, but Cantona had no choice.

    The otherpanies could choose to leave after not being able to continue in Banta City, but for the farming business that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was in, they were based on thend in Banta City and couldn¡¯t avoid thend controlled by Banta City.

    Cantona had already considered leaving Banta City, but the Cantona Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t just leave the Lampuri Kingdom. To open a business in the other cities, with the current situation, it was better to wait for some time.

    Because the magic machine industry management department was spreading their rules over the kingdom. They imed that to guarantee standards for growing, they had to use the brand chosen by the department.

    Being forced like this, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce purchased ten sets of farming magic machines and had spent close to ten thousand gold coins.

    Cantona thought that this would let them continue in their business, but when the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was about to start their harvest in Mexn Vige, there were various problems that appeared in these magic machines. It caused them to spend more than three days and they still hadn¡¯t finished the one hundred mu ofnd in Mexn Vige.

    It had to be known that in the previous years, as long as the Cantona Chamber of Commerce went in full force, they would be able to finish thend in Mexn Vige in just a single morning.

    Hearing a sharp screech from the Hayada Brand farming magic machine not far away before stopping, no longer letting out the glow of a Magic Array, Cantona deeply knit his brows.

    In the three days of using the Hayada magic machines, there were thirteen of the twenty that had shown problems and six of them had serious problems, so they couldn¡¯t be used at all.

    The most exaggerated thing was that key parts of two of them had been broken!

    This problem was simply unbelievable. It had to be known that this bearing connected every part of the small Magic Harvester. It should have been made with the best materials, but this Hayada Brand magic machine had actually been broken after just being used for two days, it could be seen how bad the quality was.

    ¡°Chairman, there¡¯s no way of doing this.¡± One of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers threw away the Hayada Brand small Magic Harvester in his hand andined, ¡°If it keeps breaking, we can¡¯t work at all.¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman, the one in my hand doesn¡¯t seem like it can hold on much longer.¡± A worker who was not far away also revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Listen, what sound is that? I think that soon......¡±

    Before he could finish, the small Magic Harvester he was holding let out a strange white light before that light disappeared. The sound stopped and it became still.

    Everyone looked at each other. That worker gave a sigh and spread his hands. He came in front of Cantona and shook his head, ¡°Chairman, I can¡¯t do this anymore. What damn Hayada Brand Magic Harvester, it¡¯s just a pile of junk.¡±

    ¡°Right, if it doesn¡¯t go bad, its efficiency can¡¯t evenpare to the Frestech Brand. Not to mention that we¡¯ve had the Frestech Brand ones for three years now and not a single one has broken down. At most there were only a few small problems.¡±

    ¡°Right, the Frestech Brand Magic Harvesters were easy to use, how could it break down so fast like these damn Hayada Brand ones. Chairman, let¡¯s just take out the Frestech Brand ones, otherwise we can¡¯t do this at all.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, chairman, let¡¯s take out the Frestech Brand ones. Why do we have to use this pile of junk instead of those?¡±

    ¡°The chairman is worried about the new rules.....¡±

    ¡°What damn rules, we¡¯ll use it ourselves, what does the City Lord Manor care about.¡±

    ¡°That is hard to say......¡±

    ......

    Cantona knit his brows and looked at the entrance to Mexn Vige, seeing someone quickly riding a bicycle over.

    That person came over to the farnd and Cantona¡¯s group came over to them.

    ¡°Hey, Macaro, why are you only back now? Didn¡¯t I tell you to take the public transportation so you coulde back quicker? Why are you riding a bicycle?¡± Cantona anxiously asked.

    Macaro put down the bicycle and spread his hands with a bitter smile, ¡°The public transport fees were raised, so I felt that it wasn¡¯t worth it. Then again, this ce isn¡¯t that far from the city, so I just rode my bicycle over.¡±

    ¡°It increased again?¡± The people were stunned, ¡°Didn¡¯t it just increasest month? It increased again? How much did it increase by this time?¡±

    ¡°Thirty silver coins a trip......¡± Macaro said with a sigh, ¡°A round trip is sixty silver coins, so do you think it¡¯s a waste or not?¡±

    ¡°Damn! It just increased to twenty silver coins and now it suddenly increased to thirty silver coins? Isn¡¯t this crazy? With how expensive it is, who would ride it!¡±

    ¡°Damn, I knew that thing¡¯s price would increase after the Fersen Carriage Company withdrew. I never would have thought that it would increase by this much! It was only eight silver coins a trip before, alright!¡±

    ¡°The Fersen Carriage Company really is something. They were doing well, why did they stop? Now we can¡¯t even ride the public transport system.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t me the Fersen Carriage Company. Did you see what the ?Banta Times? said? It¡¯s because of the City Lord Manor¡¯s policies that forced them to withdraw, otherwise they would lose everything. Do you think the Fersen Carriage Company doesn¡¯t need to earn money?¡±

    ¡°Then that Lafaye Chamber of Commerce the public transport system was given to, they can¡¯t increase the price by that much, right? Are they not nning on letting people ride?¡±

    ¡°Go talk to the Lord City Lord if you have the skills. Don¡¯t forget, the reason why we can¡¯t use the Frestech Brand magic machines is because of the rules of the City Lord Manor.¡±

    ¡°Damn, those fellows at the City Lord Manor are shameless!¡±

    ¡°Shh.....Don¡¯t talk nonsense.....¡±

    ......

    Cantona cut them all off before asking Macaro, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the public transport. Macaro, did you ask the Hayada Chamber of Commerce? What did they say?¡±

    Macaro replied with a nod, ¡°I asked, they said that they would send someone to see.¡±

    ¡°Then did they say when they would send someone over?¡± Cantona asked.

    ¡°I asked this and they said they can fix it, but they need to charge us a fee.¡±

    ¡°They want to charge us?¡± Everyone was stunned, ¡°Is this a joke! These Hayada Brand magic machines have only been bought for less than a month, alright? It should still be in the warranty period, they want us to pay to fix it?¡±

    ¡°Right, isn¡¯t this too much? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce promises free service for six months and they have selective free services for three years. This damn Hayada Chamber of Commerce, they don¡¯t even include free maintenance? How are they doing business?¡±

    ¡°Alright, if youpare this Hayada Chamber of Commerce to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, aren¡¯t you afraid of chairman Xu being angry? How are they qualified topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Are they worthy?¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do? Do we just ept it?¡±

    Seeing the questioned looks of his subordinates, Cantona knit his brows. After thinking about it, he asked Macaro, ¡°How much did they say it would cost?¡±

    ¡°They didn¡¯t say.¡± Macaro recalled as the Hayada Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reply, ¡°They said that if it¡¯s a small problem, we can send it to them to repair for two gold coins. If they send someone over, it¡¯s three gold coins. If it¡¯s a big problem, it¡¯ll be ten to twenty gold coins, it depends on the situation.¡±

    Hearing this, the surrounding workers couldn¡¯t help cursing again.

    In the twenty Hayada Chamber of Commerce Magic Harvesters, there were fifteen of them that were broken. Moreover, not a single one of them seemed like a small problem.

    This meant that to fix them all, it would cost the Cantona Chamber of Commerce at least close to two hundred gold coins.

    ¡°Chairman, I think that even if these things were fixed, it wouldn¡¯t take long for them to break again. Moreover, I don¡¯t think we can harvest that much with how efficient it is.¡±

    ¡°Right, if we keep using them, the money we earn can¡¯t evenpare to how much it costs to fix.¡±

    ¡°But what do we do this year if we don¡¯t use them?¡±

    ¡°What do we do? We clearly can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    ¡°We can¡¯t do it anymore? This is ourpany¡¯s most basic service.¡±

    ......

    The group looked at Cantona once again.

    At this time, they had to let their chairman make a decision.

    Cantona couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh, he also didn¡¯t know what to do.

    It was very clear that if they continued using these Hayada Brand magic machines, they would earn less money than what it cost to repair them.

    But if they don¡¯t use them, it means that they would give up the most basic and most stable industry theirpany had.

    The only way to solve this problem was to use the Frestech Brand magic machines.

    But the rules of the City Lord Manor made him not dare do this.

    ¡°I should have listened to the advice of old man Sarkozy and learned from the otherpanies to give up on the Lampuri Kingdom. The kingdom is already being ruined by those fellows, there¡¯s no way to continue.¡±

    Cantona gave a sigh and after thinking about it, he shook his head. He was about to have Macaro run back to the Hayada Chamber of Commerce to have them send someone before he saw that there was a pure ck Magic Sedan that was driving over from the entrance of Mexn Vige.

 Volume 4 64 - Bloody conflict

    Volume 4 Chapter 64 Bloody conflict

    This Magic Sedan looked very familiar. When it came closer, Cantona recognized it, it was Baron Rover¡¯s car.

    When he met Baron Roverst time, he even shown off this Magic Sedan to Cantona. He said that it wasn¡¯t easy to transport this car over from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan factory on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s business department was limiting the imports of magic machines, he had spent quite a bit of effort just to transport this Magic Sedan in.

    This Magic Sedan quickly came to the field and the door opened, as Baron Rover walked out.

    Cantona was about to go over when Baron Rover¡¯s eyes fell onto him. He quickly came over and asked, ¡°Hey, Cantona, didn¡¯t we agree that you woulde harvest the wheat in my territory today? Why are you still here?¡±

    Cantona gave a bitterugh and pointed at the field, ¡°There were problems with the new machines we brought, so we were thinking about what to do.¡±

    ¡°New machines?¡± Baron Rover looked over and understood, ¡°Is it the agricultural magic machines you bought from the Hayada Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Un, we were testing it here and we were going to harvest other ces if there were no problems, but you can see that most of these small Magic Harvesters have broken. We can¡¯t do anything even if we wanted to harvest your fields.¡± Cantona said in a helpless voice.

    Baron Rover curled his lips in disdain and said, ¡°I already told you that this Hayada Chamber of Commerce was made by the Kodak Family. They don¡¯t know anything about this, so how could their agricultural magic machines be good?¡±

    ¡°I also have no choice. The City Lord Manor has made a rule that only the Hayada Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines can be used. The business department and the agricultural department have also released their rules. Ourpany can¡¯t do anything but follow them.¡± Cantona said with a sigh.

    Baron Rover looked at him, ¡°Then what will you do? Is yourpany not helping with the harvest this year? Who will harvest all the wheat in my field?¡±

    Cantona spread his hand and shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I want to help you, but the situation isn¡¯t good. If you wait two more days and when the Hayada Chamber of Commerce sends people to fix these small Magic Harvesters, I¡¯ll immediately send people to harvest your fields.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit! I can wait, but the wheat in my fields can¡¯t. If we don¡¯t harvest them, they¡¯ll all go rotten in a few days!¡± Baron Rover angrily said.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way. Without the agricultural magic machines, there¡¯s no use just sending people.¡±

    ¡°Who says you have no agricultural magic machines?¡± Baron Rover shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you would throw away the Frestech Brand magic machines you bought before. Go and get them, then follow me. If we move fast enough, we might be able to finish harvesting the wheat today.¡±

    ¡°This might not work.¡± Cantona said in a surprised voice, ¡°The City Lord Manor has made strict rules that no one is allowed to use any brand other than the Hayada Brand.¡±

    ¡°Who cares about those damn rules!¡± Baron Rover cursed, ¡°Then again, it is my territory, it isn¡¯t considered part of Banta City¡¯snd. I can use whatever brand I want on mynd, the City Lord Manor can¡¯t care at all.¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    Seeing that Cantona was still hesitating, Baron Rover gave him a push, ¡°Alright, stop wasting words and hurry up. Go and send people to bring the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines. We¡¯ll try to harvest all the wheat in my field today.¡±

    ¡°Right, chairman, the Lord Baron already said it, let¡¯s just do this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the Lord Baron is right. That is his territory, the City Lord Manor can¡¯t manage it.¡±

    ¡°Un, chairman, quickly make a decision. We need to move quickly, we shouldn¡¯t dy things.¡±

    ......

    The workers all agreed and with the urging from Baron Rover, Cantona thought for a bit before nodding.

    ¡°Alright, then we¡¯ll do this! But Lord Baron, if the City Lord Manores causing trouble.....¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll take responsibility, it won¡¯t fall onto you, so you can be assured.¡± Baron Rover cut him off, ¡°Don¡¯t think about it that just, just get ready and we¡¯ll go together. The people on my territory are prepared, they are just waiting for you.¡±

    Seeing that Baron Rover made this promise, Cantona was assured. He waved his hand at his staff, ¡°Alright, brothers, let¡¯s go prepare the stuff and get ready for work!¡±

    The workers all cheered before scattering. They all headed to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s warehouse in Mexn Vige.

    They took out the forbidden Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines and everyone felt much better.

    They had used these magic machines for over two years and it was close to three years now, so they were very familiar with them.

    Using it for such a long time, there were few problems that urred with the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines, so they were assured of using them. It wasn¡¯t like the Hayada Brand where they were afraid that it would break at any moment.

    With everyone prepared, Baron Rover got on his Magic Sedan and led the way. This group headed off on the road and set out towards Baron Rover¡¯s territory.

    It didn¡¯t take them long to arrive at Baron Rover¡¯s territory. They didn¡¯t need any instructions as they started their agricultural magic machines, driving them into the wheat fields filled with yellow grains and began harvesting them.

    They did this every year during the spring and autumn harvest, so whether it was Baron Rover, Cantona, or the workers, they were all familiar with this.

    Because they were using the familiar and easy to use Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines, their efficiency went back to normal. It only took more than an hour to harvest most of Baron Rover¡¯s less than ten hectares of farnd.

    Seeing that they would be able to finish before the sun set, Baron Rover was in a good mood.

    Although with the poprization of the agricultural magic machines and the use of fertilizers, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grain yield had increased, decreasing the pressure in growing grains, the most important task for them as nobles was to hand over the grains during the spring and fall harvest of each year.

    Once they couldn¡¯t finish this task, they would be warned by the Royal Parliament. A serious warning would mean losing their rank or losing part of their territory.

    So even though Baron Rover had enough finances to buy grains to turn over, he still attached importance to his own farnd.

    No matter what, it was more convenient to use his own farnd to solve this most important problem.

    Cantona was also feeling pretty good.

    Seeing his subordinates skillfully harvesting with the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines, it meant that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was still the same and there was no problem.

    The only thing he had to worry about were the damn rules of the City Lord Manor.

    But Cantona never thought that the thing he worried about would quicklye.

    When the sun was about to set and the wheat in Baron Rover¡¯snd was almost finished harvesting, a medium sized passenger Magic Car and two medium sized transport Magic Cars came up the road connecting to Baron Rover¡¯s territory and stopped by the fields.

    When the cars stopped, there were several men wearing the City Lord Manor¡¯s symbol that jumped. From the transport Magic Cars¡¯ back, there were several soldiers from the city guards that appeared.

    These men who seemed to be staff from the City Lord Manor walked towards Baron Rover and Cantona. The city guard soldiers headed to the fields and ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers using their agricultural magic machines to stop.

    Seeing this, Baron Rover was filled with anger. He shouted at the staff members from the City Lord Manor, ¡°What are you doing? This is my territory, how dare you cause trouble here?¡±

    The person in charge had a strict look as he said to Baron Rover, ¡°Baron Rover, we received a notification that people were using brands other than the allowed brand of agricultural magic machine to harvest your fields. This goes against the rules of the City Lord Manor, so we are here to stop this behaviour.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Baron Cantona flew into a rage, ¡°This is my private property! I can do what I want, does the City Lord Manor¡¯s rules matter to me? Based on what are youing here?¡±

    The expression of that staff member didn¡¯t change. He reached into his chest and took out a sheet of paper for Baron Rover.

    ¡°This is the newest rule from the kingdom¡¯s Royal Parliament. In order for the spring harvest to go more smoothly, they want all the nobles to cooperate with the City Lord Manor and follow the rules of the City Lord Manors. Baron Rover, please coordinate with our work.¡±

    Baron Rover took the document and found that this really was from the Royal Parliament, feeling a bit surprised.

    Didn¡¯t the Royal Parliament always say that nobles should have certain rights? Why did they suddenly change their attitude?

    Ignoring the confused Baron Rover, the staff member looked at Cantona and waved his hand.

    ¡°Do it.¡±

    The city guard soldiers moving towards the field began making their move and pushed aside the Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers, reaching out to control their agricultural magic machines.

    It seemed like they wanted to take their Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines!

    Cantona was shocked and enraged. He loudly asked the staff member, ¡°What are you doing? Based on what can you take our stuff?¡±

    ¡°Your stuff?¡± The staff member gave a coldugh, ¡°Your Cantona Chamber of Commerce is clearly going against the rules of the City Lord Manor, using a brand other than the allowed brand. Other than confiscating the other brand of agricultural magic machines, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce will also be inspected by the City Lord Manor. I¡¯m warning you, if you don¡¯t work with us, we have the right to take you away now!¡±

    Cantona¡¯s heart was filled with rage, but he was only amoner. He didn¡¯t dare resist the people sent by the City Lord Manor, so he could only look at Baron Rover for help.

    Seeing Cantona¡¯s expression and adding in the fact that he was enraged by the arrogant attitude of these staff members, Baron Rover didn¡¯t care that much as he roared out, ¡°All of you stop for me! This is my private territory, you have to ask for my permission to do anything here! I don¡¯t agree with what you are doing now, so stop for me!¡±

    The city guard soldiers stopped and they looked at the staff members.

    The staff member looked at Baron Rover and gave augh, ¡°Lord Baron, please cooperate.¡±

    Baron Rover steeled himself, ¡°What are you, how dare you speak to me like this? If you have the skills, have City Lord Kamadoe talk to me!¡±

    The staff member shook his head and ignored Baron Rover. He waved his hand at the city guard soldiers to continue.

    Those city guards soldiers began again once they saw this and they Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers couldn¡¯t help charging forward this time.

    They had used those Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines for many years, so they had formed sentiment with it. Now that it was being taken by someone, they couldn¡¯t take it.

    Not to mention that Baron Rover was supporting them, so if they didn¡¯t take the chance to take them back and the city guard soldiers really took their Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines, how could they get them back?

    Both sides began struggling.

    Although those city guard soldiers had received their orders, they didn¡¯t dare be too forceful, so both sides were at a stalemate.

    ¡°I¡¯m warning you, quickly have them stop! Otherwise, don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡± Baron Rover pointed at the city guard soldiers and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce staff members struggling in the field and spoke to the staff member in a sharper voice.

    The staff member gave a coldugh, ¡°Baron Rover, do you want to go against the City Lord Manor and the Royal Parliament?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care that much! I just know that this is my territory and what I say counts here! If you don¡¯t leave.....¡±

    There was a pitiful cry that cut through Baron Rover¡¯s words.

    Everyone turned in that direction in a daze to see one of the workers from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce on his back face the front of the small Magic Harvester.

    There was a sharp de that entered the back of the worker¡¯s neck and came out the front.

    Blood stained the farnd red.

 Volume 4 65 - Tide of opposition

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 65 Tide of opposition</h4>

    King Eric pinched his forehead as he felt like his head was so painful that it was about to explode.

    The reason for this was that first, he hadn¡¯t properly slept in several months and second, because there were always a pile of documents in front of him.

    Although there seemed to be many documents, they were all about the same thing. They were talking about the bloody conflict that had urred in Banta City before.

    If one looked at it from a general sense, this conflict was just an ident and wasn¡¯t worth paying attention to. It was impossible for it to cause a headache for the king.

    But the problem was that there was aplicated meaning behind this that was very significant. It caused some people in the Lampuri Kingdom to react stronger, which made it more serious.

    This conflict looked very simple on the surface, it was just the Banta City¡¯s city guards killing amoner by ident while carrying out their tasks.

    This thing had happened many times in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom. Before they just shut the mouths of themoners and just paid a bit of money to settle these matters.

    But once this matter urred, it was immediately spread. Very soon, almost everyone in the kingdom paid attention to this.

    The reason for this conflict was that the city guards were following the rules of the City Lord Manor that forbade the agricultural magic machines of otherpanies to be used in Banta City¡¯s harvest.

    After this matter, all the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom gave exhaustive reports. There were many newspapers that followed up on this, writing the stories of both sides of the conflict, letting everyone know the reason for this conflict.

    By learning the reason for this, it caused a strong reaction from many people in the kingdom.

    The Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor was forcing people to use a brand of agricultural magic machines during the harvest?

    This question was the core of everyone¡¯s doubts.

    To most people, the goal of the harvest was to harvest as quickly as possible. As long as the grain could be harvested, it didn¡¯t matter what brand of agricultural magic machines were used.

    Not to mention that there were only two brands in the kingdom. One was the Frestech Brand, which was used by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, causing it to be confiscated by the city guards and created this bloody conflict.

    The other was the Hayada Brand. Not only was it the one rmended in Banta City, it was also the brand that the magic machine industry management department suggested every other city used.

    At the same time, the Hayada Chamber of Commerce was the brand chosen by the agricultural department. Before the spring harvest this year, it had been promoted in many cities of the kingdom and was rmended for use in those cities.

    Although business and agricultural departments didn¡¯t force people to use the Hayada Brand, since it was rmended by both the business and agricultural departments, most cities in the kingdom swapped from the Frestech Brand to the Hayada Brand.

    This wasn¡¯t much at first, but after the conflict in Banta City, there was a bunch of opposition that came forward.

    There were two main reasons for this opposition. One of them was that whether it was the City Lord Manor, the magic machine industry management department, the agricultural department, or the business department, they couldn¡¯t force people to use a single brand.

    If people wanted to buy something, it was their right.

    Forcing people would go against this basic principle.

    The other reason mainly focused on the quality of the Hayada Brand.

    ording to the reports from various newspapers, there weren¡¯t any good reviews of the Hayada Brand.

    The reason the conflict appeared in Banta City was because the Hayada Brand¡¯s magic machines were toocking. More than half of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Hayada Brand small Magic Harvesters had broken, so they were forced to break the rules of the City Lord Manor and use the Frestech Brand.

    The City Lord Manor had tried to enforce this, which created this conflict with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers, creating this tragedy.

    If the Hayada Brand magic machines had better quality, how could this have happened?

    Moreover, other than Banta City, the performance of the Hayada Brand was also poor in the other cities.

    The various newspapers reported that the Hayada Brand magic machines had various problems in different areas, causing the normal harvest to be unable to continue.

    There were many cities that had to use the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines because of the problems with the Hayada Brand, only then could they catch up.

    Otherwise, the grain yield of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s spring harvest might have been greatly affected.

    Most newspapers were strongly denouncing the Hayada Chamber of Commerce.

    Many people questioned the Hayada Chamber of Commerce. Why did the Hayada Chamber of Commerce produce such bad quality agricultural magic machines with theplete technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the support of the department?

    Didn¡¯t they say it would beparable to the Frestech Brand? At least let it function properly, right?

    But some newspapers put out a different point of view.

    There was no doubt that the Hayada Brand was of poor quality, these newspapers wouldn¡¯t argue against that. They ced the problem on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, saying that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give the full technology to the Hayada Chamber of Commerce, this caused the quality of the Hayada Brand to be bad.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t hand over all the technology ording to their contract with the department, choosing to break the cooperation midway. This left the magic machine industry management department and the tenpanies in a mess.

    These tenpanies were just barely able to make these magic machines.

    In order to support the development of these tenpanies so they could make better magic machines in the future, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people should limit the Frestech Brand magic machines. They hoped that everyone could give the tenpanies more patience and support them.

    But this viewpoint was cursed at by many people.

    The magic machine industry management department wanted to steal therge magic machine market from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After stealing the technology, they can¡¯t even use it properly and now they were ming the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    This was clearly trying to paint a different picture!

    An article published in the ?Lampuri Weekly? pushed the anger towards the tenpanies to another peak.

    This article was an interview with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine development center¡¯s chief, magic mechanical engineer dwarf Camby.

    In the interview, Camby replied that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given all the rted technology to the tenpanies and didn¡¯t hold back anything.

    The reason why their magic machines were inferior to the Frestech Brand was that other than their skills being worse than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other important reason was that they skimped onbour and materials.

    Take the small Magic Harvester that caused this problem. The Frestech Brand small Magic Harvester was made with the super hard steel alloy of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which had a cost of two hundred gold coins per ton.

    The Hayada Chamber of Commerce¡¯s small Magic Harvesters were made from the steel products the Detroit Chamber of Commerce of the tenpanies refined. Whether it was in terms of hardness, resistance to wear, or resistance to oxidation, they were all inferior to the Frestech Brand¡¯s steel products. Each ton cost no more than fifty gold coins to make.

    The biggest problem with the Hayada Brand small Magic Harvester were the brokenponents. The breaking of the most important turning axis was because of theck of quality in the steel.

    The ?Lampuri Weekly? posted data that Camby had given, making a fullparison of the Frestech Brand small Magic Harvester to the Hayada Brand small Magic Harvester.

    Although the data seemed boring, it was very enlightening.

    Comparing it, there was no doubt that the Hayada Brand skimped onbor and materials, so it was impossible for it to have good quality.

    With these results, other than the newspapers who questioned Camby¡¯s data, there was no one else who spoke up for the Hayada Chamber of Commerce.

    So in just less than a month since the conflict in Banta City, the Lampuri Kingdom erupted with activities that boycotted the Hayada Chamber of Commerce. All the cities in the kingdom announced that they wouldn¡¯t use any agricultural magic machines from the Hayada Chamber of Commerce.

    After this, these activities went on to resist the magic machines produced by the tenpanies.

    In everyone¡¯s opinions, the Hayada Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were thiscking, so the otherpanies of the tenpanies must also make disappointing magic machines.

    Moreover, before this, there were many voices that had already expressed their opposition to the products of thesepanies. Now they were using this chance to expand their influence.

    Of the documents in front of King Eric, many of them came from the City Lord Manor of different cities. They requested the magic machine industry management department to strictly control the quality of magic machines produced by those tenpanies.

    Otherwise, there would be a bunch of cities in the kingdom that would reject importing the magic machines of thosepanies.

    In these documents, there were people who were even more direct.

    For example, Sowell City¡¯s Count Sean announced in his document that Sowell City wouldn¡¯t ept the management of the department, they would support the development of the magic machinepanies of their city.

    There were also other cities that made the same decision as Sowell City, making up a third of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If he added in the other cities that sent in documents, there wasn¡¯t a single city in the kingdom that supported the magic machine industry management department.

    Looking at the documents in front of him, King Eric felt his head ache again. He couldn¡¯t help deeply knitting his brows and cursing as he was filled with a deep helplessness.

    Although he was already the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king in name, there were few things that he could control.

    Not to mention making the nobles and these cities that protested change their attitude, he couldn¡¯t even influence the magic machine industry management department, the business department, and the agricultural department, the departments that should have been under his control.

    ¡°If Seveni had be queen and she had the support of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would she be much better off than me?¡±

    Hearing the familiar sound of Duke Stagg¡¯s footsteps outside the door, King Eric gave a bitterugh.

 Volume 4 66 - On this land, he was king

    <strong>Volume 4 Chapter 66 On thisnd, he was king</strong>

    ¡°Your majesty, this is actually an opportunity.¡± Duke Stagg had the same smile as he spoke in a confident manner.

    ¡°Opportunity?¡± King Eric looked at Duke Stagg in confusion.

    The situation in the kingdom was already this bad and he was calling it an opportunity? What opportunity?

    ¡°Your majesty, did you forget? Since her highness Seveni gave up the throne, although it made it much simpler for you, there were many people who opposed you in the kingdom who hid because of this. Since they didn¡¯t move before, we couldn¡¯t find them and it made it hard to do anything to them. Now because of this matter, isn¡¯t it a good chance to deal with them?¡±

    Seeing the dangerous smile on Duke Stagg¡¯s face, King Eric had a cold feeling in his heart.

    This Duke Stagg who looked incredibly harmless with this smile actually had quite the fierce heart.

    Perhaps this situation was a good chance to eliminate dissidents for him, he definitely wouldn¡¯t show mercy.

    But to him the king and the Lampuri Kingdom, was it really a good chance?

    If it was before he took the throne, Eric only had a single thought about the kingdom. Now that he had be the king for close to a year, he had a deep understanding of the kingdom¡¯s real situation.

    He was very unhappy with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not supporting him to the throne, he felt that he could take care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce one he took the throne.

    He had indeed done this.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been targeted by those nobles, he had greatly supported them.

    He didn¡¯t feel like there was a problem before, but with time passed, Banta City that had lost the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the entire Lampuri Kingdom showed the results of losing them.

    Even if this conflict hadn¡¯t erupted, Eric had seen from the various reports that came in what influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    This influence was direct and positive most of the time.

    Eric could even tell that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had yed an important role in Banta City being able to develop this quickly.

    And the entire Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had visibly improved, which was greatly rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If from the standpoint of Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king and he considered it from the perspective of the Lampuri Kingdom, Eric would have done the same as his father Lampuri Thirteenth, firmly supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But it was impossible for him to change things now.

    Moreover, the nobles that supported him that created the tenpanies had squeezed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of the Lampuri Kingdom. It was impossible even if he wanted to keep them here.

    With the nobles that supported him led by the Stagg Family, they had taken almost all the magic machine market from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and gained great benefits from this.

    Even if Eric was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king, he definitely wouldn¡¯t go against the conservative noble faction that controlled real power and almost controlled the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    Not mentioning anything else, Eric didn¡¯t even have confidence dealing with the Stagg Family represented by Duke Stagg.

    Seeing that Eric was silent, Duke Stagg didn¡¯t guess his real thoughts. He thought that he was hesitating, so he said with a smile, ¡°Your majesty, I know that perhaps you¡¯re worried about turmoil in the kingdom, but please be assured. I already have a perfect series of ns for this matter, it can slowly and effectively take care of the people who oppose you. There definitely won¡¯t be any mistakes.¡±

    Eric gave a sigh in his heart, knowing that he couldn¡¯t resist him at all.

    Duke Stagg might have already put his n in action when he came to tell him about this matter, he was just now officially informing him.

    Anyway, all the power in the kingdom was controlled by him, even the royal guards in the royal pce listened to his order. What did it matter if Eric had any objections?

    After being silent for a bit, Eric nodded, ¡°Alright, then we¡¯ll follow the ideas of the duke.¡±

    Duke Stagg already expected this, so he gave Eric a bow with a faint smile.

    ¡°Then your majesty, please rest up. I¡¯ll be leaving first.¡±

    Watching Duke Stagg walk out, Eric¡¯s expression sunk. He clenched his fists and there was a cracking sound that came from the pen in his hand.

    ###

    The unrest in Banta City didn¡¯t cause any problems to the Stantine Duchy that was several hundred kilometers away.

    The conflicts in Banta City that shocked the entire Lampuri Kingdom had caused the spring harvest to be much slower, but for the hundred thousand hectares ofnd of the Frestech Farm, the harvest had already been over for half a month.

    Compared tost year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had upgraded the agricultural magic machines. There were now new medium agricultural magic machines, which increased the harvest efficiencypared tost year.

    Even if there were twenty thousand hectares more of farnd this year, the harvest this year was three days shorter thanst year.

    The new generation of agricultural magic machines received good evaluations. Not only did Count Wein order several dozen units, even the Rudson Kingdom, the Mirando Duchy, and the Drake Duchy that was over a thousand kilometers away sent representatives. They made orders adding up to over a thousand units to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just the value of these orders added up to a total of three million gold coins. It represented the first big order of magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold this year.

    As for the military magic machines, in order to exchange fornd from Lord Wein, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce greatly reduced their sales volume. They only sold topanies that were close to them. The total amount dropped over a million gold coins and it was still dropping.

    But if they counted the military magic machines they had delivered to Count Wein, the total profit of the arms department would reach over two million gold coins.

    Adding in the household magic machines and the other magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold in the beginning of the year, in just less than five months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales had broken a shocking seven million gold coins.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high profit margins, so they received a profit of three million gold coins from that seven million gold coins.

    This made Xu Yi a bit surprised.

    He thought that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was building a new production base and opening the market again, thepany¡¯s sales and profits would greatly drop.

    But based on this situation, although it had droppedpared tost year, going from a profit of four million and three hundred thousand gold coins in the first five months ofst year to just over three million, it wasn¡¯t that much of a decrease. Not only could he ept this, it even surprised Xu Yi and all the high level members of thepany.

    To earn such a high profit in this situation, it was enough to prove that the world¡¯s desire for magic machines hadn¡¯t dropped.

    Although they were forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom market, with the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had opened the markets of other areas and other countries. Their prospects had be much wider.

    In the Rudson Kingdom, the Mirando Duchy, the Drake Kingdom, and even the Sack Kingdom, the Frestech Brand magic machines represented a tidal wave. It represented the most advanced goods and many families took owning Frestech Brand magic machines as an honour.

    With this trend, it wouldn¡¯t take long before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took most of the magic machine market in these countries like in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Why wasn¡¯t it all the market?

    Of course it was because Xu Yi left some space for otherpanies to produce magic machines.

    But to Xu Yi, during this time, the most important thing was not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales and profits. He didn¡¯t care how much money he made, rather how much money he spent.

    urately speaking, how much he was spending on Duke Stantine.

    Even if Lord Wein had said it casually, to give territory to Xu Yi who was an outsider, it definitely wouldn¡¯t be easy to obtain the approval of Duke Stantine.

    After signing the contract with Lord Wein, in a short month, Xu Yi had met Duke Stantine seven times and had spent a giant amount of a million gold coins before finally deciding this matter.

    Today was the day Duke Stantine gave Xu Yi his decorum.

    ording to the customs of the Stantine Duchy, which were the customs of the Sines Continent, those that weren¡¯t nobles couldn¡¯t have private territories.

    So to transfer a portion ofnd from Lord Stantine to Xu Yi required a procedure that wasplex and troublesome.

    First, Lord Wein had to announce that he couldn¡¯t keep managing all thend under his name and took the initiative to give thend he offered Xu Yi back to the duchy.

    Then Duke Stantine would put on a special performance for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce,mending them for their contribution in the reform of the Stantine Duchy. Xu Yi as the chairman made great contributions and was honoured as a Stantine Duchy citizen, as well as the title of a Lord.

    After this, Duke Stantine could give thend Lord Wein gave back to Xu Yi in honour of him bing a lord and to make it his personal territory.

    After this procedure, this piece ofnd would be considered Xu Yi¡¯s private territory.

    After taking the badge of a lord from Duke Stantine and the deed to his private territory, it meant that from that moment, thisnd became Xu Yi¡¯s private territory.

    The situation was different from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As long as Xu Yi had enough power to protect and manage this territory, he would be the king on thisnd!

 Volume 4 67 - King Eric wants to make his move?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 67 King Eric wants to make his move?</h4>

    Although back in the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi had the Falling Rain Valley as his territory, he wasn¡¯t used to being a noble back then. He had just treated the Falling Rain Valley as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production base, so he didn¡¯t feel like he was a noble at all.

    So when he was forced to leave, he gave up his identity as a noble and handed over his territory. He didn¡¯t have any feelings towards being a noble or owning private territory at all.

    But this time was different.

    The Stantine Duchy was different from the Lampuri Kingdom. The upper ss of the Stantine Duchy represented by Duke Stantine didn¡¯t have any cohesiveness at all.

    So Xu Yi¡¯s private territory was territory that belonged to him.

    ording to what Lord Wein said, no one would care what Xu Yi did on thisde. Even if he ughtered people, there wouldn¡¯t be anyone that could say a thing to him because no one was qualified.

    Of course Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t ughter anyone on hisnd, but he needed that feeling of free control because only with that, he could do what he wanted with this territory. It wasn¡¯t like when he was limited when making ns for the Falling Rain Valley, so it wasn¡¯t perfect.

    Moreover, this territory was over two hundred and forty thousand hectares, it was over two thousand square kilometers. It was several timesrger than the Falling Rain Valley with its ten square kilometers, so of course he had more space to n.

    Of course, he also knew that the degree of control he had depended on the power that he owned.

    If he didn¡¯t have enough power to defend hisnd, when there was a need, he believed that Lord Wein would swallow back this piece ofnd without any courtesy.

    So after he officially became the lord of thisnd, Xu Yi reorganized the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards again, taking the most elite five hundred guards as his personal guards.

    It was like Agnes said, even the most elf guards who were famous for being proud didn¡¯t reject the offer of being his personal guard at all. Rather there were many elf warriors that were very happy when they heard they would be Xu Yi¡¯s personal guards.

    When Xu Yi asked the elven guard leader Furio about this, Furio said that this was elder Illusia¡¯s meaning in the first ce. Moreover, he was the human that all the elves in the Night Song Tribe approved of, so bing his guard to the elven warriors wasn¡¯t shameful at all because they all recognized Xu Yi. They felt that Xu Yi was someone who could change the fate of their tribe, so they wouldn¡¯t mind offering Xu Yi their lives at all.

    Rather it was being a guard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was hard for them to ept.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯tpletely belong to Xu Yi, so they felt like they were selling their lives to humans other than Xu Yi.

    As for the dwarf warriors, they naturally didn¡¯t have any problems at all.

    When Xu Yi revealed that he was establishing his personal guards and there were limited quotas, the thirteen dwarf ns that followed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy held arge contest. They imed that only the most elite dwarf warriors could join Xu Yi¡¯s personal guard.

    As for the human guards?

    Was there a need to ask? The treatment for thepany guards was already this good, so naturally the treatment for Xu Yi¡¯s personal guards were better.

    When they heard that Xu Yi was recruiting personal guards, not mentioning the human guards of thepany gathering, there were many elite human warriors who had alle from different ces after hearing this news.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t want his personal guards to have people he didn¡¯t know, so he only chose a portion of those people to enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    What surprised Xu Yi was that after elder Lisanya heard that Xu Yi was recruiting personal guards, she sent out two hundred elf warriors from the Moon Shadow Tribe who wanted to join Xu Yi¡¯s personal guard.

    After Xu Yi considered it for a bit, he turned down elder Lisanya¡¯s goodwill.

    In the end, elder Lisanya didn¡¯t have those two hundred elf warriorse back, rather they also entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    In the end, although Xu Yi had taken the five hundred most elite guards from thepany guards, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards went from one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred.

    Of course, because they weren¡¯t used to it, because the new guards from various races weren¡¯t familiar with the military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, their battle strength couldn¡¯tpare to the one thousand and two hundred from before.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about this.

    The beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd were like weed. They had strong life forces and no matter how many times they were cleaned out, there would be some blind beastmen who appeared.

    Those beastmen couldn¡¯t cause any threat to the production base that was already growing bigger and was seriously defended, but they were useful for training the guards that had just joined thepany.

    After obtaining his title and hisnd, there was a series of matters that made Xu Yi always busy. When he finally took care of his personal guards and thepany¡¯s guard, then taking care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s next ns for development, several months had already passed.

    After entering July, the summer heat in the Stantine Duchy kept increasing, but Xu Yi found it hard to find free time during this period.

    When he finally had time to pay attention to Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom, he found that the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom had already greatly changed.

    In just a few months, the Lampuri Kingdom had manyrge and small nobles who lost their title, losing all their property and their private territories.

    The Royal Parliament gave many strange reasons. There was even a viscount who had lost his title after killing a head of cattle on his private territory, going against the kingdom¡¯sws.

    It had to be known, even if it wasn¡¯t easy to farm before, so each head of cattle was very important to the Lampuri Kingdom, a noble killing a head of cattle on theirnd was considered a small matter.

    Even if it did go against thews of the kingdom, how could the Royal Parliament let the nobles who had more rights than normal people be punished by thew?

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom was already using the agricultural magic machines. Cattle were only used in rare ces, so they didn¡¯t have any important position.

    As for food that was made from beef, they had already appeared on the tables of the various restaurants in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In this situation, a noble had lost his title for killing a head of cattle and would be heavily punished, even jailed for breaking the kingdom¡¯sws?

    This was simply a joke!

    However, this was a fact in the present Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than the small nobles who didn¡¯t have much power, there were even tworge noble families that had real power that were punished.

    Those tworge nobles had wide personal territories and one was even the City Lord of a city, so their power wasn¡¯t to be underestimated.

    However, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament and Royal Parliament had worked together, catching these tworge nobles before they could even do a thing. Since then, there has been no more news on them.

    After hearing this, Xu Yi was very happy.

    It was a good thing that he left the Lampuri Kingdom, otherwise this time he might have been one of the nobles caught.

    Now that he was a lord of the Stantine Duchy, there was no one who dared toe and catch him.

    At the same time, he felt a bit confused.

    Most of the nobles that this happened to were nobles that had supported Seveni before. When Eric became king, Xu Yi thought that he would find some excuses to take care of these nobles who hadn¡¯t supported him before.

    It wasn¡¯t strange for the emperor to change his court.

    However, Eric didn¡¯t do this back then and the Lampuri Kingdom had been at peace for close to a year.

    Xu Yi thought that this would just pass, but he never thought that Eric would suddenly make his move.

    Even if the situation in Lampuri Kingdom was bad because of the bloody conflicts, with many of the nobles that had supported her highness Seveni before taking this chance to speak up against King Eric, didn¡¯t Eric think that this was too conspicuous if he made a move now?

    If he did this, there was no doubt that he would take care of the nobles who were against him, but wouldn¡¯t Eric be afraid that he would anger a bunch of nobles and create even more chaos?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand the other nobles, but he at least knew that Baron Hannas was very dissatisfied with this situation.

    In the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly?, there were direct attacks on the things currently happening in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although it didn¡¯t mention King Eric by name, the meaning between the lines were very clear.

    Although the editor in chief of the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? was always Baron Hannas, he always represented the nobles behind him.

    Now that these two newspapers made this clear point and released this sharp article, it was enough to show that therge nobles standing behind Baron Hannas were clearly very dissatisfied.

    But what had really shocked the entire Lampuri Kingdom, or more urately speaking, all the nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom was not these two articles, but rather a piece of news.

    Duke Stagg¡¯s son, Leslie Stagg who had the right to inherit the Stagg Family had been expelled from the Stagg Family by Duke Stagg!

 Volume 4 68 - Steel fortress on the sea

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 68 Steel fortress on the sea</h4>

    Xu Yi looked at Viscount Leslie sitting in front of him with a rxed smile and he felt angry and found this funny in his heart.

    ¡°I say.....Leslie, didn¡¯t you say that you would do your best to strive for the right to inherit the family and control the entire Stagg Family? What happened? Why did you get chased out of the family?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, you have to understand something. It wasn¡¯t that I was chased out, rather I left on my own.¡± Viscount Leslie raised a finger and shook it, ¡°Those two things arepletely different, don¡¯t make a mistake.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Is there a difference? In short you were forced to leave the Stagg Family and even couldn¡¯t stay in the Lampuri Kingdom, you could onlye to my ce. I say, isn¡¯t Duke Stagg being too cruel to you? You are still his son in the end.¡±

    ¡°For a great noble like my father, his son isn¡¯t as important as you think it is.¡±

    Viscount Leslie.....Alright, when he was forced out of the Stagg Family, the Royal Parliament had already taken away his title, so he was no longer a viscount.

    Leslie didn¡¯t look like he had lost much, rather he was strangely rxed. It was like being chased out of his family by his father was something to be happy about.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s worth being happy.¡± Leslie said with a faint smile, ¡°If I stayed in that house and breathed in that suffocating air, watching those people led by my father plotting against others, I would have be sick a long time ago. I wanted to take the chance to change the family, but my father could already see through my ideas, so I didn¡¯t have a chance at all.¡±

    ¡°Then you don¡¯t feel disappointed?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Now that you¡¯ve been chased out, you won¡¯t have a chance to change the Stagg Family in the future, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if I don¡¯t have a chance.¡± Leslie gave a shrug, ¡°My father and the people of the family have chosen their path. Since I don¡¯t have the ability to change this, I could only leave. Actually this is also good because in the end, I am from the bloodline of the Stagg Family. As long as I live, my family will exist. As for what will happen to my father and the others, that isn¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows as he looked at Leslie. He remembered reading some history books on earth and in history, there were manyrge families that had avoided being destroyed because of a single decision that they had different juniors choose different princes to support.

    Like this, even if one side is defeated, there would be one side that would remain. There was a chance to continue developing their family and at worst, their family¡¯s bloodline would still exist.

    Duke Stagg had expelled Leslie. Although this was because Leslie¡¯s political views were different from the rest of the Stagg Family, it might be because he was also considering survival.

    But this question Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a way of asking. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Alright, now that you¡¯ve been chased out of the Lampuri Kingdom and came to my ce, could it be that you want to find something to do here?¡±

    ¡°Un, I was always interested in the magic machines you developed. Also I heard that yourpany had developed something good, so I came to take a look.¡± Leslie replied.

    ¡°What do you want to see?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°If my timing isn¡¯t wrong, you told Hannasst time that this thing would enter the sea today. Come, let¡¯s go take a look.¡± Leslie stood up and walked out.

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°So you were here to see it?¡±

    Watching Leslie with a confused gaze, Xu Yi shook his head and stood up to follow.

    When he walked out, there was a small figure that walked over towards Xu Yi, grabbing onto his leg.

    ¡°Da.....Da, da......Hug......¡±

    Xu Yi leaned over and reached his hands out to pick up Freya as he ced a strong kiss on her cheek.

    Freya was already a year and three months old. She had just learned how to walk herself and she liked wandering the manor all day.

    Xu Yi liked to walk along thewn with her when he was free. Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much time to spend with her, she was quite close to Xu Yi.

    Being tickled by Xu Yi¡¯s beard, Freya broke out in a clear and childishugh.

    Watching Xu Yi tease Freya, Leslie reached into his chest and took out a red crystal jade which he threw over.

    ¡°Here, Freya, take this. Uncle Leslie left home too quickly this time and didn¡¯t get you a better present, you wouldn¡¯t me me, right?¡±

    With the rtionship between Xu Yi and Leslie, there was no need to be polite. Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything and looked at the crystal jade that didn¡¯t seem cheap that Freya was holding before turning to ask him, ¡°Speaking of this, Leslie, I suddenly feel that when Duke Stagg kicked you out, was an important reason because you still weren¡¯t willing to marry?¡±

    Leslie¡¯s expression changed as he looked at Xu Yi and gave a cold snort, ¡°What? Now that you¡¯re married and have a daughter, you¡¯re the same as those annoying fellows telling me to get married?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m toozy for that, this is your matter. I just feel that Duke Stagg definitely wants you to expand the bloodline of the Stagg Family. If you were to bring a girl home, he would definitely be happy and he might even take you back into the family.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not a steed responsible for giving birth.¡± Leslie gave a snort, ¡°Moreover, I just said it, I chose to leave and wasn¡¯t forced away by him, there is a difference.¡±

    Xu Yi just treated it as him being tough and shook his head without saying anything. Seeing that Freya was unwilling to get down, he called to Liz who was responsible for following Freya to have her drive the Magic Sedan over. After getting in the Magic Sedan with Leslie, they drove down to the wharf under the cliff the manor was on.

    This wharf had been expandedpared to when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just arrived in the Stantine Duchy, the three piers from before had turned into seven piers.

    Other than the piers, there was a dock that was over a hundred thousand square meters not far away.

    Close to the cliff at the docks, there were over a hundredrge and small boats.

    Other than a few wooden boats, most of them were Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Boats.

    Of course, there wererge and small Magic Boats. The small ones could only fit five people at most, which was around the same size as the small wooden boats.

    The big ones were ten meters long, four to five meters wide and could seat several dozen people, as well as holding a bunch of cargo without problem.

    Xu Yi carried Freya as he came out and pointed at the Magic Boat that was stopped on the sea. He asked Leslie who came out of the other side, ¡°Did youe for this?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Leslie shook his head. He looked over and suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, Hannas has already told me, so you don¡¯t need to keep it a secret. Quickly tell me, when is your new Magic Boat going to go into the ocean? I¡¯m waiting to see it.¡±

    ¡°That fellow Hannas really isn¡¯t reliable.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes. He gave Freya to Liz and walked towards the dock in the distance.

    There was a group of people wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bustling around, like they were preparing something.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasing over, Kennard who was in charge of the ceremony came forward.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s all prepared. We are just waiting for you to announce it.¡±

    After saying this, Kennard nodded at Leslie who was standing a bit back.

    The two came fromrge noble families of Anvilmar City, so naturally they knew each other.

    Through their rtionships with Xu Yi, the two were now closer.

    Xu Yi looked at the clock on the side and found that it was ten minutes from the set time, so he nodded, ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s all prepared, then let¡¯s begin.¡±

    Kennard responded before giving the final orders.

    Not long after, a canal connected to the endless sea slowly opened itsrge doors. A boat with a sharp head slowly came out of the dock and revealed itself not long after, bathing in the sunlight.

    Looking up, Leslie couldn¡¯t help taking a cold breath.

    Although he had already learned that from Hannas that the Magic Boats had been made of all sizes, he never would have thought that a Magic Boat would be this big!

    Based on the surface of the water, the part of the Magic Boat above the water was over five meters tall. When the Magic Boat was revealed, it was over fifty meters long.

    Although because of the angle, Leslie couldn¡¯t see just how wide this Magic Boat was, estimating it with its shape, it was probably over a shocking twenty meters wide!

    After determining these dimensions, Leslie went through his knowledge of boats. He knew that in the history of the Sines Continent, there had never been a boat that was this big.

    The most shocking thing that was even unbelievable was that this Magic Boat was actuallypletely made of steel!

    This giant boat waspletely made of steel, so one could imagine how much it weighed.

    With this terrifying weight, it could actually float on the surface of the water, thispletely subverted Leslie¡¯s views.

    Seeing the thick steel coat outside this Magic Boat, Leslie couldn¡¯t help feeling shocked.

    This Magic Boat, this was simply an iron fortress that could freely move on the seas.

    If this Magic Boat was sent out to sea, it would definitely wipe out all enemies!

 Volume 4 69 Dreams of the open sea

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 69 Dreams of the open sea</h4>

    Many people were confused about Leslie¡¯s ns for the future, but Xu Yi was more surprised.

    Because Leslie actually wanted to run around on the endless sea and be a ruler of the sea!

    Hearing Leslie¡¯s idea, Xu Yi almost couldn¡¯t help saying that he was dreaming.

    Ruler of the sea?

    He can¡¯t even touch the sea, how could he be a ruler!

    Because of the limits with this world¡¯s crafting techniques, they couldn¡¯t makerge ships that were big and sturdy enough to sail the open seas.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, only the Candra Empire had attempted this once. They had built twentyrge wooden boats and formed a fleet to conduct a journey to the open seas. They wanted to reach the legendary other continent that was far off across the sea.

    However, this fleet had encountered a storm in just three days of heading out. In the end, the twenty wooden boats were crushed by the storm and most of the people that went on the journey died. There were only less than ten people who were lucky enough to survive.

    Since then, the people of the Sines Continent had given up the dream of sailing the seas, even listing the endless seas as a forbidden zone.

    Other than people who lived by the sea who fished off the shore, normally no one dared to take a single step into the boundless seas.

    Now Leslie said that he wanted to be the ruler of the sea¡­¡­If it was just near the sea, it would be unrted to one¡¯s marine strength and one¡¯s strength near the coast.

    ¡°Xu Yi, this is the old concept of the Sines Continent, it¡¯s already gone.¡± Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion, ¡°It really is strange, you were the one who personally thought of and developed this Magic Boat. Now you¡¯re telling me that you¡¯re not confident in designing a seafaring vessel?¡±

    ¡°It is because I developed this thing that I know its limits better than anyone.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Although I¡¯m certain that this Magic Boat is better at resisting a stormpared to the wooden boats, this thing will be safer to go on the seas with, saying that there is no danger at all is an exaggeration. It can¡¯t guarantee that you will survive on the seas.¡±

    ¡°ording to what you said, this thing isn¡¯t that much better than wooden boats? Then why did you spend all that effort making this?¡± Leslie knit his brows and looked a bit disappointed, ¡°I thought that with this thing, you could navigate the endless seas like my dreams from my youth.¡±

    ¡°I can guarantee that you will aplish those dreams, but not now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯ll give you a better suggestion, make your goals a bit more realistic and don¡¯t decide on something that is so far away first. A voyage on the seas is something that needs to be umted, you should go step by step and prepare bit by bit.¡±

    Leslie looked back at Xu Yi, ¡°You think I¡¯m dumb? Of course I won¡¯t be like those idiots from the Candra Empire, going right into the depths of the seas. I was nning to explore the deep seas bit by bit with the Magic Boat that you developed. You think that I would charge in like a fool?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    After all this time, he was worried for nothing.

    ¡°Alright, then what is your specific n?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°This medium sized Magic Boat that ourpany makes is priced at eight hundred thousand gold coins, I don¡¯t think you can take out that much money now.¡±

    ¡°Eight hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Leslie was surprised, ¡°It¡¯s this expensive?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi proudly said, ¡°This medium sized Magic Boat can take up to five thousand tons and has three thousand tons of cargo space. This means that the cargo for a single trip is better than going bynd a hundred times. You think it¡¯s expensive? I think that it¡¯s very cheap.¡±

    ¡°It can hold three thousand tons of cargo each time?¡± Leslie looked at the ceremony on sea, looking at the Magic Boat that was currently slowly gliding along the waves before nodding, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, it is indeed worth quite a bit. But Xu Yi, it seems like my estimates were wrong. What I need isn¡¯t this kind of cargo Magic Ship, rather I want a smaller faster one, the kind that can carry soldiers.¡±

    ¡°Battle Magic Ship?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and looked at Leslie in surprise, ¡°What? You want to be a pirate?¡±

    Leslieughed, but he didn¡¯t answer.

    Looking at the strange smile on his face, Xu Yi didn¡¯t ask. After thinking for a bit, he said with a nod, ¡°Actually it¡¯s very simple. We just need to make a few necessary changes and then add in weapons and defenses to meet this need.¡±

    ¡°Good, I need some that are a bit smaller than these medium sized Magic Boats and they need magic weapons on them. For example, a small Magic Boat with a Magic Trebuchet on it, it would be better if it was also a bit faster. What do you think, Xu Yi? Can you do it?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hand, ¡°We can do this, but with ourpany¡¯s current productive forces, we might not be able to make it within half a year. If you¡¯re in a rush, it definitely won¡¯t work. Moreover, with your request, although the cost would be less than this medium sized Magic Boat, it would still cost four hundred thousand for one. Are you certain you want on?¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡± Leslie gave a certain nod before taking a gold note from his chest for Xu Yi, ¡°This is for the first order, I hope that you can deliver it as soon as possible.¡±

    Xu Yi looked down and found that it was a fifty thousand gold coin note from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. It was to be used as a deposit for the military Magic Boat that would cost around five hundred thousand gold coins.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand what Leslie was nning to do.

    Boats couldn¡¯t just be bought, the maintenance expenses weren¡¯t considered small. If he couldn¡¯t gain enough benefits, this might not be a good thing to have.

    Xu Yi had focused on studying Magic Boats for one, he wanted to advance the research progress of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, improving the current magic machine industry system. On the other hand, he nned to form an open sea transport fleet to be used to transport goods for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Leslie wanted to buy some military use Magic Boats. If he wasn¡¯t going around being a pirate, this thing would be a bottomless hole and he could only keep investing more cash in.

    Even if Leslie hadn¡¯t been expelled from the Stagg Family and had the financial support of the Stagg Family, it would be hard to do this kind of losing business.

    And now that thisnd had been taken back by the Lampuri Kingdom, it was impossible to have this financial resource.

    But Leslie didn¡¯t n on exining his ns to Xu Yi, so naturally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t keep asking.

    Compared to Leslie who didn¡¯t care about these transport Magic Boats, Xu Yi cared quite a bit.

    Being able to make the medium transport Magic Boats meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be making a breakthrough in terms of technology.

    The first was the engine technology.

    Although the Magic Car and the Magic Boat both used the same Wind Magic Engine which was the same in theory, there was arge difference in real life.

    Whether it was the magic research facility or the magic machine development center, the research for the engines of the Magic Car and the Magic Boat were separate.

    Now that the Magic Boat wasplete and it was soaring on the sea, it was enough to show that there was a major breakthrough in the development of the Magic Boat engine. This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research into the Wind Magic Engine had reached a new height, which would in turn increase the speed of the development of the Magic Car engine.

    For example, with the breakthrough with the Magic Boat engine, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car¡¯s engine had also improved. During experiments, they had developed a Magic Car that could transport over twenty tons of goods.

    But because of the natural disadvantage of the Wind Magic Engine, they couldn¡¯t make any big breakthroughs when it came to speed.

    That would have to depend on the research of the Fire Magic Engine.

    Other than research, the sess of the medium sized transport Magic Boat meant that there were breakthroughs in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s abilities to makerge magic machines. For example, the most basic steel welding, the casting ofrge parts, and the overall design ofrge magic machines¡­¡­as well as other aspects. They had all been improved during the design and construction of the medium sized Magic Boat.

    This medium sized Magic Boat came from an idea from Xu Yi and it had taken close to two years to make it.

    Even on earth, this would be considered very fast.

    But for the Sines Continent with no foundations at all, this was a miraculous speed.

    Now that the first medium sized Magic Boat was out, the time to make the second one would be much quicker.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished their fleet, they could transport their cargo more easily to every part of the Sines Continent.

    Take the Rudson Kingdom as an example.

    Right now for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transport goods to the Rudson Kingdom, because of the topography of the Stantine Duchy, they could only go into the ck Rice Wastnd, into the Lampuri Kingdom and turn south at Banta City to enter the Rudson Kingdom.

    This trip would be close to a thousand kilometers. Not mentioning the high costs, because of the tariffs that came with passing through the Lampuri Kingdom, there was a very high transport cost.

    But once their fleet was finished, they could load this cargo onto the ships and make a small circle to the south of the Stantine Duchy, beforending on the south coasts of the Rudson Kingdom.

    They wouldn¡¯t need to pay any fees at all and with the Magic Boat¡¯s strong carrying capacity, a single boat was like severalnd transports, so the costs would be greatly decreased.

    And because they were transporting by sea, they could go further, reaching some of the further countries of the Sines Continent that were near the ocean. This would be very helpful in spreading the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce across the continent like Xu Yi wanted.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production force wasn¡¯t good enough. Even with this sess, the next medium sized transport Magic Boat would take several months toplete.

    To really put together a fleet, it would take several years at the earliest.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Leslie with an annoyed look.

    He was already in a rush, but this fellow had toe butting in now.

    This was simply a waste of time!

 Volume 4 70 - Strong stance

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 70 Strong stance</h4>

    Leslie leaving the Stagg Family for Xu Yi wasn¡¯t actually that serious of a matter.

    When Xu Yi met Leslie back then, he knew that Leslie¡¯s ideas were different from that of the Stagg Family. Leslie had always opposed the approach of his family.

    When Leslie went back to fight for the right to inherit the family, he wanted to gradually change the ideas of the Stagg Family after bing the family head, changing the ideas of the family to his ideas.

    Although he had failed now, based on his personal point, this didn¡¯t mean he had escaped.

    In the end, he was Duke Stagg¡¯s son. Even if Duke Stagg¡¯s feelings for his son were light, it was impossible for him to do anything to him since he had the family blood in him.

    Leslie wanted at least ten medium military Magic Boats from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which required a lot of money. Without the approval of Duke Stagg, it was impossible for Leslie to take out that much money when he left the family.

    Perhaps it was like Xu Yi had guessed, Duke Stagg expelling Leslie was to give an escape route for the Stagg Family.

    So xu yi didn¡¯t care about Leslie being expelled. Whether Leslie went to be a pirate or he went to be a trader, Xu Yi would support him as a friend.

    Other than this, this wouldn¡¯t impact Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that much.

    However, this matter had a deep influence for the Stagg Family and even the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    When the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom heard about Duke Stagg even expelling his son from the family because Leslie went against his views, going against him targeting the other nobles of the kingdom.

    They knew that Duke Stagg didn¡¯t even care about his son, so naturally he would be more ruthless towards other people.

    And facts proved this.

    After the news of Leslie being expelled was spread, Duke Stagg began moving even faster.

    In just a single month, arge number of nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom were charged and the levels involved were getting broader and deeper.

    Not only were four Counts that were City Lords losing their positions and titles, even one of the ministers in the royal army who was famed as the ¡°Lampuri Falcon¡±, Duke Festalin was also jailed after being charged with treason.

    Even a duke that was considered high up in terms of nobility couldn¡¯t escape. This proved just how determined and ambitious the conservative faction led by Duke Stagg was this time.

    However, this created a strong resistance in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom criticizing that these recent actions were shaking the stability of the kingdom, there were many nobles that were charged that fought back.

    When the forces of the kingdom¡¯s parliament entered the manor of one of the City Lords and were going to capture him, they met the resistance of the City Lord¡¯s private guards.

    Both sides fought and the kingdom¡¯s parliament forces had over a hundred casualties before capturing that City Lord.

    The guards of a noble and the forces of the kingdom¡¯s parliament shing was without a doubt a serious matter. In terms of the kingdom¡¯sws, this could even be considered treason.

    However, in this situation, this was considered nothing.

    This matter was like a fuse, lighting up the tense situation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For the next nobles that were deemed to be captured, the forces of the kingdom¡¯s parliament met even fiercer resistance and more deaths urred.

    When they found that their forces couldn¡¯tplete this mission, the kingdom¡¯s parliament even moved the royal army.

    However, this created an even stronger reaction.

    ording to the foundingws of the Lampuri Kingdom, the kingdom¡¯s guarding army could only be used to protect the kingdom and they definitely couldn¡¯t be used against the nobles of the kingdom. Now that Duke Stagg used this power he controlled to break this taboo, naturally it provoked the anger of all the nobles in the kingdom.

    Forget those small nobles with those powers, but the big nobles who were on the same level as Duke Stagg with real power knew that they would be targeted by him sooner orter, so they began taking action.

    Suddenly the Lampuri Kingdom became very tense. There were even several newspapers that expressed caution. With the current situation, if they weren¡¯t careful, there might be a civil war that would be started.

    ###

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    Eric pped down on the table and jumped up. He angrily looked at Duke Stagg in front of him and it took great effort to swallow the curses in his throat. He had a dark look as he said in a low roar, ¡°Duke Stagg, I trusted you to take care of this matter, so I gave it all to you and didn¡¯t question anything. But look at this now! Do you see what the kingdom has turned into? What do you want to do? Do you really want to start a civil war?¡±

    This was Eric¡¯s first time screaming at Duke Stagg, so Duke Stagg looked at him with a bit of surprise. Then he said with a faint smile, ¡°Your majesty, please be assured, everything is in the palm of my hands. These people are just giving out a weak cry, they can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    ¡°This still can¡¯t influence anything?¡± Eric pped the document on the table in front of him and angrily said, ¡°Kolebo City is even announcing their independence! Do you think this isn¡¯t rted?¡±

    Duke Stagg looked at the document and slightly knit his brows before revealing a smile, ¡°Your majesty, since Count Arnold has done this, we can¡¯t let him off. Please be assured, I have already sent the second army to Kolebo City. With the strength of the second army, I believe that in half a month, you will see that Kolebo City will return to the grasp of the kingdom.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ve already sent the second army?¡± Eric looked at Duke Stagg and coldly asked this.

    ¡°Yes, your majesty.¡±

    Eric paused and deliberately waited, but seeing that Duke Stagg wasn¡¯t nning on exining at all, he couldn¡¯t help feeling angry.

    The defending army of the Lampuri Kingdom was the private army of the royal family since the founding of the kingdom, they could be considered the trump card of the royal family.

    However, after Eric took the throne, the kingdom¡¯s defending army had gradually fallen under the control of Duke Stagg.

    Although the most elite first army was still loyal, only listening to the orders of the king, the second army was already being controlled by Duke Stagg. Even Eric¡¯s basic orders couldn¡¯t reach the second army anymore.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth was still alive, he had sent the third army to Sowell City. It was to strengthen the northern border guards in name, preventing the Sack Kingdom from invading.

    But to the past Eric, it was because Sowell City¡¯s City Lord was Count Sean who supported Seveni. Lampuri Thirteenth had ordered the third army to take themands of Sowell City¡¯s City Lord, it was without a doubt that Lampuri Thirteenth supported Seveni taking the throne.

    It was because of this that Eric made a decision. Under the misleading of Duke Stagg, he took risks and poisoned Lampuri Thirteenth before taking the throne with the help of Duke Stagg.

    At that time, Eric had thought that his actions were correct, but looking back on it now, he found that Lampuri Thirteenth sending the third army out was actually an excellent move.

    If the third army remained in Anvilmar City, it would have also fallen into Duke Stagg¡¯s hands.

    If this really was the case, Eric wouldn¡¯t have any confidence in front of Duke Stagg.

    Thinking of this, Eric¡¯s expression sunk a bit before he said with a serious look, ¡°Immediately give the order for them to stop. Without my orders, no one is allowed to take any action against Kolebo City.¡±

    Duke Stagg was surprised, ¡°Your majesty, are you nning on letting of Count Arnold and watch Kolebo City state their independence?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Eric shook his head, ¡°But we don¡¯t need to be this crude in solving this problem. Count Arnold chose to do this, so naturally he has his reasons.....¡±

    Speaking of this, Eric gave Duke Stagg a profound look.

    ¡°As long as we solve Count Arnold¡¯s worry, I believe that we can peacefully solve this matter. We don¡¯t need to use force and let the kingdom fall into a state of civil war.¡±

    Seeing Eric¡¯s serious expression, Duke Stagg knit his brows, ¡°Your majesty, are you nning on forgiving a fellow who hasmitted treason against the kingdom?¡±

    Eric calmly looked at him, ¡°I haven¡¯t determined that Count Arnold is guilty yet.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no buts.¡± Eric cut of Duke Stagg without any courtesy.

    Duke Stagg looked at Eric before lowering his head.

    ¡°Yes, your majesty, I will send your orders to the second army.¡±

    After waiting for a bit to see if Eric had any other orders, Duke Stagg left.

    Watching the door close, Eric felt his body turn soft and he fell back in his chair.

    He unconsciously clenched his hand and found that he had no strength at all. He waspletely out of strength and he was covered in cold sweat.

    This was his first time showing a strong stance in front of Duke Stagg.

    Although he was very nervous and his body lost all strength after this battle, he felt very refreshed.

    Laying in his chair and looking at the ceiling for a while, Eric finally let out a long sigh.

    He had already been a king for a year, but he only felt like he acted like a king today.

 Volume 4 71 - Two old elf women

    Volume 4 Chapter 71 Two old elf women

    Perhaps Xu Yi would never realize Eric¡¯s feelings.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been formed, he had a high prestige in thepany and could be considered to be fully in power.

    When he obtained the private territory from Lord Wein, officially bing a lord of the Stantine Duchy, he had obtained the position equal to a king on thisnd. Of course it wasn¡¯t an empty throne like the one Eric had.

    Because the Stantine Duchy was special, Xu Yi could change thisnd however he wanted to change it. He didn¡¯t need to worry that someone would suddenly cause trouble for him or even chase him off.

    At least in the Stantine Duchy, there was no lord who would blindly provoke him.

    All the lords, even including Duke Stantine were all trying to tter Xu Y. They all wanted to create a good rtionship with him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was for nothing else, it was to purchase the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Lord Wein and Count Fran¡¯s battle hadsted four months and Lord Wein had won out in the end, taking all of Count Fran¡¯s territory.

    In the Stantine Duchy, the battle between Lord Wein and Count Fran who both weren¡¯t considered weak wasn¡¯t consideredmon. Since they were both lords of the Stantine Duchy, theirnd, territory, and military power were considered around equal. Even conflicts between them were solved by small matters, there would rarely be a time when one side waspletely destroyed.

    The other lords of the Stantine Duchy thought that Lord Wein and Count Fran¡¯s battle would be the same. They never expected that after two months of normal fighting, since the start of the third month, Count Wein¡¯s private soldiers would suddenly be stronger. Count Fran¡¯s forces couldn¡¯t fight back at all and in just less than two months, they were destroyed by Lord Wein and Count Fran was even killed.

    This was a result that no one had expected.

    After asking around, the lords of the Stantine Duchy had learned the reason why Duke Wein¡¯s soldiers had suddenly be stronger. It was because Duke Wein had bought arge number of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Lord Wein¡¯s private guards weren¡¯t famous in the Stantine Duchy for being strong, but with the various military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their battle strength exploded. Count Fran¡¯s soldiers werepletely routed and destroyed, which was enough to prove the might of the military magic machines.

    At the same time, in the south of the Stantine Duchy, Viscount Anklo¡¯s troops who had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines had swept through several lords already. He had seized arge territory of over three hundred thousand square kilometers, which was even bigger than Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    Viscount Anklo¡¯s soldiers were also equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, which made them this strong. It wasn¡¯t hard to understand why Lord Wein¡¯s soldiers had suddenly be stronger.

    To increase the strength of their subordinates, the most direct and simple method was to equip them with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines.

    So without waiting for Lord Wein to defeat Count Fran, countless lords of the Stantine Duchy sent people to connect with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They wanted to purchase the various military magic machines from them.

    So it didn¡¯t matter if Xu Yi was willing or not, he had be an arms dealer like he had expected.

    But he didn¡¯t sell his arms just to anyone. When he gave instructions to Kennard, he clearly stated that they couldn¡¯t sell military magic machines to lords who were currently in conflict with Anklo or Lord Wein.

    As for the transactions themselves, he wouldn¡¯t care.

    After sending off Leslie, he spent most of his time developing the Magic Boat. At the same time, he managed to find quite a bit of time to study magic with Great Magician Cami.

    ording to Great Magician Cami¡¯s evaluation, his strength was already at the threshold of the Great Magician stage. As long as he worked hard and deepened his understanding of magic, he could break through at any time to be a Great Magician.

    The difference between normal magicians and Great Magicians was too big. Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about magic, he had to ce importance on this matter.

    It was a good thing that the resources he had now wasn¡¯t something most magicians on the Sines Continent couldpare to. Not only did he have Great Magician Cami who was a Fifth Grade Great Magician personally teaching him, he could even get regr consultations with Great Magician Teli.

    Other than that, whether it was the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder Illusia or the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elder Lisanya, they were both stronger than normal Great Magicians at the same rank. Moreover, the two of them were elves, so they had unique understandings of magic that surpassed humans, so it was without a doubt of great help to Xu Yi.

    Because of the cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Night Song Tribe was filled with vigor and their birth rate had increased by several times, causing the tribe¡¯s poption to grow three years straight. Elder Illusia now approved of any cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi.

    But Xu Yi was a human, so she was worried that he would be limited by the lifespan of a human and would die soon. So she paid attention to Xu Yi bing a Great Magician and increasing his lifespan.

    Xu Yi had been unwilling before and didn¡¯t have enough time to focus on studying magic, so elder Illusia had no other choice.

    But since Xu Yi was willing to study magic now, elder Illusia gave this even more attention to Great Magician Cami. At the same time, she also convinced elder Lisanya to also give Xu Yi special counsel.

    But this ¡®special counsel¡¯ method.....made Xu Yi very awkward.

    ¡°I say.....two elders, is there a need to take it all off?¡± Xu Yi held the piece of underwear covering his lower part and his face was red and awkward as he spoke.

    This was the bedroom of Xu Yi¡¯s cliff side manor in the Stantine Duchy, but there were only Xu Yi, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya in this bedroom currently.

    ¡°Of course you have to take it all off, otherwise how can we tell the situation of your skeleton and the magic power conduction inside?¡± Elder Lisanya had a confused look as she looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°But.....This seems disrespectful to you.....¡± Xu Yi said in a difficult voice.

    ¡°Disrespectful?¡± The two elders were surprised. Elder Illusia thought about it before shaking her head with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re thinking too much. You are a human and we are elves, we are different species, so you don¡¯t need to feel embarrassed. No to mention that based on your human concepts, Lisanya and I are old women of several hundred years, do you need to be embarrassed in front of us?¡±

    Elder Lisanya understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning and slightly knit her brows before shaking her head, ¡°There¡¯s no need to use your useless human shame with us elves, we aren¡¯t filled with dirty thoughts like you humans.¡±

    After saying this, elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi¡¯s lower half, ¡°Could it be that chairman Xu in front of us two old elf females, you will feel aroused? You humans....or urately speaking, you human males, you really are an unbelievable being.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, this was normal for humans, alright?

    The two elders called themselves old women, but no matter what, their appearances were simr to human girls who were only in their early twenties. How could people connect them to people who were several hundred years old?

    Moreover, the two of them were elven elders. Not only did they have the beauty of elven girls, they also had the nobility and mysteriousness that normal elven girls didn¡¯t have, making them more attractive than normal human girls.

    As for different races and different species.....elves weren¡¯t like beastmen. To humans, because they had ruled the continent before, they had been a goal that people chased.

    In the days after the race wars, the elves had hidden from the humans because many humans took pride in having elven ves. They capturedrge amounts of elves, forcing the elves into having no choice but to hide.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, stop wasting time and strip.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi was still hesitating, elder Lisanya urged him.

    Elder Illusia had been with Xu Yi rather longer, so she had respect for him and didn¡¯t urge him.

    But she was looking at Xu Yi and the meaning in her eyes were clear.

    Seeing that these two weren¡¯t nning onpromising and he would be forced back by Great Magician Cami if he left now, Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh. He took off the final piece and revealed a brave look as he stood there looking unafraid of death.

    Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya¡¯s gazes swept over Xu Yi from head to toe, going back and forth several times. Then the two of them revealed looks of joy as they looked at each other and nodded.

    ¡°Very good, chairman Xu, your body is very good. As long as there is no problem with your magic power conduction, I think that you should be able to learn the unique magic meditation method of us elves. This will be very helpful in making you a Great Magician as soon as possible.¡±

 Volume 4 72 - A serious question

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 72 A serious question</h4>

    Two hourster, Xu Yi was covered in sweat as he stumbled out of the room.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s weak appearance, Still who had been waiting outside for a while quickly came forward to support him as she asked in surprise, ¡°What did the two elders do to you? They actually turned you into this.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with difficulty, he didn¡¯t even have the strength to speak.

    After elder Illusia and elder Lisanya had him take off his clothes, they had used magic to search every part of his body. They wouldn¡¯t even let off his most secret ce.

    ording to what elder Illusia said, since humans and elves were different races, although there were semnces, there were slight differences with their bodies.

    These differences weren¡¯t that obvious and weren¡¯t important, but for the unique magic meditation method that they gave Xu Yi, there was arge influence. They had to make sure that they knew about every single difference there was.

    Of course, it was easier if it was a full body search. But after conducting this, the two elders had sent their magic into Xu Yi and checked every magic conduction line in his body. Which meant they were inspecting the conduction line of magic that urred in the bodies of every magician.

    This inspection used magic and to coordinate with the two elders, Xu Yi had to keep sending magic through every line in his body again and again for the elders.

    If it was just guiding magic, it wasn¡¯t that difficult for a magician. But the problem was that to find out Xu Yi¡¯s body could adapt to the special meditation method, the two elders had Xu Yi transfer magic to every cell in his body.

    This method burned energy even more than extreme exercise. Although Xu Yi¡¯s physique was considered good among magicians, he could only keep this up at most for an hour.

    In order to make the best use of time and get moreprehensive data, the two elders had Xu Yi use all the energy and magic that he had. When he finally came out, he was so tired that he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, Great Magician Caml looked at the tightly closed room. After thinking about it, he said with a nod, ¡°Wanting to teach the unique methods of the elves to a human will definitely be very hard, bearing a little pain for this isn¡¯t anything. Still, bring Xu Yi to rest. If nothing unexpected happens, there¡¯s something for him to do tonight.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s more tonight?¡± Still looked at the closed door in surprise before looking at the weak Xu Yi in worry. She knit her brows, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that Xu Yi can¡¯t take it.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°How could it be easy to be a Great Magician? This kid is already stronger than I was at his age and there are all these people helping him, if he can¡¯t even take a bit of pain, he might as well give up studying magic.¡±

    Seeing the look on Great Magician Cami¡¯s face, Still stuck out her tongue and said nothing. She and Liz supported Xu Yi as they walked away.

    ###

    When Xu Yi woke up from his rest, he found that it was already getting dark outside. The sun was setting into the sea in the distance, letting out beams of golden light that caused the room to look golden.

    After being in a daze, Xu Yi remembered that after being supported into the bath by Still and Liz, he had fallen asleep while taking the bath. He didn¡¯t have any memories at all about how he got into bed.

    Thinking of the bath, Xu Yi was suddenly surprised to find that there was a strange scent and the sticky feeling from his body was very ufortable.

    He opened the nket with knit brows and found that he waspletely naked in bed. It seemed like Still and Liz hadn¡¯t put anything on him after carrying him out of the bath and just let him sleep.

    But seeing the ck liquid that was covering him, it was like his body was stained in ck oil. Not only was it ugly, it also smelled bad.

    ¡°This should be the impurities that elder Illusia mentioned.¡±

    After thinking of the words elder Illusia had said to him afterwards, Xu Yi had an idea. He used his magic which quickly went around his body.

    Xu Yi found that his magic was flowing much fasterpared to before and moved much more smoothly. It wasn¡¯t like before where there was a blocked feeling, the magic inside him was much easier to control.

    This must be because of the ¡°purification¡± that elder Illusia and elder Lisanya had performed for his body. It¡¯s said that it could make humans closer to elves, making it easier for them to use the elves¡¯ special meditation method.

    Stretching out a finger to wipe on his body, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows. After thinking about it, he wrapped the nket around himself as he went to the bathroom.

    He didn¡¯t meet anyone on the way. Xu Yi guessed that everyone else was having dinner at this time, so they must be eating dinner since they thought he was still sleeping.

    Although he was also very hungry, the feeling around his body was ufortable, so he didn¡¯t have time for his stomach.

    He went into therge bathroom in his manor and Xu Yi pulled off the nket around himself. He used the water to wash his body off twice before jumping into the spacious bathtub.

    ¡°Putong!¡±

    The warm water wrapped around him and Xu Yi felt like every part of his skin was more sensitivepared to before. He could feel the warmth from the water better than before and it was like each pore slightly opened from the stimtion of the water.

    Other than having a much keener sense of touch, Xu Yi felt his other senses bing sharper.

    For example, he found that there was another scent in the bath with his sharp sense of smell. Also his sharp eyes saw that in the bath covered in steam, there were two naked forms.....

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes suddenly opened wide and he was shocked. He suddenly stood up and prepared to flee.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve said it before, you don¡¯t need to feel ashamed like the other humans, there¡¯s no meaning.¡± Elder Lisanya turned around in the bathtub, ¡°You¡¯re awake earlier than we expected, it seemed like it went very smoothly. Come, let us see the specific details.¡±

    ¡°Pleasee over. Chairman Xu, we have just begun researching your body, we need to make the best use of time.¡± Elder Illusia¡¯s voice also sounded, ¡°If you can be a Great Magician a day earlier, it will make me feel even more assured.¡±

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before turning around with a bitter smile. Looking at elder Illusia and elder Lisanya who had stood up with naked bodies and moving over, his lips couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    ¡°Two elders, isn¡¯t this too much of a rush? I¡¯ll go out first. You¡¯ve been busy all afternoon, you deserve a bath to rest up.¡±

    The water in the tub suddenly surged and formed a hand, tightly grabbing Xu Yi¡¯s leg and stopping him.

    Xu Yi looked down in surprise and found that the water flow was very strange. He couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh and praising, ¡°Elder Lisanya, your Water Magic really is superb. If you are willing to help our magic research facility study the Magic Boats, it would be great!¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s put this aside and discuss itter. Right now the most important thing is to see how your body is.¡± Elder Lisanya brought Xu Yi in front of herself and reached out to stroke his chest before giving a satisfied nod, ¡°It seems like it¡¯s quite good. Illusia, how do you feel?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head. She also touched Xu Yi¡¯s chest with a faint purple light on her fingertips.

    Seeing elder Illusia¡¯s actions, elder Lisanya¡¯s fingertips also released a faint purple light. Just like elder Illusia and like this afternoon, they began carefully going over Xu Yi¡¯s body.

    Although this had happened many times this afternoon, it was only him standing in front of the elders naked, so Xu Yi could ept being investigated like this. Now that elder Illusia and elder Lisanya were also naked, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t calm himself and couldn¡¯t control his reactions.

    Not long after, elder Lisanya finished investigating Xu Yi¡¯s upper body before her fingers went to the lower half. Seeing the peak on Xu Yi¡¯s lower half, she stopped before suddenly using her finger to point at Xu Yi¡¯s little brother and asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you really feel desire towards us?¡±

    Xu Yi had a very awkward smile, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, two elders, this is a normal reaction for humans, I can¡¯t control it.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking you this, my meaning is that do you really desire us? If I let you copte with us, are you willing?¡±

    ¡°Copte?¡± Xu Yi was stunned as he looked at elder Lisanya. He found that she was very serious and didn¡¯t seem like she was teasing him or seducing him, rather she was just asking him a purely academic question.

    Then looking at elder Illusia, he found that she also cared about this question.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused before calming his emotions. After thinking about it, he replied with a nod, ¡°It should be willing.....After all, from my perspective, the two elders are very beautiful elven women, so it conforms to my aesthetics very much.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help sweeping over the naked bodies of the two elders and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.

    ¡°But humans are not animals, we need to look at the other side when ites to coption. Still is my wife, I have to take responsibility for her. I can¡¯t easily copte with others because that would be disappointing Still.¡±

    ¡°But Agnes told me that you¡¯ve copted with your two maids Liz and Linda, right?¡± Elder Illusia suddenly said.

    Xu Yi felt very awkward, ¡°This.....They obtained Still¡¯s approval.....this is different......¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not worry about this. In short, you wouldn¡¯t be against being with elven women and would agree to it, right?¡± Elder Lisanya asked.

    ¡°That is correct, but elder Lisanya, why are you asking this?¡± Xu Yi asked with a confused look.

    ¡°Because this is a very important question.¡± Elder Lisanya had a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you willing to take an elven girl.....as your wife?¡±

 Volume 4 73 - Political marriage

    Volume 4 Chapter 73 Political marriage

    ¡°Did you reject them?¡± Still asked in a curious voice before putting her hands on Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder.

    With these white and powerful hands, her good technique, and Still¡¯s unique invention, the Wind Magic Massager, Xu Yi¡¯s body immediately rxed and he couldn¡¯t help letting out a moan.

    After giving a few moans offort, Xu Yi let out a breath and replied, ¡°Of course I rejected it. Could it be that you want me to get an elf wife?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing bad about this.¡± Still said with a faint smile, ¡°Elf girls are beautiful and they are much more directpared to human girls, so it¡¯s easier to get along with them. Take Agnes for example, she¡¯s quite good. Right, how about you just ask elder Illusia to let you marry Agnes. Anyway, Agnes always says that she likes being with you, so I think that if you want to marry her, I don¡¯t think that she would be against it. Moreover, if it¡¯s her, it¡¯s easier for us to get along, so isn¡¯t that good?¡±

    ¡°What is good?¡± Xu Yi snappile looked at her, ¡°Stop joking around. I am a human, how could I really marry an elf girl? Then again, you are already my wife, how could I marry another woman?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not against you marrying others.¡± Still leaned on Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and giggled in his ear, ¡°Anyway, I¡¯m very busy now and can¡¯t be with you most of the time. For Liz and Linda, they can take care of a few things for you and marrying a few more wives to be with you isn¡¯t that bad, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still with knit brows, ¡°Are you being serious? Don¡¯t forget, you are my only wife now. I don¡¯t believe that you really want me to get a few more wives.¡±

    ¡°Of course.....it¡¯s a lie.¡± Still giggled, ¡°Of course I hope that you only belong to me and only have me in your heart, but.....that idea is too selfish. With your status, if you only have a single woman, there will be people that will say that my heart is too selfish. Even grandfather has said that your family only has you. In order for this family to develop more, you should get a few more girls and give birth to a few more kids.¡±

    ¡°Are you treating me as a breeding horse?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows and took Still¡¯s hands on his shoulder, pulling her. He pulled her in front of him and looked into her eyes with a serious gaze, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about what other people say. Still, I only need you to tell me, do you really want it to be like this? Be honest!¡±

    Still avoided Xu Yi¡¯s gaze and after hesitating a bit, she said with a soft sigh, ¡°Of course I¡¯m not willing to share you with others, but grandfather is right and the others are also right. I......¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it, don¡¯t worry about what others think. It¡¯s fine as long as you¡¯re not willing.¡± Xu Yi said in a serious voice, ¡°Although I am a man and have thought about having countless beautiful women, as a man, I have to take responsibility for my wife. You are my wife, that means I will always ce your thoughts first. Other girls aren¡¯t that important. Actually if you did keep persisting, I wouldn¡¯t have evenid a finger on Liz or Linda, do you believe that?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit before slowly nodding as her eyes filled with a bit of mist.

    ¡°I believe. Xu Yi, you are that kind of person, you are different from most men in this world. Evita and Akali were right, being able to meet you and be your wife really is my blessing.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re wrong, it was a blessing for me to meet you.¡± Xu Yi pinched Still¡¯s face with a smile, ¡°So don¡¯t think about random things, I¡¯m satisfied with just you as my wife and I¡¯m not interested in taking more wives. Not to mention that elder Illusia and elder Lisanya are only proposing a political marriage. I¡¯m not interested in this at all, rather I¡¯m against it.¡±

    Hearing the evaluation from Xu Yi, Still was surprised as she woke up from being moved.

    ¡°You¡¯re saying......Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya want you to marry a elf girl for political reasons?¡± Still knit her brows, ¡°But they are elves, would they do something like this?¡±

    ¡°The elves aren¡¯t as aloof as you think they are. If they were like this, they wouldn¡¯t have chosen to cooperate with me.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Moreover, this isn¡¯t just my spection, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya have clearly expressed this.¡±

    ¡°They personally told you that this was a marriage for political reasons?¡± Still asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Of course they weren¡¯t this direct, but the two elders clearly said to me that the reason for this proposal was to deepen the rtionship between their tribes and me. It would be best if I could leave descendants with the girls of their tribes, that way this could let the two elf ns enter human society.¡±

    ¡°This seems a bit wrong.¡± Still was a bit confused, ¡°Didn¡¯t the elves always look down on humans? It made it even harder for the half elves that came from this to live in elf tribespared to humans. Why would the two elders make this proposal?¡±

    ¡°That is because they want to make a symbol of change. The two elders said that if they want the elf tribes to integrate into human society and survive on the continent, they had to take a step forward. The two elf tribes wouldn¡¯t ept other humans and I was the only one who has been approved by both tribes, so I¡¯m the most suitable.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Still knit her brows to think before nodding, ¡°It was no wonder that you think this idea is filled with political reasons, it¡¯s because the two elders are considering the future development of the elves, they don¡¯t care about feelings at all. I think....as long as you agree, they might casually choose two beautiful elf girls from their tribes. How about it, Xu Yi, are you moved?¡±

    ¡°Che, have I seen few beautiful elven women in these past two years? Not mentioning I can see Agnes frequently. Even yesterday.....¡±

    Xu Yi was suddenly stunned.

    Even if he didn¡¯t hold anything back from Still, he felt embarrassed telling her that he, elder Illusia, and elder Lisanya had been naked in front of each other yesterday.

    But as the mistress of this manor, how could Still not know that something had happened yesterday? Seeing that Xu Yi suddenly stopped, she immediately understood what he wanted to say and secretlyughed.

    ¡°What? Xu Yi? Could it be that you look down on the normal elven girls and like the two elders?¡±

    Seeing Still smiling, Xu Yi angrily pped her butt and said in a low roar, ¡°What nonsense is this! Alright, we¡¯re not discussing this anymore. Anyway, I don¡¯t agree to this, so you shouldn¡¯t have random thoughts about this, understood?¡±

    Still rubbed her sore butt that Xu Yi had pped before saying with a smile, ¡°I saw the way the two elders looked at you before they left, I¡¯m afraid they won¡¯t give up that easily. The elves are famous for being stubborn. Since those two elders have made their decision and since it is for an important reason, they definitely will do everything they can to aplish this goal.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°I won¡¯t agree, could it be that they¡¯ll force me? They wouldn¡¯t send out elven girls to rape me, right?¡±

    Stillughed, ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her and after thinking about it, he stood up and put on his clothes before walking to the door.

    ¡°Where are you going now? You¡¯re not taking this time to rest?¡± Still asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I suddenly thought of something, there¡¯s no time to rest.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°If you need anything, use the Magic Communicator to contact me.¡±

    Xu Yi left the manor after saying this. He got in his Magic Sedan and drove to the newly built Frestech Chamber of Commerce administration center built on this territory.

    Xu Yi directly found Kennard and had him list all the current cooperations between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the elves.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please look. Ourpany is currently focused on our cooperation with the Night Song Tribe. Among that is the Night Song Tribe stic Factory that the Night Song Tribe operates and provides technical support for, but draws support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s marketing channels, which we also invested funds to build. Other than that, there are also many Night Song Tribe elves who are working in the other factories of ourpany, which is a partial cooperation.¡±

    ¡°What about the Moon Shadow Tribe?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°There are fewer cooperations with the Moon Shadow Tribe, the main one is the fertilizer factory. But the fertilizer factory has been growing over the past two years and if wepare by the amount involved in this cooperation, it isn¡¯t less than our cooperation with the Night Song Tribe.¡±

    ¡°Then can you give me a concrete amount involved in the cooperation with these two tribes?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Kennard slightly knit his brows, ¡°There¡¯s no exact stat for that, but ording tost month¡¯s financial reports, the project amount rted to these two tribes should be around five hundred thousand gold coins. Ourpany is earning a profit of around a hundred thousand gold coins from those projects.¡±

    ¡°Then the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe are also having profits of around a hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    ¡°ording to the contract we signed with them, they should be earning a bit more than us. It should be around a hundred fifty thousand to two hundred thousand.¡±

    Hearing this response, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    The Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe were earning a profit of less than two hundred thousand gold coins a month from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This was already enough for elder Illusia and elder Lisanya to put down the constraints of the elf race. Not only did they help Xu Yi increase his magic power, they even wanted him to marry elven girls.

    It seemed like the elves were not actually as proud as the legends said.

    If these two elf tribes were to profit even more, wasn¡¯t it possible that they would work to death for him?

 Volume 4 74 - Pay with what?

    Volume 4 Chapter 74 Pay with what?

    After being rejected by Xu Yi, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya didn¡¯t mention this matter for the following time, but they focused on helping Xu Yi grasp the unique meditation method of the elves.

    After a month of focused training, Xu Yi had finally grasped a special meditation method from other human magicians.

    The elves were the ones who taught humans magic. Although the elves had weakened over the thousands of years, their study in magic was much more advancedpared to humans. Adding in the umtion of over ten thousand years, it allowed the elves to have outstanding aspects when it came to their magic.

    This meditation method was one of those.

    After grasping the method of the elves, Xu Yi tested it and found that there was a clear difference when it came to recovering and increasing the magicpared to his meditation method from before.

    Although this required the two elders to ¡°purify¡± his body several times to adapt to the magic cirction, there was no doubt of the meditation method¡¯s advantages.

    Based on his speed before, if Xu Yi continued to increase his magic at a stable rate, he would have been able to control Space Magic by the age of forty and truly be a Great Magician.

    But with this meditation method, Xu Yi¡¯s magic increased greatly, saving him at least half the time.

    To be optimistic, Xu Yi could be a great Great Magician before he turned thirty five.

    As for the magic research, that depended on Xu Yi¡¯sprehension.

    But this problem was what gave Xu Yi the biggest headache, which was an issue that Great Magician Cami and the two elders were helpless over.

    Xu Yi always attached importance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the development of the magic machine industry, so his interest in magic was always secondary.

    So he wouldn¡¯t invest all his effort into studying magic like other magicians, which meant that he didn¡¯t improve as fast as possible.

    The onlyfort was that Xu Yi was an outstanding talent, he understood magic far better than a normal magician.

    Normally speaking, as long as his magic power could keep up, there was no magic that he couldn¡¯tprehend.

    So in the end, his magic power had to reach the level of a Great Magician before he could really charge into the Great Magician realm.

    There was no shortcut in umting magic power. Even if Xu Yi had the special meditation method of the elves and his magic was greatly increasing each day, he had to meditate each day and umte bit by bit, waiting for that day toe.

    Whether it was Great Magician Cami or the two elders, they couldn¡¯t do a thing when it came to this. So when Xu Yi grasped the meditation method of the elves, the two elders returned to their respective tribes.

    Before they left, they didn¡¯t mention the matter of marriage with Xu Yi again, which made Xu Yi think that they really gave up on this idea.

    In order to increase his magic, Xu Yi had been dyed for more than two months. When the two elders left, he went back to normal from wildly studying magic and he found that there were a bunch of things for him to take care of.

    In the middle of August, when the weather was at its hottest, Xu Yi appeared on the production base on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Actually it wasn¡¯t urate to call this ce a production base now since after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left the Lampuri Kingdom, then all the other Banta Citypanies followed them, this production base that had been less than twenty square kilometers had increased in size by more than ten times.

    There was now an industrial sector that had variousrge and small factories, as well as a living area that was constructed by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and there was a shopping area with all kinds of stores all over.

    Then with all the various training camps of the variouspanies¡¯ guards and the other management centers, this area took over ten square kilometers and was equal to a medium sized city in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because there were variouspanies gathered here, with many factories and arge poption, the prosperity of this ce couldpare to Banta City from before.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise had proposed that they develop a new city here and build a city wall around them. They would create defenses around the city, which could help block the harassment of the blind beastmen.

    But Xu Yi had rejected this proposal.

    The main reason for this was because this was a business area built by the variouspanies, it wasn¡¯t supposed to be a foundation for a city.

    Without leadership in ce, even if most of thepanies listened to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was hard to unite everyone here.

    Next, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want this ce to be a traditional city. He wanted to create a free trade center here, which would be the magic machine industry center for the Sines Continent.

    The ck Rice Wastnd was rare to control because of the beastmen who had taken this ce, but it was very suitable to establish a new order here.

    Xu Yi had the ambition and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this strength. So from the beginning, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been sharing this idea with everyone.

    This ce would be a city of business, a city of freedom.

    Of course, even if it couldn¡¯t be a traditional city, it could take the name of a city.

    So since they werezy, this ce was called ck Rice City.

    There were no City Lord Manor or city guards in ck Rice City. All therge and small matters were decided by the Business Union which wasposed of thepanies in ck Rice City.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was one of the permanent members and Xu Yi as the chairman had a high position in the Business Union. He had great influence in ck Rice City.

    Even themander of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s western army who controlled over thirty thousand soldiers, Varian Lantis was respectful when he saw Xu Yi. He wasn¡¯t as aloof as he normally was when he met the other merchants.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve been waiting for over a month now, but I never thought that you would appear today.¡± Varian Lantis said with a look ofint.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I¡¯m sorry,mander Lantis, I¡¯ve been busy with an important matter during this time and couldn¡¯t pull myself away. But Kennard said that you were happy when you were talking to him, so I didn¡¯t worry that much.¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Commander Lantis nodded, ¡°I was the one who invited chairman Xu, so the one that has to worry is of course me.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Sirmander¡¯s words are too heavy. As for your request, Kennard has exined to me in detail and he has told me many details. In principle I don¡¯t oppose this because this is just a normal transaction. If you want to buy ourpany¡¯s military magic machines, we agree and want to sell, this is very normal, but......¡±

    Commander Lantis didn¡¯t say a thing as he looked at Xu Yi, waiting for him to continue.

    Seeing thatmander Lantis didn¡¯t take the initiative to speak, Xu Yi gave a cough before continuing, ¡°But sirmander, are you certain that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army won¡¯t interfere? Sirmander, you should know that I¡¯ve had some deals with the royal army, so I¡¯m very clear on the taboos of the royal army.¡±

    Commander Lantis revealed a smile, ¡°Kennard has raised this problem many times and I¡¯ve always told him not to worry. Now that chairman Xu is asking me again, I have the same answer. Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this matter. I can guarantee in my name that the military headquarters definitely won¡¯t interfere with this transaction.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since the sirmander is using his name as a guarantee, I¡¯ll naturally believe.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°Then let¡¯s get to the next question. Sirmander, if I may be a bit frank, I am certain that your western army can¡¯t take out that much money. Then how are you nning on paying the gold coins needed to buy the military magic machines from ourpany?¡±

    Commander Lantis was clearly expecting Xu Yi to ask this. He just revealed a smile after hearing this question and waved his hand at Xu Yi, leading him to a side room.

    This room was very simple, but there was arge map hanging on the wall which took up the entire wall.

    Commander Lantis walked over to the map and picked up a wooden stick, pointing at the map.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you see what is marked here? This is an iron mine.¡± Commander Lantis said.

    Xu Yi looked at the red dot the wooden stick was pointing at on the map and gave a nod.

    Commander Lantis moved the stick to another red dot.

    ¡°Do you see this mark here? This is also another iron mine.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded again, but he felt a bit confused in his heart.

    Commander Lantis pointed several times on the map, pointing out several iron mines, several Magic Crystal mines, and two non-ferrous metal mines.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think these mines would be enough to pay for the military magic machines?¡± Commander Lantis asked.

    Xu Yi was surprised. He looked at the pointsmander Lantis had pointed out before asking in a surprised voice, ¡°Sirmander, if I¡¯m not mistaken, the mines that you¡¯ve just pointed out, aren¡¯t they in the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Commander Lantis revealed a dangerous smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s good that it¡¯s in the Sack Kingdom. If it was in our Lampuri Kingdom, I couldn¡¯t use them to bargain.¡±

    Xu Yi caught the real intentions behindmander Lantis¡¯ words and he couldn¡¯t help narrowing his eyes.

    This sirmander.....he really was wild.

 Volume 4 75 - Standard of struggle

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 75 Standard of struggle</h4>

    Commander Lantis¡¯ n was as Xu Yi had guessed. He wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, receiving the support of their magic machines to invade the Sack Kingdom, taking territory from the Sack Kingdom. Then he would hand the mineral rights of thatnd to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pay for those military magic machines.

    This ce was simply crazy.

    First, the Sack Kingdom was stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom. In the hundreds of years of history, the Sack Kingdom had always been suppressing the Lampuri Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom had been barely able to keep back to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s invasion.

    In this situation,mander Lantis was telling Xu Yi that he wanted to use the mineral rights of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s territory to pay. This was even funnier than feeding on painted cakes.

    If the Sack Kingdom was that easy to invade, the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have been bullied for so many years.

    Next, even if the national strength between the two didn¡¯t differ, if the western army with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were to take territory from the Sack Kingdom, it would without a doubt go against the taboo.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army could allow the western army to buy military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to increase their power, but they definitely wouldn¡¯t allow the western army to invade the Sack Kingdom by themselves.

    This was because this was equal to provoking a war between the two countries. The Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t stable right now and the situation could explode into a civil war at any moment. Whether it was the military headquarters or the upper stratum, they definitely wouldn¡¯t take the initiative to provoke the Sack Kingdom.

    Putting aside these two main problems, there was another very important problem. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production couldn¡¯t match the needs of the western army.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been developing military magic machines for three years, because of the resistance in Xu Yi¡¯s heart, they didn¡¯t invest that much. Until after they moved the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy and were forced to focus on developing military magic machines, as well as increasing the scale of their production.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current production, other than being able to satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the guards of the otherpanies, they couldn¡¯t even satisfy the orders from the lords of the Stantine Duchy. How could they have the energy to satisfy the needs of the thirty thousand soldiers of the western army?

    Then again, even if these problems didn¡¯t exist and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce enough military magic machines to arm the western army, would the western army put this n in order? Rather wouldmander Lantis really put his efforts into this?

    Xu Yi was very doubtful.

    After hearingmander Lantis passionately describe the n in his mind, Xu Yi thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    Not mentioning the other aspects that he was worried about, Xu Yi mainly focused on the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current production couldn¡¯t match the demands of the western army. He expressed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t take thisrge order.

    Commander Lantis gave a smile that wasn¡¯t worried at all, ¡°That doesn¡¯t matter, I didn¡¯t want to arm all thirty thousand of my brothers at once. We can go bit by bit and slowly arm them all.¡±

    Xu Yi forced out a smile.

    If they followed the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard, it would take over a hundred gold coins to equip a soldier.

    Then there was the Magic Trebuchets, the Magic Bazookas, and the Magic Armoured Vehicles.

    If the western army followed this standard, it would cost at least ten million gold coins to invest in them.

    Then taking in the training, it would cost several hundred thousand gold coins a year or even more.

    Thisrge consumption, not mentioning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t support.

    Then again, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really took out this much money, why wouldn¡¯t they equip their guards and throw it away on the western army that wasn¡¯t rted to them?

    Xu Yi had already closed the door on cooperation, but seeing the hopeful look inmander Lantis¡¯ eyes and because of the western army¡¯s great influence on the ck Rice Wastnd, he didn¡¯t immediately reject him. After thinking about it, he said.

    ¡°Sirmander, how about this? Since you don¡¯t want to equip the entire western army at once and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have the ability to achieve this, then let¡¯s stretch out our cooperation and solve this bit by bit. What do you think? For the first batch, I think ourpany can......¡±

    ###

    After leaving the camp, Xu Yi entered his Magic Sedan and drove off. The smile on his face quickly disappeared to be reced with a bitter look.

    After his discussion withmander Lantis, in the next month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be providing five hundred Magic Repeating Crossbow, ten medium sized Magic Trebuchets, one thousand sets of Magic Armour, one hundred personal Magic Bazookas, and five Magic Armoured Vehicles.

    This had a value of close to two hundred thousand and the price that the western army was paying was only two promises frommander Lantis.

    Commander Lantis promised that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive the full support of the western army. The western army would help no matter what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do something in the Stantine Duchy, the western army would support them.

    At the same time, if the western army could invade the Sack Kingdom,mander Lantis would give all the mineral rights in the territory captured to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yipletely ignored the promise about the Sack Kingdom, rather the first promise had satisfied him.

    With the support of the western army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the right to speak on the ck Rice Wastnd. It would be of great help to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    With how chaotic the situation in the Stantine Duchy was, if they could obtain the support of the western army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be safer on thend Xu Yi obtained.

    To be honest, these military magic machines worth close to two hundred thousand gold coins was the protection money the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid the western army.

    Although it was a bit expensive, it was very useful.

    Of course, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t very satisfied with this situation.

    He hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be influenced by anything and could smoothly develop.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still wasn¡¯t strong enough right now, so they could onlypromise.

    Thispromise wasn¡¯t just in terms of military matters, it was also in terms of business.

    After leaving the camp of the western army, Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan back to ck Rice City. Without resting at all, he went to a Business Union meeting that gathered all thepanies in ck Rice City.

    At this conference, there was only one topic which was to set standards.

    When eachpany was in Banta City, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s dominance, almost all the standards in the magic machine industry were set by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The otherpanies could only agree to them.

    But as the situation changed and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left the Lampuri Kingdom, the magic machine industry management department that controlled the magic machine industry had set a different standard from the Frestehc Chamber of Commerce. They requested that whether it was magic machines produced in the kingdom or somewhere else, they had to follow the magic machine standard of the Lampuri Kingdom, or they couldn¡¯t be sold.

    Not mentioning the influence this had on the Lampuri Kingdom, it had quite arge influence on the magic machinepanies of the ck Rice Wastnd as well.

    Although most of thesepanies had withdrawn from the Lampuri Kingdom, for many of thesepanies, their main markets were still in the Lampuri Kingdom. The main consumers for their magic machines were still the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry management department had made these new standards, they forced the otherpanies to follow these standards, or they would give up the mature market that had been built up by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But how was it easy to change their standards? To manypanies, this was equal to throwing away their foundations. To manypanies, it was equal to throwing away their specialty.

    But if they didn¡¯t change, they would lose the main market of the Lampuri Kingdom, which was a path of death for thesepanies.

    These helplesspanies could only turn their eyes to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for help.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to ept the new standards, helping thesepanies that weren¡¯t as good change their production lines, they could make it past this crisis.

    However, Xu Yi only had a single appraisal for their ideas.

    ¡°Idiots!¡± Xu Yi revealed a cold look that these people rarely saw and his tone was very serious, ¡°Do you really think that those fellows will let you off if you change your standards? Could it be that you still didn¡¯t learn from the bitter experiences back in Banta City? Those greedy fellows want to expel everyone other than them from the Lampuri Kingdom!¡±

    Thepanies at the conference looked at each other with helpless looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we do understand this, but there¡¯s no other way.¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, changing the standard for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t hard, you just need to adjust the production magic machines. I feel that it isn¡¯t hard to satisfy the standards of the magic machine industry management department, right?¡±

    ......

    Seeing these people who tried their luck, Xu Yi shook his head with a coldugh.

    ¡°No, your understanding of standards is too shallow. Let me tell you, the struggle of standards is a struggle of life and death. Once you obey the new standards of the department, we would be ying into the hands of the department. Even our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to resist at all, do you think that yourpanies are stronger than us?¡±

    Everyone was silent and after a while, a representative asked Xu Yi, ¡°Then.....chairman Xu, do you have a way to solve this?¡±

    Seeing everyone¡¯s hopeful eyes, Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s very simple, since those fellows in the Lampuri Kingdom don¡¯t want us in their market anymore, we¡¯ll just abandon this market.¡±

    ¡°How can we do that? Over 90% of the products ourpany makes are sold in the Lampuri Kingdom. If we give up this market, isn¡¯t this equal to waiting for death?¡±

    ¡°Right, we¡¯re the same.¡±

    ¡°Us too.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget, at this timest year, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, almost all the products of yourpanies were sold in the Lampuri Kingdom, but now there¡¯s a part that is being sold in other areas.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a confident smile.

    ¡°Believe me, giving up the Lampuri Kingdom market will make you suffer a bit, but you can seize this chance to wee a much wider market. It won¡¯t take long and I can promise that the Lampuri Kingdom market will open itself to us again.¡±

 Volume 4 76 - Flames of rage

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 76 mes of rage</h4>

    ¡°Gezhi......Gezhizhi......Gezhizhizhi......¡±

    There was an annoying sounding from the Magic Fan. The des suddenly began slowing down and after a while, it stopped with an ear grating sound.

    Aunt Ailiman red at the Quedec Brand Magic Fan on the table and loudly shouted, ¡°Old man, this damn Magic Fan is broken again!¡±

    Old man Kutch came from the back room covered in sweat and looked at the Magic Fan on the table before he couldn¡¯t help cursing.

    ¡°This damn Quedec Brand Magic Fan, how many times has it broken this month?¡±

    Aunt Ailiman gave a cold snort, ¡°I already told you that you had to buy a Frestech Brand if you were to buy a Magic Fan, but you wouldn¡¯t listen. You brought back this broken Quedec Brand Magic Fan that breaks every time we use it, isn¡¯t it annoying?¡±

    Old man Kutch angrily red back at her, ¡°I already told you that I can¡¯t buy the Frestech Brand, alright? Don¡¯t you know that it¡¯s very difficult for our Lampuri Kingdom to buy the Frestech Brand magic machines? Where do you want me to get one from?¡±

    ¡°Even if you can¡¯t buy the Frestech Brand, you should at least buy a Rigg Brand Magic Fan. If you still can¡¯t, even buying a Silband Brand Magic Fan is better than this damn Quedec Brand! Why did you have to buy this broken thing?¡±

    It¡¯s easy for people to get angry when it was hot and after being agitated by aunt Ailiman like this, old man Kutch was filled with anger. He angrily waved his arms and shouted, ¡°How many times do you want me to say it? Not to mention the Frestech Brand, I can¡¯t even get a single Rigg Brand or Silband Brand Magic Fan! Let me tell you, startingst month, other than the Quedec Brand Magic Fan, you can¡¯t buy any other brands!¡±

    Aunt Ailiman was stunned, ¡°Then why was it that when I helped out at Viscount Enrique¡¯s ce, I saw two Silband Brand Magic Fans in the rooms of the servants?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, can Ipare to Lord Viscount Enrique? They bought it from the Seveni Chamber of Commerce, I don¡¯t have that connection. Then again, the Silband Brand Magic Fan is three silver coins more expensive than the Quedec Brand, of course I would choose the cheaper one.¡±

    ¡°So what if it¡¯s cheaper? Now that it¡¯s broken, those golden coins have gone to waste!¡± Aunt Ailiman angrily said.

    ¡°How could I know that this damn Quedec Brand Magic Fan is this useless?¡± Old man Kutch angrily waved his hand, ¡°Alright, alright, stop talking, I¡¯ll bring it for repairs now. Damn thing, it costs up to ten silver coins to repair it each time, I¡¯ve already spent several dozen silver coins fixing this thing. If I knew earlier, I would have bought a Rigg Brand Magic Fan.¡±

    Aunt Ailiman gave a snort, but she didn¡¯t keep berating him. She just said in a cold voice, ¡°That damn Quedec Chamber of Commerce, they had to force out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies, causing us to be unable to find a Magic Fan to buy. Humph, I¡¯ll remember this. Even if I can¡¯t buy one in the future, I wouldn¡¯t buy from the Quedec Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    OId man Kutch shook his head. Now that the magic machine industry was controlled by the tenpanies and the department, the otherpanies producing magic machines were just the same as the Quedec Chamber of Commerce, they were all trash.

    If one decided not to buy things from the Quedec Chamber of Commerce, they might as well decide not to buy magic machines.

    But once they got used to using household magic machines, it would feel very strange not using them, they might feel that it was very inconvenient.

    This wasn¡¯t the case for the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, but the people of Banta City were already used to the more convenient lives brought to them by the household magic machines. If they were to return to their lives from before, most people would feel very ufortable.

    However, thinking about it, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies left Banta City and even the entire Lampuri Kingdom, the prosperity of Banta City was long gone.

    Although the people of Banta City could still find jobs, it was wishful thinking if they wanted the satisfying high ie from the years of before.

    The young people of Banta City chose to leave it, heading to the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom, and other ces. They followed thepanies that followed in the footsteps of the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, chasing after the high wages. No one was willing to stay in Banta City to be exploited by the tenpanies.

    The people who stayed in Banta City had their ie drop. How could they have enough money to buy the household magic machines and live the samefortable lives as before?

    But these issues were something that aunt Ailiman who never read the newspaper and didn¡¯t care about the issues of the Lampuri Kingdom cared about. It didn¡¯t matter if old man Kutch told her about it, so he could only pick up the Quedec Brand Magic Fan with a shake of his head before walking out.

    He walked to the Quedec Chamber of Commerce¡¯s repair shop outside the city and passed a store opened by the Seveni Chamber of Commerce.

    OId man Kutch only gave casual looks before and didn¡¯t pay it much attention, but because aunt Ailiman had just mentioned the Seveni Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯t help taking a few more looks.

    This time he noticed that the products in the Seveni Chamber of Commerce were much lesspared to before.

    Looking at it, the shop was empty with just a few household magic machines inside, there were even fewer store clerks.

    Old man Kutch stopped to take a look and finally he couldn¡¯t take his curiosity as he walked in.

    Seeing old man Kutche in, although the clerk came over, it was clear to see that their smile was forced. They didn¡¯t seem friendly at all, like they weren¡¯t willing to wee him.

    Old man Kutch was even more curious. He had heard people say that the Seveni Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service was good, they would always have friendly smiles no matter who the customer was. Why did it change today?

    Could it be they were looking down on him?

    Old man Kutch was confused as he looked around the empty store. He couldn¡¯t help asking the clerk, ¡°Did you sell everything in the store? Why don¡¯t you put a few more things up? It looks very bad like this.¡±

    The two store clerks looked at each other before one said with a sigh, ¡°We¡¯re about to close the store, so we won¡¯t put up new stock anymore. This customer, do you want to buy a Magic Fan? We only have two Silband Brand Magic Fans left. If you¡¯re interested, we¡¯ll definitely give you a discount.¡±

    Seeing the clerk¡¯s eyes fall onto the Quedec Brand Magic Fan he was holding, old man Kutch couldn¡¯t help feeling ashamed. He took the Quedec Brand Magic Fan and hid it behind his back. When he thought about the clerk¡¯s answer, he was surprised.

    ¡°Close down? Why? Isn¡¯t the business here good?¡±

    ¡°We don¡¯t know the details, but we¡¯ve been informed that this shop will close in one week.¡± The clerk replied.

    Old man Kutch suddenly felt angry, ¡°Could it be that this ce is being forced to close by those bastards at the magic machine industry management department?¡±

    He felt it was wrong after thinking about it.

    This was the store opened by her highness, how could the department be bold enough to force her highness Seveni to close?

    ¡°We¡¯re not clear on this and we¡¯re sorry we can¡¯t reply.¡± The clerk was clearly well trained and still had a smile, ¡°This customer, do you still want to buy the Silband Brand Magic Fan?¡±

    Old man Kutch looked in the direction the clerk was pointing and saw a Silband Brand Magic Fan on the shelf.

    Seeing the pure white stic shell of the Magic Fan that glowed, it was clear that it was protected with carefully made alloys. Then he looked down at his rough looking Quedec Brand Magic Fan where the outer cover had many different thicknesses, old man Kutch couldn¡¯t contain the anger in his heart at all.

    After a pause, old man Kutch suddenly threw the Quedec Brand Magic Fan on the ground.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    Old man Kutch was quite forceful and the Quedec Brand Magic Fan wasn¡¯t that strong, so it shattered to pieces on the ground. Even the fan des were shattered to pieces.

    Looking at the pieces on the ground, old man Kutch found it didn¡¯t get rid of his anger. He raised his foot to stomp several times and finally when he saw that the Quedec Brand Magic Fan didn¡¯t look anything like it used to, only then did he stop.

    The two clerks were surprised by old man Kutch¡¯s sudden actions. After watching him stomp the Quedec Brand Magic Fan like it was an enemy, the two clerks were confused.

    This simple looking middle aged man, just why was he this angry?

    Moreover, his anger seemed unreasonable, just who was he venting on?

    It was a good thing that old man Kutch didn¡¯t continue. After stopping, he said to the clerk, ¡°I want to buy a Silband Brand Magic Fan, wrap it up for me!¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....Oh, please wait a minute.¡± A clerk began moving towards the warehouse in the back.

    As he ran off, old man Kutch suddenly shouted, ¡°Wait.¡±

    The clerk turned around and looked at old man Kutch with a confused look.

    ¡°You just said that you only had two Silband Brand Magic Fans left?¡±

    ¡°Un......That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°What about other than these two? Do you have any other brands?¡±

    The clerk looked at the shattered Quedec Brand on the ground and shook their head.

    ¡°No, our shop doesn¡¯t carry the Quedec Brand Magic Fan. If you want that, please buy it from the Quedec Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Old man Kutch angrily said, ¡°I won¡¯t buy another broken thing from the Quedec Chamber of Commerce again even if I die! Get both of these Silband Brand Magic Fans for me, I¡¯ll buy them both!¡±

    The two store clerks were stunned.

 Volume 4 77 - Save me

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 77 Save me</h4>

    ¡°Your highness, this is thetest financial report from the store, please review it.¡±

    Seveni looked at the Seveni Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial report in the hands of the deacon and gave a sigh. After looking it over, she gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°I never thought that in a few months, I would earn several tens of thousands of gold coins. It was no wonder those people did everything they could to chase out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    The deacon looked at Seveni with a confused look. Why would her highness mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after seeing this financial report?

    Could it be that it was like the rumours, her highness had an intimate rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, that¡¯s why she cared about thepany that much?

    ¡°Take out the tens of thousands of gold coins and buy grains, then appoint them to the people in the viges outside the city. They were hit by a flood recently, so these grains should help support them over this time.¡± Seveni said.

    ¡°Yes.¡± The deacon nodded in response before praising with a smile, ¡°Your highness truly is benevolent. The people in those viges aren¡¯t the people of our territory, but you still think of them. If the lord of Tag City knew about this, he definitely would feel ashamed.¡±

    ¡°Although they aren¡¯t citizens of my territory, they are people of the Lampuri Kingdom. As the princess, it¡¯s normal for me to care about them.¡± Seveni casually said.

    ¡°But your highness......¡± The deacon paused before finally swallowing the words he wanted to say.

    Seveni looked at him with a bit of a warning before waving her hand, ¡°Alright, you can go prepare those things.¡±

    The deacon quickly nodded before leaving.

    Watching him leave, Seveni gave a sigh before revealing a bitter smile.

    Closing the Seveni Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t her original intention.

    Seveni was nning on using her own work to let the Seveni Chamber of Commerce be a window that connected the magic machinepanies led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that were expelled, allowing them to continue this rtionship with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But a while ago, Eric had summoned her and had a long talk with her.

    During this talk, Eric had clearly told Seveni that he hoped she wouldn¡¯t involve herself in the internal affairs of the kingdom because it would make his rule hard.

    Although Seveni said that the tenpanies only represented the benefits of therge nobles. Expelling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies was very bad for the Lampuri Kingdom, she was just doing this to soften the losses.

    Eric didn¡¯t support Seveni¡¯s ideas at all. He said that the tenpanies gave him the support of many conservative nobles in the kingdom, so this situation wasn¡¯t something that he could go against. Even he as the king couldn¡¯t do anything, not to mention Seveni who was the princess without much real power.

    But Eric also said that he was clear on the current situation of the kingdom, he was currently beginning to control this situation.

    Eric told Seveni that he was currently taking back power bit by bit from those nobles led by Duke Stagg, trying hard to control the Lampuri Kingdom. He hoped that Seveni wouldn¡¯t make any moves during this time that would ruin his ns.

    Although Seveni didn¡¯t approve of Eric¡¯s ideas, Eric was the one sitting on the throne now. As Eric¡¯s little sister, she should fully support him, so she listened to what Eric said.

    After that, Seveni stopped the Seveni Chamber of Commerce and closed all her stores in the Lampuri Kingdom. She also transferred her factories to the tenpanies.

    Up to this point, all of the hard work Seveni put into the Seveni Chamber of Commerce had gone down the drain.

    Compared to before the Seveni Chamber of Commerce was set up, the Lampuri Kingdom was controlled by the tenpanies, or rather therge nobles.

    To Seveni, the situation in the kingdom was only getting worse.

    This naturally filled Seveni¡¯s heart with frustration.

    She thought that she could change the situation with her strength, but she never thought that she would stop midway.

    Thinking of how Xu Yi had called her ¡°naive¡± before, Seveni couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    ¡°I hope that Eric can smoothly put his n in action and take back control of the kingdom step by step.¡± Seveni gave a sigh and shook her head, throwing this problem out of her mind.

    Because the Seveni Chamber of Commerce closed, the refugees Seveni nned on having work in the Seveni Chamber of Commerce needed new arrangements.

    Of course Seveni wouldn¡¯t send them back to their original ces to be exploited by their lords.

    But keeping them on her territory broke the rules between nobles, which others could easily use to target the royal family and make Eric even more passive.

    So after Seveni thought about it, she found that she could only ask Xu Yi for help.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi always epted Seveni¡¯s requests. After receiving this request, he agreed to help take care of these refugees for her without another word.

    Adding in the fact that there were more refugees wandering into Seveni¡¯snd, there were over two thousand refugees that had escaped to Seveni¡¯s territory.

    Even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would find it hard to digest all these people. Xu Yi worked with the otherpanies on the ck Rice Wastnd to take away all these refugees.

    But these refugees had been forced to work in magic machine factories by the nobles that ruled over them, so they had a bit of skills and it was easy to integrate into thosepanies.

    The problem that Seveni had to consider now was how to give those refugees a suitable status.

    Although many of the refugees came with their entire family, some of them still had family and friends back home. They might never return to the Lampuri Kingdom after leaving, so if they were all sent away now and if they wanted toe back, they might lose their legal identity in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This question wasn¡¯t that hard for Seveni. With her status, it wasn¡¯t hard to ask for some citizenship status from the kingdom¡¯s parliament at all.

    The only problem was that there were too many of them.

    When she was considering whether she should split them into batches to solve this problem, the door that the deacon had closed before suddenly opened.

    Seveni looked up in surprise to find that the the deacon was back and there was someone else with him.

    This person didn¡¯t seem to have any strength and he could barely stand while being supported by the deacon. His clothes were a mess and his hair was all over the ce, he didn¡¯t look that different from the refugees that escaped to Seveni¡¯s territory.

    But if one looked seriously, they could tell that this person was different from those refugees.

    This person¡¯s clothes were messy, but they were made with a very high grade material. It was finely crafted and the design was quite new, it wasn¡¯t the kind of clothing that a refugee could wear at all.

    Moreover, he was slender and even though he was covered in blood and dirt, one could tell that his skin was quite fair. He didn¡¯t seem like those rough and dark skinned refugees at all.

    ¡°Your highness.¡± The deacon said to Seveni before preparing to help this person to sit down on the side.

    Seveni was currently wondering who this person was. How could he be this close to the deacon that he would be brought here? That person heard the deacon¡¯s voice and suddenly looked up.

    When his eyes met with Seveni¡¯s, Seveni revealed a shocked look. This person was suddenly filled with strength and broke free of the deacon, rushing in front of Seveni and kneeling down. He hugged Seveni¡¯s leg and cried out.

    ¡°Your highness! Save me! Save me! My entire family......was killed by those damn fellows.....I was almost......also killed too.....Save me......¡±

    Seveni was surprised before quickly helping him up. She looked at that face covered in dirt that had a line in it from the tearsing down and found that she hadn¡¯t been wrong. This person was manager Dema¡¯s youngest son, Jarvan.

    Because manager Dema was serving Lampuri Thirteenth when Seveni was young and his youngest son was close to Seveni in age, they yed together when they were young. Seveni and Jarvan were rather close.

    Even if those two became more estrangedter when they grew up since there was a difference in status, they met frequently.

    At manager Dema¡¯s funeralst year, Seveni had attended and chatted with Jarvan for a while, hoping that he would have a good life.

    Although Jarvan seemed quite sad since his father had just passed, he was still the standard image of a noble young master.

    She never thought that in a year, he would suddenly be like this.

    What surprised Seveni more were the words he said.

    ¡°What did you say? Your whole family.....has been killed?¡± Seveni looked at Jarvan in shock, ¡°You¡¯re saying they were killed? Who is bold enough to kill your entire family?¡±

    Jarvan shook his head, ¡°I.....I don¡¯t know......I was still sleeping when I was suddenly woken up by people screaming. Then there were a bunch of people who came into my house and killed my family. I.....I was forced into hiding by one of the servants......¡±

    Seeing that Jarvan couldn¡¯t speak properly, Seveni couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows.

    ¡°You don¡¯t know anything at all?¡±

    Jarvan shook his head in a daze, ¡°I don¡¯t know.....I don¡¯t know any.....No! There should be some clue in here! Father told me before he passed that if something happened to our family, I shoulde find you and give this to you.¡±

    Jarvan dug in his chest and took out a small package that was wrapped up in leather.

    The leather was covered in sweat and blood stains, looking very dirty, but Seveni didn¡¯t care at all as she took it from Jarvan.

    Manager Dema said these words to Jarvan before he died, there must be something wrong here.

    Opening the leather, she found that there was a sealed letter, a bound book, and a small bottle inside. There was an unknown purple liquid that filled half the bottle.

    Seveni looked at the bottle and couldn¡¯t see what it was, so she put it on the side. After thinking about it, she opened the sealed letter.

    Once she opened the letter, Seveni¡¯s eyes suddenly shrank.

 Volume 4 78 - Diary

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 78 Diary</h4>

    ¡°Your highness, when you see this letter, I will be suffering eternal damnation in the deepest part of hell.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to be curious why this is because when I decided to help Duke Stagg kill his majesty, this was the destiny that I was doomed to live.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking for your forgiveness nor am I qualified. I¡¯m leaving behind this letter in hopes that the truth won¡¯t be covered and that you will no longer be deceived.¡±

    ¡°The reason that I chose to expose the truth at this time is because the family that I¡¯ve treasured the most has suffered a misfortune. The reason I was willing to help Duke Stagg and his highness Eric kill his majesty was because they threatened me with the lives of my family members. If my family is no longer here, there is no threat.¡±

    ¡°I am an ignorant coward. For my family, I agreed to conduct this evil act with them. Even though I knew in my heart that by doing this, they might trap my family to death in order to cover up the truth.¡±

    ¡°Your highness, you must be very angry and I can understand this because my evil deeds can¡¯t be forgiven at all. I have served his majesty since I was young and his majesty has always been very good to me. I should have given his majesty the greatest loyalty, but I betrayed him at thest moment, even putting the poison into his mouth.¡±

    ¡°Seeing his majesty drink the poisoned medicine, I was already dead. Not long after his majesty died, I chose to kill myself. Perhaps it was considered a loyal act by many people, but actually it was just a kind of escape.¡±

    ¡°I couldn¡¯t bear the guilt from this act, I couldn¡¯t take seeing his majesty looking at me every night when I slept, so I chose to escape and finally chose to kill myself.¡±

    ¡°Your highness, if you see this letter, this means my premonition hase true and my family has been purged. This means that I was lucky enough to have some family members who survived and brought this letter to you.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not expecting forgiveness, but I ask you to forgive my family members. They are the final hope of our family, I hope that you can be benevolent enough to forgive them. My family didn¡¯t know the circumstances of these matters and they should have paid enough of a price already.¡±

    ¡°As for me, I will suffer the greatest pain in the deepest part of hell forever because my crime can never be washed clean.¡±

    Seeing thisst line, Seveni¡¯s hand holding the letter couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    Anger, shock, anxiety, aggrievement, panic.....and all kinds of other feelings hit Seveni¡¯s mind all of a sudden, It turned her mind nk and she lost all her ability to think.

    ¡°So royal father didn¡¯t die of sickness.¡±

    ¡°Royal father was actually poisoned by manager Dema!¡±

    ¡°Duke Stagg was the one who killed royal father and Eric even helped!¡±

    The blood disappeared from Seveni¡¯s face and her fair skin turned pale white, looking very shocking.

    After a while, that pale face suddenly turned red. Seveni¡¯s body gave a sudden tremble before her lips opened a trace of blood came from the corners of her mouth.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s reaction, the deacon and Jarvan on the side were shocked.

    ¡°Your highness, what is wrong? Are you alright?¡±

    The deacon wanted to charge forward to help her, but Seveni quickly put the letter in her hand away and raised a hand to stop him from approaching.

    She took a deep breath and Seveni¡¯s expression slowly recovered as her eyes returned to their normal calm.

    But looking carefully, one would find that her expression wasn¡¯t as warm as usual and there was a bone chilling cold that was in it.

    Seveni looked at Jarvan before looking at the letter in her hand. She took a deep breath and put the letter away into her chest. She took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood from her mouth before opening the book.

    This book was manager Dema¡¯s diary.

    This diary started three months before Lampuri Thirteenth had died and ended with a final entry on the day manager Dema died.

    Based on this diary, Lampuri Thirteenth had been sick for several months and his condition quickly degraded.

    In the beginning of the diary, manager Dema¡¯s words were filled with worry.

    But around half a month before Lampuri Thirteenth died, the tone in the diary became cold and it recorded Duke Stagg¡¯s meetings with manager Dema.

    To the few days before Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s death, the diary began recording the daily changes with Lampuri Thirteenth and manager Dema¡¯s hesitation.

    Then several days after Lampuri Thirteenth passed, manager Dema left behind a long entry. He recorded the situation of the day Lampuri Thirteenth died, he exined in detail how Duke Stagg had forced him and how he had poisoned Lampuri Thirteenth.

    In the diary, it mentioned the little bottle that had also been left behind.

    ording to the diary, this little bottle contained the poison that killed Lampuri Thirteenth.

    Then manager Dema had written a clear will, detailing how his family members would be arranged and how his funeral would be arranged.

    In the diary, manager Dema had stated that he was clear that even if he didn¡¯t kill himself, his highness Eric and Duke Stagg would still kill him to silence him.

    He chose to kill himself other than escaping the torment of the guilt, he was also making considerations for his family.

    At the end of the diary, he stated that Duke Stagg and his highness Eric would eliminate his family to keep things secure, that way it would be easier to hide the truth of the matter.

    After Seveni finished reading this diary, there wasn¡¯t much impact since she had already read the letter.

    But after reading the part in the diary about how Lampuri Thirteenth had been poisoned, Seveni couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    After reading everything, Seveni was in a daze for a while. Only then did she put away the diary and the small bottle before looking at Jarvan.

    ¡°Your majesty......¡±

    Seeing theplicated look in Seveni¡¯s eyes, Jarvan couldn¡¯t help trembling as a bit of worry filled his heart.

    His father¡¯s letter most likely had a shocking secret, otherwise her highness Seveni wouldn¡¯t have spat out blood.

    It was a good thing that after Seveni looked at Jarvan with aplicated look for a bit, she didn¡¯t do anything else. She turned to the deacon and said, ¡°Take Jarvan away to let him get some rest. Also seal off the news that Jarvan has arrived here, don¡¯t let anyone know he¡¯s here, do you understand?¡±

    The deacon gave a deep nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Go.¡±

    When the deacon and Jarvan left and there was only her left again, Seveni¡¯s body suddenly trembled as her hand came to her mouth.

    When she let go again, there was a sharp blood red colour on her palm.

    Seeing this shocking blood red colour, Seveni¡¯s face revealed a look of endless sadness as she muttered, ¡°Eric, are you.....really so cruel?¡±

    ###

    There was a ck Magic Sedan traveling on the road heading towards the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital Caraca City.

    This road was built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce three years ago and had been expanded by themst year. Now it was a strip of road that was over twenty meters wide and the biggest road in the Rudson Kingdom.

    This road¡¯s most northern part was at the border between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, the most south part was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s biggest port city Nissi City. In the middle was Caraca City, which connected to the Rudson Kingdom to the north and south.

    From the horse carriages and the asional Magic Car that went across this road, it could be seen that this road was currently the most busy road in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Facts proved this.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s government had decided that this road was the most important transport line in the Rudson Kingdom. They not only set up ry station, they also set up traveler lodging and other services along the way. They had even set up guards from the royal army who were responsible for patrolling the road.

    Of course, there were disadvantages that came with these benefits.

    The benefits was that this road connected all of the Rudson Kingdom and with this road, the Rudson Kingdom was developing quickly.

    The disadvantage was that the Rudson Kingdom depended too much on this road. All the development was centered on the areas connected by this road and the development of the other areas were not as good.

    But this would be improved on over the next few years.

    The Rudson Kingdom had already signed a new contract with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, asking them to build three morerge scale roads across the Rudson Kingdom. Not only would it connect the north and south, it would also connect the east to west.

    Other than this, there were many smaller roads that needed to be built connected to these fourrge roads. The goal was to connect the entire Rudson Kingdom with roads, working hard to reach the same level as the Lampuri Kingdom within five years.

    ¡°The Rudson Kingdom has forgotten an important issue.¡± Kennard sitting in the back of the Magic Sedan looked at the horse carriages running along the road and shook his head as he said to Xu Yi beside him, ¡°Just having roads is useless, the most important thing is having the appropriate vehicles. Other thanying downrge amounts of roads, the Rudson Kingdom should buy more Magic Cars from ourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Kennard, how about we make a bet?¡±

 Volume 4 79 - Sincerity

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 79 Sincerity</h4>

    Kennard was surprised, ¡°What bet?¡±

    ¡°Betting on whether the Rudson Kingdom will order Magic Cars from ourpany or not.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the medium sized transport Magic Car that had just passed on the road, ¡°I¡¯m referring to just the transport Magic Cars, I¡¯m not talking about the Magic Sedans like the one we¡¯re riding.¡±

    Kennard slightly knit his brows. After thinking about it, he shook his head with a smile, ¡°No, I¡¯m not making this bet with you. I¡¯ve thought it through, the Rudson Kingdom won¡¯t want to continue ordering Magic Cars from us, rather they will propose investing in a Magic Car factory with us.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and gave Kennard a nod of praise.

    ¡°See, you understand this, so of course the Rudson Kingdom will also think of this. Compared to directly buying Magic Cars from us, isn¡¯t it more favourable for them to set up a Magic Car factory with us and learn how to make Magic Cars from us?¡±

    ¡°That.....Sir chairman, are you nning on agreeing?¡± Kennard asked before revealing a smile, ¡°No, I shouldn¡¯t be asking this. Sir chairman will definitely agree because you¡¯ve always done this.¡±

    ¡°No, you¡¯re wrong, I won¡¯t agree this time.¡± Xu Yi slowly shook his head.

    Kennard was surprised again, ¡°Why? Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you always want more people to participate in the study of magic machines to have more people in the magic machine industry? Could it be that you¡¯ve changed your ideas now?¡±

    ¡°My ideas have never changed, but there is arge difference between the Magic Cars and the magic machines of ourpany.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°What difference?¡± Kennard asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°The difference is in the technology.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°I was willing to transfer those household magic machines so easily before that other than for my own ideal, the technology contained within them was quite simple. With the help of ourpany, the otherpanies could grasp that technology quite easily.¡±

    Kennard fell into thought for a bit before asking, ¡°This means.....You don¡¯t want to transfer the Magic Car technology now because you feel they won¡¯t be able to grasp it?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°You should know that the Magic Car technology is far beyond that of the normal household magic machines. It isn¡¯t simple to produce the Magic Car, it requires several steps with fine details, this is an entire system. It is impossible to easily grasp it.¡±

    Kennard thought for a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°It¡¯s no wonder you weren¡¯t willing to transfer the technology for the production magic machines, you were afraid they wouldn¡¯t be able to grasp it.¡±

    ¡°The production magic machines are different from the Magic Cars. Before there is a standardized system for production, the quality of the production magic machines depends on how skilled the workers are. In this regard, other than the dwarves of ourpany, there aren¡¯t many workers who have reached this level. Weren¡¯t there severalpanies that tried to imitate it before? You also saw how it ended.¡±

    Kennard revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Yes, thosepanies overestimated themselves. They couldn¡¯t use their production magic machines at all, they even med ourpany for not releasing the technology and wanted us to cover their losses.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I hope that the Rudson Kingdom knows good from bad. Actually I¡¯ve been very sincere, other than discussing the two orders we discussed before, I also want to help them set up aplete magic machine industry. As long as they¡¯re willing to follow the n, it won¡¯t take long before they can also start producing Magic Cars.¡±

    Kennard paused and hesitated to speak.

    He didn¡¯t feel that optimistic about Xu Yi¡¯s hopes.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom was smarter than the Lampuri Kingdom, greatly supporting the development of the magic machine industry, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a foreignpany in the end. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s trust in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was limited.

    Even if Xu Yi had sincerity, the Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t do what Xu Yi wanted them to do.

    But seeing the confident expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Kennard also felt confident.

    After being with Xu YI for this long, he would often be infected by Xu Yi¡¯s strong confidence. He would also be filled with confidence when he did things and wouldn¡¯t give up that easily.

    This transformation had received the approval of Kennard¡¯s father, Count Emma. He said that agreeing to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very good decision.

    Thinking of his father, Kennard suddenly thought of a figure.

    He looked at Xu Yi and after hesitating a bit, Kennard pretended to casually say, ¡°Right, sir chairman, ording to the schedule, you¡¯ll be heading to the Lampuri Kingdom next month, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, the students from Baron Rickto Academy are graduating this year. I have to look over the seeds we nted back then to see if they have grown to the point where we can use them.¡±

    Mentioning Baron Rickto Academy, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The investment in Baron Rickto Academy was paying off now. The students of the magic branch and other branches had to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating.

    Because these young people had been guided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were more epting of magic mechanical engineering knowledge, representing the future hope.

    Xu Yi ced importance on them, so he would personally greet them once they graduated.

    ¡°I think that they should satisfy you.¡± Kennard also nodded with a smile. Then after hesitating a bit, he asked, ¡°Then sir chairman, can I ask you to find some free time after this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise, ¡°What? Is there something you need?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Kennard¡¯s expression was a bit strange, ¡°Sophia will be engaged next month, she hopes that you will attend her engagement ceremony.¡±

    ¡°Sophia is getting engaged?¡± Xu Yi was greatly surprised, ¡°Isn¡¯t she still under twenty? Who is she being engaged to?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s Marquis Thor¡¯s youngest son.¡± Kennard replied, ¡°Twenty years old isn¡¯t young, she is already at the age of being married. She can¡¯t always just keep waiting forever, right?¡±

    Seeing the look of deep meaning on Kennard¡¯s face, Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°This definitely isn¡¯t her idea, you want me to go? Kennard, do you really think that I should go to her engagement ceremony?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps this isn¡¯t good, but I feel that this is a bit offort for Sophia. Perhaps it can also give her a pleasant surprise.¡± Kennard said without any expression.

    Xu Yi looked at him and shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Kennard, actually there are some times where I sympathize with juniors of nobles like you. You can¡¯t even decide your own wedding, it really is too painful.¡±

    ¡°This is the responsibility we must bear.¡± Kennard replied in an indifferent voice, ¡°Other than that.....Sir chairman, if you¡¯re willing to agree back then, Sophie wouldn¡¯t have to suffer like this.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it very clearly before, I only want to take Still as my wife in this life, there is no room for other girls. Even if I agree with Sophia, she might live a happy life with me.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    Seeing that Kennard still wanted to say something, Xu Yi raised his hand to cut him off.

    ¡°Let¡¯s not discuss this anymore. I¡¯ve been almost driven crazy by the two elven elders recently. To be honest,ing to the Rudson Kingdom this time was a kind of escape.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    After the two elven elders leftst time, they came back to the Stantine Duchy a monthter. They came looking for Xu Yi without several elven beauties, requesting Xu Yi to choose apanion from among them.

    Although Xu yi had clearly rejected them, the two elven elders didn¡¯t care about his opinion at all. The elven beauties were all left behind and they said they would wait for Xu Yi¡¯s decision before leaving.

    These elven beauties were all very enthusiastic, following Xu Yi all day. Although they didn¡¯t entangle him, they did follow closely.

    At the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were always elven beauties who followed Xu Yi all day. The request of the two elven elders had been spread to everyone.

    Everyone felt admiration towards Xu Yi, thinking that he was extremely lucky to be able to choosepanions from these elven beauties, but there were few who understood Xu Yi¡¯s worries.

    Although Kennard didn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi insisted on only having one wife, he praised his insistence very much and just smiled without saying anything.

    Only in his heart, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t even moved by all these elven beauties, it was no wonder Sophia couldn¡¯t move him at all.

    It seemed like there was no chance for Sophia at all.

    Kennard gave a bitterugh before looking at the road in front, seeing arge billboard that was very familiar in the distance.

    This was the billboard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up ten kilometers away from Caraca City. Seeing this billboard meant that Caraca City was getting close.

    Because Kennard had been to the Rudson Kingdom several times for work, he was very familiar with this. When he wanted to turn to tell Xu Yi, he found that Xu Yi was surprised looking forward.

    Kennard turned his head and found at the station not far away from the billboard, there was a group of people standing there looking like they were there to wee someone.

    He couldn¡¯t see clearly since it was too far, so Kennard couldn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi was surprised.

    Xu Yi suddenly turned and looked at Kennard with a strange expression, ¡°The sincerity of the Rudson Kingdom.....Isn¡¯t this too high?¡±

 Volume 4 80 - Such a large formation

    Volume 4 Chapter 80

    Such arge formation

    Kennard was a bit confused why Xu Yi suddenly said this, but as the Magic Sedan approached that group, Kennard looked over to find Newman¡¯s group standing there.

    As the main contact for the Rudson Kingdom to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, whenever Kennard came to the Rudson Kingdom for a transaction, he was always received by Newman.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first timeing here, so naturally Newman was the one in charge of weing him.

    Beforeing to the Rudson Kingdom, Kennard had contacted Newman beforehand and Newman had said that he would be here to wee Xu Yi.

    But in the group that appeared in front of them, other than Newman, there were many important people from the Rudson Kingdom.

    For example, the two people close to Newman. One was the chief of the agricultural and business department that Newman had introduced to Kennard before, Wendigo Witherspoon and as well as the chief of the magic machine industry development board, chairman Barry Wesley.

    It had to be said that these two were important people in the Rudson Kingdom. They were standing with Newman, but their position was in the center of the group.

    They weren¡¯t inconspicuous, but they were far from being the most important.

    It could be seen that there were many people with higher positions than the three of them.

    But this made people even more confused.

    Although the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were weed in the Rudson Kingdom, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receiving high praise from the officials and even the king.

    No matter what, this lineup weing them was too much. It was no wonder Xu Yi was surprised.

    Looking at this crowd, Kennard shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m afraid you should be disappointed. They aren¡¯t here to wee us.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and shook his hand, ¡°I was just joking. Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is considered good, naturally we wouldn¡¯t have this much face to make all these important people from the Rudson Kingdome greet us.¡±

    He looked at Newman in the crowd after saying this before giving a sigh, ¡°It seems like Newman is busy, so let¡¯s enter the city first and contact himter.¡±

    ¡°Un, it seems like we can only do this.¡± Kennard nodded. He hinted to the driver to head towards Caraca City in the distance which had already appeared.

    When they passed this group, the Magic Sedan had to slow down because of thatrge group.

    Xu yi and Kennard wanted to not disturb Newman since they saw he was busy, but they never thought that when their Magic Sedan passed by, Newman would actually look over to see Xu Yi and Kennard sitting inside the Magic Sedan.

    Newman was stunned before revealing a look of joy. He squeezed through the crowd and came in front of the Magic Sedan, blocking it.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, Kennard, why are you here now?¡± When the window came down, Newman saw Xu Yi and Kennard before asking with a look of pleasant surprise, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say you woulde tomorrow?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard and Kennard quickly said, ¡°The sir chairman wanted to arrive a day early to check out the situation of your Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Oh, wee, wee.¡± Newman revealed a friendly smile and nodded, ¡°Since chairman Xu is here this time, you should stay for a while in our Rudson Kingdom. I¡¯ll bring you to see some good ces of our Rudson Kingdom that will definitely satisfy you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m looking forward to it very much.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    Compared to before, now when he saw Newman, Newman would always be excessively friendly like he was trying to tter him.

    The reason was very simple, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in the Rudson Kingdom, they had brought many jobs and brought benefits to the Rudson Kingdom. It brought good appraisals to Newman who had introduced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Rudson Kingdom, allowing him to be promoted several times in the past two years.

    Although his position was still the chairman of the Rudson Chamber of Commerce, his actual power was much greater.

    And ording to some rumours, he had obtained the recognition of the king because of his merits. He might even be promoted to the vice chief of the agricultural and business department.

    This position could be considered a high position in the Rudson Kingdom. If he could be promoted, it would mean that Newman would be stepping into the highest level of the Rudson Kingdom.

    Newman knew why he had this rare opportunity, so he was very friendly towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Newman, who are they?¡± Newman wanted to chat with Xu Yi when a serious voice came from behind.

    The three looked over and found that it was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s agricultural and business chief, Wendigo Witherspoon who had been standing with Newman.

    He could be casual with Newman, but in front of chief Witherspoon, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t just keep sitting in the car. He got out of the car and gave a slight bow to chief Witherspoon with a smile.

    Newman had already introduced Xu Yi to chief Witherspoon. Chief Witherspoon looked at Xu Yi in surprise and gave a slow nod before revealing a look of praise, ¡°I heard Newman say before that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was young and promising, but I never thought that you would be this young. It really is surprising.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for the praise of sir chief. The magic machine industry of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a young one, so it¡¯s normal for the chairman like me to be young.¡±

    Chief Witherspoonughed, ¡°Chairman Xu really does have his charm. Are you saying that old men like us shouldn¡¯t meddle in the magic machine industry of you young people?¡±

    ¡°Of course I didn¡¯t mean this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°The development of the magic machine industry in the Rudson Kingdom can¡¯t leave the support of sir chief.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to be modest.¡± Chief Witherspoon said with a sigh, ¡°Actually since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has arrived to invest in the Rudson Kingdom, helping drive the economic development of our kingdom, it has yed a vital role in relieving the pressure on our kingdom¡¯s finances. When the king summoned mest time, he even specially mentioned the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I never thought that our small Frestech Chamber of Commerce has caught the attention of his majesty, it really is a great honour.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I wonder, what did his majesty and sir chief talk about?¡±

    Chief Witherspoon looked at Newman before replying, ¡°It¡¯s mainly about introducing the technology of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. His majesty was very interested in how Banta City had be a prosperous city in just a few years under the drive of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wants to create the same economic city in our Rudson Kingdom. But we need a certain amount of magic machine industry infrastructure, which means we need the technical support. So.....chairman Xu, we hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can cooperate with us on this.¡±

    Xu Yi exchanged a look with Kennard before nodding with a smile, ¡°Sir chief doesn¡¯t need to worry. For my trip to the Rudson Kingdom this time, I wanted to discuss building magic machine industry infrastructure in the Rudson Kingdom with mister Newman. As for the technology......I believe that we will find a result that satisfies both sides.¡±

    ¡°Really? That would be great.¡± Chief Witherspoon nodded with a smile before saying to Newman, ¡°Since chairman Xu is already here, Newman, you don¡¯t need to stay here anymore. You¡¯ll be in charge of receiving chairman Xu. Remember, you have to satisfy chairman Xu, understood?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir chief, I will arrange everything.¡±

    After talking to Newman, chief Witherspoon turned to Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you have time, I want to have a long talk with you. Will you be able to ept this?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m looking forward to it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, CEO Kennard, I hope that you have a good time in our Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Chief Witherspoon gave a nod before returning to the group.

    The people in the crowd didn¡¯t react when Newman had moved, but seeing that chief Witherspoon came over to talk to Xu Yi and Kennard, they couldn¡¯t help being curious over who these two were and all looked over.

    Newman ignored this and after greeting a few people, he prepared to return to Caraca City with the two of them.

    When the two were about to get in the Magic Sedan, there was the thundering sound of horse hooves from the road behind them that shook the entire ground.

    Since developing the Magic Cars, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t heard that many horse hooves, so he couldn¡¯t help turning around in curiosity.

    When he turned and looked into the distance, there were several dozen horses pulling a horse carriage along.

    Normally, the speed of a horse carriage could rarely pass thirty kilometers an hour, but these horses were all very good and the quality of the carriage was good. Pulling at full force, while it was impossible to be as fast as the Magic Car, it still moved quite quickly.

    When the horse carriage ran at full speed, the momentum was very powerful, which was something that the Magic Cars couldn¡¯tpare to.

    Seeing the horse carriage running forth, the pedestrians and other vehicles moved out of the way, out of fear that they might not be able to avoid it.

    When the first carriage was about to reach, there was a little girl who came out from the side and there was a young woman who was behind her.

    The young woman called out and wanted to pull the little girl back, but she was too far.

    The horse carriage didn¡¯t slow down at all and the first horse¡¯s hoof was about to fall down on the little girl¡¯s head.

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort and used his magic, creating a wind wall above the little girl¡¯s head.

 Volume 4 81

    Volume 4 Chapter 81 Candra Empire ambassador

    The horse hoof fell and mmed into the wind wall, but it couldn¡¯t move forward at all like it was stepping on a firm wall.

    The wind wall had a soft and powerful force that rebounded the hoof. The first horse waspletely knocked back and hit the second horse, before knocking the horse carriage into a wind wall that Xu Yi had ced in front of the little girl.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The horse moved very quickly and with this collision, although Xu Yi had shown mercy, it was quite the strong him. The entire horse carriage was mmed to the side and the axles of the wheels were split.

    Although the horse carriage was hit by the wind wall and didn¡¯t fall over, it couldn¡¯t take this strong force that easily. The driver who was sitting at the front of the carriage fell to the ground and spat out blood.

    Xu Yi coldly looked at that driver and didn¡¯t show any pity towards him at all.

    This fellow actually dared to drive this horse carriage this fast in a crowded ce, not caring for human lives. It was fine for him to be taught a lesson.

    But Xu Yi also knew that this driver was this bold to ignore people¡¯s lives because of the person inside the horse carriage.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes turned cold looking at the horse carriage behind. He took a few steps forward and picked up the little girl who had been stunned in fear. He went to the young woman on the side and said to her in a low voice, ¡°Quickly leave, don¡¯t stop!¡±

    The young woman was stunned before looking at Xu Yi in gratitude and whispering thanks to him. She quickly picked up the little girl in her arms and ran to the field on the side, disappearing in an instant.

    Then Xu Yi turned to see the motorcade being stopped by the first horse carriage and he gave a coldugh in his heart.

    These fellows were this arrogant, it was clear they had a backing.

    Based on this, it seemed like there was someone the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s group was weing in this motorcade.

    Based on the people who came from the Rudson Kingdom, the person in the motorcade was clearly very important.

    In short, he had caused quite a bit of trouble this time.

    But Xu Yi never regretted anything he had ever done. In this situation, even if he had a thousand choices, he would still do the same.

    Thinking about it now, he should have been a bit more stronger and punished these guys a bit more.

    ¡°You peasant! You dare block our way!¡±

    When Xu Yi was looking over the first carriage, there was a low roar as well as a cracking sound.

    Hearing the sound rip through the air, he knew it was a whip and Xu Yi¡¯s eyes turned cold. He used his magic and created a magic barrier.

    The whip hit the magic barrier and was shattered to pieces by the barrier. The person who sent out the whip from the second carriage was hit by the rebound of Xu Yi¡¯s magic barrier, spitting out blood before falling to the ground.

    ¡°Magician?!¡±

    Everyone was shocked.

    Although magicians weren¡¯t rare on the Sines Continent, everyone knew that they were much stronger than normal people. Seeing that Xu Yi was a magician and that he was quite strong, people in the motorcade who were nning to charge out stopped and looked at Xu Yi with a bit of hesitation.

    But these people didn¡¯t n on retreating at all. Rather they took out many bows that they aimed at Xu Yi.

    Seeing this, as long as Xu Yi moved, they might fire without any hesitation.

    Both sides looked at each other waiting for the situation to explode. Newman suddenly came forward and stood in front of Xu Yi. He shouted at the motorcade in an anxious loud voice, ¡°Misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding!¡±

    After saying this, he turned to give Xu Yi eye signals.

    Xu Yi understood. After all, this was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s territory, he should give Newman some face. He gave a nod and turned to leave.

    But even if he wanted to settle this, it didn¡¯t mean the other side wanted to.

    When he turned, there was a coldugh from behind him.

    ¡°Humph, daring to block the path of Lord Hakanin and injuring our people, you want to leave just like this?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. He wanted to ignore these people and leave, but there was magic elemental energy waves from behind him, causing his expression to change.

    Turning around, he saw a giant fireball flying at him.

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with rage.

    This was a Fourth Grade Fire Spell, the Exploding me Spell. If he didn¡¯t have his guard up, he would be heavily injured if he didn¡¯t die.

    Moreover, with the strength of this spell, it would also affect Newman who was beside him.

    The magician on the other side didn¡¯t care about injuring Newman and didn¡¯t care if Xu Yi died, he was extremely arrogant.

    Xu Yi gave a snort and released all his magic. He instantly created a Fifth Grade Water Shield Spell that covered himself and Newman.

    When the giant fireball hit the light blue water shield, it was instantly swallowed and not even a spark was left.

    Xu Yi looked in the direction of the spell and saw a fifty year old magician who had appeared on the roof of the third carriage. He was looking over in surprise because he never thought that his Exploding me Spell would be dealt with so easily.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over with a taunting smile, the magician was slightly angered. His eyes focused and he raised his hand, quickly gathering sparks in his palm.

    It seems like this magician focused on Fire Spells and based on the spell he just released, he was quite good with Fire Spells.

    But how could Xu Yi give him time to gather magic? Raising his hand, there was a fireball that was much smaller than the one the other side fired that was thrown out.

    Seeing this fireball, the magician was shocked. He quickly stopped condensing his magic and even used a Wind Control Spell, jumping off from the roof of the carriage.

    What a joke! This was a Eighth Grade Fierce me Bullet Spell! With his current level, it was impossible to defend against.

    However, when the Firece me Bullet was about to pass by the horse carriage, it suddenly changed direction and hit the back of the magician who had just jumped off.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    That magician was blown into the air by the force of the spell and mmed into the ground. The clothes on his back were burnt to ashes, revealing a red back and behind.

    Xu Yi and that magician¡¯s fight only took a second and in the time it took everyone to blink, that magician was on the ground like a dead pig. It instantly stunned the crowd.

    Newman beside Xu Yi looked at the magician. He turned with difficulty and took a deep breath before looking at Xu Yi in fear, ¡°Chairman Xu, did you.....did you kill him?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°He shouldn¡¯t be dead, he should be heavily injured.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Newman looked at the magician on the ground who wasn¡¯t moving at all before turning back to Xu Yi. He had a long look on his face as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu.....you......you¡¯re in big trouble......¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi was very calm.

    He already guessed that there should be someone important in this motorcade, but since he had already done all this, he wouldn¡¯t waste time regretting it.

    The surrounding people finally reacted. The people of the motorcade quickly began healing the magician that Xu Yi had injured while the group from the Rudson Kingdom also came over.

    One group went to the motorcade to exin to those people while the other group went towards Xu Yi, looking very angry.

    Even chief Witherspoon who had been happily talking to Xu Yi had a dark look as he looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what are you doing?¡± Chief Witherspoon said in a sharp voice, ¡°Do you know that the person sitting inside is ambassador Hanakin from the Candra Empire! He represents the entire Candra Empire! It¡¯s fine if you want to offend the Candra Empire, but don¡¯t pull our Rudson Kingdom into this!¡±

    Hearing chief Witherspoon¡¯s words, the expressions of the surrounding Rudson Kingdom officials became strange.

    In the end, this powerful young magician who had suddenly appeared, just what kind of chairman was he? Moreover, it didn¡¯t seem like he was someone from the Rudson Kingdom.

    Thinking of this, everyone calmed down.

    If it was a Rudson Kingdom magician who had attacked the motorcade of the ambassador, this matter would have been troublesome. But since this magician wasn¡¯t from the Rudson Kingdom, they could avoid the me.

    As long as they could subside the anger of ambassador Hakanin, it shouldn¡¯t affect the rtionship between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire.

    But they also felt a bit strange.

    Although chief Witherspoon was angry, he was already considered quite polite to Xu Yi.

    Who was this chairman Xu?

    ¡°The ambassador from the Candra Empire?¡± Hearing chief Witherspoon¡¯s words, Xu Yi instantly understood.

    It was no wonder the Rudson Kingdom sent such an exaggerated weing group. After all this time, the person in the motorcade was the ambassador from the Candra Empire sent to the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Rudson Kingdom was a small country that there were hundreds of and the Candra Empire was a giant existence as one of the two empires on the Sines Continent.

    Being able to create a rtionship and even form diplomatic rtionships with the Candra empire, letting the Candra Empire even send an ambassador, this was a very important matter for the Rudson Kingdom.

    Xu Yi raised his hand and cut chief Witherspoon off. He said with a smile, ¡°Sir chief can be assured, I¡¯ll take responsibility for this matter, it will not be rted to your Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Hearing this, chief Witherspoon and the other Rudson Kingdom let out a sigh of relief.

    However, chief Witherspoon felt a bit of shame in his heart.

    He had just wished that Xu Yi would have a good time in the Rudson Kingdom, but now he was selling him out like this, this really was a bit too much.

    ¡°Chairman Xu.....This......¡±

    Seeing the look on chief Witherspoon¡¯s face, Xu Yi naturally understood his meaning. He waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Sir chief doesn¡¯t need to mind, this is my matter, it isn¡¯t rted to you. Let me take care of it, I¡¯ll take all the consequences thate out of it.¡±

    Chief Witherspoon had a look of shame on his face. After thinking about it, he didn¡¯t say a thing, he just gave a sigh as he moved aside.

    The other Rudson Kingdom officials looked at chief Witherspoon in surprise before moving aside to create a path, watching as Xu Yi walked towards the Candra Empire motorcade.

 Volume 4 82 - Actually daring to move against me!

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 82 Actually daring to move against me!</h4>

    A hand came from the side and grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm.

    Xu Yi turned to see Newman¡¯s hesitant expression.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......You......¡± Newman hesitated a bit before suddenly making up his mind, ¡°You should quickly leave this ce. You are a magician, if you leave with Kennard, there¡¯s no one here who can stop you. But if you wait, you might not have that chance.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Newman in surprise. He never thought that Newman would be sincerely thinking about him at this time.

    Xu Yi was a bit moved, but he shook his head with a smile, ¡°No, I won¡¯t leave. Even if Kennard and I can leave, we can¡¯t leave the various businesses our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has in the Rudson Kingdom. Moreover, if we leave now, it will be equal to giving up on the Rudson Kingdom, do you think I would ept that?¡±

    Newman was stunned. Xu Yi pushed aside his hand and continued walking towards the motorcade.

    The Rudson Kingdom officials who hade over to exin to the Candra Empire ambassador¡¯s motorcade saw that the chief criminal Xu Yi came over and they all stopped.

    Normally, the Rudson Kingdom officials would have their subordinates catch Xu Yi and hand him over to ambassador Hakanin to subside his rage.

    But because Xu Yi was a powerful magician and they were just here to greet the ambassador, clearly not expecting this matter, they didn¡¯t bring enough forces to dare attack Xu Yi.

    The people of the Candra Empire¡¯s motorcade had been shocked by Xu Yi, so they didn¡¯t dare make a move.

    So the group of people could only watch as Xu Yi approached, vigntly watching him without daring to make a move.

    Seeing this strange sight, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit strange.

    Sinceing to this world, he had always been taught by many people that powerful magicians were different from the masses.

    But before this, he had studied at the Senkaiser School and had more contact with magicians than normal people.

    After graduating from the Senkaiser School, he went to work for Great Magician Cami and had contact with many magicians.

    Then he started the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and made contact with magicians all day. He even had deep rtionships with all five Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This made him have a misconception that magicians weren¡¯t rare in this world, even Great Magicians weren¡¯t considered much.

    But in this current situation, he deeply realized the powerful deterrent a powerful magician had.

    Although he was only a single person, because there wasn¡¯t a magician that could match him, he had be a peerless existence.

    But this was also because the Rudson Kingdom soldiers and the soldiers the Candra Empire ambassador brought only had traditional des, they didn¡¯t have anything that could harm a magician.

    If it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards with military magic machines, not mentioning Xu Yi, even if there was a Great Magician here, they wouldn¡¯t be afraid of Xu Yi like these soldiers were now.

    Great Magician Cami had an impulse before and had sparred with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The final result was that in a direct battle, Great Magician Cami could only passively defend against a hundred guards and it was hard for him to use magic to attack.

    Unless Great Magician Cami acted beforehand, using a powerful High Grade Spell or even a Forbidden Spell to kill these guards, as long as these guards had magic in their military magic machines, Great Magician Cami would use up his magic and would only have death waiting for him.

    The cost of these military magic machines were Magic Crystals that could be found all over, so the costs were very low.

    After fighting several times, Great Magician Cami couldn¡¯t help saying something with a sigh.

    ¡°The era of magicians deciding a battle might be over.¡±

    Of course, this was only for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    On the continent, there was no other army that was fully equipped with military magic machines like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. It was impossible to find one in the Rudson Kingdom, so Xu Yi naturally wasn¡¯t worried.

    Xu Yi walked to the center of the crowd and looked around, finally looking at the most expensive and luxurious looking horse carriage in the middle.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, if you don¡¯te out, then how about I treat it as putting this matter at an end?¡±

    The surrounding people were stunned. They thought that Xu Yi was here to apologize, but they never thought that he would talk to ambassador Hakanin in this tone.

    Since he knew ambassador Hakanin¡¯s voice, naturally he knew his position as well.

    He actually had this kind of attitude, just where did he get this courage?

    There was a coldugh that came from the horse carriage.

    ¡°Just a trivial low grade magician, how are you qualified to speak to me? Sir Kuraybin, I came from the Candra Empire to bring the emperor¡¯s sincere regards to your king, but I am being treated like this, don¡¯t you think that you should do something?¡±

    The serious looking Rudson Kingdom official on the side with white hair looked at Xu Yi and said in a deep voice, ¡°This excellency magician, do you know your crimes?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°What crimes?¡±

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s foreign affairs department chief Count Kuraybin¡¯s face sunk, ¡°You charged at Lord Hakanin¡¯s motorcade and even hurt Lord Hakanin¡¯s subordinate, you dare say there is no crime?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Before investigating my issues, I ask sir Kuraybin to investigate ambassador Hakanin¡¯s crimes first, alright? If it wasn¡¯t for me reacting in time, an innocent little girl would have been trampled. Moreover, you said that I injured his subordinate? Everyone clearly saw that they were the ones who attacked me first, this was justified self defense.¡±

    ¡°Audacious!¡± Count Kuraybin shouted, ¡°That little girl charged forward and deserved death, how is it rted to ambassador Hakanin? Because of you, ambassador Hakanin has been frightened, that is a great crime!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow, ¡°So sir Kuraybin thinks that the lives of your Rudson Kingdom¡¯s citizens aren¡¯t important at all? It can¡¯t evenpare to ambassador Hakanin being terrified? Alright, I ask ambassador Hakanin toe out and let me see just how frightened the lord ambassador is. Are you more terrified than dying?¡±

    Count Kuraybin¡¯s expression froze before he flew into a rage, angrily pointing at Xu Yu, ¡°Just where did youe from, daring to act this arrogantly! Someone, take him away for me!¡±

    Everyone looked at Count Kuraybin, but no one dared to move.

    Count Kuraybin only then reacted. This magician was very strong, their group couldn¡¯t deal with him at all.

    Thinking of this, Count Kuraybin suppressed the anger in his heart and said to Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°I urge you to apologize to ambassador Hakanin, otherwise if this matter bes big, even if you are a powerful magician, you wouldn¡¯t be able to withstand the anger of our Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. He didn¡¯t care about Count Kuraybin¡¯s words at all, rather he came in front of ambassador Hakanin¡¯s horse carriage.

    Ambassador Hakanin¡¯s guard vigntly looked at Xu Yi and circled around this horse carriage.

    Xu Yi gave them a smile before saying to the horse carriage, ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, if you keep hiding inside the horse carriage, it means that you aren¡¯t sincere about solving this matter and I will be very disappointed in you.¡±

    There was a snort from the horse carriage, ¡°Disappointed? How are you qualified?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, because of this.¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly waved his hand and countless light blue wind des came out.

    The people around the horse carriage were shocked. They wanted to block the wind des, but they found that they couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    Moreover, those wind des were very fast. When they reacted, the wind des had already moved past them.

    ¡°Pu, pu, pu, pu.¡±

    The ten wind des hit the horse carriage and cut through it. The horse carriage made cracking sounds and the roof of the carriage was cut off, as the remaining four walls also fell down.

    There was only a floorboard left in the horse carriage and there was a fat and luxurious looking middle aged man sitting there.

    The middle aged man looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a while before finally jumping up with a dexterity that didn¡¯t match his figure. He pointed at Xu Yi and angrily shouted, ¡°You actually dare make a move against me? Do you know who I am? Let me tell you, you are dead! I will definitely send you to the execution stand! No, I will send you to jail to be tortured!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    He thought that since ambassador Hakanin came for the great Candra Empire, it was reasonable for him to act aloof in this small country. But now he was acting up like this, he was no different from a hoodlum which made people a bit surprised.

    Looking at the Rudson Kingdom officials, he found that although they all knit their brows, they weren¡¯t surprised. It could be seen that ambassador Hakanin has always acted like this.

    ¡°Hei, an ambassador doesn¡¯t just represent a country, it also represents how they view that country. With the level of ambassador Hakanin, it seems like the Candra Empire didn¡¯t care about the Rudson Kingdom at all.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Rusdon Kingdom officials who didn¡¯t dare say a thing about ambassador Hakanin and he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    The Rudson Kingdom had to kneel in front of the Candra Empire which was understandable, but the results of their kneeling wasn¡¯t as good as they had imagined.

 Volume 4 83 - His majesty King Teruc

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 83 His majesty King Teruc</h4>

    Xu Yi slowly walked in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s royal pce like he was on a stroll. While walking, he looked around, looking very rxed.

    At the station outside the city, ambassador Hakanin was not willing to settle, but his group couldn¡¯t do anything to Xu Yi and Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to give up, so it had created a tense situation.

    This stalemate was not broken until Caraca City¡¯s guards and the royal pce guards came over.

    However to everyone¡¯s surprise, including ambassador Hakanin, although this matter was important enough to rm the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s King Teruc, his response was different from what everyone expected.

    Everyone knew that Xu Yi was a low level magician who had dared to attack ambassador Hakanin¡¯s motorcade. Since he was from the Candra Empire, King Teruc would favour ambassador Hakanin without a doubt or at least send this bold magician to jail.

    If everything went as expected, his majesty would have handed this magician to ambassador Hakanin to subside his anger.

    For a small kingdom like the Rudson Kingdom, it was normal to choose to bow their heads when facing the Candra Empire.

    Ambassador Hakanin acted arrogantly in the Rudson Kingdom because the Rudson Kingdom had always acted this way.

    However, when the royal guards arrived with the king¡¯s orders, they didn¡¯t n on taking care of Xu Yi at all, it was just to have ambassador Hakanin and Xu Yi enter the royal pce.

    This ending greatly surprised everyone.

    Because the way the king handled this was actually putting Xu Yi at the same level as ambassador Hakanin.

    It had to be known, ambassador Hakanin was the Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador to the Rudson Kingdom. For the small Rudson King, he was a very special guest.

    How could Xu Yi be ced on the same level?

    This not only confused the Rudson Kingdom officials, even ambassador Hakanin was confused while also feeling a bit angry.

    This King Teruc, he wanted to protect this damn small magician?

    Wasn¡¯t he worried about the rage of this ambassador Hakanin?

    Kennard looked at ambassador Hakanin not far away and seeing his eyes filled with hatred looking over, he couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows. He said to Xu Yi beside him in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, why are you doing this?¡±

    ¡°What? Is it very confusing?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°It is.¡± Kennard nodded, ¡°You¡¯re not someone who is impulsive and righteous. You could have just left after saving the mother and daughter, so why did you choose to sh with this ambassador Hakanin? I don¡¯t believe that you couldn¡¯t guess his status.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your right, I did it on purpose.¡±

    Kennard knit his brows, ¡°This.....there¡¯s no need, right? I can¡¯t see what benefits there are in shing with the ambassador from the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s no benefits.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°But it can let us see the attitude of certain people.¡±

    ¡°Attitude?¡± Kennard looked at the Rudson Kingdom officials and gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, I think there¡¯s no need to see this attitude to know it. In front of the giant Candra Empire, whether it is the Rudson Kingdom or our Lampuri Kingdom, there¡¯s no choice.¡±

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t care about the attitude of these fellows. What I really care about is inside.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the royal pce, ¡°Based on this current situation, the results seem quite good.¡±

    Kennard looked at the royal pce in surprise before turning to Xu Yi with eyes filled with admiration.

    He thought that it was an impulse from Xu Yi, but he never thought that he had considered this far.

    With these eyes, Kennard couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s royal pce was much bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom, but they actually stopped outside a hall while being led by themander of the royal guard.

    ¡°Lord ambassador, chairman Xu, pleasee in. His highness is waiting for you inside.¡±

    The one who came out was the royal aide who invited ambassador Hakanin and Xu Yi inside. The other Rudson Kingdom officials were actually kept outside.

    Xu Yi waved his hand at Kennard before entering the hall with ambassador Hakanin.

    This hall was veryrge and it was at least fifty meters from the door to the innermost part.

    They saw arge red carpet leading to the door after walking through and at the most far end part, there was a tform that was raised above the ground.

    There was arge throne on this tform and there was a young man who was around thirty years old sitting on it.

    The young man was wearing a crown, who was clearly the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s King Lobotni Teruc.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing King Teruc.

    From the information he had received from Kennard on King Terbuc, he knew that although this King Teruc wasn¡¯t even forty yet, he was a very powerful king.

    Seeing him now, Xu Yi just needed to take a single look to agree with this evaluation.

    Based on his appearance and manner, he should be someone who liked to control everything and wasn¡¯t willing to let others organize things.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    A king with this personality wasn¡¯t easy to get along with.

    Xu Yi and ambassador Hakanin came in, but King Teruc didn¡¯t move at all. When the two came in front of the throne, he stood up and weed them with a wide smile.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, you are my old friend, so there¡¯s no need for all those formalities.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin¡¯s salute was veryzy and being raised up by King Teruc, he immediately stood up and said with a smile, ¡°Your majesty, I am very honoured to see you again. After returning to the empire, the emperor personally asked me about the situation here. I was full of praise of your wisdom and vision in front of the emperor and he admired you very much. He said that if it was possible, our Candra Empire would definitely have a deeper cooperation with the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That really is great.¡± King Teruc gave twoughs before turning to Xu Yi, but he didn¡¯t say a thing.

    Xu Yi quickly gave King Tercu a bow like a normal citizen bowing in greeting to a king.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi greets your majesty.¡±

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman?¡± Ambassador Hanakin looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°You¡¯re not a magician?¡±

    ¡°Lord ambassador, no one said that apany¡¯s chairman can¡¯t be a magician, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    This ambassador Hakanin finally learned Xu Yi¡¯s identity. It seemed like he wasn¡¯t that famous in the Rudson Kingdom, or those officials definitely would have told him if they knew anything about Xu Yi.

    Ambassador Hakanin¡¯s expression scrunched and he gave a soft snort, ¡°Whether you¡¯re a magician or a chairman, you will die today for offending me!¡±

    After saying this, ambassador Hakanin raised his voice and said to King Teruc, ¡°Your majesty, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman actually used magic to stop my motorcade and even injured two of my subordinates, how do you think we should handle this?¡±

    King Teruc had a look of surprise, but there was a smile on his face as he nodded to ambassador Hakanin. Then he said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, hello, I¡¯m very happy to see you.¡±

    Seeing King Teruc show a pleasant smile to Xu Yi, ambassador Hakanin was very dissatisfied and gave a strong snort, ¡°Your majesty, as for today¡¯s matters, I hope you can properly handle them. I just came from the Candra Empire today and met this matter on the road, so I can treat this as a provocation to me and the Candra Empire that I represent. If you don¡¯t handle this properly, I will report this matter to the emperor and let him decide.¡±

    Because King Teruc was speaking to Xu Yi, he was facing Xu Yi while his back was to ambassador Hakanin.

    Xu Yi could clearly see that there was a trace of anger on King Teruc¡¯s face when he heard ambassador Hakanin¡¯s words, however when he turned to face ambassador Hakanin, he revealed a smile.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, how about wee to the side to discuss this matter?¡±

    Watching King Teruc speak to ambassador Hakanin in a soft voice on the side, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    His bet was right.

    After a while, he didn¡¯t know what King Teruc and ambassador Hakanin was discussing, but ambassador Hakanin had a wide smile on his face where the angry look had been. He walked over with King Teruc and looked very proud, not looking like he was wronged like before.

    When he came to Xu Yi¡¯s side, ambassador Hakanin red at him, ¡°Because his majesty has asked for a favour for you, I will let you go today. But Xu Yi, remember, you better not appear in front of me again, or I will definitely make you pay the price for what you did today.¡±

    Throwing down these words that were no different from that of a hoodlum, ambassador Hakanin gave King Teruc a bow before leaving.

    Watching him leave, Xu Yi looked at King Teruc in surprise, ¡°Your majesty, what magic did you use? You actually made this fellow let me go this easily?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not a magician, how could I use magic?¡± King Teruc¡¯s young face that wasn¡¯t like that of a man who was close to forty revealed a sarcastic smile, ¡°But I think that no matter who it is, if they receive apensation of two hundred thousand gold coins, they would let go of the grudge in their heart, don¡¯t you think? Chairman Xu?¡±

 Volume 4 84 - Not worried about anything

    Volume 4 Chapter 84 Not worried about anything

    ¡°Two hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Xu Yi looked at King Teruc in surprise. He couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°Your majesty, you really are generous. Of course ambassador Hakanin¡¯s appetite really is big.¡±

    ¡°His appetite has always been big.¡± King Teruc smiled, ¡°But spending two hundred thousand at once is for you.¡±

    ¡°For me?¡± Xu Yi was more surprised, ¡°Your majesty, I shouldn¡¯t have that much face.....for you to spend two hundred thousand gold coins to solve this matter.¡±

    ¡°Two hundred thousand gold coins is considered much for others, but is it a lot for you?¡± King Teruc took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, if my estimates aren¡¯t wrong, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profitsst year was at least over five million gold coins, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, neither confirming or denying this.

    ¡°I admit that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits are good, but we also spend quite a bit. Moreover.....your majesty, how is this rted to the reason why you¡¯re willing to pay two hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    King Teruc shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that we shouldn¡¯t waste our time with useless words like this. Since you want me to demonstrate my sincerity, I have already demonstrated it. Although two hundred thousand isn¡¯t much for you, for me and even for the Rudson Kingdom, this isn¡¯t an amount that can be thrown away. I have demonstrated enough sincerity, so what about chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although he had heard about King Teruc from Kennard before and had investigated a bit about the Rudson Kingdom, so Xu Yi could tell that King Teruc was a king with ambition and foresight, so he wanted to use this matter to test how King Teruc and the entire Rudson Kingdom would treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi never would have thought that King Teruc would be this direct, showing his attitude to Xu Yi this straightforward.

    It was like King Teruc said, he had paid two hundred thousand gold coins to subside ambassador Hakanin¡¯s anger, which was very much showing Xu Yi sincerity.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before his smile disappeared and he gave a nod to King Teruc with a serious expression, ¡°Your majesty, I have to say, your attitude has surprised me very much. Actually, I was very worried when I came here because I didn¡¯t know what you were thinking.¡±

    ¡°Do you understand now?¡± King Teruc said with a smile.

    ¡°Yes. I am a merchant, so I can very much feel your majesty¡¯s sincerity from those two hundred thousand gold coins. It¡¯s very clear that I must respond to your sincerity.¡± Xu Yi paused before asking, ¡°Your majesty, please speak your thoughts, or just give me your request.¡±

    ¡°What if I wanted the military magic machines from you?¡± King Teruc asked with a smile.

    ¡°That is impossible.¡± Xu Yi firmly shook his head, ¡°We can¡¯t transfer that technology right now, there¡¯s nothing to discuss at all.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± King Teruc gave a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t forget, you are in my royal pce. With one order from me, I can easily catch you. Do you feel that it¡¯s impossible to use your life to exchange for the military magic machine technology?¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Xu Yi wasn¡¯t scared because of the threat in his voice at all, rather he said with a rxed smile, ¡°Your majesty, you wouldn¡¯t do that because what you really want is not as simple as a few military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°You think you really understand me?¡± King Teruc narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t look down on your value. To me, the value hidden in your alone is greater than the two armies for our kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Am I really that important to your majesty?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But because of this, you wouldn¡¯t use my life to threaten me, right?¡±

    King Teruc gave a snort, ¡°You¡¯re right. You have more use alive than you do dead. At least before taking all the value you have, I hope that you won¡¯t die.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and spread his hands, ¡°Alright, I am here now. Your majesty, how do you want to take my value?¡±

    King Teruc looked at Xu Yi before revealing a smile again and shaking his head, ¡°I really can¡¯t treat you as a normal merchant. Alright, let¡¯s not waste words on this and get down to business. Chairman Xu, for the two projects your Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed, I agree as the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s king, but we need to discuss the details.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your approval. But your majesty, what details do you need to discuss?¡±

    ¡°You can discuss the concrete details with the kingdom¡¯s department, I just want to give you a general idea.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Please, your majesty.¡±

    ¡°First, it¡¯s rted to Nissi City¡¯s port. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce renting it long term isn¡¯t a problem, but I can¡¯t agree to only using the port to dock your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ships.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Because that is thend of our Rudson Kingdom, do you understand what I mean?¡± King Teruc said in a deep voice.

    Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°I understand. Your majesty thinks that the port will lose its sovereignty by epting the request of ourpany?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good you understand.¡±

    ¡°Then what does your majesty propose?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°If we use it as a normal port, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need for ourpany to rent it from you, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°Of course we¡¯ll give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce some rights.¡± King Teruc said, ¡°I will approve several ports in Nissi City to give priority to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but when your boats aren¡¯t there, the other boats can dock like normal. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needs to pay a certain management fee, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Then what happens if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s boats arrive and find other ships docked there?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, just inform us ahead of time.¡± King Teruc waved his hand, ¡°These are small details that you can discuss with the City Lord Manor of Nissi City. I¡¯m just giving you an idea, you can discuss the rest.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it. Although this method wasn¡¯t perfect, he could ept it, so he gave a nod.

    ¡°Then that¡¯s decided then, ourpany will follow your majesty¡¯s idea and discuss further with Nissi City¡¯s City Lord Manor. Then your majesty, as for the second project, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°The second project......I have no opinions on this project itself, but chairman Xu, I don¡¯t agree with some methods that yourpany has chosen.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Your majesty has ces you¡¯re not satisfied with when ites to the cooperation method?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that I¡¯m dissatisfied. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested in seventeen household magic machine factories in our Rudson Kingdom, recruiting a total of six thousand four hundred and twenty three local Rudson Kingdom workers. You have solved the problem of work for the kingdom¡¯s people and have greatly improved the living standards of the people, so I¡¯m very satisfied.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Many thanks for your majesty¡¯s praise, but this is just our normal business, there¡¯s nothing worth praising.¡±

    ¡°Before your Frestech Chamber of Commerce came, there weren¡¯t these things.¡± King Teruc shook his head, ¡°If I didn¡¯t see the changes your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has brought to our kingdom, do you think you would have a chance to talk to me today?¡±

    ¡°If I didn¡¯t have value, I wouldn¡¯t havee here anyway, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    King Terucughed, ¡°Chairman Xu really is different from normal merchants. Alright, I can¡¯t deny the value that you have and I appreciate the value of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but chairman Xu, you don¡¯t think......that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is moving too slowly in our Rudson Kingdom, being too careful?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Your majesty, you mean......¡±

    King Teruc waved his hand, ¡°My meaning is very simple, our Rudson Kingdom is not the Lampuri Kingdom. I¡¯m not like Lampuri Thirteenth who died of old age and the current useless Eric. You don¡¯t need to worry about encountering the same things you encountered in the Lampuri Kingdom in the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t say a thing.

    Actually King Teruc was right. Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been suppressed in the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi had been more careful investing in the Rudson Kingdom. He was no longer like back in the Lampuri Kingdom two years ago, investing all over with factories, afraid that there would be a change in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, King Teruc said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am clear on the value of your and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and know what influence and change the magic machine industry can bring to a country. So that is why I was willing to offend ambassador Hakanin and the Candra Empire to protect you. I have made my attitude clear, what are you worried about?¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before looking at King Teruc and asking in a low voice, ¡°Alright, your majesty, what do you want me and mypany to do specifically?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, give us the various household magic machine technology, help our kingdom create talents in the magic machine field, and promote the development of the magic machine industry in our kingdom. My goal is to have each city in the Rudson Kingdom be as prosperous as Banta City was before!¡±

    Seeing the glow in King Teruc¡¯s eyes and the strong confidence on his face, Xu Yi suddenly didn¡¯t know what to say.

 Volume 4 85 - A good market that was already open

    Volume 4 Chapter 85 A good market that was already open

    When Xu Yi came out of the royal pce, Kennard came over.

    ¡°How is it? Sir chairman, his majesty didn¡¯t do anything to you, right? That ambassador Hakanin left the royal pce long ago, did he make it hard on you?¡± Kennard looked over Xu Yi and found that there were no injuries on him at all, so he calmed down.

    But seeing Xu Yi¡¯s slightly knit brows, he was still a bit worried as he asked, ¡°Could it be that ambassador Hakanin has made an excessive request that he is forcing you to ept?¡±

    Xu Yi finally came back from his wandering mind and shook his head, ¡°No, his majesty has already solved this matter for me, there¡¯s no problem now.¡±

    ¡°Then.....why do you still have this expression?¡± Kennard asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°I am just still surprised.¡± Xu Yi turned back to the pce gates, ¡°His majesty¡¯s attitude towards me is quite good, un......It should be considered very good, even better than what I had expected.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Kennard was a bit confused, ¡°Although the Rudson Kingdom has always supported our Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing here, for the king to have such a good attitude.....Is there a need?¡±

    ¡°This I don¡¯t know.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Perhaps King Teruc can seriously see the hidden potential that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has.¡±

    Xu Yi turned back to look at the royal pce and his heart filled with emotion.

    He never thought that King Teruc had ced such importance on him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In his conversation with Xu Yi, King Teruc had clearly told Xu Yi that he would fully support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in factories in the Rudson Kingdom. He even hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would cooperate with the Rudson Kingdom without hesitation, jointly developing the magic machine industry in the Rudson Kingdom.

    King Tercu even made a guarantee to Xu Yi that he could give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce certain rights.

    This guarantee made Xu Yi unable to stop himself from thinking of the past Lampuri Thirteenth.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom, although Lamuri Thirteenth didn¡¯t give Xu Yi his promise, he had given Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce plenty of support through his actions. He had given the Frestech Chamber of Commerce certain rights.

    But Lampuri Thirteenth had been very conservative towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, limiting the rights he gave to Banta City and they were very restricted rights.

    Then when Lampuri Thirteenth passed and his highness Eric took the throne, not only did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce lose those rights, they were even chased out of the Lampuri Kingdom by the conservative nobles.

    Now that King Teruc was pledging to fully support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, giving them some rights, Xu Yi did feel happy, but he didn¡¯t feel that excited.

    In the end, the Rudson Kingdom was someone else¡¯s country. Perhaps King Teruc supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce now, but there was no guarantee how long he would support them. He might suddenly change his attitude because of the situation.

    Then if King Teruc suddenly passed away, the king that took over the Rudson Kingdom might not treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the same.

    If the events of the Lampuri Kingdom happened again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might suffer even more losses.

    Of course, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t give up.

    The worry was there, but for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce development and the development of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi decided to cooperate deeper with the Rudson Kingdom.

    ording to his discussion with King Teruc, not only would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce increase their investment in the Rudson Kingdom, they would release more household magic machine technology and set up household magic machine factories jointly with the Rudson Kingdom.

    At the same time, the Rudson Kingdom would set up several magic machine vocational skill schools on Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, training people to work in the magic machine industry.

    Moreover, Xu Yi also made a deal with King Teruc. As long as everything went smoothly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could even transfer the production magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom, letting them make production magic machines themselves.

    This was already Xu Yimitment in building the foundations of the magic machine industry in the Rudson Kingdom.

    The production magic machine was the most important foundation. As long as they had this, the Rudson Kingdom could design and manufacture new magic machines, they wouldn¡¯t need topletely depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this goal was still a bit too far. So both sides only reached a temporary deal and would consider it further in the future.

    Actually, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much hope for long term coboration.

    Based on the experience of the Lamuri Kingdom, because of the backwards political system of the Sines Continent, it was hard for countries to keep many of their decisions.

    Although King Teruc supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce now, no one could guarantee he would keep supporting them.

    For Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most important core was the private territory that he currently owned in the Stantine Duchy.

    ¡°Where¡¯s Newman?¡± Xu Yi looked around. He didn¡¯t find Newman who had been waiting with Kennard before he went into the royal pce and couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised.

    Kennard had a surprised look, ¡°Newman said that he would find someone to ease the tense rtionship between you and ambassador Hakanin.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so? It seems like Newman puts quite the importance on us.¡± Xu Yi smiled and looked at the two subordinates Newman had left before saying to Kennard, ¡°Since Newman isn¡¯t here, then let¡¯s not worry about discussing with the Rudson Kingdom. Let¡¯s go and see the situation at the shop.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Kennard nodded and got in the Magic Sedan with Xu Yi.

    Those two subordinates should have received Newman¡¯s orders. Those two didn¡¯t stop them and just got in a Magic Sedan, closely following them.

    Xu Yi turned back and couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Newman¡¯s Magic Sedan should be considered rare in the Rudson Kingdom, right?¡±

    ¡°Actually, it isn¡¯t that rare.¡± Kennard shook his head, ¡°ording to the stats of the shop, ourpany has sold seven hundred and forty six Magic Sedans in the Rudson Kingdom. Four hundred and twenty five of them were bought by lords and merchants of the other regions while three hundred and twenty one were sold in Caraca City. I think that we should see another Magic Sedan soon.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s three hundred of them in this city, that really isn¡¯t a small number.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But the total here is far worse than Banta City, the density really iscking.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way since ourpany has just started selling Magic Sedans in the Rudson Kingdom in the beginning of this year. Moreover, because of the tariffs, the Magic Sedan¡¯s price is much higher than in Banta City, which also affects the sales.¡±

    There was a pure ck Magic Sedan that came through. When it passed by the Magic Sedan Xu Yi and Kennard were sitting in, the driver of the Magic Sedan looked over and was surprised to see Xu Yi and Kennard.

    Xu Yi smiled at the other side and the other side also revealed a strained smile before quickly driving off.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry about the sales, I believe that the Magic Sedan will be popr in the Rudson Kingdom sooner orter.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over the ck Magic Sedan driving off in the distance before looking at the various stores and buildings on the side. He found that there were various household magic machines inside those buildings being used.

    It was the middle of summer, so there were Magic Fans all over. There were also many Magic Air Conditioners and Magic Freezers which were the most popr summer household magic machines.

    On the sides of the road, there were quite a few people riding bicycles, as there were less people walking on the roads.

    ¡°Look, Kennard, thosepanies were afraid of losing the Lampuri Kingdom market and were afraid of losing all their profits. Do you see this, the people here have clearly epted magic machines. The Rudson Kingdom market, it might even be bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom market.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Kennard nodded with a smile, ¡°Through the efforts of ourpany, we¡¯ve finally opened the market in the Rudson Kingdom. Thosepanies have actually earned quite a bit, ourpany has opened the market and they¡¯re running over to profit from it.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re not satisfied with them?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m just feeling emotional.¡± Kennard shook his head, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve worked with you for this long, so I know what you are thinking. You aren¡¯t willing to let thosepanies die since they represent the future of the magic machine industry, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That¡¯s right, very good, Kennard. I¡¯ve found that it would be no problem letting you handle the entirepany because you know what I¡¯m thinking very well.¡±

    Kennard shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°That won¡¯t do. At least I can¡¯t test the attitude of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s king or do something as crazy as offending the Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Although Kennard didn¡¯t say it, he thought that what Xu Yi did just now was very risky and was warning Xu Yi with veiled words.

    Although the Magic Sedan couldn¡¯t drive too fast in Caraca City, it didn¡¯t take them long to move halfway across the city to the most busy business street on the west side.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shop in Caraca City which was their only sales point was located on this street.

    The two got out in front of the store and when they walked in, there was a very familiar voice that came from within.

    ¡°You¡¯ll take it out if I say take it out! Do you not know who I am? If I¡¯m not happy, do you believe I wouldn¡¯t have people smash your shop!¡±

    Hearing this voice, Xu Yi and Kennard looked at each other and revealed bitter smiles.

    Enemies really crossed on a narrow path.

 Volume 4 86 - The magician status is secondary

    Volume 4 Chapter 86 The magician status is secondary

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before walking over still.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested quite a bit in Caraca City to open the Rudson Kingdom market. This shop was not only ced on the busiest business street, it was also very big and was at the front of the street, rented with Newman¡¯s rtionship.

    But this giant shop was actually empty right now, there were a group of people wearing different clothes surrounding it.

    There was a familiar voice that came from the crowd.

    ¡°Call your manager out! What kind of shop is this? You don¡¯t have what I want to buy. Let me tell you, if I can¡¯t get the things I want to buy today, just wait until I close this store!¡±

    Hearing the strong voice reprimanding the clerk, Xu Yi knit his brows and walked through the crowd.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, I never thought we would meet again after such a short time. It really does make one feel that this world is small.¡±

    Xu Yi caught everyone¡¯s attention as soon as he spoke.

    Ambassador Hakanin turned around and looked at Xu Yi as he narrowed his eyes. However, he revealed a surprised look as he raised his voice, ¡°Aiya, isn¡¯t this chairman Xu? What? His majesty is really generous, letting you go in the end?¡±

    Seeing his appearance, Xu Yi immediately understood.

    This fellow was clearly here to deliberately cause trouble!

    Since his goal was achieved, Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t help provoking him which would just cause him trouble. After thinking about it, he came forward with a smile.

    ¡°His majesty truly is benevolent. But I also have to thank lord ambassador Hakanin, for forgiving my offense towards you. Lord ambassador, I was careless before, please forgive me. Since you are now at ourpany¡¯s store, then it is ourpany¡¯s honour. As a gift, as long as it is something in the store, you can choose whatever you want and I can give it to you for free on behalf of ourpany. What do you think?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin was bewildered by Xu Yi¡¯s respectful appearance. He looked over Xu Yi and found that his smile was sincere, he didn¡¯t act arrogantly like he had before at all.

    He couldn¡¯t p a smiling person and he had taken enoughpensation from King Teruc, so no matter how much of a hoodlum ambassador Hakanin was, he couldn¡¯t forcefully cause trouble for Xu Yi.

    But when he heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had opened a store in Caraca City, he had speciallye here. He couldn¡¯t just leave without doing a thing.

    Letting Xu Yi off this easily made him feel ufortable.

    Thinking of this, ambassador Hakanin¡¯s small eyes looked around before he gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu says it so easily. The thing I want isn¡¯t in your store!¡±

    ¡°Oh? May I ask which product the ambassador has his eyes on? As long as it¡¯s you, I will definitely provide it for you.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°You¡¯re the one who said this. Alright, I saw several Magic Sedans on my way here and felt they were pretty good. As the ambassador of the Candra Empire, if I don¡¯t even have a single Magic Sedan, it wouldn¡¯t suit my status. Don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, with the identity of the lord ambassador, it isn¡¯t suitable for you to just ride a horse carriage. Only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest model Magic Sedan can suit your status. Please be assured lord ambassador, although this store doesn¡¯t have this product, I will have one assembled at the headquarters immediately. No matter what design or style the lord ambassador wants, we can give it to you.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at Xu Yi with knit brows.

    Xu Yi¡¯s respectful appearance waspletely different from his arrogant act from before.

    Moreover, since there were scruples with King Teruc, he couldn¡¯t go too far.

    After thinking about it, ambassador Hakanin raised his hand and pointed around the store.

    ¡°Since there¡¯s no Magic Sedans now, then just give me a few of these things to y with for now.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s easier. As long as it¡¯s a household magic machine that is here, I can give you some of every kind.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin slowly nodded, ¡°This.....You know.....I have a bunch of subordinates and many close friends back home.....¡±

    ¡°How about one hundred units of each household magic machine?¡±

    Even if Hakanin wanted to trap him, he never thought that Xu Yi would actually be this bold.

    He thought that ten of each kind was good enough, he never thought that Xu Yi would suddenly give him a hundred of each kind!

    When he had been wandering around looking at the prices, the cheapest Magic Fan only cost six gold coins and the more expensive Magic Air Conditioner cost at least thirty gold coins.

    A hundred of each kind had a total price of over twenty thousand gold coins!

    Then adding in the Magic Sedans that Xu Yi gave, Xu Yi was giving him over thirty thousand gold coins worth of goods!

    After quickly counting the price of the goods, ambassador Hakanin¡¯s face couldn¡¯t sink anymore and he revealed a smile as he nodded to Xu Yi, ¡°Good, good, good, we¡¯ll leave it at that.¡± He patted Xu Yi shoulder after saying this and praised him, ¡°Since chairman Xu is an understanding person, everything is good. Good, let¡¯s write off everything between us from before.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for the lord ambassador¡¯s generosity.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin gave twoughs before suddenly looking aside, ¡°But chairman Xu, the matter between you and I can be written off, but the matter between you and my subordinates can¡¯t be forgotten.¡±

    Xu Yu looked at the middle aged man ambassador Hakanin pointed at who had been standing silently on the side and he narrowed his eyes.

    From the elemental magic energy in the air, he could easily tell that this middle aged man should be a magician and he was quite strong.

    ¡°This one is......¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m here to take justice for my little brother.¡± The middle aged man said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Little brother?¡± Xu Yi looked at this middle aged man in surprise. He remembered the magician who had been sted off the horse carriage and found that these two looked simr, immediately drawing the connection.

    ¡°Yes, my little brother was seriously injured by you and now is still in aa. Chairman Xu, how are you nning on settling this matter?¡± The middle aged man asked in a deep voice.

    ¡°Justice? Settle?¡± Xu Yi looked over him and gave a coldugh, ¡°Your little brother attacked me first and he was very fierce. In the end he was heavily injured by me and me not taking his life is already going easy on him, you¡¯re still asking for justice? You want me to settle this? What a joke!¡±

    The middle aged man¡¯s face turned dark and he turned to ambassador Hakanin.

    Ambassador Hakanin took a step back and looked like he wouldn¡¯t meddle.

    The middle aged man nodded and took a step forward. He came in front of Xu Yi and said with a serious look, ¡°No matter who was right or wrong, you have seriously injured my little brother. We¡¯re all magicians and in my name as a magician, I officially challenge you!¡±

    When this was said, everyone gave a gasp.

    Magicians were different from soldiers. Magicians always valued their status, there would be rarely any situation where magicians dueled.

    This magician was clearly quite strong and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was a strong magician. If the two dueled, that would really be quite the scene.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t react at all and just narrowed his eyes to look over the middle aged man before shaking his head, ¡°I refuse.¡±

    The crowd gave a gasp again and the middle aged man revealed a surprised look, ¡°Chairman Xu, you.....you¡¯re ignoring the honour of mages? You¡¯re actually rejecting my challenge, you.....you are the shame of magicians!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I am a merchant, my magician status is secondary. You can say whatever you want.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s response, the crowd and the middle aged man were stunned.

    On the Sines Continent, there was a heaven and earth difference between magicians and merchants.

    Of course the magicians were the heaven and merchants were the earth.

    Although there were many magicians thatbined business with magic for money, when they talked about their status, everyone would emphasize they were a magician and they wouldn¡¯t say they were a merchant.

    To magicians, being a merchant was because they had no choice and it was shameful conduct.

    But Xu Yi was clearly a powerful magician and he was stressing that he was a merchant. Rather he said that his identity as a magician.....was only secondary!

    This was simply going againstmon sense.

    The middle aged man looked at Xu Yi in a daze before reacting with difficulty, ¡°Xu.....Chairman Xu, you.....You are bringing shame to all magicians like this!¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have that meaning and I¡¯ve said this in front of several Great Magicians. They didn¡¯t disagree with this, so are you qualified to say this?¡±

    The middle aged man couldn¡¯t do a thing because he suddenly remembered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had two Great Magicians.

    If he felt that Xu Yi¡¯s words were bringing shame to all magicians, those two magicians clearly had more right to express their opinion.

    ¡°Alright, to be honest, I¡¯m very busy right now, I don¡¯t have time to duel you.¡± Seeing that this middle aged man had nothing to say, Xu Yi continued, ¡°If you want to solve problems with the way of a magician.....alright, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many magicians to rece me. It¡¯s fine even if you want to fight our two Great Magicians. Of course.....I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t dare......¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s teasing look and thinking of the terrifying magicians of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facilities, as well as the two terrifying Great Magicians, the middle aged man¡¯s face turned pale.

 Volume 4 87 - Market that wasnâ€™t inferior

    Volume 4 Chapter 87 Market that wasn¡¯t inferior

    After ambassador Hakanin left with the middle aged magician, Kennard couldn¡¯t help saying to Xu Yi with knit brows, ¡°Sir chairman, I understand that you don¡¯t want to offend ambassador Hakanin, but.....giving him all this stuff at once, isn¡¯t it a bit too much?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just thirty thousand gold coins, it isn¡¯t much.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°That depends on who it¡¯s given to.¡± Kennard said with a serious look, ¡°If it can bring benefits to ourpany like normal, thirty thousand isn¡¯t considered much. But this ambassador Hakanin.....I can¡¯t see what kind of help he could give us.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Although you and I both feel that there¡¯s nothing to gain from ambassador Hakanin, we have to consider his status.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t he just an ambassador sent by the Candra Empire to the Rudson Kingdom, how important can he be?¡± Kennard knit his brows even more and revealed a confused look, ¡°To be more frank, since he was sent to a small country like the Rudson Kingdom to be an ambassador, it proves that he has no value in the Candra Empire. Investing in him isn¡¯t considered effective.¡±

    ¡°Then you¡¯re wrong.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This ambassador Hakanin has no skills and has low abilities, but him being an ambassador exins an issue. Although the Rudson Kingdom is a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom, an ambassador is an ambassador and represents the image and will of the Candra Empire, it definitely is not something anyone can do.¡±

    Kennard felt a bit surprised, ¡°Could it be that ambassador Hakanin has some special ability?¡±

    ¡°He doesn¡¯t have any abilities himself.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°But this lord ambassador has a very outstanding big sister and is currently the most favoured concubine of the emperor. Now do you understand why this fellow could be an ambassador?¡±

    Kennard immediately understood.

    But thinking about it, he felt that something was off.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is your first time in the Rudson Kingdom, how do you know this much about ambassador Hakanin? Could it be that you already obtained information about the Rudson Kingdom through other channels?¡±

    ¡°No, the information on the lord ambassador came from King Teruc himself.¡±

    Kennard was surprised, ¡°It was actually King Tercu who told you? Why did he tell you all this information?¡±

    ¡°This is one of the sincerities he showed me.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°ording to my observations, King Teruc is actually very dissatisfied with this lord ambassador, but only tolerates him because of the Candra Empire.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°This fellow, no one can take him no matter who it is.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t look down on him.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°No matter how useless he is, because of his status, he can help our Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the Candra Empire. You think that I gave him too many household magic machines, but I feel it was too little. Think about it, Kennard, with the personality of this lord ambassador, if he got Magic Sedans and household magic machines, what would he do after returning to the Candra Empire?¡±

    Kennard thought about it before his eyes lit up.

    ¡°I understand, this lord ambassador will definitely show off! And this is equal to giving our Frestech Chamber of Commerce plenty of advertising!¡±

    ¡°Now do you understand why I was so generous?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Kennard nodded and couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I have to admit, I¡¯m farckingpared to you in terms of foresight. Did you already think of this when you saw ambassador Hakanin in the motorcade?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and waved his hand, not answering this question.

    ¡°Alright, stop ttering me. Before Newmanes looking for us, we should handle things here first.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce main store in Caraca City had been here for a year, but this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time inspecting this ce.

    Before Xu Yi arrived, this ce was already notified. Knowing that Xu Yi was here to make an evaluation of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s magic machine market, they were already prepared.

    Xu Yi gave an order and the person in charge of this store took out the finance reports for Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about the exact numbers. He just looked over them before handing them over to Kennard before he began focusing on the total sales report.

    Based on this report, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started selling in the Rudson Kingdom, there were already Frestech Brand magic machines circting in the Rudson Kingdom.

    But most of that was because of Newman¡¯s rtionship with them, bringin back these magic machines to sell in the Rudson Kingdom, so there weren¡¯t that much being sold. At its peak, it didn¡¯t break two hundred thousand gold coins when it came to sales.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set up this store in Caraca City and several branches in various other cities, the sales of the Frestech Brand magic machines soared in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Justst month, there were over three hundred and seventy thousand units that were sold in this main store and the branch stores, reaching sales of over five million gold coins.

    Although there were the taxes of the Rudson Kingdom, the profit was lower than when selling in the Lampuri Kingdom, their profits still reached over two million gold coins.

    Moreover, as the household magic machines became more popr, their sales kept growing.

    In the first month, their sales only reached a hundred thousand gold coins, but it surpassed seven hundred thousand gold coinsst month.

    This was just the progress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made in the Rudson Kingdom in one year.

    If time continued and the people of the Rudson Kingdom approved of the Frestech Brand magic machines, their sales would definitely keep growing.

    If the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t change, the Lampuri Kingdom would be the first market for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the current trend, the Rudson Kingdom would surpass the Lampuri Kingdom soon and would be the most important market for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after Xu Yi thought about it, he said to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Rudson Kingdom branch chairman Merloc Cool, ¡°Starting next month, start putting the household magic machines of the otherpanies in nour stores. Also, make sure that you promote them properly so those other household magic machine brands can get decent sales.¡±

    Cool was surprised, ¡°Why? This is our store, why do we need to sell the things of otherpanies?¡±

    ¡°This is the deal between us and the otherpanies, you just have to follow it.¡±

    ¡°Although Cool was confused, Xu Yi had a high prestige in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and didn¡¯t dare say a thing, he just kept his doubts in his heart.

    Xu Yi just told him a few changes to the development n before Newman rushed over.

    Seeing that Xu Yi and Kennard were safe, Newman let out a long sigh of relief.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that ambassador Hakanin arrived at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s store and it scared me to death. But it¡¯s a good thing that he didn¡¯t seem to run into you.¡±

    ¡°No, I met him and talked with him for a bit.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Newman¡¯s expression changed. He looked over Xu Yi with a confused expression before asking, ¡°Then.....Chairman Xu, did he cause you any trouble?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Ambassador Hakanin is a reasonable person. I have solved the misunderstanding I have with him and there¡¯s nothing between us, we even became good friends.¡±

    Newman looked at Xu Yi with a strange expression.

    Ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t be rted to the word ¡°reasonable¡± at all, so how did Xu Yi take care of him?

    But Newman threw away these doubts since it was fine as long as Xu Yi was fine.

    Beforeing to find Xu Yi, he received the order from King Teruc as the chairman of the Rudson Chamber of Commerce to discuss a deeper cooperation with Xu Yi.

    Receiving this order meant without a doubt that King Teruc had epted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, disying his support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was a very good piece of news for Newman.

    Because he had introduced the various magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Rudson Kingdom, he was promoted for his merit.

    Now that his majesty has decided to fully cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as the one who had the longest contact and understood them the best, also the person who understood magic machines the best in the Rudson Kingdom, he was the one in charge of handling this cooperation.

    Based on the decree of his majesty, it was clear that this matter was important for him.

    Then as long as he could process this cooperation, there was a chance that he would obtain the praise of the king and could keep getting promoted. It was no longer a dream that he might one day reach the peak of the Rudson Kingdom.

    Thinking of this, Newman was very kind towards Xu Yi and said with a full smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, ording to the decree of his majesty, I am the representative that our Rudson Kingdom has sent to discuss the matter of cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Xu, which project should we start with?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before pointing north, ¡°Let¡¯s take a look at your Rudson Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory. Chairman Rudson, I heard that the quality of the magic machine yourpany¡¯s factories produce is quite worrying......¡±

    Newman¡¯s expression became very awkward.

 Volume 4 88 - Happy cooperation

    Volume 4 Chapter 88 Happy cooperation

    Facts proved that King Teruc¡¯s support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t stop at his mouth.

    In the discussions that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi and the Rudson Kingdom had, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned plenty of benefits. Therge organizations in the Rudson Kingdom supported all requests of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was clearly on special instructions from King Teruc.

    After only being in the Rudson Kingdom for half a month, there were three contracts signed between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi and the Rudson Kingdom.

    First, they would start their cooperation in five cities. They would invest in over twenty household magic machine factories which both sides provided capital for, producing all the household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently had.

    ording to the contract they signed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be giving funds and technology, while the Rudson Kingdom would be givingnd and preferential treatment. In the final profits, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the majority 70% and had absolute control over these twenty factories.

    But ordingly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to release all the technology to the Rudson Kingdom. They could only recruit local Rudson Kingdom workers, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only provide technical staff.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to teach these workers how to work the production magic machines, therefore they would be setting up a magic machine vocational skill school in Caraca City.

    This magic machine vocational school was controlled by the Rudson Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be providing the teaching material and would interfere with nothing else.

    Second, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reached a deal with the Rudson Kingdom on Nissi City. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest in expanding the port in Nissi City.

    After this construction wasplete, this port would give all their profits to Nissi City and Nissi City would have absolute ruling right over it, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had absolute preferential rights to seven of the ten wharfs in this port. As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s boats came, the other boats had to move.

    Although there weren¡¯t any definitely uses in this contract, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s private discussions with Nissi City¡¯s City Lord, Nissi City would keep two wharfs empty at all times for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When Xu Yi discussed this with Nissi City¡¯s City Lord, he was very confused on why Xu Yi insisted on this.

    Although King Teruc had given the order to fully support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, meeting their demands to the best of their capabilities, he had also stressed that the harbor must be controlled by the Rudson Kingdom.

    Xu Yi¡¯s request was already touching the border and if the king decided to investigate, this might all break down.

    But with the money attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Nissi City¡¯s City Lord agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s request in the end.

    Anyway, they still maintained control of the harbor, they just needed to change how they managed it a bit.

    Moreover, although Nissi City was the biggest port city in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s south, for the Sines Continent that didn¡¯t have any marine transportation at all, there were few boats that came to Nissi City each year.

    Xu Yi suddenly investing three million gold coins to build thisrge port was something the City Lord couldn¡¯t understand.

    Even if King Teruc supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, thinking that building this port would benefit the Rudson Kingdom without any downsides, he was also confused on why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this.

    The third major contract wasn¡¯t just rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    On this contract, Xu Yi on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce requested the Rudson Kingdom to start examining thirty otherpanies, which meant opening up the Rudson Kingdom market. He wanted to let the products of these thirtypanies enter the Rudson Kingdom.

    These thirtypanies were the magic machinepanies that followed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the ck Rice Wastnd from Banta City.

    It should be said that this final agreement was the most important one to Xu Yi.

    He wasn¡¯t worried about the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather he was worried that the Rudson Kingdom would reject otherpanies to protect their own kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry development.

    But Xu Yi had underestimated the courage of King Teruc. After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s request, King Teruc made a decision in only three days, opening up the market to those thirtypanies and giving them preferential treatment as they spread their products in the Rudson Kingdom, using all his powers to guarantee normal cirction of these products.

    But King Teruc had put some strict rules. Other than the thirty sixpanies this time, the Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t let any otherpanies in.

    At the same time, King Teruc had requested the other thirty fivepanies to be the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, building at least two factories in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Xu Yi naturally agreed to this.

    Right now thosepanies had lost their biggest market in the Lampuri Kingdom, they could only barely keep afloat with the small and undeveloped markets in the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the Stantine Duchy, which was very hard for them.

    Now that the Rudson Kingdom was willing to open their market to them, it was no different from saving them from water and fire.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperating with the Rudson Kingdom would help their profits, so how could the other thirty fivepanies not agree.

    Other than these three most important agreements, Xu Yi¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom also reached a few small agreements.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would work with the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s magic department to research and develop magic machines together.

    For example, the Rudson Kingdom would follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s requests, looking for dwarves and elves in the Rudson Kingdom. After they made contact, they would let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruit them.

    Then for example......

    ......

    In short, half a monthter, Xu Yi and Kennard were attending the banquet held by King Teruc. After they were sent out of Caraca City by Newman, the two were satisfied with their trip to the Rudson Kingdom this time.

    Xu Yi turned back and looked at Caraca City fading in the distance from the back window of the Magic Sedan. He couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°It has to be said, in terms of vision, boldness, taking action, and foresight, King Teruc is much better than his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth, not to mention the current King Eric.¡±

    Kennard beside him shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, King Eric didn¡¯t have a way to demonstrate any outstanding abilities before and Lampuri Thirteenth wanted her highness Seveni as his sessor. Moreover, after bing the king, the Lampuri Kingdom is being controlled by the Stagg Family, so he can¡¯t do anything even if he wanted to.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom is being torn apart by those fellows, the situation is getting worse and worse. Although Kolebo City that had seeded has been solved, from the information I received, the Lampuri Kindgom¡¯s internal situation is going to copse. If they aren¡¯t careful, it might be a civil war.¡±

    Kennard thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°That isn¡¯t certain, sir chairman, you know how the situation of Kolebo City was solved?¡±

    ¡°I heard that Kolebo City¡¯s City Lord surrendered, wasn¡¯t it like that?¡±

    ¡°He did surrender, but the reason he chose to make this decision was King Eric stopping the guarding army that Duke Stagg had sent. He solved his matter by expressing that he wouldn¡¯t let a civil war ur in the kingdom and that he wanted peace. Then King Eric gave his promise that he wouldn¡¯t pursue this matter and Kolebo City¡¯s City Lord surrendered.¡±

    ¡°Promise?¡± Xu Yi had a strange expression and he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Kolebo City¡¯s City Lord isn¡¯t a three year old child, he actually believed this promise?¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman, King Eric promised as a king and a noble, if he went against this, it would be a heavy hit to his prestige. So unless it was absolutely necessary, he wouldn¡¯t go against his promise.¡±

    ¡°The facts prove it, Kolebo City has been pacified and King Eric isn¡¯t nning on investigating this matter. Then again, the rebellion in Kolebo City was the nobles going against the Stagg Family sending a message. Now that King Eric has given them the response they want, everyone naturally wouldn¡¯t create trouble for no reason.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brow, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, doesn¡¯t that mean King Eric is suppressing the Stagg Family? Is the Stagg Family not responding at all?¡±

    ¡°At least the Stagg Family hasn¡¯t said anything for now. Duke Stagg not only obeyed the order to call back the second army that was nning on attacking Kolebo City, he also indicated that the stability of the kingdom is above all, the Stagg Family would fully support King Eric¡¯s decisions.¡±

    When he said this, Kennard suddenly became excited.

    ¡°Do you know? Sir chairman, King Eric is much more diligentpared to before. Not only has he started expressing his opinion on matters in the kingdom, he has also demonstrated a strong stance, rejecting several of Duke Stagg¡¯s suggestions, gradually showing the boldness and dignity of a king. I feel that as long as this continues, our Lampuri Kingdom has the hope of bing stronger.¡±

    Seeing Kennard¡¯s happy smile, Xu Yi didn¡¯t agree at all in his heart.

    First, he was someone who came from earth, so he didn¡¯t care that much about the Lampuri Kingdom. He naturally wouldn¡¯t feel as much joy as Kennard from this change.

    Second, he didn¡¯t think King Eric¡¯s change was that good.

    If he had the skills and boldness, would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have been chased out of the Lampuri Kingdom?

    If he could control the Lampuri Kingdom like King Teruc did with the Rudson Kingdom, supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the ten million gold coins the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was investing in the Rudson Kingdom would have been ced in the Lampuri Kingdom. This would have greatly helped the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s development.

    The most important issue is that he wanted to suppress the Stagg Family and restore bnce in the Lampuri Kingdom, controlling it again. This idea wasn¡¯t bad, but.....could he really do it?

 Volume 4 89 - Prestige of a king

    Volume 4 Chapter 89 Prestige of a king

    Eric took a deep breath and closed his eyes to rest for a minute before opening them again. He picked up the towel that had been soaking in a bucket of ice cold water and pped his face twice, trying to refresh himself before continuing to review the documents.

    After forcefully stopping Duke Stagg from sending the second army to deal with Kolebo Cityst time, it was like Eric had understood something. He had a new understanding of the political matters from before and was processing them with a different opinion.

    He relied on Duke Stagg much less and unless there was anything important, he wouldn¡¯t call on Duke Stagg at all, spending most of his time on his own decisions.

    Of course, he would still consult the other ministers for their opinion, while also reading to increase his own intelligence. He even left the royal pce and mixed in among the people to understand them

    In short, he invested himself more and more into the role of the king, while also feeling the glory and pride of a king.

    Of course, that also meant he deeply felt the pressure.

    Learning more about politics, Eric regretted the decision he made before more and more.

    Based on the various data, the worst mistake he had made was not keeping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Half the year had passed and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s tax revenue hadn¡¯t even reached a million gold coins yet.

    Based on this trend, by the end of the year, the kingdom¡¯s financial revenue might just be over a million and it definitely wouldn¡¯t pass one and half million gold coins.

    Compared to the previous years where it was at least two million or evenst year when it surpassed three million, the Lampuri Kingdom was now much more poor.

    Eric was more familiar with politics, so naturally he knew the reason for this.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here, two thirds of the kingdom¡¯s tax revenue came from the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just Banta City alone paid over a million gold coins in taxes each year, which was almostparable to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s previous yearly tax revenue.

    It had to be said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce yed a vital role in this.

    But since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left the Lampuri Kingdom, most of the magic machinepanies in Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom left the kingdom. This caused the magic machine industry¡¯s influence in the Lampuri Kingdom to drop, which naturally also dropped the tax revenue.

    Of course, this was also rted to the tenpanies that controlled the magic machine industry.

    ording to the stats, those tenpanies had been suffering losses because of the poor industries, so the taxes they paid were quite pitiful.

    But Eric knew in his heart that although the magic machine industry had been affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies leaving, if it was said that they were losing money, it was impossible to say anything else.

    ording to Eric¡¯s private information, just the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce had earned profits of over two hundred thousand gold coinsst month.

    Butst month the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce reported to the business department that they lost over seventy thousand gold coins. So not only did the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce not have to pay over eighty thousand gold coins in taxes like they should have, they even received a special subsidiary of thirty thousand gold coins.

    With this, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce had earned close to twelve hundred thousand gold coins.

    As for where the extra twelve hundred thousand gold coins went......

    Every time he thought of the Stagg Family behind the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce, Eric couldn¡¯t help feeling anger in his heart.

    ¡°Those damn worms!¡± Eric cursed in his heart before giving a helpless bitterugh.

    Although Duke Stagg was very friendly to him on the surface during this time, not opposing any suggestions that he had and carrying out his every order, Eric knew that his control over the kingdom right now was still far from enough.

    While he wasn¡¯t strong enough to deal with the conservative nobles led by the Stagg Family, Eric could only endure.

    Before this, the only thing he could do was take back the power that was his from Duke Stagg¡¯s hands bit by bit.

    ¡°Kou, kou, kou.¡±

    There was a knock on the door.

    Eric looked at the door and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Duke Stagg had finally learned that he needed to knock toe in.

    ¡°Come in.¡± Eric said.¡±

    The door was softly opened and Duke Stagg walked in.

    ¡°Your majesty.¡± Duke Stagg gave Eric a bow, ¡°Do you need something to suddenly summon me?¡±

    ¡°Un, I just wrote a decree, take a look.¡± Eric handed over the paper that hadn¡¯t even had its ink dried yet.

    Duke Stagg took it and deeply knit his brows as soon as he took a look.

    This decree was aimed at the magic machine industry management department.

    The content summarized was that Eric wanted to reform the department, he wanted to inspect all thepanies managed by the department once again.

    The most direct was that eachpany needed to have their finances inspected.

    If apany couldn¡¯t earn enough, the department must think of a way for thispany to turn their losses into profits.

    If the department couldn¡¯t do this, this would be considered misconduct.

    And if apany wasn¡¯t strong enough and couldn¡¯t make a profit, in order to promote the healthy development of the magic machine industry, the department had the right to take away the business rights of thatpany, forcing them to change industries.

    From the surface, there was nothing wrong with this decree.

    But if one thought about it carefully, because the department¡¯s key members were from the Stagg Family and the tenpanies controlled the entire magic machine industry, this decree was targeting them without a doubt.

    But thesepanies represented the interests of the conservative faction led by Duke Stagg. Eric doing this was clearly trying to target them.

    Duke Stagg narrowed his eyes as he looked at Eric.

    ¡°Your majesty, this might not be proper.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What is improper?¡±

    ¡°Even if apany isn¡¯t strong enough and can¡¯t make a profit, they still are contributing to the magic machine industry of the kingdom. To take away their business rights, that would be too much of a hit to their enthusiasm. Didn¡¯t you majesty say that it would be best to turn every city into Banta City? Since it¡¯s like this, we should support them more.¡±

    Eric gave a coldugh in his heart.

    Duke Stagg¡¯s encouragement was giving thesepanies subsidies from the kingdom¡¯s finances.

    The kingdom¡¯s finances had dropped and taking a part for this ¡°help¡±, the kingdom¡¯s finances became even worse.

    After being king for this long, Eric was clear on the important use of money.

    There were many parts of the Lampuri Kingdom that needed improvement, but each one needed arge number of funds.

    Eric was taking from these tenpanies, or rather from the nobles of the conservative faction the money that should belong to the kingdom finances, which would be used to develop the kingdom.

    ¡°Business is like a battlefield and if apany can¡¯t earn a profit, it means they aren¡¯t suited for this battlefield. Instead of wasting the kingdom¡¯s previous finances to help them, it¡¯s better to follow the customs of the market and make them disappear. Don¡¯t you think so, Duke Stagg?¡± Eric asked back.

    Duke Stagg silently looked at Eric for a bit. When Eric was feeling worried, he suddenly revealed a smile and slowly nodded, ¡°Your majesty is very correct, this should be done.¡±

    Hearing this reply, Eric almost couldn¡¯t believe his ears.

    This decree of his was aimed at the nobles represented by the Stagg Family, Eric was prepared for a strong resistance from Duke Stagg. He had prepared his excuses and was even nning on forcing this decree, but he never thought that Duke Stagg would agree!

    Eric looked at Duke Stagg in a daze as many questions appeared in his mind.

    ¡°Your majesty, are there any other important matters?¡± Duke Stagg suddenly asked.

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....no.....nothing for now......¡± Eric shook his head, answering in a daze.

    ¡°Since your majesty has nothing else, I¡¯ll be leaving.¡±

    When Duke Stagg walked out and closed the door, Eric still couldn¡¯t react from his daze.

    Why didn¡¯t Duke Stagg oppose this? Could it be that he really epted it?

    Eric was shocked and happy in his heart.

    Could it be that he finally had the prestige of a king that Duke Stagg wouldn¡¯t directly oppose him?

    Duke Stagg who walked out didn¡¯t show any excitement on his face, rather he had a very calm look.

    But when he saw a young boy running around the corner, he revealed a warm smile.

    ¡°Your highness, his majesty is working, you can¡¯t disturb him now.¡± Duke Stagg picked up the young boy with a smile as he said this.

    This young boy was Eric¡¯s oldest son, prince William. He wasn¡¯t even five years old yet and he was quite intelligent, being chosen as the candidate for the next king by many people.

    ¡°Why is royal father working again.....¡± Prince William pouted his lips and looked very wronged, ¡°He is working all day, is being a king really that busy?¡±

    Duke Stagg smiled, ¡°Yes, being a king is this busy. Your highness, you want his majesty to rest?¡±

    ¡°Of course I want him to rest, that way he has time to y with me.¡± Prince William said.

    ¡°Then how about we let him get a good rest?¡± Duke Stagg had a gentle smile on his face, but there was a cold glow in his narrowed eyes.

 Volume 4 90 - Treason

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 90 Treason</h4>

    After they finished their discussions with the Rudson Kingdom, Xu Yi and Kennard left the Rudson Kingdom together.

    Kennard was scheduled to go inspect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories at Ampriston Town in the Mirando Duchy and Xu Yi followed his schedule, entering the Lampuri Kingdom.

    It had been half a year since he left Banta City and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional now that he was back.

    Although on the surface, Banta City hadn¡¯t changed much from when he hadst been here, Xu Yi felt emotional because it hadn¡¯t changed.

    Thinking of when he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were in Banta City, it would change with each passing day. If one was gone for half a year, everything would have changed already.

    But now that Xu Yi had been gone for half a year, Banta City hadn¡¯t changed at all. It showed that Banta City had fallen into a rut and hadn¡¯t developed at all in the past half a year.

    This city that was filled with vigor over the past few years had suddenly be deathly silent.

    Looking at the Falling Rain Road that was filled with cracks from not being maintained, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    This road had been the most important road for Banta City in the past few years, it was even called the ¡°road of wealth¡± for the people of Banta City. There were many horse carriages and Magic Cars that raced across this road at any point during the day, with countless pedestrians walking along it as well.

    But now, Xu Yi stood by the side of the road for ten minutes and there were only three horse carriages that ran past. Two of them were clearly old styled passenger horse carriages and there was only one horse carriage with cargo.

    Looking to the far west of the road where the Falling Rain Valley was, Xu Yi turned back to the east to see the small dot that was Banta City and he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    No matter how close he was with the city before, now that he had already separated from this city, how this city developed wasn¡¯t rted to him. He didn¡¯t have the ability or the rights to manage it.

    No matter how the Lampuri Kingdom changed Banta City, the result would be borne by Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom. Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to care.

    But to Xu Yi, there were some people he had to care about, which were the students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up a special fund there three years ago, which was used to help pay the fees of the students to help them continue their education.

    After three years now, there were two batches of students that had already graduated and most of them were working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Right now, most of the magicians that were in charge of drawing the Magic Arrays inside the magic machines were mostly students from the Baron Rickto Magic Academy.

    Now that three years had passed, there were students who received the fund who were graduating now. Xu Yi came back to Banta City just to meet those students.

    The past two batches of students who graduated were normal students. They weren¡¯t that different from the other magicians who were recruited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But the ones that graduated this year were taught by Xu Yi since the beginning. While learning about magic, they also studied mechanical engineering theory, unifying these two different kinds of knowledge during the three years.

    In these three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also given these students the chance to get real experience. That way before they even graduated, they already had the chance to have base knowledge on magic machines.

    This kind of magician was truly important to Xu Yi. A magic engineer that had knowledge on both magic and machines.....they were on the waiting list.

    If they could work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for several years, Xu Yi believed that it wouldn¡¯t take long before he could really train some useful magic engineers.

    Xu Yi entered Baron Rickto Magic Academy very smoothly.

    Baron Rickto Magic Academy had obtained funds from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over these years. Even in the year that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left the Lampuri Kingdom, there wasn¡¯t ack of funds. So in any case, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy had always supported Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to sow the seeds they nted and the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was happy, they didn¡¯t reject this at all.

    The students were more excited, it could even be said that they couldn¡¯t wait.

    When the epted the three year fund from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no matter what feeling they had in the beginning, they had all decided on entering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating.

    Moreover, they had learned arge amount of magic and magic mechanical engineering knowledge during these three years, which made them realize that the most suitable work for them was working with magic machines.

    When it came to magic machines, was there anotherpany on the entire continent that could match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had good wages, treatment, and benefits, it was the dream of many to be able to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now they could directly enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a single student that wanted to reject this.

    So almost all the students who had epted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fund weed Xu Yi when he came.

    During one¡¯s graduation, one would always feel emotional and there would be some girls who would break out in tears when thinking of their ssmates. However, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy graduation this year was a scene of joy, it was different from before.

    However.....this happy scene waspletely disrupted by the Banta City guards who had rushed in with full armour.

    ¡°What are you doing here?¡± Seeing that there was the Banta City¡¯s guard captain Chopin leading them, the Baron Rickto Magic Academy¡¯s dean Fording was shocked.

    Just what had happened for the city guards to personallye?

    However Chopin ignored Fording¡¯s words and turned around to see Xu Yi who was surrounded by students. With a wave of his hand, the city guards behind him pushed aside the students and surrounded Xu Yi.

    Seeing the weary city guards who were hostile, everyone was stunned.

    Xu Yi was even more confused as he looked at Chopin in surprise and asked, ¡°Commander Chopin, what are you doing? Could it be that I¡¯vemitted a crime?¡±

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom before, that was just an issue with the magic machine industry management department and they couldn¡¯t find any faults with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t willing to make this a big deal, so Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left the Lampuri Kingdom peacefully.

    On the side of the Lampuri Kingdom government, Xu Yi was still a citizen and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a Lampuri Kingdompany.

    Xu Yi coulde back to the Lampuri Kingdom at will. He hade back several times before and there were no problems.

    Why did something happen today?¡±

    Chopin had a serious look as he loudly said, ¡°Xu Yi, I urge you not to resist and give up. Otherwise, I have the right to execute you on the spot!¡±

    ¡°Execute me?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he looked at the surrounding guards before shaking his head, ¡°I say,mander Chopin, you should know my magic power, don¡¯t you find it funny saying something like this?¡±

    Chopin also understood this, so he looked nervous. After pausing, he shouted, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m warning you, even if your magic is strong, you are one person and can¡¯t fight the entire Lampuri Kingdom. If you¡¯re smart, you would surrender now and you might be able to keep your life. If you dare resist, don¡¯t me me for showing no mercy!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug as he looked at the various teachers, students, and faculty members and he found that they were as confused as he was.

    ¡°I say.....Commander Chopin, you say you want to capture me, you should tell me what my crime is, right? Can you just catch someone without a reason?¡±

    Chopin¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Xu Yi, your crime is the heaviest of treason! It was considered a serious crime, but his majesty has pardoned you from death. As long as youe with us to see his majesty, you can keep your life.¡±

    As soon as the voice fell, the surrounding people fell into an uproar.

    Treason?

    When did Xu Yimit treason?

    Xu Yi was even more confused.

    ¡°Did Imit treason? To which country?¡±

    ¡°You will know your charges when you see his majesty. Right now you just need to give up without a fight.¡± Chopin said in a strict voice, ¡°I¡¯m warning you now, don¡¯t fight back, otherwise you will be charged with the crime of treason and an arrest warrant will be issued across the kingdom. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s remaining businesses will be confiscated by the kingdom¡¯s parliament, so I urge you to think this through.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a coldugh in his mind.

    In the end, those fellows in the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to take away the spark of industry that he had left, they didn¡¯t want to leave anything for him.

    But then he also felt a bit strange.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had been bad towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they never fully cut off their rtionship.

    Even a few months ago, the government had been quite kind to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were even two cities that wanted to invest in factories with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    All these signs showed that they wanted to rebuild rtionships with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had thought that Eric had changed his attitude, which caused these changes.

    But now it seemed like this charge of ¡°treason¡± was to push Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce onto the path of death in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Could it be that King Eric¡¯s attitude suddenly changed?

    Chopin didn¡¯t give Xu Yi time to think. As soon as his voice fell, he waved his hand and the guards surrounding Xu Yi came forward.

    Seeing this, it was clear they wanted to catch him.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and quickly gathered his magic to make his move.

    It was impossible for him to let the city guards catch him, he wasn¡¯t certain of King Eric¡¯s attitude.

    He could still retreat here, but if he really went to Anvilmar City, there were enough people there to keep him there.

    But there was another issue.

    The Lampuri Kingdom clearly knew the magic power he had, but they sent a single trivial city guard to catch him, this was clearly an impossible mission.

    What was the Lampuri Kingdom thinking?

    Could it be that they wanted to force him out of the Lampuri Kingdom?

    When countless thoughts filled Xu Yi¡¯s mind, there was suddenly the sound of horse hooves from outside the academy.

    After a while, a neat row of cavalry charged through the gates of the school.

    Seeing the face of the leader, Xu Yi was stunned.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? Why is she here?¡±

 Volume 4 91 - Seveni with a greatly different personality

    Volume 4 Chapter 91 Seveni with a greatly different personality

    The person leading the cavalry was Seveni¡¯s personal guard cavalry leader Merlock. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with Seveni¡¯s personal guards to take care of the beastmen, he was the person who had led the five hundred guards from Seveni.

    Xu Yi had made contact with him many times then, so he knew how important he was to Seveni, otherwise she wouldn¡¯t give him full control of such an important mission.

    After the operation on the ck Rice Wastnd, Merlock led his team back to Seveni¡¯s private territory.

    For him to suddenly appear here, there was only one possibility. Seveni was also here.

    As expected, when Xu Yi had this thought, there was a pure white Magic Sedan that drove through the gates of Baron Rickto Magic Academy. It went through the path created by Merlock¡¯s cavalry and came to the city guards surrounding Xu Yi, only stopping after hitting a single city guard.

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    This Magic Sedan was clearly the one that he had given Seveni, but with Seveni¡¯s personality, she was very steady when she drove. How could she act as wild as she was driving now?

    Could it be that Seveni wasn¡¯t the one driving?

    But when the door opened, Seveni came out.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi was stunned again.

    The normal Seveni would have a gentle smile on her face that made one feel close to her.

    But the current Seveni had a cold face, like there was ayer of frost over it. There was also a cold chill in her eyes.

    After getting out, Seveni¡¯s cold eyes turned to the city guards surrounding Xu Yi. There was aplicated look on her face before she roared in a cold voice, ¡°Move aside!¡±

    The city guards nkly looked at each other.

    Even if they didn¡¯t know who Seveni was, just based on the cavalry and the powerful aura that Seveni released, they understood that this young girl wasn¡¯t a normal person.

    Chopin on the sideined in his heart.

    Of course he recognized Seveni and knew the rtionship she had with Xu Yi.

    Although he didn¡¯t expect to catch Xu Yi today, if her highness Seveni suddenly decided to interfere, it would make it very hard for him

    After hesitating a bit, Chopin came over and with a soft cough, he revealed an awkward look as he said to Seveni, ¡°Your highness, this.....¡±

    ¡°Move aside!¡± Seveni coldly cut him off.

    Chopin and Xu Yi were both stunned.

    Chopin never thought that her highness would have such a strong attitude and Xu Yi never thought that Seveni would show this attitude with her personality.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of Seveni, she would never do things forcefully. She was famous for being kind and treating people well.

    And in Xu Yi¡¯s long contact with her, this point was proven.

    There were many times that Seveni wasn¡¯t like a princess because she was too gentle andcked severity.

    But now it seemed like Seveni¡¯s cold face revealed a different dignity, revealing her style as part of the royal family.

    Chopin swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Seveni suddenly raised her hand and the cavalry behind her raised their weapons, aiming them at the city guards surrounding Xu Yi.

    The faces of the city guards immediately fell.

    They were just normal city guards of Banta City, they couldn¡¯t evenpare to soldiers of the regr Lampuri Kingdom army, so naturally they couldn¡¯tpare to the elite royal family private guards.

    If her highness Seveni really gave the order, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be able to resist at all.

    Moreover, even if her highness Seveni gave the order to kill them all, they could only die and no one would say anything for them.

    It was a good thing that Chopin was clear on this matter. Seeing the serious cold look on Seveni¡¯s face, his expression changed several times. In the end, he could only give a sigh as he lowered his head and waved his hand at the guards surrounding Xu Yi.

    It was like the city guards had been pardoned and they moved aside, moving away from Seveni and Xu Yi.

    Seveni came in front of the stunned Xu Yi and said with a serious look, ¡°Come with me, we need to leave quickly.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi looked over Seveni wice like it was his first time meeting her, ¡°Did something happen? There are many things I need to take care of this time, not to mention that if I leave like this, wouldn¡¯t people think that I didmit treason?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask why.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°I can only tell you that the elites of the kingdom¡¯s protecting army are on the way. Even if your magic is strong, you can¡¯t stop a thousand people. So if you want to live, you will leave this ce with me right now.¡±

    Xu Yi deeply knit his brows.

    He was very confused, why did the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly change and be so ruthless towards him?

    But what he was even more confused about was why Seveni had responded so seriously to this matter, not even hesitating to use her private guards to protect him.

    Although the rtionship between the two of them were good, Seveni helping him like this was equal to treason.

    Even if she was the princess, this was not a crime that could be forgiven.

    Seveni doing this was without a doubt sacrificing a lot.

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Seveni gave a sigh as a trace of sadness appeared in her eyes, ¡°The status of a prince doesn¡¯t matter, or perhaps it is better to just give it up.¡±

    Xu Yi was more confused, but Seveni didn¡¯t give him a chance to keep asking questions. She turned to get in her Magic Sedan and indicated for Xu Yi to sit down.

    Seeing the determined look on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi hesitated a bit. He turned to tell dean Fording a few things before sitting in the passenger seat.

    After Xu Yi sat down, Seveni turned on the Magic Sedan. She turned the steering wheel and turned the Magic Sedan around, quickly driving out of Baron Rickto Magic Academy and disappearing along the road outside the school.

    The cavalry team led by Merlock formed a neat formation and quickly followed.

    ###

    Close to noon, a pure white Magic Sedan drove out of Samara Town and rushed forward, entering the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The pure white Sedan suddenly turned and drove off the road,ing to a high cliff on the side of the road.

    Seveni got out and came to the cliff, looking at Samara Town behind them as aplicated expression appeared.

    Xu Yi also got out and came to Seveni¡¯s side. After looking at her for a bit in thought, he asked in a low voice, ¡°Seveni, did something happen? You don¡¯t seem normal today.¡±

    Seveni looked at Samara Town for a bit before shaking her head, ¡°No, it¡¯s nothing.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe her.

    If nothing happened, why did Seveni¡¯s style suddenly change this much?

    Something must have happened and this matter was very serious.

    Otherwise, Seveni¡¯s calm and determined personality wouldn¡¯t have changed this much.

    But Seveni clearly didn¡¯t want to talk, so Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t keep asking.

    He just silently stood by her side and looked at Samara Town with her.

    Based on the expression on Seveni¡¯s face, she wasn¡¯t looking at Samara Town, but rather all of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But why were her eyes filled with determination?

    Connecting it with the words she said when leaving the school, Xu Yi had an idea.

    Could it be......Seveni wanted to leave the Lampuri Kingdom?

    Seveni suddenly turned her head, ¡°Xu Yi, how is the Magic Boat¡¯s developmenting along?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, he never would have thought that Seveni would ask about the Magic Boat at his time.

    ¡°Eh.....It¡¯s quite good. The first Magic Boat has finished a journey of five hundred kilometers, so it can be officially used. Next month, ourpany will make two more Magic Boats. If nothing unexpected happens, we might have five Magic Boats by the end of this year.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Those Magic Boats can go out onto the open seas, right?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°Yes, although we haven¡¯t tested it yet, the data has shown that it wouldn¡¯t be a problem for the Magic Boats to go onto the open seas.¡± Xu Yi replied and he couldn¡¯t resist the curiosity in his heart as he asked, ¡°Seveni, are you nning on going to the open seas like Leslie?¡±

    Seveni revealed a bitter smile, ¡°If possible, I want to leave the Sines Continent, the further the better. It would be best if I could find some isted ind on the ocean and live the rest of my life there.¡±

    Hearing the discouraged tone in Seveni¡¯s voice, Xu Yi was shocked.

    He always admired Seveni¡¯s determined personality. Just what had happened for her to want to retreat from this world?

    After being silent for a bit, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This desire can¡¯t be achieved for now. Ourpany¡¯s Magic Boats will be used by ourselves first and ording to our n, ourpany needs a fleet of at least twenty Magic Boats. To achieve this goal, it would take at least three years with the production capacity of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Three years?¡± Seveni knit her brows, ¡°That is too long.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. Three years wasn¡¯t long at all, it was actually quite fast.

    Building ships and building other things were different.

    Even if the capacity of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Boat wasn¡¯t a lot, it still took quite a bit of time to make a boat.

    ¡°Moreover, Leslie has made an order for Magic Boats, so it will take one to two years to satisfy his order. I think that it would take at least five years before we have extra boats for you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Five years?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi and after thinking for a bit, she said, ¡°That means this matter can only be dyed for now. Xu Yi, can you help me with something?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately said with a smile, ¡°No problem, as long as it is something I can do, just tell me.¡±

    ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, lend me a ce to stay for now.¡±

    Seeing the slight helplessness in Seveni¡¯s eyes, Xu Yi was stunned and unable to say a thing for a while.

 Volume 4 92 - Whereabouts of the halflings

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 92 Whereabouts of the halflings</h4>

    As fall came, for the other ces of the Sines Continent, the weather gradually became colder. For the Stantine Duchy, it was no different from summer, this ce was still warm and damp.

    Whether it was on earth or in the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi never had the chance or time to go swimming that much. After he arrived in the Stantine Duchy, because of the weather and because he lived by the sea, Xu Yi had gradually formed a habit of going swimming in the ocean.

    He even chose a special part of the beach and invested funds to make a beach swimming facility.

    In their free time, the workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought their families to swim by the beach.

    The Stantine Duchy¡¯s weather was hot and moist, so this beach was very popr and would always be lively.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t go to the beach with a bunch of people.

    Not far from his cliff on the manor, there was another beach that was opened which was considered his private beach.

    Other than going with a crowd to the public beach sometimes, Xu Yi spent most of his time swimming and rxing here.

    Today was a bright sunny day, so Xu Yi went to his private beach after he finished his work.

    Still also had a day off today, so she and Liz brought Freya to the beach to y.

    Freya was currently one and a half years old, so she couldn¡¯t go in the sea, but she was very interested in the soft sand. Whether it was letting her feet sink in the sand or grabbing it and creating piles, she looked very happy.

    Seeing the bright smile on Freya¡¯s face, Xu Yi suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°A child really can find things that make them happy easily.¡±

    Still looked at him, ¡°What? You¡¯re thinking of her highness again? I just asked her, but she¡¯s not willing toe.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what she encountered, why did she suddenly be this depressed? She¡¯s already been here for two months and she still stays in her room all day. If she keeps staying in, I¡¯m worried that something will happen to her.¡±

    Still slightly knit her brows, ¡°I¡¯ve talked to her many times, but she¡¯s not willing to speak. It seems like she met something very serious and won¡¯t tell others easily. If my guess isn¡¯t wrong, it should be rted to the royal family.¡±

    ¡°Royal family?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°There aren¡¯t many people in the Lampuri Kingdom royal family and she¡¯s not nning on taking the throne, so Eric naturally won¡¯t cause trouble for her. What is she worried about?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know that, but the royal family is the darkest ce among all the nobles. Her highness has grown up in the royal family and can have a bright, warm, and direct personality, it really is rare.¡±

    ¡°That should be Lampuri Thirteenth protecting her well.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that she¡¯s be like this, I really am curious as to what happened.¡±

    ¡°That is a secret of the royal family, her highness wouldn¡¯t tell others casually, so stop thinking about it.¡± Still shook her head, ¡°If you want to help her, then give her time and let her adjust. Her highness has a strong personality, I believe that she¡¯ll definitely be able to walk out of the shadows.¡±

    ¡°Un.....There¡¯s no other way, we can only wait patiently.¡± Xu Yi took a deep breath and shook his head, throwing out his worry for Seveni. He looked over Still and revealed a lewd smile, ¡°Hey, Still, this swimsuit you have really is great.¡±

    When Still came with Xu Yi to the beach before, she wore a traditional cloth swimsuit. It wasn¡¯t convenient for her to get in the water, so Still had never been interested in swimming.,

    Now she was wearing a waterproof cotton swimsuit that was developed by the Night Song Tribe and the Armani Chamber of Commerce. This swimsuit was designed to be form fitting, which not only made it convenient to swim in, it alsopletely revealed her figure.

    Although she had already given birth to a child, Still had maintained a perfect figure. When she put on the swimsuit, all her curves were disyed. Adding in her golden hair and her beautiful face, even if she and Xu Yi were an old married couple, it still attracted attention.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s praise, Still didn¡¯t be shy at all and threw out her chest, showing her beautiful figure to Xu Yi.

    ¡°This swimsuit really isfortable to wear. It has to be said, the elves really have some strange things. If it wasn¡¯t for you insisting on cooperating with them, we might not have been able to receive all these valuable things from them.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a proud smile, ¡°Of course, all races have their value. Not to mention that the elves had ruled the continent for over ten thousand years before, of course they would have some knowledge that humans can¡¯t master. Actually, it¡¯s a pity that the halfling race has disappeared. Based on the books, the halflings have very good knowledge and skills when ites to working with machines, so if the halflings are still on the continent, I really want to work with them. I believe that they would be of great help in developing the magic machine industry.¡±

    Still turned to the sea and pointed out far into the open sea.

    ¡°Legends say that the halflings didn¡¯tpletely disappear, rather they took their mechanical ships to leave the continent and headed to the depths of the endless sea. It¡¯s said that there is another continent on the other side of the sea and the halflings might have reached that other continent, already taken root on that continent.¡±

    ¡°Depths of the endless sea?¡± Xu Yi looked at the distant sea and revealed a faint smile, ¡°When ourpany can conduct deep sea voyages with our Magic Boats, I will definitely organize a fleet and explore the endless seas. Still, do you believe? If the fleet starts here and keep going forward, they wille up from behind us and reach the east coast of the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible?¡± Still¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°If you keep going west, how could you reach the east?¡±

    ¡°Do you remember what I told you before? We are actually on arge ball, so if you keep going west, you¡¯ll circle around this ball and reach the other side.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that only your guess?¡± Still knit her brows, ¡°Although if the boats keep going, we can see them slowly disappear before they¡¯repletely gone which is reasonable, if you say that we are on a ball......that is too inconceivable. Why wouldn¡¯t we fall off?¡±

    Xu Yiughed. This was something that every protagonist who transmigrated to a backwards world would encounter, but this problem was indeed too difficult to exin.

    Moreover, there wasn¡¯t an example to prove this theory, so it would be strange if people believed.

    ¡°When we can organize this expedition, I¡¯ll prove it to you.¡± Xu Yi looked into the distance before looking up at the sky.

    Actuallypared to the Magic Boats, the easier way to go around the world was to use the Magic Airships.

    Because the Magic Airship didn¡¯t need to travel on the ocean and wouldn¡¯t be affected by the currents, which made it more safe.

    But if one flew in the sky, the weather had arge influence. If they ever met a storm on the sea, it would be very dangerous.

    To fly all the way around the world right now, they were still far from being able to do so.

    The Magic Airships that Evita focused on studying were going a bit slower than the Magic Boats. Up to this point, she was only able to create Magic Airships that could hold no more than five tons and because it couldn¡¯tplete the thousand kilometer journey that Xu Yi set, it was still in its test phase. It could be manned or used to ship cargo just yet.

    This was because the Magic Airship flew in the air. The Magic Boat crashing meant that one could still float on the sea, but if the Magic Airship crashed, it meant falling from the sky and one might die.

    So Evita had to be careful when developing the Magic Airship, having to be perfect with every detail and had to repeat each test several hundred times. Naturally the development of the Magic Airship was much slower.

    But Xu Yi supported her attitude.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines didn¡¯t have any major quality issues, but that didn¡¯t mean it wasn¡¯t possible.

    No matter what, it was right to be strict with the requirements, not to mention with this important Magic Airship.

    When he thought of the Magic Airship, Xu Yi suddenly heard a buzzing sound in the air above him.

    Turning to look, Xu Yi saw a shadow floating from the cliff behind them. It was just over Xu Yi and Still¡¯s head, so the shadow covered them.

    ¡°Why are they here again?¡± Still looked up in surprise at the Magic Airship above them.

    ¡°Perhaps they saw us when they were conducting their experiment.¡± Xu Yi replied before suddenly seeing a person jump out of the Magic Airship.

    Xu Yi and Still were both scared at the same time.

    Jumping down from such a high ce, even if it was onto the soft sand, they would be crushed into a meat patty.

    But the two didn¡¯t react immediately.

    The Magic Airship was still being tested, so Xu Yi had Evita be strict. The people who could board the Magic Airships had to be at least be magicians who could use flight magic.

    But even thinking of this, the two activated their magic at the same time and prepared themselves.

    Once they found the situation was bad, they would naturally save that person.

 Volume 4 93 - Quality problems

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 93 Quality problems</h4>

    Facts proved that those two didn¡¯t need to be worried at all.

    That person fell very quickly at first like they were free falling, but once they fell halfway, they gradually slowed down and finally floated down like a feather.

    That person who touched down and charged towards Xu Yi and Still with a smile was Akali.

    Still snappily looked at her, ¡°Do you want to scare us to death? Suddenly jumping out like that.¡±

    ¡°I wanted to go a bit faster.¡± Akali replied with a smile. She took out a small box from her pocket and pressed it before saying, ¡°Hey Evita, it¡¯s sir chairman and Still down here, do you want toe?¡±

    Evita¡¯s voice came from the box, ¡°There¡¯s no need. Just report to sir chairman, I¡¯ll keep going with the test flight. Do you want me to pick you upter?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, but do you really not want toe down? The weather is this good, it¡¯s just right for swimming. Didn¡¯t you bring your swimsuit? It¡¯s a waste not to use it.¡±

    ¡°You......¡± Evita¡¯s voiceing from the box was a bit embarrassed, ¡°I just.....I just casually brought it along, I never thought.....thought of going swimming......¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he took the Magic Communicator from Akali¡¯s hands.

    ¡°Alright, Evita, youe down too. Let the other researchers take care of the test flight, there¡¯s something I need to ask you.¡±

    Evita was silent for a bit before a soft voice sounded.

    ¡°Un......Alright......¡±

    After a while, Evita floated down from the Magic Airship above them.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was only wearing swimming trunks and revealed his upper body, Evita¡¯s face was a bit red. She calmed herself and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, is ther something you need to ask?¡±

    Before Xu Yi said anything, Akali suddenly took Evita¡¯s backpack. She flipped through it and took out a swimsuit, shaking it in front of Evita with a proud look.

    ¡°Hei, hei, you said you didn¡¯t want toe. Look, your swimsuit was already prepared.¡±

    Evita¡¯s face turned bright red. She wanted to snatch her bag and swimsuit back from Akali, but she quickly dodged.

    Seeing the ghost of a smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Evita said in an angry voice, ¡°I just casually put it in, I never thought.....I never thought......¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re already here, then you might as well take this chance to rest. Evita, Akali, you can change into your swimsuits in the room on the side, I¡¯m giving you the day off today.¡±

    Akali cheered, but she didn¡¯t move to the changing room that Xu Yi had prepared, rather she took off her coat.

    Xu Yi, Still, and Evita were shocked. When they wanted to stop her, they found that she had already taken it off and revealed a swimsuit that she was already wearing.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this funny, ¡°I say, Akali, did you already n on doing this? You¡¯re already wearing a swimsuit, didn¡¯t that feel ufortable?¡±

    ¡°Not at all.¡± Akali slipped off her skirt and Xu Yi found that she was wearing the bikini swimsuit that he had suggested to chairman Vincent.

    Although style on the Sines Continent was quite open, for something that revealed quite a bit of skin like the bikini was considered advanced on the Sines Continent. Chairman Vincent didn¡¯t think that many people would choose to buy this kind of swimsuit at first.

    But he never thought that Akali would buy one and put it on so naturally.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s eyes on herself, Akali smiled as she turned around.

    ¡°How is it? Sir chairman, do I look good wearing this swimsuit?¡±

    ¡°Un.....You do look good.....But......¡± Xu Yi nodded and he couldn¡¯t help smiling as he continued, ¡°Akali, this kind of swimsuit......Un......It suits a girl with a rich figure, but someone like you......¡±

    ¡°Rich figure?¡± Akali looked down at herself and found that her chest was t, instantly understanding what Xu Yi meant.

    Even if she was open and didn¡¯t hold anything back in front of Xu Yi, when Xu Yi said this, she couldn¡¯t stop her face from turning red.

    Then Xu Yi was saying her chest was too small which made her a bit angry, so she couldn¡¯t help ring at him.

    She wanted to refute this, but her eyes couldn¡¯t help turning to Still standing beside Xu Yi.

    Seeing the powerful mounds on Still¡¯s chest, Akali could only give an angry snort.

    But turning to look at Liz and Linda who were ying with Freya who had the same kind of chests, she couldn¡¯t help feeling a deep frustration in her heart.

    Akali gritted her teeth and she couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, you.....Do you like girls with bigger chests?¡±

    Hearing this, Evita on the side who had just calmed down had her face turn slightly red again. Still looked at Xu Yi with an interested look, waiting for his answer.

    ¡°This.....From everyone¡¯s viewpoints, a girl with a richer figure is naturally more popr. But there is a saying in my hometown, small breasts are also a rare resource, so there are also many people who like it.¡± Xu Yi nodded and patted Akali¡¯s shoulder in encouragement, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you¡¯re also popr like this.¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes, ¡°I¡¯m not asking if others liked it, I¡¯m asking you now. Sir chairman, do you like how I look or how Still looks?¡±

    ¡°This can¡¯t bepared, Still is my wife, of course I like her more.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking about the person, I¡¯m asking about this.....¡± Akali reached out to point at Still¡¯s chest.¡±

    ¡°This.....From an objective perspective, I have to side with Still¡¯s kind.....¡± Xu Yi thought about it before honestly answering.¡±

    ¡°Humph! I knew it!¡± Akali angrily turned around and walked over to the beach. She jumped in and swam far out into the sea.

    ¡°Xu Ui, don¡¯t you know how to be tactful?¡± Still red at Xu Yi, ¡°Saying it like this will hurt Akali.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t try to exin.

    Turning to see the stunned Evita, Xu Yi said, ¡°Evita, you should change too. The Magic Airship should be doing the two hundred kilometer test, so it should take all afternoon. You can just rest up today.¡±

    Evita paused for a bit before shaking her head, ¡°I shouldn¡¯t. If something happens after I change into my swimsuit, it isn¡¯t convenient for me to rush off. I¡¯ll just suntan on the beach. Right, sir chairman, you said that you have something to ask me, what is it?¡±

    Seeing that Evita was insisting, Xu Yi didn¡¯t force her.

    Although Evita had a gentle personality, things that she decided on couldn¡¯t be changed. This was something Xu Yi learned after being with her for a long time.

    But he just said that to have Evitae down, he didn¡¯t really have anything to ask.

    Now that Evita was pursuing this matter, Xu Yi¡¯s mind quickly turned and he really thought of some important matters.¡±

    ¡°How many kilometers can your Magic Airship travel at once right now?¡±

    Talking about specifics, the various expressions on Evita¡¯s face disappeared and she focused.

    ¡°We haven¡¯t tested the limits yet, but ording to our data, it should be around eight hundred to a thousand kilometers.¡±

    ¡°Then can this limit be raised? For example, I need a Magic Airship that can travel over three thousand kilometers on one journey, is this possible?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°In theory, as long as we increase the size of the Magic Crystal storage cabin, it should increase the duration.¡± Evita thought about it before replying, ¡°But this would involve the entire design of the Magic Airship and if it operates for a long time, there might be some problems with the power supply Magic Array. If it was for three thousand kilometers, the Magic Array would need to keep working for over fifty hours, which is a very serious strain on the Magic Arrays.¡±

    ¡°The Magic Arrays wouldn¡¯t be able to persist with this heavy load and would copse?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Evita nodded, ¡°This problem has urred with the other magic machines of ourpany. For example, the two batches of Magic Fans that ourpany sold when we were established. It¡¯s been close to four years now and it¡¯s hard for the Magic Array inside to keep working normally, so there are many problems that would ur with them.¡±

    Speaking of this, Evita looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    ¡°What? Just tell me if there¡¯s a problem.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Un......Sir chairman, because the Lampuri Kingdom has sealed off all our industries in their borders, ourpany has not been able to provide the customers who have bought our products after sale support. ording to my estimates, the household magic machines that are three years old have all reached the end of their lifespan and there might be problems that could ur with their quality. If we don¡¯t take care of this, it would have a serious impact on the prestige of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s reasonable to worry about this, but......¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°I was nearly caught as a traitor by the Lampuri Kingdom. My arrest warrants have been spread and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is kept out of the Lampuri Kingdom. It¡¯s easy to talk about other ces, but to provide service for the Lampuri Kingdom, there¡¯s no good way to solve this.¡±

    Evita naturally understood the situation and could only give a sigh when she heard this. She shook her head and also couldn¡¯t think of a good method.

    Xu Yi knit his brows to think for a bit, ¡°Alright, no matter what, the problem you mentioned is very important. I will do my best to think of a way to solve it and if I can¡¯t, we¡¯ll exin everything to the customers in the Lampuri Kingdom and provide them withpensation. It¡¯s easy for apany to ruin their name, but to build it and maintain it means we have to pay a price.¡±

    After receiving Xu Yi¡¯s promise, it was like the stone in Evita¡¯s heart fell and she revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I knew that you weren¡¯t like those other cold hearted merchants.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and pointed at Akali swimming into the ocean.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain, at least Akali is scolding me as being heartless right now.¡±

    Evita and Still looked at each other before they both revealed smiles.

 Volume 4 94 - Highly concentrated Magic Crystal

    Volume 4 Chapter 94 Highly concentrated Magic Crystal

    Xu Yi¡¯s feelings towards the Magic Boat and the Magic Airship were different, so naturally he had different requests for them.

    For the Magic Boat, he just wanted them for transport, so capacity was the main thing for the Magic Boats and he didn¡¯t care if they weren¡¯t that fast.

    But for the Magic Airships, he cared more about their speed, mainly being used for transporting people and cargo was secondary.

    Moreover, when it came to his long term ns, the Magic Airships had a high strategic value. It would definitely y an important role in the future, so his main concerns for the Magic Airships were power, safety, and long term voyage capabilities.

    After discussing with Evita for a bit, Xu Yi gave Evita a direction to continue her research. He wanted her to increase the power supply while also increasing its speed.

    Xu Yi¡¯s request for the Magic Airship was that he hoped it could at least surpass the speed of a Great Magician using flight magic.

    After discussing with Great Magician Cami, they confirmed that if a Great Magician flew with all their might, they could reach a speed of over fifty kilometers an hour. Right now the Magic Airship was only going forty kilometers an hour, so it was far from Xu Yi¡¯s requests.

    Of course, Evita stated that there was plenty of space for improvement for the Magic Airship¡¯s speed.

    Whether it was the output of the Magic Array or the improvement to the Magic Airship¡¯s design, it could all increase the flying speed.

    Of course, with the current development speed of the Magic Airship, to achieve the same level as the airnes that reached over a thousand kilometers an hour, they were still far from being able topare.

    After asking about the Magic Airship, Xu Yi changed to another topic that Evita was in charge of.

    This was the Magic Crystal refinement project.

    Evita had already developed several easy to use Magic Arrays that could refine the normally mined Magic Crystals into new highly concentrated Magic Crystals.

    These high concentration Magic Crystals were already being used in the various magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made. For example, the Magic Sedan, the Magic Armoured Vehicles, the Magic Boat, and the Magic Airship all used them because with the higher density of the magic contained within, the effects of the Magic Array became better. The output of magic was naturally better than when using normal Magic Crystals.

    But there were problems with using this kind of high concentration Magic Crystal.

    One of those problems was that the high concentration Magic Crystal wasn¡¯t stable enough. It wasn¡¯t suited for being stored long term and it was easy for the output to be decreased as the concentration dropped, which made it easy for idents to ur.

    Evita¡¯s main task for these refined Magic Crystals was to increase the stability of the new Magic Crystals and she had achieved some results.

    ording to her new research, the Magic Crystals refined with Evita¡¯s new Magic Crystal refinement Magic Array could be stored for one month at room temperature without magic being leaked and without it bing unstable.

    This was something that had already surpassed normal Magic Crystals.

    When it came to quality, a normal high grade Magic Crystal contained less than one tenth of the magic contained in a piece of high concentration Magic Crystal of the same size.

    To Evita, normal Magic Crystals could be eliminated because they had arge problem which was that they were too big and took up too much space.

    If they used normal Magic Crystals, they had to keep creating more Magic Crystal supply cabins which made it much more difficult for the overall design.

    ¡°Take the Magic Airship, currently the medium sized Magic Airship had the supply cabin greatly increased in size because we needed to consider the use of Magic Crystals. Chairman, you just said that you wanted to increase the travel duration and the speed of the Magic Airship, one method is to increase the size of the supply cabins and the other is to start using the refined high concentration Magic Crystals.¡±

    ¡°Force output is the basis of therge sized Magic Machines. Changing the power supply will influence the entire design of the magic machine, do you think we cane up with a suitable design for the Magic Airship?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Evita confidently replied, ¡°In fact, usingrge storage cabins to keep the normal Magic Crystals affects the design and power of the Magic Airships very much. If we can use the high concentration Magic Crystals, it should make the design much easier.¡±

    ¡°Un, I can understand this.¡± Xu Yi nodded before asking, ¡°Then what about your worries? Since you¡¯ve considered this, why didn¡¯t you already use this when you designed the Magic Airship?¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit.

    ¡°Chairman.....Actually, I¡¯m not worried about this, but you should be the one worried.¡±

    ¡°My worries? What am I worried about?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Actually, the magic machine development center and our magic research facility are all confused. The high concentration Magic Crystal research has already matured and in my opinion, we can start producing and officially using it. We can improve the magic machines that ourpany is currently producing, but up to now, you¡¯ve only requested that it be used in a small portion of the magic machines. So.....I¡¯m very curious, chairman, what are you worried about?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Evita in surprise, ¡°This is your opinion?¡±

    ¡°It should be the opinion of our magic research facility and the magic machine development center. The technology has matured, but the chairman isn¡¯t willing to put it in production, so everyone is very confused.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I never thought that you guys cared this much about this.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°The reason for this is that the conditions aren¡¯t right. Evita, haven¡¯t you thought of something before? If ourpany starts promoting the high concentration Magic Crystals, would the Magic Crystals still be considered cheap and unimportant?¡±

    Evita thought for a bit before revealing a look of understanding.

    ¡°No wonder the chairman was always purchasing those cheap Magic Crystals mines, you were already considering this.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because I believe that the magic machines will definitely be popr across the continent. When everyone starts using these magic machines, there will be a high demand for Magic Crystals. The market price is determined by demand. Right now no one attaches importance to the Magic Crystals, but once the futurees, Magic Crystals will be a very valuable resource and all the countries on the continent will fight over this resource.¡±

    When Xu Yi said this, he was thinking about the oil on earth.

    Although Magic Crystals could be found all over the Sines Continent, so much so that everyone was numb to them.

    But once the magic machines became popr and because the demand increased, the resource that could be found all over would be very vtile.

    Xu Yi saying that the countries being willing to fight wars over Magic Crystals wasn¡¯t exaggerated at all.

    Evita didn¡¯te from earth like Xu Yi, so naturally she didn¡¯t know how important core resources were to a country and she couldn¡¯t understand the situation Xu Yi described.

    But that didn¡¯t stop her from believing Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    This sir chairman, he didn¡¯t have a hobby of speaking randomly.

    The countless facts proved that Xu Yi¡¯s foresight was much stronger than other people¡¯s.

    In an afternoon, Akali swam around in the ocean several times and she even made a sand castle with Freya. Then sheid down on the beach to tan herself, rxing all afternoon.

    Evita say with Xu Yi, enjoying the breeze and the sound of the ocean, while talking about technology that ruined the fun.

    Akali wanted to pull these two into the ocean several times, but she was firmly rejected by them. She could only drag Still to the ocean in a depressed manner.

    When the sun set on the ocean and the rays of the sun dyed the ocean red, there was also ayer of light red glow that covered the sand.

    Feeling the ocean breeze be a bit cooler, Xu Yi realized that time had unknowingly passed and he ended his conversation with Evita.

    ¡°Alright, Evita, we¡¯ll end it here today. You can research the few problems I gave you just now, try to develop the Magic Airship of my mind as soon as possible. As for the other problems, you can make some preparations now and when the time is right, I hope that the magic research facility can draw up appropriate ns.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Evita nodded and stood up with Xu Yi. Seeing Akalie back, she took the Magic Communicator and pressed the switch.

    After around ten minutes, Akali finished drying herself off and the Magic Airship that brought the two of them here came over the beach to stop on the sand.

    ¡°Chairman, we¡¯ll be leaving first.¡±

    Evita said goodbye to Xu Yi and Still before turning to head to the Magic Airship.

    Akali looked at Xu Yi and gave a snort. She turned to the side and waved at Still before walking away.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°This petty fellow, didn¡¯t she rest all afternoon?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°This is something that a girl cares about the most, of course she would be unhappy if you say it like this. Not to mention that she cares most about your approval, but you said you don¡¯t like it. It would be strange if she was happy.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t just go against my conscience, right?¡±

    ¡°Then that means you like girls with bigger chests in the end?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto Still¡¯s chest and raised a brow, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Still revealed a smile beforeing to the side of Xu Yi¡¯s ear and whispering, ¡°Do you know why Evita wasn¡¯t willing to change into her swimsuit earlier?¡±

    ¡°Because she was shy? After all, a man like me was here.¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°No, I¡¯m certain that she wanted to change into her swimsuit and show off her figure to you, especially after you said those words.¡±

    Xu Yi rubbed his nose, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°It means that.¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°She wasn¡¯t willing to change not because she was shy, but because she didn¡¯t want to hurt Akali because.....Evita¡¯s body is even more plentiful than mine.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s chest in shock before swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.

 Volume 4 95 - Stru Road

    Volume 4 Chapter 95 Stru Road

    A me red Magic Sedan was like a roaring me as it charged across the road. After entering Xu Yi¡¯s private manor, it didn¡¯t slow down at all and only mmed the brakes when it saw Xu Yi standing outside the manor waiting.

    After stopping, the front part of the car had already gone past Xu Yi¡¯s legs.

    The car door opened and elder Lisanya came out of the driver¡¯s seat. She nodded at Xu Yi and revealed a satisfied look.

    ¡°Un, not bad. Chairman Xu, you really have good guts among humans, you are worthy of being with the girls of our elf race.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    The elves in his mind had always been quiet and elegant. A beautiful elven girl driving a Magic Sedan was already very strange to him, not to mention a beautiful elven girl driving a race car!

    Although the physiques of elves were better than humans, with the max speed of the Magic Sedan which was only sixty kilometers an hour, it wasn¡¯t that fast to them at all. But Xu Yi could never connect elves with wanting to drive fast cars.

    Not to mention that the beautiful elf girl driving the car was an elder of an elf tribe.

    Seeing elder Lisanya with a high spirited smile who looked like a young human girl, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking of Great Magician Cami¡¯s old face.

    Great Magician Cami not only loved racing cars, aftering to the Stantine Duchy, he liked to surf along the waves and he liked driving the Magic Speed Boats across the sea. He even organized the sea guards that was newly formed among the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards into having races.

    Compared to the young people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this old man who was over sixty years old liked to go around looking for fun all day.

    ¡°Is it because they have reached their level that they want stimtion more than normal people?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking.

    Elder Lisanya looked around after greeting Xu Yi and seeing no one else around, she knit her brows and gave a soft snort, ¡°Where¡¯s Aliya and the others? Why aren¡¯t they with you?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly exined, ¡°The Half Moon Troupe is practicing a new song today, so they were interested. I had Still take them to watch.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Elder Lisanya nodded, ¡°This is also good. If they learn how to dange and sing, wouldn¡¯t they be more wee?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This......No matter what, I think that girls should know how to dance and sing. They will be more charming than normal girls.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good, but chairman Xu, Aliya and the others have been with you for close to four months, haven¡¯t you decided to pick one yet?¡± Elder Lisanya asked.

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°Your excellency, I¡¯ve already told you many times that I only want Still as my wife in this life, I won¡¯t consider choosing more people. I admit that Aliya and the others are charming and are enticing to me, but I will not take them as my wife. Not to mention, this isn¡¯t fair to them, right?¡±

    Aliya¡¯s group of five elf girls were sent by Elder Lisanya from the Moon Shadow Tribe. Their goal was toplete the proposal that elder Lisanya and elder Illusia had given to Xu Yi before. They wanted Xu Yi to marry an elf girl, that way their rtionship would be deeper.

    But Xu Yi hated the idea of a political marriage, so even if he did meet Aliya and the other elf girls frequently, he had never considered ever getting married to them.

    ¡°I¡¯m not saying they should be your wives.¡± Elder Lisanya slowly shook her head, ¡°Chairman Xu, elder Illusia and I have already said it clearly before, we just hope that the elves and humans cane together more and you are the best choice for that. You don¡¯t have to take them as your wife, you just have to be with them and give birth to a half elf descendant.¡±

    Xu Yi tightly knit his brows, ¡°Your excellency, this.....sounds like you want to use me as a stud horse?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re willing to exin it like this, that is fine.¡± Elder Lisanya casually said, ¡°ording to my observations of human society, you human males shouldn¡¯t reject being with a beautiful girl, right? Moreover, I know that you human males are interested in our elven girls. You are no exception, otherwise you wouldn¡¯t have had that impulse in front of me and Illusia, right?¡±

    Thinking of when he had a naked interaction with the two elders, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help churning. His eyes looked at Elder Lisanya couldn¡¯t help moving down a bit.

    Elves were always keen and elder Lisanya noticed the change in Xu Yi¡¯s expression immediately, so she shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m already over five hundred years old. ording to the standards of you humans, I am an old woman. Chairman Xu, since you can think of copting with an old woman like me, you should be interested in young girls like Aliya and the others.¡±

    Xu Yi awkwardly looked away and calmed himself. He gave a cough before turning to invite elder Lisanya in.

    ¡°Let¡¯s discuss this matterter, we should discuss business first.¡±

    Elder Lisanya knit her brows to look at Xu Yi, but seeing his determined look, she didn¡¯t say anything else and walked in.

    Watching elder Lisanya walk in, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    They were both elders of elf tribes, but elder Lisanya and elder Illusia had very different personalities.

    Comparing it, elder Illusia was more like Xu Yi¡¯s idea of an elf. Noble, intelligent, silent, and graceful, giving people a very kind feeling in all her actions.

    Elder Lisanya was very different from the normal human concept of the elves. She was very forceful and was more radical than elder Illusia.

    After deciding to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Moon Shadow Tribe under her leadership progressed even faster than the Night Song Tribe.

    To this point, the Moon Shadow Tribe had set up three fertilizer factories, two rubber processing factories, and one botanical factory. Using the control over nts that elves had, they specialized in designing nts and gardens for humans.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left the Lampuri Kingdom, because of the importance of fertilizer, the Lampuri Kingdom had never designated fertilizer as part of magic machines and it wasn¡¯t restricted by the kingdom.

    Because of the recent fall harvest, in just a single month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ordered over seven hundred thousand tons of fertilizer from the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s factories. They had paid an amount of over one million gold coins to the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Just with this order, they already surpassed the entire year¡¯s worth of profits for the Night Song Tribe.

    But that was also because the Moon Shadow Tribe was several times bigger than the Night Song Tribe.

    In terms of profit per unit, the Night Song Tribe¡¯s tire factory earned even more.

    It was also because they realized therge benefits of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as the improvements to the entire tribe, elder Lisanya and Elder Illusia approved of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They even considered letting Xu Yi be with elven girls to deepen their rtionship.

    Elder Illusia¡¯s approach was more gentle, she just hoped that Xu Yi would seriously consider this matter and didn¡¯t push it. Elder Lisanya had directly chosen the five most beautiful elven girls of the Moon Shadow Tribe to follow Xu Yi, not caring about his choice.

    Even if Xu Yi said that he didn¡¯t like this method, elder Lisanya didn¡¯t care about Xu Yi¡¯s protests at all. Xu Yi wasn¡¯t cruel enough to send Aliya and the other elf girls back, so he just kept stalling like this.

    Of course, with the Moon Shadow Tribe earningrge benefits, elder Lisanya wouldn¡¯t just consider deepening rtionships with Xu Yi alone. This time, she came to discuss deeper cooperation between the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, for you to have the time toe here, it means that you wish to cooperate on the Stru Road elevation project with us?¡± When the two came in, Xu Yi personally served tea to elder Lisanya before asking this.

    The Stru Road elevation project had to begin with the Stru Road.

    This Stru Road was the road that connected the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.

    This road went west of Xu Yi¡¯s personal territory, connecting to the capitals of the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.

    The road was easy to handle, the only problem was where the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom were connected.

    Because the Stantine Duchy¡¯s terrain was like arge basin, at the border of the Rudson Kingdom, there was a long cliff that was over fifty meters tall.

    To construct a continuous road from the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom, they had to ovee this problem.

    When Xu Yi had proposed this road project to the Rudson Kingdom side, the Rudson Kingdom thought that this would be impossible.

    Even the Amrit Chamber of Commerce that hadid down over twenty thousand kilometers of road thought that this was impossible.

    Because there was a drop of over fifty meters, it was impossible for horse carriages and Magic Cars to fly up, so there was no meaning in building a road.

    But Xu Yi hade up with a simple and crude method of solving this problem.

 Volume 4 96 - Astute elder Lisanya

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 96 Astute elder Lisanya</h4>

    This method could be summarized in one phrase.

    It was too tall? Very simple, they could just tten it!

    A fifty meter tall cliff was a natural moat that couldn¡¯t be jumped over for most people of the continent, so whether it was the Rudson Kingdom or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they all thought that Xu Yi was insane when he wanted to build a road that connected to the Rudson Kingdom.

    But for Xu Yi, one the technologically advanced earth, a cliff of fifty meters wasn¡¯t considered that difficult to take care of at all.

    On earth, there were many methods to solve this problem, but with the limited technology on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi chose to use the most simple and crude method which was to tten this cliff.

    To put it specifically, it was using arge amount of stone and dirt to fill up the low topography of the Stantine Duchy. They would forcefully connect to the Rudson Kingdom on the other side of the cliff.

    It was naturally impossible topletely tten everything. What Xu Yi wanted was toy down the road on a hill shape.

    With the height of the cliff and the gradient of the road, the length of this hill would be five kilometers. With the cliff that was at least fifty meters tall, it would require an astronomical amount of stones.

    With the previous technological standard of the Sines Continent, whether it was digging out the stones or transporting them, they could only depend on manpower. Toplete such arge project, it would take over ten thousand workers and would take at least ten years toplete.

    This kind of project was impossible unless it was something undertaken by a country.

    But with the magic machines developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this project was much more simple.

    With the careful calctions of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, their final estimate was that as long as there were enoughrge and medium sized Magic Excavators andrge Magic Cars, thisrge project would take no more than three thousand people and could be done in two years.

    If everything went smoothly, the Stru Road would bepleted in just five years.

    Although the amount of people and time had been drastically decreased, the investment hadn¡¯t decreased by much.

    ording to the estimates, the Stru Road would definitely be the most expensive road the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had constructed.

    The one hundred and forty kilometers of road in Xu Yi¡¯s territory to the border would cost three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Then the five hundred and sixty kilometer road on the Rudson Kingdom side to their capital Caraca City would cost one million and one hundred thousand gold coins.

    These two roads would be built with the normal method, so they cost the same as normal.

    But for the ttening project, to reach the cliff and enter the Rudson Kingdom, it cost a shocking eight hundred thousand gold coins just for the five kilometers.

    Adding it together, the seven hundred kilometers of the Stru Road would cost over two million gold coins, it might even reach two and a half million gold coins.

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom was in charge of investing for this road, chairman Cruise felt that the cost of constructing this road was very high and wasn¡¯t worth it.

    To him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was spending this much on a single road. It was better for them to circle around and spend a few more days on traveling instead of building this road.

    But Xu Yu didn¡¯t care too much about this price.

    On earth, building a highway would cost tens of millions of yuan for each kilometer. For this road that cost less than ten thousand gold coins for each kilometer was considered much cheaper.

    Although the materials andbour on the Sines Continent was cheaper and the road quality couldn¡¯tpare to the highways that were built on earth, Xu Yi was still able to ept this.

    The reason he insisted on investing thisrge amount to build this road was actually also because Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to use the method that chairman Cruise proposed.

    Detours in transporting to the Rudson Kingdom were feasible, but they had to enter the Lampuri Kingdom for that detour.

    First not mentioning how every product that entered the Lampuri Kingdom meant having to pay a tariff, if the Lampuri Kingdom ever chose to ban the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products, it would be toote for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce toe up with a solution.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing therge Magic Boats that could enter the sea and constructing this Stru Road was to make it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transport goods across the continent.

    The Stantine Duchy had good weather, was good to live in, and wasn¡¯t affected by much, but the terrain here was actually limited. If they couldn¡¯t find a way to solve this problem ahead of time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had a path to death.

    Of course, this problem wasn¡¯t something that elder Lisanya considered. This time she came to meet with Xu Yi because the ttening project of the Stru Road passed through the Moon Shadow Forest of the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    To tten the ground, they had to raise the elevation which would greatly affect thendscape of the Moon Shadow Forest, so Xu Yi had to earn the support of the Moon Shadow Tribe ahead of time.

    When Xu Yi proposed this project to elder Lisanya, elder Lisanya had agreed to cooperate in the beginning.

    And when elder Lisanya came this time, she didn¡¯t seem that strange and Xu Yi naturally thought that she agreed to this cooperation.

    As expected, after hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, elder Lisanya nodded, ¡°Un, there¡¯s no problem with this. After all, it would be good for our tribe if we can directly connect to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and calmly waited.

    Elder Lisanya paused before saying, ¡°But.....chairman Xu, I have to raise a few conditions.¡±

    ¡°Please.¡±

    ¡°First, the construction of this road will cause great damage to the Moon Shadow Forest, so it will influence the lives of our tribe. Chairman Xu, you should give us somepensation.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Who said that elves disdained the calcting of humans? Wasn¡¯t elder Lisanya currently bargaining with him?

    ¡°Of course, but how many gold coins does elder Lisanya think that ourpensation would be enough?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°No, just gold coins have no meaning to us and we don¡¯tck them right now.¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head.

    ¡°Oh? Then what kind ofpensation do you need?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°We need some practical help. For example, because there aren¡¯t enough water sources in the Moon Shadow Forest, our tribe has problems finding water to use. Chairman Xu, I heard Illusia say that you solved the Night Song Tribe solve their water problem when you first met them. Then can you help our tribe solve this problem as well?¡±

    Xu Yi fell into thought before nodding, ¡°Although this does need some inspection to get an answer, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem. For example, ourpany has even developed magic machines that can siege a city, of course we can find some underground water in the Moon Shadow Forest. I can even build aprehensive water system that can bring clean water to each of the homes of your tribesmen.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Elder Lisanya revealed a look of pleasant surprise, ¡°There¡¯s actually such a convenient system? That is great! Chairman Xu, I want to buy this system from your right now, it isn¡¯t a problem if I have to pay for it.¡±

    Seeing the excited look on elder Lisanya¡¯s face, Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Was each elf tribe facing problems with a clean water source?

    Whether it was the Night Song Tribe or the Moon Shadow Tribe, the first problem they had him solve was this.

    As for the water system, Xu Yi had already started using it in a small capacity on his territory.

    For example, there was a Magic Water pump under his manor, drawing out underground water to a water tank built in this manor. Then the water flowed from the tank through various pipes to the rooms that needed them.

    This water system had been developed for less than two months and was still in its experimental phase. After this experiment, he would decide if it could be used all over the territory.

    Xu Yi¡¯s goal was that by the first half of next year, he would let every household on his territory have ess to clean water.

    ¡°Is there anything else other than the water problem? Do you have any other requests?¡±

    ¡°Other than the water problem, there¡¯s nothing that¡¯s urgent.¡±

    Elder Lisanya gave several other requests and they really weren¡¯t that important. She just wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make the lives of the Moon Shadow Tribe more convenient.

    For example, elder Lisanya hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would develop some new machines for the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer factory, that way they could increase the efficiency and their output.

    Or the Moon Shadow Tribe wanted to build a small town for elves outside the Moon Shadow Forest like the humans. She wanted Xu Yi to talk to Duke Stantine and Lord Wein, helping them gain their approval.

    Or for example, elder Lisanya hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would design a special Magic Sedan for her......

    ......

    Hearing this request from elder Lisanya, the way Xu Yi looked at her had changed.

    Compared to a normal elf, this elder Lisanya was like an astute human merchant. She definitely didn¡¯t have the so-called pride of the elves and only acted for her benefits.

    When cooperating with the Moon Shadow Tribe, Xu Yi didn¡¯t see this clearly, but now he had a deep impression of this.

    Because after Xu Yi agreed to all her requests, elder Lisanya looked very satisfied. After deciding on thesepensations, she nodded with a smile.

    ¡°Very good, chairman Xu really is the best friend of us elves. As a noble elf, I have to respond to your generosity. Chairman Xu, I can provide a new design for this n that can save you at least five hundred thousand gold coins and arge amount of time, are you interested?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    It can¡¯t be, right? What method would save five hundred thousand gold coins? And save arge amount of time?

    This was basically a fantasy!

    But thinking of the mysteries of the elves, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became serious. He sat up and looked at elder Lisanya.

    ¡°Please tell me.¡±

 Volume 4 97 - Concern revealed

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 97 Concern revealed</h4>

    Watching elder Lisanya¡¯s fire red Magic Sedan drive off, like a ball of fire flying away, disappearing across the horizon, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    Talking to elder Lisanya felt like talking to a human merchant for him, it waspletely different from the rxed feeling of talking to elder Illusia. Rather he was a bit nervous and it made him focus, properly handling it.

    But this method was easier for him to adapt since he spent more time with human merchants.

    Moreover, if both sides clearly stated their benefits, it was easier for them to have a cooperation, as long as they both received what they needed.

    Although elder Lisanya had given quite a few requests, it wasn¡¯t hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But the solution that she gave in the end made Xu Yi feel like it was unbelievable.

    This method was even more crude than the method Xu Yi gave the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi¡¯s method was creating a hill that they couldy a road on, which was already exaggerated enough. However, elder Lisanya¡¯s n was even more exaggerated.

    Because she wanted to use nts to rece the hill!

    Xu Yi naturally had great doubts about this matter because nts in his mind were always fragile, how could it rece a hill in taking arge amount of weight?

    Not to mention that the highest part of this had to reach the cliffs of fifty meters, what kind of nt could grow to such an exaggerated height?

    But elder Lisanya had promised him that the elves had a way to solve this problem because when the elves ruled the continent, the biggest city of the elves, the Moonlight City Darnasus was ced atop a giant tree. The weight that it bore was countless times greater than that of a road.

    Although the elves had declined and this World Tree no longer existed, the elves still had ways to grow special nts.

    With the characteristics of these nts, they could rece the hill in bearing this load.

    Xu Yi was very doubtful.

    In his opinion, ignoring everything else, just the stability of nts couldn¡¯t rece that of a hill.

    Even if they could build this road, if the nts that were used as support were to change or wither, that could destroy the entire road.

    As a mechanical engineer, Xu Yi could not approve of this n.

    Elder Lisanya didn¡¯t insist on Xu Yi approving of it, rather she had Xu Yi think about it before leaving.

    ¡°If there was the legendary Goddess of Life that descended, perhaps I could believe in this kind of exaggerated road.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and turned away from the Magic Sedan driving off before looking surprised, ¡°When did you get here?¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve been here a while, but seeing that you were talking to elder Lisanya, I didn¡¯t disturb you.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s face that was clearly thinner, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    After Seveni brought her personal guards with her, Xu Yi arranged a corner in his territory for her to stay. Normally she rarely came out, she only came to see Xu Yi and talk to Still from time to time. Other times she would sit at home painting, bing a stay at home girl.

    This waspletely different from Seveni¡¯s bright and gentle appearance from before, but whether it was Xu Yi or Still patiently urging her, they couldn¡¯t change her actions at all.

    ording to what Still said, she felt a kind of ¡°dying hope¡± from Seveni.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what she encountered to be like this and he couldn¡¯t think of a way tofort her. He could only watch as Seveni became thinner with each day and her face turned from the healthy red glow to its current paleness.

    In order to find the truth, Xu Yi had used some of his connections left in the Lampuri Kingdom to investigate, but he couldn¡¯t find anything.

    But based on news from Leslie, he knew that King Eric didn¡¯t make any remarks about Seveni taking her private guards to leave the Lampuri Kingdom. There was no sound in the kingdom on this matter, it was like her highness Seveni no longer belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This matter was clearly strange, but Seveni wouldn¡¯t say a thing, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t know the truth.

    Xu Yi thought about it and found that he didn¡¯t have a way to ask Seveni about what happened, so he could only ask with a smile, ¡°Did you need me for something?¡±

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I just felt bored staying in my room and wanted toe out for a walk.¡±

    ¡°Un, you should walk more.¡± Xu Yi immediately said, ¡°If you stay at home any longer, you might be a NEET.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°What is a NEET?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°A girl who won¡¯te out even if she was beaten to death, that¡¯s what a NEET is.¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°It doesn¡¯t sound good, but it¡¯s quite interesting.¡±

    Seeing Seveni finally revealing a happy smile, Xu Yi gave a sigh of relief in his heart. He looked at the sea in the distance and pointed behind the manor, ¡°Since you¡¯re here, how about we sit and have a chat?¡±

    Seveni didn¡¯t reject him and followed Xu Yi to the back. They came to a special tform on the cliff that Xu Yi made when he built this manor.

    This tform was above the cliff and the sea was below them. Looking down from the tform, they could see the endless sea.

    It was the afternoon right now and the sun was getting close to the horizon. Looking at it, there was a bright white light reflected on the sea. It was like the entire sea was a beautiful white scale, which looked very gorgeous.

    Xu Yi sat in his special made seat and leaned back before letting out a sigh offort.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, Seveni couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile. She learned from Xu Yi as she sat in another chair and looked at the distant horizon before nodding, ¡°Un, watching the sea from here really isfortable. Xu Yi, I never thought that you would be a person who would know how to enjoy himself.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course. I¡¯m normally tired all the time, if I didn¡¯t learn how to rx and take good care of myself, wouldn¡¯t I be suffering?¡±

    Looking over at Seveni, Xu Yi continued, ¡°Seveni, staying inside all day isn¡¯t a good thing. You should learn from me and do something. No matter what it is, you should let your mind and body get tired, that way you won¡¯t think of all those things. When you¡¯re tire, you can rest and rx and you will find that you as a person will feel much better.¡±

    Seveni was silent for a bit before she slowly said, ¡°You¡¯re worried about me?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, he never thought that Seveni would ask so directly.

    Looking over Seveni¡¯s calm expression, Xu Yi gave a serious nod.

    ¡°Yes, I am indeed very worried about you. I don¡¯t know what happened to you to make you like this, but as a friend, I am very worried about you right now. I liked the sunny appearance you had before, the Seveni that was always optimistic and had a kind smile. Not like now......this Seveni that is spiritless and doesn¡¯t have any energy at all.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s lips curled into a bitter smile and she shook her head, ¡°Not just you, I also don¡¯t like my appearance right now, but I can¡¯t think of a way to solve this problem, so I can only escape. But if I keep escaping, it puts me into even more pain, so I really don¡¯t know what to do......¡±

    Seeing the vacant look on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi felt pain in his heart.

    Seveni had a rather strong personality, but this matter made a strong person like her be helpless, so it could be seen how serious this matter was.

    But what Xu Yi found the most strange was that for the princess of the Lampuri Kingdom, what matter could make her feel this pain and this helplessness?

    If it was because she wanted the throne, but she couldn¡¯t be the king, being in pain could be understood. However, Xu Yi was very clear that Seveni wasn¡¯t this kind of person.

    If she really wanted the throne, when Lampuri Thirteenth passed, she had a great chance to summon the nobles that supported her and fought for the throne with Eric. There was even a great chance that she would have won.

    But she chose to withstand the anger of those nobles and gave up on the throne. She handed the throne to Eric so easily, which meant that she didn¡¯t care that much about the throne.

    Since it was like this, why did she feel this pain?

    ¡°Seveni, do you believe me?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking Seveni this with a serious look.

    Seveni turned to see Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression and suddenly took a deep breath before turning to look back, ¡°Are there other people here?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, but then his heart filled with joy.

    Seveni was clearly nning on opening her heart and revealing her secrets.

    He stood up to look behind him and after confirming there was no one else, he sat back down and nodded to Seveni, ¡°No problem.¡±

    ¡°Alright then.¡± Seveni closed her eyes and after being silent for a bit, it seemed like she made her decision. She opened her eyes and took a deep breath as she looked at Xu Yi with a serious expression and calm eyes, ¡°Xu Yi, perhaps you are my only friend. I couldn¡¯t tell anyone else about this and kept it in my heart, but I can¡¯t take the pain anymore, so I want to tell you to lessen this pain, do you understand me?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi gave a strong nod, ¡°Listening to the pains of a friend is the responsibility of a friend.¡±

    ¡°But the thing I want to tell you won¡¯t have any benefits to you after you hear it, do you still want to listen?¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Your highness, aren¡¯t you looking down on me too much?¡±

    ¡°You still have the same problem. When you¡¯re dissatisfied with me, you¡¯ll talk to me formally.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile before falling into thought again. Her expression kept changing, but finally it became calm as she looked at Xu Yi again, ¡°Alright then, Xu Yi, I¡¯ll ask you a question, please answer me honestly.¡±

    Xu Yi slowly nodded, ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, if your big brother were to kill your father, what would you do?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as his expression fell.

 Volume 4 98 - Stay for a lifetime

    <strong>Volume 4 Chapter 98 Stay for a lifetime</strong>

    The two silently looked at each other for a bit before Xu Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and hesitantly asked, ¡°Could it be.....His majesty Lampuri Thirteenth was......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to guess, yes.¡± Seveni gave a nod.

    Even if he had already guessed it, hearing Seveni confirm it now, Xu Yi was shocked and speechless for a while.

    Looking at Seveni¡¯s bitter expression, he finally understood why Seveni suddenly became like this, why she suddenly became so lonely and helpless.

    Based on this, Seveni was actually very strong.

    Because if someone else encountered something like this, they would have copsed already.

    ¡°This......When did you find out?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t learn about it that long ago.¡± Seveni gave a sigh, ¡°Even if I already knew, what could I have done?¡±

    Xu Yi had nothing to say.

    After a while, Xu Yi tentatively asked, ¡°You.....don¡¯t want to take revenge for Lampuri Thirteenth?¡±

    ¡°Of course I did.¡± Seveni said with a bitter smile, ¡°But Eric is the king of the Lampuri Kingdom now, even if I want to take revenge for royal father, it would create civil strife in the kingdom. Royal father treasured the kingdom the most and I know him, he definitely wouldn¡¯t want me to make the kingdom fall into turmoil just to take revenge for him. Xu Yi, what do you think I should do?¡±

    Xu Yi was once again speechless.

    Even if Seveni was from a normal family, it would be hard to make a choice in this situation. Not to mention that she came from the royal family, every action that she took would affect the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This choice was even more difficult for Seveni.

    Xu Yi thought about it and finally he could only give a bitterugh.

    ¡°Seveni, I finally understand why you suddenly wanted to escape. Encountering something like this, if it was me, I would also want to escape......¡±

    Seveni turned to look in the direction of the Lampuri Kingdom and said with a sigh, ¡°If Eric took the right path for the Lampuri Kingdom and could make it stronger, I wouldn¡¯t feel unwilling about choosing to escape, but the current Lampuri Kingdom.....¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s tightly knit brows, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    Seveni chose to give the throne to Eric back then, but now she chose to flee in this situation. She turned her back on her conscience by not taking revenge for Lampuri Thirteenth, it was nothing more than for the stability and honour of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But Seveni never would have thought that after Eric became king for only a year, the Lampuri Kingdom would be this bad and there were even rebels that had appeared.

    In Seveni¡¯s mind, was there a bit of regret?

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t ask this question.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yiforted her, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry too much. Although the kingdom isn¡¯t stable, everything is heading in a good direction. ording to the various information, King Eric is trying to break away from Duke Stagg and gain the authority of a king. Moreover, it can be seen that he is seriously considering the Lampuri Kingdom. Look, he even reduced some of the restrictions on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, letting our products freely move through the Lampuri Kingdom. I think.....as long as he keeps acting this way, the Lampuri Kingdom will be stronger.¡±

    Seveni was silent for a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°I hope that it will be like this. If he can make the kingdom prosperous and strong, although I will never forgive him, I will be happy for the kingdom.¡±

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t support Seveni¡¯s thoughts, he could understand them.

    Coming from the royal family, she had to be responsible for the kingdom, so naturally the choices she made were different from normal people¡¯s.

    In terms of her emotions, of course it was impossible for Seveni to forgive Eric, but for the benefit of the Lampuri Kingdom, she could only concede.

    Seveni turned to look at the horizon and after staring for a while, she suddenly asked, ¡°Xu Yi, tell me......On the other side of the sea, is there really another continent?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°From logical deduction, this world shouldn¡¯t only have our Sines Continent. When ourpany develops the open sea Magic Boats, I will organize a fleet and explore this world¡¯s unknown continent. Seveni, are you interested in going together?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes finally revealed a bit of emotion as she said with a nod, ¡°Un, I¡¯m very interested. I don¡¯t have any good feelings about the Sines Continent, exploiting a new continent is a very suitable matter for me.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh his heart, but he still maintained his smile, ¡°Exploring the new continent might my thrilling, but it isn¡¯t as fun as you would imagine, so you should prepare yourself when the timees.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still several years before you can create the fleet, right? With such a long time, I can properly prepare my heart.¡± Seveni revealed a smile and turned back to the direction of the Lampuri Kingdom, ¡°This is also good, I can see if Eric will be a proper king in these few years.¡±

    ¡°What if he can¡¯t.¡±

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t ask this question.

    Seveni stared in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s direction for a while before closing her eyes and taking several deep breaths. When she opened her eyes again, her expression had returned to normal.

    ¡°Xu Yi, thank you for listening to me vent. I¡¯ve suppressed this matter in my heart for several months and if I couldn¡¯t find someone to vent to, I would have definitely gone insane. Now that I¡¯ve poured my heart out to you, I feel much better.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to be polite, we are friends, this is what I should do. But.....Seveni, you told me such an important secret, you¡¯re not afraid I would tell anyone else?¡±

    ¡°I believe you, you won¡¯t do that.¡± Seveni shook her head with a smile, ¡°Not to mention that even if you did, no one would believe, right?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before revealing a smile.

    Indeed, he was only the chairman of apany. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been chased out of the Lampuri Kingdom, so he had no right to speak there.

    Even if he did, with such a serious matter, how could people believe it just because of his words?

    Of course, it was impossible for Xu Yi to reveal this matter.

    This was an important secret between him and Seveni.

    Seveni chose no one else and chose to give him this important secret, it proved that he was very trusted in Seveni¡¯s heart.

    The two silently looked at each other for a bit before Seveni stood up with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, I finally said that secret that I¡¯ve kept for many months now, I feel much better now. Xu Yi, ording to your n, I might stay here to bother you for another three to five years, won¡¯t you get sick of me?¡±

    Xu Yi stood up with augh and stretched his arms out in a weing manner, ¡°I wee you to stay very much. You can stay however long you want, you can even stay here forever.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s face turned red as she looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You really want to keep me here my entire life?¡±

    ¡°Of......¡± When Xu Yi said this, he suddenly saw Seveni¡¯s strange expression and understood.

    His words were a bit ambiguous.

    Xu Yi awkwardly rubbed his nose and after thinking about it, he said with a serious look, ¡°Seveni, you should know that I¡¯ve never treated you as the princess and have always treated you as my friend. Since you are a friend, helping you is what I should do. You don¡¯t need to worry and just treat my territory as your home.¡±

    ¡°Home?¡± A bitter look appeared on Seveni¡¯s face, ¡°After royal father died, my home has already disappeared.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart, but he said with a smile, ¡°Then treat this ce as your new home.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile before waving her hand at him, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll leave it here today. Xu Yi, I¡¯ve already revealed the biggest secret in my heart to you, so I might keeping here to reveal small secrets from now on, you should prepare yourself.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Being able to joke with him, it meant that Seveni finally unlocked the knot in her heart.

    Although she might never be able to untie this knot, with her strength and with the passing of time, she could walk out bit by bit.

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Come anytime.¡±

    Seveni waved her hand at Xu Yi with a smile before turning to leave.

    Xu Yi thought about it, but he didn¡¯t stop her.

    Seveni had revealed her heart to him today, it had taken courage.

    She looked very peaceful now, but her heart must be filled with waves.

    At this time, it was better for her to be alone for a bit.

    Xu Yi watched Seveni. When she was about to walk out the back, he suddenly heard noisee from the front like several people charging in.

    Hearing the shocked cry of Liz in the front yard, Xu Yi knit his brows and came out together with Seveni who was equally shocked.

    Before they reached the gate, there was a figure that charged in from outside. The two looked at this person and found that it was the cavalrymander under Seveni, Merlock.

    Seeing the terrified expression on Merlock¡¯s face, the two were more stunned.

    What had happened for him to react like this?

    Merlock saw Seveni and fell down. Before the two could speak, he said while panting, ¡°His.....His majesty.....His majesty, he.....He......Copsed!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Seveni and Xu Yi were instantly stunned.

 Volume 4 99 - The situation wasnâ€™t calm

    Volume 4 Chapter 99 The situation wasn¡¯t calm

    ¡°Tell me.....What will her highness do on her trip back this time?¡± Watching Seveni¡¯s private guards leave Xu Yi¡¯s territory and heading quickly towards the Lampuri Kingdom, Still couldn¡¯t help asking this to Xu Yi beside her.

    ¡°How would I know?¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°But if nothing unexpected happens, the Lampuri Kingdom should fall into turmoil like Seveni was worried about. Moreover, this time.....she can¡¯t escape at all.¡±

    A week ago, the news of King Eric passing had shocked everyone when it came.

    King Eric was only thirty three this year, he was in the prime of his life, so how could he suddenly pass?

    And from the information from the Lampuri Kingdom, he had died because he had overworked himself.

    This cause of death really was unthinkable.

    Although King Eric had slowly been handling matters during the past few months and had worked very hard, he had always been healthy. For him to die because he worked himself to death, that was too unbelievable.

    The day after the news came, Seveni went back to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if Eric had killed Lampuri Thirteenth and Seveni no longer felt any kinship towards him, he was still Seveni¡¯s big brother. Moreover, since he was the king of the Lampuri Kingdom, if he suddenly died, Seveni naturally had to go back to his funeral.

    The more important thing was that Seveni doubted Eric¡¯s cause of death.

    Lampuri Thirteenth had already died an unnatural death, so Eric being killed wouldn¡¯t be that unbelievable.

    This could be seen by Seveni ordering five thousand sets of individual military magic machines for her private guards before leaving.

    It was clear that Seveni was nning for the worst case scenario.

    It was different than when she faced Eric, she chose to escape before to keep the Lampuri Kingdom stable.

    Now that Eric had suddenly died, she had lost her reason to escape and could only face it head on.

    Thinking of the serious and determined look Seveni had before leaving, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    The Lampuri Kingdom really was filled with disasters.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth was on the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom had been developing quickly and was prosperous from supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But when Lampuri Thirteenth died, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom and the situation in the kingdom quickly changed.

    Eric, who had taken the throne, had finally put down his prejudice with great difficulty and was beginning to adopt some policies that weed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce back. Xu Yi could already see the light of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce re-entering the developed market of the Lampuri Kingdom, but he never thought that Eric would suddenly die.

    The day after the news of Eric dying came, there came the news that Eric¡¯s eldest son Prince William would take the throne and he would take Duke Stagg as his regent.

    Prince William was only five years old, so of course he couldn¡¯t handle the matters of the kingdom. It was clear that the power in the Lampuri Kingdom had fallen into Duke Stagg¡¯s hands.

    Seveni had no opinion of Prince William taking the throne, but she definitely couldn¡¯t ept the thought of the Lampuri Kingdom falling into Duke Stagg¡¯s hands.

    Although Eric was the main instigator of Lampuri Thirteenth¡¯s death, through the information she had obtained, Duke Stagg was the biggest aplice and he had personally carried out this n.

    Seveni could tolerate Eric out of consideration of the Lampuri Kingdom, but she definitely couldn¡¯t tolerate Duke Stagg, the enemy who had killed her father controlling the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Before Seveni left, she had already made her decision.

    Xu Yi could expect that when Seveni returned to the Lampuri Kingdom, there would be a great storm in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Lampuri Kingdom would fall under a great wave and even fall into civil strife.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much about the changes of the Lampuri Kingdom, but he cared about Seveni.

    Seveni had enough conscience in her heart and she had made her decision.

    But the situation she would be facing would be very dangerous.

    Because she gave up fighting for the throne and to make Eric¡¯s rule more stable, Seveni¡¯s current foundations in the Lampuri Kingdom weren¡¯t as stable as before.

    Rather, the Stagg Family was already the strongest family after the royal family and adding in the power that Duke Stagg had gained in his year of controlling the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stagg Family¡¯s power had increased.

    In Seveni¡¯s trip to the Lampuri Kingdom this time, if nothing unexpected happened, she would definitely sh with the Stagg Family and the conservative faction that the Stagg Family represented.

    Those conservative nobles had vested interests in the Lampuri Kingdom, so they wouldn¡¯t give them up.

    If Seveni wanted to take back control of the Lampuri Kingdom from them, it could be imagined how hard it was.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, it was clearly impossible for them to interfere in the Lampuri Kingdom, but Xu Yi still wanted to help Seveni as much as possible.

    For the five thousand personal guards Seveni brought, Xu Yi had prepared for them one set of individual military magic machine, while also providing a hundred Magic Bazookas, twenty medium Magic Trebuchets, twenty Magic Armoured Cars, and even a hundred of the new experimental Magic Communicators.

    With this equipment, thebat strength of Seveni¡¯s personal guards had greatly increased.

    Moreover, Seveni¡¯s guards weren¡¯t idle during their months here. In these months, they had been training with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards frequently and they had already had some training on how to use the military magic machines.

    This was enough to guarantee that they would be able to use the full might of the military magic machines in battle, their battle strength wouldn¡¯t be normal.

    But Xu Yi could only help Seveni with this, he couldn¡¯t do anything else to help her.

    Because.....The situation in the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t very peaceful.

    After beating Count Fran, Lord Wein¡¯s territory had increased. His army had increased from less than ten thousand before to over twenty thousand soldiers.

    After beating Count Fran, Lord Wein gave some more territory to Xu Yi to orderrge amounts of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before he continued attacking the surrounding lords.

    Now that Lord Wein had arger army and he had more military magic machines, as well, as thebat experience from fighting Count Fran, his army was much stronger than that of the other Stantine Duchy lords. Once they began fighting, they swept through everything.

    The other Stantine Duchy lords were afraid and rmed by Lord Wein¡¯s might.

    Everyone knew that Lord Wein was this powerful mainly because of the military magic machines that he received from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    During this time, almost all the lords in the Stantine Duchy began ordering military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    They were the same as Lord Wein, they couldn¡¯t pay with gold coins.

    These lords wanted to learn from Lord Wein and pay with territory, but Xu Yi firmly rejected them all.

    The territory of those lords weren¡¯t connected to Xu Yi¡¯s at all. Even if he obtained these territories, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t send people to manage them.

    Instead of getting some far away territory, it was better to get some real benefits.

    Xu Yi¡¯s goal were various real resources.

    Although the lords of the Stantine Duchy were very poor, some of them not even being able to take out ten thousand gold coins, thend they owned was very rich. Even a small lord might have a few mines and other resources under them.

    ording to the various contracts the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed, in these months,rge amounts of resources were transported to Xu Yi¡¯s territory from all over the Stantine Duchy, entering the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    A part of this was used to make the military magic machines and were sold to the lords. Another part was turned into various other magic machines and other than the part sold in the Lampuri Kingdom, there was arge part sent to the Rudson Kingdom and the Mirando Duchy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned arge amount from this.

    Because the lords urgently needed the military magic machines, although the prices of the military magic machines weren¡¯t increased, the prices of the resources they sent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was lowered.

    In the final calction, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned arge profit from selling military magic machines to these lords.

    There was no need to mention using those resources to make magic machines and selling them.

    These magic machines were equal to having no material costs at all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needed to pay thebour costs, so the profits could be imagined.

    ording to the stats fromst month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used only a single month to earn profits as high as three million gold coins!

    And before this, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits had dropped from close to a million to a trivial three to four hundred thousand gold coins because they were forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom market.

    For it to suddenly increase by ten times, even Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Earning money from war really was the fastest way to make money.

 Volume 4 100 - Drake Duchyâ€™s stance

    Volume 4 Chapter 100 Drake Duchy¡¯s stance

    When the first big snowfall came, it took only a single morning topletely turn Sowell City white.

    Count Sean watched the snow falling outside and he had a serious expression.

    Her highness Seveni had already been back in the Lampuri Kingdom for a month.

    It was very normal at first.

    After her highness Seveni returned to Anvilmar City, she calmly participated in the funeral of King Eric, but she didn¡¯t reveal any information about herself from beginning to end.

    Everyone had thought that since her highness Seveni had given the throne to King Eric back then, she would keep supporting King Eric¡¯s son Prince William in taking the throne.

    But her highness Seveni didn¡¯t reveal anything to everyone¡¯s surprise, she even answered each question vaguely.

    Count Sean felt a bit wary at this time.

    This time, perhaps her highness Seveni would make a choice that would surprise everyone.

    As expected, half a monthter, after her highness Seveni attended King Eric¡¯s funeral and led her private guards back to her territory, she suddenly announced that King Eric¡¯s death was not normal and he was poisoned to death!

    This news shocked the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    When her highness Seveni announced this news, she had pointed that spearhead at Duke Stagg!

    Her highness Seveni dered that she already had enough evidence that Duke Eric had incited others to poison King Eric. With her identity as the princess and the status of the first sessor to the throne, she announced that Duke Stagg had vited the greatest crime of treason by poisoning the king!

    The Lampuri Kingdom exploded after that.

    The Stagg Family had controlled the kingdom for two years now and Duke Stagg had great power. For her highness Seveni to indict him like this, it was clear that she could no longer co-exist with the Stagg Family.

    Duke Stagg firmly denied these usations, saying that her highness Seveni clearly wanted to take the throne after King Eric passed, so she made these usations. She wanted to deny King William¡¯s rightful inheritance to the throne and take the throne for herself.

    There were many people who supported this rebuttal since her highness Seveni¡¯s timing was just too coincidental, people had to doubt it.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had fallen into sides that supported her highness Seveni and Duke Stagg, causing chaos in the kingdom.

    To Count Sean, he knew that words don¡¯t matter in this battle. He was also very clear that the final oue would be the strength on both sides.

    Count Sean¡¯s greatest allegiance was to the benefits of the Lampuri Kingdom. ording to his original intentions, it was best that the kingdom was peaceful and stable, so although he was disappointed when he heard that her highness Seveni was giving the throne to Eric, he was quite happy in his heart.

    But now Seveni had announced this shocking news and she wanted to take the throne, but this was the most dangerous time for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    However, Count Sean didn¡¯t have any means to doubt Seveni since based on the information he received from his secret channels, King Eric had indeed died a questionable death.

    Although it wasn¡¯t strange that Eric set Prince William as his sessor, it was very strange that he had set Duke Stagg as the regent.

    Not only Count Sean, there were many nobles in the kingdom that knew that while King Eric relied on Duke Stagg initially and could have been considered to have followed Duke Stagg, since the first half of the year, King Eric had many differences in opinions with Duke Stagg. He even contradicted Duke Stagg andpletely opposed Duke Stagg¡¯s suggestions.

    In this situation, how could he assign Duke Stagg as regent and control the country?

    No matter how one looked at it, Count Sean had to agree with her highness Seveni¡¯s usations.

    That¡¯s right, it must be Duke Stagg seeing that King Eric wanted to take away his control, so he poisoned King Eric. Then he put Prince William who was only a child on the throne while his true intentions were to take over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Count Sean suddenly felt a bit of regret.

    If he and the other nobles that supported her highness Seveni had pushed her more, even forcing her to struggle for the throne of his highness Eric, then if her highness Seveni could take the throne, what would the Lampuri Kingdom look like now?

    Moreover, if her highness Seveni took the throne, she definitely would have supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. How could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have been forced out and the magic machine industry that was bringing prosperity to the kingdom have been taken over by those fellows led by the Stagg Family, causing no improvement at all.

    In the current Lampuri Kingdom, there was only Sowell City that had a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s industries.

    This was forcefully kept by Count Sean.

    Although Duke Stagg had raised this question repeatedly, trying to seize these industries, Count Sean had firmly stopped him.

    The most decisive role in this was the third army that Lampuri Thirteenth had sent to Sowell City that had to obey Count Sean¡¯s orders before his death.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, Princess Caroline is here.¡± An officer of the City Lord Manor reported.

    Count Sean turned and nodded, ¡°Have here in.¡±

    After a while, Princess Caroline who was wearing a white fur coat who was like a white flower blooming came in.

    ¡°City Lord Sean, it¡¯s been half a month since west met, how has it been recently?¡± Princess Caroline said with a faint smile.

    Count Sean shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s as you can see, it isn¡¯t good.¡±

    Princes Caroline was clearly a bit surprised by this answer. After a while, she looked over Count Sean before looking out the window with a smile, ¡°The snow is already falling, there¡¯s no need to worry that the Sack Kingdom will attack during this time.¡±

    ¡°Snow won¡¯t stop them.¡± Count Sean shook his head, ¡°If there¡¯s a need, our Sowell City¡¯s forces and the third army has the ability to fight during the snow. But I¡¯m not worried about this, even if the Sack Kingdom wanted to attack, they wouldn¡¯t choose this time.¡±

    ¡°Yes, they would definitely choose when your Lampuri Kingdom is at its weakest.¡± Princess Caroline nodded, ¡°And if nothing unexpected happens, next year should be a very good chance.¡±

    Count Sean gave a bitterugh, ¡°If your highness can see this, there is no reason why the Sack Kingdom can¡¯t. Yes, our Lampuri Kingdom is at a very dangerous time, even the slightest misstep will destroy our country with hundreds of years of history.¡±

    Princess Caroline slowly shook her head, ¡°No, Lord Count, I don¡¯t think so.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Count Sean looked at Princess Caroline in surprise.

    ¡°Lord Count, your worry about the fate of the Lampuri Kingdom should be about the kingdom falling into a civil war and then being attacked by the Sack Kingdom, right?¡±

    Count Sean slightly knit his brows and nodded.

    ¡°Then Lord Count, have you ever thought that if the civil war was very short and her highness Seveni could quickly stabilize the kingdom, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t dare attack?¡±

    Count Sean was surprised, ¡°How could that be possible? Your highness, you don¡¯t understand that situation in our kingdom, her highness¡¯ prospects.....aren¡¯t good.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Princess Caroline¡¯s smile was like a flower, ¡°Lord Count, I think that you¡¯ve forgotten one important factor. Her highness Seveni has a very important supporter that no one canpare to.¡±

    ¡°Which supporter is that important?¡± Count Sean shook his head with knit brows, ¡°That is impossible.¡±

    ¡°No, of course this is possible because.....This support is Xu Yi and his Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Princess Caroline said with a faint smile.

    Count Sean knit his brows even deeper to think before shaking his head, ¡°You¡¯re overestimating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although I admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can be of great help to her highness, he is not strong enough to affect the situation of the entire kingdom.

    ¡°That is not certain.¡± Princess Caroline looked at Count Sean in thought before choosing to give up on this.

    Hering to Sowell City this time was mainly to discuss continued cooperation with Count Sean.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s industry in Sowell City, other than their products entering Sowell City and the surrounding cities, arge portion of them entered the Drake Duchy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines were very popr in the Drake Duchy. Through the Drake Duchy channels, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were also being sold to the two duchies near the Drake Duchy and were very wee in them as well.

    Princess Caroline came this time to discuss with Count Sean about moving a portion of the technical workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Sowell City to the Drake Duchy, building a new production base in the Drake Duchy.

    ¡°Lord Count, just like you are worried about, the Lampuri Kingdom can definitely fall to a civil war and during this civil war, the technical personnel of Sowell City and the entire Lampuri Kingdom should be protected, don¡¯t you agree with this?¡±

    ¡°Un, I agree with this very much, but......To send them to your Drake Duchy isn¡¯t the only choice, I have other ways to send them out of the Lampuri Kingdom and even send them back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi put their safety in my hands, I can¡¯t disappoint him.¡± Count Sean said with a serious look.

    ¡°But won¡¯t this let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gain more support for her highness Seveni?¡± Princess Caroline said with a smile.

    Count Sean was shocked before his eyes lit up, ¡°Your highness, you mean......¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a faint smile and reached her hand out to Count Sean, ¡°Lord Count, I represent the Drake Duchy to propose a cooperation to you. If you¡¯re willing to help our Drake Duchy build a new magic machine production base, our Drake Duchy will work with you as much as possible to give the greatest support to her highness Seveni.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Princess Caroline in surprise.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had such arge attraction in the Drake Duchy? It can even make them abandon their neutral stance and support one side?

    But it wasn¡¯t over yet.

    Princess Carolien continued, ¡°If you agree to transfer a portion of the military magic machine technology to our duchy, our Duchy will fully support her highness Seveni and will stand on the side of the Lampuri Kingdom in their conflict with the Sack Kingdom in the future. How about it? Lord Count, does this proposition move you?¡±

    Count Sean looked at Princess Caroline¡¯s smile that was like a flower blooming and his heart skipped a beat.

 Volume 4 101 - Steal people from the Lampuri Kingdom

    Volume 4 Chapter 101 Steal people from the Lampuri Kingdom

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes moved away from the letter in his hand with a bit of perfume on it to fall onto the face of the envoy.

    ¡°Please tell her highness for me that it is impossible to transfer the military magic machine technology, or at least it¡¯s impossible right now.¡±

    The envoy had a very disappointed look on his face.

    ¡°That really is a pity. Chairman Xu, the duke and her highness have promised that as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can transfer a portion of the military magic machine technology to us, our Drake Duchy would give her highness Seveni great support as per chairman Xu¡¯s request. Moreover, our Drake Duchy would also help your Frestech Chamber of Commerce open up new markets, as well as sell your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products to other countries. This is a very excellent condition, you just need to exchange some technology, so why does chairman Xu not agree?¡±

    ¡°The timing isn¡¯t right.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But her highness shouldn¡¯t be too disappointed. Although it¡¯s not possible to transfer the military magic machine technology to the Drake Duchy now, I can agree with her highness¡¯ proposal. We will shift our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technical personnel in Sowell City to the Drake Duchy and create a magic machine production base in the Drake Duchy.¡±

    The envoy¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Other than the military magic machines, ourpany will establish a series of magic machinepanies in the Drake Duchy. We will strive to create aplete production base in the Drake Duchy. Of course, this still requires the agreement of your country.¡±

    ¡°No problem! No problem!¡± The envoy kept nodding, ¡°The duke and her highness will definitely agree with chairman Xu¡¯s proposal.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    After sending off the Drake Duchy envoy, Kennard who had been listening on the side couldn¡¯t help saying to Xu Yi with a frown, ¡°Sir chairman, we have no way to influence the Drake Duchy right now. If we really build factories in the Drake Duchy, if the Drake Duchy wants to steal the technology, we can¡¯t stop them at all.¡±

    ¡°If they are this short sighted, then just let them do it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Using some technology that is about to be reced to see if they are worth cooperating with, I feel that this is quite worth it.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    The ¡°technology that would be reced¡± that Xu Yi mentioned were treasures in the eyes of countless people. There were people that wanted it even if they were beaten to the point of death.

    For example, the Sack Kingdom that always coveted the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom that was in deep cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and the lords of the Stantine Duchy.

    ¡°Right, speaking of the demand for the military magic machine technology, Lord Wein has been making the same proposal to us during this time. Sir chairman, how do you n on answering him?¡± Kennard asked.

    Xu Yi lips curled and he revealed a taunting smile.

    ¡°You really think that if I give the technology to him, he could really make a functional military magic machine factory?¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think so. Other than the technology, one requires a good system and technical personnel. Lord Wein doesn¡¯t even have a single skilled worker, so even if he has the technology, he might not even be able to produce the simplest Magic Repeating Crossbow.¡±

    After pausing, Kennard asked, ¡°Then that means, you are nning to transfer the technology to Lord Wein?¡±

    ¡°No, we must be impartial to our partners. Since we¡¯re not nning on transferring the technology to the Drake Duchy, then naturally we can¡¯t give it to Lord Wein.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Just tell Lord Wein that his territory is connected to ours, it¡¯s easy to buy from ourpany. We can promise him that we will give him priority.¡±

    Kennard knit hit brows, ¡°Sir chairman, you said that we need to treat our partners impartially, but now you¡¯re giving Lord Wein priority, this might not be good......Not to mention our other partners, even in the Stantine Duchy, you have always given priority to Count Anklo.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and wanted tough.

    ¡°I say, Kennard, you are from the Emma Family and have spent quite a bit of time with the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. You have been at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time, could it be that you don¡¯t know about a bit of secret preferential treatment?¡±

    Kennard could only roll his eyes again.

    Xu Yi was speaking so righteously earlier and was saying that they needed to treat everyone fairly, so he followed that mentality, but he never thought that Xu Yi would suddenly change his style.

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I understand what to do.¡± Kennard helplessly said, ¡°But sir chairman, I must also remind you, with ourpany¡¯s current production capacity, if we give priority to Count Anklo and Lord Wein, as well as meeting her highness Seveni¡¯s needs, we might not be able to supply the needs of the other lords and the Rudson Kingdom with our remaining supplies. I¡¯m afraid the others will be dissatisfied.¡±

    ¡°Dissatisfied?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°They can be dissatisfied if they want, they can not buy if they have the skills.¡±

    Kennardughed. Sir chairman normally seemed modest, but once he became unreasonable, he was more overbearing than anyone.

    But although Xu Yi¡¯s words were overbearing, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s problem of not having enough production capacity was there and couldn¡¯t be avoided.

    This problem had existed since the beginning of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had always been trying to find a way to solve it.

    But the magic machine industry growing from nothing wasn¡¯t easy. Whether it was developing the technology, building the production line, or even training the most basic workers, it all required arge amount of time.

    Although with Xu Yi¡¯s focus, the Frestech Chamber ofmerce had already created an initial perfect magic machine industrial system, whether it was developing technology or having the most basic workers, they were far from being enough to satisfy their needs.

    Not to mention that because of therge advertising of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the surrounding countries all had increasing demand for magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t keep up their supplies with this demand.

    This problem was very serious from the household magic machine side and the military magic machine gave them even more of a headache.

    The two discussed this issue for a bit before Kennard suggested, ¡°Sir chairman, how about we recruit some more people from the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t realistic.¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom is on guard against us, so we have no way of sending propaganda into the Lampuri Kingdom. Moreover, there aren¡¯t that many people who are willing to leave their homes toe work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°It¡¯s different from before.¡± Kennard shook his head, ¡°The situation in the kingdom is tense and Duke Stagg doesn¡¯t have the time or energy to care about us. And the normal citizens in the kingdom are already worried about the situation, so if they can leave the Lampuri Kingdom and find a safe andfortable job at ourpany, it would be of great attraction to many people.¡±

    ¡°Un.....This is a bit reasonable.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, we can consider recruiting some more workers from the Lampuri Kingdom. The most ideal situation is stealing all technical personnel from the tenpanies.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman, I think that our Emma Family can help with that.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise.

    Although Kennard came from the Emma Family, after being together for this long, he would rarely mention the matters of the Emma Family.

    For him to suddenly mention it, the Emma Family definitely took the initiative to have Kennard mention this.

    Other than deepening the Emma Family¡¯s rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the more important reason was because the Emma Family also supported her highness Seveni.

    Now that the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom was this tense, therge and small nobles, as well as the merchants had begun showing their stand.

    The Emma Family supported her highness Seveni before, but because her highness Seveni gave up on the throne, they couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Now that Seveni was publicly condemning Duke Stagg and raised doubts of Prince William¡¯s right of inheritance, showing her desire to take the throne, the people who supported Seveni before came out and supported her once again.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave a simple nod to Kennard, ¡°Good, I¡¯ll leave this matter to you.¡±

    Kennard revealed a smile. When he wanted to say something else, there were footsteps that came from the door.

    The two turned over in surprise and heard knocksing from the door.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    The door was opened and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s human guard leader Hart came in.

    After giving Xu Yi and Kennard a bow, Hart said in a deep voice, ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯ve caught some people who ran away from Lord Wein¡¯s territory. How should we take care of them?¡±

    Xu Yi and Kennard looked at each other in surprise.

    ¡°They secretly escaped Lord Wein¡¯s territory? Our territories are close, it¡¯s very normal for them toe to our territory, so why is it called secretly escaping? Why did you catch them? Just let them go back.¡± Kennard couldn¡¯t help asking.

    It¡¯s different.¡± Hart shook his head, ¡°These fellows weren¡¯t just visiting, they were nning on settling in our territory.¡±

    ¡°Settling?¡±

    Xu Yi and Kennard looked at each other and they could see the surprise in each other¡¯s eyes.

 Volume 4 102 - Buying people

    Volume 4 Chapter 102 Buying people

    Lord Wein had given the two hundred and forty thousand hectares ofnd to Xu Yi as his personal territory. He only gave him thend and didn¡¯t give him a single person.

    This meant that after Xu Yi obtained this territory, there were only the seventeen thousand workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who settled there.

    Although for the average poption density of the Sines Continent, having more than seventeen thousand people onnd that was less than fifteen square kilometers was considered good.

    But because most factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were crowded, a factory that took up a thousand square meters ofnd could already fit several hundred people.

    Adding in all the factories and living areas, they only used less than fifty thousand hectares.

    This made Xu Yi¡¯s territory seem very spacious and clear that there wasn¡¯t enough poption.

    But the more important issue was that because they couldn¡¯t gain more poption, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce found it hard to expand their production capacity.

    Although there were people from the Lampuri Kingdom that kepting and joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in just a year, there were only less than two thousand people who came here. For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had arge demand for people, this was far from being enough.

    Xu Yi had always had a headache about this problem, but the main reason for this problem was in terms of poption.

    He couldn¡¯t get enough human resources, so even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an abundance of funds, they couldn¡¯t increase their capacity.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working with the Rudson Kingdom and had invested in the Mirando Duchy in order to create production bases and increase their production capacity.

    But the Rudson Kingdom and the Mirando Duchy weren¡¯t areas controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although they had close rtionships with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no one who could guarantee that there wouldn¡¯t be changes with those countries.

    In order to solve the manpower problem, Xu Yi had recruited many Stantine Duchy locals to work in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But with the traditions of the Sines Continent, these locals were citizens of Lord Wein¡¯s territory, so they belonged to Lord Wein.

    For the people that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired, not only did they have to pay Lord Wein arge amount, they also couldn¡¯t manage them.

    This caused Xu Yi to be unwilling to train those people. Those people always did the simple work and he didn¡¯t let them get involved in any of the technical work.

    But like this, hiring those workers only brought minimal help to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had once proposed taking some citizens from Lord Wein¡¯s territory and joining his territory, but Lord Wein had decisively rejected him.

    There was a small poption on the Sines Continent to begin with. To the lords, the people were the most important resource on their territories, so naturally Lord Wein wouldn¡¯t agree to Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    But ording to the conventions of the Sines Continent, if the people of a noble¡¯s territory wanted to leave, they just had to pay a certain price and they could leave the lord¡¯s jurisdiction.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are you really nning on paying the moving expenses for them?¡± Sebas looked at the people who were gathered around the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest Magic Air Conditioner and he knit his brows.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    It was different from the look of disdain Sebas had when he looked at them. Xu Yi looked quite interested, like those people who were dressed in rags and looked no different from beggars were treasures.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Stanine Duchy manages this more strictly than our Lampuri Kingdom and Duke Stantine has clearly stipted that if we really want to do this, it would cost at least a hundred gold coins per person. Moreover, they are from Lord Wein¡¯s territory, so he will definitely request a higher price.¡± Sebas added.

    ¡°So what even if he wants two hundred gold coins?¡± Xu Yi turned to Sebas with a serious look and said, ¡°If Lord Weing is willing to give the hundreds of thousands of people on his territory to me, I can use all my money to buy them. The problem is that Lord Wein won¡¯t do this, so I¡¯ll buy as many as I can.¡±

    Sebas revealed a bitter smile, ¡°But sir chairman, ourpany currently has less than two million gold coins in funds, how can you buy so many people?¡±

    ¡°So I said that I¡¯ll buy as many as I can.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Not to mention that even if we give Lord Wein gold coins, he might not want them.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman is right.¡± Kennard who had just finished talking to those people came over and took over for Xu Yi, ¡°Instead of gold coins, what Lord Wein wants most right now is our military magica machines. I think that when sir chairman negotiated with him, he should have requested this.¡±

    Sebas brows knit even more.

    Although he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager who was mainly in charge of finances, not caring about production at all, he knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current production status. He knew what kind of situation the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was facing.

    ¡°But if we agree to Lord Wein¡¯s conditions, what will we do about the problem in supplying the other regions?¡±

    ¡°So in order to take care of this situation, we must find a way to solve the production capacity bottleneck of ourpany. To solve this problem, human resources are the most important thing. We definitely can¡¯t pass on this good chance.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°In terms of finances, Sebas, you can prepare the rted data. If Lord Wein really wants gold coins, you have to be able to meet his demands. As for the concrete production n, Kennard, I¡¯ll leave it to you.¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡± Kennard nodded, ¡°Actually, if it doesn¡¯t work, we can work with thepanies on the ck Rice Wastnd and have them make a portion of theponents.¡±

    After saying this, Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a questioning gaze.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made those military magic machines, theponents had all been monopolized by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They had never let any otherpanies interfere with this matter.

    Now Kennard was proposing that Xu Yi let those otherpanies get involved in the making of the military magic machines.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, but choose carefully. Give priority to the smallpanies that have worked with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time.¡±

    ¡°I will seriously consider this.¡± Kennard replied with a serious look.

    ¡°Good, we¡¯ll do that then.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Sebas who after some thought also gave a nod, ¡°Alright, sir chairman. I will prepare the capital for this matter. But sir chairman, the second phase of the Stru Road is about to begin, we must prepare at least five hundred thousand gold coins for that. If we count this in, ourpany doesn¡¯t have enough capital for this. If we need something else, we might be in trouble and we might not even be able to pay our workers.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I already contacted Newman and the Rudson Kingdom will order arge amount of household magic machines from ourpany in the next three months. We should be able to make enough capital from the profits of this order.¡±

    ¡°But this is still a bit dangerous......¡± Sebas muttered as he shook his head.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager, Sebas had always felt rxed.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products had high sales and high profits, so the financial situation had always been good, there hadn¡¯t been any problems before.

    But in the past year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial situation has been a bit tense.

    This was not to say that there was a crisis because other than the drop in sales from leaving the Lampuri Kingdom, dropping their profits a bit, they had high sales and high profits all other times.

    But in a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has spent too much money.

    Especially after they obtainednd from Lord Wein. Because Xu Yi had finally obtainednd that he could control, he began investingrge amounts into this piece ofnd.

    In this territory that was less than twenty five square kilometers, there were actually thirteen roads running all over, connecting every single piece ofnd that was being used.

    After obtaining this territory, Xu Yi had been building up the workers¡¯ living quarters.

    When one walked into the living quarters now, they would see all kinds of beautiful buildings.

    At the same time, Xu Yi had orderedrge amounts of daily living necessities from otherpanies, making living here veryfortable.

    Moreover, because Xu Yi had invited the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe to cultivate nts on their territory, the entire territory looked very vibrant and beautiful.

    Everyone who came to this territory would be shocked by the living conditions that greatly differed from other ces.

    Even her highness Seveni and her personal guards, after living here for four months, they had been very satisfied and a bit sad to leave.

    But to create these living conditions, it cost a lot of money.

    Since obtaining this territory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested a total of four million six hundred and eighty thousand gold coins on improving it.

    It could be said that most of the profit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made was used to improve this piece ofnd.

    And that was not all.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s n, there were still many parts of this territory that needed to be improved.

    For example, in Xu Yi¡¯s newest n, he wanted toy down a set of water systems on this territory.

    Toplete this system, not only would they need three hundred of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed Magic Water Pumps, they also needed arge amount of pipes.

    Then there was the most important green nt filtration that the Night Song Tribe provided, the expenses were low, but it cost a shocking amount toplete this system.

    ording to Sebas¡¯ calctions, toplete the water system that Xu Yi wanted, it would cost at least over eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    Because they spent a lot of money, when Xu Yi wanted to ¡°buy people¡± from Lord Wein, Sebas was the one toin.

    ¡°Rx.¡± Xu Yi understood Sebas¡¯ worries, but as the chairman, he had more things to considerpared to Sebas, ¡°This is for thepany to earn more profits, you as the financial manager will feel more confident in the future. As long as we keep this up, you will see the light soon. Moreover.....I have considered many things, but this is to let other people live better lives in the end, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, sir chairman is right.¡± Kennard said with a smile, ¡°Sebas, you know how these people answered when I asked them why they wanted to move to our territory?¡±

    Sebas and Xu Yi looked at Kennard with interested gazes.

    ¡°They told me that they wanted to move to our territory because life was morefortable here. But what I found funny was that what they considered the most important was the water system that you were just worried about. They said that being able to have the sweet taste of clean water without going out was a good day that even gods couldn¡¯t have.¡±

    Xu Yi broke out inughter when he heard this, but Sebas was silent. He looked at those people for a bit before giving a nod.

 Volume 4 103 - Start of the civil war

    Volume 4 Chapter 103 Start of the civil war

    Actually if Lord Wein wanted it, even if those people wanted to leave his territory, he had a hundred ways to stop them. He could definitely forcefully stop his citizens from leaving his territory.

    Because lords had absolute power in their territory, so unless those citizens escaped far away, they definitely couldn¡¯t go against his words, not to mention running to Xu Yi¡¯s territory right beside his.

    But when Xu Yi mentioned this matter to Lord Wein, Lord Wein¡¯s attitude was different from the rejection from before. He told Xu Yi that since his people wanted to leave, as long as they could pay thepensation for themselves, he wouldn¡¯t stop them.

    This was naturally disguised consent.

    So after negotiating a bit, Xu Yi on the behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reached an agreement with Lord Wein.

    ording to this agreement, Lord Wein would let five thousand people ¡°willingly¡± move to Xu Yi[¡®s territory.

    ording to the silent rules of the Sines Continent and the rules set by the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi as the lord of the territory they were moving to, he had to pay the moving expenses for these people to Lord Wein, which was a hundred and fifty gold coins per person.

    Other than payingpensation for those citizens to Lord Wein, Xu Yi had to pay another seven hundred thousand gold coins to Lord Wein.

    This agreement had a price of two million and two hundred thousand gold coins. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed using goods to pay which Lord Wein agreed to.

    In the final deal, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay Lord Wein five hundred thousand gold coins and the rest would be paid with some household magic machines, as well as four batches of military magic machines.

    Other than this, Lord Wein had also requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce help him fight three times.

    The final request was rted to the situation in the Stantine Duchy.

    After defeating Count Fran, Lord Wein had not digested all the resources on Count Fran¡¯s territory before he dered war on three lords near him, which he had won.

    In just a single month, he routed two lords and the remaining lord could only retreat without the ability to fight back.

    He believed that it wouldn¡¯t take long to defeat that final lord.

    This situation had attracted everyone¡¯s attention in the Stantine Duchy.

    If Lord Wein defeated these three lords and swallowed all their territory, the territory under Lord Wein would reach a shocking ten thousand square kilometers, making him the lord with thergest territory in the north of the Stantine Duchy.

    Even in the Stantine Duchy, other than Duke Stantine, he was one of the strongest lords.

    Moreover because the poption was more dense in the north than in the south, once Lord Wein took these three territories, he would have over five hundred thousand people under him. Next to Duke Stantine, he would be the one with the most people in his territory.

    With his current military strength, the overall strength of Lord Wein could already match Duke Stantine.

    This naturally caused the other lords of the Stantine Duchy to be wary.

    Lord Wein¡¯s strength suddenly increased and he had defeated four lords of the same strength as him, including Count Fran. He wouldn¡¯t stop after this, he would definitely aim his army at the other lords.

    He might even.....challenge Duke Stantine!

    In the Stantine Duchy which revered power, if Lord Wein could beat Duke Stantine, then Lord Wein might be the next Duke Stantine and control the most power in the Stantine Duchy.

    Suddenly the situation in the north of the Stantine Duchy became tense.

    ordingly, all kinds of orders for military magic machines came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The lords had been doubtful towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, but after seeing the power that Lord Wein gained from these military magic machines and proving this in battle, all the lords in the Stantine Duchy no longer felt doubt.

    Because the production capacity of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t enough, they couldn¡¯t satisfy all these needs at once, so many lords began raising the prices.

    These lords naturally didn¡¯t have gold coins to pay, so before this, most lords used resources to trade with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and most lords still used this method.

    In the past, a carriage of normal quality iron ores could be traded for ten Magic Repeating Crossbows or a Magic Bazooka, but now it costs three carriages or more of high grade iron ore for this.

    If one looked over the Stantine Duchy from above, they would find a strange scene.

    From all ces of the Stantine Duchy, there were horse carriages that were like ants that carried all kinds of ores to the northwest, centralizing around Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    After these various ores were delivered, those horse carriages would return to their original ces with military magic machines.

    If one watched for some time, they would find that on the way to and back, there would be many robberies.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only traded based on the resources they received, they weren¡¯t responsible for the transport.

    You want to buy things? Alright,e yourself.

    You want to take things away? Ok, you can do it yourselves still.

    If there was apany that dared to adopt this irresponsible approach on earth, they would be scolded to death by all the consumers.

    But in this ce, everyone felt it was natural and there was no one whoined at all.

    Every time Xu Yi saw therge amounts of ores being transported to his territory to exchange for a few military magic machines, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit guilty.

    Oh dear, we don¡¯t do free shipping.

    However when those motorcades that the lords sent received the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were all happy and didn¡¯tin at all.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving shipping? They never thought of it.

    Compared to the lords of the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi treated Sevenipletely differently.

    He supported Seveni with various military magic machines. Not only did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transport the military magic machines into the Lampuri Kingdom, they even allowed Seveni to owe them.

    It could be said that in the five years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce operated, Seveni was the first customer that was allowed to owe them and was given priority.

    It had to be known that every product of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was popr, there wasn¡¯t a shortage of demand.

    Before this, there were others who paid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in advance, hoping that they would give them a portion of their goods early. When has anyone ever owed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce money?

    But no one in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dared to raise an objection to Xu Yi¡¯s decision.

    Everyone understood that this was Xu Yi¡¯s investment in Seveni, which could be considered a bet.

    If Seveni seeded in taking over the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely receive a greater return from the Lampuri Kingdompared to their current investment.

    The only problem was, her highness Seveni.....would she seed?

    In the fall and winter of year 3784, in just three short months, Seveni had used iron like fact to prove everyone that Xu Yi had wise judgement, as well as the great power that came with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the beginning of October, her highness Seveni gave a speech on her territory, once again clearly condemning Duke Stagg as a traitor. She said that as the former king¡¯s blood rted little sister and her status as the princess, she would subjugate him.

    Three dayster, Duke Stagg stated that her highness Seveni¡¯s words were clearly nder and just wanted to deny Prince William¡¯s right to inherit the throne, taking the throne for herself. He sent out a decree on behalf of Prince William andbeled Seveni as a traitor.

    A weekter, both sides gathered their armies and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war officially began.

    In the beginning, everyone thought that her highness Seveni was fighting a hopeless battle.

    Because in the year that King Eric took the throne, the entire Lampuri Kingdom had almost fallen into the control of Duke Stagg.

    During this time, Duke Stagg had used various methods to suppress the voices of opposition to himself while greatly increasing the power of his family.

    Her highness Seveni had gone into hiding during this year, so not only were many nobles forced to change sides, she had even disbanded a part of her personal guards.

    The difference in power between both sides was like heaven and earth.

    However, when the civil war erupted, the facts were something that no one expected.

    First, after her highness Seveni gave her announcement, close to half the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom showed their support for her.

    Less than half supported King William and Duke Stagg and the rest of the cities remained neutral, so her highness Seveni had the stronger momentum.

    When Seveni¡¯s personal guards shed with the second army that Duke Stagg sent out, the results were shocking.

    The second army that was said to be only weaker than the first army couldn¡¯t actually fight back at all.

    The second army had fifteen thousand people and Seveni¡¯s guards only had three thousand people.

    Such an astonishing victory was unbelievable to everyone.

    How had Seveni¡¯s guards revealed such a shocking battle strength?

    Could it be because they were equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce military magic machines?

 Volume 4 104 - No longer having a foundation

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 104 No longer having a foundation</h4>

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war was something that confused everyone.

    In most people¡¯s estimates, once the civil war began, it would fall into a deadlock and would take a long time.

    To most people, Duke Stagg¡¯s side clearly had more power than her highness Seveni¡¯s side. Once the battle began, it was clear that Duke Stagg¡¯s side would have an advantage.

    But facts showed that since the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war began in mid October, it only took two months for her highness Seveni¡¯s personal guards to storm Anvilmar City.

    Although Duke Stagg reacted quickly and had fled Anvilmar City ahead of time with Prince William, returning to the Stagg Family¡¯s private territory and wanting to fight to the end with her highness Seveni, everyone could see that Duke Stagg couldn¡¯t fight back at all already.

    Because with her highness Seveni¡¯s fierce offense step by step, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s cities began supporting her highness one by one.

    When her highness Seveni reached Anvilmar City, with the support of the nobles that were loyal to the royal family led by Count Sean, over three fourths of the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom already showed support for her highness Seveni.

    In just two months, the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom had changed.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that it was winter and it wasn¡¯t convenient to send troops, everyone believed that her highness Seveni would have continued her attack on the Stagg Family¡¯s territory, taking care of all these forces at once.

    ¡°Although I already expected this, I never really thought this would be the result.¡± Leslie gave a bitterugh as he shook his head, ¡°I never would have thought that her highness Seveni with the support of yourpany would have such powerful strength. I witnessed a fight between them once and that scene.....Ze, ze, it couldn¡¯t be considered a fight at all, it was considered a one sided ughter.¡±

    ¡°So?¡± Xu Yi looked at Leslie feeling this was a bit funny, ¡°You saw that something was wrong and escaped to my ce early? I have to warn you, as a direct member of the Stagg Family, you might be charged with the crime of treason. If you stay here, I¡¯ll be charged with the crime of sheltering a traitor.¡±

    ¡°Che, are you afraid?¡± Leslie rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°You are the biggest supporter under her highness right now, even if you give shelter to a few traitors, I believe her highness wouldn¡¯t really do anything to you. Then again, I have already been expelled from the family by my lord father, I am no longer rted to the Stagg Family.¡±

    ¡°If they really wanted to catch you, do you really think you can avoid this rtionship?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop joking. You¡¯re nning on going to see this time? But our open sea Magic Boats are far from being finished, it wouldn¡¯t meet your request.¡±

    ¡°No, I came this time to buy a batch of military magic machines from you.¡± Leslie said.

    Xu Yi instantly knit his brows. After thinking about it, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Leslie, although we are friends, if you want me to support Duke Stagg, I can only apologize to you.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ve misunderstood.¡± Leslie slowly shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°Lord father¡¯s life has already been decided, I can¡¯t change it and I¡¯m not interested in changing it. Since he has chosen this path, he should bear the results. Right now, I just.....want to keep his life.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°This might.....not be possible, right? In this situation, you want to keep the Lord Duke¡¯s life after he is defeated?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t guarantee it, but as his son, I have to do my best.¡± Leslie gave a sigh. After hesitating a bit, he looked at Xu Yi with a bit of begging in his eyes as he sincerely said, ¡°Xu Yi, you are the closest to her highness Seveni and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the key reason for her victory. If you say something, I think that she has to at least give you some face......¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh in his heart.

    If it was anything else, he was 90% confident that as long as he said something, Seveni would agree.

    But Duke Stagg was charged with the important crime of treason and he had participated in poisoning Lampuri Thirteenth. It was also very likely that he had personally killed King Eric.

    This kind of great crime wasn¡¯t easily forgiven. Even if Seveni was benevolent, it was impossible for her to forgive him.

    However, Leslie had known him this long and it was his first time lowering himself like this. Even if Xu Yi knew in his heart that it was impossible, he still nodded and said he would do his best.

    ¡°Actually I know that I¡¯m expecting too much, but this is something I should do. As for the result......I¡¯ll just go with it.¡± Leslie gave a sigh. He closed his eyes to think for a bit before turning to say goodbye to Xu Yi.

    After sending Leslie off, Xu Yi came to another room and saw the envoy that Seveni had sent waiting there.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if I¡¯m not mistaken, the person who left just now was Viscount Leslie, right?¡± The envoy knit his brows to look at the door of the manor before asking Xu Yi, ¡°He is Duke Stagg¡¯s son, why didn¡¯t you catch him and send him to her highness? This is a big merit.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face turned cold, ¡°He has already broken off his rtionship with the Stagg Family. Moreover, he is my friend.¡±

    The envoy wanted to say something else, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, he gave a dryugh and didn¡¯t dare mention this again.

    If everyone said that Xu Yi and her highness Seveni were close because her highness Seveni cared about the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after the beginning of the civil war, everyone found that with the care that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi gave Seveni, she became very powerful, so he was worth it.

    Her highness Seveni¡¯s army could unleash this terrifying battle strength was mainly because of the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So as her highness Seveni led her army in a series of victories, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prestige in the Lampuri Kingdom quickly grew.

    It was different from everyone thinking that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only made those new and easy to use household magic machines. This time everyone¡¯s impression of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was focused on the military magic machines that had demonstrated their might on the battlefield.

    Because of this impression, Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman became dignified and even terrifying in the minds of the people.

    The envoy was the regr liaison Seveni sent to Xu Yi, so naturally he was clear on how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to her highness Seveni, as well as understanding that her highness Seveni treated Xu Yi differentlypared to others. He didn¡¯t dare show any power in front of Xu Yi at all.

    So he could only watch as Leslie entered a Magic Sedan and watch as that Magic Sedan with a fat piece of meat drove off, not daring to make a sound.

    Watching Leslie drive off in that Magic Sedan, Xu Yi then turned to the envoy.

    ¡°Her highness sent you? Is it because there¡¯s changes in the next steps of the n?¡±

    The envoy quickly nodded, ¡°Yes, her highness wanted toe discuss with you herself, but there were many important things to take care of in the kingdom and she couldn¡¯t leave, so she had me give you the general idea.¡±

    ¡°Un, she definitely can¡¯t leave now.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, her highness should be nning on having our Frestech Chamber of Commerce move back to the Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡±

    The envoy looked at Xu Yi in surprise before loudly praising, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are wise! That¡¯s right, her highness did n on this. Her highness said that she hopes the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can be the same as before, developing the kingdom and working for the prosperity of the Lampuri Kingdom. Her highness also said that she will definitely support all the ns of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the kingdom, she will not let you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receive any hindrance.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi smiled as he looked in the direction of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course he believed in Seveni¡¯s sincerity and also believed that Seveni would use all her power to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop in the Lampuri Kingdom again.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t against this, but there was a small difference now.

    This difference was that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in the Lampuri Kingdom, they had treated their foundation as in the Lampuri Kingdom. So their development n meant putting a stronger foundation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But now that they had left and started again in the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi¡¯s n had greatly changed.

    Although he still wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in the Lampuri Kingdom like Seveni wanted, greatly developing the magic machine industry there, he didn¡¯t want to take the Lampuri Kingdom as his foundation.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundation was currently in Xu Yi¡¯s private territory.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s heart, he treated the Lampuri Kingdom just like the Rudson Kingdom, the Mirando Duchy, the Drake Duchy, and the other countries, they were only markets for them.

    But because of his rtionship to Seveni, he would pay more attention to the Lampuri Kingdom. However, it was impossible for him to fully consider the development of the Lampuri Kingdom anymore.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had already lost the chance for him to work fully for them.

    Did Seveni know about this?

 Volume 4 105 - Her majesty

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 105 Her majesty</h4>

    In thest month of year 3874, there was a shocking transformation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    December 3rd, Duke Stagg announced that he would submit to her highness Seveni, acknowledging her right to session and would support her in bing the next queen.

    December 8th, her highness Seveni led her private guards to the Stagg Family¡¯s territory and epted Duke Stagg¡¯s surrender.

    December 9th, Duke Stagg was found poisoned to death in his bedroom.

    December 10th, her highness Seveni announced that while Duke Stagg¡¯s crimes couldn¡¯t be forgiven and the Stagg Family were traitors, in view of the Stagg Family¡¯s contribution since the founding of the nation, some of the Stagg Family¡¯s charges would be forgiven.

    Through a trial thatsted half a month, the kingdom¡¯s parliament announced that eleven leaders of the Stagg Family and other nobles that had worked with them would be charged with the crime of treason, so they would receive a death sentence.

    The kingdom parliament took back the territory of the Stagg Family and the nobles that rebelled, but unexpectedly, they didn¡¯t force those families to death. They returned thesends to some blood rtives to let them continue these families.

    The kingdom parliament even left some industries for these families. Even if they couldn¡¯t be as arrogant as before, they wouldn¡¯t have to worry about their finances and would live better lives than normal citizens.

    This fate was already very good for the families that had been charged with the crime of treason.

    So many peoplemended Seveni¡¯s benevolence in the Lampuri Kingdom. There were even newspapers that stated that Seveni was the most benevolent ruler of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Her majesty Seveni would definitely lead the Lampuri Kingdom to prosperity.

    Of course, there were people who disagreed with how Seveni had dealt with these traitors.

    Xu Yi was one of them.

    ¡°Although keeping the bloodlines of these nobles is a benevolent thing, doesn¡¯t this leave them a chance to take revenge in the future?¡± Xu Yi looked at the red invitation in his hand and knit his brows as he said to the envoy Seveni sent, ¡°Could it be that her majesty doesn¡¯t understand this?¡±

    The envoy said with a faint smile, ¡°Of course her majesty understands this, but her majesty is also considering the stability of the kingdom. That is why she epted these conditions.¡±

    ¡°I knew it was for this reason.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, indicating that he understood.

    Actually, it wasn¡¯t like Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand Seveni¡¯s approach.

    If Seveni had enough time and the right conditions, Xu Yi believed that no matter how benevolent she was, she definitely wouldn¡¯t be kind to those nobles who had participated in rebelling.

    This matter was not a personal grudge, but was rted to the existence of the Lampuri Kingdom, she couldn¡¯t show any benevolence in this matter at all.

    Seveni¡¯s way of doing this would without a doubt settle the chaos in the Lampuri Kingdom as soon as possible, reducing the damage to the kingdom and letting others take advantage of the situation.

    ording to the reports, the Sack Kingdom had increased their forces at the northern border and were clearly eyeing the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strugglested too long, plunging the kingdom into chaos and reducing the national strength, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t hesitate to take this great chance to invade.

    If this situation really happened, the Lampuri Kingdom might really be in danger.

    It was because of this that Seveni chose to negotiate with Duke Stagg even with her advantageous position and even epting the terms of surrender.

    Although this would leave some hidden dangers for the Lampuri Kingdom,pared to the crisis the kingdom was currently facing, it was not worth mentioning.

    Seeing Xu Yie back from his thoughts, the envoy quickly pointed at the front page of the fine invitation in Xu Yi¡¯s hand and carefully said, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you have seen the invitation, then I ask you toe to Anvilmar City when the timees. Her majesty will definitely be very happy to see you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked down on the invitation in his hand.

    The invitation was to invite Xu Yi on December 25th, the day that the legends said that god was born, toe to Anvilmar City in the Lampuri Kingdom to attend her highness Seveni¡¯s coronation. To watch her highness Seveni be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s new queen.

    Whether it was because of her rtionship with Xu Yi or because of the great support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given her, it was natural that Seveni would invite Xu Yi. Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made great contributions to Seveni pacifying the kingdom, so it was right for Xu Yi to be one of the guests invited.

    But Xu Yi shook his head after considering it, ¡°No, this is her highness¡¯ coronation, a normal merchant like me isn¡¯t qualified to attend.¡±

    The envoy was stunned before quickly shaking his hands, ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, you are the guest of honour that her highness personally invited, how can you not be qualified? Look, there¡¯s a signature on the invitation, that was personally written by her highness. Other than you, she only personally signed less than ten invitations, so it could be seen how important you are in her highness¡¯ mind. If you aren¡¯t qualified to participate, how many people are qualified then!¡±

    Xu YI shook his head with a smile, ¡°Please pass this on to her highness to me. Although I want to see her ascend to the throne with my eyes personally, I can¡¯t find the time that day, so please apologize to her for me.¡±

    The envoy knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what matter do you have that is more important than attending the coronation of her highness?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and casually said, ¡°It¡¯s none of your business.¡±

    The envoy felt anger in his heart, but thinking of what her highness Seveni had said to him before, he could only endure it and keep urging Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi had made up his mind and wouldn¡¯t agree no matter what he said.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was insisting, the envoy could only give a long sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, her highness really hopes that you cane to her coronation. She said to me that without your support, she wouldn¡¯t have be the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom. ,So she really hopes that she can take the throne with you watching. If you don¡¯t go, she will definitely be very disappointed.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, I want to see this great event very much, but.....¡± Xu Yi suddenly knit his brows. After thinking about it, he gave a sigh and continued, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not continue with these useless lies. Tell her highness for me that the reason why I¡¯m not willing to attend is that once she bes the queen, I want to be a good friend to her. If I don¡¯t go, I can keep lying to myself.¡±

    The envoy looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    From Xu Yi¡¯s words, he could tell that the rtionship between Xu Yi and her highness Seveni was deeper than he had imagined.

    Otherwise, Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t have said these words.

    Thinking of the expression her highness had whenever she mentioned Xu Yi, the envoy had a look of shock.

    Could it be.....that between her highness and Xu Yi.....there was a rtionship that surpassed friendship?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how far the envoy¡¯s mind went. After pausing, he continued with a serious look, ¡°Also help me tell her highness that no matter what, I won¡¯t change my support for her and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support for the Lampuri Kingdom won¡¯t change. When the kingdom bes stable, we will have many chances to meet, so she doesn¡¯t need to be too disappointed.¡±

    The envoy looked at Xu Yi with a strange look. He didn¡¯t keep trying to convince him and talked about a few other things with Xu Yi before bidding him farewell.

    Watching the envoy leave, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help give a sigh.

    Whether he was willing or not, since Seveni had be the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was impossible for the rtionship between the two of them to be as pure as when she was a princess.

    As the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom became deeper, the rtionship between the two of them would be moreplicated.

    In the end, the two being able to keep their friendship was already considered strange.

    This was not something that the two of them could decide because behind them were the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, both of which had the hopes of countless people.

    Thinking ofplicated matters in the future, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. He shook his head and threw out these negative thoughts, turning his attention to another matter that was considered more important for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Lampuri Kingdom situation had been solved in just three months, now the Lampuri Kingdom was bing more stable with the power that Seveni had.

    But the Stantine Duchy was the opposite.

    Lord Wein¡¯s wild expansion in the north had finally met the resistance of the other lords.

    In the Stantine Duchy, the lord that Lord Wein hadn¡¯t defeated yet had suddenly allied with three different lords. They took the chance of Lord Wein not stabilizing the territory to fully attack Lord Wein.

    Those four lords had some military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although theirbat strength couldn¡¯tpare to Lord Wein¡¯s army, it wasn¡¯t that far off and their soldiers were almost double that of Lord Wein¡¯s. So once the battle began, because Lord Wein was caught off guard, his supplies couldn¡¯t keep up and he was defeated.

    This was Lord Wein¡¯s first time being defeated since attacking other lords.

    Lord Wein flew into a rage after losing and came to find Xu Yi. He gave Xu Yi a clear request that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t sell any military magic machines to any other lords.

    Otherwise, he would take back the territory he had given Xu Yi and would seize all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately reply to him, but he also didn¡¯t immediately reject him.

    However, Lord Wein didn¡¯t n on giving Xu Yi time to consider this, only giving him three days.

    Xu Yi was now seriously considering this problem.

    If he agreed to the request of Lord Wein, it would be equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fully supporting Lord Wein. It would mean meaning put on the other side of the other lords and even having the chance of displeasing Duke Stantine.

    But if he didn¡¯t agree, he would be facing the rage of Lord Wein.

    Lord Wein¡¯s threat wasn¡¯t a joke.

    Xu Yi had been considering this matter since Lord Wein had given him this ultimatum yesterday, he had been considering for two days now. He had clearly considered all the advantages and disadvantages during this time, but he just needed to make a final decision.

    Xu Yi was still a bit hesitant before, but now that he had received the news that Seveni would be taking the throne, it was like a door had been opened in his heart.

    ¡°I¡¯ve made enough concessions before, this time.....I can¡¯t make any more concessions.¡±

 Volume 4 106 - Count Weinâ€™s ambition

    Volume 4 Chapter 106 Count Wein¡¯s ambition

    The border between Lord Wein¡¯snd and thend he gave Xu Yi was a river that flowed from the border of the north of the Stantine Duchy and the ck Rice Wastnd, a river that flowed into the endless sea. It was named the Abundant River, which meant that it was a bountiful river.

    This Abundant River wasn¡¯t that wide, but after Xu Yi took this territory, he did the same as the Rum River outside Banta City. He expanded the banks of the Abundant River and built a dam where the river entered the sea, causing the river to be at least fifty meters wide and twenty meters deep.

    In the beginning, there were many people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who didn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi would change the Abundant River on this scale because it cost over five hundred thousand gold coins to change it.

    To many people, this waspletely unnecessary.

    But today, with Count Wein leading ten thousand elite troops to arrive at the bank of the Abundant River, when they saw the river that was wide and deep, they found that Xu Yi¡¯s actions had seen quite far into the future.

    With this natural moat, his troops couldn¡¯t fly over, so naturally they couldn¡¯t attack the territory of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Five days ago, Count Wein received the statement sent by Xu Yi.

    In that statement, Xu Yi sternly rejected Lord Wein¡¯s request ¡°to stop selling military magic machines to other lords of the Stantine Duchy¡±. Moreover, he stated that since this was his territory, Count Wein had no power to take it back.

    As for the industries of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Count Wein had no rights at all.

    Xu Yi¡¯s statement had shown no courtesy, directly calling Count Wein¡¯s thoughts wishful thinking.

    Seeing this statement, Count Wein flew into a rage. Using only five days, he organized ten thousand of his most elite troops and headed to Xu Yi¡¯s territory with such arge scale.

    To him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had less than two thousand guards, with a portion that stayed on the ck Rice Wastnd. There were only around a thousand guards defending Xu Yi¡¯s territory, they couldn¡¯t stop his army at all.

    However, in the beginning, they already met therge obstacle of the Abundant River and found it hard to enter Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    Seeing the factories and beautiful houses that lined the banks, as well as the roads that ran all over the territory, Count Wein gave a strong snort. There was a greed that he couldn¡¯t control that appeared in his eyes.

    Actually, he already thought about swallowing all the industries of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The hidden value of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as the one who was their neighbor and cooperated with them for the longest, of course he was the one most clear on this.

    He was very clear that if he could control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he would be the strongest lord in the Stantine Duchy, even stronger than Duke Stantine.

    But Count Wein wasn¡¯t strong enough before, so even if he drooled over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could only bide his time.

    However, after beating Count Fran and several lords, Count Wein¡¯s strength had increased by several times. He became much more confident and even believed that he was strong enough to easily defeat Duke Stantine.

    But when the four lords joined together to attack him, he realized there was a problem.

    The reason why he could defeat Count Fran and the other lords before was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines. Thebat strength of his soldiers far surpassed the soldiers of the other lords, which allowed to advance through them.

    And when he was defeated for the first time by the four lords, it was because they were also equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, so they were both standing on the same foundation.

    Going from easily defeating his opponents to being evenly matched, this difference all depended on the military magic machine.

    Count Wein knew this better than anyone.

    So after deep and serious consideration, Count Wein proposed the unreasonable request to Xu Yi of ¡°not being allowed to sell military magic machines to other lords of the Stantine Duchy¡±.

    Count Wein didn¡¯t count on Xu Yi agreeing, rather he wanted Xu Yi not to agree. Because like this, he would have an excuse to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and swallow them up.

    As long as he could control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could keep having the equipment advantage. He could defeat all the other lords in the duchy and control the entire duchy, bing the next Duke Stantine.

    Even......He was confident that he could leave the Stantine Duchy, attacking the other countries of the continent and bing the new ruler of the continent!

    But before achieving his grand and lofty goal, he had to solve a problem first.

    ¡°Boats? Are they still not here yet?¡± Count Wein turned to impatiently ask his trusted subordinate.

    He and his ten thousand troops had been standing at the bank of the Abundant River for an entire morning, waiting for enough boats to transport his troops over this damn river.

    ¡°We¡¯ve already collected some boats, but there aren¡¯t that much. I¡¯m afraid.....I¡¯m afraid we can¡¯t transport that many people across at once.¡± The subordinate had a difficult look on his face as he replied, ¡°Sir lord, how about we just charge across the bridge?¡±

    Count Wein looked at where his subordinate was pointing and his eyes fell onto a broad bridge that stretched across the Abundant River not far away.

    Looking at it, Count Wein¡¯s face sunk. He pped the head of his subordinate and cursed, ¡°Are you an idiot? Don¡¯t you see the row of Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows on the other side of the bridge? If you charge over it, do you believe that our people would be dead before they even cross the bridge?¡±

    The subordinate rubbed his head and muttered, ¡°It can¡¯t be that exaggerated right? It¡¯s not like we haven¡¯t used the Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows before, they aren¡¯t strong enough that we can¡¯t deal with them at all.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, we are using the Magic Bazookas and the Magic Repeating Crossbows the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provides, they definitely didn¡¯t give the best ones to us. I¡¯m certain that the Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows they are using are much better than ours.¡± Count Wein kept reprimanding him, ¡°Then again, our losses are too much from charging across the bridge. If we go from the river, we can reduce those losses as much as possible. Then again, do we have few people? Do you understand?¡±

    The subordinate nodded, ¡°Yes, yes, the lord is truly wise.¡±

    Count Wein gave a cold snort and turned to look back at the opposite shore with knit brows.

    Although his words were light, he knew that even with his overwhelming numbers advantage, he would have to take heavy losses to break the bank.

    But as long as he could take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could ept any serious losses.

    Anyway, his subordinates were all conscripted from his territory, he could recruit more if they all died.

    As long as he had enough power, he could get more territory and more people.

    A trivial ten thousand people wasn¡¯t considered anything.

    ¡°Lord, there¡¯s someone flying over.¡± The subordinate on the side pointed at the sky in the distance.

    ¡°Flying over?¡± Count Wein was surprised as he looked up. He saw a person quickly flying over from the other side, falling down in front of Count Wein¡¯s army after flying over the river.

    When that person fell, Count Wein was stunned when he saw him.

    This person was actually Xu Yi!

    ¡°Sir lord, can we have a few words?¡± Xu Yi looked in Count Wein¡¯s direction before his eyes fell onto Count Wein¡¯s face.

    Seeing the faint smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Count Wein¡¯s heart suddenly skipped a beat and his expression changed.

    He suddenly found that he had neglected a very serious problem.

    When he was calcting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s battle strength, he had only counted the guards andpletely ignored something very serious. It was something that decided battles on the Sines Continent, which was the existence of magicians!

    The Stantine Duchy was small, so their poption was low and there weren¡¯t many magicians in the duchy. There wasn¡¯t even a single Great Magician.

    Lord Wein had many soldiers under him and he was stronger than before, but he didn¡¯t have any magicians in his army because all the magicians in the Stantine Duchy had been gathered by Duke Stantine. There were no other lords in the Stantine Duchy that were allowed to recruit magicians.

    Now that Xu Yi flew over the river, Count Wein suddenly thought of a serious problem.

    While he had no magicians at all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many magicians.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility had four hundred and sixty three magicians and the weakest one was a Fourth Grade Magician. There were one hundred and seventeen of them who were even Sixth Grade Magicians or above.

    Not to mention that there was a super powerful existence, which was Great Magician Cami!

    Thinking about the thousands of Third Grade and below magicians that created Magic Arrays, one could believe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength when it came to magicians not only surpassed Count Wein, it even surpassed the entire Stantine Duchy!

    As for the young chairman Xu who was standing in front of him looking harmless with a bright smile, he himself was a powerful Ninth Grade Magician!

 Volume 4 107 - Defensive battle on the bridge

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 107 Defensive battle on the bridge</h4>

    Count Wein¡¯s face sunk. After thinking for a bit, he came out of the ranks and looked down on Xu Yi as he said in a deep voice, ¡°What? Chairman Xu, are you afraid after seeing myrge army? Are you willing to ept my conditions?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°No, I¡¯m just here to urge the Lord Count that since we had a good cooperation before, there is no need to destroy the good rtionship between us. If you draw back your army now, I can treat it as nothing happened and we can continue our happy cooperation.¡±

    ¡°Humph!¡± Count Wein gave a strong snort, ¡°Happy cooperation? I have given many important resources from my territory to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to obtain the military magic machines. If we continue cooperating like this, are you nning to entirely swallow my territory?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Wein in surprise, thinking that this lord really was good atying out false charges.

    It was clearly him who was too greedy and wanted to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now he said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to swallow him.

    Of course......Xu Yi did have this thought before if he was being honest......

    ¡°Sir lord, I am only a merchant, the cooperation between us is a normal business deal. As long as you give ourpany enough gold coins or the resources we need, naturally we will provide the military magic machines that you need. No matter what, hasn¡¯t our Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped greatly in you defeating Count Fran and the other lords?¡±

    Count Wein gave a cold snort, but he didn¡¯t deny this.

    This was a fact that everyone knew, instead of denying it, he deeply epted this face.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not waste words between us. I will only ask you a single question, do you agree or not to my request from before?¡± Count Wein asked in a cold voice.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Lord Count, I said it just now, I am a merchant. To merchants, business must be done fairly and to treat customers differently, that goes against the principles of a merchant, so I can¡¯t agree to this.¡±

    Count Wein gave another cold snort, ¡°You dare say you don¡¯t treat people differently? Forgetting about the others, when you supported the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s her highness Seveni with military magic machines, you treated her very differently from others.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I think the Lord Count should be very clear that her highness Seveni is indeed different from others. The most important thing is that she is my friend.¡±

    ¡°Friend?¡± Count Wein gave augh, ¡°What a joke! You¡¯re saying you are a friend of the honoured queen? Ha!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Although he felt that once Seveni became the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t have the same pure friendship that they had before, hearing this from Count Wein was very grating.

    ¡°Alright, Lord Count, it seems like you¡¯re not pulling back your troops today?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Count Wein raised the sword in his hand to point at Xu Yi, ¡°Since I have led my army here, you¡¯re not hurrying to surrender? I¡¯m telling you, if you¡¯re willing to surrender, I can leave a position for you. If you¡¯re not willing.....Hei, hei, don¡¯t me me for being impolite.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the ten thousand shapes behind Count Wein. Their formation wasn¡¯t united at all and they were wearing scattered armour. He revealed a smile and spread his hands, ¡°Since the Lord Count isn¡¯t willing to pull back, I also will not flinch. Then Lord Count.....let us see how this fight will end. That is on the premise that you are still alive at that time.¡±

    Count Wein¡¯s expression changed and he roared, ¡°Since you are here, you still want to leave? Keep him here for me!¡±

    With Count Wein¡¯s order, the five hundred archers behind him raised the Magic Repeating Crossbows in their hands and pulled the trigger.

    ¡°Sou, sou, sou, sou, sou......¡±

    Countless arrows flew through the sky. The sky in front of Xu Yi waspletely filled with arrows in an instant, looking like the arrows were blotting out the sky, making it look very terrifying.

    Seeing the traces of magic that was scattered among these arrows, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Just to deal with a single person, Count Wein had used Magic Arrows that had cost three gold coins per arrow, he really thought highly of him.

    The arrow rain that blotted out the sky, with a rough estimate, it cost close to a thousand gold coins.

    It was no wonder Count Wein alwaysined to Xu Yi that war cost too much,ining that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce military magic machines were too expensive.

    With his way of using them, it would be strange if he didn¡¯t spend that much.

    Seeing the rain of arrows that covered the sky, Xu Yi waved his hand and a pale blue magic barrier surrounded him.

    Those normal arrows hit the magic barrier and didn¡¯t react at all. They just bounced weakly onto the ground and fell around the magic barrier.

    Those Magic Arrows that were a bit stronger created ripples along the magic barrier like ripples on water before the glow around them also disappeared and they fell to the ground like normal arrows.

    In a single breath, Xu Yi was surrounded in arrows, but there wasn¡¯t a single arrow that had entered his magic barrier.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s rxed look, Count Wein had a dark look as he raised his hand to stop the archers from shooting.

    Although with the data from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, with the terrifying power of the Magic Repeating Crossbow, they could deal with a high grade magician.

    This data came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so Count Wein wasn¡¯t certain about it.

    Moreover, the Magic Repeating Crossbows were produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so Xu Yi as the chairman had his special method of dealing with them.

    Seeing the other side stop their attack, Xu Yi waved his hand to Count Wein before flying off.

    Watching Xu Yi fly in the sky, Count Wein forcefully gritted his teeth. He forced down the urge to have his crossbow unit fire at the sky.

    There was no meaning in wasting these things on Xu Yi. As long as he invaded Xu Yi¡¯s territory and seized it, no matter how strong Xu Yi¡¯s magic was, he was only a single person and couldn¡¯t affect much.

    Even adding in the terrifying might of Great Magician Cami, it was impossible for a few people to change the entire situation.

    With this analysis, Count Wein felt confident.

    However when he had this idea, he suddenly heard deep soundsing from the other side of the bank that made his expression change.

    ¡°This is bad! It¡¯s the Magic Trebuchets! Dodge them!¡±

    When Count Wein looked up to shout this, he saw giant fireballs quickly cut through the sky above the river before falling down onto the army behind Count Wein.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With a deafening explosion, the fireball exploded in the center of the army and scattered into countless smaller fireballs.

    These fireballs fell onto Count Wein¡¯s subordinates andpletely turned them into people of mes.

    And a few soldiers that were hit by the fireball were no longer in the shape of people, it could be seen how terrifying the might of those fireballs were.

    With just a single fireball, it had caused over a hundred soldiers to lose their ability to fight.

    Seeing the chaotic situation behind him, Count Wein¡¯s heart was filled with rage.

    ¡°That damn Xu Yi, he really hid the best things!¡±

    But it didn¡¯t matter how angry he was now. After the first fireball exploded, there were countless deep sounds that came from the other side of the bank. Each sound made Count Wein¡¯s heart tremble and each sound sent another giant fireball.

    Countless fireballs fell onto Count Wein¡¯s army just like countless meteor and the giant explosions rang across both banks of the Abundant River.

    The ten thousand soldiers who were looking confident behind Count Wein before fell into chaos with these terrifying fireballs and suffered heavy casualties.

    ¡°Damn! Charge for me! Charge the bridge! No retreat! Whoever retreats will die!¡± Count Wein pulled out his sword and cut the head off a subordinate that had tried to escape. Then he shouted, ¡°The first one who charges across the bridge to the other side will be awarded five hundred gold coins!¡±

    Perhaps it was because of the excitement of the gold coins or because their hearts were filled with fear, Count Wein¡¯s subordinates didn¡¯t have any array as they began charging across the river.

    There were quite a few soldiers who jumped into the river, nning to swim to the other shore.

    However, when the first group of soldiers stepped onto the bridge, they saw that on the other side of the bridge, there were three rows of Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards standing there. Each person was holding a thick cylindrical item that was aimed at them.

    They heard a roar from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and then the cylinders in the hands of the guards let out a soft blue magic glow.

    After a while, countless arrows came out of those cylinders.

    These arrows were shorter than normal arrows, but they were shot at incredible speeds and these arrows were very strong. The leader armour and real armour that Count Wein¡¯s troops were wearing were like armour that were easily pierced by the arrows.

    The arrows pierced through the chest of one soldier and even pierced the chest of the soldier behind that soldier.

    Just a single arrow took the lives of two soldiers.

    Although there weren¡¯t many guards guarding this bridge, the cylinders in their hands kept sending out arrows that were faster and even more dense than the Magic Repeating Crossbows. Moreover, they were in three rows, so after the first row¡¯s arrows were shot, the second row came forward and shot.

    When the third row finished shooting, the first row had finished loading and they could keep fighting without stop.

    So when Count Wein¡¯s soldiers came onto the bridge, the arrows had never stopped flying across them.

    Under this dense and terrifying rain of arrows, Count Wein sent batches of soldiers, but they all fell.

    In just a moment, there were piles of corpses on this side of the bridge and they had only moved less than twenty meters forward.

    ¡°Lord, should we.....retreat?¡± The subordinate standing beside Count Wein looked at him and asked with a look of panic.

    Count Wein¡¯s face was dark and he wanted to give up, but he was very unwilling.

    The subordinate could see the hesitation in his heart and urged him, ¡°Lord, we are just retreating temporarily. This Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t leave our control. Although we can¡¯t go in, they can¡¯t get out either. As long as we block them out, with this small ce of theirs, they can¡¯t get any supplies, so they will surrender sooner orter.¡±

    Count Wein¡¯s expression rxed a bit. After thinking about it, he felt his subordinate was correct.

    He looked at the calm shore on the other side that he didn¡¯t know what was going on at all before giving a strong snort and waving his hand.

    ¡°Retreat!¡±

 Volume 4 108 - Like a family member

    Volume 4 Chapter 108 Like a family member

    ¡°Leaving like this?¡±

    Seeing Count Wein leading his subordinates in retreating, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards who were prepared to fight were surprised.

    When they saw Lord Wein leading ten thousand troops preparing to attack them, most of them were quite nervous.

    After all,paring it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s side really was weak. Even if they had the Abundant River to help guard them, to take ten thousand people with only a thousand people, most people thought that it was impossible.

    But when the fight began, everyone found that the fight far surpassed their expectations, it was so easy that it was hard to believe.

    From beginning to end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards stayed on the bank and used therge Magic Trebuchets to shoot therge me Bullets, while using the new cylinder Magic Repeating Crossbows on the bridge. They hadn¡¯t done anything else.

    If the two hundred people on the bridge had contact with Count Wein, the other Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t even get to see what Count Wein looked like.

    From beginning to end, the two sides never fought at close range.

    The fight ended just like this and Count Wein had run away with his troops!

    This strange fight had never been seen in the history of the Sines Continent.

    Seeing the confused guards, Xu Yiughed. He thought that even though the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had more contact with military magic machines, they still couldn¡¯t get rid of their traditional ideas of warfare.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed more magic machines, creating a revolution in the military situation of the Sines Continent that couldn¡¯t be avoided. If there was anyone who didn¡¯t make this change, they would be like Count Wein, only being able to passively defend and couldn¡¯t even approach the enemy while being ughtered.

    Actually, this change had also been demonstrated in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war.

    Seveni could lead less than five thousand personal guards to easily defeat the army Count Stagg was because, Seveni¡¯s guards and Seveni herself during their four month stay on Xu Yi¡¯s territory had trained in using the various military magic machines with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, so they had grasped the new way of fighting.

    In actualbat, Seveni¡¯s personal guards with arge number of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hadpletely steamrolled their enemy when facing the army sent by Duke Stagg.

    It could be said that during the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war, each battle had ended the same way. This made it that the civil war that everyone thought wouldst a long time ended with Seveni¡¯s sideing out on top in less than three months.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this result at all.

    To him, soldiers with military magic machines when facing soldiers with normal des was like an adult bullying a baby.

    Soldiers that were stuck in the era of cold weapons couldn¡¯t approach soldiers that were armed with military magic machines, they would fall in droves.

    With this difference in strength, what meaning was there to fight?

    Xu Yi had rejected Count Wein¡¯s unreasonable request because he was confident in the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Not mentioning ten thousand people, even if Count Wein brought his entire army of thirty thousand, Xu Yi was certain that they wouldn¡¯t have crossed a single step over the Abundant River.

    Not to mention that in the battle just now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t even sent out a single magician.

    The only thing that troubled Xu Yi was what he needed to face after this.

    Although Count Wein realized the difference in strength between the two sides with this short fight, knowing that he couldn¡¯t invade the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he did have the overwhelming advantage when it came to poption.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no problem guarding their territory, but to depend on a thousand guards to attack Count Wein¡¯s territory really was filled with problems.

    Xu Yi was certain that Count Wein would use his advantage and blockade the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If Count Wein blocked all the channels of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, cutting off all their resource lines, this would be a heavy blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although Xu Yi wasn¡¯t really afraid of this because he still had other ns to solve this problem, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want this situation to ur.

    He decided to break off all face with Count Wein was to show everyone his fangs, which would be considered a warning to everyone.

    ¡°Hart!¡± Xu Yi turned back to look at the five hundred guards who were waiting and hadn¡¯t participated in the fight at all.

    ¡°Here!¡± Hart focused and replied.

    ¡°Set out.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    With a wave of Hart¡¯s hand, the five hundred guards jumped onto the thirty Magic Armoured Vehicles behind them. They set off across the bridge and headed right in the direction that Count Wein¡¯s army had fled in.

    ###

    ¡°Your highness, it¡¯s already done, is there anything you are dissatisfied with?¡±

    A maid on the side carefully smoothed out Seveni¡¯s dress. The other two maids brought a mirror in front of her and Seveni¡¯s form was fully reflected.

    Seveni in the mirror looked beautiful and full of dignity.

    Seveni gave a slight nod, ¡°This will do.¡±

    The maids carried the mirror away as another group of maids came over. Each one of them had a finely made essory in their hand and they carefully put it onto Seveni.

    Today was the day her highness was taking the throne, so she had to be perfectly dressed. Every single part of her had to be perfect, not even the slightest mistake would be allowed.

    Seveni looked at the busy maids running around her and she had a vacant look, as her attention flew off to an unknown ce.

    Since the envoy brought back the news that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be attending, Seveni felt like she had lost a bit of interest in this matter. Even the most important coronation couldn¡¯t let her feel even the slightest bit of interest.

    It was like she was in a daze during these days. She listened to the arrangements of the old nobles of the Royal Parliament and participated in various ceremonies before finally preparing for the coronation.

    In these ceremonies, her expression had been perfect, but there was a tired feeling in her heart. She even felt that the things she did didn¡¯t have any meaning at all.

    Seveni always asked what was wrong with herself, but when she chased this answer, Xu Yi¡¯s smile with that gentle smile jumped out from time to time.

    ¡°Could it be that I¡¯m not interested in this matter at all since Xu Yi isn¡¯ting?¡±

    When she first had this idea, Seveni was scared.

    She never thought that Xu Yi not attending would be this important to her.

    Other than royal father, Seveni had never found that anyone had held such an important position in her mind.

    So she was stunned.

    Just what was the matter?

    ¡°Da, da, da......¡±

    There were quick footsteps that came forward and a small figure charged into Seveni¡¯s embrace among the shocked cries of the maids, bringing her out of her thoughts.

    Looking down, she found that the little fellow who ran over was Prince William.

    ¡°Aunt, you really are beautiful today.¡± Prince William hugged Seveni as he excitedly shouted out.

    Seveni revealed a faint smile and patted his head, as she couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    If she was talking about people who held a rather important ce in her heart, this Prince William who wasn¡¯t even five years old was one of them.

    Eric had paid the price for his big mistake, but Prince William hadn¡¯t made any mistakes.

    Moreover, Lampuri Thirteenth and Eric had died together within two years, so there were only a few people in Seveni¡¯s royal family.

    Her other big brother Prince Mifam had stayed in his territory since Lampuri Thirteenth had passed, never showing himself. Now that Seveni was being crowned, he also didn¡¯t participate. So the only real family member that Seveni had was Prince William.

    Thinking of this, Seveni¡¯s mind suddenly had Xu Yi¡¯s figure appear.

    She couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Could it be that without noticing it, she had started treating Xu Yi as a family member?

    When she had this thought, Seveni found that this might actually be true!

    If she didn¡¯t treat Xu Yi like a family member, how could she have told Xu Yi the secret that Eric had poisoned their royal father?

    This secret had only been told to Xu Yi alone, Seveni hadn¡¯t even told this to his highness Mifam or her most trusted subordinates.

    Based on this, in Seveni¡¯s mind, Xu Yi¡¯s position might even be higher than that of a family member.

    After all, for Seveni who was born in the royal family, those so-called family members were more terrifying than her enemies.

    Thinking this through, Seveni couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    No matter how she regarded Xu Yi, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to attend this important coronation for her.

    It seemed like she wasn¡¯t as important in Xu Yi¡¯s heart......

 Volume 4 109 - Armistice talks

    Volume 4 Chapter 109 Armistice talks

    For the people of the Lampuri Kingdom, her highness Seveni finally taking the throne and bing the sixth queen in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom, which was supposed to be very good news

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom had been filled with disasters during thest two years, with two kings dying and a civil war this year, many people were satisfied with the final oue.

    Her majesty Seveni always had a good reputation in the kingdom and now that she was the queen, it would bring a happy transition to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Moreover, her majesty Seveni had always supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and her rtionship with chairman Xu Yi was also very good.

    Now that her majesty was in charge of the Lampuri Kingdom, she would definitely let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce return to the Lampuri Kingdom and lead it to prosperity.

    But most of the people in the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was actually very busy right now, they couldn¡¯t return to the Lampuri Kingdom for a while.

    Although Xu Yi had pulled out five hundred guards from thepany¡¯s guards, with the strong mobility of the Magic Armoured Vehicles, they could move freely around Count Wein¡¯s territory. They destroyed several of Count Wein¡¯s gathering points, making him lose more than two thousand subordinates and made his territory fall into chaos, but five hundred people was just too little.

    For Lord Wein who had a territory of over ten thousand square kilometers, it was impossible to hold this territory with just five hundred people.

    Xu Yi had sent this squad out this time to teach Lord Wein a lesson.

    The most important thing was what followed after.

    On thest day of year 3874, Xu Yi didn¡¯t stay home with Still and Freya to celebrate the new year, rather he quickly drove a Magic Sedan across the road of Lord Wein¡¯s territory.

    He came out this time to negotiate with Lord Wein, with the goal of stabilizing the situation in Lord Wein¡¯s territory.

    Lord Wein¡¯s territory falling into chaos was not beneficial to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because this blocked the resources of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that came from all over and it also blocked the products the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to transport.

    Before he was strong enough topletely swallow Lord Wein¡¯s territory, Xu YI wanted to cooperate peacefully with Lord Wein.

    The situation before was one that Xu Yi was very satisfied with, but it was ruined by Lord Wein¡¯s greed and ambition.

    And now that Xu Yi was negotiating with Lord Wein, it was to make him pay the price for his greed and ambition.

    The Magic Sedan suddenly jolted and Xu Yi flew up in the back seat, almost hitting the roof of the Magic Sedan.

    Xu Yi looked at the situation outside and he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    While he was thinking, he didn¡¯t notice the hole on the road. Looking at it now, he found that the road in front was covered in bumps and looked very ugly.

    Based on the situation of these holes, Xu Yi guessed that the guards led by Hart and Lord Wein¡¯s subordinates should have fought here.

    This ce was covered in holes and judging by the shape, it should have been made by the small personal Magic Bazookas the guards brought.

    Based on marks left on the ground, Hart should have met arge group of enemies, so theyunched the small Magic Bazookas so many times.

    Xu Yi carefully evaded the bumps in the road and couldn¡¯t help deeply knitting his brows.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had spent a year making this, so it could be considered the most important transportation line in Lord Wein¡¯s territory.

    Now that it was ruined by this battle, the entire road should have been impeded.

    Looking at the sides of the road, he also saw several houses that had been burnt down.

    The locals should have been living here, but it seemed like they had been caught in this battle.

    It was clear that because of the war between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Wein, the lives of the natives had been seriously impacted.

    Seeing the poor situation along the road, Xu Yi¡¯s face became more and more dark.

    If he had the choice, he wished that everyone could live in peace. Everyone could focus on developing magic machines and improve everyone¡¯s lives with the convenience of these magic machines.

    But now because of Lord Wein¡¯s greed and ambition, these people who had lived in peace here had been caught up, which made Xu Yi very angry.

    The part that made him the most angry was that he had no choice.

    He couldn¡¯t agree to Lord Wein¡¯s unreasonable request and he couldn¡¯t choose to surrender to Lord Wein.

    So the only option was tounch a war against Lord Wein.

    The Magic Sedan rolled past this part of the road that was destroyed and came back to the smooth road, quickly speeding up. It only took half an hour to reach a manor that seemed very strict based on its outer appearance.

    When Xu Yi came out, he was immediately surrounded by a hundred fully armed soldiers.

    Xu Yi looked over them and said with a cold snort, ¡°Go tell Lord Wein that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is here.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi?¡±

    The soldiers were shocked. They couldn¡¯t help pointing the weapons in their hands at Xu Yi.

    ¡°All of you, stop!¡± A soldier who looked like he was in charge suddenly shouted out and stopped these soldiers. He looked over Xu Yi and hesitantly asked, ¡°Xu.....Chairman Xu, you.....What are you here for?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a faint smile, ¡°I want to have a proper discussion with the Lord Count, help me notify him.¡±

    The soldiers all nkly looked at each other.

    It could be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was at full war with Count Wein and Count Wein could only defend, but Xu Yi came here to negotiate with Count Wein.....

    What did he want to negotiate?

    The captain thought about it before nodding, ¡°Please wait a bit.¡±

    He talked to the soldiers around after saying this and turned to run into the manor.

    Xu Yi smiled at the nervous soldiers around him. He sat on the front of the Magic Sedan and looked very calm as he waited.

    He was certain that Count Wein would agree to negotiate with him.

    The small team led by Hart couldn¡¯t be stopped on Count Wein¡¯s territory, defeating many of Count Wein¡¯s subordinates without a single person getting hurt.

    Count Wein had no ways to deal with them and now that Xu Yi was here to negotiate, he couldn¡¯t want more.

    As expected, after a while, a butler from the manor came running out and after taking aplicated look at Xu Yi, he respectfully invited him in.

    After seeing Count Wein in the main hall, Xu Yi was surprised to find that Count Wein had lost quite a bit of weight.

    In the three years that Xu Yi had known Count Wein, he had always looked like a pig with a greasy face.

    But the current Count Wein waspletely thin. Although he wasn¡¯t considered slender, his face was much more symmetrical. His round face had turned rectangr and he was much more dignifiedpared to before.

    Of course, that dignity was rted to his calm as water face.

    Seeing Xu Yi being led in by the butler, Count Wein¡¯s face sunk more and he said in a cold voice, ¡°Xu Yi, you really are bold. You actually came here alone, do you believe that I wouldn¡¯t kill you!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°No, you don¡¯t dare.¡±

    Count Wein knit his brows and angrily, ¡°You actually dare to say I don¡¯t dare! Someone, take......¡±

    Halfway through, it was like Count Wein¡¯s throat was stuffed by something and he couldn¡¯t say the rest of his words.

    Xu Yi looked at him with a smile, looking quite calm andposed.

    Count Wein looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes and after a while, he was like a balloon that had deted. He gave a deep sigh before waving his hand at the butler.

    The butler retreated and Count Wein looked at Xu Yi with a calm look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re here to negotiate with me?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The Lord Count really is a smart person. That¡¯s right, I think that the Lord Count should know the current situation and it isn¡¯t good for either of our sides.¡±

    Count Wein said in a deep voice, ¡°What do you want to do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, we can stop.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Since continuing the fight doesn¡¯t benefit us, of course we should choose to stop.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll stop just because you said so?¡± Count Wein gave a snort, ¡°Your subordinates have done many things on my territory, you want to just forget about it?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Lord Count, I want to go back and spend new years with my wife and child as soon as possible, so I don¡¯t want to waste time talking to you. I came this time to request an armistice with you, do you agree?¡±

    Count Wein¡¯s expression twisted from Xu Yi¡¯s impolite words and his face turned red. He wanted to vent his rage, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s calm expression, he knew that there was no meaning in venting that rage at all.

    After thinking about it, Count Wein suppressed the anger in his heart and said with a cold snort, ¡°Alright, I ept this armistice. But chairman Xu, you have caused losses to my territory, shouldn¡¯t you give me somepensation?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head again, ¡°Lord Count, you¡¯re mistaken. You should be the one topensate for our loss, not uspensating your loss.¡±

    ¡°What a joke!¡± Count Wein flew into a rage and jumped up, ¡°My subordinates haven¡¯t even taken a single step into your territory, what losses do you have?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are. There were many resources that should have been transported into my territory that were dyed, so ourpany¡¯s products have also been dyed and we have suffered heavy losses from this. Lord Count, don¡¯t you think there should bepensation?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Count Wein finally couldn¡¯t help swearing, ¡°You just earned a bit less money, but what about me? How many of my people have died?¡±

    ¡°You started this war, so you should bear the losses, it isn¡¯t rted to me.¡± Xu Yi coldly said, ¡°Lord Count, if you¡¯re not willing to ept my conditions, it¡¯s very simple. I have many other methods to transport the goods and send out the products, but do you have a way to stop the attacks of the other lords?¡±

    Count Wein opened his mouth, but he couldn¡¯t say anything.

    After a while, he slumped down in his chair and said to Xu Yi in a depressed manner, ¡°Alright, tell me your conditions......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Very good, first I want to request a bigger territory......¡±

 Volume 4 110 - Hat the covered the Stantine Duchy

    Volume 4 Chapter 110 Hat the covered the Stantine Duchy

    Count Wein wasn¡¯t able to reject any of the conditions that Xu YI put out.

    Because in the war between them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could withstand the losses and find ways to solve them without any trouble, but he couldn¡¯t take these losses at all.

    Because he had beat Count Fran and the other lords, there were over thirty thousand soldiers under him. In terms of soldiers, he was considered one of the lords that was just under Duke Stantine.

    If they were topare battle strength, he might even surpass Duke Stantine.

    But in the war against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he found that he couldn¡¯t deal with them at all.

    Forget about not being able to attack Xu Yi¡¯s territory, he couldn¡¯t even blockade the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not to mention dealing with the small squad the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent out.

    The five hundred human soldiers led by Hart had swept through everything on Count Wein¡¯s territory, making Count Wein lose thousands of elite soldiers, as well as many important supply points.

    If both sides continue shing like this, Count Wein believed that he would be smothered to death by just five hundred guards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, the most important loss that came from fighting with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was that he couldn¡¯t be supplied with any more military magic machines.

    While fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the four lords to the south kept attacking the territory that Count Wein had seized before.

    In the beginning, Count Wein could still easily defend and fight back.

    But after several close encounters, Count Wein found a serious problem.

    Because he was fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he lost his supply of military magic machines. Adding in therge consumption from fighting, he didn¡¯t know how long he could keep fighting with his supply of military magic machines.

    ording to the estimates, he could hold only for only a week with the supplies in his hands.

    And different from him, the four lords he was fighting with had stored up arge amount of military magic machines.

    When he thought of the loss of the military magic machines and the four lords still being able to use them, Count Wein¡¯s heart immediately turned cold.

    He knew better than any lord of the Stantine Duchy just how strong the military magic machines were in the hands of soldiers. Once this situation came, his subordinates wouldn¡¯t be able to hold off the attack of the four lords.

    And if he couldn¡¯t get any military magic machines, he could only keep retreating. Not only would he retreat from his captured territory, he might even.....No, those four lords wouldn¡¯t give up, they would definitely keep attacking until theypletely defeated him.

    Count Wein was very clear on this situation, so even if Xu Yi didn¡¯te to negotiate, he would have had the idea to negotiate with Xu Yi eventually.

    Although the conditions Xu Yi gave were very excessive,pared to having all his territory seized by the four lords and then losing his life, it was without a doubt much easier to ept.

    Not to mention that when Xu Yi gave these conditions, he even gave a condition that Count Wein never thought of and even dreamed of.

    As long as Count Wein agreed to the other conditions that Xu Yi had, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would put Count Wein as first on the list of important partners. They would give him priority in various military magic machines and would give him ess to many of the new military magic machines!

    Hearing this condition, Count Wein¡¯s anger from Xu Yi¡¯s various other conditions disappeared. He didn¡¯t take long to consider before agreeing to all of Xu Yi¡¯s previous conditions.

    Because the so-called ¡°important partner¡± Xu Yi mentioned meant that when providing military magic machines to the lords of the Stantine Duchy, he would prioritize Count Wein and would put the other lords behind.

    This meant that when Count Wein faced the other lords, he would have the advantage in terms of equipment again.

    As long as he had the advantage in military magic machines, how could the other lords of the Stantine Duchy be his match?

    As long as he defeated the other lords, what did it matter if he agreed to the previous conditions that Xu Yi put forth?

    So Count Wein and Xu Yi had a happy discussion and set forth a preliminary ceasefire agreement.

    ording to the ceasefire agreement, after both sides stopped, Count Wein would cede another six hundred square kilometers ofnd in the north to Xu Yi and he would have to leave the people on thend, ceding them overpletely.

    With this territory, Xu Yi¡¯s private territory had be a long strip that was to the north of the Stantine Duchy.

    This piece ofnd faced the endless sea to the west and bordered the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom to the east. If one looked at it on a map, it was like a hat at the top of the Stantine Duchy, covering the northern part of the Stantine Duchy.

    But Count Wein didn¡¯t care about this at all.

    The Stantine Duchy was very blocked because of the geography. It had few ways of connecting to the other countries, so even if the entire north was blocked, it didn¡¯t affect Count Wein at all.

    Not to mention that this territory still belonged to the Stantine Duchy in name. If the people of the Stantine Duchy wanted to enter the ck Rice Wastnd to the north, Xu Yi couldn¡¯tin.

    Then again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had limited people. They had no problem defending their previous territory, but to defend this loong strip, without the natural moat as defenses, it was basically impossible.

    So Count Wein was very rxed when he signed this ceasefire agreement.

    To him, even if Xu Yi wanted all the people in the territory, he couldn¡¯t pose any threat to him and it might even weaken him.

    Count Wein was very clear on the people in his territory.

    The men who could fight were already recruited to his army and the remaining people were the sick, the elderly, the young, and the women. They wouldn¡¯t increase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength, they would only weaken it.

    Xu Yi kept those useless people which would be a burden to him.

    Before Xu Yi left, Count Wein had even said with a heavy look that he wanted Xu Yi to take care of those citizens.

    When Xu Yi agreed, Count Wein couldn¡¯t helpughing in his heart.

    This Xu Yi, did he really think he was taking advantage of him? That was simply a joke!

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    ¡°That Count Wein must be thinking that he has earned quite a bit.¡± Xu Yi handed the ceasefire contract to Kennard beside him, ¡°This fellow that only thinks of fighting definitely hasn¡¯t considered that I don¡¯t want thisnd and territory to fight.¡±

    ¡°How could someone like him understand sir chairman¡¯s thoughts?¡± Kennardughed before looking over the ceasefire agreement. He said with a nod, ¡°Very good, sir chairman, like this, your territory can connect to the kc Rice Wastnd, cover the Moon Shadow Tribe, and connect to the Rudson Kingdom to the east. As long as the Stru Road is finished, ourpany¡¯s products can easily enter the Rudson Kingdom and the other ces of the continent.¡±

    ¡°That is not the most important thing, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation has changed and the biggest hindrance no longer exists for ourpany. It isn¡¯t a problem to transport across the continent, it¡¯s more convenient to go through the Lampuri Kingdom most times. I requested this territory mainly because it rtes to connecting the territory we have and the ck Rice Wastnd, that way it is easier to develop it as a whole.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the internal situation of the Lampuri Kingdom, Kennard hesitantly looked at Xu Yi before asking, ¡°Sir chairman, why weren¡¯t you willing to attend the coronation ceremony of her majesty Seveni? Ourpany will definitely enter a deeper rtionship with the Lampuri Kingdom in the future, so using our rtionship with the queen is very helpful to us.¡±

    Xu Yi turned in the direction of the Lampuri Kingdom and slowly shook his head, ¡°Just treat it as me being willful.¡±

    Hearing theplicated emotion in Xu Yi¡¯s voice. Kennard had an idea. He looked at Xu Yi and revealed a smile.

    ¡°Alright, since this is a rare willfulness from sir chairman, I have nothing to say.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder with a smile, ¡°Alright, I can be willful, but you can¡¯t be willful. It¡¯s already gettingte, you should hurry up and go back to Anvilmar City. Count Emma is definitely waiting for you to go home and if I keep you here, Count Emma will definitelyin to me.¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°Lord father has always supported me being by your side, he has nothing to say even if I don¡¯t go back for new years. The one who really isining about sir chairman is Sophia.....¡±

    Hearing the name ¡°Sophia¡±, Xu Yi gave a bitter smile.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t Sophia already engaged? Just tell her to treat me as a fantasy, it is best to forget me. This would be better for her.¡±

    ¡°How simple it would be if she could forget just by saying forget.¡± Kennard gave a sigh, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m very clear on Sophia¡¯s personality, for things that she cares about, she is much more serious than other people. If she did something shocking because of this, it wouldn¡¯t be that strange.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard with a confused gaze, ¡°What does she want to do?¡±

    Kennard shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t guess it, I just want to warn you of this possibility.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and shook his head with knitted brows.

    The thoughts of a girl, not mentioning him, it was something that most people in the world couldn¡¯t guess.

    But even if Sophia was bold, what could she really do?

 Volume 4 111 - The FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce is back

    Volume 4 Chapter 111 The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is back

    The new year of year 3785 passed by quite peacefully.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had fallen into chaos from the civil war, but since her majesty Seveni was crowned, the situation had stabilized.

    In her address on the first day of the year, her majesty Seveni had used passionate words to tell everyone her ns and hopes for the future development of the Lampuri Kingdom. She would focus on developing the magic machine industry, promising that she would work fully to develop the magic machine industry to promote the living conditions of the citizens.

    And the actions that she took after showed her majesty Seveni¡¯s promise.

    Her majesty Seveni had dealt with the various bans and limits on the domestic magic machine industry the department had set up, while also eliminating the rights that the tenpanies enjoyed.

    And after those tenpanies were taken by the state after their owners had rebelled, the kingdom¡¯s parliament was now conducting a public auction of the assets of those tenpanies. As long as it was apany that was engaged in the magic machine industry, they could participate in the auction.

    Because her highness Seveni revealed her intention to fully develop the magic machine industry, as well as the attitude she had disyed while she was the princess, once the auction was promoted, there were countlesspanies that came from all over the kingdom. They all wanted this chance to enter the very prosperous magic machine industry.

    But at this time, the magic machine industry management department and the business department announced something that attracted many people¡¯s attention.

    The contents were very simple, it was that they would be taking away all restrictions on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This statement was published in the ?Lampuri Weekly? and it created a stir across the nation.

    Because this statement meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very likely returning to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established for less than five years, it had left a deep impression on all the people of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just bring all those useful and new magic machines. The more important thing was that with the power of onepany, a small city on the border like Banta City had be the most prosperous city in the kingdom.

    Moreover, with the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the entire Lampuri Kingdom had greatly changed.

    Before the Lampuri Kingdom was so poor that most people couldn¡¯t eat their fill.

    But with therge number of agricultural magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought out, it first solved the most basic necessities of the people in the kingdom. Then because of their cooperation with the mysterious elves, bringing about the fertilizer, it allowed the harvest of the Lampuri Kingdom to be much richer.

    Not only could the grain yield in the Lampuri Kingdom satisfy the needs of their citizens, there would be plenty of excess grains. In these two years, they had been exporting grains to other countries.

    Justst year, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had earned two hundred thousand gold coins from selling grains to the surrounding kingdoms.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many people who died in the Lampuri Kingdom from not having enough to eat. They had to squeeze out at least two hundred thousand gold coins to buy grain at high prices from other countries.

    With all this added in, this was a high price of four hundred thousand gold coins.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce drove the development of the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom, greatly strengthening the kingdom¡¯s finances. They now had enough money to invest in projects that had been put on hold because of ack of finances, which greatly improved the conditions of the kingdom.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought the important cement. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce who worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built over a hundred roads all over the kingdom, reaching a total of over ten thousand kilometers. Each city of the Lampuri Kingdom had been connected by this smooth road and now transportation became very convenient in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    For example, the Armani Chamber of Commerce was now using therge textile magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided, creating arge number of clothing. The high prices of clothing had dropped and most people in the Lampuri Kingdom could wear new clothes.

    For example......

    ......

    Butpared to their cooperation with otherpanies, the direct change the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought to the people of the kingdom was the biggest.

    As long as it was a family that had a bit of money, they would have several household magic machines.

    These household magic machines had changed the living conditions of these families. It could even be said that it brought arge change to their lives.

    Even if these household magic machines weren¡¯t all produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with a few from the other brands, these household magic machines were all brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When one looked at the household magic machines in their house, the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom would remember the good changes the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought to their lives.

    For more than year, because of King Eric and Duke Stagg, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom and the people of the Lampuri Kingdom felt rage and sadness over this.

    For over a year, because of the problem brought by the tenpanies, everyone¡¯s lives had been adversely impacted to varying degrees. There were people who missed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So when the magic machine industry management department and the business department announced the lifting of the restrictions on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all the people in the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t help cheering in their hearts.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasing back!

    Their lives would be better again!

    And among this, the most happy were of course the people of Banta City.

    So when the ?Banta Times? announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center in Banta City would start operating again, Banta City was filled with joy.

    On February 6th of year 3875, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center opened business again. They werepletely surrounded and almost all of Banta City¡¯s guards were sent out, with a few elite soldiers that were wearing special sets of armours among them. The people of Banta City all set out and left Banta City,ing to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center near the Sandy River, not far away from the Banta City¡¯s west gate andpletely surrounded it.

    Everyone poked their heads out and desperately looked forward, wanting to see the moment when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center opened for business.

    For the people of Banta City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was synonymous to a good life

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in Banta City, everyone in Banta City lived a happy life. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was forced out, Banta City was covered in a shadow and most people¡¯s lives became much worse.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was back, life would definitely be better again!

    At ten in the morning, with the new building made by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce that reached thirty meters up and was divided into seven floors, looking like arge marble package, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center that gave off an upscale feeling opened their doors.

    When they saw Xu Yie out of the doors, the people all broke out in a deafening cheer.

    This loud voice almost rang through Banta City and even created ripples on the surface of the Sandy River.

    What surprised everyone was that after Xu Yi looked around, he moved to the side and invited someone out.

    Everyone was stunned.

    Today was the opening day of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center, the main lead was Xu Yi, so why was he doing this?

    But when everyone saw the person who came out, they were all stunned before giving a cheer that was even louder than before.

    ¡°Your majesty, it seems like your position is higher in the eyes of these people.¡± Seeing the people cheering so happily, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help speaking in an emotional voice.

    Seveni looked over at him, ¡°Of course. If I don¡¯t have this position in their eyes, how could I still be the queen?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Seveni, I¡¯ve found that after you became the queen, you are more overbearingpared to before.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile. When she was about to speak, there was an old man behind Seveni who looked like a minister who angrily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, how dare you say her majesty¡¯s name? Don¡¯t think that you can be rude just because her majesty ces importance on you!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the old minister in surprise before looking at Seveni.

    Seveni turned in a direction that the old minister couldn¡¯t see and stuck out her tongue at Xu Yi. She then turned back to the old minister and she returned to the grace that a queen should have as she shook her head with a faint smile, ¡°That was just a slip of the tongue from chairman Xu, don¡¯t mind it.¡±

    That old minister wanted to say something, but seeing Seveni slightly knit her brows, he closed his month.

    Seeing the sharp gaze the old minister looked at him with, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    Whether he or Seveni were willing or not, now that Seveni was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, the rtionship between them couldn¡¯t be as pure and direct as before.

 Volume 4 112 - Special sale

    Volume 4 Chapter 112

    Special sale

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center opened business in Banta City, which meant the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had officially returned to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Her majesty Seveni had pulled out time after her busy coronation to personallye to this opening ceremony, which showed the importance the Lampuri Kingdom ced on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the agreements the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed with the Lampuri Kingdom, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce returned to the Lampuri Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom would return all the industries those tenpanies stole back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But when this was implemented, those industries couldn¡¯t avoid being connected to certain parts of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯swork.

    For example, the Falling Rain Valley used to be the foundation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although it was all given to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in the Falling Rain Valley, there was a special administrative zone set by the Lampuri Kingdom that would specifically manage the areas around the Falling Rain Valley.

    In name this was to manage the needs of the Falling Rain Valley and the surroundingpanies, helping thesepanies with their administration, saving them time and effort.

    But in reality, this special administration department had special management rights in the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding area. This meant that whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or thepanies that returned from the ck Rice Wastnd, they would be managed by this department.

    For the otherpanies, this was something they could ept.

    But for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the change was very obvious.

    Previously the Falling Rain Valley was Xu Yi¡¯s private territory, so no matter how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changed the Falling Rain Valley, they had a certain amount of freedom and autonomy there.

    But now that there was this department, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do anything, they had to support an application to the department.

    For example, in order to return to their production rate from before, Xu Yi decided to build a new steel mill in the Falling Rain Valley.

    But to build a steel mill, they had to submit an application to Banta City and get many permits before they could start building.

    Even if the department and Banta City approved all of the applications from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they did it very fast, it still took close to a month before it was all approved.

    For Xu Yi, this was a very serious difference.

    Moreover, they couldn¡¯t set the time frame for the approval, so it would affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ns to differing degrees. Their efficiency wouldn¡¯t be the same as before.

    But Xu Yi had already expected these differences, he didn¡¯t mind too much.

    The most important thing was that his mindset was different from before.

    Before he was forced to leave the Lampuri Kingdom, he wanted to help the Lampuri Kingdom develop as quickly as possible and create a country with a powerful magic machine industry.

    Of course, even this idea had a big selfishness to it.

    Because if the Lampuri Kingdom became stronger, the magic machine industry would develop quickly on the Sines Continent.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom could be as strong as the Candra or the Marlow Empires, even bing the most powerful country on the continent, the magic machines industry would definitely develop across the continent.

    When that timees, Xu Yi¡¯s dream of creating a magic machine industry on the continent would no longer be a dream.

    However, since he was forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom and found a foundation on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi¡¯s mind couldn¡¯t avoid changing.

    For the current Xu Yi, putting aside his personal feelings and from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom was only a normal country of the continent. Compared to the other countries, the biggest advantage it had was that it had a mature market and a magic machine industry.

    Other than this, in terms of potential, the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t evenpare to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Of course, the advantage that the Lampuri Kingdom had over the other countries quickly appeared after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce returned.

    In just a week since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s service center was opened in Banta City, there were arge number of orders that came from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The people of the Lampuri Kingdom hadn¡¯t been able to buy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products for over two years now. They could only suffer with the inferior household magic machines of the tenpanies during these two years. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was finally back, it lit up everyone¡¯s enthusiasm for buying items.

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    ¡°Everyone¡¯s please don¡¯t rush, please line up! Don¡¯t mess around!¡±

    The staff of the service center were shouting into megaphones, shouting so much that their voices were hoarse.

    ¡°Everyone, please be assured. Ourpany has already prepared enough goods for the special sale today, we promise that everyone will be able to buy what they want to buy. We ask everyone to maintain order, please be careful of the elderly and the children, don¡¯t let them be injured!¡±

    The service center¡¯s hall was one thousand square meters, it could be considered quite spacious.

    However, this hall waspletely filled with people right now and there wasn¡¯t even a single free space.

    These people held the gold coins in their hands as they ran to the various booths in the hall.

    Each booth had many people pushing through, with each person having varying degrees of wildness on their faces, like they were currently fighting an intense sacred battle.

    That¡¯s right, for these people who wanted the Frestech Brand magic machines, it was a sacred war today!

    Three days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made an announcement through the ?Banta Times? that they would be holding a special sale to celebrate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s return to Banta City.

    In this special sale, not only would there be the newest Frestech Brand magic machines, there would be many benefits and special prices.

    Take the newest Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner. It normally cost thirty two gold coins, but the special price today was twenty nine gold coins, ny nine silver coins, and ny nine copper coins.

    Although many people were doubtful of this price, that didn¡¯t hinder everyone¡¯s understanding. In this special sale, the newest model Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner was two gold coins cheaper than normal!

    Adding in the various discounts of the other Frestech Brand household magic machines, on the day of the sale, not only the people of Banta City, even the people of the surrounding city rushed over.

    Even when it had still been dark out, there were a bunch of people in coats and covered in nkets that had been waiting outside the service center.

    When it was eight in the morning and the service center opened their doors, in the blink of an eye, the wave of people surged in.

    Compared to the people on the first and second floor, there were less people in the hall of the third floor.

    Butpared to the stream of people on the first and second floor, this hall that also took up a thousand meters had over two hundred people here. When one looked over them, they did form quite the crowd.

    It was different from the consumers downstairs, the people on the third floor were merchants from all over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was back, the most sensitive to this was the merchants with a sharp sense of smell.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in the Lampuri Kingdom, these people gained quite a bit from relying on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that they were finally back, they wanted to be the first to profit.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, seeing the lively crowd today, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will earn quite a bit in a single day.¡± A fat merchant said to Xu Yi with a wide smile.

    ¡°Your words aren¡¯t right at all. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t just have a big profit today, they have a big profit every day, isn¡¯t that right, chairman Xu?¡± Another merchant said with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will definitely make money, but with my understanding of chairman Xu, he doesn¡¯t care about how much they make at all. Rather he wants to improve the lives of our kingdom¡¯s citizens with the useful Frestech Brand magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, how could chairman Xu¡¯s goals be as vulgar as ours? We just care about how much money we make, but chairman Xu is always considering how to improve people¡¯s lives. Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t have selflessly transferred those technologies, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Hearing thest merchant finally change the topic to ¡°transferring technology¡±, Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°No, you¡¯re overpraising me. I have always stressed that I am a merchant and this identity is even more important than being a noble. I believe that you should understand my idea.¡±

    The merchants around Xu Yi looked at each other before nodding.

    Two years ago, when the Royal Parliament wanted to take Xu Yi¡¯s identity as a noble, Xu Yi¡¯s im that his identity as a merchant was more important than his identity as a noble had shocked everyone.

    Since then, all the merchants in the Lampuri Kingdom had a strong sympathy with Xu Yi.

    The marchant¡¯s status on the Sines Continent was low, but now that an important person like Xu Yi had dered that the status of a merchant was more important than that of a noble, it without a doubt hit the hearts of all merchants.

    Seeing the excited look on the faces of these people, Xu Yi continued with a faint smile, ¡°So that means that since I¡¯ve stressed that I am a merchant, my priority as a merchant is to make money. You say that I want to improve people¡¯s lives, but that isn¡¯t urate. We¡¯re all merchants, so there¡¯s no need to hide anything. As a merchant, who doesn¡¯t want to earn money?¡±

    The merchants looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Of course, earning money doesn¡¯t go against improving other people¡¯s lives. While I make money, the lives of people are improving from the technology our Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops, so this does not sh. Moreover, as our Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns money, we can develop new products, which enables ourpany to keep unveiling new products.¡±

    Looking around, Xu Yi¡¯s face suddenly turned serious, ¡°So that means that I have to emphasize something when transferring technology. It isn¡¯t hard to get the technology, but topletely master it, it requires thorough research and that is the key. If there is apany that can develop a product like our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ourpany can transfer any technology you want.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the eyes of the surrounding merchants instantly lit up.

    A merchant hesitated a bit before carefully asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, then.....the technology for the production magic machines, are you also willing to transfer them?¡±

 Volume 4 113 - Technology canâ€™t be transferred casually

    Volume 4 Chapter 113 Technology can¡¯t be transferred casually

    ¡°I thought that they would be more bold.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I was prepared for them to request the transfer of the military magic machine technology, but they didn¡¯t mention it at all.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help smiling as he said, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re thinking too much. Not mentioning transferring the military magic machines, even if you gave it to them for free, they wouldn¡¯t dare take it. What would they take these things for? Are they nning on revolting? Don¡¯t forget, the Lampuri Kingdom has just experienced a civil war, they care very much about this right now. If they dared to request for the military magic machine technology, do you believe they wouldn¡¯t be taken away by the royal guards tomorrow?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That means, I can only wait for Se.....her majesty toe request this from me?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Kennard thought about it before slightly knitting his brows, ¡°During the new year, when I was still in Anvilmar City, the army headquarters already sent people to talk to me about this matter. Sir chairman, did no onee talk to you about this?¡±

    ¡°Not yet, even Se.....Ke, her majesty hasn¡¯t mentioned this to me before.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°That is strange. Her majesty should have realized the power of the military magic machines during the civil war, so why isn¡¯t she moved by this technology?¡± Kennard was a bit confused.

    ¡°I¡¯m certain that they are moved, but the only reason why they didn¡¯t mention it is because they aren¡¯t prepared.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Aren¡¯t prepared? What do they need to prepare?¡± Kennard was even more confused.

    Xu Yi smiled as he thought that they needed to prepare many things.

    First it was looking at the technology.

    The military magic machine seemed quite simple, but to actually make the military magic machines, even if it was simple for the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, without the technology for the Magic Repeating Crossbow, it wasn¡¯t that easy.

    That was because the military magic machines needed aplete mechanical structure, withponents that could only be manufactured by aplete industrial system.

    Not mentioning anything else, without the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although the magic machine industry had developed well in the Lampuri Kingdom, there were basic things that they couldn¡¯t produce.

    For example......steel.

    Although the tenpanies had taken technology for household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, because steel earned less than the magic machines, they were never interested in it.

    Then adding in the fact that Xu Yi hid some things, the Lampuri Kingdom never had technology of this aspect before.

    Although the tenpanies had said that they grasped all the magic machine technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many ces where they needed support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce while producing magic machines.

    In thest two years, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in name had their products banned in the Lampuri Kingdom by the magic machine industry management department and the business department, there were actually many of their products flowing into the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Arge amount of steel was one of them. The most important thing was that the two departments couldn¡¯t find any reason to ban the fertilizer either.

    It could be said that without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no meaning to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry.

    Right now the Lampuri Kingdom was interested in the military magic machines, but before this, the Lampuri Kingdom had to make sure that they had the proper industrial facilities.

    From this angel, those merchants hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer the production magic machine technology to them was actually a very practical thought.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on controlling the magic machine industry of the Lampuri Kingdom, not to mention that it was impossible.

    Even if his rtionship with Seveni was good, the Lampuri Kingdom definitely wouldn¡¯t allow this to happen.

    So in the situations that he could control, Xu Yi decided to open some production magic machine technology to the Lampuri Kingdom. He would help the Lampuri Kingdom build aplete magic machine industrial system.

    At the very least.....he would let them build some Magic Repeating Crossbows instead of having to buy them from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So when these merchants asked about the production magic machines, Xu Yi casually gave his intentions. Those merchants with their sharp senses of smell were like sharks that had smelled blood in the water.

    After a simple discussion, Xu Yi announced to those merchants that he would transfer the technology for producing some production magic machines that madeponents to them.

    To be specific, the bestpany in theponent production business was the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. Although they had outstandingponents that were only a tiny bit worse than the ones the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made, the production magic machines that they used for theirponents were all bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce cut off their supply of production magic machines and service for them, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce would be immediately crippled.

    Xu Yi nned on transferring the technology for making these production magic machines to somepanies.

    This technology was not as simple as making household magic machines because in this aspect, the issue wasn¡¯t the technology, but rather skilled workers.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had arge number of dwarf cksmiths, because of the natural talent the dwarves had in casting iron and adding in the fact that the dwarves grew along with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have problems in this aspect.

    But if it was a brand newpany that wanted to produce production magic machines, other than having the technology of this, it was hard for them to solve the problem of skilled workers.

    Xu Yi explicitly exined the requirements of these production magic machines to the merchants and they were all helpless in this aspect.

    Although the dwarves weren¡¯t as scarce as the elves and were willing to work for humans, there had always been few dwarf cksmiths.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce getting these dwarves was actually a coincidence.

    It was basically impossible for the otherpanies to mimic this.

    But Xu Yi was already prepared for this, so he had two solutions for these merchants.

    The first was to recruit more dwarf cksmiths in the Lampuri Kingdom or from other ces.

    This was something that Xu Yi could help with.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many dwarf cksmiths, this made the dwarves persuade theirrades and made it easier for them to agree.

    But this was only a temporary solution because the amount of dwarves were limited, it was impossible to fulfill therge number of workers required.

    So Xu Yi gave a second method which was the n that he vigorously rmended.

    This method was to follow Xu Yi¡¯s n before and open the vocational skills school that had been stopped because they had been forced out of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This method would mean forming many vocational skills schools all over the Lampuri Kingdom, teaching these vocational skills to students.

    For example, at the vocational skills school that Xu Yi had set up before, it had taught people how to work the punch press, cutting machines, and various other machines.

    After learning at these schools and then working at apany for some time, it would create skilled workers.

    The most important part of this n was that if it could be maintained for a long time, more and more skilled workers would appear and there would be arge poption of skilled workers.

    If they kept this system going for a long time, the Lampuri Kingdom would have a solid foundation for human resources and couldpletely depend on itself to produce and develop magic machines.

    Of course, if the otherpanies wanted to develop the production magic machines themselves, it wasn¡¯t like it couldn¡¯t be done.

    Take the most important machine for making the screw bolt, the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, the fixed price was eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    It was unexpected to Xu Yi that although the expression of these merchants changed after hearing the price of eight hundred thousand, there were still thirty seven merchants who were willing to pay for this technology.

    That meant just for the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a shocking profit of over twenty million gold coins!

    If Xu Yi was willing to transfer all the production magic machine technology, this ie.....would be hard to imagine.

    Of course.....that was also impossible.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem to transfer a portion of it, but to transfer it all was equal to breaking his hands and feet. Naturally it was impossible for Xu Yi to do something this stupid.

    Shaking his head to throw away these impractical thoughts, Xu Yi looked at Kennard who was immersed in a pile of documents and Sebas who kept makingputations.

    ¡°How is it? What is the ie today?¡±

    Sebad looked up with a red glow of excitement on his face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, in just a single morning, we have already received orders for 7393 Magic Air Conditioners, 8349 Magic Refrigerators, 23235 Magic Stoves, 15978 Magic Kettles, 48323 Magic Lamps......¡±

    ¡°Give me the total.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and cut him off.

    Sebas paused and looked down. After swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, he replied, ¡°Sir chairman, in just a single morning, we have earned over a million gold coins!¡±

    Even if they were a bit prepared, after actually hearing the number, Kennard and the other management staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the room couldn¡¯t help giving a gasp.

    For mostpanies in the Lampuri Kingdom, being able to make one million gold coins in a year was enough to be considered argepany.

    Now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only used a single morning to sell this much!

    Even if the total profit had dropped from the special sale, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products always had a high profit margin. So for the sales volume of one million gold coins, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made profits of over three hundred thousand gold coins.

    Three hundred thousand gold coins in a single morning, what a terrifying thought!

    Seeing the excited looks on the faces of everyone that couldn¡¯t be contained including Kennard and Sebas, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Although he was also a bit happy, he didn¡¯t feel this excited.

    On earth, there were terrifying sales records of one hundred million yuan in a single day.

    A hundred million yuan was equal to one hundred thousand gold coins. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still far from this goal.

 Volume 4 114 - Automatically controlled Magic PunChapter Press

    Volume 4 Chapter 114 Automatically controlled Magic Punch Press

    The Lampuri Kingdom situation gradually stabilized and with the wise rule of her majesty Seveni, the prosperity of the kingdom kept growing.

    But the situation in the Stantine Duchy was the opposite.

    After signing the ceasefire agreement with Xu Yi, although Count Wein had lost close to six hundred square kilometers of territory and handing over many rights, for example, he had some control in the factory that he had built with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now it waspletely controlled by them.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s promise to him helped him much more.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided military magic machines to him first, Count Wein had the absolute advantage in weapons when fighting with the other lords.

    Even if he couldn¡¯tpletely suppress them like before, what decided the fights between lords of the Stantine Duchy now was who had more and better military magic machines.

    Count Weing had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he surpassed the other lords in this.

    So once the new year came, Count Wein once again attacked the four lords that had attacked him before, gaining a series of victories in this war.

    Through his win streak, Count Wein had used only three months topletely defeat the opposition of the four lords.

    Count Wein took most of the territory from these four lords and was now the strongest lord in the north Stantine Duchy.

    At the same time, there was war that erupted in the south of the Stantine Duchy.

    Anklo who had been steadily fightingst year began wildly expanding as soon as it entered year 3875.

    Because he also had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Anklo¡¯s subordinates swept through all obstacles in the southern Stantine Duchy.

    In just four months, he went from having one city, five thousand troops, and a small territory of less than a thousand square kilometers to over five cities, twenty thousand soldiers, and arge territory of over ten thousand square kilometers.

    In the Stantine Duchy, Anklo had be one of the two strongest lords in the north and south along with Count Wein.

    Everyone believed that there would be a life and death fight between these two lords.

    The reason why these two lords were invincible in the country was because they had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But if they were to fight, who would win?

    When most people considered this issue, they immediately came up with an answer.

    Whoever the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported more would win.

    Who would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce support?

    ###

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the time to consider who to support right now.

    After the new years, he had fallen into a period of busy work and didn¡¯t have any free time to consider these matters.

    After obtaining the six hundred square kilometers ofnd from Lord Wein, his territory had increased by several times.

    But to control this territory, there were many things that he had to do.

    After deep consideration, Xu Yi gave up the idea of building up this new territory like his previous territory.

    Because to achieve this, he had to invest in an astronomical figure. With the current strength of the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength, they couldn¡¯t achieve this and there was no need at all.

    After obtaining this territory, the first thing Xu Yi needed was to count the poption.

    In the final data for this six hundred square kilometers ofnd, there were only thirty thousand people living there.

    Among the thirty thousand people, there were less than a thousand young men between the ages of sixteen and forty.

    Actually there weren¡¯t few young men before, but Count Wein had been fighting with the lords and had recruited all the young men on thisnd, so being able to have close to a thousand people was already considered quite good.

    It was a good thing that the manpower that Xu Yi needed was as workers who operated the simple machinery, it didn¡¯t mean that he had to have young men.

    After counting the people, Xu Yi gathered all the people who could work together and began training them. Finally he picked the neen thousand people who had the best skills to enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories, dong simple mechanical jobs.

    Although these Stantine Duchy locals werezy, with the forced training from Xu Yi, they had trained a bit of discipline. Adding in the deterrent Xu Yi¡¯s status as the lord had, they all began working properly in the factories.

    Not to mention that it was different from when they were under Lord Wein. Although they were forced to work in the factories under Xu Yi¡¯s orders, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would still give them proper wages and benefits.

    Even if their wages were lower than other workers for only doing simple mechanical jobs, they earned at least five gold coins a month, as well as a series of benefits. This was something the poor Stantine Duchy people never dreamed of, which made them very happy.

    Now that these workers had more enthusiasm for working, their efficiency quickly increased.

    With these workers taking these simple jobs, the more skilled workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were freed which also greatly increased the production efficiency of the factories.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested in new factories in the first few months of the year.

    As long as these factories wereplete and their production lines became operational, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s capacity would greatly increase.

    ording to the stats, as quickly as the second half of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity could doublepare to before.

    Like this, the production capacity problem of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be greatly helped.

    Of course, topletely solve this problem, just investing money and people wasn¡¯t enough.

    To Xu Yi, the best way was to increase their technology.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look, this is the automatic Magic Punch Press that our group has recently developed.¡± Sancheli had an excited look as he pointed at the strange looking machine, ¡°As long as steel tes are put in and the data is inputted ahead of time, you can change the steel te to look like however you want it to look.¡±

    After giving this introduction, Sancheli had the two workers lift the steel te that was one meter long, eighty centimeters wide, and seven meters deep towards the input of this production magic machine. Then he pressed several buttons on what seemed to be a control table.

    The magic machine started and the steel te was sent in. Then the steel te went it bit by bit as the irregr head kepting down to create an irregr trapezoid shape.

    A steel te of this size was a very importantponent of the medium sized Magic Excavator.

    To make thisponent before, it would take two skilled workers at least half an hour with a production magic machine to finish. But now this automatic Magic Punch Press took the steel te and without any workers operating it, it took less than five minutes to finish this process.

    There was without a doubt that there was arge difference in efficiency.

    Xu Yi was shocked when he saw the processed steel te.

    Although this automatic Magic Punch Press looked very crude, it was very powerful.

    Being able to use programmed data to processponents, it was almost at the level of a CNC punch press!

    It had taken several decades to develop the punch press on earth to create a realputer controlled punch press, but this Sancheli on the Sines Continent without any foundation ofputers had actually created some simr to aputer controlled punch press!

    This was simple......Simply too amazing!

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t suppress the joy in his heart as he broke out inughter. He forcefully pped Sancheli¡¯s back, making his excitement clear in his voice and actions.

    When he had picked up this fellow in Anvilmar City, Xu Yi had only done so because of his ability to program magic. He hoped that he would have results in this aspect, but he never thought that after two years of studying for Sancheli, he would be able to develop this shocking thing.

    ¡°Very good! Sancheli! This is great!¡± Xu Yiughed as he patted Sancheli¡¯s shoulder, ¡°This automatic Magic Punch Press, it can be considered this year¡¯s.....No, it should be the biggest invention for ourpany in several years! With its appearance, it willpletely change the face of the magic machine industry! Sancheli, with my status as the chairman, I award you with a first grade reward!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually a first grade reward!¡±

    ¡°God, a first grade reward! It¡¯s already been a long time since someone has got one, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not a long time, it¡¯s that no one has ever gotten one!¡±

    ......

    The surrounding people were all shocked.

    Although they knew that the automatic Magic Punch Press that Sancheli developed this time was powerful, no one thought that sir chairman would ce such importance on them. He even gave Sancheli the first grade reward that no one else in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received!

    Sancheli¡¯s face was red from excitement, he was so excited that he could only nod his head without speaking.

    He had always felt a deep gratitude and a deep guilt towards Xu Yi in his heart.

    He felt gratitude because Xu Yi had pulled him out of the deepest ditch in his life and helped him fulfill his dream, giving him such a rxed environment to do what he loved to do.

    He felt guilty because for a long time, he could only repay Xu Yi with few things.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s satisfaction towards this automatic Magic Punch Press and even giving him a first grade reward, naturally Sancheli¡¯s heart was filled with excitement.

    He didn¡¯t have Xu Yi take back this reward because he was very clear that with Xu Yi¡¯s personality, he definitely wouldn¡¯t take it back since he said this.

    The most important thing was that this was a rare first grade reward which was the best proof of his contributions towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this helped relieve the guilt he felt towards Xu Yi in his heart.

    Whether it was the surrounding workers or Sancheli, they weren¡¯t as excited as Xu Yi.

    For him that hade from earth, he knew better than anyone what this machine meant.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have the same factories on earth, being able to automate their production, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity problem would be truly solved.

    Although this automatic Magic Punch Press was only the beginning, as long as they took the first step, he believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to firmly walk on this path.

 Volume 4 115 Go or stay

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 115 Go or stay</h4>

    Old man Afaylia had been feeling conflicted during this time.

    Properly speaking, he was born in Banta City and even if he was working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Stantie Duchy now, he had to go back to Banta City eventually to live out the rest of his life.

    This idea clearly wasn¡¯t practical when the Lampuri Kingdom had been in chaos, so old man Afaylia had suppressed this idea in the bottom of his heart.

    But since her majesty Seveni had been crowned, the Lampuri Kingdom situation was getting better with each day. The news from Banta City became better with each passing day, so old man Afaylia¡¯s dead heart came back to life.

    He was born in Banta City and had lived there for close to fifty years, so he felt ufortable if he died in a different ce.

    Now that the situation in Banta City was good, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies that had left returned to Banta City to reopen their factories and stores. Banta City became prosperous bit by bit just like before and it was likely that it would be as prosperous as before.

    There were many jobs in Banta City, so it wasn¡¯t a problem to find the right job if they went back.

    Although the ie wouldn¡¯t be as good as staying here, that was their home where many of their friends and rtives were.

    But whether it was his wife or his son Archie and his wife Leia, they were against his idea.

    ording to his wife, after their family had lived here for several years, they were already used to living here and they had a good life here.

    Moreover, if they lived here, their whole family had jobs with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Old man Afaylia had over one hundred mu of farnd at the Frestech Farm and just by working for the Frestech Farm, their ie was a high three hundred gold coins each year.

    If they returned to Banta City, for these two who didn¡¯t have any skills other than farming, even if they could find jobs easily in Banta City, it would only be the most basic job. Their wages wouldn¡¯t be more than ten gold coins a month which wouldn¡¯tpare to now. At most they would earn a hundred gold coins per year.

    Other than that, Archie and Leia were skilled workers at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory. Archie through his work had be a second grade technical worker and was considered a highly skilled worker at the bicycle factory. He earned up to twenty three gold coins a month and with his various bonuses and benefits, his ie could reach three hundred gold coins a year.

    Although Leia couldn¡¯tpare to him, she was a team leader in a household magic machine factory under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Her monthly sry was twenty gold coins a year and with her various bonuses and benefits, she earned over two hundred gold coins a year.

    If they were to give up this life and return to Banta City, even if they could find good work with their skills and work experience, where they could even get a higher wage, Archie and Leia thought thatpared to working for those smallerpanies with higher wages, it was better to keep working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to the otherpanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prospects were without a doubt the best.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a very clear promotion system. As long as you were willing to work hard, as you worked longer for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, your wage would grow with it.

    Moreover, there was something about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the otherpanies couldn¡¯tpare to, which was their benefits n.

    The most simple one was that once you reached the retirement age at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you would receive a retirement pension ording to the number of years that you worked!

    This retirement pension was something that no one other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did.

    Then there were the other enviable benefits. For example, there would be useful gifts during the holidays and a certain amount of travel fee paid by the worker union, as well as a set amount of medical reimbursement for workers each year¡­¡­

    If they worked for the same wage, it was without a doubt more beneficial to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were many Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers who talked in secret, saying that even if otherpanies gave them twice the wages, they wouldn¡¯t consider changing.

    Working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was more rxed than working at the otherpanies.

    So considering their long term n, Archie and Leia didn¡¯t consider leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and going back to Banta City to find another job.

    Old man Afaylia saw that he couldn¡¯t convince them, so he tried persuading them. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce returned to the Lampuri Kingdom, they would be opening many factories in the Lampuri Kingdom and would be recruiting many workers.

    But the facts brutally crushed old man Afaylia¡¯s dreams.

    ording to reports in the ?Lampuri Weekly? and the ?Banta Times?, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom had signed a contract where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be investing inpanies in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This wasn¡¯t something that surprised people.

    What surprised people was that ording to this report, the factories were jointly invested in by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, but the Lampuri Kingdom would be in the dominant position. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be providing technical support and receive a share of the profits.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t control any part of the factories.

    This meant that these factories in name or in reality, they all belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom and weren¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If they worked in these factories, they would receive a wage from thepany that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened with the Lampuri Kingdom, but it wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than opening these factories, ording to their contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t invest in any factories that they owned alone. This meant that if they returned to the Lampuri Kingdom, they would still be leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because of this news, old man Afaylia¡¯sst hope of convincing his family was gone.

    So old man Afaylia was feeling very conflicted.

    He wanted to return to Banta City to settle down.

    To him, it wasn¡¯t important how much money he earned and he had actually earned quite a bit working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during these years.

    Just with him and his wife, they had saved up over five hundred gold coins.

    And because Archie and Leia had given birth to a boy, spending quite a bit over the past few years, with their high wages and bonuses, they had also saved up at least a thousand gold coins.

    With this money, even if they did nothing after returning to Banta City, they could live happily for the rest of their lives.

    It had to be known, when they lived on their family¡¯s farms, their ies weren¡¯t enough to fill their stomachs, but didn¡¯t they still live?

    Of course, old man Afaylia knew that if he said this at home, his wife would scold him without any mercy.

    That was before! Now was now!

    Now they could eat their fill, sleep well, wear good clothes, had good jobs, and had high ies. Why would they return to Banta City just to be not able to fill their stomachs?

    Although they didn¡¯t say it, based on the expressions of his son and his wife, old man Afaylia had nothing to say.

    ¡°Everything is good here, but there aren¡¯t any family members!¡± Old man Afayliained in his heart.

    Although many people from Banta City had moved with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy, old man Afaylia still had many family members in his hometown and there was only his wife, his son, and his daughter inw that came here with him.

    He had made quite a few new friends over the years, but this was different from blood rted rtives.

    Even if there were the roads and the Magic Cars, so it didn¡¯t take long to return to Banta City, it was different from living together.

    Because the busy time of the spring harvest was over and there wasn¡¯t much to do at the farm, old man Afaylia went out for a stroll every day after lunch.

    Other than for digestion, he didn¡¯t want to say home and argue with his wife over this matter.

    It had to be said, in the years that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came here, this ce was no longer the same deste ce, rather it had been made to look quite clean and beautiful.

    With the concept of a beautiful life that Xu Yi proposed, the elves had transformed thend over these years. Now Xu Yi¡¯s territory had roads running all over that made transportation very convenient and he also nned theyout of his territory to not have any mess at all.

    Because Xu Yi established a cleaning squad, hiringrge amounts of Stantine Duchy residents to clean the areas of his territory, the territory was very clean at all times.

    As long as anyone arrived here, they couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    This ce was simply like the heavens described in legends!

    And this was one of the main reasons why his wife, Archie, and Leia were unwilling to leave this ce.

    The living conditions here were something that they couldn¡¯t find a better version of if they looked all over the Sines Continent, so why would they leave this ce?

    Even old man Afaylia had to admit to this point, which made it difficult for him to make up his mind to leave this ce.

    Looking up at the surrounding beautiful environment, old man Afaylia took a deep breath and found that the air here was very charming.

    This was also because of the elves, but also because of chairman Xu¡¯s insistence.

    In order to keep this environment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested a million gold coins a year and were now investing a hundred thousand gold coins per year.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t anotherpany or another noble that would spend such arge amount of money to maintain their territory.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is a goodpany and chairman Xu is the best chairman and a great lord, but there aren¡¯t any rtives here in the end.¡± Old man Afaylia shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°If the rtives in Banta City could move here, that would be great.¡±

    Old man Afaylia had this thought many times, but he knew that this was basically impossible.

    So when this thought appeared in his head again, he could only helplessly shake his head and give a sigh.

    However, after he was done shaking his head, he found that there was a medium sized passenger Magic Car that was quickly driving over.

    After entering the gates of the Frestech Farm, the Magic Car slowly came to a stop.

    When old man Afaylia saw the first person who jumped out of the Magic Car, he was stunned.

    It can¡¯t be!

 Volume 4 116 Relatives from Banta City

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 116 Rtives from Banta City</h4>

    The person who came from the Magic Car was called Torres, it was old man Afaylia¡¯s second uncle¡¯s eldest son. He was two years younger than Afaylia and was his cousin.

    The two of them were around the same age and they lived in the same vige, so they had yed together since they were young and were quite close.

    Old man Afaylia wanted to go back to Banta City to see these rtives, he was one of the rtives that he was talking about.

    Because Afaylia had been in the Stantine Duchy over the past few years, they had met very few times during these years.

    Thest time they met was when they had returned to Banta City of the new years.

    Suddenly seeing Torrese out of the Magic Car, old man Afaylia was first surprised before he was filled with shock.

    Did something happen at home that Torres suddenly came over here?

    His second uncle¡¯s body has always been bad, could it be that the old man had gotten into some ident?

    Thinking of this, old man Afaylia quickly headed over to him.

    But when he got close, he saw that Torres didn¡¯t look sad at all, rather he was excitedly looking around. He was calling out in surprise again and again, making it clear that he was being shocked by the clean and beautiful environment here.

    Old man Afaylia¡¯s heart was filled with curiosity as he looked over. He found that behind Torres, there were several other familiar people getting out of the car. They were all vigers who came from Roverto Vige that Torres was from, they were people that had grown up with Afaylia.

    These people had the same expression as Torres, looking around in surprise and looking very enamoured.

    Old man Afaylia was very surprised.

    Why did these people suddenlye here?

    Although it was much easier toe here from Banta City, it would still take them most of a day toe here.

    Why would theye here if there was nothing important?

    Old man Afaylia quickly came over to Torres¡¯ side and pped him on the shoulder.

    Torres was surprised at first, but turning to see Afaylia, he gave him a big hug and said with a wide smile, ¡°Hey, Afaylia, you never thought that I woulde here as well, right?¡±

    Seeing his reaction, Afaylia felt more assured.

    It seemed like nothing bad had happened.

    The two hugged for a bit before letting go. Afaylia immediately asked, ¡°I never thought that you woulde here, but Torres, why did you suddenlye here? Could it be that you¡¯re looking for me?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not wrong to say that I am.¡± Torres said with a smile, ¡°I am new here and aren¡¯t familiar with anything, so naturally I need to find you to bring me around. Hey, Afaylia, you¡¯ve been here for several years, tell me, how is this ce? Is it much better than Banta City?¡±

    Afaylia was a bit confused by his question.

    ¡°I say¡­¡­Torres, what are you asking this for? Could it be that you¡¯re nning on staying here?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Torres gave a strong nod, ¡°I came here this time for work, so of course I¡¯m staying here. But you can be assured, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has told us that they¡¯ve already prepared living quarters for us workers and the conditions are quite good, so you don¡¯t need to worry that I¡¯ll be staying at your house.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not worried about this.¡± Afaylia waved his hand and continued asking with knit brows, ¡°My meaning is¡­¡­you want to work here?¡±

    ¡°Right, not just me. Iduca¡¯s family, Lopez¡¯s family of three, and also Delude¡¯s family are all moving here.¡± Torres forcefully patted Afaylia¡¯s shoulder and said with a wide smile, ¡°How about it? Afaylia, with all these oldpanionsing here, are you happy?¡±

    Afaylia looked at Torres with a look of disbelief and only after a while did he hesitantly ask, ¡°You said¡­¡­You¡¯re saying that their families are alling here for work? How¡­¡­How¡­¡­How is this possible?¡±

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t it possible?¡± Torres looked at Afaylia, ¡°What? You don¡¯t like using here?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no! I wee you! Very much! Ipletely wee you! I even want them toe now! Right, let¡¯s go back and I¡¯ll have Senna prepare some good dishes, we¡¯ll get drunk this afternoon. Ah, no, you just came, so you should report first, right? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce arranged everything? Right, how did youe here? Ah, no, you came by the Magic Car, I¡¯m asking¡­¡­¡±

    Because he was shocked and excited, old man Afaylia didn¡¯t know what to say.

    Seeing Afaylia¡¯s helpless appearance, Torresughed before shaking his head, ¡°Alright, Afaylia, you don¡¯t need to worry, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has arranged everything. The person in charge said they would bring us around and then prepare our dwellings, you don¡¯t need to worry. Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has said this, they will prepare everything.¡±

    ¡°Un, un, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always kept their word. Right, I was wondering why they were building those new buildings, so it was prepared for all of you. Let me tell you, Torres, the houses here are very beautiful and filled with all the necessary household magic machines. It¡¯s also connected to the water system. When the timees, the street lights will be put in ce and it¡¯ll be much more convenient. Moreover¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing Afaylia¡¯s introduction, Torres was getting more and more excited.

    Although the person in charge from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had told them about the good environment here beforeing, seeing the environment with their own eyes and having a trusted person like Afaylia give them an introduction, he truly believed that the living conditions were as good as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce advertised.

    Even listening to what old man Afaylia said, the environment here might be better than what was advertised!

    Thinking of this, Torres¡¯ heart was filled with excitement and joy.

    It was a good thing that he had the idea of applying when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited people.

    Now that he was here, he found that the living conditions here were much better than Banta City.

    The conditions in Banta City were already better than most ces in the Lampuri Kingdom because of the efforts of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the City Lord Manor from before.

    Moreover, ording to the agreement he signed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he would be entering one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shipyards as a welder.

    With his skills as a second grade welder, once he entered the shipyard, he would be earning a monthly wage of twenty gold coins a year.

    If he had good performance in the first year, that monthly wage would increase to twenty five gold coins next year.

    Although with his skills in welding which was considered rare, he could find work in Banta City with a higher wage, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was more enticing than the otherpanies.

    Aftering here and seeing it, Torres didn¡¯t regret his choice even more.

    If he could live in this beautiful environment, even if it was ten gold coins¡­¡­Alright, ten gold coins less is too much, but even if it was five gold coins less, he was definitely willing.

    Old man Afaylia hadn¡¯t finished introducing everything as the person in charge of new workers like Torres began taking roll call, preparing to gather everyone.

    Torres patted Afaylia¡¯s shoulder with a wide smile, ¡°I¡¯ll find you tonight to drink.¡±

    Then he ran into the crowd and lined up with the group.

    Seeing Torres carefully following the rules, old man Afaylia couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This Torres always had a big personality since they were young, he was still not afraid of anything now that he was close to fifty. Now that he was obediently following the rules like this, it could be seen that he was very satisfied with this ce and attached importance in working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, Afaylia could understand his idea very much.

    Aftering here and seeing the beautiful environment, then with the good wages and benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave, who would want to miss such a job?

    Thinking that it was very likely that Torres would stay and live here, as well as the other three families that he had mentioned, the clouds that had been in Afaylia¡¯s mind had finally scattered and his mood was much better.

    Seeing Torres get in the Magic Car again, Afayliaughed as he turned to head back home.

    Torres said he woulde and drink tonight? Hei, hei, that fellow¡¯s capacity was so bad, he would definitely be crawling on the ground tonight!

    The Magic Car headed off in apletely different direction from old man Afaylia.

    Afaylia returned to the living quarters his family in and the Magic Car was carrying Torres and the new workers to the factories in the industrial district. They were nning on letting them see the factories, so they would have some understanding of their work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    Although they came all the way here from Banta City, it didn¡¯t mean that they would definitely stay and work here.

    But after going through each of the factories, the two hundred and seventy six workers carried in these ten Magic Cars were very satisfied with the working conditions of these factories.

    Each factory was very clean and the work was very orderly, it looked very smooth.

    All the workers were like a screw in this giant factory when they were working, they all yed their own parts.

    Compared to the messy factories they had worked in before, with chaotic work routines, it was unknown how many times more orderly the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory was.

    Then after seeing the conditions of the living quarters, all the workers gradually made their final decision.

    They had to stay!

 Volume 4 117 - Unfolding Wings

    Volume 4 Chapter 117 Unfolding Wings

    The shipyard that Torres needed to visit was by the sea, but it was the final ce they visited.

    When they came out of the Magic Car, before Torres even entered the shipyard, he looked over the sea and took a cold breath.

    Across the broad sea, there were ships that were five stories tall that were at least fifty meters long that slowly came out of the sea that was blocked by the shipyard.

    Once this giant ship moved, it was like a mountain slowly moving across the sea.

    Even being two hundred meters away, Torres felt that there was a strong pressureing from in front of him.

    The biggest Magic Ship that Torres had seen in his life was one that was used by the Porter Chamber of Commerce, it was thirty meters long and five meters tall.

    This ship had already looked very big when it floated across the Sandy River.

    But if that Magic Ship was ced here, it would definitely seem small.

    Torres swallowed his spit and turned to look at the others, finding that they were also staring at the giant ship in a daze.

    Thinking about it, Torres couldn¡¯t help pointing at the giant ship and asking Basaka from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who was guiding them around, ¡°I say.....When we enter the shipyard, will we be responsible for building these giant ships?¡±

    Basaka just looked at Torres with a smile, not finding his reaction strange at all.

    This was already the fifth group of workers and when each group of workers saw this ¡°Unfolding Wings¡± type Magic Ship, they would all be stunned like the ones in front of him.

    ¡°Yes, our shipyard is currently fully focused on making this kind ofrge Magic Ship. Are you a welder?¡±

    After Torres confirmed this, Basaka continued, ¡°Thisrge transport Magic Ship has many ces that need to be welded. After a welder like you enters the shipyard, you¡¯ll be heavily used.¡±

    Torres licked his dry lips before looking up at therge Magic Ship, as he couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Such arge ship, if he could participate in the building process, that really would be great!

    After these people gradually came back from the shock of seeing thisrge Magic Ship, Basaka called out to them and prepared to bring them into the shipyard.

    The shipyard was thest factory they needed to visit. After guiding these workers, he still had to lead these new workers to the personnel management department to get them to sign their official employment contract. Then he would prepare their dwellings and their daily necessities.

    There were still many things to do, so he had to make use of his time.

    But when he just started moving, there was a pure white Magic Sedan that quickly drove over. After passing those people, this Magic Sedan suddenly stopped.

    Torres¡¯ group was confused while Basaka revealed a serious look and he couldn¡¯t help standing up straight.

    When the door car opened, a person came out.

    After seeing this person, Basaka gave a polite bow while Torres and the other became excited.

    ¡°Chairman Xu! It¡¯s chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, hello! Do you remember me? When you came to inspect our vige three years ago, I was the one who led you around!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, did youe see us?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m very satisfied with your ce here, I¡¯ll definitely stay!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi looked over these people and revealed a faint smile. He raised his hands and they all stopped, looking at Xu Yi and waiting for him to speak.

    ¡°Everyone, I think that you should all know that I treat Banta City as my second hometown. Since you came from Banta City, you can be considered as people from my hometown. As people from my hometown, since you are all here, I hope that you will have a good time here. If you are satisfied with this environment and are willing to stay with ourpany, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to extend a warm wee to you!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, be assured, chairman Xu, we will definitely stay.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! This ce is simply too great, I already can¡¯t wait to stay and work here!¡±

    ¡°Right, right, living here will definitely be veryfortable, I will definitely stay!¡±

    ......

    Everyone not only praised the environment and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they also praised Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi epted their praise with a faint smile before looking over at Basaka.

    Basaka immediately understood and said in a loud voice, ¡°Sir chairman, please be assured, I will definitely arrange everything for our guests who havee from afar, they will definitely live a happy life here.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before saying to Torres¡¯ group with a smile, ¡°Good, then I hope that you can all stay here and have a happy time with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand after saying this, but he didn¡¯t get back in the Magic Sedan. His figure went up and he quickly flew over two hundred meters in the air,nding on the deck of the giant Magic Ship.

    Narvil on the deck who was reading a report saw Xu Yind and came over to say, ¡°Sir chairman, it seems like you attach quite the importance on the workers recruited from Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Banta City is the ce with the greatest magic machine industry foundation other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the continent. The workers there have a rich experience working with magic machines, so recruiting workers from there is the most direct method of increasing the strength of ourpany, of course it¡¯s important to me.¡±

    ¡°But.....Doesn¡¯t Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom also have a great need for these skilled workers? If you do this......¡± Narvil paused as he revealed a strange look, ¡°Won¡¯t her majesty Seveni be unhappy?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I¡¯ve helped establish thirteen magic machine vocational schools in the Lampuri Kingdom and have also provided many of ourpany¡¯s most skilled magic mechanical engineers and workers as teachers. I¡¯m only recruiting a few workers from the Lampuri Kingdom, her highness won¡¯t mind. Then again, these workers came on their own free will, I didn¡¯t force them.¡±

    Narvil couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t force them, giving them such good conditions, any normal people would be moved, alright?

    Moreover, no matter who it was, as long as they found better living and working conditions, how could they resist the enticement?

    He used to be the biggest owner of fishing ships in the Stantine Duchy and his life was considered quite good. But didn¡¯t he alsoe work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of the excellent conditions?

    ¡°How was the journey this time?¡± Xu Yi asked Narvil.

    Narvil gave the report in his hand to Xu Yi and nodded with a smile, ¡°Very good. Sir chairman, we went as far as a hundred kilometers away from the coast and the ship sailed very smoothly. Even if we met a storm, the Unfolding Wings went strong and there wasn¡¯t even the slightest bit of danger.¡±

    Saying this, Narvil patted the railing beside him as he revealed an emotional look.

    ¡°Actually, the storm we met this time wasn¡¯t small at all. If we were on wooden fishing boats like before, our chances of survival would have been very low. But the Unfolding Wings in front of this storm, it was like it was nothing more than an inch, there wasn¡¯t any threat to us at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course, the Unfolding Wings Ship was built with research and work from all the researchers, mechanical engineers, and workers in ourpany. It used all the power of ourpany and if we can¡¯t even stop a small storm, that really would be too disappointing.¡±

    Narvil gave a strong nod, ¡°Yes, sir chairman. I was always nervous when I went out to see before, who knows if I would be buried at the bottom of the sea, but with this Unfolding Wings Ship, it felt as smooth as being onnd when on this ship, there was no risk at all. I feel that with this Unfolding Wings Ship, I can even sail into the depths of the sea!¡±

    ¡°Good! Your courage is praiseworthy!¡± Xu Yi patted his shoulder, ¡°In the future, when ourpany organizes a deep sea exploration fleet, I will definitely have you as themander of this fleet!¡±

    Narvil was filled with excitement as he loudly said, ¡°Many thanks for sir chairman¡¯s trust, I will definitely lead this fleet and explore the depths of the sea!¡±

    Xu Yi smiled before waving his hand, ¡°Alright, there¡¯s still a long time before we can establish that fleet. Before this, we still need toplete our first long distance offshore voyage.¡±

    Narvilughed, ¡°Reporting to sir chairman, the Unfolding Wings Ship is prepared, please give the order!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, set off!¡±

    Narvil took a Magic Communicator that was the size of his palm from his chest and shouted, ¡°All prepared, Unfolding Wings, set off!¡±

    There were several ¡°understood¡± responses that came from the Magic Communicator and after a while, the giant ship suddenly trembled. They set off from the harbour they were anchored in and set off into the endless seas.

    This Unfolding Wings Ship was built with the research of many researchers and magic mechanical engineers. It had taken five thousand workers, an investment of two million three hundred and ny thousand gold coins, and eight months toplete.

    This giant Magic Ship that could sail into the open seas in theory represented another major breakthrough in the magic machine technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although this was only a Magic Ship, it contained many different pieces of technology.

    With the sess of thisrge Magic Ship with arge carrying capacity, it didn¡¯t just mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had taken the first step in building aplete magic machine industrial system. It also meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could buildrge scale magic machines, getting closer to the industrial system on earth, which meant that they had taken a step closer to Xu Yi¡¯s dream.

    So when the Unfolding Wings Ship left the harbour and headed towards the endless seas, Xu Yi stood at the bow and watched the red sun on the horizon, while feeling the sea breeze in his hair. He felt like there was a strong confidence that filled his entire body.

    There would be a day where he would bring the miracle of earth¡¯s technology to this world!

 Volume 4 118 - Transformation of Caraska Island

    Volume 4 Chapter 118 Transformation of Caraska Ind

    With the new effectiveness of the Wind Magic Engine and therge scale Water Magic Array¡¯s support, the Unfolding Wings ship could reach a speed of thirty kilometers an hour, which was a speed of over fifteen knots.

    Although there was a big difference from the open sea boats of earth, the magic research facility had plenty of space for improvement when it came to the Wind Magic Engines. Also there had been umtion with the study of the Fire Magic Engines, so it was very likely it wouldn¡¯t take long to develop it and the power would be increased again.

    The most important thing was that they were using Water Magic Arrays at the bottom of the Magic Ships, which also reduced the water resistance. Therge scale Water Magic Array being put at the bottom of the Magic Boat was still in its preliminary development. Once it was further developed or other Water Magic Arrays were used with it, the Magic Boat¡¯s speed would be increased without a doubt.

    Xu Yi was confident that the speed of the Magic Boats would catch up to the ships from earth or even surpass it.

    Because whenparing it, usingrge scale Water Magic Arrays was something that earth didn¡¯t have.

    With the help of the Water Magic Array, the Magic Boat was influenced by currents much less. It made it less impacted by storms on the sea and it also made it much safer. It became as stable as walking onnd, there weren¡¯t any jolts at all.

    The Unfolding Wing sailed so smoothly that it even made captain Narvil feel a bit bored.

    He was born by the sea and went fishing with his parents since he was young, he had almost lived his entire life on the sea. He was already used to the dangerous and exciting life on the sea, but now that it was very calm controlling the Unfolding Wings Ship, he couldn¡¯t get used to it.

    Other than him, most of the crew had been recruited from Great Magician Teli¡¯s hometown of Caraska Ind, most of them had lived on the sea since they were young.

    When they were on the Unfolding Wings, it waspletely different from the experience of the wooden boats they were used to.

    Comparing it, when they were on the Unfolding Wings, it was much too calm.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could provide them with excitement.

    The small Magic Speed Boats only pursued speed. Although they had the Magic Water Arrays, it was mainly used for increasing the speed, it was far from being as stable as the Unfolding Wings.

    The newest small Magic Speed Boats could even reach over fifty kilometers an hour. With its build that was much smaller, when it charged across the ocean at high speeds, it might even fly up when it encountered waves.

    This was several times more exciting than the Unfolding Wings, so when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s crew had time, they would all ride the small Magic Speed Boats for this excitement.

    And Great Magician Cami liked this activity very much as well.

    When he was free, Great Magician Cami would ride the small Magic Speed Boats when he wasn¡¯t racing cars.

    No matter how one looked at it, he wasn¡¯t like an old man who was already past sixty years old, he was more like a young person that chased excitement.

    When thinking about Great Magician Cami¡¯s surprising hobby, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering in his heart, ¡°Could it be that after bing a Great Magician, not only would your body be younger from the magic, but also your mentality?¡±

    But every time he saw Great Magician Teli, Xu YI remembered that Great Magician Cami was a special case.

    The Unfolding Wings sailed for over four hours before finallynding at the port at Caraska Ind before dark.

    When he came down, Great Magician Teli and Caraska Ind¡¯s Lord Smilton came forward.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, wee to the Caraska Inds again.¡± Smilton gave Xu Yi a big hug with a wide smile.

    Caraska Ind was known as an ind of pirates, so Smilton as the lord was dubbed ¡°the pirate king¡± by many people.

    But when facing Xu Yi, this rough looking man was very friendly. He would always have his big smile and even the long scars on his face didn¡¯t seem that fierce.

    Xu Yi returned the hug and said with a smile, ¡°Lord Smilton, I¡¯vee to bother you again.¡±

    Smilton broke out inughter, ¡°I wee chairman Xu¡¯s bothers. Everyone on the ind wees it and they all hope that chairman Xu cane bother us more.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He thought that whenever he arrived at Caraska Ind, he always brought many benefits, so of course they would all wee him.

    Aftering in contact with the Caraska Ind through Great Magician Teli, before Xu Yi even arrived at Caraska Ind, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent goods worth a hundred thousand gold coins to Caraska Ind.

    When Xu Yi came to Caraska Ind for the first time, other than bringing various household magic machines worth over fifty thousand gold coins, after a detailed inspection of the ind, he decided to build two factories and a mine here.

    The two factories were a cement factory and a small steel factory and the mine was considered a pleasant surprise.

    Although Caraska Ind wasn¡¯t big, not taking more than ten thousand square kilometers, there was an iron mine and had natural iron on the surface, it had a very rich mineral deposit.

    Xu Yi was only nning on supporting Carasak Ind to build a rtionship with Great Magician Teli, bringing Great Magician Teli into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after seeing the iron ores on Caraska Ind, Xu Yi immediately changed his position towards the ind. He began considering turning Caraska Ind into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base near the ocean.

    After these two factories and mines were finished, with therge amount of iron that the mine produced, as well as the products from the cement factory and the small steel mill, Xu Yi had first built arge port on Caraska Ind.

    The wharf outside wasn¡¯t even halfplete, but it could let threerge Magic Boats anchor.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, this wharf would only be good if it could hold tenrge Magic Boats.

    Xu Yi and Smilton finished their greeting before he turned to Great Magician Teli and he gave him a magician¡¯s greeting.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, it¡¯s already thiste, is there a need for you toe out?¡±

    Great Magician Teli revealed a faint smile, ¡°You are my chairman now, if I don¡¯te and greet you, that would be too disrespectful.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°You¡¯re too polite. I¡¯ve already said it, you are a special researcher of the magic research facility, you don¡¯t have to treat me like a chairman like the other workers.¡±

    ¡°But I am taking wages from you, aren¡¯t I?¡± Great Magician Teli pointed at Caraska Ind that was lit up behind him, ¡°Moreover, not mentioning anything else, just with the changes you¡¯ve brought to Caraska Ind, you are qualified to make me courteous to you.¡±

    Great Magician Teli was speaking from the bottom of his heart.

    He was born on Carasak Ind, he felt emotional about Caraska Ind¡¯s poverty.

    Because this small ind was far fromnd, for the Sines Continent that had a low level of technology, it was pretty much isted.

    Because Caraska Ind¡¯snd was barren, the residents were always very p[oor and were forced to be pirates.

    Not to mention that marine travel wasn¡¯t developed on the continent, so the residents couldn¡¯t even steal much as pirates, only barely being able to make a living.

    But after Xu Yi shifted his attention to Caraska Ind, it had only taken three years for the environment on Caraska Ind topletely change.

    Caraska Ind only had a few wood and mud houses before, which people could barely live in and had a limited ability to keep out the rain.

    But after Xu Yi built the cement factory and steel mill on Caraska Ind, while building the wharff, he also began changing the housing of the residents.

    With the work of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers Xu Yi bought, there were now many beautiful and solid houses on Caraska Ind. The houses were filled with household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent, making the lives of the residents countless times better.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent arge amount of grains, oil, salt, and other different necessities each month. The people of Caraska Ind were able to live their lives without worry.

    Great Magician Teli had always wanted to change the lives of the residents, but he was unable to do so.

    Now that he had seen the change Xu Yi brought, he was naturally grateful to Xu Yi.

    Moreover, even if he chose to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of his gratitude at first, after he started developing magic machines, he found that he enjoyed this work more and more.

    So Great Magician Telipletely approved of Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t have any hesitation when calling him ¡°chairman¡±.

    On the Unfolding Wings¡¯ journey this time, they came to Caraska Ind bringing a month of daily necessities for them.

    After Xu Yi greeted Great Magician Teli and after he said a few things to Smilton, Smilton waved his hand and the inders who were prepared boarded the ship. They worked with the crew to move various daily necessities out.

    When all of this was moved out, Xu Yi signaled to Great Magician Teli and Smilton. The three of them boarded the ship together and came to a warehouse on the bottom deck.

    Opening the door, Great Magician Teli and Smilton look in before both of them took a cold breath.

    What entered their gazes was a warehouse that was filled with various military magic machines.

 Volume 4 119 - Controlling the area around the sea

    Volume 4 Chapter 119 Controlling the area around the sea

    Great Magician Teli didn¡¯t say anything. Smilton saw those military magic machines and his eyes lit up, as he quickly walked over and picked up a Magic Repeating Crossbow to look over, revealing a satisfied look. Then he picked up a small Magic Bazooka and looked over it for a while before turning back to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you giving these good things to us?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes in his heart.

    This Smilton really has worked as a pirate before. When he delivered all those important daily necessities to Caraska Ind, he didn¡¯t seem that happy. Now that he was bringing weapons, he looked very happy, it was clear on his face.

    Of course, Xu YI had the same smile as he nodded.

    ¡°Yes, but it isn¡¯t for free. Lord Smiliton, there is arge demand for military magic machines right now. It was hard to take a bit from therge orders of others, so of course it¡¯s impossible for this to be free.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand this.¡± Smilton gave a strong nod before saying with a wide smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to say anything, our ind has epted enough help from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The brothers on the ind can live such good lives because of your help. Actually, there¡¯s no need to waste words, if you need us to do something for you, just say it. Although I¡¯m a crude person, I know how basic customs work.¡±

    Great Magician Teli had a look of deep thought on his face before giving a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are a merchant, doing business at a loss is not something you would do and we can¡¯t make you do that. Although I have some value as a Great Magician, I¡¯m very clear that I¡¯m not worth you spending this much on me. For you to pay such attention to this ind, you must have some ns, everyone can understand this.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands and gave a smile of self ridicule, ¡°It seems like I¡¯m not suited for acting, I do things too forward.¡±

    Smilton waved his hand, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, there¡¯s no need to say this. No matter what you want to do, just with the help that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has given us is enough to let everyone live good lives. It should be normal for us to give our lives, this is the most basic rule that everyone understands. Be clear, what do you want us to do?¡±

    Seeing the questioning look from Great Magician Teli, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Rx, your excellency Great Magician, I¡¯m not nning on letting the people of this ind die for me. As a merchant, I¡¯ve always felt that this method isn¡¯t efficient at all, there are no benefits to me.¡±

    Great Magician Teli and Smilton looked at each other as they revealed curious looks.

    ¡°Then what do you want us to do? If it was anything else, what would you send these military magic machines for?¡± Smilton asked.

    ¡°Un.....It isn¡¯t that there¡¯s no risk at all since I can¡¯t guarantee that you won¡¯t meet any danger in those ces.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and had the two approach.

    The two were confused as they came over. Xu Yi took out a sheet of paper and spread it on the floor of the warehouse.

    With the bright light of the Magic Lamps in the warehouse, the two looked down to find that this sheet of paper was a map.

    Looking carefully, they noticed that most of the map was covered in sea and there were only a few spots ofnd.

    These pieces ofnd were naturally inds.

    The two looked over the coast on the right edge of the map before finally looking at a marked ind.

    ¡°This is our Caraska Ind?¡± Smilton pointed at the ind and asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Why is this shape so strange?¡±

    ¡°What? Does the lord not know what the ind looks like from above?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°It does indeed look like a flower and if you look at it from above, it looks very good.¡±

    Great Magician Teli gave a slight nod, ¡°Yes, this is indeed Caraska Ind. I¡¯ve flown above it many times before and the shape is exactly the same as the ind.¡±

    Smilton turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°This is a map drawn from the air? These surrounding things should be the nearby inds, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, this is a map that I had someone draw from the Magic Airship. Your excellency Great Magician, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Great Magician Teli looked at the map and his expression became serious.

    ¡°This detailed map, it can only be drawn from the air and to draw precisely, the Magic Airship is indeed the best for this. But chairman Xu, why did you have someone make this urate map for?¡±

    Smilton also looked at Xu Yi with an interested look, as if he could guess what Xu Yi was thinking.

    As expected, Xu Yi revealed a smile and pointed at the map several times as he said, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, lord, if you look, from the coastline of the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy, there are a total of thirty fourrge and small inds. There are six inds that are much bigger than Caraska Ind, but among these inds, other than Caraska Ind, there are only twelve inds that are inhabited. The other twenty two inds are all abandoned inds.¡±

    Smilton raised a brow, ¡°Chairman Xu, you want us to take those inds for you?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°urately speaking, I want to let those inds fall into my control. I¡¯m not interested in these inds, I¡¯m just interested in the resources on these inds. Carasak Ind has a good source of iron ores, so these inds might also have the same important resources.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is true.¡± Smilton nodded, ¡°I know that there is an ind not far from here called Saxon that has iron ores. There were people from your Lampuri Kingdom who came to investigate before, but they found that it wasn¡¯t effective to transport from Saxon Ind, so no one cared about it.¡±

    ¡°I also don¡¯t think it¡¯s worth it.¡± Great Magician Teli knit his brows, ¡°Chairman, if you want to harvest resources from those inds, I feel that it would cost too much and wouldn¡¯t be good.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re only thinking that way because the sea transport isn¡¯t developed enough.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before pointing at his feet, ¡°But do you see where you¡¯re standing right now?¡±

    Great Magician Teli and Smilton were stunned. Then they remembered that they were currently in a below deck warehouse on a giant Magic Boat.

    This Unfolding Wings Magic Boat was just too big. Just the warehouse that they were currently in could already store arge scale wooden boat.

    With this kind ofrge scale Magic Boat, they could transport several dozen more times cargo than those wooden boats.

    Adding in the fact that thisrge Magic Boat was much less dangerous on the sea, when calcting it, the cost was much lower when sea transportation was much more dangerous. It also wasn¡¯t as not worth it as before.

    It was no wonder Xu Yi was confident, it was because he had this Unfolding Wings Ship.

    Seeing the two reveal looks of understanding, Xu Yi revealed a smile. His finger slid across the map to draw a circle.

    ¡°Actually,pared to the resources on the ind, what is more important is this sea area.¡±

    Great Magician Teli and Smilton revealed confused looks again.

    This sea area was just sea water, what was important about it?

    ¡°I can¡¯t exin to you why this area of the sea is important, you¡¯ll have to wait and see when thepetition is more fierce on the sea to understand.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But no matter what, I need this sea area, it is best if I can control it all. Lord Smilton, can you do this for me?¡±

    Smilton looked at the map and fell into deep thought. Then he turned to look at the military magic machines in the warehouse before turning to look at the ceiling and floor of the warehouse. After all that, he said to Xu Yi with a serious look, ¡°Other than these military magic machines, I need several boats. It would be best if it was a big boat like this, then I¡¯m certain I can do that.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s no problem giving you several boats, but there¡¯s no way to give you one as big as the Unfolding Wings. This ship used all the power of ourpany and we could only finish one in just eight months. The ones that will be producedter will be used for ocean shipping by ourpany, so there¡¯s no way to give you one in the short term.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....¡± Smilton was a bit disappointed, ¡°Without thisrge boat, it¡¯ll be much harder to create a deterrent force on the sea. The matters of the sea are very simple, whoever has the biggest ship has the biggest voice. If we could also have thisrge ship, I just needed to drive by and all the other boats on the sea would behave.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he patted his shoulder, ¡°You don¡¯t need to be too disappointed. I can¡¯t provide you with such arge ship, but I can provide you with smaller ships. They are smaller than the Unfolding Wings, butpared to those ships that you care about, they are still much bigger. I can even guarantee that all other boats can¡¯tpare when ites to performance.¡±

    Smilton¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really? Chairman Xu, could it be that you¡¯re also nning on giving me the small Magic Speed Boats?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°That will depend on how much sincerity you can take out.¡±

    Smilton immediately raised his fist and hit his chest as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, in front of Great Magician Teli, I promise you that I, Smilton will take every inch of this sea for you. Even the fish that swim in the sea will have to ask for my.....no, will have to ask for your permission!¡±

 Volume 4 120 - Black Rice Harbour

    Volume 4 Chapter 120 ck Rice Harbour

    The Unfolding Wings Ship stopped at Caraska Ind for a night.

    The next morning, the materials worth over thirty thousand and the various military magic machines were carried off. The Unfolding Wings set off again, heading around eighty kilometers north of Carasaka Ind, passing an ind that was even bigger than Caraska Ind and heading east.

    This was already two hundred kilometers away from the shore and with the speed of the Unfolding Wings, they saw the ck line that represented the coast by the afternoon.

    Narvil put down the telescope in his hand and said to Xu Yi beside him with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, we should arrive at our destination smoothly. This long range sea voyage can be considered half a sess.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, he couldn¡¯t help looking up at the sky that was a bit dark since it was approaching dusk.

    This long range sea voyage¡¯s goal other than testing the sailing ability of the Unfolding Wings, was to let Narvil and the crew get some experience with longer sailing voyages.

    On the Sines Continent that wasn¡¯t technologically advanced, navigating on the boundless seas depended on experience to judge direction. They couldn¡¯t rely on using a GPS like on earth.

    Narvil was this happy when he saw the coastline because even for a captain that was familiar with the seas in this area like him, he wasn¡¯tpletely confident that the Unfolding Wings could urately reach their destination.

    The technology of this world was far from the precise pinpointing of satellites, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t nitpick any part of Narvil¡¯s work.

    Even if he felt helpless over the situation, he still had to give honest praise to Narvil¡¯s work.

    It had to be known, Xu Yi had spent quite a bit of time finding a captain like Narvil.

    To have a crew that was skilled in sailing on the sea, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to slowly train them themselves.

    ¡°What is the consumption so far?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking Narvil this.

    ¡°It¡¯s still good.¡± Narvil replied with a rxed look, ¡°It¡¯s the same as the test voyages that we took, it currently consumed around seventy three tons of Magic Crystals. With the calction for the course, it should be around one hundred and fifty kilograms of Magic Crystal for each kilometer.¡±

    ¡°Around one hundred and fifty kilograms?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°Un, this isn¡¯t bad. This consumption is eptable.¡±

    ording to the new standard of Magic Crystals the magic research facility put out, a kilogram of Magic Crystal refined by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce contained one Ev of magic.

    One Ev of magic, it was enough to power the newest model of Frestech Brand Magic Fan for three days.

    This Unfolding Wings took countless times more magic than the Magic Fan, so just sailing one kilometer on the sea took one hundred and fifty Ev of magic.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cost of twenty gold coins per ton of refined magic crystal, it meant that they were spending three gold coins at a rate of one kilometer per one hundred and fifty kilograms of Magic Crystal.

    To Xu Yi, such arge transport ship only took three gold coins of resources for each kilometer, this was simply equal to having no cost.

    If this was ced on earth, this would be a fantasy.

    Of course, this was because Magic Crystals could be found all over the Sines Continent. So these things weren¡¯t valuable and normal Magic Crystals were the same as rocks to people.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently had seventeen different Magic Crystals mines under them, which they only paid less than a million gold coins for.

    And the cost of refining magic crystals was mainly focused on mining the Magic Crystals, there were no other investments, so it was quite cheap.

    Based on this, the Unfolding Wings Ship which had a carry capacity of three thousand tons had a terrifyingly low transport cost.

    But in the past two years, as the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies became popr, people began to care about the consumption of Magic Crystals.

    The price of the normal Magic Crystals on the market didn¡¯t change, but for medium and high quality Magic Crystals, there were some clear changes.

    Based on these signs, the people of the Sines Continent began gradually to notice the importance of Magic Crystals.

    Xu Yi naturally could see this trend, so he wildly purchased Magic Crystal mines in these two years. He encouraged Evita to continue the Magic Crystal refinement research just to prepare for the fight over energy in the future.

    Coming back to the Unfolding Wings, other than using power to move, there were naturally other ces that cost them on thisrge ship.

    As for these other costs, other than the daily needs of the crew, they were mainly featured on the various details of the cabins.

    For example, there was a gate to a warehouse that wouldn¡¯t open yesterday and the reason for that was a loose screw.

    When he heard this report, Xu Yi¡¯s face sank, ¡°Who was the one responsible for the screws to the warehouse? Write down their name and give them a second grade warning, as well as taking away their bonus for this month. As for the person who was in charge of that person, they will also lose their bonus this month and receive a third grade warning.¡±

    Narvil secretly stuck out his tongue and thought that sir chairman really was strict.

    It was just a loose screw, but he was giving such serious punishment, even punishing the person in charge.

    But thinking about it, although the Unfolding Wings was big and had room for these errors, when navigating the dangerous seas, it was best to be as strict as possible.

    Sir chairman¡¯s actions were to follow this concept.

    As the person who spent the most time on the Unfolding Wings, Narvil supported Xu Yi¡¯s actions very much.

    Narvil also reported the other small problems on the Unfolding Wings and Xu Yi gave other punishments without any hesitation.

    With how Xu Yi did things, once the Unfolding Wings returned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s harbour, these punishments would definitely be issued.

    Although they were strict, Narvil was certain that the people being punished wouldn¡¯tin at all.

    Xu Yi had absolute power in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because he always handled matters fairly. Those that made mistakes would be punished and he didn¡¯t spare on giving rewards to those who deserved it.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff discussed in secret, they felt that as long as they were willing to work hard, they would definitely be rewarded well.

    As Narvil reported to Xu Yi, the Unfolding Wings sped across the sea at a steady pace.

    Xu Yi listened to Narvil while looking at the approaching coast and he found that there was ck smoke rising from the distance.

    Xu Yi was surprised and took the telescope from Narvil, as he looked at the coast.

    Through the lens, he saw countless figures on the coast, but he couldn¡¯t see clearly since they were too far away.

    Narvil also noticed the strange things happening on the coast. When he was about to ask Xu Yi, there was an explosion that came from the coast.

    From this far, the explosion rang out this clearly, which showed how loud it had been.

    Not only did Xu Yi and Narvil notice this, the other crew members all turned over to look at the coast and they were all surprised.

    Xu Yi put down the telescope and said to Narvil in a deep voice, ¡°Send down the order to move quicker, we have to rush to the ck Rice Harbour!¡±

    Narvil quickly replied before taking out his Magic Communicator to give the order to the crew to speed up.

    After a while, the Unfolding Wings trembled and the giant ship began moving faster gradually. It went from a speed of thirty kilometers an hour to over forty kilometers an hour.

    This was the current max speed of the Unfolding Wings and normally they wouldn¡¯t move at this speed because it greatly increased their consumption, even pushing it to twice the normal consumption.

    Moreover, this state put several times more pressure on the entire hull, so it was easy for parts of it to escape their control.

    But in this situation, they couldn¡¯t care that much.

    Quickly approaching the coast, Xu Yi could see the situation on the coast through the telescope and his expression kept sinking.

    This ck Rice Harbour was established near the endless sea and the goal was to let every factory on the ck Rice Wastnd be connected to the sea by the harbour, then being transported to other ces on the continent through marine transport.

    This harbour was the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s window to the sea, it was very important to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and many factories under the otherpanies.

    It was builtst year and until now, the harbour was only halfplete. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already invested over three million gold coins into this.

    Moreover, to use this harbour, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had built a road through the entire ck Rice Wastnd, it was over five hundred kilometers long.

    Just this road had cost the Frestech Chamber of Commerce close to a million gold coins.

    Thus it could be seen how much importance Xu Yi ced on this harbour.

    But now, there were countless people with weapons in their hands running around the harbour.

    There were fireballs that flew in from outside thatnded inside the harbour, creating a sea of mes in the harbour.

 Volume 4 121 - Normal retaliation

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 121 Normal retaliation</h4>

    ¡°Narvil, quickly prepare to rescue the harbour.¡± Xu Yi gave the order with a calm look on his face.

    Narvil went off after receiving this order. Xu Yi turned to look at the ck Rice Harbour that was covered in a sea of me and his right hand tightly clenched the railing as a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

    These unknown fellows that attacked the ck Rice Harbour had several magicians among them. For a Ninth Grade Magician like him, he should enter the fight to deal with the other side¡¯s magicians.

    But Great Magician Cami, Still, and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people like Kennard, Heinz, and the others were all against him entering the battle.

    In their eyes, Xu Yi was the most important chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even if he was a powerful Ninth Grade Magician, he shouldn¡¯t personally head into danger.

    If something happened to him, that would be the biggest hit to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were armed with military magic machines. Even if they faced a Great Magician like Great Magician Cami, they could still keep up. This group of enemy with only a few magicians shouldn¡¯t be their match.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s hand rxed and he gave up the idea of him personally going. He watched as the crew of the Unfolding Wings as well as a hundred human guards jumped into small Magic Speed Boats under Narvil¡¯s orders, speeding across the waves and heading to the ck Rice Harbour.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards joined the fight, the enemies in the ck Rice Harbour could move freely and the ck Rice Harbour couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    But when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards arrived in their small Magic Speed Boats, before they even reached the coast, there was a rain of arrows thatpletely covered the harbour.

    There was no blind spot in this rain of arrows and it continued to fall.

    The enemies in the harbour couldn¡¯t dodge at all and in just a few minutes, they fell like wheat being harvested.

    When the first small Magic Speed Boat stopped at the wharf, the enemies in the harbour had lost all their momentum, moving to find cover for themselves.

    However, these enemies never would have thought that although tradition meant that seeking cover would stop them from being hurt with arrows, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards took out ck cylinders and aimed at the bunker. Then with an explosion, balls of me shot out of the cylinder and exploded with deafening force.

    Not only did the cover explode to pieces, even the enemies hiding behind the cover were blown up.

    Xu Yi watched for a while before putting down the telescope.

    With arge amount of military magic machines and plenty ofbat experience, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had battle strength that could sweep all armies that had the same amount of soldiers on the continent.

    Even if there were over five hundred enemies invading the ck Rice Harbour, a hundred fully equipped Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards took care of the five hundred enemies like children. They weren¡¯t able to resist at all.

    The only ones that could fight back were the remaining magicians.

    But seeing the powerful military magic machines those guards had, the magicians quickly took the chance to escape. In theter half of the fight, there wasn¡¯t any magic used at all.

    In only half an hour, the ck Rice Harbour¡¯s fight was not only over, the sounds of killing gradually stopped.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and ordered the Unfolding Wings to head over.

    When the Unfolding Wings entered the harbour, they saw that the harbour was ck all over and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Before the ck Rice Harbour was even used, it was destroyed just like this.

    The financial losses were fine, but the important thing was that this was a public challenge!

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sank and his eyes swept over the corpses in the harbour.

    After seeing everything, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    In the corpses of the enemies, there were beastmen!

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies swept through the beastmen from time to time, there weren¡¯t any beastmen who dared to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even the Beastmen Independence Regiment who hated humans the most had already disappeared from the ck Rice Wastnd for a long time.

    Where did these beastmene from? Why would they attack the ck Rice Harbour?

    This harbour wasn¡¯t even in use yet, what did these beastmen attack this ce for?

    Looking over a corpse, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    This corpse was clearly wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes had a trace of sadness before his eyes filled with rage that couldn¡¯t be controlled. He roared out at Narvil, ¡°Find all the people who survived for me!¡±

    Narvil had known Xu Yi for quite a bit and this was his first time seeing Xu Yi this angry. He was caught off guard before he ordered the guards and crew of the Unfolding Wings to search through the harbour.

    Fortunately, when constructing this harbour, Xu Yi had considered that this was the ck Rice Wastnd and there would be danger, so he constructed some secret fortification in the harbour.

    When the enemies attacked, most of the workers and management went to hide. Those beastmen couldn¡¯t find them, so most of them had survived.

    But even like this, in the final count, in this beastmen attack, there were nine workers that had died under the des of the beastmen.

    Seeing the corpses of those nine workersid out, Xu Yi¡¯s face was so dark that even water could drip off it.

    His heart was filled with remorse.

    He knew that this harbour would be dangerous, but he still acted willfully. He didn¡¯t listen to the advice of Kennard or Heinz, he just insisted on building this harbour.

    Now that nine workers had lost their lives, it could be said that he was rted.

    Looking at the corpses of those nine workers for a bit, Xu Yi took a deep breath and his expression returned to normal.

    These workers were already dead, there was no meaning in feeling regret now. Xu Yi didn¡¯t like handling matters like this.

    Compared to this, the more important thing was arranging matters for these workers and.....taking revenge for them!

    The person in charge of the ck Rice Harbour had survived from hiding. Xu Yi called them out and had them investigate the nine dead workers, then providepensation to the next of kin for those nine workers ording to the rules of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Sir chairman, five of them weren¡¯t from ourpany, they were from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡± The person in charge didn¡¯t agree.

    Xu Yi coldly looked at him, ¡°The people of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce aren¡¯t people? Since they were working for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we will treat them the same!¡±

    ¡°But.....But they are workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, if we do this.....I¡¯m afraid......¡±

    ¡°Listen to my orders!¡± Xu Yi cut him off, ¡°I¡¯ll personally exin to chairman Cruise, you just need to properlypensate them ording to my orders.¡±

    Seeing the cold look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, the person in charge shrank his head and immediately nodded in agreement.

    After taking care of things, Xu Yi had people carry two beastmen corpses and loaded them up into a medium transport Magic Car at the ck Rice Harbour. Then he personally drove quickly across the ck Rice Wastnd, heading east.

    When night came, Xu Yi drove the Magic Car into the camp of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s western army.

    The two soldiers responsible for guarding the camp stopped then. Xu Yi stuck his head out and coldly said, ¡°I am Xu Yi. Please help me pass on the message that I have an urgent matter to talk to sirmander about.¡±

    The two soldiers looked at each other before one of them quickly ran into the camp.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the western army¡¯srgest supplier of supplies and equipment, even the sirmander was polite when he saw Xu Yi.

    After a while, a vice general of the western army came out. After seeing Xu Yi, he immediately came forward with a wide smile.

    After the two greeted each other, the vice general¡¯s eyes fell onto the Magic Car behind Xu Yi and his eyes filled with curiosity.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why didn¡¯t you drive your beautiful Magic Sedan this time?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply and came to the trunk, pulling at it. After the trunk was pulled up, the two beastmen corpses inside fell to the ground.

    The vice general and the soldiers beside him were surprised.

    Looking at the corpses, the vice general knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what is the meaning of this?¡±

    Xu Yi calmly exined the matter of the attack on the ck Rice Harbour.

    After the vice general heard this, his expression became strange. After thinking about it, he awkwardly said, ¡°This.....Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s harbour being attacked, it doesn¡¯t seem.....rted to our western army, right? Moreover.....¡±

    The vice general paused before continuing, ¡°Chairman Xu, to be honest, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s purge on the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd have offended many beastmen tribes. It is normal for them to retaliate like this.....¡±

    ¡°Normal?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh and kicked the beastmen corpses on the ground, ¡°The retaliation of the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd can be considered normal, but do you think it¡¯s normal being retaliated by the beastmen of the Sack Kingdom?

    ¡°How can this be possible!¡± The vice general looked at the two beastmen corpses on the ground in shock before looking carefully, even squatting down for a better look.

    After a while, his expression fell

 Volume 4 122 - Enough defenses

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 122 Enough defenses</h4>

    When Xu Yi walked out of the western army¡¯s camp, he slightly knit his brows as he turned back.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had fought with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd over the past two years, so they already had a decent understanding of the beastmen here. They could easily identify that the beastmen who attacked the ck Rice Harbour did not belong to the beastmen tribes on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The ck Rice Wastnd had the Stantine Duchy to the south and the Sack Kingdom to the north. The Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t have any beastmen, so these beastmen could onlye from the Sack Kingdom.

    The biggest proof of this was that during the attack of the ck Rice Harbour, there were actually magicians!

    Although to Xu Yi, magicians weren¡¯t that rare, for most people of the Sines Continent, magicians were rather rare.

    Even in the army of the Lampuri Kingdom, one couldn¡¯t find that many powerful magicians.

    For beastmen that didn¡¯t have any talent for magic, it was even more impossible to find magicians.

    The beastmen who attacked the ck Rice Harbour not only had full equipment, they were even well trained, and were working with magicians. Other than the Sack Kingdom being the only exnation, there was no other possibility.

    After Xu Yi made this inference, he brought the corpses of these two beastmen to the western army¡¯s camp to give them a warning.

    The Sack Kingdom was already moving on the ck Rice Wastnd, their next move was to invade the Lampuri Kingdom through the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The western army was responsible for guarding the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s western border. They were mainly responsible for stopping attacks from the western ck Rice Wastnd and the northwest Sack Kingdom.

    Now that the Sack Kingdom was moving in the ck Rice Wastnd, the western army had to make some moves.

    Secondly, Xu Yi was nning on using this chance to propose a new method of cooperation tomander Varian Lantis. He wanted to strengthen the rtionship with the western army, strengthen the defense between the ck Rice Wastnd and the Sack Kingdom with the western army, stabilize the situation in the ck Rice Wastnd, helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies that had taken root develop.

    But unexpected to Xu Yi, whether it was the warning Xu Yi gave or his new n for cooperation,mander Lantis didn¡¯t seem interested at all.

    When meeting with Xu Yi, althoughmander Lantis was very polite to Xu Yi, it was clear that this was out of courtesy and he wasn¡¯t interested at all.

    Xu Yi was very confused by this at first.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s warning and his deep rtionship with the western army, the new cooperation n was very beneficial to the western army.

    If this was before,mander Lantis would have definitely agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s n and guaranteed that everything would go smoothly.

    But this time, Xu Yi gave many good conditions, butmander Lantis didn¡¯t show any signs of yielding at all.

    No matter what Xu Yi said,mander Lantis used reasons to avoid it.

    At the end of the discussion, when Xu Yi bid farewell tomander Lantis, he immediately understood when he turned around.

    The problem came from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After Seveni became the queen, with the heart of the people and her powerful strength disyed during the civil war, she received the support of all the nobles in the kingdom. She used less than half a year topletely control the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Compared to King Eric, Queen Seveni¡¯s control of the Lampuri Kingdom was far above his.

    Xu Yi even believed that as long as Seveni had enough time, she could even control the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    And because she routed all her opposition during the civil war, Seveni¡¯s control of the Lampuri Kingdom might even surpass that of Lampuri Thirteenth.

    In this situation, it was naturally impossible formander Lantis to treat the western army like his own garden.

    If he made a mistake, her majesty definitely wouldn¡¯t let him off.

    ording to the strategies of the kingdom¡¯s royal army, the main forces of the kingdom¡¯s defense were concentrated on the northern border with the Sack Kingdom. The defenses of the western army were mainly to stop the harassment of the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Because there was the ck Rice Wastnd as a buffer, there wasn¡¯t too much worry of an attack from the west, so the western army¡¯s investment had never been high.

    The most important thing was that the kingdom¡¯s finances weren¡¯t good enough to invest at all.

    So tomander Lantis, the best method was just to honestly guard the western border and not do anything extra.

    After thinking this through, Xu Yi understoodmander Lantis¡¯ mixed reactions and felt a bit helpless.

    Even if his rtionship with Seveni was good, this was rted to the national policies of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was impossible for Seveni to specially look after him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To put it simply, they couldn¡¯t rely on the western army. To develop stably in the ck Rice Wastnd, they had to rely on themselves.

    After thinking this through, Xu Yi drove the Magic Car and quickly left the western army¡¯s camp. He rushed back to ck Rice City that was less than two hundred kilometers away from the western army¡¯s camp.

    After another year, ck Rice City had gradually changed into a perfect city.

    Not only were there clear living, industry, and business sectors, there were various infrastructures that appeared.

    Once one entered ck Rice City, there would be bright street lights on the sides of the road.

    The Magic Lamps shined their light all over and with the lights that came from the buildings, the streets werepletely illuminated.

    Although it couldn¡¯tpare to therge cities on earth, at least for the Sines Continent, this was definitely unique.

    Many people who came from other ces to the ck Rice Wastnd for work, as long as they saw the light in the night, they would be deeply enticed.

    ording to ck Rice City¡¯s statistics, ck Rice City already had over one hundred and eighty six thousand people and there were over fifty thousand people who weren¡¯t registered.

    A city that had close to two hundred thousand people, this would definitely be a top city even in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If they wereparing in terms of prosperity, there wasn¡¯t a single city in the Lampuri Kingdom that couldpare.

    Xu Yi drove this Magic Car from the dark ck Rice Wastnd into the brightly lit ck Rice City. The two guards that were there looked over it and didn¡¯t care that much.

    ck Rice City saw over a thousand transport Magic Cars enter and exit each day, there were still many of them during the night. Just a single medium Magic Car wasn¡¯t enough for them to care about.

    However, when Xu Yi reduced the speed and looked at the two guards, from the symbols of the clothes the two guards were wearing, he could recognize they were guards from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    ck Rice City was managed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, so the guards were naturally provided by these fourpanies.

    In this aspect, the fourpanies were all in charge of an area of ck Rice City and now it had be fixed.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this before because he didn¡¯t care that much about the guards.

    But after the incident of the ck Rice Harbour, Xu Yi found that there were defects with this.

    This method was fine in a normal situation, but once something suddenly happened and there was a situation that required arge amount of defenses, the hidden danger of this method was exposed.

    Xu Yi drove the Magic Car to the door of the joint management hall of ck Rice City.

    When he jumped down, the guards at the door recognized Xu Yi and immediately invited him in.

    It was naturally impossible for the chairman of the fourpanies to stay in ck Rice City to manage it, so normally representatives were sent by the fourpanies to manage the city.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the boss of these fourpanies, so Xu Yi¡¯s position in the management hall was naturally very high.

    He suddenly arrived in the middle of the night, it instantly created a stir.

    Not long after, the representatives of the fourpanies who had been asleep all rushed over.

    The representative from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was an old staff member who entered thepany in the beginning. When he saw Xu Yi and saw the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, his heart trembled.

    After following Xu Yi for five years, this was his first time seeing such a serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    Could it be that something big had happened?

    Xu Yi waved his hand at the four representatives and had them sit. He looked over the four of them and after a bit of silence, he asked, ¡°You¡¯ve been on the ck Rice Wastnd for a bit, so now I want to ask you a question that I hope you will answer honestly.¡±

    The four representatives looked at each other with doubt in their eyes.

    Chairman Xu was being this serious, it seemed like this question wouldn¡¯t be easy to answer.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please ask.¡± After a bit of silence, seeing that no one replied, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative spoke.

    The representative of the otherpanies reacted and quickly said, ¡°Right, right, please ask chairman Xu. As long as we know, we will definitely answer.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Tell me, how many people do we need, or to be more concise, how much defensive force do we need topletely control the ck Rice Wastnd? We can fight back even if the Sack Kingdom were to invade the ck Rice Wastnd?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    The four representatives all looked at Xu Yi in shock.

    Chairman Xu, he.....he actually wanted to go to war with the Sack Kingdom?

 Volume 4 123 Ideas canâ€™t keep up with development

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 123 Ideas can¡¯t keep up with development</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, I understand your feelings and I feel pain and anger for the staff that had died at the harbour, but¡­¡­¡± Kennard looked at Xu Yi¡¯s calm expression and after hesitating a bit, he said, ¡°It is also because of this reason that we blindly increase the defenses of ourpany, isn¡¯t this a bit¡­¡­too impulsive?¡±

    ¡°Blindly?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at him, ¡°Why do you think that this method is blind?¡±

    Kennard gave a bitterugh and spread his hands, ¡°Although this word is a bit impolite, but sir chairman, I can¡¯t understand why we need to invest three million gold coins at once into thepany guards and increase this gradually in the future. ording to your n, why do we need to invest at least five million gold coins a month? If it was just to avoid casualties of thepany¡¯s staff in the future, there are many other alternatives that would cost less.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve always said that I was a merchant, but looking at it now, Kennard you really dide from the Emma Family. Your thoughts as a merchant are much deeper than mine.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Kennard knit his brows and said with a sigh, ¡°Sir chairman, we are only apany.¡±

    ¡°No, to me, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a tool in my hands.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already the best tool now that it has developed this far, it is still a tool in the end. My goal is to change the lives of the people of the Sines Continent, this goal has never changed. Earning money is just a way to achieve this goal.¡±

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Kennard knew that it would be no use if he kept trying to persuade him. He just gave a sigh and didn¡¯t say anything else.

    However, no matter what, Kennard couldn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi did this.

    Because several people died at the ck Rice Harbour, Xu Yi suddenly had the idea of controlling the entire ck Rice Wastnd.

    If this idea wasn¡¯t considered that strange, Xu Yi even wanted to attack the Sack Kingdom after taking control of the ck Rice Wastnd, which was an idea that Kennard was shocked and confused by.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be a ratherrgepany now, with strong influence in the surrounding countries, they were still apany in the end.

    With the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and more importantly with the power of the military magic machines, it wasn¡¯t hard to control the ck Rice Wastnd. The beastmen had no organization at all and were very weak.

    But to attack the Sack Kingdom, that waspletely wishful thinking.

    A country and apany, those were twopletely different concepts.

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi¡¯s face and thought that was it because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the Stantine Duchy, giving him a rough estimate of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power that he had the misconception that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could contend with the Sack Kingdom?

    This question was not one that Kennard could easily ask though.

    As the CEO of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was mainly in charge of managing thepany. But regarding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s path of development, he could only give a few suggestions and couldn¡¯t control it.

    Xu Yi had absolute control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as Xu Yi made up his mind, the others could only obey.

    This was something that Kennard couldn¡¯t defy.

    Kennard thought for a bit and thought that even after he had been with Xu Yi for many years, they had simr thoughts, so why did he suddenly fall onto the wrong path?

    After pausing, Kennard said with a serious look, ¡°Sir chairman, I still hope that you can think this through. Ourpany has the power to increase our defenses, but apany has its limits. With ourpany¡¯s current profits, we can only maintain no more than five thousand guards. If we exceed this, the strength of the guards would begin to drop.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and asked back, ¡°You think that five thousand people is a small number?¡±

    Kennard was stunned, ¡°Of course it is. Sir chairman, don¡¯t forget, even Count Wein has thirty thousand soldiers under him.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Are those thirty thousand people strong? Don¡¯t forget, Count Wein¡¯s thirty thousand people couldn¡¯t even deal with one hundred people led by Hart.¡±

    Kennard knit his brows, ¡°It can¡¯t be considered like this. Sir chairman, Count Wein couldn¡¯t deal with the hundred guards led by captain Hart because of many reasons, but in a war¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Even in a war, Count Wein¡¯s subordinates can¡¯t do anything to Hart¡¯s hundred people.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand to cut Kennard off.

    Kennard was stunned, ¡°How can that be possible? That is thirty thousand people! How can¡¯t they deal with a hundred people!¡±

    ¡°So that means that you have the same old thoughts as most people of the continent.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This world is alreadypletely different from the world you already knew.¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a strange look. He thought that he was still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO, so he knew the Frestech Chamber of Commerce better than most people of the continent.

    But even so, he didn¡¯t feel confident about the scene that Xu Yi described. Why was Xu Yi this confident?

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t exin to Kennard.

    Although Kennard was the CEO, he was mainly in charge of managing the business aspect. There were many things that he was limited on, so his assessment of the total situation couldn¡¯tpare to his as the chairman.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t just Kennard. Almost all the people on the continent would think the same as Kennard, they wouldn¡¯t understand Xu Yi¡¯s ideas.

    This couldn¡¯t be med on them because Xu Yi was relying on his mechanical engineering knowledge from earth, bringing magic machines that far surpassed their imaginations. This was equal to greatly propelling the level of technology forward on the Sines Continent.

    People needed some time to catch up to the change in ideas.

    What Xu Yi wanted to take advantage of was this gap in time.

    The two of them fell silent as the Magic Sedan they were sitting in head north in the Stantine Duchy, heading through the territory under Count Wein. Right now they were heading on the road that led to Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    This road was a part of the Stru Road, but it was only half finished. There were only two traffes right now, it was far from the sixnes that would be there when it was finished.

    When the Magic Sedan sped across the road, they could see the various workers from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the ck Rice Wastnd, the Mirando Duchy, and the Stantine Duchy at work.

    These people were mostly with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. There were only a few of them that were responsible for nning and providing magic machines support that were with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The twopanies had been working like this for close to four years now. The workers on both sides were familiar with each other, so they were very efficient.

    ording to the manager of the Stru Road, Xu Yi¡¯s old friend manager Riley¡¯s estimates, it would be the middle of next year that the Stru Road would beplete.

    When that time came, there would be a smooth road from the western sea of the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital Caraca City even though they were a thousand kilometers apart.

    If they kept driving at forty kilometers an hour in a Magic Car, it would only take one day to arrive.

    If they drove thetest model Magic Sedan that Xu Yi and Kennard were sitting in that could stay at a speed of sixty kilometers an hour, it would only take them a bit more than ten hours.

    Of course, if the Stru Kingdom wanted to beplete, the most important part was still the cliff between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.

    To be precise, the Stru Road would only beplete with this partplete.

    The Magic Sedan the two were riding in drove on the road for a bit before entering a green first that reached as far as the eyes could see.

    Entering this forest meant entering the area controlled by the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no one in the Stantine Duchy dared to enter the Slight Dream Forest because they might be retaliated by the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    But now, this forest that had existed for several thousand years was filled with noise.

    When they entered the forest, they heard noises as loud as thunder in the distance.

    Looking over, they saw a giant tree suddenly fall to the ground, stirring up dirt into the sky.

    ¡°Sir chairman, if I didn¡¯t personally see it, I wouldn¡¯t have believed that the elves would let humans create such loud noise in their home. They would even let humans cut down thousand year old trees that were treasures to them.¡± Kennard looked at therge tree in the distance that had fallen and spoke in an emotional voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The elves want to develop and fit into human society, they must take this step.¡±

    ¡°That is because sir chairman¡¯s charm is different from everyone else. The elves have lived with humans for thousands of years, but this is the first time they really wanted to enter human society.¡± Kennard said.

    Xu Yiughed. He thought that he wasn¡¯t sure with the other elves, but for the elves of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, he did indeed have plenty of charm.

    Otherwise, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya wouldn¡¯t force him to be with an elven girl.

    Thinking of how he would soon see elder Lisanya, Xu Yi¡¯s head couldn¡¯t help aching.

    He hoped that elder Lisanya would let him go this time, not forcing him to pick an elven beauty as soon as she saw him.

 Volume 4 124 - Bring out sincerity

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 124 Bring out sincerity</h4>

    Elder Lisanya wasn¡¯t thinking about forcing Xu Yi to pick an elven beauty because she was focused on the actions of the five meter tall giant machine. Her eyes were filled with light and her heart was filled with curiosity.

    This wasn¡¯t Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing elder Lisanya like this, so he didn¡¯t care about her expression. But when he saw her clothes, he almost broke out inughter.

    This elegan, noble, mysterious, and beautiful elder of the Moon Shadow Tribe was wearing the construction uniform of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce worker with a bit of dirt on her white skin. If one judged only based on her clothes, they would think that she was just a normal construction worker.

    However, the elder of the elf tribe was different from a normal construction worker. When this uniform without a sense of beauty was put on her, it released an enticing feel that made it easy for people to notice her in a crowd.

    But this image really was a bit off, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    After he couldn¡¯t stop himself fromughing twice, Xu Yi turned to look at the giant machine that elder Lisanya was looking at. Seeing that giant machine¡¯s arm pick up the tree that was over three meters in diameter, cing it on the side, he couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed medium Magic Crane that could hold up to fifty tons. Compared to the small Magic Crane the Amrit Chamber of Commerce already used that could only hold up to ten tons, this was a major breakthrough.

    The amount of work of increasing the elevation for the Stru Road was very big, so the small Magic Crane wouldn¡¯t satisfy their needs most of the time.

    With this medium Magic Crane, there was no doubt that this reduced their work quite a bit.

    Moreover, this medium Magic Crane was just starting. With the years of experience umted for the magic machine development center, they already had enough foundational knowledge and experience for various magic machines. In the future, they would be able to develop various magic machines with even higher specs.

    With the help of these magic machines, the Stru Road would have hope of being finished.

    Before this, no one would have thought that they could build a road up a fifty meter tall cliff.

    But now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this a reality.

    Elder Lisanya suddenly turned and found that Xu Yi had arrived.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the might of this medium Magic Crane is really good. It can actually match the power of our race¡¯s Ancient War Tree.¡± Elder Lisanya said.

    ¡°Ancient War Tree?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°It was our race¡¯s strongest war machine, no one could stop its might. It was an invincible existence on the battlefield and even Great Magicians couldn¡¯t be of a threat to it.¡± Elder Lisanya said with a proud look.

    Xu Yi looked at her. He really wanted to ask that since the elves had such a powerful weapon, why did they lose to the humans and lose control of the continent?

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be this tactless.

    ¡°Oh? Our Magic Cranes are this powerful?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But elder Lisanya, this Magic Crane isn¡¯t our final product, we will develop even more powerful magic machines. There are still many magic machines that are stronger than this Magic Crane.¡±

    Elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi and after thinking for a bit, she went against Xu Yi by not refuting him. She just nodded and said with a sigh, ¡°I believe that chairman Xu can do this. You have already created many miracles, I won¡¯t be surprised no matter what you make.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit curious. Elder Lisanya had a domineering personality, she must have a reason to be this passive in front of him.

    It can¡¯t be that she wanted to use this attitude to lure him into epting an elven beauty, right?

    Facts proved that Xu Yi was thinking too much.

    After feeling emotional, elder Lisanya didn¡¯t continue this topic, rather she began discussing the Stru Road slope project with Xu Yi.

    Elder Lisanya had proposed to Xu Yi that with the strong control over nts the elves had, they could build the slope with just nts which would save on cost for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had rejected this out of concerns for the safety and stability of this project, but elder Lisanya didn¡¯t give up. Instead she really used nts to create a slope in the Slight Dream Forest.

    The slope reached the cliff and had already connected the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.

    When elder Lisanya brought Xu Yi to this slope made of nts, she had a very proud look.

    ¡°How about it? Chairman Xu, this slope only took us less than four months to finish and the rock slope that you insisted on would still take another three months to finish. If you listened to my suggestion, the road might already be finished by now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the twenty meter wide slope that slowly went upwards that waspletely made of nts and had nothing to say in reply.

    Although this slope was madepletely of nts, the surface had been processed by the elves and it waspletelypacted. Other than looking a bit strange, there was no difference from the hard road surface.

    Xu Yi turned to his Magic Sedan and drove it on this slope, feeling the slight bit of softness on the ground. Although this would affect the speed, it didn¡¯t jolt the vehicle at all.

    Compared to this, this was even morefortable than driving on normal roads.

    Driving across it, Xu Yi approved of this slope very much in his heart.

    The elves really were the most mysterious race on the continent, they had all these mysterious things.

    But thinking of how this was made of nts, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t feel assured.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, since you had this ability, why didn¡¯t you connect to the cliff sooner? That way it would have been easier for you to enter the Rudson Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Why do we want to enter the Rudson Kingdom?¡± Elder Lisanya asked back, ¡°Just the opposite, we don¡¯t want humans to enter the forest at all, the cliff is the best hindrance.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug as he thought he asked a useless question.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe repelled humans from entering the Slight Dream Forest, only because their thoughts change did the situation change.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi continued, ¡°How about this, elder Lisanya, let¡¯s keep this road, but we will also construct another road beside it. I will supplement some money to divide the Stru Road in half, letting people choose which path they wish to take into the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Elder Lisanya slightly knit her brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know what I want you to use my suggestion?¡±

    ¡°I do.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile. He looked around, hinting to elder Lisanya toe over to talk.

    Elder Lisanya shook her head. Raising her hand, there was a blue glow that fell and surrounded them.

    ¡°Alright, with this small istion spell, the others can¡¯t see us or hear what we say. You can just say what you want to say.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the light blue glow around him, thinking that this thing was clearly like the insted walls on earth.

    He never thought that there was such convenient spatial magic, it really opened his eyes.

    After giving a sigh, Xu Yi looked at elder Lisanya and said with a serious look, ¡°I think.....the elder wants to control this road into the Rudson Kingdom. If we use your n, you can take down the road whenever you want, which is equal to interrupting the Stru Road that leads to the Rudson Kingdom, am I right?¡±

    Elder Lisanya gave a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are an intelligent human. That¡¯s right, that is my n, do you have an objection?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have any objections, rather I¡¯m firmly against it. You should know the importance of the Stru Road to ourpany, so no matter what, I need to be able to control this road. If we follow your ns, whether this road will be linked or not will depend on you, then there¡¯s no meaning in constructing this road for me.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t as serious as you make it.¡± Elder Lisanya slowly shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m worried about extreme situations that would very rarely appear. It might not even appear once, so you don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    ¡°This is different. This Stru Road to ourpany is like the blood veins of a human, so no matter what, I must control it. Elder Lisanya, there¡¯s no discussion on this matter.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°Whether you are willing or not, I will be building another road.¡±

    Elder Lisanya¡¯s face sunk slightly, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve always treated you as the closest friend and partner of our Moon Shadow Tribe. Are you now nning on falling out with us over this matter?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have this idea.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°But I must have control over this road this time, so I¡¯ve brought some sincerity with me.¡±

    ¡°Sincerity?¡± Elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi in confusion.

    After dealing with Xu Yi many times, she knew that Xu Yi¡¯s ¡°sincerity¡± had to be some real benefits.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, if you¡¯re willing to yield on this matter, I will recruit a thousand elven soldiers into my private guards from your Moon Shadow Tribe.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Elder Lisanya was stunned.

    What benefits were there in recruiting a thousand precious elven warriors into Xu Yi¡¯s personal guards for the Moon Shadow Tribe?

    Where was Xu Yi¡¯s sincerity?

    Like he could see through elder Lisanya¡¯s thoughts, Xu Yi revealed aforting smile.

    ¡°I will provide a set of individual military magic machines for those elven warriors after they join my private guards and allow them to bring them back to the Moon Shadow Tribe after they retire.¡±

    Hearing this, elder Lisanya¡¯s eyes suddenly lit up.

 Volume 4 125 - How big is your heart

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 125 How big is your heart</h4>

    It was another summer.

    The burning heat was the same asst year, sweeping across the Stantine Duchy.

    Xu Yi¡¯s territory was in the north of the Stantine Duchy, but it couldn¡¯t escape the heat and it was bathed in the unmatched might of the summer.

    The people of the Stantine Duchy were naturally adapted to this climate and the people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been here for several years, so they had also adapted to this climate.

    However, for the people that came from other parts of the continent, they were very ufortable with this early summer heat that was as hot as the heat that they normally experienced during the middle of summer. Every person¡¯s body turned soft in the heat and their movements were like they were out of shape.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    The thirty kilogram steel cylinder fell to the ground, creating arge sound and arge plume of dust.

    Hart shook his head before waving his hand, ¡°Next!¡±

    The person standing in the center had a depressed look. He was very unwilling, but he didn¡¯t say a thing as he moved away from the center in a depressed manner.

    Seeing anotherrge man who was lined up behind hime out, Heinz sitting beside Hart couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Testing with this standard, there aren¡¯t that many who can pass, right?¡±

    Hart looked at the form in his hand and agreed.

    ¡°Up to now, there were only eighty three people who passed.¡±

    ¡°This is too little.¡± Heinz couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°With this rate, if we want to recruit a thousand people, who knows how long it will take.¡±

    Hart gave a shrug, ¡°Sir chairman said that too little is better than too much. We have to conduct the tests based on his standards and they fail if they can¡¯t match them, there is nothing else to say.¡±

    Heinz slowly shook his head, ¡°He is just recruiting a thousand personal guards, although having strict requirements isn¡¯t wrong, it¡¯s strange how it¡¯s this strict. It¡¯s fine if he wants them to be strong, but why does he need their minds to be flexible? It¡¯s not like he¡¯s recruiting workers.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman wants his private guards to be able to easily use the military magic machines, so this request is already standard for ourpany guards.¡± Hart said, ¡°After all, it¡¯s sir chairman¡¯s private guards, how could they not know how to use military magic machines?¡±

    Heinz thought about it and was still a bit confused, ¡°I don¡¯t understand, if he really needs this, why doesn¡¯t he just take some guards from thepany to act as his private guards instead? Anyway, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is his, so if he does what he wants, would anyone be able to say anything?¡±

    Hartughed, ¡°Sir vice chairman, aren¡¯t youining right now? Of course, sir chairman said that this was to create a clear distinction between thepany guards and his private guards to avoid trouble in the future.¡±

    ¡°What trouble could there be?¡± Heinz was even more confused. He looked at the person who had just taken the test and thought that Xu Yi was thinking too much.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already quite big, bing a first sspany in the Lampuri Kingdom, if it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was Xu Yi¡¯spany alone, no one would have any objections.

    Since it was like this, why was he doing all this and had to recruit guards again?

    These guards were clearly weaker than the guards that had been in thepany for many years, they couldn¡¯tpare at all. If he wanted personal guards, thepany guards were clearly more suitable.

    Moreover, Xu Yi didn¡¯t just stop with the human guards. When he passed on the news, he said that he would be recruiting many guards for his personal territory, which not only included a thousand human guards, but also a thousand elven guards and a thousand dwarf guards.

    Moreover, in the private information he disclosed, it was very likely he would recruit a thousand beastmen guards from the ck Rice Wastnd.

    If he formed a guard unit from this, it would be a mixed race army.

    The other races didn¡¯t have a good rtionship with the humans, they couldn¡¯t see eye to eye. If they were put together, there might be problems with this guard unit.

    Heinz continued watching the recruitment for Xu Yi¡¯s guards for a bit, but he finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore as he went to find Xu Yi with a heavy look.

    Xu Yi was currently at the magic machine development center, gathered around a strange thing and was in deep discussion with Camby and the other engineers. Only when Heinz forcefully patted his shoulder did he notice that Heinz was here.

    When Heinz asked him about his recruitment of guards, he only reacted after being surprised for a bit.

    Based on this, it seemed like he didn¡¯t care about this matter at all.

    ¡°This.....Heinz, I feel that you don¡¯t need to worry. The treatment of bing my personal guard is this good, even if they don¡¯t like each other, they wouldn¡¯t cause any troubles.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    Heinz wanted to say more, but Xu Yi took him by the shoulder and pointed at the strange thing that everyone was gathered around, ¡°Alright, stop worrying about those small things,e take a look at this. This is the thing that I really care about and the thing that you as the vice chairman should care about the most.¡±

    Heinz couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He knew that when Xu Yi acted like this, no matter how he asked, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t answer him,

    But he had known Xu Yi for all these years, so he knew that Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t do anything meaningless.

    He certainly had a long term n for suddenly recruiting all these guards.

    Heinz was already half retired. He suddenly came from Banta City all the way to the Stantine Duchy because he heard the news of Xu Yi suddenly recruiting personal guards. He couldn¡¯t help being worried about Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he came to ask Xu Yi.

    Although he didn¡¯t get any real answers from Xu Yi, based on Xu Yi¡¯s appearance, he already had his ns, so there was no need for him to worry.

    Thinking of this, Heinz shook his head. He put down the worry in his heart and focused on the strange thing in front of him.

    After looking for a bit, Heinz seemed to have recognized something.

    ¡°This.....it looks very simr to the Wind Magic Engine.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder before loudly saying, ¡°You really are an old partner, you can recognize it in one look. That¡¯s right, this is our newly developed Fire Magic Engine!¡±

    Heinz¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°It¡¯s actually the Fire Magic Engine? It.....It¡¯s finally been developed?¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡± Xu Yi said with a side smile, ¡°How about it? Aren¡¯t you very excited?¡±

    Heinz kept nodding.

    This Fire Magic Engine had entered development over three years ago. During this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested arge amount of manpower and resources into this, but they made little progress.

    As Xu Yi¡¯s oldest partner, Heinz knew how much importance Xu Yi ced on the development of the Fire Magic Engine and also knew how much effort Xu Yi had put into this.

    This had puzzled Xu Yi for this long, the hardest research project for the magic machine development center had finally been developed. Even if Heinz didn¡¯t understand that well what the development of the Fire Magic Engine meant, he was still very excited.

    ¡°Great! It¡¯s finallyplete!¡± Heinzughed as he nodded, ¡°Like this, Xu Yi, what did you say would happen after the Fire Magic Engine was developed?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head.

    Heinz didn¡¯t understand this thing to begin with, but he was still this excited because of him.

    Xu Yi felt moved as he took Heinz by the shoulder and pointed at the Fire Magic Engine while he began exining, ¡°Heinz, you should know that ourpany¡¯s Magic Cars have never been able to break the max speed of sixty kilometers an hour.¡±

    ¡°Un.....You said that this is because there is a natural limit to the Wind Magic Engine and because there hasn¡¯t been a breakthrough in the machine, so it was very hard to rely on the Wind Magic Engine itself to break this limit.¡± Heinz said, ¡°Then based on what you said, with this Fire Magic Engine, the Magic Cars can break the limit of sixty kilometers an hour?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Why only sixty kilometers an hour? Let me tell you, with this Fire Magic Engine, Magic Cars can even reach a speed of two hundred kilometers an hour!¡±

    Heinz was stunned, ¡°Two hundred kilometer an hour? Isn¡¯t that too exaggerated?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, this isn¡¯t exaggerated at all. Two hundred kilometers an hour is already very slow. To achieve the goal in my heart, it has to reach at least four hundred kilometers an hour! Moreover, as long as the Fire Magic Engine can be developed further and used with the Magic Airship, we can make the Magic Airship break the limit of a thousand kilometers an hour!¡±

    Heinz shook his head, ¡°This is too much. A thousand kilometers an hour, this is impossible just thinking about it.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he looked at Camby.

    Camby gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°Vice chairman Heinz, sir chairman¡¯s words are true. ording to the current data we¡¯ve received from the Fire Magic Engine, in theory, there is the possibility of reaching a thousand kilometers an hour with the Fire Magic Engine. Of course, this only exists in theory right now and to realize this goal, we need arge amount of research.¡±

    The dwarves had a personality that didn¡¯t like to lie, so if Heinz doubted Xu Yi before, he had no choice but to believe it if Camby was the one speaking.

    One thousand kilometers an hour? Just thinking about it, Heinz already felt dizzy.

    Even if it was only possible in theory, this was just too incredible!

    After thinking for a bit, Heinz couldn¡¯t help saying to Xu Yi, ¡°Not mentioning one thousand kilometers an hour, isn¡¯t just reaching four hundred kilometers an hour too much? It¡¯s less than a thousand kilometers to go from here to the Lampuri Kingdom. Based on what you said, wouldn¡¯t you be able to make a trip in just over two hours? Is there a need to be that quick?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I say, Heinz, isn¡¯t your heart too small? The Lampuri Kingdom from head to toe is only a thousand kilometers, but the territory of the Candra and Marlow Empires aren¡¯t this small.¡±

    Heinz rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, thinking that it isn¡¯t my heart that is too small, it¡¯s your heart that is too big.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was only a small kingdom on the continent, how could it bepared to the Candra and Marlow Empires?

    When he thought about how Xu Yi had recruited personal guards, Heinz suddenly had a terrifying thought and he couldn¡¯t help taking a cold breath.

    If Xu Yi really was thinking this way, then his heart was too......This was simply.....He wanted to open the sky!

 Volume 4 126 - Her majesty on vacation

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 126 Her majesty on vacation</h4>

    Even if because of geographical reasons, the Stantine Duchy was warm all year round, once it entered summer, it wasn¡¯t that much hotter than the other countries of the Sines Continent.

    Comparing it, there was arge advantage. Because it was close to the sea, it could enjoy the cool breeze that came from the sea at any time.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened arge section of the beach that was usually used for recreational purposes by their staff. However, because it was very beautiful being built near the ocean and had many supporting features, it attracted many people passing by and it had be a very good vacation spot.

    Each summer, this ce would be filled with people and would be very busy, creating quite a decent tourist ie for Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you opened your territory to this many people, is it really good?¡± Seveni looked at the lively ce near the sea through her telescope before turning to ask Xu Yi this.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s nothing bad about this. My territory iscking people, so for people toe here and create such poprity is a very good matter.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi and had a charming angry look in her eyes, ¡°So you won¡¯t hesitate to use a high price to take people from Banta City?¡±

    Xu Yiughed into the sky, avoiding this question as he asked Seveni, ¡°Don¡¯t mention me. Your majesty, you¡¯ve thrown away the millions of citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom and secretly came here for a vacation, is this really good?¡±

    Seveni stretched out her arms and her back before letting out a sigh. She said with a faint smile, ¡°No matter how responsible a queen is, she needs time to herself, right? Then again, I didn¡¯te here for vacation, but to discuss proper business with you. Speaking of this, it was for work.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Then, honourable queen, since you are here to discuss proper business, why are you dressed in this cool bikini? Could it be that you¡¯re nning to charm me to make me lose my reasoning and increase the chips for your negotiations?¡±

    Seveni revealed a grin before looking down at her new modeled bikini. There was a blush that appeared on her face as her eyes filled with a bit of shyness.

    ¡°Is my figure qualified to affect your reasoning?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look, ¡°Seveni, even if you disregard the importance of you as the queen, just you alone are charming enough.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Seveni had a bit of pleasant surprise in her eyes, ¡°What aboutpared to Still?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Still is my wife, no one canpare to her in my heart, so thisparison isn¡¯t fair towards you.¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh and her expression returned to her normal smile. She looked over Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve already changed clothes, what about you?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at his clothes and shook his head, ¡°Liz and the other should have prepared it for me, I¡¯ll change at the beach.¡±

    The two left Xu Yi¡¯s private manor and arrived at the cliff behind the manor.

    Under this cliff was the private beach that Xu Yi made. When Xu Yi and Still brought Liz and Linda down to swim, Xu Yi and Still flew them down carrying one person each. As more people came and Evita and Akali came to y frequently, who all liked to go for a swim, Xu Yi installed a wind powered elevator not far away by the cliff.

    Xu Yi came to the elevator and was about to call the elevator when Seveni stopped him.

    Turning back, Seveni stretched her hands out to Xu Yi and said with a faint smile, ¡°Xu Yi, carry me down.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as he slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t good, your majesty. If someone saw it, even if I don¡¯t mind, it will create rumours about you.¡±

    ¡°It won¡¯t.¡± Seveni shook her head and gave a chuckle, ¡°Today is my rare day to rx, can¡¯t you let me be a bit willful?¡±

    Xu Yi had known Seveni for a long time and he had never seen Seveni act this spoiled before.

    Although Sveni¡¯s appearance was a bit inferior to Still and Princess Caroline, it was still quite good. She had a very strong expression and had a gentle heart, she rarely acted like a little girl. Now that she had suddenly acted like this, Xu YI¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help being moved.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile. He confidently walked over and reached out to take Seveni¡¯s waist. He used his magic and flew down from the high up cliff.

    As soon as they went into the air, Seveni couldn¡¯t help calling out in surprise. When Xu Yi quickly carried her down, Seveni called out even more, but her voice was filled with excitement.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. Although Seveni was already the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, she was still a little girl in her twenties, she should act like a girl sometimes.

    After a while, the twonded on the soft sands under the cliff.

    Seveni let out a breath and patted her chest, seeming a bit shaken.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I wanted to experience flying long ago and it is as I imagined it, it is just.....too exciting.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°I say, your majesty, if you want to fly in the sky, you can find a magician to fly with you, what is difficult about that?¡±

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°It¡¯s easy to find a magician, but to find one that can carry me while flying through the sky is impossible.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, it was hard to tell if her eyes were happy or angry.

    ¡°Because other than you, there are no magicians who would carry me to fly in the sky.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°You were the one who requested this, you can¡¯t me me.¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not ming you.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Being able to fly in the sky is a dream of mine since I was young, it¡¯s a pity I don¡¯t have talent for magic, otherwise I definitely would have devoted myself to studying magic. I wouldn¡¯t be like I am now, sitting on the throne that I do not want, racking my brain everyday to solve theplicated business of the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°For the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom, you have to bear this loss. I can¡¯t help you on this, but I can help you a bit with other things. For example, if you want to fly in the sky, you don¡¯t need to find a magician to help you. As long as you buy ourpany¡¯s newest product, the Magic Airship, you can freely fly in the sky and stay as long as you want.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, finding this a bit funny, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found that you are bing more and more of a profiteer. At this time, you actually didn¡¯t forget to sell yourpany¡¯s newest product to me.¡±

    Xu Yi immediatelyined, ¡°This is a conscientious rmendation, alright? The Magic Airship is ourpany¡¯s newest developed product, it far surpasses all the other magic machines of ourpany, representing the highest technological standard of this world. With this Magic Airship, you can be the same as magicians with Wind Magic, flying through the skys. Think about it, isn¡¯t this enticing enough?¡±

    ¡°Un, I admit that it is very enticing.....¡± Seveni nodded. When Xu Yi was mentally prepared for her to say ¡°but¡±, Seveni revealed a slightly cunning smile and continued, ¡°So Xu Yi, I n on ordering a hundred Magic Airships from yourpany, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Xu Yi was stunned.

    Seeing the smile on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi immediately understood.

    In the end, Seveni hade prepared this time.

    It was very clear that she had some understanding of the Magic Airships and were already nning on ordering, but she was now following Xu Yi¡¯s words to make this request.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi was angry and found this funny. He shook his head at Seveni, ¡°I say, your majesty, buying our Magic Airship isn¡¯t a bad thing, so why are you going around in a circle?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because......I have no money.¡± Seveni said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°You want to buy Magic Airships with no money? And you want to buy a hundred? Let me tell you, each Magic Airship from ourpany costs three hundred thousand gold coins, a hundred of them is thirty million gold coins! Alright, your Lampuri Kingdom indeed doesn¡¯t have the money for this, so how are you going to solve this problem?¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Xu Yi, our Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t have the ability to pay thirty million at once, but it is impossible for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to provide a hundred Magic Airships at once, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi gave a helpless nod.

    The production capacity problem was an old problem for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although with the hiring of new staff and the development of the automatic production magic machines, it had been increased, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept developing and the magic machines became more popr, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received more and more orders that their production couldn¡¯t keep up.

    Especially after Seveni became the queen and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce returned to the Lampuri Kingdom. With the extra mature markets in the Lampuri Kingdom, their orders had exploded.

    Recently, everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been very busy, even their vacation had been reduced.

    ¡°Since neither side can meet the needs of the other side, why don¡¯t we make the transaction a bit longer?¡± Seveni continued, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve heard that when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce sold their new vis, they adopted a more flexible method of paying for them.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°You¡¯re talking about installment payments?¡±

 Volume 4 127 - Give you the western army

    Volume 4 Chapter 127 Give you the western army

    Installment payments was something that Xu Yi had proposed to chairman Cruise. Because this payment method was flexible, it allowed people who couldn¡¯t pay for everything at once to have the vi of their dreams, so it was very wee once it was proposed.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new vis used to belong to the rich of Banta City, but because of the installment payment system, it allowed many of the normal households to have the ability to buy the vis they admired. It also greatly increased the sales volume for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    With just this proposition, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s housing sales had increased by threefolds, making chairman Cruise naturally very grateful towards Xu Yi.

    But because the transportation and information system couldn¡¯tpare to that on earth, this world didn¡¯t have aplete credit system, this method could only be implemented in a small region and was very limited.

    Other than proposing this to chairman Cruise, Xu Yi didn¡¯t rmend this to the otherpanies.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because their production capacity was never enough, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never needed to promote their items, so they could never use this method.

    But now Seveni suddenly proposed that she wanted to use installment payments which made Xu Yi surprised.

    But thinking about it, this suggestion was actually viable.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances weren¡¯t good, they were still a country in the end. Without gold coins, they still had arge amount of resources.

    Although there were many risks that couldn¡¯t be controlled when making a transaction with apany, the Lampuri Kingdom was currently controlled by Seveni.

    Xu Yi had enough confidence and understanding of this queen.

    As long as Seveni¡¯s control of the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t weaken, he felt relieved making this deal with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently cooperating with the Lampuri Kingdom who had a strong dependence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they wanted to strengthen their rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The installment payment n was a long term transaction, which would strengthen the rtionship between the two sides.

    As for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s ability to pay, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that worried.

    The magic machine factories owned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom had sprung up all over the Lampuri Kingdom. Up to this point, there were seventy six factories already constructing various kinds of household magic machine and production magic machines.

    Justst month, the household magic machines produced by these seventy six factories even surpassed the production of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone.

    Because there was a difference in quality, it couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand on the high end market, but in the low and medium end market, it couldpete with the household magic machines of thepanies from before.

    In the Lampuri Kingdom, because thesepanies were built with investment from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could be considered of the Frestech Brand. Adding in the fact that they were all local factories of the Lampuri Kingdom, naturally they had the support of many people in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than this, the Lampuri Kingdom also sold products to the surrounding six countries, earning arge amount of gold coins from them.

    At the suggestion of Xu Yi, the Lampuri Kingdom even smuggled household magic machines through special channels into the Sack Kingdom, selling them for actual benefits in the Sack Kingdom.

    ording to the data the Lampuri Kingdom side had provided, in just thest three months ofst year, the Lampuri Kingdom had earned over two million gold coins with the magic machines produced from those factories.

    With this ie, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had received close to five hundred thousand gold coins, making the tax ie for the Lampuri Kingdom over three million gold coinsst year.

    Only half of this year had passed and the Lampuri Kingdom had already collected over two million gold coins as tax from the magic machine industry. Adding in the payments from the various other industries linked to the magic machine industry, just from this, the kingdom¡¯s finances had already reached an ie of three million and four hundred thousand gold coins.

    With this trend, when this year ended, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial revenue might even reach a historical five million gold coins!

    In the six hundred years of history for the Lampuri Kingdom, they never had such good financial revenue in a single year since the founding of the nation.

    With this good financial situation, Seveni had the confidence to carry out various reforms in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the less than half a year that Seveni had been crowned, the lives of the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom had greatly changed.

    It also increased Seveni¡¯s fame in the Lampuri Kingdom, increasing her control over the kingdom.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation hadn¡¯t stabilized, how could her majesty Seveni have the time toe to the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Un.....There¡¯s no problem with installment payments, but Seveni, a hundred Magic Airships cost thirty million gold coins. Even if it was split to a hundred years, you have to repay three hundred thousand gold coins each year and this is considering that I don¡¯t change any interest. Not to mention that I wouldn¡¯t ept such a long term.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying this with a serious look.

    ¡°It¡¯s very clear I wouldn¡¯t ept the term of a hundred years either. How about this, we¡¯ll set the deadline for twenty years, what do you think?¡± Seveni asked.

    ¡°Twenty years?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Even if there is no interest, that is one and a half million gold coins a year. Although your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances are good, this would be a veryrge pressure on it. For just a hundred Magic Airships, I wouldn¡¯t rmend this choice.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Who said that it has to be the same amount each year? Our kingdom¡¯s finances aren¡¯t good enough yet, so in the beginning, we¡¯ll pay less. When the kingdom¡¯s finances be better, we can pay a higher amount. It¡¯s fine as long as the deadline is twenty years, but as for the amount, we can still discuss this.¡±

    ¡°This is a way, but Seveni, why do you think I would agree to this? There¡¯s no benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this. Although we are friends, as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can¡¯t agree to this.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I understand this.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°So other than this, I still have another method of cooperating, are you interested?¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit curious, ¡°What benefits are there for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are benefits.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°Xu Yi, didn¡¯t you go seemander Lantis before? You proposed to him strengthening the defenses on the ck Rice Wastnd and stopping the invasion of the Sack Kingdom, right?¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised Seveni knew about this, but he was curious how Seveni would rte this to the matter they were just discussing.

    ¡°We don¡¯t have the ability to control the ck Rice Wastnd right now because the investment is too big, the kingdom¡¯s finances can¡¯t support this. But while our Lampuri Kingdom has no money, Xu Yi, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is quite rich.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s smile, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became strange.

    Could it be......

    ¡°This cooperation is very simple. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will give money and our Lampuri Kingdom will give money. I can have the western army follow themands of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as it is rted to the ck Rice Wastnd, you will have full control of the western army.¡±

    Although he had already guessed this, Xu Yi was shocked in his heart.

    Seveni¡¯s words were equal to handing the western army to him.

    As the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, giving an army of the kingdom to apany and apany whose chairman was no longer in the kingdom, this was simply a shocking thing!

    ¡°Seveni, if you do this, are you not afraid that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people will scold you to death?¡±

    Seveni gave a soft snort.

    ¡°Whoever dares to oppose, I will have them think of a way to get the thirty million gold coins. If they don¡¯t have the skills, they can only shut up.¡±

    Seeing the dignity on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Seveni rarely said words like this before. After bing the queen for half a year, she naturally had her dignity.

    ¡°Alright, I have to admit it, this suggestion is very enticing to me. But Seveni, I still don¡¯t think it is enough for me to agree to the installment payment n you proposed because I could hear another meaning in your words. Seveni, are you nning.....on letting me handle all the expenses of the western army?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seveni gave a shrug, ¡°If I had enough money, why would I risk making a proposal that many people would oppose?¡±

    ¡°Good, then I can only reject this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Unless you really give the western army to me, there aren¡¯t any benefits to me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this.¡±

    ¡°If this isn¡¯t enough, I can give you another condition.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°Not only on the ck Rice Wastnd, even in the Stantine Duchy, the western army will follow your orders. What do you think about that?¡±

    Seeing the smile on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi was shocked, but his expression stayed the same.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s make a deal.¡±

 Volume 4 128 - Fortifications

    Volume 4 Chapter 128 Fortifications

    Seveni¡¯s trip to the Stantine Duchy this time was in name to discuss business between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom with Xu Yi, but ording to her ideas, this was an excuse to rx for a few days.

    She indeed did implement this goal. Other than ¡°hiring¡± the western army to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which she discussed with Xu Yi, the rest of the cooperation would be handled by the subordinates that she brought.

    ordingly, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this at all. As for the negotiations, he would hand it to Kennard and the other staff, he would just y with Seveni for a few days.

    ording to Seveni, other than Xu Yi, there is no one else in the Lampuri Kingdom that is like Xu Yi. No one else acted casually in front of her, treating her like a normal friend, which made her feel very happy.

    During these two days, other than taking Seveni swimming and enjoying the sunny beach, he had also brought Seveni to the stimting car races in his territory. They had even boarded a small Magic Speed Boat and felt the wind on the sea.

    On the final day, Xu Yi brought Seveni onto a Magic Airship and let her experience the feeling of soaring in the sky.

    After they finished riding it, the excited Seveni directly requested Xu Yi to specially custom the first Magic Airship for her.

    This Magic Airship wouldn¡¯t be paid by the Lampuri Kingdom, rather it would be paid from Seveni¡¯s own pockets.

    It had to be known, although Seveni was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, her personal finances weren¡¯t good. Now that she was willing to pay three hundred thousand gold coins for a Magic Airship, it could be seen how much she liked it.

    Two dayster, Seveni returned to the Lampuri Kingdom after her short vacation in the Stantine Duchy. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had been on high alert because of her visit let out a sigh of relief and returned to their normal lives.

    Entering summer, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines reached a peak in their sales.

    In just the month of June, with the final count, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold three hundred and sixty thousand Magic Fans, eighty thousand Magic Air Conditioners, and the Magic Refrigerators were a bit less with only thirty thousand units.

    With these three types of most popr household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a shocking sales number of one million five hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.

    As for the magic machine workshop side, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cars were greatly weed in the Rudson Kingdom.

    First they sold over four thousand medium and small transport Magic Cars and over seven hundredrge transport Magic Cars. Just with the transport Magic Cars, they earned profits of over six hundred thousand gold coins.

    Then there were the Magic Sedans, because all the nobles and merchants wanted them, there were arge amount of sales once it was released.

    In just the month of June, the Magic Sedans sold over three hundred units in the Rudson Kingdom, bringing a profit of fifty thousand gold coins for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although this profit was lower than the other departments, Xu Yi believed that there was a broad market for the Magic Sedans.

    When the living conditions of themon citizens in the Rudson Kingdom gradually became better, the Magic Sedans would sell as well as the cars on earth and their sales would explode.

    As for the Lampuri Kingdom, there were already signs of this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t include Magic Cars, so when Magic Sedans were being sold in the Lampuri Kingdom, they were considered imported goods and there had to be a tariff paid on them. So the price was a bit higher.

    But even like this, the Magic Sedans were still popr in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As the ce of origin for the Magic Sedans, almost all the nobles and merchants of the Lampuri Kingdom had to have one.

    If you were still riding a horse carriage, it was simply considered shameful and they couldn¡¯t go out.

    What Xu Yi really cared about was that there was some demand for Magic Sedans among the citizens.

    These citizens weren¡¯t nobles or rich merchants, but they still wanted the Magic Sedans.

    But these citizens didn¡¯t have enough financial power to pay a thousand gold coins at once for a Magic Sedan, so Xu Yi began considering following the method on earth to allow for installment payments.

    Although there was a risk doing this on the Sines Continent, after considering the market factors, Xu Yi thought that this idea was worth it.

    However, ignoring those citizens, there were over six hundred Magic Sedans sold in the Lampuri Kingdomst month, creating profits of over a hundred thousand gold coins.

    However, when it came to the transport and passenger Magic Cars, there was an explosive number of sales. In June, these two sses of Magic Cars had sold a shocking thirteen thousand units in the Lampuri Kingdom!

    Just with this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned terrifying profits of close to two million gold coins!

    Then adding in the various bicycles, tires, production magic machines, and such, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sales of over five million gold coins in the month of June!

    Even if they put aside all the costs, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit in this month was still over three million gold coins.

    This was also not counting the profits from the military magic machines.

    Of course, in terms of the military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t earn that much money.

    Xu Yi obtained arge piece of territory in the ceasefire agreement with Count Wein, but he also needed to provide Count Wein with arge amount of military magic machines.

    And now that Xu Yi had reached an agreement with Seveni, Xu Yi was hiring the western army from Seveni. In order to increase the battle strength of the western army, Xu Yi naturally had to prepare some military magic machines for them.

    Even if Xu Yi was clear that it was impossible to take back the military magic machines he equipped the western army with, which meant he was giving it for free, hecked people right now. With the support of the western army, there were many things that could be solved.

    With the current finances of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could support this consumption.

    After June passed, even in the scorching heat, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s western army equipped with arge amount of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines headed off into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    If the western army dared to do this before, it would naturally be met with the fierce resistance of the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd. They would think that the human kingdom was invading the ck Rice Wastnd, taking the territory that belonged to the beastmen.

    But this time, the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd didn¡¯t respond at all. When the western army passed the beastmen tribes, they received warm wees from them and receivedrge amounts of supplies.

    It was clear that this was the role the Frestech Chamber of Commerce yed.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first came to invest in factories, all the beastmen were hostile. But after several years of development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies were all epted by the beastmen.

    The reason was very simple, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other humanpanies brought them better lives.

    After moving through the ck Rice Wastnd unimpeded, the western army came to the border between the Sack Kingdom and the ck Rice Wastnd. Working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they began building fortifications.

    These fortifications were different from building walls on both sides, rather they were made from the newest reinforced concrete technology of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    When building the dam on the Sandy River, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had built this dam with the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after several years of umtion, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was now very skilled with this method of construction.

    Adding in the funds and resources that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, these fortifications were built incredibly quickly.

    In just a single month, there was a fortification that stretched over three hundred kilometers built.

    If one looked at it from the outside, these fortifications looked like the Great Wall, but it was just just a bit smaller. It was only five meters tall and three meters deep.

    Butpared to the Great Wall, these fortifications were without a doubt much harder.

    Using reinforced concrete to make these fortifications, not mentioning easily resisting the attacks of normal armies, even if a powerful Ninth Grade Magician like Xu Yi bombed it for half a day, there wouldn¡¯t be a single dent.

    When this fortification was built in the north of the ck Rice Wastnd, it could be said that all of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s attempts of going south was blocked. The ck Rice Wastnd wouldn¡¯t be harrassed and could safely develop.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom, this was also very beneficial.

    Without worry for the ck Rice Wastnd, the Lampuri Kingdom could concentrate more on the kingdom¡¯s north.

    So although there were many voices of opposition for Seveni ¡°hiring¡± the wester army to Xu Yi, when Xu Yi proposed this method of cooperation, it received full support.

    Of course, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t actually willing to do this.

    These defenses seemed impregnable to the people of the Sines Continent, but for Xu Yi, these defenses didn¡¯t have any meaning at all and couldn¡¯t defend against a truly powerful attack.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested a total of three million gold coins to build these fortifications.

    If this amount was used for other things, there would definitely be more returns.

    But in order to receive the approval of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army and to create a stable environment in the ck Rice Wastnd, this three million gold coins had to be spent.

    But for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the ck Rice Wastnd was only one ce that had to be stable. There was another ce where stability was more important.

    But that ce wouldn¡¯t be stable......

 Volume 4 129 - Freyaâ€™s relaxing time

    Volume 4 Chapter 129 Freya¡¯s rxing time

    With the strong support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Count Wein continued his strong offense on the various southern Stantine Duchy lords.

    In a few months, Count Wein not only defeated the four lords that had united against him, he also defeated another three lords and had gotten arge piece of territory of over ten thousand square kilometers.

    Count Wein right now had already be the strongest Stantine Duchy lord that no one couldpare to.

    The northern Stantine Duchy fell to the mes of war and the south also wasn¡¯t calm.

    Anklo had been saving his strength in the first few years. Although he had been developing his territory and increasing his strength, causing many people to pay attention to him in the Stantine Duchy¡¯s south,pared to Lord Wein, he was considered to be biding his time and waiting for the right opportunity.

    However, in the year 3785, Anklo went against the norm and started developing in the south of the Stantine Duchy.

    In just half a year, Anklo had already doubled the size of his territory and he now had over ten thousand square kilometers ofnd.

    Although he was not the lord with thergest territory in the southern Stantine Duchy, in terms ofbat strength, especially strength on the battlefield, no one dared to doubt that he was the strongest.

    The reason was very simple, it was because he had the full support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After signing the contract with Lord Wein, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had stopped supplying military magic machines to all lords other than Lord Wein and Anklo.

    Without the ammunition or being able to maintain them, it was naturally impossible for the military magic machines tost long.

    In the beginning, the other lords could still contend with Lord Wein and Anklo with their stock, but after a while, they couldn¡¯t use the military magic machines that they owned. The other lords werepletely routed by Lord Wein and Anklo, they weren¡¯t able to resist at all.

    Everyone was clear that in the fight between lords, the decisive factor was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To be more direct, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldpletely control the development of the Stantine Duchy.

    After realizing this, there were many people who naturally couldn¡¯t sit still.

    ###

    ¡°Zhi, le, zhi, le!¡±

    There were many things different on the Sines Continent from earth, but there were some things that were the same.

    Cicadas in summer were one of them.

    Every summer, hearing the familiar sounds of the cicadas, Xu Yi would feel a warm feeling in his heart.

    He had already been in this world for eight years. Although he had adopted to living in this world and had gotten married, already having a child, Xu Yi still missed living on earth.

    Hearing the sounds of the cicadas, he could remember his youth on earth. He would run out with his friends during the summer with bugs and go into the mountain to chase butterflies and cicadas.

    This summer was still burning hot and Xu Yi was taking a break from his schedule enjoying the cool breeze under a tree in his backyard. Listening to the sounds of the cicadas above him and thinking of his time on earth, he suddenly felt like a child again. He had Linda find some iron wire and some wire mesh, then he broke a branch from the tree and fashioned himself a.

    ¡°Hey Freya, dad will bring you to catch butterflies and cicadas, alright?¡± Xu Yi looked at Freya beside him who had watched him make this and asked this with a smile.

    Freya was already two years old and although she was still young, she could already run and jump, as well as speak. Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, she looked at the in Xu Yi¡¯s hand and asked in her babyish voice, ¡°Dad, why do you want to catch butterflies and cicadas?¡±

    Xu Yi squatted down with a smile and pinched Freya little cheek as he asked, ¡°Freya, don¡¯t you think that butterflies are beautiful?¡±

    ¡°Un, butterflies are the most beautiful.¡±

    ¡°Alright, don¡¯t you want to take a closer look to see why butterflies are so beautiful?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I do. Dad, can you call a butterfly over to let me take a look?¡±

    ¡°Of course. Come, follow dad and I¡¯ll bring you to talk to butterflies!¡±

    If it was normal, now that it was already August, there shouldn¡¯t have been any butterflies already.

    But because the Stantine Duchy was in the southern part of the continent, it was always warm here and Xu Yi¡¯s territory was near the sea, so the air was moist, there were many butterflies still flying around.

    Xu Yi took the excited Freya to the small forest beside the manor where there were many butterflies of different colours flying around.

    Freya happily cheered, scaring the butterflies away. Xu Yi reached out his and easily caught several butterflies.

    Xu Yi carefully took a butterfly out and ced it in Freya¡¯s hand. Using his magic, he created a small forcefield in Freya¡¯s hand that pressed the butterfly down in her hand, not letting it fly away.

    Freya had a happy expression as she cautiously held the butterfly. Looking over it, she suddenly turned to Xu Yi to ask, ¡°Dad, why isn¡¯t it flying?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t you want to talk to the butterfly? It is in your hand now, isn¡¯t it good to y with it for a while?¡±

    Freya shook her head, ¡°But I liked it when it was flying. It doesn¡¯t look good staying here.¡± She looked at the in Xu Yi¡¯s hand while saying this and pointed at the butterflies inside, ¡°Dad, you should let them go, they look so pitiful.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Freya in surprise before he couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Although Freya was only two, she was a good little girl and this was the most important thing to him.

    Xu Yi pulled the butterflies out one by one under Freya¡¯s instructions and let them all fly off.

    Looking at the butterflies flying in the forest, Freya happily cheered out again. She ran back and forth around the forest, being filled with energy.

    Seeing Freya¡¯s happy appearance, Xu Yi also felt very happy.

    He had been dealing with the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy during this time, so he had been very busy. Now that he was ying with Freya, he felt quite rxed.

    When he wanted to bring Freya deeper into the forest, Liz who had been waiting at the edge of the forest to give Xu Yi and Freya space had suddenly run in.

    ¡°Master, there¡¯s a guest.¡±

    Seeing the nervous look on Liz¡¯s face, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Who is it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a guest that sir CEO brought who ims to be an envoy sent by Duke Stantine.¡±

    ¡°It was sent by Duke Stantine?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before revealing a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, the duke shouldn¡¯t be able to take this anymore.¡±

    After handing Freya to Liz, Xu Yi went back to the yard and saw Kennard and the envoy sent by Duke Stantine in the living room.

    The three envoys were acquaintances of Xu Yi.

    When he came to the Stantine Duchy the first time, these three were ministers under Duke Stantine that Xu Yi had met.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested at least two million gold coins into them and had stuffed them full, so they were naturally polite when seeing Xu Yi.

    The two sides greeted each other with smiles before Xu Yi asked them why they were here.

    The three looked at each other and one fat minister said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu. no, Viscount Xu, we¡¯vee to report a good piece of news to you this time.¡±

    ¡°Good news?¡± Xu Yi gave an oh sound, ¡°What good news?¡±

    The fat ministerughed, ¡°Viscount Xu, in light of the contributions that can¡¯t be ignored that you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have made to the Stantine Duchy, the duke has decided to promote you from viscount to count. This means that from this day forth, we should call you Count Xu.¡±

    Kennard on the side had a look of pleasant surprise.

    He came from a noble family, so a noble status was very important to him. He was always worried that Xu Yi¡¯s status wasn¡¯t high even because he himself also had the title of a baron in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a title, he as a Lampuri Kingdom baron would be working under a citizen.

    Even if no one treated Xu Yi as a citizen, when it came to status, it created some hesitation in his heart.

    Now that Xu Yi was a count, even if it was a count title from Duke Stantine, which meant it was far fromparing to the count title of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was enough that Xu Yi had an appropriate noble status.

    Xu Yi had a calm look. He just smiled and nodded to show he understood.

    The three looked at each other before the fat minister took out a map, spreading it in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman.....No, Viscount Xu.....Oh, no, Count Xu, since your noble title has increased, ording to the customs, you should receive arger territory. After some research, the duke has finally decided to confer this piece ofnd as your territory. Are you satisfied with this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the low uracy Stantine Duchy map the fat minister was pointing at and seeing his new territory, he gave a coldugh in his heart.

    Duke Stantine had given Xu Yi a piece ofnd that was less than twenty four kilometers, but it did increase his territory by several times.

    But if one looked carefully, they would find that thisnd belonged to thend that Count Wein had just taken.

    If Xu Yi took thisnd, it would mean he would be stealing it from Count Wein.

    Duke Stantine clearly did this intentionally, trying to destroy the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Wein.

    It was clear that Duke Stantine was afraid of Count Wein¡¯s strong stance.

    He wanted to destroy the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Wein to attack Count Wein.

    This was a very low level trap. Not mentioning Xu Yi, even Kennard on the side could see it with one look and he now had a cold smile.

    With his understanding of Xu Yi, Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t fall for this low level trap.

    However, after Xu Yi was silent for a bit, he said with a smile, ¡°Many thanks for the gracious gift of the duke. I will ept this piece ofnd.¡±

    Kennard had a surprised look while the three envoys had full smiles.

    Xu Yi also looked at the three with a faint smile, like he didn¡¯t know the risk of this at all.

 Volume 4 130 - Deciding factor

    Volume 4 Chapter 130 Deciding factor

    Strictly speaking, without the authentication of Duke Stantine, all thend the lords controlled in the Stantine Duchy were considered illegal.

    So ording to this, over 80% of thend that Count Wein controlled now was illegal.

    Count Wein was only a small lord back then, but now he had stolennd from the other lords. This was the silent rule of the Stantine Duchy, whoever¡¯s fist was bigger and could steal it belonged to that person, no one had ever questioned it.

    But now, Duke Stantine had announced that he would be givingnd that belonged to Lord Wein to Xu Yi.

    In theory, there wasn¡¯t a problem because Duke Stantine could grant all the territory of the Stantine Duchy to whoever he wanted.

    But by doing this, this was without a doubt a p to Count Wein¡¯s face.

    Giving such arge piece of territory to Xu Yi was clearly trying to instigate the rtionship between Count Wein and Xu Yi.

    The most important issue is that territory was important to any noble of the Sines Continent, it could even say that how big a territory represented everything about a noble.

    Duke Stantine doing this now was clearly throwing bait to let Xu Yi and Count Wein fight over it.

    If Xu Yi and Count Wein really fought over this territory, naturally they would fall into Duke Stantine¡¯s n.

    Count Wein was this forceful and the most important reason was the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If he had a falling out with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, losing their support, this would be a fatal blow to Count Wein.

    Like this, Count Wein that was already strong enough to threaten Duke Stantine would be nothing to worry about.

    Even if Xu Yi and Count Wein didn¡¯t fall out because of this territory, the ownership of this territory would ce a deep thorn between them and would affect their rtionship.

    It had to be said, Duke Stantine¡¯s move was very wise, making full use of his identity as the duke. He effortlessly took care of the threat that Count Wein had posed for him.

    He made it more absolute by sending the news of Xu Yi¡¯s new territory all over the Stantine Duchy, letting all the lords know about this matter.

    So the other lords of the Stantine Duchy all stretched out their necks and waited.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Wein working together was too terrifying. If their rtionship was not destroyed, the other lords of the duchy wouldn¡¯t be able to see any hope.

    However, Xu Yi and Count Wein¡¯s reactions to this greatly surprised everyone.

    First, Xu Yi very quickly epted Duke Stantine¡¯s orders and even expressed that he would ept this territory.

    Then what surprised everyone the most was that Count Wein didn¡¯t have any objections to this.

    After Xu Yi expressed he would ept this territory, Count Wein immediately removed all his subordinates from this territory.

    Not only his army, even the people that were in charge of managing the territory were moved out. It was clear that he waspletely ceding control of this territory.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards entered the territory, followed by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. They began building many factories as well as staff residences with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s symbol, symbolizing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was officially taking over.

    During this entire process, there was no conflict between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Duke Stantine¡¯s side at all. Rather when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards met Count Wein¡¯s troops, both sides were quite friendly to each other. There wasn¡¯t the smell of gunpowder at all.

    This performance had shocked everyone.

    Count Wein was invincible in the north of the Stantine Duchy. Everyone thought that with his arrogance, he would tolerate someone stealing territory from him.

    But when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t resist at all, he didn¡¯t even say a single word of opposition.

    Could it be......he feared the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    No one knew what Count Wein was thinking, but everyone knew about Count Wein¡¯s actions afterwards.

    Perhaps he felt that his territory had dropped, but after this matter, Count Wein attacked two other lords. In just a single month, he defeated those two lords and took their territory as well.

    The territory of those two lords were much bigger than the territory Duke Stantine had given Xu Yi. Calcting it, Count Wein¡¯s territory had rather increased by quite a bit.

    Half a monthter, Duke Stantine yed the same trick. He gave another part of Count Wein¡¯s territory to Xu Yi and this territory was far from Xu Yi¡¯s existing territory, with arge part of Count Wein¡¯s territory in between them.

    However, Count Wein didn¡¯t object either this time. He removed all his subordinates from this territory and even gave the territory that separated the two pieces of territory that Xu Yi had, letting Xu YI connect them all together.

    Like this, Xu Yi¡¯s territory already surpassed a shocking two thousand square kilometers.

    Count Wein who lost more territory targeted other lords again. This time he was even fiercer, using less than a month to defeat three lords, expanding his territory once again.

    After these two times, Count Wein¡¯s territory already reached close to twenty thousand square kilometers, even not being far from the amount ofnd that Duke Stantine controlled.

    Moreover, because he defeated those other lords, his army had increased. It suddenly broke the fifty thousand limit and was only ten thousand soldiers less than Duke Stantine¡¯s army of sixty thousand.

    If they were topare battle strength, Count Wein¡¯s fifty thousand soldiers with their experience from battles after battles and were equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, they were actually stronger than Duke Stantine¡¯s soldiers.

    This was a fact that the lords who had fought with Duke Stantine had experienced countless times.

    With this contrast, there were many people that believed that Count Wein would rece Duke Stantine as the new duke.

    In this duchy, the only one who could resist Count Wein was probably Viscount Anklo to the south?

    However, thinking about how Count Wein and Viscount Anklo disyed this might, it was because they were being supported by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The other lords had lost the military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they couldn¡¯t resist these two lords with the military magic machines at all.

    Just based on this, what would decide the fate of the Stantine Duchy was not the two lords, rather it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Or perhaps, it would be Xu Yi.

    ###

    In the summer night, the Stantine Duchy seashore was still hot. Even if it was already dark, the beach was still filled with people.

    Today was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s set weekly holiday. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff got off work, they didn¡¯t even eat anything before changing into swimsuits to head to the ocean.

    This public beach had been greatly invested in by Xu Yi, so now it was a very popr summer vacation destination.

    There was a storefront by the sea that was filled with various stores. They were brightly lit every night with all kinds of roasted goods and wine.

    When night fell, the giant Magic Lamps that were in the square of the beach lit up, brightly lighting up the entire beach. People went in groups andughed as they walked around this nightless city near the beach,

    Xu Yi and Still were taking a stroll on their personal beach and looking at the distant beach filled with people. Still couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°I remember when we came here a year ago, this beach was still bleak and there wasn¡¯t a single person after dark. But now that it has be this lively, it can evenpare to the night scene in Anvilmar City.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°What? You miss Anvilmar City? Isn¡¯t the New Moon Troupe going to Anvilmar City to perform in a few days? If you want to go, you can go with them.¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°No, I was just feeling emotional. Actually, to the current me, Anvilmar City is actually quite backwards, there are many ces where it isn¡¯t as convenient as Banta City. Not mentioning anything else, even now, Anvilmar City still doesn¡¯t have aplete public transport system. Whenever I¡¯m in Anvilmar City, it is very inconvenient to travel around.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no way there, the public transport system is a welfare program and it can¡¯t be used to make money. To have aplete public transport system, you need to invest arge amount into it. Although the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances are getting better now, they don¡¯t have the free finances to spend on this.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh.

    Still looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You understand the troubles of her majesty quite a bit.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still with a smile and tapped her nose, ¡°What? Are you jealous?¡±

    Still gave a soft snort, ¡°I wasn¡¯t jealous when you hugged her so tightlyst time, why would I be jealous now?¡±

    Xu Yiughed. He thought about how when he carried Seveni down the cliff, he met Still and the others waiting there. Still of course didn¡¯t say anything, but she clearly cared about this in her heart.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s impossible for anything to happen between me and Seveni, you should know that.¡± Xu Yi took Still¡¯s waist as he spoke in a soft voice.

    ¡°Then why does she want to do this?¡± Still rolled her eyes, ¡°Don¡¯t think that I can¡¯t see it, her majesty is actually interested in you. Although she hides it well, I am a woman as well and can see the thoughts in her heart.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much, right? With her personality, if she was interested in me, she wouldn¡¯t do those kinds of things in front of you. Perhaps she really was just acting that wayst time because she wanted to discuss with me.¡±

    ¡°No, you don¡¯t understand.¡± Still shook her head, ¡°If a girl doesn¡¯t approve of a man in her heart, she definitely wouldn¡¯t do something this intimate. Could it be that you think that her majesty is a frivolous person?¡±

    ¡°She isn¡¯t a frivolous person, but in the end, it is impossible for the two of us. She is the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen and I already have you as my wife, so it¡¯s impossible for us to be together.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Still, just treat it as her being willful, alright?¡±

    Still gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t care. If my husband can even move the heart of the queen, doesn¡¯t that mean my eyes are good? But Xu Yi, you really don¡¯t care about this? Don¡¯t forget, there have been many reports in the newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom discussing the sessor to the throne.¡±

    ¡°Sessor to the throne?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat.

 Volume 4 131 - Her majesty should marry

    Volume 4 Chapter 131 Her majesty should marry

    Since Seveni¡¯s coronation, the sessor of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne had always been a problem for countless people of the kingdom.

    After Lampuri Thirteenth and King Eric died, after Seveni took the throne, the only sessors of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family was Seveni¡¯s second oldest big brother Mifam and Prince William who was Eric¡¯s son.

    Although Prince Mifam was married, he currently didn¡¯t have any kids and her majesty Seveni wasn¡¯t married.

    This meant that if something were to happen to her majesty Seveni, the only ones qualified to seed the throne were Prince William and Prince Mifam.

    But Prince William was King Eric¡¯s son. King Eric had poisoned Lampuri Thirteenth and Prince William had started a civil war with her majesty Seveni, so King Eric¡¯s Son Prince Wiim was naturally removed from the line of session.

    And Prince Mifam was known for being useless in the kingdom. Whether it was when Lampuri Thirteenth was poisoned, when King Eric suddenly died, or when Seveni took the throne, this prince hadn¡¯t given a single opinion. He had stayed in his territory without contacting the outside world at all.

    It was impossible for this person to seed the throne.

    So like this, the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have a single person suitable for seeding the throne.

    In the beginning, no one cared about this matter.

    But as the Lampuri Kingdom gradually stabilized and the kingdom quickly became prosperous under her majesty Seveni¡¯s rule, with the nation¡¯s strength increasing every day, the people of the Lampuri Kingdom praised Seveni¡¯s wise leadership while also beginning to worry about the issue of her sessor.

    All the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom began discussing this and they all came up with the same conclusion.

    The best method to solve this problem was for her majesty Seveni to get married.

    As long as her majesty Seveni gave birth to a child, that person would naturally be the most suitable sessor to the throne.

    Aftering up with this conclusion, many people in the kingdom began creating a stir for this matter.

    Her majesty Seveni was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, there was no need to mention her status.

    Although her highness Seveni wasn¡¯t considered absolutely gorgeous, she was still a first ss beauty with a temperate personality and a warm smile. Even putting aside her status as the queen and looking at her as a girl, she was very outstanding.

    Her majesty with this kind of noble status, beautiful face, and temperate personality who was only twenty four this year to not be married, not even having a setpanion, not mentioning the Lampuri Kingdom, this would be considered rare even on the Sines Continent.

    Moreover, her highness has always had a good reputation, never having any rumours about her.....

    This wasn¡¯t considered right either.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth was still alive, her highness Seveni had been with Xu Yi plenty of times that there were rumours about her and Xu Yi among the citizens.

    But these rumours always changed. The most important thing was that after Xu Yi got married and had a child, they gradually disappeared.

    After all, no matter what, whether it was her highness Seveni or her majesty Seveni, it was impossible for her to marry someone who already had a wife.

    Although in the minds of most people of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu YI always had a good reputation, it was impossible for there to be any chance here.

    But other than Xu Yi, her majesty Seveni had never shown any signs of approaching another man.

    This caused worry among many people in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If her majesty remained unmarried, the problem of the sessor to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne would be arge hidden danger.

    So not only did many citizens begin caring about Seveni¡¯s marriage, many ministers and nobles all began talking in public and in private. They advised her majesty Seveni about this and hoped that she would seriously consider the matter of marriage.

    When Seveni came to the Stantine Duchy, she had secretlyined to Xu Yi. She said that there was another important reason why she came to the Stantine Duchy, it was to avoid those people.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what they are all thinking, they¡¯re all looking forward to seeing me get married.....Alright, they want to find a king and hope that I get married, as well as give birth to a kid. What do they treat me as? A machine for giving birth to kids?¡±

    Thinking of how Seveni hadined to him before, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Turning to look at Seveni with a smile, Xu Yi said, ¡°What? Even if Seveni does need a husband, it is impossible to turn to a married man like me. What are you worried about?¡±

    Still gave a soft snort, ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. If there is a need, I¡¯m certain that she could do anything.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°Instead of worrying about this, you should be worried about the elves. Last time elder Lisanya gave me a final ultimatum. If I can¡¯t pick an elvenpanion in a year, she might consider using more forceful methods.¡±

    ¡°Forceful methods?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi thinking it was funny, ¡°How forceful? Would the elven girls force themselves onto you?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. With elder Lisanya¡¯s personality, that might really happen.¡±

    Still revealed a smile, ¡°Isn¡¯t this a good thing for you? Don¡¯t you look forward to it?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, ¡°If I really was looking forward to it, why would elder Lisanya give me a final ultimatum?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps you like being treated forcefully.¡± Still said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi was filled with anger. He picked up Still while his other hand pped down on her tall and stic buttocks.

    ¡°I think you¡¯re the one who likes being treated forcefully! Do you believe that I won¡¯t do it right now?¡±

    Still gave a charming wink to Xu Yi, ¡°Come, I warmly wee it.¡±

    There was an evil fire that rose in Xu Yi¡¯s heart. He picked up Still and used his magic, preparing to fly up to the manor carrying Still.

    But when they began moving, their expressions changed at the same time.

    When Xu Yi was about to rise, his magic power suddenly exploded from him and created a blue magic barrier around him.

    In the nearby sea, there was a giant spout of water that came out like a vortex, flying out at the two of them.

    The vortex hit the magic barrier and made a dull sound.

    Xu Yi¡¯s body that was halfway in the air was suddenly sent flying by the powerful force.

    If Xu Yi hadn¡¯t used all his magic and used his flight magic to slow them down, they would have mmed into the cliff.

    Xu Yi could barely keep himself stable. He looked down at Still in his arm and found that although she was shocked, she wasn¡¯t injured at all, which let his heart calm down.

    Looking around, he didn¡¯t even see a single shadow.

    What made him more surprised was that there wasn¡¯t any fluctuation of magic elemental energy around them.

    That attack hade so suddenly. It was because he and Still had sensed the magic elemental energy fluctuation when the water vortex attacked, otherwise they would have been far worse off.

    But where was the enemy?

    When he thought of this, there were two more water currents that came out of the sea, quickly flying out in Xu Yi and Still¡¯s direction.

    Xu Yi let go of Still and let her float in the air by herself. He raised his hands and created another magic barrier as a water dragon charged at him.

    The two water dragon¡¯s mmed together and Xu Yi trembled. He felt his magic weakening from the shock and couldn¡¯t help being startled.

    This person clearly wasn¡¯t in their field of vision and was attacking with the water dragons from afar, but they could still demonstrate this kind of terrifying might.

    It could be seen that the other side¡¯s magic definitely surpassed Xu Yi, it should be at least someone in the Great Magician Grade.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi was surprised and angry. Looking around, he shouted in a dark voice, ¡°You¡¯re hiding like this even as a Great Magician, you really are a shame to all magicians!¡±

    When his voice fell, there was augh that sounded in the darkness.

    Then in the void not far away from Xu Yi, it was like the space was being ripped, creating a crack that was too deep to see the bottom of.

    Thisughter came from the crack before a dark figure appeared.

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about being a shame to magicians, chairman Xu, you keep insisting that you are a merchant and the status of a merchant is more important than that of a magician, how could Ipare to you?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s hand holding Still¡¯s hand reached out a finger and drew a few times on her palm. Then he stared at the figure that came from the crack, it was clear that this person should be a Great Magician. He said in a deep voice, ¡°At least I¡¯ve never done something as underhanded as ambushing someone. You are a Great Magician, but you¡¯re still doing something like this, don¡¯t you feel ashamed?¡±

    ¡°Ashamed?¡± That person gave two dryughs, ¡°I, Asura have always done things based on what I like, how could I care about something as meaningless as shame. When I was hiding just now, I wanted to y with this little girl first. Based on your performance, your magic power should be considered good, it¡¯s no wonder you are considered the most talented young magician of the Lampuri Kingdom. It¡¯s a pity that you wanted too much time and energy in doing business. If you invested all your time in researching magic, you might surpass me in less than ten years.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise, but there are already plenty of people who¡¯ve told me this, so I don¡¯t need you to repeat it again.¡± Xu Yi coldly said.

    ¡°Oh? Is that so? I don¡¯t like wasting words with people, especially one who will die.¡± That person¡¯s voice slowly turned cold, ¡°Now, obediently ept your death!¡±

    There was a magic glow in that person¡¯s hand which made Xu Yi let out a long breath.

    The other side¡¯s magic power surpassed him and Still, this should be the hardest battle he has had since transmigrating to this world.

    But seeing the glow of the Magic Communicator in Still¡¯s pocket, Xu Yi¡¯s heart rxed.

 Volume 4 132 - Ragnarok Trial

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 132 Ragnarok Trial</h4>

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a giant fireball that went past Xu Yi and mmed on the cliff, creating a giant explosion sound and creating a shocking hole in the cliff.

    Xu Yi and Still flew off, both of them were panting.

    They had fought this Great Magician that had suddenly appeared for less than three minutes, but the two of them had already used all their skills and had several close calls.

    There was no other way, a Great Magician was different from a normal magician, there was noparison between the two.

    Even if Xu Yi was only a step away from being a Great Magician, before he broke through to this level, he was still not a match for a Great Magician.

    But the two of them couldn¡¯t just sit and wait for death.

    With the teachings of Great Magician Cami, the two had a clear understanding of a Great Magician¡¯s control of magic. With this understanding, they could maintain themselves under the intense attack of this Great Magician.

    Seeing the two dodging his attacks, asionally using magic to defend against portion of the damage to avoid being seriously injured, the Great Magician suddenly burst intoughter.

    ¡°I say, you two should give up soon. Don¡¯t think that someone wille save you if you keep dragging this out, I¡¯ve already ced a Spatial Separation Array around here, there won¡¯t be any sounds or images that leave this ce, no one will notice that something is happening to you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort. Actually when he was dodging the attacks of the Great Magician, he already noticed the existence of this array.

    This Great Magician is correct, this array blocked off all sound and images. This was something that was proven when Xu Yi talked with elder Lisanyast time.

    If it was day, this spatial anomaly would have easily attracted the attention of others.

    But it was night right now and this was Xu Yi¡¯s private beach, there wouldn¡¯t be anyone else here. Adding in the cover of night, no one would notice the anomaly here.

    Of course, Xu Yi had already expected this and had immediately found a countermeasure.

    What they needed to do now was stall for as much time as possible.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi stopped and raised his right hand.

    That Great Magician was surprised before saying with a smile, ¡°What? You¡¯re finally giving up?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and said with a nod, ¡°We might not be able to escape today, but since we¡¯re going to die, can you at least let us understand a bit. We¡¯ve never met you before and don¡¯t know how we¡¯ve offended you, why are you here to assassinate us?¡±

    The Great Magician gave a roughugh that sounded bad.

    ¡°You indeed haven¡¯t offended me, but you.....No, chairman Xu, you have offended too many people. Alright, since you¡¯re about to die, I¡¯ll tell you. I came to kill you this time because I was invited by Duke Stantine. As for how it happened, you can slowly think about it after you reach hell!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, the Great Magician waved his hand again as countless dark red fireballs flew out at Still and Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi and Still looked at each other. They put down their hands and acted like they weren¡¯t going to resist.

    Seeing the reaction of the two, the Great Magician revealed a wide smile once again.

    Duke Stantine had taken out five hundred thousand gold coins for him to take care of Xu Yi. He had thought that it would be very difficult, but he never thought that it would be so easy.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    The fireballsnded on Xu Yi and Still, creatingrge explosion sounds.

    That Great Magicianughed. These two fellows really gave up on resisting and were hit by theserge mes, their corpses must have burnt away.

    It was a pity that the little girl named Still did look quite pretty and now she had been turned into a pile of rotten flesh, it simply was a waste of heaven¡¯s gifts.

    However, his expression changed after a while.

    The sound was clearly off after the fireballs hit. If it really hit the two of them, they would have burnt away already and it wouldn¡¯t have created such a strong explosion sound.

    When the mes scattered, the Great Magician looked carefully to find that there was a light blue barrier around the two of them that hadpletely wrapped around them.

    Those fireballs had his this and hadn¡¯t hurt the two of them at all.

    That Great Magician looked over the light blue barrier and his expression changed slightly. He gave a cold snort, ¡°Humph, Great Magician Cami really isn¡¯t stingy, he actually gave such a precious magic defense item to you and he gave you two of them.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still looked at each other with smiles.

    Great Magician Cami was famous for being poor, how could he give such a precious magic defense item to them.

    Actually, what they were using was not from Great Magician Cami. Rather it was what elder Illusia gave them as a wedding gift.

    It¡¯s said that this Deep Blue Barrier was the treasure passed down among the Night Song Tribe for thousands of years and it had a powerful magic defense. Now it seemed like elder Illusia wasn¡¯t lying.

    That Great Magician looked over Xu Yi and Still before saying with a cold smile, ¡°Very good, since you have this treasure, I¡¯ll get some good things after I kill you. Let me tell you, even if you have these things, it¡¯s impossible for you to escape. I urge you to ept your death, I might just leave you with a full......¡±

    Before he even finished, that Great Magician realized something was off. He looked up to find a column of mes suddenly falling down on him.

    ¡°Ragnarok Trial!¡±

    The Great Magician was stunned.

    This was a Forbidden Fire Spell!

    It had been too sudden and he didn¡¯t have the time to dodge, so he could only gather all his magic to create a magic barrier.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    It was like the scene of final judgement that Xu Yi had seen in countless movies on earth, the giant column of mes fell down andpletely wrapped around the Great Magician.

    The column of mes lit up the surrounding area and it made the figure of that Great Magician very clear.

    Looking at it from the side, that Great Magician was being bathed in mes, like a deity that was being put on trial.

    The column of messted several seconds before disappearing.

    It had to be said, that Great Magician was actually very strong. He was caught off guard by this suddenly Forbidden Fire Spell, but he was able to block it.

    His clothes weren¡¯t damaged at all and other than looking a bit pale, as well as not acting as arrogantly as before, he was actually quite fine.

    That Great Magician looked into the sky and angrily shouted, ¡°Which Great Magician is it? You¡¯re actually this shameless to use a Forbidden Spell to attack! You are breaking the irond rules of us magicians!¡±

    ¡°Humph!¡±

    With a heavy cold snort, Great Magician Cami slowly fell from the sky and stopped between Xu Yi, Still, and that person. He looked at the Great Magician with a cold look as he said, ¡°Runa, you¡¯re actually trying to assassinate my granddaughter and her husband and you¡¯re talking about the irond rules between magicians to me? Do you even have the face to say this?¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Cami?¡± That Great Magician¡¯s expression changed, ¡°You recognize me?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! Other than trash among Great Magicians like you, how could there be another Great Magician who is shameless enough to assassinate someone? You have long been the shame among us Great Magicians! You actually dare speak of the irond rules between magicians with me?¡±

    That Great Magician named Runa carefully looked at Great Magician Cami before suddenly revealing a shocked look. He pointed at Great Magician Cami and had a look of disbelief as he loudly said, ¡°You.....You.....You actually grasped spatialws? It¡¯s no wonder you destroyed my Spatial Array and I didn¡¯t notice.¡±

    Great Magician Cami revealed a cold smile, ¡°What? Are you afraid? Let me tell you, I still haven¡¯t grasped the spacews yet, but it¡¯s more than enough to deal with you! So just ept your death for me!¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Cami was about to start, Runa¡¯s face turned pale.

    He had epted Duke Stantine¡¯s employment to assassinate Xu Yi and Still because Duke Stantine had given the shocking price of five hundred thousand gold coins, and because he was confident in killing Xu Yi and Still without being discovered.

    If something happened and he was discovered, he was confident in escaping without any problems.

    The strongest magician in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was Great Magician Cami.

    ording to the reports, Great Magician Cami was a Fourth Grade Great Magician. Although he was a level higher, he wasn¡¯t that much stronger, so even if he couldn¡¯t win, he could still easily escape.

    But he never thought that Great Magician Cami¡¯s magic power was much higher than the reports.

    Not only did he surpass the level of a Fourth Grade Great Magician, he even surpassed a Fifth Grade Great Magician and could grasp spatialws!

    Even if Great Magician Cami hadn¡¯t broken through yet to be an Arch Mage, since he could grasp spatialws, it meant that his understanding of magic far surpassed his.

    If Great Magician Cami hadn¡¯t grasped spatialws, he could still easily escape, but now that Great Magician Cami had already grasp it, it meant that it was impossible for him to escape with Space Magic if Great Magician Cami didn¡¯t want him to escape.

    Not to mention that Great Magician Cami had used the Ragnarok Trial without any warning, making him suffer the wounds of this Forbidden Spell.

    Even if he had used his strength to block this Forbidden Spell, he had spent half his magic. Even if he wanted to fight back, he didn¡¯t have the strength.

    Thinking of this, Runa¡¯s face turned pale as his heart filled with regret.

    If he knew that Great Magician Cami was already this strong, he wouldn¡¯t have taken those five hundred thousand gold coins toe and kill Xu Yi.

    Seeing the magic elemental energy gathering in Great Magician Cami¡¯s hand, Runa gave a sigh in his heart and put down his hands to ept his fate.

    Xu Yi suddenly shouted, ¡°Wait!¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at Xu Yi with knit brows, ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly pressed down Great Magician Cami¡¯s hand and said with a faint smile, ¡°Grandfather, isn¡¯t this a good chance for an realbat experiment? When you fought those guys before, they couldn¡¯t fight to their heart¡¯s content. Now that there is a living target for them, they will definitely be happy.¡±

    ¡°Them?¡± Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Great Magician Cami immediately understood. He turned to look at Runa and nodded, ¡°Not bad, this is indeed a good target.¡±

 Volume 4 133 - Give you ten minutes

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 133 Give you ten minutes</h4>

    Runa saw that Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami used eyes that didn¡¯t have any good intentions to look over him and his heart gradually turned cold.

    However, this situation waspletely bad for him. He couldn¡¯t win and couldn¡¯t escape, he could only let them do as they wished.

    If Great Magician Cami were to kill him, he wouldn¡¯t have a chance at all. Rather, if the other side wanted to use some method to deal with him, he might have a chance to live.

    Thinking of this, although Runa had a face that was like dying ashes and his heart was dead, his mind began to quickly turn and he was prepared to take any opportunity.

    Great Magician Cami kept watching him and he didn¡¯t have a chance to condense magic to use Spatial Spells to escape at all.

    Runa could only patiently wait.

    What made him surprised was that the girl named Still took out an iron box and whispered something into that box.

    Runa could feel a trace of magice from the small box and based on the situation, it should be some new magic machine made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But what use did this small bow have?

    Around ten minutester, there were footsteps that came from the cliff. Based on the sound, it should be around several hundred people.

    Juna wasn¡¯t surprised and felt happy.

    In this situation, more people meant it became more chaotic and more chaos meant more chances for him to escape.

    The footsteps went around the cliff and came down the side of it. After a few minutes, there was a neat line of soldiers that came from the path that connected to this beach.

    Juna looked over and he was surprised.

    There were around four to five hundred of these soldiers and not only did each person¡¯s armour have a trace of magic, which should be armour with Magic Arrays in them, even the strange things that they carried had magic fluctuations. It was clear they were all magic machines.

    Although he already knew that there were many kinds of military magic machines, seeing thisplete set of military magic machines, Runa was a bit stunned.

    ¡°Is it Great Magician Runa?¡± Xu Yi suddenly spoke.

    Runa knit his brows and gave a soft snort, ¡°What? Does chairman Xu have something to say?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and pointed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in formation, ¡°Great Magician Runa, I believe that you should know that you can¡¯t escape from grandfather¡¯s hands. However, I¡¯ll give you a chance to escape.¡±

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s tone was impolite which made Runa annoyed hearing it, he couldn¡¯t do anything in this situation.

    He looked at the distant Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and his brows jumped up, ¡°What chance?¡±

    ¡°As long as you canst under the attack of these guards for ten minutes, I¡¯ll have grandfather let you go. What do you think?¡±

    Runa was stunned before bursting into rage.

    He was a respected Great Magician! Xu Yi actually.....wanted him tost ten minutes under the attacks of hispany¡¯s guards?¡±

    What a joke!

    He could kill these normal soldiers with just a single finger!

    Xu Yi¡¯s condition was the greatest shame to him!

    But then he was filled with joy.

    Xu Yi actually looked down on him like this, this was his best opportunity.

    Runa didn¡¯t reply to Xu Yi and turned to ask Great Magician Cami, ¡°Great Magician Cami, what do you say?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a shrug, ¡°Xu Yi is in charge here.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Runa turned back to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you keep your words?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Even if I don¡¯t, what can you do?¡±

    ¡°You......¡± Runa was filled with rage. He pointed at Xu Yi and wanted to curse, but he couldn¡¯t say anything.

    One became strong with the situation and in this situation, he could only follow Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    Thinking about it, Runa suppressed the mes of his rage and said in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I hope that you will keep your words. Let yourpany¡¯s guards start attacking. Humph, not to mention ten minutes, I can take the attacks of normal people like these for more than ten hours without wavering! Chairman Xu, you¡¯re looking down on Great Magicians too much!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve never looked down on grandfather.¡±

    Runa looked at Great Magician Cami with a faint smile and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, was there something strange about them?

    But turning to look at the soldiers in the distance, Runa rxed.

    Even if these fellows had those military magic machines, they were only a bit stronger than normal people. Could they possibly threaten a Great Magician like him?

    ¡°Alright, let them begin.¡± Runa waved his hand.

    ¡°Great Magician Runa, are you certain you¡¯re ready?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! Let them begin!¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi took the Magic Communicator from Still¡¯s hand.

    ¡°Leader Hart, begin the attack.¡±

    With this order, Xu Yi took Still and went further away with Great Magician Cami to watch.

    Runa looked at the three in surprise. He was the one being attacked, why were they moving so far away?

    Especially Great Magician Cami. If he went that far away, wasn¡¯t he worried that he would suddenly escape with Spatial Magic?

    But after that, Runa was surprised to find that he didn¡¯t have time to consider this at all.

    There were countless arrows covered in magic light that came from the guards and fell down on him like rain.

    Runa gave a coldugh.

    These were just low level Magic Arrows with Fire Magic, they wanted to use these to threaten a Great Magician?

    What a joke!

    Runa didn¡¯t move at all, he just used his magic to create a magic barrier around himself.

    The Magic Arrows that filled the sky fell down on the magic barrier and didn¡¯t even create a ripple in the barrier.

    Those Magic Arrows only had a Third Grade Fire Magic Array, of course it couldn¡¯t break the magic barrier of a Great Magician.

    Runa watched the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards continue to fire Magic Arrows with a cold smile. He turned to look at Xu Yi in the distance and gave a coldugh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t be naive enough to think that this child like toy could make me surrender, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t reply.

    Runa was filled with rage. He thought that Xu Yi was actually looking down on him like this, if it wasn¡¯t for the situation, he would have destroyed the hundreds of guards in front of him to teach Xu Yi a lesson in blood.

    But after a while, Runa found that he was the one who was a bit too naive.

    The Magic Repeating Crossbows alone couldn¡¯t be a threat to Runa, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards never stopped as they kept sending out arrows.

    Under this high frequency attack, even if Runa¡¯s magic shield didn¡¯t weaken at all, he could feel that this magic was quickly dropping from defending against these Magic Arrows.

    Runa calcted it and was shocked to find that with this speed, his remaining magic wouldn¡¯tst ten minutes!

    Thinking of this, Runa could only suppress the shock in his heart first. Raising his hand, he sent out several fireballs that burnt away the Magic Arrows that fell down on him.

    Compared to just using the magic barrier to passively defend, this used less magic power.

    Xu Yi¡¯s group of three saw Runa¡¯s sudden move and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Grandfather, this Great Magician Runa really is worse than you. When you fought the guards for the first time, you only used half a minute to notice this, but it took him a full three minutes.¡± Still said with a smile.

    Great Magician Cami stroked his beard with a smile before saying with a nod, ¡°Un, with this, this fellow won¡¯t even make it to the third waves of attacks. He definitely can¡¯tst ten minutes.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t participate in this conversation, rather he just firmly watched the battle.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards fought Great Magician Cami several times, they only fought for practice. Great Magician Cami and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards all had scruples, so they never used their full power.

    But fighting Runa this time, they had no scruples, so naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could use their full attack power.

    Based on this situation, the guards were without a doubt much stronger than when they practiced with Great Magician Cami.

    Runa was at least a Third Grade Great Magician, but under the attacks of the guards, he couldn¡¯t keep going any longer and was forced to fight back.

    However, Runa had found this problem toote.

    When Runa used his magic to fight back, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards changed their attack pattern again.

    Half the guards continued to attack Runa with the rain of Magic Arrows while the other half took out the individual Magic Bazooka¡¯s on their back, aiming it at Runa in midair.

    Seeing the magical glow from these Magic Bazookas, Runa gave a cold snort.

    Although these strange things were clearly stronger than the Magic Arrows, they couldn¡¯t pose any threat to him.

    While using magic to take care of the Magic Array attacks, Runa maintained his magic barrier, blocking the missiles that were fired from the individual Magic Bazookas.

    Runa did this to experience the might of the Magic Bazookas, so he could figure out how to deal with them.

    However, when the first rocket hit the magic barrier, Runa¡¯s heart was filled with regret.

    The Magic Bazooka didn¡¯t seem that big and the rocket shots were also small, but there was a powerful explosion when it hit the magic barrier. This might was actuallyparable to a Sixth or Seventh Grade Magician.

    Even if Juna was a Third Grade Great Magician, that Sixth and Seventh Grade Magicians couldn¡¯t pose any threat to him, he had to use quite a bit of magic to defend against this might.

    Not to mention that it wasn¡¯t a single rocket being shot, there were over two hundred of them!

    When more than half of the two hundred rockets hit Runa¡¯s magic barrier, there were many bright mes that appeared around him that were like fireworks in the sky.

    Countless explosions rang out and Runa found that a big part of his magic had been consumed, he had less than one third of his magic left.

    Runa was greatly shocked.

    When he was fighting Xu Yi and Still before, he didn¡¯t consume any magic at all.

    His biggest consumption was to block Great Magician Cami¡¯s Forbidden Fire Magic Spell, the Ragnarok Trial.

    Just with this Forbidden Spell, he had spent a third of his magic.

    But this was after all a Forbidden Spell. Being able to spend less than half his magic to defend against it was already good enough to make him feel proud.

    But after this, just by defending against the Magic Arrows and rockets shot by the several hundred normal soldiers, he had spent more magic defending against it than when he defended against the Ragnarok Trial!

    How was this possible!

    The attacks of less than five minutes from normal soldiers, was itparable to a Forbidden Spell?

 Volume 4 134 - Is it death, or will you work for me?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 134 Is it death, or will you work for me?</h4>

    However, this was just the beginning.

    Countless rockets mmed into Runa¡¯s magic barrier and after countless bright fireworks that bloomed around him, there was a medium transport Magic Car that arrived at the edge of the cliff.

    There was plenty of cargo on this Magic Car and it was clearly very heavy as it rumbled on the road.

    When the Magic Car came to the cliff, Runa took a look and found that there were sixteen strange looking thick cylinders that were like a honeb on the back of this Magic Car.

    If this thing was disassembled, each one would be like the Magic Bazooka the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had just used, but they were clearly several times bigger.

    These sixteenrge cylinders were arranged in a four by four pattern, ced on a rack with a bit of a nt.

    The Magic Car came to the edge of the cliff and the ck holes of the cylinders were pointed right at Runa who was floating over the beach.

    Runa looked at the Magic Car and at the sixteen ck holes that were on it, as he began to feel a bit unsettled for the first time.

    It was like an evil dragon could appear from the depths of those holes at any time.

    When Runa had this idea, there were two short and three long clear sounds that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards below. Then the sixteen Magic Bazookas on the back of the Magic Cars suddenly lit up with iparably beautiful and bright magic glows.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    Although there were sixteen rounds fired, because they were all fired almost simultaneously, there was a dull thud sound that came from it.

    The glow from the sixteen Magic Bazookas were stronger than the glow from the Magic Bazookas the guards had just fired. Runa¡¯s expression became very ugly.

    He was certain that the might of these rockets were more than ten times stronger than the previous rockets.

    If possible, it would be best if he found a way to dodge.

    But he had promised Xu Yi that he would face all the attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and these sixteen rockets were very fast, it arrived in front of him as soon as they were shot, so he had no time to dodge at all.

    Not to mention that these sixten rockets had a veryrge coverage range. If he were to dodge them, he might not be able to avoid them still.

    Without having enough preparation, even if it was him, he couldn¡¯t guarantee that he wouldn¡¯t be hurt.

    In the blink of an eye, Runa suddenly made the wisest decision. He stopped and gathered all his magic, pouring it all into his magic barrier.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Three of them hit Runa¡¯s magic barrier and immediately released an iparably bright light.

    This intense explosion created waves in the sea, creating waves that reached over two meters on the calm night sea. This was enough to show how powerful the three explosions were.

    Runa in the air trembled as a sweet taste appeared in his mouth. There was actually blood in his throat.

    If Runa had not reacted quickly enough and forced down that blood, he would have been made a fool in front of everyone.

    Although the three rockets were blocked by the magic barrier, Runa found that because of the powerful attack of the three rockets, he could block the might of the explosion, but he couldn¡¯tpletely block the terrifying shock of the explosion. He couldn¡¯t stop the shockwaves from injuring him.

    Runa was even more shocked when he checked his magic.

    He found that after being hit by the three rockets, there was only less than a fifth of his magic left.

    This meant that just the might of these three Magic Rockets were just a bit weaker than the Forbidden Spell Ragnarok Trial.

    ¡°Beautiful!¡± Xu Yi watching the battle from afar gave two ps before praising, ¡°You really are a Great Magician, you can even block this kind of powerful attack. Great Magician Runa, as long as you can take the next attack, I will keep my promise from before and let you go.¡±

    Juna took a breath and calmed the blood surging in his chest. He calmly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Come.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and said a few words to the Magic Communicator in his hand.

    Runa patiently waited, but he found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t keep attacking. He couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, the final attack? Why isn¡¯t it here yet?¡±

    Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°Great Magician Runa, you want to die this much?¡±

    Runa was stunned before flying into a rage, ¡°Who is willing to seek death? Chairman Xu, are you trying to insult me?¡±

    ¡°No, I didn¡¯t mean this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But Great Magician Runa, you should be clear on a fact. You don¡¯t have much magic left and the might of the final attack surpasses that of thest two attacks, are you certain that you can block it?¡±

    Runa was silent for a bit before giving a snort, ¡°Nonsense! This is your condition, I don¡¯t want to agree, but would you agree? Would Great Magician Cami agree?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually there¡¯s another chance for you to escape the fate of death.¡±

    Runa narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi before giving augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, although I admit that I am not someone that powerful, I am at least a Great Magician. If you want to use this method to shame me, don¡¯t even think about it!¡±

    ¡°I already said it, I don¡¯t want to shame you and want to make a deal with you.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Great Magician Runa, can I ask how much the person who asked you toe kill me paid you?¡±

    ¡°Why are you interested in this?¡± Runa asked back.

    ¡°I¡¯m curious how much I¡¯m worth.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug.

    Runa curled his lips, ¡°Five hundred thousand gold coins? How about it, aren¡¯t you worth a lot?¡±

    ¡°Only five hundred thousand?¡± Xu Yi opened his eyes wide in surprise, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too little? Could it be that I¡¯m not worth that much?¡±

    Runa¡¯s eyes also opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you overestimating yourself? Five hundred thousand is a veryrge amount, you actually feel it isn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°Of course I do.¡± Xu Yi said without any courtesy, ¡°Let me tell you, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns over a million gold coins a month and I as the chairman earn over five million gold coins a year. Now you tell me that I¡¯m only worth five hundred thousand gold coins? Isn¡¯t this looking down on me too much?¡±

    ¡°Five million gold coins a year?¡± Runa looked at Xu Yi in shock, ¡°Are you kidding? How could that be possible? Even your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial department doesn¡¯t even earn that much each year? How could you as a single person earn more than the entire Lampuri Kingdom each year?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t strange.¡± Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°Actually, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances are very poor to me. Just in the Lampuri Kingdom, there are many merchants and nobles that earn more than the kingdom¡¯s finances, this isn¡¯t a secret. Great Magician Runa, your surprise on this matter, I can only say.....you really don¡¯t know anything.¡±

    ¡°You......¡± Great Magician Runa¡¯s heart filled with rage, but he found that Xu Yi¡¯s usations in this aspect weren¡¯t wrong.

    Thinking about it, Runa suppressed the anger in his heart and asked Xu Yi in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, you¡¯ve said all these random things, just what do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°I just want to ask you, instead of going through suchrge risks to earn five hundred thousand gold coins and it¡¯s hard to say if you¡¯ll really get it, are you interested in earning at least ten thousand gold coins a year or even up to thirty to fifty thousand gold coins? Moreover, you can even not worry about investing in materials for all kinds of different research?¡±

    Great Magician Cami and Still on the side immediately understood Xu Yi¡¯s meaning and knit their brows at the same time.

    ¡°Xu Yi, this fellow wants to kill you, how can you do this?¡± Great Magician Cami said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Right, Xu Yi, he almost killed us just now, how can we let him work for us?¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, he was just bought. Since others can buy him, then I should be able to do the same. Don¡¯t forget, I have plenty of money.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and didn¡¯t say anything.

    She knew that since Xu Yi had already made his decision, it wouldn¡¯t be easy to change it.

    Great Magician Cami knit his brows to think about it, but he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Seeing that these two didn¡¯t object, Xu Yi kept asking Runa in the distance, ¡°How about it? Great Magician Runa, are you interested in this work?¡±

    Runa was silent for a bit before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you want to recruit me to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Humph! You are just too naive!¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m not naive at all.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°You just said it, no one is willing to seek death. In your situation, if you don¡¯t agree to my conditions, you only have a path of death. You wanted to kill me and Still just now, there¡¯s no problem even if I were to kill you. But I¡¯m willing to give you a chance, which is already considered quite benevolent. Alright, you can choose now, death or will you work for me?¡±

    Runa gave a bitterugh, ¡°Do I even have a choice?¡±

 Volume 4 135 - Making an easy to use piece

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 135 Making an easy to use piece</h4>

    A shocking piece of news quickly spread over the entire Stantine Duchy.

    Count Wein had officially dered war on Duke Stantine!

    Although ording to the trend from before, everyone knew that Count Wein would one day dere war on Duke Stantine.

    But no one ever expected this day toe so soon.

    Even if Count Wein was developing quickly, even if he had swallowed several smaller lords and increased his strength, his territory hadn¡¯t been stabilized yet. Also after going on campaigns again and again, he should stop and recover his strength, how could he dere war on Duke Stantine who was the strongest in the entire duchy?

    Not to mention that Duke Stantine had been the duke for over thirty years, no one was able to predict how much strength he had saved up.

    Count Wein had rashly chosen to start a war with Duke Stantine, this really wasn¡¯t smart.

    But just like when Count Wein fought those other lords, when Count Wein and Duke Stantine began fighting, Duke Stantine¡¯s troops couldn¡¯t stop the attacks of Lord Wein. They kept retreating after each defeat.

    In just half a month, Count Wein¡¯s army had advanced two hundred kilometers into Duke Stantine¡¯s territory, seizing a third of the territory under Duke Stantine.

    Everyone expected that in the war between Count Wein and Duke Stantine that both sides would either injure each other, or the duke would teach a fierce lesson to Count Wein, but everyone was silent after seeing this situation.

    Very soon, there were cries that called for a new duke.

    The lords that saw that Count Wein couldn¡¯t be stopped soon began supporting Count Wein in bing the new Duke Stantine.

    There were some lords that even praised Count Wein. They said that it might be the first time the Stantine Duchy was truly unified, making the Stantine Duchy a country with a real duke.

    If Count Wein couldplete this, he would be the greatest duke in the history of the Stantine Duchy. He would definitely be written into the history of the Stantine Duchy.

    Suddenly, the situation in the Stantine Duchy changed.

    Duke Stantine received the support of some lords, but after the war began between Count Wein and Duke Stantine, the lords that supported Duke Stantine changed sides.

    In the blink of an eye, Count Wein had already be the only choice for the new Duke Stantine.

    But Count Wein currently wasn¡¯t feeling any joy at all.

    ###

    ¡°Chairman Xu, these are our next battle ns, please take a look.¡± Count Wein handed over a thick book, acting very respectful.

    It waspletely different from before when he was arrogant towards Xu Yi and even attacked his territory in a rage. The current Count Wein couldn¡¯t show any arrogance towards Xu Yi, rather he was very respectful, not daring to show him any disrespect.

    Sometimes, Count Wein already felt very angry and ashamed of his manner.

    But he couldn¡¯t do anything else.

    Although in front of others, especially the other lords of the Stantine Duchy, he was very powerful and could even defeat Duke Stantine, making him the most popr person in the Stantine Duchy.

    He was very clear that all of this was established with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If he lost the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was no different from the other lords, he had nothing at all.

    If Xu Yi was dissatisfied, Xu Yi could support another lord to rece him.

    As long as he cut off his supply of military magic machines, his battle strength would turn to zero and everything he had would pop like a bubble.

    There were times that Count Wein wanted to give up the military magic machines because he thought that his territory, manpower, and supplies were enough to match any lord in the Stantine Duchy. He even wasn¡¯t weaker than Duke Stantine.

    But he also knew that if he really lost the military magic machines, his soldiers that were used to using the military magic machines to defeat the other side would have their battle strength drop. It wouldn¡¯t even be able topare to before.

    Using the military magic machines was like drinking poison to sate one¡¯s thirst.

    He would be dead if he didn¡¯t use it, but he was also finished if he kept using it.

    Count Wein was very helpless about this situation. He couldn¡¯t find any way to solve it, so as time passed, he had given up on finding a solution to this situation.

    He already made a decision. Since xu Yi wanted to use him as a piece, he would work hard as a useful piece.

    Anyway, Xu Yi only seemed interested in making money, he wasn¡¯t interested in being a lord and having the right to decide the lives of everyone in his territory.

    As long as he did the things Xu Yi ordered him, he would certainly be the duke that was the strongest in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although the premise was that he would have to listen to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked over the battle ns a few times before putting them on the side.

    ¡°Count Wein, I don¡¯t care about your strategies, I just want to know if you can achieve the goals I want. In the process of reaching that goal, no matter what support you need from me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I will definitely do my best.¡±

    Seeing the serious expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Count Wein cursed in his heart

    This Xu Yi, he really was the most fake person!

    He clearly wanted to control the Stantine Duchy, but he was throwing him out to fight against the other lords while he hid behind him doing nothing.

    Although he thought this, Count Wein revealed a smile before saying with a nod, ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, These are the supplies that we need, please take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi took the list of supplies and carefully looked over them.

    With just a single look, he tightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Count Wein, isn¡¯t the consumption of Magic Arrows too high? In just half a month, you have fought Duke Stantine five times and you already consumed ten thousand Magic Arrows? Based on the results, Duke Stantine has lost less than ten thousand people. Could it be that you¡¯re spending a Magic Arrow that costs over ten gold coins just to kill one enemy?¡±

    Count Wein said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, the situation of the battle is hard to decide. Duke Stantine¡¯s soldiers have a strong defense, so it is hard for the Magic Arrows to harm them and we consumed quite a bit.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Do you have some way to solve this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes. Since the other side has ways to defend against our normal military magic machines, as long as chairman Xu can give me some high level military magic machines, I can definitely easily defeat Duke Stantine.¡± Count Wein said in a fearless voice.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Wein with a ghost of a smile, ¡°What kind of high level military magic machines do you want?¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t need to be that high level. I saw the demonstration of the Magic Bazookas from yourpany¡¯s guardsst time, it was quite strong. If my subordinates had these Magic Bazookas, Duke Stantine¡¯s army won¡¯t be able to resist.¡±

    Xu Yi tapped the armrest of his chair and thought for a bit before saying, ¡°It isn¡¯t impossible to give this Magic Bazooka to you, but Count Wein, most of the military magic machines that ourpany has given you was bought on credit. The Magic Bazookas are indeed very strong, but they have a high price. Just a single Magic Bazooka costs seven hundred gold coins and it takes thirty gold coins for each rocket. Can you really afford this?¡±

    Count Wein gave a cold snort in his heart. He thought, aren¡¯t you selling me these military magic machines to me on credit for me to risk my life for you, what are you wasting these words for?

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t say this out loud.

    Count Wein thought about it before answering, ¡°This, chairman Xu, how about we follow the old rules and I give you some territory?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no meaning to me in having more territory. The current territory I have is enough for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop, there¡¯s no meaning if you give me more.¡±

    Count Wein immediately spread his hands, ¡°Then what can we do? I don¡¯t have this money.¡±

    Seeing Count Wein acting like this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Count Wein clearly knew that he was all in. Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t do something like this to him now and he wouldn¡¯t be able to find another lord to use in a short amount of time.

    ¡°I don¡¯t need territory and I don¡¯tck money, what I need the most is one thing and that is people.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°People?¡±

    ¡°Right, Count Wein, let¡¯s sign another contract. From this day forth, as long as you gain more territory, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will have the right to take half the people of that territory. To put it simply, I want half the people.¡±

    ¡°Half?¡± Count Wein¡¯s face was a bit ugly, ¡°Isn¡¯t this too much? If you take all those young men, what about my territory?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t need young men. Rather, ourpany has many factories and what we need are grown women.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Count Wein looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    Other than giving birth to children, what could women be used for?

    If he wanted to choose women, wouldn¡¯t younger girls be more attractive?

    Thinking of this, Count Wein suddenly thought of something. Liz and Linda that he gave Xu Yi before were still by Xu Yi¡¯s side, but they didn¡¯t seem to have gained Xu Yi¡¯s affection.

    Perhaps......Xu Yi had a special hobby.

    Xu Yi ignored the strange thoughts on Count Wein¡¯s mind, he took out the contract that he had already prepared for Count Wein to look over.

    Count Wein looked over it a few times before signing his name.

    Anyway, he could only listen to Xu YI¡¯s arrangements, there was no meaning if he kept looking over it.

    After the contract was signed, the two discussed their cooperation a bit before Count Wein left Xu Yi¡¯s manor.

    After Count Wein left, Xu Yi stood up and returned to his bedroom.

    When he opened the door, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya looked over.

    Elder Lisanya looked over Xu Yi before saying, ¡°Strip.¡±

 Volume 4 136 - Magic Engraving Blessing

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 136 Magic Engraving Blessing</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hesitate, taking off all his clothes, even including his underwear. He stood in front of elder Illusia and elder Lisanya showing everything like a newborn baby.

    The expression of the two elders didn¡¯t change at all as they waved for Xu Yi toe forward. They looked over Xu Yi¡¯s body from top to bottom first before using their fingers to explore every inch of Xu Yi¡¯s flesh.

    This inspection this time was different. Last time in order for Xu Yi to learn the unique meditation method of the elves, the inspection had been different.

    After the inspection, there was a light blue magical glow that appeared on fingertips of the two elders at the same time. Their fingers slid over Xu Yi¡¯s body, leaving light blue marks on it.

    These light blue marks flickered before gradually fading, like they had directly entered Xu Yi¡¯s body.

    This seemed to have taken a heavy toll on the two elders. They had only drawn less than twenty lines on Xu Yi¡¯s body together, but after they took back their hands, they let out a slow breath at the same time like they were very tired.

    ¡°Xu Yi, start it and let¡¯s see.¡± Elder Lisanya said.

    Xu Yi nodded. With a thought, he started the flow of magic in his body and countless blue glowing lines appeared on his naked body, almost covering itpletely.

    These lines spread all over his body and other than his face, they even spread across his butt.

    Xu Yi seemed to be covered in a blue light, like he was a blue glowing person, looking very strange.

    ¡°Un, the fluctuations are stable. It seems like there should be no problem.¡± Elder Lisanya nodded before continuing, ¡°Xu Yi, try using Spatial Magic.¡±

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before releasing all his magic power. The blue glowing lines on his body seemed to have reacted and he could feel the magic flowing very smoothly through him. With just a single thought, he gathered all of it in his right hand and there was a small ck ball that appeared that even sucked in light.

    ¡°Don¡¯t stop, keep going.¡± Elder Lisanya ordered.

    Xu Yi continued using his magic as the ck ball floated in his right hand¡¯s palm, not moving at all.

    Seeing this, elder Illusia nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really have an exceptional talent with magic. In less than half a month, you have already progressed this far with Spatial Magic.

    Elder Lisanya also nodded, ¡°Un, not bad. With this speed, you won¡¯t even need half a month to be able to master teleportation.¡±

    The two elders had just finished when there was a sudden bit of light that appeared on the ck ball in Xu Yi¡¯s right hand before it shook.

    Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Two elders, you¡¯re praising me too early. I can¡¯t hold on any longer.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t anything. Keep going and see how long you can maintain it.¡± Elder Illusia said.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give it a try.¡±

    Xu Yi continued using all his magic, forcefully maintaining the most basic Spatial Spell, Swallowing Ball.

    However, the magic required to maintain this was terrifying. Even if his magic already surpassed that of a normal Ninth Grade Magician, because he hadn¡¯t reached the Great Magician Realm yet, he couldn¡¯t manipte the Swallowing Ball at will like a Great Magician, so it quickly consumed his magic.

    After maintaining it for another two minutes, there were more white lines that appeared on the Swallowing Ball. There were more and more of them as the Swallowing Ball began trembling more intensely.

    Seeing that Xu Yi could still maintain the shape of the Swallowing Ball and it didn¡¯t copse, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya exchanged a surprised look.

    Spatial Magic was the hardest kind of magic to grasp. Even a Great Magician with a deep understanding of Spatial Magic would find it very hard to control and use Spatial Spells.

    A situation like Xu Yi who could maintain the general shape of the Swallowing Ball even though he was running out of magic was basically impossible.

    However, Xu Yi had done it and he could maintain it for over two minutes. It could be seen that Xu Yi¡¯s control of his magic and elemental magic energy had already reached a shocking degree.

    Based on this, Xu Yi really was an outstanding magical genius.

    The two elders both revealed looks of regret.

    If Xu Yi was willing to spend more time and effort on studying magic, or if he just focused a bit more, his magic achievement would definitely go beyond his current level.

    If he was willing to do this, he would have already be a Great Magician. How could he have almost been assassinated by that Great Magician named Runa before?

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi encountering this danger, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya wouldn¡¯t be using this kind of Magic Engraving Blessing to help him break the boundary between magician and Great Magician, so he could use Spatial Magic with limitations, alright?

    The Magic Engraving Blessing was a secret of the elves and in normal circumstances, it was impossible for the two elders to use it on a human.

    But Xu Yi brought great benefits to the two tribes, so if something were to happen to him, it would be a serious blow to the two tribes and could even affect the future of the two tribes.

    The situation of the two tribes was very good and the lives of the tribe members had greatly changed, they had a chance to integrate into human society, which would allow them to continue living on the continent.

    The two elders weren¡¯t willing to miss this good chance.

    The key to all this was Xu Yi.

    If Xu Yi dired, the new leader of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might not think about the development of the two elven tribes like him and it would be difficult for the two elders to trust a human like they did with Xu Yi.

    So Xu Yi definitely couldn¡¯t die by ident.

    So the two elders even exposed the thousands of years old secret of the elves, using this Magic Engraving Blessing on Xu Yi. They hoped that Xu Yi would be able to keep his life in a dangerous situation.

    The Magic Engraving Blessing could temporarily increase the magic flow of a magician, instantly increasing their magic power and increasing the level of spells they could use.

    Xu Yi was already on the verge of bing a Great Magician, so if his level increased, he could use Spatial Spells normally.

    Based on the current result, because of Xu Yi¡¯s outstanding magical talent, everything had gone smoothly.

    With the Magic Engraving Blessing, with the strict teachings of Great Magician Cami, it wouldn¡¯t take him long to learn the most important Teleportation Spell among all Spatial Spells.

    This was a spell that could teleport a magician a far distance, which would be enough to save Xu Yi¡¯s life in a critical moment.

    Although Runa wasn¡¯t able to escape when he met Great Magician Cami, that was because Great Magician Cami had reached the peak of the Great Magician Realm, being only a single step away from reaching the Arch Magus Realm. He could already touch the spatialws, which was why Runa wasn¡¯t able to use teleportation to escape.

    Normally speaking, there wouldn¡¯t be a magician at the level of an Arch Magus that would assassinate Xu Yi.

    As for direct conflict?

    What were the benefits of fighting against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Not to mention that with the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even if an Arch Magus came, they wouldn¡¯t do that well.

    While these thoughts passed through the minds of the two elders, Xu Yi already couldn¡¯t hold on. The Swallowing Ball trembled before quickly shrinking and disappearing without a trace.

    Seeing this, there was another look of surprise that appeared in the eyes of elder Illusia and elder Lisanya.

    Actually, they were already prepared for when Xu Yi lost control of his spell.

    But they never thought that Xu Yi could pull back his magic bit by bit in this situation, letting this Swallowing Ball calmly disappear.

    Based on this, Xu Yi¡¯s control of his magic had reached a shocking degree.

    However, for the two elders, the greater Xu Yi¡¯s magic talent, the better.

    Xu Yi seemed very dissatisfied as he looked at his empty right hand. He gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°It really is a pity, I can¡¯t fully control this Swallowing Ball now. It must be much harder to master the Teleportation Spell.¡±

    Elder Illusia said with a faint smile, ¡°No, chairman Xu, although the Swallowing Ball is the most basic Spatial Spell, it represents the basics of all Spatial Spells. Letting you use this spell was to let you experience the characteristics of Spatial Magic, making it easier for you to learn Spatial Spells.¡±

    ¡°Right, in theory, as long as you can control one Spatial Spell, as long as you have enough magic, you can use any Spatial Spell. If you can grasp the Swallowing Ball, you can definitely use the Teleportation Spell.¡± Elder Lisanya added.

    ¡°When I have enough magic?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°The problem is that I don¡¯t have enough magic. I can only hold the Swallowing Ball for this short period of time, how can I take therge consumption of the Teleportation Spell?¡±

    ¡°What do you think we¡¯re giving you the Magic Engraving Blessing for?¡± Elder Lisanya red at Xu Yi, ¡°Let me tell you, the Magic Engraving Blessing not only increases the flow of your magic and your control of elemental magic energy, the most important thing is that with the Magic Engraving Blessing, when you¡¯re using the Teleportation Spell, you can reduced the spatial elemental magic energy shock that will hit you, which will reduce your consumption of magic energy. You can hold the Swallowing Ball for three seconds now, so that means you can use the Teleportation Spell for three minutes or even longer.¡±

    ¡°Three minutes? How far can I go?¡± Xu Yi asked the most important question.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know right now.¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head, ¡°The speed of the teleportation depends on the understanding of the magician on Spatial Magic and the Teleportation Spell itself, it¡¯s different for each magician. However, with your talent, I think that it shouldn¡¯t be that bad. If it¡¯s three minutes......It should be at least one kilometer.¡±

    ¡°One kilometer......¡± Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, ¡°That should be enough to escape.¡±

    ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be a problem normally.¡± Elder Illusia gave a nod and said, ¡°Actually, the most important thing is that you don¡¯t let yourself be in danger. With your talent for magic, I believe it won¡¯t take more than a few years for you to be a Great Magician. When that timees, even without the help of the Magic Engraving Blessing, you should be able to use the Teleportation Spell at will.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, thinking that elder Illusia had overestimated him.

    Although he was only a single step from bing a Great Magician, that step was very difficult to take.

    There were many magicians that could only remain as a Ninth Grade Magician, being unable to take that final step.

    Although he was confident that he could cross the threshold, but to say that it would take only a few years......He wouldn¡¯t dare guarantee that.

    Turning over, he saw elder Lisanya slightly knitting her brows like she was in deep thought.

    Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What is it? Elder Lisanya, is there a problem?¡±

    Elder Lisanya was silent for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Xu Yi, do you want to copte with me?¡±

 Volume 4 137 - Have to choose one

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 137 Have to choose one</h4>

    Xu Yi was scared

    ¡°Li.....Elder Lisanya, you.....what did you say?¡±

    Although elder Illusia wasn¡¯t as shocked as Xu Yi, she also looked at elder Lisanya in surprise, but she didn¡¯t ask anything.

    ¡°I asked if you want to copte with me.¡± Elder Lisanya casually repeated again before pointing at Xu Yi¡¯s lower body, ¡°I specially sent several beautiful girls from our tribe for you, but you¡¯ve never been interested. But when you were in front of me and Illusia, you did show some signs. So I think that perhaps you are more interested in copting with us?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, no, no......¡± Xu Yi quickly waved his hand, ¡°Elder Lisanya, you¡¯ve misunderstood, you¡¯ve really misunderstood! Really! I.....¡±

    Looking down at his little brother standing up and seeing the two looks of the elders, even if Xu Yi had already seen these two elders naked, his face turned red with embarrassment.

    ¡°This......This is just the instinct as a man. I have already exined to you and elder Illusia many times, I really don¡¯t have this meaning. It¡¯s just that this instinct.....can¡¯t be controlled at all.¡±

    ¡°I also said it, I don¡¯t me you.¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head, ¡°I know that this is a normal reaction for you human males, but because this is a normal reaction, it means that you do want to copte with us, right? I thought that you would be the same as normal human males and be interested in young elven girls, but based on this, it seems like you¡¯re more interested in older elven women like me and Illusia?¡±

    Xu Yi wished he could dig himself into a hole. He quickly grabbed his clothes and desperately put them on.

    After he finished dressing, Xu YI forced himself to calm down.

    Looking at the questioning gaze of the two elders, Xu Yi gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°Elder Lisanya, if I really had to choose, I would prefer a young elven girl. Of course, this doesn¡¯t mean that you and elder Illusia are old, rather I think that both of you are filled with charm. You are even more outstanding than most of the other elven girls.¡±

    ¡°Then why do you reject?¡± Elder Lisanya had a confused look, ¡°Since you think that Illusia and I are charming and your body even shows this, why aren¡¯t you willing to copte with me?¡±

    ¡°These are twopletely different matters!¡± Xu Yi had to raise his voice, ¡°Elder Lisanya, elder Illusia, in my heart, you two are honourable elders, close to the same position as Great Magician Cami in my eyes. Even if I have an instinctive reaction, if I were to really.....copte with you, I definitely can¡¯t ept this.¡±

    Elder Lisanya knit her brows and shook her head, ¡°You humans really are a strange and contradictory race. You¡¯re clearly willing, but you reject because of these unnecessary worries. Illusia and I aren¡¯t your elders and because we have no familial rtionship, I don¡¯t understand where your worriese from.¡±

    ¡°This......is just what is in my heart. To have me....ke, copte with you, I can¡¯t cross this line.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Elder Lisanya and elder Illusia looked at each other before giving sighs, ¡°Alright, I thought that since you were interested in me and Illusia, you can choose to copte with me and be familiar with copting with elven women. Then you can choose a girl that you truly love and give birth to a descendant with her. Now it seems like you humans think too much and I can¡¯t understand it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterughed. Elder Lisanya went around in a circle just for this matter.

    Those elven girls had been here for half a year and he had always rejected them. Elder Lisanya was clearly getting impatient, not even hesitating to use herself to reach her goal.

    This approach showed the clear difference in characters between elder Lisanya and elder Illusia.

    If it was elder Illusia, she wouldn¡¯t use this method to make him ept an elven girl if he rejected.

    But when he turned to look at elder Illusia, he found that her eyes were looking at his lower half and she seemed to be in thought.

    ¡°Could it be that elder Illusia also had this idea?¡± Xu Yi suddenly felt a chille over him.

    He was clear that elder Lisanya and elder Illusia were elven Great Magicians who were as strong as Great Magician Cami. If the two of them decided to use force with him, he couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    Xu Yi¡¯s worries didn¡¯te true. The two elders pondered for a bit before elder Lisanya gave a sigh and said with a look of regret, ¡°I was interested in copting with human males, but since chairman Xu isn¡¯t willing, then just forget about it. But chairman Xu, the proposal that Illusia and I gave you, we agreed to give you a year to consider. A year is about toe and if you aren¡¯t willing to make a decision, Illusia and I take away your right to choose and help you make a choice. I hope that you won¡¯t regret it when the timees.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Because of this, he had argued countless times with the two elders.

    But no matter what he said, the two elders insisted on Xu Yi choosing an elven girl to be with because they needed to have Xu Yi give birth to a descendant with an elven girl. This matter had an important meaning and it was very important to them, so they didn¡¯t allow Xu Yi to reject them.

    Xu Yi had always resisted this matter, but now that he saw that elder Lisanya was willing to offer herself for this matter, Xu Yi¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help loosening a bit.

    Perhaps......It was something eptable to find an elven girl to be with?

    What made Xu Yi really worry was that he rejected being used as a stud horse.

    But even if he had little contact with the elven girls that elder Lisanya had sent to avoid this matter, he would be used as a stud horse no matter who he chose.....

    ###

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Still shook her head with a smile, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯ve forgotten a person. If you choose her, you won¡¯t feel like you¡¯re being used as a ¡®stud horse¡¯.

    After the two elders left, Still came to ask Xu Yi about the situation like usual.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hide anything as the two spoke. Hepletely told Still what elder Lisanya had said and the worries that were in his heart.

    Actually, as the person that Xu Yi thought that would reject the most to the two elders having Xu Yi choose an elven girl to be with, Still didn¡¯t actually have any objections. Rather she was very active in this matter and urged Xu Yi to choose one as soon as possible.

    ording to Still¡¯s thoughts it wasn¡¯t strange for Xu Yi to have several women with his status. Anyways, she had already epted Liz and Linda as Xu Yi¡¯s women, so she felt that it was more interesting if Xu Yi chose an elven girl.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry at this, but this did reduce his mental burden. There was only the worry of being used as a ¡®stud horse¡¯.

    However, Still now said that Xu Yi had forgotten a person.

    ¡°Who?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s Agnes.¡± Still said with a smile.

    Xu Yi was stunned before suddenly understanding.

    Right, if it was an elven girl, the one he was closest to was Agnes.

    This was the first elven girl that Xu Yi had met. She had been acquainted with Xu Yi for over four years now and they were very close, so they didn¡¯t feel unfamiliar with each other at all.

    But it was because both sides were close that Xu Yi had always unconsciously rejected the matter that Agnes was an elven girl.

    If he came together with Agnes, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t feel that he was being used as a stud horse.

    But......

    ¡°How can that be, I¡¯ve always treated Agnes as a little sister, just like Vivian. If I be together with her, wouldn¡¯t that be too strange?¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he said this.

    Still revealed a faint smile and poked Xu Yi¡¯s face with a finger, ¡°Don¡¯t think that I don¡¯t know, haven¡¯t you been moved by Agnes before? Such a beautiful and cute elven girl, which normal man¡¯s heart wouldn¡¯t be moved?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile.

    He indeed had been moved by Agnes before, but after knowing her for a long time, he had already treated Agnes as a family member. He was treating her as a little sister just like Vivian.

    ¡°Actually you just said Vivian......¡± Still had a strange smile on her face, ¡°Xu Yi, do you know, Vivian has said many times that she will definitely marry you in the future, but you are saying that you treat her like a little sister. If Vivian were to know about this, she would definitely be very hurt.¡±

    Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile, ¡°Still, I have you now and Liz and Linda, I feel that is already enough. If I have anymore, whether it is energy, time, or the most important thing, emotions, I wouldn¡¯t have enough. I hope that I won¡¯t be an irresponsible person and let you be hurt.¡±

    ¡°You.....¡± Still reached out to touch Xu Yi¡¯s face. She gently stroked it as she had a loving look in her eyes, ¡°Xu Yi, you are too gentle sometimes and think about others too much. Actually, many people, like Liz, Linda, and Vivian just need to stay by your side and they would feel very happy. Rather if you keep having this kind of thought and can¡¯t decide your rtionship with them, you will always hurt them, do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Still said with a sigh, ¡°Do you know, I¡¯ve already seen Vivian cry secretly several times. I¡¯ve asked her and she said that you¡¯ve rarely talked to her during this time and you¡¯ve even seen her less. She feels that you don¡¯t like her, so she is afraid.¡±

    Xu Yi paused for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°If it was like this, and she really married me, I still won¡¯t have that much time to spend with her, so wouldn¡¯t she feel even more lonely and afraid?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not the same. Vivian needs a sense of security from you and in name right now, she is just your ve. She is afraid that you will abandon her, but if you marry her, at least she will feel much more relieved.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent.

    He was quite good with machines and had decent talent when it came to magic, but he didn¡¯t have any talent when it came to men and women rtionships.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Still¡¯s reminder, he wouldn¡¯t even know what Vivian was thinking.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°Then what about Agness? She is different from Vivian, right?¡±

    ¡°Agnes is better than Vivian and she is a bright and progressive elven girl. She¡¯s told me that she likes you and is willing to be with you, I believe that is her true intentions and there aren¡¯t any other ideas. I think that if you must choose an elven girl to be with, Agnes is your best choice.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Then you, Still, what are your true thoughts?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°As your wife, isn¡¯t the most important thing to support my husband? You can do what you want to do, no matter what choice you make, I will support you.¡±

    Xu Yi pinched Still¡¯s face with a smile. He thought that although Still had made her decision, he couldn¡¯tpletely let go.

    When it came to this, he felt that it would be better if he was a male lead in a web novel creating at a harem. At least that way he wouldn¡¯t have any mental burdens and would make his choice much easier.

 Volume 4 138 - Just become a king

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 138 Just be a king</h4>

    As soon as the hottest part of summer passed, the battle between Count Wein and Duke Stantine became even more intense.

    Duke Stantine had sent someone at the level of Great Magician Runa to assassinate Xu Yi, which made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce support Count Wein even more. Not only did they provide a steady stream of military magic machines to Count Wein, they also bought arge amount of resources from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the other countries they were cooperating with to solve Count Wein¡¯s worries, allowing him to fully focus on fighting Duke Stantine.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce even interfered in the fight between lords for the first time. In the battle between Count Wein and Duke Stantine, they sent out the most elite guards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to join the battle.

    With the powerful firepower of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards that even surpassed Count Wein¡¯s soldiers, Duke Stantine stood no chance.

    In just two months, Count Wein had led the invasion into the Stantine Duchy¡¯s capital of Faraday City.

    Seeing that there was no hope of resistance, Duke Stantine had burnt the duke manor that had taken several decades to build and he was burnt in the ashes.

    After that, the lords of the Stantine Duchy surrendered to Count Wein, electing him as the new Duke Stantine, naming him Duke Wein.

    After Duke Wein became a duke, he requested all the other lords in the duchy to give up their arms and ept the appointment of the duke¡¯s manor.

    Most of the lords agreed, there were only a few lords who refused.

    Among them included Viscount Anklo who was currently famous in the south of the Stantine Duchy.

    If it was a normal lord who resisted Duke Wein, they would have been beaten down without any mercy.

    Actually, Duke Wein¡¯s soldiers had done this.

    One week after he gave the order to disarm, Duke Wein immediately sent out his troops to conquer the lords that had resisted his order. He easily defeated those lords and took all their territory for himself.

    However, for Viscount Anklo who had also resisted his order, Duke Wein acted differently and didn¡¯t take any actions against him. Both sides showed great restraint, as if there would be no conflict between them.

    Actually, everyone in the Stantine Duchy knew that whether it was Viscount Anklo or Duke Wein, their biggest supporter was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi.

    Don¡¯t think that those two lords could summon storms in the Stantine Duchy. If they wanted to do something, one had to look at how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi felt.

    This was a fact that no one could deny.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support was important for either side. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped supporting one side, the fate of that side would be to be defeated by the other side.

    To put it more bluntly, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi could truly decide the situation of the Stantine Duchy.

    What everyone was confused about was that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this strong, why didn¡¯t they send out their troops and conquer all the lords? Why would they choose to support the forces of Viscount Anklo and Duke Wein?

    Perhaps he could just choose to support one side and help them rule the entire Stantine Duchy, would he receive more benefits that way?

    ¡°Actually I can do this.¡± Xu Yi looked at Anklo sitting on the left and Duke Wein sitting on the right in front of him with a serious look.

    If one didn¡¯t see it, no one in the Stantine Duchy would believe that Viscount Anklo and Duke Wein who were fighting over control of the Stantine Duchy right now would be peacefully sitting across from each other. Both of them had a faint smile on their faces, like they weren¡¯t enemies, but rather friends.

    ¡°The reason why I haven¡¯t done this is because I feel that this would cause too much damage to the Stantine Duchy, it wouldn¡¯t benefit our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development in the Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi continued.

    Ankolo took a sip of tea before looking at Duke Wein who had a smile, but also had a fierce look in his eyes. He said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, let me guess. Your biggest worry is that the Stantine Duchy being in a civil war would affect the poption?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Ourpanycks people the most. The Stantine Duchy¡¯s poption is very important to me, I don¡¯t want to lose them because of the war.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s face sunk a bit, ¡°Chairman Xu, with all due respect, if it wasn¡¯t for your support of Count Wein, Count Wein wouldn¡¯t have had the guts to attack the other lords. Not to mention challenging Duke Stantine in the end.¡±

    Duke Wein on the opposite side knit his brows and angrily red at Anklo, ¡°What? Viscount Anko, are you looking down on me? Do you want to see who would be better right now?¡±

    Anklo looked at Duke Wein in disdain and said with a cold snort, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for chairman Xu stopping me, I would have already beaten your motley crew to tears.¡±

    Duke Wein flew into a rage. He suddenly stood up and pointed at Anklo, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll start fighting immediately! We¡¯ll see who has the motley crew!¡±

    When Anklo was about to speak, Xu Yi suddenly gave a cold snort and the two stopped as they turned back to Xu Yi.

    ¡°I don¡¯t care if you hate each other, but since I¡¯m here, we¡¯ll sit and talk!¡± Xu Yi coldly looked over and after the two red at each other, they sat back down.

    Seeing the angry appearance of the two, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    These two fellows had these attitudes, how could they work together and develop the Stantine Duchy together?

    Actually if possible, Xu Yi really wanted to do what most lords in the Stantine Duchy had guessed. He wanted to use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and sweep across the Stantine Duchy, taking it all under his control. That way, no matter how he wanted to develop the Stantine Duchy, he could do what he wanted and wouldn¡¯t be as restrained as he was now.

    But the manpower issue that he was worried about wasn¡¯t just the workers in the factories, but also the guards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards kept expanding, it had already reached three thousand people.

    With their military magic machines, as well as their training and high quality, those three thousand troops withrge amounts of dwarf and elf soldiers were very terrifying. In a real battle, they could even easily defeat ten thousand enemies.

    But because there weren¡¯t enough people, they could defend the main base of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they couldn¡¯t upy the entire Stantine Duchy.

    So Xu Yi had to find strong enough lords to act as his representatives in the Stantine Duchy. Through these representatives, he would achieve his reform ns for the Stantine Duchy.

    In this regard, choosing Anklo and Duke Wein had their advantages and disadvantages.

    Anklo had excellent abilities and could clearly see the situation, there were many thoughts that were the same as Xu Yi. If he worked with him, Xu Yi would be able to easily achieve his n for the Stantine Duchy.

    But Anklo¡¯s shoring was something that Xu Yi worried about a lot. It was that his goals were too lofty, or rather he was too ambitious. That kind of person was hard to subdue and he wouldn¡¯t obey Xu Yi¡¯s arrangements in the future.

    Count Wein was inferior to Anklo in all aspects, but he was obedient to Xu Yi and was very suited to being a puppet.

    Xu yi didn¡¯t have the ability to get rid of these two, so he chose to support them both and create a bnce between them.

    At least at this stage, because those two had to win the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would make enough concessions to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi could summon the two of them at the same time because of this.

    After pausing, Xu Yi said to Anklo, ¡°Anklo, I remember that your dream was to let the people of the Stantine Duchy live good lives, right?¡±

    Anklo nodded, ¡°Yes, that is the ideal that will never change. But chairman Xu, the Stantine Duchy has already been in the mes of war for a year now, that is now what I want.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, but he didn¡¯t reply. He turned to Duke Wein to ask, ¡°Then what about Duke Wein? What do you want?¡±

    Duke Wein pursed his lips, ¡°I don¡¯t have such lofty ideals, I just want to let myself live a better life.¡±

    ¡°Trash!¡± Angklo gave a soft snort.

    Duke Wein red at him and was about to rage again.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to stop him.

    ¡°Good, since you two don¡¯t have high requests, then it is much simpler. Anklo, you have visited Banta City, so I¡¯m sure that you know that with the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Banta City had greatly changed and the lives of their people were greatly improved.¡±

    Anklo nodded. He turned in the direction of the Lamuri Kingdom and there was a bit of fascination in his eyes.

    ¡°The Banta City of that time really was the city with the most energy and vitality I have ever seen. If every city in our Stantine Duchy can be like Banta City, I would have noints even if I die.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to die.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°As long as you work with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Stantine Duchy will be like Banta City. The people of the Stantine Duchy will be full of energy and vigor like the people of Banta City.¡±

    Anklo was silent for a bit before giving a slow nod.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I believe that you have this ability. In my personal territory now, the living conditions of the people are no different from being in heaven. If you can let all the citizens of our Stantine Duchy have this kind of life, no matter what you want me to do, I would be willing. Even if.....even if you were to be Duke Stantine, I would have no objections.¡±

    Duke Wein gave a snort, ¡°Then what do I do? Do I go back to being a count?¡±

    Anklo¡¯s eyes turned cold, ¡°What? Are you qualified topare to chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not qualified, but since I¡¯m already Duke Stantine, how could I let chairman Xu fall down to my position?¡± Duke Wein said.

    Anklo was a bit confused, ¡°What are you saying?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Duke Wein suddenly became excited, ¡°If it was me, if chairman Xu is willing, he should just be the king!¡±

 Volume 4 139 - Elven companion

    Volume 4 Chapter 139 Elvenpanion

    ¡°King?¡±

    That word only stayed in Xu Yi¡¯s mind for a second before it was thrown far away by him.

    Xu Yi was very clear that he didn¡¯t have any talent for politics. If he became the king, it wouldn¡¯t be a good thing.

    So before Duke Wein, many people had secretly raised this to him before. Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce basically controlledrge parts of the ck Rice Wastnd and with therge territory of the Stantine Duchy, he could establish an independent kingdom and be the king, but Xu Yi had denied all these suggestions.

    One, he wasn¡¯t interested in bing a king.

    Two, with the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t right to establish a counter. Various aspects of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t strong enough to support a country.

    So from the beginning, Xu Yi had treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a normalpany.

    The only difference from otherpaniesid in the military magic machines.

    But to Xu Yi, the most important thing to him would always be the household magic machines.

    Through his discussions with Anklo and Duke Wein, they determined that the Stantine Duchy would maintain its stability and let the citizens live happy lives. After deciding the main direction for the development of the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi threw the ns to Anklo and Duke Wein, letting them decide how to work together. He got into his Magic Car and left the Stantine Duchy.

    When passing by the ck Rice Wastnd, Xu Yi inspected ck Rice City as usual. After determining that ck Rice City was developing as per the n, he went to the border between the ck Rice Wastnd and the Sack Kingdom to the north.

    After several months of construction, the fortifications in the north were starting to take shape.

    Therge reinforced concrete fortifications blocked off the entire northern ck Rice Wastnd, cutting off all the paths the Sack Kingdom could take south into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Xu Yi had a discussion withmander Lantis and decided that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would continue funding the fortifications. Commander Lantis guaranteed Xu Yi that as long as there were enough funds, the western army could finish the initial fortifications by next year and wouldpletely finish them in three years, cutting off all hope of a Sack Kingdom invasion.

    After Xu Yi bid farewell tomander Lantis, he didn¡¯t return to the Stantine Duchy. Rather he headed north, driving into the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi hadn¡¯t returned to the Lampuri Kingdom even when Seveni specially sent an invitation for her coronation. So this time, it had already been a year since Xu Yi had been here. This was his first timeing back to the country that he had lived in for several years after his transmigration and had been treated as his second hometown.

    After three hours of driving, Xu Yi turned aftering onto the Falling Rain Road, heading north into the Falling Rain Forest.

    No matter how the areas surrounding Banta City developed, the Falling Rain Forest maintained its primitive feel. Xu Yi could only drive his Magic Car on the less than ten kilometers of road that had been opened for the dwarf tribes. After a while he had no choice but to stop the Magic Car and fly into the Falling Rain Forest.

    When he reached the edge, there was a figure that appeared that threw itself at Xu Yi.

    When Xu Yi revealed a smile that person jumped into Xu Yi¡¯s embrace like the wind, as a pair of soft lips fell onto Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    Xu Yi helplessly touched his face. He looked at Agnes who had an iparably happy smile in his embrace and said with a sigh, ¡°Agnes, you¡¯re suddenly this affectionate, I¡¯m not used to it.¡±

    Agnes was very surprised.

    ¡°You don¡¯t like it? But Vivian said that human males liked it very much when their lovers gave them a kiss when they met them.¡±

    ¡°Un.....It isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t like it, but you.....¡± Seeing the unsettled look on Agnes¡¯ face, Xu Yi¡¯s heart turned soft. He patted her head and said with a smile, ¡°Forget it, it¡¯s fine if you¡¯re happy.¡±

    Agnes immediately revealed a happy smile, ¡°Un, it¡¯s even better if you¡¯re also happy.¡±

    Seeing the pure happy smile on Agnes¡¯ face, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    This pure and beautiful elven girl had chosen to follow him because of the Night Song Tribe or rather because of elder Illusia. Was this really good?

    After talking with Still, Xu Yi found that Agnes was indeed quite a good choice.

    But after considering it, Xu Yi had talked with Agnes and given his true thoughts, leaving this choice to Agnes.

    As long as Agnes wasn¡¯t willing, Xu Yi decided that no matter how elder Illusia and elder Lisanya forced him, he wouldn¡¯t follow their intention and pick an elven girl to be with him.

    But when Xu Yi raised his thoughts, Agnes had happily nodded to show that she agreed.

    Agnes said that she already mentioned this to Xu Yi. She was already used to being with Xu Yi and she was happy when she was with him, so she wished that she could always stay with him.

    Now that Xu Yi was choosing to be with her, whether it was from her personal wish or the consideration of the elf race, she was willing.

    Since Agnes didn¡¯t reject this, Xu Yi had another deep talk with Still. Then he told elder Illusia and elder Lisanya his choice, deciding that Agnes would be the representative from the elf race that would be hispanion.

    Elder Illusia wasn¡¯t surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s choice, but elder Lisanya was a bit dissatisfied.

    Because she had picked several beautiful elven girls from the Moon Shadow Tribe, but Xu Yi hadn¡¯t picked any of them. In the end, he had picked this little girl Agnes from the Night Song Tribe that didn¡¯t have anything special about her.

    But since Xu Yi was finally willing to make this choice, elder Lisanya naturally didn¡¯t have any other objections.

    Of course elder Illusia didn¡¯t have any either.

    So after various consensus, Agnes, the first elven girl that Xu Yi had met in this world had be the deep hope and meaning for elder Illusia and elder Lisanya,ing together with Xu Yi.

    ording to the elves, Agnes was now Xu Yi¡¯spanion. From this day forth, she would only be with Xu Yinalone and would no longer be together with anyone else of the opposite sex, whether they were elf or human.

    So seeing Xu Yi now, Agnes had changed her identity. She went from an elf to showing her affection for Xu Yi without the slightest bit of shyness.

    Although the Moon Shadow Tribe girls had been even more affectionate to Xu Yi, Agnes was different from them. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t get used to it.

    While walking through the Falling Rain Forest with Agnes, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Is Freya happy ying here?¡±

    Agnes nodded with a smile, ¡°Un, Freya is very happy here, she is happy every day. I went into the deep woods with her during these days and let her see all kinds of nts and animals, she really likes them. Just today, she was ying with arge ck bear all morning.¡±

    ¡°Large ck bear?¡± Xu Yi was shocked. When he wanted to say that this was dangerous, he reacted. The Falling Rain Forest was the home of the Night Song Tribe and the elves had the innate ability to talk to nts and animals. The animals in the Falling Rain Forest were dangerous to humans, but for the elves of the Night Song Tribe, they were like pets raised by them.

    With Agnes with her, there was no need to worry that Freya was in danger.

    But......

    ¡°Freya wasn¡¯t scared when she saw the big ck bear? She didn¡¯t cry?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°No.¡± Agnes shook her head, ¡°Freya is very brave. She even dared to climb on the ck bear¡¯s back and rode on the neck of the ck bear.¡±

    When Xu Yi thought about this, he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Freya had been very brave since she was young and rarely cried.

    Now that she was over two years old, this special characteristic would show itself.

    As a girl, this personality was something that Xu Yi was satisfied with.

    Freya had been invited by elder Illusia toe to the Falling Rain Forest to y.

    Still had been a bit worried, but she wasforted by Xu Yi.

    Freya was Xu Yi¡¯s sessor, so after she grew up, it was very likely she would take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rtionship with the elves was very important. It would be better to let Freyae in contact with the elves when she was young and let her get close to them, it would greatly help her in the future.

    Actually, elder Illusia invited Freya to the Falling Rain Forest was definitely because of this.

    Moreover, even forgetting about all of this, the Falling Rain Forest and the Night Song Tribe had many curious and fun things, it would definitely make Freya happy.

    Based on the current scene, Freya was very used to living here.

    With Agnes apanying him, Xu Yi was very familiar with the way as he walked through the Falling Rain Forest. Passing through the forest, they quickly came to the illusion array that protected the Night Song Tribe.

    Agnes wanted to open the illusion array before suddenly thinking of something. She turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Right, sir chairman, when will we copte?¡±

    Xu Yi almost fell over from this. He looked at Agnes with a surprised look before giving a bitterugh, ¡°I say, Agnes.....You are a girl, you can¡¯t just say things like coption, alright?¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Agnes had a confused look, ¡°Coption is something that all living beings do, why can¡¯t it be said? The elder said that since you have chosen to be with me, we will definitely copte. So I want to ask clearly, when will we.....¡±

    ¡°Stop!¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help raising his voice and cutting Agnes off. He had a serious look as he said to Agnes, ¡°Agnes, although you are an elf, since you want to be with me, you have to learn the human way. For us humans, coption is not a word that can be said casually, especially for a girl. Un.....It¡¯s not good for me to say these things to you, so learn a bit more from Vivian when you have time. Or you can go ask Still and have them teach you about what human girls do. For example.....When you gave me a kiss when you saw me, that is something that a human girl will do, understand?¡±

    Agnes didn¡¯t really seem to understand, but after thinking about it, she still nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll learn from them.¡±

    ¡°Un.....Then.....As for when we will......Ke, this depends on the atmosphere, you can just leave it to me.¡±

    ¡°Un, alright.¡±

    Seeing that Agnes didn¡¯t understand anything, but still nodding her head, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit guilty.

    Agnes at her age was equal to an underage human girl. She didn¡¯t know anything about human society, so she knew even less than a human girl about this.

    Being together with such a pure and naive little girl, this was simply a crime.

 Volume 4 140 - A mess isnâ€™t good

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 140 A mess isn¡¯t good</h4>

    Freya was indeed very happy ying in the Falling Rain Forest. When Xu Yi appeared in front of her and was about to take her away, she even broke out in tears saying that she wasn¡¯t willing to leave.

    After Xu Yi and Agnes promised her many times that they would bring her back to y, Freya finally reluctantly left with Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile to elder Illusia, ¡°It seems like the elder doesn¡¯t need to worry about Freya¡¯s rtionship with you all. Rather I should be worried that Freya will be biased for the elves after she grows up.¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°Children are the most pure, she will be good to whoever is good to her, but it isn¡¯t the same after she grows up. Freya is a human after all, she has to stand on the side of humans to consider things after she grows up, so chairman Xu doesn¡¯t need to worry. I just hope that she can be like chairman Xu when she grows up, treating the elves equally.¡±

    ¡°Rx, she is my daughter.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    On this trip to the Falling Rain Forest, other thaning to pick up Freya, Xu Yi had another task. It was to discuss the new cooperation between the Night Song Tribe and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with elder Illusia.

    The Night Song Tribe had a breakthrough in their stic processing research, creating a new product that was very hard and firm. At the same time, because of the strange magic of the elves, this new product also had a great resistance, so it could even be used to rece steel to a certain extent. It had been named ¡®steel stic¡¯ by Xu Yi.

    This steel stic could be used in most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, recing certain parts.

    Not only would it reduce the cost of these magic machines, it also reduced their weight and their energy consumption.

    Take the simplest Magic Fan, other than the keyponents containing the Magic Array, the other parts used arge amount of normal stic. If it was made with the steel stic, it would decrease the weight of the Magic Fan by a third and could reduce the cost by eighty silver coins.

    Even if that didn¡¯t seem much, in just the single month of summer that had just passed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold up to seven hundred thousand Magic Fans in the various countries. With just this change in materials, it would save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce tens of thousands of gold coins.

    Moreover, because of the strong sticity of the steel stic, the Magic Fan could have even more shapes. When the next summer came, there would be even more different kinds of Magic Fans to promote.

    Xu Yi and elder Illusia¡¯s discussions were mainly about the cooperation of the steel stic.

    ording to the statistic Kennard gave, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed buying three hundred thousand tons and seventy six different kinds ofponents.

    The problem was that with the current production capacity of the Night Song Tribe, they could barely keep up with the normal requirements of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies. They didn¡¯t have the manpower needed to satisfy therge steel stic order that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made.

    Xu Yi naturally had some understanding of this, so in his discussion with elder Illusia this time, other than discussing the cooperation, the other important thing was increasing the production capacity of the Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic factory.

    Even if the Night Song Tribe¡¯s stic factory had been with the other factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, learning how to operate a factory from them which greatly increased their efficiency, to Xu Yi, that was far from being enough.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, ording to my observations, just one the management level, the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory could increase their efficiency by 30% or even more. If you¡¯re willing to strengthen the management of the factory, letting those brothers and sisters of the elf race work harder, I think that the Night Song Tribe¡¯s ie would increase by quite a bit.¡± Xu Yi sincerely said.

    Elder Illusia gave a slight nod, ¡°I understand, but chairman Xu, we elves naturally pursue freedom. Actually being managed at the factory has made many of our nsmen feel oppressed. If it is any stronger, I feel that I can¡¯t make the nsmen ept this.¡±

    Xu Yi said in a surprised voice, ¡°They can¡¯t endure even this? Compared to the strong work of the workers of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce factories, the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory is farcking.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, that is the nature of us elves. Although I have tried to force them to change, it is hard to suppress their instincts. Chairman Xu, when I chose to set up the stic factory with yourpany, it was to let our nsmen live better lives. But if we make the nsmen feel oppressed from this, wouldn¡¯t this be putting the cart before the horse?¡± Elder Illusia asked back.

    Xu Yi shook his head, feeling a bit helpless.

    As a human, it was very hard for him to understand the free nature of elves.

    But since elder Illusia was already talking to him about this, it meant that the problem was already quite serious.

    If they continued forcing them, there might really be problems that urred.

    After considering it, Xu Yi suggested, ¡°Then let¡¯s do this. Elder Illusia, we¡¯ll strengthen the management of the factory, but we won¡¯t force them to work. Rather we¡¯ll do it like the factories under ourpany, they will receive rewards based on their achievements. If they work harder, they will be able to earn more material goods. It doesn¡¯t matter if they¡¯re not willing, they will just be rewarded less. What do you think?¡±

    Elder Illusia slightly knit her brows, ¡°But the ie of the factory is divided evenly among the nsmen, there is no division.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    After cooperating with the Night Song Trib for this time, this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time hearing the ie division n of the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory.

    In the end, the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory¡¯s ie was divided evenly among the tribe. It was no wonder those elves weren¡¯t interested in working harder.

    With this mess of a strategy, there wasn¡¯t anything that sparked enthusiasm.

    ¡°This won¡¯t work.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Elder Illusia, with all due respect, your current distribution model isn¡¯t reasonable. If you want to let the Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory have better ie and let the nsmen live better lives, please listen to my suggestion. You should cancel this distribution model and follow ourpany¡¯s factories, giving each nsmen their corresponding reward, which would make them feel more motivated.¡±

    Elder Illusia didn¡¯t oppose and after thinking about it, she gave a slight nod, ¡°I have already considered this problem before, but I always wanted to discuss it with chairman Xu first. Since chairman Xu feels that there is a problem with this model, then I can try changing it.¡±

    ¡°It must be done as soon as possible.¡± Xu Yi immediately reminded her.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of the elves, elder Illusia¡¯s ¡°giving it a try¡± might take a year or two.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s urging, elder Illusia thought about it before saying, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll change it within half a year.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°Half a year is too long. How about this, elder Illusia, if you believe in me, I¡¯ll send some management staff over from ourpany and make a change model for your Night Song Tribe¡¯s factory. What do you think about that?¡±

    Elder Illusia seriously considered it before slowly nodding, ¡°Alright.¡±

    Seeing elder Illusia agree, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.

    The Night Song Tribe¡¯s factories production capacity was rted to the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as the future development of the Night Song Tribe, and the future rtions between the two, so Xu Yi had to seriously consider this.

    Moreover, the Night Song Tribe controlled the production of the key stic product, which had a very important position in the industrial system of Xu Yi¡¯s mind, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t be careless.

    Increasing the production capacity of the stic factory, other than increasing the management, there were two other options of improving this.

    One was for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop new stic processing magic machines, increasing the efficiency.

    For example, on the main production line right now, the most important instation was a two ton hardening pot that carried two tons of stic solvent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility worked with the elven magicians, improving the most important Magic Array for processing stic. Working with the magic machine development center, they sessfully developed a new five ton hardening pot.

    Just with this, the efficiency of the normal stic processing had suddenly doubled.

    Then with other rted magic machines, the stic factory¡¯s production had greatly increased in terms of using machines.

    The other method was recruiting more people.

    Although the Night Song Tribe¡¯s total poption kept growing each year, making elder Illusia very happy, the growth speed was only less than ten elves in several years. Their poption was only at just over a thousand people, so it was very limited.

    So Xu Yi had proposed to elder Illusia to learn from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, recruiting some staff other than those from the Night Song Tribe to improve efficiency.

    Perhaps they could do the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, using the shared capital method to construct stic processing factories in other ces. They would give the work of processing stic to other people and they would just keep the core technology.

    Elder Illusia was very moved by Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion and said she would seriously consider it.

    Of course, with the habit of the elves, elder Illusia¡¯s ¡°serious consideration¡± would take at least half a year.

    Xu Yi was helpless on this.

    After they finished their initial discussion, it had already turned dark.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reject elder Illusia¡¯s request to stay and decided to spend a night here before leaving.

    Everything was normal at first, but after they finished dinner, elder Illusia suddenly pulled Xu Yi to the side and gave him a thin book.

    Seeing the strange expression on elder Illusia¡¯s face, Xu Yi was very confused as he took the book.

    But when he looked down, Xu Yi almost fell over.

    On the book¡¯s cover was the elvennguage that Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand at all, but by the title, there was an inscription that was made with themonnguage of the Sines Continent.

    The meaning of this inscription was naturally the name of the book.

    As for the name......It was ?Detailed Research into Union Between Elves and Humans?.

    With the drawing and the writings that were inside once the book was opened, this would be a dirty book for the insides and outs of the elven race......

 Volume 4 141 - Highest end competition

    Volume 4 Chapter 141 Highest endpetition

    The next morning, Xu Yi carried the unwilling Freya and together with Liz and Linda who came with her, as well as Agnes, to bid farewell to elder Illusia.

    The four humans and one elf entered Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan parked outside the forest. They used two hours to drive to Banta City that they had left for a long time and entered the City Lord Manor.

    After Seveni had been crowned, Banta City had a new City Lord again.

    The current City Lord Will was a firm supporter of Seveni. He wasn¡¯t even forty this year and was considered a young and uing count in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Seveni sent him as the new City Lord of Banta City, which showed how much importance Seveni ced on Banta City.

    In the year that Count Will had been City Lord, he had worked hard to follow her majesty Seveni¡¯s meaning, working hard to promote Banta City¡¯s magic machine industry.

    With the great support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although the current Banta City wasn¡¯t as prosperous as before because manypanies, especially the Frestech Chamber of Commerce moved out their production bases, with their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the city had restored much of its prosperity from before.

    Entering Banta City, one would see advertisements for magic machines all over.

    But if one looked attentively, they would find that almost all of these magic machines had the symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because most of thepanies that produced magic machines in Banta City appeared through the joint capital of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Strictly speaking, every time thosepanies sold a magic machine, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce profited.

    Even if it was less than the profit they earned from the Frestech Brand alone, with these joint capitalpanies and therge developed market of the Lampuri Kingdom, in the past nine months of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a giant profit of over five million gold coins from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But this time, Xu Yi didn¡¯te to Banta City for joint capitalpanies. Rather he came for something that most people thought was a small matter that didn¡¯t need the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like him toe to.

    Because of the instructions of Count Will ahead of time, Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan came to the City Lord Manor without hindrance and Xu Yi quickly met with Count Will.

    Seeing Xu Yi, Count Will immediately revealed a warm smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, after a long two years, you¡¯re finally back in Banta City. I represent all the citizens to give you the sincere wee.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and shook hands with Count Will before saying, ¡°Lord Count, you¡¯re too serious. Banta City has always been my second hometown, how could I need a special wee toe back.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I hope that chairman Xu can always remember that Banta City will be your second hometown. I also hope that chairman Xu cane back to this hometown more in the future.¡± Count Will said with a sincere smile, ¡°Now that Banta City is at the most important part of its development, we can¡¯tck the support of chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Based on the situation on the way here, Banta City is already in a very stable development situation. Even without me, I believe that Banta City will be one of the top cities of the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    After these two exchanged pleasantries, they quickly entered the main topic.

    Xu Yi¡¯s trip back to Banta City this time was mainly to participate in the bi annual event of Banta City. Other than the fall and spring harvest, it was the bicycle race that was held after the harvest.

    Although there had only been six bicycle races, each race had be bigger than thest. This year, just in the bicycle race in the spring of the first half of the year, there were over fifty thousand participants.

    And as for the bicycle race of this year¡¯s fall, other than participants from the surrounding cities, there were even many people who came from far away cities to participate.

    Even other than the Lampuri Kingdom, there were quite a few people who came from the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom to participate.

    So this race in Banta City could be considered an international event. Not only did it have a great influence on the Lampuri Kingdom, it had great influence on the surrounding countries.

    Different from the other races, starting from this race, they would begin epting the registration of teams.

    Because of this rule, there were many people who had registered as teams in this race.

    Among the teams, other than a few teams that were alone, most of the teams were invested in by differentpanies or by a certain noble.

    In these teams, there was only a single team that attracted everyone¡¯s attention because this team was named the Frestech Race Team.

    The one supporting the Frestech Race Team was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The bicycles were developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after all.

    Even if somepanies had received the technology from the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, building their own bicycles, everyone believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much better than the otherpanies when it came to bicycles.

    So when most people purchased bicycles, they would choose the Frestech Brand.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce upied a terrifying 80% of the bicycle market, but this was a deliberate number set by Xu Yi.

    If he really wanted it, he could even reach 90% or even higher.

    The Frestech Race Team participating in the bicycle race was naturally most people¡¯s choice for the winner.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced a decision in the ?Banta Times?. In order for thepetition reward the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released to fall in their own hands, the Frestech Race Team wouldn¡¯t be ced in thepetition results this time.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also stated that in order to promote the healthy development of the bicycle race, starting from next year¡¯s fall race, the Frestech Race Team would be officially integrated into thepetition. If the Frestech Race Team took the championship, they would receive the corresponding reward.

    When they announced this in the ?Banta Times?, Xu Yi¡¯s words had been spread to everyone.

    ¡°We¡¯ll give you all a year to catch up to the Frestech Race Team. If you can¡¯t do it, then don¡¯t think about taking the championship.¡±

    These words for the normal participants seemed every aggressive and they were a bit unconvinced in their heart, but there was nothing they could do.

    But for the teams of the otherpanies and nobles, this was without a doubt bare provocation.

    And for the teams that represented the otherpanies that produce bicycles, this was a challenge.

    For those teams, they would clearly be using the bicycles theirpanies produced to participate in the race.

    If they could get good achievements in this race or even beat the yers that used the Frestech Brand Bicycles, it would be without a doubt good advertisement for theirpany.

    The Banta City bicycle race received a lot of attention and if they achieved this, it would make theirpany famous and would without a doubt increase their sales.

    But now that Xu Yi had tossed these words down, he was without a doubt telling those otherpanies that they weren¡¯t qualified.

    Although thosepanies didn¡¯t submit, there was no one that could refute it.

    Speaking of ability with machines, no matter whichpany it was, it was impossible for them to match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After introducing the details of tomorrow¡¯s bicycle race to Xu Yi, Count Will invited Xu Yi to the conference room of the City Lord Manor.

    When the door opened, Xu Yi saw several familiar faces.

    Looking carefully, Xu Yi remembered that these people were the chairmen of the joint capitalpanies.

    If he didn¡¯t remember wrong, thepanies under these chairmen were allpanies that worked with bicycles.

    Seeing Xu Yi and Count Wille in, the chairmen all quickly stood up. They all revealed smiles that were several times warmer than the one Count Will just had.

    After exchanging greetings, Count Will quickly got into the main topic.

    The chairmen of these bicyclepanies were called over today by Count Will to let them have a chance to use Xu Yi¡¯s visit to discuss a deeper cooperation when it came to bicycles.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this, actually he had disclosed this to Count Will ahead of this, so it was considered his arrangement.

    Xu Yi had sent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s statement in the ?Banta Times? a few days ago, which was considered a setup for this discussion.

    Thesepanies relied on the joint capital method with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to produce bicycles. Even if they could never break the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly, they had still earned quite a bit. Now that Xu Yi wanted to work more deeply with them, it was greatly weed by them.

    But when Xu Yi proposed the cooperation method, the chairmen were a bit stunned.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t propose the method they had expected and hoped for, giving them more technology rted to the bicycles, enhancing the quality of their bicycles. As soon as he spoke, he suggested holding a specialized race with them!

    ¡°To put it simply, it will be a race that is separate from the public race of tomorrow. If the Banta City race is one for the general public to participate in, the race that we will be holding will only be for the teams chosen by those in the industry or teams created by those in the industry to participate in.¡±

    The chairmen looked at each other and one of them couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°But chairman Xu, what is the meaning in doing this? If it is just a race, Banta City¡¯s race is already mature enough and attracts enough attention.¡±

    The other chairmen also agreed with this. Xu YI revealed a faint smile and shook his head.

    ¡°No, thepetition I want to hold only allows specialized people to enter. The teams in thepetition are only allowed to use the names of theirpany and the bicycles theirpany produces, creating the highest level ofpetition for bicycle racing.¡±

    ¡°This highest level doesn¡¯t just represent the highest level ofpetitors, but also the highest level of bicycles. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    After hearing Xu YI¡¯s exnation, the chairman thought it over before their eyes lit up at the same time.

 Volume 4 142 - Amrit Hotel

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 142 Amrit Hotel</h4>

    The reason why they would hold a specialized sports event was actually because Xu Yi wanted to copy thosepetitions from earth, building a specialized sport. There would be skilled athletes that specialized in bicycles and they would be like the famouspetitors on earth, creating great promotion to the sport of cycling and bicycles, making the people of the Sines Continent ept bicycles even more.

    The Banta City bicycle race was already widely popr, but because it was an event that everyone could participate in and there wasn¡¯t specialization, it wasn¡¯t a high end event in the minds of the citizens, so the advertising effect wasn¡¯t that good.

    If they could create a famous sporting event following Xu Yi¡¯s suggestions, the advertising effects would be much better.

    Other than this, Xu Yi also hoped that the otherpanies could develop their brands through this event.

    Thinking about it, being able to enter the high end event that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding, didn¡¯t that mean that the quality of that brand was affirmed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If one paid attention to bicycles, through caring about the Frestech Brand, they would also notice the otherpanies¡¯ brands of bicycles.

    It was different from on earth where one was worried aboutpetitors, Xu Yi was worried that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have anypetitors.

    To create his dream of establishing an industrial system on the Sines Continent, it was impossible just to rely on him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone. As long as there were more people and morepanies, they would be able to realize his dream.

    So Xu Yi had always cared about training the peers in the industry, helping them enter and firmly stand in the magic machine industry.

    Banta City¡¯s bicyclepanies had performed well during this year. They received Xu Yi¡¯s recognition, which was why he was willing to use this event to help them build their brand.

    After Xu Yi told these chairmen his thoughts, they allmended it and expressed their full willingness to support Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    City Lord Will on the side who was the intermediate was happy to see this because this would help thesepanies quickly grow.

    As long as thesepanies stood firm in the future, they may bergepanies in the bicycle industry that couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which would greatly affect Banta City.

    In front of Xu Yi and the other chairmen, Count Will promised that he would fully support thispetition. He would agree with everything the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies needed.

    This discussion ended with everyone being satisfied.

    When those chairmen left, Count Will asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you can propose this kind of cooperation with the bicycle industry, then for the other industries.....do you also have ways to help them quickly develop?¡±

    City Lord Will was sent by Seveni to take the post of City Lord, so he could be considered trusted by Seveni. Seveni had given her evaluation of him many times to Xu Yi. He knew that Xu Yi was different from other merchants, he didn¡¯t care about his own benefits, rather he cared about the development of the magic machine industry.

    So now that Xu Yi was willing to help those bicyclepanies be bigger, he couldn¡¯t help wanting to get some benefits for the other magic machine rtedpanies of Banta City.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and waved his hand, ¡°Lord Count, this can¡¯t be done in a rush. The reason why I chose to cooperate with the bicycle industry first was because the bicycle industry can¡¯t be considered a magic machine industry. There is a low threshold to enter it and it isn¡¯t hard to master producing it. The bicycles in Banta City have reached a certain level that canpete with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the otherpanies......¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, but Count Will understood what he meant.

    It was very simple, other than the bicycles, the other magic machine rtedpanies couldn¡¯t enter Xu Yi¡¯s eyes with their magic machines. They weren¡¯t even qualified to bepared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.

    If these magic machines werepared to the Frestech Brand, they would bepletely crushed without leaving a single thing.

    This wasn¡¯t helping them, rather it was hurting them.

    Thinking of this, City Lord Will felt emotional.

    Xu Yi was indeed thinking about the other magic machinepanies. Otherwise with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s superiority and with the reputation that they already had, the otherpanies didn¡¯t have a chance at all.

    When he was about to praise Xu Yi again, Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic by asking, ¡°Lord Count, has the motorcade been sent from the Drake Duchy?¡±

    Count Will was surprised. After thinking about it, he nodded, ¡°Yes, the Drake Duchy has sent a motorcade. They are using the name of one of thepanies in the Drake Duchy and arrived three days ago. They are currently staying at the newly built Amrit Hotel.¡±

    ¡°Amrit Hotel?¡± Xu Yi muttered before suddenly revealing a smile. He bid farewell to City Lord Will, ¡°I still have some other things to handle. Lord Count, I¡¯ll see you tomorrow at thepetition.¡±

    City Lord Will wanted to keep Xu Yi for lunch, but seeing the look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he knew that he had other ns, so he didn¡¯t keep him here.

    Although he had some doubts towards Xu Yi asking about the Drake Duchy motorcade, he still bid Xu Yi farewell with a smile.

    After leaving the City Lord Manor, Xu Yi got in his Magic Sedan and brought Freya, Liz, Linda, and Agnes to the newly built part of the city in the west.

    After Seveni took the throne, because she worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Banta City¡¯s new city district that had stagnated began developing again.

    Right now, the new city area was already ten timesrger than the old city area.

    Not only were there close to a hundred factories in the industrial district, there were all kinds of stores in the living district. They filled the streets and it was lively as far as one could see.

    In the living area in the new city district, the most eye-catching thing was a seven story building that was over twenty meters tall rising up from the ground.

    Other than this building, the highest buildings were only ten meters tall at most. So looking at it from a distance, this building was like a crane among chickens, drawing in plenty of attention.

    This building was the Amrit Hotel that was just buildst month,

    This name was naturally because it was built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    With this building, it represented a new breakthrough in the building technology of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Because before this building, although there were super tall buildings of several dozen meters on the Sines Continent like the Candra Empire¡¯s imperial pce that was over fifty meters tall.

    These tall buildings were made from giant stones and a terrifying amount ofbour, which was not something that normal people could construct.

    But for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Amrit Hotel that was twenty meters tall and upied an area of one thousand square meters, it had only cost a total of two hundred and sixty thousand gold coins.

    Although this figure was quite a bit for the average person still, it wasn¡¯t that unattainable.

    The most important thing was that this hotel was a ce that normal people could enter at any time. They could visit it or live in it, it was all up to them.

    And for the tall Candra Empire imperial pce, how could normal people enter that?

    So as soon as this Amrit Hotel was finished, it was filled with guests. The special viewing deck at the top of the Amrit Hotel, it was almost always filled with people.

    Everyone wanted to stand in a high ce and look down on the scenery.

    This was something that only magicians and people with power could see before, but now anyone could reach this high ce.

    Xu Yi met Princess Caroline in one of the Amrit Hotel¡¯s most luxurious rooms.

    When he saw her, Princess Caroline was standing in front of the window, looking out at the scenery with a thoughtful look.

    Hearing the door open, Princess Caroline didn¡¯t look back. When Xu Yi came to her side, she was still looking out the window at the scenery below before giving a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, standing here, I finally understand why many people long for power. Because looking down on people like they are all ants really gives a person a satisfied feeling.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the crowd under the window and thought that this was only just a seven floor building. If you saw the hundred floor buildings on earth and could only see people as ck dots, how emotional would you get?

    Looking over at Princess Caroline, he found that after not seeing her for close to two years, Princess Caroline had be more outstanding. Compared to before, she had a more mature feel to her that was even more tempting than when she was still younger.

    Feeling Xu Yi¡¯s gaze, Princess Caroline turned over and revealed a bright smile to him.

    This smile was like a flower blooming, looking incredibly beautiful.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as well, ¡°Your highness, after not seeing you for two years, you¡¯ve be more beautiful. As an old friend, I am very pleased.¡±

    ¡°Just pleased?¡± The smile on Princess Caroline¡¯s face became a bit naughty, ¡°You aren¡¯t moved at all?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°I¡¯ve never admitted that I¡¯ve been moved by your highness.¡± Then his smile disappeared and he said with a serious look, ¡°But your highness, now is not the time to discuss this, right?¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s smile also quickly disappeared. She gave a sigh before nodding, ¡°Yes, chairman Xu. I secretly came to see you this time to ask for help. If you¡¯re not willing to make a move, our Drake Duchy might fall into a hopeless situation.¡±

 Volume 4 143 - Worth five million gold coins?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 143 Worth five million gold coins?</h4>

    Princess Caroline¡¯s face was like a flower and when one saw the sad look on it, it made them feel pity. However, when Xu Yi looked at Princess Caroline, his expression didn¡¯t change and his voice even turned cold.

    ¡°Your highness, with all due respect, this matter is all because your Drake Duchy didn¡¯t listen to my advice, so you can only me yourself. Now that you¡¯re asking me to save you, don¡¯t you find it funny?¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s face was dark, but after pausing, she suddenly revealed a charming smile. She took Xu Yi¡¯s arm without hesitation and softly shook it.

    ¡°Although this is indeed our fault, I know that chairman Xu definitely won¡¯t sit around and do nothing, right? Otherwise, you definitely wouldn¡¯te see me.¡±

    Xu Yi coldly looked at her, not saying a thing and his expression didn¡¯t change.

    This time Princess Caroline and the Drake Duchy¡¯s motorcadeing to Banta City was not just to fuel the motorcade. Rather they had something to discuss with Xu Yi, or to be a bit more direct, they were here to ask Xu Yi for help.

    When King Eric was on the throne, Count Sean was worried that King Eric and Duke Stagg would aim at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses remaining in Sowell City. So after contacting Xu Yi, he began shifting those businesses into the Drake Duchy.

    Because of the support of the Drake Duchy, those businesses were kept and even took root in the Drake Duchy. Not only did they develop well, the Drake Duchy obtained arge amount of technology, starting to invest themselves in researching magic machines.

    Of course, this obtained the silent approval of Xu Yi, otherwise the Drake Duchy¡¯s magic machine industry wouldn¡¯t have developed this quickly.

    But because it developed too smoothly and quickly, also because of the change in leadership in the Lampuri Kingdom, falling into chaos, Xu Yi had lost contact with the Drake Duchy for a bit.

    Without the technical support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Drake Duchy began investing in their own research, making quite a bit of progress. They had developed several household magic machines that were different from the Frestech Brand, which they sold in the two countries by the Drake Duchy to earnrge amounts of profit.

    When Xu Yi made contact with the Drake Duchy again and learned of this matter, he had requested the Drake Duchy give him the data for the magic machines they had developed. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would look it over to see if there were any ws, but the Drake Duchy had rejected this.

    Xu Yi had given the Drake Duchy a warning, saying that developing magic machines took a system and if they were to develop something without a foundation, there would be problems.

    But the Drake Duchy had ignored Xu Yi¡¯s warning, even using this to break some rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the ability to interfere from the Stantine Duchy that was over two thousand kilometers away and the Drake Duchy weren¡¯t willing to cooperate. Naturally he wasn¡¯t willing to force them and seeing that the Drake Duchy was turning their back on him, he just didn¡¯t care.

    In the beginning, there was no problem, but justst month, there was a serious problem on the Drake Duchy side.

    The Magic Fan and the Magic Refrigerator developed by the Drake Duchy had caused several idents and thenrge parts of it broke down, causing even more idents. People of these two countries were dissatisfied with the Drake Duchy and lost faith in them.

    Because of these matters, these two countries protested against the Drake Duchy. They were very angry at the inferior products the Drake Duchy sold and requested the Drake Duchy to immediatelypensate them, as well ase up with a n to solve these problems.

    Thepensation was fine, but it was hard for the Drake Duchy to solve these problems.

    Because after careful research, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff left in the Drake Duchy, they found that there were arge number of problems with the Magic Fan and Magic Refrigerator they developed. It was all because of the wed design.

    To change the wed design, it meant that they had to change the entire production line.

    The Drake Duchy didn¡¯t have this ability and it was impossible for them to change all the production lines because to do this, it would cost at least three million gold coins by their estimate.

    Then adding in thepensation to those two countries, the Drake Duchy might be spending at least five million gold coins on this.

    For the Drake Duchy that had a yearly revenue of only over one million gold coins, this was without a doubt a heavy loss they couldn¡¯t take.

    However, they had topensate those two countries and they had to change the production lines to continue. Otherwise, the research the Drake Duchy had invested in wouldpletely fail and their initial investment would bepletely gone.

    But with the Drake Duchy alone, they didn¡¯t have the strength to do this.

    They had no choice but to seek help from Xu Yi.

    But Xu Yi had been dissatisfied with the actions of the Drake Duchy. Now that they were in trouble and came back for help, even if they sent an extremely beautiful woman like Princess Caroline, how could he easily agree.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s cold look, Princess Caroline¡¯s mind turned. She lowered her head and acted pitiful as she softly said, ¡°I know that you are very angry, but we have our own troubles. Our Drake Duchy is a small country and if we can¡¯t grasp things of our own, we will be bullied by others.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°So you went against our previous agreements and developed something on your own? Don¡¯t forget, I have warned you before, but you didn¡¯t listen. Now that you¡¯ve hit some problems, why don¡¯t you solve it yourselves?¡±

    ¡°We know we were wrong.¡± Princess Caroline revealed a charming smile as she shook Xu Yi¡¯s arm, saying in a soft voice, ¡°If you¡¯re angry, we canpensate you. For example.....if you¡¯re willing, I can use myself aspensation......¡±

    Xu Yi shook his right arm and broke free of Princess Caroline¡¯s hands. He took a step back and shook his head before saying with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, I think that you should know that in this matter, you don¡¯t have any significance. Moreover, I¡¯m not interested, so stop wasting time.¡±

    Princess Caroline couldn¡¯t help ring at Xu Yi. She was an outstanding beauty, not only was she the number one beauty of the Drake Duchy, there were many outsiders who recognized her beauty. She could even match Xu Yi¡¯s wife Still when it came to beauty and the others were inferior to her. Why was it that when she used this method, Xu YI wasn¡¯t moved at all?

    If it was said that he wasn¡¯t interested in beauties, why would he marry someone like Still?

    Even his ves were all exceptionally beautiful , so it was clear that he couldn¡¯t resist beauties like normal men.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know that Princess Caroline was thinking of these other thoughts. Seeing that she was a bit surprised, he gave a sigh before continuing, ¡°But you were right just now. If I wasn¡¯t willing to solve this problem for you, I wouldn¡¯t have met with you.¡±

    Hearing this, Princess Caroline¡¯s eyes opened wide in happiness.

    ¡°Really? Really? Chairman Xu, you¡¯re willing to help us?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi slowly nodded, ¡°No matter what, regardless of how your Drake Duchy treats our Frestech Chamber of Commerce or me, in my mind, the Drake Duchy is an important partner. As long as you¡¯re willing to seriously cooperate with us, then I can treat it as the previous matter didn¡¯t happen.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious look, Princess Caroline¡¯s heart filled with joy.

    Therge amount of five million gold coins had been on the heart of each member of the Drake Duchy¡¯s upper management, which was also why Princess Caroline had been looking anxioustely.

    Everyone knew that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to help, they could easily solve this problem. But because of what the Drake Duchy did before, no one was certain if Xu Yi would be willing to help.

    Princess Caroline had used the Banta City bicycle race as a chance to meet Xu Yi and the only hope in her heart was that Xu Yi would agree.

    But hearing that Xu Yi agreed to hlp, it was like the mountain in Princess Caroline¡¯s heart fell down and the smile on her face became truly bright for the first time.

    Seeing the smile on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh in his heart.

    If in terms of personal feelings, the Drake Duchy going against their agreement had made him very dissatisfied and he was very unwilling to help the Drake Duchy.

    But from the overall perspective, the Drake Duchy was now being influenced by the magic machine industry. In Xu Yi¡¯s n, this was an important territory with foundations in the magic machine industry, so it couldn¡¯t be lost that easily.

    Even if the Drake Duchy hadn¡¯t appeared, he would have found some ways to regain influence there to make his own n develop even more smoothly.

    Now that the Drake Duchy¡¯s national strength had been damaged and they hoped that he would help, this was an excellent opportunity that was ced in front of him.

    That stance he had in front of Princess Caroline in the beginning was only an act.

    Moreover, his acting skills weren¡¯t that good. If it was Kennard, he definitely would have acted much better than him

    But if it was Kennard, he wouldn¡¯t dare be this direct to Princess Caroline.

    Thinking this, Xu Yi nodded at Princess Caroline and continued, ¡°It¡¯s no problem helping you, but your highness, I¡¯m not selfless. There must be some requests that must be made.¡±

    This naturally was expected by Princess Caroline. She nodded and said with a charming smile, ¡°Of course there¡¯s no problems there. As long as chairman Xu is willing to help, no matter what conditions you have, we can discuss it.

    Looking at Princess Caroline¡¯s charming smile, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes were bright as he said with a serious look, ¡°Your highness, this matter is worth five million gold coins. I believe that there is no woman in this world that is worth more than five million gold coins.¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s expression changed.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words treated it as if she was going to sell herself.

    But thinking about it, her words just now, was it any different from selling herself?

    Thinking of this, Princess Caroline¡¯s expression fluctuated. She felt humiliation, anger, helplessness, and a deep sadness.

    Xu Yi looked at her for a while before suddenly taking her hand. His voice also became much softer.

    ¡°At the same time, I also believe that in this world, there is no mind of a woman that can be bought with just five million gold coins.¡±

    Princess Caroline was stunned. She looked into Xu Yi¡¯s iparably clear eyes and sincere face and she felt a different emotion surge in her heart, instantly going wild.

 Volume 4 144 - Nationâ€™s brand

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 144 Nation¡¯s brand</h4>

    October 1st was a day that had a meaningful significance for Xu Yi, but for the rest of the people of the Sines Continent, it wasn¡¯t a special day.

    Even in the Lampuri Kingdom, October 1st wasn¡¯t that special.

    Only in Banta City would there be something different that appeared on that day.

    Because that day was the day of the Banta City¡¯s bicycle race.

    Other thanst year thepetition was cancelled because of the civil war, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held thispetition four years ago, Banta City had been lively every year on April 1st and October 1st.

    As time passed, it even became a special holiday for the people of Banta City.

    Especially since this year¡¯s fall bicycle race was being held by the City Lord Manor and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It had been advertised a month ahead of time and as the day came closer, there were countless people that came who wanted to join thepetition.

    There were even people who rode their bicycles from ces that were over eight hundred kilometers away toe here.

    After the ?Banta Times? had done a report on these things, it made everyone even more excited to participate. The number of participants in this race reached a new high, it even surpassed the previouspetitions.

    The day before thepetition was the registration deadline. The final number of people participating was over sixty thousand people.

    Of course, the reason why so many people participated was other than the advertisement of the City Lord Manor and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other important reason was because the prizes this time far surpassed the prizes of old.

    ording to the announcement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a month ahead of time, just like with the previouspetitions, the ones that finished in the top hundred would receive a cash prize.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had greatly increased the prize this time.

    From fifty first to one hundredth, each person would receive a hundred gold coins.

    From eleventh to fiftieth, each person would receive three hundred gold coins.

    From fourth to tenth, each person would receive five hundred gold coins.

    Third ce would receive one thousand gold coins.

    Second ce would receive two thousand gold coins.

    And the winner would receive a shocking five thousand gold coins!

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced the prizes through the major newspapers, it created a stir in every ce.

    The champion would win five thousand gold coins!

    If they could be the champion, they wouldn¡¯t need to work for an entire lifetime!

    Even if they couldn¡¯t be the champion, second ce still meant two thousand gold coins which was a shocking wealth.

    As long as they could enter the top hundred, they would win a hundred gold coins at least.

    Although a hundred gold coins wasn¡¯t much for most people in Banta City, for the people of the other ces, it was attractive enough.

    So just with this high prize, there were countless people that came for this event.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, I have to say that you really are going all out.¡± City Lord Will and Xu Yi were standing on the ceremonial podium together, looking at the dense crowd from behind the curtain. He couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh, ¡°Not mentioning all the advertising and organization costs, just the prizes cost thirty thousand gold coins. Moreover, this event is a public event, so your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t earning any profit from this. I think.....other than chairman Xu, there isn¡¯t another merchant who would do this?¡±

    ¡°No, Lord Count, you¡¯re wrong.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a faint smile, ¡°Although ourpany doesn¡¯t earn any real ie from this event, even losing a hundred thousand gold coins investing in it, if you were to say that we don¡¯t earn any benefits from this, that would be wrong.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± City Lord Will looked at Xu Yi curiously, ¡°Why can¡¯t I see it?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and pointed at the crowd in the distance.

    ¡°Look, Lord City Lord, there are already over sixty thousand people participating in the event and the people that are watching surpass this number even more. At the same time, the people who know and care about this matter through this event are several times this figure. No matter how low my estimates are, there are still over a million people who know about this event.¡±

    ¡°It definitely isn¡¯t just this little.¡± City Lord Will shook his head, ¡°With the advertisements from before, not mentioning other countries, but at least in our Lampuri Kingdom, anyone who isn¡¯t deaf or blind would know about thispetition. Counting it up, it¡¯s possible that it¡¯s over five million people.¡±

    ¡°So that means that this is the maximum benefit ourpany can gain.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t you think that this is actually the best method of advertising? Through thispetition, it can make many people learn of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and we can even leave a deep impression in their hearts. I think that with just normal advertising, not mentioning a hundred thousand gold coins, even if we used two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand, we wouldn¡¯t be able to achieve this effect.¡±

    City Lord Will was stunned before revealing a look of understanding.

    ¡°Indeed, it¡¯s no wonder you used the slogan of promoting health to publicize thispetition. This would create a positive image in the minds of the people of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Lord Count really is wise.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    City Lord Will nodded before asking with a bit of confusion, ¡°But chairman Xu, there is no one in the Lampuri Kingdom that doesn¡¯t know about your Frestech Chamber of Commerce already. You¡¯ve spent so much money to advertise with thispetition, don¡¯t you think that this is a waste?¡±

    ¡°No, Lord City Lord, establishing a brand is a project that takes a long time and needs to continue forever. Moreover, establishing a brand is very hard, but breaking it is very easy. So no matter what, you have to work hard to create your brand and work hard to maintain it, making it so that it isn¡¯t easily damaged.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi suddenly turned his head and looked at Princess Caroline who was interested in looking over the crowd while listening to Xu Yi and Count Will¡¯s conversation.

    ¡°Your highness, with all due respect, because of the matter that happened with your Drake Duchy, the entire brand of the country has been damaged greatly. To recover the bad impression left on people¡¯s minds, you have to pay arge price. I hope that you are prepared for this and you can let Duke Drake also understand this point.¡±

    Princess Caroline was a bit surprised before revealing a faint smile and nodding. She said in a serious voice, ¡°I understand, but chairman Xu, I¡¯m not too clear on what you mean by establishing a brand. Can you help us understand what this means?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. This Princess Caroline really did know how to y, she had changed it to depending on him.

    But helping the Drake Duchy establish a magic machine industry and integrating it into Xu Yi¡¯s industrial system was something he had to do, so he didn¡¯t reject and just nodded in agreement.

    Seeing that Xu Yi agreed, Princess Caroline immediately revealed a smile. She didn¡¯t care about City Lord Will on the side and took Xu Yi¡¯s arm, leaning forward to press her rich chest against it. Then she revealed a sweet smile to City Lord Will.

    ¡°City Lord Will, if you think that chairman Xu does any business that loses money, you are wrong. I¡¯ve known him for this long and I¡¯ve never seen him do anything that had lost him money.¡±

    Xu Yi coldly looked at her, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, I¡¯ve suffered quite a bit with the Drake Duchy matter.¡±

    Princess Caroline knew that Xu Yi was very dissatisfied with the Drake Duchy breaking their agreement from before and she had nothing to refute it with. She just stuck out her tongue and revealed a smile as she pressed her chest even harder against Xu Yi¡¯s arm. She had a coquettish look as she softly said, ¡°At worst I canpensate you.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. He wanted to pull back his arm, but he never thought that Princess Caroline would use even more strength, making him unable to take his arm back.

    In this situation, it was impossible for Xu Yi to use his full force to pull away, so he could just let her do what she wanted.

    Princess Caroline saw that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t pull his arm back and revealed a proud smile.

    Count Will on the sideughed when he saw this before saying to the two of them, ¡°I must preside over the opening ceremony. If you two want to watch thepetition, please wait at your reserved seats.¡±

    After watching City Lord Will leave, Princess Caroline suddenly turned to Xu Yi and asked with slightly knit brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, I know about your two beautiful maids and I know about your daughter Freya, but where did that beautiful elven girle from? Why was she in your room sote? Could it be that she is also your.....¡±

    Seeing the doubt on Princess Caroline¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Because when he left Banta City before, Xu Yi had transferred out all the industries in Banta City and he even sold the Falling Star Manor. When he came back this time, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a residence.

    He rejected City Lord Will¡¯s invitation to stay in the City Lord Manor, so he chose to stay in the Amrit Hotel.

    One, it was to make it easier to discuss with Princess Caroline about the Drake Duchy and two, it was because the Amrit Hotel was the most luxurious residence in Banta City right now. Adding in the fact that chairman Cruise had given him a VIP card so that he didn¡¯t need to spend a single coin to stay there, naturally he didn¡¯t choose any other ces.

    Princess Caroline was living in the most luxurious room, so she was beside Xu Yi. Last night, Princess Caroline had knocked on Xu Yi¡¯s door.

    Princess Caroline had some different thoughts, but when the door opened and she found that there was an elven girl who was also in the room with Xu Yi, she was very confused.

    Although Princess Caroline had retreated after learning about this, she had always been confused about what the elven girl had appeared. She finally couldn¡¯t take it and asked Xu Yi about it.

    ¡°You¡¯re right.¡± Xu Yi naturally replied, ¡°She is called Agnes, she is my new elven wife.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi for a while before taking a breath and giving a sigh filled with shock, ¡°You can even conquer elven girls, it¡¯s no wonder you can ignore my charm.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. If Princess Caroline knew that even for Agnes, it had taken elder Illusia and elder Lisanya to force him a long time to make this choice, what kind of expression would she have?

 Volume 4 145 - Even Great Magicians canâ€™t compare to riding bicycles?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 145 Even Great Magicians can¡¯tpare to riding bicycles?</h4>

    The final results of the Banta City bicycle race weren¡¯t that surprising.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent out five people and these five people had reached the goal before everyone else, taking first to fifth ce.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that these five people wouldn¡¯t be ranked and take the prizes, to everyone, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth ce belonged to the Frestech Race Team. As for the others, they were just drinking the remaining soup left by them.

    Because the Frestech Race Team¡¯spetitors had taken the absolute lead since the beginning. Most of the otherpetitors could only be convinced while also feeling a bit sad.

    ording to the announcement of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would be entering the race officially next year. The most important thing was that they would be taking the prizes.

    But in just a year, how could they pull back this giant gap and catch up to the Frestech Race Team?

    After several days, the ?Banta Times? posted another announcement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In this announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that starting next year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be working with the otherpanies to host a specialized bicyclepetition. It would be considered an official athleticpetition.

    The Frestech Race Team would not be attending the public Banta City race next year and would participate in the specialized race.

    This news attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    What was called a specialized race?

    Why was it different from the Banta City bicycle race?

    What was the specialization part of it? Was it just because the participants were strong?

    If this was true, then it was very good news for the people who participated in the Banta City public bicycle race.

    With fewer strongpetitors, they would have a higher chance of getting better prizes.

    However, when everyone saw the details of the race that had been named the ¡°Frestech Bicycle Circuit Grade Race¡± for now, they were all shocked.

    Because in the announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that the yearly winner of the grand race circuit would have the chance to receive an ultra high prize of fifty thousand gold coins!

    Fifty thousand gold coins!

    To most people, this was a giant amount of money that they could never even dream of!

    If they could obtain fifty thousand gold coins, they wouldn¡¯t have to worry about anything in the future. They could even live the luxurious life that they had dreamed about!

    For many people, it didn¡¯t matter what they had to do if they could receive fifty thousand gold coins!

    This so-called ¡°Frestech Bicycle Circuit Grade Race¡± was really this valuable?

    ¡°Hey, kid, are you really nning on giving fifty thousand gold coins to the circuit winner?¡±

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current position, the only person who dared to speak to him without any courtesy was naturally Great Magician Cami.

    He looked at the ?Banta Times? in his hand before looking at the smiling Xu Yi and giving a strong snort.

    ¡°I work hard in the magic research facility for a whole year and you only give me a wage of ten thousand gold coins. Now someone can just be good at riding a bicycle and you¡¯re willing to give them fifty thousand gold coins? It¡¯s five times my worth! Could it be that you think a Great Magician like me isn¡¯t worth anything?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly waved his hand and exined, ¡°No, no, no, of course not. Great Magicians have a ce that no one canpare to in my heart, don¡¯t you think, Great Magician Teli?¡±

    Great Magician Teli who had been watching Great Magician Cami with a faint smile said with a nod, ¡°Un, I believe that Xu YI ces great importance on Great Magicians, but......¡± Great Magician Teli stretched out his voice, ¡°Just like Cami said, just by riding a bicycle, they can obtain more money than us two Great Magicians. This doesn¡¯t seem right, right?¡±

    Seeing the two Great Magicians with unkind gazes, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    When he was nning this sports event, he had only been thinking about how to create a stir and had forgotten to hold back.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Grandfather, Great Magician Teli, you have to know that only the champion would win fifty thousand gold coins and that isn¡¯t certain. In fact, with the rules of thepetition, it is impossible to receive the highest prize.¡±

    ¡°Then how much can they get?¡± Great Magician Teli kept asking, ¡°It¡¯s a max of fifty thousand, so it should be twenty thousand gold coins still, right? That is still much higher than us.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± Great Magician Teli red at him, ¡°Kid, if you don¡¯t exin it today, don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Grandfather, Great Magician Teli, Great Magicians are important to me, you should know that. Actually, as long as you¡¯re willing, I can give you a wage of fifty thousand gold coins or even a hundred thousand gold coins without any problems. Moreover, if any other Great Magicians are willing to join ourpany, it isn¡¯t a problem to give them a high wage either. But.....With the wage structure of ourpany, I can¡¯t do this, so I hope that you can understand my difficulties.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°You still don¡¯t understand? Teli and I don¡¯t care about our current wages. Actually, ten thousand is already more than enough for us to use. Only what we can¡¯t ept is why does this champion earn even more than us two Great Magicians? And it¡¯s so much higher?¡±

    ¡°This.....Grandfather, actually the prize from the champion isn¡¯t taken out by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, it is taken out by all thepanies that are holding the event. With the current distribution, even if the champion gets the max of fifty thousand, ourpany will only pay no more than eight thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Eight thousand? Un.....That is more like it.¡± Great Magician Cami nodded, ¡°But this is still very high. The magic research facility has several decent magicians who aren¡¯t earning more than a few hundred gold coins a year.¡±

    ¡°That is different.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Actually, the main purpose of thispetition is for advertising. Through the attention this sports event receives, it will advertise ourpanies. So, the higher the prize money, the better because it attracts more attention that way.¡±

    Great Magician Cami thought about it before slowly nodding, ¡°Un.....You are right. Alright, kid, your words are reasonable.¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Cami was finally letting this go, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.

    He saw the thing that Great Magician Cami was sitting on and he had a thought before saying with a smile, ¡°Actually.....Grandfather, not just bicycles, after the Magic Sedans be more popr, I also n on holding a specialized sports event for the Magic Sedans. Moreover, this sports event will be even bigger than the bicycle race, so there would be more investment and naturally greater prizes.¡±

    ¡°Car race?¡± Great Magician Cami¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That is great! Right, this event must be held! I will definitely participate when the timees!¡±

    Seeing how excited Great Magician Cami was, Xu Yi¡¯s mouth couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    Great Magician Cami relied on his undying spirit and powerful magic protection to finally develop a good set of driving skills, but he had also fallen in love with racing cars.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t raise this idea, he would wildly drive his Magic Sedan all over, racing about in the name of experimenting.

    A few days ago, when elder Lisanya came to Xu Yi¡¯s private manor.

    Because she also fell in love with racing cars, she had been wildly driving with Great Magician Cami every day.

    In just a short month, the two of them had smashed over seven Magic Sedans.

    It was a good thing that those two had powerful magic, so they were safe even if there was an ident.

    Thinking about how if they held a F1 race in this world, Great Magician Cami really might enter and elder Lisanya might also enter, Xu YI felt very strange.

    A sixty year old man was racing in F1 cars with an old woman who was over five hundred years old?

    This was simply a giant joke!

    And the worst thing was that this joke was true!

    Xu Yi forced down the strange thought in his mind and gave a cough before continuing, ¡°Grandfather, before this, we have to finish the current research. I think that you should know better than anyone that the Wind Magic Engine has its limits, so we can¡¯t make a breakthrough in the speed of the Magic Sedan. To enjoy the super speeds, we have to finish developing the Fire Magic Engine first.¡±

    Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°Nonsense! Why did you think I ran all the way here from the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and stood up, giving a hand signal to Great Magician Teli, signaling that he could begin.

    They were now in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility branch in the Falling Rain Valley.

    After Great Magician Teli was hired by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had always stayed in this branch.

    Because of his special identity as a Great Magician, this ce wasn¡¯t affected much during the civil war.

    And in thest two years, Great Magician Teli had made quite a few discoveries.

    His main research direction right now was on the Fire Magic Engine.

    The reason why Great Magician Cami wasn¡¯t responsible for this was because one, Xu Yi was worried that Great Magician Cami would be too invested, which would be dangerous and two, because Great Magician Teli had more research into Fire Magicpared to Great Magician Cami.

    At the same time, the research that Great Magician Teli did on the Fire Magic Engine went in a different direction from the main magic research facility in the Stantine Duchy.

    In short, the main magic research facility focused on stabilizing the Fire Magic Engine, reducing power loss and consumption. As for Great Magician Teli, his only research direction was to increase the power of the Fire Magic Engine.

 Volume 4 146 - Canâ€™t become a fatty with one bite

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 146 Can¡¯t be a fatty with one bite</h4>

    The so-called raising the power was to increase the speed of the tired vehicles when this Fire Magic Engine was ced on the Magic Sedan.

    Because the Fire Magic Engine was less stable than the Wind Magic Engine, it was more dangerous to research it. Great Magician Teli had researched it by himself most of the time before and sent the data back to the headquarters. The other researchers would be given this data to confirm and then it would be given to the magic machine development center for testing.

    Half a month ago, in the research Great Magician Teli had sent, if they used the Fire Magic Array that he had developed for the Fire Magic Engine, in theory, the new Magic Sedans with the Fire Magic Engine could even reach a hundred kilometers an hour!

    Great Magician Cami had identally received this news and immediately rushed over to the Lampuri Kingdom. He had been working with Great Magician Teli for half a month now just to develop this new Fire Magic Engine.

    Because there wasn¡¯t aplete magic machine development center here, Great Magician Teli had been experimenting with a Magic Sedan chassis with a Fire Magic Engine on it, using it to perform simple and crude experiments.

    As for Great Magician Cami riding it, this was because it was more convenient and it was easier to gather data.

    Xu YI didn¡¯t know what kind of experiments the two of them did, but seeing Great Magician Cami sitting on the crude chassis that didn¡¯t have any protection at all, he couldn¡¯t help being a bit worried.

    ¡°What is there to worry about?¡± Great Magician Cami waved his hand, ¡°With my magic, there¡¯s no need to worry at all.¡±

    Xu Yi thought it was right. He didn¡¯t say anything else and moved to the side, waiting for the experiment to begin.

    Once all the preparations were made, Great Magician Teli reached out to press down on the Fire Magic Engine on the chassis. There was a fire red glow that had appeared and the Fire Magic Engine had activated.

    ¡°Cami, slowly send magic in and get the Fire Magic Engine started, this.....¡±

    Great Magician Teli didn¡¯t get to finish before the glow of magic appeared around Great Magician Cami.

    ¡°Weng!¡±

    There was a loud buzzing sound before Xu Yi saw a dazzling fire red image burst past his eyes, creating a fire red line of light as it charged into the distance.

    After a while.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was arge sound.

    Xu Yi was shocked. When he wanted to head over to investigate, he saw that the ashes flew into the sky and there was a blue light that suddenly lit up. Great Magician Cami covered in light suddenly burst into the sky and flew all the way beside Xu Yi and Great Magician Teli, bursting out inughter.

    ¡°Satisfying! Too satisfying! Teli, I like this engine! It would be better if it could go even faster!¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Cami looking excited, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    This kind of experiment that didn¡¯t care about one¡¯s life, other than Great Magician Cami, no one else dared to do this.

    Great Magician Teli was the same. With how steady he was, how could he be willing to cause trouble with Great Magician Cami?

    Looking into the chassis that had shattered to pieces from the high speed collision, Xu Yi stroked his chin and revealed a look of pleasant surprise.

    Although there wasn¡¯t any real data from Great Magician Cami suddenly charging out, just with the estimates, the final speed should be over a hundred kilometers an hour.

    Moreover, the propulsion of the chassis had been very quick. In just less than two seconds, it had already reached that speed from zero, so it could be seen that the power was quite strong.

    Compared to the Wind Magic Engine that was very calm, the Fire Magic Engine demonstrated the specialty of Fire Magic, it had a strong impact.

    Although the magic research facility had already developed the Fire Magic Engine,pared to the Fire Magic Engine that Great Magician Teli had developed now, it was much weaker inparison.

    If the Fire Magic Engine developed before was only a bit stronger than the Wind Magic Engine, the power demonstrated by the Fire Magic Engine could be consideredpletely different from the Wind Magic Engine.

    With such a powerful output, not only could it greatly increase the speed of the Magic Sedan, it could also create many of therge magic machines that Xu Yi had wanted to develop before.

    Of course, the Fire Magic Engine developed by Great Magician Teli was only in its initial stage of development and wasn¡¯t developed enough. At least it wasn¡¯t developed enough when it came to the stability, it was far from being truly operational.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on restricting Great Magician Teli on this.

    The magic research facility and Great Magician Teli were both focused on developing the Fire Magic Engine, but they were developing in different directions.

    The magic research facility focused on stability and used, focusing more on stabilizing the Magic Array. Great Magician Teli¡¯s side was focused on changing the core Magic Array of the Fire Magic Engine before focusing on stabilizing it.

    Both projects seemed to be opposites, but they were focused on the same goal in the end.

    If both seeded, it would speed up the development of the Fire Magic Engine, letting the technology mature faster.

    Xu Yi and Great Magician Teli discussed the power output and performance of the Fire Magic Engine with Great Magician Teli before leaving Great Magician Cami with Great Magician Teli here. He went to a joint invested factory in the Falling Rain Valley.

    This joint invested factory was one that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce created with Banta City, it mainly produced Magic Fans.

    This summer, this factory¡¯s magic fans had sold a high eighty thousand units. Not only did it bring profit of fifty thousand gold coins to the factory, it brought twenty thousand gold coins to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Twenty thousand gold coins didn¡¯t seem like much, but this was only one of the factories that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested in with the Lampuri Kingdom. Moreover, it was rather small, so counting all this together, it was considered one of the factories that hadrge profits.

    Of course, Xu Yiing to the factory was not because of the ie of his factory, but rather because Princess Caroline wasing to this factory.

    When Xu Yi walked in, he saw Princess Caroline walking with the manager of the factory, watching a production magic machine currently at work.

    Beside her was a skilled worker that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left at this factory. He was pointing at the production magic machine while exining things using the blueprint in his hands.

    Princess Caroline was very serious as she listened. When Xu Yi came to her side, only then did she react.

    ¡°Ah? Chairman Xu, you¡¯re here.¡±

    Perhaps it was because she was focused on the technology, but when Princess Caroline greeted Xu Yi, she was a bit vacant.

    Xu Yi looked at the blueprint in the worker¡¯s hand and found that it was rted to the Magic Fan¡¯s bridge bearing joint. He gave a nod before asking Princess Caroline, ¡°How about it? Do you understand it? What do you think?¡±

    Princess Caroline finally came back to her senses. She gave Xu Yi a bright smile before turning to look back at the production magic machine. She turned back to the blueprint before saying with a sigh, ¡°After this inspection, I¡¯ve found that we¡¯ve looked down on magic machines too much before.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why do you say that?¡±

    ¡°We thought that since we obtained technology like thepanies of your Lampuri Kingdom from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we would be able to make these magic machines. Even if the quality couldn¡¯tpare, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem using it, so we never thought that magic machines were that difficult.¡±

    ¡°So you thought that self research was also that simple?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Princess Caroline had a trace of shame on her face as she said with a bitter smile, ¡°Yes, however we never thought that imitating a magic machine was that easy, but it would be so hard developing one ourselves. On those Magic Fans that had problems, the main problem was with the central bridge bearing joint. If we wanted to change it, we had to make it different from your Frestech Brand Magic Fans. We thought it wouldn¡¯t be that hard, but it made us suffer arge loss.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t strange.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Manufacturing magic machines seems simple, but there are many parts to it. Imitating it might not be hard, but to develop it yourself, you need aplete foundational understanding of the entire system. You developed it so rashly, it would be strange if there weren¡¯t any problems.¡±

    Princess Caroline nodded before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, then if we want to be capable of inventing new magic machines in the future, how would we do it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, you do it step by step.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°You can¡¯t be a fatty with a single bite. It¡¯s not a problem to develop magic machines yourself, I support your idea very much. For example, the joint investment factories in the Lampuri Kingdom, I support their own innovations but they need to build a good foundation first.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi turned to the manager of the factory.

    ¡°Manager Fuze, how is yourpany¡¯s development of the Magic Fan¡¯s automatic start and stop technology?¡±

    The fat manager Fuze replied with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s almost done. Of course, that is because of chairman Xu and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support. Otherwise with just our research, we might not seed even with several years worth of time.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to be too modest.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Thepanies that have built Magic Fan factories with ourpany and have bought the Magic Fan technology from ourpany number a total of forty seven, but only yourpany has developed this automatic start and stop technology. This is your advantage, I hope that you will keep it up.¡±

    Manager Fuze kept nodding, ¡°Of course, of course, we also hope that chairman Xu can keep supporting us.¡±

    ¡°As long as you don¡¯t be reckless, I will definitely keep supporting you.¡± Xu Yi nodded before turning to say to Princess Caroline, ¡°Manager Fuze has developed the automatic start and stop technology. From the beginning of the year to now, it has only been ten months and they already had sess. In my opinion, it is a very primary project and it is several levels lower than the bridge bearing joint.¡±

    Princess Caroline took a deep breath and gave a strong nod.

    ¡°I understand what you mean. The technology can¡¯t be rushed out, we have to build a foundation and slowly develop it step by step.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. If Princess Caroline could really understand this theory, the Drake Duchy will be able to progress even more steadily on the path of the magic machine industry.

    That way, the Drake Duchy would be an important piece to Xu Yi building the magic machine industry sooner.

 Volume 4 147 - Want to see mom

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 147 Want to see mom</h4>

    The Banta City bicycle race sessfully ended and Xu Yi and thepanies of Banta City reached an agreement, preparing to hold the ¡°Frestech Bicycle Circuit Grade Race¡±.

    At the same time, Xu Yi had signed an initial agreement with Princess Caroline on behalf of the Drake Duchy.

    ording to the agreement, all of the Drake Duchy¡¯s current magic machinepanies would follow the standard set by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would conduct their research under the guidance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    That way, including the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine standard was already being used in several countries.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom hadn¡¯t signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this for now, with how the Rudson Kingdom was developing, it was a matter of time.

    Integrating these countries into a single standard was a very important thing for Xu Yi.

    Because with this, he could develop the magic machine industries of thosepanies ording to his n. That way he couldy out a moreplete magic machine industry.

    Right now, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the mostplete one out of the early magic machine industry was the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than the military magic machine that Xu Yi never relented on, the Lampuri Kingdom had already started walking into the realm of production magic machines.

    There was a production magic machine factory outside Banta City, mainly building Magic Punch Press and Magic Milling Machines.

    Although the technology for this production magic machine factory came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, under Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent technical staff to teach the other workers in the factory how to produce production magic machines.

    The effects seemed quite good right now.

    Of course, because the talent of humans differed from that of dwarves, for humans workers to reach the same level of skill as the dwarven craftsmen, it would take quite a long time.

    Other than the Lampuri Kingdom, whether it was the Drake Duchy, the Rudsone Kingdom, or the Mirando Duchy, they were only limited to cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on household magic machines.

    It had to be said, the household magic machines had many uses, so they were very popr in these countries. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine factories that they invested in together had quite decent sales.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t the Drake Duchy, thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom began selling their brands of household magic machines to other countries.

    Only thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom were cautious. They were very cautious with the development and didn¡¯t cause fatal idents like the Drake Duchy.

    Princess Caroline stayed in Banta City for several days, spending every day in the factories jointly invested in by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. She was understanding the technical questions of the household magic machines that those factories produced.

    She didn¡¯t understand the technology, but she did this to show her attitude to Xu Yi. She wanted to prove that the Drake Duchy was sincere and wanted to make back for the losses caused by those big incidents.

    But Xu Yi only stayed in Banta City for a week before leaving it with Liz, Linda, Freya, and Agnes.

    He didn¡¯t return to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters in the Stantine Duchy, he went to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital Anvilmar City.

    Princess Caroline wanted to go with Xu Yi, but Xu Yi rejected her.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s arrangements, Princess Caroline had to rush to the Stantine Duchy now to learn from the technical staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters. She had to solve the quality problem of the Drake Duchy¡¯s Magic Fan and Magic Refrigerator as soon as possible.

    Time didn¡¯t wait for anyone in these matters. If it was dyed even more, the Drake Duchy would suffer more losses.

    So even if Princess Caroline wanted to stay with Xu Yi very much and be closer to him, she had to part ways with Xu Yi and head to the Stantine Duchy.

    She was different from how nervous she was when she came to Banta City. When she left Banta City, Princess Caroline had a happy heartfelt smile on her face the entire time.

    It was for no other reason that Xu Yi guaranteed that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed to this cooperation, they would use their full power to help the Drake Duchy through this mess.

    Princess Caroline knew that Xu Yi was a person who didn¡¯t easily promise things. Since he promised this now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do their all.

    With the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Drake Duchy¡¯s problem couldn¡¯t be considered a problem.

    So when she left Xu Yi, Princess Caroline didn¡¯t care that Liz, Linda, Freya, and Agnes were present, she gave Xu Yi a warm kiss in front of everyone.

    While also throwing some tempting words.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ll be waiting for you any time.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled at these words.

    After bidding farewell to Princess Caroline, he drove his Magic Sedan out of Banta City. In just a single day, he finally arrived at Anvilmar City that was four hundred kilometers away from Banta City at night.

    Seeing the Anvilmar City gates in the distance, Xu Yi finally let out a sigh.

    After stretching himself out, Xu Yi looked at Liz, Linda, and Agnes. He thought that no matter what, he had to let the three of them learn how to drive the Magic Car.

    Otherwise when he made another long trip like this, it would be too tiring for him to drive alone.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, you¡¯re about to see mom soon, are you happy?¡± Xu Yi slowly drove the Magic Sedan towards the gate as he asked Freya sitting in the back seat this.

    ¡°Un, very happy.¡± Freya nodded without hesitation, ¡°I haven¡¯t seen mom in a long time, I really miss her.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Rx, after we enter the city, you¡¯ll get to see mom immediately. I guarantee that mom will miss you a lot.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Freya nodded again before suddenly asking Xu Yi, ¡°Dad, do you miss mom?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I haven¡¯t seen mom in a long time, how could I not miss her?¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°But I don¡¯t feel like you miss mom.¡± Freya said.

    ¡°Why do you think that?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Because big sister Caroline is also very beautiful.¡±

    Xu Yi turned his head in surprise and seeing Freya¡¯s serious look, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This little fellow wasn¡¯t even two yet and she was this strong, she could even say these kinds of words.

    Liz and Linda on the side secretlyughed.

    Princess Caroline had stuck to Xu Yi every day, how could they not see through Princess Caroline¡¯s thoughts?

    Thinking of how Princess Caroline¡¯s appearance didn¡¯t lose to madame Still¡¯s, Liz and Linda couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit worried.

    The master wouldn¡¯t be seduced by her highness, right?

    Only Agnes didn¡¯t reveal a strange look. She picked up Freya and put her on her legs as she said to her with a smile, ¡°Freya, although Princess Caroline is very beautiful, your dad will definitely miss your mom. Because I know that in your dad¡¯s heart, you mom is always number one, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    After all, Freya was still young and didn¡¯t know how to use her words to express her feelings. She did nod to express her thoughts.

    Xu Yiughed and he couldn¡¯t help reaching out to pinch her small face.

    ¡°Our Freya will definitely be a beauty after growing up, you might even be more beautiful than your mom.¡±

    Freyaughed as Xu Yi pinched her little face. His eyes turned to Agnes and he suddenly felt a bit unsettled.

    He would be seeing Still soon.

    Even epting Agnes was the result of his discussion with Still. Still hadn¡¯t rejected this matter at all and had fully supported it.

    The one who had chosen Agnes was actually Still.

    But no matter what, Agnes had agreed with elder Illusia to officially be Xu Yi¡¯spanion, making Xu Yi¡¯s heart fill with guilt towards Still.

    Thinking of how he would see Still soon, Xu Yi¡¯s heart became a bit unsettled.

    Even if Still didn¡¯t seem to care on the surface and no matter how she supported Xu Yi, would she really not care about this matter deep down?

    The Magic Sedan carried Xu Yi with hisplicated thoughts and the others slowly through the gates.

    After her majesty Seveni was crowned, her first big political move was to build roads all over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After a year of construction, the Lampuri Kingdom now had over fifty thousand kilometers of roads.

    Not only was every city connected, some cities didn¡¯t just have a single road.

    Because of the support of Seveni, there were many viges under cities that were getting roads as well.

    ording to the policies that Seveni put through the ?Lampuri Weekly?, her initial n was to make traveling through every part of the Lampuri Kingdom as convenient as the area around Banta City.

    This wasn¡¯t shown in the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, but it was being disyed in Anvilmar City.

    On Xu Yi¡¯s way from Banta City, he drove from the Anban Road that had been finished three years ago. But other than this Anban Road, there were seven other roads that connected to Anvilmar City, gathering all together five kilometers away from the Anvilmar City¡¯s south gate.

    So there were many different pedestrians and vehicles that came from the eight roads that gathered at the south gate, so it was very crowded.

    Seeing the crowd of people and vehicles slowly moving into the city, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Perhaps when he saw Seveni again, the first suggestion he should make was to cancel the tax collection for entering the city.

    This really wasted too much time.

 Volume 4 148 - Hot spring city

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 148 Hot spring city</h4>

    ¡°It seems like you¡¯ve also noticed this problem.¡± Seveni nodded towards Xu Yi, ¡°This means that this problem is already very serious, it can¡¯t be dyed any longer.¡±

    ¡°Dyed?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°What? Is it difficult to change it?¡±

    When he saw the crowded gates outside Anvilmar City, Xu Yi had wanted to talk about cancelling the city entrance tax.

    But when he entered the city, without even having time to see Still, he had been found by the messenger sent from the royal pce who informed him that her majesty wanted to meet him immediately.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi had many things to discuss with Seveni. He had Liz, Linda, and Agnes bring Freya where he had agreed to meet Still and entered the pce with the messenger to see Seveni.

    When he saw Seveni, Xu Yi immediately told her about what he saw when he entered the city and proposed to Seveni that she cancel the obsolete thing like the city entrance tax.

    Seveni agreed with him, but now there seemed to be some problem.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seveni spread her hands looking helpless, ¡°The gate taxes are an important source of revenue for the cities of the kingdom, so to get rid of them would naturally draw in opposition from many people.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, looking a bit confused.

    ¡°What age is this? Cities still depend on gate taxes as their main revenue?¡±

    Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Of course it¡¯s not like Banta City where they have a tax revenue of over two million gold coins each year, would they need to worry about something as trivial as the gate taxes? Let me tell you, ording to the kingdom¡¯s financial reports, in the thirty seven cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, the annual taxes for half of those cities are less than two hundred thousand gold coins. For those cities, they can collect over fifty thousand gold coins a year from the gate taxes, so of course it¡¯s very important.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°The kingdom is putting Banta City as an example, but they aren¡¯t learning from it and operating on the same poor traditions. What are those city lords thinking? Seveni, isn¡¯t this supposed to be your duty as the queen? They are all cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, you can¡¯t favour and discriminate between them.¡±

    Seveni gave a soft snort and slightly pouted her lips like a little girl.

    ¡°You think that I don¡¯t want all the cities in the kingdom to be as prosperous as Banta City? But this takes time. Then again, the situation in each city is different. For the few cities in the northwest province, because the terrain isplicated, it¡¯s hard to build a road there and it is hard to transport there. If it was you, would you be willing to invest in a factory there?¡±

    Xu Yi could only shake his head.

    As a merchant, he would choose the method with the greatest benefits.

    To invest in a factory in the mountains of the northwest province where it was hard to transport, it would cost several times more to invest there than in other cities, so of course he wouldn¡¯t do this kind of losing business.

    ¡°So even if I want to change the situation of the kingdom, I can only do it slowly.¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Isn¡¯t this what you used to say to me?¡±

    Xu Yi touched his nose. He didn¡¯t touch politics and he wasn¡¯t the king of the Lampuri Kingdom, he naturally didn¡¯t need to care about the matters of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°But it isn¡¯t like there isn¡¯t a solution for this problem.¡± Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic, ¡°Take the city entrance tax, if there would be opposition if it was implemented in the entire kingdom, why not just choose a few ces first.¡±

    ¡°Choose a few ces?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Do you remember how I hoped that his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth would make Banta City a special economic zone?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, that idea wasn¡¯t bad, but it¡¯s a pity that the kingdom changed and it couldn¡¯t be implemented. I had considered if we could enact this n, but I¡¯ve put it aside for now.¡± Seveni said.

    ¡°It¡¯s different from before now. I wanted to make Banta City a special economic zone to make it easier for me to make some reforms in Banta City. Now that the entire kingdom is under your country, why do you need to force out a special economic zone? Of course this n can be used to change the city entrance task, so you need to pick a few cities first. You should have these cities eliminate the tax and experiment with them.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I understand your meaning.¡± Seveni nodded, ¡°If the effects of the experiments are good, then the other cities don¡¯t have a reason to oppose. But what the results aren¡¯t good? Moreover, even if the results are good, there are some cities that don¡¯t have the conditions to eliminate the taxes, what do we do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, you just have to force out this reform when the timees. As for those that don¡¯t have the condition, they can be like the cities in the western province, they can receive special subsidies from the kingdom¡¯s finances.¡±

    Xu Yi described a feasible n to Seveni based on the various reforms made on earth.

    Although he wasn¡¯t clear on the details of how to implement it, he didn¡¯t have the talent for this to begin with and he only needed to give the general outline.

    After Seveni heard these general ns, her eyes lit up and it was clear she had an answer in her heart.

    ¡°Moreover, just with the subsidies from the kingdom, it wouldn¡¯t let those poorer cities change their condition. So I suggest that we find another solution for those cities and increase their tax revenue, that is the key thing.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You say it so easily, but if there really was such a good method, I would have used it already.¡±

    Seeing the ghost of a smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face after she said this, Seveni had a thought, ¡°You already have the solution, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°This is only a crude thought, it can¡¯t be considered a solution.¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, tell me about it?¡± Seveni had an interested look on her ace.

    Xu Yi gave a soft cough before slowly speaking.

    ¡°Since different cities have different conditions, we shouldn¡¯t be limiting each city to be like Banta City, developing only with the magic machine industry. After all, other than the magic machine industry, there are many other industries that can earn money.¡±

    Seveni was surprised.

    Hearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi talking about other industries, this really surpassed her expectations.

    ¡°For example.....Basaru City. When I passed through therest time, I found that Basaru City didn¡¯t have any rare resources and because there are many rivers and mountains, the terrain isn¡¯t good, so it¡¯s very limited for development. But it does have a valuable resource.¡±

    ¡°What resource?¡± Seveni asked this while thinking about what resources Basaru City had, but she couldn¡¯t think of anything worth mentioning.

    ¡°It¡¯s hot springs.¡±

    ¡°Hot springs?¡± Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°I heard that there are many natural hot springs in the mountains near Basaru City and it feels very good soaking in them, but what use does that have?¡±

    ¡°Of course there is a use.¡± Xu Yi raised his voice in an exaggerated manner, ¡°The hot springs are not just good for attracting tourists, they are also a good geothermal resource. If it can be used wel, we can build a hot spring city in Basaru City that would attract many tourists. Because of the rich geothermal resources, Basaru City only needs to do a few things to meet this requirement.¡±

    ¡°Hot spring city?¡± Seveni knit her brows in thought for a while before nodding, ¡°This is a pretty good idea, but it will require a lot of initial investments, so there is a problem......¡±

    Lowering her head to think, Seveni found that it wasn¡¯t a problem that could be solved in a short period of time. She put it aside for now and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Then what about the cities in the northwest? That ce doesn¡¯t have any rich hot springs and the terrain is worse than Basaru City, what methods do you have to change this?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Dear your majesty, actually as long as you¡¯re willing, even if the terrain of the northwest cities are bad, there¡¯s still a way to make a path to connect their transportation lines.¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh and shook her head, ¡°No. I¡¯ve had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce explore that area and chairman Cruise personally told me that theirpany couldn¡¯t do a thing. Even the Amrit Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t do this, I think that this is impossible.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That is because chairman Cruise never discussed this with me before. If he knew that ourpany was about to develop more efficient and more powerful construction magic machines, I believe that he would definitely take back those words.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi and she felt angry and found it funny.

    ¡°In the end, you were just here to sell me yourpany¡¯s new products? Chairman Xu, if you have the time to develop these new magic machines, then I want to ask when will you be able to deliver the hundred Magic Airships I ordered from yourpany? With those hundred Magic Airships, there wouldn¡¯t be any terrain that could block me, right?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Your majesty, the Magic Airships are very limited and they aren¡¯t as strong as you think. As for when they can be handed over.....Ourpany is increasing our production capacity, I believe it won¡¯t take long to give you an urate answer.¡±

    Seveni gave a cold snort and didn¡¯t keep asking Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi wiped his sweat and decided to put this topic aside first. He dug in his chest and took out a small book which he handed over.

    ¡°When I entered the city, I saw many different types of Magic Cars at the gate and suddenly thought of a problem. I recorded it in this book, your majesty, please take a look.¡±

    Seveni of course didn¡¯t believe that this book was something that Xu Yi had just made, but seeing how serious it was, she took it with a nod.

    When she opened the cover, she found that the first page hadrge characters on it that said ¨C The important role of energy standardization in the magic machine industry.

 Volume 4 149 - Controlling energy

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 149 Controlling energy</h4>

    Seveni slowly and serious read the book, almost going word for word.

    Although the book was thin and there weren¡¯t many words written on it, Seveni had taken half an hour to finally finish reading the final word.

    After she finished, Seveni closed her eyes and fell into thought for over ten minutes before speaking.

    ¡°Xu Yi, only the benefits that are brought to our Lampuri Kingdom are written here, can you tell me what benefits energy standardization can bring to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Dear majesty, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?¡±

    Seveni snappily red at Xu Yi, ¡°Deceiving the queen is a capital crime.¡±

    Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°What if it isn¡¯t evil deceiving? At least.....it¡¯s a lie that doesn¡¯t have that much effect?¡±

    ¡°That won¡¯t do.¡± Seveni said with a serious look, ¡°If I don¡¯t know what benefits this energy standardization will bring to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the members of the kingdom¡¯s parliament wouldn¡¯t feel assured following your suggestion and making this reform.¡±

    ¡°Then that means your majesty trusts me?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°If I didn¡¯t believe you, why would I say all this?¡± Seveni suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no one else here, stop calling me your majesty all the time. Let¡¯s just call each other by our names like before, alright?¡±

    Xu Yi hesitated for a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°Alright. Seveni, this energy standardization will gather all of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s energy management into one, which can tighten the control, which I¡¯ve clearly written in this report. As for the benefits of this energy standardization for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if I said that it could save ourpany quite a bit of effort, would you believe that?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Seveni was a bit curious, ¡°Save what effort?¡±

    ¡°To give an analogy.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying, ¡°For a Magic Fan, because of the different quality and sizes of Magic Crystals, when ourpany is designing the Magic Fan, we have to consider all these different aspects. We have to pay several times more when ites to the design, which brings unnecessary costs.¡±

    ¡°So you want to let all Magic Fans use the same kind of Magic Crystals?¡± Seveni immediately asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Actually ourpany has always been doing this. For example, the new Magic Crystals refining factory that ourpany has set up, it is specialized to make the same Magic Crystals. When we produce new magic machines, with the standard that ourpany has set, the people who use the new household magic machines have to purchase the Magic Crystals that have been refined.¡±

    ¡°Un, this isn¡¯t a bad idea.¡± Seveni praised, ¡°With your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s absolute monopoly of the household magic machine industry, you want to use the household magic machines to force people to have no choice but to follow your standard. You¡¯re also forcing them to use the new standardized Magic Crystals.¡±

    ¡°Facts aren¡¯t as good as you think.¡± Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°Although our Frestech Brand household magic machines are the most popr household magic machines, and there has been great support after promoting this new standard, but......This approach has caused many of our old customers who don¡¯t want to use the our standardized Magic Crystals to switch to other brands of household magic machines. Because of this, ourpany¡¯s household magic machines department¡¯s sales has dropped by 13%st month.¡±

    ¡°It actually dropped by this much?¡± Seveni couldn¡¯t help raising a brow and looking surprised.

    In terms of household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the best and their lead wasn¡¯t just by a small amountpared to the otherpanies.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines are a bit more expensive than the other brands, because of the Frestech Brand¡¯s outstanding performance and quality, people always had the Frestech Brand as their first choice when buying household magic machines.

    However, in this situation, the Frestech Brand¡¯s sales had dropped by 13%, which really was surprising.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right......¡± Seveni said in a confused voice, ¡°Using the standardized Magic Crystals can clearly increase the operation time of the household magic machines and can even prolong their service life, why wouldn¡¯t the people be willing to ept this? Could it be that you haven¡¯t advertised the performance of the standardized Magic Crystals?¡±

    ¡°No, to promote this standard, ourpany has invested at least two hundred thousand gold coins and advertised the benefits of the standardized Magic Crystals. But......For many of the customers that buy household magic machines, what they care most about is whether it is easy to use and how convenient it is. Ourpany¡¯s magic machines only use standardized Magic Crystals and there aren¡¯t many ces to buy them right now. Since they aren¡¯t convenient to use, people have chosen to give up.¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Seveni suddenly shook her head, ¡°Xu Yi, it¡¯s impossible that you haven¡¯t predicted this, so why did you do this?¡±

    Xu Yi pursed his lips into a smile, ¡°Alright, I have indeed already predicted this, so this is actually an experiment for me. I want to see that with just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could we promote this energy standardization.¡±

    ¡°Then you failed, so you came to ask for my help?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.

    ¡°This......Your majesty......¡± Seeing Seveni re at him, Xu Yi changed his tone, ¡°Ke, Seveni, you are my good friend and helping friends is something that a friend should do. Not to mention that there are many benefits to the Lampuri Kingdom this time, so you wouldn¡¯t reject me, right?¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi for a while before looking down at the small book in her hand. After thinking for a bit, Seveni slowly nodded.

    ¡°Alright, even if I agree, how do you n on doing this? If there aren¡¯t other methods and you want to promote it forcefully, the kingdom¡¯s parliament definitely won¡¯t ept this.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Seeing that Seveni finally gave a nod, Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°First, I suggest that you Seveni set up apany in the name of the royal family.¡±

    ¡°The royal family already has apany, it¡¯s managed by Lewis. Don¡¯t you know him?¡± Seveni asked back in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This is different.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Thispany should clearly tell everyone that thispany is only owned by the royal family. As for thispany¡¯s business, it can only involve those of the Lampuri Kingdom and no other merchants are allowed to interfere.¡±

    Seveni was surprised, ¡°This overbearing? The rules of the Royal Parliament is that no nobles are allowed to be involved in business, even the royal family is not an exception.¡±

    ¡°That doesn¡¯t matter, no matter what the name is, you just need to send out this information. In short, no one else is allowed to enter this industry.¡±

    Seveni slightly knit her brows, ¡°It¡¯s this serious?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong nod, ¡°Of course. Seveni, I can tell you that this business will control the foundation of the continent, only by controlling this business can you control true power. If you want the royal family to control the Lampuri Kingdom, you have to control this business.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    After knowing Xu Yi for this long, although she had seen his serious appearance many times before, she had never seen Xu Yi this serious before.

    With his tone, Seveni knew that in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, the business of thispany was much more important than she imagined.

    After pausing, Seveni nodded, ¡°Alright, I can consider this. But you still haven¡¯t told me yet, what business will thispany be involved in?¡±

    ¡°To put it generally, it¡¯s energy. Thispany¡¯s name will be the Lampuri Energy Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Energy? It¡¯s Magic Crystals?¡± Seveni was more confused, ¡°Magic Crystals are everywhere, how could they be important?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Seveni, if you think this way, the Lampuri Kingdom will miss a good chance to rise. I have a bold prediction, on the future Sines Continent, those that control energy will control the continent. This energy is just a general reference, but right now that is referring to Magic Crystals.¡±

    Seveni paused for a bit with a look filled with doubt.

    But after seeing that Xu Yi had the same confident look for a while, Seveni¡¯s confusion gradually faded.

    ¡°Alright, I believe you.¡± Like she had strengthened her own faith, Seveni gave a strong nod, ¡°Xu Yi, your predictions haven¡¯t failed until now, so I¡¯ll naturally believe your prediction of energy. But if energy only refers to Magic Crystals, it is impossible topletely control it because on the continent, Magic Crystals really are everywhere.¡±

    ¡°So that¡¯s why I put forth this proposal for energy standardization, right?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the small book on the table, ¡°Magic Crystals are everywhere, but refined Magic Crystals that have a high purity and high concentration aren¡¯t found everywhere.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes immediately lit up.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re willing to give the Magic Crystal refining technology?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and reached his hand out to Seveni.

    ¡°Dear majesty, are you willing to represent the Lampuri Kingdom to open the first Magic Refill Station on the Sines Continent with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

 Volume 4 150 Are you interested in getting in my car?

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 150 Are you interested in getting in my car?</h4>

    When Xu Yi left the imperial pce, it was already night.

    He rushed over to the lodging that Still had booked and found that not only was Still not there, Agnes and the others who had arrived first were also gone.

    After asking the servants, he was told that madame Still had waited for Xu Yi for a long time before bringing the excited Freya, Agnes, and the others to go window shopping.

    ¡°The madame said that if they weren¡¯t back when sir chairman came back, you should go to the newly built New Moon Theater in the west side of the city to find them.¡±

    ¡°New Moon Theater? What? The New Moon Troupe has a performance today?¡±

    When the New Moon Troupe returned to the Stantine Duchy with Xu Yi, they had been training for a year now.

    Once the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation stabilized, the New Moon Troupe once again began conducting performances.

    Although over a year had passed, the New Moon Troupe¡¯s poprity in the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t drop. Once they returned, they were vigorously chased after.

    But the New Moon Troupe had no foundations in the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had to rent stages when they performed and it was very inconvenient.

    So Still decided to build a ce in Anvilmar City just for the New Moon Troupe to use. After proposing this with Xu Yi and cooperating with the Lampuri Kingdom with the support of her majesty Seveni, they built the New Moon Theater that were like the theaters on earth.

    What was worth mentioning was that this New Moon Theater cost a total of six hundred thousand gold coins. Still didn¡¯t take a single coin from Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it all came from herself.

    Other than the money saved from the performances of the New Moon Troupe form before, there was also arge part that came from the fees that the beastmen paid to obtain thebour certification through the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t enough still, so Still had taken some loans from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce under the name of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    Although the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had very high interest for their loans, the New Moon Troupe¡¯s performances were always sold out and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce earned a lot from this. With Still¡¯s estimates, it would only take two years to pay off all the loans.

    Xu Yi knew that Still had a strong personality, so when Still said that she wanted to solve this problem alone, he had never given Still any financial support since the beginning.

    ¡°Yes, the New Moon Troupe holds three performances each week and today happens to be the middle of the month, so the performance will be bigger than normal.¡± After saying this, the maid revealed a look of regret, ¡°There were a fewpanions that asked me to gost month¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°What? Because of my sudden visit, you missed this chance?¡±

    The maid¡¯s expression suddenly became tense and she quickly waved her hands, ¡°No, no, no, sir chairman, I didn¡¯t mean this, please don¡¯t misunderstand. I¡¯m notining about you, I¡¯m very happy that you came. After receiving this news, the madame had been preparing for a half a month and has been very happy during this time.¡±

    Whether it was Still or Xu Yi, they were very good to their subordinates, so this maid said these words in front of Xu Yi.

    Actually, if it was the house of another noble orrge merchant, the people who dared toin in front of their masters wouldn¡¯t receive a good end.

    ¡°Alright, no need to be nervous, I¡¯m not misunderstanding this as youining. I¡¯m just wondering, is yourpanion a girl or a boy?¡±

    The maid¡¯s face turned a bit red, ¡°Of course it¡¯s a girl.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yiughed before shaking his head and not asking anything else. He told the maid that there was no need to prepare a meal for him and he nned to leave. He would go to the New Moon Theater to find Still and the others while taking care of this along the way.

    When he came out, there was a sharp sound that suddenly rang out as a ck Magic Car stopped in front of the residence.

    When the door opened, Great Magician Eisenkel came out of the car.

    Seeing Xu Yi, Great Magician Eisenkel immediately spread his hands and came forward with a wide smile.

    Xu Yi gave him a hug before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you really came quickly. I haven¡¯t arrived that long and you¡¯re already here.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you not know how many people are paying attention to you?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said with a smile, ¡°I dare say that as soon as you entered the city, there were countless people who received this news. Only because you were immediately summoned by her majesty, no one dared to move. Perhaps other than me, there is no one else who would be this impatient toe meet you as soon as you finished your audience with her majesty.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Your excellency Great Magician is in such a rush to see me, is there something urgent you need to discuss?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s urgent and it¡¯s very urgent.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel gave a certain nod beforeing closer and saying in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that other than your bicyclepetition, you are nning on holding a Magic Sedanpetition?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised.

    He had only mentioned this to Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli before, he never thought that Great Magician Eisenkel would find out in less than half a month.

    But thinking of how they were all Great Magicians and had their own methods of contacting each other, Xu Yi understood.

    ¡°Right, I did have this idea, but this is only a tentative n. It¡¯s still far from being able to enact this.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t deny or confirm it, ¡°At least with the current speed of the Magic Sedans, there¡¯s no race at all because they are all slow.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s slow?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel revealed a smile of understanding, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you use the Wind Magic Engine, it really indeed isn¡¯t that fast. But if you use another kind of Magic Engine? For example, the Fire Magic Engine that yourpany is currently researching?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Although Great Magician Teli and Great Magician Eisenkel were both Great Magicians, so it was normal for them to be close.

    Research rted to the Fire Magic Engine was a secret for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If Great Magician Teli were to tell Great Magician Eisenkel anything about this, it couldn¡¯t be justified.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi felt that it was wrong.

    No matter how deep the friendship between Great Magician Teli and Great Magician Eisenkel were, he should understand the principle of secrets. Not to mention that Great Magician Teli had always been a stable person, how could he do something like this?¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s knit brows rxed and he said with a smile, ¡°AS for the Fire Magic Engine, ourpany hasn¡¯t finished researching and developing it. Although it is much stronger than the Wind Magic Engine, we have no way of determining its concrete performance.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s smile suddenly revealed a mysterious excitement, ¡°Then chairman Xu, are you interested in sitting in my car?¡±

    ¡°Your car?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s ck Magic Sedan parked outside the door before suddenly remembering that before he walked out, he heard the sharp sound of the brakes being applied. This seemed different from the Magic Sedan that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    ¡°Could it be that Great Magician Eisenkel has privately altered this Magic Sedan?¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi became very interested.

    Currently speaking, all the Magic Sedans came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Because it was tooplicated to produce Magic Sedans, the otherpanies hadn¡¯t grasped this technology yet.

    Even if it was impossible for Great Magician Eisenkel to make a Magic Sedan, if he could alter a Magic Sedan, it meant that his grasp of the Magic Sedan technology wasn¡¯t low.

    Xu Yi was never nervous when others grasped technology that was at the same level as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, rather he felt happy when others could have this deepprehension.

    He even hoped that other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other people could discover new and better technology rted to magic machines.

    Because that way, others could truly participate in the development of the magic machine industry, taking another step towards the ideal industrial system in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    So he looked at the ck Magic Sedan with an excited look and he gave a nod, ¡°Alright!¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel was a bit surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, but he then reacted and invited Xu Yi in with a smile.

    When he sat down in the passenger seat, Xu Yi found that his Magic Sedan really was different from the one the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    There was an extra pe under the driver¡¯s panel and in the center control panel, other than the buttons that controlled the Magic Air Conditioner, there were some new buttons that he didn¡¯t know the functions of.

    Because there were extra buttons, the appearance of the control panel had changed.

    As for how it had exactly changed, because there was a stic panel separating it, he couldn¡¯t see clearly.

    Xu Yi turned to look in the back of the car, but he didn¡¯t find anything different there.

    Thinking of how confident Great Magician Eisenkel had been about this Magic Sedan, Xu Yi felt that the biggest difference should be with the coreponent of the Magic Sedan that couldn¡¯t be seen.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you strapped in?¡± Great Magician Eisenkel who was already in the driver¡¯s seat asked.

    ¡°Un, you can start at any time.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go!¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel pressed a button and Xu Yi immediately felt the Magic Sedan fill with magic fluctuations.

    Feeling the strong Wind Magic Elemental Energy fluctuations that came from these magic fluctuations, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling doubtful.

    Just based on the ignition, this Magic Sedan wasn¡¯t that different from a normal one. They all used the Wind Magic Engine, so where was the ¡°other Magic Engine¡± that Great Magician Eisenkel had just mentioned?

    However, Xu Yi actually felt the intense Fire Magic Elemental Energy fluctuation that came from beneath the floorboards of the Magic Sedan before the Magic Sedan suddenly charged forward like a wild horse.

    Xu Yi was shocked.

    This was downtown in Anvilmar City!

    With this speed, they might hit someone!

    Before his thought even fell, the Magic Sedan had charged into a street and approached the pedestrians in front.

    ¡°Does Great Magician Eisenkel want to kill people?¡± A trace of anger filled Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    When he was about to use his magic to force this Magic Sedan to stop, Great Magician Eisenkel waved his right hand and disrupted the magic waves around him, making him unable to gather up magic elemental energy.

    Xu Yi was surprised and angry, but he couldn¡¯t do a thing. He could only watch the Magic Sedan charge forward, about to hit the people on the street.

 Volume 4 151 - Production is key

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 151 Production is key</h4>

    Xu Yi instantly felt the mix of Wind and Fire Magic that came from the bottom of the Magic Sedan.

    The entire Magic Sedan flew into the air and grazed past the top of the heads of the pedestrians. Those scared witless pedestrians were thrown behind them and it became a shooting star that flew over Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi looked back at Anvilmar City that was getting further away and let out a sigh of relief. Then he turned and seriously looked at Great Magician Eisenkel, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, no matter what how you want to experiment, you should worry about the safety of the innocent people first.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel turned to look at Xu Yi with an interested look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like you¡¯re not used to being a famous person.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sunk, ¡°This is unrted to being a famous person, even if it was her majesty Seveni, she wouldn¡¯t joke with the lives of others.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel shook his head before saying with a smile, ¡°Rx, if it wasn¡¯t something that I was certain about, you think that I would do this in such a crowded ce?¡±

    ¡°Even if you¡¯re confident, idents will always happen. Especially if you use this magic machine that isn¡¯t mature yet and was randomly put together.¡±

    Because he was angered by Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s actions, Xu Yi¡¯s tone was ice cold and quite rude.

    Great Magician Eisenkel seemed almost surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s tone. After pausing, he didn¡¯t keep going with this matter and asked, ¡°You think it¡¯s immature? What part are you talking about?¡±

    ¡°Many different ces.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°First, there is arge mistake with the design. Your excellency Great Magician, I think that for the flying Magic Array that you¡¯ve iid on this Magic Sedan, it should be using Wind Magic as the propelling force to create a flight ability. This should have been inspired by ourpany¡¯s Magic Airships, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s notpletely true.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel shook his head, ¡°Other than yourpany¡¯s Magic Airships, I¡¯ve stumbled across some magic flying machines in some ancient records. Way before yourpany invented the Magic Airship, there were magicians that were using magic to create flying machines. And in this aspect, the research of the elves was more thorough. ording to the records, more than three thousand years ago, during the race wars, the elves even had a giant magic powered battleship that could fire powerful attacks. They were much stronger than your Magic Airships.¡±

    ¡°Then your excellency Great Magician, how many of these magic battleships did you think the elves had?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Great Magician Eisenkel was a bit surprised and after thinking about it, he shook his head.

    ¡°There was only one in the records, but I think that with the power of the elves that ruled the continent then, they wouldn¡¯t have had just one magic battleship.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Even if they didn¡¯t just have one, it wouldn¡¯t be much more, right? Although ourp[any¡¯s Magic Airships can¡¯tpare to the magic battleships of the elves, as long as there are enough materials, ourpany can produce several dozen of them a year. It isn¡¯t worse than the magic battleships.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel took a deep look at Xu Yi before waving his hand, ¡°Let¡¯s get back to the topic from before. Chairman Xu, you feel that my Magic Flying Car isn¡¯t mature, it can¡¯tpare to yourpany¡¯s Magic Airships?¡±

    ¡°If it is in terms of flying, yes.¡± Xu Yi gave a certain nod.

    Great Magician Eisenkel was a bit unconvinced.

    ¡°Why can¡¯t itpare? My Magic Flying Car isn¡¯t slower than when it is on the ground. With the Fire Magic and Wind Magic Array that I¡¯ve added, it can even move at over eighty kilometers an hour. How can it notpare to yourpany¡¯s Magic Airships?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his finger and shook it before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, speed isn¡¯t everything. Even if your Magic Flying Car does move very quickly, being able to both fly and drive onnd, there is a very serious problem with it.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s cost.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, do you know why the elves only had one magic battleship in history? Although I¡¯m not certain whether the elves only had one, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have that many of them and the reason is because of cost. ording to various descriptions in records, I estimate that this magic battleship wouldn¡¯t cost less than a million gold coins. Even if the elves ruled the continent then, it was impossible for them to make that many of them.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel didn¡¯t refute Xu Yi this time, rather he fell silent.

    Because he knew that Xu Yi had pointed out the issue that he was worried about the most.

    That¡¯s right, although this Magic Flying Car was outstanding performance, he could even proudly show off in front of Xu Yi and that he wanted to discuss a deeper cooperation with him.

    He was very clear that to develop this Magic Flying Car, he had invested over two hundred thousand gold coins. This is more than ten times the eight thousand gold coins it cost to build a single Magic Airship.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it just......¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible to mass produce.¡± Xu Yi directly cut Great Magician Eisenkel off.

    Great Magician Eisenkel knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, you still don¡¯t know everything about the Magic Flying Car, why do you say mass production is impossible?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t need to know that much.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, this Magic Flying Car is clearly using simr Magic Arrays to ourpany¡¯s Magic Airships to fly. As for the level of Magic Array it is using, it is much higher than the Magic Array of our Magic Airships.¡±

    ¡°Of course, the Magic Arrays were specially carved onto them by me personally, it¡¯s at the level of an Eighth Grade Magic Array.¡± Great Magician Eisenkel said in a proud voice.

    ¡°That is the problem.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s Magic Airships use the same model, so even a Third Grade Magician can carve the Magic Array onto the Magic Airship once they are skilled enough. As for the Magic Array on your Magic Flying Car, it is too high level and tooplicated, it is impossible for low grade magicians to grasp and carve it.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel fell silent once again.

    He knew that Xu Yi was telling the truth.

    After he developed this Magic Array, it had been two months and only three of the high grade magicians under him had grasped this method.

    This caused him to be only able to make one Magic Flying Car so far, he couldn¡¯t mass produce it.

    Actually, he came looking for Xu YI today to cooperate with him on this Magic Flying Car, while also hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could solve this with their research abilities.

    However, now that Xu Yi had pointed out this problem, the excuse that Great Magician Eisenkel had prepared was swallowed back down.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, I understand the idea of wanting to develop your own magic machine and if you want to develop a magic machine just for your own enjoyment, I can appreciate this Magic Flying Car. But if you want to mass produce this Magic Flying Car, it has to be a normal magic machine that many people cane in contact with, so there are many more problems to consider.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Great Magician Eisenekl knit his brows and fell into thought.

    The Magic Flying Car had already carried the two of them out of Anvilmar City.

    Great Magician Eisenkel was deep in thought while slowlynding the Magic Flying Car to the west of Anvilmar City.

    When the Magic Flying Car touched the ground, it trembled before sliding a bit and stopping. Great Magician Eisenkel had finally considered everything and made his decision.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I came to see you this time to invite your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to participate in the development of my Magic Flying Car.¡± Great Magician Eisnekel looked at Xu Yi before adopting a serious stance, ¡°If this Magic Flying Car can be developed and we can gain profits from it, I can give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce a part of it.¡±

    Xu Yi fell into thought for a bit before surprising Great Magician Eisenkel by shaking his head.

    ¡°No, your excellency Great Magician, if you are proposing an official invitation to research this together, I¡¯m afraid I can only say sorry to you.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel was stunned, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Because......¡± Xu Yi paused before deciding to tell the truth, ¡°Because this research ispletely a waste of time, effort, and money to me, there are no benefits here. If we are considering it from the aspect of ie, I can¡¯t ept this.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel was stunned before getting a little annoyed.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although I admit that when ites to researching magic machines, I can¡¯tpare to yourpany, isn¡¯t you saying that this is a waste of time, effort, and money being too rude?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change at all, ¡°This the truth. Your excellency Great Magician, I cannot see any ie that cane from this project right now. So considering it on behalf of thepany, I can¡¯t ept.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was this determined, Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s face quickly turned cold.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I thought that you were interested in developing all kinds of magic machines and would definitely support cooperating with me, but I never thought that you would be as vulgar as the other merchants.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Great Magician Eisenkel was the one in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magician¡¯s circle that was most corroded by money and the one closest to merchants, but now that he was looking down on him for being vulgar, this really was a bit funny.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t take offense. He shook his head before continuing, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you don¡¯t need to draw a conclusion this quickly. From the benefits of thepany, I have to reject your cooperation, but if it¡¯s from my personal views, I¡¯m very willing to help with your research.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°You mean......¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re willing, you can share a portion of the data for this Magic Flying Car with me and I can give you some technical support in some parts, helping you finish develop this Magic Flying Car.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Great Magician Eisenkel knit his brows, ¡°How is this different from cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s a difference. If you cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you would have to share a portion of the profits after you mass produce these Magic Flying Cars, but if you cooperate with me alone, I can give you technical support for free and there¡¯s no need to share these profits.¡±

    Seeing that Great Magician Eisenkel hesitated, Xu Yi continued, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry that I will keep this data and develop the Magic Flying Car with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce because you can apply for a patent, which would guard against that.¡±

    Great Magician Eisenkel gave a nod. Since Xu Yi was the one who took the initiative to propose this, he could be assured.

    But he still had some doubts.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why do you keep insisting on cooperating with me in your name and not in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°The reason is very simple, it¡¯s because I don¡¯t have much hope for the future profits of this Magic Flying Car.¡±

    Hearing this response, Great Magician Eisenkel¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help changing.

 Volume 4 152 - The lesser of two evils

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 152 The lesser of two evils</h4>

    Watching the red and light blue glows under the Magic Flying Car as it flew away, Xu Yi let out a sigh.

    Great Magician Eisenkel agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion in the end, letting Xu Yi cooperate with him in his own name.

    He had no other choice.

    Even if there were manypanies in the Lampuri Kingdom that were producing magic machines, there were few that could do research themselves and there were close to none that could participate in developing something asplicated as the Magic Flying Car.

    To work on the Magic Flying Car with others and promote the speed of finishing the Magic Flying Car, Great Magician Eisenkel could only choose to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although Xu Yi had rejected working in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he agreed to cooperate in his name. With his identity as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, this wasn¡¯t that different from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, if he cooperated with Xu Yi, he also didn¡¯t have to share the profitster. This was very enticing to Great Magician Eisenkel, so he naturally didn¡¯t reject it.

    As for Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t actually feel that this Magic Flying Car wasn¡¯t worth the time, effort, and money to develop.

    Xu Yi believed that once this Magic Flying Car was developed, it would earn quite decent profits.

    But while this Magic Flying Car seemed like itbined the abilities of the Magic Sedan and the Magic Airship with the ability to fly in the air and drive onnd, looking veryprehensive, if one looked carefully, they would find that these abilities were weak and impractical.

    It was limited by the heaviness and design of the Magic Sedan. The Magic Flying Car could fly in the sky, but it could never reach the upper atmosphere.

    Based on the driving test that Great Magician Eisenkel had shown him, Xu Yi could tell from the magic fluctuations that this Magic Flying Car could only reach a height of no more than a hundred meters in the air.

    This was something that was far from being able topare to the Magic Airships that could even reach eight hundred meters in the air.

    And in terms of driving, even if there was a Fire Magic Array that was installed that worked with the Wind Magic Array, making it faster than the normal Frestech Brand Magic Sedans, its current highest speed was only eighty kilometers an hour. It wasn¡¯t that fast.

    Just based on the cost, this increase wasn¡¯t worth the cost.

    ording to the materials that Great Magician Eisenkel revealed in the end, Xu Yi estimated that this Magic Flying Car had a lowest cost of at least ten thousand gold coins.

    Actually in terms of performance, because it was given the ability to fly, it used six high grade Magic Arrays at the same time that increased the consumption by ten times.

    It couldn¡¯t evenpare to the consumption of the small Magic Airships that were bigger and had more than ten times the carrying capacity.

    And in long distance voyages, since it was limited by the body of a car, it was far inferiorpared to the Magic Airship.

    That meant that the flying ability of the Magic Flying Car was weak andpletely impractical.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t doubt that there would be many people who liked this Magic Flying Car and he didn¡¯t doubt that the Magic Flying Car would have a market after it was developed, but this would only be a toy for a few people. Xu Yi¡¯s goal was to manufacture for the general public, it would be best to let everyone enjoy the concept of magic machines and this went against that goal a bit.

    Xu Yi agreed to cooperate with Great Magician Eisenkel in his name, agreeing to use some research of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to help Great Magician Eisenkel finish his research, while not taking any of the profits was actually just to support Great Magician Eisenkel in his idea of developing new magic machines.

    He even hoped that every magician in this world would develop magic machines like Great Magician Eisenkel.

    Whether it was for money or something else, as long as they were willing to research magic machines, Xu Yi was willing to help them.

    After watching Great Magician Eisenkel disappear into the distance, Xu Yi suddenly had a strange idea.

    Anvilmar City was the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom, in order to prevent magicians from attacking from the air, there were certain rules for controlling the skies above Anvilmar City, not letting magicians fly in the air.

    But Great Magician Eisenkel was now flying with the Magic Flying Car, wasn¡¯t this breaking those rules?

    Perhaps he should mention this matter to Seveni when he saw her next time.

    Xu YI shook his head and threw this thought away. He looked around and saw the New Moon Theater that had copied the roof of the Sydney Opera House from earth.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    The strength that Great Magician Eisenkel had in Anvilmar City was more terrifying than he disyed.

    Not only did he know when he left the royal pce, he even knew that Still and the others were currently at the New Moon Theater, even knowing that he was going out to find them.

    Such a powerful Great Magician, it was clearly the best choice to cooperate with him instead of making enemies with him.

    Looking at the roof in the distance, Xu Yi took back his mood and quickly walked into the New Moon Theater.

    Because he camete, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a ticket, so it was a bit hard for him to go inside.

    It was a good thing that Still had seen him from the exclusive box from above. Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief and he revealed a heartfelt smile.

    Still was the same as always, she didn¡¯t care about others and gave Xu Yi a passionate kiss.

    When the two separated and Still was about to speak, there was a figure that suddenly appeared in front of Xu Yi and threw themselves at him.

    Xu Yi felt another pair of soft lipsnd on his lips.

    ¡°Wu.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide, but he saw that not only did Still not say a thing, she even secretly smiled like she was watching a y.

    After a while, Agnes finally moved away from Xu Yi¡¯s lips and turned back to ask Still, ¡°Big sister Still, did I do it right?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile before sticking out her tongue. She then replied, ¡°Agnes, when you¡¯re kissing someone, you should also stick out your tongue. Xu Yi likes this very much.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Agnes turned back to Xu Yi and seemed like she wanted to test this ¡°new knowledge¡± that she had received from Still.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to stop Agnes from approaching before ring at Still.

    ¡°Still, you¡¯re teaching Agnes¡¯ this?¡±

    Still gave a soft snort and reached into her chest to take out a small book.

    ¡°I¡¯m not as positive as a certain someone.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the book and found that it was the ?Detailed Research into Union Between Elves and Humans? that elder Illusia had given him, causing him to look awkward.

    ¡°This......Elder Illusia gave me this, I.....Hey, Liz, didn¡¯t I tell you to properly put it away? Why did you take it out?¡± Xu Yi turned to Liz who was secretlyughing to ask this.

    Liz didn¡¯t seem like amon maid who was scared of Xu Yi, she said with a smile, ¡°The madame found it herself, I didn¡¯t take it out.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes.

    Didn¡¯t ¡°take¡± it out? You just didn¡¯t take the initiative to give it to Still.

    Liz and Linda, because they had been with Still longer, these two fellows were more partial towards Still.

    ¡°Alright, you don¡¯t need to hide it.¡± Still touched Xu Yi¡¯s face with a smile, ¡°Since you have already epted Agnes, you have to study these things. But there are a few things that you can¡¯t discuss with Agnes, right? So leave the book with me first and let me study it, then I¡¯ll teach Agnes. Otherwise, when you are together......Ke, you might make some mistakes when you¡¯re together.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still with a strange look and seeing her full smile, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Still, you really don¡¯t mind?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ve asked me this many times before.¡± Still rolled her eyes, ¡°I mind, but I don¡¯t mind very much, do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, he really didn¡¯t understand.

    ¡°Alright, you are a blockhead, I already knew that.¡±

    Still gave a sigh and pulled Xu Yi in to sit down, which was perfectly facing the stage in front.

    ¡°I said it before, I naturally want to be your only girl, but with your current identity and status, this is impossible. So although I mind, I wouldn¡¯t mind enough that I can¡¯t ept it. Moreover, I have some choice at least, don¡¯t I? Look, Liz and Linda are already like family and as for Agnes, she is the only elven girl that I¡¯m truly close to and ept. I already began treating her like family a long time ago.¡±

    ¡°This means......you¡¯re forced to ept it in the end?¡± Xu Yi asked in a daze.

    ¡°Fool.¡± Still tapped Xu Yi¡¯s forehead and said with a sigh, ¡°It isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t understand my character. If I really couldn¡¯t take it, do you think I would ept it? I¡¯m just saying that although I mind a bit, it doesn¡¯t affect anything. Rather, I¡¯m very happy that you chose Agnes because I¡¯m very close to Agnes. I¡¯m very assured that she can stay by my side.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, I understand what you mean, this is just choosing the lesser of two evils.¡±

    ¡°What lesser of two evils? That¡¯s strange.¡± Still knit her brows looking at Xu Yi before reaching her finger out to point at the stage, ¡°If I really worry about the girls after you, I would die from worry already. For example, she also really wants to marry you, should I chase her far away and not let her see you?¡±

    ¡°Her?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at the stage.

 Volume 4 153 - The other races of the Rudson Kingdom

    <h4>The other races of the Rudson Kingdom</h4>

    The lights of therge stage suddenly extinguished and the New Moon Theater fell into darkness.

    There was a soft cry from the crowd before it fell silent and there was only heavy breathing left.

    As the audience became silent, there was an iparably clear voice that came from the center of the stage.

    The voice spread like a stream running through the mountains, sounding very nice and it instantly hooked in everyone¡¯s ears.

    After that the pitch changed and it was like someone was whispering by their ear, as if it could touch one¡¯s heart. There was a bit of temptation in that clear voice that made people unwilling to make even a single sound out of fear that they would miss a single note.

    After a few acape tones, everyone¡¯s attention had already been attracted. Everyone couldn¡¯t help staring at the dark stage.

    That was where the voice came from.

    This melodious singing continued for around two to three minutes. When everyone was immersed in the charming singing, the pitch suddenly changed and the lights fell down on the stage, creating a circle of light on the stage.

    In the center of the circle of light, there was a girl standing there in a light coloured dress.

    Under the bright light that wasn¡¯t dazzling, although one couldn¡¯t see through the light dress, it still revealed her excellent figure. Adding in her moving singing, she was very charming.

    Then if you added in the two sharp ears on her head and the bushy tail behind her, it created a mysterious feeling to her.

    Xu Yi had listened for a while and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°It seems like not only has Avril mastered the new singing technique I taught her, she has added her own ideas to them.¡±

    ¡°How about it? Do you think it¡¯s bad?¡± Still asked back.

    ¡°No, it¡¯s very good.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the mesmerized crowd under the stage, ¡°You can tell by the crowd¡¯s reactions.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi watching Avril who was incredibly charming on stage as she sang and pursed her lips into a faint smile, ¡°How about it? Xu Yi, are you interested in Avril? If you agree to bring her to your room, you can enjoy her singing by yourself even more.¡±

    ¡°What nonsense are you saying?¡± Xu Yi snappily red at her, ¡°Do you think I have that much energy? Do you want to challenge it yourself?¡±

    He turned back to look at Avril on stage after saying this and after listening intently for a while, he said with a sigh, ¡°How can a moving voice like Avril¡¯s belong to me alone? We should let everyone hear it and appreciate it. Look, Avril looks so satisfied right now, she definitely must like what she¡¯s doing right now very much.¡±

    Still also turned to look at Avril on the stage and gave a nod.

    ¡°Yes, Avril has thanked me more than once, thanking me for bringing her out of the ck Rice Wastnd and giving her this chance to perform in front of all these people as a beastman. Otherwise, she might have stayed in the ck Rice Wastnd her entire and died as a normal fox girl.¡±

    ¡°Just with her appearance, she can¡¯t be considered normal no matter what.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. After pausing, he asked Still with a serious look, ¡°Speaking of bringing Avril out of the ck Rice Wastnd, I was about to ask you, how is that matter going?¡±

    ¡°With me on top of it, of course it¡¯s going smoothly.¡± Still revealed a proud smile towards Xu Yi.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi was shocked, ¡°Have you contacted the beastmen of the Rudson Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Not only this.¡± Still reached out the index finger on her right hand to sway as she revealed a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve made contact with six beastmen tribes of the Rudson Kingdom and I¡¯ve even found an elf tribe of the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°There are actually elves?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°But even elder Illusia and elder Lisanya didn¡¯t know where the elves of the Rudson Kingdom were hiding.¡±

    ¡°I also found them by coincidence.¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°You might not believe it if I told you, but I found the elves because I made contact with the beastmen.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? How did you find out?¡± Xu Yi was curious.

    ¡°Although the elves of the Rudson Kingdom are more hidden than the Night Song Tribe and were hard to find a single trace of, in private, this elf tribe named the ¡®Azshara Tribe¡¯ had some conflict with a beastmen tribe before. When I was building rtions with this beastmen tribe, I idently received some information. After following up on these clues, I found the elf tribe.¡±

    Although Still described it lightly, Xu Yi knew that even he couldn¡¯t find a trace of the elf tribe in the Rudson Kingdom with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundations there. Still being able to find it must have meant she had spent quite a bit of time.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi took Still¡¯s hand and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Still, it¡¯s been hard on you. This should be something that I did to begin with.¡±

    Still shook her head, ¡°Do we need to split anything between us?¡±

    Xu YI was surprised. If you really didn¡¯t want to spit anything, why did you insist on paying for this New Moon Theater yourself?

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t ask this meaningless question at this time.

    After a few tender words between them, Xu Yi asked about the six beastmen tribes and the elf tribe named the Azshara Tribe of the Rudson Kingdom.

    He learned from Still that the poption of the six beastmen tribe was around three thousand and there were close to two thousand elves in the Azshara Tribe. They were bigger than the Night Song Tribe, but they were much smaller than the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    If he could take in all these beastmen and elves into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would greatly increase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current human resources.

    Rtively speaking, the three thousand beastmen were less helpful than a thousand elves to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But based on the information that Still brought on these six beastmen tribes and the Azshara Tribe, the six beastmen were interested in working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even joining them. After all, there was the ck Rice Wastnd as a precedent.

    As for the elves of the Azshara Tribe, they didn¡¯t trust Still or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t Still citing the examples of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, she wouldn¡¯t even have had the chance to contact the Azshara Tribe.

    ¡°Un.....There¡¯s no rush for this, it¡¯s fine as long as we can find them.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°As for gaining their trust and discussing cooperation with them, we need elder Illusia and elder Lisanya¡¯s help. With those two elven elders, I believe that Azshara Tribe will cooperate with us sooner orter.¡±

    ¡°I also feel there shouldn¡¯t be too much problem.¡± Still nodded, ¡°Right, other than the beastmen and elves, the Rudson Kingdom has arge number of dwarves as well, even more than the Lampuri Kingdom. I tried contacting the dwarves and they sent a message to the other dwarves of the Rudson Kingdom. The response they received was quite good.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was very interested, ¡°If the dwarves of the Rudson Kingdom are willing to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that really would be great.¡±

    If Xu Yi really had to choose, what he wanted the most were the dwarves.

    Becausepared to dwarves, beastmen didn¡¯t have any special skills and they had low intelligence, so they were much worse at learning skills.

    Even if the elves had many special inheritances and had abilities that surpassed those of dwarves, the pride of the elves made it hard for them to fall under humans. It would be hard for them to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and contribute following Xu Yi¡¯s ideas.

    Only the dwarves not only possessed innate craftsmanship and had agile hands, they learned skills very fast and were very serious aboutmitments, as well as being very organized and disciplined. They were the most suited to bing workers and magic mechanical engineers.

    So inparison, Xu Yi ced more importance on the dwarves of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ¡°Un......It seems like I need to find some time to head to the Rudson Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before saying, ¡°It would be best if elder Illusia and elder Lisanya cane with me, as well as bringing along Camby, chief Siluka, and the other dwarves, that way I can get all the races at once.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi turned back to look at the stage.

    Avril was approaching the end of the song and her voice was lingering in therge theater, which made it seem more vivid and ethereal.

    ¡°Tell me, what do you think about letting the New Moon Troupe perform in the Rudson Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi asked Still.

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°I already guessed that you would think this, so I have discussed this with the ambassador of the Rudson Kingdom in the Lampuri Kingdom, receiving their approval. Mister ambassador has already sent a letter to his majesty Teruc and if nothing unexpected happens, it won¡¯t take long before I receive an invitation from the Rudson Kingdom for the New Moon Troupe.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yiughed. He couldn¡¯t help moving in and cing a kiss on Still¡¯s face, ¡°Still, you really understand me too much. You already prepared everything before I even said anything, it really saves quite a bit of time.¡±

    Still gave a soft snort and looked up with a look of pride.

    ¡°Of course, if it wasn¡¯t like this, how could I match you?¡±

    Xu Yiughed again. He was about to praise Still some more, but Avril¡¯s song had just ended.

    The theater fell into silence before it suddenly erupted in deafening apuse.

    Although this flood of apuse was directed at Avril, it was like Still was also being praised at this time.

    Xu Yi looked at Still with a smile, thinking that he really was lucky to have such a good wife.

    He looked at Agnes who was pping and praising Avril on stage, as well as Liz and Linda on the side before finally looking at Freya who had been jumping around inside this private box. His heart was filled with happiness.

    He was happy enough with this in front of him, how could he be greedy for more?

 Volume 4 154 - The company with the most magicians

    <h4>Thepany with the most magicians</h4>

    Xu Yi stayed in Anvilmar City for the next week.

    Other than being summoned every day by Seveny and discussing the cooperation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the Lampuri Kingdom, or more importantly, the details of building the first Magic Refill Station.

    This Magic Refill Station was equal to a gas station on earth.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various Magic Cars had sold ten thousand units in the Lampuri Kingdom in total, there were Frestech Brand Magic Cars on every road.

    But the Magic Car consumed much more magic than normal household magic machines. Most of the power tanks in the Frestech Brand Magic Cars held no more than forty volume liters of Magic Crystals.

    Even if they were all high quality Magic Crystals, it could only be used to power a Magic Car for no more than two hundred kilometers before being consumed.

    So right now these Magic Cars could only guarantee that they could travel between cities, so that they would have their Magic Crystals replenished when it was consumed.

    This drastically reduced the use range of the Magic Cars, which also limited the sales volume of the Frestech Brand Magic Cars.

    If they could build awork of Magic Refill Stations all over the Lampuri Kingdom, they could let these Magic Cars run through the Lampuri Kingdom without worry which would greatly increase their range of use.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Refill Stations had high concentration Magic Crystals that had been refined. With these Magic Crystals, with the same forty volume liters, it would allow the Magic Car to drive from two hundred kilometers to close to five hundred kilometers, which had more than doubled it.

    Moreover this high concentration Magic Crystal was only less than half times more expensive than the high grade Magic Crystals, so even casually calcting it, it was more efficient to use these Magic Crystals.

    Other than that, this high concentration Magic Crystal wasn¡¯t just used in Magic Cars.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future magic machines would take this high concentration Magic Crystal as a power supply in the future. Moreover, they would promote this standard to have the magic machines of the otherpanies use the same standard.

    Like this, it could save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce arge amount of research costs. The more important thing was that the high concentration Magic Crystals produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be the only choice for magic machines.

    Using the idea that Xu Yi had proposed to Seveni, this would be equal to controlling the important energy source of Magic Crystals.

    Of course, Seveni wasn¡¯t a fool and could see that this matter would have arge influence on the Lampuri Kingdom. So when Xu Yi proposed that the Lampuri Kingdom would use this energy standard, the first thing Seveni requested from Xu Yi was the method of refining Magic Crystals.

    Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t agree to transfer the technology since that involved their foundations, but to let the Lampuri Kingdom work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would build three Magic Crystal refining factories in the Lampuri Kingdom, allowing them to refine their own high concentration Magic Crystals.

    Of course, this method did involve transferring a part of the technology. So Xu Yi had been meeting with Seveni each day to discuss how deeply the transferred technology would be.

    Seveni naturally hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer everything and Xu Yi wanted the Lampuri Kingdom to get as little as possible.

    After discussing this many times, both sides decided that the high concentration Magic Crystals would be divided into five levels.

    In the Magic Crystals refining factories being made with the Lampuri Kingdom, they would transfer the technology for the first and second level crystals. The third level and above would be kept hidden for how.

    The Lampuri Kingdom to obtain those rights had paid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the rights to mine in five Magic Crystal mines for fifty years.

    If one looked at the current situation where these five Magic Crystals mine weren¡¯t worth anything, adding up to less than a million gold coins.

    But if one looked at how Xu Yi estimated the situation to develop, those five Magic Crystal mines would have their value increase by several times or even several dozen times. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce naturally was earning enough benefits.

    In the gaps of discussing with Seveni, Xu Yi had met Great Magician Eisenkel several times. With his own deep knowledge of magic machines, he had given several valuable suggestions on the Magic Flying Car, letting Great Magician Eisenkel gain great inspiration.

    Not mentioning anything else, just with the change to the auxiliary Magic Array that Xu Yi proposed, this Magic Flying Car¡¯s consumption was reduced by 30%.

    Other than these two matters, Xu Yi had another important task in Anvilmar City this time. It was to participate in the annual magician certification exam.

    Of course, Xu Yi had surpassed the normal Ninth Grade Magician Rank, evening incredibly close to being a Great Magician. He would not participate in the exam himself, but rather it was for the magicians that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited.

    Other than in thest year¡¯s exam which had been forced to be cancelled because of the civil war, in the past few years, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s certification exam had arge number of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians that came to participate.

    Every year, therge group of magicians that came in the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would create arge stir in Anvilmar City.

    This year was even worse.

    Counting in everyone, this year the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought a total of over a thousand people to the exam!

    Even if there were only two hundred of them that were qualified for the High Grade Magician exam and the rest could only participate in the low grade magician exam, just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over a thousand magicians. This was enough to shock people.

    Not to mention that because of various reasons, there were many magicians that hadn¡¯te.

    If they were all brought here, the number would be over two thousand!

    Not to mention in the Lampuri Kingdom, even on the entire Sines Continent, there wasn¡¯t a secondpany that had so many magicians.

    Even if most of them were only low grade magicians, this terrifying amount was shocking.

    It was different from the otherpanies. The otherpanies hired magicians to protect them, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired magicians for normal work in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the same as before, using the certification exam to promote throughout Anvilmar City. When they recruited magicians for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of the magicians that came to the certification exam had their hearts moved.

    Finally the week long exam ended and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recruited two hundred and sixty one magicians.

    Among these two hundred and sixty one magicians, seventy three of them were Sixth Grade or above and the remaining one hundred and eighty eight were from Third to Fifth Grade.

    As for the magicians under Third Grade, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had signed contracts with over five hundred people.

    Once those magicians passed the Third Grade exam, they would be able to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Whether it was to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the magicians, this was a winning choice for both sides.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was increasing their production capacity, so they needed many magicians to join them.

    Most of these magicians didn¡¯t have stable ie and many magicians had found various ways of earning money just to support their magic research.

    But because their grade wasn¡¯t high and they weren¡¯t strong, whether it was bing an adventurer or working for otherpanies, it wasn¡¯t enough. So it was actually hard for most magicians to progress.

    There were many talented magicians on the Sines Continent, but most of them could only give up midway because they didn¡¯t have enough money.

    Now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here and could give stable jobs to these magicians, earning at least two hundred gold coins a year. It was enough for them to live normal lives while also having enough to spend on their magic research.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility involved many magical issues, which was equal to studying magic.

    So for most of these magicians that didn¡¯t have good economic situations, being able to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was like a dream.

    Not to mention that there were Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli working at the magic research facility.

    If they could enter the magic research facility, they would have a chance to have more contact with these two Great Magicians.

    If they could discuss magic with these two Great Magicians, wouldn¡¯t they be able to make great strides in their magic research?

    Perhaps.....by working in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for several decades, they might be a Great Magician that everyone revered!

    Those magicians that joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never thought that the two Great Magicians who they were thinking about would secretlye to Anvilmar City the day the certification exam ended.

    Xu Yi was very surprised when he saw these two Great Magicians.

    Weren¡¯t these two Great Magicians studying the new Fire Magic Engine in the Falling Rain Valley outside Banta City? They seemed like they were very invested and Xu Yi thought that they wouldn¡¯t leave for a long time. He never thought that in less than half a month, they would suddenlye to Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi thought that they had some new breakthrough in the Fire Magic Engine or they encountered some problem, so they came to discuss with him.

    But after asking and receiving a surprising piece of news, he waspletely shocked while also being filled with joy.

 Volume 4 155 - ArChapter Magus Camilla

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 155 Arch Magus Cami</h4>

    The empty space suddenly trembled and there were ripples that were formed.

    The space around them was like a rock being thrown into water, creating ripples that spread. The space was also unclear because of the ripples that had formed.

    As the frequency of the ripples increased, the entire space became more shattered. In the end, the ripples came together and shattered the entire space, creating a forbidden zone that was awe inspiring.

    Xu Yi watched the slow change of this space and he couldn¡¯t help saying.

    ¡°This doesn¡¯t seem that different from normal Spatial Magic, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami who was focused on gathering magic ignored Xu Yi and Great Magician Teli on the side looked at Xu Yi with knit brows.

    ¡°Be patient. There is a quality difference with normal Space Magic.¡±

    ¡°Is there?¡±

    Xu Yi closed his mouth and continued to watch Great Magician Cami.

    When Great Magician Teli told him in a pleasantly surprised voice that Great Magician Cami had broken the boundary of a Great Magician and grasped spatialws, he couldn¡¯t believe his ears.

    Grasping spatialws was something that only Arch Magi could do. If Great Magician Cami could really do this, didn¡¯t that mean that he would be a Great Magus?

    Althoughst year Great Magician Cami showed some signs that he was already grasping spatialws, he was only touching spatialws from the views of a normal magician. There was a heaven and earth difference from truly grasping spatialws.

    This difference could let a magician focus on studying magic for many years and decades before finally understanding it.

    There were even many Great Magicians who had remained Great Magicians their entire lives, unable to make this breakthrough.

    Now that Great Magician Cami had only used a single year to break through this boundary, it really was too unbelievable.

    So even if he was seeing Great Magician Cami using spatialws in front of him, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help having a bit of doubt in his heart.

    Could it be that Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli were ying a joke on him?

    There was a sudden fluctuation in the broken space in front of him. The entire space expanded before reducing, just like it was breathing.

    After repeating this several times, the small spacepletely caved in and created a hole that was so ck that the bottom couldn¡¯t be seen.

    This was something that Xu Yi had seen many times when Great Magician Cami, Great Magician Teli, elder Illusia, and elder Lisanya demonstrated Spatial Magic, so he wasn¡¯t that surprised.

    Rather, it made the doubt in his heart deeper.

    If it was still this pattern, when would the spatialws that Great Magician Cami grasped appear?

    This thought had just appeared in his mind when the space changed again.

    The normal Space Spellpressed the space and affected everything in that space.

    A magician skilled in Spatial Magic could use thepression of space topress one¡¯s body into that space, appearing in another space. Which would be the Teleportation Spell.

    Although the space was currently ck without a trace of light and there wasn¡¯t anything different on the surface, Xu Yi suddenly couldn¡¯t sense any elemental magic energy from this space.

    This was something impossible!

    Elemental magic energy existed in any space, there would naturally be fluctuations of magic elements.

    But no matter how Xu Yi concentrated, he couldn¡¯t find a single elemental magic fluctuation from this space at all.

    It was like.....This space had disappeared!

    Xu Yi looked at the congealed space in the air that seemed to have been dug out. After hesitating a bit, he asked Great Magician Cami, ¡°Grandfather, can I use my magic to check?¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave augh, ¡°Go ahead, you don¡¯t need to worry about being injured.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m worried that your control isn¡¯t good enough.¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart before releasing his magic.

    When he started, he was very careful, using a thread of magic to investigate from the side.

    The surrounding space was normal and his magic entered, feeling the natural elemental magic fluctuations. But as soon as his wisp of magic came to the edge of the space, he couldn¡¯t sense any elemental magic energy at all. This wisp of magic was instantly lost and it was like it was lost in an abyss, cutting off all connections to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was shocked.

    This was magic that came from him, he never thought that it would be swallowed as soon as it touched the edge of the space. This was just too incredible.

    After pausing, Xu Yi didn¡¯t give up as he increased the power of his magic.

    However, when the magic came to the edge of that space again, it lost all contact with him just like before.

    When he was about to try again, Great Magician Teli raised his hand to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, you can stop trying. Even if I send in my magic, it is the same as you, I can¡¯t touch that space at all.¡±

    Even Great Magician Teli couldn¡¯t do it?

    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami in surprise. He saw that although he only had a faint smile, that smile was filled with pride.

    Xu Yi went around the space and found something that surprised him.

    ording to the exnation Great Magician Cami gave him before, when magicians used Spatial Magic to affect space, the space would normally form a sphere.

    But the space that Great Magician Cami controlled now was actually a cube.

    Just this showed how much control Great Magician Cami had over this space.

    ¡°But what use does this have?¡± Xu Yi looked at the cubic space with a confused look and he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Grandfather, these so-called spatialws, shouldn¡¯t they be able to bend space at will?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, how could it be that simple?¡± Great Magician Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°I have only grasped the initial spatialws, that is how I can control space this easily. This Spatial Spell is what I called Imprisonment. As long as you are under my influence, all space will bepletely imprisoned. In this space, not to mention matter, I can even control time. How about it? Are you afraid?¡±

    ¡°Powerful! Very powerful!¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    As a Ninth Grade Magician that had some understanding of Spatial Magic, Xu Yi naturally understood how powerful what Great Magician Cami had described was.

    For Great Magician Cami to use only less than two years to break this most important moment that was the most difficult thing for many high level magicians, Xu Yi was very happy.

    With Great Magician Cami there, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was enough to make many people wary and unable to move against them directly.

    Now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only had Great Magician Teli and the hidden Great Magician Juna, Great Magician Cami had be an Arch Magus!

    Excluding the entire Sines Continent, just in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Statine Duchy, they were definitely without peer!

    ¡°Don¡¯t be happy too early.¡± Great Magician Teli threw a bucket of cold water on Xu Yi¡¯s happiness, ¡°Although Cami has reached this level, he has to obtain the approval of the headquarters before he bes an Arch Magus.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Isn¡¯t just enough for him to be strong enough? Why does he need approval from the headquarters?¡±

    ¡°Because with the approval of the headquarters, everyone will recognize you as an Arch Magus.¡± Great Magician Cami exined, ¡°Kid, you want me to be an Arch Magus to gather more magicians at yourpany. However, if others don¡¯t recognize me as an Arch Magus, I won¡¯t be able to use the title of Arch Magus to scare people.¡± Great Magician Cami said with a cold snort.

    Xu Yiughed, as he neither confirmed or denied this.

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder that you and Great Magician Teli suddenly came to Anvilmar City, you should be taking a trip to the headquarters after this, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, not only is it for the approval of the headquarters, I also want to consolidate my strength to reach the level of the other Arch Magi.¡± Great Magician Cami said.

    Great Magician Teli suddenly gave a sigh, ¡°Cami is already an Arch Magus and can control spatialws. I¡¯m still a Great Four Great Magician and I haven¡¯t broken through in a long time. Cami, you are the first Arch Magus in the hundred years of history of our Lampuri Kingdom, the four of us can only look up to you in the future.¡±

    Great Magician Camiughed. He patted Great Magician Teli¡¯s shoulder before pointing at Xu Yi, ¡°You do have to work hard or in just ten years, this kid will catch up to you. But you don¡¯t need to worry, the reason why I broke through this quickly in these years was because I worked on research for the magic research facility. I¡¯ve found that studying magic machines actually increased my understanding of magic. You might not understand it now, but if you stay a while, you¡¯ll naturally find out.¡±

    Great Magician Teli nodded, ¡°Un, actually I¡¯ve already had a feeling about this. For example, Xu Yi has always requested that we magic research facility researchers take precise data measurements, hoping that we would have aplete set of data to disy. I¡¯ve used this mentality in researching magic and I¡¯ve found that my understanding of magic is much deeper than before.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi was overjoyed, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Teli, perhaps in a few years, you might also be an Arch Magus? That really is too great! If ourpany can have two Arch Magi, I want to see who would dare have any ideas about ourpany in the future!¡±

    Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli looked at each other with smiles.

    It was different from Great Magician Cami who looked at Xu Yi with the love one had for a younger generation, Great Magician Teli¡¯s eyes were filled with determination.

    Since Cami could breakthrough this fast in just a few years, why couldn¡¯t he!

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Teli looked at Xu Yi with a strange gaze.

    If he could increase his strength as fast as Cami in the future, that might be his real reason in working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

 Volume 4 156 - Blood debt must be paid with blood

    <h4>Blood debt must be paid with blood</h4>

    Great Magician Cami grasping spatialws and breaking the boundary of the Great Magician Realm was something that only Great Magician Cami, Great Magician Teli, and Xu Yi knew, there was no one else who know.

    Even if this was a fact, Great Magician Cami felt that without the approval of the headquarters, it would be a joke to rashly announce himself as an Arch Magus.

    So he strictly ordered Xu Yi to keep this a secret, at most he could only tell Still. Great Magician Cami then secretly headed off to the headquarters of the Magicians Guild alone, the City in the Sky.

    After Great Magician Teli sent Great Magician Cami off, he also returned to Banta City to continue his research.

    Because Great Magician Cami broke through, he now was deeply interested in researching magic machines.

    If it was said that he only chose to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and did this research because he was grateful to Xu Yi changing the lives of the people of Caraska Ind, now he was putting in more effort to increase his own magic power.

    His mentality and drive were different, so the results were definitely different.

    Xu Yi believed that Great Magician Teli would definitely make a breakthrough in the Fire Magic Engine.

    As for him, he was calming down after the good news that Great Magician Cami and Great Magician Teli brought.

    Of course, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t idle either.

    He continued his discussion with Seveni on the Magic Refill Stations.

    Seveni had shown a strong boldness in this matter.

    Xu Yi proposed that they make one Magic Refill Station and experiment for some time before expanding.

    But after Seveni set the technology transfer matter with Xu Yi, she decided to build ten Magic Refill Stations at one inside the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Based on the location that Seveni had picked out on the map of the Lampuri Kingdom for these ten Magic Refill Stations, it could be seen that Seveni had ced careful consideration on this matter.

    Because these ten Magic Refill Stations were all in critical positions, they were all in ces that Magic Cars needed refills in.

    Once those ten Magic Refill Stations wereplete, although it was impossible to say that a Magic Car could ess every part of the Lampuri Kingdom, it would solve most of the Magic Car¡¯s refill problems.

    Xu Yi naturally supported Seveni¡¯s bold n.

    If it was possible, he wanted to promote the energy standard in the Lampuri Kingdom right now. He even wanted to promote it in the Rudson Kingdom and the other countries that were working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If he could build a good foundation in these countries, that would be a great help to Xu Yi in developing magic machine industrial systems in these countries.

    Of course, it had to be taken step by step.

    Xu Yi¡¯s current priority goal was to spread this in the Lampuri Kingdom, the other countries would have to wait.

    After he finished his discussions with Seveni, Xu Yi¡¯s matters in Anvilmar City had officially concluded.

    However, when Xu Yi finished signing this Magic Refill Station contract with Seveni, nning on heading back to the Stantine Duchy with Still and the others, there was a shocking piece of bad news that suddenly came.

    Anklo and Duke Wein had dered all out war.

    ###

    Three dayster, Xu Yi had a deep look on his face as he approached the border of the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard captain Hart was already waiting there.

    ¡°What is the situation now?¡± Xu Yi looked at Duke Wein¡¯s soldiers guarding the road on the border of the Stantine Duchy as he asked this in a deep voice.

    ¡°Not good.¡± Hart shook his head, ¡°Duke Wein has seized all of the territory that he has given to sir chairman and only left the main base of ourpany that he can¡¯t enter. He has shut off all roads that connect to our territory and our base is surrounded by arge army, we can¡¯t break through at all.¡±

    ¡°Humph, this fellow must not dare underestimate us after the loss fromst time.¡± Xu YI gave a cold snort before he suddenly realized a problem in Hart¡¯s words, ¡°You said that he blocked all our paths out of our territory? He can block thend paths, but how can he block the sea paths?¡±

    Hart revealed a bitter smile, ¡°When Duke Wein attack, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s fleet came down from the north coastline of the ck Rice Wastnd, blocking the coast outside our base. Although the Ind Lord Smilton has tried to help, he is just too far away and couldn¡¯t break through.¡±

    ¡°The Sack Kingdom also wants to join?¡± Xu Yi looked at the west coast and said with a cold smile, ¡°I was wondering why Duke Wein would be this bold, so it turned out that he was working with the Sack Kingdom in secret.¡±

    Hart gave a sigh, ¡°Sir chairman, I don¡¯t think this is the main reason. The biggest problem was that we were too negligent.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    ¡°If we weren¡¯t too negligent, Duke Wein wouldn¡¯t have been able tounch this surprise attack and have had the chance to seize arge amount of military magic machines that ourpany has just made. It would have been impossible for him to blockade us like this. Without the help of those military magic machines, Duke Wein¡¯s subordinates doesn¡¯t have anything worth mentioning.¡±

    Xu YI nodded. He thought that Duke Wein must have had this n long ago, he was just waiting for him to be away to make his move.

    Because when he wasn¡¯t here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would react slower. This allowed him to snatch this important military cargo, giving him the advantage in firearms.

    It was clear that he had learned a lesson from fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commercest time. He even learned the importance of the military magic machines, so he had put them as his top priorities.

    ¡°Hart, based on the situation you described, our main base should be fine right now, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Hart threw out his chest and had a proud look, ¡°Although our guards only have a thousand people, even if Duke Wein sends tens of thousands, they definitely won¡¯t break the Abundant River! I can even lead two hundred people to attack and he can¡¯t stop us at all!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Hart said it very heroically, but if he were to lead two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to break through the blockade of Duke Wein¡¯s tens of thousands of soldiers, it wouldn¡¯t depend on the bravery of him and the other guards, but rather something else to fight them.

    When this thought appeared, there was suddenly a shadow that flew across the sky.

    After a while, thatrge shadow flew above the heads of Xu Yi¡¯s group.

    Looking up, they saw a medium Magic Airship.

    The Magic Airship slowly fell down andnded not far away from Xu Yi.

    The cabin door opened and a group of people came out.

    Xu Yi looked over to find the normal peasants of the Frestech Farm.

    Their clothes were ragged and they looked haggard, it was clear that they¡¯ve been living unsettled livestely.

    After seeing Xu Yi, those peasants who had dim eyes and exhausted looks immediately regained their energy. Their eyes lit up and they couldn¡¯t help revealing confident smiles as they came forward.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re back!¡±

    ¡°Great! Sir chairman is back!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, sir chairman is back, that damn Duke Wein definitely won¡¯t have a good fate!¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you have to take revenge for us!¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi nodded at everyone before saying with a serious look, ¡°Everyone be assured, you are all workers for ourpany, your benefits are ourpany¡¯s benefits. Now that you have been shamed by Duke Wein, ourpany will definitely take justice for you. No matter what everyone has lost, ourpany willpensate you for this.¡±

    ¡°But my family......¡± A middle aged woman with a face covered in dust broke out in tears, ¡°My family waspletely killed by those damn fellows! How can youpensate me......¡±

    Everyone¡¯s spirits fell at this.

    Duke Wein¡¯s sudden attack had caught everyone off guard. The people who had been assigned to the new territories under Xu Yi had been caught off guard and not everyone could escape.

    They could live because they reacted fast and their luck was good, bumping into a Frestech Chamber of Commerce rescue crew. Otherwise, they would have been the same as their family members, all of them dying under Duke Wein¡¯s hands.

    Xu Yi took a deep breath. He narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, ¡°People¡¯s lives can¡¯t bepensated, but I can guarantee that we will make those damn fellows pay for blood in blood!¡±

    Afterforting these people, Xu Yi had Hart choosee guards to escort them into the ck Rice Wastnd.

    ording to the ns, these people would be sent to ck Rice City and would stay in the residences the Frestech Chamber of Commerce prepared for now.

    As for in the future, they would talk after they took care of Duke Wein.

    After watching those people being escorted away by the guards, Xu Yi turned to Evitaing out of the Magic Airship. Seeing that she looked tired and her face was pale, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    This gentle girl had been escorting people on the battlefield during these days. She had been using the Magic Airship to find survivors, so she must be exhausted.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Evita revealed a clearly weak smile to him.

    ¡°Sir chairman, sorry, I wanted to save the technical staff that you cared about the most, but seeing these people, I couldn¡¯t refuse their cries for help......¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°You did very well, you don¡¯t need to apologize to me.¡± He reached his hand out to Evita after saying this, ¡°You¡¯ve been flying through the sky these days, you must have some gains, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Evita took out a neat piece of paper for him.

    When Xu Yi opened it, he found that it was a map of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s north.

    It was different from a normal map, there were many special markings on this map.

    ¡°Chairman, this is the military pattern of Duke Wein that I investigated. These are the military supply warehouses and these other ces, I¡¯m not certain, but he should be keeping some military supplies there......¡±

    Xu Yi patiently listened to Evita exin the markings on the map and then he clenched his right fist, mming it down on the map on the ground.

    ¡°Very good. Evita, when we defeat Duke Wein this time, you definitely will have the greatest merits.¡±

    He stood up after saying this. Looking around, he raised his voice to shout, ¡°Brothers, since I¡¯m back, then.....let¡¯s start the counter attack!¡±

 Volume 4 157 - Helpless

    <h4>Helpless</h4>

    There was a powerful explosion in the distance.

    Although it sounded like it was very far away, the shaking of the hall showed how strong this explosion was.

    Feeling the vibrations from the seat under his butt, Duke Wein¡¯s face sunk.

    After the explosion was over, he looked at the middle aged man with the same gloomy look on his face and said in a deep voice, ¡°General Keller, when can you send out your magicians?¡±

    The middle aged man called general Keller knit his brows and looked out the window.

    There was another explosion in the distance that made him knit his brows even deeper.

    After pausing, he replied, ¡°Duke Wein, please be assured. The reinforcements from the kingdom are on the way, they¡¯ll be here in a few days. Because they have received my reports, the kingdom will definitely send enough troops.¡±

    Duke Wein gave a strong snort, ¡°General Keller, I¡¯m warning you, if the Sack Kingdom can¡¯t send enough reinforcements and we can¡¯t defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the end, don¡¯t me me for being impolite.¡±

    General Keller had a sh of anger in his eyes as he looked at Duke Wein. This fellow was just the puppet duke of the Stantine Duchy, if it wasn¡¯t for the aid of the Sack Kingdom, he wouldn¡¯t have dared to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that only had two thousand guards.

    This useless fellow, he actually dared to vent his rage on themander of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet! He simply didn¡¯t know the depths of heaven and earth!

    He would definitely report to the army headquarters after this, making them greatly consider this Duke Wein.

    Even if they took care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this Duke Wein couldn¡¯t be kept.

    These thoughts shed in general Keller¡¯s mind. When he was about to speak, there was a stronger explosion that came from outside.

    Based on the sound, this time it was much closer to here.

    General Keller¡¯s expression changed again.

    Although this Frestech Chamber of Commerce had less than two thousand guards, they were very hard to deal with.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many elf and dwarf warriors who were far stronger than normal human warriors.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were all equipped with military magic machines. Their battle strength was raised to a terrifying level.

    Duke Wein hadn¡¯t been able to break the defenses of the Abundant River with ten thousand people before. General Keller had looked down on the battle strength of Duke Wein¡¯s subordinates.

    But when he led the kingdom¡¯s first fleet to attack from the sea, he personally experienced how strong the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were.

    The first fleet had sent out over thirtyrge boats this time. There were five thousand elite soldiers, but they couldn¡¯t even approach the coast of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base.

    As soon as the boats were one kilometer from the coast, they would encounter the attacks of the Magic Repeating Crossbows and the Magic Bazookas.

    Just with one fight, the first fleet had lost seven boats and close to a thousand soldiers. General Keller had no choice but to retreat back to the sea with the first fleet.

    Now the first fleet was depending on their strength to block the seas.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had enough people, general Keller wouldn¡¯t be confident in blocking them.

    Thinking of this, general Keller suddenly felt that it was reasonable how Duke Wein had obediently listened to the orders of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.

    Thinking of this, general Keller suppressed the rage in his head and said to Duke Wein with a serious look, ¡°Duke Wein, at this time, we should not have internal strife and think about how to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I¡¯ll send another letter to the kingdom now and urge them to send the reinforcements faster. As for your side.....please block them as much as you can.¡±

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started fighting back, general Keller had Duke Wein send his troops to sh with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    However, the results were iparably pitiful.

    Duke Wein had sent out five thousand soldiers, but they only faced less than two hundred guards and they couldn¡¯t fight back against them at all.

    If they met Duke Wein¡¯s troops, with the powerful individual might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and the military magic machines they had that weren¡¯t even on the same level, they could even fight five times the enemy andpletely defeat them.

    If they ran into arge group of Duke Wein¡¯s troops, with the ten powerful Magic Armoured Vehicles that they had, they could fight and then escape. Duke Wein¡¯s subordinates couldn¡¯t do a thing as they watched them leave.

    After a week like this, the two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t lose a single person. Rather the five thousand troops that Duke Wein sent out had been destroyed and there were only a thousand people left, so they couldn¡¯t chase at all.

    Duke Wein could only give up the idea of trapping those two hundred guards. He strengthened the defenses of his territory and tried to limit those two hundred guards as much as possible.

    This method had been quite effective.

    Although those two hundred guards were strong, they had too few people. They couldn¡¯t disy enough might against these powerful defenses, so they rarely harassed Duke Wein¡¯s territory during this time.

    However, when Duke Wein and general Keller were feeling assured, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a new method of harassment that brought an even bigger headache to them.

    Moreover, they couldn¡¯t find a way to deal with this method at all.

    After promising to urge the Sack Kingdom to send their magicians as soon as possible, general Keller left Duke Wein¡¯s manor.

    After getting on his horse, general Keller couldn¡¯t help looking into the sky in the distance.

    There was a ¡°ck cloud¡± that was quicklying from the distance.

    This ¡°ck cloud¡± was the Magic Airship the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent to harass Duke Wein¡¯s territory.

    Against this giant thing that could fly several hundred meters in the air, the magicians under Duke Wein couldn¡¯t do a single thing. General Keller also didn¡¯t bring any powerful magicians with him this time, so he also couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    In this situation where there was no threat, this Magic Airship caused great trouble for Duke Wein¡¯s territory and the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet that wasn¡¯t far from the coast, currently blocking off the base of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This Magic Airship flew around every day, sending out some Magic Rockets from time to time, creating powerful explosions on the ground.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s information was very precise. Every time, they would target a supply warehouse or a military camp of Duke Wein¡¯s.

    Every time they were sent out, the Magic Airships created heavy losses for Duke Wein.

    At the same time, they were also sent to attack the first fleet twice.

    Even if the first fleet was nimble and avoided several fatal attacks, the first fleet had to avoid them whenever they were sent out, which made the general Keller¡¯s heart fill with rage.

    This invincible and brave Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet was actually forced into this situation by a single Magic Airship, this was simply embarrassing!

    However, he could only endure the rage in his heart and he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    The Magic Airship flew just too high and unless there was a High Grade Magician that flew in the air, they couldn¡¯t threaten it at all.

    General Keller didn¡¯t have this kind of magician under him. Naturally he could only watch the Magic Airship fly around, but he couldn¡¯t do a thing......

    ¡°When the army headquarters sends enough powerful magicians, you¡¯ll see a good show.¡±

    General Keller red at the Magic Airship flying in the distance before he looked even further north.

    He was clear that whether it was the Magic Airship or the two hundred guards, if they didn¡¯t have a base to supply them, they wouldn¡¯t have anything and wouldn¡¯t be able to cause any serious threats.

    But the issue lied in the fact that they both had a powerful base behind them, so they could attack Duke Wein¡¯s territory without any worry.

    This base was ck Rice City on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    When the Sack Kingdom decided to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with Duke Wein, the army headquarters had nned on sending the Cheetah Regiment to the ck Rice Wastnd border. They would attack the ck Rice Wastnd and take ck Rice City.

    But when the Cheetah Regiment reached the border, they were stopped by the fortifications built on the ck Rice Wastnds.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with the western army to build these fortifications, the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t care at all. That was because these fortifications weren¡¯t tall at all and they weren¡¯t connected, rather they went on and off. It simply didn¡¯t block the way into the ck Rice Wastnd at all.

    But when they Cheetah Regiment finally took action, these seemingly useless fortifications had posed a serious threat to the Cheetah Regiment.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put many powerful military magic machines in these fortifications. With these fortifications, to block the Cheetah Regiment that attacked these fortifications from below became very easy.

    The Cheetah Regiment had attacked five times and there were only a thousand people that had made it through this fierce firepower, there were over six thousand corpses left on the ground.

    Behind these fortifications, the western army was already waiting there. The Cheetah Regiment didn¡¯t have any chance to break the blockade at all.

    With the attack in the ck Rice Wastnd¡¯s north blocked, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the Magic Airship could keep harassing them, causing quite a bit of problem for Duke Wein and general Keller.

    Looking away from the north, general Keller looked up at the Magic Airship in the sky that was already far away. There was a question that appeared in his heart.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have the western army help defend, then why didn¡¯t they have the western army just storm through Duke Wein¡¯s territory?

    If they could equip the western army with the same military magic machines as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, Duke Wein¡¯s troops and the first fleet wouldn¡¯t be able to stop them at all.

    Based on the information he had, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu could do this.

    So why did Xu Yi make this decision?

 Volume 4 158 - Optimistic Xu Yi

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 158 Optimistic Xu Yi</h4>

    <h4></h4>

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi looked at the doubtful chairman Cruise with a natural look, ¡°Isn¡¯t this simple? Of course it¡¯s because it costs too much money like this.¡±

    ¡°Too much money?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s face twitched, ¡°This is rted to the life and death of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you¡¯re actually telling me you¡¯re afraid to spend money? It isn¡¯t like you have no money!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t be so excited. Indeed I do have money, but I can¡¯t just randomly spend it, right? Don¡¯t forget, after this matter, I need to spend arge amount on reconstructing my territory. If I use up all my money now, what will I do then?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in disbelief.

    ¡°I say.....Just what are you thinking? At this time, how can you give priority to rebuilding? Don¡¯t target that yourpany¡¯s base is currently surrounded by Duke Wein¡¯s troops and all those fellows from the Sack Kingdom. You¡¯re not afraid that you won¡¯t be able to hold up and they¡¯ll break your defenses, swallowing your base?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°Do you want the hear the truth?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡±

    ¡°Alright, to be honest.....I¡¯m not worried.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s response couldn¡¯t help make chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes pop out.

    Xu Yi¡¯s answer was simply insane!

    ording to various sources of information, there were over thirty thousand troops from Duke Wein and the Sack Kingdom surrounding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards only had a pitiful thousand people.

    No matter how you looked at it, there would be a disparity in strength. Why was Xu Yi not worried about this at all?

    ¡°Why do I need to worry? You already said it, there¡¯s a disparity between the side, what is there to worry about?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Chairman Cruise was almost angered into a fool by Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hey, could it be that you think your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards are stronger than the enemy?¡±

    Who would have thought that Xu Yi would give a nod.

    ¡°Right, I do think this.¡±

    Chairman Cruise pped his forehead. He thought that it couldn¡¯t be that Xu Yi was going crazy right? Otherwise, how could he say this nonsense?

    ¡°Don¡¯t doubt it.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Cruise, could it be that you haven¡¯t noticed that since ourpany has developed many different military magic machines, the battlefield is already different from before? Not mentioning anything else, justst year, you should know what happened in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war, right?¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows, ¡°What? You¡¯re talking about her majesty Seveni leading five thousand guards to defeat Duke Stagg? Right, the guards of her majesty Seveni received arge amount of military magic machines from yourpany, that was why they were so strong. But her majesty Seveni has over five thousand guards and yourpany only has two thousand guards, how could topare?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget, it has been a year since then. Ourpany¡¯s military magic machines cannotpare to the military magic machines her majesty Seveni¡¯s guards hadst year.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that the military magic machines are stronger now?¡± Chairman Cruise knit his brows still, ¡°But don¡¯t forget, Duke Wein is also using the military magic machines yourpany has provided.¡±

    ¡°You wouldn¡¯t think that I¡¯m foolish enough to give the newest and most advanced military magic machines to Duke Wein¡¯s troops, right?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes at chairman Cruise, ¡°Moreover, what do you think I¡¯ve been making these days? Let me tell you, most of Duke Wein¡¯s arsenals have been ruined by our special attack squad and the Magic Airships. In a situation where he has no supplier, Duke Wein¡¯s military magic machines can onlyst three more days. Without the support of the military magic machines, what difference is there from his troops not having any weapons?¡±

    Chairman Cruise opened his mouth, but he couldn¡¯t refute it at all.

    Xu Yi waspletely right.

    After the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil warst year and a year of fighting between the Stantine Duchy¡¯s lords, everyone was clear on one fact.

    The military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already changed the method of fighting on the continent.

    In current battles, it didn¡¯t matter who had more people, who had better weapons, or who had better trained soldiers, it all depended on who had better military magic machines.

    In thisparison, who couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who made military magic machines?

    The only thing that chairman Cruise felt was unreliable was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too few guards.

    Otherwise, even if Duke Wein worked with the Sack Kingdom, chairman Cruise didn¡¯t think that he would have a chance.

    Of course, if it was like this, Duke Wein wouldn¡¯t have made this crazy choice.

    Chairman Cruise could guess Duke Wein¡¯s n.

    He wanted to secretly work with the Sack Kingdom to use the time that Xu Yi was gone to use his troops to take all the facilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce base. He would take all the personnel andpletely swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If he could control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be his biggest backing.

    Even if Xu Yi reacted and wanted to fight back, he couldn¡¯t do anything without the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Duke Wein never thought that even with all his troops, he couldn¡¯t break the defenses of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, not allowing him to achieve his goals.

    Now Duke Wein was about to copse.

    If he gave up, Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t let him go. Not only would he lose all his power, he might not even be able to keep his life.

    If he continued to fight, he had no way of defeating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t need to guess, he was certain that Duke Wein¡¯s only way was to beg the Sack Kingdom.

    He could only ce his hopes in more reinforcements from the Sack Kingdom to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing him to control it.

    But if he did this, the Sack Kingdom would take most of it away and wouldn¡¯t leave Duke Wein with much.

    In this situation, it wasn¡¯t much better than when he listened to Xu Yi, it was even worse.

    Chairman Cruise was worried about Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He wasn¡¯t worried about Duke Wein, but rather he was worried about the Sack Kingdom.

    The Sack Kingdom had been able to suppress the Lampuri Kingdom for hundreds of years, their national strength couldn¡¯t be looked down on.

    If the Sack Kingdom felt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was worth them investing, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone wouldn¡¯t be able to stop them.

    ¡°Your worries are reasonable, so I have to solve everything here before the Sack Kingdom¡¯s real reinforcements arrive.¡± Xu Yi nodded, agreeing with chairman Cruise¡¯s opinion.

    Chairman Cruise gave a bitterugh, ¡°How do you solve it? With your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s two thousand guards? Xu Yi, why aren¡¯t you willing to listen to me and ask her majesty Seveni for help? I think that whether it is your personal rtionship with her majesty or the importance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Lampuri Kingdom, her majesty wouldn¡¯t sit still.¡±

    ¡°One sentence, it¡¯s easier to summon a spirit than to chase it away.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be limited by people. So this matter has to be solved with our own strength.¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows again.

    ¡°I can¡¯t see what strength you have to take out this powerful enemy.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t continue. He looked behind chairman Cruise and asked, ¡°Are the people you brought reliable?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a sigh before nodding, ¡°Be assured, since I brought them, they are definitely reliable.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Xu Yi turned to nod at Hart on the side, ¡°Give them the things.¡±

    Hart left to follow the order.

    Not long after, Hart and two hundred human guards carrying a bunch of Magic Bazookas came back. They gave them to the thousand Amrit Chamber of Commerce guards that chairman Cruise brought.

    Watching Hart and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards teach his subordinates how to use the Magic Bazookas, chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi, ¡°Are you certain you want to give me a thousand Magic Bazookas?¡±

    ¡°Of course, this is themission of yourpany¡¯s guards, it can¡¯t be skimped.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Chairman Cruise nodded, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you agreeing to give me these things, I wouldn¡¯t have brought ourpany¡¯s precious guards to these turbid waters.¡±

    ¡°You think that ourpany¡¯s guards aren¡¯t precious?¡± Xu Yi gave a chuckle and took a telescope to look into the distance.

    Right now he and chairman Cruise, as well as the two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the one thousand Amrit Chamber of Commerce guards were on the giant Unfolding Wings Ship.

    The Unfolding Wings was sailing on the sea at ten knots, to the northwest of the ck Rice Wastnd. If they continued another fifty kilometers, they would enter the sea space of the Sack Kingdom.

    Xu Yi looked forward for a while before there was a buzz that suddenly came from his body.

    Xu Yi reached into his chest to dig out a small Magic Communicator.

    When he connected, Evita¡¯s gentle voice came from inside the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Chairman, I already see the Sack Kingdom¡¯s fleet. They are currently 11 o¡¯clock to the Unfolding Wings, about twenty kilometers away.¡±

    ¡°Alright, received. Keep observing and contact us if there are any changes.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Xu Yi hung up and turned to see chairman Cruise looking at the Magic Communicator in his hand with a curious look, then he revealed a proud smile.

    ¡°Modern warfare heavily relies on information. Wepletely lead the Sack Kingdom on this, do you think I need to be worried about winning?¡±

    He didn¡¯t care if chairman Cruise reacted after he said this, Xu Yi gave the order to Narvil who had been waiting on the side the entire time, ¡°11 o¡¯clock to the northwest, go full force!¡±

    Narvil turned to leave.

    After a while, the Unfolding Wings suddenly trembled and went at its max speed of fifteen notes, heading northwest on the boundless seas.

 Volume 4 159 - Stabilized situation (Volume 4 ?Throne? End)

    <h4>Volume 4 Chapter 159 Stabilized situation (Volume 4 ?Throne? End)</h4>

    An hourter, there were giant nks floating all over the sea fifty kilometers northwest of the ck Rice Harbour.

    There were several ships that hadn¡¯t sunk into the sea yet and they createdrge whirlpools. These whirlpools sucked in all the Sack Kingdom first fleet soldiers that hadn¡¯t retreated in time to the bottom of the sea.

    The deep blue sea water was stained with blood and a ck colour that came from being burned. This represented the Sack Kingdom¡¯s most elite first fleet had just be a trace of history, disappearing without a trace.

    There were some High Grade Magicians from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet that were floating in the sky. They all looked down at the sea with looks of disbelief, looking at the giant Unfolding Wings Ship that floated on the sea like a mountain, as their eyes filled with shock.

    The Unfolding Wings had just appeared in front of them. They were shocked by howrge the ship was and the fact that this ship waspletely made of metal.

    When they recognized that this ship was the one in the report, the giant Magic Ship that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they immediately prepared to attack.

    But they never thought that when the Unfolding WIngs Ship was more than two kilometers away, there would be mes that came from the Unfolding Wings. Then the sky was covered in Magic Rockets covered in the glow of magic that came from the Unfolding Wings.

    With these dense attacks, there wasn¡¯t a chance to escape at all.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet¡¯s ships werepletely made of wood. Although they were more resistant to mespared to normal fishing boats and were strengthened against impacts, after the Magic Rockets hit, they immediately received heavy damage.

    With just a single round of attacks, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet had lost all their strength to fight.

    When the second round of Magic Rockets came, they couldn¡¯t dodge at all and they didn¡¯t have the ability to dodge. It didn¡¯t take them long before they were all sunk.

    This elite force of the first fleet, the fleet that was considered invincible in the surrounding seas, couldn¡¯t take the assault of the Unfolding Wings Ship for more than five minutes before they were annihted!

    During this process, they couldn¡¯t even fight back at all!

    The magicians stayed even though they wanted to run because when they thought of the severity of militaryws and after thinking about their reports, they looked at each other and prepared to make a move.

    With so many magicians working together, they might be able to take the Unfolding Wings Ship.

    If they could take the Unfolding Wings Ship, the losses of these boats could be ignored.

    However, when those magicians gathered their magic and were about to release their spells, the space in front of them had suddenly caved in. The space there turned into a darkness that they couldn¡¯t see the depths of.

    The Sack Kingdom magicians took in cold breaths at the same time.

    ¡°It¡¯s actually Space Magic! They have a Great Magician!¡±

    These magicians looked at each other and without any hesitation, they flew towards the Sack Kingdom to the north.

    Xu Yi took back his hand and stopped his magic.

    Looking at the stunned chairman Cruise, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Do you still doubt the strength of ourpany?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a long sigh before saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Xu Yi, you are simply a monster. You built the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, which also makes you a monster.¡±

    Xu Yiughed before giving the order to Narvil, ¡°Return.¡±

    The Unfolding Wings created a beautiful arc in the sea before turning back to the Stantine Duchy¡¯s sea.

    ###

    Two dayster, the unfolding Wings ship had attacked the main forces of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet led by general Keller in the northwest seas of the Stantine Duchy.

    The Unfolding Wings took no damage and only three ships escaped for the Sack Kingdom¡¯s first fleet, the rest had all sunk.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base¡¯s sea had been unblocked.

    Five dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards worked with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, and six otherpanies to hire five thousand guards, suddenly attacking from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    With this fierce attack, the troops of Duke Wein couldn¡¯t resist at all, instantly having their defenses broken.

    Duke Wein¡¯s blockade of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ended.

    A weekter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce continued their offense, defeating Duke Wein four times and finally attacking his manor.

    Duke Wein knew that situation was bad and escaped ahead of time, not leaving a trace.

    After losing themand of Duke Wein and losing their supplies, unable to use the might of the military magic machines, Duke Wein¡¯s troops couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    Half a monthter, after defeating Duke Wein, Xu Yi took all of Duke Wein¡¯s territory as expected. What they didn¡¯t expect was that he didn¡¯t stop, attacking two lords that were neighbouring him.

    In just ten days, the private guards under Xu Yi had defeated those two lords, taking all their territory.

    Then Xu Yi took twenty days to reorganize.

    When everyone thought that Xu Yi would stop, not attacking the other lords like Duke Wein had done, Xu Yi suddenly moved again.

    This move created mass shock.

    In a month, Xu Yi sent his private guards to attack seven lords, taking all the territory from those seven lords.

    In all these fights, with the massive firepower of the military magic machines, the lords couldn¡¯t resist at all. All of them were defeated without exception.

    At this time, the lords of the Stantine Duchy finally understood.

    Although Xu Yi wasn¡¯t Duke Wein, he was more of a threat than Duke Wein!

    So the rest of the lords of the Stantine Duchy all gathered their forces and nned on defeating Xu Yi.

    However, the brutal reality had crushed their final hope.

    Xu Yi had only sent out five thousand troops and had easily defeated the giant army of forty thousand sent out by these lords.

    Moreover, Xu Yi¡¯s troops had been active the entire time, always maintaining the advantage.

    In front of Xu Yi¡¯s private troops, the troops of the lords were like children fighting adults. They could only be beaten, they couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    This battle had crushed all thoughts of resistance in these lords. After this battle, most of them had chosen to surrender Xu Yi. A few of them secretly gathered their property and fled the Stantine Duchy, disappearing without a trace like Duke Wein.

    In less than two months, Xu Yi had defeated all the lords of the Stantine Duchy. He had achieved what Duke Wein had thought was impossible, which was to integrate the entire Stantine Duchy under his control.

    However, unexpected to everyone, Xu Yi rejected the request of many people to have him be Duke Stantine. Rather he announced that he would be forming the Stantine Duchy State Council, which would be called the Stantine Duchy Congress, who would be responsible for taking care of all of the small andrge matters in the Stantine Duchy.

    At the same time, Xu Yi rmended Count Anklo as the chairman of this state council. He rmended several young lords, as well as several Stantine Duchy citizens to join the state council. They would also bemittee members who would help Count Anklo manage the duchy.

    As for Xu Yi himself, he would be given the title of special advisor and he wouldn¡¯t participate in government business directly. He only would give his opinion when it was needed.

    Of course, this was just his own way of saying this, but everyone knew that with his current control of the Stantine Duchy, how could he avoid being involved in government matters right now?

    If one was more direct, although Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the title of Duke Stantine, he was actually Duke Stantine.

    To put it in a more exaggerated manner, with his control of the Stantine Duchy, it could be said that he was the king of this country!

    ###

    With a breeze that came through the window, there was a chill that came in.

    Xu Yi looked away from the report in his hand and looked out the window.

    Although there was green outside the window, it was already the end of December and the middle of winter.

    From leaving the Lampuri Kingdom to now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been in the Stantine Duchy for over two years now.

    Only now did they truly take root here.

    Whenever he thought of all the trouble the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had faced in the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t strong enough when it left the Lampuri Kingdom and entered the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi had decided that standing firm was the most important.

    But in fact, during these two years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many chances to take over the Stantine Duchy.

    The only reason they didn¡¯t do this was because Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to take the risk,

    But as the situation changed in the Stantine Duchy over the past two years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had paidrge prices because Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to take this risk.

    When Duke Wein ambushed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it didn¡¯t create that much of a threat, but when he worked with the Sack Kingdom to take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s territory, it created heavy losses.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much about the economic losses.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had lost over three million gold coins from dealing with Duke Wein and the Sack Kingdom. Then with the investments that had to be made for the reconstruction and following projects, Xu Yi estimated that they would be investing close to ten million gold coins next year, Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel any pain over this.

    What made him feel pain was the loss of human lives during the battle.

    ¡°If I had been more determined back then, perhaps there wouldn¡¯t have been this many people who lost their lives?¡±

    Looking at the red leaves falling outside, Xu Yi had a dim look in his eyes. After a while, they filled with determination again.

    ¡°No matter what, since I¡¯ve made up my mind, I can¡¯t hesitate in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi clenched his fists before releasing them.

    After taking control of the Stantine Duchy, there were many people who had proposed that he take over the title of Duke Stantine or even be a king.

    Xu Yi had rejected them all.

    Although his heart had changed from the past experience and now he was willing to take over, he was clear that with the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was no problem controlling the Stantine Duchy and stop other forces from coveting the assets of the Stantine Duchy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for him to control the Stantine Duchy on the surface.

    ¡°No matter what, I can¡¯t let my destiny be controlled by others, I have to grasp it in my own hand.¡±

    Xu Yi watched the red leaves falling outside and the empty trees before suddenly bing aware of something.

    Raising his hand to point, the red leaves that had been falling outside like a normal scene in fall suddenly looked like it had been hit by a stone as ripples appeared.

    At that time, Xu Yi had broken through.

    (Volume 4 ?Throne? End)

 Volume 5 1 - Volume 5 Advancing to the mainland - Entering the Candra Empire

    <h4>Volume 5 Advancing to the maind ¨C Entering the Candra Empire</h4>

    <h4></h4>

    A bright silver Magic Sedan was quickly crossing the border between the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, dropping down from the cliff that separated the two countries.

    After a while, driving past this portion of the Stru Road, they entered the Stantine Duchy.

    There was a several dozen meters hill that held the Stru Road that entered the Stantine Duchy, it was several dozen meters above the ground. Looking from the sides in the car, it was like quickly driving across the clouds.

    Seeing the top of the trees pass by them, it made one feel nervous like they were high above.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s Rudson Kingdom ambassador Leiden Hakanin rolled down the ss and stuck his head to look out, so he couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    ¡°This road is like it was built in the sky, it really makes one sigh. When I return to the Candra Empire, I will definitely advies the emperor to construct such a road in our Candra Empire! It will be bigger and even more grand!¡±

    Kennard sitting on his right revealed a faint smile. This ambassador Hakanin really didn¡¯t forget to show off his pride as someone from the Candra Empire.

    This Stru Road had cost two million one hundred and thirty thousand toplete. The road that ran through the cliff, connecting the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy was only eight kilometers long, but it had cost over eight hundred thousand gold coins. It ounted for close to half the cost of the one thousand and three hundred kilometer Stru Road.

    It could be seen just how shocking the costs of building a road in the sky were.

    This ambassador Hakanin wanted the Candra Empire to build the same road, even making it bigger and grander, but he didn¡¯t care about the costs at all.

    Although the Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the Sines Continent, their national power far surpassed small countries like the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, even the emperor of the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t agree to wasting this much money on building a single road.

    Of course, this idea was only kept in Kennard¡¯s mind, naturally he wouldn¡¯t sweep away ambassador Hakanin¡¯s interest.

    After casually saying a few things, the Magic Sedan had gone halfway across this road and the trees around them hadpletely surrounded the road.

    Because of the dense trees, the entire path became a bit dark.

    However, there were rows of tall iron poles and there were ss spheres on these poles. They were releasing a white light thatpletely illuminated the dark woods.

    Ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help looking at these lights and praising, ¡°CEO Kenners, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is right. You even installed lights in a ce like this, it really is unexpected.¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman said that this road is the only line connecting the Stantine Duchy and also an important line. In order to wee guests from other parts of the continent, this road must be built with the best, so every detail must be considered.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°This means that the roads of the Stantine Duchy can¡¯tpare to this road? I never thought that your chairman Xu cared this much about showing off.¡±

    Kennard smiled and didn¡¯t exin any further.

    The Magic Sedan sank down on the road and they were about to be on the floor of the Slight Dream Forest. The woods in front of them opened and a red colour appeared.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, this is the Magic Refill Station in front. We will stop here and refill the Magic Crystals of the car, as well as rest. What do you think?¡± Kennard pointed at the red building that had suddenly appeared in the forest as he asked this.

    ¡°Un, the guest will follow the host, we¡¯ll listen to your arrangements.¡± Ambassador Hakanin nodded.

    The driver turned the car slightly and the Magic Sedan slowed down, stopping right in the middle of the Magic Refill Station.

    Ambassador Hakanin came out of the Magic Sedan at Kennard¡¯s invitation. He looked around and found that the Magic Refill Station wasn¡¯t that big, it was only around a thousand square meters.

    But although it was small, it was equipped with everything.

    This small Magic Refill Station didn¡¯t just have two machines that had refined high concentration Magic Crystals, it also had a small building that was considered the office of the Magic Refill Station. There was also a small store that sold a variety of daily necessities.

    There was also a small maintenance garage that could help Magic Sedans that encountered problems.

    Other than this, there was even a special made washroom.

    When he saw the washroom at first, it waspletely different from other washrooms. It looked very clean, so ambassador Hakanin didn¡¯t know that it was a washroom and thought it was another room.

    Until Kennard tactfully asked if he needed to relieve himself, causing him to need to and then he brought him in. Only then did he realize that this clean room was actually a ce to ¡°relieve¡± himself.

    It was somewhat strange, but after he finished relieving himself in these clean facilities, ambassador Hakanin saw Kennard press a metal button on the urinal. There was water that flowed out that washed it out, not leaving a single bit behind, which greatly shocked him.

    He learned from Kennard to press the button himself and watching the water wash out the urinal, ambassador Hakanin understood.

    It was no wonder this washroom was so clean, it seemed that other than people cleaning it out regrly, this automatic flushing device also yed arge role.

    It was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made strange things, but he never thought that even their washrooms would be different.

    He turned to see Kennard walking over to a wash bowl that was made of stone and he pressed a metal button above it. Then there was water that flowed from the metal pipe that was above the wash bowl.

    Kennard washed his hands and then put his hands under a strange round thing by the wash bowl, before hearing the sound of winding from that strange round thing.

    After a while, Kennard pulled back his hands and they were actuallypletely dry!

    Seeing the surprised look on ambassador Hakanin¡¯s face, Kennard gestured to ambassador Hakanin with a smile, hinting for him to do the same.

    Ambassador Hakanin hesitated a bit before learning from Kennard to wash his hands. Then after hesitating a bit, he followed Kennard¡¯s demonstration to put his hands under the round thing.

    As soon as his hands were ced there, ambassador Hakanin felt a warm breeze that wasn¡¯t too big, but was stable that came from the round thing.

    Learning from Kennard to move his hands around a bit, he felt the water quickly evaporating from his hands and his hands instantly became dry.

    Ambassador Hakanin pulled back his hands and he finally couldn¡¯t take the curiosity in his heart as he asked Kennard, ¡°What is this thing? Why does it have such a strange function?¡±

    Kennard pointed at the wash bowl that they had just used and replied, ¡°That is just simple running water, it isn¡¯t that strange.¡±

    Then he pointed at the strange looking round thing.

    ¡°As for that, it is the new small Magic Dryer that ourpany has invented. This model is specifically used to dry hands, it makes it easier to dry hands after washing them. Ambassador Hakanin, what do you think after using it?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at his hands before giving a nod.

    ¡°This thing is simply too amazing! You don¡¯t need to use a cloth to dry your hands and it can dry my handspletely, this is just too useful!¡± He didn¡¯t wait for Kennard to exin as he pointed a finger at him, ¡°Let¡¯s not say anything else, I hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can prepare a hundred of these small Magic Dryers for me!¡±

    Kennard nodded with a smile, ¡°Of course that¡¯s not a problem. Sir chairman said that as long as it is ambassador Hakanin¡¯s request, we will definitely satisfy them.¡±

    Ambassador Hakaninughed, ¡°Chairman Xu has always been straight, that is something that I know.¡±

    Kennard¡¯s smile couldn¡¯t help revealing a bit of ridicule.

    Ambassador Hakanin¡¯s ¡°straight¡± of course was referring to how sir chairman had delivered household magic machines worth three thousand gold coins to him during these two years.

    Otherwise, how could this greedy fellow be this courteous and even follow Kennard to inspect the Stantine Duchy?

    But sir chairman had also received decent returns on the investment in this fellow.

    When ambassador Hakanin returned to the Candra Empire to report during New Years, he had also taken the various household magic machines that Xu Yi gave him back with him.

    These strange things had attracted the attention of others, receiving praise from a bunch of nobles from the capital Wimbledon City.

    These nobles weren¡¯t all useless like ambassador Hakanin, some of them had decent vision.

    Many people saw opportunity from these novel household magic machines, so there were several Candra Empire nobles that had asked ambassador Hakanin about these household magic machines. There were even some people who bypassed ambassador Hakanin to make orders to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This time ambassador Hakanin was willing to run all the way to the Stantine Duchy just toplete these requests.

    These nobles asking this of ambassador Hakanin was perhaps a small matter to him, but it was a big matter for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because this meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products had the chance to enter the Candra Empire.

    Compared to small countries like the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Mirando Duchy, the Candra Empire was a giant.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could open the market in this giant, it would without a doubt be arge leap for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

 Volume 5 2 - Urgent rescue

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 2 Urgent rescue</h4>

    After stopping at this Magic Refill Station, Kennard and ambassador Hakanin headed off again.

    The Magic Sedan quickly moved through the Slight Dream Forest. Ambassador Hakanin and Kennard kept talking in the Magic Sedan.

    Compared to the small Magic Dryer, he had ced more interest in the running water and the water system.

    Seeing that he was more focused on the water system, Kennard was a bit surprised.

    Because ambassador Hakanin was usually useless, so Kennard thought that he wouldn¡¯t see that the water system was more important than the small Magic Dryer. He never thought that he would take the initiative to ask about this matter.

    Thinking about it, Kennard decided to seriously consider this.

    ¡°This automatic water system as the name suggests doesn¡¯t need human control and it will supply water to where it is needed automatically. Ambassador Hakanin, you saw its use in supplying water for flushing and washing hands, that is a part of the water system.¡±

    ¡°Oh? This means that if I want water in other ces, like the kitchen, the bathroom, and the garden, it is all possible?¡± Ambassador Hakanin looked very interested.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Kennard nodded, ¡°Actually, the main part of the system is in the water pipes. For example, when you were washing your hand, the pipe that released the water was just a terminal.¡±

    Seeing that ambassador Hakanin was a bit confused, Kennard exined, ¡°This ¡®terminal¡¯ is a concept that our sir chairman has proposed. This ¡®terminal¡¯ refers to the ce where the water is released. For the water system, it is the water faucet.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin nodded in a manner that seemed like he didn¡¯t really understand, ¡°This means that if I want, I can arrange a water system and have watere out in any ce?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then where does the water from the water systeme from? Why does the watere out of the faucets from the pipes?¡±

    Kennard revealed a faint smile, ¡°The water for the water system actuallyes from the prepared reservoir made with the Magic Water Pump. Then it is cleaned by the water filtration facility and then sent into a water tank in a high ce, which then feeds into each pipe.¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s like this......¡± Ambassador Hakanin suddenly understood, ¡°It¡¯s no wonder the water looked so clean, I even felt.....there was no problem directly drinking it.¡±

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s no problem.¡± Kennard revealed a proud smile, ¡°This water system¡¯s filtration system is a secret technique of the elves, it ensures that the water is clean. It is even better than the water people draw from underground wells or the water from rivers.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually a secret technique of the elves?¡± Ambassador Hakanin was a bit surprised, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that the elves were close to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but I never thought that elves would be willing to take out their secret techniques for you. This really is too shocking.¡±

    ¡°There are still many surprises......¡± Kennard secretlyughed in his heart, but he said, ¡°That is only one of the projects that the elves are cooperating on with ourpany, they aren¡¯t giving it to us for free. For example, for this water system, ourpany has to share it with the elves. The elves in the Slight Dream Forest are also using this water system and all the facilities are built by ourpany for them for free.¡±

    ¡°Being able to have the elves cooperate with you is already unbelievable enough.¡± Ambassador Hakanin said. When he was about to ask another question, he saw Kennard knit his brows.

    Ambassador Hakanin was surprised and thought there was an ident. He followed Kennards¡¯ gaze and saw that under a tree in front to the right of the road, there was a person lying there.

    ¡°Stop.¡±

    Kennard said to the driver in front.

    The driver clearly understood Kennard¡¯s intention and stopped by the person lying on the ground.

    Kennard quickly came out of the car and came to the person¡¯s side to look him over. He put his hand on that person¡¯s neck before turning to order the driver, ¡°It seems that he can¡¯t be moved, quickly call the ambnce.¡±

    The driver nodded and took out a small rectangr box from his chest. He pressed a few times on it before saying into the metal box, ¡°Emergency center? I have a serious patient here, please send an ambnce and medical personnel right away. Right, in the Slight Dream Forest, the Stru Road......¡±

    The driver paused and looked around before saying, ¡°Between section four eighty three and four eighty four. Right, right by the road. Please hurry, this person doesn¡¯t look too good.¡±

    After doing this, Kennard seemed to have rxed a bit. But he didn¡¯t understand medicine and couldn¡¯t rashly move this person, so there was nothing he could do.

    Knitting his brows to think, he suddenly thought of something. He reached into his chest and took out a cylinder which he pointed at the sky, opening the lid on it.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    With a soft sound, there was a light green smoke that came out and flew into the sky.

    After around five minutes, there was the sounds of leaf rustling that came from the trees. There were two slender figures that jumped out of the trees.

    Ambassador Hakanin looked over and noticed their sharp ears and perfect faces. They were actually two elves!

    Even if he was an important person in the Candra Empire, ambassador Hakanin had never seen elves in the Candra Empire before. This was the first time in his life that he was seeing real live elves!

    The two elves nodded to Kennard and didn¡¯t ask what was going on because they had already seen that person lying by the road.

    The two elves came to that person¡¯s side and began seriously looking over them. One of the elves released a green light from their hand and tried to use first aid on that person with elven magic. Ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help rubbing his eyes as his face filled with shock.

    The person on the ground was a human!

    When were elves willing to do everything they could to heal a human?

    The two elves should have been summoned by Kennard, which was already enough to surprise ambassador Hakanin. Now that he was seeing these two elves being willing to use magic to save a human, this filled ambassador Hakanin with even more disbelief.

    Could it be.....The rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Stantine Duchy elves had already reached this level?

    With the special treatment magic of the elves, that person was clearly looking better, they were even able to slightly open their eyes.

    But he was still very weak and couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    At this time, there were some loud noises that came from the road in front. It was like there was a strange bird that was getting closer.

    Hearing this sound, whether it was Kennard, the driver, or the two elves, their expressions all rxed.

    After a while, a medium passenger Magic Car that was pure white with two red lines crossed flew across the road and stopped right by Kennard.

    Two middle aged men wearing white robes came out of the car with a stretcher. One of them looked over that person before the two of them lifted that person onto the stretcher. After getting that person in, they got back in the Magic Car and quickly drove off.

    During this process, the two of them had moved very quickly. It was clear that they had done this many times and were very familiar with this.

    As for the people on the side, only Kennard had spoken a few words to them, the rest didn¡¯t say a thing.

    When the Magic Car was gone, the two elves gave Kennard a bow before jumping into the trees, disappearing without a trace.

    Seeing Kennard and the driver return to the Magic Sedan, ambassador Hakanin had a confused look.

    ¡°CEO Kennard, since you wanted to save that person, why didn¡¯t you follow through to the end? Why didn¡¯t you find a doctor and make sure he got better?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already handed him to the emergency center, the people there will take care of the rest, I don¡¯t need to do anything.¡± Kennard replied.

    ¡°What is this emergency center?¡± Ambassador Hakanin was even more confused, ¡°Could it be that it is specially used to save people?¡±

    ¡°Yes, this was something that sir chairman specially allocated funds for. Right now there are a total of eight emergency centers in the Stantine Duchy, spread across the entire duchy. Sir chairman said that this is far from enough, ording to the ns, there has to be at least a hundred emergency centers in the duchy.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin was a bit stunned, ¡°How much money does that cost? I saw that you didn¡¯t even give them any money, could it be that this emergency center is a public service?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a public service.¡± Kennard shook his head with a smile, ¡°Although ording to sir chairman¡¯s rules, these emergency centers had to treat urgent patients first, they still need to collect fees. Normally if others are sent there for treatment, they would also have to pay.¡±

    ¡°Then the medical fees for that person just now......¡±

    ¡°I told them to put it on my ount for now.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ount, what difference is there from no fees?¡± Ambassador Hakanin criticized in his heart, but he praised with a smile, ¡°CEO Kennard, you really are generous.¡±

    Kennardughed, ¡°This is too much praise.¡±

    Seeing that Kennard didn¡¯t care at all, ambassador Hakanin felt doubt in his heart.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce setting up these emergency centers should be like thosepanies in the Candra Empire giving the poor food or clothes, it was considered charity.

    He didn¡¯t doubt the intentions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he doubted the things he saw.

    First was the close rtionship between the elves and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    From the water system to how close Kennard was with those elves, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t just simply close to the elves.

    Next.....there was that small metal box the driver had taken out.

    Why had he said a few words and the Magic Car for treatment had rushed over?

    That small box, just what kind of strange thing was it?

    Ambassador Hakanin found that the more contact he had with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the more surprises they brought him.

    What kind of surprise would he encounter after meeting chairman Xu again?

 Volume 5 3 - Red light stop, green light go

    <h4>Red light stop, green light go</h4>

    The Magic Sedan quickly drove forward and after around half an hour, they finally left the Slight Light Forest.

    The giant trees on both sides fell behind them and the front opened up, revealing a vast in.

    Ambassador Hakanin looked forward and his eyes couldn¡¯t help being attracted by the rows of tall buildings in front.

    Although they were still very far, ambassador Hakanin could easily tell that these houses were like pirs above the ground, being at least over twenty meters tall.

    The tallest among them was even over thirty meters!

    Such high buildings were rare even in the Candra Empire.

    For ambassador Hakanin, the only thing that he had seen that had reached this shocking height was the Candra Empire¡¯s imperial pce.

    Other than this, only the Sacred Light Church¡¯s cathedral was this tall.

    However, the Candra Imperial Pce and the Sacred Light Church¡¯s cathedral were the two most important buildings in the Candra Empire. They could be built that high because they had gathered a shocking amount of manpower toplete it.

    But in front of ambassador Hakanin now, looking over it, there were over ten buildings that reached this shocking height.

    As the Magic Sedan approached those tall buildings, ambassador Hakanin could see several construction sites and there were tall buildings being built there.

    Even though they hadn¡¯t been finished, ambassador Hakanin was certain that once these buildings were finished, they wouldn¡¯t be any shorter than the surrounding buildings.

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at these tall buildings in a daze and he couldn¡¯t help asking Kennard, ¡°These tall buildings were built by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°No, we just invested in them. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce were the ones who built them.¡± Kennard said with a faint smile.

    Ambassador Hakanin swallowed a mouthful of saliva with great difficulty.

    The Candre Empire¡¯s imperial pce had cost a total of seven million gold coins to build and the Sacred Light Church¡¯s cathedral had cost a shocking ten million gold coins.

    Although the buildings in front of him couldn¡¯tpare to those two, being able to build such tall buildings meant the Frestech Chamber of Commerce must have spent quite a bit.

    ording to the meaning in Kennard¡¯s words, all of the buildings in front of him were all built with investments from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.....actually this rich?

    Kennard saw Ambassador Hakanin¡¯s face and knew that he must have misunderstood something. He said with a smile, ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, how much do you think this kind of tall building costs?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin narrowed his eyes to look at the gradually approaching tall buildings and after calcting for a bit, he said in an uncertain voice, ¡°At least.....At least two million gold coins, right?¡±

    This number was purposefully lowered by ambassador Hakanin. The real estimate in his heart was that for such a tall building, it would cost at least four million gold coins to build this.

    However, hearing his answer, Kennard shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Your excellency ambassador, if each building costs two million gold coins, it would cost at least thirty million gold coins for ourpany to build a total of seventeen buildings. Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s revenue is considered good, it hasn¡¯t reached that level yet.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin felt the same, so he immediately asked, ¡°Then how much is it for each building?¡±

    Kennard stretched out four fingers.

    ¡°It is around four hundred thousand gold coins on average per building.¡±

    ¡°Only four hundred thousand?¡±

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact he was sitting in a Magic Sedan, ambassador Hakanin would have jumped up in shock.

    This number was just too unexpected for thim.

    A building that could reach the clouds, it only cost four hundred thousand gold coins to build!

    This was too little!

    Kennard looked at ambassador Hakanin¡¯s shocked face with a smile. If this matter could catch ambassador Hakanin¡¯s attention and he spread it to the Candra Empire, it would greatly help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    When chairman Cruise heard of this, he would definitely thank him.

    Of course, this was prepared by sir chairman ahead of time. If chairman Cruise really wanted to thank someone, he should thank sir chairman first.

    But in the end, using reinforced concrete to build such tall buildings was something sir chairman had taught the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for sir chairman having no interest in the construction business, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have a chance.

    The Magic Sedan continued forward and soon they were quite close to those tall buildings.

    As they came closer, looking up at those tall buildings, people would find them grand.

    Ambassador Hakanin stuck his head out the window and wanted to take a good look at the buildings, but the lively scene in front of him had captured his attention.

    The region the tall buildings were in didn¡¯t just have these tall buildings.

    Under these tall buildings, there were roads that spread all over andpletely connected this area.

    Each area had only a single tall building and around the tall buildings, there were houses of various different styles. Among them, there were even tree houses that had the style of the elves.

    These houses of different styles surrounded the tall buildings and by one side of the road, there were a row of stores that were open.

    Looking at it, one could see a variety of products in the store that was quite dazzling.

    No matter which side of the road it was, whether it was the stores or the sea of people, this area was very lively.

    There were many peopleing in and out of the store on the street. One could see dwarves and elves from time to time, even seeing strange and fierce looking beastmen of various races.

    In ambassador Hakanin¡¯s knowledge, races other than humans bore grudges towards humans and rarely peacefully coexisted with them.

    Especially the brutal beastmen, there were even those that ate humans.

    But in this ce, whether it was the dwarves, the elves, or the strange looking beastmen, they all lived harmoniously with the humans. There wasn¡¯t a single sign of hostility at all.

    Ambassador Hakanin could even see in the crowds that there were humans walking with different races.

    They walked together whileughing, like they were old friends, creating a warm atmosphere.

    Ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh, ¡°I already heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could let other races coexist with humans, but I wasn¡¯t willing to believe it before seeing it. Now that I¡¯ve seen it......I really have to praise chairman Xu¡¯s abilities.¡±

    Kennard gave augh. Not mentioning sir chairman¡¯s other abilities, just his ability to build rtionships with other races was not something anyone else could match.

    Otherwise, how could the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe be willing to deliver elven beauties to sir chairman¡¯s side?

    Even the proud elves did this, so there was no need to mention the beastmen.

    It¡¯s said that the number one beauty of the fox tribe, miss Avril adored sir chairman, iming that she would marry no one else.

    The other beastmen beauties who dered the same were too many to count.

    As for the dwarves.....there was no choice, they really didn¡¯t conform with the human¡¯s sense of beauty, so no one would think of that.

    Thinking of how sir chairman was helpless when he was surrounded by beauties of the other races, Kennard couldn¡¯t help revealing a happy smile. He then said to the driver, ¡°Turn left in front, go to the race track.¡±

    ¡°Race track?¡± Ambassador Hakanin heard this new terminology and immediately asked about it. But the car trembled and didn¡¯t turn left as Kennard ordered as it stopped.

    Kennard looked up and was about to ask about this, but he noticed what was happening in front and nodded, ¡°It¡¯s a red light, then let¡¯s wait.¡±

    ¡°Red light?¡± Ambassador Hakanin was even more confused. He looked forward following Kennard¡¯s gaze and found that at the intersection in front, there was a tall pir that was around four meters off the ground. There was a box that was atop it and there were three Magic Arrays on that box.

    The leftmostmp was currently shining, letting out a red glow.

    There was one medium passenger Magic Car and two Magic Sedans currently in front of them, all waiting at the intersection. They were all watching the cars that were passing on the other road.

    Seeing this strange scene, ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°This is the red light? What does it mean?¡±

    ¡°Red light stop, green light go, that is the basic trafficw here. Ambassador Hakanin, I hope that you can remember this. If youe here in the future, please follow thisw.¡± Kennard exined with a faint smile.

    ¡°Red light stop? Green light go? This......¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin had more to ask, but the green light on the Magic Lamp above the intersection flickered. After a while, the green light disappeared and the yellow light on the right hand side lit up. Ambassador Hakanin saw that the Magic Cars that were about to cross slowed down.

    After a bit, the middle Magic Lamp lit up and it was green.

    The three cars in front began moving and the Magic Sedan they were in also moved, turning left at the intersection.

    Ambassador Hakanin turned back to look at the intersection behind him and he couldn¡¯t help feeling it was strange.

    Although this rule was very strange, as long as everyone followed it, it would make intersections systematic and not chaotic.

    Of course, there was no need for this in other ces.

    Because other than this ce, there were no other ces that had this many Magic Cars driving around.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, sir chairman is currently waiting for your presence at the race track. As a wee, sir chairman will be watching a car race with you.¡±

    Kennard¡¯s voice pulled ambassador Hakanin back from his thoughts.

    ¡°Car race?¡± Ambassador Hakanin slightly knit his brows, but he didn¡¯t keep asking.

    Since arriving in the Stantine Duchy, he had seen many new things that always seemed novel to him.

    If he asked too much, he couldn¡¯t help feeling like a farmer that had juste in from the countryside and was too inexperienced.

    So he closed his mouth and patiently waited to watch.

 Volume 5 4 - Using a road to connect the Candra Empire

    <h4>Using a road to connect the Candra Empire</h4>

    After around twenty minutes, the Magic Sedan carrying Kennard and ambassador Hakanin left the small town,ing to an empty space that was around ten kilometers south of that town.

    There was a fence that had surrounded therge space and there were sounds that came from the distance.

    Other than this circle, there was arge stretch of opennd where there were all different colours of Magic Sedans, medium passenger Magic Cars, as well as various horse carriages.

    Seeing these horse carriages, there was a familiar feeling that came from ambassador Hakanin¡¯s heart.

    After entering the Stantine Duchy and seeing all those things that he had never heard of before, it made him feel like he had entered another world.

    Seeing these familiar horse carriages, he felt like he was still on the Sines Continent. It wasn¡¯t that after he came down from the cliff, he had entered a new world.

    There was arge crowd gathered outside the empty area and they all entered the area that was surrounded.

    They all had excited looks on their faces, as if there was something they really cared about here.

    What ambassador Hakanin didn¡¯t expect was that his Magic Sedan didn¡¯t park in the same ce as the other Magic Sedans. It went around a curve and drove through an open gate in the back.

    After getting out, ambassador Hakanin realized that he waspletely wrong outside.

    This wasn¡¯t just a simple fence, it was aplete thick building.

    When he came in, it was like entering a cave that waspletely dark.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the light in front of him, he even would have thought that Kennard had brought him to some secret ce.

    With Kennard leading the way, the two entered the door on the side and walked a long path to arrive at arge gate.

    When Kennard pulled it open, there was a loud sound that came from inside that scared ambassador Hakanin.

    When he calmed down, he found that he had somehow walked outside.

    Looking around, he found that he was on a high stage and there were stairs all around him.

    The stairs were filled with people. The highest ce was less than ten meters off the ground and the lowest was only two meters off the ground.

    ¡°So this thing that looks like a fence from outside is actually a viewing tform.¡± Ambassador Hakanin looked over this building that was like the beast arenas that was all over the Candra Empire with curious eyes, but was countless times bigger. He thought that it must cost at least three million gold coins to build something like this.

    But when he thought about how Kennard had said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only invested four hundred thousand gold coins for each of those tall buildings, he didn¡¯t feel certain.

    At this time, there was a familiar voice that came from in front of him.

    ¡°Hey, dear ambassador Hakanin, wee to the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin turned back and he found that Xu Yi had appeared at an unknown time in front of him.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve finally met you.¡± Ambassador Hakanin came forward with a wide smile, taking Xu Yi into a warm hug.

    If one looked at their current appearance, who would have thought that they almost broke out in a fight in their first meeting?

    ¡°Your excellency ambassador,ing from Caraca City that is over a thousand kilometers away, it must have been very hard, right?¡± Xu Yi invited ambassador Hakanin to sit down on the cushioned seats while asking this with a smile.

    ¡°No, no, no, it wasn¡¯t hard at all.¡± Ambassador Hakanin shook his head with a smile, ¡°This road is the smoothest road I¡¯ve taken and I was sitting in the mostfortable Magic Sedan, it only took a single day toe here. Compared to the half a month it took toe to Caraca City from our Candra Empire, it was countless times better.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Isn¡¯t it only three thousand kilometers to go from the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City to Caraca City? It wouldn¡¯t take half a month, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Ambassador Hakanin knit his brows to look at Xu Yi. Seeing his confused look, he didn¡¯t know if this fellow did it on purpose or not.

    ¡°This.....Ke, chairman Xu, there isn¡¯t a road that connects Wimbledon City to Caraca City. Moreover, I was riding a horse carriage the entire way, how could it be as fast as the Magic Sedan?¡±

    ¡°Oh, right.¡± Xu Yi patted his head, looking like he suddenly understood. After thinking about it, he continued, ¡°Alright, to make your excellency ambassador¡¯s future trip more easy and to wee your excellency ambassador to the Stantine Duchy, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give you the newest Magic Sedan model from ourpany. What do you think about that?¡±

    ¡°Really? That is great!¡± Ambassador Hakanin was filled with joy.

    After the trip from Caraca City in this Magic Sedan, of course he realized that this Magic Sedan was countless times morefortable than the horse carriages.

    Although he had seen this in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s store in Caraca City and he had seen countless Rudson Kingdom nobles buy the Frestech Brand Magic Sedan, ambassador Hakanin had always looked down on it. He thought thatpared to the noble horse carriage, the Magic Sedan was only a piece of iron, there wasn¡¯t any nobility to it at all.

    But now that he had experienced riding in the Magic Sedan, he immediately found that his prejudice against it waspletely stupid.

    If he didn¡¯t use such afortable vehicle and insisted on riding this horse carriage that shattered his butt, how could he keepining?

    So he had already nned on buying a Magic Sedan when he returned to Caraca City, but he never thought that Xu Yi would take the initiative to give him one, which really was a pleasant surprise.

    At the current market value, a normal Frestech Brand Magic Sedan cost over eight hundred gold coins. But for atest model Frestech Brand Magic Sedan, one couldn¡¯t get one for less than two thousand gold coins.

    After being happy for a bit, ambassador Hakanin suddenly thought of a problem and his face turned stiff.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Seeing the change in his expression, Xu Yi asked this.

    Ambassador Hakanin shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, even if you give me a Magic Sedan, I won¡¯t be able to drive it back to our Candra Empire. Because.....in the three thousand kilometers between Caraca City and Wimbledon City, there are only public roads in the Rudson Kingdom and the Mirando Duchy. As for the other roads.....¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin shook his head. The Magic Sedan could only run fast on the public roads, they weren¡¯t much better than the horse carriages on bumpy rock roads.

    As if he could see ambassador Hakanin¡¯s thoughts, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency ambassador, as for this, I¡¯ve already considered it. The Magic Sedan that I¡¯m giving you this time is the newest one developed by ourpany, it is a high quality Magic Sedan equipped with cross country functionality. Moreover, this new Magic Sedan has the Wind Magic Cushion system that ourpany had developed, so it can make it feel not as bumpy on roads that aren¡¯t as smooth. I guarantee that you will like it.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at Xu Yi in surprise, as he didn¡¯t believe it.

    The Magic Sedans were this powerful? They could actually drive across broken roads?

    Xu Yi guessed his thoughts, but he didn¡¯t exin. After pausing, he said, ¡°Of course, no matter how good the Magic Sedans are, it can¡¯tpare to changing the roads. Your excellency ambassador, the proposal that I had before about building a road to connect the Mirando Duchy and Wimbledon City, have you raised it to the emperor?¡±

    Hearing this question, ambassador Hakanin was shocked before he said with a nod, ¡°I¡¯ve mentioned it and his majesty is very interested. But there is a bit of a problem that needs to be solved. There are three countries between the Mirando Duchy and Wimbledon City, so to build a road, we have to pass through those three countries.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as your Candra Empire speaks, those three countries definitely won¡¯t oppose you.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Ambassador Hakanin said with a proud look, ¡°Those three small countries wouldn¡¯t dare go against the will of our Candra Empire. But chairman Xu, his majesty isn¡¯t certain that building a road rashly is a good thing. He wants to see what kind of benefits the roads can bring before making a decision, so.....¡±

    ¡°So you want us to go to the Candra Empire to build a road?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°His majesty¡¯s thoughts are correct, but building roads is unrted to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It¡¯s done by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so your excellency ambassador will have to discuss this with them.¡±

    ¡°I think the Amrit Chamber of Commerce definitely won¡¯t reject our Candra Empire¡¯s invitation.¡± Ambassador Hakanin said with a confident smile, ¡°Other than this, as for the magic machines that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces, especially the military magic machines, the emperor is interested, so he hopes that......¡±

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    There was suddenly a loud sound that stopped ambassador Hakanin¡¯s words.

    There were deafening cheers that came from the crowd and as the voice swept forth, it made ambassador Hakanin unable to say anything or even hear anything.

    Ambassador Hakanin saw Xu Yi open his mouth and Xu Yi¡¯s words clearly entered his ears.

    ¡°Your excellency ambassador, let¡¯s discuss this matterter. As for now, let¡¯s focus on watching thepetition.¡±

    Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, ambassador Hakanin was shocked.

    Being able to send his voice clearly to his ears in this environment, unless he used his powerful aura to do so or using the Spatial Magic at the Great Magician level, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to do this.

    Xu Yi was not a powerful martial arts practitioner because everyone knew that he was a magician.

    But.....But he could actually use Spatial Magic to this degree.

    Could it be.....he was already a Great Magician?

 Volume 5 5 - Taking away slave identity

    <h4>Taking away ve identity</h4>

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Still immediately carried the sobering soup that she had prepared over.

    ¡°How did the discussion go with ambassador Hakanin?¡± Still asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi took the sobering soup and took a sip, feeling the dizziness in his head get much better.

    Ambassador Hakanin had no other skills, but his alcohol capacity was terrifying.

    Xu Yi always thought that his tolerance was good, he could even keep up with the dwarves that viewed alcohol as their life. He never thought that when he was facing ambassador Hakanin at noon, he had beenpletely defeated and was almost brought down by him.

    Of course, because he minimized his social events and controlled the number of times he drank,

    ¡°It¡¯s alright.¡± Xu Yi replied with a nod, ¡°There are many nobles andrge merchants of the Candra Empire who are interested in ourpany¡¯s magic machines. This time ambassador Hakanin was only helping them test these rumours, but there should be representatives from many Candra Empirepanies who wille to discuss with us.¡±

    ¡°Un......I already said it, the magic machines are so easy to use and are so novel, the people of the Candra Empire will definitely wee them. This was proven by the surrounding countries.¡± Still said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yiughed as he thought that he never doubted this.

    But based on the information from ambassador Hakanin, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family has already noticed the military magic machines and has shown some interest.

    But based on ambassador Hakanin¡¯s attitude, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family¡¯s understanding of military magic machine shouldn¡¯t be too deep, so they are only a bit interested. They aren¡¯t too deeply invested, so they aren¡¯t that interested.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, it was not the time for the military magic machines to spread across the continent.

    Because if the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire were to set their eyes on the military magic machines, it would be hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to guard them with their current strength.

    If the two empires set their eyes on the technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might bring a cmity upon themselves.

    So when he was talking to ambassador Hakanin, Xu Yi had been very vague when talking about the military magic machines, trying to lower their uses as much as possible.

    Xu Yi was very happy that the Candra Empire had sent this ambassador Hakanin who had only gotten this job from his rtive, otherwise it would have been too hard to fool him, making the Candra Empire turn their eyes away from the military magic machines for now.

    Other than the military magic machines, Xu Yi¡¯s response was very satisfying.

    Ambassador Hakanin wanted some magic machines to bring back to the nobles and merchants of the Candra Empire and Xu Yi immediately agreed.

    And perhaps ambassador Hakanin had received some ideas from the nobles and merchants, he suggested that he buy some household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which Xu Yi agreed to. He said that with his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he would give ambassador Hakanin a preferential price for these household magic machines.

    So ambassador Hakanin was filled with and their discussion went very well.

    After hesitating a bit, Xu Yi took the moist towel from Still¡¯s hands and wiped his face.

    It was already summer now and with the ice cold water on his face, Xu Yi felt invigorated.

    Seeing Xu Yi forcing himself to focus, Still slightly knit her brows.

    ¡°Look at you, how about you don¡¯t go this afternoon?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, the ceremony this afternoon is very important, I have to personally attend.¡±

    Still gave a sigh and didn¡¯t try convincing him any longer.

    She was clear how important the ceremony this afternoon was and was very clear on the importance that Xu Yi had attached to it.

    ¡°Then rest up first, I¡¯ll get Agnes toe over.¡±

    ¡°Agnes?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, but he saw that Still was already gone.

    Xu Yi was stunned. Seeing that it was still early, he was toozy to go back to the bedroom and went to the patio beside the cliff, lying down in a deck chair.

    Although it was the first month of summer, with the patio on the cliff facing the sea, with the sea breezeing in from time to time, it was veryfortable lying in the shade.

    After a while, Xu Yi fell asleep.

    He didn¡¯t know how long he had slept for, but Xu Yi suddenly woke up.

    Looking at the sun above the sea, Xu Yi estimated that it was still not two in the afternoon yet, but it wasn¡¯t that long before the ceremony started. Xu Yi rubbed his face before standing up.

    When he stood up, he felt a sharp paining from his head.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh.

    Having a headache after drinking was unavoidable. Even if he was a Great Magician now, he wasn¡¯t able to do anything about this.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you awake?¡±

    Still¡¯s voice came from behind him.

    Xu Yi turned over and found Still and Agensing out of the room together.

    ¡°I was about to wake you, the ceremony is about to begin.¡± Still quickly pulled Agnes out and gave Agnes a look.

    Agnes stretched her hands out towards his head and Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    ¡°Making you feel better.¡± Agnes revealed a bright smile as she had already put her hands on the sides of Xu Yi¡¯s head.

    After a while, Xu Yi felt the magic fluctuationsing from Agnes and there was a cool feeling from the hands on his head. It slowly permeated across his scalp and he could feel his headache being relieved.

    After continuing for around two minutes, didn¡¯t feel any headache at all and he waspletely filled with energy.

    ¡°What kind of magic is this?¡± Xu Yi was shocked.

    Agnes giggled, looking very proud.

    ¡°This is one of our elf race¡¯s special Mental Spell, the Mind Gathering Spell which can let your mind return to normal.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this amazing?¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh.

    The elves really were the most ancient race in this world, they always had knowledge that other races didn¡¯t have and it was the same with magic.

    Mental Spells were still in the beginning phase of research for humans, but based on the spell that Agnes just used, it was clear that the elves had deep knowledge in terms of Mental Magic.

    ¡°How is it? Do you feel better?¡± Agnes asked with a smile.

    ¡°Un, much better.¡± Seeing the proud look on Agnes¡¯ face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help reaching out to pinch her nose, ¡°Such useful magic, you have to find some time to teach me.¡±

    Agnes was stunned, looking a bit awkward, ¡°This is a secret that we elves don¡¯t pass......¡±

    Seeing the awkward look on Agnes¡¯ face, Xu Yiughed and patted her shoulder, ¡°Since it¡¯s a secret that isn¡¯t passed, then forget it. If I want to learn this, I¡¯ll just ask elder Illusia about it and try to get her to agree.¡±

    ¡°Un, the elder might agree......¡± Agnes wasn¡¯t too certain.

    ¡°Then I¡¯ll talk about it when Ie back, I¡¯m leaving first.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and bid the two of them farewell.

    When he took two steps, Still¡¯s call came from behind him.

    ¡°Xu Yi,e back a bit earlier today, alright? I¡¯m leaving tomorrow......¡±

    Xu Yi reached his hand out and made an ¡°ok¡± sign.

    Still already learned about this hand sign a long time ago, she nodded with a faint smile.

    When Xu Yi came through the manor and came to the front yard, she saw Liz and Linda bouncing with Freya into the front door.

    Seeing the slightly curved bellies that Liz and Linda had, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Liz and Linda had been with him for two years and nothing had happened before. The new year had juste and both of them had be pregnant.

    Still sticking closer to him during this time and even hoping that he would spend the night with her was probably because of stimtion from Liz and Linda.

    That was right, he and Still had been married for four years and Freya was three years old now, but there wasn¡¯t anything that happened with Still. It was no wonder she was anxious.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, do you want to go and y with dad?¡± Xu Yi picked up Freya who charged over and asked her this.

    ¡°Alright! I want to go!¡± Freya said in a loud and happy voice.

    Liz and Linda who came over were stunned before quickly saying, ¡°Master, don¡¯t you have an important ceremony in the afternoon? Why are you bringing Freya along? Let us take care of Freya.¡±

    Hearing their words, Freya¡¯s eyes opened wide as she looked at Xu Yi with an expectant look.

    She was already three years old and could understand the world. She knew that her father had the highest authority in their house, so he would make the final decision.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯ll bring her along. Freya is getting older, she should participate in some matters of ourpany. After all, she will have to participate after getting older, it is normal to let others get to know our little Freya.¡±

    Liz and Linda looked at each other before nodding.

    ording to the announcement Xu Yi made when Freya was born three years ago, Freya was Xu Yi¡¯s current heir. ording to the tradition of the Sines Continent, Freya would take Xu Yi¡¯s ce after growing up, bing the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to tradition, Freya might even be their new master.

    Xu Yi looked over their bellies again before suddenly saying, ¡°Right, Liz, Linda, I already handed in an application to the congress, hoping that they can remove your ve status. If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to get rid of this status soon.¡±

    Liz and Linda were stunned before being filled with joy.

    ¡°Really?¡± The two covered their mouths in excitement as their faces filled with disbelief.

    On the Sines Continent, once they became ves, it was almost impossible for them to stand up again.

    Because the ve owner had absolute rights over the ve, they even had the right to kill them at all. So in the eyes of most people, ves were no different from domesticated animals.

    Liz and Linda had been ves since they were young, they never expected to ever lose this identity.

    Being able to have a master like Xu Yi that could treat them fairly and even being able to give birth to Xu Yi¡¯s child was already enough to make them feel very satisfied with their lives.

    But they never thought that Xu Yi would actually get rid of their ve status! Moreover, he even handed an application to the congress!

    On the Sines Continent, this behaviour was simply a challenge to tradition!

    Seeing the certain look in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, Liz and Linda couldn¡¯t help feeling excitement and joy as tears came out at the same time.

    Of course Xu Yi understood the excitement in their hearts. He revealed a smile and continued, ¡°You two are pregnant now, it isn¡¯t good to move like before. I¡¯ve already talked to Still and she¡¯ll find some more servants to take some of your work, you can just rest.¡±

    Liz and Linda were so happy that they couldn¡¯t say anything, they could only sob as they nodded.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile before picking Freya up. He let her ride on his neck and he walked out of the manor.

    Liz and Linda watched as Xu YI walked away, as their vision became blurred from their tears.

 Volume 5 6 - Heading out to sea

    <h4>Heading out to sea</h4>

    It was a sunny day today.

    The sea breeze was warm in the beginning of summer. Coming from the sea, there was a moist atmosphere by the sea, which made people want to lie down and sleep.

    Xu Yi shook his head and threw away the sleepiness.

    Today was the first day the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet was heading out to sea. It was a very important departure ceremony, he couldn¡¯t miss it.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are you alright?¡± Narvil on the side saw Xu Yi¡¯s actions and asked this in a worried voice.

    ¡°I¡¯m fine.¡± Xu Yi took a deep breath, taking in the air that had the scent of the sea.

    Although he did feel a bit disgusted, his mind felt a bit more clear.

    Turning over to look at Narvil who waspletely tanned, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Narvil who had been named themander of the first open sea exploration fleet was very excited. He had been spending every day on the Unfolding Wings, as well as the ¡°Morning Sun¡± and ¡°Goddess of Victory Iris¡± which had just been built this year, so he was already burnt ck.

    ¡°Is everything prepared?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Un, everything is prepared!¡± Narvil gave a strong nod, ¡°We can head out at any time!¡±

    ¡°Good, the ceremony can officially start then.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, walking to the stage that was prepared on the beach.

    Because of this ceremony, there were many people already gathered on the beach. Most of them were Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff and the rest were people who hade to see what the noise was about, as well as people who had received the news and hade from other countries.

    As for on the stage, there was the envoy that the Rudson Kingdom had sent, which was Newman.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first open sea voyage¡¯s destination was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s biggest southern port city, Nissi City.

    On these threerge Magic Boats were arge batch of magic machines that were being transported to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Although ording to the navigational estimates, this journey would take half a month, which would be much slower than taking the Stru Road which would only take two days, the threerge Magic Boats had a shocking load of over fifteen thousand tons!

    Right now, the maximum load of therge transport Magic Cars was only twenty tons. For a single trip for these three Magic Boats, it would be equal to seven hundred and fifty trips for therge transport Magic Cars, which was much more efficient.

    Moreover, because the Magic Boats were travelling by sea, it had a great advantagepared to therge transport Magic Cars that travelled by road when it came to energy consumption.

    For this roundway trip, ording to the calctions of the magic research facility, they would only need to use a hundred tons of refined high concentration Magic Crystal, which cost no more than twenty thousand gold coins.

    For therge transport Magic Cars, even taking the most convenient Stru Road, it would cost fifty gold coins of refined high concentration Magic Crystal for a round trip.

    With seven hundred and fifty trips, this would cost thirty seven thousand and five hundred gold coins, which was almost two times that of the sea transport.

    The most important thing was that to transport fifteen thousand tons of goods would take many trips, which would create more traffic for the Stru Road.

    Of course,nd travel was much shorter and wasn¡¯t limited by ports, so it wasn¡¯tpletely dominated by sea transport.

    Xu Yi came onto the stage and exchanged a smile with Newman before announcing the beginning of the ceremony.

    This fleetunching ceremony followed the normal flow, with Xu Yi introducing the fleet and its uses, telling people what powerful significance this fleet had. Then he had Newman express how the Rudson Kingdom also ced significance on this journey on behalf of the Rudson Kingdom.

    After that, Narvil came up to give a speech representing the fleet. He told everyone his excitement, while excitedly telling everyone that he would do his best to lead this fleet, working hard to create this sea path for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After the thunderous apuse, Xu Yi came up to the stage again and announced the fleet would set off.

    Everyone turned to the Frestech Harbour by the sea.

    The Unfolding Wings, the Morning Sun, and the Goddess of Victory Iris were already waiting at the dock and everything had been prepared.

    Narvil took the scepter from Xu Yi¡¯s hand which represented controlling rights and boarded a newly developed Convertible Magic Sedan, heading off towards the wharf.

    When he got on the Unfolding Wings, there were many fireworks that exploded on the beach. It created many dazzling disys of magic,pletely lighting up the beach.

    Then the three giant Magic Ships let out giant roars and the threerge Magic Cannons loaded on them let out a round of shells.

    The Unfolding Wings trembled and began to slowly leave the dock.

    When the Unfolding Wings had fully left, the Morning Sun and the Goddess of Victory Iris followed behind it.

    The three Magic Ships moved slow at first, but they gradually sped up as they moved further from the coast. Not long after, they turned into three ck dots on the sea, disappearing into the sea.

    Xu Yi looked away from the sea and let out a soft breath.

    ¡°You¡¯re very worried?¡± Newman on the side asked with a smile.

    ¡°It would be fake if I said I wasn¡¯t worried.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°After all, this is ourpany¡¯s first open sea voyage and this first trip is over two thousand kilometers, it would be strange if there weren¡¯t any idents.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to fear if there are idents.¡± Newman on the other hand looked very confident, ¡°These three ships are much stronger than any wooden boat. Even the small wooden boats of the Stantine Duchy could reach our Rudson Kingdom¡¯s sea, how could these three boats not reach it?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There are many unpredictable things on the sea. Although we have prepared for everything, I will always worry about things that we can¡¯t predict.¡±

    ¡°That is not something that we can care about, right?¡± Newman gave a shrug, ¡°Anyway, all the preparations were done, so the rest must be left to them.¡±

    Xu YI was silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°Un, this is me being swayed by losses and gains, I should be confident in them.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it.¡± Newman patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder with a smile.

    Xu Yi also smiled. He thought that he would always be more worried than Newman because although these three Magic Boats seemed like first ss boats on the Sines Continent, they couldn¡¯tpare to the ones on earth.

    The ones on earth had high tech equipment, as well as GPS satellites that could help locate them if anything happened at sea. These Magic Boats that were farcking naturally would have idents happen.

    Of course, this was because Xu Yi viewed the problem from a different angle from Newman.

    From Newman¡¯s angle, these three Magic Boats were much stronger than the simple wooden boats, so it was impossible for anything to happen.

    ¡°Right, speaking of idents on the sea.....Actually, on the seas between the Stantine Duchy and our Rudson Kingdom, there are many pirates......¡± After saying half of this, Newman suddenly revealed a smile of self ridicule and shook his head, ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t need to worry about this. If I¡¯m not wrong, you must have provided arge amount of military magic machines to those three boats, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and didn¡¯t reply.

    Newman revealed a smile of understanding and didn¡¯t keep asking.

    Those three Magic Boats disappeared into the depths of the sea, so naturally the ceremony was over.

    Xu Yi invited Newman to his manor as a guest.

    Newman making a special trip here was of course not just as simple as attending this ceremony.

    He had also brought the decree of King Teruc.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, his majesty wants to deepen the rtionship between our Rudson Kingdom and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he hopes that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can invest more in our kingdom. ording to the stats, right now your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested in thirty seven household magic machine factories which isn¡¯t a small number. Butpared to the one hundred and forty three household magic machine factories that you¡¯ve invested in in the Lampuri Kingdom, this is arge difference.¡± Newman said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course this can¡¯tpare. The Lampuri Kingdom is where our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was established, ourpany has the deepest foundations there, so naturally we¡¯ll establish the most factories there.¡±

    Newman nodded, ¡°Un, this is something that his majesty can understand, but his majesty feels that since our kingdom is supporting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce more than the Lampuri Kingdom, why doesn¡¯t chairman Xu consider investing more in our Rudson Kingdom? You have to know.....your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has paid over a million gold coins in taxes in our kingdom, so there¡¯s no need for me to mention the profits......¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°I know that his majesty Teruc is greatly supporting ourpany and I am also very grateful. As for increasing investment in your Rudson Kingdom, I always had this n. ording to pour ns, in the second half of the year, we will be investing over two million gold coins in your Rudson Kingdom and have already reached agreements with twenty sixpanies in your kingdom......¡±

    ¡°That is far from enough.¡± Newman suddenly cut off Xu Yi and he stared right at him, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should be able to guess my meaning already. The cooperation that his majesty is speaking of is other than the household magic machines, the more important thing.....is the military magic machines.¡±

 Volume 5 7 - The Rudson Kingdomâ€™s request

    <h4>The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s request</h4>

    After hearing Newman¡¯s words, Xu Yi fell silent.

    If possible, he wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to control all of the military magic machine technology, not revealing anything at all.

    Because only then could he keep his advantage in terms of power, controlling the entire situation.

    But he was clear in his heart that whether it was in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war or when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce defeated Duke Wein working with the Sack Kingdom, with the incredible might of the military magic machines, it was impossible for them to not reveal anything at all.

    The Candra Empire was several thousand kilometers away andmunication technologies weren¡¯t too developed on the Sines Continent, so they didn¡¯t have much details on the two wars that revealed the might of the military magic machines. So the Cndra Empire was only interested in it, but they weren¡¯t obsessed with it, so Xu Yi could conceal it from ambassador Hakanin easily.

    However, the Rudson Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom were neighbours with the Stantine Duchy and there were many rtions between them. Of course they knew the details of these two wars and naturally had a deep understanding of the might of the military magic machines.

    The Rudson Kingdom being interested in the military magic machines was something that would eventually happen, Xu Yi had already predicted it.

    And ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, he was already preparing to give part of the military magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom.

    The only problem was how much to give them.

    After a bit of silence, Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°Which type of military magic machine is his majesty interested in?¡±

    ¡°All of them.¡± Newman stretched his arm out and said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, his majesty hopes to gain all of the military magic machine technology.¡±

    ¡°That is impossible.¡± Xu Yi directly rejected him, ¡°As for the military magic machines, there are many things that ourpany is currently researching, so it¡¯s impossible to transfer. Moreover......To be a bit impolite, even if we did give it over, your Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to make the corresponding military magic machines.¡±

    Newmanughed, not caring about Xu Yi¡¯s words at all.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a problem. As long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to cooperate, I think that we will grasp it.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Newman, making military magic machines requires the support of aplete system, that doesn¡¯t mean that you¡¯ll be able to make it even if ourpany gives you the technology. Even if you have the technological base, you don¡¯t have the foundations when ites to people and materials, so it is impossible for you to make these military magic machines.¡±

    Newman looked at Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and he didn¡¯t look away at all.

    He was telling the truth.

    The Rudson Kingdom had only been cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for less than two years, their magic machine industry was still weak. To this point, the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t even make a single Magic Fan, how could they grasp the military magic machines that had a much higher technological requirement?

    Newman was silent for a bit before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I won¡¯t hide the truth. The reason why his majesty is this interested in military magic machines is actually because of the Lampuri Kingdom......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a look of understanding.

    Newman was actually being direct.

    Compared to the Rudson Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom was already working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and were able to grasp some lower tier military magic machines. Moreover, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army received arge number of Magic Repeating Crossbows and a small portion of Magic Bazookas which had increased their battle strength.

    Just a month ago, in the Muerto Mountains to the north of the Lampuri Kingdom, the northern army entered the Sack Kingdom and fought with their Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    In these fights, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had achieved great victory. The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment were chased out of the Muerto Mountains and theypletely lost control.

    The Sack Kingdom had lost the natural barrier of the Muerto Mountains, being exposed to the threat of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    Since the Lampuri Kingdom was founded several hundred years ago, this was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s second time attacking the Sack Kingdom and they had won.

    Moreover, in these battles, the most effective things were the military magic machines the northern army had.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s unusual actions had attracted the high attention of the surrounding countries. The Rudson Kingdom had always been friendly with the Lampuri Kingdom, but they also noticed this.

    The Rudson Kingdom was interested in the military magic machines mainly because they wanted to keep the bnce with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi fell silent before replying, ¡°I understand the worry of his majesty Teruc, but Newman, you have to understand that what I¡¯m telling you are the facts. With your Rudson Kingdom¡¯s current magic machine industry foundations, it is impossible for you to be able to make military magic machines in the short period of time. If you¡¯re worried about the Lampuri Kingdom, the most realistic method is to purchase the military magic machines from ourpany to make your army stronger.¡±

    Newman looked at Xu Yi with a strange look, ¡°Chairman Xu, you refused to give us the rted technology just to sell these to us?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a grin, ¡°You can say that, but I didn¡¯t tell any lies. In the end, this is a decision that is made by his majesty Teruc.¡±

    Newman was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and nodding, ¡°Alright, I will pass this on to his majesty.¡±

    He paused before revealing a smile, ¡°We can leave things like this for now, let¡¯s get back to what we were discussing before about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing more in our Rudson Kingdom. His majesty said that we can give yourpany many preferential treatment, mainly in......¡±

    ###

    After sending Newman off, Xu Yi sat in silence for a bit.

    It was clear that the surrounding countries were recognizing the might of the military magic machines. They were using various methods to arm their armies with military magic machines to increase their own might.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom had a natural advantage, they led the otherpanies in this aspect by quite a bit.

    Up to now, the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t just receive military magic machines first from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could even build their own. They were already able to craft Magic Repeating Crossbows and small Magic Bazookas.

    The other countries weren¡¯t as close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the Lampuri Kingdom, so their best method was to buy military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly.

    The Drake Duchy and the Mirando Duchy had been rather thorough on this.

    These two countries were small duchies and their armies weren¡¯t big, so they directly bought all the military magic machines they could use from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to the Lampuri Kingdom, the armies of these two small duchies had moreplete and higher tier military magic machines.

    Of course, they were limited by the number of soldiers, so their military strength couldn¡¯tpare to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the Rudson Kingdom was different from those two small duchies.

    ording to the stats, the Rudson Kingdom had over a hundred thousand soldiers and the armies that the royal family had was over sixty thousand soldiers.

    If they bought full sets of military magic machines like the Drake Duchy and the Mirando Duchy, they would spend at least over twenty million gold coins.

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s economy had always been better than the Lampuri Kingdom, a terrifying amount like twenty million gold coins far exceeded their limits.

    So the Rudson Kingdom wanted the military magic machine technology and to start producing their own military magic machines.

    But like Xu Yi had said, the Rudson Kingdom had a weak foundation and there was no chance they could produce military magic machines. So the more realistic method was to buy them from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As long as they didn¡¯t buy therge Magic Bazookas or the high grade military magic machines, the expenditure was eptable.

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s main enemy was the Sack Kingdom, so the Rudson Kingdom had time to fully equip their armies.

    Xu Yi was certain that after King Teruc considered this, he would agree to this.

    In the end, ,the Rudson Kingdom wasn¡¯t a giant like the Candra Empire. It was impossible for them to forcefully take the Stantine Duchy and seize the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Duke Wein hadn¡¯t been able to do this with the support of the Sack Kingdom, so naturally the Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t overestimate themselves.

    Thinking about the Sack Kingdom again, Xu Yi thought of a problem.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was close to the Lampuri Kingdom and because the Sack Kingdom had supported Duke Wein to attack the fRestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to work with the Sack Kingdom. If the Sack Kingdom wanted the military magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or to even buy it from them, it was impossible.

    But the Sack Kingdom knew how powerful the military magic machines were, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t give up on it.

    If they couldn¡¯t get it openly, the Sack Kingdom would definitely make secret moves.

    As for what these moves were, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any information and couldn¡¯t make any predictions.

    When he was considering this, there was suddenly a knock that came from the door.

    Xu Yi looked up in surprise to find Teresa standing there by the door, looking deeply depressed.

 Volume 5 8 Teresaâ€™s background

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 8 Teresa¡¯s background</h4>

    Xu Yi was surprised. He quickly got up and asked in a concerned voice, ¡°Teresa, what is it? Did something happen?¡±

    Teresa looked up with wide eyes that had tears in them. Tears were already dripping out of the corner of her eyes and she couldn¡¯t stop herself from crying.

    Seeing her appearance, Xu Yi was surprised.

    Since he had rescued Teresa, it had already been three years. In these long three years, Xu Yi knew that this beautiful and delicate little miss was actually quite strong, she would never reveal the weak side of her heart to anyone. Now that she was suddenly looking like this, there must have been something that filled her with sadness.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi let out a slow breath and continued in a gentle voice, ¡°Teresa, just tell me what difficulties you have. You¡¯ve already been here for three years, I¡¯ve already treated you like family. There¡¯s nothing you can¡¯t tell me.¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi in a daze and the tears kept gathering in her eyes. Finally she couldn¡¯t stop the tears from dripping down across her face.

    ¡°Sir¡­¡­Sir chairman, I¡­¡­I¡­¡­¡±

    Before she could say anything, Teresa suddenly fell down and put her hands around her knees as she cried.

    Seeing Teresa who was filled with sadness, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what to do.

    He rarely had the experience offorting a crying girl, so he didn¡¯t know what he should do at all.

    Thinking about it, he said with a sigh, ¡°I¡¯ll go find Still. If you have anything that you can¡¯t tell me, you can tell her. It¡¯s all the same.¡±

    But when Xu Yi took a step, he felt someone grabbing the bottom of his pants.

    Turning over, he found that Teresa¡¯s hand was tightly holding the bottom of his pants. She looked up at Xu Yi with a look that was filled with pleading.

    Xu Yi was confused.

    Just what had happened to Teresa that she went to find no one else but him?

    ¡°How about¡­¡­I have Evitae instead?¡± Xu Yi tried asking.

    Teresa had been working in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility during these years, so she had plenty of contact with Evita. Because of how Evita kept praising her work in front of Xu Yi, Xu Yi had thought that she was quite close to Evita.

    They were both young girls and Evita was a few years older, so it should be easier to talk to her.

    But Teresa shook her head, looking hesitant to speak.

    Xu Yi was a bit helpless. After thinking about it, he pulled Teresa up and looked into her eyes before saying with a serious voice, ¡°Teresa, I said it just now, I¡¯ve treated you as a family member, so no matter what difficulties you are facing, you can treat me as a family member and tell me. If I can help you, I will definitely do all I can. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi in a daze before slowly nodding.

    ¡°Alright, sit down and tell me what happened.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the chair on the side before sitting in front of it.

    Teresa softly gritted her teeth before finally sitting down.

    Facing Xu Yi¡¯s serious eyes, Teresa had a sad look on her face. After a while, she said in a soft voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve already been by your side for three years, but I¡¯ve never told you where I came from, right?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and calmly said, ¡°Everyone has their secrets, I don¡¯t demand others to tell me theirs. Since you don¡¯t want to speak, I won¡¯t ask. Anyway, I just know that you are called Teresa.¡±

    Xu Yi had been lying.

    Having a stranger live in his house, even if that stranger was beautiful and delicate, looking like a little rabbit that wouldn¡¯t harm anyone, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t easily ept her.

    After taking in Teresa, Xu Yi had used his rtions to investigate Teresa.

    However, it was like Teresa hade out from under a rock. There wasn¡¯t any information on her in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This made Xu Yi very doubtful of her.

    With Teresa¡¯s education, she should be from a noble family. Moreover, with how outstanding she looked, they must have some fame.

    But investigating around, he couldn¡¯t find any information at all which really was too strange.

    So from the beginning, Xu Yi had been vignt towards her.

    Even if Teresa revealed her talent for magic and showed understanding that surpassed others on magic machines, entering the magic research facility for work, Xu Yi had secretly controlled it so she couldn¡¯t approach the core technology.

    But Teresa had been here for three years and although Xu Yi had never found any information on her, she had been very normal these three years.

    Gradually, Xu Yi began to ignore the problem of her identity. He just treated her as a little girl who had a strange background.

    Not to mention that a year ago, Teresa had made an excuse to move from Xu Yi¡¯s ce, moving to the magic research facility¡¯s dormitory.

    Other thaning here to see Xu Yi, Still, and the others once in a while,ing to have a meal, she had less contact with Xu Yi.

    She suddenly came here today and revealed this appearance to Xu Yi, it really was a bit strange.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Teresa seemed like she had been incited. She took a few deep breaths before giving a heavy nod. Then after a bit of silence, she said in a small voice, ¡°Sir¡­¡­Sir chairman, you¡­¡­do you remember when you saved me three years ago?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Of course I do. You fainted in front of me, I thought that you were some poor beggar. But after I brought you back and took a bath, I found that I had brought back a shocking beauty.¡±

    Teresa revealed an awkward smile before she looked depressed again. She took a deep breath and continued, ¡°Sir chairman, at that time¡­¡­I had just escaped two thousand kilometers and didn¡¯t have any strength to keep going or the faith to continue surviving. If you hadn¡¯t helped me, I would have died in the streets.¡±

    ¡°Two thousand kilometers?¡± Xu Yi found the key point in Teresa¡¯s words.

    The Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t a very big kingdom, whether it was east to west or north to south, it was impossible to reach two thousand kilometers.

    Not to mention that Banta City was in the south of the Lampuri Kingdom. If Teresa traveled over two thousand kilometers, she could onlye from another kingdom.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s surprised look, Teresa gave a slight nod, ¡°Yes, sir chairman, I¡¯ve never told you my identity because¡­¡­I am not from the Lampuri Kingdom, rather I came¡­¡­from the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened a bit wider before his calm came back.

    Although this answer was surprising, Xu Yi didn¡¯t find it strange after thinking about it.

    Only this answer would exin why Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been able to find anything about Teresa in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The Sack Kingdom was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s enemy, so investigating the Sack Kingdom was naturally very difficult.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing wrong withing from the Sack Kingdom. Although the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom are enemies, that doesn¡¯t mean everyone from the Sack Kingdom is an enemy. Teresa, you don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi with a trace of gratitude in her eyes.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I know that you have always been magnanimous. You can even treat ves equally, so I believe you definitely wouldn¡¯t have any prejudice against me foring from the Sack Kingdom. But¡­¡­I did escape to the Lampuri Kingdom and the people of the Lampuri Kingdom aren¡¯t as magnanimous as you, sir chairman. So I hid my identity. Sir chairman, you¡­¡­wouldn¡¯t me me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Of course I don¡¯t me you, but Teresa, in the end, you didn¡¯t get to the main point. You¡¯ve already been here for three years, you said that you escaped from the Sack Kingdom, so no matter what you were before, why you escape, it has all passed since it¡¯s already been three years. So why are you¡­¡­like this today?¡±

    It was good if he didn¡¯t ask, but the moment he did, Teresa¡¯s face was covered in sadness and her eyes filled with tears.

    Xu Yi silently watched as she lowered her head to cry, silently waiting for her to continue speaking.

    If she didn¡¯te to find him to tell him everything, Teresa wouldn¡¯t be acting this way in front of him.

    ording to what she had just said, something that could make her this sad was probably rted to her escaping from the Sack Kingdom.

    When Xu Yi brought Teresa back at first, he never told her matters to anyone other than Still. Even the people who had been investigating Teresa had been doing it in secret.

    So Teresaing to find Xu Yi immediately after encountering this matter was also natural.

    After all, Teresa was a tough girl. After crying for a bit, she wiped her tears and raised her head again. She reached into her chest and took out a neatly folded newspaper.

    Xu Yi took it to take a look and found that there were tear spots on the newspaper. It was clear that Teresa had been crying when she had been reading this.

    Opening it, he found it was a copy of the ?Lampuri Weekly?.

    Xu Yi looked at Teresa with knit brows who softly said, ¡°Sir chairman, please read the seventh page.¡±

    ¡°Seventh page?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    If he remembered correctly, pages seven and eight of the ?Lampuri Weekly? was for news on the surrounding countries.

    Turning to page seven, he noticed that there was a line that was smudged by water and he couldn¡¯t see the title too clearly.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Dominic City¡¯s financial officer Viscount Doran Canz was suspected of treason, so his entire family has been captured and executed.¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly looked up at the sad Teresa.

    Teresa took a deep breath, ¡°Viscount Doran Canz is my father.¡±

 Volume 5 9 Great Magician and elven elder who tried outdoing each other

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 9 Great Magician and elven elder who tried outdoing each other</h4>

    The sky gradually turned dark.

    Watching Teresa in her purple dress disappear into the darkness outside the manor, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Teresa had finally revealed her background to him, but this was something that he hadn¡¯t expected.

    From the report in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, Teresa was now consideredpletely alone.

    The crime of treason, whether it was in the Lampuri Kingdom or the Sack Kingdom, or even one of the other countries, would be one of the kingdom¡¯s heaviest crimes.

    Since Viscount Doran Canz was involved in the crime of treason, his entire family would be executed without a doubt.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Teresa leaving before, she might have been executed as well, or would have suffered an even worse fate.

    But what made Teresa this sad wasn¡¯t just because of this.

    ording to Teresa¡¯s words, when she left her family and entered the Lampuri Kingdom, Viscount Doran Canz didn¡¯t tell her anything and had his most trusted subordinate bring her here.

    After reaching her, the subordinate had told her that Viscount Doran Canz wanted her to never return to the Sack Kingdom, to find a ce to live well in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Viscount Doran Canz wanted to prepare a ce for Teresa with his rtionships in the Lampuri Kingdom, but he never thought that as soon as they arrived, the Lampuri Kingdom person who helped them would sell them out.

    In order to protect Teresa, Viscount Doran Canz¡¯s subordinate had fought to the death, only barely being able to help Teresa escape.

    Although Teresa wanted to sneak back into the Sack Kingdom and ask Viscount Doran Canz about this, she wasn¡¯t able to find a way at all.

    In order to avoid the troops following her, Teresa could only keep heading south, going further and further away from the Sack Kingdom.

    In the end, she relied on her ability as a magician to reach Banta City, but because she had used all her strength on the way here. She had also lost all her will to live because of all the uncertainties that were in front of her.

    ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for hoping that father would definitely have some thoughts for sending me here, I would have given up already.¡± When Teresa said these words, there was a trace of determination in her eyes, but then they were filled with sadness, ¡°But I know that answer now, but I find that I have no way to deal with it.¡±

    Xu Yi could only be silent at this.

    It was impossible for anyone to be calm after finding out that their entire family was dead.

    Not to mention a delicate looking girl like Teresa.

    But Xu Yi could only respond to Teresa¡¯s situation with sympathy and he couldn¡¯t do anything for her.

    Viscount Doran Canz¡¯s family was executed because he betrayed the kingdom, this wasn¡¯t rted to Xu Yi at all.

    Even if Xu Yi wanted to meddle in this matter, there was no chance at all.

    These were the facts, the only thing that Xu Yi could do was help Teresa as much as he could.

    But Teresa shook her head at Xu Yi¡¯s outstretched hand.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this matter isn¡¯t rted to you. I came looking for you not to get your help, just¡­¡­Just that other than you, I can¡¯t tell anyone else about this. I just wanted to find someone to pour everything out¡­¡­¡±

    Teresa¡¯s sadness made one¡¯s heart filled with a bit of pain, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t do anything in the end and could only awkwardlyfort her.

    Teresa wasn¡¯t as delicate as she seemed on the surface. After telling Xu Yi everything, although she looked sad, she forced herself to calm down and left after bidding him farewell.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a reason to keep her, so naturally he just let her leave.

    Looking in the direction Teresa vanished in, Xu Yi felt emotional.

    Although Teresa had been alone in her three years here, she could still miss her family. Now with the news in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, itpletely cut off that thought in her heart.

    From that moment, Teresa had really be truly alone.

    ¡°I should have Vivian and Evita take care of her some more.¡± Xu Yi silently said.

    Teresa had been at Xu Yi¡¯s house for a bit, so her rtionship with Vivian was not bad.

    After entering the magic research facility, she had always been close to Evita.

    Letting the two of them care about Teresa would make her feel much better.

    Other than this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of another good idea.

    In terms of mechanical engineering, Xu Yi was a genius. In terms of magic, Xu Yi could be considered a genius.

    But when it came to emotions, especially the thoughts of little girls, Xu Yi was very simple minded and didn¡¯t do well.

    Thinking of Evita¡¯s current mood, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving another sigh. He shook his head before heading back in.

    When he turned around, there were suddenly two beams of light in the distance that were quickly approaching.

    Not long after, the two beams of light were already at the Frestech Farm that was four kilometers away from the manor.

    Xu Yi could hear the familiar sounds of the Magic Engine on the wind.

    Seeing those two beams of light cut through the horizon, cutting through the night and reaching the manor. Xu Yi felt the veins jump out on his head and his lips couldn¡¯t help twitching a bit.

    ¡°Zhi!¡±

    Two violent braking sounds suddenly came from in front of the manor.

    The two beams of light extinguished and under the Magic Lamps of the manor, a pure ck and a fire red Magic Sedan appeared.

    The door of the pure ck Magic Sedan opened and Great Magician Cami came out,ughing into the sky.

    ¡°Ha, ha, I was still first, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    The door to the fire red Magic Sedan opened and elder Lisanya came out.

    She looked at the proudlyughing Great Magician Cami and gave a cold snort.

    ¡°What are you so proud about? Don¡¯t forget that you started two seconds before me, so if you calcte this in, I won.¡±

    Great Magician Cami looked at elder Lisanya with a look of disdain, ¡°Isn¡¯t starting faster proof that I¡¯m stronger than you? Who told you to be slow at the start? It¡¯s a full two seconds! Such a long time, could it be that you were in a daze?¡±

    Elder Lisanya angrily red at Great Magician Cami, ¡°You¡¯re the one in a daze! There was a small problem with my car, so it was a bit slow on starting and it waste by two seconds. Otherwise I definitely wouldn¡¯t have started slower than you!¡±

    Great Magician Cami waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t try to find excuses. If this was the arena, you would have lost for startingte. Don¡¯t tell me that you don¡¯t even know this.¡±

    Elder Lisanya slightly knit her brows and gave a cold snort, ignoring Great Magician Cami and turning to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, help me see what is wrong with my Magic Sedan? Why did it fail to start two times in a row?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile. Great Magician Cami was already sixty four and elder Lisanya was at least four hundred, which was close to seventy in human years. Why did they act like children and would always bicker with each other?

    Great Magician Cami was stunned, elder Lisanya was an elf that was famous for being prideful!

    She was even the elder of a pride elf tribe!

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s because elder Lisanya is too fiery that the car is beginning to take her personality.¡±

    Xu Yi muttered in his heart, but he came to the side of the fire red Magic Sedan with a smile.

    After checking it, Xu Yi quickly found the problem.

    This Magic Sedan¡¯s wires between the ignition and the Magic Engine were a bit loose, so it created a bad circuit. This caused it to fail to start two times.

    This was a small problem and Xu Yi easily helped elder Lisanya solve it.

    After trying the ignition several times, elder Lisanya pointed at Great Magician Cami, ¡°Come, let¡¯s try again.¡±

    Great Magician Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°Let¡¯s race, who would be afraid?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly stopped Great Magician Cami who was prepared to get in the Magic Sedan and revealed a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s thiste and it¡¯s this dark, you are still trying to race?¡±

    ¡°This doesn¡¯t affect us.¡± Great Magician Cami waved his hand and prepared to get into the car.

    Xu Yi quickly stopped him again.

    ¡°This doesn¡¯t affect you, but that doesn¡¯t mean it doesn¡¯t affect others. It¡¯s thiste, it¡¯s very easy to scare others. Then again, if you race now, who will time you? It¡¯s difficult to make this fair, right?¡±

    Great Magician Cami and elder Lisanya looked at each other, thinking that he was right. Only then did they give a nod and give up this idea.

    Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.

    Because he was nning on holding the specialized car races, starting from this spring, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built a small arena in the Stantine Duchy, used specifically for racing.

    After hearing about this race, Great Magician Cami and elder Lisanya immediately chose to sign up.

    Because they were powerful, they didn¡¯t need to worry about idents when driving the Magic Sedans. So they were already driving at the speed limit for these Magic Sedans and adapted faster than the otherpetitors.

    With the powerful magic of these two, their abilities far surpassed normal people, so they were even more terrifying when racing these cars.

    So after racing several times, the two had swept all the wins and second ces in the races.

    To the race today, their record was currently even.

    So the two of them weren¡¯t convinced and wanted to suppress the other side, to the point where they even acted like children for a single win.

    Now that these two had finally let go of their dispute, although Xu Yi was very curious about the result of the race this afternoon, he could only suppress it for now and not talk about this.

    Looking at Great Magician Cami, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something.

 Volume 5 10 - Nothing to prepare

    <h4>Nothing to prepare</h4>

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to be treated as a show by those people, I¡¯m not going!¡±

    Great Magician Cami cold said this before heading in with a wave of his hand.

    ¡°How could they treat you as a show? They just want to bask in your glory!¡±

    Xu Yi shouted from behind, but Great Magician Caml just gave a cold snort and went in without turning around.

    Xu Yi could only give a helpless sigh. He shook his head and thought that Seveni would be disappointed.

    It wouldn¡¯t only be Seveni who would be disappointed, everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom would be disappointed.

    At the end ofst year, Great Magician Cami broke through the Great Magician Realm and grasped spatialws to be an Arch Magus.

    Then he went to the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarters, the City in the Sky and received the recognition of the headquarters, bing an acknowledged Arch Magus.

    After this news was spread, not only the Lampur Kingdom, even the surrounding kingdoms were stirred.

    It had to be known that it had been several hundred years since there had been a Great Magus, so the Arch Magi were the most powerful magicians on the continent, without parallel.

    Although among Arch Magi, he was a bit weak, Great Magician Cami.....Oh, he should be called Arch Magus Cami now was not considered the peak magician. In any event, he was an Arch Magus and could control spatialws, as well as understand the true meaning of magic, bing a super magician that had entered the realm of gods.

    Even if there was only a single step between an Arch Magus and a Great Magician, this single step was a gap that millions of magicians on the Sines Continent could never take.

    Right now, there were over a hundred thousand magicians on the Sines Continent. Among them, there were only twenty Arch Magi who were recognized by the Magicians Guild, so it could be seen how rare Arch Magi were.

    Now, Great Magician Cami had be the twenty eighth Arch Magus.

    This matter was considered important for the entire Sines Continent because every Arch Magus was at the peak of the continent. Even in the Candra or Marlow Empires, they were considered at the peak.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom, this had a special significance.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had been established for over four hundred years and there had only ever been a single Arch Magus. It was the Arch Magus who had apanied the kingdom¡¯s first ruler to create the kingdom.

    Now that four hundred years had passed, there was finally the second Arch Magus of the Lampuri Kingdom. One could imagine just how shocked the Lampuri Kingdom was by this.

    After receiving the news that Great Magician Cami became an Arch Magus, the Lampuri Kingdom gave him a series of titles without hesitation. They even invited him to a grand ceremony the Lampuri Kingdom was specially holding to announce the matter of Great Magician Cami bing an Arch Magus to everyone.

    But what people didn¡¯t expect was that Arch Magus Cami had refused to attend and didn¡¯t give any reason at all.

    It was hard for an Arch Magus to appear and he didn¡¯t give them any face at all, so the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side was very anxious.

    Just Seveni alone had sent Xu Yi several letters, asking why Arch Magus Cami wasn¡¯t willing to attend.

    After Xu Yi asked Arch Magus Cami about this, he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry at the answer he got.

    Arch Magus Cami just hated the ceremony alone. This kind of formal and symbolic ceremony made him disgusted, so he refused to attend.

    Xu Yi could ept this reason, but the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side couldn¡¯t ept it.

    So in this half a year, from time to time, the Lampuri Kingdom kept sending official invitations to Arch Magus Cami. They hoped that he would attend the ceremony, but they were rejected by him every single time.

    This time Arch Magus Cami¡¯s reaction was even colder, making Xu Yi consider exining this matter in his response letter to Seveni and stopping the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side from wasting time on this matter.

    If they really caused Arch Magus Cami to be angry, that wouldn¡¯t be good from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is a very easy to understand matter. A powerful magician cares most about their strength, of course they wouldn¡¯t care what others think about them.¡± Elder Lisanya who had suddenly arrived at Xu Yi¡¯s side spoke.

    Xu Yi turned to look at her and had a thought, ¡°Elder Lisanya, your elf race should have Arch Magi, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Elder Lisanya nodded, ¡°Before the race wars, when us elves were at our peak, Arch Magi weren¡¯t considered anything. We even had five Great Magi. As for now.....¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head and a sad look appeared in her eyes, ¡°Although I¡¯m certain there are still Arch Magi among us elves, I don¡¯t have any information on them.¡±

    ¡°Then do you think the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Azshara Tribe would have any Arch Magi?¡± Xu Yi asked.¡°That I don¡¯t know, but haven¡¯t you had contact with the Azshara Tribe? You don¡¯t even know this bit of information?¡± Elder Lisanya asked back.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°You should know how alert you elves are towards us humans. Although with the rtionship to the Night Song Tribe and your Moon Shadow Tribe, we could get to know the Azshara Tribe, up to this point, we don¡¯t even know where the Azshara Tribe is located.¡±

    ¡°Those fellows, the times are different now, there¡¯s no meaning in hiding like before.¡± Elder Lisanya gave a soft snort. After pausing, she said to Xu Yi, ¡°How about this, after some time, I¡¯ll go with you to the Rudson Kingdom. With me there, I believe the Azshara Tribe will ept you more easily.¡±

    Xu Yi was filled with joy, ¡°That is great! This can¡¯t be dyed, I¡¯ll choose some time next month and we can set off together. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Next month?¡± Elder Lisanya slightly knit her brows and tilted her head to think, ¡°There are only two races next month, so we¡¯ll go in between the gaps of those two races.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help wiping off some cold sweat.

    He never thought that a noble, graceful, mysterious, and proud elder of the elf race like elder Lisanya would be this mesmerized by race cars!

    Elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi¡¯s strange gaze and had a thought. She suddenly thought of something as she closed her eyes, releasing a wisp of magic from herself.

    After a while, Elder Lisanya shouted into the darkness on the right of the manor, ¡°Agnes,e out!¡±

    Xu Yi looked in that direction in surprise. He saw light warp in the darkness as Agnes appeared.

    ¡°Agnes, you are already chairman Xu¡¯spanion and this is your house, why are you hiding?¡± Elder Lisanya asked with knit brows.

    Xu Yi was also a bit confused, ¡°Yes, Agnes, what are you hiding for?¡±

    Agnes turned her head a bit and her eyes looked away from elder Lisanya¡¯s gaze. After hesitating a bit, she said in a low voice, ¡°Elder Lisanya, I¡¯m afraid of you.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Why was Agnes afraid of elder Lisanya?

    But thinking about it, he understood.

    Elder Lisanya and elder Illusia¡¯s personalities were very different, she was much more strict.

    Even if she wasn¡¯t the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder, for Agnes, she would still be a bit respectful when facing an elder.

    But to be afraid.....that was a bit too much......

    ¡°Afraid of me?¡± Elder Lisanya knit her brows. She looked over Agnes before revealing a look of understanding, ¡°I understand, it¡¯s no wonder you¡¯re afraid of me. Agnes, you¡¯ve already been with chairman Xu this long, why do you still have a pure body? Why haven¡¯t you copted with chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at elder Lisanya.

    What kind of question was this?

    Although he hadn¡¯t ¡°copted¡± with Agnes until now, that isn¡¯t something that elder Lisanya should ask, right?

    Elder Lisanya turned to look at Xu Yi and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, when you told me that you chose Agnes, I brought our tribe¡¯s girls away. But now that half a year has passed, why haven¡¯t you touched Agnes at all? Could it be that you¡¯re not satisfied with Agnes? Or did you just say that for me and elder Illusia.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, it¡¯s not rted to him, it¡¯s me......¡± Agnes quickly waved her hands.

    ¡°It¡¯s you? What is it about you?¡± Elder Lisanya asked in a deep voice.

    Agnes looked at Xu Yi before a blushpletely covered her face.

    ¡°I.....Sir chairman said.....that he wouldn¡¯t force me. He would wait until my heart was ready to copte with me, but.....but......¡±

    ¡°But you¡¯ve never been ready?¡± Elder Lisanya asked with a cold snort.

    Agnes gave a soft un sound before lowering her head.

    Elder Lisanya took a deep look at Agnes before turning to look at Xu Yi with knit brows. After pausing, she rxed her tone and said to Agnes, ¡°Agnes, copting is the instinct of any species, there¡¯s nothing to prepare. Didn¡¯t you say that you liked chairman Xu and wanted to be with him? Then copting with him is a very natural thing, there¡¯s nothing to be shy or afraid of. Take a brave step, this is the path that you have to experience.¡±

    Xu YI looked at elder Lisanya with a strange gaze.

    Although her words were reasonable, it really did make him feel awkward hearing her say ¡°copte¡± again and again.

    Anyway, Agnes gave a strong nod. She turned to look at Xu Yi and although her face was a bit red, she had a determined look.

    ¡°Un, elder Lisanya, I will definitely......¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face twitched a bit. He used his magic and used short distance teleportation toe to Agnes¡¯ side, covering her mouth.

    ¡°This.....Elder Lisanya, this is a matter between us couple, you shouldn¡¯t worry about this? Right?¡±

    Seeing the look that Xu Yi threw at her, elder Lisanya misunderstood and said with a nod, ¡°You¡¯re right, but chairman Xu, if you don¡¯t know how to copte with elves, I can help you. Un.....Your taste is very special, if you really like it, I can personally demonstrate to you.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face twitched several times and he restrained the urge to vomit blood. He seriously said word for word, ¡°No, many thanks for your goodwill. I will study this with Agnes. Un, I¡¯ll properly.....study this.....¡±

 Volume 5 11 - Magic Transmission Network

    <h4>Magic Transmission Network</h4>

    Newman left.

    His discussion with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t smooth, so he looked a bit worried when he left. It was clear that he wasn¡¯t satisfied with this result.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed to increase their investment in the Rudson Kingdom, helping them build a magic machine industrial system and they would provide more magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom, Xu Yi didn¡¯t give a response to the military magic machines that King Teruc cared about the most.

    Even if Xu Yi agreed that after the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry was more perfected, he would consider transferring a portion of the military magic machine to the Rudson Kingdom, as for when it would be ¡°perfected¡±, this was left very vague.

    Not to mention that to have a foundation that was like the Lampuri Kingdom like Xu Yi described, it would take at least another three years.

    To get Xu Yi¡¯s approval, it would take at least five years.

    The Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t wait five years. Newman knew that even if his majesty Teruc wasn¡¯t willing, they could only ept the solution that Xu Yi gave, which was to directly purchase military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ensuring that the Rudson Kingdom would be as strong as the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The era was different, they couldn¡¯t rely on swords and armour to fight anymore. They had already been pushed aside by the powerful military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    If the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t increase their strength, it wouldn¡¯t take long before they would be thrown far behind by the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If there was arge difference in strength between the two sides, the so-called ¡°alliance¡± wouldn¡¯t have any meaning.

    Ambassador Hakanin also left, but he was different from Newman when he left.

    Compared to Newman, ambassador Hakanin was very satisfied when he left.

    Although he received the same reply from Xu Yi as Newman when it came to the military magic machines, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t care about this and ambassador Hakanin cared even less.

    Rather what he cared more about was that Xu Yi agreed to give him arge amount of household magic machines.

    In his private deal with Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would sell household magic machines at 90% of the regr price for a total of thirty thousand units, reaching an amount of seven hundred and forty thousand gold coins.

    In the calction that ambassador Hakanin made, if he could sell all thirty thousand units when he returned to the Candra Empire, with how much the nobles and merchants wanted these novel household magic machines, he would be able to earn two hundred thousand gold coins.

    If he was a bit more ruthless, he would be able to earn even more profit.

    So when he left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ambassador Hakanin had a bright smile on his face.

    Although his position as the ambassador of the Candra Empire in the Rudson Kingdom was high, because he had no real power, he couldn¡¯t make that much from it.

    In a single year, at most he could get forty to fifty thousand gold coins.

    But with just a single trip to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he earned arge profit of twenty thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, he didn¡¯t need to do anything in this matter. Xu Yi had promised that he would send out a motorcade to transport the goods to Caraca City, even sending it to the Candra Empire.

    The only condition was to have ambassador Hakanin pay for the expenses, as well as help them enter the Candra Empire.

    It was natural for him to take the shipping expenses and to let the motorcade enter the Candra Empire was naturally an easy matter for ambassador Hakanin, so he agreed to this condition very easily.

    After everything was settled, ambassador Hakanin only needed to return to Caraca City and wait.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport motorcade arrived, they would follow ambassador Hakanin to the Candra Empire and he could sit at home counting his money.

    Ambassador Hakanin was filled with joy, but Xu Yi¡¯s joy wasn¡¯t less than his.

    After discussing with Newman who represented the Rudson Kingdom, although they didn¡¯t obtain the military magic machines, they did settle a cooperation to deepen their cooperation on the magic machine aspect.

    With the favourable conditions King Teruc had given, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be earningrge profits whether it was investing in magic machine factories or stores.

    For example, the Rudson Kingdom had decided that magic machines would be another kind of goods that would receive a new kind of tax system. It would no longer be taxed with the normal system.

    With this system, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay 5% less tariffs and also save 3% on taxes when selling magic machines in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Don¡¯t look down on 5% and 3%.

    It had to be known, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a profit of over three million gold coins from selling magic machines in the Rudson Kingdom in the first half of the year.

    Adding in the 5% and 3%, it would save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce close to three hundred thousand gold coins. This definitely couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    As for ambassador Hakanin, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t receive any direct interests from him. Rather, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to send a motorcade to the Candra Empire, so even if ambassador Hakanin paid for the transport costs, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to invest arge amount of manpower into this. In the end, they wouldn¡¯t make money off this and would even lose a bit of money.

    But the main reason for cooperating with ambassador Hakanin was to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce open up therge market of the Candra Empire.

    Compared to the Lampuri Kingdom, the Candra Empire had more than ten times the territory and over ten times the poption, so the market would be countless times bigger.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines could smoothly enter the Candra Empire and stand firm there, it would represent the future prospects of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    A little loss naturally couldn¡¯t be considered anything.

    ###

    With the sun above and the dazzling light shining down, it made everyone¡¯s shadow gather at their feet.

    There would be drops of sweat that fell to the ground, creating a bit of moisture on the burning road, but it would instantly evaporate.

    Xu Yi wiped the sweat off his forehead before asking Akali who was squatting on the ground, ¡°How is it? Is there a reaction?¡±

    Akali looked up with a face covered in sweat, as well as a bit of doubt.

    ¡°Strange......This should be good, but why is there no reaction?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at one and a half meter wooden tform ced in front of her and found that there was no response from the Magic Array on it. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brow, ¡°Could it be.....that it failed?¡±

    ¡°Impossible!¡± Akali raised her voice and firmly shook her head, ¡°Our team already tested this several hundred times and it seeded every time in the past several dozen times, it¡¯s impossible that it would fail!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Un, I believe in your abilities, but there¡¯s no need to worry. It isn¡¯t anything to fail once. I¡¯ve said it, you are allowed to fail at the testing stage, but there can¡¯t be any failures in the utilization stage.¡±

    ¡°I already said that it didn¡¯t fail!¡± Akali gave a stomp and suddenly stood up. She looked at a tall stage beside the road and suddenly used her magic, flying over to the tform.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    This Akali, when can she change her impatience?

    Turning to look at the young magicians wearing the magic research facility¡¯s uniform standing by the tform, Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°Did you guys already do this experiment several hundred times?¡±

    They looked at each other before an older research respectfully said, ¡°Yes, sir chairman. Leader Akali started studying this Magic Transmission Networkst year, from when she started studying transmitting magic, she already experimented several hundred times. Then after the breakthrough in the range of transmission, there were several hundred experiments inying down the Magic Transmission Network. If we add them all up, we¡¯ve done over a thousand experiments rted to this topic.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Isn¡¯t this less than what Akali just said.¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the tform in the distance and saw that Akali had already flown over, bending over to inspect something, ¡°Un, since there are this many experiments, I believe that you should be very familiar with this topic and there won¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s evaluation, the young researchers all threw out their chests and had proud looks, ¡°We¡¯ve spent a lot of effort on this, it definitely can¡¯t fail!¡±

    ¡°Yes! With leader Akali¡¯s leadership, we will definitely seed!¡±

    Xu Yiughed. After all these years, Akali had not only be a high level researcher of the magic research facility, she had built up enough authority in the minds of the other researchers.

    At least in the minds of the team that she led, she had a very high image.

    ¡°If they knew what Akali looked like before, would it change the glorious view of her they have now?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help having this mischievous thought.

    He turned back to the wooden tform and Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    This Magic Transmission Network was a n that copied the power grid on earth. Xu Yi had only mentioned this to Akali, he never thought that she would fully invest herself into this.

    This wooden tform was one of the Magic Transmission Network¡¯s terminals. Although it was very early and it was far from being considered mature, it still meant that this thought might be real.

 Volume 5 12 - Asking for money

    <h4>Asking for money</h4>

    Akali moved very quickly and it didn¡¯t take long before she flew back like the wind.

    When she fell down, she waved her hand in a spirited manner, ¡°Alright, the problem is solved.¡±

    Xu Yi stopped her hand moving towards the wood tform and asked, ¡°What was the problem, did you investigate properly?¡±

    Akali was stunned, as if she was surprised that someone would ask her this. Afterwards she reacted and replied, ¡°Oh, it was a small mistake with the frequency of the Magic Array. I didn¡¯t think that it would be this hot that it would distort a portion of the Magic Array, causing there to be a mistake. I checked just now and fixed it, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s good that you know the problem.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But Akali, based on what your team just said, you¡¯ve already done this experiment over a thousand times, shouldn¡¯t this problem have urred before and you would have found a way to solve it?¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi and looked a bit hesitant.

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°What? Is there something that you can¡¯t say in front of me?¡±

    ¡°Chairman, you¡¯re the one who wanted me to speak.¡± Akali gave augh.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Just say it. Could it be that there is something that is stopping you? I think that in thepany, there is no one that can stop you, right?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t for sure, there is Evita......¡± Akali said with a look of hidden bitterness.

    ¡°Evita?¡± Xu Yi was confused, ¡°What is with Evita? If there really is a problem, could it be that she wouldn¡¯t tell me directly?¡±

    ¡°This can¡¯t be said to you.¡± Akali gave a shrug before looking at Xu Yi and saying with a sigh, ¡°Alright, always, it¡¯s already been said, I¡¯ll just tell you. Chairman, you¡¯re right, we did know about this problem, but we couldn¡¯t solve it because of Evita¡¯s orders.¡±

    Xu Yi asked in a confused voice, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Because Evita said that we have to save on research costs as much as possible.¡± Akali said in a helpless voice, ¡°Evita said that our magic research facility had spent too much on researchst year, so starting this year, she wanted each team to save on cost as much as possible and we couldn¡¯t spend randomly. I¡¯ve already discovered the problem with this material, but when we switch materials for each experiment, we need to study thepatibility as well, so we have to spend a lot of money. In the end, we gave up on this.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Xu Yi suddenly roared out and scared Akali and the other researchers, ¡°Saving on costs is correct, but if you lower the research standard because of this, that would be putting the cart before the horse! Akali, you are a senior researcher, don¡¯t you know that if research isn¡¯t done perfectly, there might be heavy losses because of small mistakes in the end?¡±

    ¡°This......I......¡±

    Akali rarely saw Xu Yi this fired up, so she was a bit stunned.

    ¡°What you, what me, let me tell you, as long as you can raise the standard of research and make it more perfect, it¡¯s worth spending however much money it costs! Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten that in thest batch of Magic Air Conditioners ourpany developed, because of a small mistake during development, we had to recall over twenty thousand units that were sold?¡±

    Akali stuck out her tongue, ¡°Of course I remember. Still said that from that recall, ourpany lost over a hundred thousand gold coins, right?¡±

    ¡°Not just a hundred thousand gold coins!¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°The more important thing was that this incident had seriously damaged ourpany¡¯s previous perfect reputation. This is a hundred times more important than a trivial hundred thousand gold coins! So I will not allow a single mistake during the development, do you understand?¡±

    ¡°I do, I do.¡± Akali kept nodding, ¡°But sir chairman, Evita said that we had to save one research cost, so she strictly controlled the funds of each research team. Look......¡±

    Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°I¡¯ve already noticed this problem. You tell her that to solve this problem, there is no problem in increasing the research funds.¡± After pausing, he asked, ¡°Is a hundred thousand enough?¡±

    Akali gave a cheer, ¡°More than enough!¡±

    After cheering, Akali even gave Xu Yi an excited hug and said with a big smile, ¡°Sir chairman, I knew that you were the most generous. You wouldn¡¯t be as stingy as Evita, not even giving us a single gold coin.¡±

    Seeing the excited looks Akali and the surrounding researchers had, Xu Yi had a thought. It was like he realized something as he pointed at Akali, ¡°Alright, Akali, you did this on purpose. You wanted to use this chance to get more research funds from me, right?¡±

    Akali giggled and swung from Xu Yi¡¯s arm, ¡°I really can¡¯t hide it from the wise sir chairman. But sir chairman, you wouldn¡¯t mind, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°You really are a person who thinks too much. Just tell me if you want more research funds, when have I ever been stingy? But I¡¯m telling you, I can give you the hundred thousand, but you have to use it on solving the material problem. If I find that you¡¯ve been spending it on other things, humph, humph......¡±

    ¡°Of course not, sir chairman, how could I spend it randomly? It isn¡¯t the first day that you¡¯ve known me.¡± Akali said with a smile.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s because it¡¯s not my first day knowing you that I would fall for this.¡±

    Seeing that Akali still wanted to say something, Xu Yi raised his hand and cut her off.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s end this here. We should take the time to get to the main topic. If this test doesn¡¯t work, it¡¯ll be a waste even if you get more funds.¡±

    ¡°I already said it, it¡¯s impossible to fail.¡± Akali confidently came to the wooden tform and pressed a button on it.

    The Magic Array on the tform lit up with a blue light. Xu Yi, Akali, and the other researchers turned to look at the other tform.

    As magicians, they could feel the Wind Elemental Magic fluctuationsing from this tform that reached the other tform, entering the Magic Array there.

    The Magic Array on the other tform lit up and everyone could feel Wind Elemental Magic fluctuationsing from there. It spread from the tform and through carefully drawn lines, they spread to the household magic machines that were to the sides of the tform.

    ¡°Weng......¡±

    There was a weak sound before the Magic Fan started turning, the Magic Air Conditioner let out a cold breeze, and the Magic Stove lit up......

    The various household magic machines that had been silent all started at the same time.

    Xu Yi looked over each household magic machine. He saw that the Magic Fan¡¯s des were turning quickly, the mes of the Magic Stove were much stronger than normal, and the cool breeze that came from the Magic Air Conditioner was weaker than normal......

    In short, each household magic machine operated differently from normal.

    This was expected.

    In a normal situation, these household magic machines used Magic Crystals as a power source. But this time they were all linked to this wooden tform, so the magic for these machines came from the terminal, so there would be some differences.

    Not to mention that this magic came from the Magic Power Station that was two kilometers away. With such a long distance, it was normal for there to be differences.

    To solve this problem, other than conducting more research into the Magic Transmission Network, they would have to determine a set power supply standard like the electronics on earth. That way the household magic machines could ess the Magic Transmission Network more easily.

    The end goal was to be like earth, to have a wooden tform terminal in each house, that way they wouldn¡¯t need to purchase Magic Crystals to use their household magic machines.

    This would not only save them time in buying the Magic Crystals, it would also save them money.

    The more important thing was that they would be able to integrate each household that used these household magic machines into the Magic Transmission Network.

    This Magic Transmission Network was naturally controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so this power created by this control was very terrifying.

    The people of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have a strong concept of nations. Other than basic educational issues, for most of the normal citizens, a country was just a word and it was no different from how much tax was collected.

    Once the Magic Transmission Network was formed and everyone was integrated into it, it would be hard for them to leave thiswork. Also, the people who are in thiswork will be very different from the people who aren¡¯t on thiswork.

    An example that could be used now was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s water system.

    For the people on Xu Yi¡¯s private territory, they had the water system already in ce. Almost every household in the territory could have a water system built into it.

    For Xu Yi¡¯s territory, they could ess clean water at any time with the water system just like on earth.

    Just with this convenience, there were many people who wereing to settle down in Xu Yi¡¯s territory from all over.

    Since Xu Yi started promoting the water system less than a year ago, his territory had gone from two hundred thousand people to three hundred thousand people all at once.

    With the current trend, once this year was over, Xu Yi¡¯s territory might have half of the poption of the Stantine Duchy, bing the absolute core of the Stantine Duchy.

 Volume 5 13 - First step to independence

    <h4> Volume 5 Chapter 13 First step to independence</h4>

    <h4></h4>

    There was a row of ten twenty tonrge transport Magic Cars newly developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that drove across the Falling Rain Road.

    Large tires that were one meter in diameter and thirty centimeters in width drove across the firm road. They created a thud sound that drew the attention of all the other vehicles and pedestrians on the road.

    Seeing this powerful motorcade with the half wing symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone revealed a knowing smile.

    It seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was transporting cargo to Banta City again.

    Since her majesty Seveni took the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a contract with the Lampuri Kingdom, so this scene was very normal.

    Especially for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ¡°old home¡± of Banta City, there were motorcades from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce every few days.

    Other than transporting household magic machines, they also transported other goods.

    For example, for this motorcade, they were delivering a batch of new semi automatic Magic Lathe Machines.

    If they were assembled, they would be a new Magic Air Conditioner assembly line.

    This was one of the projects that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked on with Banta City.

    But what was different was that this new semi automatic Magic Air Conditioner production line wouldpletely belong to Banta City.

    This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t earn a single cent from the Magic Air Contioners produced.

    To put it more directly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold this semi automatic Magic Air Conditioner production line to Banta City, their partner.

    Compared to the factories that were invested in by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, this was the first production line that belonged solely to the Lampuri Kingdom. There was a strong significance for the Lampuri Kingdom here.

    When the motorcade approached the Falling Rain Valley, there was a group of people waiting by the road ahead. There was even a small stage constructed that had fresh flowers and several red clothes to represent celebration, it was clear they were nning on holding a ceremony.

    The motorcade stopped at the entrance of the Falling Rain Valley. Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Will brought a group of Banta City officials forward to wee them.

    The first Magic Car stopped and the door opened to reveal Xu Yi as the first person who came out.

    This new cooperation wasn¡¯t just important for the Lampuri Kingdom, it was also very important for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It represented the deepening of the cooperation between the two sides, so naturally Xu Yi attended on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He had been nning on driving over two days ahead of time in his Magic Sedan, but because something happened on the ck Rice Wastnd, he had to go to ck Rice City instead.

    When the motorcade passed through ck Rice City, Xu Yi had taken therge transport Magic Car toe here.

    When Xu Yi came out, Count Will spread his hands with a wide smile, warmly giving Xu Yi a big hug.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, long time no see. You really seem more energetic.¡±

    Xu Yi loosened his hands and looked over Count Will before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Lord City Lord, after not seeing you for some time, you seem to be much skinnier. Could it be that there have been many things in Banta City that has made you exhausted?¡±

    Count Will gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Banta City is in a crucial period of development, of course I as the City Lord have to do everything in my power. Not to mention that this is an important task handed to me by her majesty, how could I disappoint her?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and just patted his shoulder, ¡°Rx, Banta City is currently developing very smoothly. It is several times stronger than when her majesty took the throne, which of course is your merit as the City Lord.¡±

    Count Will nodded with a smile, ¡°That is right. If nothing unexpected happens, Banta City¡¯s revenue should be three times that ofst year, it might even surpass the high standards of a few years ago. Of course, this is the result of chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s great support. Speaking of this, I should properly thank chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°No need. In the end, I am a merchant, so I¡¯m working with you to make money.¡±

    Count Willughed, looking at Xu Yi with a look of deep meaning.

    Actually, there were many times when he felt he couldn¡¯t understand Xu Yi.

    If Xu Yi really was just a merchant like he said, doing this to make money, that would be easy to exin.

    But to Count Will, if he looked at it from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s benefits and from the angle of making money, there were many choices that Xu Yi made that were very strange.

    For example, Xu Yi agreed to give Banta City this semi automatic Magic Air Conditioner production line and let them control itpletely. This was equal to giving Banta City the ability to research and develop Magic Air Conditioners independently.

    It was different from otherpanies obtaining the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and producing on their own. This time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was not just providing technical support, they also provided theplete equipment, even providing technical personnel. Finally theypletely let go and didn¡¯t meddle in the factory like before with joint investment and profit sharing.

    This production line could represent the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s first step in bing independent in the magic machine industry.

    If it was Count Will, it simply was no different from helping Banta City.

    Because with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s absolute dominance in the industry, even if they didn¡¯t do this, no one could say a thing.

    But Xu Yi had really done this.

    Every time he pondered this question, Count Will could only think of one possible answer. It was that Xu Yi¡¯s n wasn¡¯t for normal mary gains, rather he was looking for something higher.

    As for what that higher was......

    When he returned to Anvilmar City to report, Count Will had seen her majesty and Count Sean who had been with Xu Yi the most as the previous Banta City City Lord. The two said that Xu Yi paid great attention to the development of the magic machine industry and earning money was secondary to him.

    Count Will didn¡¯t really believe this answer.

    But other than this exnation, he couldn¡¯t think of a better one.

    ording to the trend from before, once the motorcade arrived, Count Will on behalf of Banta City would hold a weing ceremony for Xu Yi who came on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When this ceremony was over, Count Will had people bring the motorcade to the Falling Rain Valley. After resting, they would set up the production line in the afternoon. At the same time, he and the other officials of the City Lord Manor would invite Xu Yi back to Banta City for lunch.

    The two rode the same Magic Sedan and drove off on the Falling Rain Road.

    With the speed of the Magic Sedan that Xu Yi gave Count Will three months ago, it took less than an hour to reach Banta City.

    In the car, the two talked for a bit. Count Will paused before lowering his voice and asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you just came from the ck Rice Wastnd, you should understand the matter on the ck Rice Wastnd, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°How is the mattering along?¡± Count Will asked.

    Xu Yi looked at Count Will¡¯s worried look and after thinking about it, he replied, ¡°It¡¯s not a problem at all. I¡¯ve sent people tofort the beastmen tribes that were attacked and promised in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to take care of them. Now those beastmen have calmed down and aren¡¯t doing anything, but......¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face turned serious and he asked in a deep voice, ¡°Lord City Lord, I didn¡¯t seemander Lantis this time in ck Rice City, so I couldn¡¯t ask him face to face. Why could the Sack Kingdom invade the ck Rice Wastnd so easily? Wasn¡¯t the western army guarding the northern borders of the ck Rice Wastnd? Moreover, ourpany has constructed fortifications for them. If they can¡¯t stop the Sack Kingdom¡¯s attack like this, then they might not be able to stop the Sack Kingdom from invading the Lampuri Kingdom!¡±

    The sudden matter on the ck Rice Wastnd was that five tribes near the border with the Sack Kingdom to the north had been invaded by the Sack Kingdom. Those five tribes werepletely ughtered by the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army, creating arge stir on the ck Rice Wastnd. All the beastmen were worried on the ck Rice Wastnd.

    After receiving this shocking news, Xu Yi immediately headed to the ck Rice Wastnd and properly followed up on this matter.

    However, this matter had serious effects, so Xu Yi was of course angry.

    ¡°This......¡± Count Will gave a cough and revealed an awkward look, ¡°Commander Lantis never expected this to happen......The Sack Kingdom attacked this suddenly and they sent in a small elite team, it is very hard to guard against.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, not pursuing this topic.

    Actually he knew that there was this loophole with the western army which gave the Sack Kingdom this chance was because the Lampuri Kingdom never treated the ck Rice Wastnd as their territory. They just treated it as a buffer zone between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After all, the majority of people on the ck Rice Wastnd were beastmen. No matter how the beastmen were injured, it was unrted to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think this way.

    There were over seventy thousand workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and over ten thousand of them were beastmen. This was a power that couldn¡¯t be ignored in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had to consider the matter of the beastmen¡¯s moods.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ck Rice City on the ck Rice Wastnds, it was a very important production base for them.

    After developing for several years, ck Rice City was already arge base for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies, so it was very important.

    ck Rice City sat on the ck Rice Wastnd, so if the ck Rice Wastnd wasn¡¯t stable, it would greatly affect the stable development of ck Rice City.

 Volume 5 14 Her majesty had me tell you this

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 14 Her majesty had me tell you this</h4>

    Butpared to being angry and dissatisfied with the western army, what Xu Yi cared more about was the Sack Kingdom¡¯s reason for doing this.

    Killing five beastmen tribes, this would greatly affect the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd, but Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see any meaning to this for the Sack Kingdom.

    It was impossible for the Sack Kingdom to do this for no reason, so why would they risk fighting the western army and breaking through the fortifications to ughter five beastmen tribes that didn¡¯t affect the Sack Kingdom at all.

    However, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see the meaning of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s actions this time.

    If it was based purely on the result, the ones that suffered the most from this other than the beastmen tribes was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because of this matter, the ten thousand beastmen workers the Frestech Chamber of Commerce employed didn¡¯t feel good. It affected their efficiency and it slowed down the production of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during these days.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this important to the Sack Kingdom for them to take such arge risk to attack them.

    So the only other exnation was that the Sack Kingdom was trying to estimate the strength and defenses of the western army on the ck Rice Wastnd through this.

    Perhaps the Sack Kingdom will invade from the direction of the ck Rice Wastnd before entering the Lampuri Kingdom to the west.

    But if the Sack Kingdom was thinking this, it seemed to Xu Yi that they were just fantasizing.

    Since Seveni took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started working closely together. In just two years, the Lampuri Kingdom hadpletely changed.

    ording to the stats, in justst year, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grain yield reached six million and eight hundred thousand tonnes. It sweeped the previous record of five million and nine hundred thousand tonnes, bing one of the countries with the highest grain yield in the surrounding area.

    The Lampuri Kingdom could not only easily feed their people, they could store arge amount of grains, as well as export arge amount.

    Just based on the amount they exportedst year, the Lampuri Kingdom had gained six hundred thousand gold coins.

    Butpared to exporting magic machines, the ie from exporting grains was nothing.

    ording to the stats, justst year, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine factories which they built with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had produced seven million units of household magic machines.

    Other than the two million and six hundred thousand that was digested in the kingdom, the remaining close to five million household magic machines were all exported through various channels to the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and other countries. It had created a terrifying ie of over six million gold coins for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    From these two sources of ie, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had received a shocking two million in tax revenue.

    With the various other taxes that came from inside the kingdom, the kingdom¡¯s finances had gained over three million gold coins.

    So in justst year, which was the first year Seveni took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances experienced a terrifying growth, reaching over six million gold coins.

    This shocking revenue, it was the first time it had happened in the hundreds of years of history for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Having money made things easier.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances were alwayscking, so they couldn¡¯t spend much money to invest on critical things like the military. That was why the Lampuri Kingdom was suppressed by the Sack Kingdom and couldn¡¯t fight back.

    But now that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had greatly increased, the Lampuri Kingdom could invest in their army with their money.

    Last year, the military funding went from the pitiful less than three hundred thousand gold coins to one million and three hundred thousand! It had increased by a total of a million!

    With thisrge investment, the main armies under the royal family were equipped with brand new equipment. Moreover, they purchasedrge amounts of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the northern army, this was even more clear.

    The fully equipped northern army had fought with the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment several times, winning by arge amount each time.

    The northern army was now guarding the Muerto Mountains and the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t dare take a single step forward. There was no need to mention them invading the Lampuri Kingdom like before.

    Because the military strength of both sides were reversed, Xu Yi was confused why the Sack Kingdom had suddenly moved against the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd.

    The Sack Kingdom being able to defend their territory was already good enough, they were also thinking of invading the Lampuri Kingdom? How dumb was that?

    Xu Yi was lost in his thoughts on the Sack Kingdom¡¯s actions and Count Will became awkward because of Xu Yi¡¯s questions, so the car fell into silence.

    But not long after, the Magic Sedan suddenly shook and Xu Yi was pulled out of his thoughts.

    Feeling the ache that came from falling back in his seat and the jolt from the car, Xu Yi knit his brows to look. He found that the Falling Rain Road they had just passed hadrge and small holes in them, so it was no wonder it was hard to go over it.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, when I came herest time, the Falling Rain Road was very good. Why did it be like this in just several months?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Count Will also turned back to look before bing even more awkward.

    ¡°This¡­¡­The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ore transporting Magic Cars have been traveling this roadtely, so the Falling Rain Road has been crushed.¡±

    ¡°The Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport cars?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before understanding, ¡°They are transporting to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill to the north, right?¡±

    ¡°Un. Chairman Xu, this steel mill is a cooperation between your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, you shouldn¡¯t be forgetting about it.¡± Count Will said.

    ¡°Of course I remember. Other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this is one of the first steel mills. It is a bit rted to my transporting of the Magic Air Conditioner production line this time.¡± Xu Yi looked at the road again and said with knit brows, ¡°But the transport cars crushing the Falling Rain Road like this won¡¯t work. Lord City Lord, have you considered restoring the road?¡±

    ¡°It is under consideration.¡± Count Will said with a nod, ¡°Moreover, we aren¡¯t just nning on restoring the Falling Rain Road, we are also seizing this chance to add another eightnes of traffic to the Falling Rain Road. Because the Falling Rain Road is our Banta City¡¯s main transport line, it was too narrow before and couldn¡¯t meet our needs.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have money when we were building this Falling Rain Road, so we couldn¡¯t make it too wide. But Lord City Lord, now that you¡¯ve realized this issue, I really have to praise you.¡±

    ¡°This is my responsibility as the City Lord.¡± Count Will said with a faint smile, ¡°Speaking of fixing roads, chairman Xu, do you know that her majesty gave a decree recently?¡±

    ¡°Is it the proposal of strengthening the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s roads?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes, her majesty ns on constructing thirteen new roads next year and linking the entire kingdom. Other than this, she is preparing to fix or develop thirty nine other roads and strengthening the kingdom¡¯s transportwork. This n has been passed by the kingdom¡¯s parliament and it should be implemented soon.¡±

    ¡°That is a good thing.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°In the end, the Lampuri Kingdom has money now, so her majesty can do many things.¡±

    ¡°But an important problem for this n hasn¡¯t been solved.¡± Count Will looked at Xu Yi with bright eyes.

    Seeing Count Will¡¯s expression, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°I say, Lord City Lord, it can¡¯t be that her majesty sent you to inquire about me, right? With my rtionship with her majesty, what can¡¯t be said directly?¡±

    Count Will revealed a strange smile. He gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°This n¡¯s problem lies in fixing and developing the roads, which means we will need arge amount of cement and steel. The steel can be easily solved because the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill is making various steel products. Even if the quality isn¡¯t that high, it is enough to fix the road. But as for cement¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°No problem. I dislike shipping cement all the way from the Stantine Duchy, so I nned on building several cement factories in the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Count Will was surprised before being filled with joy.

    He had indeed been sent by her majesty to test Xu Yi, but he never thought that Xu Yi would immediately agree!

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like this.¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Will before looking in the direction of Anvilmar City. He shook his head and said, ¡°Help me tell her majesty that my intention of helping the Lampuri Kingdom build a magic machine industry hasn¡¯t changed, so she doesn¡¯t need to worry that much.¡±

    Count Will took a deep look at Xu Yi with a bit of a strange look in his eyes.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, there¡¯s no need for me to pass these words to her majesty, it¡¯s best if you personally tell her.¡±

    ¡°Personally tell her?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

 Volume 5 15 Difficulties parking

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 15 Difficulties parking</h4>

    Five dayster, Xu Yi appeared in the streets of Anvilmar City.

    With the rapid development of the Lampuri Kingdom, Anvilmar City as the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom had quickly changed.

    The most direct change was that by the streets of Anvilmar City, there were many stores that were selling household magic machines.

    Walking in therge streets and the alleys, one could find all different kinds of household magic machines being used.

    Now that it was summer, the people of Anvilmar City weren¡¯t forced out of their hot rooms to find a cool ce to escape the burning heat. Because even if they couldn¡¯t afford to buy a Magic Air Conditioner that cost twenty to thirty gold coins, they could at least afford a Magic Fan.

    Xu Yi looked around and found that many doors were open around him. He could see various styles and colours of Magic Fans that were currently spinning inside those homes.

    These Magic Fans didn¡¯t alle from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because Xu Yi had sold the Magic Fan technology to the public, there were many new brands of Magic Fans that appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if the Frestech Brand Magic Fan was the highest quality in the minds of the Lampuri Kingdom citizens, as the quality and performance of the other brands approached that of the Frestech Brand, it allowed them to be able topete with the powerful Frestech Brand Magic Fan.

    ording to the stats fromst month, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales volume of Magic Fans increased in the Lampuri Kingdom, increasing by 17%pared tost year, their share of the market in the Lampuri Kingdom had dropped from 76% to 53%.

    Comparing the data here, it meant that the economy of the Lampuri Kingdom was getting better and there were more and more families that could buy Magic Fans, but it also meant that the Magic Fans of other brands were bing more of apetition. They stole quite a bit of the market from the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Kennard expressed some worries about this on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s higher level members. He felt that with the decrease in market shares, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should deal with this, finding a proper way to steal back those market shares.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t care at all about this, he was rather feeling a bit happy about this.

    These two numbers not only showed that there was economic development in the Lampuri Kingdom, it meant that the otherpanies advanced their technology when it came to Magic Fans.

    Putting aside thepanies that didn¡¯t care about costs and even did business at a loss, Xu Yi had done a survey of seventeenpanies in the Lampuri Kingdom that produced Magic Fans. He confirmed that the Magic Fans of these brands had the same abilities as the Frestech Brand Magic Fan, with most of them only differing in a few manufacturing details.

    There were even sixpanies that used their own research when making Magic Fans, making these six brands slightly different from the Frestech Brand.

    Although that didn¡¯t necessarily mean it made their Magic Fans better, there was no doubt that these sixpanies had made innovations with the Magic Fan.

    This was something that Xu Yi put utmost importance to.

    Aftering to Anvilmar City this time, Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately see Seveni. He used thework that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up in Anvilmar City to contact those sixpanies, gathering them together to meet with him.

    Both sides decided to meet in the most luxurious restaurant in Anvilmar City. After Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan into Anvilmar City, he headed to this restaurant that was builtst year and encountered a problem that he didn¡¯t expect.

    There was no parking space!

    Xu Yi stopped the Magic Car a bit from the front doors of the restaurant and looked at the various Magic Cars that were stopped outside the restaurant, as well as the three medium passenger Magic Cars. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a strange look on his face.

    In a big city on earth, if one wanted to eat at a restaurant, it was natural for them to worry about parking spots.

    But Xu Yi never would have thought that in this world, it would actually be a problem too!

    It had to be said, the development speed of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent far surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations

    At least the people of this world epted the Magic Sedans very quickly.

    ording to the stats of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in the year and a half the Seveni had taken the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold over ten thousand Magic Sedans. It had generated over three million gold coins in profit for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi was happy to hear this number before, but now he felt a bit worried about this number.

    While hesitating about whether he should find an alley to park his Magic Sedan in or not, three people turned over to look at Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan from in front of the restaurant. They immediately revealed smiles and came over to greet him.

    The one in front was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Anvilmar City manager ime.

    As for the other two, based on the uniform one was wearing, he could tell that this person worked in the restaurant. As for the other person, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know him.

    ime quickly came to the side of the Magic Sedan. Xu Yi rolled down his window to look at him before looking at the others and hinting with his eyes towards ime.

    ime gave Xu Yi a slight bow before pointing at the young looking server and said, ¡°Sir chairman, the parking space in front of the restaurant is full, please let him help you find another ce to park.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the server in surprise. He never thought that this restaurant would have someone park the car for him, they really were keeping up with the times.

    After getting out, he handed the keys to the valet while also tossing a gold coin to him.

    The valet looked at the shining gold coin in his hands in disbelief before looking at Xu Yi with a bit of hesitation.

    ¡°Take it, this is a tip for you.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    The valet took the gold coin and gave Xu Yi a deep bow. Then he entered the Magic Sedan and with a skillful turn, he headed to an alley beside the restaurant.

    ¡°When you leave, you just have to call him and he¡¯ll bring your car back.¡± ime turned away from the Magic Sedan and exined to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi nodded before turning to the middle aged man he didn¡¯t recognize.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please let me introduce you. This is the Rigg Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Passaro Rigg.¡± ime said.

    The middle aged man revealed a humble smile and gave a slight bow to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it is an honour to meet you.¡±

    ¡°Rigg Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi seriously looked over this middle aged man before giving a nod, ¡°Chairman Rigg, the automatic start and stop that yourpany¡¯s Magic Fan has is something very new that I admire very much.¡±

    Chairman Rigg gave augh, ¡°Being able to receive chairman Xu¡¯s approval is a great honour for me. Butpared to your Frestech Brand Magic Fan, our Rigg Brand Magic Fan has many things that we can¡¯tpare in. We still need to learn from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Having progress is a good sign, if you keep developing like this, I believe that there will be a day when your Rigg Brand Magic Fan will catch up to and even surpass our Frestech Brand.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Chairman Rigg saw the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face and there was a bit of doubt and inquisition in his eyes.

    With his many years of life experience, he could tell that Xu Yi¡¯s smile and praise were heartfelt.

    But that was too strange.

    The Rigg Brand Magic Fan making this breakthrough would steal a part of the Magic Fan market from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Based on the views of a merchant, they would definitely regard the Rigg Brand as apetitor and wouldn¡¯t feel good about it.

    But now Xu Yi looked this happy. Could it be that he really was like the rumours, he fully supported the otherpanies investing in the magic machine industry and he felt true happiness when they made breakthroughs?

    If he really was this magnanimous, he might as well give all the magic machine technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to the otherpanies for free.

    Although this was his first time meeting Xu Yi, chairman Rigg found that he couldn¡¯t see through the thoughts of this young looking chairman who didn¡¯t even seem like he was even thirty years old.

    The three of them entered the restaurant together. When they came in, chairman Rigg hesitated a bit before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask, what did you gather our sixpanies together this time for?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him. He didn¡¯t know if this chairman Rigg was here for the other fivepanies or if he was here to gather some information for himself ahead of time.

    ¡°We all make Magic Fans, gathering you all together is naturally rted to the Magic Fan.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Rigg, including yourpany, the sixpanies today all have original technology. I admire the technologies you¡¯ve developed yourselves very much and I¡¯m very interested in them. I¡¯m meeting you today to discuss that technology.¡±

    Hearing this response, chairman Rigg¡¯s heart skipped a beat and his expression became tense.

    Could it be¡­¡­The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set their eyes on the unique technology hispany had developed?

    With the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that far surpassed the other sixpanies and adding in the support of the Lampuri Kingdom, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really wanted to take their unique technology, they wouldn¡¯t be able to resist at all.

    As if he could guess what chairman Rigg was thinking from his expression, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said, ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry, chairman Rigg. I am just interested, I don¡¯t want to harm you at all at. Rather, I came looking for you this time to bring you benefits.¡±

    Seeing the gentle smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Rigg didn¡¯t know why, but his heart settled a bit.

    However, before knowing what Xu YI¡¯s exact goal was, he was still worried.

 Volume 5 16 Because you have technology, you were chosen

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 16 Because you have technology, you were chosen</h4>

    In just half an hour, the doubts and worry in chairman Rigg¡¯s heartpletely vanished.

    After meeting the chairman of the six Magic Fanpanies, Xu Yi simply chatted with them before immediately entering the main topic.

    What the six chairmen didn¡¯t expect was that Xu Yi really was here to bring them benefits this time.

    Xu YI told the six chairmen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was prepared to spread the household magic machines to other countries on the Sines Continent. Right now, their biggest goal was the Candra Empire.

    But Xu Yi said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current production was limited, so even if they could open the Candra Empire market, it would be hard for them to satisfy therge needs of the Candra Empire.

    So he wanted to work with the otherpanies that produced household magic machines, having everyone enter this market.

    For the Magic Fans, Xu Yi had chosen these sixpanies. He was prepared to give a portion of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders to these sixpanies to fulfill.

    Hearing Xu YI¡¯s proposal, including chairman Rigg, all of the six chairmen hadplete looks of disbelief.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity wasn¡¯t enough, they wouldn¡¯t need to worry at all if they got orders, alright?

    Their production capacity wasn¡¯t enough? Wasn¡¯t that simple, they could just open more factories and recruit more workers!

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with their strength, this was a piece of cake!

    The six chairmen didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi was thinking, when Xu Yi even took out the contract for them, they still couldn¡¯t believe it.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any schemes and was a saint, then he was simply the saviour of the world!

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom developed quickly and the demand for household magic machines in the kingdom kept increasing, the Lampuri Kingdom was a small kingdom in the end and there was a limit to their internal demand.

    There were many magic machinepanies that followed the trend that appeared, so there were already seventeenpanies producing Magic Fans in the Lampuri Kingdom. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s market was filled, so it was hard to develop any further.

    These sixpanies had some unique technology, so they were just a bit better than the otherpanies.

    They could develop quickly in the first few years, but it could be seen that after a few more years, when the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s internal market was saturated, they would quickly meet a bottleneck,

    But now Xu Yi appeared and imed that he wanted to lead them to a wider market!

    For these sixpanies that struggled to develop in the future, wasn¡¯t this a saviour showing up for them?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you doing this?¡± The six chairmen¡¯s hearts were filled with doubt, but chairman Rigg was the one who asked.

    ¡°Because yourpanies have put time and money into research, so I favour you.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve always insisted that technology is the number one core of development. As long as you invest heavily in developing technology, you will be able to develop for a long time. Compared to the other Magic Fanpanies, you sixpanies understand this better and have better foresight, so I¡¯m willing to work with you. Or perhaps¡­¡­willing to help you.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s reply was this direct which made the six chairmen dispel their doubts.

    Right, with the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce care about their six smallpanies?

    Unique technology?

    What a joke! With the massive research ability of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if they were willing, they could easily develop their so-called unique technology and make it even better.

    However, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan that was released on the market this summer didn¡¯t have any of the technology the sixpanies had, it was clear that they had left some space to survive for them.

    Just based on this, they could see Xu Yi¡¯s sincerity.

    After thinking this through, the chairmen of the sixpanies finally put down the stone in their heart and began seriously considering the proposition that Xu Yi had made.

    As for the final result, both sides were naturally happy about this discussion.

    In the final contract they signed, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received orders from outside of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, they would give a portion of the Magic Fan orders to these sixpanies.

    And these sixpanies had to invest no less than a hundred thousand gold coins each year into developing technology rted to Magic Fans.

    At the same time, the Magic Fans of the sixpanies had to follow the standard of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they couldn¡¯t go against it secretly.

    These two conditions were nothing for the sixpanies.

    The reason why they could make this breakthrough in the Magic Fan technology was because they were willing to invest.

    Although a hundred thousand gold coins a year was more than they were currently investing, it wasn¡¯t too high for them and they could ept it.

    Not to mention that this would be very helpful to their development, so they had no reason to reject.

    As for the other condition, it meant nothing.

    Right now all the magic machines were invented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the otherpanies only received that technology from transferring it from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the production lines and the standards, they had all learned them from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With this premise, the magic machines they produced naturally followed the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so how could they go against it?

    So the chairmen of the sixpanies were very happy to sign the contract.

    After the discussions were over, Xu Yi declined their invitation to have dinner and left the restaurant with manager ime.

    The valet had already driven Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan back and was parked in front of the restaurant. He was standing beside the car like he was a guard for it.

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Sedan that had been washed and lookedpletely new. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile as he dug out a gold coin from his chest.

    This little fellow really did have good eyes. He saw that his car was dirty from driving several hundred kilometers, so he took the initiative to wash it for him.

    Of course, the gold coin that he had tipped before yed the most important role.

    The valet took the coin and opened the door with a wide smile, inviting Xu Yi in.

    When Xu Yi was about to start the car, the valet suddenly bent down and asked with an excited look, ¡°May I ask¡­¡­Are you the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Oh? You recognize me?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°The ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? have put your picture several times, so I remembered it.¡± After this was confirmed by Xu Yi, the valet was very excited. After hesitating a bit, he suddenly took out a piece of paper and a pen from his chest, ¡°Can I have your autograph?¡±

    Xu Yi was even more stunned.

    He never thought that he would meet one of his fans.

    Looking at the valet¡¯s young, excited, and nervous face, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He took the pen and paper to write his name.

    The valet happily waved it around before giving Xu Yi a deep bow and moving to the side.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush to start the car. He waved at the valet and had hime over.

    The valet walked over in a confused manner, ¡°Do you need something else?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at his Magic Sedan, ¡°Did you wash this car?¡±

    The valet nodded before suddenly looking a bit scared.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you wouldn¡¯t me me for messing with your car, right?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not that petty.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Not to mention that you made it quite clean, so I¡¯m very satisfied. I called you here because I suddenly thought of something that I wanted to ask you. Tell me, is there a ce for washing cars in Anvilmar City right now?¡±

    ¡°A ce for washing cars?¡± The valet knit his brows to think before shaking his head, ¡°There isn¡¯t a ce like this. Chairman Xu, you still want to wash it? If you still want to wash it, you cane find me and I¡¯ll wash it for you for free.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not talking about this. Since there isn¡¯t a ce for washing cars in Anvilmar City, then¡­¡­don¡¯t you think that this is a very good chance?¡±

    ¡°Very good chance?¡± The valet was confused.

    Manager ime on the side said with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t you understand? Sir chairman is reminding you that if you open a store for washing cars, the business would definitely be good and you would earn a lot.¡±

    The valet¡¯s eyes suddenly lit up, ¡°Right! Why didn¡¯t I think of it!¡±

    Manager imeughed, ¡°How can youpare to sir chairman?¡±

    The valet ignored manager ime¡¯s quip. He scratched his head and excitedly turned around a few times before giving a sigh.

    ¡°It costs a lot of money to open a store, I¡­¡­I don¡¯t have that much money¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°That is easy to solve.¡± Xu Yi turned to manager ime and said, ¡°Washing cars can be considered after sale service for ourpany¡¯s Magic Sedans. ime, I¡¯ve decided to try this out in Anvilmar City first. You and this¡­¡­Right, what is your name?¡±

    ¡°Noah! in Noah! Sir chairman!¡± The valet quickly replied in a loud voice.

    ¡°Alright, in Noah, are you willing to work in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product service center and provide service to Magic Sedans?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Noah was stunned before his eyes opened wide in excitement and he loudly said, ¡°I¡¯m willing! I¡¯m willing! It¡¯s my dream to enter your Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    ¡°Alright, ime, remember this. Noah, I hope that you can finish your work at this restaurant as soon as possible and report to ourpany¡¯s product service center. You can directly contact ime, understand?¡± Xu Yi gave the order.

    ¡°Un! I understand!¡± Noah gave a strong nod, ¡°Sir chairman, I will definitely do my best to repay you!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile before turning on the Magic Sedan and driving off.

    Noah watched the Magic Sedan disappear around the corner in a daze and after a while, he pumped his fists into the air.

 Volume 5 17 It would be good to be a normal person

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 17 It would be good to be a normal person</h4>

    ¡°I¡¯ve heard that you met with the chairmen of the six Magic Fanpanies?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°I guess that other than them, you are nning on selecting a fewpanies from the other household magic machinepanies and meeting their chairmen, right?¡±

    ¡°I did have this n.¡±

    ¡°You are really nning on entering the market of other countries with thosepanies?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve always nned on doing this, you should be clear on this.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡±

    Seveni gave a nod and didn¡¯t keep asking. She lowered her head to write something on her desk.

    Suddenly therge room fell into silence.

    Xu Yi bent over to look at Seveni who was seriously writing and found thatpared tost time, she was a bit thinner.

    Her face was thin and although she wasn¡¯t an absolute beauty, it made people feel that she was quite kind.

    Now that she was thinner, based on her appearance, she was actually a bit prettier than before.

    But this destroyed her kind and gentle appearance. Adding in the dignified, but not angry look in her eyes, it no longer let people feel that she was very kind, rather she became more dignified.

    Actually, it wasn¡¯t hard to understand.

    After taking the throne of the Lampuri Kingdom for two years, she would have the dignity of a queen.

    Of course, in front of Xu Yi, Seveni was still as rxed as before. The way she had Xu Yi call her in private was the same as before where she had him call her by name.

    After a while, Seveni stopped writing and gave a piece of paper to Xu Yi.

    ¡°What do you think about this?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit confused as he took it and found that it was a decree.

    The decree wrote that in the name of her majesty Seveni, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry management department would support the various Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies in researching new technology. They would urge thosepanies to invest more in developing new magic machine technology.

    Moreover, in Seveni¡¯s name, the royal family would take out fifty thousand gold coins to set up a special award for making progress to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry. They would give this award to anypany or person that made a breakthrough in any technology rted to magic machines.

    Xu Yi finished reading this decree and fell into thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Fifty thousand¡­¡­isn¡¯t that a bit too little?¡±

    Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯m not rich like you. That fifty thousand is taken out by the royal family, I can¡¯t take out any more.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­How about I take some money out and increase the award?¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    Seveni shook her head, ¡°No, this is the official award set up by our Lampuri Kingdom. A privatepany like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce participating will destroy the nature of this award, so it isn¡¯t right.¡±

    Xu Yi thought that it was correct, so he suggested, ¡°Then I should also set up an advancement award in the name of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­¡±

    Before Seveni replied, Xu Yi shook his head to deny this idea.

    ¡°No, we¡¯re all engaged in the magic machine industry. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has an advantage now, doing this will make the otherpanies dissatisfied and the result wouldn¡¯t be good.¡±

    Seveni revealed a smile, ¡°It¡¯s good that you know. Actually, you don¡¯t need to think this much, the way you are handling it now is good. If you can let those otherpanies understand that as long as they are willing to invest in technology, they will gain the favour of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and bring them to the markets of otherpanies to gainrge profits, I think that thosepanies will attach great importance in developing technology.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That¡¯s right, I understand merchants better than anyone. Other than benefits, there is nothing else that can truly move merchants.¡±

    Seveni took a deep look at Xu Yi before suddenly giving a sigh, ¡°Speaking of this, I still haven¡¯t thanked you yet.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Why are you suddenly thanking me?¡±

    ¡°I have to thank you for finding a new path of development for thepanies of the magic machine industry in the kingdom, letting the kingdom develop even faster.¡± Seveni said with a serious look, ¡°Actually I already considered this problem. Our Lampuri Kingdom is after all a small kingdom and while the magic machine industry is developing quickly in our kingdom now, it will be limited by the kingdom eventually, which will make it hard to develop. Now that you can bring our Lampuri Kingdom over, it will be of great help to the kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head before saying, ¡°Even without me, thosepanies would leave the Lampuri Kingdom eventually. I am just bringing them out ahead of time, it isn¡¯t anything.¡±

    ¡°If there wasn¡¯t you, there wouldn¡¯t be the magic machine industry at all, alright?¡± Seveni said.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug. Then he said with a smile, ¡°I say, Seveni, with our rtionship, you don¡¯t need to say these things, alright?¡±

    ¡°Our rtionship?¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes lit up as she looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, what do you think is the rtionship between us?¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s serious look, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. After thinking about it, he honestly replied, ¡°At least in my mind, I have always treated you as a friend.¡±

    ¡°Since we¡¯re friends, why aren¡¯t you willing to see me?¡± Seveni asked back, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for me sending you a letter this time, would you have note to Anvilmar City to see me?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a hollowugh, avoiding Seveni¡¯s questioning gaze.

    Seveni was right. If it wasn¡¯t for Seveni having Count Will give him that letter, he might have only stayed in Banta City for two days before returning to the Stantine Duchy, he wouldn¡¯t havee to Anvilmar City at all.

    Although it was important to meet with the chairmen of those sixpanies, those things didn¡¯t need him as the chairman toe out.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current position, with just a few words, those six chairmen might even run all the way to the Stantine Duchy to discuss with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Seeing Xu Yi avoid her gaze, Seveni gave a sigh.

    ¡°Actually I know that you feel that since I¡¯ve taken the throne, you should keep some distance with me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cough and turned to look at Seveni. After hesitating a bit, he said with a serious look, ¡°I do indeed think of this. After all, you are now the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, it¡¯s impossible for us without caring about others like before. I am keeping this distance because I want to protect the friendship between us. If wee closer, it might not be good.¡±

    Seveni fell silent and looked at Xu Yi for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°Actually I also know about this. I represent the Lampuri Kingdom and you represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although our Lampuri Kingdom has a close rtionship with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so that both sides are very friendly with each other, no matter what, there are conflicts of interest. For example¡­¡­there are many people who are opposed to buildingbined investment factories with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re against this?¡± Xu Yi had a look of ridicule on his face, ¡°They want to expel our Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the Lampuri Kingdom and do it themselves? But have those fellows thought that without our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t even have the ability to produce more than five kinds of magic machines by themselves?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m clear on this, but those people aren¡¯t.¡± Seveni gave a sigh and she revealed an exhausted look, ¡°I am the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, I have to consider the benefits of the kingdom. Choosing to continue building joint investment factories with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce looks like betraying the interests of the kingdom to those people.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a cold smile, ¡°Hei, the ideas of those idiots, there¡¯s no need to consider them.¡±

    Seveni gave a bitter smile, ¡°The problem is that those idiots you speak of represent arge portion of the kingdom¡¯s people.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni for a while and seeing the exhausted look she had, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of pain in his heart.

    Actually Seveni wasn¡¯t even twenty five yet and she was bearing the important responsibility of the entire Lampuri Kingdom. All the other members of the royal family were dead or living in seclusion, so there was no one to help her. She could only do this herself.

    ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to worry. As long as the kingdom keeps developing, no one in the kingdom will dare oppose me.¡± Seveni suddenly revealed an expression that was filled with dignity, giving off an aura that couldn¡¯t be ignored, ¡°If there really is someone who can¡¯t ount for the entire situation, I wouldn¡¯t mind teaching them a lesson.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Seveni rarely gave off this bone chilling appearance before.

    Did she be like this after taking the throne for a long time?

    But this was a good change for Seveni.

    If she stayed as kind as before, it wouldn¡¯t be a good thing for her to take the throne.

    Looking down at the surprised look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Seveni suddenly gave augh. It was like her face was like a flower blooming as it lit up like the sun.

    In an instant, she suddenly changed from the cold and serious queen to a normal neighbour girl.

    Seeing this quick change, Xu YI expressed admiration in his heart. No matter what, girls were existences that he couldn¡¯t understand.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi before suddenly pressing a button on the side.

    Not long after, two royal maids came in with some dishes and some wine.

    Xu Yi looked out the window in surprise and found that it was already dark outside.

    He had met several people in Anvilmar City this afternoon, so he epted Seveni¡¯s invitation after having dinner. Now that they had chatted for a bit, he never thought that it would be this dark already.

    Xu Yi quickly stood up and prepared to leave, but Seveni pulled on his arm to have him sit down.

    ¡°After not seeing each other for so long, how about we talk a bit before you leave?¡±

    Seeing the pleading look in Seveni¡¯s eyes and thinking about how Seveni had talked about their rtionship, Xu YI¡¯s heart turned soft before he nodded and sat down.

    Seveni revealed a look of joy. She waved her hand and had the two maids leave before personally pouring a cup of wine for Xu Yi. Then she poured one for herself and raised it in a toast to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Come, Xu Yi, let¡¯s forget about our statuses tonight and just chat like friends, alright?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s rare for you to have this interest, how could I not apany you?¡±

    The two drank their wine all at once.

    Xu Yi was fine, but Seveni¡¯s face immediately turned a bit red. It was clear that she didn¡¯t have much tolerance, but it also made her face more charming.

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you still remember when we met for the first time?¡± Seveni asked in a soft voice.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°It was my first time in Anvilmar City and I was nning on selling the agricultural magic machines¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The night became darker and with the wine, the two drank while chatting about the past.

    They didn¡¯t know if it was because of the wine or because of their past, as they drank, Xu YI¡¯s head became dizzy. After a while, he leaned back in the chair and couldn¡¯t move at all.

    Seeing Xu Yi fall asleep, Seveni who had been drunk suddenly had her eyes light up. Although her face was a bit red, she didn¡¯t seem drunk at all.

    She looked at Xu Yi with aplicated look for a while before giving a p and the two maids came back in.

 Volume 5 18 Marks in the dreams

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 18 Marks in the dreams</h4>

    There was an empty bedroom in front.

    There was a simple bed and there was arge table by the bed with many monitors on the table, with a Windows 7 desktop on the monitors.

    This single bed, the table and theputer beside it, and even the Windows 7 desktop with various blueprints on it were all very familiar to Xu Yi.

    However, seeing this familiar scene, Xu Yi¡¯s hearts were filled with doubt.

    This was the small room that he lived in when he was back on earth, but he had clearly transmigrated to the Sines Continent and lived there for several years, how did hee back to this familiar little room?

    Could it be that he had suddenly transmigrated back from the Sines Continent to earth?

    Or perhaps, the years that he had spent on the Sines Continent were only a dream?

    When Xu Yi wasn¡¯t feeling certain, there were two arms that came from behind him and tightly held his waist.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you leaving me?¡±

    Hearing this familiar voice that was filled with sadness, Xu Yi turned to see Still and quickly said with a smile, ¡°How could that be? How could I be willing to leave you?¡±

    ¡°But you always wanted to leave the Sines Continent and return to earth, isn¡¯t it just to abandon me?¡± Still keptining.

    Xu Yi immediately shook his head, ¡°No, it has been a long time since I wanted to go back to earth. Even if I did, I would definitely bring you with me. You are my most important person, how could I be willing to leave you?¡±

    Still finally revealed a smile. When Xu Yi was about to let out a sigh of relief, there were more voices that rang out.

    ¡°Master, are you throwing me away?¡±

    ¡°Master, do you not want me?¡±

    ¡°Master, I haven¡¯t married you yet, you can¡¯t leave.¡±

    Xu Yi turned again to see Liz, Linda, and Vivian¡¯s faces that were filled with hope. He said with a faint smile, ¡°Rx, you are all my family, I definitely won¡¯t throw you away.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you said it before that you would always treat me as part of your family.¡± There was another voice that sounded. Xu Yi turned to look and found that it was Teresa.

    Xu yi hesitated a bit, but seeing her sad look, his heart couldn¡¯t help turning soft.

    ¡°Un, I will always treat you as part of my family, I won¡¯t throw you away.¡±

    Teresa revealed a smile before another clear voice came from beside him.

    ¡°Un, sir chairman, you haven¡¯t copted with me yet, naturally you can¡¯t leave, right?¡±

    Xu Yi turned in surprise to see Agnes who was currently removing her clothes.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the elders have urged me many times to copte with you. Now is a very good chance, let¡¯s copte right now.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Agnes, I¡¯ve already said many times, don¡¯t call it ¡®copting¡¯, it doesn¡¯t sound good.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it the same anyway? Xu Yi, you¡¯ve wanted to be with Agnes for a long time, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Still who had been hugging Xu Yi suddenly moved her hands and without knowing why, all of Xu Yi¡¯s clothes were pulled off.

    When he turned to look around, Liz, Linda, Vivian, and Teresa were all like Agnes, they had all taken off their clothes and bore it all to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Hey! What are you doing?¡± Xu Yi was shocked. When he shouted, he felt a pair of hands slide down his back like snakes and moved towards the little brother that was standing tall on his lower half.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve always been interested in two old girls like me and Illusia, we¡¯ll satisfy you today.¡±

    Elder Lisanya who had suddenly appeared grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s little brother and her eyes were filled with enticement.

    Elder Illusia on the side also came from the side, looking at Xu Yi with a smile and eyes filled with desire.

    Xu Yi¡¯s mouth turned dry. He watched as Agnes, Liz, Linda, and the rest alle forward and surrounded him.

    ¡­¡­

    Without knowing how long had passed, Xu Yi suddenly ¡°woke up¡±.

    When he opened his eyes, he saw the marble roof that had a finely carved flower pattern.

    ¡°So it was a dream¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi let out a long sigh of relief, not knowing whether it was in joy or regret.

    When he thought of his dream just now, Xu Yi¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help turning red.

    He was already over thirty and he was having a wet dream, it really was a bit embarrassing.

    What made him even more ashamed and was hard for him to believe was that other than Still, Liz, and Linda, or even Agnes appearing in that dream¡­¡­why did Vivian also appear? Why did Teresa also appear?

    Could it be¡­¡­He had some desire towards them in his subconscious?

    But he had always treated Vivian as a little sister!

    As for Teresa, although she was very beautiful, Xu Yi shouldn¡¯t have any ideas towards her.

    As for elder Lisanya and elder Illusia who appeared in the end, he was even more confused.

    Although Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help reacting when he was naked in front of those two elders, this was just his reaction as a man and it didn¡¯t represent him wanting to do something with the elders.

    For him to have such an absurd dream, it could only be said that this was because of a man¡¯s endless desires. It was only in the unfettered world of the dream that such a strange thing would happen.

    ¡°I must be crazy¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s mouth twitched and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    But when he tried to move his arm, he suddenly felt something soft and warm.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression froze and he looked down in surprise, seeing two pink dots that were mixed with white.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes shifted over and he saw a girl who was lying naked beside him.

    Looking carefully, he recognized this girl as one of the two maids that Seveni hadst night.

    ¡°Just what did I do¡­¡­¡±

    Looking down at the naked body of the maid, Xu Yi swallowed his saliva with a bit of difficulty and he couldn¡¯t help shrinking back a bit.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡±

    There was another voice that came from behind him.

    Feeling the soft feeling on his back, Xu Yi turned to stone.

    ¡°This¡­¡­How can this be possible!¡±

    Xu Yi turned in a daze and he saw the same snow white colour.

    On the other side of him was another naked girl, it was the other one of the two maids.

    Xu Yi looked at this naked girl in a daze for a bit, thinking that if this was the cause of his dream.

    But why did it be like this?

    When he thought about it, he felt a strong headachee over him.

    Although the pain cut through his thoughts, this familiar aching made him immediately recall what happened.

    Last night, he was kept by Seveni and stayed in the royal pce to drink and talk with her.

    Before this, he remembered happily talking to Seveni.

    As for what happened after, he couldn¡¯t remember at all.

    Looking at the two naked maids around him, Xu Yi¡¯s lips twitched a few times and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Could this be going crazy after drinking?

    When Xu Yi was pondering what happenedst night with his headache, the door to the bedroom suddenly opened, as four maids and a female minister came walking in.

    These sounds woke the two maids sleeping beside Xu Yi. The two looked at their naked bodies and looked at Xu Yi, but they didn¡¯t panic and their faces just turned a bit red. But they didn¡¯t n on staying in the bed at all and quickly got out of the bed.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. He calmed down and sat up, looking at the female minister who walked over.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, have you rested well?¡± The female minister asked.

    Seeing the poker face smile on her face without any other emotions, Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Not bad.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± The female minister nodded before shouting at the two maids beside Xu Yi, ¡°Why aren¡¯t you helping chairman Xu get out of bed? What are youzing in bed for?¡±

    The two maids were scared and didn¡¯t care that they were wearing nothing, immediately getting out of bed. They put on their own clothes first before helping Xu Yi get out of bed.

    Xu Yi was not someone who hadn¡¯t seen the world before, he naturally knew what he should do in this situation.

    He let the two maids help him out of bed and then let them help him put on his clothes.

    Although other than the two girls who he had been with, there was the female minister who was at least thirty and the four young maids, Xu Yi didn¡¯t look awkward at all and looked calm.

    After Xu Yi was dressed and washed, he turned back to look at the red marks on the bed and then he looked at the two awkward looking maids standing behind him. With a nod, he said to the female minister, ¡°Where¡¯s her majesty? She should have told you to tell me something, right?¡±

    The female minister said with a nod, ¡°Her majesty isn¡¯t feeling well and is currently resting. But she has already given the decree for chairman Xu to view.¡±

    ¡°Is she also drunk?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows as he took the decree.

    The decree was long. The first part of it was about the official matters that Xu Yi had discussed with Seveni on the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom. It was very official, but there was one sentence added in the end.

    ¡°Betty and Carol are my favourite maids, but since you also like them, I¡¯ll give them to you. I know your character, so you¡¯ll definitely take good care of them, right? They¡¯ll live happy lives being with you.¡±

    ¡°Betty and Carol?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the maids with red faces.

    ¡°I am Betty.¡± This maid whose face was a bit round and looked a bit immature said.

    ¡°I am Carol.¡± Carol was a bit taller and had a fuller figure than Betty, having a mature charm.

    Seeing how nervous the two look, Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding.

    ¡°If you don¡¯t mind, you cane with me.¡±

    Betty and Carol¡¯s eyes opened wide as their faces filled with joy.

    But they had been strictly trained and didn¡¯t dare cheer, they looked at the female minister.

    The female minister nodded, ¡°Her majesty has already given the decree. From this day forth, you belong to chairman Xu and are no longer rted to the royal pce.¡±

    Betty and Carol couldn¡¯t take the joy in their hearts and cheered.

    Seeing how happy the two were and the looks of envy the four maids had, Xu Yi shook his head as he gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    After a while, he took a pen and wrote a few words on the decree the female minister had handed him before giving it back to her.

    ¡°Help me bring this to her majesty.¡±

    The female minister looked over it before her expression froze.

    ¡°I like Betty and Carol, but I don¡¯t like this method at all.¡±

 Volume 5 19 - Turning and leaving

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 19 Turning and leaving</h4>

    <h4></h4>

    When Xu Yi came back from the royal pce, manager ime who had been waiting for him the entire time had a strange look.

    Xu Yi entered the royal pce to see her majestyst night and didn¡¯te back, he felt it was very strange.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom were close, sir chairman and her majesty Seveni were close, he was worried that sir chairman might encounter some danger in the royal pce.

    But now that Xu Yi was back with two young girls following him, manager ime felt quite surprised.

    Although Xu Yi said that these two girls named Betty and Carol were the new maids he recruited, manager ime was experienced and could tell with a single nce that these two girls had just lost their virginities. He could easily guess what had just happened.

    If Xu Yi was a normal noble or big merchant, manager ime definitely wouldn¡¯t be surprised because this was a very normal thing for them.

    With Xu YI¡¯s status, no one would say anything about him bringing two girls he liked home.

    But Xu Yi had always been incorruptible and was restrained in this matter, so there was only his wife Still in his house so far.

    As for Liz and Linda who were ves, no one would take them seriously.

    But now Xu Yi brought two girls back, manager ime was naturally surprised.

    What surprised him even more was that what sir chairman stayed atst night was not some noble or some merchant¡¯s house, it was the royal pce!

    He had stayed in the royal pce for a night and brought two girls back with him, this was rather unbelievable!

    Moreover, from Betty and Carol¡¯s actions, they were definitely maids trained in the royal pce and were not girls that could be found anywhere.

    Not to mention that both of them were beautiful, they were rare even in the royal pce.

    Sir chairman could actually bring these two out of the royal pce, he must have had the agreement of her majesty. These two might even have been personally given to sir chairman by her majesty!

    If this was true, it meant that her majesty and sir chairman¡¯s rtionship definitely wasn¡¯t normal.

    Since her majesty took the throne, she strictly controlled the royal pce.

    Not mentioning normal people, even the great nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t dare meddle with the royal pce¡¯s matters.

    But a young man like sir chairman not only stayed in the royal pce for a night, he even had intimate rtionships with two of the pce¡¯s maids and finally brought them out with him!

    This really was unbelievable.

    Seeing the very strange look manager ime had, Xu Yi acted like he saw nothing. He gave a cough and pulled him back from his thoughts.

    ¡°ime, about the matter of the Anvilmar City service center, how is it going?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi talk business, manager ime immediately came back from his thoughts and calmed down before replying, ¡°Sir chairman, this matter has basically been prepared. Before you came, I was thinking about when to formally announce this, but now that you¡¯re here, how about you personally preside over the official ceremony?¡±

    Seeing the hopeful look on manager ime¡¯s face, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I have other business to take care of. You can manage this ceremony. Moreover, there¡¯s the matter of the Magic Sedan post sale service that you have to follow up on. That boy named Noah, you can just let him take care of this. As for the other matters, you can send some maintenance staff from thepany. Un.....If Noah is willing to learn, you can also help him learn. Hey, what are you looking at me like that for?¡±

    Manager ime had a strange look, ¡°Sir chairman, if it wasn¡¯t that kid Noah already being quite old, I really would have thought that he was your illegitimate child.¡±

    Xu Yi lifted his leg and kicked out at manager ime. He scolded with a smile, ¡°If I had such an old illegitimate child, Still would definitely kill me.¡±

    Manager imeughed. His eyes couldn¡¯t help looking over at Betty and Carol on the side who were sizing up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s residence.

    Xu Yi naturally understood his meaning and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh. If Still knew that after his trip to Anvilmar City that he brought back two women, he really wouldn¡¯t know what she would think.

    Shaking away these thoughts, Xu Yi continued giving orders to manager ime, ¡°You have to deepen the cooperation with those sixpanies. If nothing unexpected happens, the orders from other countries wille in two months and I will give them a portion of it. When that timees, you will be in charge of supervising their progress and the quality of their products. This is ourpany¡¯s first attempt at cooperating like this, we can¡¯t make any mistakes.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I understand.¡±

    ¡°Other than this, the Magic Flying Car that we are working with Great Magician Eisenkel on has reached a new stage. In half a month, send some technical staff from the headquarters and have them take care of this project. You can be the contact when the timees and make sure that they work properly with Great Magician Eisenkel.¡±

    ¡°Un, justst week, Great Magician Eisenkel asked me about this matter.¡±

    ¡°Tell him not to rush. Since I¡¯ve already agreed to this, I will definitely help him.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°Other than this, president Eren has contacted me before. He hoped that the Magicians Guild could work with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop some magic machines. I¡¯ve already agreed to this with him, you should follow up with president Eren and understand what aspects he wants to cooperate on.¡±

    ¡°Un......I feel that we need to bring in a researcher from the headquarters to make it easier to discuss with president Eren.¡±

    ¡°No problem, I will write a letter to headquarters and have them send people. Also......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi said every single item and manager ime wrote every single item down.

    Manager ime had been in charge of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Anvilmar City for over two years now. Even when King Eric took the throne and when Duke Stagg started the civil war, he had been working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s office here, disying very good abilities.

    In the two years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce returned to Anvilmar City, he had been fully disying his abilities here. He smoothly built rtions with everyone who wanted to have rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and everyone rted to producing magic machines, ying a big role in the smooth development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi was very assured in his abilities, so he was willing to give so many important things to him.

    However, manager im was very confused. When he finished hearing all the things Xu Yi gave him, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s hard enough for you to make a trip to Anvilmar city, isn¡¯t it best if you personally see these people and discuss with them? If you discuss with them personally, it¡¯ll be countless times more effective than me. Are you.....not nning on staying in Anvilmar City for a few more days?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m nning to leave today.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re this rushed?¡± Manager ime was stunned, ¡°You just came yesterday.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve already taken care of the main things, the others don¡¯t matter.¡± Xu Yi casually said, ¡°Moreover, I still have something else important to take care of, I can¡¯t stay here for too long.¡±

    Manager ime slightly knit his brows, thinking that sir chairman was too insincere.

    No matter what, since he was already in Anvilmar City, it meant that he could spare the time.

    But now that he was here, he left after a single night. He wasn¡¯t willing to take care of those rather important matters and handed them all to him, this really was too strange.

    If the matters he talked about just now weren¡¯t important, he could have handed the meeting with those six chairmen to ime. He didn¡¯t need to go personally.

    Why did he leave after a single night? Why did sir chairman¡¯s positive manner from yesterday suddenly turn this negative?

    Could it be.....Something had happened in the royal pce that made him this cold?

    Manager ime looked at Betty and Carol and was confused.

    Properly speaking, sir chairman spending the night in the royal pce should have been a good thing......

    Xu Yi ignored manager ime¡¯s strange look as he tried to see if he had forgotten anything. Then he didn¡¯t stay and nned on leaving.

    Betty and Carol had been sent into the royal pce since they were young, they had already broken their rtionships with their parents. They didn¡¯t have any good friends in Anvilmar City either, so they could leave whenever.

    Xu Yi decided to leave, so the two of them obediently followed him.

    Sitting in Xu YI¡¯s Magic Sedan, the two were very excited.

    Because they hadn¡¯t left the royal pce many times even though they were grown up and they were sitting in the Magic Sedan they could only see from afar before.

    Thinking about the new life in front of them, the two were very happy, while also being nervous.

    Looking at the face of Xu Yi who was driving the Magic Sedan, the two felt even more nervous.

    Even if her majesty told the two in secret that chairman Xu was a gentle person, he would treat females equally and wouldn¡¯t discriminate against servants, being a rare good man.

    Based on his appearance, they found that Xu Yi¡¯s calm look had a dark tone underneath that seemed like he was very unhappy.

    ¡°Could it be that chairman Xu isn¡¯t satisfied with us?¡± Betty and Carol couldn¡¯t help guessing in their hearts.

    But no matter if Xu Yi liked them or not, since her majesty has decided to have them help with her n, their fates had already been decided and they couldn¡¯t change it at all.

    And now that they were in Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan, it was even more impossible to change.

    The only thing the two of them could do was pray that Xu Yi really was as good as her majesty had described.

    But when they thought of what happenedst night, the two felt like they were still in a dream.

    This chairman Xu, he might not know what had happenedst night his entire life......

 Volume 5 20 - Unknown route

    Volume 5 Chapter 20 Unknown route

    The sun kept setting behind them and it was about to fall under the endless sea in the distance.

    With the light of dusk falling, it dyed the sea orange yellow. Reflecting off the yellow paint of the ¡°Unfolding Wings¡±, the ¡°Morning Sun¡±, and the ¡°Goddess of Victory Iris¡±, it looked very good.

    Narvil narrowed his eyes and looked at the endless sea behind him before and looked at the same endlessness in front of him. The sea was already getting dark, so he nodded and said to his assistant, ¡°Tell them to start decreasing the speed and enter night sailing.¡±

    The assistant received this order and after a while, the Unfolding Wings slowed down. The Morning Sun and the Goddess of Victory Iris on its sides behind it also slowed down, maintaining a triangle formation. They sailed on the boundless seas, heading in an easterly direction.

    Narvil came to the railing and leaned over to look at the sea.

    Although they had decreased their speed and the waves the Unfolding Wings created was smaller, it was still countless times bigger than any boat that Narvil had sailed on before.

    If they mmed into a wave, the spray that came from it could even reach several meters.

    Narvil had spent many years on the sea, he always liked watching the spray that came from the waves hitting the boat.

    However, before this, he had never seen a boat like this Unfolding Wings. With such high waves from the sea, it was still able to sail forward this steadily.

    Steady and safe, that was the deepest feeling that Narvil received from the Unfolding Wings in thest three months.

    Compared to the wooden boats Narvil sailed, the Unfolding Wings was tens of times bigger. Moreover, because it waspletely made of steel, it was very steady when it sailed on the sea.

    When he sailed with the wooden boats before, whenever they met arge wave, the boat would sway. It would make one feel like the boat would flip over at any moment.

    But on the Unfolding Wings, a normal wave couldn¡¯t affect it at all. Being on deck was just like being onnd.

    Even if they met therger and stronger waves, the Unfolding Wings would be able to steadily sail forward. It wouldn¡¯t shake at all and made people feel very assured.

    Thinking of this,Narvil couldn¡¯t help thinking of what had happened three days ago at night.

    Three days ago, the fleet had passed through a bay at night and they were suddenly hit with a storm.

    The storm had been fierce and the situation was bad. If they met this kind of violent storm on sea before, they wouldn¡¯t have any chance of returning alive.

    However, when facing this violent storm, the threerge Magic Ships disyed an ability that far surpassed the normal wooden boats.

    Although the hull would shake, the ship still sailed very steadily.

    And with the Wind and Water Magic Arrays that were specially used for bad weather on the sea that the three Magic Ships had, the three Magic Ships didn¡¯t encounter any dangers from beginning to end.

    When the storm was over and the sea returned to normal, including Narvil, everyone was feeling a bit of disbelief.

    The people of these three boats were all old sailors who had spent many years on the sea, they knew about the dangers of the sea better than normal people. So they were very clear just how dangerous the sudden storm was, even most people had thought that it was a death sentence.

    But no one would have thought that the three Magic Boats would be able to pass through this danger so easily.

    After everyone escaped from death, they had a new understanding and trust of the abilities of the three Magic Ships.

    If it was said that when they set out from the Frestech Harbour, everyone was feeling a bit nervous about the journey ahead, now that they had experienced this storm, everyone was filled with confidence.

    Everyone believed that with these three powerful Magic Boats, they could even sail to the furthest corners of the world!

    Narvil also firmly believed this.

    But he was themander of this fleet, so he had to consider things more realistically.

    Since setting out from the Frestech Harbour, it had been close to twenty days.

    Based on the nautical charts, they had alreadypleted half of this journey.

    If they approached the shores now, they would already enter the borders of the Rudson Kingdom.

    If nothing unexpected happened, as long as they continued forward for less than a week, they should arrive at Nissi City.

    Actually, with the max speed of forty kilometers an hour for these three Magic Ships, they didn¡¯t need to use that long. They could have made the trip in less than a week.

    But because this was their first time and this fleet was not just carrying cargo to Nissi City, but also to explore the route andy the foundations for future trips.

    During this entire trip, Narvil had been very carefully and strictly controlled their speed. He had been recording all the details of the surrounding sea area and drawing nautical charts, so they had been moving quite slow overall.

    Although going this slow was safer, it brought quite a few problems.

    The first problem was their logistics.

    Even if Narvil had set a time of one month for their journey when they set out from the Frestech Harbour and had prepared a month of supplies ordingly, there were many idents that couldn¡¯t be avoided on this seafaring voyage. It caused them to consume their supplies much faster than Narvil expected.

    With the current supplies the Magic Ships had, it would support them for around ten days.

    In theory, that should be enough for the fleet to make it to Nissi City.

    But if another ident happened, it would be hard to say.

    The other supplies were easier, but once they were out of fresh water which was the most important thing on the open seas, they really couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Thinking of the gravity of the situation, Narvil couldn¡¯t help thinking of what sir chairman had told him before leaving. He said that he was considering developing a Magic Water Purifier.

    If they could develop this thing and bring it on future voyages, it would be much more convenient.

    But right now.....they had to solve their current problem.

    Narvil looked at the boundless sea in front of them and he looked up at the observation deck in the middle of the Unfolding Wings. He picked up the Magic Communicator and said, ¡°Metz, look properly for me. If there is any ind that is near us, tell me ahead of time. We will head to those inds to get more supplies.¡±

    ¡°Roger!¡± There was a very casual voice that came from the Magic Communicator before it said in a lower voice, ¡°But captain, it¡¯s already this dark, we can¡¯t see anything.¡±

    ¡°Stop wasting words, just watch if I want you to watch. It isn¡¯t just today, you have to pay attention to this every day from now on, understood?¡± Narvil said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Oh, I got it. But I¡¯ve been watching the whole time and I haven¡¯t seen that many inds. I say, captain, is there a problem with the route we chose? I feel that if we approach the coastline, there will be more inds.¡±

    ¡°Do I need you to say this?¡± Narvil angrily reprimanded.

    If possible, of course he knew that it was safer near the coast and it would be easier to obtain supplies.

    But even if the three Magic Boats were good, there was still a problem. They were too big and because they were cast from steel, making them very heavy, they sunk deep into the water.

    If they approached the coastline too much, it was fine if they were familiar with the area. But if they weren¡¯t, there were many hidden rocks and if they bumped into those hidden rocks, they would be stuck.

    If this really happened, he wouldn¡¯t have any face to see sir chairman again.

    Then again, the main duty of this fleet was to verify the sea route. So Narvil chose a route that wasn¡¯t too clear.

    But the route he chose didn¡¯t have any inds that were suited for being supply depots, so they couldn¡¯t supplement their supplies.

    Because he was worried about this matter, when he heard Metz being mouthy about this, he naturally didn¡¯t feel good.

    Metz was an old crew member under Narvil, so naturally he could hear the bad tone in his voice.

    He reached his head out to look at the deck and he saw Narvil pacing back and forth there. He knew that he was pondering this problem, so Metz stuck out his tongue and without saying a thing, he turned to look at the sea.

    The sun was already halfway over the horizon and the sea in the east was already dim. Even if Metz¡¯s eyes were good and he used the telescope, he couldn¡¯t see anything at all.

    Looking around, Metz muttered something. When he was about to put down the telescope and rest, he saw a group of ck dots appear in the distance that were quickly approaching.

    Metz was stunned before quickly reacting. He jumped up and shouted at the deck below in a loud voice.

    ¡°Pirates!¡±

    This sharp cry spread to everyone on the deck and everyone was instantly surprised.

    Pirates, this wasn¡¯t an unfamiliar word for these people who had spent many years on the sea.

    But they had been on this route for more than ten days now and perhaps because their route was deep in the sea, avoiding the ces near the coastline, it had always been very peaceful, so they had almost forgotten about the pirates.

    They never thought that once they entered the sea area of the Rudson Kingdom and when they weren¡¯t far from their goal, they would bump into pirates.

    Hearing Metz¡¯s cry, Narvil stopped. He first turned to the observation deck before looking forward, but he couldn¡¯t see anything in the darkness.

    After being dazed for a bit, there wasn¡¯t any look of fear on Narvil¡¯s face as his eyes filled with joy.

    ¡°Pirates? Ha, ha, that¡¯s great!¡±

 Volume 5 21 Thunderbolt Pirates

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 21 Thunderbolt Pirates</h4>

    Ragsar stared right at the light that was on the dark sea in front of him and his eyes were filled with endless greed.

    Since that damn Rudson Kingdom said that they wanted to turn Nissi City into the biggest port in the south of the Sines Continent, these pirates in the sea area of the Rudson Kingdom haven¡¯t had good lives.

    In order to guarantee the peace of Nissi City, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s first and second fleet had been wild during this time. They would patrol the sea when they were free and attacked pirates without any mercy.

    In the past, the pirates could use their speed to avoid the fleets of the Rudson Kingdom, but now that the first and second fleet had cast a around Nissi City, with arge number of boats patrolling around, the pirates didn¡¯t have any space to exist at all. They could only leave the area around Nissi City alone.

    Based on the news from the other pirates, the biggest pirate king in this area South Craig had been caught and thrown in jail by the first fleet.

    Even the one South Craig called brother in secret who secretly worked with him, the City Lord of Nissi City Count Milito had been exposed and was also caught. It was said that he would be executed in two months.

    All the pirates in the sea around Nissi City and even all the pirates in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s seas were afraid. They were so scared that they directly sailed out of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s seas.

    But for Ragsar who was unwilling to leave the Rudson Kingdom, he entered the deep seas and came to an ind he found a long time ago to use as a base, waiting for a chance to act.

    However, with the current sailing level of the Sines Continent, whether it was merchant boats or normal fishing boats, they would sail near the coast. Only a few people would go deep into the seas.

    Adding in the fact that Nissi City¡¯s coasts were quite safe now, all the merchant and fishing vessels chose to sail near the shore.

    So after Ragsar came to his base in the deep seas, for an entire two months, there wasn¡¯t any ¡°business¡± at all.

    Pirates relied on their des to make a living, they lived for each day, so they didn¡¯t have much saved up.

    Although Ragsar as the Thunderbolt Pirates¡¯ leader had some foresight, building a base on an ind and stockpiling it with supplies, after two months without any ¡°business¡±, their supplies were running quite low.

    If it wasn¡¯t for his subordinate saying that there was arge fleet near the coastline three days ago, Ragsar might have taken the risk of being caught and charged to the area around Nissi City.

    Now that he saw the threerge ships that were like giant beasts, Ragsar was shocked, but he was filled with even more joy.

    These threerge ships, the quantity of cargo they had must surpass their imaginations.

    If he could take all three ships, he would be rich!

    ¡°Bo¡­¡­Boss¡­¡­¡± The lieutenant standing beside Ragsar suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Un? What is it?¡± Ragsar waspletely focused on the threerge ships that were approaching. He was filled with praise while also drooling over them, so he impatiently replied when he heard this.

    ¡°Boss, those¡­¡­those three ships are this big¡­¡­are we really moving on them?¡±

    Ragsar knit his brows and turned to look at his nervous lieutenant before cursing at him, ¡°Nonsense! If we don¡¯t, should we let our brothers starve? It isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know the situation of the ind, we can onlyst a few more days. Instead of charging to Nissi City to fight the first and second fleet, it¡¯s better to snatch this meal ticket.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­these three ships are this big, I think¡­¡­they aren¡¯t easy to take care of.¡±

    ¡°Bullsh*t!¡± Ragsar pped the back of the lieutenant¡¯s head, ¡°Is this your first day being a pirate? A ship being big isn¡¯t useful, it¡¯s still controlled by people. When we charge aboard and kill them, wouldn¡¯t we be able to take over those ships?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­But the three ships are this big, there should be quite a few people on them¡­¡­¡± The lieutenant was still a bit unsettled.

    ¡°These are all rookies at sailing! Don¡¯t they surrender when they see us? Actually, if it doesn¡¯t work, we¡¯ll just kill a few of them.¡± Ragsar waved his hand and gave a cold snort. He turned to look at the three ships and couldn¡¯t help licking his lips, ¡°Stop talking, even if these three ships have nothing, if we can get these three ships, we would be rich¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Ragsar¡¯s expression, the lieutenant endured and finally didn¡¯t say anything else.

    As Ragsar¡¯s lieutenant, he was very clear on the situation of the Thunderbolt Pirates.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact they couldn¡¯t keep going anymore, Ragsar wouldn¡¯t choose to do something this serious.

    Butpared to entering Nissi City¡¯s seas and fighting with the first or the second fleet, being destroyed by them, stealing from these three ships should be less dangerous.

    In the end, no matter how big the three ships were, they were merchant ships based on the observations in the past few days because the sailors on it didn¡¯t have any weapons at all.

    ¡°Hey,ing deep into our Rudson Kingdom¡¯s seas and daring to be this careless, they are simply sending us food.¡±

    Thinking of this, the lieutenant clenched the de in his right hand. He looked at the three ships covered in lights in the distant dark sea.

    These rookies! Daring to light themselves up like this at night, they are simply asking others toe steal from them.

    Hei, hei, this master won¡¯t be polite¡­¡­

    When the lieutenant¡¯s smile just appeared, there were several light blue glows that came from the closest giant ship to them before flying right at them.

    In the blink of an eye, these lights were in front of them.

    ¡°What is this thing?¡±

    Ragsar and his lieutenant were stunned as they watched these lights fall into the dark sea in front of them.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    There were severalrge explosions and there were giant waves that appeared in the calm night sea.

    Ragsar and the lieutenant beside him, as well as the other pirates all helplessly watched the giant waves crashing down on the wooden boats beneath them.

    When they were in the air, the wooden boats were already shattered by the giant waves.

    Ragsar and his lieutenant tasted something sweet in their mouths as they spat out a mouthful of blood. Everything turned dark and they lost consciousness.

    ###

    It was unknown how long passed, but Ragsar was woken up by dazzling light shined on his eyelids.

    His dazed head made him stunned for a while before he reacted. He forced himself to open his eyes and saw the blue sky above him.

    ¡°Are you awake?¡± There was a voice without mercy that came from beside him.

    Ragsar turned his head and saw a dark skinned middle aged man with a small beard who looked like he spent most of his life on the sea.

    Then looking around, he found that he was on a giant deck and there were railings made of fine steel around him.

    Feeling the slight swaying of his body, Ragsar could easily tell that he was still on the sea.

    Thisrge deck, other than those three monstrous ships made of iron, it was impossible to be another ship.

    ¡°This means that I was caught by those fellows?¡± Ragasr looked at the rope around him before turning his head with knitted brows and asking the middle aged man with a cold snort, ¡°Why did you save me?¡±

    He could already remember what had happenedst night.

    He wanted to attack the three giant ships, but before he could even approach, there was an unknown thing that came from the three ships that blew up the sky.

    In short, he didn¡¯t even know what had happened and he was already knocked out by the explosion.

    ¡°Because you have some use.¡± Narvil lowered his head to look at Ragsar before giving a satisfied nod.

    This pirate¡¯s mind was considered decent, it seemed like there would be no problem getting answers from him.

    ¡°Use?¡± Ragsar looked at Narvil with a confused look.

    These fellows had these three giant ships and such terrifying weapons, what use did he have?

    ¡°Right.¡± Narvilughed. He pulled up a stool to sit beside Ragsar, ¡°Hey, you¡¯re called Ragsar, right? I heard that you¡¯re the leader of the Thunderbolt Pirates?¡±

    Ragsar gave a cold snort. He knew that these fellows definitely didn¡¯t save him alone, they got the information on him from the other pirates of his group.

    ¡°That¡¯s me, so what?¡±

    Narvil didn¡¯t care about Ragsar¡¯s attitude as he patted his shoulder with a smile.

    It was unknown if it was intentional or not, but his palmnded right on the wound on Ragsar¡¯s shoulder. The pain made Ragsar unable to stop his brows from knitting.

    ¡°I heard that your Thunderbolt Pirates have a small ind nearby as a base?¡± Narvil asked.

    Since the other side had an unknown amount of information from hisrades, Ragsar wasn¡¯t willing to hide anything meaningless.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I have a small ind, are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Narvil gave augh, ¡°Since this small ind can be used as a base by you, there might be something that we want on it. How about it? Ragsar, are you interested in working with us?¡±

    ¡°Working with?¡± Ragsar looked at Narvil in a daze.

    Was this person crazy?

    He had caught a pirate and didn¡¯t throw him to feed the fishes like normal merchants, nor did he catch him up, but he wanted to cooperate with him?

    With a pirate that had nothing¡­¡­what was there to cooperate on?

 Volume 5 22 - Problems that can be solved with money arenâ€™t problems

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 22 Problems that can be solved with money aren¡¯t problems</h4>

    An hourter, the Unfolding Wings, the Morning Sun, and the Goddess of Victory Iris carried Narvil and the captured pirates to a small ind that was forty kilometers south of where the fight urredst night.

    This ind that had been named Thunderbolt Ind by Ragsar wasn¡¯t small. Standing on the deck of the Unfolding Wings to look over it, one couldn¡¯t even see the other side.

    In terms of side to side, ording to the estimate Narvil made with his eyes, it was at least over five kilometers.

    There were women and children gathered on the beach who when they saw the threerge Magic Ships approach were all stirred. They all began shouting and some of the children among them jumped up, as if they were very excited.

    ¡°These are the rtives of your pirate group?¡± Narvil asked Ragsar beside him.

    ¡°Un.¡± Ragsar nodded without any emotions.

    ¡°How many people are there on the ind? I¡¯m referring to the women and children.¡± Narvil asked.

    Ragsar looked at Narvil with a strange look. He had a thought and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

    These three ships had such powerful weapons, they probably weren¡¯t normal merchants.

    This fellow cared about the women and children on the ind, could it be they.....they were actually ve traders?

    Seeing the strange look on Ragsar¡¯s face, Narvil didn¡¯t know what he was thinking, but it also wasn¡¯t important. Right now Ragsar and his hundred subordinates were all in his hands, they couldn¡¯t do anything to him.

    ¡°Tell me how many people there are. If there are enough people, I can think of a better way to cooperate.¡±

    Hearing Narvil say the word ¡°cooperate¡± again, Ragsar found it a bit unbelievable.

    No matter what, he couldn¡¯t think of anything worth cooperating with them on.

    ¡°Un.....Adding in the brothers, there are just over five hundred people on the ind.¡± Ragsar honestly said.

    ¡°Five hundred.....It isn¡¯t enough, but it is still good.¡± Narvil thought about it before giving a hand signal.

    Two sailors of the Unfolding Wings nodded before leaving. After a while, Ragsar heard the sound of water sshing.

    ¡°Come, we¡¯ll take a look at the ind together.¡±

    Ragsar was confused as he followed Narvil. He came to the side of the Unfolding Wings and saw Narvil grab a rope before sliding down.

    Ragsar looked down and saw that Narvil hadnded on a boat that was madepletely of iron that was a bit bigger than the wooden boats he normally used.

    ¡°Go down.¡± The two sailors pushed Ragsar from behind.

    In this situation, Ragsar didn¡¯t think that much and grabbed the rope, easily sliding down.

    After a while, several sailors also slid down the rope.

    Then Ragsar saw Narvil press someplicated buttons on aplex tform at the front of the ship. The ship trembled before it charged forward.

    In just a moment, the ship began moving very quickly. Itpletely surpassed the speed of the fastest ship that Ragsar had ever seen in his life.

    Ragsar watched the meter high waves on the side of the boat and he was shocked.

    When he had been riding that steel monster call the Magic Boat, he felt that it was very fast, but now this little boat was even faster than it.

    In just two minutes, this little boat had crossed the thousand meters between the Unfolding Wings and the shore.

    Narvil and the sailors jumped out, bringing the captured Ragsar onto the ind.

    Behind them, there were several identical iron ships that came to the shore with sprays of water.

    There were several dozen sailors that jumped out holding strange looking crossbows. There were also several young men and women who had fair skin that wasn¡¯t like that of a sailor and had noble clothing that came out.

    ¡°Captain Ragsar, choose a few people who are familiar with this ind and have them give us a tour.¡± Narvil said to Ragsar with a smile.

    Ragsar finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore, ¡°I say, just what do you want to do? I am trapped in your hands and can¡¯t say anything, but you won¡¯t kill me or let me go, just what do you want to do?¡±

    ¡°I said it, I want to cooperate with you.¡± Narvil had a faint smile, but Ragsar really wanted to punch him in the face.

    ¡°Cooperate my ass! We are pirates, how can we cooperate with you?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t look down on yourselves.¡± Narvil waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Pirates are also valuable, especially when you have this decent ind. Alright, just follow what I said and choose a few people. Remember, don¡¯t try anything, your hundred brothers are still in my hands.¡±

    Ragsar looked at Narvil before walking to an uncertain rtive of a pirate and said a few words.

    After a while, there were five young women and two old people who came out.

    Narvil looked at them and had the two old people move back. He divided the five women into three groups, who went with three groups of those young men and women who had a different aura as well as ten sailors from the boat each, heading off towards the ind.

    When they left, Narvil brought several dozen armed sailors to enter the living area of the pirates with Ragsar.

    Although Ragsar hadn¡¯t been a pirate for a short time, the Thunderbolt Pirates were a pirate group in the end. They didn¡¯t have abundant resources, so until now, there wasn¡¯t any kind of good housing on the ind. The people of the ind lived in houses made of scrap wood which didn¡¯t even have the basic function of keeping out the wind and rain.

    Narvil saw the situation of these houses and was even more satisfied.

    After a while, he pulled Ragsar to sit down on a rock in front of a wood house.

    ¡°Hey, captain Ragsar, based on your situation here, your Thunderbolt Pirates don¡¯t seem to live that well.¡±

    Ragsar gave a snort, ¡°Nonsense! If we really had money, who would want to be a pirate.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is reasonable.¡± Narvil nodded and his smile became even brighter, ¡°Then captain Ragsar, do you want to let the people of your pirate group live better lives?¡±

    Ragsar narrowed his eyes to look at Narvil for a bit.

    ¡°Are you joking?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not joking. Captain Ragsar, I really do n on cooperating with you. Look, wee from the far away Stantine Duchy, so we¡¯re not familiar with the situation here and we need someone familiar with the coast like you to cooperate with.¡±

    Ragsar looked at the three giant iron ships docked by the ind and shook his head.

    ¡°It seems like you don¡¯t need our help at all. If you wanted to be familiar with the situation here, you can just go find someone in Nissi City.¡±

    ¡°To be honest, we were going to Nissi City for business, but.....Captain Ragsar, I believe that you should understand that there are some things that are hard to go through the official routes.....¡±

    Seeing the deep smile on Narvil¡¯s face, Ragsar¡¯s mind suddenly filled with thoughts.

    Based on this fellow¡¯s words, he needed help with.....other aspects?

    Thinking of this, the expression on Ragsar¡¯s face wasn¡¯t as cold as before. After pausing, he asked back, ¡°Then tell me, what benefits will you bring me and our pirate group if we cooperate with you?¡±

    ¡°First, there¡¯s money.¡± Narvil casually dug into his chest and pulled out a gold coin.

    The sunlight was strong now and the gold coin reflected a bright glow in Narvil¡¯s hands, causing Ragsar and the inders who had been watching from afar to begin breathing much faster.

    ¡°Next......There are many other benefits besides money, but you won¡¯t believe me if I just told you. How about this.....¡± Narvil turned back and waved at a sailor who was behind him, ¡°Hayes,e and tell them.¡±

    The sailor came over and looked over Ragsar before looking at the residents of this ind. He shook his head and his eyes were filled with disdain.

    Ragsar was very angry in his heart when he heard this and wanted to stare back at him, but he heard words thatpletely changed his mind.

    ¡°Hey, my name is Hayes, Ie from an ind off the shores of the ck Rice Wastnd, an ind called Caraska Ind. I used to be a pirate just like you. Our ind was just a bit better than yours, but it was also very hard, but since our Caraska Ind caught sir chairman¡¯s eyes, everyone¡¯s lives becamepletely different......¡±

    ......

    ¡°Narvil, is there no problems if you do things like this?¡± In the distance, Narvil¡¯s lieutenant watched Hayes talking with Ragsar as he asked Narvi this, ¡°Sir chairman said that as long as we scout the route, our task will beplete. If you causeplications like this, wouldn¡¯t sir chairman be angry?¡±

    ¡°You think that......if it wasn¡¯t for sir chairman, I would dare act independently?¡± Narvil calmly looked at his lieutenant.

    The lieutenant was shocked, ¡°That means.....this is sir chairman¡¯s idea?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t bepletely considered sir chairman¡¯s idea.¡± Narvil shook his head, ¡°But before setting off, sir chairman told me in secret that if I found the chance, I should see if there was an ind suited to be a base near Rudson Kingdom like Caraska Ind. I was worried about how toplete this task before, but now these pirates sent themselves to us.¡±

    The lieutenant understood, ¡°So it¡¯s like this, no wonder you told us to save. We could go faster and have plenty of time to reach Nissi City, but you always went at a moderate pace and worried about supplies.¡±

    Narivlughed, ¡°This is my first time handling a task on my own, if I don¡¯t do it beautifully, how could I make sir chairman hold me in high regards?¡±

    The lieutenant nodded. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Then how do you n on doing this?¡±

    Narvil looked at Ragsar who was listening with rapt attention in the distance before saying with a faint smile, ¡°It¡¯s very simple. Sir chairman said that a problem that can be solved with money isn¡¯t a problem and these pirates arecking money.¡±

 Volume 5 23 - Exploring the Azshara Tribe

    <h4>Exploring the Azshara Tribe</h4>

    The next morning, the three Magic Ships sailed off from Thunderbolt Ind.

    Compared to when they came where the inders were nervous seeing these three giant iron monstrosities, when they left, the inders all came to see them off with happy smiles on their faces.

    The inders didn¡¯t know what agreement their leader reached with these unexpected visitors, but they could see that these unexpected visitors had moved quite a bit of cargo from the three giant ships.

    Among them was not only the daily necessities they needed, as well asrge amounts of meat and a bunch of strange looking things made of iron.

    As long as Magic Crystals were inserted into these iron things, they would activate and perform many strange functions.

    For example, the Magic Fan¡¯s fan de would turn quickly and blow out wind.

    For example, the Magic Stove could send out mes without lighting a fire.

    For example......

    ......

    The fellows that had some knowledge on the ind knew that these things were the household magic machines that were very popr in the Stantine Duchy.

    Each one of these things weren¡¯t cheap. Just the cheapest Magic Fan would cost over five gold coins for one.

    With the household magic machines the visitors left, it would cost over three hundred gold coins if they were all added together.

    If they added in the other items, these guests had left gifts worth over five hundred gold coins on their ind.

    In return, all they received was arge amount of clean water.

    This clean water was considered precious on the sea, but for Thunderbolt Ind that had three natural springs and a naturalke, it wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    The inders were happy, but they were also a bit doubtful.

    Those visitors were all armed with weapons and their leader wasn¡¯t willing to steal from them. But why did these visitors not just steal the water that they needed from the ind with their powerful weapons, why did they instead trade such precious goods with them instead?

    Could it be that they really were like that dark skinned middle aged man who always smiled had said? They were only normal merchants and wanted to exchange something of equal value?

    The people of the ind disdained this idea, but they weren¡¯t against happily epting the various gifts that these visitors had left.

    Only a few people noticed that captain Ragsar who had always been forward had fallen silent when these people left. It was like he was distracted by something, always worrying about something.

    ###

    ¡°Captain, do you think that Ragsar is willing to cooperate with us?¡± The lieutenant looked back and found that Thunderbolt Ind had been thrown into the distance, they couldn¡¯t even see a trace of it. He couldn¡¯t help asking Narvil this.

    ¡°Of course he¡¯s willing.¡± Narvil said in a confident voice, ¡°This cooperation is very beneficial to him and his Thunderbolt Pirates, so of course he will agree.¡±

    ¡°But what if he goes against his promise after we left.....¡±

    ¡°Rx, he wouldn¡¯t dare and he wouldn¡¯t be willing.¡± Narvil said with a faint smile, ¡°Such a good chance is in front of him, if he doesn¡¯t know to grab it, we can only say that he is a fool who can¡¯t be saved. But if he really is that stupid, he wouldn¡¯t be able to be the leader of the pirate group and wouldn¡¯t have prepared an ind as an escape route ahead of time. He is a pirate captain with foresight, so he will definitely understand the benefits of cooperating with us.¡±

    The lieutenant thought about it before nodding, ¡°Un, I think the same.¡±

    Narvilughed, ¡°Actually, it doesn¡¯t matter even if he isn¡¯t willing to cooperate with us. Without the Thunderbolt Pirates, there are other pirate groups that we can choose to work with, we aren¡¯t limited to them. Not to mention that we have already verified the situation of the ind, as well as marking down the ind¡¯s location. It doesn¡¯t matter that much if we have the Thunderbolt Pirates or not.¡±

    Hearing Narvil talk about Thunderbolt Ind, the lieutenant couldn¡¯t help revealing a pleased smile.

    ¡°Right, I never thought that this small Thunderbolt Ind would have a natural mineral vein and a natural port. As long as it is developed, it can be treated as a sea base for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If sir chairman knew about this, he definitely would be very happy.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not just this. The position of this Thunderbolt Ind is very good and it is right on our route. There are no other inds within an entire hundred kilometers, so if we can get this, we¡¯ll be able to control this area of sea. With the current power of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s fleet, they won¡¯t be able to manage this ce. So as long as ourpany takes it, the ce deeper into the sea will all belong to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Un. Sir chairman has always emphasized the importance of controlling the sea to us, so I think that he will ce importance in this part of the sea.¡±

    ¡°Of course, sir chairman¡¯s foresight is not something we canpare to. The only problem now is whether the Rudson Kingdom will approve of this or not.¡±

    Narvil looked to the northeast.

    There was something faint that could be seen on the horizon.

    ording to the nautical charts Ragsar provided, they were already close to Nissi City¡¯s harbour.

    Reaching the Nissi City harbour would mean that their voyage had sessfully reached the end.

    This was a super long seafaring voyage of over three thousand kilometers.

    Before this, the longest voyage that Narvil knew about was only less than a thousand kilometers by sea and it was done by staying near the coast.

    This time, not only had his fleet gone more than twice as long, they had entered the deep seas where no men had gone before.

    Compared to this, it was without a doubt countless times harder.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the three Magic Ships, Narvil wouldn¡¯t have had the courage toplete this voyage.

    But this voyage was a sess and allowed Narvil¡¯s subordinates to gain precious experience, which will make their next trip even smoother.

    When they became even more experienced, Narvil was confident that they could do as sir chairman had said. They could enter the boundless seas and explore the furthest ces in the world.

    ###

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet reached Nissi City, Xu Yi was driving his Magic Sedan across a road in the southwest area of the Rudson Kingdom.

    If one measured it with a straight line, he was less than five hundred kilometers away from the Unfolding Wings.

    But the Unfolding Wings was navigating the seas while Xu Yi was driving his Magic Sedan across a wastnd.

    The only simrity was that if they looked around, they couldn¡¯t see a single person.

    ¡°Xu Yi, are you certain that the Azshara Tribe are nearby?¡±

    Elder Lisanya sitting in the passenger seat looked at the destend around them and asked Xu Yi this with knit brows.

    ording to the agreement between the two, after Xu Yi returned from Anvilmar City, he would set off with elder Lisanya to the Rudson Kingdom. They would make contact with the elf tribe discovered in the Rudson Kingdom before, the Azshara Tribe.

    Elder Lisanyapletely epted the cooperation between elves and humans and she agreed with the issue that elder Illusia was worried about before.

    If the elves continued to live in seclusion, they would be cast off from the continent and would fade into the annals of history.

    So after learning that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had found the Azshara Tribe in the Rudson Kingdom, elder Lisanya hoped that the Azshara Tribe would be the same as her Moon Shadow Tribe or the Night Song Tribe. They would work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to expand their tribe.

    There was less and less news about elf tribes on the continent now. As elders of the elf race, elder Lisanya and elder Illusia were the same, they could think of any ways to continue the elf race.

    Working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce let her see that the elves and humans could live in peace, working together in harmony. Of course she hoped that the other tribes could be the same.

    ¡°Un, with the trail that Still found, she contacted the elves of the Azshara Tribe near here.¡± Xu Yi nodded, but he did have some doubts, ¡°But this is indeed strange. There¡¯s only wastnd around here, don¡¯t elves like to be under the cover of the forest?¡±

    ¡°In a normal situation, we elves do like to be in a forest because we like being near nature. But when we have no choice, it isn¡¯t like we can¡¯t live in other ces. Don¡¯t you humans live in bad environments when they have no other choices?¡± There was a bit of helplessness in elder Lisanya¡¯s voice.

    Xu Yi looked at the wastnd. Although this was a bit deste, it couldn¡¯t be considered a bad environment.

    The elves not being satisfied with this environment meant their requests were too high.

    But thinking of how elves wanted perfection, it wasn¡¯t strange.

    ¡°Ai, it would be good if Still coulde. She came herest time and met the elves before, but it¡¯s a pity that the Azshara Tribe only wants to meet with two people since they know what¡¯s going on. They don¡¯t even trust a fellow elf like elder Lisanya.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and stopped the car. He took out a map that wasn¡¯t too detailed and identified a direction. It seemed that he should be heading a bit further north, so he continued driving forward.

    ¡°There¡¯s no choice, we elves have never trusted humans. As for fellow elves.....we aren¡¯t from the same tribe, so we can¡¯t really trust each other.¡± Elder Lisanya was also very helpless as she couldn¡¯t help shaking her head.

    She never thought that the elves had a problem before, but after cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time and experiencing many things, she felt that the ¡°pride¡± that she had before wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    ¡°I hope that we can talk to the Azshara Tribepanionster.¡± Elder Lisanya gave a sigh in her heart.

    The Magic Sedan quickly moved through the wastnd for a while. Elder Lisanya¡¯s expression suddenly changed and she had Xu Yi stop.

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow to look at elder Lisanya.

    ¡°I can feel the unique barrier of us elves, but......it doesn¡¯t seem to be normal......¡± Elder Lisanya slightly knit her brows and had a bit of doubt in her eyes.

    Closing her eyes for a bit, elder Lisayan opened the door and got out before suddenly raising her hand.

    After a bit, there was a faint green glow that came from elder Lisayna¡¯s hand. It was like space was being twisted and gradually another scene appeared.

    After a while, elder Lisanya waved her hand and there was a door that appeared in the void.

    ¡°They really are hiding behind an elven barrier, no wonder we couldn¡¯t find them.¡± Elder Lisanya waved her hand to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Come, they shouldn¡¯t want your Magic Sedan to go in.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and came out of the car. He came in front of the door in the voice and looked inside. Then he gathered his magic and confidently walked in.

 Volume 5 24 Royal envoy

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 24 Royal envoy</h4>

    It was the same as when he entered the barriers of the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Night Song Tribe, when he entered the barrier, Xu Yi fell into an illusion.

    But it was also a bit different.

    When he entered the barriers of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, the illusion in front of him had the beauty of nature or were the lives left behind by the elves of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    However, when he passed through this barrier, the illusion that appeared in front of him was the scene of being above the clouds, looking like he was quite high up.

    The illusion gradually faded and Xu Yi was surprised after he saw the situation behind the barrier.

    The barriers of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe only hid the elf tribes, not letting others find the elf tribe. But when looking at the barrier from outside, this barrier blended with the environment.

    For example, the Night Song Tribe in the Falling Rain Forest. If one looked at the barrier of the Night Song Tribe, they would just see the Falling Rain Forest and couldn¡¯t see anything different. The barrier would just mislead people to go to other ces.

    But this elven barrier was in a wastnd, but inside the barrier was a dense and broad forest.

    The forest was different from the Falling Rain Forest or the Slight Dream Forest.

    The Falling Rain Forest and the Slight Dream Forest were normal forests with dense trees and various nts on the ground. But this forest was a bit sparse, with each tree being at least ten meters away and there was only ayer of grass on the ground. Almost each de grew the same height and there weren¡¯t any other nts mixed between, giving people the sense that it was artificial grass.

    Xu Yi looked at the trees that were at least ten meters, which he couldn¡¯t see the tops of if he looked up and he was filled with shock.

    This strange forest, not to mention earth, was even unique on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi was certain that this forest wasn¡¯t naturally formed because this would go against thews of nature. There was only one possibility, the elves had used their strong control towards nts to forcefully transform thend to be like this.

    Xu Yi had heard Agnes mention in sret that this kind of forest was the most perfect residence that elves dreamed of!

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned to find that elder Lisanya also had a look of shock.

    But it was different from Xu Yi¡¯s shock. Elder Lisanya¡¯s shock had a different emotion mixed with it.

    Sensing Xu Yi¡¯s doubtful gaze, elder Lisanya turned over and slowly took back her shocked look. She said in a deep voice, ¡°Xu Yi, this Azshara Tribe¡­¡­it probably isn¡¯t a normal elf tribe.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes.

    The situation inside the barrier was like this, the Azshara Tribe were clearly different from the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    It was a pity that when Still made contact with them before, she didn¡¯t know about this, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t prepare his heart ahead of time.

    It was a good thing that he had elder Lisanya with him, so he didn¡¯t need to worry too much.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, what do we do now?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Elder Lisanya looked at the forest with aplicated gaze before waving her hand at Xu Yi, ¡°Follow me, I think that they should already know that we¡¯re here.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and followed elder Lisanya into the forest.

    Walking on thewn that didn¡¯t have any other nts wasfortable, but after a whole, the two had traveled over a kilometer on the grass.

    Elder Lisanya suddenly stopped.

    Xu Yi immediately stopped and looked forward to see that there was white light that was gentle and not too dazzling in front of them. In the middle of that light, there were slender figures that slowly walked out.

    Xu Yi focused and was shocked again.

    Not mentioning the noble and beautiful appearances of the elves that came out, they were wearing long robes that werepletely made of white gauze, making each of these elves look like immortals.

    Xu Yi was immediately stunned by this.

    When he entered the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe before to see them wearing clothes made of animal skin, it seemed like their living conditions were quite hard.

    However, the elves of the Azshara Tribe, not only was the forest they lived in close to perfect, even their clothes were of a higher quality. It could be seen that their living conditions were much better.

    There was a female elf who came in the end wearing clothes made of an unknown material. However, based on the fact that she was wearing a noble purple robe and she was holding an aquamarine staff that was made of jade, she looked very noble.

    Elder Lisanya looked at the staff in the female elf¡¯s hands and gave a gasp as she said in a surprised cry, ¡°Is that¡­¡­the New Moon Scepter?¡±

    The female elf revealed a smile and her expression became much more gentle. She gave a nod as she replied, ¡°Yes. Since you can recognize the New Moon Scepter, you should be the elder of a tribe, right?¡±

    Elder Lisayna looked at the female elf in shock and after a while, she gave a strange and noble bow to the female elf that Xu Yi had never seen before.

    ¡°The Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elder Saratoya Sylph Sandy Moon Shadow Lisanya greets the royal envoy.¡±

    Xu Yi had known elder Lisanya for a long time, but this was his first time hearing her full name. However, what caught Xu Yi¡¯s attention wasn¡¯t this, but rather it was thest thing she said.

    Royal envoy?

    Xu Yi looked at the female elf with wide eyes of surprise.

    Could it be that this female elf was the elf royal family¡¯s envoy that elder Illusia and Agnes had told him about in secret?

    Wasn¡¯t it said that in the race wars three thousand years ago, after the elf race was defeated, the elven royal court was dissolved?

    How did a royal envoy suddenly appear?

    Perhaps it was because she noticed Xu Yi¡¯s surprised look at the female elf turned to Xu Yi and shook her head with a faint smile. Then she said to elder Lisanya, ¡°The royal court no longer exists, what royal envoy? This is a title that has vanished with the river of time. This New Moon Scepter is only a treasure that my tribe has preserved, it has no rtions to the royal court.¡±

    Elder Lisanya took a deep look at the aquamarine scepter in the female elf¡¯s hands before slowly giving a nod. Then she said with a sigh, ¡°Yes, this is no longer the age of us elves, even the elven imperial capital has been gone for thousands of years, naturally the royal court no longer exists.¡±

    ¡°Alright, elder Lisanya, now isn¡¯t the time to fondly remember the glorious past, we have an honoured guest to entertain.¡± The female elf turned to Xu Yi again anda gave the formal bow that an elf would give when meeting a guest, ¡°Chairman Xu, wee to the Azshara Tribe. I am the Azshara Tribe¡¯s elder, Serelis Anvil Azshara Undine, you can just call me Undine.¡±

    Xu Yi took back his strange thoughts and nodded with a smile, ¡°Elder Undine, hello, it is my honour to meet you.¡±

    ¡°It is also my honour to meet you.¡± Elder Undine revealed a faint smile before waving her hands at the two, ¡°Pleasee with me.¡±

    Xu Yi and elder Lisanya followed elder Undine, as well as the two rows of elven girls in white robes into the light. There was a sh of light in front of them and when everything turned back to normal, they found that there was a broad patch of grasnd in front of them.

    The grasnd was still filled with giant trees all over and in the center of the grasnd, there wererge statues carved from white jade. With the various stone railings that were there, it created a little garden in the middle of the grasnd.

    Seeing Xu Yi look at the statues, elder Undine exined with a faint smile, ¡°Those statues are of thest generation elven king and the important elders. They fell during the race wars three thousand years ago.¡±

    Hearing elder Undine mention the race wars, Xu Yi suddenly had a thought. He looked at elder Undine and finally couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Elder Undine, you seem to have deep impressions of the race wars from three thousand years ago, why did you take the initiative to invite me in?¡±

    Elder Lisanya on the side slightly knit her brows. She thought, chairman Xu wasn¡¯t someone blind, why would he take the initiative to mention the race wars at a time like this?

    Elder Undine didn¡¯t care at all as she replied with a faint smile, ¡°Everything in this world has the experience of reaching the peak before falling down, our elves are not an exception and neither are the humans. It has already been three thousand years since the race wars, we elves don¡¯t hate you humans specifically since this is a fate that all races must experience. If I¡¯m being honest, it is you humans who are targeting us elves more, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression froze before he could only give a bitter smile.

    ording to the history books that he read about the Sines Continent, after the race wars, the elves indeed directly went into hiding and would rarely have conflict with humans.

    Rather, it was the humans who wanted to eliminate the potential threat of the elves. In the several hundred years after the race wars, they kept looking for the elves to destroy thempletely.

    If one was to talk about hatred, the elves didn¡¯t have any hatred and it was publicized as such by the humans.

    Of course, three thousand yearster, whether either side had hatred, it already no longer existed.

    Rather because the elves had disappeared from the continent, humans would treat it as something precious when they met elves.

    Four years ago, when Agnes appeared in Banta City, it created a wave of wild praises.

    ¡°Alright, this was my mistake, I shouldn¡¯t have raised this matter.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. Then he revealed a smile and continued, ¡°Then elder Undine, since you disclosed the location of the Azshara Tribe and invited me here, what is your goal? If you want to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I would happily ept this.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no rush to cooperate. Before this, I have an old friend who has always wanted to see you and I believe that chairman Xu will definitely be happy to see him.¡± Elder Undine said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Old friend?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Based on elder Undine¡¯s tone, her old friend didn¡¯t seem to be an elf.

    When he was about to ask, there was a series of quick footsteps.

    Xu Yi turned in a daze and he heard a voice that was like the clear voice of a little girl.

    ¡°God! You really are tall!¡±

 Volume 5 25 - Halflings

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 25 Halflings</h4>

    Hearing this voice that came from the height of his waist, Xu Yi looked down in surprise to see a cute little human girl looking at him, with a face that was filled with curiosity.

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide. He could instantly tell that this wasn¡¯t a little human girl, but rather......

    ¡°Halfling! My god, it¡¯s actually a halfling!¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He leaned down to be at the same level as the little girl and carefully looked over her to make sure that he wasn¡¯t wrong.

    This lifeform looked the same as a little human girl, but there were differences that she had from little human girls. The main difference was that she had the same sharp ears that were a bit smaller than the elves.

    Then with her small stature, as well as her big and beautiful eyes, this was definitely the halflings that were described in the texts.

    That¡¯s right, this was a halfling!

    But didn¡¯t the halflings disappear from the continent long ago?

    ording to the texts, more than two thousand years ago, the halflings hadpletely vanished from the Sines Continent.

    The elves had revealed some traces during these two thousand years and there were elf tribes that made contact with humans regrly like the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    But as for the halflings, during these two thousand years, there wasn¡¯t a single trace of them. There wasn¡¯t even a single rumour about them.

    The final conclusion in all the texts and everyone¡¯s decision was that the halflings had alreadypletely disappeared from the continent.

    Or perhaps it was like the rumours had said, they had gone to the other continent deep in the sea. But on the Sines Continent, there were indeed no traces of the halflings left.

    But now, in front of Xu Yi, there was a living halfling!

    Xu Yi looked at the cute female halfling in front of him and he couldn¡¯t help reaching out to touch her face.

    Feeling the smooth touch, it confirmed that this wasn¡¯t an illusion.

    ¡°God! Human, you actually touched a girl¡¯s face this casually! You must be some human who isn¡¯t a gentleman!¡± The halfling girl shouted in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi immediately felt awkward before quickly saying with a smile, ¡°Sorry, I just.....just couldn¡¯t believe that this was real. Didn¡¯t the halflings already disappear from the Sines Continent? You....Why are you here? Moreover, why are you with the Azshara Tribe?¡±

    ¡°Hey, human, first, I have a name. I am called Lumi. Second, although our halfling tribe has decided to leave the Sines Continent two thousand years ago, not all halflings were willing to leave, like our Tana Family who stayed.¡±

    After saying this, the halfling girl called Lumi lowered her head and looked sad.

    ¡°But I am the only one left of the Tana Family, the rest are all dead......¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the female halfling who was like a little girl and didn¡¯t know how tofort her.

    Although the halflings looked like little kids on the surface, their lifespans surpassed that of humans, beingparable to the elves.

    This girl might look like a ten year old human girl, but her real age might be one or two hundred years.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly thought of another question.

    ¡°Lumi, you said that your halfling race decided to leave the Sines Continent, which means that they did what the legends said and went to the other continent deep across the sea?¡±

    Lumi shook her little head, ¡°I don¡¯t know. As for there being another continent other than the Sines Continent, that was just what the elders of the tribe spected. The elders said that we don¡¯t live on a tnd and it was likely we lived on arge sphere. So the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t the only continent in this world and there might be another continent on the other side of the endless seas. But the elders weren¡¯t certain about this continent at all......¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes popped wide open and his hands grabbed Lumi¡¯s shoulder as he shook her.

    ¡°You mean to say.....the halfings didn¡¯t disappear? They went to the other continent?¡±

    Lumi was dizzy after being shaken by Xu Yi and only recovered after a while, nodding in a daze.

    ¡°Yes, but I¡¯m not certain......¡±

    ¡°Great!¡± Xu Yi excitedly stood up. He went around in a few circles and he couldn¡¯t control the smile on his face, ¡°Great! The halflings didn¡¯t really disappear and still exist in this world. The other continent isn¡¯t anything, I even have seafaring vessels now, so I¡¯ll find them eventually!¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi walk around, Lumi looked up in a daze. Elder Undine and elder Lisanya on the side were also surprised.

    Although the halflings were considered rare, it wouldn¡¯t be enough for Xu Yi to be this excited after receiving news on the halflings, right?¡±

    Xu Yi turned several times before finally calming down. He took back his smile and leaned down to be even with Lumi, seriously asking, ¡°Lumi, do you know the direction your nsmen left the Sines Continent from? Or to be more urate, do you know which harbour they left from?¡±

    Lumi shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know where exactly, but ording to the elders¡¯ spections, the other continent should be to the west, so the nsmen all went into the western sea.¡±

    ¡°To the west?¡± Xu Yi turned to look in the west. He thought, wasn¡¯t it just right to set off from the Frestech Harbour in the Stantine Duchy? Then he thought of another problem, ¡°Lumi, you just said that your elders spected that we didn¡¯t live on tnd, but rather a veryrge ball, what was their basis for this?¡±

    Lumi knit her small brows to think for a while before shaking her head again.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know......¡±

    Based on Lumi¡¯s reaction, she wasn¡¯t clear on certain things within the halfling race.

    But that was right thinking about it.

    It had already been two thousand years since the halflings left the Sines Continent and Lumi should only be around one or two hundred years old, so it was normal that she didn¡¯t know this.

    ¡°Speaking of this.....Human, why are you this excited to see me?¡± Lumi suddenly asked, ¡°Is it because I¡¯m a halfling?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You can say it like that. But not just because you¡¯re a halfling, it¡¯s more because of your halfling race¡¯s knowledge on magic machines. Do you know what I mean?¡±

    Lumi¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Of course I do. Human, you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, right? Thepany that made all those strange magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, have you heard of me?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°Of course, if it wasn¡¯t for the magic machines of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could I have asked Undine to bring you here?¡± Lumi nodded, ¡°Hey, human, I¡¯ve inspected the strange magic machines that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes and I think that they are very unique. There are even aspects of the research that aren¡¯t worse than our halflings¡¯ magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Only not worse?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, thinking that this halfling was rather confident.

    The magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made were all products formed when hebined his mechanical engineering knowledge from earth with the magic knowledge of the Sines Continent, but Lumi¡¯s appraisal of them wasn¡¯t that high.

    It was like Lumi could see what Xu Yi was thinking and giggled.

    ¡°Human, did you invent the magic machines of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Most of the work goes to ourpany¡¯s researchers, I just give them the idea.¡±

    ¡°The idea is the most important.¡± Lumi suddenly reached out to dig in her chest for a blueprint which she gave Xu Yi, ¡°On ount of the magic machines you invented, I can let you see this blueprint.¡±

    ¡°Blueprint?¡± Xu Yi was confused when he took it. When he opened it, he found that it was a blueprint that had several standard mechanisms drawn on it.

    Looking it over, Xu Yi immediately realized something.

    ¡°This seems to be the blueprint of a Magic Airship?¡±

    ¡°Un!¡± Lumi gave a strong nod and even tiptoed to pat Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder. She said in a voice filled with praise, ¡°You really do have talent for magic machines, I wasn¡¯t wrong about you.¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless when he heard this. He shook his head and was toozy to care about the proud Lumi as he looked down at the blueprint in his hands.

    Looking carefully at it, he found that the Magic Airship on the blueprint was very different from the one that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship mainly focused on the machine side and the only magic side was the power supply.

    But the Magic Airship on this blueprint was focused on the magic side. The mechanical side of this blueprint was just a single frame.

    As for the power supply of this Magic Airship, it depended purely on the magic.

    That way the Magic Airship could be made with a simpler design since everything was done with magic.

    But inparison, this Magic Airship required arge amount of magic which made the magic consumption much higher.

    Only in terms of explosive power and maneuverability was it stronger than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic ship, but because of the fine details in building it and the high cost of the Magic Array, it would cost too much to make it. So it was hard to mass produce this like the Magic Airships of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, because of the high consumption, if it was used on a daily basis, it was far less economical than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship, as well as being less epted by the people.

    Xu Yi looked at it for a while and wasn¡¯t in a rush to ask Lumi questions. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Hey, Lumi, what do you want to do in letting me see this blueprint?¡±

    Lumi looked at Xu Yi¡¯s eyes that were on the same level and she revealed a cute smile.

    ¡°Human, because of your respect for me, I have decided to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and make magic machines together!¡±

 Volume 5 26 - Halflings are all geniuses in magic

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 26 Halflings are all geniuses in magic</h4>

    ¡°Could this be the natural advantage of transmigrating?¡±

    Seeing Lumi¡¯s serious look that was as naive as a little human girl¡¯s, Xu Yi¡¯s first thought was this strange idea.

    Because of the race wars three thousand years ago, although humans had taken control of the Sines Continent from the elves, the rtionships between humans and other races weren¡¯t good because of this.

    There was no need to mention the elves, but they were like fire and water when it came to the beastmen.

    As for the halflings and the dragons of legends, they had already disappeared from the continent.

    Before Xu Yi appeared, the humans rarely made contact with the elves and the other races.

    But after Xu Yi appeared, he surprisingly made contact with the elves. He even started cooperating with the Night Song Tribe and Moon Shadow Tribe, bing close partners with them.

    Later Xu Yi also became close with the beastmen and turned the ck Rice Wastnd that was upied by the beastmen into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s back garden.

    Right now, there was even a halfling that was said to have disappeared that appeared in front of Xu Yi!

    And this halfling wanted to cooperate with Xu Yi!

    There were so many unusual things that appeared in front of it, it was no wonder that Xu Yi had this thought.

    Of course, thinking about it, one would find that all these things were connected.

    The cause of this matter was Xu Yi thinking about working with the dwarves, so he went to the dwarf tribe and bumped into Agnes. Then he made contact with the Night Song Tribe and finally seeded in cooperating with them.

    Then everything after that just fell into ce.

    Even a halfling appearing in front of him was also because of this matter.,

    Xu Yi shot a nce to elder Undine and elder Lisanya who were talking in a low voice. Elder Undine must know that he had close rtions with other elf tribes, which was why she took the initiative to invite him and have this halfling Lumi meet him.

    The reason why Lumi was willing to meet him and work with him was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, which was simr to the skills of the halflings.

    ¡°Un......Lumi, I wee your idea very much. Being able to obtain the help of the halflings who have a long history of researching magic machines would definitely help develop ourpany¡¯s magic machines. But.....¡± Xu Yi paused before asking, ¡°Lumi, what do you want from cooperating with ourpany? It can¡¯t be that you only want to study magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, aren¡¯t you a merchant, I¡¯m discussing business with you!¡± Lumi said in a righteous voice, ¡°The reason I want to work with yourpany is because I want to build a Magic Boat ording to my wishes so I can sail to the endless seas!¡±

    ¡°A boat that travel on the ocean?¡± Xu Yi looked at Lumi in surprise. After thinking about it, he understood, ¡°If my guess isn¡¯t wrong, you want to head to the ocean to find your nsmen?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Lumi nodded as she revealed a sad look, ¡°Everyone else in my family is dead, so I am alone now. There is no meaning in staying on the Sines Continent at all, so I want to see if I can head out to the endless seas, finding my nsmen on the other continent.¡±

    Seeing the sad and lonely look on Lumi¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    Although the elves were considered rare on the continent, in the three tribes that Xu Yi knew about, there were a total of over five thousand people.

    But the only halfling he had met up to now was Lumi. Not to mention a tribe, there wasn¡¯t even a family.

    Moreover, there hadn¡¯t been news of the halflings on the Sines Continent for over two thousand years, so there wouldn¡¯t be a single halfling left on the Sines Continent anymore.

    This kind of loneliness could be imagined.

    ¡°You had this idea after you learned about the Magic Boats that ourpany makes?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes, although I haven¡¯t seen yourpany¡¯s Magic Boats, I¡¯ve gotten quite a bit of information on yourpany¡¯s Magic Boats after asking Undine. I know that your Magic Boats arepletely made of steel, so they are veryrge and strong. I think that there¡¯s no problem for a ship like this to sail out onto the ocean, so it should help me find my nsmen.¡± Lumi replied.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your praise for our Magic Boats, but Lumi.....To be honest, with how the research of our Magic Boats are going, I don¡¯t think that they have the ability to go deep into the seas yet.¡±

    Lumi¡¯s eyes opened wide as they filled with a bit of worry, ¡°It still isn¡¯t enough? My nsmen back then only built a few iron boats with the dwarves to head out to sea.¡±

    ¡°Your nsmen could bear a bit of loss at that time since there were many of them, but Lumi, there¡¯s only one of you. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, Lumi was stunned.

    ¡°Human, are you.....are you worried about me?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Un......I am just thinking about safety. Look, it isn¡¯t simple to travel on the ocean, you can¡¯t predict the dangers there, so to be safe, you have to properly prepare for everything. You are alone right now, so if anything happens that causes misfortune on the seas, it¡¯ll all be over. Am I right?¡±

    Lumi looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit before suddenlying forward and putting her hands around Xu Yi, saying in a happy voice, ¡°The elder really wasn¡¯t wrong, humans aren¡¯t all bad people. Great, hum.....No, you¡¯re called Xu Yi, right? Xu Yi, you are a good person, I like you. I just wanted to use a bit of my race¡¯s magic machine knowledge to work with you, but now I¡¯m willing to share all of my race¡¯s research with you!¡±

    Seeing the happy smile on Lumi¡¯s face, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    He just told Lumi about his worries as a mechanical engineer, but he never thought that Lumi would be this moved by it.

    But this was also good, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t bother exining. He said with a smile, ¡°Is that so? Being able to receive your trust is my honour. But Lumi, I have to remind you that it will take a long time to develop a seafaring Magic Ship and it will take a long time to prepare for the journey. Adding it all up, it might take at least five years or even longer to aplish all this, are you willing to wait?¡±

    Lumi nodded, ¡°Of course. I¡¯ve waited for a hundred years, so what if I wait another five or ten years?¡±

    ¡°She really is at least a hundred years old......¡±

    A strange thought appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, but then he discussed the details of the cooperation with Lumi.

    Finally both sides reached an agreement. Lumi would join the magic research facility, but she would focus on working on the Magic Boat.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had justunched their ocean shipping enterprise, so they needed talents in this field. Lumi cared about heading out to sea, so this was a good cooperation.

    While talking to Lumi about the sry of joining the magic research facility, Lumi didn¡¯t want it at first, but Xu Yi insisted on giving them.

    But when they talked about the specifics of her sry and Xu Yi asked about Lumi¡¯s magic power to confirm her sry, he was shocked.

    This female halfling who looked like a little human girl was actually a Third Grade Great Magician!

    ¡°Is this very strange?¡± Seeing the shocked look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Lumi gave a soft snort and revealed a proud look, ¡°We halflings are all geniuses at magic, otherwise how could we have such deep research on magic machines? You have to know, even the most powerful Magic Battleships of the elves were designed by us halflings. You can ask Undine if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at elder Undine and elder Undine nodded with a faint smile.

    After being dazed for a bit, Xu Yi returned to normal.

    When he looked at Lumi again, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with joy.

    Didn¡¯t this mean that the magic research facility other than Great Magician Teli had just gained another Great Magician Grade researcher?

    If Xu Yi was counted in, that would be three Great Magicians!

    Not to mention an Arch Magus like Cami!

    With such a powerful magician lineup, wouldn¡¯t theirpany be unique among thepanies of the Sines Continent?

    Xu Yi was shocked by the strength of Lumi¡¯s magic and Lumi was shocked by the wage that Xu Yi offered.

    ¡°Ten thousand gold coins a year? And there are extra bonuses?¡± Lumi looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes filled with disbelief, ¡°Joining your Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns this much money? If I knew about this earlier, I would have joined earlier! If I had ten thousand gold coins now.....No, I just need five thousand gold coins, then I could build a boat myself!¡±

    ¡°No, no, no......¡± Xu Yi waved his hands, ¡°Lumi, you can¡¯t be impulsive. You are the most important top grade researcher of our magic research facility, you can¡¯t put yourself in danger for your impulses. If something happens, that would be a great loss to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Rx, it¡¯ll only take a few years, but we will definitely build a powerful Magic Boat that can let you explore the endless seas and explore the whole world for your nsmen, alright?¡±

    Lumi¡¯s big eyes filled with tears as she nodded with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, since you¡¯ve given such good conditions, of course I have to treasure myself.¡±

    Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief, ¡°That¡¯s good.¡±

    Elder Undine and elder Lisanya had finished their discussion at an unknown time in the distance. Seeing that Xu Yi was done with Lumi, elder Undine came over and said to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, can we discuss the cooperation between us now?¡±

 Volume 5 27 - Seriously seeking minerals

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 27 Seriously seeking minerals</h4>

    Nissi City suddenly became lively in these few days.

    Three days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sea fleet finally arrived in Nissi City¡¯s harbour that had been built two months ago. When they anchored at the harbour, they created arge stir in Nissi City.

    Countless people came to the harbour and surrounded the three Magic Boats that came from the Stantine Duchy two thousand kilometers away.

    Seeing the Magic Ships that were like small hills stopped there, everyone couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    Such arge ship, it really surpassed everyone¡¯s expectations.

    Not to mention that these three ships werepletely made of iron. They couldn¡¯t see any trace of wood from the outside.

    After everyone saw these three ships, other than shock, their heart filled with curiosity.

    A ship that waspletely made of iron, it must have a shocking weight.

    How could such a heavy ship float on the water and move at high speeds?

    The Stantind Duchy was close to two thousand kilometers in a straight line, so this sea voyage of over two thousand kilometers might be closer to three thousand kilometers.

    These three ships had set off twenty days ago from the Stantine Duchy, so counting it, they had travelled more than a hundred kilometers each day on the sea.

    Although this wasn¡¯t considered fast, with how big these three ships were, it was already exaggerated to say that they could float on the sea. There was no need to mention it being able to sail for twenty days which was simply a miracle.

    When the surrounding people say the cargo that was continuously carried down from the ship, they were even more shocked.

    Even if they had guessed that the cargo space of these giant ships were terrifying based on their appearance, when the people saw these sailors carry cargo down for three days straight without stopping, they were filled with a bit of disbelief.

    Although it was only three ships, based on this situation, the cargo space of these three ships were over a hundred.....No, it was over a thousand horse carriages!

    It was no wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested several million to build this harbour with Nissi City. If they could ship this terrifying amount with just one trip, it would save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on manpower, resources, and time.

    Personally witnessing the terrifying cargo load of the three Magic Ships, many people started having ideas.

    ¡°Captain Narvil, good morning.¡±

    A fat middle aged man came out of a Magic Sedan with a smile, waving his hand to Narvil who had been supervising the sailors.

    Narvil turned to look and he also revealed a smile.

    ¡°Good morning, chairman Randolph.¡±

    This chairman Randolph was the chairman of apany in Nissi City that dealt in spices and lumber. Since attending the ceremony Nissi City¡¯s new City Lord Count Kompany had held the day before yesterday to wee the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he hade to talk to Narvil every day for the past three days.

    ¡°Captain Narvil, how long will it take to finish unloading this cargo?¡± Chairman Randolph saw the sailors who kepting off these three ships and asked this.

    ¡°If nothing is dyed, it should be at thetest tomorrow and at the earliest today.¡± Narvil replied. He raised a brow and asked back, ¡°What? Does chairman Randolph have any advice?¡±

    Chairman Randolphughed, ¡°How could I have any advice, I just have something to discuss with captain Narvil. I wonder if captain Narvil has some time to eat lunch with me today?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s here.¡± Narvil secretlyughed in his heart, but he shook his head with a serious look, ¡°I can only say sorry. Before setting out, sir chairman had strictly said that I can¡¯t ept anyone¡¯s personal invitations.¡±

    ¡°But the banquet Lord City Lord held three days ago......¡±

    ¡°That was in the name of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I went in ce of sir chairman. Moreover, the Lord CIty Lord isn¡¯t an individual, rather he is an official that represents the Rudson Kingdom and Nissi City.¡± Narvil said with a serious look.

    ¡°This......¡± Seeing how serious Narvil was, it didn¡¯t seem like he was joking. Chairman Randolph was a bit worried.

    He thought that he could take advantage of a meal to discuss something with Narvil, but Narvil not making any exceptions really was unexpected.

    But Narvil suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°Chairman Randolph, sir chairman has said before leaving that we can¡¯t have meals, but we can still discuss matters......¡±

    Chairman Randoloh¡¯s eyes lit up. Looking around, he gently drew Narvil aside.

    Narvil followed and came to a ce hidden by therge hull of the Morning Sun.

    Chairman Randolph hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Captain Narvil, after going back this time, you¡¯lle back again after some time, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Narvil nodded, ¡°The Rudson Kingdom has orders to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce which needs to be delivered, so we have an important task.¡±

    ¡°That......Is it possible.....I¡¯m saying if it¡¯s possible, when you¡¯re transporting your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cargo, can you transport other cargo?¡± Chairman Randolph carefully asked.

    Narvil looked at chairman Randolph with a ghost of a smile, ¡°I can¡¯t decide this, that is up to sir chairman.¡±

    Seeing that Narvil didn¡¯tpletely reject him, chairman Randolph revealed a rxed smile as he said, ¡°Of course, this must be decided by chairman Xu. But captain Narvil, when you see chairman Xu, can you raise this to him? I hope that when your fleetes to Nissi City, can you help me transport some goods to the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    ¡°I can help you pass this request to sir chairman, but I can¡¯t guarantee that sir chairman will agree.¡±

    Chairman Randolph quickly nodded, ¡°No problem, no problem, it¡¯s all good as long as you can pass this on for me. But captain Narvil, I hope that you can pass on a few more words from me. It¡¯s that as long as chairman Xu agrees, I¡¯m willing to pay the transport expenses for this cargo and it¡¯ll definitely satisfy chairman Xu. What do you think?¡±

    Narvil couldn¡¯t helpughing, thinking that sir chairman really predicted everything.

    Before setting off, Xu Yi had specially told Narvil about this and told him how he should deal with this.

    So Narvil acted like he was considering it and after hesitating a bit, he gave a forced nod.

    ¡°Un.....I can pass this on to sir chairman, but chairman Randolph, if you change your method, I think that it will be more likely that sir chairman will agree to your request......¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Chairman Randolph immediately heard the meaning in Narvil¡¯s words and quickly said, ¡°Captain Narvil, please tell me.¡±

    Narvil gave a cough before looking around. Then he lowered his voice to say, ¡°Chairman Randolph, you should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce mainly produces magic machines and these magic machines need arge amount of iron, as well as other metal ores. But you should also know that the Stantine Duchy is a small ce and has limited minerals, so sir chairman is looking to buy more minerals from other ces......¡±

    Like he was being yed, chairman Randolph as apany¡¯s chairman could naturally hear the meaning in the words, so he said with a smile, ¡°This is simple. Although I am a small person in Nissi City, there¡¯s no problem getting some minerals.¡±

    After saying this, chairman Randolph suddenly knit his brows as he thought of something.

    ¡°But captain Narvil, with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s close rtionship to the Rudson Kingdom, if you need arge amount of minerals, I think that chairman Xu can directly propose buying it from our Rudson Kingdom to his majesty Teruc. Why would you need to do this?¡±

    Narvil gave a sigh, ¡°Sir chairman already proposed this to his majesty Teruc who has also approved this. But to share a secret with you, his majesty Teruc has reached an agreement to sell the mineral rights to five mines in the Rudson Kingdom to ourpany. But sir chairman doesn¡¯t think this is enough, so he wants to find some more channels, do you understand?¡±

    Chairman Randolph thought about it before his brows gradually rxed.

    Since his majesty Teruc is willing to sign this contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sell the kingdom¡¯s minerals, it meant that his majesty would limit transactions in this aspect.

    Moreover, the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t have any limitations on this business, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem in making private deals with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, this matter needed to be discrete, so chairman Randolph didn¡¯t immediately agree. He told Narvil that he would seriously consider this and would give Narvil an answer in a few days.

    Narvil already expected this. Anyway, his trip to Nissi City was just to find some paths and make contact with some merchants of Nissi City and the Rudson Kingdom, revealing this intention.

    With the powerful shock of the three giant Magic Boats, there would be many people moved like chairman Randolph.

    But to be honest, Narvil didn¡¯t understand why sir chairman cared this much about mineral resources.

    Although the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t rich in mineral resources, it was enough to satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and there was even a surplus.

    But it seemed like sir chairman wasn¡¯t satisfied at all. Not only did he want Narvil to explorerge inds he found while sailing on the sea, he even had him perform this y aftering to Nissi City.

    Other than Thunderbolt Ind, there weren¡¯t many small inds found and most of them didn¡¯t have mineral resources on them.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if sir chairman will be disappointed after this report reaches him......¡±

    Narvil shook his head and gave a sigh. After watching chairman Randolph leave in his Magic Sedan, he came out of the shadows.

    When he wanted to turn and tell the sailors to go faster, he saw a very familiar Magic Sedan out of the corner of his eyes quickly driving into the harbour.

    This white Magic Sedan stopped at the harbour beside the Morning Sun and when the door opened, Xu Yi appeared.

    Narvil was stunned. When he wanted to head over to greet him, he saw the door open on the other side and a girl who was around ten years old came out.

    Narvil immediately fell into a daze.

    Sir chairman......when did he get such an old illegitimate daughter?

 Volume 5 28 - Creating a bigger stir than before

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 28 Creating a bigger stir than before</h4>

    After a while, Narvil finally reacted, quickly running to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    ¡°Sir chairman, why are you here?¡±

    Xu Yi gave him a smile, ¡°I was in the Rudson Kingdom and it wasn¡¯t that far away. I received that news that your ship had arrived, so I came to take a look.¡± After saying this, he turned to look at the three Magic Ships and asked, ¡°How is it? Was the journey smooth?¡±

    Narvilughed, ¡°With the goddess of luck, although there were some slight problems during this trip, it overall went very smoothly. Moreover.....¡± Narvil gave a cough before lowering his voice, ¡°Sir chairman, several days ago, we discovered a valuable ind that is less than two hundred kilometers away from here......¡±

    ¡°Valuable?¡± Seeing the wink from Narvil, Xu Yi immediately understood, ¡°What is the situation of the ind right now?¡±

    Narvil gave an ok sign with his hand.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem at all, I¡¯ll give you a report on the detailster.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I¡¯m assured if you¡¯re doing it, but I won¡¯t have time to take care of this now. You can take care of it yourself and report to me back in the Stantine Duchy,¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Narvil thought about it. He felt that there was a rush with Thunderbolt Ind, so there wasn¡¯t a need to report this urgently and gave it up.

    But there was another matter that he had to tell Xu Yi.

    Hearing Narvil tell him about his discussion with chairman Randolph earlier, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He patted Narvil¡¯s shoulder and praised, ¡°You did well. Tell chairman Randolph that ourpany can consider his request, but as for the specific details, it would be best if he came to the Stantine Duchy to discuss and didn¡¯t rush this now. As for the minerals.....He can just do his best, don¡¯t force it.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Narvil was a bit surprised.

    Sir chairman had clearly told him that this matter was very important before, but why did it seem like it didn¡¯t matter now?

    Seeing the doubt in Narvil¡¯s heart, Xu Yi exined with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s some change with the cooperation in the Rudson Kingdom. If nothing unexpected happens, ourpany will have a high share of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s mineral resources, so we don¡¯t need to worry about making secret mineral deals. Of course, my meaning isn¡¯t that we don¡¯t need these things and we still need to work on it. That is because ourpany¡¯s demand for minerals will never have a limit, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡± Narvil gave a strong nod before asking in a curious voice, ¡°Sir chairman, is it because the Rudson Kingdom needs help from ourpany, so they were willing topromise?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    The reason was because of the cooperation with the Azshara Tribe, but it wasn¡¯t convenient to tell Narvil now.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t say, Narvil wasn¡¯t interested in asking.

    There was no rush to report, so Narvil¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help turning to the little girl who had run over to the Morning Sun at an unknown time and was currently looking up with an interested gaze.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this little girl is......¡±

    ¡°She is called Lumi, can you tell what her identity is?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Narvil shook his head. He thought that he wasn¡¯t a god, how could he tell what this little girl¡¯s identity was just by looking at her.

    But based on sir chairman¡¯s tone, this little girl¡¯s status wasn¡¯t normal.

    But based on her clothing, her appearance, or her aura, she didn¡¯t seem like a young miss from arge noble family.

    Not to mention that with sir chairman¡¯s status in the Rudson Kingdom, perhaps the only one who could be recognized to have a different status was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s princess?

    However, no matter how he looked at it, this little girl who was wearing cotton clothes of different colours and had dishevelled hair didn¡¯t look like a princess.

    Seeing that Narvil couldn¡¯t tell who Lumi was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    But then he understood.

    The halflings had disappeared from the continent for a long time.

    Even if there were records of the halflings in books, they would all be legends.

    Everyone had already thought that the halflings had disappeared from the continent.

    Moreover, halflings looked just like human children, with few differences.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi being interested in the halflings¡¯ knowledge of magic machines, looking through plenty of books on them and met Lumi with elves by her side, it would have been hard for him to tell immediately that she was a halfling of legend.

    When Xu Yi was about to take the chance to reveal Lumi¡¯s identity, she suddenly came over and shouted in an excited voice, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, this ship is simply amazing! How did you make it?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°This wasn¡¯t made by me alone, it took the strength of countless members of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make. How about it, Lumi? After seeing the Magic Ship, don¡¯t you think that your idea of using five thousand gold coins to make a seafaring ship isughable?¡±

    Lumi scrunched up her little nose and gave a soft snort before muttering, ¡°I haven¡¯t been out in a long time, I didn¡¯t know that you humans were already at such a high level.¡± Then she became excited again, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, these three ships are this strong, can¡¯t you already head out to sea? You must be lying to me!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°What would I lie to you for? Although in theory these three ships can travel on the sea, the dangers of sailing on the sea far surpass your imagination. You can ask Narvil if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi point at him, Narvil was stunned.

    When he heard Xu Yi and Lumi¡¯s conversation, his heart was filled with doubt.

    This little girl called Lumi dared to call sir chairman by name, this meant that her identity definitely wasn¡¯t small.

    But what that little girl had said after was......

    ¡°You humans are already at this level¡±?

    What is ¡°you humans¡±?

    Was she not a human?

    When he was thinking about this, Lumi had jumped in front of Narvil and looked up to ask him, ¡°Hey, you¡¯re called Narvil? Tell me, is sailing on the sea really as dangerous as Xu Yi says it is?¡±

    Seeing Xu YI look over at him, Narvil immediately understood. He gave a cough before nodding and replying with a serious look, ¡°Yes, Lumi.....Miss Lumi. Sailing out on the endless seas is much more terrifying than what you can imagine.¡±

    Seeing the doubt on Lumi¡¯s face, Narvil raised his voice, ¡°Don¡¯t look at me with such doubt, these three ships sailed over two thousand kilometers toe here from the Stantine Duchy and I was the one leading this fleet. So I know better than anyone about the dangers we encountered!¡±

    Lumi muttered something and lowered her head to think. When she looked up, she seemed a bit disheartened as she said to Xu Yi with a sigh, ¡°That means I still have to wait a few more years?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Yes. Didn¡¯t you say it yourself? You¡¯ve already waited for over a hundred years, it isn¡¯t a problem if you wait another five or ten years?¡±

    ¡°Un.....¡± Lumi fell silent before suddenly pping her hands and loudly saying, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s follow the agreement we made before.¡±

    She turned to the Unfolding Wings, the Morning Sun, and the Goddess of Victory Iris with a look of intense hope and joy, ¡°No matter what, being able to see these three powerful Magic Ships has already exceeded my expectations. I believe that as long as you¡¯re willing to help me, it won¡¯t take that many years before I can make an even more powerful Magic Ship!¡±

    ¡°You have to understand, it isn¡¯t me helping you, but you helping us.¡± Xu YI said with a smile, ¡°Lumi, you are now a top grade researcher of ourpany and an employee of ourpany, so you need to properly work for me.¡±

    Lumi waved her little hand, ¡°No matter who helps who, it¡¯s fine as long as we can make a powerful Magic Ship in the end. As long as I canplete my dream, I can do anything you want!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, if you can develop a more powerful Magic Ship, that is one of the goals of ourpany. But Lumi, we¡¯ve already agreed on this. Although you will be mainly focused on developing the Magic Ship, you also have to work on the other projects.¡±

    ¡°I got it, you can rx. We halflings will keep our promises, we aren¡¯t as sly as you humans.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. When he was about to say something, Narvil on the side couldn¡¯t stop himself from shouting out.

    ¡°Halfling? Gods! You¡¯re actually a halfling! Oh, this is simply too unbelievable! Sir chairman, is this true? Is there a halfling in front of me right now? This must be a dream! This is too unbelievable!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Narvil who was a bit incoherent from shock. He thought that although it was a being that was almost close to being a legend, Narvil shouldn¡¯t be this shocked, right?

    Before Xu Yi could speak, Lumi had her hands at her waist and looked up to shout at Narvil, ¡°Hey, human, what is wrong with being a halfling? Why do you find it so hard to believe? Could it be that I¡¯m not a living halfling?¡±

    Narvil nodded with a dazed look.

    ¡°Yes, you are a halfling, but.....But didn¡¯t the halflings already disappear from the continent long ago?¡±

    Xu Yi patted Narvil¡¯s shoulder with a smile, ¡°Alright, there are exceptions with everything. Weren¡¯t the elves said to havepletely gone into hiding? But don¡¯t you see elves at ourpany all day? There are even two elf researchers on the Goddess of Victory Iris. Although the halflings are more rare than elves, isn¡¯t this too exaggerated?¡±

    Narvil¡¯s mouth fell open. He felt that sir chairman was underestimating this too much, but the halflings reappearing on the continent was super shocking news that one could never imagine, alright!

    Seeing Narvil¡¯s face that was filled with disbelief, Xu Yi felt a bit of a headache.

    When he had Agnes appear in front of everyone a few years ago in Banta City, it created a stir that people couldn¡¯t believe which was considered quite terrifying. Even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was affected by people who surrounded them to see Agnes for a long time.

    If he were to bring Lumi back and publicly announced this, the response should be like how Narvil looked now. The effect of this might even be several times stronger than that of Agnes.

    Seeing Lumi who was dissatisfied and had puffed up angry cheeks from Narvil¡¯s exaggerated reaction, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    To cooperate with other races, this was one of the consequences he had to ept.

 Volume 5 29 - Strike

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 29 Strike</strong>

    Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to ept the consequences of working with other races, it wasn¡¯t just the shock that this brought.

    Other than bringing fame to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were other consequences to the shock that would bring losses to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    One of them was a problem that had always bothered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too many other race workers, so even if they gained benefits that otherpanies couldn¡¯tpare to, it also made it much harder to manage.

    Even among the humans, there were splits, so there wasn¡¯t a need to mention the splits between races.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t that big still, this problem wasn¡¯t that obvious, but now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over three hundred household magic machine factories, there were a shocking hundred thousand employees under them. Whether it was the human workers or the other race workers, they all grew in numbers, so this problem became increasingly serious.

    Among the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hundred thousand workers, the human workers still made up the majority with over eighty thousand workers.

    As for the other races, there were over eight thousand dwarves, fifteen thousand beastmen, and only over three thousand elves. Moreover, most of them weren¡¯t directly managed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So in terms of pure poption, the human workerspletely suppressed the other race workers.

    But among the other race workers, few of the elves were managed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce so they could be ignored. However, for the dwarves with their natural abilities in forging, most of them were high skilled workers or mechanical engineers, so they had much higher positionspared to the human workers.

    Because of Xu Yi¡¯s high request for technique, these dwarf workers were given better treatment in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the dwarves were simple and easily to get along with, with this special treatment, the human workers were dissatisfied since they thought it was unfair.

    Dissatisfaction over a long time naturally would explode.

    So when Xu Yi came back to the Stantine Duchy from the Rudson Kingdom, he encountered something that surprised him.

    There was actually a worker strike in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    When he heard Kennard report this matter to him, Xu Yi¡¯s expression was very strange.

    He wasn¡¯t angry, he just felt that this matter was absurd and he couldn¡¯t believe it.

    The treatment he had given his workers was better than anypany on the Sines Continent and they actually went on a strike?

    It had to be known, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the highest wages for workers atpanies was only a few gold coins a month.

    But after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, with Xu Yi pushing them, the monthly wages of the various Banta Citypanies kept increasing. Right now it had reached an average of twenty gold coins a month.

    This monthly ie might even be the same as the ie of several years for some of the peasant families!

    They were still dissatisfied with this? And they wanted to get better treatment with a strike?

    Xu Yi really wasn¡¯t that angry, he just felt that this matter was a bit unbelievable. Anyway, he didn¡¯t even have a single thought of being angry.

    Before this, Xu Yi had never heard of apany¡¯s workers going on strike, they didn¡¯t even dare cause trouble.

    Because it was hard being able to work for apany, so everyone treasured it.

    However, perhaps it was because the magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed created many jobs, so that they could easily get other jobs, they didn¡¯t treasure it as much.

    Even if they didn¡¯t work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many other magic machinepanies that needed workers.

    The workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all skilled and rich in work experience. With the techniques they gained from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were weed at the otherpanies, so these workers weren¡¯t worried.

    So after Xu Yi thought about this, he realized that this matter was necessary and it wasn¡¯t that strange.

    In the end, people¡¯s greed could never be satisfied.

    If there was a chance, people would always choose the better path.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, when facing the objections of ten thousand people, morals and conscience didn¡¯t mean anything.

    Looking at the demands that Kennard gave him which was from the leader of the strike, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    On this demand, they wanted the same level as treatment for the human workers as the other race workers received. The idea of wanting thepany to treat human workers and other race workers was reasonable and eptable, but it was just their greed causing trouble.

    ¡°Kennard, how are you nning on taking care of this?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    Kennard knew that Xu Yi was using this chance to test him. After thinking for a bit, he replied, ¡°I nned on talking to the leader of these workers and discussing conditions. It¡¯s good if we can reach a conclusion and if we can¡¯t, I¡¯ll think of something else.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°This isn¡¯t good.¡±

    Kennard wasn¡¯t surprised as he asked, ¡°Which part isn¡¯t good?¡±

    ¡°First, ourpany doesn¡¯t have enough production capacity and if we negotiate with these workers, it will dy this and affect our productivity.¡±

    ¡°I can reduce the negotiation time as much as possible.¡±

    ¡°This is what they want, so they will force us into agreeing to their unreasonable conditions. But if we agree to them, it is us who are letting the workers down.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Second, if we negotiate with the workers once, there will be second time and it¡¯ll be harder to take care of in the future.¡±

    ¡°Then sir chairman means that we shouldn¡¯t negotiate with these workers? But we can¡¯t stall this......¡± Kennard knit his brows.

    Xu Yi was clear that with Kennard¡¯s abilities, it was impossible he didn¡¯t have a way to handle this, but his ideas about solving this were definitely different from Kennard¡¯s this time. So he rejected Kennard¡¯s n directly.

    ¡°If we can¡¯t stall, then we won¡¯t.¡± Xu Yi looked at the demands in his hand and revealed a smile. Then he cut it with his other hand, ¡°We¡¯ll fire all the workers who participated in this strike.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Kennard looked at Xu Yi in shock, as if he couldn¡¯t believe his ears, ¡°Sir.....Sir chairman, you.....There are at least over eighteen thousand people in this strike! You want to fire them all? Not only would ourpany¡¯s productivity be affected, it might even bepletely paralyzed! If we do this, we might lose at least over three million gold coins from this!¡±

    Hearing the number three million gold coins, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Hey, Kennard, you¡¯ve also considered this n before, right? Otherwise, how would you have this number?¡±

    Kennard was stunned before looking at him not knowing tough or cry, ¡°I was just privately making some calctions, I was never nning on doing this.¡±

    Seeing the calm look on Xu YI¡¯s face, with his years of experience of working with Xu Yi, Kennard was certain that Xu Yi already made his decision.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s idea was just too shocking. Even if Kennard had never really gone against Xu Yi¡¯s decisions before, he couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, I feel.....aren¡¯t we in too much of a rush? There¡¯s no need to be this forceful. If you want, we can discipline a portion of the workers who participated in the strike to warn the others. We can just target the leaders of this strike, why do we need to target all workers? You have to know that some workers have just been misled, perhaps they don¡¯t even know what they want to do.¡±

    ¡°They don¡¯t know what they want to do?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°We¡¯re all adults, what joke is this? Alright, I¡¯ve already decided to do this. Kennard, you take care of the business, so the specifics will be given to you.¡±

    Kennard took back the demands from Xu Yi with a bitter look. Seeing the name of the leader on it, he really wanted to bite that fellow to death.

    What kind of person does this fellow think he is? He actually dared to anger sir chairman!

    Even if sir chairman rarely meddled in thepany¡¯s business in the past two years, with his absolute authority in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as he decided on something, even Kennard as the CEO couldn¡¯t oppose him.

    But thinking about how they were about to fire eighteen thousand workers, Kennard¡¯s head was hit with a strong headache.

    Seeing the pained look on Kennard¡¯s face, Xu YI revealed a faint smile as he patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder andforted him.

    ¡°Alright, Kennard, don¡¯t worry about this, I¡¯m not really angry. I just think that it¡¯s better the short pain than the long pain. This strike has reminded me that many problems in thepany have umted to a certain point and we do need to make some reforms. The leader of this strike is right, the treatment of other races in thepany is a bit different, so it¡¯s no wonder they feel it isn¡¯t fair.¡±

    Kennard knit his brows to think before asking, ¡°Then.....Sir chairman, what are you nning on doing?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, we¡¯ll kick out all those fellows whose minds have wandered and start putting the remaining workers into grades. Although we did set some ranks for the workers before, it was very crude. For example, separating workers by their seniority isn¡¯t fair. Now I want to add their skill level into that appraisal and separate the employees. The more skilled they are and the longer they work for thepany, the higher their rank and the better their treatment.¡±

    Kennard thought about it before nodding, ¡°I already had this idea before, but thepany was developing too quickly and there were too many employees, so I didn¡¯t have the time to make this reform.¡±

    ¡°So that means we¡¯ll use this chance to make arge reform.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for this matter, we wouldn¡¯t have had an excuse to make such arge reform. Aren¡¯t these workers saying that the dwarves are being treated too well and it wasn¡¯t fair? Alright, if they want the same treatment as the dwarves, they should work as hard as the dwarves. If they refuse, it¡¯s very simple, they can just leave our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But if they want toe back after leaving.....Hei, hei, they can only start from the beginning.¡±

    Seeing the look of schadenfreude on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Kennard shook his head.

    Sir chairman kept saying that he wasn¡¯t angry, but based on his expression, he must still be feeling angry.

 Volume 5 30 - After the large scale layoffs

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 30 After therge scaleyoffs</h4>

    When the news of therge scaleyoffs from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was released, the people of the surrounding countries were shocked.

    Although it was normal forpanies to fire workers they no longer needed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly firing eighteen thousand employees was something unique.

    Many people¡¯s first reaction to this was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was over.

    Because in a normal situation, apany would only haverge scaleyoffs when they were about to copse.

    And where they were developing, thepany would recruit arge number of workers to protect their growing businesses.

    But before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been recruiting workers the entire time.

    Even half a month ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was using their channels in the surrounding countries to recruit. Why did they suddenly fire all these workers?

    Was it because of the strike that had appeared in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    If they did fire all these workers because of the strike, that would be too strict.

    Suddenly, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strike andrge scaleyoffs, the people of the surrounding countries fell into intense discussion. The various newspapers all published articles rted to this matter and reported on the developments.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was thepany with the most focus in the surrounding countries, no one couldpare. Now because of the matters that had happened, they became the center of attention.

    But for different people, the things they cared about were different.

    Most of the normal people watched the fun, but the people with business rtionships to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce cared about how these two matters would affect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Especially the people with orders with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were very worried.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity had never been enough and now that they had fired eighteen thousand workers, it must have greatly affected their normal production capacity which was even morecking now.

    Facts turned out as they expected. After therge scaleyoffs, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent a letter of apology to all their customers. It said that because of the internal changes with thepany, their production capacity would be affected and their orders would be slightly dyed.

    The customers who received these letters could only helplessly ept it.

    There was no other way. Even if there were otherpanies in the surrounding countries that produced magic machines, other than household magic machines, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce the other magic machines and they couldn¡¯t find anotherpany to rece them with.

    As for the household magic machines, the Frestech Brand was the one that everyone considered the most upscale and it didn¡¯t have a match.

    Many people only bought the Frestech Brand when buying household magic machines or they wouldn¡¯t buy anything.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that their production was affected, most people patiently waited for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recover and they didn¡¯t even consider buying household magic machines of other brands.

    Of course, there were some people who did buy other brands of household magic machines because of their urgent needs.

    So after these two matters urred with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the sales of the other brands increased by varying amounts.

    Among the other brands of household magic machines, there were several that had decent quality developed over the years. Even if they couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand magic machines, with the price that was lower than that of the Frestech Brand, it was approved of by many.

    In short, these two matters had quite the influence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it was also a very good chance for these household magic machinepanies.

    Moreover,pared to the increase in sales for thesepanies, what most of thesepanies cared more about were the eighteen thousand workers fired from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    These workers were all workers who had worked a year at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They could stand firm in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which meant that they had decent techniques and experience, which meant they were rare talents for the otherpanies.

    So after the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce firing these eighteen thousand workers was released, countless people came to the Stantine Duchy topete for the workers fired from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In just half a month, the eighteen thousand workers who had been fired had all found new jobs.

    Because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fired these workers, they had given them fifty gold coins aspensation, they hadn¡¯t suffered any losses at all. They smoothly transitioned from a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker to working for anotherpany.

    And because of the countlesspanies fighting over them, when they entered the otherpanies, their sries were even higher than when they were at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Perhaps it was even better than being at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For a while, there were many workers who hadn¡¯t been fired that had been moved by this.

    ¡°Hey, Archie, you really won¡¯t consider it?¡± A yellow faced youth stopped Archie who just came out of his house and asked with an expectant look, ¡°The Domino Chamber of Commerce¡¯s wage is much higher than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they are giving me twenty five gold coins a month! You are a second grade welder, so if youe with me, you¡¯ll get even more than me! You might even get thirty gold coins a month!¡±

    Archie knit his brows and impatiently waved his hand. He said with a cold snort, ¡°I¡¯m not going. Luther, go if you want, stop trying to pull me with you. You really think I don¡¯t know? The Domino Chamber of Commerce must have told you that if you pull someone from thepany, they¡¯ll give you a reward of ten gold coins, am I right?¡±

    Luther who had been exposed revealed a wronged look and loudlyined, ¡°The Domino Chamber of Commerce has indeed said this, but god, Archie, I want you toe with me because you are my friend, I hope that you can be with me! If you¡¯re willing toe, I¡¯ll give you the ten gold coins the Domino Chamber of Commerce gives me, I won¡¯t keep a single copper coin! How about it? Is this enough to show my sincerity?¡±

    ¡°Then I won¡¯t go.¡± Archie coldly said, ¡°I am being treated very well at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯ve never thought of going to anotherpany. As for you, Luther, since you treat me as a friend, I¡¯ll tell you that while you might get a higher wage at the Domino Chamber of Commerce now, haven¡¯t you thought about what happens after? Can the Domino Chamber of Commercepare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Can you obtain the same treatment as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Can you still have a pension n when you¡¯re too old to move?¡±

    Luther pursed his lips, ¡°Che, you think that you can get this at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Don¡¯t talk about how good the Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes it sound, who knows how long the Frestech Chamber of Commerce canst. They might even go out of business tomorrow.¡±

    Archie knit his brows and angrily said, ¡°Luther, do you think you can curse the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just because you¡¯re leaving it! I know that you were fired from thepany, so you are angry, but I also told you back then not to follow those follows to cause trouble. Now you¡¯ve been fired from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for causing trouble, you¡¯re still ming other people?¡±

    Luther steeled himself and shouted, ¡°So what if I want to be treated better? Isn¡¯t this allowed? Why can those dwarves be treated so well and why can¡¯t we humans be treated the same? If it was me, I¡¯m saying that sir chairman is biased! He is protecting those other race workers, he doesn¡¯t care about us human workers at all! Is he even still human?¡±

    Seeing Luther¡¯s agitated look, Archie became more calm.

    He narrowed his eyes to look at Luther for a while before calmly saying, ¡°Luther, there are three dwarven workers at your Magic Air Conditioner factory, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s because those three dwarven workers have a better wage and benefits than the other human workers that I couldn¡¯t take it. If sir chairman gave us the same treatment, how could we cause trouble? We¡¯re all doing the same job, why are they treated better than us?¡± Luther said with an angry look.

    Archie gave a coldugh, ¡°Luther, if I remember correctly, among the three dwarf workers, the weakest one is still a grade four technician, but they are still working in the factory, right?¡±

    Luther gave a snort, ¡°So what?¡±

    ¡°What about you?¡± Archie gave another coldugh, ¡°Haven¡¯t you still not passed the second grade welder test?¡±

    Luther¡¯s face turned red before he angrily said, ¡°What are you doing? Are youughing at me? Do you think that you canugh at me just because you pass the test? You aren¡¯t that much better than me, alright?¡±

    Archie shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not talking about myself, but the three dwarf workers. You can¡¯t even pass the second grade welder test and you want to be treated the same as the dwarves who have passed at least the fourth grade test, aren¡¯t you embarrassed?¡±

    Luther¡¯s expression froze. After pausing, he angrily waved his hand and loudly said, ¡°Hey! Archie, which side are you standing on? Are you the same as sir chairman, speaking up for the dwarves? Are you still a human? Are you still my friend? Ah?¡±

    Archie looked at Luther and said word for word, ¡°I am a human, but I stand on the side of truth. Sir chairman already said it, you¡¯re treated better if you have stronger skills, this is the same for all workers, whether you are human or not. As for you.....Luther, if you keep talking nonsense like this.....it is better if we stop meeting.¡±

    ¡°Stop meeting?¡± Luther looked at Archie in a daze and he couldn¡¯t help taking two steps back. He pointed at Archie and stammered, ¡°You.....You¡¯re actually protecting some dwarves....and want to break ties with me? I.....I am your friend who grew up with you......¡±

    Archie¡¯s expression rxed a bit and after a bit of silence, he gave a sigh and patted Luther¡¯s shoulder.

    Luther, if you aren¡¯t doing well at the Domino Chamber of Commerce, think of a way toe back. Believe me, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a much better future than all the otherpanies, it¡¯s safe staying here. It¡¯s much better than all the otherpanies.¡±

    Without waiting for Luther to say anything, Archie turned to leave as soon as he finished speaking.

    Luther watched Archi leave in a daze. After a while, his anger filled his heart again and he gave a strong snort before turning to leave in another direction.

    The Domino Chamber of Commerce promised that if he could pull a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker over, they would give him fifty gold coins.

    If Archie wouldn¡¯t agree, he should make use of his time to find someone else.

 Volume 5 31 - Workers union

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 31 Workers union</h4>

    Archie turned the corner and saw Leia who had been waiting there for him.

    ¡°Did Luthere to ask you to go to the Domino Chamber of Commerce with him again?¡± Leia slightly knit her brows. She looked in the direction Luther walked off in and couldn¡¯t help shaking her head, ¡°You didn¡¯t agree with him?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Archie replied with a smile, ¡°If I really did agree, my father would break my legs.¡±

    Leia also smiled.

    A while ago, Afaylia had heard that Luther wanted to take Archie away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and he flew into a rage. He warned Archie that he definitely couldn¡¯t agree, otherwise he would break his legs and kick him out of the house.

    Afaylia believed that with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it changed their lives, so he deeply loved the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He didn¡¯t even allow anyone to say a single bad word about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or chairman Xu in front of him. He also said many times that he would stay in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce his entire life and wouldn¡¯t go anywhere else.

    Afaylia had been very angry about the workers strike before, saying that those people are all ungrateful trash.

    If Archie really agreed to Luther¡¯s invitation and ran to the Domino Chamber of Commerce, Afaylia might have really expelled him from his family.

    Of course, even if they ignored Afaylia¡¯s deep love for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and based just on their views, Leia also didn¡¯t think it was a good choice to leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the otherpanies were offering much higher wages to lure the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers away, Leia didn¡¯t think that this was a good thing.

    Even if they could get a better wage at anotherpany, so what?

    Compared to the wage, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various other benefits were what Leia considered important.

    For example, when Leia gave birthst year and couldn¡¯t work for thest half of the year, if it was anotherpany, they would have directly chased Leia away and fired her.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce let Leia go rest and even gave her leave pay.

    This meant that while preparing to give birth at home, she could still be paid.

    Although she only received a basic sry of ten gold coins a month, this made Leia feel that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more humanity than the otherpanies.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept sending people to check on Leia. They brought daily goods for her from time to time, saying that it was special care while she was giving birth.

    Just this was something that Leia had never heard of from the otherpanies.

    Moreover, when she was giving birth, Leia had been able to use her identity as a Frestech Chamber of Commerce worker to enter the hospital the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built. She even received free medical care during and after her childbirth.

    Just this had saved Leia at least twenty gold coins in medical fees.

    If they counted in the various other Frestech Chamber of Commerce benefits, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s wages might not be the highest among thepanies, but the benefits they gave were something that otherpanies couldn¡¯tpare to.

    As for caring about workers, other than the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman being close to chairman Xu, so he paid attention to this aspect as well, the otherpanies couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Thinking of this, Leia had a bit of regret in her eyes as she said with a sigh, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what Luther and the others were thinking. They were treated so well at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they had to cause trouble. In the end, they made sir chairman angry and they were all fired by sir chairman. Don¡¯t think that they¡¯re doing well now, they will definitely regret it in the future.¡±

    Archie gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, some people are greedy and can¡¯t feel satisfied. Right, speaking of this, Leia, your factory also received the same news, right?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Leia thought about it before reacting, ¡°You mean the matter of the workers union? Our factory also received it.¡±

    ¡°Un, I really don¡¯t know what sir chairman is thinking. If he was angry because of those people causing trouble, it would be over after he chased those people away, so why is he making this workers union? Also he said that he would give the union the right to give their opinion, isn¡¯t that causing trouble for himself?¡± Archie knit his brows in confusion.

    Leia reached out to tap Archie¡¯s forehead, ¡°How can you guess what sir chairman is thinking? But I think.....those people causing trouble have reminded sir chairman that he needs to pay attention to the thoughts of us normal workers. This is a good thing for us, at least we can give our opinions through the union.¡±

    ¡°Un, a good thing is a good thing, but I don¡¯t think there is a need. The various benefits of thepany are very good, I don¡¯t have any opinions at all.¡±

    ¡°That doesn¡¯t mean other people don¡¯t have opinions.¡± Leia said with a smile, ¡°For example, I hope that we can have some more restrooms near the factory. When we take breaks now, it¡¯s very troublesome to line up at the restrooms.¡±

    Archie looked at Leia and suddenly revealed a look of understanding.

    It took women longer to go to the restroompared to men, so it must be troublesome.

    ¡°Sir chairman is very generous about this, I think that this idea will definitely pass.¡± Archie looked at the sky with a smile, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s gettingte, we should get to work. As for our opinion.....we¡¯ll talk when we meet up for work.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Leia nodded and walked to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s industrial area with Archie.

    This was the peak hour in the morning for going to work, so the road to the industrial area was filled with Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers in uniform.

    The workers gathered in groups and chatted with each other before heading to work.

    If one listened carefully, they would find that most of their talks were centered on theyoffs.

    These workers strangely all had the same views about theyoffs this time. They all felt that the workers who wereid off deserved it and they could only me themselves for being fired, so they weren¡¯t worth feeling sympathy for.

    Moreover, those fellows had all found work at otherpanies with much higher wages, so quite a few workers who were left were feeling jealous.

    Of course, most people were also clear minded like Archie and Leia. They knew the benefits of staying at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the great benefits in the future, so they all supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and criticized the workers that had left.

    This flow of people entered the industrial area and separated on the various paths.

    Leia worked in the Magic Fan assembly factory and Archie worked in the steel te welding factory. Since they worked in different ces, when they entered the industrial area, they waved goodbye and separated.

    Around ten minutester, Archie entered the steel te welding factory. Looking around, he found that the factory was much more empty.

    The workers in the steel te welding factory had some grasp of techniques, so in the strike, there were more people from this factory who had participated.

    Then the otherpanies had secretly headhunted people, so there were many workers who chose to leave this factory.

    This steel te welding factory had three hundred and seventy six people before, but now there were only two hundred and forty three people left. One hundred and twenty three people had left all of a sudden, so naturally therge factory seemed much more empty.

    Moreover, thepany had experienced thisrge shake up, so the workers were a bit unsettled. There was little talk between them, so the factory felt even more sombre.

    Seeing this scene, Archie couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and giving a sigh in his heart.

    Although this had been a serious blow to thepany, Archie was still extremely confident in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially sir chairman.

    Sir chairman had created the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from nothing and developed it into the current giant it was. This matter was without a doubt arge blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it was probably just a small matter for sir chairman.

    If it wasn¡¯t how could sir chairman have done this? How could he use this shocking method and solve the matter by firing eighteen thousand workers at once?

    Archie picked up his tools and prepared to work. When he was about to head to his post to start working, he suddenly heard amotion from the door.

    Turning his head to look, he saw two dwarf Magic Mechanical Engineers wearing the uniforms of the magic machine development centering in with a group of human workers.

    These human workers were pulling several small Magic Transporters with strange looking machines on them.

    The workers in the factory couldn¡¯t help stopping their work as they looked at the machines.

    The manager Zonuk came over and talked with the two dwarf Magic Mechanical Engineers before turning to look at the workers curiously looking over with an excited look on his face.

    ¡°Brothers, this is the magic machine development center¡¯s newly developed automatic production magic machine! With this thing, our job will be much easier from now on!¡±

    ¡°Automatic production magic machines?¡±

    The workers all nkly looked at each other.

    Before this, the magic machine development center had developed a series of semi automatic production magic machines and the steel te welding factory had several of them.

    These semi automatic production magic machines were much more effective than workers controlling the production magic machines and their quality was more stable, which greatly increased the efficiency of the factory.

    But what was this automatic production magic machine?

    Was the automatic at a higher level than the semi automatic? Did that mean it didn¡¯t need people at all to operate?

    That was a bit to unimaginable......

 Volume 5 32 - The magic technology of the halflings

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 32 The magic technology of the halflings</h4>

    A steel te that was 3.7 meters long and 3.6 meters wide, with a thickness of seven millimeters was ced on the work stage of the production magic machine by two workers.

    Then a worker pressed the button and the work stage rose around ten centimeters. Then it was brought under the punching head, stopping when there was exactly thirty seven centimeters left on the left side.

    Then the punch head came down and the steel te was slightly bent under therge pressure.

    The t steel te suddenly formed a small curve. The punch head came back up and the work stage changed the position of the steel te before the punch head came down again.

    After repeating this several dozen times, the steel te had turned into the shape of a bowl.

    When this bowl came out of the conveyor belt, Lumi on the side immediately charged over and reached her small hand out to touch the steel te. After carefully looking it over, she turned to Xu Yi with a look of shock, ¡°God, it¡¯s actually a perfect standard curve! How did you do this?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You should ask Sancheli, this Automatic Magic Punch Press¡¯ core Magic Array was developed by him, he should understand this better than me.¡±

    Sancheli who had been standing by Xu Yi gave augh and waved his hand. He pointed at Camby who was on his right and said, ¡°I just designed a few Magic Arrays. If it wasn¡¯t for the skills of Camby¡¯s group perfectly forming my idea, there wouldn¡¯t be any use at all.¡±

    Cambyughed and he wasn¡¯t modest, but he also raised his arm to p Sancheli¡¯s leg, ¡°The Magic Array Sancheli designed is too amazing, otherwise it¡¯s impossible for this machine to be this strong.¡±

    Lumi waved her small arm and shouted, ¡°I don¡¯t have time to waste listening to you praise each other, I just want to know, what is the principle behind this Automatic Magic Punch Press? Why can it precisely stop pressing down in certain positions and how can it keep working this precisely? It doesn¡¯t even have a single bit of error?¡±

    Sancheli and Camby looked at each other before turning to Xu Yi.

    Although they were shocked when they heard the chairman introduce Lumi as a halfling.

    But after knowing each other for a few days, the two were used to it.

    They knew that Lumi was a top grade researcher hired by Xu Yi for the magic research facility, but the data for this automatic production magic machine was top secret for thepany. Even if Lumi was a top grade researcher, she wasn¡¯t qualified to know.

    As expected, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and said to Lumi, ¡°Lumi, it¡¯s very troublesome to exin the principle behind this, it can¡¯t be exined in a short period of time. If you¡¯re really interested, I have several books on mechanical theory that I wrote that you can read. After reading them, I believe that you¡¯ll understand most of it.¡±

    ¡°The theory in the books, it¡¯s the reason why you can make these strange magic machines?¡± Lumi asked.

    ¡°Although that isn¡¯t too urate, the foundations do use this theory.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The magic machines of you halflings are focused on the magic, but the magic machines that ourpany makes focus on the machine. After you read these books, you will understand the differences between the two.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this strange?¡± Lumi looked at Xu Yi with a curious look, ¡°Alright, you can give them to meter.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi agreed before looking around. Then he ordered Sancheli and Camby, ¡°You two keep testing the automatic production magic machine in here. If there is a problem, immediately write it down.¡± Then he waved his hand at Lumi, ¡°Lumi, the automatic production magic machine is here and won¡¯t run away, let¡¯s go take a look at the shipyard first. The engineers there have some problems rted to the Magic Ship to ask you.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Lumi nodded, looking a bit unwilling as she left the automatic production magic machine.

    When she went by Camby, she suddenly stood on tiptoes andpared the top of her head with Camby¡¯s. Then she gave a depressed sigh, ¡°Ai, it¡¯s almost a hundred years now that I haven¡¯t grown.¡±

    Xu Yi, Sancheli, and Camby didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    This Lumi was clearly over a hundred years old, so why did she still act like a child?

    Could it be that this was the nature of the halflings?

    The shipyard wasn¡¯t far from here, so Xu Yi and Lumi only needed to walk a few minutes to reach it.

    When they saw Lumi, the human, dwarf, and elf engineers all came over and surrounded her.

    ¡°Hey, Lumi, look, I¡¯ve found a big problem with the blueprint you gave me. I¡¯ve calcted it and if it is designed like this, when the Magic Ship surpasses fifty kilometers an hour, the speed would create excess force that would eventually wear down this part, greatly reducing the service life of this part.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s also this. Look, if this Magic Array is set like this, the right angle sheet design here will block it and keep the Magic Array from disying its effect. So I advise that we either remove this unnecessary sheet or use another design to let this Magic Array disy its effect.¡±

    ¡°You are all talking about small problems, I¡¯ve found the biggest problem. Look, if this Magic Array is engraved here, it will ovep with the core Magic Force Output Array. Although this range isn¡¯t big, with my calctions, if there are any special circumstances with the Magic Ship like the waves are too big, so they need to use the maximum output of the Magic Array with the stabilizing Water Magic Array, the effects will be serious. It can easily cause these two Magic Arrays to lose their ability to function and in a dangerous situation, it can even make the entire Magic Ship lose control.¡±

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re not the only one who found a major problem, alright? The problem I¡¯ve found is also very serious. Lumi, look at this......¡±

    ......

    Lumi was stunned as she listened to the various problems the engineers found, standing there in a daze.

    A week ago, she had been very confident when she took out the design for this Magic Ship.

    Because this design used thousands of years of research the halflings had gathered on magic machines, being one of the top grade blueprints of the halflings.

    She thought that this blueprint would allow her to establish her authority among the Magic Boat researchers, also letting these researchers understand and respect the halfling¡¯s knowledge of magic machines.

    The engineers had been stunned by the designs of the blueprint back then and praised it.

    But she never thought that in a single week, these fellows would find all these problems. It really was something that Lumi didn¡¯t expect.

    After listening for a while, the shock in Lumi¡¯s heart gradually faded and she became angry.

    This blueprint had the essence of the halflings, how could there be so many problems?

    These fellows must be randomly speaking!

    However, when Lumi took the blueprints and seriously discussed each problem with the engineers, she waspletely submerged by the calctions that the engineers took out.

    Lumi never thought that these engineers would run several hundred calctions just for a single problem, while also doing at least a hundred model experiments.

    Because of this foundation, the various data they gave were all perfect and hadpletely exposed all the little problems. It couldn¡¯t be hidden at all and Lumi couldn¡¯t refute them.

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can make all those strange magic machines and rarely have any problems. This kind of fervor for research really is a bit too terrifying.¡± Lumi gave a sigh in her heart while also taking a look at Xu Yi.

    These engineers could have this spirit for research clearly because of the strict requirements the chairman had for them.

    For there to be so many problems with the blueprint she took out, Lumi was depressed while also feeling excited.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had such a strong research team, it was no wonder they were able to make the three giant steel ships.

    With this foundation, she had enough strength to develop a true seafaring Magic Ship at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, aplishing her goal.

    Thinking about herself taking the giant Magic Ship and sailing on the seas, travelling thousands or even ten thousand kilometers, finally reaching the other side of the endless sea to find her nsmen who disappeared over two thousand years ago. Then she would show them the results of her magic machine research at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and stun them. Thinking about this made Lumi¡¯s heart fill with mes.

    Seeing Lumi who was focused on discussing with the ship building engineers, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Lumi had been at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a month, but she had never fully integrated herself.

    But through this matter, she could find what she wascking while also letting her discuss with the other engineers, it was something that Xu Yi was very happy to see.

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi gave up his n to show Lumi around the shipyard and silently left this ce. He returned to the management center the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built in the center of the industrial area.

    When he opened the door of the CEO office, he saw Kennard looking at a form in his hand with a bitter look.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, Kennard shook his head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯ve really encountered a big problem this time.¡±

 Volume 5 33 - Bottom line

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 33 Bottom line</h4>

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What trouble? Could it be that it is even more trouble than firing eighteen thousand workers at once?¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of hidden bitterness.

    ¡°Sir chairman, strictly speaking.....This trouble is because of therge scaleyoffs.¡±

    ¡°What does that mean? Tell me about it.¡±

    Kennard gave the report in his hand to Xu Yi, ¡°This is the report I just made on ourpany¡¯s current orders, take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi took it and found that the data showed that there was a small drop in the current orders for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this was something they expected. After all, no matter how much of an advantage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over the otherpanies, it was impossible for them topletely monopolize the entire magic machine market.

    Because therge scaleyoffs had affected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity, there were many orders that didn¡¯t receive their cargo on time.

    Even if the quality of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were higher than the otherpanies, in order to obtain the magic machines they needed, there were many people who decided to order from otherpanies.

    ¡°What is the problem?¡± Xu Yi asked Kennard in a confused voice.

    Kennard gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, you still haven¡¯t noticed it? This is our current order count, but if we look at the time, we would find that in the past month, the orders that we received are close to half of what we receivedst year. This means that many buyers are losing confidence in ourpany, which is a serious problem.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t look nervous at all.

    ¡°Losing confidence in us? That isn¡¯t true. I feel that they are only losing patience. As long as ourpany regains our production capacity, I¡¯m certain that they wille back to order from ourpany again.¡±

    Kennard shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Sir chairman, it would take a lot of effort to take back the market that was lost and the effects wouldn¡¯t be that good. Look, based on this report, in the markets of the Rudson Kingdom, the Mirando Duchy, the Drake Duchy, and the three small duchies that we just opened, there is a decrease in orders that isn¡¯t small. ording to my data, just with the loss of these markets, we¡¯ve already lost over two million gold coins. Adding in the three million two hundred and sixty thousand gold coins we paid to fire those eighteen thousand workers, we¡¯ve already lost a terrifying five million gold coins on this matter!¡±

    Seeing the angry look in Kennard¡¯s eyes, Xu Yi gave a shrug. Kennard as the CEO of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, when such an important matter with such serious losses appeared, he faced arge amount of pressure and it was no wonder he even formed a bit of bitterness in his heart towards him.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t regret this decision at all.

    After suddenly firing eighteen thousand workers who caused trouble with the strike, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly became stable.

    The workers in the various factories of thepany were all working normally now.

    Even if the atmosphere was a bit more sombrepared to before, this actually made their work even more efficient.

    Adding in the series of automatic production magic machines that Sancheli had developed, the efficiency of their factories had greatly increased.

    Xu YI believed that if the workers had some more time to adapt, the production capacity of each factory would be higher than before they fired the eighteen thousand workers, overall enhancing the production capacity of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Alright, to solve this problempletely, we can¡¯t avoid the losses. Compared to dying it and letting this problem continue to exist, it is better to solve it before it affects the entirepany. Although we¡¯ve lost over five million gold coins at once,pared to solving this problem, I feel that the five million gold coins was worth it.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Kennard was silent for a bit before slowly nodding.

    Even if he felt pained over thepany¡¯s losses this time, as the CEO in charge of managing thepany, he knew better than Xu Yi how serious the problem behind the strike was.

    Xu Yi¡¯s method for solving this was intense, but this method was the mostplete way of solving it.

    With Xu Yi solving this problem with no mercy at all, the remaining staff would all be loyal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and wouldn¡¯t dare cause any trouble.

    Moreover, Xu Yi even organized the workers union, giving the workers a normal way to give their opinion to thepany. He had effectively avoided people causing strikes because of opinions they were keeping in, while also enhancing the cohesiveness of thepany¡¯s workers.

    It could be said that in the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce,pared to before the strike and therge scaleyoffs, it operated much more smoothly and effectively.

    As the CEO, Kennard deeply appreciated this.

    So after he seriously calcted this, these two matters did negatively impact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and cause losses of over five million gold coins.

    Even if these were serious losses for otherpanies, with smallerpanies that didn¡¯t have the same level of profit being destroyed and the first sspanies considering these heavy losses, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t a loss that they couldn¡¯t ept.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had opened the markets in the surrounding countries and their products could be found all over. They also cooperated with each of those countries, so their profit kept increasing.

    ording to the current data, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profitst month was a shocking one million four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins. It was an increase of more than half of their January profit of nine hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

    With this trend, by the end of the year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might even have a yearly profit of over fifteen million gold coins.

    So even if the loss of five million gold coins wasn¡¯t small, it was still eptable for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention that the main influence of these two matters were some dyed orders. Looking at it from a long term perspective, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had enough production capacity, with the high quality of the Frestech Brand magic machines, they would sell however many they produced. They didn¡¯t need to worry that it wouldn¡¯t sell and naturally they didn¡¯t need to worry that they wouldn¡¯t profit.

    So what Kennard really felt was a problem was that the buyers had chosen to buy from other brands, making it harder for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to steal back that part of the market.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a problem, actually.....this is what I wanted to see happen.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯ve also considered how to let the other brands enter the new market, but now that this matter has happened and they went looking for the other brands themselves, it saved me quite a bit of energy.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    After being with Xu Yi for this long, naturally he knew that Xu Yi always cared about spreading the magic machine industry across the continent. He didn¡¯t just want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to dominate the continent alone.

    For a normal merchant, having the market stolen from them was a thing they never wanted to see, but Xu Yi was actually happy to see it happen.

    Thinking about it, Kennard didn¡¯t care about this problem anymore and moved to another problem.

    ¡°Sir chairman, although you have no opinions on the markets stolen, because of the influence of this matter, several countries have paused their intentions to cooperate with ourpany. The Norton and Ricafor Duchies are even turning to otherpanies, nning on cooperating with them in terms of magic machines instead. You have to at least take this seriously, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.....This is a problem. But this problem doesn¡¯t lie in them not cooperating with ourpany, rather that it will cause those two duchies to walk the wrong path if they cooperate with otherpanies. They will waste their time and manpower, which might even turn those two duchies off the magic machine industry, which isn¡¯t good.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before continuing, ¡°How about this, investigate whichpanies those two duchies are cooperating with and then we¡¯ll find thosepanies, giving them some standards that we made, hoping that they will strictly follow them. If they aren¡¯t willing, they can suffer the consequences themselves.¡±

    Xu YI¡¯s tone was very calm, but there was an absolute dominating tone in his voice.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commercepletely controlled the magic machine industry, so Xu Yi had the confidence to say these words.

    Kennard wasn¡¯t surprised at all, he just nodded in agreement.

    ¡°Then what about the Norton and Ricafor Duchies? What should we do about them?¡± Kennard asked.

    ¡°Send people to contact them, tell them that ourpany is willing to cooperate with them on magic machines that otherpanies can¡¯t cooperate with them on.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Kennard was surprised, ¡°Sir chairman, you mean......¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Yes, ourpany is willing to take out a portion of the production magic machines for them.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the military magic machines?¡± Kennard carefully asked.

    Xu Yi red at him, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, Kennard let out a sigh of relief and calmed down.

    No matter how generous sir chairman was, how he thought of the otherpanies, how he wanted to spread the magic machine industry on the continent, there was a bottom line in his heart.

    The military magic machines were the sole weapons of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which could be considered their greatest trump card.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong enough that no one could oppose them, it was best to hold this tightly in their hands for now.

 Volume 5 34 - Powerful FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 34 Powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    The Sandy River flowed east of the Falling Rain Forest, going through the Mirando Duchy where it was named the Mirando River. It passed through the Mirando Duchy¡¯s territory which wasn¡¯t very wide before entering another country, the Norton Duchy.

    Since this river only flowed fifty kilometers into the Norton Duchy before entering a broad clearke, the people of the Norton Duchy didn¡¯t call it the Norton River and kept the name of the Mirando River.

    Only after it flowed to theke that the locals called Clear Mirror Lake, it spread out again. It flowed into a river that was almost two times as wide andpletely changed appearances, bing the biggest river in the Norton Duchy, the Anfield River.

    Legends said that three thousand years ago, the most renowned female warrior of the humans Anfield had taken a bath in the Clear Mirror Lake. However, she met an expert of the elves and the two fought a fierce battle on Clear Mirror Lake. Finally, they created arge gap in the Clear Mirror Lake which formed a river.

    So the people of theter generations called this Anfield River.

    At the ce where the Anfield River flowed out of Clear River Lake, there was a small town not far away from the side of theke called Noxus Town.

    Since it was close to Clear Mirror Lake, it wasn¡¯t that far from the border of the Mirando Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom. Since it also wasn¡¯t far from Anfield River and Clear Mirror Lake, as well as having one of the main roads of the Norton Duchy cut through it, Noxus Town was muchrger than the other towns of the Norton Duchy. It wasn¡¯t even that much smaller than some of the cities.

    Moreover, whether it was from the Mirando Duchy or the Rudson Kingdom, if one wanted to reach the Candra Empire, they had to pass through here. So Noxus Town was always lively year round.

    With the travelers passing by, the people of the town had much better lives than other ces in the Norton Duchy. When they faced people from other parts of the duchy, or even people who came from the Mirando Duchy or the Rudson Kingdom, they would feel a bit of superiority.

    In the past two months, the feeling of superiority the people of Noxus Town felt waspletely gone.

    The reason was very simple, there were a bunch of people who clearly lived better lives that appeared in front of them.

    If these people were nobles or merchants, it would be fine, but these people were all clearly normal people. Their statuses weren¡¯t higher than theirs at all.

    Among these people was old man Mawor who owned one of the best taverns at the entrance of Noxus Town.

    Seeing the three young men who werepletely covered in dust to the point where they couldn¡¯t be recognized anymore, old man Mawor didn¡¯t chase out these fellows who clearly looked like beggars. Rather he revealed a friendly smile as he greeted the three of them.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re all getting off work?¡±

    The three men looked around the tavern and chose an empty table to sit at. One of the men pped the table and shouted, ¡°Old man Mawor, bring the same as usual, get us two pounds of liquor first.¡±

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯ll be out soon.¡±

    Old man Mawor replied. He brought two pounds of the tavern¡¯s best wine and two tes of beef out with a smile.

    After putting down the wine and food, old man Mawor asked, ¡°How is it? You don¡¯t need to go back to work in the afternoon? You¡¯re already drinking at noon?¡±

    The three men allughed as the man who spoke first waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s said that the motorcade of someone important ising by today, so the manager said that we would be stopping the construction of the roads to let that person pass. When that person passes, we¡¯ll start working again tomorrow.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Old man Mawor nodded, but he still felt a bit curious, ¡°I wonder who that important person is. Just him passing by is enough to let your Amrit Chamber of Commerce stop working, he really has quite a bit of face.¡±

    ¡°I heard that it was someone from the Candra Empire. They went to the Rudson Kingdom and now are heading back to the Candra Empire. I don¡¯t know specifically who it is.¡±

    ¡°From the Candra Empire? It really is an important person, no wonder......¡±

    Old man Mawor muttered before turning back to the counter.

    After tidying up a bit, there were several ck figures that came from the door as more dirty men came in.

    Seeing these men who wore the same clothes as the three men from before walk in, old man Mawor immediately greeted them with a smile.

    These workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce were generous and didn¡¯t cause trouble while drinking, so it could be said that they were the most wee guests in all the restaurants of the town.

    Even if they were a bit dusty from building the roads, as long as they took out real gold coins, it didn¡¯t stop old man Mawor from greeting them with a sincere smile.

    But in his free time, old man Mawor did secretly mutter in his heart.

    £¿

    Where did this Amrit Chamber of Commercee from? How could they treat the workers under them so well?

    Old man Mawor had found some time to see the road they were building and found that most of the work of these workers were simple heavy work. Other than some things that he didn¡¯t understand, where they operated a strange machine that he didn¡¯t know what was used for, it didn¡¯t seem that difficult.

    Moreover, these workers worked very fixed times. They would work from eight to noon each morning and two to six every afternoon, as well as having a day to rest each week.

    This work seemed quite rxing to old man Mawor.

    But the Amrit Chamber of Commerce gave these workers a shocking wage.

    From the numbers that a drunken worker had revealed, at the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction site, the lowest ie for the most simplest job was fifteen gold coins a month.

    If one was a bit higher, such as the workers that needed to operate thatrge magic machines, they would even receive twenty gold coins or thirty gold coins a month.

    It had to be known, old man Mawor had been operating this tavern in Noxus Town for many years. He worked from dawn to night, almost never resting and he would earn no more than three hundred to four hundred gold coins a year.

    These workers were doing such rxed jobs and they were earning around the same wage as him.

    Compared to the normal citizens of Noxus Town, they earned several times more.

    So in the month that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been building the road in Noxus Town, there were many young people who also wanted to work for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    It was a pity that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce came from the Lampuri Kingdom that was over a thousand kilometers away. ording to the rules, they couldn¡¯t recruit workers from the Norton Duchy, so they had rejected everyone¡¯s applications.

    But it was said that their mayor was currently submitting an application to the upper strata of the duchy, asking them to authorize the Amrit Chamber of Commerce hiring workers from the Norton Duchy.

    Moreover, it was said that the road that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was building would pass through the entire duchy, finally reaching the Candra Empire. This project would take a year and a half, which meant they would be in the Norton Duchy for a year and a half. It was very likely the duchy would reach an agreement with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to let them recruit local workers.

    Thinking of this, old man Mawor had an idea. He came to the table of the three men from before and sat down in an empty seat as he said with a smile, ¡°That.....There¡¯s something I wanted to ask you about.¡±

    The three were frequent guests of this tavern and they were close with old man Mawor, so they nodded when they heard this.

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    Old man Mawor thought for a bit, considering his words before asking, ¡°The work that you do.....what requirement is there?¡±

    ¡°Requirement?¡± The three looked at each other before giving shrugs, ¡°There¡¯s no requirement, it¡¯s fine as long as you have the strength. Of course, there are different kinds of work. Like for the three of us, I¡¯m in charge of stirring the concrete, using the right proportion of materials and operating the Magic Cement Mixer. These two are in charge of paving the road, so they need to operate the Magic Paver and tten the surface of the road, so they need a bit of experience.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....Then if a new person enters thepany, what could they do?¡± Old man Mawor asked.

    That person looked at old man Mawor and said with a smile, ¡°What is it? Old man Mawor, do you have some rtive that wants to work at our ce?¡±

    Old man Mawor asked, ¡°One of my nephews from afar is interested, do you think it would work?¡±

    The three shook their heads, ¡°We can¡¯t determine anything, you have to ask the manager. But I¡¯ve heard the manager say that thepany hasn¡¯t reached an agreement with your Norton Duchy yet, so it¡¯ll take some time before we can recruit local workers.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡±

    Old man Mawor lowered his head to think. Then he went to the counter to get a new te of beef that he put on the table of the three before saying with a smile, ¡°If there is some news, please tell me about it as soon as possible and I¡¯ll tell my nephew.¡±

    The three looked at the te of beef that was muchrger than before andughed.

    ¡°Rx, we¡¯ll definitely tell you as soon as we hear anything.¡±

    The middle person paused before suddenly thinking of something, ¡°Old man Mawor, you can tell your nephew that he doesn¡¯t need to be in a rush and he doesn¡¯t have to work for our Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Although we earn quite a bit from our work, it¡¯s very dirty and tiring, it isn¡¯t anything good and he won¡¯t be used to it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s better than being at home all day or working on the farm.¡± Old man Mawor said with a smile, ¡°Young people aren¡¯t afraid of getting dirty or being tired.¡±

    ¡°That is right, but before I left the Lampuri Kingdom, I heard people say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is about to invest in your Norton Duchy. With the location of your Noxus Town, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce won¡¯t let you off. When the Frestech Chamber of Commercees, you won¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Old man Mawor knit his brows to think, ¡°I¡¯ve heard quite a few people mention thispany¡¯s name before. What about it? Is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce very powerful? Why wouldn¡¯t our people need to worry about work if they invest here?¡±

    ¡°Powerful? Ha, ha, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is more than just powerful!¡± That person had a proud look like he was boasting about himself, ¡°Let me tell you, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invests in a factory or two in your town, I can guarantee that your town willpletely change. Do you know about Ampriston Town in the Mirando Duchy that is closest to our Lampuri Kingdom? Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested there, that small town is about to be Ampriston City!¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Old man Mawor didn¡¯t fully believe.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only a singlepany, how could they be this powerful?

 Volume 5 35 - Ambassadorâ€™s motorcade

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 35 Ambassador¡¯s motorcade</h4>

    Once the busiest time of noon was over, Mawor had finished tidying up and found that there weren¡¯t many guestsing. After thinking about it, he closed the tavern¡¯s front door and decided to take the afternoon off.

    After leaving the tavern, he headed to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction site that wasn¡¯t far to the southeast of the town.

    His little sister had been worried about his nephew and had asked him several times to ask about the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to see if his nephew could join theirpany. Old man Mawor would naturally do his best.

    When he came to the construction site, he found that everyone had been let off as those three had said. Other than a few remaining workers, all the other workers had disappeared without a trace.

    Looking up at the sun above him, old man Mawor guessed that these workers were taking their break to have a nap. Looking around, he found that there were still a few workers who were on duty.

    Old man Mawor came over and took out the wine and food that he had prepared from his chest. He nned on getting closer to the other side and asking about the situation, but he was firmly rejected by them.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, ording to the rules, we can¡¯t drink while working. We all live by these rules.¡± The dark skinned worker seemed to be the leader of these workers. Since he wasn¡¯t willing to ept it, the others didn¡¯t say a word.

    ¡°This.....I specially brought it here, it isn¡¯t good to have me bring it back......¡±

    The ck skinned workerughed, ¡°This old man, if you want to ask about something, you can just go look for our manager. There......¡± The ck skinned worker pointed in another direction, ¡°Do you see him, that is our manager. You can just ask him, you¡¯ll get a more clear answer if you ask himpared to us.¡±

    Old man Mawor looked in the direction he was pointing in and found that there was a man wearing the same uniform standing in the distance. He seemed to be looking in the distance at the road, as if he was waiting for something.

    ¡°He is your manager?¡± Old man Mawor hesitated a bit before gritting his teeth and walking towards the manager.

    When he came close, old man Mawor found that this man really was different from the other workers.

    Although he was wearing the same uniform, his uniform was clearly much cleaner. His face wasn¡¯t as stained as the others, so it could be see that he didn¡¯t work at the construction site.

    Hearing the sounds of old man Mawor approaching, the man turned to look at old man Mawor. He then looked at the wine in old man Mawor¡¯s hand and slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°This old man, do you need something?¡±

    Although this man who was the manager had a strict tone, his voice was gentle and polite which made old man Mawor much more relieved.

    After talking to him for a bit, old man Mawor exined the reason he came here.

    The manager named Gnar gave the same answer as the three workers in the restaurant, but the timing was more detailed.

    ording to what he said, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would need at least a month before they could consider hiring local workers, so he hoped that old man Mawor could wait patiently.

    ¡°Rx, as long as your nephew has a good physique, good strength, and there¡¯s no problem with him as a person, we will hire him. As for the problem of technique, he can be slowly taught.¡±

    Manager Gnar¡¯s response made old man Mawor more assured.

    When he was leaving, old man Mawor couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Can I ask.....who is the important personing by today? You actually stopped working and you¡¯re patiently waiting for him to pass.¡±

    Manager Gnar revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, this is rted to some secrets, so it isn¡¯t convenient to reveal.¡±

    ¡°Oh......¡± Old man Mawor could only helplessly shake his head before leaving.

    Watching old man Mawor leave with the bottle of wine and package of beef in his hands, manager Gnar couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    Although he didn¡¯t think that ambassador Hakanin passing wasn¡¯t something that needed to be kept a secret, to be more discrete, he couldn¡¯t give this information to a random bystander.

    As for the question old man Mawor asked about recruiting workers, manager Gnar was actually more anxious than him.

    After paving roads in the Norton Duchy for over three months now, they had onlyid down fifty kilometers of road. Their efficiency was without a doubt low.

    The reason for their low efficiency, other than this being the Norton Duchy and that they needed time to transport the materials needed, the main issue was ack of workers.

    Since the economic boom of the Lampuri Kingdom, the surrounding countries were all building roads and knew that roads were important for the development of a country. So the Amrit Chamber of Commerce received countless orders for roads from the surrounding countries, causing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to be busy year round.

    And because the Norton Duchy had just started cooperating with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the construction team sent her wasn¡¯t big. There were less than a hundred workers here, so naturally there would be problems.

    If the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could sign an agreement with the Norton Duchy, allowing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to recruit local workers, that would be good, but the Norton Duchy was cautious since this was their first time cooperating. They had been deliberating for several months without being able toe to a decision, causing manager Gnar to rely on his few workers to finish the job.

    It was a good thing that ording to thetest news, chairman Cruise had personally gone to negotiate with Duke Norton and made some veryrge progress.

    If nothing unexpected happens, in a month, the Norton Duchy should reach an agreement with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    At that time, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce will be able to hire local workers.

    Even if these workers didn¡¯t have the technique toplete some of the work, they could at least take the load off some of the more skilled workers, letting them focus on the technical work. Naturally that would increase the efficiency at which theyid the road.

    ¡°It¡¯s already this difficult to cooperate with a small Norton Duchy, wouldn¡¯t it be more difficult to cooperate with the Candra Empire?¡±

    While manager Gnar had his brows knit thinking about this, he looked at the road ahead that had already been paved.

    After around half an hour, there was a ck dot in the distance that became arge motorcade after a while.

    Hearing the sounds of the wheels rumbling down the road, manager Gnar was surprised.

    Although he had heard that ambassador Hakanin would be bringing back arge amount of things to the Candra Empire, he never would have thought that ambassador Hakanin¡¯s motorcade would be filled withrge transport Magic Cars!

    Seeing the pure ck Magic Sedan that was driving in front, manager Gnar was a bit speechless.

    This ambassador Hakanin seemed to have developed a habit in the Rudson Kingdom. He never thought that other ces wouldn¡¯t have the same smooth road as the Rudson Kingdom, allowing the Magic Sedan to drive across it.

    For this Norton Duchy, even if the road that was by the road that they hadid down as thergest road in the Norton Kingdom, it was farcking when it waspared.

    Even if the Magic Sedan drove on it, it would definitely be very bumpy.

    Rather therge scale transport Magic Car with theirrge bodies and tires wouldn¡¯t be hindered at all by this poor road.

    After a while, the Magic Sedan in front came to the end of the road, stopping right in front of manager Gnar.

    The door opened and the fat ambassador Hakanin came out with great effort. In the passenger seat was Riley who had already been promoted to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman.

    ¡°Greetings sir ambassador.¡± Regardless of the criticism in his heart, manager Gnar respectfully gave ambassador Hakanin a bow before turning to vice chairman Riley.

    ¡°Gnar, how is the project going here?¡± Vice chairman Riley asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s considered smooth, but we can¡¯t go faster without enough people.¡± Manager Gnar honestly said.

    ¡°Un, don¡¯t worry. Sir chairman said that the Norton Duchy isn¡¯t in a rush with this road, so we don¡¯t need to rush.¡± Vice chairman Riley turned back to ambassador Hakanin after saying this, ¡°Sir ambassador, if the Candra Empire is willing to give ourpany enough support, ourpany cany down the road much faster. As long as you request it, it isn¡¯t a problem toy down a hundred kilometers of road in a month.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin nodded, not approving or disapproving of this.

    The reason why he was returning to the Candra Empire this time was mainly to bring therge amount of household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce back.

    As long as he could sell these household magic machines, he would be able to earn arge profit of at least two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Compared to this, how could he care about the small matter of how fast the Amrit Chamber of Commerce couldy down the road.

    Thinking of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ambassador Hakanin suddenly thought of a question. Looking around, he then asked, ¡°Didn¡¯t I hear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest in the Norton Duchy? Why haven¡¯t I seen a single symbol from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this road?¡±

    Vice chairman Riley shook his head and said, ¡°Sir ambassador, the news you¡¯ve received is old. Because of the changes with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Norton Duchy has cancelled their ns to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Based on what I know, the Norton Duchy is nning on cooperating with other magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom, inviting them to invest here.¡±

    ¡°Hei, what is the Norton Duchy thinking? Not cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and finding otherpanies, aren¡¯t they asking for trouble?¡± Ambassador Hakanin revealed a look of disdain, ¡°I think that Duke Norton¡¯s brain is broken, right?¡±

    Vice chairman Riley and manager Gnar looked at each other with a smile. After this ambassador Hakanin received benefits from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he really did think about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce everywhere.

    Perhaps if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wanted to cooperate with the Candra Empire, they should increase their investment in this ambassador Hakanin.

 Volume 5 36 - The FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce that couldnâ€™t be avoided

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 36 The Frestech Chamber of Commerce that couldn¡¯t be avoided</h4>

    Ambassador Hakanin was just passing by Noxus Town.

    Being led by manager Gnar, they had lunch at a restaurant that had only been open in the town for half a month before ambassador Hakanin and vice chairman Riley headed off on the road to the Candra Empire again.

    Vice chairman Riley was going with ambassador Hakanin to the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City to see the ministers of the Candra Empire.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce using the rtionship of ambassador Hakanin wanted to let the Candra Empire realize the convenience and necessity of roads, allowing them to pave roads all over the Candra Empire.

    ording to the n, if everyone went smoothly, in a year and a half when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce finished paving roads in the Norton Duchy, the Amrit Chamber ofmerce would begin working with the Candra Empire. They could take advantage of the opportunity to enter the Candra Empire and continue paving roads.

    But that was for a year and a halfter, manager Gnar didn¡¯t need to worry about that now.

    After sending off ambassador Hakanin and vice chairman Riley, manager Gnar went to the Clear Mirror Lake to the northwest of Noxus Town.

    Not far from the entrance of the Anfield River on the Clear Mirror Lake was a small wharf. That ce was used to dock ships that came to the Clear Mirror Lake from the Mirando River, as well as ships that came downstream from the Anfield River.

    But three months ago, which was before the Amrit Chamber of Commerce came to the Norton Duchy to pave roads, there was a fleet that came from the Mirando Duchy. Theypletely changed this wharf and made it ten times bigger.

    These days, most of the construction materials the Amrit Chamber of Commerce used in paving the roads, other thaning from the road that they already paved from the Mirando Duchy, most of it came down the Mirando River and reached this wharf.

    This time manager Gnar came on the day that a bunch of new construction material wasing in.

    But when he arrived at the wharf, he was surprised to find that there was arge fleeting across the Clear Mirror Lake with over tenrge boats.

    What made him even more surprised was that the fleet consisted of the medium sized Magic Boat that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only developed four months ago and hadn¡¯t advertised yet.

    This medium Magic Boat had a much bigger capacity than the normal wooden boats and was several times faster. Once it was promoted, it was immediately weed by all the water transportpanies in the surrounding countries.

    However, the onlypany that could receive this medium Magic Boat was currently only the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Porter Chamber of Commerce.

    After the Porter Chamber of Commerce ordered thirty of these medium Magic Boats, they had quickly taken most of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s water transport business in just a few months. Right now, they went from a smallpany of Banta City that was close to closing down to a first sspany of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    When the Amrit Chamber of Commerce transporter their construction materials, because of how far away it was, they had the Porter Chamber of Commerce deliver it for them, so manager Gnar wasn¡¯t surprised to see them.

    But they didn¡¯t ship that much construction material each time, it only took one or at most two medium Magic Boats to transport it all. Why were there suddenly over twenty boats that arrived?

    It had to be known, the Porter Chamber of Commerce only had a total of thirty Magic Boats. If they sent over twenty out at once, wasn¡¯t that equal to sending almost all of their transport forces out?

    As a water transportpany, would they be so unintelligent?

    Manager Gnar was confused as he looked at the waves on the Clear Water Lake and the fleet as it quickly approached.

    When the fleet reached the wharf, the first medium Magic Boat anchored and several people came down who made manager Gnar even more confused.

    He recognized the two in front, they were the ones in charge of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport each time. As for the ones following behind those two, they were clearly not from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    What was even more incredible was that after this group came down, there were actually two dwarves and one elf among them!

    Manager Gnar looked at the two dwarves and the male elf with wide eyes as his heart filled with doubt.

    Although because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acting as a model, thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms were epting over races into theirpanies, he had never heard of an elf joining a humanpany other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The clothes that the elf and the two dwarves wore were of different sizes, but whether it was their design or colour, they were clearly the same uniform.

    Adding in the half wing symbol on their chest, it was clear these three came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But.....Why did people from the Frestech Chamber of Commercee here for?

    Didn¡¯t the rumours say that because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strike, as well as their massyoffs, the Norton Duchy had lost faith in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and gave up cooperating with them? Didn¡¯t they turn to otherpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom to cooperate with?

    Manager Gnar was filled with doubt. When the two from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in charge of transporting materials came over, he pulled them to the side to question them.

    After a while, he understood the situation.

    So the Porter Chamber of Commerce sending thisrge fleet of over twenty medium Magic Boats to the Norton Duchy, other than transporting the construction materials for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, was mainly to transport various goods for the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce.

    This Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce was the new target of cooperation the Norton Duchy chose after giving up on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the agreement the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce reached with the Norton Duchy, the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce would be building three household magic machine factories near Noxus Town. They would be factories for Magic Fans, Magic Lights, and bicycles.

    Because this investment was a big thing for the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, they had attached great importance to this and chairman Anke Eren personally came to deliver the goods.

    As for the two dwarves and elf from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as three human engineers, they were here to help the Anke Chamber of Commerce build these three factories.

    On the surface, it was because the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have enough experience investing in other countries, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent corresponding personnel to help.

    But after manager Gnar talked to Anke Eren in private, he learned that the three factories the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce was building had to follow the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent these people other than to help, to inspect their factories.

    Manager Gnar didn¡¯t feel that there was a problem with this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce did everything they could to promote their standards, hoping that all the other magic machinepanies would follow that standard.

    The other magic machinepanies other than fearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s absolute authority and leading position in terms of magic machines, they would also have to invest arge amount of manpower to develop their own research if they deviated from this standard, so there wasn¡¯t a singlepany that didn¡¯t follow it.

    So when the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce reached the agreement with the Norton Duchy and came to build the factories, Anke Eren even took the initiative to ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to send people to inspect their three factories, not hiding a single thing.

    After learning of this, manager Gnar found it a bit funny.

    He really didn¡¯t know what the Norton Duchy was thinking. They didn¡¯t cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but chose to cooperate with the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce.

    But the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce still had to listen to the arrangements of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In the end, the Norton Duchy couldn¡¯t avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But thinking about it, even the powerful Amrit Chamber of Commerce that was a first sspany of the Lampuri Kingdom had to keep maintaining a deep cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It could even be said that they couldn¡¯t leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    For example, the road construction project that was the most important for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the cement, steel bars, and various construction magic machines they needed all came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If they were missing any of these, manager Gnar didn¡¯t know how to pave this road.

    And not talking about work, just in terms of daily life, looking at it from a single day, manager Gnar used the Magic Stove, the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Sedan, the Magic Lamp, the small Magic Water Pump......

    These magic machines, which one didn¡¯te from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Thinking of this, manager Gnar suddenly felt surprised.

    Without knowing it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products had already controlled his entire life?

    What made him more surprised was that he couldn¡¯t resist these magic machines at all.

    Rather if he lost these magic machines, he might not know how to keep living.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know if this is good or bad......¡±

    Manager Gnar watched the workers move the products down from the medium Magic Boat before looking at Anke Eren talking to the various staff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Actually if he got rid of all these thoughts, he had to admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made many useful magic machines which brought endless benefits to his life.

    No matter what, this should be considered a good thing.

    He didn¡¯t know why the Norton Duchy wanted to avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but choosing to cooperate with the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce really wouldn¡¯t be a good thing......

 Volume 5 37 - Really working as pirates?

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 37 Really working as pirates?</h4>

    While manager Gnar was worried about the Norton Duchy¡¯s decision, Xu Yi two thousand kilometers away was looking at a map of the Norton Duchy with a rxed look.

    Although he was very disappointed in the Norton Duchy for giving up on cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t think that it was a big problem.

    It was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop without any problems, so Xu Yi¡¯s idea was that he had to give the other magic machinepanies some room to develop.

    The Norton Duchy choosing to cooperate with the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t go against his wishes, rather he was happy to see this.

    His eyes kept moving across the map before stopping on the Mirando Duchy and then moving down to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Seeing the dark dots on the map, Xu Yi stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Rudson Kingdom had gone very smoothly.

    With the great support of the Rudson Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, whether it was opening factories in the Rudson Kingdom or cooperating with localpanies, they didn¡¯t receive any hindrances from the official government side.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared all over the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Brand magic machines were being sold everywhere.

    In just the nine months that had passed for this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received a total of over five million gold coins in ie from the Rudson Kingdom. It even wasn¡¯t that farckingpared to the ie they received from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had split investment factories in the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had to divide some benefits with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But with suchrge scale cooperation, there was a problem that always puzzled Xu Yi.

    The Frstech Chamber of Commerce always had the great support of King Teruc in any cooperation, but the only one that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied in was in terms of mineral trades.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s territory only included the Stantine Duchy right now.

    But the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t that big and their mineral resources were limited.

    As the production scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce increased, as well as the increase in demand for magic machines, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s mineral resources wouldn¡¯t be able to keep up with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s consumption soon.

    So like always, Xu Yi purchased minerals from the various surrounding countries.

    Among them, the Lampuri Kingdom provided the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the most mineral resources.

    Justst month, ording to the data, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce purchased seven hundred and thirty thousand tons of iron ore and four hundred and eighty thousand tons of non-ferrous metal ores from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    The Rudson Kingdom had almost the same amount ofnd as the Lampuri Kingdom and ording to their exploration, they even had more ores. However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only received one hundred and sixty thousand tons of iron ores and less than ten thousand tons of non-ferrous metal ores from the Rudson Kingdomst month.

    Xu Yi had raised this matter to King Teruc many times, hoping that King Teruc would sell more mineral resources from the Rudson Kingdom. However, King Teruc had always given Xu Yi a vague answer and never gave Xu Yi an answer that he was satisfied with.

    Xu Yi even said that he could open one or two steel mills and a non-ferrous metal smelting factory to smelt ores locally and sell internally in the Rudson Kingdom, but King Teruc still wasn¡¯t moved.

    After probing countless times, Xu Yi could only give up and find solutions from other channels.

    When Narvil led the Frestech fleet to Nissi City, he had tried to purchase ores in secret just for this.

    But after his discussion with elder Undinest time, with the cooperation with the Azshara Tribe, King Teruc would most likely relent in this aspect which would make it much easier for Xu Yi.

    Still, in the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to keep developing, so it was important to get more resources for themselves.

    He didn¡¯t want to keep getting more mineral resources from other countries, letting his lifeline be controlled by other people.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t like this feeling very much, so he always tried to find another solution.

    Looking at the Rudson Kingdom for a bit, he turned north and moved past the Lampuri Kingdom to stop at the Sack Kingdom.

    Looking at the Sack Kingdom¡¯s territory that was one third greater than the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s, as well as the several ck dots in it, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help start to burn again.

    It was almost impossible to cooperate with the Sack Kingdom, so if he wanted therge amount of resources in the Sack Kingdom, other than purchasing it in secret in small amounts, the only other method was to conquer the entire country.

    As for how he would conquer it......he had to properly think it over.....

    ¡°Kou, kou.¡±

    The knocks on the door pulled Xu Yi out of his thoughts.

    ¡°Is it Betty? Come in.¡± Xu Yi raised his voice as he spoke.

    When the door opened, Betty in her maid uniform slowly came in. She first gave Xu Yi a formal bow before saying in a soft voice, ¡°Sir chairman, there is a guest to see you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Which guest? Did they say who they were?¡± Xu Yi looked over Betty¡¯s maid uniform before asking with a smile.

    After Betty and Carol arrived here, seeing that Liz and Linda were both pregnant, making it hard for them to move and Xu Yi and Still weren¡¯t willing to hire other servants, the two automatically took over the role as maids.

    Because they had been strictly trained in the Lampuri Royal Pce, they were very familiar with this work.

    So in just the two months they had been here, they kept the entire manor in good shape and obtained the approval of everyone.

    But out of the know in his heart, Xu Yi had never treated them like Liz and Linda, giving them formal identities.

    Betty and Carol didn¡¯t reveal anyints, looking quite happy each day. They said many times that it was much easier herepared to the royal pce.

    ¡°He said that he was Leslie Stagg and he said.....He said to let him see sir chairman as soon as possible, he didn¡¯t have much time.¡±

    When Betty said this, her expression became a bit strange.

    In the two months she had been here, she received many guests that came to see Xu Yi. But whenever these guests came, they were all very polite and had never acted arrogantly before.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem surprised at all, rather he said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s him. I already said it, after hearing the news of our fleet reaching Nissi City, he woulde.¡±

    Betty was curious as she followed Xu Yi out of the study and to the living room. She saw the thirty year old man who was sitting there in the chair looking very casual, not like he was a guest at all.

    ¡°Hey, Leslie, when did you be so dark?¡± Xu Yi looked over Leslie and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°You were a pretty boy before, but now you¡¯re like ck coal. If those noble youngdies were to see you, wouldn¡¯t they be very disappointed?¡±

    His skin had turned a healthy bronze colour and Leslie who wasn¡¯t as pale as he was before broke out inughter.

    ¡°I already told you before, those noble youngdies all care about face. Do you believe that if they see how I look now, they would still scream for me?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I believe. Alright, let¡¯s not waste words. Tell me, where did you go during this time? Look at you, if I¡¯m not wrong, you should have gone to sea, right?¡±

    ¡°You are correct.¡± Leslie said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve been on the seas thest half a year, which is why I¡¯m so dark.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Leslie with a strange look.

    ¡°Hey, do you really want to go and be a pirate?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing wrong with being a pirate.¡± Leslie gave a shrug before reaching his hand out to Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, what about the boat you promised me? I¡¯ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet can travel two thousand kilometers on the sea, going from the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom. With this technology, it should be a problem to give me the boat that you promised, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked down at Leslie¡¯s outstretched hand and reached out to tap it with a finger.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem with the boat, but what about your money? Arge Magic Boat that can go from here to the Rudson Kingdom costs over two million gold coins and ourpany has only made three so far. Are you certain that you can take out two million gold coins?¡±

    ¡°Two million gold coins?¡± Leslie was stunned, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, are you scaring me? It¡¯s just a boat, how can it cost this much?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It seems like you still haven¡¯t seen the three boats yet, no wonder you¡¯re asking this. I can guarantee that after you see them, you definitely wouldn¡¯t ask such a dumb question.¡±

    Leslie knit his brows, but he didn¡¯t get angry. He was silent for a bit before spreading his hands and confidently saying, ¡°Alright, I indeed can¡¯t take out two million gold coins at once. But Xu Yi, since you can make such arge boat, you should be able to make a smaller ship, right? Un......I only need one that¡¯s.....four or five times bigger than the Magic Speed Boat. I think that this kind of ship should be fine for me to sail all over the sea.¡±

    Xu Yi slowly shook his head, ¡°No, Leslie, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge Magic Ship has appeared, which means that the era where we sail on wooden boats on the sea is over. I sincerely advise you to use arge boat because only arge boat will be safe on the sea.¡±

    Leslie knit his brows, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, are you deliberately trying to anger me? I clearly can¡¯t take out that much money, but you have to rmend therge ship that I can¡¯t afford. Could it be that you can¡¯t take it out for now and are deliberately trying to avoid this?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t true. I have the ship, I can give it to you even if you don¡¯t have the money, but.....¡±

    ¡°What? You want to use me?¡± Seeing the strange smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Leslie also revealed a smile. He rxed his body and leaned back in the chairman, calmly looking at Xu Yi as he said, ¡°Alright, I can be used by you, but that depends on what price you can pay.¡±

    Xu YI rolled his eyes.

    ¡°What use, it sounds so ugly. This is a cooperation, don¡¯t you understand that?¡±

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°Alright, what difference is there? Tell me, what do you want me to do?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at Betty on the side.

    Betty immediately understood and gave the two a bow before leaving.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was being this serious, Leslie took back his rxed expression and sat up in his chair to look at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi gave a cough before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Leslie, I won¡¯t go against you wanting to be a pirate, but you running out there to be a pirate without any foundation is no different from seeking death.¡±

    ¡°Then? What ideas do you have?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, revealing a very enticing smile.

    ¡°Actually, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were about to form an armed fleet, are you interested?¡±

 Volume 5 38 - Nationâ€™s strength

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 38 Nation¡¯s strength</h4>

    As the breeze of fall blew, there was a slight chill in it. It entered the window of the small building in the back gardens of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce.

    Seveni was feeling a little tired, but when the cold breeze hit her, she shuddered a bit and came back to her senses.

    If this was before, she would think the breeze came at just the right time and she could focus on work again.

    But this time she looked out the window, staring at the leaves that were falling outside in a daze for a bit. After being in thought for a bit, she closed the window.

    She came back to the desk and picked up the document she had put down. Looking over, there was a heartfelt faint smile that appeared on her face.

    This was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial report fromst month.

    ording to this report, it was clear that the current Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial revenue was already greatly growing.

    Just fromst month alone, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s total revenue had already surpassed five hundred thousand gold coins.

    It had to be known, when Seveni¡¯s father Lampuri Thirteenth and big brother Eric ruled the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly revenue was only a million gold coins. As an average for the months, it would be less than a hundred thousand gold coins.

    Seveni had taken the throne for less than two years and the kingdom¡¯s financial revenue had increased by several times.

    Based on the current trend, by the end of the year, the yearly revenue might even break five million gold coins.

    Seveni knew that this five million to many of thergepanies and nobles wasn¡¯t not arge number.

    But for a poor kingdom like the Lampuri Kingdom, this was an incredible achievement.

    If the yearly revenue could break five million, this would mean the Lampuri Kingdom would be much richer and Seveni could do many things with this money.

    The most obvious demonstration of this was military expenses.

    Before Seveni took the throne, the yearly military expense was only three hundred thousand gold coins. And in order to deal with the threat of the Sack Kingdom, they kept drawing from the pitiful kingdom finances.

    But now that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had increased, Seveni could invest more into the military.

    Last year, the Lampuri Kingdom had invested over eight hundred thousand gold coins in military expenses.

    Before it was even October of this year, the Lampuri Kingdom had already invested over one and half million in military expenses.

    When the end of the year came, this might even surpass two million.

    This number even surpassed the previous Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly revenue!

    With this ample military expenses, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army was able to quickly change.

    Take the northern army that was the most important to Seveni. Not only did each soldier have aplete set of weapons, they also had arge number of military magic machines which had greatly increased their battle strength.

    Starting from the second half of the year, the northern army had started fighting back against the Sack Kingdom on Seveni¡¯s orders.

    And from the first engagement, during this year, the northern army had attacked the border many times. They had fought with the Hungry Wolf Regiment that guarded the border many times, winning each time.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment had fifty thousand elite troops, but there had been over ten thousand of those that had been killed by the northern army during these engagements. They evenpletely destroyed one of the elite units under the Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    Since the founding of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom had always had an overwhelming advantage. A situation like this had never urred where they couldn¡¯t even fight back against the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because of the northern army¡¯s victory, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s newspapers had been propagandizing this the entire year.

    The people of the Lampuri Kingdom were filled with morale. There were even people who shouted for marching directly into the Sack Kingdom and attacking them, upying theirnd.

    But Seveni was clear that the Lampuri Kingdom could obtain these continuous victories because of the massive investments that had been made. At the same time, there was another important reason which was that they hadrge amounts of military magic machines, allowing the northern army to have an absolute advantage in terms of equipment.

    Although this allowed the northern army to sweep across the battlefield, war was not only limited to the battlefield and was affected by many other factors.

    The most important thing that decided the final victory of the war between the two countries was the national strength of both sides.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom had gained many benefits from investing in the magic machine industry after Seveni took the throne, causing their national strength to increase by quite a bit.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had been weak for too long, it was impossible for them to crush the Sack Kingdom in just two years.

    Seveni never thought that they would defeat the Sack Kingdom this easily. She was very clear that to the Lampuri Kingdom, the most important thing was to maintain their fast development, quickly improving their national strength.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom truly became strong, it was a natural thing for them to defeat the Sack Kingdom.

    But to achieve this, there was another important premise, which was to earn the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s full support the entire time.

    As the queen, she had a deep rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It could even be said that she was the person who understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the best in the entire kingdom. Seveni knew better than anyone how much power the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi had hidden.

    As long as they had the full support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom could keep developing their magic machine industry, improving the economy of their kingdom and their national strength.

    But to obtain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, or to be more urate, to obtain Xu Yi¡¯s support wasn¡¯t that easy.

    What Seveni was grateful about was that if Xu Yi cared purely about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there would be no difference to him when it came to the Sack Kingdom or the Lampuri Kingdom. He could work with anyone since the Frestech Brand magic machines would be popr wherever they went.

    But Xu YI had always firmly supported Seveni, never considering cooperating with the Sack Kingdom.

    So to Seveni, other than considering Xu Yi her close personal friend, she considered him the most important ally of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Thinking of this, Seveni touched her stomach and her expression became a bit strange.

    After being in a daze for a bit, she slowly shook her head and gave a sigh. When she wanted to continue going through the documents, there was suddenly a knock on the door.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    Seveni replied and soon there was a maid who came in.

    ¡°Your majesty, Lord Duke Festalin and Lord Count Sean are here.¡±

    Seeing the unfamiliar face of the maid, Seveni couldn¡¯t help thinking of Betty and Carol that she gave to Xu Yi, falling into a daze.

    After a pause, she revealed a bitter smile and gave an order to the maid, ¡°Let them in.¡±

    The maid left to follow this order.

    Very soon, there were heavy footsteps with different tones that came from outside the door.

    When the door opened, Duke Festalin who had a high prestige in the royal army and was known as the ¡°Lampuri Falcon¡± as well as Count Sean who had juste to Anvilmar City on Seveni¡¯s orders yesterday came in.

    The two gave a respectful bow to Seveni before Duke Festalin asked, ¡°Your majesty, may I ask what you summoned us for?¡±

    Duke Festalin was already sixty seven this year, but his body was strong and filled with vigor. Whether it was his mind or his body, they were all at peak condition.

    If it wasn¡¯t for his dazzling silver hair, one would think that he was still in his forties.

    Seveni stood up from the chair and moved around the table, inviting Duke Festalin and Count Sean to a couch before sitting in front of them. She looked like she wanted to chat as she asked, ¡°Duke Festalin, you should be the person who understands the Sack Kingdom the most in our Lampuri Kingdom. Can you tell me, with our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s current strength, is there a chance to defeat the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Duke Festalin shook his head without any hesitation, ¡°Your majesty, although we have an advantage on the battlefield, that is only the advantage created by the military magic machines. If we lose the advantage of this equipment, our kingdom¡¯s army would only be able to barely defend the borders.¡±

    ¡°Then if we were to keep this advantage?¡± Seveni asked.

    Count Sean on the side looked at Seveni before quickly looking away, as if he didn¡¯t care about this question.

    ¡°If we keep this advantage?¡± Duke Festalin knit his brows to think for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°It¡¯s still impossible. Your majesty, the war between two kingdoms can¡¯t be decided by one or two or even ten battles. There are many times that only after several hundred or thousand battles can the war be decided. But to guarantee the most important logistics problem for these hundreds or even over a thousand battles, our Lampuri Kingdom can¡¯tpare to the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    After pausing, Duke Festalin added, ¡°Your majesty, you¡¯ve already done very well in the two years you¡¯ve taken the throne. I think that as long as we continue like this, it won¡¯t take many years before we no longer need to worry about the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Seeing the sincere look on Duke Festalin¡¯s face, Seveni revealed a faint smile. Then she said with a nod, ¡°Great. Duke Festalin, since even you think this way, then I can be assured. I hope that you can express this view to the public, do you think that¡¯s alright?¡±

    Duke Festalin was stunned and after a period of thought, he understood Seveni¡¯s meaning. He said with a loudugh, ¡°Alright! I will always use these old bones for the kingdom. As long as it is for the kingdom, I can do anything!¡±

    Seveni revealed a sweet smile to Duke Festalin before turning to Count Sean.

    ¡°Count Sean, you¡¯ve been smuggling various types of magic machines to the Sack Kingdom from Sowell City over these years, do you have an urate number for this?¡±

    Count Sean knit his brows, not understanding why Seveni suddenly asked this question.

    Actually, when Lampuri Thirteenth was still alive, there wererge amounts of magic machines smuggled into the Sack Kingdom from Sowell City. It was even considered ¡°official smuggling¡± through Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion to Lampuri Thirteenth.

    During the years that Eric and Seveni had taken the throne, this never changed like there was a tacit approval for this.

    After all, through this smuggling, the Lampuri Kingdom had earnedrge profits from the Sack Kingdom, so no one would ban it for no reason.

    Seveni was aware of this and even suggested privately to Count Sean that he could increase the scale.

    But why did she suddenly ask this question?

    Count Sean was silent for a bit before replying, ¡°It¡¯s hard to get an urate count, but ording to the estimates in secret, just this year, we¡¯ve earned over two million gold coins from the smuggling alone.¡±

    ¡°Two million gold coins?¡± Seveni knit her brows and shook her head, ¡°That isn¡¯t much.¡±

    Count Sean and Duke Festalin were both stunned.

    This was just smuggling, for it to reach two million gold coins, that still wasn¡¯t enough?

    Her majesty.....what did she n on doing?

 Volume 5 39 - Free trade area

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 39 Free trade area</h4>

    ¡°This is clearly betrayal!¡± Heinz threw the ?Lampuri Weekly? in his hand on the table as he angrily shouted.

    Xu Yi looked at therge headline on the ?Lampuri Weekly? and revealed a smile.

    ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    ¡°Do you still need to ask?¡± Heinz looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has supported the Lampuri Kingdom like this, but the Lampuri Kingdom is now working with our enemy, the Sack Kingdom. What is this if not betrayal? Moreover, they are not just betraying our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but also the millions of citizens of our Lampuri Kingdom! The Sack Kingdom is the mortal enemy of the Lampuri Kingdom, how could they cooperate with them at a time like this?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°No, Heinz, you¡¯re thinking too narrowly. There is no eternal enemy between countries, it isn¡¯t strange to cooperate from time to time. Then again, did you clearly read the article? The Lampuri Kingdom is only opening a free trade area with the Sack Kingdom, that is far from truly cooperating. Moreover, based on the details of the discussion that I know about, the Lampuri Kingdom is getting a great advantage this time.¡±

    ¡°Condition?¡± Heinz looked at Xu Yi with doubt. After thinking about it, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, do you know about this matter?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Because this matter was proposed by me to Seveni, I even gave her the idea of the free trade area. Do you think I wouldn¡¯t know about this?¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze. After a while, he asked in a stuttered voice, ¡°You¡¯re saying.....the cooperation with the Sack Kingdom was your idea?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t wrong if you say it like this, but Seveni feels that the Lampuri Kingdom can earn many benefits, so she agreed to my idea. Speaking of this, she couldplete this matter in this short period of time, her abilities really are outstanding.¡±

    Heinz looked at Xu Yi with knitted brows for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Xu Yi, although I can¡¯t understand the things you do normally, this time.....isn¡¯t this too unreasonable? Not mentioning the hatred between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom, just based on the fact that the Sack Kingdom worked with Duke Weinst time to attack our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we shouldn¡¯t even discuss cooperating with the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll repeat it again, this isn¡¯t a simple cooperation. If you really want to talk about it, it is a free trade zone which will be used by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom to steal the Sack Kingdom¡¯s wealth. Do you understand?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Heinz shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t understand. This free trade area is just a ce for both sides to openly do business. The Sack Kingdom isn¡¯t stupid, how could they let us steal their wealth?¡±

    ¡°This......In a situation of who is stronger, it can¡¯t be solved with intelligence alone.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug as he said with a rxed look, ¡°Heinz, think about it, in the free trade area between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom, what will be the easiest form of business? Or to put it a bit more straightforward, what product do you think the Sack Kingdom wants the most from the Lampuri Kingdom and what does the Lampuri Kingdom want the most from the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Heinz knit his brows to think for a bit before his eyes suddenly lit up.

    ¡°I got it! The Sack Kingdom will have a strong demand for magic machines. Because the Lampuri Kingdom and Sack Kingdom were enemies before, they blockaded each other and the Sack Kingdom could only buy magic machines through smugglers. Now that there is this free trade area, the people of the Sack Kingdom can¡¯t wait to buy magic machines.¡±

    ¡°So that means this free trade area is used to sell magic machines to the Sack Kingdom. I¡¯m certain that the people of the Sack Kingdom are no different from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, they already wanted the various magic machines from a long time ago. Now that both sides are finally trading, the Sack Kingdom will have arge demand for them.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Un, they will have the same demand as the surrounding cities when they first made contact with Banta City.¡± Heinz nodded before asking, ¡°But the people of the Sack Kingdom aren¡¯t stupid, they will definitely limit this.¡±

    ¡°That is the reason for creating the free trade area.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°ording to the agreement between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, all trades in this free trade area between both sides werepletely free, neither side can regte them at all. So even if the Sack Kingdom wants to stop arge batch of magic machines froming in, they have no way.¡±

    ¡°That is very strange, why would the Sack Kingdom agree to this condition?¡± Heinz asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°The reason is very simple. First, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army has fought with the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army many times and they¡¯ve always won. The Sack Kingdom is facing arge amount of pressure and now that the Lampuri Kingdom is willing to have a truce with them, doing business fairly, the Sack Kingdom will definitely want this.¡±

    ¡°Un......That is right.¡±

    ¡°Second, the Sack Kingdom wanted the various magic machines long ago. Because of the blockade on the Lampuri Kingdom side, as well as the targeting of ourpany, the Sack Kingdom could never obtain the rted technology. Now that they can have free trade with the Lampuri Kingdom, they can buy arge amount of magic machines from the Lampuri Kingdom, so they might never be able to develop their own magic machines. Or even.....buy the rted technology directly from the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°That is impossible, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side will definitely limit the technology.¡± Heinz shook his head, ¡°Otherwise, if they taught the Sack Kingdom to build magic machines, wouldn¡¯t that be raising a tiger?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. Although this seemed correct on the surface, Seveni had already prepared for this and made the necessary restrictions.

    But under the temptation of benefits, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine technology will flow into the Sack Kingdom with the various magic machines.

    This was something that was impossible to limit, so Xu Yi had suggested to Seveni that they should sell a small portion of the magic machine technology to the Sack Kingdom directly.

    Of course this portion was all limited to the household magic machines. It couldn¡¯t approach the production magic machines and definitely couldn¡¯t touch the military magic machines.

    Although this would give the Sack Kingdom technology rted to the magic machines and even allow them to develop it themselves, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about this.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the absolute advantage when it came to magic machine technology. Moreover, this advantage was much more than anything any otherpanies held, so as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled their technology, it was impossible for the Sack Kingdom to get it with bribes.

    Moreover, if they didn¡¯t give the Sack Kingdom a few benefits and this hope, they wouldn¡¯t have easily agreed to opening this free trade area with the Lampuri Kingdom this easily.

    As for the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than gaining arge profit from selling magic machines in the Sack Kingdom, ording to the contract, the Sack Kingdom had to export some of their minerals to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the contract signed by the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber ofmerce had even been given the rights to open two mines near the Muerto Mountains.

    This was something that was very important to Xu Yi.

    It was impossible to control the Sack Kingdom in a short period of time, so before this, using other methods to get the minerals that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed from the Sack Kingdom was a very feasible method.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to exin any further on this to Heinz.

    Starting this year, because Heinz was getting old and because of his own personality, he started beginning to separate himself from the matters of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although he was still the vice chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t participate in the management and nning at all. He was basically half retired.

    He hade all the way here from Banta City to disy his anger to Xu Yi, other than showing his deep feelings for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was actually for another reason.

    After chatting about the free trade area with Xu Yi, Heinz fell silent. He looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°What is it? We¡¯re old friends, what can¡¯t you say in front of me? Thispany was built up by the two of us bit by bit, so if it is rted to thepany, you can just tell me.¡±

    Heinz revealed an awkward looked.

    ¡°You knew?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°We¡¯ve known each other for this long, do I still not understand you? If it wasn¡¯t for Alex, how could you be this hesitant, looking this awkward?¡±

    Heinz shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I really am embarrassed. Alex did that horrible thing before, but you still let him continue working for thepany, so I feel very bad about it in my heart. Now.....now......¡±

    ¡°Alright, old friend, there¡¯s no need to say it, I understand.¡± Xu Yi patted Heinz¡¯s shoulder with a smile. He took a document from the desk and gave it Heinz, ¡°Here, I¡¯ve already arranged it. I think that Alex will be satisfied with this.¡±

    Heinz took the document and found that it was an assignment document.

    Opening it to take a look, the contents were to appoint Alex as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second transport fleet¡¯smander. He would mainly be responsible for transporting goods between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom.

    This was a very good job and one that paid quite well. Xu Yi arranging this position for Alex could be considered showing favour to him.

    Heinz closed the document and excitedly looked at Xu Yi. When he wanted to speak, Xu Yi raised a hand to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no need to be polite between us. Tell Alex to do this well. As long as his performance is good, I can even consider letting him handle some business in the Caraca City branch. As for afterwards, that will depend on his performance.¡±

    Heinz kept nodding, ¡°Alright! Alright! I will definitely teach that kid well! If he dares make a mistake in the future, I will personally break his legs!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Actually with the wrongs that Alex hadmitted before, it was reasonable for him to be jailed for life.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Heinz, how could he live a peaceful life and even have a chance toe back again?

 Volume 5 40 - You wonâ€™t be lonely

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 40 You won¡¯t be lonely</h4>

    After sending Heinz off, Xu Yi took several documents in his hand before looking out the window. After thinking about it, he drove his Magic Sedan off towards the shipyard.

    When he came close, there was a deafening bellow that came from the sea.

    Turning to look, he saw a burst of watering from the sea that reached ten meters.

    The sun was shining down from the west and as the water fell down from the sky, sshing everywhere, it created beautiful rainbows with the sun shining down and looked very beautiful.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look over where the column of water had fallen before turning his head again. His eyes went out five hundred meters into the sea, stopping at a thirty meter long and five to six meter boat that was like a sharp medium Magic Boat that was like the Magic Speed Boat, but several times bigger.

    When he looked over, there was a blue light that appeared on the medium Magic Boat. There were ck dots with bits of red light that were shot nout, creating long parabs in the air beforending in the sea five hundred meters away.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With another loud sound, the sea that had just be calm again had ten meters tall waves. These giant waves came from the center of the explosion, pushing away the rotten wooden boats that were more than ten meters away.

    Seeing that the rotten wooden boat was still intact, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    The target was still in perfect condition, this was just too disappointing.

    Looking at the medium Magic Boat in the distance, Xu Yi gathered his magic and disappeared. In the blink of an eye, he appeared out of thin air on the deck of the medium Magic Boat that was over a thousand meters away.

    Lumi on the deck was the first one to react. She turned to see Xu Yi appearing out of thin air and immediately revealed a smile like a happy little girl.

    ¡°Hey, chairman, how do you have free time today?¡±

    ¡°I had nothing to do, so I wanted to see your progress.¡± Xu Yi replied before greeting the others who came over after hearing Lumi¡¯s greeting, ¡°How is it? Is there any progress? I saw that the wooden boat being used as the target was still quite good.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone including Lumi looked at each other before revealing embarrassed looks.

    ¡°This......¡± The dwarf engineer Bordeau who was in charge of the ship based Magic Rockets scratched his head and awkwardly replied, ¡°Sir chairman, we aren¡¯t progressing that well. We¡¯ve already been testing for three days and until now......Other than captain Furio, no one else has hit it......¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at the elf Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard captain Furio standing on the deck like a tree, ¡°Furio, why can you hit it and the others can¡¯t?¡±

    Furio replied without any expression, ¡°Because we elves are naturally more skilled at shootingpared to you all.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked at the others on the deck and found that there was another elf on deck before pointing at him and asking, ¡°Then why didn¡¯t Yldan get a hit?¡±

    Furio calmly looked at Yldan, ¡°Yldan is a researcher now and not a warrior, his talent has already wasted away.¡±

    Ylday gave a cough as he revealed an awkward look.

    ¡°Alright, I admit that Furio, you¡¯re more talentedpared to others when ites to shooting, but what we need to know now is which part of your talent are you talking about? This means that what are you using to hit? Why can¡¯t the others hit?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Furio slightly knit his brows to think before replying, ¡°I think.....it¡¯s mainly because the eyes of us elves are better than the other races. Then it¡¯s because we elven warriors use bows, so we can make adjustments for the flight of the arrow. Un.....I didn¡¯t actually hit for my first few shots, but after a few times and learning how it works, I could hit with the next few shots.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at Bordeau and said with knitted brows, ¡°Since Furio had already found the pattern, why didn¡¯t you consult with him and change your experiments?¡±

    Bordeau helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Sir chairman, that is their talent as elves, there¡¯s nothing to rece it.¡±

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t think so.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°When ites to the vision of the elves, you can try installing telescopes on the Magic Cannon to solve that problem. As for the pattern that Furio talked about, did you forget what I said before? The so-called pattern is just testing with data.¡±

    Bordeau¡¯s expression suddenly changed, ¡°Sir chairman, you mean......Furio and us should keep firing and then fine tune the shots with the data?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Xu YI snappily said, ¡°Could it be that working for this long, you don¡¯t even know about this?¡±

    Bordeau touched his head and mumbled, ¡°This is our first time developing the Magic Cannon, we aren¡¯t skilled enough yet......¡±

    ¡°Then just be as skilled as you can!¡± Xu Yi red at him. He left him and the other researchers to study the Magic Cannon with Furio as he pulled Lumi to the side.

    ¡°Hey, Lumi, how have you been at the shipyard these days?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Lumi replied with a smile, ¡°Everyone is very good to me and there are many people to discuss magic machines with, so I¡¯m very happy.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Then that¡¯s good.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But you¡¯re the only halfling here, won¡¯t you be lonely?¡±

    There was a sad look that shed on Lumi¡¯s face as she lowered her head.

    ¡°There are times that I do feel lonely, but I¡¯m already used to it after a hundred years.¡±

    Then she became spirited again.

    ¡°But it doesn¡¯t matter! After being at this shipyard for this long, I¡¯m certain that we will definitely be able to make the sea voyaging Magic Ship! When the timees, I will sail that Magic Ship to the other continent and I can see my nsmen!¡±

    ¡°He, he, that will be at least several years. Before this, have you thought of the possibility of seeing your nsmen ahead of time?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Un? What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Lumi,st time you said that thest news on your nsmen was from two thousand years ago when they left the Sines Continent, is that right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this, what about it¡±

    ¡°But during this time, I¡¯ve read in many books that after the halfling race migrated two thousand years ago, there were scattered rumours about seeing halflings. Although they were just rumours and there was no evidence, after personally seeing you and finding out about your existence, I¡¯ve thought of another possibility.¡±

    ¡°What possibility?¡± As if she could understand the meaning hidden in Xu Yi¡¯s words, Lumi¡¯srge eyes were sparkling.

    ¡°Look, you and your family chose not to leave the Sines Continent and stay here, then that means that it is very likely there are other halfling families that chose to stay. So I think that right now on the Sines Continent, there isn¡¯t just a single halfling and there should be others.¡±

    Lumi¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Really? Then sir chairman, will you find them?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t guarantee that this is true and can¡¯t guarantee that I¡¯ll find them, but I can do my best to search. But before this, I need your agreement and support.¡±

    ¡°If you can find my nsmen, I can do anything you want!¡± Lumi immediately said in a loud voice.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Lumi, I want to use a dumb method, which is to advertise your existence across the Sines Continent. It would be best if this news of your existence reaches the ears of the existing halfling race, so they knew that you still exist on the continent. If they are also looking for their nsmen, I think that they will definitelye looking for you.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re really going to spread this news all over the continent?¡± Lumi was a bit doubtful.

    ¡°I can¡¯t talk for other ces, but at least there¡¯s no problem in the surrounding countries. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops in other countries, I can spread the news to those other countries.¡± Xu Yi said in a certain voice, ¡°But there is a problem with this.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°You will be a celebrity. Lumi, you should be clear how rare the halflings are on the Sines Continent right now. If people knew about your existence, it would definitely create arge shock. To have this news spread and to let the other halflings know, you will have to appear in front of the public and show your identity. This will greatly affect your lifestyle, do you have any problems with this?¡±

    Lumi deeply knit her slender brows.

    Although she didn¡¯t understand the worries of a celebrity that Xu Yi talked about, thinking of how she would be treated as a rare object by many humans, she definitely felt troubled by this.

    But thinking of the possibility Xu Yi mentioned, she felt that this idea was very attractive.

    Xu Yi calmly watched Lumi without urging her.

    Actually, he had spent a long time making this decision.

    The reason for doing this was actually out of consideration of being discrete.

    Although Lumi wants to sail across the endless sea to the continent on the other side to find her nsmen.

    The research of the halflings from two thousand years ago couldn¡¯t evenpare to the level of the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the level of the boats at that time, it really would be 90% death sailing into the seas.

    To be more pessimistic, the halfling race might have already died on the seas.

    Even if one was optimistic and the halflings found the other continent, it was unknown if they had been able to peacefully settle down on the new continent.

    After two thousand years, there were many things that could have happened.

    It was very likely the halflings that left the Sines Continent had already disappeared and there were only the halflings left on the Sines Continent.

    If it really was like this and the sea voyage that Lumi dreamed of ended up in nothing, that really would be too sad.

    So before this, Xu Yi decided to do his best to find the halflings on the Sines Continent.

    That way even if she couldn¡¯t find the halflings that left the Sines Continent, Lumi wouldn¡¯t be alone and wouldn¡¯t have to face the tragedy of her race being exterminated.

    Through Lumi¡¯s performance after entering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi was certain that the halfling had talent for magic machines.

    With the increase to the development speed of many magic machines after Lumi entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as inspiring ideas for new magic machines, and improving all kinds of magic machines that they already had.

    If they could get some more halflings in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would without a doubt make their ability to develop magic machines even stronger.

    Of course, in secret, Xu Yi did feel that Lumi being all alone was too pitiful.

    Lumi was silent for a bit before looking up at Xu Yi to give a slow nod.

    ¡°Alright, chairman, we¡¯ll do that. If I can find my nsmen, I will be very grateful to you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and patted Lumi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Rx, I believe that you definitely won¡¯t be alone.¡±

    Lumi gave a strong ¡°un¡± sound as she revealed a bright smile on her face.

    Xu Yi suddenly gave augh, ¡°Lumi, since you agreed, then starting tomorrow, you should report to Still every day. Do you understand?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Lumi was stunned, ¡°Why do I need to report to Still?¡±

    ¡°Because.....you will be a star in the future.¡±

 Volume 5 41 - Old fashioned Wimbledon City

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 41 Old fashioned Wimbledon City</h4>

    Riley was sitting at a table on the second floor of a restaurant, looking out the window at the bustling crowd walking through the street and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    He had already been in Wimbledon City for a month and a half now.

    ording to the n, on his trip to the Candra Empire this time, he would be discussing the matter ofying down roads in the Candra Empire between the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire.

    He and chairman Cruise had thought that this would be easy since he hade with ambassador Hakanin this time. With ambassador Hakanin¡¯s status, they should have been able to easily open up the situation in Wimbledon City and quickly reach an agreement with the Candra Empire.

    But facts werepletely different from what he imagined.

    Ambassador Hakanin was the emperor¡¯s brother inw, but he didn¡¯t have any real power in the Candra Empire, his position wasn¡¯t as high as Riley had thought it would be.

    Through the nobles of Wimbledon City that he had been able to meet through ambassador Hakanin these days, Riley could see that although these nobles gave ambassador Hakanin some and met Riley, when it came to matters, they all used tactful, but firm voices to reject him.

    It was clear that these nobles with real power didn¡¯t pay any attention to ambassador Hakanin at all, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t treat the roads that he bragged about as something important.

    There were even several nobles that looked at Riley with deep suspicion, like they were treating him as a swindler.

    At first, ambassador Hakanin had warmly brought Riley to meet the nobles. He even led him to several noble gatherings, allowing him to be acquainted with quite a few nobles.

    But because of the attitudes of each noble, ambassador Hakanin perhaps felt that this was no longer interesting and gradually wasn¡¯t willing to care about this matter, so his passion faded.

    In thest half a month, ambassador Hakanin had rarely met with Riley. Whenever Riley mentioned the matter of the road, he only received a perfunctory answer from ambassador Hakanin.

    At this point, Riley naturally knew that chairman cruise had been wrong.

    This ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t be relied on at all.

    There were many times that Riley felt a bit of regret. If the Amrit Chamber of Commerce entered the Candra Empire through official channels and discussed the issue of cooperation with the Candra Empire, the effects would have been much better.

    After all, the convenience of the roads were very clear. As long as the Candra Empire could attach great importance to this, Riley was confident enough that he could make the Candra Empire ept this new thing.

    However, Riley and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had left a bad impression on many of the nobles of Wimbledon City. If they wanted to sign a cooperation, it would be very hard.

    ¡°Were we too anxious?¡± Riley asked with knit brows.

    Although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was a first sspany in the Lampuri Kingdom and because only they had the technology for building roads and tall buildings with reinforced concrete, they had some fame in the surrounding countries. But because the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries didn¡¯t enter the eyes of a colossus like the Candra Empire, those nobles of Wimbledon City hadn¡¯t heard of them at all. Naturally they wouldn¡¯t care about Riley or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    So Riley couldn¡¯t help thinking that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce trying to enter the Candra Empire, which was one of the two empires on the Sines Continent was too rushed.

    Actually, with the current development of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it was best if they kept opening markets in the small countries and built up their foundation. When the time was right, they could think about entering the Candra or Marlow Empires.

    Chairman Cruise had been nning like this at first, but because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly had the idea of entering the Candra Empire, chairman Cruise as Xu Yi¡¯s faithful ally had the same thoughts.

    But reality was very cruel, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t even spare a nce for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Whenever he heard of this, Riley couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit ofint in his heart towards Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi being in a rush to enter the Candra Empire, chairman Cruise wouldn¡¯t have been this impulsive.

    But Riley also found it very strange.

    He had known Xu Yi for over five years and knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t an impulsive person, he always had a detailed n for anything he did and he had powerful foresight. No matter what he did, it would seem ordinary at first, but there would be a powerful effect that shocked everyer.

    This time he decided to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the Candra Empire definitely wasn¡¯t because of an impulse.

    But thinking of this, Riley¡¯s thought changed and he discovered a fact that made him unsure whether he shouldugh or cry.

    Him representing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce hitting a wall in Wimbledon City wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Before ambassador Hakanin came back, he made a special trip to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for arge batch of household magic machines, which had filled up twentyrge transport Magic Cars.

    In less than ten days after ambassador Hakanin and Riley reached Wimbledon City, they were all swept up.

    ording to the number ambassador Hakanin told Riley in secret, from these household magic machines, he had earned arge profit of over two hundred thousand gold coins!

    It had to be known, if ambassador Hakanin stayed in the Rudson Kingdom all year, he wouldn¡¯t earn more than thirty thousand gold coins. This time he had just resold a batch of household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and received such a terrifying profit.

    It was no wonder that whenever ambassador Hakanin mentioned Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was a smile that bloomed on his face.

    But Wimbledon City was known as the number one city on the Sines Continent. It was said that the stable poption in the city was one and a half million while the transient poption was at least over two million.

    Although ambassador Hakanin had brought twentyrge transport Magic Cars filled with household magic machines, it was only like throwing a pebble in the pond after selling them all. It didn¡¯t create any changes in the market at all.

    Riley looked out the window to find that although Wimbledon City was big and was more lively than any other city he had been in before, if he looked seriously, he found that it wasn¡¯t much different from the other cities of the Sines Continent.

    The low buildings made of stone were close together and there were narrow paths between them. People by the road were waving rush leaf fans in their hand, trying to fend off thest heat wave ofte summer......

    Everything in Riley¡¯s eyes made him think that it was old fashioned.

    In the beginning, he didn¡¯t know why he had this strange feeling seeing this lively scene.

    But after a while, he suddenly understood.

    He felt that Wimbledon City was old fashioned because he keptparing Wimbledon City to Banta City that he was most familiar with.

    Just in terms of scale, Banta City was clearly several times smaller and because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherrgepanies leaving, it had be much less lively. It wasn¡¯t as grand as before, but at any time in Banta City, it would be filled with a feeling of vitality and novelty.

    If one were to specifically describe this feeling, it was the smooth roads in the new part of Banta City that connected all of the city, as well as the streetmps on both sides of the road and the public transport Magic Cars that drove across those streets. There were also new styled factories in the new city, as well as houses that were filled with household magic machines that reached over ten meters into the air......

    Adding in the bicycles riding across the roads and the people walking around when they were free, everything was different from the old styled cities of the Sines Continent.

    Yes, with the efforts of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and various City Lords, Banta City had already changed into a new city. It was evenpletely different from the other cities on the continent.

    Moreover, each of these differences represented one thing, which was advancement.

    ording to what Xu Yi said before, Banta City had now be a modern city, it was on a different level as the old styled cities of the Sines Continent.

    Even if Wimbledon City was the biggest city on the Sines Continent, Riley still felt superior in his heart.

    So what if it¡¯s big? Was it more advanced than Banta City?

    On the continent, the only ces that couldpare to Banta City was ck Rice City on the ck Rice Wastnd and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base in the Stantine Duchy.

    Thinking of this, Riley¡¯s mood became much more rxed.

    The Candra Empire fellows didn¡¯t know how to judge things, then they could just stay with their backwards thinking.

    If the Candra Empire didn¡¯t wee the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, there were many other countries that did wee them.

    This fat empire would eventually pay the price for their hesitation in the end.

    Riley put down the wine ss that he had held for a while and the worry in his heart gradually disappeared.

    He took a deep look at Wimbledon City outside the window and he made his decision.

    He would say goodbye to ambassador Hakanin tomorrow.

    When he returned and told chairman Cruise about the situation in the Candra Empire, he believed that sir chairman would make the same decision.

    When Riley was about to call the waiter to settle his bill, there was a dull sound that came from the staircase of the second floor. There was a skinny middle aged man who was covered in an astute aura that came up.

    The middle aged man looked around and when his eyes fell onto Riley, he directly came over.

    Riley was surprised. His mind quickly turned, but he confirmed that he didn¡¯t recognize this person.

    The middle aged man came to Riley¡¯s table and revealed a courteous smile.

    ¡°May I ask, are you vice chairman Riley from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Riley was even more stunned.

    This middle aged man had clearly investigated beforeing to see him.

    ¡°That¡¯s me, do you need me for something?¡± Riley carefully asked back.

    Obtaining Riley¡¯s confirmation, the middle aged man¡¯s smile became even brighter.

    ¡°Vice chairman Riley, I¡¯vee looking for you to ask about the roads.¡±

    Riley¡¯s mind suddenly focused.

    After being in Wimbledon City for this long, this was his first time hearing someone express interest in the public roads.

 Volume 5 42 - Crazy road plan

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 42 Crazy road n</h4>

    Ten minutester, Riley was in another private room in the restaurant and hearing the introduction of the middle aged man, he couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    This middle aged man who showed interest in the roads wasn¡¯t a smart noble from the Candra Empire, or like Riley had guessed, apany representative from some family of the Candra Empire who had smelled the benefits of the roads after receiving the news.

    This fellow wasn¡¯t even from the Candra Empire!

    ¡°The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom?¡± Riley knit his brows and thought for a while, but he couldn¡¯t think of where he had ever heard of this country¡¯s name before.

    It should be said that this country¡¯s name was special, it should have left an impression after hearing it once.

    ¡°It¡¯s normal that you have no impression.¡± The middle aged man revealed his pure white teeth as he said with a smile, ¡°Because our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom has only been a kingdom for less than a year and our country is very small, so there wouldn¡¯t be any people who pay attention to us. We shouldn¡¯t have any fame on the continent.¡±

    ¡°Less than a year?¡± Riley looked at this middle aged man who introduced him as Gaza with a look of doubt, ¡°If I may ask, the name of your country.....does it have some meaning?¡±

    Gazaughed, ¡°This name tells you everything. Our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom isn¡¯t a traditional kingdom, but rather a kingdom that is formed by the union of thirteenpanies.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Riley was a bit surprised, ¡°A kingdom formed by a union ofpanies? How is that possible!¡±

    Gaza waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Vice chairman Riley, a country is actually just referring to the autonomy to control a piece of territory. Our thirteenpanies together control enoughnd and have enough autonomous rights, so there¡¯s nothing wrong with calling us a country.¡±

    Riley was stunned for a bit, still being a bit unable to ept this new concept.

    ¡°Your thirteenpaniesing together, who are you led by?¡±

    ¡°Our thirteenpanies have formed a council and through a majority vote, we decide the decisions of the kingdom. Although there will be a person who will be the speaker of the council for some time, being the nominal leader of the kingdom, there isn¡¯t a single person orpany that has absolute ruling power.¡± Gaza replied with a smile.

    Riley couldn¡¯t help tapping his head. He thought for a bit before saying, ¡°I feel that method is a bit familiar.....¡±

    ¡°Of course it will be familiar to you because this method is somewhat simr to the congress of the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Riley was stunned, ¡°You know about the Stantine Duchy¡¯s congress?¡±

    The Stantine Duchy was a small duchy at the edge of the continent. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made the surrounding countries pay attention to the Stantine Duchy, they were still very unknown on the Sines Continent and not many people would care about them.

    But this Gaza actually knew about the ruling system of the Stantine Duchy and disyed a certain degree of knowledge of it, which made people surprised.

    ¡°Of course I know because the joint ruling system of our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was actually an imitation of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s congressional system. Speaking of this, I must express my heartfelt admiration for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman Xu Yi. He can think of this new method of ruling, it really was like opening a new door for us. If it wasn¡¯t for him, our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have appeared.

    Seeing the look of admiration that wasn¡¯t hidden at all on Gaza¡¯s face, Riley felt even more doubt in his heart.

    ording to Gaza¡¯s introduction just now, their Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom shared a border with the south of the Candra Empire, so it was over five thousand kilometers from the Stantine Duchy.

    Why would he know about the Stantine Duchy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was over five thousand kilometers away?

    ¡°This isn¡¯t strange, we are all merchants, so we are much better at obtaining informationpared to normal people. Because we cared about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we received various information on them after we started investigating them. Including our Huayue Chamber of Commerce, our thirteenpanies all admire the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because from their appearance to their development, it is simply a miracle.¡±

    ¡°I won¡¯t oppose this.¡± Riley nodded, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is indeed a living miracle, but chairman Gaza, this doesn¡¯t seem rted to you looking for me to pave roads, correct?¡±

    Gaza revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I can¡¯t help myself once I talk about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Ke.....Alright, speaking of the roads, vice chairman Riley, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is the onlypany that can pave roads, am I correct?¡±

    Riley proudly said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right. Although there are manypanies that are trying to enter the business, other than our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t anotherpany that can pave an entire road.¡±

    ¡°Not even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Gaza asked back with a smile.

    Riley¡¯s expression froze.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never entered the road paving business, whether it was the main materials of cement and iron bars, or the various construction magic machines the Amrit Chamber of Commerce used, they all came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the terrifying research power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they only needed a bit of research and practice before they couldy down roads by themselves.

    ¡°This......Even if it is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they can¡¯tpare to our Amrit Chamber of Commerce in terms of experience.¡± Riley said with a serious look, ¡°So if you want to pave a road, finding our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the only and best choice.¡±

    Gaza nodded and didn¡¯t n on continuing with this question. He said, ¡°Then vice chairman Riley, if I want your Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build a road that is over five thousand kilometers, are you confident in doing this?¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Riley¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Over five thousand kilometers? Are you joking?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not joking at all.¡± Gaza¡¯s expression was serious, it really didn¡¯t seem like he was joking, ¡°From the Stantine Duchy to our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, it¡¯s five thousand kilometers on the map by straight line. If we want to build a road to connect them, it will definitely be over five thousand kilometers.¡±

    Riley looked at Gaza in a daze for a bit.

    ¡°This......Although you¡¯re right, why do you want to build this road? You have to know that the cost of this road would be terrifying, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course I know.¡± Gaza revealed a smile, but his expression was still firm, ¡°Not only do I know, all thirteenpanies of our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom know this. But in order to use the most direct and convenient method to connect our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to the Stantine Duchy, this is the best method.¡±

    Riley was a bit speechless.

    Gaza was indeed correct, but this idea was a shocking one.

    A road that was over five thousand kilometers, how terrifying that would be.

    It had to be known that in the Lampuri Kingdom which had the most roads, adding up all their roads, they would be able to barely break the five thousand kilometers threshold.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s first road wanted to be over five thousand kilometers long, this was a bit too exaggerated.

    ¡°Why do you have to connect to the Stantine Duchy?¡± The biggest doubt in Riley¡¯s heart was this question.

    ¡°Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is in the Stantine Duchy.¡± Gaza¡¯s response was concise, but powerful.

    Riley was once again speechless.

    In the end, the goal of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in building this road was to make it easier to connect with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that attractive to you?¡± Riley couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Gaza looked at Riley with a smile and said, ¡°Vice chairman Riley, if you couldn¡¯t see how terrifying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is, I can only feel regret towards this.¡±

    Riley was once again speechless.

    He had already had contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for over five years, but someone was looking down on him for not understanding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This really was a joke.

    Thinking about it, Riley gave up the idea of arguing with Gaza. However, after thinking about it, he still knit his brows.

    ¡°That¡¯s not right, chairman Gaza. Even if your Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom wants to build this road, it isn¡¯t realistic.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because of the geography of the kingdom you described. There are no borders with the Stantine Duchy and there is the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom in between.¡±

    To build roads on the Sines Continent, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had profound research on the geography of the continent. How could this vice chairman Riley not know the problem thatid with this issue?

    ¡°No, there is a path that connects it.¡± Gaza dug in his bag before taking out a piece of parchment.

    When it was opened, it revealed a map of the Sines Continent.

    ¡°Look here.¡± Gaza¡¯s hand pointed at the bottom left of the map, at a ce that was in the bottom right corner of the Rudson Kingdom before going west. He created a crooked alpine against the endless sea at the bottom of the map, whichpletely bordered the coastline, going past the Candra Empire before stopping at a ce to the bottom right of the Candra Empire.

    ¡°This is where our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom is. Look, from this ce to this ce, there is a long and narrow region that the Candra Empire doesn¡¯t need, so we can build a road in this ce.¡±

    Riley looked over this and the corners of his mouth couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    ¡°Chairman Gaza, if I may be rude, this idea is too crazy. If there isn¡¯t a problem with my knowledge of geography, the line that you drew goes over the coastal mountains. Which means that to build a road, we would have to cut through the mountains.¡±

    ¡°Then cut through them.¡± Gaza said with a faint smile.

    ¡°You¡¯re crazy!¡± Riley couldn¡¯t help shouting, ¡°To build a road on the mountains, do you know how much that would cost? Let me tell you, a normal path would only cost less than five thousand gold coins per kilometer, but to open a mountain road, it would cost over ten thousand gold coins or even more! To build five thousand kilometers of road, that would need over fifty million gold coins!¡±

    Gaza drew Riley to sit down with a smile.

    ¡°Rx, I¡¯m not crazy. Of course, I must admit that this n is very crazy, but vice chairman Riley, I didn¡¯t say when we need to finish the road, correct?¡±

    Riley was stunned, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    Gaza had a trace of cunning in his smile.

    ¡°Actually......I want to express our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s sincerity in cooperating to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Riley was stunned.

    He couldn¡¯t understand this, this chairman Gaza or rather the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that he represented, why did they put such importance on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even reaching this crazy degree.

    Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really that important?

 Volume 5 43 - Give me cement

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 43 Give me cement</h4>

    To build a road that was over five thousand kilometers and where half of it would mean cutting through the mountains, this would be a very difficult matter even if it was on the highly developed earth.

    But speaking of the difficulty of building roads, there was only one basic problem which was funds, which was a problem that was impossible to solve.

    The fifty million that Riley gave as an estimate was rather discrete. If one really wanted to build such a road, the total investments might even surpass a hundred million gold coins.

    Such arge investment, on the Sines Continent, perhaps only the Candra or Marlow Empires could take out this amount.

    Other than this, it was impossible for any other country orpany to take out this shocking amount by themselves.

    Whether it was the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, when chairman Cruise gave the message that Riley sent from the Candra Empire to Xu Yi, Xu Yi actually showed a strong interest in this crazy n which surprised chairman Cruise.

    Seeing Xu Yi carefully looking over the giant and detailed map of the Sines Continent hanging on the wall of the manor¡¯s living room, seriously considering it, chairman Cruise didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, are you really nning on building this road?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi turned to reveal sparkling eyes that were filled with interest, ¡°You don¡¯t think that if we build this road, it would be equal to connecting the Stantine Duchy to the eastern countries of the Sines Continent? Look, if this road is finished, we wouldn¡¯t need to go through the Candra Empire to reach the east of the continent. We can even bypass the Candra Empire to build another road north which would connect us to the entire continent.¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, although you always had crazy ideas, this one really is too impractical. This kind of road would cost at least a hundred thousand gold coins, can you take that much out? I guarantee that damn Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to take out that much money.¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t that chairman Gaza say that he didn¡¯t say when the road needed to be built? He and I have the same opinion, this road needs to be built, but because it costs too much, it can¡¯t be built right away. Of course for arge project like this, it wouldn¡¯t be finished in a short amount of time. Un.....Cruise, if this project was given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, how long would you need to finish it?¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows. He looked at the map and after thinking about it, he said, ¡°It would take at least ten years and we would need to use all our strength to build it.¡±

    ¡°Good, then we¡¯ll set it on twenty years to finish this road. The amount that would need to be invested each year wouldn¡¯t be that much, it wouldn¡¯t be too much to handle.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help giving a cold smile, ¡°You say it like you can afford five million gold coins each year. Don¡¯t forget, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs the money for other things.¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t say that we needed to start building right now, right?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom has no way of rushing this project and I have no need to rush it, so it is only a n right now. Of course, in order to show our sincerity, I will first decide to build a sea road from our Stantine Duchy that passes through the Rudson Kingdom, what do you think?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    ¡°A sea road that connects the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at the map and slowly nodded, ¡°This is a good idea. There¡¯s only one road from the Stantine Duchy that leads to the Rudson Kingdom right now, that isn¡¯t convenient. If we were to build another road in the south, that would also connect the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°To be honest, I hope that we can promote the development of the southern part of the duchy with this road.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°How much do you think this road will cost?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°Without seeing it, I can¡¯t give you an urate amount. I can only say that it¡¯ll be higher than the current Stru Road.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll just set it like this for now. I hope that you can draw up a suitable n as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re certain you want to build this road?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°Certain.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I will ept this project on behalf of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡± Chairman Cruise nodded before suddenly changing his thoughts, ¡°But Xu Yi, can you agree to one of my requests?¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡±

    ¡°Actually, I¡¯ve raised this request many times. You.....can you transfer the cement manufacturing technology to ourpany?¡± Chairman Cruise had a look of hope, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s various construction projects aren¡¯t just limited to the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, the distance can even reach over two thousand kilometers. However, if we have to ship the cement we buy from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce arge distance, the amount is just too much each time. So.....¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    ¡°You.....You¡¯re agreeing?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m agreeing.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I can give you the cement manufacturing technology, but you must strictly follow the standards that ourpany has set.¡±

    Chairman Cruise had a look of disbelief.

    He had made this request to Xu Yi many times, but he had been rejected every time. So why did he suddenly agree to this?

    ¡°Because the timing is right.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    What did he mean the timing is right? What was he specifically talking about?

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin and chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t just ask.

    Anyway, with Xu Yi¡¯s style, since he agreed, he wouldn¡¯t go back on it.

    After thinking about it, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s key business was in paving roads and constructing buildings.

    Whichever business it was, they needed arge amount of cement.

    Before this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce exclusively used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cement.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a happy cooperation with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi and chairman cruise had a good rtionship, for something as important as this to be held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, for chairman Cruise, it was like someone was holding his life and he couldn¡¯t feel assured.

    Now that Xu Yi had agreed to give the cement manufacturing technology to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it let him breathe a sigh of relief.

    The two chatted for a bit before quickly reaching an initial agreement.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce would be using one million to buy all the cement manufacturing technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would send corresponding staff to help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce open three cement factories in three countries, as well as providing a series of production magic machines needed to manufacture cement.

    To put it simply, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce be able to produce cement on their own.

    After this discussion, chairman Cruise asked in voice filled with doubt, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, why did you agree to this? Although we have spent a million gold coins on this, you should know that ourpany spends one and a half million gold coins buying cement from you each year, so your profit is at least five hundred thousand gold coins. Now that you¡¯re giving us this technology, it¡¯s impossible for you to get this much money from us in the future. Could it be.....you¡¯re giving up the cement business?¡±

    ¡°You think that only your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is the onlypany to use cement?¡± Xu Yi looked at chairman Cruise with a smile, ¡°Even if your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is the biggest customer when ites to cement, there are otherpanies that are buying cement from us. Even if we lose you as the biggest customer, we can still earn quite a bit from selling cement.¡±

    ¡°But I feel that this is very strange. You are simply.....breaking your own hands......¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that serious.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s main business is in magic machines, producing cement is only a side business.¡±

    ¡°A side business can earn yourpany that much money each year......¡± Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help muttering.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He had invented many side products while studying magic machines which had broughtrge benefits to him, the cement was just one of them.

    Of course, for a modern industrial system, cement is one of the essential building materials and has a very important position. Xu Yi giving this technology to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was hoping that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could expand their scale, but that didn¡¯t mean that he waspletely giving it up.

    After talking for a bit longer with chairman Cruise, the two left Xu Yi¡¯s personal office and went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car factory.

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s trip to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time was to orderrge transport Magic Cars from them.

    As the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s operations expanded to further ces, they had more demand for transportation.

    They depended on the Fersen Carriage Company who had changed their name to the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce to transport their building materials, but now it didn¡¯t seem like it was enough, so chairman Cruise was nning on building a transport team that belonged to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    First he would need to buy enough transport Magic Cars.

    Because of therge amount of automatic magic machines being used in the various factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already recovered from the negative impacts of the strike and therge scaleyoffs. They had even increased their production capacitypared to before and had even expanded on it.

    Still because of therge demand, the Frestech Chamber of Chamber couldn¡¯t meet their needs, but Xu Yi had some more space in terms of arrangements now.

    The transport Magic Cars was one of the most popr magic machines in the surrounding countries. If this was before, even if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wanted some, it would take at least half a year before they received the first batch of goods.

    But now Xu Yi could tell chairman Cruise that toplete the first batch of tenrge transport Magic Cars, it would take them three months.

    After receiving this confirmation from Xu Yi, chairman Cruise left the Magic Car factory in a very satisfied mood.

    But when he came out, he saw a strange thing that looked like a Magic Armoured Vehicle on the surface, but there was a sturdy pipe sticking out of it that was slowly driving over.

    Chairman Cruise was instantly stunned.

    This.....What was this strange thing?

 Volume 5 44 - Not knowing if itâ€™s true or false

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 44 Not knowing if it¡¯s true or false</h4>

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of doubt, but it was like Xu Yi didn¡¯t see that strange Magic Car at all and pointed his hand as he calmly said, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on exining at all, chairman Cruise¡¯s thoughts changed. The surprised look on his face turned into a smile and he acted like he didn¡¯t see anything, as he went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s industrial area with Xu Yi with a smile on his face.

    Watching as chairman Cruise got in his Magic Sedan and disappeared along the road, the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face disappeared. He turned to look back in the direction of the Magic Car factory and knit his brows.

    After a while, Xu Yi headed to the Magic Car testing site that was to the northwest of the Magic Car factory.

    When he arrived at the test site, he saw several Magic Cars that were the same as the one that chairman Cruise had just seen driving across the test site.

    Seeing these clumsy looking Magic Cars, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a bitterugh.

    If it was possible, he really wanted to call these strange looking Magic Cars Magic Tanks.

    But this thing only had a steel te that was thicker than normal Magic Cars, as well as special made tires and a Magic Cannon that normal Magic Cars didn¡¯t have. It was barely enough to call them Magic IFVs, to think that they were Magic Tanks would be the dream of a fool.

    Xu Yi came to the side of the researcher who was watching the Magic IFVs driving around while recording the data and asked the leader of the team developing the Magic IFVs, a human engineer named Toledo in a deep voice, ¡°Why did I just see the Magic IFVs driving outside?¡±

    Toledo and the other researchers had already seen Xu Yi arriving and were excited to make their report to him, but hearing this question, they couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    After a while, Toledo reacted and carefully replied, ¡°Sir chairman, based on the data, we think that the Magic IFVs can already begin being officially used, so we drove a Magic IFV off the testing site to performplicated road tests. Do you think there is a problem with that?¡±

    ¡°Oh? This fast?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°This team hasn¡¯t been formed for more than two months and you can already perform actual performance tests on the IFVs?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t dissatisfied, Toledo and the other researchers looked at each other before letting out sighs of relief and revealing smiles.

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman. If we were to be a bit more arrogant, we feel that it wasn¡¯t difficult at all to develop this Magic IFV. Therefore before this, with the foundation of the Magic Cannon research, we just needed to fuse it together with the Magic Cars. This work was a bitplicated, but it really wasn¡¯t that difficult.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Does that mean that you find it too easy? Good, when the Magic IFV has finished developing, I will give you a more difficult task, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Toledo and the other researchers instantly had ugly looks on their faces.

    But there was also a trace of excitement and anticipation in their eyes, under that ugly look.

    Xu Yi was very satisfied with their reaction. He turned to look at the Magic IFVs going around the circle twice before asking Toledo, ¡°Since you think that this project wasn¡¯t difficult, then tell me, is there any hope of reaching mass production this year?¡±

    Toledo was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid not. Sir chairman, you have requested that this Magic IFV needs to be able to function normally under any bad condition and the most important thing is to let it demonstrate its might. Although we are confident in achieving these two goals, this is based on arge amount of experimenting. There¡¯s only two months left in this year, so I think there isn¡¯t enough time.¡±

    Xu YI nodded and praised, ¡°Very good, it¡¯s good to be cautious. My request for any research project is to do it as perfectly as possible, so I won¡¯t push you. But I hope that you can finish this project as soon as possible and let the Magic IFVs reach the mass production stage soon.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡± Toledo gave a strong nod as he replied.

    Xu Yi looked around and after thinking for a bit, he continued, ¡°I¡¯m nning on building arge experiment site in the northern mountains which will serve as an experiment site specifically for military magic machines. When the timees, your team will also move there.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Toledo and the other researchers revealed happy looks.

    This Magic Car experiment site was in the industrial area and although it was very big, they were still very limited which made it less convenient for them to perform experiments.

    If they could move the experiment site to a ce with less people, their progress would naturally be enhanced.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be happy too early. It¡¯ll take at least half a year to build the experiment site. When the timees, your research on the Magic IFV should be finished.¡±

    Xu YI¡¯s words made the happiness on their faces recede a bit, but his next words filled them with excitement once again.

    ¡°Of course, the Magic IFV is only your first research project, you¡¯ll still have many other projects in this aspect in the future. That is because my goal is to create the truly invincible Magic Tank of the battlefield!¡±

    After leaving the experiment site, Xu Yi thought for a bit before getting in his Magic Sedan, heading to the shipyard by the sea.

    Before he even came close, he found that there were many people wearing different clothes on the beach outside the shipyard who were clearly not Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers.

    Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan driving over was noticed by people with sharp eyes.

    It was unknown who shouted first, but the crowd came over and surrounded Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan.

    ¡°Is this suffering the consequences of my own actions?¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh as he helplessly opened the door toe out.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask if Lumi is currently here?¡±

    ¡°Yes, is Lumi in the shipyard right now?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if Lumi really is here, can you please have here out to meet us?¡±

    ¡°Yes, please have Lumie out for us to see. We don¡¯t have any other intentions, we just want to see her!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we just want to see Lumi!¡±

    ¡°We want to see Lumi! Chairman Xu, please agree to this!¡±

    ¡°We......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi raised his hands and the surrounding people fell silent, all of them staring at Xu Yi.

    Looking around and seeing the expectant gazes looking at him, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°I think that Lumi will be very happy that everyone likes Lumi this much. Alright, since everyone is strongly requesting, I¡¯ll go in and talk to Lumi to see if she¡¯s willing toe out and see you all. Is everyone alright with this?¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi agreed to their requests, the crowd immediately broke out in a deafening cheer.

    The people who were blocking Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan moved aside and created a path to the shipyard for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to the people with a smile on his face before getting in the Magic Sedan and driving right into the shipyard.

    When he got out, Lumi was already in front of him pursing her small lips.

    ¡°Chairman, how could you agree to them? I¡¯ve said it many times, I¡¯m here to research the Magic Boats, I¡¯m not here to be stared at by so many people.¡±

    Seeing the unhappy Lumi, Xu Yi gave augh. When Agnes had created a stir back in Banta City, she felt like she was being stared at by people just like Lumi.

    The enthusiasm of the humans towards seeing other races was close to being extreme.

    Xu Yi took out a letter from his chest and handed it over.

    ¡°Here, after seeing this letter, I¡¯m certain that you won¡¯t be against seeing the people outside as much.¡±

    Lumi took the letter with doubt, but after opening it to read for a while, her dissatisfied face instantly filled with pleasant surprise.

    After a while, she looked up in disbelief and loudly asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman, is this real? Did you really find some news on my nsmen? This.....Are you lying to me?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This news was discovered by Hannas through the ?Lampuri Weekly¡¯s? information channels. Before we actually see your nsmen, I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s real or not.¡±

    Lumi gave an oh sound before looking back at the letter in her hand as she muttered, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if it¡¯s true or not, being able to receive information on my nsmen is already enough. After all these years, this is the first information that I¡¯ve received......¡±

    Actually, this made Xu Yi very surprised.

    When he had proposed spreading the news of her existence to Lumi, he didn¡¯t have too much hope.

    But he never would have thought that in less than two months since announcing this, Hannas had already received news on the appearance of halflings. He had even personally written a letter which he had chairman Cruise deliver.

    The news on the appearance of the halflings came from a country that was to the northeast of the Drake Duchy, the Falk Kingdom. The ?Lampuri Weekly? had set up a branch in the Falk Kingdom and had collected this information.

    ¡°Chairman, I want to go to the Falk Kingdom!¡± Lumi suddenly said in a determined voice, ¡°I want to go and find my nsmen!¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before shaking his head with knit brows.

    ¡°No, Lumi, I understand your feelings, but I don¡¯t rmend this. We do not have a way of determining if this information is true or not, so we can¡¯t be certain if your nsmen exist. This information might have even been purposefully released by certain people just to trap you.¡±

    Lumi was stunned, ¡°Deliberately trap me? Why?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed outside the shipyard, ¡°Do you not know how rare the appearance of halflings are on the continent? Just because you are a halfling, it is enough for people to set traps for you.¡±

    Lumi was silent for a bit before looking back up with a determined look still, ¡°No, even if it is a trap, I still want to go and see! I can¡¯t let the chance of meeting any nsmen go!¡±

    Xu Yi had to put his hands on Lumi¡¯s shoulder and look into her eyes as he said with a serious look, ¡°Lumi, calm down. To determine whether this information is true doesn¡¯t require you to personally go, there are many other methods. I¡¯ve already considered this and you can take out a token of your halflings. I¡¯ll find someone to take it to the Falk Kingdom and try to make contact with the halflings there. If this is true, I think that halflings will try to contact you. If it isn¡¯t, you wouldn¡¯t be in any danger. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Lumi fell into thought for a bit before giving a reluctant nod.

    ¡°Alright, but sir chairman, if there is any news about my nsmen, you have to tell me immediately.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s easy.¡± Xu Yi patted her shoulder with a smile before pointing out the door, ¡°Before this, you should go and deal with your fans.¡±

    Lumi¡¯s face scrunched up and after hesitating a bit, she went out with a bitter look on her face.

    After a while, there was a deafening cheer that came from outside the shipyard.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    If this kept happening, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might turn into an entertainmentpany.

 Volume 5 45 - Damn magic machines

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 45 Damn magic machines</h4>

    The weather in the middle of November was generally still warm in the Stantine Duchy, there were still people who could still swim in bathing suits, but in the Muerto Mountains that was between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, it was already deep winter.

    Three days ago, there was a heavy snowfall that came down and continued on and off for three days. Until this morning, the sun finally came out from behind the thick clouds and it cleared.

    When the sun hit the ground, in the town of Tucklin that was less than thirty kilometers from the border to the north of the Muerto Mountains in the Sack Kingdom had regained its lively appearance.

    Motorcades came from the Sack Kingdom in the north and at the same time, there were motorcades that came from the southern Muerto Mountains,ing from the distant Lampuri Kingdom.

    Countless people with the ents of the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom gathered in this town, instantly turning this town lively.

    Since four months ago when the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom reached their agreement, setting up the free trade area for both countries in Tucklin Town, during these four months, Tucklin Town had be very lively. It had changed from a small town to a prosperous city.

    Countless Sack Kingdom and Lampuri Kingdom merchants brought their goods here to to trade, driving the development of this town.

    In just four months, this small town had twenty restaurants pop up like mushrooms after the rain. At the same time, there were many people who lived near the town that had found chances to get rich from therge amount of work avable.

    Even the peasants of the surrounding viges had quickly changed their lives from providing vegetables to these restaurants.

    So whether it was the people of Tucklin Town or the farmers in the surrounding viges, they were very grateful to the two kingdoms reaching this deal.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the free trade area being set up here, how could they live suchfortable lives?

    It had to be known, because Tucklin Town was near the Muerto Mountains, it always suffered from the wars before. It had been one of the poorest towns in all of the Sack Kingdom.

    However, when some people saw Tucklin Town be prosperous, they would feel angry.

    The Hungry Wolf Regimentmander Chalon Linear was one of them.

    Every time he was pulled by his chief staff officer Ivy Joao to Tucklin Town, he would be very angry and even feel shame.

    To him, the more prosperous Tucklin Town became, the more shame he felt.

    Because the free trade area that this town represented was one that filled him with grief and indignation. It was the condition that the Sack Kingdom had been forced to ept by the Lampuri Kingdom to open this free trade area.

    The reason they had been forced was very simple, it was because the Sack Kingdom couldn¡¯t beat the Lampuri Kingdom on the battlefield.

    Or urately speaking, it was the Hungry Wolf Regiment that he led being unable to stop the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    For Chalon Linear who treated the Hungry Wolf Regiment as his life, this was the greatest shame.

    In the hundred of years before this, the Sack Kingdom always had the advantage when fighting the Lampuri Kingdom. But in the days that he had been given the post ofmander of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the Hungry Wolf Regiment had suffered losses during thest few years when facing the northern army.

    At the end ofst year and the beginning of this year, the Hungry Wolf Regiment had beenpletely shattered by the northern army and didn¡¯t even have the ability to fight back. They even allowed the northern army to enter the Sack Kingdom¡¯s territory, directly invading them. They had actually threatened Prime Star City that was a hundred kilometers away from the Muerto Mountains.

    In the six hundred years of history, this was the first time this situation had happened.

    After this matter, the Sack Kingdom had been shocked. The Hungry Wolf Regiment became something that everyone cursed and they thought that it waspletely because they weren¡¯t strong enough. The even said that he as themander shouldmit suicide to apologize.

    However, when the Sack Kingdom sent the other regiments to fight the northern army, all of them had been defeated without exception.

    So the Sack Kingdom finally understood that it wasn¡¯t the Hungry Wolf Regiment that was ipetent, but rather the northern army was too strong.

    The entire Sack Kingdom became worried at this.

    Everyone was worried that if the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to use their powerful army to invade the Sack Kingdom, would they be able to stop them?

    It was a good thing that at the most crucial moment, the Lampuri Kingdom side took the initiative to start the negotiations.

    Although it was very shameful being forced into peace talks, this was very good news for the Sack Kingdom.

    Not to mention that Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t give excessive requests this time, rather they requested that a free trade area be established between the two countries. They wanted both countries to trade normally and also requested the Sack Kingdom give up some of their mineral resources.

    This request wasn¡¯t directly taking them, but rather the Lampuri Kingdom side was using money to buy them. Although the price wasn¡¯t that high, it could still be considered a normal trade.

    So the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t hesitate at all as they directly epted the requests of the Lampuri Kingdom side.

    ¡°Those idiots in the kingdom parliament, they are just digging their graves!¡± Linear looked at the lively scene in Tucklin Town and angrily roared out, ¡°Could it be that those idiots can¡¯t see that the Lampuri Kingdom wants to use those useless magic machines to take the wealth and resources of our kingdom?¡±

    Ivy Joao on the side look at Linear before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Linear, I know that you are angry at and hate the Lampuri Kingdom, but if you want to call the magic machines useless, you would be deceiving yourself.¡±

    ¡°Could it be they aren¡¯t?¡± Linear slightly raised his voice, ¡°Those damn magic machines can¡¯t be eaten or drunken, what is the use in buying them? Ah?¡±

    Ivy Joao shook his head. He thought that because of Linear¡¯s deep hatred for the Lampuri Kingdom, he was very biased against the magic machines.

    ¡°Alright, even if you say those household magic machines are useless, you can¡¯t say those military magic machines are useless, right? Don¡¯t forget, we have beenpletely beaten by the northern army all those times, the reason for that are those damn military magic machines.¡±

    Linear¡¯s expression froze and after a while, he angrily spat on the snowy ground.

    ¡°Pei! If it wasn¡¯t for those damn military magic machines, how could the northern army beat us?¡±

    ¡°Although I don¡¯t think that the quality of the northern army is worse than our Hungry Wolf Regiment, if it wasn¡¯t for those military magic machines, they wouldn¡¯t be our match.¡± Joao gave a sigh, ¡°But the problem is that they do have those damn military magic machines. Moreover, they have more of them and they are even more powerful. Rather, we don¡¯t have anything at all.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s all the damn magic department! They said three years ago that they would develop some powerful military magic machines, but what have they developed up to this point? Other than the Magic Trebuchets that the northern army aren¡¯t even using anymore, in these three years, they haven¡¯t done a thing!¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t me the magic department since these things are tooplicated. They can¡¯t be developed in a short period of time.¡± Joao said with a sigh.

    ¡°Then how can the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop a new magic machine every so often? Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is stronger than all the magicians in our kingdom?¡± Linear asked back.

    Joao didn¡¯t know how to reply to this. After a while, he said with a bitter smile, ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is a genius.¡±

    Lineara cursed twice before suddenly thinking of something and lowering his voice to ask, ¡°Speaking of this, the military headquarters said a while ago that they had seeded? Why haven¡¯t they sent back any urate information yet?¡±

    Joao looked around before lowering his voice, ¡°ording to the information I received before, the person the headquarters sent has won his trust. They believe that we¡¯ll receive some valuable information soon.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Linear nodded, ¡°If we can have the same military magic machines as the Lampuri Kingdom, I will definitely properly beat those brats from the northern army.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Joao gave a nod before pointing forward, ¡°But before this, let¡¯s research what we should buy. My family wants me to buy a Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner back and my kid wants me to buy a Frestech Brand bicycle. What about you?¡±

    Linear looked at the half wing g that kept swaying in the cold breeze in front of him and a deep disgust appeared on his face as he gave a cold snort, ¡°I¡¯m going to drink,e and find me once you finish buying the things.¡±

    Seeing Linear bring several of his subordinates to a newly opened restaurant, Joao revealed a smile. He headed to the shops of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other famous Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies.

    When he came into the shop, he found that it was filled with people.

    Looking around, Joao had even noticed several acquaintances.

    It was clear that they were the same as Joao, their family members had instigated them to buy some of these easy to use household magic machines.

    Since the two kingdoms opened the free trade area, the various household magic machines of the Lampuri Kingdom had entered the Sack Kingdom. Right now, almost everyone in the Sack Kingdom had realized the convenience that these household magic machines brought.

    In just a few months, the household magic machines had created unrest in the Sack Kingdom/

    If a family didn¡¯t have a single household magic machine now, they would beughed at by their neighbours.

    Even Joao who was a soldier on the frontline was finally brought down by the requests of his family and was forced to buy these household magic machines.

    Actually, Joao didn¡¯t hate these household magic machines like Linear. Rather, he thought that these things were very easy to use and were very convenient.

    But he never had the time toe personally. Now that he had some free time, he decided to buy a bunch of them to send home.

    After walking around the store, Joao didn¡¯t even consider anything as he chose the Frestech Brand household magic machines and chose the free that he wanted.

    Whether it was the advertisements from the Lampuri Kingdom or the gossip between people, the Frestech Brand household magic machines were the best without equal.

    As the chief staff officer of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, naturally Joao had the finances to buy the best.

    After deciding on what he wanted to buy, Joao casually came to a small country in the store.

    This desk sold products that came from the Drake Duchy and the person in charge of receiving guests also came from the Drake Duchy.

    Joao looked over this counter for a bit before very casually asking, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that summer has already passed, I missed the chance to buy a Magic Fan.¡±

    The person in charge narrowed his eyes before revealing a smile, ¡°This customer, summer has passed, but buying a Magic Fan ahead of time is a good choice.¡±

    Joao looked around and met the gaze of the person in charge before both of them revealed understanding smiles.

 Volume 5 46 - Annual work report

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 46 Annual work report</h4>

    Although winter¡¯s arrival didn¡¯t affect the weather in the Stantine Duchy, the end of the year that was approaching did affect people a bit.

    For example, the workers that came from outside the Stantine Duchy, a year before the New Years vacation, had started preparing to head home to celebrate.

    Two years ago, the workers would all choose to ride the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce¡¯s public transport lines in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base in the Stantine Duchy to head home.

    Because the vehicles were limited and there was plenty of traffic, many people had to wait several days before they could leave. There were more people who just directly rode the transport Magic Cars to various ces.

    However, there was a good piece of news from thepany when December came.

    Sir chairman out of consideration of letting each worker go home easier, had reached a special agreement with the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce. Starting the middle of December, there would be special public transport Magic Cars that would go from the Stantine Duchy to various ces, specially used to take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers home.

    Moreover, this was treated as a benefit for the workers. This meant that if the workers chose to take the public transport home, they didn¡¯t need to pay the fare, it would be paid by thepany.

    When this news spread, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers cheered.

    Many workers talked about this in secret. They all felt happy about their decision in choosing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they couldn¡¯t helpughing at those who caused trouble with the strike, in the end causing eighteen thousand workers to be fired at once.

    ¡°Ha, ha, those idiots. I already said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much stronger and they had to cause trouble. Look at them now, they caused sir chairman to be angry and were chased out, how can they enjoy these benefits?¡±

    It didn¡¯t matter if these workers were engaging in schadenfreude, they were all very satisfied with the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced.

    Because of this, the workers had been very enthusiastic during this time and the productivity of all the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had increased, allowing them toplete several orders ahead of time.

    ¡°Ha, sir chairman, if we calcte it, our profits have increased by 13.7%, giving us profits of over seventy eight thousand gold coins. All we did was spend less than forty thousand gold coins on this benefit, so we earned quite a bit.¡± The financial manager Sebas looked at the financial report in his hand with an excited look.

    ¡°But it is only during this time. Once the workers return to normal, their level of productivity will also return to normal.¡± The household magic machine department manager Ankhto said.

    Xu Yi sitting in the main seat waved his hand, ¡°We implemented these benefits not to earn money, but to make it better for our workers. Therefore, earning more money is a good thing and it¡¯s normal if we earn nothing. Compared to this, we should be studying how to make our workers more enthusiastic and increase our normal productivity.¡±

    ¡°This.....isn¡¯t too realistic.¡± Heinz sitting on Xu Yi¡¯s right shook his head, ¡°The enthusiasm of the workers can onlyst a few days, it¡¯s impossible to maintain it for a long time.¡±

    The other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the room nodded, feeling that Heinz was correct.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The facts prove that the workers have the potential to work harder, but we haven¡¯t found the method yet. As for how we should increase the enthusiasm of the workers and raise their efficiency, this requires people like you who manage the factories to think of ideas.¡±

    Everyone revealed awkward looks, but they couldn¡¯t refute it as they knit their brows to think.

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll consider thister. Let¡¯s talk about the next topic.¡± Xu Yi gave a p and interrupted everyone¡¯s thoughts. He turned to look at Kennard and gave him a nod, ¡°Kennard, let¡¯s have you first give us the work report of ourpany this year.¡±

    Kennard agreed and stood up. He took the reports that he had already prepared and slowly spoke with a serious look on his face.

    Based on the report of the CEO Kennard, they could see that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had maintained their shocking level of development.

    In just a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started cooperating with five more countries and invested in seventeenrge household magic machine factories in those five countries.

    Adding in the sixty five household magic machine factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested in with the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Drake Duchy this year and the factories they built in the past two years, other than in the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had one hundred and fifty four household magic machine factories which they owned or jointly owned.

    These factories operated all year round, selling all the household magic machines they produced. Not only did it generaterge profits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it brought great benefits to the various countries.

    The most important thing for those countries was that in the factories they built with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of the workers were local workers. It had solved the problem of employment for those countries.

    With the existence of these factories, it also drove the economy of the surrounding areas and made the living conditions of the people there better.

    In short, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a happy cooperation with these countries. Each country wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest even more and deepen their cooperation.

    Speaking of this, Kennard paused to look at Xu Yi before continuing, ¡°Sir chairman, there are many countries that want to cooperate beyond just the household magic machines. For example, the Lampuri Kingdom has always wanted to set up a military magic machine factory with us. The Rudson Kingdom is very interested in the production magic machines. The other smaller countries are interested in investing in various other magic machines and the Magic Cars.¡±

    Xu Yi tapped his finger on the table a few times in thought before saying, ¡°In my name, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make an announcement. It is that ourpany will wee others to discuss cooperation with others in terms of production magic machines and other magic machines.¡±

    Kennard and the others looked at each other before nodding.

    Xu Yi already had this idea, so taking this chance to make this n wasn¡¯t something they were surprised by.

    One could imagine after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this, there would be countless merchants from various countries swarming here.

    Countless people already drooled over the various other magic machines and now that Xu Yi had finally agreed, they would definitely seize this chance.

    ¡°What about the military magic machines?¡± Kennard asked.

    ¡°The timing isn¡¯t right, there¡¯s no need to mention this.¡± Xu Yi casually said.

    ¡°Un.¡± Kennard nodded and didn¡¯t pursue this matter, continuing with the report.

    After talking about their cooperation with the various countries, it was time to talk about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s situation.

    Right now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had moved their household magic machine factories to the various other countries, so their main base only had their development institutions.

    Other than this, the main production of the base was concentrated on production magic machines and military magic machines.

    The most important thing was developing new magic machines.

    When Kennard reach this point, it was time for the magic research facility¡¯s chief Evita and the magic machine development center¡¯s manager Camby to report.

    The reports of these two were very simple, they just introduced the breakthroughs the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made this year.

    Compared to a few years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have that many breakthroughs and when it came to the new products, they had only finished the Magic IFVs.

    The various other projects were focused on improving their previous projects. There were many people who were already questioning if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could even develop new magic machines.

    Xu Yi gave a snort at these doubts.

    ¡°Less new products being developed means that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research into magic machines has reached a new level, which means that the magic machines are even moreplicated now. Naturally it would be harder for us to develop a new product. For example, we mainly focused on developing the Magic Boats this year. For such arge ship, if it was developed in just a year or even a few months, it would sink before it even left the dock!¡±

    Everyone in the conference room revealed smiles.

    With the appearance of the three giant transport Magic Ships, it didn¡¯t just subvert the ideas of others on ships. Even for these Frestech Chamber of Commerce insiders, when they saw the three giant Magic Ships being finished, they also found it a bit unbelievable.

    Suchrge ships, they never would have even been able to dream about them before.

    But these three ships had gone from the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Nissi City. They had navigated over five thousand kilometers and had spent less than a month, which had shocked everyone.

    It could be said that with the appearance of these threerge transport Magic Ships, they had even subverted the definition of sea transport on the Sines Continent.

    For things that had such shocking abilities, how could it be developed that casually?

    ¡°Chairman, actually if you request us to develop several of these new magic machines each year, it isn¡¯t like we can¡¯t do it.¡± Camby said in an unwilling voice.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°If you don¡¯t dy the progress of our main projects, you can develop small things in your free time. Naturally, if you dy our main projects, you can¡¯t me me for causing trouble with you.¡±

    Camby scratched his head, ¡°Then you just need to decide on each year¡¯s main project then.¡±

    ¡°This was what I was about to talk about. I¡¯ve already decided what this year¡¯s main research project will be.¡±

    Evita and Cambr immediately focused as they stared at Xu Yi.

 Volume 5 47 - Increasing budget

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 47 Increasing budget</h4>

    ¡°In the next year, our main project other than the Magic Boat will be the Magic Airship.¡±

    When Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, everyone¡¯s eyes had gathered in Evita.

    Everyone knew that Evita was responsible for developing the Magic Airship.

    Evita nodded, ¡°Sir chairman, I will do my best.¡±

    ¡°Not just do your best, I want to put in a specific request.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Evita, tell me, how has the development of the Magic Airship been going?¡±

    Evita was silent for a bit before replying, ¡°ording to the data, the maximum carrying weight of the Magic Airship is currently seventeen tons and thergest carrying capacity is thirty six cubic meters. The highest speed it can reach is seventy kilometers per hour and the longest continuous journey is over nine hundred and thirty kilometers.¡±

    Hearing Evita¡¯s report, the others all let out sighs of praise.

    Even if they didn¡¯t know much about the Magic Airship, based on the data that Evita reported, the Magic Airship was already in a very good ce.

    The most important thing was that the Magic Airship flew through the sky. Just based on this, it was much better than the Magic Cars and the Magic Boats.

    Sir chairman cing importance on the Magic Airship was clearly because of this.

    ¡°Un, that is still considered good.¡± Xu Yi nodded, but he didn¡¯t look that satisfied, ¡°But it still doesn¡¯t meet my requirements. Evita, I require it to fly over one thousand and five hundred kilometers continuously and it needs to reach a hundred kilometers an hour, can you do this?¡±

    ¡°A hundred kilometers per hour?¡± Everyone was stunned.

    Even the Magic Sedan with the newly developed Fire Magic Engine, the highest speed that it could reach was only eighty kilometers an hour.

    Sir chairman wanted the Magic Airship to reach over a hundred kilometers an hour, wasn¡¯t this requirement too high?

    Evita thought about it before a bit before giving a determined nod.

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Xu Yi was satisfied with this. He smiled as he had Evita sit down before turning to Camby, ¡°Evita is confident, what about you, Camby?¡±

    Camby gave a grin, ¡°As long as the magic research facility can create the blueprint, our magic machine development center doesn¡¯t have any problems.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled before having Kennard continue.

    Although everyone here was Frestech Chamber of Commerce upper management, they didn¡¯t know everything about thepany. Hearing Kennard¡¯s report now, they had an approximate understanding of thepany.

    They didn¡¯t know before, but once they did, everyone was surprised to find that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be such a giantpany without them noticing. Not only did they control the Stantine Duchy, they could greatly affect countries like the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom.

    This was something that even a first ss Lampuri Kingdompany would find hard to do.

    However, their surprise was just beginning. When Kennard finally had Sebas give the annual financial report, everyone¡¯s surprise had turned into shock.

    In the financial report that Sebas made, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned total profits of over ten million gold coins just from household magic machines alone.

    In terms of the applicable magic machines, just based on the construction magic machines and the Magic Cars, their profits were over six million gold coins.

    Then the production magic machines had brought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce profit of around one million and eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    Other than this, there were the bicycles, the cement, the fertilizer, and other products that had generated profits of over a million gold coins.

    If they added in the profit of four million gold coins from the five steel mills they had built this year, the profit for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in this year alone was a shocking twenty three million gold coins!

    This number was one that no one had ever thought of before.

    When it was time forst year¡¯s year end report, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit had just broken ten million.

    They never thought that in a single year, it would already more than double!

    This kind of development speed was just unbelievable!

    ¡°Sir chairman......we......In the Lampuri Kingdom, can we be considered a super first sspany?¡± After the room fell silent, Ankhto swallowed a mouthful of saliva and spoke with difficulty.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Heinz reprimanded before saying with a proud look, ¡°Thergestpany in the Lampuri Kingdom should be the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, it would be good if they made ten million gold coins each year. I dare say that ourpany in the Lampuri Kingdom is definitely thepany that earns the most money!¡±

    Seeing the excited looks on their faces, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Everyone, don¡¯t be happy too early. Indeed, ourpany is earning a lot of money right now, but we are farcking if we want topare to those oldpanies. After all, we have been established for a short period of time and don¡¯t have enough background.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, what aspect are you referring to?¡± Camby asked in a voice filled with doubt.

    ¡°Many aspects.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°If we want to catch those oldpanies or even follow the n and enter the Candra Empire,peting with those first sspanies of the continent, we need to strengthen many ces. Don¡¯t just look at how much money we earn, we also need to spend quite a bit of money.¡±

    Speaking of this, Xu Yi gave a strong p and had Sebas side down before continuing in a loud voice, ¡°We¡¯re done talking about the good parts of thepany, now we need to talk about the bad parts. Everyone can speak casually, let¡¯s talk about which parts of thepany still need to be improved. Don¡¯t be polite, just speak casually.¡±

    Everyone nkly looked at each other.

    After being silent for a bit, Evita was the first to raise her hand.

    ¡°Un, Evita, you can speak first.¡±

    Evita nodded before saying with a serious look, ¡°Sir chairman, I hope that ourpany can continue recruiting magicians into the magic research facility. It would be best if we could recruit more high level magicians because the level of power needed for therge scale magic machines are increasing. Low grade arrays will no longer work, so we need high level magicians with high level arrays to contribute to these projects.¡±

    ¡°Good, this is a very good suggestion. If possible, I want to recruit some Great Magicians into the magic research facility. If possible, I even want to find some Arch Magi.¡±

    Everyone nkly looked at each other again.

    Was sir chairman dreaming?

    Great Magicians had high positions in many countries, why would theye and join apany?

    As for Arch Magi? Those were top level people of the Candra and Marlow Empires, how could theye and work as researchers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to have an Arch Magus like Cami and three Great Magicians like Teli, Juna, and the halfling Lumi was already considered one of a kind on the continent. Xu Yi still wanted more, this was simply a fool¡¯s dream.

    But thinking about it, even Xu Yi was a Great Magician, which was rarely seen in thepanies of the continent, so this idea wasn¡¯t that unreasonable.

    Evita was very confident in Xu Yi, so she nodded with a smile in approval to Xu Yi¡¯s answer.

    With Evita starting, the others let out their worries and all turned to Xu Yi.

    Butpared to Evita¡¯s request for high level magicians, the requests of the others were much more simple.

    In short, they all wanted one thing, money.

    So after calcting all the requests of these people, the financial manager Sebas had reached a number.

    ¡°Sir chairman, to solve all these problems, thepany needs to invest at least five million gold coins next year.¡±

    Everyone was shocked.

    They didn¡¯t know if they didn¡¯t calcte, but once they did, they found that their requests actually cost this much money.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all. He pointed at Evita and Camby with a smile as he said, ¡°Increase the budget of the magic research facility and the magic machine development center by 30%. Thepany will have higher development requests in the next two years, so we need to increase our technological research.¡±

    No one objected to this.

    Xu Yi always had a strict requirement for research, so he had never spared in investing in it.

    The magic research facility and the magic machine development center were two very special departments, their positions were higher than the other departments.

    However, no oneined about the things they received and how much importance Xu Yi ced in them.

    After everyone stopped, Xu Yi suddenly pointed at the far end of the table.

    ¡°Other than this, we¡¯ll increase thepany guards¡¯ budget by five times.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Everyone including the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard captain Hart who had never said a word in this meeting all had wide eyes as they revealed looks of disbelief.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ budget was already considered big. ording to the financial report Sebas had made earlier, the budget of the guards for next year was already three hundred thousand gold coins. That budget had already surpassed the budget any otherpany cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave their guards.

    But Xu Yi now said that he wanted to increase it by five times, that was one and a half million gold coins!

    God! The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit this year being over twenty million was considered good, but to invest one and a half million on the guards, this wasn¡¯t that much lesspared to the military budget of the Rudson Kingdom or the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s armies.

    Sir chairman......What did he want to do?

 Volume 5 48 - Island development

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 48 Ind development</strong>

    Ragsar was on the light sand beach of Thunderbolt Ind, enjoying the warm sun that only the southern seas would have while starting off into the sea to the north in a daze.

    The water would hit the sand in waves from time to time, spraying over his feet, but he didn¡¯t feel cold at all.

    When the waves retreated, there would be white bubbles left on the sand that was like the bubbles in a bottle of beer.

    Ragsar licked his lip and remembered the delicious beer that he had already finished in his house.

    This beer was brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleetst time, mixed among the goods that they had given the Thunderbolt Pirates. He had taken it all for himself without any courtesy.

    However, no matter how good the alcohol, it would be finished eventually.

    If he wanted to drink that good alcohol again, it was impossible to do so on Thunderbolt Ind. The only way to do it was to head to shore and buy it from Nissi City.

    But ording to information he received, the Rudson Kingdom had added the Thunderbolt Pirates to the wanted list a long time ago and released a portrait of him as the Thunderbolt Pirate captain. As long as he went to shore, he would be faced with the fate of being captured and beheaded.

    So Ragsar could only stay on Thunderbolt Ind, watching the distant sea in a daze and waiting for the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet.

    Last time, themander of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet named Narvil had said before leaving, if nothing unexpected happened, they would bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet around regrly. Moreover, the Frestech Chamber ofmerce might even include Thunderbolt Ind in their development n.

    Ragsar had seen how terrifying their fleet was and had asked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through his channels, so he knew the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was one of the toppanies in the surrounding countries. So he was very confident in them and was filled with hope.

    But Narvil had been gone for four months and there hadn¡¯t been any news so far.

    Ragsar had been waiting day by day and he was filled with more and more despair.

    ¡°Damn, could it be that I was yed by that fellow named Narvil?¡± Thinking of this, Ragsar spat onto the sad and cursed in a low voice.

    ¡°Captain, who were you yed by?¡± There was the sound of feet stepping on the sand that came from behind. It was the Thunderbolt Pirates¡¯ vice captain Drom who came to Ragsar¡¯s side.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it that bunch from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Ragsar cursed out, ¡°They clearly said that they wanted to develop our Thunderbolt Ind, but they still aren¡¯t back now. Aren¡¯t they ying me?¡±

    Drom looked at Ragsar in surprise.

    ¡°Captain, I thought that you were thinking about something since you didn¡¯t say anything, but you were just waiting for them toe back.¡± Drom shook his head, ¡°Captain, you are an old pirate, do you not know that you shouldn¡¯t trust what those merchants say? That Narvil made it sound good, but they were just deceiving us in the end. If it was me, since we are just pirates, we shouldn¡¯t think too much and just go about our original business.¡±

    Ragsar gave a sigh, ¡°Of course I know this, but being a pirate isn¡¯t a good thing. Being able to give everyone a chance to work for money, of course I want to grab it.¡±

    Drom was silent for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Captain, I know that you were thinking about us, but this time you might be thinking too much.¡±

    Ragsar looked at the distant sea for a while before shaking his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Indeed, I was thinking too much.¡±

    He patted his butt after saying this and stood up, turning to head back to the ind.

    Drom was suddenly surprised, ¡°Captain, what are you doing?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, of course we¡¯re preparing to go to sea and do our business......¡±

    Before he could finish, Ragsar turned around and was stunned. He looked behind Drom in a daze with a look of disbelief.

    Drom suddenly reacted and quickly turned to look into the distant sea, seeing several ck dots quickly approach.

    Not long after, the ck dots turned into several boats on the sea.

    Although they were still far away, Drom could tell from the outline of the ships that they were exactly the same as the three giant ships that hade to Thunderbolt Indst time!

    There were threest time, but this time there were seven of them!

    And other than these sevenrge ships that were sailing on the ocean like small mountains, there were over twenty smaller Magic Ships around them.

    Of course, while they were small, that was only when they werepared to the seven giant Magic Ships.

    Actually, these twenty ships alone were all several times bigger than the ships the Thunderbolt Pirates used!

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, they.....they¡¯re actually back!¡±

    Drom looked at the ships quickly approaching in the distance in a daze and after a while, he turned back to Ragsar.

    ¡°Captain, this.....I.....What do we do?¡±

    ¡°What do we do?¡± Ragsar was stunned for a second before angrily saying, ¡°What are you talking about? What are you in a daze for, quickly call everyone out for me and prepare to wee the guests!¡±

    ¡°Oh, yes, yes......¡± Drom quickly replied before charging ind.

    But when he went halfway, he found that there was a bunch of people who came over, who were the ind residents.

    Seeing them excitedly pointing into the distance and cheering, Drom understood that it wasn¡¯t just him and Ragsar who noticed the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet.

    After around ten minutes, the seven giant Magic Ships and the twenty smaller Magic Ships approached the Thunderbolt Ind coast at the same time.

    Likest time, because of the shallow waters, these Magic Ships couldn¡¯t fully approach the coast and chose to stop several hundred meters from the coast.

    There were ten small Magic Speed Boats which Ragsar had ridden before that came from those Magic Ships. Several dozen people were on them as they quickly came towards the coast.

    When these Magic Speed Boats came near the ind, the one leading them was Narvil.

    Seeing Ragsar in the distance, Narvil waved his hand with a bit smile.

    ¡°Captain Ragsar, long time no see.¡±

    Ragsar looked at the magnificent fleet in the distance and took a deep breath beforeing forward.

    ¡°Captain Narvil, you really made me wait a long time.¡±

    Narvil revealed a faint smile. He could tell from the expression of the pirate captain that he had sincerely been waiting for his arrival.

    But thinking about it, it did seem right.

    Pirates might sound imposing, but their lives weren¡¯t good at all.

    Not mentioning being on the seas all day, they might lose their lives at any time.

    If they really couldn¡¯t make a living, no one would be willing to be a pirate.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had settled on Thunderbolt Ind and wanted to develop it, it gave the Thunderbolt Pirates a good chance to improve their lives. It would be strange if Ragnar wasn¡¯t happy to ept this.

    Thinking of this, Narvil didn¡¯t waste words. He waved his hand and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that came with him took out the goods that had been prepared on the small Magic Speed Boats.

    ¡°Captain Ragsar, this is a small gift, we ask the friends of the ind to ept this.¡±

    Looking over the goods that had wine in it, Ragsar couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva before nodding and calling the inders toe help.

    The inders already couldn¡¯t wait and they all charged over with a cheer.

    Narvil didn¡¯t care about those goods and pulled Ragsar to the side, saying with a serious look, ¡°Captain Ragsar, I¡¯m here to officially tell you that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has included this Thunderbolt Ind in our development n. So starting now, you just have to coordinate with our development n, understood?¡±

    Narvil¡¯s tone of giving an order made Ragsar knit his brows, but then he rxed them and nodded with a smile.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce was countless times stronger than this small Thunderbolt Pirates. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted, they couldpletely destroy the Thunderbolt Pirates and take Thunderbolt Ind.

    The fact that they wanted to cooperate with him was already benevolent enough.

    ¡°Un, then captain Narvil, what do we need to do?¡± Ragsar asked.

    Seeing that Ragsar was respectful and looked like he was going to obey, Narvil gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to do anything, we just need to rearrange the people on the ind, we¡¯ll just have the people sent by ourpany handle this. Other than that, we have other arrangements for your Thunderbolt Pirates.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Ragsar was a bit surprised.

    He had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only wanted Thunderbolt Ind, they wouldn¡¯t care about their Thunderbolt Pirates.

    ¡°Just wait a bit.¡±

    Narvil had Ragsar wait as he went over to a small Magic Speed Boat. He talked with a person before the two of them came back together.

    ¡°Let me introduce this person, this is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet guardmander, sir Leslie.¡±

    Seeing how respectful Narvil was to this person named Leslie, Ragsar didn¡¯t dare be negligent as he gave Leslie a respectful bow.

    ¡°Ragsar greets sir Leslie.¡±

    Leslie looked over Ragsar with a smile. Seeing that he was strong, with an astute look in his respectful expression, he gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°Ragsar, call your brothers of the Thunderbolt Pirates ande with me.¡±

    ¡°Ah? We¡¯re heading out? Where?¡± Ragsar asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°We¡¯re going to clean up the fellows around who don¡¯t follow the rules.¡±

 Volume 5 49 - I am the man who wants to be the pirate king

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 49 I am the man who wants to be the pirate king</h4>

    Three dayster, Ragsar was on the deck of the guards¡¯ medium Magic Ship and looking at the smoking ind behind them. He felt that everything that was in front of him didn¡¯t seem real.

    This small ind was the nest of the strongest band of pirates in the area, the Death God Pirates!

    Even if the Death God Pirates¡¯ boss pirate king South Craig had already been caught and beheaded by the Rudson Kingdom, this didn¡¯t really affect the strength of the Death God Pirates.

    In the surrounding area, the Death God Pirates had relied on therge fleet of seventy six boats under them, as well as the two thousand pirates to move unhindered with no one daring to stop them.

    When Leslie told Ragsar that he wanted to take care of the Death God Pirates, Ragsar had thought that Leslie was crazy.

    He only had ten medium Magic Ships, he wanted to fight the Death God Pirates?

    But facts made Ragsar unable to believe his eyes.

    When facing these powerful medium Magic Ships, the Death God Pirates with their seventeen boats that had been arrogant didn¡¯t have a chance to fight back at all.

    From beginning to end, these ships couldn¡¯t even approach the medium Magic Ship.

    They had been several hundred meters away, even reaching a thousand meters, but the medium Magic Ships directly attacked. The terrifying Magic Cannons on board shot out Magic Rockets and urately hit the targets several hundred meters away.

    The Death God Pirates were steamrolled.

    With just a single round of shots, there was arge hole that appeared in the giant ship of the Death God Pirates.

    Then with two more rounds, the Death God Piratespletely copsed and sunk to the bottom of the sea.

    In the end, the Death God Pirates had sent out all their ships and pirates, but they couldn¡¯t even touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet before they werepletely annihted.

    Ragsar had been a pirate for over twenty years and had been on the sea for a long time, experiencing countless bloody battles, but this was his first time seeing a battle like this.

    They didn¡¯t even get to start the most basic parts ofbat before the fight had already ended.

    Moreover, their victory was even more shocking.

    The Death God Pirates with seventy six ships had lost all their ships without a single exception, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet didn¡¯t suffer a single loss.

    This disparity was so big that it seemed like a miracle.

    However, Ragsar had experienced this battle and was clear that this wasn¡¯t a miracle. It was all because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was too strong.

    With the might of the medium Magic Ships they had, Ragsar didn¡¯t think that anyone could resist.

    Or it could even be said that whenpared to the pirates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was like a fleet from another world. The methods ofbat between the two weren¡¯t even the same.

    The pirates were stuck under the attack of the rockets. Their final decision would be to charge forward and attack the fleet, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet didn¡¯t give them the chance to approach before easily taking care of them.

    Not to mention the seventy six boats under the Death God Pirates, even if it was seven hundred and sixty boats, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be a match for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    What made Ragsar feel even more despair at was the quick speed of the medium Magic Boats. They were at least four to five times faster than the wooden boats.

    Moreover, for these medium Magic Ships, it didn¡¯t matter if they were with the wind or against the wind. No matter what the situation was, they could maintain this kind of high speed.

    With this difference in speed, no matter how many pirates there were, they couldn¡¯t catch them at all.

    And because of this overwhelming speed advantage, even if the pirates wanted to run, they still wouldn¡¯t be able to escape.

    Leslie had told Ragsar that he wanted topletely eliminate the Death God Pirates before the battle and Ragsar had only treated it as a joke.

    But after witnessing the entire battle, Ragsar could only be stunned. There was nothing he could say in response to this.

    ¡°Alright, Ragsar, now that thergest Death God Pirates are taken care of, what other dangerous pirate groups are there? Tell me about them.¡± Leslie put down the telescope in his hand as he spoke to Ragsar.

    Ragsar turned to look at Leslie in a daze. He wanted tough, but he couldn¡¯tugh.

    What other dangerous pirate groups were there?

    What a joke! The Death God Pirates copsed with a single hit, how could the other pirate groups be dangerous?

    Leslie could see what Ragsar was thinking, so he said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m saying dangerous, but I don¡¯t mean danger to us, but rather I don¡¯t want to see these fellows hurt the development of Thunderbolt Ind. So my task this time is to take care of these threats, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Ragsar gave a bitterugh before shaking his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think there¡¯s this need. Now that you¡¯ve easily taken care of the Death God Pirates, in this area, everyone recognizes you as the boss. There¡¯s no pirate crew who would be blind enough to offend you. As long as you said that Thunderbolt Ind is your domain, I dare to say that it would be without a doubt safe.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡± Leslie gave a shrug, looking a bit disappointed, ¡°It really is a pity, I thought that I could find some pirates to get some practice. Those Death God Pirates couldn¡¯t resist at all, it really isn¡¯t satisfying at all.¡±

    Ragsar¡¯s face twitched a few times.

    The Death God Pirates couldn¡¯t resist? They wanted to resist, but you easily crush them, alright!

    ¡°That.....Sir Leslie, can I ask you a question?¡± Ragsar suddenly said.

    ¡°Ask.¡±

    ¡°Sir Leslie, since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has such a powerful fleet, why did youe looking for us pirates? If you¡¯re this strong, can¡¯t you do anything? Why would you waste time here?¡±

    Leslie patted Ragsar¡¯s shoulder with a smile.

    ¡°That problem you should ask that fellow Xu Yi, don¡¯t ask me. I¡¯m just in charge of leading this fleet to open the path of exploration for him, I don¡¯t care about anything else. But if you¡¯re really curious, I can tell you that that fellow Xu Yi doesn¡¯t care about you pirates, he cares about the resources on the sea. For example, there is an iron ore mine on your Thunderbolt Ind, that is what Xu Yi cares about the most.¡±

    ¡°Resources? Iron mine?¡± Ragsar was in thought for a bit before suddenly looking down at the deck under him and understanding, ¡°I understand. Not mentioning anything else, just thisrge ship alone was made with quite a bit of iron......¡±

    Leslie revealed a faint smile. This ship wasn¡¯t just made with arge amount of iron, there were many other resources.

    The most important thing was that this medium Magic Ship represented the peak research of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in building ships, it was not an issue that could just be solved with resources.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t need to tell Ragsar about these things.

    Leslie used the telescope to look at the small ind in the distance. He found that the Death God Pirates were trying to steal small boats to escape the ind.

    Seeing how ugly these pirates acted during danger, Leslie couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    If it was his idea, he would havepletely destroyed these pirates and not left a single one.

    These fellows had done countless merciless things as pirates, so Leslie didn¡¯t have any sympathy towards them.

    Actually, even Ragsar who was standing on the deck, Leslie didn¡¯t want to cooperate with him at all.

    If he didn¡¯t need someone familiar with the surrounding oceans guiding him, Leslie might have immediately few Ragsar and his Thunderbolt Pirates to the fishes.

    His thoughts changed and Leslie¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change as he asked Ragsar, ¡°Ragsar, are there any sea charts of the surrounding area?¡±

    Ragsar shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid not. We pirates rely on our memories to remember the positions of the inds.

    ¡°Un, alright, then take me around the area. Take me to all the inds within two hundred kilometers of Thunderbolt Ind.¡±

    ¡°Two hundred kilometers?¡± Ragsar looked at Leslie in surprise, thinking that this fellow was crazy.

    Two hundred kilometers wasn¡¯t much onnd, but in these turbulent seas, it was vast and boundless.

    To go around all the inds in this area, this was a project that was iparably big and unable toplete.

    ¡°Oh, my words do have a problem. I don¡¯t need to go to all the inds, I just need to see the bigger inds, especially the ones with resources. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Leslie said.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Ragsar gave a sigh of relief. He quickly thought about the nearby seas and filtered out all the inds that fit these conditions, ¡°As far as I know, there are twenty inds bigger than Thunderbolt Ind in the surrounding areas. As for whether they have the resources you want on them.....I¡¯m not too certain.¡±

    ¡°Good, take me to those twenty inds first. After we finish exploring them, we¡¯ll start exploring out to the east.¡±

    ¡°To the east?¡± Ragsar was surprised, ¡°Sir Leslie, you¡¯ll be leaving the area of the Rudson Kingdom if you keep going east and entering the seas of the Candra Empire. You.....¡±

    ¡°What? Is there a problem?¡± Leslie asked back.

    Ragsar quickly shook his head, ¡°No problem, no problem. It¡¯s just that the Candra Empire sea area is more than ten times bigger than our Rudson Kingdom sea area. The pirates there are more than ten times stronger than the Death God Pirates, I¡¯m worried......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing to worry about.¡± Leslie waved his hand, ¡°I am the man who will be the king of the pirates. No matter which pirate group blocks my way, they will only have a path to death!¡±

    Ragsar looked at the confident Leslie. This fellow looked to be around thirty years old, but why did he speak like a hot blooded young man in his teens?

 Volume 5 50 - Various competitions

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 50 Variouspetitions</h4>

    It was another spring that came.

    When April came, Banta City once again turned lively.

    Because it was time for the annual Banta City spring bicycle race. There were many people who lived riding bicycles that came from all over.

    These people not only came from Banta City, they came from the other cities and many people even came from other countries.

    What was most exaggerated was that there werepetitors that came from the Norton Duchy that was over two thousand kilometers away.

    Although since the February of this year, because of the road built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce reaching the Norton Duchy and because they connected to the road system between the Rudson Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom, the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce created a super long public transport system from the Lampuri Kingdom to the Norton Duchy that made things very convenient.

    This was a journey that was over a thousand and five hundred kilometers. So even if they took the public transport Magic Car the entire time, it took them close to three days toe here.

    The reporters of the ?Banta Times? received this news and specially interviewed these contestants who came from afar.

    In response to the questions from the reporters, thispetitor from the Norton Duchy said that when he heard the news from Banta City that there would be a professional organization holding bicycle races, that had be his dream.

    No matter how far the journey was, he had to participate.

    When this report was published in the ?Banta Times?, passing through the Lampuri Kingdom and the various other countries, people became even more enthusiastic.

    The people in Banta City surged for a time and it became very crowded, even being several times more livelypared to usual.

    But after several races, for the people of Banta City, the bicycle race that was held twice a year was like a festival for them.

    The City Lord Manor even cooperated with thispetition. At this time each year, they would have all thepanies give three days vacation so people could participate in the festival as much as possible.

    And this year¡¯s bicycle race was much more eye catchingpared to before.

    Because ording to the news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced in the ?Banta Times?, after half a year of preparations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be holding the professional race circuit after the spring bicycle race with the seven bicycle producingpanies.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the seven bicyclepanies would each organize a professional team to participate, fighting for the championship.

    ording to the rules announced, this race circuit would begin after the spring bicycle race and end before the autumn bicycle race that was held every year before October. The time would be half a year.

    For now, the circuit would be holding eight races in eight cities of the Lampuri Kingdom. Each race would have a winner and would give points ording to their rankings in the race. In the final championship, the rankings would be determined by how many points they had received during the circuit.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that starting next year, this circuit would very likely be holding races in the cities of countries other than the Lampuri Kingdom, while also expanding the scale of thepetition.

    But for the normal citizens, it wasn¡¯t the rules of the race that they cared about, but rather the prizes.

    Last year, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this, they had said that it was very likely the winners of the circuit would receive fifty thousand gold coins which had shocked everyone then.

    But this year when they had confirmed the event, the prize money that had been announced made people unable to believe their eyes.

    A hundred thousand gold coins!

    The person who won the championship would be receiving at least a hundred thousand gold coins!

    Almost everyone had held their breath the moment they had heard this number.

    God, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is crazy!

    A hundred thousand gold coins!

    What kind of a concept was this!

    It had to be known, a hundred thousand gold coins would be enough for a family to live a life of never caring about money again.

    A hundred thousand gold coins was already the annual ie for some of the smaller cities of the Lampuri Kingdom!

    Even though the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done many crazy things, seeing this terrifying reward money, everyone felt that they could smell the smell of craziness.

    Perhaps it was because of this reward that most people focused their attention on the uing racing circuit. Rather, many people¡¯s interest in the spring bicycle race had decreased.

    However, the announcements of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies in the ?Banta Times? had brought everyone¡¯s attention back to this race.

    In the statement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other sevenpanies had stated that the spring race was the first event of the Frestech Bicycle Circuit. Their eightpanies would all pay attention to thepetitors who did well and chose outstanding members from among them to join their teams.

    ording to the news from the eightpanies, once they became a professional cycler by joining one of the eight teams, they would receive at least five hundred gold coins in wages each year and would even earnpetition prize money.

    Calcting it, even if they couldn¡¯t get the terrifying hundred thousand gold coins, it wouldn¡¯t be hard to earn several thousand gold coins each year.

    When this news was spread, everyone¡¯s enthusiasm towards participating in the spring race increased again.

    This time was different from before. If you performed well in this race, you might be able to enter a professional racing team and be a professional race, receiving a generous sry.

    So the atmosphere was different from the otherpetitions. Everyone was focused on trying to obtain a good position and win a spot on the professional racing team, so thepetitive spirit was very intense.

    In this intense atmosphere, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced another piece of news through the ?Banta Times?, which was inevitably ignored by everyone.

    This news was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on building a racing track outside of Banta City to hold Magic Sedan races.

    This racing track had already been built in the Stantine Duchy for over a year and was very popr there, but this was the first time it appeared in Lampuri Kingdom, so it didn¡¯t attract that much attention.

    Other than this, there was another main problem. Compared to a bicycle that only cost several dozen gold coins, with even the most professional bicycle only costing a hundred gold coins, even the cheapest Magic Sedan cost over a thousand gold coins. So it was out of the reach of normal people.

    So the Magic Sedan was another world for most normal people, it wasn¡¯t rted to them. Naturally the Magic Sedan races wouldn¡¯t attract their attention.

    Of course, even if normal people didn¡¯t care, that didn¡¯t mean others didn¡¯t.

    Since the firstunch of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan, it had now been two years and there were over seventy three thousand Magic Sedans that had been sold.

    Although it was insignificantpared to the millions of bicycles that were sold, this wasn¡¯t considered a small number.

    Just in the Lampuri Kingdom, there were over forty thousand Frestech Brand Magic Sedans sold.

    In Banta City, there were over fifteen thousand Magic Sedans.

    The reason for this was on one hand because the Magic Sedans were firstunched in Banta City, so they were quickly epted.

    On the other hand, because Banta City¡¯s economic development had been driven by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than the normal merchants, there were many citizens that had be much richer.

    Take old man Sarkozy who had been transporting goods for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the years. He had been a normal farmer before, but because he transported goods for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies, he had umted over five thousand gold coins.

    Justst year, old man Sarkozy took out one thousand and five hundred gold coins to buy the new line of Magic Sedan from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    And this was just one example.

    In Banta City, there were countless people like old man Sarkozy who had be rich through their own efforts over the years.

    The Magic Sedan for many people of Banta City wasn¡¯t that unobtainable.

    Of course, buying a Magic Sedan and qualifying for the Magic Sedan race were two different things.

    For people like old man Sarkozy, the magic Sedan was something that they could afford, but it was very expensive and they weren¡¯t willing to damage it.

    To take it out for apetition, there would certainly be idents, so normal people couldn¡¯t afford to y with it.

    So like this, the only people who were interested in the Magic Sedan races were those with good financial conditions, so they wouldn¡¯t feel pained even if they broke a Magic Sedan or two.

    At the same time, these people had plenty of free time, having plenty of energy and power to prepare for the Magic Sedan races.

    After all these conditions were filtered out, there really weren¡¯t that many people left.

    In mBanta City, there were less than fifty people who decided to participate in this Magic Sedan race.

    Among these forty people, all of them were ¡°rich second generations¡± fromrge merchant or noble families.

    Baron Belil who was one of the few who survived of the Stagg Family was one of those people.

 Volume 5 51 - Taking the high end road

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 51 Taking the high end road</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu,st time you promised me.....that new type Fire Engine Magic Sedan, what is going on now? This time.....Oh, no, wasn¡¯t it supposed toe outst month?¡±

    Seeing Baron Belil who had a nervous look, but still had a trace of respect in his eyes, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He thought that worldly matters really were hard to predict.

    The first time he saw this Baron Belil, he hade to Banta City on behalf of the Stagg Family. He had reced Viscount Leslie in managing the Stagg Family¡¯snd in Banta City and the first thing he did was chase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of his territory.

    Baron Belil had been so arrogant before and always looked down on Xu Yi when he saw him, as if he didn¡¯t ce Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in his eyes at all.

    However, after four years, the Stagg Family had disappeared in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war and had turned into history.

    If it wasn¡¯t because of Leslie that Xu Yi had made a request to Seveni, the Stagg Family would only have had a path of death.

    There were only a few people left in the giant Stagg Family now, in the line of direct session, other than Leslie, there was only Baron Belil.

    Seveni out of respect for Xu Yi had not only left Baron Belil¡¯s surname, she had even left him his title and his small territory outside of Banta City.

    This meant thatpared to before, without the influence of the destruction of the Stagg Family, Baron Belil¡¯s life didn¡¯t change from before.

    At the same time, with Leslie¡¯s special request, Xu Yi had given Baron Belil a way out. He had let him cooperate with the magic machinepanies of Banta City, earning him several tens of thousands of gold coins each year, which gave him a decent life.

    Of course,pared to when they first met, when Baron Belil saw Xu Yi now, he didn¡¯t act arrogant at all. Rather, he had be respectful and even asionally ttered him.

    ¡°There¡¯s no hope this month, but if everything goes smoothly, the experiment should be a sess next month.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he replied.

    ¡°It¡¯s still next month?¡± Baron Belil¡¯s face was filled with disappointment, ¡°I even bragged to those fellows that I would get your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new Magic Sedan this month, the one that can even reach a hundred kilometers an hour.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Rx, as long as the new Magic Sedan is developed, I will give the first one to you, so you can have some face in front of those fellows. How about it?¡±

    Baron Belil nodded with a smile, ¡°Un, un. Chairman Xu, you have always been kind, I understand that. But.....if it can be a bit faster, I hope it can be as fast as possible.¡±

    After saying this, Baron Belil mysteriously looked around beforeing to Xu Yi¡¯s side, lowering his voice, ¡°His majesty prince Frank is also very interested in this new Magic Sedan.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s brows raised, ¡°His majesty Frank also knows about this?¡±

    Baron Belil gave augh, looking very confident.

    ¡°I wrote to him before, specially telling him about the advantages of this Magic Sedan. Prince Frank¡¯s reply was that he was very interested in this and even asked me if I could get one for him.¡±

    Xu Yi slowly nodded. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°Belil, respond to his highness Frank. If he is interested in the Magic Sedan, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to give him a newest Magic Sedan for free. If he is interested in power, when we develop the new Fire Engine Magic Sedan next month, we can also give him one for free as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°For free?¡± Baron Belil had an envious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, can you also give me one? Hei, hei, your newest Magic Sedan will cost several thousand gold coins and my funds are a bit tight right now, hei, hei.....¡±

    Xu Yi calmly looked at him.

    ¡°If you can get his highness Frank to take ourpany¡¯s present, there¡¯s no problem in giving you two new Fire Engine Magic Sedans.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Baron Belil¡¯s expression became bitter, ¡°The emperor has strict demands of the princess, they aren¡¯t allowed to ept the presents of others, not to mention those of merchants. His highness Frank also has many scruples on this, so this request might not......¡±

    ¡°If you can do it, I¡¯ll give you one, otherwise there¡¯s nothing to talk about.¡± Xu Yi directly cut Baron Belil off.

    Baron Belil gave a bitterugh. He just walked around in a few circles while muttering under his breath.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile before reminding him, ¡°Belil, I¡¯m not telling you that his highness Frank has to take a Magic Sedan for free. I just need him to have a Magic Sedan, I don¡¯t care how he gets it, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Baron Belil suddenly stopped as his eyes lit up, ¡°Really?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    Baron Belil instantly became excited as he gave augh. His mind turned before he said in a loud voice, ¡°That¡¯s much easier! Chairman Xu, if I help you with this matter, can you.....¡±

    ¡°No problem, I¡¯ll keep the promise that I just made.¡±

    ¡°Good!¡± Baron Belil was afraid that Xu Yi would go back on his promise, but he immediately replied, ¡°Chairman Xu, you just wait for my good news!¡±

    Watching Baron Belil happily walk off, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head.

    This Baron Belil had no talent, but there was something about him that was important to Xu Yi. It was that his aunt had married into the Candra Empire, marrying a Lord Count of the Candra Empire.

    And the daughter that his aunt gave birth to, who was Belil¡¯s cousin, had caught the eye of the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince, Frank Deboir, who took her for his princess.

    So this meant that Baron Belil was actually rted to the Candra Empire¡¯s prince. These two even exchanged letters, being on quite good terms.

    When Leslie left for sea for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had told Xu Yi about Baron Belil¡¯s rtion which Xu Yi immediately used.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working hard on opening the Candra Empire market. Even if they had opened the door with ambassador Hakanin, if they could create a rtionship with one of the princes, that would without a doubt help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce open the market in the Candra Empire.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect his highness Frank to really care about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce since the gap between the two was too big.

    So he just wanted his highness Frank to be interested in magic machines. As long as he could ept magic machines and even use them, then with him as a model, the magic machines would quickly be popr in the Candra Empire.

    The other magic machines might not be able to move prince Frank who lived in superior conditions since he was young, but the Magic Sedans that were far above the horse carriages was something that Xu Yi was certain that he would be interested in.

    His highness Frank wasn¡¯t thirty years old yet, so he was still a young man.

    A man of this age, how could he not be interested in racing cars?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how Baron Belil would get prince Frank to take a Magic Sedan, but as long as prince Frank had a Magic Sedan, then with the attraction that it had, Xu Yi was confident that the Magic Sedan would quickly spread across the noble circle of the Candra Empire. It would let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce officially enter the eyes of the Candra Empire¡¯s upper strata.

    If the normal household magic machines were the low end route, then with the expensive Magic Sedans, Xu Yi was walking the high end route.

    With both methods aimed at the same goal, he didn¡¯t believe that the magic machines wouldn¡¯t be able to sell in the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you have such a happy smile, could it be that you formed a rtionship with prince Frank through Baron Belil?¡± There was a voice that came from behind Xu Yi.

    Turning around to look, he saw that it was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise.

    Compared to Xu Yi¡¯s confident smile, chairman Cruise¡¯s smile was a bit forced and one could see a bit of regret.

    Xu Yi could naturally understand where this regret came from.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sale of the roads didn¡¯t attract the attention of any high level members in the Candra Empire. Even if some people had asked about this, the roads couldn¡¯t bring in any concrete ie, so no one kept asking about them.

    There had been no change after several months, so the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attempt at entering the Candra Empire could be considered a failure.

    They weren¡¯t able to open the Candra Empire market as nned, it was no wonder chairman Cruise¡¯s expression didn¡¯t look good.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be considered that yet, but the problem shouldn¡¯t be big.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°What? You still haven¡¯t made any progress?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a sigh, ¡°Yes. I really don¡¯t understand, small countries like our Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Mirando Duchy can understand the importance of roads, but why can¡¯t arge empire like the Candra Empire see this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because the Candra Empire is too big, so they can¡¯t understand the benefits of the road. When our Lampuri Kingdom built the roads back then, didn¡¯t we also run into a wall at first? If it wasn¡¯t for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking the initiative to invest in roads, the people of the Lampuri Kingdom still wouldn¡¯t have been able to recognize the benefits.¡±

    ¡°Yes, if we can build a road to the Candra Empire, I guarantee that the people in the Candra Empire will recognize the merits of the roads.¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smile, ¡°Alright, Cruise, just speak if you have something to talk about. If you want to use the rtionship with prince Frank, I can only say that it is too early.¡±

    With Xu Yi seeing through his thoughts, chairman Cruise didn¡¯t look awkward at all. He gave augh and said, ¡°Since prince Frank is interested in the Magic Sedans, he should understand that driving the car on a public road will be much better than driving on those roads made of stone and dirt.¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the Banta City race track that was currently being built and said with a smile, ¡°What did you think I started thispetition for?¡±

 Volume 5 52 - Big waves lashing the beach

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 52 Big wavesshing the beach</h4>

    No matter how Xu Yi wanted to spread the car races on the Sines Continent, because the Magic Sedan was far from being popr and had a bad foundation, the car races didn¡¯t attract the attention of many people.

    Compared to the spring bicycle race and the bicycle racing circuit that would be beginning afterwards, there was far less attention given to this.

    Even if the bicycle races received the attention of many people, that was only limited to their personal interests and those who were interested in cycling.

    Most of the people that hade to thispetition were only here to participate.

    However, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other sevenpanies announced that they would choose members from this race for their teams, countless people saw this as a springboard.

    This spring race was much morepetitivepared to before, there were even many people who had been injured going all out.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi had given the City Lord Count Will advice beforehand, so Banta City had prepared for this, allowing thepetition to go smoothly.

    It was also because in thispetition and the ones being held after, the ones that won would be receiving five thousand gold coins as prize money. It caused countless people to feel greedy as they all thought that this would be a springboard for themselves.

    This also increased the sales volume of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bicycles.

    Each year in spring, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bicycle sales number would see their greatest influx. Because of the influence of thepetitions, the Frestech Brand bicycles had almost doubled in sales volume in the surrounding countries!

    In just the month of April, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold thirty four thousand bicycles.

    For the thirty four thousand bicycles, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a shocking profit of four hundred thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The other sevenpanies that held the tournament with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also sawrge increases in their sales numbers.

    ording to what people thought, since those sevenpanies were qualified to host the tournament with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it meant that they had received the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s approval.

    Since it was like this, even if the bicycles they produced couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand, they also had their own good points.

    Adding in the fact that the prices of their bicycles were lower than that of the Frestech Brand, naturally many people went over to them.

    But this phenomenon also had another follow up.

    After learning that the sales of these sevenpanies increased because they cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this bicycle race, the other bicyclepanies couldn¡¯t sit still. They went looking for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and handed in applications in hopes of joining the tournament.

    Xu Yi was already prepared for this, quickly giving out the qualifications needed to join the tournament.

    ording to these regtions, the bicycle circuit would expand to twelvepanies within the next three years, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would strictly verify thepanies that wanted to participate.

    During this verification, the most important thing was if the bicycles thosepanies produced met the standard.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that onlypanies that met this standard would be considered by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even those sevenpanies that were already a part of the tournament would be verified each year.

    If they couldn¡¯t meet the standard, they would be forced out.

    Next, thepanies that participated must have aplete and professional n for their race team.

    Other than having a professional team to participate in the races, they had to have various staff that would work with them, as well aplete management team and the most important research team.

    The standards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced were very wide andplicated, being very strict on many details.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this through the ?Banta Times?, even a person who knew nothing about bicycles knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very strict on thepanies that wanted to participate. Moreover, there was a professional feel that people couldn¡¯t help respect.

    For thosepanies that wanted to participate, the strict requirements the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave was a challenge to them, but also a chance for them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had such high standards, if they could obtain the rights to participate, wouldn¡¯t that prove the strength of theirpany to everyone?

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that if apany couldn¡¯t qualify for the tournament, no one would be willing to buy their bicycles.

    This was simply a death sentence for thesepanies.

    If one looked at it from a perspective angle, the tournament led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the life and death of these bicyclepanies.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right.¡±

    Still looked away from the ?Frestech Bicycle Circuit Regtions? and looked up at Xu Yi with slightly knit brows.

    ¡°These standards are indeed strict, but this marks a clear dividing line. Doesn¡¯t this mean that thepanies that can¡¯t pass this line won¡¯t be able to sell bicycles? There is only death for thosepanies.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If they can¡¯t meet the standard, there¡¯s nothing wrong with apany to die like that.¡±

    ¡°But if thispany dies, we will only let the strongerpanies be stronger and there will only be a fewpanies that control the entire industry. There won¡¯t be any room for the smallpanies to survive, wouldn¡¯t this be bad for the industry?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving Still a thumbs up to show his admiration.

    Still never had experience in this aspect, but she could see this development trend which showed that her eyes were outstanding.

    ¡°It¡¯s the wavesshing the beach, only by filtering can true gold be filtered out of the sand. Thosepanies that aren¡¯t qualified will be eliminated and there will only be elites left, which will be easier to promote the development of the bicycle industry. This isn¡¯t just for bicycles, it¡¯s the same for the other industries.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Still tilted her head and looked at Xu Yi for a bit before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, this is one of your experiments, right? You will definitely be doing this for other industries, right?¡±

    Xu Y smiled without replying.

    Still had already been married to Xu Yi for many years, how could she not see through Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts. She shook her head and said with a smile, ¡°There are times when I really don¡¯t know what is in your head. Why do you think things that are always different from other people? Other people would be thinking about how much money they would make, but you¡¯re thinking about such far things.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°That is because our goals are different. With a further goal, naturally I would see further than them.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Giving you a bit of praise and it goes to your head. Alright, great chairman Xu, there¡¯s definitely no problem with the things you want to do. I don¡¯t have any ideas about your ns, but I am a bit worried. Its that ording to what you said, there would only be the most elitepanies left, but what if there are problems with thosepanies?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t say that I¡¯m too cruel, but I¡¯ve already prepared for this. I¡¯ll give thosepanies that can¡¯t qualify a bit of space and help them work hard to reach the standard. If they still can¡¯t develop with my help, you can¡¯t me me.¡±

    ¡°Un, good, you really have thought of everything, I have no problems.¡± Still nodded. She put down the thick rules for the tournaments and looked around in her own bag before revealing a sly smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Close your eyes.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and obediently closed his eyes.

    This kind of game was something that he and Still yed frequently, it maintained the love between this couple.

    He heard Still took out several things and put them on the table.

    After a while, Still¡¯s voice sounded.

    ¡°Alright, you can open them.¡±

    When Xu Yi opened his eyes to look at the table, he saw that there was a round thing on the table that was like a frisbee.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Xu Yi asked in a doubtful voice.

    ¡°This is a very mysterious thing, just wait and see.¡±

    Still revealed a proud look as she gave Xu Yi a wink. Then she pressed down on this round thing and a purple glow appeared from her hand.

    With the magic, there was a purple glow that appeared around the round thing.

    It was clear that there was a Magic Array on this round thing that had been triggered by Still¡¯s magic.

    But this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing a purple glowing array. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t ce an element with this colour, so he didn¡¯t know what this Magic Array was.

    Suddenly, there was a clearughter that filled the room.

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    There was only Still and him in the room, but the sound was very piercing when thatughter suddenly rang out.

    When he wanted to look, there was a faint light that came from the disk before two clear figures appeared.

    Xu Yi looked to see that the figures were the two most popr members of the New Moon Troupe. It was the fox race singer Avril, as well as a famous elf girl from the Moon Shadow Tribe, Brownia.

    The two girls were smiling in the light. Not only was the sound clear, even the smallest features of their faces could be seen like the two of them were currently present.

    The two were talking to each other as if Xu Yi and Still weren¡¯t there.

    Xu Yi looked at Avril and Brownia floating in the air and a look of shock couldn¡¯t help appearing on his face.

    ¡°This......When did high end technology like hologram projections appear on the Sines Continent?¡±

 Volume 5 53 - Illusion Array

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 53 Illusion Array</h4>

    Still was smiling as she looked at Xu Yi, feeling proud about the thing she took out shocking Xu Yi this much, but she couldn¡¯t help touching her head when she heard Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    ¡°Hologram projection technology? What is that?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi was surprised before quickly reacting.

    That¡¯s right, although this frisbee was like the hologram projection technology of earth, it was clearly not hologram projections.

    At the very least, there was no power source and projector, so the image seemed to being from the frisbee directly.

    To be honest, it was almost like the holograms from the science fiction movies on earth.

    But earth didn¡¯t have such high end technology, so the Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t have it.

    The most important thing was that there was clearly a Magic Array on the frisbee and it was currently running on Still¡¯s magic.

    But what kind of strange Magic Array was this? It could actually have such a mysterious effect?

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± Still revealed a proud smile as she exined, ¡°This is the Illusion Array that I learned from elder Undinest time.¡±

    ¡°Elder Undine?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    Since Xu Yi went to the Azshara Tribe to meet elder Undine, as well as bring Lumi back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because he had reached a cooperation agreement with elder Undine, she hade to the Stantine Duchy several times. Xu Yi had always seen her with Still.

    Perhaps it was because she liked Still or because she had some other goal, elder Undine was always very close to Still and had even taught her some unique magic spells of the elf race.

    Xu Yi had never asked about this, but now it seemed like this Illusion Array was one of them.

    Xu Yi curiously came close to the frisbee and lowered his head to look at the Magic Array on the frisbee, but he found that he couldn¡¯t see through it./

    ¡°How does this Illusion Array work? Why can it record Avril and Brownia like this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This Magic Array isn¡¯t thatplicated. As long as it is prepared, it can record all images that will happen in the area that it isid down in. Then using another method, it can rey the recorded image.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this just a camera......¡± Xu Yi muttered. He had Still continue using her magic as he walked around Avril and Brownia in the air.

    After carefully looking it over, he found that the image of the Illusion Array waspletely three dimensional, it wasn¡¯t like the t image that a camera created at all.

    The image showed everything that Avril and Brownia did during this time. Moreover, it was very clear and it perfectly recorded every angle.

    Xu Yi even secretly took a look and he could even clearly see their underwear through the slits in their clothes.

    ¡°If this thing was used by a robber, it would simply be a divine tool.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    After having Still stop, Xu Yi thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Still, did you have some idea in having me see this?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Still took the frisbee, ¡°Look, after I learned this Illusion Array, I was always thinking that since this Magic Array could perfectly record the images that happen within its range and it could even record sound.¡±

    ¡°If I were to have Avril and the other dance and sing in this Magic Array, wouldn¡¯t I be able to record it? Then I can just broadcast the recorded Illusion Arrays to let even people who don¡¯t have the chance to see the beautiful performance of the New Moon Troupe?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he praised, ¡°Still, you really are too smart! That¡¯s right, this is a very good idea, I support it very much. But.....Still, I think that this Illusion Array has many more ces where it can be used.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What else did you think of? Quickly tell me.¡± Still urged him with an excited look.

    Xu Yi always had wonderful ideas that others couldn¡¯te up with which were usually very effective, this was something that Still understood very well.

    ¡°Look, since you want to use this Illusion Array to record song and dance for people, have you ever thought of using this Illusion Array to record something more fun?¡±

    ¡°What is more fun?¡± Still asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°For example......we can use this Magic Array to record aplete story. When you have free time to read your novels, haven¡¯t you always thought that how good it would be if people could perform this story? If people were to act this story out in front of you, wouldn¡¯t you want to watch it?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Still immediately replied, ¡°But what does this have to do with performing? I was just talking about recording singing and dancing, as well as recording acts. In short, as long as it is the performance of our New Moon Troupe, I will record it all. That way, more people can appreciate our New Moon Troupe¡¯s performance and more people will know about our performance and girls.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m not talking about singing.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Actually, I think that the performance method of opera is very strange, it doesn¡¯t fit normal life at all. Have you ever seen anyone interact while singing and dancing?¡±

    ¡°This is only for expression.¡± Still pouted her lips, ¡°Why don¡¯t you like it?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t rted to whether I like it or not, I just said that opera isn¡¯t realistic for people. What I want to say is that we can use this Illusion Array to record a scene that is very like real life and use that method to tell a story. Don¡¯t you think that many people will want to watch this?¡±

    Still fell into thought and after a while, she nodded in an uncertain manner.

    ¡°Perhaps, but I can give it a try.¡±

    ¡°Rx, I¡¯m certain that if you do this, everyone will definitely love it.¡± Xu Yi honestly said, ¡°Still, perhaps right now this Illusion Array is just fun for you, but in my opinion, the Illusion Array that you learned from elder Undine willpletely change the entertainment industry on the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Is it that exaggerated?¡± Still didn¡¯t really believe him.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It¡¯s up to you whether you believe or not. How about this, you can just consider the method I just proposed and then try to record one. I will find some time to write a script for you and you can find some people to act it out.¡±

    ¡°Script?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, ¡°You can write a script?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort and raised his nose.

    ¡°I am capable of everything!¡±

    ¡°Alright, look at how proud you are.¡± Still raised a hand to tap Xu Yi¡¯s nose with a smile. After thinking about it, she waved her hand at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, I can consider this and then try to experiment with it. As for what you said.....I¡¯ll give you a week to write a script for me. How about it? Can you do it?¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly stomped his legs together and gave Still a serious bow.

    ¡°I¡¯ll definitely finish this mission! My queen!¡±

    Still gave augh, ¡°You should save this for Seveni.¡±

    Still quickly left after saying this.

    Seeing how she was thinking while walking, Xu Yi was worried that she might hit something while walking along.

    Turning to look at the frisbee that Still had left on the table, Xu Yi took a deep breath as his expression became a bit excited.

    Still may have thought that he was being exaggerated, but he was very clear that he wasn¡¯t being exaggerated at all.

    This Illusion Array had such a powerful ability, it could rece all the countless recording methods on earth and it was even better than them.

    With this Illusion Array, Xu Yi could think of countless methods of entertainment that only existed on earth before.

    The movies that he mentioned to Still before was only one of them. There were still dramas, entertainment programs, concerts.....and all kinds of other things. In short, he could replicate all the shows that had been on television before.

    Xu Yi even thought about the news channels from earth.

    If he pulled this out, the influence it would have on the entire Sines Continent would definitely be earth shattering.

    ¡°I never thought that a magic elder Undine pulled out this casually would have such a big influence. The elves really are worthy of being the most ancient race on the continent, they are hiding many precious treasures.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional as he sat back down at the table. He gathered his thoughts before looking over ?Frestech Bicycle Circuit Regtions?, adding in a few more lines.

    This tournament had a very far goal for Xu Yi which he had attached great importance to.

    With this bicycle circuit, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would hold the absolute rights in the bicycle industry.

    And if they used this pattern in the Magic Sedan industry, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also have the same power.

    Of course, this was all because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce absolute superiority when it came to magic machines.

    If there were any otherpanies that had the same level of power when it came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they wouldn¡¯t be polite and fight for power with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But deep down in Xu Yi¡¯s heart, this was something that he really wanted to see.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was too invincible in the magic machine industry.

    If they are invincible for too long, they would feel lonely.

    When Xu Yi was thinking about this, there was a soft sound that came from the door.

    Looking over, he saw a head peeking in through the door.

 Volume 5 54 - Dreams about the future

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 54 Dreams about the future</h4>

    Xu Yi looked over and he couldn¡¯t help saying with a smile, ¡°Hey, Vivian, juste in if you want, why are you acting so sneaky?¡±

    There was a softugh that came from outside the door before Vivian appeared. She first gave Xu Yi a naughty smile before waving with her left hand.

    ¡°Come in, don¡¯t hide, master can see you.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi looked at Vivian in surprise, ¡°Is there someone else hiding?¡±

    Vivian pulled with her hand and a figure that was even more delicate than her came out from behind the door.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Teresa, you¡¯re also here? What is it? Do you need something from me?¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi and after gritting her teeth, she followed Vivian in.

    The two stood in front of Xu Yi, but Teresa was silent for a while without saying a thing.

    Vivian on the side couldn¡¯t help urging her, ¡°Hey, Teresa, quickly say it. Master is now.....¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knit his brows as he suddenly said, ¡°Vivian, I¡¯ve already said it many times, you¡¯re not allowed to call me master anymore, alright? Your status as a ve was revokedst month already.¡±

    Vivian stuck out her tongue before saying with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m used to it. Then again, calling you sir chairman makes me feel......the distance between you and me is further away.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°This is unrted to what you call me. You¡¯ve already been here for many years, could it be that I won¡¯t treat you as part of the family because you changed the way you addressed me?¡±

    Vivian tilted her head to think beforeing to Xu Yi¡¯s side. She took Xu Yi¡¯s arm and swayed before saying, ¡°Just let me call you master a few more times, I¡¯ve never felt it was that ufortable.¡±

    ¡°Do what you like.¡± Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes before turning back to Teresa, ¡°Alright, Teresa, just tell me if you need something. You¡¯ve also been here for several years, so you should know that I don¡¯t like people being hesitant. It¡¯s better to be more direct.¡±

    Teresa gave a soft response before hesitating a bit and then saying in a soft voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I want.....I want to join the military magic machine department. Will.....you permit it?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows as he asked this.

    Teresa bit her lip before saying in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, do you still remember the matter I mentionedst time?¡±

    ¡°Last time?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before reacting. He understood thatst time meant when Teresa had told him about her identity.

    Teresa had always treated this matter as arge secret, but now she was mentioning it in front of Vivian, it really was a bit strange.

    Xu Yi turned to look over at Vivian. He found that she had a curious look the entire time as she kept turning between Xu Yi and Vivian, clearly not understanding what was going on.

    ¡°Ke, I remember. How is this rted to you wanting to join the military magic machine department?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    Teresa took a deep breath. She calmed her slightly excited expression and said with a serious look, ¡°Because I want to use my own power to contribute to defeating the Sack Kingdom!¡±

    The curiosity on Vivian¡¯s face deepened and when she wanted to ask, Xu Yi raised a hand to stop her.

    Xu Yi looked at Teresa for a while and seeing how calm and determined she looked, he knew that she had made her decision this time.

    After a bit of silence, Xu Yi gave a slow nod, ¡°Alright, since you have made this decision, then I will help you. But I can only give you a rmendation as the chairman, whether you can enter the military magic machine department will depend on the approval of chief Evita. You can just hand in a normal application to her.¡±

    There was a happy look that appeared on Teresa¡¯s face as she gave a strong nod before giving a deep bow to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, thank you!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, go back and prepare, I will find some time to raise this matter to Evita.¡±

    Teresa gave Xu Yi another bow before looking at Vivian.

    Vivian hesitated a bit before standing up to give Xu Yi a bow. Then these two girls headed off holding hands.

    Watching Teresa head out the door, Xu Yi suddenly had a yful smile appear on his face.

    ¡°Hey, she couldn¡¯t take it in the end?¡±

    ###

    Although if they counted it seriously, therge and medium transport Magic Cars cost quite a bit more than the Magic Sedans, if one calcted it by sales volume, the transport Magic Cars sold more than ten times the amountpared to the Magic Sedan.

    Just in May of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold a terrifying five hundred thousand units.

    Although therge transport Magic Car had only been out on the market for two months, it still sold two hundred thousand units,ing close to matching the medium transport Magic Cars.

    Moreover, therge transport Magic Cars¡¯ sales volume growth had gradually surpassed that of the medium transport Magic Cars. ording to this trend, by the end of the year, it would surpass the sales volume of the medium transport Magic Cars and would be the main force on the roads of the surrounding countries.

    Of course,pared to the most popr small transport Magic Car, the sales volume of therge and medium transport Magic Cars werepletely dwarved.

    The small transport Magic Car was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most stable product. It was as small as the Magic Sedan, but it could be used to transport cargo.

    Compared to the Magic Sedan aimed at the high end market selling for over a thousand gold coins for one, the small transport Magic Car had a much lower price. It only cost around five to six hundred gold coins to buy one.

    Although this price wasn¡¯t considered low, for the ordinary households that had been affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and became richer, this was not a price that was out of reach.

    For example, many of the workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or at the other magic machinepanies would have a monthly sry of over twenty gold coins.

    In a year, their annual ie was over two hundred gold coins.

    Adding in the other members of their family, it wouldn¡¯t be hard to buy a small transport Magic Car after a year.

    Moreover,pared to the Magic Sedan that could seat people, the small transport Magic Car other than seating four people also had a space for cargo. It was very suited for a family or to transport cargo in a short range.

    So once the small transport Magic Car was released, it was greatly weed by everyone.

    In the less than a year the small transport Magic Car had been released, it had already sold over a hundred thousand units in the surrounding countries.

    Even if the profits of the small transport Magic Car couldn¡¯tpare to that of the Magic Sedan, with therge amount of sales, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a terrifying eight million gold coins from it already.

    Moreover, the sales volume growth surpassed that of therge transport Magic Car. ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimate, it would soon be the main sales force for the Frestech Brand transport Magic Cars.

    Among the customers that contributed to the sales, old man Sarkozy was one of them.

    Driving in the Frestech Brand small transport Magic Car he had only boughtst month, going at over seventy kilometers an hour on the road between the Mirando Duchy and the Norton Duchy, old man Sarkozy was feeling very good.

    Since he started in the transport business three years ago, because he drove the medium transport Magic Car that he had bought three years ago, he couldn¡¯t go past fifty kilometers an hour. Therefore, old man Sarkozy had never experienced the pleasures of driving.

    But when he received this small transport Magic Car a month ago, old man Sarkozy found that the small transport Magic Car was much more reactive and better to control than the medium transport Magic Car.

    The most important thing was that the max speed of the small transport Magic Car could even reach eighty kilometers an hour. Once it reached full power, the excitement brought by the speed far surpassed the medium transport Magic Car that could only reach fifty kilometers an hour.

    Of course,pared to the newly bought Magic Sedan he had at home, thefort of the small transport Magic Car was farcking.

    It was a pity that because of his youngest son¡¯s weddingst month, old man Sarkozy had treated the newly bought Magic Sedan as a wedding gift for him.

    Although his youngest son could show off at his wedding and his daughter inw¡¯s family all greeted old man Sarkozy with wide smiles, it caused his oldest and second oldest sons to say that he was biased.

    Old man Sarkozy had scolded his sons, but once he was done with his youngest son¡¯s wedding, he continued his transporting work.

    ording to his n, if he worked three more years, he should be able to earn enough to buy a Magic Sedan for his eldest and second eldest sons.

    If he worked a bit harder, he could even buy one for himself. When he officially retired after reaching sixty five, he could drive that Magic Sedan and wander around with his wife.

    When old man Sarkozy was dreaming about the future, the small transport Magic Car suddenly trembled and gave arge sound.

    Old man Sarkozy was shocked beforeing out of his daydream.

    With his many years of experience, he could tell that when he was distracted, he must have driven over a stone or something.

    After thinking of this, old man Sarkozy shook his head. He took out a leaf from the passenger seat beside him which he put in his mouth.

    After chewing twice, there was a strong taste that filled his mouth that instantly shook his mind, allowing the scene in front of him to clear up.

    This leaf was something that old man Sarkozy had used frequently in his years of transporting, it helped him shake his mind awake and was very suited for driving away the fatigue of driving.

    But old man Sarkozy knew that this wouldn¡¯tst long. When he was tired, it was best to find a ce to rest as soon as possible.

    Looking down the road, he didn¡¯t find any signs causing old man Sarkozy to knit his brows. He then remembered that the road that he was driving on wasn¡¯t that developed at all. It was different from the roads in the Stantine Duchy which had many different service stations, this road in the Mirando Duchy wasn¡¯t fully paved, so the conditions would be without a doubtcking.

    He had ran into this situation a lot when he had first started, so old man Sarkozy wasn¡¯t worried. Looking at the situation of the road in front of him and the weather, he was prepared to find a space near the road to stop for a rest.

    Since it waste spring, it was a little cold at night, but there shouldn¡¯t be a problem spending the night in his car.

    However, when he passed the corner, old man Sarkozy was surprised to find that there was a tall sign in the road ahead of him.

    There were familiar words on that sign.

    Frestech Magic Refill Station.

    Old man Sarkozy¡¯s heart filled with joy. He stepped down on the petal and the small transport Magic Car quickly charged towards the newly built building by the sign.

 Volume 5 55 - Workers far from home

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 55 Workers far from home</h4>

    The small transport Magic Car gave a sharp sound before it stopped by the Magic Refill Station.

    Old man Sarkozy looked by the road and was surprised to find that this remote Magic Refill Station that clearly hadn¡¯t been built long was actually filled with people. There were even people standing outside the Magic Refill Station, making him unable to fill up his small transport Magic Car with a bit of Magic Crystals.

    ¡°What is going on here?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy was confused as he came out and slowly walked over.

    His eyes swept over the people gathered in the area and old man Sarkozy was surprised to find that he recognized someone in this crowd.

    This person was from a small city in the northwest of the Lampuri Kingdom. When old man Sarkozy had been delivering goods for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, he had unknowingly be close with him.

    ¡°What did this fellow run all the way here for?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t take the curiosity in his heart, so he went over to talk to them.

    After asking them, old man Sarkozy knew that the group of people at the Magic Refill Station right now were all from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northwest province.

    Their destination was Noxus Town in the Norton Duchy. They were all going there to work at the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new Magic Air Conditioner Factory in Noxus Town.

    Old man Sarkozy was a bit surprised.

    ¡°if you want to work, can¡¯t you just find some work in the northwest province? Why do you need toe all the way to the Norton Duchy? This is over two thousand kilometers away from the northwest province.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy¡¯s acquaintance was named Laudsack, he had been an old farmer in the northwest province for over thirty years. He gave a simple and honest smile as he replied, ¡°The northwest factory was only set up by some smallpanies and the boss has a ck heart. Even if the wages don¡¯t seem small on the surface, it¡¯s actually cut by 70-80%, we might not even get five gold coins a month. This Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce came to recruit workers and said they would give us at least ten gold coins a month, so I came after considering it.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t even get five gold coins a month?¡± Old man Sarkozy¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Whichpany dares to be this stingy? There¡¯s still people willing to work for them?¡±

    Laudsack gave a bitterugh and shook his head, ¡°Of course it won¡¯t work in your Banta City, but this is amon matter in our northwest province. There are fewpanies willing to invest in factories in our northwest province, so if it wasn¡¯t for all those magic machinepanies in the kingdom now, there wouldn¡¯t be apany that woulde to our small city. So for people like me, it¡¯s already good enough to have a job, how can I be picky? Then again, no matter what, isn¡¯t it better than farming still?¡±

    Speaking of this, Laudsack showed off the clothes he had spent eighty silver coins to buy to old man Sarkozy with a happy look on his face. He said that these were the best clothes he had worn in his life.

    Seeing the simple and honest smile on Laudsack¡¯s face, old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t help feeling sad.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Banta City and the surrounding cities had developed quickly.

    In just a few years, the lives of the people of Banta City hadpletely changed.

    Take old man Sarkozy for instance. In the past few decades, he had to work to pay his rent and he might not even have enough food for himself each year, so he would often have an empty stomach.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after several years, what old man Sarkozy was worrying about was what kind of Magic Sedan he should buy.

    As for basic living conditions like food and clothes, he already no longer thought about them.

    Old man Sarkozy thought that others would be like him, but after seeing Laudsack, he found that many people of the Lampuri Kingdom were still as poor as before. Not everyone was living the same good life as him.

    Thinking of this, old man Sarkozy couldn¡¯t help feeling happy in his heart.

    It was a good thing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared in Banta City. If it had appeared in a different city or even in a different country, wouldn¡¯t he be living the same poor life as before?

    Turning around to ask the other people around, he found that although those people had some different reasons from Laudsack, generally speaking, it was because the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce offered a higher wage that they were moved.

    Old man Sarkozy was still a bit surprised.

    ¡°If you really want a higher wage, there are manypanies to choose from in the Lampuri Kingdom. Not mentioning anything else, just thepanies in Banta City offer at least ten gold coins as a starting wage. Then because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the benefits they give are all quite good, so why didn¡¯t you consider them?¡±

    Laudsack and the others looked at each other before giving bitter smiles.

    ¡°There¡¯s no way. Although Banta City¡¯spanies give better wages and benefits, they have higher requirements. We haven¡¯t even gotten the lowest technical worker certification, so how could we enter such goodpanies.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy gave a sigh and slowly nodded.

    Indeed, although with the lead of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the magic machinepanies of Banta City and the surrounding cities gave good wages and benefits, it also raised the requirements of thosepanies towards their employees.

    If normal workers wanted to enter Banta City¡¯spanies, it didn¡¯t work if they didn¡¯t have any technical skills at all.

    ¡°This means.....the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have any requirements?¡± Old man Sarkozy asked.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. When they recruited us, they said that as long as we were strong and healthy, it would be fine.¡± Laudsack said.

    ¡°Then did they say what they wanted you to do?¡±

    ¡°They just said that it was just some simple things, they could casually teach them to us.¡±

    ¡°Oh......¡±

    Old man Sarkozy nodded. This Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factory in the Norton Duchy should just be the most simple assembly factory. Theponents of the Magic Air Conditioner shouldn¡¯t be made in the Norton Duchy.

    Thinking about it, he felt that that was right.

    The Magic Air Conditioner wasplicated to produce, there were many parts that needed to be made.

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce having aplete Magic Air Conditioner production system, the otherpanies didn¡¯t have this ability right now. They could only purchase theponents from the variouspanies and assemble them with someponents they produced themselves.

    Moreover, the factories producing theponents were mainly gathered in the ck Rice Wastnd and Banta City. To build a factory in the Norton Duchy like the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, they could only transport theponents here to assemble.

    To produceponents locally in the Norton Duchy, they had to solve the issue of technology.

    Currently speaking, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany that could solve the problem themselves.

    Thinking of this, old man Sarkozy found that Laudsack running to the Norton Duchy that was two thousand kilometers away for work was necessary.

    ¡°This means.....you are nning on working here for a few years?¡± Old man Sarkozy asked.

    Laudsack nodded, ¡°Un, if possible, I want to work here for several years. Look, it¡¯s at least ten gold coins a month and the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce would pay for our food and lodge. As long as we save up, we can earn a hundred gold coins a month. That is arge amount and if I work for a few years, I can get anything.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy responded with a smile although he felt that Laudsack being this excited for only a hundred gold coins a year really seemed a bit ignorant.

    But thinking of how if he knew a few years ago that he could earn a hundred gold coins a year, he would be even more excited and he rxed.

    The two talked for a bit. When Laudsack learned that old man Sarkozy had two transport Magic Cars and relied on these two transport Magic Cars to earn several hundred gold coins a year, he couldn¡¯t help looking incredibly jealous.

    Old man Sarkozyforted him by saying that he had to work several years before being able to buy his small or medium transport Magic Car, allowing him to transport goods on his own.

    As long as one was willing to suffer, it wouldn¡¯t take long before he would be able to earn several hundred gold coins a year like him.

    Laudsack deeply agreed with this.

    So the two thought about their beautiful futures and became even closer.

    But since it was gettingte, the person in charge of Laudsack¡¯s group who had recruited them for the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce had everyone rest up so they could head off early tomorrow morning.

    Old man Sarkozy looked at the sky and felt that he should also rest. The two of them agreed to meet up in Noxus Town if they had time before heading off on their own.

    Old man Sarkozy first entered the Magic Refill Station and added some standardized Magic Crystals for his small transport Magic Car. At the same times, he also bought some daily necessities and food so that he would have enough supplies for the next few days.

    Although this ce was in the Mirando Duchy and wasn¡¯t that far from the Norton Duchy, being over two thousand kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy, the Magic Refill Stations were no different from the other ones. Not only was it aplete store, there was also a Magic Water Pump that provided clean running water.

    Old man Sarkozy just used the water to wash his face and rinse his mouth. Seeing that the open area by the Magic Refill Station was upied by Laudsack and the others, he prepared to head back to his small transport Magic Car to sleep.

    When he came out of the washroom, he suddenly saw a group of peopleing into the Magic Refill Station.

    Therge man in charge looked over the group of workers on the open ground outside the Magic Refill Station before loudly saying, ¡°The Macarin Chamber of Commerce is recruiting people, the lowest wage is at least twelve gold coins a month! If anyone is willing,e with me now!¡±

    Old man Sarkozy was surprised before revealing a smile.

    Hei, it seems like there was a good y.

 Volume 5 56 - Stealing people

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 56 Stealing people</h4>

    Therge man¡¯s voice woke up the people who were prepared to sleep. Including Laudsack, their group looked at therge man in surprise with a bit of vignce on their faces, as well as a bit of expectation.

    Twelve gold coins a month, that was two gold coins more than the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce.

    Those two gold coins in the northwest province were enough for a family to not worry about food for an entire month.

    There was a cold snort that came from the crowd and there was a middle aged man who was around forty years old that came out.

    Whether it was his aura or his clothing, this middle aged man was clearly different from Laudsack and the workers recruited.

    OId man Sarkozy took a look and guessed that this should be the person in charge of them from the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce Laudsack had mentioned, manager Yodel.

    Yodel came to the front of the group and looked over them with cold eyes, finallynding his gaze on therge man. He said in a cold voice, ¡°What? Does the Macalin Chamber of Commerce not follow the rules?¡±

    ¡°Rules?¡± Therge man gave a coldugh, ¡°How are we not following the rules? These people haven¡¯t be workers of your Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce yet, right?¡±

    ¡°They have already signed the contract with ourpany, how aren¡¯t they our staff?¡± Yodel angrily said.

    ¡°Oh? What contract? Let me have a look.¡± Therge man stretched his hand out.

    ¡°Pei! What kind of thing are you! How are you qualified?¡± Yodel immediately said in an angry voice.

    Therge man wasn¡¯t angry as he said with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing if you don¡¯t take it out. Since it¡¯s like this, we are fairpetitors, there¡¯s nothing that breaks the rules at all.¡±

    He ignored Yodel after saying this and turned to the confused workers to say in a loud voice, ¡°Did you hear it clearly just now? As long as you choose to join our Macalin Chamber of Commerce, we will guarantee a minimum of twelve gold coins a month.¡±

    After saying this, he turned back to Yodel and gave augh, ¡°This is much better than the ten gold coins the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce is giving you. Moreover, our sir chairman has said that as long as you do well, your wage can even rise.¡±

    Yodel was very angry in his heart, but he also became vignt.

    This fellow knew what wage theirpany was giving these workers and had intercepted them right when they were about to enter the Noroton Chamber of Commerce. He had brought all these people along with him as well, so it was clear that he was prepared.

    On the contrary, whether it was Yodel or the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, they never expected anotherpany to be here, so they weren¡¯t prepared to deal with them at all.

    If this was the Lampuri Kingdom, with the influence of the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, he had a hundred ways to deal with them. However, this was the Mirando Duchy that was two thousand kilometers away from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Macalin Chamber of Commerce was a famousrgepany in the Mirando Duchy. Their influence here wasn¡¯t at the same level, so naturally he couldn¡¯t resist.

    While Yodel was still thinking about how to deal with this, the people of the Macalin Chamber of Commerce had already begun trying to convince the workers.

    Based on the words they used, not only did the Macalin Chamber of Commerce give better wages, they even gave better benefits. It was all without a doubt more attractive than what the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce offered.

    The only thing that made the workers hesitate was that this Macalin Chamber of Commerce was a Mirando Duchypany and the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce was a Lampuri Kingdompany. There was no doubt that they weren¡¯t as familiar with them.

    But when the people of the Macalin Chamber of Commerce told them they would be working in the Mirando Duchy and wouldn¡¯t need to head to the further Norton Duchy, more people seemed like they were moved.

    Seeing that many of the workers were about to be convinced by the Macalin Chamber of Commerce, Yodel was feeling very anxious.

    But he was only a vice manager in the human resource department of the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t have that much authority, so naturally he couldn¡¯t do much.

    Feeling helpless, he could only say to the workers, ¡°Don¡¯t be fooled by this Macalin Chamber of Commerce. Don¡¯t look at their good words, when you actually enter thepany, they might not fulfill this promise. Don¡¯t forget what you encountered in the northwest province before.¡±

    Hearing this, the workers began to hesitate again.

    It was very likely what Yodel described would happen and after suffering in the northwest province, they were very vignt.

    On the other hand, because the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce was an Anvilmar Citypany and they cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were more trustworthy.

    Seeing that the workers were faltering again, therge man gave a cold snort. He took out a document from his chest to wave and loudly said, ¡°Don¡¯t listen to this fellow¡¯s words. Let me tell you all, our Macalin Chamber of Commerce is a first sspany in the Mirando Duchy, we¡¯ve received the recognition of the duke himself. Moreover, justst month, we signed a cooperation contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to open fivepanies in our duchy with them. Otherwise, do you think we wouldck people?¡±

    Hearing that this Macalin Chamber of Commerce was also cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the doubtful looks on the faces of the workers rxed.

    Since this Macalin Chamber of Commerce received the recognition of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they wouldn¡¯t be a smallpany that tricked workers and would at least be reliable in the terms they offered.

    Yodel was also very surprised. He never expected the Macalin Chamber of Commerce to be one of the Frestech Chamber ofmerce¡¯s partners in the Mirando Duchy.

    This meant that the Macalin Chamber of Commerce was one of the toppanies in the Mirando Duchy, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t have been chosen by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But as the matter stands, this gave the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce no advantages in front of the Macalin Chamber of Commerce. The only thing they couldpete in was the wages and benefits they gave the workers.

    And in this regard, because Yodel didn¡¯t have any rights, he couldn¡¯t make any more pledges to the workers and was very passive.

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget! You have all signed contracts with ourpany! If you don¡¯te with us, you¡¯ll be breaking the contract!¡± In his desperation, Yodel could only take out the contracts.

    However, these contracts for the workers that didn¡¯t really know about thews didn¡¯t have any binding force at all.

    Moreover, after hearing Yodel¡¯s threat, the man from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce waved his hand with a smile, ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry. Even if you break the contract, our Macalin Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay thepensation for you. I think.....that yourpensation shouldn¡¯t be that high, right?¡±

    The final words were directed at Yodel.

    Yodel looked at him with a gaze that was filled with rage, ¡°I say, why do you want to steal these workers from us? They are not highly skilled workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, is this worth you doing this?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Therge man said with a nod, ¡°There are only workers that are used to working with magic machines from Ampriston Town in our duchy, there¡¯s no other ce with workers. Although these workers aren¡¯t that skilled, at least they¡¯ve done this work and can learn easily. We can¡¯t steal the highly skilled workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so these people are very important to us.¡±

    Yodel didn¡¯t have anything to say to this because he knew that thisrge man was correct.

    The Mirando Duchy was different from the Lampuri Kingdom with a firm magic machine industry structure where they could find workers skilled in working with magic machines all over. It had only been a year since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started in Ampriston Town, so the magic machine industry hadn¡¯t spread across the entire Mirando Duchy yet, so naturally it was hard to find skilled people.

    But this didn¡¯t mean that Yodel would just give away these workers. Seeing that these workers were being more and more persuaded by the Macalin Chamber of Commerce and there were even two workers who stood up, preparing to go with the Macalin Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people, Yodel was very anxious, but he couldn¡¯t think of a way to solve this.

    The man from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce looked at Yodel and revealed a proud smile.

    ¡°I say, there¡¯s no need to be in such a rush. Anyway, your Anke Magic Chamber ofmerce is from the Lampuri Kingdom, you can find more skilled workers from the Lampuri Kingdom at any time. Just give this group of people to our Macalin Chamber of Commerce, we will definitely thank you in the future.¡±

    ¡°Who needs your thanks!¡± Yodel cursed in his heart. After thinking about it, his face turned cold and he reached into his chest, nning on using his final method.

    But at this time, there was a clear voice that wasn¡¯t too loud that came from the Magic Refill Station that rang through the crowd.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem if you need workers, but to steal them from otherpanies, that is a bit too much. This peer from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce, please tell your chairman Seg that I¡¯m not happy about your approach at all.¡±

    The people from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce were stunned.

    Who was this fellow? His tone was this big?

    He actually said......he wasn¡¯t happy about their approach at all?

    So what if he wasn¡¯t happy, who cared if he was happy or not?

    Only thatrge man¡¯s face changed as if he thought of something.

    And after Yodel heard this voice, after being surprised, there was a look of wild joy on his face.

    He never thought that this great person would appear here. As long as he supported him, that meant all the problems would be easily solved!

    Old man Sarkozy who was watching the fun on the side was also stunned when he heard this voice before his expression became strange.

    He never thought that at this remote Magic Refill Station, he would bump into an acquaintance and also see a y.

    The most important thing was that the had bumped into him!

 Volume 5 57 - Honoured person

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 57 Honoured person</h4>

    Xu Yi slowly came out of the Magic Refill Station and his eyes looked over everyone. He paused slightly on old man Sarkozy before giving him a slight nod. Then he moved through the crowd that parted and came to Yodel¡¯s side.

    ¡°Manager Yodel, did yourpany only send you alone this time?¡±

    Although manager Yodel was over forty years old and was experienced, when he met Xu Yi here, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit excited.

    But after hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a trace of awkwardness on his face.

    ¡°This.....Most of the people in thepany are preparing for the new factories being opened in the Norton Duchy, so this group of workers.....Ke.....Sir chairman never thought there would be a problem, so he only sent me and a few helpers.¡±

    Xu YI followed Yodel¡¯s gaze to see several young people in the crowd dressed in the uniform of the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce. He gave a nod before asking, ¡°Then when you brought the people over from the Lampuri Kingdom, when you passed through the Mirando Duchy, did you get authorization?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please be assured, we have handled all the procedures perfectly, there¡¯s definitely no mistakes at all.¡± Yodel then red at the man from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce and said in a cold voice, ¡°We also bumped into this fellow who kep[t pestering us.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he turned to look at that man.

    ¡°Where is chairman Seg now? Does he know what you are doing?¡±

    The man had been staring at Xu Yi since he came out and when he heard Yodel call him ¡°chairman Xu¡±, his mind quickly turned before his expression changed.

    Hearing how easily Xu Yi addressed their sir chairman, he was even more assured of his guesses. He looked at Xu Yi and carefully asked, ¡°May I ask.....are you the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°What? You recognize me?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s acknowledgement, that man and all the surrounding people couldn¡¯t help taking a cold breath.

    If one talked about the most famous person in the surrounding countries in the past few years, it would definitely be chairman Xu Yi of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and no one else.

    Although Xu Yi handled matters in a low key manner, all the things the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did was just too dazzling. It made everyone¡¯s eyes focused on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As the sir chairman who single handedly built the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi was the one that everyone focused on.

    It could even be said that in the surrounding countries, Xu Yi¡¯s position had already surpassed a normalpany¡¯s chairman.

    Because before this, no one had thought that apany could affect the rise and fall of a kingdom. It could even influence all the surrounding countries to a certain extent.

    Moreover, their influence was increasing at a visible speed.

    In terms of influence, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already surpassed the level of a singlepany. They had be an existence that many of the surrounding countries ced great importance to.

    Now this Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, Xu Yi who everyone regarded as a super important person had appeared in front of them.

    Thatrge man was a leader, so he reacted the quickest. He immediately reacted after being shocked and first looked at Xu Yi in doubt before giving him a respectful bow.

    Based on Yodel¡¯s reaction, this Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem to be a fake.

    ¡°This small one Geb greets chairman Xu.¡±

    Seeing what their leader did, the rest of the people from the Macalin Chamber of Commerce all gave Xu YI a bow.

    Xu Yi waved his hand, not caring about this as he kept asking, ¡°Alright, Geb, you¡¯re here to steal the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people today, does chairman Seg know about this?¡±

    Geb¡¯s expression changed, revealing an awkward look before shaking his head to say, ¡°No, sir chairman just wanted us to find a way to recruit some skilled workers, he doesn¡¯t know what we are doing.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying anything.

    He was certain that Geb was lying.

    Not only did chairman Seg know about this, it was even likely that he was the one who nned this. Otherwise, how could these fellows be brave enough toe here and steal people from the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce.

    Geb¡¯s words were just to help their chairman Seg from being involved in this.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t say a thing, Geb gritted his teeth and continued, ¡°Chairman Xu, today¡¯s matters were the mistakes of us subordinates and have offended you, please don¡¯t me ourpany. If you want to pursue this matter, I can go see sir chairman with you and have sir chairman punish me.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need for this trouble. I have other things to do and don¡¯t have time to meet chairman Seg with you. Un.....If I have to say something, let¡¯s end today¡¯s matters here. Go and tell chairman Seg that for the problem of skilled workers, I¡¯m currently nning on opening a vocational skills school in the Mirando Duchy, so he can prepare ahead of time.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Geb revealed a look of joy, ¡°Sir chairman will definitely be very happy once he learns of this.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before waving his hand at Geb.

    Geb understood and immediately called the other men to leave with him.

    Yodel wanted to say something, but Xu Yi stopped him.

    When Geb¡¯s group had disappeared into the night outside the Magic Refill Station, Xu Yi said to Yodel with a serious look, ¡°This matter stops here, the Macalin Chamber of Commerce shouldn¡¯t cause more trouble for you in the future. Also, help me tell your chairman Anke that the Norton Duchy is on guard against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can¡¯t help him that much in the Norton Duchy. But if there is anything I can do, don¡¯t be afraid to tell me.¡±

    Yodel nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, sir chairman will definitely deeply remember the help you have given to ourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. Thinking of Anke Eren¡¯s deeply engraved memory, it would probably be the shame that he brought him the first time they had met.

    But Xu Yi was already a Great Magician and Anke Eren in all these years had only gone from a Fourth Grade Magician to a Fifth Grade Magician.

    Just in terms of magic power, Xu Yi was more than twice as strong as him, not to mention the fact that he couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi in terms of position in the magic machine industry.

    Although the Norton Duchy clearly didn¡¯t want to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce they wanted to cooperate with wouldn¡¯t enter the Norton Duchy without the approval of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi.

    If Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing, the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have been able to smoothly cooperate with the Norton Duchy, it would have been a problem to exist for even three months.

    So Yodel¡¯s words weren¡¯t considered pleasantries. Anke Eren was able to develop the Anke Magic Chamber of Commerce into a first gradepany of Anvilmar City with an annual ie of several hundred thousand gold coins was all because of Xu Yi¡¯s support and help.

    When Yodel wanted to thank Xu Yi for his help with this matter again, he suddenly noticed the other meaning of Xu Yi¡¯s words and he couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for you to suddenly appear here, you should be heading to the Norton Duchy, right? Since it¡¯s like this, sir chairman is currently also in the Norton Duchy for work, so he will definitely be very happy if you go meet him.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I still have other things to do, so I¡¯m not that free. If chairman Anke wants to see me, he cane and find me after I return to the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Yodel could only give a helpless nod.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t mention what he was doing, he couldn¡¯t ask about it.

    Xu Yi said a few words to Yodel before leaving him anding over to old man Sarkozy.

    ¡°Hey, old man Sarkozy, if I remember correctly, you¡¯re already over sixty this year, right? Why are you working so hard anding to such a far ce?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi actually call him by name, old man Sarkozy¡¯s face had a blush before he said with a smile, ¡°This is also life. Chairman Xu, why is a noble person like you in a ce like this?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Refill Station behind him, ¡°This is the furthest Magic Refill Station that ourpany has built, so I wanted to inspect this ce since I was passing by.¡±

    ¡°Oh......¡± Old man Sarkozy thought that although Xu Yi¡¯s response was an exnation, it didn¡¯t exin why he woulde all the way here.

    As the chairman, it was impossible for him toe all this way to inspect a Magic Refill Station.

    ¡°Old man sarkozy, is that small transport Magic Car outside yours?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, I just bought it this year.¡± Speaking of the small transport Magic Car, old man Sarkozy became excited. He kept telling Xu Yi all about the merits of the small transport Magic Car with a praising tone in his voice the entire time.

    Xu Yi stood there with a faint smile for a while before suddenly raising his hand to stop him.

    ¡°Old man Sarkozy, other than merits, I ask you to tell me some of the defects. For us, knowing the defects can let us improve on it.¡±

    Old man Sarkozy awkwardly scratched his head and hesitated a bit.

    ¡°This......There are ws, but they aren¡¯t that important.....After all, it¡¯s impossible for things to be perfect......¡±

    ¡°No, as the producer, we must chase perfection.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Seeing the seriousness on Xu Yi¡¯s face, old man Sarkozay gave a helpless sigh. He then talked about all the problems he encountered with the small transport Magic Car during the past month and where it could be improved.

    Although telling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman the ws of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine made him feel a bit strange, he felt very satisfied after telling him all the issues.

    Even if it was him, he understood that Xu Yi had always been strict towards the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    He reflected on these problems and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would very likely fix them.

    The two talked about the small transport Magic Car for a bit before Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic, ¡°Old man Sarkozy, are you transporting goods to the Norton Duchy?¡±

    ¡°Un, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Will you stay in the Norton Duchy for a few days?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Probably not, I don¡¯t have anything to do in the Norton Duchy.¡± Old man Sarkozy shook his head.

    ¡°Then do you have to leave immediately?¡±

    ¡°Of course not. I still want to take the chance to look around the Norton Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Good, if you have free time, I want you to help me with a job. Are you willing?¡±

    Old man Sarkozy was a bit surprised, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you need someone to help you with a job, you have a bunch of people. Why do you need me?¡±

    ¡°Because I just thought of something and I don¡¯t have anyone suited for it. Now that I¡¯ve bumped into you, you should be suited for this work, so I asked you. Of course, if you¡¯re not willing, that doesn¡¯t matter.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m very willing, I¡¯m very happy to help you.¡± Old man Sarkozy quickly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, just what is this job? Tell me about it.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, this job isn¡¯t that hard, but it isn¡¯t that simple either, it just takes a bit of time......¡±

 Volume 5 58 - Difference in status

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 58 Difference in status</h4>

    The next morning, when old man Sarkozy and the others were still asleep, Xu Yi had already left the Magic Refill Station and was heading off on the road to the Norton Duchy.

    Riding in that silver Magic Sedan across the road the Amrit Chamber of Commerce built heading east, it only took him a single morning to arrive at the Norton Duchy border that was five hundred kilometers away.

    There was already no more road here, so Xu Yi drove the Magic Sedan across the dirt road. There was a normal looking ck horse carriage by the side of the dirt road in front of him.

    Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan to the woods on the side and got out to move over to the ck horse carriage.

    The horse carriages¡¯ curtain opened and revealed Baron Belil¡¯s rxed face which came from an excess of wine.

    Seeing Xu Yi leave his Magic Sedan in the woods, Baron Belil licked his lips before revealing a look of regret.

    ¡°Such a good car, aren¡¯t you worried that someone will steal it if you leave it here?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him like he found this funny, ¡°It seems like you always protect your Magic Sedans?¡±

    Baron Belil patted his chest that wasn¡¯t that strong and proudly said, ¡°Of course. My three Magic Sedans are my treasure, I normally wouldn¡¯t let others touch it.¡±

    ¡°If they break, don¡¯t the workers have to touch it to fix it?¡± Xu Yi threw these words down and ignored the bitter look on Baron Belil¡¯s face. He nodded at the driver who had been silent the entire time and said, ¡°Alright, go.¡±

    The driver looked at Baron Belil and Baron Belil gave him a listless nod, ¡°Listen to him.¡±

    The driver waved his hands and the reins fell down, as the two horses began heading north with the ck horse carriage.

    This ck horse carriage didn¡¯t look that special, but the inside decorations were luxurious. There was thick fur on the floor and it was very soft. No matter how bumpy the dirt road was, it didn¡¯t feel ufortable at all sitting on it.

    Moreover, even though it was the start of summer and it was getting hot outside, there was a slight chill from inside the horse carriage. It made the entire horse carriage fill with afortable temperature.

    Before this, only when Xu Yi had been sitting in the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Fuller Morgan¡¯s personal horse carriage did he feel this kind of luxury. Most of the other times, he felt the pain from the jolting of the horse carriage.

    Since the Magic Sedan had been developed, Xu Yi had never taken a horse carriage again.

    Not to mention that after the appearance of the Magic Sedans and transport Magic Cars, the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms had almostpletely eliminated horse carriages.

    Other than some stubborn people, there were very few people who chose to go out in horse carriages.

    Riding in the horse carriage this time, after calcting it, it was the first time in three years for Xu Yi.

    The ck horse carriage went across the unpaved road for two hours before finally stopping.

    Xu Yi and Baron Belil came out of the horse carriage and found themselves at a giant manor.

    The manor took up arge area and the horse carriage was right outside the manor¡¯s gate. Looking at it from a distance, one could see the rows of shadows from buildings in the distance.

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    Since the buildings of the manor were still this far away, why didn¡¯t they bring him and Baron Belil to the entrance?

    Could it be that this was the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince Frank Deboir¡¯s hospitality?

    The gate of the manor was made of pure iron. When the two came over, there was only a slit left in the door, so they didn¡¯t know whether to go in or not.

    The driver who had been silent the entire time looked at them before saying in an indifferent tone, ¡°You can go in yourselves, manager Como is waiting for you.¡±

    Xu Yi and Baron Belil looked at each other. When they wanted to ask, the driver gave a whip of the rein and left with the ck horse carriage.

    Looking at the ck horse carriage heading into the distance, Baron Belil¡¯s expression sunk slightly and he couldn¡¯t help giving a snort.

    But thinking of Xu Yi beside him, he immediately revealed an awkward smile.

    ¡°This......Chairman Xu.....I also never thought it would be like this.....¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He turned to look at the buildings in the distance and he thought that this distance represented the difference in identity between him and the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince.

    ¡°Enough, let¡¯s go.¡± Xu Yi opened it and walked in with an indifferent look.

    Baron Belil was surprised before quickly following him.

    It was around two to three kilometers to the buildings of the manor. Xu Yi¡¯s steps were stable and he wasn¡¯t walking fast, so the two of them took close to half an hour to arrive.

    When they came close, they found that the building was extremely big. Looking from left to right, the building was four hundred to five hundred meters wide and they couldn¡¯t see how deep it went.

    In the front garden, there was a middle aged man who looked to be around fifty with half white hair.

    Seeing the two slowly approach, the middle aged man didn¡¯t look happy as he said in a cold voice, ¡°From the gate to get here, it took you half an hour. If his highness had been waiting this long, you would havemitted a great crime.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°But the third highness isn¡¯t here, right?¡±

    The middle aged man was a bit surprised before giving a heavy snort and turning to head back in.

    Xu Yi patted the surprised Baron Belil on the shoulder and had him follow.

    When they came into the room after the middle aged man, he pointed at two chairs on the left to have them sit down.

    Xu Yi looked around and found that other than this middle aged man, there wasn¡¯t a single servant here.

    It seemed like no one here had treated the two of them as guests.

    Xu Yi suddenly revealed an apologetic smile to Baron Belil.

    Baron Belil was a bit confused.

    Xu Yi was brought by him and now that he was being treated like this, it was clearly he who had wronged Xu Yi. Why did Xu Yi feel sorry for him?

    He didn¡¯t know that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t thinking of himself. If just Baron Belil came here, then with his close rtionship with prince Frank, it was impossible for him to receive this kind of treatment.

    As for why he received this kind of treatment, Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that prince Frank did it on purpose because he was clear that his status wasn¡¯t anything in prince Frank¡¯s eyes. Naturally he wouldn¡¯t need to treat him specially.

    In this situation, the main reason for this should be the middle aged man named Como.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi sat down in the chair with his faint smile and looked at the middle aged man.

    The middle aged man gave a cough and said in a very indifferent voice, ¡°Let me introduce myself, I am Como, the manager for this manor of his highness. Chairman Xu, to be honest with you, you are currently not qualified to meet with his highness, so you can just tell me if you need something.¡±

    Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi with a bit of worry.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s position in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries, when had he been treated like this?

    If it was Baron Belil, he might have just flicked his sleeves in a fit of rage and left.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t reveal any strange expressions at all, he just kept the same smile.

    ¡°Alright, but I have a problem. Manager Como, can you make important decisions for his third majesty?¡±

    ¡°Important?¡± Manager Como coldly shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think that you and I can discuss anything that is important enough for his highness to personally make a decision.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Xu Yi revealed a strange smile, ¡°If it was just a single Magic Sedan for his third highness, it wouldn¡¯t be important. But this time, I¡¯vee to give his third highness an entire race track withplete racing teams, guaranteeing that the third highness will be very happy driving them.¡±

    Baron Belil¡¯s eyes opened wide and he was shocked.

    This fellow Xu Yi really was generous.

    A Magic Sedan was very expensive for normal people, but for the Candra Empire¡¯s third highness, several thousand gold coins wasn¡¯t even considered spending money.

    But Xu Yi was giving an entire race track to the third highness, this was worth several tens of thousands of gold coins.

    Not to mention that it included aplete race team!

    That was something that Baron Belil had always dreamed of!

    But ording to what Baron Belil knew, the racing team didn¡¯t just include the mechanics, it also included analysts, magic mechanical engineers, and various other professionals.

    Just the value of these people almost already surpassed that of the entire race track.

    To hire this team from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would cost at least thirty thousand gold coins.

    This kind of shocking cost even with Baron Belil¡¯s current ie was not something he could afford.

    However after manager Como heard this, his expression didn¡¯t change at all like he was a dead person.

    ¡°This is just a recreational activity for his highness, it isn¡¯t considered an important decision and it won¡¯t surprise his highness. But since you¡¯re willing to give it, his highness has agreed that I can ept it on his behalf.¡±

    Baron Belil let out a sigh of relief, it was good as long as he epted it.

    Xu Yi¡¯s goal was this, as long as manager Como epted it on behalf of prince Frank, that meant his mission wasplete.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t seem satisfied as he looked at manager Como and said, ¡°Manager Como, I really wish for his third highness to realize the pleasure of racing cars, so I hope that I can see his third highness riding in a Magic Sedan. Only then can I tell that my gift has meaning.¡±

    Hearing this, Baron Belil¡¯s expression changed.

    Manager Como was stunned before revealing a look of rage and shouting, ¡°How bold! What kind of thing do you think you are? His highness being willing to ept your thing is all because of Baron Belil¡¯s face and you actually dare to raise this kind of request?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I am a merchant. For a merchant, naturally I want to see returns on my investment. My reason for giving his third highness this gift this time is the hope that the third highness would enjoy racing. I think that this request isn¡¯t too much?¡±

    Manager Como flew into a rage, ¡°You really are wildly arrogant! Are you trying to threaten me?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m just stating a fact.¡± Xu Yi looked at manager Como with a smile, as if he didn¡¯t realize the meaning behind his words at all.

    ¡°Good! Very good!¡± Manager Como was smiling in anger, ¡°I never thought that a merchant from a small Stantine Duchy would dare say such words in front of me. You clearly don¡¯t put me in your eyes! Have you ever thought what kind of punishment you would receive after his majesty learned of your words?¡±

    ¡°No, rather, manager Como, if the third highness knew that I had a way to let him make over a million or even several million gold coins a year, wouldn¡¯t he be very grateful?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Several million gold coins a year?¡±

    Manager Como and Baron Belil were stunned, looking at Xu Yi like he was crazy.

 Volume 5 59 - Waiting for others to pick me up

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 59 Waiting for others to pick me up</h4>

    ¡°You¡¯re really confident in letting prince Frank earn several million a year? Isn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce only able to earn that much each year?¡±

    Baron Belil asked Xu Yi with a look of disbelief before looking back at prince Frank¡¯s manor that was disappearing behind the horse carriage with a bit of fear in his eyes.

    Xu Yi¡¯s attitude when facing manager Como was too strong and his words seemed like boasting to Baron Belil. He had thought that manager Como would fly into a rage and chase them out.

    But without knowing why, manager Como only had a look of disbelief at first before calming down. But he didn¡¯t give Xu Yi a certain answer and said without any emotion that he would pass all this onto prince Frank, leaving it up to his highness to decide.

    Then manager Como had directly sent them off.

    Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi who was calm and was even smiling and thought that chairman Xu really was crazy.

    No matter how famous he was in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, prince Frank was a prince of the Candra Empire. Their status greatly differed, so why did he say such bold words in front of manager Como?

    Sensing Baron Belil¡¯s gaze, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He didn¡¯t tell Baron Belil that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s annual iest year was close to twenty million, several million was something from several years ago.

    But thinking about it, in order for Baron Belil to remain calm, Xu Yi gave him an exnation.

    ¡°I¡¯m not certain that I can definitely do this, I was just describing a possibility for prince Frank. Moreover, I¡¯m certain that as long as prince Frank is willing to cooperate with us, helping him earn several million gold coins a year isn¡¯t a hard thing and he can even earn more than that.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re this certain?¡± Baron Belil slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi had a confident smile on his face, ¡°In the end, the Candra Empire is several times bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding countries added together, so they have more than ten times the people. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can earn this much money in the small kingdoms, of course we can earn more in the Candra Empire.

    ¡°It does sound very reasonable, but chairman Xu, prince Frank might not believe you have this ability. If he feels that you are only boasting, what will you do?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a calmugh, ¡°If prince Frank doesn¡¯t even have this bit of boldness and eyesight, then he isn¡¯t qualified to cooperate with ourpany.¡±

    Baron Belil couldn¡¯t help taking a deep breath.

    This Xu Yi, his tone really was strong.

    What kind of person was prince Frank, he was the respected prince of the Candra Empire!

    Even on the Sines Continent, he was one of the people at the very peak.

    This iparably noble and high up person, Xu Yi actually said......he wasn¡¯t qualified!

    As if he could guess what Baron Belil was thinking, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to doubt it, this is my judgement as a merchant. If prince Frank can¡¯t see the interests in cooperating with ourpany, that means that he isn¡¯t a qualified merchant. This is unrted to him as a prince.¡±

    Baron Belil shook his head. He thought that if prince Frank was as simple as you thought, this problem would be much easier to solve.

    Neither of them spoke for the rest of the trip.

    The ck horse carriage brought them to the border of the Candra Empire and the Norton Duchy, leaving them there.

    The two crossed the border and relied on their memory to find the Magic Sedan Xu Yi had left in the Norton Duchy.

    When they got in, seeing how eager Baron Belil looked, Xu Yi smiled and gestured for him to sit in the driver¡¯s seat.

    Baron Belil gave a chair and sat in without any courtesy, grabbing the steering wheel.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, this is your personal Magic Sedan, so it must be much stronger than the Magic Sedans that are being sold, right?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing.

    Baron Belil¡¯s excitement hadpletely disappeared half an hourter.

    He pped the steering wheel and angrilyined to Xu Yi, ¡°I say.....Chairman Xu, this is your personal vehicle! It¡¯s fine if it doesn¡¯t drive fast, but why isn¡¯t itfortable to sit in? You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, shouldn¡¯t they make the best vehicle just for you?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°What? You think that the car that I use has to be better than the ones being sold?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Baron Belil raised his voice, ¡°You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce! If even the Magic Sedan you use is like this, do you think that people will feel confident in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedans?¡±

    ¡°Of?¡± Xu Yi revealed a bit of surprise, ¡°Is this your idea or the idea of all the people who buy Magic Sedans?¡±

    ¡°This is the idea of a normal person, alright?¡± Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Which chairman would use the worst thing from theirpany?¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin and fell into thought.

    ¡°This really does sound reasonable. It seems like there is a bit of problem with how I didn¡¯t care about my ownfort. Alright, when I get back, I¡¯ll have them specially design a luxury car just for me.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it.¡± Baron Belil patted the steering wheel again, ¡°This poor car, how can it fit your status? Let me tell you, I wouldn¡¯t want this car even if you gave it to me.¡±

    ¡°Then if I give it to you now, do you want it?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Baron Belil was stunned, ¡°You......Are you joking?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m serious.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression became serious, it didn¡¯t seem like he was joking.

    Baron Belil was stunned for a while. He looked at the steering wheel in his hand before looking at Xu Yi in disbelief.

    ¡°This is your car, do you really want to give it to me?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m certain, do you want it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes!¡± Baron Belil replied without any hesitation, ¡°Even if this car is bad, it is a private car that you used before! Even if the car isn¡¯t that good, it is worth collecting just based on that one point.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you like it.¡± Looking at Baron Belil who acted like had gained some treasure, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He looked around outside the window before saying to Baron Belil, ¡°Alright, drive a bit forward and then you can let me off.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Baron Belil was surprised again, ¡°Let you off? This is the Norton Duchy, aren¡¯t you going back to the Stantine Duchy? Even if you don¡¯t go back for now, shouldn¡¯t you go to Noxus Town first.¡±

    ¡°Just do what I said.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Baron Belil could only mutter to himself as he followed Xu Yi¡¯s order. He continued for a bit on the road that led west from Noxus Town.

    He passed a mountain and arrived at a smallke where Xu Yi had Baron Belil stop.

    Seeing Xu Yi get out, Baron Belil thought about it before also getting out.

    He was very curious why Xu Yi had him let him off at a remote ce like this.

    Xu Yi slowly came to the side of theke and looked around. Then he took out a watch from his chest to look at before looking up at the sky.

    Baron Belil followed his gaze to look at the sky, but he only saw white clouds and blue sky.

    Other than seeing a few birds that flew by, there wasn¡¯t anything else.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what.....are you doing?¡± Baron Belil couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Waiting for someone to pick me up.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°Waiting for someone?¡± Baron Belil was confused as he looked around. He looked at the road for a while, but he didn¡¯t see anything at all, not to mention a Magic Sedan or even a horse carriage.

    The two stood by theke for a while. When Baron Belil couldn¡¯t take the curiosity in his heart and was about to ask again, he found Xu Yi¡¯s expression change as he looked at the sky. So he followed his gaze to look at the sky.

    There was suddenly a ck spot that had appeared in the sky to the west.

    It was a small ck dot at first, but then it quickly became bigger.

    In less than a few minutes, the ck spot had be a giant thing. It was like arge cloud that was floating above the two of them that slowly came to a stop.

    Baron Belil looked up to take a few more looks and couldn¡¯t help shouting in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, this......this seems to be yourpany¡¯s Magic Airship!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, the Magic Airship in the sky that was at least several hundred meters away began to descend.

    It was very slow at first, but then it became faster. When it reached the ground, it went from fast to slow beforending on the grass less than ten meters away from the two of them like a leaf.

    ¡°Alright, the people are here now. Baron Belil, although I¡¯m giving you this Magic Sedan, it¡¯s best if you take a trip to the Stantine Duchy and take care of the transfer procedure. Otherwise, when the Lampuri Kingdom starts implementing the public roadws, you¡¯ll encounter some problems.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Oh......¡± Baron Belil nodded in a daze. Looking at the Magic Airship, he wanted to say something, but he didn¡¯t know what to say.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m about to fly off, you should drive quickly. This ce isn¡¯t that far from the Lampuri Kingdom, but you¡¯ll still take an entire day to drive back there in this Magic Sedan.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand to Baron Belil before turning to walk onto the Magic Airship.

    The cabin door of the Magic Airship was already open. Xu Yi walked up the stairs of the Magic Airship before waving his hand onest time to Baron Belil and the door closed.

    After a while, the Magic Airship trembled before leaving the ground.

    When it was floating twenty meters off the ground, the Magic Airship stopped before quickly floating into the air.

    This time, it was moving very fast. In just the blink of an eye, it had reached over a hundred meters in the sky and was already over a thousand meters away.

    Watching therge Magic Airship flying further in the sky and turning into a ck not long after beforepletely disappearing, Baron Belil couldn¡¯t help swallowing his saliva.

    Damn! This is called handsome!

    Compared to the Magic Airship, what was the Magic Sedan? It was simply a toy for children!

 Volume 5 60 - Long distance Magic Positioning System

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 60 Long distance Magic Positioning System</h4>

    The Magic Airship had justunched off when Akali came over with a smile on her face.

    ¡°Hey, chairman, is the Magic Positioning System I made good?¡±

    Xu Yi took out the thing that was like a pocket watch from his chest and looked at the faint blue glow on it before nodding with a faint smile.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s indeed not bad, but you¡¯re five minutester than the scheduled time.¡±

    Akali pursed her lips, ¡°It¡¯s only five minutes! Chairman, don¡¯t forget, you requested us to fly from several thousand kilometers away to find you in a ce that we¡¯ve never been before. This is a very difficult matter, what does five minutes count for?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, all experiments should aim for absolute perfection.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. Then he looked at Akali who didn¡¯t look convinced and said with a smile, ¡°Of course, the results of this experiment were good. Not only did the long distance Magic Positioning System you invented have its merit, the Magic Airship has seeded in flying over two thousand kilometers for the first time. So.....¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi deliberately drew out his voice, Akali¡¯s team and the Magic Airship¡¯s crew all perked their ears.

    Because ording to the customs of sir chairman, he would definitely give a reward at this time.

    As expected, after Xu Yi gave a pause, he continued with a smile, ¡°I¡¯ll give you a second grade reward. It can be issued as soon as we return to thepany.¡±

    ¡°Yay!¡±

    ¡°Great!¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you really are great!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha......¡±

    ......

    Everyone excitedly jumped up.

    Receiving a second grade reward from Xu Yi did not just mean a big bonus and benefits, the most important thing was that they had obtained Xu Yi¡¯s approval on their research.

    For the researchers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was their highest honour.

    Xu Yi looked at Akali who was celebrating with the researchers and asked, ¡°Right, how far out did you find the signal I was sending?¡±

    Akali stopped to think before replying, ¡°It should be around five thousand meters, let me take a look.¡±

    Akali went to the front of the Magic Airship and not long after, she took out a pocket watch that was simr to Xu Yi¡¯s, but there were quite a fewrge circles on it. She pointed at the data on it and said, ¡°Look, the urate number is five thousand six hundred and seventy three meters. As for the precise decimal points.....Ke, we can¡¯t measure that precisely right now.¡±

    ¡°Un, being able to reach meters is already quite good, you can do better in the future.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he encouraged her.

    This time, Xu Yi felt heartfelt appreciation for Akali.

    When he proposed to the magic research facility researchers to have a device that could measure distance based on magic transmission, he never thought that Akali would get so deep into this topic.

    This long distance Magic Positioning System, the principle behind it came from Akali¡¯s magic resonance technology.

    With resonance of two Magic Arrays, it could let both sides resonate together within a certain range. ,Then through inferencing the frequency and velocity of the elemental magic energy waves, one could find the direction and distance of the other Magic Array.

    This was something that Xu Yi never thought of before, but Akali had thought of it. It really made one have to appreciate her intelligence.

    Although this long distance Magic Positioning System was still in the beginning stages and because of the limits of the magic resonance technology, the tracking distance was quite short, it couldn¡¯t even surpass two kilometers. But the appearance of this system was simply a sign of advancement for the Sines Continent.

    If Akali¡¯s team kept studying the magic resonance technology and made a breakthrough, then the distance of this Magic Positioning System would increase. It would reach the levels of his previous world and it would have a deep influence on many things like this.

    For example, Xu Yi took this chance of entering the Candra Empire to meet prince Frank to have Evita fly this Magic Airship all the way from the Stantine Duchy. It was to test the long distance flying ability while also picking Xu Yi up with the long distance Magic Positioning System.

    If there wasn¡¯t this system, it would have been impossible for the Magic Airship several hundred meters in the air to find Xu Yi in this unfamiliar ce.

    Of course, if it wasn¡¯t for their understanding of the Norton Duchy, the Magic Airship wouldn¡¯t have been able to approach Xu Yi at all.

    This was due to the map of the Norton Duchy that Xu Yi had collected ahead of time.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked around. He couldn¡¯t find Evita, so he turned to move to the front cabin of the Magic Airship.

    Compared to the middle cabin, the front cabin was much smaller, only having the control bridge and two simple seats.

    Evita was sitting in the middle seat, currently focused on reading a book.

    ¡°Hey, Evita, what are you busy with? You don¡¯t even have time toe and see me?¡± Xu Yi teased.

    Evita trembled before quickly turning. When she saw Xu Yi, she revealed a bright smile and stood up.

    ¡°Sorry, sir chairman, I was just collecting data from the airshipnding and taking off in different environments and didn¡¯te to see you. It really was my fault.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m only joking.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand. His eyes fell onto the thick book in front of Evita and asked, ¡°This is the data that you collected on the way here?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Evita nodded with a bit of excitement in her eyes, ¡°Sir chairman, actually we should have conducted this long distance flight test a long time before. Through this voyage, I¡¯ve found many ws that the Magic Airship had. If we can improve these ws after getting back, I believe that the Magic Airship will be much betterpared to before!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I say, Evita, the Magic Airship is your most precious work, how can you be so happy finding all these ws with it?¡±

    Evita¡¯s gentle look revealed a confident smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯ve told us many times, experimenting is the process of finding problems and the more problems found means that the experiment was done perfectly. If we didn¡¯t do this long distance test flight, we wouldn¡¯t have found all these ws. Then when we manufactured these, there would be problems when they were used and even.....idents.....¡±

    Speaking of this, Evita¡¯s expression became a bit serious.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you hope to use the Magic Airship to let normal people also fly in the skies. Then if there are any problems with the Magic Airships, those normal people can¡¯t fly in the air like magicians, so there would be serious idents and not everyone can withstand that.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯ve always gone against putting the Magic Airships into mass production and don¡¯t even mind me going against the agreement with her highness Seveni?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Evita gave a nod with a serious look, ¡°If a problem urs with the Magic Airships, the consequences would be too serious. So I must be very, very, very careful.¡±

    Hearing Evita use ¡°very¡± three times, Xu Yi looked at Evita for a bit before suddenly breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Good, very good! Evita, I really wasn¡¯t wrong about you. Studying a precise and fine magic machine like the Magic Airship really suits you.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Chairman, you¡¯re saying that my research isn¡¯t fine and precise?¡±

    There was Akali¡¯s unconvinced voice that came from behind.

    Xu Yi turned and found it a bit funny as he looked at Akali who had suddenly appeared. He shook his head and said, ¡°That is a different concept. Your research requires bold and even crazy thinking, but Evita¡¯s research requires consideration for fine tuned aspects. You¡¯re not suited for Evita¡¯s research and she¡¯s not suited for your research.¡±

    Akali gave a satisfied nod, ¡°That is more like it.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He turned back to Evita and reached out a hand.

    ¡°You should have recorded the topography on the way, right? Let me see the map.¡±

    Evita agreed and took out a small booklet from under the control panel for Xu Yi.

    Opening this small booklet, Xu Yi found several finely drawn maps.

    The final map included the east of the Mirando Duchy and the midwest of the Norton Duchy.

    But these maps weren¡¯tplete because the Magic Airship had flown straight from the Stantine Duchy, they didn¡¯t have enough time topletely go around the Mirando Duchy and the Norton Duchy.

    Xu Yi took these maps and took out a simple map of the Sines Continent made before, finding that there were quiterge differences on the map.

    Thinking about it carefully, Xu Yi felt that there were two reasons for theserge differences.

    One was that the person who had drawn this simple map of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t meet all the requirements. So he didn¡¯t have precise information when he drew the map, so naturally the map drawn wasn¡¯t as urate.

    The other reason was that Evita didn¡¯t have the same specialized map drawing skills as this person.

    But this knowledge wasn¡¯t important on the Sines Continent and Xu Yi didn¡¯t study this, so naturally he couldn¡¯t guide Evita.

    But Evita¡¯s maps had some small mistakes, so he could see it with one nce and pointed them out.

    They all gathered around it for a bit before Akali suddenly asked, ¡°Chairman, why do you care this much about drawing maps? Anyway, I think that the general location is already good enough.¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s far from enough.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a serious look, ¡°An urate map can make many things more convenient for us. Not mentioning anything else, at least when wee again, we wouldn¡¯t make any deviations. Of course, there are many other functions......¡±

    Akali gave a shrug, thinking that sir chairman must have some plot in his heart, but she wasn¡¯t interested in them. She looked at the map again and asked, ¡°Then where should we go next? Chairman, you said before that you need us to bring you somewhere even further.¡±

    ¡°Un, that ce is several hundred kilometers or even a thousand kilometers away from here.¡± Xu Yi took out two maps and pointed at two spots on them.

    ¡°Here, it¡¯s this ce.¡±

    Akali and Evita looked at it before revealing surprised looks.

    ¡°Sir chairman, isn¡¯t this the sea?¡±

 Volume 5 61 - Bored life on the sea

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 61 Bored life on the sea</h4>

    The endless seas in the first parts of summer were endlessly changing.

    As soon as there was a storm, the clouds would scatter and the sun woulde out. Then the damp and cold seas would be covered in clouds, just like a fairnd.

    Seeing a figure appear in front of him before that dancing figure disappeared again, Leslie spat out. His spit was salty because of the salt water that had been sshing from the sea.

    This was eight hundred kilometers away from Thunderbolt Ind and it was more than three hundred kilometers away from the nearest coast.

    Looking around, not to mention a ship, he couldn¡¯t even see a ghost.

    Other than flocks of seabirds, as well as fish and sea beasts that they couldn¡¯t see the true forms of on the surface of the sea, they could only see a few small inds scattered around.

    This ce was bleak, but it wasn¡¯t deste.

    Seeing therge schools of fishes that were in the surrounding seas, Leslie knew that this trip wasn¡¯t empty.

    The fish near the coasts were sparse because they had been caught by the fishermen over the years, but there were still countless delicious fishes and sea beasts that were deeper in the sea. One could imagine just how much better people¡¯s lives would be if they had the resources of the sea.

    It was no wonder Leslie had heard something before, if you want to be rich, head out to sea.

    Just with the schools of fishes that he saw, he could sell them for at least several tens of thousands of gold coins on the short. It was enough for a normal person to never worry about their needs again.

    Not to mention that the fish seemed endless, they had seen countless schools of fishes on their journey. If they found a way to sell these fish, it would be enough for countless people to be rich.

    Of course, Leslie leading the guard fleet away from Thunderbolt Ind and heading deeper into the sea wasn¡¯t to find fish.

    His main mission this time was to chase the pirates near the coast, further expanding the area of influence of Thunderbolt Ind. At the same time, he would develop his reputation by the coast, giving himself the name of the pirate king.

    It should be said that he was very good at aplishing this.

    After sweeping out all the pirates by the coast of the Rudson Kingdom, Leslie led the guard fleet east. Along the way, he would attack any pirates that he heard about.

    As for the results......

    With twenty medium guard Magic Ships and close to a hundred Magic Speed Boats, with countless Magic Repeating Crossbows, Magic Bazookas, and guard teams with Magic Cannons, they cut down those trivial wooden boats like nothing. It was more than what the pirates armed with simple bows and javelins could match.

    No matter which pirates they were, they couldn¡¯t even touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. They had been sunk under the attacks of the countless arrows and Magic Rockets, turning into ghosts on the sea.

    In just a single month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet led by Leslie had created a big name for themselves in the southern seas of the Candra Empire.

    In these seas, the strange boats madepletely of iron were like devils for most people.

    In thest half a month, as long as the pirates heard that Leslie¡¯s guard fleet was approaching, their first choice was to run. They never dared to have a thought of resistance.

    So Leslie hadn¡¯t experienced a single fight in the past half a month, it had always been peaceful.

    This made Leslie feel a bit bored.

    When he decided to be a pirate, he wanted to leave the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that he had been on the seas for this long, he found that he had already fallen in love with this kind of life.

    Although life on the seas wasn¡¯t stable and tough, being on these boundless seas all day gave him a sense of carelessness and freedom that he had never felt before.

    And fighting with the pirates also made him feel pleased. Watching those pirates who did many evil things disappear, he didn¡¯t feel any guilt at all, he just felt happiness.

    The only thing he wasn¡¯t happy about was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet that Xu Yi gave him was too strong. It was so strong that the pirates couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    This made him feel like he had been bullying children and he couldn¡¯t derive any happiness from it.

    He had mentioned this to Narvil of the transport fleet and he had received the indirect, but very clear despising of Narvil.

    ¡°On the seas, having peace is what one wants the most, who would want to seek death.¡±

    Leslie wasn¡¯t a boorish fellow, so of course he understood this, but that didn¡¯t stop him from feeling bored.

    ¡°Ha.¡±

    Perhaps it was the warm sunlight or perhaps it was because it was too boring, but Leslie suddenly felt tired and couldn¡¯t help giving arge yawn.

    Looking at the calm waves in front of him, Leslie was certain that no deaths would seek their own deaths, so he should take this time to take a nap.

    ording to the goal that Xu Yi gave Narvil, his next task was topletely control the southern seas of the Candra Empire, creating a connection to all the seas of the Sines Continent through the southern seas.

    This mission was very hard and long, it couldn¡¯t be finished in one or two months.

    Leslie knew that it might be possible that he would never return to the Lampuri Kingdom and staying on the seas might be his destiny, so he wasn¡¯t against Xu Yi¡¯s task at all. Anyway, he would just treat it as his life¡¯s task instead.

    Of course, this didn¡¯t affect him finding time to take an afternoon nap.

    However, when he was prepared to enter his private cabin, Leslie suddenly felt the hull shake and the speed decrease.

    This sound didn¡¯t seem like they had hit some hidden reef, it should be the crew discovering something.

    Leslie looked up at the lookout on the high mast and took out his Magic Communicator.

    ¡°What is the situation?¡±

    The voice of the person in the mast rang out, sounding a bit worried.

    ¡°Sir, there¡¯s arge number of boats in front of us that seems to be charging right at us!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Leslie was a bit surprised before suddenly focusing, ¡°Ha, ha, great! Is it some blind pirates who are seeking their death? This master was just getting bored and now that people are sending themselves to me, that¡¯s great!¡±

    After being with the sailors on the seas for a long time, the gentle and noble Viscount Leslie in the hearts of all the noble youngdies of Anvilmar City and Banta City had already be a bit vulgar.

    The lookout wasn¡¯t as excited as Leslie, rather his tone had a bit of panic in it.

    ¡°Sir, it seems.....It seems like they aren¡¯t pirates because I can see......the g of the Candra Empire hanging on those ships?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Leslie was surprised, ¡°They actually have the gs of the Candra Empire? Are you certain you¡¯re not mistaken?¡±

    The lookout was silent for a bit before his voice rang out again.

    ¡°Yes, this subordinate hasn¡¯t made a mistake, it is indeed the golden lion with a green background g of the Candra Empire.¡±

    Leslie knit his brows to think. He put his nearby railing and forcefully stepping off, he suddenly flew high up.

    Then with several steps in the air, his hand reached the highest railing and he was already in the observation deck that was over ten meters tall in the air.

    ¡°Give it to me.¡± Leslie took the telescope from the lookout and looked in the direction he pointed.

    Through the lens of the telescope, he saw that there were indeed thirty or forty boats that were quickly heading in their direction.

    These boats were twice asrge as thergest pirate boat that Leslie had seen, they weren¡¯t even that much smallerpared to the medium guard Magic Ships that were under him.

    Leslie had been on the sea for some time, but this was his first time seeing such arge wooden boat.

    Moreover, these wooden boats were all the same and there were over a hundred smaller boats with them, quickly moving across the sea. They looked quite powerful as they sailed over.

    Just based on their aura, Lesie was certain that they definitely weren¡¯t pirates because pirates didn¡¯t have this kind of terrifying power.

    In this area, other than the fleet of the Candra Empire, it was impossible for there to be such a powerful force on the sea.

    Seeing the giant golden lion with a green background g that was on those ships, Leslie was even more certain that these ships belonged to the fleet of the Candra Empire.

    But this made him very confused. Why would the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet suddenlye out and look for him?

    ¡°Sir, they¡¯re about to reach our range, what do we do? Do we fight them?¡± The lookout suddenly asked in a nervous voice.

    ¡°Fight your butt!¡± Leslie red at him.

    The other side was the official fleet of the Candra Empire, if they really fought, that would be equal to dering war on the Candra Empire.

    Even if Leslie was bored, he wouldn¡¯t do such a dumb thing.

    Not to mention that Xu Yi was trying to cooperate with the Candra Empire. If Leslie really did this, it would be equal to cutting off all possibilities.

    ¡°Then what do we do? Could it be that we should let them enter our danger range?¡± The lookout was a bit scared.

    Leslie looked at the hundred boats approaching in the telescope again and after thinking about it, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Give down my order, have all the ships stop. However, they should be prepared to go on my order at any time.¡±

    The lookout sent down the orders.

    Leslie silently waited for a bit and seeing those boats gradually slow down as they approached, he let out a sigh of relief. He jumped off the mast and came to the front of the deck.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet waspletely stopped on the sea and the Candra Empire¡¯s ships entered their effective range. They kepting forward and they stopped only five hundred meters away from the first medium guard Magic Ship.

    Leslie standing on the front slightly knit his brows.

    This distance, they could already fire as many arrows as they wanted.

    The Candra Empire fleet doing this meant that they could attack at any moment.

    After a while, there was a voice that came from the foremost ship of the other side.

 Volume 5 62 - Dishonest escape

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 62 Dishonest escape</h4>

    ¡°The ships in front, we are the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet, we are ordering you to stop and ept our inspection! If you resist, the consequences are your own fault!¡±

    Leslie knit his brows even deeper.

    It wasn¡¯t because the tone of the other side was impolite, but because the other side was still five hundred meters out and their voice could still ring clearly through the air.

    To achieve this effect, it was clear they had a magician with sound amplifying magic on the other boat.

    Unless they were the same as them, equipped with the Magic Loudspeaker technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Taking the loudspeaker from the crew member beside him, Leslie cleared his throat before testing the sound of the loudspeaker. Then he raised his voice to say, ¡°The fleet on the other side, you have already entered our range. Please stop your action of moving forward, otherwise you will suffer our counter attack. This is your warning.¡±

    Themander of the Candra Empire third royal fleet Candor standing on the deck of the first ship was a bit surprised before being filled with rage.

    These fellows, they simply didn¡¯t know what was good for them!

    He had led the Candra Empire¡¯s third fleet¡¯s first army out and represented the will of the Candra Empire royal army, but the fellow on the other side dared to be this impudent. He even dared to say.....he would counter attack?

    He dared!

    Candor gave a cold snort and raised a brow to the vicemander in charge of shouting to the other side.

    The vicemander gave a nod to show he understood before he continued to raise his voice in the Magic Array set by the magician, ¡°The people of the other side, not that this is our final warning. You will stop to ept the inspection. If you dare resist, we will immediately attack!¡±

    Leslie couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He thought that these fellows calling themselves the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet didn¡¯t n on reasoning with them at all.

    But since they had overe here with over a hundred ships, it was clear they weren¡¯t nning on reasoning.

    Of course, it seemed right when he thought about it.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet was in charge of the seas around the Candra Empire. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet that was an unknown fleet had been moving across their territory, even if they were sweeping across all the pirates, destroying several dozen pirate groups, this was a p to the face for the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    No matter how many inds there were in the sea, this was the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet¡¯s matter, no one else could manage them.

    If this mysterious fleet that had appeared was another pirate group, that would be easy to handle. The royal fleet didn¡¯t even need to give a warning and they could just directly attack.

    But based on the information, this mysterious fleet had only targeted pirates after appearing in this area. They had never attacked normal fishing vessels or merchant vessels, it was like they were only targeting pirates.

    Moreover, based on the news they received, this mysterious fleet seemed like it was connected to a certainpany from a small country.

    Although the Candra Empire didn¡¯t put this small country andpany in their eyes, as one of the two empires of the continent, they still wanted their reputation.

    So after the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet found this mysterious fleet, they would first try to discuss in a normal manner.

    They brought the entire third fleet out, so they weren¡¯t worried about anything happening.

    Through the information obtained through various channels, this mysterious fleet was very powerful. The pirates in this area couldn¡¯t resist their attacks at all.

    Candor didn¡¯t believe this at first and had treated it as a rumour, feeling that these pirates had exaggerated the strength of their enemies because of their own failures.

    But seeing the twenty ships that were even bigger than the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet¡¯s ships and how they released a metallic glow, seeming like giant metal ships that floated on the sea, he was shocked.

    This boat that waspletely made of metal had already surpassed his knowledge.

    To him, no matter what metal it was, it would have a terrifying weight. The weight of such a ship must be even greater, but now it was floating on the sea, this was simply unbelievable!

    As for how this ship sailed on the sea and how people said that it was incredibly fast, Candor couldn¡¯t understand at all.

    But that didn¡¯t affect Candor¡¯s confidence.

    He had led the entire third fleet out, with thirty eight Thunderp Grade Giant Warships, one hundred and thirty seven Maelstrom Grade Medium Warships, as well as over ten thousand soldiers.

    Not to mention twenty of these ships, even if they had twice the numbers, he was confident in taking care of the other side.

    However......

    To Leslie, the hundred ships that Candor confidently led was no different from a pile of wood scraps.

    in these two months, he had easily defeated countless pirates and had experience fighting on the seas.

    Even if the boats of the pirates couldn¡¯tpare to those of the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet, being much weaker in terms of quality and battle strength, through these many battles, Leslie knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet that he led used apletely different method of fighting.

    Compared to the traditional method ofbat of shooting arrows and then boarding each other, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet¡¯s method of fighting was countless times more advanced.

    Unless the other side was also equipped with military magic machines like Magic Cannons, Leslie wasn¡¯t worried that the other side would be able to threaten them at all.

    Thinking of this, Leslie was very calm as he thought about it. He revealed a smile and didn¡¯t care about the warning of the other side as he raised the Magic Loudspeaker in his hand.

    ¡°Hello Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, please allow us to identify ourselves. We are the guard fleet for the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we are only passing in these seas, we do not have any intentions of attacking the Candra Empire. Because of the strict rules of sailing, please forgive us, but we cannot let youe aboard our vessel to investigate.¡±

    Leslie¡¯s words were already considered quite passive, it was clear that he didn¡¯t want to fight the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    However, there was another meaning when Candor heard this.

    ¡°Humph! You¡¯re not willing to let us search? Dole, warn them one final time and if they don¡¯t listen, don¡¯t be polite!¡±

    The vicemander named Dole nodded. When he was about to speak, he suddenly found that the twenty iron monsters on the other side had trembled, as they began to slowly retreat.

    Candor¡¯s expression immediately sunk.

    ¡°They actually want to escape? That is just wishful thinking! Send down my orders, immediately attack!

    The vicemander Dole¡¯s expression changed slightly. He thought that the other side never showed any hostility and they had clearly identified themselves. They were a fleet guard that was under normalpany and if they attacked like this, it would have some effect on the reputation of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    When he was about to convince Candor otherwise, Dole saw that hismander was stunned like he had seen a ghost.

    Following his eyes, Dole saw a scene that hadpletely shocked him.

    In the beginning, those twenty boats had only slowly retreated, but in the blink of an eye, when he turned back, he found that the twenty boats didn¡¯t need to turn at all and had quickly sailed off.

    Those twenty boats had created twenty giant waves on the calm seas and in just a few breaths, they were already several hundred meters away.

    Dole was stunned as he watched those twenty ships quickly sailing away. Although themander had ordered him to attack, the other side was already over a thousand meters away and were out of the range of their arrows, so how would they attack?

    Moreover, based on the terrifying speed of the other side, it would be impossible for them to catch them.

    Candor looked at the twenty ships creating giant waves in shock for a bit before finally reacting. He angrily shouting, ¡°What are you in a daze for! Chase for me! We definitely can¡¯t let them escape!¡±

    Dole gave a bitterugh in his heart, but he still sent down themander¡¯s orders.

    But to pass this order down to a hundred ships was not an easy thing.

    After all the ships of the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet had received this order, they slowly began to move. At this time, Dole suddenly found that there were several bright spots on the ocean.

    These bright spots were like stars in the sky at first, but when they came close, they turned into mes flying on the ocean.

    Dole remembered some of the rumours of this mysterious fleet and was shocked. When he wanted to call out, he saw the mes in the sky dip down, falling two hundred meters away from the ship that he and themander were on.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Countless deafening explosions rang out. There were already waves on the sea because of the other side¡¯s escape, but now there were countless water columns that filled the sky.

    These water columns reached up to twenty meters in the air, as if there were giant fountain streams at the bottom of the sea.

    Along with these explosions, waves that were several meters tall spread all over. It reached them in just a bit and the Thunderp Grade Giant Warship under them shook from the waves.

    The smaller Maelstrom Ships were jolted by the waves and several of them were close to capsizing.

    Dole turned his head to look at Candor with a bit of lingering fear, but he only saw the dark look on themander¡¯s face and eyes that were filled with endless rage.

    This attack was clearly from that fleet and had been a warning for them.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet had been established all these years and had been invincible on these seas all this time, when had they ever been humiliated like this?

    However, Candor was clear that the other side had shown mercy. Otherwise, if those powerful attacks hadnded on their fleet or even their ship, the consequences could be imagined.

    After being silent for a bit, Candor¡¯s fist hit the railing of the ship as he squeezed out several words through the gap in his teeth.

    ¡°Good, Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, I will remember you!¡±

 Volume 5 63 - Opening up the entire southern sea

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 63 Opening up the entire southern sea</h4>

    Leslie put down the telescope in his hand and gave a satisfied nod.

    The closest Magic Rocket hadnded at least two hundred meter away from the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, so there weren¡¯t any substantial losses for them. He was very satisfied with this result and could be assured.

    Even if Leslie didn¡¯t care about the battle strength of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, they did represent the Candra Empire¡¯s royal army. If they really caused harm to the other side, it would be equal to dering war on the Candra Empire.

    No matter how bold Leslie was, he wouldn¡¯t do such a wild thing.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, since we have already escaped, why did we fire the Magic Rockets to scare them? There was no effect and this would definitely anger the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet. If we want to be active in these seas in the future, it won¡¯t be easy.,¡±

    The lookout beside him took the telescope from Leslie and looked into the distance, feeling a bit worried.

    Leslie gave augh. He thought that if you want to ask me this, who should I ask?

    If it was based on his idea and judgement, he clearly wouldn¡¯t want any conflict with the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    Since he wasn¡¯t willing to let the other side search their ship, directly escaping was already a very good choice.

    Since he had already escaped, they should just focus on running.

    No matter how the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet wanted to cause trouble, it wouldn¡¯t be easy to find them on these broad seas.

    Not to mention that with the difference in speed between them, even if they did meet, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet would never be able to catch them.

    He believed that the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet fellows weren¡¯t fools. They would definitely give up the idea of chasing after seeing the difference in their speed.

    But now that they had attacked the other side while escaping, even if it was only to give them a warning, doing this gave the entire matter apletely different meaning.

    If the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet searching the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was considered normal business, with these Magic Rockets being fired out, this was openly attacking the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet and was considered a challenge to the Candra Empire¡¯s royal army.

    The Candra Empire side definitely wouldn¡¯t take this provocation and would investigate this.

    What was worse was that Leslie had revealed his identity, so the other side knew that they were a guard fleet under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t find them on the broad seas, it was no problem for them to find the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the strange words Xu Yi said, this was called a monk can run, but the temple can¡¯t.

    So Leslie felt that their actions werepletely unnecessary and could even be considered stupid.

    But all of this had been......incited by Xu Yi.

    When they set off from the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi had specially talked to Leslie in private. He had told him that after entering the Candra Empire¡¯s seas, he made arrangements for today¡¯s matters.

    Leslie had approved of Xu Yi¡¯s wild idea then, but after really doing it today, he felt that this method was just too.....Un, too crazy......

    When thinking of the confident smile Xu Yi had when they left, Leslie gave a bitterugh. He felt that he could understand that fellow¡¯s thoughts less and less.

    He didn¡¯t know where this fellow had the confidence to do this. Wasn¡¯t he worried that if he angered the Candra Empire, not only would they retaliate, it would be very likely that his idea of opening therge magic machine market in the Candra Empire would be destroyed?

    When he was thinking about the long term n Xu YI mentioned, the lookout beside him suddenly called out.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, look!¡±

    Leslie looked at where the lookout was pointing and saw that in the distant blue sky, there was a shadow quickly flying over.

    Seeing this familiar shadow, Leslie slowly let out a breath.

    ¡°This fellow, he¡¯s finally here.¡±

    Five minutester, the Magic Airshipnded on the medium Magic Ship that Leslie had been on.

    The medium Magic Ship sunk a bit, but it still floated steadily on the ocean, letting Leslie¡¯s nervous heart calm down a bit.

    The door of the Magic Airship opened and Xu YI was the first one who came out.

    When they saw Xu Yi, all the crew on the deck gave him a respectful bow.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became more and more influential in the surrounding countries, everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce felt more and more respect for Xu Yi.

    Although Leslie wasn¡¯t like the normal staff members, when seeing Xu Yie out of the Magic Airship with a confident smile on his face, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit emotional.

    When he had first seen Xu Yi, he was still a smallpany¡¯s chairman and a small magician who didn¡¯t have any fame. His status was far from being able topare to Leslie¡¯s.

    But in about five years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be a giant first sspany that could affect the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, and Xu Yi had be a powerful Great Magician.

    This change was something that Leslie never would have imagined back then.

    He also never thought that there would be a day when he would be Xu Yi¡¯s subordinate, working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    These emotions didn¡¯t affect the smile on Leslie¡¯s face. He came forward to tap Xu Yi¡¯s chest with his fist before saying with a smile, ¡°Xu Yi, you came toote. If you came a bit earlier, you would have seen a good y.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi revealed a confused look.

    Leslie told him about running into the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet just now.

    After he finished, Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t really change as he just asked, ¡°You¡¯re certain that no ship was damaged at all? You¡¯re also certain that no one died?¡±

    Leslie gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m not bad at discretion. Rx, I¡¯m certain that they didn¡¯t suffer any losses. But Xu Yi.....even if they didn¡¯t suffer any losses, I¡¯m certain that they will be angered by us doing this, which might be bad for our fleet and the entirepany.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Angering them isn¡¯t necessarily bad for us. If I said that this would make my n easier, would you believe it?¡±

    Leslie shook his head. He wanted to say he didn¡¯t believe it, but seeing the mysterious smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he swallowed his words.

    Since Xu Yi started the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had done many crazy things, but the final results every time had shown that his decisions had been correct. No matter what, he would gain plenty of benefits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this time he angered one of the two empires of the Sines Continent, wasn¡¯t he worried about ying with fire?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t pay attention to Leslie¡¯s thoughts. He asked him about the journey of the guard fleet, when he learned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet had be the overlord of the surrounding several hundred kilometers and that no pirates dared to challenge them, he felt assured.

    ¡°This is good, but it¡¯s still not enough. Leslie, I hope that you can control the Candra Empire¡¯s seas and the southeast seas of the Sines Continent in three months.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Leslie slightly knit his brows, ¡°That might be impossible. It would be no problem if it was just the pirates, but now that the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet is also involved and because we have fully offended them, we will definitely be limited in our activity in the Candra Empire¡¯s seas. We really can¡¯t just fight with them......¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Actually, my specific request is that I want you to create a trade route that can pass by the Sines Continent¡¯s southern seas. I want you to guarantee that we can go from the Stantine Duchy to the southeast seas safely, so we can transport our cargo to the southeast coast of the continent.¡±

    Leslie¡¯s brows raised, ¡°What? Are you nning on spreading even further?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, they were the ones who delivered themselves to us.¡±

    Leslie couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile, ¡°Alright, as long as the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet doesn¡¯t cause any mess, it shouldn¡¯t be hard controlling the southern seas. Of course, I don¡¯t have enough ships and manpower under me right now, it is very hard to control thisrge area with just them. I need you to give me some more men and ships.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯re solving that problem right now, but Leslie, you should also know that it¡¯s impossible to control the seas with just ships. The best method is to control arge portion of the inds like Thunderbolt Ind and build a base that belongs to ourpany on each one. That way, not only can we control the seas, we can also make it easier to resupply out ships.¡±

    ¡°Un, this method is the safest.¡± Leslie nodded, ¡°But it would cost an astronomical amount, so are you certain?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a toothy grin as he said with augh, ¡°Leslie, don¡¯t forget, there are endless resources on the seas. Although the investments are big, the ie is also very big.¡±

    Leslie couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    He had forgotten, this fellow Xu Yi was a very standard merchant, how could he do business that would suffer a loss?

 Volume 5 64 - Coming back the same way

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 64 Coming back the same way</h4>

    After meeting with Leslie, Xu Yi and Evita¡¯s group rested on the ship for a bit before heading off on the Magic Airship the next morning.

    However, they didn¡¯t head back to the Stantine Duchy, but rather they headed even further east.

    Looking at the endless seas to the east, Leslie took a deep breath. He thought that fellow Xu Yi really was ambitious.

    While others were still considering how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would stabilize the situation in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding countries, he had actually set his eyes on the Candra Empire.

    And now, he was focusing on somewhere even further. He wanted to bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products to the furthest eastern point of the continent.

    But the sea in front of him was endless and Xu Yi¡¯s currently destination was very remote.

    First not mentioning whether he could reach it or not, just being able to smoothly reach the destination was a very worrying problem.

    Actually, Xu Yi was also a bit worried about this.

    This was the first long distance journey for the Magic Airship Evita had designed. From the Stantine Duchy toe meeting Leslie on the Candra Empire¡¯s seas, they had travelled over three thousand kilometers.

    If they wanted to reach their destination, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, just based on the map, they would have to travel over two thousand kilometers.

    This meant that this trip had surpassed a distance of over five thousand kilometers one way.

    On the current Sines Continent, a trip of over five thousand kilometers was almost impossible to do.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s group riding the Magic Airship, because of the Magic Airship¡¯s speed of over a hundred kilometers an hour and its strong ability to continue flying, this trip might be possible.

    ¡°Evita, how far have we gone so far?¡±

    Evita was looking down at the sea below the Magic Airship through the windows and could vaguely seend in the distance. Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, she turned back with a smile and said, ¡°We¡¯ve already flown for over six hundred kilometers. Sir chairman, ording to my estimates, we should be able to fly out of the Candra Empire¡¯s area by today.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That is quite fast.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, but he didn¡¯t really agree with his appraisal in his heart.

    The airnes on earth could fly at a thousand kilometers an hour, five thousand kilometers would only take half a day to travel.

    But the Magic Airship could only barely reach a hundred kilometers an hour. To travel five thousand kilometers, even if they didn¡¯t stop at all, it would take over fifty hours, which was just over two days.

    Of course,pared to traveling onnd in the Magic Cars that were limited by the geography, the Magic Airships were much faster.

    Not to mention the old horse carriage style of the Sines Continent, the Magic Airship was apletely other level of transportation.

    Instead ofparing speeds, Xu Yi cared more about the uracy of the flight path.

    The Sines Continent didn¡¯t have the same airnes as on earth which through satellite guidance systems, could guarantee they would be flying on the right route. To make sure that they reached their goal, it would depend on the pilot¡¯s judgement.

    Although Evita¡¯s team had experience in cruising, this was their first long distance experiment, so it was a big challenge for them.

    But they had gone two thousand kilometers from the Stantine Duchy to find Xu Yi in the Norton Duchy, which meant that they had the ability for this. So Xu Yi only cared about it, but he wasn¡¯t worried.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I n on letting it cruise at a constant speed after it turns dark and it should take around eight hours. If nothing goes wrong, we should enter the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom when morninges.¡± Evita exined her n to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at the sky that was getting dark from the sun setting to the east and shook his head.

    ¡°No, Evita, we¡¯ll be in the dark less than the eight hours that you estimated, you should be ready to adjust for this error.¡±

    ¡°Less than eight hours? Why?¡± Evita slightly knit her brows in confusion.

    Xu Yi thought about it before deciding to exin to Evita the sun¡¯s rise based on the rotation of the.

    After being in this year for over eight years, Xu Yi had already found that there were many ces about this world that were simr to earth. The most obvious was the¡¯s rotation and the passage of time.

    As for when he looked at the stars at night, Xu Yi had also found that there were many constetions that were in the same positions as on earth.

    Xu Yi had always doubted that he was still on earth, but it was just in a parallel universe.

    When listening to Xu Yi¡¯s basic knowledge of astronomy, Evita didn¡¯t fully understand.

    But this didn¡¯t hinder her from seriously listening and thinking about the things that Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Sir chairman, if it is really as you described, then wouldn¡¯t the night be longer when we return to the Stantine Duchy from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom? Or perhaps if we set out at daytime, wouldn¡¯t the day be longer?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But the speed that we¡¯re flying at is much slower than the rotation of the under our feet, so we can only dy it by some time and we will still fall into night eventually.¡±

    ¡°Then that means......If the Magic Airship can fly fast enough, wouldn¡¯t we be able to always live under the sunlight?¡± Evita¡¯s eyes filled with a sparkle.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°It is like this in theory, but the is turning at a very fast speed and it¡¯s hard to catch it. Of course, if you really want to live under the sun, there¡¯s a simple method. If you reach the far north or the far south, you will find a ce where the sun will never set during a certain part of the year.¡±

    Evita knit her brows and thought over this.

    After a while, she couldn¡¯t help picking up some paper and writing a few things on it.

    Seeing how focused Evita is, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and left the front cabin.

    He didn¡¯t have a n temporarily telling Evita this basic astronomy knowledge.

    Since he started developing the Magic Airship, Xu Yi had been giving Evita this kind of knowledge. His goal was to change her world view as soon as possible.

    The Magic Airship was a very important part of Xu Yi¡¯s future n, so Xu Yi had high expectations of Evita, so he hoped that he could spare her some of the troubles.

    When he came back to the middle cabin of the Magic Airship, which was also the lounge, Xu Yi found that other than two researchers who were on night duty, the others were already sleeping.

    They had been excited at first about the long distance journey, but as time passed, everyone felt exhausted. It was a good thing that there was the night speed cruising option, so everyone would have time to get some rest.

    Xu Yi looked around the cabin and found that in a corner where weak blue and red lights were shing, Akali was sitting there with a look of concentration on her face.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, it¡¯s thiste and you¡¯re not sleeping. What are you still doing?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Akali looked up with a vacant gaze before she suddenly revealed an excited smile.

    When she was about to speak, she suddenly remembered something, so she lowered her voice and waved her hand at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman,e and see.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi looked over curiously and found that there was a disc on the table in front of Akali with faint blue and red lights glowing on it.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Xu Yi carefully looked at it and found that this disc was simr to the ones that Akali used in her long distance Magic Positioning System, but the disy was a bit too big.

    ¡°Sir chairman, do you see the lights on this?¡± Akali asked.

    ¡°Un, I see it, what about them? Do these lights represent something?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Akali gave a giggle, ¡°Sir chairman, weren¡¯t you worried about how we would return safely? Let me tell you, with this thing, we definitely won¡¯t get lost when we go back.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What is this thing? Is it that amazing?¡±

    ¡°These lights represent small Magic Resonance Sensors that I¡¯ve thrown down along the way. Look, this dot that is closest to us is the one I just threw down. Based on the situation here, they should be four thousand and three hundred meters from us to the southwest. In other words, we¡¯ve flown four thousand and three hundred meters northeast since I threw it down. Look, this spot is about to disappear since it¡¯s about to leave the detection zone.¡±

    Xu YI looked at the lights on the te and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Then how are you differentiating them? How do you know which light represents which Magic Resonance Sensor that you threw down?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s very simple, as long as there are a few small changes to the Magic Array on the Magic Resonance Sensors, they will be picked up by this control panel while also differentiating them.¡±

    Seeing the excited and proud look on Akali¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help taking a breath in.

    He never thought that while he was exining basic geography to Evita in hopes of not getting lost, Akali had already made a major breakthrough in her technology again.

    Even if Akali¡¯s n was very crude right now, as long as it was properly guided, the effects that it could have in the end would be very shocking.

    To Xu Yi, this Magic Positioning System that Akali had developed had an even more shocking effect than the guiding systems from earth!

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi stood up and headed back to the front cabin, speaking to Evita who looked up in surprise with a serious look.

    ¡°Change directions, head towards thend.¡±

 Volume 5 65 - Welcome to Nozdormu

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 65 Wee to Nozdormu</h4>

    Gaza looked up at the road to the west of the city, but not seeing the figure that he wanted to see, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh. He shook his head before lowering his head again.

    He had already been waiting for five days.

    A month and a half after he came back from the Stantine Duchy, he had always been raising his head waiting for the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.

    ording to the agreement, Xu Yi had promised toe to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in the middle of the month. He woulde to investigate and hold business discussions for half a month to discuss their cooperation.

    Gaza had been very excited back then.

    If it was said that he only had a deep interest in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before because of the information he had obtained after inquiring about them, after he had gone to the Stantine Duchy and saw the various facilities that were far more advanced than other countries, the respect he had for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had increased by several times.

    He firmly believed that as long as they developed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could truly be a kingdom that could stand on their own. Only then would they be able to break free of the restrictions the surrounding countries had ced on them.

    So he had strongly requested Xu Yi to take a trip to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom back then.

    But because Xu Yi was busy before, he had rejected this invitation. However, he did say that he would find time to take a trip.

    And half a month ago, Gaza had received Xu Yi¡¯s message from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Riley. He said that he woulde in the middle of the month and after Gaza had heard this, he had been patiently waiting for Xu Yi at the town they were scheduled to meet two days ahead of time.

    But it was now five days past the eleventh of July as agreed upon, but he still didn¡¯t see Xu Yi or any other people who represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This made Gaza very disappointed.

    Could it be that chairman Xu went against his word?

    Or could it be that they didn¡¯t show enough sincerity which caused him to go against his word temporarily?

    After thinking about it, Gaza didn¡¯t think that this was the reason.

    In order to show their sincerity in cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Gaza had proposed to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to build a shocking five thousand kilometers long road. It was impossible the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t see their sincerity.

    Of course, this also indicated thergest hindrance to their cooperation.

    It was that it was too far.

    The Nozdormu Business Uniun Kingdom was in the southeast of the Sines Continent and the Stantine Duchy was in the southwest.

    There was over five thousand kilometers between the two kingdoms, not to mention that various obstacles that had to be traversed onnd, it wouldn¡¯t be strange if the total journey was over ten thousand kilometers.

    Five thousand kilometers was a distance that was like the horizon for many people of the Sines Continent, not to mention over ten thousand kilometers.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom being able to hear about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was all because of their powerful intelligencework, while also being Gaza paying special attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For most people in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, they hadn¡¯t heard of the other country¡¯s name before.

    A cooperation between them was almost impossible because of the natural distance between them.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Gaza firmly believing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could change his Huayue Chamber of Commerce and the entire Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, this matter would never have urred.

    ¡°No matter what, I¡¯ll wait another five days.¡± Gaza looked at the distant path and made his decision.

    Since chairman Xu said that he woulde this month, ording to his understanding from his short period of contact with Xu Yi, he knew he would definitely do it.

    And if he couldn¡¯t even do this, as a merchant who always kept promises, even if Gaza wasn¡¯tpletely disappointed in Xu Yi, he would still have some doubt towards Xu Yi¡¯s character.

    When Gaza was thinking about how to treat Xu Yi after he came, he suddenly heard a loud sound from around him.

    Gaza looked up again and found that downstairs of the restaurant he was in, everyone on the street was looking up at the sky.

    ¡°What is so strange?¡± Gaza also looked up at the sky and was stunned, ¡°This.....Isn¡¯t this the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship?¡±

    Gaza recognized it with a single nce. The thing that was flying in the sky like a dark cloud was the Magic Airship he had seen when he had been in the Stantine Duchy.

    Gaza at that time had been deeply shocked by this powerful magic machine that could be controlled in the skies.

    This kind of amazing magic machine, it was like the airships that only the elves had of legends!

    But there had only been five of those in the entire history of the elves. This Magic Airship ording to Xu Yi could actually be mass produced!

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi saying that the development of the Magic Airship wasn¡¯tplete yet, Gaza would have immediately made an order at that time.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, once the Magic Airship entered mass production, the price of each one wouldn¡¯t be over ten thousand gold coins.

    For most people of the Sines Continent, ten thousand gold coins was without a doubt arge number.

    But for Gaza and the Huayue Chamber of Commerce, although this wasn¡¯t a small number they could ignore, it was simply too cheap when it came to buying an amazing magic machine like the Magic Airship!

    It had to be known, each airship that the elves had had cost at least thirty million gold coins!

    Although the Magic Airship couldn¡¯tpare to them, the difference in price was countless times more cost effective than the difference in performance.

    Gaza looked at the Magic Airship that was like a dark cloud but created pressure in the air. When he saw it slowlynd in an open space outside of the town, his heart was filled with excitement.

    If the Huayue Chamber of Commerce could get a hundred.....No, they just needed ten of these Magic Airships, they would be confident in facing the other twelvepanies of the kingdom.

    Thinking of this, Gaza felt an excitement he hadn¡¯t felt in a long time. He stood up and waved his hand before heading downstairs.

    Behind him was a group of guards that were fully armed.

    The Magic Airship had justnded outside when a simr group of fully armed guards surrounded them.

    But these soldiers didn¡¯t seem like they were sieging them. They stood in two lines and waited for the Magic Airship door to open. They held their heads high, but they looked like they were weing them.

    When Xu Yi walked out of the Magic Airship and saw the formation outside, he couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised.

    Although he had heard that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a kingdom with a rather strange political system, being controlled by thirteenpanies together, he was a bit surprised that the Huayue Chamber of Commerce could actually send out this many troops.

    But seeing Gaza walking over from the distance, Xu Yi¡¯s surprised look changed into a smile and he went to greet him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really made me wait a long time.¡± Gaza gave augh, speaking in a loud voice that came from the heart.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took a few steps forward to shake Gaza¡¯s hand.

    ¡°There was a bit of an ident midway, so we lost some time.¡±

    ¡°ident?¡± Gaza¡¯s brows jumped up.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, just a small ident.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, not nning on exining to Gaza.

    Actually there wasn¡¯t any ident at all, it was just that Xu Yi waste by several days because he had been improving Akali¡¯s new discovery. He had flown around the Sines Continent and had Akali drop small Magic Resonance Sensors from time to time.

    Going and stopping like this naturally wasted quite a bit of time.

    Gaza naturally wouldn¡¯t keep asking. He weed Xu Yi on behalf of the Huayue Chamber of Commerce and the Nozdormu Business Union before inviting Xu Yi and the group of people from the Magic Airship into the town for lunch.

    At this meeting, Gaza talked with Xu Yi while introducing the arrangements he had made for Xu Yi over the next few days.

    Xu Yi patiently listened at first, but then hearing that Gaza had arranged a meeting between him and the other twelvepanies, he suddenly cut him off.

    ¡°Chairman Gaza, my trip to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom this time is just for preliminary inspections. As for cooperation, I still need to see what the situation is like first, so I hope that you can put this business discussion at the end. What do you think?¡±

    Gaza slightly knit his brows. He knew that Xu Yi wanted to inspect first before making his decision.

    This meant that if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s situation couldn¡¯t satisfy him, he would very likely turn around and leave without even considering cooperating with them.

    After thinking about it, Gaza gave a nod with a smile, ¡°Alright, I believe that chairman Xu will certainly be satisfied with the investment situation of our Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a smile of deep meaning before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Chairman Gaza, I beg to differ.¡±

    Gaza was stunned and he was a bit unhappy.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask if there is something you¡¯re not satisfied with?¡±

    This chairman Xu had clearly just arrived and he actually wasn¡¯t satisfied with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, he really was a rather picky person.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s answer stunned Gaza, making him unable to say a thing in response.

 Volume 5 66 - First build a harbour

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 66 First build a harbour</h4>

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s investment situation had many shorings in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, but the most important one was the traffic problem.

    Not to mention the Lampuri Kingdom that had roads that connected all the cities and all the towns together, even the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the surrounding countries that only had a few main roads wasn¡¯t something the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom couldpare to. The traffic situation in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was actually worse than most countries of the Sines Kingdom.

    The reason was that they were in the southeast corner of the continent. The climate was hot and damp all year round and thend was covered in forests, while there was plenty of rain. It caused the earth to be quite soft and wasn¡¯t good for transportation.

    Although the thirteenpanies including the Huayue Chamber of Commerce used their powerful finances to build several stone and soil roads across the kingdom, these weren¡¯t that good to begin with. Also, because it was hard to maintain it in this climate, they really weren¡¯t that much better.

    Not to mention that to Xu Yi, the longest road was only two hundred kilometers long and five meters wide, which meant that it couldn¡¯t handle the task of transportation at all.

    So the first issue that he had for Gaza was hoping that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could solve this problem.

    Gaza wasn¡¯t surprised by the issue that Xu Yi raised, but he was helpless.

    When he went looking for vice chairman Riley, he wanted to contact the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and have theme to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to build roads.

    When Gaza had gone to the Mirando Duchyst year because of a business trip and experienced the benefits the roads had brought to the Mirando Duchy, he had been moved by this strange new thing.

    If the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could also have these cement roads, it meant that they wouldn¡¯t need to be worried by their transportation situation.

    As a qualified merchant, Gaza was clear on how important proper transport was to apany.

    So after finding vice chairman Riley, he had promised that wide n to him, but he wasn¡¯t surprised that he was rejected by vice chairman Riley.

    What a joke!

    Building a road that connected the continent¡¯s west and east coasts? How could that be a problem a trivial Amrit Chamber of Commerce and a Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could solve?

    Not to mention that they had to avoid the giant Candra Empire. They didn¡¯t even have the ability to solve the most basic problem of funding.

    Gaza had then taken a step back, hoping that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could enter the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to build roads, helping them solve their transportation problem.

    But after the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had considered it, they had rejected this proposal.

    In the end, the main business of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was in the Lampuri Kingdom and it was over five thousand kilometers away from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    This distance with the current technological level of the Sines Continent was a distance that couldn¡¯t be touched.

    Even if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could bring their workers and their magic machines to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, it would be very hard to transport the most important materials needed in paving these roads.

    A distance of over five thousand kilometers, the cost to transport any goods would reach a point that people would be unable to ept.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had exined the costs in detail to Gaza and Gaza had to admit that their worries were correct.

    But now that Xu Yi had finallye to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the first problem he raised was the transport problem.

    This made Gaza very helpless.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t willing to help even if they wanted to solve this problem.

    To invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest and let the thirteenpanies enter the magic machine industry, Xu Yi had raised strict conditions on the transport problem.

    This was a road to death.

    On the contrary, Xu Yi had rxed look after expressing his problems with the road situation.

    After looking at Gaza with a smile for a bit, Xu Yi suddenly said, ¡°Chairman Gaza, it isn¡¯t actually that hard to solve this problem. You just need to build a deep sea harbour first.¡±

    Gaza was stunned, ¡°Deep sea harbour? How is this rted?¡±

    ¡°Of course it is.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Without a proper deep sea harbour, how could ourpany¡¯srge scale transport ships bring goods over?¡±

    Gaza was stunned before his eyes trembled.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you.....You¡¯re saying.....your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is really willing to invest?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m very interested in investing here, otherwise why do you think I woulde all the way here?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Gaza couldn¡¯t help nodding.

    Yes, toe from the Stantine Duchy where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was, that was over five thousand kilometers.

    Even if Xu Yi had reduced the time by riding his Magic Airship here, it still wasn¡¯t a distance that was easily traveled.

    Xu Yi personallying here was already enough to show his sincerity and determination.

    ¡°Beforeing here, I¡¯ve talked to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°I am very clear on the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s worries. After all, toy a road in a ce that is several thousand kilometers away, there are many problems, but I¡¯ve thought of a n that can satisfy everyone after discussing this with chairman Cruise.¡±

    Hearing the wordsing from Xu Yi, Gaza¡¯s voice couldn¡¯t help trembling as he asked with an expectant look, ¡°May I ask what those ns are?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Gaza, I said it just now, I¡¯m most dissatisfied with the transportation problem here, so I have to solve this critical problem before investing here. I¡¯ve already discussed this with chairman Cruise and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will first build several material factories for materials needed to pave roads here and produce those materials. It will save quite a bit of time and cost.¡±

    Gaza silently thought about it before understanding Xu Yi¡¯s n and he revealed a look of praise.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the most perfect n. I am very happy that you are willing to consider our kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, I don¡¯t like wasting time and energy. Since I¡¯m already here, I will definitely finish this matter. Because of the various requirements of materials and personnel to build these factories, as well as having to go through several countries which includes the Candra Empire, it is very inconvenient. So I¡¯ve decided to use the more convenient sea transport, bringing the materials and personnel over by sea.¡±

    ¡°Sea transport?¡± Gaza thought for a bit before thinking of something, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should be talking about the three giant iron sea boats that yourpany has, right? They.....Can they traverse over five thousand kilometers of sea ande here from the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Gaza, you don¡¯t need to worry about this. I am only making a request to you to build a suitable harbour for the giant Magic Ships as soon as possible. Can you do this?¡±

    Gaza couldn¡¯t help giving a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, we can¡¯tpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce when ites to magic machines, but there¡¯s no problem in other aspects. It¡¯s just a harbour, there¡¯s no need to discuss it with the kingdom, just our Huayue Chamber of Commerce can solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°The day this harbour is built is the first day we¡¯ll officially start our cooperation.¡±

    Gaza gave a nod with a serious expression.

    Building a harbour wasn¡¯t hard for the Huayue Chamber of Commerce, but he had a bit of doubt towards Xu Yi¡¯s seemingly perfect n.

    Not mentioning anything else, just relying on marine transport to send all these people and resources over didn¡¯t seem reliable to him.

    The endless seas were filled with endless dangers. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transported goods from the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom before, that was only less than two thousand kilometers.

    There was over five thousand kilometers in a straight line from here to the Stantine Dcuhy and while traveling on the seas was shorter than onnd, it still would be over six thousand kilometers.

    With this terrifying distance, it was too hard to guarantee that no idents would happen along the way.

    However, seeing the confident smile that Xu YI had, how could Gaza say these disheartening words.

    Anyway, he just needed to invest in arge harbour, which was at most several hundred thousand gold coins.

    The remaining hard part would all be solved by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, Gaza was a bit curious.

    Even if his heart was filled with hope, he was clear that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was just too far away from the Stantine Duchy. Adding in the normal environment, there shouldn¡¯t have been anything too attractive for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Xu Yi not only agreed to his invitation, he even personally came here and announced thisrge n to him.

    No matter how he looked at it, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom shouldn¡¯t be worth this much.

    ¡°Chairman Gaza, since we¡¯ve finished discussing the preliminary ns, we should discuss the details of our cooperation.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°Therge transport Magic Boats of ourpany will being a long way here, so naturally we can¡¯t go back empty handed. We¡¯ll be taking a few things from your ce, that is the attitude that a merchant should have, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Gaza quickly suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

    Because he was clear that Xu Yi was finally talking about the most important problem.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a phnthropist and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯te all the way to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom for nothing.

    As a merchant, getting what he needed from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a normal thing.

    But Gaza didn¡¯t know what Xu Yi needed, would it be something that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom be unable to afford?

 Volume 5 67 - A cooperation of over five thousand kilometers

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 67 A cooperation of over five thousand kilometers</h4>

    But facts proved that Gaza waspletely overthinking things.

    The thing Xu Yi wanted from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was not just something that they could afford, it was even......Chairman Gaza felt that it was so simple that he doubted that he had misheard.

    Because Xu Yi only wanted some ores and magic materials that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    These ores and magic materials that Xu Yi wanted were very simple things. Although it wasn¡¯t asmonly found and not valuable like the Magic Crystals, it wasn¡¯t considered a rare resource in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom either, so it could easily be traded.

    By trading these resources, Xu Yi promised Gaza that he could provide some household magic machine technology to the Huayue Chamber of Commerce, letting them master some methods of constructing household magic machines.

    In order to ensure that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could take root in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that was five thousand kilometers away, they were nning to build a cement factory and a small scale steel mill to ensure that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could establish a preliminary magic machine industry.

    Also because of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s limited geography, there were few ces in the kingdom where they could farm, so food had always been a problem for them. Xu Yi had agreed to Gaza that they could shiprge amounts of food from the Stantine Duchy, helping them solve this most important problem.

    Before this, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had basically imported grains from the Candra Empire to solve their basic needs.

    But it was very expensive to import grains from the Candra Empire. Take wheat for instance, it cost at least thirty four gold coins per ton and it would be at thirty eight gold coins at a peak.

    Although the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was made of thirteenpanies, as well as spending quite a bit of money for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom through other business channels to buy scarce resources like wood and herbs, just in terms of foodst year, they had spent one million three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins. It took up more than one fourth of the entire kingdom¡¯s budget.

    ording to the agreement that Xu Yi had reached with Gaza temporarily, the price of the food from the Stantine Duchy would be much cheaper than from the Candra Empire.

    For the same wheat, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only charged twenty eight gold coins per ton. It was actually six gold coins lower than that of the Candra Empire.

    Adding in the other lowered prices for food, with it all, if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom switched to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to import their food, they could save at least three hundred thousand gold coins per year.

    Gaza didn¡¯t even consider it as he immediately agreed to this arrangement with Xu Yi.

    But he was also very doubtful. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be transporting food from the Stantine Duchy that was over five thousand kilometers away, but their prices were much lower than the neighbouring Candra Empire. If they counted in the transport fees, wouldn¡¯t they be suffering a great loss?

    However, Xu YI didn¡¯t exin his reasons to Gaza, he just promised that there would be no problem in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transporting food over. It would definitely be able to pass the various considerations of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Gaza still had his suspicions, but he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Anyway, the food deal wasn¡¯t an important part of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Frestech Chamber ofmerce didn¡¯t have any problems transporting the goods, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom would save quite a bit from this which was a good thing.

    Then again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no reason to lie about this, it wasn¡¯t good for anyone.

    Gaza believed that Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t do something as brainless as this.

    Xu Yi and Gaza had just met, which could only be considered very limited contact.

    But the most pressing matter for Gaza or for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was to build a suitable harbour as soon as possible.

    Otherwise, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ships couldn¡¯t dock. It would be very hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have contact with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t be able to cooperate.

    As for the idea that Gaza had before to build a road from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to the Rudson Kingdom, finally connecting to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s roadwork, allowing them to connect to the Stantine Duchy, there was no way of realizing this currently, so they could only put it aside for now.

    After they finished their discussions, Xu Yi did a one week inspection of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom under Gaza¡¯s invitation.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a bit bigger than the Stantine Duchy, but it couldn¡¯tpare to the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom. It was considered a small country on the Sines Continent, so it was easy to perform a preliminary inspection.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first time here, so he didn¡¯t inspect that deeply. He just rode around in the Magic Airship, roughly wandering around in the skies above the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, getting a basic understanding of the environment in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    After this inspection, the evaluation Xu Yi had for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was raised by a bit.

    This increase didn¡¯te from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s environment. Rather after going around and seeing that there were rainforests and swamps all over the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, Xu Yi¡¯s evaluation had actually dropped.

    The reason his appraisal of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom increased was because of the thirteenpanies that controlled it which the Huayue Chamber of Commerce represented.

    Although these thirteenpanies controlled the general situation in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, they were more like merchants which made it easier for Xu Yi to talk to them. He didn¡¯t have to waste energy talking to them like the nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom.

    Both sides were very practical in their discussion and almost didn¡¯t waste any words, making it very efficient. In just a single week, they had determined the details for many of their business deals.

    Moreover, in just a few days, the Huayue Chamber of Commerce and three otherpanies working together had already picked a spot for a harbour, while also preparing materials and workers.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t stop praising this efficiency.

    Of course, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom didn¡¯t have cement, concrete, or steel bars, or the construction technology of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so they could only build the most traditional form of a harbour on the Sines Continent. They couldn¡¯t build a stable harbour like the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had done in the Stantine Duchy or the ck Rice Wastnd.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care about this, it was enough as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ships could dock.

    As for what happened after, they could slowly consider it.

    A week passed very quickly and Xu Yi eventually finished his short inspection of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    When the Magic Airship carrying Xu Yi and the staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce slowly rose into the air, causing the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom representatives to turn into small dots on the ground, Evita beside Xu Yi suddenly slightly knit her brows. She looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    ¡°What is it? Just speak if you want to, what are you holding back for?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Evita was silent for a bit before softly saying, ¡°Sir chairman, actually I¡¯ve always been curious, why do you insist on working with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom? This ce is very far from our base and even if we have the Magic Airship, it takes several days toe here. Even if we use therge transport Magic Ships, it would take at least a month for a round trip on the sea. I feel that with the distance of this cooperation, it isn¡¯t very convenient.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also feel it¡¯s too far and not very convenient.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod.

    Evita was surprised, ¡°Then why did you.....¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Because I need to open more markets. Don¡¯t you think that if ourpany¡¯s eyes are only stuck on a few surrounding small countries, our prospects aren¡¯t broad?¡±

    Evita knit her brows even more.

    ¡°But if you want to open more markets, I think that the Candra Empire is the better choice. Moreover, didn¡¯t you already have this idea? Why are you giving up?¡±

    ¡°Who says I¡¯m giving up?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Investing in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom doesn¡¯t go against opening the Candra Empire market, they can be done at the same time.

    ¡°But you had the guard fleet attack the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet, won¡¯t youpletely offend the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet like this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, this is just a sign for the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Sigh?¡± Evita had a puzzled look, ¡°What sign?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without replying.

    What sign?

    Of course it was to tell the Candra Empire that their fleet had already fallen, it couldn¡¯t even take a single blow from the newly developed Magic Ships of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Candra Empire¡¯s side was smart enough, of course they could see the message Xu Yi wanted to send through this small conflict.

    Then the next thing they should do and would do would be obvious.

    Xu Yi looked out the window of the Magic Airship in the northwest direction where the Candra Empire was with a bit of expectation in his heart.

    This giant and ancient empire, they should give him a response that he was satisfied with.

 Volume 5 68 - City updates in Banta City

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 68 City updates in Banta City</h4>

    Xu Yi had prepared for all kinds of reactions from the Candra Empire. He even prepared for offending one of the only two empires on the entire Sines Continent and making thempletely block off the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But the Candra Empire¡¯s reaction to this matter was one he never expected.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s reaction was.....no reaction at all.

    Yes, on Xu Yi¡¯s return trip from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to the Stantine Duchy, because had stopped at Thunderbolt Ind and stopped in the Mirando Duchy, it had taken him half a month to get back.

    But when he returned to the Stantine Duchy, he didn¡¯t receive any news of the Candra Empire¡¯s reaction to the conflict between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet.

    Even after patiently waiting for half a month, there wasn¡¯t any news on the surface of the Candra Empire. It was like this matter didn¡¯t happen at all.

    Xu Yi was very confused about this.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent, they were a colossus that people couldn¡¯t be touched in the eyes of everyone. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had provoked them and even assaulted them, they actually didn¡¯t react at all?

    Could it be that the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet didn¡¯t think they could win?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that the Candra Empire would ept this. It meant that there was clearly something behind that stopped the Candra Empire from reacting.

    But this wasn¡¯t a problem that troubled Xu Yi that much. He just wanted to attract the attention of the Candra Empire, he didn¡¯t n on doing anything else.

    In the end, it wasn¡¯t the best time for this.

    It was necessary to open the Candra Empire market, but at the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to stabilize their foundations in the surrounding kingdoms.

    ###

    Entering August, whether it was the Stantine Duchy that was hot all year round or the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding small countries, they all entered the hottest part of the summer.

    When it was noon, even just walking around the street, one would be covered in sweat under the sun.

    So at this time, most people would be hiding in their homes. They enjoyed the chill brought to them from their Magic Fans or the Magic Air Conditioners, having a nice afternoon nap and they wouldn¡¯t go out.

    However, today at noon, Banta City¡¯s most honourable City Lord Count Will had to stand right under the sunlight. He had to feel the heate over him as he focused on the construction site in front of him.

    Seeing the Magic Engineers under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving around in their uniform, installing therge Magic Water Pump that Banta City had bought for one thousand and three hundred gold coins, Count Will gave a nod. He turned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Heinz beside him.

    ¡°Hey, vice chairman Heinz, with this progress, the people of our Banta City should be able to have running water this year, right?¡±

    Heinz nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, Lord City Lord. If nothing goes wrong, as long as we maintain this level of progress, I think that the people of Banta City will have clean running water before the first snowfall.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Count Will gave a nod with a look of praise, ¡°If this water system can be installed, it would greatly raise the living standard of our Banta City¡¯s people. Not mentioning anything else, at least they wouldn¡¯t need to go out to draw water in the coldest parts of winter and they don¡¯t need to go to faraway Sandy River for water.¡±

    ¡°Yes, the water system can solve people¡¯s needs for water. Moreover, the water system has the unique purification magic of the elves, so the water is very clean. It¡¯s much cleaner than the water from the Sandy River and wells.¡± Heinz continued with his exnation.

    ¡°After this water system became popr in our Stantine Duchy, the rate of disease among the Stantine Duchy¡¯s citizens had greatly decreased. Moreover, with our Stantine Duchy¡¯s medical system, the death rate from sudden diseases among the citizens of our Stantine Duchy has greatly decreased.¡±

    Count Will gave a slow nod. He suddenly looked at Heinz and said in an emotional voice, ¡°It would be great if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t leave Banta City back then. Then I think that people who would enjoy these benefits first would be the citizens of our Banta City.¡±

    Heinz just smiled without saying anything.

    The main reason the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left Banta City back then was because they were forced out by the Stagg Family, they had no choice but to leave Banta City and even the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    But if one looked at the deeper reasons, Xu Yi already had this n and seized this chance to leave the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the depths of Xu yi¡¯s heart, he didn¡¯t want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development to be hindered by various things, especially things like the Stagg Family that weren¡¯t even rted to business.

    Leaving the Lampuri Kingdom indeed caused a big loss for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the Stantine Duchy now, it allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to follow Xu Yi¡¯s will and they didn¡¯t need to worry about hindrances.

    Count Will¡¯s words clearly had the meaning of the Frestech Chamber of Commerceing back to the Lampuri Kingdom, but Heinz was clear that Xu Yi would never agree to this.

    Seeing the expression on Heinz¡¯s face, Count Will gave a sigh. He didn¡¯t continue this issue and after pausing for a bit, he continued asking about the key issues of the water system.

    Banta City buying the water system from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and increasing the situation of their water, whether it was for Banta City or the entire Lampuri Kingdom was a very important test that attracted the attention of everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Most people in the Lampuri Kingdom had only heard about the water system the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up in the Stantine Duchy, they had never actually seen it for themselves.

    After Count Will had personally gone to the Stantine Duchy and after submitting his report to the kingdom parliament aftering back, he quickly received the approval of the kingdom parliament.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already promoting this, so naturally it was very good and effective.

    In just half a month, they had already finished half of the water tank in Banta City.

    Now as long as therge Magic Water Pump was finished, ording to the data from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be enough for five thousand people to use.

    Of course, this was only the first phase.

    ording to the agreement between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Banta City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would set up a water system and then build a dam downstream of the Sandy River to the northwest of Banta City. It would block the water to create a reservoir that would be used for the water system of Banta City.

    As for thetter parts of the water system, they would be building at least twenty water storages all over Banta City.

    Not only would it supply daily water to the citizens of Banta City, it would also reach the small viges around Banta City in the future and allow everyone in Banta City enjoy the benefits of the water system.

    Also under Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Count Will was also nning on changing the entire Banta City sewage system. He wanted to achieve what Xu Yi mentioned, not showing any sewage in line of sight.

    This was a project that was even bigger than the water system.

    ording to the estimates of the staff of the City Lord Manor, it would take Banta City at least five years to solve this problem.

    As for the total investments of these two projects, it would cost at least three million gold coins.

    If it was the previous Banta City, they wouldn¡¯t be able to undertake thisrge investment, but for the current Banta City, it wasn¡¯t like they werepletely unable to ept this.

    ording to thest year reports from the City Lord Manor, Banta City was earning over three million gold coins a year from their various sources of taxes.

    Even with the portion they pay the kingdom and subtracting their expenses, there was still a surplus of one million and two hundred thousand gold coins.

    With such finances, it was no wonder Count Will had enough confidence to undertake these tworge projects.

    For Count Will, if these two projects could beplete, they would be considered important achievements of his. It would help him be one of the top people in the entire kingdom.

    For the entire Lampuri Kingdom, Banta City was a very good testing ground.

    If these two projects showed good results in Banta City, her majesty Seveni had personally told Count Will that she would bring this up to the kingdom level.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly ie had reached a shocking seven millionst year which gave her majesty Seveni plenty of confidence.

    Becauseying down the water system and the pipes would require arge amount of steel pipes of different sizes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. With the orders of the City Lord Manor, they would be setting up a steel pipe factory outside of Banta City that would specially provide the steel pipes.

    ording to their agreement, Banta City would buy the various steel pipes at market value, but they would receive a bit of preferential treatment.

    In this cooperation, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce was surprisingly in the core position. The Irnd Chamber of Commerce was very good at researching steel pipe and concrete production, not even being worse than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of how when they discussed this, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce that had technology that wasn¡¯t weaker than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s had a strong attitude towards them, Count Will couldn¡¯t help looking at Heinz.

    The Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s growth couldn¡¯t stray away from the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When Xu Yi made his decision, did he think that because there would be this day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to earn any more benefits from Banta City?

 Volume 5 69 - Her majestyâ€¦...is pregnant?

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 69 Her majesty......is pregnant?</h4>

    Count Will was thinking too much.

    In his opinion, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had trained the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, but they had made an opponent that could match them, causing them to loserge amounts of benefits. This was no different from asking for trouble.

    But to Xu Yi, there was apletely opposite feeling.

    ¡°Hey, Freeman, this really fills me with awe.¡±

    Xu Yi took the pipe that was as thick as his wrist and carefully looked inside it a few times . He even took the Vernier Caliper from Freeman¡¯s hand to measure it a few times before revealing a look of praise.

    ¡°This P2 steel pipe is already at the same level or even greater than the ones our workshop makes. Freeman, can you tell me how you did this?¡±

    Freeman revealed a simple smile and scratched his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t anything, we just kept increasing the requirements.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Un, good words. The so-called craft is just increasing the requirements for yourself. From this P2 steel pipe, I can tell that your Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s skills when ites to this steel pipe isn¡¯t worse than ourpany.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling praise for him. He forcefully patted Freeman¡¯s shoulder as he said in a loud voice, ¡°Do you know, this is something that I¡¯ve been hoping for for many years now, but I never thought that your Irnd Chamber of Commerce would be the first ones to do this.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, your praise is too much.¡± Freeman waved his hands.

    Freeman and Xu Yi had met many times and he had deep contact with Xu Yi, so he was clear that Xu Yi always had this hope. He wanted the magic machine industry not to belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, it would be best if there were otherpanies that had abilities that were simr or even beyond that of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Freeman was very confused by Xu Yi¡¯s idea because there wasn¡¯t anypany, or rather any merchant that wanted theirpetitors to be stronger than them.

    But Freeman was very clear that this came from Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    If it wasn¡¯t like this, he wouldn¡¯t have transferred the magic machine technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and could have created aplete monopoly. He would have earned profits that were several times what he earned now.

    Their Irnd Chamber of Commerce having sess with the steel pipe couldn¡¯t leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support.

    Even in the current Irnd Chamber of Commerce, through Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, he had lent them two dwarven Magic Engineers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had solved the problems with the steel pipes.

    The results of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce now couldn¡¯t leave aside the support of the dwarven Magic Engineers or the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So while Count Will thought that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce had stolen a part of the market with their own strength, making the Frestech Chamber of Commerce lose benefits, Freeman was clear that Xu Yi had done this deliberately.

    So Freeman had always acted modest and even humble in front of Xu Yi.

    He always felt that everything he had now was given to him by Xu Yi. Otherwise, he would still be a farmer in a vige outside of Banta City, worrying about feeding his family each day.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡± Freeman hesitated a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°How about I go and talk to the Lord City Lord, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce should be in charge of this steel pipe factory. Our Irnd Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have much problems in terms of technology, but there are many other aspects which we can¡¯tpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If yourpany were to lead, we are willing to fully support you!¡±

    Seeing theplex look on Freeman¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He shook his head and patted Freeman¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Don¡¯t think that much, Freeman. This matter is already decided, it can¡¯t be changed at will. Count Will trusts your Irnd Chamber of Commerce very much and has expectations for you, even her majesty is paying attention to this matter. If yourpany can do well this time, I believe that yourpany will soon be able to be a real first sspany.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no buts.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and cut Freeman off, ¡°Freeman, you should know what I want. I am very happy that your Irnd Chamber of Commerce is qualified to lead this factory.....and grateful. Count Will and her majesty Seveni are very expectant of your performance, so whether you want to take this responsibility or not, you can¡¯t throw it away. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Freeman was silent for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°I understand, but.....chairman Xu, if there are any problems with the production in the future, I hope that you can keep helping us.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile that made Freeman feel assured.

    The two discussed several details of the steel pipe factory before Freeman suddenly thought of something.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when you mentioned her majesty, I have a question that I don¡¯t know whether I should ask or not.¡±

    ¡°Un? What is it? Is it rted to her majesty?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un.....Chairman Xu, have you seen her majesty in the past few months?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He thought about it and found that he hadn¡¯t seen Seveni in close to half a year.

    Seveni had only contacted him through letters and official documents in this half a year. When Xu Yi thought about it, he felt a bit disappointed and gave a sigh.

    After Seveni took the throne, it was different from before in the end.

    Their friendship might be even further apart and they would be no different from normal people sooner orter.

    Xu Yi had always hoped that they could always be friends and they wouldn¡¯t be enemies in the end.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much confidence in this only hope......

    ¡°You haven¡¯t seen each other in several months?¡± Freeman knit his brows, ¡°I thought that I could get some information on her majesty from you.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°What information about her majesty do you want to know? Aren¡¯t the newspapers reporting on her majesty?¡±

    With the economic development of the Lampuri Kingdom, the newspapers in the various cities began to grow.

    The newspaper industry in the Lampuri Kingdom had already developed quite well. Just in Banta City, it was no longer only the ?Banta Times? and there were four other smaller newspapers.

    And in the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom, Anvilmar City, other than the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? that Baron Hannas opened, there were thirty other different newspapers of different sizes.

    With so many newspapersing out at once, naturally Anvilmar City was filled with information.

    And for someone that everyone paid attention to like her majesty Seveni, naturally she appeared in the newspapers everyday.

    There were a few newspapers that reported on the affairs of her majesty. Some of the smaller newspapers reported on gossip like what her majesty wore today, what perfume she used, or if she changed her maid.....

    They didn¡¯t even let off the food her majesty ate......

    In this situation, if anyone wanted information on her majesty, they just needed to read the newspaper. Why did Freemane all this way to ask Xu Yi?

    Freeman had a very strange expression on his face, ¡°The problem is......a month ago, the newspapers haven¡¯t reported any information on her majesty. They just reported on some business that she took care of and there wasn¡¯t any other information on her majesty.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Un, Freeman, I never thought that you were someone who likes to gossip. It¡¯s fine to gossip, but why do you want to gossip about her majesty?¡±

    Freeman shook his head, ¡°I just feel that it is strange. Before this, the newspapers would report on various matters of her majesty¡¯s life and it was even disclosed by her majesty. What was it called.....it was to let her majesty be closer to us citizens. But a month ago, there wasn¡¯t any information on her majesty that came out. Not only did I find this strange, everyone found this strange.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and felt that this situation was indeed a bit off.

    Giving some gossip about herself to let the citizens feel closer to her, this was the suggestion that Xu Yi had given Seveni back then. Now that there hasn¡¯t been any news on this for a month, naturally it was a bit strange.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of anything.

    There was no other way, he didn¡¯t see Seveni at all during this time and they had little time together, they just sent a letter if they needed something.

    If others didn¡¯t know what happened to Seveni, naturally he also didn¡¯t know.

    Seeing that Xu Yi looked like he didn¡¯t know anything, Freeman hesitated a bit before looking around. He suddenly came to Xu Yi¡¯s side and lowered his voice to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, there are many newspapers through their own private channels that have heard.....her majesty.....is pregnant!¡±

    ¡°What?!¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at Freeman in shock.

    Seveni.....was actually pregnant?

    How could that be possible!

    No! This had to be fake!

 Volume 5 70 - This isnâ€™t related to me

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 70 This isn¡¯t rted to me</h4>

    When Xu Yi left the steel pipe factory of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, he had regained his calm.

    But there were countless questions in his mind at this moment.

    He hadn¡¯t known Freeman for a short period of time and knew he was a serious person, so he wouldn¡¯t speak nonsense.

    Although the news from Freeman were from the small gossip papers, Freeman had said that this news was something that everyone recognized and had a certain amount of credibility.

    If this news was just a rumour, it would be fine.

    But if it was true......

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became iparablyplicated and strange.

    This matter......was just too nonsensical, alright?

    Seveni had always been single!

    There were many spections in the Lampuri Kingdom about Seveni¡¯s marriage. There were many people that hoped their majesty would settle down and give birth to a child, giving a sessor to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because before Seveni took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom had experienced two turmoils. Everyone in the kingdom didn¡¯t want to see another problem with the issue of session.

    Even if King Eric had left a son, it was impossible for him to take the throne. Naturally the most suitable choice was the child that her majesty Seveni gave birth to.

    If Seveni decided to get married and announced her choice to everyone, the entire Lampuri Kingdom would dance with joy.

    But now Seveni hadn¡¯t decided on her marriage and there was already news that she was pregnant, it would be hard to predict what the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s reaction would be.

    Even if the people of the Sines Continent were open and the noble circle was even more chaotic.

    On the surface, everyone tried to maintain tradition and tried their best not to break it.

    The nobles had chaotic lives after getting married, but this was not suited for the royal family.

    As the rulers of a kingdom, the royal family had great power while also being greatly limited.

    Even if Seveni was only a princess, this news would have been very troublesome. Not to mention that she was the noble queen now, the most powerful person in the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that there was news that she had been pregnant before getting married, this was simply an explosion.

    Xu Yi could imagine that once this news was confirmed, the entire Lampuri Kingdom and even the surrounding kingdoms would all be shocked.

    The question that countless people would be concerned with was the second question on Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    If Seveni really was pregnant, who was the father of the child in her stomach?

    This was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think through.

    He thought that he understood Seveni and had a deep understanding of her personality, she definitely wouldn¡¯t easily like any man, but she would be very firm once she did like a person.

    With how Seveni had the absolute power to control the Lampuri Kingdom, if she really did like some man, she could openly admit it.

    Xu Yi believed that there wouldn¡¯t be any normal man who would reject Seveni¡¯s confession.

    Not mentioning Seveni¡¯s noble status, just based on her appearance that was only slightly worse than Still¡¯s and her gentle character, this was something that all men dreamed about.

    Of course, to Xu Yi, her status as a queen was rather a kind of hindrance.

    Since it was like this, why did Seveni hide this and secretly get pregnant?

    She was the queen, did she n on continuing to hide herself away?

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand Seveni¡¯s reasons for doing this at all. So when he saw Still, he couldn¡¯t help mentioning the questions he had been thinking about.

    A woman having a child and not being willing to reveal the identity of the father?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look before revealing a smile, ¡°What? You¡¯ve finally heard the news about her majesty?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°You knew?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, I¡¯m not like you, I¡¯m in the Lampuri Kingdom regrly.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°So you also knew about this for a long time like Freeman?¡±

    Because of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main business, whether it was their other racebour contracts or the entertainment of the New Moon Troupe, they would be mainly based on the Lampuri Kingdom. So Still was normally in the Lampuri Kingdom, she came here much more than Xu Yi.

    ¡°You heard it from Freeman?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise before slightly knitting her brows, ¡°He doesn¡¯t seem like someone who likes to gossip, so why would he mention this rumour to you?¡±

    ¡°Eh.....It¡¯s probably because I mentioned Seveni to him and he thought of this rumour, so he told me?¡±

    Still thought about it before shaking her head, ¡°Perhaps......¡±

    ¡°Still, do you think that this rumour is true......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no credibility about it.¡± Still shook her head, but when Xu Yi had just let out a sigh of relief, her next words almost made Xu Yi jump up, ¡°Because this matter is true, there is nothing credible about it.¡±

    ¡°Really? It¡¯s actually true?¡± Xu Yi grabbed Still¡¯s shoulder in shock with a look of disbelief, ¡°How is this possible! Seveni is actually really pregnant? Who¡¯s the father of the child? You wouldn¡¯t be joking, right?¡±

    Still turned to look at Xu Yi¡¯s hands tightly holding her shoulder. Because Xu Yi had used too much force, she felt a bit of pain, so she slightly knit her brows.

    But when she saw Xu Yi¡¯s expression, she revealed a faint smile.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, why are you this excited? Even if Seveni is really pregnant, you don¡¯t need to be this excited, right?¡±

    ¡°Un? Ah......Oh.....Un......Right, right......¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned and after a while, he muttered to himself as he let go.

    After a while, he changed to a serious expression and asked Still, ¡°How are you certain that it¡¯s true?¡±

    Still rubbed her shoulder and gave Xu Yi a smile with a deep meaning.

    ¡°I saw it myself. Of course, her majesty Seveni naturally knew that I could see it, so she was willing to see me. It was basically her telling me about it.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s mind thought of Seveni calling Still and the appearance of Seveni with arge stomach, but he felt like it was too inconceivable.

    ¡°That......Did she tell you anything else?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Anything else? You¡¯re asking about the father of the child? It¡¯s a pity, but her majesty Seveni didn¡¯t talk about it and I didn¡¯t ask. ording to my guesses, she called me there to disclose this information and she wanted me to tell you about it.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Why? If she wanted to tell me about this, she could just contact me. Why does she need to do something this troublesome?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi as she revealed a tempting smile. She gave a sigh and shook her head before standing up.

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to discuss this. Her majesty doing this means she must have her own ideas. As for what they are, they aren¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still who walked out of the theater box in a daze.

    He had sharp senses and he could tell that Still was a bit strange. It was clear by her tone that she was a bit unhappy.

    Xu YI thought about it before hitting his head.

    Damn! He was talking about another woman being pregnant in front of Still and he looked this nervous, of course she would be unhappy.

    Not to mention that the other person was Seveni who had a good rtionship with Xu Yi.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi quickly stood up and followed Still. He took her hand and kissed her on the lips.

    ¡°Still, I¡¯m sorry.¡±

    ¡°Sorry?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Why are you apologizing?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I was just apologizing for being careless.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Still stopped and looked at Xu Yi for a while. She then suddenly revealed aplicated smile that was a bit helpless before raising her hands to take Xu Yi¡¯s face, giving him a deep kiss.

    After a while, those two were slightly panting as they separated. Still¡¯s smile had recovered its normal glow and she softly patted Xu Yi as she said with a smile, ¡°If you really feel sorry, then you should go on stage and demonstrate it. This is an important step for our New Moon Troupe and if you mess up, I won¡¯t forgive you for an entire lifetime.¡±

    Xu Yiughed and forcefully hit his chest as he said in a confident voice, ¡°Rx, with me here, I will definitely leave the deepest impression on everyone and guarantee that they won¡¯t be able to forget it even if they want to.¡±

    Still revealed a smile and took Xu Yi¡¯s hand again.

    ¡°Then let¡¯s go.¡±

    The two went down the hall holding hands. They passed by several staff members in uniform before passing through two curtains to arrive in the center of an iparablyrge hall.

    Looking around, all the important people of Banta City, the surrounding cities, and many important people from the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and other countries were all here. This iparablyrge Banta Theater that had been finished three months ago waspletely filled.

    When Xu Yi and Still came out, everyone turned over to look at them with eyes filled with expectation.

    This was a press conference jointly sponsored by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, they would be announcing the new product jointly developed by these two countries.

    As for this mysterious new product, Xu Yi had only said one thing to the newspapers on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°With it, your lives will be much more colourful.¡±

 Volume 5 71 - Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 71 Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe</h4>

    All the lights in the theater suddenly went off and the entire theater fell into darkness.

    The people in the crowd were surprised before they fell silent again.

    Everyone was staring at the center stage without even blinking.

    They all firmly believed that since Xu Yi said this, he would definitely do something that no one would expect.

    Because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their new products, they had never done something this grand before.

    What made people more curious was what was the product that they would announce with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Still was Xu Yi¡¯s wife, that shouldn¡¯t be rted to the new product they would be jointly announcing with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    This meant that this mysterious product was definitely rted to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    But what did the New Moon Chamber of Commerce do?

    Other than being responsible for representing the other race workers of the Lampuri Kingdom, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s other business was rted to the New Moon Troupe.

    How were these businesses rted to the magic machines that were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main products?

    While everyone was waiting, the hall suddenly fell into a silence.

    In this darkness where only a few breaths could be heard, there were a few light blue lights that suddenly lit up the center stage. The entire stage was lit up, it also lit up the few rows that were closest to the stage.

    The blue light shined down on the stage, but it was also aimed up and scattered, lighting up the space on the roof.

    When everyone was curious what this was, there was a melodious song that came from the light. There were suddenly several figures that appeared in the light above the stage which began dancing with the song.

    Everyone was shocked to see these figures in the air and their faces were filled with curiosity.

    These figures were so real like that they were no different from real people, but if one looked carefully, they would find that these people were floating in the air!

    As the figures danced, everyone was able to see it clearly. They were just illusions floating in the air, they weren¡¯t real things.

    But because the illusions were too clear, even having the flutter of their cloaks and revealing the tails that were behind them as they danced, it was no different from a real person.

    Yes, if it was someone who normally watched the performances of the New Moon Troupe, they would be able to recognize that these were all the leading members of the New Moon Troupe.

    The one leading the dance was a fox girl from the New Moon Troupe who was like Avril named Metalli

    Everyone looked at the figures dancing in their air without turning as their hearts filled with doubt.

    If these were illusions, just how were these illusions made?

    The people with a bit of experience in the crowd had heard of illusion magic before, but they were specially using an Illusion Magic Array before the joint announcement of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce? Wasn¡¯t this too wasteful?

    Then again, how was this array rted to the new product being released?

    Could it be that they would be selling these arrays to people? Then again, they wouldn¡¯t be able to take it back if they bought it......

    While everyone was thinking this over, the dance on the stage ended and the figures gradually stopped dancing.

    ording to what everyone thought, since the dance was over, these figures would definitely disappear.

    But what happened next had surprised everyone.

    Although the song was over and the figures had stopped their dances, these figures didn¡¯t disappear and went off to chat in groups of twos and threes.

    Hearing the sweet voice chatting from these figures and seeing their various beautiful smiles that were yful or sweet, it was like they were having a conversation among themselves.

    After a while, there was another figure that appeared who walked over to the beastmen girls who were talking among themselves.

    People familiar with the New Moon Troupe would recognize this person with one nce, this was the human danger Eileen Sophie who was in charge of choreography for the New Moon Troupe. All the performances of the New Moon Troupe were arranged by her.

    Eileen Sophie came to the side of the beastmen girls and after giving a p, they all fell silent and looked at her.

    Eileen Sophie pointed out the parts that weren¡¯t perfect with the dance that the girls had just performed. The beastmen girls carefully listened, as they all revealed serious expressions.

    At this time, there was a sh and the figures on the stage disappeared. It changed to the scene of a backstage changing room.

    There was only one person in the scene right now. She was standing by the window of the dressing room, looking at the flower pot on the windowsill with a watering can in her hand, currently watering the flowers.

    While watering it, she also muttered to herself.

    Based on her expression, it was like she was focused on taking care of a child.

    Then the lens changed again and an outdoors scene appeared in front of everyone.

    This was a small training ground where three beastmen girls were moving around, jumping from time to time, as if they were exercising.

    The scene changed again......

    ......

    After several scene changes, the lights turned dark and after a while, there were a row of words.

    ¡°The Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe.¡±

    After theserge words, the scene changed and there were many scenes of the New Moon Troupe.

    But this was different from their normal performance. All the scenes on the screen of light were all rted to the daily lives of the New Moon Troupe.

    It was mainly focused on the daily lives of the beastmen girls. Other than scenes where they were diligently training, it also included when they had free time and the happiness and worries of their daily lives.

    Seeing the scene change, people suddenly realized that these beastmen girls weren¡¯t that different from them. Other than them being beastmen, they weren¡¯t that different from humans.

    They ate the same food, slept the same, had the same joyful events and worries.

    The only difference was that they looked different from humans.

    But all the beastmen girls of the New Moon Troupe were carefully chosen. They were all beautiful and attracted everyone¡¯s attention. Now that they were demonstrating their daily lives to everyone, it made everyone feel like it was new and made them feel closer to them.

    Without knowing it, people started being attracted by their every action. They started to care about their worries and felt happiness for their happiness.

    They would asionally see some mishaps with the daily lives of a few of the girls.

 Volume 5 72 - New method of entertainment

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 72 New method of entertainment</h4>

    Naturally Xu Yi hoped the Magic Illusion Projector could be sold as soon as it wasunched, bing popr with everyone. It would be the same as television from earth, changing the entertainment method of the Sines Continent, making the lives of the people more colourful.

    But the fact was that it was clearly impossible.

    First, although the Magic Illusion Projector had been developed, it still couldn¡¯t be mass produced. The cost of it wasn¡¯t controlled well right now, so a Magic Illusion Projector like the one at the product announcement had a high cost of seventy gold coins.

    For one like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s that had a high quality image that could disy a 360 degree image that was like the person was in front of you, it had a very high performance value, so the price was set for a shocking one hundred and fifty gold coins.

    With this exaggerated price, naturally it was not something that a normal family could afford.

    Even if the economy of the Lampuri Kingdom had developed and many family¡¯s ies have increased, spending a hundred and fifty gold coins from this Magic Illusion Projector didn¡¯t seem right.

    So after Xu Yi announced the price at the product release, this Magic illusion Projector was like all the other products announced, it wasn¡¯t immediately sold inrge quantities. Only a few nobles andrge merchants showed their interest in buying it.

    Other than the price, the most important reason why his Magic Illusion Projector wasn¡¯t sold inrge quantities was because Xu Yi and Still didn¡¯t want to do so.

    The reason was very simple, the Magic Illusion Projector wasn¡¯t hard to make, but there was a high requirement in making shows.

    This was the first time this method of broadcasting had appeared on the Sines Continent, so theycked talented people in this area. Xu Yi through his experience on earth and various experiments decided that the first show would be a documentary film, producing The Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe.

    But to produce this documentary that was only forty minutes long, they had spent a month preparing.

    The beastmen girls of the New Moon Troupe had experience performing in front of people, but this was their first time participating in this kind of program, so they didn¡¯t know what to do.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi telling them many times to act normally, doing what they should do, the film would have been very bad in the end.

    To reach the level of rich programming that was on earth, it would be a long path to take.

    But no matter what, the sess of filming this documentary was very important to Xu Yi.

    Because with the Illusion Array that he obtained from the Azshara Tribe, the Sines Continent would have a method of entertainment that would be like earth. It would let this world be closer to earth.

    At the same time, although these Magic Illusion Projectors weren¡¯t open for sales at this product release, it did achieve two good results.

    First, it allowed many people to recognize the beastmen girls of the New Moon Troupe through this documentary.

    After the product announcement, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce arranged for a Magic Illusion Projector to be installed on the most luxurious road of the new part of Banta City. It would be broadcasting the first episode of The Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe everyday once in a while.

    Through this film, the people of Banta City became more familiar with the beastmen girls of the New Moon Troupe and they quickly became more famous in Banta City.

    ording to Still¡¯s n, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce would install the same Magic Illusion Projector in Anvilmar City and the other cities of the Lampuri Kingdom, showing the same documentary. They would let everyone in the Lampuri Kingdom learn more about the New Moon Troupe.

    Other than the second episode of The Daily Life of the New Moon Troupe that was currently being filmed, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce would also film some dramas as per Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion like on earth. They would also broadcast them through this Magic Illusion Projector.

    ording to the model Xu Yi proposed, only the first few episodes of these dramas would be broadcasted. If they wanted to keep watching it, they would have to buy a ticket to watch it in the theaters or they would have to buy a Magic Illusion Projector and the corresponding Magic Array for the film to watch at home.

    Of course, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research into these Magic Illusion Projectors deepened, Xu Yi¡¯s final goal was to develop some smaller Magic Illusion Projectors and greatly decrease the cost of production, allowing most families to buy one.

    But if he had topare it, this Magic Illusion Projector¡¯s function wasn¡¯t like television, it was more like VCR.

    As for the tapes, they were the Magic Arrays that contained the films.

    Second, it allowed them to deepen their cooperation with the Azshara Tribe.

    This Illusion Array came from the Azshara Tribe, so when developing this Magic Illusion Projector, Xu Yi didn¡¯t kick the Azshara Tribe aside and took the initiative to propose this cooperation to elder Undine.

    Finally, ording to their discussion, elder Undine would send out five Azshara Tribe elves and two of them would join the magic research facility, focusing on studying the Illusion Array. The other three would join the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, helping with the work rted to the Magic Illusion Projector.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce signed agreements with the Azshara Tribe.

    ording to the contracts, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold one Magic Illusion Projector, they would give the Azshara Tribe a royalty of one gold coin.

    Each time the New Moon Chamber of Commerce profited from the Illusion Array, they would give the Azshara Tribe 5% of the ie.

    Elder Undine didn¡¯t think that much when she taught this Magic Array to Still, but she never thought that the Azshara Tribe would actually profit from this Illusion Array.

    But she didn¡¯t reject this ie.

    As the elder of the Azshara Tribe, how could she not see that Xu Yi wanted to deepen their rtionship with this.

    This suited her intentions, so how could she reject it?

    Of course, the main cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Azshara Tribe was not this, but in the Rudson Kingdom.

    At the end of October, the Stantine Duchy constructed another road in the south that led to the Rudson Kingdom.

    This road would go through the cliffs on the border between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom. It would be an important connection between the north and south borders of the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy respectively.

    It was the same as the Stru Road that connected the Moon Shadow Tribe in the north. The Stru Road in the south would also connect to an elf tribe, but it was the Azshara Tribe in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Because of this road, the Azshara Tribe was revealed to everyone.

    The people of the Rudson Kingdom finally realized that there were elves in their kingdom and it was a very ancient tribe, with quite a few elves.

    This discovery made the people of the Rudson Kingdom excited for a long time. There were even many people who came from afar just to take a look at the Azshara Tribe.

    But it was a pity that even if elder Undine decided to reveal the Azshara Tribe to the humans, that didn¡¯t mean that they would be opening the entire Azshara Tribe to the humans.

    The humans that came to the Azshara Tribe¡¯s Illusion Array could only see vague images, but they couldn¡¯t see what was inside.

    Shortly after the news of the Azshara Tribe had spread across the Rudson Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom had announced that the five hundred kilometer area around the Azshara Tribe would be a special elf region. Other than those permitted by the Azshara Tribe, others couldn¡¯t enter freely.

    When this news was announced, it immediately created a stir.

    This was the domain of humans, why did they need to set up a special area for the elves?

    It wasn¡¯t like before the race wars where the elves ruled the continent, did the humans need to make concessions to the elves?

    The Rudson Kingdom gave an exnation to this matterter.

    The Rudson Kingdom side indicated that since several thousand years had passed since the race wars, humans already controlled the Sines Continent and the elves had be a rare race.

    Since it was like this, why couldn¡¯t they give the elves some space and let them live in harmony with the humans?

    In the exnation, King Teruc had asked a question on behalf of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ¡°Since the race wars, there haven¡¯t been dragons and the winged race on the continent. Halflings had be legends and although elves could still be seen from time to time, there weren¡¯t that many of them left. If this continued, not mentioning the elves disappearing, perhaps even the beastmen and dwarves would disappear.¡±

    ¡°The humans ruling the continent is good, but do you want to see only humans left in this world? This kind of continent is lonely because we can¡¯t find any other intelligent races other than ourselves.¡±

    ¡°Since we already control the continent, why can¡¯t we be more tolerant and give the other races some space to live? When the elves controlled the continent and long before when the winged race controlled the continent, they didn¡¯t kill all other races. Since they did this, why can¡¯t we as humans do this?¡±

    ¡°We need to show all the other races that we humans are a tolerant race, a magnanimous race that can coexist with all other races.¡±

 Volume 5 73 - Elf town

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 73 Elf town</h4>

    When this statement was made, it received varying responses.

    The people who agreed felt that King Teruc waspletely right. Since the humans already controlled the continent, they should be more tolerant and give the other races space to exist, allowing everyone to coexist.

    The people who opposed felt that other than their race, there was no need to showpassion.

    Even if the humans were good to the other races, the other races might not want to coexist with the humans.

    When the elves ruled the continent, although they didn¡¯t kill all other races, they weren¡¯t that friendly with them either. At least when the humans emerged, the elves had tried to suppress them.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the humans developing quickly and taking control of the continent through the race wars, no one would know how it would have turned out.

    But no matter which side it was, it couldn¡¯t affect King Teruc¡¯s decision.

    The Rudson Kingdom had set up a special elf zone in their southwest province, which was a chance for many normal people.

    The elves rarely appeared in the human world before, many ces that had news of the appearance of elves were only just rumours.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the elves had begun working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the humans, confirming that they had not disappeared and were still active. The first reaction that most people had was not fear, but rather pleasant surprise.

    The elves had so few members and the humans had controlled the continent for several thousand years, would they still be afraid of the elves fighting back?

    So humans felt more curiosity towards the elves.

    When Agnes had first appeared in Banta City, she had created a stir because of this curiosity.

    Now that the Rudson Kingdom was announcing they were creating a special elf zone, most humans found this quite novel. They weren¡¯t like the humans who were against this, thinking that this was a danger for humans.

    In the end, if elves were so strong, they wouldn¡¯t have had control of the continent taken from them by the humans, right?

    ###

    Because the weather in the south of the Rudson Kingdom was simr to that of the Stantine Duchy, even if it wasn¡¯t as warm as the Stantine Duchy since the elevation was a bit higher, it didn¡¯t feel like the beginning of winter at the start of November like other ces on the continent. It was maintained at a mild andfortable temperature.

    With this climate, naturally the effectiveness of the workers was at its highest.

    In just half a month, the special elf zone in the southwest province of the Rudson Kingdom had a bunch of houses built. If one looked at it, it was a bunch of houses that sprouted out of the ground.

    If one looked carefully, they would see that the style of these houses were different from the houses that humans built.

    Because these houses were built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce ording to the blueprints of the Azshara Tribe. They were houses built for elves to live in, so they had the style of the elves.

    After the Rudson Kingdom announced that this would be a special elf zone, elder Undine had contacted the Amrit Chamber of Commerce through Xu Yi, inviting them to build houses here for the Azshara Tribe.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t know why the Azshara Tribe was willing to do this, but Xu Yi knew elder Undine¡¯s intentions through his private conversations with her.

    Just like the Night Song Tribe¡¯s elder Illusia and the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elder Lisanya, elder Undine also supported cooperating with humans. So through this contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom, they finally obtained a piece ofnd that belonged to the elves.

    But different from the approach of elders Illusia and Lisanya, elder Undine clearly didn¡¯t want to put the fate of the Azshara Tribe in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if they had a close cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, elder Undine had her own ns.

    The reason why they had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build these houses that had the rarely seen elven style was to disy the attitude of the elves, which was that they were nning on facing the humans.

    After these houses had been built, there were a total of over eight hundred of them, which could allow over two thousand elves to move in.

    This scale was just like a small town among the humans.

    That¡¯s right, this ce would be a town, a special elf town.

    ¡°Elder Undine, if you really n on gradually building an elven city here one day, just having enough houses isn¡¯t enough.¡± The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise looked at the busy workers in the distance before turning to say to elder Undine, ¡°For aplete city, other than residents, it needs various stores, restaurants, public facilities, a police forces, and the most important thing of all, it needs a ce for its residents to work like workshops or factories.¡±

    Elder Undine nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I understand. When I talked to chairman Xu, he had mentioned this before. ording to the agreement with chairman Xu, our Azshara Tribe will work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build two magic machine factories outside the city.¡±

    ¡°Magic machine factories?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at elder Undine in surprise.

    He wasn¡¯t surprised that elder Undine was cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and he wasn¡¯t surprised they were investing in a magic machine workshop together.

    But as it stood, wouldn¡¯t this ce that belonged to the elves be filled with the feeling of the humans. Would this go against elder Undine¡¯s wish to turn this ce to a territory that belonged to the elves?

    Elder Undine looked at chairman Cruise and could guess his thoughts. She said with a smile, ¡°These two factories from the manager to the workers will alle from our tribe, there won¡¯t be any humans.¡±

    ¡°Oh......¡± Chairman Cruise gave a nod. He thought about the stic processing factory of the Night Song Tribe and the fertilizer factory of the Moon Shadow Tribe, although they were controlled by the elves, there wasn¡¯t ack of humans in them.

    This elder Undine, she seemed more thorough than the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t rted to him. What he cared about was constructing those two factories.

    ¡°Of course, when we build those two factories, we will give priority to your Amrit Chamber of Commerce. After all, when ites to this, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce has a rich wealth of experience, right?¡±

    Elder Undine¡¯s words and the smile made chairman Cruise feel assured.

    Chairman Cruise gave augh and patted his chest as he confidently said, ¡°Please be assured, esteemed elder. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce not only has experience building various factories, we even have rich experience building entire cities. If you¡¯re willing to trust us, I can promise that you will be satisfied with how this Azshara City will look in the end.¡±

    Elder Undine nodded with a faint smile, not saying anything else.

    They still hadn¡¯t finished the town yet, it was too early to discuss an entire city.

    Of course, she didn¡¯t deny the words of chairman Cruise.

    The current Banta City was the benchmark for cities in the surrounding countries and although the changes hade from Xu Yi¡¯s ns, the ones who had built it were the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. So chairman Cruise saying that they had rich experience building a city wasn¡¯t boasting at all.

    The two discussed the construction of the houses for a bit longer. Xu Yi and Agnes were walking around inspecting the work site in the distance.

    Xu Yi hade to discuss the next step of cooperation with elder Undine and Agnes hade along to represent the will of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya were both happy and supported the Azshara Tribe¡¯s decision of being willing to enter human society and work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They had Agnes represent the two tribes toe here not only to show support for the Azshara Tribe which was also a tribe of elves, but because Agnes was one of Xu Yi¡¯s wives, which indicated their support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To put it simply, Agnes had be the tie between the elves and Xu Yi, ying part of the role that elder Illusia and elder Lisanya had wanted her to y.

    Seeing the two approach, elder Undine¡¯s eyes fell onto Agnes¡¯ stomach. After stopping for a bit, she turned back to Xu Yi and revealed a smile with a deep meaning.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, although humans and elves have begun cooperating, there is a difference of race, so it isn¡¯t easy to give birth to a half elf. If you don¡¯t mind, our tribe has some materials on this which you can study. It might be helpful for you and Agnes.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face turned red and he couldn¡¯t help coughing.

    Since elder Illusia and elder Lisanya decided to give Agnes to Xu Yi, it had already been a year. Although Xu Yi had resisted it a bit before, after living with Agnes and Still not opposing this at all, with the various sources of pressure, Xu Yi had eventually be one with Agnes.

    It had already been six months since their first time, but Agnes hasn¡¯t shown any reactions at all. It made Xu Yi suspect that the physiology of humans and elves were different, so there might be some problems in this aspect.

    Now that elder Undine suddenly raised this point, even if Xu Yi was a bit embarrassed, he still nodded and expressed his gratitude to elder Undine.

    ¡°Alright, elder Undine, being able to have a child with Agnes is also my hope, so I thank you for your help. I will definitely look over them.¡±

    Elder Undine looked at Agnes on the side who was blushing and she was surprised.

    Elves and humans were of different races and in a normal situation, Agnes shouldn¡¯t be blushing from this. Now that she had disyed this reaction, it showed that she was already thinking like the humans.

    Based on this, it showed how much influence this human Xu Yi had on her.

    Thinking of when she met elder Illusia and elder Lisanya, of how those two elders had praised Xu Yi, elder Undine suddenly gave a sigh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the child between you and Agnes might be the first half elf that would be epted by both sides.¡±

 Volume 5 74 - Film and entertainment base

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 74 Film and entertainment base</h4>

    The elves and humans had existed on the Sines Continent for over five thousand years now.

    In these five thousand years, the rtionship between the two races could never be considered good.

    When the elves controlled the continent, other than a few races, they thought all other races were below them and never put them in their eyes. The humans weren¡¯t an exception.

    After the race war started and the humans took control of the continent, the elves gradually went into hiding and the rtionship between the two became more tense.

    In a normal situation, there was no way for these two races toe together.

    But there were always exceptions.

    In the five thousand years of history, whether it was when the elves controlled the continent or when the humans controlled the continent, there had always been examples of humans and elvesing together.

    But the union of these races were always rejected by both sides.

    The elves opposed tarnishing their bloodline with the human blood and humans thought that these humans betrayed their own race.

    The half elves born from the union of these humans and elves were discriminated against by both races, causing the position of these half elves to be very low. They rarely received public recognition.

    Elder Undine saying that the child born from Xu Yi and Agnes would be the first half elf epted by both sides in the history of the Sines Continent definitely wasn¡¯t a lie.

    Of course, this was rted to the status that Xu Yi and Agnes had.

    Xu Yi¡¯s position in human society although couldn¡¯t be considered the peak, with his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and his strength as a Great Magician, he did have some qualification to speak in human society.

    No matter who he had a child with, it was impossible for humans to regard it with different gazes.

    As for Agnes¡¯ side......

    Actually, whenparing it, humans were more tolerant of half elvespared to the elves.

    Because for most elves, being together with a lowly race like the humans was a shame to them.

    The appearance of half elves was equal to proof of shame, so naturally they would be discriminated against among the elves.

    But Agnes was the one who both the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe sent out in hopes of being with Xu Yi.

    To put it more direct, the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe wanted Agnes to be with Xu Yi as soon as possible and give birth to a child, drawing the rtionship between the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe and Xu Yi, or rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce closer.

    To put it more crudely, this was apletely political marriage.

    Since it was like this, not mentioning how other elf tribes viewed half elves, the half elf born from Xu Yi and Agnes wouldn¡¯t be discriminated against in the Night Song Tribe or the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    As for the Azshara Tribe......

    Elder Undine watched as Xu Yi whispered in Agnes¡¯ ear and watched as a blush came over it before she revealed a smile of approval.

    She knew the n that elder Illusia and elder Lisanya had and she approved of this n, but through observing them these few days, she was certain that no matter what significance the offspring of Xu Yi and Agnes had, at least Xu Yi and Agnes would be happy together.

    It was very clear that Agnes truly loved Xu Yi and it wasn¡¯t because she was being forced to be with him because of elder Illusia¡¯s orders.

    And Xu Yi also sincerely treated Agnes well, he didn¡¯t do it out of courtesy at all.

    Because of this, the appraisal elder Undine had of Xu Yi in her heart deepened.

    A human who could treat elves this sincerely, it was no wonder elder Illusia and elder Lisanya respected him.

    Of course, elder Undine¡¯s approval of Xu Yi mainly came from his sincere support of the Azshara Tribe.

    The Rudson Kingdom took the risk to create the special elf zone, the main reason was because of the condition Xu Yi offered the Rudson Kingdom on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would not only transfer more household magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom, helping them establish a moreplete magic machine industry, while also giving them more cooperation projects.

    The key thing that made the Rudson Kingdom make their decision was the other condition the Frestech Chamber of Commerce offered.

    It was to transfer a part of the military magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Before this, the technology rted to the military magic machine was only given to the Lampuri Kingdom because of their previous close rtionship to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The surrounding countries through the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s civil war, and the various fights between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had already realized the terrifying might of the military magic machines. Naturally they all desired the military magic machines.

    Although they could buy the various military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was clearly more reliable to grasp this technology for themselves instead of buying it.

    So whether is the Lampuri Kingdom that had a part of it, the Rudson Kingdom that didn¡¯t have anything, the surrounding kingdoms, or even the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s enemy who had also shed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Sack Kingdom, they all wanted the military magic machine technology.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been very strict with this technology and hadn¡¯t given out a single bit of it.

    The other countries were helpless and couldn¡¯t do anything to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to give a portion to the Rudson Kingdom, King Teruc would naturally be willing to agree to any condition that Xu Yi gave.

    Not to mention setting up some territory for the elves, even if Xu Yi wanted some territory from the Rudson Kingdom, King Teruc might have immediately agreed.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s other request to open up more of the mineral market in the Rudson Kingdom, that was even less important.

    Then again, even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t use this condition, just with the things that the Azshara Tribe had, King Teruc had already agreed to the condition the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put forth.

    In short, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Azshara Tribe, and the Rudson Kingdom had reached a three way cooperation. The Rudson Kingdom acquired the most important military magic machine technology, the Azshara Tribe had gained the Rudson Kingdom support for their territory and received the chance to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce......

    ¡°Esteemed elder, I think that you should have already taken a look at the Magic Illusion Projector I sentst time, right?¡± Xu Yi discussed a few things about the half elves with elder Undine before changing the topic, ¡°After seeing the illusions it projects, what do you think?¡±

    Elder Undine¡¯s lips slightly curled, ¡°It¡¯s very interesting. Chairman Xu, I never thought that you would use the Illusion Array like this. I have to admit, you humans really are worthy of being praised for having the most creativity among all the races.¡±

    Chairman Cruise on the side gave augh before shaking his head to say, ¡°No, no, no, esteemed elder, you¡¯re wrong about this. It isn¡¯t that we humans are creative, it¡¯s that chairman Xu is creative. I don¡¯t dare say anything else, but in terms of creativity when ites to magic machines, there is no human who canpare to chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°Cruise, that¡¯s too exaggerated.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°I just consider a few more things, so there are a few more strange ideas in my head.¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, ¡°Then why don¡¯t I have these strange ideas in my head?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. If you had the same strange ideas as me, I would have suspected that you also transmigrated from earth.

    ¡°Esteemed elder, since you find it interesting, I¡¯m certain that this Magic Illusion Projector will be wee by all.....no, not just humans, all races of the continent. Or perhaps, this method will be epted.¡±

    ¡°Un, I believe that.¡± Elder Undine gave a slight nod.

    Xu Yi paused before saying, ¡°When we were discussing our cooperation, you said that your tribe had some special magic that you can take out to cooperate with us, developing some new magic machines. This of course isn¡¯t a problem, but after seeing this Magic Illusion Projector, I¡¯ve had another idea.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What idea?¡± This time the one who was impatient was chairman Cruise.

    Xu Yi smiled and turned to look at the elf town being built. He raised his hands to form a circle, wanting to wrap up the entire town.

    ¡°Esteemed elder, don¡¯t you feel that it¡¯s a pity to leave the town like this after it is built?¡±

    Elder Undine slightly knit her brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what are you trying to say?¡±

    Xu Yi turned back to look at elder Undine with a serious look.

    ¡°Esteemed elder, if you really want the elves to integrate into our human society, there¡¯s no doubt that you can¡¯t just keep hiding in behind your Illusion Array, but you also can¡¯t just live in this elf town and reject all humans froming in. I feel that you should open it up a bit and let humanse in to let them understand you elves better, that way more humans will ept you elves.¡±

    Elder Undine thought about it and didn¡¯t express an opinion as she asked back, ¡°Then chairman Xu, how do you think we should do this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Xu Yi turned back to look at the busy work site before raising his voice, ¡°ording to my ideas, how about we build a film and entertainment base here?¡±

    ¡°Film and entertainment base?¡±

    Elder Undine and chairman Cruise both looked at each other.

    This phrase.....they could understand each word, but when it was put together.....what did it mean?

 Volume 5 75 - Kingdom on the sea

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 75 Kingdom on the sea</h4>

    Using the power of the magic machine industry to change the entertainment industry of the continent, this wasn¡¯t just a whim that Xu Yi had.

    When he transmigrated to this world, he felt that this world¡¯s entertainment wasckingpared to earth¡¯s. Xu Yi had decided that he would use magic to change the entertainment of this world one day.

    When he made the magic piano model at the Senkaiser School, it was a small test.

    Later when he established the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and as the magic machines spread, this idea became even stronger in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    But he could never find a good idea to promote this matter.

    This time because of the Illusion Magic Array learned from elder Undine, as well as developing the Magic Illusion Projector, Xu Yi felt inspired. He immediately drew on the countless ideas of earth¡¯s entertainment industry.

    Building a film and entertainment base would make it more convenient to make more movies.

    As for where to build this film and entertainment base, after Xu Yi considered it, he felt that he might as well work with the Azshara Tribe and built it here.

    To begin with, the Illusion Magic Array came from the Azshara Tribe. So if they built the film and entertainment base here, it would be more convenient with the control the Azshara Tribe had over the Illusion Magic Array when they started making films.

    Second, Xu YI wanted to strengthen the Azshara Tribe¡¯s rtionship with humans, pushing the elves to be closer to the humans.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, if everything went smoothly, this film and entertainment base would be a very popr ce in the future. It would attract the attention of countless people like the film towns on earth.

    The Azshara Tribe wasn¡¯t prepared to wee arge number of humans yet, but with this film and entertainment base and as the films became more popr, the Azshara Tribe would ept contact with humans more and would be more integrated into human society.

    After exining the details and the benefits of the film and entertainment base, elder Undine considered it, but she didn¡¯t immediately agree. She said that she would seriously consider it.

    Xu Yi was very satisfied with this answer.

    After knowing the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe for a long time, Xu Yi was very clear on the personality of the elves.

    The elves were very proud, they would immediately reject something if they weren¡¯t willing to do it.

    Since elder Undine would consider it, it meant that she was moved.

    As for how he would persuade her in the future, he would leave that to Still.

    After all, this film and entertainment base, as well as promoting the entertainment industry on the Sines Continent was something that Xu Yi only needed to make a proposal for, he would leave the concrete details to Still and her New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    As for Xu Yi? Of course he would put more energy into developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machine industry.

    Through the three way cooperation with the Azshara Tribe and the Rudson Kingdom, the biggest benefit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received was that their shares of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s mineral resources had greatly increased.

    This was enough to satisfy the increasing demands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as increasing their production scale. As they began using the automatic production magic machines more, it would keep increasing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production.

    In the final month of year 3785, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had produced seven thousand two hundred and neen Variable Magic Air Conditioners. Compared to the three thousand one hundred and five units ofst year, it was more than double.

    The Frestech Brand household magic machines didn¡¯t need to worry about their sales in the surrounding countries. They could sell however many they produced, so naturally their ie had increased with their production.

    In the final month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned one million one hundred and thirty thousand gold coins just from household magic machines. Whether it wasst year or the year before that, it had greatly increased.

    At the year end summary, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit in December had surpassed two million four hundred and thirty thousand gold coins. When it came to annual profit, they easily broke the twenty million that was projected at the beginning of the year and reached twenty six million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    With this terrifying profit, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be a first sspany in the surrounding countries, surpassing countless olderpanies.

    In terms of influence, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was even stronger.

    Whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always had a deep connection with, the Rudson Kingdom that they had just entered a deeper cooperation with, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the other small countries, or even the Sack Kingdom that had conflict with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, they all wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t create waves in those countries with a stomp of his foot, but at least no one could ignore his words in those countries.

    Not to mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful influence in the magic machine industry of those countries, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone had be a power that couldn¡¯t be neglected.

    Because of the conflict with Count Wein, as well as the loss from the ambush of the Sack Kingdom, Xu Yi had greatly increased the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards after stabilizing the situation in the Stantine Duchy.

    By the end of the year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had gone from just two thousand to over six thousand people.

    Of the extra four thousand recruited, there were eight hundred dwarves, one thousand and five hundred beastmen, and the rest were all humans recruited from various regions.

    As for the elves.....Although there were many elves that responded to the recruitment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, they didn¡¯t join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. They chose to directly be Xu Yi¡¯s subordinate, joining Xu Yi¡¯s private guards.

    There weren¡¯t that many elves, only numbering three hundred, but the elves had always been famous for being powerful on the Sines Continent. So to many people, they were even stronger than the eight hundred dwarves or the one thousand and five hundred beastmen.

    So with the warriors of the various races in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards or the thousand private guards that Xu Yi had, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a power that couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    And with the military magic machines they were equipped with, as well as the long term training they had to use those military magic machines, their battle strength was naturally even more terrifying.

    In the surrounding countries, there was a consensus.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only sent out a thousand guards, they could easily defeat ten thousand soldiers of any other country.

    Because the guards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce surpassed this era, the armies of the other countries weren¡¯t even on the same scale.

    But to Xu Yi, this was far from being enough.

    ¡°Everyone look, these red dots are the inds of value that the guard fleet has found on the endless seas. There are a total of thirty seven inds.¡±

    In the main conference room of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, Xu Yi was standing in front of arge wooden board pointing at the map on it as he spoke.

    ¡°ording to Leslie¡¯s reports, these inds have good mineral resources and rich magic resources, they are very suited to be cultivated. The most important thing is that there is no one controlling these inds.¡±

    Heinz who was sitting in the first position to the right gave augh, ¡°Of course, these inds are several hundred kilometers from the coast, there¡¯s no country that would be that bored to go that far to develop. Not to mention anything else, it would be too risky and would cost too much to send people and resources over.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But there isn¡¯t this problem for us. Now that we have fiverge transport Magic Boats, we can easily transport staff and goods to those inds. But there is a serious problem for us, which is we don¡¯t have enough people.¡±

    The people in the conference room looked at each other with a bit of helplessness.

    Even if theirpany had been recruiting people sincest year, because of the strike, Xu Yi had suddenly fired eighteen thousand people. This had caused great loss to thepany that they still hadn¡¯t recovered from yet.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity increasing was mainly because Sancheli had made a breakthrough with the automatic production magic machines, recing much of the work that they needed people for.

    But there are many steps in the production of the magic machines where the automatic production magic machines couldn¡¯t rece manpower, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stillcking in workers.

    Moreover, theck of people Xu Yi mentioned wasn¡¯t just workers, but also guards.

    To develop on inds that were hundreds of kilometers from the coast and over a thousand kilometers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, it was necessary to deploy guards.

    But to arrange enough guards for thirty seven inds, even if they deployed only a hundred guards to each ind, that was still close to four thousand guards.

    And if they really did arrange it like this, who would defend their main base, their convoys, and all their various factories?

    These ces needed a lot of manpower and they also couldn¡¯tck it.

    ¡°The manpower issue can¡¯t be solved in a short period of time, so I¡¯ve decided to use another method to solve this situation.¡± Xu Yi continued.

    Everyone all turned to look at Xu Yi.

    Sir chairman¡¯s ideas were normally a bit oundish that people couldn¡¯t believe them, some people even thought they were crazy, but the various facts proved that his ideas always gave good results and would turn out good in the end.

    ¡°Since it isn¡¯t realistic to have enough guards on these inds, we¡¯ll just give up that idea. My method is to build enough defenses on those inds and not deploy any guards. As for the main defenses, we¡¯ll rely on the guard fleet.¡±

    ¡°Although Leslie is already leading a guard fleet, that is far from enough. I want the guard fleet topletely control the seas here. To put it more directly, it is to turn the seas into our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s garden. Our final goal is to use these inds and with the guard fleet controlling the seas, these seas will be our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s kingdom on the sea!¡±

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    Xu Yi pped the map of the sea on the wooden board and the expression of everyone in the conference room turned awkward.

    Sir chairman¡¯s ambitions......weren¡¯t they a bit too big......

 Volume 5 76 - Revision plan

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 76 Revision n</h4>

    Whether Xu Yi¡¯s ambition was big or not, it wasn¡¯t a problem for the others of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Rather it was the opposite, the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to know that their sir chairman had this kind of ambition.

    Because ambition from another angle was called big thoughts.

    Compared to a sir chairman who had no ambition and limited views, of course they wanted a sir chairman with ambition and future ns.

    As long as it was like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would continue quickly developing like it was now. Not only would it be a first sspany in the surrounding countries, it would be a first sspany of the entire Sines Continent.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became stronger, naturally the top level members of thispany would receive the same shocking benefits as thepany.

    Not to mention that based on the views of their personal benefits, as long as they followed sir chairman and spread the magic machines across the continent, wasn¡¯t that already enough for them?

    Thest month of year 3875 passed quickly and after the New Years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started recruiting workers again.

    This wasn¡¯t strange, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always been recruiting workers in the past two years. They had never paused in their demand for this.

    But this recruitment was different from before, they mainly focused on recruiting for resources gathering workers.

    And there was a very strict condition, which is that they wanted workers who would be willing to work away from home, going to a ce that was a thousand or even two thousand kilometers away.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that the work would be very hard in the beginning and it wouldn¡¯t be easy to go home, so they would have to know how to suffer and bear with loneliness.

    This requirement attracted the attention of many people because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited people, they gave very good conditions, but now they said that the work would be very hard which was rare.

    But whenparing what this requirement was to the wage that was advertised, it suddenly became unimportant.

    At least three hundred gold coins a year!

    This wage wasn¡¯t considered that high in the current Banta City, but whether it was in the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom, it could be considered a truly high wage.

    It had to be known, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fired eighteen thousand workers at once, the otherpanies had fought over these people. It caused the wage in the magic machine industry to suddenly increase, so for normal workers, twenty gold coins was already considered a good wage.

    Not to mention that although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s wages were never higher than the otherpanies, their benefits were always better than any otherpany.

    ording to some private views, when working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, working for a wage of ten gold coins per month was better than working at anotherpany for twenty gold coins per month.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was offering three hundred gold coins to recruit workers, not only did this break the convention of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it might even raise the average wage of the magic machine industry.

    When this news was spread, there were countless people that swarmed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruitment points in the various countries.

    But a month after New Years passed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only recruited two thousand people, which was much lower than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s expectations in the beginning.

    This disappointed Xu Yi a bit and he was also a bit confused.

    Although working on a small ind on the endless seas that was one or two thousand kilometers away from their hometowns made people ufortable, it shouldn¡¯t be that hard to ept.

    There were over twenty thousand people who came, but there were only two thousand that were willing to go. It was less than 10%, which was just too little.

    Moreover, even if there were two thousand people, it didn¡¯t mean that they could all go.

    To open up resources on the endless seas, it required them to control the sea area. Xu Yi cared very much about this, so not only did they need to trust their workers, they needed special qualities.

    For example, they needed to be able to endure loneliness, being able to live on a tough ind, and other qualities......

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, of the two thousand people recruited, it would be good if only a fourth of them went to the ind.

    The true main forces woulde from the old workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But if they chose from these old workers, there weren¡¯t that many workers who were willing to ept.

    Xu Yi could of course forcefully transfer them to the inds, but in terms of stability, so Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to do this.

    ¡°It seems like this n can only be dyed.¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard giving him the recruitment report and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Kennard on the side looked at Xu Yi and after hesitating a bit, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Sir chairman, actually.....if you¡¯re willing to raise the sry a bit, for example going from three hundred gold coins to four hundred gold coins, I think that there wouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi decisively shook his head, ¡°Setting this wage isn¡¯t only about the sry structure of ourpany, but also the entire industry. If we suddenly raise it, it would be hard for the otherpanies.¡±

    Kennard gave a bitterugh and shook his head.

    He really wanted to say that thesepanies didn¡¯t have any scruples in using higher wages to take people from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so we shouldn¡¯t have any scruples either.

    But after working with Xu Yi for so long, Kennard was very clear on the goal in Xu Yi¡¯s heart. He knew that the most important thing for Xu Yi was the development of the magic machine industry, he didn¡¯t care if he let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suffer a bit from this.

    Moreover, Xu Yi was also right. Even in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if the wages of the workers who were sent to the seas were too high, it would affect their internal sry structure which would create internal chaos.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sry standard had been reset after the mass downsizing, so to break it in just less than a year wasn¡¯t right.

    Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a smile, ¡°Alright, thinking about it carefully is also good. We can¡¯t be too rushed in developing these inds. Not mentioning anything else, at least we don¡¯t have that many Magic Ships, right?¡±

    Kennard nodded, ¡°Yes, sir chairman, we currently only have eightrge transport Magic Ships, we can¡¯t support mass marine transport yet. Also in terms of fighting Magic Ships, although we have enough for two fleets, we don¡¯t have enough skilled people. To control the giant southern seas now would be too difficult.¡±

    ¡°Un, we¡¯ll do this then. We¡¯ll do it step by step, first we¡¯ll develop the seas near the Stantine Duchy and then advance to the continent¡¯s southern sea step by step. At the same time, we¡¯ll train more people and build more ships, we have to prepare a strong enough guard fleet soon.¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a pensive look, ¡°The fleet under Viscount Leslie isn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special expressions, he just gave a nod without exining.

    Although Leslie was now in name under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, leading their guard fleet, Xu Yi knew that Leslie wouldn¡¯t stay under him for long.

    When the timees, he will likely leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and build a fleet that belongs to him.

    Xu Yi gave himmand of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards first because of their rtionship and second because of Leslie¡¯s abilities, as well as the resources he had inherited from the Stagg Family.

    Him leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet could be considered a cooperation between Xu Yi and Leslie because both sides needed to umte experience on the sea.

    Since the situation had changed, Xu Yi and Kennard changed their ns ordingly.

    Because before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had carefully explored the inds around the Stantine Duchy. They had a stats on the resources of these inds, so they were a good starting point for this n.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would set up a small base on these inds and arrange a few defenses. Then they would link up these inds to be a line of defensive inds for the Stantine Duchy.

    If a situation where the Sack Kingdom and Count Wein worked together to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared again, they would have to break through the defensive line of inds before attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base.

    After that, Xu Yi¡¯s n was to extend the ind chain to the seas south of the Rudson Kingdom before reaching the Candra Empire. In the end, he would create a half circle in the southern seas of the Sines Continent,pletely wrapping up the southern coast.

    To achieve this goal, it was clearly not enough to just have some inds with various resources, they also needed to use strategic inds.

    Like this, the investment of this entire n reached a shocking amount.

    Xu Yi and Kennard had a rough estimate that the total investment for this n would be over a hundred million gold coins.

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, this n can¡¯t be aplished in just a year or two, we can only do it slowly.¡± Kennard said with a sigh.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Of course, I never thought that we would be able toplete this n in a short period of time. In short, we just need to work hard in this direction.¡±

    Kennard also revealed a smile. When he was about to speak, there was a strong knock on the door.

    Kennard knit his brows slightly before saying, ¡°Come in.¡±

    The door opened and Kennard¡¯s secretary came in with a very strange expression on his face. He looked at Kennard before seeing Xu Yi. Taking hard breaths, he finally said in a strange voice that was filled with panic, shock, and confusion, ¡°SIr.....Sir chairman......We just received news that her majesty Seveni.....has officially announced that she is pregnant.....¡±

    Kennard¡¯s mouth dropped in shock, but he didn¡¯t say a thing as he turned to look at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was stunned. He turned to look in the direction of Anvilmar City in the northeast and he didn¡¯t say anything for a long time.

 Volume 5 77 - Not important

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 77 Not important</h4>

    Her majesty Seveni had announced that she was pregnant, this news had shocked the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms.

    Although the Sines Continent was more open about this than most countries on earth, getting pregnant before being married was still something that wasn¡¯t epted. Not to mention that this was happening to her majesty of the Lampuri Kingdom!

    What shocked people more was that when her majesty Seveni announced this, she even announced that she had been pregnant for eight months now!

    With a gestation period of ten months, now that she had already been pregnant for eight months, wouldn¡¯t it take only two more months before the child was born?

    ording to the current internal situation of the Lampuri Kingdom, even if this was considered arge scandal, no one dared to suggest to Seveni that she should get rid of this child.

    One, since her majesty was already pregnant and had announced this, this scandal had be an established fact and it didn¡¯t matter if the child was gotten rid of or not.

    Two, with the current situation of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was clear that only her majesty Seveni¡¯s child had the right to take the throne. The others from the royal family couldn¡¯tpare.

    Before this, there were many people who had advised her majesty that they wished she would solve the matter of her marriage as soon as possible so she could give birth to a child and decide the next sessor.

    Although her majesty announcing that she was pregnant was a scandal, if they looked at it from another angle, this was what many people wanted. Her majesty was finally going to have a child!

    The difference between a king and queen was that a queen was a female in the end, the child she gave birth to came from her. It waspletely different from a king where he had to worry about if the child was his. As long as she gave birth to it, it would of course be her child.

    So not long after her majesty announced that she was pregnant, all the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom began reporting on this matter. They all began spreading this matter, stating that it was something to celebrate.

    The sessor of the Lampuri Kingdom was finally set, was this something not worth being happy about?

    As for who the child¡¯s father was? That wasn¡¯t important at all, alright!

    ¡°Hei, it seems like Seveni¡¯s public rtions management is quite good.¡± Xu Yi put down the ?Lampuri Weekly? in his hand and looked at Still who was rubbing her stomach in front of him with a smile, ¡°Reading these newspapers, even I feel that it isn¡¯t important who the father of the child in Seveni¡¯s stomach is.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi with a look of deep meaning and softly asked, ¡°You really don¡¯t care about this?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s fake if I said I don¡¯t care at all since Seveni is my friend, but this is her choice. From my identity as a friend, I should fully support her at this time and not care about anything else. Moreover.....¡±

    Xu Yi came to Still¡¯s side and put his hand on Still¡¯s stomach as he said with a smile, ¡°Compare to caring about who the father of the child in Seveni¡¯s stomach is, I came more about the child in this stomach because his father is no one else but me.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi¡¯s hand on her stomach and gave a sigh. After hesitating a bit, she swallowed the words that were in her mouth. After pausing, she changed her words, ¡°Speaking of this, Xu Yi, do you want it to be a boy or a girl?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, whether it is a boy or a girl, I¡¯ll like them. But since we already have Freya, I feel that it¡¯s better to give her a little brother. A boy and a girl, that way we have aplete set.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a problem, Liz and Linda have already given her two little brothers, she isn¡¯tcking them.¡±

    Xu Yiughed. Thinking about how Freya was just born two years ago, because there was nothing that appeared with Still, Liz, or Linda, he had doubted his own virility.

    But not only were Liz and Linda pregnant, giving birth to two boys just two months ago.

    Now Still was also pregnant. It meant that there was nothing wrong with his virility, the past two years were just an exception.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. Alright, Still, you should give Freya a little sister, I think that she¡¯ll definitely like it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Still was silent for a bit before shaking her head, ¡°No, I want to give birth to a boy. Although Freya already has two little brothers, they didn¡¯te from me in the end, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at Still. He thought that although he had said it many times to Still and he had confirmed that Freya would be his only sessor, Still didn¡¯tpletely believe it in her heart.

    After Liz and Linda gave birth to two boys, Still became even more rigid in this matter.

    Xu Yi felt it was very strange. Normally the Sines Continent didn¡¯t care that much about gender, even Seveni could take the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne without any hindrances, so why does Still think she needs to give birth to a son for him?

    But Xu Yi never argued with Still about this. He knew that although Still was generous, she was still a woman and it wasn¡¯t strange that she was strict about certain small things.

    Xu Yi just said with a smile, ¡°Alright, I think that no matter what, Freya will be happy. Of course, it¡¯s the same with me.¡±

    Still gave a nod before revealing a bit of a tired look on her face.

    Xu Yi gave a p and Betty came out from behind the door.

    ¡°Sir, do you have orders?¡±

    After Betty and Carol were brought back to the Stantine Duchy by Xu Yi, Xu Yi had never made them be maids, but these two had taken responsibility in this matter by their own initiative.

    There were many things that were simr to Liz and Linda in the past.

    ¡°Still is tired, bring her to get some rest.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Betty replied before going over to help Still, but she waved her hand and rejected it.

    ¡°No, I¡¯ll just rest here for a bit. I still have a guestingter, I have to entertain them.¡±

    ¡°Guest? The people from the Doran Troupe? They¡¯re here already?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, they are very interested in the n I proposed. They replied to me a week ago that they woulde today, so I think they should be here soon.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.....¡± Xu Yi looked at Still¡¯s stomach, but he didn¡¯t force her to go rest. He turned to Betty and said, ¡°Alright, Betty, help me take care of Still. Still, don¡¯t let yourself be too tired. You just became pregnant, you need to pay attention to your rest.¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°Rx, this isn¡¯t my first time, I know what to do.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi looked at the Magic Clock on the wall before saying, ¡°I should also see how far Akali¡¯s group is getting. When Ie back in the afternoon, you can tell me about your discussion with the Doran Troupe. I might be able to think of some ideas for you.¡±

    ¡°Got it, you can go.¡± Still nodded.¡±

    Xu Yi gave Betty some more orders before getting up to leave.

    When he came out of the manor, he saw a medium Passenger Magic Car quicklying down the road outside the manor before stopping at the manor.

    Xu Yi stopped moving out and watched as several people came out of the medium passenger Magic Car.

    Three of them were middle aged men who were dressed in the clothes of merchants and the rest were all young and beautiful human girls.

    After these people got out, they immediately headed towards Xu Yi. The three middle aged merchants reached their hands out to Xu Yi with wide smiles on their faces.

    ¡°You must be chairman Xu, right? It¡¯s our honour in meeting you.¡± The fattest middle aged man had a ttering smile on his face, grabbing Xu Yi¡¯s hand and forcefully shaking it, ¡°Let me introduce myself, I am the Doran Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Veron Randolph and these two are my assistants.¡±

    The other two middle aged men also reached their hands out to Xu Yi with the same smiles before introducing themselves.

    Xu Yi nodded at the two with smiles before his eyes fell onto the beautiful human girls behind them.

    Chairman Randolph pointed at them with a smile as he said, ¡°They are the most beautiful girls in our Doran Troupe. Whether it is dancing, singing, or ying instruments, they are the most outstanding. What does chairman Xu think about them?¡±

    The eyes of the girls were all focused on Xu Yi. Seeing that he was looking over, they all tried to look perfect as the=y winked at him, revealing looks of lust. They didn¡¯t hide their interest in Xu Yi at all.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special reactions as he just gave a nod, ¡°They are all outstanding, but chairman Randolph, the requirements of the films does not depend on their appearances or their skills, it depends on their acting. This is something that Still will tell youter, I don¡¯t say anything else.¡±

    ¡°Yes, yes, yes, we will definitely listen to the arrangements of madame Still. We¡¯ll do whatever she tells us to do. Chairman Xu can be assured, since you¡¯re willing to give this chance to our Doran Chamber of Commerce, we will definitely do our best.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°No, it isn¡¯t me who is giving you this chance, it is Still. For this matter, it ispletely being handled by Still and her New Moon Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m not meddling in this at all.¡±

    Chairman Randolph gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, you must be joking. Madame Still is your wife, isn¡¯t her matter also your matter in the end?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and was toozy to exin, he just pointed at the mansion, ¡°Alright, Still is waiting for you, go. I still have other things to take care of, so I won¡¯t be with you.¡±

    Chairman Randolph quickly waved his hand and had them open the path.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you must be busy with your own things, don¡¯t mind us.¡±

    Xu Yi left with a nod. After walking for a bit, he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows as he watched Randolph¡¯s group entering the manor.

    This Doran Troupe was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s most famous troupe, so it was normal for Still to look for them first.

    But with the short period of contact that he had, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a good impression of them. Even those beautiful girls gave him a vulgar feeling, not leaving a good first impression.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi found that he was being too picky.

    If he was talking about vulgar, the entertainment industry on earth was more vulgar than them, but that didn¡¯t stop them from making programs that entertained people.

    No matter what kind of vulgar impression they made on Xu Yi, it was good as long as they could match Still¡¯s requirements.

    In the end, this wasn¡¯t that rted to him.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile before turning to head towards another building on a high peak.

 Volume 5 78 - Signal tower

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 78 Signal tower</strong>

    That tower already seemed quite high up when one was far away, but when one came closer, they would find that the steel tower was over twenty meters tall. One needed to look up to see the peak of the tower.

    This iron tower took over a hundred square meters ofnd and with how high it was, it was quite noticeable.

    When Xu Yi came close to the tower, he saw a bunch of magicians wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce working on it. When he wanted to greet them, he heard a childish voiceing from the crowd.

    ¡°No! I want to go up! I want to go up!¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned as he could immediately tell that it was Freya¡¯s voice.

    As expected, Akali¡¯s helpless voice came from the crowd.

    ¡°Freya, it¡¯s too high and it¡¯s very dangerous. If you want to go up, I¡¯m afraid that you¡¯ll be scared.¡±

    ¡°I won¡¯t be scared! With aunt Akali with me, there¡¯s no danger at all!¡±

    ¡°But it¡¯s too high up and it¡¯s very windy up there, you¡¯ll be cold.¡±

    ¡°No! Aunt Akali is a magician, you¡¯ll protect me, right?¡±

    Akali felt even more helpless.

    ¡°But I have work to do.¡±

    Freya was silent for a bit before suddenly shouting, ¡°Humph! Dad has work, mom has work, aunt Akali has work! You all won¡¯t y with me! You all don¡¯t want me!¡±

    Freya¡¯s voice had been filled with anger in the beginning, but then it turned to crying.

    Xu Yi who had been nning on secretly listening to Freya and Akali on the side couldn¡¯t stay there any longer, so he gave a cough and walked out.

    ¡°Freya, what are you doing here?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s voice, everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto him.

    Freya also stopped crying when she heard this and she came out from the slit in the crowd. When she saw Xu Yi, she immediately revealed a bright smile and jumped over to him.

    ¡°Dad!¡±

    Xu Yi picked her up and seeing the tears that had been in the corner of her eyes, he felt a bit of guilt. He said in a soft voice, ¡°Freya, why did youe here? Why aren¡¯t you at home ying with your little brothers?¡±

    ¡°The little brothers can¡¯t even speak, I don¡¯t want to y with them.¡± Freya replied with pouted lips, ¡°It¡¯s not fun at home, so I had aunt Carol bring me out.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to see Carol in the crowd before giving her a nod. He carried Freya over to Akali¡¯s side.

    Akali spread her hands with a helpless look, ¡°Sir chairman, Freya insisted on going up the signal tower for a look, but I didn¡¯t dare agree.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile before asking Freya, ¡°Freya, why do you want to go up?¡±

    ¡°Because it¡¯s very high.¡± Freya said in an honest voice, ¡°I like high ces. Dad, aunt Akalie isn¡¯t willing to bring me up, how about you bring me up instead?¡±

    Seeing Freya¡¯s pleading look, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t reject her and just gave a nod.

    Freya cheered before waving her hand at Akali with a proud look on her little face.

    Akali could only give a helpless bitterugh.

    ¡°Alright, Freya, you y with aunt Carol on the side for a bit. I have to discuss something with aunt Akali, we can go up after I¡¯m done.¡±

    Freya agreed and slid down Xu Yi¡¯s body to the ground. She went over to Carol and obediently stood there, looking at Xu Yi with an expectant look.

    Seeing her appearance, Akali couldn¡¯t help giving augh.

    ¡°Sir chairman, whenever I see Freya, I also want to have a child. If I can have one that is as cute as Freya, I would be too happy each day.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That is because you haven¡¯t seen Freya when she gives you a headache. Oh, no, you¡¯ve experienced it just now, so how was it? Do you still think she¡¯s cute?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Akali said with a smile, ¡°Freya is such a cute child, I wouldn¡¯t find it troubling even if she was spoiled. Then again, Freya is this good, I¡¯ve never seen her cry for no reason before.¡±

    ¡°That is because Still and I taught her well.¡± Xu Yi gave augh and boasted without any hesitation, ¡°But Akali, if you want to give birth to a child, you have to get married first.¡±

    ¡°Who says?¡± Akali rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Didn¡¯t you see that her majesty gave birth without getting married? I want to learn from her!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Seveni getting pregnant before getting married, forgetting the other influence she had, she had been a source of enlightenment for the girls of the surrounding countries.

    Yes, even her majesty could do this, why couldn¡¯t they!

    Xu Yi looked at the proud Akali and after thinking about it, he gave the idea to say ¡°you need a man to give birth to a child¡±. He looked up at the iron tower that reached the clouds and asked, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not joke around anymore. Tell me, how are the effects of the signal tower?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi talk about work, Akali suddenly stopped thinking about joking, but she became more excited.

    ¡°Very good!¡± Akali gave Xu Yi a thumbs up, ¡°Sir chairman, your ideas are just too good! Why did I never think about using signal towers as stopover stations for magic array resonance and increase the signal range? Now that we have this signal tower, we can increase the range of the magic resonance signal and solve the small range limit!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, thinking that this principle was like the electric signals from earth.

    When Akali had proposed this, Xu Yi only wanted to give it a test. He never thought that Akali¡¯s team would be able to finish this research in just four months and only take three months to work with the magic machine development center to build this signal tower.

    On the signal tower, there was a Magic Array for rying magic resonance waves. Through this magic array, the same Magic Array that was five thousand meters away could transmit to another Magic Array that was another five thousand meters away, for a total of ten thousand meters, fully doubling the range.

    Moreover, this research had an important significance. These signal towers could be like the electric signal towers on earth and continuously transmit, which meant that as long as there was the same signal tower every five thousand kilometers, the magic waves could be continuously transmitted.

    In theory, the magic wave of this magic resonance could be transmitted infinitely.

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible to transmit it infinitely.¡± Akali waved her hand, ¡°The magic waves are influenced by various factors during transmission, so they will degrade. If the distance is too long, it will weaken until it disappears and it won¡¯t be able to keep its original signal.¡±

    ¡°Then have you started researching how to reduce this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Akali shook her head with a bitter smile, ¡°We haven¡¯t made much progress with this.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to be so discouraged.¡± Xu Yi patted Akali¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Look, you being able to increase the range from several hundred meters to five thousand meters means that there is a way to achieve this. You just need to invest more into this research and thepany will fully support you.¡±

    ¡°Is it thepany or is it sir chairman?¡± Akali asked.

    ¡°Nonsense, of course I will also fully support you.¡± Xu Yi looked at Akali and reached his hand out, ¡°Come, give it to me and let me see the results.¡±

    Akali gave augh before digging out a Magic Communicator for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked around before activating his magic, instantly teleporting away. When he appeared, he was at a ce that was around four thousand meters west.

    After confirming this position, Xu Yi pressed the Magic Communicator. After clearing his throat, he said into it, ¡°Hey, hey, I am Xu Yi, please respond if you can hear me.¡±

    There was a loud voice that came from the Magic Communicator before a clear and excited voice came through.

    ¡°It¡¯s sir chairman! Sir chairman, I am Samrot, can you hear me? This is the street outside the Yodel Restaurant, we are talking to you from here!¡±

    Xu Yi looked towards the east.

    The Yodel Restaurant was thergest restaurant in the living quarters of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, it was directly eight kilometers away from here.

    If it was the previous Magic Communicators, this would be far out of its range.

    ¡°Alright, I can hear you, you can keep testing.¡±

    Xu Yi replied before turning off the Magic Communicator. His figure shed before he broke through the void and returned to the signal tower from before.

    ¡°How is it? Sir chairman, did you receive a signal? Was the voice clear?¡± When she saw Xu Yi appear, Akali immediately asked this.

    ¡°Un, I heard the voice, but it wasn¡¯t that clear.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°But it¡¯s already very good. Akali, keep working with the development center. As long as you keep working on this, I¡¯ll n on installing signal towers all over the Stantine Duchy, so we canmunicate from every part of the duchy.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is also my goal!¡± Akali gave a strong nod before saying in a worried voice, ¡°But sir chairman, just a single tower uses over ten tons of steel and adding in the other expenditures, it could cost up to ten thousand gold coins. To reach the goal of spreading the signal over the entire duchy, my estimate is that it would take at least four hundred towers and this would cost around five hundred thousand gold coins.....¡±

    ¡°Money isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, looking quite generous, ¡°This is the number one goal that ourpany needs to achieve in two years, so you don¡¯t need to worry about money. In short, I will fully support you.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Akali was a bit doubtful.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a lot of money this year, there were many ces where they needed to spend money. They would need to invest at least four million into this project, what about the other aspects?

    But thinking about it, Akali stopped worrying.

    Sir chairman was the one who decided how the funds were allocated, what did it matter to her?

    Moreover, how could sir chairman make a mistake?

    Thinking of this, Akali revealed a smile.

    Freya on the side saw that Xu Yi and Akali were done speaking and immediately broke free of Carol to run to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    ¡°Dad, are you done talking to aunt Akali? Can you bring me up to y?¡±

    Xu Yi leaned down to pick her up with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, Dad will bring you up to y now.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and a wind barrier appeared around Freya. Then he lightly tapped his feet and he slowly flew up with Freya.

 Volume 5 79 - Hick from the Candra Empire

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 79 Hick from the Candra Empire</h4>

    The light gold Magic Sedan crossed the border between the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, quickly flying down the long slope of the Stru Road.

    Seeing the big trees that gradually went above the road and the open road soon bing a forest in front of him, ambassador Hakanin couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    This wasn¡¯t his first timeing to the Stantine Duchy from the Rudson Kingdom, but he always felt it was a pity when he came across this road.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have made this part a bit longer when they made the road, he could enjoy driving across this scenery a bit longer.

    But thinking of how he would arrive at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce soon and see chairman Xu again, then gainingrge benefits from him, ambassador Hakanin threw this bit of regret away. He stepped down on the petal and the Magic Sedan began moving even faster.

    Very soon, his Magic Sedan waspletely in the Slight Dream Forest.

    There was a row of Magic Lamps on both sides of the road since it was a bit dark here from the shade of the trees, creating a very conspicuous row of light through the Slight Dream Forest, directing the Magic Sedan.

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at the Magic Lamps on both sides and he was a bit confused.

    The previous times he came here, he didn¡¯t think about this issue.

    But seeing these Magic Lamps this time, he couldn¡¯t help thinking of a question.

    There were over two thousand Magic Lamps across this road, so even if it was the cheapest Magic Lamp, this would cost over three thousand gold coins.

    And that didn¡¯t count in the maintenance cost of these Magic Lamps.

    Since it was like this, why didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just cut down the trees on the side of the Stru Road when they paved this road?

    As long as they created a gap to let the sun in, there wouldn¡¯t be a need for Magic Lamps to light up this road.

    Did chairman Xu not do this because he wanted this part of a road feel like an illusion?

    ¡°When I see chairman Xuter, I have to ask him.¡± Ambassador Hakanin secretly made up his mind.

    ¡°Viscount Hakanin, how long will it take?¡± There was a deep man¡¯s voice that came from the Magic Sedan.

    Hearing this voice, ambassador Hakanin came back from his thoughts. He looked at the strict looking middle aged man sitting in the back of the Magic Sedan through the rear view mirror before a warm smile appeared on his chubby face.

    ¡°We¡¯ll be at New Moon Town in just half an hour. I¡¯ve already arranged to meet with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO Kennard there.¡±

    ¡°New Moon Town? There isn¡¯t any information on this town on the map, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh, this New Moon Town was only built by the Frestech Chamber of Commercest year, so it isn¡¯t on the map yet.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce build this town for? Does this small town fall under the jurisdiction of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Stantine Duchy?¡± A bit of a serious look appeared on the face of the middle aged man.

    ¡°ording to what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu said, this town was built to gain some poprity and also to let people experience a modern town.¡±

    ¡°A modern town? What does that mean?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin shook his head, ¡°Although chairman Xu exined this to me, I.....couldn¡¯t understand.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± The middle aged man asked before falling silent.

    Ambassador Hakanin also closed his mouth and focused on driving.

    He didn¡¯t directly drive out of the Slight Dream Forest. He drove to the Magic Refill Station that he had gone to with Kennard the first time he came to the Stantine Duchy.

    After he exined the use of the Magic Refill Station to the middle aged man and his two followers, ambassador Hakanin led them to the restroom that was very advanced in his opinion.

    Seeing the three of them being surprised by the automatic flushing function of the restroom and the drying function of the Magic Dryer, ambassador Hakanin was strangely pleased.

    These three fellows stayed in the Candra Empire all day, so they thought that the Candra Empire was the best in everything. Now that they were here to see the world, they would know how shallow their views were before.

    After taking a short rest, they were about to head off on the road again when a ck Magic Sedaning from the Stantine Duchy pulled into the Magic Refill Station.

    Ambassador Hakanin felt that this Magic Sedan looked very familiar when he saw Kennarding out.

    Kennard directly came over to Ambassador Hakanin and his eyes fell over the other three, stopping at the middle aged man. Then he gave ambassador Hakanin a wide smile as he said, ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, you¡¯vee this far, it really has been hard on you. I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in weing you.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin gave a nod before doubtfully asking, ¡°CEO Kennard, didn¡¯t we agree to meet in New Moon Town? Why did youe here first? Such a warm wee makes me feel too ttered.¡±

    Kennard gave augh before shaking his head, ¡°You¡¯re mistaken. I was nning on meeting you all in New Mon Town, but there¡¯s a change in ns. Sir chairman suddenly decided to personallye to New Moon Town, so I came here to meet you first to bring you to meet sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Oh? You¡¯re saying that chairman Xu is currently in New Moon Town?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin was shocked. He turned to look at the middle aged man with an impatient look, ¡°Sir Russell, chairman Xu is not that far from here, we should quickly go and meet him!¡±

    The middle aged man named sir Russell revealed a faint smile, ¡°Viscount Hakanin, it seems like you¡¯re anticipating your meeting with chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Ambassador Hakanin knew that he had acted too excited, so he said with an awkward smile, ¡°Chairman Xu is a very outstanding person. Whenever I meet him, he would give me many inspirations that give me many new understandings of the world, so I always look forward to meeting him.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Sir Russell revealed a smile as a trace of disdain appeared in his eyes.

    This Hakanin didn¡¯t have any abilities, he could only depend on his big sister being the favoured concubine of the emperor to act greedy. Now that he was this respectful of chairman Xu, it was probably because he had been fed too much by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, sir Russell looked at Kennard with a trace of coldness in his eyes.

    Kennard acted like he didn¡¯t notice sir Russell¡¯s gaze at all as he took out a rectangr metal box from his chest for ambassador Hakanin.

    ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, sir chairman wants to pass a few words to you first and greet these sirs.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Ambassador Hakanin nodded. He took the metal box in front of Russell¡¯s group of three and when he was about to press the button, he was suddenly surprised, ¡°Kennard, this ce is still far away from New Moon Town, there shouldn¡¯t be a signal here, right?¡±

    Kennard gave an inviting gesture with a smile.,

    Ambassador Hakanin doubtfully pressed the button and after hesitating a bit, he spoke into the metal box, ¡°Hello? Is this chairman Xu? I am Hakanin, can you hear me?¡±

    There the clear and brightughter of a young man that came from the metal box.

    ¡°Ha, ha, ambassador Hakanin, hello, I am Xu Yi. Wee to the Stantine Duchy again. I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in warmly weing you and sir Russell¡¯s group.¡±

    Ambasador Hakanin had a bit of surprise in his eyes as he looked in the direction of New Moon Town in the west.

    New Moon Town was at least over thirty kilometers from here. Xu Yi had told him before that the Magic Communicators the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed only had a range of four thousand meters at most.

    Why was he able to have a conversation with Xu Yi?

    Could it be that Xu Yi lied to him before? Or was it Xu Yi was actually nearby and Kennard was lying to him?

    Compared to the surprise of ambassador Hakanin, Russell¡¯s group waspletely shocked.

    When they saw Kennard take out this normal looking metal box and say that Xu Yi wanted to talk to Hakanin, they were filled with doubt. But after hearing a voicee from the metal box and talk to Hakanin, the three of them couldn¡¯t help revealing looks of disbelief.

    What was this metal box, it was actually this amazing!

    Sir Russell thought for a bit beforeing forward to reach his hand out to ambassador Hakanin.

    Ambassador Hakanin understood and respectfully gave him the Magic Communicator in his hand, then he showed him how to talk into the Magic Communicator.

    Sir Russell looked at the Magic Communicator and after pausing, he hesitantly said, ¡°Hello, is this the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu? I am the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet¡¯s deputy chief of staff Remito Russell. This is our first time meeting....first time talking, I am very happy to meet you.¡±

    The same voice came from the Magic Communicator again.

    ¡°Hello sir Russell, I am Xu Yi. With my status as the chairman, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in warmly weing you. I have already dispatched ourpany¡¯s CEO Kennard to meet you. Please follow him to New Moon Town, I have already prepared a delicious meal and I¡¯m looking forward to having lunch with you.¡±

    Russell nodded, ¡°Good, I¡¯ll be there soon.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I look forward to meeting you and ambassador Hakanin.¡±

    When Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, there was a red glow that appeared on the Magic Communicator before it fell silent.

    Russell looked at the Magic Communicator in his hand before looking back at Kennard. After hesitating a bit, he gave the Magic Communicator back.

    But Kennard didn¡¯t reach out to take it, rather he said with a smile, ¡°Sir Russell, this Magic Communicator is our first small gift for you. With this Magic Communicator, you can talk to sir chairman at any time in the nearby area. I think that in the next few days, this will make it much easier for you. As for how you can use it, you can ask ambassador Hakanin about this.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Russell hesitated a bit, but he didn¡¯t reject it and tossed the Magic Communicator to his follower on the right.

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at the two followers carefully holding the Magic Communicator with curious looks and he couldn¡¯t helpughing in his heart.

    Hei, these two hicks from the Candra Empire.

 Volume 5 80 - Investigating

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 80 Investigating</h4>

    The sense of superiority reached a peak when they followed Kennard into New Moon Town.

    Seeing the buildings over ten meters tall in New Moon Town, Russell¡¯s two followers were very shocked.

    After entering New Moon Town and seeing the same buildings there, as well as the wide and smooth road, they were even more shocked.

    After walking for a bit, when they saw the three coloured traffic lights at the intersection, they were shocked again.

    When the saw the various Magic Cars that were driving down the road, they were shocked.

    In short, since entering New Moon Town, the two of them had been shocked by everything they had seen. This made ambassador Hakanin despise them as hicks who had never seen a city before in his heart, feeling very superior to them.

    But he forgot that he was also from the Candra Empire and when he came here the first time, he was no different from how the two followers were acting now.

    Russell always had a calm look. Although when he looked around, he had a surprised look, he always acted indifferently.

    But when they had been led to the tallest building in the center of New Moon Town by Kennard and then they saw a small iron beast that was like a ship slowly falling down before stopping in front of them. even Russell couldn¡¯t help revealing a shocked look.

    ¡°This.....What is this thing?¡± Russell pointed at the strange metal thing that was glistening with a silver glow as he asked Kennard this.

    ¡°Sir Russell, this is ourpany¡¯s newly developed small Magic Airship. Sir chairman specially sent it to bring you up for the meal. Pleasee in.¡± Kennard walked over to the small Magic Airship and reached his hand out in an inviting gesture.

    Russell hesitated a bit before nodding and walking over.

    Ambassador Hakanin and the two followers were both shocked, but they quickly followed him.

    This small Magic Airship on the outside only seemed to be three times bigger than their Magic Sedan, but the inside space was very big. After the five of them went in, it was still very spacious.

    Before Russell and the others could look around, they felt a tremor under them before the Magic Airship that they were in slowly moved up into the sky.

    Russell¡¯s face had a shocked look again.

    Although when he heard the name ¡°small Magic Airship¡±, he could guess the use of this thing, but when he was really being carried into the sky, he couldn¡¯t help feeling shock.

    Before this, only the elves and the legendary halflings had items that could bring people in the sky. After the halflings disappeared and the elves deteriorated, these items had be legends.

    He never thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to make this kind of magic machine. Moreover, from his experience, he could tell that the flight of this Magic Airship was very stable, so it could be seen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology in this aspect was very mature.

    Thinking of his goal, Russell began making calctions in his heart.

    ¡°Perhaps when I see Xu Yi, I should discuss a few things?¡±

    The small Magic Airship didn¡¯t give Russell much time to think. In just half a minute, Russell¡¯s group felt another tremor as the small Magic Airship stopped in the air. It drifted in the direction of the tall building and sunk down a bit before stopping.

    The door was slowly opened and Kennard gave an inviting gesture.

    Russell calmed himself and took the lead.

    ¡°Sir Russell, wee, wee.¡±

    There was a frankugh that rang out. Russell could tell that this voice was the same voice he had heard in the Magic Communicator.

    Look up, he saw a young looking man who looked at most to be thirty years old no matter how he looked at himing forward with a gentle smile.

    Russell reached out his hand to shake his hand and said with a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, meeting you for the first time, it really is an honour.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Sir Russell¡¯s words are too much. Being able to see a lord general of the Candra Empire and having the chance to have lunch with you is my honour.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin and the followers came forward with Kennard.

    Ambassador Hakanin had been nning on giving Xu Yi a warm hug, but he gave up that idea after looking at Russell.

    After Xu Yi and these people exchanged their greetings, he invited them to take a seat and prepared to have lunch.

    The ce Xu Yi chose was very special. It was New Moon Town¡¯s Amrit Restaurant¡¯s highest open terrace. Through the ss, one could see the skies around them and even the people on the ground turned into ck dots, which one couldn¡¯t see clearly at all.

    Whether it was ambassador Hakanin, the two followers, or even Russell, this was their first time dining in such a high ce. They couldn¡¯t help walking around to look down and around themselves.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this tall building, how did your Frestech Chamber of Commerce build this?¡± Russell couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°No, this building wasn¡¯t built by ourpany.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.

    Russell was stunned, ¡°It wasn¡¯t built by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? What otherpany has this kind of special ability?¡±

    When Russell described it as ¡°ability¡±, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°This restaurant¡¯s name is the Amrit Restaurant, so of course it was built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, not only this restaurant, all the other tall buildings in New Moon Town were made by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. It can even be said that this entire New Moon Town actually came from the hands of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just in charge of investing money.¡±

    ¡°Amrit Chamber of Commerce?¡± Russell narrowed his eyes. He paused for a bit before saying in a thoughtful voice, ¡°If I remember correctly, the ones who came to our empirest year to pave roads seemed to be the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s them.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Russell nodded before falling silent.

    Seeing that the atmosphere became a bit awkward, ambassador Hakanin gave a cough before saying to Russell, ¡°Sir Russel, when we came this time, since the Rudson Kingdom, there had been public roads the entire time. Do you think......these public roads are better than any of the dirt and stone roads of our empire?¡±

    Russell looked at him and calmly said, ¡°Of course I can see that.¡± He was silent for a bit after speaking before turning to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is quite powerful, so why haven¡¯t I heard of them before?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Because a few years ago, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was only a smallpany in our Lampuri Kingdom. Naturally you¡¯ve never heard of them before.¡±

    ¡°They are the same as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Russell looked right at Xu Yi as he asked this.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes.¡±

    Russell¡¯s right hand on the table unconsciously tapped twice before saying with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you should understand my intention ining here.¡±

    Xu Yi put down the knife and fork in his hands before crossing his hands together to look at Russell. He had the same calm look as he said with a slight nod, ¡°If my guess isn¡¯t wrong, sir Russell should be here because of the misunderstanding between ourpany¡¯s guard fleet and your country¡¯s third fleet.¡±

    ¡°It could be said that way, but that isn¡¯tpletely right.¡± Russell looked at Xu Yi before his face suddenly fell, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet actually ignored the warnings of our country¡¯s fleet. You evenunched an attack while escaping, which is a clear provocation to our country¡¯s fleet and to our country. Do you have any way of exining this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a rxed look, ¡°Sir Russell, what you just described is a misunderstanding. Ourpany doesn¡¯t have any idea of provoking your royal fleet or of offending the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Then why didn¡¯t you just escape? You even attacked the royal fleet while escaping?¡± Russell asked with a calm look.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°So that¡¯s why this is a misunderstanding. We chose to run because we didn¡¯t want to sh with the royal fleet. As for the attack.....it was for the royal fleet to not pursue us, it wasn¡¯t a real attack. After all.....there wasn¡¯t a single boat that was hit by the attack, right?¡±

    Russell knit his brows. Thinking of the report that came from the third fleet, he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

    Xu Yi made it sound nice, but actually the empire¡¯s third fleet couldn¡¯t catch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet at all. Even if they could, they didn¡¯t dare chase them.

    The report had stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had a terrifying attack power. ording to the report of the third fleet¡¯smander Candor, if they had chosen to chase, the entire fleet might have been annihted.

    This report had created an uproar on the royal army side.

    No one believe Candor¡¯s words, everyone thought that Candor was trying to cover up his own mistake by exaggerating the abilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    Because no one believed that the third fleet would bepletely annihted by just a few ships of apany¡¯s guard fleet.

    Candor had been stripped of his position because of this matter and the report. This matter had also been sealed away by the military headquarters because it would affect the image of the royal fleet.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Russell meeting Candor during new years and hearing about this from him, this matter would have been directly suppressed.

    After this, Russell heard that ambassador Hakanin had some contact with this not well known Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He had him bring him along to investigate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Candor was already drunk when he told Russell about this matter, so there wasn¡¯t a chance that he was lying at all.

    When he said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was very powerful to the point where they couldn¡¯t fight them at all, even if Russell didn¡¯t believe it, he still wanted toe and investigate.

    Russell had many doubts about this matter, but after arriving in the Stantine Duchy and seeing all the strange things, the doubts in his mind began to slowly disappear.

    When he was riding the small Magic Airship, there was even a bit of affirmation in his heart.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was very likely that it was a special ce that people couldn¡¯t imagine.

    The fleet that Candor described as ¡°simply from another word¡± might really exist.

 Volume 5 81 - Build a road in your name

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 81 Build a road in your name</h4>

    Xu Yi was a bit disappointed.

    When he learned from ambassador Hakanin that the royal army would send someone to the Stantine Duchy to investigate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had been very excited. He thought that his previous efforts had seeded and the Candra Empire would start noticing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, this sir Russell that came with ambassador Hakanin was the vice chief of staff of the royal fleet. Whether it was his status, his position, or his role in the government, they all fit Xu Yi¡¯s calctions from before. It made Xu Yi think that this person was sent to represent the will of the Candra Empire.

    It wasn¡¯t too high, but they didn¡¯t look down on them.

    Xu Yi thought that by meeting Russell, he could have the Candra Empire ce more attention on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He would be able to open the window for cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire, allowing them to enter the Candra Empire¡¯s giant market.

    However, after a short meeting with Russell, XuYi thought that his thinking was too simple.

    Although this sir Russell was a high level member of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal navy, his trip this time wasn¡¯t an official trip for the Candra Empire, he couldn¡¯t even represent the Candra Empire¡¯s royal army. Rather he hadepletely as an individual.

    ording to Russell¡¯s ideas, his trip to the Stantine Duchy this time was purely to see the Frestech Chamber of Commece¡¯s guard fleet, he didn¡¯t have any other goals.

    Xu Yi was naturally very disappointed by this, but thinking about it, it was a very normal thing.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent. Even small kingdoms like the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom weren¡¯t worth anything in their eyes, not to mention a smallpany from the Stantine Duchy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to arouse the curiosity of Russell waspletely because of the strange parts of the meeting between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and the Candra Empire¡¯s third fleet.

    If he wasn¡¯t curious about this, Russell wouldn¡¯t have even thought abouting. This matter would have been suppressed by the military headquarters and would have been treated as it never happened.

    Xu Yi was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had great influence in the surrounding countries, but the Candra Empire didn¡¯t put them in their eyes, so they wouldn¡¯t be swayed by Russell¡¯s opinion.

    But this matter did show a problem.

    The Candra Empire didn¡¯t care about this matter, so it could be seen that they had lost their vignce.

    Otherwise, the special performance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had shown under Xu Yi¡¯s instructions would have been ignored by the Candra Empire¡¯s royal army.

    The facts showed that if Russell hadn¡¯t been curious about this matter, what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet did would be like winking at a blind person.

    Through these problems, the disappointment in Xu Yi¡¯s heart was reduced. He followed his previous n and entertained Russell¡¯s party warmly.

    Russell was interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, so Xu Yi gave him an open demonstration of the guard fleet.

    When Russell and his two subordinates saw the giant Magic Ship that was cast of iron, the shock on their face definitely was not something that could be pretended.

    However, no matter how shocked they were by this scene, when they left the Stantine Duchy three dayster after their inspection, Russell had been silent the entire time and didn¡¯t give any reactions.

    But Xu Yi was certain that he had some idea in his heart after these few days.

    Compared to Russell and his two assistants leaving quickly, not leaving anything and not taking anything, ambassador Hakanin received the same benefits that satisfied him on his trip this time.

    ording to his private agreement with Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold him various household magic machines at 90% of the market price, for a total of three hundred thousand gold coins.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s understanding, these household magic machines were selling for twice the price in Wimbledon City and there wasn¡¯t ack of demand.

    Even if ambassador Hakanin took care of the transport costs bringing them back to Wimbledon City, if he could sell out all of these household magic machines, he would receive arge ie of one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    Since he met Xu Yi at the beginning ofst year, in just a single year, ambassador Hakanin had earned over four hundred thousand gold coins from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Before this, no matter how greedy he had acted in the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire with his identity, he could only earn several tens of thousands of gold coins a year.

    He gained close to ten times that by cooperating with the Frestech Chamber Of Commerce. It was no wonder he forgot about the conflict he had when he met Xu Yi and even regarded Xu Yi as his best partner, following him around.

    He believed that the suggestions that Xu Yi gave him would definitely bring him great profits.

    However this time, when he talked to Xu Yi in private before leaving, the matter they discussed made his eyes open wide in shock.

    ¡°You want me to invest in a road in the empire?¡± Ambassador Hakanin looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°I say, chairman Xu, are you joking?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not joking at all.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°You¡¯re not joking? No, no......I still think that you are joking. You should know how much money it costs to build a road, I don¡¯t have that much money. Then again, there aren¡¯t any benefits for me.¡± Ambassador Hakanin shook his head.

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°You¡¯ve misunderstood, I don¡¯t want you to pay the money for this road. All the expenses of this road will be undertaken by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Ambassador Hakanin looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°Chairman Xu, why would you do this? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing money to build a road in our Candra Empire, what benefits does that yield for you?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are benefits, but you can¡¯t see them right now.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But for ambassador Hakanin, there are some clear benefits.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin was even more confused, ¡°What benefits are there for me?¡±

    ¡°Please look at the map.¡± Xu Yi turned to the walk to the map on the wall and reached out a finger to draw a line between the Stantine Duchy and the Candra Empire, ¡°Ambassador Hakanin, let me ask you, when you transport these household magic machines back to Wimbledon City, how much does it cost you to transport them?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Ambassador Hakanin shook his head, ¡°But with the capacity of arge transport Magic Car, it should cost around thirty gold coins per trip.¡±

    ¡°Thirty gold coins? Then have you calcted where those thirty gold coins are mainly spent?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Ambassador Hakanin knit his brows to think for a bit before looking at the map Xu Yi was pointing at and giving a bitterugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand what you mean. Those thirty gold coins, at least half of them are spent on the road to Wimbledon City after entering the Candra Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, thinking that this ambassador Hakanin was not as dumb as everyone said.

    ¡°To go from here to the border of the Norton Duchy and the Candra Empire, it would be a trip of one thousand and five hundred kilometers, but from the border to Wimbledon City, it is a trip of less than five hundred kilometers. There¡¯s this difference in distance, but the expenses are the same. Ambassador Hakanin, do you understand why there¡¯s this difference?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin nodded with a bitter smile, ¡°Of course I know. It¡¯s for no other reason than our Candra Empire¡¯s roads being too bad. Those damn dirt roads, it¡¯s normally good, but if we run into bad weather, it simply won¡¯t work. Five hundred kilometers only takes half a day on the roads here, but in the Candra Empire, it would take at least two full days to travel them.¡±

    Seeing ambassador Hakaninining, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He thought, it¡¯s good that you know.¡±

    ¡°So I n on building this road to connect the border to Wimbledon City. If this road is built, it will save you a lot of time and effort when you want to transport things to Wimbledon City. Ambassador Hakanin, don¡¯t you think that this brings benefits to you?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin looked at the section of road that Xu Yi mentioned several times before slowly nodding.

    ¡°If there was such a road, it would be much more convenient. But chairman Xu, it would be five hundred kilometers to build this road, wouldn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have to invest at least a million gold coins?¡±

    ¡°Money isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°The main problem is how to build this road. Ambassador Hakanin, there are many limits for ourpany in the Candra Empire, so we can¡¯t build this road. Whether this road can be built will depend on you. If you¡¯re willing, you just have to get the permission to build this road. As for other aspects, whether it is money, people, or equipment, you don¡¯t need to worry about them at all. What do you think?¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin was a bit hesitant, ¡°But if I suddenly say that I want to build this road, there will be many people who will doubt this......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile as he raised a finger to ambassador Hakanin, ¡°If we can do this, I¡¯ll personally give you a hundred thousand gold coins to thank you for your selfless help.¡±

    ¡°A hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Ambassador Hakanin swallowed a mouthful of saliva before giving a strong nod, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s a deal!¡±

 Volume 5 82 - Prince Frank also wants to come?

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 82 Prince Frank also wants toe?</h4>

    Another year¡¯s spring came.

    Each year in April, it was time for the Banta City bicycle race and Banta City would be lively again.

    Because of the sess ofst year¡¯s Frestech Bicycle Circuit, when people paid attention to the Banta City bicycle race, they cared more about the Frestech Bicycle Circuit that came afterwards.

    Because it was the first timest year and the ones participating were only the teams of thepanies that organized the event, people didn¡¯t really pay attention to it.

    But at the end of the year, when the finalpetition of the Frestech Bicycle Circuit was over and the champion was decided, it was announced that the champion had received a total of eighty four thousand gold coins. This had attracted everyone¡¯s attention to thepetition.

    Everyone had treated the hundred thousand gold coins grand prize as a slogan before, not many people had believed it.

    But when the eighty four thousand gold coins was given to the champion by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in front of countless people, when the golden Chimera Chamber of Commerce banknotes were held by the champion, this circuit caused quite amotion.

    So the second Frestech Bicycle Circuit this year had attracted the attention of countless people, even surpassing the attention that Banta City¡¯s bicycle race had before.

    Of course, Banta City¡¯s bicycle race didn¡¯t fall out of favour because the top three in Banta City¡¯s bicycle racest year were recruited by three bicyclepanies participating in the Frestech Bicycle Circuit, bing professional cyclers. They had gone on to earn a shocking minimum wage of two thousand gold coins a year.

    If people could win the Banta City bicycle race this year and gain the attention of thesepanies, they could be recruited to their professional cycling team.

    So there was the slogan ¡°participationes first¡±. There were many that wanted to chase the dream of being a professional cycler, so Banta City¡¯s bicycle race obtained a new peak when it came to participation, reaching a shocking ny six thousand participants.

    It had to be known, because it was filled with factories and there were various people who came for work, Banta City¡¯s poption had just surpassed three hundred thousand people.

    Ny six thousand people, in other parts of the Lampuri Kingdom, that could be the poption of the top cities.

    Because the numbers far exceeded their expectations, the Banta City bicycle race that should have ended in one day was divided into two days. They would be divided into two batches of participants and they would be ced in terms of finishing time.

    Being able to gather all these people to participate at once, it was unique on the Sines Continent and was rarely seen in the history of the Sines Continent.

    So whether it was Banta City or the Lampuri Kingdom, they attached great importance to Banta City¡¯s bicycle race each year.

    Other than stopping idents from happening with all these people gathered, it was also to demonstrate Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom through this sports event.

    Since several years ago, there were even people from other countries that came to participate. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that the Frestech Bicycle Circuit wouldn¡¯t limit participants based on nationality, there were countless times more people who came from other countries to participate in the bicycle race.

    Other than people from the countries around the Lampuri Kingdom, there were even a few participants from the Candra Empire that came to participate.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, were those three people arranged by you?¡± Count Will looked at the three participants from the Candra Empire who were being interviewed by the reporter from the ?Banta Times? and asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°No, they are just interested in thepetition, they aren¡¯t rted to me.¡± Xu Yi shook his head to deny it.

    ¡°Really? But I can see the newest Swordfish Model Bicycle designed for racing from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce under their butts. This bicycle¡¯s first batch only had five thousand units, it can¡¯t even be bought in Banta City right now. Are you telling me that these three outsiders were able to buy it this easily?¡± Count Will clearly didn¡¯t believe him.

    ¡°Perhaps they have their own channels, that isn¡¯t strange, right?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug as he replied in a casual manner.

    Count Will narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi. Seeing that he wasn¡¯t prepared to exin, he shook his head and stopped asking.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not worry about those three for now. But chairman Xu, as for the Magic Sedan race matter, can you exin to me?¡±

    ¡°Un? Lord Count, what don¡¯t you understand?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Don¡¯t understand?¡± Count Will gave augh, ¡°There are many things I don¡¯t understand! Chairman Xu, you told me before that this Magic Sedan race would follow the pattern of the bicycle race where anyone can attend, so why are you limiting the participants now? Do you know, there are many young nobles that were ready to attend this race, but now they¡¯re being kept out by a few words from you. Do you know how many times they¡¯ve protested to me in the past few days?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°I thank them for their interest in thispetition, but it¡¯s a pity that there must be some restrictions for this race or there will be some big problems.¡±

    Count Will slightly knit his brows at this, ¡°What is it? Chairman Xu, you still aren¡¯t nning on exining? I am Banta City¡¯s City Lord and it¡¯s being held in my Banta City, so I must have control over it. Do you understand?¡±

    ¡°I do.¡± Xu Yi nodded, but his expression still didn¡¯t rx, ¡°But Lord Count, this matter.....it isn¡¯t up to you to manage for now because.....why her majesty learned of this matter, she allowed me to handle it. I think that you should be receiving a decree for her majesty very soon.¡±

    Count Will knit his brows as he looked at Xu Yi with a bit of doubt in his eyes and a bit of surprise in his heart.

    He was very confused why this trivial Magic Sedan race held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would attract the attention of her majesty.

    And he was shocked because this matter had already received her majesty¡¯s approval, but he still hadn¡¯t received the royal decree yet.

    He considered himself one of her majesty¡¯s closest subordinates, but in this matter that was closely rted to Banta City, he actually knew less than Xu Yi.

    It could be seen just how close her majesty was with Xu Yi, it was far beyond what everyone had imagined.

    Thinking of the rumours that spread through the Lampuri Kingdom, Count Will¡¯s eyes looking at Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help filling with aplicated look.

    Xu Yi ignored Count Will¡¯s expression. When he was asked about the Magic Sedan race, there was a strange feeling in his heart.

    Because.....for this race, there was a representative sent by Prince Frank participating.

    A month ago, Baron Belil came all the way to the Stantine Duchy to tell Xu Yi that Prince Frank wanted to personally attend the Magic Sedan race in Banta City, causing Xu Yi to almost bite off his tongue.

    Through Baron Belil¡¯s rtionship, he had secretly entered the Candra Empire and gone to Prince Frank¡¯s manor to see him, but he had only seen his housekeeper. Xu Yi understood Prince Frank¡¯s indifference, feeling that it would be very hard to enter the Candra Empire through a rtionship with Prince Frank.

    But he never thought that in just a few months, Prince Frank¡¯s attitude would change. He didn¡¯t care about the rules and came all the way to participate in the Magic Sedan race here!

    Xu Yi was very shocked when he heard about this.

    He was the third prince of the Candra Empire, one of the most important people on the Sines Continent.

    He was running to the Lampuri Kingdom that was over a thousand kilometers away to participate in this race. Not to mention all the different plots and assassination attempts he would face, if he were to receive any injuries in this race, it would create serious consequences that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t face.

    So after contacting Prince Frank through Baron Belil, Xu Yi firmly advised him against this idea.

    But Prince Frank was very interested in the Magic Sedan race, or rather he wanted to race without worries. Xu Yi had discussed this with Prince Frank and finally agreed to have him send a representative instead.

    So even if it was Prince Frank¡¯s representative, this was a very important thing for Xu Yi. He didn¡¯t hesitate to contact Seveni and after reporting this matter to her, he received Seveni¡¯s full support.

    No matter what Prince Frank wanted to do, they had to guarantee that his representative could smoothly enter the race, finish the race, and then leave.

    Otherwise, if something happened to them in Banta City, it would be fine if Prince Frank didn¡¯t pursue it, but it would be a serious diplomatic issue if he did pursue it.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom was much strongerpared to before, they absolutely couldn¡¯t face the wrath of a giant like the Candra Empire.

    But what Xu Yi was surprised about was that Seveni didn¡¯t contact Count Will ahead of time to have him coordinate with Xu Yi.

    Just like Count Will had said, thispetition was being held in Banta City, so it was impossible to bypass him as the Lord City Lord.

    If Seveni had Count Will fully support him, Xu Yi was more assured in smoothly solving this issue.

    Xu Yi and Count Will both had doubts and no one spoke at this time, as they both fell into silence.

    At this time, there was a voice that suddenly came from behind them that cut through this silence.

 Volume 5 83 - Representative

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 83 Representative</h4>

    ¡°Hey, Lord City Lord, chairman Xu, what are you talking about?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to see Baron Belil. He immediately excused himself from Count Will and pulled Baron Belil to the side as he asked in a low voice, ¡°Aren¡¯t you entertaining the representative Prince Frank sent? Why are you here? Where are they now?¡±

    Baron Belil looked around beforeing closer to Xu Yi and lowering his voice, ¡°I came looking for you because of them. The representative that Prince Frank sent is already here and they said that they wanted to see you before thepetition. I think that they wanted to discuss something with you based on their appearance.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, not feeling surprised.

    If Prince Frank really sent a representative just to participate in the race, it would be strange.

    But hearing Baron Belil¡¯s words now, he felt much more assured.

    Xu Yi turned to look at the Banta City bicycle race that was about to begin and said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯lle after I finish the opening ceremony, have them wait a bit. Just entertain them in my name for now, it should take.....around two hours for me toe and find you.¡±

    ¡°That won¡¯t work.¡± Baron Belil shook his head with an awkward look, ¡°Chairman Xu, the representative his highness sent said that he wants you to meet him immediately. If you¡¯rete.....I¡¯m afraid......¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before his face sunk and he gave a cold snort, ¡°What? They can¡¯t even wait two hours?¡±

    Baron Belil looked very awkward, ¡°Chairman Xu......you know that......they.....they are the representatives Prince Frank sent. Ke.....At least.....at least they have.....a bit of status.¡±

    ¡°Status?¡± Xu Yi looked at Baron Belil with a cold smile, seeing that he looked awkward.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you shouldn¡¯t take it to the heart. I¡¯ll say something that you won¡¯t like, but if you want to cooperate with Prince Frank, you have to give them a bit of face.....So......You shouldn¡¯t haggle with them that much, right? Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Seeing the bitter smile on Baron Belil¡¯s face, Xu Yi knit his brows. After being silent for a bit, he still wasn¡¯t moved as he shook his head, ¡°No, I attend the opening ceremony of Banta City¡¯s bicycle race each year, this year won¡¯t be an exception. I¡¯ll trouble you to tell Prince Frank¡¯s representative that I currently have something important to do. Please ask them to be patient a bit, I¡¯ll finish this as soon as possible and then go see them.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no buts.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and cut Baron Belil off, ¡°This is my decision, pass this on to them.¡±

    Baron Belil opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, he swallowed those words back in the end. He said in a helpless voice, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll entertain them first. Chairman Xu, you.....shoulde as soon as possible.¡±

    Watching Baron Belil leave in a dejected manner, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    When he went with Baron Belil to the Candra Empire to see Prince Frank, when he had only seen his housekeeper, Xu Yi had a deep impression of the pride that Prince Frank had.

    Now that Prince Frank had sent his representative to take part in this race, it was clear that he returned his intention of cooperation. However, his representative had shown this kind of attitude which made him feel very unhappy.

    ¡°What is it? Did Belil say something that made you unhappy?¡± Count Will saw Xu Yi walking over with a frown and he couldn¡¯t help asking this in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He threw away the unhappiness that Prince Franks¡¯s representative brought and after a moment of silence, he said, ¡°Lord Count, we should discuss another matter before thepetition begins. You should know that ourpany just released the Magic Illusion Projector two months ago, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I know, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Ourpany is hoping to install five Magic Illusion Projectors all over Banta City. Other than showing the new films that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce makes, we also want to show a few advertisements......¡±

    ......

    The sun rose above them and Banta City¡¯s bicycle race started at exactly nine.

    With the experience of the past years, the opening ceremony was conducted in an orderly manner.

    But there were just too many people participating this year, which caused the opening ceremony to be a bit longer. When it was over, it was already close to ten.

    It was a good thing that Count Will and Xu Yi decided to cancel two small programs in the end, so thepetition started right at ten like it was announced.

    When the batch of racers from the first day charged out, Xu Yi looked at the time and found it was already quarter past ten. He immediately bid farewell to Count Will.

    Count Will was a bit curious, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re not staying for lunch? There are many people here who are looking forward to having lunch with you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an apologetic smile, ¡°I can¡¯t do it today. Baron Belil had an urgent matter for me to take care of earlier.¡±

    Seeing that Count Will had some doubts, Xu Yi gave a cough before lowering his voice, ¡°It¡¯s rted to what we discussed before.¡±

    Count Will gave an oh sound, ¡°Alright, you go, I¡¯ll exin to them.¡±

    ¡°Un, many thanks Lord Count.¡± Xu Yi nodded before quickly turning to leave.

    Seeing Xu Yi quickly walk off the stage and enter his personal Magic Sedan, Count Will knit his brows and revealed a look of doubt.

    Just what was it that Xu Yi bypassed him as the CIty Lord and went to discuss with her majesty?

    When Count Will was filled with doubt, there was the quick sound of footsteps behind him as one of his trusted subordinates ran over.

    ¡°Lord Count, a confidential letter from her majesty.¡±

    ¡°It really came right on time.¡± Count Will¡¯s brows jumped up. He took the letter from his subordinate and went to a secluded corner to quickly read it before revealing a shocked look, ¡°This chairman Xu, he really is quite skilled......¡±

    ###

    Xu Yi drove his pure white Magic Sedan to Baron Belil¡¯s private manor outside Banta City, not meeting any hindrances along the way.

    When he got out, he looked at the time and found it wasn¡¯t eleven yet, so he gave a satisfied nod.

    Even if the attitude Prince Frank¡¯s representative showed made him a bit unhappy, he ced great importance on the cooperation with the Candra Empire. He really hoped that he could open the Candra Empire market through Prince Frank, so he ced great importance to the rtionship with Prince Frank.

    He could insist before and continue with the opening ceremony, but in a situation where it was permitted, he hoped to get along on good terms with Prince Frank¡¯s representative.

    Now that it was still an hour before lunch, he could have some time to talk to the representative that Prince Frank sent.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re here.¡± Baron Belil¡¯s housekeeper Kegetz came out of the manor and after seeing Xu Yi, he immediately led him in with a smile, ¡°The Lord Baron and his guests are in the living room waiting for you, pleasee with me.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and followed him into the manor.

    After passing a small garden, the biggest reception room in the manor appeared before him.

    Before he came from the door, he heard a high voiceing from inside.

    ¡°Hey, Baron Belil, is this chairman Xu still not here yet? If he doesn¡¯t n oning, then we should just leave.¡±

    Baron Belil¡¯s voice came after.

    ¡°You mustn¡¯t! Manager Mancini, please be a bit patient. Since chairman Xu said he woulde, he will definitelye. Your arrival is very important to him and he had been carefully preparing for a month, how could he note and see you? Please just wait a bit, I think he¡¯ll be here soon.¡±

    ¡°A bit? Humph! You¡¯ve said this many times now!¡± The high pitched voice was filled with ridicule, ¡°That chairman Xu dares to neglect us, this is simply an insult to us! Baron Belil, we havee on behalf of his highness, so neglecting us is neglecting his highness. Humph, he really is bold!¡±

    Xu Yi who was about to head in suddenly knit his brows. Hearing these words, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The words of this fellow, it was simply in the same tone as Prince Frank¡¯s housekeeper Como.

    Did Prince Frank¡¯s subordinates like to speak using voices that looked down on others?

    Baron Belil¡¯s bitterugh came from inside the room, ¡°No, no, no, manager Mancini, you mustn¡¯t misunderstand. Chairman Xu doesn¡¯t have any intention of neglecting you, he even asked me to entertain you since he was afraid you might be waiting too long. He is busy with something very important, but I believe he wille and see you soon. Please wait a bit.....please wait a bit......¡±

    ¡°Important matters? What is more important than us?¡± This manager Mancini was dissatisfied with Baron Belil¡¯s answer and said with a cold snort, ¡°Baron Belil, don¡¯t me us for not giving you face. We will wait for chairman Xu for another half an hour and if he doesn¡¯t appear before lunch, then we will leave. As for how we will report to his highness, you can imagine already.¡±

    ¡°Alright, alright, alright, I¡¯ll send someone to inform chairman Xu to let hime as soon as possible, you......¡±

    There was a clear voice that suddenly came from the door that cut off Baron Belil.

    ¡°No need, Belil, I¡¯m already here.¡±

    Baron Belil turned to the door in surprise and seeing Xu Yi, he immediately let out a sigh of relief.

    The other people in the room also looked at Xu Yi. The old man with an iparably pale face full of wrinkles sitting in front of Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi with the sharpest gaze.

    After coldly looking at Xu Yi for a while, he asked in a high voice, ¡°You are Xu Yi?¡±

 Volume 5 84 - You arenâ€™t qualified to discuss cooperation

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 84 You aren¡¯t qualified to discuss cooperation</h4>

    Hearing this sharp pitched sound that was like a bird shrieking, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at him. Not to mention his half beard, he even looked at the few strands of fine hair on his face before he suddenly thought of a word that he hadpletely forgotten.

    Eunuch.

    Yes, this old man was very likely the rarely seen eunuch of the Sines Continent.

    Eunuchs were very rare on the Sines Continent and right now, there were only eunuchs in the imperial pce of the Candra Empire. It was simr to the eunuchs in the imperial pces on earth.

    Other than this, even the imperial pce of the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t have eunuchs.

    For the imperial pces of small countries like the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, there wouldn¡¯t be things like this.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth and King Eric were still alive, there were few men in the imperial pce staff, but there were never eunuchs. Once her majesty Seveni took over, all the help was changed to maids and it was even more impossible to have eunuchs.

    So Xu Yi had been in this world for eight years, but he had never seen a eunuch. He had only heard it once from a book that described the traditions of the Sines Continent.

    Now that he had seen a eunuch in front of him, Xu Yi¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help bing a bit strange.

    Although it was only a trace, the old eunuch was very keen.

    His expression didn¡¯t look good to begin with, but it became even uglier.

    ¡°Hey, let me ask you, are you Xu Yi?¡± The old eunuch who had been called manager Mancini by Baron Belil asked this again.

    Xu Yi took back his gaze and gave manager Mancini a salute before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi. May I ask if you are sir manager Mancini who is in charge of Prince Frank¡¯s internal affairs?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi being respectful, manager Mancini¡¯s gaze rxed a bit. He gave a nod and gave a snort, ¡°That¡¯s right, I am. Chairman Xu, I¡¯m here to see you on the order of his highness, so you should know what we¡¯re here for, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and looked over the five strong young men who were standing behind manager Mancini.

    ¡°These people, are they the ones his highness sent to participate in the race?¡±

    ¡°No, they are my guards, he¡¯s one who will be participating in the race.¡± Manager Mancini shook his head and pointed behind the five strong men.

    Xu Yi looked over in surprise past the five men and he saw a weak looking young man standing behind them.

    This boy wasn¡¯t even twenty years old, but he wasn¡¯t that weak. He was just a bit skinnierpared to the five men.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, he looked up. His eyes were filled with curiosity and.....provocation.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He thought that young people like this could be seen everywhere, he didn¡¯t know where Prince Frank had found this man.

    ¡°Since this is the one that his highness has chosen, he must be very skilled at driving. Only, I wonder.....does he have a driver¡¯s license?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the boy and asked a question that had surprised everyone.

    They looked at each other. Only Baron Belil had a strange look as manager Mancini couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Driver¡¯s license? What is this thing?¡±

    Xu Yi exined the use of the driver¡¯s license and manager Mancini immediately broke out inughter.

    ¡°Wee from the Candra Empire, do we need the acknowledgement of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Lampuri Kingdom? His highness wants him to drive, so he can drive. Other than this, his highness frequently drives the Magic Sedan, does chairman Xu want his highness to test for a driver¡¯s license?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, not nning on arguing about this.

    ¡°Alright, but no matter what.....I ask that in the days that he stays here, he would at least follow the trafficws. Otherwise if something were to happen, it would be very troublesome.¡±

    Manager Mancini red at him, ¡°What? Who would dare cause trouble with us?¡±

    Seeing the look of disdain on the faces of the young man and the five guards, Xu Yipletely understood the description that the people in the surrounding countries had of the Candra Empire.

    Thisrge empire, other than the Marlow Empire, they would always be aloof in other countries.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on pursuing this matter. Anyway, they would only be here for a few days and would head back after the race, so he just needed to be a bit careful and there shouldn¡¯t be any problem.

    After pausing, Xu Yi began discussing the matters of participating in the race with manager Mancini.

    But when he was about to speak, manager Mancini cut him off by waving his hand.

    ¡°Don¡¯t bother me with this small matter, I have something else to discuss with chairman Xu.¡±

    After saying this, manager Mancini looked at Baron Belil.

    Baron Belil immediately understood. He bid manager Mancini farewell after standing up before taking a few looks at Xu Yi and leaving the hall. At the same time, he called out the two maids who had been inside.

    The five guards and the young man also left the hall, only leaving Xu Yi and manager Mancini inside.

    The room was filled with silence. Xu Yi looked at manager Mancini before taking a sip of tea and calmly asking, ¡°Sir manager, please speak.¡±

    Manager Mancini didn¡¯t immediately speak. Rather he looked over Xu Yi several times, like he would see right through him.

    But Xu Yi was very calm, sitting there very casually with a faint smile on his face. He just calmly looked at manager Mancini in front of him.

    After a while, manager Mancini stopped looking over him and gave a nod, but he also gave a soft snort. It was unknown what kind of evaluation he had given Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ke.....Chairman Xu, when you met Comost time, you proposed opening up a magic machine workshop together in the empire, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir manager.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That was just a rough proposal from mest time and I¡¯ve considered it further aftering back. I¡¯ve had time to think over this proposal and make a detailed n.¡±

    While Xu Yi said this, he took out a document from the package he brought and handed it to manager Mancini.

    ¡°I ask sir manager to have a look. This n is very detailed and I believe his highness will definitely be satisfied by this. If his highness agrees to this cooperation, I believe that his highness should receive at least a million gold coins a year.¡±

    Manager Mancini looked at the n in Xu Yi¡¯s hand, but he didn¡¯t reach out to take it. He waved his hand and said in a very casual voice, ¡°No need. Chairman Xu, it is impossible for his highness to agree to this n.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned and he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows, ¡°Why? I feel that this n is very beneficial to his highness, not to mention that sir manager hasn¡¯t even seen it yet......¡±

    ¡°I said there¡¯s no need.¡± Manager Mancini gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to remind you, you still don¡¯t understand your own status.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows even more.

    ¡°Sir manager, I don¡¯t understand what you mean.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t understand? Baron Belil kept boasting that you were an intelligent person, but now it seems like you aren¡¯t that much.¡± Manager Mancini shook his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you still not understand? In the end, you are only a small merchant from the Stantine Duchy, but you are saying that you want to cooperate with the honoured prince of our empire. Don¡¯t you find that.....a little too funny?¡±

    Xu Yi saw the look of ridicule on manager Mancini¡¯s face, looking like he was looking down on him and he gave a sigh in his heart. He rxed his knit brows and restored his calm.

    ¡°Then sir manager, ording to your......oh, no, ording to his highness¡¯ meaning, how should we cooperate?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll remind you again, you aren¡¯t qualified to discuss cooperation with his highness. But your luck is good and his highness is a bit interested in yourpany¡¯s Magic Sedan, so he¡¯s allowing you to give him some things to receive some trust from him. Do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, sir manager, I still don¡¯t understand.¡±

    Manager Mancini gave a sigh and shook his head like he was looking at a child that couldn¡¯t be taught before saying, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll put it more simply for you. As long as you¡¯re willing to be good and make his highness happy, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can look for his highness if you want to do anything in our Candra Empire, which will make it much easier. If you can satisfy his highness, you can receive even more care. Now, do you understand?¡±

    There was a strange smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face as he nodded, ¡°Yes, I understand. Then sir manager, how does his highness wish to coop.....No, what does he want us to do?¡±

    Hearing the change in Xu Yi¡¯s tone, manager Mancini finally gave a satisfied nod and took out a thin document for Xu Yi.

    ¡°This is the contract that I¡¯ve arranged ording to his highness¡¯ will. You can take a look and then sign it.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over it and found that it really was a contract. The final line had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the name of apany that Xu Yi had never heard of before.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be confused, that is thepany of his highness, you understand.¡± Manager Mancini exined.

    Xu Yi nodded and started reading the content of the contract.

    In less than half a minute, Xu Yi¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help curling into a cold smile.

    Hei, this Prince Frank, he really did have a high stance and a good appetite!

 Volume 5 85 - Sentenced to death

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 85 Sentenced to death</h4>

    ording to the schedule, two days after the Banta City bicycle race, the Frestech Bicycle Circuit Banta Race would officially begin.

    This first leg of thepetition would represent the officially beginning of this year¡¯s Frestech Bicycle Circuit.

    Because the championst year had won eight four thousand gold coins, many more people paid attention to the Frestech Bicycle Circuit this year.

    The Frestech Bicycle Circuit Banta Race took a week to finish and all the various newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdom had all published many articles about this sports event.

    Because of these articles, the bicyclepanies that hosted this race received a lot of exposure and their bicycles had received even more recognition.

    When the race was over, a racer from the Anjit Chamber of Commerce had taken the victory and received a prize of five thousand gold coins. It took half a month before the craze about bicycles had begun to weaken.

    But during this half a month, with the wild craze, all the bicycles from thepanies rted to thispetition had seen arge increase in sales.

    Not mentioning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, of the other sevenpanies that participated, the biggest increase was the Anjit Chamber of Commerce which had sold over seven thousand and six hundred units in just half a month. Compared to their sales fromst month, this was an increase of over 300%!

    The other bicyclepanies had also experienced various degrees of increase. The lowest was over 50% and the highest was close to 200%.

    Compared to this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bicycle sales increased the least. It had only increased by 17%pared tost month.

    But this 17% was much more of an increase in terms of concrete numberspared to the Anjit Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold thirty eight thousand and four hundred unitsst month. An increase of 17% was over six thousand and five hundred units.

    In the end, in the bicycle business, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a giant that the otherpanies couldn¡¯t match.

    But with the current situation, the otherpanies had experienced good growth with Xu Yi¡¯s support and the various forms of advertisement.

    If they were given time, there might be a day they would catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was something that many people, especially many merchants didn¡¯t understand about Xu Yi.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to do this and they could monopolize the market, making much more money for themselves. Why did they spend money and effort to help theirpetitors?

    Wasn¡¯t Xu Yi worried that anotherpany would surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce one day? They would take away their market and cause the Frestechg Chamber of Commerce to decline?

    Even if it was a joke now to say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would fall, this worry was necessary.

    Among the people, chairman Cruise was the one who felt this the most.

    Since he met the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and met Xu Yi, Xu Yi had done countless thing that people couldn¡¯t understand.

    Chairman Cruise had asked Xu Yi about this countless times, but Xu Yi had never given him a direct answer.

    So when he saw Xu Yi doing things like this, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help even more doubtful.

    Even if he had be numb to it the more he saw it, he would stillin to Xu Yi about this a bit in private.

    For example, today.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, seeing the sales of the Anjit Chamber of Commerce, aren¡¯t you worried?¡± Chairman Cruise sat down by Xu Yi and watched the scene in front of him, casually asking Xu Yi this.

    He and Xu Yi were currently in the Magic Car race track that had been built outside Banta City half a year ago. There were currently ten Magic Sedans of different colours and models that were quickly driving across the track in the middle, getting a sense for the track and preparing for the race that wasing.

    Compared to the attention the Frestech Bicycle Circuit received, the Magic Sedan race had received much less attention.

    Other than the ?Banta Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? who reported on this race, the other newspapers didn¡¯t include a single word.

    The reason for this was because the Magic Sedan was too far off from normal people. They couldn¡¯t buy it, they couldn¡¯t touch it, so naturally they didn¡¯t care.

    Actually this was the reason why Xu Yi was doing this.

    Xu Yi wanted to promote bicycle racing and wasn¡¯t that worried about promoting the Magic Sedan.

    Because he was clear that whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom or the surrounding kingdoms, Magic Sedans were a high end thing that normal people couldn¡¯t y with.

    Even at the current stage, he was aiming at merchants and nobles that were rather well off.

    This was a small group, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to focus too much on advertising.

    The merchant and noble circles had their own ways of contacting each other. After the Magic Sedan was released, it didn¡¯t take that much effort for this to spread in these two circles.

    In the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, if there was a merchant or a noble that didn¡¯t have a Frestech Brand Magic Sedan, they would be considered behind and wouldn¡¯t have the face to go out.

    Considering this situation, Xu Yi felt that it was much too early to start advertising.

    This Magic Sedan Race was just an amateur race. Other than giving the young nobles and merchants a ce to experience racing cars, it was also a ce to test the performance of the Magic Sedan.

    Today¡¯s race had Prince Frank¡¯s representative racing in it, so it was even less suitable for advertising.

    So Xu Yi didn¡¯t open this race to the public and had sealed up the entire location. Other than letting people close to him like chairman Cruise in, he didn¡¯t let anyone else in at all.

    ¡°Why would I worry?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at chairman Cruise like he found him funny, ¡°The sales of the Anjit Chamber of Commerce increasing is a good thing, I couldn¡¯t be happier.¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, acting like he already knew that he would reply this way.

    After pausing, chairman Cruise reached out to pat Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder and said with a serious look, ¡°Xu Yi, you have your own n, I can understand this, but I have to tell you that there¡¯s no problem for you to do this in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding small kingdoms. However, if you do this in the Candra Empire, it is very likely you¡¯ll be swallowed by the Candra Empire people without leaving a single scrap. So.....you should be careful.¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep look at him, ¡°Did you hear something?¡±

    Chairman Cruise angrily pursed his lips, ¡°The Candra Empire sending people to meet you, even if others didn¡¯t know, would I not know?¡±

    Xuj Yi nodded. This information had been blocked to the general public, but it wasn¡¯t blocked to everyone, so it wasn¡¯t strange that chairman Cruise had received some news.

    ¡°Then how much do you know?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°Not much, but I¡¯ve heard.....the Candra Empire side has made an excessive request to you?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    The request of the Candra Empire was more than just excessive, it was overly excessive!

    In the contract manager Mancini gave Xu Yi, he requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to offer all the Magic Sedan technology to Prince Frank.

    And then he requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a Magic Sedan factory in Prince Frank¡¯s territory in the Candra Empire. Not only would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have to provide the technology, they also needed to provide the magic production machines and train a group of qualified personnel to run them.

    This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to build a factory that could produce Magic Cars independently in Prince Frank¡¯s territory. They would also have to give up theplete technology and provide support.

    Compared to this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce having to build a race track on Prince Frank¡¯s territory and provide maintenance crew wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    As for what Prince Frank would give back to him?

    It was impossible for him to give a single gold coin and there wasn¡¯t even any repayment at all.

    When manager Mancini gave Xu Yi the contract, he acted like he should be grateful for this gift.

    The only thing that could be called repayment was that manager Mancini had said that as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed this contract and followed it properly, Prince Frank would take care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t give anyments when he read this contract, he just told manager Mancini that he needed some time to consider this.

    However, when he saw manager Mancini¡¯s dissatisfied look when he said this, Xu Yi knew that the other side had sentenced him to death.

    This wasn¡¯t a cooperation, this was licking his boots.

    Xu Yi could admit that Prince Frank had a noble status and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could give him many benefits when cooperating with him, it was just to smoothly enter the Candra Empire and open the giant market there. However, they wouldn¡¯t submit to licking his highness¡¯ boots.

    If he really agreed to this, to Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be no more than dogs raised by Prince Frank.

    Perhaps many people wanted to be Prince Frank¡¯s dog, but it was impossible for Xu Yi to ept this.

    Although this wouldpletely shut down any chance of entering the Candra Empire through Prince Frank, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t too disappointed.

    Through this matter and through Russell visiting before, Xu Yi had a better understanding of the situation in the Candra Empire.

    This was an iparablyrge empire, but they were too proud, so they were a decaying empire that had lost their driving force.

    Perhaps Xu Yi had the idea of promoting the magic machine industry across the continent through the Candra Empire, but now he had given up this idea.

    The Candra Empire in his eyes were no different from the small countries that were around this area.

    Arger market? That was just arger piece of meat.

 Volume 5 86 - Only a small episode

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 86 Only a small episode</h4>

    Chairman Cruise had known Xu Yi for all these years, so naturally he had some understanding of him.

    Seeing the strange smile on his face, he immediately understood that Xu Yi was giving up on the Candra Empire.

    He revealed a relieved smile, but then he felt that it was wrong. After thinking about it, he raised his hand to pat Xu Yi shoulder as heforted him, ¡°Ah.....This isn¡¯t anything big. We are merchants in the end, we can¡¯t do business without a loss, isn¡¯t that right? The Candra Empire¡¯s demands are too much, you just don¡¯t have to cooperate with them. There isn¡¯t just them on the Sines Continent......¡±

    When he said this, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t keep going.

    Although there wasn¡¯t just the Candra Empire on the Sines Continent, there was only the Marlow Empire that was like the Candra Empire.

    The huge market in the Candra Empire was the dream of any merchant on the continent.

    If one had topletely give it up, it was clearly arge pity.

    When the Amrit Chamber of Commerce went to the Candra Empire to pave roads, meeting many roadblocks and having retreat without any sess, chairman Cruise had been so depressed that he didn¡¯t eat well for several days.

    Standing from this point of view, he could understand the disappointment in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    But Xu Yi still had the same smile, not looking disappointed at all.

    Seeing the disappointed look on chairman Cruise¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave augh before shaking his head, ¡°I never said that I would give up on the Candra Empire. I just won¡¯t cooperate with Prince Frank, but can¡¯t I cooperate with others from the Candra Empire? Then again, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines are already selling quite well in Wimbledon City. Even if I don¡¯t do anything, I believe that the sales numbers will keep increasing and the market will be opened sooner orter. The cooperation failing now was just a small episode, it doesn¡¯t affect the overall situation.¡±

    Chairman Cruise thought about and found that Xu Yi was right.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had gone to the Candra Empire to promote paving roads. This kind of thing involved many different things, so it had to be approved by the Candra Empire side first.

    But the household magic machines sold by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were normal products, it wasn¡¯t much different from other products. It could be sold in the Candra Empire at any time.

    With the strong ability and the novelty of the household magic machines, chairman Cruise was certain that it would quickly be popr in the Candra Empire just like in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms.

    ¡°But by turning down Prince Frank this time, aren¡¯t you worried that there will be all kinds of obstacles for you in the Candra Empire by angering him?¡± Chairman Cruise asked in a worried voice.

    ¡°Actually, I am a bit worried, but it can¡¯t affect the overall situation.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°In the end, Prince Frank isn¡¯t the emperor and the Candra Empire doesn¡¯t only have a single prince, right?¡±

    Seeing the confident smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Cruise really wanted to ask why he was so confident.

    No matter how much influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the surrounding countries, they were just an incredibly smallpany in the Candra Empire. If Prince Frank wanted to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he would certainly have many methods.

    The only hope was that Prince Frank really looked down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the bottom of his heart,pletely ignoring this matter.

    ¡°Alright, Cruise, don¡¯t worry about me for now, you should think about how toy the road down in the Candra Empire. Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder and said with a smile, ¡°This is yourpany¡¯s first road in the Candra Empire, you have to make sure that it¡¯s absolutely perfect.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention this, chairman Cruise was suddenly shocked.

    When he had been rejected by the Candra Empire before, chairman Cruise thought that it would be very hard for them to build roads in the Candra Empire in the future. But he never thought that Xu Yi would suddenlye to tell him that through a rtionship, the Candra Empire would very likely invite the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build a road in the Candra Empire.

    Chairman Cruise was very surprised by this news, but with his understanding of Xu Yi, he knew that he would never lie. So after being excited, the gratitude in his heart towards Xu Yi increased.

    Although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was considered a decentpany in Banta City, they could only affect Banta City. They were only considered a smallpany in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But after Xu Yi found them and gave them the thing called cement, as well as the technology for paving the roads, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been growing under the influence of Xu Yi.

    Up to now, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce has paved a total of one hundred thousand kilometers of road in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, as well as building countless reinforced concrete buildings, including over a hundred high rise buildings. They had be the top constructionpany in the surrounding countries and the only road pavingpany that everyone recognized.

    When mentioning the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, not a single person in the surrounding country didn¡¯t know them.

    In just five years, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had gone from a smallpany in Banta City to a first sspany that could influence the surrounding countries!

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce being able to develop like this, the most important thing was naturally Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So chairman Cruise had always treated himself as Xu Yi¡¯s best ally, almost always supporting his decisions.

    Now that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been blocked from entering the Candra Empire, Xu Yi had actually opened a new path for them which made chairman Cruise even more grateful towards Xu Yi.

    He believed that as long as the first road was built, the Candra Empire would fully realize the benefits of the road. The Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be able to resist this temptation and would continue building more roads in their empire.

    When thinking of therge territory of the Candra Empire that was several times bigger than the surrounding countries added together, chairman Cruise was filled with excitement.

    If he could monopolize the road building industry in the Candra Empire, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would definitely be a first sspany of the entire continent!

    ¡°Yes, ourpany will definitely give our all to paving this road!¡± Chairman Cruise gave a strong nod, ¡°I¡¯ve already gathered the best workers, the best materials, the best transport, and the best management. In short, everything is the best! I want those fellows in the Candra Empire to see that this road is ten thousand times better than the broken dirt road they have!¡±

    From chairman Cruise¡¯s impassioned words, Xu Yi could easily tell how bitter chairman Cruise had been about being rejected by the Candra Empire before and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°Alright, I believe yourpany will do it well. But Cruise, the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom are already showing signs of damage, you can¡¯t ignore the maintenance. Take the Falling Rain Road, it¡¯s almostpletely broken, so you have to fix them first.¡±

    Chairman Cruise revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Of course, the Falling Rain Road is the first road ourpany built, it¡¯s a monumental road. I was nning on properly fixing it and taking this chance to expand it.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is a good idea.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he praised him.

    Perhaps it was because he had been with Xu Yi a long time, chairman Cruise now learned to use all opportunities, or rather he created opportunities to promote hispany.

    This kind of marketing was rarely seen on the Sines Continent, but it was very wee.

    While the two were discussing building roads in the Candra Empire, there were four lights that lit up on the open race track. They gathered in the air and formed four rectangr screens of light that were ten meters long and around six meters wide.

    The four light screens were connected to form a rectangr shape. Each light screen was facing every part of the race track, so it mean that they could be seen from every part of the race track.

    With a sh of light, there was a beautiful tiger girl with a furry tail that appeared on the light screen.

    ¡°Friends of the audience, wee. This is Banta City¡¯s Frestech Race Track and we are broadcasting the Frestech Free Race to everyone. Everyone can see that we are currently in the preparation stage......¡±

    The scene on the light screen changed, turning into a high angle view.

    Looking at it like this, one could see the oval shape of the entire race track, as well as the irregr bends of the race track.

    The Magic Sedans of various colours were quickly racing across it. From time to time, one could hear the roar of the engine and the sound of tires screeching across the ground.

    After pausing, the scene quickly fell down and it came up to the side of the track, following them at close range.

    The tiger beauty had alreadye to the side of a pure white Magic Sedan that had stopped.

    ¡°Hello everyone, we¡¯ve found a racer who has finished preparing and is resting before the race. I think that everyone should be familiar with this racer, he is......¡±

    ¡°Pu!¡±

    Chairman Cruise had been drinking water when he saw the change on the screen in amazement. As he listened to Xu Yi¡¯s exnation of the Magic Illusion Projectors, he also kept nodding in a manner filled with praise.

    When he suddenly saw the figure on the screen, he couldn¡¯t help spitting out the water in his mouth and almost spitting it on Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    ¡°Ke, ke, ke, ke.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave several strong coughs before grabbing Xu Yi¡¯s colour and pointing at the light screen, saying with a look of disbelief, ¡°Hey! Xu Yi! Is there a mistake? That old man is also participating in the race?¡±

 Volume 5 87 - Gathering of heroes

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 87 Gathering of heroes</h4>

    Xu Yi curled his lips, looking at him like he was causing a big fuss.

    ¡°What is there to be surprised about? One of grandfather¡¯s hobbies has always been racing, didn¡¯t you know?¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head in surprise. Looking at the tiger girl who was interviewing Arch Magus Cami on the light screen, he still found it a bit inconceivable.

    This was an Arch Magus!

    Not to mention the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding small kingdom, even in the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, an Arch Magus was one of the few at the very top.

    This important person that everyone imagined to be aloof, should have been someone who was like a god.

    But what was he seeing now?

    The silver haired and energetic Arch Magus Cami was sitting in the driver¡¯s seat of the pure white Magic Sedan. He was casually doing the interview while proficiently fiddling with the wheel, looking like a veteran.

    ¡°This......¡±

    Although chairman Cruise had heard Xu Yi mention before that Arch Magus Cami liked driving cars, he never linked racing with Arch Magic Cami.

    Even if he was seeing him sitting in that clearly modified Magic Car, he still was unable to ept this.

    ¡°Alright, if you¡¯re surprised now, you¡¯ll be shocked to deathter.¡± Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder with a smile, telling him to calm down.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi. He thought, was there something that would be even more shocking that Arch Magus Cami appearing?

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing. He pointed at the light screen in the middle and had him wait patiently.

    Chairman Cruise could only look at the light screen in confusion while looking around the field, seeing if there was anything special around.

    However, other than a few Magic Sedans racing at high speeds, there wasn¡¯t anything else special.

    After a while, the Magic Sedans that had been racing along the track all stopped and lined up in front of the starting line.

    There was a sh on the light screen and the tiger girl appeared once again.

    ¡°Hello everyone, as you can see from the screen, all the cars are lined up for the race. The race is about to begin.....¡±

    Chairman Cruise suddenly turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Who is she saying this for? There are only a few audience members here, so everyone can see it.¡±

    ¡°Oh, she is doing this for practice because ording to my n, thispetition will be broadcast to audiences outside the venue and even audiences in other cities. So she needs to develop this habit, so there¡¯s no need to correct it in the future.¡±

    ¡°Un? How will you sync the broad cast?¡± Chairman Cruise was even more confused.

    Xu Yi smiled without exining anything.

    If you wanted to solve this problem, they had to advance the magic resonance technology. With the magic wave signal transmissionwork, there would be many other things developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was too troublesome to exin.

    Moreover, even if chairman Cruise was an ally, there was no need to disclose these secrets to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who was unrted to them.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t answering, chairman Cruise gave a nod and stopped asking.

    The host on the screen continued her opening speech and once that was over, she began introducing thepetitors.

    ¡°Now let¡¯s introduce the races to everyone. First is the racer closest to the inner circle, this driver is one that everyone is very familiar with, it is the most respected, his excellency Arch Magus Cami.¡±

    The image on the light screen changed and Arch Magus Cami appeared who waved at the light screen with a smile on his face.

    When Xu Yi saw this, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had first taken out the Magic Illusion Camera in front of Arch Magus Cami, wanting him to film an advertisement, Arch Magus Cami had been very against it.

    Now that two months had passed, he could already easily pose in front of the camera.

    ¡°Next, we¡¯ll look at the driver to the right of Arch Magus Cami......¡±

    The image in the light screen changed again and what appeared was a beautiful young girl with sharp ears.

    ¡°Yi? It¡¯s actually an elf?¡± Chairman Cruise was stunned as he couldn¡¯t help shouting out, ¡°Is there a mistake, even the elves like racing cars? This is too strange......¡±

    Xu Yiughed. This elf not only liked racing cars, she was simply wild about it.

    He always thought that Arch Magus Cami liked racing cars very much, but seeing how wildly in love with racing elder Lisanya was, he felt that Arch Magus Cami could only back down.

    ¡°This racer is elder Lisanya from the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribe. Although this is elder Lisanya¡¯s first time participating in the race, it is said that she frequently races against Arch Magus Cami and they have a tied record. So one can tell that elder Lisany must also be skilled at racing.¡±

    Elder Lisanya on the light screen revealed a faint smile, showing the unique elegance of the elves. Along with her beautiful face, people couldn¡¯t connect her to the intense sport of racing at all.

    The light screen moved to the third position who was the representative Prince Frank sent. It was the skinny boy that Xu Yi met before who was called Harvey Candy.

    He had a serious expression as he appeared, looking straight forward. He looked a bit nervous, but he was also spirited.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile. It¡¯s good that this fellow was confident, but when the race began, it would be good if he wasn¡¯t scared by Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya.

    The fourth to ninth drivers were all juniors of nobles from Banta City, which included Baron Belil.

    These fellows were the main forces for this race, the reason Xu Yi was holding this was mainly because of these fellows.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the special circumstances of the race, Xu Yi would want them to make up all the races.

    The tenth racer was even more unexpected, it was actually a beastman.

    This was a wolf man, who came from the Voller Tribe.

    The Voller Tribe had their living conditions greatly increased since working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This wolf man was a close rtive of chief Voller, he had received more benefits, and was very interested in the Magic Sedans, so he was chosen for this race.

    The eleventh driver after this wolf man was even more shocking, it was actually a dwarf!

    Everyone knew that dwarves were much shorter than humans, so this Magic Sedan had to be configured to his stature to allow him to drive it freely.

    Xu Yi had watched Camby and the other dwarf engineers do their best to modify this Magic Sedan. ording to what they said, this Magic Sedan not only carried their dignity as Magic Mechanical Engineers, it also carried the hope of all dwarves.

    If this Magic Sedan couldn¡¯t get a good position in the race, it would bring shame to them.

    Seeing the dwarf sitting in the car with a serious expression, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Camby¡¯s group of fellows, didn¡¯t they know that doing this would put great pressure on him?

    Chairman Cruise on the side was already stunned watching this.

    What was going on with this race?

    Just Arch Magus Camiing here was already shocking enough, but then there were beastmen and dwarves that came too! The most exaggerated thing was that there was even an elf elder!

    Other than the halflings that had juste back from being legends, in this smallpetition, all the races on the continent had been brought out!

    After introducing the dwarf driver, all the races had been introduced.

    There were a total of eleven cars, a total of eleven racers.

    This was the lineup of this current race.

    After all, Magic Sedans hadn¡¯t been poprized in this world, so there weren¡¯t many people qualified to participate.

    After a while, the tiger girl announced that everything was prepared and thepetition was starting.

    After a while, there was a countdown from ten that appeared on the light screen.

    ¡°10, 9, 8.....3, 2, 1!¡±

    There was arge ¡°start¡± that appeared on the light screen and the eleven Magic Sedans on the track roared out at the same time.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes suddenly focused.

    These Magic Sedans all used the Fire Magic Engine because the Wind Magic Engine had inherent limitations.

    But when he heard the giant roar of the Fire Magic Engines, he suddenly thought of a question.

    In order to pursue speed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research was focused on the Fire Magic Engines, causing the research of the Wind Magic Engines toe to a stop.

    But when thinking about it, while the Fire Magic Engine had an advantage when it came to speed, it consumed several times more energypared to the Wind Magic Engine.

    Moreover, the specialty of the Fire Magic Engine was power, so the Magic Sedans using the Fire Magic Engines were much louderpared to those that used the Wind Magic Engine.

    So the Wind Magic Engine also had its advantages. Not to mention that if the Wind Magic Engine was developed more, there was the chance to continue increasing its speed.

    For most normal people, they didn¡¯t need to drive that fast. Being able to reach a hundred to a hundred fifty kilometers an hour was more than enough.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s calctions of the Wind Magic Engine, this was a number that could be reached.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi found that there was a problem with his development n for the magic engines.

    There was no problem researching the Fire Magic Engine in depth because this was not only used in the Magic Sedan, it was also used in the Magic Ship, the Magic Airships, and all various kinds of Magic Cars, but he also couldn¡¯t ignore the development of the Wind Magic Engine.

    Perhaps the Wind Magic Engine would be limited in other fields, but formon use, there were plenty of possibilities.....

 Volume 5 88 Giving you a bit of business

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 88 Giving you a bit of business</h4>

    While Xu Yi was considering the future of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the race had entered the final moment.

    In the beginning, other than the Magic Sedan of the dwarf Merlock who charged out a bit, everyone else was the same.

    But after driving twops, there was a gap that began to show.

    The cars driven by Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya began to get ahead.

    Other than their excellent driving skills, the most important reason for this was that¡­¡­they were wild enough.

    When others knew that they were about to crash, they would unconsciously dodge, but these two only continued to charge forward without care.

    This naturally came from the strong confidence they had in their own powers, knowing that a crash wouldn¡¯t hurt them at all.

    The others didn¡¯t have this confidence, so they would make way most of the time and naturally let them charge ahead of them.

    But other than these two, the other nine cars were pretty much even.

    The representative sent by Prince Frank, Harvey Candy was right in the middle. He was neither good or bad, he could only be considered mediocre.

    This performance naturally made manager Mancini¡¯s group dissatisfied, but in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, this was already considered quite good.

    It had to be known that Prince Frank had onlye in contact with the Magic Sedans a few months ago, so this Harvey Candy had clearly known about it for an even shorter period of time.

    He could improve his driving skills this much in a short period of time, he could even match Baron Belil who had driven cars every day. It could already be considered quite incredible.

    But Harvey Candy was clearly not satisfied with his performance, wanting to take the innerne to overtake his opponents several times.

    He seeded sometimes and he was overtaken sometimes.

    After so manyps, he could only stay right in the middle of the pack.

    With this trend, when the race ended, it was unlikely his position would change.

    Xu Yi looked over the arena and looked at manager Mancini with a serious expression sitting on another tform.

    If this Harvey Candy lost in the end, manager Mancini¡¯s expression would be very ugly.

    Very soon, the race came to its finalp.

    Seeing that it was finished, Xu Yi stood up and walked over to manager Mancini.

    ¡°Manager Mancini, I¡¯ve haven¡¯t received you well in these past few days, I truly apologize. When this race is over, I ask sir manager toe to my private manor as a guest and have lunch with me, is that alright?¡±

    Seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, manager Mancini slightly knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you nning a farewell banquet and sending me off?¡±

    Five days had passed since his first meeting with Xu Yi, but Xu Yi had never given him a clear answer to the contract.

    No matter how dumb manager Mancini was, he would know that Xu Yi was refusing him.

    The reason why it wasn¡¯t said clearly was to avoid embarrassing manager Mancini by saying it out loud.

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Sir manger is mistaken, how could I be chasing you off. If you like, you can stay in Banta City for some time afterwards. I think that Count Will will be very happy to wee you.¡±

    Manager Mancini red at Xu Yi and gave a coldugh, ¡°What about you?¡±

    ¡°Me¡­¡­There are still many things with thepany I need to take care of, so it isn¡¯t convenient for me to stay¡­¡­Ke, sir manager, please forgive me. If there is a chance for you toe to Banta City next time or you cane to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly, I will definitely wee you wholeheartedly.¡±

    Manager Mancini gave a strong snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like you¡¯ve already made your decision?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, but he didn¡¯t say anything.

    Manager Mancini revealed a cold smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, Baron Belil had always said that you were a smart person, but now it seems like you aren¡¯t worthy of that evaluation. There are many people who m their heads thinking of ways to approach his majesty and fail, but now you¡¯re giving up this chance! You really are stupid without cure!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, smiling without saying a thing.

    Seeing that Xu Yi gave no response, manager Mancini couldn¡¯t keep saying anything. After pausing, he gave another cold snort and said, ¡°Good, chairman Xu, this is your choice. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce encounters any problems in the Candra Empire, don¡¯t me me for reminding you ahead of time.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly narrowed his eyes, this should be a clear threat.

    If Prince Frank really caused trouble for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for this matter, along with this matter, it showed that his royal highness wasn¡¯t a good partner for cooperation.

    Since it was like this, the failure this time was actually a good thing.

    ¡°Manager Mancini, I¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi paused for a second and when he wanted to speak, he suddenly heard a giant ¡°peng¡± sound.

    He and manager Mancini were surprised as they looked at the track. They saw that two Magic Sedans were tumbling at high speeds until they hit the Wind Magic Array barrier that had been arranged on the side of the track.

    Looking over the two Magic Sedans, Xu Yi was surprised.

    Because one belonged to Baron Belil and the other belonged to Harvey Candy.

    Turning to look at manager Mancini, he found that his face was very dark. It was easy to see his anger.

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes. He thought that this crash in the end perfectly represented the results of his cooperation with Prince Frank.

    It was a big mess.

    ###

    Three dayster, Xu Yi came to Baron Belil¡¯s private manor again.

    When he saw Baron Belil, he saw him lying on the bed as a beautiful maid was cing fruits in his mouth while his hands wandered.

    When he saw Xu Yie in, Baron Belil gave a cough before reacting and quickly taking back his hands.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Chairman Xu, why are you here? Where¡¯s the housekeeper? Why didn¡¯t he announce this?¡± Baron Belil awkwardly asked this before waving his hand to have the maid retreat.

    ¡°The housekeeper said that you gave the order that there¡¯s no need to report for my arrival.¡± Xu Yi looked at the red faced maid as she left before shaking his head at Baron Belil, ¡°I wanted to ask about your injuries, but it seems like you¡¯re recovering quite well.¡±

    Baron Belil gave a dryugh, ¡°Ha¡­¡­It¡¯s alright¡­¡­It¡¯s alright.¡±

    When the race ended three days ago, Harvey Candy wanted to forcefully pass him, but he identally crashed into Baron Belil¡¯s car.

    It was a good thing that both of them had been equipped with Wind Magic Protection Arrays. Neither of the two were in life threatening danger, suffering minor injuries from this crash.

    Harvey Candy had been taken away by manager Mancini¡¯s group yesterday while Baron Belil had been in his private manor resting.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, your¡­discussion with manager Mancini broke down?¡± Baron Belil suddenly looked at Xu Yi and carefully asked this.

    ¡°Un, we couldn¡¯t agree on conditions, so the cooperation failed.¡± Xu Yi replied with a nod.

    ¡°This¡­¡­Ke¡­¡­Chairman Xu, I¡¯m not ming you, but I think¡­¡­wasn¡¯t your attitude towards manager Mancini¡­¡­a bit too arrogant?¡±

    ¡°Arrogant?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°You don¡¯t think that manager Mancini was arrogant, but me?¡±

    ¡°No, no, manager Mancini was indeed arrogant and he was very much so, but he did represent Prince Frank after all, so it was normal for him to be a bit arrogant. But if you want to cooperate with Prince Frank¡­¡­shouldn¡¯t you lower yourself a bit?¡±

    Seeing Baron Belil¡¯s disapproving look, Xu Yi shook his head. He was toozy to discuss this matter with him.

    He knew that this world¡¯s current situation was like this. Prince Frank was the high and noble prince of the Candra Empire, to others, the chairman of a smallpany like him should only bow down to him. How could he care about the arrogance of the other side?

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about this. Belil, I came looking for you today, other than seeing how you were doing was because I wanted to discuss a bit of business with you.¡±

    ¡°Business?¡± Baron Belil was shocked. He tried to sit up in bed, but because of his wounds, he took a cold breath from the pain.;

    However, that didn¡¯t affect the excitement in his eyes as he stared at Xu Yi and asked, ¡°What business?¡±

    The people on Prince Frank¡¯s side didn¡¯t believe Xu Yi, but Baron Belil firmly believed in Xu Yi¡¯s ability to make money.

    The business he talked about would definitely make money!

    ¡°Including the race from three days ago, how many races have you attended that were organized by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and yourself?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t a lot, it¡¯s very much.¡± Baron Belil counted on his hand a few times, ¡°It¡¯s at least a hundred and fifty races.¡±

    ¡°Oh? This much? Then you must have experience in organizing races, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s alright, it¡¯s better than most people.¡± Baron Belil said with augh.

    ¡°Alright, if I wanted you to go to the Candra Empire to host regr races, are you confident in doing so?¡± Xu Yi asked with a serious look.

    ¡°Ha?¡± Baron Belil looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­¡­are you joking? Didn¡¯t your discussions with Prince Frank just fall through? Now you want me to go to the Candra Empire to host races? How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°My discussions with Prince Frank fell through, but that didn¡¯t mean my rtionship with the Candra Empire has broken. Moreover, the only holding the race is you, not me or our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Baron Belil calmed himself and lowered his head to seriously consider this as the shock on his face slowly faded.

    ¡°This means¡­¡­you just want to host car races in the Candra Empire? Nothing more?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s pretty much this. I can give you the starting funds, Magic Sedans, and even personnel and technology support. How you organize it and what the details will be will depend on you.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°How about it? Are you confident?¡±

    Baron Belil pouted his lips, ¡°Why aren¡¯t you asking me if I¡¯m willing to do this or not?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Do I need to ask this?¡±

    Baron Belil was surprised before breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Right, there¡¯s no need to ask this at all because I¡¯m willing to do this! But chairman Xu, you need to give me some time to consider how to do this.¡±

    ¡°Of course this isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

 Volume 5 89 Leslieâ€™s report

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 89 Leslie¡¯s report</h4>

    Leslie put down the letter in his hand and raised his head to look at the endless sea outside Nissi Harbour, as he let out a long sigh.

    This letter was given to him from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch in the Rudson Kingdom. It was from Xu Yi and it was a personal letter, not concerning any official business.

    In this letter, other than a few daily things, Xu Yi told Leslie one important thing. It was that Baron Belil would be starting a series of car races in the Candra Empire.

    After receiving this news, the stone in Leslie¡¯s heart came down and he became much more rxed.

    Since the Stagg Family was defeated in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war, the entire family was close to being exterminated. The remaining main family members, other than Leslie, were just Baron Belil and two normal descendants.

    In this brutal fight, normally speaking it was impossible the winning side would leave the Stagg Family and descendants, but her majesty Seveni was kind enough and the second main reason was because of Xu Yi¡¯s request.

    Because of Xu Yi, her majesty Seveni went against all opposition and left a few seeds for the Stagg Family, guaranteeing that their bloodline wouldn¡¯t bepletely cut off.

    It was also because of this that Leslie had felt a sense of gratitude towards her majesty Seveni and Xu Yi.

    He even agreed to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet¡¯smander and used a bit of the Stagg Family¡¯s surplus resources to quickly develop this fleet, this also came from his gratitude.

    As for Baron Belil, because of the Stagg Family, he could keep living a good life in the Lampuri Kingdom because of her majesty Seveni¡¯s mercy. Then with the help of Xu Yi and cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could live a life that was better than most which surprised people.

    But Leslie had always been very worried.

    Even if her majesty Seveni had shown mercy, promising not to punish the rest of the Stagg Family¡¯s heirs, there had always been people who were worried about leaving behind these people from the Stagg Family in the Lampuri Kingdom. They urged Seveni to take care of them.

    So Baron Belil seemed to be living a good life on the surface, but he was actually being restricted in many ces.

    He wasn¡¯t as restricted in Banta City because of Xu Yi, but if he left Banta City, he would be heavily restricted in any ce in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi had now found something for him to do and as long as Baron Belil was attentive, with his ties to Prince Frank of the Candra Empire, he might really be able to create a business in the Candra Empire.

    The Lampuri Kingdom restricted Baron Belil¡¯s actions, but if he left the Lampuri Kingdom, there would be many people in the Lampuri Kingdom who would happily send them off.

    After all, from the perspective of the Lampuri Kingdom, there were scruples if he stayed. If this fellow that they wanted to deal with, but couldn¡¯t deal with were to leave the Lampuri Kingdom, they would be very happy.

    Leslie knew that Xu Yi doing this had a bit of selfishness. He was telling Leslie that he wanted to use the rtionship between Baron Belil and Prince Frank to spread the Magic Sedan across the Candra Empire.

    But Leslie also knew that Xu Yi doing this was helping Baron belil. Not only did it give him a good reason to leave the Lampuri Kingdom, it also gave him a goal to work hard for.

    Leslie always had a good view of the Magic Sedan¡¯s prospects on the Sines Continent. As long as Baron Belil could do this well, he would definitely be an influential person in the future.

    So Xu Yi had helped the Stagg Family with arge matter, letting the seeds left behind in the Stagg Family be even stronger.

    ¡°But like this, I don¡¯t have a way to easily leave this fleet.¡± Leslie suddenly gave a bitterugh as he shook his head.

    As he received more and more help from Xu Yi, the responsibility in Leslie¡¯s heart became greater.

    He wanted to help Xu Yi¡¯s fleet gain some experience on the sea and then establish his own fleet, but now he found that it was very hard for him to leave.

    Even if it wasn¡¯t just to repay Xu Yi, Leslie had already formed a strong sense of attachment to this fleet.

    This fleet had only been established for a year, but whether it was from the initial training stage to developing on the seater, Leslie had been with this fleet the entire time and had never left.

    During this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had moved unhindered in the southern seas. They had fought countless times and defeated countless pirates.

    Even if these fights were very easy, through these fights, the members of the fleet had be much closer and Leslie wasn¡¯t an exception.

    The current Leslie was already very used to his life and if he suddenly left this fleet, leaving this life, he would be very unwilling.

    ¡°Alright¡­¡­I¡¯ll just stay a bit longer. When the fleet bes a bit bigger and can control this southern sea, that fellow Xu Yi should have finished developing the open sea Magic Ships. There should be no problem leaving at that time.¡±

    Leslie looked at the endless seas in front of him and secretly made his decision.

    ¡°Sir, should we head back to Thunderbolt Ind first or directly go to the meeting ce?¡± The captain of the g ship who was also the vice leader of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, who was Leslie¡¯s assistant, Garn Sauron came over to ask this.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need. We just resupplied in Nissi Harbour, there¡¯s no need to waste time. Let¡¯s head to the destination.¡± Leslie replied without even turning back.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Garn Sauran replied before leaving.

    After a while, the entire fleet adjusted and headed to the south.

    In just three hours, the fleet had already left the seas of the Rudson Kingdom and entered the seas of the Candra Empire.

    Actually, for any country of the Sines Continent, the seas of that country wasn¡¯t an established concept.

    Because of the low level of technology, they couldn¡¯t sail far into the seas. Even if they controlled the seas around them, they could only do it with some old wooden boats. They couldn¡¯t fully control it, so they couldn¡¯t properly define the concept of seas.

    On the endless seas, there was a state of disorder.

    As long as someone had a ship, they could navigate the seas at will and wouldn¡¯t worry about who cared.

    That was the reason why there were so many pirates on the seas.

    But after the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, this frail bnce had been broken.

    With the superior battle strength that surpassed normal wooden boats and strong sailing abilities, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet used less than half a year to defeat all the pirates in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s seas and the Candra Empire¡¯s seas.

    Even if some fish managed to slip through the, with the strong deterrence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, this huge sea area had obtained an unprecedented peace.

    With the frequent transport ships of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom, it created a transport channel.

    Now other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ships, there were also manyrge and small wooden ships that sailed this path, creating a channel for the transfer of cargo between the two countries.

    Of course, the cargo that flowed from the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom were mainly Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines, as well as their steel products, fertilizer, cement, and other products. At the same time, there was also the canned fruit and lumber that came from the Stantine Duchy.

    As for the cargo from the Rudson Kingdom to the Stantine Duchy, most of it were various mineral resources and Magic Crystals.

    These things were naturally demanded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because of the boom of this transport channel, Nissi City, which had been a small coastal city, had developed at a shocking speed.

    The current Nissi City was not as prosperous as the capital Caraca City, but the prosperity from the people and cargo passing through wasn¡¯t weak.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet used to only get supplies from the transport fleet that Narvil led, but after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed a contract with the Rudson Kingdom, they could now replenish their supplies from Nissi City.

    When Leslie led his fleet to Nissi Harbour three days ago, it was for their monthly supplies and also to give his subordinates a vacation.

    These fellows had been on the seas for a long time, so they needed to rx.

    After the supplies were obtained, after leaving Nissi City, the guard fleet had to follow their orders and go to their destination for their task.

    This task was very simple, it was to converge with the second transport fleet in the Candra Empire¡¯s seas and escort them through the Candra Empire¡¯s seas, heading to the first ind of three that had been marked for a base.

    It seemed very simple, but Leslie who had been active in the southern seas of the Candra Empire for the past half a year knew that it was very likely they would face a problem in their mission this time.

    If they couldn¡¯t handle it well, they might waste all their efforts in the Candra Empire¡¯s seas for before.

    However, the more serious this problem was, the happier Leslie was.

    If he always bullied pirates that couldn¡¯t resist, how could he show his value and return the help that Xu Yi had given him and the Stagg Family?

 Volume 5 90 - Attitude towards slaves

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 90 Attitude towards ves</h4>

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    After navigating around the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas for four hours, the guard fleet stopped at an ind that was around five to six kilometers wide.

    This ind didn¡¯t have any mineral resources and didn¡¯t have any resources worth mentioning, it wasn¡¯t the goal of the guard fleet at all.

    But two months ago, Xu Yi had changed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n on the sea. He nned to build a chain of inds on the sea, linking all the inds with resources together to control the area. So even this ind that didn¡¯t have any resources, but was suited for having a base built on it was also included in the range of consideration.

    There were countless inds like this on the southern seas of the Candra Empire, so it was impossible to build bases on all of these inds.

    Through inspecting them, Xu Yi finally through Leslie¡¯s reports had decided that this ind and two inds that were around one to two hundred kilometers away were the first sites of construction.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had been active in the seas of the Candra Empire before, strictly speaking, after building bases on these three inds, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would officially be entering the Candra Empire¡¯s seas.

    Although the countries of the continent didn¡¯t really have an urate concept of sea area, this ind was only a hundred kilometers away from the Candra Empire¡¯s shore. This was considered in the area of control for the Candra Empire navy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t inform the Candra Empire and built bases on these three inds, it was hard to predict what kind of reaction the Candra Empire would have.

    After the guard fleet stopped near the ind, they didn¡¯t stay idle. They put down several dozen small Magic Speed Boats and carried over a hundred sailors with building materials that they had brought over from Nissi Harbour to the ind, building some simple dwellings near the coast.

    After around two hours, before the simple dwellings had been finished, there was a giant silver glowing Magic Ship that wasing from the west.

    Leslie brought the guard fleet over and on the ¡°Far Towing¡±rge transport Magic Ship that was just finishedst month, he saw the head of the transport fleet Narvil.

    The two didn¡¯t exchange greetings and after giving a simple report, they both sent out small magic Speed Boats, bringingrge amounts of personnel and construction materials from the ¡°Far Towing¡± Ship to the ind.

    These people didn¡¯t juste from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a lot of them came from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    These people were only here with one goal which was to first build a harbour on this ind.

    Only after constructing a harbour could they deliver goods to this ind more easily, making it easier to build the base.

    This ind base construction had been done on seven inds in the southern Rudson Kingdom seas, so there was no need for Narvil or Leslie to lead them. Whether it was the workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they were very skilled with the construction.

    There were several simple dwellings that were quickly built by the sea and then the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction workers brought their living needs into the buildings.

    ording to the n, starting tomorrow, they would be spending three months on this ind to build the harbour and the ind base. Then they would follow the n for the next steps.

    To stay on this uninhabited ind for this long and having to work quite a bit each day, their lives were naturally not good.

    But whether it was the workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not a single person wasining. Rather they were all smiling as they worked.

    This work was back breaking, but they would receive at least thirty gold coins a month.

    And because of rush work which led to overtime, they could even receive fifty gold coins a month adding in the overtime pay.

    This was already arge amount of money, not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided them with various other benefits.

    For example, because the weather in the southern seas were very hot, they would be receiving a subsidy worth three gold coins a month for working in the high temperatures.

    At the same time, because the living conditions here weren¡¯t good and the work was hard, they would receive a nutrition subsidy worth five gold coins a month.

    Adding in the various subsidies, if it was converted to gold coins, it would be a total of over ten gold coins a month.

    With this kind of shocking working conditions, even if the work was hard, so what?

    ¡°Hey, Narvil, do you see this? This is the benefit of having money.¡± Leslie looked at the workers working hard on the ind and gave a shrug as he said to Narvil beside him, ¡°As long as they receive enough money, I think that these people might even sell their lives to ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Using money to buy lives isn¡¯t that hard.¡± Narvil looked at Leslie, ¡°On Caraska Ind five years ago, as long as you took out ten gold coins, you could buy a life.¡±

    Leslie looked at Narvil and had nothing to say in response.

    He knew that Narvil came from Caraska Ind and knew that the previous Caraska Ind was called the ind of pirates. The living conditions on the ind were bad and it wasn¡¯t considered strange to buy a life for ten gold coins.

    But now that he heard Narvil say these words, he felt it was very strange.

    ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changing the living conditions on the ind, Caraska Ind wouldn¡¯t be that much different from before.,¡± Narvil suddenly gave a sigh before saying in an emotional voice, ¡°Actually, not to mention Caraska ind from five years ago, even if you went to other countries on the continent right now, you can also easily buy a life for ten gold coins.¡±

    Leslie was silent for a bit before nodding.

    After being in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a while, he hade up with a misconception. The lives of the people around him were very good, everyone didn¡¯t need to worry about food or lodging, this world had be much better.

    But in fact, other than the ces the Frestech Chamber of Commerce influenced, even in the surrounding countries, there were people that still couldn¡¯t solve the basic problems of food and clothing.

    As for the entire Sines Continent? There were even more countless ces and countless people living poverty filled lives.

    Leslie had urged Xu Yi not to work so hard and enjoy some rxation, but Xu Yi had firmly rejected this.

    Leslie had thought that Xu Yi was just crazy for working, he didn¡¯t know how to enjoy life at all.

    Now that he had talked to Narvil, he found that Xu Yi was this crazy about working because there was a lofty goal in his heart.

    He was working hard to give everyone on the continent a better life as quickly as possible.....

    Thinking of this, Leslie couldn¡¯t help feeling shame in his heart.

    In his over thirty five years of life, this was his first time feeling this ashamed.

    ¡°Actually, I told sir chairman that we could just buy some ves from another country and let those ves do this, which would save us quite a bit of money. It costs at least three hundred thousand gold coins to build this base and if we use ves, we could save several tens of thousands of gold coins.¡± Narvil said.

    ¡°He wouldn¡¯t agree.¡± Leslie shook his head, ¡°Xu Yi hates the existence of ves the most, he¡¯s told this many times. If he had enough money, he would buy all the ves on the continent and give them back their freedom. If you tell him to buy ves now, it would be strange if he didn¡¯t scold you.¡±

    ¡°Un.....Although sir chairman didn¡¯t directly scold me, I could tell that he was very angry, so I never mentioned this matter again.¡± Narvil nodded, ¡°But sir Leslie, I have always considered a problem.....¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t use ves, but if otherpanies use arge number of ves, their cost would be much lower than ours and they can sell for a much lower price. Because of ourpany¡¯s high quality right now, there¡¯s no problem now, but in the future.....If the quality of the goods from otherpanies are the same as ours, ourpany will face arge problem.....¡±

    Leslie was stunned. It was like it was his first time meeting Narvil as he looked him over.

    ¡°How did you think of this problem?¡±

    ¡°When I was in Nissi Harbour, I met the chairman of a Rudson Kingdom magic machinepany. Hispany had bought a few ves and he had boasted about this in front of me, so then I thought of this problem. The more I thought about it, the more I felt this problem was serious. Sir Leslie, you have a close rtionship with sir chairman, can you mention this to him?¡±

    Leslie knit his brows to think before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s no use, Xu Yi is someone who sticks to his principles. I remember when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed, I sent a group of ves to work in his factory. At that time, he showed a different attitude to those vespared to others. I think that if it wasn¡¯t for him not being strong enough, he might have bought those ves from me at that time and would have freed them.¡±

    This was Narvil¡¯s first time hearing about when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed. His eyes couldn¡¯t help opening wide as he focused on listening to Leslie, afraid that he would miss a single word.

    ¡°You can see what happened next, in the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are over a hundred thousand workers, but there isn¡¯t a single ve. Even his two ve maids have had their freedom given back to them. He¡¯s even promoting a bill in the Stantine Duchy now to have them abolish very. Do you think.....he is someone who can ept ve workers?¡±

    Narvil hesitated a bit before shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°What do we do then? If sir chairman isn¡¯t willing to use ves, ourpany will be at a disadvantagepared to otherpanies. How should we solve this problem?¡±

    Leslie paused for a bit before suddenly breaking out inughter and patting Narvil¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, if you can think of this problem, how could Xu Yi not think of it? We have discussed this for a bit, but perhaps Xu Yi might have alreadye up with a solution. I¡¯ve known this fellow for six years now and I¡¯ve never seen him truly baffled by anything, so there¡¯s no need for us to blindly worry.¡±

    Narvil tilted his head to think before nodding with a faint smile.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, how could sir chairman need us to worry about him? We just need to believe in him and follow what he says.¡±

 Volume 5 91 - Fight pirates together

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 91 Fight pirates together</h4>

    The peaceful development of the ind base didn¡¯t continue. There was a sudden change three days after Narvil¡¯s transport fleet had arrived.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, there is a Candra Empire royal fleet that is ten kilometers northwest of us. Based on the direction, they should be heading towards us.¡±

    Hearing the report of his subordinate, Leslie considered this, but he didn¡¯t do anything. He had all the ships of the guard fleet prepare for battle while calmly waiting for the arrival of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    This was a situation they already expected.

    They were moving in the southern seas of the Candra Empire and after all these days, the Candra Empire still hadn¡¯t received this news and reacted, it meant that their royal fleet wasn¡¯t worth worrying about.

    Facts proved that although their reaction was slow, they did react as expected.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, to build a base on the sea, they would definitely have to face the Candra Empire¡¯s navy.

    The guard fleet could run, but the ind couldn¡¯t run.

    After half an hour, the fleet with the Candra Empire¡¯s gs appeared to the northwest.

    When he saw this fleet, the stone in Leslie¡¯s heart had fallen down.

    This fleet only had thirty ships and there were only two Thunderp Grade Giant Warships. Compared to the third fleet that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had met when they first arrived, it was arge difference.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s fleet had onlye after receiving the news and had a certain understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, so they only sent these few ships. Unless themander was an idiot, they definitely wouldn¡¯t start a conflict with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    As expected, when Leslie let them approach, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet stopped a thousand meters away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. They only had the Thunderp Ships continue forward.

    This Thunderp Ship approached while waving gs from the mast.

    Although these gs had different meanings on the seas, there were some that were universal.

    For example, the g of the Thunderp Ship had a very simple meaning. It was that they wanted to show friendship and had no intentions of fighting.

    Leslie put down his telescope and ordered his own ship to go forward.

    The two ships came beside each other on the sea and they went parallel to face each other.

    Leslie came to the side and looked at the other side. He saw a middle aged man in an officer uniform of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet walk up.

    The two looked at each other and Leslie saw that this middle aged had a gentle smile, not showing any signs of hostility which made him calm down even more.

    ¡°If I¡¯m not wrong, you should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleetmander sir Leslie, right?¡±

    There was only twenty meters between the two ships, so this middle aged man only needed to slightly raise his voice and Leslie could hear him.

    Leslie was a bit surprised, he never thought that the other side would know who he was with a single nce.

    It could be seen that the other side was prepared, he definitely investigated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet before.

    ¡°Yes, I am Leslie. May I ask which lord from the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet this is?¡±

    The middle aged man revealed a faint smile, ¡°I am Remito Russell, I think that sir Leslie should have heard my name from chairman Xu.¡±

    Leslie couldn¡¯t help rxing.

    He had heard Xu Yi mention this name before.

    Remito Russell was the vice chief of staff of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, he was a true elite of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy. He was much higherpared to the third fleet¡¯smander from before.

    Leslie never would have thought that such an important person woulde all the way out from the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Sir Russell, it is an honour to meet you. Sir chairman had mentioned your name to me before and expressed that you are a good friend of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He wanted me to send his regards if I had the chance to meet you.¡±

    Russell slightly narrowed his eyes as a thought provoking smile appeared on his lips.

    Xu Yi wanted Leslie to represent him in sending his regards?

    Could it be that he already knew that he would being to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet?

    ¡°He, he, chairman Xu is too polite. When I went to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to meet chairman Xu, I had a good discussion with him. I am very interested in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. I¡¯ve heard that your guard fleet was quite active here, so I couldn¡¯t stop the curiosity in my heart froming here to take a look. Sir Leslie, do you think that my appearance here is too sudden?¡±

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°Of course not. Being able to receive the attention of sir Russell is my honour. Sir Russell, if you¡¯re really interested, how about youe back to the ind in front of us and I¡¯ll let you see what we have?¡±

    Russell was surprised, he never thought that Leslie would take the initiative to invite him back.

    After thinking about it, he didn¡¯t hold back and nodded to have Leslie lead the way. Then he had the Thunderp Ship that he was on follow Leslie¡¯s ship to the ind in front.

    It was just a few days, other than a few simple huts, there wasn¡¯t anything else that was built on the ind.

    But when Russell asked about it, Leslie very confidently told Russell about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development n for this ind.

    ¡°Sir Russell, please look, ourpany will first build a harbour here, so that our guard fleet cane here to dock and recover. At the same time, it will also facilitate the transport of ourpany¡¯s goods.¡±

    ¡°Un, if you want to do anything on an ind, a harbour is necessary. But sir Leslie, with the scale of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet, this harbour might be too small.¡± Russell said with a nod.

    Leslie looked at Russell and found that there wasn¡¯t any change in his expression, just like he was having a normal conversation.

    This made him a bit confused.

    This was the southern Candra Empire sea, for arge empire like the Candra Empire, they had always treated this ce as their garden.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here and took over this ind, with the attitude of the Candra Empire, they should have chased out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this Russell didn¡¯t seem like he was nning on doing this at all, rather he was tacitly approving of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions.

    Thinking of this, Leslie couldn¡¯t help admiring him.

    It was no wonder Xu Yi was bold enough to develop on this ind, could it be that he had reached a deal in secret when he met with Russellst time?

    But if that was the case, why didn¡¯t he tell him first?

    There weren¡¯t many things on this ind, so naturally there wasn¡¯t much to see. In less than half an hour, Russell had finished his tour of the ind and finished listening to Leslie¡¯s exnation.

    But Russell naturally wouldn¡¯t leave just like that. After talking to Leslie for a bit, he turned to the followers that came with him and they moved away.

    Leslie understood and he also nodded to the subordinates by him.

    When they all left, Russell looked at Leslie again. After a pause, he said with a serious look, ¡°Sir Leslie, we¡¯re all smart people, so I won¡¯t waste words. I came this time to get some help from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet.¡±

    ¡°Help?¡± Leslie was surprised, ¡°Sir Russell, please exin. If there is anything our guard fleet can help with, we will do our best.¡±

    Russell nodded before continuing, ¡°ording to the various information we received, you Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very strong when fighting on the seas. Right now, our royal fleet.....ke, has met a bit of a problem that we need some help with. If you¡¯re willing to help us, I can represent the royal fleet to give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce autonomy on these seas. For example, I will treat it as I don¡¯t know a thing, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Leslie took a deep look at Russell and didn¡¯t rush to reply.

    He didn¡¯t believe that the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet would meet a problem that they couldn¡¯t solve and woulde looking for help from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    Even if the guard fleet was very strong, with the power of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, what problem couldn¡¯t they solve on these seas?

    But Russell wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet¡¯s help and even gave such a tempting condition, it really was a bit surprising.

    After seriously considering it, Leslie thought about the words that Xu Yi had mentioned in his letter and made his decision.

    ¡°Sir Russell, may I ask what kind of help you need?¡± Leslie asked.

    ¡°Eh.....ording to our newest information, there are quite a few new pirate groups in these seas, which is said to havee from the east. Our royal fleet has had some.....troubles recently, it¡¯s a bit troublesome to deal with these pirates and it¡¯s hard to clear them all out, so we need to borrow some help from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet. ording to what I know, your guard fleet has spared no effort in dealing with pirates, so I think that we have a chance to cooperate on this matter.¡± Russell exined.

    ¡°Cooperating to clear out pirates?¡± Leslie was a bit surprised, but he rxed after thinking about it.

    This was more like it. If it wasn¡¯t cooperating to fight pirates, why would the powerful Candra Empire royal fleet cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet?

    After thinking about it, Leslie said with a nod, ¡°Alright, sir Russell, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet to ept your proposal to fight the pirates together. We will put in our contribution to reiming the peace of these seas.¡±

    Russell nodded with a faint smile. His eyes turned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ships that had silver glows on the sea and something shed in his eyes. It was unknown what he was thinking about.

 Volume 5 92 - Why abolish slavery?

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 92 Why abolish very?</strong>

    This matter happened in the southern Candra Empire which was several thousand kilometers away, so it didn¡¯t affect the Stantine Duchy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Recently, in the Stantine Duchy and even the surrounding countries, the thing that most people cared about was a bill that the Stantine Duchy congress was passing.

    This was a bill that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had passed through a normal congress member.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s influence in the Stantine Duchy, he could easily pass any proposal that he wanted, but he had spent two months after bringing this into the congress and it had to pass the ballot vote before they decided to pass this bill.

    The reason why it was so hard to pass was because the contents were too shocking.

    This proposal was to abolish very!

    When Xu Yi first proposed this, everyone had thought that he was insane.

    Since the elves ruled the continent thousands of years ago, ves had always existed on the Sines Continent. To this point, the history of ves had passed ten thousand years.

    In these ten thousand years, no matter what changed on the continent, very had never changed. Even in the two thousand years after the race wars, very had reached a peak on the continent.

    Before the race wars, the elves had treated all other races like ves and after the race wars, it had changed into the humans wildly capturing the other races as ves.

    As for the humans, they also tookrge amounts of their own race as ves.

    For all the people of the Sines Continent, the existence of very was a norm that everyone was already used to and no one thought there was anything wrong with it.

    Now that Xu Yi was saying that he wanted to abolish very, this was simply going againstmon knowledge and challenging the customs of the continent.

    Especially those ve owners who earned quite a bit from their ves, they had snorted in contempt at Xu Yi¡¯s proposal, vigorously opposing it.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s great influence on the Stantine Duchy, all the lords of the Stantine Duchy could only cooperate and wouldn¡¯t dare oppose Xu Yi¡¯s proposals at all.

    But when Xu Yi made this proposal, those lords that all listened to Xu Yi all came together to voice their opposition to this proposal.

    In the first vote of this proposal, the votes in favour of this proposal was actually a shocking zero vote!

    It could be seen that this proposal had arge impact on everyone, so that was why the reaction was so strong.

    But with the strong influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the Stantine Duchy, with the strong urging of Xu Yi, this proposal gated votes bit by bit. Finally, it reached the point where it had passed.

    And today, the Stantine Duchy congress had finally reached the day where they passed this proposal.

    As long as this proposal passed today, it meant that starting from this day, the Stantine Duchy would truly abolish very.

    ording to the statistics, there were one hundred and sixty to one hundred and seventy thousand people who were ves in the Stantine Duchy.

    Once this was abolished, over a hundred and sixty thousand ves would be citizens. There was no doubt that the social impact of this would be huge.

    So whether this proposal passed or not, it would create giant waves in the entire Stantine Duchy.

    To many people, this wasn¡¯t a good thing.

    ¡°Why am I doing all this to abolish very?¡± Xu Yi looked at Baron Hannas in front of him with a faint smile and slowly shook his head, ¡°Of course it¡¯s not like people said, I¡¯m not a saint that can¡¯t watch the ves suffer, so I want to abolish this system and free them.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯tpletely deny this though, right? Based on the attitude you have towards the ves under you, you are very kind to the ves.¡± Baron Hannas kept asking.

    Although the Stantine Duchy congress would be deciding whether Xu Yi¡¯s abolishing very bill would pass, because this matter attracted too many people¡¯s attentions, countless reporters hade with the intention of reporting on this matter.

    The congress would be held in the afternoon, so in the morning, Xu Yi had held a press conference and epted interviews from the various reporters.

    At the press conference, there were reporters from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Norton Duchy.....and various other countries. There were even three newspapers from the Sack Kingdom who had sent reporters.

    The total number of reporters surpassed five hundred people, so therge hall waspletely filled without a single bit of room to step in.

    The reporters were well informed people, so naturally they knew about the close friendship between Xu Yi and the ?Lampuri Weekly¡¯s? editor in chief Baron Hannas, so the first questions were given to him.

    ¡°From a personal perspective, I do indeed not want to see ves being treated this cruelly because to me, there¡¯s no difference between us and ves, we are all humans. Why should we separate ourselves and treat our own kind like domestic animals?¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°But other than humans ves, there are also ves of other races. Should we treat them the same as our race?¡± A reporter suddenly asked in a loud voice.

    The other reporters all looked at the reporter who asked this, thinking that this fellow truly was an idiot.

    It was worth it to ask other people this, but to ask Xu Yi this, this waspletely a waste of time.

    As expected, Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°Other races aren¡¯t that different from humans, right? Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has hired other race workers over the years and I haven¡¯t seen anything different about them. If you really want to talk about it, perhaps each culture has their differences. However, even among us humans, aren¡¯t there cultural differences because of different nations? So I don¡¯t think that this is a problem at all.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, let¡¯s get back on topic. You said that from a personal perspective, you want to see very abolished, but you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. Everyone knows that you are someone with influence, so if you raise this proposal, it¡¯s impossible that it¡¯s just from your personal perspective, right?¡± A reporter asked.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t hesitate at all as he acknowledged this with a nod, ¡°This proposal alsoes from the general perspective.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I am a reporter from the Rudson Kingdom. Beforeing here, I¡¯ve heard that in our Rudson Kingdom, there is apany producing Magic Lamps that only hires ve workers. So the cost of their Magic Lamps are much lower and their Magic Lamps are much cheaper than the Frestech Brand Magic Lamp, which is greatly weed in our Rudson Kingdom. Is your proposal to abolish very because of the threat that thispany poses to you?¡± A reporter from the crowd asked in a loud voice.

    The minds of the reporters under the stage all turned.

    This was the first time many people were hearing about this and if it was true, Xu Yi¡¯s reason for proposing this was quite interesting.

    Xu Yi looked at that reporter and asked back, ¡°Are you talking about the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce from Rio City?¡±

    That reporter was surprised, but he didn¡¯t reply as he silently admitted it.

    Xu Yi continued with a smile, ¡°First, my proposal is only for the Stantine Duchy. Even if this proposal passes, it doesn¡¯t affect the Rudson Kingdom. The Sanchi Chamber of Commerce can keep using ve workers, this isn¡¯t a problem and it won¡¯t affect them.¡±

    The crowd under the stage nodded.

    The Stantine Duchy was only a small country, it was much worse than the Rudson Kingdom.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the fact that this proposal was too shocking, there wouldn¡¯t be that many people paying attention to thews of a single small country.

    ¡°Second, the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Lamps haven¡¯t passed the quality inspection of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry management department, but they are choosing to sell them privately. They have gone against thews of the management department and now are being heavily investigated, even being suspended. Did you not know about this?¡±

    Everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto the face of the reporter of the Rudson Kingdom who looked a bit awkward.

    It was clear that he knew about this, but he deliberately chose not to mention it.

    ¡°Finally, why do you think that I would feel threatened by the Magic Lamps of this kind ofpany? I think.....that any reporter here wouldn¡¯t think that this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce would pose a threat to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    The crowd couldn¡¯t help nodding again.

    They had never even heard of this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce, how could it be used topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    This fellow actually thought that Xu Yi felt the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce posed a threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was simply a joke!

    That reporter had a red look on his face, but he didn¡¯t give up as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, perhaps the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t pose any threat to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but you¡¯re afraid that otherpanies will use the cost advantage of using ves topete with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? You want to abolish sales because you¡¯re already expecting this to happen!¡±

    The reporters once again fell into silence.

    Actually, this was what they thought too.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the consideration of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why would Xu Yi waste all this effort to do this thankless job and go against all those people to abolish very?

    ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, this is indeed a problem. But I must remind you of a fact that not just right now, even a few years ago, manypanies have been using ves and they couldn¡¯t gain any advantage. You understand why this is, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Everyone looked at each other. They thought that Xu Yi¡¯s question was a bit unreasonable, but after carefully thinking about it, it was thought provoking.

    Yes, ves haven¡¯t just existed on the Sines Continent for a day or two.

    There were many magic machinepanies in the surrounding countries and may of them used sales to reduce their production cost, but they couldn¡¯t gain any advantage.

    This wasn¡¯t the plot of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because in the magic machine industry, it was impossible for apany topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Andpared to the otherpanies in the same industry, thepanies that used ves didn¡¯t have that many advantages.

    ¡°This is the biggest reason I want to abolish very and the overall conclusion that I¡¯ve drawn. The reason is actually very simple, most ves in my opinion can¡¯t be considered apletebour force.¡±

    ¡°Because ves cannot be educated and don¡¯t have any enthusiasm or drive. Even if they work in production, they will work passively. These kinds of workers would only reduce production costs, but it would actually affect the production efficiency and quality.¡±

    ¡°From the perspective of a merchant, these ves are a negative asset for apany. What I want to do is to transform those negative assets into positive assets!¡±

 Volume 5 93 - Responsibility that must be carried

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 93 Responsibility that must be carried</h4>

    The proposal Xu Yi raised was passed by the Stantine Duchy congress in the end.

    This wasn¡¯t surprising.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current powerful influence in the Stantine Duchy, once Xu Yi decided to promote something in the Stantine Duchy, there was no chance of failing.

    But in this process, Xu Yi¡¯s proposal had only received 56% support, only barely being able to pass. It showed just how impossible it was for everyone in the Stantine Duchy to support this.

    Of the remaining 44% of the congress members chose to abstain, there were few who voted against it.

    Other than proving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very influential, so that others didn¡¯t dare go against them, it was also a kind of silent protest.

    This silent protest was demonstrated through the fact that although this proposal had passed, there were various kinds of difficulties.

    ording to this proposal, the ves of the Stantine Duchy should have had their statuses changed. However, when it came to implementing this proposal, there was no lord that had ves that cooperated with this.

    ording to initial estimates, the ve poption of the Stantine Duchy was between one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty thousand, but the statuses of the ves weren¡¯t changed in the first week this bill passed.

    This wasn¡¯t strange.

    The ves had never been educated and it was hard for them to obtain news. There were few who knew about this bill and there were even less that knew about how to apply for it.

    Moreover, even if they did know about it, the ves didn¡¯t dare apply.

    The years of being ves made them not dare to go against their lords, so unless their lords said anything, there was no ve that dared toe forward.

    As for counting on the lords toe forward themselves?

    Stop dreaming!

    So, Xu Yi¡¯s proposal had passed, but because of how hard it was to implement, it didn¡¯t matter if it had passed or not.

    In the beginning, this was a matter that many people paid attention to in the Stantine Duchy and the surrounding countries, but after half a month of no action, people¡¯s attention gradually turned.

    At this time, an important matter had happened in the Lampuri Kingdom that attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Her majesty Seveni had given birth!

    Two months ago, her majesty Seveni had taken the initiative to announce that she was pregnant and had been for eight months now.

    Not only did this news create a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom, it also attracted the attention of the surrounding countries.

    After all, her majesty Seveni wasn¡¯t married, but she had actually be pregnant. This was just too shocking.

    Moreover, for many people, this wasn¡¯t a scandal that just brought shame to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family, it brought shame to all of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But in these two months, her majesty Seveni didn¡¯t cover up this matter at all. She openly appeared in front of everyone and with the newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom making exnations for her, it made people gradually forget that this was a scandal and they began wholeheartedly congratting her.

    After all, her majesty Seveni¡¯s child would definitely be the sessor to the throne, so there was no meaning in calling it a scandal any longer.

    Two monthster, her majesty Seveni had been pregnant for ten whole months.

    So half a month ago, there was a surge in attention towards this unborn child in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Everyone was discussing this unborn child, guessing on whether it was male or female. There were even gambling houses that made bets on this.

    Now that the child was finally born, it instantly captured everyone¡¯s attention.

    ording to the news of the royal pce, her majesty Seveni gave birth to a prince. The entire process was very smooth, with both her majesty and his highnessing out safely.

    The entire Lampuri Kingdom was filled with joy.

    Since her majesty Seveni took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom had be stable and their economy rapidly grew. The lives of the people became much better as their nation became stronger, even forcing their mortal enemy the Sack Kingdom to bow their heads to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Everyone loved her majesty who let them all live good lives, who also was beautiful and benevolent to all.

    Now that she had given birth to a child, naturally everyone was happy.

    People had worried that her majesty didn¡¯t care about her marriage at all, so there was a serious problem with the kingdom¡¯s sessor, but they never thought that he majesty would secretly be pregnant and even give birth to a child.

    Now that the child had been born, the Lampuri Kingdom weed its sessor, so arge stone fell in everyone¡¯s heart, feeling much more assured.

    With this mood, even if there were people who had questions, it didn¡¯t affect the situation.

    Anyway, the child had already been born and everyone was certain it was her majesty¡¯s child, so who cared who the father was?

    Even Xu Yi had the same idea.

    ¡°Hey, Seveni, this really looks like you.¡± Xu Yi carefully held the baby as he looked down at its big forehead and high nose before saying with a smile, ¡°I think that this kid will be quite handsome when he grows up. Even if he wasn¡¯t the prince, he would definitely charm many girls.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile. She looked at Xu Yi and the child in his arms as aplicated look appeared in her eyes before she softly said, ¡°The status of a prince isn¡¯t a good thing. Perhaps when he grows up, it¡¯ll give him many problems.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°That depends on how you teach him. Since he¡¯s the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s prince, he can¡¯t avoid the responsibility he has to bear. You should guide him well and not treat these responsibilities as pressure, but rather motivation.¡±

    ¡°You make it sound simple.¡± Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°What about your Freya? Didn¡¯t you take her as your sole heir when she was born? How did you teach her to turn this pressure into motivation? Tell me about it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t care that much at all, I just let her y however she wants to y.¡±

    Seveni was surprised, ¡°How could that be? She is your only heir, she will inherit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future. If you don¡¯t train her now, how will she be able to carry this heavy responsibility in the future?¡±

    ¡°She won¡¯t if she can¡¯t take it.¡± Xu Yi replied with a rxed look, ¡°I just made her my sessor, she¡¯s not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sessor. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce must be led by someone with enough ability and if she isn¡¯t suited to bing its leader, she just won¡¯t do it. Otherwise, this won¡¯t be a good thing for her or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a bit of disbelief.

    ¡°You¡¯re nning on giving up on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°How is that rted? My meaning is that Freya is Freya and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If she is interested and has the ability to manage it, I will support her. But if she isn¡¯t good enough or she isn¡¯t interested, I will support her in doing what she wants to do. Compared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I find it more important that she¡¯s happy.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi for a bit before slowly shaking her head with a sigh.

    ¡°This is the difference between you and me. You can give up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but I can¡¯t give up the Lampuri Kingdom. When sitting on the throne, there are many things that aren¡¯t up to me.¡± Seveni turned to look out the window with a bit of sadness in her eyes, ¡°If I can choose, I wouldn¡¯t want to be the queen.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    Although he spoke at ease, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already embodied all his painstaking hard work.

    Not making Freya ept the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a problem, but to let Xu Yi give up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be able to do so.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was countless times more important to Seveni than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to Xu Yi.

    The Lampuri Family had founded the Lampuri Kingdom for several hundred years now and with the efforts of countless generations, they were about to maintain the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If Seveni was to give up on it now, it would be giving up the hard work of all her ancestors.

    Not to mention if she could do it, the countless people of the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t let her do this.

    And Seveni¡¯s child had to bear this heavy responsibility from the moment he was born.

    When Seveni became old, he would definitely inherit the Lampuri Kingdom and continue the struggle of the throne. There was no chance of giving it up.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked at the baby in his arms with a bit of pity.

    ¡°Pitiful little fellow, you have to bear this heavy responsibility as soon as you¡¯re born. I wonder if you¡¯ll be happy.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out to touch the cheek of the little fellow and found that he was actually smiling.

    There was a funny smile hanging on his round little cheeks which made Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help be happy.

    He turned to look at Seveni looking out the window thinking of something unknown and Xu Yi felt that this atmosphere was quite heavy. He had an idea and raised the baby in his hand as he deliberately raised his voice, ¡°Hey, Seveni, although Freya is four years older than this little fellow, I think there shouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem. How about we let them have an engagement?¡±

    Seveni suddenly turned and said in a sharp voice, ¡°No!¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    He had only been joking, but why did Seveni react this fiercely?

 Volume 5 94 - Bait

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 94 Bait</h4>

    The two looked at each other before Seveni reacted. She found that her reaction was a bit too intense, so she couldn¡¯t help looking a bit awkward.

    ¡°No.....Don¡¯t misunderstand. Xu Yi, it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t like Freya, I just.....feel that the two of them are ipatible.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni with doubt, not really believing her exnation.

    Of course he wouldn¡¯t mistake it as Seveni not liking Freya, but Seveni¡¯s reaction was just too abnormal which made him a bit curious.

    Feeling Xu Yi¡¯s doubtful gaze, Seveni¡¯s expression became even more awkward. She opened her mouth, but she didn¡¯t give an exnation. After pausing for a bit, she changed the topic.

    ¡°Xu Yi, how is your Stantine Duchy¡¯s very abolition going?¡±

    This topic change was too stiff, even Xu Yi was stunned for a bit before reacting.

    He took a deep look at Seveni and after taking a deep breath, he didn¡¯t keep asking.

    Seveni¡¯s child¡¯s origin was very strange. Even now she wasn¡¯t willing to announce who the father of the child was, so it was clearly hard for her to bring up.

    As her friend, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t force herself to tell him the secret she wanted to keep.

    ¡°Eh.....It¡¯s not too smooth. The lords of the duchy don¡¯t want to change the ves under them into citizens. They think that this will cause them to lose these citizens and suffer losses.¡±

    ¡°That is certain.¡± Seveni gave a nod, ¡°Xu Yi, actually......I also feel that your methods this time are too.....strange.....¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni¡¯s hesitant look and thought that she wanted to say that he was insane, but she didn¡¯t say it.

    ¡°ves have already existed on the continent for a long time, but you want to abolish them, this is going against the traditions of the continent. The lords with ves will definitely not agree to your idea. You can forcefully carry this out in the Stantine Duchy, but if it was the Lampuri Kingdom, there is no way that this proposal would pass in the kingdom parliament.¡±

    ¡°What if you¡¯re the one who brought it out?¡± Xu Yi tentatively asked.

    ¡°Then our Lampuri Family¡¯s best result would be giving up the throne.¡± Seveni said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before giving a silent nod.

    ¡°Actually, Xu Yi, you should know the consequences of doing this, right? Otherwise, your actions in the Stantine Duchy wouldn¡¯t be so anticlimactic, you¡¯re not someone who does things halfway.¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Un, the pressure and opposition to this is quiterge, so I¡¯ve decided to postpone it and not rush it.¡±

    Seveni knit her brows, ¡°So I don¡¯t understand, why did you do this? You clearly know how hard this is and there aren¡¯t any benefits for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so why did you ignore all the opposition and went against the pressure to do this?¡±

    ¡°No, this matter is quite good for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Seveni, did you read the article in the ?Lampuri Weekly??¡±

    ¡°The one from Baron Hannas, the article about how you want to free ves to free productive forces? I¡¯ve seen it and not just once.¡± Seveni said, ¡°I do admit that you have reason. Hiring workers as ves cannot give you the best efficiency and it can even affect the quality product, but since there isn¡¯t a good effect in letting ves handleplicated work, you can just let them handle the simple work. No matter what, ves don¡¯t need to be paid wages, right?¡±

    ¡°Even you can¡¯t understand my ideas in the end, that means it¡¯s impossible for others to understand them.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°All of you can¡¯t understand one logic, ves are no different from domestic animals to you, they have no special value. But for me, they are also people. Since they are people, they have the basic ability to study as humans. So even if they are ves, there is the chance of increasing their abilities, so you can¡¯t treat them as simple domestic animals.¡±

    ¡°You mean.....you are nning on freeing them from being ves and then teaching them to turn them into skilled workers?¡± Seveni asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Is it worth putting in that much effort for these ves?¡±

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t it worth it?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Seveni, let me ask you a question. How many people are in the Lampuri Kingdom right now?¡±

    Seveni was surprised, never expecting Xu Yi to change the topic to this.

    After thinking about it, she replied, ¡°There was a survey when I took the throne, the poption then was around six million and four hundred thousand people.¡±

    ¡°Does that not include the ves?¡±

    ¡°Yes, ves are not considered citizens, so they aren¡¯t counted. But ording to the estimates from the various regions, there are around three million ves in the kingdom.¡± Seveni replied.

    ¡°Then can you tell me, of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s six million and four hundred thousand people, how many can actually work? And among the three million ves, how many can work?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Seveni knit her brows, ¡°There¡¯s no way to count that.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not discuss the specific numbers. Do you think that if all three million ves were freed and they became usefulbour, would that be a big help to the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t understand what you¡¯re specifically talking about?¡±

    ¡°To put it specifically.....Let¡¯s use our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently has over ny three thousand workers. I think that this number, whether in the Stantine Duchy or the Lampuri Kingdom, can be considered a veryrgepany.¡±

    Seveni nodded, ¡°Un, our kingdom probably only has the Falcao Chamber of Commerce or the Armani Chamber of Commerce with more workers than you.¡±

    ¡°But I still feel there is a seriousck of manpower. ording to my n for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after calcting it, ourpany needs to hire at least fifty thousand workers in three years to barely meet my needs.¡±

    ¡°You need that many people?¡± Seveni asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What do you want to do?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed to the southeast, ¡°I should have mentioned it in myst letter, ourpany is nning on building several ind bases on the southern seas. Each ind needs at least a hundred people, so adding in the various logistics personnel, we need at least twenty thousand employees just for this business.¡±

    ¡°That much?¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Why do you want to construct so many ind bases? What are you nning to use them for?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, we just want to use the rich resources of the endless seas.¡± Xu Yi exined with a rxed look, ¡°Other than the ind bases, ourpany will also keep expanding the market. Once we open the Candra Empire market, the demand will be terrifying. So we must prepare ahead of time and increase the production capacity of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Un......Speaking of yourpany¡¯s production capacity.....Xu Yi, when are you nning on giving me the hundred Magic Airships that I ordered?¡± Seveni suddenly asked.

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Wait for it, the Magic Airship dependence tests haven¡¯t been finished yet. It¡¯ll be at least next year before it can go into mass production.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi, ¡°When I ordered the hundred Magic Airships, you said that you could give them to me at the beginning of this year.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This.....The Magic Airships aren¡¯t normal magic machines, the requests of various parts are too high. You don¡¯t want me to give you an unreliable Magic Airship, right? Then again, didn¡¯t I just say that our production capacity isn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°How is this rted to freeing the ves? I don¡¯t think that these ves can help you finish the hundred Magic Airships as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°Of course they can¡¯t do it now, but as long as I have some time to train them, I¡¯m certain that there will be a role for them to y. But it¡¯s a pity.....¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a helpless look, ¡°Those damn veryws, they say that ves don¡¯t have a chance to be educated, they don¡¯t even have a chance to choose their work. Moreover, the vespletely belong to their masters, so even if I train them, it would only benefit their masters.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking of several hundred ve workers that the Stagg Family gave you?¡± Seveni said with a smile.

    ¡°It can be considered that.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed, Leslie had given the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a hundred of his ves. They had mastered some of the magic machine production methods.

    Then the Stagg Family sent another three hundred ves to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who also gained decent skills.

    Then when the Stagg Family set up their magic machinepany, these ves had be their important skilled workers and yed an important role.

    For Xu Yi, those four hundred ves were free gifts that he had given to the Stagg Family.

    He had no choice back then, but he wasn¡¯t willing to do a thankless job again now.

    ¡°So that means that you¡¯re not as noble as the newspapers say you are and you¡¯re doing this for the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Seveni teased.

    ¡°Of course, I¡¯m not a saint.¡± Xu Yi said with a natural look, ¡°But to be honest, thinking about it, those ves are being kept by the lords and can¡¯t do anything. If they were given to me, I could enhance their values by countless times. I think that normal people should know what the right choice is, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that those lords aren¡¯t willing to give their ves to you.¡± Seveni said.

    ¡°Of course I understand this, so this time.....I¡¯ve prepared arge bait that I hope some of those fellows will swallow......¡±

    Seeing the proud look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Seveni thought that this fellow Xu Yi must have some wicked scheme.

    With her understanding of Xu Yi, since he said that he hadrge bait, it must be very attractive, to the point that normal people couldn¡¯t resist.

 Volume 5 95 - Buying ships

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 95 Buying ships</h4>

    As the light of the sun came from the west, it dyed the sea blood red.

    However, if one looked carefully, they would find that the blood red colour of the sea wasn¡¯tpletely from the sun.

    There were wooden nks floating on the sea, with various corpses in gray clothing floating among them.

    From the corpses came streaks of bright red blood, dying the sea this shocking colour.

    However, when this sad scene fell onto the eyes of Remito Russell, it didn¡¯t move his heart at all.

    As he watched the corpses and heavily damaged pieces of ship sink, creating a whirlpool as arge ship came through pushing aside the corpse, Russell couldn¡¯t help narrowing his eyes.

    This was the seventeenth day since the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet started working together. They met this bunch of pirates today and it was the thirteenth band of pirates they had met in seventeen days.

    It was the same as the twelve bands of pirates from before, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet didn¡¯t need to act at all. When they found traces of the pirates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet immediatelyunched a fierce attack. When they were still a thousand meters away from the pirates, they had alreadypletely defeated the pirates.

    Those pitiful pirates couldn¡¯t touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet in the end before they were all sunk into the ocean.

    Other than some pirates who had quickly ran away in some small boats, the other pirates had all sunk into the sea.

    The destiny that awaited them was either falling into the mouth of a shark or dying by drowning.

    Russell didn¡¯t feel any pity for these pirates at all, but seeing the fierce attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet each time, he couldn¡¯t stop a vein from popping out on his forehead.

    If these pirates were the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, would the results be any different?

    In the beginning, Russell had still thought of many ways to deal with the attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet.

    For example, surrounding them ahead of time and not giving them the distance to fire.

    For example, not caring about the heavy losses to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, pulling close to them as quickly as possible and gain victory with their advantage in numbers.

    Or for example......

    After experiencing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet embarrassing those pirates every time, Russell threw away all the ns that he hade up with in his heart.

    Now he was certain that even if it was the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, the result wouldn¡¯t be any different.

    The only difference would be that the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet would be able to hold on a bit longer than these pirates.

    As for whether more of them could escape, that would depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet were much faster than the wooden boats of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet. If they wanted to chase them, they couldn¡¯t escape at all.

    As for an upfront battle?

    What a joke!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s terrifying Magic Rockets would destroy you before you could even approach!

    Moreover, with the speed of their fleet, it was a dream to want to surround them!

    So after Russell had been with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet for seventeen days, after thinking for seventeen days, there was a fact that he wasn¡¯t willing to admit, but he had no choice.

    The powerful Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet in his heart, if they really faced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, they wouldn¡¯t be able to fight back at all.

    When he thought of the reports that they had received about the encounters between the pirates and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, Russell thought that they were iparably urate.

    This fleet, it was like it came from another world, itpletely surpassed this era!

    Turning to look at the fleet under him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet cleaning up the battlefield. Russell had them approach the gship of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and then with a small boat, he went on that gship.

    Although they had been cooperating for half a month now, this was Russell¡¯s first time on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    From the angle of an observer, he had thought that this ship was iparably big, but when Russell actually came onto the ship, the found that there was arge difference between these ships and the ships of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    The biggest difference was that standing on this ship, it felt incredibly steady. It was like standing onnd, there wasn¡¯t the jolting from the ocean like with the wooden ships at all.

    The reason for this difference was naturally because the ship waspletely cast of steel. Its weight far surpassed that of wooden ships, so of course it would be much more steady on the seas.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, can you tell me, how much this ship weighs in total?¡± After greeting Leslie, Russell suddenly asked this.

    Leslie was surprised, but after thinking about it, he shook his head as he said, ¡°I¡¯m not certain myself, but the set water discement for this ship is around a thousand tons, so it should weigh over six hundred tons itself.¡±

    ¡°Six hundred tons!¡± Russell took a deep breath and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of shock.

    The Candra Empire¡¯srgest ship was the Thunderp Ship. ording to the manufacturing standard, the lumber that was needed to make it weighed no less than a hundred tons.

    This weight wasn¡¯t even a sixth of this ship¡¯s weight!

    Although the density of lumber couldn¡¯t bepared to steel, this was still a very exaggerated difference.

    So don¡¯t think about how the Thunderp Ships were a bit smaller than these ships, even forgetting about the Magic Cannons and the terrifying military magic machines that the guard ships carried, the Thunderp Ship couldn¡¯t take a single tap from the guard ship.

    Comparing it......No, they weren¡¯t even qualified to bepared!

    Russell forced down the shock in his heart and lowered his head to look at the deck under his feet. He looked back up at the thick steel tform high up on the deck before he had a doubt.

    If this guard ship took six hundred tons of steel, then there were twenty guard ships that were now in front of him.

    Counting it up, that was a shocking twelve thousand tons of steel.

    Not to mention that the steel used to build the guard ship was different from normal iron. It was not only strong, it also was resistant to rust. Even if it was just twelve thousand tons of normal iron, Russell couldn¡¯t imagine how it could be made.

    Although this guard ship seemed like it was cast from tes of steel welded together, how were these steel tes made? How did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make these steel tes perfectly fit together and cast them as tightly as this?

    This question had been in Russell¡¯s heart for half a month now and now that he could talk to Leslie, he hoped that he could obtain a clear exnation.

    However, Leslie shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Sorry, sir Russell, these things are a secret of ourpany, so I can¡¯t tell you. Moreover, even if I wanted to go against the rules of thepany to tell you, I don¡¯t know how to do so because.....I don¡¯t understand it at all.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t understand?¡± Russell slightly knit his brows, looking a bit unhappy.

    He could understand if Leslie didn¡¯t want to talk about it since this involved the business secret of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But he said that he didn¡¯t understand, this was simply a joke!

    He was themander of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, how could he not understand how this ship worked?

    ¡°I indeed don¡¯t understand.¡± Seeing Russell¡¯s unhappiness, Leslie exined with a smile, ¡°This ship involves very specialized magic machine technology, I¡¯ve never studied this. I only know how to use this ship, not how to make it.¡±

    Russell was silent for a bit before nodding in agreement to Leslie¡¯s words.

    Not to mention this ship that had shocking technology, even this Thunderp Ship, him as the vice chief of staff didn¡¯t know a thing about how it was made.

    But he didn¡¯t count on getting the answer from Leslie when he asked this.

    After a bit of silence, Russell said with a serious look, ¡°Sir Leslie, through this cooperation, I have a deep understanding of the guard ships of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I hope that you can pass on to chairman Xu that our Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet hopes to officially start cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I think that there are many ces we can discuss when ites to these guard ships.¡±

    Leslie revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir Russell, if you¡¯re interested in these guard ships, I think that sir chairman will be very happy to discuss with you. But speaking of cooperation.....I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to make it thisplicated.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Sir Leslie, do you have some high opinion?¡± Russell was a bit surprised.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not some high opinion.¡± Leslie waved his hand as his smile became a bit more sly, ¡°Since the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet is interested in these guard ships, it¡¯s very simple. We can directly discuss selling them.¡±

    ¡°Directly selling them?¡± Russell was stunned, ¡°Could it be.....that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to sell these powerful guard ships?¡±

    ¡°Of course, we opened apany and if people are willing to buy our stuff, why wouldn¡¯t we sell?¡± Leslie gave a shrug as he spoke with a rxed look.

    Russell looked over Leslie with a strange expression and after confirming he wasn¡¯t joking, he took a breath and carefully asked, ¡°Then sir Leslie, for these guard ships, what is yourpany¡¯s.....price?¡±

    ¡°Not expensive, not expensive.¡± Leslie stretched out two fingers, ¡°It¡¯s two million gold coins per ship.¡±

    Russell¡¯s eyes turned dark and he almost spat out blood.

    This damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could they be more ck hearted?

 Volume 5 96 - Exchanging with people

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 96 Exchanging with people</h4>

    It wasn¡¯t just Russell who wasining that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was dark hearted. In the Lampuri Kingdom that was three thousand kilometers away from where he was talking to Leslie, there were countless people also scolding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    A week after her majesty Seveni¡¯s child was born, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that to celebrate the birth of her majesty¡¯s child, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be announcing a new type of important technology for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom, treating it as a celebration gift for her majesty.

    This news created a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom and also attracted the close attention of the other countries.

    Everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had technology that far surpassed the otherpanies when it came to magic machines, so they had the absolute superiority when it came to this domain.

    The otherpanies could invest time and money into development to catch up, but how could their own researchpare to how easy it is to receive mature technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking the initiative to transfer the household magic machine technology to them, in the magic machine business, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have everything and they would only be able to drink the soup.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they would be releasing important technology, it attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    And the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t disappoint people. At the Banta City press conference, the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced was at a level that surpassed everyone¡¯s expectations.

    This technology was actually steel making technology!

    There were many kinds of magic machines, as little as the Magic Lamp to the giant Magic Ships and whether it was their function or performance, they were all different.

    But no matter what kind of magic machine it was, they all used one important material which was steel.

    Before the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no steel on the Sines Continent, only iron.

    Iron smelting was a technology that had been on the Sines Continent for several thousand years now and the best at this were the dwarves.

    But before this, the items made from iron were mainly used for simple daily life things. They weren¡¯t tooplicated and the requests weren¡¯t that high.

    The only high requirement was when it was used to build weapons and armours.

    Although there were some powerful smiths who had a high level of cksmithing skills, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t anyone who smelted iron on such arge scale, having such diverse and strict requirements for when refining iron.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce even defined the iron refined as steel products and had even distinguished them based on their properties and uses.

    If this was before, iron smelting was just a demonstration of a single person¡¯s skill. After the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, iron smelting.....Oh, no, it was now called steel smelting had be a business that had fine requirements and scales that were countless times bigger than before.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first steel factory came out, it had beaten all therge and small cksmiths in Banta City.

    Then when the second, the third, and now the sixth steel factory came out, producing over a million tons of steel each month, it was arge hit to all the cksmiths in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the idea to take their business, this didn¡¯t hinder the otherpanies from doing this.

    The normal cksmiths mainly worked with simply iron tools and asionally crafted weapons and armours, but with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had turned making weapons and armours into production line work. Whether it was their efficiency or the quality of the weapons and armours they made, they were all better than the cksmiths and had taken their business.

    Next, the otherpanies quickly found a business idea. They ordered some production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before ordering some materials from them, making normal iron tools like shovels and hoes with steel, gradually crushing normal cksmiths.

    In the Lampuri Kingdom, other than some very remote small towns, there wasn¡¯t a single cksmith left.

    The dwarves that had the best skills had all been taken by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bing their workers.

    The reason for this was very simple, the key to steel making was still with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel was far better than the iron made in cksmiths, with all kinds of different properties which allowed it to meet various needs.

    The most popr of this were the alloys with stainless steel qualities.

    Other that beingrgely used in household magic machines, these stainless steel alloys were being used inmon tools, so there was arge demand.

    The six steel mills under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced a million tons of steel a month, but that wasn¡¯t enough to meet the needs.

    Actually, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity was limited inrge part because of their restricted steel output.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce never had enough steel for themselves to use, so the supply that they could take out for otherpanies naturally wasn¡¯t much.

    So the limited steel output of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce affected not just them, but also all the magic machinepanies and evenpanies that had nothing to do with magic machines, but still used steel.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being willing to release this was met with the enthusiasm of everyone.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was finally willing to release the steel smelting technology only they held, this meant that everyone could refine their own steel products. They didn¡¯t have to beg the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like they were begging their grandparents anymore, right?

    Of course, everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being willing to release this important technology meant that the price they would have to pay would definitely be high.

    But when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce revealed the price for this technology, everyone was speechless from shock.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t want money or mineral resources this time, they wanted people!

    They didn¡¯t just want normal people, they wanted ves!

    This meant, do you want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel making technology? No problem, exchange some ves.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had strict rates for these ves. They had to be older than sixteen and under forty and they had to be ves that werepletely healthy without any defects. If they weren¡¯t in this range, they would be considered half a ve.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a rule that was even more shocking. If people were willing to hand over aplete family of ves, they would increase the value.

    No one understood the intentions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but from their pricing, everyone felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was quite evil.

    Damn, just for the technology of the C803 alloy, it took a thousand ves!

    It had to be known, a healthy adult ve could be sold on the ve market for at least fifty gold coins. A thousand ves had a total value of over fifty thousand gold coins!

    This high price was just to exchange for the refining technology of a single alloy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently had seventy eight types of alloys that they had announced!

    Even if each type had the same price, it was a total of over four million gold coins!

    And if they exchanged with ves, it would require close to eighty thousand ves!

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t limiting this transfer to onepany. If many people needed this steel refining technology, they would all need to pay eighty thousand ves.

    Everyone was questioning why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this condition while questioning another matter.

    Xu Yi had just passed the ve abolition act in the Stantine Duchy.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were taking in all these ves, would they free them and make them citizens after bringing them back to the Stantine Duchy?

    These ves in theory wouldn¡¯t belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be treating them as citizens and if they worked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would have to pay them.

    This seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was taking an unnecessary step.

    The only result of this was helping the ves be free, what benefits were there for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    It can¡¯t be that chairman Xu was really like those newspapers said, he treated himself like a saint?

    Of course, no matter what doubts people had about the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, them transferring the steel refining technology was a fact.

    Without much time wasted, countless people immediately moved.

    Just the second day after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s press conference, the ?Banta Times? was filled with rted transactions.

    There was a lord from the northeast province who used three thousand six hundred and fifty three ves under him to obtain the refining technology for three alloys from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the following half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made six more deals and received a total of fifteen thousand and three hundred ves.

    Adding in the first deal, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had obtained close to twenty thousand ves in this half a month.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes were on these ves. They wanted to see how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would deal with them and if Xu Yi would free them like the saint they thought he was.

    However, when each newspaper reported on these ves, they only said that they were all sent to the ck Rice Wastnd. Finally they were sent out the ck Rice Harbour to the west and put onto arge transport Magic Ship.

    The transport Magic Ship disappeared into the endless seas and those ves had disappeared without a mark, not leaving a single trace.

 Volume 5 97 - Strongest company

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 97 Strongestpany</strong>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n to open the Candra Empire market didn¡¯t progress smoothly because of various reasons.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were very popr in Wimbledon City right now, with ambassador Hakanin ordering more and more each time, this was not a normal trade model and it wasn¡¯t what Xu Yi wanted to see because it opened the market a bit too slowly.

    But before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity was greatly increased, Xu YI wasn¡¯t that worried about this.

    Moreover, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was slow in opening the Candra Empire market, the markets of the otherpanies were being opened quite quickly and smoothly.

    Other than selling in the countries around the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went north, going past the Drake Duchy and entering the Falk Kingdom, bing all the rage there.

    The Falk Kingdom was a country that had more territory and people than the Lampuri Kingdom. If the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to take the capture and digest the market, they would need some time.

    Comparing it, if it was just from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, they should be focusing on the Falk Kingdom.

    Not to mention that the Falk Kingdom was in the center of the continent. To their east was the Candra Empire and to the north was the Marlow Empire, so they were in quite the important position.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop in the Falk Kingdom, when it matured, they could even find a chance to enter the Marlow Empire.

    If they could open the markets of both the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, it could be said that the magic machines had spread all over the continent.

    Of course, this reality was still currently very far away for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity could never be increased, so even if they opened the markets of the continent, they wouldn¡¯t be able to seize them all.

    For this situation, Xu Y was gradually changing the development n of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce mainly exported magic machines to sell in other countries and received benefits from that.

    The factories that were made in cooperation with those countries were only supplemental, satisfying the demands of those countries to grasp a part of the magic machine technology.

    Now that he knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity would find it hard to keep up within the development of the market, Xu Yi changed his idea.

    The factories in the Stantine Duchy and the ck Rice Wastnd were still working at full power and they were increasing their production capacity, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fully focused on opening more factories with other countries.

    In these factories, a few of them were controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the rest only received technical support from them. As for the location, the workers, and the management, they were all controlled by the variouspanies of the various countries.

    For these countries, of course they liked this kind of cooperation model more because they can learn the magic machine technology from this model. They would be able to make what they learned magic machine technology that belonged to them.

    It was different from purchasing technological patents from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Because these factories had technical support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had personnel from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce teaching them, giving them a bit of an advantage when it came to research.

    That way, with longer cooperation, these joint investment factories would have performance and quality that came close to the Frestech Brand and would allow them to catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce easier.

    So with this partnership model, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce easily entered the Falk Kingdom. They signed several cooperation contracts with severalpanies in the Falk Kingdom.

    At the beginning of next year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building five household magic machine factories in the Falk Kingdom.

    ording to this n, in the next five years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would continue working with the Falk Kingdom to build at least ten household magic machine factories. At the same time, they would build one production magic machine factory and three steel mills.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s mind, he was prepared to build aplete Frestech Chamber of Commerce production base on the Falk Kingdom. He would let that base break free of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, allowing it to produce various household magic machines independently.

    This idea was naturally because of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s superior position.

    Compared to transporting household magic machines from the Stantine Duchy to other countries to sell, building joint investment factories and producing locally would save quite a bit on transport costs.

    At the same time, this cooperation method would only require the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to send technical staff. They didn¡¯t need to invest other foundational workers and build factories, so it saved them quite a bit of manpower and effort.

    Although with this cooperation method, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit would drop, because of their leading position in the magic machine industry, even if they only provided technical staff in the contracts they signed with other countries, the profit they gained wasn¡¯t small.

    Take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation deals with the Falk Kingdom. In the five household magic machinepanies they would be investing in together, the lowest stock shares they had was 45% and the highest was 60%.

    The Falk Kingdom was a bigger country than the Lampuri Kingdom, so their national strength was much greater. The citizens were much richer and their domestic market was much bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s.

    So even if they shared the profits, once they opened the Falk Kingdom¡¯s market, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would still be able to earn arge profit.

    So when conducting the yearly profit estimates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager Sebas made a very bold calction.

    Forty million gold coins!

    This was Sebas¡¯ estimate for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit.

    Such arge figure was rather shocking.

    It could even be said that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could earn that much, they would exceed the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and be the highest profitingpany in the surrounding countries!

    And even if next year passes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be seven years old.

    In such a short time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be the strongest profitingpany in the surrounding countries. This development speed was like a miracle.

    But at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s year end meeting, no one objected to the data Sebas brought out.

    Because.....in just a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s annual profit had reached a shocking thirty three million gold coins!

    Compared tost year¡¯s profit of twenty six million gold coins, this year¡¯s profit had increased by a giant amount of seven million!

    Since they could increase by seven million this year, adding in the Falk Kingdom¡¯s market that was opened, as well as their various other projects, everyone believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no problem increasing their profit by seven million and reaching forty million gold coins.

    However, while everyone was feeling excited about this number, Xu Yi threw a bucket of cold water over them.

    That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit would increase, but their investments would also increase next year.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would increase the magic research facility¡¯s funding from five million this year to eight million.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also keep investing in the guards, striving to reach ten thousand guards by next year.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had stronger equipment than the armies of the surrounding countries, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would need to invest three million at least.

    In terms of the sea, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would keep increasing their investment.

    With the construction of the ind bases, ording to the financial budget Sebas made, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be investing at least four million gold coins on these ind bases a year and it would gradually increase with each passing year.

    Butpared to the spending of the magic research facility and the guards, there were follow up development ns for the ind bases that could bring themrge benefits. As long as they did it well, it wouldn¡¯t cost them money and would earn them back money.

    Of course, there was no hope during the early stages of investing.

    ording to the n, at least for three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only invest and would find it hard to get a return.

    Butpared to getting a return, Xu Yi cared about the other conveniences the ind bases brought.

    For example, by having these ind bases, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and transport fleet could move around much easier. It was easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop other markets through the endless seas.

    For example, the naval vessel market......

    Leslie had passed the news that Remito Russell was interested in the guard fleet and Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised.

    He was certain that any person who experienced the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet would definitely admit that primitive wooden boats were falling behind.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s navy weren¡¯t fools, they would definitely be interested in the guard ships.

    Xu Yi had Leslie deliberately act in front of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy just to attract their attention.

    Now that Russell as the vice chief of staff had expressed this idea, it meant that Xu Yi had achieved his goal.

    Leslie¡¯s letter had just arrived in Xu Yi¡¯s hands for a few days before ambassador Hakanin came to the Stantine Duchy. Other than his usual goods, he also brought a letter from Russell.

    In the letter, Russell expressed the interest of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, but Russell had raised questions about the two million gold coins price that Leslie had raised. He stated that this was too high and it couldn¡¯t be epted, so he hoped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make some concessions.

    Xu Yi responded with a letter expressing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stance.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were very polite and he had said a lot in eloquent words, but there was a simple meaning behind them.

    Impossible.

 Volume 5 98 - The royal fleet was very poor

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 98 The royal fleet was very poor</strong>

    ¡°Dear Remito, are you serious?¡±

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet chief of staff Chrysler Isler put down the document in his hand and knit his brows to look at Remito Russell in front of him with a confused look.

    The vice chief of staff in front of him was the subordinate he always respected the most. Everyone thought that after he retired, there wouldn¡¯t be a second candidate for the next chief of staff.

    There were many times that he felt relieved in letting Russell take care of the chief of staff¡¯s job. It was to one, test Russell and two, prepare Russell for the chief of staff job in the future.

    Russell had always handled things very well and never made any careless mistakes, which made chief Isler satisfied and assured.

    But this, the report that he handed made chief Isler.....feel a bit weird after reading it.

    What a joke!

    The Candra Empire¡¯s navy was facing its most serious crisis in history?

    If it didn¡¯t make any immediate changes, they would loseplete control of the surrounding seas?

    This was simply fear mongering!

    On the continent, other than the Marlow Empire, there wasn¡¯t a single country¡¯s navy that could threaten the Candra Empire¡¯s navy! There were many countries that didn¡¯t even have a navy!

    What made chief Isler more surprised and what he found even funnier was that in this report, the biggest threat actually came from.....an unknown Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet!

    Seeing these words on the report, chief Isler almost spat out the tea in his mouth.

    It was just apany, how were they qualified to bepared to the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet? How could they even pose a threat?

    However, after training and trusting Russell for years, chief Isler slowly calmed down in the end.

    Russell had been his subordinate for twenty years and he fully understood Russell. He knew that Russell wasn¡¯t something who said things lightly and knew Russell¡¯s sincere loyalty to the Candra Empire¡¯s navy.

    Since he handed in this report so seriously, it definitely wasn¡¯t fear mongering.

    Not to mention that this was such a thick report, if it was all nonsense, that would be impossible.

    But after he finished reading the report, chief Isler fell into a state of deep thought.

    He believed that the report that Russell handed in was real because there was no need for Russell to lie to him.

    But if this report was real, then if the guard fleet of that whatever Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this terrifying strength, it would be too shocking.

    It was eptable if it was said that the ship waspletely made of iron, but a ship that was several hundred tons and was even bigger than the Thunderp Ship was just a fantasy.

    Chief Isler thought for a long time and was unable to imagine what the ship that was ¡°bigger than the Thunderp Ship that waspletely made of steel, with a streamlined appearance that waspletely white¡± would look like.

    Moreover, ignoring the appearance, the various new things that were described in the report, the ¡°Magic Cannon¡±, the ¡°Magic Repeating Crossbows¡±, and the ¡°Magic Fire Arrows¡±, just what kind of things were those?

    Chief Isler had heard of magic weapons before, but weren¡¯t those things that only super powerful mages would have? How could this Frestech Chamber of Commerce have so many of them?

    Moreover, based on the might of these military magic machines from the report, they were even stronger than the magic weapons of legends.

    If even a Thunderp Ship couldn¡¯tst five minutes under this attack, perhaps this Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet really was as the report described them, being able to move unhindered on the seas.

    Thinking of this, chief Isler suddenly remembered that he had received this report before. There was a mysterious fleet that had appeared on the southern seas, attacking pirates. The pirates had beenpletely scattered and the seas had be much more peaceful.

    This mysterious fleet, could it be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet?

    ¡°Sir Chrysler, I am very serious.¡± Russell looked at chief Isler with a serious look and slowly nodded, ¡°Actually, just from this report, you can¡¯t feel the same shock I felt from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. In the half a month we were together, I personally watched them destroy pirates one after another, being directly affected by the might they disyed. I¡¯m certain that this fleet has even surpassed this era. If we don¡¯t react fast enough and the Marlow Empire discovers this fleet, getting the same kinds of ships, we won¡¯t be able to fight back when we face the Marlow Empire on the seas.¡±

    Seeing how serious Russell was, chief Isler fell into silence again.

    After a while, he gave a slight nod, ¡°Remito, I trust your judgement. If this guard fleet is really as strong as you said, we must get them immediately. But two million gold coins for one......this price.....¡±

    Chief Isler gave a bitterugh and shook his head.

    ¡°In order to maintain the power of the empire¡¯s fleet, we shouldn¡¯t be hindered by the price.¡± Russell said with a serious look, ¡°Moreover, I think that there¡¯s a chance to discuss with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After all, other than us, there is no one else who will buy those guard ships from them.¡±

    Russell¡¯s words were very urate.

    On the entire Sines Continent, there was only the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, and a few other smaller countries who could match this condition.

    But other than the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire who investedrgely into their navy, the other smaller countries wouldn¡¯t invest their previous funds on this.

    The Marlow Empire was located further north on the continent and was quite far from the Stantine Duchy. It would be hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to contact them, so there was only one customer right now and that was the Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet didn¡¯t have a choice, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also didn¡¯t have a choice.

    ¡°Even if there are chances to discuss, I feel that this price is too much.¡± Chief Isler wasn¡¯t as confident as Russell as he gave a sigh, ¡°Russell, I¡¯ll give you some news. Three days aog, I went to the budget meeting at the headquarters and ording to the meaning disclosed in that meeting, they are nning on reducing our navy¡¯s budget next year.¡±

    Russell was stunned, ¡°Again? Is there a mistake! Our budget is already very low and if we reduce it again, are we nning on not having a navy anymore?¡±

    Chief Isler shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the majority of the budget is focused on the Marlow Empire. Even if the budget favours the army, it¡¯s normal. Adding in the fact that the headquarters¡¯ budget has been decreasing over the years, in order to preserve the fighting force of the army, they naturally have to decrease the budget of the navy.¡±

    Russell could only silently ept this.

    As the navy¡¯s vice chief of staff, not only did he understand the situation of the navy, he also understood the situation of the royal army.

    He knew that the royal army¡¯s main policy was to deal with the Marlow Empire, always focusing on the empire¡¯s north borders where they fought against the Marlow Empire.

    The founding of the navy had always been questioned because many people thought that there was no use in having a navy.

    Now that the empire was cutting the military budget, the headquarters would logically cut the navy¡¯s budget.

    ¡°Sir Chrysler, can I ask how much the budget will be next year?¡± Russell thought about it before asking this.

    ¡°Un......this isn¡¯t a secret for you since you¡¯ll know in a few days.¡± Chief Isler stretched out three fingers, ¡°Thirty million gold coins, it would only be less and not more.¡±

    ¡°Only thirty million gold coins?¡± Russell was shocked, ¡°We had fifty millionst year, how did it suddenly decrease by half?¡±

    ¡°The empire¡¯s military budget had decreased by seventy million at once, so the decrease to our navy¡¯s budget is less than the decrease to the army¡¯s budget......¡± Chief Isler said with a self deprecating smile.

    ¡°The problem is that we have too little and if it keeps decreasing.....¡± Russell knit his brows and quickly made some calctions before finding a problem that made his face sink even more, ¡°ording to this, wouldn¡¯t our navy only be able to barely maintain itself next year?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Chief Isler nodded, ¡°So that means that buying a guard ship that costs two million gold coins is.....pletely impossible.¡±

    Russell couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    Although he had already expected that it would be very hard to buy this expensive ship because of the budget.

    He never would have thought that the navy would be this poor.

    If they only had a budget of thirty million each year, they could only barely maintain themselves. If something ever happened, they wouldn¡¯t be able to make ends meet.

    In this situation, how could they pull out thisrge amount of gold coins to buy such an expensive guard ship?

    After being silent for a bit, Russell didn¡¯t give up. He thought for a bit before saying to chief Isler, ¡°Sir Chrysler, I insist on my opinion. No matter what, the royal fleet must get these guard ships because only this way can we keep our navy as the strongest navy on the continent.¡±

    Chief Isler knit his brows, ¡°The problem is money......¡±

    ¡°Then squeeze out the money!¡± Russell took a step forward and said in a clear voice, ¡°Sir Chrysler, I suggest directly reducing our current fleet and directly changing to this new type of powerful guard ship!¡±

 Volume 5 99 - Buying a car

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 99 Buying a car</strong>

    Russell had a calm look as he left the navy headquarters.

    He looked up to see the sky that was covered in thick clouds and gave a deep sigh before shaking his head with a helpless look in his eyes.

    No matter how passionate and serious he was about this matter, chief Isler never agreed to his ideas.

    As for the final proposal, chief Isler had said that it was absurd without any courtesy!

    ¡°Absurd? Perhaps......¡± Russell gave a bitterugh, thinking that chief Isler¡¯s reaction wasn¡¯t strange at all.

    If anyone else heard Russell¡¯s idea of dmissioning all the ships of the navy and then changing them for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships, they would also feel it was absurd.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet wasn¡¯t as important as the army, but it had been six hundred years since it was established. There were currently four fleets and there were over two thousand ships with over ten thousand soldiers.

    To suddenly dmission all these ships was like a fantasy, it was something that was impossible.

    Of course, Russell was also clear on the fact that this was impossible, so his real suggestion was to dmission a part of the navy and then use what could be spared from the budget to buy guard ships, creating a new fleet.

    But this idea still didn¡¯t receive the approval of chief Isler.

    ¡°Reduce a portion? Alright, which portion?¡±

    Chief Isler¡¯s question made Russell speechless.

    As the vice chief of staff, Russell understood more than most people about the situation of the navy.

    He knew that although the navy had four fleets under them, the four fleets all had factions in them. The powers of the empire were mixed and if he were to move against any faction, it would be equal to dering war on them.

    Right, reduce which portion?

    This seemed simple, but it was actually very hard.

    Not to mention that Russell was only the vice chief of staff, not the navy¡¯smander in chief or the army¡¯smander in chief. There was no possibility of easily making this decision.

    The only one who could do this was the aloof emperor.

    But the only threat in the mind of the emperor was the Marlow Empire, the navy wasn¡¯t important to him at all.

    For him to make this proposal, the emperor might firstpletely get rid of the navy.

    In the end, since the navy was established, they had never brought any benefits to the empire. This led most people in the kingdom to not attach any importance to the navy.

    This situation hadn¡¯t improved in the six hundred years. Russell also didn¡¯t make any improvements in the twenty years that he served.

    He could imagine that in the future, there wouldn¡¯t be any improvements still.

    Russell felt helpless about this situation, so he couldn¡¯t find a single reason to convince chief Isler with and could only silently leave.

    ¡°The onlyfort is that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only a smallpany in the Stantine Duchy, they can¡¯t really pose any threat to our empire¡¯s navy......¡±

    Russellforted himself in his heart, but he still felt a bit unsettled.

    When he inspected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Stantine Duchy, even if he left in just a few days, he had seen many countless amazing things there.

    In the depth of Russell¡¯s heart, there was a thought that seemed like a joke.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was like they came from another world.

    They could make all those magic machines, it didn¡¯t seem like goods that belonged on the continent.

    When he saw those normal magic machines in the Stantien Duchy, his feelings weren¡¯t that deep, but after seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge Magic Ships and the iparable battle strength they had, these feelings became deeper and deeper, making him feel more and more anxious.

    He kept feeling that if this Frestech Chamber of Commerce could keep developing like this, they might.....be a threat to the entire Candra Empire.

    When this thought appeared in Russell¡¯s mind, he couldn¡¯t helpughing at himself.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent, they were a colossus that couldn¡¯t be resisted.

    Not to mention a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Stantine Duchy, even the entire Stantine Duchy wouldn¡¯t enter the Candra Empire¡¯s eyes.

    The anxiety that he felt towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should be considered anxiety towards the magic machines they produced.

    Thinking of this, Russell waved his hand at his personal horse carriage driver who had been silently waiting on the side, ¡°Martin, do you know where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines are sold in the city? Bring me to take a look.¡±

    Martin was stunned.

    Sir Russell had finallye back to Wimbledon City from the naval base, it was fine for him to go report to the chief of staff first, but why did he want to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines?

    ¡°This......Sir, which kind do you want to see?¡± Martin thought about it before asking.

    ¡°Un? What kind? There are many kinds?¡± When he asked this, Russell reacted.

    When he visited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had seen many kinds of strange magic machines. Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines entered Wimbledon City, there should also be many kinds.

    ¡°Un, there¡¯s the Magic Lamp that produces light, the Magic Stove that can be used to cook, the Magic Rice Cooker that can cook rice, and the Magic Kettle that can heat up water.....¡±

    Martin began describing them to Russell one by one.

    The reason why he knew all these magic machines was because he also wanted to buy some for his family.

    He heard people say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were very convenient, they made life much easier.

    He was only a horse carriage driver, but sir Russell wasn¡¯t stingy with him. Adding in the fact that many people wanted to contact sir Russell through him, giving him quite a bit, he didn¡¯t need to worry about the prices of the magic machines.

    ¡°Alright, bring me to take a look.¡± Russell waved his hand and cut Martin off.

    ¡°Un, sir, please.¡±

    Martin reached his hand out to help Russell into the horse carriage before suddenly hesitating to say, ¡°Sir.....Actually, I have a suggestion.....¡±

    ¡°What suggestion?¡± Russell looked at him with a bit of surprise.

    ¡°I feel......that you should also buy a Magic Sedan?¡± Martin looked at Russell with a hopeful look.

    ¡°Magic Sedan?¡± Russell was surprised. He quickly remembered that when he went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ambassador Hakanin had brought him there in that strange looking Magic Sedan.

    ¡°Yes, the Magic Sedan is much morefortable than the horse carriage and not only is it faster, it is also very safe. A couple days ago, the Magic Sedan of Baron Soto and the horse carriage of Count Sain hit each other in the city. Can you guess what happened? Count Sain¡¯s horse carriage was shattered to pieces and Baron Soto¡¯s Magic Sedan only had a single bump, but the people inside weren¡¯t injured at all. The day after the crash, Count Sain bought three Magic Sedans for his family and said that he would never go out in a horse carriage again. Other than that......¡±

    Hearing Martin talk about the stories that had happened in Wimbledon City over the past few days while also describing the benefits of the Magic Sedan, Russell began considering the situation of when he went with ambassador Hakanin to inspect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although he was surprised by the various strange things he saw, what shocked him the most was riding in the Magic Airship before seeing Xu Yi.

    The Magic Sedan was already surprising enough, butpared to the Magic Airship, it was like heaven and hell.

    If possible, he would want to have a Magic Airship.

    But it was a pity that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t produced them in bulk yet, so his hope couldn¡¯t be fulfilled.

    ¡°Alright, then go buy one.¡± Russell suddenly gave a nod and cut Martin off.

    ¡°......It really was incredibly fast, I couldn¡¯t see it clearly at all....Un? Sir, you¡¯ve decided to buy it?¡±

    ¡°Un, since you feel it¡¯s convenient, then just buy one. But when did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan start selling in Wimbledon City? Wasn¡¯t there only household magic machines being sold before?¡± Russell asked.

    ¡°Sir, you haven¡¯t been back in several months, so you don¡¯t know. Three months ago, there was a shop that opened in Wimbledon City that specializes in selling Magic Sedans from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Do you see the Magic Sedans all over Wimbledon City, they all came from this shop.¡± After saying this, Martin looked around and came closer to say in a lower voice, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that the boss came from the Lampuri Kingdom and he seems to have a special rtionship with Prince Frank......¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Russell slightly knit his brows. Prince Frank seemed to have contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in private before, could it be that this shop meant that Prince Frank and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were working together?

    He didn¡¯t know that the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Prince Frank had long ended.

    The boss of this shop was Baron Belil. He opened this shop with his own rtionship with Prince Frank.

    But on the surface, other than it selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedans, it wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Russell thought about it before nodding to Martin.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s take a look at this shop first.¡±

    Seeing Russell agree, Martin immediately revealed a look of joy. He cracked the whip on the butt of the horse and the horse carriage headed out of the navy headquarters.

 Volume 5 100 - Not only Magic Sedans

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 100 Not only Magic Sedans</h4>

    This store that sold Frestech Brand Magic Sedans wasn¡¯t in Wimbledon City, but rather it was outside. It was five kilometers away from the closest south gate.

    The reason why it chose such a remote ce was because Wimbledon City was just too tight. Each inch ofnd was worth its weight in gold, so to open a store in Wimbledon City, other than having connections, it required arge amount of money to be invested.

    Because there needed to be space to demonstrate the various Magic Sedans, there was arge amount of space required. So after Belil thought about it, he could only choose to open a store this far away from Wimbledon City, building a shop in this remote ce.

    Compared to opening a shop in Wimbledon City, although they needed to build all the facilities and needed to furnish them one by one, the benefit was starting from nothing, so everything could be decided by Belil.

    After two months of preparation, this store called the ¡°Belil Magic Car Store¡± was opened.

    In the beginning, the store¡¯s business was poor. Only with Belil¡¯s rtionship to Prince Frank, there were a few nobles that came because of the advertisement he gave in their small circle.

    But when the nobles of Wimbledon City found the benefits of the Magic Sedans, it didn¡¯t take long before Magic Sedans became very popr among the nobles.

    Even the cheapest Magic Sedan cost one thousand and five hundred gold coins, but there was nock of demand still.

    In the first month of business, this store had only sold seven Magic Sedans, but in the second month, it reached a shocking total of six hundred and thirty eight Magic Sedans. This was close to a hundred times that of the first month!

    Moreover, this figure was growing at a shocking rate. The people who purchased Magic Sedans weren¡¯t just limited to Wimbledon City, the nobles from other ces in the Candra Empire received the news and they all came to order Magic Sedans.

    ording to Belil¡¯s estimate, in this month, they might even sell over a thousand Magic Sedans!

    These Magic Sedans were shipped directly from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and ignoring the transport expenses, Belil could earn at least three hundred gold coins from each one.

    So far, the Belil Magic Car Store had sold over a thousand units, so that meant that Belil in these three months had already earned three hundred thousand gold coins!

    Every time he saw the financial report, Belil would be filled with joy at his wise decision back then.

    If he didn¡¯t agree to Xu Yi¡¯s proposal and came to set up this store, how could he earn three hundred thousand in just three months?

    Earning more money meant that he was happier each day and his smile was wide.

    But when Russell and Martin arrived in this store, Belil¡¯s smile froze when he saw them before revealing an even brighter smile. He stopped the salesdy from going over and personally came over.

    He could tell with a single nce that this middle aged man with greying hair seemed calm and noble and he released an aura of high status. He definitely wasn¡¯t some normal noble of Wimbledon City.

    ¡°This customer, do you want to buy a Magic Sedan? Please take a look, there are many Magic Sedans of different designs that you can choose from. But for this honoured customer, I personally rmend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest E320 Long Magic Sedan. Look, it has a very elegant appearance, it¡¯s suited to your status. Moreover, the colour is very dark, which shows your calm makings......¡±

    Russell was interested as he listened to Belil¡¯s introduction. He was looking over the pure ck Magic Sedan in the hall while also looking over Belil.

    He could tell that this young man was of noble birth, he wasn¡¯t just a normal staff member of this store.

    If his guess wasn¡¯t wrong, this young man was very likely the boss of this store, Baron Belil who came from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    He had heard that he had some rtionship with Prince Frank. After Russell looked him over, he found that he looked very simr to Prince Frank¡¯s concubine.

    It was said that Prince Frank¡¯s concubine came from the Lampuri Kingdom, so this rumour might be true.

    After patiently listening to him describe the various merits of the Magic Sedan, Russell was silent for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°This Magic Sedan is indeed quite good, but there is a very serious problem.¡±

    Belil was surprised, ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°This car is close to the road, so if there are any bumps in the road, wouldn¡¯t it be easy for it to shake? There¡¯s no problem here in the city, but if I want to go to the south of the empire where there are rocks everywhere, wouldn¡¯t this car have no way of running?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Belil was a bit helpless, ¡°This customer, I must admit that the problem you¡¯re worried about is real. There¡¯s no other way, this Magic Sedan can only run on smooth roads, it isn¡¯t good on any other surfaces. There aren¡¯t enough roads in the Candra Empire right now, so it is indeed limited, but if you want to drive to the main cities on roads, there aren¡¯t any problems at all. I can guarantee that this is at least ten times better than riding in normal horse carriages!¡±

    ¡°Un.....¡± Russell nodded, hinting for Belil to open the door. He looked around and found that the inside of the Magic Sedan was at a much higher levelpared to the Magic Sedan ambassador Hakanin drove him in. Moreover, it was much bigger and looked much better.

    With Belil¡¯s suggestion, he sat down to test it and found that it was much morefortable than riding in horse carriages.

    ¡°Alright, how much is this Magic Sedan?¡± Russell asked Belil.

    Belil was surprised before happily saying, ¡°Because this Magic Sedan is the newest model, it is the most luxurious. The outside is naturally also very beautiful.....¡±

    ¡°Tell me, how much is it?¡± Russell waved his hand to cut off Belil.

    Belil stretched out four fingers, ¡°Since you are the first customer to buy this E320 Long Model, I¡¯ll give you a discount. Four thousand gold coins.¡±

    Martin on the side opened his eyes wide as he said in shock, ¡°Four thousand is a preferential price? What a joke!¡±

    Belil just smiled without saying a thing as he looked at Russell.

    Russell looked at the Magic Sedan again and without hesitation, he gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll take it. Martin, go and settle the bill, I want to talk to the shopkeeper.¡±

    Martin opened his mouth, but he had no choice as he followed the salesdy to the side. Belil respectfully invited Russell to a resting area on the side and poured him a cup of tea before sitting down.

    Russell had looked over the shop during this time and found that it looked a bit familiar. After thinking about it, he remembered that he had seen this style in the Stantine Duchy quite a few times. It could even be said that it was a fusion between the elegant styles of the elves and the style of humans.

    ¡°If my guess isn¡¯t wrong, you are thispany¡¯s chairman, Baron Beli, right?¡± Russell looked at Belil before asking this.

    Belil was surprised before saying with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, I¡¯ve never introduced myself. Yes, I am the chairman Belil Stagg. As for the baron title, since I¡¯vee to the Candra Empire, that is no longer important.¡±

    Russell nodded and didn¡¯t keep asking about this topic. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Alright, chairman Belil, you just said that the Magic Sedans aren¡¯t suited for driving in the rocky mountains to the south, which I agree with. But I know that while the Magic Sedans aren¡¯t suited for this, there are other Magic Cars suited for this, right?¡±

    Belil was surprised, ¡°This customer, you mean......¡±

    ¡°Before I came in, I noticed that your sign said ¡®Belil Magic Car Store¡¯ and not ¡®Belil Magic Sedan Store¡¯, right? Since it¡¯s like this, other than Magic Sedans, you should also sell other kinds of Magic Cars, am I right?¡±

    Seeing the sharp look in Russell¡¯s eyes, Belil couldn¡¯t help turning stiff before saying with a smile, ¡°Right, you really are observant. That¡¯s right, ourpany doesn¡¯t only sell Magic Sedans, we also sell other types of Magic Cars. But no one else was interested in anything other than Magic Sedans before this, so I¡¯ve neglected this. This customer, what kind of Magic Car do you need? If you don¡¯t know how to choose, I can give you a detailed introduction. We have......¡±

    ¡°No need.¡± Russell waved his hand to cut Belil off again, ¡°If I really wanted to buy, I should just contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and note to you. I think that it¡¯ll be cheaper that way.¡±

    Belil couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    This fellow was clearly a rare person in the Candra Empire who knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and he even knew how to contact them directly, but since he had his own channel, why did hee to his ce?

    But thinking of how the other side didn¡¯t care about spending four thousand gold coins on a Magic Sedan, he immediately pushed down his unhappiness and said with a smile, ¡°This customer, ourpany is just representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in selling Magic Cars in the Candra Empire. If you want to buy any kind of Magic Cars, I suggest you buy from ourpany. Because not only does ourpany have the approval of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we also have various certificates with the Candra Empire, so we¡¯re an authorized store. If you directly contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m afraid that on the Candra Empire¡¯s side.....¡±

    Belil didn¡¯t say it, but he believed the other side would understand.

    Russell shook his head with a smile. In terms of the Candra Empire¡¯s side, he didn¡¯t need to worry at all.

    Even if the navy wasn¡¯t important, no one would dare go against him.

    Actually, he just had an idea, but now he had talked to Belil for a bit, he found that it was indeed quite a good idea.

    He had seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport Magic Car in the Stantine Duchy quite a bit, so he knew how strong they were when it came to transporting goods.

    If the navy could be armed with these transport Magic Cars, then the supplies of the navy could greatly be increased.

    But these things couldn¡¯t be just discussed with this chairman Belil. The best method was to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.

    Thinking of this, Russell didn¡¯t stay any longer and stood up to say goodbye.

    He thought that he could drive the Magic Sedan away, but he never thought that the process would be soplicated that it couldn¡¯t be finished in half a day.

    The most important thing was that ording to Belil, he didn¡¯t have a driver¡¯s license and hadn¡¯t learned to drive before, so he couldn¡¯t drive it directly.

    This was a small matter for Russell and he left this for Martin to solve before leaving.

    Belil had just sent Russell and Martin off when three Magic Sedans of different colours quickly drove over, stopping with a screech in front of the shop.

    Four youths came out of the Magic Sedan and they first looked over Russell beforeing to Belil.

    ¡°Hey, Belil, why are you still here? The race is about to begin!¡±

    Without waiting for Belil to speak, three of them pulled him into one of the Magic Sedans.

    After a bit, the three Magic Sedans were quickly turned on and vanished into the distance.

    Russell not far away looked back and slightly knit his brows.

    He recognized the three who had just appeared. They were all well known descendants ofrge noble families from Wimbledon City, he never thought that they would be this close to Belil.

    The word ¡°race¡± that they said, could it be that it was a new trend in their circle?

 Volume 5 101 - You are a hypocrite

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 101 You are a hypocrite</h4>

    The letter from Belil with the report on what happened after reached Xu Yi¡¯s hands three dayster.

    Seeing how people were interested in the Magic Cars in the Candra Empire in the letter, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised.

    Actually,pared to the Magic Sedan, Xu Yi always thought that transport and passenger Magic Cars had more practical uses.

    In terms of practicality, it was clear that transport and passenger Magic Cars should be more popr.

    In Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, the number of sales clearly demonstrated this.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started selling Magic Cars, the Magic Sedans had only sold fifty thousand units. When it came to the various transport and passenger magic machines, their sales numbers had reached five hundred thousand, which was ten times more than the Magic Sedans.

    In the surrounding countries, the Magic Cars had already reced horse carriages. Other than some stubborn people, from the nobles of those countries to the citizens, whether it was transporting goods or people, they all used Magic Cars.

    After all,pared to traditional horse carriages, Magic Cars were much better than horse carriages whether it was in terms of speed, carrying capacity, orfort.

    Even if people couldn¡¯t buy Magic Sedans, they would choose to take the Magic Cars that were recing horse carriages. Or they would rent the Magic Sedans that came from the Lampuri Kingdom, not choosing to ride in horse carriages.

    Of course, this also was the benefit of building roads in the surrounding countries, giving the Magic Cars awork of roads to drive across.

    Xu Yi promoted the Magic Sedan in the Candra Empire first in hopes of moving the upper ss of the Candra Empire with these Magic Sedans. He wanted them to be interested in the Magic Sedans, making them more interested in paving roads.

    Then after the roads wereid down in the Candra Empire, it would be logical from the passenger and transport Magic Cars to be popr.

    But since there were people that cared about the benefits of the transport Magic Cars ahead of time, bing interested in them, Xu Yi naturally wouldn¡¯t reject them.

    Thepany Belil set up being called the ¡°Belil Magic Car Store¡± instead of the ¡°Belil Magic Sedan Store¡± was from Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion.

    In the reply that Xu Yi gave Belil, he clearly stated that if people wanted to buy transport or passenger Magic Cars, Belil could agree to this.

    Moreover, Xu Yi promised Belil that he would be able to manage all the Magic Car rted business of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Candra Empire, which calmed Belil.

    As for the progress report Belil sent, this was rted to the Magic Sedan racing event Xu Yi wanted him to open in the Candra Empire.

    It should be said that Belil moved very quickly.

    In less than half a year in the Candra Empire, he had already be famous among the Wimbledon City nobles. Moreover, not only did he get them to like the Magic Sedans, he had even gathered the young nobles who liked racing cars in secret to hold a car race.

    ording to what Belil said, this car race was very popr among the young nobles of Wimbledon City. Under his arrangement, they would be holding a race every week at a regr time.

    Next Belil would gradually standardize this race. With his rtionship to Prince Frank, he would be able to make it more public and it would be an official event that people cared about.

    Therefore Belil needed a certain amount of support from Xu Yi. For example, they were stillcking an official race track, as well as people who were skilled in managing it.....

    Xu Yi had already prepared these for Belil, so naturally there wasn¡¯t a problem.

    From Belil¡¯s report, if everything went smoothly, at the end of the year, they might be able to hold their first official car race in Wimbledon City.

    This was very good news for Xu YI because this meant that Magic Sedans were receiving public acknowledgement in Wimbledon City. This was the first time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products had officially entered the Candra Empire¡¯s market.

    Other than this, there was another good piece of news. It was that ambassador Hakanin through an unknown connection had finally gotten the Candra Empire to agree to building a road in the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province under his name.

    This road would start from the Norton Duchy border and cut through the entire southwest province.

    It wouldn¡¯t directly connect to Wimbledon City as Xu Yi wanted, but it was already seven hundred kilometers long, which was enough to be the main road in the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province.

    This road would cost one and half million gold coins, being built in the name of ambassador Hakanin and the southwest province¡¯s governor. Hakanin would be investing one million gold coins, while the southwest governor would be investing half a million.

    But in reality, the million gold coins was split between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, ambassador Hakanin was just providing his name.

    The five hundred thousand the southwest province governor needed to pay was covered by the preferential treatment for this road, so they didn¡¯t need to pay a single gold coin.

    This preferential treatment was only in name. For example, while the road was being built, the southwest governor would send out some construction forces, help them take thend required for the road, and deploy people to watch over the construction.....

    But in reality, this was just the southwest province¡¯s governors¡¯ words. At most he would only send a few helpers, but the main work force woulde from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    And for these people to work with them, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had to pay quite a bit of secret investment to them.

    In this situation, chairman Cruise was naturally dissatisfied.

    ¡°Damn, this is definitely the worst I¡¯ve been treated when building a road.¡± Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t hold back as he cursed, ¡°Those nobles are begging us to build roads on our side, praising us with all their might. But when we go to the Candra Empire to build roads, we actually need to beg them and praise them. Damn, this is building a road for them and giving them benefits! But they are still making it hard for us, are these people idiots?¡±

    Seeing chairman Cruise¡¯s angry appearance, Xu Yi gave augh. He waved his hand andforted him, ¡°Alright, this is the first road in the Candra Empire, so if we can build this, you need to have some confidence in the road. Think about it, once this road is finished, the Candra Empire will not just know how useful it is, wouldn¡¯t they want to build more of them? When theye asking you to help them build roads, you don¡¯t need to be this aggrieved.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a strong snort, ¡°When that timees, see if I don¡¯t make them pay the price!¡±

    Xu Yi smiled, having no opinion of chairman Cruise¡¯s idea.

    Not only did the Amrit Chamber of Commerce suffer when dealing with the Candra Empire, even their Frestech Chamber of Commerce suffered from the Candra Empire¡¯s arrogance when dealing with them.

    If they could make the Candra Empire pay a price, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t hesitate at all.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to rush with the Candra Empire side, our side is more troublesome.¡± Xu Yi paused before saying, ¡°The ves have now been separated to their inds, but these inds only have the most simple residences. It¡¯s far from being a settlement, so I need you to send out more people and build more buildings on these inds.¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, you also know how troublesome it is to build houses on those inds. Manpower is fine, but it¡¯s not easy to transport the building materials from the continent. Speaking of this, why do you want to send those ves to the inds? If you are really worried like the others, bring them back to the Stantine Duchy, you have to free them. If they aren¡¯t easy to control, you can just throw them on the ck Rice Wastnd. The ck Rice Wastnd still belongs to the Lampuri Kingdom in name, they haven¡¯t passed the ?ve Abolition Bill?.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not worried about this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Moreover, when I epted those ves, I¡¯d already freed them and they were already normal citizens.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°It can¡¯t be? You really made them citizens? You.....Are you really this foolish?¡±

    ¡°Foolish?¡± Xu YI gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t think so. I¡¯ve already said it, the ves are already arge hindrance to productivity, so by freeing them, I can release the hidden value that they have.¡±

    ¡°But if they recover their status as citizens, why would they listen to you?¡± Chairman Cruise asked with knit brows.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, benefits.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°You might not know this about the ves, but after they became citizens, because they were ves before, they wouldn¡¯t be epted by most people even if they stayed here. So after they became citizens, almost all of them agreed to my arrangement and settled on the ind bases. Although they aren¡¯t ves anymore, they have recognized me as their lord, so I have the right to manage them.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with knit brows for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Xu Yi, to be honest, there really are times when I feel that you are a hypocrite.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°You clearly need these ves to listen to you, but you want to have a noble name. I say, why are you bothering with this? Even if you treated them as ves, no one would me you. Anyway, ves have existed on the continent for over ten thousand years, doing something like this is the strange way.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, I am a hypocrite. The reason why I¡¯m doing all this is actually just to put myself at ease in the end. Saying that I want to free the productivity of these ves is just an excuse.¡±

    Chairman Cruise knit his brows even more, ¡°So I am even more confused, why did you have this idea? Why are you not at ease when using ves? This is too strange.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. It was because he came from earth that was much more civilized than this world, he was taught to treat all people as equals since he was young and he had seen many attacks on very in countless books before, so he thought that something like this was evil.

    But this involved his biggest secret, how could he just take it to exin to chairman Cruise?

 Volume 5 102 - Without the adventuring spirit

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 102 Without the adventuring spirit</h4>

    Since Xu Yi released the steel making technology and used the ves to exchange for them, in these months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had obtained over thirty thousand ves.

    Xu Yi had sent these ves to the inds on the sea and he had treated them as the workers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on these inds.

    There were big and small inds. The big inds could hold up to ten thousand people and the small ones could only hold several hundred. After the thirty thousand ves were all sent, there was only half of the inds that were filled. There were more than ten inds that Xu Yi still didn¡¯t have enough people for.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush, it would take a long time to construct this chain of ind bases and it was arge investment, so it couldn¡¯t bepleted in a short period of time.

    ording to the n, they just needed to construct bases on the inds to the north near the ck Rice Wastnd and to the south along the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s coast.

    After these ind bases wereplete, the next step of the n was to build the ind bases in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas and.....in the seas around the Sack Kingdom.

    ###

    April of year 3787, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s early spring was already as hot as early summer in many other ces.

    When it came to this time each year, the beach near the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base would be filled with people who were enjoying their free time.

    The swimsuit had already be popr in the Stantine Duchy, so looking over the beach, there were beautiful women in sexy swimsuits all over. They might have white skin or healthy bronze skin as they walked around half naked, making people stunned when they looked at them.

    However, the situation at the beach was clearly different from normal. The eyes of people weren¡¯t focused on the revealed skin, but they were all looking at the sea.

    Today was the day the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet came back.

    This trip was different from before. This time, the transport fleet had gone over five thousand kilometers to reach the most eastern seas of the continent.

    It was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom on the eastern coast had reached a deal. Their first cooperation was through this transport fleet which would bring a bunch of goods from here to there and then when it came back, it would also bringrge amounts of goods from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The Stantine Duchy was on the southwest corner of the continent and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was in the southeast corner. There was a full five thousand kilometers between them.

    For most people, this was a distance that they would never traverse in their entire lives.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom cooperating, using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful transport fleet to contact the other side, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people would never be able to contact the other country.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet was back from the Nozdormu Business Union, they would definitely bring many treasures from the other side that would broaden their views.

    So when they learned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet would be back today, countless people gathered on the beach. They enjoyed the sea breeze while waiting for the arrival of the fleet.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, do you really think that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom is worth investing in?¡±

    In Xu Yi¡¯s private manor on the cliff not far away, there was a fat middle aged man who looked back from the sea to look at Xu Yi as he asked this.

    Hearing this question from him, the merchants who were on the tform by the cliff all turned to look at Xu Yi with doubt in their eyes.

    These people were the chairmen of the magic machinepanies close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Today Xu Yi had gathered them together to discuss investing in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom with them.

    Even if these chairmen had earned quite a bit of benefits from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they trusted Xu Yi very much, they were still very hesitant over Xu Yi¡¯s proposal of investing in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    In the end, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was just too far.

    That ce was over five thousand kilometers away, this was simply another world for them, so naturally they didn¡¯t feel assured.

    ¡°In terms of business, I must say that it is very worth it.¡± Xu Yi looked over these people and gave a nod with a slight smile, ¡°The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom is equal to the Lampuri Kingdom before the appearance of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it ispletely empty in terms of magic machines. If there are anypanies willing to explore this market, they would certainly be able to easily upy a portion of this market.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and nodded.

    ¡°But chairman Xu, if you have this idea, why doesn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just monopolize it? Why do you need us all to go?¡± Another person asked.

    Xu Yi spread his hands and casually said, ¡°My views have always been to share money with everyone. Since this market is very promising, I want everyone to develop it together and earn the benefits together.¡±

    Everyone was silent for a bit before they couldn¡¯t help nodding again.

    If this was said by anyone else, they would all think that they were lying.

    But Xu Yi always supported the development of his peers, which made them feel that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t lying.

    ¡°I know that you all have concerns about investing in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom because of how far it is, but I must remind you all that as merchants, we need to have a sense of adventure at times. Benefits exist with risk and riskse with benefits. Taking risks to earn benefits, isn¡¯t that something that we as merchants should do?¡±

    Everyone was silent for a bit before a merchant gave a soft cough, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re right, but I think......before the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom representative arrives, there¡¯s no meaning in talking about this.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a smile, ¡°Un, when the representativees, I think that you will all feel more assured.¡±

    Seeing that the topic was easily changed to the business they were currently engaged in, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    Among these merchants, quite a few of theirpanies hade from nothing with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When they began building, these chairmen were filled with adventurous spirit, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t be willing to invest in the magic machine industry that had no precedent.

    But now that they had developed for several years, thesepanies had reached a certain scale and these chairmen had be satisfied. They weren¡¯t as willing to take risks as before.

    This made Xu Yi a bit disappointed in them.

    If it was in terms of development speed and scale, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would crush thesepanies in the same magic machine industry, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi still had the same sense of adventure.

    Not to mention investing in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that was five thousand kilometers away, if there was a way, there wouldn¡¯t be a problem in him investing in another continent.

    Of course, that was because the world views of the two sides were different.

    Xu Yi came from earth, he was already used to viewing things from a global scale.

    Five thousand kilometers wasn¡¯t a barrier for Xu Yi, but for the people who thought that they would never travel more than a few hundred kilometers from their homes, this was like a natural barrier.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep urging them or even forcing them.

    He believed that there wasn¡¯t ack of people who were willing to take risks in this world.

    The representative from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom would arrive soon, he believed that some of these people would see the business opportunity hidden in this and would be willing to take the risk.

    An hour passed and Xu Yi didn¡¯t receive any news of the fleet returning. He couldn¡¯t help looking at the southern seas in doubt, but he didn¡¯t see a trace of therge transport Magic Ships.

    This made him feel strange.

    Narvil had sent news from Nissi Harbour seven days ago, saying he was certain they would arrive today.

    ording to his habit, he would choose to return in the morning to make it easier to unload the cargo on the day off.

    But now that the morning had passed and there wasn¡¯t a trace of the transport fleet, this was a bit strange.

    Looking at the people chatting with each other, Xu Yi maintained hisposure and patiently waited.

    But after another hour, noon had alreadye and there was still no news.

    The people present felt that something was off and they gradually stopped chatting as they turned to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and had everyone wait. He quickly walked into a small room in the manor and took out a small Magic Communicator from his chest, pressing the button on it.

    ¡°Hey, I¡¯m Xu Yi. Evita, immediately send out a Magic Airship to go south along the coast and look for trails of the transport fleet.¡±

    There was silence for a bit before Evita¡¯s surprised voice sounded, ¡°Yes, chairman, I¡¯ll set out immediately.¡±

    After a while, Xu Yi walked out of the manor and looked to the south. He saw a Magic Airship slowly rising before quickly sailing off in a southern direction.

    ¡°Chairman Xu.....did something happen?¡± A voice came from behind him.

    Xu Yi turned to look and found that many of the chairmen on the tform hade to the front yard, looking at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s just a small ident.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Everyone looked at each other, clearly not believing this.

    When Xu Yi was prepared to have everyone return to the tform, the Magic Communicator in his hand sounded again.

    Xu Yi knit his brows and walked to the side as he took the call.

    Evita¡¯s voice sounded with a bit of shock in it.

    ¡°Chairman, I¡¯ve found the transport fleet, but they.....seem to be surrounded!¡±

 Volume 5 103 - Strong reaction

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 103 Strong reaction</strong>

    Xu Yi knit his brows.

    It had been less than half an hour since Evita¡¯s Magic Airship had gone out, which mean that it was no more than thirty kilometers away that she discovered the transport fleet.

    In a ce that was this close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, there was someone who dared to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet. Did they not want to live?

    ¡°Evita, send the location of the transport fleet and give me the concrete situation. Do you need support from the guard fleet?¡± Xu Yi coldly said.

    Evita¡¯s soft voice came from the other side of the call.

    ¡°It¡¯s strange.....they¡¯ve stopped. Sir chairman, there should be no problem. The blockade of the transport fleet has been dispersed, it seems like they¡¯re giving up on attacking.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Want to run?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh, ¡°Evita, give my order to Narvil. Have him send out the guard ships of the transport fleet and catch one or two ships for me. I want to see who is so bad that they would actually dare attack our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Also, track the ships in the sky and see where they are nning to escape, I will send another Magic Airship to follow you.¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡± Evita replied.

    Her voice came from the Magic Communicator again after a while.

    ¡°Sir chairman, Narvil has already received the order. He wants to ask, do you want to catch everyone on the ship?¡±

    ¡°No need, just catch a few people to interrogate, there¡¯s still many people here waiting for the transport fleet.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Putting down the Magic Communicator in his hand, Xu Yi looked to the southwest skies again. He found another Magic Airship flying in the sky, flying towards Evita¡¯s Magic Airship like a dark cloud.

    This Magic Airship was most likelymanded by Akali. It had been finished for less than two months and not all the tests had been finished yet.

    But Evita¡¯s team¡¯s umtion of the Magic Airship could be seen. This kind medium Magic Ship, whether it was in terms of performance or quality, there were no problems at all. ording to Evita¡¯s report, they could even enter the mass production stage.

    The reason why only one came out was to be discreet.

    With the strength of the guard fleet and the Magic Airship, there was no need to worry about this.

    Xu Yi stopped looking at the sky and turned around. He found that the chairmen were all staring at him with curious gazes.

    ¡°Everyone, let¡¯s sit back down first. There¡¯s a bit of an ident with the fleet, but it won¡¯t affect it much. I think that they¡¯ll be here in another hour. It¡¯s a good thing that it¡¯s noon right now, so I think that everyone should be hungry. I¡¯ve already prepared lunch for us, so how about everyone have some lunch with me?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Everyone looked at each other and the first fat middle aged person to ask Xu Yi a question pointed at the Magic Communicator in his hand, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I¡¯m not wrong, this should be your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developed long distance Magic Communicator, right?¡±

    Although the Magic Communicator had already been developed, Xu Yi felt that its limitations were too much, so he had never promoted it to the market and sold it.

    Although these other chairmen had already heard about this and asked about the Magic Communicator, they never actually used it, so they were very curious about it.

    Now that they had seen Xu Yi talking to someone through this Magic Communicator, there was a strong curiosity evoked in them.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded and raised the Magic Communicator in his hand to show everyone, ¡°This Magic Communicator is our third generation Magic Communicator. It can now directly talk to someone with a Magic Communicator from five thousand kilometers away.¡±

    Everyone gave a gasp.

    ¡°God! It¡¯s actually five thousand kilometers, this is too amazing!¡±

    ¡°Yes, the only things that could achieve this before were Arch Magi using spatialmunication arrays, right?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that this Magic Communicator is using a High Grade Magic Array?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is never willing to sell it. With a High Grade Magic Array, the price must be terrifying.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡±

    ......

    Hearing everyone¡¯s discussion, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    It was because the use of the Magic Communicator wasn¡¯t good enough, so he didn¡¯t sell it to the public. He never expected that this Magic Communicator would leave such a great impression on the hearts of everyone here.

    Only Arch Magi could use spatialmunication arrays?

    Stop joking, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had Cami as the only Arch Magus.

    Xu Yi had never heard Arch Magus Cami raise this spatialmunication array before, he might not even know it.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on exining it to them.

    Letting them think that the Magic Communicator is mysterious was also good. When it was time to release the Magic Communicator to everyone, they wouldn¡¯t mind if the price was a bit higher.

    After he finished lunch with these people, Xu Yi received the report that the transport fleet was back safely.

    Narvil didn¡¯t have a single trace of a fierce battle and Xu Yi didn¡¯t ask anything. He just followed the flow and entertained the representative from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invited. He also brought a representative of the fleet and let them all meet with the various chairmen.

    Before they had begun discussing, the chairman had been wary towards the Nozdormu Business Union, but after meeting them and seeing the various preciousmodities the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom representative brought, everyone saw therge business opportunity hiding here.

    So after a single afternoon of discussions, at the banquet the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held for the representative that night, everyone was very happy and there was a harmonious atmosphere.

    In this situation, not many people noticed that the host of the banquet had changed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO Kennard and the chairman Xu Yi had disappeared without a trace.

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯ve already got these fellows to confess. They all came from a kingdom on the sea that is around five hundred kilometers to the northwest of here called the Crusch Kingdom.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard captain Hart reported to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Crusch Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Why have I never heard of this kingdom before?¡±

    In front of him, there were several young men who were beaten like dogs. They were the people who Narvil had captured from the boats that attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet.

    After these fellows were caught, Hart had led people to interrogate them and now they had learned some things from them.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t doubting whether the confessions Hart got were true because the elf guard captain Furio had used Illusion Magic so they could only speak the truth.

    ¡°This.....Sir chairman, you might not have heard of the Crusch Kingdom, but you might have some impressions of the Crusch Pirates.¡± Hart said.

    ¡°Crusch Pirates?¡± Xu Yi knit his brows to think before shaking his head, ¡°I still have no impression.¡±

    ¡°Alright, this Crusch Kingdom has upied arge part of the sea five hundred kilometers to the northwest. Their name is the Crusch Thousand Ind Union Kingdom. To put it bluntly, it¡¯s a bunch of pirate groups living on different indsing together. What this Crusch Kingdom does the most is steal on the seas, so they can¡¯t be considered a real kingdom.¡± Hart said with a look of despise.

    ¡°Is that so? Then why don¡¯t I have any impression of them?¡± Xu Yi doubtfully said.

    ¡°Because they are mainly active in the northern seas of the continent, they nevere south, so it¡¯s normal that you haven¡¯t heard of them before.¡±

    Xu Yi became even more doubtful, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, why would they suddenlye stealing from ourpany¡¯s transport fleet? Could it be that they don¡¯t steal enough in the north?¡±

    Hart and Furio on the side looked at each other, their gazes were a bit strange.

    ¡°Sir chairman, ording to the confessions we got, these fellows seem to have been.....instructed by someone toe and steal from ourpany¡¯s transport fleet.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before narrowing his eyes to think. Then he said with a cold snort, ¡°That means.....ourpany has offended someone and they sent these pirates to steal from us?¡±

    Hart shook his head and said in a helpless voice, ¡°These fellows are only small fish, they don¡¯t know much, so we couldn¡¯t ask anything.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just a group of cannon fodder, there¡¯s no meaning in questioning them.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before giving a p and taking a breath to say, ¡°Alright, since we can¡¯t ask anything from them, we¡¯ll just find fellows who know more to question. Hart!¡±

    Hart was surprised before he stood at attention and loudly replied, ¡°Here!¡±

    ¡°This time the transport fleet being attacked this closely means ourpany hasn¡¯t shown enough strength. As the guard captain, I hope that you can draw up a defense n as soon as possible to protect the seas around ourpany. We can¡¯t let any ships enter without the permission of ourpany, can you do this?¡±

    Hart was silent for a bit, ¡°Sir chairman, this might increase the investment needed.¡±

    ¡°Money isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand.

    ¡°Alright, no problem.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before continuing, ¡°Other than this, immediately assemble the second guard fleet and work with the coast guards to attack this whatever Crusch Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Hart and Furio were surprised.

    They never thought that Xu Yi would actually react this strongly to this matter.

    It was just a transport fleet being robbed and it didn¡¯t even seed. The other side had been beaten away by the guard ships and sir chairman wanted to move the guard fleet and the coast guards to attack this Crusch Kingdom?

    Wasn¡¯t this reaction.....too strong?

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t strong at all. There¡¯s actually such arge pirate group less than five hundred kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, this can¡¯t be allowed. Now that they have rashlye to offend our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if we don¡¯t teach them a lesson, wouldn¡¯t people think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was easy to bully?¡± Xu Yi said with a cold snort.

    Hart and Furio looked at each other, thinking that sir chairman wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    But because of this matter, he was going all out to attack a kingdom in name......

    No matter what, wasn¡¯t this too much?

 Volume 5 104 - The CrusChapter Kingdom that was unable to resist

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 104 The Crusch Kingdom that was unable to resist</strong>

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s representative stayed in the Stantine Duchy for half a month.

    During this time, not only did he inspect the Stantine Duchy, he had alsoe into contact with manypanies of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding countries.

    In just half a month, there were sixteenpanies of the surrounding countries that decided to invest in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and there were over thirtypanies that expressed their interest.

    This result was enough to satisfy the delegate from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, signifying a rich harvest from this trip.

    Of course, everyone understood that if it wasn¡¯t for the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, enabling them to transport goods five thousand kilometers away, there was no chance for this cooperation.

    It should be said that this cooperation was very beneficial for both sides.

    Because it was too far away, so they had never had any exchanges before. Through this contact, both sides realized that the other side had many resources that they wanted.

    If this cooperation went smoothly, both sides would gainrge benefits from this.

    For example, the Stnatine Duchy hadrge amounts of high end rain forest lumber. Or because the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was filled with swamps, they had many rare vegetation that could be used as material for rare medicines and magic ingredients. They also had many rare animals that also had the same high value.

    It was because of the various special products that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom delegate brought that made the variouspanies decide to cooperate with them.

    Of all the different deals, what everyone cared about was of course the deal between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    ording to the news from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s delegate, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had already finished the tworge scale Magic Ship harbours. This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily sendrge amounts of goods and the rted people to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    So in half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also reached many deals with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    ording to the contracts, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would first invest in a steel mill, a fertilizer factory, and an agricultural magic machine workshop in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to help them solve the food problem which was the most urgent thing for them.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build a small household magic machine factory in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    But this production base wouldn¡¯t belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, it would be jointly invested in by seventeen other smaller household magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Among them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only providing the name. They only would not be involved in the production, even the Frestech Brand magic machines would be rarely sold.

    This approach was actually like giving up the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom market to the otherpanies.

    And ordingly, these seventeen household magic machinepanies promised the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to strictly follow their various standards for household magic machines.

    Other than this, the seventeenpanies had also promised that they would help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce with building roads and other buildings in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, helping change the buildings of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    This was the main reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given up the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom market they opened.

    It was very simple, they didn¡¯t have enough people.

    Even if quite a few of the ves of the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdomnded in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the steel making technology, there was a limit to the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom. The nobles that were willing to exchange with ves were limited, so other than getting arge amount of ves in the beginning, they received less and less and it would only decrease in the future.

    This caused the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s manpower growth to stagnate again and forced Xu Yi to give up this n that required arge amount of manpower.

    He was nning on building aplete Frestech Chamber of Commerce base in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, striving to grasp the entire market. Then with this base, they would expand the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence in the entire southeast corner of the Sines Continent.

    But theck of manpower limited his ideas. He had no choice but to let the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom market go, cooperating with the other magic machinepanies to build this base together.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s heart right now, theck of people has already be his biggest problem.

    He had many projects for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he was limited by the number of people that he had which made him always feel a sense of helplessness.

    The Stantine Duchy was only a small country in the end, there were only less than a million people in the country in total. There were less than four hundred thousand people that made up the avable workforce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t take all four hundred thousand people since there was still work that had to be done.

    Adding in the education level of the workforce in the Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t high, the overall quality of the workers recruited were lower than the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, so it wasn¡¯t¡¯ much help to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had over a hundred and fifty thousand workers, less than half of them came from the Stantine Duchy. A half of them came from the Lampuri Kingdom, a small part came from the Rudson Kingdom, and the rest of them were all other race workers.

    It was impossible to increase the poption of the Stantine Duchy, so in order to increase the useful workforce, Xu Yi copied what he did before. He built the same vocational skills school that he had built in Banta City here in the Stantine Duchy.

    Different from the Banta City vocational skills school, the one in the Stantine Duchy waspletely free. The only requirement was that they had to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating.

    This condition wasn¡¯t a restriction for most people, rather it was an enticement because entering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that people yearned for.

    So after the vocational skills school was set up, not only did countless people of the Stantine Duchy sign up, even many people of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the further Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the Norton Duchy had alle to sign up.

    In the first registration of the vocational skills school, there were over thirty thousand people who registered.

    In just two to three years, when they all graduated, they could greatly help with theck of people for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But before this, Xu Yi still felt a headache over theck of workers.

    But at this time, there was something unexpected that helped Xu Yi see a bit of hope.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom delegate had been in the Stantine Duchy for half a month before leaving with the transport fleet. They left with the representatives of the variouspanies, as well as arge amount of building materials, returning to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    After they left, Xu Yi immediately ordered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to attack the Crusch Kingdom.

    Like Hart said, this so-called Crusch Kingdom was just arge group of pirates who were banded together. It was apletely different thing from a real kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attack on the Crusch Kingdom was just fighting a bunch of pirates.

    As for the strength of these pirates......

    Perhaps they were a bit stronger than the pirates that Leslie had run into in the seas of the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, but when facing the powerful guard fleet of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were nothing.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about the battle at all because he knew that with the strong firepower of the various military magic machines the guard fleet had, it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet to meet a worthy enemy on the endless seas.

    Facts had proved this.

    From the beginning, there were only reports of victory from the frontlines.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second guard fleet led by Hart swept all obstacles on the sea and easily crushed all the naval forces of that Crusch Kingdom.

    In the report Xu Yi received, other than the change in the number of ships sunk each day, there were only reports of the guard fleet¡¯s victory.

    In less than twenty days, the second guard fleet led by Hart had gone through every ind in the Crusch Kingdom¡¯s territory and hadn¡¯t encountered any true problems.

    In this, all the boats under the Crusch Kingdom couldn¡¯t even touch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    Twenty dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second guard fleet mounted an attack on the Crusch Kingdom¡¯s capital ind of Crusch Ind without any resistance. They had easily captured the royal pce on Crusch Ind and captured the king of the Crusch Kingdom alive.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this. The only thing he cared about was why the Crusch Kingdom sought their own death, suddenly attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    But from the report that Hart sent back, there was one piece of news that caught his attention.

    The Crusch Kingdom¡¯s king had said that the Crusch Kingdom was a group of ves that couldn¡¯t take being tortured by their lord, so they had fled out to sea.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had captured them, as long as Xu Yi was willing to spare the lives of the citizens, they were willing to return to being ves under Xu Yi.

 Volume 5 105 - Shocking battle results

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 105 Shocking battle results</h4>

    Ivy Joao walked into the army headquarters¡¯ military magic machine counter nning room and found that the atmosphere was much heavier than usual.

    Looking around, he saw that the faces of the others in this room were serious. Ivy Joao couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile as he slowly shook his head.

    As the one in charge of the military magic machine counter nning room which was establishedst year in August, he certainly received news earlier than his subordinates. He naturally knew why they all had such serious looks.

    There was arge piece of news that came from the seas to the west of the Sack Kingdom.

    The Crusch Kingdom that was three hundred kilometers off the coast of the Sack Kingdom, their capital had fallen to the enemy a week ago and three dayster, the Crusch Kingdom announced their dissolution.

    There was only one reason for the dissolution of this sea kingdom, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    A month ago, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the intention to attack the Crusch Kingdom, including Ivy Joao, everyone at the headquarters had thought they would be in for a good y.

    Even if the Crusch Kingdom was nothing more than a group of pirates, so they couldn¡¯t be a real kingdom with any power, unable to truly match any of the real countries on the continent, as a kingdom of the sea, the Crusch Kingdom was very powerful on the endless seas.

    Countless pirates with many ships, adding in their rich experience on the seas, the Crusch Kingdom could forcefully control the seas around them.

    Even the Sack Kingdom, because of their weak navy, couldn¡¯t contend with the Crusch Kingdom on the seas.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s army believed that unless the Crusch Kingdom sought their own deaths, offending the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire, causing these tworge empires to attack them, there was no country on the continent that could do anything to them with their strength on the seas.

    So now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly wanted to attack the Crusch Kingdom, what awaited them was a tragic failure.

    But facts had proven them wrong.

    From the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never met any hindrances. They broke through all the resistances of the Crusch Kingdom and in just twenty short days, before even a month had been reached, they had upied all the inds under the Crusch Kingdom. They had even fought their way into the capital, capturing the capital and the current king alive.

    This kind of battle had shocked everyone.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army had fought with the Crusch Kingdom many times, so they understood their powers on the sea.

    But even with this power, they couldn¡¯t resist the attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all. They couldn¡¯t even stall them from advancing.

    This powerful kingdom on the sea had been destroyed by a single guard fleet from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They announced that they had absolved their kingdom and even their capital fell!

    In the beginning, there were many people who didn¡¯t believe this was true.

    But as more and more news came, as well as more and more of it was confirmed, everyone was forced to ept this fact.

    But this fact proved another fact that people didn¡¯t want to face.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was just too strong!

    From the first day the Frestech Chamber of Commerce attacked the Crusch Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army had been collecting information. Ivy Joao of this military magic machine counter nning room was the one who paid the most attention since his main work was to study how to deal with the military magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, the news they received was very unhelpful since the battle had been very short, so they couldn¡¯t collect that much information at all.

    Of course, looking at it from another angle, this proved without a doubt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was very powerful. The Crusch Kingdom¡¯s pirates weren¡¯t able to fight them at all, so they didn¡¯t have a chance to disy their true power.

    But the more it was like this, the more pressure Ivy Joao and his subordinates felt.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was this strong, how were they supposed toe up with a n to go against them?

    ¡°Sir Joao, this is thebat report fromst night, please take a look.¡± A subordinate handed a report over to him.

    Ivy Joao took the report and shook his head helplessly as he held it in his hand.

    This report was as thin as usual, it meant that there wasn¡¯t any information worth mentioning in this battle report.

    As expected, when he opened it, he found that there was only a brief description of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet attacking and upying the Crusch Kingdom¡¯s capital, Crusch Ind. It was mentioned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards usedrge amounts of Magic Repeating Crossbows and few Magic Rockets when attacking Crusch Ind, but it didn¡¯t mention the situation of when the guard fleet was fighting that Ivy Joao cared about the most.

    After flipping through this report, Ivy Joao threw it to the side. After thinking for a bit, he raised his head and looked over everyone in the room before asking in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, now that the war between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and the Crusch Kingdom is over, we need to prepare a summary report and hand it over to headquarters. Tell me, what is the appraisal you have for the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards?¡±

    Everyone in the room looked at each other and no one said a word.

    Seeing that everyone had heavy looks on their faces, Ivy Joao gave a sigh. He didn¡¯t force them and just called two of his subordinates to prepare the report before turning to leave the room.

    After heading out of the nning room, Ivy Joao turned two corners and came to the first staff officer¡¯s office, pushing through the door without any hesitation.

    The first staff officer¡¯s office had several officers sitting around a desk discussing something. Hearing that someone pushed open the door, everyone knit their brows as they looked over.

    ¡°Joao, do you need something?¡± The first officer, Lei Ming, who knew Jaoa well, asked this.

    Ivy Joao¡¯s eyes fell onto the people gathered around the table and found that there was a map on the table.

    Arge part of this map was blue, so it was clearly a map of the seas.

    Seeing this map, Ivy Joao immediately understood that these officers were also analyzing the war between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Crusch Kingdom.

    ¡°I¡¯m here to make a suggestion.¡± Meeting the gazes of the officers, Ivy Joao had a very serious look on his face, ¡°I suggest that we rank the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the highest special grade. No matter what method we use, we need to get as much information about them as possible, otherwise our kingdom will end like the Crusch Kingdom eventually.¡±

    Ivy Joao¡¯s words were a bit serious. If this was a normal situation, he would definitely be reprimanded by the others, but all the officers had serious faces as they sat around the table and not a single person reprimanded him. There were even several officers who couldn¡¯t help nodding, showing their agreement to Ivy Joao¡¯s words.

    The room was silent for a bit before Lei Ming gave a cough and said, ¡°Un.....I agree with leader Joao¡¯s idea. It¡¯s clear that the might of the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed has already surpassed our calctions and even our imaginations. If we don¡¯t find a way to deal with them, once the Lampuri Kingdom gains more support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we will not be able to resist the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Ivy Joao added, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, we attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, so we¡¯ve already created enmity with them. If the Frestech Chamber of Commercees, does everyone think.....we can fight against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards?¡±

    Everyone fell silent once again.

    ¡°It......It can¡¯t be, right? Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is powerful, there are only ten thousand of them. Our kingdom¡¯s army adds up to several hundred thousand men.....¡± An officer couldn¡¯t take the strange silence in the room and couldn¡¯t help refuting this.

    The others looked at this young officer like they were looking at an idiot.

    Ivy Joao shook his head and said with a serious look, ¡°This isn¡¯t a problem of quantity. The military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have already gone past the method of war that we¡¯re familiar with, it¡¯s raised wars to another level.¡±

    ¡°I agree.¡± Lei Ming was the first to agree with a nod, ¡°The Crusch Kingdom had sixty thousand pirates under the, which was over four thousand pirate groups. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only sent out a single guard fleet, which had no more than thirty ships and less than two thousand people, but they were able topletely destroy the Crusch Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Un, ording to the report, from beginning to end, the Crusch Kingdom suffered twenty thousand casualties and over two thousand ships were sunk. As for the losses of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in this war.....it was almost zero!¡± Another officer couldn¡¯t help adding in a voice filled with disbelief.

    There was a silence that filled the room once again.

    Even if they had analyzed the battle reports countless times, many people found it hard to ept these kinds of battle reports. It even made them feel like they were being suffocated.

    After a while, the first staff officer said, ¡°I agree with leader Joao¡¯s idea. I will officially propose this to the chief of staff to strengthen the importance attached to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, increasing the investigation on them.¡±

    After a pause, the first staff officer also revealed a smile.

    ¡°Actually.....Because of leader Joao¡¯s suggestions when he was still the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s chief of staff, we¡¯ve already nted some seeds to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They should.....have sprouted already and they should have an important use soon......¡±

 Volume 5 106 - Already everywhere

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 106 Already everywhere</strong>

    ¡°Zhi.¡±

    There was the intense sound of the brakes being pressed on as a fire red Magic Sedan stopped by Ivy Joao who just came out of the headquarters.

    ¡°Hey, Ivy, this really is a coincidence. Where are you nning on going? Do you need me to take you there?¡±

    Hearing this familiar voice, Ivy Joao turned his head to look at Chalon Linear who came out of the Magic Sedan with a strange look before he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°I say, Chalon, now you¡¯re very rxed, aren¡¯t you? I heard that you¡¯re driving this car around all day without anything to do?¡±

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment Commander Chalon Linear gave a shrug, ¡°What about it? What else can I do?¡±

    Ivy Joao was silent before giving a sigh.

    The Sack Kingdom had been forced into creating a free trade area by the Lampuri Kingdom. To many people in the Sack Kingdom, this was a shame they couldn¡¯t take.

    The Sack Kingdom that had suppressed the Lampuri Kingdom for hundreds of years had now been forced to ept a request by the Lampuri Kingdom. Someone had to take responsibility for this shame.

    The ones who bore the brunt of this was the Hungry Wolf Regiment that fought the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army many times and failed.

    To many people, it was because the Hungry Wolf Regiment wasn¡¯t strong enough that the Sack Kingdom was forced into this passive position. They finally lost their dignity and was forced to sign this treaty for the free trade area.

    So themander and chief of staff of the Hungry Wolf Regiment bore the brunt of this and were heavily punished.

    Ivy Joao was a bit better. Even if he lost the position as the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s chief of staff, he was kept by the army headquarters. They even let him take the position of the leader of the military magic machine counter n room that was established.

    Although this position didn¡¯t have much power, it was considered a high position, so they didn¡¯t treat him unfairly.

    However, Chalon Linear was much worse.

    As themander of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, he was forced to shoulder the responsibility of the losses of the Hungry Wolf Regiment. Not only was he stripped of hismander title, he was even condemned.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the higher ups at the army headquarters protecting him and the king giving him a specialmendation, Chalon Linear might have spent the rest of his life in jail.

    But even like this, Chalon Linear had now be an idle person, without any official positions. He even lost his title as a Count and had be a normal citizen.

    But he was from the Linear Family and with the influence of his family, he wasn¡¯t worried that people would seize this chance to harm him. He also lived a life without care, so his days were quite free.

    For example, the fire red Frestech Brand Magic Sedan he was currently driving, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have been able to get this if he was still themander of the Hungry Wolf Regiment. But now that he had lost his position, he could buy it as long as he wanted to, bing one of the few people in the Sack Kingdom with a Magic Sedan.

    ¡°Alright, don¡¯t show that look in front of me, I still don¡¯t need you to feel sorry for me yet.¡± Chalon Linear curled his lips before pointing at the passenger seat beside him, ¡°Are you getting in? I¡¯ll go by myself if you¡¯re not getting in.¡±

    Ivy Joao thought about it before entering the passenger seat.

    ¡°Send me to the military research facility outside the city.¡±

    Chalon Linear looked at him in surprise, ¡°Yi? You¡¯re also going there?¡±

    Ivy Joao was more surprised than him, ¡°What do you mean ¡®also¡¯? Are you also going there?¡±

    ¡°Un, those fellows said that I¡¯m familiar with the military magic machines, so they want to offer me a job as a part time consultant.¡± Chalon Linear replied.

    ¡°Part time consultant? Those b**tards in the army headquarters don¡¯t have any opinions?¡± Ivy Joao knit his brows as he asked this.

    Chalon Linear gave a cold snort, ¡°It was them who came looking for me, otherwise do you think I would go be their consultant for no reason?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Ivy Joao nodded before falling silent.

    Chalon Linear skillfully drove the Magic Sedan and the two disappeared around the corner of the street.

    ¡°Hey, Ivy, those fellows are finally willing to admit the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines?¡±

    After passing another corner, Chalon Linear suddenly asked this.

    Ivy Joao looked at him before slowly nodding, ¡°Yes, otherwise how are they willing to put down their pride to ask you to be their consultant?¡±

    Chalon Linear gave a soft snort, ¡°Those idiots also know how to feel afraid. I thought that they would shrink into their shells and would never be willing to admit the truth.¡±

    Ivy Joao gave a long sigh before shaking his head, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. Even if they want to avoid it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce easily destroyed the Crusch Kingdom like a stone shattering an egg, so they can¡¯t just avoid it even if they want to.¡±

    ¡°Actually, there¡¯s no need for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to destroy the Crusch Kingdom, there are already countless facts that prove this, but they¡¯re not willing to admit it. Look around, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already everywhere, so even if they aren¡¯t willing to admit it today, could they hide from it tomorrow?¡±

    Ivy Joao looked at where Chalon Linear was pointing. He first saw a ck Magic Sedan driving by, followed by a medium passenger Magic Car, then followed by another tworge transport Magic Cars.

    Looking at it, in the capital of the Sack Kingdom, Nordham City, there were few horse carriages around. They had all been reced by various Magic Cars.

    Looking at the stores on the sides of the road, he could find the glows from the Magic Array of various household magic machines. It hadpletely changed the scenery of the city.

    Since the free trade area was set up, the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies had entered the Sack Kingdom, being warmly weed there.

    In just a single year, magic machines had be all the rage in the Sack Kingdom. It had changed the daily lives of every person in the entire kingdom.

    If one talked to anyone in the Sack Kingdom, if they didn¡¯t use the words magic machines in a few sentences, they would be behind the times.

    From the angle of the kingdom, Ivy Joao was very unhappy to see this because withrge amounts of magic machines entering the Sack Kingdom, it meant that the Lampuri Kingdom and the other Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies were takingrge amounts of wealth from the Sack Kingdom. This was bad for the Sack Kingdom and strengthened the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But from a different angle, looking at it from the angle of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s citizens, he had to admit that the household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed really helped with their daily lives.

    Even Ivy Joao, his family bought all the household magic machines that could be bought.

    There was no other way, those household magic machines really were too easy to use.

    For example, Ivy Joao¡¯s wife and servants had already gotten used to using the Magic Stove, the Magic Rice Cooker, and the Magic Bread Maker. To have them go back to their previous lives, not to mention them, even Ivy Joao himself wouldn¡¯t be able to ept the low efficiency in preparing food.

    Moreover, even if one ignored the daily lives of these normal people, from the perspective of the kingdom, they couldn¡¯tpletely resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, therge amounts of agricultural magic machines and the various construction magic machines bought from the free trade area.

    With the introduction of these two things, it greatly improved the farnd of the Sack Kingdom.

    In just a single year, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s grain yield had increased by 40%.

    ording to the rted reports from the agricultural department, if they kept introducing the agricultural and construction magic machines this year, transforming all the kingdom¡¯s farnd, their kingdom¡¯s grain yield would increase again this year.

    This was done without introducing the fertilizer yet.

    ording to the estimates of the agricultural department, if they had enough fertilizer, the grain yield of the kingdom could even double!

    Right now the agricultural department had begun negotiating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to provide enough fertilizer for the entire Sack Kingdom.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put forth harsh conditions that had deadlocked the negotiations.

    However, Ivy Joao had learned through certain channels that the agricultural department was willing to ept the conditions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could wait, but the agricultural department couldn¡¯t.

    This year¡¯s spring nting had been wasted because of this deadlock, but the agricultural department wouldn¡¯t allow them to waste the fall nting.

    As long as they could finish discussing this, allowing the agricultural department to get arge amount of fertilizer before the fall nting, the grain yield of this year¡¯s fall nting would be shocking.

    In the end, for all the countries on the continent, filling the bellies of their citizens was always the first priority.

    Seeing the Lampuri Kingdom who faced this same problem being able to solve itpletely a few years ago, even having enough grains to export, it would be a lie if it was said that the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t envy them.

    With the most important goal of solving the food problem, the conditions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t anything.

    But as someone from the army headquarters, Ivy Joao was very clear on this.

    Once they agreed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conditions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be stronger. Once they became stronger, they would have more powerful military magic machines.

    It would be even harder for the army headquarters to deal with them.

    ¡°But even if we don¡¯t want to make it more difficult, how can we deal with them?¡±

    Ivy Joao looked at the Magic Cars driving by and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a thick bitter smile.

    Buying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things made their enemy stronger.

    But not buying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make the Sack Kingdom fall further and further behind the Lampuri Kingdom, making it more impossible for them to catch up.

    With these two difficult choices, even if it was Ivy Joao who everyone thought was the brains of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, he couldn¡¯t figure out which choice they should choose at all.

    At this time, he could only count himself lucky that he was only a normal member of the army headquarters.

    If he was his majesty, he would have a headache each day because of these two problems......

 Volume 5 107 - All for grains

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 107 All for grains</h4>

    Whether his majesty had a headache over this or not, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s agricultural department¡¯s foreign trade chief Kbi More wasn¡¯t sure, but he was sure that if he couldn¡¯tplete this task in half a month, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about having a headache over this problem. It would be very likely that he would have his head cut off by the furious king.

    Although the Sack Kingdom wasn¡¯t like the previous Lampuri Kingdom, suffering from the grain yield and havingrge famines, they did face their own difficulties. They would have to spendrge amounts of their finances each year buying grains from other countries.

    In the past several hundred years, the Sack Kingdom had solved this problem by buying grains from the Falk Kingdom to the northwest. But in the past few years, with the increase of grain production in the Lampuri Kingdom, exportingrge amounts of grains, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s agricultural department had carefully examined this and found that the grain prices of the Lampuri Kingdom was 20% cheaper than the Falk Kingdom, as well as having better quality. So even if the two countries were bitter enemies, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s agricultural department could only take the risk of being reprimanded to import grains from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Justst year, the Sack Kingdom had imported three hundred and sixty thousand tons of rice and four hundred and seventy thousand tons of grains from the Lampuri Kingdom. Adding in the various other kinds of goods, they reached a total of over a million tons, spending seven million gold coins from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s finances.

    Although it was cheaper than the ten million gold coins it would cost to import the same amount of grains from the Falk Kingdom, to the king and the parliament, importingrge amounts of grain from the enemy was not something that they could support.

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s grain yield used to be worse than the Sack Kingdom. They had increased their grain yield over the past few years and even had enough grains to export, clearly this demonstrated that there was a special reason.

    After investigating, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s side finally confirmed that the increase of grain yield in the Lampuri Kingdom over the past few years was because of the various agricultural magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, increasing their farnd use and increasing their farming efficiency.

    Other than this, the fertilizer produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a powerful weapon in increasing grain yield.

    So after investigating, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s agricultural department decided on using the same method to increase their grain yield.

    But there was a problem with this n. It was that because the Sack Kingdom had attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, the rtionship between the two sides wasn¡¯t good. It made the Sack Kingdom worried that it would be a hindrance in importingrge amounts of agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But there was a big surprise for the Sack Kingdom¡¯s side.

    First, the Lampuri Kingdom proposed setting up the free trade area with the Sack Kingdom, opening up normal trading between the two countries for the first time in several hundred years.

    Then after both sides agreed to set up the free trade area, the Sack Kingdom had suggested to the Lampuri Kingdom that through the Lampuri Kingdom, they wanted to buyrge amounts of agricultural magic machines. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side surprisingly agreed to this and they very easily contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through the Lampuri Kingdom, obtaining the right to importrge amounts of agricultural magic machines.

    At the same time, the Sack Kingdom had also obtained some older farmers from Banta City who were used to using the agricultural magic machines, helping the Sack Kingdom spread this method through their kingdom.

    Through the year beforest¡¯s fall nting andst year¡¯s two nting seasons, by using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, they had obtained good effects by imitating Banta City¡¯s nting methods and each season¡¯s grain yield had a decent increase.

    After this year¡¯s spring, through the statistics of the agricultural department, the grain yield this year was more than twice that ofst year¡¯s spring harvest.

    Although this wasn¡¯t enough for the Sack Kingdom to be independent, this greatly eased the internal pressure of the grain problem for the Sack Kingdom.

    Adding in the fact that there wererge amounts of cheap and good quality grains to import from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, the Sack Kingdom easily solved this year¡¯s grain problem.

    In the several hundred years of the Sack Kingdom, this was the first time they easily solved this basic problem.

    So no matter what anyone in the Sack Kingdom thought of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they all agreed that they had to increase their improvement of their farnd. They had to strive to reach the same level as the Lampuri Kingdom, bingpletely self dependent.

    In this context, the agricultural department took the most important task to contact the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They wanted to obtain more support from the Lampuri Kingdom, especially the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It should be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude had been very satisfying for the Sack Kingdom since the beginning.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave harsh conditions, for example, making the Sack Kingdom take outrge amounts of minerals in exchange and having to give arge part of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s internal mines to them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always shown a good cooperative attitude.

    Regarding the Sack Kingdom¡¯s various requests for agricultural magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never shifted away and gave the Sack Kingdom what they needed. Moreover, they supplied all the goods promptly and also provided perfect technical support. It allowed the Sack Kingdom to quickly reform their farming techniques and greatly increased their internal grain yield.

    Although parts of the Sack Kingdom, especially the army headquarters had many objections to this, saying that this would increase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength which was aiding the enemy, this viewpointpared to solving the grain problem was just too weak.

    But when the Sack Kingdom proposed buyingrge amounts of fertilizer to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they met an unexpected hindrance.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t directly reject the Sack Kingdom¡¯s request for fertilizer, but they told Kbi More that because the fertilizer factory was set up by the elves in cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the fertilizer factory was controlled by the elves. So if the Sack Kingdom wanted to buy fertilizer, they had to discuss this with the elves.

    When Kbi More found the person in charge of the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer factory, manager Sandy from the Moon Shadow Tribe, the other side had given a condition that was impossible for More to ept.

    ¡°Dear manager Sandy, may I ask why you need this piece of territory?¡± More forced down the absurdness of this situation in his heart and knit his brows as he asked Sandy, ¡°ording to what I know, your Moon Shadow Tribe lives in the Stantine Duchy, right? Even if our Sack Kingdom gives you a piece ofnd, it has no use to you still.¡±

    Sandy¡¯s sharp ears slightly trembled and as if she was hesitating, she said with a smile that wasn¡¯t too natural, ¡°You don¡¯t need to understand why this is useful to us, you just need to know that this is our condition. If you¡¯re willing to ept this, we can sell you fertilizer, but if you¡¯re not, then goodbye.¡±

    More was speechless as he looked at Sandy. He felt that elves really were as unreasonable as the rumours said, they just gave their conditions and didn¡¯t give any room to negotiate.

    After pausing, More didn¡¯t give up as he asked, ¡°This.....Manager Sandy, can we change this condition? Other thannd, I can agree to any other conditions.¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Sandy shook her head, speaking with a calm, but firm look.

    More could only give a bitter smile.

    Although when they negotiated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, they noticed that chairman Xu Yi and the CEO Kennard were very sly, making them suffer quite a bit, he would rather go negotiate with Xu Yi and Kennard all day instead of negotiating with this beautiful female elf.

    Because this female elf wasn¡¯t nning on negotiating to begin with!

    After a bit of silence, More thought about how the agriculture minister had talked to him for a long time about this. He took a deep breath and decided that it was too early to give up. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Alright.....Manager Sandy, can I know what are your specific requirements? For example, which territory do you want? Or what do you want to use this territory for? You should know that if the territory you obtain poses a threat to the Sack Kingdom, it¡¯s impossible for us to agree.¡±

    Sandy nodded before taking out a document for More.

    More was instantly stunned.

    He never thought that the elves had already prepared a n, it was clear that they were already prepared for this.

    What surprised him more was that the elves prepared this document ahead of time like humans, this really was just like how humans did things.

    After reading through this document, More found that the territory the Moon Shadow Tribe wanted was just a piece ofnd that was close to the ck Rice Wastnd with the sea facing its west. The area didn¡¯t seem that big, it was only around ten square kilometers.

    If he didn¡¯t look for this piece ofnd, More as a Sack Kingdom native might not even know where it was immediately.

    Seeing this, More gave a sigh of relief in his heart.

    If the Moon Shadow Tribe wanted a key piece ofnd in the Sack Kingdom, it would be impossible for the Sack Kingdom to agree to this.

    Now that they wanted thismon and remote piece ofnd, there was the possibility of discussion.

    Moreover, because the Moon Shadow Tribe was requesting too much, he as the foreign trade chief wouldn¡¯t be able to make a decision, so this wasn¡¯t rted to him at all.

    The only thing he needed to do was send back the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s request, letting his majesty make this decision.

    Thinking of this, More revealed a faint smile before giving a nod, ¡°Manager Sandy, I hope that you can give us some time to consider.¡±

    Sandy also gave a nod, ¡°No problem.¡±

    After pausing, it was like Sandy thought of something.

    ¡°Chief More, I must remind you that fertilizer has a limited span of use. If you take too much time to decide, you¡¯ll miss the important spring nting for this year.¡±

    More¡¯s expression froze and he cursed in his heart, but he still gave a dejected nod.

    There was no choice, it was all for grains.

 Volume 5 108 - Not prepared

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 108 Not prepared</strong>

    More and Sandy¡¯s negotiations couldn¡¯tst that long.

    After getting the clear conditions of the elves from Sandy, More immediately left.

    Sandy was right, there was a deadline for using the fertilizer. If they missed the best period for fertilizing the spring nting, the Sack Kingdom will miss that spring nting.

    ording to the information from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, farms that used fertilizer had their output increased by several folds.

    If they could use the fertilizer in this spring nting, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s grain yield this year might increase again and they might even be able to bepletely self-sufficient.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t leave Banta City, which was chosen as the ce of negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time. He used another channel to send this information back to the Sack Kingdom.

    While patiently waiting for the final response of his majesty and the parliament, he needed to keep inspecting Banta City and working hard to learn more things from this shocking city.

    However, More never thought that as soon as he left, there was someone who he had never expected toe that entered the negotiations room.

    Seeing this person walk in, Sandy¡¯s expression changed from being ice cold to having a full smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think of my performance just now? Did it meet the negotiations requirement you mentioned?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at More who was quickly leaving before turning back to Sandy with a faint smile as he asked, ¡°What do you think?¡±

    Sandy was in a daze for a bit before shaking her head with a discouraged look, ¡°It seems like it wasn¡¯t good enough. Chairman Xu, the human negotiation skills you mentioned are just too hard, I can¡¯t learn it no matter what.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before patting her shoulder, ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to learn our human negotiation skills. If we¡¯re talking about results alone, what you did just now was already quite good. Look, because of your performance, this chief More will think that there isn¡¯t a chance to bargain back and forth with you, so they can only ept your condition in the end.¡±

    ¡°He didn¡¯t ept it, he just said that need time to consider it.¡± Sandy said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Believe me, they will ept it in the end.¡± Xu Yi said in a confident voice.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Sandy thought about it before revealing a smile, ¡°That would be great. That way the elder can achieve her wish and our tribe can have another space to survive in.¡±

    Seeing Sandy¡¯s happy appearance, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    ¡°Actually.....Sandy, I still don¡¯t understand why elder Lisanya insists on getting this piece ofnd. The Sack Kingdom has a strong need for fertilizer, so just like More said, they could agree to any conditions that you have. Why didn¡¯t you take this chance to get better conditions from them?¡±

    Sandy shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m not too clear, but I feel.....The elder wants our tribe to get a piece ofnd that truly belongs to us.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent.

    After thinking for a bit, he suddenly understood.

    Perhaps it was because the elves didn¡¯t have anynd thatpletely belonged to them in the thousands of years after the race wars, so they had a strong longing for this kind ofnd.

    For example, when the Azshara Tribe negotiated with the Rudson Kingdom, their first condition was to let the Rudosn Kingdom give them a piece ofnd.

    For the Rudson Kingdom, thisnd was already a wastnd and was upied by the Azshara Tribe. Even if the Azshara Tribe didn¡¯t want it, it was still controlled by the Azshara Tribe, so it only belonged to the Rudson Kingdom in name.

    Compared to gaining actual benefits from the Azshara Tribe, this ownership in name wasn¡¯t important.

    Even if many humans cared about this, the Rudson Kingdom had ten thousand ways to solve the problem of who owned it in name.

    Now that the Moon Shadow Tribe had put forth the same request from the Sack Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom would finally agree in the end after carefully considering it.

    After all, the piece ofnd that the Moon Shadow Tribe was also useless for the Sack Kingdom and using it to get the most important fertilizer meant they didn¡¯t suffer a loss at all.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi thought of the Night Song Tribe.

    The Azshara Tribe needed territory, the Moon Shadow Tribe also needed territory, but the Night Song Tribe that Xu Yi had met first didn¡¯t make the same request.

    Of course, perhaps this was because of the Night Song Tribe¡¯s poption of just over a thousand, so they didn¡¯t have an urgent need for territory.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, can I ask you for a favour?¡± Sandy suddenly said.

    ¡°Un? What is it? Tell me.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re going to the Magic Sedan race in a bit, right? You should meet the elder, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, what about it? Do you want me to help you report the results of the negotiations with the Sack Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un. Something happened at the factory, so I can¡¯t go. Can you tell the elder about the results?¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡± Xu Yi nodded and paused before saying, ¡°You have indeed been busy during this time. If nothing unexpected happens, the Sack Kingdom will agree to your conditions. ording to the estimates, the Sack Kingdom will need to buy at least a hundred thousand tons of fertilizer to nt all their wheat, so this will be a lot of pressure for your current production capacity.¡±

    ¡°Yes......¡± Sandy nodded and revealed a difficult smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I wanted to discuss something with you. Our fertilizer factory wants to order another set of processing equipment, it would be best if it could be delivered at the end of the month. Otherwise, even if the Sack Kingdom epts this condition, we might not be able to produce enough fertilizer.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Sandy, if I told you that the new fertilizer processing equipment is already on the way, would you be very surprised?¡±

    Sandy¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°Really? That is great! Chairman Xu, you are really too.....intelligent!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This is actually a bit risky because I don¡¯t know what conditions you would give the Sack Kingdom. If they didn¡¯t agree and you didn¡¯t need to increase your production capacity, the fertilizer processing equipment that we made would have no use.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, even if it wasn¡¯t for the Sack Kingdom, we were considering increasing our production capacity. There are many countries that want to buy fertilizer from us, so I already nned on increasing the production capacity.¡± Sandy waved her hands.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good. Sandy, being able to have this idea proves that you¡¯ve be a decent manager.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Receiving Xu Yi¡¯s praise, Sandy revealed a happy smile like a little girl.

    However, that smile froze on her face with Xu Yi¡¯s next question.

    ¡°But Sandy, although you have enough equipment, what about the problem of manpower? Can you solve this?¡±

    Sandy was stunned for a bit before shaking her head with a bitter smile, ¡°That is hard since there are only so many people in the tribe. I can only let the brothers and sisters work overtime at the factory.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Have you ever considered hiring workers from other races? For example, our human workers?¡±

    Sandy took a deep look at Xu Yi before shaking her head, ¡°No, we¡¯re not considering it for now.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and didn¡¯t pursue this topic.

    But half an hourter, when Xu Yi saw elder Lisanya who was sitting in her personal car preparing for the race in Banta City¡¯s race track, he couldn¡¯t help raising this question again.

    Elder Lisanya didn¡¯t reject Xu Yi like Sandy did.

    ¡°To be honest, I have considered this. But chairman Xu, you should know that this fertilizer factory¡¯s ie isn¡¯t the most important thing for me, so it doesn¡¯t matter if the output is a bit low. But if the fertilizer factory recruited workers from other races, our nsmen would have to work with the other race workers and be together for long periods of time.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that very good?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°When you set up this fertilizer factory, you told me that this was a good turning point for you elves to live together with us humans.¡±

    ¡°The problem is that the nsmen haven¡¯t prepared their hearts yet.¡± Elder Lisanya refuted, ¡°If they had to work with other races right now, they wouldn¡¯t be used to it.¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    This fertilizer factory had already been built for five years. The elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe had much more contact with humans normally, but they still weren¡¯t prepared to fully integrate themselves with other races. This really was a bit too slow.

    ¡°But I can see that you¡¯ve integrated well. Look, you¡¯re even participating in this public Magic Sedan Race as a personal activity.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°This is my own preference. Then again, I am an elder, so I have to set a model for my nsmen.¡± Elder Lisanya replied with a natural look.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Elder Lisanya had always had a strong interest in racing cars, so it was right to say that this was her personal preference, but to say that she was setting an example for her nsmen......wasn¡¯t this trying to disguise her own interests as working for her people?

    But from the attitude that Sandy and elder Lisanya had, Xu Yi knew that at least the Moon Shadow Tribe wasn¡¯t prepared to integrate themselves into human society yet.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe was the elf tribe that interacted with humans the most out of the three tribes that he knew.

    If it was the Night Song Tribe or the Azshara Tribe, there would be no need to ask this question.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi went to the stands and watched as each of the racers made their preparations.

    This was already the third year Magic Sedan races were being held in Banta City.

    Because Prince Frank had suddenly sent a representative to participatest year, the event had be restricted and there had been no audience. But after the advertisement of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this year, as well as the private advertisement among the young nobles of Banta City, many people hade to watch.

    Moreover, putting the Magic Sedan race aside, just the racers were worthy of entering the history books.

    For example, there were many other race drivers that were here. Other than a beastman driver, there was even an elder from the elves!

    Among the human participants, there was an Arch Magus like Arch Magus Cami who was participating.

    Just these drivers alone were enough to attract countless people¡¯s attention.

    So with today¡¯s race, the stands were already filled with people.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t have his own private viewing stand, he might not have been able to find a spot in the crowd.

    Not long after he had sat down, there was a stir that came from behind him.

    Xu Yi turned to find Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Willing over with his subordinates.

    Xu Yi waved his hand in greeting and was surprised to find that Count Will¡¯s expression was very serious.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are here.¡± Count Will nodded to Xu Yi before pointing behind him.

    Xu Yi understood and stood up to enter a private room that was set up in the arena.

    When the door closed, Xu Yi looked at Count Will¡¯s deep look and asked in a confused voice, ¡°What is it? Lord Count, didn¡¯t something happen?¡±

    Count Will had his subordinates leave the room and even had them close the door before taking out a document to ce on the table in front of Xu Yi, saying in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, please give me a reasonable exnation for this.¡±

 Volume 5 109 - Count Willâ€™s stance

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 109 Count Will¡¯s stance</h4>

    Xu Yi was a bit confused as he looked at Count Will.

    What had happened that would cause this Count Will who had always been friendly to him to be this cold, even demanding that he give an exnation?

    Taking the document, Xu Yi found that it was a report from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal army intelligence department.

    The contents weren¡¯tplex. It just stated that in a secret ce near the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital of Nordham City, there was a certain regiment that was armed with Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    Based on the design, they were exactly the same as the ones that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    Moreover, ording to information from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army, they were also developing Magic Bazookas and other military magic machines, which required more vignce.

    After he read this document, Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking Count Will, ¡°Lord Count, what exnation do you need me to give you?¡±

    Count Will knit his brows as his face sunk.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you acting? Only your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop military magic machines, but the Sack Kingdom has been equipped with Magic Repeating Crossbows, as well as developing Magic Bazookas and other military magic machines. This is clearly rted to yourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and asked back, ¡°Lord Count, what status are you asking this question from?¡±

    Count Will was stunned before saying with a bit of anger, ¡°Chairman Xu, what does this mean? The Sack Kingdom is our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s enemy and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s enemy. Now that there is this serious problem, is it a problem for me to ask you for an exnation?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a faint smile before shaking his head, ¡°Lord Count, I hope that you understand one thing. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom is the Lampuri Kingdom. Although we¡¯ve had a good cooperation between us and I¡¯m happy to continue supporting the Lampuri Kingdom, this does not mean that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will always be with the Lampuri Kingdom. It also does not mean that we will follow how the Lampuri Kingdom wishes to handle matters.¡±

    Count Will never expected Xu Yi¡¯s words to be this strong and he was shocked. He looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes for a bit and only after a while, he said with a look of disbelief, ¡°Chairman Xu, you.....What do you mean by this?¡±

    ¡°I should be the one asking you this?¡± The smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face disappeared as his expression turned cold, ¡°Lord Count, we¡¯ve had a good cooperation, but now that you¡¯ve received this information that hasn¡¯t been confirmed and you¡¯vee here to question me, as well as showing this attitude of not trusting me, I am very confused. If this is your personal behaviour, I can still barely ept this, but if it is the wish of her majesty to question me, I can only say that I am very disappointed.

    ¡°You.....¡± Count Will knit his brows and wanted to get angry, but suddenly remembered something and his expression changed.

    Xu Yi watched as the expression on his face changed several times before revealing a slight look of panic. He just gave a soft snort and threw the document on the desk before leaving the room.

    He came back to his personal viewing stand and found that the race was about to begin. Xu Yi casually sat down in his spot and patiently waited for the race to start.

    After a while, there was a rush of footsteps before behind him as a person came up to him.

    ¡°Xu......Chairman Xu......¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Count Will who had aplex look and pointed at the seat beside him.

    ¡°Sit and talk.¡±

    Count Will hesitated a bit before nodding and sitting down.

    There had been several other important people from Banta City invited to watch this race, but after Count Will sat down, his subordinates asked the others to move away from the two of them.

    Suddenly, there was a ten meter space that was created between the two of them and the others.

    In this noisy ce, there was no need to worry about others hearing their conversation.

    Count Will still wasn¡¯t assured, but after seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    After hesitating for a bit, he finally cleared his throat and said in a low voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have to apologize for my attitude just now. Moreover, I must rify that that was only my personal behaviour, her majesty didn¡¯t know anything about this.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so? Then how did that document end up in your hands?¡± Xu Yi casually asked.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a smile, Count Will couldn¡¯t help wiping his forehead as he quickly exined, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should know that Banta City also has a military magic machine research department, so the army headquarters gave me this report in hopes of having me ensure that nothing had gone wrong from our side. I was also confused and med you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I hope chairman Xu can forgive me.¡±

    Xu Yi just gave a nonmittal nod.

    He was not that surprised by Count Will¡¯srge change in attitude.

    Because as long as Count Will wasn¡¯t an idiot, he could easily understand that for the current Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered an indispensable, very important, and decisive partner.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strength was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In this situation, what Count Will needed to do the most was properly win over Xu Yi and try his best not to offend him.

    By using Xu Yi like this, if Xu Yi really was offended, it would affect the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom. Count Will might be a criminal of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi believed that Seveni was unrted to Count Will¡¯s attitude and questioning. That was because whether it was Seveni¡¯s rtionship with him or Seveni¡¯s intelligence, she wouldn¡¯t do something stupid like this.

    Rather Count Will¡¯s reaction was too intense that people found it a bit strange.

    Xu Yi never spoke, but Count Will felt a strong pressure on him.

    But as the one who started this, he had to think of a way to salvage this situation and the question in his heart had to be rified. After carefully thinking about it, he carefully asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, do you think.....the matter in this report.....How much of it is possible?¡±

    Xu Yi secretly gave a sigh. He pretended to think before replying, ¡°It should be very possible since Magic Repeating Crossbows aren¡¯t that difficult. After fighting with your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army many times and suffering many losses, they should start their own research on this thing. Making a Magic Repeating Crossbow that looks the same isn¡¯t something that is that hard.¡±

    ¡°But there¡¯s also research on the Magic Bazookas and other military magic machines......¡±

    ¡°There should be research and it isn¡¯t just the Sack Kingdom, I believe the Rudson Kingdom should have some research with this. Even the Mirando Duchy and the Drake Duchy should be secretly researching this. As for your Lampuri Kingdom.....your progress shouldn¡¯t be weaker than theirs.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, our Lampuri Kingdom has only conducted some simple research on the military magic machine technology that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave us before, we¡¯re still far from being able to develop Magic Bazookas and otherplicated military magic machines on our own.¡± Count Will kept waving his hands as he denied this.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and was toozy to argue with him as he continued, ¡°You definitely have done research, but you shouldn¡¯t have made any progress. If you could develop it, that is apletely different matter. So I believe that the Sack Kingdom is conducting research, but as for their progress, I think that you shouldn¡¯t be too worried for now.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Count Will looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s impossible that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give military magic machine technology to others on our own ord. Even your Lampuri Kingdom isn¡¯t allowed, so there¡¯s no need to mention the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Count Will immediately let out a sigh of relief. Finally he revealed a smile and he gave a strong nod, ¡°I believe that chairman Xu will treat us as your best partner.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile before continuing, ¡°Speaking of cooperation, I had a matter I wanted to talk to you about. Ourpany is nning to open a newthe machine factory in Banta City. ording to our cooperation model, I need you to find someone suitable for this cooperation. How about it? Are there any problems?¡±

    ¡°No problem! Of course there¡¯s no problem!¡± Count Will immediately became spirited. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, investing in athe factory in Banta City, does that mean your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be building a production magic machine factory in Banta City?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°That is possible.¡±

    ¡°Great!¡±

    It was no wonder Count Will was excited.

    ording to the cooperation model between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, when both sides invested in a factory together, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce side was mainly in charge of the technology.

    That way, the Lampuri Kingdom had a great chance of gaining some rted technology through this cooperation.

    Before this, the Lampuri Kingdom had gained quite a bit in terms of household magic machine technology from this method of cooperation. It quickly and greatly increased the level of technology in the hands of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s household magic machinepanies, allowing the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom to experience great growth.

    In the past two years, other than the Frestech Brand household magic machines selling in the surrounding countries, the other Lampuri Kingdom brands had also been selling quite well. It had earned quite a bit of money for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning to build a production magic machine factory in Banta City, it meant that the Lampuri Kingdom might be able to obtain production magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce soon.

    If this became reality, it would increase the level of technology in the Lampuri Kingdom again.

    Suddenly obtaining this promise from Xu Yi, Count Will¡¯s heart was naturally filled with joy.

    The anger and suspicion that he felt towards Xu Yi from the report just now had instantly disappeared.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, thank you for your great support for our Lampuri Kingdom and I hope that we can maintain this good cooperation forever.¡± Count Will took the initiative to reach out both hands to tightly hold Xu Yi¡¯s hand as he said with an excited look, ¡°As for my mistake just now, I would like to deeply apologize and hope that chairman Xu won¡¯t put this in your heart.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This method of carrot and stick really was tested through the ages, it could be used in all kinds of different scenarios.

 Volume 5 110 - Letâ€™s shoot an advertisement

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 110 Let¡¯s shoot an advertisement</h4>

    The Magic Sedan race this year had attracted the attention of countless people, but most people were focused on the racers instead of focusing on the cars themselves.

    When thepetition started, all the reporters were reporting on the drivers instead of the Magic Sedans.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t pleased by this because this went against the reason why he held thispetition, attracting people¡¯s attention to the Magic Sedans.

    The drivers participating also weren¡¯t pleased.

    They were participating in thispetition because they loved racing cars, they wanted to show off their skills with this race.

    But most people were focused on special people like Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya, they didn¡¯t care about their skills at all.

    This was because one, they were more attractive to people and two, because the Magic Sedans hadn¡¯t be popr yet. Most people didn¡¯t know much about the Magic Sedans, so they didn¡¯t know anything about the driving skills and couldn¡¯t pay any attention to them.

    So not long after this year¡¯s Magic Sedan race, the ?Banta Times? suddenly released a special edition ?Magic Cars Weekly?.

    This was a publication that was released once a week with a total of thirty pages, filled with information on the Magic Cars.

    The Magic Cars wasn¡¯t just Magic Sedans, but it also included the various transport and passenger Magic Cars.

    But in the beginning, this ?Magic Cars Weekly? only introduced some basic knowledge about Magic Cars. Its main goal was to let the general poption understand what Magic Cars were.

    When introducing the Magic Sedans, this ?Magic Cars Weekly? gave a detailed division of Magic Sedans for the first time.

    The ones used by the general public were called civilian Magic Sedans and the ones that the racers specially customized for this race, with a speed that was higher than the civilian Magic Sedans, they would be called Magic Race Cars.

    In the first issue of the ?Magic Cars Weekly?, it stated that current civilian Magic Sedans and Magic Race Cars didn¡¯t have that much of a difference. But as the Magic Car technology improved, the civilian Magic Sedans and the Magic Race Cars will bepletely different.

    Magic Race Cars would keep increasing their speed just for the races.

    And the civilian Magic Sedans would increase theirfort for the civilians who used them.

    The ?Magic Cars Weekly? also stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already working in these two different directions when it came to Magic Cars.

    ording to insider information, at the end of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be releasing a new generation of Magic Sedans that would branch out in two different models ording to this trend.

    One for people to use that would focus onfort and the other would focus on speed and performance for the people who wanted more speed.

    It was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research with the Magic Engine had made a breakthrough. The speed of the Magic Car had greatly increased, even reaching a shocking speed of one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour.

    Most people didn¡¯t understand the technical terms, but they could still understand when it came to speed.

    A hundred and fifty kilometers an hour?

    What an exaggerated concept this was!

    If they could really reach this speed, wouldn¡¯t that mean that it would only take three hours to go from Banta City to Anvilmar City?

    That was too amazing!

    The first issue of ?Magic Cars Weekly? easily sold out and in just three days, it had received seventy thousand orders. It caused all the printing shops in Banta City to work overtime for two days and still be unable to fulfill this order.

    With how popr it was, when the second issue of the ?Magic Cars Weekly? came out, it would sell even faster than the first issue.

    So the ?Banta Times? had no choice but to find printing shops from the surrounding cities to help them.

    The reason why the ?Magic Cars Weekly? sold so quickly was because of the content.

    This was the first publication rted to Magic Cars and the various introductions to Magic Cars satisfied countless people¡¯s curiosity towards them.

    And for some people with ulterior motives, through this publication, they could obtain some knowledge that they always wanted.

    This was what Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya were worried about.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, you aren¡¯t worried about leaking the various technologies that you worked so hard to develop?¡± Elder Lisanya was confused, ¡°Now that the Magic Cars are this popr, I¡¯m certain that there are many humanpanies who want to produce their own Magic Cars. Now that you¡¯ve had the ?Banta Times? release this ?Magic Cars Weekly?, aren¡¯t you helping them?¡±

    ¡°Rx, elder Lisanya, I have my discretion. Although there are many things in the ?Magic Cars Weekly?, it is just to let people have some basic understanding of Magic Cars. If they want to develop Magic Cars from the contents in it, that is impossible.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°To make Magic Cars is veryplicated work and even for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we had to spend several years just to develop the first one. You can ask grandfather if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    ¡°I do believe that.¡± Arch Magus Cami nodded, but his knitted brows didn¡¯t rx at all, ¡°But Xu Yi, you still released this technology that you worked so hard to keep to yourself, this still isn¡¯t good. It¡¯s fine for the Magic Cars, but shouldn¡¯t you grasp the military magic machines more tightly? Those things are very important and it would be just too big if they were leaked.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Arch Magus Cami with a surprised look.

    Arch Magus Cami gave a shrug, ¡°I noticed that something was off between you and Count Will during thepetition, so I asked him afterwards.¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    When he and Count Will were talking, it had been the most exciting part of the race.

    Arch Magus Cami could actually still notice the strange atmosphere between him and Count Will during the middle of this exciting race, it really made one have nothing to say in response.

    ¡°Un, I also found that something wasn¡¯t right, but I¡¯m ot that good with human conversation, so I just found that it wasn¡¯t right. I didn¡¯t know what the problem was.¡± Elder Lisanya on the side also said with a nod.

    Xu Yi could only be speechless again.

    It seemed like the two of them were just too strong. Even driving Magic Sedans that were going over a hundred kilometers an hour wasn¡¯t a challenge for them, they could even pay attention to the surrounding area.

    Moreover, elder Lisanya was an elf with amazing eyesight, so it was fine if she noticed it. But how did Arch Magus Cami see it?

    ¡°What is so strange about it? As an Arch Magus, space isn¡¯t a problem for me at all.¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at him as he exined.

    Even if he was talented, Xu Yi who was only a First Grade Great Magician could only be speechless.

    ¡°Un.....The problem with the military magic machines, you don¡¯t need to worry, everything is in my grasp.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile.

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi with doubt, but he didn¡¯t keep asking.

    Elder Lisanya cared even less about this problem. Rather, what she cared about was the new Magic Cars that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing.

    In the information that Xu Yi gave the ?Banta Times?, he disclosed that the newest Magic Sedans might be faster than a hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. However, in the private information that he gave Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya, in theory, the max speed of the new Magic Sedans might be a hundred and seventy kilometers an hour or even higher.

    But to reach this speed had a high requirement for the driver, so it was very risky.

    Arch Magus Cami had already expressed his willingness to participate and elder Lisanya had also been very interested.

    The issue she was talking to Xu Yi about was to record the testing of the new Magic Cars with the Illusion Array.

    Xu Yi had some doubts about this.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, why do you want to record this? Moreover, there are many secrets in the testing process, so if we record it and it is revealed, that would haverge consequences for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I saw the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s documentary on the New Moon Troupe and I saw Still filming a documentary at the Azshara Tribe on the daily lives of us elves, as well as the scenes of the Azshara Tribe¡¯s elves working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s human workers. So I had a thought......¡±

    Elder Lisanya paused as if she was hesitating over something.

    ¡°I feel that......this is a very good advertising model. If we can let more humans and elves see scenes of elves and humans getting together, it would make it easier for humans to ept being together with us elves and also make the elves ept being together with humans.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at elder Lisanya with great surprise.

    Elder Lisanya had said before that her nsmen weren¡¯t prepared yet, but now she had changed her point of view. She wanted to seek change on her own initiative, which really should be celebrated.

    ¡°This is a good idea, but there¡¯s a problem. It isn¡¯t hard to let humans see these things, but how will you let the other elves of the continent see it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°You take care of the humans and I¡¯ll take care of the elves.¡± Elder Lisanya said, ¡°How about it? Do you think there¡¯s a problem?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and felt that this was a pretty good method.

    Moreover, since elder Lisanya was willing toe out, this could be considered a promotional film for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new Magic Sedan and would definitely be a good gimmick.

    Thinking of elder Lisanya driving the Frestech Brand Magic Sedan all over a human city, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling excited.

    After Still had retired, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had never found a star to use as their representative.

    Now that elder Lisanya was offering, Xu Yi felt that this was a very good idea.

 Volume 5 111 - Another world

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 111 Another world</h4>

    The Magic Sedan had just crossed the border between the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, heading down the road through the Slight Dream Forest. Russell found that there were countless thick and tall trees gathered around him, like steel pirs that reached the sky.

    At the peak of these circr steel pirs, there was a faint blue glow that was releasing a giant illusion.

    Although it was an illusion, because of the rich colours and realism, it looked no different from reality.

    As for the contents of the illusion, even if he was far away, because of how big the illusion was, he could still clearly see it.

    First it showed a bustling street filled with pedestrians and there were Magic Cars driving all along the road, stopping from time to time because of the four way traffic lights.

    There were different kinds of Magic Lamps at the various shops on both sides, just like the people on the streets. There were humans, elves, beastmen, dwarves, and other races walking around, making the street very busy.

    There were also various goods sold in the stores as well as various household magic machines. This street was like any other street in any other city of the Sines Continent.

    If they had topare it, this street simply looked like another world.

    There was a change in the scene of the illusion. It focused on an elf girl walking along the street and she was talking to a human girl walking along with her.

    As if they could feel the scene on them, the elven girl suddenly turned her head and revealed a beautiful smile. She also raised the Magic Stove in her hand and said in a delightful voice, ¡°Frestech Brand Magic Stove, the helper you need to make food.¡±

    The human girl beside her also turned with a Magic Rice Cooker in her hand and said with a smile, ¡°Use it with the Frestech Brand Magic Rice Cooker.¡±

    The two girls both revealed smiles after saying this. With these two beautiful girls from two different racesing together, it made the illusion filled with beauty and youth.

    The scene changed, going to a shop that was currently being renovated.

    A human and a beastmen were sweating from the hard work they were doing, looking like they were burning up.

    When the scene focused on them, a young human man wearing the uniform of the shop came out with a small Magic Fan and ced it not far away from the two of them, turning on the switch.

    There was a cool breeze that came from the Magic Fan which made the two of them reveal refreshed looks.

    The beastman workerughed, ¡°Frestech Brand Magic Fan, it¡¯s just this strong!¡±

    The scene changed again......

    ......

    The scene kept changing and no matter what scene it was, it was rted to the Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    After seeing these illusions, even people who didn¡¯t know anything about the Frestech Brand household magic machines would have a deep impression of it and some understanding.

    Russell didn¡¯t care about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines at first, but after seeing these scenes, he couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Butparing it, what he cared more about was the illusion itself.

    ¡°Such arge illusion, how is it made?¡± As the Magic Sedan kept going down, finally entering the Slight Dream Forest and the illusions disappeared, Russell couldn¡¯t help asking ambassador Hakanin beside him.

    ¡°It¡¯s an illusion made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector. Sir Russell, what you saw was their newest advertisement for the household magic machines. It was made for people who don¡¯t know about household magic machines.¡±

    Ambassador Hakanin came here frequently and adding in his cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when it came to household magic machines, he had a clear understanding.

    ¡°Magic Illusion Projector? Illusions?¡± Russell muttered, ¡°These things really are amazing, it can project such a clear illusion of what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to show.¡± After pausing, he asked, ¡°Can this thing be bought?¡±

    ¡°It can, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started selling this thing a long time ago, but because it is too expensive and there isn¡¯t much to watch, it doesn¡¯t seem to be selling well.¡± After saying this, ambassador Hakanin had a strange look on his face, ¡°Speaking of this.....It should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s only failed new product? No matter what product the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released before, it would always sell out.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Russell couldn¡¯t help raising a brow.

    If it really was as ambassador Hakanin said, that all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new products all sold well, it really was amazing.

    But thinking about his own reason for this trip, Russell had to admit that the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a charm that people indeed couldn¡¯t resist.

    Otherwise, how could hee all the way from the Candra Empire to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to negotiate with them?

    The Magic Sedan Russell and ambassador Hakanin road flew across this smooth road and it didn¡¯t take long before they drove out of the Slight Dream Forest.

    A city that couldn¡¯t be seen anywhere else on the continent appeared at the end of the road.

    Even if it was his second time seeing this city, Russell was still shocked when he saw it.

    It had only been a year since hisst time here, but this small city had greatly changed.

    Not only did it be bigger, to the point where it couldn¡¯t be called a ¡°small city¡± anymore, there were many more tall buildings and many more roads running through it.

    There were countless Magic Cars driving across those roads, entering and exiting the city, making it seem even more lively.

    After driving into the city, the city seemed even more different than the other cities on the continent.

    For example, each street in this city was iparably wide. They were at least twenty meters wide at the narrowest. There were also pedestrian sidewalks on the sides parallel to the streets, looking very neat.

    Also for example, at every fifty meters on each street of the city was a green stic trash bin that was filled with the style of the elves. If pedestrians had any trash, they could just throw them into the bins.

    This made the streets exceptionally clean, not as messy as the streets of the other cities.

    Also for example, the various streets on the sides of the stores and the various different races of the people in the streets. It enabled all kinds of clothing and all kinds of different products toplement the liveliness of this city.

    For example......

    ......

    Russell looked around from the Magic Sedan. Although he felt that he couldn¡¯t adapt this style, he had to admit that this city was filled with a shocking attraction from inside to outside.

    Compared to this city, all the other cities on the continent all seemed like they were backwards.

    Even the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City, which was known as the most prosperous city on the continent. Compared to this city, it even paled slightly inparison.

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder people say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is like apany from another world. Seeing this city, it really does feel like another world.¡± Russell couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Ambassador Hakanin looked at Russell in surprise before giving a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s that exaggerated. But I¡¯ve been with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time and I¡¯m already used to it. But that is right, when I go back to Wimbledon City each time, I feel like I can¡¯t adapt because everything in Wimbledon City.....Ke, seems backwards. Look, there isn¡¯t even running water in Wimbledon City, it¡¯s just too inconvenient! Also there¡¯s no street lights at night, so there¡¯s no meaning when you go out. Also......¡±

    Hearing ambassador Hakaninining about Wimbledon City, Russell was silent.

    He had to admit that ambassador Hakanin¡¯s variousints about Wimbledon City did exist and that it was inconvenient.

    But before this, all the cities on the continent were like this. Wimbledon was already considered the most prosperous city on the continent and there were many parts that were above the other cities.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because of the city they made, Wimbledon City had appeared inferior.

    ¡°Perhaps......Wimbledon City.....No, the entire Candra Empire must face the reality that the times are changing.¡± Russell slowly looked up at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sign that kept appearing on both sides of the street as he gave a sigh in his heart.

    The Magic Sedan passed several more streets and it came to the building where Russell met Xu Yist time.

    But after getting out of the Magic Sedan, there wasn¡¯t the Magic Airship waiting for Russell. There was only a young girl in the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce waiting for him.

    Compared tost time, the reception this time was much morecking.

    But Russell didn¡¯t mind at all.

    Last time it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce contacting the Candra Empire, but this time it was Russell representing the Candra Empire that wanted to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the change in initiative, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce adopting this stance was natural.

    ¡°Is chairman Xu still meeting me on the roof?¡± Looking up at the building that was over twenty meters tall, Russell had a bit of worry in his heart as he asked this.

    If it was the roof and he had to take the stairs, it really would waste too much energy.

    ¡°Yes, pleasee with me.¡± The youngdy revealed a sweet smile as her words crushed the hopes in Russell¡¯s heart.

    But when she brought him in, they didn¡¯t go to the stairs and went to the corner where there was a pair of doors that were closed, ¡°Sir Russell, please take the Magic Elevator up.¡±

    ¡°Magic Elevator?¡± Russell was stunned. The metal doors in front of him opened and there was a small space that was revealed.

    The young miss invited him in and after Russell paused for a second, he braced himself as he went in.

    The young miss and ambassador Hakanin confidently went in which made him feel assured.

    After a while, the doors closed. Russell felt a slight jolt and then the metal floor under him began to rise.

    After feeling a bit dizzy from the sudden start and stop, Russell revealed a faint smile and shook his head.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it really did have all kinds of strange things.

 Volume 5 112 - Large price gap

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 112 Large price gap</strong>

    The metal doors slowly opened and the first thing Russell saw was the faint smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    ¡°Sir Russell, I really am happy being able to see you again.¡± Xu Yi came forward with his smile, also taking the time to give a nod to ambassador Hakanin on the side.

    Russell calmed himself and came out of the Magic Elevator, reaching a hand out to Xu Yi with a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I am also very happy to see you again. Last time, because it was our first meeting, we couldn¡¯t talk too deeply so I hope that we can have a proper talk this time.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes before nodding with a smile, ¡°Sir Russell, if you¡¯re willing to have a proper talk with me, I naturally wee that. But I wonder, are the people behind you also prepared?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi be this direct, Russell no longer wanted to waste words. He said with a nod, ¡°Since I¡¯m here this time, of course they are prepared. Chairman Xu, I think that you¡¯ll be very satisfied with our talks this time.¡±

    ¡°That really is great.¡± Xu Yi gave a happy smile before shaking Russell¡¯s hand even harder, ¡°Being able to have a friendly talk with the honoured navy of the Candra Empire, I really couldn¡¯t wish for more.¡±

    After exchanging greetings, Xu Yi led Russell and ambassador Hakanin to the table that had been prepared.

    After the three had lunch, Kennard appeared at the right time and ambassador Hakanin gave his farewells before leaving with Kennard.

    Every time he came here, he would order a batch of new household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As the household magic machines became more and more popr in Wimbledon City, ambassador Hakanin had been increasing the amount of his order each time.

    Last time his household magic machine order reached over eight hundred thousand gold coins. This time, ording to the n in his heart, he would be ordering at least a million gold coins worth of cargo.

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only found ambassador Hakanin at first as a channel to open the Candra Empire with, he had now be an important partner of theirs.

    After working with ambassador Hakanin all these times, Xu Yi found that although ambassador Hakanin himself was normal, when it came to his integrity for business, he was considered a pretty good partner.

    So with his instructions, the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and ambassador Hakanin became closer and closer.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only provided ambassador Hakanin with more and more household magic machines, they also gave him various preferential treatment. Xu Yi even considered giving ambassador Hakanin more methods of cooperation.

    For example, the various agricultural magic machines that the Sack Kingdom desperately wanted from Xu Yi. He would have him promote the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines in the Candra Empire.

    To realize this thought, ambassador Hakanin was actually a very good medium.

    After ambassador Hakanin left, Xu Yi had all the service staff leave until there was only Xu Yi and Russell left in this room.

    The two were silent for a bit before Xu Yi said, ¡°Sir Russell, you came alone this time, so how can I believe that you can represent the Candra Empire¡¯s navy?¡±

    Russell wasn¡¯t surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s question, he just said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t you think this question is meaningless? Other than the royal fleet, I think that it¡¯s impossible for others to be interested in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. As for me......although I am very interested, I clearly can¡¯t afford it.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, sir Russell, other than the noble Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, there are actually quite a few people who have shown interest in the guard ship.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Russell clearly didn¡¯t believe this, ¡°I don¡¯t think that other than our Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet, there is another power that needs this kind of guard ship.¡±

    ¡°That might not be so.¡± Xu Yi refuted, ¡°For example, the Marlow Empire¡¯s navy......they would definitely be interested in this guard ship.¡±

    Russell narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi and after a while, his expression became calm and he let out a sigh before shaking his head, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, time is precious, I think that neither of us wants to waste time on this kind of meaningless conversation. I am clearly stating that I am representing our Candra Empire¡¯s royal fleet in hopes of buying some guard ships from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi also revealed a smile, ¡°If you¡¯re sincere in buying it, naturally I wee you. May I ask, sir Russell, how many are you nning on purchasing? I have to say first that ourpany¡¯s production capacity is limited, so if your noble self¡¯s request is too high, we might not be able to meet it in a short period of time.¡±

    The muscles on Russell¡¯s face twitched. After pausing, he said in a slightly dejected voice, ¡°I think that chairman Xu doesn¡¯t need to worry about this. We only want a few guard ships to test them first and if they are satisfying, we can consider buying more guard ships.¡±

    Xu Yi immediately revealed a smile, ¡°I can guarantee that your noble self will be very satisfied with these guard ships.¡±

    Russell wanted to refute this, but he found that he couldn¡¯t find anything to refute this with.

    He had already seen thebat power of the guard ships and had beenpletely subdued.

    If it wasn¡¯t like this, how could he take such arge risk as forcefully submitting the request and approving it in his name?

    It should be known that he would be shouldering arge responsibility.

    If this guard ship didn¡¯t achieve the effects that he had reported, the consequences he would be facing would be serious.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, then let¡¯s return to the topic.¡± Russell continued, ¡°Our side indeed wants to buy guard ships, but we have a big problem with your pricing of the guard ships. The price of two million gold coins per ship, we can¡¯t ept this no matter what.¡±

    Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°Then what is the eptable price for your noble self?¡±

    Russell reached out a palm. ¡°We can ept it if it was five hundred thousand gold coins per ship.¡±

    The smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face froze. After his face twitched a few times, he slowly shook his head, ¡°Impossible. Sir Russell, although it is inevitable that we bargain back and forth when making this transaction, don¡¯t you feel that this price is too excessive?¡±

    ¡°Then what is the lowest price that you can ept?¡± Russell asked back.

    Xu Yi fell silent for a bit before reaching out a finger, ¡°Seeing that this is our first time cooperating, I can give your noble self a discount. This time, each ship will be one hundred thousand gold coins cheaper, which is one million and nine hundred thousand gold coins per ship. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Impossible. This price is just too high, we definitely cannot ept it. Five hundred thousand and we can throw in some more conditions, what does chairman Xu think?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think that there are any conditions you can give that will bridge the gap of one million and four hundred thousand gold coins per ship.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Sir Russell, I feel that both of us are hopeful for this deal, so I hope that your noble self can show some sincerity.¡±

    ¡°If the conditions are to help your Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the Candra Empire?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. He narrowed his eyes to look at Russell for a bit before slowly shaking his head, ¡°I still have to ask sir Russell to rify.¡±

    ###

    Russell¡¯s trip to the Stantine Duchy onlysted three days the first time, but this time he stayed much longer.

    After staying in the Stantine Duchy for seven days, Russell was finally satisfied as he left with ambassador Hakanin.

    When he left, Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give a model of the Magic Ship to Russell as a gift.

    This Magic Ship model was cast from a light alloy and although it was only a model, it was finely made and very firm.

    Xu Yi had used a hammer to hit it in front of Russell twice, but there weren¡¯t any deformations on it at all.

    Russell had happily epted this gift because he knew that Xu Yi was giving him this gift, other thanmemorating the deal between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, it was also using this model to disy the high quality of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel.

    Russell had seen this kind of iron thing before, but how firm and finely made it was was unique.

    Russell believed that this level of steel making, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a secondpany on the Sines Continent that could match them.

    Also when it came to making a model from this alloy, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce this.

    This meant that even if the Candra Empire¡¯s navy received the guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be hard for them to study them and grasp this technology for themselves.

    From a personal perspective, Xu Yi¡¯s gift for him was also a warning to Russell and the Candra Empire¡¯s navy.

    The guard ship could only be bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so if the Candra Empire navy wanted to use the guard ships, they could only cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Russell felt a bit of humiliation and anger in his heart at this.

    But the facts were that he had no other choice.

    Moreover, he was certain that with the high performance of the guard ships, those fellows who had disagreed without experiencing them first definitely wouldn¡¯t be able to find another reason to object after experiencing them.

    So the Candra Empire¡¯s navy had to buy guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and cooperate with them.

    As for feeling a bit of shame, Russell was certain that the navy could ept this kind of cooperation.

    Moreover, Russell felt a bit of anticipation in his heart.

    If they followed the n that Xu Yi proposed, not only would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce aplish their goal, the navy might earn quite a bit from this.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, this was considered a ¡°win-win¡± scenario.

 Volume 5 113 - Conserving energy

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 113 Conserving energy</h4>

    As summer came, the weather gradually became warmer.

    It was different from before, once this year¡¯s May came, everyone was already rushing to buy the Frestech Brand Magic Fans and Magic Air Conditioners.

    Because after the experience the previous years, they knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production was limited. The Magic Fans and Magic Air Conditioners produced each year couldn¡¯t keep up to the demands of the market, so if they wentte, it was likely they wouldn¡¯t be able to buy it at all.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was promoting the new generation of Magic Fans and Magic Air Conditioners. It naturally aroused the attention of everyone and they needed to strike first.

    ording to the advertisement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent in all the major newspapers, the new generation of Magic Fans would be using the Wind Magic Engine technology, which would make the breeze even stronger. It would be working with Water Magic Arrays to bring a chill to the wind blown out by the Magic Fan, making it cooler and feel morefortable.

    Other than this, the new generation Magic Fan would have a stronger breeze because the Magic Array inside would be stronger. It would increase the efficiency of the Magic Array and decrease the energy consumption.

    The Magic Fan before couldst on a high concentration Magic Crystal for three days and the new Magic Fans couldst for four days.

    Although this was only an increase of a single day, when it was umted, one could save quite a bit in their monthly expenses.

    The new Magic Fan and the Magic Air Conditioner had increased in the same areas, they were all focused on strength and energy consumption.

    Moreover, the Magic Air Conditioner was even higher than the Magic Fan, so the energy savings on the new Magic Air Conditioners were more visible.

    ording to a small calction by the ?Banta Times?, it proved that if one was using the Magic Air Conditioner for around eight hours a day, in a single month, they would be able to save three standardized high concentration Magic Crystals.

    With the current pricing of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high concentration Magic Crystals, saving three high concentration Magic Crystals would mean saving on thirty silver coins.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t much, right?¡± Still knitted her brows as she read the Magic Air Conditioner report in the ?Banta Times? and she couldn¡¯t help shaking her head, ¡°It¡¯s just thirty silver coins and that¡¯s for a whole month. For someone that can afford to pay thirty gold coins for a Magic Air Conditioner, they wouldn¡¯t care about this at all.¡±

    Xu Yiughed before shaking his head, ¡°Still, you are someone who doesn¡¯t know hunger. Thirty silver coins per month isn¡¯t a lot? Did you forget that most people in this world can¡¯t even eat their fill?¡±

    Still snappily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°How could they afford a Magic Air Conditioner if they can¡¯t eat their fill? The people who can afford Magic Air Conditioners, would they care about a trivial thirty silver coins a month?¡±

    ¡°The first half is right, but the second half ispletely wrong.¡± Xu Yi said with augh, ¡°In this world, there are many people who are less willing to spend the more money they have. For example, take our dear Great Magician Teli. If he could save thirty silver coins a month, he would definitely be very happy.¡±

    Still gave augh, ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, if Great Magician Teli were to hear this, he would definitely be angry.¡±

    ¡°Rx, he would be happy hearing this because he is that kind of person.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Also, you¡¯ve neglected another problem. Still, it¡¯s just a Magic Air Conditioner that can save you thirty silver coins a month. If you add in Magic Fan, that would be forty silver coins a month. Then if you add in the Magic Stove, the Magic Rice Cooker, the Magic Bread Maker, the Magic Lamp.....and all the other household magic machines that a family uses, don¡¯t you think that the money they would save would be a decent amount each month?¡±

    ¡°But who has that many household magic machines in their house.....¡± Still suddenly stopped.

    She looked at Xu Yi and suddenly realized that Xu Yi waspletely right.

    After developing in the past few years, the concept of household magic machines had already deeply rooted itself in the hearts of the people of the surrounding countries.

    As long as a family was doing decently well, they would buy household magic machines and gradually get more and more kinds of household magic machines until they had aplete set in their home.

    Because once they used the household magic machines, they would realize the benefits they brought. Naturally they would want to buy more household magic machines and make their lives much morefortable.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department¡¯s profit kept increasing over the years, swelling with each passing year. It was all because of the new concept magic room that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce showed everyone being epted by them.

    To enjoy the benefits of these household magic machines, one had to pay the corresponding price.

    Now only did you have to spend quite a few gold coins to buy these household magic machines, when you were using them, you also had to pay for the Magic Crystals that were used to power these household magic machines.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s newspapers had conducted a report on this before. It showed that if a family has all the household magic machines currently on the market, in a normal situation, they would be using sixty to eighty pieces of high concentration Magic Crystals each month.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s pricing for these Magic Crystals, that would be six to eight gold coins per month.

    So these reports had drawn a conclusion.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new concept magic room were without a doubt very solid, but one had to consume a certain amount of energy to enjoy this new method of convenient living.

    Although this view was refuted by many newspapers that even without using household machine machines, there were also many household consumption that one regrly had.

    For example, the traditional way required firewood or coal and it would take quite a long time, so the amount of material consumed wouldn¡¯t be small. Comparing it, it was better to use household magic machines since it was cheaper.

    But because the consumption of the traditional method was hard to quantify and that it was very easy to quantify the consumption of household magic machines, even giving a precise digit, it was clear that household magic machines had a higher consumption.

    Of course, this did not hinder the sale of the household magic machines.

    No matter what the consumption was, the improvement to daily life the household magic machine brought could easily be seen. No one was willing to live the same way as before.

    But if the consumption was lowered, naturally it would be very wee.

    Think about it, just a Magic Air Conditioner saved thirty silver coins a month. If all the household magic machines were added together, the overall consumption that could be saved in a month, wouldn¡¯t that be one or two gold coins?

    In a single year, that might be ten or even twenty gold coins!

    It had to be known, just six or seven years ago, whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom or the Stantine Duchy, the yearly ie of most families would only be just over ten gold coins.

    Thinking of this, Still suddenly understood Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    ¡°Un.....That is right. For normal families, being able to save a bit each month is very necessary.¡± Still nodded. After thinking for a bit, she asked, ¡°But Xu Yi, aren¡¯t you working hard to standardized household magic machines? Now that the otherpanies are finally using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s standardized Magic Crystals, if you raise the slogan of saving energy at this time, wouldn¡¯t it affect the high concentration Magic Crystal sales?

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This was my goal to begin with.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡± Still was confused as she looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi had ced great importance on the Magic Crystal refining technology and had always promoted standardizing the magic machine¡¯s energy source.

    To Still, this was clearlyying the foundation to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sell high concentration Magic Crystals.

    But now it seemed like Xu Yi wanted to reduce the sales of the high concentration Magic Crystals, what reason did he have?

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit, not knowing how to reply to Still.

    The idea of lowering energy consumption was deeply rooted in the mind of a person like Xu Yi who transmigrated from earth. Since he started researching magic machines, he already had this idea.

    Just like how the most popr energy source on earth, fossil fuels were limited, even if the Magic Crystals were found everywhere on the Sines Continent and not worth anything, they were still limited in the end.

    If they didn¡¯t know how to save on consumption, the Magic Crystals would run out one day.

    Even if with the current stock of Magic Crystals on the Sines Continent, that day would take at least a thousand years toe, Xu Yi wanted to build this principle on the continent from the beginning.

    Of course, this was based on considering for the long term.

    The reason for this was the old problem of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, theirck of production capacities.

    Only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could refine high concentration Magic Crystals right now. Because of how important this was right now, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on transferring this technology in the short term.

    It could be seen that for a long time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to take the task of supplying high concentration Magic Crystals for the magic machines.

    Even if Xu Yi ced importance on this, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could increase their high concentration Magic Crystal production, they were far from being able to match the increasing demand for high concentration Magic Crystals.

    ording to the data from the magic research facility, if this trend continued, it would take three years before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production wouldn¡¯t be able to match the market demand.

    If this situation really happened, the consequences would be serious. Not only would it affect the sales of the household magic machines, it would nullify the energy standardization that Xu Yi had worked hard to promote.

    Without high concentration Magic Crystals, manypanies would definitely no longer support this standard.

    Xu Yi¡¯s solution for this issue was divided into two parts.

    One was to strengthen the research into high concentration Magic Crystals, finding a way to increase their production capacity and the energy usage of the high concentration Magic Crystals.

    The other was the brand new concept that he wanted to send to everyone with the new Magic Fan and Magic Air Conditioner.

    Which was conserving energy.

 Volume 5 114 - Second child

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 114 Second child</h4>

    It was a good thing that Still wasn¡¯t that interested in this problem. Seeing that Xu Yi felt a bit awkward, she revealed a smile and didn¡¯t keep pursuing this. She turned her attention to the two people filming not far away in front of them.

    Since the Magic Illusion Projector was released, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce under Xu Yi¡¯s support and guidance and because of Still¡¯s interest had been gradually investing heavily in Magic Illusion Films.

    The first episode of the ?Daily Lives of the New Moon Troupe? was very popr and many cities requested a showing. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce took this chance to film a second and third episode. They also nned on releasing some more rted films and creating a whole series with these films.

    ording to their n, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce would gather all these films together and put them in the same recording box, supplying them to those who bought the Magic Illusion Projector to watch at home.

    When this n was announced, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector had gone from less than two hundred units a month to suddenly reaching three thousand units sold.

    At the same time, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce received over two thousand and five hundred orders for the ?Daily Lives of the New Moon Troupe? series.

    At this time, the ?Daily Lives of the New Moon Troupe? hadn¡¯t even finished filming the fourth episode.

    Still had discovered therge business opportunity hidden in these Magic Illusion Films, so she shifted the attention of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce into filming these films.

    Moreover, she also convinced elder Undine, so with the cooperation of the Azshara Tribe, she was filming a documentary of the daily lives of the Azshara Tribe.

    After it was shown, it was very popr.

    So Still believed Xu Yi¡¯s prediction for the Magic Illusion Projector. She was sure that once this thing appeared, it would bring a new method of entertainment.

    While filming the various documentaries, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce also helped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce film the various advertisements.

    The clip that Russell saw when he entered the Stantine Duchy was made by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. It was to introduce the various household magic machines to people.

    And the two in front of them were filming another important advertisement.

    This advertisement was very simple, it was rted to the new Magic Sedan the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was making, but the people participating weren¡¯t simple.

    Because the main lead was elder Lisanya.

    Seeing elder Lisanya¡¯spletely fire red Frestech Brand Magic Sedan speeding across the road, Still couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi with a strange look.

    When Xu Yi told her that elder Lisanya wanted to film an advertisement, she had been very surprised.

    And now that elder Lisanya had been filming for a while, she still felt that this didn¡¯t seem real.

    Elder Lisanya was the elder of an elf tribe!

    It was fine if she liked racing cars, this could be considered her strange personal hobby. But now that she came here to film an advertisement for countless people, it really would subvert the image of the elves in the minds of everyone.

    One that drove a Magic Sedan at high speeds down a road......this was an elven elder?

    Still believed that as long as this was known, this advertisement would attract countless people¡¯s attention before it was even released.

    ¡°Speaking of this.....Xu Yi, forget about elder Lisanya wanting to film this advertisement, why did she also pull Agnes along?¡± Still looked at the other corner where Agnes was talking to several other elves in a low voice before asking this in a curious voice.

    ¡°Because elder Lisanya feels that Agnes is already the model of humans and elvesing together. She wants many elves to see this advertisement to realize this, so not only is she participating, she pulled along Agnes.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Model? Is it because Agnes is married to you?¡± Still slightly knitted her brows, ¡°Xu Yi, do you think this is good?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing wrong with it?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Agnes is an elf in the end and this is considered something that¡¯s done for the entire elf race, so she has no reason to reject it. Moreover, isn¡¯t she very happy to participate in filming this advertisement?¡±

    ¡°Of course. Once this advertisementes out, I guarantee that she and elder Lisanya will be stars.¡± Still said, ¡°For Agnes, that will definitely be a very new experience.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at Still, ¡°That really is the tone of an experienced person. I say, Still, I guarantee that as long as you¡¯re willing to go out again, you¡¯ll definitely be more popr than Agnes. Even in the current Banta City, you still have the title of Banta Goddess.¡±

    Still gave augh, ¡°How many years ago is that? Our child is already five years old, how could the people of Banta City still treat me as the Banta Goddess.¡±

    Speaking of this, Still seemed to have thought of something.

    ¡°Right, Xu Yi, speaking of children......Whether it is elder Illusia or elder Lisanya, they¡¯ve always cared about your and Agnes¡¯ child very much, but it¡¯s already been two years now, so why hasn¡¯t there been any signs from Agnes yet? To be honest, I actually want to see what a half elf child looks like.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Agnes and I have done everything, but there¡¯s no reaction. I can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because......ke......you¡¯re doing something wrong?¡±

    Xu Yi red at Still, ¡°Hey, is this something a wife says to her husband? As a wife, you¡¯re caring about your husband being with another girl, how does this make sense?¡±

    Still gave augh before reaching out her hand to pinch Xu Yi¡¯s face as she said with a soft snort, ¡°Don¡¯t try this on me. Tell me, I¡¯m very curious.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no use being curious because I also don¡¯t know the reason. Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya care countless times more than you and have asked me countless times, giving me many reference books on humans and elvesing together in history, but.....it¡¯s all useless.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do? Could it be that you and Agnes really can¡¯t give birth to a half elf child?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and turned to look at Agnes with a wide smile who didn¡¯t seem to have any worries. He shook his head and said, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, we¡¯ll see what the heavens arrange.¡±

    Still slightly knit her brows to look at Agnes for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not worry about Agnes for now. What about Betty and Carol? You¡¯ve never touched them, could it be that you just want them to stay that way?¡±

    ¡°Is there anything wrong with this?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Seveni forced those two onto me, so I have to respect their wishes.¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi for a while before giving a sigh while shaking her head. She reached a finger out to tap Xu Yi¡¯s forehead.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you are a gentle man and I like that, but do you know that if your kindness is excessive, it would actually hurt people? Betty and Carol are already yours, no one can change this. If you never touch them, do you know how much pain they feel? Did you forget about what happened with Liz and Linda?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows, ¡°Still, are you.....encouraging me to.....ke.....go to them and.....be with them?¡±

    Still red at Xu Yi before saying in a low voice, ¡°That¡¯s right! I want you to go and find a chance to be with them, the sooner the better! Otherwise, if you keep dying, you¡¯ll hurt them more!¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows as he looked at Still for a while. He then put his hands on her face and looked right into her eyes as he asked in a gentle voice, ¡°Still, what¡¯s wrong? Although you¡¯ve always been very open minded, I know that you aren¡¯t willing to let me be with other girls. I¡¯m not willing to touch Betty and Carol because of you, but why are you now......asking me to touch them? Something must have happened, tell me.¡±

    Still lowered her eyes and avoided Xu Yi¡¯s gaze.

    After a while, there was a blush that appeared on her face.

    Xu Yi was very curious.

    He and Still had known each other for over seven years and they had been married for close to six years, they were already considered an old couple. Why would she feel embarrassed in front of him?

    When he wanted to keep asking, Still suddenly spoke in a very soft voice.

    ¡°Because I......won¡¯t be able to satisfy you for a long time. I.....I¡¯m pregnant again.....¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still in a daze and he only reacted after a while, ¡°You......You¡¯re pregnant?¡±

    Still slowly nodded, ¡°Un, I noticed something was offst month, so I went to check and it was confirmed I¡¯m pregnant. Counting the time, it should already be the third month.¡±

    Xu Yi silently calcted in his heart, ¡°This means that if nothing unexpected happens, at the end of this year or by the start of next year, we¡¯ll have our second child?¡±

    ¡°Un......¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before immediately feeling the wild joy filling his heart.

    After Still gave birth to Freya, there had been nothing in the past five years. This made Xu Yi think that Still couldn¡¯t give birth to another child.

    But now that Still had suddenly given him this pleasant surprise, he didn¡¯t know how to react.

    After being stunned for a while, Xu Yi finally couldn¡¯t take the wild joy in his heart and broke out inughter.

    Xu Yi¡¯sughter spread all over, making everyone present turn over to him.

    When everyone saw Xu Yi who couldn¡¯t stopughing and Still who standing beside him with a red face, they all felt a bit confused.

    Sir chairman.....did something good happen to him?

 Volume 5 115 - Grateful to the FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 115 Grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    ¡°Ding ling ling.¡±

    The door to the small tavern was suddenly pushed open and a hot st of air hit the cool breeze that was blowing around the small tavern, causing the wind chimes that hung over the door to ring.

    Severalrge men who were sitting by the door drinking their ice cold beer suddenly broke out in a sweat and couldn¡¯t help cursing.

    ¡°Hey, I say, old Johan, you really should hurry up and buy a Magic Air Conditioner. Just with these two outdated first generation Magic Fans, how can you keep it cool in here?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, look at how we¡¯re dying from the heat sitting here. I told you, if you aren¡¯t willing to spend a bit of money to buy a Magic Air Conditioner, your old customers might all run off.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, there was a new tavern that opened up recently. Their store has three Magic Air Conditioners in there. I went in the other day and that was called cold, it was simply refreshing drinking beer there. If I wasn¡¯t used to being here and all my old friends are here, I wouldn¡¯t havee today.¡±

    ......

    Hearing theints of his customers, old Johan revealed a simple smile and replied with a nod, ¡°Alright, alright, alright, I¡¯ll get one in here tomorrow and you¡¯ll definitely feel much morefortable. We¡¯re all old friends, of course I¡¯ll satisfy you if you want something.¡±

    ¡°Right, old Johan, speaking of buying a Magic Air Conditioner, you should buy the Frestech Brand.¡± One of the men said.

    Old Johan revealed a bit of hesitation, ¡°Frestech Brand? But the Frestech Brand is more expensive than the others......¡±

    ¡°Che, you don¡¯t understand. Don¡¯t look at the higher price of the Frestech Brand, it¡¯s easier to use. Let me tell you, I had two neighbours who bought Magic Air Conditioners the year beforest. One of them bought the Frestech Brand and the other bought.....What was it called.....It seems to be the Thornes Brand, anyway it was an off brand Magic Air Conditioner. Can you guess what happened? The one that bought the Frestech Brand is still using it well and the one that bought the Thornes Brand, it already stopped working the summer beforest.¡±

    There wasughter filled with schadenfreude that filled the tavern.

    ¡°Ha, ha, he deserves it for being petty enough to buy those random brand Magic Air Conditioners. If you want to buy a household magic machine, it should be the Frestech Brand.¡±

    ¡°Un, old Johan, stop hesitating. You should take the chance that the hottest part of summer isn¡¯t here yet to quickly buy it, or you won¡¯t even be able to get one if you keep waiting.¡±

    ¡°Right, I read in the newspapers that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is engaging in promoting energy efficiency right now. As long as you exchange an old Frestech Brand household magic machine, you can get a discount. Old Johan, take these two Magic Fans back and you should be able to get a bit of a discount.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Old Johan looked at the two Magic Fans that were blowing and he lost some of the unwillingness in his heart.

    He had already bought these two Magic Fans for over three years now and they¡¯ve been with him for three years, never causing him any problems. He had already gotten used to them.

    But thinking of how exchanging for a Magic Air Conditioner would make the tavern cooler and morefortable, he could only reluctantly ept it.

    He had already run this tavern for many years and although he had guests and his business wasn¡¯t bad, he had never gotten rich.

    Otherwise, he would have directly bought two Magic Air Conditioners.

    Thinking of how much it would cost to buy the Magic Air Conditioners, old Johan came to the table of the customers that had just walked in.

    ¡°These customers, what do you want to order?¡±

    Old Johan looked over them and with his experience of opening the tavern for many years, he could tell that these customers weren¡¯t normal people.

    Although they had juste in, they didn¡¯t have any dust on their clothes or their shoes, lookingpletely clean. It could be seen that they used a decent method of transportation.

    This was a small town that was not far from the border between the Drake Duchy and the Falk Kingdom. These guests clearly were not from the Drake Duchy, so they should be from the Falk Kingdom.

    The Falk Kingdom didn¡¯t have as many Magic Sedans as the Drake Kingdom, so their method of transport should by the traditional horse carriage that was clearly made from excellent materials without much decoration that was currently outside the tavern,

    ¡°Just bring a few dishes over.¡± A young man who had a normal looking face and looked to be around thirty waved his hand as he casually said this, ¡°If you have some good wine, bring some over as well,¡±

    ¡°Alright, please wait a minute.¡±

    Old Johan passed this onto the kitchen before taking out two bottles of good ale from the Magic Refrigerator behind the counter, bringing them over with a few cups.

    ¡°Yi?¡± These people looked at the bottles of ale and found a slight chilling from them, even having ayer of frost over the bottle, revealing looks of surprise.

    ¡°Hey, boss, I never thought that an ordinary shop like yours would actually have an ice room.¡± A middle aged man who looked to be around forty couldn¡¯t help giving this praise.

    Without waiting for old Johan to reply, the man who had just urged old Johan to buy a Magic Air Conditioner turned over and gave augh.

    ¡°I say, where did you guyse from? You don¡¯t even know about the Magic Refrigerator? Who still needs an ice room in this age? They are simply falling behind, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    There was a wave ofughter that was filled with taunting that filled the tavern.

    The expression of the young man who ordered the food changed. When he wanted to say something, he was stopped by the middle aged man.

    Looking at the chilled ale, the middle aged customer asked old Johan, ¡°Boss, can you exin what this Magic Refrigerator is? Also what are the Magic Fan and the Magic Air Conditioner that you just talked about?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, it really is a hick who came from who knows where, they don¡¯t know a thing.¡±

    ¡°Rocky, close your mouth and drink your wine!¡± Without waiting for these customers to get angry, old Johan turned to scold the man before turning back with a smile, ¡°These customers, it¡¯s very troublesome to exin these things. Please look at how many customers there are, I¡¯m still very busy......¡±

    The middle aged man revealed a smile before reaching into his chest to take out two gold coins, slowly putting it on the table.

    Old Johan¡¯s eyes lit up and seeing the middle aged man nod, his right hand went across the table as he revealed a smile, causing the two gold coins to disappear without a trace. Then he pulled over a chair to sit down before giving a cough and saying, ¡°This Magic Refrigerator can be used to cool things. The Magic Fan, there, there are two over there......¡±

    ......

    Old Johan spoke while the middle aged customer asked questions.

    After half an hour, old Johan had finally exined the uses of these household magic machines.

    In the beginning, the middle aged customer was only interested in the household magic machines, but as he asked more questions, the topic began focusing on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Knowing that all the household magic machines on the market were all developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the middle aged man and hispanions all revealed surprised looks.

    ¡°This means.....this Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is amazing.¡± The middle aged man couldn¡¯t help praising, ¡°It¡¯s just a singlepany, but it can make all these new products, even control an entire new industry with just a singlepany. This really is too shocking.¡±

    ¡°Of course, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t be considered amazing, there isn¡¯t a single amazingpany on the entire continent!¡±

    The man named Rocky cut in once again.

    Seeing the proud look on his face, it was like praising the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was like praising him.

    ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could our Drake Duchy be this good? How could I have found such good work?¡±

    While Rocky said this, he raised the cup in his hand and gave a toast in the southwest direction.

    ¡°Come, cheers! Respecting the amazing Frestech Chamber of Commerce! I thank them for giving me a new life!¡±

    ¡°Oh!¡±

    What was surprising was that the men drinking with Rocky all raised their cups and shouted out at the same time.

    Seeing this scene, thepanions of the middle aged man opened their eyes in shock.

    The middle aged man was still considered calm, but he was still considered very surprised. Looking at Rocky¡¯s group, he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    ¡°Ah, this really is exaggerated. Hey, boss Johan, can you tell me what work the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought Rocky that he is this grateful to them?¡±

    Johan looked at Rocky¡¯s group who were clearly drunk and shook his head in an emotional manner before saying with a sigh, ¡°Of course he has to thank the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Three years ago, he was a pitiful fellow who couldn¡¯t even feed his children, but now he makes up to twenty gold coins a month. Adding in the ten gold coins a month his wife makes, his family¡¯s lives arepletely different from before. This was all given to him by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could he not be grateful to them?¡±

    ¡°Up to twenty gold coins a month?¡± The middle aged man revealed a shock that couldn¡¯t be hidden at all, ¡°He should only be amoner, right? What work can give him that much money?¡±

    ¡°Hey, it isn¡¯t anything special, he¡¯s just a skilled worker in one of the joint investment factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened. The skilled workers in those factories earn at least ten gold coins a month and he¡¯s the most skilled, so he naturally earns the most.¡± Old Johan replied.

    ¡°Skilled workers?¡± The middle aged man had an idea. He picked up the ale that was no longer cold from the heat in the tavern and came to Rocky¡¯s side, filling up his ss.

    Rocky looked at him in surprise and gave a drunken burp before asking, ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    The middle aged man revealed a faint smile, ¡°Hello, can I have a chat with you?¡±

 Volume 5 116 - Willful Seymour

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 116 Willful Seymour</h4>

    Half an hourter, the customers who cameter came out of the tavern.

    The middle aged man who was around thirty and had ordered the dishes looked at the dead drunk Rocky and his group in the tavern and slightly knitted his brows. He came to the side of the middle aged man in front and said in a low voice, ¡°Lord Marquis, to talk to thesemoners who know nothing, it really is a waste of time. I feel that we should see Duke Drake directly and ask him your questions, it should be much easier than this.¡±

    The middle aged customer turned to look at him and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Knows nothing? Dear Seymour, did you forget that you were justughed at for being a hick?¡±

    Seymour¡¯s expression froze before he angrily said, ¡°Pei! Those despicable fellows, they dare call me a hick! If this was our Marlow Empire, I would definitely make them pay for this!¡±

    The middle aged customer shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Seymore, your father had you follow me just to let you gain some experience and discipline your mind. If you keep acting like this, I can only have someone send you back.¡±

    Seymour was stunned and opened his mouth to refute, but then he lowered his head.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Marquis. You are right, I know my mistakes.¡±

    The middle aged customer looked back at the tavern he walked out of and narrowed his eyes before letting out an emotional sigh.

    ¡°They are indeedmoners, but to say they know nothing, at least when ites to magic machines, we can¡¯tpare to them. If we didn¡¯t identally learn about magic machines in the Falk Kingdom this time, we might still know nothing. But now that I know more about these things, I really can¡¯t help being surprised. These strange magic machines, why did no one ever think of them before?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that no one hasn¡¯t and there are many magicians who studied magic tools before, but those magicians mainly studied useful weapons. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is actually developing things that can improve people¡¯s daily lives.¡± Seymour said.

    ¡°That is the amazing part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± The middle aged man praised, ¡°Other magicians never thought of this, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did. So now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has seeded, they¡¯ve be the richest and most influentialpany in the surrounding small countries. Moreover, listening to what Rocky said, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products came from the creativity of their chairman. If this is true, the chairman allied Xu Yi really is an outstanding person.¡±

    Seymour looked at the middle aged man in surprise.

    He was clear that although this Lord Marquis was always amiable, being friendly and gentle withmoners, he still had his pride. He would rarely give praise to other people.

    Now that he had given this Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman such a high appraisal before even meeting him, this really was rare.

    After thinking about it, Seymour asked, ¡°I think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t that powerful. They can create such a stir in the small countries over these years because the powerful magicians don¡¯t ce importance on these magic machines, so they could create a monopoly. When the other powerful magicians turn their attention to this, I think that they won¡¯t be anything.¡±

    ¡°Fool!¡± The middle aged man didn¡¯t hold back as he scolded Seymour, ¡°Could it be that you haven¡¯t noticed from the stories over these past few days? How big are the benefits hidden in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines? In front of such benefits, which magician could resist? Until now, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t anotherpany that can develop magic machines. Do you think it¡¯s that simple?¡±

    ¡°Humph, these are only a few small countries, what powerful magicians could they have? If the truly powerful Arch Magi of our Marlow Empire were to study these things, they could easily defeat this Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Seymour still wasn¡¯t convinced.

    The middle aged man looked at him and didn¡¯t keep scolding him.

    Although this Seymour was thirty three years old this year, he had always been protected by his mother, so his mentality wasn¡¯t mature and it wasn¡¯t strange that he had thepetitive spirit of a young man.

    Bringing him out this time was to discipline his spirit.

    As for ¡®easily defeating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯ that he mentioned......

    For Marquis Dayolen Southgate who had been gathering information on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the past few days, he definitely didn¡¯t think so.

    Perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence was limited to these small countries in the southwest corner of the continent, so they couldn¡¯tpare to the toppanies like the Chimera Chamber of Commerce with the Candra Empire behind them or the Setting Sun Chamber of Commerce with the Marlow Empire behind them, thispany that could appear from out of nowhere and grow to this scale in just seven years definitely couldn¡¯t be looked down on.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different from any traditionalpany of the Sines Continent. They could actually operate in the magic tools domain which was considered the domain of magicians previously.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop these magic machines that even normal people could easily use, which turned magic that was noble and mysterious that normal people couldn¡¯t understand normally into something ordinary.

    Just based on this, they had vited themon concepts of all the magicians on the continent.

    After experiencing the convenience brought by the Magic Refrigerator and the Magic Fan in the tavern just now, Marquis Southgate had to admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached a perfect step with these magic machines.

    These two household magic machines didn¡¯t just have splendid abilities, they were also very simple to use.

    A normal person would know nothing about magic, but they didn¡¯t need to know anything about magic to use this household magic machine. They just needed to know how to use it and which buttons to press to use it.

    In the tavern just now, out of his curiosity, Marquis Southgate had tested how to use the Magic Fan with the instructions of the tavern owner. He found that it was indeed very simple and even a child could easily use it.

    It had to be said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could make something as simple as this mysterious magic machine, it really was extraordinary.

    ¡°Sir Marquis, where are we going now?¡± The driver who had brought the horse carriage over asked Marquis Southgate.

    Marquis Southgate thought for a bit before pointing out the town, ¡°Let¡¯s go and see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s joint investment factory outside the town.¡±

    Seymour on the side knit his brows, wanting to say that it was a waste of time, but he didn¡¯t dare say it in the end.

    When the two were about to get in the horse carriage, there was a noise that came from behind.

    The two turned back in a daze and they saw apletely ck monster that was shining under the sun quickly heading towards them.

    In the blink of an eye, the monster that seemed to be made of steel passed by the two of them with a gust of wind. Then it created a violent draft as it headed past them, disappearing at the end of the road.

    ¡°Damn! Viscount Lando¡¯s boy is racing in town again, how many times is this!¡±

    ¡°Damn, that kid almost hit someonest time and he still dares to do this! When her highnesses, I want to see how she takes care of him!¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it buying a new Magic Sedan, what is he so wild for. When father bes rich, I¡¯ll buy one too. I¡¯ll follow him all day and see how arrogant he acts!¡±

    ......

    There were sounds behind them, which were the customers that came out of the tavern who had just seen the beast fly by.

    Marquis Southgate suddenly had an idea as he turned to ask, ¡°Is this the Magic Car?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah, yes, this is the Magic Car.¡± The people in the tavern had been asked questions for a while, so they had a deep impression of the generous Marquis Southgate and they answered when they heard this. Then they felt something was off before adding, ¡°No, no, this is the Magic Sedan. Although it is a kind of Magic Car, there are many kinds of Magic Cars. Other than Magic Sedans, there are also transport Magic Cars and passenger Magic Cars.¡±

    ¡°Oh......¡± Marquis Southgate gave a nod. He wanted to keep asking, but he felt that it wasn¡¯t a good time to do so, so he gave up this idea.

    After the customers left, Marquis Southgate looked down to find that there was quite a bit of dust on him from the Magic Sedan that had passed and he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°That kid Seymour has a bit of mysophobia, he¡¯ll be unhappy after this.¡±

    Marquis Southgate turned to look at Seymour, but he didn¡¯t hear anyints at all. Rather, he saw him looking in the direction the Magic Sedan had disappeared in like he was stunned.

    ¡°Could it be that he was scared witless?¡± Marquis Southgate was a bit worried as he came in front of Seymour and seeing his dazed look, he raised his hand to wave it in front of his face, ¡°Hey, Seymour, are you alright?¡±

    Seymour gradually came back to his senses and slowly returned to normal.

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....I¡¯m fine, I¡¯m fine......¡±

    ¡°Then this is......¡± Marquis Southgate was confused as he looked at him.

    Seymour blinked before revealing an excited look. He pointed in the direction the Magic Sedan disappeared in and said in a loud voice, ¡°Uncle Dayolen, did you see it? Did you see it?¡±

    Marquis Southgate was even more confused.

    Was this kid so incited? He actually forgot his father¡¯s words and changed how he called him.

    ¡°See what?¡±

    ¡°See that.....that......¡±

    ¡°Magic Sedan?¡±

    ¡°Right, did you see that Magic Sedan? It¡¯s simply too cool! Too handsome! I¡¯ve never thought in this world there would be such a fast horse.....No, it isn¡¯t a horse carriage. In short, that carriage! I never thought that a carriage would run that fast! I don¡¯t care, uncle Dayolen, I must get one!¡±

    Looking at the excited look on Seymour¡¯s face, Marquis Southgate felt a bit of a headachee on.

    This fellow had been spoiled by his mother, so once he became willful, he didn¡¯t care about anything else.

    If this was a normal situation, Marquis Southgate would berate him, but hearing Seymour¡¯s request, Marquis Southgate thought of a good idea.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Marquis Southgate patted Seymour¡¯s shoulder with a smile and said with a kind look, ¡°Since you want it, it¡¯s very simple. We¡¯ll just go and buy one.¡±

 Volume 5 117 - Filios New City

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 117 Filios New City</h4>

    Strictly speaking, the Drake Duchy was a duchy and didn¡¯t have a capital.

    But Filios City where the Duke Manor was located was naturally considered the political and economic center of the Drake Duchy.

    The Drake Duchy wasn¡¯t considered big, so Filios City naturally wasn¡¯t that big either.

    Not topare to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Anvilmar City, even whenpared to how small Banta City was before, it could only be considered a small city that could be found anywhere on the Sines Continent.

    So when Marquis Southgate and Seymore saw the city walls from afar, they couldn¡¯t help looking disappointed.

    They had seen many things in the Drake Duchy that had opened their eyes along the way, so they were filled with anticipation towards Filios City that was considered the most developed city in the Drake Duchy. But when they saw it with their own eyes, they were just too disappointed.

    However, the Magic Sedan they were in didn¡¯t head to the city walls. It clearly went around it, meaning to bypass this city.

    Seymour was surprised as he asked the driver of the Magic Sedan they hired, ¡°Hey, where are you taking us?¡±

    The driver looked at him in the rear view mirror before replying with a smile, ¡°This customer, didn¡¯t youe to buy a Magic Sedan? You can¡¯t buy it in the old city district, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has set up their shop in the new city district, so I¡¯m bring you there.¡±

    ¡°New city district?¡± Seymour muttered before looking at Marquis Southgate.

    Marquis Southgate gave a nod for him to wait patiently.

    Seymour didn¡¯t keep asking and saw back down in his seat.

    Feeling thefort from the seating under him, Seymour couldn¡¯t help letting out a satisfied moan.

    If it was said that he waspletely shocked by the speed of the Magic Sedan when he saw it pass by him for the first time in the town, now that he had experienced this Magic Sedan, his heart was filled with even more praise for it.

    Not to mention how it was countless times faster than the traditional horse carriages, just based on howfortable it was to sit in it, the Magic Sedan had already far surpassed horse carriages.

    He had ridden in luxurious horse carriages that were better than the ones the duke¡¯s family rode in the Marlow Empire. Although the materials used for the horse carriage were the best, even having the softest wool nkets, when it came tofort, it was far surpassed by this Magic Sedan.

    Of course, this Magic Sedan making him feel asfortable as sitting on the sofa in his home was mostly because of the exceptionally smooth road under him.

    This was Seymour¡¯s first time seeing such a smooth road and as the Magic Sedan drove across it, he didn¡¯t feel a single bump.

    Compared to when they came from the Marlow Empire over those bumpy stone roads, it waspletely different. On this trip, Seymour and Marquis Southgate slept quite a bit from thefort of the ride.

    After having experienced this journey personally, Seymour secretly made a decision.

    He would definitely buy a Magic Sedan and ordingly, he would also make several of these roads once he went back to the Marlow Empire.

    Otherwise, even if he had the Magic Sedan, it wouldn¡¯t be as smooth driving over those crushed stone roads.

    The Magic Sedan with the two of them maintained a speed of around fifty kilometers an hour, quickly bypassing the city walls around the old city district.

    Marquis Southgate and Seymour looked out the ss and they couldn¡¯t help taking a deep breath.

    In front of them, there were buildings that they couldn¡¯t see the end of.

    These buildings were simr to the traditional wooden buildings of the Sines Continent, these were stone buildings that were over ten meters tall.

    In the most conspicuous ce, there were three buildings that reached into the sky, looking very magnificent.

    Between these buildings, there were long, wide, and smooth roads paved, neatly diving this giant new city district into neat regions.

    Along the sides of the roads, there were iron poles that stood at fixed distance and there were artistic Magic Lamps hanging at the peak of every iron pole.

    They had seen these Magic Lamps before, they should be from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Seymour curiously asked the driver and learned that these so-called ¡°streetmps¡± would light up each night and light the roads.

    Hearing the exnation of the driver, Marquis Southgate and Seymour couldn¡¯t help praising them in their hearts.

    Not mentioning anything else in this Filios City, just these streetmps had surpassed all the other cities on the continent.

    ¡°Ha, ha, you haven¡¯t seen much.¡± Who would have thought that the driver would break out inughter after hearing their sighs and shook his head to deny their thoughts, ¡°Let me tell you, these streetmps started first in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Banta City, only then did other cities follow their example. Our Filios City is already quitete in building these things.¡±

    ¡°This Banta City first using the streetmps, was it because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Seymour asked.

    He had heard many things about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the way and it became very clear that many things began in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Banta City.

    ¡°Un, this thing was proposed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, so Banta City implemented it first. Then after everyone found how useful it was, they all learned from them.¡±

    ¡°It seems like......This Frestech Chamber of Commerce with just the Magic Lamps and streetmps has already changed many cities.¡± Marquis Southgate gave a sigh before looking at the three tall buildings in the distance and asked, ¡°What are those three tall buildings? Were they also built by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? The Drake Duchy never could have built such tall buildings before, right?¡±

    ¡°Three buildings? No, no, no, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only makes magic machines, they didn¡¯t build those three buildings, rather it was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. But if you say that it is rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that is right. After all, those three buildings were mainly built of cement and reinforced steel beams, as well as a bunch of construction magic machines provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Cement? Steel beams? Construction magic machines?¡± This was Marquis Southgate and Seymour¡¯s first time hearing these words, so they couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Marquis Southgate looked at those three buildings again and couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce really did make one wonder. Each time he thought that he had an understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there would be something new that made him realize he was wrong.

    Marquis Southgate suddenly felt that the decision toe investigate the Drake Duchy after seeing those strange magic machines in the Falk Kingdom couldn¡¯t be more correct.

    If he could understand the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he might earn quite a bit from this trip.

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯re here.¡±

    The Magic Sedan suddenly slowed down before it finally came to a stop.

    Marquis Southgate and Seymour looked out, finding that they had arrived at a building that took quite a bit of space.

    Looking out the window, they saw arge sign hanging on the entrance of the building which had therge words ¡°Frestech Product Service Center¡± written on it.

    ¡°Hey, we want to buy Magic Sedans, what did youe here for?¡± Seymour couldn¡¯t help saying.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this is the ce to buy Magic Sedans.¡± The driver opened the door for the two of them with a smile.

    Marquis Southgate and Seymour came out. There were two more Magic Sedans that stopped by them and the group Marquis Southgate had brought came out of the Magic Sedans.

    They had been riding in two traditional horse carriages on the way from the Falk Kingdom, but then they experienced the Magic Sedans in the small town. They asked around and found that there was apany that specialized in renting Magic Sedans, so they left their horse carriage in the small town and changed to three Magic Sedans, as well as hiring drivers.

    It had to be said, this decision not only made their trip much morefortable, it saved them quite a bit of time.

    The small border town was a hundred kilometers away from Filios City, so if they took the horse carriage, it would take them half a day toe here.

    But after changing to these Magic Sedans, it only took them two hours.

    After Marquis Southgate looked over this building that took over ten thousand square meters, he gave a nod, ¡°Let¡¯s go in and take a look.¡±

    Their group walked in the front and when the transparent ss door opened, there was a beautiful young girl who came forward.

    Everyone looked at this young girl and they were stunned.

    ¡°This......This is a beastman?¡±

    Seymour looked at the furry rabbit ears on the head of the young girl and he couldn¡¯t help reaching his hand to touch it to see if it was real, but he was pped back by Marquis Southgate.

    ¡°Pay attention to how you act, Seymour.¡± Marquis Southgate reprimanded him before revealing an apologetic smile to the girl, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, this beautiful beastmen miss, you must have been scared.¡±

    The beastmen girl was indeed a bit scared by Seymour¡¯s action, but seeing this noble middle aged man who she could tell wasn¡¯t a normal person with a single look seriously apologizing to her, she immediately forgot about this matter. She quickly waved her hand and said, ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s fine. This.....Eh.....These customers, may I ask if you need any help?¡±

 Volume 5 118 - Can you control this?

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 118 Can you control this?</h4>

    Before Marquis Southgate replied, Seymour had looked around and found that there were several Magic Sedans in the hall. He gave a cheer and charged off towards them.

    Marquis Southgate helplessly shook his head and had two followers go along with him. Then he said to the beastmen girl with a faint smile, ¡°This beautiful miss, I want to understand the Magic Sedans that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes, can you please exin a few things to me?¡±

    ¡°Of course, that isn¡¯t a problem. Pleasee this way.¡±

    The beastmen girl brought Marquis Southgate and three of his followers to a resting area in the hall before preparing some tea for them. Then she sat down in front of Marquis Southgate and revealed a sweet smile as she asked, ¡°This customer, may I ask what questions you have?¡±

    Marquis Southgate revealed a faint smile. He looked at this beastmen girl before slowly asking, ¡°Compared to the Magic Sedan, there is a question that I¡¯m more curious about. This miss, may I ask your name?¡±

    ¡°Ah, you can call me Lina.¡±

    ¡°Un, miss Lina, based on your appearance, you should be from the rabbit n of the beastmen. I¡¯m very curious, how did you start working for a humanpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Lina¡¯s smile didn¡¯t change since she knew that this question wasing, so she asked back, ¡°This customer, you shouldn¡¯t be from the Drake Duchy, right? You shouldn¡¯t even be someone from the surrounding countries, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh? How could you tell?¡±

    ¡°Because the people of the surrounding countries all know that it isn¡¯t strange to see beastmen workers at our Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Marquis Southgate gave augh, ¡°You¡¯re right, I am indeed not from any of the surrounding countries. I am from the faraway Marlow Empire.¡±

    ¡°Marlow Empire?¡± Lina¡¯s eyes opened a bit wide in surprise. After looking over Marquis Southgate for a bit, she regained her calm, ¡°Then you¡¯vee all the way from the Marlow Empire, is it just to buy a Magic Sedan?¡±

    Marquis Southgate noticed Lina looking at Seymour walking around the Magic Sedan in the distance before shaking his head with a smile, ¡°No, I didn¡¯te here just to buy the Magic Sedan. Actually, I¡¯m interested in the various products of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If possible, can you introduce all the products of yourpany to me?¡±

    ¡°All?¡± Lina was a bit surprised, ¡°Ourpany has over a hundred different kinds of products, are you interested in them all?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Marquis Southgate nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Moreover, if possible, I want to buy one of every product that you have back with one.¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Lina was a bit confused.

    If it was anyone else, she definitely would have thought that they were joking.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over a hundred products, if one were to buy one of each, that would be several tens of thousands of gold coins.

    This wasn¡¯t including the expensive things like therge transport Magic Cars or the Magic Ships into the calctions.

    But this middle aged man who had a friendly smile made Lina feel that he definitely wasn¡¯t joking. Lina was certain that he was nning on buying one of every product.

    ¡°What? Is there a problem?¡± Seeing that Lina didn¡¯t speak for a long time, Marquis Southgate followed up by asking this question with a smile.

    ¡°Ah.....It¡¯s not a problem, it¡¯s not a problem. But this customer, which line of products do you want to start from? Ourpany currently has five big lines of products, which are the household magic machines, the construction magic machines, the agricultural magic machines, the production magic machines, and some material products. Which one do you care about more?¡±

    ¡°Agricultural magic machines?¡± Hearing this name, Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression changed as he said, ¡°First start with this.¡±

    ¡°Alright. The agricultural magic machines are mainly magic machines used for nting on farnd and opening up new farnd. There¡¯s also the fertilizer, the herbicide, and other things that could be used for farming that are also included along with this. First, starting with the magic machines used in farming, there is the Magic Harvester, which is a magic machine that can help a farmer harvest their crops faster.....¡±

    Marquis Southgate was very focused as he listened to Lina¡¯s exnation, not willing to miss a single word. From time to time, he slightly knit his brows and asked a few questions.

    After half an hour, Lina had finished a basic introduction of the agricultural magic machines.

    Marquis Southgate was silent after hearing this before asking, ¡°This means that as long as you use yourpany¡¯s agricultural magic machines, you can greatly increase the grain yield?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Lina gave a strong nod and proudly replied, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s agricultural magic machines have been promoted in the surrounding countries, helping all these countries greatly increase their grain yield. There isn¡¯t a single country in the surrounding area who doesn¡¯t use ourpany¡¯s agricultural magic machines!¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a slow nod.

    If the agricultural magic machines that Lina described just now were true, he believed that they would achieve such an effect.

    ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no need to introduce the household magic machines, first tell me about the construction magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Eh.....Construction magic machines are rather more broad. They are mainly used in various construction projects. For example, the Magic Concrete Mixer, the Magic Roller, the Magic Drill, and other things are mainly used in paving roads.....Also ourpany has developed a series of mining magic machines that can greatly increase the efficiency of mining.¡±

    When it came to construction magic machines, even if Lina was a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she didn¡¯t understand that much. Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t care that much about them and since he didn¡¯t understand too much, as long as Lina gave a general description, he would understand.

    After a while, Seymour suddenly ran over and interrupted the two of them.

    ¡°Mar.....Uncle Dayolen, I¡¯ve decided. I want to buy two Magic Sedans! One ck and one white!¡±

    Seeing the excited look on Seymour¡¯s face, Marquis Southgate spread his hands without a care, ¡°Alright, since you like it, then buy it. But it¡¯ll be a bit troublesome to bring it back to our Marlow Empire since we don¡¯t have anyone who knows how to drive them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right......¡± Seymour was a bit deted, but then he wielded his fist, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter! I can just learn! I saw it on the way here, it isn¡¯t hard to drive this Magic Sedan at all! I feel that I can learn it in just a day or two!¡±

    Lina on the side quickly stood up in surprise, ¡°This customer, you can¡¯t just drive without a license, it is very dangerous. Recently there have been more and more idents caused by Magic Sedans, so whether it is ourpany or the surrounding countries, we have begun strictly managing this.¡±

    Seymour looked at her, ¡°That is the matter of yourpany and these countries, what does it matter to me? I¡¯m bringing it to the Marlow Empire, can you care about it there?¡±

    Lina expression froze before she gritted her teeth and gathered her courage, ¡°But.....But if you insist on operating it without a driver¡¯s license, then.....ording to the rules of ourpany, we can¡¯t sell a Magic Sedan to you.¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Seymour looked at Lina in disbelief, ¡°What kind of a joke is this! My wanting to buy your things means I¡¯m thinking highly of you and you dare not sell it to me? Do you believe that I won¡¯t smash you right here!¡±

    Marquis Southgate had been focused on the magic machines Lina had introduced to him, so he didn¡¯t care about Seymour and Lina¡¯s conversation. But when he suddenly heard Seymour¡¯s angry roar, he came back to his senses. He knit his brows and wanted to say something, but there was a coldugh that came from the door.

    ¡°He, who is so bold that they want to smash the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s store?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this master, what......¡± Seymour angrily turned around and when he wanted to speak, his voice stopped like someone had grabbed his throat.

    Marquis Southgate also turned in surprise and saw a group of people walking in, where there was a young human girl leading them.

    Although this human girl had a cold look on her face, it was iparably beautiful. It was just like a rose in bloom, blossoming with light that made people unable to look right at it.

    The anger on her face didn¡¯t affect her beauty at all. It was like warning people that this beautiful rose had thorns, so people couldn¡¯t easily offend it.

    This ice cold beauty created a unique aura. With her face that was close to being perfect and the charm that was released from every action that she took, it was no wonder Seymour was stunned looking at her.

    ¡°Da, da, da.¡±

    The leather shoes of the beautiful girl walked across the halls and soon she was in front of Seymour.

    She coldly looked over Seymour and gave a snort, but when she looked over at Marquis Southgate, she said in a cold voice, ¡°This sir, it seems like you should be a noble, so why are you bringing out this junior who doesn¡¯t understand courtesy and hasn¡¯t been educated at all?¡±

    Although Seymour had been stunned by her beauty, when he heard her call him rude and uneducated, he flew into a rage and pointed at her as he wanted to curse at her.

    However, Marquis Southgate narrowed his eyes and Seymour immediately swallowed all his words. He obediently retreated to the side, as he red at this young woman with a fierce look that also had a bit of greed in them.

    ¡°Indeed he has made some rude remarks just now and I apologize to miss Lina on his behalf.¡± Marquis Southgate maintained his calm tone as he slowly said, ¡°But this beautiful miss, I don¡¯t mind if you call him rude, but I can¡¯t ept it if you call him uneducated.¡±

    The young girl knit her brows, ¡°What? You are his family¡¯s elder? With his performance, is there anything wrong with calling him uneducated?¡±

    Seymour¡¯s eyes popped out and he wanted to refute this, but he backed down with a single look from Marquis Southgate.

    ¡°I am close friends with his parents and I have already apologized for him, so I ask you to take those words back.¡± Marquis Southgate seriously looked at that young girl.

    The young woman didn¡¯t expect Marquis Southgate to act like this. She looked at Marquis Southgate before looking at Seymour. After a bit of silence, she said with a nod, ¡°Alright, I can take back these words, but he has to apologize to Lina.¡±

    Lina was scared by this as she quickly waved her hands, ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m fine, there¡¯s no need to apologize to me. Your highness, I¡¯m fine, there¡¯s no need for you to do this for me......¡±

    ¡°Your highness?¡± Hearing how Lina addressed this young woman, Marquis Southgate had a thought. He looked at Seymour and said in a deep voice, ¡°Seymour, apologize to miss Lina for your actions just now. This is also for the reputation of your parents, so you can¡¯t refuse.¡±

    ¡°I......¡± Seymour looked at Marquis Southgate and looked at Lina before his face turned red. After a while, he angrily said, ¡°I definitely will not apologize to a lowly beastmen!¡±

    He stormed out after he said this.

    Marquis Southgate and the young woman didn¡¯t say a thing. None of their followers stopped him and let him charge out.

    Watching him go out the door, Marquis Southgate had two followers follow him before turning to the young girl again. After a bit of silence, he said, ¡°If I¡¯m not wrong, you should be Duke Drake¡¯s daughter, her highness Caroline, right?¡±

 Volume 5 119 - Confusing objections

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 119 Confusing objections</strong>

    ¡°Princess Caroline ising?¡±

    Still looked at the pink letter in Xu Yi¡¯s hand before looking up at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.

    ¡°Is she speciallying for you?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, ¡°How could she have that kind of free time? She has something to do and she said that she was bringing two special guests.¡±

    ¡°Special guests?¡± Still slightly knitted her brows, ¡°What guests does she need to personally bring over?¡±

    ¡°She didn¡¯t say in the letter, I don¡¯t know why she¡¯s keeping this a secret.¡± Xu Yi waved the letter in his hand with a bit of doubt.

    Although this Princess Caroline mailed him some letters from time to time, most of the letters were asking about the cooperation between the Drake Duchy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This was her first time indicating that she wanted toe to the Stantine Duchy.

    If it was said that Princess Caroline wanted to seduce him before, since he had a child with Still and as the cooperation between the Drake Duchy and the Frestech Chamber became deeper, she had restrained herself a bit and only teased him verbally.

    This time she suddenly wanted toe here and she said that she was bringing two special guests, this really did surprise Xu Yi a bit.

    ¡°I think that she is just using this as an excuse.¡± Still said with a faint smile.

    ¡°You really are thinking too much.¡± Xu Yi looked at her before tossing the letter to the side. He looked at Still¡¯s stomach and said with a worried voice, ¡°I think that you¡¯re thinking too much because you¡¯re pregnant. Listen to me, Still, you should rest during this time. You don¡¯t need to work that much.¡±

    ¡°That won¡¯t do.¡± Still shook her head, ¡°Now is an important period for our New Moon Chamber of Commerce to promote the Magic Illusion Films, I have to be there personally. Creating a new method of entertainment through these films and the Magic Illusion Projector, isn¡¯t this what you always wanted?¡±

    ¡°But I never thought that you would be pregnant?¡±

    ¡°Does that matter? I was still working when I was pregnant with Freya, it didn¡¯t affect me.¡±

    Seeing that Still was determined, Xu Yi thought about it and stopped trying to change her mind. He just reminded Still to take care of her body and not to get too tired.

    Still naturally epted this good advice. She said that this was already her second time, so she was more than experienced.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of Freya......She seemed to have had Liz and Linda take her to the signal tower to y again. Aren¡¯t you going to the signal tower in a bit? Bring her back tonight.¡± Still said.

    Xu Yi agreed and talked about the films a bit more with Still before leaving the manor.

    When he came out, he looked into the distance and could see sevenrge iron towers that reached the sky.

    These were the new signal towers erected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, used to transmit magic waves.

    Because Akali¡¯s team made another breakthrough with the magic resonance technology, the signal range of the towers had increased from five kilometers to seven kilometers. So these seven magic towers had around six kilometers of space between them. Just with this arrangement, the magic waves from these seven towers could reach any ce in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, perfectly covering it.

    Xu Yi took out his Magic Communicator and pressed the button. Akali¡¯s voice immediately came out, even if it was a bit tired, it was still very excited.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, do you have any instructions?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°No instructions, I just wanted to see your work progress. Where are you right now? Also I wanted to ask, have you seen Freya?¡±

    Before Akali could answer, there was a delighted child¡¯s voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Dad, I¡¯m with auntie Akali. Come quickly, auntie Akali won¡¯t let me go up the tower to y.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes, ¡°Freya, listen to your auntie Akali. Don¡¯t hinder their work, I¡¯ming over.¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m waiting.¡±

    ¡°Freya is very good, you don¡¯t need to worry. Sir chairman,e over, we¡¯re currently working at signal tower number four.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi raised his head and carefully looked around, confirming the location of tower four. He incited the magic in his body, but he didn¡¯t directly teleport over. Rather he flew up and slowly flew through the air towards tower four/

    Looking down from the air, he could clearly see the currentyout of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base.

    Compared to when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first came here, this ce hadpletely changed.

    Right now there were buildings all over the ce in this ten square kilometers piece ofnd.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s industrial and living districts were clearly separated. Most of the factories in the industrial district were in the north and the living district took up the south.

    Looking at the houses that were reaching the Abundant River in the south, Xu Yi confirmed what he had thought before.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, they had to further expand their base.

    When he obtained this ten square kilometers ofnd from Count Wein in the past, Xu Yi felt that it could support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development for ten years.

    But in less than four years, thisnd was alreadypletely used. It couldn¡¯t meet the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s further demands.

    In order to develop further, he had to expand the range of his territory.

    But at thest session of the parliament, Xu Yi had proposed expanding his territory, but he had received the opposition of quite a few congress members. This proposal failed in the end.

    Although the speaker Anklo told Xu Yi in secret that he could propose to the congress of rentingnd which would definitely pass, this session had raised a bit of vignce in Xu YI¡¯s heart.

    He thought that with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current powerful influence on the Stantine Duchy, he could propose any issues without any problems.

    But he never thought that when it came to the criticalnd expansion for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he would meet resistance.

    The opposing side had given many reasons. They imed that the Stantine Duchy hadn¡¯t given any privatend before, so Xu Yi suddenly raising this request went against the hundreds of years of tradition for the Stantine Duchy.

    Xu Yi had given a snort at this reason because before this, the lords of the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t have any fixed views of thend under them. It all depended on strength to snatch and im it as your own.

    Now that he was requesting being granted newnd, they said that it went against the tradition of the Stantine Duchy. This was simply a joke.

    Later the parliament exined that thend being fought for by the lords of the Stantine Duchy weren¡¯t truly approved in name.

    The approval of Duke Stantine was only his personal approval, it didn¡¯t count as the approval of the Stantine Duchy.

    Based on this, the reason they used to reject Xu Yi wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    But this in name issue wasn¡¯t one that Xu Yi considered a problem at all.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence in the Stantine Duchy, even if the official problem existed, they could still think of countless ways to solve it.

    But many of the parliament members chose to oppose this, which made Xu Yi was a bit angry while also being vignt.

    Every congress member had a lord behind them, so if they opposed this, it meant that the lords were opposing Xu Yi.

    However, this was what confused Xu Yi the most.

    The lords of the Stantine Duchy, based on what did they oppose Xu Yi¡¯s proposal?

    Also, what gave them the courage to oppose Xu Yi?

    It had to be known that the congress¡¯ tax revenuest year was four million and seven hundred thousand gold coins, of which three million came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just based on this, it was enough to see the powerful influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the Stantine Duchy.

    If one considered actual influence, it would be even more shocking.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had opened ny three factories in the Stantine Duchy and employed over two hundred thousand people.

    Among these employees, over seventy thousand came from the Stantine Duchy.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also invested in various factories with all the lords in the Stantine Duchy. Most of them were canned fruit factories or stic processing factories, which had over a hundred thousand workers.

    So because the citizens that obtained benefits from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce surpassed a hundred and eighty thousand, adding in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce driving the magic machine industry in the Stantine Duchy, driving the development of the other industries, there were also several hundred thousand more people who benefited from them.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that in the entire Stantine Duchy, there wasn¡¯t a single person who wasn¡¯t affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, all these effects were direct effects.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all of the Stantine Duchy citizens were able to find work and greatly increase their ie, tremendously improving their living standardspared to before.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paved roads, built streetmps, invested in water systems, and all kinds of other things all over the duchy. It turned the Stantine Duchy from the poorest duchy in the surrounding area to what people considered the ¡°most advanced country¡±, yielding great influence in the surrounding countries.

    It could be said that the Stantine Duchy already belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Stantine Duchy would have nothing.

    So Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think it through, based on what did these lords use to oppose him?

    These fellows, were they seeking their own deaths?

 Volume 5 120 - Sir chairman has a strict wife

    Volume 5 Chapter 120 Sir chairman has a strict wife

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart had been filled with anger by the ignorant lords of the Stantine Duchy, but that disappeared without a trace when hended on the ground.

    Freya immediately jumped over as soon as she saw Xu Yi.

    After picking Freya up and hearing herughter, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was only filled with joy. How could he still care about what the nobles thought.

    ¡°Dad, let¡¯s go up to the tower and y, alright?¡± Freya pointed at the peak of the signal tower and asked this with an expectant look.

    ¡°Un.....Alright, but we need to wait a bit. We need to wait for auntie Akali and them to finish their work before going up.¡±

    ¡°Oh, alright, I¡¯ll wait.¡± Freya obediently replied.

    Xu Yi ced a kiss on her little cheek before looking around. Seeing Linda smiling on the side, he asked her, ¡°It¡¯s your turn to watch Freya today? Where¡¯s Liz? And also where are those two little fellows?¡±

    The ¡°two little fellows¡± that Xu Yi spoke of were the two sons that Liz and Linda gave birth to.

    The one Liz gave birth to was named Sander and the one Linda gave birth to was called Harvey, they were both rathermon names.

    Like Freya, Xu Yi kept the same principle with them. They would be named by their mother ording to the tradition of the Sines Continent, but he would also follow the traditions of earth and give them another name to go with their surname once they turned ten.

    Right now their names were only considered nicknames to make it easier to address them.

    Xu Yi let Liz and Linda name their own children which had greatly moved them because this was the respect that Xu Yi showed them.

    Moreover, even if Liz and Linda were no longer ves, this was a fetter in their hearts that they could never move past.

    They felt that they could neverpare to Still. The sons that they gave birth to would follow the tradition of the Sines Continent, being considered the illegitimate children of the lord Xu Yi, they would never be the same as Freya.

    So Xu Yi giving them the right to name their own children and stating that Sandy and Harvey would have his surname when they reached ten years old filled them with joy.

    Now hearing Xu Yi ask about those two fellows, Linda had a while smile as she replied, ¡°Those two fellows are sleeping right now, Liz is watching over them. Freya wanted toe out to y and madame Still was too busy, so I brought her out.¡±

    Freya heard this and pouted her little lips, ¡°Right, father, why is mother always so busy? Whenever I ask her to y with me, she doesn¡¯t have time. Does she not like me?¡±

    Hearing this, Xu Yi was surprised. Seeing the unhappy look on Freya¡¯s face, he had a thought before picking her up again with a smile, ¡°How could mom not like you, she is your mother. She¡¯s been very busy during this time, so she can¡¯t be with you, but you can¡¯t me her. You are her daughter, you should learn to understand her and support her, understand?¡±

    Freya nodded in a manner that seemed like she didn¡¯t really understand, but she couldn¡¯t helpining, ¡°But they said that dad is the busiest, but you always have time to y with me. Why doesn¡¯t mom have the time?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before pointing to Akali¡¯s group who were busy, ¡°It¡¯s because dad has many powerful subordinates that can help your dad finish his work, so dad can secretly be with you.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....It¡¯s like this. Then why can¡¯t mom have some powerful subordinates to do her work?¡± Freya asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, it¡¯s because there are few people in the world who can do your mom¡¯s work. She can¡¯t find that many people who can help her like dad.¡±

    ¡°Wa! So mom is this powerful! There are few people who can do what she can do!¡± Freya called out in a surprised voice.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he softly pinched Freya¡¯s nose, ¡°Could it be that you thought that mom wasn¡¯t powerful? Let me tell you, mom is more powerful than dad, haven¡¯t you noticed that dad always listens to mom at home?¡±

    ¡°Puchi.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Akali and the others who had been secretly listening while working couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, is sir chairman telling the truth?¡± Akali asked Freya with a smile, ¡°Does he listen to your mom at home?¡±

    Freya tilted her head and thought with a serious expression for a while before giving a strong nod, ¡°Un! It¡¯s true! Dad listens to anything mom says, he never says anything back.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha......¡±

    The people around began tough even harder.

    Akali couldn¡¯t even stand straight from all herughing.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he looked at Freya. From this day forth, the rumour that ¡°the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a strict wife¡± will be heard by everyone.

    Freya looked at the people who were bent overughing with a strange look before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Dad, did I say something wrong? Why are they allughing so much?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly pinched her smiling face and said with a sigh, ¡°No, you¡¯re not wrong, I do listen to your mom at home.¡± After saying this, he put Freya down and told her, ¡°Alright, you go y with Linda on the side for now. I have some work to talk about with your auntie Akali, I¡¯ll bring you up the tower once I¡¯m done.¡±

    ¡°Alright!¡± Freya gave a crisp reply before running over to Linda¡¯s side.

    Xu Yi turned to Akali who was stillughing as he asked with a serious expression, ¡°How is the overhaul of the signal tower going? Are there any problems?¡±

    The more serious Xu Yi looked, the more Akali wanted tough. After looking at him for a bit, she finally couldn¡¯t hold back herughter.

    Seeing Akaliughing harder and harder, Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°Alright, stopughing. You and Still are old friends, it isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know how it is between me and Still, so what are youughing at?¡±

    After a while, Akali slowly stood up and stoppedughing.

    Only when she looked at Xu Yi, there were manyplicated expressions in her gaze.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you should know that I¡¯ve always been jealous of Still.¡±

    Xu Yi looked aside to avoid Akali¡¯s passionate gaze and gave a cough, ¡°Tell me about the overhaul.¡±

    Akali gave a sigh and took a breath before she revealed a refreshing smile. She said in a very simple tone, ¡°Sir chairman, as for the overhaul, right now it¡¯s going good, but there are some small problems. For example, the signal tower will be affected by different terrain. Take tower number three, ording to our explosion, there is arge amount of Magic Crystals under it that will affect the magic waves to a certain extent.....¡±

    Xu Yi patiently listened to Akali¡¯s report, from time to time, giving some of his considerations.

    Actually, although he had single handedly started the magic machine industry, after it developed for so many years and there were many domains that were studied, even couldn¡¯t understand everything.

    Just when it came to Akali¡¯s magic resonance technology, he could only give some advice to the magic array. When it came to putting it in use and other things, he didn¡¯t study too deeply into these.

    Compared to when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been established and he had to lead all the research, the current him could only participate as a leader. He could only give general directions and couldn¡¯t be involved in the research.

    Right now, other than his theoretical knowledge being better than others, when it came to the other parts of magic machine research, he wasn¡¯t actually that much better than the other researchers.

    But this was the situation that Xu Yi wanted to see the most.

    The entire magic machine industry was a veryplicated system, it was impossible for him to drive this entire system by himself.

    Just like now, being able to increase the number of people with magic machine theory, this was what he wanted to see since the beginning and the inevitable result of developing the industry.

    The only thing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with was that other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the otherpanies invested far too little in this. Other than a few magic machinepanies having special technology, most of thepanies still used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology just to earn money.

    Coming back to the signal tower, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, he wanted to use these signal towers like signal towers back on earth. He wanted to cover the entire continent and let his signals reach every part of it.

    Not discussing any other functions for now, he wanted to at least make the Magic Communicators like the cell phones on earth.

    Moreover, the magic research facility had made another breakthrough with the Magic Communicator. They could fine tune the array inside to adjust the magic frequency of the Magic Communicator, allowing it to link to different Magic Communicators.

    This was already close to the primary functions of cell phones on earth. As long as they kept researching this, Xu Yi believed that they could realize the same functions as cell phones from earth.

    Moreover,paring the magic signal towers to the signal towers on earth, they were countless times stronger.

    The magic towers released magic waves, which they could use to affect other rted Magic Arrays with.

    So in theory, any Magic Array coulde under the influence of the magic waves in the range of the magic signal tower.

    Naturally one could ignore the Magic Arrays that weren¡¯t tuned to the signal towers, but for the ones that were tuned ahead of time, through the magic waves of the magic signal tower, they could control any corresponding Magic Arrays.

    To use a simple example, if a Magic Air conditioner was tuned in a certain range, then in theory, through the corresponding Magic Array Controller, they could let out a magic wave that would be transmitted from the magic signal tower, allowing one to control the Magic Air Conditioner.

    To make it a bit more exaggerated, if one went even deeper into this, they could even control all the magic machines in the area of the magic signal tower!

    This was what Xu Yi always dreamed of, the true magicwork!

 Volume 5 121 - Shadow in his heart

    Volume 5 Chapter 121 Shadow in his heart

    Xu Yi had plenty of ideas, but reality gave him nothing.

    Afterying down the magic signal tower, ording to his n, the first step wasying down coverage in Xu Yi¡¯s personal territory. This was considered promoting this technology while also being considered an experiment, testing the various aspects of this technology.

    When they reached a certain extent, they would then erect magic signal towers all over the Stantine Duchy, integrating the entire duchy into the magicwork that Xu Yi dreamed of.

    However, while he didn¡¯t encounter any hindrances on the first step, there was arge hindrance when he wanted to take the second step.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had contacted the noble who was closest to Xu Yi¡¯s territory, nning on installing magic signal towers in his territory and expanding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicwork.

    But when they talked to that lord, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s proposal had been firmly rejected by that lord.

    This made Xu Yi very surprised.

    Because this lord¡¯s territory was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he already had a deep cooperation with them and had gained many benefits from this cooperation.

    Before this, he didn¡¯t reject any of the requests of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, always following them. But this time, he had taken a very strong stance and didn¡¯t leave any room for further discussions. It meant that it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to install a magic signal tower in his personal territory.

    His strong response was surprising to everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi had personally met with the lord on this matter and exined to him how much this would increase the people¡¯s standard of living, but he still didn¡¯t seem to relent at all.

    In the end, because of his strangely firm stance, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave up on using his territory as the first target to expand. They turned to discuss with another lord who bordered Xu Yi¡¯s territory.

    However, the other lord had the same determined stance as the lord from before. He also stated that he wouldn¡¯t allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build any magic signal towers on his territory no matter what.

    If it was just a single lord that had this kind of change in attitude, it could be considered some special consideration on his personal part, but for two lords to have this strange attitude at once, Xu Yi had no choice but to pay attention to this.

    When he had his subordinates contact another lord, although they had been firmly rejected just like before, Xu Yi finally understood that this hindrance wasn¡¯t just coincidental.

    Facts proved Xu Yi¡¯s inference.

    Akali¡¯s small research team worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s public rtions staff in the Stantine Duchy to contact over ten nobles to cooperate, but they had all rejected them without any exception.

    This strange circumstance would make anyone feel that something was off.

    Why would the lord of the Stantine Duchy take the risk to offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and oppose such a thing that had no harm to them? Why would the oppose something that could improve the quality of lives for the citizens that lived in their territory?

    Xu Yi was very confused about this. Even if they gave all kinds of strange reasons, they were all excuses in the end and not a single one told the truth.

    The matter of building magic signal towers, because they were being built in the private territories of the lords, they had to have the lords work with them to build it properly.

    Now that they all didn¡¯t want to work with them, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t do anything right now.

    Butpared to the strange rejection about the magic signal tower, Xu Yi cared about the real reason behind why the lords had rejected him.

    When he contacted the congress before to get a new piece of territory, he could only give up after more than half of them rejected this. Xu Yi now found that he, or perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence was much greater than he had thought.

    For the control of the Stantine Duchy, these two things both proved without doubt that there was no control of the Stantine Duchy at all.

    This made Xu Yi a bit disappointed.

    He thought that with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce greatly improving the quality of living for the Stantine Duchy citizens, as well as giving everyone benefits, everyone would approve of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would support all their actions.

    But the brutal fact had told him that he had taken this too much for granted.

    ¡°Kid, aren¡¯t you thirty five years old? Why are you still as naive as a child?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi with knitted brows before shaking his head, ¡°Just kindness will make people thank you, but you have to understand that gratitude is only gratitude and obedience is apletely different matter. Others might agree to some things because of gratitude, but if it goes against their own interests, of course they would choose to protect their own interests. How could they blindly obey you?¡±

    ¡°But.....While wanting territory would affect their benefits, so it¡¯s normal for them to disagree, but how would constructing magic signal towers affect them? Why would they firmly oppose this?¡± Xu Yi was confused.

    ¡°Kid, you¡¯re not willing to study magic when you have nothing else, now do you know what the problem is?¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a soft snort.

    Xu Yi scratched his head in a confused manner, ¡°How is this rted to you wanting me to study magic? Could it be that if I study more magic, they would agree to help me construct the magic signal towers?¡±

    ¡°No, it won¡¯t.¡± Arch Magus Cami shook his head, ¡°But if you study more magic, you would know more about the stories of magicians and wouldn¡¯t be that confused about why they won¡¯t let you construct a magic signal tower.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What stories?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s about two thousand years ago.¡± Arch Magus Cami cleared his throat and slowly said, ¡°Around two thousand years ago, humans had just taken control of the continent from the elves. Because humans mainly depended on the magic they learned from the elves, allowing them to defeat the elves, there weren¡¯t that many magicians, but they were powerful. At this time, the most powerful magicians were unyielding leaders among humans. For their own benefits, these magicians built magic towers in the areas they controlled.....¡±

    Through Arch Magus Cami¡¯s exnation, Xu Yi finally understood.

    So two thousand years ago, these powerful magicians had released powerful magic waves through their magic tower, controlling all humans in the area of these magic towers. They didn¡¯t even let off other races.

    Because these magicians were not good people, these humans were controlled by these powerful magicians through their magic towers, bing things they controlled at will. Their lives weren¡¯t much better than when the elves controlled the continent, it was even much worse.

    Although with the development of human society, they broke free of being controlled by these powerful magicians, forming the human kingdoms that existed now, the shadow of the magic towers had a deep impression on human memories.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to build these signal towers, although they had a different function from magic towers, with the shadow that was cast, it would be strange if they didn¡¯t reject this proposal.

    Xu Yi thought that he coulde up with a solution after learning of their worries, but now he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    ¡°Is there a mistake! The magic signal towers arepletely different from the magic towers, alright? Aren¡¯t they being too scared?¡±

    ¡°If something can threaten one¡¯s rule, being careful is reasonable.¡± Arch Magus Cami softly recited a famous phrase on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, ¡°Then what do I do? Do I have to force the lords to let me build the magic signal towers? If I really do this, I might as well destroy them with thepany guards.¡±

    ¡°That is also a good method.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a shrug. Seeing the surprised look that Xu Yi had, he gave a certain nod, ¡°Don¡¯t doubt it, I¡¯m serious.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, ¡°Grandfather, are you instigating me?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m seriously advising you.¡± Arch Magus Cami said in a deep voice, ¡°I¡¯ve already wanted to discuss this problem with you. I approve of using magic machines to improve the lives of normal people, but I¡¯ve always felt that there was a problem with your methods.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡± Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°You¡¯re too indecisive. You clearly have the ability to control the entire Stantine Duchy, but you insist on building that congress. I¡¯m not saying that this method isn¡¯t good, but haven¡¯t you noticed that this method causes many problems for the ideas that you want to raise for the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°I¡¯ve noticed, but.....this is a method that I want to use. I don¡¯t think that I¡¯m suited for being a king.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not making you a king, you really aren¡¯t right for this. I just want to remind you, Xu Yi, that you have more responsibility than you can imagine. You have to change your idea and be stronger. Indecisiveness and going slowly will only make things more difficult, it will make your ideals be further and further.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Cami patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder with a serious look.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I agree with your ideals and hope that you can realize them, but you have to understand the truth for this.¡±

    Xu Yi lowered his head and looked at the ground, not saying a thing.

    Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t keep urging him and only silently watched.

    After a while, Xu Yi took a deep breath before looking back up. His eyes were no longer filled with doubts, but rather they were glowing with conviction.

    ¡°Yes, grandfather, I understand. I know what I have to do.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami nodded with a smile.

    He understood Xu Yi, thinking that Xu Yi was the most intelligent person he had ever seen. Since he had understood and made up his mind, there were many things he didn¡¯t need to say.

    ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, no matter what you decide, remember that I, Arch Magus Cami will do my best to help you!¡±

    ¡°Thank you.¡±

 Volume 5 122 - Easy to bully?

    Volume 5 Chapter 122 Easy to bully?

    At the beginning of June, in the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding countries, there was a wave of reports about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that appeared in these newspapers.

    These reports weren¡¯t only about the various magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, many of them were about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were various kinds of reports. Some were news, some were an introduction to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and some were simply stories about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Most normal people knew about these things, but few people had details about them.

    For example, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was founded, when vice chairman Heinz first met Xu Yi and how they decided to make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.....Other than people who were there, almost no one knew about these details.

    But this time, in the many newspapers, there were detailed reports.

    The normal people all weed this kind of gossip report.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was thepany people cared about the most in the surrounding countries.

    So as long as the various newspapers reported on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their sales would soar. There were even many newspapers who ignored some facts and began making their own details, adding in some exaggerations that people didn¡¯t know about.

    But no matter what the content was, the general direction was that there was no newspaper that published a negative report on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already been around for seven years since its rise. What they did was obvious to all, so there was no negative news that existed.

    Anyway, there were countless people that had better lives now because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They went from not being able to feed themselves to enjoy the conveniences of the countless magic machines.

    With this foundation, the positive reports naturally obtained approval much more easily.

    So after seeing those reports, whether it was those who understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before or those that didn¡¯t, they all had some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce now.

    Other than these gossip reports, there were also some reports that focused on the technical aspects.

    In these technical reports, they focused on examining the various aspects of the magic machine industry that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had single handedly created.

    In these reports, they already used the magic machine industry as a noun and even separated the various kinds of magic machines.

    They were separated even more finely than the five broad categories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used.

    For example, just among household magic machines, they were separated into kitchen magic machines, bathroom magic machines, etc......

    When separating these magic machines into divisions, these newspapers also published some technical aspects. They analyzed the various magic machines with various precise data and basic magic machine knowledge.

    If one put together the information of all these articles, they would find that this magic machine industry was aplete system. They could also find the most foundational magic machine theory.

    There were many people who cared about these articles and those who didn¡¯t who became interested in these articles. At this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would invest in a publishingpany, which would have the main business of publishing articles on magic machine technology.

    These technology publications were ?Frestech Magic Machine Industry Weekly? and the ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly?.

    The ?Frestech Magic Machine Industry Weekly? was a weekly publication that would report on some things about the magic machine industry. It would not only involve the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would report on any magic machine industry rted matter.

    As for the ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly?, it was a monthly publication that would specialize in magic machine theory.

    ording to the news the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released, this ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly? would mainly have articles written by Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers. At the same time, it would also wee articles one magic machine theory that others had to contribute.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on turning the ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly? into the most specialized magic machine theory publication. Not only would it discuss basic theory, it would also debate the magic machine industrial system.

    Just this single piece of news was enough to create a giant stir.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really did this, it meant that the ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly? would be something that all the other magic machinepanies cared about and would be the most important source of magic machine theory.

    For many magic machinepanies, they only bought the technology for some magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and then built them based on their specifications. They were actually quite weak when it came to the technology they actually possessed.

    This was the most important reason why it was hard for them to catch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to share knowledge on the magic machines, allowing them to study this, there was a chance of improving their own technology.

    With enough time, they might really catch the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    While feeling overjoyed, everyone was also confused why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this.

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always transferred their technology easily, making everyone feel that Xu Yi was a wastrel, now that they made this ?Magic Industry Theory Monthly?, giving away the most important magic machine theory, this wasn¡¯t just described with the simple word of wastrel.

    To many people, Xu Yi seemed like his brain was damaged by doing this!

    But to the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Count Marth, perhaps Xu Yi¡¯s brain was damaged, but no matter what, he still felt afraid of Xu Yi.

    As the lord with the territory closest to Xu Yi¡¯s, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came looking for him first when they wanted to build the magic signal tower.

    Count Marth had very firmly and decisively rejected them.

    The reason for this rejection was because someone had reminded him that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic signal towers were like the magic towers used two thousand years ago.

    If he agreed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and then his territory fell into their control, even he as the lord would only be able to listen to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this terrifying consequence, Count Marth still firmly rejected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even if it meant offending them.

    He was still worried that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would act against him, but then he heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was rejected by all the lords they looked for.

    This made him feel assured.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been in the Stantine Duchy for five years now and he was one of Xu Yi¡¯s neighbours, so he understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi well enough.

    Xu Yi was good in all aspects in his opinion. The only thing that wasn¡¯t considered an advantage was that as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and a noble, he was just too kind.

    He was like the saint that everyone said he was. No matter how others treated him, he would give others plenty of benefits.

    This meant that he rarely attacked other people.

    Even the previous Count Wein, if he didn¡¯t try to attack and take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many times, Xu Yi might not have dealt him the final blow.

    So Count Marth and the other lords of the Stantine Duchy all had the same thing, Xu Yi seemed easy to deal with and could even be considered.....easy to bully.

    This fellow wouldn¡¯t really do anything to him, so what did he have to fear?

    Then again, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce caused trouble to him, he might as well bring up the topic of the magic tower.

    He believed with Xu Yi¡¯s personality, he wouldn¡¯t force him and would give up.

    Yes, Xu Yi was a soft egg in the eyes of many lords.

    But this time, Count Marth found that he waspletely mistaken.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce contacted the various lords and were rejected, all things had stopped like this had never happened.

    Including Count Marth, all the lords thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be the same as before and forget this matter, letting everyone live peaceful lives.

    But half a monthter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly asked Count Marth to cooperate on this magic signal tower again.

    Count Marth rejected them without any hesitation.

    Three days after this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly stopped their cooperation with Count Marth.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built two stic processing factories, one canned fruit factory, and two smallponent factories with Count Marth.

    This was their third year of cooperation and Count Marth could earn over two hundred thousand gold coins a year from these factories.

    But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly stopped this cooperation, the factories couldn¡¯t operate anymore.

    The stic products and canned fruits were sold to other countries with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transportwork, but now that they had stopped cooperating, these products were stuck in the factories.

    It was fine with the stic products, but the canned fruit couldn¡¯tst long. If itsted long, the quality would drop and it would be hard to sell.

    As for the two smallponent factories, they mainly provided parts to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce cancelled all their orders, all theponents just piled up there.

    In just a single week since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce cancelled their cooperation, Count Marth found that his territory was already a mess.

    The workers in the factories didn¡¯t have work, so their wages had greatly decreased.

    This directly affected their lives.

    They could still take it at first, but after a few days, the citizens that Count Marth ignored actually began causing riots!

    Although Count Marth immediately sent out his guards to quell them, this created an even greater resistance.

    In just a single week, all the factories under Count Marth had stopped and all the ntations went untended.

    ording to Count Marth¡¯s estimates, in just a single week, he would be losing over ten thousand gold coins.

    With each passing day, he would lose over a thousand gold coins.

    Even if he had saved up quite a bit in his three years of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he couldn¡¯tst long like this.

    What made him feel even more despair was that he couldn¡¯t find a way to solve it at all.

    Count Marth realized that his dependence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already reached such a degree.

    To solve this problem, he had to beg the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to spare him.

    After thinking this through, Count Marth finally realized how naive he was to look down on Xu Yi before.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t deal with him before because he didn¡¯t put him in his eyes at all.

    But if Xu Yi really wanted to deal with him, he couldn¡¯t resist at all.

 Volume 5 123 - Really for the duchy?

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 123 Really for the duchy?</h4>

    It wasn¡¯t just Count Marth¡¯s territory that fell into chaos.

    There were thirteen lords who had rejected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce twice when it came to the magic signal towers. Just like Count Marth, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce cut off cooperations with them as well.

    They were influenced by it just like Count Marth, but there were some that suffered less and some that suffered more.

    But no matter how much they suffered, those lords were the same as Count Marth. They knew in their heart that they couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    The only choice left for them was to obey the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, there were some people that were trying to take care of this situation.

    Anklo was the one who was most worried.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you doing this?¡± Anklo looked at Xu Yi with a serious expression. He had a look of me and his voice was filled with distress, ¡°Do you know that because of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce ending your cooperation with Count Marth and the others, their territories are already in chaos!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and gave a shrug, ¡°Of course I know.¡±

    ¡°You know! Then why are you doing this?¡± Anklo¡¯s voice became even stronger, ¡°The countless citizens had gained a new life because of the cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now it is ruined because of you. You.....Can you really bear doing this?¡±

    ¡°You ask if I¡¯m cruel, but you¡¯re not asking if those lords are cruel. It¡¯s clear that as long as they agree to cooperate with ourpany, everything would have stayed the same and those citizens under them could still enjoy the benefits. But now because of their selfishness, they ruined everything. I think that instead of asking me, you should ask them first.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Selfishness?¡± Anklo knit his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, I am clear on your worries, but I don¡¯t think that their thoughts are selfish. Rather it is you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce that has been selfish this time. You are promoting the magic signal towers to put the entire Stantine Duchy under your control, right?¡±

    ¡°First, I have to make something clear. No matter whether you believe it or not, the magic signal towers are not the same as the ancient magic towers that you and the other lords are worried about. Second, I must point out a fact to you. Anklo, do you think that the current Stantine Duchy can really break free of the influence of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Anklo instantly fell silent.

    After looking at Xu Yi for a bit, Anklo slowly shook his head.

    ¡°No, I¡¯m clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very important for the Stantine Duchy. It is because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that the citizens could live such good lives and the entire duchy has be much stronger. I must admit that in the few years since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hase to the Stantine Duchy, the entire duchy has been filled with spirit and I¡¯ve never seen the people of the country filled with such hope.¡±

    After saying this, Anklo paused before changing the topic.

    ¡°But.....Chairman Xu, the duchy is the duchy of our people, if you want to control the entire duchy, even if there are losses for the entire duchy, I will fight to the end!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Anklo¡¯s fervent look and gave a coldugh.

    ¡°Fight to the end? He, he, Anklo, I thought that you were someone with aspirations and ambition, someone who was willing to think for the entire Stantine Duchy. Hearing your words now, I¡¯ve found that you have been corrupted by your power. You are no longer the same Anklo who cared about the lives of the Stantine Duchy citizens.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s expression slightly changed, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°You said that you¡¯ll fight to the end even if the duchy suffers losses? I¡¯m very curious, what are you trying to resist? When I said that the magic signal towers didn¡¯t have the terrifying effect of controlling people, you didn¡¯t react as fiercely. But once the lords reacted, you reacted even more fiercely than them, so why is that?¡±

    ¡°Are you worried about me controlling the Stantine Duchy or about losing the power that you have?¡±

    ¡°Saying that you¡¯ll resist even if the duchy suffers losses, based on what? The people of the Stantine Duchy are living good lives because of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but because you¡¯re afraid of losing your power, you would rather greatly affect the lives of the people and strongly oppose me. Anklo, you¡¯ve greatly disappointed me.¡±

    ¡°I haven¡¯t!¡± Facing Xu Yi¡¯s reprimand, Anklo¡¯s expression became very agitated and he strongly waved his arm as he loudly refuted this, ¡°I indeed do not want this duchy to fall into the control of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce or you, but that is unrted to my personal power. I just want our duchy to belong to its people and not fall into the hands of an outsider like you!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Anklo with knit brows for a bit with a bit of a strange expression.

    ¡°Anklo, I remember that you weren¡¯t this stupid before. It¡¯s fine if you just think this, but you actually said it in front of me, just what are you thinking? Could it be that by being the speaker for a few years, your brain was hollowed out by the power?¡±

    ¡°I am just speaking from my heart.¡± Anklo was panting a bit as he said in an indignant voice, ¡°When I made the agreement with you in secret at first, helping your Frestech Chamber of Commerce stand firm in the Stantine Duchy, it was because I thought that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce could make the duchy better. But now I regret it very much, what I did back then was invite in the wolves!¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce did anything like a wolf.¡±

    ¡°Aren¡¯t you forcing the lords this time?¡± Anklo asked back in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi gave a grating coldugh, ¡°Those lords aren¡¯t normal Stantine Duchy citizens, what I care what they think. Anklo, the fact that you¡¯ve said this means that you¡¯vepletely changed. You used to consider the lives of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people before, but now you¡¯re speaking up for the lords. Your butt really is quite nted now.¡±

    Anklo¡¯s expression froze before he refuted, ¡°Those nobles represent the citizens of the entire duchy! If you force them and push their territory into chaos, that will harm the citizens!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took a document from the table beside him. After looking it over, he threw it to Anklo, ¡°The reason for this matter is mainly because those lords had a misunderstanding of the magic signal towers, but where did this misunderstandinge from? Anklo, aren¡¯t you curious?¡±

    Anklo took the document in surprise and after opening it, his expression fell.

    Xu Yi looked at him with the same cold smile.

    ¡°Anklo, in order to maintain your control over the duchy, you¡¯ve really made quite a few ns. You actually contacted those lords in secret starting a year ago and starting telling them all kinds of things about ourpany, so one day you could take over ourpany? It¡¯s a pity that you¡¯ve overestimated yourself. The lords in the duchy have gained many benefits from cooperating with ourpany and you can¡¯t take out the same things, so why would they work with you? You have to know, this information wasn¡¯t something that I gathered.¡±

    Anklo looked at the various pieces of information on the document in front of him and countless beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

    This document had all the information from when he contacted the lords a year ago, recording the details of their secret conversation and the matter of him trying to unite all the lords to go against the Frestech Chamber ofmerce. It even detailed which month and which day he went to see the lords.

    There were many details that Anklo was certain that only those present knew, but they were now clearly written on this document. There was only one exnation, it was just like Xu Yi had said, it was provided by the people he had met.

    Thinking this through, Anklo felt a chill fill his heart.

    When he listened to Xu Yi about setting up congress to rece the Duke¡¯s Manor and when he was made the speaker, Anklo felt very happy. He felt that with the Stantine Duchy would definitely be stronger with the leadership of the congress and the investment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After these few years, the Stantine Duchy had be much stronger as he wanted and the lives of the citizens became much better. The duchy was filled with a positive aura that he had never thought would happen before, which made him very happy.

    But as time passed, Anklo found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence on the entire duchy became deeper and deeper. It could even be said that in every part of the duchy, every person and every matter couldn¡¯t escape the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to this, he as the speaker of congress became weaker and weaker. There were many times that he acted like a puppet, handling those government matters that weren¡¯t important to him.

    Anklo was an ambitious person, naturally he wasn¡¯t willing to remain like this.

    So he had secretly contacted the lords with the same ambition and had scruples over the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, trying to change the present situation.

    However, Anklo never thought that these lords were never wholeheartedly with him and had actually told Xu Yi all these secrets!

    But thinking about it, it was right. Those lords could gain many benefits from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their lives would be much better, but what could they gain from cooperating with Anklo?

    After thinking this through, Anklo¡¯s heart was like dying ashes.

    He looked at Xu Yi¡¯s taunting smile and put down his hands before giving a deep sigh.

    He knew that starting today, the fate of the Stantine Duchy would be rewritten.

 Volume 5 124 - Giant change with the Stantine Duchy

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 124 Giant change with the Stantine Duchy</h4>

    June in year 3787, it was just a normal first month of summer for the other countries of the Sines Continent, but for the Stantine Duchy in the southwest, it definitely wasn¡¯t normal and could be considered one of the most important months in the history of the duchy.

    In the beginning of June, because the lords that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce approached about the magic signal towers rejected them, they announced that they would stop their cooperation with those lords. It caused the territory of those lords to fall into chaos and it made the other citizens of the duchy worried.

    Everyone was very worried that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave up their investment in the Stantine Duchy because of this, it would have a serious adverse effect on the duchy.

    During the month, the Stantine Duchy congress speaker Anklo suddenly announced that he would be resigning as speaker.

    The exnation that he gave was that after being speaker for three years, ording to the rules of congress, he had already finished his first term. Due to health reasons, he wouldn¡¯t continue serving as speaker.

    This news created arge stir in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although the growth of the Stantine Duchy was because of therge investments of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, one couldn¡¯t neglect the congress that was led by Anklo.

    In the minds of many of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people, he had already be the most important leader that led the Stantine Duchy.

    Now that he had suddenly announced his resignation, people were worried about the fate of the Stantine Duchy.

    Would his sessor be able to lead the Stantine Duchy with the same high speed development?

    But no one could give an urate answer to this.

    Although the congress was already prepared for Anklo¡¯s resignation, recing him with a new speaker on the same day, he was only a viscount that wasn¡¯t well known from the north of the duchy. Without the experience of time, no one knew what this new speaker could do.

    However, when everyone was questioning this new speaker, once the speaker took office, he announced a very shocking decision. He would be abolishing the private territory of nobles in the Stantine Duchy!

    Once this news was spread, it didn¡¯t just shock everyone in the Stantine Duchy, it shocked the people of the surrounding countries.

    Since ancient times, it was tradition on the Sines Continent for nobles to have territory.

    As a noble, if they only had their status and no territory, it was no different from an empty shell.

    Because the foundation of nobles were their private territories.

    Private territories could provide nobles with grains, poption, and the funds that they needed which were the most important thing to their power.

    If they didn¡¯t have any territory, they wouldn¡¯t have any power.

    In any country of the Sines Continent, for all the thousands of nobles, their first demand was private territory. They would treat their territories as their bottom line.

    If their territories were taken, it was no different from dering war with them!

    So everyone thought that when this new speaker thought of this idea, their first reaction was that he was crazy.

    He wanted to pass this strange decision, it was simply a joke!

    When everyone was thinking that the new speaker was a joke, something unexpected happened.

    The Stantine Duchy congress actually passed this decision that people couldn¡¯t believe!

    The Stantine Duchy had officially abolished the rights of nobles to have private territories!

    When countless people were shocked by this, they all turned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the most influentialpany in the Stantine Duchy. Xu Yi as the chairman and one of thergest lords in the Stantine Duchy, the territory under him was several dozen kilometers wide.

    If the congress abolished private territories, how would Xu Yi as a lord respond?

    Would he be willing to hand over his precious territory?

    It had to be known, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was established on this private territory. If he handed it over, what would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce do?

    When everyone thought that Xu Yi would reject this, something happened that no one expected.

    The day after this decision was passed, Xu Yi was the first to announce that he would hand over all his private territory and return his territory to the congress.

    However, at the same time, Xu Yi on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had purchased thend use rights to the area the main base was on. It was a total of fifty kilometers ofnd and it was passed by congress.

    When this news came out, everyone understood.

    It was no wonder this unknown speaker was bold enough to make this shocking decision and could even pass it through congress.

    It seemed like he was supported by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Or to put it more directly, the new speaker had be the speaker through the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he represented the will of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    When the speaker Anklo resigned, it was impossible for it to be unrted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone in the Stantine Duchy felt doubt over this.

    What was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce thinking?

    If Xu Yi wanted more territory, even if he was rejected by the congress before, now that he had reced the speaker, it was no problem to achieve this goal. Why did he toss out such a shocking decision?

    Taking all thend under the nobles, this was basically dering war on all the nobles in the Stantine Duchy!

    How would these nobles just ept this?

    Facts proved that once this proposal passed and after Xu Yi took the lead to carry it out, there were strong refusals from all over the Stantine Duchy.

    There were four counts, seven viscounts, and dozens of barons who announced that they would ept this new proposal. They openly expressed that they wouldn¡¯t ept the leadership of the congress and dered their territories as self governing.

    To everyone, this was equal to dering their independence.

    The Stantine Duchy definitely wouldn¡¯t ept this, but the only problem was how they would handle it.

    The lords had quite a few troops under them and with the Stantine Duchy congress didn¡¯t have any troops under them, so they wouldn¡¯t have a way to deal with them.

    But at this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a move.

    Near the end of June, the congress announced that these four counts, seven viscounts, and countless barons that rejected this weremitting treason and they would subjugate them.

    However, the congress also announced that in the name of congress, they would invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to act as the troops of congress to subjugate these lords.

    Everyone was in an uproar over this.

    The Stantine Duchy congress doing this was simply stating they were in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everything they did was to serve the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, everyone understood that they couldn¡¯t influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions.

    At the end of June, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards moved out. In just a single week, theypletely defeated all the nobles that were determined asmitting treason.

    During this entire process, the lords that he purchasedrge amounts of military magic machines couldn¡¯t pose any threats to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, being unable to resist at all.

    Those rebelling lords werepletely defeated and congress took back their territories without any politeness.

    Everyone understood that whenpeting with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could only obey them.

    So after this, the other lords of the Stantine Duchy agreed to obey the proposal of congress and handed over the rights to all their territory.

    But it was different from Xu Yi¡¯s territory. Although those nobles had handed over the rights to all their private property, the congress authorized them to rent somend to invest in and gave them small pieces ofnd as their personal property.

    These small pieces ofnd were not different from their private territories, it was just different in name. Because they were much smaller, they could only build private manors on them and they wouldn¡¯t have much influence.

    On the final day of June, the congress took back the rights of the final lord and announced that from this day forth, there would be no more lords in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although there would still be nobles, they would no longer have territories. All they would have were some unrted noble rights.

    Of course, congress only took back their rights to private properties and didn¡¯t touch their private businesses.

    The rubber ntations, the fruit orchards, and factories under them would still give them the same benefits.

    However, all the nobles that obeyed the proposal were able to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.

    So when this turbulent June was over and they entered July, everyone found that the Stantine Duchypared to before, other than changing their speaker and all the lords losing the rights to their private properties wasn¡¯t really that different.

    The nobles relied on the benefits of the businesses under them to live luxurious lives and the citizens worked hard to improve their lives.

    But everyone knew that the Stantine Duchy waspletely different from before.

    At this time, there were several guests that arrived in the Stantine Duchy that didn¡¯t seem to change on the surface.

 Volume 5 125 - Guests from afar

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 125 Guests from afar</h4>

    Seven Magic Sedans of different colours came in a row, quickly driving across the road to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Stantine Duchy main base.

    Even in the Stantine Duchy where Magic Sedans came from, Magic Sedans weren¡¯t that popr because of their high prices. So when a motorcade with seven different coloured Magic Sedans came through, it attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    But when people noticed the tes at the back of the seven Magic Sedans, they felt it was very strange.

    Because these seven Magic Sedans came from the Drake Duchy that was over a thousand kilometers from here.

    If it was said that normal families in the surrounding countries now had enough funds to buy a Magic Sedan, those that could buy seven Magic Sedans would either be rich merchants or rich nobles.

    These seven Magic Sedans from the Drake Duchy, didn¡¯t that mean that the people inside were important people from the Drake Duchy?

    It should be said that their guesses weren¡¯t wrong, but they also weren¡¯t right.

    These seven Magic Sedans did have someone important from the Drake Duchy, but also important people not from the Drake Duchy.

    Marquis Southgate looked over the scene outside the Magic Sedan before saying with a sigh to Princess Caroline, ¡°Your highness, when you described the Stantine Duchy before, I thought you were exaggerating, but after seeing these astonishing things with my own eyes, I feel that you weren¡¯t exaggerating and were being too conservative. I must admit that the Stantien Duchy is different from any other country on the Sines Continent that I have seen. Other than Banta City that we passed by three days ago, there might not be a single ce on the continent that canpare to here.¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a beautiful smile as she said with a smile, ¡°Of course, Banta City is where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came from. Being able to be like that is all because of the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi. As for the ce that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took root in and developed for five years, naturally it would be influenced even more by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi.¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked around again before giving another sigh, ¡°To be honest, I don¡¯t even know what I¡¯m looking at. For example, those tall towers in the distance, I don¡¯t know what use they have, but I¡¯m certain that it must be some astonishing invention from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that can bring great benefits to people¡¯s lives.¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s surprises don¡¯t just end here.¡± Princess Caroline revealed a smile. She followed Marquis Southgate¡¯s gaze and seeing the tall iron tower in the distance, she couldn¡¯t help being surprised, ¡°Yi? What is that tower for?¡±

    Marquis Southgate asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What? Even your highness doesn¡¯t know what it¡¯s for?¡±

    Princess Caroline shook her head with a confused look.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. I haven¡¯t seen this thing before, it should be a new invention of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. That fellow Xu Yi¡¯s brain is always filled with strange ideas and he had many subordinates who are wildly researching, so for there to be an invention that I don¡¯t know about isn¡¯t that strange.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡± Marquis Southgate gave a nod before looking back at that iron tower. He turned to the side and looked at the scenery around the path.

    A month ago, Marquis Southgate and Princess Caroline identally met in Filios City. Marquis Southgate revealed his status to Princess Caroline and was warmly weed by her.

    When Marquis Southgate stated that he wanted to learn more about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their magic machines, Princess Caroline made a suggestion. She asked him toe to the Stantine Duchy with her and see what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was like for himself.

    Marquis Southgate happily agreed to this suggestion. After some arrangements, he brought Seymour and his followers to head to the Stantine Duchy with Princess Caroline.

    On the way, other than Princess Caroline telling Marquis Southgate all about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he also saw all kinds of new and strange things which made Marquis Southgate even more interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Whether it was the various agricultural magic machines, the mining magic machines that were stronger than normal people, or seeing all the household magic machines in the Lampuri Kingdom, it all proved to Marquis Southgate that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had influence all over the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as the benefits of the magic machines.

    Their group had stayed in Banta City for three days.

    Because Banta City was where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came from, even now, Banta City was the city that was influenced by them the deepest.

    After staying in Banta City for three days, Marquis Southgate checked many ces in secret and had a deeper understanding of the change the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought to Banta City. At the same time, he couldn¡¯t help praising the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more.

    After entering the Stantine Duchy, Marquis Southgate even felt that he had entered another world.

    If it was said that there was still a trace of the traditional city style in Banta City, the Stantine Duchy that was empty like a nk piece of paper, after being influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had turned into a new world different from any other ce on the continent.

    Although it was only his first day here, Marquis Southgate could deeply tell that this new world was better than any traditional city on the Sines Continent no matter how he looked at it.

    Not mentioning anything else, just being able to enjoy clean water everywhere puts most of the cities on the continent to shame.

    This was something even the capital city of the Marlow Empire, Angelo City couldn¡¯tpare to.

    Although as a Lord Marquis, Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t need to worry about having clean water in his manor, as a marquis that cared about the lives of the citizens, he deeply understood how hard it was for them to get clean water.

    The Stantine Duchy solved this problem for its citizens with the water system, to Marquis Southgate, this was an iparably good matter.

    Comparing it, the various benefits the household magic machines brought to people couldn¡¯tpare.

    Other than this, what Marquis Southgate found the most important was the road they were currently traveling on.

    When he first rode the rented Magic Sedan on the roads of the Drake Duchy, he was certain that these roads would have arge impact on the transportation situation of the entire country. This was something with a very important strategic significance.

    Although the roads were built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, Marquis Southgate learned through various channels that the materials and magic machines required to pave roads came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This meant that the two things he cared about the most were closely rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was the main reason why he decided toe to the Stantine Duchy and personally see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, if nothing unexpected happens, we¡¯ll be able to see Xu Yi in just two hours. Have you thought about what you want to ask him?¡± Princess Caroline suddenly asked.

    Marquis Southgate was silent for a bit before saying with a faint smile, ¡°I want to ask him many things. If possible, I want to stay here for some time and discuss many things with chairman Xu. Your highness, I hope you can help me with this.¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a smile, ¡°Be assured, once that fellow Xu Yi learns of your status, he will go crazy with happiness. Without you saying anything, he will want to discuss with you as much as possible. Anyway, I have to remind you that that fellow is very sly, you shouldn¡¯t be cheated by him.¡±

    Marquis Southgate revealed a smile as he looked at Princess Caroline. He couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Your highness, you and chairman Xu.....seem close?¡±

    A blush came over Princess Caroline¡¯s face as she replied with a faint smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for that fact that I met him after his wife, I definitely would do everything to be his wife. It¡¯s a pity that I met himter and he insists on being a man of principle, not giving me a chance at all. But.....I do like that about him.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Marquis Southgate was a bit surprised, ¡°Your highness, you are this beautiful, chairman Xu actually isn¡¯t moved by you?¡±

    Princess Caroline gave a helpless shrug, ¡°Although I won¡¯t submit, I have to admit that his wife isn¡¯t worse than me at all.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Marquis Southgate thought for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°That means that using beauties to entice chairman Xu might not be useful?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Princess Caroline shook her head, ¡°That fellow has three beautiful ves and has already taken two to his bedroom. Moreover, ording to what I know, he took in two more maids and married a beautiful elf girl, so if you say that he isn¡¯t enticed by beauty at all.....that isn¡¯t certain.¡±

    ¡°Elf girl?¡± Marquis Southgate really was surprised, ¡°Is that true? He actually married an elf girl? How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°That is the biggest thing that happened in the surrounding countriesst year, you haven¡¯t heard of this before?¡± Princess Caroline asked.

    ¡°No.....I mainly asked about magic machines before, I didn¡¯t care about chairman Xu¡¯s personal life.¡±

    ¡°Un......I actually feel that Xu Yi is more worth paying attention topared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to be such apany ispletely because of Xu Yi. Based on what I can see, he is more important than the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seeing theplicated look on Princess Caroline¡¯s face that didn¡¯t have any doubt though, Marquis Southgate fell into thought before revealing a serious look.

    ¡°Then.....your highness, before I meet chairman Xu, can you tell me a bit more about chairman Xu?¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright. Un......I¡¯ll start from his personality. ording to my understanding of him, although he always calls himself a merchant, he is a fellow very much with his own ideals.....¡±

 Volume 5 126 - Running from the scene of the crime

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 126 Running from the scene of the crime</h4>

    Princess Caroline talked about Xu Yi for half an hour. The motorcade was about to arrive at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base when they were stopped by an ident in front of them.

    Seeing the special design Magic Sedan blocking the path in front and how there were two men in uniform standing by the fire red Magic Sedan, Princess Caroline and Marquis Southgate looked at each other before revealing confused looks.

    This fire red Magic Sedan was the one that Seymour had purchased in Filios City.

    When they set out from ck Rice City on the ck Rice Wastnd today, Seymour had followed the motorcade at first, but before reaching half way, he became impatient and drove off by himself. He sped up from time to time, wildly driving across the roads and ditching the motorcade.

    Because the road from ck Rice City to the Stantine Duchy was simple, there was no need to worry about him being lost. Ading in the fact that he had practiced his driving skills in the past few days, Marquis Southgate allowed him to go on his own and didn¡¯t want to restrain him too much.

    But why was he now being blocked by someone?

    Princess Caroline looked at the two young men in uniform and slightly knitted her brows, ¡°Those two are peace officers of the Stantine Duchy, it seems like Viscount Seymour hasmitted a crime.¡±

    ¡°Peace officers?¡± Marquis Southgate looked at the two young men with a confused look before having the driver head over.

    The motorcade stopped by Seymour¡¯s fire red Magic Sedan. Seymour, who had been sitting inside with a look of disdain, quickly opened the door and passed by the two peace officers toe over.

    ¡°Uncle Dayolen, these two fellows dared to stop my car! I must teach them a lesson!¡±

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression sunk slightly. His unkind gaze looked at him before looking at Princess Caroline with a bit of inquiry in his eyes.

    Princess Caroline was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Lord Marquis, let me handle this.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Princess Caroline came out of the Magic Sedan and walked over to the two peace officers.

    The two peace officers looked a bit angry, but seeing Princess Carolinee over, they were instantly stunned by her appearance.

    ¡°Two peace officers, hello.¡± Princess Caroline revealed a sweet smile before pointing at Seymour behind her and asking, ¡°Can I ask why you stopped my friend over there? Did hemit some crime?¡±

    The two peace officers were stunned by Princess Caroline¡¯s appearance, but once they heard her question, they came back to their senses. The slightly chubby officer gave a cough and calmed down before saying with a serious look, ¡°This miss, your friend didn¡¯t follow thews of driving Magic Sedans and hit a medium public transport Magic Car. It caused the Magic Car to fall off the side of the road and several people were injured. After this ident, your friend didn¡¯t wait for processing and directly escaped. ording to thews, we must take him back and investigate him.¡±

    ¡°He escaped from a traffic ident?¡± Princess Caroline deeply knitted her brows. She turned to look at Seymour and Marquis Southgate with a difficult look.

    Marquis Southgate saw the look on her face and came over.

    ¡°What happened?¡±

    Marquis Southgate had a high position, so he naturally had a serious aura. The two peace officers were experienced and could tell with a single nce that he wasn¡¯t a normal person, so they didn¡¯t neglect him and exined the situation.

    After hearing this, Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression fell. He red at Seymour and after a bit of silence, he said to the two peace officers, ¡°Two officers, this is my nephew¡¯s mistake, I represent him to sincerely apologize. We are willing topensate the victims of this incident and we¡¯ll be sure that they will be satisfied.¡±

    Marquis Southgate waved his hand at a follower behind him. That follower didn¡¯t say a thing as he took out a purse from his chest.

    ¡°There are a hundred gold coins in there. I want to use this aspensation for those passengers, it should be enough.¡±

    The two peace officers looked at the purse before looking back at Marquis Southgate with a surprised look.

    Marquis Southgate said with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to be surprised. In order to show our sincerity, a hundred gold coins isn¡¯t considered much.¡±

    He didn¡¯t notice that when Princess Caroline heard these words, she had a very strange look on her face.

    The two peace officers also had strange looks. They looked at each other before the slightly chubby officer gave a cough and said to Marquis Southgate, ¡°This.....This sir, do you think that a hundred gold coins is a lot?¡±

    Marquis Southgate was surprised, ¡°Could it be that it isn¡¯t? Based on your story, those passengers only received minor injuries and only one person had a broken bone. I think that a hundred gold coins is enough to pay for their losses.¡±

    After pausing, he added, ¡°Alright, if a hundred gold coins isn¡¯t enough, I can add another fifty gold coins. As for my nephew, because we still have urgent matters, it isn¡¯t convenient for you to take him away for investigation right now.¡±

    The slightly chubby officer gave a bitterugh before shaking his head, ¡°This sir, I must tell you that not just for a hundred gold coins or a hundred and fifty gold coins, even if it was five hundred gold coins, it wouldn¡¯t be enough to cover the losses that your nephew caused with this ident. Moreover, ording to ourws, we have to lead him away for investigation, so please cooperate with us.¡±

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise, ¡°Even five hundred gold coins isn¡¯t enough? How is that possible! Five hundred gold coins is enough to buy ten strong ves!¡±

    The slightly chubby officer knit his brows, ¡°This sir, you aren¡¯t from our Stantine Duchy? Let me tell you, our Stantine Duchy no longer has ves, so this analogy is inappropriate. Moreover, to be honest with you, five hundred gold coins really isn¡¯t considered much. The passengers of that Magic Car all make two hundred gold coins a year. With all those people injured, adding in the losses of the public transport Magic Car itself, the losses wouldn¡¯t just be five hundred gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Each person can earn two hundred thousand gold coins a year?¡± Marquis Southgate waspletely surprised, ¡°This.....Is this possible? Aren¡¯t they normal citizens?¡±

    Princess Caroline on the side couldn¡¯t keep watching. She gave a cough and came forward, lowering her voice to talk to the two peace officers, ¡°Two officers, I won¡¯t hide it from you, these two are important guests of chairman Xu, I hope that you can bend the rules. As for thepensation, no matter how much it is, we will pay it all.¡±

    After saying this, Princess Caroline took a gold bill out of her chest to hand over.

    ¡°Here are a thousand gold coins. If it isn¡¯t enough, you can contact me through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± After pausing, or feeling that empty words wouldn¡¯t have any effect, Princess Caroline hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°I am Princess Caroline from the Drake Duchy, you should have heard my name before.¡±

    The two officers had their eyes pop out as they shouted in disbelief, ¡°So it was Princess Caroline! No wonder you¡¯re this beautiful! God! I actually saw Princess Caroline! I¡¯m too lucky!¡±

    Princess Caroline revealed a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for your praise. Then two officers.....can we leave first? Chairman Xu should be waiting for our arrival and as for the processing, you can find us through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    The two peace officers looked at each other. The slightly chubby one pulled the other one aside and after they whispered to each other, the slightly chubby once came back and said to Princess Caroline, ¡°Your highness, can you and yourpanions please wait a bit? We will try to contact chairman Xu now and let him decide how to handle this.¡±

    ¡°Contact chairman Xu?¡± Princess Caroline knitted her brows, ¡°Isn¡¯t there still some distance from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base? Don¡¯t we need to wait a long time?¡±

    ¡°Sorry.¡± The slightly chubby officer revealed a smile, not showing any signs of bending the rules.

    Seeing his firm stance, Princess Caroline could only ept this and return to Marquis Southgate¡¯s side.

    ¡°Marquis Southgate, I¡¯m very sorry, we have to wait here a bit. They are currently contacting chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°How can they contact chairman Xu from here? If they send someone, how long would a round trip take?¡± Marquis Southgate was clearly thinking about the same problem as Princess Caroline.

    ¡°Uncle Dayolen, why are we listening to them and waiting here? We should just go. Could it be that they would dare make a move against us?¡± Seymour came over and said with an uncaring look.

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Marquis Southgate angrily reprimanded him, but he didn¡¯t say much else. After all, this was his old friend¡¯s son and not his own son, so he couldn¡¯t just teach him a lesson.

    After thinking about it, he just said with a nod, ¡°Alright, since we are guests, we should respect Xu Yi as the master of this ce. Perhaps through how this matter is handled, we can have a deeper understanding of chairman Xu.¡±

    Seeing the smile appear on the corner of Marquis Southgate¡¯s lips, Princess Caroline felt a slight chill in her heart.

    Xu Yi always wanted to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines spread across the continent, so the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire as the two empires of the continent were the most important.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s progress in the Candra Empire had never been smooth and now they had some contact with the Marlow Empire¡¯s Marquis Southgate, they had a chance to bring their products into the Marlow Empire.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t handle this matter well and made Marquis Southgate unhappy, there was a high chance that Marquis Southgate¡¯s evaluation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would change. It would be a hindrance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products entering the Marlow Empire.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you have to seize this opportunity this time.¡±

    Looking at Marquis Southgate who was calmly sitting in the Magic Sedan waiting and then looking at the impatient Seymour, Princess Caroline couldn¡¯t help praying in her heart.

 Volume 5 127 - Xu Yiâ€™s decision

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 127 Xu Yi¡¯s decision</strong>

    The three of them didn¡¯t wait long.

    After several minutes, the slightly thinner officer came over with a small stic and metal box in his hand that he handed over to Princess Caroline.

    ¡°Your highness, sir chairman wants to talk to you.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at the stic and metal thing in the officer¡¯s hand in surprise. After taking it, she slightly knitted her brows as she said, ¡°Hello, chairman Xu, since you can talk to me with this Magic Communicator, you shouldn¡¯t be far from here. Quicklye over and take care of this, the two guests are getting impatient.¡±

    Marquis Southgate and Seymour looked at Princess Caroline in surprise.

    What was she talking to a small box for? Could it be that chairman Xu could jump out of the box?

    After that, there was a powerful and slightly low male voice that was very calm that came from the small box.

    ¡°Hey, Caroline, you¡¯re wrong. I¡¯m more than seventy kilometers away from you right now.¡±

    Princess Caroline was surprised, ¡°Seventy kilometers? How is this possible? Wasn¡¯t the greatest range of your Magic Communicators just five kilometers?¡±

    There was a crispugh from the small box.

    ¡°Ha, ha, this is our newest technology, it can extend the coverage of the Magic Communicators very far. Although it can¡¯t cover the entire Stantine Duchy right now, there¡¯s no problem for me to reach where you are.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this amazing?¡± Princess Caroline leaned in and put the Magic Communicator to her ear to whisper something before suddenly raising her voice, ¡°Alright, I know that yourpany always makes amazing things, but that is not important right now. The important thing is that you properly take care of this matter.¡±

    There was a bit of silence from the Magic Communicator before Xu Yi¡¯s slightly lowered voice came out.

    ¡°Caroline, although they are guests that you have brought,ws arews. Since they have broken thews and caused serious consequences, we have to follow thews and can¡¯t bend them.¡±

    Princess Caroline was surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s answer. She looked at Marquis Southgate and Seymour who were standing not far away, she lowered her voice and anxiously said, ¡°Xu Yi, are you crazy? Do you know where these two guestse from? There is an honoured Lord Marquis from the Marlow Empire! Didn¡¯t you always want to bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products to the Marlow Empire? This Marquis Southgate is very interested in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this is a good opportunity! How can you offend him and miss this chance!¡±

    ¡°Marlow Empire? Marquis Southgate?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice had a bit of surprise that couldn¡¯t be hidden, ¡°This really is surprising, it¡¯s no wonder you said that you were bringing two special guests......¡±

    ¡°Now you know? Then why aren¡¯t you properly taking care of this situation? Let me tell you, the fellow that caused the problem is the son of Marquis Southgate¡¯s old friend. His old friend also has a high rank in the Marlow Empire. You are smart, do you still need me to tell you how to handle this?¡±

    There was more silence from the Magic Communicator before Xu Yi¡¯s voice with a strange tone came out.

    ¡°Alright, Caroline, give this Magic Communicator to Marquis Southgate and let me talk to him.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Princess Caroline turned to Marquis Southgate and handed the Magic Communicator over, ¡°Lord Marquis, chairman Xu wishes to talk to you.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Marquis Southgate looked at the small Magic Communicator with an interested look and asked, ¡°What is this thing? It can actually let you talk to chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°This is our Frestech Chamber ofmerce¡¯s first generationmunication magic machine, called the Magic Communicator, but you can also call it a cell phone because it is a magicmunication device you can hold in your hand.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°Marquis Southgate, hello, I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu. Meeting you for the first....Oh, no, being able to talk to you for the first time, I am honoured.¡±

    [TL Note: The cell phone naming doesn¡¯t work in English. Chinese for cell phone is hand phone, so he¡¯s saying it¡¯s a phone that you can hold in your hand.]

    Marquis Southgate looked at the Magic Communicator from which the voice wasing out of in surprise before carefully taking it from Princess Caroline¡¯s hand. Then he calmed himself and gave a cough before saying, ¡°Eh.....Chairman Xu? Hellow, I am Marquis Dayolen Southgate. Seeing.....Oh, no, talking to you for the first time, I am also very honoured.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, Lord Marquis, talking for the first time with this method, you mustn¡¯t be used to it, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I am indeed a bit unused to this.¡± Marquis Southgate said with a smile, ¡°But I feel that this method is very novel and very interesting. Moreover, I heard your talk with her highness Caroline. You are over seventy kilometers away from here, but we can still talk like this, this really is too unbelievable.¡±

    ¡°Lord Marquis, if you know more about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you will find that it isn¡¯t only the Magic Communicators that would surprise you.¡±

    ¡°I deeply believe this.¡± Marquis Southgate said with a faint smile, ¡°The reason I came all the way here with Princess Caroline is because I¡¯ve identally seen many strange things from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So I came here just to have some talks with you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then it really is mine and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s honour. As the chairman, I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to extend a warm wee.¡±

    Marquis Southgate revealed a smile. He looked at Princess Caroline and paused before asking, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, although this method of talking is very novel, I do hope that we can have a proper exchange. Compared to this, I was hoping that we could meet face to face. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Of course I also want this.¡± Xu Yi directly replied, ¡°Lord Marquis, I¡¯ve already prepared to wee you, you cane as a guest at any time.¡±

    ¡°I also want to be a guest, but chairman Xu.....there is a problem here. I think that you already know that my nephew who doesn¡¯t have much world experienced caused a bit of trouble and if it isn¡¯t processed properly, I might not be able to go and meet you.¡±

    Hearing the deep meaning in the Marquis Southgate¡¯s tone, Princess Caroline¡¯s heart couldn¡¯t help tensing.

    This was clearly Marquis Southgate giving Xu Yi a chance to show sincerity, to see if Xu Yi was willing to show it or not.

    If this matter was ced on any other merchant, Princess Caroline wouldn¡¯t be worried because the other side would definitely give Marquis Southgate a satisfying ending and guarantee that both sides would be happy.

    But without knowing why, Princess Caroline felt that this matter which shouldn¡¯t be considered troublesome, when ced on Xu Yi, there would be something unexpected that would happen.....

    The Magic Communicator was silent for a few seconds before Xu Yi¡¯s hesitant voice came out.

    ¡°Lord Marquis.....This.....Actually......I¡¯m very sorry......¡±

    Hearing this, Princess Caroline revealed a bitter smile.

    This fellow, he really was different from other people.

    ¡°Even if you and your nephew are guests of Princess Caroline, thews are thews. Since your nephew has broken thew and caused serious damages, he must receive the consequences of his action as per thews. Even I can¡¯t help him escape his crimes.¡±

    Seymour on the side knitted his brows when he heard this.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Marquis Southgate holding the Magic Communicator, he would have taken it and angrily cursed out.

    This damn Xu Yi, he was just a smallpany¡¯s chairman in a small duchy, he actually dared to refuse to give his uncle Dayolen any face!

    Marquis Southgate had a strange look on his face before he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, this means.....you aren¡¯t willing to give my nephew any chance and will have him be taken away by the peace officers?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Lord Marquis. Thews were the ones that I made, so I must strictly observe them. Anyone who breaks them has to suffer the consequences, even I am not an exception.¡±

    ¡°But if you insist on doing this, I can only express my disappointment. I thought that I could have a happy conversation with chairman Xu, but now it seems like it might not be possible.¡±

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s words to Princess Caroline seemed to be a direct threat.

    No matter how she looked at it, the Marlow Empire was considered a giant whenpared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which was a smallpany on the continent without any fame.

    If they could attract the interest of this giant, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this would be a rare opportunity.

    Now that Marquis Southgate expressed that if Xu Yi kept causing trouble for Seymour, he was very likely to leave, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might lose this chance.

    The Magic Communicator was silent for a bit longer before Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, if you¡¯ve decided on this, I can only say that it is a regret. However, I must remind you that whether you are willing to be my guest or not, your nephew has broken thew, so he will be investigated.¡±

    ¡°Ah? What a joke!¡± Seymour couldn¡¯t help saying this as his face filled with anger and disbelief.

    Was there a mistake!

    His uncle Dayolen was willing to ask for a favour from him, it was fine if this Xu Yi didn¡¯t immediately agree, but he was actually telling his uncle Dayolen that he would be causing trouble for him?

    Was he tired of living?

    Marquis Southgate was also a bit surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s answer.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean......you are insisting on causing trouble for my nephew?¡±

    ¡°Sorry, this is my principle.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I must remind you that before my nephew came out with me, my old friend asked me to take care of him. If something happens to him, I won¡¯t have the face to see my old friend. If you are insisting on causing trouble for him, I will not be able to stand by.¡±

    ¡°Lord Marquis, I did not mean to offend you or your old friend. I just purely wish for your nephew to cooperate with the peace officers for their investigation. If he cooperates with them, I believe that a good ending will happen for him and he won¡¯t be seriously punished.¡±

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression fell, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are insisting on doing this?¡±

    A soft breath came from the Magic Communicator before Xu Yi¡¯s voice turned firm.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Marquis, I am insisting on doing this.¡±

 Volume 5 128 - Two strange men

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 128 Two strange men</h4>

    ¡°Very good, I think that our conversation can end here.¡±

    Marquis Southgate handed the Magic Communicator back to Princess Caroline.

    Princess Caroline wanted to convince Xu Yi with a few more words, but she found that the green light on the Magic Communicator had extinguished and could only give a bitter smile.

    It seemed like Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t take back his stance this time.

    ¡°Uncle Dayolen! Let¡¯s go back! What god damn Xu Yi and Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they actually dare treat you with this stance! It¡¯s a good thing that this is the Stantine Duchy, if this was our Marlow Empire, I would immediately give him something good to see!¡±

    Marquis Southgate narrowed his eyes to look at Seymour, but he didn¡¯t say a thing as he turned back to Princess Caroline.

    ¡°Your highness.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....Lord Marquis, you......¡± Princess Caroline opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

    She knew that Xu Yi had destroyed his chance to cooperate with the Marlow Empire this time.

    When it came to benefits, Xu Yi¡¯s actions this time were simply too stupid.

    But if it was from a personal view, Princess Caroline felt that Xu Yi had simply been too charming just now.

    That kind of contradictory feeling made her reveal a bitter smile, also not know how to express the feelings in her heart.

    ¡°Your highness, let¡¯s set off. Chairman Xu should already be anxious waiting for us.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....Ah?¡± Princess Caroline first nodded before her eyes popped out in surprise, ¡°Lord Marquis, you.....You¡¯re still going to see chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Marquis Southgate asked Princess Caroline with a surprised look, ¡°Wasn¡¯t this the n?¡±

    ¡°But......But......¡± Princess Caroline pointed at Seymour who also had a surprised look, ¡°The matter of Viscount Seymour......¡±

    ¡°Seymour?¡± Marquis Southgate turned to look at Seymour and the faint smile on his face turned dark, bing very deep. He said in a tone that didn¡¯t broker any concession, ¡°Seymour, you will go with these two peace officers and coordinate with their investigations. Let me remind you, you must work well with them. If you dare cause any more trouble, I wouldn¡¯t mind disciplining you for your father.¡±

    Although Marquis Southgate¡¯s tone didn¡¯t sound that strict, Seymour couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    He knew that this time his uncle Dayolen was serious.

    So he didn¡¯t have a single thought of resisting as he walked over to the two peace officers.

    Marquis Southgate looked at the two stunned peace officers with a smile, ¡°Two officers, it¡¯s been hard on you. Please be patient with my nephew. If you need anything, you can contact me or Princess Caroline through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    After saying this, he sat back down in the Magic Sedan. He didn¡¯t spare a single nce for Seymour, he just waved his hand to Princess Caroline.

    ¡°Your highness, let¡¯s set off.¡±

    Princess Caroline looked at Seymour with a strange look before turning back to Marquis Southgate. She didn¡¯t say anything else, she just sat back down in the Magic Sedan.

    After a while, the motorcade of seven Magic Sedans set off and quickly disappeared along the road.

    ###

    An hourter, the motorcade arrived at Xu YI¡¯s personal manor that was by the sea.

    Seeing Xu Yi standing at the door in the distance, looking over, Princess Caroline felt a bit surprised.

    She didn¡¯t know how Xu Yi arrived before the motorcade, but since this was Xu Yi¡¯s territory, it wouldn¡¯t be strange if he could do this.

    What she was surprised by was why Xu Yi had a smile on his face, not seeming to be affected by his conversation with Marquis Southgate just now.

    It had to be known, those words bymon logic would be Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate showing a breakdown in their rtionship. Normally people would think that these two would be angry with each other, no longer caring about the other.

    But not only did Marquis Southgate¡¯s reaction surprise Princess Caroline, now Xu Yi¡¯s reaction also confused her.

    These two men, just what were they thinking?

    Princess Caroline was confused as she came out of the Magic Sedan, but when she was standing with the smiling Xu Yi, she also revealed a bright smile.

    ¡°Hey, Caroline, it¡¯s been a year and a half since west met? After not seeing each other for this long, you¡¯ve be this beautiful, I¡¯m really happy to see this.¡± Xu Yi reached his hand out towards Caroline with a smile.

    Princess Caroline looked at Xu Yi¡¯s right hand that was reached out before suddenly revealing a naughty smile. She came forward and tightly hugged Xu Yi who was caught off guard, not hesitating to ce a kiss on his face.

    ¡°Xu Yi, after not seeing each for this long, you¡¯re this cold to me. I¡¯m very hurt.¡±

    Feeling the heat from Princess Caroline¡¯s lips, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became a bit awkward and a bit helpless. After thinking about it, he also gave Princess Caroline a hug, but he didn¡¯t return the kiss.

    ¡°Hey, Caroline, there¡¯s still guests here.¡±

    Hearing what Xu Yi said, Princess Caroline let go with a smile.

    Xu Yi was reminding her there were guests here, did that mean that he didn¡¯t treat her as a guest and one of his own?

    ¡°Un, Xu Yi, let me introduce them. This is Marquis Dayolen Southgate. Lord Marquis, he is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate¡¯s gazes matched. The two of them revealed understanding smiles at the same time before reaching their hands out towards each other.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, wee.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m very happy to finally see you.¡±

    The two looked at each other and both gave augh before Xu Yi said, ¡°Lord Marquis, let me tell you some good news. Because Viscount Seymour cooperated with the peace officers, acknowledging it was his mistake and agreeing to pay thepensation, the passengers of the public transport Magic Cars have already epted this. So ording to thews, he could at most be locked up for seven days and wouldn¡¯t be punished with anything else.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That is very good.¡± Marquis Southgate gave a nod, as if he didn¡¯t care about what punishment Seymour received at all. After a bit of silence, he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, I have some understanding of the Magic Cars, but can I ask what is the difference between the public transport Magic Cars here and the public transport Magic Cars I¡¯ve seen in Banta City?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s not much difference because I was the main designer of the Banta City public transport system. If you have topare it, our public transport system here is more perfect. One, it¡¯s because the system in Banta City has many limits, but there aren¡¯t any here. Two, it¡¯s because it¡¯s closer to ourpany¡¯s production base that they can receive better passenger Magic Cars.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand. Then can I ask, without enough roads as a foundation, would it be hard to build this kind of transport system?¡±

    ¡°Although it¡¯s easier for the Magic Cars to operate with these roads, there is no need for them. Ourpany¡¯s current passenger Magic Cars can even travel on normal dirt and stone roads. As long as there are enough normal roads and enough passenger Magic Cars, one can attempt to build a public transport system.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this? If one wanted to form a public transport system that is more than ten times bigger than Banta City, how much does chairman Xu think it would cost?¡±

    ¡°That is hard to estimate because the conditions of each city are different, so we need to survey the city first. But for a rough estimate, if the city area is more than ten times bigger than Banta City, the scale of the public transport system will need to be more than several times bigger than Banta City.¡±

    ¡°Why isn¡¯t it just more than ten times?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t a simple multiplication because the bigger the city is, the moreplicated it is. To satisfy this, one needs to pay more resources.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is correct. Then I¡¯ve heard that Banta City¡¯s public transport system cost three hundred thousand gold coins and it needed an investment of fifty thousand gold coins each year. ording to what you just said, for a city that is more than ten times bigger, the initial investment should be over ten million gold coins and it would cost up to a million gold coins a year to maintain?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain because it was only a first attempt when we tried it in Banta City, so there were many unnecessary expenditures. If we did it now, I would say the cost would be around one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins. As for the costs each year, with the ie that woulde in, there would be no need for additional investments.¡±

    ¡°Oh? If it¡¯s like this, that is quite cheap......¡±

    ......

    Seeing Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate talking like they were old friends, while she was being thrown to the side to dry in the sun, Princess Caroline couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes before cutting through their conversation.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, aren¡¯t you nning on serving us some tea?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before tapping his head with a smile, reaching his hand out to give an inviting gesture.

    ¡°Please, Lord Marquis, Caroline, everyone,e and sit. I¡¯ve already prepared a sumptuous lunch, I was just waiting for us to enjoy it together.¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave augh. He wasn¡¯t polite as he walked into the manor.

    But before he took two steps, he couldn¡¯t help turning back to ask Xu Yi more questions.

    Xu Yi was also strange. No matter what questions Marquis Southgate asked, he would answer them with many details. He didn¡¯t act like he was answering them out of politeness, rather it was like he and Marquis Southgate were friends.

    Seeing them talking like this, Princess Caroline helplessly shook her head. She looked over at Still who was standing at the entrance to the dining room, waiting for the guests.

    When her eyes fell onto Still¡¯s stomach that was bulging a bit, Princess Caroline was stunned before a weak sigh came through her lips.

 Volume 5 129 - Love is selfish

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 129 Love is selfish</strong>

    Marquis Southgate was like a curious child who was filled with endless curiosity towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that he finally met Xu Yi, there were countless questions that he had.

    Of course, Xu Yi only gave him simple answers to these questions which couldn¡¯t truly satisfy him.

    So he proposed to Xu Yi to stay here for a bit longer to properly observe the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which Xu Yi naturally approved of.

    But Princess Caroline never would have thought that Marquis Southgate would actually stay half a month, not having any idea of leaving at all.

    If it was said that him staying a week was because of Seymour being detained and Marquis Southgate not being able to leave him alone, the extra week, even with Seymour expressing that he didn¡¯t want to stay in a ce that humiliated him which Marquis Southgate ignored, was all because of his personal reasons.

    Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate weed Marquis Southgate¡¯s idea to stay, but it was a bit hard for Princess Caroline.

    When she came to the Stantine Duchy, she thought that they would stay for three day or at most a week before heading back to the Drake Duchy. Now because of Marquis Southgate, she was being kept here for half a month which far exceeded her schedule.

    Princess Caroline was responsible for the magic machine industry in the Drake Duchy, so there were many things in the duchy that she had to take care of personally. Staying here for a long time would be hard for her.

    But Marquis Southgate was an important person from the Marlow Empire. Not only was he an important opportunity for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was simrly important for the Drake Duchy.

    It was impossible for the Drake Duchy¡¯s household magic machines topare to the Frestech Brand, it was also hard for them topare to the household magic machines from the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had to open other markets.

    Before this, the Drake Duchy had been working hard in the neighbouring Sack Kingdom and Falk Kingdoms. Now that the Marlow Empire had appeared, Princess Caroline wanted to seize this chance.

    So without considering it too much, Princess Caroline made the decision to stay here with Marquis Southgate.

    As for the matters in the duchy, she would leave them to her subordinates.

    Not to mention that even with Marquis Southgate, she was very willing to stay here.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the Drake Duchy¡¯s most important partner, so building rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and strengthening them was beneficial to the Drake Duchy.

    Even putting everything aside, for Princess Caroline, staying here was a choice that she epted.

    But this choice made her face a scene that filled her heart with a bit of frustration.

    ¡°Still, this second child, do you want it to be a boy?¡± Princess Caroline took her hand away from Still¡¯s stomach and asked this.

    The two of them were in Xu Yi¡¯s manor and there was no one around, so they could have some private talks.

    Still revealed a faint smile, ¡°Un, Freya is a girl, so it¡¯s better if we had a boy now. But Xu Yi has never cared about this, I think that he might even like having another girl.¡±

    ¡°Liz and Linda have both given birth to a son for him.¡± Princess Caroline looked at Still with a gaze filled with deep meaning.

    Even if she didn¡¯t say anything, how could Still not understand what she meant? She gave a chuckle and shook her head, ¡°Your highness, if you want to maintain a good image in front of Xu Yi, you shouldn¡¯t say these words in front of him.¡±

    Princess Caroline never thought that Still would be this direct. She couldn¡¯t help being surprised before revealing a forced smile, ¡°Alright, I was thinking too much. Xu Yi is a rare good man, this shouldn¡¯t be a problem for him. Still, do you know how much I envy you?¡±

    Still spread her hand with a smile, ¡°Your highness, if you truly envy me, I wouldn¡¯t oppose your thoughts towards Xu Yi.¡±

    Princess Caroline was stunned as she looked at Still in disbelief. But the smile on her face wasn¡¯t forced, it just became strange.

    ¡°Still, I thought that Xu Yi bing unfaithful in these two years was because of himself, but now it looks like it¡¯s rted more to you?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right. If it wasn¡¯t for me encouraging him and even forcing him, he should only have me right now.¡±

    ¡°Then why are you doing this? Could it be that you¡¯re not worried other girls will take him away?¡± Princess Caroline was confused as she looked at Still, ¡°If it was me, I definitely would hope that I would be the only one in Xu Yi¡¯s embrace forever.¡±

    ¡°I thought that at first, but after being with Xu Yi for a while, I didn¡¯t really care about this matter anymore.¡±

    ¡°Why? Could it be because you.....don¡¯t love Xu Yi like before?¡± Princess Caroline hesitantly asked.

    ¡°No, I still love him, but it¡¯s different from before. I feel that since I love him, I have to properly support him. Although he¡¯s gotten quite a few girls in these past two years, whether it is Liz, Linda, or Agnes, they have to be with him for various reasons. If I were to be against this, I would be hurting many people.¡±

    ¡°But if you don¡¯t, you¡¯ll be hurting yourself. Still, why would you do such a silly thing?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t feel that I¡¯m hurting myself.¡± Still shook her head with a smile, ¡°Because I know that I am always first in Xu Yi¡¯s heart, that is enough.¡±

    Princess Caroline was speechless as she looked at Still. After a while, she said with a sigh, ¡°I can¡¯t understand your thoughts at all. To me, love is selfish. If you don¡¯t want to monopolize the other side, it means that your previous love wasn¡¯t perfect.¡±

    ¡°I am already a mother of two children and your highness is still an unmarried woman, we will have different thoughts, that isn¡¯t strange.¡± Still said with a faint smile, ¡°Speaking of this, your highness, have you considered your marriage? The people of the Drake Duchy have been waiting for this for a long time?¡±

    Princess Caroline roller her eyes, ¡°Other than Xu Yi, there are no other men who can catch my eyes.¡±

    ¡°But with your prestige in the Stantine Duchy, you¡¯ll likely seed as the duke. You can¡¯t just not marry, right?¡±

    ¡°Che, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Queen Seveni isn¡¯t married, although she already gave birth to a child.....¡±

    Speaking of this, Caroline suddenly thought of something. She looked at Still with a strange gaze and paused, as if she was hesitating to speak.

    Still looked at her, but she also didn¡¯t say anything.

    The two of them were silent for a bit. Princess Caroline revealed an awkward smile and looked around before standing up.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be leaving first. Marquis Southgate should already be at the shipyard, I¡¯ll go look for him.¡±

    ¡°No need, Marquis Southgate should be on the Pdin, heading to the ck Rice Harbour. If nothing unexpected happens, he¡¯ll be back tomorrow.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s voice suddenly sounded.

    Princess Caroline was surprised as she turned around, ¡°What is he going to the ck Rice Harbour for? Could it be that he¡¯s heading back directly?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You think that the Lord Marquis is such a rude person? Leaving you here while going home alone? He just wanted to see how the Magic Ships are on the seas while also taking the time to look over the ck Rice Harbour.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....This Lord Marquis really has a strong curiosity. He went racing cars yesterday and today he¡¯s going sailing.....¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°That¡¯s right, there are many times that I feel that the Lord Marquis isn¡¯t a middle aged man who is over fifty years old, rather he is a child who is field with curiosity. But this is a good thing, the more interested in these things he is, it means that there is more possibility we will be able to cooperate.¡±

    ¡°It is like this, but Xu Yi, has he said anything to you in the time that you¡¯ve known the Lord Marquis?¡± Princess Caroline asked.

    Xu Yi pointed at a table on the tform and had Princess Caroline sit down. Then after helping Still sit down, he replied, ¡°ording to the Lord Marquis, after he returns to the Marlow Empire, he will have the Marlow Empire¡¯s agricultural department buy some agricultural magic machines and some fertilizers from ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Un, that isn¡¯t surprising.¡± Princess Caroline nodded.

    The problem with farming was a problem that every country on the Sines Continent faced, the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯t an exception.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed in the Lampuri Kingdom, it was with these agricultural magic machines. Then whenever they cooperated with any of the surrounding countries, the first thing they cooperated on was without a doubt the agricultural magic machines.

    Up to now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already sold over five hundred thousand various agricultural magic machines to the surrounding countries, earning a profit of over twenty million gold coins.

    Moreover, the surrounding countries were saturated when it came to agricultural magic machines, there was only the Sack Kingdom where there was some space to develop.

    Now that the Marlow Empire was jumping in, this was naturally a good thing for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°What other than the agricultural magic machines? It can¡¯t be that he isn¡¯t interested in anything else, right?¡± Princess Caroline kept asking.

    ¡°Of course, the Lord Marquis is always interested in various infrastructures. For example, he was interested in the water system and the construction magic machines for building these infrastructures. He told me many times that after he returned to the Marlow Empire, he would start changing a small town in his territory, first constructing the road and water system, while also setting up a public transport system. Therefore, he was nning on purchasing arge amount of medium transport Magic Cars from ourpany and was nning on working with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Princess Caroline slightly knit her brows, looking a bit disappointed.

    ¡°What other than these? Those are all work rted magic machines, is he interested in anything else? For example, buying some household magic machines to bring back?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her like he found it a bit funny before shaking his head, ¡°The Lord Marquis said that although the household magic machines are useful, they are far less important than changing infrastructure, so he wasn¡¯t considering it temporarily.¡±

    ¡°But these things can improve people¡¯s lives! Do the people of the Marlow Empire not need this? Xu Yi, why don¡¯t you take the initiative to sell them to the Lord Marquis?¡±

    ¡°No, I have the same idea as the Lord Marquis. The cooperation with the household magic machines doesn¡¯t need to be developed with him, otherwise, what difference is there between him and the Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador Hakanin?¡±

    ¡°But don¡¯t you make a lot of money through ambassador Hakanin? Not to mention that you could enter the Marlow Empire through him. Xu Yi, I don¡¯t understand your thoughts.¡± Princess Caroline was a bit anxious.

    The Drake Duchy¡¯s magic machine industry was focused on household magic machines. If Marquis Southgate really wasn¡¯t interested in household magic machines, all of Princess Caroline¡¯s hard work during this time would be wasted.

    ¡°Don¡¯t rush.¡± Xu Yi could tell what Princess Caroline was thinking, so he waved his hand with a smile, ¡°Even if Marquis Southgate isn¡¯t interested in household magic machines now, that doesn¡¯t mean he won¡¯t be in the future. That also doesn¡¯t mean the entire Marlow Empire won¡¯t be interested in this.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry that your Drake Duchy won¡¯t be able to benefit.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Caroline, I¡¯m very grateful that you brought these two special guests here. So to thank you, I¡¯ve decided to start a new cooperation with your duchy which is rted to production magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Production magic machines?¡±

    Princess Caroline¡¯s eyes suddenly lit up as they filled with a bit of excitement.

 Volume 5 130 - Opening the harbour

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 130 Opening the harbour</strong>

    Before the important Marquis Southgate had left, there was another important guest that came to the Stantine Duchy.

    This was already Russell¡¯s third time in the Stantine Duchy.

    Unlike thest two times, he didn¡¯te with ambassador Hakanin this time, but led several of his subordinates from the Candra Empire navy. He came in the pure ck Magic Car that he bought from Belil¡¯s Magic Car Store and drove all the way here from the Candra Empire.

    Although he had informed Xu Yi ahead of time, when Xu Yi saw the serious expressions of the subordinates that followed Russell, he was still a bit surprised.

    Seeing their stance, it didn¡¯t seem like they were just here for a follow up inspection.

    As expected, after exchanging greetings with Xu Yi, Russell directly jumped into the main topic.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯ve obtained the navy headquarters¡¯ approval on the cooperation method fromst time. As long as you can agree on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, our first cooperation will be official.¡± Russell looked at Xu Yi as he said this with a serious look.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking with a smile, ¡°Sir Russell, may I ask how many guard ships you are buying this time?¡±

    Russell had an awkward look on his face and after hesitating a bit, he slowly raised three fingers for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Thirty ships? That might be a bit difficult. With ourpany¡¯s current production capacity, it¡¯ll take us a few years to build thirty ships.¡±

    ¡°No......It¡¯s three ships......¡± When he said this, Russell¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help turning a bit red.

    As the Candra Empire¡¯s navy with iparable glory, it was very embarrassing to buy warships from another country¡¯spany. What was even more embarrassing was that they could only buy three ships!

    Xu Yi was surprised as he revealed a strange look. He immediately suppressed it and revealed the same smile as before.

    ¡°Three? That isn¡¯t a problem, we can finish these three ships at the quickest in three months. But how do you propose we finish our cooperation?¡±

    ¡°Rx, we have already made preparations.¡±

    Russell took out the document from the bag in his hand for Xu Yi.

    This was a cooperation contract. It clearly wrote that aspensation for the three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire would offer one and a half million gold coins. At the same time, they would be opening up the mineral resources on the inds in the southern seas of the Candra Empire.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire navy would work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build several bases on the southern seas, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet to rest and restock along the way.

    Other than this, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy would open up two harbours with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport and guard fleets respectively.

    The harbour for the transport fleet would be a deep sea harbour for civilians. After this was opened, it would allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet to transport arge amount of cargo.

    This was equal to opening the southern market of the Candra Empire to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this was put on earth with a highly developedmercial society, this approach would be careless. It wouldn¡¯t be easily opened in a normal situation.

    But for the countries of the Sines Continent, this wasn¡¯t a problem.

    This harbour was controlled by the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, so as long as the navy agreed, there were no problems.

    There is some problem with opening the harbour to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. However, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet to attack the pirates, so they gave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet that status of an ally, allowing them to freely move through the Candra Empire¡¯s harbour.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is for the army headquarters that we gave you the status of an ally fleet, please don¡¯t mind it.¡± Russell exined to Xu Yi.

    He knew that in terms ofbat strength, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet was not as big as the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, so they were considered an ally fleet in name, but when they were fighting the pirates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet were the main forces.

    The pirates hadn¡¯t just run wild in the seas of the Candra Empire for a few days. The Candra Empire¡¯s navy had surrounded them many times, but because their fleet couldn¡¯t suppress the pirates, they never had the chance to obtain an outstanding victory.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had arrived, with the power and speed of the guard fleet, as long as they met pirates, the pirates wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything. They weren¡¯t even able to run away.

    In just half a year, the pirates in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas had disappeared and no longer dared to run wild.¡±

    ¡°Oh, this isn¡¯t anything.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand to show he didn¡¯t care.

    He really didn¡¯t care what they were called since the Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent. He could understand if they wanted to maintain a bit of superiority.

    Compared to this, Xu Yi cared more about the practical significance.

    Opening up the civilian harbour and opening the market for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already enough.

    Then they opened the military harbour. The guard fleet would be able to have a stable and sufficient supply base in the Candra Empire¡¯s seas, they wouldn¡¯t have to run back to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Nissi Harbour for supplies like before.

    This way, it would greatly increase the active range of the guard fleet. It would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce explore and develop the southern seas of the Candra Empire and the surrounding seas.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the contract and found that not only did it have the uses that Russell mentioned before, there were a few extra uses. He couldn¡¯t help giving a satisfied nod.

    It seems like the Candra Empire¡¯s navy had taken out some good sincerity in cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was a good beginning, it meant that the Candra Empire¡¯s navy would keep considering how to have a deep cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    After discussing some details of the contract with Russell, both sides quickly signed it, putting both their names on the contract.

    Seeing that Xu Yi had finished signing the contract, Russell immediately revealed a bright smile. He reached his hand out towards Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, to a happy cooperation.¡±

    ¡°To a happy cooperation.¡± Xu Yi shook Russell¡¯s hand with a smile before asking, ¡°Sir Russell, I still have to ask something. After you buy these guard ships, how are you nning on using them?¡±

    Russell looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise, ¡°Of course we n to put them into naval service. Only by letting others see the power of these guard ships can we rece more of the navy with these guard ships. What is it? Chairman Xu, could it be that you don¡¯t want this to happen?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, of course I want to see more ships being reced with guards ships because wouldn¡¯t ourpany be able to earn more money from this?¡± Xu Yi gave augh. He looked at Russell¡¯s followers who also had strange looks, but he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    It wouldn¡¯t take a day or two to build the guard ships, so there was no meaning for Russell to remain here.

    But he still left a subordinate here. He told Xu Yi that it was to supervise the construction progress of the guard ships and to make it easier for them tomunicate.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this and didn¡¯t object, he happily epted this. He immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a special residence for the Candra Empire¡¯s navy¡¯s observer.

    Seeing that Xu Yi cooperated with him, Russell felt assured. He stayed in the Stantine Duchy for another day.

    The next morning, before he nned to leave, Russell decided to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shipyard.

    Other than seeing the construction progress of the guard ship, he also wanted to prepare his observer for his first day of work.

    Seeing that the work in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shipyard was very systematic, with each person being filled with energy and moving smoothly, Russell was very satisfied. Only then did he decide to leave.

    With Xu Yiing along, Russell came to the Frestech Harbour and looked at the endless seas. He said in an emotional voice to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I heard that you wanted to explore the depths of the endless seas?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°Yes. Actually, my goal in developing the Magic Ships was to explore the depths of the endless seas with these Magic Ships. I¡¯ve always believed that other than the continent we are on, there is another or there are several other continents.¡±

    ¡°Because the legend of the halflings?¡± Russell asked with a smile.

    Aftering to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce several times, he already knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was known for having a legendary halfling. Moreover, when he had been at the shipyard, Xu Yi had even introduced him.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just the halflings, it¡¯s also because exploring the unknown world is something that people long for.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Sir Russell, don¡¯t you feel emotional when you think of exploring the new world?¡±

    Russell gave augh, ¡°I¡¯m already old, this matter should be left to you young people. Of course, I hope that our royal fleet can explore the endless seas with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. After all, other than a whole new world on the endless seas, aren¡¯t there also endless dangers?¡±

    Xu YI smiled, not responding to Russell¡¯s words.

    As if he realized something from Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, Russell¡¯s expression changed slightly. He turned to the endless seas and noticed that there were several ships that were like small mountains quickly heading over.

    ¡°That should be your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet? I¡¯ve already heard that they were big, but it really seems like they live up to their reputation.¡± Russell said with a sigh.

    ¡°You¡¯ll be seeing them frequently in the future.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile. Then he suddenly remembered something and his expression changed slightly.

    Sensing the strangeness with Xu Yi, Russell asked, ¡°What is it? Is there a problem?¡±

    ¡°No......It¡¯s nothing......¡± Xu Yi looked at the Pdin Ship that was already close to harbour and a strange feeling filled his heart.

    After a while, the Pdin¡¯s bridge fell down. Marquis Southgate who was with the Pdin Ship¡¯s captain who went to the ck Rice Wastnd yesterday came down.

    Seeing Xu Yi standing at the harbour, Marquis Southgate came over with a wide smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re too polite,ing here to wee me back. I......¡±

    Marquis Southgate suddenly stopped as his eyes went past Xu Yi, falling onto Russell beside him. The smile on his face disappeared.

    The faint smile on Russell¡¯s face had also long disappeared.

 Volume 5 131 - Leaving at the same time

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 131 Leaving at the same time</h4>

    There was no need to think about it, Xu Yi could already see the sparks in the air between Marquis Southgate and Russell.

    ¡°Yo, isn¡¯t this the dear Marquis Southgate. I never thought that I would be fortunate enough to run into you today, it really is surprising.¡± The one to speak first was Russell, ¡°I thought that you would hide in your mouse hole all day, but I never thought that you would have the courage toe out.¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a coldugh that was filled with taunting.

    ¡°Dear Count Russell, if I remembered correctly, you were the one who didn¡¯t daree out. I think that it¡¯s more suited to describe you as a mouse, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Hearing the coldughter from them, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    The Marlow Empire and Candra Empire¡¯s were the tworge empires, with millions of citizens, so there were quite a few important people among them. Why did Russell and Marquis Southgate have to know each other, moreover, why was there a giant ridge between them?

    ¡°This......Sir Russell, Lord Marquis, do you two.....know each other?¡± As the host, Xu Yi naturally knew that he couldn¡¯t stand on the side. He could only brace himself as he took a step forward,ing in between them.

    ¡°Humph, far more than that.¡± Russell gave a cold snort, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for this damn mouse, how could I have been sent to the royal fleet?¡±

    ¡°So you were sent to the royal fleet, that really is worth celebrating.¡±

    Marquis Southgate could be calm in front of anyone else, but he would always be filled with taunting when he was faced with Russell, giving him a dirty look. It made Xu Yi very curious what had happened between them for them to be this angry whenever they saw each other.

    ¡°Even if I¡¯m in the navy, at least I¡¯m still serving in the military. What about you? I¡¯ve heard that the one people used to call the Marlow War God, Dayolen Southgate has disappeared from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army after thest battle. Speak, if you¡¯re not afraid, why don¡¯t you dare face the brave warriors of our Candra Empire again?¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a strong snort, but he didn¡¯t refute Russell. He turned to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask why he is here? Could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has some cooperation with the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°I should be the one asking you this.¡± Russell spoke before Xu Yi could, ¡°The Marlow Empire is at least three thousand kilometers from here, why would youe all this way?¡±

    ¡°Are you qualified to know?¡± Marquis Southgate replied without any courtesy, ¡°But I can truthfully tell you that I identally found the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I was deeply interested in their products, so I came to take a look. As for you.....Russell, it seems like you¡¯re representing your Candra Empire¡¯s navy? But based on the people at your Candra Empire¡¯s army headquarters, can you really cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    This question was aimed right at Russell¡¯s sore spot, making him unable to say a thing for a while.

    This cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, finally only buying three ships was him using all his exnation power before finally convincing the higher ranked officers to support him. It was hard enough to find some space in the budget, which was finally approved.

    But even if the arm headquarters gave authorization to the navy, they had a very tight budget. It made Russell give up the idea of buying tens of guard ships or even hundreds of guard ships.

    To be honest, he didn¡¯t think that three guard ships would bring any big changes to the royal fleet. His real goal was to bring those three guard ships back and let his colleagues experience their might, changing the idea in their hearts.

    As long as they had amon goal, the navy would be able to receive arger budget from headquarters and satisfy his desire for naval power.

    However, even if it was like this, Russell wasn¡¯t certain that it would end as smoothly as he expected it to.

    In the end, it was a problem of money.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s finances had been rather normal during these past few years, so the overall budget of the army headquarters kept decreasing. Naturally the budget of the navy that wasn¡¯t as important became much more tighter.

    If this was before, there would be no problem taking out several million for guard ships, but now it was even hard for them to take out the money for three guard ships.

    Thinking of this, Russell¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help revealing a trace of sadness.

    When Marquis Southgate saw the change in Russell¡¯s face, he broke out inughter.

    Russell angrily red at Marquis Southgate. He gave a cold snort and turned to wave goodbye to Xu Yi before leaving.

    The subordinates behind him quickly followed, sitting in the Magic Sedan that he bought before disappearing along the road.

    After Russell left, Marquis Southgate stoppedughing. He looked in the direction Russell left in and after a bit of silence, he turned to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m very grateful for the warm wee this time. I¡¯ve already seen everything I should see and many of my questions have been answered. Since I¡¯ve bothered you for this long, I should bid farewell.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s brows slightly raised, ¡°Lord Marquis, you¡¯re leaving?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I wanted to stay here for some time, but now it seems like I can¡¯t just leisurely stay here. Chairman Xu, I am bidding farewell to you now and I¡¯ll be returning to the Marlow Empire with Seymour this afternoon.¡±

    ¡°You aren¡¯t going with Princess Caroline?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Marquis Southgate revealed a faint smile, ¡°Her highness already safely brought us here, so there¡¯s no need to trouble her on the way back. Moreover, I feel that her highness wants to stay here for a bit longer.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, no longer trying to change his mind.

    ¡°Alright, Lord Marquis, I hope that we¡¯ve left a good impression on you in your half a month here. I represent myself and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invite you as a guest again in the future.¡±

    ¡°Definitely.¡± Marquis Southgate nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think there are many ces where we can cooperate. When Ie to the Stantine Duchy again, I will visit more than Russell. If nothing unexpected happens, I will prepare for some time after going back to the Marlow Empire and then make an official cooperation request to you. I hope that you will prepare ahead of time.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°No problem. Whenever you have the need, we can be ready.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s like this, I will bid you farewell.¡±

    Marquis Southgate waved goodbye to Xu Yi before bringing Seymour and the subordinates who came to lead him away to their Magic Sedans. Just like Russell, he didn¡¯t hesitate at all before leaving.

    Watching Marquis Southgate¡¯s motorcade heading to the horizon, Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile.

    Although the meeting of Russell and Marquis Southgate was an ident, he already had this idea, but he never had a chance to put it into action.

    Now it seemed like Russell and Marquis Southgate were old acquaintances. Now that they had identally bumped into each other, they had unknowingly achieved Xu Yi¡¯s goal.

    There was no need for two simrly powerful empires on the continent, so the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire were like fire and water. There was no chance of reconciliation at all.

    But because of their rtionship, it made it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to benefit.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just starting their cooperation with the Candra Empire and there was only a shadow of the cooperation with the Marlow Empire, not even having anything concrete, Xu Yi believed that these two giant empires would be firmly linked to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    Although wanting to bnce these two empires was like ying with fire, with therge chips that he had in his hands, Xu YI wasn¡¯t too worried.

    After standing on the harbour in thought for a bit, Xu Yi¡¯s figure disappeared before he appeared in the magic research facility that was five kilometers away.

    Xu Yi¡¯s sudden appearance surprised a few researchers who were discussing in the garden, but Xu Yi just greeted them before heading to Evita¡¯s personalb.

    When he came in, there was a surprised cry as a petite body fell into Xu Yi¡¯s embrace.

    Smelling the fragrance that filled his nose, Xu Yi calmed himself and helped Teresa in his hands stand firm.

    ¡°Hey, Teresa, what are you in a rush for?¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi and a blush came over her face. She lowered her head and said in a soft voice, ¡°I.....I was getting something.¡±

    Without waiting for Xu Yi to react, she ran away like a little deer that had been scared.

    Seeing Teresa disappear around a corner, Xu Yi had a strange smile before walking in.

    ¡°Sir chairman, weren¡¯t you with Lord Marquis Southgate today?¡± Evita¡¯s gentle voice came from inside theb.

    ¡°He already left.¡± Xu Yi replied. He looked around theb before asking, ¡°What was Teresa doing here earlier?¡±

    ¡°She was asking me about the parameters of the Magic Cannon Magic Arrays.¡± Evita replied.

    ¡°Oh? How did you reply?¡±

    Evita took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Rx, sir chairman, I¡¯ve always been following your orders on how to answer.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and gave a nod, ¡°Un, I¡¯m assured if it¡¯s you. But Evita, what about the thing that I wanted you to handle before? How is it?¡±

    ¡°The opening has already been written, please take a look, sir chairman.¡± Evita replied as she took out a thick notebook for Xu Yi.

 Volume 5 132 - We need a specialist

    Volume 5 Chapter 132 We need a specialist

    Xu Yi took the notebook and opened it, looking at the title on the first page.

    ¡°Basic Magic Machine Theory.¡±

    The words underneath that were describing the most basic, but also most fundamental magic machine theory.

    Evita had been writing all the basic theories in this book, also making it very easy to understand. Even someone who has never touched magic machines before could have some basic understanding of magic machines from reading this book.

    But it could be seen that the writing was focused on the effects of Magic Arrays on the machines, only involving a bit of magic mechanical engineering knowledge.

    To put it simply, this was a basic reference book for magic power and it was a bit different from a basic theory on magic machines.

    This was not a surprise to Xu Yi, when he had Evitapile this basic theory on magic machines, he had requested that she focus on the aspect of the power provided to magic machines by Magic Arrays. As for the mechanical side, Xu Yi would be personally writing it, working with Camby and the others.

    Xu Yi roughly looked over it and found that Evita didn¡¯t disappoint him. Not only did she not make any obvious errors, there were even some fine tuning, exining things better than he had thought.

    ¡°Very good, Evita, I¡¯ve found that with your current theoretical knowledge in Magic Arrays, you aren¡¯t inferior to me and won¡¯t be inferior to any other magicians in this world.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re too exaggerated.¡± Evita revealed an awkward smile. After thinking about it, she asked, ¡°Sir chairman, are you really nning on publicly distributing the book?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi closed the book, ¡°This book is the entry book that I¡¯ve prepared for those that want to enter the magic machine industry, it will guarantee that anyone who reads it will have a certain understanding and interest towards the magic machine industry. I don¡¯t just want to distribute it publicly, I want to advertise it and let everyone know of its existence, so they would buy it and read it.¡±

    After saying this, Xu YI suddenly gave augh to Evita, ¡°Evita, I am certain that when this book sells well, as one of the writers, you want your name to be listed in one of the top spots, right?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Evita was stunned, ¡°Sir chairman, shouldn¡¯t this book be published in your name?¡±

    ¡°Do you think I¡¯m someone who steals the fruits ofbour from others?¡± Xu Yi deliberately knitted his brows and reprimanded her in a dissatisfied voice, ¡°Actually, if it wasn¡¯t for considering how to advertise it, I wouldn¡¯t even put my name on it because I don¡¯t want to use this book to elevate my fame, alright?¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t want to be famous either......¡± Evita replied.

    ¡°No, Evita, you will be famous and you have to be very famous.¡± Xu Yi took Evita by the shoulder and said with a serious look, ¡°Remember, you are the chief of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. In the magic machine industry you are an outstanding specialist. There is no one who is more outstanding than you in the entire industry, so you have to have this confidence. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t really understand. If we¡¯reparing research into magic machines, I¡¯m far from being able topare to sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯tpare to me, my main status is the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Or to put it more straightforward, we need a specialist toe out. I as the chairman am not suited for this, Camby¡¯s group aren¡¯t humans, so they also aren¡¯t suited. The most suitable choice is you.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, I feel that Akali is very suitable as well.¡±

    ¡°But Akali isn¡¯t the chief, you are.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°In short, follow my arrangement, alright?¡±

    Evita was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, sir chairman.¡±

    Hearing Evita¡¯s response, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He patted Evita¡¯s shoulder andforted her, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about Akali not being happy, I¡¯ve nned something else for her. Comparing it, she would prefer doing the other thing.¡±

    ¡°Un, I believe you, sir chairman.¡±

    Seeing how rxed Xu Yi was, Evita gave augh, ¡°Sir chairman, actually you don¡¯t need to worry about our feelings. We are your subordinates, of course we¡¯ll follow your arrangements.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, I¡¯ve never treated you guys as normal subordinates. Even if it wasn¡¯t for Still, just me alone cannot ignore your feelings.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Evita was a bit surprised. She looked at the entrance of theb before suddenly giving a sigh, ¡°But what are you nning to do with Teresa?¡±

    Xu Yi looked out the door and narrowed his eyes, not saying a word.

    ###

    Marquis Southgate and Russell both left quite quickly, but even with how much Princess Caroline wanted to head back to the Drake Duchy before, she was very happy to stay. She stayed by Xu Yi¡¯s side all day, almost never leaving him.

    The production magic machine cooperation idea Xu Yi told her for the Drake Duchy had greatly captivated her interest.

    There were many magic machinepanies in the surrounding countries, but other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all the otherpanies produced household magic machines and not a single one could produce production magic machines.

    Although the main reason was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t release this technology, another reason was because this technology had a high demand for technology from apany. Normal magic machinepanies wouldn¡¯t be able to satisfy this.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the mostmon Magic Thread Rolling Machine had technology that weren¡¯t on the same scale as the household magic machines.

    To grasp this technology, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to transfer it, the otherpanies would need to investrge amounts of funds and personnel.

    A normalpany wouldn¡¯t be willing to do this thankless job, but for the Drake Duchy, this was something that they wished for.

    Of course, Xu Yi only said that they would be cooperating in terms of production magic machines, that didn¡¯t mean that they would be handing over the technology.

    The cooperation was to copy the cooperation method from before. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build a production magic machine factory in the Drake Duchy.

    Moreover, this production magic machine factory would only be limited to the agricultural magic machines, it wouldn¡¯t be rted to any other magic machines.

    As for why Xu Yi did this......

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s because I¡¯m in the Drake Duchy, isn¡¯t it?¡± Princess Caroline gave a confident smile.

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her, ¡°You don¡¯t have that much face.¡±

    Although this choice was partly considering Princess Caroline, it wasn¡¯t because she was beautiful, but because she had a good rtionship with Xu Yi and they had a good cooperation.

    But if he was to mention the most important reason, it was all because of the location of the Drake Duchy.

    The Drake Duchy shared a west border with the Sack Kingdom and a northeast border with the Falk Kingdom. These two countries were countries where magic machines weren¡¯t that popr, so they were newly opened markets.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already signed a contract with the Sack Kingdom who would buy a hundred thousand various agricultural magic machines from them. The Falk Kingdom had also shown great interest in the agricultural magic machines.

    If they were produced in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and transported, it would take a lot of time and effort, which would increase the cost by too much.

    If they built an agricultural magic machine factory in the Drake Duchy, it would allow them to easily meet the demands of the two kingdoms.

    Other than this, looking at it from a long term, they were considering the Marlow Empire.

    ording to Marquis Southgate¡¯s stance over the past few days, Xu Yi felt that if nothing unexpected happened, he would start working to open up cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after returning to the Marlow Empire.

    He had shown a strong interest in all the things of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but the one he cared about the most were the agricultural magic machines.

    The Drake Duchy that was over two thousand kilometers closer to the Marlow Empirepared to the Stantine Duchy, if they produced agricultural magic machines there, it would be helpful to the strong demand from the Marlow Empire.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to say these things, Princess Caroline could already guess it.

    But she didn¡¯t care at all. The most important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build an agricultural magic machine factory in the Drake Duchy.

    This was the first time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a production magic machine factory in another country, this was a precedent.

    This meant that even if the Drake Duchy couldn¡¯tpare to the Lampuri Kingdom when it came to rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were still ahead of the other countries.

    For the countries of the Sines Continent¡¯s southwest, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the one that everyone wanted to work with. Being able to receive special care from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt good news for the Drake Duchy.

    So Princess Caroline not only followed Xu Yi around all day, always having a smile on her face, she even revealed this same obsessed look even in front of Still.

    This was definitely intentional on her part.

    Other than showing off Xu Yi¡¯s special care for her, she was also trying to provoke Still.

    This fellow acted so magnanimous before, Princess Caroline didn¡¯t believe it.

    As a wife, seeing another girl hang around her husband, how could she not care!

    However, Still¡¯s disy had made herpletely disappointed.

 Volume 5 133 - Giving books

    Volume 5 Chapter 133 Giving books

    Count Will looked over Banta City¡¯s financial reports fromst month in his hands and slightly knit his brows.

    This didn¡¯t mean that this report wasn¡¯t good, rather the numbers were magnificent. If anyone else saw it, they would be shocked.

    ording to this financial report, Banta City had earned four hundred and sixty thousand gold coinsst month. It had already surpassed Anvilmar City, bing the city with the highest revenue in the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    It had to be known, Anvilmar City as the capital of the Lampuri Kingdom was a ce that received special attention from the entire city. Adding in the fact that it gathered most of therge nobles andrgepanies in the kingdom, its financial revenue was far above the other cities of the kingdom.

    If this was eight years ago before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared, Banta City¡¯s ie would even be negative, having to take some subsidies from the kingdom each year just to stay afloat. Although they couldn¡¯t be considered the worst city in the Lampuri Kingdom, they were at the bottom. They never would have thought that there would be a day where they would surpass Anvilmar City.

    However, in just eight years, Banta City had achieved all this that they never would have imagined before. It was without a doubt that everyone in Banta City could be proud of.

    As the current City Lord and the leader who had created this glory in Banta City over the years, Count Will was clearly qualified to feel happy and proud.

    When he saw this financial report at first, Count Will had been happy and had felt deeply content.

    But when he saw some numbers that should have been normal, his mood greatly changed.

    These numbers were rted to the statistics for Banta City¡¯s monthly revenue.

    ording to the stats, Banta City had around four hundred and sixty thousand gold coins this month. Compared to the revenue of March which was four hundred and forty gold coins, this was an increase of around 4%.

    For a city of the scale of Banta City, being able to increase it by 4% was already considered quite the aplishment.

    But Count Will clearly remembered that it was an increase of 6% inst month¡¯s financial report. The month before that was 8% and the month before that was 9%.

    If he looked at the financial reports from thest half a year, he would find that this statistic was decreasing with each month.

    This meant that Banta City¡¯s current revenue growth speed was slowing down.

    With this trend, by the end of the year, Banta City¡¯s financial revenue might not even grow by that much anymore.

    It might even.....decrease!

    ¡°Impossible!¡± Count Will shook his head, denying the guess that came from the bottom of his heart.

    But when he calmly thought about it, he had to admit that this was a fact that he had to face.

    Banta City¡¯s development had entered a bottleneck, it would be very hard for Banta City to quickly develop like before when the magic machine industry had just appeared.

    To solve this problem, other than strengthening Banta City¡¯s development directions, the most important thing was to put more power into the backbone of Banta City, the magic machine industry.

    After walking around his office for half an hour, Count Will left the City Lord Manor. He sat in his personal Magic Sedan and headed west to the new district.

    This was another new district that Banta City started developingst year.

    ording to Count Will¡¯s n, this new district would be aplete city. It would be like the previous new districts, with each district ying a different role.

    In thispletel city, there were already three hotels, many stores, different factories on both sides of the road, and a long row of houses built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    These six houses that were over twenty meters high were the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new ¡°apartment buildings¡±. Because there was a water system and a water heating system, as well as a perfect sewage system, it became one of the most convenient housing in Banta City.

    At the same time, because it wasn¡¯t that expensive, far less than the high ss vis, it was greatly weed when it was introduced.

    Opposite of these apartment buildings, there was arge patch ofnd where construction was about to begin.

    Thisnd was part of Banta City¡¯s magic machine industry vocational school, which was considered an expansion of the original school.

    The reason why it could take such arge piece ofnd in such a good position was because of the support of Count Will.

    Although the vocational school was started by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after they left Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom, this vocational school was controlled by the City Lord Manor.

    After Count Will took over the City Lord Manor, he didn¡¯t put much importance on this in the first two years, but he had turned his eyes onto this vocational school startingst year. It wasn¡¯t justnd, he also invested arge amount of funds and recruited students from Banta City and the surrounding cities, making the school four to five times bigger than before.

    Right now there were over eight thousand students at this school. Other than arge portion of them being focused on studying various skills rted to magic machines, there were four hundred students that were directly studying magic mechanical engineering.

    This was a subject specially established by order of Count Will. At the same time, Count Will had the Baron Rickto Magic Academy send their students here to further their magic mechanical engineering studies.

    If this was before, there wouldn¡¯t be students interested in learning this. However, now that the magic machines were the most popr thing in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, not only the students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy were interested in learning magic mechanical engineering, even young magicians of the Lampuri Royal Academy were interested in enrolling.

    Compared to the Lampuri Royal Academy, Banta City¡¯s vocational school had a very important advantage. It was that it was founded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even if it was under Banta City now, Xu Yi had always cared about this school. Not only did he provide skilled workers to provide training for the school, he also provided arge amount of magic mechanical engineering knowledge, allowing the students of the school to study it.

    Count Will came here specially because he was here for a ceremony.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be donating ?Basic Magic Machine Theory? that was written by the magic research facility¡¯s chief Evita, the manager of the magic machine development center Camby, and several researchers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This book was the first true book on magic mechanical engineering. ording to what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce said, this contained the perfect foundation for magic mechanical engineering knowledge, letting someone who didn¡¯t even know a thing about magic machines grasp a basic understanding towards magic machines.

    This book wasn¡¯t that important for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it was a very important book for everyone other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who were a part of the magic machine industry.

    Because before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only gave technology to otherpanies. This was the first time that they were sharing their theories.

    So this meant that not only did this book have a strong significance, it had a strong symbolic meaning.

    The reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be so far ahead of otherpanies in terms of research was their absolute advantage in terms of fundamental knowledge.

    The appearance of this book meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to share their knowledge, allowing the otherpanies some hope of catching up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce told Count Will, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make this book avable to the public in the future, they would allow Banta City to have it first and they wouldn¡¯t publish it in the next half a year.

    This meant that the other people andpanies would have to wait half a year longer than Banta City.

    This was clearly the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s care for Banta City, so Count Will was very grateful to Xu Yi and personally came to this book giving ceremony.

    But when Count Will arrived at the vocational school, he found that it wasn¡¯t Xu Yi there, but rather his wife Still.

    Seeing Still¡¯s stomach that was clearly swelling a bit, Count Will suppressed the question in his heart. He congratted Still first before asking about where Xu Yi was.

    ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, Lord Count, Xu Yi is busy with other matters, so he couldn¡¯te to this book giving ceremony. But he specially told me toe and participate on his behalf and to apologize to Lord Count for him.

    ¡°Busy? Is it serious?¡± Count Will knit his brows to ask.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful influence on the surrounding countries, what matters would make Xu Yi unable to find free time toe?

    ¡°It isn¡¯t serious, but he needs to personally take care of it.¡± Still replied with a shake of her head.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Count Will¡¯s tone couldn¡¯t help showing his disappointment, as well as a trace of worry.

    Xu Yi was someone who always kept his words. He couldn¡¯t think of any urgent matters that would make Xu Yi unable toe here, so that meant there was a very serious possibility.

    For Xu Yi to note to such a meaningful book giving ceremony, it meant that in his heart, Banta City might not be that important.

 Volume 5 134 - Final warning

    Volume 5 Chapter 134 Final warning

    It should be said that Count Will¡¯s guess wasn¡¯t far from the truth.

    Although Banta City would always be a special city to Xu Yi, that was only in terms of his personal feelings. It made him consider Banta City when it came to decisions and care for them a bit more, but when one looked at facts, Banta City was already not that important for Xu Yi.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses had already been moved out of Banta City, mostly working with the other countries now. Comparing it, although Banta City was the most important magic machine industry city in the Lampuri Kingdom, it couldn¡¯t follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s direction of development and couldn¡¯t influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development anymore.

    But if it was said that Xu Yi felt that Banta City wasn¡¯t important, so he cancelled his trip and wasn¡¯t willing to go to the book giving ceremony would be wronging him too much.

    His matters this time weren¡¯t that serious, but other than him, no one else could take care of it because this matter involved the elves. In the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than him, there was no one else that the elves trustedpletely.

    So while Still appeared at the book giving ceremony at the vocational school, Xu Yi was in the northwest corner of the ck Rice Wastnd, being just a tiny bit away from the border with the Sack Kingdom.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, these humans are refusing to uphold the contract they signed with us, they won¡¯t let us through.¡± One of the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s guards that was responsible for fighting, Duolette pointed at the Sack Kingdom¡¯s people wearing the uniform of the royal army and angrily said, ¡°This is the agreement that we made with the highest pledges and they actually won¡¯t keep it. Could it be that these humans aren¡¯t willing to keep their word?¡±

    ¡°Pay attention to how you speak!¡± Philip, who was in charge of the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s guards, scolded Duolette. Then he turned to Xu Yi with an apologetic smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, Duolette is still young and doesn¡¯t understand things. Please forgive her.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Duolette who had an awkward look from realizing her mistake. This fellow was already seventy six years old, she was twice his age, so why was she so immature?

    Of course, for the elves with lifespans of hundreds of years, this was an age where they didn¡¯t know much.

    ¡°What did they say?¡± Xu Yi ignored Duolette and asked Philip this.

    ¡°We came here a week ago and wanted to receive this territory, but we were blocked by these fellows who called themselves loyal guards of the Sack Kingdom. I told them about our contract with the Sack Kingdom and that this territory belongs to our Moon Shadow Tribe, but they said that they didn¡¯t know about this contract and haven¡¯t received any official notice from the kingdom. So they definitely wouldn¡¯t let us take a single step into the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then you haven¡¯t tested them?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°We did, but when we tried, the other side took out their weapons. They looked like they were ready to fight, so we could only retreat.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Sack Kingdom soldiers and estimated their numbers to be around two thousand. Although this wasn¡¯t considered a lot, Philip thought that they were just receiving territory and wasn¡¯t prepared for a fight, so he only brought a hundred forest guards.

    In terms of battle strength, these hundred forest guards without any magic machines could only deal with around a thousand human soldiers. They couldn¡¯t fight two thousand human soldiers.

    Philip looked behind him with a hopeful look, but Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not time to send out thepany guards yet, let me take a look first.¡±

    Xu Yi appeared and used a Wind Spell on himself, flying over to the square formation of the Sack Kingdom soldiers.

    Seeing Xu Yie over, the Sack Kingdom soldiers raised their weapons and pointed them at him.

    ¡°This is the border of the Sack Kingdom, you cannot enter without permission. This magician in front, if you don¡¯t stop, we will attack!¡±

    This strict warning came out of the square formation and Xu Yi stopped thirty meters away from the first row of soldiers in the square formation.

    Strictly speaking, Xu Yi was already across the Sack Kingdom¡¯s borders, but not a single soldier made a move.

    Xu Yi looked over these soldiers before finding one person who was wearing different clothes, dressed in the officer uniform of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army.

    ¡°I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, I¡¯m here to give you a notice. ording to the contract signed by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Moon Shadow Tribe, and the Sack Kingdom¡¯s parliament, you are now standing on the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯snd. I am here to give you a final warning on behalf of the Moon Shadow Tribe, urging you to retreat from this piece ofnd immediately in half a day. Otherwise, the Moon Shadow Tribe will retain the right to take action.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were amplified with magic. Not only did the Sack Kingdom¡¯s soldiers hear it, the Moon Shadow Tribe elves also heard it.

    When they heard this, not only were the Sack Kingdom soldiers surprised, even the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s forest guards were surprised.

    They thought that chairman Xu would reason with the other side, they never thought that he would give them a final warning!

    But they had never thought of doing this because there was a difference in strength between the two sides, so they didn¡¯t really dare to make a move.

    Moreover, chairman Xu only brought two hundred guards this time. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had shocking battle strength, wouldn¡¯t they find it hard to defeat the two thousand Sack Kingdom soldiers?

    Then again, they had reason in this matter, there was no need to use such intense methods.

    As long as they negotiated with the Sack Kingdom side, the Sack Kingdom would properly take care of this problem in order to get the fertilizers from the Moon Shadow Tribe, as well as continue cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Philip was the leader of the forest guards could think this through, but that didn¡¯t mean the forest guards did.

    For example, when Duolette heard Xu Yi¡¯s warning, she was first surprised before revealing an excited look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is overbearing! He isn¡¯t like a dreadful human at all!¡±

    Philip knit his brows as he looked at her, ¡°Be careful with your words, Duolette.¡±

    Duolette stuck out her tongue without caring.

    Philip shook his head before looking into the distance with a worried gaze.

    He didn¡¯t know how the Sack Kingdom soldiers would react to Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    If the other side had a strong reaction, they might break out into fighting at any time.

    The Sack Kingdom soldiers were silent before there was a bunch of cold snorts that came from them.

    ¡°Humph! Final warning? So what if you¡¯re the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu? We are the kingdom¡¯s loyal guards, we won¡¯t let people of other countries.....including elves step on our sacrednd! Chairman Xu, I urge you to leave, otherwise, don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    ¡°Impolite?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile and shook his head, ¡°You mean that you aren¡¯t nning on withdrawing?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense!¡±

    ¡°Good, I¡¯ll give you one more chance. I¡¯ll count to ten and if you don¡¯t move, my warning will take effect.¡±

    The officer gave a coldugh, looking at Xu Yi without any response.

    Philip in the back looked at Xu Yi with a worried look with a bit of doubt in his eyes.

    Why did chairman Xu handle this matter in such an aggressive manner? Although this conformed with the elves¡¯ method of handling things, this was clearly different from how they¡¯ve been trying to get along with humans.

    Elder Lisanya had always taught him and the other elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe to learn from humans on how to handle matters, making it easier for them to live with humans. Why did chairman Xu suddenly act like one of those boorish fellows from the humans?

    ¡°Ten......¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t waste words as he began counting.

    His voice spread across the fields, causing everyone to look at him.

    ¡°Nine......¡±

    The officer kept looking at Xu Yi with a cold smile on his face, with disdain in his eyes, clearly not believing that Xu Yi would make a move.

    ¡°Eight.....¡±

    Philip opened his mouth and wanted to urge Xu Yi to stop, but thinking of what elder Lisanya told him before he came, he could only swallow back his words.

    ¡°Seven......¡±

    Duolette¡¯s eyes were opened wide in excitement as she watched Xu Yi face the two thousand soldiers alone. She thought that Xu Yi really was different from other humans, it was no wonder the elder always praised him in front of all their nsmen.

    ¡°Six......¡±

    ¡°Five......¡±

    ¡°Four......¡±

    ¡°Three......¡±

    The cold smile on the face of the officer slowly disappeared as he looked at Xu Yi in doubt and a trace of disbelief appeared in his eyes.

    Could it be that this fellow really dared to make a move?

    ¡°Two......¡±

    Philip raised his right hand and the hundred Moon Shadow Tribe forest guards raised their bow, preparing to fight.

    ¡°One......¡±

    A sharp look appeared in the eyes of the officer. He raised his right hand and prepared to drop it at any minute.

    The Sack Kingdom soldiers tightly gripped the weapons in their hands as they stared right at Xu Yi.

    No one noticed that of the two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards Xu Yi brought, not a single one was preparing to fight.

    ¡°Time is up.¡± Xu Yi spat out these three words and slightly turned to slowly look over the two thousand Sack Kingdom soldiers in front of him. He then said with a nod, ¡°Very good, since you won¡¯t listen to my final warning, you can¡¯t me me.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi slowly rose in the air and soon he was floating ten meters above.

    The Sack Kingdom officer and soldiers looked up at Xu Yi, feeling confused.

    This fellow had finished counting, but the elves and guards that he brought behind him didn¡¯t attack. Could it be that he was only verbally threatening them?

    Then they noticed that there was a sun that suddenly appeared above them.

 Volume 5 135 - We need information

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 135 We need information</strong>

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s staff officer division had a heavy air around it.

    Ivy Joao looked over the faces of his various colleagues before his eyes fell onto the face of the chief Benjamin Dirk. He found that these people who were called the brain of the staff officers, important people who would always look confident had sunken looks on their faces right now. It was clear that they were in a poor mood.

    This could be understood. The news that theft received from the kingdom¡¯s southwest was something that no one could feel good about.

    The Spirit Turtle Regiment that was known for their defense had been defeated and what defeated them wasn¡¯t a powerful army, but rather just a single person.

    Of course, that person was a powerful Great Magician. When facing this powerful existence that normal people couldn¡¯t understand, the Spirit Turtle Regiment had only sent out two thousand soldiers, so them being defeated wasn¡¯t something that couldn¡¯t be epted.

    But the problem was the identity of the Great Magician.

    A Great Magician that could defeat the Spirit Turtle Regiment alone was actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu.

    Xu Yi was without a doubt one of the most famous people in the southwest of the continent, but he was mainly known as a merchant. When others thought about him, the first thing they thought of was his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. They would always forget something, which was that he was also quite a capable magician.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army didn¡¯t forget about this, but they never expected that Xu Yi had already be a powerful Great Magician!

    Moreover, based on the report sent from the battlefield, the strength that he disyed had already surpassed a First Grade Great Magician, which far surpassed everyone¡¯s expectations.

    Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already strong enough, but now that he was also a Great Magician, it made people feel despair.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, there were precedents of magicians going into business and merchants studying magic after they found they had a talent for it, but there was never someone like Xu Yi who had excelled in both fields.

    The staff officer department had thought of many ways to deal with Xu Yi, even considering assassinating him.

    But now that Xu Yi disyed the power of a Great Magician, this was announcing that it was almost impossible to assassinate him.

    After bing a Great Magician and learning Spatial Magic, as long as Xu Yi didn¡¯t seek death, there was almost no one who could assassinate him.

    The only possibility was inviting an Arch Magus grade magician to deal with him, killing him without giving him a chance to resist.

    But in the southwest corner of the Sines Continent, the only Arch Magus registered was Arch Magus Cami of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Everyone knew that Arch Magus Cami was the grandfather of Xu Yi¡¯s wife Still, it was impossible for him to make a move against Xu Yi.

    So after the news that Xu Yi was a Great Magician spread, it was basically announcing to the Sack Kingdom that it was impossible to assassinate Xu Yi.

    But like this, it limited how the staff officer department could deal with Xu Yi.

    The Sack Kingdom staff officer department researching how to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had confirmed one fact. It was that the value of Xu Yi alone was already on par with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or it even surpassed it.

    To deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had to think of a way to deal with Xu Yi.

    Of course, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t important. The important thing was the Lampuri Kingdom that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce backed, which is where it created a headache for the Sack Kingdom.

    ¡°Those idiots in the parliament! If it wasn¡¯t for them hindering us, we could have sent even more people! How could they have been defeated by Xu Yi alone!¡± A young staff officer suddenly angrily roared out.

    The other staff officers in the room all looked at him with slightly strange expressions on their faces.

    Another officer who was also young looked at that first officer and said with a cold snort, ¡°You still don¡¯t understand? This Xu Yi is a Great Magician! Even if we sent more people, what would that do? We can¡¯t deal with him at all, alright!¡±

    ¡°But......At least we could defend our territory. Thinking about how that ce, which is our kingdom¡¯s sacred territory, is being upied by those elves, I really can¡¯t stand it.¡± The young officer suddenly gave a salute to the chief Benjamin Dirk, ¡°Chief, I request sending another military force to the southwest province and taking back ournd!¡±

    Benjamin Dirk looked at him and calmly said, ¡°With the contract signed by the parliament, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and those elves, thatnd no longer belongs to our kingdom. So strictly speaking, Xu Yi waspletely right in what he said to the Spirit Turtle Regiment. It isn¡¯t that them invading ournd, but we were invading thend of the elves.¡±

    ¡°Impossible!¡± The young officer angrily roared out, ¡°I definitely won¡¯t ept that damn contract! Our Sack Kingdom has only seized thend of others, no one has ever invaded us. Those damn fellows at the kingdom parliament are tarnishing the glory of our army headquarters! They have sold out our Sack Kingdom!¡±

    Benjamin Dirk slightly knitted his brows and waved his hand at him, ¡°I understand your rage and regarding this contract, I as a member of the royal army also feel ashamed. But the decision of the kingdom parliament, as soldiers, we can only ept it.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°There are no buts!¡± Benjamin Dirk¡¯s tone became heavy, ¡°Following orders is the duty of every soldier!¡±

    The young officer¡¯s face waspletely red, but he shut his mouth and didn¡¯t dare say anything else.

    Benjamin Dirk had a calm look as he looked over everyone, before his eyes fell onto Ivy Joao in the crowd.

    ¡°Manager Joao, how is your research into the military magic machines going?¡±

    Everyone¡¯s eyes fell onto Ivy Joao. Everyone didn¡¯t understand why the chief would ask him the first question.

    Ivy Joao had been the chief staff officer of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, in terms of status, he wasn¡¯t lower than Dirk. Even with everyone looking at him, he wasn¡¯t nervous at all. After thinking about it, he replied, ¡°It should be considered progress, but it¡¯s far from being enough. Moreover, the key issue is that we can¡¯t determine what level the military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already reached, so we cannot determine what level the military magic machines of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army is at.¡±

    Benjamin Dirk gave a nod before giving a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s a pity. We sent the Spirit Turtle Regiment to force the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to act and test their level, but we never thought that Xu Yi would be at the level of a Great Magician;. Moreover, he acted by himself, so we couldn¡¯t aplish our goals.¡±

    All the staff officers in the room looked at each other, being able to see the looks of surprise on each other¡¯s faces.

    So the army headquarters had sent the Spirit Turtle Regiment to thend sold to the elves by the parliament not just to defend it, but for another goal.

    But sending two thousand Spirit Turtle Regiment soldiers just to force the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to act? It was just to test their level?

    This was thinking too highly of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards......

    Ivy Joao agreed with chief Dirk¡¯s assessment before saying with a sigh, ¡°Yes, without this chance, it¡¯ll be very hard to get urate information on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. It will be very difficult to specte the real power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and judge the current level of their military magic machines.¡±

    Benjamin Dirk knit his brows to think before continuing, ¡°The only information we can get is from the civil war in the Stantine Duchy several months ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had acted. But because the reports are too simple, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards easily defeating their enemies each time, we can¡¯t make a proper judgement.¡±

    ¡°Un, the subordinates of the Stantine Duchy lords naturally can¡¯tpare to the soldiers of our Sack Kingdom.¡± Ivy Joao said with a nod.

    ¡°But what we need now is information on the military magic machines.¡± Benjamin Dirk looked at a middle aged man who was in a corner that no one paid any attention to, ¡°Yuri, strengthen your side. Remember, spare nothing, we definitely have to get the information we need, do you understand?¡±

    The middle aged officer nodded, ¡°Yes, chief, I will try harder.¡±

    Benjamin Dirk turned back to Ivy Joao, ¡°Manager Joao, you also need to focus on your research. It isn¡¯t exaggerated to say that our entire Sack Kingdom¡¯s fate may depend on your research.¡±

    Quite a few young officers knitted their brows, as they looked at Ivy Joao in an unconvinced manner.

    This fellow had been researching military magic machines for this long, but he didn¡¯t have anything to show for it. Why did the headquarters and the parliament put such importance on this and invest such great resources into it?

    To these young officers, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines are powerful, they hadn¡¯t experienced it before. They thought that just with some military magic machines, it was impossible to decide the fate of the entire Sack Kingdom.

    Ivy Joao ignored the gazes of those young people and slowly said, ¡°Chief, I know better than anyone the responsibility that I have, please be assured.¡±

    Benjamin Dirk nodded. He looked down at the map of the Sack Kingdom on the table and after thinking for a bit, he put his hand on a corner in the southwest.

    ¡°I will propose to the headquarters to station the Spirit Turtle Regiment there, to prevent the elves from infiltrating our kingdom. What do you all think?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in surprise.

    There was no doubt that they should guard against these elves, but sending the entire Spirit Turtle Regiment......Wasn¡¯t that making too much of a fuss?

 Volume 5 136 - Xu Yiâ€™s change

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 136 Xu Yi¡¯s change</h4>

    In the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce that was around a thousand meters away from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army headquarters, there was also someone paying attention to the situation in the southwest of the Sack Kingdom.

    But these people were different, so they focused on something else.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s staff officer department cared about the shocking magic power that Xu Yi had disyed, cared about the sacrednd of their kingdom that now belonged to the elves, cared about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards never made a move, so they couldn¡¯t get any information.

    On the Lampuri Kingdom side, the people who cared about this only focused on one problem the entire time.

    ¡°Why did Xu Yi do this?¡± Seveni knitted her brows, reading over the report on this matter many times, still being filled with confusion.

    Seveni and Xu Yi had known each other for six years and they¡¯ve met many times, so she felt that she had a good understanding of Xu Yi.

    But based on her previous understanding of Xu Yi, in this kind of situation, Xu Yi normally would withdraw temporarily and find the Sack Kingdom¡¯s government. He would use the fact that the Sack Kingdom wants the fertilzer and the agricultural magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pressure them, forcing them to retreat.

    This wouldn¡¯t cause any loss to Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and the elves, as well as upying the high ground. It wouldn¡¯t give the Sack Kingdom a chance to refute, so it was a very intelligent method.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s intelligence, it was impossible that he couldn¡¯t think this through.

    But this time he acted like a boorish fellow, actually charging in himself to make a move.

    Although with his strength as a Great Magician, there was no surprise that he defeated the Sack Kingdom soldiers, but there were many loopholes in doing this.

    Not mentioning anything else, the Sack Kingdom could warn Xu Yi and attack him back in response to attacking the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army.

    Of course, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t do this because of many scruples, but Xu YI¡¯s approach gave the Sack Kingdom a very good excuse.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would cooperate with the Sack Kingdom on many things in the future, so Xu YI was giving the Sack Kingdom a handle on him, which could make it easier for them to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    Xu Yi definitely would have thought of this consequence, but he still did this which was what confused Seveni the most.

    She understood Xu Yi, she was very clear that Xu Yi was not an impulsive person.

    However, Xu Yi doing this must mean that he had a deep meaning.

    But Seveni couldn¡¯t think it through, just what kind of deep meaning did Xu Yi have in doing this?

    With this matter and the other matters that had happened before, Seveni found that Xu Yi¡¯s style had very clearly changed during this time.

    Xu Yi took care of things as perfectly as possible, guaranteeing that the most optimum result woulde out of it and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would always profit.

    Because of this style, Xu Yi¡¯s approach seemed rather soft and not strong enough.

    But most recently, first recing the Stantine Duchy congress speaker and then forcefully taking back the territory of the Stantine Duchy nobles.

    Quite a few Stantine Duchy nobles had forcefully rejected this. If this was before, Xu Yi would have done his best to find a solution that would have satisfied everyone.

    But this time, Xu Yi sent out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, suppressing the opposition and sweeping away all the opponents to this bill in the Stantine Duchy.

    This kind of approach was without a doubt a bit overbearing, but it must be acknowledged that it was very effective. It caused the stocking bull to smoothly pass in the Stantine Duchy.

    If it was Xu Yi from before, it would have been impossible to pass this bill in the Stantine Duchy.

    But now, Xu Yi¡¯s domineering disy had been more direct and more clear.

    With the Sack Kingdom army there, anyone else would have considered it first before making a decision.

    But Xu Yi had directly charged forward.

    No matter what angle one looked at this from, it didn¡¯t seem like Xu Yi¡¯s normal style.

    Seveni had always paid attention to news rted to Xu Yi, so she could clearly see Xu Yi¡¯s change.

    In most of the news rted to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, most of them were about Xu Yi reaching cooperation deals on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi woulde out as the representative of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the chairman.

    But recently, in the news rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was all about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce applying various standards to the magic machines that they released.

    In this process, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stance had been very strong. They didn¡¯t give any of the otherpanies in the magic machine industry any space to negotiate.

    If this was before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would slowly implement their standards. Because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this before, the effects were quite good.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce forced the other magic machinepanies to follow these standards. If they didn¡¯t follow these standards, they would leave the magic machine industry.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current powerful position in the magic machine industry, this could be considered a threat and the otherpanies had no choice but to listen to them.

    Only this approach was different from Xu Yi¡¯s normal style. As the person who understood Xu Yi the most in the Lampuri Kingdom, Seveni could find Xu Yi¡¯s personality change from the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Seveni didn¡¯t understand, why did such a change happen in Xu Yi?

    Moreover, she didn¡¯t know if this change in Xu Yi was good or bad, so the only thing she could do was think of a way to deal with this sudden change.

    ¡°Kou, kou.¡±

    There was a knocking on the door that cut through Seveni¡¯s thoughts.

    She touched a button on the table and the door automatically opened. The maid Hathaway carried a baby who was half a year old into the room.

    Seveni revealed a smile that came from the bottom of her heart. She took the baby from Hathaway and hugged him in an unfamiliar manner before asking Hathaway, ¡°Is he hungry?¡±

    ¡°Yes, his highness just woke up, so he should be hungry now.¡± Hathaway replied.

    ¡°Good, I was about to rest, I¡¯ll go feed him.¡±

    Seveni sat down with the baby and took off her top, putting the baby¡¯s head right by her supple breasts.

    The babytched on and began forcefully sucking.

    Even if she had seen this many times, when she saw her majesty personally feeding the baby, Hathaway felt a bit surprised.

    This was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, she was the one who managed the giant Lampuri Kingdom.

    As a person who could shake the entire Lampuri Kingdom with a single step, she was just like a normal mother who nursed her own child which was a bit surprising for people.

    Actually, as long as Seveni was willing, she could find a bunch of people willing to feed this Lampuri Kingdom prince, but she wasn¡¯t willing and chose to personally breastfeed him.

    ¡°Is there anything else?¡± Seveni suddenly asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Hathaway gathered her thoughts and replied with a nod, ¡°Lord Count Sean is waiting outside. When does your majesty n on summoning him?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s after I finish feeding, have him wait first.¡± Seveni waved her hand.

    ¡°Yes, I will inform Count Sean now.¡±

    ¡°No need, wait until I finish feeding him and then you can take him away while calling Count Sean in.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Hathaway nodded beforeing to Seveni¡¯s side, preparing to take the baby at any time.

    Seeing the baby that was using all its strength to eat, Hathaway couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    ¡°Your majesty, his highness is really looking more and more like him.¡±

    Seveni looked up and softly said, ¡°You¡¯re not allowed to say this in the future.¡±

    Hathaway was stunned and quickly covered her mouth before shaking her head.

    After a while, the baby was finally finished eating. Seveni handed him to Hathaway and ordered her to bring Count Sean in.

    Hathaway carried the baby out of her majesty¡¯s study and couldn¡¯t help looking at Seveni, but she saw that she was looking down at something and couldn¡¯t help shaking her head.

    Does her majesty love his highness or not?

    If she did, why wasn¡¯t she willing to spend more time with his highness?

    If she didn¡¯t, why did she insist on personally feeding him?

    Ten minutes after Hathaway left, there was another knock on the door.

    Seveni pressed the button and the door opened, letting Count Sean Samo walk in.

    Seveni looked at him and was surprised.

    ¡°Count Sean, your face doesn¡¯t look that good.¡±

    Count Sean gave Seveni a bow and didn¡¯t reply. After thinking for a bit, he replied with a nod, ¡°Yes, your majesty, I¡¯ve been puzzled by a question, so my mood hasn¡¯t been that good recently.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What question?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, please take a look.¡± Count Sean handed over a document.

    Seveni took it to look over and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

    When she finished reading this document, Seveni flipped through the mountain of documents on the table and took out three documents for Count Sean.

    ¡°First take a look at these.¡±

    Count Sean curiously took them and after flipping through them, his thick brows tightly knitted together.

    ¡°So the revenue growth decrease isn¡¯t just happening in our Sowell City alone.¡±

    ¡°Yes, this is amon phenomenon. If it isn¡¯t changed, it might affect this year¡¯s financial revenue.¡±

    Count Sean looked at Seveni with aplicated expression and after a while, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Your highness, do you know? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already signed a contract with the Drake Duchy in secret, stating that they will invest in two agricultural magic machine factories in the Drake Duchy.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s brows opened a bit, looking like she didn¡¯t believe it.

    Even in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t invested in a factory as important as the agricultural magic machines. Why would they choose to invest in the Lampuri Kingdom?

    With this shock, Seveni felt a bit of anger in her heart, as well as a bit of pain that came from her burnt heart.

 Volume 5 137 - True love

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 137 True love</h4>

    Of course it was impossible for Xu Yi to stay in the territory that the Moon Shadow Tribe received from the Sack Kingdom, there were still many things for him to take care of.

    But before leaving, he left the two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that hade with him.

    With the strength of these guards and the forest guards of the Moon Shadow Tribe, they would be able to deal with five thousand normal Sack Kingdom soldiers.

    Of course, if the Sack Kingdom reacted intensely to this matter, Xu Yi had also warned the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s forest guard leader Philip that if he decides that they couldn¡¯t resist, he shouldn¡¯t hesitate to retreat.

    This ce wasn¡¯t far from the ck Rice Wastnd. As long as they escaped to the ck Rice Wastnd, whether it was entering ck Rice City to the east or the kc Rice Harbour to the west, they would be safe.

    After telling him this, Xu Yi was nning on returning to the Stantine Duchy, but he never thought that he would find Count Will who had rushed over here when he entered ck Rice City.

    Count Will specially made a trip to ck Rice City to wait for Xu Yi, bringing him a personal letter from her majesty Seveni.

    After Xu Yi read the letter, he only hesitated a bit before deciding to go back to Anvilmar City with Count Will, epting her majesty Seveni¡¯s invitation.

    ck Rice Wastnd was over six hundred kilometers from Anvilmar City, but with the speed of the Magic Sedans and the roads that connected the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi and Count Will had set off in the morning and they had arrived in Anvilmar City when it was close to dusk.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, has it been a long time since you¡¯ve been to Anvilmar City?¡± Count Will suddenly asked Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked out the window at city walls of Anvilmar City that was considered familiar and after thinking about it, he found that Count Will was correct.

    Thest time he came to Anvilmar City, it was when Seveni had just given birth to her child. Although he had run all over, frequently leaving the Stantine Duchy, he didn¡¯t have a single chance toe to Anvilmar City.

    Then as time went even further back, he would find that since Seveni took the throne, he came to Anvilmar City less and less, meeting Seveni less and less. The way the two contacted each other the most now had turned into letters.

    Although Xu Yi had deliberately done this a bit, thinking about it, he did meet Seveni too few times.

    It was no wonder Seveni had a trace of sadness in her letter asking Xu Yi toe to Anvilmar City. She might have also noticed something from Xu Yi¡¯s actions.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi could only feel a bit apologetic and a bit of regret.

    The reason why he had contacted Seveni less before was because of their identities. He was afraid that if they contacted each other, something that they weren¡¯t willing to see would corrupt their rtionship, ruining the pure rtionship that he had had with Seveni.

    But thinking about it now, he found that he waspletely mistaken at that time.

    His and Seveni¡¯s identities have already been set, it couldn¡¯t be changed.

    As long as they continued associating with each other, their rtionship would beplicated by their identities and they couldn¡¯t avoid it.

    The only way to avoid this was topletely cut off allmunications with Seveni.

    But that was clearly impossible.

    Not to mention the close rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, just based on Xu Yi¡¯s personal rtionship with Seveni, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to cut off allmunication with Seveni.

    So after thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that he had made a mistake before and was too stupid.

    Why didn¡¯t he have confidence in having a normal rtionship with Seveni?

    Even if both sides couldn¡¯t avoid these things because of their status, Xu Yi could have put these things apart, separating business and private affairs. They could have contacted each other privately while also maintaining the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if there was some contradiction between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, it wouldn¡¯t affect Xu Yi¡¯s personal rtionship with Seveni.

    Xu Yi was confident in doing this and confident in Seveni.

    Of course, if this couldn¡¯t be done, it would mean that his ability wasn¡¯t good enough and it couldn¡¯t be med on others.

    Moreover, no matter what, it was better than intentional avoiding Seveni like he was doing right now.

    ¡°Un, it has been a long time. Speaking of this.....I only met his highness when he was born, he should be half a year old now, right? How is it? Count Will, have you seen his highness? What does he look like now?¡± Xu Yi asked Count Will.

    Hearing Xu Yi ask about his highness, Count Will looked at Xu Yi with a bit of a strange look. After pausing, he replied, ¡°I¡¯ve also only seen his highness once when I returned to Anvilmar City on business two months ago, he seemed quite healthy and lively.¡±

    ¡°Oh? I don¡¯t know if he looks like Seveni or not. If he does, he will definitely be a very handsome prince when he grows up.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Count Will¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help twitching a bit.

    This chairman Xu, was he deliberately talking about this?

    Recently, there was a rumour among the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom that said the father of the prince was this chairman Xu in front of him!

    Count Will had raised his nose at this rumour before, but after seeing her majestyst time, he had carefully looked over his highness. He had found that his highness had looked simr to chairman Xu.

    Now that Xu Yi was asking about this, Count Will carefully looked over Xu Yi¡¯s face while also thinking of his highness. He found that their faces were bing more and more simr.

    ¡°Could it be that the rumours are true?¡± Count Will¡¯s heart was filled with this guess that shocked him, thinking that this was just absurd.

    He had guessed many times who the sweetheart her majesty hid was, but he never thought that it would be chairman Xu!

    Of course, if one thought about it from serious discussion, this guess was very likely to be true.

    It was well known that when her majesty was her highness, she was very close to Xu Yi. She had expressed her affection for Xu Yi more than once, so it was normal for her to be willing.

    Moreover, after her majesty had taken the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce under Xu Yi had gradually be bigger and had be a powerful force that could influence the surrounding countries.

    If they could maintain a good rtionship with Xu Yi, it meant that the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would always have a good rtionship.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wouldn¡¯t take long for the Lampuri Kingdom to be the strongest kingdom in the surrounding area.

    Although this guess was a bit disrespectful to her majesty, it was because of this that could exin why her majesty was pregnant before getting married and why she wasn¡¯t willing to exin who was the father.

    Because Xu Yi already had a wife and her majesty.....strictly speaking was a third party......

    Count Will seriously looked over the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t see anything strange with it.

    This made him feel very surprised.

    Even if Xu Yi was a deep person, there was no need for him to mention the prince and act like this because there was no meaning at all.

    The only exnation was that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know about this at all.

    But if that was true, that would just be too shocking.

    Thinking of this possibility, Count Will¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help changing.

    If his guess about her majesty was true, now that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know about this matter, it meant that her majesty really did feel true love towards Xu Yi to do something impulsive that a lovesick young girl would do.

    But true love?

    The expression on Count Will¡¯s face became iparably strange.

    Xu Yi was the chairman of the powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce that could influence the surrounding countries, there were countless girls that would be willing to send themselves into his arms.

    Her majesty Seveni was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, controlling the fate of the entire Lampuri Kingdom. She was an important person who could influence the entire kingdom with a single action.

    These two people, what true love was there......

    ¡°What is it? Is something wrong?¡±

    Xu Yi noticed the change on Count Will¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help asking this in a curious voice.

    He just asked about his highness, why did Count Will have a look like he had seen a ghost?

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....No, nothing......¡± Count Will suddenly came back from his shock and quickly waved his hand. He forced out a smile and said, ¡°I just suddenly thought of something and wanted to ask chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi was even more confused.

    They had been together for eight, close to nine hours, what question couldn¡¯t he ask before and had to wait until they entered Anvilmar City to ask?

    ¡°Eh.....Chairman Xu, I heard.....that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed a contract with the Drake Kingdom? You are nning on investing in an agricultural magic machine factory in the Drake Duchy?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows.

    He was not surprised that Count Will knew about this because Princess Caroline had stayed in the Stantine Duchy for a full month before leaving, this couldn¡¯t be hidden from anymore.

    Moreover, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on hiding this matter, so it wasn¡¯t strange that it was revealed.

    He was surprised that this question came from Count Will, rather it wasn¡¯t asked by Seveni as he had imagined.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi replied with a nod, ¡°Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, the two factories will start construction next month and they¡¯ll be finished by the end of the year.¡±

    ¡°This rushed?¡± Count Will asked.

    ¡°Pretty much because these two factories were built in preparation for the Marlow Empire, so the sooner the better and the more prepared we are.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the Marlow Empire, Count Will was surprised.

    Although this report had said that when Princess Caroline went to the Stantine Duchy, she had brought an unknown middle aged man, no one had known who this middle aged man was.

    Now that Xu Yi had taken the initiative to reveal that he was actually from the Marlow Empire!

    Moreover, based on Xu Yi¡¯s tone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already connected with the Marlow Empire and might have even formed a cooperation!

    This was a very important piece of news, but Xu Yi revealed it this easily.

    Count Will was surprised before his heart was filled with wild joy.

    With his understanding of Xu Yi, since Xu Yi was willing to reveal this, it meant that there was some connection that Lampuri Kingdom had to this piece of news.

    In these connections, there were countless opportunities that were hidden.

 Volume 5 138 - Want to talk everyday

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 138 Want to talk everyday</h4>

    After entering Anvilmar City, Count Will surprised Xu Yi by not leading him directly to the pce to see Seveni. He brought him to a ce that was very familiar, the residence Banta City had in Anvilmar City, which was actually the residence of Count Sean Samo.

    When he came out of the Magic Sedan, Xu Yi saw Count Sean standing at the entrance, looking over with a smile.

    By his side, there was the housekeeper Lahm he was familiar with.

    Xu Yi quickly went over to Count Sean and reached out both hands to take Count Sean¡¯s hand.

    ¡°Lord Count, when did youe back?¡±

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became stronger, as the chairman, Xu Yi was a very important person now, he was no longer like before where he politely addressed each noble. Even when he was with Count Will who was also a count, he just directly called him ¡®you¡¯.

    But when he faced Count Sean Samo, he couldn¡¯t help feeling respect for him from the bottom of his heart.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to develop smoothly in Banta City couldn¡¯t leave the support of Count Sean who had been the City Lord. If there wasn¡¯t him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might have already gone out of business and never reached this step.

    At the same time, Count Sean was very happy whenever he saw Xu Yi.

    He had been the City Lord of Banta City for ten years and had no aplishments. When Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, they had made earth shattering changes in Banta City, which caused Banta City which was a small city to not only be the city that everyone in the kingdom paid attention to, but also the ¡°city of magic machines¡± in the hearts of all the people in the surrounding countries.

    The people of Banta City had greatly benefited from this and he as the CIty Lord had also benefited.

    If nothing had changed before, he definitely would have remained as the Banta City City Lord until he died of old age, never improving his position. However, because the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce drove Banta City¡¯s development, he as the City Lord had be a powerful person in the eyes of all the nobles.

    When Lampuri Thirteenth was still on the throne, he had been sent to take over as the City Lord of Sowell City which was one of the most important cities in the northeast province. He had be one of the City Lords that held one of the most important cities in the Lampuri Kingdom, stepping into the highest circle of nobles.

    Then when the kingdom changed, Lampuri Thirteenth gave him the third royal army. It made him the only City Lord in the Lampuri Kingdom who had control of one of the kingdom¡¯s guarding armies.

    Then after the throne changed several times and when her majesty Seveni finally took the throne, she never took back his controlling rights of the third royal army.

    The current Count Sean was considered a powerful leader among the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as having the trust of her majesty, making him not inferior to any noble in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    At the root of all this, it all came from Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he built alone.

    Because of their close andplex rtionship, when the two held hands, their smiles were iparably sincere.

    ¡°I only came back a few days ago to report on the conditions of Sowell City to her majesty.¡± Count Sean replied with a smile before asking, ¡°Xu Yi, you came in a rush this time, how many days will you be staying?¡±

    ¡°Un.....It depends on her majesty. If she wants me to stay a few more days, I will listen to her arrangements.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Count Sean looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°You¡¯re not in a rush this time?¡±

    ¡°How could that be, I¡¯m almost dying from how tired I am.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°But this time I¡¯ve decided to have a proper talk with her majesty. Eh......We¡¯ll properly address our rtionship. I haven¡¯t seen her majesty in a while, so I don¡¯t know how she¡¯s beentely.¡±

    Hearing how Xu Yi would address their rtionship, Count Will following Xu Yi had the expression on his face change and his eyes looking at Xu Yi became iparably strange.

    But Xu Yi and Count Sean were being led in by housekeeper Lahm, so they didn¡¯t notice this change with him.

    Count Sean heard Xu Yi¡¯s response and broke out inughter. He reached his hand to p Xu Yi¡¯s back as he said, ¡°Good! You should be close with her majesty. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in Banta City, you and her majesty would always be together like good friends. Now you¡¯re this separated, it isn¡¯t right.¡±

    Seeing Count Sean act like an elder, Xu Yi didn¡¯t refute it and nodded with a faint smile.

    They walked into the residence and when Xu Yi saw the familiar scenes around him, he couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°There are many things that have changed over the years, but this ce still hasn¡¯t changed.¡±

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯m already old, I don¡¯t like change that much. Xu Yi, you suddenly came this time, so you shouldn¡¯t have prepared a residence. How about you just stay here, you should be familiar with it in any case.¡±

    Xu Yi hesitated for a bit before giving a nod.

    Count Sean had already made preparations for Xu Yi¡¯s arrival. They talked for a bit before they went for dinner.

    After a dinner that wasn¡¯t considered too rich, Count Will took the opportunity to leave. Count Sean took Xu Yi to the study and they sat down together. Count Sean looked in the direction of the royal pce before turning to say to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, do you know why I came to see you before you met her majesty?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s here.¡± Xu Yi revealed a curious look as he looked at Count Sean.

    Count Sean was silent for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Actually, it¡¯s rted to what you said before we ate. Xu Yi, you should indeed discuss your rtionship with her majesty. I don¡¯t mean the friendship thates from cooperation partners, but rather the pure friendship you had before.¡±

    ¡°In my heart, her majesty has always been my good friend, that has never changed.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°I believe you, but if I¡¯m not mistaken, you should have been distancing yourself from her majesty before, right?¡± Count Sean asked.

    Xu Yi looked at Count Sean in surprise. He never thought that his thoughts would be exposed directly.

    Count Sean revealed a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t be surprised, I am an old man and I have experienced more than a young person like you. It isn¡¯t strange at all that I can see through this.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    He couldn¡¯t admit this, but he also didn¡¯t deny it.

    Count Sean seemed like he could see through his thoughts, so he waved his hand with a smile and continued, ¡°Of course, that isn¡¯t important. The important thing is that Xu Yi, you don¡¯t need to do this at all. Do you know that I¡¯ve watched her majesty grow up? She was always an intelligent person, his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth ced great importance on her, but because she was from the royal family and had a lot of pressure on her, she would rarely reveal a truly happy smile to others. But after she met you, I would find that she would normally be very happy.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He remembered when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in Banta City, when Count Sean was still the City Lord, Seveni frequently came to Banta City to see him. When those two talked, they had indeed been quite happy.

    But that time changed with the Lampuri Kingdom. Seveni had to take the throne in the end and be the queen, so it was gone forever.

    ¡°I¡¯m telling you this because I treat myself as an elder for you two, I don¡¯t want to see you make a mistake and let both of you suffer. Of course, I don¡¯t know what thoughts you have, but I know that when I see her majesty, she never has a smile on her face.¡± Count Sean said.

    Xu Yi was silent before revealing a reluctant smile as he shook his head.

    ¡°Lord Count, I already understand this and will pay attention to solving it. This is the reason why I came to Anvilmar City and decided to ignore everything else to stay here a few days.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? That would be great.¡±

    Count Sean suddenly stood up and pressed somewhere on the wall in the study.

    With a rumbling sound, the wall of the study suddenly turned and it revealed a hidden room.

    Xu Yi was surprised as he looked in, but he found that he couldn¡¯t see a single thing since the room was too dark.

    But then two figures came out of the secret room, walking over step by step.

    The one standing in front had a familiar gentle smile on their face. Although the face had changed from six years ago when the two of them first met, bing much more mature and dignified, that smile didn¡¯t change at all. It made anyone who saw it calm and assured.

    This smile that was filled with kindness and gentleness naturally belonged to Seveni.

    Seeing Seveni slowlye out with that familiar smile, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling mistaken. It was like he hadn¡¯t seen Seveni in a very long time and Seveni had suddenly walked out of a spatial crack to meet him.

    Seveni stopped two steps away from Xu Yi and looked right at him, the breath that came from her nose almost blew right onto Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    The two were silent and Xu Yi revealed an awkward smile.

    ¡°Your majest.....¡±

    ¡°Call me Seveni.¡± Seveni cut Xu Yi off without any hesitation.

    Xu Yi was surprised before touching his nose and saying with a bitterugh, ¡°Alright, Seveni, long time no see.¡±

    ¡°Un, it has indeed been a long time. Xu Yi, I want to meet you every day, but that clearly is impossible. Then I¡¯ll back off and say that being able to talk to you everyday is enough. So......I hope that you can build enough magic signal towers in the Lampuri Kingdom, so I can talk to you in the Stantine Duchy from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce at any time.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Xu Yi never would have thought that after Seveni met him, the first thing she would talk about would be the magic signal towers!

 Volume 5 139 - Three cooperation projects

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 139 Three cooperation projects</h4>

    In the beginning of October, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would be cooperating one three projects with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The first would be rted to the magic signal towers.

    ording to the agreement between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building an initial one hundred magic signal towers in the Lampuri Kingdom. Then with the fifty magic signal towers on the ck Rice Wastnd, it would allow them to connect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy to Anvilmar City.

    ording to the information released by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as this signal line wasplete, in theory, people that were a thousand kilometers away in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base would be able to talk to people in Anvilmar City with the Magic Communicator.

    But at the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced another matter. Because of the limitations to the current magic signal tower technology, thismunication technology wouldn¡¯t be open to the public. After this signal line wasplete. It would be limited to only a few people.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give an exnation, people could make their guesses. This magic signal tower line was called amunication line by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the main use of it was to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu contact the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Queen Seveni more easily.

    But building a hundred and fifty signal towers at once, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce said that the initial investment would be as high as four million gold coins. This was just to let Xu Yi and her majesty Seveni contact each other, this was considered just too luxurious.

    Moreover, there was gossip that was different from the ones that normal people paid attention to. There were quite a few people in the Stantine Duchy that had hindered the establishment of these magic signal towers, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suppressed the nobles that had opposed these magic signal towers. It caused quite a few people in the Lampuri Kingdom to oppose this cooperation between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason why the lords of the Stantine Duchy had opposed putting up these magic signal towers in their territory was, because they were worried that these magic signal towers were like the magic towers the powerful magicians had put up on the continent thousands of years ago to control people¡¯s minds.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave an exnation, saying that these magic signal towers were different from those magic towers and didn¡¯t have such a shocking ability, no onepletely believed this.

    After several newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom reported on this matter, the opposition in the kingdom became even bigger.

    However, after a few days, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild made an announcement in the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly?. They announced that the Magicians Guild had evaluated the magic signal towers the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was setting up with the Lampuri Kingdom. They confirmed that these towers only had Fourth Grade Magic Arrays and had very simple Magic Arrays, it didn¡¯t have the ability to control people¡¯s minds at all and it was different from the magic towers that everyone worried about.

    At the same time, several Great Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, including the Magicians Guild¡¯s president Palmes Eren and Great Magician Eisenkel epted interviews with the ?Lampuri Weekly?. They stated that they would pay attention to the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom, considering the benefits of the kingdom and watch over them.

    The two also stated that up to this point, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always focused on producing magic machines, they never had any ideas or taken any actions to control the minds of the people. Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always supported the Lampuri Kingdom, so the people didn¡¯t need to worry that much.

    Rather it was those people who doubted the magic signal towers before that the two had reprimanded together, saying that they were viins measuring great men with their own standards.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Lampuri Kingdom had brought them many benefits, but it had also quickly developed the Lampuri Kingdom, allowing many people in the kingdom to benefit.

    This was something that could be clearly seen by the improvements in living standards for the people of the kingdom over the past few years.

    Moreover, the two of them also proposed a new idea. They said that with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it had created a new trend. The continent would enter a new magic machine era and the lives of all the people on the continent definitely couldn¡¯t escape the influence of the various kinds of magic machines.

    With this trend, the people didn¡¯t need to resist, but rather work hard to change their ideas and ept it.

    For the statement of the Magicians Guild and these two Great Magicians, even if many people thought they were quite close to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, obtaining many benefits from each other, so their words couldn¡¯t be trusted.

    The Magicians Guild and these two Great Magicians did have iparable authority on magic in the Lampuri Kingdom. Since they said that there was no problem, it meant there was no problem and there was no meaning in anyone refuting this.

    So the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament quickly announced that the Lampuri Kingdom would prepare for this cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was expected that by the end of next year, thismunications line would beplete.

    The second cooperation project wasn¡¯t rted to building magic machines, but rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would cooperate with the Lampuri Kingdom to build a school.

    This school was naturally not a magic school, but a magic machine vocational skills school like in Banta City, focused on teaching magic machine rted knowledge.

    ording to the announced information, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom would be building seventeen vocational schools in the Lampuri Kingdom within three years. They would all be covered by the Lampuri Kingdom and anyone willing to engage in the magic machine industry could study at these schools.

    Just like with the Banta City vocational school, these seventeen newly built vocational schools would have some measures to cover school fees, so even thosemon students with normal financial backgrounds could study at these schools.

    For these measures, other than subsidies from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government, there were also schrships like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up at Baron Rickto Magic Academy and Banta City¡¯s vocational school. The students could sign a contract with anypany and they would pay for their school fees and even living fees. However, after they graduated, they had to sign a contract to work for thesepanies.

    Although this wasn¡¯t just limited to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the students could choose to sign with any magic machinepany, everyone knew that under the same conditions, any student would have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as their first choice.

    The otherpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom fully understood the benefits of this. After the kingdom parliament announced this cooperation, there were thirtypanies that announced through regional papers that they would be willing to provide favourable terms for students that were considering studying at these vocational schools.

    There were even somepanies that gave a clear price, using gold coins to show their sincerity.

    It could be said that before those seventeen schools were built, there was already a raging fire that was started in the war for those students that hadn¡¯t enrolled yet.

    There was no other way, who told the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu to say those words.

    ¡°In the magic machine industry era, technology was the number one producing force and talented people were everything.¡±

    In order to steal these future talents, they wouldn¡¯t mind paying a bit extra.

    The third cooperation project wasn¡¯t just limited to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom. To be honest, the Lampuri Kingdom would be leading this project and the main partner was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    This was a project to pave roads all over.

    ording to the n the kingdom parliament announced in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, the Lampuri Kingdom would be increasing their pace in building awork of roads in the kingdom.

    Other than continuingying down new main roads and connecting all the small towns of the kingdom, they would also be improving the previous roads built.

    As the Lampuri Kingdom developed, the previous twoned roads were already unable to handle the current traffic situation.

    The road that connected Banta City and Anvilmar City, as well as the main roads in the northeast province had traffic jams every day which greatly affected transportation efficiency.

    So the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament under the instructions of her majesty Seveni would strictly research the various roads and determine which would need to be expanded. They would be doubled to fourne roads and even the road that connected Banta City to Anvilmar City would be increased to eightnes.

    This project¡¯s total investment was thirty five million gold coins. Even if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly financial revenue had increased, reaching a shocking ten million gold coinsst year, it was clearly unable to pay such a shocking amount.

    So most of the investment woulde from the various provinces and cities of the kingdom.

    The road connecting Banta City and Anvilmar City being increased to a shocking eightnes was mainly because Banta City was rich......

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s role in this project, they would be mainly providing the materials and the construction magic machines.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would be investing with the Lampuri Kingdom to build three cement factories and one construction magic machine factory, making it easier to produce the materials needed.

    ording to the information released by the parliament, these three cement factories would be controlled by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side.

    This meant that these three cement factories would belong to the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to influence them.

    As for the construction magic machine factory, the parliament didn¡¯t reveal any information.

    This made many people¡¯s minds wander.

    If this construction magic machine factory was also controlled by the Lampuri Kingdom, didn¡¯t that mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already gave the construction magic machine technology to them?

    Although it was normal for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transfer technology before, that was limited to household magic machines. If this time it was like the guesses, that meant that this was the first magic machine technology transfer.

    Didn¡¯t this mean......the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was finally willing to release the magic machines other than the household magic machines?

    Thinking of this possibility, countless people became excited.

 Volume 5 140 - Established companies and new companies

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 140 Establishedpanies and newpanies</strong>

    ¡°Hei, it¡¯s not a problem if they want the technology, but before asking for it, shouldn¡¯t they see if they¡¯re qualified?¡± Xu Yi gave a coldugh as he threw the letters in his hand to the side, ¡°Cruise, you can just burn these things in the future, don¡¯t give them to me.¡±

    The letters were from thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom. There were only minor changes to the content, they all expressed their interest in the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would share the technology with them.

    There were magic machinepanies, as well as twopanies that didn¡¯t participate in the magic machine industry. This showed that the influence of the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms became bigger and bigger, so even traditionalpanies couldn¡¯t sit still.

    Chairman Cruise sitting in front of Xu Yi looked at the letters he threw onto the table and revealed an awkward smile.

    The chairman of thosepanies came to him with those letters and begged him to bring them to Xu Yi, but they never would have thought that Xu Yi would disdain even looking at them.

    After a bit of silence, chairman Cruise asked, ¡°Then......Xu Yi, whichpanies do you think are qualified to get the magic machine technology? For example, is our Amrit Chamber of Commerce qualified?¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re finally interested in joining this industry?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°No, no, no, I¡¯m not interested.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head, ¡°I was just asking, do you think ourpany is qualified?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi denied him without any courtesy, ¡°Yourpany doesn¡¯t have a problem in terms of funds, but your umted technology is too weak. Even if I gave you the technology for free, you wouldn¡¯t be able to do a thing with it.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that bad......¡± Chairman Cruise was a bit unwilling to admit this, ¡°As long as you can give us enough technical support, I just need to invest arge amount and should be able to grasp it.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give you the technology for the Magic Cement Mixer that yourpany uses and tell you that you need to invest at least three million gold coins, as well as two years of time to have some initial understanding of it. Are you willing to ept this?¡±

    ¡°Un.....If it¡¯s three million gold coins and two years, it isn¡¯t impossible.¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi andughed, ¡°We spend at least one and a half million gold coins just to buy the Magic Cement Mixers from you? Ourpany uses this thing in many ces, so if we can make it ourselves, we can save quite a bit.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain?¡± Xu Yi asked with a ghost of a smile.

    Chairman Cruise was surprised before waving his hand with an ugly look, ¡°Forget it, it¡¯s better to just buy it from you. The magic machines from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will definitely be stronger, it¡¯ll be stronger than what we can develop ourselves. Why would I waste all that time and money for this?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s no problem if you think like this, but I¡¯m too disappointed if the others think like this.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Oh.....I understand, you still want to promote the magic machine industry?¡± Chairman Cruise said.

    ¡°Un, the Lampuri Kingdom and I, as well as the Drake Kingdom will be building those agricultural magic machines and the construction magic machines. This is already me indicating my willingness to release the technology, but up to this point, it¡¯s all this trash thates looking for me. Thepanies that I actually appreciate haven¡¯t moved at all, so I really am disappointed.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh.

    ¡°I think that......that isn¡¯t that they can¡¯t see this and they do want this technology, but Xu Yi, have you ever thought that thepanies that you have a good impression of.....Un, the best should be the Irnd Chamber of Commerce? You praise them for being at the forefront of innovation.¡±

    ¡°Right, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce has always been willing to invest in research. Although I don¡¯t like that Kovacs, I have to admit that he is a genius at business. It¡¯s his help that has made the Irnd Chamber of Commerce the biggestpany when ites to magic machineponents.¡±

    ¡°Look, even if the Irnd Chamber of Commerce is the biggestpany in buildingponents, have you thought about how much money the Irnd Chamber of Commerce has now?¡± Chairman Cruise then asked.

    ¡°This.....Freeman told mest time that hispany was earning over three hundred thousandst year, so I estimate that it should be more now.¡±

    ¡°So that means that three hundred thousand is already quite a bit for them, but if they want to buy the technology from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it is far from enough.¡± Chairman Cruise seriously said, ¡°Not to mention that after buying this technology, they need to spend arge amount of funds and manpower to digest it. You just told me that it would take at least three million gold coins and two years to grasp the Magic Cement Mixer technology. For a smallpany like theirs, it would take even more. Do you think they can handle this?¡±

    Xu Yi was in a daze, not being able to respond.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found that there¡¯s a big problem with you.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi looked at him with a bit of doubt.

    ¡°You¡¯ve never trusted those establishedpanies. Even our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that we¡¯ve cooperated for so long, you might still not trust us. So when you¡¯re looking for partners, you would unconsciously exclude the oldpanies.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding.

    ¡°I know that you think the magic machine industry is a new industry, it¡¯s easier to train newpanies to make them ept this, but Xu Yi, this is no longer the same time as when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce just appeared. When people still didn¡¯t know what magic machines were. Now that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t just the strongestpany in the surrounding countries, you¡¯ve made everyone ept magic machines, so you don¡¯t need to have the same scruples as when you started. Compared to those new and smallpanies, the establishedpanies are much stronger. If you cooperate with them, it will make your chances of sess much higher.¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows in thought for a bit before slowly giving a sigh.

    ¡°Cruise, you¡¯re right. I was affected by my thinking before and almost walked down the wrong road. Thank you for reminding me.¡±

    Xu Yi lowered his head to look over the letters on the table and after seriously looking over them, he picked them up.

    Seeing his actions, chairman Cruise let out a sigh. He had finally persuaded Xu Yi, he could finally report to those old friends of his.

    Xu Yi suddenly looked at chairman Cruise and asked, ¡°In the end, Cruise, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is an establishedpany. Are you really not interested in magic machines?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Cruise waved his hand and said in a strangely firm voice, ¡°I¡¯ve always had the same belief, one has to be specialized if they want to seed. Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has always been in the construction business and we will continue in that business in the future. Then again, how could I have the free time to consider this now? You¡¯re already giving me such a tiresome task......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It certainly is tiring, but it¡¯s too much to call it a task. If this n seeds, there¡¯s no need to mention how much money your Amrit Chamber of Commerce will earn from this. The more important thing is that your Amrit Chamber of Commerce will be argepany that will be famous across the Sines Continent. Haven¡¯t you always dreamed of making the Amrit Chamber of Commerce a first sspany across the continent? This is a definite good chance now.¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, ¡°Actually, before realizing this idea, I might just die of exhaustion.¡±

    ¡°Alright, instead ofining here, we should discuss how to put our n in effect. You¡¯ve been here for half an hour now, you should have rested enough.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand at chairman Cruise, walking over to the giant map on the wall.

    Chairman Cruise could only roll his eyes before walking over.

    The map on the wall was a map of the Sines Continent that Xu Yi prepared for the study in his manor. All the lines were much more clearpared to a normal map, it even had the names of normal viges on it.

    But this map had three conspicuous red lines that went from the bottom left corner and spread across the entire map.

    Chairman Cruise looked over and raised his hand to ce it on the topmost red line.

    This red line started at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy and heading from there, it went north to the ck Rice Wastnd. It continued north into the Lampuri Kingdom, passing through Banta City, Anvilmar City, and leaving from Sowell City. It entered the Drake Duchy and continued northeast toward the Falk Kingdom, finally reaching the Marlow Empire.

    The Marlow Empire didn¡¯t have any lines which represented the end of the road for now.

    ¡°Xu Yi, this road straight to the Marlow Empire is fine since the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy have already made their decision. The Falk Kingdom is very happy with their cooperation with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem convincing them. But the other two roads will be very difficult......¡±

    Chairman Cruise lowered his finger slightly to point at two red lines.

    The middle line set off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, going east to the Rudson Kingdom, then slightly north to the Mirando Duchy before going east to the Norton Duchy, finally heading a bit northeast to enter the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Speaking of this middle road, there¡¯s no problem with the Rudson Kingdom and the MIrando Duchy. Although the Norton Duchy has never gotten along with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s just a small duchy, so there¡¯s no problem taking care of them. The Candra Empire will be much moreplicated. If nothing else, you had that ambassador Hakanin work hard for the first road, but after all his work, ourpany has been working for over a year now and we still haven¡¯t finished five hundred kilometers of that road. Do you know why?¡±

 Volume 5 141 - Golden sea route

    Volume 5 Chapter 141 Golden sea route

    Seeing the displeased look on chairman Cruise¡¯s face, Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile.

    Ambassador Hakanin worked hard on this road at first and Xu Yi was happy about this, thinking that he would finally open the door to the Candra Empire. He would let them understand the convenience of the roads and then the same effects in the Lampuri Kingdom would happen in the Candra Empire.

    However, he never thought that when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce paved the road in the southwest province, they would encounter all kinds of strange hindrances. The most important problem was that the efficiency of the workers of the southeast province of the Candra Empire was just too low. It also took a long time just for them to get any clearance to use small pieces ofnd, which greatly dyed the construction.

    Moreover, those officials bared quite a bit. ording to what chairman Cruise said, in just half a year of starting the road, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had paid over three hundred thousand gold coins which was almost half the cost of the road itself.

    Moreover, most of the actual investment came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with a bit of iting from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. The Candra Empire wasn¡¯t paying a single copper coin, but they were enjoying the various benefits that the road brought. For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, this was a business that really made them suffer.

    This made chairman Cruise unhappy with the Candra Empire. However, the road was already halfplete and it had a big significance, so even if he wasn¡¯t happy, he could only endure it.

    Xu Yi thought about it before helplessly patting chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder andforting him, ¡°This is the first road after all, just endure it for now. As long as this road is finished, I don¡¯t believe that the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be able to see the benefits it brings. As long as they want to continue building roads, they will look for yourpany. When that timees, you¡¯ll be able to get back the grievances that you suffered building this road.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a cold snort, ¡°I¡¯m not as optimistic as you. From what I can see, the Candra Empire is rotting from the head down. Even if they realize the benefits of the roads, we wouldn¡¯t be able to get any benefits.¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and revealed a cold smile, ¡°When that timees, it might not be up to them.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with a strange look.

    He could sense danger from Xu Yi¡¯s words, but where did that dangere from?

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the Sines Continent. Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have the courage to do anything to the Candra Empire, right?

    Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped this topic. He reached his finger out to tap on thest red line.

    ¡°Actually,pared to the road through the Candra Empire, I feel that the road that connects the furthest southern part of the continent is even more difficult. Cruise, do you have any confidence?¡±

    Cruise looked at the road that ran along the southern sea to the east that started from the Candra Empire, finally drawing a red line across the coast and he revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, I thought that the idea of those fellows from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was just their fantasy, but I never thought that you would take it seriously. Did you forget what I saidst time? In theory, building this road that connects the continent¡¯s east and west is possible, but the biggest problem is that it costs too much. Didn¡¯t I calcte for youst time, to build this road, it would take over fifty million gold coins. This much money......we can¡¯t take it out even if we sold ourpanies.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why I saidst time that it wouldn¡¯t be finished in a year or two.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Moreover, the three transport lines that I¡¯ve nned can¡¯t bepleted in a short period of time. If I had to choose one, I would want this one to be built first.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi point at the top most red line, chairman Cruise let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°It seems like you really aren¡¯t crazy. Not bad,pared to the rest, this road can be finished right now. Whether it is the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, or the Drake Duchy, they already have roads in them. We just need to pave some roads in the Falk Kingdom. As for the Marlow Empire......it¡¯ll depend on the cooperation between you and the Marlow Empire.¡±

    Seeing chairman Cruise¡¯s doubtful gaze, Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I have confidence in Marquis Southgate. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be sending news soon.¡±

    ¡°I hope so.¡±

    The two of them discussed the three nned roads for a while before chairman Cruise left.

    After Xu Yi sent him off, he went back to the map and looked at it for a long time. He then took out a pen and starting from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, he started going out west. He drew a blue line through the endless seas that then turned south, bypassing the Stantine Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Candra Empire until it reached the coast of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had already finished their harbour for five months now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet had been making round trips each month. They had already finished five transport trips, establishing a sea line between the southwest and southeast coasts of the continent.

    To build the road that ran across the south coast that chairman Cruise called the most difficult road on the Sines Continent was just too hard right now. So for now, the most reliable method of connecting the east and west coasts was this sea route.

    After five trips, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought arge amount of goods and people to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. They had already started building the cement factory and a steel mill in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    With the current n, they would be able to start producing by the start of next year. Then with the manpower that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest, they would be able to build a production base in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, striving to promote magic machines in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Before this production base was built, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t idle. Through the transport fleet, they sent many of the agricultural and construction magic machines the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom currently needed, as well as various kinds of popr household magic machines.

    ordingly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gained arge amount of medicines and beast furs from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. After they were shipped back to the Stantine Duchy, they were sold in the surrounding countries which earned them quite a bit.

    With just five round trips, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned over two million gold coins.

    So the top members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already called this sea route, ¡°golden sea route¡±.

    Looking over the map, Xu Yi put his pen back on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base before bringing it to the west into the endless seas.

    This time he went north, past the ck Rice Wastnd, the Sack Kingdom, the s Kingdom to the northeast of the continent, entering the northern seas.

    But when he finished this line, Xu Yi paused before stopping and slightly knitting his brows.

    Although Xu Yi had never been to the countries in the north, ording to the various books he read, the north of the continent was very cold once winter came. Even the endless seas were covered in thick ice, so they couldn¡¯t sail on the seas at all.

    So this route was impossible to be open all year round like the southern route.

    After considering it, Xu Yi continued drawing his line across the north seas to the east, finally stopping in the center of the north of the continent.

    This was the northern coast of the Marlow Empire. If they could establish a route, they would be able to transport goods on the sea to the Marlow empire, which would without a doubt improve the rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Marlow Empire.

    Looking over the Marlow Empire on the map, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes turned to the northeast corner of the continent. He drew another line from the Marlow Empire¡¯s coast to the east, reaching this northeast corner before going down a bit. He came all the way down to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in the southeast, linking it up with the southern trade route.

    Like this, it was as if the blue sea trade route wrapped around the entire continent.

    In theory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could rely on sea transportation to bring goods to any country near the sea on the continent.

    Of course, most of the countries on the continent weren¡¯t by the sea. To send the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods to every part of the continent, they couldn¡¯t just rely on sea transportation.

    This was the main reason why Xu Yi wanted toy out these three main roads.

    Butying these roads really was too difficult. Other than the most important problem of money, the biggest hindrance was the attitudes of the other countries.

    Xu Yi believed that the Falk Kingdom would agree to the road in the north, but the Marlow Empire¡¯s attitude was not something he was certain on.

    The middle road connected to the Candra Empire, but with the Candra Empire¡¯s current performance, it didn¡¯t seem optimistic.

    ¡°This giant empire, could it be that they really are rotten like Cruise said?¡±

    Xu Yi knit his brows to look at the Marlow Empire that was quite a bit bigger than the Candra Empire and couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    At this time, there were the sounds of soft footsteps that came from the door that pulled Xu Yi back from his thoughts.

    Looking over, he saw Teresa¡¯s little head poking through the door with a cautious look on her face.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was looking over, Teresa shrank back like a frightened rabbit, but she still popped out after hesitating a bit.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look over her before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Come in.¡±

 Volume 5 142 - Do you want to go back?

    Volume 5 Chapter 142 Do you want to go back?

    Teresa slowly came over like a frightened little rabbit. She looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before asking in a soft voice, ¡°Sir chairman, do you.....have time right now?¡±

    ¡°Un? What is it?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°If you.....have the time, can youe to the development center for a look? Master Camby and the others.....they¡¯re about to start fighting.¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Xu Yi thought that Teresa came alone for something else, but he never thought that this would be the first thing out of her mouth.

    ¡°Camby and them are about to fight? With who? Why?¡± Xu Yi asked with a face covered in shock.

    ¡°With master Bordeau and master Donorman.¡± Teresa lowered her head as she replied, ¡°They were arguing because of an issue with the Fire Magic Engine and no one would back down, so their argument became very heated. When I left, they were about to start fighting.....¡±

    ¡°Those fellows really are......¡± Xu Yi helplessly shook his head.

    Camby and the other dwarves were very serious with their work, had good skills, and weren¡¯t afraid of working hard, plus they were very passionate about their work. It could be said that they were perfect researchers, but there was amon problem among them which was that the dwarves had a temper.

    This temper was normally good, but it was hard to avoid arguments when it came to different views on research, so it was easy for them to explode.

    Because of this, the dwarves of the magic machine development center would frequently argue and would even start fighting.

    Although they did have some discretion and didn¡¯t cause any fatal injuries, as well as forgetting about this argument after fighting and working like normal, having Xu Yi go and clean up after them each time was something that caused a headache for him.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go immediately.¡± Xu Yi looked around before tidying up and having Teresa follow him.

    When they left, Teresa¡¯s eyes looked over the map on the wall and a bit of doubt appeared in those eyes.

    Xu Yi noticed this and just revealed a smile. He didn¡¯t say anything as he quickly walked out.

    The magic machine development center was some distance from Xu Yi¡¯s personal manor. If he was alone, he could use Spatial Magic to head there immediately, but with Teresa, he couldn¡¯t do that.

    So he brought Teresa to his Magic Sedan that was parked in the yard and had her get in.

    When the two of them were sitting in the Magic Sedan, Xu Yi suddenly thought of an issue.

    ¡°Right, Teresa, why did youe here? And why did youe looking for me? Where¡¯s Feven? Why didn¡¯t she go?¡±

    The Feven that Xu Yi spoke of was the administrative manager of the magic machine development center. She was mainly in charge of the various administrative work for the magic machine development center and didn¡¯t participate in the research.

    The engineers of the magic machine development center even said that Feven was like their nanny.

    When Camby and the others started arguing, if it couldn¡¯t be suppressed, it was Feven who came looking for Xu Yi for backup.

    ¡°Manager Feven¡¯s granddaughter was born yesterday, so she asked for several days off.¡± Teresa replied.

    ¡°Oh.....I remember.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He kept looking at Teresa, waiting for her to reply.

    Teresa felt Xu Yi¡¯s gaze and her face turned red as she lowered her head again. After a while, she replied in a low voice, ¡°I saw that no one could stop master Camby and the others, so I thought that I should ask you toe. They were all very busy and I felt.....that I haven¡¯t seen sir chairman for a long time, so I ran over here......¡±

    Seeing that even Teresa¡¯s ear turned red, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He didn¡¯t keep asking as he started the Magic Sedan, driving it out of the manor.

    When the Magic Sedan drove for two kilometers on the road, Teresa slowly recovered. She looked back at Xu Yi with a focused look.

    ¡°What are you looking at?¡± Xu Yi felt her gaze and asked this with a smile.

    Teresa quickly turned to the side.

    ¡°No......Nothing......¡±

    Teresa didn¡¯t say it, so Xu Yi took the initiative to ask.

    ¡°Speaking of this.....Teresa, you¡¯ve been working at the military magic machine department for a year now? I still haven¡¯t asked you, how is it working there?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi ask about herself, Teresa gave a sweet smile and replied, ¡°Many thanks for sir chairman¡¯s care. I¡¯ve been doing well during this time and the colleagues are all good to me, caring very much about me. I am very happy working with them.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? I¡¯ve heard Evita say that you would often look for her to ask questions about the military magic machines, it seems like you¡¯re working quite hard.¡±

    Teresa had a strange look that wasn¡¯t easy to discover on her face as she said with a nod, ¡°Un, I want to make more contributions to thepany, so I¡¯ll work harder. Chief Evita has been good to me, she¡¯s helped me a lot.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is something she should do as the chief. I asked her in private to help you a bit more.¡± Xu Yi gave a soft sigh, ¡°But Teresa, is the reason you want to develop the military magic machines really because of your father Viscount Doran Canz?¡±

    Teresa¡¯s smile disappeared and her head fell down. When she looked up again, she had a firm look once again.

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman, my father and my entire family were killed by those despicable Sack Kingdom nobles. I am his only daughter left, I must take revenge for him!¡±

    ¡°But haven¡¯t you thought of a problem? Even if you work hard to develop the military magic machines, that doesn¡¯t mean they¡¯ll be used against the nobles of the Sack Kingdom. In reality, the military magic machines that you¡¯ve developed might end up in the hands of those nobles of the Sack Kingdom that you hate.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Teresa was stunned. Her eyes couldn¡¯t help popping open as she looked at Xu Yi in disbelief and asked, ¡°Sir chairman, you.....are you serious? Could it be that you¡¯re nning on selling the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom? Haven¡¯t you always been hostile towards them?¡±

    ¡°I just don¡¯t like the Sack Kingdom because they worked with Duke Wein to attack ourpany before. But if we¡¯re talking about being hostile.....that isn¡¯t certain. In the end, I am a merchant and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is apany. As long as the conditions are good, we¡¯ll sell our products to whoever we can, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi in a daze as her eyes filled withplicated emotions. She finally bit her lip and lowered her head, not saying a thing.

    Xu Yi looked at her as his lips curled into a smile of deep meaning and he asked, ¡°Are you disappointed?¡±

    Teresa slowly shook her head, but she was still silent.

    ¡°Teresa, I know how you are feeling and sympathize with you, but you have to understand that I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and need to consider the entirepany. If the Sack Kingdom can bring enough benefits to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I don¡¯t mind putting down the grudges from before. As for your wish.....Although it¡¯s very cruel, I can only say that it isn¡¯t important enough.¡±

    Teresa lowered her head even more and she even put her head in her knees. Her legs came up and her arms hugged them as her back trembled, letting out a soft crying sound.

    Xu Yi looked at her and had a strange smile on his face. His voice was even more calmpared to before as he said in a soft voice, ¡°Actually, Teresa, isn¡¯t your target for revenge wrong? The one that killed your father Viscount Doran Canz and your family wasn¡¯t the entire Sack Kingdom, but Count Orzil, right? Why do you need to target the entire Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Teresa suddenly looked up with tears on her face, but she also couldn¡¯t hide the surprise in her eyes at all.

    ¡°Sir......Sir chairman......how do you know about this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Of course it¡¯s that after hearing your story, I sent someone to inquire about this. ording to the report, your father and family were falsely used by Count Orzil and the crime of treason was faked. Actually, in the Sack Kingdom, your father had already restored his reputation. You were here all these years, so you never received the news.¡±

    Teresa trembled as her expression changed several times before she asked in a trembling voice, ¡°Sir chairman, you.....Since you already knew, why didn¡¯t you tell me?¡±

    ¡°I only learned thisst month and then because I was busy, I never told you.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug.

    Teresa looked at Xu Yi with a vacant look.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Teresa, it¡¯s fine even if you want to return to the Sack Kingdom now. Your father¡¯s reputation has been restored and the Count Orzil who framed your family has already been thrown in jail by the Sack Kingdom. After you go back, you can take over your father¡¯s title as the Viscount and live a peaceful life. Are you.....willing to go back?¡±

    Teresa was stunned for a bit before slowly shaking her head.

    ¡°No......I......I¡¯m not going back......I don¡¯t want to go back to the ce that hurt me.¡± Teresa¡¯s body suddenly shook before turning to Xu Yi and anxiously asking, ¡°Sir chairman, are you chasing me away?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°If you¡¯re willing, you can stay here for as long as you want.¡±

    Teresa gave a sigh of relief and her body rxed.

    She lowered her head to think for a bit before looking up at Xu Yi with a serious and determined look.

    ¡°Sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡±

    There was a rather steep curve in front, so Xu Yi focused on driving and didn¡¯t turn his head to look at her.

    But then he felt his right hand being grabbed by two soft hands before being raised and ced onto something soft.

    ¡°Zhi!¡±

    The sharp sound of the car braking could be heard from afar.

 Volume 5 143 - Taking control

    Volume 5 Chapter 143 Taking control

    ¡°Will the Sack Kingdom buy military magic machines from us?¡± Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that the Sack Kingdom contacted you in private?¡±

    ¡°No, this is only my spection.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Spection?¡± Kennard knitted his brows, ¡°First, let¡¯s not mention why you would specte this, even if the Sack Kingdom really made this request, could it be that you¡¯re really nning on selling them military magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The military magic machines produced by thepany can already satisfy the needs of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, in order to expand the market, we need to find new buyers, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°But.....The Sack Kingdom is the enemy of our Lampuri Kingdom, not to mention that they worked with Duke Wein to attack ourpany. Could it be that you don¡¯t care about this at all?¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi, feeling very strange.

    With his understanding of Xu Yi, he knew that Xu Yi was not someone who was greedy for money. He could put down the benefits that other merchants cared about.

    The Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom were enemies and because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always supported the Lampuri Kingdom, they shouldn¡¯t support the Sack Kingdom at all. Otherwise, this would clearly be having their foot on both sides.

    Moreover, the Sack Kingdom worked with Duke Wein to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was quite dangerous. If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to attack them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might have suffered a huge loss.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s personality, not directly attacking the Sack Kingdom was already showing enough restraint. How could he possibly take the initiative to sell military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom and strengthen the Sack Kingdom?

    Looking at Kennard who didn¡¯t hide his doubt, Xu Yi patted him on the shoulder and said, ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve made this decision after discussing with her majesty Sevenist time, we¡¯ve received the support and approval of the Lampuri Kingdom. You don¡¯t need to worry that the Lampuri Kingdom will me ourpany for this.¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    Kennard was even more doubtful.

    Her majesty Seveni actually supported the idea of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce selling military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom?

    Her majesty.....what was she thinking?

    ¡°Don¡¯t think too much, you just need to take care of it like normal.¡± Xu Yi then said, ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, the Sack Kingdom should be sending someone to contact us soon and raise the request for military magic machines. Because I have to go out over the next few days, you¡¯ll be in charge of this matter. You just need to pay attention to a few things.¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi was talking about business, Kennard¡¯s eyes became serious.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please.¡±

    ¡°First, you can sell military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, but we can¡¯t just sell any kind of military magic machines to them.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Kennard nodded in agreement, ¡°Even for the Lampuri Kingdom, we haven¡¯t sold them the newest developed military magic machines. Of course the Sack Kingdom side will be even more limited.¡±

    ¡°Un, as for what you sell them, you can just listen to the arrangement of chief Evita.¡±

    ¡°Chief Evita?¡± Kennard was once again confused.

    Although chief Evita was the chief of the magic research facility, managing all the magic machines of thepany, she wasn¡¯t really that involved when it came to the military magic machines. Moreover, she rarely participated in the decisions of thepany, so why did sir chairman give her this responsibility?

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin, so Kennard naturally couldn¡¯t ask.

    ¡°Second, you shouldn¡¯t sell too many military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom the first time. The limit should be less than one million gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this too little?¡± Kennard couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°A million gold coins can¡¯t buy that many military magic machines, it might not even be enough to arm a full regiment. The Sack Kingdom won¡¯t agree.¡±

    ¡°That is not up to them. It¡¯s already good that we¡¯re willing to sell to them, do they have the right to choose? They can buy it if they want and it doesn¡¯t matter if they don¡¯t.¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°In short, just follow this figure in your discussion with them, but also consult chief Evita on this.¡±

    Kennard couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Sir chairman¡¯s words really were dominating.

    But the military magic machines could only be made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so even if sir chairman is a bit domineering, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s side could only ept this.

    ¡°Third, only sell products and not technology. If the Sack Kingdom makes a request for the military magic machines technology, firmly reject them and do not give them any room for discussion.¡±

    Kennard looked at Xu Yi in a confused manner, thinking that wasn¡¯t this normal?

    Not to mention the Sack Kingdom, even if it was the Lampuri Kingdom that they were closest with, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only give them the most simple military magic machine technology while strictly restricting the other technology. How could they give it to the Sack Kingdom?

    This time Xu Yi actually gave an exnation and the exnation he gave shocked Kennard.

    ¡°Don¡¯t feel surprised that I made this request because after some time, there will be the possibility that we will discuss the problem of technology with them.¡±

    ###

    After he finished talking to Kennard, Xu Yi left the CEO¡¯s office

    When he came to the door of the chief¡¯s privateb, it was like history repeating itself as the door suddenly opened and Teresa came out.

    The two saw each other and were both surprised.

    After a while, Teresa¡¯s face waspletely covered in a blush that even spread to her neck.

    Xu Yi¡¯s face was a bit red as he looked awkward. His right hand at his waist couldn¡¯t help twitching as if he was thinking of the softness from the day before.

    What Xu Yi was surprised about was that although Teresa¡¯s blush spread even to her neck, she didn¡¯t run away. She forced herself to look up and even if she couldn¡¯t help trembling slightly, she looked right at Xu Yi without averting her gaze.

    Looking at each other like this, Teresa pursed her red lips before saying in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, have you.....considered it?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, not knowing how to respond.

    Teresa had already asked this the night before and he couldn¡¯t answer then, now that two days had passed, he still hadn¡¯t found an answer.

    Actually, if he was a normal man, with how beautiful Teresa was and how delicate she was, there would be a feeling of wanting to protect this girl that woulde over him and he would have agreed already.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t like this.

    With his understanding of Teresa, he thought more than Teresa.

    After a bit of silence, Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Sorry, Teresa, I still haven¡¯t thought it through yet.¡±

    Teresa¡¯s expression wasn¡¯t disappointed as expected, she just gave a nod and said in a low voice, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I will wait for you.¡±

    She still gave Xu Yi a sweet smile after saying this and then she went past him.

    Watching as she disappeared, Xu Yi gave a bitterugh before heading into theb.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve always felt......that you didn¡¯t need to deal with all this trouble.¡± Evita saw that Xu Yi came in and after hesitating a bit, she said, ¡°As long as you kept blocking the Sack Kingdom and not sell them any military magic machines, I don¡¯t think it¡¯ll take long before the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s power will surpass theirs and they will take out the Sack Kingdom. Why do you need to do all this?¡±

    ¡°Things aren¡¯t as simple as you think.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Do you know that I¡¯ve already received the information from the Lampuri Kingdom side? It had shown that the Lampuri Kingdom had smuggled the military magic machines and they sent it to the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°At least smuggling a few things isn¡¯t too serious, right?¡± Evita said, ¡°To assemble an army in the Sack Kingdom, it¡¯s not realistic to rely just on smuggling.¡±

    ¡°Of course you can¡¯t with just smuggled goods, but to have the Sack Kingdom develop military magic machines and produce them themselves isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    Evita was stunned, ¡°You mean......Letting the Sack Kingdom study ourpany¡¯s military magic machines and have them try to master the rted military magic machine technology from that?¡±

    ¡°Right, there¡¯s a word for it, it¡¯s called reverse engineering.¡± Xu Yi thought of some funny things and couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°Evita, you should know that ourpany¡¯s military magic machines doesn¡¯t have that much high grade technology, so it¡¯s easy to decipher them. So even if we don¡¯t sell it to them, I believe that the Sack Kingdom side will be able to develop them themselves.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think so.¡± Evita shook her head, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s low end military magic machines are simple, but even if they learn the technology behind it, it is hard for them to produce something that is the same. Because not only do they need high quality steel and other materials, they also need fine and precise control. Like you often say, this needs aplete magic machine industry to support it. The Sack Kingdom don¡¯t even know how to make a screw bolt, so how can they make military magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Your words are reasonable, but if the Sack Kingdom don¡¯t care about the cost of their research, even if they can¡¯t make the exact same military magic machines, they should still be able to make it even if the quality is a bit worse. As for the screw bolt that you mentioned......In the household magic machine contract that ourpany signed with the Sack Kingdom, it will be changed a bit and soon they¡¯ll be able to have some foundational technology.¡±

    Evita slightly knit her brows, ¡°Sir chairman, you should have already expected this, so why did you do this?¡±

    ¡°Because I did it on purpose.¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°With the Sack Kingdom doing their own secret research, I might as well help them. That will make it easier for them to ept my control, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Evita looked at Xu Yi and suddenly said, ¡°Sir chairman, are you also including Teresa?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned. He felt that it wouldn¡¯t be good no matter what he said, so he revealed an awkward smile and turned away.

 Volume 5 144 - Maintenance issues

    Volume 5 Chapter 144 Maintenance issues

    The waves sshed and the Jasmine guard ship that was hit only swayed slightly.

    Leslie stood firmly on the deck, not moving at all.

    He was already no longer the same rookie who hadn¡¯t been on a ship for long. After being on the sea for two years, he had fully adapted to life on the sea and he even deeply loved this life.

    If he were to return to Anvilmar City now, thedies who had screamed because of him wouldn¡¯t even be able to recognize him.

    Of course, they would still scream before because he was more or less the sessor of the Stagg Family.

    But now that the Stagg Family had disappeared into the histories of the Lampuri Kingdom, he had lost the most dazzling halo as the sessor.

    But Leslie didn¡¯t think that this was a pity at all. He was already sick of his previous life as a young master and now that he was living on the sea, he found stimtion that he never thought of before and made him more and more unwilling to leave this life.

    ¡°Sir, we¡¯ve received a message from sir chairman!¡±

    The vice captain on the ship suddenly came over with a rather ugly pitch ck second generation Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Oh? That means they¡¯re not far from here.¡± Leslie took the Magic Communicator and loudly said, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, where are you now?¡±

    Xu YI¡¯s crispugh came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°I say, Leslie, what is this nonsense? The magic signal tower on your ship only has a range of four kilometers, where do you think I could be?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m asking for your concrete location, do you want us toe pick you up?¡±

    ¡°I should be to your northeast. There¡¯s no need to pick me up, just go to Yara Harbour and we¡¯ll meet up there.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Leslie turned to give his order to the vice captain, ¡°Send the orders down, we¡¯re heading off to Yara Harbour.¡±

    The vice captain responded before leaving.

    After a while, seeing that the guard ships around him were setting off in the direction of Yara Harbour, Leslie said into the Magic Communicator in an emotional voice, ¡°Xu Yi, I have to say that your portable magic signal tower really is easy to use. With this thing, it¡¯s much easier givingmands and there¡¯s no need to leave it up to fate if one moves a bit too far.¡±

    ¡°This thing isn¡¯t as useful as you think. Its effective range is only less than four kilometers and you can¡¯t connect anymore after four kilometers. But after the test on your Jasmine ship is a sess, I will install magic signal towers on all the guard ships. That way, when you¡¯re doing training, you can have the ships spread out and in theory, those twenty ships will be able to cover a range of one hundred kilometers.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? That really would be great. On these endless seas, what is the worst is themunication problem. It¡¯s fine near the ind bases that we¡¯ve established, but if we go further, there really is no other way.¡± Leslie paused before suddenly asking, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, have you ever considered this before? If you can put thismunicationwork over these seas, it would be much easier for us to control these seas.¡±

    Xu Yi on the other side gave a softugh, ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve already prepared for this.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡±

    The ship traveled on the seas at high speeds and it didn¡¯t take long for them to see a long line that wasnd.

    At this time, in the air to the left, there were two ¡°clouds¡± that were quickly moving over. Soon they had stopped over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    Leslie took a look before turning on the Magic Communicator in his hand again.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you¡¯re not nning oning down?¡±

    ¡°No need, it¡¯s fine to keep flying.¡±

    Leslie looked at the two Magic Airships flying in the air and his lips revealed a strange smile.

    ¡°Hey, is this a show of strength?¡±

    In the Magic Airships above, Xu Yi turned off the Magic Communicator in his hand. He looked at Akali who was beside him focused on recording something and when she stopped, he asked, ¡°What is the situation?¡±

    Akali rubbed her sore hand and slightly knit her brows, ¡°The magic signal isn¡¯t too stable, there are fluctuations in the connection.¡±

    ¡°Un, I just noticed it. Then why is there such a problem?¡±

    Akali knitted her brows in thought for a bit before stretching her hands and giving a sigh, ¡°I can¡¯t draw a detailed conclusion right now, but ording to spection based on the past, it should be some magic source sending out powerful magic waves that are influencing the magic waves thate from the magic signal tower and the Magic Communicator. It could also be because the guard ships move so fast that the environment changes, so the magic signal can¡¯t remain stable.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s possible, but if we¡¯re talking about influence from climate change, thend¡¯s environment is much moreplicated than the sea. Since you can make this work onnd, then I believe you should have no problems on the sea.¡±

    Akali raised her head and flipped her short hair as she said with a proud look, ¡°Of course, don¡¯t you know who I am?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and turned to enter the cockpit.

    This time the Magic Airship wasn¡¯t piloted by Evita because she was in the main base preparing to sell the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom. She had sent her group who was responsible for researching the Magic Airships.

    Xu Yi asked about the new Magic Airship that was behind them and after confirming that nothing was wrong, he went back to the cabin and patiently waited.

    Although there wasnd represented by the dark line ahead of them, it was actually very far away still. The two Magic Airships in the air and the ten guard ships that came out this time traveled at a speed of forty kilometers and hour, but they still spent half an hour before they reachednd.

    Seeing the Candra Empire¡¯s g and the Candra Empire¡¯s ship in the distant Yara Harbour, Xu Yi ordered the two Magic Ships to prepare tond.

    When the ten guard ships came close to Yara Harbour, the two Magic Airships slowly descended on the open area near Yara Harbour.

    The cabin door opened and when Xu Yi came out, he met Russell leading a group over.

    Although the smiles on their faces were considered warm, when one looked carefully, one could see that in Russell¡¯s narrowed eyes, the look he had waspletely different from his expression.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, wee.¡± Russell came over to greet Xu Yi. Although his tone wasn¡¯t cold, it clearly wasn¡¯t warm either.

    Xu Yi naturally knew why Russell acted like this, so he didn¡¯t mind at all. Rather he took the initiative to warmly take Russell¡¯s hand as he said with augh, ¡°Sir Russell, being able to meet you in the Candra Empire really makes me happy.¡±

    Russell¡¯s slightly forced smile became a bit stiff. He let go of Xu Yi¡¯s hand and made an inviting gesture.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, pleasee in and sit.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi went into Yara Harbour with a smile on his face as he walked alongside Russell. He looked around before pointing at the white guard ship that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made with the Candra Empire¡¯s g and asked, ¡°Sir Russell, after this guard ship has been in your country¡¯s navy for some time, are you satisfied with it?¡±

    Hearing this question, Russell and the two officers that followed him all had their expressions change.

    Russell took a deep look at Xu Yi before slowly giving a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, is this on purpose?¡±

    ¡°Purpose? What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    Russell gave a strong snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, you clearly know that this time we asked you here to discuss the maintenance issue of the guard ship and now you¡¯re asking this kind of question, are you deliberately using us?¡±

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had signed the agreement with the Candra Empire, selling them three guard ships, these three guard ships would take up to next year at the earliest.

    However, Russell wanted to prove to the headquarters that buying these guard ships was the right choice, so after discussing it with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they first took one of the guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet to use, which was this ship.

    After this guard ship entered the Candra Empire navy, it was good for the first few months, but they were unable to start it sincest month.

    The Candra Empire couldn¡¯t solve this problem, so they could only ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for help.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent people to solve it, not long after, the same problem urred.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent a Magic Ship engineer to check the ship. He had told the Candra Empire without any courtesy that because they didn¡¯t maintain it properly, it caused this guard ship to have problems.

    The Candra Empire was helpless in this and after discussing it, they could only invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to solve the maintenance problem. That way they could avoid the same problem when the next two guard ships came.

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°No, no, I didn¡¯t mean that. Sir Russell, I was just asking about when you were using the guard ship, whether you were satisfied with its abilities or not. Is there any part of it that you think doesn¡¯t work well? This is a very normal post sale question, you shouldn¡¯t misunderstand.¡±

    Hearing this exnation, the expressions of Russell and the two officers behind him rxed. Russell turned to point at a young officer who wasn¡¯t forty yet and said, ¡°This is lieutenant colonel Noon who has been in charge of this Morning Light ship this time. Lieutenant colonel Noon, why don¡¯t you tell chairman Xu about your experience with the Morning Light during this time.¡±

 Volume 5 145 - Black hearted Xu Yi

    Volume 5 Chapter 145 ck hearted Xu Yi

    Lieutenant colonel Noon gave a nod. He looked at the guard ship in the distance with the Candra Empire g on it and he gave a sigh before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, I must admit that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships are just too.....easy to use. In the time Imanded it on the seas, I don¡¯t know how many times better it ispared to the old wooden ships from before......¡±

    Hearing lieutenant colonel Noon talking about the merits of the guard ship, Russell and the people beside him couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows.

    Seeing that lieutenant colonel Noon wasn¡¯t about to stop, Russell suddenly gave a strong cough.

    ¡°......We easily caught up with those pirates and easily......¡±

    Lieutenant colonel Noon¡¯s voice suddenly stopped and he turned to look at Russell, instantly understanding something. He quickly gave a cough before saying to Xu Yi with an awkward smile, ¡°Of course, chairman Xu, there are also ws to the guard ships.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Please exin.¡±

    ¡°Eh......¡± Lieutenant colonel Noon hesitated a bit before awkwardly saying, ¡°This guard ship¡¯s other parts are good, but there is a serious problem which is that it has arge consumption. Look, you need to use at least tworge Magic Crystals to travel a hundred kilometers on the sea. Like this, we need to load up arge warehouse with Magic Crystals. Then there¡¯s limited space to store these Magic Crystals on the guard ship, so it¡¯s not good for long distance journeys. You have to know that we could go as far as we wanted on those old wooden boats.¡±

    ¡°Before you could go that far, the ship would break apart first.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes inwardly, but he still had a smile on his face. He said with a nod, ¡°Un, that is indeed a problem, but lieutenant colonel Noon, I think.....that you should have purchased normal Magic Crystals from the market as a power source, right?¡±

    Lieutenant colonel Noon was surprised, ¡°What is the problem with that? Moreover, we¡¯re not buying low grade Magic Crystals, we are only buying the highest quality Magic Crystals. Because of this, we spent over two hundred gold coins on the Morning Light justst month alone.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi turned to Russell with a smile, ¡°Sir Russell, I remember that when you took the ship, we also passed you an instruction manual for it. If I remember correctly, it should have been written clearly. The best power source for this guard ship are the high concentration Magic Crystals that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes and it would be best not to use themon Magic Crystals on the market.¡±

    Noon looked at Russell in surprise.

    Sir Russell had never mentioned this matter to him, he hadn¡¯t even seen a trace of this instruction manual the entire time.

    Russell¡¯s expression changed and he said in a deep voice, ¡°There is indeed an instruction manual, but this was handed over to the headquarters to study, so it wasn¡¯t passed to you.¡±

    Turning to Xu Yi, he said with a soft snort, ¡°The reason for this is because now that the guard ship is in our hands, it should adapt to our situation here. It can¡¯t just keep following what your Frestech Chamber of Commerce say.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    This Russell, he seemed like he epted new stuff on the surface, not hesitating to convince the navy headquarters to buy three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he was still a conservative fellow deep down.

    What hoping that it would adapt to the situation of the Candra Empire? He clearly didn¡¯t want these three guard ships to be influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it could bepletely controlled by the Candra Empire.

    But it was a pity that while his ideas were good, there was a big mistake,

    The guard ships of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t like those wooden ships. Compared to the traditions of the Sines Continent, these things were considered highly advanced products.

    If the Candra Empire wanted to treat them like a normal ship, that was only asking for trouble.

    Look at the reason why they called him here. Wasn¡¯t it because they couldn¡¯t use the guard ships and had no choice but to request his help?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s face turned a bit cold as he said with a serious look, ¡°Sir Russell, I must seriously tell you that this guard ship has a high level of technology, far surpassing even the highest end product that you and the navy knows about. It¡¯s definitely not as simple as you think. There are many things where if you follow our instructions, it will help you. But if you choose to ignore this.....then I can only say that¡¯s the consequences of your pride.¡±

    The expressions of Russell and the Candra Empire¡¯s officers changed.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were openly ridiculing and threatening them.

    But now that they weren¡¯t able to use the guard ships, they couldn¡¯t refute this at all.

    Moreover, the guard ships had shown a powerful disy in the first few months and it had already convinced everyone in the Candra Empire navy. They deeply believed that these brand new iron guard ships would rece the wooden ships.

    Even if they were unhappy towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they still invited them here for a consultation and to try to deepen their cooperation.

    Russell was silent for a bit before taking a breath and calming his expression, making an inviting hand gesture to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, let¡¯s sit over there and discuss this. Please.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and as he had expected, they epted reality in the end.

    They came to the militarypound near the harbour and there was a spacious area there, which seemed to be an operations conference room.

    Russell as the master introduced Xu Yi to the various people here before they entered the main topic.

    The main reason the Candra Empire invited Xu Yi here was of course to make this guard ship operate like normal, as well as guaranteeing that the Candra Empire navy could use it as smoothly as possible.

    To put it bluntly, the guard ship was an experiment for them. The navy wanted to grasp how to use this new kind of ship as soon as possible, so they could rece their current ships with this new ship.

    So the focus of the discussion was how to maintain the guard ships in the future.

    The Candra Empire naturally wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to share their technology, so they could maintain the ships even without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course Xu Yi directly told them that this was impossible.

    The reason for being this direct was not because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t willing, rather the Candra Empire navy didn¡¯t meet the requirements to make this request.

    Speaking of maintaining the ships, the main problem was that they had to rece the damagedponents.

    But all theponents came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not to mention the Candra Empire, even the Lampuri Kingdom with the deepest magic machine industry wouldn¡¯t satisfy this condition.

    The parts could only be made from the special steel made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and only they had the techniques needed to make theseponents, even the corresponding production magic machines were things only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    To put it simply, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t anotherpany or organization that could solve this problem.

    So even if Xu Yi was willing to give all this to the Candra Empire, they still wouldn¡¯t be able to do it.

    Although the Candra Empire navy wasn¡¯t convinced, they had to ept this fact. So after intense discussion between both sides, the Candra Empire had to ept the solution the Frestech Chamber of Commerce put forth. It was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would maintain these guard ships for the Candra Empire, keeping them in normal operating condition.

    The Candra Empire navy just had to pay the maintenance fee that wasn¡¯t cheap to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The daily maintenance was cheap, but the equipment recement was terrifying.

    For example, the guard ship that had stopped operating. ording to the engineer the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent before, because the Candra Empire navy didn¡¯t maintain this ship ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s instruction manual and exceeding the output limit, it caused the Magic Array that provided the power to be damaged and it was unable to operate.

    The Magic Array was the core of the guard ship, it was very serious if there was a problem with it.

    ording to the estimates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, to fix it, they might have to pull it all the way back to the shipyard in the Stantine Duchy to fix it.

    Because the Candar Empire didn¡¯t have the right environment to fix it at all.

    Like this, with the cost of the materials andbour, it wouldn¡¯t be cheap.

    Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give the Candra Empire navy a high maintenance price of seventy thousand gold coins.

    Although the Candra Empire navy¡¯s side was very unhappy with this price, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t relent at all, so they could only ept it in the end.

    In the end, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose not to fix it, they couldn¡¯t use it.

    Seeing Russell and the other Candra Empire officers looking like they wanted to eat him alive, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit proud.

    When he agreed to sell the guard ships for five hundred thousand gold coins per ship, many of the high ranking members had objected to this since the pricing was too poor. Even if there were other conditions, they were still losing too much.

    But Xu Yi insisted on agreeing because he had already nned for this day toe.

    As long as the Candra Empire navy had the guard ships, they would find that they were iparably better than the wooden ships and would continue using them.

    As long as they used them, they would be forced to ept any maintenance conditions the Frestech Chamber of Commerce put forth.

    Whether it was Candra Empire¡¯s navy or the fellows in thepany, they wouldn¡¯t know thatpared to the price of selling something once, maintaining it afterwards was where the money was.

    This kind of method was something the advanced western nations on earth were very familiar with, there were many ces that were much smaller in China that had even suffered from this.

    Now that he was on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t mind using this model.

 Volume 5 146 - Lavender Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 146 Lavender Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    In the discussion between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire navy, it wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fulfilling the requests of the Candra Empire navy.

    In their discussion, maintaining the guard ship was only the most basic problem. What the two really needed to discuss was the request the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made to the Candra Empire navy.

    ording to the contract they signed, the Candra Empire would buy three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at five hundred thousand gold coins per ship. They would use other conditions to repay the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, otherwise how could the missing one and a half million per ship be easily filled.

    Leaving their subordinates to discuss the maintenance issue, Russell led Xu Yi to another room on the militarypound.

    In this ce, there was a slightly fat man with a friendly smile on his face waiting for Xu Yi. There was a sharp look in his eyes, it was clear that this middle aged man was more a merchant than a soldier.

    In fact, he was indeed a merchant.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the Lavender Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Robert Zenny.¡±

    The middle aged man revealed a warm smile and reached his hand out to Xu Yi, as he said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is our first time meeting, you have to take care of me in the future.¡±

    ¡°How so, how so, we¡¯ll all be working together in the future, there¡¯s no taking care of each other.¡±

    Xu Yi gave these courteous words while seriously looking over Robert Zenny.

    This Lavender Chamber of Commerce had some fame in the Candra Empire. Xu Yi had investigated the first sspanies in the Candra Empire he needed to pay attention to and this included the Lavender Chamber of Commerce.

    He never thought that the Candra Empire¡¯s navy would be behind the Lavender Chamber of Commerce.

    But this wasn¡¯t anything strange.

    To be a first sspany that could stand firm in the Candra Empire, they had to have something supporting them.

    The Lavender Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t be the strongestpany in the Candra Empire and to Xu Yi, it was because they were implicated by the Candra Empire navy.

    At least to Xu Yi, those fellows of the Candra Empire navy didn¡¯t have any mind for business at all.

    Or perhaps the people of the navy could make money, but it was far from being able to improve the poverty of the navy.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I have actually been very interested in the magic machines of yourpany for a long time. Even without meeting today, I would have found chairman Xu for a cooperation. Now with sir Russell¡¯s rmendation, it¡¯s be much easier.¡±

    Seeing chairman Zenny¡¯s friendly smile, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a warm response. After pausing for a second, he shook his head and said without any courtesy, ¡°Chairman Zenny, if you are here to discuss a cooperation in terms of magic machines, I can only say sorry.¡±

    Chairman Zenny and Russell were both surprised. They looked at each other before Russell asked with knitted brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and pointed out the room, ¡°Sir Russell, chairman Zenny, you are from the Candra Empire and are the strongest aquatic force on the Sines Continent, you aren¡¯t thinking of the endless seas and you want to cooperate with ourpany in terms of magic machines, don¡¯t you think you¡¯re being too stingy?¡±

    Chairman Zenny and Russell looked at each other with doubt.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, doesn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce focus their business on magic machines? If we do not cooperate with you in terms of magic machines, how are we to cooperate?¡± Russell asked with knitted brows.

    ¡°No, no, no, you¡¯ve made a mistake. I do want to cooperate in terms of magic machines because I want magic machines to spread all over the Candra Empire, so we can obtain thisrge market.¡±

    ¡°That was what we were thinking. Chairman Xu, why are you denying this?¡± Chairman Zenny asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°My meaning is that we don¡¯t need to only limit ourselves to selling ourpany¡¯s products in the Candra Empire, right? ording to what I know, the main business of the Lavender Chamber of Commerce is sea products, isn¡¯t that right, chairman Zenny?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Chairman Zenny was a bit surprised.

    He thought that this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time learning of his Lavender Chamber of Commerce, but he never thought that Xu Yi would expose them for selling sea products. It could be seen that he already had some understanding of the Lavender Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Yes, with the support of the royal fleet, if we didn¡¯t understand how to use the resources of the sea, we would be too stupid.¡± Chairman Zenny replied with a smile.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. But chairman Zenny, from what I can see, you aren¡¯t using it enough. There are endless resources on the sea and yourpany is currently using less than ten thousandth of it.¡±

    Chairman Zenny knitted his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean in the end?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and took out a map, spreading it on the table.

    Russell and chairman Zenny looked over and found that it was a map of the Sines Continent¡¯s southern seas.

    After carefully looking at it, there was a look of surprise on Russell¡¯s face.

    The royal fleet naturally had maps of the southern seas and it was much more detailed than the maps sold on the market.

    Butpared to the map that Xu Yi took out, the royal fleet¡¯s map simply couldn¡¯tpare at all.

    ¡°Chairman Zenny, your Lavender Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sea products are mainly fish, kelp, and coral, right?¡±

    Chairman Zenny was even more certain that Xu Yi had investigated his Lavender Chamber of Commerce before, or he wouldn¡¯t know this much.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what opinion does chairman Xu have?¡±

    ¡°He, chairman Zenn, haven¡¯t you noticed that for the products yourpany specializes in, they are mainly based around the shore?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi draw an arc on the map not far from the shore, chairman Zenny was confused as he said, ¡°What problem is that? With the current ability of fishermen, they can only get fish from ces not far from the coast. We don¡¯t have a way for them to enter the deep seas. The seas are very dangerous, how could the fishermen risk their lives......¡±

    Chairman Zenny suddenly understood and looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    He suddenly remembered that this chairman Xu was from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Didn¡¯t they just invent the powerful steel ships that could enter several hundred kilometers into the sea?

    Normal fishermen didn¡¯t have this ability because their fishing boats didn¡¯t have the best sailing ability, so they could only fish near the shore.

    Even for therge wooden boats of the Candra Empire, they weren¡¯t able to enter the deep seas.

    So even if countless people knew about the enticing resources in the depths of the seas, because of their limited abilities, they could only watch without doing a thing.

    Now that the powerful steel ships made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily enter the seas, didn¡¯t that mean that the resources they had drooled over were finally in reach?

    Thinking of this, chairman Zenny¡¯s breathing became faster and he looked at Xu Yi with sparkling eyes.

    Seeing his reaction, Xu Yi knew that he understood what he meant. He pointed at the seas on the map with a smile and said to chairman Zenny, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only makes guard ships andrge transport ships, we also make fishing Magic Ships for fishing in the deep seas. Chairman Zenny, are you interested in these things?¡±

    ###

    Five dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce delegate led by Xu Yi ended their discussions in the Candra Empire.

    ording to the results, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had full rights in providing maintenance to the Candra Empire¡¯s guard ships, guaranteeing that they could freely use their ships.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire navy took the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a partner, designating their guard fleet as an ally fleet. They gave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet the right to freely move through the Candra Empire¡¯s seas. They also opened up three harbours in the south which they could freely use.

    Other than this, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy had also signed an agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop the southern seas. First they would set up magic signal towers on many inds in the south seas over the next two years, creating a magicmunicationwork, striving to cover the entire southern seas.

    In response to this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give the Candra Empire navy five hundred Magic Communicators, which the Candra Empire navy could use to freely call in a five kilometer range.

    This was the published results, but in secret, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also reached another agreement with the Candra Empire navy. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to develop six mines in two small countries under the Candra Empire in the southeast.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t profit from these mines, but the ores from these mines would be sold to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at market price.

    Other than this, the Candra Empire navy would secretly help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce open sales channels in the Candra Empire. The first step was to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce an externalpany approval in the Candra Empire.

    This approval was the Candra Empire¡¯s approval for other country¡¯spanies. Thepanies that obtained this approval were well knownpanies on the continent.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could receive this, not only would it bring fame to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Candra Epirel, they would be able to open a channel through the Candra Empire which had a great significance.

    Other than the contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed with the Candra Empire navy, the other important thing was the contract they signed with the Lavender Chamber of Commerce.

    Chairman Zenny was very interested in the deep sea fishing ships that Xu Yi had mentioned. He didn¡¯t care that they were still in development and hadn¡¯t been made it, he already said that he hoped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could sell five of them to him.

    Xu Yi naturally agreed.

    Other than this, Xu Yi had promised chairman Zenny that he could use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet for information on resources in the southern seas, helping him fish in the future.

    There was no need to wait for them, they agreed to start in just a month.

    As for the other aspects, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would lend theirrge transport ships with refrigerators to transport the fish products of the Candra Empire to other ces. This was equal to opening more markets of the Lavender Chamber of Commerce.

    The Lavender Chamber of Commerce would share their Candra Empire sale channels with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although sea products and magic machines had nothing inmon, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed a channel to bring magic machines into the Candra Empire. As for how they sold, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried at all.

    Both the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Lavender Chamber of Commerce greatly benefited this time. Even if the maintenance fee of the guard ships were high and it felt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce trapped the Candra Empire navy, they were still satisfied because of the benefits of opening the mines with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When they left, they were naturally happy.

    But when he was saying goodbye to Xu Yi, Russell couldn¡¯t help pulling Xu Yi in and secretly asking something.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your Magic Airships......When will you be selling them? What is the price you¡¯re nning on setting?¡±

    Seeing the expectant look on Russell¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a heartfelt smile.

    He thought that he wasn¡¯t interested since he didn¡¯t ask this question in the past few days, but it seems like he was forcing himself not to ask.

    ¡°This......We will be selling them, but as for when we sell them, the earliest we can start is next year. As for the price......I¡¯m not clear on it right now.....¡±

    Xu Yi answered Russell while secretlyughing.

    This Russell could be considered a big fish he lured in with the guard ship and now that he was taking the initiative to hook himself on the Magic Airship, it really made one feel emotional.

    Sir Russell, why are you so cooperative?

 Volume 5 147 - Status problem

    Volume 5 Chapter 147 Status problem

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet and the two Magic Airships Xu Yi was on left Yara Harbour, but they didn¡¯t follow the same way back, rather they went south.

    The guard fleet went at their max speed and the Magic Airships followed in the air, maintaining a speed of forty kilometers an hour. Since setting off from Yara Harbour in the morning, they kept going until evening and had gone four hundred kilometers into the endless seas.

    Xu Yi poked his head out the cabin and looked at the sea below. He found that it was clearly different from near the shore, he could even see a vague trace of the seabed underneath the sea. He looked up again and looked at the small inds on the sea in the distance.

    ¡°Hey, Leslie, how did you guys find this ce?¡± Xu Yi turned to ask Leslie.

    ¡°Mostly by ident, a bit intentional.¡± Leslie pointed at the sea, ¡°Didn¡¯t you look at the sea just now? You can clearly see that there is only a small difference between this ce and the shore, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, this ce means that there is a continental shelf here, which means that there is arge piece ofnd nearby.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what the continental shelf is, but the sailors know what this phenomenon means. We explored the south seas as per your instructions and found that the sea here was a bit strange, so we explored it and identally found this ce.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi turned back to look at the ships in front, but he couldn¡¯t find anything strange with the sea at all, ¡°How far is this ce from that ce?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still at least two hundred kilometers. I don¡¯t think that we can get there by today, unless you want us to travel through the night.¡±

    ¡°Even if you¡¯re not afraid of being tired, I am.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes at Leslie. He looked around and pointed at a small ind in front, ¡°If that ce is satisfactory, we can consider setting up a foothold there.¡±

    Leslie looked at the two inds and shook his head, ¡°Those two inds are too small, people can¡¯t live there, so it won¡¯t work. With my experience, with how small those two inds are, they could be swallowed by the waves at any time, so people can¡¯t stay there.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not saying that people will live there, we¡¯ll just leave a magic signal tower there.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°To put it simply, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce shouldy down magic signal towers where we are developing, maintaining the magicmunicationwork.¡±

    Leslie knitted his brows, ¡°Do you need to do this? We¡¯re already quite familiar with this area, so even without this thing, there shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°But you still don¡¯t dare sail in the night, right?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s question made Leslie speechless.

    ¡°With the magic signal tower and having the magicmunicationwork, it guarantees that we can even smoothly sail in the night and will allow us to control the regions. Think about it, we can understand the situation here no matter what the time is, don¡¯t you feel more confident?¡±

    ¡°It would be good if we could do this, but can we do this?¡± Leslie had a doubtful look, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve never understood it, why are you investing this much in the magicmunicationwork? Is this thing really that powerful?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at Leslie¡¯s waist, ¡°If nothing else, you¡¯ll be able to talk to your miss Whitney, don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s powerful?¡±

    Leslie¡¯s face that had already turned dark from being on the sea had a blush on it. He gave a cough and awkwardly said, ¡°Your idea isn¡¯t realistic. Didn¡¯t you say that the range of each magic signal tower is only five kilometers? But there¡¯s no inds within five kilometers of this ind. Even if you built a magic signal tower here, the magic signal wouldn¡¯t reach.¡±

    ¡°Who told you that a magic signal tower couldn¡¯t be built here?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes at him, like he was saying you didn¡¯t understand anything.

    ¡°Then tell me, how will you solve this problem?¡± Leslie asked back.

    ¡°This......There¡¯s no way now, but there are many tentative solutions to this problem in my mind, so it¡¯s not a problem.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand as he said this in a confident voice.

    Leslie rolled his eyes, ¡°Just say that you don¡¯t have a way yet, you made me waste all this time talking to you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and patted Leslie¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, since you feel that it is a waste of time, let¡¯s change the topic. When are you nning on getting married to miss Whitney?¡±

    This miss Whitney was a young girl who Leslie had saved when he had defeated pirates that had been attacking a boat on the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas.

    She was from a small noble family in a small city in a middle province of the Candra Empire, having a beautiful face and gentle disposition. Although she was quite good, she wasn¡¯t considered outstanding among noble young misses.

    But without knowing why, after Leslie spent some time with her, this fellow who hadn¡¯t fallen for anyone after being with the noble young misses of the Lampuri Kingdom for ten years had fallen for this miss Whitney.

    This miss Whitney was also attracted to Leslie, so the two of them could be considered lovers.

    But when asked about when he would marry miss Whitney, Leslie knitted his brows.

    He and miss Whitney loved each other, but there were many hindrances standing in their way.

    The biggest hindrance was the problem of his status.

    If it was Leslie from a few years ago, then with his identity as the sessor of the Stagg Family which was thergest noble family in the Lampuri Kingdom, he would be qualified to marry miss Whitney who was a girl from a small noble family of the Candra Empire. It could even be said that miss Whitney was moving up.

    But as time changed their circumstances, the Stagg Family had already be history in the Lampuri Kingdom. Leslie had even be someone who had an arrest warrant in the Lampuri Kingdom, so he couldn¡¯t even go back.

    To be honest, Leslie didn¡¯t have any official status.

    The only thing that he could mention was that he was themander of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    But even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was powerful, so much that even the Candra Empire navy feared them, they were only apany¡¯s guard fleet. They didn¡¯t have any status on the Sines Continent at all.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a first sspany of the continent. He as themander of the guard fleet didn¡¯t have any weight at all.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires, so the nobles had a sense of superiority over nobles of other countries, not to mention a fallen noble like Leslie who hade from a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So even if miss Whitney¡¯s heart was set on Leslie, her family strongly opposed this, even making it hard for them to meet. They could only depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s contacts in the Lampuri Kingdom tomunicate.

    In this situation, Xu Yi had asked Leslie about when he would marry miss Whitney, this was simply making it hard for Leslie.

    So Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze.

    He had known Xu Yi for this long, so of course he knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t make it hard for him. Since he had asked this question, he must have some other considerations.

    Xu Yi saw the expression on Leslie¡¯s face and knew that he understood his meaning. He gave augh and took Leslie by the shoulder as he lowered his voice, ¡°Leslie, have you ever thought of reviving your Stagg Family?¡±

    Leslie knitted his brows, ¡°Of course I have, but Xu Yi, you shouldn¡¯t be the one asking this question, right?¡±

    If one mentioned the Stagg Family¡¯s demise, it was because they participated in the civil war of the Lampuri Kingdom. They were defeated in the end and the one who caused their defeat was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led by Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supporting her highness Seveni, providing her withrge amounts of military magic machines and greatly increasing the strength of the guards under her, it would be hard to predict how the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation would havended.

    So if one really had to talk about it, Xu Yi could be considered the greatest enemy of the Stagg Family.

    Of course, Leslie didn¡¯t approve of the stance of the Stagg Family, so he had never med Xu Yi for his family¡¯s destruction since the beginning.

    But now that Xu Yi asked him if he wanted to revive the Stagg Family, it made Leslie feel very strange.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the details.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I¡¯m asking you, if I gave you the chance to control arge piece ofnd, developing arge family like the Stagg Family, would you be interested? You have to know, only by doing this can you obtain the approval of miss Whitney¡¯s family and let them truly ept you.¡±

    Leslie looked at Xu Yi in surprise for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°I say, Xu Yi, what is with you today? Just tell me if you have something to say, why are you beating around the bush like this?¡±

    ¡°Ke.....Because this matter is too important and affects you very much, so I have to understand your heart before asking you.¡±

    Leslie waved his hand in an annoyed manner, ¡°Stop wasting words, just tell me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi had a smile on his face before it became serious. He pointed at the sea in front of them and asked with a serious look, ¡°Leslie, if I were to let you open up overseas colonies for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would you be willing?¡±

 Volume 5 148 - Locals

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 148 Locals</strong>

    The guard fleet stopped on an ind that wasn¡¯t too big for a night and continued heading south the next morning.

    After around three hours, there was a ck line in the horizon that representednd.

    ¡°Leslie, this seems to be even bigger than what you mentioned in your letters.¡± Xu Yi looked at thend in the distance with the telescope in his hand and gave a gasp, ¡°Such arge piece ofnd, it simply can¡¯t be described as just an ind.¡±

    ¡°Actually, it is only an ind.¡± Leslie gave augh and drew a semicircle in the air, ¡°We explored the surroundings of this ind and found that there was only the small ind that we stopped at yesterday that was nearby. So while it does upy this part of the sea alone, it can still be considered an ind.¡±

    ¡°Then do you know how big it is specifically?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I can¡¯t give you an urate measure, but if I had to, let me think.....It should be around several dozen times bigger than Masur Ind.¡±

    ¡°Can that still be considered an ind?¡± Xu Yi looked right at Leslie.

    Masur Ind was the biggest ind the guard fleet had found on the southern seas, it was around twenty square kilometers.

    If this ind was several dozen times bigger, then didn¡¯t that mean that it was over a thousand square kilometers?

    Although this was considered an ind, an ind of this size had a very different meaning.

    Xu Yi took the telescope to look at the approaching ind again and gave a sigh, ¡°Leslie, I suddenly regret saying that I¡¯ll give this ind to you. Such a big ind, there must be very rich resources on it. I am simply giving you a gold mine.¡±

    Leslie rolled his eyes, ¡°This ce is being treated as a colony by you, so even if it is handed to me, doesn¡¯t it still belong to you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought that he really did have few talented people under him, he didn¡¯t have many who he could trust like Leslie.

    To learn from earth and create colonies overseas, there was no better choice than Leslie.

    After telling Leslie his idea of starting a colony, the report that Leslie sent before saying that he had found an ind that was incredibly big was already on Xu Yi¡¯s mind.

    When he saw Leslie again, Xu Yi had thought it through.

    It was hard enough to find such arge ind overseas, if he didn¡¯t seize the chance to control it while the other countries of the Sines Continent couldn¡¯t reach here yet, he would be wasting this natural gift.

    But with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength and theck of manpower, it was hard for them to assign people here.

    Since it was like this, he might as well hand it to Leslie and let him control it.

    Although the Stagg Family had been destroyed, the Stagg Family had been prospering in the Lampuri Kingdom for several hundred years. They had a very deep stash umted and it hadn¡¯tpletely vanished.

    It could be seen when Leslie asked to buy the Magic Ships before. Leslie might still have the hidden resources of the Stagg Family and Leslie had never hidden this from Xu Yi.

    So Xu Yi had always been thinking about what to do with Leslie.

    It was impossible for Leslie to stay as themander of the guard fleet, so having him be take care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s colonies overseas was very suitable for him.

    Leslie had many people from the Stagg Family that he could move and it would be hard for them to raise their heads if they stayed on the Sines Continent. If they came to this ind that was far from the Sines Continent to restart, it would be a very good choice for them.

    When Xu Yi had raised this arrangement to Leslie yesterday, although Leslie was a bit surprised, it only took him a bit of thinking to confirm that this was indeed the best choice for him.

    But everything was unknown right now. They didn¡¯t have much information on the ind, so it was too early to talk about this. Leslie only approved of Xu Yi¡¯s arrangements, but he didn¡¯t agree to them yet.

    Everything would have to be decided after they explored the ind.

    The guard fleet approached the ind at quick speeds. When they could see the coast of the ind, Xu Yi ordered one of the Magic Airships to start investigating the ind.

    ¡°Have you gone on the ind before?¡± Xu Yi asked Leslie.

    ¡°We have. We¡¯ve already found a natural harbour in this ce, we¡¯ll be able to dock thereter.¡± Leslie pointed to the right of the ind.

    ¡°Oh? There¡¯s actually a natural harbour? It seems like your luck is quite good.¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°This isn¡¯t just my luck, it¡¯s yours. But it isn¡¯t all luck. Do you know what we¡¯ve found after we went ashore?¡±

    Seeing Leslie¡¯s dark look, Xu Yi asked in a curious voice, ¡°What did you find?¡±

    ¡°There are locals on this ind and thenguage they use is simr to themonnguage of the Sines Continent. ording to my guesses, the locals on these inds should have wandered here from the Sines Continent, so they could be considered our old rtives.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that better? I was worried that we wouldn¡¯t be able tomunicate with the locals, but now that we¡¯ve solved thenguage problem, it should be much easier.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good if it was that simple.¡± Leslie said with a bitter smile, ¡°I don¡¯t know why, but the locals are very hostile towards us. They immediately shouted ¡°kill them¡± as soon as they saw us. We had just arrived and because you always said to handle things peacefully, we couldn¡¯t make a move and could only retreat.¡±

    ¡°This means that you failed with the preliminary exploration?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows to look at therge ind¡¯s shore that was approaching. After thinking about it, he waved his hand, ¡°No matter what, we¡¯ll go on the ind and take a look first.¡±

    ¡°Then if the locals want to kill us?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and said with augh, ¡°They can be hostile to us outsiders, but being hostile doesn¡¯t always make their lives better.....¡±

    Leslie looked at the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he said with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve found that you¡¯ve be more and more like a profiteer.¡±

    After twenty minutes, the fleetnded at the natural harbour that Leslie pointed out.

    This ce was near a cliff and there was a beach that wasn¡¯t too wide by the cliff. So although this was a natural harbour, there wasn¡¯t much space for the guard ships to anchor.

    Leslie had been here once, so he was familiar with this situation.

    Xu Yi watched as hemanded the fleet to stop by the coast and then sat in one of the Magic Speed Boats heading to the shore.

    While feeling the soft feeling of the sand underneath him, Xu Yi looked around himself.

    Although this was a natural harbour, the area was very limited and there wasn¡¯t much room for development.

    If they wanted to keep developing this ind, this natural harbour wasn¡¯t enough and they would have to find another harbour.

    But that was something to consider in the future, this ce could still be used for now.

    Xu Yi turned back to Leslie who was ordering the guards from the guard ship and knitted his brows as he shouted, ¡°Leslie, have them hide their weapons. At least put away the swords and bows that they have. We are here to do business, not to go to war.¡±

    Leslie was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you just now that the locals are very hostile towards us, shouldn¡¯t we be prepared at all?¡±

    ¡°Of course we should be prepared, but if you go over fully armed, even people who aren¡¯t hostile will be hostile. Listen to me, throw away the swords and bows for me, only bring some Magic Rockets and other military magic machines with us.¡±

    Leslie knitted his brows when he heard the first part of Xu Yi¡¯s words, but after he heard the final part, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Good Xu Yi, I thought that you wanted to work as an envoy of peace, but you¡¯re even more ruthless than me.¡±

    Leslie turned to give the order to the guards after saying this and following Xu Yi¡¯s orders, they only had a few military magic machines on them.

    These things didn¡¯t look like normal swords and bows, so the locals of the ind wouldn¡¯t be able to recognize them and would be less on their guard.

    Other than having the guards put away these weapons, Xu Yi ordered everyone to bring some goods from the ship and set up on the beach.

    Following Leslie¡¯s information, their group walked around three kilometers to the southeast before they saw a small vige that had around twenty houses.

    Seeing thisrge group approaching, the vigers were clearly shocked and gathered up, looking at their group with vignce.

    Xu Yi looked over the vigers and found that they were wearing very tattered clothes, with several people just wearing patched up clothing.

    Looking at their dark and thin faces, Xu Yi immediately understood.

    It seems like the living conditions were quite normal. Not to mention the people of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy who lived much better lives under the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were worse off than the citizens of Banta City before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi revealed a warm smile. He took a bag of flour from one of the guards and walked over to these vigers.

    Seeing him walk over, these viges couldn¡¯t help taking two steps back. They all came closer together as they anxiously watched him approach.

    Xu Yi had the same smile and stopped around five meters away from the vigers. Then he put the flour on the ground and opened up the sack, revealing the golden flour that was inside.

    ¡°Everyone, we are merchants from afar, we¡¯vee here to do some business with everyone. If you can provide anything valuable, we are willing to trade these things with you.¡±

    The vigers looked at the flour on the ground and looked at the various other products the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had before their eyes all lit up.

 Volume 5 149 - Air supremacy

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 149 Air supremacy</strong>

    Facts proved thatpared to how the locals would react as per Leslie¡¯s expectations, it waspletely because of their wrong methods.

    Xu Yi used his status as a merchant and used the goods like flour that the inders needed to show his sincerity, quickly gaining the approval of the inders. He had easily opened up a true conversation with the inders.

    The first stage of this matter went very smoothly. After contacting the vigers of this vige near the coast and the vigers of viges further ind, Xu Yi had a basic understanding of this ind.

    It was like Leslie had expected, the residents of this ind were people of the Sines Continent that had wandered over a long time ago.

    ording to the records of this ind, they came over to this ind way back when the elves still ruled the continent. Then as more people wandered over and gradually settled on this ind, bing the main group on this ind.

    Speaking of the main group, there were real locals on this ind other than the people who came from the Sines Continent.

    These locals had always lived on this ind and didn¡¯t know about the Sines Continent, never leaving this ind before.

    Although Xu Yi was a bit doubtful of this, for the people of the ind, they had all lived on this ind for many years, so they weren¡¯t that different.

    Of course, these problems weren¡¯t important for Xu Yi either.

    He cared about the value of the ind itself, mainly the various resources that this ind had.

    No matter what kind of people lived here, it didn¡¯t matter to him.

    After telling Leslie that his mission was to control the ind as much as possible and guaranteeing that he would give Leslie the necessary support, Xu Yi left a Magic Airship to protect the ind and the surrounding seas. He also left behind the guard fleet that Leslie controlled. Xu Yi and Akali¡¯s group rode the other Magic Airship back to the Sines Continent.

    The Magic Airship was naturally much faster than the guard ship and when flying at full speed, it could even reach a speed of one hundred kilometers an hour.

    This ind was around seven hundred kilometers away from the south coast of the Candra Empire. Xu Yi¡¯s group set off from the ind in the morning and could see the Sines Continent by the afternoon.

    This ce was very close to Yara Harbour that the Candra Empire navy opened up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t head there again. Rather hemanded the Magic Airship to head in the direction of the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Azshara Tribe¡¯s elder Undine had sent someone to send a message half a month ago. The message was that their elven town was finished and it was to invite Xu Yi to visit them.

    Still was a guest in the Azshara Tribe during this time to make her film, so Xu Yi was nning on passing by on his way home to take a look.

    Yara Harbour was over one thousand and five hundred kilometers away from Nissi Harbour, so even with the speed of the Magic Airship, it took them close to a day to get there.

    At noon of the next day, the Magic Airship carried Xu Yi¡¯s group to the harbour that was built in cooperation by the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was now the most prosperous harbour in the Rudson Kingdom and even the southern part of the Sines Continent, Nissi Harbour.

    Looking down at the seventeen wharves that were filled with ships, which included threerge transport Magic Ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was delivering thetest batch of goods, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of pride.

    This Nissi Harbour hadn¡¯t been different from a small fishing town in the beginning. Now because of their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and with the drive of the transport fleet, it had be one of the trade hubs between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom, bing very prosperous. Nissi City that had no fame in the Rudson Kingdom had now be the most famous port city in the surrounding countries and the one who contributed the most to this was Xu Yi.

    Looking down from the air, Xu Yi could see that this city was more than ten times bigger than when he saw it for the first time. It was currently filled with people and looked very prosperous, not being that inferior to Banta City.

    When the Magic Airship flew over the sea, it attracted the attention of countless people.

    But looking up at the Magic Airship, other than a few people, there weren¡¯t that many people who were surprised.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship was a very famous product in the surrounding countries, it had attracted the interest of many people.

    There were many people who asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when they would sell these Magic Airships, but they were all rejected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the reason that it wasn¡¯t developed yet.

    But that didn¡¯t stop people from being interested in the Magic Airships. There were many newspapers that had run reports on the Magic Airships, saying that if they could be popr like the Magic Cars, it would change everyone¡¯s lives and the situation in the surrounding countries.

    Xu Yi was very clear on the meaning of those words because even the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s King Teruc had asked Xu Yi about the Magic Airships many times, hoping that he could order a few ahead of time.

    He was worried about a simple thing, air superiority.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, the only ones that could fly in the sky were the powerful magicians and the elves with their powerful Magic Battleships.

    Every country had magicians and the battleships had disappeared after the elves had been defeated.

    In the war between countries on the Sines Continent, air superiority didn¡¯t have a meaning because thispletely depended on the number of magicians invested by either side.

    But with countries of the same scale having magicians at the same level of power and that there weren¡¯t many magicians, it was hard to affect the situations of war. When speaking of air superiority, it was something that had no meaning.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships, the surrounding countries took this matter seriously.

    It was different from magicians, ording to what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce said, they would be able to mass produce Magic Airships once they finished developing them!

    What concept was mass production?

    This meant that as long as you had money, you could buy the Magic Airships that could take you into the skies!

    ording to information from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this Magic Airship could be installed with Magic Cannons, Magic Rockets, and other long distance military magic machines.

    To put it simply, the Magic Airships could be used as an air fortress.

    Perhaps it wasn¡¯t as flexible as magicians and it wouldn¡¯t be as strong as Great Magicians or Arch Magi, but when it waspared to normal magicians, it was definitely much stronger. Then whenpared to Great Magicians and Arch Magi, they clearly had the advantage in numbers.

    Not to mention that even if you lost a Magic Airship, you could buy another one. If you lost a Great Magician or an Arch Magus, you wouldn¡¯t be able to make up for that loss.

    Just for the Rudson Kingdom, they only currently had seven Great Magicians, they didn¡¯t even have an Arch Magus. How could theypare to the endless supply of Magic Airships?

    Once they controlled air superiority, these armies of these countries wouldn¡¯t be able to hit these high altitude targets. The Magic Airships would be considered invincible!

    So the newspapers saying that the Magic Airships could change the situation in the surrounding countries wasn¡¯t exaggerated at all.

    Xu Yi could imagine that once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they could mass produce the Magic Airships, how much of a shock that would cause.

    ¡°If King Teruc knew that I was nning on giving the Lampuri Kingdom a hundred Magic Airships ahead of time, what would he think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the people looking up. If he knew that there was something that was flying over his head that he couldn¡¯t fight and had a terrifying might, he would definitely be unsettled as well.

    So it could be seen that King Teruc had to do something.

    When he thought about the possible response from King Teruc, the Magic Airship shook. Itnded on the deck of one of the transport Magic Ships that was currently docked.

    When the cabin door opened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleetmander Narvil walked in.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasing out, Narvil was surprised.

    ¡°Sir chairman, why are you here? I thought that this was a fixed voyage and it was here to resupply.¡±

    ¡°It is resupplying since the Magic Crystals on the airship are almost gone, go and arrange this.¡± Xu Yi gave the order.

    ¡°Un.¡± Narvil turned to give an order to his subordinate who quickly ran off to arrange this.

    Xu Yi looked at the surrounding people and waved his hand to have them return to work. Then he asked Narvil, ¡°How are the profits this time?¡±

    Narvil replied with a smile, ¡°Reporting to sir chairman, this trip went very smoothly. We had goods valued at seven hundred thousand gold coins when we left thepany and it was all bought the first day we arrived. And then as per your instructions, these three ships were filled with zinc ores, which cost us three hundred thousand gold coins. With this trip, we earned four hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Un, not bad.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod of praise, ¡°But Narvil, these good days won¡¯tst long. ording to the information we received, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s demand for household magic machines is bing saturated, it will be hard to sell out everything in the future. When the profits drop, you will have to prepare yourself.¡±

    Narvil¡¯s expression changed slightly, ¡°What do we do? Sir chairman, this trade route has just be mature and it won¡¯t work soon, this is just too quick.¡±

    ¡°I was just telling you the trend, it doesn¡¯t mean it¡¯ll be saturated right away. But this matter will definitely happen, so we need to think of a solution ahead of time.¡±

    Narvil knitted his brows to think for a while. He looked at Xu Yi before his eyes suddenly lit up, ¡°Sir chairman, you must have a solution, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course, otherwise why would I say all these things for?¡±

    ¡°Then.....What is the solution?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, head east.¡±

 Volume 5 150 - Elder Undine with a head for business

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 150 Elder Undine with a head for business</strong>

    Xu Yi was nning to simply resupply in Nissi Harbour before heading off to the Azshara Tribe.

    However, this n was interrupted when the Magic Airship was about to take off.

    Seeing Nissi City¡¯s City Lord Count Kompany running over with a face covered in sweat, climbing up the side of the Magic Ship in difficulty with an anxious look, Xu Yi was confused as he ordered the pilot to stop the Magic Airship from taking off and walked out of the cabin.

    ¡°Xu.....Chairman Xu.....It¡¯s a good.....It¡¯s a good thing I caught you......¡± City Lord Kompany was panting as he stood in front of Xu Yi. His fat body was covered in sweat and looked quite bad.

    Xu Yi turned to take a towel from Narvil and handed it over before asking, ¡°Lord City Lord, is there something urgent?¡±

    Count Kompany took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, but because he breathed in too quickly, he actually choked on it. His face turned red and he almost couldn¡¯t breathe.

    Xu Yi found it funny as he patted his back, ¡°Lord City Lord, don¡¯t be in such a rush. Talk slowly, aren¡¯t I here right now?¡±

    Count Kompany gave several coughs before finally recovering. He took Xu Yi¡¯s hand and was panting as he said, ¡°Xu.....Chairman Xu, you¡¯re.....finally back. His......His Majesty already gave the order that I had to keep you here as long as I met you. His....majesty is summoning you.¡±

    ¡°His majesty Teruc? He wants to see me?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised while also feeling that this was a bit too coincidental.

    He had just thought of King Teruc and he never thought that King Teruc woulde looking for him.

    ¡°I.....I¡¯m not too clear on this, but his majesty did give this order.¡± Count Kompany replied, ¡°Actually, his majesty summoned youst week, but I was told that you weren¡¯t back because you were overseas. He knew that you would pass by here when you came back, so he had me watch out and stop you if I could.¡±

    ¡°Is it really that urgent?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows. After thinking for a bit, he didn¡¯t know why King Teruc would be this urgent in summoning him.

    ¡°This.....Should I go to Caraca City for an audience with his majesty?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No, his majesty said that if I could stop you, I should contact him immediately and he would personallye here to meet you.¡± Count Kompany shook his head as he replied.

    ¡°His majesty ising here?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some influence in the surrounding countries, he as the chairman was important to the high level members of these countries.

    He was still only a merchant in the end, one of the people with the lowest status on the Sines Continent.

    Compared to Teruc who was the king of the Rudson Kingdom, there was a difference in status between them.

    In a normal situation, it should be Xu Yi going to have an audience with King Teruc and not King Terucing here to see him.

    Count Kompany was clearly also confused by King Teruc¡¯s decision, but he didn¡¯t say anything as he just nodded.

    Xu Yi thought about it and was still a bit confused.

    But he could smell something strange from King Teruc¡¯s sudden action.

    Could it be that what he was thinking of came true? Did King Teruc have some n for the Magic Airships?

    ###

    Three hourster, Xu Yi appeared in the Azshara Tribe that was three hundred kilometers away from Nissi City.

    ording to Count Kompany¡¯s response, he had already sent news to King Teruc as soon as he saw Xu Yi.

    Nissi City was five hundred kilometers away from Caraca City, so it would take half a day for the news to arrive. However, even if King Teruc set out from Caraca City immediately, it would take him half a day to arrive.

    So in the quickest situation, King Teruc would only arrive the day after tomorrow.

    During these two days, Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t remain idle. After telling Count Kompany, he still followed his previous n to head to the Azshara Tribe to meet elder Undine and Still.

    It was different from the previous Azshara Tribe because previously the Azshara Tribe¡¯s Magic Array made this ce look like a deste wastnd. Although the Magic Array was still present, not far away from the Magic Array was an elven style town that had been finished.

    The various tree houses and glowing stone buildings filled the town and adding in the beautiful flora that lined the path, the town was filled with colours. It looked harmonious while being filled with life, letting people feel a kind of absolute enjoyment of life once they took a look.

    This was something that Xu Yi could see from the faces of the many human tourists that were inside and outside the town.

    That¡¯s right, this small elf town called ¡°Evelyn Town¡± was the small town that the Azshara Tribe opened up to human tourists. They weed humans toe visit and even allowed them to stay.

    This was considered a very big step for the elves who had always been conservative and viewed humans with hostility.

    When Xu Yi made this proposal to elder Undine at first, it was to let elder Undine agree to humans and elvesing together like elder Lisanya, letting them see each other¡¯s viewpoints and learn from them.

    What surprised Xu Yi was that after elder Undine considered, she agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s bold proposal.

    Once this Evelyn Town was finished, Xu Yi had advertised it through various newspapers and other media channels, creating arge stir in human society.

    Not only did countless people in the Rudson Kingdom travel short distances to see the lives of the elves, even many people from other countries had traveled long distances toe here.

    This Evelyn Town was filled with tourists from all different ces now, making this small town as lively as human cities and also leaving quite a bit of gold coins in the small town.

    It was clear that the tourists spent money in Evelyn Town......

    There were less than a hundred elves from the Azshara Tribe currently living in this town. They were mainly responsible for showing the human tourists the lives of the elves while also providing simple service.

    Although the service of these elves was hard for Xu Yi to watch, even not bothering to answer the human tourists many times, the human tourists didn¡¯tin at all. The all felt that the elves should act like this, so they were willing to spendrge amounts of money for various services.

    A very simple one was elven woodcarving. It would sell for thirty gold coins per piece, which was the same price as a Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner.

    But what seemed like stealing money for Xu Yi were fought for among the tourists. Each piece of work was fought over and there wasn¡¯t a single one that remained.

    Of course, this also ounted to the Azshara Tribe strictly controlling these products with the style of the elves and didn¡¯t flood the market, which allowed it to maintain its high price.

    It was because of this that Xu Yi felt admiration for the business mind of elder Undine. He felt that she didn¡¯t let down the fact that she lived on the continent for several hundred years, already learning the methods of human business.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your praise is too much.¡± Elder Undine waved a hand with a smile, ¡°I was just imitating the methods I¡¯ve seen some human merchants do before. If we¡¯re talking about business, you humans are much better. For example, chairman Xu, you are operating that incrediblyrge Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now, I would never be able to do that.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at Still, ¡°Were you boasting to elder Undine? I¡¯ve never said these things to her before?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at him, ¡°Do you still need me to boast for you? Anyone can see the results of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the years.¡±

    ¡°Yes, miss Still doesn¡¯t need to say a thing about this, I can just ask around in your human world and I can learn many things about your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Elder Undine said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Undine beforeughing, ¡°Elder Undine, you can just tell if you have something to say. To be honest, you don¡¯t seem suited for beating around the bush like us humans, I feel that it¡¯s rather odd.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Elder Undine touched her face, revealing a surprised look like a young human girl, ¡°I thought that I had learned quite well, but I never thought I would be easily exposed by chairman Xu.¡±

    Still on the side broke out inughter.

    ¡°Elder Undine, don¡¯t listen to Xu Yi¡¯s nonsense. These are just normal greetings between us humans, it would be strange if anyone treated them seriously. Xu Yi just said this on purpose.¡±

    Seeing elder Undine look over with a surprised look, Xu Yi gave augh before waving his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the details. Alright, elder Undine, you invited me here this time, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s just for a visit, right?¡±

    Elder Undine shook her head with a smile, ¡°It seems like we elves need to learn from you humans.....eh......this.....this smooth talking method will take some time. Yes, I invited chairman Xu here other than for a visit to discuss something.¡±

    ¡°Each race has their own specialties, you don¡¯t have to be like us humans.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°For example, when you talk to me, you can just say what you want to say. As long as it is something that is advantageous to both sides, I will definitely seriously consider it.¡±

    ¡°Un, first we want to purchase some household magic machines from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Elder Undine said.

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised ,¡±You elves also need to use these household magic machines?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t for us, but for the human tourists thate to Evelyn Town.¡± Elder Undine shook her head, ¡°The human tourists are satisfied with everything in the town, but almost every one of them has said that they are used to using household magic machines at home and living here isn¡¯t very convenient. So I want to buy some household magic machines for the human tourists to use.¡±

    ¡°Those fellows really have high demands......¡± Xu Yi¡¯s lip twitched, ¡°But for this traditional elven town to have household magic machines, don¡¯t you find it strange? Moreover, elder Undine, don¡¯t you think that this would destroy the harmony of Evelyn Town?¡±

    ¡°Compared to their customs, the harmony isn¡¯t that important. Moreover, we will also think of ways to slowly integrate these household magic machines into the town, so they won¡¯t feel it is too sudden.¡±

    Seeing the sincere look elder Undine had, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    It seems like the Azshara Tribe had already received quite a few benefits from Evelyn Town, so even elder Undine is trying her best to satisfy the requests of the human tourists.

    ¡°Alright, that isn¡¯t a big problem. You just need to hand an order to ourpany and we will do our best to deliver the goods on time.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°There¡¯s a shop for our store in Nissi City which is the closest ce to here, so you can just send someone with an order there.¡±

    ¡°Alright, other than this, there¡¯s still an important matter that I need chairman Xu¡¯s help with.¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡± Xu Yi directly said.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, look.....Evelyn Town is weed by the human tourists of the Rudson Kingdom, so I thought.....perhaps we could also make the same towns in other ces or other countries?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Undine in a daze as he suddenly felt an absurd feeling.

    This elder Undine.....was she still an elf?

 Volume 5 151 - Adding special effects

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 151 Adding special effects</strong>

    Other than receiving the invitation from elder Undine, Xu Yi came to the Azshara Tribe to meet up with Still.

    Since leaving the Stantine Duchy, Still had already been filming in the Azshara Tribe for half a month now. Then when Xu Yi left for the Candra Empire, then going to the ind on the southern seas, it had been another half a month,

    Counting this, he hadn¡¯t seen Still for over a month now, so naturally he missed her very much,

    Not to mention that Still was seven months pregnant, so Xu Yi was still a bit worried about her.

    But when he saw Still, Xu Yi found that she looked very good. She was very spirited and her skin had be much smoother, like she was several years younger.

    Xu Yi put down his worry while also feeling curious.

    Was it because Still was busy working even though she was seven months pregnant that she didn¡¯t seem exhausted, but rather seemed like she was glowing?

    This didn¡¯t follow the normal convention.

    ¡°I¡¯ve been listening to you alright? I¡¯ve been paying attention to my rest and haven¡¯t been working all day, alright?¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi before moving around Xu Yi, giving him a naughty look with a bit of teasing in her eyes.

    ¡°How is it? Do you feel that my skin has be better? Don¡¯t you think that I have more charm?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°You are very attractive all the time. Tell me, what is the reason?¡±

    ¡°You really don¡¯t understand.....¡± Still muttered before replying, ¡°It¡¯s mainly because of elder Undine¡¯s special care. The elves have unique techniques for taking care of their bodies and I¡¯ve learned quite a few things from elder Undine. Elder Undine even opened up the Moonlight Pond in their tribe for me to take a soak every day, which has greatly helped my body.¡±

    ¡°Oh? She even opened the Moonlight Pond to you?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    The Moonlight Pond was the Pond of Life for the elves. It was the source of life for the elves, so it could be said that every elf n ced importance to this ce.

    Elder Undine had not only opened the Moonlight Pond to her, she let her take a soak there every day which showed elder Undine¡¯s care for her.

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m benefiting from associating with you.¡± Still said with a smile, ¡°Elder Undine said that this is the first time they opened their tribe¡¯s Moonlight Pond to a human. Right, speaking of this, elder Undine wanted me to ask you, are you interested in taking a soak in the Moonlight Pond?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Me? Why would a man like me take a soak, could it be that I need to improve my skin?¡±

    Still gave augh, ¡°You¡¯re actually white enough, you don¡¯t need it at all. Elder Undine didn¡¯t mean this, she told me that humans that bathed in the Moonlight Pond would be able to increase their sensitivity to their surroundings. For a magician, it would increase their sensitivity towards magic elemental energy, which can help them increase their magic. After I soaked there for some time, I¡¯ve found that my control of magic elemental energy is much better. How about it? Are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s like this......¡± Xu Yi rubbed his chin to think for a bit before nodding, ¡°If the effects are good, then I can consider it. Hey, how about we go soak together tonight?¡±

    Still saw Xu Yi¡¯s strange smile and rolled her eyes at him, ¡°Where¡¯s your mind going? Since you want to go, I¡¯ll just tell elder Under.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for now, I can only stay here for a night, so I don¡¯t have that much free time. Come, let¡¯s take a look at your film and let me give some opinions.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Still took out the Magic Illusion Projector and ced a small illusion disc in. The Magic Illusion Projector released a blue light before creating an illusion in the air.

    This film that was called ?Floating? temporarily was what Still and her New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s filming crew had been focused on making recently. It spoke of what happened three thousand years ago when the elves still ruled the continent, telling a story of a touching love between an elven girl and a human boy.

    It was clear that this came from Still¡¯s writing......

    At Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ?Daily Lives of the New Moon Troupe? had been very popr. It was shown in many ces in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, even surpassing an audience of one million viewers.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had earned seventy thousand gold coins in selling tickets, which could be said that they had earned quite a bit.

    Xu Yi personally wrote a script for Still, having the New Moon Chamber of Commerce film this drama which had also been very popr.

    After these two sesses, Still firmly believed Xu Yi¡¯s analysis of the Magic Illusion Films. She decided to greatly invest in it and to make the New Moon Chamber of Commerce an ¡°entertainmentpany¡± as Xu Yi had described.

    This ?Floating? came from Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, but he just proposed filming it like a film and didn¡¯t get involved in the other aspects.

    Seeing the finished product of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi¡¯s heart was filled with praise.

    It had to be said, this Magic Illusion Film had its advantages over the movies from earth. It had the effect of being shown in 3D, which made it more realistic.

    Because this film was made through recording with the Illusion Magic Array and then broadcasting it with the Magic Illusion Projector, this was a first edition duplication and it was very realistic.

    But there was also a problem with this. Because of how realistic it was, they couldn¡¯t add special effects like the movies on earth which gave them less space to work with.

    Thinking of this problem, Xu Yi was silent for a bit. He talked to Still about the shooting angle, the plot advancement, and other small details of the movie.

    After learning these details from earth, Still had gained quite a bit of inspiration.

    ¡°It really is a pity. Xu Yi, it would be good if you weren¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. I would definitely pull you into mypany and make you focus on making Magic Illusion Films.¡± Still said with a look of regret.

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°I can consider it when I retire from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But before this, I still have to create a system of showing these Magic Illusion Films. Still, I think that since you¡¯ve increased the speed of your filming, we should change our n from before.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How so?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    She and Xu Yi hade up with a n before, it was that they would organize the many theaters in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy to show these films. It would be like the movie theaters from earth.

    Once people were used to this, they would change their distribution.

    But now that Still had surpassed his expectations in leading the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to film Magic Illusion Films, Xu Yi felt that they could increase their progress.

    ¡°I feel that we can set up public Magic Illusion Projectors in each city and make a short piece to introduce that film that you made which would be considered advertisement. At the same time, your New Moon Chamber of Commerce can use these Magic Illusion Projectors to find a new source of ie for yourselves.¡±

    ¡°New source of ie?¡± Still knitted her brows, ¡°How?¡±

    ¡°Look, as long as these public Magic Illusion Projectors have enough Magic Crystals, they can project all day. Then other than the short introduction that you would make for your films, you can also show some advertisements.¡±

    ¡°Advertisements?¡± Still was surprised before suddenly waking up, ¡°You mean to let the otherpanies film some advertisements, just like how we helped your Frestech Chamber of Commerce film those advertisements before?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, but the ads you did before were only simple. The ads that you would do now would beplete films that will be realistic. Think about it, when you helped me advertise those things before, it helped disy your charm, didn¡¯t it?¡±

    Even if they were an old couple, hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Still¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help turning a bit red. Then she became excited and said with a nod, ¡°Un, I understand what you mean. This is a very good idea, I will seriously consider it.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll only say this. As for how to film these advertisements and who to film them for, that is something for your New Moon Chamber of Commerce. I can only assist you with setting up the public Magic Illusion Projectors.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Of course, do I need your help with this?¡± Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi. She walked over to the side with a smile and began talking to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce staff that she had brought.

    Xu Yi gave augh. He thought that although Still was no longer a young girl who was in her early twenties, she was still very beautiful, so much that people would never tire of looking at her.

    After giving a satisfied smile, Xu Yi thought about the problem he had been thinking of before and then he went looking for elder Undine.

    ¡°You want to change the illusions that are filmed and add some.....effects?¡± Elder Undine looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, looking puzzled by Xu Yi¡¯s question.

    After Xu Yi exined it, elder Undine finally understood what he meant by ¡°special effects¡±.

    ¡°Eh......Although we haven¡¯t researched this before, the Illusion Array can make illusions out of nothing, so I think that we can aplish the special effects that you mentioned.¡±

    ¡°Then that isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief, ¡°Elder Undine, if possible, I hope that you can give us some of the core technology for the Illusion Array so we can meet this need.¡±

    ¡°For the special effects you mentioned?¡± Elder Undine revealed a smile, but she also shook her head, ¡°I think that there¡¯s no need. Illusion Magic is considered a hard type of magic for us elves, so even if we did give it to you, you wouldn¡¯t be able to grasp it in a short period of time.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    He didn¡¯t feel that he couldn¡¯t grasp Illusion Magic, but he was a bit surprised that elder Undine had directly rejected him.

    ¡°Actually, chairman Xu, you don¡¯t have to grasp Illusion Magic, right?¡± Elder Undine said.

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi looked at elder Undine in surprise.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you always tell me that the main reason why you humans could rece us elves in dominating the continent was because you humans understood the merits of being unified and working together? So that was why you could disy such incredible strength?¡±

    ¡°You mean......¡±

    Elder Undine revealed a faint smile, ¡°It would take you a long time to grasp the Illusion Magic Array, so you might as well have our nsmen that have grasp over the Illusion Magic Array join you and help you with this project, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the faint smile on elder Undine¡¯s face. He confirmed once again that elder Undine was the most business savvy elf that he had ever met.

    There was no one else who couldpare.

 Volume 5 152 - Something big happened

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 152 Something big happened</strong>

    His happy time with Still was very short. After staying in the Azshara Tribe for a day, Xu Yi headed back to Nissi Harbour.

    When the Magic Airship fell, there was a silver Magic Sedan that quickly came over from in the distance and stopped right in front of the Magic Airship.

    Count Kompany came out of the back seat and ran over to the cabin door. Waiting for the cabin door to slowly open, when he saw Xu Yi appear, he let out a long sigh of relief.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re finally back.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°What? Lord City Lord, were you afraid of me running away?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, nothing of that sort.¡± Count Kompany wiped the sweat off his forehead and made an inviting gesture to Xu Yi, ¡°Pleasee with me. ording to the information I just received, his majesty is already less than twenty kilometers away. I ask chairman Xu to go outside the city to wee his majesty with me.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi replied. He turned to say something to the people in the Magic Airship before boarding the Magic Sedan with Count Kompany.

    The Magic Sedan quickly started and headed to the north of Nissi City.

    Seeing Nissi City disappearing behind them, Xu Yi turned to Count Kompany beside him to ask, ¡°Lord City Lord, in thetest news sent from his majesty, did he reveal why he is in such a rush to meet me?¡±

    ¡°This......there was nothing specific about this. But since it¡¯s this important to his majesty, even needing to personallye here to meet chairman Xu, I think that it must be something very important.¡±

    ¡°I also understand this, but after thinking about it over the past two days, there hasn¡¯t been anything unexpected that has happened in the cooperation between our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom. Even if there are a few small mistakes, I don¡¯t think that it would be enough for his majesty to personallye.¡± Xu Yi said with knitted brows.

    ¡°He, he, I don¡¯t know too much about this, but chairman Xu, while our cooperation is going smoothly right now, it doesn¡¯t mean that it¡¯ll always go smoothly, right? Perhaps his majesty wants to discuss some new cooperations with chairman Xu and to show his sincerity, he is personallying to see you.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at the friendly smile Count Kompany had.

    From Count Kompany¡¯s words, he could tell that there was a bit of information.

    It was that.....King Teruc should be discussing a new cooperation with him.

    This wasn¡¯t surprising becausepared to the Lampuri Kingdom, the cooperation between the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were missing a few things.

    For example, the Lampuri Kingdom was working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on construction magic machines, as well as having several steel mills, while the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t have any. The most important thing was that the Lampuri Kingdom had some form of cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the military magic machines for a long time.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left the Lampuri Kingdom and their military magic machine cooperation had stagnated, making no progress, the Lampuri Kingdom did have the foundation in this aspect which allowed them to widen the disparity with other countries.

    For example, the most simple Magic Repeating Crossbow that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made first, it had now be standard issue for the Lampuri Kingdom army.

    Then with the weapon factories that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left behind, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army was the best equipped army in the surrounding countries, so there was no way topare battle strength like before.

    The surrounding countries were aware of this.

    The Rudson Kingdom was a kingdom on the same scale as the Lampuri Kingdom, so it was normal for them to care about this.

    This time King Teruc showed his sincerity, it was very likely that he would negotiate with Xu Yi on the military magic machines.

    ¡°If he really puts forth this request, how should I respond?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows to think.

    Based on his original intentions, he just wanted to promote the household magic machines to improve the standard of living on the continent.

    But the military magic machines had been developed and with their might, it couldn¡¯t escape the attention of other countries.

    Xu Yi was naturally prepared for this, but in his n, he had to be careful with the military magic machines.

    The most basic request was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to suppress the other forces when it came to military magic machines. They definitely couldn¡¯t let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be threatened because they sold their military magic machines.

    This was something that Xu Yi always controlled well. Only a part of the military magic machines were sold to other countries and the core parts were controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing their guards to have the absolute advantage in battle strength.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research into military magic machines became deeper and deeper, Xu Yi was already beginning to release more military magic machines to the public.

    For example, selling the three guard ships to the Candra Empire navy while equipping several Magic Cannons and small Magic Rockets on it. This could be considered the most advanced military magic machine sold by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently.

    The Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t a country by the sea, so they didn¡¯t have such high demands. But the Rudson Kingdom had a sea to the south, so perhaps King Teruc wanted to buy a few guard ships to y with?

    With this kind of doubt, the Magic Sedan brought Xu YI to a rest stop that was to the north of Nissi City.

    He and Count Kompany along with his group of followers had only gotten out for less than twenty minutes when they saw dust on the road to the north. After a while, they saw a motorcade of Magic Sedans quickly heading over.

    Seeing this motorcade, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Although Magic Sedans had already be popr in the Rudson Kingdom, King Teruc had always maintained tradition and had gone out in a traditional horse carriage.

    Of course, there was a deep meaning to his luxurious horse carriage.

    King Teruc rarely left Caraca City and only traveled short distances. Riding in his horse carriage that was built forfort was clearly the better choice.

    But Xu Yi had told him before that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing super luxurious and very safe Magic Sedans. It would be built for important people like King Teruc and would satisfy all his needs.

    King Teruc was very interested in this and he said that he would definitely custom order one when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released this.

    But before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed this kind of Magic Sedan, King Teruc took the initiative to ride a Magic Sedan here this time.

    Other than speed, it was also to show Xu Yi his sincerity.

    However, Xu Yi deeply believed that nothing was for free.

    King Teruc was showing this kind of sincerity, it was clear that what he was requesting wasn¡¯t something easily satisfied.

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows as he watched the motorcade approach. The first car stopped outside the rest stop and he and Count Kompany went over with smiles on their faces.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, long time no see.¡± King Teruc came out of the back seat of the Magic Sedan and looked over at Xu Yi with a smile on his face.

    Xu Yi quickly came over and gave King Teruc a bow before respectfully saying, ¡°Greetings to your majesty. For your majesty to personallye, it makes me a bit worried.¡±

    King Teruc gave augh before patting Xu Yi on the shoulder, ¡°Chairman Xu, you aren¡¯t a citizen of our Rudson Kingdom, you don¡¯t need to be so polite in front of me. Come, let¡¯s go in and talk.¡±

    Xu Yi doubtfully followed King Teruc into the rest station.

    King Tercu sat at a table that was already prepared and pointed for Xu Yi to sit down in front of him.

    Xu Yi declined out of politeness at first, but he still sat down.

    King Teruc looked to the side and his guards understood, driving everyone out of the rest stop. Count Kompany was not an exception.

    In this big rest stop, there was only King Teruc and Xu Yi left.

    After everyone left, King Teruc looked over Xu Yi before saying with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, I wonder if your trip to the Candra Empire went smoothly?¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°Many thanks for your majesty¡¯s care, it was considered smooth.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That¡¯s good.¡± King Terucughed before falling silent. He suddenly tapped the table and said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, not being able to contact you this time has finally made me realize an important problem.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been building all those magic signal towers in the Stantine Duchy and then doing the same in the Lampuri Kingdom. With these magic signal towers, people that are separated by thousands of miles can talk to each other, it really is countless times betterpared to before. If our Rudson Kingdom also had the magic signal towers, I wouldn¡¯t need to rush here to meet you. At least, I think it would be much easier contacting you, right?¡±

    Xu Yi never thought that King Teruc would mention the magic signal towers first and he couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°This.....If your majesty is willing, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is happy to cooperate with the Rudson Kingdom to build magic signal towers and erect the magicmunicationwork.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Good, chairman Xu, it is decided. I will send people over to yourpany in a few days to discuss the matter of building magic signal towers throughout our kingdom. I hope that you will work with them.¡± King Teruc pped the table again as he said this with a serious look.

    Xu YI was surprised, never thinking that King Teruc would be so resolute that he would settle it like this.

    But thinking about it, he didn¡¯t think that there was a problem, so he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, ourpany is currently promoting this thing, so we will definitely work with you.¡±

    King Teruc was different from the nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom, being worried about the magic signal towers. Naturally Xu Yi also wouldn¡¯t ask about this.

    Just based on this, it seems like the advertisement the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released on the magic signal towers had some effect.

    Of course, King Teruc must have also investigated this matter, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t make a decision this easily.

    Seeing that Xu Yi agreed, King Teruc gave a satisfied nod. After pausing, he continued, ¡°The magic signal towers are just a small thing, there is something else that I need to discuss with you this time.¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all. He silently looked at King Teruc, waiting for him to speak.

    King Teruc was silent for a bit before suddenly looking to the north west and then saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve been away during this time, so you might not know that something important has happened recently.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Your majesty, please tell me.¡±

    King Teruc turned to Xu Yi and narrowed his eyes, revealing a serious look.

    ¡°Half a month ago, the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom. Right now they have already captured three cities in the south of the Sack Kingdom and have upied a third of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s southern province.¡±

 Volume 5 153 - Reason for war

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 153 Reason for war</strong>

    ¡°What!¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly stood up. Because he stood up too quickly, he hit himself on the table and pushed it up, creating a loud sound.

    King Teruc turned to wave at his guards that came in from this sound to show that it was fine and to have them go out again. Then he turned back to Xu Yi, waiting for his next reaction.

    Xu Yi was in a daze for a bit before his expression slowly calmed down and he sat down again.

    After a bit of silence, Xu Yi asked, ¡°Your majesty, can you tell me why this happened?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi recovering this quickly, King Teruc had a look of praise as he replied, ¡°The reason.....On the surface, it¡¯s because of a smuggling case.¡±

    ¡°Smuggling?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had been hostile all these years, transactions between the two countries had been performed through smuggling before.

    But since the two countries created the free trade area and because there was this free trade area, there were much fewer cases of smuggling.

    Even if they were, it was just to avoid a bit of tariffs and didn¡¯t have that much effect. It wasn¡¯t important to either side and it wasn¡¯t possible to spark a war between the two countries.

    The only smuggling cases with this much influence was rted to that aspect.

    As expected, King Teruc continued with a nod, ¡°Yes, ording to the official announcement from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom had some people smuggling military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom.....¡±

    When he said this, King Teruc looked at Xu Yi and saw that he wasn¡¯t surprised at all. He just slightly knitted his brows, which meant that Xu Yi was definitely aware of this.

    ¡°After the Lampuri Kingdom side discovered this, they started investigating this smuggling case and finally traced it to the Sack Kingdom. In the beginning, the Lampuri Kingdom only requested the Sack Kingdom to hand over the criminals, but the Sack Kingdom rejected this request. In the end, there was a conflict between the two sides. In the conflict, the Lampuri Kingdom lost seven soldiers and the Sack Kingdom had lost several dozen border guards, as well as harming several citizens.¡±

    ¡°And then? Did they directly dere war?¡± Xu Yi asked with a surprised look.

    ¡°Yes. The Lampuri Kingdom dered that the Sack Kingdom attacked first, so they would officially dere war on the Sack Kingdom. As for the results.....it was as I just told you.¡±

    Xu Yi deeply knitted his brows.

    There was definitely no need for King Teruc to lie to him about this, but no matter how he thought it, he felt that this matter was strange.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had been hostile with each other for several hundred years, for the two kingdoms, dering war was not an easy thing.

    Not to mention that they finally created a free trading zone between them. This was the first time trade had been open between them for several hundred years and with how well it was developing, the Lampuri Kingdom could sell many magic machines and other products to the Sack Kingdom, earning arge amount from them.

    In this situation, the Lampuri Kingdom had suddenly dered war on the Sack Kingdom and even attacked them, seizing a third of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s southern territory at once?

    Perhaps for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom who had been suppressed by the Sack Kingdom for several hundred years, this matter was something to be proud of, but it waspletely confusing for Xu Yi.

    Who decided to start the war? Was it the queen Seveni?

    Xu Yi shook his head and denied this guess.

    Because he knew that Seveni wasn¡¯t this kind of brainless person. Moreover, when they signed to create the free trade zone with the Sack Kingdom, it was decided after Xu Yi discussed this with her.

    Seveni was clear on how much the Lampuri Kingdom would benefit from this free trade zone, the data from this year andst year had proven this.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that Seveni didn¡¯t understand the benefits of maintaining this situation for the Lampuri Kingdom, so it was clearly impossible that she would take the initiative to dere war that would destroy this good situation.

    But if it wasn¡¯t Seveni, the ones who made this decision should be from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    However, it was like this, it would prove an even terrifying possibility. It was that Seveni couldn¡¯t fully control the Lampuri Kingdom, which includes not being able to stop the war with the Sack Kingdom.

    This possibility would shock Xu Yi more than Seveni dering war.

    Although he had appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom after transmigrating and lived there for several years, adding in the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started there, so he had a special feeling for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The reason why he supported the Lampuri Kingdom mostly came from the good rtionship between him and Seveni.

    He believed that Seveni was a good ruler for the Lampuri Kingdom, supporting her would allow him to establish the idea that magic machines changed people¡¯s lives.

    But if the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t controlled by Seveni, it would mean that the investments in the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have a foundation and would escape his control.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s heart, Seveni and the Lampuri Kingdom was one. If Seveni didn¡¯t control the Lampuri Kingdom, he wouldn¡¯t treat the Lampuri Kingdom any differently.

    So if this spection was true, it would have serious effects on Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi asked King Teruc in a deep voice, ¡°Your majesty, whose name did the Lampuri Kingdom dere war on the Sack Kingdom in?¡±

    King Teruc wasn¡¯t surprised by Xu Yi asking this question. He replied with a faint smile, ¡°Of course it¡¯s in the name of Queen Seveni. Queen Seveni had even announced the war deration through the ?Lampuri Weekly? before the war began. I happen to have brought this issue of the ?Lampuri Weekly? over, do you want to see it?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a nod. He took the ?Lampuri Weekly? from King Teruc¡¯s hands.

    Seveni¡¯s deration of war was printed on the front page of the ?Lampuri Weekly?, usingrge letters as a header which made it stand out.

    This deration was on the front page and the second page of the ?Lampuri Weekly?, reaching around three thousand words.

    Xu Yi carefully read over this deration, but he wasn¡¯t looking over the content, but rather he was focused on the tone of the deration.

    If just from this article, Xu Yi felt that it was indeed written by Seveni because the expression, the tone, and everything else matched the Seveni that Xu Yi was familiar with. It seemed like she had personally written this.

    But after reading it, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t in a rush to draw a conclusion. After thinking for a bit, he put the paper down and looked back at King Teruc.

    Without seeing Seveni first and getting confirmation from her, Xu Yi could only keep this spection in his heart. The problem in front of him was why King Teruc hade to tell him this news and was even in such a rush.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks to your majesty for informing me of this matter. This will have a big effect on the ns of ourpany, so learning of it beforehand allows us to make our preparations.¡± Xu Yi first thanked King Teruc first and after a bit of a pause, he asked, ¡°But, your majesty, for you to summon me like this, was it just to tell me of this matter?¡±

    King Teruc gave augh and sat up from the chair that he had been leaning back in. He narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi for a while before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Of course not, chairman Xu. Actually, I don¡¯t need to say it, you should be able to guess what I want to discuss with you, right?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°If my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, your majesty should want to discuss the matter of the military magic machines. You telling me about this matter is to remind me that the Lampuri Kingdom isn¡¯t as reliable as I thought, right?¡±

    ¡°The first half is correct, but the second half.....¡± King Teruc gave augh and didn¡¯t finish, ¡°As for the military magic machines, I¡¯ve mentioned them to chairman Xu many times, but you¡¯ve always rejected me. I thought that I could patiently wait, but now that the Lampuri Kingdom has dered war on the Sack Kingdom, I feel that it is difficult to keep waiting.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow as he looked at King Teruc.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me with this doubt. Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve made a big decision ining to see you this time. Look, I even left Caraca City and came all the way to see you, this should show my sincerity. Then, chairman Xu, shouldn¡¯t you also show some sincerity?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, your majesty, let¡¯s be a bit more direct. You want to buy military magic machines from ourpany?¡±

    ¡°If I said that I hope that you would transfer the military magic machine technology to our Rudson Kingdom, would you agree?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head without any hesitation.

    King Teruc gave a sigh before shaking his head, ¡°So I¡¯m not nning on making this proposition. I hope that for now, I can purchase all the military magic machines I need from yourpany.¡±

    Xu Yi paid attention to the word ¡°temporarily¡±. He revealed a smile and didn¡¯t mind it as he asked, ¡°Then your majesty, how much are you nning to buy and what kind of military magic machines do you need?¡±

    King Teruc narrowed his eyes, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I treat this as you answering my question?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve never refused to sell military magic machines to the Rudson Kingdom, but don¡¯t we still need to discuss the specifics?¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s discuss the specifics.¡±

 Volume 5 154 - A big transaction

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 154 A big transaction</strong>

    Three dayster, the Magic Airship left Nissi City again.

    This time it didn¡¯t head to the Azshara Tribe, it didn¡¯t return to the Stantine Duchy, but rather it headed in the northwest direction. It was heading right towards the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital, Anvilmar City.

    After staying in Nissi City for three days, Xu Yi and King Teruc had many discussions in private.

    From the result, there was no substantive progress made and they didn¡¯t even sign any contracts.

    But in his private discussions with King Tercu, Xu Yi and the Rudson Kingdom had reached some certain deals in private.

    For example, the magic signal towers that King Teruc mentioned in the beginning, Xu Yi approved of this and fully supported it.

    Both sides agreed and in a month, the Rudson Kingdom side would send people to the Stantine Duchy to inspect the functions of the magic signal towers.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Rudson Kingdom would invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build magic signal towers in the Rudson Kingdom and create a magicmunicationwork.

    But King Teruc had also clearly investigated this magic signal tower, telling Xu Yi that the Rudson Kingdom would need to control the core of thismunicationwork in their own hands.

    Hearing him say ¡°magic signal tower¡¯s frequency¡±, Xu Yi was surprised.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t oppose King Teruc¡¯s request. He stated that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped the Rudson Kingdom establish their magicmunicationwork, they would hand a part of the core technology to the Rudson Kingdom. They would guarantee that the magicmunicationwork would bepletely controlled by the Rudson Kingdom.

    The only request that Xu Yi had was that after the Rudson Kingdom built theirmunicationwork, they would connect them to the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy¡¯smunicationwork. That way the three countries could freely contact each other.

    King Teruc agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s request, so the negotiations went smoothly for both sides.

    Other than this, King Teruc also hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could build several steel mills and non-ferrous metal smelting factories. He guaranteed that the ores provided to these factories wouldn¡¯te from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s share, guaranteeing that they would always have enough ores to smelt.

    Xu Yi also agreed to this, but he had some different ideas on how to split the joint investment.

    King Teruc wanted to control the factories in the Rudson Kingdom, but Xu Yi firmly rejected this.

    Finally he backed off and agreed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would control these factories, but the Rudson Kingdom wanted a certain share of this and requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t stop them from learning the smelting techniques.

    Xu Yi agreed to this, but he also raised a list of alloys that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce definitely wouldn¡¯t share and the Rudson Kingdom shouldn¡¯t meddle in.

    After negotiating a few times, they finally reached a preliminary deal.

    The smelting factories would be built in the spring of next year and if nothing unexpected happened, they could start production by the end of next year.

    King Teruc also hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be limited to just household magic machines.

    After negotiating it, Xu yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to agree to build a bicycle factory and a tires factory in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Learning from their cooperation in terms of household magic machines, the bicycle and tire factories would be built outside Caraca City. They would hold a bicycle race in Caraca City, which would be used to promote the bicycles in the Rudson Kingdom.

    In other aspects, they had onlyid a foundation and hadn¡¯t begun negotiating yet, so they didn¡¯t mention it.

    In these discussions, the most important thing was naturally the military magic machines.

    ording to King Tercu¡¯s request, he hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would sell all their military magic machines to the Rudson Kingdom,

    But this was something that Xu Yi would never agree to, so after many discussions, they finally agreed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be sellingrge amounts of Magic Repeating Crossbows, small Magic Rocket Launchers, Magic Trebuchets, and other normal military magic machines. At the same time, they would be selling the Rudson Kingdom three hundred Magic Armoured Vehicles, a hundred small Magic Cannons, and four guard ships with corresponding facilities.

    If this agreement was signed, the amount would be over twenty seven million gold coins. It could be said that this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s biggest deal to date.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t finished in a day or two. ording to calctions, Xu Yi gave the timeline of three years toplete this deal.

    Even if King Teruc felt that this was a bit too long, Xu Yi told him that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity was limited. This was the fastest time they could fulfill this order in, so King Teruc could only ept it.

    But no matter what, after reaching this deal with Xu Yi, King Teruc was very happy.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi saying that he was heading to the Lampuri Kingdom, he would have sent people to the Stantine Duchy immediately to set this deal as soon as possible.

    Of course, King Teruc understood Xu Yi¡¯s trip to the Lampuri Kingdom......

    ¡°It would be strange if he didn¡¯t understand.¡± Xu Yi thought of the deep meaning in King Teruc¡¯s smile when he bid him farewell and he couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    The matter of the Lampuri Kingdom dering war on the Sack Kingdom, even if King Teruc didn¡¯te all this way to tell him, Xu Yi would have found out about it after returning to the Stantine Duchy.

    But he came all this way to tell Xu Yi just like Xu Yi had guessed before, he wanted to tell him that the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t a reliable partner. But demonstrating the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s sincerity, they could be someone that Xu Yi considered.

    If it was said that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have this idea, that would be impossible. But when it came to cooperating with the Rudson Kingdom in terms of military magic machines, this wasn¡¯t rted at all.

    Actually, even if King Teruc didn¡¯te, Xu Yi would still have nned on selling military magic machines to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Now that King Teruc had sent himself to the door, it saved him this effort and he could raise the price.

    The final price was even higher than what he had wanted, so it could be considered a pleasant surprise.

    To put it bluntly, whether it was the military magic machines or the household magic machines, they were only just products.

    The difference was that the military magic machines had more influence, so Xu Yi had to be more careful with them.

    Forever keeping the military magic machines to himself wasn¡¯t correct. The other countries and powers would have scruples with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of this, creating many problems.

    And they couldn¡¯t only just sell the military magic machines to the Lampuri Kingdom. This would make other countries be wary of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, greatly affecting the other cooperations of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So Xu Yi already wanted to sell the military magic machines to the surrounding countries.

    The Rudson Kingdom was the second choice for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after the Lampuri Kingdom. This agreement this time was a good choice for both sides.

    Then again, Xu Yi even sold military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, so how could he reject the request of the Rudson Kingdom?

    Thinking of the Sack Kingdom, Xu Yi felt his head ache.

    If the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom weren¡¯t hostile with each other and they didn¡¯t attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everything would be easier to handle.

    But because of this problem, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce found it very hard to build rtions with the Sack Kingdom.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t clear why the Lampuri Kingdom would suddenly dere war on the Sack Kingdom, but after thinking about it for several days, he felt that this might be rted to him agreeing to sell military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯ve linked through to chief Evita.¡± A subordinate came over with a small Magic Communicator.

    Xu Yi took it with a nod and came to a corner of the Magic Airship before saying in a low voice, ¡°Hello? Is it Evita?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s me. Sir chairman, you¡¯re back?¡± Evita¡¯s voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Un. I¡¯m currently at the border between the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom. I¡¯m nning on taking a trip to the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi casually exined, ¡°Evita, did the people from the Sack Kingdome?¡±

    ¡°They did, they left a week ago.¡±

    ¡°Then.....they should know that the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom? What was their reaction?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman also wants to know?¡± Evita had a bit of surprise in her voice before replying, ¡°They were rather surprised, but they stayed to continue the negotiations.¡±

    ¡°What are the final results?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s as you ordered, we¡¯ve agreed to most of their requests, but we still need you toe back and decide the specifics. The Sack Kingdom left two people here who said that they need you toe back first before continuing the negotiations.¡±

    ¡°Alright, keep them there for now, but don¡¯t ept any further requests. Wait until Ie back from the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Evita replied before falling silent for a bit. After a while, she said in a hesitant voice, ¡°Sir chairman, will there be a problem if you go to the Lampuri Kingdom right now?¡±

    Hearing the trace of worry in Evita¡¯s voice, Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled into a faint smile as he replied, ¡°There won¡¯t, the Lampuri Kingdom can¡¯t leave me just yet.¡±

    Evita was silent for a bit before agreeing, ¡°Alright, I hope that sir chairman¡¯s trip will be smooth.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi turned off themunicator and let out a soft breath.

    Even Evita could tell that something was off, so many people would be able to notice this.

    Since such a simple thing could be seen, just what was the Lampuri Kingdom, or rather Seveni thinking?

 Volume 5 155 - Airspace

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 155 Airspace</strong>

    The border between the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom was eight hundred kilometers away from Anvilmar City. With the speed of the Magic Airship, he could arrive in eight hours.

    Xu Yi was nning to set out in the morning and reach Anvilmar City in the afternoon. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have dinner with Seveni and he would be able to discuss the matter of the war with the Sack Kingdom with her.

    But other than setting out smoothly the next day, when noon came, when the Magic Airship flew over Cramer City that was two hundred kilometers away from Anvilmar City, there was an incident.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it seems¡­..like several people are flying over.¡± The Magic Airship¡¯s pilot reported to Xu Yi with a shocked look on their face.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been in development for close to two years now and they had flown to many ces, but this was the first time it had met someone in the air.

    Xu Yi looked out the window and saw several ck spots quickly approaching.

    It was clear that these people flying in the sky were magicians.

    But why would magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly block the Magic Airship?

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame in the Lampuri Kingdom, it was impossible that they didn¡¯t recognize the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows to think before having the pilot stop. He opened the door and flew over to them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, long time no see.¡±

    The one leading them was a magician that Xu Yi recognized. It was the Lampuri Kingdom Magicians Guild¡¯s vice president, Larkstein who was a Ninth Grade Magician.

    When Xu Yi went to the certification exam and then met up with chairman Eren, he had also met him several times.

    Even without the status of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, Xu Yi was an outstanding magician. He had even be a powerful Great Magician in his thirties, so he was famous among the Lampuri Kingdom Magicians.

    Larkstein was the noble Magicians Guild vice president, so when seeing Xu Yi, he followed the customs of magicians and bowed to greet Xu Yi who was a Great Magician.

    Xu Yi returned the bow before looking over the magicians. He found that these magicians were wearing the robes of High Grade Magicians, so they clearly weren¡¯t weak.

    Although adding them together wasn¡¯t enough to threaten a Great Magician like Xu Yi, sending all these powerful High Grade Magicians at once was rare.

    ¡°Vice president Larkstein, this is¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the curious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Larkstein quickly said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, we came to blo¡­..Ke, to greet you.¡±

    ¡°Greet?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows and he felt a bit unsettled.

    First the Lampuri Kingdom strangely dered war on the Sack Kingdom and then sent this group of High Grade Magicians led by Larkstein to wel¡­..No, it was clear that they were here to intercept him.

    This strange situation created a guess in Xu Yi¡¯s mind and he couldn¡¯t help feeling worried.

    Could it be that something really happened to Seveni and she had lost control of the Lampuri Kingdom? It was even so serious that people were here to stop him?

    ¡°What happened that you need toe and wee me?¡± Xu Yi asked in a deep voice.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Larkstein had an awkward look before giving a cough and flying closer to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and wanted to move away, but after thinking about it, he stayed in ce. He allowed Larkstein toe to his side while also gathering his magic, preparing to release it at any moment.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the kingdom parliament just passed the ?Lampuri Kingdom Airspace Control Law?st week, preventing any magicians or flying objects from other countries from flying in the airspace of the Lampuri Kingdom. You¡­.and your Magic Airship are in vition of this, so¡­..Ke, we wanted to stop you at the border, but you were just too fast, so we could onlye and stop you here.¡±

    ¡°?Lampuri Kingdom Airspace Control Law??¡± Xu Yi looked at Larkstein in surprise.

    When did the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament have the foresight to begin protecting their own airspace!

    It had to be known, the word airspace had only been mentioned in secret between Xu Yi and Seveni. Because the Magic Airships hadn¡¯t entered mass production yet, Seveni didn¡¯t care about this. Xu Yi never thought that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament would actually pass aw controlling this.

    But thisw wasn¡¯t passed before, it had to appear during this sensitive time which created more doubt in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    ¡°The parliament passed this themselves? What opinions did her majesty Seveni have about this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Larkstein seemed to have expected this question and he answered with a smile, ¡°It was proposed by her majesty and after being discussed by the parliament, it was passed unanimously.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    This answer was a bit unexpected to Xu Yi.

    He thought that something had happened to Seveni and she lost control of the Lampuri Kingdom, which was why the Lampuri Kingdom did all these unreasonable actions recently.

    But with Larkstein¡¯s answer, it showed that Seveni was still firmly sitting on the throne and nothing had happened.

    Of course, there was the chance that Larkstein was lying.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before asking Larkstein, ¡°Your meaning is that we can no longer fly through these skies?¡±

    Larkstein revealed an apologetic smile, ¡°At least before obtaining the authorization of the kingdom¡¯s parliament or her majesty, chairman Xu, you and your Magic Airships cannot keep flying in the airspace of our Lampuri Kingdom. Otherwise, this would vite thews of the parliament and we would have to stop you.¡±

    Hearing Larkstein finally saw the word ¡°stop¡±, Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh. He told Larkstein to wait before flying back to the Magic Airship.

    ¡°Sir chairman, what is happening?¡± Akali, who had been recording data in the cabin, came forward to ask this.

    ¡°I can¡¯t exin it now. Akali, lead the Magic Airship back to thepany first, I¡¯ll be back in a few days.¡±

    Akali was stunned, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re going alone? But didn¡¯t you say¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, you can go back first.¡± Seeing Akali¡¯s worried face, Xu Yi patted her shoulder and said with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, I am a Great Magician.¡±

    Akali hesitated a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Then¡­..Sir chairman, you have to take care of yourself.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand at her with a smile before flying out the cabin door.

    After waiting for a bit, the Magic Airship in the air turned to head back to the southwest.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this¡­..¡± Larkstein pointed at the Magic Airship flying away and doubtfully asked Xu Yi.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry, they will be leaving the Lampuri Kingdom at their fastest speed and returning to the Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi looked over the other magicians behind Larkstein who all stopped preparing for trouble and focused their attention back on Xu Yi.

    ¡°Eh¡­..Alright, chairman Xu, then pleasee with us. When we left Anvilmar City, the royal pce sent her majesty¡¯s orders. They were to bring you to see her majesty after we stopped the Magic Airship.¡± Larkstein gave an inviting gesture to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Is it really an order from Seveni?¡± Xu Yi looked at Larksteinm, but he didn¡¯t really ask this question. He flew down to Cramer City below with them.

    Larkstein¡¯s group had clearlye to Cramer City early to stop Xu Yi. After they arrived in Cramer City, they went right to the City Lord Manor where there were two Magic Sedans prepared. The magicians took the first one to lead the way while Larkstein sat down in the second one with Xu Yi.

    The two Magic Sedans didn¡¯t stop at the City Lord Manor and headed off, quickly heading in the direction of Anvilmar City.

    Xu Yi observed Cramer City¡¯s situation through the windows and found that Cramer City was no different from the other times he came here. It was still as prosperous as before and the people in the street had very normal expressions, it didn¡¯t seem like they were influenced by the outside world at all.

    Of course, mediaworks weren¡¯t developed in this world, so people in Cramer City might not even know about things that were several hundred kilometers away. Counting on these citizens to know about changes in the upper stratum of the Lampuri Kingdom was overestimating them.

    But at least he could see from the current situation that the Lampuri Kingdom was stable, it hadn¡¯t reached the point where the lower ss were affected.

    This made Xu Yi much more assured.

    At least with Larkstein¡¯s words, he knew that nothing had happened to Seveni.

    Then as long as he met Seveni, even if she met some kind of a problem, Xu Yi was confident in helping her.

    When Eric was still on the throne, Seveni could be said to be in her most dangerous situation. Xu Yi had given Seveni support with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing her to overthrow Eric and allowing her to gain control of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that several years passed, both Seveni and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were much stronger, so there weren¡¯t many things that could trouble them.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s mood slowly became better. He turned away from the street to look at Larkstein before asking, ¡°Vice president Larkstein, how is the current situation in the war with the Sack Kingdom?¡±

 Volume 5 156 - Foot on both side

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 156 Foot on both side</strong>

    Cramer City was two hundred kilometers away from Anvilmar City, so if they took Magic Sedans, it would take at least four hours to arrive.

    As the sun was setting on the horizon, Xu Yi saw the city gates of Anvilmar City.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I will bring you now to the gates of the royal pce, but the matters after this aren¡¯t rted to us.¡± Larkstein looked at the city gate before saying this to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi nodded and didn¡¯t react.

    The matter this time was strange from beginning to end.

    For example, although Larkstein¡¯s group said that they were stopping the Magic Airship because of the ?Lampuri Kingdom Airspace Control Law?, then him saying that he was there to stop Xu Yi and even bringing him from Cramer City to Anvilmar City, it was like they were afraid that he would run away.

    However, that reaction made Xu Yi even more confused.

    If something really had happened and the people of the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to harm him, they wouldn¡¯t have sent just Larkstein and several High Grade Magicians.

    It was well known in the surrounding countries that Xu Yi was a Great Magician, so to really deal with Xu Yi, it was far from being enough just depending on Larkstein¡¯s group.

    But if it wasn¡¯t for dealing with Xu Yi, then sending these High Grade Magicians, was it just to bring Xu Yi.....or rather send Xu Yi to the Lampuri Kingdom royal pce?

    This seemed a bit too wasteful.

    Xu Yi had asked Larkstein veiled questions several times, but Larkstein¡¯s answer was that this was the order of her majesty and he was just following this order.

    Xu Yi was unable to obtain more information, so he couldn¡¯t make a judgement and could only observe the changes.

    Akali was worried about Xu Yi¡¯s safety before leaving, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried.

    First, he was already a powerful Great Magician. Because of elder Illusia, elder Lisanya, and Arch Magus Cami urging him to not rx in increasing the power of his magic, at the end ofst year, he had made a breakthrough to be a Second Grade Great Magician.

    With his strength, only if the remaining three Great Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom worked together, it was impossible for anyone else to pose any threat to him.

    If it really didn¡¯t work out, he could still run away.

    Next he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. With his influence in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the many cooperations between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom, no matter who was controlling the Lampuri Kingdom, they would treat him well and wouldn¡¯t easily anger him.

    Especially during a sensitive time like during a war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom. If they did offend Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, pushing them to support the Sack Kingdom, that wouldn¡¯t benefit the Lampuri Kingdom at all.

    Xu Yi was only obedientlying into Anvilmar City with Larkstein just to confirm Seveni¡¯s current condition.

    If he was a bit worried before, then now that he thought it through that there wouldn¡¯t be any problems for Seveni and if there weren¡¯t any big problems, he could feel assured.

    Seeing that he would enter Anvilmar City soon, Xu Yi began to feel a bit of anticipation.

    Although it had only been two months since hest saw Seveni, because of the strange things that had been happening in the Lampuri Kingdom during this time, he was a bit worried about Seveni and missed her more.

    When he thought of this, he would feel a bit of regret.

    If he had met with Seveni earlier and decided to promote the magic signal towers in the Lampuri Kingdom, he might have connected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to Anvilmar City already. He wouldn¡¯t have needed toe all the way to Anvilmar City to check up on Seveni.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently working hard on putting down magic signal towers with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, because this was their first time covering such arge area, it would take until the end of next year ording to their n. It was still a long time before they could talk to each other.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if you have time after meeting her majesty, president Eren also wants to see you.¡±

    When the Magic Sedan arrived at the east gate of the royal pce and Xu Yi came out, Larkstein suddenly lowered his voice to say this to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi considered this before giving a slight nod to show he understood.

    Only then did Larkstein reveal a smile and sit back in the Magic Sedan, leaving with his subordinates.

    As soon as Larkstein left, there were two maids that came out of the gates of the royal pce. They came in front of Xu Yi and gave him a bow.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, her majesty is waiting for you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked over the two maids and then he remembered Betty and Carol at his personal manor in the Stantine Duchy.

    The two of them had been Seveni¡¯s maids before, but Seveni gave them to Xu Yi. It seemed like Seveni had gotten two more maids for herself.

    ¡°Alright, bring me to see her majesty.¡±

    The two maids gave Xu Yi another bow before sizing up Xu Yi with a look and then turning to lead Xu Yi in.

    Since Seveni took the throne, although Xu Yi didn¡¯te to the Lampuri Kingdom many times, he was still someone who could freely move in the royal pce. This was a treatment that many of the important ministers weren¡¯t even able to enjoy.

    For example, after the two maids brought Xu Yi into the royal pce, they led him to the back half of the royal pce, which was where the living quarters were.

    Normally speaking, this was a very private area and only the most intimate people to the ruler could enter.

    It was very clear that Xu Yi was one of them.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, but he wasn¡¯t surprised to see Seveni sitting in a gazebo in the back gardens.

    After seeing Seveni, Xu Yi let out a long sigh of relief.

    Seveni had a healthy blush to her face, her expression was normal, and her smile didn¡¯t seem forced at all. No matter how he looked at her, it didn¡¯t seem like anything was wrong.

    It was clear that she didn¡¯t meet an ident like Xu Yi was worried about, rather she looked quite good like she had been resting welltely.

    ¡°Sit.¡± Seveni casually pointed at the seat in front of her as she spoke.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold back and just sat down, looking at Seveni without even blinking.

    Seveni was a bit embarrassed by Xu Yi¡¯s stare and a blush came over her face. She looked at him and said, ¡°What are you looking at me for?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just confirming that nothing happened to you.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°I was very worried before, but now that I¡¯ve seen you, I can feel assured.¡±

    ¡°Worried? Worried about what?¡± Seveni asked in a surprised voice.

    Xu Yi looked around and Seveni understood. She waved her hand and had the surrounding maids leave them.

    Xu Yi still didn¡¯t feel assured, so he raised his hand and created a magic barrier around the gazebo, blocking the sound that came in and went out. Then he looked at Seveni with a serious look and asked, ¡°Tell me, did nothing really happen to you?¡±

    Seveni revealed a smile, ¡°What would happen? Xu Yi, you¡¯re very strange today.¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not strange, the one who¡¯s strange is you. If nothing happened, why would you dere war on the Sack Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi asked with knitted brows.

    Hearing this question, Seveni¡¯s smile disappeared and she lowered her head. After being silent for a bit, she gave a sigh and said in a soft voice, ¡°Xu Yi, I should be the one asking you this question.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°Ask me? How is this rted to me?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted, you are the most rted person.¡± Seveni looked up at Xu Yi as she softly bit her lips, with a strange aggrieved look in her eyes, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you suddenly deciding to sell military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, you think that I would be willing to risk losing the benefits of our Lampuri Kingdom to dere war on the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before deeply knitting his brows. He thought for a bit before asking, ¡°You mean......dering war on the Sack Kingdom and going against your wishes is because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is selling military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni nodded without any hesitation.

    Xu Yi fell silent once again.

    Looking at Seveni for a bit, Xu Yi gave a sigh and said with a bitter smile, ¡°I had thought of many possibilities on the way here and thought that this was the possibility with the lowest chance because it was just too absurd, but I never thought that it would be true. Seveni, I understand your personality and you are not someone who acts because of personal feelings. But this matter is just too unreasonable, can you tell me why you did this?¡±

    Seveni took a deep look at Xu Yi before softly saying, ¡°You can¡¯t guess the reason?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s bitter smile became even more bitter.

    ¡°I can guess a bit, but I don¡¯t believe it. Are you doing this.....to give me a warning?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be considered a warning, but it¡¯s to show you my attitude.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Xu Yi, I know that as apany, you want to get more customers and sell more products. This is something I understand, but have you thought that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t just a normalpany anymore?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that we must choose which side we stand on?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni honestly said, ¡°Our Lampuri Kingdom has been enemies with the Sack Kingdom for several hundred years, there is no chance of reconciliation. If you choose to support the Lampuri Kingdom, it would be best if you don¡¯t also choose to support the Sack Kingdom. To me, this is clearly putting a foot on both sides, or it can even be considered betraying our Lampuri Kingdom......¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Xu Yi cut Seveni off, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t belong to the Lampuri Kingdom, this can¡¯t be considered betrayal.¡±

    ¡°It is to me.¡± Seveni used a rare strong teon, ¡°After receiving the news that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, do you know how I felt?¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s red eyes, Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°Seveni, you can¡¯t mix personal feelings with national affairs, it will affect your judgement.¡±

    ¡°But in terms of national interest, you are also seriously damaging our Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Seveni raised her voice, ¡°Xu Yi, although the Lampuri Kingdom has hurt you before, it is also the ce that has helped your Frestech Chamber of Commerce grow. Moreover, I have always firmly supported you, I have never done anything wrong to you. But now that you¡¯ve done this, don¡¯t you think that this has seriously hurt me and the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Seeing the sad look on Seveni;s face, Xu Yi shook his head with a strange look, ¡°Seveni, you¡¯ve misunderstood......¡±

    ¡°Then tell me, what is this misunderstanding? If you can¡¯t exin it, I can¡¯t forgive you.¡±

    ¡°Forgive?¡± Xu Yi thought about Seveni¡¯s words and felt that it was a bit off.

    But he didn¡¯t have time to think about this in this situation, he had to exin the misunderstanding first.

    ¡°Actually, it¡¯s like this......¡±

 Volume 5 157 - Window shopping

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 157 Window shopping</strong>

    After a while, Seveni in the small gazebo took a soft and long breath.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why didn¡¯t you tell me ahead of time or even discuss with me on such an important matter?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a gaze that had a trace of resentment and a trace of resentment, but it was mainly filled with joy, ¡°Actually, as long as you told me, I definitely would have understood and supported your approach. There wouldn¡¯t have been such a serious misunderstanding like now.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands with a bitter smile and said with a helpless sigh, ¡°It¡¯s because until I met you two months ago, I had only had a few thoughts about this and hadn¡¯t set anything yet. I can¡¯t just tell you about this through letters, so you should know how inconvenient this was.¡±

    Seveni agreed and fell silent for a bit before continuing, ¡°Since you know that this matter is important, why didn¡¯t you.....free some time to see me?¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows, ¡°Seveni, I should be the one asking you. Although this matter is very important, I wasn¡¯t worried because I never would have thought that you would be this impulsive. You would directly dere war on the Sack Kingdom once you found out about us selling military magic machines to them. I have to say that your actions were too rash, it isn¡¯t like you at all.¡±

    Seveni softly bit her lip as a bit of regret appeared on her face, but her expression was still a bit stubborn. She didn¡¯t react to Xu Yi¡¯s usation.

    Xu Yi was very surprised by Seveni¡¯s reaction.

    He always thought that Seveni had a gentle and firm character, she always worked hard for her own ideals and wouldn¡¯t act rashly.

    But dering war on the Sack Kingdom really went against the way she normally acted, making Xu Yi find it a bit unbelievable.

    Could it be that there were people in the Lampuri Kingdom who could influence her to make this decision?

    But Seveni was not someone who was easy to influence. Could it be that because she had been on the throne for too long that her personality had changed because of this position?

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni¡¯s face that was no longer as immature as when he first met her and he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit moved.

    If this really was the case, it was a result that Xu Yi was the most unwilling to ept.

    If Seveni wasn¡¯t willing to change the way she looked at Xu Yi, there might not be a way for them to maintain their rtionship in the future.

    Whether it was from a personal view or the view of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was not something that Xu Yi wanted to see.

    Seveni was silent for a bit before suddenly standing up.

    ¡°Xu Yi, can you walk with me?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised as he looked at the sky that was a bit dim from the sun setting, thinking where would they walk now that it was thiste?

    Then again, with Seveni¡¯s status, where could she go?

    But seeing the expression on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi thought about it before giving a nod and standing up.

    Xu Yi took back the magic barrier and the two walked out of the gazebo. Seveni waved her hand at the two maids, ¡°No need to follow, I will go for a walk with chairman Xu.¡±

    What surprised Xu Yi a bit was that the two maids only took a look at Xu Yi before leaving without saying anything.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused. Seveni was the queen of the country and now that she wanted to walk with an outsider alone, you weren¡¯t going to stop her?

    Seveni led the way, leading Xu Yi to a deep corner in the back gardens of the royal pce. Then she had Xu Yi wait a bit before entering a small room nearby.

    After around ten minutes, Seveni came out and she had changed her clothes.

    Seeing the simple cloth clothes and how Seveni looked no different from normal girls, his lips couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    ¡°I say.....do you do this normally?¡±

    Seveni¡¯s lips curled and revealed a naughty smile.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t staying all day in the royal pce very boring?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He went out of the royal pce with Seveni through a very secret door in the fence of the back gardens.

    There was a very quiet alley behind this fence. Seveni took Xu Yi around the alley a few times and entered the courtyard of what seemed to be a very normal family.

    There was clearly a couple enjoying dinner in this courtyard, but when Seveni and Xu Yi came in, they acted like they didn¡¯t see them at all. The two of them passed through the courtyard and came out the front door.

    Xu Yi turned back to look at the seemingly normal man and woman who were focused on their meal, thinking that Seveni must have spent quite a bit on this.

    Coming out the front door, there was another alley, but it was much noisier than the alley behind the royal garden. If he listened, he could hear the noise from the street not far away.

    Seveni raised the hood of her clothes and covered her head, partially covering her face. She also put on a scarf, only revealing her mouth and nose.

    Now that it was winter, there were many people dressed like this, so it didn¡¯t stick out too much. Only people that were familiar with her would be able to recognize her, otherwise it would be hard to know who she was.

    Xu Yi looked at her and suddenly asked, ¡°Seveni, there¡¯s no problem in winter, but what do you do in summer?¡±

    Seveni looked over from under her hood and said with a faint smile, ¡°Of course there are other methods in summer. I¡¯ve been doing this all these years and there hasn¡¯t been a problem yet.¡±

    Because they were out of the royal pce, Seveni¡¯s tone was much more rxed. She was no different from a normal girl, she didn¡¯t have the same dignified tone of a queen.

    ¡°You really do always do this......¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes. He turned to look at the busy street in front before asking, ¡°Alright, where do you want to go?¡±

    ¡°We can just take a casual stroll.¡± Seveni replied before casually walking along the street like she really was out on a stroll.

    While looking at the shops on both sides of the street, Seveni kept chatting with Xu Yi. It was like any other girl who was walking on the street with a boy.

    Hearing the excitement and joy in Seveni¡¯s voice, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    Seveni had indicated to Xu Yi many times that she wasn¡¯t interested in the throne because she felt that she would be too restricted by taking the throne. It was hard to be free and live her life the way she wanted.

    But the situation changed and she was forced to take the throne. As she had expected, because of her identity as the queen, there were many restrictions that were ced on her life.

    Like just being able to casually walk on the street was already a luxury.

    Xu Yi was certain that even if she went out of the royal pce before, there would be many guards that would follow along for her safety, so she couldn¡¯t really go for a stroll.

    But now that a Great Magician like him was by her side, there was no problem keeping her safe.

    The most important thing was that Xu Yi always treated Seveni like an equal, he didn¡¯t have any scruples because of her identity.

    ¡°Xu Yi, it would be good if you coulde on a stroll with me frequently.¡± After walking for half an hour, Seveni suddenly gave a sigh.

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, thinking that this request was too much.

    Even if Seveni could put down all her matters with the Lampuri Kingdom, could it be that he would have time to ignore the matters of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    It was even hard for the two to meet, how could they frequently take a stroll together?

    But Xu Yi knew that Seveni was just expressing her feelings, so he didn¡¯t pour a bucket of cold water on her enthusiasm. He said with a smile, ¡°Alright, as long as Still doesn¡¯t mind, I can take a stroll with you each day.¡±

    Seveniughed, ¡°Xu Yi, I said it before, I¡¯ve only ever seen a man like you who is afraid of his wife once in my life.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort, ¡°I don¡¯t believe I¡¯m the only one. Not mentioning anything else, if you get married in the future, I don¡¯t believe that your husband would dare go and meet up with other women. Even if you don¡¯t mind, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people would definitely break his legs.¡±

    ¡°My husband?¡± Seveni gave a sigh before looking up at the stars. Then she turned back to Xu Yi, ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, I¡¯ll never get married in this life.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised and then he remembered that Seveni had already gotten pregnant before being married, even giving birth to a prince.

    Until now, no one knew who the father of the prince was, so it could be seen that it was hard for Seveni to bring this up.

    Suddenly bringing this up, it would hurt Seveni¡¯s heart.

    Xu Yi wanted to apologize, but then he had a thought and knitted his brows. He asked Seveni with a serious expression, ¡°Seveni, if you really treat me as a friend, tell me who that man is. I can help you teach him a lesson and tell him what responsibilities a man should bear.¡±

    Seveni turned to look at Xu Yi and her slightly opened lips showed her surprise.

    After a while, she slowly shook her head.

    ¡°No, treat it as he doesn¡¯t exist. Anyway, I already have a child now, nothing else is important.¡±

    ¡°Nothing else is important?¡± Xu Yi felt a bit angry, ¡°Seveni, even if you are a qu.....Ke, no matter why you are, you are a girl in the end. Is a father¡¯s child really not important? I don¡¯t believe it! Tell me, who is he? Even if that man is an important person from the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, I will definitely help you bring him here to clear this matter!¡±

    Seveni¡¯s lips twitched and she couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    ¡°No.....When I met him, he was a very normal person, but he had many strange ideas that went against the convention.¡±

    ¡°That means that his status isn¡¯t normal now? That is even more unforgivable! I.....¡± Xu Yi was stunned before he thought of something, ¡°I understand, Seveni, it¡¯s because his status isn¡¯t normal now that you¡¯re worried about something?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni gave a nod. She raised her hand and cut off Xu Yi¡¯s follow up question, ¡°Don¡¯t ask anymore. If you really treat me as a friend, then don¡¯t ask about this. I don¡¯t regret my decision, rather I¡¯m very happy. Being able to meet a man who is this unusual that can make my life this splendid. But.....it¡¯s all over. Xu Yi, don¡¯t ask about this in the future, alright?¡±

    Seeing that Seveni¡¯s eyes were filled with pleading and determination, Xu Yi gave a sigh and looked away.

    ¡°Such an irresponsible man who can make you care for him so much, to be honest, I¡¯m very surprised and even.....a bit jealous.¡±

    Seveni saw theplicated look of anger and sadness on Xu Yi¡¯s face and she revealed a smile that was hard to detect.

    ¡°Jealous? Anyone else in this world can be jealous of him, but only you don¡¯t need to be......¡±

 Volume 5 158 - Truce

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 158 Truce</strong>

    Whether it was Xu Yi or Seveni, leisure time was a luxury for them. The two walked around the street for around an hour before heading back to the royal pce with the same route.

    No one disturbed their talk after they returned to the royal pce and no one knew what they talked about.

    But half a month after Xu Yi left Anvilmar City, the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly proposed a ceasefire to the Sack Kingdom.

    Although the Sack Kingdom felt that the Lampuri Kingdom was shaming them with this proposal, because they were unable to resist the offense of the Lampuri Kingdom at all, they were forced to ept this in the end.

    For many of the people of the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom offering them this truce was something worth celebrating.

    The high ranking nobles were worried that the Lampuri Kingdom would sweep the Sack Kingdom and the lower ranked citizens were worried that the war would affect their lives.

    Among the citizens, the ones who were the most affected were those who lived in Tucklin Town in the previous free trade zone.

    Because Tucklin Town was chosen as the free trade zone between countries, this small town was suddenly filled with merchants from both countries and suddenly began to swell.

    At the same time, because of the merchants from the two countries trading here, the town became prosperous.

    The people of the town were poor before, but with the opening of the free trade zone, their lives hadpletely changed.

    There were suddenly many jobs in the town and anyone could find a job that had a decent ie as long as they had working limbs. They could even start their own small businesses and it wasn¡¯t hard for them to earn a small fortune.

    But after the war between the two countries started, the free trade zone was affected. There were no more merchants that came and the town became deadly silent in just a single night.

    All the business in the town stopped and everyone had lost their vitality.

    Everyone understood that once the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom, this free trade zone would be gone. The good lives that they had which was like springtime for them would be gone forever.

    But when everyone was feeling despair, there was some good news.

    The Lampuri Kingdom proposed a truce!

    After receiving this news, the people of Tucklin Town were filled with joy, but they were nervous every day because they were afraid that the upper ss of the kingdom wouldn¡¯t ept the truce.

    As long as the war continued, they would only be able to live their hopeless lives.

    The lucky thing was that after a week the Lampuri Kingdom proposed the truce, the Sack Kingdom finally made a decision to ept the truce. They began negotiating the ceasefire with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even though many people were worried that the kingdom would suffer from the peace talks, for the people of Tucklin Town, it didn¡¯t matter to them.

    The only thing they cared about was whether the free trade zone represented by Tucklin Town would open again.

    In just three days after the peace talks began, there was another good piece of news, which relieved the worries of the people of Tucklin Town.

    The first thing the Lampuri Kingdom added in the discussion was to reopen the free trade zone between the two countries.

    But at the same time, the Lampuri Kingdom also requested that not only would Tucklin Town be a free trade zone, the area around Tucklin Town which included three cities at the border between these two countries would also be a free trade zone.

    If one looked at it from a map, they would find that these three cities and Tucklin Town formed a line at the border. This covered all of the intersecting areas between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom.

    Of course, this didn¡¯t matter to Tucklin Town.

    The people of the town only knew that once the free trade zone opened again, they would regain the good days from before!

    Two weeks after the two kingdoms signed the new free trade zone agreement, the people of Tucklin Town were waiting excitedly for the first batch of merchants from the Lampuri Kingdom to arrive in Tucklin Town.

    However when they saw the gs flown by therge transport fleet, everyone was stunned.

    The gs were blowing in the wind, but what was on them was a half wing design. As the g fluttered in the wind, the half wing kept swinging like it was about to fly away.

    There definitely wouldn¡¯t be a mistake!

    This g definitely represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    In the past two years, with the various household magic machines entering the Sack Kingdom, everyone had experienced the benefits of these new things.

    When buying these household magic machines, people learned something. It was that when it came to household magic machines, the best would always be the Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    But even if countless examples proved this, the Frestech Brand household magic machine was never brought to Tucklin Town by the Lampuri Kingdom merchants and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never appeared.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s g appeared in Tucklin Town for the first time.

    As for why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never appeared in Tucklin Town before, the people of the town had already asked around. They knew that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a Lampuri Kingdompany, they wouldn¡¯t appear in the free trade zone on behalf of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But once this free trade zone opened, why did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appear?

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s g was very conspicuous in the front, like they were leading the caravan, so why was that?

    Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leading the caravan which was surprising, the caravan itself was surprising.

    When the caravans came from the Lampuri Kingdom in the past, although they had many transport Magic Cars before, there were still a few traditional horse carriages among them.

    The main reason was that transport Magic Cars cost too much and a smallpany couldn¡¯t afford it, so they could only use the traditional horse carriages.

    But this caravan from head to toe didn¡¯t have a single traditional horse carriage.

    From front to back, there were countlessrge transport Magic Cars that formed arge caravan. They passed through the stone and dirt road of Tucklin Town that wasn¡¯t considered big, filling the sky with dirt.

    This caravan was even more imposing than any other caravan that came from the Lampuri Kingdom before.

    Was it because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was leading them this time?

    Everyone watched with wide open eyes as this caravan approached. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s g was less than a kilometer away, a white Magic Sedan that seemed to be glowing under the sun quickly came forward.

    It had clearly been driving in the dust for a long time, but this Magic Sedan still shined like it wasn¡¯t stained by a single speck of dust.

    This Magic Sedan that was very smooth and beautiful quickly drove through the dust in the air. Just looking at it shocked people.

    Seeing this Magic Sedan, the Tucklin Town mayor Puyo who had been waiting outside the town for a long time to look at the important people beside him.

    ¡°Go greet him, don¡¯t be rude.¡± A middle aged man with a serious expression who looked quite strict said.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Puyo quickly agreed and raised his hand to start the orchestra who was already prepared for the wee. At the same time, the children who had been on the sides of the roads started waving the flowers in their hands.

    Then a group of people came forward.

    Xu Yi¡¯s personal Magic Sedan slowly came to a stop and after getting out to see the children on both sides and the orchestra, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This scene, he couldn¡¯t help thinking of the scene that he had seen on TV before back on earth many times.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, wee, wee......¡±

    That strict looking middle aged man by mayor Puyo before immediately had a smile bloom on his face when he saw Xu Yi. He quickly came forward and reached his hands out to him.

    Xu Yi reached his hand out to shake his hands with a smile, ¡°Chief Alvin, to have to personallye, it really makes me feel a bit embarrassed.¡±

    This middle aged man was the chief of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s business department, Pa Alvin.

    With the opening of the free trade zone again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leading the Lampuri Kingdom caravan to Tucklin Town had arge significance. The Sack Kingdom paid great attention to this, so they sent out the most important person they could.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that this was just for business on the surface, the Sack Kingdom definitely wouldn¡¯t have just sent the business department¡¯s chief Pa Alvin.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, chief Alvin gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu is too polite. After learning that you would be personallying, there were countless people in the kingdom who wanted to meet you. I benefited from my status to be able to stand here, otherwise who knows how long the lineup would be.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, thinking that this chief Alvin really did know how to tter people.

    But this person was the business department¡¯s chief, so he had contact with merchants frequently, so naturally he learned how to talk like them. He was a true distinguished guest of the Sack Kingdom, so it was normal for them to think highly of him.

    ¡°I¡¯m not some beauty, there¡¯s nothing interesting about meeting me. But speaking of wanting to see me, wouldn¡¯t it be more convenient if we built a road first?¡±

    Alvin looked at the Lampuri Kingdom caravan stopped behind Xu Yi and seeing the sky filled with dust, he revealed an awkward smile.

 Volume 5 159 - Filling vacancies

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 159 Filling vacancies</strong>

    The appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had driven the surge of magic machines in the countries of the southwest corner of the Sines Continent, which had greatly affected the surrounding countries.

    But if one put aside the magic machines, the biggest change that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought to these countries was the change in transportation.

    Public roads, these new roads that had appeared in Banta city at first had attracted the attention of many people.

    When the roads filled the Lampuri Kingdom, connecting every city in the Lampuri Kingdom, people noticed the benefits that these roads brought.

    With the Magic Cars that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, there was a new transportationwork in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Compared to the horse carriages on dirt roads of before, the Magic Cars on these smooth roads had increased both the speed of travel and theforts of travel, which pushed the traditional horse carriages into the backs of everyone¡¯s minds.

    So after seeing the benefits brought by the roads, the countries around the Lampuri Kingdom learned from them and began inviting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce into their countries to build roads.

    To this day, the Lampuri Kingdom has over twenty thousand kilometers of roads. Not only had they connected every city, they had almost connected every single town.

    In second ce was not the Rudson Kingdom that had a biggernd area than the Lampuri Kingdom, but rather the Stantine Duchy.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s total roads in the beginning of this year just passed ten thousand kilometers, but the Stantine Duchy¡¯s roads had already reached fifteen thousand kilometers in the middle ofst year.

    If one looked at it from the air, the roads of the Stantine Duchy were like a spider¡¯s web, with many different roads crossing each other. Even ces that didn¡¯t have roads before, now there was a road that connected to every part of the Stantine Duchy.

    All of this was of course because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was in the Stantine Duchy.

    Other than this, in the surrounding countries, such as the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Norton Duchy, and the others, they had built several roads which ensured that all their main roads had been reced.

    Even the Falk Kingdom that had contacted the Lampuri Kingdom the year beforest had already built three roads that passed through their kingdom, as well as ordering another eleven. It was estimated that there would be over two thousand kilometers of road that would be paved.

    ording to the report on the Amrit Chamber of Commerce the ?Lampuri Weekly? ran, they were estimated to finish paving roads in these countries in five years, connecting all the roads of these countries together.

    Once this was achieved, if one set out from the Stantine Duchy that was in the farthest southwest to the Falk Kingdom that was in the farthest northeast, which was a distance of two thousand and five hundred kilometers, there would be a road that connected the entire way.

    With the fastest Magic Sedan that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted, it would only take a day and a half to travel this distance.

    Just a few years ago, this was a distance that almost everyone had thought was impossible to traverse.

    It could be said that with the appearance of the roads, the distance between each country had greatly decreased. It made the countries in the southwest of the Sines Continent much closer to each other.

    All of this was however unrted to the Sack Kingdom.

    It was very simple, the Sack Kingdom had always been enemies with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was a Lampuri Kingdompany.

    Adding in the rtion between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Sack Kingdom, it was impossible for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to pave roads in the Sack Kingdom.

    So while the other countries were investing in roads, creating their new transportworks, the Sack Kingdom could only watch. Even if they wanted it, they couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    But after the establishment of the free trade zone between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, as well as the rtionship between the two countries bing more rxed, this gave the Sack Kingdom a bit of hope.

    But even if the Sack Kingdom had mentioned this to the Lampuri Kingdom either clearly or in secret, even sending people to contact the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in secret, they had been rejected. This had let the Sack Kingdom side give up hope.

    This time the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly dered war on the Sack Kingdom, which made the people of the Sack Kingdom give up hope even more when it came to the roads.

    The rtionship between them was already this bad, so how could the Lampuri Kingdom allow the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build roads in the Sack Kingdom?

    However, no one expected the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s attitude to suddenly experience a hundred and eighty degree change.

    After proposing truce to the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom not only set up this free trade zone again, they even became more rxed in other aspects.

    Building roads was one of them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t under the Lampuri Kingdom, but they led the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s caravan here. In the caravan behind them, there was a representative from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    After chief Alvin mentioned the roads, Xu Yi waved his hand behind him and chairman Cruise who had been watching on the side came over with a smile.

    ¡°Chief Alvin, this is the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise. Cruise, this is the Sack Kingdom¡¯s business department¡¯s chief Alvin.¡± Xu Yi introduced the two to each other.

    Chairman Cruise reached his hand out with a smile. When it came halfway, chief Alvin took it and said in an excited voice, ¡°Chairman Cruise, I really am happy to see you. Our Sack Kingdom has been hoping that you and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce woulde for a long time.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave augh, ¡°Chief Alvin, you¡¯re too polite. Actually, we also wanted toe earlier. In the transportationwork n of ourpany, we alwayscked the Sack Kingdom, so that has always made me feel anxious.¡±

    Chief Alvin gave a dryugh before holding chairman Cruise¡¯s hand with more strength.

    ¡°Since you¡¯re here, then why don¡¯t we fill this gap together, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Of course. I came this time just to fill it!¡± Chairman Cruise said in a strong voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and looked over the people behind chief Alvin before raising his voice to ask, ¡°May I ask which one of you is mayor Puyo?¡±

    Mayor Puyo, who had been smiling along the entire time, came over with a ttered look on his face.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask what your order is?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s not an order, but mayor Puyo, since the people of the caravan are already here, let¡¯s not waste any time and begin.¡±

    Mayor Puyo looked over at chief Alvin.

    Chief Alvin had a serious look, ¡°What are you looking at me for, you know what to do, listen to chairman Xu.¡± After saying this, he turned to Xu Yi and changed back to a friendly smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, please.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Chief Alvin, you¡¯re mistaken. I¡¯m not the lead this time, the lead is them.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi point at the Lampuri Kingdom caravan behind him, chief Alvin was surprised before patting his head and revealing an understanding look.

    ¡°Right, right, right, look at me. Then.....Chairman Cruise, how about we go meet the representatives of the otherpanies that came with you.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and seeing him give a nod, he went to the caravan with chief Alvin with a smile.

    ording to the agreement the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom signed, the caravan the Lampuri Kingdom sent today to the Sack Kingdom meant the opening of the free trade zone again.

    Although Xu Yi was the most importantpany representative, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a Lampuri Kingdompany in the end. They couldn¡¯t represent the Lampuri Kingdom in the ceremony that would officially dere the reopening of the free trade zone.

    His trip to the Sack Kingdom this time was just to show his stance. He represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce starting their cooperation with the Sack Kingdom, while also showing the sincerity of the Lampuri Kingdom in cooperating with the Sack Kingdom this time.

    So in the following ceremony, although Xu Yi said that he was an observer, whenever chief Alvin or mayor Puyo had free time, they woulde to see him.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the true lead of this cooperation.

    But the part that the Sack Kingdom cared about the most wasn¡¯t just here.

    After the ceremony, the Lampuri Kingdom caravan headed into Tucklin Town, heading to the stores that had already been prepared ahead of time.

    There were manypanies in the caravan that had established a foothold in Tucklin Town. There were also many who hadn¡¯t been here before, but because the free trade zone was being opened again between the two countries, they wanted to expand into the free trade zone and followed alone.

    For these newpanies, the Sack Kingdom and Tucklin Town had built many new stores, expanding the number of buildings in this free trade zone by two times.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce also received a store that was rather big, which would be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first store in the Sack Kingdom.

    Of course, what this store was selling was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various household magic machines.

    As for the military magic machine that Sack Kingdom cared about the most.....how could they sell it out in the open?

    Xu Yi who participated in the ceremony didn¡¯t participate in the feast that mayor Puyo had prepared for everyone. He followed a middle aged man who hade with chief Alvin into the private manor of mayor Puyo.

    When he arrived in the manor, Xu Yi felt a strong killing intenting from in front of him.

 Volume 5 160 - Right to be arrogant

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 160 Right to be arrogant</strong>

    Xu Yi looked through the hall and saw several faces with a strong military look on them.

    Of course, there was also a fellow who was rather round and seemed quite friendly.

    But with theserge people who looked like soldiers, even he had a trace of killing intent around him.

    Feeling the eyes filled with killing intent looking at him, Xu Yi revealed a smile as he walked towards the middle aged man who looked like a merchant.

    ¡°Major general Tofk, I¡¯m happy to see you again.¡±

    The middle aged man who looked like a merchant being called major general Tofk put aside that killing intent that was hard to detect in his eyes and reached his hand out towards Xu Yi with a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m also very happy that I could see you here.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before looking at the people around and asking, ¡°These should be the generals of your royal army?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, the middle aged man who seemed to be in his early forties, who was the youngest person here, gave a cold snort.

    ¡°I thought that Xu Yi was some incredible person, but I never thought that it would be a normal boy like you.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and ignored his provocation as he turned back to major general Tofk to say with a smile, ¡°It seems like the royal army doesn¡¯t have any sincerity, then it has been a wasted trip for me. Goodbye.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi actually turned to leave, major general Tofk was scared and quickly pulled at Xu Yi. He turned to signal to the middle aged man who had just spoken with his eyes before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you mustn¡¯t understand. We are filled with sincerity for this cooperation, there isn¡¯t a bit of falsehood at all. Otherwise it would be impossible to send all these people just to meet you, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Xu Yi lowered his head to look at major general Tofk holding his arm before looking up at the middle aged man who had just spoken. He calmly said, ¡°If you really are sincere in cooperating, then please don¡¯t waste time with these useless words.¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Although they knew that Xu Yi was only acting, hearing Xu Yi¡¯s tone rx, major general Tofk couldn¡¯t help wiping the cold sweat off his forehead.

    Being able to meet Xu Yi this time, it could be said that the Sack Kingdom had paid arge price. If they were to make Xu Yi leave with just a few words, major general Tofk couldn¡¯t imagine what would happen.

    Actually he didn¡¯t agree to the army headquarters sending these fellows to the negotiation, but the army headquarters said that these weremanders that were on the frontline, so they knew what kind of military magic machines the soldiers really needed and forced him to take them.

    As he had expected, once they saw Xu Yi, these seniormanders who had suffered losses at the hands of the Lampuri Kingdom northern army armed with the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were like they had met a life and death foe, not being able to hide their hostility towards Xu Yi.

    If these were normal negotiations, this could be considered putting some threat on Xu Yi which would build good foundations for their negotiations.

    But in these negotiations, they were onpletely different levels from the beginning because the Sack Kingdom was making a one sided request to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldpletely ignore them, then what could the Sack Kingdom do to the other side?

    Of course, major general Tofk never thought that Xu Yi¡¯s temper was this bad, showing such a strong stance like he didn¡¯t care if they negotiated or not.

    It was a real pity that while Xu Yi didn¡¯t care, the Sack Kingdom had to negotiate and they had to satisfy Xu Yi in these negotiations.

    Thinking of this major general Tofk could only give a bitterugh in his heart, thinking of that task the army headquarters gave him really wasn¡¯t easy.

    After finally pulling Xu Yi back to his seat, major general Tofk was silent for a bit before deciding to follow Xu Yi¡¯s words and not waste time. He took out the document the army headquarters already prepared and handed it over to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the requested military magic machines we are ordering this time, please take a look.¡± Major general Tofk gave Xu Yi this document and carefully observed Xu Yi¡¯s expression.

    Xu Yi took the list and carefully looked it over, not showing any changes in his expression.

    But after reading this list, Xu Yi paused for a second before shaking his head.

    ¡°Major general Tofk, this is different from what we discussed before. The long range Magic Cannons aren¡¯t being sold by us right now, so we can¡¯t provide any to you.¡±

    Major general Tofk said with augh, ¡°This can be discussed. Last time we discussed it through an intermediary, so it was a bit inconvenient. This time we can finally discuss it face to face, so it¡¯ll be easier to discuss, don¡¯t you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°No, we¡¯ve already decided itst time, it isn¡¯t easy to change. Major general Tofk, for your side to do this, it makes me think that you don¡¯t have any ideas of keeping your word.¡± Xu Yi said in a cold voice.

    Major general Tofk¡¯s expression froze and he was a bit unhappy.

    He was a major general in the royal army and although he normally dealt with logistics, dealing with other merchants, meeting all kinds of difficult people, this was his first time meeting someone like Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, is there really no room for discussion at all?¡± Major general Tofk asked with knitted brows.

    Xu Yi put down the list and looked at major general Tofk, revealing a slightly surprised look.

    ¡°If I remember correctly, before I came here, we already decided on this. This time, I am only representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign the agreement, I¡¯m not involved in anything else, right?¡±

    Major general Tofk was speechless.

    They did decide this before and because of their secret negotiations, they had pretty much determined the contract.

    But even if it was determined before, couldn¡¯t it be changed now?

    He didn¡¯t believe that Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman didn¡¯t understand this.

    Perhaps he could see through major general Tofk¡¯s ideas, Xu Yi continued, ¡°I understand the thoughts of your side, but at least for now, we aren¡¯t nning on deepening this cooperation. Major general Tofk, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, major general Tofk wasn¡¯t disappointed, but rather his eyes lit up.

    At least for now? Then what about the future?

    ¡°Ha, ha, since chairman Xu insists, I won¡¯t waste words.¡± Major general Tofk took the list from Xu Yi¡¯s hands and crossed out the long distance Magic Cannon line.

    The army headquarters had put this in as a probe, so it didn¡¯t really matter if Xu Yi didn¡¯t agree.

    This was their first time working together, so whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Sack Kingdom, they were probing each other.

    It could even be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being willing to sell the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom royal army was already something that filled them with joy.

    It had to be known, they had to use very difficult smuggling channels to get some military magic machines from the nobles of the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to directly sell military magic machines to them, that would be much better for them.

    Xu Yi looked over the list again and then asked for the contract from major general Tofk. He raised a few small problems with the contract before signing his name on it.

    On the surface, this contract seemed very simple, but this contract actually involved arge transaction.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be selling military magic machines worth five million gold coins to the Sack Kingdom.

    Although they were only low grade military magic machines, this was the first transaction between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Sack Kingdom, so five million gold coins wasn¡¯t considered small.

    After signing the contact, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on staying at all as he bid farewell to major general Tofk.

    Major general Tofk just said a few empty words to try and keep Xu Yi here before sending him off.

    After Xu Yi left mayor Puyo¡¯s manor, the suppressing atmosphere in the hall disappeared.

    The middle aged officer who had provoked Xu Yi before spat in the direction he had left in and fiercely said, ¡°Pei! That viin! It¡¯s just a few novel things and he dares to act this arrogant.¡±

    The other middle aged officers looked at each other before revealing bitter smiles at the same time.

    Although it sounded very simple, saying that Xu Yi only had a few novel things, the Sack Kingdom was in a terrible position because of those novel things, even putting their kingdom in crisis.

    Speaking of being arrogant, Xu Yi was qualified to be arrogant.

    There was no other way, the military magic machines were unparalleled. The countless fights between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had proven this.

    Now that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal armypletely epted this fact, if the Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army didn¡¯t get these military magic machines, they wouldn¡¯t be able to win against the attacks of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This problem was not something they could solve by having their soldiers go all out.

    So when the army headquarters received the news that Xu Yi was willing to sell military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, the army headquarters was filled with excitement. They immediately began negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Lampuri Kingdom dering war and disrupting this n, they would have already signed this contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As long as they could equip their soldiers with the military magic machines they had been waiting for, so what if Xu Yi was arrogant.

    ¡°But I feel that something is wrong.¡± A middle aged man with half white hair looked in the direction Xu Yi left in and said in a doubtful voice, ¡°Is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really willing to sell us something that ys a decisive role like the military magic machines? Could it be that Xu Yi doesn¡¯t know that this will strengthen our Sack Kingdom¡¯s royal army and make it harder for the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Un, I always thought that this might be a trap.¡± Another middle aged man said, ¡°Perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has bad intentions in selling us these military magic machines, they might even be selling us some trash.¡±

    ¡°Right, I feel the same.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I can¡¯t understand why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is doing this.¡±

    ......

    Hearing all this, major general Tofk looked at the contract with Xu Yi¡¯s name in his hand and carefully put it away. Then he looked at them and said with a bitter smile, ¡°I say, everyone, could it be that you don¡¯t understand? Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is selling us trash, we can only ept it. Or perhaps, even if we know that this is a trap, we can only jump into it. You have to know, as long as we can obtain anything about the military magic machines, the army headquarters can pay any price because.....we have no other choice.¡±

    The hall instantly fell into silence.

    Everyone stopped their discussions and looked at each other, seeing the helpless looks on each other¡¯s faces.

 Volume 5 161 - Just like the past Banta City

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 161 Just like the past Banta City</h4>

    It wasn¡¯t everyone who was like the people of the army headquarters who acted like they were eating a bitter fruit in cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    At least arge part of the people in the Sack Kingdom weed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set up their service center in Tucklin Town, it allowed the people of the Sack Kingdom to purchase the best quality Frestech Brand household magic machines. They could also obtain the rumoured most perfect post sale service that people imed was asfortable as taking a bath.

    This was a service that was hard to get from otherpanies.

    For the people of Tucklin Town, the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something worth celebrating.

    In the weing ceremony major Puyo held on behalf of Tucklin Town to wee the caravan from the Lampuri Kingdom, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t the leader of this caravan, whether it was mayor Puyo or chief Alvin, they always gave the most important introduction to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only built a service center in Tucklin Town, they even chose a ce outside of Tucklin Town to build a household magic machine production base.

    ording to the n, the production base would cover fifty thousand square meters. Right now they were building a Magic Fan factory, a Magic Air Conditioner factory, a Magic Refrigerator factory, and a Magic Lamp factory.

    Like this, these Frestech Brand household magic machines would be produced locally in the Sack Kingdom. It could bypass the tariffs of the Sack Kingdom which would lower their prices, making it more convenient for people to buy.

    But what the people of Tucklin Town cared about was not this, but rather the jobs that the production base brought.

    ording to the n the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi disclosed at the weing ceremony, the production base would recruit at least five thousand local workers once it was finished being built.

    Five thousand!

    All the people in Tucklin Town added up together was less than three thousand people.

    The first four factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could take in everyone in Tucklin Town and it still wasn¡¯t enough.

    This not only meant that the people of Tucklin Town didn¡¯t need to worry about work, even the surrounding people would benefit.

    This was working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It had to be known that in the surrounding countries, working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a dream for almost everyone.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s wages weren¡¯t the highest, all the benefits that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers received were far from what the otherpanies couldpare to.

    For thepanies in the Sack Kingdom, they simply couldn¡¯t even hold the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shoes!

    When this news spread, the area around Tucklin Town stirred. There were countless people that came to Tucklin Town, expressing their desire to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at their service center.

    But the reply they received was that they needed to wait until the first Magic Fan factory was built, then they would announce that they would be recruiting people and they hoped that everyone wouldn¡¯t be too anxious.

    Of course, people didn¡¯t need to be too disappointed.

    Because there was some time before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started recruiting people, but the otherpanies that came with them were already recruiting.

    The fastest was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    This time all thergepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom came with the caravan. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working with the Lampuri Kingdom, so they weren¡¯t an exception.

    Among thesepanies, the most important one for the Sack Kingdom was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the agreement, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would help the Sack Kingdom build their roads. The first one would connect to Palermo Town in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern province which was the closest town to the border, then it would pass through the Muerto Mountains to Tucklin Town before finally connecting to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital of Nordham City.

    Once this road wasplete, it would be the first time the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom would be connected. Whether it was symbolic meaning or practical meaning, it was all important.

    So this road was very important to the Sack Kingdom. Not only would chief Alvin be with chairman Cruise the entire way, the Sack Kingdom had sent several rted personnel to help, guaranteeing that this road could bepleted smoothly.

    Of course, there would be arge number of workers needed toplete this road. Even if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce brought many skilled workers, the simple work would depend on the local Sack Kingdom workers that they would recruit.

    At least for the first two hundred and ten kilometer road from the border to Tucklin Town, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce recruited one thousand and seven hundred workers from the Sack Kingdom.

    Thisrge amount had even surprised chief Alvin.

    Moreover, because the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they tried to give the same benefits as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. For these one thousand and seven hundred temporary workers, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce provided workers insurance, health insurance, heat pay, and many other things that the people of the Sack Kingdom had never heard of before.

    So when the news the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was recruiting spread, there were countless people that came to them.

    Then the other Lampuri Kingdompanies that came with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce announced they would be investing in factories in Tucklin Town, which created another surge in the Sack Kingdom.

    ¡°To Tucklin Town!¡±

    This phrase was something that everyone in the Sack Kingdom agreed on.

    The normal citizens went to Tucklin Town looking for good jobs, the merchants wanted to find better opportunities in Tucklin Town, and the nobles wanted to study from Tucklin Town to see if they could draw thesepanies to their own territories.

    As for the true upper strata of the Sack Kingdom, they paid even more attention to Tucklin Town.

    This town was only an attempt for the Lampuri Kingdom, but for the Sack Kingdom, it was a very rare opportunity.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had changed because of the new magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, dramatically increasing their kingdom¡¯s power in just a few years.

    If the Sack Kingdom seized this chance, they might be able to surpass the Lampuri Kingdom again.

    So after the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s caravan arrived in Tucklin Town, this small town with no fame in the Sack Kingdom became the center of attention for the entire kingdom. Countless people came from all over the Sack Kingdom and in less than half a month, it made the small town iparably lively.

    ¡°Hey, Seveni, don¡¯t you think that this situation is like Banta City in the past?¡± Xu Yi put down the ?Lampuri Weekly? in his hand and asked Seveni who was taking a sip of water.

    The peace talks between the two kingdoms and what happened after had all been reported on by the ?Lampuri Weekly?.

    For the change in Tucklin Town, the ?Lampuri Weekly? had reported on this in detail. They even boldly proimed that Tucklin town would be the center of industry and economics in the Sack Kingdom in the future, not even being weaker than Nordham City.

    This prediction seemed a bit too much right now, but based on the development of Tucklin Town, it wasn¡¯t impossible.

    Because this situation was close to Banta City in the past.

    However, Seveni put down her cup after hearing Xu Yi and shook her head.

    ¡°It looks like it on the surface, but it¡¯s farcking. Banta City had your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it became the first magic machine industry city on the continent. As for this Tucklin Town.....I don¡¯t believe that you would give them this core technology.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Of course.¡± Then he changed the topic, ¡°But speaking of core technology, Seveni, what do you think of what I just said?¡±

    Seveni slightly knitted her brows to think for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Adding some curriculum rted to the magic machine industry in some schools is fine, but this theoretical knowledge won¡¯t be as enticing as learning technical skills. In the end, by learning the skills, they can enter the magic machinepanies as skilled workers and earn quite a bit. But if they learn theoretical knowledge......how can they see the direct effects?¡±

    ¡°That depends on how determined you are.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Right now, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other magic machinepanies haven¡¯t invested in magic machine research at all. They haven¡¯t ced importance on it, so others don¡¯t put importance on it either. Ourpany takes this seriously and we give high wages to people of this trade, but ourpany isn¡¯t enough to change everyone¡¯s mind. If your Lampuri Kingdom could start investing in this, then it would bepletely different.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand the importance of research, but the problem is.....how do you want me to attach importance to this? Just opening these sses in the school and not offering any benefits to entice people, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s any meaning to this.¡±

    ¡°That is simple, as long as you¡¯re willing, we can first start with fixed learning. For example, our Lampuri Kingdom will establish a special fund in the schools of your Lampuri Kingdom, providing funds for the students studying magic machine theory and after they graduate, we¡¯ll give them a chance to work in ourpany. What do you think about that?¡±

    Seveni gave a soft snort, ¡°You¡¯re clearly trying to take advantage of our school¡¯s resources to obtain talented people for yourpany, you think I can¡¯t see through this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°This is for mutual benefits. Once these people graduate, they won¡¯t keep working at ourpany. As long as the otherpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom can provide them with enough benefits, it wouldn¡¯t be strange for them to return to the Lampuri Kingdom, right?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking her head, ¡°Forget it, I know that you cane up with many reasons to convince me, so there¡¯s no need to argue with you. Alright, it¡¯s decided. I will raise this suggestion to the kingdom parliament and if this passes, I will urge the schools of the kingdom to set up this policy as soon as possible. But Xu Yi, this requires your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to work with us.¡±

    ¡°This is something that I proposed, how could I not work with you?¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

 Volume 5 162 - On equal footing with Evita

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 162 On equal footing with Evita</h4>

    After having lunch in the royal pce with Seveni, Xu Yi rode his Magic Sedan out and left Anvilmar City.

    But he didn¡¯t go far, he came to a barren hill at the southwest suburbs of Anvilmar City.

    Looking up from the foot of the hill, he saw the iron tower that was half finished sparkling in the sun on top of the hill. Looking up at it, it seemed quite magnificent.

    This iron tower was of course the magic signal tower that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would promote in the future.

    Since Seveni had requested amunication line be established between the Stantine Duchy and Anvilmar City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been sending out manpower to take care of this.

    Of course, there was over a thousand kilometers from Anvilmar City to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, so it would take several years to make this connection.

    In this situation, Seveni first requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build amunicationwork in Anvilmar City.

    ording to Akali¡¯s research into magic resonance, she had already been able to discriminate between signals. She could let people use different Magic Communicators to contact different people through the same magic signal tower.

    Although this function couldn¡¯tpare to the cell phones from earth, at least the few people who had Magic Communicators could freely contact each other.

    That¡¯s right, the investment into the magicmunicationwork in Anvilmar City had already reached seven hundred and sixty thousand gold coins, but the only people who could ess it were less than fifty people including Seveni.

    Of course, to connect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to Anvilmar City, which was a distance of over a thousand kilometers, it would cost a shocking investment of thirteen million gold coins. But right now, thiswork was being established just for Xu Yi and Seveni, which seemed a bit too much.

    ¡°Hei.....how is that possible?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and shook his head.

    When it came to the magicmunicationwork connecting the Stantine Duchy and Anvilmar City, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s newspapers had the same view.

    Although most of them didn¡¯t dare put it too clearly, their meaning was that they were using her majesty Seveni of squandering the people¡¯s resources for her own selfish desires.

    There were only two people who used this magicmunicationwork, it really was too much.

    Seveni never exined this, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had exined the magicmunicationwork through the ?Lampuri Weekly? and other newspapers.

    ording to the information from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although this magicmunicationwork only had this purpose, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept making breakthroughs with this technology. They believed that in a few years, the magicmunicationwork was something that everyone would be able to use.

    When that timees, anyone could talk to another person who was connected to the magic signalwork at any time.

    Many people were enticed by the beautiful scene described in the newspapers, but there were also many people who doubted this.

    It was a good thing that since Seveni took the throne, the Lampuri Kingdom had been developing well every year. She had a high prestige in the Lampuri Kingdom, so even if people questioned her, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce also had a very good image in the minds of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people. Then again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always did very novel things that people couldn¡¯t understand, so it didn¡¯t matter if they took out this magic signal tower and this magicmunicationwork.

    Countless people looked forward to it, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to make a breakthrough in their technology. If they could achieve the scene described in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, that would fill people with joy.

    ¡°Speaking of this.....Last time Count Sean told me that he also wanted a magicmunicationwork in Sowell City, but there¡¯s not much use for this in Sowell City.....¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows as he muttered this. He looked back up at the magic signal tower before using his magic to fly up from the foot of the hill.

    When he came to the top, Akali looked over at him.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, you¡¯re done talking with her majesty?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t finished talking, it¡¯s finished eating.¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the Amrit Chamber of Commerce working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technical staff and asked, ¡°It seems like you still haven¡¯t had lunch yet?¡±

    ¡°Lunch?¡± Akali looked at the sky and said in a surprised voice, ¡°So it¡¯s already thiste! I thought that it was still morning.¡± She rubbed her stomach after saying this and revealed a bitter look, ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s all your fault! I didn¡¯t feel hungry at first, but now that you¡¯ve mentioned it, I can¡¯t take this hunger anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head. He turned to look at the others and gave a p before raising his voice, ¡°Alright, you can all stop working now and prepare to take your lunch.¡±

    The workers of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce naturally didn¡¯t mind, but the technical staff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce looked at Akali.

    Akali rubbed her stomach before waving her hand, ¡°Alright, since sir chairman has already spoken, everyone can go get lunch.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce always treated their employees well, so before building this magic signal tower, they had already prepared all the logistics.

    Although this was a bit far from Anvilmar City, there was already a ce to live that already had food prepared.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines, life was quite convenient.

    But Xu Yi saw that Akali was about to eat with her subordinates, so he grabbed her hand.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to go. Come with me, I¡¯ll invite you to a meal.¡±

    Akali was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you already eaten?¡±

    ¡°The problem is that I have to eat again.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug. He took Akali and flew off towards the foot of the hill.

    Akali was a bit confused, but she followed him after thinking about it.

    The two stopped at Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan parked at the foot of the hill. After starting it, Xu Yi asked Akali, ¡°Akali, if nothing unexpected happens, ourpany will be developing a magic research facility in Anvilmar City with the Lampuri Kingdom. Are you interested in being the chief?¡±

    Akali blinked in a daze, ¡°Sir chairman, you.....What are you saying?¡±

    ¡°Alright, I know that you heard me. Speak, are you interested?¡±

    Akali was in a daze for a bit before revealing a bit of hesitation on her face, ¡°Sir chairman, if you suddenly say this to me.....I really haven¡¯t prepared my heart.¡±

    ¡°So I¡¯m telling you now so that you can prepare your heart.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Actually, there isn¡¯t anything to prepare yourself for. With your current position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the one most suited for the chief of this magic research facility is you. Moreover, you can also work on building the magicmunicationwork, so it¡¯s quite good.¡±

    ¡°But wouldn¡¯t I have toe to the Lampuri Kingdom for work?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget, you are from the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Ah? I......I really forgot.....¡±

    Just like Akali, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left the Lampuri Kingdom, they took many of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s natives with them.

    These people had been working in the Stantine Duchy for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they had been living in the Stantine Duchy for a long time, so many of them had already forgotten they were from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    When King Eric was on the throne, he called those people traitors of the Lampuri Kingdom and took away their status as citizens.

    But after Seveni took the throne, she announced that this decision was inalid and weed them back to the Lampuri Kingdom at any time.

    But those people were already used to working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so not many people came back.

    Akali had also forgotten that she was from the Lampuri Kingdom, so she only remembered after Xu Yi mentioned this.

    ¡°But that doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Akaliined, ¡°I¡¯ve lived in the Stantine Duchy for all those years, even more mom, dad, and little brother all moved there. If you have me move back to the Lampuri Kingdom now.....This......¡±

    ¡°That means that you¡¯re nning on remaining as Evita¡¯s subordinate forever?¡± Xu Yi suddenly said.

    Akali was stunned again. After pausing, her eyes suddenly lit up, ¡°Sir chairman, you mean.....this position as chief of this magic research facility is at the same level as Evita?¡±

    ¡°Strictly speaking, there¡¯s still a level off, but this magic research facility doesn¡¯t follow the management of the main facility. It reports directly to thepany, which is mymand, so.....you understand.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Akali excitedly cheered before lowering her head to think for a bit. Then she raised her head to say to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, can you give me two days to consider this?¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    Xu Yi replied before suddenly spinning the wheel, making the Magic Sedan take a quick turn. They left the main road leading to Anvilmar City and came to another suburb outside Anvilmar City.

    ¡°Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you n on taking me into the city for a meal?¡± Akali asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°I did invite you to the city, but before this, we need to meet a few guests first.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Guests?¡±

    Akali was even more confused.

    Who was that important that they needed Xu Yi to personally meet them?

 Volume 5 163 - Donâ€™t race cars on the road

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 163 Don¡¯t race cars on the road</strong>

    The Magic Sedan carrying Xu Yi and Akali left the southern suburb of Anvilmar City. They went around the south of Anvilmar City and stopped at a fork that was five kilometers away from the east gate.

    At this fork, the road going east was the second road that connected to the Mirando Duchy and the road going north was the road that connected to the Drake Duchy.

    The road that led to the Mirando Duchy, because it was newly built, whether it was in terms of width or condition, it was better than the road leading to the Drake Duchy.

    But Xu Yi was clearly focused on the road leading north to the Drake Duchy with an expectant look in his eyes.

    Akali looked at Xu Yi and couldn¡¯t help teasing, ¡°Hey, sir chairman, could it be that Princess Caroline ising?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi turned in a surprised manner and seeing Akali secretlyughing, he immediately understood her intentions. He said with augh, ¡°That¡¯s right, Princess Caroline ising, what about it?¡±

    Akali was only joking at first, but she never thought that it would be true which stunned her.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, are you meeting Princess Caroline in secret without telling Still?¡±

    ¡°Meeting in secret your head!¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°If it was in secret, why would I bring you along?¡±

    Akali gave augh, ¡°Perhaps you did it on purpose so that Still wouldn¡¯t misunderstand after learning about this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her, ¡°Then tell me, if Still really knew that I met Princess Caroline in secret, would she misunderstand?¡±

    Akali thought about it before suddenly giving a sigh.

    ¡°Alright, she wouldn¡¯t. This fellow, no matter how many women you contact, she¡¯s always assorted. She even hopes that you would find a few more women, I really don¡¯t know what she¡¯s thinking.¡±

    ¡°She is just thinking for me, but she¡¯s always pushing down her own feelings.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh. After pausing, he said to Akali with a serious look, ¡°Akali, you and Still are good friends, there are a few things that are easier for you to tell me. Help me tell her that I hope that she¡­..will be a bit more selfish in the future and think about her own feelings. She doesn¡¯t need to feel wronged just for me, alright?¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit with a bit of a strange expression on her face.

    ¡°I say, sir chairman, this is something that you should say to her, but you want me to say it. People that don¡¯t know what¡¯s happening would think that I was instigating you as a couple.¡±

    ¡°This is something I¡¯m having you say, what are you worried about?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Anyway, I won¡¯t do it. Say it yourself if you want to say it.¡± Akali gave a soft snort. She turned away, clearly not wanting to talk to Xu Yi anymore.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused by Akali¡¯s reaction. He knitted his brows and wanted to say something, but he saw Akali suddenly raise her hand to point at the road to the north.

    ¡°They¡¯re here!¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look and found that one the road to the north, there was arge amount of Magic Cars and a few rare traditional horse carriages, as well as several Magic Sedans.

    The two Magic Sedans that were in the front had very bright colours which made people focus on them.

    The one in front waspletely red and it was quickly racing across the road, like a me that was rolling over thend.

    The Magic Sedan that was following behind it was bright yellow, sparkling in the warm early spring sunlight. As it raced across the road, it was even more eye catching than the fire red Magic Sedan.

    When they first saw the Magic Sedan, it was still at least two to three meters away from the fork, but soon they were just a single step away from the fork.

    Seeing that they were about to reach the fork, the fire red Magic Sedan suddenly hit the brake and stopped less than five meters away from Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan. It looked quite thrilling.

    As for the bright yellow Magic Sedan that was following it, it clearly didn¡¯t react in time and it only stepped on the brake once it reached the fork, rolling close to a hundred meters off the road.

    ¡°Let¡¯s get out.¡± Xu Yi said to Akali, opening the door to the car.

    The door of the fire red Magic Sedan in front opened and a face that was as beautiful as a flower, looking even more beautiful as it bathed in the sunlight, making it even more eye catching than the fire red Magic Sedan beside her came out.

    It was Princess Caroline that Akali had mentioned earlier.

    ¡°Hey, dear Xu Yi, did you wait here for long?¡± Princess Caroline waved her hand at Xu Yi with a bright smile before her expression became a bit stiff when she suddenly saw Akali who came along. Then she suddenly revealed a look of understanding, ¡°Isn¡¯t this dear miss Akali? Hey, miss Akali, do you still remember me?¡±

    Akali didn¡¯t have a good expression when she looked over her before giving a nod and giving an ¡°un¡± sound, which was considered a response.

    Princess Caroline acted like she couldn¡¯t see her attitude at all as she came over with a smile and said with an excited look, ¡°Miss Akali, I remember that you mainly worked on researching magic resonance, right? Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been promoting your magic signal tower and been building the magicmunicationwork, you are the person in charge, right? I am very interested in this, so can you please introduce this to me?¡±

    Hearing Princess Caroline ask about her specialty and in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n, the Drake Duchy would be an important customer for this magicmunicationwork, Akali no longer acted as cold and started to introduce this to Princess Caroline with a nod.

    Xu Yi on the side saw this and he couldn¡¯t help secretlyughing.

    He was very clear that Akali acting this way to Princess Caroline was venting anger for her friend Still, saying that she was someone who just hung onto him.

    However, Princess Caroline was very good at dealing with people and Akali was someone who focused on research, so how could a researcher who worked alone be her match?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t disrupt them and turned to the bright red Magic Sedan that drove off the road. There was a sudden loud sound before it suddenly backed up.

    However, this moved too fast and the Magic Sedan jumped out like a wild horse, charging more than ten meters out and hitting arge tree by the road, giving off a loud sound.

    This sound scared Akali and Princess Caroline who had been talking. The two looked over in surprise and saw a young man tumbling out of the door of the bright yellow Magic Sedan.

    Princess Caroline slightly knitted her brows and after thinking about it, she asked with a worried look, ¡°Seymour, are you alright?¡±

    This young man whose face was a bit pale from the sudden crash was the son of the good friend of Marquis Southgate that camest time, Seymour.

    ¡°It¡¯s¡­¡­It¡¯s fine¡­¡­¡± Hearing Princess Caroline¡¯s voice, Seymour, who looked like his soul had jumped out, forced down the frightened look on his face and revealed a smile that looked worse than crying.

    However, when he turned back to look at the bright yellow Magic Sedan, his expression copsed again.

    ¡°My god! I only bought this one less than a week ago! It¡¯s actually already ruined!¡±

    Since Seymour wasn¡¯t looking at her, Princess Caroline quickly rolled her eyes before saying with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry, Seymour, chairman Xu is here. It¡¯s fine if your car is ruined, you can just have him invite someone to fix it.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu?¡± Seymour was surprised before finally reacting. He turned to look over at Xu Yi and revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Ah, chairman Xu, you¡¯re here. I¡¯m sorry, I was just racing with Princess Caroline and didn¡¯t notice you there.¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and pointed at the countless Magic Cars, the traditional horse carriages, and the pedestrians on the sides of the road before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Princess Caroline, your excellency Seymour, I must strictly warn you that if you want to race cars, please go to a professional race track. Whether it is in the Lampuri Kingdom or our Stantine Duchy, there are locations that you can use at any time. But the public roads are not suited for racing, it¡¯s very easy for an ident to happen.¡±

    Princess Caroline was a bit surprised before sticking her tongue out in a naughty manner. She said with a smile, ¡°Alright, I got it. Many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s reminder.¡±

    Seymour curled his lips and had a look of disdain, clearly not listening to Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    Xu Yi looked at him and was toozy to care. He looked over at the three Magic Sedans that wereing down the road to the north.

    Seymour looked at his bright yellow Magic Sedan that had its butt ruined and he felt a bit of pain in his heart. He was about to ask Xu Yi for help, but after he had been rebuked by Xu Yi, he felt a bit dissatisfied. After thinking about it, he only gave a cold snort and didn¡¯t say anything.

    After a while, the three Magic Sedans also slowly stopped by the fork.

    The Magic Sedan in the middle opened the back door and Marquis Southgate headed towards Xu Yi with a friendly smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m very happy to see you again.¡± Marquis Southgate waved his hand to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ha, ha, being able to see the Lord Marquis again, I feel even more happy.¡±

    Xu Yi came forward with a smile. After he waved to Marquis Southgate, his eyes fell onto the grey haired old man with a flushed face that came out of the car beside him.

    This old man was wearing a deep blue magician¡¯s robe, which looked like it was made with high end materials and was made with fine craftsmanship.

    Butpared to his clothes, what caught people¡¯s attention more was the ripple symbol on his chest.

    If one looked carefully, one would find that it wasn¡¯t inanimate. Under the light of the sun, it gave off a wave light pattern where one could see the spray of watere out, like there really was spray from the sea.

    A magician that could have this symbol on his chest was a Great Magician that had passed the Magicians Guild¡¯s Great Magician certification.

    Moreover, there was another normal looking symbol beside this that demonstrated his other status.

    This excellency Great Magician was actually from the Sines Continent¡¯s Magicians Guild headquarters on the City in the Sky.

 Volume 5 164 - Meeting by chance

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 164 Meeting by chance</strong>

    The old magician looked at Xu Yi before revealing a smile of deep meaning.

    ¡°Your excellency Xu Yi, should I call you chairman Xu? Or should it be your excellency Great Magician?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and gave him the magicians greeting before saying without any fear, ¡°It¡¯s better to call me chairman Xu. Everyone is more familiar with this identity and I like being called this more. Your excellency Ferguson, it¡¯s been hard on you toe all the way here, I really feel sorry about this.¡±

    The old magician gave a sigh and shook his head before revealing a smile.

    ¡°If it was riding the old horse carriages like before, then it would be a bit exhaustinging three thousand kilometers from the City in the Sky. But sitting in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan, the trip was much shorter and it wasn¡¯t that exhausting.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your excellency¡¯s praise. Of course, if the Marlow Empire and the Falk Kingdom were connected with roads, I believe that your trip would have been even easier and morefortable.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Marquis Southgate on the side gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to remind me. Be assured, since I¡¯m here this time, it means a decision has been made. I think that you¡¯ll be happy with my decisions.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then that really is great.¡± Xu Yi broke out inughter before giving the two of them an inviting gesture, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then please enter the city and let¡¯s slowly discuss this. It isn¡¯t suitable to talk on a road, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, let¡¯s go.¡±

    Marquis Southgate and Great Magician Ferguson looked at each other before giving nods and getting back in the Magic Sedan.

    Xu Yi waved his hand to Akali and Princess Caroline which they both understood, moving to their separate Magic Sedans.

    There was only Seymour standing there looking at his bright yellow Magic Sedan in a daze. He looked at Xu Yi and hesitated to speak.

    ¡°Your excellency Seymour, only the back side of this car was hit, it doesn¡¯t affect its performance. You can drive it into the city first and I¡¯ll have someone fix it.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Ah.....Alright.....Alright.¡±

    Seymour first revealed a look of pleasant surprise before forcing it down. He quickly went into his Magic Sedan and after not having a problem starting it, he immediately quickly drove off with a smile.

    Seeing that bright yellow Magic Sedan disappear into the distance, Xu Yi knitted his brows. He entered his Magic Sedan and headed towards Anvilmar City after starting it.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t lead them into Anvilmar City, but rather they came to a suburb that was two kilometers outside of the southern gate.

    Although this was a suburb, when one looked at it, they would find that it was filled with tall buildings. There were tides of people here and it wasn¡¯t any less lively than inside Anvilmar City.

    This was the newly built city district that was opened two years ago. Compared to the industrial base in the west, this ce was the newmercial zone. It gathered many of the stores and restaurants of Anvilmar City¡¯s biggestpanies.

    Even the most luxurious Chanel Restaurant in Anvilmar City opened a branch here and because they weren¡¯t limited bynd like in the city, this ce was ten times bigger than the old store.

    Of course, the biggest area was used as a parking lot.

    The ¡°parking lot¡± was a new concept that had just appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom two years ago, rather it was a new concept that had started in Anvilmar City and Banta City.

    Before the restaurants only prepared a small area for parking for the guests that came in horse carriages, but as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan became popr in the Lampuri Kingdom, with almost every merchant and noble having one, the lots that the restaurants used for parking before were far from enough.

    To be honest, arge part of the reason Anvilmar City opened this newmercialnd in the south was because of theck of parking spaces.

    Moreover, this ce wasn¡¯t far from Anvilmar City and the environment was also much better. It only took ten minutes to drive here in a Magic Sedan, so once this shop was opened, it became even more popr than the main Chanel Restaurant.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that Xu Yi had made an appointment ahead of time, with so many people suddenly arriving, not only would they have not found a ce to eat, they wouldn¡¯t have even had a ce to park.

    When Xu YI¡¯s group was led by the valet waiting outside the door of the Chanel Restaurant to the parking space that was reserved for them, once they came out of the car, they heard cursing from behind them.

    ¡°Damn, why can they park as soon as they arrive and we can¡¯t? Is your Chanel Restaurant looking down on us? Ah? Let me tell you, father is from the Festalin Family, your Chanel Restaurant can look down on me, but can you look down on my grandfather?¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows as he looked over. The young person who was drunk was pointing at them with an arrogant look on his face.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, he red right back at him.

    ¡°What are you looking at? I don¡¯t know which small merchant you are, you dare to be this arrogant? Do you know who I am? I¡¯m......¡±

    Before he could finish, the person beside him suddenly covered his mouth and made him swallow his words. He could only make muffled sounds and couldn¡¯t say a word.

    Xu Yi looked at Anke Eren covering his mouth, finding it a bit funny.

    ¡°Your friend?¡±

    Anke Eren nodded with an awkward smile towards Xu Yi, ¡°Un.....He is the grandson of Duke Festalin.....He just drank too much, so please don¡¯t be offended by his words.¡±

    ¡°I thought that after you opened yourpany, you would leave this kind ofpany, but it seems like it still hasn¡¯t changed.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before asking, ¡°You said that he was drinking?¡±

    ¡°Un.....He¡¯s drunk, drunk, so you really, really shouldn¡¯t mind his nonsense.¡±

    Anke Eren was considered the chairman of the Anke Chamber of Commerce with some fame. He was considered someone with a bit of position in the Lampuri Kingdom, but in front of Xu Yi, he could only act this way, not daring to disrespect him at all.

    He still remembered the trauma Xu Yi had afflicted onto him with the gambling trap and was actually thankful that Xu Yi gave him a chance to turn a new leaf, bing a person that many people could respect.

    ¡°He¡¯s drunk......Then was he the one who drove that car here?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the pure white Magic Sedan beside that person as he asked this question.

    Anke Eren looked over and gave a nod.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s his car. Us friends were gathered somewhere else and didn¡¯t feel that it was that good, so we came here, but we never thought that we would meet you. These people are......¡±

    ¡°They aren¡¯t rted to you for now.¡± Xu Yi cut off Anke Eren¡¯s questioning and pointed at that person, ¡°Driving while drunk, you should know what kind of punishment there is. Send him to public security, I don¡¯t need to tell you about anything else.¡±

    Anke Eren was stunned as his expression changed.

    He had even forgotten about this.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept promoting the Magic Sedan in the Lampuri Kingdom, they strictly regted those who could drive Magic Sedans.

    Although the driver¡¯s license had been handed over to the Lampuri Kingdom to take care of, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept adding newws. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament almost never rejected any of thews the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed.

    Among thesews, driving while drunk had a very serious punishment.

    This friend of his had been caught by Xu Yi, so that meant that he wouldn¡¯t be able to drive another Magic Sedan for another three months.

    Anke Eren gave a bitterugh and was about to respond, but the youth who he had been covering the mouth of broke free and pointed at Xu Yi as he cursed, ¡°What kind of thing are you? You actually dare to meddle in father¡¯s matters, I think that you don¡¯t want to live here anymore, right? Do you believe.....¡±

    He didn¡¯t get to finish half his words.

    This time Anke Eren didn¡¯t cover his mouth, rather he hit him in the back. There was a cyan magic glow around his hand. It was unknown what magic he used, but that person fainted right away.

    Xu Yi looked at Anke Eren in surprise, ¡°Ah, I never thought that your magic would increase in the past few years.¡±

    Anke Eren quickly said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m normally working with magic machines, so I¡¯ve had more time to research magic. Of course, I can¡¯tpare to you since you are already a Great......¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to cut him off.

    ¡°Alright, I said that there¡¯s nothing involving you here, but now I¡¯ve changed my mind. Give him to your other friends to carry of, youe with me.¡±

    Anke Eren was surprised before looking at the people behind Xu Yi who were watching what had happened with a smile. He found that other than a young man who was the same age as the friend beside him who had his nose up the whole time, the others all had unusual auras to them.

    Other than the two beautiful misses, the middle aged man was definitely from a noble family and had a unique status.

    And that old magician was actually a Great Magician from the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarters!

    If these people came with Xu Yi, they were naturally discussing things that weren¡¯t ordinary.

    Now that Xu Yi had allowed him toe, wasn¡¯t this giving him a chance to participate in their discussions?

    Anke Eren felt his heart beating quickly several times before quickly passing his knocked out friend to his other friends. He said, ¡°Sorry, I can¡¯t be with you for now.¡± And then he followed Xu Yi with a wide smile.

    His friends looked at the knocked out person in their hands in a daze before looking at Anke Eren who was smiling like a flower blooming, all feeling confused.

    This fellow, had he been drugged today?

 Volume 5 165 - Why headquarters would send someone

    <h4>Volume 5 Chapter 165 Why headquarters would send someone</h4>

    ¡°So it¡¯s president Eren¡¯s son, no wonder you look a bit familiar.¡± Great Magician Ferguson nodded at Anke Eren with a smile, ¡°I was nning on seeing president Eren after meeting chairman Xu, but I never thought that I would see his son first. How has president Eren been recently?¡±

    Anke Eren quickly gave a bow, ¡°Many thanks for your excellency¡¯s care, lord father has been in a very good mood recently, his magic powers have increased, and the various guild matters have been going smoothly. It makes me, as his son, feel very assured.¡±

    ¡°Oh? President Eren¡¯s magic power increased? I don¡¯t know if he¡¯s made a breakthrough in rank?¡± Great Magician Ferguson asked in an interested voice.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about this. Lord father has said that because he has been studying magic machines recently, he¡¯s had some attainment in his magic research which has increased his strength. As for the specifics, he hasn¡¯t told me anything.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s rted to magic machines again?¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked over at Xu Yi sitting opposite to him and said in an emotional voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I thought that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines only made lives easier, but I never thought that it could help us magicians increase our magic power. This really is surprising.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Your praise is too much. President Eren increased his strength naturally because of his focus on research. What magic machines, it just gave him a bit of inspiration.¡±

    ¡°No, for magicians in our realm, things that can give us a bit of inspiration are indeed rare. I was very surprised before that Arch Magus Cami hadn¡¯t made a breakthrough in several dozen years, but then he broke through again and again in the past few years, even bing a respected Arch Magus. Thinking of it now, it should be rted to helping yourpany research magic machines.¡±

    ¡°I feel that it¡¯s just that Arch Magus Cami was well prepared and achieved this after several years of effort.¡±

    Xu Yi acting this way wasn¡¯t just to be modest, the main reason was that he still didn¡¯t know what reason Great Magician Ferguson came for this time.

    When he received the news that Marquis Southgate would be inspecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again, Xu Yi was happy because this meant that Marquis Southgate had made his decision, wanting to discuss business with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a good opening in the Marlow Empire. It wouldy the foundation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing in the Marlow Empire.

    Not to mention that Marquis Southgate always had a good attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machines, unlike the attitude of the Candra Empire.

    Working with Marquis Southgate, the magic machines would be able to smoothly spread in the Marlow Empire.

    As long as they could spread magic machines through one of the two empires, this meant that Xu Yi could take a step towards his dream of spreading magic machines across the continent.

    Moreover, if the magic machines became popr in the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire would be affected by this. It would be very likely that they would change their attitude that made it hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop in the Candra Empire.

    But after Marquis Southgate sent someone, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild also sent someone. The Magicians Guild headquarters in the City in the Sky would be sending one of their thirteen council members, Great Magician Christopher Ferguson to meet Xu Yi.

    They didn¡¯t exin what Great Magician Ferguson wanted, but they did state that he would be here to negotiate with Xu Yi on behalf of the Magicians Guild and they didn¡¯t reveal anything else.

    This was clearly a bit strange.

    Normally with an important magician like Arch Magus Cami in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild shouldn¡¯t be sending a Great Magician to see Xu Yi instead of Arch Magus Cami. This really was a bit confusing.

    What surprised people more was that this Great Magician Ferguson wasing with Marquis Southgate.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know the rtionship between the two, so before understanding their goal, it was natural that he would be a bit more discrete.

    ¡°Speaking of this, chairman Xu, how many magicians are currently working for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Great Magician Ferguson suddenly changed the topic.

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit before honestly replying, ¡°Up to now, including me, there are a total of two thousand seven hundred and thirty six magicians.¡±

    ¡°Two thousand seven hundred and thirty six?¡± Great Magician Ferguson revealed a surprised look, clearly being taken aback by this number, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think.....other than the armies of the various countries, there isn¡¯t another organization like yourpany that has this many magicians, right?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows as a bit of vignce filled his heart.

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s words......could they be a warning?

    The organization with the most magicians on the continent other than an army?

    This title wasn¡¯t a good thing for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because it was easy to make people wary of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Your praise is too much.¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Although ourpany has many magicians right now, most of them are only Third or Fourth Grade Magicians, how could theypare to the armies of the continent? Then again, they are only working for ourpany and aren¡¯t selling their lives in an army.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Great Magician Ferguson revealed a smile. After pausing, he continued, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually the appraisal of our Magicians Guild headquarters of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always been high.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That realy makes one happy, but can you tell me why that is?¡± Xu Yi and the other people at the table revealed looks of interest.

    The Magicians Guild was the organization that united all magicians on the continent, it had enormous influence on the continent and there were times where its words were even heavier than the two empires.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a top gradepany in the surrounding countries, but they weren¡¯t considered first ss on the continent. Why would the Magicians Guild care about them?

    Only Marquis Southgate had a smile, as if he already knew what Great Magician Ferguson would say next.

    ¡°The reason is very simple, it¡¯s that out of the two thousand seven hundred and thirty six magicians you mentioned, most of them are Third or Fourth Grade Magicians.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said with a smile.

    ¡°Please exin.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson revealed a faint smile, ¡°I think that president Eren should have mentioned something on this to you, but since I¡¯m here, I¡¯ll take this chance to tell you the stance of our headquarters.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly sat up a bit and nodded, revealing an attentive stance.

    Great Magician Ferguson paused for a second as if he was thinking about how to say it before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know what the objective of founding the Magicians Guild on the continent was?¡±

    Xu Yi quickly thought over the general knowledge he had of the Magicians Guild and found that he had forgotten this specific detail.

    But that couldn¡¯t baffle him as he thought of the guiding principles of the organizations on earth before answering, ¡°I think.....it should be gathering all the magicians on the continent to give them a single organization, to provide more benefits and support to everyone?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s the general gist.¡± Great Magician Ferguson nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But to be more specific, or to be a bit realistic, it is to help all magicians live a better life. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I understand your general meaning. For Great Magicians or Arch Magi, you naturally don¡¯t have to worry about surviving, but for most lower grade magicians, they aren¡¯t that much better than normal people and it isn¡¯t easy to live a better life.¡±

    ¡°Yes. Moreover, normal people can have no worries in studying their skills and improving their lives, but since magicians know that they have this talent for magic, there is no one willing to give up this talent.¡±

    The people in the room, not only the magicians like Xu Yi, Akali, and Anke Eren, couldn¡¯t help giving a nod to show their agreement with Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s words. Even Marquis Southgate and Princess Caroline on the side who weren¡¯t magicians couldn¡¯t help nodding in agreement.

    Magicians were special for the people of the Sines Continent. Knowing that they have talent for magic and there was a chance to be a magician, no one would be willing to give it up and would do everything they could to achieve this dream.

    Only Seymour curled his lips and disdained this conversation.

    He had been from arge noble family and there were several magicians in his family¡¯s guards. These magicians had always been respectful towards him, not having the so-called arrogance of magicians.

    This made him never feel that magicians were that incredible. If he had to say something, only Great Magicians and Arch Magi could enter his eyes.

    But thinking of it, Seymour suddenly realized that fellow Xu Yi wasn¡¯t only the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was also a powerful Great Magician.

    This fact made him feel a bit discouraged.

    Even if he wasn¡¯t convinced by Xu Yi, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Any magician would care about their time, not giving up on studying magic. But for most of these magicians it would be hard for them to make any breakthroughs with their studies. They would waste a lot of time, effort, and......money.¡±

    When Great Magician Ferguson said this, he stopped to give a deep sigh.

    Xu Yi and Akali both had heavy looks.

    There was no need to mention a fellow like Xu Yi who transmigrated, Akali was born on the Sines Continent and was a poor Low Grade Magician.

    She knew better than anyone that the path of a magician like her was actually very hard.

    If it wasn¡¯t for her meeting Xu Yi, she might have been like most Low Grade Magicians, being stuck at that level because of the limitations. She wouldn¡¯t be adored like the higher grade magicians or Great Magicians, being limited to being a normal person and learning a trade to make a living.

    Thinking of this, Akali took a deep look at Xu Yi with a bit of gratitude before a trace of bitterness appeared in her eyes.

    If she met this fellow earlier, how good that would have been......

 Volume 5 166 - Set cooperating company

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 166 Set cooperatingpany</strong>

    When Great Magician Ferguson said this, Xu Yi could already understand his meaning.

    President Eren had mentioned this to him before, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recruited three hundred Third and Fourth Grade Magicians from the certification exam, president Eren had found Xu Yi in secret to praise him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    President Eren expressed gratitude to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving jobs to these Low Grade Magicians. Not only did they give them a stable ie, they also allowed them toe into contact with magic research.

    Although studying and making magic machines for the Frestech Chamber wasn¡¯t the same as real magic research, for these Low Grade Magicians, being able toe in contact withrge amounts of magic materials each day and arranging Magic Arrays was a rare chance. It could give them plenty of magic experience and could increase the level of their magic.

    Facts had also proved this.

    The magicians that entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would always have their level of magic increased after some time. Moreover, the speed they increased at was much stronger than same level magicians who didn¡¯t work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild saw this data, they were very clear on the role the Frestech Chamber of Commerce yed.

    So even if president Eren didn¡¯t get along with Xu Yi at first, he still always supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Then after the conflict between Anke Eren and Xu Yi was solved, Anke Eren was able to set up apany with Xu Yi. It was considered turning a new leaf for him, so president Eren¡¯s views of Xu Yi changed and he supported him even more.

    As long as a magician registered in the Lampuri Kingdom, when they came for their certification exam, they would receive rmendations to enter a magic machinepany for work.

    Among these magic machinepanies, which one couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    So in the past few years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited more and more people. They had even recruited over five hundred magicians this year.

    This number didn¡¯t seem like much, but there were only less than ten thousand magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom. There were only around two thousand magicians in the Third to Fifth Grade, so this number was already quite shocking.

    To make it a bit more exaggerated, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had over 60% of the Third to Fifth Grade Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom!

    As for the remaining 40%, only around 10% of them had enough wealth that they could study magic on their own. The rest of the 30% were all working for other magic machinepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    So it could be said that with the new magic machine industry opened by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it solved the problem with surviving for most of the Low Grade Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This was without a great merit towards the Magicians Guild¡¯s mission of protecting the benefits of magicians.

    Now that the Magicians Guild had sent someone and Great Magician Ferguson started with this, it was very clear what the thoughts of the Magicians Guild headquarters were.

    As expected, Great Magician Ferguson then began praising the contributions made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in this field. He also praised Xu Yi personally on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters, saying that he was one of the outstanding people among magicians who could truly care about hisrades.

    ¡°Ha, ha, Great Magician Ferguson, your praise is too much. I just needed the power of theserades in developing mypany, I really didn¡¯t think that much. I really can¡¯t take the praise that the headquarters has given me.¡±

    Xu Yi was very modest, not iming any of this.

    He always believed that no one gave anything without wanting something.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters had suddenly sent someone over, a Great Magician who was even on the council. This qualification wasn¡¯t low, so what goal he wanted wasn¡¯t simple either.

    Before he understood more, he wouldn¡¯t show his stance.

    Great Magician Ferguson was a shrewd person, how could he not see what thoughts Xu Yi showed with his actions. Revealing a faint smile, he looked at Anke Eren on the side who had been attentively listening the entire time and entered the main topic.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, headquarters has decided after discussing this that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is worth supporting and promoting. So my trip this time, other than seeing the conditions of the magicians working for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I also hoped that we could cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Cooperate?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow as he thought that the headquarters was quite polite, ¡°I wonder how the headquarters wants me to work with them?¡±

    Xu Yi only said that he would work with them, not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He was a magician, so he needed to work with the Magicians Guild headquarters in name and for now, he was leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of this.

    Great Magician Ferguson could hear the idea in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, so he continued with augh, ¡°Actually, the guild has been worried about the issue of the survival of Low Grade Magicians for a long time, but now that we learned about the methods of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we very much want to promote this. As for the specifics......First, the guild has decided to name your Frestech Chamber of Commerce as one of the set cooperatingpanies of the Magicians Guild. What do you think, chairman Xu?¡±

    When this was said, everyone in the room couldn¡¯t help revealing a shocked look.

    A set cooperatingpany of the Magicians Guild?

    This term wasn¡¯t considered new because before this, the Magicians Guild had listed quite a fewpanies as cooperatingpanies.

    But those that were set cooperatingpanies were all first sspanies on the continent, well known by all.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a first sspany in the surrounding countries, it was far from being enough on the continent.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters actually wanted to list the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a set cooperatingpany, which really was surprising.

    The others all looked at Xu Yi. Everyone believed that for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this would be a very good chance of bing famous across the continent.

    However, after Xu Yi was a bit surprised, he fell silent before asking, ¡°As a set cooperatingpany of the Magicians Guild, what would ourpany have to do?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson revealed a smile of praise as he said with a nod, ¡°Differentpanies have different methods of working together. Although we can¡¯t set what it is right now, ording to what we have discussed before, the guild would cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of improving the living situation of the Low Grade Magicians.¡±

    This result wasn¡¯t surprising, since what Great Magician Ferguson had been talking about the whole time was this.

    ¡°Then what are the specifics?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Great Magician Ferguson gave augh and shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know right now. This time I came to see how your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is and to learn from it., As for what the specifics are, of course that would depend on the discussions I have with chairman Xu after I finished my inspections.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded to show he understood.

    Great Magician Ferguson had made it very clear, this time he was here as the representative of the headquarters to observe. As for the details, that wouldn¡¯t be set right away.

    Although Xu Yi had a bit of doubt the whole time, for the Magicians Guild headquarters to take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a cooperatingpany, that would be a very good chance for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Magicians Guild had a strong influence on the continent. Everypany that was set as a cooperatingpany were all considered first sspanies on the continent.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received their approval, once this news was spread, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be the center of attention on the continent.

    Of course, with the current strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were still far from bing a first sspany of the continent.

    The decision of the headquarters wasn¡¯t because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength, but because they could increase the lives of Low Grade Magicians.

    As for everything else.....Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain, but he wasn¡¯t in a rush to react.

    ¡°This means that you are nning toe to the Stantine Duchy with us?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No rush. I want to see president Eren first and discuss some things. I will go to the Stantine Duchy in a few days.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said with a faint smile, ¡°You and Marquis Southgate don¡¯t need to mind me, you can just go by yourself first.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at Marquis Southgate. Seeing him nod, he knew that he most likely talked to Great Magician Ferguson on the way here and had heard his arrangements.

    ¡°Alright, I will be waiting for your arrival in the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a nod before leaning back in his chair. He looked very rxed, making it clear that he was done talking to Xu Yi.

    Anke Eren quickly took this chance toe over and tried to get closer to Great Magician Ferguson in a low voice.

    Xu Yi turned to Marquis Southgate and introduced Akali first before saying, ¡°Lord Marquis, you saidst time that you were very interested in infrastructure like the water system, then I will rmend another project to you that that team that Akali is in charge of is responsible for.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Marquis Southgate looked at Akali with a bit of surprise, ¡°Is it the magicmunication system young miss Akali mentioned just now?¡±

 Volume 5 167 - Worries of Marquis Southgate

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 167 Worries of Marquis Southgate</strong>

    Three dayster, Marquis Southgate and Xu Yi¡¯s group went back to the Stantine Duchy together.

    For his first time here, Marquis Southgate was just there to take a look, but this time he came with a goal in mind.

    After a detailed investigation of the water system that had already spread through the Stantine Duchy, he didn¡¯t hesitate to sign a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The contract was for introducing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s water system in the Marlow Empire.

    Of course, because this was their first cooperation, the contract¡¯s scale wasn¡¯t that big. Marquis Southgate would only be introducing the water system to a small town on his territory, which had a total area of less than five square kilometers.

    ording to the estimates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide five Magic Water Pumps, as well as the necessary pipes and valves. The total amount for this was set at a total of forty eight thousand gold coins.

    If this agreement was signed with the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom, the total amount would be even lower, being at twenty to thirty thousand gold coins. The reason was that the Marlow Empire was further from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the cost to transport the goods and install everything would be higher than the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom.

    So although the price was higher, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits had actually dropped a bit.

    But since this was the first cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Marquis Southgate, as well as their first cooperation with the Marlow Empire, this had a very big significance and it was normal to give them some discounts.

    Moreover, now that the automatic production magic machines were spread in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories, the costs and time consumed for the magic machines they produced had also decreased.

    So even if they gave some discounts, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was earning more from this than they did two years ago.

    The water system was something Marquis Southgate had already decided on the first time he came, so naturally the contract was signed very smoothly.

    But for the roads that Marquis Southgate cared about and the magicmunicationwork that Xu Yi rmended to him, Marquis Southgate had to properly investigate this before making his decision.

    It was easy when it came to the magicmunicationwork since Marquis Southgate could keep experimenting with his own territory. So he smoothly signed another contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a magicmunicationwork, which cost a total of seventy six thousand gold coins.

    As for the roads, Marquis Southgate knew that there was no meaning in just building roads in his territory. So after discussing it with Xu Yi and chairman Cruise who represented the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they decided to put this aside for now. When he returned to the Marlow Empire, he would try to convince the Marlow Empire¡¯s parliament to authorize the construction of a road that ran through the Falk Kingdom and reached the Marlow Empire¡¯s capital of Angelo City.

    If nothing unexpected happened, while building this road, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would also finish building the road in the Falk Kingdom. That way they could link the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire to the transportwork in the southwest corner of the continent, making it much easier for them to transport between these countries.

    Angelo City was over three thousand kilometers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in a direct line. On Marquis Southgate¡¯s journey from Angelo City this time, just the one thousand and three hundred kilometers trip to the Drake Duchy¡¯s capital Filios City had taken close to half a month.

    When they arrived in Filios City, it took them only a day to travel the eight hundred kilometers to reach the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Anvilmar City.

    This was the difference between having roads and not having roads.

    If they could travel on roads the entire way, they could go from Angelo City to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in just a few days.

    Other than infrastructure, Marquis Southgate also experienced the convenience of the various household magic machines, so how could he let them off.

    So this time, he signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, nning to build several household magic machine factories on his territory with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He was even willing to give up two mines, deciding to mine them together with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, sharing the various mineral resources.

    But he also made a request that the mineral resources couldn¡¯t flow out of the Marlow Empire, so Xu Yi decided to open a steel mill and a non-ferrous metal smelting factory on his territory with him. They would refine the metals and then send it to the various household magic machine factories.

    ording to the n Marquis Southgate proposed, his goal was to copy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s model on his territory. He would create a ¡®modern magic machine industry¡¯ base on his private territory like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base or Banta City.

    That noun was taught to him by Xu Yi.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, I admire your foresight and boldness very much. In this regard, I think that the attitude that you are demonstrating for the Marlow Empire is much more rxed than the Candra Empire. I believe that you and the Marlow Empire will definitely be able to earn much from this open attitude.¡±

    After Xu Yi saw Marquis Southgate put his name and his stamp on the contract, he revealed a satisfied smile.

    He had been going all around with Marquis Southgate in the past few days, while also negotiating with him, so he was quite tired.

    Now that everything had finally been set for now, it made him let out a sigh of relief.

    Marquis Southgate was also a bit tired, but his eyes still shined bright, clearly showing that he wasn¡¯t calm.

    ¡°Ha, ha, chairman Xu, our Marlow Empire is naturally much stronger than that decayed Candra Empire. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is looking for someone to work with, our Marlow Empire is countless times better than the Candra Empire.¡±

    If it was said that Marquis Southgate was just curious about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at first because of the surprising household magic machines, now that he had a better understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he felt that he couldn¡¯t estimate the power that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was hiding.

    He was very certain that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had deeply affected the southwest countries of the continent and would influence the other countries in the future.

    If the Marlow Empire waste to this, they would find themselves thrown behind.

    Through this and hisst trip through the various countries, especially the Lampuri Kingdom that was affected by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the deepest, he deeply believed this.

    But he didn¡¯t believe he could convince those stubborn fellows in the empire, so he wasn¡¯t nning on convincing them. He was going to make them submit with cold hard facts.

    As long as he brought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things into the Marlow Empire, seeing the powerful charm of these magic machines, he didn¡¯t need to convince them. There would be countless people in the empire that woulde chasing after them.

    Thinking of this, Marquis Southgate looked at Xu Yi and gave a secret sigh.

    In reality,pared to the infrastructure and the household magic machines, what he cared more about were the military magic machines that he had always heard about and had never seen.

    ording to what he had heard, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were iparably powerful. They could increase the battle strength of an army armed with them by several times.

    The Lampuri Kingdom being able to easily suppress the Sack Kingdom that had suppressed them for several hundred years before, it was said that it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had provided arge amount of military magic machines to them.

    This kind of important thing, Marquis Southgate naturally wanted to be able to introduce to the Marlow Empire when the time was right.

    But Xu Yi had always kept his mouth shut about this. Even if Marquis Southgate had casually mentioned it several times, Xu Yi had always immediately changed the topic.

    After confirming Xu Yi¡¯s stance, Marquis Southgate could only give up this idea for now.

    This was their first time working together, so Xu Yi should be a bit careful.

    After they cooperated for a longer time, Marquis Southgate believed that there would be a chance to discuss the military magic machines with Xu Yi.

    It was like Xu Yi had said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany in the end. He paid more attention to his status as a merchant than his status as a magician, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely sell the military magic machines if they made them.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to sell, it could be discussed.

    In these considerations, there was a problem that made Marquis Southgate feel a bit uneasy.

    When he came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main basest time, he had bumped into Candra Empire¡¯s navy¡¯s vice chief of staff Remito Russell.

    Marquis Southgate once fought this fellow on the battlefield and he was one of the people on the watchlist of the Marlow Empire, he knew that he was not someone who would run around for nothing.

    He must have had some goal at the Frestech Chamber of Commercest time.

    Marquis Southgate was worried that his goal was the military magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There was even a chance that the Candra Empire had secretly made a deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of the military magic machines.

    If that was true, that really would be a bit bad.

    However, seeing Xu Yi with the same smile, Marquis Southgate firmly pushed down this question in his heart.

    There was a long time, he couldn¡¯t be in a rush.

 Volume 5 168 - This method is too stupid

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 168 This method is too stupid</strong>

    The day after Marquis Southgate signed the contract for a steel mill with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Great Magicians Ferguson arrived in the Stantine Duchy.

    He didn¡¯te alone, the one who came with him was the president of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild Palmes Eren and several high ranking members. They were clearly his entourage.

    Other than this, what surprised Xu Yi was that fifty Low Grade Magicians registered with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild had alsoe along.

    Seeing these people, Xu Yi naturally thought of the matter Great Magician Ferguson mentioned to him before.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if I request that you help us solve the survival of these fifty magicians, would there be a problem?¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi with a smile. The way he said it was as simple as asking Xu Yi to make lunch for him.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change. He looked over the fifty magicians of different appearances, with the youngest being less than twenty and the oldest being over sixty years old. Based on the unstable magic fluctuations that came from them, these fifty magicians should all be very low level, there wasn¡¯t even a single Fourth Grade Magician among them.

    ¡°That depends on what you want, Great Magician Ferguson.¡± Xu Yi calmly replied, ¡°As long as you want to guarantee that they can live their lives, it¡¯s very simple.¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not that simple.¡± Great Magician Ferguson shook his head, ¡°I hope that you can solve their daily needs, while also helping them with their problems with their magic research.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows, ¡°I can¡¯t agree to that request.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s direct refusal before narrowing his eyes to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, I remember that when we metst time, you agreed quite easily......¡±

    ¡°I only agreed to help the Magicians Guild improve the living conditions of the Low Grade Magicians, I didn¡¯t promise to solve it all on my own, right?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows. He looked at Xu Yi like he was considering the meaning of Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, if the guild wants me to solve the problems of these fifty, I can agree to that because with the current strength of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t much pressure in having fifty people leech off us.¡±

    ¡°Leech?¡± Great Magician Ferguson slightly raised his voice with a trace of anger in it, ¡°Chairman Xu, how can you look down on your fellow magicians like this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh as he shook his head, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is apany, not a charity. On behalf of the Magicians Guild, we can help fifty fellow magicians for free, that isn¡¯t a problem. But if that number were to be five hundred, five thousand, or even fifty thousand? Do you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can take this?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was suddenly silent and only after a while did he shake his head with a sigh, ¡°Of course not. It seems like Teli was right, you wouldn¡¯t agree to this method.¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Teli?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°You met with him?¡±

    Although Great Magician Teli had long joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had always been working in the development center in the Lampuri Kingdom, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t meet him as much.

    ¡°Un, I specially went to meet him because he is someone who has worked in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so of course I wanted to ask for his opinion. After he learned of my n, he didn¡¯t hesitate to object to it, saying that it would be impossible for you to agree to this method. It seems like he understands you better than me.¡±

    Xu Yi cursed nonsense in his heart before asking, ¡°Then Great Magician Ferguson, was your n before to force ourpany to take care of their problems?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave augh, ¡°Actually, this was only the preliminary n of the headquarters, I just wanted to give it a try. Since chairman Xu doesn¡¯t agree, then forget about it. But chairman Xu, can you think of a better n?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that Great Magician Ferguson would be this good at speaking. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°When we metst time, didn¡¯t you praise the magic machine industry led by ourpany for giving many Low Grade Magicians jobs while also giving them an environment to study magic? Since you understand this, why would you still raise this method? This is clearly unreasonable.¡±

    ¡°First, these were the orders of the council, so I had to follow them. Second, I wanted to see if you would agree to it or not.¡± Great Magician Ferguson took a deep look at Xu yi, ¡°But as I expected, it really was as Teli had said. Although you are a Great Magician, you see yourself as a merchant first most of the time. This n really isn¡¯t something you would agree to.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, not feeling any embarrassment.

    He always insisted that his status as a merchant was more important that his status as a magician, this had never changed.

    Although this was something that most magicians couldn¡¯t believe, now that he was not only a powerful Great Magician that countless magicians couldn¡¯t reach, he was also the chairman of the sessful Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so no one doubted him like before.

    ¡°It is as I said before, ourpany can take care of fifty people, we can reluctantly do it with five hundred, but as for five thousand or even fifty thousand, ourpany is helpless. There isn¡¯t a singlepany on the continent that can solve this alone, so of course I wouldn¡¯t ept this method because it¡¯s just too......¡±

    Xu Yi hesitated a bit, not saying the rest of his words.

    But at this time, there was a voice that came from behind that connected these words.

    ¡°This method was too stupid, I really don¡¯t know what the council was thinking.¡±

    Hearing this voice filled with disdain, Great Magician Ferguson wasn¡¯t angry at all, rather he revealed an awkward smile as he gave a respectful bow to this person that came in.

    ¡°Your excellency Cami, this method was just made without understanding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we had no intentions of forcing chairman Xu to implement it. Now that I¡¯m here, after talking with chairman Xu and seeing all the influence that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has brought, I already gave up on this n.¡±

    Being able to make a Great Magician from the Magicians Guild headquarter¡¯s council be this respectful, naturally it was one of the top Arch Magi of the continent, Arch Magus Cami.

    Arch Magus Cami came over and gave a nod, ¡°That is more like it, so what are you nning on doing now?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson revealed a faint smile as he turned back to Xu Yi, ¡°Of course it¡¯s to see what ideas chairman Xu has.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami also looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, kid, look at how confident you look, you¡¯ve clearly thought of a way. Tell him or else Ferguson is never going to feel at ease.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve already thought of aplete method?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯tplete, but there are some thoughts.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before saying with a smile, ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, the goal of the guild is to let these Low Grade Magicians find proper living conditions, allowing them to live their lives while also allowing them to research the depths of magic? If it is this request, it¡¯s very suited for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Yes, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only gives a very good wage, they can also enjoy various benefits. The most important thing is that they cane in contact with magic all day, this is simply the most suitable work for Low Grade Magicians, there is no substitute.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said with an excited look.

    ¡°But have you thought of a problem? Even if these fifty Low Grade Magicianse to work for ourpany, would they be qualified?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Great Magician Ferguson was stunned, ¡°What qualifications are there? Isn¡¯t it just arranging some low grade Magic Arrays, I think that any magician is qualified for this, right?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing as he turned to Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°What a joke!¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a very strong snort at the right moment, ¡°If it really was that simple, you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only have two thousand magicians? Let me tell you, magic machines are very precise things, so there is a high request for the precision of the Magic Arrays. Normal magicians aren¡¯t qualified to do this, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Great Magician Ferguson turned to look at the fifty Low Grade Magicians and found that not a single one of them looked unconvinced. Rather they all had dejected looks, like they agreed with Arch Magus Cami.

    This situation made Great Magician Ferguson very confused.

    He had some understanding of the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time, he confirmed that the Magic Arrays on them were only low grade Magic Arrays. To his eyes, any normal Low Grade Magician would be able to easily arrange these.

    Why did these fifty Low Grade Magicians feel like it was difficult, why did even Arch Magus Cami reveal such a serious look?

    ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, to let them join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce with this method can only improve the problem, but it can¡¯t permanently fix it. To reach the goal of letting the majority of Low Grade Magicians improve their living conditions, we have to start at the most basic ce which is increasing their level.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows, ¡°Each person¡¯s talent for magic is different, how could it be that easy to increase magic power?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not talking about increasing their magic power, but rather magic machine industry abilities.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was confused as he looked at Xu Yi.

    Their magic machine industry abilities, what were those?

 Volume 5 169 - Stepping onto the continent

    <strong>Volume 5 Chapter 169 Stepping onto the continent</strong>

    A weekter, when Marquis Southgate left the Lampuri Kingdom, Great Magician Ferguson also left carrying the proposal that Xu Yi personally wrote for the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    Although Great Magician Ferugson and Xu Yi had discussed the contents of this proposal for many days, most of it came from Xu Yi and Great Magician Ferguson just listened.

    After being with Xu Yi for a few days, Great Magician Ferguson had to admit that when it came to nning, especially industrial nning, he was far from being able topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi. There were many times where his ideas were easily overruled by Xu Yi and he had to agree, thinking that his thoughts were too simple.

    In the end, this proposal would mainly be on how to solve the survival of the various Low Grade Magicians on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi¡¯s solution was that he hoped the Magicians Guild would publicize the benefits of the magic machine industry, letting the magicians of the continent ept working for apany that made magic machines like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would put down the restraints of being magicians and choose to join the magic machinepanies.

    That way, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could promote the development of the magic machine industry, making more and more magic machinepanies on the continent which would allow more Low Grade Magicians to have jobs.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t limitless.

    Take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for example, although most of the magicians responsible forying down the Magic Arrays were Third to Fifth Grade Magicians, that didn¡¯t mean that any Third to Fifth Grade Magician could do this work.

    Rather, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did more and more research, the new products became more and more refined. It caused there to be a higher requirement of the magician thatid down the Magic Array.

    Xu Yi was certain that any Low Grade Magician that could arrange Magic Arrays for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered an expert in Magic Arrays, even surpassing most High Grade Magicians.

    So in this n, while Xu Yi proposed the Magicians Guild promote the magic machine industry, he also wanted them to focus on this point so that the Low Grade Magicians of the continent wouldn¡¯t just want to try their luck.

    To be honest, magic research required focus and hard work, so naturally the magic machine work couldn¡¯tck these things.

    ording to the development n Xu Yi made, as long as the magic machine industry could smoothly develop on the Sines Continent, there would be a high demand for this kind of Low Grade Magicians.

    This not only guaranteed them a good ie, so that they wouldn¡¯t worry about their livelihood, they could alsoe in contact with Magic Arrays through work and have a deeper understanding of magic through the high requirements of these Magic Arrays, allowing them to raise the level of their magic.

    This was something that could be proved by the over two thousand magicians that worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s over two thousand magicians couldn¡¯t be used as a model, adding in the two hundred and thirty seven magic machinepanies with over eight thousand magicians employed in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding kingdoms, it would prove this point.

    Of course, Low Grade Magicians weren¡¯t just referring to Third to Fifth Grade Magicians. It also contained the foundation of all magicians on the continent, who were the Primary and Second Grade Magicians.

    As the lowest grade magicians, they made up therge part of the magician poption which was the group that the Magicians Guild cared about the most.

    After a magician reaches the Third Grade, they at least have some magic power. Even if they didn¡¯t work for a magic machinepany, they could work as apany guard or as a guard for a noble.

    But for Primary and Second Grade Magicians, they were just too weak, not being much stronger than normal people. In most situations, they couldn¡¯t find any work with their own magic power.

    Even if they joined a magic machinepany, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do any work.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this before, but since Great Magician Ferguson came on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters, he began caring about this.

    That¡¯s right, Third to Fifth Grade Magicians were the core of magic machinepanies, the foundation of the magic machine industry. There was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had employed the higher grade Great Magicians and Arch Magi right now, so this matter was untouchable to most people. But once one thought about the Primary or Second Grade Magicians, they would find a chasm.

    Although the current situation pushed the Primary Grade and Second Grade Magicians to work hard on their research to be a Third Grade Magician as soon as possible, letting them join a magic machinepany for work, to Xu Yi, this wasted quite a bit of time.

    Even if they became a Third Grade Magician, being able to work for a magic machinepany, they would have to learn knowledge rted to magic machines from the beginning, wasting a lot of time and effort to master this.

    So instead of making them waste all this time and effort, it was better for them to work hard in this direction to begin with.

    In this n for the Magicians Guild headquarters, Xu Yi proposed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest in a school that taught magic machine rted skills with the Magicians Guild headquarters. They would teach the Low Grade Magicians that were willing to join magic machinepanies rted skills, so they could have a certain understanding of magic machines before starting their work. They could start their work when they had a certain understanding of magic machines.

    As a test, the first ss would be held in Anvilmar City as a coboration between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild would be in charge of advertising this ss, exining it to all the Low Grade Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide the funds, the location, and the training staff.

    To put it simply, the Magicians Guild would support it with their name and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support it with goods.

    When Xu Yi proposed this solution, Great Magician Ferguson didn¡¯t agree at first because this would mean that the noble magicians would be trained by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as tools for the magic machine industry, viting their freedom.

    However, Xu Yi exined with various data that this would save the Low Grade Magicians plenty of time and most importantly, money, so Great Magician Ferguson could only agree.

    This n naturally had to be looked over by the Magicians Guild headquarters first, but when Great Magician Ferguson left, he said to Xu Yi that he should be prepared.

    So Xu Yi and president Eren, who came with Great Magician Ferguson, discussed this in private, reaching a verbal agreement in front of him.

    In the spring of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce working with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild would provide this magic machine seminar.

    Other than inviting the magicians of some magic machinepanies to give lectures, they invited all the Low Grade Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom to participate.

    This was a variant of the training courses mentioned in the proposal, but before the headquarters approved this, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild couldn¡¯t directly work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they came up with thispromise.

    Great Magician Ferguson indicated that if the effects were good, it would be evidence towards the headquarters agreeing to this proposal, so he urged Xu Yi and president Eren to seize this chance before leaving.

    Xu Yi and president Eren naturally understood, so they agreed.

    If this matter seeded, it could help the problem of the Low Grade Magicians that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild had a headache over. For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this would mean that they would be able to obtain an outstanding group of magicians as workers, so naturally they couldn¡¯t want more.

    However, after Great Magician Ferguson left, president Eren found Xu Yi and told him that it wasn¡¯t likely the headquarters would pass this proposal.

    ¡°The members of the council are all stubborn fellows, Ferguson can be considered the most enlightened one, but you still had to spend all that effort and time to convince him. If you want to see those fellows see therge influence the magic machine industry would have, I think that it will be too difficult.¡±

    President Eren had been the president for several decades now, so he understood the headquarters much better than Xu Yi. For him to be this worried, it definitely wasn¡¯t baseless.

    However, after Xu Yi heard this, he didn¡¯t seem worried at all. Rather he said with a rxed smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t important if this passes or not, the important thing is that the headquarters is finally willing to face this emerging magic machine industry and they can approve of it, that is already enough.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± President Eren looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°I never thought that your goal would be this small.¡±

    ¡°No, my goal is already very big, but I¡¯m not in a rush to achieve this goal because it is easy for it to fall apart if I rush. For me, whether it is Marquis Southgate or Great Magician Ferguson on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters, there is a special significance. Because no matter what it is, it means that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has taken the first important and real step onto the continent!¡±

 Volume 6 1

    Volume 6 Chapter 1

    Volume 6 How to refine the empire ¨C Trapped motorcade

    After a storm, although there was a heat that came with the start of summer, it was much more moistpared to usual. By opening the window by a slit, when the breeze came in, it made the heat disappear a bit and felt a bitfortable.

    Freeman let out a long breath and looked into the distance, telling the driver to slow down a bit.

    ¡°Our vehicle has many precise things, so be careful not to jolt it. If there¡¯s one or two bad jolts, we¡¯ll have to run back to the Stantine Duchy to buy it again.¡±

    The exclusive transport driver of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce Burbic gave a nod. Therge transport Magic Car that they were in that was already at forty kilometers an hour slowed down much more.

    However, Burbic was much more focusedpared to before, even looking like he was nervous like he was about to face an enemy.

    But it wasn¡¯t just because Freeman had reminded him that the back of his transport Magic Car was filled with high precision production magic machines, it was also because of how bad the road in front of them was.

    ¡°I say, chairman, the Marlow Empire is one of the two empires. I always thought that they were incredible, but seeing them now......Not mentioning anything else, even if I don¡¯tpare their roads to our Lampuri Kingdom, at least their roads are still much worse than the Falk Kingdom.¡±

    Freeman rolled his eyes, ¡°Nonsense, the road that we just passed was the first road in the Marlow Empire. Can itpare to our Lampuri Kingdom that is filled with roads?¡±

    ¡°Then that means......¡± Burbic gave augh, ¡°I never thought that even though our Lampuri Kingdom is much smaller than the Marlow Empire, we would be stronger when ites to roads.¡±

    ¡°Alright, watch the road and stop wasting words.¡± Freeman cut him off.

    Burbic agreed and put more force in his hands holding the steering wheel.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    Therge transport Magic Car that the two were in made arge sound. The entire car shook and the two were pushed forward in their seats.

    Freeman¡¯s expression changed as he said in a sharp voice, ¡°Drive slower!¡±

    Burbic decreased the speed of therge transport Magic Car again, maintaining a speed of thirty kilometers an hour. Only then was he able to maintain a steady speed with the transport Magic Car.

    Hearing the sounds that came from behind, Burbic knitted his brows to ask, ¡°Chairman, will the things in the back be fine?¡±

    Freeman was knitting his brows even more, clearly showing that he was even more worried than him. However, after thinking about it, he helplessly waved his hand, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, just do it like this. The production magic machines are packed tightly together, so I think there shouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem. Even if it doesn¡¯t work, we can just find the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for technical support afterwards.¡±

    ¡°Speaking of this......How is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transporting all their production magic machines over?¡± Burbic asked.

    ¡°Can wepare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Freeman snappily looked at Burbic, ¡°I heard that when they transported their first batch, they directly sent it with the Magic Airships. The Magic Airships can fly in they sky, they don¡¯t need to worry about roads.¡±

    ¡°Magic Airships......¡± Burbic looked into the sky and revealed a look of awe, ¡°Only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can be this luxurious. Chairman, when can our Irnd Chamber of Commerce buy several Magic Airships?¡±

    Freeman could only roll his eyes again.

    ¡°What a joke! The Magic Airships cost one million and three hundred thousand gold coins and ourpany works so hard to only earn five hundred thousand gold coins a year. You want to buy a Magic Airship? That is simple wishful thinking!¡±

    Burbic stuck out his tongue, ¡°I was just casually speaking. But.....chairman, even if we can¡¯t buy the Magic Airship, we can still afford those new transport Magic Cars with the new air suspension springs, right?¡±

    Freeman looked at Burbic in surprise, also looking like he found this funny.

    ¡°Alright, this little fellow, you were beating around the bush all this time to ask me to change cars for you.¡±

    Burbic gave augh, ¡°When I went to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s minds a few days ago, I tried the new air suspension spring transport Magic Car that they brought. Chairman, I really have to say those things are too strong. I drove it on the bumpy roads of the mine all day and I didn¡¯t feel a jolt at all. Look, if we had this car, we wouldn¡¯t need to worry about our equipment being ruined by these poor road conditions, right?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Freeman looked at the road that was filled with countless holes in front of him and knitted his brows to think. After a while, he couldn¡¯t help giving a nod, ¡°What you are saying isn¡¯t baseless. We don¡¯t know when they will fix these broken roads and we have to keep transporting things over the next few days, if something happens on the road, it would be very troublesome......¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that right? So, chairman, this time we should buy two new air suspension spring transport Magic Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time. I dare say that with this car, I can drive at least fifty on these roads without worrying about anything breaking.¡± Burbic kept pursuing this matter.

    Freeman waved his hand, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll talk about this when we get back. First let¡¯s deliver this batch of goods.¡±

    Burbic saw that his goal was achieved, so he focused on driving again with a smile.

    Although it was bumpy, his mood was different, so he didn¡¯t feel that these jolts were unbearable like before.

    Freeman didn¡¯t pay attention to Burbic who had a bright smile on his face, he lowered his head to look at his map.

    ording to their n, they would rest at a small city that was around two hundred kilometers away tonight. They would then arrive at their goal by tomorrow afternoon, which was Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory in the Marlow Empire.

    But based on the roads in front of them, their transport Magic Cars had no choice but to slow down.

    ording to their current speed, it was impossible for them to reach the small city before it became dark.

    Not to mention proper roads, the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t even have streetmps. It was impossible for them to continue on these roads, so they had to find a ce to rest for the night as soon as possible.

    Based on the map, there was another small town around a hundred kilometers away. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be able to reach it before dark, so Freeman made this small town their destination for now.

    However, idents happened when people least expected them......

    Two hourster, as therge transport Magic Car was carrying Freeman and Burbic across the muddy road, they found that there were seven to eight transport Magic Cars in front of them. There were also quite a few people standing by them, as well as the sounds of people talking.

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    Freeman and Burbic looked at each other in confusion before approaching in their car.

    When they came close, Freeman saw that the path in front crossed over a small creek. The Magic Cars were all stopped by this creek, unable to pass over it.

    Freeman had Burbic stop the car before he jumped out.

    When he came close, Freeman found that the owners of these Magic Cars were people he knew. They were the same as him, the members of variouspanies that had been invited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in the Marlow Empire.

    The reason they were blocked here was that the bridge across the creek had been destroyed by the storm, so they lost their only way across this creek.

    ¡°How long have you all been waiting here?¡± Freeman asked.

    ¡°I came the earliest, it¡¯s already been an hour.¡± A driver with a bitter look on his face shook his head before saying with a sigh, ¡°I thought that once the rain stopped, the current would be smaller and I could run over it. I never thought that it wouldn¡¯t be smaller even after all this time.¡±

    Freeman looked at the others and found that they were also shaking their heads and giving sighs.

    ¡°Then have you found a detour?¡± Freeman asked.

    ¡°What detour? This is our first time in the Marlow Empire, we¡¯re not familiar with the people and ces here. Based on the map, the closest bridge to here is a hundred kilometers away and there¡¯s no roads connecting them. I¡¯ve found that if we want to get over there, we have to take a detour of over three hundred kilometers, so we might not even make it by the day after tomorrow.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I never thought that the roads in the Marlow Empire would be this bad, it¡¯s not as easy as the roads in our Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Right, there are smooth roads all over our Lampuri Kingdom and firm bridges, how could they be destroyed by the water?¡±

    ¡°Why do I feel that the Marlow Empire is more backwardspared to our Lampuri Kingdom? Look, the roads are this bad and there are no street lights, I can¡¯t even see a single Magic Car, there are only those broken horse carriages......¡±

    ......

    Hearing theints of the people around him, Freeman slightly knitted his brows, but he didn¡¯t join in.

    He came to the stone bridge that had been broken by the river and found that it wasn¡¯t that bad. There was only a part in the middle that had been broken and as long as they fixed it, it wasn¡¯t like they couldn¡¯t pass.

    He turned to look at the eightrge transport Magic Cars stopped by the river and Freeman made some calctions beforeing over to one of the drivers.

    ¡°Hey, if I¡¯m not wrong, you should have a Magic Excavator in your car, right?¡±

    The driver was surprised, ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it?¡±

    Freeman gave augh before giving a strong p to attract everyone¡¯s attention. He raised his voice to say, ¡°It¡¯s impossible to wait for the Marlow Empire¡¯s people toe and fix this bridge, we also can¡¯t keep waiting here. Chairman Xu is waiting for us to deliver the goods on time to start operations.¡±

    The people nkly looked at each other.

    ¡°But what do we do? There¡¯s no road.¡±

    ¡°Did you forget what chairman Xu said before? He said that all the roads in this world were made by people, so now that the road in front of us is broken, we should just fix it!¡±

    ¡°Fix? How do we fix it?¡± Everyone was even more confused.

    Freeman pointed at therge transport Magic Cars and said with a smile, ¡°Of course it¡¯s with these fellows.¡±

 Volume 6 2 - Outstanding successor

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 2 Outstanding sessor</strong>

    While Freeman led these people to find a way to fix this bridge, in Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory three hundred kilometers away, there was also a bustling scene.

    There were seventeenrge and small Magic Excavators working at the same time, digging out holes in thend that Marquis Southgate had put aside for the magic machine industry base. Then Magic Bulldozer ttened out the parts of the ground that weren¡¯t smooth, quickly turning it into usable constructionnd.

    Chairman Cruise stood at the construction sites, focused on the progress of the construction.

    In fact, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had done this work many times in the years they cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they were very used to doing this.

    Even if he as the chairman wasn¡¯t here, the five construction team under him with rich experience would be able to finish this perfectly without any problems.

    But chairman Cruise still came and watched over their construction work each day.

    Even if there was a storm, he didn¡¯t leave the construction site. He waited for the storm to pass with his subordinates and immediately directed the project after it passed, showing how important this project was for him.

    Of course this could be understood since this was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secondrgest project in the Marlow Empire, other than building the road that connected to the road in the Falk Kingdom, so naturally it was important.

    Moreover, this project was different from building roads. They were helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies called to invest in the Marlow Empire to build residences and factories, so it belonged to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s old business, which was construction work.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce naturally didn¡¯t ck with the road and they approved Marquis Southgate¡¯s approval. Now that they were working in construction, Chairman Cruise naturally wanted to show off the powerful superiority of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to smoothly enter the Marlow Empire¡¯s construction market.

    The Marlow Empire was one of the two empires on the continent. Whether it was country size or poption, they were countless times that of the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries, which was a giant market that people dreamed of.

    If they could enter and grasp this market, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would have hopes of bing a first sspany of the continent.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise¡¯s heart was filled with a bit of gratitude towards Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi finding a chance to cooperate with Marquis Southgate and then bringing in the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, with just the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t know when they could enter this market.

    Of course, the ones that should feel grateful to Xu Yi were the variouspanies called in by Xu Yi, especially the small magic machinepanies.

    With the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could definitely take all the business from Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory, but Xu Yi took the initiative to invite all thepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom. He pulled thosepanies that were much weaker than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into the Marlow Empire to invest, which could be considered giving up meat from his own bowl to them.

    However, even like this, thepanies were doubtful of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions. They felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t confident in investing in the Marlow Empire, so they needed the otherpanies to share the risk.

    But thisughable doubt was immediately refuted by the magic machinepanies. There were over a hundred magic machinepanies that handed their application to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping they would be brought along with them.

    In the end, Xu Yi chose twenty threepanies toe to Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory with him for an inspection. Other than a singlepany who withdrew for now, the remaining twenty twopanies all expressed their willingness to invest.

    As for thepany that had withdrawn for now......

    Chairman Cruise looked at the dirt road in the southwest that was very rough from the rain and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh as he shook his head.

    The roads in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdom were already quite good, so if they suddenly met a ce with such bad road conditions, it was hard to adapt. It was no wonder thatpany¡¯s representative didn¡¯t have confidence in the road here and decided to retreat.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise was silent for a bit. He walked for a bit and came to the side of a young man who was watching a Magic Excavator at work.

    ¡°Hey, your excellency baron, there is something I wish to discuss with you.¡±

    The young man immediately turned over and said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Cruise, I¡¯ve said it many times, you can just call me Franklin. Tell me, what is it?¡±

    This young man was the eldest grandson of Marquis Southgate, Franklin Southgate. He wasn¡¯t even neen years old, but he already had the title of baron. He was recognized as the leading candidate for the family head of the third generation, being trained since he was young.

    This time there was arge significance in the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Marquis Southgate, so Marquis Southgate had sent the grandson that he cared about the most as his representative for this project.

    Chairman Cruise had been here with him for half a month and he had much contact with him. He knew that although Baron Franklin wasn¡¯t even neen years old, he was very calm and could make decisions on behalf of Marquis Southgate, so everyone basically came to talk to him when there were any problems.

    ¡°Look, it¡¯s just a single storm, but the surrounding roads have be like this, which hinders our work very much and impacts the otherpanies arriving very much. So I think that it would be best to improve the conditions of those roads first.¡±

    Baron Franklin slightly knitted his brows, ¡°But chairman Cruise, didn¡¯t you say before that it takes quite a bit of time to pave a road to ensure its quality? You shouldn¡¯t be able to pave a road in this short period of time right now, right?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s impossible to pave a new road, but we can improve it in a short period of time.¡± Chairman Cruise shook his head before saying this.

    ¡°Oh? What do you need to do?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked around before his eyes fell onto several small hills in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory and he asked, ¡°If I¡¯m not wrong, those hills should be made of stone, right?¡±

    Baron Franklin looked over and after thinking about it, he gave a nod, ¡°Un, they are made of stone, but how is this rted to what you just said?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good if they¡¯re stone hills.¡± Chairman Cruise gave augh, ¡°My idea is very simple. It¡¯s to take broken stones from that hill and pad it with sand, making the road much better. It would be better than it is now. Anyway, we still need to pave a road here in the future, but if we pad the road now, it can be considered making a foundation for it and it wouldn¡¯t be considered a waste. What do you think?¡±

    Baron Franklin was a bit confused, ¡°I don¡¯t know much about roads, but since chairman Cruise is saying this, I don¡¯t think there should be a problem. But chairman Cruise, those hills arepletely made of stone, so how will you bring broken pieces of rocks down?¡±

    ¡°Hei, that isn¡¯t a problem at all. There are many construction magic machines here, not to mention a small stone hill, even if it was bigger, we could tten it in just a few days.¡±

    Baron Franklin looked at the hill that was around a hundred meters tall and his eyes couldn¡¯t help popping out as he was secretly stunned.

    This was a hillpletely made of stone. If this was based on his previous understanding, it would take over a thousand people to tten it and several months of work.

    Now chairman Cruise was telling him that he could do it in just a few days, this was too shocking.

    But Baron Franklin had seen the power of the construction magic machines the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had brought with them, so he had already changed the thinking of his mind and it wasn¡¯t as hard for him to ept this as it was in the beginning.

    After thinking about it, Baron Franklin gave a nod to show his agreement.

    ¡°Alright, this matter can¡¯t be dyed. Chairman Cruise, please arrange people as soon as possible. The weather hasn¡¯t been stable recently, so perhaps it might rain again. The sooner you can solve the problem with the road, the more effort we can save.¡±

    ¡°Digging these hills, don¡¯t we need the agreement of the Lord Marquis?¡± Chairman Cruise hesitantly asked.

    ¡°No need.¡± Baron Franklin gave a firm shake of his head, ¡°Grandfather has already handed this matterpletely to me. I believe chairman Cruise¡¯s judgement, so please arrange people as soon as possible. If you need any support, please tell me as soon as possible.¡±

    Chairman Cruise took a deep breath and looked over Baron Franklin with a look of praise.

    ¡°Your excellency Baron, the Southgate Family being able to have such an outstanding sessor like you really is blessed. I think that the Lord Marquis should take you as his pride, it¡¯s no wonder he sent you here to manage the construction work.¡±

    Baron Franklin revealed a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Cruise, your praise is too much. Grandfather is having me take charge of this to test me. If there¡¯s anything I¡¯ve done wrong, please don¡¯t hold back and tell me. Also, please just call me by name.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave augh, ¡°Alright, Franklin, the Lord Marquis and chairman Xu have put great importance on this construction project, so I definitely have to put high requirements. There will be many ces where I will have to bother you, so please don¡¯t me me when Ie looking for you.¡±

    Baron Franklin revealed a wide smile, showing his teeth.

    ¡°How could I?¡±

 Volume 6 3 - Many things in the empire arenâ€™t convenient

    Volume 6 Chapter 3 Many things in the empire aren¡¯t convenient

    Freeman and his peers were fixing the bridge that had broken from the river, chairman Cruise was working hard to think of a way to solve the mud road with Franklin.

    However, the main characters of this partnership, Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate were currently sitting in a bright room with cool fruit beverages in their hands. They enjoyed these beverages while watching the raindrops fall onto the window, looking very rxed.

    This was Southgate Family¡¯s private manor, which was right in the center of the Southgate Family¡¯s territory. This was more than twenty kilometers away from the construction site of the magic machine industry base.

    Xu Yi and Marquis Southgate were sitting here, not as rxed as they would seem, but rather there was a serious negotiation happening.

    Marquis Southgate wasn¡¯t one of the top nobles of the Marlow Empire and the Southgate Family couldn¡¯t be considered a top family, but Marquis Southgate suddenly inviting thepanies that Xu Yi brought along to his territory, even building thisrge magic machine industry base had attracted the attention of countless people on the Marlow Empire.

    Those that were familiar with Marquis Southgate knew that this Lord Marquis liked epting new things very much. He always did things that seemed very strange, but he always had a clear goal in the things he did and never did things to cause trouble.

    Because many things that seemed like trouble before had proven to others that he was right. So after a long time, no matter what he did, there were many people willing to analyze the meaning of it.

    This time Marquis Southgate had suddenly invited an unknownpany from an unknown small duchy that was thousands of kilometers away from the Marlow Empire. Moreover, he had even announced that he would cooperate with thispany, building this so-called ¡°magic machine industry base¡± in his private territory which had surprised everyone.

    Although because of the things that Marquis Southgate had done before, people couldn¡¯t immediatelyugh at him, there were still people who had doubts over this matter.

    This smallpany from this small duchy, how could they be qualified to cooperate with a marquis of the Marlow Empire?

    Normally speaking, wouldn¡¯t they be filled with gratitude if Marquis Southgate even paid them a bit of attention?

    However, the attitude that Marquis Southgate showed had confused everyone even more.

    Whether it was in public or in secret, Marquis Southgate was filled with praise for this smallpany called the ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡±. He even said that this Frestech Chamber of Commerce could change the entire Marlow Empire, bringing a revolutionary change.

    This evaluation was somewhat surprising, so much so that even Marquis Southgate¡¯s old friend Duke Makaros, no matter how he trusted him no matter what, he couldn¡¯t help revealing an undisguised look of doubt when he met Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re saying that using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, we can increase our fall harvest yield by several times and reduce the harvest time to only a week? Are you joking?¡± Duke Makaros knitted his brows as he asked this with a look of doubt.

    Actually, if it wasn¡¯t for his old friend Marquis Southgate, he definitely would have driven this Xu Yi out immediately for these bold ims.

    What a joke! The fall harvest was a very important and busy matter, now this kid that was in his early thirties was telling him that it could be finished in just a single week! This was simply insulting his intelligence!

    ¡°No, I¡¯m serious.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Actually, if there are enough agricultural magic machines and people who are skilled at using them, I can even reduce this time to three days.¡±

    ¡°Three days?¡± Duke Makaros¡¯ eyes popped out as he revealed a look of disbelief, ¡°How could this be possible! You can¡¯t even finish walking the wheat fields in my territory in three days, how could you finish harvesting them all? Hey, Dayolen, where did you find this brat to tease me with?¡±

    Marquis Southgate put down the cold fruit drink in his hand and said with a faint smile, ¡°Actually I¡¯ve decided to give the fall harvest on my territory this year to thepany that came with chairman Xu.....¡±

    ¡°The Cantona Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi reminded him.

    ¡°Oh, right, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m giving it all of them. Their chairman Cantona promised me that in just half a month, they could finish harvesting all the wheat fields on mynd.¡±

    ¡°Half a month? Didn¡¯t chairman Xu say that it would only take a week?¡± Duke Makaros said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This is only chairman Cantona¡¯s safe estimate.¡± Xu Yi exined with a smile, ¡°Actually, with the estimates of our Stantine Duchy and the surrounding countries, a week is already considered long. Chairman Cantona gave the estimate of half a month because other than not being familiar with thend here, there is a very important reason......¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi paused for a second with a bit of hesitation on his face.

    Marquis Southgate waved his hand with augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, there¡¯s nothing you can¡¯t say. The reason you¡¯re talking about is that the roads on mynd are too poorly constructed, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh, ¡°Yes, Lord Marquis, all the roads on your territory arepletely uneptable in my opinion. To let the agricultural magic machines pass on them andplete the harvest, it will waste quite a bit of time.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also know this, but there¡¯s no other way. Chairman Cruise also told me that toplete the roadwork in my territory, it would take at least two to three years. Moreover, they have to finish the public road connecting to the Falk Kingdom first.¡±

    Duke Makaros was confused by the conversation between the two. Hearing this, he finally couldn¡¯t help cutting in.

    ¡°Hey, Dayolen, why you do put such importance on these.....public roads? Are these things that important?¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked at him, ¡°There¡¯s a hundred kilometers of road constructed in the southwest province leading to the Falk Kingdom, have you seen it yet?¡±

    ¡°No, how could I have the free time for that?¡±

    ¡°Good, you haven¡¯t seen it yourself. Hasn¡¯t that kid Seymour mentioned it to you after going back? I don¡¯t believe that after going back, he hasn¡¯tined to you about how poor the roads in our Marlow Empire are.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t mention that kid to me!¡± Hearing the word ¡°Seymour¡±, Duke Makaros immediately revealed a look of anger, ¡°That kid keepsining about this and that being inconvenient aftering back. What heins about the most is that the roads in our territory are so poor that it causes him to be unable to drive his precious Magic Sedan everywhere. Dayolen, I regret letting him go out with you, now he¡¯s so wild and doesn¡¯t want to stay at home all day.¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a loudugh, ¡°You can¡¯tin to me. If you want toin, you canin to chairman Xu about why their Stantine Duchy is doing so well. To be honest, it isn¡¯t just Seymour, even I can¡¯t adapt aftering back. Compared to when I was in the Stantine Duchy, there are many things in the Marlow Empire that are just too inconvenient.¡±

    Duke Makaros doubtfully looked at him before looking at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Is the Stantine Duchy really as good as you say it is? It¡¯s just a small duchy that can¡¯t even be found on the map, how can itpare to our Marlow Empire?¡±

    ¡°Philip, if you keep holding these stubborn ideas, you will be eliminated by time.¡± Marquis Southgate suddenly had a serious look as he pointed behind Duke Makaros, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, have you seen such a convenient thing before?¡±

    Duke Makaros turned around to look at the Magic Air Conditioner hanging on the wall. Feeling the cool breezeing from it, he was silent for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°I never thought that there would be this kind of thing in this world. Compared to installing arge scale Frost Array, this Magic Air Conditioner isn¡¯t just more convenient, it¡¯s also much morefortable. I have to admit that this is a good thing.¡±

    ¡°You admit that the Magic Air Conditioner is a good thing, then what about the Magic Refrigerator?¡±

    Marquis Southgate stood up and opened the Magic Refrigerator by the wall behind him. He took out a bottle of chilled fruit juice and a bottle of chilled red wine, putting it on the table.

    Seeing the cold air that wasing from the bottle, Duke Makaros was silent again for a bit before giving another nod.

    ¡°Un, this is also a good thing.¡±

    ¡°Let me tell you, there aren¡¯t just these two things. On my two trips to the Stantine Duchy, I¡¯ve seen many good things at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Philip, I dare say that if you saw these things, you would definitely be shocked to the point where you wouldn¡¯t be able to close your mouth!¡± Marquis Southgate raised his voice to say this.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to say all this, that kid Seymour has told me this many times already.¡± Duke Makaros turned to Xu Yi, ¡°But the things you talked about and the agricultural magic machines are two different things. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes these novel things, I can believe, but the agricultural magic machines that chairman Xu described are too mysterious that I am skeptical about them.¡±

    Seeing Duke Makaros¡¯ sharp look, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried at all. He said with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Duke, if you really don¡¯t believe, I urge you to wait for a few months until the fall harvest on the Lord Marquis¡¯ territory is over before making your decision.¡±

    Duke Makaros and Marquis Southgate were both surprised.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re giving up?¡± Marquis Southgate knitted his brows, ¡°It was hard enough to convince Philip toe meet you, how can you give up so easily?¡±

    ¡°No, I just don¡¯t want to force people. Moreover, I¡¯m very confident in ourpany¡¯s agricultural magic machines and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. I believe that after the fall harvest on your Lord Marquis¡¯ territory is over, the Lord Duke will definitely see the benefits of the agricultural magic machines.¡±

    After pausing, Xu Yi continued, ¡°But I must remind the Lord Duke that when the timees, it won¡¯t just be you who can see this. Ourpany¡¯s agricultural magic machine production capacity in the Marlow Empire is limited, so there might not be enough to give you some first.¡±

    Duke Makaros¡¯ expression changed, ¡°Young man, are you threatening me?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°No, I¡¯m just stating a fact.¡±

 Volume 6 4 - Managing rights of workers

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 4 Managing rights of workers</strong>

    Duke Makaros still didn¡¯t make a decision in the end.

    But even if he didn¡¯t decide to buy the agricultural magic machines, that didn¡¯t mean that he didn¡¯t buy the household magic machines.

    After all, he had seen the amazing effects of the various household magic machines that Xu Yi had brought this time aftering to Marquis Southgate¡¯s manor, so no matter how stubborn he was, he had to admit that these things were very easy to use.

    Since he only needed to spend a bit of money to make his life more convenient, why wouldn¡¯t he do this?

    Of course, this ¡°bit of money¡± was only for Duke Makaros.

    He had bought seven sets of various household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, spending three thousand and six hundred gold coins.

    For the citizens of the Marlow Empire, this figure was a giant figure that they could never earn in their entire lives.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, may I ask what is the average annual ie of the people in your territory?¡± After Duke Makaros left, Xu Yi suddenly asked Marquis Southgate this.

    ¡°Why are you asking this question?¡± Marquis Southgate was a bit surprised.

    ¡°I just want to estimate the general consumption level here.¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked at Xu Yi with a bit of a strange look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I might disappoint you. To be honest, my territory is already considered quite good, butpared to the people under your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there is a big difference. I¡¯m ashamed to mention this, but as their lord, I could only barely maintain their normal living conditions and couldn¡¯t improve their living standard.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Marquis, this isn¡¯t your fault. Not to mention that you brought our Frestech Chamber of Commerce here, we will definitely give them a better life.¡±

    ¡°Definitely?¡± Marquis Southgate took a deep look at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are confident.¡±

    ¡°Of course, if I wasn¡¯t confident, I wouldn¡¯t havee here, right?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before he kept asking, ¡°Lord Marquis, knowing the average yearly ie is very important to my future ns, please tell me.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Marquis Southgate thought about it before giving a sigh and shaking his head, ¡°Actually, as for your question.....I really don¡¯t know how to answer. I said it just now, the citizens can barely maintain their normal living conditions, so if you want to talk about ie.....they really don¡¯t have any ie at all.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......I have a general idea of what to do.¡± Xu Yi nodded before suddenly looking at Marquis Southgate with a serious look, ¡°Lord Marquis, now we can discuss the issue of hiring employees for the various factories of the magic machine industry base.¡±

    ¡°The people of our territory have to be the main employment force, there¡¯s no room to discuss this.¡± Marquis Southgate said without any hesitation.

    ¡°Of course, we already agreed on this, meaning that I have no reason to change this. What I am discussing now is their wages. How does the Lord Marquis want to process this?¡±

    Marquis Southgate was surprised, ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°My meaning is that as the lord, you have the right to order your people to work in our factories, just like how they farm thend on your territory. Ourpany doesn¡¯t need to pay them a wage and just needs to pay a fee to you as the lord, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Marquis Southgate knitted his brows to think before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, I remember that whether it is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the otherpanies, they all freely paid their workers wages, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes, but before this, there were magic machinepanies that were set up by the nobles. They then ordered their citizens to work in the factories and then didn¡¯t pay their workers.¡±

    ¡°Why aren¡¯t there thesepanies anymore?¡±

    ¡°Because they were all eliminated.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°Facts proved that it was hard to stimte the enthusiasm for work among the employees, so it caused their magic machines to have some problems in terms of quality and performance. So they were eventually pushed out of the industry by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies.¡±

    ¡°Enthusiasm for work.....¡± Marquis Southgate stroked his chin to think for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°I understand what you mean. Chairman Xu, if I allow these citizens to be employed in the factories as individuals, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it will be like the Lampuri Kingdom or the Stantine Duchy. They will be our employees and we will provide them with their wages, as well as some benefits, but.....¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi paused.

    ¡°They will be our employees like this and they should be workers of ourpanies, so they will be managed by ourpany. Even if you are their lord, you can¡¯t interfere with them and you need the agreement of ourpany if you need something.¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Marquis Southgate deeply knitted his brows.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were already quite forward. This meant that ording to the method that Xu Yi proposed, those workers would be turned over to the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the various factories, Marquis Southgate wouldn¡¯t be able to meddle most of the times.

    To put it simply, Xu Yi was striving for some rights for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies that came to invest here.

    If Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t agree, Xu Yi had also given the consequences, which was that the enthusiasm for work for the employees would be affected. This would affect the quality and performance of the magic machines made.

    Xu Yi watched as Marquis Southgate thought about it for a while before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I can¡¯t agree to this request. Ruling over the people is my responsibility as the lord and I have the responsibility to guide them. No matter what, I can¡¯t just let others manage my people.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change, but he gave a sigh deep down.

    He was very disappointed in this answer.

    He thought that Marquis Southgate was smart enough to see through this matter, but he never thought that he would be like most lords in this world, unwilling to give up control over his own territory.

    Of course, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this answer.

    In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development over the years, Xu Yi had been in contact with many lords. He understood the thoughts of the lords and knew that without receiving any benefits, it wouldn¡¯t be easy for them to change their ideas.

    This was an idea that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been able to change in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries with the magic machine industry they developed, but for the nobles of the Marlow Empire which was one of the two empires, it wasn¡¯t that easy to change this idea.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before replying, ¡°If the Lord Marquis has made this choice, this is also fine. Our Frestefch Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies will hire some workers from you and directly pay you, but we won¡¯t need to sign private employment contracts with the workers themselves. What do you think?¡±

    Marquis Southgate nodded, ¡°Un, we¡¯ll do this. But there¡¯s no need to pay the fee, as long as these people can live normal lives. Anyway, your factories will be paying me taxes, right?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Marquis Southgate rejecting his suggestion of paying the fees went against Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    ¡°No, Lord Marquis, taxes are taxes and fees are fees, they can¡¯t be mixed together. Putting a factory on your territory already reduces the taxes, so without the fees, you will be suffering too much.¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave augh, ¡°It¡¯s fine even if I suffer a bit of losses. The most important thing is that you work with me to improve my territory. If it can be like Banta City or even your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters, I would be willing to exempt you from all taxes.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t make this joke, Lord Marquis. If I take it for real, you might really regret the loss each year.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°In short, from the perspective of a merchant like me, all cooperations and transactions should be fair, otherwise they won¡¯t be able tost long. In order for a long term partnership in the future, it is best to start with a fair agreement, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Marquis Southgate shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, since chairman Xu insists, I will take the fees. Un.....This is my first time doing this, so I really don¡¯t know what the starting price is. Chairman Xu, you decide, it¡¯s fine as long as you give me a fair price.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then for each worker......¡± Xu Yi raised three fingers, ¡°It would be thirty gold coins a year, what do you think?¡±

    Marquis Southgate had inspected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce twice and had stayed for close to a month. He was very clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was paying their employees over a hundred gold coins a year.

    Compared to this, thirty gold coins a year in fees was too much of a difference.

    But the two had clearly discussed this just now. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies are only hiring workers from Marquis Southgate, they wouldn¡¯t have the right to manage them, so naturally it would be much different from hiring them as an individual.

    Although there was a big difference, it was considered fair.

    Marquis Southgate thought for a bit before nodding in response.

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll set it at this price, but there¡¯s still a problem. Chairman Xu, ording to your estimate, how many workers do you need to hire?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a cunning smile as he stretched out one finger.

    ¡°Not much, it¡¯s only around ten thousand in the beginning.¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand?!¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes, unable to speak for a while from his shock.

 Volume 6 5 - Manpower problem

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 5 Manpower problem</strong>

    The Marlow Empire was very big.

    As one of the two empires of the continent, the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory on the map was already several dozen times bigger than the small Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for the Stantine Duchy that was several times smaller than the Lampuri Kingdom, it was unable topare to the Marlow Empire.

    Even if Xu Yi couldn¡¯t get an urate figure, just based on his experience of living in the Lampuri Kingdom, he could tell that the Lampuri Kingdom was the same size as a medium sized province of China from earth.

    ording to this calction, the Marlow Empire was as big as China had been on earth, so it definitely could be called a giant empire.

    However, what Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect was that in this giant empire, the poption wasn¡¯t several dozen times more than the Lampuri Kingdom as well.

    ording to the data Marquis Southgate provided, the Marlow Empire¡¯s poption was only around fifty million, which was just ten times more than the poption of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even adding in the poption that couldn¡¯t be counted, this difference wasn¡¯t that big.

    There were only fifty million people in such arge country, this made the poption density in the Marlow Empire very low, which was something that Xu Yi who transmigrated from earth couldn¡¯t get used to.

    Just take Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory, if this was the Lampuri Kingdom, with his status as marquis, he would have received a piece ofnd that would be fifty square kilometers.

    But in the Marlow Empire, his private territory was a surprising thousand square kilometers, which was like a few of the smaller cities on earth to Xu Yi.

    However, on such arge territory, ording to Marquis Southgate¡¯s stats from thest two years, there were only thirty thousand people!

    If these thirty thousand people received even distribution, that would be several hectares ofnd for each person!

    But there was a problem with that.

    Putting aside Marquis Southgate¡¯s family, guards, and their servants, of the remaining twenty seven thousand people, putting aside the children and elderly who couldn¡¯t work at all, there were only around fifteen thousand people who could be considered a work force.

    Among these fifteen thousand people, putting aside the eight thousand women who weren¡¯t as physically strong, there were only less than seven thousand who were young strapping men.

    These seven thousand people were the mainbour force of Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory, which could be considered the foundation and core strength of the Southgate Family.

    Now that Xu Yi had suddenly asked for ten thousand people, Marquis Southgate was naturally surprised.

    Not to mention it being impossible for him to hire all these seven thousand people to Xu Yi, even if he did, there was still three thousand people missing.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......If I remember correctly, you are only nning on building seventeen factories in the beginning, why do you need so many people?¡± Marquis Southgate asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°Is it a lot?¡± Xu Yi looked at Marquis Southgate who he thought had an excessive reaction with a strange look and after thinking about it, he understood.

    He was already used to dealing with people in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries when it came to the magic machine industry, these things had already bemon knowledge in these countries, but for the Marlow Empire and Marquis Southgate, this surpassed theirmon understanding.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi thought back to Banta City when they had built several factories, asking Count Sean who was still the City Lord for three thousand workers.

    When Count Sean heard his request, he was also as surprised as the current Marquis Southgate. But after Xu Yi exined it, Count Sean was very happy and even supported Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    Because of this, it helped Banta City solve the work problem of three thousand people, which helped him as the City Lord.

    Although Marquis Southgate was a bit surprised, he probably wouldn¡¯t reject this opportunity.

    However, after hearing Xu Yi exin the reason why they needed arge number of workers for the factories, Marquis Southgate knitted his brows to think for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯m afraid I don¡¯t understand. The main priority of thebour force is to grow food, if you can¡¯t even guarantee the most basic needs, there is no meaning in anything else. I can only barely maintain it with the ten thousand people on my territory, but I still have no ways to open more farnd in my territory. If I give you these ten thousand people, even if you say that women also work.....I can¡¯t ept it.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    Marquis Southgate had personally seen the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy doing this, could it be that he didn¡¯t know that with the help of the agricultural magic machines, he wouldn¡¯t need that many people for farming?

    After he asked Marquis Southgate this question, he received an awkward response.

    ¡°This......I only paid attention to the household magic machines and the influence of the buildings, I didn¡¯t pay that much attention to the agricultural magic machines. If it wasn¡¯t for you proposing having the Cantona Chamber of Commerce help with the harvest, I wouldn¡¯t even know what the agricultural magic machines are.¡±

    Xu Yi could only roll his eyes at this. Although Marquis Southgate had mentioned buying some agricultural magic machines, he never thought that he wouldn¡¯t know what the use of the agricultural magic machines would be.

    He could only patiently exin it to Marquis Southgate because with the appearance of the agricultural magic machines, it had greatly changed the farming industry of the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries.

    After he finished, Marquis Southgate revealed an excited look.

    ¡°So it¡¯s like this! It was no wonder you said that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could help me solve all the problems of farming on my territory, I thought that you were joking before!¡±

    Xu Yi resisted the urge to roll his eyes again as he continued, ¡°So that means, Lord Marquis, when ites to farming, you don¡¯t need to worry about manpower. Because this year¡¯s fall harvest is too tight, we can only help you with the fall harvest. Once it is over, you can ask the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to reim all the farnd possible on your territory, you can even ask them to help you nt your crops. You just need to have some people maintain it afterwards and you can easily harvest it next year.¡±

    Marquis Southgate thought about it before saying with knitted brows, ¡°But it¡¯s impossible for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to remain here.¡±

    ¡°The Cantona Chamber of Commerce will be building a branch in the Marlow Empire. As long as you¡¯re willing, you can just ask for their help when ites to harvests and nting. Of course, if you want to do this yourself, it¡¯s very simple. You just need to buy enough agricultural magic machines from ourpany and send some people to learn how to use them, which will solve the problem.¡± Xu Yi patiently said.

    ¡°Is the Cantona Chamber of Commerce willing to teach this technique?¡± Marquis Southgate asked Xu Yi in a doubtful voice.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. This wasn¡¯t some special technique, what reason was there not to spread it?

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi had a thought and he said with a smile, ¡°You can discuss this with chairman Cantona, I think that he would be very willing to discuss this with you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do this.¡± Marquis Southgate nodded before knitting his brows again, ¡°But even like this, there still won¡¯t be enough people for you. The gap is too much.¡±

    ¡°You can just work with Duke Makaros. If that still doesn¡¯t work, we can find some other nobles of the empire to work with us. A fee of thirty gold coins a year per employee, I think that would move many noble lords like you.¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    Actually, what Xu Yi wanted was for thepanies to freely recruit in the Marlow Empire, which would make things more flexible and give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies more initiative.

    But they came into the Marlow Empire with rtions to Marquis Southgate, so they needed to solve this through Marquis Southgate.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Marquis Southgate fell into deep thought as a bit of hesitation appeared on his face.

    Xu Yi could understand his hesitation because this was equal to giving a piece of meat in his mouth to others, so no one would be willing.

    After a while, Marquis Southgate let out a deep breath as his expression became firm like he had made his decision.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this, I will take care of it.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t tell him what his methods were, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit worried.

    But in this situation, he couldn¡¯t show that he didn¡¯t trust Marquis Southgate, so he could only nod in agreement.

    The two discussed a few more of their future ns before Xu Yi said that he wanted to see situation of the magic machine industry base, so he left Marquis Southgate¡¯s manor.

    After driving his car out of the manor¡¯s front gate, Xu Yi leaned back to look at thisrge manor and gave a deep sigh.

    Beforeing to the Marlow Empire, he thought that with how open Marquis Southgate acted, this investment matter would go very smoothly.

    But when he arrived here, he found that no matter how open Marquis Southgate was and how willing he was to ept new things, he was still limited by the same problems as all the other nobles of this world.

    Because of these limitations, Xu Yi was forced to change his ns several times in the past few days, working hard to cooperate with Marquis Southgate.

    Although this didn¡¯t affect the basic n, this did make Xu Yi feel helpless.

    In the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the other small countries, with the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was much easier for Xu Yi to change them. But now that he wanted to change an important person of the Marlow Empire, he found it hard to begin.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this is a path that must be taken.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has taken a step onto the continent through the Marlow Empire, if he wanted to smoothly walk down this path, he had to double his effort.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned to the south.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had taken a step into the Marlow Empire, when would they be able to take a real step into the other empire, the Candra Empire?

 Volume 6 6 - Bigger location

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 6 Bigger location</strong>

    In the beginning of summer at noon, the weather was hot and dry, making people unwilling to move.

    At this time, if one could stay at home and have an afternoon nap while sitting in the cool breeze of the Magic Air Conditioner, that was something that many people would be most satisfied with.

    However, Belil didn¡¯t have time to bezy like normal today. Right now, not only did he have to endure the strong heat that came from the intense sunlight, he also had to listen to more than ten Magic Sedans roaring in front of him, which was something that he definitely couldn¡¯t enjoy.

    ¡°Damn, that bastard Xu Yi, he had to toss out this sound system, it simply is making one deaf.¡± Hearing the sound that came from the Magic Sedans that werepeting, Belil couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    Although the Fire Magic Engine Magic Sedans were louder than the Wind Magic Engine Magic Sedans, it wasn¡¯t as bad as this.

    But that fellow Xu Yi had to said that the race Magic Sedans had to be different from the normal Magic Sedans, so he had made this new ¡°race car sound system¡± for these new race Magic Sedans.

    Actually, this thing had no use at all, it just made the race Magic Sedan louder when it started and ranpared to the normal Magic Sedan.

    Of course, Belil had to admit that with this race car sound system, it did make one¡¯s blood boil listening to it. It filled one with excitement, which made it suitable for when one was driving in a car race.

    So since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released this, even if the price of the race car Magic Sedans were even higher nowpared to normal Magic Sedans, there were many young nobles who loved these race cars.

    Just in Wimbledon City, based on what Belil knew, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released this model less than three months ago, his shop in Wimbledon City had already sold two hundred and seventy three cars.

    This number didn¡¯t seem like much, but with the price of around three thousand eight hundred gold coins per race Magic Sedan, this meant that in just three months, Belil¡¯s Magic Car Store had already earned a shocking one million and thirty thousand gold coins!

    ording to the agreement Belil signed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, every time he sold the Magic Sedan, he would receive 5% of the profits. This meant that in just three months, just by selling Magic Race Cars, he had earned over fifty thousand gold coins.

    Even if he was tired, Belil was still very passionate. He actively organized the Magic Sedan race that was already quite popr among the nobles of Wimbledon City.

    Today was thepetition that was scheduled half a month ago and the participants were all experts that Belil had chosen from a series of races, so it could be considered an elite racing event. So other than the thirteen elite participants, there were many young nobles and merchants who hade to this event.

    ¡°Hey, brothers, are you all prepared?¡± Belil suddenly raised his arm as he called out.

    The crowd on both sides of the race track gave a deafening cheer and the thirteen Magic Sedans that were prepared let out a roar.

    ¡°Very good, then let¡¯s let everyone enjoy this race!¡±

    With a roar from Belil, he nodded to the beauty by the race track responsible for announcing the race and moved to the side.

    After a while, the beauty waved her g and the thirteen Magic Sedan charged out like arrows, disappearing around the corner in the race track in the blink of an eye.

    Belil looked at the distant corner and lowered his head to look at this road that wasn¡¯t considered smooth before stomping down on it. He slightly knitted his brows.

    He was using the private territory of some small nobles in Wimbledon City to hold these races. This ce was close to a hundred kilometers away from Wimbledon City, so it wasn¡¯t that suitable.

    But the main nobles of Wimbledon City haven¡¯t epted the car races, most of the ones that joined were the juniors of noble families or descendants of merchants.

    These people had money, but they didn¡¯t have power, so they couldn¡¯t decide much.

    Being able to find this empty space and secretly pulling the Amrit Chamber of Commerce here to build a road was already the limit of what these people could do. It was far from the goal that Xu Yi gave Belil to spread Magic Cars all over the Candra Empire.

    Belil had only wanted to attempt this when he received this task from Xu Yi, but after being in the Candra Empire for a year, after building a solid foundation and earning quite a bit of it, he already secretly decided to make this his true business.

    Moreover, ording to his observations of the nobles in Wimbledon City, he was certain that Magic Race Cars, Magic Sedans, and even Magic Cars had a limitless future in the Candra Empire.

    If he could really do this well and promote the car races, he would be someone with influence. No matter what, it was better than being a small noble in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Perhaps I should find some time to meet his highness Frank?¡± Belil thought in his mind as he returned to the shade by the race track.

    After a while, the thirteen Magic Sedans had already finished ap, returning to the start and flying past Belil.

    Seeing that the drivers of these thirteen Magic Sedans even had time to wave at the crowd by the track, even throwing out kisses, Belil¡¯s smile curled with a bit of disdain.

    As someone who had seen many races being held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy,pared to them, the performances of these fellows really were.....too amateur,

    Not to mentionparing them to drivers like Arch Magus Cami and elder Lisanya who surpassed normal understanding, orparing them to the drivers of the beast race, the elves, and the dwarves, they couldn¡¯t evenpare to the human drivers in the races held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Like having free time to wave to the crowd, that would definitely never appear in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s race.

    Of course, thispetition had just started here and it was normal that it couldn¡¯tpete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯spetition that had already been around for close to three years.

    After these Magic Sedans passed, raising the dust around him, Belil went even further into the shade behind him.

    When he took two steps back, he suddenly felt a hand patting his shoulder.

    Belil was surprised as he turned around.

    ¡°Manager Lons, why are you here?¡±

    This serious looking Lons who looked like a housekeeper no matter how one looked at him and was actually a housekeeper made a gesture for Belil to be quite before having him follow him.

    Belil understood and said a few words to his subordinates before he silently exited from behind the race track with Lons. They came to a ce that was a bit distance from it, but because of its high position, it was easier to overlook the entire race track.

    ¡°Your highness Frank, how did you have free time today?¡±

    Since he had seen Prince Frank¡¯s most trusted housekeeper Lons, Belil wasn¡¯t surprised to see his highness Frank now.

    But he was very surprised why Princess Frank would suddenlye here today.

    He had sent countless invitations to Prince Frank before, but he had never replied.

    He had sent the same invitation out of habit and he didn¡¯t have any hope of himing, but he never thought that he would actuallye.

    ¡°Hey, dear Belil, we haven¡¯t seen each other in a while and I¡¯ve found that you¡¯re much darkerpared to before.¡± Prince Frank revealed a friendly smile to Belil, looking him over, ¡°Could it be that because you¡¯ve been organizing these races, you¡¯ve been tanned by the sun?¡±

    Belilughed. He gave the customary salute to Prince Frank before sitting down beside him without courtesy, wiping off the sweat on his forehead.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve been so focused on thispetition that I¡¯ve just been too busy.¡±

    Prince Frank looked in the distance at the Magic Sedans that had already finished anotherp before saying with a smile, ¡°Actually, don¡¯t you think that thesepetitions don¡¯t have any meaning?¡±

    Belil was surprised, ¡°Why are you saying this?¡±

    Prince Frank shook his head with a look of disdain on his face, ¡°There¡¯s no meaning in this enclosed area. I rather like running around outside in a more spacious area. Not only is it wider, the road situation is more different, so of course it would be more interesting.¡±

    Belil gave a bitter smile, ¡°I also know this without you telling me, but these Magic Sedans can¡¯t race on those poor dirt roads at all and there¡¯s no ce for them to drive on.¡± After saying this, Belil gave a sigh, ¡°Speaking of this......Frank, how long will it take for the roads in the southwest province to finish? It¡¯s already been a year, have they still not finished yet?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care about the southwest province governor¡¯s matter, I can¡¯t meddle in this.¡± Prince Frank casually said.

    ¡°I also know that, but......¡± Baron Belil wanted to say something, but after pausing, he waved his hand and gave a bitterugh, ¡°Forget it, there¡¯s no use saying it now.¡±

    ¡°No, there is.¡± Prince Frank suddenly gave a softugh, turning to look at Belil and saying with a serious look, ¡°Belil, tell me......if you can change all the roads in my private territory, wouldn¡¯t these fellows have a bigger ce to race on?¡±

    Belil¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at Prince Frank in surprise.

    Could it be.....that Prince Frank was finally moved by this?

 Volume 6 7 - Magic Machine Industry Academy

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 7 Magic Machine Industry Academy</strong>

    Freeman and the others had arrived at Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory several dayste because of the poor road conditions and the broken bridge. When Xu Yi met them, he talked to them a bit before heading back to the Stantine Duchy.

    Although he didn¡¯t achieve all his goals in the Marlow Empire this time, not only had he signed quite a few contracts with Marquis Southgate, he had also made contact with the upper level of the Marlow Empire through Marquis Southgate, also signing a few contracts with them.

    Even if Marquis Southgate¡¯s old friend Duke Makaros was doubtful of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, he had suddenly sent someone before Xu Yi left. He told Xu Yi that he wanted the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to harvest a third of his territory.

    He wanted to use this experiment to confirm the effects of the agricultural magic machines that Xu Yi had told him before.

    Other than the stubborn Duke Makaros, the other Marlow Empire nobles that Marquis Southgate introduced also showed their willingness to test it.

    So for this fall harvest, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce received business for over three hundred thousands of hectares ofnd which can be considered arge deal.

    Moreover, those nobles promised that if the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could perform as well as Xu Yi had said during the fall harvest, they would consider giving the business of nting and opening up more farnd to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    Compared to harvesting, that was where the real big business was.

    Cantona as the chairman ced great importance on being able to smoothly enter the Marlow Empire¡¯s agricultural market. He stayed on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory almost every day, leading his subordinates to carefully inspect the farnd on the territory. They had to give them a perfect performance for the fall harvest.

    So Cantona had contacted Xu Yi, hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could ensure that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would have enough agricultural magic machines and construction magic machines, that way they would be able to smoothly finish this job.

    Of course Xu Yi supported them. After consulting with him, Xu Yi had a portion of the agricultural magic machines being made in the Drake Duchy be supplied to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    ordingly, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would have to help the Drake Duchy improve their farnd over the next two years.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about the details of their negotiations. What he needed to do first was head back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and prepare for the huge demand of the Marlow Empire ahead of time.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity had always been a problem for Xu Yi, so even if Sancheli had made the automatic production magic machines, which had greatly increased the productivity of the factories, there were still limits to this that made it unable to reach a level that Xu Yi was satisfied with.

    The main reason was because of ack of workers.

    The worker problem wasn¡¯t just ack of people, the most decisive factor was ack of skilled workers.

    It should be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce strongly promoted the idea of training magic machine industry skills. Now that there were more and more people who could operate magic machines, this problem wasn¡¯t that serious.

    But in terms of magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce found it hard to find a real solution.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need normal magicians, they had to have some understanding of magic machines. They had to know how toy the various kinds of Magic Arrays and be magicians that were very skilled at Magic Arrays.

    In the early periods of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the requirements in this aspect weren¡¯t high. After all, just having magicianse work for thepany was already enough to satisfy Xu Yi, how could he still be picky?

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger and bigger, Xu Yi attached great importance to developing the whole magic machine industry. He started putting more precise requirements for the various magic machines, as if what they had before couldn¡¯t satisfy Xu Yi anymore.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce spread the concept of standardization to the otherpanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to strictly follow their own standards.

    Like this, there were harsher requirements of the Low Grade Magicians who arranged these Magic Arrays.

    Last time Great Magician Ferguson brought fifty magicians over to solve the problem with their living conditions with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi had clearly stated that these magicians didn¡¯t meet the requirements to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and this was the reason.

    If they didn¡¯t have any training or work experience, it was impossible for these magicians to find their job easy at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became powerful and influential in the surrounding countries, the magicians of the surrounding countries were no longer as opposed to working with them, even rushing over to work for them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became picky and started screening these magicians.

    So although Xu Yi always wanted to increase their production capacity, because they were limited by the number of magicians, they could never truly increase their scale.

    So Great Magician Ferguson suddenlying on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters, asking to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even if Xu Yi was a bit worried, he still was very hopeful. He wanted to use the Magicians Guild headquarters to truly change this problem.

    In the months that Great Magician Ferguson had been gone, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild had been smoothly running their seminar on the magic machine industry.

    It was only held once every half a month at first, but because it was surprisingly popr with most of the Low Grade Magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, they had increased the frequency. Now it was being held once a week and there had already been eleven seminars held.

    In these seminars, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent their own magicians to talk about their experience working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They talked in details about their work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to let them have a deeper understanding of the magic machine industry.

    After these eleven seminars, there were many Low Grade Magicians that were spurred on by the magicians sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, developing a strong interest in entering the magic machine industry.

    Butpared to when they had no idea at all, after these eleven seminars, they had a clear understanding.

    The conclusion they drew was the same as the magic research facility. The magic machine industry was iparably big and there were many fields of research that neededrge amounts of magicians. They didn¡¯t need to know everything, as long as they acted like they were studying magic and focused on a topic, they would be able to meet the requirements.

    So after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would be setting up a magic machine industry academy in the Stantine Duchy, focused on teaching magicians about the magic machine industry, in just half a month, there were over two thousand Primary and Second Grade Magicians who had enrolled.

    As for some Third Grade and higher magicians, they also expressed their willingness to learn about the magic machine industry, so this academy became the center of attention for the Low Grade Magicians in the surrounding countries.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce offered quite good terms for those who came to the school.

    As long as they were willing to sign an agreement that promised that once they were able to work in the magic machine industry, they would first consider the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could go to school for free.

    If they even epted some more conditions, they could even have had all their living expenses paid for.

    These two conditions were without a doubt attractive for the Low Grade Magicians who had poor economic situations, so even if some newspapers said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attack with money was an insult to the noble magicians, there were countless magicians who chose to ept the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conditions.

    When Xu Yi came back from the Marlow Empire and saw the report, there were already one thousand three hundred and sixteen Low Grade Magicians who had signed contracts with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Over half of them were even willing to sign the further conditions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    At the same time, there were countless Low Grade Magicians that came from the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms to the academy.

    If nothing unexpected happened, these two figures would keep increasing.

    This situation was not a surprise for Xu Yi since the magicians of the surrounding countries were already used to the magic machine industry, they weren¡¯t against it like the first few years.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given such good conditions that it was simply impossible for those magicians that were poor to reject.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect all of them to be talented people to work in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine industry, but with such arge base, he should be able to pick a few good ones.

    The most important thing was that by doing this, he could put an idea in the heads of the magicians of the surrounding countries. It wasn¡¯t that just by studying magic that they could be powerful magicians.

    It wasn¡¯t that every magician had the talent to be a powerful Great Magician or an Arch Magus, so other than focusing on studying magic, they could also choose to join the magic machine industry.

    This was something that Xu Yi hoped the Magicians Guild headquarters could understand.

 Volume 6 8 - Actually letting the guild work with you?

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 8 Actually letting the guild work with you?</strong>

    The Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire were the tworgest countries on the Sines Continent, their territory added up to even more than half of the continent.

    In between these two iparablyrge countries, there was over ten thousand kilometers of border between them. It drew a line in the center of the Sines Continent, with the north being the Marlow Empire and the south being the Candra Empire, clearly marking them.

    If one looked at a map, they would find that in the long border that was drawn across the center of the continent, there was a piece that was dug out of it.

    But when one saw the name of this piece on the map, they would find it natural.

    Because this piece ofnd was called Castle in the Sky.

    Castle in the Sky, it could be considered the most special city on the continent and the reason was very simple, it was where the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarters was.

    Since the race wars three thousand years ago, the Magicians Guild hadsted on the Sines Continent the entire time.

    There had been many changes on the continent during these three thousand years and no matter how the countries changed, the Castle in the Sky was a ce that no one dared to mess with.

    In the hearts of everyone, this was the sacred ce for magicians, the most mysterious city with the most power in the world.

    Not to mention the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire, even the Antis Empire that had united the continent one thousand and five hundred years ago didn¡¯t dare send their army there.

    If they offended the Magicians Guild, that was equal to offending all the magicians on the continent.

    The Castle in the Sky was a city, but it upied arge piece ofnd. It had over three thousand kilometers of space and only the core region could be called the true Castle in the Sky. The other ces were all territory that belonged to the Magicians Guild.

    And in thisrge Castle in the Sky that was even bigger than the capital cities of the two empires, there was also a core region that was the true pinnacle of the city that reached into the cloud.

    The stone tower was over three hundred meters tall and looking at it from a distance, it was like a needle that reached into the sky.

    This stone tower at the beginning was only seven floors and less than twenty meters, but as the Magicians Guild kept developing, the stone tower got taller and taller. In the end, it was able to reach this astonishing height.

    Of course, with the current construction standard of the Sines Continent, it was impossible to build something as tall as this.

    This stone tower was able to stand because of the powerful Magic Array that the Magicians Guild hadid on it, guaranteeing that it would stand straight.

    This stone tower named the Tower in the Sky was not only the symbol of the City in the Sky, it was also the representation of the power of the Magicians Guild.

    But if you were qualified to reach the peak of the Tower in the Sky and looked across, you would find something even more shocking.

    The Tower in the Sky was already three hundred meters off the ground, but at its peak, there was a huge disc that was just floating in the sky. Even with the howling winds in the sky, it didn¡¯t move at all.

    This amazing disk was the closest ce to the sky on the Sines Continent and the sacred ground in the hearts of all the magicians, the Magic God Throne!

    This sacred ground was also a forbidden ground. Unless one had the approval of all the elders of the Magicians Guild, they would be mercilessly struck down if they tried to enter this ce.

    When the council was deciding most of their important things, they would convene there most of the time.

    Today the council had their monthly regr meeting, so other than the three elders on duty, the thirteen other elders had also gathered.

    Everyone was focused on Great Magician Ferguson who was currently making his report, listening with rapt attention.

    ¡°.....ording to my observations, the magicians working in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at least surpass other magicians of the same grade when ites to Magic Arrays.....No, not just a bit, they surpass them by a lot. As for the other aspects, I didn¡¯t have time to judge properly, so I can¡¯t draw a conclusion for now.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson put down the report he had prepared and looked at the other twelve elders of the council. He cleared his throat and said with a serious look, ¡°If I make a conclusion, I feel very good about the prospects of the magicians working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So I support the n that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu put forth and agree to cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    The other elders were silent for a bit before they turned to the middle aged man in a white robe sitting at the center of the table.

    This white robed magician was the current president of the Sines Continent Magicians Guild, Rodderick Gascione. He was seventy three this year, but there wasn¡¯t a single strand of white hair on his head and his face was quite red, looking very healthy.

    Since taking the post as the president twenty three years ago, the influence and fame of the Magicians Guild had been growing step by step on the continent and it couldn¡¯t be pulled away from him.

    When the council needed to decide something, everyone had a habit of listening to his opinion first.

    President Gascione, who everyone was looking at, thought for a bit before asking Great Magician Ferguson, ¡°What is the attitude of Arch Magus Cami?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was a bit surprised. He was raising the matter of the guild cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why did the president suddenly change the topic to Arch Magus Cami?

    ¡°Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t give a clear statement, but......¡± Great Magician Ferguson thought about when he met Arch Magus Cami and replied, ¡°Arch Magus Cami supports Xu Yi, the feeling he gives me is.....as if he is very satisfied and very invested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Because Xu Yi is his granddaughter¡¯s husband?¡± An elder asked with a smile.

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t like this.¡± Great Magician Ferguson slowly shook his head, ¡°I can see that Arch Magus Cami likes his current work and is very enthusiastic about it.¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    The other elders looked at each other, all with a bit of disbelief.

    This was an Arch Magus!

    As an Arch Magus that was at the peak of the magic world on the continent, he was invested in a small thing like the magic machines, this really was too unbelievable.

    ¡°What was Arch Magus Cami¡¯s stance on Xu Yi¡¯s method?¡± President Gascione asked again.

    Great Magician Ferguson was no longer surprised as to why president Gascione was focused on Arch Magus Cami.

    Adding in Arch Magus Cami, there were only twenty eight Arch Magi on the continent and each one was a peak character on the continent.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly reported that Great Magician Cami had broken through to be an Arch Magus, it had created arge stir in the Magicians Guild.

    Because it had been a full nine years since an Arch Magus had appeared, there hadn¡¯t been an Arch Magus in nine years which made the Magicians Guild feel a bit of danger.

    In the end, the Magicians Guild¡¯s fame and influence on the continent depended on all the magicians. Or to put it more straightforward, they were based on the peak magicians like Great Magicians or Arch Magi.

    Especially Arch Magi Magicians because they far surpassed normal magicians. Each person could be a deciding factor in many things, so whether it was the country or the Magicians Guild, they would attach great importance to things like this.

    The Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire had seven Arch Magi respectively, each one having a very high position that even the top nobles couldn¡¯tpare with.

    And for an Arch Magus to appear in a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom, they would be at the same position as the king!

    But what no one expected was that this Arch Magus that came from the Lampuri Kingdom went to work for apany, bing one of their employees!

    Almost everyone had thought that it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was Arch Magus Cami¡¯s grandson inw, which was why he was willing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was only done as a favour in the end, it didn¡¯t mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was qualified to attract an Arch Magus.

    But now Great Magician Ferguson said that Arch Magus Cami was there on his own free will and he was very enthusiastic towards studying magic machines, this really was something that no one imagined.

    Just based on this, his support towards Xu Yi¡¯s n would decide the Magicians Guild¡¯s attitude towards this proposal.

    ¡°Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t give a statement, but he said to me that Xu Yi definitely could handle this if it was given to him, so he wanted the guild to work with him.¡± Great Magician Ferguson replied.

    ¡°Let us work with him?¡± The elders couldn¡¯t help saying in surprised voices.

    ¡°What a joke!¡± An elder pped the table, ¡°A smallpany being able to enter the eyes of the guild is already a blessing for them. Forget the fact that they proposed a n to us, they actually want us to work with them? Is there a mistake!¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a soft cough, ¡°This......This is what Great Magician Cami said. Chairman Xu is hoping to discuss this with the guild so we can determine the method of cooperation.¡±

    ¡°So what if Arch Magus Cami says this?¡± Another elder gave a cold snort, ¡°We respect the opinion of Arch Magus Cami, but that doesn¡¯t mean that the guild should lose our influence in this matter. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needs to listen to the arrangements of our guild headquarters and they don¡¯t need to think of any damn ns.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at these elders who had been incited with an awkward look. He had shown support for the n that Xu Yi had put forth and now that everyone was opposing this, it was like pping his face.

    He could only turn to president Gascione.

    He knew that this matter would still be decided by the president.

 Volume 6 9 - No need for a Frost Array

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 9 No need for a Frost Array</strong>

    When the meeting ended, there was no conclusion to the matter of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because other than president Gascione asking about Arch Magus Cami¡¯s attitude, he never said anything else.

    The other elders were already used to this. Anyway, it wasn¡¯t the end yet, so the president wouldn¡¯t show his stance.

    Not to mention that the matter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to most of the elders was only a small matter not worth mentioning at all.

    Even if this matter involved an honoured Arch Magus and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was an important Great Magician, this matter was only involving the Low Grade Magicians.

    Although these Low Grade Magicians made up over 80% of the magicians on the Sines Continent, in the eyes of the elders, they weren¡¯t even as important as a single Arch Magus.

    So instead of wasting time thinking of them, it was better to think of a way to pull over the newly promoted Arch Magus Cami.

    Anyway, it didn¡¯t matter if these Low Grade Magicians couldn¡¯t remain in the magic circle. There would be countless new magicians with talent for magic that joined, so the Magicians Guild didn¡¯t need to worry about their foundations.

    But after the meeting, president Gascione had Great Magician Ferguson remain, saying that he wanted to talk to him alone.

    The other elders weren¡¯t surprised by this since this matter involved Arch Magus Cami. Based on the attitude of the president earlier, he should attach great importance to Arch Magus Cami.

    Talking to Great Magician Ferguson alone must be because he wanted to ask about Arch Magus Cami.

    However, when everyone left and there was only president Gascione and Great Magician Ferguson left on the Magic God Throne, president Gascione didn¡¯t talk about Arch Magus Cami at all.

    ¡°Ferguson, what do you think is the current yearly ie of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised. He was thinking how would he know, that was the secret of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Don¡¯t give me an urate number, it¡¯s fine to give me an estimate.¡± President Gascione added.

    ¡°This......¡± Great Magician Ferguson thought for a while before helplessly shaking his head, ¡°President, I really don¡¯t understand much about this. But I¡¯m certain that the various household magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are very popr in the surrounding countries, this was something I saw all the way from the Marlow Empire to the Stantine Duchy. So I think.....their yearly ie should be very high.¡±

    ¡°Very high? How high? Can it pass ten million?¡± President Gascione continued asking in an interested voice.

    ¡°Ten million......I¡¯m not certain, but based on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, I think that it shouldn¡¯t be that much of a problem. It might even.....be higher than that.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? If it¡¯s like this, then we might have to seriously consider the n this Xu Yi put forth.¡± President Gascione said with a faint smile.

    ¡°President, you¡¯re nning on cooperating with them?¡±

    ¡°I was already nning on cooperating with them, but the difference is the degree of cooperation.¡± President Gascione paused before continuing, ¡°I only felt that since this Xu Yi was only a Great Magician, he should be very willing to work with our Magicians Guild to build a name for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, letting us help him solve some problems. But after seeing your report, I think that it¡¯s different.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that you¡¯ve set your eyes on the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    President Gascione looked at Great Magician Ferguson with a ghost of a smile on his face.

    ¡°If we¡¯re talking about magic tools, it¡¯s clear that our Magicians Guild far surpasses the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is able to earn so much from those simple magic tools while our Magicians Guild has invested all that time into studying them, but we¡¯ve never earned arge amount of money from them. Just this is very much worth me being jealous.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised by president Gascione, thinking that the meaning of the president¡¯s words meant that his appraisal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was too high.

    The Magicians Guild couldn¡¯t earn money from the magic tools for thousands of years, but a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could. Did this mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stronger than the Magicians Guild?

    ¡°As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I remember that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild proposed the patents before, which we passed after studying it. Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce applied for many patents to the headquarters, right?¡±

    Before inspecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Great Magician Ferguson had studied the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally he knew about this. He gave a nod after hearing this, ¡°Yes, there are over one hundred and thirty thousand patents at the headquarters and just the ones from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce surpass seventy thousand.¡±

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help giving praise.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know how this smallpany can develop such novel things with magic. A full seventy thousand patents, that can create a whole basic magic system.¡±

    ¡°Since they¡¯re willing to apply for so many patents with the headquarters, it means that they are willing to ept the leadership of the guild. Since it¡¯s like this, it¡¯s easier to take care of.¡± President Gascione thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Ferguson, I¡¯ll have to trouble you to go to the Stantine Duchy again.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson wasn¡¯t surprised, ¡°President, please give you orders.¡±

    ¡°But president, what attitude should I show Xu Yi this time?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to show an attitude.¡± President Gascione revealed a confident smile, ¡°As long as you tell him that the headquarters is willing to work with him, but need the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to show their sincerity, I think that Xu Yi will definitely know what to do.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson understood immediately and gave a nod.

    After leaving the Magic God Throne, Ferguson flew into the City in the Sky. He looked around before walking towards the most prosperous business street in the City in the Sky.

    He would go to the Stantine Duchy, so he had to make some preparations for the trip.

    Although the City in the Sky was a magician city, it didn¡¯t mean that there were only magicians in the city.

    Although this ce was the ce with the highest density of magicians, magicians were still people, they still needed to live. So the City in the Sky wasn¡¯t that different from other cities, there were also living and business areas.

    Great Magician Ferguson headed to the business street in the southwest of the city, it was the most prosperous and normal street in the city.

    As long as you had money, you could buy all kinds of goods on this street.

    Great Magician Ferguson had just walked into the street and was about to head to the store that he frequented the most, but he saw a group gathered in front and heard loud noisesing from it.

    ¡°Did something happen?¡± Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows and went closer.

    ¡°I don¡¯t want it, isn¡¯t that enough? I have no money, so I can¡¯t just not get it? Are you magicians all this unreasonable?¡± There was a sharp female voice from the crowd that sounded very grating.

    ¡°When was I being unreasonable?¡± A deep middle aged man¡¯s voice replied, ¡°You clearly agreedst week to let me prepare a week in advance toy arge scale Frost Array for your store. You even gave me the deposit and now you¡¯re telling me you don¡¯t need it? Are you ying me?¡±

    ¡°Ai, how could I dare y a noble magician? But I really don¡¯t need thisrge scale Frost Array now. What about it? Could it be that you¡¯re going to force me to buy it?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! How dare you insult a noble and honest magician! When did I force you to buy it?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re forcing me toy down thisrge scale Frost Array, how is this not forcing me to buy!¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t......¡±

    ......

    That woman was clearly someone who had done business for many years, so she had a sharp mouth. The middle aged magician was someone who focused on studying magic, so how could he win when it came to arguing?

    Great Magician Ferguson listened on the side for a while and seeing that the middle aged magician was slowly giving up, he knitted his brows. He used his magic and the crowd felt a gentle force pushing them aside, creating a path.

    This was the City in the Sky, there were magicians everywhere, but Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s actions clearly caught everyone¡¯s attention.

    Seeing everyone look over, Great Magician Ferguson took off his hood and revealed his face. He said with a cold snort, ¡°What is going on?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was one of the sixteen elders of the Magicians Guild headquarters, he had iparable prestige in the City in the Sky. Everyone recognized him and gave him a bow.

    ¡°You, tell me what is going on.¡± Great Magician Ferguson waved his hand at the middle aged magician.

    The middle aged magician slowly came over and exined the matter to Great Magician Ferguson.

    Although he wasn¡¯t good at speaking, based on his ount, Great Magician Ferguson was able to understand that the story was no different from what they had just said.

    This sharp mouthed woman was the owner of arge cotton material shop on this street. Because of the approaching summer heat, she scheduled this middle aged magicianst week to help her arrange arge scale Frost Array in her shop this week.

    This was what manyrge stores did in the City in the Sky, so there was no problem.

    But when the middle aged magician came to arrange the Magic Array this year, the boss had rejected him. She imed that the store didn¡¯t need arge scale Frost Array, so the deal from before was null and she asked the middle aged magician to give back the deposit.

    The middle aged magician¡¯s business was gone and now he was being asked to return the deposit, so the two of them began arguing over this.

    After hearing this, Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows and quickly made his decision.

    ¡°Since she doesn¡¯t need you to arrange therge scale Magic Array, you can just listen to her. We are magicians, we aren¡¯t bandits.¡± Great Magician Ferguson first reprimanded the middle aged magician before turning to the boss and saying with a serious expression, ¡°But no matter what, you can¡¯t take back the deposit, those are the rules.¡±

    The smile on the boss¡¯ face became stiff before she waved her hand, ¡°Since Lord Ferguson has said this, we¡¯ll do this then.¡±

    The crowd saw that Great Magician Ferguson came out and the two sides quickly backed down, since there was nothing else to watch, they left on their own.

    The boss knew that there were no benefits in staying here, so after giving Great Magician Ferguson a bow, she turned to head back to her store.

    ¡°Wait.¡± Great Magician Ferguson called out to stop her.¡±

    ¡°Lord Ferguson, do you still need something?¡± The boss was a bit nervous as she looked at Great Magician Ferguson.

    ¡°Tell me, why do you not need arge scale Frost Array anymore? The hottest weather is about to be her and if your store doesn¡¯t have arge scale Frost Array, aren¡¯t you worried that your customers aren¡¯t willing toe?¡±

    The boss let out a soft sigh of relief before giving a softugh, ¡°How could that be, of course we¡¯re prepared. But it isn¡¯t arge scale Frost Array, but rather.....¡±

    ¡°A Magic Air Conditioner, right?¡± Great Magician Ferguson cut her off.

    The boss was surprised, ¡°How did you know?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face sunk a bit as he looked towards the boss¡¯ shop. He could feel the gentle and stable magic wavesing from it before turning to look back at the middle aged man who was a bit stunned, feeling a bit of emotion that he didn¡¯t know how to describe.

 Volume 6 10 - Agricultural industry upgraded

    Volume 6 Chapter 10 Agricultural industry upgraded

    Xu Yi was thinking of therge demand for household magic machines in the Marlow Empire because of the summer heat while patiently waiting for the Magicians Guild to give him a reply.

    But after being in the Stantine Duchy for half a month, the Magicians Guild¡¯s reply didn¡¯te and a certain person came back first.

    ¡°Hey, Leslie, you¡¯re much more tannedpared to before. It seems like the sun really is strong on that ind in the southern sea?¡±

    Xu Yi found it a bit funny looking at Leslie whose skin waspletely brown, no one would have thought that this was the fair skinned noble Leslie from before. Since this fellow took over as themander of the guard fleet, he had walked the path of a rough man without looking back.

    Leslie revealed a smile and because his skin was much darker, his teeth looked whiter.

    ¡°That damn ce¡¯s sunlight really is strong, but thanks to this, I¡¯ve found that crops grow faster there than any other ce on the Sines Continent. The people on the ind say that they can harvest three times a year or even four times, so the people of the ind never have to worry about starving.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is natural.¡± Xu Yi nodded to show he understood.

    This was something that could be easily seen.

    If one was to divide the world bytitude, the Sines Continent was clearly in the northern hemisphere and the Stantine Duchy was a ce quite near the equator.

    This ind that was south by several hundred kilometers should be even closer to the equator, or even on the equator.

    With this kind of environment, it wasn¡¯t that strange if the ind could have three or four harvests a year.

    ¡°Then Leslie, have you made your decision?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°Are you willing, or rather will you take control of the ind?¡±

    Leslie nodded with a smile, ¡°Of course. I came back this time to discuss this matter with you. I brought the fleet over to the ind three times and I¡¯ve be much closer with the residents, so I know about the situation of the ind. I think......there shouldn¡¯t be too much problem controlling this ind, but I need your support.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This of course isn¡¯t a problem because I was the one who instigated you to go. Speak, what kind of support do you need?¡±

    ¡°There are many things needed, but the most important thing is naturally military magic machines.¡± Leslie said with a serious look, ¡°This ind isn¡¯t a ce without an owner, from what I¡¯ve heard, this ind has an Antor Royal Family that controls it. If I want to control this ind, I have to take care of this Antor Royal Family first.¡±

    ¡°Alright, no problem. If there¡¯s other troubles, juste looking for me.¡± Xu Yi nodded in agreement without any hesitation.

    Seeing that Xu Yi agreed so readily, Leslie became silent.

    After looking at Xu Yi for a bit, he gave a sigh and reached out to pat Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I know why you want me to control this ind. Rx, when I control this ind, this ind will be a firm shield for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce forever.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and shook his head, ¡°I think that....pared to this, what you should care more about is how to marry miss Whitney. Tell me, have you met miss Whitney during this time?¡±

    Leslie revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Her parents are very against me. I think that even if I be the master of this ind, her parents won¡¯t ept me, so Xu Yi, I need you to help me again.¡±

    ¡°Tell me, what do you need?¡±

    ¡°Un......I want to open a farm by her family¡¯snd.¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Xu Yi looked at Leslie in surprise, ¡°Are you crazy? First not to mention if this would help her parents approve of you, how will you go to the Candra Empire to open a farm?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about that, I¡¯ll find some other people and solve this problem. Moreover, I¡¯ve already bought a farm that was sold by a small noble that is near her family¡¯snd, so the only problem is how to operate that farm.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about Baron Belil¡¯s ties with Prince Frank and thought that Leslie should have found them.

    ¡°Eh......I think that if you just set up a normal farm, this won¡¯t change her parents¡¯ impression of you.¡±

    ¡°So my goal is to turn this into the biggest and best farm in the area. Xu Yi, first give me some agricultural magic machines.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a problem, but what are you nning on doing?¡± Xu Yi doubtfully looked at him.

    ¡°I¡¯ll tell you once I achieve it.¡± Leslie said with a faint smile.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    This fellow, he was actually keeping him guessing.

    But he knew that Leslie was not an impulsive young fellow, so since he decided to do this, he would definitely have a full n.

    As his friend, he only needed to support him.

    The two talked about how to take care of a few things on the ind before Leslie left, going to inspect the shipyard of the guard fleet.

    When Leslie left, there was another guest that came.

    This guest was a rare one.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the agricultural development data the you¡¯ve requested has juste out.¡± The Stantine Duchy¡¯s congress speaker Viscount Constantine came in with a thick stack of documents and handed it over to Xu Yi with both hands, ¡°Please review it.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi took it with a nod, but he didn¡¯t look through it and put it on the side as he said, ¡°Tell me the results.¡±

    Although in name, Viscount Constantine as the speaker of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s congress should be the most powerful person, everyone knew that he was chosen by Xu Yi to control the congress, the person who would control the Stantine Duchy.

    If it was said that when Anklo was still the speaker, Xu Yi didn¡¯t control the Stantine Duchy and didn¡¯t meddle in things, after Anklo and the other nobles tried to take control of the Stantine Duchy from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi no longed hesitated. He directly chose someone to take over as the speaker and began to openly meddle with the affairs of the duchy.

    The current Xu Yi was the most powerful person in the Stantine Duchy in all but name.

    No one had any opposition to this because the people who had opposed before had been mercilessly swept away by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Viscount Constantine gave a nod and after a pause, he continued, ¡°ording to the initial data, it can be seen that the grain yield in the duchy is enough to support all the citizens. In a normal situation, even if there was arge natural disaster, we can go three years without a famine.¡±

    ¡°Very good, this means that the citizens of the duchy finally don¡¯t need to worry about starving?¡±

    Viscount Constantine revealed a faint smile, ¡°Actually, because of the production capacity, the citizens don¡¯t need to worry about this at all. Of course, if it wasn¡¯t for the arrival of chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the citizens of the duchy wouldn¡¯t be able to enjoy not having to worry about anything. Even if they didn¡¯t starve, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be enjoying the same treatment as now.¡±

    ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no need to tter me. ording to this, the agricultural industry upgrade that we set before has already met the conditions to be implemented?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes, this is the report that I finished yesterday, please take a look.¡± Viscount Constantine took out another thick document for Xu Yi.

    This time Xu Yi took it and carefully read over it.

    Increasing the agricultural industry, this was what Xu Yi had discussed with Viscount Constantine when he had taken over as the speakerst year.

    The Stantine Duchy was already rich in farming and after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce arrived, bringing the advanced agricultural magic machines, as well as the fertilizers that could increase crop yield, it developed the agricultural industry in the Stantine Duchy even further so they didn¡¯t need to worry about their food.

    But just filling the stomach was far from being enough for Xu Yi.

    Compared to earth where anyone on earth was able to eat meat at will, the people here still couldn¡¯t do that.

    Meat for the Stantine Duchy, or rather most of the people on the Sines Continent was something that was rare because other than hunting for game, there was no other source of meat.

    The people of earth could eat meat at will because of the high productive force, which allowed people to easily feed domesticated animals, allowing them to provide meat for themselves.

    But for the people of the Sines Continent, just being able to fill their stomach was hard enough, so how could they have the grains and energy to raise domesticated animals?

    It had to be known, on the current Sines Continent, for most nobles, a single cow was a rare resource for farming.

    When Vivian had been almost whipped to death, it was because she had lost a head of cattle.

    Other than the most precious cattle, even the nobles didn¡¯t have extra resources to feed domesticated animals.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came the new magic machines.

    Especially the new agricultural magic machines which solved the major problem of countless people. It freed many people from farming and allowed the lords and citizens of the surrounding countries to no longer depend on cattle.

    This change had a very obvious impact which made the Lampuri Kingdom abolish awst year.

    Thisw was rted to cattle.

 Volume 6 11 - Population

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 11 Poption</strong>

    When the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament abolished thisw, arge stir was triggered in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms.

    Thew was very simple, it forbade anyone from killing cattle or they would be heavily fined.

    By abolishing thisw, it meant that cattle were no longer protected and as long as someone had a cow, they could ughter it if they wanted to eat it.

    For the people of the Sines Continent that had a low grain yield who depended on cattle to farm, cattle were considered sacred things.

    ughtering or even eating one was unimaginable.

    Perhaps some nobles might have ughtered some in secret, but no one dared to do it in public because this would cause everyone to denounce them.

    But now that the Lampuri Kingdom had abolished thisw, it was not something that anyone expected.

    There were many people who were worried that once thisw was abolished, the cattle in the Lampuri Kingdom would be ughtered without one being spared.

    Facts also proved people¡¯s worries.

    Since the news of thisw being abolished was spread, in the various newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom, they kept reporting on people ughtering their cattle. For a time, the people had a misconception that all the cattle in the Lampuri Kingdom would disappear.

    Many people were worried about this.

    Without cattle, how would they nt their crops?

    But two monthster when the fall harvest came, the people found that their worries were unnecessary.

    Because during the entire process, it wasn¡¯t that there weren¡¯t any cattle being used, but there were very few.

    The reason was very simple. The work of the cattle had beenpletely reced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines.

    Moreover, whether it was effect or efficiency, they were countless times better than using cattle.

    At this time, people finally understood.

    Since they were already using the better agricultural magic machines, why would they still need cattle?

    Although some people were still confused by the abolishment of thisw, no one raised any objections.

    In the end, being able to have something as good as beef to eat, who would miss this chance?

    If people knew that Xu Yi had pushed the Lampuri Kingdom to abolish thisw because of this and had eaten a cow right away, it was hard to imagine what kind of thoughts they would have......

    Of course, this was an unimportant part of Xu Yi¡¯s actions. The biggest part was in the Stantine Duchy that he controlled.

    In the n to upgrade the Stantine Duchy¡¯s agricultural industry which he discussed with Viscount Constantine, the core was changing the structure of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s agricultural industry. They would diversify their crops and no longer just nt wheat, rice, and other grains.

    Or to be more direct, it was to let the people of the Stantine Duchy eat meat at will.

    For this, Xu Yi had promoted several farms that were dedicated to raising livestock in the Stantine Duchy.

    In order to smoothly raise these livestock, other than guaranteeing their feed, he also took care of their processing, storage, transportation, and other things.....

    These things were put on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they invented a series of magic machines for this.

    Seeing the requirements to develop the Magic Mower and the other magic machines used to grow feed with the elves, Xu Yi gave a nod to show his approval.

    ¡°The problem with the elves isn¡¯t big, I can go discuss this with elder Lisanya, but I hope that the parliament can take care of the matters that follow and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t need to interfere.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Understood.¡±

    ¡°As for the Magic Mower and the other magic machines, it will take some time to develop, so rece them with manpower for now. But we will only set up an experimental farm for now, so manpower is enough.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi paused to think before asking, ¡°Speaking of manpower......Did the stats for the duchy¡¯s birth ratee out yet?¡±

    Viscount Constantine shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s hard to get urate data for this because people are not used to going to the hospitals during births.¡±

    ¡°Add it in the newly announcedws, it must be implemented.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Remember, human resources will be the most important thing over the next ten years, so you have to get all the information rted to it.¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡± Viscount Constantine nodded before saying with a smile. ¡°But even without urate data, it¡¯s still clear based on the rough data that the births in the duchy had increasedst year, it even surpassed thirty thousand! That is the highest birth rate in the history of the duchy!¡±

    ¡°Thirty thousand?¡±

    Seeing Viscount Constantine¡¯s excited look, Xu Yi wanted to curl his lips in disdain, but then he remembered that the Stantine Duchy only had a poption of less than a million. Being able to give birth to thirty thousand a year, which was a birth rate of thirty in one thousand was already quite high for the Stantine Duchy.

    [TL Note: Forparison, the world birth rate in 2020 was only 18.077/1000 people, the world birth rate for 2015 when this novel was written was 19.075/1000 people.]

    It had to be known that in a world with a low farm yield, where countries normally had famines, it was already quite good being able to keep the poption stable, so how could they maintain a good birth rate?

    Xu Yi was clear that the problem of poption wasn¡¯t something that could be solved right away, so he just asked about it before putting it to the side.

    As for the livestock farms and processing nts, because they were still in the experimental stage, there wasn¡¯t much to discuss right now.

    Xu Yi carefully looked over the n and found that Viscount Constantine had already considered all the possible problems, so he gave him a nod with a satisfied smile.

    ¡°Very good, Constantine, it seems like choosing you as the speaker back then really was the right choice.¡±

    Viscount Constantine gave Xu Yi a bow, ¡°This is my honour. Of course, if it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that chairman Xu leads bringing these shocking changes to the duchy, there is no meaning no matter how hard I work.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped them from ttering each other. After thinking for a bit, his expression became serious and he said with a cold snort, ¡°Constantine, help me tell those fellows to be honest. The duchy is in a very important transition state, so I do not want to see anyone messing it up. If they dare act up, I wouldn¡¯t mind sending out thepany guards to help them.¡±

    Viscount Constantine¡¯s eyes froze and he quickly nodded.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s leave it here for today, you can go back and do your own things.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Watching Viscount Constantine walk out, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows and fell into deep thought.

    Right now, this Viscount Constantine was very obedient, doing whatever he told him to do.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain if he would be like Anklo, changing because of the influence of power.

    So the current Stantine Duchy congress was just an empty show. They only had power in name and when putting these measures in ce, it all came through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But through observing for a year, this Viscount Constantine has shown his strong ability for internal affairs, so Xu Yi was seriously considering whether to give him some power and train him to be a good helper.

    The only worry was that he would be another Anklo.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you thinking about? Your brows are knit this tight, that isn¡¯t good.¡±

    There was suddenly a fluctuation in the air beside him and Agnes appeared out of thin air.

    Xu Yi¡¯s knit brows rxed and he looked at Agnes with a smile.

    ¡°Agnes, why are you Spatial Magic at home? You can juste in.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m used to it.¡± Agnes gave a giggle and pushed Xu Yi to sit down, ¡°Xu Yi, are you free over the next few days?¡±

    ¡°Un? What is it? Do you need something?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a surprised voice.

    ¡°This......¡± There was a blush that suddenly came over Agnes¡¯ face, ¡°Last,st week, I went back to the tribe and the elder came to talk to me. She said that since I haven¡¯t gotten pregnant yet, perhaps there is a problem. She wanted you toe to the tribe with me and read the secret texts to consult this.¡±

    Seeing the shy look on Agnes¡¯ face, he thought that after being married to her for so long, she really was getting more and more like a human girl.

    But Xu Yi felt helpless over elder Illusia¡¯s invitation.

    Whether it was elder Illusia or elder Lisanya, they all ced importance on his marriage to Agnes, asking about them all the time.

    The elders were very impatient over the fact that Agnes wasn¡¯t pregnant yet.

    Xu Yi already had several children which meant that there was no problem on his side, so they could only suspect Agnes.

    But they couldn¡¯t prove this, so the elders could only feel anxious.

    In order to solve this problem, the two elders had used many methods, but there hadn¡¯t been any effects yet.

    This time, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what method elder Illusia had thought of for him to try.

    ¡°Do we have to go?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°I¡¯m very busy over the next period, I might not have the time to take this trip. Can you ask elder Illusia toe over? I have something that I want to discuss with her.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear on this, how about I ask the elder?¡± Agnes said with a shake of her head.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll also invite elder Lisanya. We¡¯ll need the support of the elves in this agricultural industry upgrade n.¡±

    ¡°Un!¡± Agnes loudly replied, ¡°If the elders learn about this, they would definitely be happy. It¡¯s a good thing that the tribe......¡±

    Agnes suddenly stopped talking.

    Xu Yi looked at her in surprise to see Agnes with her tightly knitted brows and a bitter look on her face.

 Volume 6 12 - Feeling the danger?

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 12 Feeling the danger?</strong>

    Xu Yi looked at the messy bedroom that was like a wild gust had passed through with a confused look.

    An hour ago, elder Lisanya rushed over after receiving the news and after looking at Agnes, she looked at Xu Yi with a serious look and said that she had to bring Agnes back to her tribe.

    Xu Yi asked her why, but was told that this was a critical time for Agnes, so she needed to remain safe in the tribe. Moreover, she asked Xu Yi not to meddle since this involved a secret of the elves.

    Xu Yi was a bit confused about this.

    Elder Lisanya and the Moon Shadow Tribe already didn¡¯t have a normal rtionship with him and Agnes was already one of his wives, but now elder Lisanya was acting all mysterious. It really was a bit strange.

    But since elder Lisanya already said that this was rted to the secrets of the elves, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t ask about it.

    It was a good thing that elder Illusia who received the message a bitter indicated the same thing to Xu Yi, saying that she agreed with letting elder Lisanya take Agnes to the Moon Shadow Tribe. It was only then that Xu Yi allowed elder Lisanya to take Agnes away.

    Agnes was very calm, as if she had already expected this to happen.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see any surprise from her expression, rather there was a bit of pleasant surprise.

    ¡°Really, what is with Agnes?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows to think. His brows then suddenly jumped up, ¡°It can¡¯t be that much of a coincidence, right......¡±

    ¡°What is a coincidence?¡± Still¡¯s voice suddenly came from behind him, bringing Xu Yi out of his thoughts.

    Xu Yi turned around to see Still carrying a baby who was around half a year old and was about to open the clothing at her chest to feed the baby.

    Being able to receive personal nursing from Still, naturally it was the second child that had just been born to the two of them at the beginning of this year.

    This child was a boy, just like what Still wanted. He received special care from her after she was born, Xu Yi even thought that she was biased towards him.

    For example, although Still had personally nursed Freya when she had been born, but because she didn¡¯t have enough breast milk, she didn¡¯t do it that much.

    But when their son was born, even if Still was busy with many things, she would feed him as long as she had the chance.

    Seeing the look of love on Still¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help muttering in his heart.

    It was lucky that Freya was still young and there were many people to apany her, so she wouldn¡¯t notice this small thing. Otherwise, she might have already be jealous of her little brother.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I was just surprised that this matter was this serious for elder Lisanya. It seemed like it wasn¡¯t that big of a deal for Agnes.....¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he said this.

    Still was sitting beside Xu Yi and reached out to tap his forehead before softly reprimanding, ¡°You, Agnes is an elf, but she is also a female. The matters of women, how could they be small?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t n to discuss this with Still. He looked at his youngest son in her arms and asked, ¡°How long are you staying this time?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps three or four days. The entertainment market in the Lampuri Kingdom is at a critical period, I can¡¯t leave for too long. I came back this time mainly to discuss modifying the Magic Illusion Projectors with the magic machine development center.¡±

    ¡°Three or four days?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows, ¡°Don¡¯t you have to leave right away? I even said that since you were back this time, I would bring Liz and Linda, with Freya, Sandy, and Harvey to the beach. I already promised Freya and now you¡¯re only staying these few days, how can there be time?¡±

    Still gave a sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, I¡¯m the busiest during this time, I can¡¯t make that much time. Not to mention me, can you make that much free time? You have even more to do than me, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I specially made time during this time. Then again, if it doesn¡¯t work, I can just hand some things to Kennard to take care of. Still, you should consider training some helpers. If you always take care of everything, that won¡¯t be good.¡±

    ¡°I want to, but there are only a few people from our New Moon Chamber of Commerce that can understand the entertainment industry, who can I get to help me? You?¡±

    ¡°This.....¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how to respond.

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    Using the fantasy Magic Illusion Projector to build aplete entertainment industry on the Sines Continent like the one from earth, that was what Xu Yi wanted to do and he gave this to Still.

    Other than Still who was frequently with Xu Yi, there wasn¡¯t anyone else who really understood this. Still couldn¡¯t even find any helpers.

    After knitting his brows to think, Xu Yi said, ¡°How about this, I¡¯ll open up an entertainment section in the Frestech Magic Machine Industry Academy, specialized in studying Magic Illusions. At the same time, I¡¯ll move out some talented magicians who are interested from the magic research facility to be part time teachers and help nurture these talents. What do you think?¡±

    Still¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That is good. If there are more talented people in this aspect, it¡¯ll be much easier for me. Xu Yi, I¡¯m certain that this magic illusion entertainment industry will be very popr on the Sines Continent. Do you know, when we set up therge scale Magic Illusion Projectors in the small cities and started ying movies, how much of a stir it caused among the people of the cities? There were many people who told me that they had never seen something as interesting as this, they all wanted our New Moon Chamber of Commerce to make even more movies.¡±

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s good that it¡¯s popr.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Then Still, how have you been doing with the advertisement that I mentioned before?¡±

    Still gave a V with her hand with a smile on her face.

    ¡°Very smoothly. Right now we¡¯ve already received advertising requests from thirty sevenpanies, which has earned us thirty thousand gold coins. Of course.....What are youughing at?¡±

    ¡°Ah......No, it¡¯s nothing.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and forced down the smile on his face, ¡°I just feel that the price of thirty thousand is a bit too low, don¡¯t you find it hard to make money like this?¡±

    ¡°This is only the beginning, it¡¯s already good that we¡¯re not suffering a loss.¡± Still shook her head, ¡°Then again, we only have Magic Illusion Projectors set up in thirteen cities, so we¡¯re far from covering the entire Lampuri Kingdom. When we really reach every city in the Lampuri Kingdom, even putting the Magic Illusion Projectors in each vige, making it cover every inch of the Lampuri Kingdom, it won¡¯t be toote to raise the price then.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since you already have a n, I won¡¯t say anything else. Let¡¯s go, Ernest is already asleep, give him to Carol to take care of and let¡¯s go on a trip.¡± Xu Yi stood up.

    Still looked down in surprise and found that her song in her arms had already closed his eyes. He already stopped his suckling action.

    ¡°Go where?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you wanted the Magic Illusion Projector to quickly cover the entire Lampuri Kingdom? I feel that just putting one in every vige isn¡¯t enough, it would be best if we let every family have one.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible......¡± Still knitted her brows.

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing impossible in this world.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°If I told you before that most of the daily household chores would be reced by household magic machines, would you believe it?¡±

    Still looked around, looking at the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall, the Magic Air Purifier by the window, and the Magic Lamps above her, she couldn¡¯t help revealing a dazzling smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu who always makes miracles, how will you surprise me this time?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯ll know after seeing it.¡±

    Ten minutester, Still and Xu Yi took the Magic Sedan waiting for them to the magic research facility.

    Seeing the two appear together, everyone at the magic research facility were surprised.

    ¡°Yi? Still, you actually came with sir chairman today, that really is rare.¡± Akali came over and went around Still and Xu Yi, like she had found an entire new continent.

    ¡°Yes, Still, why did youe with sir chairman?¡± Evita, who had received the news, came over with a surprised look as well.

    Still helplessly looked at the two of them, ¡°Don¡¯t you think that this question is very strange? I am Xu Yi¡¯s wife, is it that strange if wee together?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not strange if you go to other ces together, but it¡¯s strange if youe here together.¡± Akali said, ¡°Since you started your New Moon Chamber ofmerce, you have nevere here.¡±

    Still gave a soft snort and turned to Evita, ¡°Evita, I¡¯ve made an appointment, right?¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, you made an appointment to talk about the problem with the Magic Illusion Projectors. I never thought that you woulde with sir chairman.¡± She turned to Xu Yi after saying this, ¡°Sir chairman, for you toe with Still, could it be that there are some special requests or instructions for the Magic Illusion Projectors?¡±

    ¡°There are no instructions, but there are a few requests, but my requests are a bit different from Still¡¯s. Go and gather the researchers who work on the Magic Illusion Projectors, we¡¯ll meet them together.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Seeing Evita turning to leave, Akali secretly pulled on Still¡¯s sleeve and pulled her to a corner. She first looked at Xu Yi talking to the other researchers in the distance before looking at Still with a mysterious look.

    Still saw that her expression wasn¡¯t normal, so she knitted her brow to ask, ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Still......You......Have you finally felt the danger?¡± Akali paused for a bit before asking this.

 Volume 6 13 - No time to play with them

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 13 No time to y with them</strong>

    No matter how aggrieved Freya looked, three dayster, Still left the Stantine Duchy and headed back to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In these three days, she had been in several meetings with Xu Yi at the magic research facility, setting the requirements of the next generation Magic Illusion Projectors.

    After Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, the new generation Magic Illusion Projector would have two sses.

    One would be therge scale Magic Illusion Projector that would be used to project inrge theaters.

    The other would be a smaller form that would be used in homes.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s ideas, this would be the difference between movies and television.

    Still had many requests to make. For example, she requested that when projecting the movies, they wouldn¡¯t be influenced by anything.

    For example, when they had been showing the movie in one of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s cities, they met a storm.

    With the storm, not only was the projection fuzzy and unclear, even the projector was influenced by the rain and problems also urred.

    Or for example, she wanted to have movies that were automatically yed on a loop, so they could save on people stopping it and changing the disc.

    Or for example......

    .....

    Of course, it was impossible for these requests to be quickly fulfilled, so Still was only raising her requests and didn¡¯t hope that they would solve it soon.

    Compared to this, the most important work for her now was to let the people in the surrounding countries know what these Illusion Movies were.

    So she was very busy, not evening home for more than a month in thest half a year.

    Xu Yi was very helpless towards this situation.

    He was the one who supported Still in finding work that belonged to her and had suggested this, now that she had finally found work that she enjoyed, how could he tell her not to do it?

    Not to mention thatpared to Still, he was several times busier.

    Finally after Still left, Xu Yi found a free day to bring Freya, Liz, Linda, and their children with Xu Yi, Sandy and Harvey, as well as Carol and Betty to go to the beach together. The next morning, there were many things that came to his door.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s magicmunicationwork is already half finished. The only ces without signal are here and here......¡±

    The group that Akali led was in charge of the magicmunicationwork, but actually building the magic signal towers and setting up the magic signals were done by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    The manager for this project, the senior manager from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce Drago Ompes who had a rich experience with construction was now responsible for the project of building the magicmunicationwork in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Seeing the ces that Drago Ompes pointed out on the map, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    ¡°It¡¯s these fellows again.....When you went to put up the magic signal towers, how did they react?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°These nobles seemed polite on the surface. They said that these ces were no longer their private territory and since the congress decided to put magic signal towers there that they wouldn¡¯t meddle, but.....¡±

    After saying this, Drago Ompes gave a sigh and shook his head. His eyes were filled with dissatisfaction and even more helplessness.

    ¡°When we tried to put up the magic signal towers, there were all kinds of problems. For example, our transport would be stopped on the road for various reasons or the residents would cause trouble.....In short, the various things are slowing down our progress. We haven¡¯t even finished the most important foundation for the magic signal tower yet.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain that it¡¯s those nobles pulling the strings from behind the curtain?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This.....I¡¯m certain, but I can¡¯t find any evidence. Then again, even if I did find evidence, they wouldn¡¯t admit to it.¡± Manager Ompes looked even more helpless, ¡°I¡¯ve looked for those nobels before and wanted them to solve these problems, but they said that those ces aren¡¯t their territory and they couldn¡¯t manage it.¡±

    ¡°He, those fellows really have quite a bit of resentment.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile. AFter thinking about it, he pointed at several ces on the map that manager Ompes used earlier, ¡°Go and find Kennard, then have him bring you to leader Hart, discuss how many people to bring.¡±

    ¡°Leader Hart?¡± Manager Ompes was surprised, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s no need to move the guards just yet......¡±

    ¡°It hasn¡¯t reached that degree yet, but we don¡¯t have time to y with them. The magicmunicationwork and the transportationwork is very important to me, I won¡¯t allow anyone to dy their progress.¡± Xu Yi had a very calm look, but his voice was filled with killing intent, ¡°Tell Hart that if those people dare to cause trouble again, I permit him to use any methods that don¡¯t involve harming the citizens.¡±

    Hearing the meaning in Xu Yi¡¯s words, manager Ompes couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    Sir chairman was nning on killing them?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about manager Ompes¡¯ response and after looking at the map, he asked, ¡°Tell me, if there isn¡¯t any hindrance, how long would it take to finish the magicmunicationwork in the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Manager Ompes calmed himself and thought for a bit before replying, ¡°If there¡¯s nothing unexpected that happens, I think that we should be able to finish at thetest by the end of the year. But if we¡¯re talking about finishing the magicmunicationwork, it¡¯ll depend on the magic research facility.¡±

    ¡°Un, there¡¯s no need for you to worry about this. What about the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi ask about the Lampuri Kingdom, manager Ompes¡¯ expression became a bit strange.

    ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side is actually much smoother because whether it is the royal family or the parliament, they all support this magicmunicationwork. The nobles of the kingdom are also very positive towards this and there were many nobles that even came looking for me, hoping that we could build magic signal towers on their territories.¡±

    ¡°Hei, those fellows are much smarter than the trash in the Stantine Duchy.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a bit of helplessness in his eyes.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was currently in the Stantine Duchy, he had treated the Stantine Duchy as a base for them. However, in the past few years, the nobles of the Stantine Duchy had caused quite a bit of trouble for him.

    Not to mention Duke Wein trying to control the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all the nobles in the Stantine Duchy created barriers for them in all kinds of ces, dying their jobs.

    Last time Anklo had even secretly united several lords to oppose the magic signal towers. After offending Xu Yi, not only was Anklo pulled down from his position as the speaker, he even abolished the system of private territories in the Stantine Duchy.

    This made the nobles of the Stantine Duchy very unhappy, so even if they didn¡¯t dare revolt out right, they stillined in secret.

    Them blocking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from building the magicmunicationwork was considered a type of venting.

    Xu Yi was actually very confused by their ideas.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerceing to the Stantine Duchy had brought many benefits to the Stantine Duchy.

    The nobles through the various rubber factories, canned fruit factories, and just theirrge scale farming had already earned plenty of benefits from working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, they were still dissatisfied with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which didn¡¯t make any sense......

    Xu Yi could only use rejection by the locals as the only exnation.....

    ¡°Then what about the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s side?¡± Xu Yi asked manager Ompes.

    ¡°We have already started exploring the western region of the Rudson Kingdom and as long as the magic research facility prepares everything, once we receive approval from the Rudson Kingdom parliament, we can start our work.¡± Manager Ompes replied.

    ¡°Un, this can be considered going smoothly, but how is your manpower? Do you have enough people?¡±

    Hearing the words ¡°manpower¡±, manager Ompes gave a bitterugh and spread his hands, ¡°Sir chairman, do you think it¡¯s enough?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    The manpower issue wasn¡¯t just experienced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who focused on producing magic machines, it should be said that all the emerging industries that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were involved in experienced this major problem.

    But it took time to train people, so they couldn¡¯t rush it no matter what.

    ¡°Alright, then put some priorities. The Stantine Duchy¡¯s magicmunicationwork is clearly top priority, then it¡¯s the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom. After you finish in the Stantine Duchy, we¡¯ll discuss this again.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Understood, this was also my current n.¡±

    ¡°Un, time is precious, so we can¡¯t waste it on those idiots. Ompes, this time I¡¯m letting Hart lead people with you because I don¡¯t want to see you being dyed again, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the map for a bit longer before looking to the south and narrowing his eyes.

    Cleaning up those stubborn old fools was very troublesome, but if those fellows really wanted to keep hindering his n to develop the magic machine industry in the Stantine Duchy, he didn¡¯t mind teaching them a lesson.

    Even if that lesson had a price that had to be paid in blood......

 Volume 6 14 - Construction site under the hot sun

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 14 Construction site under the hot sun</strong>

    Time passed day by day and even if they weren¡¯t willing, the season had entered midsummer.

    For the people in the southern countries of the Sines Continent, summer would be exceptionally warm. No one was willing to sweat out in the sun because that would just be suffering.

    But if they could earn sparkling gold coins for their beads of sweat, that feeling of suffering would be much better.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers at the construction site of the Frestech Magic Machine Industry Academy had this thought. Even though the heat poured over their bodies, that didn¡¯t stop the work that their hands were doing.

    Actually, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was not apany that was stingy with its workers. Rather among all thepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was one of the best when it came to how they treated their employees.

    But this time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in a rush, so they requested the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to finish by the end of the year. That was why they were forced to work under the hot sun.

    Moreover, the workers sent this time were split into two shifts. Even at night, there were workers that continued working under Magic Lamps, not even stopping for a minute.

    It was because of this sense of urgency that the Frestech Magic Machine Industry Academy was built so quickly.

    In just a single month of construction, most of the buildings of the five square kilometers wide campus were already built and were taking shape.

    ording to vice chairman Riley who was in charge of this construction, if they maintained this speed, they wouldn¡¯t even need to wait until the end of the year to finish this.

    Of course, they could only keep this speed because of therge number of construction magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developedrge Magic Cement Mixers. It could allow workers to just throw in the cement and sand and it would mix it quickly, giving them a supply of concrete to use.

    And also the newly developed steel bars that were easy to cut, working with the small Magic Welders that could quickly cut through them.

    Just with this, their building speed of the foundations were much faster than before.

    When they werepared to otherpanies who weren¡¯t using construction magic machines yet.....

    There was noparison at all.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce could only be considered a decent constructionpany of Banta City before, but since they started working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were now one of the most powerful constructionpanies in the surrounding countries.

    Whether it was their speed or quality, or even their style, the otherpanies couldn¡¯t be put on the same level as the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, the thirteen floored Banta Hotel that was just built in the new district in Banta Cityst month, it represented the most advanced construction technology of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention otherpanies being able to build the same hotel, it was already impossible for them to build a building that was thirteen floors, reaching fifty meters into the air.

    Just with this hotel, it was enough to show the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s dominance in the construction industry.

    All of this was because of their close cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had any construction projects, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would always give it priority. They would send their best managers and construction teams, not daring to show any negligence.

    This Frestech Magic Machine Industry Academy was something important for Xu Yi, so when he received Xu Yi¡¯s request, chairman Cruise had sent the top two construction teams of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce over. He even sent vice chairman Riley who had already been promoted to personally supervise this to make sure that the quality of the building was perfect.

    After being promoted to vice chairman, Riley had rarely had to personally manage a construction site.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that this was an important project for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for Riley to be here.

    Of course, to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Riley was very willing

    After all, he was able to reach his position as the vice chairman because he was the project manager of the first cooperation between the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When it came to history with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi, no one couldpare to him in the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Even chairman Cruise was a bit lower than him.

    But no matter how willing he was, he had to face the facts.

    Riley looked at the sun that had been over their heads for a long time and feeling the heating from the sun, he thought about it before deciding to let the workers rest.

    Because he didn¡¯t hold back yesterday and made the workers keep working, there were two that had fainted from heat stroke which had actually dyed their progress.

    He definitely wouldn¡¯t make this mistake before, but because he was in a rush to finish this project for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had been too careless.

    When he was calcting how long he should let the workers rest for, there was a rumbling sound that came from behind Riley.

    There was no need to turn around to know that it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newrge Magic Trucks.

    As expected, there was a row of five giant Magic Cars that were twice as tall as people hauling arge dump bucket behind it.

    These five Magic Cars were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newly developedrge construction transport Magic Cars that came out two months ago.

    This Magic Car didn¡¯t have more storage spacepared to therge transport Magic Cars, but it had much more load bearing capacity, even exceeding a hundred tons.

    With this kind of terrifying load bearing capacity, it was very suited for work sites like mines, so once it was released, it was weed by thepanies like the Lampuri Kigndom¡¯s Falcao Chamber of Commerce or the miningpanies of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ording to what Xu Yi had told him, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce had already ordered a hundred of them for a total of seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    That was right, a singlerge Magic Truck was worth a shocking seven thousand gold coins.

    However, even with this astonishing price, people snatched them up. Even the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wanting to buy some had to rely on chairman Cruise¡¯s personal rtionship with Xu Yi.

    Moreover, even like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took a hundred and fifty orders which would only be finished by the end of the year.

    There was no other way, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity was limited, this was something that even Xu Yi felt helpless over.

    These fiverge Magic Trucks were pulled out from the twenty that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave chairman Cruise, so it could be seen how important this project was for him.

    Of course, they were lucky to have these five Magic Trucks which made their progress smooth.

    After a while, the five Magic Trucks slowly stopped outside the construction site. The passenger door of one of the Magic Trucks opened and it was the manager that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent for this project.

    Riley was surprised when he saw him and he came over to greet him.

    ¡°Manager Vito, why are you here? It¡¯s noon right now, it¡¯s so hot.....¡±

    Manager Vito wiped theyer of sweat off his forehead and looked up at the dazzling sun in the sky. He shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°This damn weather, it¡¯s been hard for you all to work under this heat.¡±

    Manager Vito went past the truck and waved behind him, as several young men wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came out of the dump bucket of thest Magic Truck before bringing down many things.

    ¡°This.....¡± Riley was surprised.

    ¡°He, he, manager Riley, you and your brothers are working on such a hot day, it really is hard for you. So sir chairman is providing some logistical support for you. Look, I brought the new cold vani beverage from the Moon Shadow Drink Company to help the brothers relieve their thirst and recover from this heat.¡±

    Riley was surprised to see theserge jarsing down and he couldn¡¯t help waving his hand, ¡°This.....Isn¡¯t chairman Xu being too polite? The cold beverage of the Moon Shadow Brand is very expensive, it costs more than ten gold coins per jar, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not much, it¡¯s just eighteen gold coins at market price. Moreover, with ourpany¡¯s rtionship with the Moon Shadow Tribe, we receive a discount. Alright, manager Riley, let the brother stop and have a few drinks to rest up. The weather is too hot, if we don¡¯t pay attention, people might fall from heat stroke and that won¡¯t be good.¡± Vito said with a smile.

    Riley was a bit surprised as he revealed an awkward look.

    It seems like Vito suddenly bringing these things over is definitely because he heard of workers fainting from heat stroke yesterday.

    This matter was his mistake and now that Vito was mentioning it, naturally he felt awkward.

    It was like Vito could see his thoughts, so he patted his shoulder and lowered his voice, ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to be in such a rush. Although sir chairman wants to finish this academy before the end of the year, he also said that people are the most important at any time. So it¡¯s not a problem if you can¡¯t keep the schedule, but you can¡¯t do anything where the gains don¡¯t equal the losses. Moreover.....to be honest, it¡¯s hard to say if this academy can even keep going.....¡±

    ¡°Un?¡±

    Riley looked at Vito who had a worried look with a surprised look as he felt confused.

    This academy was one that chairman Xu ced great importance on and he had invested over six hundred thousand gold coins on this.

    If he suddenly stopped this project, wouldn¡¯t he have wasted all that investment from before?

 Volume 6 15 - Have you been approved yet?

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 15 Have you been approved yet?</strong>

    Vito didn¡¯t give an exnation to the question in Riley¡¯s heart.

    But as for Vito letting the workers rest, after Riley thought it over, he made his conclusion.

    There was no need for the workers to work when the sun was at its highest peak. Riley gave them an extra two hours of rest along with their half an hour for lunch, letting them rest up and avoid the hottest weather.

    However, this wasn¡¯t something that was weed by the workers as expected, quite a few people were even against this.

    The reasoning of the workers was very simple.

    Because ording to customs, since they spent less time working, it was clear that their wages would decrease.

    Although it was very tiring for the workers to work here, they could obtain a very high wage of twenty five gold coins a month. This was much higherpared to the other workers of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    That was because one, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had supported the Amrit Chamber of Commerce giving a high wage in response for speeding up the work, which increased the budget of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    And two, the work here was very hard, so if they didn¡¯t give the workers enough wages, of course there wouldn¡¯t be people willing to ept this work.

    But since they had epted this work, they came because of these high wages. Although they had more time to rest, if their wages decreased, it didn¡¯t have any meaning.

    But with the insistence of Riley, the workers finally couldn¡¯t keep opposing and could only ept these arrangements.

    It was a good thing that even though they rested for two hours at noon, causing their wage to drop from twenty five gold coins to twenty two gold coins, it was still high so the workers weren¡¯t that conflicted.

    But Riley became even more doubtful when the workers calmed down.

    The words Vito said before kept staying in his mind.

    It was hard to say that this academy might not stay?

    What was going on here?

    This doubt was finally exined a week after Vito had left.

    This was the same burning hot day and when noon came, Riley had the workers stop as usual. After making some arrangements, he went to find a cool ce to eat and sleep.

    But when he hadid down, before he could rx, there was the sound of tires running over gravel.

    Turning to take a look, he saw three Magic Sedans quickly driving over.

    Riley slightly knitted his brows when he saw this.

    If he wasn¡¯t wrong, the pure white Magic Sedan in front should be Xu Yi¡¯s personal Magic Sedan. Did that mean that Xu Yi hade personally?

    Riley was confused as he stood up to wee them.

    Why did Xu Yi suddenlye here in the middle of the day?

    Moreover, he had brought three Magic Sedans and there was even a medium passenger Magic Car behind him, so this group wasn¡¯t small.

    After a while, the four cars stopped outside the construction site and Xu Yi came out of the first Magic Sedan as expected.

    From the same Magic Sedan that he came out of, there was another man who seemed older and more serious, wearing a long purple robe even in this burning weather.

    Based on his robe, this person should be a magician.

    Vito who had visited before also came out of the first Magic Sedan, bringing another magician with him.

    Then from the two Magic Sedans and the Magic Car behind them, there were many magicians in the same robes, as well as some staff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who came out.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is.....¡± Riley came over with a look of doubt.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and introduced the old magician beside him.

    ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, this is manager Riley from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce who is in charge of this project. Look, thisrge piece ofnd given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is already taking shape.¡±

    The old magician called Great Magician Ferguson looked around before giving a nod, as a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°Such arge piece ofnd, it can be like this in just two short months. Manager Riley, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce really is amazing.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi call this old magician a Great Magician, Riley was surprised. Hearing the praise in his voice, he quickly gave a slight bow and said with a respectful smile, ¡°Being able to receive the praise of your excellency Great Magician is the honour of our Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave an ¡°un¡± sound before turning to look at the other magicians who were touring the construction site being led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers. Then he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, after this magic machine industry academy is finished, how many students can you recruit?¡±

    ¡°The first batch is set for three thousand and after some time, I think that the school should be able to hold over ten thousand students.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Ten thousand? That really is arge amount.¡± Great Magician Ferguson gave a softugh, ¡°But chairman Xu.....before building this academy, why didn¡¯t you talk to me about this first?¡±

    Manager Riley¡¯s brows jumped up as he looked at Great Magician Ferguson in surprise.

    He was very confused, why did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have to tell you about this academy?

    Even if you are a Great Magician, Xu Yi is also a Great Magician, who no one is lower than anyone.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had two Great Magicians, it also had Arch Magus Cami who was at the top of all the magicians on the continent. Why did they have to consider your opinion?

    But seeing Great Magician Ferguson acting like his words were natural, Xu Yi didn¡¯t refute this at all as people had expected. He just said with a smile, ¡°That was my mistake, but I also wanted to prepare ahead of time to avoid losing any time. After all, if the headquarters agrees to my n, there is a lot to do afterwards and it¡¯s good to prepare ahead of time.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a soft snort, ¡°But chairman Xu, without the approval of the headquarters and doing this by yourself, don¡¯t you think this is a bit too much?¡±

    Manager Riley was even more surprised. He began wondering where this Great Magician Ferguson came from, he actually dared to talk to chairman Xu like this?

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s tone at all as he patiently said with the same smile, ¡°So didn¡¯t I bring you over as soon as possible? Look, as long as this school is built, it can take in three thousand Low Grade Magicians. However, after at least two years of studying and four or five years of studying at most, they can enter our Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the other magic machinepanies for work. That wouldpletely solve the problem of their livelihood.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not denying this, but chairman Xu, I still have to say that you built this school without the approval of the headquarters, that definitely doesn¡¯t work. What if the council didn¡¯t pass your suggestion, what would you do?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh before saying with the same smile, ¡°I think that the elders at the headquarters should understand my idea, otherwise you wouldn¡¯t be making it hard for me on purpose, right?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Great Magician Ferguson gave a cold snort. He flicked his sleeve and left Xu Yi alone, heading over to the other magicians looking over the construction site.

    Seeing him walk away, manager Riley came closer to Xu Yi with knitted brows.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is going on? Who is this Great Magician Ferguson? Vito said before that this school might not be able tost, could it be that it is rted to the headquarters you and him were just talking about?¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look over Great Magician Ferguson who had walked away as he said in a deep voice, ¡°They are the representatives from the Magicians Guild headquarters. Although they can¡¯t manage this academy in theory, if they don¡¯t agree to it, there will be some problems with building it.¡±

    ¡°Magicians Guild headquarters?¡± Manager Riley looked at Great Magician Ferguson in surprise. He thought that it was no wonder this old magician had such a high position.

    Manager Riley thought about it and felt a bit dissatisfied. He couldn¡¯t help saying with a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, even if he is the representative from the Magicians Guild headquarters, he isn¡¯t qualified to mess with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You have your own thing, could it be that the Magicians Guild wille all the way here to stop it?¡±

    ¡°They definitely can¡¯t stop us, but they can send an order through the Magicians Guild to ban all magicians from entering our school. If this happens, even if we build the school, we can¡¯t recruit a single student, so wouldn¡¯t it all be a waste?¡±

    ¡°They wouldn¡¯t do something this absolute, right?¡± Riley¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise, ¡°If they did something like this, wouldn¡¯t they also stop those magicians from working for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? That would be even more powerful.¡±

    ¡°No, they wouldn¡¯t do something that stupid. Even the matter of not letting magicians enter our school isn¡¯t something they would openly do. But the Magicians Guild has a big influence on the magicians of the continent, so I would definitely have scruples.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he exined this.

    ¡°Un.....That is right.¡± Manager Riley was silent as he felt his head ache.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was based on magicians, the core of thepany were these magicians.

    If they really offended the Magicians Guild, making them deal with them, the consequences wouldn¡¯t be good.

    ¡°Then......Chairman Xu, what are you nning on doing? I heard Great Magician Ferguson talking for a while, but I never heard him mention any requests.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile of ridicule, ¡°Hei, if they were willing to expose their goals in a rush, I wouldn¡¯t be as worried. Of course, do they think that if they don¡¯t say it, I won¡¯t know what they want?¡±

 Volume 6 16 - Take what you need

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 16 Take what you need</strong>

    What did the Magicians Guild headquarters want to do?

    The world turned for profits.

    When Great Magician Ferguson camest time, his act was considered normal. He represented the Magicians Guild in hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would help the Low Grade Magicians solve their problem with their livelihoods, so he was rather courteous.

    However, when he represented the Magicians Guild this time, he suddenly made it difficult for Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally he had his goal.

    After visiting the academy, Xu Yi had deliberately left Great Magician Ferguson out to dry for a few days. Only then did Great Magician Ferguson show that the headquarters was willing to approve of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they had to pay a price.

    So Great Magician Ferguson changed his expression and threw out the n that the Magicians Guild headquarters had decided on.

    This method was like the one that Xu Yi proposed before, or strictly speaking, it was first approving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a cooperatingpany and then they would work on arrangements for the Low Grade Magicians.

    This was simr to what they discussed before, but there were differences in the n.

    In this n, the Magicians Guild proposed that since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is using magic machine production to help the Low Grade Magicians, out of consideration for them, the Magicians Guild had to have some understanding of the fRestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology.

    It seemed quite noble on the surface, but they were asking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to share all their current magic machine technology with them, to let the Magicians Guild study them. They wanted to make sure that it wouldn¡¯t be harmful to the Low Grade Magicians.

    ¡°So you agreed?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes.

    It had been a week since Great Magician Ferguson left the Stantine Duchy, returning to the Magicians Guild headquarters to report. Xu Yi hade to Anvilmar City to discuss matters with Seveni and had raised this matter while he was here.

    ¡°How could that be possible?¡¯ Xu Yi shook his head and gave a coldugh, ¡°The Magicians Guild headquarters actually wants us to hand over all our magic machine technology, I would only agree if I was crazy.¡±

    ¡°You didn¡¯t agree? Then why did I hear that if nothing unexpected happens, the Magicians Guild should be announcing that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be a cooperatingpany next month?¡± Seveni asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°That is negotiations. The Magicians Guild headquarters gave a price, so can¡¯t I bargain with them?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and said with a smile, ¡°They want all the magic machine technology, so of course they gave an initial price of everything, but they also know that this isn¡¯t possible. So I just had to casually give them another price and they agreed.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then how did you counter their offer?¡± Seveni revealed an interested look.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I agree to share all the magic machine technology of ourpany with the Magicians Guild headquarters, but.....I didn¡¯t specify the time limit.¡±

    Seveni was surprised before giving augh.

    ¡°Good Xu Yi, you really are sly. But I don¡¯t believe that the people of the Magicians Guild headquarters can¡¯t see that you are stalling for time.¡±

    ¡°Of course they know this, but I promised them that I would give at least one project that ourpany has to the Magicians Guild each year. Moreover, I gave them a list of all the projects that ourpany has right now to let them chose from, so they epted this without any hesitation.¡±

    ¡°One each year?¡± Seveni¡¯s mind quickly turned and she couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, if my guesses are correct, doesn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have at least two hundred projects right now? Could it be that the Magicians Guild headquarters has to spend over two hundred years to get all of this from you?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s already over four hundred, so it would be more urate to say over four hundred years.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°That is strange, since it¡¯s like this, why would the Magicians Guild headquarters agree to this?¡± Seveni asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°First, they don¡¯t know what the magic machine industry is at all. Second, they don¡¯t know the speed of the development of the magic machine industry. Four hundred years? The technologies that ourpany has right now would already be ced in museums and would be no longer used, so I don¡¯t know what use they will get out of it.¡±

    Seveni let out a sigh and shook her head, ¡°Actually, you can¡¯t me them. If I didn¡¯t already know you, I wouldn¡¯t know that the magic machine industry would develop this quickly. Look, it¡¯s only been eight years since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce emerged and you¡¯ve brought this shocking change to our Lampuri Kingdom. When you said that the magic machine industry could change the entire continent, I didn¡¯t believe it, but now I firmly believe it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s still far from enough in my eyes.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Right now, we still haven¡¯t formed aplete magic machine industry system yet, there are still many important links missing. For example, we still haven¡¯t solved the most important problem of training talents and still haven¡¯t transformed resources well enough yet.¡±

    ¡°You also said that we can¡¯t rush with this, right?¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°Speaking of this, what was the first technology the Magicians Guild headquarters asked for? Was it the Magic Airship? I think that this thing is the most advanced technology at yourpany, so they should put great importance on it.¡±

    ¡°No, you¡¯re wrong. The first one they chose was the Magic Air Conditioner.¡±

    ¡°Magic Air Conditioner?¡± Seveni was surprised, ¡°This technology isn¡¯t very advanced, so why are they the most interested in this?¡±

    ¡°You still haven¡¯t noticed? They aren¡¯t that interested in the magic machine technology and they don¡¯t care about helping Low Grade Magicians understand the technology easily, they chose the Magic Air Conditioner for one thing, which is money.¡±

    Seveni was surprised and after thinking for a bit, she gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I understand. It seems like even those powerful magicians can¡¯t escape the binds of benefits.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t strange.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If they really were that noble, only caring about the Low Grade Magicians, that would be more of a headache for me. But since they just want benefits, I¡¯ll give that to them and take what I need from them. Everyone will get what they want, isn¡¯t that good?¡±

    Seveni rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°You are the biggest profiteer I know, I¡¯ve never doubted that. Then again, what benefits did you gain from the Magicians Guild headquarters this time? It can¡¯t just be the benefits of being named a cooperatingpany of the Magicians Guild, right?¡±

    ¡°Hei, you can¡¯t look down on that title. With that title, it¡¯ll be easier for ourpany to recruit magicians in the future. Think about it, we are apany that the Magicians Guild has set as a cooperatingpany, that is a very glorious matter. The proud magicians from before won¡¯t be as against working for ourpany like before.¡±

    ¡°You make it seem like those magicians are against working for yourpany.....¡± Seveni couldn¡¯t help mumbling, ¡°Over half of the magicians in our Lampuri Kingdom can¡¯t wait to work for yourpany and you¡¯re still not satisfied?¡±

    ¡°That is only in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries, my goal are all the magicians on the Sines Continent. Look, this time ourpany has invested in a factory in the Marlow Empire and it¡¯s been over three months now, but we can¡¯t recruit a single local magician. This has been a source of headache for me. If the Magicians Guild headquarters announces that we are a cooperatingpany, I can use this big sign and perhaps solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°I hope it¡¯s like this.¡± Seveni paused as she looked at Xu Yi before continuing, ¡°Speaking of the Marlow Empire.....Xu Yi, don¡¯t have anything to tell me?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took a document from his chest, handing it over in both hands.

    ¡°Come, great majesty, thispany¡¯s n on working with the Lampuri Kingdom to invest in the Marlow Empire. Please take a look.¡±

    ¡°That is more like it.¡±

    Seveni gave a softugh and took this document, carefully looking it over.

    After she finished, she thought for a bit before saying with knitted brows, ¡°There¡¯s a problem. Your n is that thepany that officially represents our Lampuri Kingdom will invest in the Marlow Empire, but our Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire haven¡¯t been that close before. Are you certain the Marlow Empire¡¯s side will ept this?¡±

    ¡°This was the result of my discussions with Marquis Southgate. Although Marquis Southgate cannot represent the Marlow Empire¡¯s government, he can represent the Marlow Empire¡¯s nobles that are led by him. Marquis Southgate was very approving of this n, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit before he continued with a smile, ¡°Actually you might not like these words. Compared to the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom is just too small and weak, so the Marlow Empire¡¯s government doesn¡¯t put the Lampuri Kingdom in their eyes at all, so naturally they don¡¯t care if you invest or not. So to them, it doesn¡¯t affect them at all.¡±

    Seveni wasn¡¯t angry at all, rather she said with a smile, ¡°This means that this is a personal cooperation between our Lampuri Kingdom and Marquis Southgate? How are you certain that the Marlow Empire won¡¯t interfere in the future?¡±

    ¡°That will depend on the future development. To give an example, Seveni, if you drove our Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of your Lampuri Kingdom now, would you do this?¡± Xu Yi asked Seveni with a serious look.

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi before shaking her head with a bitter smile, ¡°Of course not. This doesn¡¯t matter if I¡¯m willing or not, but rather.....I don¡¯t dare.¡±

 Volume 6 17 - Risk

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 17 Risk</h4>

    Mendis took a cup of the Moon Shadow Blueberry Drink out of the refrigerator and walked out of the door of his shop.

    When he came out, he felt that strong heat that made his body that was cooled to just the right temperature under the Magic Air Conditioner suddenly be covered in sweat.

    ¡°This damn weather¡­¡­¡± Mendis couldn¡¯t help mumbling. He quickly took several steps and came under the shade of the tree by the road. He walked under this line of trees as he came to another shop that was not far away.

    The sun at noon really was hot and there wasn¡¯t anyone on the street at all. Other than the sound of cicadas chirping, this normally lively street was strangely quiet at this moment.

    When Mendis came to the door of the shop he was heading too, he heard the soundsing from inside.

    When Mendis walked through and looked in, he shook his head as he said in a loud voice, ¡°I say, Ren, it¡¯s fine if you¡¯re not taking a nap on this hot noon, but why are you using these old things again?¡±

    The owner of the shop Ren turned to look at Mendis when he heard this and gave augh before putting down the red piece of iron in his hand. He threw it into the solution used for cooling it which created arge patch of smoke that filled the room.

    Ryan and Mendis were cksmiths in Cramer City before, building iron things for their entire lives.

    They thought that their lives would continue like this, but they never thought that with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce several years ago, all the cksmiths would be reced with production magic machines, which made them lose their jobs.

    It was a good thing that the two of them were smart. After learning that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had started the smallpany support n in Banta City, they went up by themselves. They obtained the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, buying several production magic machines from them and opening these two small scaleponent production factories in Cramer City.

    After several years of development, their two factories were the top supplier of magic machineponents, controlling over 40% of theponent market in Cramer City.

    The current thempared to when they worked so hard as cksmiths had increased their ies by over a hundred times, as well as having their work be much easierpared to before.

    Ironing iron in the middle of the day like Ren was currently doing was already something that existed only in their long lost memories.

    So the two not only did not feel dissatisfied that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made them lose their cksmithing business, they were grateful towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°I was bored so I wanted to see if my skills had regressed.¡± Ren opened the Magic Refrigerator near him and took out a bottle of cold malt liquor before pointing it to Mendis.

    Mendis waved his hand and raised the cold drink in his hand.

    Ren knew the habits of his old friend, so he didn¡¯t say anything and closed the door of the Magic Refrigerator. He took the remote behind him and pressed it, causing the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall to let out a soft sound. There was a cool breeze that came out and it didn¡¯t take long before the heat of his cksmithing had disappeared from the room.

    Mendis looked at the Magic Air Conditioner hanging on the wall and shook his head with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s still your Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner that is better. My shop¡¯s Amphil Magic Air Conditioner isn¡¯t as cold as yours.¡±

    ¡°Who told you to not listen to my advice and insist on buying that Amphil Magic Air Conditioner. It is cheaper, but what does it matter if you can¡¯t use it?¡± Ren gave a soft snort.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I can¡¯t use it, it¡¯s just not as good as the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner.¡± Mendis gave a bitterugh, ¡°I bought it back then because the cover for the Amphil Magic Air Conditioner was made by our shops, so I wanted to show my support for them.¡±

    ¡°Che, it¡¯s something that you use yourself, why do you care that much? Our shop has also received quite a few orders from the Sorns Chamber of Commerce for their Magic Kettles, but do you see me using their Magic Kettle in my house?¡±

    ¡°This fellow, you are a fanatic supporter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you think I don¡¯t know?¡± Mendis rolled his eyes at Ryan and then after hesitating a bit, he sat up and came closer to Ren, ¡°I say, Ren, you support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this much, when they were inviting otherpanies to invest in the Marlow Empire, why didn¡¯t you go with them?¡±

    Ren looked at Mendis in surprise, ¡°Are you joking? You can¡¯t see what kind of fellows followed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Even the weakest among them is countless times stronger than small merchants like us, what would I follow them for? To eat their dust?¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­I didn¡¯t mean that, but¡­¡­¡± Mendis looked at the door before lowering his voice, ¡°Her majesty and the parliament have announced that they would start cooperating with the Marlow Empire¡¯s Marquis Southgate. They wanted thergepanies of our Lampuri Kingdom to seize this chance and enter the Marlow Empire to invest, are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Are you crazy?¡± Ren put a hand on Mendis¡¯ forehead, ¡°What nonsense are you saying without a fever? Her majesty and the parliament are summoning thergepanies, how is it rted to people who can only fulfill small roles like us?¡±

    Mendis snappily pped Ren¡¯s hand away and argued, ¡°I¡¯m not crazy! Although we only y small roles, that is unrted to investing in the Marlow Empire? Did you read the ?Lampuri Weekly?? The first group ofpanies that went with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already started the production base on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory. As long as we go now, we¡¯ll be able to start producing soon and it isn¡¯t as hard as you think.¡±

    Ren was surprised as he looked at Mendis with knitted brows for a while.

    ¡°You¡¯re serious?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense1 Otherwise why would I not be taking a nap at home anding to see you?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing that Mendis was serious, Ren put down the alcohol in his hand and fell into thought.

    After a while, he gave a nod, ¡°Mendis, I admit that this is a very good idea, but don¡¯t you think that this is too risky? We¡¯re not familiar with that ce or the people there, so it will be hard to deal with any idents. Moreover, not to mentionpared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we¡¯re countless times weaker than any of thepanies there, so what would we go there for?¡±

    ¡°Risk?¡± Mendis gave augh, ¡°Ren, after several years offort, did youpletely change? If you want to talk about risk, wasn¡¯t it risky when we ran off to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Banta City? But don¡¯t you see how we¡¯re living now? Let me tell you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu isn¡¯t wrong at all. This world will keep changing and if you learn to take risks, you will be eliminated!¡±

    Ren was silent.

    Although he had been old friends with Mendis, they had different personalities.

    Mendis¡¯ personality was well known, he was willing to bravely try new things and liked taking risks. He was someone who was calm and liked safely walking on the existing path.

    When the two decided to join the smallpany support n, it was Mendis who urged him on.

    Now that Mendis was here to ask him to invest in the Marlow Empire together, he also felt that this was very risky.

    But in his heart, he felt that this was indeed quite a good idea.

    The Marlow Empire was much biggerpared to the Lampuri Kingdom, exceeding them in both market and opportunities. If they could seize these opportunities, their future prospects would be countless times bigger than staying in a small Cramer City.

    Seeing the change in expression on Ren¡¯s face, Mendis knew that he was a bit moved and began persuading him even more.

    ¡°Look, the first batch ofpanies entered the Marlow Empire, they were all specializedpanies like the Cantona Chamber of Commerce that work with agricultural magic machines. The onlyponentpany that went is the Irnd Chamber of Commerce. You think that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce alone can provideponents to all thosepanies? And to make thosepanies run all the way here to buyponents, that wouldn¡¯t make sense, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡± Ren couldn¡¯t help nodding, ¡°Then you mean¡­..if we go there now, we can provideponents to thepanies that the Irnd Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t satisfy? But we can¡¯t make that many kinds ofponents right now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a big problem. We can just take the first step and seize this opportunity. Those magic machinepanies will be used to using theponents from us and they won¡¯t buyponents from otherpanies. Then again, we aren¡¯t that bad. Didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s engineer give ourponent a second grade evaluation before?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..Let me think¡­¡­¡± Ren lowered his head to think again.

    Mendis silently watched him being filled with expectation.

    Ren¡¯s calm personality was a very good supplement to him, these two had worked well together and gotten through many problems over the years.

    This decision to invest in the Marlow Empire was a big risk for Mendis, so he hoped very much that Ren woulde with him.

    Other than hoping to bring his old friend alog, it was because Ren could help him solve many problems.

    When Mendis patiently waited for Ren to make a decision, there was the sound of a car stopping outside the door.

    The two were surprised and looked outside at the same time.

    If they didn¡¯t make a mistake, that should be the sound of a Magic Sedan stopping. It waspletely different from the transport Magic Cars that they were used to.

    A person that could take a Magic Sedan, even in the Lampuri Kingdom that was already filled with Magic Sedans, wasn¡¯t a normal person.

    Who woulde here in the middle of the day?

    A thin person had a smile as he entered the front door to appear in their vision.

    Looking over the two, he reached his hand out and said with a smile, ¡°I am the Irnd Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Kovacs, may I ask which one of you is chairman Ren?¡±

    Mendis and Ren both looked at each other.

 Volume 6 18 - Give us certification qualifications

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 18 Give us certification qualifications</h4>

    ¡°You want to reorganize theponent industry?¡± Xu Yi looked at Freeman in front of him in surprise. After thinking about it, he found it a bit funny, ¡°Hey, Freeman, this definitely wasn¡¯t something you thought of, right?¡±

    Freeman scratched his head and gave a simple smile.

    ¡°This was indeed what Kovacs told me about, but he learned it from the ?Magic Machine Industry Basics? that you publishedst time. Of course, this idea actually came from me and I just discussed it with Kovacs and the others.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at this fellow who was just an honest farmer when they had first met. Now he even knew about ¡°industrial restructuring¡±, it really was an impressive change, ¡°Come, tell me about it. What are you thinking about?¡±

    Freeman pointed for Xu Yi to sit down and after calming himself, he continued, ¡°It¡¯s like this, chairman Xu, do you still remember when ourpany provided those screwbolts for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I really don¡¯t remember this, I¡¯m already no longer meddling in these small matters. What is it? Is there a problem?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, there¡¯s no problem, it¡¯s very good. But when we gave arge stock of the same goods to anotherpany, there was a problem.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°This......Chairman Xu, didn¡¯t your Frestech Chamber of Commerce set standards for screw bolts? There¡¯s thirteen different models for different magic machines. The screw bolts of our Irnd Chamber of Commerce have strictly followed these standards, it was the same with the batch of goods from before. We also verified this when we handed the goods to yourpany.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is as it should be. And then? Did you have problems with the batch of goods for thatpany?¡± Freeman didn¡¯t get to the point after talking all this time, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help asking this.

    Freeman gave a sigh and helplessly spread his hands as he said, ¡°Yes, when we gave these screw bolts to thatpany, they couldn¡¯t use it on the Magic Fans and the Magic Air Conditioners they made at all. In the end, they returned the goods to us and we lost several thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Why couldn¡¯t they use it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit curious.

    ¡°Because.....the Magic Fans and the Magic Air Conditioners used a different model of screw bolts than the one we made, so they couldn¡¯t fit.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right.¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave clear standards for Magic Fans and Magic Air Conditioners to allpanies, so why is thispany different?¡±

    ¡°Un, I asked the people in thatpany in secret. The reason is that when theirpany started making Magic Fans, they used the screw bolts of anotherpany. Thatpany¡¯s screw bolts didn¡¯t follow the standards, but was cheaper than ourpany, so they changed the design of their Magic Fans to match the screw bolts of thatpany, but that meant that they couldn¡¯t use the screw bolts of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°This means.....it was a chain reaction?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°When I made the strict guidelines for each of the magic machines, it was to prevent this from happening. I never thought that it couldn¡¯t be avoided in the end.¡±

    ¡°When I went to inquire at thepany that made those screw bolts, I found that they had problems with their training with the Magic Thread Rollers since the beginning. The skills of their workers with thethe machines.....Ke, also aren¡¯t good. The most important thing is that they don¡¯t have an understanding of the standards of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all, so that means that they didn¡¯t know that their screw bolts didn¡¯t follow standards.¡± Freeman said.

    ¡°This means that it¡¯s a problem with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce not promoting the standard enough. Un.....It seems like we have to pay attention to this problem.¡± Xu Yi said in a thoughtful voice.

    Freeman quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, I didn¡¯t mean to me you or your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I was just thinking that since there was this problem, I was thinking that we should use some method to unify theponentpanies. If everyone uses the same standard, there will be less losses.¡±

    ¡°Un, this idea is very good. Freeman, it¡¯s rare for you to think of this, I really hold you in high esteem.¡± Xu Yi gave him a nod of praise, ¡°So how are you nning on doing this?¡±

    Freeman rubbed his hands together and awkwardly said, ¡°Isn¡¯t that why I¡¯m here asking for your support?¡±

    ¡°Speak then, if I can help, I will consider it.¡±

    ¡°Eh......Chairman Xu, I hope that if you really have time, can you make a book for the standards of variousponents? This is clearly documenting all the rted standards, so the most important thing is that us normal people can find them at any time.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not a problem, actually I was also beginning to do this. But it needs many people¡¯s approval to set a standard, so I can¡¯t rush this.¡±

    ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to worry that much. With your and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s statuses, how could you need others to approve? As long as you set the standard, I dare guarantee that no one will go against it. For example, the matter that I mentioned just now, if there was this standard document earlier, I can just take it and cause trouble for thatpany. They are the ones that aren¡¯t following the standard, it isn¡¯t rted to our Irnd Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh. Freeman said all this, but in the end, it was out of consideration for his own Irnd Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, there was no disputing this and it was very reasonable.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to forcefully set the standard before because he wanted to silently influence everyone to follow the standard.

    But looking at it now, doing this wasn¡¯t as good as Xu Yi had thought it would be.

    If he really did what Freeman said and forced things, he really could save quite a bit of effort.

    ¡°Then the industrial restructuring you mentioned, is it just to help you standardize theponent industry?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No, not just this. I¡¯ve thought about it, our Irnd Chamber of Commerce is currently the biggestponentpany, so we should set a model for everyone.¡±

    Freeman paused before forcefully raising his fist, like he was encouraging himself.

    ¡°So I¡¯ve decided that we should be responsible for the otherponentpanies. For example, the screw boltpany that I just mentioned. I¡¯ve already talked to them and have sent several of ourpany¡¯s workers to help them with the Magic Thread Roller before helping them train some workers, so they can follow the standard of the screw bolts. At the same time, it would also increase the quality of their products.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised this time, ¡°Freeman, I haven¡¯t seen you for some time and I never thought that you had be this generous, it really is surprising.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s all the teachings of chairman Xu.¡± Freeman said with augh, ¡°But it¡¯s not a problem with onepany, it¡¯s much more troublesome with otherpanies. So chairman Xu.....I hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can give our Irnd Chamber of Commerce a special certification of qualification, approving of the standard of our Irnd Chamber of Commerce. That way the otherpanies will ept us and it¡¯ll be easier to discuss with them.¡±

    ¡°Is it really just for this?¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at Freeman. This fellow was such an honest fellow before, he never thought that his ambition wasn¡¯t small.

    If he really agreed to his request, the Irnd Chamber of Commerce would be the recognizedponentpany of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the only authority in the magic machine industry, this would be equal to giving the Irnd Chamber of Commerce the highest position in theponent industry.

    The benefits of this to the Irnd Chamber of Commerce were evident.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t dislike Freeman¡¯s ambition.

    He expressed approval for Freeman¡¯s idea of unifying theponent industry and supported it very much.

    Because of the situation that Freeman used as a reference, if they could unify the standard and have an authority in the industry, it would save quite a bit of wasted effort and resources. It would greatly help develop theponent industry.

    Now the magic machine industry wasn¡¯t just limited to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was gradually an entire system.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t be responsible for everything, so it was inevitable for others or otherpanies to be in charge of certain sections.

    Now that Freeman was proposing this idea on behalf of the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, this conformed with Xu Yi¡¯s expectations.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°Alright, Freeman, I agree with the principle of your idea, but I don¡¯t agree with the specifics. You need to wait for ourpany to inspect yourpany first, so you have to be prepared as I will be very strict with the standards. If your Irnd Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t match my requests, even if our rtionship is good, there will still be nothing to discuss.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s reply, Freeman stood up with an excited look and pped his chest. He gave a bow to Xu Yi and loudly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, please be assured. Our entire Irnd Chamber of Commerce will be prepared, we will be ready for your inspection at any time!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Freeman¡¯s stance was like someone reporting in for work.

    But based on his words, he didn¡¯t just have this idea for a day or two. The Irnd Chamber of Commerce might really have been prepared all this time.

 Volume 6 19 - Cold Chimera Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 19 Cold Chimera Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    Ten minutester, a satisfied Freeman left Xu Yi¡¯s office in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters.

    Seeing Freeman head down through the window, entering his pure gold Magic Sedan and quickly driving off with a smile, Xu Yi also revealed a smile. He turned around and fell into deep thought.

    Speaking of reorganizing the industry, it wasn¡¯t just what Freeman should consider. It was also a problem that Xu Yi and all the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should seriously consider.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been founded for eight years now and since starting out as a smallpany in Banta City, they had now be argepany that the countries of the southwest corner of the continent couldn¡¯t ignore.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was involved in many industries. Although they were mainly focused on the magic machine industry, they were also involved in the farming industry, the construction industry, the entertainment industry, and other industries. They could be considered a giant.

    Although they were involved in many industries, their profit margin was strangely high which was a good thing. However, because they were involved in many industries, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s management had be messy.

    Kennard as the CEO had proposed to Xu Yi two years ago that they needed to standardize the industries under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After two months of discussion, they had set a preliminary n and were beginning to implement it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce after being standardized will be split in two parts. One is the part that will focus on the magic machine industry and the other will focus on all other industries.

    The magic machine industry included the household magic machines, the agricultural magic machines, the construction magic machines, the fundamental industries, and the military magic machines for five departments.

    Among them, if they were to discuss profits, it¡¯s clearly the household magic machine department that led the rest.

    It was only July of this year and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been able to earn a profit of four million gold coins just from selling the various household magic machines.

    Moreover, now that summer was here, the Magic Fans, the Magic Air Conditioners, the Magic Refrigerators, and the other seasonal household magic machines will start selling. Once summer was over, their profits would easily be able to surpass five million gold coins.

    As for the agricultural magic machines, although the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the otherpanies had already bought arge amount of them and had a saturated market, because the Sack Kingdom joined, this business had grown. In the first half of the year, their gross profit had reached two million gold coins.

    In the next half of the year, it would depend on the Marlow Empire. If everything went smoothly, there was arge chance of getting arge order for agricultural magic machines from Marquis Southgate and the other nobles.

    The construction magic machines were rather calm since most of these things were being used by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already bought a bunch of them, so they didn¡¯t need that many more.

    But recently there were more constructionpanies and miningpanies that began having a demand for construction magic machines, so there were some expectations there.

    As for the fundamental industry, it was mainly based on the steel mill and the non-ferrous metal smelting factories.

    This had developed quickly over the past few years, especially this year when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built threerge steel mills and one non-ferrous metal smelting factory with the Lampuri Kingdom. It made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel smelting capacity break one and half million tons and their non-ferrous metal smelting capacity break three hundred thousand tons.

    Although this wasn¡¯t worth mentioningpared to the tens of millions of tons produced on earth, it was a major breakthrough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of the various steel and non-ferrous metal products, two thirds of them were used by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce themselves. The other one third were sold to otherpanies, earning them a giant profit of three million gold coins.

    If all these departments were added together, putting aside the military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn a shocking profit of twelve million gold coins from their magic machine businesses.

    Adding in the other profits outside of this department, like the fertilizer, the drinks, or the sea transportation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit in the first half of the year would easily break fifteen million gold coins.

    If nothing unexpected happens, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits this year would break thirty million which would create a new high, surpassingst year.

    The only variable was the military magic machines.

    When he was considering this, there was a soft knock on the door that woke Xu Yi up.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    The doors of the office were opened and a beautiful female elf came in.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the guests from the Candra Empire are here.¡±

    Seeing this female elf who was giving him a bow with a trace of expectation and curiosity on the respectful look on her face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh deep down.

    Tvisti had been here for a month, but he still wasn¡¯t used to her.

    This female elf named Tvisti was left when Agnes left, she was personally sent here by elder Lisanya.

    When elder Lisanya sent her here, he had said that Tvisti would be staying with Xu Yi to learn about human business management from him. She would be a talent for managing the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s factories in the future.

    But Tvisti was only seventy this year, which in elven years was only sixteen-seventeen when it came to human years. She was just a young girl who was still underaged.

    If elder Lisanya really wanted to create a talent for management for her tribe, how could she send this underaged girl.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t consider the reason behind this. Anyway, Tvisti had been here for a month and she had been staying by his side the entire time, listening to Xu Yi¡¯s orders and trying her best toplete the tasks Xu Yi gave her. She worked hard to learn from this, really bing like Xu Yi¡¯s secretary.

    ¡°That¡¯s quite fast. Come, let¡¯s go and see them.¡±

    Tvisti agreed and obediently followed behind Xu Yi, leaving the office.

    The two went down a floor and came to the reception room in the office building, seeing Russell sitting among this group.

    When Russell saw Xu Yie in, he immediately stood up and came forward with a smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, long time no see.¡±

    ¡°Hello, sir Russell, these people are.....¡± Xu Yi doubtfully looked at the other ten people who were standing behind Russell.

    ¡°Oh, they are the ones I mentioned before, the ones that wanted toe with me to see you. Also.....some representatives from somepanies. Come, let me introduce you.¡± Russell pointed at a middle aged man who looked quite average, but had a sharp look in his eyes that no one dared to look down on, ¡°This is the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch manager in Pompeii City, Toyer Autof.¡±

    Hearing Russell¡¯s introduction, Xu Yi was surprised.

    Although Russell had said before that he would bring some representatives frompanies near the navy¡¯s bases to discuss cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Russell had never mentioned who he would be bringing.

    He never thought that the first one to appear would be a representative from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce!

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the biggestpany on the continent, it was the idol that all merchants admired!

    Xu Yi reached out his hand in surprise to shake Autof¡¯s hand.

    ¡°I never thought that our small Frestech Chamber of Commerce would enter the eyes of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, this really makes me feel ttered.¡±

    Autof gave a restrained smile and reached his hand out to shake Xu Yi¡¯s hand. After giving a nod, he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Seeing his reaction, Xu Yi was surprised. He couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows and turning to Russell.

    Russell acted like he saw nothing and kept introducing people to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was confused, but he could only put his doubts aside for now and continued to meet the others with a smile on his face.

    Other than the Chimera Chamber of Commerce representative introduced first, the rest of them were all officers that came from the Candra Empire navy or representatives ofpanies near Pompeii City.

    They were different from Autof, the representatives of thesepanies were very polite to Xu Yi. They even showed some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their words, indicating that they could begin cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of magic machines.

    Xu Yi was of course very weing to this and already began discussing the preliminary details with them.

    Through his rtionship with Marquis Southgate, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up a foundation in the Marlow Empire. Now through Russell¡¯s rtionship to the merchants of Pompeii City, they would beying down foundations in the Candra Empire. This would greatly help Xu Yi¡¯s n to spread the magic machine industry across the entire Sines Continent.

    So Xu Yi was very happy when he was introduced to them and the representatives of thesepanies were clearly prepared. Both sides had a good discussion and reached some preliminary verbal agreements.

    But during this entire process, Autof had never said a word. He had been watching the entire time which made Xu Yi very curious.

    What did this fellowe for?

    It was fine if the Chimera Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be surprised since there was arge difference between the twopanies.

    But since the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had sent someone, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had at least entered their eyes. If they didn¡¯t have the intention of cooperating, why would they send someone here?

    But this fellow now didn¡¯t say a word and had this cold attitude. Could it be that he was just giving Russell face and came here even though he wasn¡¯t willing?

    During this discussion, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t raise the doubts in his heart, so he couldn¡¯t help feeling curious.

    But after the discussions were over and this group left for lunch, Autof surprisingly met Xu Yi alone with Russell.

    But once he spoke, Xu Yi was instantly stunned.

 Volume 6 20 - Acquire

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 20 Acquire</strong>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, our Chimera Chamber of Commerce is willing to acquire your Frestech Chamber of Commerce for seventy six million gold coins. This is the contract, please take a look.¡±

    Seeing Autof take out a thin contract, Xu Yi was stunned. He first looked at Russell and saw that he had a calm look. Then he looked at Autof and seeing that he had a serious expression, he was certain that they weren¡¯t kidding.

    But after seeing through Autof¡¯s contract, Xu Yi felt that this was very absurd.

    In the end, the reason why Autof didn¡¯t speak in that meeting was not because he wasn¡¯t willing, but rather he didn¡¯t have anything to discuss in terms of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He wants to buy out your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what was there to discuss!

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and after a slight pause, he pushed back the contract.

    ¡°Sorry, manager Autof, I have no ns of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for now.¡±

    Autof¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change and pushed back the contract.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please see that there¡¯s no losses for you. If you¡¯re not satisfied with the conditions, we can still discuss them.¡±

    ¡°No need, I have no ns for this, so there¡¯s nothing to discuss.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s tone was very firm, but he still had the same smile on his face.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce was after all the number onepany on the continent. If possible, Xu Yi still wanted to work with them, so he wouldn¡¯t offend them if he could.

    Moreover, through their ns to buy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could be seen that they didn¡¯t disdain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Rather they cared about it very much, or they wouldn¡¯t have the idea of buying it.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I suggest that you consider it, it¡¯s quite beneficial to you.¡± Autof didn¡¯t speak, it was Russell on the side who spoke.

    Xu Yi looked at Russell in surprise. What does the Chimera Chamber of Commerce buying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have to do with you as the vice chief of staff of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy?

    But thinking of how the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the number onepany on the continent and the number onepany in the Candra Empire, they must be rted to all the various powers in the Candra Empire. Russell working with the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t that strange at all.

    After hesitating a bit, Xu Yi took the contract from Autof.

    Russell and Autof looked at each other and revealed smiles. They sat down and patiently waited for Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    Although Xu Yi looked serious when he read the contract, he was actually very careless about it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was his hard work, how could he just sell it?

    Even if he didn¡¯t talk about anything else, it was impossible for Xu Yi to agree just with the price of seventy six million gold coins the Chimera Chamber of Commerce offered.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an ie of over thirty million gold coins a year, it would only keep growing if nothing unexpected happened.

    Seventy six million seemed like a lot, but it was only the profit of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in two or three years.

    They wanted to use this bit of money to buy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Xu Yi could only say that although the Chimera Chamber of Commerce could see the potential of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they underestimated them too much.

    The contents of the contract weren¡¯t a surprise for Xu Yi. The main intention was that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wanted topletely buy out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for seventy six million gold coins.

    In this acquisition, they would take everything the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had. That included their factories, their research facility, their employees, and all the magic machine technology......

    Simply put, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be bought by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi would only have his personal territory in the Stantine Duchy.

    After looking over the contract, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    This Chimera Chamber of Commerce really had a big appetite and they didn¡¯t leave anything for him. It seemed like they had some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they were far from truly understanding it.

    Seeing Xu Yi close the contract, Autof finally revealed a smile for the first time.

    ¡°Are you done? Chairman Xu, if you feel there¡¯s no problems, we can sign it now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Autof in confusion. Just what was this fellow thinking, why was he certain that he would sign the contract?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the intentions of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, but I¡¯m sorry to say that I have no intentions of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Manager Autof, if you¡¯re here to discuss a cooperation on behalf of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, I wee you very much, but if you¡¯re only here to discuss buying ourpany......then there¡¯s no need for further discussions.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi made a gesture of showing him out.

    Autof¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really won¡¯t consider it? You have to understand that things that our Chimera Chamber of Commerce wants are what countlesspanies on the Sines Continent dream of. If you miss this chance, you might not have any opportunities in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi sipped his tea and smiled without replying.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s attitude, Autof¡¯s expression sunk more as he turned to look at Russell.

    Russell revealed an awkward smile as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, manager Autof is right. Being able to catch the attention of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce is the blessing of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you have to consider this.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t give the arrogant Autof any face from the beginning, but he had to give Russell some face. After pausing to think, he still firmly shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to consider this. Sir Russell, I thank you for bringing the representative of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce here, but the idea of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has never been on my mind, so there¡¯s no need to discuss this.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s firm attitude, Russell could only helplessly turn to Autof.

    Autof gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope that you can understand the consequences of this. I will give you one month, if you change your mind, you can feel free to contact us.¡±

    Without waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, he left as soon as he finished speaking.

    There was only Xu Yi and Russell left in the room. Russell hesitated a bit and didn¡¯t leave with Autof. Rather, after thinking for a bit, he revealed a bitter smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I only thought that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wanted to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I never thought......¡±

    Russell gave a sigh and shook his head, with a bit of regret in his eyes.

    Xu Yi¡¯s lips twitched. You didn¡¯t show any surprise when Autof raised his request and now you¡¯re trying to shirk responsibility for this matter, who would believe you?

    But there was no need to see through this, so Xu Yi just gave a casual nod before changing the topic, ¡°Sir Russell, let¡¯s discuss some business. What did you want to discuss this time?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi talk business, Russell took a breath and focused his mind. He replied with a nod, ¡°Of course it¡¯s still rted to the new fleet that we formed. Chairman Xu, the three guard ships that you providedst time are already in service in the navy and they¡¯re operating well with the support of the technical staff you gave. We are very satisfied with these three guard ships, but.....there is a problem.¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°Other than having Magic Cannons, the three guard ships aren¡¯t equipped with the same military magic machines as yourpany¡¯s guard ships, so they are a bitcking when ites to firepower. Although they are much stronger than the ships we used before, they can¡¯tpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships. So in order to disy the might of these three guard ships, I hope that you can equip them with the same military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Sir Russell, if I remember correctly, when we sold you these three guard ships back then, I already mentioned this matter. But these three guard ships not being equipped with the other military magic machines is because your side rejected this, so how is this rted to us?¡± Xu Yi argued back.

    ¡°This......¡± Russell revealed an awkward smile, ¡°The initial price you gave was two million gold coins per ship and it¡¯s one and a half million for those without the other military magic machines, so there¡¯s too much of a difference in price.....¡±

    ¡°Why don¡¯t you just say that you¡¯re poor......¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. He nodded before asking, ¡°Then are you willing to ept this difference in price now?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be said that we eptpletely since five hundred thousand to install some military magic machines on one ship is just too much. How about this, two hundred thousand per ship, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Two hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Sir Russell, are you joking? Two hundred thousand isn¡¯t even enough to cover our costs!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you being too insincere?¡± Russell shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s just a few simple military magic machines, how could you suffer a loss at two hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°You think we won¡¯t suffer a loss? Alright, you can take care of it yourself.¡±

    Russell deeply knitted his brows, but he surprisingly didn¡¯t keep arguing with Xu Yi or try to bargain in terms of price. After thinking about it, he stood up.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, since we can¡¯t agree on the price, then let¡¯s discuss this matter another time. Other than discussing the matter of installing the other military magic machines, there¡¯s still something else I need to discuss with you. Can you take me to take a look at the shipyard? We can talk on the way.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused.

    This Russell wasn¡¯t someone who easily gave up and the matter of installing more military magic machines should be very important to the Candra Empire navy, so why did he not want to continue this discussion?

    With what happened with Autof just now, Xu Yi felt that Russell¡¯s group had a strange feel to them.

    The Candra Empire, just what were they nning?

    Volume 6 Chapter 20

    Previous Chapter

    Next Chapter

    Acquire

    ¡°Chairman Xu, our Chimera Chamber of Commerce is willing to acquire your Frestech Chamber of Commerce for seventy six million gold coins. This is the contract, please take a look.¡±

    Seeing Autof take out a thin contract, Xu Yi was stunned. He first looked at Russell and saw that he had a calm look. Then he looked at Autof and seeing that he had a serious expression, he was certain that they weren¡¯t kidding.

    But after seeing through Autof¡¯s contract, Xu Yi felt that this was very absurd.

    In the end, the reason why Autof didn¡¯t speak in that meeting was not because he wasn¡¯t willing, but rather he didn¡¯t have anything to discuss in terms of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He wants to buy out your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what was there to discuss!

    Xu Yi slightly knit his brows and after a slight pause, he pushed back the contract.

    ¡°Sorry, manager Autof, I have no ns of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for now.¡±

    Autof¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change and pushed back the contract.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please see that there¡¯s no losses for you. If you¡¯re not satisfied with the conditions, we can still discuss them.¡±

    ¡°No need, I have no ns for this, so there¡¯s nothing to discuss.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s tone was very firm, but he still had the same smile on his face.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce was after all the number onepany on the continent. If possible, Xu Yi still wanted to work with them, so he wouldn¡¯t offend them if he could.

    Moreover, through their ns to buy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could be seen that they didn¡¯t disdain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Rather they cared about it very much, or they wouldn¡¯t have the idea of buying it.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I suggest that you consider it, it¡¯s quite beneficial to you.¡± Autof didn¡¯t speak, it was Russell on the side who spoke.

    Xu Yi looked at Russell in surprise. What does the Chimera Chamber of Commerce buying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have to do with you as the vice chief of staff of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy?

    But thinking of how the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the number onepany on the continent and the number onepany in the Candra Empire, they must be rted to all the various powers in the Candra Empire. Russell working with the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t that strange at all.

    After hesitating a bit, Xu Yi took the contract from Autof.

    Russell and Autof looked at each other and revealed smiles. They sat down and patiently waited for Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    Although Xu Yi looked serious when he read the contract, he was actually very careless about it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was his hard work, how could he just sell it?

    Even if he didn¡¯t talk about anything else, it was impossible for Xu Yi to agree just with the price of seventy six million gold coins the Chimera Chamber of Commerce offered.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an ie of over thirty million gold coins a year, it would only keep growing if nothing unexpected happened.

    Seventy six million seemed like a lot, but it was only the profit of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in two or three years.

    They wanted to use this bit of money to buy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Xu Yi could only say that although the Chimera Chamber of Commerce could see the potential of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they underestimated them too much.

    The contents of the contract weren¡¯t a surprise for Xu Yi. The main intention was that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wanted topletely buy out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for seventy six million gold coins.

    In this acquisition, they would take everything the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had. That included their factories, their research facility, their employees, and all the magic machine technology......

    Simply put, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be bought by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi would only have his personal territory in the Stantine Duchy.

    After looking over the contract, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    This Chimera Chamber of Commerce really had a big appetite and they didn¡¯t leave anything for him. It seemed like they had some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they were far from truly understanding it.

    Seeing Xu Yi close the contract, Autof finally revealed a smile for the first time.

    ¡°Are you done? Chairman Xu, if you feel there¡¯s no problems, we can sign it now.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Autof in confusion. Just what was this fellow thinking, why was he certain that he would sign the contract?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the intentions of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, but I¡¯m sorry to say that I have no intentions of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and said, ¡°Manager Autof, if you¡¯re here to discuss a cooperation on behalf of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, I wee you very much, but if you¡¯re only here to discuss buying ourpany......then there¡¯s no need for further discussions.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi made a gesture of showing him out.

    Autof¡¯s face sunk, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really won¡¯t consider it? You have to understand that things that our Chimera Chamber of Commerce wants are what countlesspanies on the Sines Continent dream of. If you miss this chance, you might not have any opportunities in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi sipped his tea and smiled without replying.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s attitude, Autof¡¯s expression sunk more as he turned to look at Russell.

    Russell revealed an awkward smile as he said to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, manager Autof is right. Being able to catch the attention of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce is the blessing of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you have to consider this.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t give the arrogant Autof any face from the beginning, but he had to give Russell some face. After pausing to think, he still firmly shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to consider this. Sir Russell, I thank you for bringing the representative of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce here, but the idea of selling the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has never been on my mind, so there¡¯s no need to discuss this.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s firm attitude, Russell could only helplessly turn to Autof.

    Autof gave a cold snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope that you can understand the consequences of this. I will give you one month, if you change your mind, you can feel free to contact us.¡±

    Without waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, he left as soon as he finished speaking.

    There was only Xu Yi and Russell left in the room. Russell hesitated a bit and didn¡¯t leave with Autof. Rather, after thinking for a bit, he revealed a bitter smile to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I only thought that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce wanted to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I never thought......¡±

    Russell gave a sigh and shook his head, with a bit of regret in his eyes.

    Xu Yi¡¯s lips twitched. You didn¡¯t show any surprise when Autof raised his request and now you¡¯re trying to shirk responsibility for this matter, who would believe you?

    But there was no need to see through this, so Xu Yi just gave a casual nod before changing the topic, ¡°Sir Russell, let¡¯s discuss some business. What did you want to discuss this time?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi talk business, Russell took a breath and focused his mind. He replied with a nod, ¡°Of course it¡¯s still rted to the new fleet that we formed. Chairman Xu, the three guard ships that you providedst time are already in service in the navy and they¡¯re operating well with the support of the technical staff you gave. We are very satisfied with these three guard ships, but.....there is a problem.¡±

    ¡°Please speak.¡±

    ¡°Other than having Magic Cannons, the three guard ships aren¡¯t equipped with the same military magic machines as yourpany¡¯s guard ships, so they are a bitcking when ites to firepower. Although they are much stronger than the ships we used before, they can¡¯tpare to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships. So in order to disy the might of these three guard ships, I hope that you can equip them with the same military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Sir Russell, if I remember correctly, when we sold you these three guard ships back then, I already mentioned this matter. But these three guard ships not being equipped with the other military magic machines is because your side rejected this, so how is this rted to us?¡± Xu Yi argued back.

    ¡°This......¡± Russell revealed an awkward smile, ¡°The initial price you gave was two million gold coins per ship and it¡¯s one and a half million for those without the other military magic machines, so there¡¯s too much of a difference in price.....¡±

    ¡°Why don¡¯t you just say that you¡¯re poor......¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. He nodded before asking, ¡°Then are you willing to ept this difference in price now?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be said that we eptpletely since five hundred thousand to install some military magic machines on one ship is just too much. How about this, two hundred thousand per ship, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Two hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Sir Russell, are you joking? Two hundred thousand isn¡¯t even enough to cover our costs!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you being too insincere?¡± Russell shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s just a few simple military magic machines, how could you suffer a loss at two hundred thousand gold coins?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°You think we won¡¯t suffer a loss? Alright, you can take care of it yourself.¡±

    Russell deeply knitted his brows, but he surprisingly didn¡¯t keep arguing with Xu Yi or try to bargain in terms of price. After thinking about it, he stood up.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, since we can¡¯t agree on the price, then let¡¯s discuss this matter another time. Other than discussing the matter of installing the other military magic machines, there¡¯s still something else I need to discuss with you. Can you take me to take a look at the shipyard? We can talk on the way.¡±

    Xu Yi was confused.

    This Russell wasn¡¯t someone who easily gave up and the matter of installing more military magic machines should be very important to the Candra Empire navy, so why did he not want to continue this discussion?

    With what happened with Autof just now, Xu Yi felt that Russell¡¯s group had a strange feel to them.

    The Candra Empire, just what were they nning?

 Volume 6 21 - Bad impression

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 21 Bad impression</strong>

    Although the Candra Empire¡¯s attitude was strange for Xu Yi, putting aside Autof, the rest of the merchants that Russell brought from Pompeii City were serious about cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were several of these merchants who had gone to Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Nissi City before and had seen the prosperity of Nissi Harbour, so they yearned for the same thing.

    Pompeii City was one of the Candra Empire¡¯s important naval bases and was a seaside city, so there was a military harbour under the Candra Empire navy, as well as a citizen harbour for Pompeii City. It was like Nissi Harbour, it was named after the city, being called Pompeii Harbour.

    These merchants wanted to start cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the first things they wanted were the magic machines for civilians. So in their discussion with Xu Yi, the first step they decided was to develop Pompeii Harbour with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    They were very active in this matter, even beforeing here, they worked together to convince Pompeii City¡¯s City Lord to receive his permission in investing and expanding the harbour.

    Of course, the Pompeii City¡¯s City Lord didn¡¯t need to invest a single copper coin in this. The merchants would invest in this independently, so that was why the City Lord didn¡¯t have any reason to oppose this.

    Xu Yi naturally weed their proposal to develop Pompeii Harbour, but they did not ept his proposal of investing with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so that everyone owned a share in the harbour.

    No matter how they developed Pompeii Harbour, it was still under the Candra Empire. It wasn¡¯t a problem for thesepanies that came from Pompeii City, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t from the Candra Empire, so there was a big problem.

    If the Candra Empire wanted to cause trouble, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    But after discussing it, Xu Yi agreed to take out a million gold coins to develop Pompeii Harbour and he would only take a 10% share in the harbour symbolically.

    Compared to unreliable controlling rights, what Xu Yi cared about more were the reliable use rights.

    Once this Pompeii Harbour was built, it would be an important window for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into the south of the Candra Empire.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would send countless transport ships to Pompeii Harbour, it was important to receive the priority rights to use the harbour.

    Although the use rights weren¡¯t reliable since the Candra Empire was a giant existence, butparing it, the use rights didn¡¯t touch on the management of the Candra Empire, so it was more likely that it would be upheld.

    Through the discussion with thepanies of Pompeii City, Xu Yi found a fact that made him very emotional.

    The Candra Empire really was one of the two empires of the continent. Although thesepanies were only normalpanies in a normal city along the coast, they couldn¡¯t be underestimated at all.

    In the Pompeii Harbour n they took out, they would be investing an initial seven million gold coins.

    Compared to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Nissi Harbour where there were only three million gold coins invested, this was double that.

    Moreover, Nissi Harbour was something that the Rudson Kingdom cared greatly about and received King Teruc¡¯s attention, so the Rudson Kingdom had given it such arge budget.

    It could be seen that for a super power like the Candra Empire, a small country like the Rudson Kingdom was far from being able topare.

    And this was the reason why Xu Yi had always put importance in developing the markets of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire.

    But what made Xu Yi depressed was that while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was smoothly developing in the Marlow Empire, they were hitting a wall in the Candra Empire.

    After cooperating with ambassador Hakanin and through him, it made the household magic machines very popr in the Candra Empire¡¯s capital of Wimbledon City.

    But after two years now, the request that Xu Yi made to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce officially enter the Candra Empire market through his rtions with ambassador Hakanin had always been rejected.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t clear on the exact cause, but based on the result, it should be ambassador Hakanin ying hindrance while also the Candra Empire side not caring.

    Then there was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce building the road in the southwest province.

    They had already been building for a year and the road still wasn¡¯t finished yet.

    This was a road that was less than five hundred kilometers and with the abilities of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, if everything went smoothly, they would be able to finish paving it in half a year. However, they kept meeting hindrances which slowed down their speed.

    Chairman Cruise hadined to Xu Yi many times because of this and most of hisints were about the officials in the southwest province.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already paid over a hundred thousand in bribes to those fellows, but the road still received many hindrances. It almost made chairman Cruise so angry that he wanted to give up on paving it.

    Anyway, the advantages of the road were easily seen and if the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t willing, they would be the ones suffering.

    Adding in the fact that Belil¡¯s Magic Car shop in Wimbledon City also wasn¡¯t going smoothly, Xu Yi had a bad impression of the Candra Empire.

    However, it didn¡¯t matter if Xu Yi had a bad impression of the Candra Empire, this didn¡¯t affect his determination in opening up the Candra Empire market.

    So when Russell¡¯s group left this ce a weekter and when Belil came back to the Stantine Duchy, telling his goal ining back, Xu Yi became excited again.

    ¡°His highness Frank has changed his mind?¡± Xu Yi was surprised and a bit happy as he looked at Belil, ¡°What did his highness say?¡±

    Belil tilted his head and summarized what his highness Frank had told him during their meetings during this time before saying with a smile, ¡°His highness Frank can¡¯t resist the enticement of the race cars, but he is a prince after all, so he can¡¯t just organize small races in secret like me and the other small nobles. So he wants to make this a regr sporting event, letting many people in the empire ept this, so he can openly participate.¡±

    ¡°So he wants to hold a proper race with ourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Whose name does his highness Frank want to host this event in?¡±

    ¡°Un.....Specifically speaking, his highness feels that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has experience in hosting races and also makes the race cars, so his method of cooperating with you is to use his rtionship in the Candra Empire to bring your mature racing event to the Candra Empire. He would be in charge of providing his name and everything else would be left to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Simply put, everything would be handled by us and his highness would only make it a bit smoother?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Un......This is the method I wanted to use, but his highness never agreed before. I never thought that he would take the initiative to propose this. Belil, why?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Belil rubbed his hands together and looked at Xu Yi with a bit of hesitation.

    Xu Yi felt even more confused.

    This wasn¡¯t something hard to answer, so why was Belil hesitating?

    ¡°This.....Actually.....Other than the car races, Frank has something more important that he wanted me to pass onto you......¡±

    Seeing Belil¡¯s hesitant expression, Xu Yi knitted his brows. He felt that this matter would be very hard for him or Belil wouldn¡¯t reveal this kind of expression.

    ¡°Alright, speak. No matter what conditions his highness has, we can discuss it.¡± Xu Yi calmly said.

    Belil scratched his head and gave augh, ¡°Alright, Frank said that he¡¯s not only interested in the car races, he¡¯s interested in the Magic Cars, so he hopes.....Ke, he wants to work with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a Magic Car factory in the Candra Empire.¡±

    Hearing the first part of Belil¡¯s words, Xu Yi had already guessed what he wanted to say, so he wasn¡¯t surprised by thetter half.

    After considering it, Xu Yi asked, ¡°How does his highness want to cooperate?¡±

    ¡°Frank said......He hoped that he could study the Magic Race Cars that he liked, so.....he wanted your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give the Magic Car technology to him and some researchers to support him, so he could quickly make a Magic Race Car.....¡±

    The more he spoke, the softer Belil¡¯s voice became. The smile on his face became awkward, clearly showing that he thought his highness Frank¡¯s requests were a bit excessive.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change and he fell into deep thought like he was seriously considering this.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t replying, Belil tried asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi reached his hand out to Belil.

    ¡°Do you have a detailed proposal?¡±

    Belil was surprised, ¡°You¡¯re agreeing?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t give you a definite answer right now, I¡¯ll have to see his highness Frank¡¯s n before deciding. So, do you have a proposal?¡±

    Belil awkwardly shook his head, ¡°Frank only wanted me to tell you this and didn¡¯t give a specific n.....¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Are those fellows in the Candra Empire all this unreliable? Alright, Belil, wait a few days and I will draw up a n for you, you can bring it back to his highness Frank. If he agrees, there¡¯s no problem cooperating this time.¡±

    ¡°Then what if his highness Frank isn¡¯t satisfied with your n?¡±

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and gave a soft snort, ¡°If he still doesn¡¯t agree when I¡¯m willing to take a step back, is there a need to cooperate?¡±

    Belil swallowed a mouthful of spit. He wanted to convince Xu Yi, but seeing the cold look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he swallowed the words in his mouth.

 Volume 6 22 - Sines Love and Hate

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 22 Sines Love and Hate</h4>

    The hot sun finally disappeared over the horizon and darkness filled the sky bit by bit, also bringing along a cool breeze, making the hot and dry Lawuca City finally be much morefortable.

    With the dark sky and the cool weather, people came out of their houses, but they only stayed in the shade in groups under the trees near their houses before. However, tonight the people of Lawuca City were gathered in the small square by the east gate, all waiting for something.

    ¡°Hey, Xuni, you¡¯re also here.¡±

    ¡°Of course I came, today is the most important third episode. I can¡¯t wait to see if the elven prince died in the end. Linka, do you think he will die?¡±

    ¡°Pei! That crow mouth, how could he die! He is that handsome!¡±

    ......

    ¡°Yo, old Kodo, aren¡¯t you unwilling toe out with your Magic Air Conditioner, why are you willing toe all the way here?¡±

    ¡°What? I can¡¯te? Today is the third episode, if I don¡¯te and see it, how would I know what happened after? Speaking of this, Ritz, do you think that general Lokaf is an idiot? It¡¯s clearly a trap, but he still brought his men in. When we suffered in the war against the elves, was it because of this idiot......¡±

    ......

    ¡°Oh, dear Kardashian, I waited for a long time and you¡¯re finally here. Come, please sit down, where did we stopst time?¡±

    ¡°Hey, dear Sephora, I¡¯m really happy to see you again. Last time? I remember that we were discussing if the ne on the elven princess was the legendary Moon God¡¯s Blessing. You said that it looked differentpared to the legends, but I don¡¯t think that it¡¯s all that important.....¡±

    .....

    Lawuca City was a small city in the eastern Lampuri Kingdom. There were less than twenty thousand people in this city and there were currently four thousand people gathered in this small square. The square waspletely filled without leaving a single gap.

    There were even young people on the edges of the square who were also staring at the empty space by the city wall. They were talking about the same thing as the people in the square, with heated discussions and even arguments breaking out.

    Although the discussion in the dense crowd was different, they were all focused on the same time. This was the third episode of the ?Sines Love and Hate?.

    This ?Sines Love and Hate? is the newest series from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, focused on the race wars from three thousand years ago.

    The plot of the story was about a sequence of events during the war between humans and elves, mainly focusing on the love story of a human girl and an elven prince.

    The main story line was the love story between this elven prince and the human girl, describing how the human girl had fallen in love with the elven prince, but because of the conflict between the two races, there were various things that stopped them from being together.

    Although this series had only released two episodes, because of the splendid story, telling the love story between elves and humans that people loved to hear about, countless people loved it when it was released.

    Moreover, the Illusion Film was a rare thing in itself. Without the appearance of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, the people of the Sines Continent had never heard of this novel thing before. So every time the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had a showing, all the people of Lawuca City came out and it became very lively.

    Still who was on Lawuca City¡¯s wall looked down at the crowd in the square and turned to ask the subordinate beside her, ¡°How are the preparations?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re all prepared, miss chairman.¡± The subordinate respectfully said, ¡°There¡¯s still ten minutes before the broadcast, do you think......¡±

    ¡°Go.¡± Still waved her hand and the subordinate understood. Several people waiting on the side headed off the wall and went into the square.

    It would be eight in ten minutes, which was when the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had announced would be the showing time for the third episode of ?Sines Love and Hate?.

    Broadcasting on time was something that Still always focused on.

    Up to now, the New moon Chamber of Commerce had set up over seventy three public broadcast areas in a total of fifty seven cities in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom. Each ce would set a show time in advance and all seventy three ces would broadcast at the same time.

    Because Lawuca City was the newest city for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, Still had personallye to inspect the work done here.

    Right now she could see that the staff here were doing well, there weren¡¯t any mistakes at all.

    ¡°Hey, dear chairman Still, it¡¯s about to start broadcasting, you aren¡¯t going down to watch?¡± A delicateugh came from behind her.

    Still slightly knitted her brows before quickly rxing it and turning around with a smile, ¡°I believe that my subordinates will do well, so I don¡¯t need to go myself. Madame Welluci, why aren¡¯t you going down to watch? Could it be that you aren¡¯t interested in this film?¡±

    This person called Madame Walluci was a woman who wasn¡¯t forty yet. She was wearing a long red skirt with a bright flower on her head, looking quite beautiful. She swayed as she walked, giving off a very charming appearance.

    Hearing Still¡¯s question, she used the small fan in her hand to cover her mouth and gave anotherugh before saying, ¡°There¡¯s so many people gathered down there and it¡¯s burning people to death, I¡¯m not willing to go down.¡±

    Still¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help twitching. She wanted to turn to leave and not look at this woman in front of her again.

    This Madame Welluci always relied on her status as the wife of the City Lord, so she always had an arrogant appearance that made others feel disgusted.

    It was a good thing that she didn¡¯t show this in front of Still, so Still could barely ept this.

    ¡°The third episode is an important part of the story, if you don¡¯t watch it, you won¡¯t understand the future developments. Don¡¯t you think that it would be a pity?¡± Still kept her temper in check as she said this with a smile.

    ¡°No, of course I will watch it, but to let me be with all these people, especially those stinky men and themoners, I can¡¯t ept that.¡± Madame Welluci didn¡¯t hide her disdain for the people in the square, ¡°Chairman Still, can¡¯t you think of a way for me and the other nobles to have our own watching area?¡±

    Still looked at her and shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, ourpany currently doesn¡¯t have the ability to prepare so many viewing areas, so we can¡¯t satisfy your request. But if you don¡¯t want to watch with others, I do have a solution.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What solution?¡± Madame Welluci asked in an excited voice.

    ¡°Ourpany¡¯s viewing areas are based on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Projectors, but they are just at a bigger scale. If you¡¯re willing, you can purchase a personal Magic Illusion Projector from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and buy the discs from us to watch these movies even from your home.¡±

    After saying this, Still couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile of self ridicule.

    In thest half a year, she had been trying to increase the sales of the household Magic Illusion Projector. She even worked with the Azshara Tribe to develop the memory box that worked with the Magic Illusion Projector. She had said this so many times that it became very smooth, to the point where she could even say it without pausing without even thinking about it.

    ¡°Household Magic Illusion Projector?¡± Madame Welluci¡¯s eyes opened wide as she said in an exaggerated manner, ¡°This is my first time hearing about this. Chairman Still, if I buy it, would I be the first person in Lawuca City?¡±

    Still revealed a faint smile, how could she not know what Madame Welluci was thinking. She said with a nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great.¡± Madame Welluci gave another fakeugh, ¡°The Madame Still, I¡¯ve decided to buy one of those household Magic.....Magic......¡±

    ¡°Magic Illusion Projector and the attached memory box.¡± Still reminded her.

    ¡°Right, right, right, that. Chairman Still, money isn¡¯t a problem, I hope that you can send that thing to my personal manor as soon as possible. I want to show a personal showing in my manor, oh, ho, ho, ho, ho......¡±

    Still forced down the urge to cover her ears and continued, ¡°Madame Welluci, I have to remind you that because we guaranteed public showings first, the memory boxes will not be able to follow up with the ?Sines Love and Hate?. So if you want to see the third episode as soon as possible, the best choice would be to watch it in the square, there is no other choice.¡±

    Madame Welluci¡¯s expression froze and she couldn¡¯t help saying in a loud voice, ¡°Based on what! I¡¯ve spent all that money and I have to watch itter than those lowly peasants? Chairman Still, don¡¯t you think that this is too unreasonable?¡±

    Hearing the phrase ¡°lowly peasants¡±, Still¡¯s expression immediately became cold. She wanted to curse her out, but she still endured it and patiently exined, ¡°I really am sorry, because of the technology, it¡¯s hard to satisfy your requests. But although we cannot let you watch these films as soon as possible now, wouldn¡¯t you be able to watch it in a more rxed environment?¡±

    Madame Welluci¡¯s expression changed several times before she gave a strong snort and said with a dark look, ¡°Alright, but no matter what, you should deliver the projector thing you were talking about to my manor as soon as possible. We¡¯ll do it like this.¡±

    After throwing these words behind, Madame Welluci turned to leave without even saying goodbye to Still.

    Seeing Madame Welluci walking off the wall, Still gave a sigh. A few gold coins really were hard to earn.

    She didn¡¯t experience this before, she just knew that it must have been hard for Xu Yi, but after bing the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and racking her brain to think of a way for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to develop, she realized just how hard it was for Xu Yi to build the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of nothing.

    However, this was the path that she chose. Xu Yi had urged her against this several times, but he couldn¡¯t change her mind, so she had to take all these difficulties.

    Still let out a sigh and turned to look at the square under the wall. Her eyes fell down onto a young couple where a two to three year old child was sitting on the father¡¯s neck and she quickly thought of what Akali had told her when she went to the magic research facility with Still that day.

    ¡°Danger?¡± Still shook her head.

    She had already known Xu Yi for over eight years and had been together for close to seven years. She knew what kind of person Xu Yi was and didn¡¯t worry about the problems that Akali had been worried about.

    But to be together like these two people, it was indeed a problem.

    Still slightly knitted her brows and watched the young couple and their childughing together in the square while falling into deep thought.

 Volume 6 23 - Akali was caught!

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 23 Akali was caught!</strong>

    How to obtain a bnce between work and home was something that even the sociologists on earth found hard to solve, so of course it was impossible for Still to easily find an answer.

    But for Evita and Akali who didn¡¯t even have their own small families, this wasn¡¯t a problem at all.

    Then again those two were focused on their research all day, so how could they have time to consider this?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already made a breakthrough in development in the Marlow Empire, so they attached great importance to the work that had to be done on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    As the magic research facility that was the core of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology, they had to provide support in this.

    For example, Xu Yi had indicated to Evita that they needed to set up a technical center on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory. With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce setting up several factories there, the factories would need technical support.

    Evita would be responsible for distributing the staff during this time and making adjustments, so she was incredibly busy.

    Akali¡¯s team that focused on resonance technology, in order to build the magic signal towers and set up the magicmunicationwork, were even busier than Evita.

    Last time Evita saw Akali was a month ago when she freed up some time with the help of her subordinates. At that time, Akali¡¯s skin was clearly much darker, having been tanned from working outside all the time.

    But Akali¡¯s spirit was quite good. Not only was she as spirited as usual, her eyes glowed even more. It was clear that she was invested in her work and was having plenty of fun.

    Evita and Akali had been friends for so long and this was her first time seeing something she was so invested in, so naturally she felt happy for her.

    She and Akali had been born in normal families of the Lampuri Kingdom, so even if people envied them because of their talents for magic, after they stepped on the path of bing magicians, they realized that just having talent was far from being enough. They still needed the more important money to support them.

    The two came from normal families, they didn¡¯t have the finances to support their expensive magic research. Being able to let them attend the Lampuri Royal Academy had already taken quite a bit of effort.

    The two of them thought that bing at most a Fifth Grade Magician would already be good enough, that way they could live normal lives as magicians.

    But they never thought that since meeting Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their lives would change this much.

    Now not only did the two of them have enough money, they were working jobs that they enjoyed.

    Especially Akali focusing on resonance technology. She even rejected Xu Yi¡¯s invitation to have her be the chief of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic research facility, which showed just how much she loved her work.

    Regarding her friend¡¯s choice, Evita of course supported it and she approved of the beautiful scene that Xu Yi had described with the magicmunication technology. She felt that Aakli choosing to focus on this project was the best decision in her life.

    So when the news that Akali had been captured suddenly came, Evita was stunned for five minutes before reacting. The first thing she did was find Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how is Akali right now?¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep breath and patted Evita¡¯s shoulder before saying, ¡°Rx, there should be no problem right now.¡±

    ¡°But why would she be captured?¡± Evita¡¯s anxious voice had a trace of wanting to cry, ¡°She¡¯s already a Seventh Grade Magician, how could she be caught that easily? The people who caught her must be powerful, right? Could it be that she¡¯s in danger?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a snort as he said with a face as calm as water, ¡°Just a small clown, what powerful?¡± After pausing, he took a deep breath before looking at Evita and slowing his voice to say, ¡°Evita, you don¡¯t need to worry, Akali won¡¯t be in danger. I will save her as soon as possible, you......¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m also going!¡± Evita suddenly cut Xu Yi off.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression froze as he knitted his brows to look at Evita. But with how she looked at him with an extremely determined look, there wasn¡¯t any chance of her backing down.

    Xu Yi had known Evita all these years and knew that although she looked very gentle, she was a girl who was actually firm on the inside.

    After all these years, this was his first time seeing her look this determined, so naturally he knew she already made up her mind.

    After hesitating, Xu Yi gave a slight nod, ¡°Alright, you¡¯ll personally lead the team. Bring out all the Magic Airships, we¡¯ll set off immediately.¡±

    An hourter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader Hart personally picked out two hundred human guards, one hundred elf guards, one hundred dwarf guards, and one hundred beastmen guards, for a total of five hundred guards who set off on the Magic Airship.

    The total of ten Magic Airships flying off together created a cloud in the sky and moving across the ground, it created arge shadow below.

    This was the first time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent out all these Magic Airships since they had developed them, so they immediately attracted the attention of many people.

    However, these Magic Airships flew very quickly and after pausing in the sky, they headed off towards the south, disappearing into the horizon.

    ¡°Sir chairman, can you tell me what happened? Why was Akali suddenly captured by someone? Why were the ones who captured her?¡±

    Evita had heard that Akali had been captured, but she didn¡¯t know the details. She took advantage of the journey in the airship to ask Xu Yi about this.

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°This was my mistake......¡±

    Akali¡¯s whereabouts were very clear, she should be in the hands of Count Dole in the Stantine Duchy¡¯s south.

    As for the reason, it was because she was trying to promote the magicmunicationwork in the duchy.

    Before this, Drago Ompes had told Xu Yi that there were nobles who were secretly interfering with the magic signal towards the south of the duchy, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this.

    After all, the nobles of the Stantine Duchy had already been suppressed by him and they were all tigers without any fangs, so they wouldn¡¯t really dare to oppose the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Last time he had Drago Ompes lead the troops down south to threaten those nobles and the magicmunicationwork¡¯s progress became very smooth, as all their work went without hindrances.

    This time, Akali went there because the magic signal towers in each region had been finished. She had led her small team down there to activate the magicmunicationwork.

    But he never thought that this incident would suddenly happen.

    The magicmunicationwork was about to be activated and the work was almost down, when Count Dole who was the most powerful noble in the area suddenly made his move. He led his guards to surround the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s work site and took all the technical staff, which included Akali.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, Evita let out a sigh of relief and calmed down.

    Since they took the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce construction team, Akali wouldn¡¯t be as in much danger for now.

    Because Count Dole knew that to solve this matter, he had to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Before the negotiation results came out, Count Dole clearly wouldn¡¯t do anything unnecessary.

    ¡°I think that Akali isn¡¯t willing to leave behind her subordinates and escape alone, so she was caught by them? Otherwise with her current magic power, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to escape the guards of a small noble.¡± Evita said.

    However, Xu Yi knitted his brows and shook his head.

    ¡°No ording to the information, Akali and everyone were all caught without any resistance.¡±

    Evita was surprised, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? How could anyone in Count Dole¡¯s guards easily catch Akali? He is just a normal small noble.¡±

    Although this Count Dole was a count in name, he was after all only a count in a small Stantine Duchy. Not to mentionpared to the Candra or Marlow Empires, it was even worse than the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom.

    This truly small noble being able to have some guards was already good. They wanted to take down Akali who was a powerful Seventh Grade Magician and make her not resist, that was basically impossible.

    ¡°I also don¡¯t know, there was too little information, so I can only go take a look.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh. He saw that Evita was knitting her brows, so he gave a grateful smile andforted her, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Count Dole doesn¡¯t have the courage to harm Akali and the others. I think that he wants to use them to threaten me and negotiate.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know.¡± Evita gave a nod, but her brows knitted even tighter, ¡°But sir chairman, I still can¡¯t understand. Could it be that Count Dole doesn¡¯t know that by doing this, he willpletely offend our Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Hasn¡¯t he considered the consequences?¡±

    ¡°I believe he¡¯s not that stupid.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°But he did such a stupid thing, so the only exnation is that there should be something supporting him which gives him this confidence. As for where he got this confidence......¡±

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort and looked to the south as he slightly narrowed his eyes.

    ¡°No matter who gave you this confidence, I will definitely make you regret it this time.¡±

 Volume 6 24 - Duchess Windsor

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 24 Duchess Windsor</h4>

    Two and a half hourster, the ten Magic Airships quickly traveled the three hundred kilometers to Count Dole¡¯s manor.

    Akali was still in Count Dole¡¯s hands, so Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t act carelessly. He ordered the ten Magic Airships tond on the t ground in front of the manor.

    When he came out of the cabin, he looked through the open gates of the manor to see the soldiers in bright armour crowding around three luxurious horse carriages as they came out.

    Xu Yi curled his lips, thinking that his guess was right.

    This Count Dole had found a helper, that was what gave him the confidence to move against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers.

    The nobles of the Stantine Duchy all had several Magic Sedans to rece their horse carriages, the horse carriage that Count Dole rode before was already cast aside by him. Now that these luxurious horse carriages came out, it was clear that they came from another country.

    Xu Yi and Evita brought ten guards with them from the Magic Airship and headed over to those horse carriages.

    Those horse carriages took the smooth cement road outside the cabin and stopped fifty meters away from the Magic Airships.

    The first horse carriage opened and Count Dole slowly came out.

    After seeing Xu Yi, Count Dole had a strange and proud smile on his lips. He reached his hand out to the side and bent slightly, like he was prepared to support someone out.

    Seeing this action, Xu Yi was more certain of his own guess.

    Count Dole was famous for being arrogant among the nobles in the south of the duchy, but now he was acting this respectful. It was clear that the person inside the horse carriage was someone far beyond him.

    What Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect was that there was a delicate and smooth hand that came out of the horse carriage.

    As this hand appeared, there was a woman who was dressed up even though it was summer in luxurious clothes that followed.

    Based on their facial features, this woman looked to be at most thirty years old.

    But based on the wrinkles that were in the corner of her eyes and other small details, one could see that her actual age wasn¡¯t just thirty.

    It was clear that she came from somerge noble family and she had taken care of herself when she was young, so her face looked youthful.

    Compared to her face, what showed her status more was her aura.

    When she came out, she maintained a natural aloof stance.

    This stance wasn¡¯t like the arrogance that the newly rich let out, rather it was someone who was naturally born with it.

    This kind of aura, it definitely was not something that normal citizens would have.

    Seeing this woman, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    He never thought that the back Count Dole invited would be such a nobledy.

    Based on the etiquette of the Sines Continent, Xu Yi gave that madam a bow before turning to Count Dole and saying in a deep voice, ¡°Count Dole, I ask you to immediately release the workers of ourpany. If they haven¡¯t been hurt at all, I can treat it as if this matter never happened.¡±

    Count Dole looked at Xu and acted surprised as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you lost the people of yourpany, why did youe looking for me? I don¡¯t know where they went. Perhaps they were bored of working and went to y at the sea?¡±

    ¡°You......¡±

    Evita had just made this angry sound when Xu Yi raised his hand to stop her.

    ¡°Count Dole, we all know what happened, so please don¡¯t waste time. I¡¯ll give you an hour to release the workers of ourpany, otherwise you can only me yourself.¡± Xu Yi said in an indifferent tone.¡±

    Count Dole raised his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, I already said that I don¡¯t have them, are you nning on forcing this to me? Even if you are......¡±

    This time, it was the noble woman beside Count Dole who raised her hand to cut him off.

    ¡°Suruk, what are you afraid of?¡± The noble woman slightly knitted her brows as she looked at Count Dole with confusion, ¡°Aren¡¯t the people you caught this fellows subordinates? Since you caught them, what is there to hide? That is just embarrassing.¡±

    With the noble woman exposing this, Count Dole revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This.....Aunt, I was just teasing him.¡±

    The noble woman gave a cold snort, ¡°What fun is there in teasing this small person, I don¡¯t have the time to y with them. Tell him to scram right now and don¡¯t dare take a single step here, otherwise I will break his legs.¡±

    Xu Yi, Evita, and the guards led by Hart were surprised.

    Wasn¡¯t this noble woman being too arrogant?

    Did she know who Xu Yi was?

    However, Count Dole looked like he had received heaven¡¯s orders and turned to wave his hand at Xu Yi with a proud look, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, did you hear this? Aunt wants you to scram, so know your limits and scram.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled out of anger and looked over Count Dole who relied on his rtionship before looking over the noble woman to say in a deep voice, ¡°This madame, I don¡¯t like wasting time with words, so just tell me who you are and see if I dare to offend you or not. If I don¡¯t dare offend you after learning who you are, I will immediately leave without another word.¡±

    The noble woman looked at Xu Yi with a bit of praise in her expression and slowly nodded.

    ¡°Not bad, not bad, I thought that since you are a merchant, you would waste words, but I never thought that you were such an interesting person. Alright, Suruk, tell him who I am.¡±

    Count Dole immediately threw out his chest and loudly said, ¡°Xu Yi, listen well. This is my aunt, who is the wife of the illustrious Duke Windsor of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province! How about it? Do you think you can offend her?¡±

    Hearing this response, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    Since they wanted to expand into the Candra Empire market, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some detailed information on the Candra Empire.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gathered quite a bit of information on the important people of the Candra Empire, to see if they would have a chance to use it in the future.

    For the chairman Xu Yi, it was impossible that he knew everything about this, but he did know a few things since this was an important task.

    One of the important things he knew about in the Candra Empire included this Duke Windsor.

    This was the governor of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province. It could be said that he controlled all the military in the southern province, being one of the top people in the southern province.

    Even in such arge Candra Empire, Duke Windsor was someone that couldn¡¯t be neglected.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of the information, this meant that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to enter the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, they definitely couldn¡¯t avoid this person.

    Xu Yi never thought that he would run into his wife here.

    Based on how Count Dole addressed him, she should be Count Dole¡¯s paternal aunt.

    He didn¡¯t know how close she was to Count Dole and he also didn¡¯t know if she was just passing by or if Count Dole had invited her over.

    Xu Yi looked over the luxurious horse carriages and found that Count Dole shouldn¡¯t be lying about this because he couldn¡¯t afford to withstand the consequences.

    This meant that this really might be Duke Windsor¡¯s wife.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi calmed down and gave the noble woman another bow.

    ¡°So it was the Duchess, I¡¯ve been rude.¡±

    Duchess Windsor gave a nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think that you can afford to offend me now?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit and gave Duchess Windsor a bow before turning to leave.

    Count Dole¡¯s arrogantugh came from behind, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t turn as he headed to the Magic Airship.

    Evita, Hart, and the guards behind them looked at each other with gazes filled with disbelief.

    Sir chairman was actually scared by this Duchess Windsor and chose to give up?

    ¡°No! That is impossible! Sir chairman definitely isn¡¯t someone like this!¡± Evita shook this idea out of her head and followed behind Xu Yi, heading back to the Magic Airship.

    Hart was stunned for a bit before waving his hand to the guards and leaving.

    After a while, the Magic Airships closed its doors and flew up together, disappearing into the horizon.

    Count Dole looked up into the sky and knitted his brows as he lowered his voice to speak to Duchess Windsor beside him, ¡°Aunt, this Xu Yi actually ran off like this. What do we do now?¡±

    There was no longer the same arrogant and proud look that he had before.

    Duchess Windsor looked at the white clouds in the sky and after a moment of silence, she said, ¡°Suruk, this Xu Yi has surprised me. It seems like he¡¯s quite the cautious fellow, you have to be careful.¡±

    Count Dole revealed a grin, not caring at all.

    ¡°What is there to be afraid of? With aunt here, I don¡¯t believe that he would really dare to do anything. Based on what I think, he must have been scared off by aunt¡¯s identity. Hei, look how many people he brought, I thought that he would really make a move, but I never thought that he was such a coward.¡±

    Duchess Windsor thought about it before revealing a smile, ¡°It seems right, he¡¯s only a small merchant in a small country, how could he dare go against me. But the people that he brought didn¡¯t look bad, you have to bring them over if you have the chance.¡±

    Count Dole gave augh, ¡°Aunt, don¡¯t worry about it. If you want it, it¡¯s just a matter of a few words. I dare guarantee that other than that Xu Yi obediently sending them over, he will have no other choices.¡±

    Duchess Windsor nodded with a faint smile, as the bit of seriousness in her eyespletely faded away.

 Volume 6 25 - Negotiations

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 25 Negotiations</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, what do we do now?¡± In the Magic Airship, Evita kept staring at Xu Yi as she asked this in a nervous voice, ¡°If we let Akali stay in their hands, I.....I will be very worried.¡±

    ¡°What? You didn¡¯t think that I was afraid of Duchess Windsor and could only retreat, right?¡± Xu Yi asked in an intentionally surprised voice.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the situation is already like this, can you stop joking with me?¡± Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°You think I don¡¯t know what kind of person you are? You definitely wouldn¡¯t leave Akali alone.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop kidding. That¡¯s right, of course it¡¯s impossible to abandon Akali and the others. If this was known, how could I remain as the chairman? Un......I¡¯m not afraid of that Duchess Windsor, only based on how Count Dole acted just now, now that he has my people in his hands, he won¡¯t ept my threats. If he was pushed too far, it might be bad for Akali and the others.¡±

    ¡°Then what do we do?¡± Evita knitted her brows, ¡°This Count Dole won¡¯t back down, how will we save them?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry. Since Count Dole caught Akali and the others, of course he wants to negotiate with me. Otherwise, there would be no meaning in doing this. Before we finish discussing this, he will not do anything to Akali and the others, so we have enough time to consider how to deal with this.¡±

    Xu Yi felt silent and took out a paper before writing a few words on it. When he was done, he activated his magic and activated the Magic Array that he had just written on the piece of paper.

    With two Magic Arrays, unless it was a magician who knew how to open the array, the Magic Array on the paper would automatically destroy the paper if it was anyone else.

    Xu Yi gave the sealed paper to Evita.

    ¡°Take this and go see Arch Magus Cami, tell him about the situation here. At the same time, go and discuss with Kennard to make him prepare for what follows. You just need to tell him that this time, I need to give these fellows a serious warning and he doesn¡¯t need to care about anything else. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Evita put this paper in her pocket and gave a nod, ¡°Understood, but sir chairman, you¡¯re not going back?¡±

    ¡°I won¡¯t go back. That Count Dole isn¡¯t a patient fellow, so he won¡¯t give us much time, so I have to rush to prepare everything.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi revealed another smile. He patted Evita¡¯s shoulder and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Evita, you really don¡¯t need to worry. Although it was unexpected that Count Dole¡¯s backer came from the Candra Empire, this shield that seems invincible to him isn¡¯t considered anything to me. Do you believe me?¡±

    Evita bit her lip and gave a strong nod.

    ¡°Un! Sir chairman, I will always believe in you. It¡¯s the same with Akali!¡±

    ¡°Good, then just in case, you should bring three Magic Airships back. I¡¯ll be waiting for your good news.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Of course, when youe back, Akali might already be saved by me.¡±

    Evita nodded and quickly stood up.

    ¡°This can¡¯t be dyed, sir chairman, let¡¯s begin.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    After a while, the three Magic Airships carrying Evita and a hundred and fifty guards headed back to the main base. The seven remaining Magic Airships moved to the southwest,nding at a hill that was around thirty kilometers away from Count Dole¡¯s private manor.

    A night passed.

    The next morning, the sun fell down on the smooth road from the east. When Count Dole¡¯s manor was covered in an orange glow, Xu Yi headed towards the main gate.

    The guards that Count Dole had left at the gate look at Xu Yi in surprise, immediately recognizing him. They even quickly came forward to wee him.

    Seeing the two guards holding their weapons and not hesitating to point them at him, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He nodded at one of them, ¡°Go and tell Count Dole that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is here for a visit. If it is convenient, I hope that we can sit down and have a proper talk.

    The two guards look at each other. That guard hesitantly looked at Xu Yi before nodding and turning to head into the manor.

    Seeing him run into the manor, Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Count Dole opposing this magicmunicationwork, this guard could just contact him with the Magic Communicator. He wouldn¡¯t need to run in to report to his face.

    Xu Yi looked at the other guard and seeing how nervous he was, he revealed a smile to him. He turned to the gate and just stood there, not moving at all.

    He wasn¡¯t worried that Count Dole would refuse to meet him because like he had analyzed with Evita yesterday, Count Dole was not a lunatic or a maniac. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he had his goals, he would suddenly offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by capturing Akali.

    He was very clear what the consequences of doing this was. Even with the powerful support of the Candra Empire, there were no benefits offending the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As expected, around ten minutester, the guard from before slowly came out in a broken horse carriage.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the Lord Count is letting you in.¡± The guard gave Count Dole¡¯s orders while curiously looking over Xu Yi.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was a legendary person in the minds of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s people and now that he was fortunate enough to meet him, he would take another look.

    Xu Yi looked at the broken wheels of the horse carriage, it seemed like it would break at any moment. Not to mention any decorations, there wasn¡¯t even a roof on it and the horse pulling the horse carriage was only an old horse. He couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    This Count Dole, he had specially brought this carriage out for him to make it hard for him.

    But since this fellow was this petty, Xu Yi was worried that the negotiations between them would turn out unexpectedly.

    ¡°Go.¡±

    Xu Yi confidently sat in the horse carriage, but he didn¡¯t enter the cabin. He went to the driver¡¯s seat and sat beside the guard that was responsible for driving it, looking very casual like he was just a normal citizen.

    That guard nervously looked at Xu Yi. Thinking of Count Dole¡¯s orders, he raised his whip and drove the horse carriage towards the manor.

    After bumping for around ten minutes, Xu Yi finally saw a patch of cement road in front of him.

    Turning to look at the manor gates that were disappearing, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    Even the nobles of the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t have any private territory anymore after thew that Xu Yi had passed.

    When these nobles handed over their territory, they had yed a few tricks.

    Take Count Dole¡¯s manor for instance.

    When Xu Yi took away the private territory through the congress, he allowed the nobles to keep their private manors because this was just ordinary private property that wasn¡¯t limited by thesews.

    Finally Count Dole had expanded his manor by at least ten times, which was why the area around his manor was so broad.

    There were many nobles who did the same thing as Count Dole, but because these were still much smaller than their private territories, Xu Yi didn¡¯t go too far and tacitly epted theserge manors. It could be considered a smallpromise between him and these lords.

    While thinking about these problems, the horse carriage had already arrived in front of a building.

    Xu Yi jumped off the driver¡¯s seat and rubbed his butt that was sore from sitting on the horse carriage. He didn¡¯t greet anyone and walked right towards the main hall.

    Other than a few guards that wanted to reach their hands out to stop him, they didn¡¯t actually stop him when Xu Yi was in front of them. So Xu Yi was able to smoothly walk through the manor.

    When he came to the hall, he saw Count Dole leaning back on a couch, smiling like a fool. It was unknown what he was thinking about.

    Suddenly seeing Xu Yie in, Count Dole was surprised. He couldn¡¯t help jumping up and pointing at Xu Yi as he shouted, ¡°Why did youe in?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Didn¡¯t you already contact me?¡±

    Count Dole was surprised before reacting. He realized that his reaction was embarrassing and he red at the two guards who came in with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Why did you open the door? You just let hime in like this? Do you still even want to stay here?¡±

    The two guards lowered their heads, not daring to refute this.

    ¡°Alright, get out now......¡± After Count Dole vented his anger on them, he waved his hand and wanted them to scram. After hesitating a bit, he actually took back these words and sat back down with a cold snort.

    Xu Yi saw him look over and he said with a faint smile, ¡°Count Dole, may I ask where the duchess is?¡±

    Could Dole looked at Xu Yi and said in a voice filled with disdain, ¡°What do you think you are? You can see aunt whenever you want?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and didn¡¯t continue this. He gave a nod before continuing, ¡°then Count Dole, can you take responsibility here?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! I am the master here, who can take control if not me?¡± Count Dole angrily said.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a taunting smile, ¡°Alright, Count Dole, then let¡¯s not waste any time and discuss matters. After a day of consideration, I feel that I still can¡¯t give up on the subordinates of mypany, so I paid a visit and I hope that I can discuss this with you. Tell me, what do I need to do for you to be willing to let them go?¡±

    Count Dole looked like he already expected this and said with augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, ah, chairman Xu, if you were this smart yesterday, your subordinates would have been spared a day of suffering. If they knew that their chairman had run away then, what do you think they would think?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care as he calmly said, ¡°They can think what they want, I just want to know, how will you be willing to let them go?¡±

    Count Dole gave a cold snort and leaned back on the couch, looking at Xu Yi with a proud look.

    ¡°How will I be willing to let them go? It¡¯s very simple, as long as you agree to my conditions, I can let them go right away.¡±

    ¡°Alright, tell me your conditions.¡±

    ¡°Listen well. First, give me back my territory. Second......¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡±

    Xu Yi coldly cut Count Dole off.

 Volume 6 26 - Negotiation breakdown

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 26 Negotiation breakdown</h4>

    Count Dole¡¯s mouth was open as he was nning to speak the conditions he had already thought of, but he never thought that his words would be stopped like this by Xu Yi. He couldn¡¯t help giving a cough as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what are you saying?¡± Count Dole¡¯s eyes were opened wide as he had a look of disbelief, ¡°You said it¡¯s impossible? I¡¯ve only given the first condition and you said it¡¯s impossible? Are you here to negotiate or not?¡±

    ¡°I am just talking about your first condition.¡± Xu Yi calmly replied, ¡°The territory of nobles has already been eliminated, there¡¯s no chance of restoring it. I definitely cannot agree to this.¡±

    Count Dole angrily said, ¡°Do you even want to negotiate?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Please tell me your other conditions, we should have room to discuss.¡±

    Count Dole angrily waved his hands, ¡°The first condition is the most important and most foundational condition! If you don¡¯t agree, there is no possibility of discussion!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi stood up with a smile and gave Count Dole a bow, ¡°Then let¡¯s stop here today. When Count Dole has thought this through, we can continue our negotiations.¡±

    Count Dole saw Xu Yi turn to leave without any hesitation right after giving a bow and was stunned.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re really leaving like this? You¡¯re not nning on saving your subordinates?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at Count Dole, ¡°Of course I want to save my subordinates, but I definitely won¡¯t agree to your condition. Count Dole, when you¡¯ve calmed down and thought this through, we can discuss again.¡±

    After throwing these words down, Xu Yi didn¡¯t even turn back as he left.

    Count Dole unconsciously raised his arms and wanted to pull Xu Yi back, but he endured it in the end.

    When Xu Yi left the hall, Duchess Windsor came out from a small door from behind.

    Count Dole immediately rushed over like he had seen his savior and said with a begging look on his face, ¡°Aunt, how can this Xu Yi act like this? Is he really not nning on saving his subordinates?¡±

    Duchess Windsor slightly knitted her brows as she looked in the direction Xu Yi left in. After a bit of silence, she said with a smile, ¡°This chairman Xu really is an interesting person. But I am very curious, where does he get the confidence to negotiate with you? Is it because of his small Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°This......¡± Count Dole¡¯s expression changed several times before he couldn¡¯t help saying in a hesitant voice, ¡°Hispany¡¯s guards.....really are strong......¡±

    Duchess Windsor looked at Count Dole before giving a cold snort, ¡°That is only in front of your weak subordinates, can hepete with the elites that I¡¯ve brought with me? Then again, even if he had the guts, I don¡¯t believe he would really make a move against me.¡±

    Count Doleughed along as he said, ¡°Of course, aunt, you are an important person from the Candra Empire. This Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been looking for a chance to enter the Candra Empire over the past two years and now that you¡¯ve arrived, he can¡¯t wait to tter you, so how could he make a move against you?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good you know.¡± Duchess Windsor was silent for a bit before continuing, ¡°Let¡¯s do it like this, no matter what that fellow says, you just insist on your conditions. If he doesn¡¯t agree, we won¡¯t let the people go.¡±

    ¡°Then what if he really doesn¡¯t agree? We can¡¯t just kill his subordinates, right......¡±

    ¡°Idiot!¡± Duchess Windsor angrily reprimanded, ¡°His subordinates are in our hands, if he as the chairman can¡¯t save them and this news was spread, it would affect his reputation as the chairman. Don¡¯t you have a thing called the newspaper here? Look for several newspapers to report on this matter, I don¡¯t believe that he would dare to stall this matter.¡±

    Count Dole¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Brilliant! Aunt, your idea is brilliant! I have some people in the southern newspapers of our duchy, I will have them report on this matter.¡±

    After saying this, Count Dole hesitated again, ¡°But this matter isn¡¯t good for us either. If we really do report this......there will be more people insulting us......¡±

    ¡°Idiot!¡± Duchess Windsor couldn¡¯t help angrily saying again, ¡°You don¡¯t even know how to turn ck into white, how did you remain as a noble for this long?¡±

    Count Dole shrank his neck back and revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Alright, I know what to do. Aunt, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°Humph! Instead of worrying about you, I¡¯m more worried about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce subordinates that you caught. I keep feeling that this Xu Yi definitely won¡¯t give up on his subordinates, so you have to be careful that he won¡¯t use some other method to save them.¡± Duchess Windsor reminded.

    ¡°Un, I understand. But aunt, I think there¡¯s no need to worry. There¡¯s the elites and Great Magician Randy that you brought with you. Not to mention Xu Yi being able to save his subordinates, he wouldn¡¯t even dare make a move.¡± Count Dole said whileughing.

    ¡°Humph! I hope he doesn¡¯t dare.¡±

    ###

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t go far after walking out the gate of Count Dole¡¯s manor. In front of the two guards, he used his magic to teleport.

    In the blink of an eye, Xu Yi appeared in a small forest.

    There were fifty Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards on alert in this forest and suddenly seeing someone appear, they all raised their weapons to point at Xu Yi.

    ¡°It¡¯s me, what¡¯s the situation?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before asking this.

    Seeing that it was Xu Yi, the guards let out a sigh of relief.

    Hart, who personally led this group in an ambush, pointed to some wooden fencing not far away and replied, ¡°We¡¯ve already received the information from researcher Akali, but it¡¯s notplete.¡±

    ¡°There must be a high level magician guarding her, so it¡¯s impossible to send a long range magic signal.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He came to the three young men wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researcher robes, ¡°What does the information from Akali¡¯s side say?¡±

    The three researchers were brought along by Xu Yi when he left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base yesterday. They were a part of Akali¡¯s group, but because they were engaged in other work, they were lucky enough to avoid being caught by Count Dole.

    Bringing them along was all because they were monitoring the small instrument that was only as tall as their knees.

    This instrument kept letting off a light blue glow that sparkled from time to time. Being put in this small forest, it looked a bit strange.

    This instrument was themunication receiver that Akali¡¯s team had made with the resonance technology. It used a special magic wave frequency that seemed disorderly to give information that others couldn¡¯t understand.

    But if this news fell into the hands of Akali¡¯s team, through the special analysis method that they developed, they could decode the information.

    This thing was developed by Akali in ces where they couldn¡¯t use Magic Communicators, so there weren¡¯t many uses for this.

    But using it now, they could receive some information from Akali from inside Count Dole¡¯s manor, which was very useful.

    A researcher gave a sheet of news to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took it to take a look and found that the records were scattered, only having very short pieces of news.

    But through these messages, they obtained some useful information.

    ording to the messages from Akali, she and the other Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers were gathered together. They were being locked in a cave in Count Dole¡¯s manor and although their situation wasn¡¯t good, it also wasn¡¯t bad. At least there wasn¡¯t anyone who was injured.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi was more rxed.

    His only worry was that Count Dole wouldn¡¯t find these people important and would make them suffer first.

    But now it seemed like Count Dole was like Xu Yi had guessed, he would restrain himself towards these people before they had finished their negotiations.

    After seeing this, Xu Yi turned to ask Dole, ¡°Do you have information on theyout of the manor?¡±

    Hart gave augh and took out a map from his chest to spread in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Our Magic Airship has gone around this manor several times in the air, but they didn¡¯t react at all. They really are too negligent.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes. The people of this world aren¡¯t used to Magic Airships, who would guard against enemies in the air?

    Looking down at the map, he found that it was very detailed. It marked every part of Count Dole¡¯s manor, not even letting off a single rock or a single tree.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look. ording to the information from researcher Akali, we have deduced that she and the others should be here.¡± Hart pointed at a spot to the north of the manor.

    Based on the map, there was a small fake hill and a small forest there, it didn¡¯t seem like a ce to hold people.

    ¡°There should be a very big cave underground here. When we investigated from above, we found some people entering the false mountain here and they only came out after a long time.¡± Hart added.

    ¡°Then there should be an entrance here.¡± Xu Yi nodded before asking, ¡°then what about the defenses around there? Did you investigate it?

    Hart shook his head, ¡°Perhaps most of them are underground, it didn¡¯t seem strictly guarded from above. We could only see around fifty guards walking around.¡±

    ¡°Alright, since we have a general understanding of the situation, then let¡¯s immediately make a move.¡± Xu Yi pped the map and looked over the guards around him, speaking in a heavy voice.

 Volume 6 27 - Sudden attack

    Volume 6 Chapter 27 Sudden attack

    Magat Randy looked up at the burning sun above him and he raised his hand to create a soft wind. It moved the seat under his butt under the shade of a nearby tree, covering him in shade again.

    ¡°This damn weather.¡±

    Magat Randy cursed in a low voice before looking at the ten soldiers who werepletely covered in armour standing under the burning sun not far away. These soldiers made him feel much better.

    Compared to these pitiful soldiers, he as a Great Magician was treated several times better no matter where he went.

    Of course, if it wasn¡¯t for the duchess¡¯ orders, he wouldn¡¯t be guarding this ce during the hottest part of the day.

    He was an honoured Great Magician, as long as he wasn¡¯t willing, the Lord Duke wasn¡¯t able to make him do anything.

    But since the Lord Duke had given him many benefits, he was very happy to work for the Lord Duke and his wife.

    Then again, no matter how strong magicians were, they were still humans in the end.

    He needed arge amount of gold for his magic research and with just Great Magician Randy alone, it was very hard for him to earn this much.

    Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort and looking at the ground.

    Of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers they caught, there were some magicians and they were quite strong.

    The talent of that young female magician was even more shocking. She was only around twenty and was already a Seventh Grade Magician, this was even considered outstanding for Great Magician Randy.

    But such a talented magician didn¡¯t focus on studying magic and went to that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce. She was studying those even more damning magic machines!

    Magic machines? Isn¡¯t it just another term of magic tools?

    These things were only studied by magicians who couldn¡¯t increase their strength. In the eyes of a traditional magician like Great Magician Randy, they were just children¡¯s toys and didn¡¯t have any meaning to magicians.

    One could trick normal people with these things, but in front of a real magician, it was simply a joke.

    Great Magician Randy shook his head. He thought that if that female magician named Akali knew her limits, he could help her escape this wrong path.

    With her talent, as long as she could focus on studying magic with Great Magician Randy for several years, she would definitely obtain great gains.

    Perhaps in ten years, she might have a chance to breakthrough to be a Great Magician.

    Moreover.....The more important thing was that this female magician was quite beautiful and had a nice figure......

    When Great Magician Randy thought of the white skin that was revealed through the torn clothes when they caught Akali, he couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva and feeling his body be even hotter.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the duchess stating that these hostages were useful, Great Magician Randy wouldn¡¯t have been able to hold back already.

    With his rich experience, he could naturally tell that this talented and beautiful female magician was actually a virgin!

    Several strong footsteps nearby broke through Great Magician Randy¡¯s daydreaming.

    Great Magician Randy looked over with an annoyed gaze and found three of Count Dole¡¯s subordinates moving a rectangr metal box that was as tall as a person over towards him.

    ¡°What is this thing?¡± Great Magician Randy knitted his brows. He waved his hand and a wind filled the air, lifting up the rectangr metal box and putting it beside him.

    ¡°Many thanks for your excellency Great Magician¡¯s help.¡± The three subordinates immediately thanked Great Magician Randy before quickly moving around therge rectangr box.

    ¡°Hey, what is this thing?¡± Great Magician Randy couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°What did you bring it over for?¡±

    ¡°Reporting to the Great Magician, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Standing Magic Air Conditioner which was released this year. The Lord Count wanted us to bring it over to let you feel a bit cooler.¡±

    ¡°Standing Magic Air Conditioner? What is this thing?¡± Great Magician Randy knitted his brows. This Count Dole always gritted his teeth when he mentioned Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he never thought that he would continue using their stuff.

    ¡°You¡¯ll know in a bit.¡±

    That subordinate replied before working with the other two. The Standing Magic Air Conditioner was ced two meters away from Great Magician Randy and was aimed right at him.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, please take a look to see if this is suitable.¡± A subordinate pressed on the Magic Air Conditioner.

    Great Magician Randy immediately felt a magic waveing from the Magic Air Conditioner before feeling a cool, refreshing breeze blowing over him, immediately blowing away the heat on his body.

    ¡°A Wind Magic Array? No, it isn¡¯t just a Wind Magic Array. It should also be.....an Ice Magic Array?¡± Great Magician Randy knitted his brows as he felt the magic waves that came from the Magic Air Conditioner before curling his lips in disdain, ¡°Humph, just a small trick.¡±

    Even if he felt disdain for the Magic Array inside this Magic Air Conditioner, Great Magician Randy had to admit that with this thing, it was much morefortable and he could enjoy the cool breeze.

    Although with his ability as a Great Magician, he couldy out a Frost Array with the same effect, it would take a lot of magic material toy down this array and it would be very troublesome. It was naturally impossible for him toy down an array just because of a little heat.

    Now that he had this whatever Standing Magic Air Conditioner, it saved him quite a bit of effort.

    ¡°This small toy does have its benefits......¡± With the Magic Air Conditioner, Great Magician Randy couldy back in his chair and Akali¡¯s figure appeared in his mind again.

    But at this time, there were some weak magic fluctuations that came from underground.

    ¡°Humph! Still not giving up.¡± Great Magician Randy gave a cold snort.

    These weak magic fluctuations kepting out over the past two days. There was no need to guess, it was sent out by that young female magician named Akali.

    Great Magician Randy really didn¡¯t know why she was doing this since other than magicians, normal people couldn¡¯t sense these magic fluctuations.

    Moreover, the ones that she sent out were weak. Even Great Magician Randy could only barely feel it, so it was clear that it was hard to send it even further.

    Great Magician Randy had been vignt over her sending out these magic fluctuations at first, but thinking about it, he just let her do it since it didn¡¯t affect him at all.

    He even sensed the magic fluctuations sent out by Akali, trying to guess what kind of level Akali¡¯s magic was at.

    ¡°Un.....The control isn¡¯t stable, it keeps going on and off, so it seems like her foundation is a bitcking. I don¡¯t know who taught her this.¡± Great Magician Randy said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°When I get her in hand, I will properly train her. Otherwise it will be a waste of her talent.....¡±

    When he was thinking about how to train Akali, Great Magician Randy suddenly felt a sense of danger approaching. He immediately knitted his brows and flew up.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The chair he had been in was turned into ashes and even the Magic Air Conditioner was blown to the ground, rolling several times before stopping.

    Great Magician Randy looked down and angrily raised his head. He looked at the magician in the light blue robe floating in the air and asked in a cold voice, ¡°Who are you? Why did you suddenly attack me?¡±

    The magician wearing the light blue robe gave a strangeugh and said in a sharp voice, ¡°I thought that the Great Magician from the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t be any worse, but I never thought that your vignce would be this high. Not bad, not bad......¡±

    Great Magician Randy became even more angry.

    When the other side had attacked, he had been quite fierce, sending out an Eighth Grade me Bullet right away.

    If this had hit, even if he was a Great Magician, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have gotten off easy.

    ¡°If I¡¯m not mistaken, you should also be a Great Magician?¡± Great Magician Randy said in a deep voice, ¡°A Great Magician actually has to use a sneak attack, don¡¯t you feel embarrassed?¡±

    The blue robed magician curled his lips and gave augh, ¡°What is feeling embarrassed? Can you eat it? But you don¡¯t need to worry, I¡¯m just giving you a warning, I¡¯m not nning on going all out with you.¡±

    The blue robed magician waved farewell before flying towards the entrance of the dungeon hidden in the fake mountain that Great Magician Randy was guarding.

    ¡°As expected, you¡¯re from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡± Great Magician Randy took a deep breath and gathered his magic, nning to stop the blue robed magician.

    But when he was about to make a move, he felt a powerful sense of danger which shocked him, causing him to release his magic barrier in full force.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a powerful explosion that came from the air and shook Great Magician Randy¡¯s barrier, like it would disappear at any moment.

    Great Magician Randy was shocked.

    Although this sudden attack wasn¡¯t a Forbidden Spell, it was already as strong as a Ninth Grade Spell.

    If he wasn¡¯t a Great Magician and was only a normal High Grade Magician, he would have been in trouble.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce sending out a Great Magician already shocked Great Magician Randy, but now there was another fellow who wasn¡¯t weaker than a Great Magician. This was something that he simply didn¡¯t expect.

    Seeing that he couldn¡¯t stop the blue robed magician from entering the dungeon, Great Magician Randy gave a cold snort. He no longer cared and turned to prepare to deal with this other talented magician.

    However, when he looked into the air, he didn¡¯t see a human figure.

    In the air, from left to right, there were a row of ten iron monsters that hadpletely surrounded Great Magician Randy.

 Volume 6 28 - Magic Airship vs Great Magician

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 28 Magic Airship vs Great Magician</h4>

    ¡°Captain, do you think this fellow is an idiot? He actually blocked our attack, does he think that a Great Magician is invincible?¡±

    In one of the Magic Airships, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard looked at Great Magician Randy in the air with a look of disbelief.

    Hart who was in charge of this Magic Airship gave augh, ¡°It¡¯s clear that this fellow doesn¡¯t know the might of the fellow under our feet. Alright, everyone receive your orders, continue attacking. Don¡¯t let the other side¡¯s Great Magician make a move, we will buy time for our sir chairman and Great Magician Juna.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    There were voices of agreement that came from arge version of the Magic Communicator in the Magic Airship¡¯s cabin.

    After a while, the same light blue lights appeared in front of the ten Magic Airships before turning dark blue. It became brighter and brighter, as it condensed ten balls of light.

    Great Magician Randy in the air slightly knitted his brows.

    He could feel powerful magic fluctuations from these ten balls of light. It was clear that these ten balls of light were the same kind of magic attack.

    But he didn¡¯t care at all. Compared to these ten Magic Airships in front of him, what he should care about more was the Great Magician that had snuck into the dungeon.

    ¡°I¡¯ll just quickly take care of these flies. If that fellow is able to save the people, I won¡¯t be able to exin to the duchess.¡±

    Great Magician Randy made his decision when the ten balls of light flew out from the Magic Airships.

    These ten balls of light were incredibly fast. As soon as they left the Magic Airship, they were already in front of Great Magician Randy.

    It was a good thing that Great Magician Randy had just released his barrier, so he didn¡¯t panic at all. He coldly looked at the ten Magic Airships and raised his right hand, preparing to attack them.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong......¡±

    However, when the first ball of light hit the barrier, Great Magician Randy immediately noticed that something was wrong.

    The might of this ball of light was actually the same as the attack from before, it was equal to a spell from a peak Ninth Grade Magician.

    There was only one before, but now there were ten of them!

    With a series of explosions, although Great Magician Randy didn¡¯t receive any damage from being behind his barrier, his face was a bit pale.

    Even if he was a Great Magician, to block ten attacks from Ninth Grade Magicians with his magic barrier was not an easy thing to do.

    In order to block these ten attacks, the magic that he had consumed definitely wasn¡¯t negligible.

    After the light of those magic attacks disappeared, when Great Magician Randy looked at those ten Magic Airships again, the disdain in his eyes was gone.

    Although he still didn¡¯t know what these ten flying iron monsters were, based on their use, they were like the legendary Magic Battleships of the elven race. They could fly in the air and attack with magic.

    Of course, it was impossible for them to be the same since the legends from the race wars stated that even a human Arch Magus wouldn¡¯t be able to block an elven Magic Battleship.

    But even if they only had a tenth of the elven Magic Battleships¡¯ might, ten ships added together couldn¡¯t be underestimated.

    Great Magician Randy took a deep breath and began to take this seriously. He activated the magic in his body and disappeared from that spot.

    This was the advantage of Great Magicians over normal magicians, one could use Spatial Magic once they became a Great Magician.

    Being able to use Spatial Magic meant that they could move anywhere in space, which would without a doubt give him the greatest initiative on a battlefield.

    However, when Great Magician Randy disappeared, the ten Magic Airships started to separate from each other.

    ¡°Hei, this fellow is using teleportation, does he think we can¡¯t take care of him?¡± The guard beside Hart gave anotherugh filled with disdain, ¡°We¡¯ve fought with Great Magician Juna over a hundred times, how could we not know how to deal with him?¡±

    Hart beside him ignored this and looked at the red dot on the tform in front of him before suddenly shouting, ¡°Number 4, ascend immediately! The rest, all of you aim at a 3 o¡¯clock direction on my order! Three.....Two.....One! Everyone fire!¡±

    A Magic Airship suddenly started ascending as the other nine Magic Airships condensed the balls of light again. After a while, they shot them below the Magic Airship that had just ascended.

    There was nothing there before, but after the nine balls of light came over, Great Magician Randy appeared.

    Great Magician Randy appeared out of space and didn¡¯t see the Magic Airship that was there. There were nine balls of light that suddenly flew at him, causing him to feel shocked. He quickly used all his magic and released his magic barrier.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong......¡±

    With a scattering of light, Great Magician Randy who was inside the magic barrier had an even paler face and there was a sliver of blood that came out the side of his mouth.

    Because he was in a rush this time, he didn¡¯t prepare himself, so his magic barrier wasn¡¯t perfect.

    Although he wouldn¡¯t be seriously injured from the might of the nine balls of light, because his barrier couldn¡¯tpletely block the nine balls of light, his internal organs had been shocked by the explosion.

    However, what shocked and unsettled him the most was that he couldn¡¯t understand, how did the other side know where he would appear and attack beforehand?

    But reality didn¡¯t give him time to consider this. After he had blocked the nine balls of light, the number 4 ship in the air shot a ball of light down at him, falling right onto Great Magician Randy¡¯s head.

    Great Magician Randy¡¯s expression changed. He no longer used his magic barrier to block it as he disappeared, using Spatial Magic to avoid it.

    But it was no different from before. When Great Magician Randy appeared, the Magic Airship he expected to be there was already gone and there were nine different balls of light that shot at him.

    It was a good thing that he was prepared ahead of time and released his magic barrier the moment he appeared, so he wasn¡¯t hurt like before.

    However, after using Spatial Magic Twice and blocking these balls of light, he had already used half of his magic.

    Seeing the Magic Airships already scattering in the distance, Great Magician Randy¡¯s eyes were filled with doubt.

    Just what are these things? Forget the fact that they could attack with the might of a Ninth Grade Spell, why could they tell where he would appear each time?

    After two rounds of balls of light, Great Magician Randy hesitated. He no longer dared to resist it and dodged.

    Seeing Great Magician Randy¡¯s movements, Hart in the Magic Airship suddenly raised his brows.

    ¡°Yo, this fellow finally knows to dodge. Everyone listen, from now one, we¡¯ll use the second attack n.¡±

    Although Great Magician Randy could easily dodge the balls of light with his speed, his heart was filled with humiliation.

    He was a powerful Great Magician! Other than meeting another Great Magician at the same rank, when had he ever backed down!

    Now he was in such a bad situation because of these ten iron toys, this was simply shaming him!

    After ring at the ten Magic Airships, Great Magician Randy secretly made his decision. No matter what the reaction of the duchess, he would destroy these things!

    However, when Great Magician Randy raised his hand and wanted to gather his magic to use the Wind Magic that he excelled in, the ten Magic Airships in the distance suddenly released a bunch of balls of red light together.

    Great Magician Randy was instantly stunned.

    Although this ball of red light was much smaller than the other balls of light from before, with how dense it was, it blotted out the sky. When he looked over, he could tell that there were at least over a hundred of them.

    Moreover, these balls of light were much faster than the ones from before. They didn¡¯t give Great Magician Randy any time to react before they were already in front of him.

    Although Great Magician Randy already used the Wind Magic he excelled in to dodge, he still couldn¡¯t dodge all these balls of light that filled the sky. In the end, he had to use his magic barrier and block over ten balls of light.

    As he expected, these balls of light were smaller, so they were weaker than the ones from before, only being at the level of a Seventh Grade Spell.

    However, with so many of them, after taking over ten hits, it took up quite a bit of his magic.

    What made Great Magician Randy even more surprised was that after the ten Magic Airshipsunched this wave of attacks, they didn¡¯t stop at all as they send out another hundred balls of light, without giving him any chance to catch his breath.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong......¡±

    Countless explosions filled the air. Great Magician Randy had to keep his magic barrier up while he dodged the balls of light that filled the air. Not to mention fighting back, he didn¡¯t even have a chance to catch his breath.

    Sensing that his magic was constantly being drained, Great Magician Randy began to feel anxious.

    In this situation, he wasn¡¯t able to fight back at all and the only thing he could do was use Spatial Magic to fight back, but facts proved that he couldn¡¯t do that.

    This meant that he had no chance to fight back, so he could only take the attacks passively.

    After thinking this through, Great Magician Randy¡¯s heart was filled with shame, but he also knew that staying like this was useless.

    After dodging another round of balls of light and using his magic barrier to block balls of light that he couldn¡¯t dodge, Great Magician Randy took another deep breath before gathering his magic, disappearing from the spot.

    After a while, his figure had appeared in the air again, but he was already over a kilometer away from where he was before.

    This time he didn¡¯t use Spatial Magic to attack the ten Magic Airships, rather he used it to run away.

 Volume 6 29 - Relaxed rescue

    Volume 6 Chapter 29 Rxed rescue

    There were the sounds of explosions that came through the ground, leaving behind dull sounds that didn¡¯t seem that shocking.

    Great Magician Juna looked up at the thick stone above them and casually dug out his ears before turning to ask Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, shouldn¡¯t we go out soon? Based on the sound, Hart and the others should be fighting that fellow. If it affects this ce, I¡¯m not confident in protecting everyone.¡±

    ¡°Un, let¡¯s move faster.¡± Xu Yi nodded before turning to look at the soldiers lying in the cell. After thinking about it, he turned to his subordinates who had gathered with Akali and said, ¡°Hey, Akali, you leave with Juna first. I¡¯ll stay here to get these fellows out.¡±

    Juna was surprised, ¡°What are you taking these fellows out for?¡±

    ¡°If they stay here and an ident urs, they might all die here.¡±

    Juna curled his lips in disdain, ¡°Che, so what if they die? These fellows dared to lock up ourpany¡¯s people for so long. Not killing them all earlier was already considered showing them mercy, why do you care that much about them?¡±

    ¡°We¡¯re saving people today, not killing people.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Everything went smoothly today.

    First having Juna appear to attract the attention of Great Magician Randy outside and then Xu Yi used this chance to teleport into the dungeon.

    Hart appeared with ten Magic Airships to stall Great Magician Randy to let Juna also enter the dungeon.

    With two Great Magicians like Xu Yi and Juna making a move together, although there were many guards in the dungeon, they weren¡¯t able to react in time and were all taken out.

    The reason for doing this was to ensure the safety of Akali and the others.

    Otherwise, with the strength that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, even if Count Dole had the support of Duchess Windsor, he definitely wouldn¡¯t be able to stop them.

    Not to mention anything else, just the two Great Magicians Xu Yi and Juna were so strong that no one here could resist them.

    But this matter didn¡¯t just stop with saving Akali and the others.

    Compared to saving people, what Xu Yi cared about the most was the problem he needed to face after saving them.

    If there was no need, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to fully offend Duchess Windsor.

    Duke Windsor was after all a very influential person in the Candra Empire. If he was angered, that would be arge hindrance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n to enter the Candra Empire.

    So they could save people, but they couldn¡¯t kill people.

    Hearing the firm tone Xu Yi had, Juna could only curl his lips. He took a step out of the dungeon and observed the situation outside.

    Akali and the others were gathered together, standing in front of Xu Yi.

    Although they weren¡¯t hurt, after being locked underground for several days, they were a bit weary. Although Akali also looked a bit tired, there was an excited look in her eyes.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, what is the situation outside?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her in surprise, ¡°What do you care? Quickly gather everything and prepare to leave. Could it be that you¡¯ve be attached to this ce after being locked up for several days?¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible!¡± Akali immediately refuted, ¡°I was just curious, this is the first time ourpany¡¯s Magic Airships are facing a Great Magician, I really want to know which side is more powerful.¡±

    About today¡¯s rescue, Xu Yi had already contacted Akali through the magic fluctuations to have her prepare the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s employee ahead of time. So Akali was very clear on the rescue n for today, very clear that there were ten Magic Airships responsible for drawing out the Great Magician on guard.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you visit the exercises many times? Great Magician Juna was beaten up all those times by Hart and the others, what are you still curious about?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Each Great Magician is different. Although Hart and the others can beat Great Magician Juna, that doesn¡¯t mean they can win against the Great Magician outside. Speaking of this.....Sir chairman, I¡¯ve urged you many times to have you spar with thepany guards, but you never agreed. If they can even beat you up, I would have much more confidence in them.¡±

    Xu Yi snappily hit Akali¡¯s head, ¡°You want to see me being beaten up? Not to mention that I don¡¯t have the time, even if I did, they wouldn¡¯t dare go full force against me. This wouldn¡¯t be considered a good exercise.¡±

    Akali rubbed her head and tilted to think before nodding, ¡°Un, that is right. Then.....sir chairman, let¡¯s go quickly. If Hart and the others can¡¯t win, we have to go out and help them.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°It¡¯s a fight at a Great Magician Grade, how can you help? Great Magician Juna already went out, so you don¡¯t need to worry. Just gather everyone and lead them out. There¡¯s a Magic Airship waiting for you outside. After you get in the Magic Airship, you¡¯ll be safe.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Akali nodded before obediently turning to leave.

    When Akali and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers all left this dungeon, Xu Yi closed his eyes and activated his magic. There were magic fluctuations that came out of his body and spread to every part of this dungeon.

    In the range of his magic fluctuations, all living things couldn¡¯t evade his senses.

    This was the Life Detection Spell that he had learned from elder Lisanya, it yed a very key role in the rescue just now.

    Not long after, Xu Yi felt that there were no more human lives hidden in this dungeon, so he generated wind with a wave of his hand. The guards that were scattered on the ground were all picked up and followed Xu Yi out of the dungeon.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help slightly narrowing his eyes when he came out to the bright summer sun and only then did he see the situation.

    Akali and the others workers were already gone, it was clear that they had left on the Magic Airship prepared for them.

    Looking up at the sky, he saw the blue sky with white clouds. Not to mention that Magic Airships, even Great Magician Randy who had been fighting with Hart and the others were gone.

    Before he came out of the dungeon, Xu Yi had already heard the sounds stop, so now it seemed like the victor had been decided.

    Since Hart and the others didn¡¯t send any special message, it meant that they should have repelled the Great Magician. They had retreated with the Magic Airship that Akali and the others were in.

    Xu Yi looked around and found that other than the people on the ground, it waspletely quiet. He put the ones that he brought out of the dungeon with him under some shade before slowly walking towards the manor in the center.

    At this moment, in Count Dole¡¯s manor, there was already chaos.

    Count Dole anxiously walked back and forth, often turning to look at Duchess Windsor who sat there with a dark look on her face who didn¡¯t say a word.

    Great Magician Randy sitting on the side had a pale face that was looking down. Although he covered his mouth, the sounds of his coughing could be heard.

    Seeing the bright red blood that came from the gaps between his fingers, Count Dole couldn¡¯t hold back the fear in his heart. He quickly charged to Duchess Windsor¡¯s side.

    ¡°Aunt! What do we do now? That Xu Yi definitely won¡¯t let me off, you have to save me!¡±

    Duchess Windsor knitted her brows. She raised her hand and pped Count Dole, causing him to spin from the hit.

    ¡°What are you panicking for! I want to see if this Xu Yi has this much courage! I will sit here and I don¡¯t believe he will dare make a move against me!¡±

    Count Dole was stunned as he held his stinging cheek and quickly said in a low voice, ¡°But.....But he dared to bring those guards and he......¡±

    Count Dole turned to look at Great Magician Randy who suddenly gave a strong cough.

    Duchess Windsor¡¯s face sunk and her eyes were filled with anger, but there was also a bit of nervousness.

    Although up to now, she was certain that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t dare to do anything to her, the things that happened today had caught her off guard.

    She thought that since Xu Yi saw that she was supporting Count Dole, he definitely wouldn¡¯t dare make a move. Xu Yi¡¯s actions in the past two days have proved this.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly made a move today. Not only did they dare to make a move, they did it so fast that the elite guards didn¡¯t have a chance to fight back at all. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had easily saved their captured subordinates.

    What surprised Duchess Windsor even more was that Great Magician Randy wasn¡¯t able to stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had even been injured by them.

    Although Great Magician Randy didn¡¯t tell her the details of the battle and how he had been injured, based on how he had been forced to retreat, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t as weak as Duchess Windsor had thought.

    At least, they had power that had surpassed Great Magician Randy.

    Thinking of this, Duchess Windsor suddenly knitted her brows and looked at Count Dole, ¡°Suruk, what have you concealed from me?¡±

    Count Dole was stunned. Seeing Duchess Windsor¡¯s sharp gaze, he couldn¡¯t help turning his head.

    Seeing his appearance, Duchess Windsor was even more certain of her guess as she said in a low voice, ¡°Tell me! What didn¡¯t you tell me? Is there another Great Magician in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Ah?¡±

    Being questioned by Duchess Windsor, Count Dole knew that he couldn¡¯t hide it anymore and hesitantly said, ¡°Yes.....Yes.....The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has Great Magicians and not just one. Also......¡±

    ¡°Not just one!¡± Duchess Windsor flew into a rage and stood up to re at Count Dole, cutting him off, ¡°Why didn¡¯t you tell me earlier? Ah?¡±

    Count Dole fell down in front of Duchess Windsor and hugged her leg as he cried, ¡°Aunt, it was my fault, it was my mistake. I didn¡¯t hide it from you on purpose, I just felt that he wouldn¡¯t dare make a move against you. I deserve to die.....but.....but now......¡±

    ¡°You......¡± Duchess Windsor raised her hand again and wanted to p him, but then she knitted her brows when she saw Count Dole¡¯s crying face. She gave a sigh and endured it.

    When she was considering how to handle this, one of Count Dole¡¯s guards suddenly ran through the door.

    ¡°Lord Count, that.....that.....Xu.....Xu Yi is here!¡±

    Count Dole was stunned and forgot to keep crying, turning to look at Duchess Windsor.

    Duchess Windsor took a deep breath and took out a handkerchief from her pocket for Count Dole.

    ¡°Wipe your face, what do you look like now?¡±

    She sat back down after saying this and took a deep breath, recovering her calm from before. Then she nodded at the guard.

    ¡°Let hime in.¡±

 Volume 6 30 - How bold!

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 30 How bold!</h4>

    Xu Yi walked into the hall with soft footsteps.

    This was his second time here today.

    However,pared to when Xu Yi came into the hall on the first half of the day, he was much more rxed and he had a casual smile on his face.

    Duke Windsor was sitting in the middle while Count Dole was sitting on the side, not saying a word as they waited for him. Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he thought the results of the negotiations this time would be different from before.

    ¡°Greetings to the duchess.¡± Xu Yi gave Duchess Windsor a bow as per usual standard.

    This time Duchess Windsor didn¡¯t ignore him and after looking at him for a while, she gave a nod and stretched out a hand, ¡°Chairman Xu, please sit.¡±

    Although her tone was m, there was a bit of courtesy in her voice.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold back and sat down right in front of Count Dole.

    However, when he took a seat, Duchess Windsor¡¯s expression changed and she said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are bold!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change as he asked, ¡°Madame, what do you mean?¡±

    ¡°You dare to lead your subordinates to invade this ce and attack my subordinates, your courage has reached the heavens!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Madame, I don¡¯t understand what you mean. I did lead my subordinates to invade this ce and injure your subordinates, but how is that rted to how bold I am?¡±

    Count Dole lowered his head to avoid looking at Xu Yi, but when he heard these words, he couldn¡¯t help looking up at Xu Yi in surprise.

    Duchess Windsor was also surprised, ¡°Chairman Xu, you clearly know who I am and you still dare do this to me. Could it be that you don¡¯t consider this rash?¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°Madame, I still don¡¯t understand. I know your identity, but how is this rted to my courage?¡±

    Duchess Windsor angrily said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you immediately retreated yesterday when you learned my status, so I thought you were a smart person. Knowing to back down when you know you can¡¯t offend me, but I never thought that you were such a stupid fellow!¡±

    ¡°No, madame, you¡¯ve misunderstood. I didn¡¯t say that I didn¡¯t want to offend you yesterday. The reason I chose to leave was because you would have arranged defenses in this manor with your status, so I wasn¡¯t confident in safely rescuing my subordinates. It¡¯s not rted to your status or my guts.¡±

    Duchess Windsor revealed a smile of rage, ¡°That means that you¡¯re confessing that you want to offend me?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a word.

    Although he didn¡¯t say anything, this appearance made it clear what he was thinking.

    Duchess Windsor¡¯s expression sank as she looked at Xu Yi and her voice became even colder.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you really not afraid? Since you know my identity, you should know who stands behind me. If you treat me like this, you aren¡¯t afraid of my retaliation? Or perhaps, you¡¯re bold enough to kill me here?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°I really don¡¯t dare. Madame, I didn¡¯t kill a single person this time, so I think that proves my stance. To be honest, I¡¯m not willing to offend you or the Lord Duke behind you, there are no benefits for me or our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you know.¡± Hearing Xu Yi admit this, Duchess Windsor felt a bit better. She gave a soft snort before continuing, ¡°But chairman Xu, since you already did this, I think you should know what the consequences are. Let me tell you, this matter hasn¡¯t ended here, you should prepare yourself.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, thinking that this Duchess Windsor really couldn¡¯t understand the situation.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, this matter hasn¡¯t ended yet. Although my subordinates have been safely rescued, the chief culprit of this incident hasn¡¯t been caught or received his punishment yet.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Count Dole and Count Dole immediately backed down. But then he stood up straight and looked right at Xu Yi as he said with a cold smile, ¡°What? Chairman Xu, do you still dare move against me?¡±

    Duchess Windsor also gave a coldugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I thought that you were smart enough since you didn¡¯t kill any of my subordinates, which means that I would only punish you a bit. I never thought that you would continue causing trouble for Suruk, are you seeking your own death?¡±

    With the support of Duchess Windsor, Count Dole was even more fearless. He raised out his chest and raised his head as he pointed his chin down at Xu Yi, looking like e and get me if you can¡¯.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes moved from Duchess Windsor to Count Dole and with a smile, he raised his hand as his magic was activated.

    ¡°Ka, ka, ka.¡±

    With a few crisp sounds, Count Dole who was looking confident was suddenly covered in ayer of ice.

    In the blink of an eye, he waspletely encased in ice!

    It was summer right now and it was very hot, but there was arge block of ice in this hall. Inside it, there was a person who waspletely sealed in with a strange posture. With the cold that came from the ice, it was a very strange sight.

    Duchess Windsor was stunned to see this change and after being in a daze, she suddenly let out a sharp scream.

    After a while, more than ten guards came in with a middle aged man in a pure white magician¡¯s robe.

    Seeing them appear, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    It seems like Duchess Windsor really cares about her own safety, she still kept this many guards by her side.

    The middle aged man in the pure white magician¡¯s robe saw Count Dole frozen in ice and then he revealed a look of shock.

    ¡°This......This is the Ice Coffin Spell!¡±

    ¡°It seems like you¡¯re not bad.¡± Xu Yi looked at the symbol on his chest and nodded, ¡°So you¡¯re an Eighth Grade Magician, it¡¯s no wonder you can recognize this spell.¡±

    The white robed middle aged magician turned from Count Dole to Xu Yi with difficulty. After a while, he said in a difficult voice, ¡°To.....To use the Ice Coffin Spell, only.....only those that are a Great Magician can do that. You.....No, you......Could it be that you are a Great Magician?¡±

    [TL Note: He switches from the impolite Äã(you) to the polite Äú(you) here. Same word in English, different word in Chinese.]

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m a Great Magician. Since you can recognize this spell, you should know that you don¡¯t have the ability to release this Ice Coffin Spell or deal with me, so.....move aside.¡±

    ¡°Great Magician?¡± The white robed middle aged magician swallowed his saliva with difficulty as he stared at Xu Yi in disbelief.

    The young man in front of him was only in his thirties and he was actually a Great Magician? That was impossible!

    The youngest Great Magician in the record of the Magicians Guild was only forty three, how could this fellow have this kind of talent!

    Xu Yi was toozy to care about him as he stood up.

    When he stood up, the soldiers all lined up and quickly surrounded him.

    ¡°Don¡¯t let him escape!¡± Duchess Windsor shouted.

    The soldiers wanted to make a move, but they noticed that there was also ayer of thick ice at their feet that froze them to the ground, so they couldn¡¯t move at all.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t even spare them a nce as he went over to tap on the frozen Count Dole. There was a ck hole that appeared that suddenly swallowed the ice with Count Dole inside of it.

    The stunned white robed middle aged magician swallowed his saliva when he saw this.

    Duchess Windsor acted like she had just remembered him and shouted, ¡°Nonos, what are you doing? Why aren¡¯t you making a move!¡±

    The white robed middle aged magician called Nonos turned around and looked at Duchess Windsor with a tearful look.

    ¡°Madame.....He.....He is a Great Magician......¡±

    ¡°So what if he¡¯s a Great Magician? Are you afraid that he would really make a move! Go! With me here, he definitely won¡¯t dare!¡± Duchess Windsor angrily said.

    Nonos could only turn around and look at Xu Yi with the same tearful look, ¡°This.....Your excellency......please forgive me, I can only offend you.....¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°This is what you should do, you don¡¯t need to ask me to forgive you.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your excellency¡¯s understanding.¡± Nonos gave a grateful nod before taking a deep breath and raising his hands with a serious look.

    Feeling the powerful magic gathered in his hands, Xu Yi felt praise for him.

    From the scale of an Eighth Grade Magic, this Nonos¡¯ magic power and purity was considered quite good. It could be seen that he was an outstanding Eighth Grade Magician, he could be considered a good High Grade Magician.

    Nonos shook his hand and there was a giant azure ring that appeared in front of him.

    Seeing this ring, Xu Yi had a trace of surprise on his face.

    ¡°Hurricane Ring? Not bad, as an Eighth Grade Magician, you can actually use a Ninth Grade Spell, it seems like you aren¡¯t far from bing a Ninth Grade Magician.¡±

    There was a blush that appeared on Nonos¡¯ face. It wasn¡¯t because of Xu Yi¡¯s praise, but rather from gathering all his magic to use this spell.

    After two deep breaths, Nonos pushed his hand forward and the azure ring increased by several times. The highest part of it reached the roof and it almost covered the entire hall. There was a sh of azure light from the ring before countless wind des that could be seen with the naked eye flew out.

    Xu Yi stood there without moving, just creating a Water Magic Barrier in front of himself.

    The wind des fell onto the magic barrier, but it was like a y ox falling into the sea. It could only create a few ripples on the surface of the barrier and there were no other reactions.

    The wind des continued for three minute before no more wind des came from the azure ring. The azure ring shed two times before it disappeared.

    Xu Yi looked at Nonos who had a pale face without any blood in it and looked like he was about to copse, so he said with a smile, ¡°You¡¯ve reached your limit?¡±

    Nonos fell onto his butt and let out two deep breaths, ¡°It¡¯s......It¡¯s my limit......¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Xu Yi released his barrier with a smile, ¡°You can use the Ninth Grade Hurricane Ring which shows that you have a deep understanding of Wind Magic, there¡¯s a great chance that you¡¯ll be a Ninth Grade Magician soon. Moreover, using this spell shows that you have some understanding of space, so it will be very helpful for when you be a Great Magician. Keep working hard.¡±

    Although Xu Yi was more than ten years younger than Nonos, when Xu Yi talked to Nonos like a senior, he didn¡¯t reject it at all and gave a grateful nod.

    ¡°Many thanks for your excellency¡¯s guidance, I will firmly keep them in mind!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and no longer cared about him, turning to look at Duchess Windsor who had a very ugly look on her face.

    ¡°Madame, Count Dole has gone against thews of the duchy and will be ced on trial. As for you and your subordinates, I hope that you will leave as soon as possible. Because of the kingdom¡¯sws, this ce no longer belongs to Count Dole. You and your subordinates are not citizens of the Stantine Duchy, so you no longer have any rights to stay here.¡±

    Duchess Windsor¡¯s expression turned cold, ¡°What? You¡¯re bold enough to chase me away?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t reply. He turned to pat the shoulder of Nonos who was on the ground and said in a low voice, ¡°If you¡¯re interested, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wees you at any time.¡±

    Nonos looked up in surprise but he found that Xu Yi had already disappeared.

 Volume 6 31 - Changes with the FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 31 Changes with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you say that you didn¡¯t want to fully offend Duchess Windsor?¡±

    ¡°I did say that, but I didn¡¯tpletely offend her, right?¡±

    ¡°You clearly beat her subordinates and shamed her to her face, how is this not consideredpletely offending her?¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t kill her subordinates and as for shaming.....It¡¯s just a piece of meat, how is itpletely offending her?¡±

    ......

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, even if you barely didn¡¯t fully offend her, but aren¡¯t you afraid of offending Duke Windsor by doing this? Once Duchess Windsor goes back and tells Duke Windsor about what happened, aren¡¯t you worried that Duke Windsor will be angry?¡±

    ¡°If Duke Windsor is a smart person, what I did cannot be considered offending him, so he should be able to see the key problem with this matter. But if Duke Windsor is not smart......that is also fine, this means that he isn¡¯t qualified to cooperate with us and it doesn¡¯t matter if we offend him.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman......Although I don¡¯t understand what you are saying, it does sound quite fierce. But if you offend Duke Windsor, won¡¯t you offend the Candra Empire? You¡¯re not worried that this will affect ourpany¡¯s entry into the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Get it clear, Duke Windsor is Duke Windsor, the Candra Empire is the Candra Empire. Offending Duke Windsor and offending the Candra Empire are two different matters. ording to how I expect this matter to develop, if I really offended Duke Windsor, it might greatly help ourpany¡¯s entry into the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m even more confused by what you said.....I only know that what you are saying is clearly different from what you said before.¡±

    ¡°This.....The reason is very simple, it¡¯s because I changed my decision......¡±

    ¡°......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi and Akali kept talking until the Magic Airship finallynded at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    After getting out of the Magic Airship, Akali and the other captured Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers nned to get some rest first to make up for their experience over the past three days.

    When they left, Akali looked at Xu Yi with a gaze filled with doubt.

    Xu Yi had told Akali many different things on the Magic Airship, but Akali didn¡¯t understand most of it. However, without knowing why, she felt that it sounded very fierce, so she was filled with confidence in Xu Yi.

    Of course, the things that Xu Yi did were hard for many people to understand, but they all proved how powerful he was, so Akali¡¯s confidence wasn¡¯t blind.

    After arranging all the workers who had been rescued, Xu Yi had Hart choose several guards to send Count Dole to the Stantine Duchy congress to prepare him to stand trial.

    Although Xu Yi had already released the Ice Coffin Spell, Count Dole¡¯s body had gone soft from being frozen and he couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    As for what would happen to him, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care.

    This fellow had be useless, so it wasn¡¯t important what would happen to him in the future. The most important thing was what kind of impact this would bring.

    After sending off Count Dole, Xu Yi immediately called all the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and held a conference.

    A weekter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started recruiting guards again, having a quota of one thousand people.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards kept recruiting, there weren¡¯t many spots each time. It would generally be around a hundred people and at most it would be less than three hundred, so up to now, there were only five thousand total guards.

    This time, they were recruiting a thousand people which attracted the attention of many people.

    Countless adventurers who were already enticed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard treatment paid attention to this, looking forward to entering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give up their dangerous lives as adventurers. They wanted a safer, better, and more powerful life for themselves.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had strict conditions for their recruitment and not only did they have strict conditions for physical qualities, they also had strict conditions for mental qualities.

    The most important request was absolute loyalty to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was impossible for the adventurers with bad records to join.

    Just based on this, most of the candidates were screened out.

    The remaining people were all people who had been filtered out.

    Compared to those adventurers who cared about this recruitment for their personal gains, the surrounding countries cared about this more.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were much less than any of the armies of the surrounding countries, but in terms of battle strength, not a single country dared to say they could match them.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machine. There were many types that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give to the public, so it was impossible for them to buy.

    So in terms of battle strength, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards surpassed everyone¡¯s judgement and they couldn¡¯t be underestimated.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruiting a thousand guards, if they all had the same battle strength, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards would be stronger once again.

    For the surrounding countries, this was a hidden threat.

    Of course, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful influence on the surrounding countries, not a single one of them could leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So there was no chance of them sending troops at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any ambition in this aspect and they suddenly made this move, did that mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly changed their ideas?

    At the same time, Count Dole was put on trial at the Stantine Duchy congress. For kidnapping the subordinates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and colluding with the forces of another country, resisting the variousws of the Stantine Duchy congress, he would be imprisoned for life. He also lost his status as a noble and all his private property was taken back.

    After Count Dole was imprisoned, his matter spread across the Stantine Duchy. When he was judged, although many people in the duchy thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was being too overbearing, no one dared to raise any objections.

    The nobles that had worked with Count Dole to resist the policies of the Stantine Duchy congress, after receiving news of Count Dole¡¯s trial results, they all became obedient.

    The work on the magicmunicationwork became smooth all over the duchy and there were no more hindrances.

    In just half a month, the first issue of the magic signal towers for the magicmunicationwork was settled.

    Next they just had to set up the magic signal dock, which would allow the magic signal to cover the area.

    This meant that when the time came in Stantine Duchy, one could pick up the Magic Communicator and contact anyone else in the Stantine Duchy with the Magic Communicator.

    Although they were still far from being able tomunicate wirelessly like on earth with their current limit to the magicmunication technology, this was a big leap for this world that had limitedmunications.

    Other than these two public things, beneath the surface, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had chosen an empty spot near the border of the Stantine Duchy on the ck Rice Wastnd to build a military magic machine production base.

    Before this, because of Xu Yi¡¯s insistence, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had ten factories for military magic machines, so their production capacity was never high. Moreover, just by supplying the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Drake Duchy, they had very limited supplies.

    But now, ording to their initial n, they would be building another twenty military magic machine factories on this production base. At the same time, they would set up a research facility just for military magic machines, focused on developing various military magic machines.

    Not many people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce knew about this change, so not many people paid attention to this and it was covered up by the otherrge pieces of news.

    In terms of submerging news, there was a piece of news that even surpassed the news of the Stantine Duchy putting Count Dole on trial and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruiting guards.

    This piece of news was something that other countries care more about, it even attracted great attention in the giant Candra Empire.

    The honourable third prince of the Candra Empire, his highness Frank Deboir had announced that he was interested in holding a Magic Sedan race with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Rudson Kingdom. So he weed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to enter the Candra Empire to hold this race.

    Once this news was spread, it created a giant stir.

    Although his highness Frank Deboir was only the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince, the Candra Empire hadn¡¯t set a crown prince yet. His highness Frank had a high fame in the Candra Empire, so he was one of the candidates for the title of crown prince.

    Such an important person had great fame and influence in the Candra Empire, so he waspletely different from a small country in the southwest of the continent.

    But now he made this clear statement and even mentioned the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by name!

    Although he only stated that he was interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan races, to receive the recognition of such an important person, it was an opportunity from the heavens for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone was certain that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s path into the Candra Empire would be problem free!

 Volume 6 32 - Swallowing the FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 32 Swallowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    Gurat City was the capital of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, being around two thousand and three hundred kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    As the capital of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, Gurat City was naturally the center of the southern province.

    The southern province¡¯s governor manor was in the north of Gurat City. It was a building that took up eight thousand square meters ofnd.

    The governor¡¯s manor¡¯s front yard was where the Lord Duke Elman Windsor did his business. It was currently the morning and all the small andrge officials in this manor were bustling around. Only Duke Windsor was sitting in his office.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    There was arge thumping sound that came from this room, shocking the people who were close enough to the room to hear this sound.

    The people looked in the direction of the sound with a bit of surprise and a bit of worry on their faces.

    Who had angered the Lord Governor? Did they want to die?

    The Candra Empire¡¯s southern province governor Duke Elman Windsor let out a deep breath and looked at the official letter that he had pped on the desk. He looked up at his subordinate who had his head down and asked in a cold voice, ¡°When the Stantine Duchy wrote this official letter, did they say anything else?¡±

    The subordinate lowered his head even more.

    ¡°No, other than sending this official letter, the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t say anything else.¡±

    Duke Windsor gave a strong cold snort, ¡°Are they looking down on me? A small Stantine Duchy, how bold!¡±

    Hearing this angry roar, the subordinate lowered his head again and his waist was almost bent.

    After a while, Duke Windsor waved his hand.

    ¡°Leave.¡±

    The subordinate acted like he had been pardoned and quickly gave Duke Windsor a bow before leaving.

    When his subordinate left, Duke Windsor looked at the official response for a while before he couldn¡¯t help giving another cold snort.

    ¡°Lord Duke, it seems like the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯t ept your request?¡± There was a slightly dark voice that came from a corner of the room.

    Duke Windsor wasn¡¯t surprised by this voice at all. He flicked his finger and the official response flew into that corner like an arrow.

    ¡°Look for yourself.¡±

    There was a figure that suddenly appeared in the empty corner. He raised his hand to casually catch the letter and after opening it to take a look, he let out a chuckle.

    ¡°He, he, this Stantine Duchy really is bold. It¡¯s fine if they don¡¯t ept the Lord Duke¡¯s request, but they actually dared to be this impolite. It seems like they are quite confident.¡±

    This figure that suddenly appeared wore a normal looking light gray robe and looked to be a very normal looking middle aged man. His hairstyle and appearance were all very normal, so if he was thrown in a crowd, no one would take an extra look.

    But standing in front of Duke Windsor, his expression was very rxed and he didn¡¯t look unnatural at all.

    Hearing his words, Duke Windsor gave another cold snort.

    ¡°This Stantine Duchy really doesn¡¯t know the depths of heaven and earth. They are only a small duchy and they actually dare to go against me. I really don¡¯t know how this reckless little country has survived until now.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, Lord Duke, you¡¯ve mistaken something. The one that has this confidence isn¡¯t the Stantine Duchy, but rather this Frestech Chamber of Commerce supporting them.¡± The middle aged man shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Duke Windsor knitted his brows, ¡°Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can defeat Great Magician Randy, how can they support the Stantine Duchy to the point where the Stantine Duchy would dare to deny my request?¡±

    ¡°Speaking of the reason.....¡± The middle aged man suddenly looked around before turning to a wall beside Duke Windsor and pointing at it, ¡°Lord Duke, please take a look.¡±

    Duke Windsor looked at where he was pointing and saw arge metallic rectangle that was hanging on the wall.

    ¡°Lord Duke, do you know what this is?¡±

    Duke Windsor knitted his brows to think, ¡°It was something the subordinates boughtst month, it seems to be called.....Magic......Right, the Magic Air Conditioner. This thing is rather useful, just by hanging it there, the entire room will be colder. What? How is it rted to what we are talking about?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted. This Magic Air Conditioner, do you know whichpany.....makes it?¡±

    Duke Windsor was stunned, ¡°Could it be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± The middle aged man nodded with a smile before raising his hand and pointing at the ceiling, ¡°Not only the Magic Air Conditioner, the superrge Magic Lamp above your head should also be a product from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, if my guesses are correct, there should be the Magic Stove, the Magic Refrigerator, the Magic Rice Cooker, and other magic machines in the Lord Duke¡¯s private manor, right?¡±

    Duke Windsor was stunned. He thought about it before replying, ¡°There does.....seem to be these things.....But I never cared about them, so I¡¯m not certain. What about it? Could it be you¡¯re telling me that these things were all made by that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m not certain that they are all made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because there are many otherpanies who also make these things.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile, ¡°But I¡¯m certain that the appearance of these things can¡¯t be disconnected from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Duke Windsor looked at his most trusted advisor, ¡°Chalon, what are you saying?¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, I want you to know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already controlled the entire Stantine Duchy, so the will of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the will of the Stantine Duchy. This strong refusal from the Stantine Duchy this time is also a demonstration of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s intent. To put it more directly, it is their chairman Xu Yi¡¯s intent.¡±

    ¡°And then?¡± Duke Windsor still slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Even if it is the intent of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what about it? Although based on what you described and based on my wife¡¯s bitter experience in the Stantine Duchy, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce is stronger than I imagined, I don¡¯t think that¡¯s enough to make me worried.¡±

    ¡°Of course I don¡¯t think you need to worry about them, I just hope......that you can be a bit more serious about this. We can even take this chance to gain a greater advantage.....¡± Chalon said with a smile.

    Duke Windsor had an idea, ¡°You mean.....swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Chalon gave an apuse for Duke Windsor.

    ¡°Lord Duke, you really are smart. But before this, you need to take note of one thing.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Take a look.¡±

    Chalon took out a newspaper for Duke Windsor.

    Duke Windsor took it and his expression changed slightly.

    ¡°How did his highness Frank be rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t important.¡± Chalon shook his head with a smile, ¡°The important thing is that this is a chance for us. As long as we can stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from doing what his highness Frank wants, then I think.....His highness Narian will be very happy to see his highness Frank lose face......¡±

    Duke Windsor thought about it before breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Good, good, good, this is indeed a good chance. It seems like I have to change my previous n. I wanted to just teach the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a lesson to vent for my wife and save her good for nothing nephew as well, but now it seems like.....Un, we have to properly n this.¡±

    Hearing Duke Windsor¡¯s words, Chalon finally stopped smiling and his eyes turned serious.

    ¡°Lord Duke, ording to the information I¡¯ve gathered, I must remind you that you mustn¡¯t underestimate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only has the few thousand guards under them, because they are equipped with the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, they have a shocking battle strength. If you don¡¯t treat them with caution, it might cause a lot of trouble for us.¡±

    Duke Windsor gave a coldugh, ¡°It¡¯s just apany in a small duchy, even if they are strong enough to control the entire Stantine Duchy, so what? Not to mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the entire Stantine Duchy can be destroyed with a wave of my hand, there¡¯s no need to worry.¡±

    Chalon wanted to keep advising him against this, but seeing the expression on Duke Windsor¡¯s face, he knew that he wouldn¡¯t listen to his advice this time and could only give up.

    After pausing, Chalon continued, ¡°Lord Duke, I think that since it involves his highness Frank this time, we can directly contact his highness Narian. If we can get his help, not only would this go more smoothly, we can also deepen our rtionship with his highness Narian, which is killing two birds with one stone.¡±

    Duke Windsor thought about it before waving his hand.

    ¡°No, we can only do this ourselves. The situation isn¡¯t clear now, it¡¯s fine to give his highness Narian a disy, but it¡¯s a taboo to directly go to him. If we make his highness unhappy, the gains wouldn¡¯t equal the losses. Other than that, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is a fat piece of meat like you said, how could we give it to others?¡±

    Chalon immediately understood.

    Although in terms of princes, Duke Windsor supported his highness Narian, as the governor of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, his actions were very noticeable. So rather he couldn¡¯t act rashly and before it was time, he wouldn¡¯t show who he would favour.

    ¡°Good, Lord Duke, I hope that you can give me full authority for the n this time.¡±

    Duke Windsor was a bit surprised. He looked at the serious look on Chalon¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is important to you. Alright, since you¡¯re willing, then take responsibility for it.¡±

    ¡°Yes, Lord Duke, I will definitely hand the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce to you!¡±

    Duke Windsor nodded, smiling without saying a thing.

 Volume 6 33 - Marlow Empireâ€™s first machine harvest

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 33 Marlow Empire¡¯s first machine harvest</h4>

    It wasn¡¯t just Duke Windsor who wanted to bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into his hands, Marquis Southgate was also one of those people.

    Midsummer passed and the wheat in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory in the southwest part of the Marlow Empire had matured. It was now time for the fall harvest.

    In the past, no matter what important things Marquis Southgate had to do, he would put them aside first and stay in his territory to prepare for the fall harvest.

    Although he didn¡¯t need to personally participate in the fall harvest, he as the lord had to ce importance on this operation and couldn¡¯t ck off at all.

    Food was the most basic thing for all countries on the Sines Continent, it was the most important thing. From the noble emperor to the lowest peasant, they would do all they could to get every single grain of wheat when the fall harvest came.

    Filling one¡¯s stomach was the most primal need of humans and nothing else mattered in front of this.

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory would have been very tense before because everyone knew that time was precious. They had to seize every second, or they might miss this chance. If there was a problem with the fall harvest, it would have serious consequences.

    This year, Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory was still a bit tense, but it waspletely different from before.

    They were nervous before because of the intense work, but this year they were worried because of something unknown.

    Seeing the strange looking Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines moving across the farnd, with the wheat falling piece by piece, everyone including Marquis Southgate had their hearts held as they stared at the farnd.

    These strange machines, could they really be as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce said, they could handle all the farm work?

    Although Marquis Southgate had gone to the Drake Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy, he hadn¡¯t seen the agricultural magic machines harvesting everything, so he was also a bit nervous.

    But he wasn¡¯t just nervous because of his territory¡¯s fall harvest. It was because even if the fall harvest failed, he had already signed an agreement with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He would be importing three thousand tons of wheat from the Lampuri Kingdom and one thousand tons of rice and one thousand tons of wheat from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    All these grains would be enough to feed everyone on his territory for five years, so he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about grains anymore.

    Compared to this, what he was worried about was that this was the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machine¡¯s first time in the Marlow Empire, so it had a big significance.

    If the grain yield wasn¡¯t good this time, the nobles that were waiting to see would back down. This would affect his and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n to spread the other magic machines.

    But based on the present situation, based on the rxed smile of chairman Cantona beside him, everything should be going smoothly and there wasn¡¯t any problems at all.

    Perhaps he felt Marquis Southgate looking over, chairman Cantona looked back from the agricultural magic machines in the field and turned to Marquis Southgate to give augh.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, please be assured. Ourpany has done this many times over the years, there definitely won¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a nod. Since Xu Yi dared to vigorously promote this Cantona Chamber of Commerce, there shouldn¡¯t be a problem.

    But at this time, there was a Magic Harvester that suddenly made a thud sound and stopped.

    Marquis Southgate was surprised. When he was about to speak, chairman Cantona already charged out to the Magic Harvester and pped the back of the young worker¡¯s head as he scolded, ¡°Idiot! I already told you to inspect the machine and the chain still fell off in the end. Quickly fix it for me, do you understand!¡±

    The young man rubbed his hand and gave an honest smile. He leaned over to check and casually said, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, the chain just got caught.¡±

    Chairman Cantona kicked him in the butt while he was leaning over.

    ¡°Quickly solve it for me, there¡¯s all those people waiting.¡±

    ¡°Ai, I¡¯ll fix it right away.¡±

    Chairman Cantona angrily came back, but seeing Marquis Southgate¡¯s strange look, he revealed an awkward smile, ¡°This.....Lord Marquis, we are crude people, we¡¯ve let you see a joke.¡±

    Marquis Southgate shook his head before suddenly asking in a curious voice, ¡°Chairman Cantona, the fall harvest has already started and you as the chairman brought all these people to harvest my wheat. What about the Lampuri Kingdom and all the other countries that need you to harvest their wheat?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple since there¡¯s over a month left in the fall harvest. Once we¡¯re done here, we¡¯ll just put these machines into therge transport car to bring them all back, we¡¯ll make it in time.¡±

    Marquis Southgate turned to look at therge transport Magic Car that was waiting on a t piece ofnd and felt that this really was convenient.

    The Cantona Chamber had used this transport Magic Car to bring their people and their agricultural magic machines to the Marlow Empire. Although they hadn been dyed for two days because of the roads in the Marlow Empire, they had only spent less than a week on the road.

    Compared to the fact that these two ces were around two thousand kilometers away, this time really wasn¡¯t considered much.

    If it was before when they were still using horse carriages and there weren¡¯t public roads, the distance of two thousand kilometers was like the horizon, they would never be able to reach it.

    Thinking of this, Marquis Southgate couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    The various magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really did make people¡¯s lives change. Just with a single Magic Car, they greatly reduced the distance between people.

    It was a good thing that half of the road in the Marlow Empire¡¯s southwest province had been built, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce guaranteed that it could be finished within the year.

    When this road was finished, at least it would be much faster going from Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory to the countries in the southwest corner of the continent.

    Marquis Soutgate already made a decision that as long as the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could prove the facts with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, showing that they could increase efficiency of the fally harvest, what he would do next would be propose to the parliament that they start mass paving roads.

    The Magic Harvester that had stopped was quickly fixed by the young fellow and started moving again. With the over ten Magic Harvesters working together, going across the farnd on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, it didn¡¯t take long before the granary waspletely filled.

    When the people who had been watching by the fields saw the Magic Harvesters spill out dark grown grains of wheat once they were opened, their mouths all opened wide in shock.

    This......How was this possible!

    This wheat had just been growing in the field, how did it turn into grains of wheat after this strange thing passed through it?

    They didn¡¯t need people to go harvest and shuck the wheat, so the entire process was very short.

    Could this be the power of magic?

    This was too amazing!

    An old farmer who looked to be around sixty was in a daze for a while before suddenly crying out.

    ¡°Gods! Where did the wheat stalks go!¡±

    Everyone was stunned. They only realized that after the wheat was harvested, there were only a few leaves and there weren¡¯t anyplete stalks at all.

    Everyone¡¯s expression changed.

    The straw was very important for these old farmers, without them, they would suffer arge loss.

    Seeing the doubtful look from Marquis Southgate, chairman Cantona couldn¡¯t stop himself from revealing a look of disdain. He then exined with a smile, ¡°The stalks have been cut to pieces by the Magic Harvester. If you really want to use them, you can dry them out and still use them to start a fire.¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked at the field and gave a nod to show his agreement.

    The other farmers thought about it and could barely ept chairman Cantona¡¯s words.

    Chairman Cantona looked at the looks of pity in the crowd and couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Lord Marquis, the......citizens on your territory, do they really live in such a backwards manner of using straw to light fire?¡±

    Marquis Southgate and the surrounding people looked him in surprise.

    Chairman Cantona gave a cough and continued, ¡°Lord Marquis, the Magic Stove costs less than four gold coins, it¡¯s much more convenient to use it. Moreover, it doesn¡¯t need to burn anything, so there¡¯s no air pollution. No matter how you look at it, isn¡¯t it much better than burning straw?¡±

    ¡°Less than four gold coins?¡± Marquis Southgate¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    After he had been to the Lampuri Kingdom and the other countries, he naturally knew that many families were now using the Magic Stoves. He had even brought some back with him and was using it in the manor.

    But don¡¯t look at how easy chairman Cantona made it sound. A Magic Stove did cost less than four gold coins, but to most people on his territory, four gold coins was not a small figure.

    On his territory, the yearly ie of many people added together was only ten gold coins.

    Being able to fill their bellies was already good enough, how could they take out four gold coins to buy that Magic Stove?

    But thinking of how Xu Yi had said that in the factories set up by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies, how each worker would earn no less than five gold coins, Marquis Southgate thought that four gold coins really wasn¡¯t that hard to ept.

    But thinking about it, chairman Cantona had said before that in their Cantona Chamber of Commerce, the monthly wage for the most skilled workers was thirty gold coins a month, so the disparity really was too big.

    ¡°This is the difference between developing first and developingter......¡±

    Marquis Southgate gave a sigh in his heart before once again renewing his determination to develop the magic machine industry in his territory.

 Volume 6 34 - Arrogant Candra Empire

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 34 Arrogant Candra Empire</h4>

    The Marlow Empire was one of the two empires and had vast territories, so naturally the private territories of their nobles were much bigger than the nobles of a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory had a farnd of over five hundred hectares, which far surpassed the territory of any noble in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    However, a weekter, all the wheat in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory had been harvested. The final yield of the wheat was only six hundred tons, which by average was only around one hundred and fifty pounds per mu.

    Compared to the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy which had an average yield of five hundred pounds per mu, this was simply not worth mentioning.

    The reason for thisrge gap was because the farming methods of Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory were too underdeveloped, so their production capacity was limited. The most important reason was of course the fertilizer.

    But even with this production capacity, Marquis Southgate and the people of his territory, including the ves participating in the harvest, were all filled with joy, stating that there was a rich harvest this year.

    The most important thing was that to harvest the over five hundred hectares ofnd each year, even if everyone came together, they would have to work hard for an entire month.

    If there was even the slightest hindrance, they would need even more time.

    Before this, Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory had encountered a situation many times where they couldn¡¯t harvest everything, so it wasted quite a bit of wheat.

    Now they finished it in only just a single week with the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. This five hundred hectares ofnd had beenpletely harvested, which was something that people couldn¡¯t believe.

    And during this time, they had only sent out a very small number of people.

    For every harvest before this, they would send almost everyone on the territory out.

    But this time, Marquis Southgate had only sent eighty people to help with the harvest. The work they did was only simple work such as pulling open the bags and packing up the wheat that came out of the Magic Harvester before bringing them to the transport Magic Cars waiting on the side.

    Compared to all the back breaking work they had to do for the previous harvests, this time it was just too easy for them!

    When chairman Cantona told Marquis Southgate that there was no problem at all harvesting five hundred hectares ofnd, Marquis Southgate was a bit doubtful.

    But after seeing all his farnd being harvested in just a week, with several hundred tons of grains being ced in his warehouse, Marquis Southgate only had shock in his heart.

    It was no wonder when he went to the Drake Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy, all their farnd had been reimed and had crops nted on them.

    He was confused by this back then because he didn¡¯t believe that these three countries had enough people to reim and nt on all thatnd.

    But now that he saw the power of the agricultural magic machines the Cantona Chamber of Commerce brought, he no longer had any doubts.

    So the day after the harvest was over, Marquis Southgate held a special banquet to celebrate the end of the fall harvest.

    At this banquet, Marquis Southgate had signed a new contract with chairman Cantona in front of everyone.

    The content of the contract was what Xu Yi had mentioned to Marquis Southgate before. It was to let the Cantona Chamber of Commerce develop the othernd on the Marquis Southgate¡¯snd, while also changing thend already opened to create more farnd.

    But before Marquis Southgate had experienced this himself, he still had a bit of hesitation.

    After the fall harvest this time, he no longer had any doubts.

    This time, he had signed a full five year contract with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    In those five years, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would not just help develop all the farnd on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, they would also train some of his citizens on how to operate the agricultural magic machines.

    After seeing the Magic Harvesters easily change the wheat in the field into grains, Marquis Southgate had already made his decision. He would definitely buy some agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and try to incorporate machines into farming for himself as much as possible.

    When the Cantona Chamber of Commerce helped Marquis Southgate harvest his territory this time, the other Marlow Empire nobles that had a good rtionship with Marquis Southgate had sent their own representatives.

    After the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s amazing performance in the fall harvest, those nobles all sent their own invitations, hoping that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could help them with their harvests.

    Chairman Cantona naturally weed this, but the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s manpower and agricultural magic machines were limited, so it was hard for them to ept all these offers.

    Finally he chose to ept the offers of several nobles that were close to Marquis Southgate. As for the others, he directly gave them another path, which was to buy the various agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So at the beginning of this fall harvest, there were orders that came from the Marlow empire to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was several thousand kilometers away.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the numbers of orders really are unexpected.¡± Kennard raised the report in his hand and said in a surprised voice to Xu Yi, ¡°Look, I¡¯ve put the orders from the Marlow Empire in a single report and just in terms of Magic Harvesters, there are over seven hundred orders. This amount is even more than the number of Magic Harvesters the Stantine Duchy currently has.¡±

    ¡°Of course, the Marlow Empire isn¡¯t a small country that can be ignored on the map like our Stantine Duchy, it¡¯s one of the two empires. Seven hundred is only a start and with the current momentum, I think that we will be able to sell seven thousand Magic Harvesters in the Marlow Empire, or even more than that.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Kennard gave a nod and couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh, ¡°Being able to enter the Marlow Empire really is great. The other countries around here are just too small, the markets already close to saturated. For example, when ites to agricultural magic machines, we¡¯ve had very few orders in thest two years. Now that the people of the Marlow Empire are joining in, we can increase our work in this aspect again.¡±

    Speaking of this, Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a thoughtful look.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I say.....Since the agricultural magic machines have such a clear convenience, why don¡¯t we use it to knock down the door of the Candra Empire? I think that there¡¯s no country on the continent that would deny a method that would increase their grain yield.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s not the same. We can smoothly develop in the Marlow Empire because Marquis Southgate is such an enlightened person. He is good to us, so the cooperation is very good, but the Candra Empire.....¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and revealed a dissatisfied look.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if it is my prejudice, but I think that everyone from that country has a natural arrogance that creates all kinds of hindrances when we try to cooperate with them. I really don¡¯t like the attitude of the Candra Empire¡¯s people, this doesn¡¯t let me see any sincerity in their cooperations.¡±

    Kennard gave a bitterugh before giving a nod, ¡°Sir chairman, this isn¡¯t your misunderstanding. Actually, arrogance is the characteristic of the Candra Empire. This empire has always treated itself as the ruler of the entire continent, they look down on all other countries. This is a bit rted to the history of the Candra Empire, so sir chairman, you can take a look to understand when you have some free times.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have time to look up their history.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If they insist on being this arrogant, the one that will suffer in the end is them. Moreover, you should know that I am already nning on revising the n with the Candra Empire.

    ¡°I understand, but sir chairman, are you......really nning on doing this?¡± Kennard slightly knitted his brows, ¡°I keep feeling that......doing this will be very dangerous. If you¡¯re not careful, the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce might suffer heavy losses.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too highly of the Candra Empire.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Just do what you need to do, I¡¯ll go see how the training of the guards is going. The key to whether my n seeds or not will depend on them.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡±

    Kennard gave a nod, but there was a trace of worry in his eyes as he watched Xu Yi leave.

    When Xu Yi left his CEO office, Kennard sat back down and was prepared to continue his work.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was involved in many industries, so there were many things he had to take care of.

    Although there was some restructuringst time, dividing the various industries under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce so that each one of them had a manager, making it much easier for him as the CEO.

    With therge scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were still many things that he had to do as the CEO.

    When he was nning on arranging the production magic machine department to handle the Marlow Empire order, there was someone that suddenly knocked on the door to his office.

    Hearing the rushed knocking, Kennard slightly knitted his brows.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    The door was suddenly pushed open as a middle aged man fell onto the desk with a letter tightly held in his hand that he handed to Kennard.

    ¡°Sir, some......something big has happened!¡±

    This middle aged man was the director of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s intelligence gathering department. Seeing his expression, Kennard¡¯s face sunk a bit as he took the letter.

    After looking over the letter, Kennard¡¯s eyes popped out in disbelief as they filled with shock and even.....a bit of worry.

    As expected, something big did happen......

 Volume 6 35 - Invading the Stantine Duchy

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 35 Invading the Stantine Duchy</h4>

    ¡°It¡¯s the Stantine Duchy in front?¡± Chalon looked at the coast in the distance with narrowed eyes as he asked this.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Chalon. We¡¯re not far from the coast now, we¡¯ll reach Count Dole¡¯s territory soon.¡± The one standing beside him was a kind looking slightly chubby middle aged man who respectfully replied when he heard this.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that this ce isn¡¯t his territory anymore.¡± Chalon coldly said.

    ¡°Yes, yes, yes, Count Dole is currently in the Stantine Duchy jail and his private territory was already taken back by the Stantine Duchy congress.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile.

    Chalon turned with a serious look and said, ¡°I heard that all the territories of your Stantine Duchy nobles were all taken back by the congress?¡±

    The middle aged man revealed an awkward look, ¡°Yes, it was all taken backst year. So the ce in front of us is called Count Dole¡¯s territory, but it¡¯s just the territory that he owned before.¡±

    ¡°Why would you agree?¡± Chalon asked him in a curious voice, ¡°Count Andre, a territory is something that is more important to a noble than his life. But the Stantine Duchy congress took it back and you agreed?¡±

    The middle aged man named Count Andre gave a bitter smile before saying with a sigh, ¡°What could we do if we didn¡¯t agree? That fellow Xu Yi forced this and if we didn¡¯t agree, what was waiting for us was definitely the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.¡±

    Hearing Count Andre mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, Chalon¡¯s expression became a bit more serious. After thinking for a bit, he asked in a deep voice, ¡°Are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards very strong?¡±

    Count Andre suddenly trembled. His eyes had a bit of fear as he said with a strong nod, ¡°Very strong, truly strong! Lord Chalon, with all due respect, although the subordinates you¡¯ve brought are all elites.....if you are facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, please be careful.¡±

    Chalon slightly knitted his brows. He turned back to look at his subordinates gathered on the deck, feeling a bit uncertain.

    Although before setting off, he had obtained arge amount of information on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were few pieces of information that talked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The only thing that showed the battle strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards was when they made a move against the nobles of the Stantine Duchy.

    Because there wasn¡¯t enough information, Chalon didn¡¯t know the situation.

    From the result, the guards of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s nobles were unable to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, allowing them the absolute rights to control the Stantine Duchy.

    But to Chalon, this result didn¡¯t show anything.

    Because the nobles of the Stantine Duchy were only bumpkins to Chalon. The guards of these nobles were just fellows that were a bit stronger than normal people, without any training or full sets of equipment. How could there be any battle strength?

    So based on this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards being able to crush the Stantine Duchy nobles didn¡¯t show any battle strength. It just showed that they could be considered a normal army.

    After thinking about it, Chalon shook his head.

    ¡°Forget it, no matter how strong they are, they are just the guards of a smallpany. They can¡¯t be that strong.¡±

    Although Chalon had been cautious in front of Duke Windsor before, advising Duke Windsor to be more serious about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn¡¯t actually really put the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in his eyes.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only a smallpany in this small duchy, how could they be as powerful as the subordinates of the Lord Governor of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province.

    Chalon looked at Duke Windsor¡¯s guards covered in full armour with sharp weapons and he revealed a faint smile.

    The Lord Duke had given him three thousand of his most elite subordinates and under his direction, not to mention a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could easily sweep through the entire Stantine Duchy.

    The most important thing was that he was very certain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t really dare to make a move against him.

    The matter of Count Dole, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made a move, they didn¡¯t kill a single one of the duchess¡¯ subordinates. It meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some scruples in their hearts.

    ¡°Hei, seeing all the elites that I brought, if that chairman Xu of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is smart, his only choice is to obediently listen to me.¡±

    The ten ships that carried Chalon and the three thousand elite soldiers of Duke Windsor gradually approached the shore with the sea breeze.

    This was a small port under Count Andre¡¯s control and it was very remote, so the arrival of these ten ships didn¡¯t attract any attention.

    Chalon brought his three thousand elite troops off the ship and immediately set off.

    ording to the n, he would enter Count Dole¡¯s private manor with the three thousand elite troops first and after seizing it, they would settle there and slowly negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, as soon as they came out of the harbour by the cliff, they met a group of around three hundred people.

    Seeing that this group acted like soldiers, only wearing simple armour with strange items in their hands, Chalon turned to Count Andre and asked, ¡°Who are these fellows?¡±

    Count Andre was a bit nervous as he replied in a low voice, ¡°They are the subordinates of a nearby noble. That¡¯s strange, why did theye here today? Did they receive some information?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards......¡± Chalon was a bit disappointed. He turned and gave a nod to the leader of the troops beside him, ¡°Take care of them all, don¡¯t leave a single one.¡±

    Hearing Chalon¡¯s orders, Count Andre was shocked.

    ¡°Lord Chalon, you......¡±

    Before he could finish, the troop leader beside Chalon waved his hand to give the signal to attack.

    Chalon had brought the elite troops of Duke Windsor, so they were well trained. Once they received the order, there were five hundred people who raised the bows in their hands and sent a rain of arrows at the three hundred people.

    The other side was surprised to see thisrge group attacking them and seeing the countless arrows falling down, they were shocked.

    After being caught off guard, the arrows were already falling down on them.

    ¡°Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.¡±

    The countless arrows kept falling onto the thin armour the three hundred of them were wearing, giving out clear sounds.

    ¡°Humph, a bunch of trash.¡± Chalon curled his lips in disdain.

    However, the cold smile on his face suddenly froze.

    Although the arrows hadpletely covered them, not leaving a single one out of the, after the rain of arrows, all the arrows had only hit their armour and hadn¡¯t injured them at all!

    Seeing that these three hundred people were all just standing there, Chalon¡¯s eyes popped out and he didn¡¯t dare believe his own eyes.

    Those fellows had such thin armour, how could they be safe under the sharp arrows of the elites he had brought?

    Turning to look at the leader, he found that he was also shocked and clearly didn¡¯t believe what he just saw.

    After those three hundred people were stunned by this ambush, they quickly reacted.

    ¡°Damn, brothers, they want to kill us, go all out against them!¡± An angry roar sounded among those three hundred people.

    Hearing this, Chalon gave a cold snort. Although he thought that the armour these fellows were wearing were a bit unusual, they dared to fight against three thousand elites with only three hundred people?

    They simply didn¡¯t want to live!

    ¡°Ike, take care of them. Don¡¯t show any mercy.¡± Chalon said in a deep voice to the leader beside him.

    ¡°Yes, sir.¡±

    The troop leader Ike wanted to raise his hand to give the order to attack, but he saw the other side raise the strange things in their hands at them.

    ¡°Sou, sou, sou, sou, sou, sou.¡±

    Countless arrows filled the air and the first row of Duke Windsor¡¯s guards didn¡¯t even have a chance to make a sound before falling down.

    The first row fell along with the second row, the third row......

    It was like harvesting wheat. The perfect formation suddenly had arge gap in it because several hundred people had suddenly fallen.

    Seeing this scene, Chalon took a cold breath.

    These people had random movements and they didn¡¯t seem like they had received strict training at all, but with the strange things in their hands, they could release such a powerful battle strength.

    ¡°These are the military magic machines?¡± Chalon asked Count Andre beside him.

    Count Andre¡¯s expression was very ugly as he slowly shook his head, ¡°No, these are only the Magic Repeating Crossbows, they can¡¯t be considered the real military magic machines.....¡±

    ¡°These aren¡¯t it? Then aren¡¯t the real military magic machines even more powerful?¡± Cha lon was stunned. He turned to see that there were already over a hundred casualties in the subordinates that he had brought.

    Although the leader Ike wanted to attack, even though the other side only had three hundred people, there was a denseyer of arrows that made it impossible for them to attack.

    It was a good thing that Chalon had brought the elites of Duke Windsor. After panicking a bit, they bunkered down and took this attack.

    Count Andre and Chalon hid behind arge rock. He poked his head out before asking Chalon, ¡°Lord Chalon, I suggest that you retreat immediately. It¡¯s best if you return to the Candra Empire right away.¡±

    Chalon knitted his brows. He really wanted to say that he had three thousand soldiers and the other side only had three hundred people, how could he run.

    But now he was seeing those three hundred people being stronger than his three thousand soldiers, suppressing them without being able to fight back at all.

    But no matter what, it was impossible for him to retreat.

    Chalon gave a hand signal to leader Ike, telling him to wait until the enemy¡¯s attack stopped before counterattacking.

    Ike nodded to show he understood.

    Chalon then turned to ask Count Andre, ¡°Count Andre, you said that these aren¡¯t the real military magic machines. Then tell me, are the real military magic machines even more shocking?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the real military magic machines are even more powerful than you imagined......¡±

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    Therge rock behind the two of them suddenly exploded and the two hiding behind it couldn¡¯t react at all. They were hit by the scattered rocks and were knocked out.

 Volume 6 36 - Who decides fate

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 36 Who decides fate</h4>

    ¡°This is the important matter you mentioned?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard, finding this a bit funny.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s rxed look, Kennard was surprised.

    ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that this isn¡¯t an important matter? Count Andre already exposed everything, those people are from the Candra Empire, they are the subordinate of the southern province¡¯s governor. Now that six hundred of them have died here, do you think that the Lord Governor would let this go so easily?¡±

    Xu Yi asked with a smile, ¡°Then what do you think we should do?¡±

    Kennard had clearly already considered this and he replied without any hesitation, ¡°This matter can¡¯t be concealed, so in my opinion, we should capture the three hundred soldiers of Baron Prado under the name of the Stantine Duchy congress and then hand them over to Duke Windsor.¡±

    ¡°Un.....in terms of objectives, Kennard, your idea is quite good.¡± Xu Yi nodded before changing his words, ¡°But.....Kennard, have you thought of a problem? Do you know why Duke Windsor would suddenly send his subordinates to our Stantine Duchy? Moreover, he would do it this secretly?¡±

    ¡°This.....Not a single one of Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates said a thing, so I¡¯m not too clear.¡± Kennard hesitantly said.

    Xu Yiughed as he patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder, ¡°You, you should focus on managing thepany, you don¡¯t have to care about other things. Where¡¯s Count Andre and Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates? Bring me to them.¡±

    Kennard knitted his brows to look at Xu Yi. Based on Xu yi¡¯s words, he could hear a different meaning.

    Could it be....that sir chairman was already prepared for this, so he was this calm?

    Kennard was doubtful as he brought Xu Yi to a hospital on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    When Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates fought with Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates, Baron Prado had thirteen people injured. As for Duke Windsor, six hundred people died and the remaining two thousand were injured to various degrees. If it wasn¡¯t for them being promptly rescued, the casualties wouldn¡¯t just be six hundred.

    Now they were sent to this hospital, so even thisrge hospital was filled and they were even put on the floor outside.

    It was a good thing that it was early fall and the weather was still warm, so they were fine being outside.

    Xu Yi and Kennard arrived at this hospital which was surrounded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, stopping anyone from entering.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was impacted by this, they had no other choice in this matter.

    Aftering into the hospital, they heard the sounds of arguinging from inside.

    ¡°Quickly call out your chairman! Otherwise, we will smash this ce to pieces!¡±

    ¡°You still aren¡¯t letting us go! You actually dare to lock us up, do you know who we are?¡±

    ¡°Damn you......¡±

    ......

    Xu Yi suddenly waved his hand and a small fireball flew out, hitting a fellow who was currently cursing in the hospital.

    Although this person was in full armour, it didn¡¯t have much defenses against magic. After being hit by the fireball, there was an explosion as he was sent flying,nding on the grass without making another sound.

    All the noise instantly disappeared and everyone turned their gazes to Xu Yi.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t look at them as he turned to Kennard, ¡°Since you¡¯ve caught them, why didn¡¯t you take their equipment? You¡¯re even adding to the danger?¡±

    Kennard was stunned, ¡°Sir chairman, this.....They.....They are from the Candra Empire.....¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and ignored Kennard, turning to wave at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard leader in charge.

    After he came over, Xu Yi pointed at Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates in the yard, ¡°Take all their equipment. Letting these fellows still keep their weapons in such an important ce to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, have your heads been kicked in?¡±

    The leader was surprised at being scolded by Xu Yi. He turned to Kennard and seeing that he didn¡¯t say a thing, he gave a nod before quickly telling the guards to confiscate the equipment from Duke Windsor¡¯s soldiers.

    Although these people wanted to resist, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had powerful other races. Not to mention if they had the same equipment, even if they were at the same level, they weren¡¯t a match for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. Not to mention that most of them were injured, so they could only helplessly ept their weapons being taken away.

    Kennard silently watched this with a bit of thought in his eyes.

    Seeing the situation calm down, Xu Yi went into the hospital with Kennard.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t go see Count Andre at all, he went to the room that had been prepared for Chalon.

    Three days had passed since Chalon had fought with Baron Prado, so Chalon had already woken up.

    When Xu Yi and Kennard came in, Chalon was sitting up in bed looking out the window. It was unknown what he was thinking.

    Hearing peoplee in, Chalon turned. He first saw Kennard before his eyes fell onto Xu Yi, slightly narrowing them before rxing them again and revealing a smile.

    ¡°If my guesses are correct, you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°You recognize me?¡±

    ¡°No, it was a guess.¡± Chalon shook his head.

    ¡°A guess?¡±

    Chalon pointed at Kennard behind Xu Yi, ¡°Other than the chairman, I believe that no one can make Kennard as the CEO stand behind him, right?¡±

    Xu Yi turned back to look at Kennard and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Alright, it seems like you¡¯re an intelligent person, I don¡¯t need to waste words like this.¡± Xu Yi pulled a chair up to the bed to sit down and waved his hand to have the others leave, leaving only Kennard with him, ¡°There¡¯s no problem if I call you Baron Chalon, right?¡±

    Chalon revealed a smile, ¡°Just call me Chalon. I¡¯ve already been defeated, what meaning is there in calling me Baron Chalon?¡±

    ¡°Defeated? The ones who defeated you are Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates, it¡¯s not rted to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi immediately denied it.

    Chalon looked at Xu Yi with a look of deep meaning, ¡°Chairman Xu, the military magic machines that Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates used, do you dare say that it isn¡¯t rted to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing.

    Chalon suddenly gave a long sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually beforeing to the Stantine Duchy, although I had investigated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quite a bit, I still looked down on you very much. But I never expected that.....as soon as I came to the Stantine Duchy, I would be hit in the head.¡±

    After saying this, Chalon took another deep breath as his expression became serious and he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, please tell me, the military magic machines that Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates used before, were they theplete military magic machines that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces?¡±

    Xu Yi once again smiled without saying a thing.

    Chalon immediately understood what Xu Yi meant and continued with a nod, ¡°It seems like it¡¯s like this. Alright, chairman Xu, I think that I understand, so you can tell me your purpose ining here.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This Chalon really was a smart person as he had expected.

    This was very good, it saved him quite a bit of effort.

    Moreover, this Chalon was quite good, he might be able to change his n.

    ¡°Eh.....Baron Chalon, this time I came here to announce one thing to you.¡± Xu Yi finally said.

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    Xu Yi took out an official document which he handed to Chalon.

    ¡°In light of the fact that you brought three thousand fully armed soldiers into our Stantine Duchy without permission, the congress has dered that you are an uwful invader. ording to thews of the duchy, you and your subordinates will all be locked in jail and await your trials.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Chalon¡¯s expression was calm. He didn¡¯t look at the official document at all as he looked at Xu Yi and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you really n on doing this?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t me doing this, you broke our duchy¡¯sws, so it¡¯s the congress¡¯ decision.¡± Xu Yi exined with a smile.

    Chalon gave a soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that you didn¡¯t want to waste words, but I think that you arepletely wasting words. Deciding our destiny is not up to your damn Stantine Duchy, it should be you and the Lord Duke, I think you¡¯re very clear on that.¡±

    ¡°Right, I¡¯m very clear on it. So I¡¯ve decided to lock you up first and see how the Lord Duke reacts.¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a smile before standing up.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was prepared to leave, Chalon became worried and raised his voice to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯re all intelligent people, I know what you want to do. Now that I¡¯ve seen the situation, I feel that there is a chance to cooperate between us. As long as you let me go, I¡¯ll definitely convince the Lord Duke to let go of the past!¡±

    ¡°Let go of the past?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I naturally want to cooperate, but that depends on how important you are to the Lord Duke, right?¡±

    Chalon was at a loss for words as his expression filled with hesitation.

    Although he believed that he was the most trusted subordinate of the Lord Duke, he couldn¡¯t confirm that the Lord Duke would still trust him after he had brought three thousand elites to the Stantine Duchy, then after notpleting his mission, he had gotten them all captured.

    Seeing his appearance, Xu Yi shook his head. He waved his hand to Kennard and left the room together.

 Volume 6 37 - This is our strength

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 37 This is our strength</strong>

    When they came back to Kennard¡¯s CEO office, Kennard who had been silent the entire time finally spoke, ¡°Sir chairman, using this attitude, aren¡¯t you afraid of truly angering Duke Windsor?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him. He had already exined this to Kennard all these times and he never thought that he still didn¡¯t understand.

    It seemed like the people of this world had a deep fear of arge country like the Candra Empire, it was even hard to change for Kennard who was born from arge noble family in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But he couldn¡¯t me them since the Candra Empire was the current biggest and longeststing empire in the history of the Sines Continent, it was even higher than the Marlow Empire in the minds of people.

    The people of the other small countries on the Sines Continent being afraid of the Candra Empire was normal.

    But Xu Yi was different. He came from earth and didn¡¯t have a deep impression like the people of the Sines Continent. Adding in the fact that he came from arge country like China, he never felt the fear that someone from a small country felt towards arge country.

    The Candra Empire was arge force that should be feared for Kennard, but to Xu Yi, it might be big, but that didn¡¯t mean that it was to be feared.

    Every time he thought of how the three thousand elites that Chalon led was easily defeated by the three hundred troops of Baron Prado, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help wanting tough.

    Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates had only been equipped with some Magic Repeating Crossbows and some Magic Bazookas, but they could beat three thousand people with only just three hundred people. It could be seen how terrifying the soldiers equipped with military magic machines are.

    Moreover, Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates are just a messy group, they didn¡¯t have any military aplishments at all. They only knew how to use the military magic machines, there weren¡¯t any tactics used at all.

    Compared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that were armed with high grade military magic machines and trained to use them every day, Baron Prado¡¯s subordinates were much weaker.

    Even they could easily defeat Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards should be able to steamroll them.

    OIt should be said that since the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war, as well as fighting Duke Wein and the other nobles, Xu Yi had a thorough understanding of the battle power of this world¡¯s traditional armies.

    To him, the military magic machines wouldpletely change the way wars were fought in this world. If they still used the same ways from before, when facing opponents that had military magic machines, they couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    This was something that the surrounding countries had a sense of, so they always wanted to buy military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to increase the battle strength of their countries.

    At the same time, this was the reason why the surrounding countries had scruples against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than not wanting to offending the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which results in them being cut off, they were actually afraid of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The Candra Empire had too little understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so that was why they had such an aloof stance and didn¡¯t put the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their eyes.

    However, to Xu Yi, although the Candra Empire was one of the two empires, it was just a paper tiger.

    Kennard had been afraid of the Candra Empire, other than the deep rooted fear in his heart, it was because he was only in charge of managing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business side. He didn¡¯t understand as much about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machine department, so he didn¡¯t understand the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that he had made some mistakes before.

    Kennard, no matter what was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO,pletely separating him from the military magic machine department didn¡¯t seem right.

    After a bit of thought, Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep exining to Kennard and pulled him out of the office again. They got into Xu Yi¡¯s personal Magic Sedan and drove off to the northwest side of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was in the northwest corner of the Stantine Duchy. The west was the sea and to the north was the border between the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy.

    But in the wide open northwest corner, there was a spot opened up specially used for the military magic machine development center and for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to train in.

    Kennard saw that Xu Yi brought him here and he couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised.

    Because Xu Yi hadn¡¯t made him make contact with the military magic machine department before, he never took the initiative to make contact with this department.

    Now Xu Yi had suddenly brought him here, why?

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t give him time to ask this question as they drove right in and then headed to an open area in the north before stopping.

    Kennard came out and heard the loud soundsing from the air in front of him.

    Looking up, he saw that there were five Magic Airships floating in the air.

    The Magic Airships kept releasing beams of light which flew through the air.

    In the gaps of these beams of light, there was a figure quickly moving through them, not letting the beams touch it at all.

    ¡°What are they doing?¡± Kennard asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°The guards are having a realbat exercise with Great Magician Juna.¡± Xu Yi looked up and replied with a smile, ¡°It seems like the guards have been improving, they can use just five Magic Airships to suppress Great Magician Juna like this. Not bad, not bad......¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Juna?¡± Kennard was even more shocked.

    Looking up in the air, he found that the figure flying through the air really was a person.

    ording to what Xu Yi said, this was Great Magician Juna?

    But Great Magician Juna was a powerful Great Magician!

    To Kennard, anyone who could be a Great Magician could move seas and mountains. They were iparably powerful figures from legends, it was not something that normal people could fight against.

    But seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards easily using five Magic Airships to force a Great Magician into running, thispletely subverted the views of Kennard¡¯s heart.

    After watching for a bit, the five Magic Airships in the sky stopped attacking and the figure flying around also stopped.

    Kennard looked carefully and saw that it was Great Magician Juna.

    ¡°Kennard, do you know I brought you here to see this?¡± Xu Yi on the side suddenly asked.

    ¡°This......¡± Kennard was silent for a bit before looking up at the Magic Airships and Great Magician Juna in the air, as he hesitantly said, ¡°I think.....that based on how sir chairman just treated Baron Chalon, you wanted to tell me that ourpany has the ability to fight Duke Windsor and can show off our strength a bit?¡±

    ¡°Un, Kennard, you really are a smart person.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°In the previous meeting, you suggested that I should give the Candra Empire some benefits, so that we can easily find a representative to enter the Candra Empire to allow us to achieve our goal of opening the Candra Empire market. However, it was rejected by me, do you remember that?¡±

    ¡°I do.¡± Kennard nodded and thinking of what he just saw, he replied, ¡°Sir chairman, you told me at that time that although ourpany will definitely need to enter the Candra Empire market, we should maintain our separate status and not let our fate fall into the hands of others.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I also said that to control our own destiny, we have to have enough strength. I want you to see now that this is the true strength of ourpany, do you have anything to say?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Kennard looked at the five Magic Airships and Great Magician Juna who had started moving in the air again and was silent for a long time before giving a sigh. He said with a nod, ¡°I understand what sir chairman means, but sir chairman, the Candra Empire is one of the two empires and their depths are deeper than you can imagine, they far exceed the limits of what ourpany can deal with. Perhaps we can deal with Duke Windsor, but we definitely cannot deal with the Candra Empire. Moreover.....if we anger Duke Windsor, what benefits are there for us?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are benefits and they are very good. As for the current benefits, it¡¯s to show our attitude to everyone. I want to use this matter to tell everyone that the Stantine Duchy is the territory of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If anyone tries to interfere in the Stantine Duchy, they will be going against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Kennard gave a bitterugh, ¡°Even if it is the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Why should the Candra Empire be the exception?¡± Xu Yi acted surprised.

    Kennard was stunned before giving another bitter smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, aren¡¯t you......a little too confident?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and patted Kennard¡¯s shoulder, but he didn¡¯t want to exin.

    He brought Kennard here today, showing him the training of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to let him understand his true thoughts. He didn¡¯t n on changing his ns.

    Like the deeply rooted concept that ¡°the Candra Empire is the strongest¡±, Xu Yi knew that it was impossible to change that in a short period of time.

    To change it, he would have to use more facts to slowly scrub it away.

    And the key to that was in the present.

 Volume 6 38 - Rushing to buy fertilizer

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 38 Rushing to buy fertilizer</h4>

    Duke Windsor¡¯s subordinates secretly invading the Stantine Duchy was a big matter for Kennard, but on the Sines Continent, there were few people who knew about this. Moreover, it was just a small matter that no one cared about.

    Since it was now early fall, for all the countries on the continent, all the people, the most important thing was the fall harvest.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invented the agricultural magic machines and promoted it for eight years, the southwest countries of the Sines Continent had all adopted this brand new method of farming using magic machines.

    While the other countries worked hard on their harvest, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Norton Duchy, and the other countries had already harvested all their wheat and had put them all in their granaries.

    Even the Falk Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom that had only started using agricultural magic machines in the past two years, had already finished the first part of their harvest.

    But they were different from the other countries that had developed their system over several years. The Falk Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had only started using them in thest two years, so they had only finished their harvest, their system for nting and reiming morend wasn¡¯tplete at all.

    To solve these problems, ording to the estimates of these two countries, they had submitted an order to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for Magic Plowers, Magic Excavators, Magic Diggers, and other agricultural and construction magic machines.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s order had surpassed seven million gold coins. Because the Falk Kingdom had a bigger territory than the Sack Kingdom and had morend to cultivate, their order was also bigger, surpassing ten million gold coins.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity has always been a problem. With the addition of therge Marlow Empire market, which had great development prospects, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given these two countries a minimum deadline of at least two years to fulfill these orders.

    The Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom were a bit dissatisfied by this, but since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were the only ones who could make these magic machines right now, they had no choice.

    Other than these agricultural magic machines, there was something else that these surrounding countries cared about and that was fertilizer.

    Since the appearance of fertilizer, therge use of it in the Stantine Duchy had greatly increased their grain yield. Then the Lampuri Kingdom also used the fertilizer and greatly increased their grain yield as well, so this new product became something that all the surrounding countries wanted.

    In thest two years, the Moon Shadow Tribe had relied on just the fertilizer alone to make a profit of over two million gold coins a year, far surpassing the Night Song Tribe.

    Of course, they couldn¡¯t put aside the cooperation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. With the support of therge amounts of production magic machines provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Moon Shadow Tribe had been able to build over ten factories, increasing their production capacity and their profits.

    But.....that still was far from being enough.

    Today was Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s monthly set sales date. Outside the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce¡¯s warehouse outside Frestech City, there was a crowd of people from various countries.

    The furthest came from the Falk Kingdom which was over two thousand kilometers away. Moreover, in order to get some fertilizer, some people had already started gathering outside the warehouse in the middle of the night, out of fear that others would steal what belonged to them.

    When the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce opened their doors at eight in the morning, the crowd immediately rushed in.

    Astasia who was in charge was already used to this scene. She looked over the fierce crowd and said in a loud voice without any emotion, ¡°Line up,e in one by one! Those that don¡¯t line up won¡¯t get to buy anything!¡±

    As soon as her voice fell, the crowd immediately fell into a long line and not a single person dared to say a thing.

    Someone tried not listening to her orders and they were cklisted by the Moon Shadow Tribe, no longer providing any fertilizer to thepany that person came from.

    So since then, the words that this beautiful elven miss Astasia said were even more effective than the decree of a king. No one dared to go against them.

    Seeing the noisy crowd in front of her quickly regaining order, Astasia couldn¡¯t help shaking her head.

    Why were humans unwilling to learn their lesson and she had to remind them each time?

    If it was the elves, they just needed to be reminded the first time and then they would line up properly each time. She wouldn¡¯t need to use her energy to remind them each time.

    But thinking about time, perhaps it was because the humans broke these traditional ideas that allowed them to make new changes, exceeding themselves again and again. They surpassed all other races on the continent and finally became the rulers of the continent.

    The elder wanted her and the other elves of the tribe to have contact with humans and work hard to fit into human society, with the goal of learning the merits of the humans. It was to let the elves surpass themselves and find their own position on the continent.

    Of course, all of this was thanks to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a human madepany.

    ¡°Alright, the first one, the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce, two tons of wheat nutrition fertilizer and one ton of wheat growth fertilizer. Take out your bill and then receive the goods from the warehouse.¡±

    With a soft call from Astasia, the merchant in front who was a bit chubby handed over the bill that was already in his hand and followed two other elves into the factory. With the help of the Moon Shadow Tribe and the humans they hired to help carry things, the fertilizer was quickly moved into therge transport Magic Car that was already waiting outside.

    This merchant came from the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital Caraca City, which was close to a thousand kilometers away from here. Even if he set out today, he would only arrive tomorrow.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s fall harvest had just ended and there were many farms that were waiting for the fertilizer, so it couldn¡¯t be stalled.

    The merchants handed over their bills one by one and entered the warehouse. The fertilizer stacked in the warehouse quickly decreased and in just half a morning, it was almost all gone.

    It was a good thing that the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce knew that the month of the fall harvest was the month with the highest demand, so they had prepared for this. They had filled up aplete five warehouses, so they had enough supplies.

    However, even like this, it was difficult for them to meet everyone¡¯s needs.

    The merchants who were at the back saw that there was less and less fertilizer and couldn¡¯t help being anxious.

    At this time, one of the fellows in line kept talking to Astasia which made them feel even more anxious.

    ¡°You¡¯re asking me what the fertilizer does?¡± Astasia looked at this middle aged human who seemed to be in his fifties with half white hair already. She had been in charge of the fertilizer warehouse for two years now and this was the first time someone asked about what the fertilizer did.

    ¡°Right, I saw all these people in a rush to buy it, so this thing must be good. This beautiful elven miss, can you tell me what it¡¯s used for?¡± The middle aged man was polite and he was sincere when he asked this.

    Before Astasia could reply, the merchants behind him impatiently shouted out at him.

    ¡°Hey, if you don¡¯t even know what the fertilizer does, what did you line up for?¡±

    ¡°Right, don¡¯t waste time if you¡¯re not buying it and don¡¯t cause trouble.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still people who don¡¯t know what the fertilizer is used for? Which mountain did this savagee from?¡±

    ......

    Hearing the words of the people behind him, the middle aged man looked a bit awkward, but he still seriously looked at Astasia, waiting for her reply.

    Astasia hesitated a bit before remembering the training from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. She revealed a smile and patiently replied, ¡°This fertilizer is used on farms, it can make the crops grow better and have a better chance of surviving. It can increase the crop yield of various crops.¡±

    ¡°Really.¡± The middle aged man¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise, ¡°This thing is actually this amazing?¡±

    Hearing him say this, the people behind became even more impatient.

    ¡°Nonsense, if it wasn¡¯t that amazing, why do you think we would buy it?¡±

    ¡°Right, if it wasn¡¯t this amazing, why would all of us line up here for?¡±

    ¡°Miss Astasia, this fellow actually dares to doubt you, this is simply a joke!¡±

    ......

    Astasia had the same smile as she exined, ¡°Whether it¡¯s this amazing or not, you¡¯ll know after you bring it back to use. But based on your question, I think that this is your first timeing to the Stantine Duchy anding in contact with the fertilizer, right?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± The middle aged man nodded, ¡°Ie from the Candra Empire. I wanted toe here to see all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, but I saw all these people lining up, so I came over to take a look. I never thought that other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there would be an elvenpany here that would even have something as amazing as the fertilizer. This really has opened my eyes.¡±

    Hearing that he was from the Candra Empire, everyone immediately fell silent.

    The Candra Empire for these surrounding small countries was an aloof empire. Someone that came from the Candra Empire was naturally much higher than everyone else in their minds.

    But thinking about this, even if this fellow came from the Candra Empire, he didn¡¯t even know what magic machines are and this was his first time hearing about the fertilizer. Actually, he seemed a bit.....too inexperienced.

    Thinking like this, it didn¡¯t mean much that he came from the Candra Empire.

    Astasia didn¡¯t have the sameplicated thoughts as the surrounding humans. After hearing his introduction, she began giving the sales pitch that she had learned during her training.

    ¡°This customer, since this is your first timeing in contact with the fertilizer, please allow me to introduce this epoch creating product to you......¡±

 Volume 6 39 - Battle on the border

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 39 Battle on the border</h4>

    Half an hourter, old man Walford squeezed out of the crowd and left the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fertilizer warehouse.

    He had a small cart with twenty bags of fertilizer in it following behind him which was being pulled by a healthy leopard beastman,ing to a stop by a small building outside Frestech City.

    ¡°Hey, Walford, this is.....¡± A middle aged man waiting outside the building waved at him, but seeing the little card behind him, he was surprised, ¡°......You¡¯re buying fertilizer?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s fertilizer. I saw many people buying this thing and felt it was quite good after asking about it. Willis, you are more familiar with the Stantine Duchy, tell me, is the fertilizer really that useful?¡±

    The man called Willis was seven to eight years younger than old man Walford. When he heard his question, his face that was considered quite healthy revealed a doubtful look before shaking his head.

    ¡°It is useful, but it¡¯s no use just bringing this bit back. Could it be the people of the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t tell you that with just twenty bags, you can only at most use it on two to three mus ofnd?¡±

    ¡°The beautiful elf miss did tell me this, but I just wanted to give it a try first. If it really is useful, I might buy a bit more next time.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to test it, I can guarantee that this thing is very useful.¡± Willis waved his hand, ¡°The surrounding countries all use this thing, didn¡¯t you see all those people buying it from the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce? But just using fertilizer does have some problems.¡±

    Old man Walford was surprised, ¡°Problems? What problems?¡±

    ¡°Fertilizer can increase the yield of grains, but if you don¡¯t use it with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, the effect isn¡¯t as good. Look, a single mu ofnd in our Yir City can give you a hundred pounds of wheat and even if you use the fertilizer, I estimate it¡¯ll be at most two hundred pounds. Do you know how much wheat the Stantine Duchy can get from a single mu?¡±

    ¡°How much?¡±

    Willis raised a hand.

    ¡°Five hundred pounds?¡± Old man Walford¡¯s eyes popped out in shock, ¡°How could that be possible! How can a single mu give that much of a harvest? You think I haven¡¯t done farming before?¡±

    ¡°Of course I know that you¡¯ve farmed before, but you¡¯ve never used the agricultural magic machines to farm.¡± Willis had a look of disdain, ¡°Let me tell you, if you¡¯ve seen that thing before, you wouldn¡¯t want to tire yourself to death.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that powerful?¡± Old man Walford looked at Willis with doubt. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°Then, should I buy that whatever you called it......the agricultural......agricultural magic machine?¡±

    ¡°Stop dreaming.¡± Willis gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°I already had this idea before, but when I went to buy the agricultural magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they told me that our Candra Empire hasn¡¯t authorized the import of agricultural magic machines. Even if I buy it, I can¡¯t take it back.¡±

    Old man Walford was surprised again, ¡°Why is that? Since it¡¯s useful, why doesn¡¯t the empire allow it to be imported?¡±

    Willis gave a shrug, ¡°How do I know what those noble masters are thinking?¡±

    Old man Walford scratched his head and looked back at the twenty bags of fertilizer. After hesitating a bit, he shook his head, ¡°Forget it, I already bought this, I¡¯ll see how the effects are first.¡±

    He threw a gold coin to the leopard beastman after saying this and had him bring down the twenty bags of fertilizer.

    Watching the leopard beastmen head back to the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce¡¯s warehouse, old man Walford couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°This Stantine Duchy really is strange. Not only did elves start apany, even beastmen areing to work here. If I didn¡¯t see others being used to this already, I wouldn¡¯t have dared to hire them.¡±

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re too inexperienced. If you stay here a bit longer, you¡¯ll be able to see even more novel things.¡± Willis patted old man Walford¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s wait here a bit, the two transport Magic Cars I rented should be here soon. You can put your fertilizer into my car and bring it back.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Old man Walford gave a nod before suddenly asking, ¡°Right, Willis, you said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines can¡¯t be imported, then why can the Magic Fans, the Magic Air Conditioners.....Oh, right, also the Magic Sedan be seen all over the empire? These things are also made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why does the empire allow them to be imported?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, and the other household magic machines, that is because they were first brought in by Hakanin. Do you know Hakanin?¡±

    ¡°The empress¡¯ younger brother?¡± Old man Walford curled his lips with a look of disdain.

    ¡°Hey, don¡¯t look down on him. If it wasn¡¯t for him, do you believe that you would be able to see the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Refrigerator, and all the other good things? As for the Magic Sedan......I heard people say that the secret boss of that Belil Chamber of Commerce is rted to his highness Frank.....¡±

    ¡°Pei.¡± Old man Walford spat on the ground, ¡°In the end, it depends on rtionships with important people. But speaking of this, why haven¡¯t any of the important people or their rtives taken a liking to the agricultural magic machines? If this thing is as easy to use as you say it is, then why isn¡¯t the empire willing to buy it?¡±

    Willis spread his hands, ¡°I¡¯ll still say the same, I don¡¯t know what those important people are thinking.¡±

    Old man Walford helplessly shook his head. He looked at the twenty bags of fertilizer on the ground and gave a sigh, not continuing this conversation.

    After around twenty minutes, the tworge transport Magic Cars that Willis hired arrived. They put the twenty bags of fertilizer that old man Walford bought into one of them and then they got into the same car, heading off in an easterly direction.

    Two dayster, the tworge transport Magic Cars and their cargo had arrived at a certain end of the road to the east of the Rudson Kingdom.

    This ce was around a hundred kilometers away from the border of the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire. Comparing it, it was closer to the Candra Empire than the Norton Duchy, but because there were no roads here, it was much harder to travel.

    This was old man Walford¡¯s first timeing on this path with Willis, so he was a bit surprised.

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing to be surprised about. If we go through the Norton Duchy, not only my goods, even your fertilizer can¡¯t be brought back to the empire. Even the two transport Magic Cars can¡¯t enter the empire.¡± Willis exined.

    ¡°Oh? Why?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you before? The nobles of the empire won¡¯t allow it.¡± Willis said before looking around and then giving a hand signal to the driver.

    The driver nodded to show he understood and with a turn of his hand, therge transport Magic Car charged into the wilderness in front of it.

    Seeing Walford knitting his brows after being jolted beside him, Willis gave augh, ¡°Just endure it for a bit. After another ten kilometers, there will be a patch of t grasnd near the border that will be much smoother.¡±

    Old man Walford¡¯s expression fell, ¡°Willis, if I¡¯m not mistaken, isn¡¯t this called smuggling?¡±

    Willis gave a cold snort, ¡°Of course it¡¯s smuggling. Those noble masters only care about themselves, they don¡¯t care about the benefits of us citizens, so why do we need to think about them? So what if it¡¯s smuggling? As long as we can sell these goods that we bring back, they won¡¯t be anyone who knows that they were smuggled.¡±

    Old man Walford shook his head. Although he didn¡¯t agree with this, he didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Actually, he had traveled all over when he was younger and had seen many things, so he wasn¡¯t that prejudiced against smuggling.

    Only this was his first time experiencing it which made him feel a bit strange.

    The tworge transport Magic Cars drove across the wide open space at around forty kilometers per hour. It seemed like everything was going smoothly at first, but once the green entered their view and the grasnd that Willis mentioned before approached, Willis suddenly looked behind them and his expression changed.

    ¡°Damn! It¡¯s the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards! Quickly!¡±

    Old man Walford turned back to look and found that one the horizon behind them, there were five strange looking Magic Cars that were quickly heading towards them.

    ¡°Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards? They actually aren¡¯t riding horses?¡± Old man Walford had a confused look on his face.

    ¡°Other than the outdated armies of our empire, no one rides horses these days. Really......¡± Willis muttered before patting the shoulder of the driver and loudly saying, ¡°Go quicker! Those fellows are about to catch up!¡±

    The driver stepped down hard and therge transport Magic Car the three of them were in sped up, also making the jolts even stronger.

    However, the speed of arge transport Magic Car was limited. It was clear that it couldn¡¯tpare to the Armoured Magic Cars provided to the border guards, so the distance between them slowly closed.

    ¡°What do we do if we¡¯re caught?¡± Seeing the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards were about to catch them, old man Walford couldn¡¯t help shouting out in a worried voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, we¡¯ll be fine as long as we get past these grasnds. There¡¯s a border guard group from our empire there and the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards won¡¯t dare chase us there. Quickly!¡±

    Willis desperately roared out and therge transport Magic Car under them charged forward, desperately driving across the several hundred meters of grasnd under them.

    ¡°You actually bought out the empire¡¯s border guards?¡± Old man Walford looked at the grasnd in shock and saw that there was a small group on horses that had appeared.

    Based on the g they had, they should be the soldiers of the Candra Empire.

    Seeing this g, old man Walford let out a sigh of relief.

    Since Willis had bribed the empire¡¯s border guards, everything was much easier.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards wouldn¡¯t dare move against the soldiers of the Candra Empire no matter what, it was a road of death.

    However, at this time, old man Walford suddenly heard a strange howling sound from behind them.

    Turning around, he saw a fireball flying high above them.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    Although the fireball was a bit off, hitting the ground by therge transport Magic Car, there was a strong shockwave that shook the entire car.

    ¡°Damn, they actually dared to make a move against us! Quick! Quick! Quick! There¡¯s still a few hundred meters!¡±

    Willis loudly shouted as therge transport Magic Car also desperately charged forward.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s border guards had also seen this and after hesitating a bit, they turned and charged over.

    While charging over, they raised their g high up. It was clear they wanted to use the name of the Candra Empire to scare off the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards.

    At this time, there was a fireball that suddenly flew through the sky and passed over the tworge transport Magic Cars, flying out several hundred meters tond right in the Candra Empire¡¯s border guard group.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With a loud explosion, several people in the Candra Empire¡¯s border guard were sent flying covered in mes.

    Willis stopped shouting and watched the pitiful Candra Empire border guards with the same look of disbelief as old man Walford.

    The Rudson Kingdom border guard fellows, they actually.....they actually dared to make a move!

 Volume 6 40 - Compensation

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 40 Compensation</h4>

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know about what happened on the border of the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, but after fall came, the Rudson Kingdom suddenly ordered arge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which made him a bit vignt.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom had always ordered arge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could share the same amount of military magic machines with them as they did with the Lampuri Kingdom, they did hold back and didn¡¯t make any requests that went over the bottom line.

    But this time, not only did the Rudson Kingdom increase their demand for military magic machines, they went from the few Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows before to requestingrge amounts of Magic Cannons and other high end military magic machines.

    Moreover, in order to make sure the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would fulfill this order, the Rudson Kingdom sent a delegate that had given three conditions the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t deny.

    The first waspletely opening up the local mineral market in the Rudson Kingdom to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There would be no limits to the mineral resources of the Rudson Kingdom towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Second, they allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to directly invest in mines in the Rudson Kingdom, giving them a certain degree of control over these mines.

    Third, they would reduce the various tariffs the Rudson Kingdom had on the various Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines. They would also set up a tariff free zone near the Azshara Tribe at the border between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom. The magic machine products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold here would be exempt from paying tariffs.

    It had to be said, these three conditions had quite a few benefits for the Frestech Chamber Commerce, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being moved.

    But before agreeing to this, Xu Yi had to confirm something.

    ¡°The Rudson Kingdom is trying to build up their military. Seveni, are you certain that they won¡¯t n on dering war on your Lampuri Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows as he asked Seveni who was sitting in front of him, sipping some fruit juice.

    ¡°I¡¯m not 100% certain.¡± Seveni put down the juice and thought about it before shaking her head, ¡°But I don¡¯t think the Rudson Kingdom is building up their military because they want to dere war on us because there are no benefits for them. Last month, our two countries signed many deals in terms of agriculture and magic machines. If they wanted to dere war on us, why would they waste all this effort?¡±

    ¡°Un, I also feel that unless the Rudson Kingdom has gone crazy, they wouldn¡¯t dere war on you. But they are suddenly giving us such surprising conditions, it really does make me feel a bit unsettled.¡± Xu Yi said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Seveni, based on your perspective, what do you think they are doing? I don¡¯t believe that they would give such great benefits to ourpany for no reason.¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°Xu YI, you are only worried that the Rudson Kingdom would dere war on our Lampuri Kingdom. Have you ever thought that our Lampuri Kingdom would dere war on the Rudson Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°How could that be possible? Unless you¡¯re crazy.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not crazy, so this is impossible. But Xu, if you were King Teruc, knowing that there¡¯s a country that is at the same level as you, but has a more powerful military, wouldn¡¯t you feel unsettled?¡±

    Xu Yi had a thought, ¡°You mean......The Rudson Kingdom is only trying to catch up in terms of military magic machines with your Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°It should be this.¡± Seveni turned to look to the southeast and continued with a smile, ¡°With a dangerous fellow beside you, wouldn¡¯t that make anyone unsettled?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what these kings are thinning. If you really are that rich, why don¡¯t you use it to improve the lives of your citizens? I am clearly willing to cooperate in terms of household magic machines, but King Teruc is never willing to make this decision. Now he paid such arge price for some military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°You actually know the reason don¡¯t you? You¡¯re just not willing to admit it.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°Even if you have something good, without enough strength to protect it, it¡¯s like a bag of gold coins in the hands of a child, it will be dangerous.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, I understand this logic, but I don¡¯t want to admit it. Forget it, I won¡¯t care about what King Teruc is thinking. Seveni, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Is what I think that important?¡± Seveni tilted her head to look at Xu Yi, acting a bit naughty.

    It was probably only in front of Xu Yi that the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom would act like a little girl like this.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s important. If the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s military strength increases, it will affect your Lampuri Kingdom. So this time I came to see you to hear your thoughts on this matter.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°My thoughts......It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Seveni replied with a rxed look, ¡°Anyway, anyway, even if yourpany agrees to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s request, their military magic machines wouldn¡¯t be above or below our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s, right? Since that¡¯s the case, they won¡¯t pose any threat to us. For our two countries, the best situation is if our strength is around the same and neither one of us is stronger, that way there are more benefits to cooperating.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, showing he understood.

    In the end, it was all about bnce.

    Whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom, if one of the countries was much stronger, bad things would happen because of the imbnce.

    But these two countries weren¡¯t the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire, so they wouldn¡¯t only consider the threat of each other without caring about anything else.

    The Rudson Kingdom had the giant Candra Empire to their side, so it was impossible for them not to care.

    Buying arge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time is mainly to protect themselves.

    But the order was too sudden and the conditions they gave were too good, so Xu Yi was a bit doubtful.

    But for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s conditions were not something they could resist. Xu Yi had also learned the stance of the Lampuri Kingdom who were their biggest partners from Seveni, so there was no need to worry. Xu Yi decided to ept the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s order and give them all new military magic machines.

    Of course, while giving the Rudson Kingdom benefits, he couldn¡¯t let the Lampuri Kingdom suffer.

    Xu Yi took out a document for Seveni.

    ¡°My trip this time, other than asking about the stance of your Lampuri Kingdom, was to also tell you some good news.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°What good news?¡± Seveni was surprised as she took this document.

    ¡°You¡¯ll know once you see this.¡±

    Seveni opened the document and immediately sat up in surprise.

    ¡°The Magic Airships are finally being mass produced? That¡¯s great!¡± Seveni quickly looked over the document before slightly knitting her brows, ¡°This year you can give.....five ships? Isn¡¯t that too little?¡±

    Seeing Seveni look ofint, Xu Yi spread his hands in surrender with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me, I can¡¯t do anything. The production capacity is only this high and I have to provide them to the guards first. Being able to put aside five for you this year was already quite hard.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with an aggrieved look, ¡°Don¡¯t forget that you promised to give us one hundred Magic Airships back then, I signed the agreement without any hesitation. Now that all these years have passed, you¡¯ve only given me five......¡±

    Xu Yi had the same bitter smile, ¡°You have to understand that things that can fly in the air aren¡¯t something that arepletely safe, how could I give them away so easily? To develop this thing, our researchers haven¡¯t taken a long vacation in all these years, so you should understand their hard work.¡±

    Seveni suddenly revealed a smile, ¡°The one who should understand the hard work of your chief Evita isn¡¯t me, shouldn¡¯t it be you as the sir chairman?¡±

    Xu Yi ignored her teasing and pointed at the document.

    ¡°Sign it if you don¡¯t have any problems. Send some people to ourpany next month to take the Magic Airship and to take some basic training. Otherwise, even if I give you this thing, you won¡¯t be able to use it.¡±

    ¡°Understood, great chairman Xu.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t hesitate to sign her name on the contract. Then she took out a piece of paper which she handed to Xu Yi and suddenly said, ¡°Right, Xu Yi, although I don¡¯t believe the Rudson Kingdom would act hostile towards us, but it¡¯s good to be careful, so shouldn¡¯t we take some precautions?¡±

    ¡°For example?¡±

    ¡°For example, you can sell us some higher grade military magic machines? I¡¯ve heard that yourpany has recently invented some Magic Tanks, can you sell us a few?¡±

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Xu Yi immediately denied this, ¡°The Magic Tanks are still being developed, they can¡¯t be sold at all. It¡¯ll take at least three years before they can go into mass production.¡±

    ¡°Then how about some Magic Rockets and some Magic Artillery......¡±

    ¡°That is also impossible, I¡¯m not nning on selling those to others for now.¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help ring at Xu Yi, ¡°That means that you are only nning on sending me five Magic Airships?¡±

    Xu Yiughed before taking out another document for Seveni.

    ¡°Don¡¯t just focus on the military magic machines. Here, I don¡¯t believe that you won¡¯t be interested in this.¡±

    Seveni doubtfully took the document before her eyes lit up.

 Volume 6 41 - Give the Rudson Kingdom a lesson

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 41 Give the Rudson Kingdom a lesson</h4>

    General Forex looked up and gave a loud yawn.

    He had been wildly ying with two girls in his tentst night, so he couldn¡¯t sleep well all night. Now that noon was alreadying, he still couldn¡¯t regain his vigor.

    Looking up at the hot autumn sun, general Forex felt a bit annoyed at heart.

    He couldn¡¯t stay home in this damn weather, he had toe several hundred kilometers to this damn ce, so he really wasn¡¯t happy.

    But this was an order that came from headquarters, so even if he was themander of the third defence army¡¯s fourth regiment, he couldn¡¯t go against these orders.

    ¡°Damn Rudson Kingdom, I really don¡¯t know what kind of craziness they¡¯ve gained, actually daring to make a move against me. I don¡¯t know where they got this kind of courage.¡± General Forex muttered before gently kicking the mount underneath him, picking up his speed. He headed to the grasnd that was on the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom.

    A week ago, the seventh squad of the third army¡¯s fourth regiment had been attacked by the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards here. Only two out of the fifteen people had escaped, the other thirteen had all been annihted.

    After news spread, it created a shock in the empire.

    The emperor was furious over this matter and immediately overruled the parliament¡¯s decision to have the Rudson Kingdom give an exnation, as well as their decision to forgive this matter overpensation. He gave the order to the army to immediately retaliate against the Rudson Kingdom.

    This order was fully supported by the military.

    Since the Candra Empire had been founded, although they suffered quite a few times at the hands of the Marlow Empire, other than the Marlow Empire, had any other small countries on the continent dared to disrespect the Candra Empire?

    Not to mention the reports from the ones who had escaped, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s soldiers had been the ones to make a move first this time!

    This was simply open provocation!

    This could even be considered a direct challenge to the Candra Empire!

    Under the rage of the emperor, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal army only used three days to finish a n for their retaliation against the Rudson Kingdom.

    And a week after this matter, general Forex had brought three thousand soldiers of the third army¡¯s fourth regiment to cross the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom, directly entering the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s territory.

    General Forex¡¯s task this time was very simple, it was to directlyunch an attack on the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s third regiment on the border. They were to deal as many casualties as possible, dealing arge retaliation to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards fromst time.

    Although ording to the reports, the third regiment had over six thousand people, because they were guarding such a long border, it was impossible for them to be gathered in one spot, so they had to be spread out.

    Even if they were gathered together, general Forex was still confident that he could easily defeat them.

    In the end, the other side was only the army of a small kingdom like the Rudson Kingdom. It was even an issue of if they could arm all six thousand troops in full equipment, so how could they fight against the Candra Empire¡¯s third army that was fully equipped.

    ¡°How far is it?¡± General Forex asked his lieutenant on the side.

    The lieutenant looked up before looking at the map in his hand, saying in an uncertain voice, ¡°It should be another twenty kilometers from here, then we should be a the base of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s third regiment.¡±

    ¡°Twenty kilometers?¡± General Forex gave a scoff, ¡°It really is a small country, twenty kilometers is very far for them? Ha, ha......¡±

    The lieutenantughed along, also looking very rxed.

    The small Rudson Kingdom dared to challenge the Candra Empire, they could only wait to be punished.

    It would better if they did dare resist because the royal army would have a good reason to start a war with the Rudson Kingdom.

    As long as the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t interfere this time, the empire might be able to swallow this small country and increase the size of the empire again.

    Of course, that was only the ideal situation.

    The army headquarters was only nning on teaching the Rudson Kingdom a lesson before making thempensate the empire.

    Even if they couldn¡¯t swallow them, making them dependent on the empire and contributing everything they had to them was a pretty good choice.

    General Forex led the third army¡¯s fourth regiment which was only called the vanguard of this operation.

    Of course, Forex didn¡¯t think that he was just the vanguard.

    Because the two empires had been simr in strength, so there hadn¡¯t been any big moves from either armies in twenty years. Now that there was finally a good chance, if he could give a good performance this time and achieve some merit, he might be able to receive a promotion.

    Thinking of this, Forex became excited. He forced himself to focus and loudly shouted at his subordinates to move faster.

    Seeing that they were halfway across these grasnds, the scout from ahead suddenly came back.

    ¡°General, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army is ahead!¡± The two scouts were panting as they reported to Forex.

    Forex saw how they were panting and how nervous they looked, so he scolded with a smile, ¡°So what if you found them, what are you nervous about? Brothers, prepare yourselves to meet the enemy at any moment!¡±

    The two scouts looked at each other and one of them hesitated before saying, ¡°General, this Rudson Kingdom army is a bit.....a bit strange......¡±

    ¡°Strange?¡± Forex looked at them in surprise before waving his hand, ¡°How strange can they be? Forget it, stop wasting words and go search a bit more. Report when you find the enemy location, I want to find a good ce to engage them from. Right, I forgot to ask, how many of them are there?¡±

    The two scouts both had strange expressions before shaking their heads.

    ¡°Un......Unclear.¡±

    ¡°Unclear?¡± Forex looked at the two in surprise, ¡°Are your brains broken? I wanted you to scout out the enemy, but you don¡¯t even know how many people they have? What use do you have then?¡±

    The two scouts looked at each other and they both revealed bitter smiles.

    ¡°General, we didn¡¯t see people at all. We only saw......strange looking vehicles.....¡±

    ¡°Strange looking vehicles?¡±

    Forex was surprised. When he wanted to ask them again, the lieutenant beside him suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted out.

    ¡°Look! There are enemies!¡±

    Forex looked at the grasnds in the distance in surprise. There were several dozen ck figures that were moving at a speed that was hard to imagine.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? What horses are that fast? No, they don¡¯t seem like horses, horses aren¡¯t that big.....¡±

    Forex was stunned as he watched those figures approach. When they came close, he found that they weren¡¯t horses at all, they were strange ck monsters that seemed to be made of iron.

    If he looked carefully, he could still see that there were four sturdy wheels under these iron monsters supporting them.

    This made Forex immediately react. These strange looking things were like the Magic Sedans that were popr among the nobles of the empire, but their appearances were a bit different.

    Just what was this thing?

    But Forex didn¡¯t have the time to slowly consider this. The ck figures moved very quickly and they were only less than two kilometers away from them.

    Seeing that his subordinates were a bit panicked because of these strange things, Forex shouted, ¡°All of you calm down! Pay attention and prepare to meet the enemies!¡±

    Perhaps it had been a long time since the Candra Empire army had been in a war, the subordinates of general Forex were in a bit of panic and their formation was in a bit of a mess.

    Forex didn¡¯t have time to make adjustments, so with an order, countless arrows suddenly flew out.

    However, under this rain of arrows, hitting the strange looking Magic Cars, there wasn¡¯t any damage at all. Many of the arrows had even snapped in two when they hit.

    Forex was stunned. When he was about to order another attack, the strange looking Magic Cars suddenly stopped.

    The Magic Car that was in front suddenly opened and two heads popped out.

    ¡°We are the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s third border defense regiment here to issue a warning to you. You have stepped onto the territory of our Rudson Kingdom without permission, please leave here immediately!¡±

    ¡°Hei, say all the nonsense you want.¡± Forex curled his lips and waved his hand.

    The lieutenant understood and turned to give another order.

    Countless ming arrows flew out at the other side.

    Forex had seen that normal arrows didn¡¯t deal any damage to the other side, so he directly changed to ming arrows.

    In the Magic Armoured Vehicle several hundred meters away, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s third regiment¡¯s vicemander Vycarlos saw the fire arrows in the sky and took a deep breath. He quickly went back into the car and closed the door above him before taking out a Magic Communicator to say in a low voice, ¡°Sending down orders. All troops move back to a safe distance and prepare to counterattack.¡±

    Forex was a bit surprised that these fire arrows didn¡¯t do anything, but suddenly seeing the several dozen Magic Armoured Vehicles drawing back, he immediately shouted out, ¡°Those fellows want to retreat! Chase them for me!¡±

    However, the Magic Armoured Vehicles were faster than them and they were instantly two kilometers away.

    While Forex was anxious, the Magic Armoured Vehicles all stopped and aimed forward again.

    ¡°Damn, are they ying me?¡± Forex was filled with rage.

    When he wanted to send down the order to attack, he heard countless arrows flying through the air. At the same time, there were several hundred dense glows that came from the Magic Armoured Vehicles, flying towards them.

    Forex¡¯s angry heart felt a deep sense of danger and he shouted, ¡°Put up our defense!¡± Without another word, he directly fell off his horse.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Countless explosions rang out and there was a giant shockwave that made Forex roll several times on the ground.

    When his heart was filled with terror, he sensed several arrows falling down and deeply driving themselves into his body.

    Forex only had time to give a low roar as his eyes widened before his legs stiffened and he couldn¡¯t be any more dead.

 Volume 6 42 - The Rudson Kingdom will definitely lose?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 42 The Rudson Kingdom will definitely lose?</h4>

    If it was said that no one knew about the border conflict between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire because it was too small, after this battle happened by the border where both sides sent out thousands of soldiers, it was impossible to keep this hidden.

    When this matter was revealed, it shocked everyone.

    ording to the information announced by the Rudson Kingdom, the Candra Empire¡¯s third border guard¡¯s fourth regiment arbitrarily entered the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s orders. They refused to retreat after the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guard gave them a warning and even took the initiative to attack the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guard.

    Then the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guard was forced to fight back and after a fierce fight, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards wiped out the Candra Empire¡¯s third border guard¡¯s fourth regiment.

    The Candra Empire also confirmed this matter by announcing the same thing as the Rudson Kingdom. They acknowledged that their third border guard army¡¯s fourth regiment had entered the Rudson Kingdom.

    But the Candra Empire also imed that their third border guard army¡¯s fourth regiment had only entered because merchants of the Candra Empire had been blocked and injured by the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards for no reason. So they sent their border guards into the Rudson Kingdom to investigate, but the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army had been waiting in ambush and heavily injured them.

    In short, the Candra Empire acknowledged this fight, but they imed the Rudson Kingdom was the one who ambushed them and all their actions were justified.

    As for the casualties, the Rudson Kingdom had stated they had wiped out the third border guard¡¯s fourth regiment, while the Candra Empire stated they had suffered heavy casualties without publishing their number of casualties.

    But no matter what the details were, through the statements of both sides, there was one powerful matter that was confirmed.

    Just this one fact was enough to shock the entire continent.

    Someone had actually dared to fight the army of the Candra Empire?

    On the continent, only the Marlow Empire could be considered an equal for the Candra Empire, which other country dared to go against them?

    This was simply seeking death!

    There were many people who had deduced a shocking result from the announcements of the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire.

    Everything had been nned by the Candra Empire!

    The Candra Empire¡¯s real goal was to annex the Rudson Kingdom!

    And through this event, the Candra Empire now had an excuse to invade the Rudson Kingdom!

    If it really was like this, the details of the event didn¡¯t matter. What people really cared about was that after the Candra Empire had been silent for all these years, they were now opening their mouths to swallow the smaller countries of the continent.

    There had been a twenty year peace on the continent since thest war between the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, but now war might break out once again.

    And the Rudson Kingdom would be the first sacrifice in this war......

    ¡°Hei, those fellows are that certain that the Candra Empire will be able to swallow the Rudson Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi put down the newspapers in his hand and gave augh, ¡°Have they thought that this time, the Candra Empire might not be able to swallow the Rudson Kingdom, they might even lose their teeth from biting down on it?¡±

    The people in the conference room looked at each other in nk dismay.

    After a pause, Heinz said with a dryugh, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re thinking too much. The difference between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom is like heaven and earth. Now that the Candra Empire had made up their minds to swallow the Rudson Kingdom, I feel that the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s fate is already decided. There are no other possibilities.¡±

    ¡°So you all think that the Rudson Kingdom is definitely finished?¡± Xu Yi looked around as he asked this.

    Including the CEO Kennard, all the other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, including the magic research facility¡¯s chief Evita all gave nods.

    ¡°This means that you all agree to the idea Kennard proposed, cutting off all contact with the Rudson Kingdom, especially providing them with the military magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    This time, no one gave a certain nod.

    Because based on Xu Yi¡¯s expression, it seemed like he didn¡¯t agree to Kennard¡¯s proposal.

    The conference was silent for a bit before Heinz gave a cough and decided to take the lead.

    Out of the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only he could rely on his status as Xu Yi¡¯s first partner and the second biggest shareholder of thepany to question Xu Yi¡¯s decisions. The others didn¡¯t have the same confidence.

    ¡°Xu Yi, actually......Kennard is just thinking about thepany¡¯s future. Think about it, the Candra Empire has made it clear they want to dere war on the Rudson Kingdom, so if we continue supporting the Rudson Kingdom, especially giving them military magic machines, wouldn¡¯t we be putting ourselves on the side of the Candra Empire¡¯s enemies? That really would meanpletely offending the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right, so what about it?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°What about it?¡± Heinz slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, I don¡¯t need to tell you about the consequences, right? First, let¡¯s not mention that afterpletely offending the Candra Empire, ourpany will not be able to enter their market. If the Candra Empire really takes us as enemies, can you really not imagine the consequences?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s that serious. In the end, that is all based on the premise that the Rudson Kingdom will lose in their war against the Candra Empire.¡±

    Everyone thought that this was nonsense, but Xu Yi clearly didn¡¯t agree, so they could only keep silent.

    ¡°If one looks at it from an investment perspective, if the Rudson Kingdom loses, our investment in them will all go to waste and we will have offended a superrge customer, even bringing very serious consequences to ourselves. It could be said that losing is naturally scary. But I still want to say, are you all that certain that the Rudson Kingdom will lose?¡±

    Kennard who had been silent the entire time couldn¡¯t hold back anymore, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that you really think the Rudson Kingdom will win?¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t they?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°I have the report on the results from the two countries in my hand. ording to the report, in the battle, the Candra Empire¡¯s third border guard¡¯s fourth regiment was close to being wiped out, with only a hundred cavalry escaping. As for the Rudson Kingdom......Can you guess their casualties?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before the household magic machine department¡¯s manager Ankhto said, ¡°Based on sir chairman¡¯s words, it should be much less than the losses of the Candra Empire. Since the Candra Empire¡¯s third border guard¡¯s fourth regiment had three thousand people, the Rudson Kingdom should have.....had less than a thousand casualties?¡±

    ¡°No, too much.¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? It was only a few hundred?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his right hand with a smile and his thumb and index finger came together to form a zero.

    Of course, no one in this world could understand this hand gesture.

    Seeing that everyone was confused, Xu Yi reacted and quickly exined, ¡°ording to the reports, the losses on the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s side was.....zero! This means that they didn¡¯t suffer a single casualty!¡±

    ¡°How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°This is impossible!¡±

    ¡°Too much! How could it be zero?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s impossible that not a single person was hurt, this is too fake!¡±

    ......

    The entire room was filled with an uproar.

    Xu Yi smiled as he watched everyone discuss this. After a while, Kennard knitted his brows and said, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, even if the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s casualties in this battle really are zero, I¡¯m still strongly against this. In a war between two countries, what decides the results is not a single battle, but theparative national strength between the two countries. The Candra Empire is countless times bigger than the Rudson Kingdom, so I don¡¯t think that the Rudson Kingdom has any hope in winning this.¡±

    Hearing Kennard¡¯s words, everyone revealed a look of respect.

    The Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire had been on the continent for over a thousand years, they had already deeply rooted as the most powerful in everyone¡¯s minds.

    This was something that for most of the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the Lampuri Kingdom was imprinted very deeply in their minds.

    The Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t even fight a small country like the Sack Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom was only a bit stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom, so they were still far from being able topare to the Sack Kingdom. How could they even bepared to the Candra Empire?

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom could win a few fights with luck, the national strength of the two countries were too farcking. The Rudson Kingdom being defeated was the only ending.

    This was something that everyone on the continent had agreed on.

    The only one who didn¡¯t agree was this sir chairman in front of them who always had a different opinion than everyone.

    Seeing that everyone had a look of worry in their eyes, Xu Yi gave a sigh deep down.

    It was impossible to convince them with just words. Although he could use his authority as the chairman to suppress this, this would easily affect the cohesiveness of thepany which would not equate their gains.

    ¡°Alright, since you don¡¯t believe in the Rudson Kingdom, then let¡¯s not discuss this for now.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But I believe that it won¡¯t take long before you all regret what you¡¯ve said today.¡±

 Volume 6 43 - Establishing prestige

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 43 Establishing prestige</strong>

    King Teruc read the report in his hand and he had a slightly sunken look on his face at first, but he slowly revealed a faint smile as he reached the end of it.

    When he finished reading it, he folded it up and his expression became calm again as a strong confidence filled his eyes.

    ¡°Did chairman Xu have anything else to say to you?¡± King Teruc asked Newman standing in front of him.

    Newman gave a bow and replied, ¡°Before leaving the Stantine Duchy, chairman Xu found me in secret to have me bring some words back to your majesty.¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu said although it seems like the Rudson Kingdom is in a crisis this time, this is actually a very good chance. At the same time, it was also a very good chance for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Just this?¡±

    ¡°Un, just this.¡±

    King Teruc fell silently into thought for a bit, looking at the letter in his hand. After thinking for a bit, it was as if he had thought of something as he revealed a faint smile.

    ¡°Very good, it seems like chairman Xu¡¯s ambitions are even bigger than I thought. That is very good.¡±

    Newman looked at King Teruc in surprise. He thought that it was because chairman Xu and his majesty were both very ambitious people, that was why they had reached this agreement.

    This time after fighting the Candra Empire, the entire Rudson Kingdom had fallen into chaos. Everyone was worried that the Candra Empire would startunching powerful retaliation against the Rudson Kingdom because of this, even destroying the Rudson Kingdom.

    In this situation, the first thing King Teruc thought about was not how to recover from the influence of this matter and find a solution with the Candra Empire. Rather he mobilized the Rudson Kingdom and prepared to fight the Candra Empire.

    Because of the actions of King Teruc, many nobles of the Rudson Kingdom became even more worried and there was an undercurrent surging in the kingdom. Countless nobles had used various methods to ask King Teruc to seek reconciliation with the Candra Empire, hoping that they wouldn¡¯t truly go to war with the Candra Empire.

    But King Teruc didn¡¯t care about them at all and continued to prepare for war.

    If it was in another small country, that country would have already fallen into chaos. However, in the Rudson Kingdom, the royal family represented by King Teruc had full control of the Rudson Kingdom, so the other nobles couldn¡¯t influence him at all.

    Now that King Teruc had made a decision, the other nobles in the kingdom were at their wits end. There were many nobles families that were secretly shifting their family out of the Rudson Kingdom to avoid this cmity.

    King Teruc was aware of what was happening in the kingdom, but he acted like he didn¡¯t see it at all and didn¡¯t care about it. He was focusing most of his attention on preparing for war and a bit of his attention on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border guards had shed with the smuggling merchants on the Candra Empire borders, King Teruc had already given the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many favourable conditions in hopes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support them within military magic machines.

    Now that the conflict between sides had truly erupted, King Teruc immediately sent Newman, who was the most familiar with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy, to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on his behalf.

    It should be said that the results of the negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weren¡¯t ideal.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce weed Newman like usual, Newman could clearly feel that the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were only being polite to him. When he tried to discuss the matter of cooperation, whether it was the CEO Kennard or the other high level members, they went to do something else, shifted the topic, or weren¡¯t willing to discuss this.

    When Newman started discussing the matter of buying military magic machines, Kennard and the other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all cold towards him.

    After being in the Stantine Duchy for a week, Newman already understood the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stance.

    It was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had scruples about being involved between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire. They weren¡¯t willing to meddle, so they weren¡¯t willing to offend the Candra Empire by supporting the Rudson Kingdom.

    This result was not that surprising for Newman. Before he hade to the Stantine Duchy, the people in the Rudson Kingdom had already predicted this.

    In the end,pared to the giant Candra Empire, the Rudson Kingdom really was insignificant.

    Even if Newman was in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current position, he would have the same attitude as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, when Newman left the Stantine Duchy in disappointment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu who had never appeared appeared in front of Newman.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say much to Newman in private, he just gave him a letter for King Teruc while also letting him bring some words to King Teruc.

    However, just a single letter and a few words had made King Teruc who had a dark look on his face because of the attitude of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fill with confidence again.

    This made Newman very confused.

    His majesty had suddenly changed, it was clear that Xu Yi¡¯s letter had shown his support for the Rudson Kingdom.

    However, since Xu Yi supported the Rudson Kingdom, why did the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have such an attitude when they met Newman?

    Could it be that they had a different idea as Xu Yi who was the chairman?

    If that were true, didn¡¯t that mean that there was a serious problem in Xu Yi¡¯s control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even to the point that the high level members were going against him?

    But this problem would be even more serious because even if Xu Yi promised something to his majesty in his letter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might not go through with it.

    Why did Xu Yi have him bring back this letter and these words?

    However, King Teruc acted like there was no problem at all. After reading the letter and knowing what Xu Yi said, he became much more spirited and filled with confidence, which was just too strange.

    The only exnation was that Xu Yi had added something that Newman didn¡¯t know about in that letter, which made his majesty regain confidence in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Newman.¡± King Teruc suddenly called out, cutting through Newman¡¯s thoughts.

    ¡°Ah? Ah, your majesty, do you have some orders?¡±

    ¡°There will be some representatives from some Lampuri Kingdompaniesing over the next few days, you¡¯ll be in charge of them. You have to properly entertain them, understood?¡±

    Newman was stunned.

    Why would the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯spany representativese now?

    Moreover, why did he never hear about this before?

    He looked at the letter in King Teruc¡¯s hand and Newman had a thought.

    Could it be that this was what Xu Yi had written in the letter?

    But how is that rted to the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that his majesty needed?

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    The bright fall sun fell down onto the endless seas. Although it wasn¡¯t as hot as it was during the summer, the light reflected on the sea was so bright that people couldn¡¯t stare right at it.

    Russell was standing on the deck of a guard ship, narrowing his eyes to look at the horizon. Through the report of the guard ship captain, he knew that the line in front of them had passed the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom, so they had entered the Rudson Kingdom.

    Actually, the concept of sea area didn¡¯t exist in Russell¡¯s mind before.

    What sea area, the ces that the royal navy went all belonged to them!

    However with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, this concept began to spread with the actions of their guard fleet and their transport fleet moving all across the oceans.

    ording to the idea of sea area that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had proposed, each country would have control over the seas twenty kilometers away from their territory.

    Entering the sea areas of other countries would be equal to invading them.

    So by this concept, the Candra Empire¡¯s third royal fleet that Russell was leading was currently invading the sea area of the Rudson Kingdom, which was equal to invading the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s territory.

    But.....so what?

    This time the fleet that Russell led only had three guard ships and fifty Thunderp Grade Giant Warships with the goal of invading the Rudson Kingdom.

    ording to the ns of the royal army, Russell would lead his fleet to attack from the southern coast and then head north. Their final goal was to reach the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s capital of Caraca City where they would meet with thend army and destroy this impudent small Rudson Kingdom in one fell swoop.

    No one in the empire doubted this n because to everyone, a small country like the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t resist the Candra Empire at all. The only way to reduce their casualties was to not resist at all and surrender, bing a vassal of the empire.

    But based on the conflict between the two countries, this damn small country didn¡¯t show any signs of giving up at all, their king had even actively prepared for war.

    This had greatly injured the pride of the generals in the royal army.

    This small and insignificant country actually dared to resist!

    The empire¡¯s army hadn¡¯t had a war in twenty years, so the army headquarters wanted to treat this opportunity as a training exercise. They had sent out five regiments at once, which were filled with fifty thousand elite soldiers and even sent out the royal navy to work with them.

    They wanted to smash this arrogant small country in a single breath and show the dignity of the empire across the continent!

    However, when Russell looked into the distance, there was a bit of uneasiness that filled his heart.

    Can the n of the army headquarters really go that smoothly?

    At this time, he noticed that there were several ships made of iron quicklying across the horizon.

 Volume 6 44 - I am not related to the FresteChapter Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 44 I am not rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    There was no need for good vision, Russell could tell with a single look that this was the guard fleet from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There was no other reason, it was that on these endless seas, other than the three guard ships that the Candra Empire¡¯s navy had, there was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with these iron monsters.

    Seeing these ten ships approaching, Russell slightly knitted his brows.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet suddenly appearing here created a bad premonition in his heart.

    Not long after, the ten ships were already not far away from them and began decreasing their speed.

    ¡°Sir Russell, what do these fellows want to do?¡± Commander Tom, who was in charge of the third fleet standing beside Russell, knitted his brows as he asked this.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.....Let¡¯s first stop and take a look.¡± Russell shook his head as he said this.

    ¡°Stop?¡± Tom was stunned, ¡°Sir Russell, we are in the middle of a mission, how can we stop? If these fellows don¡¯t move, then we should just take care of them.¡±

    Russell looked at him, ¡°Are you confident in taking care of them?¡±

    Tom¡¯s expression froze and he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    When the Candra Empire navy was unaware of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ship before, they thought that the Candra Empire navy was still the strongest in the world and that no one in this world would dare to block their navy on the endless seas.

    But after having experienced the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, they realized that there was a fleet that could surpass their imaginations.

    The most important thing was that after the Candra Empire navy ordered three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in their internal training exercises, these three ships were countless times stronger than the other ships. It even created a new understanding in the navy.

    The guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t follow the traditional concept of ships, so whenparing it, it was like a fully armed adult fighting a child. It could be said that there was no chance of winning at all.

    In their exercises, just with three guard ships, they had easily defeated a fleet that wasposed of several dozen traditional ships. They had even won in a manner where the other side couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    Now there were more than ten of these ships in front of them and they were operated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. How could Tom be confident in beating them?

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop first. I don¡¯t think that they will really dare make a move against us, perhaps it¡¯s just a coincidence.¡±

    Although Russell said this, he didn¡¯t think this in his heart.

    Although the endless seas were broad, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet had appeared as soon as the Candra Empire¡¯s navy entered the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s sea area, this was too much of a coincidence.

    After a while, the fleets of both sides stopped with two kilometers between them. Then Russell came up to the deck and the Magic Communicator there had a voiceing out of it.

    ¡°Is the other side the Candra Empire¡¯s navy? I am the previous Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯smander Leslie. Is there someone on your ship that I¡¯m familiar with?¡±

    Russell and Tom looked at each other before Russell gave a cough and replied, ¡°Sir Leslie, hello, I am Russell.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Sir Russell is there? That¡¯s great.¡± Leslie¡¯s voice had a trace of pleasant surprise in it, ¡°Sir Russell, it isn¡¯t convenient talking like this, can we talk face to face?¡±

    Russell slightly knitted his brows, ¡°We are on a mission, I can¡¯t find the time to talk to you face to face.¡±

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°Sir Russell, the matter that I want to discuss is rted to you mission this time.¡±

    Russell knitted his brows and Tom took over, ¡°Sir Leslie, I¡¯m sorry, we are undertaking an important task. I have to ask you to lead your subordinates out of the way and not waste our time.¡±

    ¡°If I don¡¯t?¡±

    Tom¡¯s brows jumped up and he shouted, ¡°Sir Leslie, what is the meaning of this? Do you know that if you intentionally block us like this, it is equal to dering war on us? Are you sure what the consequences of this are?¡±

    ¡°I do, so I came here.¡± Leslie¡¯s tone was very casual.

    Tom was filled with rage and wanted to keep talking, but Russell stopped him.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, what do you mean by this?¡± Russell asked in a deep voice.

    ¡°I just said it, I won¡¯t let you go over.¡±

    Hearing the same calm voice that Leslie had, Russell was also a bit angry. His face became darker as he asked, ¡°Leslie, do you really know what you are doing? You are stopping our empire¡¯s navy from undertaking our mission, I can take this as you dering war on our navy, on our empire! I¡¯ll give you another chance, please leave immediately. Based on our rtionship, I can ignore what happened this time.¡±

    Leslie¡¯s frankugh came from themunicator and there was no other response.

    ¡°Sir Russell, let¡¯s ignore them and charge through, I don¡¯t believe that they will move against us.¡± Tom on the side advised, ¡°If we dy any longer, it will affect the operation.¡±

    Russell knitted his brows in thought for a bit before giving a slow nod.

    ¡°Go, let¡¯s ignore them.¡±

    Tom agreed before giving the order.

    After a while, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy¡¯s fleet began moving again.

    However, when the three guard ships in front had only moved ten meters, there were red lights that suddenly filled the air.

    Seeing these red lights, Russell and Tom were both shocked.

    If they didn¡¯t make a mistake, that was the glow of the Magic Cannon on the guard ships!

    ¡°Dodge it!¡±

    When Tom shouted this in time. The red light flew through the air and passed through the two kilometer gap between both sides.

    However, that red light didn¡¯t fall on the guard ships and after flying in that arc that wasn¡¯t considered too big, it fell right into the ocean in front of them.

    ¡°Hong!¡±¡£

    There was a loud side before arge column of water flew into the air.

    The calm sea was filled with fierce waves. The Candra Empire navy ships that were less than a hundred meters away continued to sway in the ocean.

    Tom and Russell watched as the water fell down, like a giant stone falling into the ocean as it created strong waves again.

    ¡°He......He¡¯s crazy!¡± Tom couldn¡¯t help cursing in a loud voice.

    Russell took a deep breath and didn¡¯t hesitate to press down the button of the Magic Communicator.

    As soon as the green light that showed that the call connected came on, Russell immediately roared out in an angry voice, ¡°Leslie, are you crazy? You actually dare to move against us? Are you dering war on our Candra Empire?¡±

    Leslie¡¯s slightlyzy voice came from themunicator.

    ¡°Ah? Dering war? No, no, no, sir Russell, you¡¯re mistaken. I don¡¯t have any intention of dering war, it¡¯s just that my responsibility won¡¯t let me let you pass.¡±

    ¡°Responsibility?¡± Russell was stunned, ¡°How is this rted to your responsibility?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted. I signed a coastal defense pact with the Rudson Kingdom three months ago. The Rudson Kingdom entrusted me and my fleet to defend the sea area of the Rudson Kingdom, ensuring that no one invades them. Therefore.....Sir Russell, you wouldn¡¯t want to tell me that the Candra Empire¡¯s navy is just here for a cruise, right?¡±

    ¡°Coastal defense pact?¡± This was a word that Russell was hearing for the first time, but it didn¡¯t stop him from understanding what Leslie meant, ¡°This means that you are now the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s navy?¡±

    ¡°No, it can¡¯t be considered this. We are just being hired and the Rudson Kingdom doesn¡¯t have the right to manage us.¡± Leslie replied.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t important!¡± Russell angrily waved his hand and said in a sharp voice, ¡°I am only asking, Leslie, you doing this, is this because of chairman Xu? Is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce fully supporting the Rudson Kingdom and going against our Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Oh, I forgot to tell you all. Actually......Sir Russell, half a year ago, I¡¯ve already left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The guard ships under me were bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they are my personal property. Me and my subordinates aren¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all, so you shouldn¡¯t misunderstand.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Russell and Tom were stunned.

    Leslie had been themander of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet before. When they bought the guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they sailed the south seas with the guard fleet, as well as entering the Candra Empire¡¯s naval harbours, they had met several times, so they were familiar with each other.

    But this was their first time hearing that Leslie had already left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    ¡°Right, there is something else to say. I have already created apany that is responsible for transport and guard work on the sea, called the Leslie Chamber of Commerce. This time, the Rudson Kingdom has signed a coastal defense pact with our Leslie Chamber of Commerce for, un.....The price isn¡¯t that high, it¡¯s just eight hundred thousand gold coins per year. Sir Russell, don¡¯t you think that this price is very fair? If your Candra Empire has a demand for this, you cane and contact me. Since we¡¯re such close friends, I can give you a 10% discount. Other than this, I can give you other benefits......¡±

    Russell didn¡¯t continue to listen to Leslie¡¯s meaningless words. He looked at the other side¡¯s guard ships blocking the way and after thinking about it, he said to Tom, ¡°Let¡¯s retreat first. We¡¯ll make a decision after reporting on the situation here.¡±

    Tom was stunned as he said, ¡°Sir Russell, if we leave like this, we¡¯ll ruin the n of the army headquarters. The army headquarters will definitely punish us.¡±

    ¡°If we don¡¯t retreat, are you nning on really fighting them?¡±

    Tom looked at the ten guard ships and swallowed a mouthful of saliva before shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    Although there were only ten ships on the other side and they had over a hundred ships, he wasn¡¯t confident in this fight at all.

    But if they retreated without even daring tno fight, wasn¡¯t that any different from escaping?

    Russell could guess Tom¡¯s thoughts from his expression. He patted his shoulder and said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, don¡¯t be that unwilling. There¡¯s no meaning in a fight that we can¡¯t win. I¡¯ll write the report to headquarters after we go back, you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    Tom then gave a sigh of relief.

    With sir Russell, the deputy chief of staff standing in front, he didn¡¯t need to worry of being punished for escaping without even fighting.

    However, when he turned to look at the guard ships in the distance, he was still unwilling.

    ¡°Sir Russell, could it be that our respected royal fleet can only escape when we meet them in the future?¡±

    Russell fell silent, not being able to say a single word.

    If it was possible, of course he would want to say in a powerful voice to Tom that as long as the royal fleet was equipped with the same level of advanced guard ships, they would be able to easily defeat these guard ships.

    But the fact was it was already hard enough for them to get three guard ships. To get even more powerful guard ships was basically impossible.

    Tom was aware of the problems of the royal fleet and seeing that Russell was silent, he immediately understood.

    The two of them looked at each other and let out a deep breath at the same time.

    After being silent for a bit, Tom gave the order to retreat.

    The over a hundred Candra Empire navy ships hade all this way and the only thing they could do now was retreat.

 Volume 6 45 - International call

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 45 International call</strong>

    ¡°Do you really think that having Leslie do this will make the Candra Empire think it is unrted to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°No, I definitely don¡¯t think this unless the Candra Empire is filled with idiots.¡±

    ¡°Then why did you do this?¡±

    ¡°I just gave the Candra Empire an excuse. If our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was openly supporting the Rudson Kingdom, how could the Candra Empire pull down their face to cooperate with us in the end?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re that confident in the Rudson Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°I am just confident in the products of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Even if the other side is a giant like the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Then......I wish.....Alright, I wish the Rudson Kingdom the best of luck. Anyway, our Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t want an unfriendly neighbour like the Candra Empire right next to us.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the same for our Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°So that¡¯s why you insisted on supporting the Rudson Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°That is only a part of it. The most important reason is to take advantage of this war to advertise ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, you really are crazy......¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise, many people all say this.¡±

    ¡°But I¡¯m very happy talking to a crazy person like you, especially when we¡¯re two thousand kilometers away, which makes me even more happy.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Then you¡¯re wee to talk to me whenever you have nothing to do.¡±

    ¡°Good, I¡¯lle and talk to you in the night and I¡¯ll choose when Still is by your side.¡±

    Hearing Seveni¡¯s voiceing from the Magic Communicator with a bit of yfulness in herughter, Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes.

    This should be an era defining significant moment, the first real long distance international call on the Sines Continent. In the end, it was turned into a call used for gossipping which really made him a bit speechless.

    Two months ago, the magicmunicationwork was finally finished in the Stantine Duchy. At the same time, the specialmunication line to Anvilmar City was also just finished and it was connected justst week. This was their first formal test call.

    This morning, Akali who was responsible for this had pulled Xu Yi to themunication room to let him have the first call with Seveni who was two thousand kilometers away in Anvilmar City. It was to let this call that had historical value be even more significant.

    But he never thought that after their talk about the war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire which could be considered important, what came after next was trivial matters between men and women.

    ¡°Rx, Still wouldn¡¯t mind and.....Still has been busy during this time, she only has a few days of the month to be by me.¡± Xu Yi replied with a sigh.

    ¡°Un, I know, she¡¯s been in our Lampuri Kingdom during this time. As for during this time......she seems to be promoting the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Entertainment Technology in the Falk Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Yes, after the Falk Kingdom¡¯s market opens, her next target is the Marlow Empire.¡±

    ¡°Then that means won¡¯t she be even more and more busy in the future? And she would have less and less time to spend with you?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before calmly saying, ¡°This is her choice, I support her.¡±

    Seveni on the other side was silent for a bit, but when she spoke, she changed the topic.

    ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, let¡¯s not talk about this. It¡¯s hard enough to talk to you, so let¡¯s discuss the heavy magic machine industrypanies in our Lampuri Kingdom that you mentionedst time?¡±

    ¡°Alright, I already told you the difference between heavy and light industryst time. Your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machinepanies are all light industrypanies, but to build aplete magic machine industry, you can¡¯t just depend on light industry. The most important thing is heavy industry. As for heavy industry, I suggest that you first train somepanies that can smelt alloys, then once you have a steady supply of steel and other metal alloys......¡±

    ......

    The first call ended just like that and itsted for over an hour.

    When Xu Yi came out of themunication room that Akali built, he suddenly realized that if this was on earth, for an international call like this without any special ns, it would cost a shocking amount to have a call thatsted an hour.

    But thinking about it, for this single call between him and Seveni, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom had spent over three million gold coins.

    Converting it, this was equal to three hundred million RMB on earth.

    The long distance call fee wouldn¡¯t be anything inparison to this.

    If thismunicationwork was only used for calls between him and Seveni, it wasn¡¯t worth this cost. So what Xu Yi cared about the most now was to let the magicmunicationwork have the same abilities as the wirelessmunicationwork on earth. At least it would allow different people to have different conversations on the samework.

    ¡°In theory, this is possible.¡± Akali didn¡¯t hesitate to reply, ¡°ording to our long research, the vibration frequency of the magic signals aren¡¯t fixed. If the magic signals could be incited to be different, using the receiving signal, the voice that wille out of the Magic Array will be a bit different, but.....¡±

    ¡°But it¡¯s very hard to automatically change the Magic Array to ept the corresponding magic signal?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Yes......¡± Akali gave a sigh and was a bit dejected, ¡°To let different people have different conversations at the same time, it requires the Magic Arrays in their Magic Communicators to bepletely different. But like this, it is impossible to mass produce the Magic Communicators and we can do custom orders. But if it was custom made.....the cost would be too high. It definitely wouldn¡¯t be something normal people could use.¡±

    ¡°Un, if we can¡¯t let everyone use them, then there¡¯s no meaning to this.¡± Xu Yi nodded and thought for a bit before saying, ¡°Akali, I feel that you should change your mentality. The problem that you are facing now is that each Magic Communicator needs a different Magic Array to receive different magic signals, but I feel that you can just let these Magic Communicators be the same. You just have to use slightly different magic signals and with a central controller, it would control where these magic signals would go.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s idea was following the concept of telephones on earth, but there was just a small change to it.

    Akali felt that it was strange at first, but after thinking about it, her eyes lit up.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I feel.....that this direction isn¡¯t bad. Un, I understand!¡±

    Seeing Akali excitedly walking off, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving augh.

    It was because Akali was so focused on her research that she coulde up with these shocking results in a short period of time.

    After leaving the magicmunication room at the magic research facility, Xu Yi headed to the northwest corner of the Stantine Duchy where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ training base was.

    Last time the effects of bringing Kennard here wasn¡¯t that good, so he didn¡¯t insist and didn¡¯t continue bringing Kennard over.

    But if Kennard came today, he would definitely be shocked.

    Because the training partner of the guards today was not Great Magician Juna.

    Floating high in the sky was actually Arch Magus Cami!

    Countless beams of light cut through the sky and they were gathered around Arch Magus Cami in the sky, letting out a series of explosions that looked shocking.

    However, after the dust settled, Arch Magus Cami was still safe in the air, not being injured at all.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards around Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t n on stopping at all. They kept firing various military magic machines and wildly attacked Arch Magus Cami.

    Countless explosions filled the air and creating beautiful fireworks one after another.

    Even if it was noon and the light of the explosions were suppressed by the strong sunlight, it still showed the might behind the attacks of the guards.

    Xu Yi believed that faced with this powerful attack, even a Great Magician wouldn¡¯t be able tost that long.

    However, Arch Magus Cami looked quite at ease, like he was ying around.

    After watching from the side for a bit, Xu Yi called out to stop the training exercise.

    ¡°Grandfather, do you feel any threat from the attacks of the guards?¡± Xu Yi gave Arch Magus Cami a bottle of water while asking this.

    Arch Magus Cami thought for a bit before replying, ¡°It isn¡¯t true that they don¡¯t have any threat to me at all, but that is when I¡¯m not doing a thing. If we really fought, they couldn¡¯t hurt me at all. If it really didn¡¯t work, I could still easily run away.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows, ¡°This means that if there was an Arch Magus that wanted to attack us, we can¡¯t use the guards?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami took a deep look at Xu Yi before giving a sigh. He shook his head and said, ¡°Xu Yi, your talent isn¡¯t bad, but there are times when you are thinking too simply. What is the rank of an Arch Magus, does a Great Magician like you not know? If they could be taken care of by normal people with military magic machines, that would be too much.¡±

    ¡°But......¡±

    ¡°No buts, I know what you are thinking. If there is a war with the Candra Empire, how should we deal with the Arch Magi that the Candra Empire has?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes at him.

    Xu Yi gave augh and rubbed his head, ¡°I really can¡¯t hide anything from an old man like you.¡±

    ¡°I say, kid, are you indulging in fantasies or are you really that arrogant?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes again, ¡°There hasn¡¯t been a Great Magus on the continent in over a thousand years, so Arch Magi are already at the top of the continent. If they could be taken care of by normal people, the magicians on the continent should already change their professions.¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips with a bit of disdain in his heart.

    No matter how Arch Magi are, no matter how close to gods the Great Magi in legends were, if they were to face the nuclear bombs from earth, he didn¡¯t believe they would be able to stop them.

 Volume 6 46 - Deciding factor of war

    <strong>Volume 6 Chapter 46 Deciding factor of war</strong>

    After talking to Arch Magus Cami, Xu Yi had to admit that with the current power of the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, it was impossible to kill Arch Magi in a head on fight.

    But Arch Magus Cami also admitted that these military magic machines posed a bit of a threat to him, so as long as the right methods were used, they could stall an Arch Magus for a certain amount of time and could even push back the other side.

    The key to this was that as long as there were enough ammunition, they could keep attacking.

    No matter how strong an Arch Magus was, he had a limited amount of magic.

    If pressure was continuously put on the Arch Magus, the Arch Magus would retreat because he would run out of magic.

    But the problem is.....how to pressure an Arch Magus?

    Compared to the current military magic machines, Arch Magi used powerful spells and the most important thing was that they were flexible.

    Without having prepared first, an Arch Magus could easily release a powerful spell in a short period of time, but it was hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards with the military magic machines to release enough power to suppress an Arch Magus.

    If there was an engagement, it was very likely the Arch Magus could take out an entire group of Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards before retreating without any injuries. Then they could find another chance to attack and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    ¡°I already told you not to think about facing Arch Magi. If you¡¯re really worried about the Arch Magi in the Candra Empire, think of how to defend against their attacks first. As long as you can defend, the role the Arch Magi ys is very limited. In the end, there are too few magicians that they cannot rece armies.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a suggestion in the end.

    ¡°Un.....that is right. But.....I don¡¯t like being too passive.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands as he said this.

    Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes, ¡°You want to take the initiative against an Arch Magus? Do you think you are a Great Magus?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a helpless bitterugh, ¡°Alright, I really was thinking too much. But the current Rudson Kingdom can give me actualbat experience, so it saves me quite a bit of effort.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami was surprised, ¡°I thought that you really wanted to help the Rudson Kingdom, I never thought that you wanted to use them as an experiment.¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t be said like that.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°The Rudson Kingdom is a barrier between the Stantine Duchy and the Candra Empire, being able to keep it is beneficial to ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Then why didn¡¯t you use this reason to convince those fellows at thepany? Why did you let those people secretly think if there was conflict in thepany, doubting that you as the chairman was losing control of it?¡± Arch Magus Cami couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Because I¡¯ve found a problem. Other than me, there¡¯s no one who believes that the Candra Empire can be defeated.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, that is the Candra Empire. Why do you think a small country like the Rudson Kingdom can beat them?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes.

    ¡°So I am toozy to convince them with words, I want to use the Rudson Kingdom to prove this. Grandfather, what do you think?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami thought about it before saying with a nod, ¡°I thought the same as them before, but after training with the guards a few times, I think that.....the Rudson Kingdom has a chance to win.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile before his expression suddenly changed, revealing a depressed look, ¡°But the problem are the Arch Magi. The Rudson Kingdom have several Great Magicians, but if the Candra Empire sends out an Arch Magus, I think that it¡¯ll be hard for them to resist.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami instead revealed a smile and patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder as heforted him, ¡°Rx, at least in the early periods, the Candra Empire won¡¯t sent out an Arch Magus.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    Great Magicians and Arch Magi aren¡¯t allowed to participate in wars invading other countries, or they will be removed from the Magicians Guild. That is one of the principles the Magicians Guild was established on.¡± Arch Magus Cami exined.

    ¡°There¡¯s this rule? That¡¯s great!¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up and he clenched his fist, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, I¡¯m fully confident that the Rudson Kingdom can win the war!¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave a sigh with a bit of aplicated look on his face.

    Before this kid Xu Yi made these military magic machines, everyone on the continent firmly believed that the main deciding factor of war was always which side had the stronger magicians.

    But with these military magic machines, Arch Magus Cami was certain that what decided a war would be which side had the stronger military magic machines.

    The role that magicians would y in wars would be weakerpared to before.

    Like this, it will greatly impact the positions of magicians on the continent.

    To be more pessimistic, the magicians might lose their aloof status that they¡¯ve enjoyed for the past several thousand years.

    As a traditional magician, Arch Magus Cami felt a bit disappointed by this loss of influence.

    But seeing that confident and bright look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Arch Magus Cami couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Although it was possible that the magicians would lose their high position on the continent because of this fellow, because of this fellow¡¯s appearance, there was another path that magicians could choose from.

    Compared to before when everyone thought that magicians only possessed destructive might, if they followed the path that Xu Yi hadid out, magic could give people the impression that it made things easier. And the impression of magicians on people would be one of respect instead of fear.

    Arch Magus Cami liked this change very much, so while he felt disappointed in his heart, he still sincerely hoped that Xu Yi would achieve his goals.

    This support was unrted to Still, it was purely because of his recognition of Xu Yi.

    ###

    Fall of year 3789 on the continent, there was a war that caught the attention of the continent in the southwest corner.

    The two sides of the war was the Candra Empire which was one of the two empires and the Rudson Kingdom, which was an unknown and unimpressive small country.

    Everyone thought that with therge disparity in power between the two sides, the Candra Empire would be able to easily defeat the Rudson Kingdom without giving them any chance to resist.

    The only suspense was how long the Rudson Kingdom would be able tost.

    However, the war didn¡¯t progress as everyone had expected.

    At the end of September, the Candra Empire officially dered war on the Rudson Kingdom, building up three regiments of fifty thousand soldiers to attack the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Rudson Kingdom epted this war and built up twenty thousand soldiers at the border to resist this invasion.

    On the 27th of September, it was the first fight between the two countries on the border.

    It was a day of fiercebat. The Candra Empire had lost over three thousand soldiers and were forced to retreat and as for the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s losses.....they were zero.

    On the 28th of September, the two sides fought on the border again.

    The Candra Empire had learned from yesterday and sent out thirty thousand people at once, wanting to defeat the Rudson Kingdom in one fell swoop.

    However, the end of this battle resulted in the Candra Empire being routed again, suffering over seven thousand casualties.

    The Rudson Kingdom also suffered casualties, but they were so small that they could be ignored.

    On the 3rd of October, after five days of rest, the Candra Empire¡¯s army attacked the Rudson Kingdom again. Theymitted their entire forces with over forty thousand troops.

    At the same time, the Rudson Kingdom had also sent out all their troops to resist.

    In the end, after three fierce days of fighting, the Candra Empire was defeated again and again, losing over ten thousand soldiers.

    And the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s casualties had barely broken the thousand mark.

    Butpared to the losses of the Candra Empire, just a thousand casualties could be ignored.

    So after ten days of fighting, the Candra Empire¡¯s forces of over fifty thousand had suffered losses of twenty thousand casualties. As for the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army of over twenty thousand, they had only lost less than two thousand troops!

    With such arge disparity in casualties, it shocked everyone who paid attention to this war.

    Although before the war, there were people who guessed that the Candra Empire would suffer a bit from underestimating their enemies too much, the shocking losses of the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t be considered a small loss. It could be said that they werepletely routed.

    Compared to this, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army had shown a powerful battle strength that had shocked everyone.

    Fighting fifty thousand enemies with twenty thousand and being able to keep their casualties this low, while also dealing such high casualties to the enemy, this hadpletely subverted everyone¡¯s knowledge.

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s armies were filled with elits, they shouldn¡¯t have such an exaggerated victory, right?

    If it was said that the people of the continent cared about this war because the continent had been calm for too long, a sudden war would definitely be the center of attention. After the three battles of the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom, everyone became even more focused on this war.

    But there were many doubts in the minds of those that cared about this war.

    How could the Rudson Kingdom army have such a shocking battle strength?

 Volume 6 47 - How to make it important

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 47 How to make it important</h4>

    General McHale wanted to know the answer to this question more than anyone.

    The army headquarters had imed that the Rudson Kingdom was truly bold to go against the Candra Empire. Although everyone didn¡¯t think there was a need to ce importance on this small country and they could send anyone out to deal with it, he insisted on being sent with these three regiments that were in charge of invading the Rudson Kingdom.

    The reason was that one of the regiments was one that he had led before and it now belonged to his former subordinate. Also, his wife¡¯s little brother had been assigned as the leader of the cavalry there, so he wanted to use this fight to get some merits for his old subordinates and his wife¡¯s little brother, making it easier for them to be promoted.

    But he never would have thought that a small Rudson Kingdom would actually turn all of this over and finally repel the army of the Candra Empire.

    What angered him even more was that because he wanted to get the biggest merit for his wife¡¯s little brother, he had arranged the cavalry unit under him to be in the vanguard. In the end, in the first battle, his wife¡¯s little brother¡¯s cavalry unit was wiped out by the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army. Even his wife¡¯s little brother shared the same fate and couldn¡¯t escape.

    Although he never liked his wife¡¯s glib little brother, he was still his wife¡¯s blood rted little brother. Now that he had died because he had been ced in the vanguard by him, he could imagine how sad and angry his wife will be after learning of this.

    General McHale who was aware of this vented all his anger on general Cook who was in charge of this operation.

    ¡°You trash! You had fifty thousand elites, but you couldn¡¯t beat twenty thousand people from the Rudson Kingdom, even suffering heavy casualties. Do you still have the face to stand here? If I were you, I would have alreadymitted suicide to apologize!¡±

    General Cook looked at general McHale with a cold look on his face, not saying a word.

    Although the two of them were both generals, general Mchale had received a medal from the emperor himself. He was acknowledged as one of the five great generals who had the greatest rank in the army headquarters, holding a high position in the empire. It was not something that he who only led a single army couldpare to.

    So even if he didn¡¯t ept this, he could only maintain his silence and not say a thing.

    General McHale angrily scolded him for twenty minutes before finally panting to a stop. However, he then took out an official document from his chest that he threw at general Cook.

    ¡°Because of your failure, the army headquarters has relieved you of yourmand and I will take full responsibility for this operation. As for you.....wait to be held ountable by the army headquarters!¡±

    General Cook opened the official document to look at and found that the content was as he had expected before putting it on the side.

    ¡°Sir McHale, I can¡¯t deny the failure this time, but I must remind you that the battle strength of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army is far beyond what you can imagine. I hope that you can be more careful.¡±

    General McHale gave a snort, ¡°What? You want to find an excuse for yourself? It¡¯s a trivial Rudson Kingdom, how powerful could they be? You created this result as themander, do you really think you can find an excuse for yourself?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not trying to find an excuse, this Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army really is a bit strange. They......¡±

    General McHale impatiently waved his hand, ¡°Alright, stop wasting words, there¡¯s nothing for you here.¡±

    General Cook¡¯s face turned red and wanted to say a few more things, but seeing the impatient look on general McHale¡¯s face, his heart turned cold. He couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort before walking out.

    ¡°Trash!¡± General McHale watched him leave and spat this out. Then he started looking over the reports that general Cook had left on the table.

    After reading for a bit, general McHale couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Based on thebat reports, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army really was a bit strange.

    Because in thebat reports, whenever both sides fought, the Rudson Kingdom would attack with a dense rain of arrows. Then when they actually shed, the Rudson Kingdom would always have more mobility than them, which made it hard for the Candra Empire¡¯s soldiers to hit them. At the same time, they used these very strange longer distance attacks that were very powerful.

    This caused both sides to never have proper contact and the Candra Empire suffered heavy casualties before being defeated.

    ¡°What kind of a joke is this!¡± General McHale threw the report on the table, ¡°How could there be such a strange army? That Cook, doesn¡¯t he even know how to make excuses?¡±

    General McHale could understand that situation described in these reports, so he was just toozy to pay attention to anything in the reports and decided to follow his own ideas.

    He had brought the true third regiment of the empire¡¯s army this time. Although they were also fifty thousand in numbers, whether it was their equipment or their training, they far surpassed the fifty thousand soldiers led by general Cook. Naturally they also had a higher battle strength.

    This trash Cook had led a bunch of trash to attack the Rudson Kingdom, but that didn¡¯t affect general McHale¡¯s confidence in easily defeating the Rudson Kingdom.

    When he was considering what strategy to use, a guard suddenly walked in.

    ¡°Sir, the navy¡¯s deputy chief of staff sir Russell is here to see you.¡±

    ¡°Russell?¡± General McHale was surprised, ¡°Didn¡¯t he set off with the fleet? With this timing, he should be at the southern coast of the Rudson Kingdom, so why did he suddenly run back here?¡±

    Thinking about it, general McHale waved his hand, ¡°Let hime in.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    After a while, Russell was brought in by the guard.

    ¡°Sir Russell, why are you here? Could it be that something happened on your navy¡¯s side?¡± Seeing Russell, general McHale gave augh that was filled with taunting.

    There had always been contradictions between the army and the navy because of budgets. The army was more well respected than the navy, so they had a higher budget. When they faced naval officers, the army officers had a sense of superiority and general McHale was not an exception.

    Russell didn¡¯t seem like he wanted to joke around at all as he gave a nod with a calm look.

    ¡°Yes, your excellency McHale, I¡¯vee this time to tell you that the navy has beenpletely defeated. We cannot enter the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s sea area, so we can¡¯t mount anding as per the n.¡±

    General McHale was stunned before breaking out inughter that was filled with taunting.

    ¡°Ha, I thought that your navy was confident in attacking this time and would bring some pleasant surprise, but I never thought that you can¡¯t even touch the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s navy beforeing back! This is simply your shame!¡±

    Russell was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and saying with a serious look, ¡°Your excellency McHale, I¡¯m not here to discuss meaningless matters with you. I came here to remind you that you can¡¯t underestimate the Rudson Kingdom. They have the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their strength far surpasses your imagination already.¡±

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± General McHale was surprised again and after thinking for a bit, he reacted, ¡°I seem to have heard this name before, isn¡¯t it thepany that made the Magic Air Conditioners? What? This smallpany is very powerful? We can¡¯t beat them just because the Rudson Kingdom has their support?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not certain, but......you should be careful.¡± Russell shook his head, ¡°Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is supporting the Rudson Kingdom, their armies are equipped with the various military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produces. The might of those military magic machines arepletely different from the weapons we possess, so when facing them, you have to be careful.¡±

    ¡°Military magic machines?¡± General McHale knitted his brows, ¡°What are these things? Do you have information on them?¡±

    Russell helplessly spread his hands, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very strict with information on their military magic machines, I can¡¯t get any specific information. But our royal fleet has purchased three guard ships made of iron from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and there are some military magic machines on them. With the might of those military magic machines, we can infer the might of the other military magic machines.¡±

    Seeing that Russell was this serious, general McHale put down a bit of the disdain in his heart, but he still didn¡¯t really care.

    Perhaps there was something unique about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, but they are only a smallpany without any fame. Adding in the fact that the Rudson Kingdom was only a small kingdom, how could they be any threat to the powerful Candra Empire?

    After saying a few things to Russell out of courtesy, general McHale used the excuse that he was going to a strategy meeting to show Russell the door.

    Russell could clearly see that general McHale didn¡¯t take his words to heart and wanted to say a few things, but after thinking about it, he gave up that idea.

    After leaving general McHale¡¯smand tent, Russell saw some people near the tent. He narrowed his eyes which had a slight chill to them.

    This fellow McHale didn¡¯t take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the military magic machines he mentioned seriously, so Russell knew that his operation this time wouldn¡¯t go smoothly.

    This would be a hit to McHale and the third regiment that he led, but considering it from the angle of the royal army, this wasn¡¯t a bad thing.

    When the royal fleet wanted to purchase the three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they suffered all kinds of hindrances. If it wasn¡¯t for themanders of the navy supporting this, it would have been impossible to pass.

    The reason was that the royal army didn¡¯t attach any importance to the analysis report Russell handed in on the guard ships. They didn¡¯t care about it at all and weren¡¯t willing to spend any money on buying them.

    This time, the royal army had looked down on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their military magic machines, so they would suffer a loss, which was also a chance to make them attach importance to this.

    Compared to the royal fleet, the royal army was more favoured by the army headquarters.

    If the army suffered a loss, it would be too much if the headquarters didn¡¯t treat this seriously......

 Volume 6 48 - Investment involves risks

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 48 Investment involves risks</h4>

    Over a hundredrge transport Magic Cars passed over the border of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, heading towards the east of the Rudson Kingdom.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed therge transport Magic Cars, this was the first time that so manyrge transport Magic Cars had been together.

    Over a hundredrge transport Magic Cars driving together, it created a motorcade that was over two kilometers long, which looked very imposing.

    Looking down from above, it would seem like a long snake wriggling around at high speeds.

    This motorcade was a joint motorcade of thergepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom. They were entering the Rudson Kingdom inrge numbers and their goal was the east region of the Rudson Kingdom.

    Theserge transport Magic Cars had various goods loaded in them, all of them were strategic goods the Rudson Kingdom bought from the Lampuri Kingdom which were not being delivered. They were to be delivered to the Rudson Kigndom¡¯s army that was currently fighting the Candra Empire¡¯s third regiment.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army¡¯s performance had been shocking, no matter how well they did, what decided a war in the end was the supplies.

    Especially the Rudson Kingdom, armed with arge number of military magic machines, so they had a high demand for supplies.

    Not mentioning anything just, just in the first sh between the two sides, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army had used one hundred and thirty thousand arrows in just a single day from using their Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    Although there was a shocking power, to supplement the one hundred and thirty thousand arrows, it was impossible just with the cksmiths contracted by the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army.

    Not to mention that the arrows used by these Magic Repeating Crossbows had to conform to the standard of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be used correctly. To let them be built by traditional cksmiths, not only was it slow, it was impossible for the standards to match. After all, it was hard for the hands of men to match the precision and speed of machines.

    For example, the two arrows that were in King Teruc¡¯s hands. They looked two different arrows in his hands, but when he touched them and bent them a bit, he shook his head with a bitter smile in the end.

    These two arrows looked the same, but when they were in his hands, he could tell that the one in his right hand was a bit lighter. Based on the feel, the arrow in his left hand was much smoother and the arrow in his right hand was much rougher, as well as having some grooves that he could easily see.

    The most important thing was that when he put the arrows in front of him, he would see that the one in his left hand was very straight while the one in his right hand was a bit crooked.

    Although there wasn¡¯t much difference to the naked eye, for King Teruc who had been shooting arrows from horseback since he was young, if both of these were shot in the same environment, the effects of the arrow in his left hand would definitely be better.

    As for why there were these differences......

    The arrow in King Teruc¡¯s left hand was the standard arrow that the Rudson Kingdom had ordered from the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce of the ck Rice Wastnd.

    This Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce belonged to a certain fox beastmen tribe on the ck Rice Wastnd, but King Teruc knew that it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce standing behind them.

    The arrow in his right hand was made by the cksmiths contracted by the Rudson Kingdom because of this war, but it was clear that there was a disparity in quality.

    But the real reason that forced King Teruc to give up the idea of having the cksmiths of the kingdom make these arrows was other than theck in quality and quantity, the main reason was the difference in cost.

    If he ordered arrows from the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce, a set of twenty cost twenty silver coins and because it was the Rudson Kingdom, the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce gave them a discount, making it neen silver coins per set.

    If this was converted, it was less than a silver coin for each arrow.

    However, if he used the cksmiths, not only did he have to take into ount the cost of hiring that person, the average price of each arrow was over two silver coins.

    It didn¡¯t matter if it was one, two, one hundred, or even two hundred, but in a war, a single day¡¯s consumption could reach a hundred thousand arrows. If they were all ordered from cksmiths, just the difference in cost would be over a thousand gold coins, which was a difference that couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    With these reasons, even if King Teruc didn¡¯t want the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army to be controlled by outsiders, he had no choice but to ept this.

    Thinking of this, King Teruc shook his head. He put the two arrows in his hands on the side and looked out the window of the Magic Airship at therge motorcade of transport Magic Cars before turning to look at Xu Yi beside him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when can you bring over the Magic Rockets?¡±

    Xu YI revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your majesty, please be assured. The Magic Rockets are currently being assembled, if nothing goes wrong, the first batch of two thousand should be transported in three days.¡±

    ¡°Three days?¡± King Teruc looked at the east before giving a slow nod, ¡°That is eptable. The Candra Empire should be spending several times to prepare, they won¡¯t be in a rush to start the war again.¡±

    ¡°If they still can¡¯t learn to be discrete after this defeat, I really will be too disappointed in the Candra Empire.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s it better if they¡¯re dumb?¡± King Teruc took a sip of tea and paused before continuing, ¡°That way it¡¯s easier for us to win this war and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines will shine even brighter. Wouldn¡¯t we both be satisfied with these results?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands and gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m worried that if they are too dumb to understand the situation here, it will be very hard for us to open the market in the Candra Empire in the future.¡±

    ¡°Your worries are unnecessary.¡± King Teruc shook his head and pointed to the east, ¡°The eyes of the entire continent are on this battle, everyone has recognized the role of the military magic machines. I¡¯m certain that when this war is over.....Oh, no, it should be before this is even over, there will be many people looking for yourpany to buy military magic machines. Chairman Xu, how are you nning on dealing with this?¡±

    ¡°If I said that I wanted to sell to the Candra Empire first, would your majesty believe me?¡±

    King Teruc was silent for a bit before shaking his head with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, this joke isn¡¯t good. If you did do this, our Rudson Kingdom can only be defeated by the Candra Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before waving his hands, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not waste time with this meaningless idle talk. Your majesty, as for us working together to build a gear factory, do you have any suggestions?¡±

    King Teruc thought about it, ¡°This gear factory¡¯s location should be chosen by my side and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce shouldn¡¯t have any nominal control over it. To put it simply, this gear factory should be independently operated by our Rudson Kingdom.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised. After thinking about it, he slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Your majesty, this is different from what we discussed before. If ourpany doesn¡¯t have any rtionship with this gear factory, if we want to continue investing in this factory in the future, there will be many problems. This isn¡¯t good for both our sides, is it?¡±

    ¡°No, chairman Xu, there are many problems for our Rudson Kingdom, but there shouldn¡¯t be any problems for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡± King Teruc pointed to the east, ¡°I actually understand yourpany¡¯s worries about supporting our Rudson Kingdom, so before the situation bes clear, I think that it is better for yourpany to not have any clear rtionships with us.¡±

    Xu Yi was really surprised this time. He looked at King Teruc in surprise for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°No, your majesty. Do you know, when ourpany discussed this matter, there were many people who had the same idea as you and hoped that ourpany wouldn¡¯t be obvious in our support of your Rudson Kingdom, but I rejected this. Do you know why?¡±

    King Teruc narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi, ¡°Why? No matter what perspective you consider this from, the Rudson Kingdom can¡¯t fight the Candra Empire. Even if it was me, before the first fight, I also wasn¡¯t confident in this. Chairman Xu, why are you so confident in us?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not confident in your Rudson Kingdom, I¡¯m confident in ourpany.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Or to put it from another angle, as a merchant, the ie thates from investing in your Rudson Kingdom is greater than investing in the Candra Empire. If we supported the Candra Empire, although they could easily defeat the Rudson Kingdom, that does not mean that the Candra Empire would ce importance on ourpany. Moreover, once the Rudson Kingdom was destroyed, the Stantine Duchy would be facing the Candra Empire, which is not what I want to see.¡±

    King Teruc was silent for a bit before slowly nodding, ¡°I understand what you mean, but chairman Xu, doing this, yourpany......Or perhaps I should say that you are taking too many risks. Is this really worth it?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°A merchant who isn¡¯t willing to take risks isn¡¯t a good merchant.¡±

    ¡°But chairman Xu, are you certain the people of yourpany are willing to take the same risks as you?¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at his feet, ¡°I think......that what is below exins everything.¡±

    King Teruc turned to look at the motorcade that was gradually moving further away and he gave a nod.

    ¡°If your majesty isn¡¯t assured in my sincerity, then this thing will definitely make you much more confident in us.¡±

    Xu Yi slid over a box to King Teruc with a smile.

    King Teruc¡¯s eyes narrowed as he took the box without hesitation.

    When he opened the box, he found a blueprint, as well as a mold that was made from metal.

    King Teruc picked up the Magic Repeating Crossbow arrows that he had just put down and put them perfectly into the mold, without a single deviation.

 Volume 6 49 - Threat to the empireâ€™s prestige

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 49 Threat to the empire¡¯s prestige</h4>

    Xu Yi¡¯s meeting with King Teruc had more of a symbolic meaning.

    As the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi personallying forward represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s firm attitude in supporting the Rudson Kingdom. It was to let King Teruc feel relieved, so he could focus on defending against the attacks of the Candra Empire.

    Of course, there was an effect, as well as having the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, and the ck Rice Wastnd continue to send resources over.

    With the powerful roadwork and the logisticswork of these transport Magic Cars, as soon as these products are produced, it only takes two or three days to transport them to the hands of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army. It enabled them to maintain their powerful battle strength.

    This was the important reason why the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army could face the Candra Empire¡¯s army and keep winning battles.

    King Teruc was aware of this, so even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t mention this, he would give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce some favourable conditions. He hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could still support him, mainly when it came to military magic machines.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t make a clear statement, Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman had secretly indicated his support to King Teruc.

    Other than satisfying the requests of King Teruc, Xu Yi actually proposed transferring the Magic Repeating Crossbow¡¯s manufacturing technology to the Rudson Kingdom.

    This was a pleasant surprise for King Teruc.

    Of course, when it came to the various productsing to the support of the Rudson Kingdom, not only was the Rudson Kingdom aware of this, it wasn¡¯t like the Candra Empire didn¡¯t know anything.

    The Candra Empire didn¡¯t care in the beginning because everyone thought that with the power of the Candra Empire, they could definitely easily defeat the Rudson Kingdom. Even if the other countries or powers supported the Rudson Kingdom, it didn¡¯t matter since it wouldn¡¯t affect the forward progress of the Rudson Kingdom at all.

    But when the Candra Empire shed with the Rudson Kingdom again and again, ending in the Candra Empire beingpletely routed, the Candra Empire¡¯s attitude changed.

    ¡°Your majesty, I represent the empire to officially give your country a serious warning. Immediately stop supporting the Rudson Kingdom with supplies, or the empire¡¯s ruling body will determine you to be on the same side as them, as well as an enemy of the empire. As for the consequences of bing the enemy of the empire, I don¡¯t think I need to remind you, right?¡±

    Seveni covered her mouth with her hand and gave a yawn before looking at the serious looking Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador Klein Sweetom standing in front of her. She revealed a rxed smile and motioned for him to sit down.

    ¡°Mister ambassador, the supplies that you were just talking about, there are only a few normal transactions between the citizens of our countries as far as I know. It shouldn¡¯t count as supporting the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army, right?¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom gave a cold snort, ¡°Whether this is military support or not is decided by the empire¡¯s ruling body, it isn¡¯t your decision.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Seveni blinked in surprise, ¡°Ambassador Sweetom, you wouldn¡¯t mean that as long as it¡¯s the wish of the Candra Empire, there is no need to give us any evidence and you can decide that our Lampuri Kingdom is providing military support to the Rudson Kingdom? If it is like this, why did youe to give me a warning? Isn¡¯t it what you decide?¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom gave a soft cough as he revealed an awkward look.

    ¡°Ke.....Although it¡¯s the empire¡¯s ruling body¡¯s decision in the end, if you want to avoid being suspected by the empire¡¯s ruling body, that would be better.¡±

    ¡°But in the end, it¡¯s decided by you. It isn¡¯t rted at all to whether we are providing the Rudson Kingdom with military support at all?¡± Seveni asked.¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom gave a strong cough and waved his hand before saying with a serious look, ¡°In short, your majesty, because of the war between the empire and the Rudson Kingdom, every act that benefits the Rudson Kingdom is considered an act of hostility towards us. The empire¡¯s parliament hopes that your country can stop all transports into the Rudson Kingdom. Ke....I mean everything, whether it is military goods or civilian goods, you can¡¯t transport anything to the Rudson Kingdom. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand. But mister ambassador, I just said it, this is the normal transaction carried out between the citizens of our Lampuri Kingdom and the citizens of the Rudson Kingdom. If I force them to stop their transactions, who would bear the losses of thosepanies? Our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family? Or your Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Of course they would bear it themselves.¡± Ambassador Sweetom said without any courtesy, ¡°Thosepanies dared to trade with the Rudson Kingdom while our Candra Empire is at war with the Rudson Kingdom, this is simply a provocation towards our empire. The empire not punishing them is already being benevolent enough, could it be that they still want to go against the decisions of our empire?¡±

    Hearing this, the smile on Seveni¡¯s face slowly disappeared and her eyes turned ice cold.

    ¡°Mister ambassador, I must remind you that they arepanies of our Lampuri Kingdom and not your empire. Even if they must be punished, it is a matter of our Lampuri Kingdom and unrted to you.¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom couldn¡¯t adapt to Seveni¡¯s sudden cold words and looked at her in surprise before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Your majesty, could it be that you¡¯re nning on ignoring the warning of our empire¡¯s parliament?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Mister ambassador, ording to what I know, the countries that are trading with the Rudson Kingdom during this time isn¡¯t just our Lampuri Kingdom, there are also the surrounding countries. May I ask if the Candra Empire is also giving them the same warning?¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom hesitated.

    If one really looked at it, they would find that there was a trace of anger, a trace of doubt, and a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

    It was as Seveni said, it wasn¡¯t just the Lampuri Kingdom that was still trading with the Rudson Kingdom. There were also the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom who were also kingdoms like the Rudson Kingdom.

    Other than this, there was still the Drake Duchy, the Stantine Duchy, the Norton Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and other small duchies that were trading with them.

    The Candra Empire had suffered a loss in the beginning and had warned those countries against trading with the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Norton Duchy had very quickly agreed and immediately stopped.

    But other than the Norton Duchy, the other countriespletely ignored the request of the Candra Empire.

    Although most of these countries were very polite towards the Candra Empire, they were very ambiguous towards the warning and requests this time.

    Take the Stantine Duchy, the congress that represented them said that they would study the warning of the Candra Empire and would hold a session to make a decision, but it had already been a week since the Candra Empire gave this warning to the Stantine Duchy. Even now, the Stantine Duchy¡¯s response was that they were still discussing this and hadn¡¯t reached a conclusion yet.

    During this week, the Stantine Duchy had sent countlessrge transport Magic Cars across the road connecting the Stantine Duchy to the Rudson Kingdom, sending them resources without stopping.

    Of course,pared to this small duchy, what the Candra Empire cared about the most were the three kingdoms of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, and the Sack Kingdom.

    But the Candra Empire¡¯s warning to the Sack Kingdom was like stone in the sea, there was no reaction at all.

    The Falk Kingdom had just rejected them, saying that the Candra Empire has no right to interfere in the normal trade between the Falk Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s parliament expected this because the Falk Kingdom was close to the Marlow Empire, so they were more closely bound to them. Naturally they went against the Candra Empire.

    So the only one left was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen in front of him.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was close to the Rudson Kingdom, so it was good for them to support the Rudson Kingdom.

    ording to the reports, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national strength had increased in the past few years, even suppressing the Sack Kingdom that had suppressed them for several hundred years. They had already be the strongest country in the southwest corner of the Sines Continent.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom fully supported the Rudson Kingdom, it would make it very hard for the Candra Empire to deal with the Rudson Kingdom.

    So this time the Candra Empire had sent out their ambassador Klein Sweetom to meet her majesty Seveni, personally giving her the warning from the Candra Empire¡¯s parliament. It was to show her the gravity of this situation and how serious the empire was about this.

    But ambassador Sweetom never thought that this queen Seveni would have such an ambiguous attitude. She had even shifted the responsibility onto others and had asked about the attitudes of the other countries.

    Ambassador Sweetom felt that he couldn¡¯t hide this matter from her majesty Seveni, but saying that not a single country agreed wouldn¡¯t help him at all. After hesitating, he said in a deep voice, ¡°The empire is certainly also giving the other countries a serious warning.¡±

    ¡°What attitude did they have?¡± Seveni asked.

    Ambassador Sweetom gave a cold snort and replied, ¡°This is the request of our Candra Empire, who would dare have an opinion?¡±

    Seveni revealed a smile, ¡°But mister ambassador, as far as I know, up to now, there isn¡¯t a single country that has agreed to the request of the Candra Empire.¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom¡¯s face turned a bit red before bing serious again.

    ¡°If they dare go against the empire¡¯s will, they will be punished by the empire in the future!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Seveni gave a clearugh and looked at ambassador Sweetom with a smile, ¡°But mister ambassador, the one going against the Candra Empire the most is the Rudson Kingdom, are they being punished?¡±

    Ambassador Sweetom¡¯s expression froze.

    Seeing the smile of deep meaning on Seveni¡¯s face, he immediately understood.

    He was doomed to not have any results today because in the empire¡¯s war against the Rudson Kingdom, not only were they not able to easily crush the Rudson Kingdom, they had been easily dealt with by the Rudson Kingdom many times.

    With the influence of these results, the empire¡¯s deterrent against the small countries had been seriously affected.

    Or to put it more seriously, if they couldn¡¯t take care of the Rudson Kingdom, the empire¡¯s prestige on the continent would be in danger.

    This was something that was countless times more serious than losing to the Rudson Kingdom.

 Volume 6 50 - Why will they lose?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 50 Why will they lose?</h4>

    The Candra Empire¡¯s prestige was in danger, but general McHale didn¡¯t have time to think about this. He only knew that he was currently in danger at this moment.

    There were countless arrows flying over him, so dense that it made people think that it was a storm.

    But this ¡°storm¡± had a very strong threat of death.

    As general McHale watched this ¡°storm¡± fall and his soldiers being harvested like wheat, it was the first time he felt a bit of panic in his heart.

    Just what was going on!

    The Rudson Kingdom fellows, how could they have such power?

    ¡°Sir, be careful!¡±

    His guard beside him shouted as he came forward with a shield, blocking for the two of them.

    ¡°Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.¡±

    The sounds of the arrows hitting the shields rang out and the guard couldn¡¯t help taking a few steps back, only barely being able to stop in front of general McHale.

    ¡°Sir, are you alright?¡± The guard turned to ask general McHale.

    ¡°I¡¯m fine.¡± General McHale shook his head. He looked at the shield in the guard¡¯s hands and his eyes couldn¡¯t help shrinking.

    This shield was made by the most renowned cksmith in Wimbledon City, it was built with the strongest iron and even the thinnest part was as thick as a palm. However, now there were several dents where the crossbow bolts had hit them, almost looking like it would have been prated.

    It could be seen that not only were these crossbow bolts strong, they had a strong lethality to them.

    Even this giant shield that had been carefully made couldn¡¯t stop it. It¡¯s no wonder the thick armour that his subordinates wore was like paper, not being able to protect them at all.

    Turning to look at the countless soldiers on the ground, general McHale felt a bit of hesitation.

    If this continued, he didn¡¯t see any hope of winning this battle.

    But if he were to retreat, wouldn¡¯t that be pping his own face?

    Since he took over the Rudson Kingdom subjugation army from general Cook, general McHale had only rested for less than a week before attacking the Rudson Kingdom for several days now.

    This time, he had sent out thirty thousand out of the fifty thousand people he had brought, nning to beat the Rudson Kingdom in a single head on ss and raise their prestige with this.

    But he never would have thought that the power of the Rudson Kingdom army would be this terrifying. When the two armies shed, there was this rain of arrows that had just fallen down. In just a single attack, the Candra Empire had lost at least 10% of their soldiers.

    What shocked general McHale even more was that it seemed like the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s bolts never seemed to run out. It hadn¡¯t stopped from beginning to end.

    Under this terrifying rain of arrows, the Candra Empire soldiers were unable to advance at all and could only passively take this attack as their casualty numbers rose.

    General McHale saw the situation was bad and wanted to send cavalry to nk from the sides, but he never thought that as soon as he sent these two cavalry units, the Rudson Kingdom would deal with them.

    The Rudson Kingdom had sent out two squads of several strange looking Magic Cars to intercept these cavalry units. Their mobility far surpassed the cavalry under general McHale and no matter how the cavalry units maneuvered, they were easily stopped.

    Other than having this terrifying crossbow, there was also a weapon that had a powerful offense that general McHale had never heard of before.

    These two cavalry units couldn¡¯t even reach the other side before they were easily defeated. There were less than a hundred people who had escaped, forcing general McHale to give up his idea of using an ambush.

    So with the current situation of the battlefield, the Candra Empire could only passively take their attacks and couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    When general McHale was hesitating, he found that there were several dozen red glows that came from the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army. After a while, they turned into several dozen fireballs that quickly flew at them.

    ¡°Sir, be careful!¡±

    The guards beside him had just seen the terrifying might of these fireballs. Without another word, general McHale had been knocked down and the guards came in front of him, blocking him off.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    With countless powerful explosions, the ground under general McHale had strong vibrations running through them. The powerful sounds of the explosions also temporarily deafened his ears.

    When everything calmed down, general McHale pushed the guard on him off and stood up to take a look before his heart was instantly filled with shock.

    He was able to be a great general of the Candra Empire¡¯s army, so he had fought in many battles and seen everything.

    But the scene in front of himpletely turned his body cold.

    Looking around, other than him, there were very few people standing up around him.

    The t ground had several dozen holes that were over ten meters wide.

    These holes werepletely smooth and there were many iplete bodies that were all around the holes, creating a very pitiful looking scene.

    Looking at this scene in a daze, general McHale felt the ambitions in his heart slowly crumble away.

    ¡°Sir.....Sir.....I.....We should......retreat......¡±

    There was a pitiful voice that came from beneath him. General McHale looked down and was shocked to find that the guards that had been blocking him with therge shields had been blown away by the explosion. There were only two guards that were left in front of him.

    One of them was on the ground, not moving at all, clearly having died already. The other guard¡¯s face was covered in blood and he could only raise his head as he weakly said these words.

    After speaking these words with great difficulty, that guard¡¯s head fell down and he didn¡¯t make another sound.

    General McHale¡¯s hands trembled. He turned to look at the Rudson Kingdom army in the distance and found that there were several dozen more red glows, causing his heart to be filled with a strong chill. His body trembled before he took a deep breath and spat out a word through his gritted teeth.

    ¡°Retreat......¡±

    ###

    The Candra Empire¡¯s first attack on the Rudson Kingdom was a big failure. It surprised the other countries of the Sines Continent, but it could be exined with exnations like ¡°The Candra Empire was too negligent¡±, ¡°The Rudson Kingdom must have been prepared¡±, ¡°The Candra Empire only sent a few regiments¡±, and other excuses. But when they failed a second time, it had made everyone on the continent lose their voice.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s attack this time was personally led by great general McHale and it was the third regiment of the Candra Empire¡¯s real army. Although it was still only fifty thousand, there was noparison to the battle strength of the fifty thousand from before.

    In this situation, the Candra Empire had suffered a second loss to the Rudson Kingdom, which really was unbelievable for everyone.

    Moreover, what was even more unbelievable was that the Rudson Kingdom not only repelled the invasion of the Candra Empire, they even took the initiative tounch a counter attack. They chased the third regiment led by general McHale for a week and had pushed them three hundred kilometers back into the Candra Empire.

    ording to the reports, when they finally escaped, other than general McHale, there were only ten thousand Candra Empire troops left.

    This meant that in this attack by the Candra Empire, they had lost forty thousand troops to the Rudson Kingdom!

    Since the Candra Empire was founded a thousand years ago, other than in wars against the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire had never suffered such a shocking loss!

    Adding up the losses from these two operations, not only did the Candra Empire¡¯s invasion of the Rudson Kingdom fail, they had lost over eighty thousand units and all kinds of supplies, which was considered a giant loss.

    All the countries on the Sines Continent were shocked and in disbelief, but there was also a single question among them.

    How did the Rudson Kingdom make the Candra Empire suffer such a tragic loss?

    There was news from the battle between these two countries that spread all over the continent.

    After studying these reports, all the countries noticed one thing. The reason why the Rudson Kingdom had easily defeated the Candra Empire was not because of their powerful tactics or the Candra Empire underestimating them, there was only a single reason which was that the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army¡¯s battle strength was just too terrifying.

    In these two attacks, these two sides had only less than ten shes which included the chase that the Rudson Kingdom had done afterwards.

    But there were only less than five battles where they actually fought.

    In these five battles, the Candra Empire had suffered incredible losses and had lost all ability to fight.

    This meant that when it came to a head on fight, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s battle strength surpassed that of the Candra Empire.

    But.....how could the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army¡¯s battle strength surpass that of the official Candra Empire army? As well as far surpassing it?

    It had to be known, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire were the tworge empires of the continent and with their powerful national strength, they always had the strongest armies on the entire continent.

    After all the reports were analyzed, there was only a single thing that they all focused on.

    The most important thing was that the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army were equipped with military magic machines.

 Volume 6 51 - Attitude change

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 51 Attitude change</h4>

    Even though on the battlefield, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army had beaten the Candra Empire¡¯s army away, making them unable to even fight back, after general McHale¡¯s troops had entered three hundred kilometers into the Candra Empire, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army chose to retreat and didn¡¯t show any signs of chasing.

    After withdrawing from the Candra Empire¡¯s territory, the Rudson Kingdom only fortified their border defenses and didn¡¯t make any other moves.

    And after the Candra Empire suffered two losses, they also fell silent.

    The borders of the two countries fell silent again like the war before didn¡¯t even happen.

    But everyone knew that this calm was only a false appearance.

    The Candra Empire as one of the continent¡¯s two empires, now that they had suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of a small country like the Rudson Kingdom, if they didn¡¯t find a way to restore their reputation, it would be arge blow to the Candra Empire¡¯s reputation on the entire continent.

    So the Candra Empire would definitely make another move. When they did, they wouldn¡¯t underestimate the Rudson Kingdom like they had done before.

    Everyone believed that with the far stronger national power of the Candra Empirepared to the Rudson Kingdom, even if they suffered one or two losses to the Rudson Kingdom, there would be no problem defeating them in the end.

    Of course, they needed some time to prepare.

    After the conflict between the two countries ended, it entered the winter of year 3789.

    The weather of the other ces on the continent began getting colder. Although the Marlow Empire in the north was very big, most of their territory was showing signs of the chill of winter.

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory was located in the southwest of the Marlow Empire, close to the middle of the continent, so it wasn¡¯t that cold just yet.

    But for the people who lived in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy with their temperate winters, the temperature on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory right now made them feel a bit cold.

    With a cold breeze, chairman Cantona couldn¡¯t help giving a shiver. He tightened the leather clothes he was wearing and only then did he feel a bit warmer.

    Turning to look at Baron Franklin beside him, he found that he was only wearing a light unpadded garment. He didn¡¯t even buckle it uppletely and left it open, but he didn¡¯t seem like he was cold at all.

    Chairman Cantona couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh deep down. Young people are different, they were countless times more resistant against the coldpared to an old man in his forties like him.

    ¡°Hey, Baron Franklin, when is the Lord Marquising back?¡± Chairman Cantona asked.

    Baron Franklin turned back from looking into the distance and replied with a smile, ¡°Grandfather said that he would be back before dinner, so I think that he should be back soon.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good.¡± Chairman Cantona gave a nod, ¡°The first field being renovated will be finished today, so we need the Lord Marquis toe back and approve it. If something is wrong, it¡¯s good to mention it as soon as possible. It¡¯s almost the new year and the fellows in thepany might be worried that they can¡¯t go back home for New Years.

    ¡°Actually, if it¡¯s just the approval, I can represent my grandfather. But my grandfather said that your Cantona Chamber of Commerce has really helped our territory this time and we will be cooperating for a long time in the future, so in order to deepen our rtionship, I had to keep you all here for a few more days.¡± Baron Franklin said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Chairman Cantona looked at Baron Franklin with a bit of surprise.

    Since the fall harvest, the subordinates of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce that he led had been here for close to three months.

    Although Marquis Southgate and Baron Franklin who represented him in supervising the work had been courteous, chairman Cantona could tell that they were only being polite based on their training as nobles. It didn¡¯t mean that they ced any importance on them at all.

    Of course, this was a natural thing since the other side was a marquis of the Marlow Empire, someone at the peak on the entire Sines Continent. He was countless times higher than their smallpany. Being able to appear polite was already because of their training, but most of that was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, chairman Cantona could clearly tell that Baron Franklin¡¯s words were filled with sincerity, it wasn¡¯t just normal courtesy.

    Seeing that sincere smile on Baron Franklin¡¯s face, chairman Cantona felt a bit of doubt.

    What reason was there for such arge change in his attitude?

    But thinking about it, it wasn¡¯t important.

    Because Cantona also wanted to maintain a long term cooperation with Marquis Southgate, which would greatly help the Cantona Chamber of Commerce open the market in the Marlow Empire.

    For example, during the fall harvest this year, when the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had shown that amazing disy during the fall harvest on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, there were many other Marlow Empire nobles rted to Marquis Southgate who came looking for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. They wanted them to help them harvest their territories as well.

    In the month and a half period of the fall harvest, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had harvested fifty thousand hectares of farnd, averaging around a hundred hectares ofnd a day. They helped thirteen noblespletely harvest all the fields in their territory.

    This kind of surprising efficiency had created arge stir in the Marlow Empire¡¯s noble circle. Before the fall harvest ended, there were countless Marlow Empire nobles who looked for Marquis Southgate or directly contacted the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, hoping that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would help them with their spring harvest next year.

    For these nobles, although the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would charge them a certain amount of fees, with the amount ofbour that they saved on, they actually gained more than they paid.

    Moreover, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was very efficient in their harvest. The waste of the grain was at an inconceivably low rate, so it was much more effective than harvesting it themselves no matter how they thought about it.

    The current Cantona Chamber of Commerce could be considered to have a bit of fame in the Marlow Empire. Even if they weren¡¯t rted to Marquis Southgate, they would be able to open the market in the Marlow Empire.

    Of course, chairman Cantona wasn¡¯t so short sighted. He firmly gave Marquis Southgate the most support and the first farnd renovation was done on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, helping Marquis Southgate open up around three hundred hectares of farnd.

    Like this, as long as the three hundred hectares were nted during the spring nting, when the fall harvest came next year, the grain yield of Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory would increase by at least 50%.

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because they are very satisfied with our results that they changed their attitude?¡± Chairman Cantona changed his mind and after considering it, he said to Baron Franklin with a nod, ¡°Alright then, since the Lord Marquis has given this invitation, how could I reject it? There¡¯s also a few things with the farnd renovation that I wanted to discuss with the Lord Marquis. I hope that I can have a few more talks with the Lord Marquis during these few days.¡±

    ¡°Grandfather will definitely be happy to talk to you.¡± Baron Franklin said with a smile.

    After the two talked for a bit, Baron Franklin left for another matter. Chairman Cantona supervised the work in the field for a bit longer before getting into a transport Magic Car, heading west to the magic machine industrial base on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    After close to half a year of construction, the base was already starting to take form. There were several factories that were close to being finished and they would be able to start production next year.

    Now thepanies of these factories were recruiting arge number of workers through Marquis Southgate, preparing for next year.

    ording to the agreement Xu Yi reached with Marquis Southgate before, the workers of these factories would mainlye from Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory. However, because Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory didn¡¯t have enough workers, they still needed to recruit from outside.

    Marquis Southgate gave priority to his good friend Duke Makaros when it came to the extra quota. It was expected that there would be three to four thousand workers that came from his territory.

    And because this would affect the work force on Duke Makaros¡¯ territory, Duke Makaros had made a request to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce through Marquis Southgate. He wanted the Cantona Chamber of Commerce topletely change the farnd on his territory like they were doing on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    At the same time, Marquis Southgate had also advised Duke Makaros to order the agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed to.

    If nothing unexpected happened, in just three years, their territories would be like the current Lampuri Kingdom, using mechanical farming.

    This result would affect the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie, but chairman Cantona wasn¡¯t surprised.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom started using machine farming, it had impacted the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, but they still found their market.

    The Marlow Empire was several times bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom and the other countries, so he was confident that there was room for them to survive.

    Not to mention that chairman Cantona¡¯s ambition didn¡¯t stop there.

    After arriving at the base, chairman Cantona directly found the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman Riley who was in charge of the construction here and asked a veiled question with the doubt in his heart.

    Why did Marquis Southgate suddenly have such a positive attitude?

    However, the answer that Riley gave chairman Cantona was an answer he never would have imagined.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because the Rudson Kingdom defeated the Candra Empire.¡±

    Chairman Cantona just stood there with a bewildered look.

    How was this.....all rted?

 Volume 6 52 - Creating fame

    Volume 6 Chapter 52 Creating fame

    Although Cantona was the chairman of a decent sizedpany, he was born from a normal family in Banta City, so his experiences were limited and he could only obtain limited news. So he couldn¡¯t understand how the Rudson Kingdom defeating the Candra Empire would suddenly make Marquis Southgate change his attitude.

    But Marquis Southgate was naturally someone who had his own awareness.

    When chairman Cantona went looking for Riley, Marquis Southgate was currently discussing the war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire with two other people.

    ¡°ording to the reports, the Candra Empire suffered heavy losses on the battlefield. The key to this was therge number of military magic machines the Rudson Kingdom army was armed with, which greatly increased their battle strength. And the military magic machines that yed the most crucial role, ording to the reports came from a small unknownpany in the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    The one who said this was a middle aged man with a serious expression who looked very dignified.

    After saying this, he looked at Marquis Southgate with a look of deep meaning.

    ¡°Marquis Southgate, although this smallpany is not well known in our Marlow Empire, I think that you should have some understanding.¡±

    ¡°Duke Roosevelt, you must be talking about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Marquis Southgate revealed a faint smile. He wasn¡¯t surprised at all that Duke Roosevelt who had great control over the Marlow Empire army would bring this topic to him, ¡°That¡¯s right, I do know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and if we¡¯re talking about deep understanding.....I can only say that I know a bit more than the others in the empire, but that doesn¡¯t mean that I have a deep understanding of them.¡±

    Duke Roosevelt knitted his brows, ¡°But I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve personally gone to the Stantine Duchy twice and then brought this Frestech Chamber of Commerce to your private territory. It also seems like you have some cooperations with the smallpanies that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought from a certain small country to open up some factories?¡±

    ¡°That is correct.¡± Marquis Southgate gave a nod.

    ¡°Then.....Marquis Southgate, how much do you know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines?¡± Duke Roosevelt kept asking.

    ¡°If I said that I don¡¯t know a thing about the military magic machines, would you believe it?¡± Marquis Southgate spread his hands. He shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°My interest in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only because I made contact with the household magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made. Then when I went to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I only pulled them to my territory for these household magic machines, it wasn¡¯t rted to the military magic machines at all.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Duke Roosevelt narrowed his eyes.

    Marquis Southgate turned to look at the other middle aged man who had a kind look.

    ¡°As for the matter rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies, I¡¯ve already made a report to the empire¡¯s department ofmerce and the noblend management department of the royal parliament. Count Duplow should know about this.¡±

    The kind looking middle aged man nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, Marquis Southgate made an application to the department ofmerce which clearly exined everything. Including the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are no problems with the investments of the otherpanies from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.¡±

    Duke Roosevelt looked at Count Duplow and slightly knitted his brows, feeling a bit dissatisfied.

    He wasn¡¯t interested in Marquis Southgate¡¯s business with thesepanies on his territory, he just cared about what Marquis Southgate was cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on.

    Or to be more precise, if there was cooperation when it came to military magic machines.

    The Candra Empire had suffered heavy casualties in their two operations against the Rudson Kingdom, so now the military magic machines which the Rudson Kingdom had used to repel to Candra Empire was something all the countries on the continent cared about.

    As the Candra Empire¡¯s only enemy on the continent, the Marlow Empire naturally cared about it even more.

    He represented the army headquarters to talk to Marquis Southgate, hoping that he could get some information on the military magic machines from him.

    But Marquis Southgate showed that he didn¡¯t want to cooperate, which made him a bit dissatisfied.

    After thinking about it, he calmed down and made his expression more serious as he looked over Marquis Southgate.

    ¡°Marquis Southgate, the military magic machines are very important to the army, so I hope that you will work with the army headquarters and provide as much urate information as possible.¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked over at Count Duplow on the side and seeing that he gave a nod, he understood. After intentionally pausing, he said with a nod, ¡°Alright, as a citizen of the empire, I should contribute to the empire. However, I really don¡¯t understand much about the military magic machines, so I can¡¯t share that much information.¡±

    Hearing this, Duke Roosevelt¡¯s expression sunk.

    However, Marquis Southgate actually changed the topic.

    ¡°But I can be an intermediary to introduce the army headquarters to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what do you think?¡±

    Duke Roosevelt¡¯s expression softened and he said whileughing, ¡°Of course it¡¯s better if it¡¯s like this. Un.....this is very important to the army headquarters, so I hope that you can contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    Seeing that Marquis Southgate agreed, Duke Roosevelt didn¡¯t waste any more words and bid farewell to Marquis Southgate.

    Marquis Southgate and Count Duplow were left alone in the room. Marquis Southgate was silent for a bit before knitting his brows to ask Count Duplow, ¡°Your department ofmerce is quite cooperative this time.¡±

    Count Duplow gave augh, ¡°This is the order from the emperor, there¡¯s no one who dares to ignore it.¡±

    Marquis Southgate was surprised, ¡°Even the emperor was rmed?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Count Duplow looked at Marquis Southgate and revealed a serious look, ¡°Lord Marquis, you should know that only the Candra Empire can be considered our enemy on the continent. But this powerful enemy that we acknowledged had lost to a small country like the Rudson Kingdom because of the military magic machines, do you think.....the emperor wouldn¡¯t find this important?¡±

    Marquis Southgate fell silent for a bit, but he couldn¡¯t help nodding.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. This is indeed unbelievable. The Candra Empire¡¯s third regiment could be considered their elites, but they weren¡¯t even able to fight back in front of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army, this really is a bit too hard to believe.¡±

    When he said this, Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression became strange.

    ¡°Speaking of this.....I only wanted to pull them in because I liked the useful household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made, but I never thought that I pulled in such arge fish......¡±

    Count Duplow gave augh and waved his hand, ¡°The military magic machines is something that army headquarters needs to worry about,pared to that, I care more about the household magic machines you mentioned. Lord Marquis, you¡¯re the one who knows the most about this, do you think those things have prospects in the empire?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Marquis Southgate¡¯s expression became serious, ¡°I¡¯m 100% certain that with the benefits of these household magic machines, they will be weed by everyone in the empire. I even believe that in a few years, these household magic machines will be all the rage in the empire!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Count Duplow stroked his chin in thought. Then he came closer to Marquis Southgate and said with a serious look, ¡°Then Lord Marquis, I represent the department ofmerce to officially make a request. I hope that you can act as an intermediary so I can start contacting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    Compared to Duke Roosevelt, this time Marquis Southgate agreed without any hesitation.

    ###

    Xu Yi looked at the high pile of invitations that Tvisti had ced in front of him before pointing at the trash can in the distance.

    ¡°Throw them all out.¡±

    ¡°All?¡± Tvisti asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Un, all.¡± Xu Yi nodded before adding, ¡°If there are things like this in the future, don¡¯t give them to me, just throw them all away.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡±

    Tvisti said before picking up the invitations and throwing them all in the trash.

    Seeing her action, Xu Yi gave a satisfied smile.

    This was the merit of the elf girl Tvisti. Compared to a human assistant, she was much more obedient and didn¡¯t waste time asking questions.

    If it was Kennard, he would definitely want Xu Yi to exin why he was doing this.

    Actually, the reason for this was very simple, Xu Yi was just toozy to care.

    During this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members received all kinds of invitations and Xu Yi as the chairman received the most.

    Although there were many important people who sent these invitations, many of them being from the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, Xu Yi still didn¡¯t care about them.

    He had already expected this. Since the Rudson Kingdom resisted the two invasions of the Candra Empire, the military magic machines that did most of the work would receive the attention of countless people.

    Logically, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who produced these military magic machines would be the center of attention for everyone.

    It could be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had perfectly built up their fame through this war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire. It made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a famouspany on the continent, which had achieved Xu Yi¡¯s goal.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t confused by this.

    It¡¯s very good that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be famous on the continent, but Xu Yi¡¯s goal wasn¡¯t to sell the military magic machines. Rather he wanted to level everyone know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through the military magic machines before letting them learn about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines.

    But the problem that Xu Yi faced now was how to let those people turn their attention from the military magic machines to the household magic machines.

 Volume 6 53 - Gaining private benefits under the guise of working for the public

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 53 Gaining private benefits under the guise of working for the public</h4>

    Seeing Tvisti turn back after throwing out the invitations, Xu Yi already had some ns.

    ¡°Give me the annual financial report that Sebas gave you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Tvisti didn¡¯t even need to look for it as she pulled it out of a thick pile of documents on the side and handed it to Xu Yi.

    This was also another advantage that Tvisti had as an elf, she had exceptional memory and she could remember everything that was ced in front of her clearly. As long as Xu Yi asked for it, she would be able to immediately find the thing Xu Yi was looking for.

    Moreover, she neatly put all the documents in ce, so even if Xu Yi looked for it, it wouldn¡¯t take him that much time or effort to find the document he wanted.

    With how obedient she was and how she didn¡¯t talk much, it could be said that she had all the necessary qualities of a secretary.

    Not to mention that she was very beautiful and good to look at. If this was earth, she would be the most perfect secretary in the minds of all the bosses.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that close to Tvisti at first since she was someone that elder Lisanya had arranged.

    But after being together for half a year, Xu Yi gradually became used to her.

    There were times that Xu Yi even thought that if Tvisti left now, it would take him some time to adapt.

    Shaking his head to get rid of these random thoughts, Xu Yi focused on the annual financial report that was in his hand.

    Although it was still early December, ording to their conventions from the past, Sebas as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager would create an annual financial report for thepany.

    This report wasn¡¯t considered the final annual report. It was just a basic assessment that Sebas made of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial situation this year. Not only did it include this year¡¯s finance statistics, it also included the evaluation and next year¡¯s projections.

    Although it was only a general appraisal, it was very important for Xu Yi who would set thepany¡¯s direction for next year, so he always seriously read this report.

    Based on the report, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s eleven months of profit had already reached thirty million gold coins.

    Moreover, because December was the beginning of winter, it was a busy sales period for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines. So this month¡¯s profit was only second to the second month of summer and the conservative estimates put it at three million gold coins.

    With all of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits this year was over thirty three million gold coins. It had increased by 30%pared tost year, so it could be said that their development was going smoothly.

    But if one looked at segments of the data, they would find that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit growth had been mainly focused on military magic machines.

    Compared tost year, the profit of the military magic machines had increased by four million gold coins, taking up more than half of this year¡¯s profit growth.

    Moreover, ording to the current estimates, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce increased their production capacity, the profit of the military magic machines would keep growing next year.

    So in the meeting between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members, including Kennard, they all proposed that thepany put more focus into military magic machines. They would increase the production capacity as much as possible and increase the profits of thepany.

    However, Xu Yi had rejected this proposal.

    Xu Yi stated that although it was inevitable that they would invest in military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main focus would be the household magic machines and that wouldn¡¯t change.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would officially open the markets of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire next year, sending various household magic machines into those markets. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should focus on these household magic machines to prepare ahead of time for therge demand for them.

    Even if the others didn¡¯t doubt Xu Yi¡¯s judgement, in front of therge profits of the military magic machines, the high level members of thepany were still moved.

    Xu Yi wanted to shift the attention of other people from the military magic machines to the household magic machines, so the first thing he needed to do was change the thoughts of the people in thepany.

    ¡°Tvisti, you talked to Sebas about finances before, how are your studies going?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Tvisti hesitated a bit before looking a bit embarrassed.

    ¡°I only learned some basic knowledge, I¡¯m stillcking in many other things.¡±

    ¡°Can you understand this report?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, no problem.¡± Tvisti nodded, ¡°Manager Sebas started by teaching me about these financial reports.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good, thene over here.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand at Tvisti and had her stand by his side before pointing at a page in the financial report, ¡°Do you understand what this means?¡±

    Tvisti looked at Xu Yi in surprise before replying, ¡°This is describing the changes in finances from July to November. Based on the data curve, there¡¯s clear growth in August and September, but there¡¯s a significant drop in October. Manager Sebas¡¯ analysis is because there was arge order of military magic machines and other rted products from the Rudson Kingdom during August and September.¡±

    ¡°Un, it is like this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But haven¡¯t you noticed a problem? This data curve doesn¡¯t seem reasonable, right?¡±

    ¡°Un.....Manager Sebas said that this was because it was influenced by the war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, so it can¡¯t be referenced as a norm.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right. Tvisti, I want you to follow the same style as this report to make two other reports. They will be profit analysis reports for both the military magic machine department and the household magic machine department. Can you do it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Tvisti looked at Xu Yi in surprise, but she didn¡¯t ask why. After thinking for a bit, she shook her head, ¡°I can¡¯t make as detailed of a report as manager Sebas can.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking you to make the exact same report, I just need you to show the most basic information. Can you do this?¡±

    Tvisti knitted her brows and after seriously thinking about it, she gave a nod, ¡°There should be no problems.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi put the financial report in his hands in Tvisti¡¯s arms, ¡°This is a test of your financial skills. When you return to the Moon Shadow Tribe in a month, elder Lisanya will definitely make you take some responsibility in this aspect, so it¡¯s good if you get some practice early.¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman.¡± Tvisti replied with a nod.

    ¡°Right, after speaking of your return to the Moon Shadow Tribe, I¡¯ve suddenly thought of something. When is Agnesing back?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    Tvisti just blinked in a daze, ¡°This.....I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Then help me contact elder Lisanya. Just said that I miss Agnes and if there¡¯s nothing wrong with her, have here back.¡±

    Tvisti silently looked at Xu Yi for a bit before hesitantly asked, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve actually always wanted to ask you. Do you.....really love Agnes?¡±

    ¡°Why are you asking this?¡± Xu Yi asked back in a slightly surprised voice.

    ¡°Because I really find it strange.¡± Tvisti honestly replied, ¡°We have been taught since we were young that humans and elves are two different races. The humans have always been hostile towards us elves, so we should have as little contact with humans as possible, even not appearing in front of them. But I feel.....that Agnes has really fallen in love with sir chairman. So I want to know, does sir chairman love Agnes?¡±

    ¡°The education you received back then is obsolete. If it was not, not mentioning others, just elder Lisanya wouldn¡¯t tell you not to make contact with humans, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, the elder wants us to contact humans as much as possible and learn to improve on the ws of the elves from them. She sent me here to learn many good things from sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°He, it seems like elder Lisanya thinks quite highly of me.¡± Xu Yi gave a smile before continuing, ¡°Speaking of the question just now, whether I love Agnes or not.....that question isn¡¯t easy to answer because the definition of love that humans and elves have isn¡¯t the same. I can only tell you that Agnes is very important to me right now and if someone wanted to hurt her, I definitely wouldn¡¯t let them. I¡¯m willing to be with her for this life and she is already one of my most important family members. Can you understand if I say it like this?¡±

    ¡°I understand most of it.¡± Tvisti nodded, ¡°But sir chairman, you don¡¯t only have Still as your wife, right? Didn¡¯t you always say that miss Still is the most important person in your heart?¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit awkward as he gave a cough, ¡°This.....Still is indeed the most important to me, but Agnes is also very important.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Tvisit was still a bit doubtful, ¡°We elves only have one partner we share our lives with, but you humans can have that many?¡±

    Xu Yi felt even more awkward, ¡°It isn¡¯t like this, since there are differences between people.¡±

    ¡°Oh.....¡± Tvisti looked like she understood and understood at the same time. After thinking for a bit, she said with a smile, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, to answer your question, Anges is currently in a critical period, so I think the elder won¡¯t let here back right now.¡±

    ¡°What critical period?¡± Xu Yi was very confused, ¡°I¡¯ve asked elder Lisanya about this many times, but she was never willing to tell me. This really is strange, why is there a need to be this mysterious?¡±

    Tvisti revealed a naughty smile, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s no need to rush. If nothing unexpected happens, you¡¯ll know in half a year.¡±

    Seeing that Tvisti also wasn¡¯t telling him anything, Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes.

    ¡°Alright, then help my tell elder Lisanya that if she¡¯s not willing to tell me why she won¡¯t let Agnese back, then I won¡¯t support your tribe¡¯s stretch ofnd in the southwest of the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    Tvisti¡¯s eyes opened wide as a trace of anger appeared on her face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you.....You¡¯re gaining private benefits under the guise of working for the public!¡±

    Xu Yiughed thinking that so what if I am?

 Volume 6 54 - Advertising expert Still

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 54 Advertising expert Still</h4>

    Not supporting the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s piece ofnd in the Sack Kingdom was a joke. That was because in just a single month since the Moon Shadow Tribe took thisnd, it had already be a ce that was filled with nts.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe had used the special knowledge of the elves to nt all kinds of nts,making it the most important raw material needed to make the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer.

    The fertilizer wasn¡¯t just the most important source of ie for the Moon Shadow Tribe, it had already be a very important agricultural resource for the surrounding countries. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly stopped supporting this piece ofnd, not only would the Moon Shadow Tribe be unhappy, the surrounding countries wouldin about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first.

    Not to mention that the fertilizer was one of the most importantmoner use products, so for Xu Yi who always paid more attention to this departmentpared to the military magic machines, it was something very important. How could he easily let there be a problem with it?

    After giving more details to Tvisti on how to make the two financial reports, Xu Yi left the office and nned to go to the magic research facility.

    To make the household magic machines more famous, it required something that would attract people¡¯s attention.

    In the past two years, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been focused on enhancing the quality and performance of the household magic machines, there wasn¡¯t anything that caught people¡¯s attention.

    Now that Xu Yi wanted to draw back their attention, he needed to put in some effort.

    As soon as he came out of the main office building, Xu Yi was about to get into his Magic Sedan when he found a familiar white Magic Sedan quickly heading over.

    That pure white Magic Sedan came to Xu Yi¡¯s side and the door opened as Still came out.

    ¡°Hey, Still, why are you back?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Weren¡¯t you working in the Falk Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t wee me back?¡± Still pushed back her long hair and came to Xu Yi¡¯s side with a faint smile. Her hand came out and touched his face, ¡°If I¡¯m not here, you have more time to be by yourself?¡±

    ¡°What nonsense are you talking about?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Speak, did you suddenlye back for something?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, there is something and it¡¯s something I need to talk to you, chairman Xu about.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s rted to me? What is it?¡± Xu Yi was even more curious.

    Still looked around, ¡°Let¡¯s find a ce to sit and talk.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Twenty minutester, the two of them were sitting on the gazebo overlooking the cliff at Xu Yi¡¯s manor.

    Still took a sip of the warm tea and let out a sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s good to be back in the Stantine Duchy, the winters aren¡¯t cold at all. In the days in the Falk Kingdom, it was so cold that I was about to die.¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That ce is in the north part of the continent, so it¡¯s much colder than the Stantine Duchy. Did you see me when I came back from the Marlow Empire before? If I came back a bitter, I definitely would have frozen to death in the Marlow Empire.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re quite sly,ing back yourself and leaving the others in the Marlow Empire.¡± Still looked at Xu Yi and she revealed a charming look.

    Although Still was already the mother of two children and she was getting close to being thirty,pared to when they first met, even if the current Still didn¡¯t have the same youthfulness as before, there was a mature charm that made her more beautiful.

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°That was their choice. If I had theme back, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be willing.¡±

    ¡°Of course. If they can take root in the Marlow Empire, it would be very helpful to the development of theirpanies, so they wouldn¡¯t let go of this chance just because it was a bit cold.¡±

    After saying this, Still turned to look at the sun that was setting on the sea. After staring for a bit, she said, ¡°I came back from the Falk Kingdom this time was not just because I didn¡¯t like how cold it was.¡±

    Xu Yi put down the cup of tea in his hand and looked at Still, knowing that she was about to get into business.

    Still suddenly stopping her promotion of the Magic Illusion Projectors in the Falk Kingdom anding back to the Stantine Duchy to look for him, it was clearly something important.

    ¡°Speak. If there¡¯s something you need my help with, there¡¯s no need to be polite. Who told us to be husband and wife?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Still turned to Xu Yi with a smile, but there was a trace of apology in her eyes.

    ¡°Actually, I didn¡¯t like hearing you say this before.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before understanding. He gave a shrug and said, ¡°I understand, you are a strong female and aren¡¯t willing to depend on me to develop the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. I understand this, so unless you take the initiative to ask for it, I will rarely help you, isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, did my willfulness from before cause a headache for you?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi as she asked this.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Of course not. Being self dependent is the merit of yours that I admire. Since you¡¯ve made your own choice, I can only support you, how could it be a headache?¡±

    ¡°Then if I were to change now and want.....Eh, what was it called again? The thing you told me about before?¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    ¡°I thought of it, hugging the big leg!¡± Still gave a p and said with an excited look, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve changed my thoughts and have decided to hug your big leg. Are you happy?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he reached out his right leg.

    ¡°Come, hug it then.¡±

    Still snappily pped Xu Yi¡¯s thigh, ¡°It¡¯s hugging the leg of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and took back his leg. After thinking about it, he said with a serious look, ¡°You mean that your New Moon Chamber of Commerce wants to work on expanding with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much. Xu Yi, haven¡¯t you always wanted people to pay less attention to the military magic machines and pay more attention to household magic machines?¡± Still said.

    ¡°Un, what about it? Do you have some good ideas?¡±

    ¡°Yes, when I was promoting the Magic Illusion Projector in the Falk Kingdom, I found a problem. It was that although quite a few of the people in the Falk Kingdom had heard the Frestech Chamber of Commerce name and knew what the magic machines were, if you asked them about the various kinds of magic machines, most people wouldn¡¯t know them.¡±

    ¡°This is very normal.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Ourpany has just introduced magic machines into the Falk Kingdom, so it¡¯s natural that the normal citizens don¡¯t know about them.¡±

    ¡°So after I considered it, I felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should increase their advertising in this. But speaking of advertising, whether it is pictures of newspapers, it isn¡¯t direct enough. It won¡¯t let the people really understand what the magic machines can do......¡±

    ¡°Then you thought of introducing it with the Magic Illusion Films?¡± Xu Yi cut in.

    Still was stunned before looking at Xu Yi with an aggrieved look, ¡°Can you not be this smart?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless. This kind of television advertising was verymon on earth, how could he not think of it?

    But because the Magic Illusion Projector hadn¡¯t spread in the surrounding countries, especially those countries where magic machines were still new things, even if Xu Yi wanted to use these films as advertisements, he was still limited by the conditions.

    Moreover, there was a very important reason. It was that Still wanted to develop her New Moon Chamber of Commerce without the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if the New Moon Chamber of Commerce bought arge number of Magic Illusion Projectors from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they traded for them at market price without a single discount.

    So Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to take the initiative to raise this matter. He hoped that when the time was right, Still would make the decision to raise this proposal.

    Now that Still had thought this through and raised this idea, it really was a happy matter.

    ¡°I thought that because our New Moon Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t that famous, it would be very hard and time consuming to install these Magic Illusion Projectors in other countries. So I wanted to work with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and promote them along with the other household magic machines. Of course, at the same time, our New Moon Chamber of Commerce would also shoot some Magic Illusion Films to promote the various household magic machines of yourpany.¡±

    Although Xu Yi felt a bit off hearing ¡°you¡± and ¡°us¡± from Still¡¯s mouth, he was very clear that Still was just differentiating between the interest of herpany and her private interests, so there wasn¡¯t any problem.

    ¡°Of course there¡¯s no problem. How about this, we¡¯ll sign a cooperation agreement. No matter where our Frestech Chamber of Commerce promotes household magic machines, we will make the Magic Illusion Projector the main focus. Then your New Moon Chamber of Commerce will take a few of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products to shootmercials for. That would benefit both our sides.¡±

    ¡°This was my idea.¡± Still said with a nod, ¡°Other than this, our New Moon Chamber of Commerce is trying to shoot some modern or futuristic films. We can put the household magic machines into the films and let the people understand the uses of the household magic machines from the films.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± This time Xu Yi really was a bit surprised.

    He never thought that Still would think of the same method of advertising as on earth, even using product cement advertising.

    Based on this, it could really be said that Still was a genius at advertising.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly had a thought.

    ¡°How about this, Still, I will represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to officially propose a cooperation with your New Moon Chamber of Commerce. I hope that your New Moon Chamber of Commerce will make a special documentary for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce which will be called......?The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Road of Development?. What do you think?¡±

    Still¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°That really is a good idea!¡±

 Volume 6 55 - Do you know about patents?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 55 Do you know about patents?</h4>

    Still said that Xu Yi¡¯s idea was good was naturally because countless people were paying attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If this series of documentaries was released, it would definitely attract the attention of these people.

    Everyone wanted to know about this unknown smallpany from the Stantine Duchy, which was a country that was so small that everyone ignored it. They wanted to know what were the military magic machines and wanted to know how the Rudson Kingdom had relied on their support to defeat the Candra Empire¡¯s invasion twice.

    The ones that cared the most was naturally the Candra Empire who had been defeated twice.

    There was less than a week before the new year and most people were preparing to wee in the new year. A delegation from the Candra Empire went through the Norton Duchy and the Mirando Duchy to arrive in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital, Anvilmar City.

    Since they were rmended by the Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador, this delegation smoothly received an audience with Queen Seveni.

    The mission on the surface was to represent the Candra Empire¡¯s emperor to wish Queen Seveni a new year, while also bringing some cooperation projects for the Lampuri Kingdom from the Candra Empire.

    From the surface, the Candra Empire would send this delegation each year, so it wasn¡¯t strange.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire had contact between them, so they were quite close. It was normal to send delegates to maintain contact between both sides and to create some trade between the countries.

    In the delegate the Candra Empire sent each year, there would be some Candra Empirepanies. They came to create some trade agreements with the Lampuri Kingdompanies, which would strengthen both sides.

    But before this, the Candra Empire was just too much stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom, so the delegate was just sent to show their attitude and maintain their rtionship, there weren¡¯t any actual trade deals between the two sides. Thepanies that came with the delegates were onlypanies without any fame in the Candra Empire.

    But this year was different.

    This time, the Candra Empire¡¯s delegate was not just much bigger than before, the people who came were of higher ss.

    In the past, the Candra Empire would just send a normal official and no more than ten smallpany representatives. They would juste to create some superficial trade deals with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But the delegate this time was led by the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce¡¯s chief Marquis Descartes and the representatives from thepanies were from the famousrgepanies of the Candra Empire. This even included a representative from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce which was thergestpany on the continent. This was an unprecedented scale.

    Because before the delegate came, the Candra Empire¡¯s ambassador to the Lampuri Kingdom had already mentioned this, Seveni was only a bit surprised and already prepared. They had prepared a banquet in the pce to wee this delegate.

    This banquet had a happy mood, but after the banquet, the Candra Empire¡¯s delegate leader Marquis Descartes met Seveni alone and there were sparks that appeared.

    ¡°Your majesty, this is our empire¡¯s goodwill to your kingdom, why aren¡¯t you willing to ept this?¡± Marquis Descartes said in a deep voice.

    Seveni narrowed her eyes and really wanted to give a coldugh.

    This Marquis Descartes was polite to her in the beginning, but when they reached the specifics, he immediately revealed his high position as being from the Candra Empire and his tone becamemanding. It was like he was giving an order from the heavens that had to be followed.

    Of course, if the proposal was favourable to the Lampuri Kingdom, Seveni was toozy to care about his tone, but this fellow represented the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce to request Seveni to give the Candra Empire all their current magic machine technology. How could Seveni ept this?

    Even if Marquis Descartes said that the Candra Empire would give the Lampuri Kingdompensation, for example establishing an alliance with the Lampuri Kingdom and guaranteeing that the Lampuri Kingdom would be the leading country in the southwest corner of the continent.....

    At the same time, he also promised some benefits for Seveni.

    For example, the Candra Empire would open a trade route for the Lampuri Kingdom, specifically allowing the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s products to enter the Candra Empire. He even said that for most products, especially the magic machine rted products, they would waive the tariffs on these.

    Or for example, the Candra Empire would open up all their products to be exported to the Lampuri Kingdom. Among them were the products that the Candra Empire was abundant in and the Lampuri Kingdomcked, they would even cut the price and ensure that the Lampuri Kingdom would have first rights to buy them.....

    If it was before, if a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom could receive this importance from the Candra Empire which was one of the two empires on the continent, they would have been happy to ept this kind of support.

    Especially when the Lampuri Kingdom was always suppressed by the Sack Kingdom. If they could be acknowledged by the Candra Empire as an ally, it would be the best protective charm against the Sack Kingdom.

    But for the current Lampuri Kingdom.....not only were these conditions not enticing at all, Seveni could easily tell that the goal of the Candra Empire was all the various magic machine technology the Lampuri Kingdom possessed.

    This had no benefits for them and could even harm the basic magic machine industry that was forming in the Lampuri Kingdom, so how could Seveni possibly agree to this?

    However, Seveni stated that she would need to seriously consider this which was actually a tacit rejection. Marquis Descartes revealed a look of disbelief, like he couldn¡¯t understand why Seveni wouldn¡¯t ept these conditions that normal people dreamed of.

    Seveni was silent for a bit before calmly replying, ¡°Marquis Descartes, I¡¯m very grateful for the goodwill the Candra Empire is showing us, but about the Candra Empire¡¯s wish that we would give them all our magic machine rted technology. I¡¯m very sorry, but I can¡¯t ept this.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Marquis Descartes asked with knitted brows, ¡°Isn¡¯t this just a few words for your majesty? Or could it be that you can¡¯t control the smallpanies in your kingdom?¡±

    Marquis Descartes¡¯ words were very rude, as if he was expressing his doubt over Seveni¡¯s control over the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ¡°Marquis Descartes, as the chief of the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce, does your words mean that you can control all thepanies in the Candra Empire?¡± Seveni gave a soft snort and said without any courtesy, ¡°If it is like this, I must express my sympathy for thepanies of the Candra Empire.¡±

    Marquis Descartes was surprised. He knew that he had made a mistake with his words, but he wasn¡¯t nning on retreating because of this. He stared at Seveni and kept asking, ¡°Your majesty, I believe that as long as you¡¯re willing, this isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    ¡°No, I just said it, I can¡¯t decide this.¡± Seveni waved her hand, ¡°The magic machine technology that you mentioned before, the core parts of them are controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The magic machine rtedpanies of our Lampuri Kingdom are only receiving authorization from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Strictly speaking, they have no rights to transfer this technology.¡±

    Marquis Descartes knitted his brows, ¡°Since you¡¯ve grasped the technology, why can¡¯t you transfer them? Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can do something to them?¡±

    Seveni finally couldn¡¯t help giving a soft coldugh, ¡°Marquis Descartes, have you heard of patents?¡±

    ¡°Patents?¡± Marquis Descartes thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    Seveni gave him a rough exnation of the patents before adding, ¡°These patents were authorized by the Magicians Guild headquarters and are protected by them. If anypany goes against the rules for the use of these patents, they will be punished by the Magicians Guild headquarters.¡±

    Hearing that these ¡°patents¡± were rted to the Magicians Guild headquarters, Marquis Descartes couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent and other than having scruples about the Marlow Empire, there was only one other ce that could make them have scruples. It was the Magicians Guild that spread all over the continent and influenced all the magicians on the continent.

    Unless it was absolutely necessary, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t challenge the authority of the Magicians Guild which wouldn¡¯t have any benefits for them.

    Seeing the difficult look on Marquis Descartes¡¯ face, Seveni revealed a faint smile and suggested, ¡°Marquis Descartes, if your Candra Empire is really interested in the magic machine technology, how about you directly negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    Marquis Descartes couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    If possible, he would want to negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But based on the information from before, it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce secretly supported the Rudson Kingdom with military magic machines that the Candra Empire¡¯s army failed. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been sentenced to death in the minds of many people in the Candra Empire.

    The Candra empire was discussing how to take care of this damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so how could they negotiate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    He had personally led this delegation to cooperate with the Lampuri Kingdom in terms of magic machines, even having the parliament approve several beneficial conditions for the Lampuri Kingdom. It was just to have another way of understanding the magic machines.

    Of course, it would be best if they could obtain information on the military magic machines which would make it easier for the empire in the future.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t willing to cooperate at all which made it hard for him.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s stance wasn¡¯t a surprise for him because the Lampuri Kingdom had previously rejected the Candra Empire¡¯s request for them to stop importing goods to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Marquis Descartes looked at the smiling Queen Seveni and he gave a sigh in his heart.

    ¡°It seems like......we still have to use the second n from before......¡±

 Volume 6 56 - Weâ€™re here to buy your company

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 56 We¡¯re here to buy yourpany</h4>

    There was a cold wind that suddenly came in from the door and blew across old man Luff who was in front of the door. He couldn¡¯t help giving a shiver as his hand trembled and the pen he was holding fell down, creating a long line on the paper he had been writing on.

    ¡°Damn!¡± OId man Luff couldn¡¯t help cursing. He looked up at the door that had been strangely blown open and stood up to quickly close it.

    ¡°That damn hag, she doesn¡¯t even know how to close the door properly when leaving.¡±

    Old man Luff cursed in a low voice before returning to his desk.

    Seeing that the line on the paper had covered everything, he couldn¡¯t help cursing again. He crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash can near him before looking down to start working again.

    Actually, after this ounts book was finished, other than his wife Anti who took a look from time to time, there was no one else who looked at it. Even if there were a few lines through it, it didn¡¯t matter at all.

    But old man Luff was a bit obsessed with this ounts book, so he didn¡¯t like seeing a big mistake like this.

    Moreover, even if he only looked at this ounts book from time to time, it represented the small summary of his Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly ie. For him as the chairman, the process of writing this book gave him a very wonderful feeling, so he hoped that it would be as perfect as possible.

    After leaning over the table for around twenty minutes, old man Luff finished thest record and made sure that the book was a sess.

    Picking up this book that wasn¡¯t that thick to read over three times, old man Luff gave a satisfied nod.

    Based on the figures in this book, his Luff Chamber of Commerce had 176431 gold coins in sales this year and had a profit of 89213 gold coins.

    This meant a profit margin of 50% which was a bit exaggerated.

    Of course, this was rted to the Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main product.

    The profit margins of magic machines had always been high, that wasmon knowledge in the magic machine business.

    Although there were more and morepanies joining the business, the profits were being pushed down, it was still able to reach 50% which was higher than all the other industries.

    There would always be a shocking profit margin at the end of the year, so old man Luff wanted to sincerely thank the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce starting the magic machine business, he would still be a small merchant in Saltan City. The Luff Chamber of Commerce would still be a small goodspany and it would be incredible if they could even earn a few thousand gold coins a year.

    But now, the Luff Chamber of Commerce under him sold Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves, earning over ny thousand gold coins a year. It was much greaterpared to before.

    Of course, he was very happy with his decision back then.

    It was a good thing that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they were willing to transfer the magic machine technology, he had gritted his teeth and used thirteen thousand gold coins to buy the Magic Kettle technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Then he bought several production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and built a Magic Kettle production line with the help of their technical staff. Even with the crude Magic Kettle production line, it had brought the Luff Chamber of Commerce quite a bit of profit.

    In just three years, he had already paid off the money he had paid for the Magic Kettle technology.

    He then gritted his teeth again and spent some more money to buy the technology for the Magic Stove and the necessary production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In just two years, just with the Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves, the Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits this year was over ny thousand gold coins.

    With this, in just two years, he would be able to pay off everything he owed and he would be earning pure profit in the following years.

    Whenever he thought of this, old man Luff would feel very happy.

    Of course, he had some regrets.

    If he had been good enough, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invited the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machinepanies to build factories in the Marlow Empire, he would have gone with them.

    Old man Luff now had blind fate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather their chairman Xu Yi.

    He believed from the bottom of his heart that as long as it was chairman Xu¡¯s decision, it would definitely be a good one.

    Following chairman Xu would mean great profits.

    But to invest in a factory in the Marlow Empire required at least two hundred thousand gold coins and old man Luff was unable to take that much out.

    He felt that he had missed a good chance and when he would have enough money to invest, it wouldn¡¯t be as good as being one of the first to invest.

    ¡°Forget it, who told me to still be weak.¡± Old man Luff shook his head and could only let his regrets run away. He looked at the ounts book on the table and revealed a smile again.

    Even if the Luff Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have big development, with just the profit of over ny thousand gold coins this year, he could still live a good life.

    While old man Luff was thinking about whether to take more risks or not over the next two years, expanding the Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine production lines, there was a sound that came from the door as it was suddenly pushed open.

    There was a strong cold wind that came in that made old man Luff unable to stop himself from shivering.

    ¡°Who is......¡± Old man Luff was about to curse, but when he looked at the door, he immediately swallowed his words. He revealed a friendly smile and came forward to greet them.

    ¡°Two customers, are you interested in buying household magic machines? Our Luff Chamber of Commerce mainly sells Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves. If you¡¯re interested, pleasee with me.¡±

    The two who suddenly came in had calm looks. Although their attire seemed simple, it was made with rich materials that definitely weren¡¯t normal.

    With old man Luff¡¯s experienced eyes, he could tell that these two definitely weren¡¯t normal people.

    Based on his past experience, these people would very likely be here to cerge orders, which was arge business that old man Luff weed.

    While showing them around, old man Luff picked up the remote control for the Magic Air Conditioner and turned on the Magic Air Conditioner he was never willing to turn on before.

    Feeling the warm breezeing out and warming up the room, the two customers looked at the Magic Air Conditioner on the wall with curious looks before asking old man Luff, ¡°This is the Magic Air Conditioner?¡±

    Old man Luff was certain that these two came from another country and it was a country that was rather far from here, otherwise it was impossible for them to not know about the Magic Air Conditioner.

    ¡°Yes, this is the Magic Air Conditioner. It¡¯s the Frestech Brand, the best Magic Air Conditioner out there.¡± Old man Luff replied with a smile before taking out a Magic Kettle and a Magic Stove from a special cab to show off to the two of them, ¡°These two are the Magic Kettle and the Magic Stove that ourpany sells. Are you interested in these?¡±

    The two looked at the Magic Kettle and the Magic Stove in his hands and revealed interested looks.

    ¡°Can you demonstrate them?¡± One of them asked.

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    Old man Luff skillfully took out two of the high concentration Magic Crystals that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced and put them in the Magic Kettle and Magic Stove. Then he turned on the Magic Stove and created a flick of me.

    He filled the Magic Kettle with water and put it on the table before turning it on. Not long after, there was steam that came out of it.

    Seeing this, the two customers looked at each other with a bit of surprise in their eyes.

    Old man Luffughed in his heart. Based on the reaction of the two, he was very clear that they didn¡¯t have any understanding of the magic machines, so he was certain that they were people who were seeing magic machines for the first time.

    It was normal for people to be attracted by the mysterious effects of the magic machines.

    Based on the makings of these two, as long as he puts in the effort, he might be able to make a big deal.

    ¡°The two of you, look, as long as you use this Magic Kettle, it isn¡¯t any trouble to drink some clean water......¡±

    Old man Luff was about to introduce the effects of the Magic Kettle and the Magic Stove to the two of them, but one of them suddenly raised his hand.

    ¡°No need, we came this time not to buy these Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Old man Luff was surprised before feeling disappointed.

    These two fellows were clearly very interested, but they weren¡¯t nning to buy, so what were they doing here? Did they juste here to waste his time?¡±

    Old man Luff who had many years of experience as a merchant maintained his smile and continued, ¡°It¡¯s fine, the two of you can look at it some more and understand it. Although our Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves can¡¯tpare to the Frestech Brand, it is definitely the best among the other brands. You can just go ask around if you don¡¯t believe me.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need.¡± The one who spoke said with a smile, ¡°We had heard that the Luff Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves were the best other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s so we came here.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Old man Luff was even more confused.

    The two hade here after asking around, but they wasted that time toe here without buying Magic Kettle and Magic Stoves, so what were they here for?¡±

    Seeing the doubt in old man Luff¡¯s eyes, that person revealed a smile and took out a contract for old man Luff.

    ¡°Chairman Luff, we didn¡¯te this time to buy Magic Kettles and Magic Stoves, but to buy your Luff Chamber of Commerce. This is the purchase contract, please take a look.¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡±

    Old man Luff waspletely stunned by this.

 Volume 6 59 - Readily giving money

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 59 Readily giving money</h4>

    [TL Note: I don¡¯t know where chapters 57 and 58 went either. They just never existed. The author mentions that he missed them in ater chapter and he couldn¡¯t change the numbers on Qidian, so he just left them.]

    When those two left half an hourter, old man Luff finally came back from his daze.

    Seeing the purchase agreement in his hand, old man Luff was still in a bit of disbelief.

    This purchase agreement was actually from a famousrgepany in the Candra Empire, which had already surprised old man Luff very much.

    What surprised him even more was that the other side had offered eight hundred thousand gold coins!

    It had to be known, ording to old man Luff¡¯s estimates, if he added the stores and factories that belonged to the Luff Chamber of Commerce he owned, the total value would only be around two hundred thousand gold coins.

    Although the other side had pointed out that they wanted the Magic Kettle and Magic Stove technology from the Luff Chamber of Commerce, that total value was still only five hundred thousand gold coins.

    If it was sold for eight hundred thousand gold coins, old man Luff would be earning three hundred thousand gold coins!

    Moreover, after taking care of his debt, old man Luff would be left with seven hundred thousand out of the eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    With this much money, he could live in luxury and wouldn¡¯t have to work with this money. He could live the most luxurious life that he wanted and it would be enough tost him several years, he wouldn¡¯t even be able to spend it all before he died.

    And if he wanted to keep going, with therge capital of seven hundred thousand gold coins, as well as the experience that he had in this industry, he could definitely have better prospects for development.

    No matter how he looked at it, it was a very good choice to sign this contract and sell the Luff Chamber of Commerce.

    However, after old man Luff carefully thought about it, he felt a bit unsettled.

    He wasn¡¯t worried that the other side was a fraud because there was the seal of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s department ofmerce and the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce. This proved that this was certified and was approved by both countries.

    Not to mention that the other side stated that as long as old man Luff signed, they would immediately give him the money and wouldn¡¯t hesitate at all.

    Seeing them take out the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hundred thousand gold bills, old man Luff didn¡¯t doubt their words.

    But old man Luff felt worried because his years of experience told him that a pie that fell from the heavens most of the time wasn¡¯t easy to eat.

    Only the pie in front of old man Luff was just too tempting that it was hard for him to reject.

    When old man Luff was struggling in his heart, the door of his shop was pushed open again and there was a fat person who came in whileughing.

    ¡°Hey, Luff, be happy for me, I just got a big deal!¡±

    Old man luff looked at this fat middle aged man who suddenly came in and asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Doyer, what big deal?¡±

    Doyer gave augh and came to old man Luff¡¯s side as he lowered his voice, saying with a mysterious look, ¡°Let me tell you, it really is a big deal. I.....sold the An Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Old man Luff¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°You.....You actually sold the An Chamber of Commerce? God, are you crazy?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not crazy.¡± Doyer waved his hand and said with the same smile, ¡°Do you know how much I sold it for?¡±

    ¡°How much?¡± Old man Luff knitted his brows as he calcted it in his heart.

    Doyer was his old friend and when he decided to manufacture Magic Ketters, Doyer had urged him not to take this risk.

    When old man Luff earned arge profit from these Magic Kettles, Doyer wanted the same and also bought the Magic Refrigerator technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He had the An Chamber of Commerce focus on making Magic Refrigerators.

    Now the An Brand Magic Refrigerators were famous in Saltan City and the surrounding cities, so he had earned quite a bit from them.

    The scale and fame of the An Chamber of Commerce was only slightly worse than the Luff Chamber of Commerce. If the Luff Chamber of Commerce was valued at five hundred thousand, the An Chamber of Commerce would be worth around four hundred thousand gold coins.

    ¡°Four hundred thousand?¡± Hearing old man Luff¡¯s answer, Doyer gave augh and shook his head. He raised a hand and an extra finger towards old man Luff, ¡°Let me tell you, it¡¯s six hundred thousand gold coins! I sold it for six hundred thousand! Ha, ha, I¡¯m really rich now!¡±

    ¡°Six hundred thousand?¡± Hearing Doyer give a price that was two hundred thousand higher than the price in his heart, old man Luff had a thought as he asked, ¡°Doyer, the people who bought your An Chamber of Commerce, were they from the Candra Empire?¡±

    Doyer was surprised, ¡°How did you know?¡±

    Old man Luff confirmed the guess in his heart and took out the purchase agreement for Doyer.

    Doyer took it and he revealed a surprised look.

    ¡°So it wasn¡¯t just our An Chamber of Commerce.....What are those Candra Empire people doing?¡±

    Old man Luff shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know, this matter is too strange, so I¡¯m hesitating on whether to agree or not.¡±

    Doyer hesitated a bit before giving old man Luff his contract back and saying, ¡°Che, what is there to hesitate about? Sell it if the price is good, don¡¯t if the price is bad. Anyway, your Luff Chamber ofmerce can also make several tens of thousands of gold coins a year, you can still do well even if you don¡¯t sell it. Of course, based on what I think, it¡¯s better to sell because you can do other things with more gold coins. It might be better than what you¡¯re doing now.¡±

    ¡°I also think the same, but I feel that this matter is too strange, as if it can¡¯t be relied on......¡± Old man Luff knitted his brows.

    ¡°What is strange about it?¡± Doyer waved his hand, ¡°Anyway, after I signed the contract, they gave me six hundred thousand gold coins on the spot. They didn¡¯t dy at all, it was very quick.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Old man Luff was even more confused.

    Normally speaking, for a purchase of thisrge amount, even if it was argepany from the Candra Empire with enough funds, it was better to be careful. It wasn¡¯t strange to stall the payment for several months or even by half a year, so why would they pay so readily?¡±

    ¡°I say, why do you care this much?¡± Doyer looked at old man Luff with a confused gaze, ¡°You just need to care about if you can get the money or not. If you look at it now, the other side is paying you readily, so what is there to think about? Luff, I really feel that you should sell. After you take the money, do you want to put it together and go to the Marlow Empire to see if we have a chance? It¡¯s better than being in a small Saltan City, right?¡±

    Hearing the final words, old man Luff¡¯s heart was moved.

    This was the biggest enticement for this deal.

    He had spent his life in the small Lampuri Kingdom, he always looked at the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire in awe since he was young and always wondered about adventuring in them.

    Now that there was such a good chance in front of him, how could he not be moved?

    Not to mention that the buyers came from two Candra Empirepanies. If old man Luff wanted to invest in the magic machine industry in the Candra Empire in the future, theirpanies could give them quite a bit of help.

    Moreover, the Candra Empire was now caring about the magic machine industry as well. If he was willing to go, the Candra Empire would support them with various policies, so it could be said that this was a very good chance.

    After hesitating a bit, old man Luff¡¯s heart began to move and he tentatively asked Doyer, ¡°Then.....I¡¯ll sign their contract?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Doyer patted old man Doyer¡¯s shoulder and gave a loudugh, ¡°Sell it if you want. After we take all those gold coins, there¡¯s no problem in doing anything we want, it¡¯ll be much better than before.¡±

    Old man Luff saw the rxed smile on Doyer¡¯s face and after hesitating a bit, he gave a nod.

    ¡°Un.....This is also good......¡±

    ###

    While old man Luff was being enticed by thosepanies, Xu Yi was also facing enticement.

    After the new year, there was a diplomatic envoy from the Candra Empire that came to the Stantine Duchy.

    This envoy¡¯s representative was his highness Frank. This time they came to discuss the Magic Car races that they discussed before, as well as bringing another request from his highness Frank.

    ¡°His highness said that just holding the race isn¡¯t enough because to hold the race in the Candra Empire, we need toe back to the Stantine Duchy to repair the cars, as well as doing maintenance, it really is troublesome. So his highness hopes that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will directly open a Magic Car factory in the Candra Empire so that everything can be solved.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the representative, who was his highness Frank¡¯s subordinate manager Mancini that he had met before and smiled without saying a word.

    When he proposed a cooperation with his highness Frank on the Magic Cars, his highness Frank had declined this. He never thought that in less than a year, his highness Frank¡¯s attitude would change. It really made one emotional at how impermanent all things were.

    But because his highness Frank had even gone all the way to the Lampuri Kingdom to participate in a Magic Car race before, Xu Yi could ept this change.

    Not to mention that his highness Frank¡¯s sudden change this time might not be because of himself, but rather the change in attitude for the Candra Empire, so he wasn¡¯t surprised by this at all.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t speaking, manager Mancini was a bit impatient.

    However, he could show a condescending look when he met Xu Yist time, but this time his highness Frank had personally ordered him toe and he knew that the reason wasn¡¯t simple. So his attitude couldn¡¯t be arrogant at all and he needed to be as sincere as possible.

    After pushing down the dissatisfaction in his heart, manager Mancini did all he could to force out a smile that was uglier than crying as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi acted like he was thinking before giving a nod, ¡°I feel that this suggestion isn¡¯t bad, but manager Mancini, did his highness Frank mention who would be in control of this jointly invested factory?¡±

    Manager Mancini¡¯s expression became serious, ¡°Of course it¡¯s controlled by his highness.¡± Then he realized that his tone had changed too suddenly and he revealed a smile as he continued, ¡°Of course, his highness won¡¯t interfere in the concrete matters of the factory, so it will be mainly taken care of by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving augh of ridicule.

    Manager Mancini was saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be working for his highness Frank.

    His highness Frank really couldn¡¯t understand the situation......

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Please go back and tell his highness Frank that we can cooperate, but the controlling right must be in the hands of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There is nothing to discuss.¡±

    Manager Mancini clearly never thought that Xu Yi would be this firm, so he couldn¡¯t help being surprised as his face turned very ugly.

 Volume 6 60 - Quick reacting Candra Empire

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 60 Quick reacting Candra Empire</h4>

    No matter how ugly manager Mancini¡¯s expression was, no matter how bad his mood was, he didn¡¯t dare make any rudements like when he met Xu Yi for the first time.

    Thinking of how his highness Frank had spoken to him before leaving, he could only suppress the rage in his heart and patiently exin to Xu Yi.

    But no matter what he said, Xu Yi firmly stated that the one in charge must be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or there was nothing to discuss.

    ¡°Manager Mancini, there¡¯s no need to say anything else. This is the most fundamental condition in our cooperation, please pass this onto his highness.¡± Xu Yi said in a firm voice.

    Manager Mancini knitted his brows and looked at Xu Yi with a serious gaze. After thinking for a bit, he gave a helpless sigh.

    ¡°This will make it very hard for his highness, chairman Xu. To be honest, the empire¡¯s view of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t good and if his highness chooses to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time, it will be very risky. But his highness is willing to give you this chance, but you¡¯re not cherishing it......¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. If his highness really was the same as manager Mancini, being this arrogant, there was really no need to discuss cooperating.

    But Xu Yi believed that his highness Frank was sincere in cooperating, or he wouldn¡¯t have secretly sent his trusted subordinate to negotiate with him.

    Moreover, he was certain that this represented the wishes of certain people in the Candra Empire, so it definitely wasn¡¯t a careless move.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t budge, manager Mancini deeply knitted his brows and shook his head.

    ¡°Alright, I will pass this onto his highness, but chairman Xu, you should also consider this again. Being able to receive the attention of his highness, it is very advantageous to the development of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the empire. I believe that you wouldn¡¯t not know that.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know, so I¡¯m very sincere in cooperating with his highness, don¡¯t you think?¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°It would be strange if you were sincere!¡± Manager Mancini gave a cold snort before bidding farewell to Xu Yi.

    Watching manager Mancini disappear out the door, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He went back to the desk in his office and opened a drawer to take out a document.

    This was the newest intelligence report Baron Hannas had people send about the recent happenings in the Lampuri Kingdom, it was mainly rted to the magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    ording to the report, in the past half a month, there were many magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom who had received high offers to buy them out and many of them had epted these offers.

    The buyers didn¡¯t seem clear on the surface, but they were actually all from thergepanies of the Candra Empire.

    Facing thesepanies that were consideredrgepanies across the entire Sines Continent, these magic machinepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom that weren¡¯t big found it hard to resist. Adding in the fact that they offered very high prices, it wasn¡¯t strange that most of these deals progressed smoothly.

    For example, there was a smallpany in Saltan City that was called the An Chamber of Commerce that specialized in making Magic Air Conditioners. The price for their buyout was six hundred thousand, which was more than one and half times the estimate.

    After being purchased, the magic production machines under the An Chamber of Commerce were all moved out and even the workers with their families were all moved away.

    To put it simply, the An Chamber of Commerce had been emptied and only the An Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman was left, as well as six hundred thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just the An Chamber of Commerce that was processed like this. From the report, all thepanies that were bought were all processed like this.

    With the sudden exit of thesepanies from the Lampuri Kingdom, it had affected the kingdom¡¯s entire magic machine industry and there was a shortage of household magic machines in the kingdom.

    ¡°Hei, their table manners really are bad.¡± Reading this report again, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and giving augh.

    Actually, whether it was him or Baron Hannas, both of them knew that it was the Candra Empire who had bought out those magic machinepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom. It was clear that they were trying to poach the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry.

    With his highness Frank sending manager Mancinin to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with this offer of cooperation, Xu Yi was certain of one thing.

    The Candra Empire was definitely scared.

    After losing twice to the Rudson Kingdom and only being able to passively defend against the Rudson Kingdom army, there was a vignce that appeared in the Candra Empire side.

    With the powerful national strength of the Candra Empire, it definitely wasn¡¯t hard to find that the main reason for this was the military magic machines.

    But only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce the military magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was clearly supporting the Rudson Kingdom, which created scruples for the Candra Empire.

    In a normal situation, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Rudson Kingdom to defeat the Candra Empire, it meant that they wouldn¡¯t agree to cooperate with the Candra Empire.

    So the Candra Empire chose to use these two methods to achieve their goal. One side was to purchase the magic machinepanies from the Lampuri Kingdom to quickly create a magic machine industry foundation in the Candra Empire, and the other was to have his highness Frank who had contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before probe them.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, they wouldn¡¯t give up cooperation with the Candra Empire and the chance to earn thisrge amount of money.

    Even if this probe failed, it would make it easy for the Candra Empire to prepare countermeasures.

    It could be said that the Candra Empire being able to find the reason behind their loss to the Rudson Kingdom in two short months and make all these moves made Xu Yi look at them differently.

    Because it had been hard to enter the Candra Empire before, with the problems that urred when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce tried to pave the roads in the Candra Empire, as well as the numerous times he had made contact with the people of the Candra Empire, Xu Yi had a bad impression of the Candra Empire.

    Xu Yi always felt that thisrge empire was a bit too arrogant, too spread out, and didn¡¯t react fast enough, giving people a slow and unpleasant feeling.

    He never thought that after they became vignt, their reaction would be so fast that it actually came as a surprise to Xu Yi.

    It seemed like the Candra Empire really was worthy of being a thousand year old empire, it was indeed quite strong.

    Xu Yi¡¯s strong stance towards manager Mancini sent by his highness Frank, other than naturally wanting to fight for control for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was actually a counter probe at the Candra Empire.

    If the Candra Empire really viewed the magic machine industry as important, they would definitely agree and Xu Yi would truly start working with the Candra Empire.

    If his highness Frank didn¡¯t agree in the end......

    Xu Yi put down the report in his hand and pulled out another thin document from the drawer.

    Opening the document, there were two contracts and an invitation inside.

    These three things came from the Marlow Empire. One of the two contracts was a contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed with Marquis Southgate.

    These contracts stated that Marquis Southgate would open more territory for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing them to build even more factories on his territory and Marquis Southgate would give them many beneficial conditions.

    The other contract actually came from the Marlow Empire¡¯s department ofmerce.

    The content of the contract was that the Marlow Empire¡¯s department ofmerce hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would introduce arge number of magic machines to the Marlow Empire. It wouldn¡¯t just be household magic machines, it would also be agricultural magic machines, construction magic machines, and other kinds of magic machines.

    The contract didn¡¯t involve military magic machines because that was rted to the invitation that Xu Yi was holding.

    This invitation was written by a marquis of the Marlow Empire and based on the content, it was something that a marquis had sent through Marquis Southgate.

    But in reality, this marquis held an important post in the Marlow Empire. His invitation this time was actually sent with his identity in the Marlow Empire¡¯s army.

    So in reality, this invitation was from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters.

    There was no need to guess, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters suddenly inviting Xu Yi was naturally because they were interested in the military magic machines.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t hesitate over this because he would definitely go.

    Since the military magic machines had caught the entire continent¡¯s attention in the war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire definitely wouldn¡¯t let off this thing that could change the entire continent.

    The Candra Empire was beating around the bush, but the Marlow Empire came directly.

    When Xu Yi supported the Rudson Kingdom in fighting the Candra Empire, he already made his preparations to sell the military magic machines to both the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire.

    Not only could they make money through selling the military magic machines, they could be closer through selling these military magic machines. It would make it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to introduce the magic machine industry into the two empires, which would achieve Xu Yi¡¯s final goal of spreading the magic machine industry across the continent.

    The only problem that Xu Yi had was how to control it.

    If the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire were armed withrge amounts of military magic machines, with the power of the two empires, they could easily invade all the other countries and threaten the Stantine Duchy, as well as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi was giving them military magic machines at the same time to make sure that one wasn¡¯t stronger than the other.

    ¡°This difficulty.....it¡¯s much more difficult than unifying all the other countries on the Sines Continent.....¡± Xu Yi gave a soft sigh and felt a strong headachee on.

 Volume 6 61 - You want to fight for it?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 61 You want to fight for it?</h4>

    [Author note: Sweating, I suddenly realized that I forgot chapters 57 and 58. But it¡¯s fine since it¡¯s only a mistake with the chapter number and the story isn¡¯t split. Because I can¡¯t change the chapter number, I can only make the best out of a bad situation. I ask everyone to forgive me.]

    A report on the Candra Empire¡¯srgepanies buying the magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom was also ced in front of Seveni.

    Butpared to the report Baron Hannas sent Xu Yi, the one that Seveni had was several times thicker with much more content.

    Seveni had already carefully read this report three times, but she was still going very slowly, as if she was reading every letter.

    Because she knew that this matter was just too important for the Lampuri Kingdom, so she couldn¡¯t be careless at all. This might cause the small advantage the Lampuri Kingdom had worked hard to earn over the years topletely copse.

    If she could be a bit more willful, she wanted to use the absolute authority she had as the queen to stop these transactions, not letting thosergepanies of the Candra Empire swallow the magic machine industry the Lampuri Kingdom had worked so hard to build.

    Because this would greatly affect the magic machine industry that had finally taken shape in the Lampuri Kingdom, greatly affecting the entire kingdom.

    For example, thosergepanies from the Candra Empire had already taken over seventeen magic machinepanies, which caused a shortage of products rted to thosepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The pce maids wanted to buy a new wash basin yesterday, but they found that there was actually a shortage of this product in Anvilmar City.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made thethe machines to make these wash basins, this was the first time this had ever happened.

    It could be seen that the purchase of those seventeenpanies had some effect on the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But Seveni couldn¡¯t use the power of the royal pce to forcefully stop those transactions.

    One, it was like she had told the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce chief Marquis Descartes before. The kingdom¡¯s government was used to protect free trade and shouldn¡¯t forcefully interfere, which was not good for the normal development of these trades.

    Second, which was the most important reason, was because she didn¡¯t want to tear away all face with the Candra Empire.

    Although because the Lampuri Kingdom secretly supported the Rudson Kingdom, causing a bit of friction between them, they hadn¡¯t torn off all face, so this wasn¡¯t a big problem.

    The Candra empire had sent out someone as important as the chief of their department ofmerce to the Lampuri Kingdom, which showed that they wanted to remain on good terms with the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Seveni could decisively reject Marquis Descartes¡¯ request from the Candra Empire to take all the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine technology because she had logic, as well as the shield of the Magicians Guild, so the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    But thergepanies that came with Marquis Descartes were offering to buy these Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies which was something Seveni found hard to stop.

    Because this would go against the views of free trade that she talked about and it would be no different from going against the Candra Empire.

    Even if the Candra Empire lost to the Rudson Kingdom twice, they were still one of the two empires of the continent. They were countless times stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom and was far from something the Lampuri Kingdom could resist.

    If they tore off all face, the Lampuri Kingdom would be in great danger.

    Not to mention that the Candra Empire had shown their sincerity. When thosergepanies started their purchasing action, Marquis Descartes had met with Seveni to ask her that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government wouldn¡¯t interfere in these purchases.

    Marquis Descartes had even represented the Candra Empire¡¯s government to give many beneficial terms to the Lampuri Kingdom aspensation.

    Among them was opening up the Candra Empire¡¯s market to the Lampuri Kingdom, reducing the levies that the Lampuri Kingdom would have to pay.

    This was one of the conditions that Marquis Descartes had proposed when he asked for the Lampuri Kingdom to transfer all their magic machine technology to the Candra Empire, as well as being the one that moved Seveni the most.

    Now that Marquis Descartes had taken it out again along with other preferential terms, Seveni couldn¡¯t reject Marquis Descartes¡¯ request at all.

    So when thergepanies from the Lampuri Kingdom started buying out these magic machinepanies, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government hadn¡¯t interfered at all.

    Based on the enticing conditions they gave, these purchases went very smoothly.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t the main reason why Seveni had epted the terms Marquis Descartes offered on behalf of the Candra Empire.

    Without making preparations, Seveni wouldn¡¯t allow this matter that would cause turbulence in the Lampuri Kingdom to happen.

    Putting down the thick document in her hand, Seveni thought for a bit before pressing a button on the table.

    A maid came through the door.

    ¡°Is everyone gathered?¡± Seveni asked.

    The maid said with a respectful bow, ¡°They have been waiting in the hall for a while.¡±

    ¡°Good, we¡¯re going.¡±

    Seveni gave a nod before standing up to walk out.

    ###

    Old man Luff looked up at the roof that was made of gold and jade and couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

    The pce was as luxurious as the rumours said, greatly opening the eyes of a hick like him from a small Saltan City, which made him even more nervous.

    ¡°Hey, Doyer, why do you think her majesty invited us all?¡± Old man Luff looked at Doyer who was also looking around and asked this in a low voice.

    Doyer took back his longing look and said while licking his lip, ¡°Damn, the royal pce really is beautiful! When I go back, I will definitely decorate my manor just like this!¡±

    Old man Luff rolled his eyes, ¡°Really, don¡¯t you believe that you¡¯ll waste the several hundred gold coins you made from selling yourpany?¡±

    Doyer gave augh, ¡°Even if I can¡¯t get it exactly the same, it¡¯s fine to make it close enough. I will make those fellows in Saltan City whoughed at me see what a nouveau riche person is like!¡±

    Old man Luff could only roll his eyes again, ¡°Alright, alright, don¡¯t think about these useless things and think about the present. Tell me, why do you think her majesty has gathered all of us together?¡±

    Doyer curled his lips and said without caring, ¡°She¡¯s just summoning us, what are you nervous about? Her majesty has always been benevolent and kind, could it be that she would eat us all?¡±

    ¡°But I keep feeling.....that this is rted to us selling ourpanies. You don¡¯t think.....that her majesty is dissatisfied that we sold ourpanies to the Candra Empire and is causing trouble for us, right?¡± Old man Luff asked with a worried look.

    Doyer gave augh, ¡°Ha, Luff, aren¡¯t you thinking too much? Do you really think that her majesty wouldn¡¯t know why we did this? Let me tell you, if her majesty didn¡¯t want us to sell them, we wouldn¡¯t have been able to sell them, do you believe that?¡±

    ¡°Un......That is true......¡± Old man Luff said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°But I still don¡¯t understand why her majesty has summoned us all here. Look, I just asked around and these people are the same as us, they all sold theirpanies.

    ¡°Then it¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s rted to this, but I don¡¯t think that it¡¯s bad. Otherwise, her majesty would have directly sent people to bring us here.¡± Doyer still didn¡¯t really care.

    ¡°That¡¯s true......¡± Old man Luff¡¯s expression rxed a bit, but he was still a bit worried.

    When he wanted to ask again, he saw a royal maid walk into the room that everyone was in.

    ¡°Her majesty has arrived!¡±

    When the maid called out this, all the people in the room suddenly fell silent.

    Everyone looked at the door with a strong look of curiosity and excitement on their faces.

    These people were all normal merchants of the Lampuri Kingdom, it could be said that most of these people had never seen her majesty Seveni before.

    Now that they were able to see the legendary queen, these people were naturally excited.

    After a while, a young woman wearing a long light gold gown which was luxuriously designed, with a serious, but also gentle expression walked in.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s major newspapers had published a portrait of her majesty Seveni before, everyone knew her face, but the portrait was just too different from the real thing. Seeing her now, everyone found that this prestigious queen of the Lampuri Kingdom was even more gentle than the rumours had said.

    Although she had a strong prestige, this didn¡¯t make one feel fear. Rather, because of the kindness she gave, it made people feel respect and love for her.

    Seeing everyone looking at her, Seveni¡¯s lips curled into a faint smile.

    It was just a simple smile, but it was like a spring breeze that wiped away the nervousness in everyone¡¯s hearts and made them feel asfortable as breathing in a spring breeze.

    ¡°Good afternoon, everyone.¡± Seveni greeted everyone with a faint smile.

    Everyone in the hall felt like they woke up from a dream and all bowed towards Seveni.

    When everyone rose again, Seveni gave a nod and didn¡¯t waste words as she directly said, ¡°I think that many of you have guessed why I summoned you all here. That¡¯s right, it¡¯s because you were all the chairman or the representatives of thepanies that were bought by the Candra Empire. I have summoned you all here for this matter.¡±

    Hearing Seveni say this, everyone in the hall let out a sigh of relief.

    Since her majesty didn¡¯t hide this matter at all, it meant that she wouldn¡¯t pursue them over this matter.

    Doyer also smiled at old man Luff, showing off his foresight.

    However, old man Luff didn¡¯t look at him at all as he had been focused on Seveni the entire time.

    ¡°First, I ask everyone to calm down, I am not pursuing this matter. Second, I have summoned you all here to discuss a matter with you all.¡± Seveni paused before continuing, ¡°Because you have sold yourpanies, you should have received arge amount of gold coins from those Candra Empirepanies. Then I want to ask, are you prepared to use those gold coins to live a peaceful life? Or are you prepared to fight again?¡±

    Everyone in the hall looked at each other. Old man Luff also looked at Doyer in a daze.

    This was what they had discussed before, they never thought that her majesty would mention it now.

    One person in the hall suddenly raised his hand.

    ¡°Chairman Soros, do you have a question?¡± Seveni nodded at that person.

    Chairman Soros who raised his hand was surprised, never thinking that her majesty would know his name.

    ¡°Your majesty, I want to ask, what if we want to keep fighting?¡±

    Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°If you want to do this, I have a good chance for you all. I just wonder, are you willing to ept this?¡±

 Volume 6 62 - Favouring one over the other

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 62 Favouring one over the other</h4>

    Three dayster, there was a list that was sent from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce to Xu Yi.

    This list had thirteen names on it, which was thirteen of thepany representatives that Seveni had summoned.

    Seeing this list of thirteen names and thepanies they represented, Xu Yi gave a nod with a satisfied smile.

    These people all had a smallpany or even a small store before, but they had enough courage and wisdom to buy the magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to join the magic machine industry. Finally those smallpanies and stores were able to take some of the Lampuri Kingdom market, before attracting the attention of the Candra Empirepanies and being bought out by them. It could be seen that they were quite exceptional.

    Although four of them chose to live peaceful lives, the remaining thirteen chose to fight again, so this ratio was rather high.

    Actually, Seveni giving this good opportunity to the seventeenpanies was something that Xu Yi mentioned.

    The Candra Empire had received some magic machine technology from buying these seventeenpanies and stepped into the magic machine industry, but they wanted the military magic machines in the end, so this could be considered a very far sighted method.

    Because as long as they master the various technology, they would have a chance to grasp the military magic machine technology in their hands.

    For a giant country like the Candra Empire, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to fully support them, their current production capacity was far from being enough.

    Not to mention with the attitude of the Candra Empire, how could they let someone else control their fate?

    So the method they were using wasn¡¯t considered the only method, but it could be considered the best.

    But to Xu Yi, they were still far from being enough, so he wanted to give them a push.

    The thirteenpanies that were willing to ept the chance that Xu Yi had given through Seveni, Xu Yi would give them the chance to buy some more magic machine rted technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    These technology would be at a higher level than the ones they bought before, which means that they will be able to produce even higher levels of magic machines and understand more technology.

    As long as these thirteenpanies were willing to work hard, with their outstanding abilities, they could definitely develop once again once they grasp these technologies.

    Xu YI was certain that the Candra Empire would watch over these people. If the Candra Empire realized that these people had new and higher grade magic machine technology in their hands, what would they do?

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help finding this a bit funny.

    Perhaps those people from the Candra Empire thought that they would be able to grasp most of the magic machine technology by buying those seventeenpanies, but they will find that these people can take out even higher grade technology. Wouldn¡¯t they feel that they wasted money back then?

    But since the Candra Empire wanted to enter the magic machine industry, Xu Yi felt that they wouldn¡¯t feel it was a waste. Perhaps they might recognize this and think of a method to buy these technologies again.

    Actually, Xu Yi wanted to tell those people of the Candra Empire, you want the technology? It¡¯s very simple,e find me. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the most and mostplete technology, so why are you going around in a circle for?

    However, Xu Yi knew that the Cnadra Empire was thinking about their prestige and it was impossible for them to directlye to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, when it came to bnce, even if the Candra Empire really came, it was impossible for Xu Yi to give them all the technology they wanted.

    Even if his highness Frank put down his status to cooperate with him, Xu Yi would have the same strong stance just to guarantee this bnce.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi put down the list in his hand and picked up another list. After thinking about it, he added the ¡°production magic machine chain¡±, ¡°steel alloy refining¡±, and the ¡°Individual Magic Bazooka casting technology¡± onto it.

    This list had fifteen rows of words and each one was a piece of technology only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had currently mastered.

    These pieces of technology were what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be giving to the Lampuri Kingdom this time.

    Based on the surface, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was giving these pieces of technology for the rights to mine three mines for fifty years as well as the permanent rights to five Magic Crystal Mines, which was considered a normal transaction.

    But the reason why Xu Yi chose to make this deal was just for bnce.

    Out of all these fifteen pieces of technology, including the ¡°Individual Magic Bazooka casting¡±, there were three pieces of technology rted to the military magic machines.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom could grasp these three, then the Lampuri Kingdom would be above all the other surrounding countries when it came to military magic machines.

    Then with the increasing nation strength of the Lampuri Kingdom, it would be enough to guarantee that they would face no threat from the Candra Empire.

    Because Seveni had Xu Yi who had stayed in the Lampuri Kingdom for a long time after transmigrating to this world as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s greatest ally, and even partner.

    Like this, it would mean that the Lampuri Kingdom had enough confidence to even let Seveni face the giant Candra Empire.

    The other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any objections to this because most of them were citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom, so they were happy to see their nation be stronger.

    On the other side, although the Rudson Kingdom had pushed back the Candra Empire twice, through these battles, everyone in the Rudson Kingdom understood how much the military magic machines increased the battle strength of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army.

    King Teruc had used many favourable conditions to exchange for the magic machine technology, so many people in the Rudson Kingdom had objected to this. However, after experiencing the two invasions, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s people all agreed and hoped that they could have a deeper cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially receiving more support in terms of military magic machines.

    Faced with the favourable conditions from the Rudson Kingdom, Xu Yi happily epted them all.

    Last week, Xu Yi epted King Teruc¡¯s invitation on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and went to the Rudson Kingdom as a guest, representing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign a cooperation agreement with the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army.

    The contract was for the purchase of over seven million gold coins in military magic machines, while also having the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transfer a small portion of the military magic machine technology to the Rudson Kingdom, guaranteeing that the Rudson Kingdom would have some foundations in the military magic machines.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would send a portion of their guards into the Rudson Kingdom as military magic machine instructors. They would teach and train the Rudson Kingdom soldiers on how to use the new military magic machines.

    As well, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would also help the Rudson Kingdom create a new battle system with the military magic machines, allowing them to fully disy the might of the military magic machines.

    Although the price set for this was only eight hundred thousand gold coins, it was hard to calcte the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received from this.

    The most simple point was that since the Rudson Kingdom army was learning from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it meant that the Rudson Kingdom would be unable to separate themselves from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machinebat knowledge.

    Like this, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army could be considered reliant on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    Just this would give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many benefits in the future.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom also proposed to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transfer some military magic machine production technologies, Xu Yi had refused this proposal.

    Xu Yi wanted to poprize the household magic machines as soon as possible, to let all the countries on the continent produce them and buildplete magic machine industrial systems.

    But when it came to milita=ry magic machines, Xu Yi was very cautious.

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom was a partner for him, so he could transfer low grade military magic machine technologies to them, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on giving out therge portion of the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had right now.

    Of course, Xu Yi was very clear on something.

    Even if he didn¡¯t give it, it didn¡¯t mean that others didn¡¯t want it.

    There were countless people who coveted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology and they had many methods.

    There were those that directly asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and there were those like the Candra Empire who bought out the otherpanies......

    But other than these open methods, there were still many hidden methods used.

    These methods were varied and some Xu Yi could expect, but there were some that even someone like him who came from earth couldn¡¯t expect which really did open his eyes.

    But among these, there was only one that made him angry and truly worried.

    Which was the method the Magicians Guild headquarters used.

 Volume 6 63 - Expired Patents

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 63 - Expired Patents </h4>

    Justst week, Great Magician Ferguson came to the Stantine Duchy on behalf of the Magicians Guild and met Xu Yi.

    This time, Great Magician Ferguson brought the Magicians Guild¡¯s final decision.

    ording to the Magicians Guild headquarter¡¯s council, they decided that they would support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s idea of letting low grade magicians gain magic machine foundational knowledge.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters stated that in the name of the Magicians Guild of the Sines Continent, all magicians would formally recognize the existence of the magic machine industry.

    After receiving the official approval of the Magicians Guild headquarters, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine industry was officially recognized by the Magicians Guild, being clearly divided from all the other industries on the continent.

    The magicians of the continent did look down on the merchants, but when it came to making a living, they had to interact with the merchants.

    Now that the Magicians Guild headquarters had specially raised the magic machine industry and recognized it, it gave the magicians another reason to officially step into the magic machine industry.

    For Xu Yi, this was already enough.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce met problems recruiting magicians, it was because of the problem of reputation.

    For those High Grade Magicians, joining apany would be considered lowering their status. To enter apany and just hold the position of researcher was even harder to ept.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to recruit so many magicians now, other than giving many good benefits, the most important reason was the advertisement from Arch Magus Cami.

    However, now that the magic machine industry was officially recognized by the Magicians Guild and the Magicians Guild listed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as one of their cooperatingpanies, there was no longer a mental barrier for magicians to join the magic machine industry.

    As for the magic machine industry academy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opened, it was a blessing for low grade magicians.

    Because ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t need to pay school fees to enrol and after graduating, there was a big chance of joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and getting a good job.

    For most of these magicians that had bad financial situations who not only could barely support their magic research, this was like a pie that fell from the sky.

    And for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild¡¯s support not only allowed them to recruit even more magicians, it also allowed their magic machine industry academy to recruit even more talented people. This was beneficial for both the current and future Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So in the beginning, his talks with Great Magician Ferguson were good. Xu Yi also seized this chance to make a new proposal to Great Magician Ferguson.

    Xu Yi hoped that the Magicians Guild headquarters would allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be the title sponsors of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s yearly Magicians Guild examination. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could even pay a sponsor fee of a hundred thousand gold coins a year to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild.

    Although Great Magician Ferguson was confused by the terms Xu Yi proposed, he easily understood what it meant with Xu Yi¡¯s exnation.

    To Great Magician Ferguson, this was without a doubt a good thing.

    Because the Magicians Guilds of the various countries had no method of ie. The funds that they had were special funds allocated from the Magicians Guild and their respective countries.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had been a rather weak country and didn¡¯t have much money, so the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild always had little funding.

    ording to what Great Magician Ferguson could remember from the annual report from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, they stated that they had very little funds because the funds allocated from the Lampuri Kingdom each year was only fifty thousand gold coins.

    Even if the Magicians Guild gave them another thirty thousand gold coins a year, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild¡¯s funding each year was only around eighty thousand gold coins.

    With this little funding, it was even hard to maintain the basic functions of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild. Not to mention organizing the various events, which made it much harder for them.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to support the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild with one hundred thousand gold coins a year, this would greatly improve their financial situation, which was without a doubt a good thing.

    But Great Magician Ferguson didn¡¯t immediately agree.

    First, this was rted to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, so he couldn¡¯t decide this alone. Second, apany being the ¡°title sponsor¡± of a country¡¯s Magicians Guild examination, this really was too novel of a term. Of course it had to be properly discussed before it could be passed.

    Of course, Great Magician Ferguson praised Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion. He called Xu Yi a chairman who really cared about magicians and was very willing to consider his fellow magicians. The Magicians Guild headquarters deciding to list the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a cooperatingpany really was a good choice.....

    However, after Xu Yi raised this suggestion, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

    The reason was because of the request Great Magician Ferguson brought on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    Last time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached a deal with the Magicians Guild headquarters. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them a piece of technology rted to the magic machine industry each year, which would be exchanged for the support of the Magicians Guild.

    This wasn¡¯t considered much since Xu Yi was clear that the Magicians Guild also wanted to earn money from the magic machine industry which wasn¡¯t surprising.

    But this time, Xu Yi was surprised and even greatly angered by the request Great Magician Ferguson raised on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters stated that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s patents with the Magicians Guild had changed, they needed to review them again before certifying them.

    In order to be strictly fair, the Magicians Guild was asking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to had over all the rted material with this patent.

    When Great Magician Ferguson requested this, his expression was calm and his tone was natural, like this was perfectly justified.

    But Xu Yi was so angry that he almost cursed at him.

    Can you be even more shameless!

    Handing over all the materials rted to this patent?

    Isn¡¯t this handing over all the technologies rted to this patent!

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s casual words had a very heavy meaning.

    Xu Yi proposing the patents to the Magicians Guild headquarters through the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild was to imitate patentws from earth, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce turn these patents into a bit of protection.

    But he never thought that the Magicians Guild would use it for corruption!

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a calm personality and adding in the fact that he had been the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman for many years, he wouldn¡¯t have been as calm and would have angrily cursed out Great Magician Ferguson and the Magicians Guild headquarters that he represented.

    But Great Magician Ferguson who could sense Xu Yi¡¯s mood only coldly said a few words.

    ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t hand over theplete material, these patents won¡¯t be able to pass our headquarters¡¯ verification and will be expired, no longer being protected by the headquarters. Chairman Xu, please consider the consequences.¡±

    Xu Yi resisted the urge to charge forward and told Great Magician Ferguson that thepany would need some time to consider this before ending the meeting between them.

    However, it had been a week since the meeting and Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold a meeting with thepany.

    Because to him, there was nothing to discuss at all, he definitely wouldn¡¯t agree to this.

    But the consequences of denying this was something Great Magician Ferguson had said very clearly.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters not protecting these patents anymore meant that anyone could use the designs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce without any penalties.

    Xu Yi was certain that the ones who wanted to do this was the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    So Xu Yi was faced with a very serious problem.

    If he lost the protection of the Magicians Guild, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research could be used by any other magicians.

    However, in the designs that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used, although the magic yed a very important role, the grade of the magic was very low and rarely used high grade magic.

    If a single High Grade Magician focused on studying it, it wasn¡¯t impossible for them to break through the secrets of the Magic Array used by the magic machines.

    Adding in the fact that the design of these magic machines weren¡¯t thatplicated, it wasn¡¯t that hard to copy it. So Xu Yi was certain that as long as the Magicians Guild headquarters announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s patents expired, there would be many knockoffs that would appear.

    Although Xu Yi believed that it was not something that could be easily counterfeited, with many counterfeit products, the new, precise, and easy to use image that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had worked so hard to establish would be ruined.

    The most important thing was that losing the protection of the patent would make the industry more chaotic.

    Losingw and order would be very bad for the development of the magic machine industry.

    This was why Xu Yi was worried about the Magicians Guild headquarters¡¯ request.

    As for how to solve it.....It wasn¡¯t as if Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a solution, but there was a hidden danger to that method that made him unable to make a decision.

    However, after receiving that letter from Seveni and thinking of how the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom had already stepped into the magic machine industry. Then how if nothing unexpected happened, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire would also enter the magic machine industry, Xu Yi felt that he couldn¡¯t hesitate any longer.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi stood up and headed to Arch Magus Cami¡¯s personalb.

 Volume 6 64 - Bottom Line Of Shamelessness

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 64 - Bottom Line Of Shamelessness </h4>

    ¡°How to defeat an Arch Magus?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, ¡°Kid, do you find me dissatisfying to look at? You¡¯re actually asking me this question.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I wouldn¡¯t dare.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I was just thinking that this question is very important to me right now. Grandfather, you¡¯ve been training with the guards many times now, do you think that the guards could pose a threat to you?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell youst time?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi, ¡°It¡¯s a lie if I said that there was no threat at all, but that is only if I stand there and fight with them. If we fight properly, I¡¯m certain that they aren¡¯t any threat to me.¡±

    ¡°This means.....it still doesn¡¯t work if the guards be more flexible?¡± Xu Yi asked in a thoughtful voice.

    ¡°In general, it is indeed an issue of flexibility.¡±

    ¡°Then what do you mean specifically?¡±

    ¡°Specifically, it is that the current military magic machines can¡¯t interfere with space, so it is very hard for the attacks tond on Arch Magi that can manipte space. Moreover, even if you can fight in normal space, a normal Arch Magus could dodge with various spells, so they could avoid even the most dangerous attacks.¡±

    ¡°In short, it¡¯s very hard to really hit, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s pretty much this.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a nod before adding, ¡°Of course, with the might of the current military magic machines, even if i stand still, it would take half an hour of attacking for them to break through my magic barrier.¡±

    Xu Yi could only roll his eyes.

    Arch Magi really were more abnormal than people thought.

    Although these military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made weren¡¯t as powerful as the weapons from bearth, they were still considered quite powerful.

    At least after the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army was equipped with the low grade military magic machines, they were able to easily defeat the Candra Empire¡¯s army.

    Even when facing low grade magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could easily deal with them.

    If they were even fully prepared, it wasn¡¯t a problem to fight a Great Magician.

    But facing those that were at the Arch Magus level, they were a bit helpless.

    Like Arch Magus Cami said, no matter how strong it was, they wouldn¡¯t be able to pose any threat to the Arch Magus without solving the uracy problem.

    But Xu Yi had already made mental preparations and he was just getting some confirmations from Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°Kid, you care this much about this, could it be that you really want to fight an Arch Magus?¡± Arch Magus Cami asked with a doubtful look.

    ¡°I¡¯m not crazy......¡± Xu Yi shook his head and waved his hand before saying in a helpless voice, ¡°But the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire have several Arch Magi working for them. If I can¡¯t find a way to deal with Arch Magi, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to seriously consider our ns for the two empires because we will have scruples over the Arch Magi of the two empires.¡±

    ¡°Che, I was thinking about what you were thinking about.¡± Arch Magus Cami curled his lips, ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell youst time, the Magicians Guild has rules and magicians at the Great Magician and Arch Magus level can¡¯t participate in the wars between countries. What are you worried about? Or are you arrogant enough that you want to attack the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire?¡±

    ¡°Would you believe it if I said that I was really considering this?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Then do you believe that I will beat you up first to make you forget that idea?¡± Arch Magus Cami red at him and said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯m warning you, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have made many powerful military magic machines, making thepany guards very powerful, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire have been on the continent for over a thousand years, so their hidden power is beyond your imagination. Don¡¯t think that you can take care of them just with the military magic machines, understood?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m just kidding, what are you so serious for?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a naughty smile, ¡°Rx, I said that I¡¯m not crazy, how could I really go attack the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire. Then again, the two empires are important business partners in my n and I need them to earn money. If I go and attack them, how am I supposed to earn money from them?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good you understand.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a cold snort and after pausing, he said, ¡°Alright, I do get what you are thinking about. Rx, as long as you don¡¯t do anything stupid, you won¡¯t offend an Arch Magus. With the power of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, whether it is the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, they won¡¯t have a way to kill into the Stantine Duchy and destroy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then again, it isn¡¯t just you who wants to do business with them, they want to obtain all kinds of magic machines from you, so what are you worried about?¡±

    ¡°But I really want to do something stupid.....¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. After thinking about it, he decided to let go of this matter temporarily and asked Arch Magus Cami, ¡°Then.....grandfather, Arch Magus.....or perhaps Great Magicians, what are their rtionships with the Magicians Guild? Are they members?¡±

    ¡°You are a Great Magician, do you think that you will obey themands of the Magicians Guild?¡± Arch Magus Cami asked back.

    ¡°This.....If it¡¯s something casual, there¡¯s no reason why I wouldn¡¯t listen. But if it was something that was more important.....He, he......¡±

    ¡°So don¡¯t you feel stupid asking this?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°The Magicians Guild is just the joint operation of magicians on the continent. In theory, they are the organization that gathers all the magicians on the continent, but it doesn¡¯t have any actual powers.¡±

    ¡°Of course, the Magicians Guild does have influence on most magicians, especially the low grade magicians who listen to their orders. However, Great Magicians and Arch Magus aren¡¯t normal people. The Magicians Guild would at most make suggestions and requests, but it¡¯s impossible for them to give orders.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s like this, that is great!¡± Xu Yi gave an excited p, ¡°Then that mean that if I did something that went against the wishes of the Magicians Guild headquarters, it wouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami knitted his brows, ¡°What do you want to do? Don¡¯t me me for not reminding you, although you are already a Great Magician and cannot be restrained by the Magicians Guild, don¡¯t forget that there are still many low grade magicians in the Magicians Guild who are still influenced by them. Thepany is depending on those low grade magicians, so if you really offend the Magicians Guild, then it wouldn¡¯t benefit thepany at all.¡±

    ¡°I understand this. Grandfather, you might as well listen to how the Magicians Guild is treating us before considering this question, alright?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Arch Magus Cami was surprised, ¡°What? The Magicians Guild headquarters fellows are doing something shameless again?¡±

    Hearing Arch Magus Cami¡¯s words, Xu Yi calmed down.

    It seemed like those fellows at the Magicians Guild headquarters didn¡¯t have a good impression on Arch Magus Cami, it could even be said that he was against them.

    If it was like this, he should be able to get Arch Magus Cami¡¯s understanding and support.

    After around ten minutes, there was a trace of anger that appeared on Arch Magus Cami¡¯s face.

    ¡°I always thought that those fellows were shameless, but I never thought that they would be this shameless!¡± Arch Magus Cami had a clear anger in his low voice, ¡°They happily epted the patent because of therge patent fees, but now that they¡¯ve seen how much money the magic machines make, they shamelessly dissolved the patents. Very good, I¡¯ve seen just how shameless they can be once again!¡±

    Seeing the angered Arch Magus Cami, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although he was certain that Arch Magus Cami would side with him, feeling dissatisfied with the Magicians Guild headquarters dissolving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine patents, he never thought that he would have such a big response.

    ¡°How are you nning on responding to their requests?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi as he asked this.

    ¡°Of course we can¡¯t agree.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°But the problem is that if we lose the patent protection from the Magicians Guild headquarters, it will cause many problems for ourpany. So I have to think of some ways to take care of this.¡±

    ¡°Since you want to do this, you can¡¯t have any scruples over the Magicians Guild headquarters.¡± Arch Magus Cami said with a wave of his hand.

    ¡°But the measure that I want to use might attack the prestige of the Magicians Guild headquarters, so I think that they will definitely interfere.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Arch Magus Cami gave a cold snort, ¡°This matter was something caused by those fellows, so they are attacking the prestige of the Magicians Guild. If this thing was known, the Magicians Guild¡¯s face would be pped to the ground!¡±

    ¡°But I don¡¯t want to have aplete falling out with the Magicians Guild right now. So grandfather, I have to ask you to help me consider this matter. You have a better understanding of the Magicians Guild headquarters and the more important thing is that you are an Arch Magus, so you know much more than I do.¡± Xu Yi said in a sincere voice.

    Arch Magus Cami gave a nod, ¡°Speak, what are you nning on doing?¡±

    Xu Yi took a document from his chest for Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°This was something I made a few days ago, it¡¯s a n for setting up amittee in the magic machine industry for protecting patents......¡±

 Volume 6 65 - Marlow Empirea??s Spring

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 65 - Marlow Empirea??s Spring </h4>

    Spring was when everything grew.

    In Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory, there was a strong breeze that filled the air. Other than the wild flowers and weeds that grew all over and the fields filled with grain, there was another ce that was filled with buildings.

    This magic machine industry base was mostly finished at the end ofst year and it had been scheduled to start producing at the beginning of this year.

    But when they made this n, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have enough information to make estimates. Although they expected the Marlow Empire which was further north than the other countries to have an earlier winter, they never expected it toe this early and that it would be several times colder than in the Lampuri Kingdom. They never expected the Marlow Empire¡¯s winter to affect their project this much, so they couldn¡¯t meet the n of finishing in the year.

    It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies that came to the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t expect to start producing in the first year. Although it was dyed by a bit, it didn¡¯t affect them that much and it gave them more time to prepare.

    After spring came this year, there were arge number of transport Magic Cars with products of these magic machinepanies that entered Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory. Then the construction site that was closed because of winter started working again.

    Because there was enough preparations, once they started working, the construction speed increased by several timespared tost year.

    With the current speed, if nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to finish the base before June. It was just a single monthter than their n, so it wasn¡¯t that bad.

    Of course, these factories could be postponed for a month without problems, but the fields on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory couldn¡¯t be pushed back by a month. It would be a problem even if it was pushed back by a week.

    With the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commercest year, Marquis Southgate had expanded the fields on his territory by two times. With the help of the Magic Seed Drill and the other agricultural magic machines, wheat was nted on all this farnd.

    Now that spring was here, the fields that had been reimed were growing smoothly and would be harvested soon.

    But if there wasn¡¯t the help of the agricultural magic machine, Marquis Southgate was certain that he wouldn¡¯t have enough manpower to harvest it all.

    So when the first spring breeze came, he already began hoping the Cantona Chamber of Commerce woulde again.

    On a certain day in April, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce finally came.

    At the same time, another group that he cared more about came, which was the motorcade from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Looking down the road, he could see a long line ofrge transport Magic Cars that was at least two kilometers long and Marquis Southgate couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    Other than when the empire mobilized for war, normally there would be very few chances to see such arge motorcade on the road.

    Moreover, this motorcade wasn¡¯t filled with those traditional horse carriages, it was filled with the most advancedrge transport Magic Cars.

    Not to mention having at least ten times the loading capacity of the horse carriages, their speed and endurance were also far above that of horse carriages.

    A motorcade that had all theserge transport Magic Cars, the products inside had to be shocking.

    The first twenty cars in the motorcade had the logo of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. When they arrived at Marquis Southgate¡¯s personal manor, chairman Cantona jumped out from the passenger seat of therge transport Magic Car in front.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, I¡¯m notte, right?¡± When he got out, chairman Cantona waved his hand with augh as he greeted Marquis Southgate.

    Marquis Southgate gave a nod with a faint smile before looking over the motorcade and asking chairman Cantona, ¡°Chairman Cantona, it¡¯s been hard on you. The ones in the back is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade?¡±

    ¡°Of course, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could any otherpanies have such arge formation? But if we¡¯re saying that the transport Magic Cars belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that isn¡¯t right since they belong to the Fersen Transport Company and they are just helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time.¡± Chairman Cantona replied.

    Marquis Southgate slightly knitted his brows, looking a bit confused.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes therge transport Magic Cars, so why wouldn¡¯t they make their own transport line and let others help with their transport?¡±

    ¡°I had asked chairman Xu about this before. He said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce mainly focuses on researching and manufacturing magic machines, so the other aspects should be left to other people and otherpanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t meddle. That is the reason why he didn¡¯t make his own transport team and it should be this kind of consideration.¡±

    Marquis Southgate shook his head, not really understanding.

    But he didn¡¯t care that much about this. After pausing, he looked at the motorcade again.

    ¡°Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s motorcade is here, where is chairman Xu? Why don¡¯t I see him?¡±

    ¡°We spent four days on the road. Chairman Xu was very busy and didn¡¯t want to waste that much time on the road, so he set off after us. Calcting the time.....¡± Chairman Cantona turned to look into the sky in the distance, ¡°He should be arriving soon.¡±

    Marquis Southgate was surprised. He thought that since Xu Yi set offter than you, how can he be here as soon as you arrived?

    When he was about to ask about this, chairman Cantona suddenly pointed above them.

    ¡°He¡¯s here!¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked in that direction in surprise and found that there was a ck spot in the sky that was approaching.

    After a while, that ck spot turned into a ck cloud.

    Hearing the sound of a machine rotating in the sky, Marquis Southgate immediately reacted.

    ¡°Magic Airship? Chairman Xu came in a Magic Airship?¡±

    ¡°Yes, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have been able toe so quickly.¡± Chairman Cantona turned back with a smile.

    Marquis Southgate looked at the quickly approaching Magic Airship and was a bit surprised.

    When he inspected the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, of course he had seen the Magic Airship. He had even received Xu Yi¡¯s invitation to ride in one before.

    He had been shocked by the feeling of riding in a Magic Airship and had asked several times to buy a few to bring back to the Marlow Empire, but Xu Yi had always changed the topic.

    He never thought that Xu Yi would being here in a Magic Airship this time.

    He believed that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t do things with no meaning, so bringing a Magic Airship here, did that mean that he was willing to sell the Magic Airship now?

    If it was like this, it really was some good news.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, you and chairman Xu must have many things to discuss, so I won¡¯t stay here to bother you. I¡¯ll go and arrange things with my subordinates. Spring will be here in a few days, so we need to seize this time.¡± Cantona suddenly turned back from looking at the sky and said this.

    ¡°Oh? Ah, right.¡± Marquis Southgate quickly came back from his surprise and waved his hand behind him. Baron Franklin who had been waiting on the side came over.

    ¡°Chairman Cantona, you should be rather close with Franklin. I¡¯m having him help you with your work over the next few days. Right, don¡¯t be too busy today, just unload your stuff. I¡¯ll be holding a banquet at my manor tonight, chairman Cantona, pleasee and join us.¡±

    Chairman Cantona gave augh, ¡°How could I miss the Lord Marquis¡¯ banquet? Alright, Lord Marquis, we will see each other again tonight.¡±

    After saying this, chairman Cantona called out to Baron Franklin who had an excited look and they went over to the twentyrge transport Magic Cars with the symbols of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce on them, driving them over to the warehouse Marquis Southgate had prepared.

    After they left, the sound of machines turning that wasn¡¯t too strong came from above them.

    The Magic Airshipnded in an open space not far away from Marquis Southgate and when the cabin door opened, Xu Yi came out.

    Marquis Southgate came forward with a wide smile.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, wee back.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly took a few steps forward before giving Marquis Southgate a slight bow and saying with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Marquis, I¡¯ve made you wait.¡±

    ¡°No, it wasn¡¯t that long. Chairman Cantona arrived just now and chairman Xu is here. Did you already n this earlier?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just a coincidence.¡± Xu Yi casually said before turning to the motorcade parked not far away and saying, ¡°Lord Marquis, how about we see the products we¡¯ve brought this time?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Marquis Southgate replied and without any hesitation, it could even be said that he anxiously moved over to the motorcade.

    Seeing how quick he moved, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he followed him.

    Twenty of these cars were the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s and there were seventy three other Magic Cars.

    Xu Yi brought Marquis Southgate to look over the first fortyrge transport Magic Cars, finding them being filled with all kinds of agricultural magic machines.

    The various nobles of the Marlow Empire had ordered these agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only a small portion belonged to Marquis Southgate. Most of them belonged to nobles that were close to Marquis Southgate, but didn¡¯t have a chance to work with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

    In the other thirty threerge transport Magic Cars, the first twenty three cars were filled with various household magic machines and other machines, including bicycles that weren¡¯t considered magic machines, as well as products made from the production magic machines.

    These things only took up less than 5% and they weren¡¯t brought for Marquis Southgate, but for them to use themselves.

    In the final tenrge transport Magic Cars, they were filled with the things that Marquis Southgate cared about the most.

 Volume 6 66 - We Need More Off Road Vehicles

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 66 - We Need More Off Road Vehicles </h4>

    The rain tarp that covered the back of therge transport Magic Car was removed and revealed the white packages inside the trunk.

    Marquis Southgate took a deep breath and smelling the special scent from it, his eyes lit up as he excitedly said, ¡°These are all fertilizer?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Yes, Lord Marquis. These twenty cars are filled with two hundred tons of fertilizer, all from the Moon Shadow Tribe. The Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elder Lisanya wanted me to give you her best.¡±

    ¡°That elf elder?¡± Marquis Southgate¡¯s lips twitched as he revealed a faint smile.

    When he went to the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, Marquis Southgate learned that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a rtionship with the elves and that the elves had even started their ownpany. He had been very shocked by this.

    After he learned that the fertilizer which was important for farming waspletely held in the hands of the Moon Shadow Tribe, Marquis Southgate felt even more strange.

    Making a deal with the elves?

    This was something that really was new.

    But when he met with the elven representative of the Moon Shadow Tribe who introduced the fertilizer, he found that other than looking different from humans, they were no different from normal human merchants.

    If he had topare them, the elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe were more detailed than human merchants, letting Marquis Southgate not find anything wrong with their work at all.

    Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t see the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elder Lisanya, but now that they had made a deal, she had Xu Yi bring along her regards. This really was the normal human method of creating rtions, it felt a bit off from how proud the elves were before.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that chairman Xu is casually saying this, right.....¡± Marquis Southgate shook his head and got rid of these random thoughts. After looking over the cars with Xu Yi and confirming that they were filled with fertilizer that he needed, he was filled with joy.

    The spring nting was about toe and not only was there three hundred hectares of new farnd open with the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, there was also thisrge batch of fertilizer. ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s data, as well as the data Marquis Southgate obtained from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, when the fall harvestes, the output of wheat in his territory might surpass one thousand tons.

    This was a very shocking number.

    It had to be known that his territory was only able to receive around four hundred tons each harvest before, but now it had suddenly increased by two times which was shocking.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Marquis Southgate personally seeing the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, he might not have believed such an exaggerated matter.

    After checking this, Marquis Southgate waved his hand and had his subordinates who were waiting help the men from the motorcade unload the cargo as he brought Xu Yi to his manor.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the people from the army headquarters arrived yesterday and are waiting inside.¡± When they were about to enter the living room, Marquis Southgate gave Xu Yi this soft warning.

    Xu Yi was surprised, thinking that the people of the Marlow Empire¡¯s army really were proactive. They had actually arrived a day early to wait for him.

    Compared to the arrogance and neglect of the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire was very sincere.

    After entering the living room, there were three men in the uniform of the Marlow Empire army sitting there. When they saw Xu Yi and Marquis Southgatee in, they all focused on Xu Yi.

    Marquis Southgate gave augh at the right time, ¡°Come, chairman Xu, let me introduce you. These three are from the army headquarters, they are part of the intelligence department, the logistics department, and the operations department respectively.¡±

    After saying this, Marquis Southgate introduced the names of the three before introducing Xu Yi to the three.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve long heard of you, but I never expected you to be even younger than I thought. This really is surprising.¡±

    The first one to reach his hand out towards Xu Yi was Viscount Eitro from the logistics department.

    Compared to the other two who were carefully examining him, Viscount Eitro was much more friendly towards Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi shook his hand with a smile and replied, ¡°Whether I¡¯m young or not isn¡¯t important, the most important thing is if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are easy to use, right?¡±

    Viscount Eitro gave augh before giving a nod, ¡°Right, right, chairman Xu really is a direct person, I like this. Chairman Xu, I hope that we can have a smooth cooperation.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    After the introductions, everyone sat down and after chatting for a bit with the lead of Marquis Southgate, they got to business.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the three of use from the logistics department, the operations department, and the intelligence department, so I think you can see how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is to the army headquarters. I hope that chairman Xu can also bring some sincerity today.¡± Viscount Eitro said.

    ¡°The Stantine Duchy is over two thousand kilometers away, if I didn¡¯t have any sincerity, why would Ie all the way here?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s very good.¡± Viscount Eitro gave a slight nod, ¡°Chairman Xu, first let me say, I represent the intentions of the logistics department.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an inviting gesture.

    Viscount Eitro was silent for a bit before continuing, ¡°Our logistics department is different from the other departments,pared to the magic machines, what we care more about are the logistical items. What I am most interested in are therge transport Magic Cars parked outside.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, not looking surprised at all.

    Compared to the traditional horse carriages, the transport Magic Cars were clearly better.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released the Magic Cars, it had been just over three years. There wasn¡¯t a single horse carriage that was left in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom, or the other countries.

    Even if they were, it was just used by some people to feel reminiscent.

    As for the nobles that loved horse carriages, they loved the faster and morefortable Magic Sedans even more.

    As for the transport, the Fersen Transport Company that hadpletely swapped to transport Magic Cars was now thergest logisticspany in the surrounding countries. There were also other transportpanies that were swapping their horse carriages for transport Magic Cars.

    Justst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold thirty seven thousandrge transport Magic Cars and fifty two thousand medium transport Magic Cars. As for the small transport Magic Cars that suited family use, they only sold ten thousand units.

    In total, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a profit of over a million gold coins just from the transport Magic Cars, which could be considered one of the important sources of profit for them.

    ¡°With all due respect, although I want to provide arge number ofrge transport Magic Cars, with the current road conditions of your country, even if there were arge number ofrge transport Magic Cars, it would be very hard for them to show their use.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Marquis Southgate and the other three looked at each other, all revealing awkward looks.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were simply looking down on the Marlow Empire, but they couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    Eitro and the other two had personally inspected the road built in the southwest province and after seeing how smooth it was, they were unable to take the bumpy roads that were already in the Marlow Empire. So they could take out nothing to refute Xu Yi.

    Marquis Southgate had already seen the benefits the road has brought to the Drake Duchy and then he saw the roadwork in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, so he already had a deep understanding of it.

    He had already urged the empire to quickly construct roads and change the current road structure of the empire, but there was never any attention ced on this.

    Now that Xu Yi said this, he actually approved this deep down, but he couldn¡¯t show support on his face.

    ¡°Ke.....Aboutying down the roads, the empire is currently very concerned, so chairman Xu doesn¡¯t need to worry. This matter isn¡¯t rted to what we are discussing today. Chairman Xu, you should know that therge transport Magic Cars purchased by our logistics department will be used to provide supplies to the regional armies of our empire. Since it is used by the army, it¡¯s very unlikely that there will be roads connecting to those ces. So I want to ask, the transport Magic Cars produced by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, can they operate normally in bad driving conditions?¡± Eitro asked.

    ¡°If you¡¯re talking about theserge transport Magic Cars......¡± Xu Yi paused to look at the four focused gazes before slowly shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, although theserge transport Magic Cars can operate normally on inferior roads, they don¡¯t have great off road abilities. So it would be very hard to fulfill the request that you¡¯ve set with them.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this?¡± Eitro let out a disappointed sigh, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, we won¡¯t need that manyrge transport Magic Cars. After all, it is very likely the empire¡¯s army will appear in a ce with bad road conditions, so it is impossible for them to be connected by roads at all times.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, ¡°No, viscount Eitro, I was just talking about therge transport Magic Cars outside, but that doesn¡¯t mean that there aren¡¯t other transport Magic Cars that can do this.¡±

    Viscount Eitro¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°You mean......¡±

    Xu Yi took out a document from his bag, ¡°Please look, this is the off road Magic Car that ourpany is currently developing. I think that it will satisfy your request of operating normally in bad road conditions......¡±

 Volume 6 67 - Opening The Base

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 67 - Opening The Base </h4>

    While Eitro carefully looked over the contract on the off road transport Magic Cars, the other two began talking to Xu Yi.

    It was different from the request Eitro had. These two from the intelligence department and the operations department expressed their willingness to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they needed to inspect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before deciding the specifics.

    But Baron Moff from the operations department gave the specific thoughts of the army headquarters, which was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could release more materials rted to the military magic machines, so the operations department could review them.

    ¡°To put it simply, the army headquarters wants to know the specific uses of the military magic machines from yourpany. They want to know how strong they are, how easy they are to use, and how easy it is to maintain them.....as well as other things. As long as they know this, the army headquarters can decide whether to officially introduce these military magic machines or not.....as well as how many. Chairman Xu, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Of course, inspecting the goods is necessary and very normal. How about this, I have two suggestions. One is to send some professionals to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for an inspection and to see how useful the military magic machines are. After all, reading the research isn¡¯t as good as directly using them, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, that was also our initial n. What is the other suggestion?¡±

    ¡°The other suggestion......It¡¯s even more direct than your thoughts. I can pull a group from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard and directly disy the use of some military magic machines. I think that it¡¯ll give you more of a feel this way.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Baron Moff and the person from the intelligence department couldn¡¯t help raising their brows as they had surprised looks.

    This suggestion was very good, but those two could hear the slight disdain in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, which made them feel a bit ufortable.

    Baron Moff paused for a bit before saying, ¡°How about this, the first suggestion came from the army headquarters and since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is taking the initiative, we can consider this an initial agreement. We¡¯ll discuss the detailster on. As for the second suggestion.....I can¡¯t reply right now. When I go back to report, I¡¯ll let my superiors make a decision. What does chairman Xu think about that?¡±

    ¡°Of course I have no problem, this is only just a suggestion and the decision making power is in your hands.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug as he said this with a rxed look.

    Baron Moff had reached an agreement with Xu Yi. Next the officers from the intelligence department surprised Xu Yi by not discussing with him. After Baron Moff finished talking to Xu Yi, he stood up and pulled on Viscount Eitro who was studying the material on the side, giving a gesture that they were leaving.

    Viscount Eitro was immersed in this data and suddenly being interrupted, he looked a bit impatient.

    But when he reacted, he noticed the movements of the two and came back to his senses.

    But he wasn¡¯t in a rush to leave, rather he pointed at the material in his hand and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, this off road Magic Car that can even easily go up mountains, when will you be able to make them?¡±

    ¡°With the current research progress, I can¡¯t tell you the specific time. But if your noble side is in need of this Magic Car, we can take some time to develop it ahead of time.¡±

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t say it clearly, the meaning in his words were clear.

    Of course the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop this kind of Magic Car, but whether it was fast or slow depended on if they could make money off it or not.

    This idea wasn¡¯t unreasonable. Eitro gave a nod to show he understood before pointing at the material in his hand and at himself as he looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi spread his hands with a smile, ¡°This material is naturally prepared for your noble side.¡±

    Eitro put the material away without any hesitation before turning to bid farewell to Marquis Southgate.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, how long are you nning to stay this time?¡± Before leaving, Baron Moff asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°Un, it should be around a week.¡±

    ¡°Good, I hope that you can let the Lord Marquis contact you at any time because we shoulde looking for you very soon.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re always wee.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    After the three left, Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t discuss the military magic machines with Xu Yi at all, rather he brought him to the magic machine industry base on his territory.

    This base already had four factories in operation, which was a steel mill that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, aponent factory that belonged to the Irnd Chamber of Commerce, a cement factory that belonged to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and a household magic machine assembly factory that belonged to somepany in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Other than the smallpany¡¯s household magic machine factory, the other three factories were in charge of providing supplies to the Amrit Chamber of Commerceying down roads in the Marlow Empire.

    Because the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯tmitted to buildingrge numbers of roads, a part of the products from the factories were being used by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build some high rise apartments in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    When Marquis Southgate had been in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, he had seen many of these high rise apartments built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in many cities and had liked them very much.

    So while inviting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build that road in the southwest province, he also invited the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build some apartments in his territory.

    It should be said construction was the main business of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, building roads was considered a side business.

    So after epting the order to build apartments in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, in less than a year, they had already finished six apartments that were six floors each.

    ording to the n, these six apartments could hold two hundred and eighteen families.

    Marquis Southgate had granted these apartments to his loyal subordinates which they all weed.

    For those people who could only live in normal wood houses before, now that they were able to live in such a high ce with such a luxurious and beautiful room, it was like living in another world.

    Because of how well received the apartments were, Marquis Southgate ordered another twenty from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, he also epted the proposal of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to build a vi neighbourhood by a river in his territory.

    The cement, alloys, and other products made by these factories were all being used at the construction site of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the final household magic machine assembly nt, it could be considered a cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This factory belonged to a small magic machinepany in the Lampuri Kingdom in name, but actually this factory was controlled by her majesty Seveni.

    This factory could make all the magic machines that magic machinepanies in the Lampuri Kingdom could make, but when they were making them, theponents came from the variouspanies of the Lampuri Kingdom and the final product would have their logo on it.

    To put it simply, thosepanies had moved their production line here and created arge assembly nt together, which could producerge amounts of household magic machines at the same time.

    The first benefit of this was that every kind of household magic machine could be quickly assembled here, making it easier for the magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom to enter the Marlow Empire market.

    The second benefit was that they just needed to assemble it here. They only needed to bring theponents over from the Lampuri Kingdom, so when they were paying tariffs, it would be much less expensive than those ofplete magic machines, which saved them quite a bit.

    As for the household magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products¡¯ quality and performance were still better than the other brands, so there was no need to worry about them stealing the high end market that belonged to them.

    Not to mention that he had already signed a contract with Marquis Southgate and ten otherrge nobles of the Marlow Empire to import three hundred thousand units of Frestech Brand household magic machines, for a total value of over a million gold coins. It was far from what this factory that was still taking form couldpare to.

    Marquis Southgate brought Xu Yi here this time in hopes of Xu Yi epting his proposal to build a household magic machine factory that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on his territory.

    Because the Frestech Brand household magic machines he had ordered before were very popr among the nobles of the Marlow Empire, allowing him to earn one hundred and thirty thousand gold coins at once.

    Marquis Southgate was very clear that once Xu Yi came to the Marlow Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t just let him continue representing them, so he hoped that they would build a factory on hisnd.

    Because ording to the taxws in the Marlow Empire, all businesses in the territory of the noble needed to pay taxes to the noble.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could build a factory here, it would mean arge amount of taxes for Marquis Southgate.

    ¡°Look, chairman Xu, if you build a factory here, the empire will not levy any additional taxes from you and I as the lord will only take the minimal taxes from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. What do you think?¡± Marquis Southgate pointed at the emptynd in front of him with an inviting tone in his voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn¡¯t reply.

    Of course he knew what Marquis Southgate was thinking and he agreed with Marquis Southgate that setting up a factory here would save them quite a bit of taxes.

    But there was a reason why he was still worried.

    If he built a factory here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a very close rtionship with Marquis Southgate.

    It was a good thing for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when they first entered the Marlow Empire, but it wasn¡¯t a good thing for the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple, Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory was just too small in the end.

 Volume 6 68 - Greetings Between ArChapter Magi

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 68 - Greetings Between ArChapter Magi </h4>

    A weekter, Xu Yi left the Marlow Empire as scheduled.

    There was a small delegation from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army that came with him, which included Viscount Eitro from the logistics department that he had met before.

    This delegate followed Xu Yi to the Stantine Duchy, inspecting the various military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before making the decision to buy them or not.

    With the speed of the Magic Airship, this group only took a single day to cross the two thousand kilometers between the Marlow Empire and the Stantine Duchy to reach the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters.

    When they stepped off the Magic Airship, Viscount Eitro who was in charge of this delegation let out a long sigh as his eyes filled with shock.

    The people from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters were the same. They revealed the saame surprised look like they were shocked by what they had seen.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised to see this. Almost all the people who came from other countries would show this kind of expression when they arrived in the Stantine Duchy, so he was already used to it.

    ¡°Everyone, you must be tired from this long journey. Please rest up in the dwelling that ourpany has prepared for everyone and let¡¯s discuss business tomorrow, alright?¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    The people from the Marlow Empire army headquarters looked at each other and all nodded.

    Although they were riding in the Magic Airship the entire time, so the trip was quitefortable, it did take a long time, so it was false if it was said that they weren¡¯t tired at all.

    Eitro, who was the leader of the delegate, didn¡¯t have any objections either and gave a nod in agreement.

    But after the arrangement for the others were taken care of, he grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s arm and said with an excited look, ¡°Chairman Xu, how about you first take me to see the off road Magic Cars that you mentioned before?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him in surprise, ¡°There¡¯s no need for such a rush, right? Moreover, this new kind of Magic Car hasn¡¯t been developed yet, so you can¡¯t see anything now.¡±

    ¡°Even if it isn¡¯t fully developed, there are parts that are, right?¡± Eitro didn¡¯t give up, ¡°Let me take a look. After seeing that information, the entire logistics department is very interested in this thing. I can guarantee that as long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can finish developing this, our logistics department will make arge order. So.....Chairman Xu, can¡¯t you give some preferential treatment to an important guest like us?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Eitro speechlessly, thinking could this fellow be a hidden fan of motor vehicles?

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi thought that it wouldn¡¯t matter much, so he nodded in agreement.

    The two took Xu Yi¡¯s personal Magic Sedan and headed to the Magic Car development center to the north of the base at lightning speed.

    When they came out of the door, there was a pure ck Magic Sedan that quickly came out and it suddenly stepped on the brakes when it saw Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedaning over.

    After it stopped, the front of the car was only half a meter away from Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan which was a terrifying scene.

    Eitro sitting in the passenger seat had a pale face in fear. However, Xu Yi was calm like nothing had happened and didn¡¯t seem surprised at all. He rolled his eyes and stuck his head out the window as he called, ¡°Grandfather, can you drive a bit slower!¡±

    There was a head with white hair that came out of the opposite Magic Sedan that looked at Xu Yi before giving a cold snort, ¡°What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I¡¯ll hit people?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not worried about you hitting people, but you¡¯re this old already, this is very terrifying, alright?¡± Xu Yi snappily said.

    ¡°Ha? Could it be that you were scared? What a joke.¡± Arch Magus Cami¡¯s head sticking out had a look of disdain. After looking to the side, his eyes fell onto Eitro beside Xu Yi and revealed a look of understanding, ¡°So there¡¯s a guest. What? Where did theye from?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a guest from the Marlow Empire. This is their first time here, I don¡¯t want to scare him like this.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°From the Marlow Empire?¡± Arch Magus Cami took another look at Eitro before suddenly saying, ¡°Hey, you can have this kid Xu Yi bring you here, your status in the Marlow Empire shouldn¡¯t be low, right? Do you know Arch Magus ster? How has he been recently?¡±

    ¡°Arch Magus ster?¡± Eitro looked at Arch Magus Cami in surprise before suddenly thinking of something. His expression instantly became more respectful, ¡°Is your.....excellency Arch Magus Cami?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯m Cami. If you know me, you should know about Arch Magus ster. Tell me, how has he been recently?¡± Arch Magus Cami kept asking.

    After knowing that the other side was the most respected Arch Magus Cami of the Stantine Duchy, Eitro immediately came out of vehicle and came over to give Arch Magus Cami a respectful bow before replying, ¡°My status isn¡¯t enough to know the honoured Arch Magus ster, but I¡¯ve heard that Arch Magus ster has been focused on some research recently, so there hasn¡¯t been any news.¡±

    ¡°Un......That fellow is always like this, this isn¡¯t strange.¡± Arch Magus Cami was silent for a bit before waving his hand at Eitro, ¡°Alright, you can go take care of your business with Xu Yi, I won¡¯t bother you.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Cami got back into his Magic Sedan and instantly disappeared into the distance.

    Eitro watched that Magic Sedan disappear in a daze and he stayed like that until Xu Yi drove the Magic Sedan up beside him and indicated for him to get in.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, Arch Magus Caml seems to like driving Magic Sedans a lot?¡± Eitro asked after getting in.

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°He doesn¡¯t just love driving the Magic Sedan, he likes driving the Magic Speed Boats and the Magic Airships as well. What? Do you find it strange?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s not strange. Only......Only the things that a respected Arch Magus like him likes, it really is a bit unexpected.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh. If he knew that Arch Magus Cami liked to participate in the races, wouldn¡¯t you be even more surprised?

    Butpared to Eitro¡¯s questions, Xu Yi cared more about how Arch Magus Cami had asked about Arch Magus ster.

    Based on Arch Magus Cami¡¯s tone, it seemed like he had a good private rtionship with Arch Magus ster, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have mentioned it in front of Eitro like that.

    ¡°If grandfather can pull this Arch Magus ster over to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that would be good......¡±

    Xu Yi had this thought before revealing a smile of self ridicule and shaking his head.

    Arch Magi were the most important people in the Marlow Empire, how could theye to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? This was nothing more than wishful thinking.

    After starting the Magic Sedan again, Xu Yi brought Eitro to the Magic Car development center and arrived at a small hill in the north.

    This small hill had some clear differences from the surrounding ones, like they were specially made.

    On the small hill, there were fiverge transport Magic Cars that were currently slowly driving along the hill.

    The gradient of the hills were different and there were pits in the ground. There were even stones of varying sizes scattered around, looking very hard to pass.

    Eitro looked over and was certain that in this environment, if there wasn¡¯t a special road paved, normal horse carriages definitely couldn¡¯t pass through it.

    However, although the five Magic Cars were moving slowly along the hill, looking a bit hard, they were still moving forward bit by bit.

    Eitro¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Chairman Xu, these are the off road vehicles?¡±

    ¡°Un.....They are still being tested, so what you see isn¡¯tplete. When the fourth generation driving system isplete, they will be able to drive much faster across these roads.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°No, no, this is already enough!¡± Eitro said in an excited voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, they haven¡¯t loaded any cargo yet?¡±

    ¡°We haven¡¯t entered the carrying capacity limit testing yet, so not right now.¡±

    ¡°Then if they were loaded up with cargo, how much would it take before it wouldn¡¯t be able to move forward anymore?¡± Eitro asked.

    ¡°ording to the data, our lowest requirement is that it isn¡¯t affected by at least five tons.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°Of course, the limit of theserge transport Magic Cars are only twenty tons on tnd, so this hasn¡¯t been achieved yet.¡±

    ¡°Five tons isn¡¯t already enough!¡± The excitement in Eitro¡¯s eyes wasn¡¯t hidden at all, ¡°Chairman Xu, please sell these five ton Magic Cars to me. I will bring them back to the empire immediately and use them to shut the mouths of certain people.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking that this Eitro really was direct.

    It was a pity that he was only a normal part of the Marlow Empire¡¯s army, so he couldn¡¯t decide much.

    But thinking about it, although he seemed like a normal minister on the surface, he could still lead this delegation and make the decision for the Marlow Empire¡¯s army¡¯s logistics department. It could be seen that his position wasn¡¯t that low.

    If he could build a connection with him, he believed that it would be easier selling to the Marlow Empire army.

    However, after Xu Yi paused for a bit, he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m very sorry, the five ton Magic Cars are still an experiment, they aren¡¯t nning on being sold right now.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Eitro was a bit disappointed, ¡°Without a real example, it would be a bit hard to convince them.¡±

    ¡°If you want proof, it doesn¡¯t mean having the product, right?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and made an inviting gesture to Eitro, ¡°Viscount Eitro, if you¡¯re interested, pleasee with me. I will show you a demonstration video for the new off road transport Magic Cars. After seeing this video, I believe that you will have a better understanding of their abilities.¡±

    ¡°Demonstration video?¡± Eitro was a bit confused.

    ¡°Alright, it should be considered a Magic Illusion Film. You should understand a bit more like this.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Magic Illusion Film?¡± Eitro was still confused.

 Volume 6 69 - Want Another ArChapter Magus

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 69 - Want Another ArChapter Magus </h4>

    ¡°Did you finish entertaining the guests?¡± Hearing Xu Yi walk in, Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t even look up as he asked this.

    ¡°Un, just finished.¡± Xu Yi replied. He looked at the long and slender metal tool in Arch Magus Cami¡¯s hand that was letting out a light blue magic glow, while he focused on the two steel tes on the table. He tactfully closed his mouth.

    The magic glow from the tool came closer to the two steel tes and the slit in between the two tes suddenly began to melt before they werepletely sealed together.

    After a while, Arch Magus Cami had perfectly sealed the two steel tes together with the tool. Other than a trace that wasn¡¯t very clear on the surface, it seemed like it was a single steel te.¡±

    Xu Yi said in a surprised voice, ¡°Grandfather, it seems like your welding technology has progressed.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami threw down the tool in his hand and picked up the welded steel te. He first put it under a Magic Lamp to carefully look it over before tapping it with his hand and then giving a satisfied nod. He put the steel te back on the table before saying with a cold snort, ¡°Nonsense, if I didn¡¯t have any progress on this research after all this time, how could that be eptable?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before also picking up the steel te to look over. He found that after this steel te was welded, not only did it seem like it was stuck together on the surface, it was actually perfectly welded on the inside without leaving a single slit.

    This kind of welding was truly useful welding and the high grade technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed the most to make therge magic machines.

    ¡°Grandfather, this is the new Magic Welding Torch you developed? Are there any special requirements to use it?¡± Xu Yi picked up the long metal tool Arch Magus Cami had been holding as he asked this.

    ¡°What special requirements could there be?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°This thing was developed for normal people to use, why would I develop a special requirement to use it? Rx, this thing can be learnt as long as they are willing to spend some time learning it. As for how they will grasp it.....That will depend on each person¡¯s talent andprehension. I can¡¯t guarantee that.¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s good that normal people can use it. As for the welders, they have their grades.¡± Xu Yi nodded, feeling very satisfied.

    The Magic Welding technology Arch Magus Cami focused on developing seemed normal, but it was used in most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.

    If they couldn¡¯t weld things properly, it was impossible to createrge magic machines. EVen if it was possible, there was still a limit.

    So since Arch Magus Cami had invented the Magic Welding Torch, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made variousrge magic machines.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that just with this most foundation technology, it had increased the level of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent.

    ¡°Alright, kid, stop beating around the bush. What did youe looking for me for?¡± Arch Magus Cami asked.

    ¡°Grandfather understands me the best.¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°This time, it¡¯s mainly to ask you about Arch Magus ster that you mentioned before.¡±

    ¡°What? Kid, you want to pull him into yourpany?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi thinking that this was a bit funny with a bit of teasing in his eyes.

    ¡°Is that possible?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Nonsense, of course it¡¯s impossible.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave him a firm denial, ¡°He is one of the nine Arch Magi of the Marlow Empire, you think that he woulde to work for your smallpany?¡±

    Xu Yi gave up the idea of saying, ¡°You are also an Arch Magus, but aren¡¯t you also working for our smallpany¡±.

    ¡°Then......Grandfather, you seem to have a good rtionship with him, can you contact him and have him cooperate on some magic research with ourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This......¡± Arch Magus Cami fell into thought and slightly knitted his brows, ¡°If it was before, it wouldn¡¯t be too possible, but now......I¡¯m not certain, but there might be some hope.¡±

    ¡°Then......¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi, ¡°You don¡¯t need to say it, why do you think I mentioned ster to that fellow just now?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit moved.

    Even if Arch Magus Cami was prejudiced against the magic machines before, he had still fully supported him.

    Then when he lost that prejudice and joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as studying magic machines, he began thinking of him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even more.

    There were many times that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had relied on him as the signboard or they would have met many problems.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi immediately said, ¡°Grandfather, I don¡¯t need you to convince Arch Magus ster, I just need you to find a chance for me to go talk to him. As for how to convince him to work with ourpany, you don¡¯t need to worry about that.¡±

    ¡°Che, you think that I care about all that?¡± Arch Magus Cami gave augh before turning to a small cab behind him and pulling out a letter for Xu Yi, ¡°Take it, this is my personal letter. When you have time to go to the Marlow Empire again, you can use this letter to see him. ster and I studied at the same school and we¡¯ve always had a good rtionship, so you should be able to easily see him if you take my letter.¡±

    Seeing that Arch Magus Cami had already prepared the letter, Xu Yi was even more moved. After taking the letter, he wanted to say some words of gratitude, but he changed his mind when they came to the tip of his tongue.

    ¡°Grandfather, that person was from the Marlow Empire army headquarters and he was interested in the off road Magic Cars. After I showed the demonstration video that Still¡¯s team made, he seemed very satisfied. If nothing unexpected happens, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters shouldn¡¯t have a problem making orders for the off road Magic Cars.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Still is finally working with you? You did very well with this, I¡¯m very satisfied.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a nod, ¡°I thought that since she was married, she should stay home, but if she¡¯s willing to run around and you supported her, I couldn¡¯t say anything. Now that you two have thought it through, that is very good.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and felt afortable warmth fill his heart.

    ¡°Grandfather, in the end, we are married. It¡¯s good to support each other, but it¡¯s better to spend more time together.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave another cold snort, ¡°Speaking of spending more time together, you just came back from the Marlow Empire and she ran off to the Rudson Kingdom. Have you been together for over a week this month?¡±

    Xu Yi awkwardly scratched his nose, ¡°Everyone is busy, so there¡¯s no other way.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi for a bit before giving a sigh and waving his hand. His tone was a bit sad.

    ¡°Forget it, this is the matter between you two, it¡¯s fine if you think it¡¯s fine and I¡¯m toozy to care. Instead of caring about you, I should find more time to go y with Freya.¡±

    Hearing Arch Magus Cami mention Freya, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Arch Magus Camipletely spoiled his great granddaughter Freya, many times making it hard even for Still to watch.

    When they wanted to discipline Freya, they were chased away by Arch Magus Cami. It was a big headache for Xu Yi and he was even worried that Freya would be spoiled because of this.

    But now that Freya was six years old, although she was a bit naughty like children were, she was still very cute and obedient. She didn¡¯t seem spoiled at all, which made Xu Yi much more assured.

    Of course, if he wanted to be a bit more proud, that was because of his and Still¡¯s strict education.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Xu Yi, you brought the people from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters here, are you already nning on selling the military magic machines to the Marlow Empire?¡± Arch Magus Cami asked.

    ¡°Un......I was nning to do this.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the Candra Empire? You¡¯re not nning on selling to them?¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep look at Arch Magus Cami before giving a calm answer, ¡°If it was a normal situation, I shouldn¡¯t sell to them because we are currently hostile with them. But grandfather, you should understand that since I¡¯m selling the military magic machines to the Marlow Empire, I will also sell to the Candra Empire.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami had a look of praise as he gave a nod, ¡°It¡¯s good you know. But Xu Yi, do you know that choosing to do this is very dangerous? Compared to the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, whether it is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Stantine Duchy, you are just too small. Just a single misstep will ruin everything you¡¯ve done before.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°Be assured, grandfather. Didn¡¯t you tell me to be more direct before? Although this current approach seems like I¡¯m ying with fire, there won¡¯t actually be any problems. In the end, the core things are being controlled by me, so the two empires won¡¯t be able to shake my foundation.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good to be confident, but overconfidence isn¡¯t good. I have to remind you to be a bit more careful. If you fail, it¡¯s a small matter if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is gone, but it¡¯s a big matter if something happened to you. I don¡¯t want to see Still be a widow, do you understand?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Grandfather, aren¡¯t you looking down on me too much? No matter what, I am at least a Great Magician, so I think that there shouldn¡¯t be a problem protecting myself, right?¡±

    ¡°You think that Great Magicians are invincible?¡± Arch Magus Cami stared at Xu Yi.

    ¡°I¡¯m not invincible in front of you, but I am at least invincible in front of many people on the continent.....¡± Xu Yi helplessly argued, ¡°Not to mention, I¡¯ve prepared quite a few escape routes. Even if the entire Sines Continent falls, that doesn¡¯t mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I don¡¯t have a ce to hide......¡±

 Volume 6 70 - Heaven Island

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 70 - Heaven Ind </h4>

    There was a ck line on the horizon on the sea.

    ¡°Sir Leslie, we¡¯re about to arrive at Heaven Ind.¡±

    ¡°Un, prepare tond.¡± Leslie put down the telescope in his hand and nodded at his subordinate as he gave his order.

    The sailors on the guard ship immediately went off.

    After half an hour, fifteen guard ships with tworge transport Magic Ships arrived at the harbour that had beenpleted on Heaven Ind half a year ago.

    The residents on the ind saw this fleet approach, but they didn¡¯t reveal any panicked looks at all. Rather, they were all very excited as they came to the harbour with looks of expectations on their faces, looking like they were here to wee them.

    After this fleet came from the far Sines Continent to their Heaven Ind the first time, it had alreadye several dozen times ago, so the residents of the ind were already used to seeing it.

    This fleet always brought many new things, for example, the special products from the continent, the products that were rare on the ind, and these strange and useful things called magic machines......

    When the residents bought these previous goods, they didn¡¯t use gold coins that were used everywhere, but rather they exchanged somemon herbs that could be found on Heaven Ind.

    At the same time, this wide dock that had over ten wharves waspletely funded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When building this harbour, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired many ind residents to help with the construction. They had given the workers a wage as high as five gold coins a month, which let these ind residents earn quite a bit.

    So for the people of the ind, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and this fleet were like angels that came from heaven. They gave them all kinds of good things, so naturally they would be very happy to wee them each time.

    When the fleet anchored at the dock, there were many ind residents that came forward.

    However, the people who came down first were in full armour, who looked like majestic soldiers.

    The people of the ind weren¡¯t surprised by this since the people of the fleet had told them that the endless seas were filled with danger. They would frequently run into pirates, so it was natural that they would be armed to protect themselves.

    But the ind residents also noticed that this time, there were much more guards that came down from the ships.

    When this fleet came before, there would only be around a hundred guards, but this time, there were four to five hundred guards.

    When they lined up on the harbour, it looked like a ck mass that was very powerful.

    Of course, after they noticed the superrge steel ships that weren¡¯t that far away, everyone calmed down.

    There were more ships that came this time, so it wasn¡¯t strange that there would be more guards.

    But everyone was also curious, why did they increase the scale of the fleet this time? They even brought these tworge transport Magic Ships that hadn¡¯t been seen in a long time?

    Could it be......the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do something on the ind this time?

    Thest time such arge fleet appeared, they were here to construct the harbour. Everyone couldn¡¯t help bing excited.

    If it was like this, could it mean that there was a chance they would work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again and earn some money?

    Thinking of this, the ind residents became even more excited. Without waiting for the crew to disembark, they already charged forward.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the guards that had alreadye down that blocked them, they might have already charged onto the ship.

    When everyone saw Lesliee down from the deck, they immediately cheered.

    Leslie waved his hand to greet the ind residents on the dock which got him a bigger response.

    ¡°Hei, these fellows really are innocent.¡± Leslie revealed a faint smile. He stepped onto the wharf and stepped to the side of a box the guards had prepared before jumping right onto it.

    Seeing him act like this, the surrounding ind residents became more excited.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they would build the harbour and recruit workers from the ind, it was this sir Leslie who had announced this from up above like this.

    Now that he was doing the same thing, he must be announcing something again!

    The ind residents surged forward andpletely surrounded Leslie.

    Seeing these people gather, Leslie raised his hands and the noise around him quickly stopped as everyone focused on him.

    ¡°Everyone, I want to announce some good news. We¡¯vee this time to open a magic machineponent processing factory on this ind, as well as preparing to open a steel mill and a mine. So right now, we need to recruit around two thousand workers.....¡±

    After hearing this, the crowd suddenly filled with shocked cries.

    Two thousand workers?

    God, this Heaven Ind in total only had around twenty to thirty thousand people. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was suddenly recruiting a tenth of that poption!

    Putting aside the children and old people who couldn¡¯t work, this meant that out of the ten thousand adults on the ind, many of them would be able to get a good job where they would be able to earn five gold coins a month!

    Moreover, based on the tone of this sir Leslie, these two factories and mine that they didn¡¯t know what would be used for wasn¡¯t a short term project like the harbour, it was being opened long term.

    This meant that the people of the ind would have a chance to work there to get a long term and stable ie.

    For the residents that could only barely survive on the resources of the ind, this was the biggest blessing.

    Although gold coins didn¡¯t have much meaning on Heaven Ind that was isted from the world, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet was here, bringing the products of the Sines Continent with them, there was a use for the gold coins.

    For example, a Magic Fan that could bring a cool breeze to people on a hot summer day could be bought for three gold coins.

    If it was like before, the people of the ind would have to collect a bunch of herbs before barely being able to get one. But now if they could get this job, they would be able to get one in a month!

    ¡°Sir Leslie, I want to register!¡± A voice called out from the crowd.

    The crowd had been silent, but with this call, everyone started raising their hands as they tried to get Leslie¡¯s attention.

    Leslie raised his hand to have the crowd quiet down.

    ¡°Everyone please listen up. As for how to recruit workers, we will have open recruitment after the factories and mine are finished being built. But before this, we will first construct the two factories and the mine which will also require plenty of manpower. Those that are willing to help us build the two factories and the mine, we will be holding recruitment in a bit. We will choose from the best among you, understood?¡±

    With Leslie saying this and the experience of what happened before, the people were able to easily ept this arrangement.

    After this announcement, they went to the exchange area that had already been set up.

    Leslie brought arge fleet this time, so naturally they brought plenty of products from the Sines Continent. The people of the ind had already desperately collected the herbs and ores that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed.

    With both sides trading on the harbour, it looked quite lively.

    Leslie watched this from afar and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Heaven Ind was isted by the sea and had been isted from the Sines Continent for too long, so there wasn¡¯t even a basic currency system and they could only use this primitive transaction method.

    It seems that to create a reliable base here, it would require quite a bit of effort.

    When Leslie was thinking about the future, a subordinate came over and said in a low voice, ¡°Sir, there¡¯s movement from that side.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Leslie raised his brows and gave a hand sign for his subordinate, ¡°Send down the orders and follow the n.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    The subordinate left to pass down the orders.

    Leslie continued to lurk in the shadows on the wharf and after silently waiting for ten minutes, there was a deep sound on the ground that came from the distance.

    ¡°They¡¯re here.¡±

    Leslie turned to look deeper into the ind and saw that there was arge group of peopleing over.

    When the inders who were trading with the sailors heard this sound and turned around, their expressions all changed.

    ¡°It¡¯s the royal family!¡±

    ¡°My god! Why are they here?¡±

    ¡°What are they here for?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that they......¡±

    ......

    After a while, this group came to the beach. It was a group of people wearing different clothes and they had various iron weapons in their hands. Although their formation was scattered and they weren¡¯t standing in uniform, they had a certain degree of training, so they could be considered an armed force.

    Among these people, there was a crude horse carriage with two horses and in the carriage was a fat middle aged man who was like a mountain of beat with a specialrge crown on his head. This crown almostpletely covered his head, almost not revealing any of his facial features.

    After these people stopped, a man walked out and looked at the beach before loudly saying, ¡°What are so many people gathered here for? You want to cause trouble?¡±

    The ind residents on the beach all stopped moving and looked at each other before turning to look at Leslie who had been sitting on the beach without moving the entire time.

    ¡°It seems like it¡¯s my turn.¡±

    Leslie revealed a faint smile and stood up, walking over towards this group with a rxed look on his face.

 Volume 6 71 - Greetings To Your Majesty

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 71 - Greetings To Your Majesty </h4>

    Everyone on the beach was looking at Leslie, following him as he stopped in front of the soldiers that had suddenly appeared.

    ¡°Who are you?¡± The man who had loudly shouted just now asked Leslie this.

    Leslie looked at him before ignoring him and turning to the mountain of meat in the horse carriage.

    ¡°May I ask if you are his majesty Antore?¡±

    The ¡°meat mountain¡± had two slits for eyes after they were pushed together by the fat on his face which looked over at him.

    ¡°You are?¡±

    ¡°Hello your majesty Antore, I am the leader of this fleet from the Sines Continent. We¡¯vee this time to do a bit of business with the residents of Heaven Ind.¡±

    ¡°This time?¡± The meat mountain king called Antore gave a soft snort, ¡°This isn¡¯t your first time?¡±

    Leslie¡¯s lips curled slightly as he revealed a cold smile.

    This King Antore in front of him was the current ruler of Heaven Ind.

    Based on the information from the ind residents, they also came from the Sines Continent a long time ago. It¡¯s said that they were the royal family of a certain empire on the Sines Continent, so they brought quite a few guards when they came here.

    With this power, the Antore Royal Family were able to control the entire Heaven Ind the entire time, grasping all the resources on the ind in their hands.

    Although this ind was very big, there was no one who had enough power to resist the Antore Royal Family. So even if they had been abusing their power on the ind for over a thousand years, there was no one that went against them.

    But seeing this king with his own eyes, Leslie could only give a scoff.

    Based on his formation, it wasn¡¯t false that no one could go against him, but as for abusing his power.....

    As the king and only being able to ride this crude horse carriage that had such weak horses pulling it, it could be seen that his living conditions weren¡¯t that good.

    Of course,pared to the poor residents of the ind, he as the king was at least able to be fat and enjoy his life.

    ¡°It is indeed not the first time, what about it? Your majesty, is there some problem?¡± Leslie asked.

    ¡°You still dare ask if there is some problem?¡± King Antore gave a snort before gasping for breath, feeling a bit tired. He pointed at the man who was responsible for shouting for him.

    That man understood and continued, ¡°Don¡¯t you understand? This is Heaven Ind, since you are here, you must follow the rules of Heaven Ind.¡±

    ¡°Then can you please tell me what the rules of Heaven Ind are?¡± Leslie asked with a smile.

    ¡°Nonsense, the rules of the ind are naturally his majesty is the greatest! You people came here to do business with the people of the ind, didn¡¯t you not contact his majesty first and get his permission?¡±

    ¡°We really didn¡¯t.¡± Leslie directly admitted it before turning to King Antore, ¡°Then your majesty, how do we get your permission?¡±

    King Antore opened his eyes with difficulty and gave a soft snort. Then he closed his eyes and was toozy to care about Leslie.

    ¡°Since you are a smart person and youe from the Sines Continent, don¡¯t you know the customs of each country on the Sines Continent? Pay taxes! It¡¯s not a problem to do business on the ind, but don¡¯t even think about not paying taxes!¡±

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°Then what if I don¡¯t want to pay them?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t want to pay?¡± The man gave a cold snort and raised his right hand.

    The over two hundred men surrounding King Antore raised their weapons and pointed them at Leslie.

    Leslie looked at them and had a look filled with disdain as he shook his head, ¡°Your majesty, it seems like you don¡¯t understand the situation at all.¡±

    After throwing these words down, Leslie also raised his right hand and there were several hundred people that jumped out onto the beach, instantly surrounding the two hundred people that King Antores had brought.

    They were stunned when they were surrounded and King Antore couldn¡¯t help sitting up. His eyes opened wide as he stared at Leslie and roared, ¡°What do you want to do? Do you want to rebel?¡±

    ¡°Rebel?¡± Leslie couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Your majesty, it seems like you not only need to lose weight, you also need to study a bit. The word rebel can¡¯t be used in this current situation.¡±

    ¡°You......¡±

    King Antore wanted to say something else, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Leslie suddenly raised his hand before quickly bringing it back down.

    ¡°Sou!¡±

    There was an arrow that flew through the air and pierced right through King Antore¡¯s throat, deeply submerging until there was only the tail of the arrow left.

    King Antore could only move his fingers as his upper body that was hard for him to set up fell down in the horse carriage, making a loud boom before it stopped moving.

    The beach instantly became deathly silent.

    Then the man who had given the orders for King Antore shouted with a look of terror.

    ¡°Gods! Quickly kill him......¡±

    ¡°Sou!¡±

    There was another arrow that also pierced right through his throat and blocked the rest of his words in his throat.

    The man hadsted a bit longer than King Antore, but he could only bring his hand to his throat and make a few sounds before falling to the ground.

    The few subordinates of King Antore that had been moving stopped as they looked at King Antore and the man on the ground who had stopped breathing already in a daze. After a while, it was unknown who shouted first, but then they all scattered.

    However, they hadn¡¯t run far when there were several red lights that appeared above their heads,nding in front of them.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    With several explosions, the scattering of soil in front of them made them all freeze, not daring to move.

    ¡°This ind isn¡¯t as big as you think, so don¡¯t think of escaping. All of you will stay and listen to my orders, or I can also take your lives. Otherwise......¡±

    Leslie¡¯s ice cold voice came out and the subordinates of King Antore all looked at each other before turning around to kneel down towards Leslie.

    ¡°Greetings to your majesty!¡±

    Perhaps it was because of these cries but the residents who had been stunned by how fast this incident had changed all finally reacted and kneeled towards Leslie.

    ¡°Greetings to you majesty!¡±

    Seeing the people kneeling around him, Leslie revealed a faint smile as he turned to look in a northwest direction.

    ¡°I already said that to solve this quickly, you need to use direct methods. If it was that fellow Xu Yi with all his thoughts, who knows how long this would drag on.¡±

    ###

    ¡°Achoo.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong sneeze. He couldn¡¯t help rubbing his nose, feeling a bit confused.

    Since he became a Great Magician, he hadn¡¯t sneezed once in all these years. Why did he suddenly sneeze?¡±

    ¡°Could it be because I looked up at the sun earlier?¡± Xu Yi raised his head with knitted brows to look at the sun, feeling that this early spring sun wasn¡¯t that strong even though it was noon. It shouldn¡¯t be enough to make him give such a sneeze.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, these Magic Airships in front of us are the same as the Magic Airship we came here in?¡± Eitro saw Xu Yi suddenly look up and followed his line of sight to see several Magic Airships flying across.

    ¡°Ah? Ah......Right, these are the first generation Magic Airships, they are only models.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°First generation?¡± Eitro narrowed his eyes and followed the Magic Airships in the sky. When they disappeared along the horizon, he turned back to Xu Yi and seriously asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you selling these Magic Airships?¡±

    ¡°What? You want to buy them as well?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Eitro gave a very certain nod, ¡°Although I know that these things will be more expensive than therge transport Magic Cars and they might not have more carrying capacity, just based on their abilities to fly through the sky is enough to y a role that would be hard to imagine most of the time. Tell me, is yourpany willing to sell these?¡±

    ¡°If possible, of course I want to sell them.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh and helplessly spread his hands, ¡°But ourpany¡¯s production capacity for these Magic Airships isn¡¯t high. To this point, we can only make less than thirty Magic Airships a year, so there¡¯s no extra that we can supply you with.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? That is too disappointing.¡± Eitro had a disappointed look on his face as he turned back to look in the direction the Magic Airships disappeared in with an unwilling feeling in his heart. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Then chairman Xu, can you first sell me ten.....Oh, no, five, five is enough. Yourpany can make thirty of them a year, then there should be no problem to sell five of them to us. I can represent the Marlow Empire¡¯s army¡¯s logistics department to promise you that we will definitely pay a price that you will be satisfied with.¡±

    ¡°You really want it that much?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised by Eitro¡¯s determination.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Eitro was strangely certain, ¡°No matter what, I have to at least ask chairman Xu to give a demonstration video for these Magic Airships. I can use that to convince the higher ups back at headquarters. I¡¯m certain that they will agree with my thoughts.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright, if your side really is interested, I can give several Magic Airships for reference. However, this isn¡¯t included in ourpany¡¯s n, so the price......¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for chairman Xu to worry about the price, our Marlow Empire¡¯s army has a very good budget. As long as the higher ups at the headquarters like it, there will be no problem with this.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Good then, it¡¯s decided. When you go back, I will give you a demonstration video to bring back. If your noble side really decides to buy it, we can continue this discussion. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Good, no problem.¡±

    He had gotten another deal just like that, Xu Yi felt very happy.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did have production capacity problems right now, they couldn¡¯t even supply the Lampuri Kingdom with the hundred Magic Airships, with his rtionship to Still, he just needed to talk to her and he would be able to squeeze out a few for the Marlow Empire.

    And he was certain that the Marlow Empire wouldn¡¯t let off the most advanced magic machine represented by the Magic Airship.

    As long as the higher ups at the headquarters saw this demonstration video, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would certainly receive more orders from the Marlow Empire in the future.

    When he was about to lead Eitro to the shipyard, there was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce subordinate that suddenly came over. After looking at Eitro with aplicated look, he turned to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sorry.¡± Xu Yi understood and apologized to Eitro before bringing his subordinate to the side.

    ¡°Sir chairman, something has happened.¡± The subordinate leaned in and spoke in Xu Yi¡¯s ear in a low and anxious voice.

    ¡°What happened?¡± Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised as he asked in a calm voice.

    The subordinate looked at Eitro in the distance before saying, ¡°The people his highness Frank has sent have just arrived and they bumped into the people of the Marlow Empire. Right now.....their situation doesn¡¯t look good.¡±

    ¡°The people from the Candra Empire are also here?¡± Xu Yi was surprised as he thought that this really was unexpected.

    After thinking for a bit, he walked over to Eitro.

    ¡°Viscount Eitro, there are some guests that have arrived. Do you want to see them together?¡±

    Eitro looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    The guests of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why did Xu Yi bring him along? Could it be that they were rted to him?

 Volume 6 72 - Warning From The Two Empires

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 72 - Warning From The Two Empires </h4>

    Under his lead, Xu Yi and Eitro came to the reception center in the center of the main base.

    When they came in, Xu Yi could feel the stiffness in the air. There was a silence that was hard to believe in therge reception hall and even the soft sounds of the two girls serving the guests could be clearly heard.

    Other than the two who were serving them, there wasn¡¯t any otherrge movement in the hall. They were all careful no matter what they did, as if they were afraid of breaking the silent atmosphere.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes were staring at the people on the other side of them and the eyes of these two rows were staring right at the other side. Without needing to do a thing, one could easily smell the scent of gunpowder in the air.

    Eitro looked at the two groups before looking at the delegation from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army that he was leading on the left. He walked over and asked a few things in a low voice before turning to the other group with a strange expression.

    The group on the right side watched Eitro¡¯s movements before noticing Xu Yi appearing and one of them raised their hand to greet Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re back.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded at him with a smile, ¡°Sir Russell, didn¡¯t you say that you would arrive the day after tomorrow? Why are you here today?¡±

    The Candra Empire¡¯s navy¡¯s deputy chief of staff looked over the group from the Marlow Empire in front of him and gave a cold snort, ¡°If I didn¡¯te two days ahead of schedule, how could I have found these surprising guests?¡±

    His tone was filled with taunting and based on his expression, one could tell that there was a certain amount of dissatisfaction and even anger in his heart.

    However, Xu Yi acted like he couldn¡¯t hear the meaning in his words at all as he continued smiling. He took two steps forward and came in between them before raising his left hand to gesture at the group from the Marlow Empire, ¡°Come, let me introduce you. These are the guests from the Marlow Empire.¡±

    Russell gave another soft snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, there¡¯s no need for introductions. They are from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army, how could I not know them?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi turned to Eitro, ¡°Then do you all recognize these guests?¡±

    Eitro knitted his brows and looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, but he still said with a nod, ¡°Of course, they haven¡¯t hidden their identities and if we don¡¯t recognize them, that would be a bit too much. Don¡¯t you think so, dear Fox of the Jungle sir Russell from the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Fox of the Jungle?¡± Xu Yi looked at Russell with a surprised look, ¡°Sir Russell, I never thought that you would have this nickname.¡±

    Russell waved his hand, ¡°That is a nickname that others gave me, it isn¡¯t anything.¡±

    ¡°Sir Russell, it¡¯s not right to be this modest.¡± Eitro raised his voice to say, ¡°When you were still in the Candra Empire¡¯s army, our Marlow Empire has suffered at the hands of your subordinates many times. Giving you a nickname is respecting you. If you don¡¯t think it¡¯s anything, isn¡¯t it too embarrassing for our Marlow Empire?¡±

    ¡°What does it matter to me what your Marlow Empire things?¡± Russell said without any expressions, ¡°Not to mention that I¡¯ve already been transferred to the royal fleet. The nickname of Fox of the Jungle doesn¡¯t mean anything to me.¡±

    ¡°That really is a pity.¡± Eitro shook his head, ¡°The Candra Empire¡¯s army gave up a strong junglemander like you and move you to the navy, that really is stupid.¡±

    Russell didn¡¯t say a word, not actually refuting this.

    Based on his reaction, he agreed with what Eitro was saying, but he couldn¡¯t state that with his status.

    ¡°Alright, sir Russell, no matter what you did before, since you are here now, if my guesses are correct, it should be here for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, right?¡± Eitro asked.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t rted to you.¡± Russell casually replied.

    ¡°No, of course this is rted to me, or rahter to our entire Marlow Empire.¡± After saying this, Eitro turned to Xu Yi with a trace of doubt in his eyes, ¡°Chairman Xu, sir Russell isn¡¯t willing to speak, then are you willing to tell me?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, protecting the privacy of our customers is something we must do. Without the approval of the customer, I can¡¯t reveal this to other people.¡±

    Eitro gave a nod, ¡°Good, I understand.¡±

    He turned to take a deep look at Russell after saying this before turning to call the Marlow Empire¡¯s group behind him and leaving after bidding farewell to Xu Yi.

    After he left, Russell looked at Xu Yi with a questioning gaze and asked in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, can you tell me just what is going on here?¡±

    Xu Yi replied with a faint smile, ¡°It is as you can see, this is what it is.¡±

    Russell narrowed his eyes and there was a dangerous glow in them, but he didn¡¯t keep asking.

    ###

    Two dayster, the Marlow Empire¡¯s delegation led by Eitro left the Stantine Duchy and returned to the Marlow Empire.

    In his final talk with Xu Yi, he had told Xu Yi that if nothing unexpected happened, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army would be ordering arge number of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He also wanted to establish a long term working rtionship to maintain their military magic machine supplies.

    At the same time, he was also a bit dissatisfied with Xu Yi. It was because while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was working with the Marlow Empire, they were also working with the Candra Empire.

    He warned Xu Yi that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this would create distrust in the Marlow Empire towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which would affect their long term cooperation.

    Four days after the Marlow Empire delegation left, Xu Yi sent off the Candra Empire navy¡¯s delegation led by Russell.

    Russell¡¯s goal this time was very simple, he wanted to order ten guard ships along with the various military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire navy hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them more technological material on the guard ships, making it easier for them to maintain them in the future, as well asunching more training programs.

    But after seeing the people from the Marlow Empire, Russell found Xu Yi in secret to have a talk with him.

    In this talk, Russell seriously told Xu Yi that because of the hostility between the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire, he and the Candra Empire¡¯s army didn¡¯t want the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with the Marlow Empire.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce insisted on doing this, it would cause the Candra Empire¡¯s army to lose faith in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which would affect their cooperation.

    In short, Russell had said the same thing as Eitro. He hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have a foot in both ships, working with both empires.

    But Russell¡¯s warning was more direct. He stated that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce continued working with the Marlow Empire, it wouldn¡¯t just affect their cooperation in terms of military magic machines, it would also affect their cooperation in terms of household magic machines.

    To be specific, the Candra Empire would deem the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as hostile and would stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products from entering the Candra Empire.

    ¡°I believe that chairman Xu is very clear that if you lose arge market like our Candra Empire, this would be a very serious loss for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So.....I ask chairman Xu to seriously consider this and not make a mistake.¡±

    Russell¡¯s warning could even be considered a threat to Xu Yi, but when it fell onto Xu Yi¡¯s ears......

    ¡°These fellows, why do they like wasting words so much?¡±

    Xu Yi dug in his ears and didn¡¯t look like he cared about them at all.

    Although the two empires had quick responses, knowing the importance of the military magic machines, they were trying to make themselves seem aloof without knowing the situation. They acted like they were giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a chance to cooperate with them.

    But in reality?

    ¡°What does the old proverb say? The wheels of history are already turning and anyone who tries to stop them will be ttened.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He threw Eitro and Russell¡¯s warnings and threats to the back of his mind.

    The current situation was the two empires looking to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce begging to cooperate with them. It had no meaning if they still had this high attitude.

    Even if the armies of the two empires were vignt and dissatisfied with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, was this something that could be stopped just because they were unwilling?

    Especially the Candra Empire who had lost twice to the Rudson Kingdom, they felt the threat that the military magic machines posed to them.

    If they didn¡¯t care about face, they would have directly asked to buy military magic machines like the Marlow Empire and wouldn¡¯t need to beat around the bush like they were doing.

    There was even less to worry about when it came to the Marlow Empire. Although they didn¡¯t have a deep grudge like the Candra Empire, since the Candra Empire was interested in the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, the Marlow Empire would follow along. They wouldn¡¯t let themselves fall behind the Candra Empire.

    To put it simply, Xu Yi was treating the two empires like chess pieces and using their hostile rtionship to increase his own price.

    This was what Arch Magus Cami and Xu Yi both recognized as ying with fire, which was very dangerous.

    But Xu Yi was confident in the results because with the current situation, the two empires couldn¡¯t pose any threats to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But putting aside the military magic machines, what Xu Yi cared about the most was the household magic machines that Russell had mentioned, which was something he needed to worry about even less.

    If it was said that military magic machines was something where problems could ur because of the scruples of armies of the two empires, the household magic machines were already a billowing wave that no one was willing or even able to stop.

    Xu Yi tookst month¡¯s financial statement in his hand and seeing the rows of data on it, he narrowed his eyes and revealed a smile like a fox who was plotting something.

 Volume 6 73 - Backwards Candra Empire

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 73 - Backwards Candra Empire </h4>

    Arge transport Magic Car quickly moved across thergest road in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province.

    ¡°Peng.¡±

    The tire rolled over a pit on the road and immediately shook the entire car.

    Nasus who was sitting in the Magic Car was jolted from the seat before falling back down. Feeling the pain from his butt, he couldn¡¯t helpining, ¡°What kind of broken roads are in this Candra Empire, it is too bumpy. My butt is about to split in half from this trip.¡±

    Hafra who was sitting in the side seat was already used to it and couldn¡¯t help smiling when he heard this, ¡°Kid, if your butt isn¡¯t in half, would it be in three parts? Alright, stopining. You¡¯ll being here more in the future, so you should get used to it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯ll always be this broken road?¡± Nasus knitted his brows and shook his head, ¡°I say, Uncle, didn¡¯t you always say that the Candra Empire had more money than our Lampuri Kingdom? Why aren¡¯t they willing to build a few roads? That way, not only is it morefortable for us toe here, it¡¯ll also be faster.¡±

    ¡°You think that this thing can be made with just money?¡± Hafra rolled his eyes at his nephew before looking at the bumpy road in front of him and giving a helpless sigh, ¡°Although the Candra Empire has money, if they aren¡¯t willing to build roads, there¡¯s no other way.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right. Even a small country like our Lampuri Kingdom is filled with roads, so why doesn¡¯t arge country like the Candra Empire understand the benefits of roads? Why aren¡¯t they willing to pave them?¡± Nasus was still confused.

    ¡°How would I know?¡± Hafra gave augh, ¡°Perhaps the nobles of the Candra Empire like to sway while sitting in their horse carriages moving along these small roads.¡±

    Nasus muttered something before he continued driving therge transport Magic Car forward.

    Seeing that he was no longerining, Hafra also fell silent and began nning their trip.

    Since the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom signed their contract, opening their market to the Lampuri Kingdom, in this half a month, this was his fourth timeing to the giant empire.

    Although each trip was hard, all the things he had transported from the Lampuri Kingdom to the Candra Empire were easy to sell. He had already made quite a bit in half a month.

    This time he had brought his nephew Nasus along, other than the fact that his nephew had passed the driver¡¯s exam at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and could drive therge transport Magic Car, he also brought him to see the world and familiarize himself with how to do business over here. He wanted to train a good assistant for himself in the future.

    As for the matters between the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom, of course a small merchant like him wouldn¡¯t know anything. He only knew that after the Candra Empire had opened their markets to the Lampuri Kingdom, there were many products that he could sell in the Candra Empire. Not to mention that the tariffs were much lowerpared to before, so it was very good business opportunity.

    If the Candra Empire¡¯s agreement with the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t change, he was certain that this trade would be even better and it would be much better than being a normal small merchant in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The only hindrance would be something happening in the Candra Empire.

    As long as there was a small problem in thisrge empire, it was enough topletely destroy a small merchant like him without giving him a chance to resist at all.,

    ¡°I hope that her majesty can maintain a good rtionship with the Candra Empire.....¡± After thinking this, Hafra began praying in his heart.

    ¡°Hey, uncle......¡± At this time, Nasus who had been silent for a bit suddenly spoke.

    ¡°Un? What is it?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve nevere to the Candra Empire before and felt that arge empire like this would have many things better than a small country like our Lampuri Kingdom, but after seeing it, I feel that......I feel that the Candra Empire is more disappointingpared to our Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Seeing the confused look on Nasus¡¯ face, Hafra couldn¡¯t helpughing. He felt that this kid really was feeling the same thing he felt when he came to the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Tell me, what parts of the Candra Empire can¡¯tpare to our Lampuri Kingdom in your opinion?¡± Hafra deliberately asked.

    ¡°Not to mention anything else, it¡¯s the road in front of us.¡± Nasus pointed at the road in front and said without any courtesy, ¡°This is a road that leads to the thirdrgest city in the Candra Empire, Laru City. If this was in our Lampuri Kingdom, it would be a very wide road. But this road in front of us, not to mention how beat up it is, it¡¯s very narrow. I think that it is only wide enough to let tworge transport Magic Cars go side by side, it wouldn¡¯t let another one pass.¡±

    ¡°Un, this road is indeed the biggest problem. What else? Is there anything else?¡± Hafra asked again.

    ¡°Anything else? Did you forget when we stopped at Ive City? Although it¡¯s only a small city, there was only a single restaurant in the entire city, that is just too much! Moreover, there was nothing that was being sold there, they didn¡¯t even have any fresh meat and the quality was so bad. If this was our Lampuri Kingdom, not to mention Karma City, even a small city would have a ce where you can eat some meat.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re dissatisfied that you can¡¯t eat meat? Kid, if you¡¯re unhappy with not eating meat, don¡¯t you think that you¡¯ll break your family?¡± Hafra asked.

    ¡°Che, how can you go poor eating meat? Even one pound of pork is only two silver coins in Karma City, I can¡¯t make my family go broke even if I ate a pound of pork a day.¡±

    ¡°Kid, did you forget how you starved when you were younger?¡± Hafra rolled his eyes, ¡°Don¡¯t forget, the reason why you could eat meat in the past two years ispletely because the Lampuri Kingdom has enough grains that they could take out some of the extra to raise pigs. The Candra Empire having enough grains to feed their people is already good enough, how could they have extra to use to raise pigs?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Nasus scratched his head, ¡°Anyway, it¡¯s much worse than our Lampuri Kingdom. Moreover, when we went to find a faucet to wash our hands and get some water for our car, there was no running water in Ive City at all. I had to go to an old well to pump out water, it really was......¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it good for you to exercise a bit?¡± Hafra shook his head with a smile, ¡°You, you¡¯repletely used to the good life in our Lampuri Kingdom and not used to the backwards Candra Empire......¡±

    Hafra was suddenly stunned.

    What had he just said?

    Backwards?

    He actually used the word ¡°backwards¡± so naturally to describe the Candra Empire?

    This was one of the two empires!

    Other than the Marlow Empire, this was the Candra Empire that the rest of the small countries on the continent could only look enviously at!

    But thinking about it, Hafra felt that it wasn¡¯t wrong.

    Compared to the Lampuri Kingdom, after entering the Candra Empire, he felt that there were many things that weren¡¯t convenient.

    For example, the broken roads, the poor meals, and the water system that depended on manpower that Nasus mentioned earlier, or the things that he had kept inside, such as no Magic Communicators or everything else that made it seem backwards.

    That¡¯s right, it was backwards.

    Compared to the Lampuri Kingdom, there were many parts of the Candra Empire that seemed backwards.

    This was not a misconception, but it was a fact.

    ¡°Uncle, what¡¯s wrong? Why are you in a daze?¡± Hearing that Hafra suddenly stopped talking, Nasus looked at him and saw that his uncle had his mouth open, looking like he was in a daze.

    ¡°Ah......Ah, nothing, it¡¯s nothing......¡±

    Hafra waved his hand to show that there was no problem.

    However, when he calmed down again, he couldn¡¯t help feeling an absurd feeling.

    The Candra Empire was backwardspared to the Lampuri Kingdom?

    If this idea was put in any country on the continent, even the Lampuri Kingdom of several years ago, everyone wouldugh at him.

    Because this was basically a giant joke.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires, so naturally it was much stronger in many cespared to a small country in the southwest corner of the continent like the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The definition of backwards was impossible to be used on the Candra Empire.

    But through Hafra¡¯s recent trips to the Candra Empire, he could tell that the differences between the two countries were an indisputable fact.

    The Candra Empire was backwardspared to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Hafra¡¯s lips twitched and he had a strange expression as a trace of joy and pride filled his heart.

    Without knowing it, the Lampuri Kingdom had be this powerful?

    When he was facing those merchants from the Candra Empire before, he felt a bit inferior in his heart.

    But after thinking this through, he suddenly found that there was now a sense of superiority in his heart.

    How were those Candra Empire merchants qualified to look down on him, they were nothing more than a bunch of hicks that hadn¡¯t seen the world yet!

    This thought made Hafra instantly feel much better and he couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Hearing the suddenughter from Hafra, Nasus was confused as he looked at him. But he found that he had a very happy smile on his face and he wasughing that much, so it was clear that he was in a good mood.

    Nasus couldn¡¯t help feeling confused in his heart.

    What was wrong with uncle? He was clearly talking about how living in the Candra Empire was less convenient, so why did uncle suddenly startughing after thinking about it?

    Could it be that uncle thought of something strange?

    But even though Nasus racked his brain, he couldn¡¯t think this through.

    So he could only shake his head and look forward as he focused on driving therge transport Magic Car. They were quickly heading towards the outline of the city on the horizon.

 Volume 6 74 - Go Back Home For A Visit

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 74 - Go Back Home For A Visit </h4>

    Half an hourter, therge transport Magic Car slowly entered the west gate of Laru City.

    Hafra jumped down from the passenger seat and ran over to where several soldiers were responsible for watching the gate, heading over to the leader of this troop with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, captain Wayne, good afternoon. You¡¯re responsible for guarding the city gate on such a hot day, it really is hard on you.¡±

    While he said this, his hand naturally reached out and took captain Wayne¡¯s hand, as three gold coins easily shifted from his hand to captain Wayne¡¯s hand.

    Captain Wayne casually put away the three gold coins before revealing a friendly smile on his serious face.

    ¡°Ha, ha, this is work from the City Lord, how could I dare neglect it?¡± Captain Wayne waved his hand at the two subordinates behind him, ¡°Go and investigate what¡¯s in there. Move a bit faster, understand?¡±

    ¡°Reporting to the captain, there¡¯s nothing suspicious there.¡±

    ¡°Un, good.¡± Captain Wayne gave a nod before turning to Hafra, ¡°Since everything is good, just pay the city gate tax and go.¡±

    Hafra thanked him and took out a small purse for captain Wayne.

    Captain Wayne took it and didn¡¯t even look as he directly tossed it to the clerk from the City Lord Manor responsible for recording the gate tax. Then he waved his hand and let Hafra enter the city.

    Hafra thanked him again. When he was about to turn to hisrge transport Magic Car, he found that there were some fresh flowers hanging over the city gate. It was clearly cleaner near the city gate, much cleaner than thest times he had been here.

    Just thest few times, the city gate always looked poor and dirty, but now it didn¡¯t seem like it at all.

    This surprised Hafra a bit. After thinking about it, he asked captain Wayne in a low voice, ¡°Captain Wayne, it seems like someone important is about to arrive?¡±

    Captain Wayne looked around before replying in a low voice, ¡°People from the governor¡¯s manor will being around for an inspection over the next few days, so we have to clean up. But this isn¡¯t rted to a small merchant like you, so just remember not to cause any trouble.¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course.¡± Hafra nodded. After thinking about it, he took out two more gold coins and handed it over to captain Wayne, ¡°Captain Wayne, if anything happens in the next few days, I have to ask you to take care of me.¡±

    Captain Wayne looked at the gold coins sparkling in his hands and knitted his brows before shaking his head, ¡°I can¡¯t really help you in terms of this.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, you¡¯re mistaken. I just want to know any official news ahead of time. This is a small matter, just consider it as brothers having some tea together.¡± Hafra insisted on handing it over.

    Captain Wayne hesitated a bit before epting the gold coins.

    ¡°Alright, go in. Come and see me if you need anything.¡±

    Hafra thanked him with a smile before returning to therge transport Magic Car.

    ¡°Humph, I was just saying that the Candra Empire is inferior to our Lampuri Kingdom. Look, there¡¯s another example right now. Our Lampuri Kingdom has already gotten rid of the city gate tax and the Candra Empire is still charging it.¡± When therge transport Magic Car passed through the city gates, Nasus who was drivingined again.

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing toin about here, we follow the customs of the ce we go to.¡± Hafra shook his head. Although he denied Nasus¡¯int, he was also feeling a bit dissatisfied deep down.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had gotten rid of the city gate tax system three years ago and the Candra Empire as one of the two empires was still charging the city gate tax.

    Moreover, the Candra Empire charged differently for different cities, but not a single one of them was low.

    With a car filled with cargo, he would have to pay at least five gold coins to enter the city each time.

    In order to save money, he and Nasus hadn¡¯t entered any cities unless they needed to stock up on supplies.

    However, even like this, they had spent over twenty gold coins entering cities along the way.

    Adding in the thirty gold coins tariff he had to pay to the Candra Empire, the tax he had paid was already over fifty gold coins.

    If he couldn¡¯t sell all his cargo, he would be suffering a loss on this trip.

    But the experience of several times made him not worry. At least the people of Laru City weed his products very much, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about not selling.

    ¡°Turn left ahead.¡± Hafra gave a reminder.

    Therge transport Magic Car found it very hard to turn on the streets of Laru City which weren¡¯t that wide. After turning the corner, they entered a street that was filled with stores.

    ¡°Alright, just stop here. You can¡¯t go in ahead of here.¡± Hafra added.

    Nasus stopped therge transport Magic Car and Hafra jumped out. He easily went to a shop on the left side of Laru City¡¯s business street.

    After a while, Hafra walked out with severalrge men and a middle aged man.

    Theserge men didn¡¯t say a word as they went over to the Magic Car and started unloading the cargo. Their actions were very familiar, clearly not being their first time.

    Nasus in the car saw the middle aged man beside Hafra and immediately jumped out of the car as he came forward while shouting, ¡°Uncle!¡±

    This middle aged man was Hafra¡¯s big brother, who was also Nasus¡¯ uncle, Prado

    Twenty years ago, because of the famine in the Lampuri Kingdom, Prado who was already twenty didn¡¯t want to cause problems for his family. He had begged for food along his journey out of the Lampuri Kingdom and finally settled in the Candra Empire¡¯s Laru City by ident. After working hard for ten years, he had now opened a small shop, so his life wasn¡¯t bad.

    Six years ago, Prado, whose life had settled down, contacted his family members in the Lampuri Kingdom by letter and had returned to the Lampuri Kingdom to see them again.

    They sent letters quite frequently, but because it was too far, they rarely saw each other.

    Until the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire signed that agreement, opening the Candra Empire market to the Lampuri Kingdom. Hafra had an idea of selling the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s products in the Candra Empire, which truly established a rtionship between them again.

    ¡°Un, good kid. When I went back this time, you hadn¡¯t even reached my chest yet, but I never thought that you would be this tall in just a few years. Not to mention that you are quite strong, not bad, not bad......¡± Seeing Nasus¡¯ healthy appearance, Prado gave a nod.

    ¡°Hei, hei, uncle, it¡¯s already been six years, I¡¯m already close to eighteen, so of course I would be tall.¡± Nasus scratched his head, feeling a bit awkward, ¡°Then again, I¡¯m eating meat all day, so of course I would grow fast.¡±

    ¡°Eating meat all day?¡± Prado was a bit surprised, ¡°You can eat meat every day?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Nasus pursed his lips, ¡°I haven¡¯t eaten any meat in the past two days, so my mouth feels a bit off.¡±

    Prado looked at Nasus with a strange expression before turning to Hafra.

    ¡°Is the family business really that good?¡±

    Hafra nodded with a smile, ¡°Un, life in our Lampuri Kingdom is differentpared to before. Big brother, you shoulde back and take a look when you have time, I¡¯m sure you¡¯ll be shocked.¡±

    ¡°Right, uncle, the Lampuri Kingdom ispletely different from six years ago. It wepare it, I feel that there are parts of the Candra Empire that can¡¯t......¡±

    ¡°Ke......¡± Hafra suddenly gave a strong cough and interrupted Nasus, ¡°Big brother, what I just said was true. You should go back for a visit if you have time, mom and dad are already old and they can¡¯t live that much long. They will be happy if you can go back to see them more. Then again, with the Magic Cars, it doesn¡¯t take that long to make a trip, so it¡¯s very convenient.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, we only spent two hours toe from the Lampuri Kingdom this time. It wasn¡¯t like before, taking a month just to go all the way back.¡± Nasus cut in again.

    This.....¡± Prado was in a bit of daze, as if he couldn¡¯t ept what he was hearing from Hafra and Nasus.

    But after thinking about it, it was like the familial love in his heart woke up and he gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s like this, after we sell this batch of products this time, I¡¯ll take a trip back with you to see mom and dad. Anyway, you always say that there are many opportunities in the Lampuri Kingdom, so I¡¯ll go back for a visit and see if there are any opportunities there.¡±

    Seeing that Prado agreed, Hafra and Nasus both revealed excited smiles.

    Prado had left home for twenty years and only went back once six years ago, so the old parents at home missed him very much.

    If he could go back this time, the old folks would definitely be very happy.

    ¡°Ha, ha, big brother, then we should try to quickly sell out this batch of goods and head home earlier!¡± Hafra said in a happy voice.

    ¡°That depends on what you brought this time. If the products aren¡¯t good, they won¡¯t be easy to sell.¡± Prado shook his head as he said this.

    Hafra had a confident smile, ¡°Rx, I always bring good things that will sell fast. If you don¡¯t believe me, take a look for yourself.¡±

    Hafra pulled Prado to the back trunk after saying this and he took one of the cargo that the workers were unloading before opening it to reveal the product inside.

    Prado looked at it and immediately took a cold breath.

    ¡°Gods! Hafra, where did you find the money to buy these good products?¡±

    Hafra gave augh, ¡°Big brother, if I told you that all of this didn¡¯t even add up to a thousand gold coins, would you believe it?¡±

    Prado looked at him in surprise with eyes filled with disbelief.

 Volume 6 75 - Incredible Clothing

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 75 - Incredible Clothing </h4>

    When the sun was a bit nted in the sky, there were seven horse drawn carriages that slowly entered the gates of Laru City.

    The City Lord Count Nasaps who was already waiting by the gate immediately came forward. Following behind him were the nobles with some status of Laru City.

    But these people who usually acted aloof were all bending their arrogant figures in front of this motorcad, with humble expressions on their faces.

    There was only one reason why they would do this. It was because of the family symbol on the seven horse carriages, which came from thergest family in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, the Windsor Family.

    The one who came to Laru City this time was the subordinate sent by the current head of the Windsor Family, who was also the current governor Duke Windsor,ing to inspect Laru City.

    Although the status of this subordinate couldn¡¯tpare to the people here, since he represented Duke Windsor, they had to treat him with respect and awe.

    When the first horse carriage stopped in front of Count Nasaps, the door opened and a forty year old middle aged man came out.

    After seeing him, Count Nasaps couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    This middle aged man was the manager of the governor¡¯s manor, Emmado. Although he didn¡¯t have a high status, he was the trusted subordinate of Duke Windsor, being fully trusted by him.

    But his status wasn¡¯t suited to being sent here for an inspection.

    Manager Emmado could see that doubt in Count Nasaps¡¯ heart, so he came over and whispered in his ear, ¡°Lord Count, the duchess hase as well this time, so I have to ask you to prepare everything.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Count Nasaps was immediately stunned.

    Wasn¡¯t it said that this would only be a normal inspection? Why did even the noble duchesse along?

    While he was pondering this question in his heart, the door to the third horse carriage opened. The first one toe out was a young girl who looked like a maid before a woman with quality and grace came out.

    As the City Lord of the thirdrgest city in the southern province, Count Nasaps had seen Duchess Windsor at the governor¡¯s manor¡¯s banquets many times, so he naturally immediately recognized her.

    He stopped thinking as he quickly came forward and gave a polite bow to Duchess Windsor before saying with a smile, ¡°Duchess, it really is our Laru City¡¯s honour that you can be here.¡±

    Even if the other nobles of Laru City didn¡¯t recognize Duchess Windsor, based on the actions of Count Nasaps and his words, of course they could understand. They immediately came forward as well and all gave bows to Duchess Windsor.

    Duchess Windsor casually waved her hand at them, ¡°Alright, I just came out to rx, you don¡¯t need to mind me. Take care of your business.¡±

    Although she said this, as the duchess, since she was here, how could Count Nasaps and the others not care about her?

    So the inspection group that Count Nasaps nned on greeting was no longer important as the focus fell onto how to entertain Duchess Windsor.

    It was tight timing, so it made everyone in Laru City panic a bit.

    It was a good thing that Duchess Windsor was very amiable, having Count Nasaps do away with these formalities and their group smoothly entered Laru City.

    ¡°Madame, if you want to rx, I rmend the Alps Mountain thirty kilometers to the east of the city. It is currentlyte spring and the flowers that bloom there are beautiful. The temperature is very refreshing and cool, and there are open fields there, so you can ride a horse up there on a tour. I¡¯ve also prepared a private manor up there, so after you go up.....¡±

    Count Nasaps was in the same horse carriage as Duchess Windsor, heading to the City Lord Manor while trying to rmend a scenic area near Lari City.

    Duchess Windsor didn¡¯t really care and just nodded from time to time to show she was listening.

    This made Count Nasaps feel a bit worried.

    Duchess Windsor had suddenly appeared here which was strange enough, so why was she acting like this?

    Was she really just here to rx?

    Count Nasaps didn¡¯t believe it.

    But Duchess Windsor didn¡¯t really speak along the way, so he wasn¡¯t able to do anything.

    The horse carriage passed several streets and when it was about to turn in the direction of the City Lord Manor, Duchess Windsor who had been very silent the entire time suddenly pointed out the horse carriage window.

    ¡°What is going on here?¡±

    Count Nasap looked in the direction she was pointing in and saw the left side of the street filled with people, looking very lively.

    ¡°Oh, that¡¯s the business street. It¡¯s been all these days....there might be some event on the business street? This is very normal since this business street is the most lively ce and most people in the surrounding citiese here......¡±

    ¡°Not right.¡± Duchess Windsor shook her head and cut Count Nasaps off, ¡°If it was just a normal event, there wouldn¡¯t be this many people. Moreover, you can see that the peopleing out are holding something, which should be something they bought from a shop.¡±

    Count Nasaps was surprised as he looked over, finding that people that came from the crowd all had several beautiful clothes in their hands, which had clearlye from the same clothing store.

    ¡°Go ask what it¡¯s about.¡± Duchess Windsor suddenly said.

    Count Napas was praising Duchess Windsor¡¯s exceptional power of observation when he was surprised after hearing this again.

    The duchess was this curious about this matter? Actually, he was also a bit curious.

    But of course he wouldn¡¯t go against Duchess Windsor, so he found two guards and had them ask.

    After a few minutes, a guard came back to report.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, it¡¯s said that there is a clothing store that is holding some event where each product can be sold for as low as fifty silver coins. They started advertising three days again and because of how cheap it is, when they started selling today, it attracted many people.¡±

    ¡°One piece of clothing for fifty silvers?¡± Count Nasaps and Duchess Windsor looked at each other, seeing the surprise in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Although the two normally worepletely different clothes from normal citizens, that didn¡¯t mean that they didn¡¯t understand the price of clothes for citizens.

    The general market price in the southern province for a normal piece of cloth clothing was at least two gold coins.

    This was a price that most citizens couldn¡¯t take, so they generally would spend money to buy clothing.

    Over time, most of the clothing stores stopped selling clothes for normal citizens and only made clothes for rich merchants or nobles, so the price was naturally higher.

    Now there was a shop that was selling it at a price of fifty silver coins, weren¡¯t they afraid of bleeding dry?

    ¡°Buy some for me to see.¡± Duchess Windsor gave the order.

    Count Nasaps looked at the guards and the guards went over.

    ¡°Count Nasaps, your Laru City actually has some interestingpanies, this really is unexpected.¡± Duchess Windsor suddenly said to Count Nasaps with a smile.

    Seeing the smile on Duchess Windsor¡¯s face, Count Nasaps became more nervous as he could only say with a smile, ¡°These merchants always have their strange ideas.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Duchess Windsor looked to the west with aplicated expression. It was unclear what she was thinking about.

    Looking at her expression, Count Nasaps tactfully knew not to speak.

    After a bit of silence in the carriage, the two guards came back with a pile of clothes in their hands.

    Duchess Windsor and Count Nasaps looked at these clothes and were surprised at the same time.

    The work done for these clothes was quite good and the material wasn¡¯t inferior linen, rather it was the cloth that most citizens liked. Adding in the proportional dye in the clothes, it didn¡¯t seem like something that was crudely made.

    The two took a few pieces of clothing from the guards and they could tell that the materials of the clothes in their hands were good, it wasn¡¯t the same material that the citizens normally used with their self made clothing.

    Count Nasaps to prove a point even rubbed the clothes that the guard was wearing under his armour. He confirmed that the material of the piece of clothing in his hand was even better than the clothes the guard was wearing.

    It had to be known that the wages of his guards weren¡¯t low, so their clothes were better than what most people wore.

    But this piece of clothing had a price of less than fifty gold coins, this seemed unbelievable.

    What Duchess Windsor paid attention to waspletely different from Count Nasaps.

    She just touched it and confirmed the material of the clothing, knowing that it definitely wasn¡¯t a normal product.

    She found after seriously looking over these clothes that the stitches for these pieces of clothing were all very finely done, with each stitch being ced in a straight line, looking very neat.

    Not mentioning anything else, just based on the needlework, it was enough to be a senior tailor in any city of the southern province and the price for the clothes they make wouldn¡¯t be low.

    After a pause, Duchess Windsor spread open the piece of clothing in her hands and with a single look, she couldn¡¯t help being surprised again.

    It was a long skirt that not only had fine materials, there was even a beautiful design to it.

    The design was overall very simple, but if one looked carefully, they would be able to see the hidden luxury of the finer details.

    Based on the design, it wasn¡¯t that far from the dress that she had that was made by the top designer of the Candra Empire that had cost her eight hundred gold coins.

    Duchess Windsor was certain that with this outstanding design, if it used a better material and had a few more finer details, it would definitely not sell any lower than five hundred gold coins in any city of the empire.

    But now......

    ¡°How much was this?¡± Duchess Windsor asked the two guards.

    The two guards scratched their heads, ¡°We didn¡¯t ask clearly, we just gave them ten gold coins and casually picked ten of them.....¡±

    Duchess Windsor and Count Nasaps were stunned, ¡°Ten gold coins? Ten of them?¡±

    The two looked at each other and could see the disbelief in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Such good clothing had an average price of one gold coin?

    How could the other shops even make a living!

 Volume 6 76 - Illegal Goods

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 76 - Illegal Goods </h4>

    ¡°Hu, it¡¯s finally over.¡±

    Hafra wiped off the sweat on his face and let out a long breath.

    He turned to Nasus on the side and found that he was already on the ground, leaning against the wall by the door, looking like he was dead as he didn¡¯t move at all.

    ¡°Hey, Nasus, you are a young fellow, how can you be this useless! Get up!¡± Hafra couldn¡¯t help scolding him.

    Nasus weakly looked up at Hafra andined, ¡°Dear uncle, I¡¯ve been running around all afternoon and didn¡¯t get any rest at all, can¡¯t you just let me rest for a bit? I don¡¯t even have a bit of strength now.¡±

    Hafra wanted to scold him again, but Prado beside him reached out to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, third brother, let him rest. He has been working hard today.¡± Prado was also gasping. He shook his head and said, ¡°Not to mention him running around, even I¡¯m tired after counting the money. I really want to find two people to take my job. Really, Hafra, I only had to count money for a single morning, but it¡¯s already enough to equal what I¡¯ve done in half a year.¡±

    ¡°Of course, today¡¯s business was too good.¡± Hafra gave augh beforeing to Prado¡¯s side and asking in a low voice, ¡°How is it? Did you finish counting?¡±

    Prado first reached out a finger to have him be quiet, but then he couldn¡¯t take the excitement in his heart either. He looked around and gave a cough before sticking out four fingers for Hafra.

    Hafra¡¯s eyes immediately lit up.

    Four fingers meant four thousand gold coins.

    That meant that in just a single morning, they had sold the five thousand pieces of clothing they had brought from the Lampuri Kingdom for over four thousand gold coins!

    If they took away the clothing costs, the expenses on the road, and other costs, their pure profit was over two thousand gold coins!

    God, two thousand gold coins in just a single morning?

    This was simply something that Hafra never would have dared to dream about before!

    ¡°Big brother, are you.....are you sure it¡¯s not wrong?¡± Hafra was in a bit of disbelief.

    Prado understood what he was thinking because after he had calcted everything, he also couldn¡¯t believe his eyes.

    After ten years of this and operating this store for seven years, thergest amount of money he had seen was only ten thousand gold coins.

    Moreover, that was the year end amount which included the profits from their entire year.

    But in the ount that he had personally calcted, just by operating normally for a single day, the results were shocking.

    ording to his records, they had earned over two thousand gold coins in just a single morning.

    If they could sell over four thousand gold coins a day, with three hundred sixty five days in a year, if it was a year of this......wouldn¡¯t that be over a million gold coins?

    Gods!

    A million gold coins!

    When Prado thought of the golden light that had been in front of him

    After calming down, Prado gave a self deprecating smile.

    That idea he had now was nothing more than a fantasy. Naturally it was impossible for every day of the year to be as wild as this.

    In three hundred and sixty five days, if they could even have a tenth of them be this grand, it would already be shocking enough.

    Even with just a tenth, it would mean over a hundred thousand gold coins a year. This was also a shocking number and was also a number that Prado never would have thought that he would be able to reach one day.

    ¡°Rx, there won¡¯t be a mistake.¡± Prado patted Hafra¡¯s shoulder to calm him down.

    However, he couldn¡¯t suppress the excitement in his heart and couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Hearing Prado¡¯sughter, Hafra couldn¡¯t take it either and broke out inughter.

    Nasus on the side leaning against the wall saw the two of themughing and he also couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Although this trip was just his uncle bringing him out to see the world and get some experience, so the ie didn¡¯t mean much to him,ing out this time really did give him quite a bit of experience. At least he learned that the Candra Empire of the two empires wasn¡¯t as unreachable as he had thought before.

    Although the Candra Empire was considered a giant, the experience along the way made him realize that life in the Candra Empire couldn¡¯tpare to the Lampuri Kingdom, which gave him a sense of pride and superiority.

    This caused him to not be as nervous as when he first came out and filled him with confidence.

    This change to him was more important than any ie, so he was actually in quite a good mood right now.

    After the threeughed for a bit, Prado gradually stopped and looked at Hafra.

    Hafra understood and told Nasus to go inspect therge transport Magic Car after resting before entering the shop with Prado.

    The shop was a mess, there were marks left by customers who were snatching up the clothes, which made the shop that was quite neat look aplete mess.

    Prado looked at the scene of his store and shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°This is my first time seeing people going crazy over buying something. Last time I saw such a crazy scene was twenty years ago when a bunch of people were in front of arge noble¡¯s home, waiting for the kind noble to give them some gruel.¡± After saying this, Prado gave a sigh, ¡°Twenty years has already passed and not only do I not need to worry about filling my stomach, even a little fellow like Nasus can have ample food every day. It has to be said, life has really be much better.¡±

    Hearing Prado¡¯s sigh, Hafra was silent for a bit before saying with a serious look, ¡°Big brother, although it¡¯s been twenty years since you left the family, you are still my big brother in the end. Our family in the Lampuri Kingdom wees you back any time. Mom and dad are still there, so they will definitely be happy to see youe home.¡±

    Prado looked at Hafra as the smile on his face had a deeper meaning.

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve said that I would go back, but before that, I want to ask you several questions about the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Big brother, you can ask anything. It¡¯s been too long since you left the Lampuri Kingdom, so you don¡¯t know how much has changed with it. It¡¯s good to know about it beforehand.¡± Hafra sincerely said.

    ¡°Good.¡± Prado gave a nod and after hesitating a bit, he asked, ¡°The first question, which is what I want to understand the most, Hafra, where did you get the goods that you brought with you this time?¡±

    Hearing the serious tone in Prado¡¯s voice, Hafra was a bit surprised. Then seeing the serious look on Prado¡¯s face with a trace of worry, he understood what he meant with a bit of thought.

    ¡°Ha, big brother, you¡¯re worried that these goods are illegal goods, right?¡±

    Prado was silent for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°Right, forget about the first few times since you said that the Lampuri Kingdom has manypanies making those strange things called magic machines, so it wasn¡¯t strange that you could get it. But the clothes you brought this time.....I seriously looked over them and found that the clothes were very finely made and designed. Other than the materialcking a bit, it shouldn¡¯t be cheap no matter how you look at it. But you¡¯re telling me that you bought them for an average of less than twenty silver coins in the Lampuri Kingdom, this really.....is a bit too hard to believe.¡±

    Seeing the worry on Prado¡¯s face, Hafra couldn¡¯t helpughing. He walked over and patted Prado¡¯s shoulder, saying with a smile, ¡°Big brother, I said that it¡¯s been too long since you left the Lampuri Kingdom and don¡¯t understand a thing. Let me tell you, in our Lampuri Kingdom, these clothes are only worth twenty silver coins. I wouldn¡¯t want them if they cost a single copper coin more.¡±

    ¡°How can that be?¡± Prado turned to look at the long dress that he had left for his youngest daughter behind the counter. He picked it up and spread it out before saying, ¡°Look, let¡¯s not talk about the material of this dress, but this dress isn¡¯t any different from the clothes that the nobles of the city wear and it can even be considered better than them. How could such clothing be only worth twenty silver coins?¡±

    ¡°Un, that is the price.¡± Hafra gave a confident nod, ¡°Of course, if you want better material, it will be more expensive. You can probably buy some lc cotton for fifty silver coins, that will be much better than normal cotton. So I said that you don¡¯t need to keep it since it isn¡¯t anything good. Of course, speaking of this, I¡¯ve made a mistake. I was in too much of a rush this time and forgot to bring a present for my niece and nephew.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t important.¡± Prado waved his hand, ¡°I¡¯m curious, why are these clothes so cheap in the Lampuri Kingdom? If these clothes were put here, as long as we left them for a bit of time and weren¡¯t in a rush to sell them, I could guarantee that it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to sell them for over three gold coins each. Right, what is that lc cotton that you mentioned just now?¡±

    ¡°Oh, it¡¯s a new material the Night Song Tribe elves and the Armani Chamber of Commerce developed together, the main materiales from the stalks of lcs. The clothes made with this material are very soft andfortable, it isn¡¯t worse than silk clothes.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that amazing?¡± Prado¡¯s eyes opened wide with disbelief, ¡°Moreover, what did you just say? A elf tribe and humanpany worked together to develop this? This......¡±

    ¡°Hei, big brother, when you return to the Lampuri Kingdom, you¡¯ll find many things that will shock you more.¡± Hafra said whileughing, ¡°As for why these clothes are so cheap.....the reason is very simple, it¡¯s because they have plenty of them. Just these low grade items, the Armani Chamber of Commerce is able to make over ten thousand of them a day, so wouldn¡¯t it be strange if they could sell it for more?¡±

 Volume 6 77 - Making A Choice

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 77 - Making A Choice </h4>

    ¡°Over ten thousand each day?¡± Prado couldn¡¯t help taking a gasp.

    He ran a clothing store, so he understood more than normal people.

    ording to what he knew, there were twenty three tailor shops in Laru City and these shops had over three hundred tailors gathered together. If they sewed day and night without stopping, they might not make more than five hundred pieces of clothing in a single day.

    And this Armani Chamber of Commerce could produce over ten thousand pieces a day with this kind of craftsmanship, it was simply unbelievable.

    ¡°This Armani Chamber of Commerce.....what magic are they using?¡± Prado couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Ha, they do have some magic, but it¡¯s the magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sells them. So this is mainly because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again?¡± Prado slightly knitted his brows.

    He had heard of thispany over a hundred times from Hafra. Whenever they talked about the Lampuri Kingdom, he would hear Hafra mention this, as if all the things in the Lampuri Kingdom were rted to thispany.

    ¡°Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is......¡±

    Hafra opened his mouth before stopping.

    Because he suddenly realized that to exin the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to Prado, it wasn¡¯t something he could od in a short period of time.

    ¡°This.......you won¡¯t understand the magic machines if I just exin them without showing them to you. How about this......¡± Hafra looked around beforeing to the counter at the shop, picking up an iron cup used for drinking water. He tapped on it which let out a sound, ¡°Big brother, how much did you buy this cup for? Isn¡¯t it already close to rusting?¡±

    Prado looked at him in surprise before looking at the cup in his hand and revealing an awkward smile, ¡°I already bought this cup five to six years ago. I¡¯ve never been willing to throw it away, so the paint on it is gone. I was thinking about getting it painted again before using it.¡±

    ¡°You want to paint it again?¡± Hafra gave augh, ¡°Big brother, this isn¡¯t me saying this about you, but you¡¯re using a cup that¡¯s about to rust, that¡¯s too backwards. Our Lampuri Kingdom all use ss or porcin drinking cups. Even for iron cups, they would be made from stainless steel so they wouldn¡¯t rust. Or we might just use an alloy cup or a stic cup, so there¡¯s no need to worry about painting it.¡±

    ¡°Wait, what are all those things you mentioned?¡± Prado was confused, ¡°I can understand ss and porcin, but what are these stainless steel, alloy, and stic cups you mentioned?¡±

    ¡°Hey, big brother, if I told you that these things you can¡¯t understand were all made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what would you think?¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Prado¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? How could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make all these strange things?¡±

    ¡°These are the facts.¡± Hafra said, ¡°It¡¯s not an exaggeration to say that the giant changes in the Lampuri Kingdom were all caused by the Frestech Chamber ofmerce. So for a normal person like me from the Lampuri Kingdom, I feel grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If it wasn¡¯t for them, not to mention how good our lives are, we might not even be able to eat our fill, not to mention eating meat each day.¡±

    Seeing that Hafra didn¡¯t seem like he was joking at all, Prado couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice, ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is really as good as you say, that really is something that people can praise.¡±

    Hafra looked out the shop and reached out his hand to grab Prado¡¯s shoulder as he said with a smile, ¡°Alright, big brother, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t something I can talk about in a short period of time. It¡¯s about noon, so how about we tidy up and get some lunch first, then we can talk at the table?¡± Hafra suggested.

    Prado looked outside the shop and found that it was indeed noon, so he gave a nod, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go and call Nasus along.¡±

    When the two were walking out of the shop, before they came out, several fully armed soldiers charged in.

    The two were stunned. Prado looked over and found that these guards were wearing the armour of the City Lord Manor, so he asked in a confused voice, ¡°These sirs, do you need something?¡±

    The leader of these two looked over the two of them before his eyes fell onto Prado.

    ¡°You are the owner of this store, Prado?¡±

    Prado was even more confused, ¡°That¡¯s me. These sirs, are you.....looking for me for something?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t me who¡¯s looking for you, but the Lord City Lord. Quicklye with us, the Lord City Lord wants to see you.¡±

    ¡°The Lord City Lord?¡± Prado called out in surprise. He turned to look at Hafra and the two were confused.

    The aloof Lord City Lord, why did he suddenly care about a normal merchant like Prado?

    ###

    In the Laru City¡¯s City Lord Manor, Duchess Windsor and Count Nasaps were sitting across from each other.

    The atmosphere in the room was a bit heavy.

    Duchess Windsor sipped her tea and her expression was calm. Count Nasaps had his head lowered with a bit of hesitation, and even a bit of struggle.

    After a while, Count Nasaps looked up at Duchess Windsor and narrowed his eyes as he gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    Duchess Windsoring personally wasn¡¯t just to rx as she said.

    But Count Nasaps never would have thought that her arrival this time would be a big problem for him and he wasn¡¯t able to resist at all.

    Duchess Windsor had just had a private talk with him which wasn¡¯t long, but through her vague methods, it clearly demonstrated her......or rather Duke Windsor¡¯s intentions that she was representing.

    Duke Windsor was very against the empire signing a trade agreement with the Lampuri Kingdom and he had opposed this in front of everyone at the empire¡¯s parliament.

    However, this decision had passed in the end and was carried out.

    Since the parliament had made this decision, everyone in the empire had to follow this.

    But the Candra Empire was too big and it was impossible for everyone to follow this.

    This time, Duke Windsor had a different idea.

    His objections had been overruled by the parliament, but that didn¡¯t mean he didn¡¯t have any method of opposing this.

    It was clear that his method this time was very strong.

    Duke Windsor actually decided to prohibit any of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s cargo to pass through the southern province!

    This meant that even if the empire¡¯s parliament had reached a trade agreement with the Lampuri Kingdom, the southern province was refusing to ept this.

    Of course, this was no different from going against the parliament and Duke Windsor wouldn¡¯t do something that stupid.

    So he could only go to the various southern province cities and make the City Lords work with him.

    Laru City was Duchess Windsor¡¯s second stop, so she could only tell him this.

    As for the decision that would be made, it would be up to Count Nasaps.

    However, this decision was very hard for Count Nasaps.

    If he followed the decision of the Lord Duke, it might mean being punished for going against the decision of the parliament.

    If he didn¡¯t follow it......

    Duke Windsor took the seat of the southern province¡¯s governor seventeen years ago and the Windsor Family had deep rooted influence in thesends. Even the royal family had scruples against them, so it could be seen how powerful they were.

    Comparing it, Count Nasaps was just a normal City Lord, if he dared to go against Duke Windsor¡¯s decision, he might lose his position as the City Lord the next day.

    ¡°Count Nasaps, the duke has wanted me to talk to you in secret because he views you highly. He states that you are one of the few in the southern province with foresight. The duke sees you like this, don¡¯t disappoint him.¡± Duchess Windsor suddenly said in a low voice.

    Seeing the sharp look Duchess Windsor had, Count Nasaps gave a sigh in his heart. He revealed a sincere smile and nodded at Duchess Windsor, ¡°Many thanks for the Lord Duke¡¯s praise for me. I ask the duchess to tell the Lord Duke that I will forever support the Lord Duke.¡±

    Hearing this, Duchess Windsor finally revealed a happy smile and gave a nod, ¡°Good, I think that duke will be very happy when he hears your response.¡±

    Count Nasaps had a smile the whole time as he nodded in agreement, but there was bitterughter in his heart.

    He actually already missed this chance.

    If he was going to follow Duke Windsor¡¯s decision, he shouldn¡¯t have hesitated before.

    Because of this hesitation, he would leave a bad impression on Duke Windsor which would impact his future prospects in the southern province.

    Since he decided to follow Duke Windsor¡¯s decision, it would mean that he would be affected by the parliament.

    Instead of offending both like he did now, it would have been better to make a decision in the beginning.

    When he was looking over his mistakes in his heart, he suddenly heard footsteps from outside the room.

    Count Nasaps looked at Duchess Windsor with a questioning gaze.

    ¡°Let theme in.¡± Duchess Windsor gave a slow nod.

    Count Nasaps pped his hand.

    After a while, manager Thorpe of the City Lord Manor gave a slight bow to the two of them, ¡°Duchess, the boss of the clothing store is here, do you wish to see him?¡±

    Duchess Windsor stood up and revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Come, I was curious about him.¡±

 Volume 6 78 - Serious Loss

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 78 - Serious Loss </h4>

    Hafra looked at the sky outside the shop and he revealed a look of worry.

    Prado had been summoned by the Lord City Lord at noon and it was already past two in the afternoon, but he still wasn¡¯t back, which made one curious.

    Even if it was said that the Lord City Lord was impressed by Prado and kept him for lunch, he still should havee back after the meal.

    It was impossible that the Lord City Lord would like him so much that he kept him for dinner too, right?

    ¡°Uncle, what do we do now?¡± Nasus on the side gave a yawn before asking Hafra this.

    Hafra looked at him and waved his hand, ¡°You don¡¯t need to stay here, go and check the Magic Car. If it¡¯s all good, we might leave this ce tomorrow or the day after, so we can¡¯t let anything happen to the Magic Car.¡±

    Nasus curled his lips, ¡°What is there to check? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are always good, there wouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°I told you to go, so go!¡± Hafra red at him.

    Nasus reluctantly mumbled something before getting up to go out.

    When he came to the door, there were several big figures that walked in and blocked the door of the shop.

    Nasus was stunned as he looked at them. He suddenly noticed that these people were wearing the armour of the city guards and he couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    Then he was surprised to find that he recognized the one leading them. It was captain Wayne who had been guarding the gate when they came to the city.

    Captain Wayne looked at Nasus before looking at Hafra who had just stood up in the shop.

    After looking at Hafra, he gave a nod and waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s them, catch them!¡±

    The city guards behind him suddenly came forward and grabbed the two of them.

    ¡°Hey, what are you doing? What did we do wrong? How can you catch us like this?¡± Nasus shouted out while struggling.

    However, he was just a teen, so how could he fight against the trained city guards. He could only shout a few times and couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Although Hafra was also surprised, he was more experienced and was calmer than Nasus.

    He looked at captain Wayne who was leading them and gave him a questioning look.

    Captain Wayne looked over and shook his head.

    Hafra understood and called out to Nasus for him to be quiet.

    Captain Wayne waved his hand and the city guards locked up those two.

    In the two horse carriages of the city guards, they headed to the city guard¡¯s barracks in the south of the city.

    Then after sending them there, they were locked up in the same cell.

    ¡°Uncle, this.....what is going on?¡± After the city guards left the cell, Nasus finally couldn¡¯t take the fear in his heart and he asked Hafra this.

    ¡°Calm down.¡± Hafra patted his shoulder and took out the sesame seed cake from lunch that he had concealed in his chest to give to him, ¡°Eat something first and calm down.¡±

    Nasus looked at the sesame seed cake in a daze. Why are you having me eat at a time like this? How can I eat this!

    ¡°Remember, you have to be calm no matter what happens. Then you have to remember that no matter what happens, you have to fill your stomach. If you have strength, at least you can react when it¡¯s necessary, understood?¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Hafra¡¯s face, Nasus gave a nod that didn¡¯t seem like he really understood.

    After thinking about it, he took it and broke off half for Hafra before swallowing the other half. He was chewing while he was in deep thought.

    Seeing that Nasus had calmed down, Hafra looked at the sesame seed cake half in his hand and gave a nod of praise.

    This nephew of his being able to listen to his words and calm down in this situation, even giving him half of the sesame seed cake made him very satisfied.

    If they could safely escape this time, he might really train him as a sessor.

    After a pause, Hafra forced the other half into his mouth and chewed it while he was in thought.

    Although captain Wayne hadn¡¯t told him much earlier, he could still realize something from it.

    First, captain Wayne had him not act rashly because today¡¯s matter involved something big, so he had to be careful

    This reaction actually made Hafra much more assured.

    Because it meant that they wouldn¡¯t encounter any serious consequences, so there should be some leeway.

    Otherwise, captain Wayne¡¯s expression would have been more serious.

    Finally, captain Wayne was willing to tell him this, which meant that he was willing to help him.

    It was that in this matter, he couldn¡¯t help all that much, but it was important that he could have this attitude. It meant that this matter wasn¡¯t that serious, otherwise captain Wayne wouldn¡¯t have dared to participate as a captain of a small city guard group.

    Thinking of this, Hafra let out a slow breath and rxed. He leaned against the wall of the cell and closed his eyes as he began to rest.

    Nasus looked at Hafra and tilted his head before also lying down. He had actually fallen asleep just like that.

    After around an hour, there were footsteps that came from outside the cell.

    When Hafra opened his eyes, he found that there was only captain Wayne outside.

    But he was a bit cautious at this time, looking around from time to time, looking like he was sneaking around.

    Seeing captain Wayne acting like this, Hafra¡¯s eyes lit up. He immediately stood up and came to the door of the cell.

    Captain Wayne quickly came to the side of the cell and Hafra was already waiting beside it. He couldn¡¯t help smiling, thinking that this merchant from afar was quite smart.

    ¡°Captain Way.....¡±

    Hafra had just said this when captain Wayne put a finger to his lips and made a sign for him to be quiet.

    Hafra immediately closed his mouth and looked at him.

    ¡°Just listen and don¡¯t ask.¡± Captain Wayne came a bit closer and lowered his voice, ¡°ording to what I¡¯ve learned, you¡¯ve caught the attention of someone very important, so you can¡¯t avoid this crime. But you don¡¯t need to worry since there aren¡¯t any serious punishments or any dangers to your life. Remember, when you are tried tomorrow, don¡¯t try to argue and honestly admit to everything because this is the result they want. If you don¡¯t work with them......You should understand what I mean.¡±

    Hearing how serious captain Wayne was, Hafra gave a nod with a serious look. Then he looked out the cell and reached into his chest, taking out a small purse for captain Wayne.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for captain Wayne¡¯s help. I still have to trouble you to ask about my big brother, who is Prado.¡±

    Captain Wayne hesitated a bit before taking the purse.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about your big brother, but I¡¯ve heard that he¡¯s being kept by Lord City Lord right now, so there shouldn¡¯t be that big of a problem.¡±

    ¡°Alright, thank you.¡±

    ¡°Remember what I said, y along if you want to keep your life.¡± After saying this, captain Wayne suddenly left.

    Watching captain Wayne disappear, Hafra was silent for a bit before turning to wake up Nasus and talking to him in a low voice.

    ###

    Three dayster, Hafra, Praod, and Nasus were sitting in a horse carriage leaving Laru City.

    Nasus turned to look at the tall Laru City gates behind him with an unwilling look on his face.

    ¡°Uncle, we¡¯re going back just like this?¡±

    Hafra and Prado looked at each other before Hafra gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Alright, being able to leave with our lives this time is already good enough.¡±

    ¡°But......But not only did they take all the money we made, they even took our Magic Car, how can they do that!¡± Nasus¡¯ face was filled with rage, ¡°The people of the Candra Empire don¡¯t need to followws?¡±

    Prado¡¯s expression looked a bit awkward, but he couldn¡¯t refute this with the anger and dissatisfaction in his heart.

    After being called by the Lord City Lord three days ago, the Lord City Lord and a noble miss had asked him about the clothes that he had sold.

    Prado had thought that these clothes had piqued the interest of the Lord City Lord and this noble miss, so he was feeling very happy.

    But when he exined that these clothes came from the Lampuri Kingdom, that noble miss¡¯ expression suddenly changed and the Lord City Lord had someone lock him up.

    Then after a trial that was already determined, they were sentenced tomitting fraud and not paying taxes. Not only was all their ie confiscated, even therge transport Magic Car that Hafra and Nasus drove here were also confiscated.

    Prado¡¯s shop in Laru City was also closed because of these two charges and Prado had lost his rights to being a merchant.

    Their loss this time was over five thousand gold coins.

    Then Prado lost his shop and his rights as a merchant which was even worse.

    Prado had been in Laru City for over ten years, but now he had lost everything in a single night, so it could be imagined what kind of a blow this was to him.

    It was a good thing that Hafra who was also locked up conformed him after three days.

    Hafra said that Prado could just go back to the Lampuri Kingdom with them.

    Although the loss of several thousand gold coins was very serious for Hafra, with the business he had started in Lampuri Kingdom, he could still keep going after getting back.

    Moreover, even if this hit was big for them, Hafra and Prado was certain that with the cheap goods of the Lampuri Kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t need to worry about selling them with the good price they could get from the Candra Empire.

    This was a very wide market with prospects and as long as they grasped it well, they could easily earn back several thousand gold coins.

    The only question was what had happened to them in Laru City in the end.

    If it was just Laru City, that was one thing that wasn¡¯t really a problem.

    But if this was the will of the entire Candra Empire, that was a very serious problem......

 Volume 6 79 - Go In A Group

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 79 - Go In A Group </h4>

    Facts proved that Hafra¡¯s group¡¯s encounter in Laru City wasn¡¯t an exception.

    After the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire signed the trade agreement, it wasn¡¯t just Hafra who could see the opportunity.

    In the past few months, there were many Lampuri Kingdom merchants who broughtrge amounts of Lampuri Kingdom products into the Candra Empire.

    With the cheap products of the Lampuri Kingdom, these merchants had earned quite a bit in the Candra Empire.

    This situation should have continued, but once May came, there were over ten groups of Lampuri Kingdom merchants that were caught in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province. All their cargos were seized and they were deported, which caught quite a bit of attention from people.

    Although the southern province had given an exnation for these, saying that the Lampuri Kingdom merchants had gone against somews of the Candra Empire, even giving some evidence for this.

    Some smart people could easily see that the southern province was clearly targeting the Lampuri Kingdom merchants.

    Because although there was targeting of the Lampuri Kingdom merchants in the other parts of the Candra Empire, they weren¡¯t as dense and continuous as the southern province.

    Moreover, this matter clearly involved the officials of the southern province, making people think that it was done intentionally.

    But the problem was, why would the southern province target these Lampuri Kingdom merchants?

    This was a question that the Lampuri Kingdom wanted to make clear. Her majesty Seveni had even sent a letter to the Candra Empire¡¯s department of finance, asking them to give an exnation.

    However, the response that the Candra Empire gave was only a letter from the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce¡¯s chief Marquis Descartes.

    In that letter, Marquis Descartes said that the southern province was only an outlier, it didn¡¯t represent the entire Candra Empire, so they hoped that the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be too worried. The Candra Empire was still willing to trade with the Lampuri Kingdom......

    Although Marquis Descartes¡¯ letter seemed alright, the tone that he had shown was actually one that showed that he clearly didn¡¯t care.

    In the end, the letter from the Lampuri Kingdom was written by her majesty Seveni. Although there was no need for the emperor to personally write back, at least it should be someone with a higher status that replied.

    Moreover, at least the Candra Empire side gave some exnation, not like Marquis Descartes who didn¡¯t seem to care at all.

    This didn¡¯t show any sincerity in solving this problem at all.

    ¡°Ha, you think that the Candra Empire will really treat your Lampuri Kingdom as an equal? It¡¯s very clear that they just don¡¯t want more enemies at this point. When they discovered that the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t pose any threat to them, the superiority of therge empire woulde out once again.¡±

    ¡°You say it like it isn¡¯t rted to you at all.¡± Seveni snappily rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Since the Candra Empire side is targeting our Lampuri Kingdom merchants, they will naturally target your Frestech Chamber of Commerce as well. Do you really think you can be this rxed?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why not?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°To be honest, the Candra Empire isn¡¯t wrong at all. This targeting of Lampuri Kingdom merchants, if it is as expected, should be the action of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province and not the entire Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°How are you certain of this?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi doubtfully.

    ¡°Because.....Ke......The southern province¡¯s governor is Duke Windsor and he.....has some private grudges against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it isn¡¯t strange that he is targeting your Lampuri Kingdom merchants. Because what your merchants are bringing over are mostly magic machines.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°You have a personal grudge with Duke Windsor?¡± Seveni had a look of disbelief, ¡°Yourpany has never entered the Candra Empire, how can you have a grudge with the southern province¡¯s governor?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a long story......¡± Xu Yi revealed a helpless smile. It wasn¡¯t that we wanted to be enemies, but the other side came forward to be enemies with us, so you can¡¯t me us for this.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s talk business. Seveni, I suggested to you before that you use the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government to gather up all the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s merchants that wanted to do business in the Candra Empire, so they would be unified. Not only would it make it easier for them to help each other, it would also help manage those merchants for your Lampuri Kingdom, but you rejected it.¡±

    ¡°Un......I was worried that most of these merchants had the support of nobles behind them, so if I did this, it would be very likely that the nobles would be vignt which wouldn¡¯t be good. Looking at it now, those nobles can¡¯t even take care of these simple things, so they really disappointed me.¡± Seveni gave a sigh.

    ¡°You can¡¯t me them for this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom hasws that stop the nobles from doing business, so they can¡¯t use their strength directly. Also, in the end, they are just a few nobles, they can¡¯t represent the Lampuri Kingdom. In this situation, do you think that they can go against the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Indeed......This was my mistake.¡± Seveni honestly nodded, ¡°Then Xu Yi, you mean......¡±

    ¡°Ourpany has already reached a cooperation agreement with his highness Frank and will begin entering the Candra Empire next month. We will be opening a Magic Car factory on his highness Frank¡¯s territory. I want to use the same method as Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory to invite thergepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom to invest with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°But those that cane with ourpany are those that will be officially approved by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s expression changed as her gaze filled with a bit of gentleness as she looked at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, thank you for helping me.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t misunderstand, I¡¯m not just helping you. The Candra Empire¡¯s situation is moreplicated than the Marlow Empire, so I don¡¯t want to bring a group that is disorganized with me, that will just cause trouble for me.¡± Xu Yi said while waving his hand.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile, but she didn¡¯t keep asking. She thought about it before saying, ¡°Alright, I will help you investigate thesepanies. Right, those thirteenpanies selected before have already finished their arrangements, do you want to count them in? After all, if you count them in, they have some foundations in the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Sure, I included them in my n originally and the things that they can do over there might be more than the otherpanies.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile with a hint of slyness to it.

    ¡°Alright, this matter will be decided like this for now.¡± Seveni paused before suddenly asking, ¡°Speaking of this.....Xu Yi, you just said that yourpany has a grudge with the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province¡¯s governor. I¡¯m also certain that through the Rudson Kingdom matter, many people in the Candra Empire will be dissatisfied with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even might be hostile. Are you certain that you will be able to smoothly open up the Candra Empire like this?¡±

    ¡°You have to understand something.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s smile filled with confidence, even having a trace of pride, ¡°This time, it¡¯s the Candra Empire asking ourpany toe and not us asking them.¡±

    Speaking of this, Xu Yi suddenly thought of something funny and gave augh.

    ¡°Hei, Seveni, I justpared the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire and I¡¯ve found that the Candra Empire really is dumb. I had thought that it was an excellent move on their part when they wanted to work with your Lampuri Kingdom, but I never thought that in just a few months, they would begin suppressing your Lampuri Kingdom merchants. This makes me think of.....the legendary you won¡¯t die if you don¡¯t do it?¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a confused look. Why did this fellow always seem confident when facing the Candra Empire, even.....feeling like he was superior?

    Thisrge empire didn¡¯t seem like it was worth a thing in his eyes.

    Actually, this was very strange.

    Because towards the Marlow Empire that was also one of the two empires, Xu Yi had a clearly different attitude.

    Thinking of this, Seveni suddenly thought of a problem.

    ¡°Right, Xu Yi, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire appeared in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce basest time and met each other, what happened after that?¡±

    ¡°Nothing happened. They went back home and did what they should do.¡±

    ¡°You clearly know that I¡¯m not asking about this.¡± Seveni revealed a rare angry look as she red at Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯m talking about how you will handle this matter afterwards?¡±

    ¡°Afterwards.......We¡¯ve already signed an agreement with the Marlow Empire army to sell fifty thousand Magic Repeating Crossbows, three thousand Magic Bazookas, two thousandrge transport Magic Cars, and five Magis Airships. As for the Candra Empire side, it is as I just told you.¡±

    ¡°The Marlow Empire really did go all out.¡± Seveni couldn¡¯t help being surprised before noticing that something was off, ¡°Wait! Five Magic Airships? Xu Yi, you still haven¡¯t delivered all one hundred of our Magic Airships yet!¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Anyway, we¡¯re still missing so many for you, so might as well take five of them for the Marlow Empire fellows to open their eyes......¡±

    ¡°You!¡± Seveni knitted her brows and wanted to be angry, but then she revealed a smile, ¡°Alright, then you have topensate me first!¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes. He thought that since Seveni took the throne, she really became more and more sly.

    ¡°Alright, dear your majesty, please tell me your request. As long as I can do it, I definitely won¡¯t decline.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni narrowed her eyes as the curled like crescent moons.

 Volume 6 80 - Heading To The Northern Seas

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 80 - Heading To The Northern Seas </h4>

    The leaves on the trees were bing greener, which meant that the season was about to enter summer.

    Just likest year, when summer came each year, there would be an increase in the sales of household magic machines.

    Among them were the Magic Fans, the Magic Refrigerators, the Magic Air Conditioners, and the other household magic machines that could keep people cool during summer.

    Different fromst year, the household magic machines produced by the Lampuri Kingdom and the kingdoms around them no longer only stayed in the southwest countries, but rather headed towards the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire, and even further countries.

    Since the war between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, all the countries on the continent knew about the strange and new military magic machines.

    Along with this, other than learning about the military magic machines, they also learned about the household magic machines.

    And among the various household magic machines, what the normal people cared about most were the household magic machines that could improve their lives.

    So after the Candra Empire signed the trade agreement with the Lampuri Kingdom, opening up their market to them, there was nothing stopping theserge amounts of household magic machines from entering this giant empire.

    As for the Marlow Empire, there were no barriers to begin with.

    Because the Marquis Southgate had already signed a cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and thepanies from the Lampuri Kingdom, allowing the Marlow Empire citizens to get the household magic machines sooner than the Candra Empire citizens.

    Compared to the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire¡¯s only disadvantage was that they were in the far north. This was a great distance from the bases of these household magic machinepanies in the southwest corner of the continent.

    And the Marlow Empire had reacted quite quickly to this problem.

    Less than half a month after the Marlow Empire¡¯s delegate went back, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce received a proposition from the Marlow Empire. They hoped the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could enter the Marlow Empire and help the Marlow Empire build roads.

    At the same time, they also wanted the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to connect the Marlow Empire¡¯s roadwork to thework of the southwest countries by connecting it to the Falk Kingdom roadwork. That would create a smooth channel between the Marlow Empire and the southwest countries.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce naturally happily epted this.

    Thend of the Marlow Empire was even greater than thend the countries in the southwest had, so if they could build all those roads, the benefits would be hard to imagine.

    After signing the preliminary agreement, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce immediately sent out a team to scout the Marlow Empire¡¯s terrain, making preparations for building the roads.

    Moreover, as for the road they built in the Marlow Empire¡¯s southwest province, because of this agreement, they would star expanding it.

    If nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to build a road right to the Marlow Empire¡¯s capital Angelo City by next year.

    This road would be over two thousand kilometer long and it could be considered the longest continuous road built by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to date.

    ording to what chairman Cruise said before, this wasn¡¯t just an opportunity for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it was also a challenge.

    If they could build this road that was not only long andplicated, it would be considered a very big improvement for the entire Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t find this that important. As a person who transmigrated from earth, the current road the Amrit Chamber of Commerce made was only considered the lowest grade of road to him.

    Not to mention those tall highways that spanned over cities, it was even worse than a normal cross country highway.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s road paving technology was still too immature.

    But he didn¡¯t have time to pay attention to the challenges of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was undergoing an even greater challenge.

    ###

    Xu Yi looked up at the sky and found that it waspletely clear with bright sunlight falling down.

    Looking down at the sea in the distance, he found that there were barely any waves and it could be considered very calm.

    ¡°Un, very good.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod, ¡°It seems like it¡¯s a good day to set sail today.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet captain Narvil gave augh, ¡°Of course, I already picked this day a long time ago because I knew that it would be calm.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then you can guarantee that it will be calm every day on the sea?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Narvil immediately waved his hand, ¡°Sir chairman, please stop joking. The situation on the sea is veryplicated, it might be calm one second and then a storm might appear the next, we¡¯ve already tasted the difficulties of the sea before.¡±

    ¡°That was what you met on the southern seas, do you think it¡¯ll be the same if you head north?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This.....¡± Narvil turned to look at the seas to the north of the ck Rice Harbour and after thinking for a bit, he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not certain, but sir chairman, I believe that with my many years of experience on the sea, even if we¡¯re taking a new route, there definitely won¡¯t be any problems. Of course, the more important thing is that we have the best boat in the world. As long as we have it, we don¡¯t have to worry at all!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and patted Narvil¡¯s shoulder, ¡°It¡¯ll depend on your confidence then. The first trip to the Marlow Empire will have to depend on you then.¡±

    Narvil gave Xu Yi a salute and said with a serious look, ¡°Sir chairman, please be assured. I will definitelyplete this mission!¡±

    Seeing his serious face, Xu Yi slowly shook his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t need you to look like you¡¯ll risk your life for this mission. Remember, this time you¡¯re only going on exploration and it¡¯s good if you seed, but if there¡¯s a problem, there¡¯s no need to force it. Your first choice is not to risk your life, but toe back safely, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Narvil was surprised and he seriously looked over Xu Yi¡¯s expression. Seeing that he was serious, he hesitantly asked, ¡°Then.....Sir chairman, if something really happens, can we give up the cargo?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! Is cargo more important than human lives?¡± Xu Yi reprimanded, ¡°Remember, we can make more products if you¡¯re lost, but a human life can¡¯t be taken back. Compared to the cargo, you people are more important. This time I want you to open up a sea route, not to send you to your deaths.¡±

    ¡°Oh......I understand......¡± Narvil gave a nod, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I will definitely do my best toplete the mission, of course it¡¯s on the basis that everyone will be safe.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good you understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°In order to make it smoother for you, I arranged two Magic Airships to go with you just in case something happens, so you can make more flexible choices. Remember, keep in touch with themanders of the two Magic Airships to avoid idents.¡±

    ¡°I understand. Sir chairman, be assured.¡±

    ¡°Good, then go prepare.¡± Xu Yi patted him on the shoulder again before signaling for him to leave.

    Narvil gave a salute to Xu Yi and turned to head back to therge transport Magic Ship docked in the ck Rice Harbour.

    There were currently threerge transport Magic Ships docked in the ck Rice Harbour and ten guard ships, along with two Magic Airships.

    After Narvil made his preparations, the two Magic Airships flew onto the deck of therge transport Magic Ship and followed these ships north.

    The destination of this fleet was the northern harbour of the Marlow Empire.

    This time the goal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, other than transporting the military and household magic machines that the Marlow Empire ordered, they also had the important task of opening up a route.

    Before this, there wasn¡¯t a single fleet that had taken this trip before.

    Because even if one looked at it with the most simple continental map, the distance between the ck Rice Wastnd in the southwest and the Marlow Empire¡¯s northern harbour was over five thousand kilometers.

    This terrifying distance, there wasn¡¯t a single boat that had safely made that journey.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet had made the three thousand kilometers trip to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to the southeast before, this couldn¡¯tpare to this trip.

    Other than it being two thousand kilometers longer, the more important thing was that it was different taking a trip to the south and to the north.

    The south sea had many changes, but no one knew how the northern seas would change.

    Without this experience, it meant sailing into unknown danger.

    Moreover, based on the materials the Marlow Empire provided, the northern sea would be frozen for almost half the year. They could only navigate in the four to five months between early summer to early fall.

    With the speed of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, if everything went smoothly, a trip would only take a little more than half a month.

    Adding in the stops in the middle to resupply as well as taking time to unload the cargo, it would take them at least a month to make this trip.

    If there was an ident, they couldn¡¯t estimate the time.

    Because there were many unpredictable dangers in the middle of this trip and because since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made contact with the Marlow Empire, this would be their first cargo transported, this was very important to Xu Yi.

    Not only had he prepared the most experienced sailors, he had even added two Magic Airships as support.

    With three hundred fully armed Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, as long as they didn¡¯t meet a natural disaster, there shouldn¡¯t be any dangers that would pose a threat to them.

    After half an hour, the fleet had finished their preparations.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t listen to Narvil¡¯s suggestion to give a speech on the deck of therge transport Magic Ship because he didn¡¯t want to make this trip too serious, giving people more pressure.

    Like he had said to Narvil before, talented people were the most important.

    Even if the trip was a failure, they could just try again next time.

    But if they lost these people, these people with rich sailing experience, it would be hard to rece them.

    After everything was prepared, therge transport Magic Ship that Narvil was on shot three Magic Cannons into the sea before slowly heading forward.

    The other tworge transport Magic Ships and the ten guard ships followed behind it and these thirteen ships slowly left the ck Rice Harbour before gradually speeding up. It didn¡¯t take long before they disappeared into the horizon to the north.

    Looking at the fleet vanishing into the horizon, Xu Yi estimated that their supplies wouldst them several days. He suddenly felt a pull at the hem of his shirt.

    There was a clear little girl¡¯s voice that came from below.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, when can we start exploring the depths of the endless seas?¡±

 Volume 6 81 - Elven Battleship Blueprint

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 81 - Elven Battleship Blueprint </h4>

    Xu Yi squatted down until he was at eye level with the little girl in front of him.

    ¡°Hey, Lumi, are you in a rush?¡±

    The halfling girl Lumi who was like a little human girl pouted her cheeks a bit, looking very cute.

    ¡°Of course I am! I want to find my nsmen as soon as possible!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought that even if they undertook this trip and found the new continent, it wouldn¡¯t mean that she would find them because the sailing technology in the past was too crude. The entire halfling race that escaped the Sines Continent might already be buried in the bottom of the endless seas.

    Of course, it was impossible for Xu Yi to say this.

    ¡°Don¡¯t rush because this thing can¡¯t be rushed.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°In terms of sea voyages, I think that with ourpany¡¯s current technology, we can support a trip of several thousand up to ten thousand kilometers without problem, right?¡±

    Lumi fell silent and lowered her head before shaking her head in a dejected manner.

    Since she joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she had always been working in the shipyard, so her knowledge of the shipping technology was better than Xu Yi¡¯s.

    Of course she knew that with the current technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although they could support a fleet for transport, even travelingrge distances of several thousand kilometers to the Marlow Empire, it was very hard for them to support an exploration journey into the deep seas.

    The difference was that their current voyages were only offshore voyages, but exploring for a new continent meant entering the deep seas and truly exploring the depths of the deep seas.

    If something happened, the offshore voyage ships could return to the continent for help and the deep sea exploration couldn¡¯t return to the shore. Once something happened, everyone might just die.

    This was why Xu Yi dared to let Narvil¡¯s group open a new route, but he wasn¡¯t willing to let Lumi conduct a deep sea exploration.

    Seeing the disappointed look on Lumi¡¯s face, Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Lumi, actually, if it¡¯s just exploring for the new continent, there is no need for the Magic Ships to explore the open seas. There¡¯s still another method to achieve this goal.¡±

    ¡°There is?¡± Lumi looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the sky, ¡°Compared to sailing the unpredictable seas, don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s more reliable to fly in the sky?¡±

    Lumi was surprised, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that you want to use the Magic Airships to explore? But can¡¯t the Magic Airships only fly for at most a thousand kilometers? How could it fly to a new continent?¡±

    ¡°That is only now.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The Magic Airships could only fly for at most three hundred kilometers when they were first developed and they couldn¡¯t fly faster than fifty kilometers an hour, but now they can fly for over a thousand kilometers and surpass a speed of one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour. With this development speed, I think that it¡¯ll reach a level that you¡¯ll find hard to imagine soon.¡±

    ¡°But it¡¯s impossible for it to fly over ten thousand kilometers......¡± Lumi still didn¡¯t believe it.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought of thosemercial jumbo jets on earth that could fly over ten thousand kilometers.

    If they were refueled in the air, they could fly even further.

    Of course, this required them having a base where they could resupply.

    Xu Yi looked at the sea. He thought that if this ce was like earth and they could build countless bases for refueling on the endless seas, not to mention flying ten thousand kilometers, they could theoretically reach every part of this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already starting to work on this.

    Because the Sack Kingdom blocked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base by the sea before, Xu Yi had strengthened their defenses and began deploying troops on each ind in the sea area of the Stantine Duchy.

    After several years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had control of the sea up to five hundred kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy.

    If the Magic Airship took off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, they could find any of these inds in this five hundred kilometers range and resupply, allowing it to set off with a full tank.

    And if they spread their area of control on the endless seas, it would mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could control over a thousand kilometers into the endless seas, controlling the small andrge inds that Evita had found on the Magic Airships before.

    There were even traces of humans on theserger inds.

    As long as they controlled these inds, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would naturally be able to prate into the deep seas.

    If they extended out a bit further, it wouldn¡¯t be impossible for them to control the entire seas.

    At that time, it wouldn¡¯t be hard at all for them to explore the new continent.

    ¡°Sir chairman, sir chairman? You just mentioned the Magic Airship and I suddenly thought of something.¡± Lumi¡¯s voice suddenly cut through Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts.

    ¡°Un? What is it?¡±

    ¡°Actually, our n was involved with designing the Magic Battleship for the elves back then and I forgot I left the blueprint in the Azshara Tribe. If you¡¯re interested, I can go back and get it. I think that after chief Evita sees this blueprint, it will definitely help her with her research with the Magic Airship.¡± Lumi said.

    Seeing Lumi¡¯s excited look, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Although Lumi looked no different from a little human girl, she was a halfling that had lived several hundred years, so she definitely wasn¡¯t a little girl who knew nothing.

    She never mentioned that she had the blueprint for the Magic Battleship, but now she had suddenly mentioned it was probably because he had told her that the Magic Airship could be used to explore the new continent. She felt that there was hope in finding her nsman that she did this.

    Otherwise, she might have hidden this forever.

    ¡°This Lumi, just how many things is she hiding?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking.

    But thinking about it, Xu Yi felt that it wasn¡¯t that important.

    If it was said that he was interested in the invincible Magic Battleships of the elves before, now with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development speed when it came to magic machines, he didn¡¯t need to feel awed by these magic machines of several thousand years ago.

    The halfling race was known for designing the invincible Magic Battleships of the elves, but they cost a lot, so they weren¡¯t practical.

    Moreover, it was said that the main use of the Magic Battleships was their powerful attacks.

    If Xu Yi¡¯s guesses were right, it should be a powerful Magic Array that was ced on the Magic Battleship. Then relying on the powerful magic of the elves, it released a might that was invincible.

    This was something that waspletely different from the direction Xu Yi took with the military magic machines and the Magic Airship, so there wasn¡¯t much value in studying this.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t reject it and just said with a nod and a smile, ¡°Alright, if we can reference the legendary Magic Battleships, Evita will definitely draw many inspirations from them.¡±

    Even if it wasn¡¯tpatible with the research of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi believed he could use these things. Not to mention that Lumi had offered this, so he couldn¡¯t reject her good intentions.

    Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s reaction wasn¡¯t that positive, Lumi was a bit disappointed as she gave a nod to show she understood.

    After talking with Lumi for a bit, Lumi and some other people from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who came to send Narvil off took a Magic Airship back to the Stantine Duchy. Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan and left the ck Rice Harbour, driving east across the ck Rice Wastnd before heading north to the border.

    When the wisps of green appeared in front of him, Xu Yi knew that he was close to his destination.

    In front of him was the piece ofnd that the Moon Shadow Tribe had asked for from the Sack Kingdom.

    This territory was west of the endless sea, connected to the ck Rice Wastnd. It was a piece ofnd that came from the southwest corner of the Sack Kingdom, being in between the Sack Kingdom and the ck Rice Wastnd. It made it hard for the Sack Kingdom to easily invade the ck Rice Wastnd, posing both a threat to the ck Rice Wastnd and the Stantine Duchy to the south.

    The Sack Kingdom had traded this piece ofnd to the Moon Shadow Tribe two years ago, so this ce was no longer as bleak as the rest of the ck Rice Wastnd. Now that two years had passed, this ce waspletely green with a forest that had spread all over.

    There was an ancient saying on the Sines Continent, it was that thend under the feet of the elves was always green. This saying was perfectly manifested in this piece ofnd.

    Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Sedan had just passed the boundaries of this forest when a bunch of fully armed elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe appeared.

    Of course, they were only here to wee Xu Yi.

    Although elder Lisanya was very interested in Magic Sedans, with the stubbornness of the elves, at least in their territory, they would still act like elves.

    The forest had just begun growing, so there weren¡¯t any paths. Xu Yi could only leave behind the Magic Sedan and follow this group of elves that came to wee him.

    It caused him to take an entire hour before he made his way through this forest and met elder Lisanya who he hadn¡¯t seen for a long time.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if I remember correctly, since we¡¯ve officially taken this ce, this is your first time here?¡± Elder Lisanya asked with a smile.

    ¡°You¡¯re right, this is indeed my first time.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod and looked at elder Illusia beside elder Lisanya, ¡°Elder Illusia, where¡¯s Agnes?¡±

 Volume 6 82 - This Is My Child

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 82 - This Is My Child </h4>

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi with a smile, a smile that was even more friendlypared to before.

    ¡°Agnes is waiting for you,e and see her.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi replied. He didn¡¯t exchange any further greetings with the two elders and following a Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elven girl, he entered arge tree house.

    Inside the room, Agnes who had her eyes closed suddenly perked up. She heard the footsteps and her eyes opened wide as she stared at the door with an expectant look.

    When she saw Xu Yie in, Agnes jumped out of the bed and threw herself into Xu Yi¡¯s embrace.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re finally here to see me!¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°I wanted to see you sooner, but elder Lisanya and elder Illusia never let me.¡±

    Agnes gave a giggle, ¡°Don¡¯t me the elders, they just wanted me to safely give birth to the child.

    When Agnes mentioned the child, Xu Yi looked around and found that there was no one else here.

    ¡°Where¡¯s the child?¡±

    ¡°The elder said that the child¡¯s situation isn¡¯t stable, so they put it in the moon well for observation over the past few days.¡± Agnes replied.

    ¡°Not stable? What happened?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised and a bit worried.

    This was his and Agnes¡¯ first child, it had a very great significance, so if something happened, the consequences would be very serious.

    Seeing that Xu Yi looked nervous, Agnes happily shook her head, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s nothing big, it¡¯s just that the elders view this as important and are treating him carefully.¡±

    ¡°Him? It¡¯s a boy?¡± Xu Yi keenly picked up on this.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s a very beautiful boy who looks very much like you.¡± Agnes said with a smile.

    ¡°How could he be beautiful if he¡¯s like me, he¡¯ll only be beautiful if he¡¯s like you.¡± Xu Yi gave augh.

    Actually, after he had received notice from elder Lisanya a week ago that his and Agnes¡¯ child had been born, he still couldn¡¯t believe it even now.

    Although Agnes had been gone for a year and a half and he could guess from the situation that Agnes was pregnant with his child, he still felt very strange after he learned that Agnes had given birth.

    ording to what elder Lisanya and elder Illusia said, this was the first time that a marriage between an elf and a human has been acknowledged by both sides, especially by the elves.

    It was because the other side was Xu Yi.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go see the child together.¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    ¡°Alright, but let¡¯s tell the elders first.¡±

    Agnes pulled Xu Yi out to find elder Lisanya and elder Illusia again. The four of them went into the depth of the tribe, where the moon well was located right in the center.

    This moon well had water with a sprinkling of starlight in it and there was a small basin that was floating on it.

    In the basin, there was a baby who looked no different from a human baby with its eyes shut and happily sleeping there.

    ¡°This is our child? Why aren¡¯t there any elven characteristics?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    Elder Lisanya and elder Illusia looked at each other with helpless looks.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the characteristics of you humans are too obvious. ording to the records of our race, as long as other racese together with humans, the child will always be more like humans. Our elf race isn¡¯t that different from humans, so half elves born from being together with humans will naturally look like humans more.¡±

    ¡°Of course, there are some differences.¡± Elder Illusia raised her hand and a breeze came, blowing the basin over to where they were.

    When it came over, elder Illusia picked up the baby and brought it in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Look, his ears and eyes have the clear characteristics of the elves. If you look carefully, you can see the difference it has from humans.¡±

    Xu Yi looked carefully and found that the ears of the baby were sharper than human ears. Although it wasn¡¯t as sharp as the elven years, it was still very different from normal humans.

    Also his eyes were very bright and the pupils weren¡¯t ck like Xu Yi¡¯s, but rather they were light blue which people couldn¡¯t help praising as beautiful.

    Of course, the most significant difference was that his pupil wasn¡¯t round like normal humans, but rather it was oval shaped with lines around it, which waspletely different from what a human would have.

    Xu Yi turned to seriously look at Agnes, elder Illusia, and elder Lisanya, noticing that their pupils were just as t.

    It seemed like what elder Lisanya said just now wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    Compared to the other races, the genes of humans were a bit stronger.

    Whening together with humans, the genes of the other races would fuse bit by bit before disappearing.

    ¡°Perhaps this is the reason why the Sines Continent was ruled by humans in the end?¡± Xu Yi guessed in his heart.

    ¡°Ge, ge.¡±

    The baby who was sleeping suddenly opened his eyes, but he didn¡¯t cry. Rather he looked at Xu Yi with big eyes and gave a happyugh as he reached his little hand out to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being happy as he reached out to hug it.

    ¡°It seems like he knows who his father is.¡±

    ¡°The children of us elves are very sensitive to our environments, they can easily feel the familiar aura from the people around them. Perhaps he inherited this and can recognize the simr auraing from you.¡± Elder Lisanya said.

    ¡°Oh? That really is good.¡±

    Xu Yi yed with the child a bit before giving him back to Agnes and turning to elder Illusia and elder Lisanya.

    The two elders looked at each other before giving a nod for Xu Yi to follow them.

    The three came to a tree house beside the moon well and there weren¡¯t any other elves that followed them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you should already know the arrangement for this child, right?¡± After the three sat down, elder Lisanya spoke first.

    ¡°I do, but.....I don¡¯t agree with this.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Why?¡± Elder Lisanya said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Because he is my child, of course he should live with me. If I leave him to grow up in your elf tribe, wouldn¡¯t I be too irresponsible as his father?¡±

    ¡°That doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°Although the child will grow up in our tribe, he won¡¯t be that far from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You cane see him whenever you want, I don¡¯t think that will affect anything.¡±

    ¡°I said it before, he is my child, so he will be with me. Also, Agnes is my wife, so she will also be staying with me.¡±

    Xu Yi paused before continuing, ¡°When you told me that Agnes¡¯ body needed to recuperate, I didn¡¯t understand the biology of elves, so I handed her to you. But I never thought that I wouldn¡¯t be able to meet her in a year and a half. I¡¯m very dissatisfied with this, so no matter what, I won¡¯t hand this child to you.¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows.

    They had known Xu Yi for quite a bit of time and had met him quite a bit, of course they knew that Xu Yi rarely revealed such an expression. Once he did, it meant that he had made a decision and he wouldn¡¯t change it.

    After a bit of thought, elder Lisanya said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that you should be clear that our arrangement is beneficial for both our sides, so why are you being this stubborn?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s beneficial for our sides, but it isn¡¯t good for the child or Agnes, so I can¡¯t ept this.¡± Xu Yi had the same calm look, ¡°Elder Lisanya and elder Illusia, of course I understand that the reason for this arrangement is to strengthen the rtionship between us humans and the elves, to deepen the cooperation between our two sides, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. This child is the first step in us elves integrating with your humans, so it¡¯s very important to us.¡± Elder Lisanya said with a serious look.

    ¡°But that doesn¡¯t mean he needs to be kept in your elf tribe, right?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°Actually......Elder Lisanya, you don¡¯t have trust in your elves and have even less trust in us humans. Have you not noticed that after several years of being together, at least your two elf tribes have integrated quite smoothly into our human society?¡±

    Elder Lisanya and elder Illusia looked at each other. After a bit of silent thought, they gave nods.

    ¡°Un, I must admit that at least in the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the surrounding countries, humans and elves are already quite close and there aren¡¯t many barriers.¡±

    ¡°Then do you know why?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Why? It¡¯s because they are used to it.¡±

    ¡°That is a part of the reason, but it isn¡¯t the most important reason.¡± Xu Yi turned to elder Illusia, ¡°Elder Illusia, do you remember what I told you in the beginning? I said that we humans are a race that care about benefits the most. As long as the other side can bring us benefits, it doesn¡¯t matter what race the other side is at all.¡±

    ¡°Un, you have indeed said this.¡± Elder Illusia gave a nod.

    ¡°Look, you are perfectly representing this right now. The human countries in the surrounding area can exist peacefully with your two elf tribes mainly because you can bring them benefits. To put it more simply, the most direct method is with fertilizer. Elder Lisanya, just with the fertilizer, your Moon Shadow Tribe can firmly stand in our human world.¡±

    Elder Lisanya was silent for a bit before giving an un sound.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is correct. With the fertilizer, we can even make contact with further human countries like the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire. When we were discussing the fertilizer, the humans didn¡¯t look at us differently because we were elves.¡±

    When she said this, elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi and revealed a self-deprecating smile.

    ¡°So when we were discussing business with those sly human merchants, we suffered quite a bit......¡±

    ¡°That is rted to me.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°In short, my meaning is that as long as you elves can demonstrate your value, you don¡¯t need to worry about integrating with humans. Even if you don¡¯t have the fertilizer, with the stic industry of the Night Song Tribe and the forestry industry that you worked together with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce one before, as well as the beautification industry you worked with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce on, and.....With these unique things, you don¡¯t need to depend on a child to maintain rtions with the humans.¡±

    The two elders were silent for a bit before elder Illusia said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you still not understand what we mean? The reason we need this child is purely because we want to maintain a good rtionship with you.¡±

 Volume 6 83 - Betrothal Gift

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 83 - Betrothal Gift </h4>

    ¡°If this is the reason, you have even less to worry about.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he took a document from his chest.

    Elder Lisanya was confused when she took it, but after reading it with elder Illusia, they were both shocked.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, are you serious?¡± Elder Lisanya looked up and asked Xu Yi in a surprised voice, ¡°You¡¯re actually willing to transfer a portion of the military magic machine technology to us?¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m serious.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Look, this transfer agreement already has my signature on it. As long as you sign it, this contract will be official. Elder Lisanya, elder Illusia, look over this contract and if you can ept it, how about you sign it?¡±

    Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya were in a bit of disbelief as they picked up this ?Military magic machine transfer agreement? and seriously read over it.

    After half an hour, they finally finished reading it.

    After thinking for a bit, elder Lisanya cleared her throat to ask, ¡°Chairman Xu, you only stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give us some military magic machines, but you didn¡¯t state a price. I¡¯m afraid.....this isn¡¯t right, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because the price I want you to pay isn¡¯t suited for being added to a contract.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. In front of the confused looks of the two elders, he walked out of the tree house and pulled Agnes who was holding the child beside the moon well in.

    ¡°Elder Illusia, ording to our human customs, when we get a wife, we have to give some property to the wife¡¯s family as a betrothal gift. After Agnes married me, I¡¯ve never thought of this, which was my mistake. Now I want to use the thing in this contract as the betrothal gift, what do you think?¡±

    Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise before looking at Agnes and finally looking down at the contract in her hand. She took a soft breath and let out a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, your human customs really make people feel ufortable. But.....Alright. Agnes is already married to you, she shares life and death with you, being together for all times. Since you¡¯re willing to do this for her, I¡¯ll ept.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for the elder¡¯s support.¡± Xu Yi gave a serious bow to elder Lisanya.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you only want to work with the Night Song Tribe?¡± Elder Lisanya asked in a deep voice on the side.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and turned to give elder Lisanya a bow before saying in a serious voice, ¡°Elder Lisanya, after being with Tvisti for some time now, I already have strong feelings for her. I want to be with her forever, so I¡¯m asking you to allow me to be with her for the rest of our lives.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, the three elves in the room were stunned.

    Elder Lisanya was surprised for a bit before asking in a voice filled with disbelief, ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean......you mean that you want to marry Tvisti?¡±

    ¡°I want this very much.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°This......¡± Elder Lisanya had a rare bit of panic before calming down, looking very happy.

    She had put Tvisti by Xu Yi¡¯s side just for this to begin with.

    ¡°Alright, I agree.¡±

    Elder Lisanya was very direct, not like the elves that normally stalled. Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s request matched her intent, she immediately agreed.

    ¡°So this contract is also your betrothal gift for Tvisti?¡± Elder Lisanya waved her hand over the military magic machine transfer document.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Elder Lisanya looked at the surprised Agnes and couldn¡¯t help giving augh. Then she shook her head and said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are willing to pay for Agnes.¡±

    Xu Yi immediately said with a serious look, ¡°I just said it, Agnes is my wife and she has my child, so they are my dear family members. For them, it doesn¡¯t matter how much I have to pay. As for Tvisti, I am sincere towards her, there is no other reason.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of deep meaning, but she didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Elder Illusia was silent for a bit before pulling Agnes aside. It was clear that she wanted to talk to Agnes about something.

    There was only Xu Yi and elder Lisanya left in the room. Elder Lisanya gave augh and reached out to tap the contract, as a red flow fell onto the signature line which represented her signature.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for you to give us elves these powerful military magic machines, aren¡¯t you worried that other humans will think you have betrayed them?¡± Elder Lisanya suddenly asked.

    ¡°In the history of humans, we¡¯ve ughtered each other more than we¡¯ve ughtered other races. Even now, the countries of the Sines Continent still wage war against each other. So for me, there are no differences between humans and other races. What makes my decision is my rtionship with them.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then if we sh with other humans in the future or even go to war, whose side will you stand on?¡± Elder Lisanya kept asking.

    ¡°If I said that I will stand on the just side, would you believe it?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Even if I do, would you believe it?¡± Elder Lisanya sharply asked back.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before revealing a smile and giving a shrug, ¡°Let¡¯s talk about when the timees. Speaking of conflicts between elves and humans, elder Lisanya, have there been any moves from the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°Yes, justst month. The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Spirit Turtle Regiment tried to invade thisnd, but they were repelled in the end.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Did they make any special moves?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    ¡°There were no special moves, but there was something to note.¡± Elder Lisanya had Xu Yi wait a bit before searching around a cab in this room and taking out some pieces of paper for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took it and found that there were a few blueprints which looked quite familiar.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you think this is very familiar?¡±

    ¡°Is this the military magic machine the Sack Kingdom developed?¡± Xu Yi flipped through the blueprints in his hands and gave a coldugh, ¡°Hei, the outside looks simr, I just don¡¯t know if the inside is simr or not.¡±

    ¡°ording to the nsmen who fought with the Spirit Turtle Regiment, although the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military magic machines couldn¡¯tpare to those from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were at least stronger than traditional weapons. They were at least half as strong as the military magic machines produced by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Only half?¡± Xu Yi stroked his chin before curling his lips in disdain, ¡°I¡¯ve deliberately given them so much secret information and they can only develop these broken things, they really are disappointing.¡±

    ¡°I say......Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve never understood. You¡¯ve clearly noticed that the Sack Kingdom has put a spy in yourpany and you can avoid this situation, so why are you not doing this and giving them this technology? You might as well give this precious technology to us instead.¡± Elder Lisanya had a trace of sadness in her voice.

    ¡°I was counting on the Sack Kingdom to use all their national strength to study this after getting them, developing some new things that even our Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t develop. But looking at it now.....they really are toocking.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that certain?¡± Elder Lisanya had a surprised look, ¡°Chairman Xu, you told me many times that to create aplete industrial system, there are manyplicated things. To promote the development of technology, one needs a solid base and can¡¯t develop things out of thin air. But now the Sack Kingdom is studying new technology that even your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t developed with this base, this is just too far fetched.¡±

    Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°This is my delusion over the years because I felt that the magic machine industry was a new thing, so I don¡¯t know what kind of magic existed. I was hoping that other people could have innovations that we couldn¡¯t have. However, the facts prove now.....that having basic knowledge is the most important thing.....¡±

    ¡°Then what are you going to do now? Continue cing hope in the Sack Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°No need.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°My ideas are different from before, depending on others isn¡¯t reliable and it¡¯s also a way of beingzy. The most reliable thing is to move forward step by step. So.....Elder Lisanya, I will send out five hundredpany guards when I go back to help you expel the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Spirit Turtle Regiment.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s great.¡± Elder Lisanya revealed a happy smile, ¡°This Spirit Turtle Regiment has been here the entire time and has affected our tribe¡¯s nting too much, while indirectly affecting our fertilizer production speed. I already wanted to chase them away.¡±

    ¡°Un, if you took the fertilizer out as a threat against them, I think that Sack Kingdom would obediently pull back the Spirit Turtle Regiment.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to do this. The fertilizer is only the product of our Moon Shadow Tribe, it¡¯s not something to be used to threaten people.¡± Elder Lisanya shook her head.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He thought that many times, fertilizer is a very important product for people, so it is even more threatening than an army.

    Of course, the premise was that you were strong enough to defend it.

 Volume 6 84 - Difference Between The Two Elf Tribes

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 84 - Difference Between The Two Elf Tribes </h4>

    As the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s core product, the fertilizer that could increase grain yield was naturally weed by the surrounding countries.

    As for the fertilizer factories under the Moon Shadow Tribe, what they worried about was never their sales, but their production capacity.

    When the harvest came every year, all the countries turned their eyes to the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer. They all struggled to get a bit more to increase their own country¡¯s grain yield.

    But this year, among the countries fighting for it, there was the giant Marlow Empire that had appeared.

    Although the Marlow Empire had onlye into contact with the fertilizerst year during their fall harvest, with the data they received from their spring harvest, the nobles of the Marlow Empire immediately had a deep desire for this new thing.

    Now that it was about to enter the important fall harvest, the countries in the southwest led by the Lampuri Kingdom other than taking care of their harvests were also preparing to get some more fertilizer from the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    The Marlow Empire wouldn¡¯t give up this chance either. Some nobles of the Marlow Empire, being represented by Marquis Southgate, made a shocking order for thirty thousand tons of fertilizer to the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s factory.

    This giant order was equal to all the orders of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if the Moon Shadow Tribe had been prepared this year, they could only at most receive orders for a hundred thousand tons. So as for how to assign this quota was a difficult problem for these elves.

    It was a good thing that the elves had always been stubborn. Elder Lisanya used the excuse that it was already promised to prioritize the supply of fertilizer for the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy.

    As for the other countries, it had droppedpared to previous years.

    For the Marlow Empire, they only got ten thousand tons in the end, forcefully taking some of the orders from the other countries.

    The countries other than the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy weren¡¯t happy, but because the Moon Shadow Tribe were the only ones that had the fertilizer, there was nothing they could do.

    Of course, remaining like this also wasn¡¯t good. So after Xu Yi brought the two sides together, several nobles signed a raw materials supply contract with the Moon Shadow Tribe. They would nt the materials needed to make fertilizer on the territory of these nobles, which would greatly increase their raw material supply.

    At the same time, the Moon Shadow Tribe had built another three fertilizer factories in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy.

    ording to their estimates, once those three factories could start producing next year, the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s fertilizer production capacity would double. It would be enough to satisfy the needs of the surrounding countries, while also providing some supplies for other buyers.

    But ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, this was still far from enough.

    Not counting anything else, just the Marlow Empire alone would have a giant demand for the fertilizer.

    With the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory that was even bigger than the southwest countries added together, they would obviously have a bigger demand for fertilizer.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe could barely meet the demands of the surrounding countries, so they wouldn¡¯t be able to meet the demands of the Marlow Empire.

    Not to mention the Candra Empire who would also need arge amount of fertilizer in the future, as well as the other countries on the continent.

    With the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s current production capacity, the future demand for fertilizer was like a bottomless hole.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a solution for this problem.

    Although the Moon Shadow Tribe was the biggest out of the three elf tribes he contacted, they only had less than four thousand members.

    Even if a fertilizer factory waspletely filled with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s automated production magic machines, it would still need over five hundred workers.

    With all the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe counted in, they would only be able to support six fertilizer factories at most. Their max production capacity would be five hundred thousand tons of fertilizer a year, which was far from being enough.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t right to say that there was no way to solve this at all.

    But that was the key to the problem. Elder Lisanya insisted that the factory had to be controlled by the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elves, she wouldn¡¯t allow any outsiders at all.

    Xu Yi had suggested to elder Lisanya that they could recruit some human workers which would free up some elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe, letting them be put in manager positions while also increasing production capacity. However, she had rejected this.

    Elder Lisanya was very firm at the time, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t keep convincing her and just left it.

    But Xu Yi believed that as the Moon Shadow Tribe faced more and more demand for fertilizer, elder Lisanya will sooner orterpromise on this matter.

    In the end, in front ofrge benefits, even the most stubborn elves would be moved in the end.

    A very typical example was the Night Song Tribe.

    Perhaps it was because they met Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earlier, or because elder Illusia was an elf that was more understanding than the other elves. Or perhaps it was because the Night Song Tribe didn¡¯t have the same poption as the Moon Shadow Tribe and they were facing a very serious problem towards their survival, so elder Illusia couldn¡¯t stick to her principles like others could......

    In short, when the Night Song Tribe met simr bottlenecks, elder Illusia didn¡¯t hesitate to ept Xi Yi¡¯s previous suggestion of working with humans.

    The main business of the Night Song Tribe was always rted to stics.

    In the beginning, the Night Song Tribe had been working from a small factory that was in the Falling Rain Forest. Their first order other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was two hundred hanging racks for a normal clothing store, which was an order for less than ten gold coins.

    Then after the stic products became more popr, the Night Song Tribe had more and more orders for stic products at their factory.

    Very soon, elder Illusia found that they couldn¡¯t match this demand with just the manpower in the Night Song Tribe, so she decided to ept Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion. She set up a Night Song Chamber of Commerce in the Lampuri Kingdom for the elves and then started recruiting humans to work in factories of the Night Song Tribe.

    Although the Night Song Chamber of Commerce was affected by the unstable situation in the Lampuri Kingdom before, it is developing quite strongly now.

    To this date, the Night Song Tribe had seven factories in the Lampuri Kingdom alone and other than the most important positions such as management or finances being held by elves of the Night Song Tribe, the other workers were all humans.

    In the Rudson Kingdom and the Drake Duchy, the Night Song Tribe had also invested and constructed three stic processing factories respectively.

    Even the stic processing factory in the Drake Duchy, elder Illusia only sent a single elf to take care of the finances and the rest were all handled by the human workers.

    With this bold strategy, although there were human workers that tried to cheat them, in general, the industry under the Night Song Tribe was developing quickly.

    With the various stic processing factories the Night Song Tribe had, they were earning a ie of over two million gold coins a year which even surpassed the ie of the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    Other than hiring some human workers, the first female elf that elder Illusia had follow Xu Yi to learn human business, Delil had already integrated herself into the human business circle. She could even take care of some businesses by herself.

    For example, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was invited by the Candra Empire¡¯s Prince Frank to set up a Magic Car factory in the Candra Empire, he had stopped the other Lampuri Kingdompanies from investing as well. Before Xu Yi had mentioned this to Delil, she hade to find him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the Candra Empire market is very important to our Night Song Tribe. If possible, I hope that we can go with you to the Candra Empire to invest in a stic processing factory in the Candra Empire.¡± Delil directly said to Xu Yi in a sincere tone.

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you have this idea, but......¡± Xu Yi reached out a finger to tap Delil¡¯s forehead, ¡°If an elf like you suddenly appears in front of the Candra Empire people, don¡¯t you think that would be too much? The people of the Candra Empire aren¡¯t like the people in the surrounding country who are already used to the elves.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Delil said with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you always wanted us elves to boldly appear in front of humans, which would make it easier for humans to ept us. I think that since the people of the surrounding country have already epted us, the Candra Empire¡¯s people will also ept us.¡±

    Seeing the confident smile on Delil¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a nod of praise.

    ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re this confident, I can bring you with me. But as for how you will convince the Candra Empire¡¯s people to ept you and agree to let your Night Song Tribe invest in a factory, that will be up to you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, that isn¡¯t a problem at all.¡±

    Seeing the confident Delil, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    It seems like each elf of the tribe was influenced by the elder. The Moon Shadow Tribe had also followed Xu Yi for quite some time, but not a single one of them had learned the confident mentality like Delil that Xu Yi thought was the most important.

    Otherwise, the Moon Shadow Tribe has a greater poption and they have the stronger product in the fertilizer, so they would have developed much further than the Night Song Tribe already.

 Volume 6 85 - The Old Magic Fans Also Sells

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 85 - The Old Magic Fans Also Sells </h4>

    A weekter, there was arge motorcade that passed the border between the Norton Duchy and the Candra Empire.

    After travelling on this road that was finally built in the southwest province of the Candra Empire for three hours, they reached the capital of the southwest province, which was also the ce that had the Governor Manor, Canberra City.

    The motorcade didn¡¯t enter Canberra City and stopped in a patch of opennd outside the city.

    Although this ce was only a suburb outside the wall, Canberra City was therge capital, so it was very lively and filled with people. There were all kinds of vendors calling out, seeming much more lively than many smaller cities.

    Xu Yi stopped his Magic Sedan and came out of the driver¡¯s seat, finding that the surrounding people were looking at the motorcade he was a part of before looking away. They didn¡¯t look curious and they didn¡¯t look surprised like they were seeing something new.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t strange that the people of Canberra City have seen Magic Cars before.¡± Chairman Cruise on the side exined, ¡°Actually, it isn¡¯t just Magic Cars, many people here are already used to many of the household magic machines. You don¡¯t need to think that they will be surprised like they would be seeing it for the first time.¡±

    ¡°No, I wasn¡¯t hoping for this. I was just a bit curious. Since the people of the Candra Empire have already experienced the magic machines, why isn¡¯t there a higher demand for these things?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows.

    ¡°Who told you there isn¡¯t a high demand?¡± Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes before pointing to the right, ¡°Look at what that is.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at where he was pointing and saw that there was arge stall by the street where many people were gathered, looking very lively.

    ¡°What are they doing there?¡±

    While Xu Yi was confused, there was cheer that came from the crowd. They surrounded a person who was holding something who turned to run, as if he was afraid that the others would steal it from him.

    Xu Yi looked carefully and found that the thing that he was holding like a treasure was actually an old Magic Fan, feeling a bit surprised.

    ¡°It¡¯s just an old Magic Fan and he¡¯s even acting like this......¡±

    ¡°Because it¡¯s second hand, it¡¯s quite cheap. Being able to get one isn¡¯t easy.¡± Chairman Cruise gave a shrug, ¡°Now that it¡¯s getting hotter, these things are very popr. If a normal person like that can get a Magic Fan, it will be equal to saving their lives.¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows, still feeling confused.

    ¡°Thetest Frestech Brand Magic Fan is only selling for three gold coins and fifty silver coins, it isn¡¯t that expensive. Why do they need to snatch for an old Magic Fan that¡¯s about to be trashed like that?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi before giving a sigh and shaking his head, ¡°Xu Yi, I think that you¡¯ve been separated from normal people for too long and you¡¯ve already forgotten the most important problem. Do you think.....three gold coins and fifty silver coins for a normal person who can¡¯t even feed themselves would be little?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    It wasn¡¯t that he was separated from normal people for too long, rather it was because of the thought ¡°normal people couldn¡¯t afford to buy a Magic Fan¡±.

    Whether it was the Stantine Duchy or the Lampuri Kingdom, the citizens of those two countries, as long as they were willing to work, they would be able to easily find a job that would pay at least ten gold coins a month.

    If it was the wages of a family, putting aside their basic living costs, there was no pressure taking out a few coins to buy a Magic Fan.

    But that was only limited to the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom because the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed those two countries well. Now there were many factories rted to magic machines in those two countries and there was arge demand forbour, so that was why people were able to easily find such good jobs.

    But other than this, even if the Rudson Kingdom and the Drake Duchy were developing magic machine industries, it wasckingpared to them.

    Whenparing it, the Sack Kingdom was even worse.

    Because they had tense rtionships with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, their magic machine industry wasn¡¯t that developed.

    Butpared to the Candra Empire.....it was actually better.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the continent, with national strength that couldn¡¯t bepared with on the Sines Continent, but when it came to the living conditions of normal people......It was even worse than the Lampuri Kingdom from seven to eight years ago.

    These normal citizens living in the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province¡¯s capital of Canberra Cite, most of them were still at the level of worrying about making a living, so it was impossible for them to take out several gold coins for a Magic Fan.

    ¡°Then what¡¯s up with those old Magic Fans? Although they don¡¯t seem like ourpany¡¯s Magic Fan, they can sell for one to two gold coins each?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°You have to ask that chairman Doyer over there.¡±

    Xu Yi turned his head to look at chairman Doyer who just came over.

    Chairman Doyer gave a dryugh as he awkwardly scratched his head, ¡°This.....We found aftering to the Candra Empire that there were several people who had heard of the magic machines before, but they thought that new magic machines were too expensive, so we directly sold these old magic machines to them. Ke, anyway, they are satisfied, so I don¡¯t feel that there is any problem.....¡±

    Xu Yi immediately understood.

    In the end, after the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom signed the trade contract, the merchants from the Lampuri Kingdom were directly taking the old magic machines from the Lampuri Kingdom and reselling them in the Candra Empire.

    This was without a doubt to Xu Yi a kind of cheat, but it actually suited the Candra Empire¡¯s current situation which made him a bit speechless.

    ¡°Ke, this is also benefiting the normal people of the Candra Empire.¡± Chairman Doyer said with a faint smile, ¡°Anyway, they can¡¯t afford the new items and the old items are cheaper. For example, that Magic Fan that person just bought, it¡¯s less than one gold coin for one, so of course they like it very much.¡±

    ¡°One gold coin for one? What price did you buy it for in the Lampuri Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Chairman Doyer¡¯s expression became more awkward and after hesitating a bit, he came closer to say in a low voice, ¡°We learned from chairman Xu and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, using exchanging old products for new products to get them back. The actual cost.....is around.....less than twenty silver coins for one.....¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    One for less than twenty silver coins? Because of the new trade agreement between the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom, the tariff for magic machine products was the lowest. So if they sold an old Magic Fan for one gold coin, they would only need to pay around ten silver coins as a tariff.

    Adding in the transportation costs, the total costs for one Magic Fan wouldn¡¯t be more than forty silver coins.

    They were selling it now for close to a gold coin, they must be making more than half a gold coin from each Magic Fan.

    ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, we are just gathering products for merchants on this side and letting them sell it, so the price that we are selling it for is much less than one gold coin.¡± Chairman Doyer quickly waved his hands.

    ¡°Then what about the ie that you get from selling a Magic Fan after exchanging for an old one?¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, we learned this from you.¡± Chairman Doyer said with a smile.

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t care about this. But I do need to remind you that a reputation is very hard to establish while being very easy to break. Household magic machines haven¡¯t been in the Candra Empire for long, so you need to establish a reputation and leave a good impression on the people of the Candra Empire during this most important period. At this time, it¡¯s better not to deceive people with second hand items. Otherwise if you leave a bad impression and want to change itter, you will have to pay a much higher price than you can imagine.¡±

    Chairman Doyer knitted his brows and didn¡¯t seem to believe Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    But he couldn¡¯t refute Xu Yi to his face, so he just smiled and bid his farewell.

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, don¡¯t waste your breath. How could these small merchants see that far, they clearly only care about earning small amounts and don¡¯t care about the development or reputation of the entire industry. Only people with abnormal thoughts like you care about those kinds of things.¡± After chairman Doyer walked away, chairman Cruise said this with augh.

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you¡¯ve never thought of this, otherwise why would yourpany attach such importance to the apartments being built outside of Canberra City?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m not a small merchant like them without any experience and vision.¡±

    ¡°Ha......¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing as he thought that chairman Cruise¡¯s face was was getting thicker.

    But he was right. Compared to a chairman Doyer who was from a smallpany, chairman Cruise was someone who had been in business for many years and had vision that was far beyond normal merchants.

    Moreover, he was gradually being influenced by Xu Yi, beginning to think further and further into the future. Naturally he was not someone who would ruin his future benefits just for a little bit of gain.

    ¡°Speaking of importance,pared to the apartments, I care more about the roads.¡± Chairman Cruise turned to Xu Yi to seriously ask, ¡°Do you think.....How confident are you in convincing the Candra Empire to pave roads?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°It¡¯s at least 90% to convince his highness Frank and the southern province, but to convince the Candra Empire.....less than 30%.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, the Candra Empire is just too big......¡±

 Volume 6 86 - The Southwest Province Governor

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 86 - The Southwest Province Governor </h4>

    While Xu Yi and chairman Cruise were talking, the Lampuri Kingdom merchants in the caravan behind them weren¡¯t idle.

    Actually, it was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s government that wanted to find a business opportunity in the Candra Empire, so they came several times during this period of time.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom, the southwest province that contacted the Lampuri Kingdom first would be most familiar for thesepanies.

    Among thepanies, most of them brought arge amount of Lampuri Kingdom products to sell here.

    Other than the Candra Empire not having any household magic machines, many of them hadn¡¯t even heard of the other materials made from the magic machine industry.

    For example, the low cost clothing made by the Armani Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t just Hafra who thought of transporting them to the Candra Empire.

    In the capital of the southwest province Canberra City, clothing from the Lampuri Kingdom was already what the normal citizens loved the most.

    In this suburb, if one looked carefully, they would find that most people were wearing clothes from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, these clothes weren¡¯t cheap. Although the cotton was worse than silk in name, it was very soft to the touch and veryfortable. It wasn¡¯t worse than the clothes that cost several hundred gold coins a piece that the nobles andrge merchants wore.

    The more important thing was that although these clothes were cheap, they had very good style. It didn¡¯t look cheap at all when people wore them, so naturally they were very popr.

    Especially those girls that loved to be pretty. They couldn¡¯t wear any expensive clothing before, but now there was pretty clothing that was also cheap, how could they let them off?

    Beforeing here, Xu Yi had gotten the general gist from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    It was said that the Armani Chamber of Commerce had earned over two hundred thousand gold coins in less than three months selling these cheap clothes to the Candra Empire.

    That was before theypletely opened up the Candra Empire¡¯s market. If they could sell these cheap clothes all over the Candra Empire, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to multiply their profits by ten.

    It was because of this that the Armani Chamber of Commerce had sent a representative toe with Xu Yi.

    If they could reach an agreement, the Armani Chamber of Commerce would invest in a clothing factory in the southwest province of the Candra Empire, focused on making cheap clothes.

    Not only would they be able to avoid most of the tariffs, they could also save on transport costs which would greatly increase their ie.

    Of course, most of thepany representatives that came with Xu Yi this time had this thought. Even Delil who represented the Night Song Chamber of Commerce had this thought.

    As an elf, Delil being among this caravan that was filled with merchants was very conspicuous.

    Moreover, she didn¡¯t avoid this at all. After the caravan stopped, she even talked to the various customers that were walking around the market in Canberra City, like she didn¡¯t see those people looking at her in surprise at all.

    After the cargo that some of these merchants had brought was unloaded, Delil came back to Xu Yi¡¯s side with a thick book and an excited look.

    She was holding a stic basin and water canteen in her hand. Seeing the doubtful look from Xu Yi, she raised the two things with a proud look.

    ¡°These are the products of our Night Song Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, of course I know that these are produced by your Night Song Chamber of Commerce. Other than yourpany, who else can make stic products?¡± Xu Yi snappily said, ¡°I want to ask, why did you bring back these two things after walking around? Could it be that you don¡¯t have enough of what you produced?¡±

    ¡°I was just researching the market. I asked quite a few people and they said that these stic items are easy to use and don¡¯t rust, it¡¯s much better than the iron things that they currently use. But they also raised a few small problems which I jotted down. I¡¯ll go back and think about how to improve it.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Delil, not bad, you actually learned to do market research and know how to improve your product. Very good, if you keep this attitude, your Night Song Chamber of Commerce will definitely be bigger.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help praising her.

    Delil gave a giggle, ¡°Many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s praise, we will definitely work hard.¡± After saying this, she waved the stic items in her hand, ¡°Our tribe being able to have better living conditions now is all dependent on this thing, so if we don¡¯t make them better, it won¡¯t work.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh. He thought thatpared to the Night Song Tribe, the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s shoring was that they weren¡¯t willing to give up the stubbornness of the elves and listen to his suggestions.

    If the Moon Shadow Tribe could also have this attitude, their current development would be much better than the Night Song Tribe.

    When he wanted to say a few things to Delil, there was a horse carriage that came out of the distant Canberra City gate and stopped where the caravan was.

    The door opened and a young man who looked to be around thirty years old jumped out.

    He looked around before seeing chairman Cruise beside Xu Yi and walking over.

    ¡°Viscount Tuler, you came to wee us?¡± Before he came over, chairman Cruise waved his hand to wee him.

    This young man called Viscount Tuler revealed a friendly smile and nodded in response before his eyes turned to Xu Yi standing beside chairman Cruise.

    ¡°If I¡¯m correct, this should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, right?¡±

    Xu Yi reached out his hand with a faint smile, ¡°Hello, Viscount Tuler, I am Xu Yi.¡±

    Viscount Tuler reached out to take Xu Yi¡¯s hand, ¡°Chairman Xue, you¡¯vee this far, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡± He turned back to chairman Cruise after saying this, ¡°Where are you other representatives from your Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re already all here. Viscount Tuler, are we going to see the Lord Governor?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°Since you¡¯re all here, let¡¯s not waste any time ande with me to see the Lord Governor.¡± Viscount Tuler gave a nod.

    Their group came together and they took their Magic Sedans into Canberra City.

    Viscount Tuler hade out in a horse carriage, but when they went back in, he said that he woulde along as a guide, so he entered the Magic Sedan Xu Yi and Chairman Cruise were sitting in.

    When the Magic Sedan drove through the streets of Canberra City, Viscount Tuler couldn¡¯t help patting the seat under him before saying with a sigh, ¡°When I was in Wimbledon City, I was lucky enough to ride in the Magic Sedan that Count Merlot bought. I felt that the Magic Sedan really was better than the old horse carriages. It¡¯s a pity that there¡¯s no ce to sell Magic Sedans in Canberra City and it isn¡¯t convenient to bring one over from Wimbledon City.¡±

    Xu Yi and chairman Cruise looked at each other with smiles before Xu Yi said, ¡°If the Lord Governor agrees, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to open a Magic Sedan shop in Canberra City. If Viscount Turel is interested, you can buy it directly from the shop.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Viscount Turel turned to look at Xu Yi before giving a nod with a faint smile, ¡°If it really is like this, that would naturally be very good. But ording to what I know, would having just a single shop be enough? The Magic Cars need to be maintained which is also very important. Chairman Xu, does your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have a n for this?¡±

    ¡°That will all depend on the discussion with the Lord Governor.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Viscount Turel gave an oh sound before he stopped asking.

    After around ten minutes, the Magic Sedan group arrived at the Governor Manor to the north of Canberra City.

    As the location of the southwest governor¡¯s manor, Canberra City was as big as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Anvilmar City. Based on this Governor Manor, it was even bigger than the Lampuri Kingdom royal pce.

    Just based on this, it showed that the Candra Empire was worthy of being one of the two empires. Their overall strength far surpassed a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The southwest governor Duke Megudo wouldn¡¯t lower his status to personally greet some merchants from the Lampuri Kingdom. Even when this group was summoned by Duke Megudo, only Xu Yi, chairman Cruise, and Count Andy Cole who was the chief of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s department ofmerce were allowed in.

    But since this cooperation wasn¡¯t just the cooperation between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire, also including the cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and his highness Frank, Duke Megudo was considered quite polite. He personally held a banquet in the Governor Manor and invited Xu Yi¡¯s group of three.

    The banquet passed and after lunch, the three of them had a short conversation with Duke Megudo.

    During this conversation, Duke Megudo made clear his stance.

    He represented the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province to wee the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s variouspanies to invest in factories. He expressed that the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor would support them and guarantee that their investments would go smoothly.

    Of course, there were conditions.

    There was no problem with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯spanies investing in the Candra Empire, but they had to follow thews of the Candra Empire.

    To put it directly, it was to honestly pay taxes and not think of avoiding them at all.

    Chairman Cruise didn¡¯t have a problem with this at all. He represented the Lampuri Kingdompanies to vow that they would follow this and do all they could to help develop the southwest province.....

    In general, the atmosphere of their conversation was rxed and happy because before this, the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom had already discussed this many times to reach an agreement.

    The Lampuri Kingdompanies only came this time to give a more detailed inspection.

    The only exception was Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he represented.

 Volume 6 87 - It Isna??t Easy To Create Knockoffs

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 87 - It Isna??t Easy To Create Knockoffs </h4>

    Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce entering the Candra Empire. On the surface it should be on the invitation of his highness Frank to build a Magic Car factory in his private territory on the southwest province, while also building a race track and introducing Magic Sedan racing into the Candra Empire. This was to satisfy his highness Frank¡¯s passion for racing.

    But in reality, whether it was Xu Yi or his highness Frank, they all knew that this was a probe that the Candra Empire was making towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Losing twice to the Rudson Kingdom had made the Candra Empire realize the might that the military magic machines could disy on the battlefield, which also made them finally pay attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this smallpany from a small southwest country.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had clearly supported the Rudson Kingdom, which the Candra Empire had designated as an enemy, so it was hard for the Candra Empire to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So they had his highness Frank who had contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, using his status as one of the Candra Empire¡¯s princes to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which was quite reasonable.

    For Xu Yi, supporting the Rudson Kingdom repel the Candra Empire, other than needing to create a barrier for the Stantine Duchy, was also an advertisement for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to force the Candra Empire to pay attention to them.

    Facts proved that this advertisement was very sessful.

    The Candra Empire not only paid attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they attached importance to them.

    However, in terms of cooperation, there were inevitable differences in opinion.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s priority were naturally the military magic machines that had caused their tragic defeat in the invasion of the Rudson Kingdom and the goal of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi¡¯s goal was to prioritize poprizing the household magic machines in the Candra Empire.

    After meeting the southwest province¡¯s governor Duke Megudo, Xu Yi followed the arrangement of Duke Megudo to secretly meet a representative sent by his highness Frank.

    The first part of the discussions went very smoothly. His highness Frank rented a hundred hectares of his territory to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a low price so they could build a Magic Car factory and a production base.

    Also, his highness Frank would also provide another fifty hectares ofnd for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a race track on.

    Only this race track would be in the name of his highness Frank. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be helping his highness Frank hold races in this race track.

    They had already discussed these two points, so there were no surprises.

    But after setting these two projects, Baron Julian who represented his highness Frank made a new request.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, his highness Frank¡¯s personal army needs to rece their equipment and he is very interested in yourpany¡¯s military magic machines. He wants to buy some to equip his personal guards. What does chairman Xu think about this?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile. His highness Frank as the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince wanting to change the equipment of his personal guards was not a small matter.

    If he didn¡¯t receive the approval of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal parliament, it was a great crime to do this on his own. It might even be likely that he would be charged with the crime of treason.

    His highness Frank wasn¡¯t dumb, how could he raise this kind of request rashly?

    So it was clear that this request wasn¡¯t from his highness Frank, but rather from the Candra Empire.

    Of course, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this.

    After failing to invade the Rudson Kingdom twice and experiencing the power of the military magic machines, if the Candra Empire still wasn¡¯t interested in the military magic machines, that would be strange.

    ¡°I wonder which military magic machines his highness Frank is interested in?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking this, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently has three major categories and seventeen smaller ssifications, for a total of thirty nine types. Not all of them are suited for his highness¡¯ private guards.¡±

    ¡°There are this many times?¡± Baron Julian was stunned before his heart filled with joy.

    Since Xu Yi said this, it meant that it was possible to buy military magic machines.

    After thinking about, Baron Julian said with a serious look, ¡°No matter what kind of military magic machine it is, his highness is very interested. So chairman Xu, please prepare some documents for me on these thirty nine types of military magic machines and I will bring it back to his highness Frank to read over.¡±

    ¡°I can give you this, but if his highness Frank wants to buy all thirty nine kinds.....it¡¯s not possible.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Why?¡± Baron Julian knitted his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you¡¯re worried that his highness Frank can¡¯t pay?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s just that several kinds of military magic machines aren¡¯t suited for his highness Frank¡¯s personal guards. For example, the naval military magic machines, I think that his highness Frank¡¯s guards wouldn¡¯t be able to use them, right? Even the fixed point high intensity Magic Cannon, it would be used forrge scale armies, so his highness Frank won¡¯t need it. Also there¡¯s......¡±

    Xu Yi gave examples one by one while Baron Julian wrote them down.

    After Xu Yi finished, Baron Julian looked over the paper before looking up to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that there were a total of thirty nine kinds of military magic machines, there are twenty three kinds that aren¡¯t suitable. Does that mean that the other sixteen are? Then can I ce an order for those sixteen types on behalf of his highness? You wouldn¡¯t reject this, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°The remaining sixteen kinds are suited for a small army. If his highness Frank is willing to buy it, I won¡¯t reject it. But before this, I have a question.¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°If his highness orders all these military magic machines from ourpany, would other people of the Candra Empire, especially the other princes have an opinion?¡±

    Baron Julian had a bit of an unnatural smile before shaking his head, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    ¡°Alright, but there¡¯s another problem. How will we exchange the goods?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Baron Julian tapped the Magic Car factory contract that they had just signed before saying with a faint smile, ¡°These military magic machines are also assembled fromponents, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and nodded without asking anything else.

    After discussing a few more things, Baron Julian stood up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I know that you have some doubts since this is our first time cooperating, so his highness won¡¯t make too many requests. However, I believe that after some time, you will understand his highness¡¯ sincerity in cooperating with yourpany. I hope that at that time, we can discuss the matter of the other twenty three kinds of military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.

    As he watched Baron Julian leave, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The Candra Empire side really did beat around the bush. Isn¡¯t it just buying military magic machines, if they just asked, he would still sell them.

    Because before this, he had already signed the agreement to sell military magic machines to the Marlow Empire, selling them twenty one kinds of military magic machines. To preserve the bnce, he would have to sell them to the Candra Empire as well.

    But the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t direct. They could only buy a few kinds of military magic machines, they were a bitckingpared to the Marlow Empire¡¯s side.

    Of course, theserge empires had giant armies, so buying a few military magic machines was far from enough to satisfy their needs.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the two empires would research the military magic machines they bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and try to produce them.

    This idea was easy to understand since for the two empires, they wouldn¡¯t allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce control such an important thing, which was equal to handing their fates to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Being able to understand and produce the military magic machines themselves was indeed the best choice.

    For the two empires, this was their only option.

    Becausepared to a small country like the Rudson Kingdom, they had giant assets. Even if they allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to supply their entire army, it would be impossible for them to do it alone.

    No matter how they looked at it, the two empires had powerful national strength supporting them. Not mentioning anything else, their quantity and quality of magicians surpassed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As long as they could grab some military magic machines, they could easily grasp the concept in them.

    Even with the deep foundations of the two empires, they could catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or even surpass them in terms of military magic machines.

    But the fact of it was......

    ¡°It¡¯s easy to say the word knockoff, but it¡¯s hard to make one.¡± Xu Yi had a smile of ridicule on his face, ¡°And to create a knockoff foundation......it is even harder.¡±

    The industries on earth didn¡¯t suddenly appear. They were all developed bit by bit based on firm research and experimentation, there wasn¡¯t any shortcuts.

    Even the ¡°knockoffs¡± of China from earth that many people disdained, weren¡¯t that easily developed.

    Because there were precise details in any industry. Even if you had aplete sample or even if you had all the technology handed to you, to create something that was simr was still very hard.

    Even if the magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Commerce grasped wasn¡¯t as developed as the industries on earth, with the iplete foundation that was on the Sines Continent, for these countries that didn¡¯t have a concept of an ¡°industrial system¡± to make knockoffs was just a dream.

    ¡°After these fellows suffer a loss, they will naturallye back to beg me.....¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi revealed a proud smile.

 Volume 6 88 - FresteChapter Chamber Of Commercea??s Direction Of Development

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 88 - FresteChapter Chamber Of Commercea??s Direction Of Development </h4>

    This trip to the Candra Empire was considered a gain for thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Not only did they sell out all the cargo that they had brought to Canberra City, the representatives of the variouspanies had even signed agreements with the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor.

    ording to the n, thesepanies would search for a suitable location in the southwest province over the next half a year before preparing to invest in various factories.

    This was the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire¡¯s first cooperation in terms of the magic machine industry. If it went smoothly, Duke Megudo had expressed on behalf of the Candra Empire that they would deepen this cooperation. They would bring in more magic machinepanies from the Lampuri Kingdom and could even cooperate on other aspects.

    This was the result that both the Lampuri Kingdom side and Candra Empire side wanted to see.

    The Candra Empire hoped that by introducing the magic machine industry, they would be able to understand this new industry, as well as achieve their goal of grasping the production methods of the military magic machines.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom, entering the giant Candra Empire market was something they dreamed of.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had developed over many years and their domestic market was close to being saturated, so they needed a new ce to grow.

    If they could open up the markets of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire at this time, it would bring benefits to the Lampuri Kingdom that were hard to imagine.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Xu Yi represented, the benefits that they seemingly gained from this trip wasn¡¯t that big.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce belonged to the Stantine Duchy in name, they couldn¡¯t be considered one of thepanies in the cooperation between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t enjoy the reduced tariffs that the Candra Empire gave to the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as the other benefits that they had offered......

    To be honest, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only building a Magic Car factory with his highness Frank. Moreover, this Magic Car factory would be in his highness Frank¡¯s name and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be providing assistance.

    On the other hand, although they sold sixteen types of military magic machines to his highness Frank¡¯s personal guards, there weren¡¯t that many units ordered. This entire order only barely added up to six hundred thousand gold coins.

    Compared to the order the Marlow Empire made that added up to three million and eight hundred thousand gold coins, this was definitely much smaller.

    But Xu Yi and his highness Frank were both clear that this was just the first attempt at cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire, there would be many ces to work together on in the future.

    Perhaps the Candra Empire was confident that they could study the production methods of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried.

    Moreover,pared to the military magic machines, Xu Yi cared more about the household magic machines side that was developing well because of the cooperation between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t belong to the Lampuri Kingdom and didn¡¯t receive preferential treatment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines had the best quality and the best performance. It was also normal that their price would be higher than the other brands.

    For example, in Wimbledon City, the most popr Magic Air Conditioner. The other brands of Magic Air Conditioners that came from the Lampuri Kingdom had an average cost of twenty five gold coins and the Frestech Brand that came through ambassador Hakanin, they had a cost of at least forty gold coins. However, there was nock of demand for them among the nobles of Wimbledon City.

    Just based on this, he had to admit that the nobles of Wimbledon City had good eyes.

    Therefore, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried at all.

    Anyway, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had limited production capacity, so their supply was always lower than their demand. If there was a huge market that suddenly appeared, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to digest it.

    The development n that Xu Yi had for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to develop steadily. They would increase their production capacity while also increasing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s core forces.

    These core forces weren¡¯t just developing more technology, but also included the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Aftering back from the Candra Empire, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fell into a period of silence.

    Of course, this period of silence didn¡¯t mean that nothing was done. Rather they were following the n, so Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to put in too much effort to manage them.

    Currently the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has four main directions of development.

    The first was to introduce the household magic machines into the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire. At the same time, they would bring more magic machinepanies into the two empires and poprize the use of household magic machines.

    The second was based on the first point, which was to make the people of the two empires ept the new concept of magic machines, spreading the use of magic machines.

    This concept spread further in the Marlow Empire than in the Candra Empire because of Marquis Southgate. The Marlow Empire was already using the agricultural magic machines and they were reiming small patches of farnd.

    Marquis Southgate and the other nobles that experienced this didn¡¯t let this chance escape. The Marlow Empire¡¯s department ofmerce made arge order for agricultural magic machines to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as talking to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, hoping that they would help the Marlow Empire reim morend.

    If everything went as expected, in the next few years, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce¡¯s focus would be on the Marlow Empire.

    The third was to expand the controlling area of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was very difficult to do on the Sines Continent because thend had been carved out by the various countries. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only takend if they dered war on other countries.

    With the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was naturally impossible.

    So Xu Yi¡¯s goal was the sea.

    Not only the sea of the Stantine Duchy, they would control the southern seas of the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi wanted to control most of the ind on the endless seas and establish bases on them before linking them up with magic signal towers, then controlling them with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    Currently the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only a fifth of the way done with this.

    To this point, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled over a hundred inds and half of them were in the sea area of the Stantine Duchy.

    On the southern seas, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only controlled less than fifty scattered inds. They only barely controlled them with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, they couldn¡¯t fully control them.

    Xu Yi nned to invest no less than ten million gold coins over the next five years to strengthen this control.

    The final point which was the most important one was the strengthen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had continued to develop with Xu Yi¡¯s massive funding over the years. Now they had a total of eight thousand members which included humans, elves, dwarves, and beastmen, all equipped with thetest military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although they hadn¡¯t experienced much actualbat, whether it was the military representatives of the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom, they didn¡¯t hesitate to say that although they only had eight thousand troops, their battle strength was equal to an army of fifty thousand from their countries.

    As for the traditional armies of the continent......there was noparison.

    However, Xu Yi still felt it was far from enough.

    Therefore the one and a half million gold coins the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested in the guards each year was doubled, reaching three million gold coins per year.

    This decision was opposed by the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because they felt that the current power of the guards was already enough, there was no need to expand it even further.

    However, Xu Yi wanted the guards to not only be able to defend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and even the entire Stantine Duchy, but also to attack when it was necessary.

    So even if the high level members opposed this, Xu Yi used his authority as the chairman to forcefully pass this decision.

    Actually, the high level members couldn¡¯t be med. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing one and a half million was already a bit too much.

    It had to be known that in the surrounding countries, even facing the threat of the Candra Empire, the Rudson Kingdom who increased their military budget only had a budget of two million gold coins this year.

    As for the Lampuri Kingdom whose military budget had increased as their economy became better, it was only around one and a half million gold coins a year.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, but they were giving more funding to their guards than these two kingdoms which was just unbelievable.

    Now Xu Yi wanted to increase it even more which was simply insane for other people.

    But Xu Yi did many things that people thought were crazy, so one more didn¡¯t make people feel that surprised.

    Only people still couldn¡¯t understand it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany in the end and not a country, what did they want to do investing all this money into their guards?

    In the beginning of September, there was a conflict on the southwest border of the Sack Kingdom that seemed to indirectly answer the question in everyone¡¯s hearts.

 Volume 6 89 - A Company Declaring War On A Country?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 89 - A Company Dering War On A Country? </h4>

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong......¡±

    Countless red lights fell from the sky, hitting the position of the Spirit Turtle Regiment, creating a series of loud explosions.

    Regimentmander Thomas could only helplessly watch as the defensive position their regiment had held for half a month was blown up. His heart was filled with shock and even more of a chill.

    His Spirit Turtle Regiment was the famous defensive regiment of the Sack Kingdom and they had gone all out in the past half a year to construct their fortifications, but now it copsed at the first blow.

    If these attacks weren¡¯t just aimed at the fortifications, but rather aimed right at the Spirit Turtle Regiment hiding behind it, the losses of the Spirit Turtle Regiment would have been very heavy.

    Seeing the mes in front of them,mander Thomas gave a long sigh before saying to his personal guard beside him, ¡°Send down the order, full retreat.¡±

    The personal guard was stunned, ¡°Sir, this.....¡±

    ¡°Stop wasting words, quickly send down the order.¡± Commander Thomas waved his hand.

    The personal guard had a doubtful and unwilling look, but he didn¡¯t dare keep asking. After giving a bow, he went to send down the orders.

    ¡°Ai, Thomas, it seems like we aren¡¯t qualified to face those Frestech Chamber of Commerce fellows at all right now.¡± The Spirit Turtle Regiment¡¯s chief staff officer Derank came from the side and said this with a sigh.

    Commander Thomas gave a bitterugh, ¡°Not to mention those freaks from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m afraid we can¡¯t even face the Lampuri Kingdom head on.¡±

    After pausing,mander Thomas suddenly cursed in a low voice.

    ¡°Damn, it¡¯s all that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They made those damn military magic machines, they are simply the devil¡¯s tools!¡±

    Chief staff officer Derank shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no use talking about this. We should think about what to do. If we don¡¯t have a way to solve this, our Sack Kingdom will be in danger in the future.¡±

    Commander Thomsa cursed again before knitting his brows, ¡°It really is strange speaking of this. We have deployed our troops here for so long and the Moon Shadow Tribe elves never made a move, so why did they suddenly make such a big move? What¡¯s stranger is that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is mixed in, they even sent out their guards?¡±

    ¡°You can go ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Chief staff officer Derank rolled his eyes, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is a maniac, who knows what he is thinking.¡±

    ¡°Damn, it¡¯s all because of the appearance of that maniac that our Sack Kingdom can¡¯t have any peace. Could it be that we really have no way of taking care of him?¡±

    ¡°Stop dreaming.¡± Chief staff officer Derank shook his head, ¡°First not to mention that that maniac is a Great Magician who isn¡¯t easy to deal with, even if there was a chance to deal with him, those important people in the kingdom wouldn¡¯t agree.¡±

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know what those people are thinking. Could it be that they really think we can get any benefits from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Looking atmander Thomas who hid nothing on his face, chief staff officer Derank gave a nod in his heart.

    That¡¯s right, it wasn¡¯t just those people, even the entire Sack Kingdom had benefited from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    And this benefit wasn¡¯t small.

    Although the Sack Kingdom army hated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made their advantage against the Lampuri Kingdom disappear, even making them be suppressed by the Lampuri Kingdom at will, the powers outside the Sack Kingdom army mostly approved of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple, it was because the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought many good changes to the Sack Kingdom.

    The most simple example was three years ago when the Sack Kingdom bought arge number of agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then after reforming the farnd and farming with the agricultural magic machines, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s grain yield had set a new record every year.

    Based on the data from the harvest this spring, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s harvest had reached a shocking three million tons!

    With the other grains, just the grain production of this spring was enough to match the past harvest of the entire year.

    With the fall harvest that wasing, based on the reports that wereing in, there was only more and not less grain being harvestedpared to spring.

    As the matter stood, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s grain harvest this year in terms of wheat would be over six million tons. It was enough to feed all the citizens and even store some forter.

    For the dry and arid Sack Kingdom that always had an issue with grain production was simply a miracle.

    The Sack Kingdom kept sending troops to the Lampuri Kingdom and the other countries to solve their domestic food crisis.

    Otherwise, with the national strength of the Sack Kingdom that wasn¡¯t that much higher than the surrounding countries, there was no reason to create wars all the time.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s strength had surged and the Sack Kingdom had been defeated, which created a panic in the Sack Kingdom. They were worried that the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to pige enough grains from other countries and there would be a famine.

    But they never thought that the Lampuri Kingdom would take the initiative to sign a trade agreement with the Sack Kingdom, selling them grains and helping them avoid this crisis.

    Then after this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom invested in factories in the Sack Kingdom. Not only did they bring the advanced agricultural magic machines and farming system to the Sack Kingdom, helping them fundamentally solve their food crisis, they even started a magic machine industry in the free trade area to the south of the Sack Kingdom, giving many citizens of the Sack Kingdom good jobs.

    If it was based on this, because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it brought the Sack Kingdom many great benefits.

    Of course, from the views of the military, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the Sack Kingdom¡¯s mortal enemies.

    Because the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military knew that as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom would never have a day where they could raise their heads.

    So chief staff officer Derank was very clear on the hatredmander Thomas had in his heart for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce actually sending their guards to help the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe to repel the Spirit Turtle Regiment, that was enough to makemander Thomas deem the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a mortal enemy.

    However,mander Thomas¡¯ thoughts didn¡¯t have any meaning because, in front of facts, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were as strong as they rumours, they were even more terrifying than they imagined. The Spirit Turtle Regiment couldn¡¯t resist at all, somander Thomas could only give the order to retreat.

    ¡°I think that you don¡¯t need to worry about the other side chasing us down.¡± Chief staff officer Derank looked into the distance before saying tomander Thomas, ¡°Based on that attack, the other side only wanted to drive us off and didn¡¯t want to fight with us.¡±

    Commander Thomas gave a cold snort, ¡°They are only the guards of apany in the end, would they dare dere war on our entire Sack Kingdom?¡±

    Chief staff officer Derank looked at him with a bit of worry in his eyes.

    This was what many people at the army headquarters thought, but he didn¡¯t think it was true.

    Although from an objective analysis, no matter how powerful the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was, they were only apany in the end, so they definitely couldn¡¯t fight against an entire country.

    But chief staff officer Derank had analyzed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s movements over the past year and he felt that this was less and less far-fetched.

    Xu Yi, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman, did many crazy things that no one could understand.

    But after reviewing them, they found that there was a deep meaning to his methods. They all set up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s next move, as if there was nothing meaningless about it.

    Then this time, for him to suddenly send the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to help the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s elves drive off the Spirit Turtle Regiment¡¯s blockade of the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s territory, it seemed like a crazy move on the surface because this would trigger a reaction from the Sack Kingdom. It might even make the Sack Kingdom dere war, but in reality?

    Chief staff officer Derank didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi was doing and what he wanted to obtain from this, so he was worried.

    What made him even more worried was the worst case scenario.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really dered war on the Sack Kingdom, what would be the result?

    If this question was thrown at any normal person on the continent, they would definitely think the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was insane.

    Apany wanted to dere war on a country that was considered middle ss on the Sines Continent, this was simply seeking death.

    But after chief staff officer Derank thought about this, he had a different conclusion.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dered war on the Sack Kingdom, he had an understanding of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military power as the Spirit Turtle Regiment¡¯s chief staff officer. Chief staff officer Derank was certain that there wasn¡¯t a single regiment in the Sack Kingdom that could resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Even if all the Sack Kingdom¡¯s regiments were put together, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards would just take a bit longer. They wouldn¡¯t be able to resist in the end.

    Because this wasn¡¯t a fight on the same scale.

    It was like the situation in front of chief staff officer Derank right now. All the members of the Spirit Turtle Regiment, they hadn¡¯t even seen the face of the enemy before they were forced to retreat by their attacks.

    All the regiments of the Sack Kingdom would be the same, there was no exception.

    So the result was that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dered war on the Sack Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom would surely lose.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t seize the entire Sack Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army would bepletely defeated and would they have any chance of surviving?

    Every time he thought of this, chief staff officer Derank would feel a strong uneasiness.

    What to do?

 Volume 6 90 - Shocking Difference

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 90 - Shocking Difference </h4>

    Chief staff officer Derank was thinking about this question as the Spirit Turtle Regiment retreated back into the Sack Kingdom. Then he was called back to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital, Nordham City.

    Although the Spirit Turtle Regiment had been defeated and were forced to retreat, they weren¡¯t punished at all by the army headquarters.

    The first reason was that the ce that the Spirit Turtle Regiment built their fortifications on was in thend the Sack Kingdom had given the Moon Shadow Tribe. They were blocking off the Moon Shadow Tribe which already meant that they were in the wrong.

    This time the Moon Shadow Tribe worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards to drive them out, at least there was no question in terms of justification. The Sack Kingdom couldn¡¯t use this and naturally they couldn¡¯t punish the Spirit Turtle Regiment because of this.

    The second reason was the most important reason. It was that when the Sack Kingdom army headquarters had the Spirit Turtle Regiment stop the Moon Shadow Tribe, they didn¡¯t have any hope that the Spirit Turtle Regiment would be able to resist the attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    In the southwest countries of the continent, there was already a consensus that they couldn¡¯t fight against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    So the Spirit Turtle Regiment being defeated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards was not something that should be punished, it was something that they had already expected.

    The reason why the army headquarters summoned chief staff officer Derank was mainly to obtain first hand information from chief staff officer Derank on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    So after chief staff officer Derank was called back to Nordhamn City, other than making some military reports, most of the time he went to the military magic machine development center the army headquarters and magic research department had set upt together outside the city. He was to provide his frontline information and work with the development center.

    Today was the fifth day after chief staff officer Derank had returned to Nordham City. He woke up early and after having breakfast, he took his horse carriage as usual to the military magic machine development center thirty kilometers northwest outside Nordham City.

    This development center was in a giant valley between five mountains. The surrounding area was fenced off and it was heavily guarded.

    Even if it was chief staff officer Derank, he had to go through many checkpoints before being allowed to enter.

    But after truly entering this ce, it was like being in another world.

    Countless strange looking magic machines moved around the development center, which was hard for people to take it all in.

    These magic machines were developed by the magicians of the military magic machine development center. They were inspired by the various magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and developed by them.

    The most conspicuous thing was the four wheeled copied Magic Car, which was running around the base, moving very fast.

    Based on the appearance, this copied Magic Car didn¡¯t seem that different from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car, which made chief staff officer Duran mistake it on the first day.

    But in the following days, he was very clear that although this copied Magic Car seemed like it could run, it was only a support on four wheels. It couldn¡¯t hold anything and was just an empty flower vase.

    Moreover, the Magic Engine that was the core of this copied Magic Car was bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even the most basic four wheels were bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To put it simply, this copied Magic Car had all itsponentse from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military magic machine development center had just ounted for therge parts of it. In fact, the iron work done on it couldn¡¯t evenpare.

    Moreover, even if there was an iron te, it was made from normally refined iron. This meant that the flexibility and the toughness of the iron couldn¡¯tpare to the Magic Cars of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Then adding in the fact that the work of the cksmiths weren¡¯t as precise, there were only three or four out of ten finished works that could be assembled.

    This caused the cost of production to soar and was even several times more expensive than buying a Magic Car from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So while the military magic machine development center focused on some household magic machines at first, since there was ack of funding from the kingdom¡¯s finance department, they focused purely on developing military magic machines.

    But even if they focused all their funding and manpower on the military magic machines, the results were as they wanted......

    When thinking of what he saw over the past few days at the military magic machine development center, chief staff officer Derank shook his head and gave a sigh deep down.

    ¡°Chief staff officer Derank, good morning. Great Magician Mayev is waiting for you.¡± A researcher in magician robes happened to pass by and greeted chief staff officer Derank.

    ¡°Un, good morning. I¡¯ll go see him now.¡± Chief staff officer Derank replied before heading deeper into the base.

    After entering a giant valley, chief staff officer Derank saw Great Magician Mayev who was in charge of this military magic machine development center.

    Great Magician Mayev was one of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s seven Great Magicians and was the vice principal of the royal family¡¯s magic academy, but when he saw this military magic machine development center, he voluntarily moved over.

    The copied Magic Car that chief staff officer Derank had seen was made by him.

    Seeing chief staff officer Deranke over, Great Magician Mayev waved at him.

    ¡°Chief staff officer Derank, you can just in time. About the long range Magic Cannon that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards used that you mentioned yesterday, I have some questions for you.¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡± Facing a respected Great Magician, even Derank was the Spirit Turtle Regiment¡¯s chief staff officer, he was still very polite.

    ¡°You said yesterday that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards attacked you, they were at least over two kilometers away. But after calcting it yesterday, I found that this isn¡¯t realistic because based on the known magic, only a Forbidden Grade Spell would have this kind of attack range. But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards definitely couldn¡¯t release a Forbidden Grade Spell, this is correct, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Chief staff officer Derank gave a nod, ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards could casually release Forbidden Spells, then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t need to cause trouble for us because they could easily rule over the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Chief staff officer Derank, this joke isn¡¯t funny at all.¡± Great Magician Mayev slightly knitted his brows and shook his head before saying, ¡°I¡¯m certain that it isn¡¯t a Forbidden Spell because the might was farcking. Since it¡¯s like this, there is only one possibility, which is that it follows the same principle as the Magic Trebuchet. It¡¯s fired by some powerful Magic Cannon to use this attack, do you agree?¡±

    ¡°Un, it should be like this.¡± After chief staff officer Derank gave a nod, he still felt it was a bit strange, ¡°Great Magician Mayev, didn¡¯t we already confirm this a long time ago? Moreover, based on the information from the spy that we ced in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this is the basic foundation of many military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. For you to suddenly ask this......¡±

    ¡°I was just confirming it.¡± Great Magician Mayev said with a serious look, ¡°Because this involves a very important question. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could attack this far with the Magic Cannons and could urately hit your fortifications, so why didn¡¯t they attack you all who were hiding behind those fortifications?¡±

    Chief staff officer Derank was a bit surprised. After thinking about it, he realized that there was this question.

    When he had been attacked by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, he never thought about this before. He only felt that ti was natural that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards would have such powerful military magic machines.

    But now that he was reminded by Great Magician Mayev, he found that what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did was actually quite shocking.

    Forget about the range, how did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce control the area of their attacks to not identally cause any injuries?

    It had to be known, even arrows would make mistakes. But when they were attacked before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannon shots hadnded halfway across the first fortifications that the Spirit Turtle Regiment had set, it didn¡¯t reach the soldiers at all.

    In the end, the fortifications that the Spirit Turtle Regiment had made for six months had been destroyed, but the Spirit Turtle Regiment didn¡¯t have a single casualty from beginning to end.

    Thinking about it now, it was even more terrifying than if the Spirit Turtle Regiment had been wiped out.

    Because this meant that the power of the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already surpassed a level that people could imagine, it even surpassed the general knowledge of chief staff officer Derank.

    Seeing the expression change on chief staff officer Derank¡¯s face, Great Magician Mayev finally understood what he wanted to understand. After a bit of silence, he waved his hand at him.

    Chief staff officer Derank followed him in a daze and the two of them entered a giant testing field in this valley.

    There was a giant metallic pipe that was set in the middle of this field, which looked very imposing.

    ¡°This is the Magic Cannon that we¡¯ve developed with the information that the army headquarters has provided, help us take a look at it andpare it to the experience of your regiment.¡± Great Magician Mayev said.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Chief staff officer Derank nodded in agreement.

    However, when he looked at the Magic Cannon that did look powerful, but also very clumsy in the middle of the field, he didn¡¯t have any expectations at all.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannons could even shoot fixed point attacks, could this Magic Cannon even have half of that might?

 Volume 6 91 - Opening Land Access

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 91 - Opening Land ess </h4>

    Actually it was worse than chief staff officer Derank¡¯s worries.

    This Magic Cannon that Great Magician Mayev said took all the elites of the military magic machine development center three months of hard work and three hundred and forty thousand gold coins to develop, whether it was in terms of attack power or precision, couldn¡¯tpare to the real Magic Cannon.

    During the morning testing, this Magic Cannon¡¯s best range was only less than a thousand meters and the cannonball hadnded over fifty meters away from the target.

    There was no need topare this to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannon. Even in chief staff officer Derank¡¯s Spirit Turtle Regiment, it would be hard for him to ept.

    This kind of unreliable thing, not to mention attacking the enemy, it might be a problem of identally attacking their own people.

    What filled chief staff officer Derank with despair was that during this practice fire test, the Magic Cannon had actually......exploded!

    This powerful military magic machine had actually exploded!

    When he was far away from the military magic machine development center, chief staff officer Derank felt a fear in his heart.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Great Magician Mayev being by his side who had released a magic barrier to protect everyone, the Magic Cannon¡¯s explosion would have blown him and the surrounding people to pieces.

    Moreover, Great Magician Mayev had been very calm about such a shocking thing. He had even told chief staff officer Derank that this was a normal thing, so there was no need to make a fuss.

    When chief staff officer Derank asked about this, he learned that since the military magic machine development center had been built, there were over twenty idents like this. That was why Great Magician Mayev was so calm.

    ¡°It¡¯s normal to encounter idents when researching magic, what is there to be surprised about?¡±

    Thinking of the calm look Great Magician Mayev had when he said this, chief staff officer Derank couldn¡¯t only give a bitterugh.

    He couldn¡¯t deny Great Magician Mayev¡¯s words because he agreed that there would be dangerous idents when studying something as dangerous as the military magic machines, but this made one thing clear for him. It was that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s current research into the military magic machines were far from being able topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s.

    To rely on this military magic machine development center to catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a fool¡¯s dream.

    If they couldn¡¯t catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of military magic machines, the Sack Kingdom would never be able to stand up again.

    This was what chief staff officer Derank was the most worried about.

    Chief staff officer Derank deeply knitted his brows as he took the horse carriage back to Nordham City. Looking up to see that it was already close to noon, nned on reporting in at headquarters and checking with the intelligence department, but he suddenly saw a Magic Car motorcade with a familiar g slowlying out of the city.

    Since the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had developed diplomatic rtions and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started working with the Sack Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t a strange thing to see Magic Cars in Nordham City.

    But this motorcade drew chief staff officer Derank¡¯s attention because the g was the g that represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    ¡°These are the representatives from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Why would they suddenlye to Nordham City?¡± This question filled chief staff officer Derank¡¯s mind before he suddenly thought of something.

    The Moon Shadow Tribe had worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to drive away the Spirit Turtle Regiment¡¯s blockade on the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s territory. Although this was not publicized and didn¡¯t create much of a stir in the Sack Kingdom, not even being discussed in the army headquarters, it was impossible that there would be no consequences of this matter at all.

    Three days ago, chief staff officer Derank had received news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would send a representative to the Sack Kingdom and what they would be discussing would be rted to the Moon Shadow Tribe¡¯s territory.

    Chief staff officer Derank was filled with disbelief when he heard about this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent their guards to attack the Sack Kingdom¡¯s regiment and now they were sending a representative, they simply didn¡¯t put the Sack Kingdom in their eyes at all.

    But after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense.

    If there was no follow up, why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make a move?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared in Nordham City and they were preparing to leave, did that mean the discussions were already over?

    What were the results?

    Chief staff officer Derank changed his n to go to the army headquarters and changed the direction of the horse carriage, heading towards the north of Nordham City.

    ###

    ¡°What was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s request?¡± The Sack Kingdom¡¯s department ofmerce chief Pa Alvin looked at chief staff officer Derank in surprise, ¡°Hey, Derank, someone who is crazy about fighting, how are you suddenly interested in this?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, we just fought with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards a few days ago, naturally I would pay attention to their moves.¡± Chief staff officer Derank snappily said.

    He and Pa Alvin were ssmates and old friends, so naturally he could say what he wanted to say.

    ¡°It¡¯s like this.....But I heard that your Spirit Turtle Regiment was beaten until you ran away, you couldn¡¯t fight back at all.¡± Chief Alvin said with a teasing smile.

    Chief staff officer Derank rolled his eyes and gave a helpless sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, those Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are just too strong. Not to mention our Spirit Turtle Regiment, even if the elites of the Marlow Empire or Candra Empire went, I don¡¯t think they can stop them.¡±

    ¡°So? You¡¯re just giving up on fighting?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Chief staff officer Derank was filled with rage, ¡°As a soldier, how can I easily speak of giving up! Alright, stop wasting words. Tell me, what excessive requests have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative made? They have just taught us a lesson, so they must have conditions, right?¡±

    ¡°They did make a proposal, but if you want to say it¡¯s excessive.....that wouldn¡¯t be right.¡± Chief Alvin shook his head, ¡°At least to me, it isn¡¯t excessive to our Sack Kingdom at all and would actually benefit us greatly.¡±

    ¡°Benefit?¡± Chief staff officer Derank was stunned, ¡°How could that be possible?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing impossible about it. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative wanted our Sack Kingdom to open up the western territory, to build a road that leads from the ck Rice Wastnd to the north of the continent. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to establish a road that goes from the Stantine Duchy to the ck Rice Wastnd, then to our Sack Kingdom before reaching the northern countries. It would make it easier for them to transport their goods to the north.¡±

    ¡°Oh? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this n?¡± Chief staff officer Derank was silent for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help giving a slow nod, ¡°This does seem like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s style and sounds very good, but I¡¯ve heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent a fleet to search for a path to the northern seas? If they want to open up this sea route, why would they waste all this effort for and route?¡±

    ¡°A sea route isn¡¯t equal. The most important difference is that once winteres, the northern seas will be frozen and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t rely on sea transport. So if I was Xu Yi, I would also find and transport route.¡± Alvin exined.

    ¡°Oh......Then this means the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent their guards to attack us with the Moon Shadow Tribe elves just for this?¡±

    ¡°Based on their current actions, it should be like this.¡±

    ¡°Then why did they do all this, they can just go talk to the government.¡± Chief staff officer Derank was confused.

    ¡°You think that......if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything, the government would easily ept opening the territory for their caravans?¡± Chief Alvin asked.

    ¡°This.....¡± Chief staff officer Derank thought about it before shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    The Sack Kingdom had many people who were hostile towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially the military. There were few people who could examine the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rationally like chief staff officer Derank.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly requested the Sack Kingdom to open their territory, many people would find it a challenge and it would be strange if it had passed.

    ¡°Hei, when did our Sack Kingdom be a ce where we can only bully the weak.....¡± Chief staff officer Derank gave a bitterugh in his heart. When he looked up to see the smile on chief Alvin¡¯s face, he couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Why do you seem so happy? Could it be that you don¡¯t feel shame over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan running over our territory?¡±

    ¡°Shame?¡± Chief Alvin blinked in a daze like he didn¡¯t understand this before he revealed another smile, ¡°Alright, I understand what you soldiers think, but to be honest, for me as the department ofmerce¡¯s chief, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the best partner. We want to take the initiative in working with them, we don¡¯t want to have any hostility towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Why? He, Derank, you soldiers only know how to ask for funds all day, but do you care about how the kingdom gets all the funds that are given to the army headquarters?¡±

    Chief staff officer Derank¡¯s face turned red and he gave a cough, ¡°This.....I still care about it a bit. I know that the kingdom¡¯s finances are not that good right now and the funding is very tight.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you know!¡± Chief Alvin gave a cold snort, ¡°Let me tell you, since we started working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce two years ago, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s business taxes have been growing each year. Especially this year, if it follows the current trend, this year¡¯s tax will be four timesrger than three years ago! Do you know what that means?¡±

    ¡°Four times?¡± Chief staff officer Derank was surprised, ¡°It¡¯s that much?¡±

    ¡°It is that much.¡± Chief Alvin said with a serious look, ¡°Derank, the Frestech Chamber of Commerceing to work with us is a good chance for us. Not to mention that Frestech Chamber of Commerce making such a big move to force your military side to concede, even if they didn¡¯t do this, I would have represented the department ofmerce to make them concede!¡±

    Seeing the serious look on chief Alvin¡¯s face, chief staff officer Derank curled his lips and didn¡¯t say a thing.

    Why did he feel like when he thought of the soldiers that protected the country, it felt like he was thinking of criminals?

 Volume 6 92 - Collecting Resources

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 92 - Collecting Resources </h4>

    A red line went out from the Stantine Duchy, crossing the ck Rice Wastnd and going north into the Sack Kingdom. It followed along the coast heading north as it passed through the Doran Kingdom that was north of the Sack Kingdom before going further north into the Kakidon Kingdom. It then cut east across several small countries in the north before finally reaching the Marlow Empire that took arge piece of the map.

    Xu Yi took back the hand drawing this line and took two steps back as his eyes followed this red line again. Finally, it reached the end which was the Marlow Empire¡¯s capital Angelo City and he gave a satisfied nod.

    This red line was the new road that would connect the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the northern countries. Once it was built, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products could head to the northern countries through this road, which would allow them to poprize magic machines in these countries.

    At the same time, this road was another ess route for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Marlow Empire. It worked with the road that passed through the Lampuri Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Falk Kingdom, as well as the sea path through the endless seas. With these three paths working together, it would bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce closer to the Marlow Empire and the northern countries.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi continued the red line to the right of the Marlow Empire. He drew a dashed line past several countries in the northeast before heading south, bringing it to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in the southeast. Then he continued the line from the south in the Stantine Duchy, finally ending at the harbour in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Thisplete trade route was a more remote n.

    If he could aplish this, it would mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had seeded in promoting magic machines across all the countries on the Sines Continent, which meant he was close to his dream.

    But if he looked carefully, he found that there was arge nk in this trade route which was the Candra Empire.

    Until now, the Candra Empire had only built less than five hundred kilometers of road in their southwest province. Not to mentionpared to the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom that had roads all over, evenpared to the Drake Duchy and the Mirando Duchy, they were far fromparing.

    Although the Candra Empire was interested in building roads, after several months, they still hadn¡¯t implemented it.

    Chairman Cruise was very excited about the Candra Empire, but the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had never received a construction order for roads from the Candra Empire during these months.

    Compared to the Marlow Empire which had already finished three roads that were over two thousand kilometers, which made the Amrit Chamber of Commercepletely focus on the Marlow Empire.

    As for the Candra Empire.....they could only wait.

    However, this was not what Xu Yi wanted to see.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s territory was very wide, taking up more than half of the southern continent. If the Stantine Duchy which the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in, in the southern corner wanted to go to other countries, they had to pass through the Candra Empire.

    However, the Candra Empire still wasn¡¯t willing to cooperate which greatly blocked Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    Thisrge nk was like a fishbone in Xu Yi¡¯s throat, it looked ufortable no matter how he looked at it.

    ¡°If there wasn¡¯t something that broke the bnce like Arch Magi in this world.....¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help thinking.

    If he wasn¡¯t worried about the nine Arch Magi in the Candra Empire, Xu Yi would have been able to easily defeat the Candra Empire¡¯s army with the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    But it was because of these powerful Arch Magi that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards couldn¡¯t beat right now that Xu Yi had to think of other methods.

    ¡°Forget it, I can only hope that the Candra Empire won¡¯t be this stupid.¡±

    Xu Yi turned his gaze away from the Candra Empire and turned to the endless seas that weren¡¯t that big on the map, but were several times bigger than the Sines Continent in reality.

    There were three blue lines that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base. One was heading north past the north shore to reach the north of the Marlow Empire.

    One went south, past the Stantine Duchy before heading east and ending in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in the southeast.

    The final one went directly west, entering the endless seas and stopping at the edge.

    This line represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleet that Xu Yi had sent to explore the western seas.

    This fleet had explored ind by ind to the west. Although this meant that they moved very slowly, it was also very steady. Up to now, they had already gone six hundred kilometers into the seas and controlled arge part of the sea that was even bigger than the Stantine Duchy.

    ording to the reports sent back by this fleet, there were all kinds of resources on these inds, as well as other sea resources which could be described as bountiful.

    If they could control these seas, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a solid backing and wouldn¡¯t be controlled by others in terms of resources.

    Thinking of this resource problem, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    The Stantine Duchy wasn¡¯t big and there were few resources, so therge amount of resources and Magic Crystals the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed came from the surrounding countries.

    Because the magic machine industry was developing quickly in the Lampuri Kingdom and they needed more mineral resources and Magic Crystals, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce found it hard to get these resources from the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The resources that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed, other thaning from the ck Rice Wastnd came from the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, the Norton Duchy, and the other small countries.

    Recently the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also started getting mineral resources from the Sack Kingdom which had satisfied their needs.

    But as these countries were influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their magic machine industries grew, it would mean that they would have a greater demand for resources just like the Lampuri Kingdom. It could be seen that it wouldn¡¯t be realistic if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed mineral resources from them in the future.

    The reason why Xu Yi sent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to explore the seas was to prepare for a rainy day.

    But because of the limits of their technology, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t easily mine the various resources on these inds. If they wanted to mine them, it would cost them quite a bit which wasn¡¯t efficient.

    So the most urgent problem for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now was to find different sources of resources.

    They clearly couldn¡¯t just rely on the countries in the southwest corner, so Xu Yi had to turn his eyes even further.

    Ten days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Falk Kingdom signed a new agreement. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest two million gold coins in the Falk Kingdom to build five household magic machine factories, as well as helping them build three thousand and four hundred kilometers of road. In return, they would obtain the rights to three iron mines, two non-ferrous metal mines, and five Magic Crystal mines for thirty years.

    Eight days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet brought back the representative from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. After two days of discussions, they signed a new contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce open a mineral resource center in their kingdom, helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gather various mineral resources and Magic Crystals in the southeast countries.

    The price that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid was to give the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom some household magic machine technology, as well as building a household magic machine production base with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, while also working with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to improve the road conditions in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold five hundred thousand gold coins worth of military magic machines to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, while also training the guards of the thirteenpanies, making sure that they could use these military magic machines.

    After trading with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom for over a year, not only did they have a high fame in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, their fame among the southeast countries was also quite good.

    Not to mention the household magic machines, the various agricultural magic machines and construction magic machines were also greatly weed in the southeast countries.

    In just the ten months of this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transported over seven thousand agricultural magic machines to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and their surrounding countries, which had a value of over eight million gold coins.

    With how much these countries wanted these magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce easily exchanged for mineral rights from these countries.

    There were even three small countries that had taken the initiative to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after receiving this news, offering their mineral rights to them. It was all to get the agricultural magic machines, the ways to use them, and the fertilizer from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the end, other than the southwest countries, the other countries always worried about how to fill the bellies of their citizens.

    Now that they knew there was a way to increase their country¡¯s grain yield, they couldn¡¯t help going crazy.

    So Xu Yi felt very assured about the countries in the southeast corner of the continent.

    Rather, what he worried more about was the closest country to the Stantine Duchy.

 Volume 6 93 - The Rudson Kingdoma??s Situation Was Very Bad

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 93 - The Rudson Kingdoma??s Situation Was Very Bad </h4>

    After lunch, a delegate from the Rudson Kingdom secretly arrived in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    After being received, their representative, who was the speaker of the Rudson Kingdom parliament, Duke Boris and two vice leaders came as guests to Xu Yi¡¯s private manor.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is my first time in the Stantine Duchy. Along the way, it really seemed like the rumours couldn¡¯tpare and it was far more shocking than I had imagined.¡± Duke Boris praised with a smile as soon as he sat down.

    Xu Yi looked at the smiling Duke Boris who was very polite and found it a bit funny.

    When he went to the Rudson Kingdom before, he had met this noble and aloof Lord Duke twice before, but in those two times, this Duke Boris never looked at him with a good look.

    Now he not only took the initiative to lead a delegation to the Stantine Duchy, he even tried to tter Xu Yi like this, it really was a clear difference.

    The reason for this change was his goal ining here this time.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom had pushed back the Candra Empire, making the other countries of the continent hold them in high esteem, that didn¡¯t mean that the Rudson Kingdom couldpete with the Candra Empire.

    Although the Candra Empire had been careful and didn¡¯tunch a third invasion, they had fortified the troops that were on the border with the Candra Empire and firmly closed it. They had blocked the Rudson Kingdom from essing any channels into their territory.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire had officially listed the Rudson Kingdom as an enemy nation, asking the other countries of the continent to also blockade the Rudson Kingdom.

    Because of the threat of the Candra Empire, other than those countries that were close to the Marlow Empire and supported them, all the countries near the Rudson Kingdom had agreed to this.

    Even the Lampuri Kingdom who had a good rtionship with the Candra Empire before, who had also secretly helped the Rudson Kingdom fight back the Candra Empire didn¡¯t oppose this.

    Of course, this was mainly because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire had signed trade agreements. The Candra Empire had listed the Lampuri Kingdom as an allied nation, so naturally the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t be as close to the Rudson Kingdom as before.

    Because the countries that supported the Marlow Empire and opposed the Candra Empire were at least a thousand kilometers away, the Rudson Kingdom could be considered isted.

    The only exception was the Stantine Duchy.

    The Stantine Duchy had never given a formal response to the blockade of the Rudson Kingdom that the Candra Empire had proposed, so they continued trading with the Rudson Kingdom like before, not caring about the warning and the threats of the Candra Empire.

    Now that the Rudson Kingdom hade, naturally they were hoping to get some assistance from the Stantine Duchy to help deal with the blockade of the Candra Empire.

    This was why the specifications of this delegation were so high. The leader was the parliament speaker Duke Boris and he was very polite after meeting Xu Yi.

    ¡°The Lord Duke¡¯s praise are too much.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°I wonder, how has the Rudson Kingdom been recently?¡±

    Hearing this question, the expressions of Duke Boris and the two vice leaders beside him became very ugly.

    Duke Boris gave a dryugh before shaking his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t that good. Chairman Xu, I think that you should be clear on the situation. Because of the Candra Empire¡¯s blockade, our kingdom has been seriously impacted. In the past few months, there has been no exports of our products and many merchants in the city have gone bankrupt, with many of them even killing themselves.¡±

    ¡°Yes......¡± One of the vice leaders on the side, who was the one of the leaders of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s department ofmerce, Count Gandal gave a deep sigh, ¡°The kingdom¡¯s business taxes have dropped by at least 60%. If this continues, it would be hard to imagine this year¡¯s business taxes. The ns that were scheduled for next year will be stopped which will be bad for our kingdom.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just the business tax, it¡¯s also affecting the livelihoods of people. Although after getting the agricultural magic machines and the fertilizer, the kingdom¡¯s grain yield has increased and there¡¯s no need to worry about a famine, other than this, the kingdom iscking other goods that we need because it¡¯s being blocked.¡±

    The other vice leader was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s department of civil welfare¡¯s chief Count Anke, so naturally what he cared about was different from the rest.

    ¡°Right now, the most important problem is medicine. Most of our Rudson Kingdom¡¯s medicine was imported from other countries, but now that there is the blockade, there are many essential medicines that we can¡¯t buy. It isn¡¯t enough to rely just on the medicine inside the kingdom and......¡±

    After saying this, Count Anke looked depressed as tears appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°There was a flood in the kingdom¡¯s southeastst month which caused serious damage and even a gue. When we left the kingdom, there were already two hundred people who died from the gue. If we don¡¯t take care of this medicine problem soon, there will be more and more people dying.....¡±

    Duke Boris and Count Gandal both had the same heavy expressions, confirming that what Count Anke was saying wasn¡¯t false.

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although he knew that the Rudson Kingdom would be heavily affected by the Candra Empire¡¯s blockade, he never thought it would be this serious, which was a bit surprising to him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡±

    Duke Boris was about to say something, but Xu Yi raised his hand to cut him off.

    ¡°I will arrange somepanies to transport some medicine to your country, this is to help the people in your country who are affected by the gue.¡±

    The three of them were surprised before being filled with joy.

    Count Anke excitedly took Xu Yi¡¯s hand, ¡°Really? That¡¯s great! Chairman Xu, if there is enough medicine, we can save many more people.¡±

    Xu Yi secretly gave a sigh. He thought that whether these three were acting or not, the gue that they mentioned couldn¡¯t be fake because this matter wasn¡¯t easy to hide. As long as Xu Yi wanted to ask about it, he could easily find out.

    In the face of this serious disaster, it was clear that saving people was more important. The other problems could be put on the side.

    The other thing that made him sigh was that although the Rudson Kingdom could push back the Candra Empire, their national strength was just toockingpared to the Candra Empire. Now that the Candra Empire was targeting them and after they were blockaded, it was even a problem maintaining the livelihood of its citizens.

    ¡°This......Chairman Xu......The kingdom has some issues with the funds, so the money to buy this medicine......Ke, can we not pay immediately? But please be assured, we will use......¡± Count Dangal awkwardly said this.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I said that it is aid for the people of your country, it is free to begin with, you don¡¯t need to pay anything. Other than this, I will transport some other daily necessities and you can arrange for these people to get some.¡±

    The three looked at each other before Duke Boris gave a nod and said with a serious voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, the aid from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, our Rudson Kingdom will forever remember this. We......¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand again and cut him off.

    ¡°Lord Duke, the two of you, I need to make one thing clear. This free aid is in my name alone and is unrted to our Fresteech Chamber of Commerce, I hope you understand that.¡±

    The three were stunned before revealing somewhat ugly looks.

    Free aid from Xu Yi alone and free aid from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had very different meanings.

    When Xu Yi offered his help without any hesitation, they thought that they had easily aplished their goals.

    But with a single sentence from Xu Yi, they understood that their task was still very hard.

    Thinking of this, Duke Boris took a deep breath before calming himself. After giving a nod to Count Dangal and Count Anke, he turned back to Xu Yi and said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, we came all this way from the kingdom to discuss an important matter with yourpany.¡±

    Duke Boris intentionally emphasized ¡°yourpany¡± which made his meaning clear.

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Please speak.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi was willing to discuss with them, Duke Boris¡¯ group let out a sigh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, first, I represent our Rudson Kingdom to express our sincere gratitude for your free aid.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t anything, this is what a normal person would do.¡±

    Duke Boris gave a nod before continuing, ¡°But chairman Xu, you should understand the current situation of our kingdom. What I want to say is that although your free aid can solve this temporary problem, there¡¯s no way to solve all our problems.¡±

    ¡°Of course, I am limited in the end since I am only one person.¡±

    ¡°But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t just one person.¡± Duke Boris looked straight at Xu Yi and said this in a deep voice.

    ¡°So your Rudson Kingdom wants our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Lord Duke, you must be joking. We are after all only apany, what we do depends on whether we can benefit from it or not. We can help your Rudson Kingdom, but that depends on the conditions you put forth.¡±

    Duke Boris took a deep look at Xu Yi before taking a document out of his bag and putting it in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the contract that his majesty has personally signed. As long as you agree, we can sign it immediately.¡±

    Seeing that Count Dangal and Count Anke on the side looked at the contract on the table with tense looks, Xu YI knew that the conditions in this contract weren¡¯t small.

    Of course, to move the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to ignore the threat of the Candra Empire to help the Rudson Kingdom, how could it be possible without giving conditions that were good enough?

 Volume 6 94 - Aid

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 94 - Aid </h4>

    After entering November, even if the Rudson Kingdom was in the south of the Sines Continent, its weather couldn¡¯t help turning colder.

    The cold wind came from the north and mixed with the sea breeze, it created a piercing chill in the air. It made people of Nissi City near the harbour couldn¡¯t help shivering.

    Roddick had juste out of a store and looked at several people shrinking back in rags across the street. He couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he gave a sigh.

    ¡°Is the Candra Empire¡¯s blockade of the Rudson Kingdom that serious? There are even more beggars than usual in Nissi City.¡±

    Hispanion Scope looked at these people and gave augh before curling his lips in disdain.

    ¡°They are justzy people. Although the Rudson Kingdom can¡¯tpare to our Lampuri Kingdom or the Stantine Duchy when ites to jobs, it¡¯s still much better than before, alright? Not mentioning anything else, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has more than ten factories in the Rudson Kingdom. If these people weren¡¯tzy, how couldn¡¯t they not find work?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Roddick didn¡¯t agree with Scope¡¯s views, ¡°The Rudson Kingdom has been blocked by the Candra Empire and the other kingdoms, so they can¡¯t sell their goods. I¡¯ve heard ourpany¡¯s people in Caraca City say that many magic machinepanies in the Rudson Kingdom are closing right now and there are also many otherpanies closing. So the Rudson Kingdom has less jobspared to before and you can¡¯t say it¡¯s because they¡¯rezy that they can¡¯t find jobs.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it because they arezy?¡± Scope¡¯s face was still covered in disdain, ¡°Hasn¡¯t ourpany¡¯s job posting been here for over a week now? There were less than five hundred people that came and you¡¯re saying that it¡¯s not because these fellows arezy? Then why aren¡¯t they going to respond to our post?¡±

    ¡°This.....This work is very far from their homes and even away from the Sines Continent, so they won¡¯t be able toe back even once a year. It is understandable that they aren¡¯t willing to go......¡±

    ¡°Che, even their Rudson Kingdom people have pride. Our Lampuri Kingdom and Stantine Duchy have a bunch of people going. Nowadays, if you can earn money, where wouldn¡¯t you go? If there¡¯s money, what else do you even need to think about.¡±

    Scope kept spraying his saliva all around as his eyes filled with disdain. He didn¡¯t even bother lowering his voice, as if he didn¡¯t care if the Rudson Kingdom people around him could hear him.

    Roddick shook his head with a bitter smile. He knew that he couldn¡¯t talk to his partner, so he was toozy to talk to him.

    But deep down in his heart, he agreed with what Scope said to a certain degree.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had openly recruited in the Rudson Kingdom and sent five hundred workers to the bases on the endless seas, which was because of the aid that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce offered to the Rudson Kingdom.

    But he never thought that Rudson Kingdom people wouldn¡¯t want these jobs. They would rather stay here in the warm Nissi City as beggars instead of working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it was Roddick of a few years ago, perhaps he wouldn¡¯t agree with leaving home for work.

    But since he joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, Roddick had gone all over with the transport fleet. He had even gone to the southeast corner of the continent that was several thousands of kilometers away. His experience couldn¡¯t be described and he no longer wanted to stay in his home forever, rather he wanted to wander even more.

    It was just like Scope had said, as long as you can earn gold coins, it doesn¡¯t matter where you go.

    Looking at the people on the opposing side of the street, Roddick shook his head and turned to leave.

    Before he took two steps, there was someone who came forward and blocked their path.

    The two were scared by him. Scope looked at him and saw how tattered his clothes were, how dishevelled his hair was, and how dirty his face was. He couldn¡¯t help mumbling before taking out two silver coins and throwing them at him.

    ¡°Here, go and buy two mantous, stop blocking the path.¡±

    That person was surprised before waving his hand. That person revealed a smile and asked, ¡°The two of you, you were talking about.....the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruiting people?¡±

    The two were surprised and Scope looked over him before nodding.

    ¡°Yes, there¡¯s a big job posting in Nissi Harbour, didn¡¯t you see it?¡±

    That person awkwardly scratched his head, ¡°This.....I never learned how to read, so I can¡¯t recognize the characters......¡±

    Scope and Roddick were surprised again before Scope pped his hands.

    ¡°So it¡¯s because of this! No wonder! I was saying that these people weren¡¯t dumb. They can¡¯t read letters, so they don¡¯t understand the job listing.¡± After saying this, Scope pulled that person in and excitedly asked, ¡°Do you want to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    That person nodded in a daze, ¡°Yes, I¡¯ve heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s treatment is very good.....¡±

    ¡°Of course, if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s treatment isn¡¯t good, none of the otherpanies would dare say a thing! Come, I¡¯ll bring you there!¡±

    Scope was prepared to head to the harbour, but Roddick grabbed his arm and pulled him to the side.

    ¡°Hey, Scope, manager Aldel deliberately posted this bulletin to recruit people who could at least read, that way it¡¯s easier to train them. This person can¡¯t read at all, what are you pulling him over for?¡±

    Scope rolled his eyes at Roddick, ¡°That is manager Aldel thinking too much. Not to mention the Rudson Kingdom, even in the Stantine Duchy, there are few people who can read, so how could we recruit that many literate people? Then again, if we keep dying, the n will be affected. When sir chairman asks about this, who will take responsibility? I will see manager Aldelter and talk to him about this, he can¡¯t just keep thinking the same thing.¡±

    Roddick thought about it and realized that Scope wasn¡¯t wrong, so he let him go.

    So the two of them brought that person to Nissi Harbour, to the office that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up to see manager Aldel.

    After hearing what Scope said, Aldel who was the third transport fleet¡¯s manager thought about it before thinking that it was reasonable and no longer insisted on his previous n

    After giving the middle aged man they brought named Bard a few simple test, manager Aldel waved his hand and announced that he would be a temporary worker for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The temporary worker was because he didn¡¯t satisfy all of manager Aldel¡¯s previous requirements.

    ording to the temporary work contract, Bard would only receive 80% of the normal monthly wage and would be on probation for two months. After he satisfied the conditions they gave him, he would be a full worker and enjoy all the benefits.

    Bard didn¡¯t think that much. He hade from his hometown in the mid north Rudson Kingdom and had been living quite a hard life. It was already good enough for him to find a ce to fill his stomach, so how could he be that picky?

    With Bard as a precedent, manager Aldel no longer insisted on his previous arrangement and eased the conditions.

    In the following three days, with the help of Nissi City¡¯s City Lord Manor, manager Aldel was easily able to recruit five hundred temporary workers from the people who took refuge in Nissi City.

    After recruiting these five hundred people, the Nissi City City Lord asked manager Aldel if he needed to recruit more workers because Nissi City was weakened by all the refugees that came, which was a lot of pressure on him as the City Lord.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped him solve this problem, that was really helping him out.

    Manager Aldel didn¡¯t give him a clear response, he just told him that if everything went smoothly, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will recruit more workers for their base on the sea and they woulde to Nissi City to recruit these workers.

    After everything was taken care of, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s third transport fleet that had been in Nissi City for over ten days finally departed.

    There were tworge transport Magic Ships that were filled with ten thousand tons of iron headed for the Stantine Duchy and with workers and many base building materials, as well as ten guard ships that headed to the east from Nissi Harbour.

    In this trip, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s third transport fleet was first bringing in the materials needed by the Rudson Kingdom first toplete the first part of the contract they signed before.

    After this, they would be bringing arge amount of mineral resources back from the Stantine Duchy.

    But looking at it carefully, this was also part of the contract.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would aid the Rudson Kingdom in many aspects to help them pass this difficulty. At the same time, they would work with the Rudson Kingdom, increasing their investment in the Rudson Kingdom and improving the situation in the Ruduson Kingdom.

    The price that the Rudson Kingdom paid was opening all their internal mineral resource markets to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing them to buy any mineral resources they wanted.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this current situation, the Rudson Kingdom would definitely never agree to this.

    But the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s situation was serious right now and there were various natural disasters, so the kingdom¡¯s internal situation was very unstable. They had no choice but to look for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for help.

    The final task of the third transport fleet was to continue developing the inds on the southern seas.

    ording to the initial ns, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would develop the seventeen inds in the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas. They would build corresponding bases and magic signal towers on these inds, guaranteeing that there would be no problem withmunication, as well as controlling this part of the sea.

    The third transport fleet brought the five hundred workers and therge amount of resources to these inds to satisfy the needs of five inds. Then they would start looking to develop it.

    However, as soon as they left Nissi Harbour, when they were less than three hundred kilometers out to the east, the third transport fleet met with trouble.

 Volume 6 95 - Searching The Ship

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 95 - Searching The Ship </h4>

    There was a column of water that appeared not far away in front of where the guard ships were, scattering in the air before sshing back down on the water.

    ¡°Send down the order, full stop.¡± Manager Aldel looked at the ck fleet in the distance and tightly knitted his brows, ¡°What does the Candra Empire navy want to do?¡±

    After bringing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s third transport fleet out of Nissi City, manager Aldel had thought that with the clear weather and the calm seas, they would be able to leave the sea areas before it was dark and would be able to start construction on the first ind tomorrow.

    With how it was going, it seemed like everything was going smoothly and he would be able to perfectly finish his task.

    But less than three hundred kilometers away from Nissi Harbour, he had bumped into arge fleet with the Candra Empire¡¯s g.

    Manager Aldel didn¡¯t think that it was strange at first since the Candra Empire navy must have some mission here or were here on a routine patrol, so they would just circle around them and continue on their voyage.

    But he never thought that when they approached, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy would send out severalrge stones in front of them, giving them a clear warning.

    This greatly surprised manager Aldel.

    Since the Candra Empire¡¯s navy bought the three guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had cooperated a bit and their rtionship was considered quite good.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleets and guard fleets met the Candra Empire navy many times on the southern seas and nothing had ever happened, they had gotten along quite well.

    So why did the Candra Empire¡¯s navy suddenly attack them?

    Manager Aldel looked up and found that hisrge transport Magic Ship was flying the g of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was very clear, so it was impossible the Candra Empire navy didn¡¯t see it.

    When he was feeling doubtful, there was a white guard ship from the opposing Candra Empire fleet that slowly came over.

    After a while, themunication staff for manager Aldel¡¯srge transport Magic Ship brought a Magic Communicator over for him.

    ¡°Sir manager, there¡¯s amunication request from the Candra Empire¡¯s navy.¡±

    Manager Aldel deeply knitted his brows as he took this and pressed the button on it.

    ¡°Hello, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet manager Aldel, may I ask which sir it is from the Candra Empire navy?¡±

    A low and deep voice of a middle aged man came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°This is the Candra Empire¡¯s first fleetmander Mark Louis. Manager Aldel, I represent the Candra Empire navy to give you an official warning. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s southern seas have been blockaded by the empire¡¯s navy and without the permission of the empire, no ships may pass. Your fleet had vited this blockaded, but since you are from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can let you return to the Stantine Duchy as an exception.¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Manager Aldel was in a daze, not daring to believe his ears, ¡°You¡¯re saying that you¡¯ve blockaded the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s southern seas? Are you serious?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Commander Louis¡¯ voice became very serious, ¡°This is the decision of the army headquarters, you have no right to resist. I will give you ten minutes to immediately leave these seas, or you should be aware of the consequences.¡±

    ¡°Aware of the consequences?¡± Manager Aldel couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh in his heart.

    Although the Candra Empire fleet had over a hundred giant ships, he didn¡¯t put them in his eyes at all.

    Because the Candra Empire¡¯s navy fleet only had three guard ships purchased from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Compared to the ten guard ships that they had, the battle strength wasn¡¯t on the same level.

    The only thing he needed to worry about was that the other tworge transport Magic Ships were slower than the guard ships and didn¡¯t have any military magic machines, so had a low battle strength.

    If they did fight, the tworge transport Magic Ships would be a burden.

    But the main problem wasn¡¯t with the battle strength, the main problem was that it was impossible for him to really fight the Candra Empire¡¯s navy fleet.

    Even if they won, this was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dering war on the Candra Empire.

    The consequences of this would be very serious and manager Aldel didn¡¯t dare do this.

    After thinking about it, manager Aldel tentatively asked, ¡°Commande Louis, we are only conducting the normal trading activity of ourpany, this doesn¡¯t hinder your blockade at all, right?¡±

    ¡°No!¡± Commander Louis said in a firm voice through the Magic Communicator, ¡°You entering this sea area is already breaking this blockade. If it wasn¡¯t on ount of yourpany, we would have already attacked you. I will warn you again, leave this sea area immediately!¡±

    Manager Aldel was a bit angry, but seeing the over hundred ships with the Candra Empire navy¡¯s g, he could only give a bitterugh. Then he said with a dejected sigh, ¡°Alright, we will be retreating. Commander Louis, I will definitely report today¡¯s matter to sir chairman in full.¡±

    This was his little unwilling counterattack.

    However,mander Louis wasn¡¯t moved and gave a coldugh through the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Even if chairman Xu was here today, he could only make the same choice as you.¡±

    Commander Aldel helplessly shook his head and waved his hand to his adjutant.

    ¡°Give down the order, retreat back to Nissi Harbour first.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s third transport fleet¡¯s tworge transport Magic Ships and the ten guard ships turned around, preparing to head back to Nissi Harbour.

    When they moved, there were two giant sounds that rang out nearby.

    Manager Aldel turned in surprise to find two plumes of water falling down.

    After being stunned, he took the Magic Communicator again and said in a sharp voice, ¡°Commander Louis, what is the meaning of this?¡±

    Commander Louis¡¯ cold voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Manager Aldel, did you fleet just leave the Rudson Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°So what?¡± Manager Aldel swallowed the words in his stomach and forced himself to calm down before asking in a deep voice, ¡°How is this rted to you?¡±

    ¡°I think that you should know that our Candra Empire has implemented a full blockade of the Rudson Kingdom. If you have just left the Rudson Kingdom, you have broken this blockade. I have reason to suspect that your ship has manpower and goods from the Rudson Kingdom. I request that you stop immediately and ept our inspection.¡±

    ¡°This is simply going too far!¡±

    Manager Aldel¡¯s heart was filled with rage, but reason told him that he couldn¡¯t lose his temper or they would lose all pretext.

    After taking a deep breath, manager Aldel forced himself to calm down again before saying in a low voice, ¡°Commander Louis, there is no basis to your suspicions. We are leaving as per your request, but it is impossible for us to let you inspect us.¡±

    ¡°If you deny this request, we will regard you as hiding something.¡± Commander Louis said in a cold voice, ¡°If you aren¡¯t willing to work with us, don¡¯t me us for not being polite.¡±

    ¡°Sir manager, the Candra Empire¡¯s ships are moving.¡± His adjutant reminded him in a low voice.

    Manager Aldel looked over and found that the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet was slowly moving over to surround them.

    Based on this, they were clearly nning on surrounding them and not letting them escape.

    ¡°Sir manager, what should we do?¡±

    Manager Aldel looked at the Candra Empire fleet that was approaching and after taking several deep breaths, he pulled his adjutant over and saidin a low voice, ¡°If something happens, have the ten guard ships break through the blockade without any hesitation.¡±

    The adjutant was stunned, ¡°What about the two transport ships?¡±

    ¡°The two transport ships are too slow, it¡¯ll be hard to run away, so we¡¯ll leave them here.¡± After saying this, manager Aldel gritted his teeth as pain filled his heart.

    Since he had taken the post of the third transport fleet¡¯s manager, he had never had any problems with the ships under him. He never thought that the first time would mean having to throw away two expensiverge transport Magic Ships, this loss really would be big.

    ¡°But.....¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no buts.¡± Manager Aldel cut off his adjutant, ¡°We can¡¯t fight with the Candra Empire, so we can only escape.¡±

    The adjutant¡¯s expression changed before he finally gave a nod and epted this order.

    ¡°Quickly make the preparations, I will stall for some time.¡± Manager Aldel patted his adjutant¡¯s shoulder, indicating for him to leave before turning on the Magic Communicator again, ¡°Commander Louis, please stop, I am willing to ept your request.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Commander Louis was a bit surprised, ¡°You¡¯re willing to ept our inspection?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Manager Aldel said, ¡°But this matter is very serious and if I decide by myself, I will be punished when I return to thepany. So I hope thatmander Louis will give me some time to let me contact sir chairman or sir CEO to exin the situation.¡±

    ¡°Contact chairman Xu?¡± Commander Louis¡¯ tone had a trace of disbelief, ¡°This is over two thousand kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy, how will you contact chairman Xu?¡±

    ¡°Ourpany has our own methods that will allow me to contact sir chairman in a short period of time. Commander Louis, can you give me half an hour?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re certain that you can get chairman Xu¡¯s response in half an hour?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    There was a bit of silence from the Magic Communicator before the Candra Empire¡¯s fleet that had been slowly approaching suddenly stopped.

    But these ships still scattered across the sea,pletely surrounding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s third transport fleet.

    ¡°I¡¯ll give you half an hour. If there¡¯s no response after half an hour, I won¡¯t wait any longer.¡± Commander Louis¡¯ cold voice came from the Magic Communicator again.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Manager Aldel replied and after a while, a Magic Airship suddenly rose into the sky from manager Aldel¡¯srge transport Magic Ship, flying in a northwest direction across the seas.

 Volume 6 96 - Counter Attack Or Retreat?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 96 - Counter Attack Or Retreat? </h4>

    Commander Louis watched the Magic Airship disappearing into the distance before turning to look at Count Russell beside him with clear doubt on his face.

    ¡°Sir Russell, this ce is over two thousand kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy. Even if the Magic Airships are fast, it is impossible to get a response from Xu Yi in just half an hour, right? What are these Frestech Chamber of Commerce fellows thinking?¡±

    Count Rusell also stared in the direction the Magic Airship disappeared in, as if he wanted it to remain in his line of sight forever. After hearing whatmander Louis said, he shook his head and said with a serious look, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce can always make strange things, so since they said that they can contact Xu Yi in half an hour, it isn¡¯t impossible no matter the distance.¡±

    ¡°You really hold the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in high esteem.¡±

    Commander Louis gave a shrug when he heard this. He thought that the deputy chief of staff Russell was famous in the Candra Empire navy as someone who held the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in high esteem, it was almost like in his eyes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could do anything.

    ¡°This is fact.¡± Count Russell turned back to look atmander Louis with a serious expression, ¡°I¡¯ve personally seen the many strange things made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so you will suffer a loss if you don¡¯t ce any importance on them.¡±

    Commander Louisughed at this, clearly not believing it.

    But he didn¡¯t bother arguing with a senior officer like Russell. After thinking about it, he asked, ¡°Sir Russell, why do you think.....the army headquarters arranged this operation this time?¡±

    Count Russell looked at him, ¡°Why are you asking this?¡±

    ¡°The Rudson Kingdom has no navy to begin with and they don¡¯t have any marine transportation of goods. The only ones capable of doing this are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Our operation this time, isn¡¯t it clearly targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? I¡¯m very curious, what the kingdom was just discussing was how to get some military magic machines through cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so why are they suddenly targeting them?¡±

    ¡°How would I know the thoughts of those important people?¡± Count Russell casually said.

    Seeing that Count Russell was this rxed,mander Louis couldn¡¯t help finding it a bit boring.

    He turned to look at the ships that were gathered around the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s twelve Magic Ships andmander Louis couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The three guard ships that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold to the Candra Empire¡¯s navy far surpassed traditional wooden ships, there was great demand for these guard ships in the Candra Empire navy.

    But the Candra Empire navy¡¯s budget was limited, it was impossible to orderrge amounts of guard ships from them, not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t give them that many to begin with. So up to now, the Candra Empire had only three guard ships up to this point.

    But in front ofmander Louis were ten guard ships and tworge transport Magic Ships that many people looked at with envy.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce allowed them to go on the ships to inspect them, the Candra Empire navy would try to find a chance to take these Magic Ships from them.

    Because the ones in charge of this mission was their Candra Empire navy first fleet, which was the Candra Empire navy¡¯s main force. If nothing unexpected happens, even if all the seized ships weren¡¯tpletely given to the first fleet, at least half of them would be.

    If he could get five guard ships and arge transport Magic Ship,mander Louis was certain that the strength of the first fleet would greatly increase.

    Although Count Russell had discretely warnedmander Louis that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet wouldn¡¯t give up that easily, he wasn¡¯t worried about this at all.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were strong, when faced with a hundred Thunderp Ships surrounding them, it was impossible for them to break through this encirclement.

    Not to mention that they had the tworge transport Magic Ships being a burden to them, it was impossible for them to escape together.

    The reason formander Louis¡¯ confidence was that he was confident the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet wouldn¡¯t dare fight back.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed quickly in the past few years, having very advanced technology, they were still apany in the end. How could they dare fight against the greatest empire on the continent?

    Thinking of this,mander Louis looked at the ten steel battleships that were glistening in the sun and he couldn¡¯t help rubbing his hands together with a smile like he had just gotten a treasure.

    He would definitely take these ships!

    ###

    Half an hour didn¡¯t go fast, but it also didn¡¯t go slowly.

    The sun that was above them moved a bit to the west, as a ck figure from the west quickly approached.

    After a while, this ck figure had turned into a fast flying Magic Airship.

    Seeing this Magic Airship appear, the two sides that had been very quiet on the sea suddenly became lively.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes were on the Magic Airship, watching it as it came over one of therge transport Magic Ships and slowlynded.

    Manager Aldel, who was already waiting with his two adjutants, quickly came over. When the Magic Airship¡¯s door opened, he couldn¡¯t help going right in.

    A middle aged man in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard uniform suddenly came out and they were caught off guard as they bumped into each other.

    Manager Aldel was surprised and moved to the side, seeing that this person was Ulysses who was in charge of this Magic Airship. He immediately asked, ¡°How is it? Did sir chairman respond?¡±

    Ulysses gave a nod, ¡°Yes, we flew to the nearest connection point and contacted sir chairman through the magicmunicationwork. After reporting the situation to sir chairman, sir chairman gave us an order.¡±

    ¡°What was sir chairman¡¯s order?¡± Manager Aldel quickly asked.

    Ulysses looked around before signaling to manager Aldel with his eyes toe off the Magic Airship.

    Manager Aldel understood and followed Ulysses,ing to a closed room on the Magic Ship.

    Ulysses took out a Magic Communicator and put it in front of manager Aldel.

    ¡°I¡¯ve recorded sir chairman¡¯s order, you can listen to it yourself.¡±

    Manager Aldel nodded and took the Magic Communicator, pressing the y button on it with ease.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet sailed the seas all year long, so it was hard to receive orders from upper management.

    Akali had an idea afterwards, which was to use the Magic Array of the magicmunicationwork. After improving it a bit, she added a record function and a yback function on the Magic Communicator.

    This allowed them to pass down clearer orders and made it hard to copy. As long as they went to a ce that had the magicmunicationwork installed, they would be able to use this.

    It was much betterpared to before when they couldn¡¯t contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and couldn¡¯t receive any orders.

    Manager Aldel pressed the button and Xu Yi¡¯s familiar voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Manager Aldel, on my title as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I am officially giving you an order.¡±

    Hearing this, manager Aldel couldn¡¯t help standing straight and focused on listening.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet and guard fleet are important properties of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they represent the benefits of ourpany, so no person or power can easily touch them. I¡¯m ordering you to deny the unreasonable request of the Candra Empire. If the Candra Empire tries to use force, I give you the right to decide whether to attack or retreat.¡±

    Hearing this, manager Aldel was stunned.

    Sir chairman¡¯s meaning......was to disregard the Candra Empire navy¡¯s request and even to.....fight back?

    Gods! Was sir chairman crazy? He actually wanted to attack the Candra Empire¡¯s army!

    Manager Aldel¡¯s lips twitched before he looked at Ulysses, but he saw that his expression was more normal than his.

    But the expression in his eyes also showed that he didn¡¯t understand sir chairman¡¯s orders.

    After waiting a bit, manager Aldel found that the recording had stopped and sir chairman didn¡¯t give any other orders or instructions.

    ¡°This.....Ulysses, what do you think?¡± Manager Aldel turned off the Magic Communicator and hesitantly asked Ulysses this.

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, you are themander of this fleet.¡± Ulysses said.

    Manager Aldel couldn¡¯t help cursing before grabbing Ulysses¡¯ cor and ring at him as he roared in a low voice, ¡°Damn yourmander! Tell me, what do I do now? Sir chairman must be crazy, he actually wants us to attack the Candra Empire¡¯s navy! Could it be that he doesn¡¯t know that this is dering war on the Candra Empire?¡±

    Ulysses looked at him and coldly said, ¡°Sir chairman naturally knows better than you.¡±

    ¡°Then what does sir chairman want to do? Is he really nning on dering war with the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. I don¡¯t care how sir chairman wants to handle this matter, I only know that sir chairman has already given his order, so we just need to carry it out.¡±

    Seeing the expressionless look on Ulysses¡¯ face, manager Aldel was stunned before spitting out.

    This Ulysses was part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and had always had the concept that sir chairman¡¯s orders were first priority. If he talked to Ulysses about this, it would be meaningless.

    ¡°I......¡±

    Manager Aldel wanted to say something else, but he suddenly heard arge sound outside that shook the tiny room.

    Manager Aldel¡¯s expression changed immediately.

    ¡°Damn, the Candra Empire fellows are attacking! Why didn¡¯t they say anything first!¡±

    Manager Aldel was about to run out, but Ulysses grabbed him.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    ¡°Manager Aldel, please make your decision. Will we fight back or will we retreat?¡±

    Manager Aldel was stunned before pping his hand, ¡°Nonsense! Fire all cannons for me! Take care of those b*stards from the Candra Empire!¡±

 Volume 6 97 - Meaning Of The Empirea??s Navy

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 97 - Meaning Of The Empirea??s Navy </h4>

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce was located to the north of the capital Wimbledon City, standing taller than some of the hills on the ins.

    This hill was the only tall spot in the nearby ins and the royal pce was so big that it covered the entire Wimbledon City. As long as the citizens looked up, they would be able to see the giant and magnificent royal pce in the distance.

    The great emperor of the Candra Empire would hold court meetings in the most conspicuous building of the royal pce, which was also the core of the Candra Empire¡¯s government, listening to the reports of the various ministers.

    Normally speaking, this court meeting was only a formality and they would only make some short reports to the emperor. As for the rest, it would be discussed in a meeting after the court meeting.

    So most of the time, the emperor just sat on the throne looking down at the various ministers, listening to them.

    However, today, the emperor of the Candra Empire, Deboir Seventeenth stood up from his high throne and was angrily pointing at the middle aged man who was wearing the uniform of a Candra Empire general.

    ¡°The powerful empire¡¯s navy can¡¯t even take care of a singlepany¡¯s fleet, instead they lost over 70% of their fleet just from being beaten by them! Duke Warner, this is the empire¡¯s navy that youmand? This is the navy that the empire spends tens of millions of gold coins on each year?¡±

    The middle aged man had lowered his head and didn¡¯t respond.

    Seeing that he didn¡¯t say a thing, Deboir Seventeenth was even more angry.

    ¡°Very good, since the empire is spending tens of millions of gold coins on a useless thing each year, what¡¯s the use in keeping you? From this day forth, the empire¡¯s navy will be abolished! I don¡¯t want to spend money on you trash any longer!¡±

    Hearing Deboir Seventeenth¡¯s words, Duke Warner suddenly looked up with a trace of shock in his eyes.

    Although the empire had debated whether there was a need for a navy and the army headquarters kept decreasing their budget each year, the emperor had never taken a stance, so there was nothing fatal about these.

    But now that the emperor had flown into a rage about the former navy¡¯s defeat by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet and even said that he would abolish the navy, if someone seized this chance, it really would have devastating effects on the navy.

    ¡°Your majesty, you mustn¡¯t!¡± The one who shouted out wasn¡¯t Duke Warner, but rather the Candra Empire¡¯s minister of finance, Marquis Hastri who was standing to his right.

    Seeing hime forward, not only the other ministers, even Deboir Seventeenth was surprised.

    Because the navy took uprge amounts of funds and didn¡¯t do anything to contribute, so the department of finance that suffered much of this burden each year should be the one with the mostints about them.

    Now that the emperor had angrily said that he wanted to abolish the navy, the one that should be the happiest should be the department of finance.

    So why did Marquis Hastri have such a reaction?

    Deboir Seventeenth looked at him with a confused look, ¡°Marquis Hastri, why mustn¡¯t I? If you can¡¯t give me a convincing reason, don¡¯t me me for not being polite.¡±

    Hearing the dark tone in Deboir Seventeenth¡¯s voice, the ministers all felt a chill in their hearts.

    It seemed like his majesty truly was angry this time.

    If anyone made him unhappy during this time, it really was a disaster for them.

    Marquis Hastri wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, it was clear that there was a lot of pressure on him.

    But after calming himself down, he said in a forced calm voice, ¡°Your majesty, I don¡¯t know anything about war, so I can¡¯t offer an evaluation in this aspect, but as the minister of finance, I do care about the financial significance of the royal navy.¡±

    Everyone looked at him in surprise.

    Financial significance of the royal fleet? Could it be that other than spending tens of millions of gold coins a year, they had some other meaning?

    ¡°Oh? Tell me about it.¡± Deboir Seventeenth was also hooked by his curiosity.

    ¡°Your majesty, it is true that the empire¡¯s navy does take tens of millions of gold coins a year and in the past few years, at least during the years I have been in office, they haven¡¯t made any contributions so there is no need for them to exist.¡±

    Hearing this, all the surrounding ministers couldn¡¯t help nodding.

    This was what everyone had thought of the navy.

    ¡°But......¡± Marquis Hastri suddenly changed the topic and his voice became louder, ¡°This situation has be better in the past two years. Although I can¡¯t give a concrete number, the pirates in the southern seas have gone into hiding from the attacks of the navy, so it has greatly increased the marine transportation industry on the southern seas. Just with the three harbours protected by the navy in the south, the tax revenue from them just this year alone will be over seven million gold coins.¡±

    ¡°Seven million gold coins?¡±

    All the surrounding ministers revealed shocked looks.

    Although for the giant Candra Empire, seven million gold coins wasn¡¯t considered much.

    But before this, the department of finance had never made a report for the southern ports because there wasn¡¯t anything to report.

    But in this year, this number had gone from zero to seven million, so this really was surprising for people.

    ¡°Just the tax revenue from marine transport?¡± Deboir Seventeenth asked.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Marquis Hastri nodded, ¡°This seven milliones all from the taxes of these three harbours. Moreover, the influence of this isn¡¯t just this, but because of the development of marine transportation, the empire¡¯s trade activity in the southern coast has also increased. The tax payments of the southern cities have all increased from this. Compared tost year, the city with the biggest increase had grown by 300%!¡±

    ¡°300%? Marquis Hastri, are you kidding?¡± A minister couldn¡¯t help asking in a loud voice.

    Deboir Seventeenth slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Marquis Hastri, you can¡¯t joke about this figure, are you certain?¡±

    ¡°Yes, your majesty. The department of finance has the detailed figures, you can review them at any time. I definitely would not dare joke about the kingdom¡¯s finances.¡± Marquis Hastri said without any fear.

    Deboir Seventeenth gave a nod.

    Of course he believed that Marquis Hastri wouldn¡¯t lie about this because there were no benefits to this and it could be easily seen through. He wouldn¡¯t take such a risk to deceive the emperor in front of everyone.

    ¡°This means that.....because of the navy eliminating the pirates on the south seas, allowing marine transportation to develop, the financial situation of the southern coast has greatly improved. Marquis Hastri, is this what you mean?¡± Deboir Seventeenth asked.

    ¡°Yes, your majesty.¡± Marquis Hastri said with a serious look, ¡°If it was said that the navy had no meaning before, I¡¯m certain now that because of the existence of the navy, the marine transportation industry could greatly develop. If we could improve on this, I believe that it would greatly boost the kingdom¡¯s finances.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Deboir Seventeenth looked at Duke Warner who had been silent the entire time and suddenly asked, ¡°Then Duke Warner, tell me, why could the navy never eliminate the pirates before and could suddenly do it in the past two years?¡±

    ¡°Right......¡±

    Everyone reacted to this and turned to look at Duke Warner.

    However, everyone found that when his majesty asked this, Duke Warner had an awkward look on his face.

    Everyone became curious.

    Duke Warner had a very high position in the Candra Empire, so what was it that could make him feel awkward?

    ¡°Speak!¡± Deboir Seventeenthmanded in a low voice.

    Duke Warner gave a bitterugh before giving a bow to Deboir Seventeenth and saying with a slight sigh, ¡°Your majesty, we were able to clear out the pirates in the southern seas in the two years mainly because of the help from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet......¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Hearing this response, all the surrounding ministers and Deboir Seventeenth were surprised.

    Why was it rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again?

    Deboir Seventeenth slightly knits his brows.

    He found that because he didn¡¯t care about the navy before because they had no meaning at all, he wasn¡¯t too clear on what the navy was doing.

    Based on Duke Warner¡¯s answer, it seemed like the navy had built quite a strong rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Duke Warner even said that the it was ¡°mainly¡± because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet that they could clear out the pirates.

    Based on this, it could be seen that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet was far stronger than the empire¡¯s navy. Otherwise, why would the navy be able to clear out the pirates only after they obtained the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet¡¯s help?

    Then with the report on the navy¡¯s sh with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, that proved it even more.

    Thinking of this, Deboir Seventeenth slowly sat down again and calmed himself before asking Duke Warner, ¡°Duke Warner,e, introduce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet. Why can a trivialpany¡¯s guard fleet be stronger than our empire¡¯s navy?¡±

    Duke Warner wanted to say something, but Marquis Hastri suddenly cut in first, ¡°Your majesty, can I first introduce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to you? I think that as long as you hear my introduction, you should know why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet is so strong.¡±

    Deboir Seventeenth slightly knitted his brows because he was a bit dissatisfied that Duke Hastri had suddenly taken this question away, but he ignored this because of his curiosity towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Alright, then you introduce this Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I want to see what is so special about thispany that our empire¡¯s two important ministers would want to talk about them.¡±

    Marquis Hastri gave Deboir Seventeenth a bow before pausing for a second and then saying, ¡°Your majesty, actually......I¡¯ve always wanted to find a chance to introduce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to you because I feel that the emperor must ce great importance on thispany......¡±

 Volume 6 98 - Retire

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 98 - Retire </h4>

    ¡°Hey, Heinz, have you ever heard of people being beaten and then asking to cooperate with a smile on their face?¡± Xu Yi put down the document in his hand and asked Heinz beside him this with a smile.

    ¡°I¡¯ve never seen such a cheap person before, but I don¡¯t find it strange at all if it¡¯s a country.¡± Heinz looked over the document and gave augh, ¡°It seems like you were right before, the Candra Empire is this cheap, if you don¡¯t beat them up, they won¡¯t care about you.¡±

    ¡°I already guessed what kind of reaction they would have, but I never thought that they would react this quickly.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I thought that I would have to beat them several times before they learned, but I never thought that they would react just after being beaten once, it really is surprising to me.¡±

    ¡°You think that the Candra Empire would be able to stand on the continent for over a thousand years if they didn¡¯t?¡± Heinz rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Let me tell you, the Candra empire is big and there are many capable people. Many of them will discover the potential of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and will ce importance on us, but they are just using this as a chance to do so.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. This time the document is actually from the emperor, which means that our smallpany has finally entered the vision of the great emperor.¡± After saying this, Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°To be honest, I don¡¯t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.¡±

    Heinz stretched himself out before standing up and giving a yawn.

    ¡°Alright, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, it doesn¡¯t matter to me. Anyway, I¡¯ve officially retired today and thepany has you as the chairman, so there¡¯s nothing for me to worry about. Starting tomorrow, I will just live a carefree retired life.¡±

    Seeing the rxed look on Heinz¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a heartfelt smile.

    Heinz was the most important partner that built the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with him and finally, he was going to retire on his fifty-fifth birthday which was today.

    This age on earth would still be considered young and it would be far from being able to retire.

    But for the Sines Continent where the average expectant life span was under forty years, Heinz who was fifty five years old was considered quite old.

    Actually, Heinz had already thought of retiringst year, but because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in an important period of quick growth, he couldn¡¯t make this decision.

    But this year the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finally opened therge markets of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, allowing thepany to take onerge step forward in its development which had assured him and he finally made the decision to retire.

    In his private talks with Xu Yi, he told Xu Yi another important reason for his choice to retire.

    Heinz felt that he was just the boss of a small general store in a small city. Although the years had passed, he felt that in terms of experience, vision, and other aspects, he couldn¡¯t follow the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There was no use for him to stay with thepany.

    He didn¡¯t want to stay on as a useless person and might even be a burden, so he decided to retire.

    Even if Xu Yi firmly denied this, saying that even if he stayed on and did nothing, he would still help thepany because of his experience and status in thepany, as well as his rtionships with other people. He could greatly help thepany develop, but Heinz denied this and firmly insisted on retiring.

    Because Heinz was certain of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t keep urging him, so he agreed to his decision to retire in the end.

    Starting tomorrow, Heinz would step down as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice president and wouldn¡¯t have any position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He would only have his status as a shareholder and wouldn¡¯t have any decision making rights in thepany.

    This was of course a good thing for Heinz because with his identity as a major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he could earn at least three million gold coins a year, which meant that he was one of the richest people in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With his current finances, he could live however he wanted after retiring.

    For example, he already made ns with his wife Ria. After retiring, he would travel across the Sines Continent, seeing all the beautiful sights that he had heard of before.

    Therefore he had used his own money to buy a Magic Airship from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also learning how to operate it, using this Magic Airship to travel more freely.

    At the same time, in order to let his old partner have a good trip, Xu Yi personally designed the Magic RV and had the magic research facility and the magic machine development center finish it as soon as possible.

    This brand new Magic RV followed the same concepts of RVs on earth, but it was more luxurious. Just a single one would reach at least ny thousand gold coins.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s idea, once this Magic RV was developed and mass produced, there would be many nobles that would want it, so its prospects weren¡¯t small.

    So it wasn¡¯t just designed for Heinz, it was also a new product for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car department.

    ¡°It would be good if I had the Magic RV now, then I could stop from time to time and eat and drink whenever I want to, it would be quite convenient.¡± Hearing Xu Yi mention the Magic RV again, Heinze couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of yearning.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, this thing is moreplex than the Magic Cars and because they need to let people live in them, there are more things to consider, so it isn¡¯t that easy to develop.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know this, but I¡¯m just imagining it.¡± Heinz gave a nod, ¡°Anyway, Ria and I don¡¯t n on going too far in the first two years, we¡¯ll just wander around in the surrounding kingdoms. There are roads in all the surrounding kingdoms, so we can go to many ces with just the Magic Sedan, it¡¯s enough.¡±

    ¡°Good, in just two years, no, it should be in one year, the Magic RV will be developed. When the timees, you and Ria will definitely get the first one.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Ha, ha, good, I¡¯ll just use the Magic Airship in a worst case scenario.¡± Heinz gave twoughs before looking around. Then he walked over to the window and looked out before taking a deep breath. He turned back to pat Xu Yi on the shoulder before saying with a serious look, ¡°Alright, Xu Yi, after I¡¯m gone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will depend on you alone. You.....should be more careful.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I will.¡±

    Heinz patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder again before looking around again and then walking out the door.

    Seeing the door slowly close, Xu Yi felt very sentimental in his heart.

    When he decided to create the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it had already been nine years ago.

    Some people say that ten years is a major change in a person¡¯s life.

    For apany, it didn¡¯t take ten years. It could grow from nothing in just nine years, going from being weak to bing powerful, even going from powerful to being so weak that it no longer existed.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be like this in nine years, although Xu Yi could admit that most of the work was his, if it wasn¡¯t for Heinz¡¯s support in the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have suffered quite a bit when it was established.

    In these years, although Heinz¡¯s use in thepany became smaller and smaller and many high level members that joinedter didn¡¯t have a deep impression of him as the vice chairman, Heinz had done everything he could to y his role and didn¡¯t idle at all.

    Now that he finally decided to retire and enjoy his life, Xu Yi truly felt happy for him.

    But with this old partner leaving him, it made Xu Yi feel a strong sense of unwillingness and loss.

    If Heinz left today, who would be the next one to leave tomorrow?

    After being in a daze for a bit, Xu Yi pressed a button on his table.

    After a while, Tvisti came in.

    ¡°Sir chairman, what orders do you have?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled at her, ¡°Shouldn¡¯t you add a ¡®dear¡¯ in front of my name now?¡±

    Tvisti blinked for a second before seriously refuting it, ¡°Sir chairman, we are working now, it isn¡¯t right if I add this, right?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes. He thought that Tvisti was an elf in the end, she couldn¡¯t be like a normal human girl and be shy over this matter.

    Even if elder Lisanya had recognized the rtionship between Tvisti and Xu Yi, the way Tvisti treated him wasn¡¯t that differentpared to before.

    This was the clear difference from Agnes who was closer to humans.

    ¡°Alright, since we¡¯re at work, I won¡¯t joke around. Help me call Alex over.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    After around twenty minutes, Alex, who had a look of doubt and a bit of surprise in his eyes appeared in front of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at him and found that although he was wearing a work uniform, it was very neat and clean. Even his hair was carefully done, not a single bit of mess with it at all.

    If it was someone else, they would have praised this person for taking care of his appearance.

    But when Xu Yi saw Alex like this, he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

 Volume 6 99 - New Goal

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 99 - New Goal </h4>

    Hearing this cold snort, Alex suddenly realized something and immediately stood straight as he stared straight forward, not daring to move.

    Although Xu Yi was only five years older than Alex, because of Xu Yi¡¯s status and the fact that he had always been close friends with Heinz, Alex would always lower his position when he was facing Xu Yi.

    Adding in the fact that Alex had made a serious mistake before, if if wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi giving Heinz face, he would have been in jail already and would never have a chance to get out.

    So every time he met Xu Yi, Alex¡¯s heart would always have a bit of fear.

    Xu Yi had suddenly called him without giving him a reason which made him feel very uneasy.

    ¡°Alex.¡± Xu Yi suddenly said.

    ¡°Ah? Ah, here! Here, sir chairman, what is your order?¡± Alex carefully asked.

    Xu Yi looked at him and gave a soft snort, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that you¡¯ve had nothing to do and feel that being in the headquarters is wronging you and you¡¯re very bored, right?¡±

    Alex was scared as he quickly waved his hand and shook his head, ¡°No, no, no, sir chairman, I¡¯m not bored at all, really! I have many things to do every day, how could I be bored?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked over his clean clothes and couldn¡¯t help giving another cold snort.

    Because Alex had made a big mistake before, Xu Yi had called him back from Anvilmar City and sent him into the transport fleet as a transport driver before promoting him based on the situation.

    In the end, in less than two months, Alex said that working as a driver each day was tooborious and didn¡¯t want to do it anymore.

    With no other choice, Xu Yi could only call him back to the headquarters and gave him a job that had no work and didn¡¯t have any influence, allowing him to idle around all day.

    Alex was very satisfied with this job and because there was no work, there were few things that he needed to do each day. His wage wasn¡¯t low and other than not having any power, there wasn¡¯t anything bad about this.

    Heinz was clear on Alex¡¯s personality, so he approved of Xu Yi¡¯s arrangement very much.

    If nothing unexpected happened, Alex would have never gone up or down and Xu Yi never would have thought of this person.

    But because Heinz announced that he was retiring today, while Xu Yi was feeling sentimental, he remembered Alex.

    Even if Heinz was dissatisfied with his own nephew, he was the son that his big sister had entrusted him with, so he always stuck himself out for Alex. It could be considered pampering.

    When he talked about Alex with Xu Yi, Heinz always med himself. He said that he didn¡¯t teach his nephew well and he couldn¡¯t be an outstanding person.

    Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been moved by Heinz before, but after Heinz left today, he suddenly thought that he should help Alex again, giving him another chance which was considered giving the retired Heinz somefort.

    ¡°Alex, are you satisfied with your current work?¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi asked this.

    Alex thought about it before giving a strong nod, ¡°Satisfied, very satisfied! Sir chairman, my current work really is great!¡±

    ¡°Do you really think this?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°I thought that you were doing well these days and was nning on giving you some work with more prospects, but since you feel that your work is very satisfying, it seems like there¡¯s no need.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Alex was surprised before his eyes lit up and he rubbed his hands. He said with an awkward smile, ¡°This.....Sir chairman, although I¡¯m very satisfied with my current work.....Ke, you see, if there is more promising work, I would be very happy. Can you tell me what this job is?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and took out a document from his desk.

    ¡°Look at it yourself.¡±

    Alex took this document and impatiently opened it. When he took his first look, his eyes popped out and as he continued, his expression became more and more excited.

    After he finished reading it, Alex couldn¡¯t help looking over it again before asking Xu Yi with a look of disbelief, ¡°Sir.....Sir chairman, are you......are you really sending me to manage this office? This is Wimbledon City! This is the capital of the Candra Empire! Are you really assured in letting me go to such an important ce?¡±

    ¡°If I said I wasn¡¯t, would you believe me?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    Alex¡¯s smile immediately froze before he forced out twoughs.

    ¡°This.....He, he, sir chairman, you don¡¯t believe in me.....This is normal since I.....¡±

    ¡°Enough.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand to cut him off, ¡°I¡¯ve already made my decision. You will take this post because you are one of the rare experienced people in ourpany, so there¡¯s nothing good about keeping you here all day doing nothing. Of course, I will honestly tell you, this is all because of your uncle, otherwise I could find someone else, understood?¡±

    ¡°Of course! Of course I understand!¡± Alex kept nodding, ¡°Sir chairman, I promise that I will do my best this time, I will definitely manage the Wimbledon City branch well! I want to let the entire Candra Empire be familiar with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s good that you¡¯re confident.¡± Xu Yi nodded before saying, ¡°You can go and make your initial preparations. If nothing expected happens, when the new yeares, this branch will start construction. You have half a year to prepare everything.¡±

    ¡°Alright!¡± Alex gave a strong nod. He looked at Xu Yi for a while and seeing that he wasn¡¯t nning on saying anything else, he could only give Xu Yi a respectful bow before leaving.

    After Alex left, Tvisti suddenly said, ¡°Sir chairman, didn¡¯t this Alex betray thepany before? Why are you giving him such an important position? Could it be that you aren¡¯t worried he¡¯ll make the same mistake?¡±

    ¡°Remember, Tvisti, we humans will notpletely judge a person based on what they¡¯ve done wrong before and will give them a chance to correct this. Although Alex did make a serious mistake before, I am willing to give him another chance. Also, I have to admit that Alex¡¯s abilities in this aspect are quite good and as long as he works properly, I believe that he will do well.¡±

    Tvisti was silent for a bit before suddenly saying, ¡°But the main reason is because of vice chairman Heinz?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before he revealed an awkward smile, ¡°What? You can recognize this now?¡±

    ¡°We elves are very good at learning, it isn¡¯t strange at all that I can see through this.¡± Tvisti shook her head, ¡°But sir chairman, I still have to oppose your decision. This Alex.....the feeling he gives me isn¡¯t good.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If I told you that the importance of the Candra Empire market and the Marlow Empire market have two different meanings, what would you think?¡±

    Tvisti revealed a confused look, ¡°I.....I don¡¯t know......¡±

    ¡°Alright, you¡¯ll know the differenceter. It¡¯s about time, let¡¯s go to the conference room, they must all be waiting.¡±

    Xu Yi and Tvisti entered thergest conference room in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main building which was already quite lively inside.

    Sitting in front was the CEO Kennard with high level managers around him. Everyone had a happy smile on their face and the room had a happy atmosphere, looking very lively.

    Seeing Xu Yie in, everyone stopped discussing and all stood up as they looked at Xu Yi. Quite a few people couldn¡¯t hide the respect and awe that were in their eyes.

    Xu Yi calmly walked up to the chairman¡¯s position in the center of the room under everyone¡¯s gaze and sat down.

    ¡°You can all sit down.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand to indicate for them to sit before turning to Kennard beside him and saying with a smile, ¡°Alright, Kennard, start this year¡¯s end of year summary meeting.¡±

    Kennard didn¡¯t sit down as he looked at the document in his hand before throwing it onto the table. He looked around the table before saying in a loud voice, ¡°First, I want to tell everyone some good news. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit has greatly grownpared tost year! Although the concrete data hasn¡¯te out yet, I¡¯m certain that we will break fifty million gold coins!¡±

    ¡°Hua!¡±

    After a moment of silence, there was a thunderous apuse that filled the room.

    Although Kennard had already told them before that thepany¡¯s profit had grown this year, no one had expected it to suddenly reach over fifty million gold coins.

    It had to be known, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profitst year was just over thirty million gold coins! It had grown by over twenty million in just a single year!

    This growth really was astonishing and hard to believe.

    Apany developing would always follow the same rules, it could quickly develop at first, growing from nothing, looking very exaggerated.

    But once the development reached a certain degree, the growth would stabilize.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly ie had grown by several million a year before until it broke thirty millionst year, which was already a speed that everyone was shocked by.

    But it had suddenly grown by twenty million this year, this was simply unbelievable.

    ¡°What? Everyone is this surprised?¡± Xu Yi looked around at the shocked looks on the faces of the high level members and after pausing, he said, ¡°If you¡¯re all shocked by just fifty million, if you heard the goal that I¡¯ve set for ourpany¡¯s profit next year, I really think that your chins might just drop off.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in surprise before the household magic machine department¡¯s manager Ankhto carefully asked with a gulp, ¡°Sir chairman, what.....are your goals for next year?¡±

    Xu Yi raised his right index finger with a smile, ¡°One hundred million.¡±

    The entire room was filled with silence.

 Volume 6 100 - Frozen Northern Port

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 100 - Frozen Northern Port </h4>

    After the new years, the winter cold covered the entire Sines Continent.

    The Marlow Empire was in the far north, so every year during winter, it would be much colder than it was in the southern countries.

    But for Stasom Town that was the furthest north in the Marlow Empire, it wasn¡¯t just a problem of being a bit colder than the rest of the empire, but rather it was apletely different world.

    The cold wind that came from the endless seas to the north, even just a single breeze was enough to make one shiver. For Stasom Town that faced this cold wind, if the wind blew onto your face, it was like a cold de that was painfully shing across it.

    ¡°Si!¡±

    With a cold breeze, Hogan and Dicardo couldn¡¯t help taking a cold breath and they couldn¡¯t help wrapping themselves up tighter while shrinking back their necks. They couldn¡¯t even help narrowing only their eyes that were revealed to the wind as they looked to the north with slits.

    ¡°Hey, Dicardo, on such a cold day, even if we¡¯re supposed to meet with this transport fleet, what kind of goods will they be bringing?¡± Hogan¡¯s voice was very muffled from his mask, which sounded a bit strange to Dicardo.

    But this wasn¡¯t what Dicardo cared about now. He was looking into the distant seas where he couldn¡¯t see a thing as he shook his head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°We can only take it one step at a time. Who told those transport fleet fellows to not follow the n ande two monthste. If they arrived two months ago, the weather wouldn¡¯t be as good and this would be easier to handle.¡±

    Hogan was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°You can¡¯t me them since Stantine is so far away. They had to run around the continent, there must be many different things on the seas for such a long trip, so they couldn¡¯t avoid something happening in the middle. To be honest, it¡¯s already very powerful that they were able to arrive safely at all.¡±

    ¡°Un......You¡¯re right.¡±

    Dicardo replied before looking at Stasom Harbour in the distance.

    This harbour was the biggest harbour in the north of the Marlow Empire. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed a contract with the Marlow Empirest year, they had invested three million gold coins to expand it, creating a harbour that could anchorrge ships.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had been led by Narvil to explore the north, with this harbour as their destination.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first transport fleet led by Narvil should have arrived in October ofst year.

    The Marlow Empire was still in early winter then and the weather was considered normal.

    However, the first fleet was stalled on the seas for two months, even one losing all contact. It made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce almost think that some ident had happened to them and they had been buried in the endless seas.

    It was a good thing that the two Magic Airships that Xu Yi gave them really helped them then. In the middle ofst month, which was during the half a month the fleet had disappeared, the Magic Airship had flown to Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory with news on the fleet.

    After receiving this news, Hogan who was the vice manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch in the Marlow Empire, as well as Dicardo who was the leader of the transport team hade to Stasom.

    They had been waiting for half a month now and they had been in close contact with the Magic Airship and the fleet every day. Finally they received the confirmation three days ago that the fleet would safely arrive in Stasom today.

    Although the wind was cold today and the temperature was enough to freeze someone to death, they had left their warm beds early in the morning toe to the Stasom Harbour.

    After Dicardo watched the scene in the Stasom Harbour for a bit, he gave a sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s a good thing since I was worried before that as the weather got colder, the harbour would be frozen and there would be no way to anchor. Seeing it now, even if the weather was colder, it would be impossible topletely freeze the sea.¡±

    Hogan revealed a smile when he heard this, ¡°We were scared by the rumours of those Marlow Empire fellows before. They said that once winter came, the sea would bepletely frozen and there would be no way out. I thought that they meant ayer of ice on the sea, but now it seems like there is still ice, but it¡¯s all in pieces. It isn¡¯t anything incredible at all.¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say that they¡¯repletely wrong since the fishermen here only have small boats, those boats might shatter just from a single hit with these pieces of ice.¡± Dicardo said whileughing, ¡°When they see our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel ships, they¡¯ll know that these pieces of ice aren¡¯t a problem at all.¡±

    Hogan gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, who told them to have no experience. When the fleet gets here and they see the magic machines that ourpany makes, I don¡¯t know how surprised they will be.¡±

    Dicardo and Hogan looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Before the two of them came to the Marlow Empire, they felt a deep inferiority towards thisrge empire, but aftering to the Marlow Empire and spending half a year here, they found that other than the Marlow Empire having more territory, there were many ces that wereckingpared to the Lampuri Kingdom or the Stantine Duchy.

    Normally the people they came in contact with were the nobles or therge merchants of the Marlow Empire. These people were at the highest level in the Marlow Empire, so their lives would be quite luxurious.

    However, to Dicardo and Hogan, even if these people lived luxurious lives, there were many parts that were quite backwards. There were many parts of their lives that were considered very convenient.

    After the two of them had been here for half a year, not only did the awe they felt for the giant Marlow Empire disappear, they even felt a strange sense of superiority.

    Marquis Southgate and those nobles and merchants around him already made them feel superior, not to mention the nobles and merchants of a small ce like Stasom.

    They had been in Stasom for half a month and met with all the nobles and merchants here, which gave them quite a strong impression of inexperienced hicks.

    Of course, these fellows lived even worse than most of the farmers of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy.

    At least the farmers of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy would not seem so overjoyed just to eat some meat......

    They waited patiently for another twenty minutes before a familiar sound came from the sky in the distance.

    The two looked up and saw a dark spot in the sky to the northwest that was quickly approaching. It turned into a Magic Airship thatnded on the ins outside of the Stasom Harbour.

    ¡°Right, Hogan, the wind is so strong today, how can the Magic Airship still fly so steadily in the sky? Don¡¯t you find it strange?¡± Dicardo suddenly asked.

    Hogan was prepared to walk over, but he was surprised after hearing this. Tilting his head to think for a bit, he then shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not someone from the magic research facility or the development center, how would I know if you ask me?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Dicardo gave a shrug, ¡°I¡¯ll just ask captain Yinsenter then.¡±

    The two quickly came to the Magic Airship which had already opened the door and the captain named Yinsen that Dicardo mentioned earlier came out. He walked over to them and loudly said, ¡°Manager Hogan, the fleet will be here in an hour, please make your preparations!¡±

    Hogan nodded, ¡°Alright!¡±

    They didn¡¯t waste time talking and turned to prepare the workers, making the final preparations to wee the transport fleet.

    Actually, they had already been prepared for half a month, so they only need to go over it once again now that they need it.

    Dicardo and Yinsen who were left behind began talking about a few things.

    They mainly talked about whether the fleet needed anything special, like supplies, repairs, or such before confirming the various arrangements for the fleet after they arrived.

    For example, ording to the n, the fleet would first unload all their cargo in Stasom Harbour which would be first sold in Stasom and the surrounding cities. Then they would decide how much to transport down into the Marlow Empire.

    This sea voyage for a trade route that had taken four months toplete, although they could also make contact with all the other countries by the sea along the way, the main responsibility of this mission was to link the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Marlow Empire. Then with thend route that they built, it would create aplete market.

    After the two talked for a bit, Dicardo suddenly thought about the question he had thought of earlier and asked captain Yinsen.

    ¡°How it¡¯s able to stay stable in the air?¡± Captain Yinsenughed before waving his hand, ¡°Manager Dicardo, you wouldn¡¯t think that the magicians back at the magic research facility wouldn¡¯t be able to think this through, right?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, of course I know that they know, but I can¡¯t think it through. The wind is so strong, how can the Magic Airship still remain stable?¡±

    ¡°This......Actually there¡¯s an aerodynamic bncing system on the Magic Airship, but don¡¯t ask me what that is since I don¡¯t know either. I only know that when there are strong winds, we can activate this system and then it¡¯ll cancel out most of the wind, to let the Magic Airship remain stable in the air.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s this amazing?¡± Dicardo was surprised for a bit. After thinking about it, he guessed, ¡°The Magic Airship is flying in the sky with Wind Magic, so this aerodynamic bncing system should be relying on Wind Magic as well, right?¡±

    Captain Yinsen rolled his eyes, ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I just know how to use it, I don¡¯t need to know the principles behind it.¡±

    Dicardo thought about it for a bit and still couldn¡¯t think it through. He could only give a helpless sigh, ¡°Alright, even the people in thepany can¡¯t understand the things that ourpany makes. I think that if those fellows from otherpanies wants to copy them, they are dreaming!¡±

 Volume 6 101 - Powerful Mobilization Of Supplies

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 101 - Powerful Mobilization Of Supplies </h4>

    An hourter, the ten giant ships quickly came through the sea to the northwest.

    Hogan counted carefully and found that there were a total of thirteen ships before letting out a sigh of relief.

    Although he had received the news along the way that there was no major problem, when he saw that all thirteen ships were safe, he could truly feel assured.

    Seeing the fleeting into the harbour, Stasom Harbour began to start working.

    When the firstrge transport Magic Ship docked on the harbour, Narvil walked down from the deck. When he saw Hogan and Dicardo, he gave both of them big hugs.

    ¡°Narvil, you did great!¡± Hogan pped Narvil¡¯s shoulder as he praised, ¡°When you go back, sir chairman will definitely prepare a special reward for you.¡±

    Narvil gave augh, ¡°The reward isn¡¯t important, being able toplete the task from sir chairman is already very good. Then again, we¡¯re already two monthste, it¡¯s already good if sir chairman doesn¡¯t punish me. There¡¯s no need to mention a reward at all.¡±

    ¡°The situation on the seas isplicated and it isn¡¯t strange that you couldn¡¯t follow the n, sir chairman will understand this.¡± Dicardo on the side said with a smile, ¡°But Narvil, what is with these people?¡±

    Narvil looked in the direction Dicardo was pointing in, seeing the people in strange and clearly different clothes walking down from the deck of therge transport Magic Ship.

    ¡°Oh, these people are the representatives from the countries along the way. They heard that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was sending a fleet to explore the northern seas and wanted toe to have a look. I thought of sir chairman¡¯s instructions before heading off and agreed.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you mean by they can represent their countries?¡± Hogan asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Although they can¡¯tpletely represent it, it¡¯s around the same.¡± Narvil said, ¡°Sir chairman wanted me to establish rtionships with the countries that we passed along the way, so I followed his instructions. The two months that we were dyed by was mainly because of this.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Hogan and Dicardo looked at each other and gave a nod, thinking that this reason was reasonable.

    Anyway, the fleet had arrived safely, so Narvil had perfectlypleted his task.

    Now it was up to Hogan and Dicardo to take charge.

    ¡°Un.....Then let¡¯s do this first. Narvil, It¡¯s been hard on you and the fleet, so Dicardo and I have already prepared some dwellings in Stasom City. You can go rest first, we just need a few of you to stay here and help with moving the cargo.¡± Hogan said.

    This was the n that they had before, but who knew that when Narvil heard this, he revealed an awkward look. He gave an awkward smile before hesitantly saying, ¡°This.....This.....Hogan, I won¡¯t hide it, but the ship basically doesn¡¯t have any of ourpany¡¯s cargo on it at all right now......¡±

    Hogan and Dicardo were surprised.

    ¡°Nothing? Why?¡±

    ¡°Because......Because we sold it all along the way.....so there really is nothing left right now......¡±

    ¡°Sold it all?¡±

    Hogan and Dicardo looked at Narvil with wide eyes filled with disbelief.

    ¡°How could you sell it all?¡± Dicardo kept asking before suddenly having an idea. He pointed at the people from the other countries that came off the ship and were curiously looking around, ¡°It was sold to those countries?¡±

    ¡°Un.....¡± Narvil gave an honest nod, ¡°When we met a country on the way, we followed sir chairman¡¯s instructions to go ashore to make contact. Although there were two that we couldn¡¯t contact, the remaining five all weed us. The magic machine that we brought were very weed by the people of those countries, so they were very easily sold. Actually, if we didn¡¯t control the amount that we sold, we might have sold everything in the first country.....¡±

    Hogan and Dicardo looked at each other in nk dismay.

    This fleet had tworge transport Magic Ships, which had a shipping capacity of over ten thousand tons. There were over a hundred thousand units of various magic machines loaded in it.

    These goods had been prepared for therge market in the northern Marlow Empire, but they had been easily sold along the way which was really a bit surprising.

    But they couldn¡¯t say that Narvil made a mistake because making contact with those countries and opening those markets were the instructions that sir chairman gave. With Narvil doing this, the people of those five countries will know the existence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and magic machines, creating demand there which was equal to opening the domestic markets in those five countries.

    Compared to this, the Marlow Empire had already been influenced by the magic machines and the market didn¡¯t need to be opened. Rather it was more important to open up the countries along the way.

    It seemed like Narvil had done very well with his mission this time.

    Even if he took a bit longer, after sir chairman learned of this, he would definitely be very satisfied.

    Of course, this created arge problem for Hogan and Dicardo.

    ¡°Dicardo, quickly contact themunications office and have them assemble arge amount of household magic machines from Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory to transport over here. We have already reached an agreement with City Lord Hughes that we would provide them with some magic machines once the fleet arrives. Now that the fleet doesn¡¯t have any cargo, we can¡¯t break our promise with him or this would affect the reputation of ourpany.¡± Hogan immediately made a decision as he spoke to Dicardo.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go now.¡± Dicardo didn¡¯t waste any words and immediately turned to leave.

    Seeing the serious looks on their faces, Narvil awkwardly said, ¡°Hogan, I¡¯ve caused trouble for you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, naturally sir chairman¡¯s instructions take priority. But.....¡± Hogan knitted his brows, ¡°Narvil, why didn¡¯t you tell me about this ahead of time? It¡¯s not like we lost contact along the way.¡±

    Narvil gave a cough as the apologetic look on his face became deeper, ¡°To be honest, I really didn¡¯t put Stasom City in my eyes at all.....¡±

    Hogan could only helplessly roll his eyes, ¡°You¡¯re causing trouble for me and you aren¡¯t even putting me in your eyes?¡±

    Narvil wanted to apologize again, but Hogan waved his hand to stop him.

    ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t mind, but you can¡¯t rest now. It¡¯s best if youe and see City Lord Hughes with me and exin the situation to him. Stasom Harbour is the most important harbour for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the northern Marlow Empire, so it¡¯s important to have a good rtionship with City Lord Hughes.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll listen to you.¡±

    Although Narvil had been the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet manager for many years, he was normally on the seas and was in charge of transporting things, so normally he had little contact with the people of other countries. He naturally couldn¡¯tpare to Hogan in taking care of this.

    It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a smallpany like before. As thepany developed, they gained more talented people, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t have developed this smoothly.

    Since there was no need to unload any cargo, it was easy to handle things once the fleet arrived.

    After Hogan had his subordinates take care of the sailors, he brought Narvil and the representatives of the various countries to Stasom City. Stasom City¡¯s City Lord Count Hughes personally came to wee them and brought them to a banquet.

    At the banquet, Hogan apologized for the cargo of the fleet already being sold and stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make up for this from somewhere else.

    Although Count Hughes was a bit disappointed, he still understood.

    Actually,pared to the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, what he cared more about were the representatives from the various countries.

    So after the banquet, the news of the representatives from these countries and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet arriving in Stasom City quickly left the city and headed south.

    The fastest among them were the Magic Sedans that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, taking only two days to travel two thousand kilometers to Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    As soon as the news arrived, the magic machine industry production base on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory started working at full force.

    Arge amount of household magic machines were made in the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies, quickly being loaded intorge transport Magic Cars and being sent to the north.

    This news arrived a dayter in the Lampuri Kingdom and then passed through the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magicmunicationwork, being sent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters in the Stantine Duchy in just a single minute.

    After another day, three hundredrge transport Magic Cars with over a thousand units of various household magic machines headed in the direction of the Marlow Empire.

    At the same time, various factories in the Lampuri Kingdom and the ck Rice Wastnd were operating at full force. They made household magic machines one by one before sending them all off to the Marlow Empire.

    If one looked at the Sines Continent from above, they would see all therge transport Magic Carsing out of the southern countries, heading across the roads like ants. All of them were gathering in the Marlow Empire.

    If one calcted it, they would find that after the news was sent from Stasom City, in just five days, there were over a hundred thousand units of various household magic machines entering the Marlow Empire.

    And every day after that, there was the same number of household magic machines being sent.

    Such terrifying mobilization of goods, this was the first time it had appeared in the history of the Sines Continent.

    At this time, when the news from Count Hughes in Stasom City spread, there was still a horse carriage that was heading south.

    If everything went smoothly and nothing stopped it along the way, it would reach the Marlow Empire¡¯s capital of Angelo City and deliver the documents to the rted documents in twenty days.

 Volume 6 102 - Recovering Rudson Kingdom

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 102 Recovering Rudson Kingdom</h4>

    The same motorcades appeared on the three roads between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom.

    After signing the new aid agreement with the Rudson Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been transporting all kinds of relief supplies in the past few months through the Stantine Duchy.

    Other than some resources that the Rudson Kingdom citizens couldn¡¯t get because of the blockade, there was also quite a bit of construction materials that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent to strengthen the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s factories.

    Based on the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s current situation, just helping them with daily necessities wasn¡¯t enough since it wouldn¡¯t solve the fundamental problem.

    So in the contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed, Xu Yi proposed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest in developing the magic machine industry in the Rudson Kingdom, to build arge number of magic machine factories to solve the work problem for the Rudson Kingdom citizens. They would also help change the living conditions and solve all problems that they had.

    Of course, this was different from investing in factories with the Rudson Kingdom. These factories that would be built, whether it was management rights or owning rights or pricing of the products, would all belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The only thing that the Rudson Kingdom could do to these factories was have the right to collect taxes as usual.

    If it was possible, the Rudson Kingdom of course wouldn¡¯t agree to this because this was like taking out everything that their country had and giving it to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to use. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would greatly benefit from this and they would only have a bit of soup.

    Compared to investing in factories together like before, this method greatly decreased the ie of the Rudson Kingdom.

    But because the Candra Empire hadpletely blockaded the Rudson Kingdom, the only ones who didn¡¯t care about this and dared to anger the Candra Empire to truly help the Rudson Kingdom was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So the Rudson Kingdom had no other choice and could only agree to the contract proposed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It had been half a year since they had signed this contract and as the spring breeze came across thend, the Rudson Kingdom began to fill with vitality like theing spring.

    The people of the Rudson Kingdom who had suffered because of the natural disasters had now be stable after receiving the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were over five hundred thousand citizens who suffered from this natural disaster. This was considered big no matter what country it was in the Sines Continent, it could even be considered a natural disaster with serious consequences in a small kingdom like the Rudson Kingdom.

    But this time, in the face of both the natural disaster and the blockade of the Candra Empire, after the Rudson Kingdom received the aid of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than having a few more refugees, the situation in the country wasn¡¯t that turbulent.

    Moreover, even with some refugees, with the stable lives that were returning with therge investment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t pose any hidden dangers.

    In less than half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the various parts of the Rudson Kingdom were like the spring after the rain.

    In early spring, when the flowers were blooming, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already officially set up twenty three factories in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Just with the twenty three factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were seventy thousand workers recruited from the Rudson Kingdom. It was even close to the total number of workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although the wages these factories gave the workers were lower than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce factories in the Stantine Duchy, they still earned more than ten gold coins a month. It was enough for a normal family to live afortable life.

    So because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s twenty three newly opened factories, it affected the lives of three hundred thousand people in the Rudson Kingdom.

    This was definitely something important for the Rudson Kingdom that was in a hard situation.

    Moreover, because of the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the many magic machinepanies that had been closed because of the Candra Empire blockade once again started doing business and quickly developed.

    This affected even more people in the Rudson Kingdom, reaching a number of over five hundred thousand.

    Adding in the development of the magic machine industry, the other industries in the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t avoid growing.

    So within just six months, the Rudson Kingdom situation hadpletely changed. It was filled with vitality once again and it wasn¡¯t as dreary as it was before.

    This kind of change was too obvious, everyone from top to bottom in the Rudson Kingdom could feel this.

    The normal Rudson Kingdom citizens were grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, feeling that they had saved them.

    But for the higher ups, even King Teruc, they hadplicated feelings about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it was based on the lives of the citizens, King Tercu was naturally grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because if they didn¡¯t help, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s situation would have already been in turmoil and it wasn¡¯t strange for anything to happen then.

    It wouldn¡¯t even be strange for the Rudson Kingdom to stop existing.

    But from the view of a king, from the view of the Rudson Kingdom, King Teruc was worried and vignt towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t apany that belonged to the Rudson Kingdom and wasn¡¯t controlled or influenced by King Teruc.

    The influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the Rudson Kingdom was very deep and for the entire Rudson Kingdom, this wasn¡¯t a good thing.

    Not to mention that in the contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed with the Rudson Kingdom, it clearly stated that they needed mineral resources from the Rudson Kingdom.

    With the financial power and the influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had on the Rudson Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t strange if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dug out all the mineral resources of the Rudson Kingdom.

    If this was the past King Teruc, he wouldn¡¯t have cared about all the mineral resources on the continent. But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with the importance of magic machines, at least now King Teruc was clear on the importance of these mineral resources.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been gathering mineral resources in all these years, it was clear what goal they had.

    However, King Teruc couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom had repelled the Candra Empire¡¯s invasion twice, it was impossible for them to fight the Candra Empire since there was a big difference in national strength.

    Now that the Candra Empire hadpletely blockaded the Rudson Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t have a way to break this blockade.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s only hope, so the Rudson Kingdom could only ept any conditions that they made.

    When he thought of this matter, King Teruc couldn¡¯t help feeling grateful.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t interested in anything other than mineral resources. Otherwise they could have taken this chance to propose even more excessive conditions to the Rudson Kingdom and they could only agree, creating more threat to the Rudson Kingdom.

    It was the opposite. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only did not take this chance to make excessive conditions, Xu Yi had surprised King Teruc when they met, saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would help the Rudson Kingdom build a perfect magic machine industrial system!

    Moreover, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t just saying empty words. He had represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign a contract that would transfer a portion of the agricultural magic machine technology with King Teruc.

    At the same time, Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to help the Rudson Kingdom to build two agricultural magic machine factories, helping the Rudson Kingdom gain the ability to produce agricultural magic machines themselves.

    This sudden blessing made King Teruc almost not believe his own ears back then.

    Just why was this?

    What did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce want to do?

    What did Xu Yi want to obtain from the Rudson Kingdom?

    There were many questions in King Teruc¡¯s mind, however, it didn¡¯t affect him in signing this technology transfer contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After all, there was no problem with this contract itself, there were only benefits for the Rudson Kingdom.

    After signing it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful mobilization appeared.

    In just half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had handed over all the technology stated in the contract to the Rudson Kingdom. As long as the Rudson Kingdom finished their preparations, they would be able to start production in those two agricultural magic machine factories.

    Of course, King Teruc didn¡¯t know that justst month, the Lampuri Kingdom had already built three agricultural magic machine factories that were already in production.

    At the same time, justst month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up a Lampuri Magic Machine Industry Academy with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s department of magic machine industry and research center.

    What King Teruc understood the most was that the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Rudson Kingdom had beenpletely blocked by the Candra Empire and could only transport to other ces on the continent through the endless seas and Nissi Harbour.

    This sea path could remain unblocked because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet making the Candra Empire¡¯s navy suffer arge loss, but the Candra Empire still didn¡¯t stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, this was something that King Teruc couldn¡¯t understand.

 Volume 6 103 - Ambiguous stance

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 103 Ambiguous stance</h4>

    The endless seas were at their calmest during the early spring. It was just like this today, the seas were calm and it was weather that was very suited for sailing

    A fleet with sevenrge transport Magic Ships and twenty guard ships were quickly sailing through the southern seas of the Rudson Kingdom.

    Thisrge fleet was the second transport fleet of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Other than the first fleet that Narvil personallymanded, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srgest fleet, mainly being responsible for transporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The departure of the second fleet this time had sent out twentyrge transport Magic Ships. Other than transporting goods to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, they were also transporting arge amount of construction material, as well as three hundred and forty workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had signed a new contract with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom at the end ofst year. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would invest in constructing a magic machine production base in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The main function of this magic machine production base was to make various agricultural magic machines and construction magic machines locally. They would work with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the surrounding three kingdoms to renovate their farnd, while also helping them rebuild their irrigation system.

    The three hundred and forty Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers sent there, other than building this magic machine production base, was to continue building roads in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had finished two roads in their country before and when they realized the benefits that these roads brought, there was a strong desire to build more. So this time they had asked for nine roads, which would span over a total of one thousand and eight hundred kilometers.

    For a country that was only twice asrge as the Stantine Duchy, if they could build these nine roads, although it would be as much as the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom, it would be enough to link all their cities. It would definitely greatly improve the traffic condition in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Because the terrain in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom wasplicated and there were many swamps covering it, the nine roads would take a year of nning alone and they could only slowly build them.

    Moreover, these nine roads were over a thousand and eight hundred kilometers in a ce like the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom which mainly had grasnds would cost around two to two and half million gold coins. But in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had given a high price of four million gold coins.

    However, even at such a high valuation, the Nozdormu Business Union had agreed without any hesitation. They didn¡¯t even bargain with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce on this price.

    This made Xu Yi feel emotional about the fact that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a country made from thirteenpaniesing together, they really were rich and they had a deep determination and boldness.

    When he went to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to talk to chairman Gaza, chairman Gaza had frankly stated that the goal of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was to gather all the weak countries in the southeast corner of the continent together. They would be a power that could even match the Candra Empire.

    This ambition was nothing less than big.

    But Xu Yi was happy to see him seed.

    After all, the greater the ambition, the greater the need, which would make it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make sales.

    The cargo in therge transport Magic Ships of the second transport fleet were one of the necessary goods toplete the ambition of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    But beforepleting this task, the second transport fleet had another important task toplete.

    When a giant ind appeared on the horizon, the second fleet changed their direction and headed towards that ind.

    This ind seemed only a bit bigger, but was still amon ind on these endless seas. However, once they approached it, they found that this ind had wharves at the harbour on the north side and there were buildings that were made of cement. It was clear that there were people living here.

    When they came even closer, they could see that whether it was on the harbour or the buildings on the ind, they had the same g.

    If it was someone from the southwest corner of the Sines Continent, they could tell with a single nce that the design on these gs represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    That¡¯s right, this ind was one of the sixteen ind bases that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finished developing on the endless seas. There was now a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce base on this ind that waspletely controlled by them.

    But this harbour that should only have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ships currently had tenrge wooden ships with the g of the Candra Empire on it. Outside the harbour, there were over fifty Candra Empire navy warships also waiting there.

    If he wasn¡¯t prepared to see this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second fleetmander Tom Markin would have thought that the Candra Empire navy was besieging the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ind.

    But after seeing this, Tom Markin acted like normal and gave the order to his subordinates to dock, without giving any other orders.

    After around twenty minutes, the second fleet came near the ind. Other than a singlerge transport Magic Ship that went to dock, the other ships all stayed on the seas with the Candra Empire navy¡¯s warships, being only a hundred meters apart.

    When Tom Markin came off therge transport Magic Ship, there were several middle aged men who were wearing the uniform of the Candra Empire navy that was standing in front of him.

    ¡°General Osborne, to make youe all the way here, it really has been hard on you.¡± Tom Markin immediately came forward with a smile.

    The military officer that led the others was clear the Candra Empire¡¯s second fleet¡¯s vicemander Reno Osborne. Seeing Tom Markining over, he reached his hand out to shake his.

    ¡°Manager Markin, the ships?¡±

    Makrki was surprised, never thinking that general Osborne would skip the greetings and directly go into the main topic.

    But seeing his military uniform, Markin immediately understood.

    This was the straightforward attitude that a soldier would have.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already reached a deal with the Candra Empire, so there was no need for negotiations and there was no need for their two sides to converse.

    Thinking this, Markin turned to point at the ships that were on the seas behind him.

    ¡°They are anchored there. General Osborne, you can have your people look nit over. If there is no issue, you can confirm the delivery and have your people take the goods.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± General Osborne waved his hand at the people beside him, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    The two Candra Empire navy officers beside him went to the dock and got onto a Candra Empire warship. That warship started moving towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second fleet¡¯s guard ships.

    Seeing that they had already made contact, Markin turned away from the sea and made an inviting gesture to general Osborne.

    ¡°General Osborne, they will take some time to inspect it, so how about we sit down and chat? Sir chairman had something that he wanted me to pass along to you.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu?¡± General Osborne narrowed his eyes. After thinking about it, he gave a nod and sat down with Markin in a small building by the harbour.

    ¡°Speak, what did chairman Xu want you to pass along to me?¡± As soon as they sat down, general Osborne asked this.

    Although he had little contact with general Osborne, Markin already figured out his temperament, so he didn¡¯t beat around the bus after hearing this and directly replied, ¡°Sir chairman wanted me to pass to your noble side a proposition to develop the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas together. He is willing to agree to this, but since your side has been ambiguous towards ourpany, there is no chance to go deeper with this cooperation. Sir chairman hopes that you can take out some sincerity and change this situation.¡±

    ¡°Attitude towards yourpany?¡± Osborne slightly knitted his brows and after a while, he suddenly gave a bitterugh.

    He was clear that the words that Xu Yi wanted Markin to pass on, the ¡°noble side¡± that he was referring to was not the Candra Empire navy, but rather the entire Candra Empire.

    It was like Xu Yi said, the Candra Empire was currently ambiguous towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    On one hand, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce boldly supported the Rudson Kingdom and even attacked the Candra Empire navy on the seas, causing great losses to the Candra Empire navy, there were many people who had defined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as hostile.

    With the Candra Empire¡¯s method of handling things, anything that was determined to be an enemy would be dealt with mercilessly andpletely destroyed.

    Not to mention a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The ones who supported this were mainly the soldiers, as well as somerge nobles in the empire because they didn¡¯t want to let the Candra Empire¡¯s dignity be sullied.

    On the other hand, there were also many people who thought that Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more value. These shocking things, if they were used properly, the Candra Empire could even be stronger with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So people thought that it was best to put down past animosity and cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, making the Candra Empire stronger.

    The ones that supported this mainly came from the department of finance because they had clearly gained benefits from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But among these two sides, there were some ¡°rebels¡±.

    For example, on the side that was against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the navy that should have hated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most actually supported cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most.

    On the side that supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but hated them and didn¡¯t allow any of their things to enter the southern province was Duke Windsor.

    Based on the situation, it was the ones that were against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was stronger since it was mainly the army and therge nobles of the empire in that faction.

    Of course, the one who made the final decision was the most respected emperor.

    If the emperor didn¡¯t say a thing, no one in the empire dared to do anything on their own.

    But since the court meetingst time when the department of finances chief Marquis Hastri told the emperor about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence on taxation in the south, the emperor¡¯s attitude had clearly changed.

    Although for the face of the empire, the emperor would never clearly support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was clearly seen in the smaller details.

    For example, the five guard ships that the Candra Empire navy had bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if it wasn¡¯t for the silent agreement of the emperor, it would have clearly been impossible.

 Volume 6 104 - â€œSeizingâ€ five guard ships

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 104 ¡°Seizing¡± five guard ships</h4>

    Osborne was silent for a bit before his lips curled slightly and he revealed a very forced smile as he said, ¡°Please tell chairman Xu for me that we are very sincere about cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the attitude of the empire that chairman Xu is worried about¡­¡­I believe that there will be a favourable change soon, so there¡¯s no need to be too worried.¡±

    Osborne naturally couldn¡¯t talk about the specific situation of the Candra Empire, but after making contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many times and being from the Candra Empire navy that had the most experience with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new steel magic battleships, he hoped to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce very much.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the pressure from the country, the Candra Empire navy would have already thrown away all face and asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to take out all their guard ships.

    For them to run to an ind that was over a hundred kilometers away from the Candra Empire to secretly make this trade, they really were forced into having no other choices.

    Of course, it was impossible for the Candra Empire navy to hide the matter of the five new guard ships from everyone. Only the navy had already received the silent approval of the emperor, so there was no need to worry about people using them.

    ¡°Alright, if there are changes with your side, we will respond in turn.¡± Markin said, ¡°Other than this, sir chairman wanted me to tell your side that these guard ships, we won¡¯t just be selling them to you. There are many other people that are interested in buying these guard ships. Compared to them, you have the advantage of having these guard ships earlier and have more time to grasp using them, so he hopes that you can treasure this advantage.¡±

    When these words were said, Osborne¡¯s expression immediately changed.

    Other than the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, there were other people interested in buying the guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Even if Osborne used his butt to think, he would know that the ¡°many other people¡± was definitely the Marlow Empire.

    Because the price of a single guard ship was over a million gold coins. Other than the Marlow Empire, was there another country with the finances to buy this thing that would attach such importance to their navy?

    Even the Candra Empire navy this time buying five guard ships at once was because they received extra budget from his majesty and the department of finance. Otherwise, it would take the navy several years of saving up to get this much money.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Many thanks for chairman Xu¡¯s reminder, we will definitely use this well.¡± Osborne gave a nod and then he felt a bit unwilling, so he asked, ¡°But manager Markin, please ask chairman Xu for me, what conditions would it take for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be willing to sell these newly developed magic battleships only to our Candra Empire navy?¡±

    Markin looked at Osborne with a smile, ¡°General Osborne, we are only apany.¡±

    Osborne gave a sigh and shook his head, feeling a bit helpless.

    Actually when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce caused the Candra Empire navy to suffer heavy losses on the seas, there were many people in the royal army that proposed directly attacking the Stantine Duchy and wiping out this arrogant Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after the staff officers carefully investigated it, they found that it was basically impossible to attack the Stantine Duchy.

    First, if they attacked bynd, because there was a Rudson Kingdom between the Stantine Duchy and the Candra Empire, if they wanted to attack, they had to take care of the Rudson Kingdom first.

    But after failing to invade twice, the army headquarters now knew that the Rudson Kingdom was like a hedgehog, they definitely weren¡¯t easy to touch.

    And if they wanted to go north through the Mirando Duchy and then the Lampuri Kingdom to attack the Stantine Duchy, while they could ignore the Mirando Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t let them pass.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very close to the Lampuri Kingdom, so it was impossible for the Lampuri Kingdom to allow the Candra Empire to pass through to attack the Stantine Duchy.

    Other thannd, the only choice was to attack by sea.

    However, since the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new steel magic warships, in practices and actualbat against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet, the Candra Empire had engaged more than ten times and had suffered losses each time.

    This made the entire Candra Empire navy realize that on the seas, there wasn¡¯t a fleet that could match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    So it was very clear that this path didn¡¯t exist.

    This meant that even if the army headquarters really decided to attack the Stantine Duchy, it would be very very troublesome for them and they might not even be able toplete it.

    Not to mention that even if the Rudson Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom, and all the countries surrounding the Stantine Duchy gave way to their attack, would the Candra Empire really be able to take down the Stantine Duchy?

    It wasn¡¯t only Osborne who doubted this, no one in the army headquarters was confident in this.

    The Rudson Kingdom had only obtained some support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was able to deal heavy losses to the army headquarters twice. If they attacked the main Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the attack they would meet could only be more terrifying.

    In the final summary, everyone was forced to acknowledge that even if the Candra Empire was one of the biggest empires on the continent, they couldn¡¯t do a thing to the small Stantine Duchy or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, based on the kingdom¡¯s financial report shown by the department of finance¡¯s chief Marquis Hastri, it showed that if the empire worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and brought their magic machine industry into the empire, the empire would be able to earn quite a bit.

    Actually, if it wasn¡¯t about face, the emperor would have already done this¡­¡­

    So that meant that the suggestion that Osborne gave on behalf of the empire¡¯s army or rather the warning he gave, any other country on the continent had to pay attention to this, it only didn¡¯t pose any threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, Osborne felt very depressed and he was even more annoyed when he saw Markin¡¯s smile. After being silent for a bit, he directly stood up and decided to end this meaningless conversation.

    ¡°Manager Markin, let¡¯s go see the five ships that you¡¯ve delivered.¡±

    Markin looked at Osborne¡¯s expression before standing up with a faint smile.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    When the two came back to the wharf, therge transport Magic Ship docked had already finished unloading the cargo.

    Seeing all the goods on the wharf, as well as the fierce looking military magic machines, Osborne narrowed his eyes and asked Markin, ¡°Manager Markin, doesn¡¯t yourpany feel any strain supplying all these inds?¡±

    Markin gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s always hard to earn money or you might as well close down. Don¡¯t look at me, it¡¯s sir chairman¡¯s words.¡±

    ¡°Make money?¡±

    Osborne looked at the ind behind him that was half covered in lush woods and was a bit confused.

    This small andmon ind, how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earn money from it?

    However, this problem was not something a soldier like him could understand, so he quickly gave up this thought. The went into a Magic Speed Boat with Markin and came to the five guard ships that had already separated from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet.

    Aftering close, he found that the five guard ships looked very different from the other ten guard ships of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships all looked brand new, one could tell that they weren¡¯t made that long ago.

    But the five guard ships given to the Candra Empire navy were all beaten up with several burn marks on it, therefore making it look a bit charred ck.

    There were even two of them that had crooked railings, like it had been hit by something.

    Osborne looked at them before asking with a bit of worry, ¡°They look very bad, there wouldn¡¯t be any problems, right?¡±

    Markin said whileughing, ¡°Of course not. Rx, this was designed like this when it was made, it¡¯s so any bystander would think that it was in a big fight, but everything inside is all new and there definitely won¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good then.¡±

    The reason why these five guard ships were made like this was of course because of the pressure of the Candra Empire¡¯s public.

    In order for the opposing side to use them of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire navy discussed this with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and decided to act out a y.

    This y would be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet met the Candra Empire navy on the sea, then after a fierce battle, the Candra Empire navy came out with a victory.

    In this battle, the Candra Empire navy had ¡°seized¡± five Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships as loot, which were the five ships in front of them.

    Osborne and Markin climbed up the rope to board one of the ships. Osborne talked to the Candra Empire navy officers and after confirming that these five ships were indeed not damaged like Markin had said, he finally rxed.

    ¡°Manager Markin, this has been a good cooperation.¡± Before leaving, Osborne took the initiative to reach his hand out to Markin.

    Markin shook his head and said with a smile, ¡°General Osborne, I believe that our cooperation won¡¯t be thest time and there will be many chances to cooperate in the future.¡±

    ¡°I hope so.¡± Osborne replied without any expression.

    After they finished their investigations, the Candra Empire navy didn¡¯t stay here any longer and immediately returned.

    The next morning after they left, Markin also led the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second transport fleet from this small ind and headed off on the long journey to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    On the surface, the deal between the two sides on this ind in the seas was like a ssh on the waves, after jumping up once, it fell into silence.

 Volume 6 105 Striking contrast

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 105 Striking contrast</h4>

    Compared to the cover up between the Candra Empire navy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other empire on the Sines Continent was much more open/

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first fleet had smoothly reached Stasom Harbour, which meant that they had sessfully navigated a sea route between the Stantine Duchy and the Marlow Empire.

    As spring came, the northern seas gradually began to melt. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first fleet that had been in Stasom Harbour for close to two months carried arge amount of ores bought from the surrounding cities as they headed back to the Stantine Duchy.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first fleet left, there was still a bunch ofrge transport Magic Cars and horse carriages that headed towards the Marlow Empire¡¯s north.

    Most of the cargo in these caravans were from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machinepanies that invested in the Marlow Empire. There was only a small part that came from the localrgepanies of the Marlow Empire, as well as from some nobles that were led by Marquis Southgate.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n, they wanted to use the sea route over the next few years to build a new magic machine production base by Stasom Harbour and then transport goods through Stasom Harbour.

    Marquis Southgate and the other Marlow Empire nobles were very interested in this n, so they joined in with the invitation from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Manager Hogan, this ce really is too barren. Not only are there few people, there are few resources and no onees out one winteres, so why is your Frestech Chamber ofmerce interested in this ce?¡±

    Hogan turned to look at Viscount Seymour Makaros who was wrapped up in the big fur coat, only revealing half his face. He thought that sir chairman¡¯s appraisal of this fellow wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    This fellow really was a good for nothing.

    But now that it was spring, even if Stasom City was the furthest north part of the continent, the coldest part of winter had already passed. It was already a bit warmer with the sun above them. But this fellow was this afraid of the cold, he really was useless.

    Looking at Baron Franklin Southgate standing straight beside him, only wearing a light coat and a thin wool sweater on the inside, he was facing the cold without any fear. Rather he had a look of excitement and expectation, as well as a smile that was brighter than the rays falling down on them.

    Marquis Southgate and Duke Makaros were clearly good friends, so why was there such a clear difference between their sessors?

    This really made one doubt if there was a problem with the education in Duke Makaros¡¯ family¡­¡­

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Lord Viscount, thisnd only seems barren, but ourpany¡¯s dwarf team has already investigated this ce. Just in the range of Stasom City, there are tworge iron veins, as well as several good veins of copper and other non-ferrous metals. Adding in the two hidden Magic Crystal mines, this ce isn¡¯t barren when ites to mineral resources at all.¡±

    Seymour raised his foot to tap on thend that was showing a bit because of the spring breeze before revealing a look of disbelief.

    ¡°This broken ce, can there be such mineral resources hidden underneath? Why can¡¯t I see it at all?¡±

    Hogan rolled his eyes at Seymour in his heart. He thought that you are just a wastrel noble young master, how can you be better than the dwarves that specialize in finding these mineral veins?

    But he still had a smile on the surface, ¡°The mining magic machines will be shipped in a few days, then you can witness them opening up the mine.¡±

    Seymour gave a big yawn before waving his hand, ¡°I¡¯m not interested in visiting your mines at all. Tell me, when can you set up a running water system in Stasom City? Franklin and I might have to stay in this damn ce for over two years, if we don¡¯t even have running water, we¡¯ll go crazy.¡±

    Franklin who had been looking at the harbour and the sea in the distance turned back and said with a smile, ¡°Seymour, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t appeared before, we never had running water before. We were still able to live normally.¡±

    ¡°Che, that is the past. I could only hide in the mountain vi when it was too hot in the summer before, but now that there¡¯s the Magic Air Conditioner, I can stay wherever I want to go, I¡¯m not even afraid of winter.¡± After saying this, Seymour paused before turning to ask Hogan, ¡°Right, Hogan, let¡¯s not talk about the specialized mining magic machines for now. How about you prepare some Magic Air Conditioners for me first? Otherwise when the weather bes hotter, I won¡¯t be able to take it without the Magic Air Conditioner.¡±

    ¡°This is a small problem, you don¡¯t need to worry about this, Lord Viscount.¡± Hogan said with a smile, ¡°Actually, the matter of this small thing is rted to the question that you just asked me, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has prepared everything.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± It wasn¡¯t just Seymour, Franklin also looked over with an interested look, ¡°How is is it rted?¡±

    ¡°You just said that this ce wasn¡¯t just barren, but because it¡¯s so cold here in winter, people couldn¡¯t stay here?¡± Hogan asked with a smile.

    ¡°Right, what about it? Could it be that yourpany has a way to solve this?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Hogan said with a confident smile, ¡°Sir chairman has already considered the fact that it is too cold here, which would affect the work schedule of the factories in winter, so he already nned ahead. In the magic machine production base that ourpany is making here, in order to work with the environment here, we will install ourpany¡¯s newest Magic Heating System in order to heat up the entire magic machine production base during winter. It will ensure that everyone in the magic machine production base will be able to avoid the cold and focus on working.¡±

    Seymour and Franklin looked at each other in nk dismay, ¡°Magic Heating System? What is that?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­It¡¯s hard to exin it in detail, the two of you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then just say it simply.¡± Seymour impatiently waved his hand.

    ¡°To put it simply, this thing is simr to the Magic Air Conditioner in principle, using magic to give out thermal energy and then using machinery to divert that thermal energy to where it¡¯s needed to increase the temperature. Look, the Magic Air Conditioner directly¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Alright, alright, I got it, you don¡¯t need to tell me the rest.¡± Seymour waved his hand to cut off Hogan¡¯s exnation. He gave another yawn before turning to Franklin, ¡°I got up too early today and I¡¯m tired now. Franklin, you can stay here for now, I¡¯lle back after I go take a nap.¡±

    Franklin nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Alright, you go then.¡±

    Seymour drove off with his favourite fire red Magic Sedan and Hogan couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    Seymour and Franklin were here because they were Marquis Southgate and Duke Makaros¡¯ representatives.

    If they could work with them, with the powerful influence that Southgate Family and the Makaros Family had in the Marlow Empire, a lot of things would be much easier.

    But seeing how Seymour was actingzy and unwilling to care, it really gave Hogan a headache.

    ¡°Manager Hogan, Seymour has hated trouble since he was young, so you don¡¯t need to worry about him. If you need our help with anything, you cane look for me.¡± Franklin suddenly said.

    When Hogan turned to look at Franklin, he revealed a heartfelt smile.

    It was a good thing that other than Seymour, Franklin was also here.

    Compared to Seymour, Franklin was also a noble young master, but whether it was in terms experience, demeanor, sense of responsibility, or everything else, he was countless times better than Seymour.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built that magic machine production base on Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, it was said that Franklin on behalf of Marquis Southgate had visited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the representatives of the otherpanies to help them with various issues, which was appreciated by everyone.

    It was said that because of how splendid he was, the Southgate Family had already chosen him as the only sessor of the family head position.

    Now that Marquis Southgate had sent him here, it could be seen how important this magic machine production base was to him.

    Of course, Marquis Southgate had invested one million and four hundred thousand gold coins in this production base, so this should be important to him.

    ¡°Alright, Lord Baron.¡± Hogan paused before adding, ¡°Actually, Lord Baron, there aren¡¯t too many specific things for you to handle. Most of the time, you just need to be in charge of supervision. There will only be a few times when we need you to act personally when meeting the nobles and officials in Stasom City and the surrounding areas.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Franklin gave a nod with a faint smile, ¡°If you need me for something, please don¡¯t hesitate.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Hogan replied. He looked around before knitting his brows again.

    ¡°What? Is there a problem?¡± Seeing the expression on Hogan¡¯s face, Franklin immediately asked this.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Lord Baron, ourpany has a full n here, so there¡¯s no problem overall. Look, this ce has rich resources and wide areas, as well as a harbour for a transport hub, so it is indeed a good ce for a production base, but¡­¡­Don¡¯t you think that there is a very serious problem?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Franklin raised his hand to stop Hogan from continuing, ¡°Let me take a guess.¡±

    He walked around, looking in different directions from time to time before knitting his brows to think. Then his brows suddenly rxed and his eyes lit up as he asked Hogan with a smile, ¡°If I¡¯m right, the serious problem that you mentioned should be theck of people, right?¡±

    Hogan¡¯s eyes opened wide in surprise and he couldn¡¯t help giving a gesture of praise to Franklin.

    ¡°Lord Baron, you really have bright eyes!¡±

 Volume 6 106 Creating some slaves

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 106 Creating some ves</h4>

    Even on earth with its developed transportation andmunication system, it was very hard to get an urate survey of the poption.

    On the Sines Continent, to get the urate poption on a map was even more impossible.

    But even if they didn¡¯t have a specific number, just based on eyeballing it, one could tell that Stasom City and the surrounding area had very few people.

    Looking further, there was only wilderness. If one looked further from Stasom City to find a ce where people lived, they could only find around two small viges that weren¡¯t that far away from Stasom City.

    And ording to the data that Stasom City¡¯s City Lord Count Hughes had provided, the number of Marlow Empire citizens under Stasom City was only around fifty thousand. It was even less than Banta City in the past.

    Stasom City was the biggest city on the Marlow Empire¡¯s northern coast and had the most people.

    Even Stasom City only had fifty thousand people, so the other ces could only have less people.

    ¡°Sir Baron, ording to the n, after this base is built, there will be a need for over two hundred thousand people. However, Stasom City only has a total of no more than fifty thousand and there are many who can¡¯t work at all.¡± Hogan said in a very helpless voice.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­This is indeed a very serious problem.¡± Franklin touched his chin that was covered in a beard that was like fur and fell into thought for a bit before saying, ¡°But this problem isn¡¯t hard to solve. We can openly recruit in the empire and I think that as long as there¡¯s good work where you can earn quite a bit of gold coins, there will definitely be quite a few people willing toe here.¡±

    ¡°That might not be so.¡± Hogan shook his head, ¡°This environment really is too badpared to ind, with the weather in winter being especially hard for people to ept. So even if ourpany has prepared everything, it can¡¯t remove this worry for everyone. Moreover, the most important question is¡­¡­making them leave their hometowns, there aren¡¯t that many people who would ept it.¡±

    Franklin knitted his brows, ¡°That¡¯s right, for the citizens of the empire, it is more important than anything to stay in their hometowns. If there is no need, no one is willing to leave their homes.¡±

    Hogan gave a cough, ¡°This¡­¡­Lord Baron, it¡¯s not like there¡¯s no way. It depends on whether you and the Lord Marquis cane to a decision?¡±

    Franklin looked at Hogan in surprise before understanding what he meant.

    ¡°What? You want us to forcefully move some people in the empire over? This really is too hard¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°No, no, no¡­¡­I was never talking about this, Lord Baron, don¡¯t misunderstand.¡± Hogan waved his hand, ¡°I mean can we use the connections of your Southgate Family and the Makaros Family to buy some ves as workers?¡±

    ¡°ves?¡± Franklin was surprised, ¡°You think that those lowly fellows can do theplex work in your factories?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­Actually when ourpany was just formed, because we didn¡¯t have enough people, we had taken quite a few ves as workers. Perhaps they can¡¯t do theplicated work, but for normal and monotonous work, there should be no problem giving that to them.¡± Hogan exined.

    ¡°But ves¡­¡­¡± Franklin knitted his brows to think before shaking his head, ¡°It might not work. It¡¯s differentpared to before because there hasn¡¯t been arge scale war for many years on the continent, so there are less and less ves. Even our family has less than a thousand ves. To meet the demand of two hundred thousand that you mentioned, even taking all the ves of the noble families we have rtions with wouldn¡¯t be enough.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± This was something Hogan never expected.

    He thought that the Marlow Empire as one of the two continents, with its long history would be different from the Stantine Duchy that hadpletely eliminated very. They would have arge number of ves at their disposal.

    But he never thought that even the Marlow Empire would have few ves, even finding it hard to get two hundred thousand of them.

    Hogan couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    It wasn¡¯t hard to construct the base, but the most important problem was having enough manpower to run it.

    The most important thing was naturally having people.

    If there weren¡¯t enough people, there was no need to mention anything else.

    ¡°Could it be that we still need to invest further?¡± Hogan muttered in his heart.

    Whening up with the n for this magic machine production base, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had considered all the factors affecting production here, so they had thought about buying ves as workers.

    But now that Franklin had told him that there weren¡¯t that many ves in the Marlow Empire and that the nobles would transfer their personal ves that easily, it seemed like it would be hard to collect them.

    If this n didn¡¯t work, the only thing they could do was increase their investments here to increase the sry of the workers and attract more people to work here.

    But this environment was very bad and to attract enough people toe here, the sry that they would have to offer would clearly be very high.

    In their beginning ns, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only nning on giving the workers in their factories ten gold coins a month.

    It should be said that this was very attractive for most citizens in the Marlow Empire, but to rely on ten gold coins to pull people all the way to the freezing north, it wouldn¡¯t be that easy.

    Hogan calcted it and he thought that it would take an average of at least fifteen gold coins.

    If they wanted to recruit two hundred thousand people, if they paid each person give gold coins a month, then it would cost them a full million gold coins for two hundred thousand people a month!

    This would greatly increase the amount they would need to invest in the magic machine production base, this was not something that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or anyone who had invested in the base was willing to see.

    ¡°Right.¡± Franklin suddenly gave a p, ¡°Manager Hogan, actually¡­¡­it¡¯s impossible to get ves, but we can make our own.¡±

    Hogan looked at him with a confused look, ¡°Make our own? How?¡±

    ¡°You see, most of the vese from war and because there hasn¡¯t been a major war in the past several hundred years, there have been less and less ves¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait¡­¡­¡± Hogan couldn¡¯t help raising his hand to cut him off, ¡°Lord Baron, are you suggesting that we should start a war? Are¡­¡­Are you kidding?¡±

    Franklin shook his head before giving augh, ¡°It¡¯s not that exaggerated, but going to capture some ves as manpower isn¡¯t that big of a problem.¡±

    ¡°I still don¡¯t know what you mean.¡± Hogan knitted his brows, ¡°Could it be that you want us to attack other countries and bring their people back as ves?¡±

    ¡°No, no, if we attack other countries, that really would be starting a war. Although our Marlow Empire doesn¡¯t fear any country on the continent, if we start arbitrarily attacking countries, even his majesty can¡¯t help us.¡±

    ¡°Then you mean¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If we can¡¯t attack other countries, that doesn¡¯t mean we can¡¯t attack other races¡­¡­¡± Franklin revealed a smile of deep meaning.

    ¡°Ha? Other races?¡± Hogan was a bit stunned.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Actually, because the environment in the empire¡¯s north is bad, there are few citizens that are willing to live here, so there are few people here. But for those other races that can¡¯t live in human territories, this is a good ce. ording to what I know, there are three beastmen tribes near Stasom City and they have at least over four thousand beastmen.¡±

    ¡°Beastmen?¡± Hogan was surprised, ¡°There are beastmen here?¡±

    When he said this, he couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    This was simply nonsense.

    The race that had the biggest poption on the continent was without a doubt the humans.

    The race with the second biggest poption were the beastmen.

    Compared to the scattered dwarves, the rarely seen elves, and the halflings that already became legends, the beastmen were the mostmonly seen other race on the continent.

    At least in many countries, there was a strong beastmen influence. Although they couldn¡¯t overthrow the humans, there was no problem for them to upy a territory.

    Because thend they upied was barrennd that humans didn¡¯t want. Adding in the fact that beastmen had decent military strength, as long as they didn¡¯t cause any trouble, the human countries wouldn¡¯t care about them.

    This was very clear in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The ck Rice Wastnd in theory mainly belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom, with a small part that belonged to the Sack Kingdom.

    But with therge number of beastmen who upied the ck Rice Wastnd, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom ignored them, allowing the beastmen to live there.

    Of course, because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of the beastmen tribes on the ck Rice Wastnd were working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or other humanpanies. They had integrated into the nearby human society, so Hogan had alreadypletely ignored this problem that existed on the continent.

    The Marlow Empire was one of the tworge empires, it wasn¡¯t strange if there were beastmen in their territory.

    ¡°Of course there are and there¡¯s quite a bit of them.¡± Franklin gave an honest nod in response, ¡°Although I don¡¯t know the exact numbers, there are many beastmen living in the north of the empire. The people in the empire even estimate that there are over a million beastmen here, which is quite arge number.¡±

    ¡°Over a million?¡± Hogan was truly scared by this number.

    Although the ck Rice Wastnd had many beastmen, there were more than two hundred thousand of them and no more than three hundred thousand of them in total.

    He never thought that there would be over a million beastmen in the Marlow Empire¡¯s north alone which really was quite terrifying.

    ¡°Un, thergest beastmen tribe has over a hundred thousand people. Think about it, if we capture the entire beastmen tribe to be ves, wouldn¡¯t that solve our problem?¡± There was an enticement that was in Franklin¡¯s voice.

    Hogan had seen many beastmen workers in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and didn¡¯t fear them at all, but he couldn¡¯t help thinking that this was a good idea when he heard this.

    But when he came back to his senses, seeing Franklin¡¯s expectant gaze, he thought about it before saying, ¡°This problem is too important, I have to ask sir chairman for instructions first.¡±

 Volume 6 107 Elf theme park

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 107 Elf theme park</h4>

    Hogan¡¯s reportnded in Xu Yi¡¯s hands five dayster.

    Xu Yi carefully read the report and didn¡¯t immediately respond.

    It wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who invested in the base at Stasom City, there were also the Lampuri Kingdompanies and the Marlow Empire nobles that Marquis Southgate had introduced to him. So when making any decision, it couldn¡¯t be decided by Xu Yi alone.

    Moreover, this matter involved the beastmen. For normal humans, it was clear that there shouldn¡¯t be any problems dering war on the beastmen, but Xu Yi always had the idea of cooperating with other races.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had a good cooperation rtionship with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd. Those beastmen yed arge role in the various departments of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t have any prejudices against them.

    Franklin proposed directly attacking and capturing the beastmen in the northern Marlow Empire, turning them into ves, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t approve of this.

    Through his experience with the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd, the beastmen were a race that could be moved by benefits and they weren¡¯t that different from humans.

    If he could have some more contact with the beastmen in the northern Marlow Empire, it wasn¡¯t impossible for them to be like the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd. They could also recruit these beastmen and increase the efficiency of the magic machine production base.

    In this report, what Xu Yi cared about the most was the suggestion that Franklin had made to attack the beastmen tribes, even capturing them as ves.

    Xu Yi was very doubtful towards Franklin suddenly proposing this.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s guesses, this idea shouldn¡¯t be from Franklin, but rather Marquis Southgate or even the Marlow Empire behind him.

    Different from the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire hadn¡¯t personally seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines being used on the frontline, so they weren¡¯t too clear on it.

    Although the Marlow Empire army headquarters had bought some military magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had slowly delivered it, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters¡¯ understanding of the military magic machines were still at a preliminary level.

    If they tried to instigate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to act, learning how the military magic machines can be used on the battlefield, it wouldn¡¯t be that strange.

    Of course, this was only Xu Yi¡¯s guess and it might now be the idea of the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarters.

    But Xu Yi felt that this wasn¡¯t impossible.

    After all, by showing the Marlow Empire the might of the military magic machines, it would allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to continue selling military magic machines to the Marlow Empire, while also making them treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more seriously.

    So in short, it didn¡¯t matter how they treated the beastmen tribes in the northern Marlow Empire.

    After thinking this through, Xu Yi gathered the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and briefly discussed this matter. Then as his status as the chairman, he wrote a letter to all the people who invested in the magic machine production base in Stasom City. Finally, he wrote a personal letter to Marquis Southgate to exin his ns.

    After doing all this, Xu Yi sent his final decision to Hogan.

    While these instructions for Hogan were still on the way, Xu Yi had already left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base, heading to the Rudson Kingdom.

    But this time he wasn¡¯t going to meet King Teruc or any important people of the Rudson Kingdom to discuss official business.

    Because this time he brought everyone in his family including Liz, Linda, Agnes, Tvisti, Freya, Sandy, and Harvey along to the Azshara Tribe in the Rudson Kingdom.

    His youngest kid was too young, so they left him in the Stantine Duchy with Betty and Carol.

    As for the main purpose of visiting the Azshara Tribe, it was on the invitation of elder Undine and the fact that Still was filming a film on the history of the elves with the Azshara Tribe, spending over half a month here withouting back. So Xu Yi brought his kids along to let her get together with them while also bringing the kids out to y.

    Other than this, Agnes and Tvisti came from the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, soing together this time could be considered the first official contact between the Night Song Tribe, the Moon Shadow Tribe, and the Azshara Tribe. So when Agnes and Tvisti arrived at the Azshara Tribe, they received a warm wee from elder Undine.

    Of course, the one that received the warmest wee from elder Undine was still Xu Yi.

    After seeing each other, Xu Yi and elder Undine casually chatted about something before changing the topic to the small elf town.

    ¡°Elder Undine, I just came from there and found that the traffic in that town is much lesspared to before.¡¯ Xu Yi said in a slightly worried voice.

    Elder Undine revealed a faint smile, ¡°Yes, since the Candra Empire tried to invade the Rudson Kingdom, there were fewer humans that came to y in our elf town. There weren¡¯t any guests at all a while back and it has gradually recovered, but it¡¯s still worse than before.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said in a helpless voice, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. Things like tourism are easily affected by general situations. The Rudson Kingdom isn¡¯t stable, so naturally there aren¡¯t that many people willing to travel here.¡±

    ¡°He, he, it¡¯s a good thing that there was the aid that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave the Rudson Kingdom, or the Rudson Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have been able to hold on. It would have been the same for our elf town.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t worth thanking.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Elder Undine, I proposed before to make even more small elf towns, turning them into a chain theme park, what do you think about that now?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a good suggestion, but I feel that conditions aren¡¯t right.¡± Elder Undine shook her head.

    ¡°Why?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°Because there aren¡¯t that many humans who can ept us elves as easily as chairman Xu.¡± Elder Undine looked right at Xu Yi with a gentle, but serious look, ¡°If we elves start spreading like this, it will be very hard to receive the approval of humans and it is likely to fail.¡±

    ¡°How will you know without trying?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows.

    ¡°We don¡¯t have the capital to give it a try.¡± Elder Undine said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, after you proposed this, I asked around in your human world for a price and found that it would cost at least seven hundred thousand gold coins to build another elf town. Although our tribe has made some money during this time, it is far from enough to invest in this.¡±

    ¡°Money isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°As long as you¡¯re willing, you can take a loan from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I guarantee that we will give you our full support.¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Elder Undine shook her head, ¡°We elves aren¡¯t used to owing people things, especially humans.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes, ¡°Elder Undine, I thought that you would be an enlightened elven elder, how can you still have such an old concept? You have to know that back then the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe asked for a lot of help from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya didn¡¯t hesitate when asking for this at all.¡±

    ¡°So they gave you Agnes and Tvisti, didn¡¯t they?¡± Elder Undine revealed a faint smile, ¡°Don¡¯t argue it, if it wasn¡¯t for this, do you think that we elves would epting with humans so easily?¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless in front of this.

    It seems like elder Undine had greatly misunderstood the meaning of Agnes and Tvisti marrying him.

    But it wasn¡¯t like it was without reason.

    Agnes had been with him for a long time and they had slowly fallen in love before choosing to be together.

    But Tvisti had been clearly sent to his side by elder Lisanya. Moreover, when he discussed marriage with her, elder Lisanya didn¡¯t hesitate at all to agree, so it could be seen that her original thought was to let Tvisti get together with Xu Yi.

    ¡°Other than worrying about money, the most important issue is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Elder Undine added.

    ¡°Oh? What problem is there with ourpany?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that there¡¯s a problem with yourpany, but rather¡­¡­yourpany still isn¡¯t strong enough yet.¡± Elder Undine exined, ¡°Chairman Xu, you are one of the few humans that I trust to a certain extent, so I can cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build these elf theme parks. However, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can only influence the surrounding countries and as for the other countries, your influence is far from enough.¡±

    ¡°So you think that it¡¯s not safe to open these theme parks in other ces?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Yes. Your human society isn¡¯t stable, so if we open these theme parks in other countries, there might be danger at any time.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t respond to elder Undine¡¯s words.

    Indeed, humans were a very stable race.

    It was like this on earth and it was the same on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi had suffered quite a bit because of this, so of course he couldn¡¯t refute this view from elder Undine.

    Seeing that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t saying a word, elder Undine revealed a strange smile and reached into her chest, pulling out a document for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the n that I¡¯ve drawn up for opening up an elf town in the Stantine Duchy, can you see if there are any problems. This is the first time I¡¯ve written a n in your human style, so I hope that you can look over it for me.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Undine in surprise, ¡°Weren¡¯t you worried that there would be danger in other countries?¡±

    ¡°The Stantine Duchy ispletely controlled by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I¡¯m not worried about this.¡± Elder Undine said with a smile.

    ¡°But you said that there was no money¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t ept borrowing money from humans right now, but I can still ept using things to exchange for money.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi blinked his eyes in a daze, ¡°Elder Undine, you¡­¡­want to sell things to me?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Our tribe has some special things and some secret knowledge that you humans don¡¯t know about, I think that chairman Xu should be very interested in these.¡±

 Volume 6 108 Notebook

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 108 Notebook</h4>

    The dim moonlight fell onto the leaves outside the window before entering the room, sprinkling on the bed.

    Xu Yi had a six sided prismatic crystal in his hand as he looked at the moonlight with a look of doubt on his face.

    ¡°Hey, Still, what is this thing?¡± Still on the side asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Elder Undine said that this was a very special Magic Crystal that contains magic that far surpasses normal Magic Crystals. I held it for a bit and found that the magic in this Magic Crystal is indeed very strong, it¡¯s even stronger than the high concentration Magic Crystals that ourpany makes.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    Still reached a finger out to tap this Magic Crystal. She sent her magic through this finger and found that the Magic Crystal was filled with magic, which waspletely different from normal Magic Crystals.

    ¡°This thing is very strange, but it¡¯s not worth thirty thousand gold coins, right?¡± Still had a confused look still, ¡°It¡¯s just a single Magic Crystal and no matter how much magic power it contains, what use is there? It might even be enough for you to fire off a Ninth Grade Spell.¡±

    ¡°If it was just to help me release a Ninth Grade Spell, I wouldn¡¯t have spent thirty thousand gold coins to buy this from elder Undine.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I was just very curious as to why the magic contained within this Magic Crystal is so high. If I give it to Evita to study, perhaps we can imitate it which would greatly help develop the Magic Crystal refining technology of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I knew that you were more greedy than me¡­¡­¡± Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi. She looked down at the things that Xu Yi had scattered on the bed and slightly knitted her brows, ¡°You spent eight hundred and fifty thousand gold coins just to buy these things from elder Undine? Are these things really worth that price?¡±

    ¡°I¡­¡­Alright, actually I can¡¯t determine the value of these things. However, like with this Magic Crystal in my hand, if we can sessfully study itsposition and imitate it, it would have a value of over eight hundred and fifty thousand gold coins. If we can¡¯t do that, then it isn¡¯t worth a single copper coin.¡±

    ¡°So you took this risk?¡± Still asked.

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Magic research was an uncertain thing and if there aren¡¯t any results, no one can determine the value, right?¡±

    Still slightly curled her lips, ¡°You spent this much money to buy a bunch of things that you don¡¯t know the use of. You might as well have used that money to buy more things rted to the Magic Illusion Array from elder Undine.¡±

    ¡°I urge you to give up that idea.¡± Xu Yi looked at Still and helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Elder Undine and I have discussed this before and she clearly stated that Illusion Magic is the unique magic of the elves, it isn¡¯t easily passed to humans.¡±

    ¡°Not easily passed to humans?¡± Still raised a brow, ¡°That means it¡¯s still possible to pass to humans?¡±

    ¡°Yes. However, elder Undine said that because the Illusion Magic is the unique magic of the elves, no matter what is made with Illusion Magic, they must be involved. So do you understand what she means?¡±

    ¡°So it¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Still slowly let out a breath and after a while, she suddenly gave a bitterugh, ¡°I always thought that elder Undine was as graceful, noble, and gentle as the elven elders of the legends that I respected, but I never thought she would still care about benefits like this.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, the elves still have to eat. As the elder of the Azshara Tribe, it¡¯s natural that she considers the benefits of the entire tribe.¡± Xu Yi refuted.

    ¡°I understand, only¡­¡­it¡¯s a little hard to ept.¡± Still shook her head and took a deep breath to calm herself down, ¡°This means that elder Undine wants a few shares in our New Moon Chamber of Commerce to gain profits in the long term?¡±

    ¡°She didn¡¯t say this, but I think that your understanding is correct.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­this isn¡¯t a problem at all. Actually, even if she didn¡¯t mention it, I was already thinking about pulling her in.¡± Still said, ¡°Anyway, when filming the Illusion Films, we need an elven magician toe along. If we give her some stocks, they will do their best to help.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you can understand this.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod before lowering his head to look at the items on the bed, taking a thin book from among them.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    There were Magic Crystals, strange magic items, and some essories in the style of the elves, so they didn¡¯t look cheap on the surface. Only this book had amon appearance and was even quite worn out, so it didn¡¯t seem valuable at all.

    ¡°This is a brief history that the elders of the Azshara Tribe have written. Elder Undine said that there were many secrets of the elves written in here, as well as secrets to the history of the Sines Continent.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Still immediately became disappointed.

    She knew that Xu Yi was always interested in history, so normally when he didn¡¯t have anything to do, he would read some books that were rted to the history of the Sines Continent.

    This notebook in his hand was first hand material from the Azshara Tribe¡¯s elder, so it was very precious to Xu Yi, but it didn¡¯t have any value to Still.

    Seeing Xu Yi look through it with interest, Still shook her head and picked up a unique shaped Magic Lamp from beside the bed which let out a bright light.

    Then she put the Magic Lamp beside Xu Yi before cleaning up the stuff on the bed. Once she was done, she said to Xu Yi, ¡°Don¡¯t read toote, sleep early. You still have to take the kids to the sea to y tomorrow.¡±

    ¡°Alright, you sleep first.¡±

    Still ced a kiss on Xu Yi¡¯s face before lying down to sleep.

    The two of them had been married for close to ten years, so they were already used to the living habits of the other person.

    Still never said anything about Xu Yi¡¯s little hobby, she was already used to it.

    Not only after, Still¡¯s breathing became calm and she fell asleep.

    Xu Yi turned to look at the sleeping Still and revealed a faint smile. He thought that it must have been tiring for Still to film the Illusion Films during this time.

    After pulling up the nket for Still, Xu Yi moved his body and blocked the light of the Magic Lamp with his upper body as much as possible, focusing on reading the notebook.

    This notebook was as elder Undine had said, it was filled with various recordings and some were even like diary entries, but they were more detailed than diary entries. However, they weren¡¯t in order.

    The earliest record was traced to seven thousand years ago, when the elves still ruled the continent.

    Thetest record was what elder Undine personally added today. It described how she had sold some unimportant things in the Azshara Tribe to Xu Yi for eight hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

    Based on this, this should be a record of the important things that would affect the Azshara Tribe.

    Through this notebook, Xu Yi could roughly follow the several thousand years of history for the Azshara Tribe.

    Based on the history of the Sines Continent that Xu Yi had studied before, it conformed with the history of the Sines Continent and there weren¡¯t too many ces that went against it.

    But this notebook recorded things from the angle of the elves and it was slightly different from the history of the Sines Continent recorded from the angle of the humans that Xu Yi had read before.

    For example, when the humans described the race wars from three thousand years ago, it was said that the humans and the other races of the continent couldn¡¯t take the control of the elves over them, which was why they rebelled.

    But based on this book, it wrote that the other races gradually became stronger, so the elves were reced. It was like a flower blooming and fading, just like the life cycle of all living things.

    There was one note that caught Xu Yi¡¯s attention.

    It was regarding the race war. One of the past elders wrote that the elves were already slowly deteriorating and the humans rising up to rece the elves as the master of the continent was natural, so it wasn¡¯t strange at all.

    But this note had actually pondered deeper into this result.

    In this note, the Azshara Tribe elder who wrote this said that the elves deteriorated because the elves were passive by nature.

    The elves were stronger than other races on the continent since they were born, so the elves were able to rule the continent for several thousand years before.

    But the elves never thought of progressing, so the elves were just as strong four thousand years ago during the race wars as they were four thousand years ago.

    Inparison, the human race always wanted to be stronger.

    Even if humans were the weakest among all the races on the continent when they were born, humans had powerful ideas, so when humans appeared on the continent, they kept growing stronger until they surpassed the elves in the end, beating them to take over the continent.

    Xu Yi admired the wisdom in this elder¡¯s note very much. If each elf could think things through as much as this elder and change their thoughts, it would have been hard for humans to control the continent.

    But what caught Xu Yi¡¯s attention the most were a few words.

    It was in the part about humans bing stronger and worrying about the future of the elves.

    ¡°If the thoughts of the elves on the Sines Continent never change, they willpletely wither away in the end. In the end, we can only escape to another continent, like the demon race from before.¡±

    Another continent? Demon race?

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows and fell into thought when he saw this.

 Volume 6 109 Following development requests

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 109 Following development requests</h4>

    Three dayster, elder Undine brought a bunch of elven magicians from the Azshara Tribe to go back to the Stantine Duchy with Xu Yi and Still.

    Liz and Linda brought the children back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base while Xu Yi¡¯s group headed to Frestech City.

    Frestech City after several years of development had gone from taking a bit ofnd to over ten square kilometers. It had over fifty thousand people and there were over three hundred thousand that passed through the city.

    The reason why the passing poption was this high was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce designed this ce as a product distribution center.

    The cargo that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent, other than a portion that went through the harbour and was transported by the sea, the remaining cargo all passed through Frestech City first. They were then sent out by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport center here.

    Because of this, the Fersen Transport Company had built their Stantine Duchy headquarters here, turning it into the center of Stantine Duchy¡¯s logisticswork. The otherpanies of the Stantine Duchy would also send their cargo here before they were transported further.

    Because of this advantage, there were many Stantine Duchypanies that ced their factories near Frestech City.

    So after a few years, there was a crowded industrial circle of factories around Frestech City. It meant that there was arge variety of products that were avable in Frestech City, so it attracted even more people.

    With this cycle, Frestech City became even more prosperous. It could now be considered the most prosperous city in all of the Stantine Duchy.

    Even in the other countries in the southwest corner of the continent, Frestech City was considered one of the most prosperous cities, not being worse than the capitals of the surrounding countries.

    This time elder Undine had brought the elven mages along because of the prosperity of Frestech City, she was nning on building an elf town near Frestech City.

    The Stantine Duchy waspletely controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Frestech City belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the Azshara Tribe choosing to develop here was naturally because of elder Undine¡¯s considerations.

    Other than that, this ce was very close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was easier to get support from them.

    As for bringing the Azshara Tribe elven mages along, it wasn¡¯t for this matter. It was to work with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to develop something here.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtained the Magic Illusion Projector technology, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had worked with the Azshara Tribe to develop many functions for this technology. It was not only limited to filming Illusion Films.

    This time, Still was nning to use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a pilot to set up an entertainment city for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. It would mainly focus on showing Illusion Films with supporting crews as a secondary focus, while also satisfying the advertising needs of the variouspanies.

    Also as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s grasp on the Illusion Projector technology increased, Akali¡¯s team that worked magic resonancebined it with the magicmunicationwork, allowing them to show Illusion Films from a long distance.

    This was something that was like television broadcasting from earth, which could be considered an era defining invention.

    But this world didn¡¯t have the concept of entertainment just yet, so it couldn¡¯t create too much of a stir with word of mouth alone.

    So Still decided to invest in a music and video entertainment center in Frestech City. She would use brand new technology to broadcast in real time to everyone who bought the Magic Illusion Projector.

    If it went smoothly, Xu Yi believed that this New Moon Film Entertainment Center would be the first TV broadcast station on the continent.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that this wouldpletely change the entertainment industry on the continent.

    Of course, choosing to set it up in Frestech City first was because Frestech City was where the most Magic Illusion Projectors were right now.

    ording to the stats, there were over thirty thousand Magic Illusion Projectors sold in Frestech City. As long as they were a permanent resident of Frestech City, they would have one.

    Even if they were part of the passing poption, as long as they could, they would also buy one.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had experimented with Illusion Film renting the year beforest and after two years, it was the most wee method of entertainment in Frestech City.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial report showed that it was a fourth of their iest year.

    Based on this, Still epted Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion and focused on developing in Frestech City.

    This time, the Azshara Tribe elf mages came to help the New Moon Chamber of Commerce on this. They would first increase the number of Illusion Films made and then make Illusion Film renting more popr, while focusing on building the New Moon Film Entertainment Center.

    Of course, whether it was the ns of the Azshara Tribe or the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, although Xu Yi was rted, he didn¡¯t mainly care about this.

    Xu Yi also came to Frestech City because he had another n that involved the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even the entire Frestech City.

    ¡°You want to move out the product distribution center?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product distribution center¡¯s manager Ozil looked at Xu Yi in surprise, as if he didn¡¯t dare believe his ears, ¡°Sir chairman, why¡­¡­are you doing this? Our Frestech City¡¯s product distribution center is running very smoothly, there aren¡¯t any problems.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and used his hand to signal for him to calm down. Then he looked at the people gathered in the room and said, ¡°I don¡¯t feel that there is a problem with your work, actually it¡¯s been very outstanding. There is arge amount of products being shipped each year, but you were able to keep going without any major incidents, so it wasn¡¯t easy.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­Sir chairman, why are you doing this?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO¡¯s assistant Canasova sitting across from Ozil asked in a confused voice.

    Because Kennard was busy, it was Canasova who attended this meeting on his behalf.

    Butpared to how direct Kennard was in front of Xu Yi, he was clearly much more careful.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. It¡¯s because just Frestech City won¡¯t be able to meet the current demand.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Everyone in the room looked at each other.

    Ozil couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, Frestech City is doing very exceptionally each year, how do you think that it isn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°I just said it, it isn¡¯t a problem with you all, but Frestech City itself, or rather where Frestech City is. It means that it won¡¯t be able to meet ourpany¡¯s current development needs.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi went to the giant map of the continent hanging on the wall.

    There was an unwritten rule in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all meeting rooms had to have thergest map of the continent possible hung up.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s habit at first, but after he requested it many times, it became a custom.

    This conference room was normally barely used, but there was still a map in here.

    ¡°Look¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi pointed at Frestech City on the map, ¡°Although Frestech City is in the center of the Stantine Duchy, the Stantine Duchy is in the southwest corner of the continent, which is one of the most remote ces. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business was focused on the surrounding countries, so there wasn¡¯t a problem having the product distribution center based here, but what about now?¡±

    Everyone looked at the map for a bit and they couldn¡¯t help giving nods.

    Sir chairman was right, the Stantine Duchy really was too remote. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal was only the surrounding countries, there wouldn¡¯t be a problem.

    But sir chairman, or rather the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal wasn¡¯t just this. They wanted to spread the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods to more countries on the continent, which showed the disadvantages of Frestech City.

    Actually there was no need for Xu Yi to raise it, these people who had worked in the product distribution center for years already knew this.

    It wasn¡¯t anything in the past few years, but in thest two years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business had expanded to the Falk Kingdom, the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire, and even further ces.

    Not to mention sea transport, in terms ofnd transport, these countries were all very far away from Frestech City.

    If they gathered all cargo in Frestech City first before sending them out, it would waste quite a bit of time and effort.

    For example, the ck Rice Wastnd was north of the Stantine Duchy and if the products produced in the factories were first brought down south to Frestech City before being sent north to the Falk Kingdom, or if they went to the Marlow Empire, it would go around in a circle which clearly wasted time.

    ¡°So in order to respond to ourpany¡¯s current development, I¡¯ve decided to build a transportation department inside thepany and it won¡¯t be limited to Frestech City. This department will be mainly in charge of transporting goods as quickly as possible based on demands, sending them to the customer as quickly, as conveniently, and as cheaply to the customer as possible.¡±

    The eyes of all the people in the room lit up when they heard this.

    Sir chairman was saying that thepany would be cing more importance on the distribution center?

    This was good news for the people here because if thepany ced more importance on this department, they would invest more funds, which meant that their positions would be higher.

    Xu Yi looked around and revealed a faint smile.

    Naturally he could see through what everyone was thinking.

    But he didn¡¯t care about this.

    Having hope and even ambition wasn¡¯t bad because it could easily be turned into motivation.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, they should ce more importance on logistics, so Xu Yi needed more and more motivation from the people of this department.

    ¡°As for the concrete arrangements, thepany will have to do some research first before¡­¡­¡±

    When Xu Yi had said half his words, the doors to the conference room were suddenly pushed open.

    Everyone turned to see a middle aged man panting as he came into the room.

    After seeing who it was, everyone was surprised.

    The one who opened the door was the person who managed Frestech City, Sandico, who was in charge of all therge and small matters in Frestech City. Normally he was a very calm person, the people in the room had rarely seen him looking this afraid before.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    ¡°Sandico, what happened?¡±

    Sandico took a deep breath before quicklying to Xu Yi¡¯s side, taking out a slightly wrinkled piece of paper for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir¡­¡­Sir chairman, something bad¡­¡­A major problem¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 110 Itâ€™s not as serious as you think

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 110 It¡¯s not as serious as you think</h4>

    Although Sandico¡¯s trembling voice was small, because of how quiet it was in the room, everyone had heard this and couldn¡¯t help revealing different expressions at the same time.

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression was calm and he brought over the water he still hadn¡¯t drank yet.

    ¡°Calm down, exin it slowly.¡±

    Sandico took the cup of water and drank it all before giving two coughs. Only then did he gasp for breath and hand the piece of paper in his hand to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this came from the Sack Kingdom side.¡±

    ¡°Sack Kingdom?¡± Xu Yi looked at Sandico with a bit of surprise. After thinking for a bit, he gave a nod and opened the piece of paper in his hand.

    There were only two lines on the paper and it looked very simple, but after Xu Yi read it, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a surprised look.

    ¡°The Sack Kingdom magic research facility announced that they have developed the Magic Cannon and will be starting to mass produce Magic Cannons soon.¡±

    It was just a few short words, but there was a rich meaning in them.

    First, the Sack Kingdom developing the Magic Cannon was definitely a shocking piece of news.

    The military magic machines had always been held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone. Although the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom had a portion of it from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, therefore they had some grasp of the military magic machines, they only had only the most preliminary military magic machines. It wasn¡¯t a problem to increase the strength of their armies, but their magic machines were far from being able to match the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s.

    Among the high level military magic machines grasped by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magic Cannon was one of the more important ones. Moreover, in Xu Yi¡¯s n for developing military magic machines, the Magic Cannons were an important part.

    Now that the Sack Kingdom had actually developed it, it meant that they would break the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly on the military magic machines.

    This was without a doubt arge blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but it was also inspiring news for the other countries.

    Because the Sack Kingdom had developed the Magic Cannon, which meant that the other countries had hope of developing it and they wouldn¡¯t be restricted by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, expanding on this news¡­¡­Since they could develop the Magic Cannon without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, did that mean they could also develop the other military magic machines by themselves?

    Thinking about it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines didn¡¯t fall from space and they had developed it.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop it, didn¡¯t that mean that others could develop them as well?

    For the people that wanted to enter the military magic machine industry, this was the greatest boost to their confidence.

    It was also a boost of confidence for those that wanted to develop household magic machines.

    It could be imagined what kind of powerful impact the Sack Kingdom announcing this news would have.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would without a doubt also be affected.

    After Xu Yi was surprised, he thought about it and then revealed a rxed smile. He casually gave the piece of paper to Ozil before having him pass it to the others in the room after he finished reading it.

    After reading this paper, everyone in the room fell into silence, but they all had serious looks on their faces.

    As middle ss managers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally they were clear on the serious effect this would have on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing this quickly. The reason why they had this special status was because of their magic machines, especially their monopoly on military magic machines. It forced many people into cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly had suffered arge blow and they wouldn¡¯t have the same powerful monopoly as before, there were many people that would start treating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce differently.

    The impact of this couldn¡¯t be described with just a few words.

    ¡°Sir chairman¡­¡­¡± Ozil said before after opening his mouth, he found that he didn¡¯t know what to say.

    The other people in the conference room looked at Xu Yi with the same serious expression, but no one could react in this short period of time, so they all looked at Xu Yi, waiting for him to speak.

    Xu Yi looked over at everyone and said with a smile, ¡°What? Why are you looking at me? Is there something on my face?¡±

    Everyone nkly looked at each other before Sandico asked in a voice where he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Sir chairman, this¡­¡­What time is it now and you¡¯re still in the mood to joke?¡±

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman.¡± Ozil couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°This matter¡­¡­You need to quickly think of a way to deal with it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a rxed shrug, ¡°What deal with it? Why do you all have serious expressions for? Is this matter very serious?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

    One could easily tell how important this matter was, so how could sir chairman not see it?

    But how could sir chairman react like this? Could it be that he really felt it wasn¡¯t serious?

    How could that be possible!

    ¡°Sir chairman¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to cut off Sandico.

    ¡°This matter is not in the range of what we¡¯re discussing today, don¡¯t waste time.¡± He turned to Ozil after saying this, ¡°As for establishing the new product distribution center, you should prepare yourselves. I want an initial n within a month from you all and submit the n for the new product distribution center to me. Within the year, I want the new product distribution center to start operations and for it to be used next year, do you understand?¡±

    Ozil and Sandico looked at each other before giving nods.

    ¡°Yes, sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Then, we¡¯ll leave it like this.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod before patting Sandico¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Sandico, after the new product distribution center is built, Frestech City will be affected, so you as the City Lord should be prepared. I¡¯ll give you a suggestion, contact the New Moon Chamber of Commerce more, I feel that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n will help Frestech City¡¯s development.¡±

    ¡°New Moon Chamber of Commerce?¡± Sandico looked at Xu Yi with a bit of hesitation.

    ¡°Don¡¯t hesitate. Although Still is my wife, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce is the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and Still is Still. I¡¯m giving you this suggestion because the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new n is very promising. It can let Frestech City obtain a new method of development.¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand.¡± Sandico gave a nod, ¡°I¡¯ll go to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s end today¡¯s meeting here. As for what I just told you, you should take the time to study it.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi gave a wave of his hand and left the conference room.

    After talking a few steps out, Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Communicator rang.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all and instantly picked up.

    ¡°Hey, is this Kennard?¡±

    Kennard¡¯s voice from the Magic Communicator was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how did you know it was me?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, I already received the news, so how could you as the CEO not receive it? If you didn¡¯te looking for me after receiving this news, there¡¯s no need for you to be the CEO.¡±

    ¡°Ha¡­¡­¡± Kennard gave an exhaustedugh, ¡°Sir chairman, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s matter¡­¡­what¡­¡­do you think?¡±

    ¡°What do I think?¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Would you believe it if I said that I was very happy?¡±

    There was a bit of silence from the Magic Communicator before Kennard¡¯s helpless sigh came out.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯ve always known about your ideal which is to spread the magic machine industry across the continent, so everyone can enjoy the benefits of magic machines, but¡­¡­that doesn¡¯t include the military magic machines. Moreover, you should know how important this is for ourpany. If we lose the advantage in terms of military magic machines, ourpany will be seriously affected. It might even hurt us in the household magic machine department that is important to you.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t as serious as you think. Actually, the Sack Kingdom helped us with a big favour because they can stimte more people to invest in the magic machine industry, so I¡¯m very happy.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°But, sir chairman¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Kennard, based on the angle of ourpany, I don¡¯t think that this is a bad thing.¡± Xu Yi patiently continued to exin to Kennard, ¡°For many people, they only know good and bad.¡±

    ¡°For example, in terms of household magic machines, before there were any otherpanies, although ourpany¡¯s magic machines were very popr, there were many people who knew how outstanding ourpany¡¯s magic machines were. When there were other magic machinepanies that appeared and there were more brands, when peoplepared the, they realized that the Frestech Brand was much better than the other brands and this increased the sales of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°That is correct, but the household magic machines are different from military magic machines¡­¡­¡± Kennard¡¯s voice was still a bit worried.

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Kennard, I know about your worries, but rx, this isn¡¯t that different.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Just believe me. Give me two days to handle this and I¡¯ll give you an exnation.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­Sir chairman, I don¡¯t need an exnation, but¡­¡­I¡¯m just a bit worried. Since you are prepared, then I can be assured.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    After hanging up on Kennard, Xu Yi paused for a bit before opening the Magic Communicator again to press a few buttons.

    ¡°Hello, is this sir chairman?¡± After a while, Evita¡¯s voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°It¡¯s me. Evita, I¡¯ll being to the main base in a bit, bring Teresa to your office, I want to see her.¡±

    There was silence from the other side before Evita took a deep breath.

    ¡°Sir chairman, could it be¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Yes, it¡¯s time.¡±

    ¡°Alright¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 111 Providing qualification for the patent

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 111 Providing qualification for the patent</h4>

    Three dayster, the Sack Kingdom announced publicly that their magic research facility had solved all the problems with the Magic Cannon, so they had sessfully developed one.

    This news was spread at an incredible speed across the surrounding countries before passing to other countries on the continent at the same fast speed.

    Once this news was spread, the entire continent stirred.

    Since the results of the Candra Empire¡¯s two invasions on the Rudson Kingdom, all the countries on the continent knew the strength and importance of military magic machines. The two empires didn¡¯t hesitate to seek out military magic machines.

    However, the military magic machines were only controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and there was no one else who could make them. So the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had to lower their noble heads and seek cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the other small countries, they were even more desperate for the military magic machines, but they also had to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for them.

    At this time, there was another country that could make military magic machines and it was the high end Magic Cannon, this was a strong shock for all the countries on the continent that wanted the military magic machines.

    Although the Sack Kingdom had only just released this news and they could only produce the Magic Cannon, for most countries, there was an important meaning behind this for them.

    Because this meant that the military magic machines didn¡¯t only belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    After the Sack Kingdom released this news, they chose a date to demonstrate the military magic machines. Other than showing off the Magic Cannon that they had just developed, they would also show off the other low end military magic machines that they had developed.

    Because of this demonstration, the Sack Kingdom became the center of attention for the continent. All the newspapers in the southwest corner of the continent wrote articles about this matter and many people¡¯s private conversations were about this matter.

    With the influence of this atmosphere, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that used to be the center of attention was thrown to the back of everyone¡¯s minds and forgotten.

    Of course, there were some people who couldn¡¯t forget the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, Great Magician Ferguson.

    This was Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s third timeing to the Stantine Duchy,ing to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Compared to thest time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base had greatly changed. There were many new tall buildings that took the ce of the emptynd. Countless people moved through those tall buildings, looking very busy.

    The entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base looked busy and prosperous, like it wasn¡¯t affected by the Sack Kingdom¡¯s announcement at all as they took care of everything normally.

    Great Magician Ferguson jumped out of his horse carriage and rubbed his sore waist. Then he looked at the Magic Sedan that flew past him with a bit of admiration in his eyes.

    It would be good if he could have a Magic Sedan. It wouldn¡¯t be as hard to travel three thousand kilometers toe from the Magicians Headquarters and he would get here several times faster.

    But the headquarters was still struggling against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was even dissatisfied with them. He couldn¡¯t at this time take the initiative to buy a Magic Sedan against the wishes of the headquarters.

    Then again, he came on behalf of the headquarters to punish the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If he came in a Magic Sedan produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn¡¯t have the same aura.

    ¡°Why can¡¯t the otherpanies make Magic Sedans?¡± After thinking of this, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t helpining in his heart, ¡°The Sack Kingdom can make the Magic Cannons and the Magic Sedans are simpler than the Magic Cannons. Thosepanies really are useless¡­¡­¡±

    After heined in his heart, Great Magician Ferguson looked at the entrance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters in front of him. Xu Yi came out with several people in the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.

    After seeing the magician rank badge on their chests, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help narrowing his eyes.

    The weakest of these Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers was an Eighth Grade Magician and there were three Ninth Grade Magicians.

    Adding in the fact that there was the Great Magician Xu Yi, even if there weren¡¯t many of them, it was a power that couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    After remembering that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility had over seven hundred magicians where most of them were High Grade Magicians, as well as the over three thousand Low Grade Magicians in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various factories, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a terrifying amount of magicians.

    Moreover, other than Xu Yi who was a Great Magician, a Lampuri Kingdom Great Magician who was working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as unknown Great Magician who was said to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were three Great Magicians that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the ultimate power of Arch Magus Cami was added in, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic power was simply terrifying.

    ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, wee to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce once again.¡± While he was thinking about this, Xu Yi¡¯s group came over and he reached his hand out to Great Magician Ferguson with a smile.

    ¡°Hello chairman Xu, I¡¯m very happy to see you again.¡± Great Magician Ferguson quickly put away his thoughts and reached his hand out to take Xu Yi¡¯s. Then he looked at the magicians behind Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze, ¡°These are¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh, they are researchers at ourpany¡¯s magic research facility. They heard that Great Magician Ferguson was here to discuss several topics rted to magic with us on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters and they were interested, so they wanted to listen in.¡± Xu Yi exined with a smile.

    ¡°Listen in?¡± Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows.

    He had already told Xu Yi what the headquarters wanted to discuss with him ahead of time, it was impossible he didn¡¯t know.

    This matter wasn¡¯t suited to be discussed in front of many people, so if Xu Yi had this stance, what did it mean?

    Xu Yi acted like he didn¡¯t see the expression on Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face at all and reached out his hand with a smile, giving an inviting gesture.

    Great Magician Ferguson could only calm down and follow Xu Yi into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters.

    Xu Yi had already prepared a conference room and directly brought Great Magician Ferguson in.

    The group took their seats and after Xu Yi gave a polite speech to wee Great Magician Ferguson, he went right into the main topic.

    ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, as for the headquarters¡¯ request to stop forming the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union, after discussing it with thepany, we have decided to deny this request. I hope that you can pass our decision on to the headquarters.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Great Magician Ferguson was a bit surprised.

    He came this time to officially warn the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Magicians Guild headquarters, calling them to stop forming the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be punished by the Magicians Guild.

    But he never would have thought that before he even said anything, Xu Yi would reject him first!

    What courage did he have to reject this?

    After being surprised, anger suddenly filled Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s chest.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know the consequences of doing this?¡± Great Magician Ferguson asked with a dark look.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson was filled with rage, but after seeing the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, he forced himself to calm down, ¡°Chairman Xu, my arrival this time is to officially give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce the headquarters¡¯ decision on their behalf. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce must stop forming this Magic Machine Patent Protection Union, otherwise you¡¯ll be punished by the headquarters! This is a decision thates from the council, chairman Xu, yourpany mustply!¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing. Not only did he not respond, he leaned back in his chair, looking at Great Magician Ferguson with a calm look.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Ferguson, I have a question.¡± A middle aged researcher who looked to be around forty beside Xu Yi suddenly spoke.

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at him with knitted brows. He thought that since Xu Yi had brought these people, they must have made preparations.

    He looked at the Ninth Grade Magician badge on that middle age man¡¯s chest before Great Magician Ferguson gave a nod, ¡°Speak, what is your question?¡±

    The middle aged man stood up and gave Great Magician a respectful bow before asking, ¡°Your excellency, I do not understand the headquarters¡¯s decision. Why is the headquarters asking ourpany to stop forming the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union? For what reason?¡±

    ¡°Reason?¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi who had a rxed smile on his face and gave a cold snort before responding, ¡°The protection of magic patents and its uses belong to the Magicians Union headquarters. Other than the headquarters, no one has the right to exercise this power. Now your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to form this Magic Machine Patent Protection Union, it¡¯s encroaching on the authority of headquarters. Since this is the first offense and since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helps with the development of all the magicians on the continent, the council has decided to leave you some space. But if you insist on doing this, the headquarters won¡¯t show any courtesy!¡±

    ¡°Your excellency, although what you said sounds reasonable¡­¡­¡± The middle aged man had a trace of ridicule on his face, ¡°If I remember correctly, the words ¡®patent¡¯ and ¡®magic patent¡¯ were proposed by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the headquarters, right?¡±

 Volume 6 112 Giving money without doing work

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 112 Giving money without doing work</h4>

    Great Magician Ferguson froze and his expression became a bit awkward.

    This middle aged magician was right. The word ¡°magic patents¡± and the concept of patents were all proposed by Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. It had been passed to the headquarters through the Lampuri Kingdom Magicians Guild before finally being approved by them.

    Since this concept was proposed by Xu Yi, Xu Yi had the most right to talk about this matter.

    Now that headquarters was saying that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have this right, it was no wonder they wouldn¡¯t submit.

    After a bit of silence, Great Magician Ferguson gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°This concept is indeed from chairman Xu, but this concept involves magic and magicians which is the jurisdiction of our Magicians Guild. Moreover, chairman Xu proposed this concept in the beginning in hopes of using the Magicians Guild¡¯s strength to protect the patent concept he proposed. Isn¡¯t that right, chairman Xu?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. I hoped the Magicians Guild would ept this patent concept in hopes of using the strength of the Magicians Guild to protect these patents, so that there would be more space for development when it came to magic machine research.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi openly acknowledged this, Great Magician Ferguson gave a sigh of relief, ¡°Since chairman Xu has approved of giving our Magicians Guild this right in the first ce, he handed the power to exercise this right to our headquarters. Then now that you are forming a Magic Machine Patent Protection Union, what is that for?¡±

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Ferguson, you¡¯ve seemed to have made a mistake.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Oh? What¡¯s wrong?¡±

    ¡°I proposed this idea to the Magicians Guild headquarters to protect our magic patents with the strength of the Magicians guild, but you¡¯ve neglected a problem. While obtaining the protection of the Magicians Guild, we also have to pay a price. I don¡¯t know anything else, but just for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we paid a shocking one hundred and forty thousand gold coins to the Magicians Guild to protect these patents. This isn¡¯t a small amount¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a cold snort, ¡°What? Isn¡¯t it natural to spend a bit of money to have the guild protect your patents?¡±

    ¡°Of course, this is as it should be. I never denied this.¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and asked back without any courtesy, ¡°But Great Magician Ferguson, you must understand one thing. We pay this fee to the Magicians Guild because we believe the Magicians Guild has the ability to protect our patents, so we choose to do this and there¡¯s no need to do this.¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Could it be that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to leave the patent protection of our Magicians Guild?¡±

    ¡°The meaning of my words is that since we can choose to pay this patent protection fee to the Magicians Guild in exchange for their protection, we can also choose not to pay this money¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then you will lose the Magicians Guild protection on your patents!¡± Great Magician Ferguson cut Xu Yi off without any courtesy.

    ¡°Right, it is indeed like this. But this also means that we have the right to choose and don¡¯t only have to rely on the Magicians Guild. Great Magician Ferguson, do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°So you are nning on making this Magic Machine Patent Protection Union to charge yourself protection fees and protect your own patents?¡± Great Magician Ferguson gave a coldugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think¡­¡­with just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you can do this? I can tell you that other than our Magicians Guild, there is no other organization on the continent that can do this!¡±

    ¡°I admit that you are right on this, at least it¡¯s right for now, but¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Ferguson with iparably sharp eyes, ¡°Since the Magicians Guild headquarters can¡¯t protect our patents, we have to find a way to solve this problem ourselves. Even if we face many difficulties, we have to do this.¡±

    Being stared at by Xu Yi like this, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help looking away to avoid Xu Yi¡¯s gaze.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t understand what you mean. Why do you say that our Magicians Guild can¡¯t protect your patents?¡±

    ¡°You really don¡¯t know?¡± Xu Yi gave augh before nodding at the researchers beside him.

    They walked out of the room together.

    When Great Magician Ferguson was confused, not long after, they brought back two elves and three dwarves who were all carrying several household magic machines.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is this?¡± Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help asking.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply as he had those people continue.

    The middle aged researcher who had asked Great Magician Ferguson a question before put the Magic Fan in his hand on the table before pointing at it, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, do you recognize this Magic Fan?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was confused as he looked at the Magic Fan before shaking his head.

    ¡°This Magic Fan is not a Frestech Brand Magic Fan made by ourpany, it was discovered in the Candra Empire.¡± The middle aged researcher continued, ¡°To put it simply, it is the Magic Fan from apany that we don¡¯t know the name of yet.¡±

    ¡°What? Is this very strange? As far as I know, other than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, aren¡¯t there several dozenpanies that can also produce Magic Fans?¡± Great Magician Ferguson said.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. But other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if anotherpany wants to produce Magic Fans, they have to obtain the patent authorization from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or it would go against the patent protection of the Magicians Guild. You should be very clear on this, right?¡± The middle aged researcher asked.

    ¡°Un, it is like this¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked at the Magic Fan again as a different feeling filled his heart.

    The middle aged researcher pointed at the Magic Fan¡¯s base and said, ¡°Ourpany has note of all thepanies that have received the patent authorization and this Magic Fan is not from one of those brands, so I¡¯m certain that this Magic Fan is from one of thepanies that has stolen from ourpany¡¯s Magic Fan patent!¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows, ¡°How can you confirm this?¡±

    The middle aged researcher looked at him with a gaze of contempt.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician Ferguson, you surpass me when ites to magic, but when ites to understanding of magic machines, I am without a doubt better than you.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was angry, but he as a normal person didn¡¯t have the right to say anything towards this!

    ¡°Then in the end, what is the meaning?¡± Great Magician Ferguson angrily said.

    ¡°You still don¡¯t understand?¡± The middle aged researcher revealed a surprised look, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s patent is being openly infringed on, but your Magicians Guild hasn¡¯t taken any disciplinary action yet to protect the patent of ourpany. Even when ourpany tries to protect the patent with our own strength, you forcefully stop us! Your excellency Great Magician Ferguson, can you tell me where the patent protection fees that ourpany is giving headquarters is going?¡±

    Hearing him say ¡°you¡± again and again, Great Magician Ferguson felt very dissatisfied.

    This fellow was clearly a Ninth Grade Magician and didn¡¯t feel any sense of belonging towards the Magicians Guild, but rather kept saying ¡°we¡± when he talked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. To Great Magician Ferguson, a Great Magician who was on the council was very dissatisfied with this.

    But the other side¡¯s question was solid, so he had to answer.

    After thinking for a bit, Great Magician Ferguson said with a serious look, ¡°As for this matter, as long as you report this to headquarters, headquarters will investigate and protect your patent. But this matter can¡¯t be solved in just a day or two, it takes some time. Also, this isn¡¯t rted to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce privately making the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union, you can¡¯t deny the guild¡¯s hard work to protect your patent because of this one infringement.¡±

    ¡°Hard work?¡± The middle aged researcher gave augh, ¡°Your excellency Ferguson, ourpany discovered this for the first time and made a protection application to the headquarters, it has already been half a year. In this half a year, it isn¡¯t just this one time that our patent has been infringed on.¡±

    The other researchers, the two elves, and the three dwarves all put the household magic machines in their hands on the table and began giving introductions.

    It was just like what the middle aged researcher had described. These household magic machines came frompanies that didn¡¯t receive the patent authorization from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, infringing on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s patent.

    ¡°We pay arge amount of patent protection fee to the Magicians Guild each year, but they can¡¯t protect our patent, so why should we believe in the guild? Why can¡¯t we find our own solution?¡±

    Facing the middle age researcher¡¯s question, Great Magician Ferguson was silent for a bit before turning to look at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, is this your intention?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°From a business perspective, it¡¯s very simple. Not doing work even when receiving money, why should I keep paying?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi with a dark look, ¡°This means that you aren¡¯t nning on epting the headquarters¡¯ decision? Do you understand the consequences of doing this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked right at him, ¡°The Magicians Guild was made to help the magicians of the continent, protecting their interests. If it can¡¯t do this, but rather eliminates the rights of magicians, there is no need for the Magicians Guild to exist.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised before smiling out of anger.

    ¡°Good! Good! Chairman Xu, do not regret doing this!¡±

    Then he left in a huff.

 Volume 6 113 Consulting the arriving Arch Magus

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 113 Consulting the arriving Arch Magus</h4>

    Great Magician Ferguson entered his horse carriage and quickly disappeared from the line of sight of the two looking down with binocrs, drawing out a surprised sigh.

    ¡°Look at Ferguson, it seems like his discussion with that kid Xu Yi has broken down. Cami, I have to say, your grandson inw really is brave. He actually dared topletely offend the guild? Has he thought of the consequences of doing this? You¡¯re not even saying something to him.¡±

    ¡°Why would I say anything?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes, ¡°Let me tell you, ster, don¡¯t just look at how young Xu Yi is, his mind is more clear than you and me. Since he dared to do this, he must have thought of the consequences. Also, do you really think there will be consequences? Just with those fellows at the guild? Humph¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the disdain on Arch Magus Cami¡¯s face, Arch Magus ster gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Although those fellows at the guild are pieces of trash, they have many ways to take care of apany if they wanted to do so. Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is deeply involved with magicians, so if the guild really decides to deal with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, yourpany will lose a bunch of magicians, I think that would definitely be a heavy blow to yourpany.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Arch Magus ster with a look of surprise.

    ¡°Why do you think ourpany would lose a bunch of magicians?¡±

    ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t it?¡± ster was surprised, ¡°The guild doesn¡¯t need to do much, they just need to give simple orders that they won¡¯t allow magicians to work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it would cripple yourpany. You don¡¯t think that¡¯s serious?¡±

    ¡°So you think that the magicians of ourpany would listen to the orders of the guild?¡± Arch Magus Cami gave augh, ¡°If it was you and the guild gave you an order, would you listen?¡±

    ¡°Me? It depends on how reasonable it is¡­¡­If it is, then out of supporting the guild, I would listen. If it isn¡¯t, then of course I wouldn¡¯t. Of course, I am an Arch Magus and the guild wouldn¡¯t give me an order. Even the Marlow Empire¡¯s emperor wouldn¡¯t dare do this.¡± ster curled his lips as he said this.

    ¡°Nonsense, you are an Arch Magus, who would dare give you an order?¡± Cami rolled his eyes, thinking that his ssmate and friend was clearly doing well in the Marlow Empire, ¡°Don¡¯t think that only an Arch Magus like you can weigh the orders of the guild, normal magicians weigh these orders even more than us Arch Magi.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Arch Magus ster looked at Arch Magus Cami with an interested look.

    This was the third day since he had been invited by Arch Magus Cami from the Marlow Empire. He was very curious about his old ssmate who had broken through to be an Arch Magus in this short period of time, so he rushed over after receiving the invitation.

    But in the three short days he had been with Arch Magus Cami, he found that Arch Magus Cami wasn¡¯t frantically throwing himself into magic research like he thought, but rather he was looking into some strange things.

    For example, the guild¡¯s attitude towards Low Grade Magicians which had nothing to do with magic research at all.

    As an aloof Arch Magus, only the Magicians Guild cared about their attitude and they didn¡¯t need to care about the Magicians Guild.

    As for the Low Grade Magicians, they were in apletely different world from these two Arch Magi. They didn¡¯t need to consider what the Low Grade Magicians thought at all.

    However, Arch Magus Cami seemed to understand this very well and seemed quite interested in it.

    This was something that Arch Magus ster was very curious about.

    Could it be that Arch Magus Cami¡¯s strange increase in strength and him being able to break through in a short period of time was because of this?

    But Arch Magus Cami knitted his brows to think for a bit before shaking his head and surprising Arch Magus ster.

    ¡°Forget it, leave this matter to that kid Xu Yi to worry about, I¡¯m toozy to care. baster, do you see that tall iron tower in the distance? That is the magic signal tower I mentioned to you before. When we talked on the Magic Communicator yesterday, they used these magic signal towers constructed all around us.¡±

    Arch Magus ster never thought that Arch Magus Cami would keep him guessing and couldn¡¯t help being a bit angry.

    But after Arch Magus Cami said these words, he already flew over to the magic signal tower, so he could only helplessly shake his head and also fly over.

    ¡°Come, ster, feel it.¡± Arch Magus Cami pointed at the magic signal tower.

    ster nodded before sending out a bit of magic, inspecting the magic signal tower all over.

    ¡°It¡¯s the same as the Magic Array on the Magic Communicator.¡± ster thought about it before asking, ¡°This means that the principle of this thing is to use the same Magic Arrays tomunicate with each other, allowing them to talk from long distances?¡±

    ¡°Right, this is the Magic Array resonance that ourpany has created, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very good. This novel Magic Array is very worth studying, I never thought of this before.¡± Arch Magus ster praised this before seeing that Arch Magus Cami had a proud look. He had a thought and asked, ¡°Cami, this Magic Array resonance technology, did you help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop this?¡±

    ¡°No, of course not. I mainly study high intensity energy transfer things. This Magic Array resonance mainly uses Low Grade Magic Arrays, so even if I wanted to study it, that kid Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t let me do it.¡± Arch Magus Cami waved his hand.

    ¡°I think that it¡¯s too wasteful for you to study these Low Grade Magic Arrays, right?¡± ster asked with a smile, ¡°You are an Arch Magus, if you go and study this Fourth Grade Magic Array, that really would be a waste.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯tpletely because of this.¡± Arch Magus Cami shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s mainly because there is only a single Arch Magus in thepany and there are things that only I can study, no one else has this ability for now¡­¡­Eh, alright, it is indeed as you said. But ster, you can¡¯t look down on this Magic Array resonance. Don¡¯t worry about how it only uses Low Grade Magic Arrays, the finesse required isn¡¯t less than High Grade Spells.¡±

    ¡°I can tell even if you didn¡¯t tell me.¡± ster put a hand into his chest and took out a Magic Communicator. He sent a wisp of magic in and carefully looked over the Magic Array inside several times before revealing a bit of surprise, ¡°Cami, this Magic Array¡­¡­did you really not participate in designing it?¡±

    ¡°Right, it was all made by those little fellows in the magic research facility, I didn¡¯t do a thing.¡± Arch Magus Cami guessed that ster wanted to ask something, so he said whileughing, ¡°What? Even you think this Magic Array is very strong?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Such a refined Magic Array, it¡¯s my first time seeing this.¡± Arch Magus ster gave praise, ¡°Moreover, the design of the Magic Array¡­¡­there are many parts that I can¡¯t understand. Cami, can you bring me to see the magician who designed this Magic Array? I want to ask them face to face.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°I say, ster, you are an Arch Magus and you¡¯re asking a Low Grade Magician questions, won¡¯t you scare them?¡±

    ¡°In the exploration of magic, there is no difference in levels.¡± Arch Magus ster said with a serious look.

    Arch Magus Cami was a bit surprised. Looking at him, he put aside the thoughts to joke with him.

    ¡°That¡¯s fine, I was just telling you that normal magicians are more important to the Magicians Guild and now that you recognize this, I¡¯ll bring you to see them.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Cami looked around and his eyes fell onto the magic signal tower to their southeast.

    ¡°They should be doing some full repairs there, so let¡¯s go over.¡±

    This magic signal tower was over five kilometers away from where they were, but for these two Arch Magi, this was the distance they could travel in a few breaths.

    Not long after, the two of them arrived by the magic signal tower.

    Arch Magus Cami saw the two magic research facility researchers currently checking the Magic Array at the peak of the tower. When he looked down, he found that there was a group of people below, so he floated down to them.

    Noticing the two figures that suddenly appeared, Akali who had her head down looking at her blueprint impatiently waved her hand, ¡°Don¡¯t bother me right now, ask them if you have some questions.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave augh, ¡°Akali, what problem do you have this time?¡±

    Hearing Arch Magus Cami¡¯s voice, Akali was scared. She quickly looked up and found that it wasn¡¯t just Arch Magus Cami who arrive, but there was also Arch Magus ster who arrived from the Marlow Empire three days ago and was even more surprised. She quickly put away the things in her hand and respectfully gave Arch Magus ster a bow before asking Arch Magus Cami, ¡°Grandpa Cami, why did you suddenlye here?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami signaled at Arch Magus ster with his lips.

    ¡°There, ster was very interested in themunication Magic Array that you developed, so he wanted to ask you¡­¡­ke¡­¡­consult with you.¡±

    ¡°Consult?¡± Akali said in a surprise voice as she turned to look at Arch Magus ster.

    ¡°You¡¯re called Akali?¡± Arch Magus ster revealed a smile that was quite friendly, ¡°I just checked themunication Magic Array in the magic signal tower and the Magic Communicator and I thought that the design was quite refined, so it has high research value. I wanted to ask you some questions, I hope that you can answer them.¡±

    Akali looked at him for a bit, blinking her wide eyes in a daze several times before shaking her head.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, your excellency Arch Magus ster, I can¡¯t answer your questions rted to the Magic Array.¡±

    Arch Magus ster was surprised.

 Volume 6 114 Want to do it together?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 114 Want to do it together?</h4>

    In the magicians circle on the continent, inquiring about the private magic research of a magician was a taboo because this was something that was precious to every magician. Asking about this was considered a provocation.

    But that depended on the situation.

    For Arch Magus ster, for an Arch Magus like him to ask about the research of a Seventh Grade Magician, for the magicians of the Sines Continent, not only was this not a provocation or offensive, it was rather an honour.

    It had to be known, the Arch Magi were the iparable peak of the magicians circle, so it was an honour just for the low level magician if their eyes fell onto them, not to mention asking them about magic.

    So when Arch Magus ster said that he wanted to ask for advice from Akali, he was very confident that Akali would happily agree to his request.

    However, he never would have expected that Akali would directly reject him!

    Arch Magus ster was surprised. His expression became a bit awkward and he could only give a dryugh before waving his hand, ¡°Alright, it was my mistake. Miss Akali, just treat it as if I never said anything.¡±

    Akali was also surprised before quickly reacting. She shook her hands and said with a smile, ¡°Your excellency ster, please don¡¯t misunderstand, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m not willing to explore this topic with you, but rather this is a secret of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Without the permission of sir chairman, I can¡¯t reveal it to anyone, so please forgive me.¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secret?¡± Arch Magus ster was a bit surprised, ¡°Wasn¡¯t this Magic Array developed by you? Then it should belong to you.¡±

    ¡°No, this Magic Array is my¡­¡­¡± Akali looked at the surrounding researcher, ¡°And my fellow researchers¡¯ work, this isn¡¯t just done by me alone. Moreover, when we were researching the Magic Arrays, we relied on the support of thepany for various matters. Without this support, we wouldn¡¯t have been able to develop it.¡±

    The researchers around Akali nodded, clearly agreeing with what Akali had said.

    Seeing Akali¡¯s response, ster was even more interested as he kept asking, ¡°Then¡­¡­you¡¯re saying that you¡¯re willing to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the research you worked so hard on, not even willing to share it with others?¡±

    ¡°Your excellency ster, you¡¯re still mistaken.¡± Akali said with a smile, ¡°Thismunication Magic Array was developed by us for thepany, so it didn¡¯t belong to us in the first ce, but rather it belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If we talk about these secrets with others, or even disclosing these secrets, it would vite the contract we signed with thepany.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then you¡¯re saying that you were only hired?¡± Seeing Akali nod, ster thought for a bit before asking, ¡°Then¡­¡­If the Magicians Guild wanted you to hand these things over, what would you do?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at him, thinking that this fellow really couldn¡¯t hold back.

    Akali and the other researchers were all surprised.

    ¡°Of course we wouldn¡¯t tell them.¡± Akali said with a surprised look, ¡°Your excellency ster, I just told you, this is the secret of ourpany, how could we tell the Magicians Guild?¡±

    ¡°This means that if you were to choose between the Magicians Guild and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you would choose the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Arch Magus ster asked.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that nonsense¡­¡­¡± A young male researcher beside Akali couldn¡¯t help saying this. Then he realized that he had been too rude in front of Arch Magus ster and his expression froze before he revealed an awkward look.

    Arch Magus ster didn¡¯t care at all as he asked with a smile, ¡°Why is this nonsense?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­Because¡­¡­Because the Magicians Guild isn¡¯t paying us our sries¡­¡­¡± The young male researcher hesitantly replied.

    ¡°Yes, thepany is the one paying us and giving us magic materials. At the same time, they gave a good study environment, which is why we can develop these things. The Magicians Guild has never given us anything, so why would we tell them?¡± Another young male researcher added.

    ¡°That¡¯s right. If the Magicians Guild wants it, they can take out money to buy it. Why should we just tell them because they¡¯re telling us to do so?¡±

    ¡°Not to mention that the Magicians Guild is not helping us, they are hindering us all the time. It¡¯s already good that we¡¯re not causing them trouble, why should we listen to them?¡±

    ¡°Why should we agree if there aren¡¯t any benefits for us at all¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Hearing the strong words they had, Arch Magus ster fell into silence.

    After a bit of silence, he turned to look at Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°Cami, I have to admit that they do make a lot of sense.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave a shrug, ¡°Of course it makes sense because this thing is very simple. It¡¯s who pays that gets to make the decision. Those fellows at the guild want to do nothing and gain benefits, would you be willing to ept this?¡±

    ¡°But the guild is¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus ster stopped halfway and looked at Akali¡¯s group before pausing. Then he shook his head with a smile, ¡°Forget it, it seems like I¡¯m old and can¡¯t keep up.¡±

    He looked at the tall magic signal tower after saying this and revealed a self deprecating smile, ¡°Since this thing is rted to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets, then I won¡¯t ask anything else. But young miss Akali, I dok admire someone like you who can develop such a refined Magic Array. I hope that if there is a chance, we can talk a bit.¡±

    ¡°It would be my honour.¡± Akali happily said.

    ster was an Arch Magus, so being able receive praise from him was an iparable honour for Akali and her group.

    After nodding to everyone, ster and Cami flew away from the magic signal tower. Then they looked around in the sky above the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base before finally returning to Arch Magus Cam¡¯srge privateb to the west of the base.

    ¡°Hey, Cami, if I remember correctly, you said that you are a special researcher for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then aren¡¯t the things here the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s secrets? Is it really good for you to bring me along like this?¡± Arch Magus ster looked around before casually asking this.

    Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes, ¡°I say, I haven¡¯t seen you in over ten years and you¡¯ve be this stingy? Moveover,you¡¯re being petty over a little girl, it really is embarrassing. Alright,e and take a look, this is my newly developed thing. Come and see how it is.¡±

    ¡°Are you sure this isn¡¯t a secret?¡± Arch Magus ster gave another joke, but seeing Arch Magus Cami knitting his brows, he came over whileughing.

    Arch Magus Cami let him see a blueprint which described a veryplicated Magic Array.

    Arch Magus ster looked at it for a while as he knitted his brows.

    ¡°Hey, Cami, this should be a miniature Forbidden Array, right? But why does it seem so strange?¡±

    ¡°How is it strange?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s¡­¡­Why is the might so¡­¡­so wild?¡± Arch Magus ster seriously looked over the blueprint in his hands as he revealed a trace of surprise in his eyes, ¡°You want to gather the full might of this Forbidden Spell andunch it at once? What do you need to do this for? I think that a normal Forbidden Spell is strong enough, right?¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus ster was suddenly surprised as he narrowed his eyes.

    ¡°Cami, is this for one of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines? If it is, this might¡­¡­isn¡¯t it too much? What is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce thinking?¡±

    ¡°What are you thinking?¡± Arch Magus Cami took the blueprint from Arch Magus ster¡¯s hands and pointed at it, ¡°Can¡¯t you see, I don¡¯t want to release the full power of the Forbidden Spell at once, I want to release it bit by bit, alright?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Arch Magus ster took it again and seriously looked over it twice before carefully thinking it over. Finally, he gave a slow nod, ¡°Un, I didn¡¯t look at it carefully before. If it is designed like this, this part will limit the power of the Forbidden Spell and won¡¯t let it be released all at once. But I am even more curious, Cami, what is this for?¡±

    ¡°ording to that kid Xu Yi, this is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most advanced project, called the high energy output system. If this thing can be developed, ourpany can make many new things that people wouldn¡¯t even dare imagine!¡± Arch Magus Cami had an expectant look.

    ¡°High energy output system?¡± Arch Magus ster looked at Arch Magus Cami with a confused look, ¡°What is this thing.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s tooplicated to exin to you. If you¡¯re interested, I can slowly tell you, but before this, ster, do you want to ept my invitation to develop this thing together? I guarantee that you will be very interested in this.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­What benefits are there to studying this thing?¡± Arch Magus ster asked back.

    ¡°Of course there are benefits.¡± Arch Magus Cami said without any hesitation, ¡°This is research involving a Forbidden Spell, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where can you find so many precious magic materials that you can study without worry? You have to know that I spend over a thousand gold coins in magic material with each study session. For us magicians at the Arch Magus Rank, studying low grade magic doesn¡¯t help us. So do you understand what the greatest benefit of studying this thing is?¡±

    Arch Magus ster¡¯s eyes lit up and his heart was moved.

    Although he was an aloof Arch Magus, receiving both special subsidies from the Marlow Empire and the Magicians Guild, he only received no more than sixty thousand gold coins a year.

    Although this amount seemed like a lot, for him that needed to spend several thousand gold coins every time he studied something, it was far from being enough for him to use.

    Hearing what Arch Magus Cami said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide all the materials for a study at this level, they really were generous.

    ¡°Other than this, as long as you participate in the research, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can give you a special pay. How about fifty thousand gold coins a year?¡±

    ¡°Fifty thousand gold coins a year?¡± Arch Magus ster¡¯s heart skipped a beat as his eyes suddenly began glowing gold.

 Volume 6 115 Breaking the Frestech Chamber of Commerceâ€™s monopoly

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 115 Breaking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly</h4>

    After learning of the news that Arch Magus ster had left, Xu Yi immediately went looking for Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°Grandfather, Arch Magus ster agreed?¡± Xu Yi asked with a hopeful look.

    ¡°How could it be that easy?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes, ¡°He is an Arch Magus, every single move he makes is closely watched, so how could he do whatever he wants.¡±

    ¡°Then it sounds like it didn¡¯t work?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was filled with disappointment.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t aplete no.¡± Arch Magus Cami shook his head, ¡°Although ster didn¡¯t clearly say it, based on what I could see, it isn¡¯t a problem to ask him to work on this research project, but it should be impossible for you to have him do anything else. Anyways, don¡¯t think that you can buy him from the Marlow Empire for just fifty thousand gold coins a year.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Grandfather, aren¡¯t you underestimating me? If it¡¯s only fifty thousand gold coins a year for an Arch Magus, I would buy as many as I could.¡±

    ¡°But you¡¯re only giving me ten thousand gold coins a year.¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Arch Magus Cami before breaking out in augh, ¡°Grandfather, you¡¯re a different matter. The entirepany knows who you are and as long as you want, you can take as much as you want. But you did remind me of this, giving you only ten thousand a year is my mistake. You are now an Arch Magus, it wouldn¡¯t be right if we took out some money for your sry. Un¡­¡­How about this, your sry will be increased to fifty thousand gold coins a year, how about that?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami was surprised before waving his hand, ¡°I was just joking, what are you giving me all this money for? I have everything I want in thepany and I have no need for money, so you might as well use that money for something else.¡±

    ¡°This money is also an advertisement, so please don¡¯t decline it.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Advertisement? I say, Xu Yi, don¡¯t think too much. Although ster might agree to help us with the research, it¡¯s impossible to hire him into thepany, so give up this idea.¡± Arch Magus Cami said with a serious look.

    ¡°I never hoped that we would be able to hire Arch Magus Cami and never want to hide any other Arch Magi, but this can be considered a signal for the other magicians of the continent. As long as you¡¯re willing to work with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we¡¯ll give you a proper reward. The higher the rank, the greater the reward. Moreover, with the example of Arch Magus ster, I¡¯ve found a new method of cooperation.¡±

    ¡°New method of cooperation?¡±

    ¡°Grandfather, you should know it. Hasn¡¯t ourpany been cooperating with Great Magician Eisenkel the entire time?¡±

    ¡°Eisenkel?¡± Arch Magus Cami let out a snort as his eyes filled with disdain, ¡°This fellow has taken so many gold coins and resources from ourpany, but he hasn¡¯t developed anything useful yet. I urge you to stop cooperating with him.¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about whether he has had any results yet, but this type of investing from ourpany, inviting magicians with power to cooperate with us in developing things is quite good. For example, as long as Arch Magus ster agees, there will be another Arch Magus participating in studying the high energy output system, which will save quite a bit of time. Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, with another person helping, it¡¯s better than me developing it alone. But Xu Yi, this creates a serious problem. The results of the research should of course belong to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but if ster gives it to the Marlow Empire or someone else, how will you stop him?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°For now¡­¡­there¡¯s no way.¡±

    ¡°Then you still want to work with them. Isn¡¯t this giving out the thing that we worked so hard to develop?¡± Arch Magus Cami red at him as he said this.

    ¡°No, grandfather, you can¡¯t just look at these possibilities, you also have to look at the benefits this brings.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Just with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are many research projects that are going slowly because of ack of people. You are the only one who is capable of studying the high energy output system. Although there is the danger of divulging this by working with other magicians, we need the results right now. You think that there is anyone better than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in applying these research results?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami was silent for a bit and after thinking for a while, he gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I admit that you¡¯re right, but Xu Yi, you have to consider that after the results are leaked, it will help the other countries, especially the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire better grasp producing magic machines, right?¡±

    ¡°Letting the other countries join the magic machine industry is my goal in the first ce.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Of course, you don¡¯t need to worry about them surpassing our Frestech Chamber of Commerce because it isn¡¯t important if they have one or two pieces of technology, what is more important is the entire industry. Without aplete industrial system as support, they can¡¯t do anything with just a few pieces of technology.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi with knitted brows, ¡°You¡¯re really this confident?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°If you don¡¯t believe me, there is a good example from the Sack Kingdom for you.¡±

    ###

    January of year 3792 on the continent, the Sack Kingdom was officially conducting a military magic machine disy in thergest city in the south part of the country, Oram City.

    After two months of advertising, there were a hundred thousand people in attendance. The representatives of the other countries were already in the thousands and all the other countries had sent their representatives.

    This exhibition wouldst half a month before it ended.

    Later, the Sack Kingdom officially announced that in this demonstration, they sold over thirteen thousand Magic Cannons, for a total of over six million gold coins.

    Other than this, the Sack Kingdom had received orders for the other military magic machines they developed, reaching over seven million gold coins.

    For a small country like the Sack Kingdom, this was a very sessful product demonstration.

    So the Sack Kingdom announced that through this highly praised exhibition, the Sack Kingdom had made a major breakthrough in the realm of military magic machines. It meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t the onlypany that could produce military magic machines and they had broken their monopoly¡­¡­

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s announcement was aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the military magic machines dide from them, so after this exhibition, everyone¡¯s eyes fell back onto the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to what was normal, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should have given a statement to fight back.

    But the facts proved¡­¡­The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t react at all.

    Whether it was the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? which the Frestech Chamber of Commerce published themselves, or the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s leading ?Lampuri Weekly? that was closest to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a single report on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯sments on the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military magic machine demonstration.

    Simrly, there wasn¡¯t a single reaction from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the other newspapers.

    It was like¡­¡­the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care about this at all.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strange attitude was doubted by countless people. Some people thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t willing toment, while some people thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce felt threatened by the Sack Kingdom, so they weren¡¯t willing, or even not daring to show their faces.

    In certain newspapers, there were even reports that said ¡°the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s monopoly is being threatened, so they are scared¡±!

    But no matter how these newspapers wrote their reports, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t react. Everything went ording to normal.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Marlow Empire manager in the north Hogan, he was too busy to care about the southwest countries. There were countless things he had to do and he had been busy for several months, without any time to rest.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first fleet had already returned to the Stantine Duchy and the task for Hogan now was to make sure that the magic machine production base was ready before the ice melted.

    During his preparation, the most pressing issue was theck of people.

    Half a month ago, Hogan had received a letter from headquarters and sir chairman had personally replied to this issue. He indicated that they could ept Baron Franklin¡¯s proposal, recruiting other race workers from the Marlow Empire¡¯s north to make up their workers.

    To support Hogan, along with the letter, there were five different beastmen who were sent by the sir chairman.

    In the negotiations with the other races, having the same race as the other side would make it much easier.

    After receiving sir chairman¡¯s personal letter and the five beastmen workers, Hogan spent half a month preparing before he arrived at thergest beastmen tribe in the northern Marlow Empire, the Wolfe wolf beastmen tribe.

 Volume 6 116 Donâ€™t want to do business?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 116 Don¡¯t want to do business?</h4>

    For various reasons, humans didn¡¯t have an urate number of the other races on the continent.

    But in general, they recognized that among these other races, the one with the greatest poption was the beastmen race.

    Among the beastmen, thergest poption group were the wolf men.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce contacted the beastmen on the ck Rice Wastnd, they had confirmed this.

    There were over two hundredrge and small beastmen tribes on the ck Rice Wastnd. There were twenty wolf men tribes among them with over thirty thousand people, which was close to 30% of the total poption of the ck Rice Wastnd.

    And among the beastmen who lived in the Marlow Empire¡¯s north, the wolf men took close to 40% of the poption. Among them was the biggest Wolfe Tribe that had over fifty thousand people.

    Such arge number and adding in the powerful battle strength of the wolf men, the Wolfe Tribe was a power that couldn¡¯t be ignored in the northern Marlow Empire.

    ording to some secret information Baron Franklin had given Hogan, the north belonged to the Marlow Empire in name, but in reality the Marlow Empire never had too much control here.

    To put it simply, this ce was like the ck Rice Wastnd, the beastmen were the masters here.

    Of course, the reason for this was that the Marlow Empire¡¯s north was like the ck Rice Wastnd, it wasnd that had a poor environment. The Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t willing to waste that much manpower and resources to expel the beastmen, not to mention that it was for a ck Rice Wastnd that they couldn¡¯t use.

    Simrly, the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯t willing to invest that much manpower and resources to take back these useless tundras.

    But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted this ce. They were nning to build arge magic machine production base and a cargo transportation center for the northern continent here, so they had to control the beastmen here.

    Hogan led arge motorcade to be blocked by a bunch of wolf men when they were just five hundred meters away from the Wolfe Tribe.

    ¡°Human, what are you here for?¡± The lead wolf man spoke in the mostmon humannguage of the continent.

    Hogan was very interested as he looked over this wolf man, finding thatpared to the surrounding wolf men, this one was wearing much neater clothes. He even had several pieces of sparkling armour at key points like his chest and his crotch to protect himself.

    Compared to the other wolf men who didn¡¯t even haveplete clothing, his living conditions were clearly much better.

    Adding in the fact that he spoke fluent human, his position should be quite high among the wolf men.

    ¡°Hello, I am a merchant from the south. I¡¯vee to your tribe this time to do some business with you.¡± Hogan said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Business?¡± The wolf man looked at Hogan before looking at therge motorcade behind him with a bit of doubt in his eyes.

    Because what followed behind Hogan were not the traditional human horse carriages, rather they were strange lookingrge transport Magic Cars that he had never seen before.

    This was his first time seeing such a strange human merchant.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Hogan gave a nod. He raised his hands and six Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s subordinates came over with three crates, opening them for the wolf men.

    The three boxes didn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines. One of them was filled with white rice, one was filled with thick cotton coats, and the final one was filled with pots, wash bowls, and other living goods.

    ¡°See, this time we¡¯ve brought arge amount of food, clothing, and other iron goods that you need. I think that you should be very interested, right?¡± Hogan looked at the wolf men who had sparkling eyes as he asked this.

    These wolf men had been staring at the things in the box for a while and even the leading wolf man couldn¡¯t help licking his lips, so it could be seen that he was moved.

    After a while, the lead wolf man suddenly looked up and revealed a fierce look at Hogan as he said, ¡°Human! Scram!¡±

    Hogan slightly knitted his brows, ¡°I am here to do business with you, not¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Scram!¡± The wolf man loudly interrupted Hogan¡¯s words, even raising the iron rod in his hand, looking like he was about to sh out at Hogan, clearly threatening him.

    Hogan helplessly shook his head, ¡°Alright, since you aren¡¯t willing, then I¡¯ll look for other tribes.¡±

    Hogan waved his hand after saying this and therge caravan turned directions, moving past the territory that the Wolfe Tribe upied and heading off into the tundra in the distance.

    ¡°Lord Baron, does your Marlow Empire have any records of human merchants sessfully trading with beastmen?¡± Hogan turned to look at the Wolfe Tribe in the distance as he asked Baron Franklin beside him this.

    ¡°There are, but there are very few. Compared to that, there are more records of beastmen robbing them.¡± Baron Franklin looked at Hogan with a smile that had a deeper meaning.

    Hogan revealed a faint smile and took out a Magic Communicator from his chest.

    ¡°Captain Austin, what is the current situation?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no movement right now, but we will monitor this for now. Be careful of the other directions.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Seeing Hogan put away the Magic Communicator, Baron Franklin couldn¡¯t help looking up.

    Seeing the ck cloud in the sky, Baron Franklin revealed a strange grin.

    Should it be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were rich, or they were rich in resources?

    This was just a small trip, but they sent out a Magic Airship. It really made it hard for others to keep living.

    With the full speed of therge transport Magic Car, it was enough for the caravan to reach several hundred kilometers into the tundras before night fell.

    However, Hogan had controlled their speed. When the sky became dark, they were in a deste ce that was less than fifty kilometers away from the Wolfe Tribe.

    It was spring right now, but the nights in the northern tundra were still cold. If the caravan slept out in a ce that wasn¡¯t covered, it would be quite bad.

    But before setting off, Hogan had prepared everything.

    After setting up camp, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers took out arge metal frame from therge transport Magic Cars, quickly creating a one story house made of metal.

    Then they put thick leather over it and installed several Magic Air Conditioners inside before padding the ground with wool nkets. When they turned on the Magic Air Conditioner and the warm wind came out, the entire room quickly became warmer and it was apletely different world from the tundra covered in cold wind.

    There were several metal folding tables that were put in the room and each table had a Magic Stove on it. There was arge pot on each stove and fresh meat was being cooked. It didn¡¯t take long before the scent of meat filled the room and made them feel much morefortable.

    Baron Franklin took a deep breath before slowly letting it out. He felt the exhaustion from this trip instantly disappear and he couldn¡¯t help giving a satisfied sigh.

    ¡°Manager Hogan, when you told me that we would camp here, I really was scared. You can¡¯t imagine how cold it is at night and I thought that you didn¡¯t understand how crazy this idea was since you were from the south. But now it seems like¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Hogan asked with a smile.

    Baron Franklin looked around before giving a satisfied nod.

    ¡°This is simply a miracle. Being able to live in such a warm residence on the cold ins, this really isn¡¯t something that I could think of. Not to mention having a delicious dinner here, this is like going on a happy pic. It isn¡¯t like the harsh journey that I thought it would be at all.¡±

    ¡°Lord Baron, this is thefortable travel meal that ourpany is currently promoting. It¡¯s made for those nobles that like to go out and y. Look, with this set, you can live infort just like you¡¯re at home and don¡¯t need to worry about the troubles a journey brings. After you finish eating the food, you can take a hot bath in the special bath room prepared on the side and relieve the day¡¯s pains.¡± Hogan said with a smile.

    ¡°Is that so? This really does put one¡¯s mind and body at ease.¡±

    Baron Franklin gave augh. He took a wine that had been chilled to the right temperature from the Magic Refrigerator beside him and after taking a sip, he couldn¡¯t help giving a satisfied sigh.

    It was so cold outside, but he could hide in a warm room and enjoy frozen wine in this weather. It really was satisfying.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan didn¡¯t juste here to sell thisfortable travel package.

    After their dinner, Baron Franklin went to his room to rest and Hogan looked out the room as he patiently waited.

    The night gradually became darker and when the camp fell to silence, there was only a deathly silence on the tundra. It was like there was only silence in this world.

    When Hogan felt a faint trace of intent, there was a tremble from his chest.

    Hogan reached in and took out the vibrating Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Captain Austin, did something happen?¡±

    ¡°Yes, those wolf men have left their tribe and are heading in your direction.¡±

    ¡°Alright, we are already prepared, so let theme. Captain Austin, please continue to monitor them and if anything strange happens, please contact me immediately.¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    After hanging up, Hogan walked out the door.

    There was a cold breeze outside that made Hogan shiver, feeling much more sober.

    ¡°Manager, is it time?¡± A human guard wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards came over.

    Hogan waved his hand, ¡°Send down the order, prepare forbat.¡±

 Volume 6 117 Stick and carrot after

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 117 Stick and carrot after</h4>

    ¡°Sou.¡±

    With a sh of red light, a fireball that was wrapped in azure light flew through the night sky and fell on the tundra that was a kilometer in front of the camp.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    When the fireball fell, it immediately released a powerful explosion sound and filled the sky with intense light.

    After this release of light and explosion sound, there were shrill howls.

    If one looked carefully, they would see that in the distant mes, there were countless figures that were flying around, being scattered by the explosion.

    ¡°These wolf men were in such a crowded formation, it saved us quite a bit of effort.¡± Hogan put down the telescope in his hand and gave a satisfied nod.

    Baron Franklin on the side looked at the ground that was glowing because of the Magic Shell and then looked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards operating the military magic machines, not saying a thing.

    Everything had been nned before they had set out, so they knew that the Wolfe Tribe beastmen would be attacking them.

    This was because of the warning he gave Hogan.

    These beastmen that lived in the frozen tundra of the north, their first reaction towards human caravans was not to cooperate or trade with them, but rather to rob them.

    Seeing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce caravan had plenty of goods that they needed, Baron Franklin was certain that they wouldn¡¯t easily let this piece of meat that was delivered to them go.

    When that wolf man drove them away, it was to give them a good chance to rob them.

    So Hogan had asked Baron Franklin, since they were a fragrant piece of meat for the beastmen, why not just pretend not to do business with them? Isn¡¯t it easier to steal from them after inviting them into their camps?

    Baron Franklin¡¯s answer was very simple.

    First, the wolf men wasn¡¯t smart enough for this.

    Second, even if they were smart enough, they wouldn¡¯t have this courage.

    If there was word that human caravans were attacked on the northern tundra, even if the Marlow Empire wanted to care, they couldn¡¯t do anything because these tundras were controlled by the beastmen. Without enough support, the Marlow Empire officials didn¡¯t have enough manpower to deal with this.

    Not to mention that the Marlow Empire officials had warned all human caravans not to easily enter the territory of the beastmen because that was equal to entering danger.

    Now that the caravan had arrived, the Marlow Empire officials couldn¡¯t care since they didn¡¯t have enough support.

    But if they were to attack them after inviting them into their tribes, the Marlow Empire officials couldn¡¯t ignore it.

    If something happened after the human caravan entered a beastmen tribe, if they even had a noble, they couldn¡¯t hide it no matter what they did.

    The beastmen weren¡¯t fools. With the territory they controlled, they wouldn¡¯t do anything to anger the Marlow Empire side and bring trouble to themselves.

    So just like now, attacking in the night was the best choice.

    But the Wolfe Tribe¡¯s wolf men never would have thought that this time they would kick a steel sheet and it was a trap that was specially set for them.

    ¡°Manager Hogan, the military magic machines yourpany has sold the empire¡¯s army, it isn¡¯t this strong¡­¡­¡± Baron Franklin looked at the wolf men being ughtered in a daze for a while before suddenly asking this.

    Hogan looked over with a smile and said, ¡°Of course the newest military magic machines are used to equip ourpany guards first, there¡¯s no need to doubt this.¡±

    ¡°Then these are the most advanced and powerful military magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has right now?¡± Baron Franklin asked.

    This time, Hogan smiled without saying anything.

    Seeing the smile on his face, Baron Franklin immediately understood.

    What he was seeing definitely wasn¡¯t the most powerful military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, but even these were enough to shock him.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s north had always been controlled by the beastmen, this fact was something the people of the Marlow Empire were dissatisfied with.

    After all, in such arge empire, there was a piece ofnd that wasn¡¯t controlled by them, it really was hard to ept.

    However, other than thisnd not having any value, the other important reason why the Marlow Empire never took back this piece ofnd from the beastmen was because it would cost them arge price to take it back.

    The beastmen were stronger than humans by nature and adding in the fact that they lived in the barren north, they were fierce because of the bad environment.

    Although there were only around five hundred thousand beastmen in the frozen north, over half of them were powerful beastmen warriors.

    ording to the estimates of the army, topletely defeat these beastmen, the empire would have to send at least over three hundred thousand soldiers.

    For the empire¡¯s army, this was hard to ept.

    Other than when they fought against the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire had never moved such arge force before.

    So after considering all the factors, the Marlow Empire decided that thisnd could be controlled by the beastmen.

    But now Baron Franklin watched as the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce guards used these powerful military magic machines, using only three hundred guards to steamroll the beastmen of the Wolfe Tribe. He couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    If the empire¡¯s army had these powerful military magic machines, wouldn¡¯t they be able to easily expel these beastmen and take back the north?

    Of course, Baron Franklin wasn¡¯t a soldier, so after having this thought, he suppressed it.

    After the fight continued for some time, the Magic Communicator in Hogan¡¯s left hand lit up with a red glow.

    Hogan quickly picked up.

    ¡°Captain Austin, what is the situation?¡±

    ¡°Manager Hogan, these wolf men have already started to retreat. Is there a need to chase?¡±

    ¡°No need, we don¡¯t have enough people, so let¡¯s not chase and let them escape. Captain Austin, it¡¯s been hard on you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s alright.¡±

    After hanging up, Hogan stretched himself out before saying to Baron Franklin with a smile, ¡°Alright, Lord Baron, now that there¡¯s nothing left, we can finally get a good night¡¯s sleep.¡±

    Baron Franklin looked at the dark tundra in the distance. He thought that the wolf men were that fierce, but they couldn¡¯tst ten minutes before retreating, so it could be seen how strong that attack was.

    Even the wolf men had no choice but to retreat, what if it was the empire¡¯s army?

    ###

    The next morning, the caravan set off, but they didn¡¯t continue deeper into the northern tundra. They returned to where the Wolfe Tribe was before.

    This time, the caravan wasn¡¯t stopped outside and was invited into the tribe, smoothly meeting with the Wolfe Tribe¡¯s chief.

    With the five beastmen Xu Yi sent from the ck Rice Wastnd doing the talking and with Hogan¡¯s exnation, the Wolfe Tribe chief put down their alertness towards humans and agreed to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    They signed a contract in the end. The Wolfe Tribe would first send a thousand young wolf men to work in the Stasom magic machine production base and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would pay the thousand of them five gold coins a year, as well as sending a bunch of goods to the Wolfe Tribe each month.

    At the same time, the Wolfe Tribe would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce make contact with the other tribes, helping them reach a cooperation.

    For the Wolfe Tribe, this was without a doubt a very new experience.

    Because before this, the human merchants were nothing more than swindlers in their eyes.

    But this time, the human merchants had not only used a bunch of high quality goods to buy the precious resources they had worked hard to get, they even took the initiative to provide them.

    And all they needed to do was provide some young workers.

    What surprised the wolf men the most was that these human merchants were actually paying them a wage! It was five gold coins per month!

    This made the Wolfe Tribe wolf men very surprised because they didn¡¯t have any thoughts of resisting after seeing the military strength of the human merchantsst night.

    Based on the normal situation, these human merchants were strong enough to attack and upy their entire tribe, so they could turn them into ves and make them work for free.

    This was the rtionship between humans and beastmen for thousands of years, it had never changed.

    But now, these human merchants wanted to give them waves!

    This was simply absurd!

    However, even if these wolf men didn¡¯t believe it, they didn¡¯t have the ability to resist. Next, the five beastmenpanies from the ck Rice Wastnd kept talking about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce treated the beastmen in the southwest countries, allowing them to believe in the sincerity of the Frestech chamber of Commerce, so they obediently signed the contract.

    With the Wolfe Tribe that was the biggest beastmen tribe in the northern tundras supporting them, Hogan¡¯s actions in the northern tundras would be iparably smooth.

    In just three months, Hogan had signed employment contracts with twenty three beastmen tribes and gathered ten thousand beastmen workers.

    So the most troublesome issue of manpower was beginning to be solved.

    It was spring at this time and there were countlessrge transport Magic Cars that were driving up from the south.

    The Stasom magic machine production base was finally prepared and they would start fully working on constructing it.

 Volume 6 118 Escorting sea routes

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 118 Escorting sea routes</h4>

    While there was the construction of the magic production base in the Stasom City to the north, the three naval ports in the southern Candra Empire didn¡¯t remain idle.

    After buying five guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, adding in the three from before, the Candra Empire finally had enough ships to build a fleet with the guard ships.

    After many training exercises over the past half a year, this new fleet had a power that far surpassed all other fleets made with traditional ships. There was an agreement in the Candra Empire navy that for all future developments, they would be buying the newest models of the guard ships.

    The traditional style of suppressing enemies withrge ships and constant me arrows before going in for close rangebat, while using small trebuchets to fire stones at the enemy was already reced. It was reced by the new method of fighting that had far surpassed this old method.

    To be unparalleled on the seas, the Candra Empire¡¯s navy had to quickly change.

    However, there was an important issue blocking the Candra Empire from making this change.

    The reason was very simple and direct, it was money.

    The budget had been cut year after year and the navy¡¯s budget was terriblepared to the army¡¯s budget.

    The three guard ships that they had bought before, it was on money that was forced out by the navy¡¯s financial department, as well as buying on credit for a part of the ships. They gave quite a few conditions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for these ships.

    Although the navy through working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in taking care of the pirates had earned quite a bit, after buying these five guard ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had spent everything they had earned in these past two years.

    So the entire navy had reached an agreement. The navy had to change all their ships into these new guard ships, but thinking of the high price of two million gold coins per ship, they couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    In order to achieve this goal, not only did they have to incite the emperor in private, the Candra Empire navy had to get closer to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the rtionship Count Russell who was the new chief of staff had built, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached an agreement with the Candra Empire navy. The Candra Empire navy would open up the three ports that were controlled by them.

    This meant that these three ports that had only belonged to the Candra Empire navy before would be open to all ships.

    Although one had to pay a protection fee to enter this military port, the fee wasn¡¯t high. It was only thirty gold coins for thergest ships and it was something that most merchant ships could ept.

    Moreover, after paying these thirty gold coins, not only would they receive the protection of the Candra Empire navy in these three military ports, if they encountered any danger on the southern seas, they could look to the Candra Empire navy for help.

    In short, the protection money was definitely worth it for most sea faring merchants.

    Of course, if they did encounter any danger on the southern seas, it was rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce how they would contact the Candra Empire navy for help.

    Each ship that paid the thirty gold coin protection fee would get a Magic Communicator provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After getting this Magic Communicator, as long as they were in the range of themunicationwork, they could call all other Magic Communicators that were in the samework.

    In the Candra Empire¡¯s seas, you could send a help signal with the Magic Communicator and this help signal would immediately be sent to the Candra Empire navy. They would then send any nearby naval vessels toe and save them.

    If the Candra Empire¡¯s navy couldn¡¯t reach them, the boats that needed help could ask for help from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ind bases nearby.

    With the current range of five kilometers for each magic signal tower, the Candra Empire navy advised the ships not to move five kilometers away from the inds with magic signal towers, or the call wouldn¡¯t be sent.

    So after the Candra Empire navy announced that these three military ports would be open, the Candra Empire¡¯s marine transport business increased again, reaching several dozen times what it was before. If one looked down, they would find that although the merchants were navigating the endless seas, they were all taking the same route.

    All the merchant ships would stay near inds with Frestech Chamber of Commerce bases nearby and definitely wouldn¡¯t go too far.

    The most important reason was of course because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicmunicationwork covered this area. With this ability to instantly send messages, they could ask for help as soon as possible if they encountered any danger and they would be able to receive any news as soon as possible.

    For these merchants that navigated the seas and might not see a person for ten days to half a month at times, this was simply an earth shattering change.

    Other than this, since there were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bases, this route had been investigated by them. There wasn¡¯t any hidden danger on this route at all, so it was even smoother for them.

    Adding in the fact that in the ?Endless Seas Navigation Notice? that was jointly published by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire navy, it said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built a harbour on each of these inds that were five kilometers apart.

    The transport ships could dock at any time and refill their supplies.

    For these merchants that could only rely on the supplies that they had before departing, this was another convenient matter.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also provide ship repairs and other services at these harbours, which was much safer for these merchants on the endless seas.

    Adding in the fact that they could obtain supplies at any time, they could take the room for the supplies to add in more cargo and make each trip worth more.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s services on these bases were expensive,pared to not being able to resupply and encountering danger at any time, it was without a doubt much betterpared to before.

    Not to mention that going from the Stantine Duchy to the Candra Empire, they could obtain the protection of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, so it was much saferpared to before.

    With all these reasons, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this with the Candra Empire navy, there were countless boats that set sail on the endless seas and began moving back and forth on the route that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had created.

    Countless harbours in the Stantine Duchy had all kinds of cargo loaded into ships and they were transported to the Candra Empire through this route.

    These goods were not only magic machines, there were also many other normal goods like grains, clothes, stics, and even pots and pans¡­¡­

    When the merchant ships arrived in the harbours in the southern Candra Empire, part of this cargo would be sold in the area and the local region, while the other part would be sent through the cargo transport station that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire navy had set up near the harbour to go deeper into the empire.

    For the citizens of the Candra Empire, the goods from the Stantine Duchy were very wee.

    Thinking about it, these were clothes that were attractive and finely made, there was only a slight difference from the clothes made from the sewing masters. They only cost a few silver coins and at most one gold coin!

    This was simply giving them away!

    As for the other things, although most people in the Candra Empire didn¡¯t know what stic was, the things that were made from them like the wash basins were light and easy to use. It was much more convenient than items made of iron and they only had a tenth of the cost.

    Not to mention that the surface was very smooth and felt good to the touch. It wasn¡¯t bumpy like the ones made by cksmiths that also had sharp points on them.

    Then again, there was rusts on those iron items, but there was no need to worry about the stic items.

    If you didn¡¯t want to use stic items and wanted to use iron items, that wasn¡¯t a problem either.

    Because there were also items made of various alloys. They definitely wouldn¡¯t rust and were also light, but it was just a bit more expensive, costing several silver coins more.

    All kinds of cargo came from the Stantine Duchy, many of them were things that the Candra Empire citizens were familiar with and many things that they weren¡¯t.

    In short, they were easy to use and had a great impact to the lives of the Candra Empire¡¯s citizens.

    In just two to three months, the goods from the Stantine Duchy had already left a deep impression on the people of the Candra Empire.

    The only exception was the southern province.

 Volume 6 119 - Stubborn Duke

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 119 - Stubborn Duke</h4>

    Duke Windsor red at the two in front of him with a dark look on his face.

    ¡°What did you say? The merchants have all run away? Why? Where? What are they doing?¡±

    The two subordinates gulped at the same time and carefully looked at Duke Windsor before one of them hesitantly replied, ¡°Lord¡­¡­Lord Duke, the merchants running away, the reason is probably¡­¡­probably rted to you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Rted to me?¡± Duke Windsor knitted his brows and asked in a sharp voice, ¡°What do you mean? Could it be that I expelled them?¡±

    The two officials who were responsible for the finances of the southern province revealed helpless bitter smiles at the same time.

    Recently, the people of the southern province had been leaving the southern province and their keypanies were moving to other ces in the empire. When they looked for the reason, they found that it was because of the Lord Duke in front of them.

    The reason for this was very simple, it was because the Lord Duke had given the order not to allow any goods rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to enter the southern province.

    After the emperor changed his attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after being convinced by the chief of the financial department Marquis Hastri, there were countless Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic machines that came from the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom through the southwest province into the Candra Empire.

    After the Candra Empire navy reached a private agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the silent approval of the emperor, they opened a sea trade route together and even more goods from the Stantine Duchy flooded into the Candra Empire.

    These goods were not just the magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies, it also included various other products that had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence.

    Because these products were better than the products that were found locally in the empire, they were very weed.

    For the keen merchants, there was a clear hidden opportunity.

    So without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasting any effort, the merchants of the Candra Empire were like dogs as they flooded the southern ports and the Candra Empire¡¯s border with the Norton Duchy. The reason for this was to snatch the Stantine Duchy¡¯s goods as soon as possible and sell for a good price after transporting it back.

    With this tide of business, the ban that Duke Windsor made before became even more prominent.

    This ban not only prohibited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods, it also banned products rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This ¡°all¡± included all the goods that came from the Stantine Duchy and the Norton Duchy.

    Because the products that were very popr in the Candra Empire, not a single one wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even the only product that the Stantine Duchy could import into the Candra Empire before, the fruit farmed in the Stantine Duchy, had also been greatly influenced by the industrialization of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, take the canned fruit that had very high sales, it was a product that was made with the new magic machine industry of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Actually, in the Candra Empire, it wasn¡¯t just Duke Windsor that was against thisrge amount of importing because they thought that this would have arge impact on the Candra Empire.

    But the others were just against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Rudson Kingdom which was an enemy of the Candra Empire, so they were also the Candra Empire¡¯s enemy and the empire couldn¡¯t cooperate with then.

    Only Duke Windsor was against everything rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there were many things that he targeted.

    With the high suppression policy of Duke Windsor, there wasn¡¯t any product rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that entered the southern province. This made the southern province merchants who smelled this opportunity very depressed.

    To let these merchants give up this chance was like having a cat not go after fish, it was impossible.

    But these normal merchants wouldn¡¯t dare openly go against Duke Windsor in the southern province, so these merchants directly moved out of the southern province, going to other ces in the empire that weren¡¯t against cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Actually to be honest, even if these merchants cared about developing in the industries rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯t give up all business in the southern province.

    But now this situation made it seem like the merchants were escaping the southern province.

    For Duke Windsor, the most direct representation of this was in the financial report.

    After entering April, the southern province conducted its financial report for the first quarter.

    In that report, it showed that the grain yield of the southern province was the same asst year and there was no change in financial gains from those grains.

    But in terms of business tax ie, it had clearly droppedpared tost year, dropping by 13%.

    This wasn¡¯t much for Duke Windsor because he was a traditional noble of the Sines Continent, caring the most about grain yield.

    If nothing happened to his grain yield, he wouldn¡¯t think that there were any problems.

    As for the business tax, it was good as long as it wasn¡¯t too bad.

    But when they handed their first quarter report to the kingdom¡¯s department of finance, the department had called them out.

    ording to the exnation from the department of finance, the southern province¡¯s first quarter business tax revenue was second fromst out of the nine provinces of the empire. It was only better than the northeast province that was famous for being barren in the Candra Empire.

    Compared to before when they were in the middle of the pack, this was a clear drop.

    Moreover, the southeast province that was by the sea next to the southern province had their first quarter business tax greatly increase. The southeast province¡¯s business tax broke thirty eight million gold coins, far surpassing the southern province¡¯s measly seventeen million gold coins.

    With this striking contrast, the southern province¡¯s droppared tost year was even more noticeable.

    Duke Windsor who had suffered at the department of finance was filled with rage and when he came back to the Governor¡¯s Manor, he immediately demanded to know the reason.

    The two officials who were responsible for investigating gave him a reason that stated rge amounts of merchants escaping the southern province¡±, so naturally he was very unhappy.

    ¡°Lord Duke¡­¡­actually, this subordinate thinks that¡­pared to the issue of the business tax, we should care more about the issue of the grain yield¡­¡­¡± One of the officials shrunk his neck back and hesitantly brought this up.

    ¡°What?¡± Duke Windsor red at him, ¡°Could it be that you want to tell me that there is a problem with our southern province¡¯s normal grain yield? Let me tell you, the important spring harvest is about toe and if there are any problems, not to mention you all living good lives, even I will be in trouble!¡±

    The two officials gave bitter smiles again. The one who had spoken just now looked at his colleague and hinted at him to speak as well.

    The other official couldn¡¯t do anything else, so he braced himself and said, ¡°Lord Duke, it isn¡¯t that there¡¯s a problem, just¡­¡­It¡¯s just that we¡¯ve found that as long as you change your mind, our spring harvest will go even more smoothly and we might even be able to increase the fall harvest¡¯s yield.¡±

    Duke Windsor was a bit surprised, ¡°We can greatly increase grain yield if I change my mind? Are you kidding me?¡±

    ¡°No, we are not kidding.¡± The official took out a document from his chest for Duke Windsor, ¡°Lord Duke, this is a report that Baron Domingo has asked us to give to you rted to our province¡¯s agriculture, please take a look.¡±

    ¡°Domingo? Why didn¡¯t he bring it to me himself?¡± Duke Windsor looked at the two of them with doubt.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± The two officials revealed bitter smiles, ¡°Baron Domingo said that he was afraid that you would be angry after seeing this report and didn¡¯t daree, so he asked the two of us.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Duke Windsor looked at the two of them, ¡°Then you two aren¡¯t afraid of me being angry?¡±

    The two officials gave another bitter smile.

    ¡°Anyway, we can¡¯t escape.¡±

    Seeing the bitter looks on their faces, Duke Windsor gave a cold snort. He took the report and after reading it for a bit, his face turned dark.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing but nonsense, of course he didn¡¯t daree!¡± Duke Windsor angrily threw the report on the ground and angrily pointed at the two, ¡°Help me tell Domingo that if he insists on introducing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines, he should never appear in front of me again! It¡¯s the same for the two of you! Don¡¯t think that I don¡¯t know what you are thinking, you are the same as those merchants who only care about gold coins! You want to force me to cooperate with that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Ah? Isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    The two officials lowered their heads and didn¡¯t dare look at Duke Windsor.

    They knew that the Lord Duke was truly angered this time.

    Duke Windsor scolded the two of them before waving his hand.

    ¡°Scram!¡±

    The two officials looked like they were pardoned and quickly gave a bow before leaving.

    After the two left, there was only Duke Windsor left in the room. He panted for some time before gradually calming down.

    After looking at the report on the ground for a long time, Duke Windsor hesitated a bit before reaching over to pick it up and carefully read it over.

    This time, he was more seriouspared to before.

    It took him half an hour to finish reading this report and after seeing thest page, he was silent for a long time. Then he suddenly gave a sigh and he looked like he aged by more than ten years.

    ¡°Could it be that this is the changing of the times?¡±

    Duke Windsor gave another sigh beforeing back to the desk to pull a string by it.

    A middle aged housekeeper silently came into the room.

    ¡°Master, what is your order?¡± Different from the others, this middle aged man addressed Duke Windsor as ¡°master¡±.

    Duke Windsor waved his hand, ¡°Make some preparations, I want to go out.¡±

    The middle aged man looked at Duke Windsor with a bit of surprise in his eyes, but he didn¡¯t ask anything. After lowering his head inpliance, he left without making a sound.

 Volume 6 120 - Farming Isna??t As Good As Working

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 120 - Farming Isna??t As Good As Working</h4>

    Duke Windsor had a small party after leaving the manor, only having the housekeeper following him. He had changed into normal cotton clothing and rode a worn out horse carriage as he came out the back door, slowly moving into Canberra City.

    It didn¡¯t seem that different when he went through the streets, but if he looked carefully, he would find that there were less people out.

    There were the sounds of people calling out in the streets, but there were less people shouting and there were less people who were willing to stop.

    Looking at both sides of the road, a lot of the stores there had closed. There were even several stores that had closed in a rush and didn¡¯t even close the front door, so one could see the empty ce inside with several homeless people squatting inside, using them as temporary residences.

    Seeing this, Duke Windsor couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    ¡°Ricken, why do you think this is? Even if those other ces had more business opportunities because of that damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce, that doesn¡¯t mean that there¡¯s no chance to earn money in our southern province. Why would these merchants just close their stores here?¡±

    The middle aged housekeeper was the Ricken that Duke Windsor called for. He was different from others who were always respectful and scared of Duke Windsor. He was calm when he faced Duke Windsor and although he was still respectful, he wasn¡¯t afraid of him.

    Hearing Duke Windsor¡¯s question, Ricken was silent for a bit before raising the leather whip and making the horse carriage change directions.

    Duke Windsor and Ricken had grown up together, so he knew that this was his personality and he didn¡¯t care that he didn¡¯t answer his question.

    But seeing that Ricken had changed directions, Duke Windsor knew that he had an answer in his heart. So after falling silent, he looked at the scene around him while taking this horse carriage that slowly went out of the city.

    The horse carriage brought Duke Windsor and Ricken out the west gate of Canberra City and they continued two to three hundred kilometers, until they reached a vige that had around a hundred families.

    It waste spring right now and adding in the fact that the southern province was in the south, the wheat fields around them already had golden ears of wheat.

    This should be the most important time where the farmers would go to the field to protect their mature wheat, but when Duke Windsor took a look, he found that there were only a few scattered farmers and they didn¡¯t look busy at all.

    Duke Windsor couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows again.

    ¡°Thesezy farmers, they¡¯re still beingzy at such a critical time! Could it be that they don¡¯t know it¡¯ll be the spring harvest soon?¡±

    Ricken turned to look at Duke Windsor before shaking his head, ¡°Master, it isn¡¯t that they arezy, it¡¯s just that there¡¯s no one here.¡±

    Duke Windsor was surprised, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    Ricken pointed at the fields in the distance, ¡°Please look, there are only old people in the field, there aren¡¯t any young people.¡±

    Duke Windsor seriously looked over the fields around them and found that it was indeed the case. He couldn¡¯t help being even more surprised.

    ¡°Why is this? Where¡¯s the young people? Could it be that they arezing off? Or did something happen? Ricken, what do you know?¡±

    Ricken shook his head without answering. He drove the horse carriage beside one of the fields and jumped off.

    There was an old farmer who looked to be at least sixty in the field who was looking over it. After hearing this sound, he looked up to see Ricken who had jumped out of the horse carriage walking over.

    ¡°This old brother, why are you here alone? Where¡¯s your family members? Where¡¯s your son and his wife? Why didn¡¯t theye?¡±

    The old farmer looked at Ricken. Although the other side clearly had a different statuspared to him, his tone was very friendly, so he put down his guard and said with a smile, ¡°Them, they¡¯ve all gone out to work and they¡¯ve left this old man and woman at home to take care of the fields.¡±

    ¡°Word?¡± Ricken had a surprised look, ¡°Where are they working? They can¡¯t even do farm work?¡±

    ¡°They said that it was called¡­¡­A city called Niel something and they said the Frestech¡­¡­¡± After saying this word, there was a cautious look that appeared on the old farmer¡¯s face and he gave two coughs before swallowing back his words.

    Ricken acted like he didn¡¯t notice this at all and asked in a curious voice, ¡°You¡¯re talking about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? That Niel something, it should be Saraniel City, right? That ce is in the Torea Province, it¡¯s a little far from here.¡±

    Hearing him mention the words ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡± that was banned in the southern province without hesitation, the old farmer rxed a bit and shook his head with a smile, ¡°So what if it¡¯s a bit far, it¡¯s good if they can earn money. They can earn five gold coins a month if they go there and if they work a bit harder, they can earn over ten gold coins, it¡¯s much better than staying home to farm. If it wasn¡¯t for me and my wife not having good bodies and being unwilling to leave this ce, we might have gone with our two sons to work.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Ten gold coins a month? That really is quite a bit.¡± Ricken looked up to look around before asking, ¡°I see that it¡¯s all old people like you in the field. Are the other families in the vige the same? Did all the young people run off to work?¡±

    ¡°Yes, they can even earn ten gold coins a month by working, that¡¯s over a hundred gold coins a year. If they stay here to farm, after paying the grain needed for rent, it¡¯s already good enough to feed ourselves. Not to mention gold coins, we won¡¯t even have a few silver coins left. If you had the choice, what would you choose?¡± The old farmer asked back.

    Ricken gave an un sound as he gave a nod, ¡°I would choose to leave too if it was me, but going that far for work, is it reliable? If something happens¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Che, what could happen?¡± The old farmer curled his lips, ¡°Anyone, people like us only have cheap livs, if there is a chance to earn gold coins, we have to grasp it. Then again, the other side is the Frestech Chamber¡­¡­¡±

    After saying this, the old farmer¡¯s expression froze. He looked around before lowering his voice to continue, ¡°It seems to be rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? They are argepany with plenty of money, they wouldn¡¯t trick people like us.¡±

    Ricken was a bit surprised, ¡°You know this much about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? How do you know about thispany?¡±

    The old farmer¡¯s response was even more strange. He looked at Ricken with a surprised look and after looking around, he forgot to lower his voice as he asked, ¡°Don¡¯t you find it strange asking this? Why can¡¯t I know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are so easy to use and cheap, if I didn''t even know about this, I would be too inexperienced.¡±

    ¡°Oh? How do you know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are cheap and easy to use?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and those otherpaniese before? They brought many things with them. Then before the Lord Governor made that ban, there were quite a few merchants that brought things here and there¡¯s still quite a few of those things in our vige. Compared to the profiteers in Canberra City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are easier to use no matter what they are.¡±

    After saying this, the old farmer seemed to have thought of something. After hesitating a bit, he asked, ¡°Actually, I heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on investing in apany in Canberra City when they camest time? Tell me, if the Lord Governor didn¡¯t make that ban and thosepanies were built, would my son have to have run to such a far ce like the Torea Province for work¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This means¡­¡­you don¡¯t agree with the Lord Governor¡¯s ban?¡±

    ¡°Yes, there¡¯s no advantage to this ban at all¡­¡­¡± The old farmer¡¯s eyes suddenly popped out as he looked at Ricken, quickly waving his hand, ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t say anything, don¡¯t randomly guess. The Lord Governor¡¯s ban is his matter, it isn¡¯t rted to people like us.¡±

    Ricken nodded and didn¡¯t keep asking. He changed the topic to talk about the uing spring harvest with the old farmer.

    The old farmer was actually a bit worried about the uing spring harvest.

    In the past springs, the entire family would work for an entire month to harvest the ten mus ofnd that they had under them.

    Now that his two sons, their wives, and his teenage grandsons had all left, just with him and his old wife, it was only possible to harvest at most two mus ofnd.

    ¡°But that doesn¡¯t matter. Now that my sons are living well, these two old fogies can just get enough grain to feed ourselves, there¡¯s no need to be that tired.¡±

    ¡°Then what about thend rent?¡± Ricken asked.

    ¡°Land rent? At worst we¡¯ll just buy some grains to turn over. Anyway, my eldest son said in his letter the other day that there was arge ship that came with cheap grains from the Stantine Duchy. With their current wages, they can buy several hundred pounds of grains each month, so there¡¯s more than enough to hand over.¡±

    Ricken was speechless.

    The old farmer said with another sigh, ¡°Oh, I actually heard from a rtivest time that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has something called the agricultural magic machines. They said that it won¡¯t even take half an hour to harvest a mu ofnd with that thing. If the Lord Governor didn¡¯t ban it and could get some agricultural magic machines, we wouldn¡¯t need to worry about this field.¡±

    Ricken and the old farmer looked at the golden wheat in the field and were silent for a long time. Then he waved his hand at the old farmer before returning to the horse carriage.

    Duke Windsor had seen Ricken talking to the old farmer through the window of the horse carriage and because he wasn¡¯t far away, he had heard everything the two had said.

    When RIcken came back, Duke Windsor looked at the broad farnd for a bit before pulling down the curtain in silence.

    After a while, Duke Windsor suddenly gave a sigh.

    ¡°Ricken, I have something for you.¡±

    ¡°Master, please.¡±

    ¡°I heard that there is apany in the Lampuri Kingdom called the Cantona Chamber of Commerce that specializes in harvesting, contact them for me.¡±

    Ricken looked at Duke Windsor before giving a nod.

    Duke Windsor lifted the curtain to look at the old farmer in the field for a bit before giving another sigh and having Ricken drive off with the horse carriage.

 Volume 6 121 - Two Giant Magnets

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 121 - Two Giant Mas</h4>

    Compared to the southern province that looked abandoned because of Duke Windsor¡¯s ban, the other parts of the Candra Empire with the flow of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machine products couldn¡¯t avoid being swept up by the tides of the magic machine industry.

    People found that for the same product, if they were built by the traditional craftsman, not only would it take longer, cost more, have unstable quality, and wouldn¡¯t have as good of a performance.

    With the magic production machines of the magic machinepanies, it was apletely different matter.

    Each product not only took a short amount of time, it also allowed them to create arge amount of products in a very short period of time. Not only was the cost lower, the quality was much more stable, like every single product was carved from the same mold.

    Whenparing performance, the products that used the new production magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s materials were much better than before.

    Take even the shovel that most normal people use frequently.

    To get a shovel before, it took a cksmith several days to make one.

    Even if it was the best cksmith, it wasn¡¯t guaranteed that it would seed 100% of the time.

    Moreover, this shovel was influenced by the cksmith that cast the iron. If the iron was smelted wrong, it would be very likely that the shovel would be brittle and would break after a few uses, or the shovel would be very soft and couldn¡¯t function as a shovel.

    But the shovels that were imported from the Stantine Duchy, from a magic machinepany that specialized in making farming tools, each one seemed exactly the same. Moreover, they were all made from the special strength alloy from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was better than a shovel built by a traditional cksmith, whether it was in terms of durability or firmness.

    It was said that a famous sword saint in the Torea Province saw this shovel and found that it was harder and sharper than the sword that he had used for twenty years, the sword that was built by a famous cksmith of the Candra Empire.

    He tested the shovel and found that the shovel was easier to usepared to his sword. He had a cksmith convert this shovel into the form of a sword and swapped out the sword he had used for twenty years.

    It was only a rumour, but from this rumour, one could see something.

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce importing magic machines through ambassador Hakanin and then through the Magic Car Shop that Baron Belil opened only affect the lives of the aloof nobles, through their cooperation with the Candra Empire navy, importingrge amounts of goods from the Stantine Duchy, it now affected the lives of the citizens.

    When the citizens found these products, they found that there were cheap and beautiful clothes like this, cheap and easy to use tools like this in this world¡­¡­

    The goods that only the aloof and important people could have, were now things that even normal people could touch.

    For the citizens, buying the cheap and beautiful clothes that came from the Stantine Duchy not only satisfied their needs for beautiful clothing, it also made them feel a bit like nobles.

    So the cargo that came from the Stantine Duchy was something the people of the Candra Empire yearned for.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first batch of goods arrived at the south harbour. In this transport fleet with sevenrge transport Magic Ships, there were goods from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and seventeen otherpanies, totaling over thirty thousand tons.

    However, when thisrge batch of cargo arrived, it was snatched up by the various merchants who hade to the southern province after hearing the rumours on the first day.

    Even after all this cargo was sold, there were several hundred merchants from various Candra Empirepanies that arrived.

    After knowing that the first batch of goods had sold out, these people didn¡¯t hesitate to make orders with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second transport fleet even left the port in the Stantine Duchy, all the goods had already been sold.

    For therge transport goods to go from the Stantine Duchy to the three southern ports of the Candra Empire, the shortest it would take is thirteen days and the longest it would take is sixteen days.

    So for a full half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet kept going back and forth between the two ces.

    ording to the report from the transport fleet, in the past seven months, the transport fleet had gone to the naval harbours one hundred and thirteen times, transporting a terrifying five hundred and eighty nine thousand tons of cargo!

    As for the value of this cargo¡­¡­Just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cargo had a total value of over sixteen million gold coins.

    Adding in the cargo of the otherpanies, the total value would be at least over thirty million gold coins.

    However, even thisrge amount of cargo entering the Candra Empire was nothing more than a drop of water in a bucket, being absorbed instantly.

    This giant ¡°bucket¡± had an inexhaustible demand for various products that never stopped.

    Xu Yi could only feel helpless about this.

    The Candra Empire was thergest, oldest, and most popted empire on the Sines Continent, the domestic market that it had even surpassed the total markets of the southwest countries.

    It was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first year opening the Candra Empire market and even if they couldn¡¯t open it fully because of various reasons, they had already earned a shocking ie from it.

    If they could fully open the Candra Empire¡¯s market in the future, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie from it would be even more terrifying.

    In order to transport more goods to the Candra Empire as soon as possible, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fully staffed their shipyards. They had even stopped manufacturing guard ships and focused purely on buildingrge transport Magic Ships.

    But it took twice as long to finish arge transport Magic Shippared to a guard ship, so even if they went full force, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current production capacity, that was only at most three ships per year.

    The powerfulpanies wanted to order therge transport Magic Ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they couldn¡¯t be satisfied with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity problem.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could wait, but the otherpanies couldn¡¯t.

    Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s delicate situation with the Candra Empire, even if the emperor¡¯s attitude had rxed towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which changed the rtions between the two sides, it was still very hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in the Candra Empire.

    But this didn¡¯t interfere with the otherpanies.

    So the otherpanies had their own ideas and with Xu Yi taking the initiative to act as an intermediary, from the beginning of this year to the first few months of summer, thirty sevenrge and smallpanies of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy entered the Candra Empire to invest in factories in various parts of the Candra Empire.

    One part of these factories was centralized near the Torea Province where the naval harbours were and the other half was centralized around the Candra Empire capital, Wimbledon City.

    There was a small, but important difference between the two areas.

    The various magic machine factories gathered near Wimbledon City were led by the Lampuri Kingdom because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire had signed a contract, so they could be considered the ¡°regr army¡±.

    The ones gathered in the Torea Province were mainlypanies that invested on a personal basis, so they didn¡¯t have an official backing.

    The result of this difference was that most of thepanies involved in the magic machine industry near Wimbledon City came from the Lampuri Kingdom, grasping high level household magic machine production methods and some agricultural magic machine production methods.

    The ones in the Torea Province were big and small. The biggest one was the cement factory, the concrete processing workshop, mineral refinement factory, and the cargo transport center that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had built, which upied a giant space of twenty thousand hectares.

    The smallest one was a small canned fruit factory in the Torea Province, which would manufacture canned fruit in the Torea factory before selling them across the Candra Empire.

    With all these factories opening in the Candra Empire, other than a few core personnel who were brought from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, most of the other normal workers were locals recruited from the Candra Empire.

    So as thesepanies opened up factories, there were two production bases that were created, one in the north and one in the south.

    Before, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared in Banta City, they created a magic production base in Banta City, which caused countless people in the Lampuri Kingdom to flood to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of their enticing wages.

    The same situation was now happening in the Candra Empire.

    Butpared to when it happened in Banta City, the Candra Empire¡¯s two production bases were more than ten time bigger, so they had to recruit more than ten times the manpower.

    So for these two production bases, they were like giant mas that attracted all kinds of people from all over the Candra Empire.

    However, whether it was the Wimbledon magic production base or the Torea Province magic production base, there was no trace of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and thesepanies felt that something was missing.

    But because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t enter the Candra Empire because of various reasons, what could they do?

 Volume 6 122 - Long Term Plan

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 122 - Long Term n</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was naturally not idle.

    Developing the trade route on the endless seas between the Stantine Duchy and the Candra Empire, although it was a very important part of their future development n, it was by far not the only thing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed.

    It could even be said that in terms of the development n in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, it wasn¡¯t even in the top three.

    Because when it came to opening the markets of the two empires,paring them, the Marlow Empire that didn¡¯t have any conflict with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and didn¡¯t worry about letting the magic machine industry enter was much better than this side.

    The Candra Empire was still debating whether they should buy agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while the Marlow Empire had already ordered their fifth batch of agricultural magic machines.

    In the past half a year, the Marlow Empire¡¯s department of agriculture had ordered over eighty five thousand units of agricultural magic machines, totaling over five million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    At the same time, there were many orders from the citizens and the nobles.

    Although the order wasn¡¯t as big as the department of agriculture, it was still growing at a shocking speed.

    Before the fall harvestst year, including Marquis Southgate¡¯s group of nobles, there were only two thousand agricultural magic machines ordered. After this year¡¯s spring harvest, this suddenly increased by twenty thousand units and the total went over two million gold coins.

    Moreover, as the Marlow Empire began epting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s agricultural magic machines more, there were more and more nobles that were ordering them.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s projections for the market, by the end of this year, this number would reach over fifty thousand units for a total of over four million gold coins.

    If it was like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce just by selling agricultural magic machines in the Marlow Empire would have earned over ten million gold coins.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took part of the transport cost which increased their overall cost, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high profit margins, they would be earning at least four million gold coins.

    Other than the agricultural magic machines, the other household magic machines were quickly bing popr in the Marlow Empire.

    Now that summer wasing, just the orders of Magic Air Conditioners and Magic Refrigerators from the Marlow Empire already surpassed seven thousand units, reaching over two hundred thousand gold coins.

    This figure was very smallpared to the millions brought in from the agricultural magic machines, but this order only came from Marquis Southgate and the other nobles that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were close with.

    During this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s office in the Marlow Empire had received news that once summer came, there would be a surge in orders.

    Adding in the other household magic machines, the orders that woulde from the Marlow Empire would be for at least two million gold coins.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only started developing the Marlow Empire market in the second half of the year beforest and now in less than two years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie from this market was over five million gold coins.

    This was only with a small part of the Marlow Empire¡¯s market. If they had developed the market like in the Lampuri Kingdom, the ie that thisrge market would bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be shocking.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had different ns for the different situations, but that was naturally because these were the two most important countries on the Sines Continent.

    But it was still far from enough for Xu Yi¡¯s goal of spreading the magic machine industry across the Sines Continent.

    So other than the ns to develop in the two big empires, what Xu Yi cared about more was how to develop the other countries on the continent.

    Several years ago, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom came to their door and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce created a sea route in the south. Other than linking up to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, they also linked up to the other countries of the continent¡¯s southeast corner.

    After several years now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had alreadyid down solid foundations in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. The magic machine industry brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already had serious effects on the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the surrounding countries.

    Last year, Narvil brought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first transport fleet north of the Stantine Duchy, with the main goal of reaching the northern harbours in the Marlow Empire. However, they also linked up to several small countries along the way and sessfully made these countries interested in magic machines.

    ording to the n, next week, Narvil would be leading the first transport fleet to Stasom Harbour in the north again.

    Other than transporting some goods to Stasom Harbour, Narvil¡¯s more important task was to strengthen rtions with these small countries along the way.

    If everything went smoothly, Xu YI was very willing to build several small magic production bases in these small countries.

    Other than this sea route, the Sack Kingdom had already reached a secret agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to open and route on the Sack Kingdom¡¯s west coast. It would allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to reach the Sack Kingdom¡¯s west coast through the ck Rice Wastnd before going further to the Ant Kingdom to the north of the Sack Kingdom.

    With a sea route and and route, it allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to easily contact the countries in the northwest corner of the continent.

    Like this, based on the map, the only part that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t easily contact were the countries in the northeast and the east part of the continent.

    This was indeed a difficult problem for Xu Yi.

    Because based on the map, there was no doubt that it was easier to enter these countries bynd.

    But they had to pass through the Candra Empire and with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conflicts with the Candra Empire right now, that was not a realistic choice.

    If they couldn¡¯t go bynd, they could only consider the sea route.

    But if they chose the sea route, it would be equal to going around the Sines Continent, so it would also increase the time and cost associated with this.

    And with how far away it was, it could create arge hindrance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at any time.

    Because it was hard to solve the problem with the Candra Empire and out of consideration of the long term, after thinking about it, Xu Yi had an idea. He would build bases for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in these ces, creating a clone, taking care of things that was too far for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to handle.

    If one changed their thoughts, it would be opening a branch¡­¡­

    But it wasn¡¯t easy to open a branch because first, you have to make sure that the branch could take care of itself and had to maintain the link between the branch and the main base, so that it could survive, grow stronger, and take on more responsibilities.

    But with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, it wasn¡¯t enough to support a branch that was over five thousand kilometers away from the main base.

    So this involved something that was the most important and basic thing that needed to be changed on the continent for Xu Yi, as well as something that had to be solved first.

    This thing was defined by its name because it was called ¡°infrastructure¡±.

    To Xu Yi, what hindered the development of the continent the most and what affected him in industrializing the continent, was that there was ack in infrastructure on the continent.

    Of course, it couldn¡¯t be med on the continent because before Xu Yi transmigrated here, the continent was like a half feudal and half ve society like in earth¡¯s history. Other than having magic that wasn¡¯t found on earth, everything else was underdeveloped, so naturally there wouldn¡¯t be any infrastructure.

    After many years of nning from Xu Yi, as well as the hard work of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, at least in terms of transport, the small countries including the Lampuri Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom had improved on this.

    First wasying down the roads. Just the Lampuri Kingdom had over fifty thousand kilometers of road this year, so not only was each city connected, even each vige was connected which was like a heaven shaking change.

    Next was transportation.

    As the Fresteech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan and other model Magic Cars became popr in the southwest countries, they had already reced the traditional horse carriages.

    Then with the increase in roads, wherever one went in those countries, they would no longer have to spend as much time as before and it was much morefortable to travel now.

    Because of how convenient the roads were, the people of these countries were more willing to leave home and go further, so there was more movement of people. This made it much easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recruit more people to enter the magic machine industry.

    After years of development, the countries in the southwest corner had several centers of the magic machine industry.

    Compared to the new regions in the two empires, these magic machine industrial areas were much moreplete and mature.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, the magic machine industry would spread all over the continent in the future, touching the entire continent.

    The key to achieving this, other than transportation was something just as important, which wasmunication.

 Volume 6 123 - Letting Out A Sigh Of Relief First

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 123 - Letting Out A Sigh Of Relief First</h4>

    If it was said thatmunication on the continent only relied on shouting¡­¡­that was a bit exaggerated.

    But if you put aside the use of spatial magic tomunicate which could only be used by Great Magicians, magic that normal people couldn¡¯t touch at all, themunication of the Sines Continent¡­¡­was basically only shouting.

    Although the Sines Continent did send letters, because of the limited transportation, the cost of letters was very high.

    Specifically speaking, if you wanted to send a letter before from Anvilmar City ot the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy which was one thousand and three hundred kilometers away, even putting aside if there were any barriers between the two countries or if the letter could even be sent, it would cost as much as thirteen gold coins to send it.

    That¡¯s right, one gold coin per hundred kilometers, no more, no less.

    For such a high price, it was not something that most normal people could afford.

    This caused most people on the Sines Continent to not have anymunication with people outside their living circle. Adding in the fact that it was hard to leave the ce where they lived, most people would grow up and live in the same ce their entire lives. Living, giving birth, and finally dying of old age, never contacting the outside world and not understanding anything about it.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had increased the traffic conditions of arge part of the continent with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, enabling people who had never left their vige before to contact the outside world, there was still arge problem when it came tomunication.

    Take only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s many employees, they could only head back home once a year and they weren¡¯t able tomunicate with people back home. To Xu Yi, this was something that was almost impossible to endure.

    It was a good thing that the magic resonance technology that Akali¡¯s group was developing became more and more mature. With this technology, they would be able to construct aplete magicmunicationwork.

    After building for thest two years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built enough magic signal towers topletely cover the entire Stantine Duchy in the magicmunicationwork.

    As long as Xu Yi was in the Stantine Duchy, he would be able to contact any person with the Magic Communicator through the magicmunicationwork.

    Moreover, the magicmunicationwork that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom signed a contract over had been connected to the Stantine Duchy.

    Now Xu Yi could chat about idle matters with Seveni who was one thousand and three hundred kilometers away.

    Compared to when Xu Yi could only write a letter when he wanted to contact Seveni before, which would take at least five days to reach her, this was without a doubt countless times more convenient.

    Of course, there were ws with this new method ofmunication.

    Based on a personal perspective,pared to the cell phones on earth that could contact countless people, this magicmunicationwork could only link a few Magic Communicators and couldn¡¯t hold multiple conversations.

    As for offering the other services like themunicationwork on earth, there was no need to think about it.

    On a broader perspective, the biggest problem with themunicationwork was that it cost too much.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to install over seven hundred magicmunication towers in the Stantine Duchy to build the magicmunicationwork, with quite a few of them being installed on mountains that were quite hard. The total cost was over three million gold coins.

    This was only for the Stantine Duchy that had less than a tenth of the territory of the Lampuri Kingdom. Topletely cover the Lampuri Kingdom, it would cost more than ten times more.

    Seveni had wanted toplete this project before, but when she heard from Xu Yi that the estimated costs would be over thirty million, she immediately gave up this thought.

    Xu Yi was very helpless about this.

    Of course he wanted the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, even the Sack Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, the Candra Empire, and the Marlow Empire to build apletely magicmunication system. That way he would be able to solve his biggest problem when it came tomunication.

    But thinking about this, this wish was definitely impossible right now.

    For example, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s finances had increased with each year under the drive of the magic machine industry. ording to the data that Seveni gave Xu Yist year, it even surpassed sixteen million gold coins, which reached a point that was considered impossible before. But it still couldn¡¯t support Seveni in spending over thirty million gold coins to build a magicmunicationwork.

    Of course, from a fair point of view, Seveni¡¯s worries weren¡¯t unreasonable because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicmunication system was very limited.

    The most important question was the fixed frequency of the magic signal, so it was very hard for many people to use this magicmunicationwork at the same time.

    This was also something that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with. It was a good thing that Akali¡¯s team had made a breakthrough recently, so they could make small changes to themunication Magic Array in each Magic Communicator, giving them a differentmunication signal.

    Butpared to the cell phones from earth, it was still too inconvenient.

    So adding it together, this magicmunication system wasn¡¯t very cost effective for Seveni.

    Seveni couldn¡¯t ept this, so there was no chance the other kingdoms would ept it.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept building more magic signal towers, but that was only to increase the range, just to push the magicmunicationwork of the Stantine Duchy outwards.

    There was a clear example of this. It was when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with the Candra Empire to open the marine route between the Candra Empire¡¯s harbours and the Stantine Duchy¡¯s harbours.

    On the surface, the magicmunicationwork allowed the merchant ships on the sea to send out a distress signal, but this magicmunicationwork was firmly grasped by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It waspletely their own privatemunicationwork.

    The next step in Xu Yi¡¯s n was to continue expanding the magicmunicationwork to the east on the seas, extending it to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom before going further north.

    That way, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could grasp the situation in each base and react ordingly.

    With this foundation, it was more realistic for them to open branch offices.

    This was without a doubt a giant project and they had also calcted the estimated cost to be in the tens of millions of gold coins.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie each year was shocking, they didn¡¯t have a way to easily invest this much.

    So Xu Yi only made a summary of his ns and found that the key aspect between them was time.

    He needed time to make breakthroughs in research, he needed time to change the infrastructure, he needed time to make people of the continent ept the magic machine industry, he needed time to change the traditional views.

    In short, he needed arge amount of time to aplish each one of his goals.

    After thinking this through, Xu Yi felt his body bing much more rxed.

    It was like there was a leather whip behind him before, forcing him to always focus his mind and consider everything to aplish his goals as soon as possible.

    Now that he had thought it through that it would require arge amount of time to build this foundation, Xu Yi was no longer worried.

    He decided that he would let out a sigh of relief first.

    ###

    As the bright sunlight sprinkled down and pass through the leaves, they fell onto the ground and created spots of light.

    Freya was jumping around in the empty space in the grove, jumping on one sun spot to another,ughing from time to time.

    After Xu Yi watched her for a bit, he stretched himself out and sat up in his chair.

    Seeing how happy Freya was, Xu Yi felt his entire body rxing.

    In the past week, he had given himself a vacation. He had spent every day ying with his kids at home and although he was still busy, it gave him apletely different feeling.

    After being with the kids for a while, Xu Yi even felt a bitzy, feeling that living in peace was a very good choice as well.

    ¡°Hey, Freya,e over here.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before suddenly waving his hand at Freya.

    Freya turned to look at Xu Yi before running over very happily, jumping into Xu Yi¡¯s arms and then pulling him up.

    ¡°Dad,e y with me.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t rush right now. Freya, I have something to ask you, answer me after you¡¯ve thought it through.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Freya was surprised. Her mind quickly turned before she said with a smile, ¡°Dad, did mom send you to ask this?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before revealing a smile. He reached out his hand to pinch Freya¡¯s nose before asking, ¡°Right, it was your mom who wanted me to ask. But I also care about this very much. Tell me, have you decided what you want to do?¡±

    Freya scrunched up her little nose before replying with a snort, ¡°How do I know what I want to do in the future? Mom keeps asking me and I don¡¯t know how to answer at all, alright?¡±

    Seeing the displeased look on Freya¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    Although Freya was already seven now, she was very intelligent. She was talented in both magic and in other things, so Still had high hopes for her and was very strict with her.

    This caused Freya to rebel against Still, so now it was Xu Yi who came to ask this.

    ¡°Then tell me, what do you like?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Like? I like many things. For example magic, machines, history¡­¡­¡± Freya counted on her fingers as she seriously answered.

    But Xu Yi had to cut her off.

    ¡°Wait! Freya, listen, it¡¯s impossible for one person to reach the peak in all of these, so you have to make your choice. I want to ask you now, out of the things that you like, which one do you like the most?¡±

    ¡°The most?¡± Freya knitted her small brows to think for a while before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know¡­¡­Dad, mom makes me learn many things and I like every one of them, but mom says that I have to study the things she wants me to. I don¡¯t like this, can you help me talk to mom?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile.

    This Freya, she was this smart at the age of seven, she would be something once she grew up.

    When he was about to say something, Freya suddenly gave a p and said with an excited look, ¡°Dad, I know what I like to do the most!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What do you like the most?¡±

    ¡°I like being like you!¡± Freya pointed a little finger at Xu Yi, ¡°When I grow up, I¡¯ll be the chairman!¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Because I can make others listen to my orders!¡± Freya said in a dominating voice.

    Xu Yi helplessly pped his forehead.

    It seems like he needed to talk to Still about Freya¡¯s education.

    Based on Freya¡¯s reaction, she was normally too oppressed when it came to her studies, so she had such strong thoughts of resistance.

    But after thinking about it, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up. He gave augh and pulled Freya into a hug before seriously saying to her, ¡°Freya, listen, being the chairman is not an easy thing, first you must¡­¡­¡±

    On a summer afternoon, the woman would would be considered the most powerful woman on the entire continent many years in the future was receiving her first lesson in reaching the peak.

 Volume 6 124 - Strong Marketing

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 124 - Strong Marketing</h4>

    Zhi¡­¡­Le¡­¡­Zhi¡­¡­Le¡­¡­Zhe¡­¡­¡±

    The sounds of cicadas from outside the window fell onto Nielson¡¯s ears and he became more agitated.

    Listening to this fat fellow talk endlessly in front of him, Nielson really wanted to ssh the tea in his hand on his face.

    This damn fatty!

    He kept repeating that the magic machines of the otherpanies were easy to use and the quality wasn¡¯t that badpared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, while also being several times cheaper. No matter how he looked at it, it was much more cost effectivepared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines.

    ¡°Damn! If this damn fatty was really thinking this, he wouldn¡¯t have seen me today!¡± Nielsen cursed in his heart, but the smile on his face didn¡¯t change.

    But now his smile was a bit stiff, it didn¡¯t seem as natural.

    Of course, Viscount Wilbur who was in charge of the Aodor Duchy¡¯s external affairs department didn¡¯t care about Nielson¡¯s expression. After taking about the disadvantages of the Frestech Brand household magic machinespared to the other brands, he finally stopped and took a sip of tea, wetting his throat that should be dry from speaking all that time.

    Nielson took this chance to speak.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, I admit that ourpany¡¯s products are more expensive than the other brands, but when ites to whether the performance of the other brands is not worse than our Frestech Brand¡­¡­I can¡¯t agree with this.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Viscount Wilber looked at Nielson, ¡°Is there a difference between these things? They all have the same function in the end.¡±

    ¡°This inexperienced damn fatty!¡± Nielson couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Of course there¡¯s a difference. Lord Viscount, take the Magic Air Conditioner that you are the most interested in. Ourpany¡¯s Frestech Brand is the most effective¡­¡­¡±

    Looking at the two lumps of fat on Viscount Wilbur¡¯s face, Nielson quickly changed what he was going to say.

    ¡°At maximum power, it can bring the room down to the assigned temperature in just two minutes. For example, here¡­¡­¡±

    Nielson waved his left arm around to gesture at the walls of the room that they were in, which was around twenty square kilometers.

    ¡°Look, this room¡¯s current temperature is around the same temperature as outside and it¡¯s too hot for people, but if we install the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner, in less than two minutes, it will be as cool as autumn.¡±

    ¡°Then how is it better than the other brands of Magic Air Conditioners?¡± Viscount Wilbur asked.

    ¡°The other brand Magic Air Conditioners first would find it hard to achieve this same effect and it would have a slow cooling rate, as well as being unstable. The other brands use more power than our Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner. If you use the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner, you would only lose 1.2 degrees of magic for an entire night, which is less than a single high concentration Magic Crystal. If you use the other brands of Magic Air Conditioners, the power use would be doubled and then doubled again. Just based on this, you can save close to one gold coin a month using our Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner.¡±

    Viscount Wilbur curled his lips in disdain, ¡°Che, it¡¯s only saving less than a gold coin a month, what is there to care about. Don¡¯t forget, your Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner is several gold coins more expensive than the other brands, even surpassing ten gold coins. If I just take the money thates from buying it, it would be enough for ten months. You can only use this thing for a few months each year, so ten gold coins would be enough for several years. This thing would definitely break after several years, so there¡¯s no need to worry about it.¡±

    Nielson was surprised. He didn¡¯t think that Viscount Wilbur was this dumb, but he just didn¡¯t have the right understanding, which would make him have this idea that people thought was wless.

    Just this was different from the other countries he had sold the Frestech Brand household magic machines in.

    The countries that Nielson had gone to before were close to the southwest corner and was quite near to the Lampuri Kingdom, so naturally they had some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Nielson didn¡¯t need to waste that much effort to exin.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were without a doubt the most popr items of the southwest corner, so no one questioned them.

    But now that Nielson hade five thousand kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy,ing to this Aodor Duchy that was in the far east, he had think of his own way of selling this, so that people would know the difference between the Frestech Brand and the other brands.

    Thinking of this, Nielson couldn¡¯t help secretlyining about sir chairman.

    If it wasn¡¯t for sir chairman insisting on bringing the products of the other magic machinepanies to these eastern countries as well, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have monopolized this region with their own products and wouldn¡¯t need to waste energy on selling their products.

    But this fit sir chairman¡¯s style and an old person like Nielson was already used to this, so he could onlyin in his heart before continuing to exin the benefits of the Frestech Brand household magic machines to Viscount Wilbur.

    However, Viscount Wilbur was like oil and water, remaining unmoved even after Nielson had spoken for a while.

    ¡°Ha, Nielson¡­¡­Un¡­¡­Manager? I think that your position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very strange.¡± Viscount Wilbur paused before saying with a serious look, ¡°How about this, whether our Aodor Duchy will bring in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machines can¡¯t be decided by me alone, so I will study this for some time after heading back and consider it. What do you think?¡±

    Nielson¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help sinking.

    As a full time personnel who was in charge of promoting sales for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could he not hear the courtesy behind the words?

    Based on Viscount Wilbur¡¯s performance, he had already made his decision.

    But why would he waste all that spit talking all that time, it really didn¡¯t make sense.

    After thinking about it, Nielson could only give a helpless nod and reveal a smile to Viscount Wilbur before reaching out his hand.

    ¡°Alright, Lord Viscount, I¡¯lle visit you again in another two days.¡±

    Viscount Wilbur shook his hand and beganughing.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll talkter, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Viscount Wilbur leave this quiet tavern, Nielsen couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh and shaking his head.

    Based on Viscount Wilbur¡¯s reaction, his attempt to sell the Frestech Brand household magic machines in the Aodor Duchy seemed to have been wasted.

    Like this, because they didn¡¯t have the support of the Aodor Duchy¡¯s government, he could only slowly sell through the citizens. He would make the people of the Aodor Duchy slowly ept the Frestech Brand magic machines.

    If there was only the Frestech Brand magic machine in this region, it would be much easier.

    But because of sir chairman¡¯s n, this region not only had the Frestech Brand, but also the brands of various otherpanies. Everyone was working hard to take all of this new market.

    Although Nielson was confident in the Frestech Brand¡¯s quality, performance, and other aspects, the people of this ce wasn¡¯t like the people in the southwest countries where they had reached a consensus.

    So in reality, everyone was starting from the same starting line.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the advantage in terms of quality and performance, they still needed to spend a lot of effort and time.

    Moreover, with Nielson¡¯s years of experience, once a region was upied by a brand ahead of time, it would be very hard to change this matter.

    ¡°So¡­¡­sir chairman is simply too benevolent, why would he give the other magic machinepanies such a good chance?¡±

    Thinking of this, Nielson couldn¡¯t helpining again about Xu Yi in his heart.

    When Xu Yi was thinking about what to do, the door of the tavern was suddenly pushed open and Nielson¡¯s assistant Mendiata came in in a hurry.

    Looking around, Mendiata quickly came to Nielson¡¯s side and came to his ear to say in a low voice, ¡°I¡¯ve asked around and Naden from the Longley Chamber of Commerce met with Viscount Wilbur yesterday and gave no less than three thousand gold coins in bribes ot Viscount Wilbur.¡±

    Nielson couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    ¡°Three thousand gold coins¡­¡­It¡¯s no wonder this Lord Viscount was this cold to us, humph!¡±

    Mendiata hesitated a bit before saying in a low voice, ¡°Manager, look¡­¡­should we also¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Nielson cut Mendiata off without any courtesy, ¡°If your words were spread to sir chairman, do you believe that he wouldn¡¯t make you scram immediately?¡±

    Mendiata trembled before saying in an unwilling voice, ¡°But should we just give up on this ce like this?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, of course we¡¯re not giving up, but that¡¯s not a reason to give that damn fatty any money. Since this fellow is willing to take money from the Longley Chamber of Commerce, then he will have some moral integrity and work for the Longley Chamber of Commerce. But if he goes back on his words¡­¡­do you think I would dare give him money?¡±

    Mendiata thought about it before finding it a bit reasonable and falling silent.

    Nielson also fell silent and knitted his brows. He tapped his fingers on the table while thinking about what to do next.

    Now that Viscount Wilbur who is in charge of the Aodor Duchy¡¯s foreign affairs department is taking money from the Longley Chamber of Commerce, he would definitely support them with his full strength, which was certainly bad for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this isn¡¯t something that they couldn¡¯te back from. If they needed to, Nielsen could ask the headquarters for support, that way he could easily repel the Longley Chamber of Commerce or any other adversaries.

    But this would go against sir chairman¡¯s n and it was equal to Nielson admitting his own defeat, so he definitely couldn¡¯t ept this.

    So what he had to do was start moving in other ces of the Aodor Duchy.

    While Nielson¡¯s mind was thinking of several people, the door to the tavern was opened once again.

    Nielson and Mendiata were surprised as they looked in the direction of the door, finding Viscount Wilbur using his fat body to crush the door before quickly charging over.

    ¡°Man¡­¡­Manager Nielson, I¡­¡­¡± Viscount Wilbur was panting as he looked very anxious, like he had encountered something of the utmost importance.

    ¡°What is it, Lord Viscount?¡± Nielson was a bit confused as he looked at Viscount Wilbur who hade back.

    ¡°I¡­¡­Ke, ke, manager Nielson, as for the matter just now, can we¡­¡­can we¡­¡­talk in another ce?¡±

    Nielson and Mendiata were surprised at the same time.

    Hearing Viscount Wilbur¡¯s tone, could it be that something favourable had happened?

    But the problem was, where did this favourable turne from?

 Volume 6 125 - Declaring War

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 125 - Dering War</h4>

    When a piece of news came the next day, the confused Nielson and Mendiata finally realized where this favourable turn came from.

    The news summarized was actually quite simple.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had dered war on Kaki Duchy to the north and in just three days, they destroyed most of the Kaki Duchy¡¯s army and directly captured Duke Kaki and his family.

    The Kaki Duchy announced their country was destroyed.

    This news shook all the people in the countries of the southeast corner.

    Although the Kaki Duchy was in name a duchy, the amount of power that they had wasn¡¯t worse than a normal kingdom.

    Moreover, Duke Kaki had always spent money on building his army, so the Kaki Duchy was famous among the southeast countries for having the greatest battle strength, which the other countries didn¡¯t dare provoke.

    However, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had dered war on the Kaki Duchy and had used only three days to destroy them, which was something that no one had expected.

    It had to be known, it had only been less than three years since the appearance of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Although the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom with their thirteenpanies had very strong economic power, making the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom look very rich.

    Everyone thought that having money and being powerful were two different things.

    Even if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had money, as well as the guards of the thirteenpanies from before, it was still far from being able topare to a kingdom¡¯s army.

    But this time the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom only sent five thousand people from the guards of fivepanies to easily defeat the Kaki Duchy, even directly taking care of the Kaki Duchy.

    This kind of result shocked everyone in the southeast countries.

    The ones that were most shocked and terrified by this were naturally the neighbouring countries of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    The Aodor Duchy was one of those countries.

    ¡°Duke Aodor also wants to buy military magic machines from ourpany?¡± Nielsen leaned back in the chair and looked at Viscount Wilbur in front of him with a bit of teasing to the smile on his face.

    This fellow was that arrogant in front of him two days ago, but now he was acting this submissive, even pasting his face on the table. It really made one emotional looking at him.

    ¡°Right, right, right, the duke heard that yourpany made military magic machines and cares about them very much. The duke feels that these military magic machines are very important to our Aodor Duchy, so he hoped to buy some from your noblepany. Manager Nielson, please contact yourpany¡¯s headquarters immediately. It would be best if they could bring the military magic machines we need on the next shipment.¡±

    Seeing that Nielson was hesitating, Viscount Wilbur gritted his teeth, but he still continued with a smile, ¡°Of course, the duke has said that as long as yourpany is willing to provide the military magic machines, we can discuss the price¡­¡­¡±

    Nielson looked at Viscount Wilbur¡¯s submissive appearance and he couldn¡¯t help wanting to tease him. He revealed an awkward look and said with knitted brows, ¡°But¡­¡­Lord Viscount, you should also know that even if ourpany¡¯s transport fleetes, it has to first anchor in the southern harbour of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. We won¡¯t be able to hide this cargo from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom side.¡±

    Viscount Wilbur¡¯s expression changed and after thinking about it, he came a bit closer to Nielson and said in a low voice, ¡°Manager Nielson, I am clear that yourpany is cooperating with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. As long as yourpany is willing, it won¡¯t be found by the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    Nielson gave augh, ¡°Lord Viscount, it isn¡¯t impossible to do this, but the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom is one of ourpany¡¯s most important partners. What reason do we have to hide this matter from an important business partner?¡±

    Viscount Wilbur immediately fell silent.

    He knew that even if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom didn¡¯t destroy the Kaki Duchy and increase their fame in the surrounding countries, even if this was before, their Aodor Duchy couldn¡¯tpare to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    If they had to make a choice, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would choose the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom over their Aodor Duchy.

    ¡°Of course¡­¡­¡± Nielson spoke again and drew out his words, ¡°If the duke can show enough sincerity, we can still consider it¡­¡­¡±

    Viscount Wilbur¡¯s eyes lit up. After thinking about it, he said with a strong nod, ¡°Alright! Manager Nielson, I think that the duke will definitely want to personally discuss this with you. I wonder if you have time right now?¡±

    ¡°Of course, how could I not?¡± Nielson said with a smile, ¡°If the duke calls me, I would have time no matter when it was.¡±

    Viscount Wilbur was filled with joy.

    ¡°Great! Manager Nielson, pleasee with me right now to see the duke. When the duke learns that you are visiting him, he will definitely be happy!¡±

    Nielsonughed in his heart.

    Since he arrived in the Aodor Duchy, he had asked to see Duke Aodor many times, but he was always rejected. He kept sending Viscount Wilbur, who wasn¡¯t considered that important in the Aodor Duchy to meet with him.

    Now that the Aodor Duchy felt this danger, Duke Aodor lowered his status and came to request a meeting with him.

    This difference in attitude was just too strong.

    Thinking of this, Nielson couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh deep down.

    He thought that he could use his own power and the higher quality of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines to open the market of the Aodor Duchy, even if he couldn¡¯t take all of it

    But he never thought that because of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s actions, he would enjoy the passive benefits of thepany.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t something that was worth being averse to.

    He could spend less time and effort to raise his status in the Aodor Duchy that no one cared about, so why wouldn¡¯t he do it?

    ###

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom attacking and upying the Kaki Duchy was not something special on the continent.

    After all, in less than half a month after this matter happened, there was an even bigger war that attracted everyone¡¯s attention in the west part of the continent.

    The Sack Kingdom used the excuse of border conflicts to suddenly dere war on the Ant Kingdom to the north.

    In just a single week of fighting, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s northern Pr Bear Regiment had been unstoppable as they routed the Ant Kingdom¡¯s army seven times, invading five hundred kilometers into the Ant Kingdom.

    During these seven battles, the battle strength of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Pr Bear Regiment had shocked everyone.

    The battle strength of the Ant Kingdom¡¯s army was considered not bad among the over a dozen countries in the west. While the Sack Kingdom attacked the Lampuri Kingdom many times over several centuries, they had never dared to provoke the Ant Kingdom.

    But this time, the Pr Bear Regiment was able to easily defeat the Ant Kingdom¡¯s army, even making them unable to fight back at all. This was something that was very shocking.

    But it wasn¡¯t that hard for people to understand.

    Because ording to the various reports, since the Sack Kingdom had made their public announcement, they had armed the Pr Bear Regiment with arge amount of military magic machines.

    With the help of these military magic machines, the Pr Bear Regiment¡¯s battle strength was greatly increased, which had allowed them to easily defeat the Ant Kingdom¡¯s army.

    This information proved that the military magic machines could greatly improve the battle strength of an army. On the other hand, it also gave everyone a shocking piece of news, which was that¡­¡­the Sack Kingdom really did have the ability to mass produce military magic machines!

    It was very clear that it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to provide this many military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, as well, the Sack Kingdom had announced that they could mass produce military magic machines not that long ago.

    With these two together, it meant that the military magic machines used to equip the Pr Bear Regiment were all produced by the Sack Kingdom themselves!

    Based on the situation after the Sack Kingdom made the announcement, this was indeed fact.

    The Pr Bear Regiment was indeed equipped with the mass produced military magic machines of the Sack Kingdom, which was why they had such a strong battle strength.

    Everything was unrted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Once this news was confirmed, it wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that a stir fell onto the continent.

    If it was said that when the Sack Kingdom announced that they could mass produce military magic machines and even demonstrated them that everyone still only half believed them, after dering war on the Ant Kingdom, all these doubts vanished into thin air.

    There was nothing more persuasive than facts.

    And the facts were that the Sack Kingdom didn¡¯t have any help from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, using their own mass produced military magic machines to easily defeat the Ant Kingdom.

    Such a strong fact was ced in front of everyone, so they had no choice but to believe.

    So while the war between the Sack Kingdom and the Ant Kingdom was burning like wildfire, all the countries on the continent moved at the same time.

    Everyone¡¯s goal was simple and clear.

    Since they couldn¡¯t get their fill of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why couldn¡¯t they try the Sack Kingdom?

    However, while countless people and countries were moving, preparing to head to the Sack Kingdom, there was a sudden piece of news that suddenly stopped them.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was dering war on the Sack Kingdom.

 Volume 6 126 - The First Modern War

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 126 - The First Modern War</h4>

    Based on the hundred years of history between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom dering war on the Sack Kingdom wasn¡¯t strange at all.

    Because since the two countries had been established, the Sack Kingdom had invaded the Lampuri Kingdom again and again. Even if they didn¡¯t fully beat the Lampuri Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom had suffered many humiliations at their hands.

    Now, the Lampuri Kingdom had developed with the magic machine industry after several years and their financial situation was much better, so their national strength had increased.

    Adding in the firm support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their army was equipped with arge amount of military magic machines, which increased their battle strength. In the conflicts between the two countries over the past few years, the Lampuri Kingdom had always won and the situation between the two countries changed.

    In this situation, the Lampuri Kingdom dering war on the Sack Kingdom to take back the humiliation that they suffered over the past several hundred years was something that was easy to understand.

    But what many people were doubtful about was whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that supported them, they reached their hands out to the Sack Kingdom and requested their cooperation. This cooperation had spread to many aspects during thest three years.

    Based on the information that came from this, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom had a happy cooperation and they were deepening this cooperation this entire time.

    Since they had such good cooperation, why would they suddenly change their attitude?

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom had chosen the right timing to dere war on the Sack Kingdom. They dered war right when the Sack Kingdom had a clear advantage in their war against the Ant Kingdom, when the Pr Bear Regiment had gone deep into the Ant Kingdom¡¯s territory.

    If one looked at it from a purely strategic point of view, this was a very good chance because the Sack Kingdom waspletely focused on the Ant Kingdom right now. If the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly dered war at this time, it would be hard for them to deal with.

    But like this, it meant that the Lampuri Kingdom was serious when they dered war, they weren¡¯t just doing it simply to attack the Sack Kingdom.

    The reason for this was a bit thought provoking.

    Because the Ant Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom had been separated by the Sack Kingdom, so they had very few rtions with each other and definitely couldn¡¯t be considered allies, so the Lampuri Kingdom dering war on the Sack Kingdom clearly wasn¡¯t to support the Ant Kingdom.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom had a good cooperation with the Sack Kingdom and even at the beginning of the year, Queen Seveni as the leader of the Lampuri Kingdom had publicly announced that the Lampuri Kingdom and Sack Kingdom¡¯s cooperation was going well. She hoped that they could deepen the cooperation to help develop both sides.

    But now half a yearter, her majesty Seveni was going against her own words?

    No matter how one looked at it, the Lampuri Kingdom suddenly dering war on the Sack Kingdom was strange.

    However, for people outside of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, they didn¡¯t care about the reason. What they really cared about was the result of the war.

    Everyone knew that the Lampuri Kingdom was where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started. Although because of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s internal strife during the middle which caused the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to leave, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rtionship with the Lampuri Kingdom has always been good.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Queen Seveni had a very close personal rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always supported the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Because of this reason, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army had obtained arge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It could be said that other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, they were the army with the most military magic machines.

    Through the two invasions of the Candra Empire on the Rudson Kingdom, everyone knew the might of the military magic machines. Even with the few military magic machines of the Rudson Kingdom army, they were able to easily rout the Candra Empire army, so the Lampuri Kingdom army with even more military magic machines should be much stronger than the Rudson Kingdom.

    So before this, even if they hadn¡¯t fought yet, everyone thought that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army should be very strong.

    This time the Lampuri Kingdom dering war on the Sack Kingdom will let everyone see if the Lampuri Kingdom fully armed with military magic machines would be as strong as they imagined.

    Putting aside the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom was also something that everyone cared about.

    The Sack Kingdom was the only one that had announced they could produce military magic machines other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, during the attack on the Ant Kingdom, they had disyed how strong their military magic machines were.

    Like this, if the Lampuri Kingdom fought that Sack Kingdom, it would be a war between two armies armed withrge amounts of military magic machines.

    This was a first for the Sines Continent, so naturally it drew attention.

    Everyone wanted to know if the Lampuri Kingdom army armed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, or if the Sack Kingdom army armed with their own produced magic machines was stronger.

    For the countries and powers of the continent, this was an evaluation of a new modern method of warfare.

    And this would be officially demonstrated on the fifth day since the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom.

    ###

    ¡°Sou, sou, sou.¡±

    There were countless arrows and several dozen fireballs that flew overhead.

    Looking up, there were several bright fireballs that flew through the night sky, looking quite powerful.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s third regiment, fourth brigade, first mobile unit¡¯s leader, who was also the Armoured Magic Vehicle squad¡¯smander captain Eiffel looked at the dense arrows and terrifying looking fireballs that filled the sky and gave a sigh. He fell back down into the Armoured Magic Vehicle below him and closed the hatch above him.

    Sackerman, who was the driver, saw hime in and pressed a button on the control panel of the Armoured Magic Vehicle.

    There was a pale blue glow that came from under the Armoured Magic Vehicle and quickly spread before covering the entire vehicle.

    The five people in the Armoured Magic Vehicle heard countless sounds above them, as well as the asional explosion which made them realize that they were in an intense battlefield.

    However, although the sounds rang out clearly, they were very weak. It didn¡¯t give off the same intense feeling as if they were on the battlefield themselves.

    Sitting in the back of the Armoured Magic Vehicle, Peter, who was the intelligence officer, firmly sat in his seat. He suddenly took out the ear plugs in his ear and muttered, ¡°Damn, isn¡¯t this protection Magic Array too effective? I thought that my ears were going deaf, but now it seems like it¡¯s not even as loud as a mosquito.¡±

    Captain Eiffel gave augh and patted his shoulder before teasing, ¡°I had heard that you were a pampered kid. What? The battlefield isn¡¯t as terrifying as you thought it was?¡±

    The white faced Peter looked at captain Eiffle, ¡°I say, captain, I wonder who it was that was wondering if the Armoured Magic Vehicle could even make it through a rain of arrowsst night?¡±

    Captain Eiffel justughed without looking embarrassed at all.

    ¡°After all, since we obtained this Armoured Magic Vehicle, we¡¯ve always been training, but have never had actualbat. I had heard that the Sack Kingdom had developed some very powerful military magic machines, so it isn¡¯t strange at all to worry that our vehicle wouldn¡¯t be able to take it.¡±

    Eiffel turned his head after saying this and looked around the space that wasn¡¯t considered too big in the Armoured Magic Vehicle. He couldn¡¯t help giving a nod with a sigh.

    ¡°Looking at it now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s things are just too solid. Forget about not reacting at all to being hit by so many arrows, it even took two shots from the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon and it hasn¡¯t even made a scratch. This is just too strong, I like it.¡±

    ¡°Hei, captain, this isn¡¯t a matter of the Armoured Magic Vehicle, but rather that the defensive Magic Array on it is too good.¡± The driver Sackerman interrupted them.

    ¡°Speaking of this protection Magic Array¡­¡­¡± Captain Eiffel looked down at the faint blue light at the bottom of the Armoured Magic Vehicle and slightly knitted his brows, ¡°It really is strange. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce designed this Armoured Magic Vehicle, there wasn¡¯t a problem in strengthening the protection Magic Array, so why did they add a sound cancelling effect instead? Do they think that us soldiers are all as fragile as this kid Peter?¡±

    Peter immediately protested in a loud voice, but captain Eiffel waved his hand to cut him off and asked Sackerman, ¡°Hey, how long will our energy storesst? If it won¡¯t work, turn off the array for now, we don¡¯t know how long we¡¯ll be here for.¡±

    Sackerman nodded and looked at a thing on the control panel that was like a sink before revealing a casual smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s only consumed a fifth of our energy stores. Even with this same powerful attack, we can stillst for half an hour without a problem.¡±

    ¡°Idiot, we¡¯re not just here to be a target, we still have other things to do with our magic stores. Watch it for me and don¡¯t use it all, understood?¡± Captain Eiffel scolded before turning back to Peter, ¡°Is there any news from those fellows in the sky yet?¡±

    Peter had a small control panel in front of him, but it waspletely different from the driving control panel that was in front of Sackerman. This control panel only had a single te with a faint red light on it, without any other differences.

    Hearing captain Eiffel¡¯s question, Peter looked down at the control panel and shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s no news. I think that they haven¡¯t finished their investigation and still need some time¡­¡­¡±

    Halfway through, the Magic Communicator that Peter was holding suddenly rang out and there was a flickering blue dot on the control panel in front of him, lighting up the Armoured Magic Vehicle like a star.

    Peter¡¯s eyes instantly lit up.

    ¡°It¡¯s here!¡±

 Volume 6 127 - Veterans Will Also Be Nervous

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 127 - Veterans Will Also Be Nervous</h4>

    Captain Eiffel immediately came forward and looked down at the control panel.

    However, after looking at it for a bit, he suddenly shook his head, ¡°Can¡¯t understand this. Hey, Peter, tell me, what¡¯s going on?¡±

    Peter couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He reached into his chest and took out a map.

    ¡°Look, captain, this is the map that the scouting airship team gave us of the Muerto Mountains the day before yesterday. Look at the blue spots on it and you¡¯ll be able to see the information that the airship team is giving us.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Let me see it.¡± Captain Eiffel took the map andpared it to the dots that were on the control panel for a while before returning it to Peter¡¯s hand, ¡°Exin, exin.¡±

    Peter gave a helpless sigh. He pointed to the spots on the map and the control panel before putting the map on it.

    Hepared the spots that appeared on the map to the spots that appeared on the control panel.

    ¡°Here, captain, look, these dots are what the airship team has found, they are attacking teams from the Sack Kingdom. For example, the one that is closest to us¡­¡­¡± Peter looked up and calcted in his head before pointing to the right in front of them, ¡°It should be not far in that direction. Based on the information on the dots, there should be around a thousand people.¡±

    ¡°Then the most important supply depot?¡± Captain Eiffel asked.

    Peter looked at the map for a bit before pointing to an especially bright dot to the northwest.

    ¡°It should be here, which is around¡­¡­seventy to eighty kilometers away.¡±

    ¡°Good!¡± Captain Eiffel gave a p, ¡°Since we know where the other side¡¯s people and warehouses are, then we should start making our move!¡±

    After saying this, captain Eiffel returned to Sackerman¡¯s driving panel in front and grabbed a Magic Communicator. After pressing the button, he roared out, ¡°Brothers, let¡¯s get ready, it¡¯s time to move! Peter will give you the informationter, I want to see a good performance!¡±

    ¡°Orders received!¡±

    ¡°Received!¡±

    ¡°Alright! Captain!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    There was a unified response that came from the Magic Communicator.

    Captain Eiffel turned to give Peter an order, ¡°Immediately calcte our route and transmit it to them.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    When it came down to business, Peter put away his smile and lowered his head to properly calcte the distance based on the map and the panel.

    ¡°Sackerman, start moving. Don¡¯t just stay here eating their attacks, we need to test the reaction of those Sack Kingdom b*stards.¡±

    ¡°Robin, stop being idle and watch the situation outside. If the Sack Kingdom fellows dare to appear in front of us, don¡¯t be polite and hit them!¡±

    ¡°Mark, you will keep an eye on our suppliers. We need to conduct this long distance raid, so we can¡¯t break down half way, understood?¡±

    ¡°Alright, all of you start moving, don¡¯t stand there in daze! Boys, today is the first official mission, so we definitely can¡¯t mess this up!¡±

    After giving everyone their orders, captain Eiffel listened to the sounds above him and found that it was much more silentpared to before. He opened the top hatch and poked his head out again.

    There was no longer the dense arrows or the terrifying fireballs flying by, but rather there was the strong summer sunlight.

    Looking around, he found that there were arrows all over the ground, looking like dense grass that was growing there.

    Other than this, there were holes that were two to three meters in diameter. It didn¡¯t look that deep and there weren¡¯t that many of them.

    ¡°Che, those Sack Kingdom fellows were boasting that their domestic military magic machines weren¡¯t worse than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, their Magic Cannons could even surpass those of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s. If I had to say something, how can they evenpare?¡±

    Carefully looking around and listening for a bit, captain Eiffel suddenly jumped out of the Armoured Magic Vehicle. He took several sheets of iron that were in a hole that was smaller than others because of an iplete explosion and grabbed several arrows before heading back to the Armoured Magic Vehicle.

    ¡°Hey, captain, why did you bring this pile of broken things back?¡± The three other than Peter looked at him with confused looks.

    ¡°It¡¯s the orders from above.¡± Captain Eiffel pointed up, ¡°It¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s request that we bring back some military magic machines from the Sack Kingdom to investigate.¡±

    ¡°What can they get from these broken things?¡± Mark, who had finished checking the supplies, took the iron sheets from captain Eiffel and looked them over, ¡°These should be the casing from a Magic Cannon shell, right? Why does it feel so brittle?¡±

    After saying this, Mark tapped the iron sheet before shaking his head with a look of disdain.

    ¡°Such a thin iron sheet isn¡¯t useful at all.¡±

    Captain Eiffel looked at the arrows in his hand and found that these arrows were all made differently. Some werepletely made of iron and some only had the arrowhead made of iron, with the body being made of wood.

    ¡°Hei, those Sack Kingdom fellows don¡¯t even have the most basic steel arrows and they say that they¡¯ve grasped the military magic machine technology? What a joke!¡±

    Mark looked at the arrows in captain Eiffel¡¯s hands and couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Captain, you made a mistake. The Sack Kingdom doesn¡¯t even have a steel mill, so they can¡¯t produce high quality steel to begin with. At most they can only make iron arrows, how can they be called steel arrows?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­¡­¡± Captain Eiffel patted his head. He threw the arrows to the side and curled his lips, ¡°The army headquarters and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really put too much importance on the Sack Kingdom. These broken things, there¡¯s no need to be worried at all. Hey, Peter, you¡­¡­¡±

    When he turned around, Peter suddenly shouted, ¡°Done!¡±

    ¡°Done?¡± Captain Eiffel was surprised.

    ¡°Un! Done! Captain, I¡¯ve already calcted the best route, it can let us avoid all the footholds that the Sack Kingdom has and quickly reach their supply depot.¡± Peter said in an excited voice.

    ¡°Good, immediately pass this route to the others.¡±

    Captain Eiffelmanded before grabbing the Magic Communicator on the panel again.

    ¡°All units, Peter will be sending the route to you now, so you will have three minutes to prepare. Then on mymand, we will set off together!¡±

    There was a wave of response that came from the Magic Communicator.

    Peter tapped the control panel in front of him and several lights came on, creating a long and curved line. It entered deep into the Sack Kingdom on the map.

    Then Peter tapped something on the panel and all the glows in this line suddenly sparkled.

    ¡°Alright, the route has been sent.¡± Peter said to captain Eiffel.

    Captain Eiffel gave a nod, ¡°Alright, make your preparations, we set off in five minutes.¡±

    As captain Eiffel said this, the people in the Armoured Magic Vehicle fell silent and the atmosphere became a bit tense.

    Normally speaking, they were all veterans of the Lampuri Kingdom northern army, so they should be this tense before the battle.

    But this was the first time they were fighting with the Armoured Magic Vehicles and they were fighting with this new method of battle that used the military magic machines that surpassed their past knowledge.

    Although they had learned how to use these things in their normal training, realbat was different from training, so it wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that this was their first time.

    Not to mention that after the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom, this was their first engagement. There were many people outside that were paying attention to this with a bit of special anticipation.

    Almost all discussions stated that the battle between the two countries would define the new method of fighting in the future, so whichever side would have a better performance would have more fame on the continent in the future.

    Or perhaps to put it more directly, if the Lampuri Kingdom wins this war, there was no doubt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were much stronger than the Sack Kingdom¡¯s.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom, proving that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were stronger would increase their position as the country supported by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The bigger influence would be that the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom would receive a higher evaluation, so it would earn more ie for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    These things had all been analyzed in the newspapers, so even captain Eiffle who was a low level northern army officer had some understanding of this.

    They weren¡¯t confident in this new method of fighting and there was a heavy implication to this war, so even these veterans couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit nervous.

    After a silent five minutes passed, captain Eiffel saw that it was time and suddenly stood up to grab the Magic Communicator before giving his order, ¡°Set out!¡±

    Sackerman took a deep breath and looked at Robin who was in charge of the weapon control panel before pressing the start button.

    There was a light blue glow that came from the Armoured Magic Vehicle that quickly covered the entire body.

    The vehicle weighed three tons and it carried these five soldiers, as some military magic machines and supplies, so the gross weight was over five tons. It had been hiding in the grove in the Muerto Mountains, but once the light blue glow appeared, it was suddenly like a rabbit as it jumped out of its hiding ce. After a while, it was already a hundred meters away from its original position.

    After captain Eiffel¡¯s Armoured Magic Vehicle set off, there were several dozen more that came out of the forest and headed off to the left.

    Not long after, this special Armoured Magic Vehicle squad that belonged to the Lampuri Kingdom passed by the two armies fighting to the right and like a knife, they cut deep into the Sack Kingdom¡¯s territory.

 Volume 6 128 â€“ An Enemy That People Had Headaches About

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 128 - An Enemy That People Had Headaches About</h4>

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a loud explosion as mes suddenly filled the sky. One of the warehouses hidden outside the vige was suddenly engulfed in mes.

    Seeing that it was done, captain Eiffel went back into the Armoured Magic Vehicle and picked up the Magic Communicator to give an order, ¡°Immediately retreat to eight o¡¯clock to the southwest. Peter will send a route to youter and you¡¯ll follow this route. Boys, follow closely! This is the Sack Kingdom, if you fall behind, no one will wait for you!¡±

    There were voices that epted this order from the Magic Communicator beforeughs rang out.

    ¡°I say, captain, we ran that fast, so even if people fall behind, those brats from the Sack Kingdom definitely won¡¯t catch them. Be assured.¡±

    Captain Eiffel gave a cold snort, ¡°Even warhorses can break their legs. Although the Armoured Magic Vehicles are good, can you guarantee that they won¡¯t break down?¡±

    There was a silence that came from the Magic Communicator as no response followed.

    ¡°Alright, stop wasting words, we¡¯re fighting a war, not acting in a y, no one will give you a chance if something happens!¡± Captain Eiffel emphasized this, ¡°Everyone in charge of damages listen to me, pay attention to the situation of your vehicle and make sure that not a single ident happens, do you understand!¡±

    ¡°Received!¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡±

    ¡°Rx, captain!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    This time, there were actual damage reports on each Armoured Magic Vehicles that came from the Magic Communicator.

    Captain Eiffel gave a satisfied nod and turned to see Peter giving him an OK signal before giving the order, ¡°Full speed!¡±

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s first mobile unit¡¯s twenty five Armoured Magic Vehicles quickly gathered together and were like a mighty steel current that slid through the small road of the town, quickly leaving this ce.

    After around ten minutes, there was a team of light cavalry in the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s uniform that arrived in the town.

    Seeing the fire soar into the sky and the sorry conditions, the leader of the cavalry team was shocked.

    After receiving the news that their supply warehouse had been attacked, he had immediately led the light cavalry here. They only spent twenty minutes to get here which was already considered very fast.

    However, based on the situation, the warehouse was already in a sea of mes and the enemies were already gone without a trace.

    The leader of this light cavalry team simply didn¡¯t dare believe his eyes.

    It had to be known that this supplies warehouse was one of the more important warehouses that the Hungry Wolf Regiment had prepared for the war against the Lampuri Kingdom, so they had properly protected it. The Hungry Wolf Regiment had sent an entire unit with two thousand elites to guard this ce.

    These were elites that were top ranked in the Hungry Wolf Regiment that were famous for their defensive abilities. Their defense had actually been broken in such a short time and the warehouse that they had to defend with their lives had been destroyed?

    How was that possible!

    The cavalry team leader looked around and found that there were corpses wearing the Hungry Wolf Regiment uniform lying around the warehouse, but there wasn¡¯t a single person that was still alive. There was a bit of anger that filled his heart.

    ¡°Those b*stards! They actually dared to desert!¡±

    There were two thousand people stationed here and now although there were many corpses, there were only several hundred of them added up. So where did the rest of them go?

    The light cavalry team leader waved his hand and had his subordinates look around, while leading several people to look at the corpses.

    After finally finding a soldier that seemed to have escaped death who was unconscious, the light cavalry team leader didn¡¯t hesitate to p his face to wake him up.

    ¡°Devils! The devils are here!¡±

    Surprising the light cavalry team leader, when the soldier woke up, he had a look of fear and he immediately shrunk back, as if he had suffered something terrifying.

    ¡°What devils, open your dog eyes for me!¡± The light cavalry team leader angrily roared.

    The soldier trembled and fell into a daze for a bit before slowlying back to his senses.

    ¡°Tell me, just what happened here? Enemies? Which direction did they run in?¡± Seeing that he was slowly calming down, the light cavalry team leader immediately started questioning him.

    Hearing the word ¡°enemies¡±, the fear on the soldier¡¯s face became deeper again.

    ¡°I¡­¡­I don¡¯t know what happened either. We¡­¡­We were guarding outside when suddenly¡­¡­¡± The soldier pointed at the woods that were to the south of the warehouse, ¡°There were a bunch of iron monsters that came out from there. Before we could react, the monsters shot countless fireballs and then I was knocked out by those fireballs¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the stunned look on the soldier, the light cavalry team leader helplessly shook his head.

    This pitiful fellow was already scared into being a fool, so there was nothing he could get from asking him.

    But based on the clues in his words, it was clear that there were enemies that came from the south. There was no doubt that it was a special small squad that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards had sent to attack this warehouse.

    But there were two problems that he couldn¡¯t understand.

    How did the Lampuri Kingdom know where this warehouse was?

    How did the ambush squad pass through the various traps that had been ced on the way here ande this far to precisely attack the location of this warehouse?

    However, when this question appeared in the mind of the light cavalry team leader, he threw it out.

    Now wasn¡¯t the time to consider this. The most important thing was that the enemies had charged in and if he couldn¡¯t find them to intercept them, their rear might suffer even more damage.

    Based on the iron monster described by the soldier, the light cavalry team leader guessed that the Lampuri Kingdom had sent a special ambush squadposed of Magic Cars, so he had his subordinates carefully search for marks on the ground.

    After a while, there were clear tracks to the town¡¯s south that were leading to the west that were found.

    Looking in the direction these tracks were leading, the light cavalry team leader¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help changing.

    Around ten kilometers in that direction was another important supply warehouse.

    If his guess was right, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s small ambush squad should be heading to that warehouse.

    ¡°Everyone follow me! Quickly!¡± The light cavalry team leader roared out as he jumped onto his horse, waving his hand at his subordinates to follow the tracks that were leading west.

    After around twenty minutes, the light cavalry team leader had led his subordinates over ten kilometers away.

    However, before he arrived at the warehouse, he saw mes filling the sky in the distance and thick smoke rising.

    The light cavalry team leader¡¯s heart sunk.

    They charged in the direction of the mes and the smoke and found that it was as he had expected. This warehouse that had been heavily guarded was currently in a sea of mes, it could be said that it waspletely destroyed.

    When he came close, he bumped into another group of light cavalry that came as support.

    The other side also had the same look of shock as they looked at the warehouse covered in mes and smoke.

    After the two sides met, the first light cavalry team leader described the situation from before to the new cavalry team leader. The two didn¡¯t say anything else as they gathered together and followed the tracks left by the enemy, chasing them in a northeast direction.

    However, in the direction that they headed, what was waiting for them was another supply warehouse that was destroyed.

    Not only could they not catch the enemy, with the dy in time, they found that they were getting further and further away from their enemies.

    This kind of enemy that could appear like a ghost before disappearing without a trace, was without a doubt arge hidden problem.

    Very soon, the Hungry Wolf Regiment that received this news reacted and quickly mobilized the rear army to increase the defenses around their supply bases. At the same time, they gathered their forces to trace the tracks left by the enemy, trying to create a dra to catch this enemy army that had boldly charged in.

    However, the facts were even more shocking.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment sent all those men to chase and surround, but it was like the enemy could always predict their moves. They avoided the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s army and always escaped before they could be surrounded.

    What was even worse was that after they escaped the encirclement, they didn¡¯t choose to escape, but rather continued to ambush the front and rear of the Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    In just a single day, the enemy had destroyed thirteen supply warehouses and thirty seven sentry posts. It could be said that they had thrown the rear army intoplete chaos.

    What gave the Hungry Wolf Regiment the biggest headache was that based on the small scale battles from before, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s ambush squad wasn¡¯t considered big, but they had a shocking battle strength. They could easily rout a group of one to two thousand Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers.

    So even if the Hungry Wolf Regiment wanted to catch these enemies, they couldn¡¯t send enough strength to deal with them.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment was already suffering on the frontlines, so they couldn¡¯t send enough men to deal with this small squad.

    Feeling helpless, the Hungry Wolf Regiment gave up their scattered supply n from before. They reorganized all the various supply points and gathered all their supplies to thergest supply base.

    Thergest supply base was the core of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, so there were at least five thousand elite troops guarding it, as well as many of the military magic machines that the Sack Kingdom produced were also ced there.

    With the strength of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s small ambush squad, they definitely couldn¡¯t attack this supply base because it was seeking their own deaths.

    The following facts had proved the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s guesses.

    After gathering all their supplies, the mysterious enemy didn¡¯t appear again.

    However, the Hungry Wolf Regiment never would have thought that the mysterious enemy that was a headache for them had already silently left the Sack Kingdom, returning to the Muerto Mountains that was in the control range of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

 Volume 6 129 â€“ Comfortable Army Life

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 129 - Comfortable Army Life</h4>

    Captain Eiffel jumped out of the Armoured Magic Vehicle and the moment his feet touched the ground, there were two men and one woman in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform that came over.

    One of the young men reached his hand to captain Eiffel.

    ¡°Captain Eiffel, please give us yourbat report from this time.¡±

    Captain Eiffel pointed backwards with his thumb, ¡°Go get it from that fellow, I have to report to the higher ups first.¡±

    The three nodded and went past him to take thebat report from Peter. After looking through it, the woman, Peter, and Sackerman went back into the Armoured Magic Vehicle. The two men went with Robin and Mark around the Armoured Magic Vehicle to look it over.

    Seeing these people getting to work, captain Eiffel shook his head. He thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was troublesome, it was a good thing that he didn¡¯t need to deal with them.

    The three of them were all engineers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was said that they were sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce so that they could change the northern arm¡¯s military magic machines at any time.

    The three of them were mainly responsible for the Armoured Magic Vehicles, so after every mission captain Eiffel took, he had to give them abat report which recorded all the details of the skirmishes that they had encountered.

    The most important was how the various changes during battle had affected the Armoured Magic Vehicles.

    The exnation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s side was that by collecting data on the Armoured Magic Vehicle through realbat, they could use this data to improve the Armoured Magic Vehicles.

    Because of this goal, these engineers kept asking the soldiers questions about their opinion on the operation of these Armoured Magic Vehicles.

    In order to obtain first hand material, these engineers went very detailed with their inquiries. These were details that the soldiers didn¡¯t know about even after thinking about them.

    Captain Eiffel and his subordinates were strong men who became soldiers, how could they bother with this?

    However, other than captain Eiffel who could escape since he had the excuse that he had to report to his higher ups, the others couldn¡¯t escape.

    Working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a death order from the headquarters, but the normal soldiers could only obey these orders.

    Seeing a male engineer pulling Robin around and pointing at a small groove in the Armoured Magic Vehicle that had no importance while asking questions, captain Eiffel gave augh filled with schadenfreude as he turned to themand center at the center of the camp.

    Before he took a few steps, there was a humming sound that came from above him. Captain Eiffel looked up and found five Magic Airships slowly rising out of the camp before turning into ck spots as they flew to the north.

    ¡°Hei, hei, those idiots from the Sack Kingdom, they¡¯re about to cry.¡±

    Captain Eiffel was feeling very good as he walked to themand center.

    ¡°Report! The first special mobile squad¡¯smander Sharuk Eiffel is here to report!¡±

    When he came in, captain Eiffel gave this salute first.

    The high levelmanders and various staff officers in themand center were gathered around a table with their heads down. When they heard captain Eiffel reporting in, the northern army¡¯smander general Rudolph Tuton waved his hand at him.

    ¡°Alright, quicklye over. Eiffel, your first squad just went on a stroll in the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s backyard, tell me, how did it go?¡±

    Captain Eiffel looked up with a proud smile that he couldn¡¯t hide as he said in a loud voice, ¡°Reporting to the general, we were very rxed in their backyard, it was no different from going on a pic!¡±

    General Tuton gave augh and patted captain Eiffel¡¯s shoulder before pointing at the map that was in front of him, ¡°Tell us about your actions over the past few days.¡±

    Captain Eiffel was filled with energy. With the careful map that was made by the airship squad, he described to everyone around the actions the first squad he led took in disrupting the back lines of the Hungry Wolf Regiment over the past two days.

    Actually, for their actions over the past two days, the Magic Airships that had been responsible for scouting had already reported everything back to the headquarters.

    Now what these people wanted to know were a few of the finer details.

    ¡°Eiffel, you just said¡­¡­the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s light cavalry chased you for two days and they couldn¡¯t catch you at all? Just what happened there?¡± General Tuton suddenly asked.

    Captain Eiffel tilted his head to think after being suddenly interrupted, but then he replied, ¡°This¡­¡­it was that they couldn¡¯t catch up. The Armoured Magic Vehicles are much faster than their horses. There were several times when we saw them chasing us and if we just ran in one direction, we wouldn¡¯t even be able to see a trace of them. With this difference in speed and the fact that their horses need to rest, while our Armoured Magic Vehicles don¡¯t, it¡¯s impossible for them to catch us.¡±

    ¡°I believe that you can easily outrun them on t ground, but what about in tough environments? The horse¡¯s ability to adapt on territory like that is greater than the Armoured Magic Vehicles, so how did you deal with them?¡± General Tuton asked.

    Captain Eiffelughed, ¡°General, we definitely can¡¯t run well on tough terrain, but why would we race them on tough terrain? Actually we ran around them on the tnds for several days and they couldn¡¯t catch us. Not to mention that we had the information that the branch office gave us from the airships, so we didn¡¯t suffer at all.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± General Tuton turned to look at the other officers before giving a nod, ¡°Very good. If it¡¯s like this, it seems like we can test the new tactics that we came up before.¡±

    ¡°Test? New tactics?¡± Captain Eiffel was confused as he looked at general Tuton.

    General Tuton turned to look at him with a smile.

    ¡°Alright, captain Eiffel, you and your subordinates have brilliantlypleted this task, so now you can go back and rest. If nothing unexpected happens, you will have an even more important mission in two days, so you should prepare yourselves.¡±

    ¡°Yes! General!¡± Captain Eiffel loudly said this before leaving themand center.

    Although he still cared about what general Tuton had said, since general Tuton didn¡¯t n on telling him now, it meant that he shouldn¡¯t know about this matter right now.

    After leaving themand center, he didn¡¯t go back to the barracks to sleep, but rather he went to the simple bathhouse prepared in the camp to take a bath. Then he ran off to the cafeteria to eat his fill and after he was satisfied, he went back to the barracks to lie down.

    The cool breeze came from the specialrge Magic Fan that was ced in the corner of the barracks made captain Eiffel unable to stop himself from letting out a satisfied moan.

    ¡°How is this fighting a war, this is simply asfortable as the pics of the noble young masters.¡±

    It was no wonder captain Eiffel had this kind of feeling.

    As a veteran of many years in the northern army, captain Eiffel had fought against the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment many times.

    In the past ten years that he served, because of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial troubles, the northern army¡¯s supplies had been very tight.

    Even the basic equipment was already hard enough to guarantee, not to mention the other supplies that they needed.

    When fighting before, most of the northern army soldiers were hungry as they fought. The things that they ate were the cheapest steamed mantou and asionally they would hunt some game to have a better meal.

    As for vegetables? They couldn¡¯t find them at all.

    One, it was because they were poor and two, it was because of transportation problems.

    There was no need to even think about a ce to sleep. Most of the time, they were grateful to even have a simple tent, there was no need to think about a warm nket at all.

    When winter came each year, there weren¡¯t enough coats for everyone in the northern army and even if there were coats, they were mostly of the lowest quality. They were coats that couldn¡¯t even perform the function of keeping the heat in.

    Once winter came, there were many nonbatant personnel who had been lost to the cold.

    However, since the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the northern army¡¯s days had gotten better with each passing day.

    With the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the northern army had gained the support of the military magic machines. It was the first time that they had suppressed the Hungry Wolf Regiment and gained the advantage on the battlefield, which made all the northern army officers dance with joy.

    Then when the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s financial situation gradually became better, as well as the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom developed, increasing the production capacity, the supplies that the northern guard received underwent a heaven shaking change.

    Specifically, take the most basic food and clothes. Now the northern guards were equipped with arge amount of Magic Stoves, so they could prepare food at any ce and didn¡¯t need to worry about smoke from fires exposing their positions.

    Then adding in the strong transport abilities of the Lampuri Kingdom, it guaranteed that fresh food could be delivered to the northern guards, allowing them to have three meals a day that were quite nutritious.

    What made captain Eiffel and most of the northern guard officers happiest was that they were able to get a bit of meat which they had never gotten before.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce united the two elf tribes and several Lampuri Kingdompanies to set up the breeding farm, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s output for various meats had increased.

    Now the normal citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t even have to worry about eating meat, so they as soldiers naturally received the biggest portions.

    As for clothes, the army headquarters had already taken the Armani Chamber of Commerce as their military uniform supplier.

    With the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ability to produce clothes, no matter how many uniforms that army headquarters needed, the Armani Chamber of Commerce could promptly supply them.

    The clothes that captain Eiffel wore now, from head to toe, even his underwear all came from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    Because he was a low ranking military officer, the quality of his clothes were better than normal soldiers. Even when he wasn¡¯t in the army, the clothes he wore were very beautiful and had very good quality.

    Captain Eiffel already decided that when he retired from the army, he would take back the clothes that he received each year. It would be enough for him to not have to buy any clothes in the future and could save him quite a bit of money.

    Comparing the before with the after, if it was said that the northern guards suffered daily when they had been resisting the Hungry Wolf Regiment in the Meurto Mountains before, this ce was now simply like heaven for them.

    Captain Eiffel thought about these changes while enjoying the cool breeze from the Magic Fan, feeling very satisfied.

    After a while, he nodded off.

 Volume 6 130 â€“ Difference In Logistics

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 130 - Difference In Logistics</h4>

    Some people were happy and naturally some people were worried.

    While captain Eiffel was having a happy sleep, the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s newmander Toby Ted had a dark look on his face as he looked at thebat report in his hand. In the end, he couldn¡¯t take the rising anger in his heart and pped thebat report on the table in front of him.

    ¡°Who can god damn tell me what is god damn going on!¡± Commander Ted¡¯s eyes were opened wide as mes of rage came from them.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment officers all lowered their heads and not a single person could answer, as a deathly silence fell over the tent.

    Seeing this reaction from the others,mander Ted was even angrier, but he couldn¡¯t find a ce to vent this anger because the logistics base being destroyed like that was strictly not anyone¡¯s fault. It was them not being prepared for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s attack and couldn¡¯t react in time.

    Their final and most important supply base had ten thousand elite troops guarding it and they had arranged manyyers of barricades around it. It was just so they wouldn¡¯t give that small Lampuri Kingdom squad any chance to attack.

    However, they never would have thought that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army¡¯s attack didn¡¯te fromnd, but rather came from the sky!

    ording to thebat report, five Magic Airships had shown up yesterday afternoon in the skies above the supply base and then had thrown down countless Magic Bombs. In less than five minutes, the entire supply base was turned into a sea of mes.

    Because of this sudden and fierce attack, the soldiers that were responsible for defending the base couldn¡¯t react at all.

    Of course, even if they had reacted, they didn¡¯t have a way to deal with the five Magic Airships that were high in the sky.

    Although the defending army had been cautious and they had left ten magicians behind, ording to the reports, those ten magicians under the attacks of the five Magic Airships couldn¡¯t even fly into the air, so they weren¡¯t able to attack at all.

    In the end, the defending army could only watch as the five Magic Airships attacked the supply base without any worries from above while they were unable to do anything.

    Moreover, the attack of the Magic Airships was just too strong. The defense army could only barely withdraw most of their troops, they didn¡¯t have any time to think about defending the precious supplies.

    So the faces of all the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s officers became very serious.

    Their most important supplies that supported this army was almost all gone and facing the pressure of the Lampuri Kingdom on the battlefield, they didn¡¯t have time to catch their breaths at all.

    But to fight back, they needed arge number of supplies.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the over a hundred Magic Cannons of the Hungry Wolf Regiment needed arge number of Magic Shells to support them.

    Without enough supplies, the over a hundred Magic Cannons were nothing more than decorations.

    After feeling this rage,mander Ted forced himself to calm down.

    Since all their supplies had been destroyed, the Hungry Wolf Regiment couldn¡¯t block the attacks of the Lampuri Kingdom at all and could only retreat.

    However, once they retreated here, it would be equal to giving the most important gateway of the Sack Kingdom away, allowing the Lampuri Kingdom army to invade the Sack Kingdom.

    So even if they retreated, they had to have a proper n. They needed to at least wait until the reinforcements from the White Tiger Regiment came.

    Of course, if the headquarters reacted quickly and sent another wave of supplies from the kingdom, they would have a chance to fight.

    Onlymander Ted was very clear that this was impossible.

    First, not mentioning the headquarters taking a while to approve their request for reinforcements, what was the biggest headache for them was that it would take at least a week for them to even send more supplies to the Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    Thinking of this,mander Ted couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    Before he took over the Hungry Wolf Regiment and defending the kingdom¡¯s southern border, he had suggested to the army headquarters that they should build a road from the Hungry Wolf Regiment to the deepest part of the kingdom. It would have made transporting supplies much easier, but it was directly rejected by the army headquarters.

    The reason the army headquarters gave was that building this road would take over five hundred thousand gold coins, so instead of spending money on this, they might as well spend it on something much more worthwhile. For example, developing the Magic Cannons at the military magic machine development center.

    But based on the situation now, the easier transportation brought by the road was much more important.

    If the Sack Kingdom was filled with roads like the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as having countless transport Magic Cars as support, it wouldn¡¯t have mattered if the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯s supply base was destroyed because they could easily transport supplies with the easier transport conditions, so there was no need to worry.

    Commander Ted was certain that Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army on the other side definitely had the supply conditions that he dreamed of.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom had roads all over and they had reced their horse carriages with countless transport Magic Cars, so they could receive their supplies as soon as possible.

    The most important thing was that they had the advantage of not being hit, which was the Magic Airship.

    Thinking of this,mander Ted looked up at the top of the tent for a bit before looking down with a recovered calm.

    ¡°Send down the order, give up Antak Mountains and retreat to the base of the Norman Valley.¡±

    All the people in the tent looked up atmander Ted in surprise.

    ¡°General, this¡­¡­are we retreating?¡± An officer couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Commander Ted nodded without any expressions, ¡°Now that the supply base has been destroyed, we already have no way of staying here to stop the enemy. It is better to retreat now instead of being smashed by the enemy in a few days, at least we can maintain our strength.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before giving sighs.

    Although they were very unwilling, they knew in their hearts that the sirmander waspletely right.

    The Hungry Wolf Regiment already found it hard facing the northern army head on and now that their supplies had suffered this heavy attack, they couldn¡¯t keep staying here at all.

    ¡°Other than this¡­¡­Upton, in thebat report you¡¯re giving headquarters, you have to stress the threat of the other side¡¯s Magic Airships. If possible, I hope that the headquarters will send out a Great Magician to the frontlines.¡±

    Everyone was surprised.

    In the mind of the sirmander, the Magic Airship¡¯s threat had already reached such a level that they needed to move a Great Magician to deal with it?

    But they thought that it seemed right.

    It was proven in the fight yesterday when the supply base was destroyed, normal soldiers couldn¡¯t pose any threat to the Magic Airships that were high up in the sky.

    Only magicians could fly high enough to attack them, but those magicians that weren¡¯t high enough rank wouldn¡¯t be able to approach the Magic Airships under the dense attacks, so they couldn¡¯t y any roles.

    The only ones that could pose a threat to the Magic Airship were the Great Magicians.

    But the Sack Kingdom only had seven Great Magicians, they couldn¡¯t be dispatched that easily.

    Once they really moved a Great Magician, it would mean that the Sack Kingdom was in a very dire situation.

    Thinking of the suffocating powerful attack that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had demonstrated in the past few days, as well as the mysterious group that appeared and disappeared like ghosts, the people in the tent were all silent and they didn¡¯t questionmander Ted at all.

    Seeing how hispanions were reacting,mander Ted gave a sigh in his heart.

    When he took the Hungry Wolf Regiment from Chalon Linear, he thought that with his rich experience and overall perception, as well as the increasing strength of the Sack Kingdom over the years, he would be able to turn around the situation of the Hungry Wolf Regiment being suppressed by the northern army and bullied them at will like before.

    However, now that he was in this position, he found why Chalon Linear had that helpless look in front of him before.

    Not to mention therge gap in equipment between the two armies, just in terms of logistics, there was a difference of countless folds between the two sides.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had the support of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce behind them, so they didn¡¯t need to worry about anything. For the Hungry Wolf Regiment to receive the same support, it depended on some people.

    Of course, the most important thing was that after several years of development, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s national strength had reached a terrifying degree.

    Based on the battlefield, he had noticed several differences.

    For example, the five Magic Airships with shocking firepower and maneuverability that made people feel despair, as well as the northern army¡¯s exceptional ability to work with each other, as well as using the information that they had¡­¡­

    These were things thatmander Ted was confident in when it came to the Hungry Wolf Regiment, but after they started fighting, he found that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army was stronger than he imagined and their performance wasn¡¯t like the past army at all.

    This mademander Ted think ofst year when he had seen a ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that had flowed into the Sack Kingdom.

    There was a short article from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi that described the military magic machines.

    Putting aside the part that talked about the military magic machines themselves, what had left the deepest impression onmander Ted were the final words Xu Yi had put at the end.

    ¡°With the emergence of the military magic machines, the past method of fighting that involved soldiers, horses, bows, and swords has already be history. With the improvement and development of military magic machines, the new modern method of fighting will focus on gathering information and using strong maneuvers and firepower to seize space, making the enemy unable to fight back. With this new method of fighting, the traditional method will be unable to fight back and victory will be decided before the war even begins.¡±

    When he had seen this before,mander Ted had given a snort of contempt. He had thought that Xu Yi was just boasting about the military magic machines hispany made.

    But now that he had fought with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army for several days,mander Ted feltplicated feelings once he remembered those words.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t wrong because with the appearance of these military magic machines, the past method of fighting with swords and bows might really be gone forever.

 Volume 6 131 â€“ Taking Initiative To Offer Peace

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 131 - Taking Initiative To Offer Peace</h4>

    The war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom attracted the attention of everyone on the continent.

    Before the war began, there were many people who had made predictions on the ending of this war.

    For most people, they slightly favoured the Lampuri Kingdom in the end, feeling that the Lampuri Kingdom had the better chance of winning.

    When the two kingdoms truly began fighting, facts proved that their predictions were correct and it was the Lampuri Kingdom who had the advantage.

    However, no one would have thought that the Lampuri Kingdom would have such an overwhelming advantage over the Sack Kingdom.

    In the fight over the Muerto Mountains at the border between the two countries, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army which was considered the strongest faced the Sack Kingdom¡¯s strongest Hungry Wolf Regiment that were also equipped with many military magic machines.

    Countless people were interested in this battle because this was the first time on the Sines Continent that two armies equipped with military magic machines were fighting, so it was worth referencing.

    Before this, the Rudson Kingdom had already repelled the Candra Empire twice with the military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this had attracted the attention of importance of countless countries.

    Then when the Sack Kingdom announced that they could produce their own military magic machines, they had demonstrated the power of their military magic machines when they invaded the Ant Kingdom.

    So in this battle, everyone wanted to see if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were better or the ones that the Sack Kingdom produced.

    Most people thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were a bit stronger since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more time invested in it.

    But when the two sides started fighting, the facts scared everyone.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment had only deadlocked the northern army in the Muerto Mountains for a short four days, then there was no suspense at all as the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had attacked with a might that couldn¡¯t be stopped.

    In just half a month, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army was like an unstoppable vanguard, as they went all the way to the Sack Kingdom capital, Nordham City.

    Although the vanguard was a small unit with several hundred soldiers, but they had pushed the enemy to their capital city without even suffering that much damage, which was without a doubt a great shame to the entire Sack Kingdom.

    However, the Sack Kingdom could do nothing against this.

    In a direct battle, the Hungry Wolf Regiment and the Pr Bear Regimentbined couldn¡¯t stop the Lampuri Kingdom northern guards at all.

    No matter how strong of a position they held, with the fierce Magic Cannons of the northern guards, they couldn¡¯tst for even a single hour.

    In the half a month that they had been at war, the Sack Kingdom had suffered up to thirty thousand casualties. Even equipped with arge amount of military magic machines that they were proud of, the Pr Bear Regiment that was said to even rival the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had been beaten until they lost most of their battle strength.

    Seeing that the main force of the northern guards were killing their way to Nordham City and they couldn¡¯t resist, the Sack Kingdom on the twenty sixth day of the war chose to offer peace to the Lampuri Kingdom. The Lampuri Kingdom had surprisingly agreed to this.

    Then the two countries sent delegates that engaged in negotiations thatsted for over half a month.

    Most people didn¡¯t know the specifics, but ording to the report that the Lampuri Kingdom had announced in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, the Sack Kingdom had paid a heavy price for the peace talks this time before the Lampuri Kingdom signed the ceasefire agreement.

    The ?Lampuri Weekly? didn¡¯t disclose the details of this price, but based on the few things they did announce, it was already very shocking.

    First, the Sack Kingdom would be giving seven cities in their southern province and southeast province to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    These seven cities were close to the border of the two kingdoms and they formed a single line, taking up an area of over twenty thousand square kilometers, so it really wasn¡¯t considered small.

    The border of the two countries had been the Muerto Mountains, as both sides had relied on these mountains as a natural defense. However, now that the Sack Kingdom had ceded these seven southern cities to the Lampuri Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom hadpletely lost their natural southern defenses.

    With the strength the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army had demonstrated, it was equal topletely stripping the Sack Kingdom and making them bare theirnds to the Lampuri Kingdom, without having any chance to resist.

    Second, the Sack Kingdom would have to pay reparations worth twenty million gold coins to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This naturally wouldn¡¯t all be in cash. Thepensation that the Sack Kingdom would pay would include various minerals, lumber resources, herbs, and other resources that they would open to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Third, the Sack Kingdom would have topletely open themselves to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This meant that anyone from the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be investigated when entering the Sack Kingdom, just like if they were entering the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, the Lampuri Kingdom had also eliminated the city gate tax of their cities, so the Sack Kingdom cities couldn¡¯t collect this gate tax either.

    This condition had a special line added to it in the ?Lampuri Weekly?, which was that just as the Sack Kingdom wouldpletely open themselves to the Lampuri Kingdom, they would alsopletely open themselves to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was something that was very easy to understand.

    Because everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s most important supporter. The Lampuri Kingdom had gained many benefits from this war, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be polite.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only demanding the Sack Kingdom topletely open theirnds to them was considered quitex for everyone.

    After the two sides signed the ceasefire agreement, the northern guards withdrew from the belly of the Sack Kingdom, but they didn¡¯tpletely return to the Lampuri Kingdom. They were stationed in the seven cities the Sack Kingdom had ceded to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    They would supervise the exit of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s management in these seven cities, while also waiting for the Lampuri Kingdom to send people to take over these seven cities.

    Moreover, the garrison of the northern guards would be ced here in the future.

    Because the border of the two countries was no longer the Muerto Mountains, but rather these seven cities.

    After a month, a delegation from the Lampuri Kingdom went north and entered the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital, Nordham City three dayster.

    They represented her majesty Seveni to officially sign the peace treaty and cooperation contract with the Sack Kingdom.

    They discussed some final details with this contract before finally signing it. They had stayed in Nordham City for around half a month.

    When they entered Nordham City, a small group left the delegation and headed to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s military magic machine development center to the west of Nordham City.

    This small group was not a part of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s delegate, but they were people sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Their goal was very clear, because in the ceasefire agreement the two countries signed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce requested the Sack Kingdom to hand over a part of the researchers in the military magic machine development center, so they were here to collect them now.

    Seeing these people wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Great Magician Mayev who was in charge of this development center naturally didn¡¯t have a good expression.

    ¡°You want us to give you the people? Impossible!¡± Mayev stopped the other side without any courtesy and his tone was quite impolite.

    ¡°Great Magician Mayev, this is the ceasefire contract that your country has signed, you have no rights to stop us.¡±

    The leader of this team was Miss Feywen who had been promoted from the magic machine development center¡¯s manager to a vice manager from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters. She wasn¡¯t worried at all when Great Magician Mayev stopped her and calmly stated the facts for Great Magician Mayev.

    ¡°That was signed by those b*stards at the parliament, it isn¡¯t rted to us at all!¡± Great Magician Mayev wouldn¡¯t let them enter at all, ¡°Our development center isn¡¯t managed by the parliament, they have no power over us!¡±

    Actually, the reason why Great Magician Mayev was this angry was mainly because of his hesitation from before.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom fought with the Sack Kingdom, the army headquarters had asked the seven Great Magicians, including him, to make a move.

    Great Magician Mayev had rejected on the basis that he was focused on his research, so he didn¡¯t go help.

    Then five other Great Magicians participated in the war against the Lampuri Kingdom, but based on the news that came back from the frontline, even with these five Great Magicians, they couldn¡¯t face the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army.

    Even in one battle, when a Great Magician had tried to destroy a Magic Airship, he had been besieged by five Magic Airships and finally fell from the sky.

    It was because of this Great Magician falling that the final resistance of the Sack Kingdom was destroyed, making the king and the parliament both agree on offering peace.

    After learning that that Great Magician had died, Great Magician Mayev was a bit sad, while also happy.

    He was very happy that he didn¡¯t go to war, or if he had died, that really wasn¡¯t something that could be taken back.

    At the same time, he felt a bit of guilt because of this.

    So when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who were the main culprits for killing that Great Magician, Great Magician Mayev was very angry.

    However, Feywen didn¡¯t care about him and shook her head before coldly saying, ¡°Great Magician Mayev, I must remind you that although you can not listen to the decision of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s parliament, you have no right to stop the choice of others.¡±

    Great Magician Mayev was surprised, ¡°What do you mean by this? Could it be that you¡¯re saying that my subordinates will choose to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Feywen had a calm faint smile as she pointed behind him, ¡°You can just ask them for their opinions.¡±

    Great Magician Mayev was surprised again. He turned around in a daze and he saw that a bunch of researchers had appeared behind him when he wasn¡¯t aware.

    These people had excited and hopeful looks as they looked at Feywen, there wasn¡¯t any disgust or even hatred at all.

 Volume 6 132 â€“ Take What You Need

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 132 - Take What You Need</h4>

    Seveni put the document in her hand and looked up at Xu Yi sitting in front of her, suddenly giving augh.

    Xu Yi was surprised as he touched his face, ¡°What? Is there something on my face?¡±

    ¡°No, no¡­¡­¡± Seveni waved her hand and tapped on the document on the table as she said with a smile, ¡°I just feel¡­¡­that this time, not only did you steal a bunch of researchers, you also took all their data, which is just like robbing them. If I was the Sack Kingdom¡¯s king, I would definitely hate you to death.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and didn¡¯t care about this.

    ¡°Those researchers chose for themselves, how could I have stolen them?¡±

    ¡°Chose for themselves?¡± The smile on Seveni¡¯s face became wider, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce buying those researchers in private beforehand, how could they choose to go to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°If they could be bought by ourpany, it meant that they weren¡¯t loyal to the Sack Kingdom to begin with.¡± Speaking of this, Xu Yi gave a coldugh before continuing, ¡°So I will only give those fellows normal research projects and will never let them touch the core stuff.¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°You clearly gave them all those conditions before to buy them over and now you¡¯re saying that they¡¯re not loyal¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Actually, it doesn¡¯t matter if they¡¯re loyal or not. Back then, when I deliberately used Teresa to leak all that information on the military magic machines was to make the Sack Kingdom focus on developing the military magic machines, hoping that they could develop something new when it came to the military magic machines. Maybe they could have given ourpany some inspiration when it came to our military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the result now? Are they helpful to yourpany¡¯s research?¡±

    ¡°We still can¡¯t tell now. We need to wait until wepletely digest these researchers and the research material, then we can be certain if they are useful or not.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seveni hesitated a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Then what about Teresa? How are you going to take care of this little girl?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni with a strange look, not understanding why she would suddenly care about Teresa.

    ¡°Little girl? She was a spy that the Sack Kingdom sent to our side to steal the secret information of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how can she be a little girl?¡±

    ¡°But isn¡¯t she very beautiful? Moreover, she seems to be just twenty years old? How is she not a little girl?¡± Seveni asked with a mysterious look, ¡°To be honest, Xu Yi, have you ever been moved by her?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in surprise, ¡°I say¡­¡­She is a spy sent by the Sack Kingdom, how could I be moved by her?¡±

    ¡°That was when you learned that afterwards, what about before when you didn¡¯t know? I remember that you cared quite a bit about her then, you even asked me to check if what she said was really happening in the Sack Kingdom.¡± Seveni had a very curious look on her face, ¡°If you weren¡¯t moved by her, why would you care this much about her?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent and after a long time, he gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, I saw that she was a little girl at first and she was that pitiful, so I wanted to help her out. However, after judging from the various signs and the following evidence that she was a spy from the Sack Kingdom, do you really think I would be moved by her?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°ording to the things that we could verify, Teresa didn¡¯t lie at all, everything she encountered was fact. The only difference was that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s army saw that she was very beautiful, so they taught her how to be a spy. Her background and experience are pitiful, don¡¯t you sympathize with her after learning this?¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows, ¡°I don¡¯t understand what you are saying. I do sympathize with what she has encountered, but that doesn¡¯t change the fact that she is a spy. As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, how could I be moved by her?¡±

    ¡°So you mercilessly used her to send the fake information on the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom and then used those fellows to do research for you before taking the results?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi and gave a sigh as she shook her head, ¡°Xu Yi, why didn¡¯t I see that you were such a sinister fellow before?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°I say Seveni, what is with you? When we came up with this n, you participated the entire time and now you¡¯re saying that I¡¯m sinister¡­¡­could it be that you want to exclude yourself?¡±

    Seveni gave a soft snort, ¡°I was just working with you, this entire n was something you came up with, it¡¯s not rted to me.¡±

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s look of disdain, Xu Yi could only helplessly shake his head and give up the idea of arguing this with Seveni.

    The n against the Sack Kingdom, it was only a temporary n that Xu Yi came up with when he found out that Teresa was a spy sent by the Sack Kingdom.

    In the beginning, he didn¡¯t think that much about it. He just wanted to use Teresa to give some false information on the military magic machines to the Sack Kingdom, to make them want to use this to manufacture their own military magic machines, but he didn¡¯t have the idea of letting them really grasp the military magic machine technology.

    The reason for doing this was just to let the Sack Kingdom waste a lot of human resources on it.

    As the Sack Kingdom investedrge amounts of human resources into researching the military magic machines, Xu Yi¡¯s ideas began to change.

    He had Evita control the technology that entered Teresa¡¯s hands and then he tried giving them some real core technology, letting the Sack Kingdom invest a shocking amount of manpower to make them really develop a few military magic machines.

    What the Sack Kingdom invested in the most and had the deepest research for was the Magic Cannon.

    Combined with the Magic Repeating Crossbows, the Magic Trebuchets, and the other military magic machines, the Sack Kingdom really were able to grasp the military magic machines and gained true power.

    After several years, the Sack Kingdom had made several kinds of military magic machines, which greatly increased their confidence.

    They suddenly moved on the Ant Kingdom to the north, which showed how confident they were.

    Of course, it could be said that they were proving just how strong the military magic machines they made were.

    Facts proved that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s research into military magic machines paid off and they were able to easily defeat the Ant Kingdom¡¯s army.

    However, the Sack Kingdom never would have thought that the Lampuri Kingdom would suddenly dere war on them at this time.

    There was no suspense in this war as the Lampuri Kingdom easily won.

    So this Sack Kingdom that had invested everything in military magic machines had their efforts wasted, rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t hesitate to take all the best parts of their military magic machine research and all their best researchers.

    In this n, the ones that were hurt the most were naturally the Sack Kingdom and the ones that benefitted the most were the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce getting some research on the military magic machines and some personnel, from the perspective of Seveni, they didn¡¯t seem to gain anything.

    ¡°You can¡¯t say it like that.¡± Xu Yi slowly shook his head, ¡°Gains are proportional to investments, we didn¡¯t invest that much this time, so naturally we only gained this much. Compared to thend andpensation that you need, I care more about these researchers and the research material. Of course, having the Sack Kingdom open themselves to us is also more important.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s just consider it as we both got what we wanted.¡± Seveni revealed a naughty smile that she definitely wouldn¡¯t show anyone else.

    Since the Sack Kingdom had signed the peace agreement, the people the Lampuri Kingdom sent had already taken over the seven cities from the Sack Kingdom, so Seveni had been in a good mood during this time.

    For a queen, sessfully increasing the amount ofnd they controlled was the greatest achievement.

    This was something that all the kings of the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t do before, only Seveni had done this.

    Moreover, she had defeated the Sack Kingdom that had suppressed the Lampuri Kingdom for several hundred years, takingnd from their hands, which made this achievement even more shocking.

    After the entire Lampuri Kingdom learned of this news, all the newspapers were singing praise for Seveni. There were even countless people who called Seveni the greatest queen in history.

    Because of this victory, Seveni¡¯s prestige in the Lampuri Kingdom had reached a peak.

    It could be said that as long as Seveni said a word, very few people in the Lampuri Kingdom would dare go against her.

    If one was to mention benefits for Xu Yi, this was considered one of them.

    Through this victory, Seveni now had even greater control over the Lampuri Kingdom. Adding in therge ie from the Sack Kingdom, there were many things that she couldn¡¯t do in the Lampuri Kingdom that she could now do without any hesitation.

    Among them was the n toy down the magicmunicationwork.

    Xu Yi hade to Anvilmar City today to see Seveni just to discuss this n.

    But when he was about to speak, Seveni suddenly smiled at Xu Yi and said, ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, give Teresa to me, alright?¡±

 Volume 6 133 â€“ Meeting Of Ambassadors

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 133 - Meeting Of Ambassadors</h4>

    After leaving the Lampuri Kingdom royal pce, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help turning around before helplessly shaking his head.

    Why did Seveni want to take Teresa?

    Apart from the little bit of spy training that this little girl received from the Sack Kingdom army, the only value that she had other than her appearance, was probably the bit of time that she had contact with magic machines when she worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If Seveni wanted to learn this from her, there was no need at all.

    Because since he started suspecting Teresa, Xu Yi had Evita closely watch her the entire time and controlled the amount of material that she could contact.

    She indeed did know some important material to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but she couldn¡¯t make any use of it alone. Not to mention that Xu Yi had Evita add in a few fake things, so even if someone really took it, the final result would be like the Sack Kingdom, not getting back what they invested.

    Of course, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s battle strength in their war against the Ant Kingdom was considered very strong for the other countries, but in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes, it wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    He was clear how big the ws the military magic machines developed by the Sack Kingdom had. Because the Lampuri Kingdom had won so easily, even though he told Seveni these ws, the Lampuri Kingdom army never had a chance to exploit them.

    So Teresa wasn¡¯t important at all in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes. Before the Lampuri Kingdom dered war on the Sack Kingdom, he had Evita expose her and detain her.

    Strictly speaking, a spy that stole the important secrets of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi should punish her. In most countries, this kind of person would be executed.

    However, Vivian had always treated Teresa as a good friend and kept begging for her, which made it hard for Xu Yi to make a move.

    Now that Seveni was taking the initiative to ask for Teresa from Xu Yi, it indirectly helped Xu Yi solve this problem.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, she hasn''t caused any real damage to thepany anyway and she is a pitiful person who has always been used by others, so giving her to Seveni to handle is also fine. This way, Vivian shouldn¡¯t me me¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh and shook his head before letting out a soft breath. He threw out the thoughts of these little girls from his mind and he focused on the important thing that he needed to focus on.

    What happened in the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and Sack Kingdom naturally had many reasons, there were many analyses from the people who cared about this war.

    However for Xu Yi, there was only one reason for this and it was the economy.

    There was a famous phrase on earth and it was that war was always an extension of the economy.

    To Xu Yi, the most important thing in the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom was this.

    Many people only cared about the transfer ofnd andpensation money in the ceasefire agreement, but very few people cared about the Sack Kingdompletely opening themselves to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    To Xu Yi, this was the most important thing.

    Opening everything meant that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s internal market wasn¡¯t guarded against the Lampuri Kingdom at all.

    With thepletely magic machine industrial system in the Lampuri Kingdom, Xu Yi could imagine that it wouldn¡¯t take long before the cheap and beautiful products from the Lampuri Kingdom would flood into the Sack Kingdom,pletely seizing the Sack Kingdom¡¯s domestic market.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s entire economy should be firmly grasped in the hands of the Lampuri Kingdom and they wouldn¡¯t be able to put up any resistance at all.

    On the Sines Continent, the method that everyone was used to was seizing all thend. After the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army won again and again, the Lampuri Kingdom had calls to seize all of the Sack Kingdom and even Seveni had been moved by this idea before.

    But under the persuasion of Xu Yi, Seveni finally gave up this idea and decided to adopt this slow corrosion method.

    Because of the limitedmunication, the people of the Sines Continent had very light concepts of country. Most of the citizens only knew who their lords were and didn¡¯t care much about their country.

    Now that the Lampuri Kingdom had received the seven southern cities, as long as they focused on propaganda, they wouldn¡¯t need to spend that much time before the citizens of those seven cities would be citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As long as the Lampuri Kingdom continued with this n, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem topletely corrode the Sack Kingdom.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the benefits they received from this wasn¡¯t just this.

    Xu Yi was interested in the Sack Kingdom¡¯s domestic market, but that wasn¡¯t the most important thing. What he cared about more after the Sack Kingdom waspletely opened was for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to continue developing north through the Sack Kingdom.

    In reality, the main reason for the Lampuri Kingdom to suddenly dere war on the Sack Kingdom was because the Sack Kingdom dered war on the Ant Kingdom.

    The Ant Kingdom was the Sack Kingdom¡¯s neighbour to the north and in Xu Yi¡¯s development n, the Ant Kingdom was a very important kingdom.

    He never thought that before he started his n, the Sack Kingdom would move against the Ant Kingdom.

    Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t want the Sack Kingdom to ruin his n and it was a good thing that Seveni also had this idea, so with both sides working together, with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the troops of the Lampuri Kingdom, they crushed all the ns Sack Kingdom.

    Now that the Sack Kingdom had be honest after being defeated, the next step in Xu Yi¡¯s n was to continue developing the magic machine industry in the northern continent.

    But he had to be careful when implementing this n, he had to solve an issue first, which was the important issue of transportation.

    Right now, other than the three roads that totaled less than a thousand kilometers in the Sack Kingdom, there were no suitable roads in the kingdoms to the further north.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem to put down a basic roadwork in the Sack Kingdom right now, but as for how toy down these roads in the Ant Kingdom and the further north countries, it wasn¡¯t an easy thing to solve.

    While thinking about this, Xu Yi took a Magic Sedan to the Chanel Restaurant which was the best restaurant in Anvilmar City.

    The Magic Sedan had just stopped at the entrance when a bunch of people wearing the clothes of different countries came forward, inviting Xu Yi into the restaurant.

    Thergest and most luxurious room in the restaurant had been booked and all the ambassadors that wanted to create rtions with the Lampuri Kingdom had been waiting for Xu Yi.

    These respected people in their own countries and Anvilmar City all had nervous looks that were hard to hide on their faces.

    This banquet tonight was held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, inviting all these ambassadors.

    After they received this news, not a single person had rejected this invitation as they all rushed over here immediately.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had clearly stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu would be attending, as well as exining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ns for the military magic machines with everyone at this banquet.

    After the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, everyone had realized a fact through this war. At least at this stage, no one couldpare to the advantage of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines.

    And the military magic machine¡¯s suppression of normal methods of fighting, this was something that everyone recognized.

    So when they heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be announcing their ns for these military magic machines, everyone immediately became anxious.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to support another country and sell them military magic machines like the Lampuri Kingdom, no matter who the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose, that country would be one of the stronger military powers.

    So when Xu Yi entered therge room, all the eyes of the ambassadors from the various countries gathered on him.

    They all looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with anticipation and yearning, their expressions were like¡­¡­guests in the night club who were choosing theirdies¡­¡­

    Xu Yi gave a soft cough and threw out this strange thought. He didn¡¯t hesitate as he came to the center of the room where there was a podium that was higher than the rest. Looking around, he raised his hand.

    The room immediately fell silent as everyone looked at Xu Yi, waiting for him to speak.

    Seeing the reaction that these people had, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    In this room now, these were the ambassadors sent to the Lampuri Kingdom from the various countries.

    Now that they were showing this kind of respect to him, it was enough to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position in their countries.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still developing in Banta City, if Xu Yi wanted to meet any of these people, he would have been rejected. Now he just needed to send an invitation and they would alle.

    Xu Yi had a bit of confidence in his heart, while also feeling happy.

    After the many years of effort from him and the many people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the magic machine industry was now important for all the countries of the Sines Continent.

    Although most of this came from the strength of the military magic machines, that didn''t affect this fact.

    Today, he was using these military magic machines to make these countries care more about the magic machine industry driven by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After a cough, Xu Yi used a small spell to increase his voice and said, ¡°Everyone, I don¡¯t like wasting words, so I¡¯ll directly tell everyone that I¡¯ve invited you all here to tell everyone that our Fresteech Chamber of Commerce has made a decision to sell the military magic machines to all countries on the continent, without a single exception.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, there was an uproar in the room.

 Volume 6 134 â€“ Shells Also Cost Money?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 134 - Shells Also Cost Money?</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re saying¡­¡­you will openly sell your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines?¡± One of the ambassadors asked in a loud voice.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°Of course, there will be some conditions.¡±

    Hearing this, the ambassadors who had been excited suddenly calmed down.

    This was right, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really wanted to sell the military magic machines to all the countries of the continent without any conditions, there was no need for Xu Yi to host this banquet. As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released the word, there would be many countries that woulde to find them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please tell us what the conditions are.¡± Another ambassador asked the most important question for all these ambassadors.

    ¡°Before talking about these conditions, I want to give everyone a short introduction on the military magic machines.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile and the two Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff moved in the Magic Illusion Projector that had been prepared, putting in an Illusion Film disc.

    After they left, Xu Yi looked at everyone¡¯s curious gazes with a smile, ¡°Everyone, I want to show you an Illusion Film clip first.¡±

    Xu Yi pressed the switch of the Magic Illusion Projector after saying this and an illusion came out.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong¡­¡­¡±

    Countless intense explosions filled the room and scared everyone.

    When everyone calmed down, they focused on the Illusion Film and found that the scene being shown was a battlefield covered in mes.

    In the sky of the illusion, there were countless arrows and fireballs flying by. From time to time, when a fireballnded on the ground, there would be an intense explosion that possessed a power that was shocking.

    ¡°Everyone, this is the scene that we recorded from the war between the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army and the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Hungry Wolf Regiment for everyone to see.¡± Xu Yi gave a short exnation before pointing at the fireballs flying through the sky in the illusion, ¡°Everyone can see that in this scene, the main military magic machine being introduced is this kind, which is the military magic machine that the Lampuri Kingdom is mainly equipped with, named the Magic Cannon.¡±

    ¡°Magic Cannon.¡± Everyone could understand Xu Yi¡¯s exnation before turning back to the Illusion Film that wasn¡¯t long, but was repeating itself. They all gave a nod and thought that this name really was appropriate.

    [Note: It¡¯s a Chinese thing where they both have the word for me in their names.]

    Although this clip wasn¡¯t long, the might that the Magic Cannons demonstrated shocked them.

    Although there were many of these ambassadors who had gone to the battlefield when they were younger, the battlefield they experienced was only using swords and spears to fight in close range. The long range weapons at most were simple attacks with bows and arrows, how could they have the same terrifying might as the Magic Cannons in the Illusion Film.

    Although they already knew that in the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, the battlefield had been very intense because both sides had plenty of military magic machines, which far surpassed traditional warfare, seeing this Illusion Film with their own eyes today, they truly learned that this battlefield was dozens of times more intense and terrifying than they had imagined.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this Magic Cannon¡­¡­how much is for¡­¡­one of them?¡± An ambassador pointed at the Magic Cannon in the Illusion Film and asked this.

    Shua!

    Everyone¡¯s eyes suddenly shifted from the Illusion Film to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­There are many kinds of Magic Cannons. The ones shown in the Illusion Film, which is the kind that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army uses, it¡¯s the newest seventy five millimeter caliber Magic Cannon that was developed by ourpany. The current price is¡­¡­two thousand and three hundred gold coins for one.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Two thousand and three hundred gold coins?¡± Everyone in the room took a cold breath.

    This was indeed a bit expensive. It had to be known that for two thousand and three hundred gold coins, an entire squad of fifty could be equipped.

    But turning to see the might of the Magic Cannon in the Illusion Film, this might that couldn¡¯t be resisted at all, everyone thought that this price was quite reasonable.

    Was a squad of fifty fully armed soldiers useful?

    With this Magic Cannon, just a single attack would be enough to take care of them.

    Moreover, from the Illusion Film, they could see that this Magic Cannon had a very terrifying attack range. Roughly estimating it, it was over two kilometers.

    Compared to the traditional bow and arrows, this attack rangepletely suppressed it.

    Thinking about it, if a traditional army faced an army with this Magic Cannon, they might not even see the shadow of the other side before being scattered by this Magic Cannon. What would they use to resist it?

    Thinking this, not to mention one for two thousand and three hundred gold coins, even if it was double this price, it would still be worth it.

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, you said that this was only the price of the Magic Cannon, right? Then the fireballs that are being fired by these Magic Cannons¡­¡­are they included with them?¡± An ambassador suddenly asked.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, this fireball is actually a Magic Shell that isunched into the air by the Magic Cannon and it isn¡¯t a real fireball. Moreover, we have currently developed a total of seven kinds of these Magic Shells. This is only the most basic Magic Shell and it¡¯s best for attacking arge area with shrapnel. Other than this, there are other kinds of Magic Shells. For example, the Ice Magic Shell, it can be used to release the might of a Sixth Grade Ice Spell, so it is effective in certain scenarios.¡±

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised looks again.

    They knew that the military magic machines were powerful before, but they never thought that there would be all these kinds. There were even different kinds of Magic Shells used for the same Magic Cannon, this really was impressive.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, this Magic Shell¡­¡­do they have to be bought separately?¡± The ambassador who asked the question before followed up.

    ¡°Of course. Each Magic Shell has to be carefully made, so of course it costs money to buy.¡± Xu Yi said without any courtesy.

    There were whispers that filled the room as most of the ambassadors couldn¡¯t help knitting their brows, revealing displeased looks.

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just too much. It¡¯s fine if the Magic Cannon was that expensive, but you also have to buy the Magic Shells separately?

    Profiteer!

    An ambassador didn¡¯t give up and after thinking about it, he suddenly asked in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, everything you said was based on this Illusion Film, but how do we know if this Illusion Film is real or not? Look, this Illusion Film is an illusion in the end¡­¡­¡±

    Although this ambassador had a hidden meaning in his words, they did make sense, so all the ambassadors in the room looked at Xu Yi and waited for his exnation.

    However, what they didn¡¯t expect was that Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin at all, he just looked at the ambassador who asked this with a faint smile.

    ¡°If you don¡¯t believe, you can not buy it.¡±

    When this was said, all the hearts of the ambassadors in the room couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    Xu Yi was right, if they didn¡¯t believe, they could just not buy it.

    However¡­¡­did they have this choice?

    Since the Rudson Kingdom had repelled the Candra Empire¡¯s invasion twice, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines had been the center of attention of all thepanies on the continent.

    After the Sack Kingdom invaded the Ant Kingdom and then the war between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom, it showed even more the destructive impact the military magic machines had on traditional warfare on the continent.

    Now all the countries were clear that with this new method of war, the traditional method of using swords and bows had already lost all ways of resisting.

    It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that if any country¡¯s army couldn¡¯t resist the powerful attack of the military magic machines, then any country would want as many military magic machines as possible.

    Even if they didn¡¯t n on using these military magic machines to invade other countries, they still needed to buy them to protect themselves.

    Xu Yi could say ¡°you didn¡¯t need to buy them¡±, but not a single ambassador dared to say that they really didn¡¯t need to buy them.

    That ambassador¡¯s expression changed and he pulled his neck back, returning into the crowd and not daring to say anything.

    Xu Yi looked around and seeing that no one else questioned him, causing the room to fall into silence, he cleared his throat and said, ¡°Everyone, you have already seen the might demonstrated by the Magic Cannon in battle, so I believe that you are definitely very interested, but perhaps you¡¯ve neglected an important problem.¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi with doubt, what other problem was there?

    ¡°The problem is one that has always troubled ourpany, but due to limited conditions, we haven¡¯t been able to solve it yet. So although we want to sell military magic machines to all the countries, we can¡¯t actually do that. This problem is¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi paused, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s production capacity isn¡¯t enough.¡±

    Everyone was surprised before understanding.

    This was indeed a problem that everyone had thought of when they received the invitation for today¡¯s banquet.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very famous on the Sines Continent, it was only apany that was in the small Stantine Duchy in the southwest corner.

    In terms of scale, it couldn¡¯tpare to the other famousrgepanies of the continent.

    With the current scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no matter how much they overestimated their production capacity, other than satisfying the needs of their guards, it was already good enough for them to supply the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom. How could they also supply all the other countries on the continent?

    If Xu Yi had some conditions because of this reason, this was understandable.

    Even if they did understand it, what kind of conditions would Xu Yi give?

    This was what everyone cared about.

 Volume 6 135 â€“ Teach A Man To Fish

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 135 - Teach A Man To Fish</h4>

    ¡°The condition that I want to propose is in hopes of solving this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to point at the Illusion Film that kept repeating itself.

    ¡°Let¡¯s return to this Illusion Film. Everyone, I believe that you all know that the Lampuri Kingdom being able to defeat the Sack Kingdom was because they had the support of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because they were equipped with arge number of military magic machines. It allowed them to easily roll through the Sack Kingdom that produced their own military magic machines, having the advantage on the battlefield. But do you know why the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military magic machines are better than the Sack Kingdom¡¯s?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, there¡¯s no need to boast, right? Everyone is very clear that not to mention military magic machines, when ites to magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is without a doubt the strongest, there¡¯s no one better than you. Isn¡¯t that right, everyone?¡± An ambassador suddenly said with augh.

    The surrounding people all agreed with him.

    If it was said that some people doubted this before, since the Sack Kingdom could produce their own military magic machines and proved that the military magic machines weren¡¯t that hard to produce. They thought that their military magic machines weren¡¯t worse than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s. But after the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, no one doubted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I first want to let everyone ponder, it isn¡¯t that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines are better than those of the otherpanies. I hope that everyone can seriously consider this, what is it?¡±

    Everyone knitted their brows and revealed difficult looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, isn¡¯t this making it hard on us? We are people who only have a surface understanding of magic machines, how could we know what¡¯s good?¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, stop keeping us guessing. Just be direct and tell us what you want to say, alright?¡±

    ¡°Right, chairman Xu, quickly tell us your conditions. As long as you say them, everyone can discuss them.¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi raised his hands for everyone to fall silent again.

    ¡°Since everyone doesn¡¯t understand, then I tell everyone the main reason for this.¡±

    Xu Yi turned around and pressed on the Magic Illusion Projector, changing to another Illusion Film disc and starting it again.

    The room dimmed and lit up again as another Illusion Film appeared in the air.

    ¡°Everyone look, these are two different kinds of Magic Cannons.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the illusion.

    Everyone looked at it and found that there were two Magic Cannons that were turning in the illusion.

    When they seriously looked at it, they found that it wasn¡¯t just a difference in shape and colour, there was even a difference in overall structure.

    ¡°The one on the right is the Magic Cannon produced by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which is the seventy five millimeter portable cannon that was introduced before. In thest Illusion Film clip, I think that you should have seen its might. As for the Magic Cannon on the right, it was independently made by the Sack Kingdom. This was seized by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army in the Sack Kingdom and was used by me as aparison.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, everyone looked carefully at the illusion for a while. One of the ambassadors couldn¡¯t help suddenly saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, why do I feel that¡­¡­the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon looks ugly? Moreover, it¡¯s much uglier¡­¡­¡±

    The others couldn¡¯t help looking at this person, thinking that if this fellow was going to tter Xu Yi, was there a need to be this open?

    They were just two lumps of iron, what was ugly or beautiful about them?

    After hearing this, they looked back at the two Magic Cannons in the illusion and everyone felt that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon on the right wasn¡¯t soothing to the eyes.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If it¡¯s in terms of the exterior without caring about how the inside structures coordinate with each other, ourpany has the elven engineers in charge of this, so naturally the Magic Cannons that we make will look a bit better.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡± Everyone suddenly revealed a look of understanding.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s reactions, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    These fellows had too little understanding of military magic machines.

    Although it couldn¡¯t be said that the appearance of the Magic Cannon was unrted to its might, the focal point shouldn¡¯t be on this.

    ¡°Everyone, after you finish looking at the appearance, let¡¯spare some details. First let¡¯s look here¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi walked over to the Magic illusion Projector and he pointed at the illusion with his finger, pointing at the barrels of the two Magic Cannons.

    ¡°Of the overall structure, the most important part is the barrel. Everyone can see that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s barrel is much smoother than the Sack Kingdom¡¯s and also more clear.¡±

    Everyone seriously looked at it before nodding.

    ¡°Un it is indeed like this. Chairman Xu, why is this?¡±

    ¡°There are two reasons. One is material and the second is craftsmanship.¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at each of the barrels.

    ¡°Everyone look, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannon¡¯s barrel is specially made with our C-308 steel ingot that was specially made to produce Magic Cannons. This material is highly resistant to heat, friction, and corrosion, so it can resist the strong wear from firing the Magic Shell, which increases the durability of the barrel.¡±

    ¡°As for the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon, it is produced using normal iron. Although it can also be used to fire a Magic Shell, it can¡¯tpare to the qualities of C-308 steel ingots. Everyone, take a look, the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon¡¯s barrel is showing obvious signs of wear, so it could be imagined how much the inner barrel is being worn down when this is shot. If nothing unexpected happens, this Magic Cannon will be worn down at most after a hundred shots.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? It¡¯s this weak?¡± Everyone was surprised.

    ¡°This is the professional judgement of ourpany¡¯s specialized engineers after analyzing this Magic Cannon, it won¡¯t be wrong.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Everyone looked at each other and held back their doubts.

    If Xu Yi said ¡°you can not buy if you don¡¯t believe¡± again, it would be too awkward.

    ¡°This is the difference in material. As for the craftsmanship, just based on the outer wall of the barrel, the barrel of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon is uneven and there are clear bumps that can be seen with the naked eye. It could be seen that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon¡¯s craftsmanship is far from being able topare.¡±

    No one questioned these words at all.

    Because Xu Yi¡¯s ¡°craftsmanship¡± wasn¡¯t something that they had a concept of since the beginning.

    If Xu Yi mentioned ¡°craftsmanship¡±, they could still understand it, but this thing clearly wasn¡¯t made by hand.

    ¡°If the poor craftsmanship of the barrel isn¡¯t enough, then we can look here.¡±

    Xu Yi pointed at the foundations of the two Magic Cannons.

    ¡°Please look at this ce, this is where the barrel and the foundation are linked. If they aren¡¯t tight enough, the Magic Cannon will be unstable when it fires the Magic Shell, which can seriously affect the uracy, even making the Magic Shell unable to fire and explode when being shot.¡±

    Everyone followed the direction Xu Yi was pointing in when they heard this.

    After seriously looking at it, everyone immediately found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundation had linked everything together perfectly and the two sides were all well maintained, causing the barrel to perfectly fit into the foundation of the Magic Cannon.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon¡¯s bearing joint had a space where even several fingers could be put in. It even made it so that one side was higher than the other.

    When put on this foundation, that Magic Cannon was a bit crooked, which was no wonder people felt it looked a bit ugly.

    The most important thing was that when this kind of Magic Cannon was shot, it would definitely shake which seemed very dangerous to people.

    After looking for a bit, an ambassador asked Xu Yi with knitted brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, I can roughly understand that the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannon is worse than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannon, but how is this¡­¡­rted to the conditions that you mentioned?¡±

    The others all looked at Xu Yi.

    That¡¯s right, Xu Yi had talked about all these random things the entire time, but it didn¡¯t seem rted to his conditions, right?

    ¡°There¡¯s a very important rtion.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Everyone, I won¡¯t hide it from you, when the Sack Kingdom developed these military magic machines, it was because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce leaked some of this technology to them. This allowed them to develop these military magic machines themselves.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    This was the first time they were hearing about this, so they couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    But after thinking about it, they found that it was quite reasonable.

    If it wasn¡¯t like this, how could the Sack Kingdom have suddenly developed military magic machines by themselves?

    ¡°But everyone could see that even with a part of the technology, the Sack Kingdom had many difficulties trying to create military magic machines themselves. In the end, they could only produce these inferior military magic machines that weren¡¯t worth mentioning at all.¡±

    The ambassadors all had strange expressions.

    Even if they were inferior military magic machines, it was still considered usable in their countries.

    ¡°I want to tell everyone through this matter that even if I give you all the military magic machines technology now, it is impossible for you to make outstanding military magic machines by yourselves.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Seeing the unconvinced looks on some people¡¯s faces, Xu Yi continued with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t doubt this. The military magic machines are only a small part of the magic machine industry and without a full industrial system in ce, if you want to directly make military magic machines, you will be like the Sack Kingdom in the end. You will invest arge amount of manpower and won¡¯t be able to make any useful military magic machines.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi turned to point at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannon in the illusion.

    ¡°Although this Magic Cannon seems like a very simple magic machine, all the parts that are in it, whether it is the steel or even the smallest screw, alle from aplete industrial system. Without the ability to produce theseponents, producing a qualified military magic machine is a fool¡¯s dream!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were forceful and direct.

    The ambassadors were silent for a bit before one of them asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you¡­¡­want us to first build these¡­plete industrial systems first?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    All the ambassadors were surprised.

    ¡°But¡­¡­how do you build thisplete industrial system?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as you¡¯re willing, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can cooperate with thepanies of your countries, helping them build a foundational magic machine industrial system. Then we can give you a method of developing this system. As long as you¡¯re willing to build this foundation, after you wait a bit, ourpany will directly give you the methods to build military magic machines and let you build military magic machines independently!¡±

    Hearing thest part, all the ambassadors began breathing quickly as their eyes lit up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­¡­Your meaning is that you want us to be able to build military magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°I have a saying in my hometown, give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him a lifetime. The meaning is that instead of giving people fish, it¡¯s better to teach them how to fish. Ourpany can¡¯t even give you fish, so instead, why don¡¯t we directly teach you all how to fish?¡±

    All the ambassadors looked at Xu Yi with more passionate gazes.

 Volume 6 136 â€“ I Canâ€™t Wait

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 136 ¨C I Can¡¯t Wait</h4>

    ¡°Xu Yi¡­¡­Although I knew before that your ideas were different from other people¡¯s, this time¡­¡­¡± Seveni slightly knitted her brows as she looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with deep confusion, ¡°But this time¡­¡­isn¡¯t this just too different?¡±

    ¡°Why don¡¯t you just call me crazy like everyone else?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and revealed a rxed smile, ¡°Anyway, it¡¯s not the first time that someone has said that.¡±

    ¡°Of course you¡¯re already used to it.¡± Seveni rolled her eyes, ¡°But I still can¡¯t understand, why would you make this decision?¡±

    ¡°Is it very hard to understand?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s very hard to understand!¡± Seeing how rxed Xu Yi looked, Seveni was a bit angry, ¡°The military magic machines are such important things, but you actually promised that you would give the production method to other countries, how can I understand this? Do you like giving the things that you said are very important to other people? Not to mention the military magic machines this time, the cement and various household magic machines from before¡­¡­they are all the same! Is doing this very fun?¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised by Seveni¡¯s sudden agitated response and looked at her with a surprised gaze before asking, ¡°Seveni, the ones that profited the most from this before¡­¡­is the Lampuri Kingdom¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So I am very happy about your previous decisions, but this time I¡¯m very unhappy!¡± Seveni said with a serious look, ¡°Moreover, this time you are nning on giving the military magic machines that are more important than anything else from before. Before doing this, have you considered the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s standpoint, have you considered my thoughts?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help scratching his head was he waspletely confused.

    The way Seveni said this was a bit strange¡­¡­

    ¡°This¡­¡­Seveni, although I¡¯ve decided to give the military magic machine production methods to the other countries, I¡¯ve also given them other conditions. They have to have an industrial system before I give them this. This industrial system will be ranked into grades by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I will only give them certain technologies based on each grade, you should understand this, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand, but this would still allow the other countries to grasp military magic machines eventually, right? It¡¯s fine for a small country, but if arge empire like the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire grasps this technology, what do you think will happen?¡± Seveni asked back.

    ¡°Nothing much.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Building this industrial system isn¡¯t that easy, you should know that better than anyone. This means that even if the other countries join this n, it is impossible for them to exceed the Lampuri Kingdom in terms of military magic machines. It¡¯s impossible for them to threaten you.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni gave a soft sigh. After a bit of silence, she revealed a faint smile again and nodded at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, I know that your goal is to change the entire continent with the magic machine industry, to improve everyone¡¯s life with magic machines. Your method right now isn¡¯t wrong, but Xu Yi, have you considered that this isn¡¯t very effective?¡±

    ¡°Not effective?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What does that mean?¡±

    ¡°Although all the countries are very interested in military magic machines and many countries will support you using this to develop the magic machine industries in those countries, each country has different strengths and will cooperate with this n in varying degrees. In the end, it would be good if even half of the countries are willing to invest enough manpower and funds.¡±

    ¡°I gave them the opportunity to choose, if they don¡¯t want it, I can¡¯t do anything.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and spread his hands, ¡°But when they are eliminated by the rest of the world for falling behind, you can¡¯t me me.¡±

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, why didn¡¯t you just fully support one country and unite the entire continent with the might of the military magic machines? Then you can build the magic machine industry?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni with a surprised look, ¡°You mean yourself?¡±

    Seveni didn¡¯t hold back as she gave a nod.

    ¡°Yes, Xu Yi, our Lampuri Kingdom has a good magic machine industrial system and as long as you¡¯re willing to give us some help, we will be able to build aplete magic machine industrial system. If you support us with more military magic machines, I believe that we can easily defeat the surrounding countries and develop the magic machine industry in those countries. If there is enough time, it isn¡¯t impossible topletely unite the entire continent.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni seriously for a bit and he couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    ¡°Seveni, you are the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, it¡¯s normal to have this idea from this position. However, if I really nned on doing this, wouldn¡¯t the Marlow Empire be a better choice?¡±

    ¡°But the Marlow Empire¡¯s rtionship with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t as deep as ours.¡± Seveni said with a smile.

    ¡°No, rtionships can be built and I believe that the Marlow Empire is very willing to build rtions with us.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    Seeing that Seveni still wanted to say something, Xu Yi raised his hand to cut her off and said with a serious look, ¡°Seveni, I understand your ideas and I did have this idea before¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then why aren¡¯t you willing to do it?¡± Seveni couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Because¡­¡­I¡¯ve seriously considered it and found that this method¡¯s efficiency is very low.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Why?¡± Seveni had a confused look, ¡°As long as you¡¯re willing to fully support us, with the might of the military magic machines, there isn¡¯t a single country that can defeat us on the battlefield and there¡¯s no difficulty in conquering the other countries.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Seveni, you are the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, you should be more clear about this than anyone. Tell me, in the war against the Sack Kingdom, how much money did the Lampuri Kingdom spend?¡±

    Seveni was surprised. Her expression changed several times before she said in a dejected and low voice, ¡°ording to the stats of the finance department, it was around four million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.¡±

    ¡°See, this was just fighting for less than a month and everything went smoothly, but you spent four million and seven hundred thousand gold coins. If it¡¯s on arger scale and for a longer period, how much money would you need to spend?¡± Xu Yi kept asking.

    Seveni knitted her brows and didn¡¯t give up as she refuted, ¡°But we obtained enoughpensation from the Sack Kingdom, as well as getting other benefits, which in the end added up to far more than four million and seven hundred thousand gold coins. In total, we gained from this, so what¡¯s not good about this?¡±

    ¡°But is gaining the seven cities from the Sack Kingdom good though? Tell me, if you add in the investments, would you dare say that you profited?¡±

    Seveni was silent and after a bit, she said, ¡°Xu Yi, I don¡¯t understand how this is rted to the issue we were talking about before.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very rted.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°With the current strength of the Lampuri Kingdom, it¡¯s this hard to even conquer the Sack Kingdom. If you want to conquer the entire continent¡­¡­how long would it take you?¡±

    Seveni fell silent once again.

    She was very clear that Xu Yi¡¯s words were very reasonable.

    Even if there wasn¡¯t ack of countries who had conquered the continent through military might in history, those countries were always short lived and couldn¡¯tst for long.

    Moreover, even those countries took several hundred years of umtion over several generations to have that kind of power, they couldn¡¯t get it all at once.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom had been founded for several hundred years, they had always been a poor and small country, so they didn¡¯t have any backing at all.

    Even if they had the powerful military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing them to have the absolute advantage on the battlefield, wars were never decided by just battle. The most important things were what happened outside the battlefields.

    For example, logistics, political environment, or¡­¡­

    Perhaps it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to win one or two fights, but to win more fights and conquer other countries, it couldn¡¯t be solved with just the military magic machines.

    ¡°I know¡­¡­that our Lampuri Kingdom is small and weakpared to the other countries and we can¡¯t give you the same support as the Marlow Empire, but Xu Yi, can you really not wait?¡± Seveni said with a sigh.

    Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile and lowered his head to think. Then he took two steps forward to arrive in front of Seveni and put his hands on her shoulder, looking right into her eyes as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Seveni, if I must choose a country to fully support on the continent, I would definitely choose the Lampuri Kingdom. It isn¡¯t for anything else, it¡¯s because you are the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes were covered in ayer of mist.

    ¡°Then why can¡¯t you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°But I just said it, to realize my dream with the Lampuri Kingdom alone would take too long and I can¡¯t wait. Even if I break through to be an Arch Magus, I can only live for a short hundred years and a third of that has already passed. In the remaining two thirds time, I have to grasp everything to reach my ideals as soon as possible. Can you¡­¡­understand?¡±

    Seeing the serious look in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and feeling the warm breathing from Xu Yi, Seveni¡¯s eyes blurred.

    After a long silence, Seveni finally gave a slow nod.

    ¡°Alright, since this is your decision, I won¡¯t say anything else.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­let¡¯s end it here for today. Your mood doesn¡¯t seem that good today, so take care of yourself. I¡¯m leaving first.¡± Xu Yi took his hands back and bid Seveni farewell.

    Seveni didn¡¯t stop him and just watched his back for a long time. When he was far away, she muttered something in a low voice.

    ¡°Fool, don¡¯t you know? I don¡¯t care about how strong the Lampuri Kingdom is, this is all for you¡­¡­and the child, alright?¡±

 Volume 6 137 Strategic cooperation

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 137 Strategic cooperation</h4>

    The deration that Xu Yi had made on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had spread across every country on the continent as fast as possible.

    In just a single month, thirty fiverge and smallpanies expressed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through various channels that they were willing to cooperate with them, building the standard magic machine industrial system that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted.

    For these countries, there were only benefits to cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had promised to help those countriesy down this system,pleting the most basic industrial reforms in those countries. The most important among them were agricultural reforms.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given a standard for these agricultural reforms, which was that they would use agricultural magic machines to reim, harvest, and process agricultural products.

    At the same time, the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce would be working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build fertilizer factories in those countries cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, providing them with fertilizer and guaranteeing that they would have arge increase in grain yield.

    This was enticement that no country on the Sines Continent could resist.

    It had to be known that on the continent, because of the low grain yield, a country that could let all their citizens eat their fill would already be considered a very excellent country.

    Even for a stable continent like it was right now, over half the country had people starving each year.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the ability for them to feed everyone, this was no doubt weed by all the countries.

    Just based on this, there were many countries that rushed to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t that every country wasn¡¯t able to meet this basic condition. So beyond the agricultural industry, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ns for countries other than the ones that had freend for agriculture.

    For example, in the first batch that wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was a small country to the southeast of the Candra Empire by the sea named the Winnes Duchy.

    Because this country was filled with various tropical rain forests and rivers, there wasn¡¯t muchnd that could be cultivated in the Winnes Duchy.

    Although by depending on the rich vegetation and prey in the forest, as well as the fishes in theke, the people of the Winnes Duchy didn¡¯t need to worry about feeding themselves, it had never had a way to improve their living conditions, so they went looking for help from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines could change this.

    For this situation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave an initial n to the Winnes Duchy. They would first use the Magic Log Splitters to cut a path in the rainforest while also building five roads in the Winnes Duchy, creating a basic highways system. They would also gather the lumber and water resources of the Winnes Duchy to create a harbour in the southern seas, allowing them to transport these resources on the seas to other countries to sell.

    Therefore, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build three logging sites, six river harbours, and one ocean harbour. At the same time, they would also be providing twenty small river Magic Ships and fifty tworge transport Magic Cars, unifyingnd and sea transportation, enhancing the transport in the Winnes Duchy.

    This was the basic industrial structure n that was proposed to the Winnes Duchy that was apart from agricultural industrialization.

    The Winnes Duchy approved of this n very much and after their first negotiation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they immediately invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff toe and inspect the Winnes Duchy.

    The Winnes Duchy was a bit bigger than the Stnatine Duchy, so their positive attitude wasn¡¯t unexpected. It was very likely that they would be the first country that would start cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, not all countries were this positive.

    Other than the countries that had limitedmunication, so they didn¡¯t know about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the military magic machines, so they were doubtful of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation n, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire, the tworgest empires on the continent weren¡¯t too positive about this n either.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed this n, it was mainly led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other countries just cooperated with them. This was something the two empires couldn¡¯t ept.

    As the tworgest empires on the continent, how could they let a smallpany make ns for them? Even if they did cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they should have the leading power.

    But that didn¡¯t mean that they weren¡¯t interested in the military magic machines. After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this n, the two empires sent people in secret to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although they weren¡¯t nning on epting this cooperation n, the two empires did indicate that they could buy the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a high price. At the same time, they would reduce the tariffs on the magic machines other than the military magic machines, as well as giving them other benefits.

    Other than this, the two empires were once again very interested in producing military magic machines, saying that they could pay for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transfer this technology to them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t directly reject them, but they used a stalling method. Although they indicated that they could sell military magic machines to the two empires, they stated that since they didn¡¯t have enough production capacity, they couldn¡¯t satisfy their needs.

    The two empires were helpless towards this and were forced to ept.

    But because of the influence of this incident, the two empires opened more of their domestic market to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and gave them even more beneficial conditions.

    The Marlow Empire already had a happy cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so now they took advantage of this to openly invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in magic machine factories in the Marlow Empire.

    Although they didn¡¯t participate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strategic cooperation, with the massive power of the Marlow Empire, this kind of development was still building a magic machine industrial system.

    As for the Candra Empire that had an awkward rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they weren¡¯t as direct as the Marlow Empire.

    But even if they didn¡¯t openly invite them, they still secretly opened quite a few restrictions.

    The most obvious one was that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravans and transports entered the Candra Empire, the inspection they received had weakened. It was no longer as strict as it was before.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce naturally weed this change, so the vigorously promoted the strategic cooperation and contacted the two empires as much as possible, trying their best to go even deeper into the two empires.

    However, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used the influence of the war between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom to expand their own influence on the continent, the Magicians Guild suddenly jumped out.

    When October came, there was an announcement from the Magicians Guild headquarters that was sent to the Magicians Guild in each country.

    This announcement was different from the ones that were spread by them before, rather they were clear orders from the Magicians Guild that they wanted everyone to know.

    The content of this announcement attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    The Magicians Guild had dered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had hidden facts in their cooperation with the Magicians Guild, which meant that they didn¡¯t want to help the Magicians Guild in what they wanted them to do.

    ording to their investigations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Academy¡¯s curriculum was unrted to magic, which was unable to help the Low Grade Magicians further their study of magic. Rather they were forced under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guidance to learn something that was unrted to magic.

    This seriously went against the agreement signed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Magicians Guild, so the Magicians Guild announced that they would be revoking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s title as a cooperatingpany. For hiding facts from the Magicians Guild and harming the interests of Low Grade Magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be listed as a watchedpany, warning all magicians to be wary against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Once this announcement was released, the continent stirred.

    Not long before, the Magicians Guild had a happy cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now this hadpletely disappeared in an instant and they were publicly denouncing them?

    The Magicians Guild had a long history on the Sines Continent, having been passed down for several thousand years, so it was an organization that always had a high prestige.

    Now that the Magicians Guild headquarters had suddenly made this announcement, the people who didn¡¯t know would believe the Magicians Guild and denounce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After all, in the minds of most people, merchants were sly.

    However, in the eyes of the people who knew the facts, the Magicians Guild denouncing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that they gave a coldugh about.

    The Magicians Guild¡¯s announcement also reached the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy, but the Magicians Guild branches in those countries didn¡¯t take any other actions even though the headquarters had given this announcement.

    The Stantine Duchy Magicians Guild branch wasn¡¯t something that needed to be mentioned. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild had announced in the ?Anvilmar Times? and the ?Lampuri Weekly? that they had been in close cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for many years, investing quite a bit of money in the Low Grade Magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom, benefitting many of them.

    For the magicians of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had an immeasurable contribution.

    This announcement to others looked like they were simply going against the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    However, what made the real decision wasn¡¯t the support of the Magicians Guild branches including the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s branch. Rather it depended on the core people in this incident, the Low Grade Magicians who were affected by this.

 Volume 6 138 Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 138 Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers</h4>

    Although the High Grade Magicians were the core of the magic research facility, holding the main task of developing magic for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the true core of thisrgepany was actually the Low Grade Magicians.

    In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the division ofbour was quite clear. The High Grade Magicians would enter the magic research facility and the Low Grade Magicians that found it hard to break through or were still breaking through would enter at the low level posts. They would draw up the core of the magic machines, the Magic Arrays that powered them.

    This work was just as important because without them, the magic machines wouldn¡¯t be able to move at all.

    Moreover, although this part seemed simple, it required every person.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over five thousand magicians workers, with only seven hundred of them working in the magic research facility. The other over four thousand workers were all involved in drawing Magic Arrays.

    If they lost these magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered paralyzed and wouldn¡¯t be able to continue operating.

    Moreover, the normal workers could be recruited and reced, but because of how rare magicians were, there were few to supplement them. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t treat these magicians any less important than the workers of the magic research facility.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters were targeting the Low Grade Magicians of the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, wanting to aim at the strategic part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was quite ruthless.

    Many people expected that since the Magicians Guild had spoken, the Low Grade Magicians of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have scruples and many of them would leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If nothing unexpected happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would fall into serious chaos.

    However, the facts came as a surprise to everyone.

    After the Magicians Guild released this announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted like they weren¡¯t affected at all and everything was normal.

    Not to mention the Low Grade Magicians resigning, there wasn¡¯t even a single piece of news about this.

    This situation caused countless people to have doubts.

    With the lofty position of the Magicians Guild on the Sines Continent and the prestige of magicians, once they spoke, even the most honoured Arch Magi would respect them. Not to mention these Low Grade Magicians.

    Based on what everyone expected, after the Magicians Guild gave their orders, not to mention the Low Grade Magicians all leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the High Grade Magicians of the magic research facility should resign as well.

    Otherwise, they would be going against the orders of the Magicians Guild.

    Having such doubts, some people secretly came to the Stantine Duchy.

    ###

    With the recent rapid growth of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their main base had continued to expand.

    Xu Yi¡¯s previous private territory had mainly been covered by the industrial district and the living district had been moved out two years ago. There was a new and bigger living district that was built on the east bank of the Abundant River, being separated from the industrial district by the river.

    This living district had over a hundred thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff living there. The total area exceeded twenty thousand hectares and it even surpassed countlessrge cities of the continent.

    Compared to Frestech City that was further north, there were more people living here, but they didn¡¯tck magic machines. The various infrastructures were perfectly built and there were no problems with provisions, as well having sufficient and cheap daily necessities.

    It could be considered quitefortable living here.

    Because the people living here were workers for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they held different positions and the living district was divided ordingly.

    In the northwest region near the Abundant River, the people mainly living here were the Low Grade Magicians responsible for drawing Magic Arrays.

    Compared to the several hundred people of the magic research facility who were work maniacs, spending most of their time at the magic research facility, because the highest among these people were only Third Grade Magicians, they weren¡¯t that strong, so they were no different from normal people. Rather, they quite liked living in this living district.

    After getting off work each day, the Low Grade Magicians returned to their homes. A part of them still focused on studying magic, but most of them were quite old and didn¡¯t have any ambition or had a clear understanding of their talent, knowing that they would never progress, so they seized the chance to rx.

    At this time, going to the small taverns in this living district was where they went the most.

    When night came every day, the Low Grade Magicians would go in groups of two or three to these taverns. They would call some dishes while drinking the wine that came from the dwarves,ughing and chatting after a long day of work.

    Although the Rolling Stone Tavern wasn¡¯t the biggest tavern in this district, it was always the one with the most people. It was for nothing else, it was because the boss of this tavern was a dwarf, so the wine sold here was the best.

    After another night fell, the Rolling Stone Tavern was filled with people as usual and it was quite noisy.

    The atmosphere of the tavern was exciting tonight because after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Car Race had been held on a trial basis for two years, it was finally changing names to officially be the Magic Sedan Race Circuit. The first regtion race had been held outside of Frestech City just yesterday.

    The Magic Car Races already attracted a lot of attention and many people had secretly bet on them, but now that it had be an official tournament, it attracted even more attention.

    Before the race, there were even more people who put bets.

    The Low Grade Magicians in the tavern, quite a few of them had some kind of bet on this race.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ordered their employees not to get into gambling, so they didn¡¯t dare bet much, there was still plenty of attention on this race. So once this race was over, the people who won were happy and the ones who lost couldn¡¯t help cursing a few times.

    In this regard, magicians were no different from normal people.

    When Sinner came into the Rolling Stone Tavern, he couldn¡¯t help taking a step back when he smelled the scent of wine in the air. He focused his mind before walking in.

    When he really walked in and got used to the tavern, he found that the alcohol scent in the air didn¡¯t irritate his nose, but rather it was quite fragrant.

    Looking around, he came to the bar and waved his hand at the bartender.

    ¡°Hey, what good wines do you have here?¡±

    The bartender looked at him with a surprised look, ¡°This is your first time here? Our Rolling Stone Tavern only has three kinds of wine, you can just choose what you want.¡±

    Sinner snappily looked at him, ¡°How do I know the three kinds if you don¡¯t tell me?¡±

    The bartender pointed behind him and didn¡¯t reply.

    Sinner looked in that direction and found three pictures on the wall, drawing three cups of wine of different colours.

    One was a normal red colour, which seemed very rich. One was a light green colour which seemed to have some vour.

    The final one waspletely transparent, looking no different from normal water.

    Sinner carefully looked for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help giving a confused sound.

    This wasn¡¯t at the wine that was depicted on the wall, but rather at the pictures themselves.

    He had been influenced by his long study into arts and he could easily tell that these three pictures were all finely made with excellent brushwork. They were all rare pictures that weren¡¯t even worse than the works of the masters.

    This tavern that seemed like a small and normal tavern actually had three pictures of this level here, this really was just too strange.

    ¡°Hey, can you tell me who drew these three pictures?¡± Sinner couldn¡¯t help forgetting his reason foring here when his curiosity came over him. He pointed at the three pictures as he asked this.

    The bartender looked over and shook his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just remember that one of those elf fellows forgot to bring money with him, so he used these three paintings to apy. I don¡¯t know how he got the boss to agree¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Idiot! It must be one of the masters of the elves!¡± Sinner roared out in his heart, but he held back as much as possible on his face. He shook his head with a bit of regret, ¡°It seems like you missed a good chance to get to know one of the elven masters, it really is a shame.¡±

    The bartender looked at him in surprise, ¡°Elf master? Are they rare? We have elves all over the ce, any one of them wouldn¡¯t be worse, right?¡±

    ¡°How is that pos¡­¡­¡± Sinner wanted to refute, but he suddenly remembered that this was no other ce, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s territory.

    In this ce, it indeed wasn¡¯t rare to see elves in this ce like in other ces¡­¡­

    Thinking of this, Sinner had nothing he could say as he opened his mouth. He waved his hand in a dejected manner before saying, ¡°Forget it, give me one of each kind.¡±

    ¡°One of each?¡± The middle aged man sipping a cup of wine sitting beside him suddenly turned over and looked over Sinner before pping his shoulder and saying with a sincere voice, ¡°Old brother, I urge you not to do this. I wanted to drink all three of them like you did before, but I was drunk for an entire day. I missed a whole day of work because of this and my wage was deducted by one gold coin.¡±

    ¡°One gold coin?¡± Sinner¡¯s eyes lit up and he asked, ¡°Do you work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

 Volume 6 139 Not for them to control

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 139 Not for them to control</h4>

    The middle aged man was surprised before looking over Sinner and revealing a look of understanding.

    ¡°Oh, right, this is your first time here, it¡¯s no wonder you don¡¯t know how strong the three kinds of wine are.¡± He nodded after this and continued, ¡°Right, I work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but I¡¯m not one of the important researchers of the magic research facility, I¡¯m just a pitiful Second Grade Magician that draws Magic Arrays all day.¡±

    Sinner revealed an even more interested look. He looked at the remaining red wine at the bottom of the middle aged magician¡¯s cup before having the bartender bring two more cups of the same wine over, sending one over to him.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡± The middle aged magician looked at him in surprise, ¡°Are you treating me to a drink?¡±

    ¡°Un, I want to ask you a few things.¡± Sinner nodded with a faint smile.

    ¡°Ask a few things?¡± The middle aged man was clearly a bit drunk, but his eyes were still clear. He looked at the cup of wine Sinner slid over and gave augh, ¡°I am only the mostmon Low Grade Magician in thepany, what can you get from me?¡±

    Sinner came closer and reached into his chest, taking out a small badge.

    ¡°Second Grade Magician?¡± The middle aged magician recognized the meaning of this badge and looked at Sinner in surprise. After thinking about it, he took a sip from the cup of wine, ¡°Alright, what do you want to ask about? I¡¯ll tell you now that there are some things that can¡¯t be told to outsiders.¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Sinner quickly smiled along with him, ¡°I still haven¡¯t asked¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Just call me Luther.¡±

    ¡°Alright, Luther, you can see that I¡¯m the same as you, we¡¯re both Second Grade Magicians. Moreover, you can see¡­¡­that I¡¯m not doing that well right now¡­¡­¡± Sinner spread his hands.

    Luther looked at the clothes that Sinner was wearing and saw that the material wasn¡¯t that good, so he gave a nod.

    ¡°And then? You want to work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°I wanted to ask about this, only¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Only what?¡±

    Sinner looked around beforeing in closer and lowering his voice, ¡°I think that you should have heard that the Magicians Guild headquarters has given that announcement saying that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is¡­¡­ke¡­¡­a swindler. They aren¡¯t good at all to Low Grade Magicians, so I¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Bullsh*t!¡± Luther suddenly pped the table in front of him and with how loud his voice was, everyone in the tavern suddenly looked over.

    Sinner was scared by this before quickly pulling Luther down and smiling at everyone in the tavern.

    The others saw that nothing was happening, so they didn¡¯t care about it.

    Sinner let out a sigh of relief before asking Luther, ¡°Why are you this agitated? Is the headquarters wrong?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! The fellows at the headquarters are all full of nonsense, how could it be correct!¡± Luther seemed very indignant, but his voice was smaller than before, so it didn¡¯t attract as much attention in this crowded tavern as before.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Sinner looked at Luther with a bit of doubt, ¡°That means that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is very good to Low Grade Magicians?¡±

    ¡°Of course they are.¡± Luther said in a firm voice, ¡°Other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, is there anotherpany that will give Low Grade Magicians a wage of twenty gold coins a month?¡±

    ¡°Twenty gold coins a month? That really isn¡¯t a small amount.¡± Sinner was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°But the headquarters said¡­¡­that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is forcing Low Grade Magicians to do meaningless things, drawing Magic Arrays all day long, which doesn¡¯t help them with increasing the level of their magic¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Bullsh*t!¡± Luther angrily shouted again, but this time there weren¡¯t that many people who looked over, ¡°Other than giving us a high wage each month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gives us many benefits. For Low Grade Magicians like us, as long as we¡¯re willing, we can apply for a set of magic materials each month to study magic with. Is this not good enough?¡±

    ¡°Un, that is indeed not bad¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then again, thepany will invite the High Grade Magicians or even a Great Magician to guide us Low Grade Magicians from time to time, helping us increase the level of our magic. Tell me, other than this ce, for Low Grade Magicians like us, where else can we receive the guidance of Great Magicians?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Sinner was silent again, but then he changed the topic, ¡°But I also heard that¡­¡­the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Academy isn¡¯t teaching the Low Grade Magicians about magic at all¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Bullsh*t! Bullsh*t! Bullsh*t!¡±

    Luther angrily cursed three times before suddenly standing up and looking around the corner. Then he grabbed Sinner¡¯s arm and brought him to a table over in a corner.

    The people at the table looked at Luther and Sinner who suddenly came over in surprise. One of them who was around the same age as Luther and had the same Second Grade Magician badge on his chest looked at Sinner before asking Luther, ¡°Hey, Luther, what is it? Is this your friend?¡±

    ¡°No, we just met.¡± Luther casually said before pushing Sinner in front of them and pointing at them, while saying to Sinner, ¡°These fellows are the same as me, they graduated from the Frestech Academy with mest year. You can ask them if the academy is as you said it is.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± The middle aged magician was even more confused, ¡°Hey Luther, what did this fellow say about the academy?¡±

    ¡°This idiot actually believes the lies from those fellows at the Magicians Guild, saying that we are all fools that were tricked by the Frestech Academy, not learning any magic at all there!¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± These people all looked at Luther with a surprised look and after looking at each other, they all burst intoughter.

    ¡°Ha, ha, there¡¯s actually people who believe suchughable things.¡±

    ¡°Right, I thought that there wouldn¡¯t be anyone that dumb that would believe lies that could be seen through right away.¡±

    ¡°I say, are you joking? Don¡¯t you know that the Lampuri Kingdom branch specially exined that the Frestech Academy treats us Low Grade Magicians very well? How could they not let us study magic?¡±

    ¡°Right. If we couldn¡¯t study magic at the academy, how could we work for thepany after graduating? You can¡¯t even think through such a simple concept?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha¡­¡­You really are stupid¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Hearing these people not holding back inughing at him, Sinner¡¯s face turned white and blue. After a long time, he finally forced this down and asked, ¡°Then based on what you said, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce treats you very well? They teach you magic?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense! Thepany started this academy to let us Low Grade Magicians grasp some basic knowledge of magic machines and then lets us choose a direction to focus on, which is something that we can use once we graduate. If it doesn¡¯t teach us magic, how could we do anything now?¡±

    ¡°Right, although ourpany has a lot of money, it can¡¯t just waste it, right? Then again, the chairman is such a smart person, how could he do something that has no meaning. Don¡¯t you all think so?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡­¡­

    ¡°But¡­¡­the things that you¡¯ve learned, they can only be used for working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right? It doesn¡¯t help increase the level of your magic at all¡­¡­¡± Sinner asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°Hey, I say, how can you be this stupid?¡±

    A younger magician who seemed to be around thirty years old with the badge of a Third Grade Magician on his chest looked at Sinner with a look of disdain.

    ¡°Think it through, we¡¯re already this old, but we¡¯re still at this low level. Do you still want to increase the level of your magic and dream of bing a Great Magician? Stop dreaming! Let me tell you, at our age, our livelihoods are more important than anything. We can¡¯t do anything in other ces with our bit of magic, but at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we can receive a wage of over twenty gold coins a month. This is good enough for us to live a life that we never dared to think of before. If it was you, would you want to do all those useless things?¡±

    ¡°Right, what raising your level of magic, it¡¯s all empty. If you have things to eat, you can live on, that¡¯s the truth.¡±

    ¡°It was like this before. We aren¡¯t fellows whoe from noble families who have all that money to buy materials to study magic, it¡¯s real that we have to think of a way to keep on living first. Do you know how grateful I am to ourpany? If it wasn¡¯t for such a good job, I would have already starved to death, how could I even study magic?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­But the guild has clearly given a warning and if you keep working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you might anger the guild. Then¡­¡­We¡¯re all magicians, so it won¡¯t be good in the future¡­¡­¡± Sinner said without giving up.

    ¡°Pei!¡± That younger Low Grade Magician spat out, ¡°Those fellows at the guilds can say these fine words, saying that this is out of consideration for us Low Grade Magicians, advising us to stay away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Pei! If we leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, can the headquarters give us a wage of twenty gold coins a month? Can they give us the same good lives we¡¯re living now? If they can¡¯t, then it¡¯s all nonsense!¡±

    ¡°Right, we¡¯re finally living a good life relying on thepany and the headquarters don¡¯t want to let us live a peaceful life, just what are they thinking?¡±

    ¡°Humph, those fellows keep proiming that it¡¯s for the benefit of all the Low Grade Magicians on the continent, I think that they¡¯re just thinking about themselves! You think I don¡¯t know? Those fellows clearly can¡¯t beat the chairman when ites to the patents, so they are retaliating against ourpany!¡±

    ¡°Damn, this bunch of fake viins!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Seeing their agitated appearance, Sinner was speechless.

    After a while, they finally calmed down a bit and Sinner asked, ¡°But everyone¡­¡­we are all magicians registered at the guild, so if we don¡¯t listen to the guild, I¡¯m afraid¡­¡­it will be much harder in the future¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Harder?¡± The younger Third Grade Magician gave a coldugh and looked down at the badge on his chest. He suddenly pulled it off and threw it onto the table, ¡°Those fellows don¡¯t care about me at all, why do I care about them. At worse, I¡¯ll just leave the Magicians Guild and stop letting them manage me!¡±

    Sinner was stunned. He wanted to say something, but he found that the people around him, including Luther had all taken off the badges from their chests, either putting them in their pockets or throwing it on the table.

    There were seven badges there that released different coloured glows, looking quite dazzling.

    Sinner looked at those badges that were still spinning on the table, looking stunned.

 Volume 6 140 Magicians survival job security union

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 140 Magicians survival job security union</h4>

    In the history of the Sines Continent, because of the strength of the Magicians Guild, including the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, allpanies wanted to be a cooperatingpany of the Magicians Guild since they could obtain countless benefits that way.

    If there was apany that had been defined as a swindlerpany by the Magicians Guild like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a build that people needed to be vignt towards, all that was waiting for thepany was the fate of demise.

    After all, the Magicians Guild had a very high position in the minds of most citizens on the continent. Everyone believed the judgement of the Magicians Guild.

    Since the Magicians Guild said that this was apany filled with swindlers, they would lose a lot of trust in the minds of most people.

    For apany, trust was the most basic thing and if they lost this trust, it was no different from a death sentence.

    But this time, this matter developed differently from the past.

    After the Magicians Guild named the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that wasn¡¯t epted by them, not only were the magicians working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not affected, even the sales of their products weren¡¯t affected at all.

    The Magicians Guild¡¯s announcement was like a bug bite for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although it itched, it didn¡¯t do anything to them.

    Inparison, the Magicians Guild branches in the Lampuri Kingdom and the southwest countries actually showed their support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They dered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the work of the Magicians Guild, helping the Low Grade Magicians of these countries very much.

    The actions of these branches had greatly gone against what people had expected because them doing this was simply openly going against the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    Although in the history of the Sines Continent, there were circumstances where the branches in certain countries had gone against the decisions of the headquarters, most of them were because of a conflict between those branches and the guild. There had never been a time where it had been for apany like this case right now.

    Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just a single branch going against the headquarters, but rather the branches in several countries.

    This situation was indeed quite thought provoking.

    But this wasn¡¯t what attracted the most attention.

    Other than the Magicians Guild branches going against the judgement of the headquarters of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were two hundred and thirty seven magicians of the Stantine Duchy branch who wanted to withdraw from the Magicians Guild.

    Once this matter was reported, it created an uproar.

    In the history of the Magicians Guild, there had never been a magician who chose to withdraw. There were usually those that liked to stay alone or those that were called ¡°evil¡± by the Magicians Guild, but these were only one time events.

    However, this time, there were three hundred and thirty seven magicians who withdrew which became a shockingrge matter.

    The Magicians Guild had a high prestige on the Sines Continent because they were where all the magicians of the continent gathered, also because they monopolized all the magic material on the continent.

    Whether it was magicians or powers that were rted to magicians, they couldn¡¯t go around the Magicians Guild.

    The most obvious example of this was the Magicians Guild¡¯s ranking exam.

    This was the only official exam on the Sines Continent, as well as the one that everyone acknowledged.

    For magicians, working hard on studying magic and getting a higher level in the ranking exam was what they desired the most, so they had to have experienced it.

    If they withdrew from the Magicians Guild, they withdrew from this system. Although they wouldn¡¯t die, that was enough for them to die as magicians.

    So unless they had no other choices, there wasn¡¯t a single magician who would choose to withdraw from the Magicians Guild since there were no benefits at all.

    So for over two hundred magicians from the Stantine Duchy to withdraw at the same time, naturally people were iparably shocked and confused.

    Just what reason was there for all these magicians to choose to withdraw at the same time?

    The Stantine Duchy¡¯s Magicians Guild branch didn¡¯t hide this matter. In the three local Stantine Duchy newspapers and the surrounding countries¡¯ newspapers, they gave a detailed report on this matter.

    Through these reports, people finally understood the reason.

    It turned out that these two hundred and thirty seven magicians chose to leave the Magicians Guild because of the Magicians Guild¡¯s judgement on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Magicians Guild dered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was an untrustworthypany full of swindlers, appealing to all magicians to be more wary of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They didn¡¯t just stop with words and actually took action.

    For the certification exam that was about to start this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s workers were going to join as usual. However, when they signed up for the exam, they were told that because they chose to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which was apany that the Magicians Guild had listed as apany to be wary of, they lost their qualification to join this year¡¯s exam.

    If they wanted to participate in the exam, they would have to leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first.

    The Magicians Guild¡¯s actions had angered the magicians of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After discussing this, these two hundred and thirty seven magicians chose to leave the Magicians Guild, saying that they no longer needed to be tested by the Magicians Guild.

    Moreover, after epting the interview requests of the various newspapers, the representative of these over two hundred magicians expressed a strong indignation and usation against the Magicians Guild¡¯s methods.

    He pointed out that since the Magicians Guild had been established, its goal was to be the organization that organized and helped all the magicians on the continent. The goal was to help benefit all the magicians on the continent.

    But the current Magicians Guild had already turned into an organization that was filled with different factions and self interests.

    The elders of the Magicians Guild headquarters didn¡¯t care about the benefits of all magicians, but rather their own benefits.

    This kind of organization that went against their initial goal didn¡¯t need to exist at all!

    The people who read the report had different reactions to the usations of this representative.

    Most people agreed with these magicians and agreed with the usations of their representative on the Magicians Guild, but there was a small part that pointed out that these two hundred magicians were from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Their actions this time could be ordered by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n against the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t respond on this, but there was something that happened next that was a serious attack on the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    The over two hundred magicians that left the Magicians Guild suddenly announced not long after that they would be forming a Magicians Survival Job Security Union, which would be simply called the Magicians Association.

    This Magicians Association would be as the name stated, it would focus on helping magicians solve the basic problem of surviving, making sure that all magicians wouldn¡¯t need to worry about basic problems.

    At the establishment of this Magicians Association, they announced the first chairman would be the one who represented the over two hundred magicians who withdrew from the Magicians Guild, Maze Luther. The Magicians Association said that their goal was just to ensure that all magicians had the right to work and wouldn¡¯t have to worry about their basic survival.

    Therefore, the Magicians Association would work closely with the variouspanies, including the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would be working for every magician, especially those Low Grade Magicians to have good jobs and proper training, so they could work with magic.

    This way, the time that magicians spent on their research would be wasted and they could apply this training, as well as continue to work on magic that they loved, allowing them to increase their level of magic.

    Compared to the loosely organized and gradual management method of the Magicians Guild, the Magicians Association would be focused on the benefits of Low Grade Magicians specifically.

    So in less than a month since the Magicians Association had been founded, there was an astonishing ten thousand magicians who were willing to join the Magicians Association.

    This figure instantly shattered the rumours that the Magicians Association was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because they didn¡¯t employ ten thousand magicians.

    There were three thousand that joined the Magicians Association from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the remaining seven thousand came from the other organizations and countries outside of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, no one would believe that this Magicians Association waspletely unrted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because the second day this Magicians Association was formed, the Magicians Association announced that they had already reached a cooperation agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It guaranteed that those that joined the Magicians Association would receive free training on producing magic machines, as well as giving them over three thousand rmendation spots for magic machine rted jobs.

    Being able to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very attractive for these Low Grade Magicians. Even if they couldn¡¯t work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was also good to work for the other magic machinepanies.

    So once this announcement came out, the Low Grade Magicians that joined came in swarms, so that in less than one month, there were over ten thousand members that joined.

    But there were many unrted people who were watching this with the mentality of enjoying the fun of it.

    The Magicians Association was simply digging out the foundations of the Magicians Guild. The Magicians guild that had grasped these magicians for over two thousand years, how could they sit and watch this happen?

 Volume 6 141 Only a small matter

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 141 Only a small matter</h4>

    Great Magician Ferguson already couldn¡¯t remember how many times he came to the Stantine Duchy, to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    He only remembered that every time he came here, he would find that there was a big change here like it was a new ce.

    For example, he had seen severalrge buildings before, but they had been surrounded by grasnd and there weren¡¯t any signs of humans. But now they were surrounded by a dense number of buildings that had traces of humans all over, looking quite lively.

    It was only a developing Frestech City when he came here the first time, but in just a short two to three years of development, it had actually be such arge city. This really was shocking.

    What surprised Great Magician Ferguson the most wasn¡¯t the fact that this city was even bigger than the Candra Empire¡¯s Wimbledon City when it came to scale, but rather that this city on the inside and outside waspletely different from every traditional city on the continent.

    Whether it was the streetmps on both sides of the road or the smooth road underneath him, they were all different from the usual cities.

    Andpared to seeing the city being filled with the luxurious and tall horse carriages of nobles that normal people wouldn¡¯t even dare think of dreaming of, where most people had dirty clothes and looked ragged, the people of Frestech City all had beautifully crafted clothes and were filled with rigor, looking quite healthy.

    The entire city had a powerful energy from head to toe, making people unable to stop themselves from moving faster in the streets.

    Although Great Magician Ferguson was already close to sixty years old, he always felt that his mentality was quite young. Compared to the other spiritless cities on the continent, he rather liked the Frestech City that was more filled with life.

    The several times he came here, he had seen the great changes each time and even Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help thinking about moving here.

    He even felt that if he lived here, he would be overall younger.

    Compared to staying in the gloomy Magicians Guild headquarters all day, this ce suited him much better.

    However¡­¡­he naturally couldn¡¯t do that.

    Not only could he do this, his goal this time might destroy everything that had enamoured him about this ce.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s good mood suddenly disappeared and his expression sunk quite a bit.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, wee.¡± A voice that was filled with energy suddenly came from in front of Great Magician Ferguson, making his dark mood disappear a bit.

    Great Magician Ferguson looked up and saw a young girl with a round face in front of him, reaching her hand out.

    ¡°Yi? Vice chief Evita, why are you here? Where¡¯s chairman Xu?¡± Great Magician Ferguson asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Sir chairman had to leave thepany a few days ago, so he gave me a special order to wee your excellency Great Magician.¡± Akali said with a smile.

    Seeing the bright smile on Akali¡¯s face, Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s expression sank a bit more.

    When he came here before each time, no matter what the reason was, Xu Yi always came to greet him. This time he had sent notice ahead of time through the Stantine Duchy¡¯s Magicians Guild branch and Xu Yi had left a few days ago, it was clear that he didn¡¯t n on meeting him.

    ¡°This Xu Yi, how bold! Does he really n on going against our Magicians Guild like this?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was unhappy in his heart. Seeing that Akali¡¯s gaze wasn¡¯t that kind, he narrowed his eyes and asked, ¡°Vice chief Akali, if chairman Xu isn¡¯t here, is CEO Kennard also not here?¡±

    ¡°CEO Kennard?¡± Akali was a bit confused, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you came on behalf of the Magicians Guild and Kennard isn¡¯t a magician, so why would you want to see him?¡±

    ¡°He is yourpany¡¯s CEO and since chairman Xu isn¡¯t here, he is the highest ranking person in yourpany. I came to see your Frestech Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Magicians Guild, so of course I need to see your highest ranking person.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said in a deep voice.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, right?¡± Akali shook her head, ¡°Sir chairman said before leaving that the person sent by the Magicians Guild would talk about something rted to magicians. Among the magicians in ourpany, other than Arch Magus Cami and chief Evita, I have the highest position, so I¡¯m the most suited to meet you. Your excellency Great Magician, may I ask why you¡¯vee this time?¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Hearing Akali¡¯s casual words, Great Magician Ferguson immediately knitted his brows and filled with rage.

    If these really were Xu Yi¡¯s instructions, it meant that he simply didn¡¯t put the Magicians Guild in his eyes at all!

    With his status as one of the elders of the Magicians Guild headquarters and the fact that he came on behalf of the Magicians Guild, even if it was in the Marlow Empire or the Candra Empire, it would be the highest ranking person who came forward. However, in this small Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was Akali who didn¡¯t have a high position and was only a Seventh Grade Magician who came forward. This wasn¡¯t giving him or the Magicians Guild headquarters any face!

    But he was an experienced person and quickly forced himself to calm down. He coldly looked at Akali and gave a cold snort, ¡°Then you¡¯re nning on making me discuss this matter with you here?¡±

    Akali gave a p, ¡°Aiya, that was my mistake. Your excellency Great Magician, I¡¯m sorry, pleasee with me.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face sunk as he followed behind Akali. He went into the Magic Sedan that Akali drove and after a while, he entered the office the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up in Frestech City.

    Akali brought Great Magician Ferguson into a meeting room and after personally making him some tea, she looked at him with a serious look like she was ready to respectfully listen to him.

    Great Magician Ferguson looked around the room and found that other than Akali, there were only three staff members that he hadn¡¯t seen before and no one else present.

    Moreover, these three staff members were busying themselves with some strange looking machine, not caring about him at all.

    This stance was simply too negligent!

    It was hard for Great Magician Ferguson to suppress the anger that appeared in his heart again. After forcing down a mouthful of tea, he asked Akali in a deep voice, ¡°Vice chief Akali, you said that your chairman Xu had youe greet me today, then did he say that you can represent the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Akali waved her hand with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m just responsible for weing you, why would I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s heart filled with even more rage and his face turned dark as he continued, ¡°If it¡¯s like this, what meaning is there in me talking to you?¡±

    Akali gave a shrug, ¡°Sir chairman said that the Magicians Guild wouldn¡¯t have any good intentions, so he just wanted me to listen and not give any opinions¡­¡­Ah¡­¡­¡± Akali suddenly covered her mouth and blinked a few times before carefully saying, ¡°This¡­¡­Your excellency Great Magician, you¡­¡­You shouldn¡¯t misunderstand, I didn¡¯t mean that¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face turned livid and the veins popped out on the hand holding the cup of tea. It took him a lot of effort to suppress the idea of throwing the cup of tea at her.

    The Magicians Guild wouldn¡¯t have any good intentions?

    Just listen and not give any opinions?

    How wild!

    This was simply too arrogant!

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce, do they even put the Magicians Guild in their eyes!

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s hands trembled for a while before he slowly calmed the anger in his heart. He looked at Akali for a while before saying word for word, ¡°Vice chief Akali, please help me tell chairman Xu that my trip this time to represent the Magicians Guild headquarters to give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce a final warning. We hope that you will immediately close the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union and the Magicians Association. All things rted to magic are managed by the Magicians Guild and no one else can interfere, do you understand?¡±

    Akali looked at Great Magician Ferguson for a while before suddenly understanding something and asking, ¡°It¡¯s just this?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows, ¡°It¡¯s just this. What? You still don¡¯t understand?¡±

    ¡°No, I understand.¡± Akali quickly nodded, ¡°Then other than this? There¡¯s nothing else?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at Akali with a confused look. This was clearly a smart girl, why was she ying the fool here?

    After thinking for a bit, Great Magician Ferguson gave a nod, ¡°Just this for now. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can aplish these two requests, the headquarters has decided to not hold grudges against yourpany and can even cooperate on patents and the matter of the Low Grade Magicians again. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce still wants to act out, you will get the consequences you deserve.¡±

    Akali also nodded and then she didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Great Magician Ferguson was confused as he looked at her, ¡°Vice chief Akali, do you really understand my meaning?¡±

    ¡°What is there not to understand?¡± Akali looked at Great Magician Ferguson with a confused look, ¡°Isn¡¯t this what your guild has said many times? I got it and then?¡±

    ¡°And then?¡± Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help getting angry, ¡°Vice chief Akali, why do I feel¡­¡­that you don¡¯t seem to understand the severity of this? Do you really understand what the warning I bring represents?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very serious?¡± Akali had a confused look and after thinking for a bit, she shook her head, ¡°No, I don¡¯t think that this is serious at all. Sir chairman already said that the matters of the Magicians Guild are small matters, the real important matters are the other¡­¡­¡±

    After saying this, Akali seemed to have realized her mistake and covered her mouth. She awkwardly looked at Great Magician Ferguson and after blinking a few times, she looked around herself.

    Great Magician Ferguson was already fuming at this point. Even if he had a good temper, he couldn¡¯t take it anymore and stood up as he angrily looked at Akali.

    ¡°Good! Good! Good! Your chairman Xu and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really are bold, I want to see how long you canst like this!¡±

    After throwing this down, Great Magician Ferguson flicked his sleeve and left without even turning back.

    Akali was like she had received a sign to stand still, watching him quickly disappear.

    After Great Magician Ferguson was gone, Akali turned to the three staff members tinkering with the strange machine and asked, ¡°Did you record it?¡±

    One of them nodded at Akali with a smile, ¡°Got it.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Akali turned to look in the direction Great Magician Ferguson had left in before sticking out her tongue, ¡°Humph, if it wasn¡¯t for sir chairman¡¯s orders, who would wnat to act this y out with you¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 142 Who changes first

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 142 Who changes first</h4>

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t as Great Magician Ferguson thought he was, deliberately avoiding him and he really was busy.

    After more than half a year of preparations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first official base on the sea was starting construction.

    Xu Yi was very serious about this sea base, so he had personallye to show everyone how important this was to him.

    The first sea base was between the Stantine Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s seas, being over two hundred kilometers away from the coast. It was also thirty kilometers more to the south of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s naval transportation route.

    If this base wasplete, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a true foothold in the endless seas.

    Any Frestech Chamber of Commerce boat or personnel coulde here to get supplies and shelter, but this was only open to the members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not outsiders.

    To put it simply, this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first step onto the endless seas. Not only would it act like a small supply base like the ones that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up on the others inds, it would would two Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard fleets stationed here all year round, while also having two thousand guards deployed here.

    Other than having an active military force, this base that was built on thergest ind in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s sea, Giant Deer Ind would have one hundred and fifty Magic Cannons, over five hundred Magic Trebuchets, along with the powerful military magic machines brought along by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. Then adding in the two powerful ships that they brought, this ind could be considered impregnable.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, with such a powerful force, even if the Candra Empire navy took action, they would be helpless against you.¡±

    The one standing beside Xu Yi was one of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s four greatmanders, Kassadin Monroe. He hade here today for the opening ceremony on the invitation of Xu Yi.

    From therge Magic Ship, seeing the fierce looking Magic Cannons and Magic Trebuchets below, as well as the battlements that had been installed on the ind, he couldn¡¯t help voicing his thoughts.

    Xu Yi looked at him and revealed a faint smile, ¡°With the current strength of the Candra Empire, they wouldn¡¯t dare make a move against us. But when the Candra Empire navy starts developing, that will be hard to say.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± General Monroe hesitated a bit before forcing out a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, actually, as long as yourpany stops selling guard ships to the Candra Empire navy¡­¡­I feel that they would never threaten this ce.¡±

    Xu Yi had a ghost of a smile as he asked back, ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I sell if there¡¯s money involved?¡±

    General Monroe¡¯s expression scrunched, but he couldn¡¯t say a thing.

    After being silent for a bit, he gave a sigh and shook his head. He calmed his heart before asking, ¡°Then¡­¡­chairman Xu, the matter of selling our Rudson Kingdom guard ships¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi reached a hand out to general Monroe, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it before, this matter is very simple. One hand for the money and one hand for the goods.¡±

    General Monroe could only reveal a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, you should know that we can¡¯t take out that much money.¡±

    ¡°Then you should think of another way.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This general Monroe wasn¡¯t wrong at all, the Rudson Kingdom really couldn¡¯t take out this money now.

    Although they had pushed back the Candra Empire twice which had raised the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s fame on the continent.

    They hadpletely offended the Candra Empire which was one of the two empires of the continent, which had brought a great disaster to the Rudson Kingdom.

    Even if Candra Empire didn¡¯t dare invade the Rudson Kingdom after being defeated twice, there was arge difference in national strength between the two countries. The Candra Empire had immediatelypletely blockaded the Rudson Kingdom after the battles and easily shut off the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s contact with the outside world.

    The Rudson Kingdom was quite rich in resources and had lived quite a good life by exporting goods to other countries, but because of the blockade of the Candra Empire, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s new magic machine industry products couldn¡¯t be exported. The export of traditional resources like minerals and lumber also suffered a heavy blow.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reaching their hands out at thest second, defeating the Candra Empire navy and guaranteeing that the Rudson Kingdom could still have a southern port to export from, helping the Rudson Kingdom with a ce to export their domestic products, they would have already been in chaos because of the blockage.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only helped the Rudson Kingdom maintain this sea route and didn¡¯t break the Candra Empire¡¯snd blockade, so the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s development was very limited.

    The current Rudson Kingdom was still stable internally, with most of the citizens living better lives because of the magic machine industry, it was hard for them to take a further step and develop more.

    King Teruc who always had lofty aspirations couldn¡¯t take this situation.

    It was impossible with the current national strength of the Rudson Kingdom to break through the powerfulnd blockade of the Candra Empire, so the Rudson Kingdom had decided to form a navy and break their blockade from the sea, allowing them to have a free sea path.

    To do this, naturally they couldn¡¯t forget about the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If they couldn¡¯t buy enough guard ships and military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, breaking through the blockade of the Candra Empire¡¯s navy was a fool¡¯s dream.

    But whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or Xu Yi, they had always been very ambiguous towards the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s requests. They didn¡¯t deny them, but they also didn¡¯t bend the rules.

    Xu Yi always said that as long as the Rudson Kingdom could take out the money, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them the guard ships with the military magic machines that they wanted.

    But the Rudson Kingdom just didn¡¯t have this money¡­¡­

    A guard ship with all the military magic machines cost a full one million and four hundred thousand gold coins!

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s revenuest year added up to only nine million and three hundred thousand gold coins. They could only buy seven if they took all that money out, so how could they form aplete fleet?

    The Rudson Kingdom knew that the price that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them was already very fair.

    It had to be known that the Candra Empire had bought each ship for one million and five hundred thousand gold coins, also without all the various military magic machines added on.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given the Rudson Kingdom a very kind price, so they couldn¡¯t me them at all.

    However, the problem was that the Rudson Kingdom couldn¡¯t take out this little bit of money¡­¡­

    Hearing Xu Yi say ¡°think of another method¡±, the bitter smile on general Monroe¡¯s face became wider.

    He clearly knew what Xu Yi meant.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always been very interested in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s mineral resources, hoping that the Rudson Kingdom would open up all their mineral resources to them, but King Teruc hadn¡¯t epted this request.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had supported them the most when the Candra Empire had invaded, bringing them very close together, King Teruc had given the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many other benefits and had never opened the mineral resource market to them.

    Now Xu Yi¡¯s ¡°other methods¡± were without a doubt referring to this.

    If the Rudson Kingdom was willing to open their mineral resource market to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or sell a few mines to them, general Monroe was certain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would sell them the guard ships, as well as some high grade military magic machines that they always wanted.

    But general Monroe also knew that King Teruc not being willing to ept this request was because he was considering the long term development of the Rudson Kingdom.

    The countries in the southwest corner already knew that the magic machine industry brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t just some small novel things and military magic machines, it was an important industry that could change the entire face of a country.

    Since it was like this, then every country had to focus on developing their own magic machine industry.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t have the same advantage as the Lampuri Kingdom, having the full support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with the importance King Teruc had given it, their magic machine industry had always developed well.

    However, the core of the magic machine industry, other than technology, were the materials.

    Most of these materials were usually mineral materials.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted these mineral materials, to put it bluntly, to satisfy their needs in making their various magic machines.

    The Stantine Duchy was a small country after all, so even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the entire Stantine Duchy, the mineral resources that they could get were very little.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept demanding for mineral resources from the other countries, so it was normal for them to ask for them for the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom both knew about this, so this contradiction was also ced out in public.

    The only difference was that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t get what they wanted from the Rudson Kingdom, they had many other choices in the other countries of the continent.

    As for the Rudson Kingdom, they only had the choice of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So after general Monroe was silent for a bit, he could only give a nod.

    ¡°I will bring chairman Xu¡¯s idea to his majesty and hope that his majesty can change his ideas.¡±

    Xu Yi looked to the northeast in the direction of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ¡°I hope for the best.¡±

 Volume 6 143 Two governor dukes

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 143 Two governor dukes</h4>

    Based on the initial n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have invested at least twenty million gold coins on the base on Giant Deer Ind and it would take at least three years to construct. It could be considered the first superrge project since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established.

    When the sea base wasplete, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a foothold that they could push forward and back on the southern endless seas.

    And the location of this base was very well chosen, being able to protect the Stantine Duchy¡¯s southern sea routes.

    If anyone wanted to slip through the sea route in the Stantine Duchy, it was impossible to avoid this base. This was equal to setting up arge door in the southern seas, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to not worry about a sudden attack from the sea.

    For Xu Yi, this base was only an attempt for him.

    As long as they had this experience, when the conditions were right, he would definitely expand from this base into the endless seas. In the end, he would cover each ind on the endless seas with small bases, creating a line of bases that would allow them topletely control the endless seas.

    The reason for this was actually because of Xu Yi¡¯s suspicion.

    With his many years of observations after transmigrating to the Sines Continent, Xu Yi was certain that this world should be simr to earth and not a world in a strange inexplicable space.

    Since it was like this, he was certain that this world didn¡¯t just have the Sines Continent.

    Moreover, all the races on the continent had legends about another continent, which proved Xu Yi¡¯s guess.

    Then since this world wasn¡¯t just a single continent, the seas that everyone considered a mystery and couldn¡¯t be entered, was actually a treasure chest that hid many treasures to Xu Yi.

    He believed that with absolute control of the endless seas, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have endless possibilities, no longer being limited to the Sines Continent that had already been carved up.

    But to achieve this goal, the price that he had to pay was astonishing.

    ording to the initial estimates, it would take at least twenty million toplete the base on Giant Deer Ind and it would take investments of no less than three million a year to maintain it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily support a sea base, but if it was ten of them or even several dozen of them, that was a big burden.

    So while constructing this sea base, Xu Yi was already considering how to make profit from it.

    But he didn¡¯t have any ideas right now¡­¡­

    This time Xu Yi had stayed for a full week and personally watched the sea base¡¯s foundations beingid. After that, he took a Magic Airship and went northeast to the Candra Empire¡¯s southern ports.

    Compared to the Rudson Kingdom that could only ask for guard ships and stop there, the Candra Empire was much more direct.

    Even if the rtionship between the two sides weren¡¯t as good as they seemed on the surface, so the Candra Empire government didn¡¯t have many negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many people from the Candra Empire that secretly contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with them.

    The most active one among them was the Candra Empire navy.

    Because they opened the three naval ports with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire had earned a shocking tax revenue of over three million gold coins just from marine transport in thest half a year.

    Adding in all the products that were shipped in, the cities that were near these three ports were the most prosperous in all of the southern Torea Province. At the same time, it also increased the tax revenue of these ces, which enhanced the benefits that the navy received from the ces that they controlled.

    The first ce that the Candra Empire navy benefitted from was disarming themselves¡­¡­

    That was right, they disarmed themselves.

    When the Candra Empire navy announced that they would cut 60% of their personnel while also reducing half their warships, everyone was shocked.

    Many people thought that this was because of the strict budget increases to the empire¡¯s army, so in order to guarantee that budget, the navy budget had been greatly shed and they had toy off their personnel.

    But in reality, this was what the Candra Empire had proposed to the army headquarters and had been approved by them, along with approval from the parliament and the emperor.

    The reason for doing this was naturally to reduce the twenty five million gold coin yearly upkeep of the Candra Empire navy.

    After disarming themselves, the Candra Empire navy would save ten million gold coins a year. Adding in the ie from the three open naval ports and the surrounding cities, the Candra Empire navy would have an extra eighteen million gold coins a year.

    The reason why the Candra Empire navy did all this to save money was to buy more guard Magic Ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was something that the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already agreed on, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce epted arge order for fifteen million gold coins at once.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t enough for Xu Yi to personallye to the Candra Empire. He came this time, other than to sign the contract between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire navy for these guard ships was mainly toe and see the governor of the southern Torea Province, Duke Peresco.

    Because of the prosperity of marine transport, the developing magic machine industry of the southwest countries entered the Candra Empire bit by bit. The ce that had been affected the most by this was the southernmost Torea Province.

    In the Torea Province, one could see all kinds of magic machines, as well as products rted to the magic machine industry.

    There were even several magic machinepanies other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had invested in the Torea Province, opening several magic machine factories, turning the Torea Province into the Candra Empire¡¯s newest magic machine base.

    Compared to the magic machine industrial base by Wimbledon City that was controlled by the Candra Empire¡¯s government, the Torea Province base was more scattered, but had more vitality and developed quicker.

    But Duke Peresco wasn¡¯t satisfied with this.

    No matter how good the Torea Province¡¯s magic machine industry developed, without the participation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was like something was missing. So through the Candra Empire navy, he had taken the initiative to invite the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping that Xu Yi would personallye to the Torea Province to negotiate.

    So far, this was the first time a governor of the Candra Empire had officially invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the intention to cooperate, so naturally this was very important to Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi never thought that at the banquet Duke Perseco held for him, there would be an unexpected guest.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is the southern province¡¯s governor, Duke Chris Windsor. I¡¯m sure that you¡¯ve heard his name before.¡± Duke Peresco had a smile as he introduced the guest beside him to Xu Yi before moving to the side and letting them talk.

    ¡°Duke Windsor?¡± Xu Yi looked at this unexpected guest in front of him. This middle aged man who seemed average, even though he was dignified and looked to be from high birth was the southern province¡¯s Duke Windsor?

    The Candra Empire¡¯s internal attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t unified, some supported them and of course there were those that were against them.

    Among the people against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Duke Windsor was the most outspoken one.

    One, it was because as the southern province¡¯s governor, he was considered a feudal lord in the Candra Empire. His words were serious and his statements could have a serious impact.

    Two, it was because his actions were too surprising.

    Compared to the ones that only objected to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce verbally, this Lord Governor of the southern provinces had rejected all products rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to enter the southern province,pletely cutting off the southern province from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Doing this was simply like there was a grudge between him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, Xu Yi was very clear that because of the matter of Duchess Windsor and Count Dole, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did have a grudge with Duke Windsor.

    When Duke Windsor sent his guards to invade the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this hadpletely stepped on Xu Yi¡¯s bottom line.

    Those guards werepletely eliminated in the Stantine Duchy by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which created the grudge between Duke Windsor and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised at all that Duke Windsor was against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When Duke Windsor had forbidden the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from entering the southern province, he had already given up on the southern province market.

    Anyway, the Candra Empire had more than ten provinces, he wouldn¡¯t miss the southern province.

    It was because he understood this that Xu Yi didn¡¯t understand why Duke Windsor would appear in this ce.

    He didn¡¯t believe Duke Peresco didn¡¯t know about the matter between Duke Windsor and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, nor did he believe that Duke Windsor didn¡¯t know who Duke Peresco¡¯s guest was today.

    This had to be nned, so there were some other motives.

    Xu Yi and Duke Windsor were both silent for a bit, looking each other over.

    After looking at Duke Windsor without any politeness for a bit, Xu Yi suddenly had an idea as his mouth opened slightly and his eyes revealed a look of surprise.

    As he reacted, the surprised look on his face had turned into a friendly smile as he reached his hand out to Duke Windsor.

    ¡°Lord Duke, this is our first time meeting. I hope that this can be the turning point to a happy cooperation between us. Don¡¯t you agree?¡±

    Duke Windsor looked at Xu Yi for a bit before reaching his hand out to shake Xu Yi¡¯s hand and saying in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope that you won¡¯t disappoint me.¡±

 Volume 6 144 Spreading

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 144 Spreading</h4>

    Duke Windsor¡¯s sudden change in attitude, Xu Yi was surprised, but it also made sense to him.

    In the end, no one could avoid benefits.

    The magic machine industry had developed to a certain extent in the Candra Empire, so everyone could see the giant hidden benefits of this new industry.

    The Torea Province was the coastal province that was ranked at the bottom, famous for being poor. However, through the marine transport and the magic machine industry that developed, its revenue had gone from the bottom to one of the top five provinces.

    Moreover, the benefits that the Torea Province received from the magic machine industry wasn¡¯t just in terms of profit, it was also reflected on the entire Torea Province.

    The most important one was therge number of jobs that it brought to the Torea Province.

    Because of therge demand for workers that thesepanies had, when many factories opened, it allowed every person who was healthy to find some form of a job and they didn¡¯t need to worry about making a living.

    The Torea Province didn¡¯t even have enough manpower to satisfy the needs of the factories, so there were many people who came from the nearby provinces, looking for jobs in the Torea Province.

    Many of these people came from the southern province.

    Seeing therge influence the magic machine industry had on the Torea Province, if Duke Windsor didn¡¯t understand that change, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to be the southern province¡¯s governor for so long.

    The only thing that he was worried about was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude.

    There was some grudge between their two sides before, so if he rashly went forth, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t agree to cooperate with them that smoothly.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s attitude waspletely different from what Duke Windsor expected.

    Before Duke Windsor spoke, Xu Yi had already exposed his reason foring here and showed a very warm attitude, taking the initiative to propose a cooperation between them.

    Xu Yi was this active and positive that even if Duke Windsor had some doubts, he threw them away.

    He had been investigating the Torea Province and the surrounding provinces for half a year now, so he had a deep understanding of the influence the magic machine industry had. He was certain that hidden in this new thing brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a power that could change the entire continent.

    If he didn¡¯t make any changes, he might lose out on this and might even be eliminated.

    As the head of the WIndsor Family, while also being the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province governor, if he didn¡¯t understand this change, he would be the greatest criminal in the Windsor Family and the southern province.

    With the idea of following the new age, just a grudge wasn¡¯tparable.

    So Xu Yi stayed in the Torea Province for only three days before signing a personal contract with Duke Peresco and Duke Windsor.

    ording to the contract that wasn¡¯t made public, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would start cooperating with the Torea Province and the southern province.

    Of course, with the awkward rtionship between the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and because of Duke Windsor¡¯s reputation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t direct invest in these two provinces. They would first work with anotherpany that wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was controlled by the Candra Empire called the ¡°Tunan¡± Chamber of Commerce.

    This Tunan Chamber of Commerce was just an emptypany. The funds came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, mainly being responsible for investing in these two provinces for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build an agricultural magic machine factory in the Torea Province through the Tunan Chamber of Commerce, providing agricultural magic machines for the two provinces.

    Later there would be two small magic machine industrial bases in these two provinces. Other than mainly producing household magic machines, they would also produce construction magic machines that would be used to undertake projects in the two provinces.

    This was one of the requests Xu Yi made to the two dukes.

    He explicitly told the two dukes that to smoothly develop the magic machine industry, as well as enjoy the benefits of the magic machine industry, they first had to solve the backwards infrastructure of the two provinces.

    The main part of this infrastructure was mainly solving the problem of the roads.

    So not long after Xu Yi left, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Cruise received Duke Peresco¡¯s invitation. They entered the Torea Province and signed a contract with Duke Peresco and Duke Windsor¡¯s representative there to build roads.

    This contract was different from the private one that they signed with Xu Yi, this was an official contract with the seals of the Torea Province and the southern province on it.

    ording to this contract, the Torea Province and the southern province would invest in one million and two hundred thousand gold coins and one million and seven hundred thousand gold coins respectively to build four roads in the two provinces, for a total of one thousand and two hundred kilometers.

    Once these four roads were paved, from the Torea Province, the cargo from the ships thatnded in the southern ports could be brought from the coast to the Torea Province and the southern province through these roads.

    At the same time, the two provinces could smoothly send products through this road to the harbour before sending them to different ces.

    So in order to work with these roads, the two provinces ordered two hundredrge transport Magic Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, since Duke Windsor had clearly announced that products rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t enter the southern province, for the two hundredrge transport Magic Cars that the southern province ordered came from an unknownpany under the Torea Province.

    As for how thispany would get theserge transport Magic Cars to the southern province without raising any suspicion, that was something for Duke Windsor to worry about and not something for Xu Yi¡­¡­

    While chairman Cruise was still negotiating with the representatives from the two provinces on the four roads, Xu Yi had already returned to his seaside manor in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    When Xu Yi came home, the first thing Xu Yi did was go to the study with therge map of the Sines Continent hanging on the wall.

    He picked up the pen and first put a red dot in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern Torea Province before putting several dots in the southern province. After hesitating a bit, he didn¡¯t colour any parts of this map red and only left a few more red dots.

    He was very assured about the Torea Province, believing that Duke Peresco would have enough sincerity in working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop the magic machine industry. But as for the southern province, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that confident.

    Although Duke Windsor had shown enough sincerity, based on his previous actions, Xu Yi still needed to observe him for some time.

    After he finished dotting these two areas with differing degrees of red, Xu Yi¡¯s eyes turned to the Candra Empire on the map. He found that there were many patches of red in the Candra Empire¡¯srge space, which showed that the magic machine industry was developing quite quickly in the Candra Empire. It was already iparable to the difficult position it had been in in the beginning.

    Xu Yi was someone who always believed in the magic machine industry the most. He believed that when everyone in the Candra Empire realized the benefits the magic machine industry brought, the Candra Empire would fall eventually.

    This was the tide of the new age, there was no person or country that could block it.

    After moving his eyes away from the Candra Empire, Xu Yi looked at the Marlow Empire to the north that also upied arge space and he revealed a satisfied look.

    Although the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t have as many red regions as the Candra Empire, it was much darker in colour. This showed that in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, these ces in the Marlow Empire had greater development in the magic machine industrypared to the Candra Empire.

    The reason for this was first, the geography of the Marlow Empire was special. There weren¡¯t many ces to develop the magic machine industry in. Second, it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s entry into the Marlow Empire was different. It was mainly focused on Marquis Southgate, which was where the development was focused and had a deeper red colour.

    Of course, if one went by the development situation in the two empires, the Marlow Empire was much stronger than the Candra Empire because of Marquis Southgate and their government¡¯s epting attitudes.

    The Marlow Empire had already made enough agricultural magic machines. With the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, they were already harvesting over 30% of their farnd with agricultural magic machines, which was more than ten times more effective than in the past.

    The Marlow Empire that had tasted the benefits had clearly stated to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that they hoped that they would transfer the agricultural magic machine technology, helping the Marlow Empirepletely implement the agricultural magic machines.

    The Marlow Empire even proposed reducing their tariffs by 5% for all their products, which was enough to show their sincerity.

    Don¡¯t look down on this 5%.

    Including the agricultural magic machines, justst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold a total of seventeen million gold coins worth of products in the Marlow Empire.

    Although the tariffs for these various magic machines weren¡¯t that high, being 54%.

    But if 5% was reduced off of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to get over eight hundred thousand gold coins.

    This didn¡¯t seem like much, but considering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was importing over thirty million gold coins worth of products into the Marlow Empire, this was an amount that couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    Not to mention that because of the lowered tariffs, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could lower their price, making it easier to sell in the Marlow Empire and making the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products morepetitive with the products of the other magic machinepanies.

    Based on this, the benefits that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned was even more shocking.

    But this was still far from being enough for Xu Yi¡­¡­

 Volume 6 145 Lost Vivian

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 145 Lost Vivian</h4>

    After a bit of silence, Xu Yi put a question mark on the Marlow Empire on the map before shifting his eyes down. He went to the giant white patch on the map for the southern seas and slightly knitted his brows.

    His love for maps was a personal hobby, while also being a practical need.

    He had relied on thisrge map of the Sines Continent that had been on the wall for many years. Xu Yi used it to chart out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development on the continent, then using it to make the best judgement for the future, so it could be said that it was very helpful for him.

    However, even if this map was the most urate map on the Sines Continent, it was still far from being urate enough.

    For example, the biggest ind that was supposed to signify the Giant Deer Ind in the southern seas of the Rudson Kingdom, it was only a very small mark on the map and nothing else.

    Moreover, ording to Xu Yi¡¯s experience in riding a Magic Airship to Giant Deer Ind and back several times, the position recorded on the map was at least a hundred kilometers away from where it really was, which was arge difference.

    ¡°If the conditions are right, I have to have someone draw a more urate map.¡±

    Xu Yi muttered under his breath. He went to the upper right a bit where the real position of Giant Deer Ind was, getting as close as possible before making a red mark on the map. Then he drew a broken line to connect it to the one that he had made before, which represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s marine transport route.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi created another broken line around this ind before drawing another one around that line.

    These two broken lines represented the sphere of influence of the military base that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up on Giant Deer Ind.

    This sphere wasn¡¯t that big right now and it only spread at most five hundred meters, not even going far enough to affect the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas.

    This was because there were only two fully equipped guard fleets that were deployed right now. Although these guard fleets were powerful, the scale of the base was limited and it couldn¡¯t support the guard fleets inunching further strikes.

    After drawing in the sphere of influence, Xu Yi looked to the right to the right, going three hundred kilometers to the south of the Candra Empire¡¯s shore.

    ording to the reports, there was another ind here with rich resources and was one third bigger than Giant Deer Ind.

    This ind was around seven to eight hundred kilometers away from Giant Deer Ind. If the guard fleets set out from Giant Deer Ind, they could arrive in a single day. This was the ind that Xu Yi had chosen for the second base.

    Xu Yi made a small dot at the position of this ind and then drew a line to the marine transport route that was two hundred kilometers away. After thinking about it, he shook his head.

    The reason why he picked this second ind that was this far away from the Candra Empire¡¯s coast was mainly because of the attitude of the Candra Empire.

    It wasn¡¯t that he was afraid that the Candra Empire navy would pose a threat, but because Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to destroy the good rtionship that was developing between them right now.

    Moreover, about five hundred kilometers southwest of this ind was Heaven Ind that Leslie controlled.

    After he finished these two sea bases, it would create a triangle with Heaven Ind.

    Once one ce had a problem, the other two ces could easily react.

    Hidden in Xu Yi¡¯s heart was another idea. It was that if anything happened to Leslie, causing him to lose control of Heaven Ind, the two sea bases could quickly react.

    After he made some ns for the second sea base, Xu Yi didn¡¯t move his eyes further to the east.

    He had to eat one thing at a time and do things one at a time.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current strength, building two sea bases and maintaining them already took a lot of effort.

    There was no way to consider building even more bases right now.

    ¡°Du, du, du, du.¡±

    When Xu Yi was about toe up with his next steps with the map, there was a gentle knock on the door of the study.

    Hearing this strange sounding knock, Xu Yi turned over with pleasant surprise and saw Still standing at the door with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, Still, didn¡¯t you receive an invitation from the Marlow Empire when I left? Why are you back today?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    Still looked at Xu Yi with a charming look and said with a faint smile, ¡°I heard that you were back today, so I rushed over from the Marlow Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Who are you lying to? The Marlow Empire is over two thousand kilometers away. Not to mention that you haven¡¯t received the news that I was back that long ago, so even if you rushed right over with the fastest Magic Airship, it would take a day to arrive, so how could you arrive on time?¡±

    ¡°You really are something, it¡¯s not easy to make you happy¡­¡­¡± Still deliberately pursed her lips and rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Alright, I received some important news a few days ago so I rushed back. I never thought that once I came back, Vivian would tell me that you were back, which was a pleasant surprise.¡±

    ¡°Vivian?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Where did you see her?¡±

    ¡°Just outside the door.¡± Still turned to point in the direction of the manor¡¯s door before giving a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯ve noticed that you¡¯ve been too busytely, even Vivian has been feeling neglected? I saw her hesitating to enter outside the door and when I called to her, she ran off after rejecting me. It seems¡­¡­like she still hasn¡¯t untied the knot in her heart.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent.

    Half a month ago, Seveni had sent people to the Stantine Duchy, taking Teresa, who Xu Yi had put under house arrest for several months, back with them to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Although Xu Yi had exined this matter to Vivian and she understood, seeing her best friend being taken away by others still made her feel lost.

    During this time, Vivian had been very depressed and she couldn¡¯t get over it.

    Xu Yi had tried to exin to her, but it was difficult for him to free up time and Vivian kept avoiding him, so he never had a chance and it had been stalled until now.

    Now hearing how Still described Vivian, he imagined Vivian¡¯s weak body pacing around the entrance of the manor and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh deep down.

    Although Vivian was the first ve that he had sinceing to this world, he had never treated her like a ve and always treated her like family, or rather like a little sister.

    Vivian relied on Xu Yi and other than Still, Teresa was the only real friend that she had, so naturally she was important to her.

    But she never thought that Teresa was sent by the Sack Kingdom, almost causing great harm to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Logic told Vivian that she should be hostile towards Teresa and hate her, but this pure little girl couldn¡¯t ept it.

    This contradiction had always made Vivian suffer during the months Teresa had been caught and she became more and more silent.

    ¡°I will find some time to properly talk to her.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before giving a sigh.

    ¡°Good, Vivian only approves you deep down, so if you go and talk to her, I think that she can still ept it.¡± Still nodded. She reached into her chest and pulled out a small, light, and thin metal ce, ¡°Now can you tell me what this is?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Xu Yi looked at the new lighter version of the Magic Illusion Film Disc developed by the Frestech Chamber ofmerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. After thinking for a bit, he remembered what it was, ¡°This is the report film on the Magicians Guild? Why is it in your hands?¡±

    ¡°I am the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, is it strange that it is in my hands?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi, why didn¡¯t you mention this big matter to me at all? Do you know that if you really broadcast this film, what kind of serious consequences would it cause?¡±

    ¡°Is it that serious?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s just letting more people see the true face of the Magicians Guild.¡±

    ¡°Are you crazy?¡± Still suddenly raised her voice, ¡°Do you know, once this Illusion Film really is broadcast, that would be tearing all face with the Magicians Guild? I don¡¯t care what will happen to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but you¡¯ll be put in danger because of this! I don¡¯t agree with you doing this!¡±

    ¡°I will be in danger?¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°What? Could it be that you think the Magicians guild will send people to kill me?¡±

    ¡°You think they won¡¯t dare?¡± Still suddenly came in front of Xu Yi and reached out a finger to poke his forehead without any politeness, ¡°Xu Yi, are you too confident because of how smoothly the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been developing? Let me tell you, the Magicians Guild is much stronger than you imagine and if youpletely offend them like this, the one to suffer will definitely be you!¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Still¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    He had been with Still for over ten years and knew that once she decided on something, it would be hard to convince her.

    And this matter really was the most important part of his n, so he had to implement it.

    It was almost impossible to convince Still by himself, so after thinking about it, Xu Yi had an idea before taking Still¡¯s hand with a smile.

    ¡°I know that you definitely won¡¯t believe what I say, so let¡¯s find grandfather and ask for his opinion. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Humph, grandfather will definitely favour you, you think that I don¡¯t know?¡± Still red at Xu Yi.

    However, when Xu Yi moved, she still unwillingly moved out of the manor with Xu Yi.

 Volume 6 146 Weekly news report

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 146 Weekly news report</h4>

    For the people of Cramer City, as long as there was no rain or weather disturbances, after they finished dinner each night, they would go to the entertainment square built by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce by the east gate and watch the evening entertainment there.

    This entertainment square attracted the most people and naturally that was because of the giant Illusion Film that was ying in the center of the square.

    Every night at seven, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce would send someone to put in an Illusion Film, letting people watch it for free until ten at night.

    In the beginning, people only came out of curiosity. As the New Moon Chamber of Commerce kept showing their various Illusion Films, people became more and more attracted to the content.

    Recently, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had been releasing a documentary on the people of the continent, as well as two that looked at the lives of different races during the racial war. Each show was very popr and people couldn¡¯t stop themselves after watching a single episode.

    Especially two days ago when the stories from the racial wars came. It told the story of when the human armies and the elven armies started fighting, which made the people of Cramer City unwilling to miss a single second.

    There were even people from the viges outside the city who came several kilometers two hours beforehand just to get a good position to watch.

    With this kind of lively atmosphere, as soon as the sky turned dark, this square that was over twenty thousand square meters would be filled with people and more peopleing in.

    Cramer City wasn¡¯t a big city, there were only around seventy to eighty thousand people in and outside the city, but the people in the square already reached close to thirty thousand.

    It could be seen how appealing these Illusion Films were to people.

    Just before seven, the square was still quite noisy, but the moment it reached seven, all the lights that were around the square dimmed and everyone fell silent as their eyes fell onto the Magic Illusion Projector in the center of the square.

    Just like normal, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce staff who was prepared pressed the button and a dim glow came out of the Magic Illusion Projector, forming therge illusion in the sky.

    The illusion at the beginning just released the five coloured glowing words ¡°New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡± before the illusion changed, but it didn¡¯t show the first scene of the film like everyone expected, but rather it revealed a scene shot high from the sky.

    As the lens pushed in, the scene became bigger before it revealed a small city.

    This small city also came closer and closer before finally entering this small city, showing the crowd of people in the districts of the small city.

    This onlysted less than three seconds before it changed to a giant mine, where countless Frestech Chamber of Commerce producedrge mining magic machines were working in the mine. There was arge sound as it hit the oar, which scared people.

    Then this scene changed again as it came to the endless seas.

    There was a giant wooden fleet that was on the seas, slowly heading further in.

    Around this fleet were ten Magic Guard Ships made of iron, which acted like escorts.

    The lens pulled in, falling onto the g of the guard ships which was the half wing symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The image stayed on the g for around two seconds before it shed again, showing different images with each sh.

    These images showed a noble currently talking about something, normal citizens who looked happy, a painful war scene that people couldn¡¯t stand to look at, as well as normal people living their normal lives¡­¡­

    After around ten seconds of this, it finally turned to darkness before a row of letters slowly appeared in the sky.

    ¡°Weekly News Report.¡±

    Seeing theserge letters, the people in the square were all surprised.

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    ¡°What is a weekly news report? Aren¡¯t they ying the film?¡±

    ¡°What are you showing this for? I want to watch my drama!¡±

    ¡°Right, I¡¯m still waiting for the big war!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The doubts of the people in the square turned into protest, but the New Moon Chamber of Commerce worker standing by the Magic Illusion Projector didn¡¯t react at all.

    The illusion above him wasn¡¯t affected by the protests of the people and after the big letters saying ¡°Weekly News Report¡±, there was a sudden sh before two figures appeared.

    Seeing this change, the people in the square couldn¡¯t help stop protesting as they began watching again.

    After seeing who the two figures were, everyone was stunned.

    It was clearly a man and woman, but the man was a gentle looking middle aged man and the woman was a beautiful elven girl!

    Thisbination was a bit surprising, but what they said afterwards was even more surprising.

    The one to speak first was the middle aged human man.

    ¡°Gathering the continent¡¯s news and showing you what matters, wee to Newsweek. I am the host, Renard.¡±

    The female elf on the side followed him.

    ¡°I am Irelia. Friends watching the Magic Illusion Film, good evening.¡±

    ¡°This is the first episode of Newsweek, so I think that everyone shouldn¡¯t understand this show, so Irelia and I will introduce it to everyone.¡± The male host Renard followed right after her.

    ¡°The Newsweek will mainly focus on gathering therge and small news of the Sines Continent for that week for everyone to see. We will let everyone have a new understanding of the continent through watching Newsweek.¡± Irelia said.

    ¡°The contents of Newsweek doesn¡¯t just include therge matters between countries, but also the small matters of citizens. All affairs big and small are in the scope of our reports.¡±

    ¡°Next we will start our reports, everyone, please watch.¡±

    When Irelia¡¯s voice fell, the scene changed. It suddenly turned to a general in the outfit of the Sack Kingdom and a general in the outfit of the Lampuri Kingdom shaking hands.

    These two men were surrounded by many people wearing the uniforms of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, looking like they were holding some ceremony.

    The sound offscreen rang out at this time.

    ¡°Three days ago, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards had officially entered the Sack Kingdom¡¯s Western Mist City, taking over the defenses of the city from the Hungry Wolf Regiment.¡±

    ¡°This represents that Western Mist City will now be under the Lampuri Kingdom and will officially be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s territory. In the ceasefire agreement signed by the Lampuri Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom, the use that they would hand over seven cities to the Lampuri Kingdom is now in effect.¡±

    ¡°At the ceremony, the northern army¡¯smander Rudolph Tuton who came on behalf of the northern army to ept Western Mist City had stated that the northern army will guarantee the defense and basic security of Western Mist City and the other six cities. They will wholeheartedly work with the kingdom¡¯s government on developing these seven cities, guaranteeing their prosperity and stability.¡±

    ¡°On the other side, the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯smander Toby Ted had stated that he believed that with the strength of the northern army, the Lampuri Kingdom would have the ability to make these seven cities prosper. But he also stated that the Sack Kingdom will not give up the possibility of these seven cities returning to the Sack Kingdom.¡±

    As citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom, when the people of Cramer City heard this news, they couldn¡¯t help revealing concerned looks.

    They were excited and proud of the first time the Lampuri Kingdom took backnd from the Sack Kingdom, they also disdained what the Hungry Wolf Regiment¡¯smander Toby Ted said.

    The Sack Kingdom clearly wasn¡¯t a match for the Lampuri Kingdom, this fellow isn¡¯t embarrassed to say this?

    After putting general Rudolph Tuton and general Toby Ted together, the scene changed and turned into another image.

    What appeared in this illusion was an elegant face that people couldn¡¯t help thinking was friendly which had a sweet smile on it, a girl who looked like she wasn¡¯t even thirty years old yet.

    This young girl was wearing a magnificent dress and had a radiant crown with pearls and diamonds iid onto it. This was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, her majesty Seveni.

    Through the various newspapers of the Lampuri Kingdom, all the citizens of the Lampuri Kingdom already knew what she looked like.

    Now that she had appeared in this illusion, although everyone was stunned, they immediately recognized her.

    Compared to the portrait that they saw in the newspapers, the Queen Seveni in the illusion was clearly more lifelike.

    Although this queen wasn¡¯t as dignified as the ones in the portrait, seeing that friendly look, people were more willing to believe in her and respect her.

    Moreover, the queen was young and beautiful, so her smile in the illusion was clearer and much better than the stiff portrait.

    ¡°After a month of nning, her majesty Seveni has passed a new ?Lampuri Kingdom Basic Support n? through the parliament. This n will be fully implemented next year and after it is implemented, the people of the Lampuri Kingdom will receive basic support. This includes¡­¡­¡±

    Everyone was stunned as they heard the contents of this support n, feeling more and more surprised as they listened to it.

    Not mentioning anything else, just solving the most basic living conditions of the Lampuri Kingdom citizens, people who couldn¡¯t support themselves could apply to receive at least thirty pounds of grains a month was already surprising enough.

    If this n was put in ce, wouldn¡¯t it mean that even if the citizens of the kingdom didn¡¯t do a thing, they wouldn¡¯t starve to death?

    This was just too much!

    It had to be known that less than twenty years ago, there were many people in the kingdom who starved to death!

    Could it be that the Lampuri Kingdom had already be this strong?

    Everyone felt like this wasn¡¯t real¡­¡­

    After this piece of news, the Newsweek broadcast reported on several more internal pieces of news before the male host Renard suddenly changed to foreign news.

    The first piece of foreign news was rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Four days ago, the Magicians Guild headquarters officially gave a final warning to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They requested the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to break up the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union and the Magicians Association. The following is the scene of the Magicians Guild headquarters¡¯ representative giving the warning to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 147 The audacious Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 147 The audacious Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    The Magicians Guild¡¯s president Rodderick Gascione suddenly pped his hand onto the table in front of him. That desk that was made of thousand year old wood actually trembled under his palm, which showed just how strong it was.

    Great Magician Ferguson on the side looked at the slightly shaking hand of president Gascione on the table and he couldn¡¯t help muttering in his heart.

    ¡°Is it because sir president is angry? Or is it because it hurts too much to hit the table like this?¡±

    ¡°This Xu Yi, he¡¯s simply mounting a revolution!¡±

    President Gascione¡¯s angry roar pulled Great Magician Ferguson out of his thoughts.

    Seeing sir president¡¯s face distort a bit from his rage, Great Magician Gergson was secretly surprised.

    He had been on the elder council for thirteen years now and he had known president Gascione for over twenty years, but this was his first time seeing him being this angry.

    It could be seen how much Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had angered sir chairman this time.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t just president Gascione alone who was angry. If one had to mention who was angry, it was Great Magician Ferguson who was involved in this matter that should be angry.

    Damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Forget about his mistake at that time and it made sense that they would ignore the warnings of the headquarters, but they had actually secretly filmed him with that whatever Magic Illusion Projector, as well as showing it to more than ten million citizens in various countries!

    Every time he thought about how the scene of him using a high and mighty attitude to warn the little girl named Akali from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how this scene was being shown to millions of people of the continent, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help trembling in anger.

    Good Xu Yi! Good Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    This clearly wasn¡¯t giving him any face at all or giving any face to the Magicians Guild headquarters!

    How bold!

    But thinking of this, Great Magician Ferguson clenched his teeth and gave a strong nod, ¡°Right, sir president, I see that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce want to revolt against us! We definitely can¡¯t let them off any longer or our guild headquarters will bepletely disgraced, not having any prestige left!¡±

    President Gascione turned over and looked at Great Magician Ferguson with a cold look.

    ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you not doing this well, would it have be like this?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised as heined in his heart.

    This was Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s plot in the beginning, how could it be his fault?

    However, he also knew that sir president was only venting his anger, so he couldn¡¯t talk back at this time.

    He just said with a nod, ¡°Right, right, it was my fault. But sir president, we should still think of a way to discipline the Frestech Chamber ofmerce and we need to act as soon as possible.¡±

    President Gascione gave a cold snort, ¡°Then tell me, how should we discipline the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson opened his mouth before stopping.

    Because he suddenly realized that he couldn¡¯t think of a way to discipline the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Although the Magicians Guild was the biggest organization on the Sines Continent and was acknowledged by all magicians, having incredible strength, the Magicians Guild was not apulsory organization. The strength that they had was mainly from the approval of the Magicians Guild from the magicians of the continent.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had unexpectedly put this matter in front of everyone, making the Magicians Guild seem unreasonable, but it was also like this based on the real situation. The Magicians Guild wouldn¡¯t be able to receive the support of most of the magicians, so the Magicians Guild would find it very hard to find a reason to discipline the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with their authority.

    And trying to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicians with the exam had ended in clear failure.

    When ites to the realistic problem of their survival, there were only a few magicians who were willing to leave the rich work of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, showing their support for the Magicians Guild.

    Seeing that Great Magician Ferguson opened his mouth for a while without being able to say a thing, president Gascione couldn¡¯t help giving another cold snort.

    This Ferguson had barely been able to be a Great Magician, so he wasn¡¯t that strong and he was bad at handling matters. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he had been loyal, president Gascione never would have let him enter the elder council.

    ¡°Alright, Ferguson, from this day forth, you just take care of contacting the Arch Magi of the two empires. You have to create a good rtionship with them. As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, you don¡¯t need to care about that.¡± President Gascione waved his hand as he said this in an impatient voice.

    Great Magician Ferguson was surprised, ¡°Sir president, what do we do about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°How to handle them?¡± President Gascione gave a coldugh, ¡°Since this Xu Yi doesn¡¯t know the height of the heavens and wants to go against our guild, then of course I will let him suffer.¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson scratched his hand and said in a confused voice, ¡°But sir president, how can we make him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suffer? I can¡¯t think of a way at all¡­¡­¡±

    President Gascione coldly looked at him and didn¡¯t want to reply at all.

    Seeing the look on president Gascione¡¯s face, Great Magician Ferguson didn¡¯t keep asking.

    After staying for a bit longer, seeing that president Gascione wasn¡¯t interested in talking to him, Great Magician Ferguson gave a sigh deep down before leaving.

    Flying down from the Magic God Throne up above, Great Magician Ferguson went into the City in the Sky.

    When his feet fell to the ground, he heard a howle from behind him and quickly omved to the side.

    When he moved to the side, there was a gust of wind that passed by him. There was a dark figure that quickly flew past him, almost hitting him.

    Great Magician Ferguson was a bit angry and when he wanted to throw some magic at this dark figure to teach it a lesson, he saw that this ck figure wasn¡¯t some magician quickly flying by with some high level magic, but rather it was apletely ck Magic Sedan.

    This Magic Sedan went into the distance as another fire red Magic Sedan followed in that direction, moving at a speed that wasn¡¯t slow.

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at the fire red Magic Sedan and looked into the driver¡¯s seat, seeing that the person driving this Magic Sedan was a familiar person. It was someone who was a recorder for the Magicians Guild, who was considered one of the important members of the Magicians Guild.

    Seeing that person quickly driving that Magic Sedan past him before disappearing, Great Magician Ferguson was in a daze before looking around at the street around him.

    With a single look, Great Magician Ferguson found that on this ordinary street in the City in the Sky, he could see the familiar and hateful half wing pattern of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce all around him.

    Magic Fan, Magic Air Conditioner, Magic Refrigerator, Magic Stove, Magic¡­¡­

    Other than the very conspicuous Magic Sedan, there were people riding the Frestech Brand bicycles, wandering around the streets.

    Great Magician Ferguson almost thought that he was back in the Stantine Duchy, back at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, being surrounded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products.

    ¡°How can this be¡­¡­¡± Seeing the scene in front of him, Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help muttering to himself.

    He was just talking to president Gascione on how to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now he found that the Magicians Guild headquarters¡¯ City in the Sky was already being invaded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    The various things of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, did they really have some powerful magic?

    There was a strong helpless feeling that filled Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s heart and he even found it a bit difficult to breathe.

    Feeling absent minded, he casually walked into a store and nned on finding a ce to sit.

    When he went into the store, he was hit with a warm breeze, which made his cold and stiff body feel much morefortable and he couldn¡¯t help rxing.

    ¡°Ai, this customer, you came at the right time. It¡¯s our store¡¯s final three days in business, so we¡¯re doing a markdown sale. Right now you¡­¡­Yi? You¡­¡­You are Great Magician Ferguson?¡±

    Hearing the surprised voice of the bossdy, Great Magician Ferguson forced himself to focus and looked over, finding that this bossdy seemed familiar.

    After thinking about it, he finally remembered it.

    This bossdy was the one who owned the cotton store who had rejected therge scale Frost Arrayst time because she bought the Magic Air Conditioner. Because of this, the magician that she hired to put down therge scale Frost Array began arguing with her, which was seen by Great Magician Ferguson who mediated this matter.

    Great Magician Ferguson had realized that the appearance of magic machines would have a big impact on magicians, so this had left a deep impression on him.

    ¡°So it¡¯s you¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson calmed himself down. Thinking of what the bossdy said, he felt a bit curious. Looking around, he found that this shop was much more empty and it was clear that there was a big sale, ¡°Why are you suddenly having a closing clearance sale? Is business not good?¡±

    The bossdyughed before replying, ¡°It isn¡¯t that business isn¡¯t good, it¡¯s just¡­¡­eh¡­¡­I want to change locations.¡±

    ¡°Change locations? Why?¡± Great Magician Ferguson knitted his brows, ¡°Is the City in the Sky not good? Or is someone causing you trouble? Tell me, I will uphold justice for you.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, it¡¯s nothing like that.¡± The bossdy waved her hand, ¡°It¡¯s just that my cousin opened up a fabric processing factory with someone in the Candra Empire. He felt that the business was good, so he wanted me to go help him.¡±

    ¡°Fabric processing factory?¡± Great Magician Ferguson had a thoughtful look, ¡°Is it rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    The bossdy was surprised, ¡°How did you know?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face sunk.

    How did he know?

    Of course he knew!

    In the City in the Sky, he understood Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the best, so how could he not know? As long as it was something rted to a ¡®processing factory¡¯, it was rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple, if it wasn¡¯t using the production magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, producingrge amounts of products, it couldn¡¯t be called a processing factory!

    Great Magician Ferguson could even guess that the fabric processing factory of the bossdy¡¯s cousin was definitely in the Candra Empire¡¯s Torea Province. It was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just entered into a private contract with the Torea Province.

    But¡­¡­what if he knew about this?

    The bossdy felt that the profit from opening this store in the City in the Sky wasn¡¯t as good as helping her cousin open the factory in the Candra Empire, so he didn¡¯t have the reason or right to stop her.

    Although he didn¡¯t want the City in the Sky to lose shops, he didn¡¯t have the ability to change this.

    Whether it was what he saw in the streets or what the bossdy said, it proved a fact.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was several thousand kilometers away, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already all over the City in the Sky.

    In this situation, how could president Gascione even discipline the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Or it should be said, why did they need to discipline Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Xu Yi had always wanted to cooperate with them, right?

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Ferguson suddenly felt a bit confused¡­¡­

 Volume 6 148 Public outrage and personal grudge

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 148 Public outrage and personal grudge</h4>

    In reality, the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rejecting the two requests of the Magicians Guild wasn¡¯t as exaggerated as being told to over ten million people.

    Because although the New Moon Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t put Magic Illusion Projectors in all the cities of the southwest countries, even with the poption of these people added up, that was less than twenty million.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Illusion Films would be shown to the citizens of the city, so there was a limited audience. The actual viewing rate ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates was less than 30%.

    That way, the number of people who knew about this was only several million and definitely not up to ten million.

    The people who cared about this and could understand the meaning of this piece of news was less than a tenth of these million people, so it was only several hundred thousand people.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care about this. He had used such a strong method to announce this to show that he was going separate ways from the Magicians Guild, firmly showing that he wasn¡¯t willing to ept the unreasonable demands of the Magicians Guild.

    For the people who cared about this, they naturally understood what Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to express with this.

    Among these people, the most important people to Xu Yi were the Low Grade Magicians of the various countries.

    The two requests of the Magicians Guild was first to break up the Magic Machine Patent Protection Union which wasn¡¯t rted to most Low Grade Magicians. This was just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce going against the greed of the Magicians Guild.

    The other request was to close the Magicians Associations, which could be considered closely rted to the Low Grade Magicians in each country.

    The Magicians Association was mainly for the Low Grade Magicians and the goal of the Magicians Association was to resist the control of the Magicians Guild over these Low Grade Magicians. It was to let these Low Grade Magicians have a good job, allowing them to have the basic funds to survive and further their magic research.

    For the Low Grade Magicians from good family backgrounds, this wasn¡¯t important, but for the rest of the Low Grade Magicians who came from poor family backgrounds that made up 95% of the poption, the Magicians Association was protecting what they wanted.

    Since the Magicians Association had been formed, in just three months, it had already pulled in twenty thousand Low Grade Magicians. This included over 90% of the magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Stantine Duchy, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the Norton Duchy.

    As for the Sack Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, and the other surrounding countries, the Low Grade Magicians were quickly gathering which allowed the Magicians Association to quickly develop.

    Through working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other magic machinepanies, the Magicians Guild had solved the work problem of over 70% of these magicians in a short amount of time.

    Although most of them had to enter a magic machine vocational school before they were able to start working and earn wages, this had already greatly changed their lives.

    Sopared to the Magicians Guild who didn¡¯t help these Low Grade Magicians and even charged them to take the exam each year, the Magicians Association was without a doubt helping the Low Grade Magicians more.

    In this situation, the tens of thousands of Low Grade Magicians expressed their disdain at the two conditions the Magicians Guild headquarters had ced on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After the Illusion Film was broadcast during the news report, countless Low Grade Magicians in these countries dered that they would be leaving the Magicians Guild, expressing their protest against the Magicians Guild.

    However, the Magicians Guild¡¯s reaction was unexpectedly tough.

    Half a month after this piece of news was broadcasted, the Magicians Guild had issued a statement through the Magicians Guild branches in each country and their cooperating organizations.

    The statement dered that the news broadcast of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce was falsified by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s plot against the Magicians Guild.

    Regarding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions, the Magicians Guild would strongly condemn them and announce that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was now one of thepanies the Magicians Guild didn¡¯t wee.

    With this premise, the Magicians Guild requested all the magicians on the continent to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce together to warn those magicians working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and leave their jobs, otherwise they will be determined to be working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and wouldn¡¯t enjoy and benefits of the Magicians Guild.

    Other than aiming at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild was also targeting the Magicians Association with this statement.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters announced that the Magicians Guild was an organization that had ulterior motives against the Magicians Guild. Its existence was a blight on the magicians of the entire Sines Continent. Because the Magicians Guild was the most prestigious magicians organization that hadsted for several thousand years, it was well above all other organizations in terms of reliability and credibility. They hoped that the magicians who joined the Magicians Association would see the light and leave the Magicians Association.

    When this statement was made, it created arge wave on the Sines Continent.

    Because just like the Magicians Guild statement had said, the Magicians Guild had been on the continent for several thousand years. Not only did it have a high prestige in the minds of magicians, it had a high prestige in the minds of normal people.

    Now that there was a new Magicians Association going against the Magicians Guild, there must be somerge problem.

    However¡­¡­regardless of how intense the reactions of unrted people were, the core of the conflict between the Magicians Association and the Magicians Guild, which was those Low Grade Magicians, had been very determined the entire time. They fully supported the Magicians Association and many of them directly left the Magicians Guild.

    ¡°To put it bluntly, those fellows at the Magicians Guild think too highly of themselves¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at the report in his hand and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°They keep acting aloof, acting like they are the managers of all magicians, thinking that all magicians should listen to their words. They¡¯vepletely forgotten that they are an organization that works for the public. If they can¡¯t provide benefits to magicians, who would listen to their orders?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes on the side, ¡°So you¡¯ve just been giving those Low Grade Magicians all those benefits so they would listen to you?¡±

    Xu Yiughed, ¡°Grandfather, doesn¡¯t this sound too ugly? What listen to me? I¡¯m just giving them a good living and letting them use their skills as magicians to work for ourpany. Everyone is getting what they need, so it¡¯s very fair. To be honest, it¡¯s clearly ourpany that¡¯s paying more. Look, aren¡¯t we falling out with the Magicians Guild for them?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t make it sound like you¡¯re being wronged.¡± Arch Magus Cami red at Xu Yi, ¡°Kid, I know what you are doing, this has been your n since the beginning, right? By doing this, you¡¯re clearly taking the problem of the living conditions of the Low Grade Magicians from the Magicians Guild, you think that I can¡¯t see this?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled before seriously asking, ¡°Grandfather, then do you think¡­¡­I¡¯m doing the right thing?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s serious expression, Arch Magus Cami was silent for a bit before giving a sigh.

    ¡°I must admit that doing this is the best help for those Low Grade Magicians. Although the Magicians Guild was saying that they wanted to improve the study conditions of those Low Grade Magicians, helping them walk the path of magic, they did very few things to actually help them, almost not helping them at all. Now that you¡¯ve created a good ie for these Low Grade Magicians, I think that it solved the biggest problem.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami paused for a bit before suddenly standing up and giving Xu Yi a bow.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I have to represent those Low Grade Magicians to sincerely thank you. If it wasn¡¯t for you, most of those Low Grade Magicians would have nothing their entire lives. Now that you¡¯re here, at least they will be able to maintain their living conditions. There¡¯s even a big chance that they will be able to continue walking the path of magic. It isn¡¯t exaggerated to say that you have greatly helped the development of magic on the entire continent.¡±

    Xu Yi was scared by this and quickly stood up as he waved his hand, ¡°Grandfather, this is too much. I¡¯m just following the demands of ourpany, I¡¯m not as noble as you think I am.¡±

    ¡°I only look at results.¡± Arch Magus Cami softly said.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Alright, since grandfather feels this way, it¡¯ll be this way. But grandfather, the Magicians Guild will react to this. Other than these meaningless usations, what do you think we need to pay attention to the most?¡±

    ¡°I never thought that you would be this absolute¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes at Xu Yi before seriously considering this. The expression on his face turned serious, ¡°Do you still remember how I responded when you asked me about the stances of Arch Magi on wars?¡±

    ¡°You said that the Magicians Guild does not allow Arch Magi to participate in the invasions wars of other countries, but they can participate in defensive wars.¡± Xu Yi replied before suddenly thinking of something that made his expression change, ¡°Grandfather, you¡¯re not saying¡­¡­that while an Arch Magus can¡¯t invade a country, they can attack apany, right?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami slowly nodded, ¡°Yes, attacking with a country¡¯s army will create public outrage, but attacking a singlepany¡­¡­is a personal grudge¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression instantly became very ugly.

 Volume 6 149 Strict magic machine industry grade

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 149 Strict magic machine industry grade</h4>

    If it was said that beforepletely breaking all pretenses with the Magicians Guild, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t considered the threat of Arch Magi, that would definitely be impossible.

    But after the threat came from Arch Magus Cami, it couldn¡¯t be more real and he couldn¡¯t help bing nervous.

    But he was only worried for a second before calming down.

    He had already thought it through. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to dominate the development of the magic machine industry on the continent, establishing his ideal magic machine industry, he would have to face the threat of the Arch Magi sooner orter.

    The Arch Magi are very special existences on the Sines Continent and until now, including Arch Magus Cami, there were only twenty seven of them.

    Each one of these twenty seven Arch Magi were very important people. Any single move from them could create arge tremor in the magicians circle, so it could be said that they represented the authority of the magicians.

    However to Xu Yi, the authority of the Arch Magi was just based on their power, or rather their destructive abilities, which wasn¡¯t something that could be praised.

    Because to Xu Yi, magic was nothing more than a tool. Using magic to develop magic machines and then using them to improve the lives of people, instead of using destructive magic to participate in wars, it was much more meaningful.

    Xu Yi had always downyed the power of magic so that people would shift from being in awe of magic to focusing on the utility of magic.

    This time he had taken a stance against the Magicians Guild to separate the Low Grade Magicians who made up 90% of all magicians on the continent from the Magicians Guild. Then he would find some appropriate work for these Low Grade Magicians, while also allowing him to redefine the definition of magic in their minds.

    If the Low Grade Magicians with the highest poption epted the magic machines, concentrating on these magic machines with real life applications, then he could change the direction most magicians used magic for and develop the magic machine industry.

    But if he really wanted topletely change everyone¡¯s understanding of magic, even reaching the higher grade magicians, the Great Magicians, and even the Arch Magi, Xu Yi had to face this problem.

    If even a single Arch Magus approved of the magic machine industry and joined it, it would be much stronger than convincing a ten thousand Low Grade Magicians.

    Arch Magus Cami was the only Arch Magus that approved of the magic machine industry right now, but because of his rtionship with Xu Yi, he wasn¡¯t that convincing.

    So Xu Yi had always been trying to convince other Arch Magi through other methods.

    If the Magicians Guild really convinced an Arch Magus to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would be dangerous for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also being a great chance for them.

    As for how the results would be, that would depend on Xu Yi.

    It was a good thing that an Arch Magus wasn¡¯t a normal person, so unless the Magicians Guild was forced to use their final trump card, they wouldn¡¯t use it. Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had Arch Magus Cami, which created scruples for the Magicians Guild.

    So even if Arch Magus Cami was worried about this, in reality after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce tore off all face with the Magicians Guild, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t encounter a worst case scenario and wasn¡¯t immediately attacked by an Arch Magus.

    The Magicians Guild only attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with statements and didn¡¯t make any moves.

    On the surface, it seemed quite ordinary and there were no events at all.

    Of course, this calm was only for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other countries of the Sines Continent weren¡¯t calm at all.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they would transfer parts of the military magic machine technology, many other countries on the continent started moving.

    The first batch of thirty five countries that signed the contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used only a year to get high marks.

    The best among them was the Winnes Duchy which had reached the second stage of cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce recognized their magic machine industry as reaching grade two, so ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer the military magic machine technology for the basic Magic Repeating Crossbow and the small Magic Trebuchet.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Winnes Duchy pooled funds to create a military magic machine factory in the Winnes Duchy. They also built a steel mill that could produce over eight hundred thousand tons of products a year, providing steel material for these military magic machines.

    Compared to the other countries that were still on the first stage, preparing for the most basic agricultural magic machines, the Winnes Duchy was without a doubt in the lead.

    After the cold winter passed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce sent the fourth construction crew to the Winnes Duchy.

    This time, their goal was to build a sea harbour where the endless seas and thergest river of the Winnes Duchy, the Talon River intersected.

    Although the Winnes Duchy already had a natural harbour here, it couldn¡¯t satisfy the increasing demands of the Winnes Duchy, especially not allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ships to dock. So under the suggestion of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Winnes Duchy both paying half the cost, they would build a new harbour.

    This harbour would also run into the northern Talon River of the Winnes Duchy, allowing them to transport with the Talon River, easily allowing them to transport goods from the Winnes Duchy through this river and also making it easy to transport to the sea.

    ordingly, the goods from other ces could enter this harbour and enter the Winnes Duchy through the Talon River.

    Other than this, the Winnes Duchy would also build a road along the Talon River. This would work with the three roads already built in the duchy and allow them to reach any ce in the Winnes Duchy.

    ording to the n, as long as this harbour and road wasplete, as long as the Winnes Duchy cleared the Talon River with the construction magic machines provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Winnes Duchy¡¯s traffic conditions would greatly increase.

    Although the Winnes Duchy had rich resources before, it wasn¡¯t convenient for them to transport them, so they couldn¡¯t transport these products out. The people of the Winnes Duchy could only live bitter lives because of the poor living conditions of the country.

    Once the transportation problem was solved, the Winnes Duchy could easily transport their rare goods to other countries to sell, which would bring quite a bit of ie to the Winnes Duchy.

    For example, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯sbined fleet went to the Winnes Duchy, other than building this harbour, they were in charge of purchasing these special materials.

    When the fleet arrived at the natural harbour, countless resources of the Winnes Duchy were already ced on the wharf like a mountain, waiting to be brought away.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet also brought resources that were scarce in the Winnes Duchy.

    Among them included foundation things like wheat and rice.

    With just this single fleet, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought three thousand barrels of dwarven wine in threerge transport Magic Ships.

    The Winnes Dcuhy was only a small country, with just six hundred thousand people. These goods for the people of the Winnes Duchy that were also short on food would be of great help.

    So when the fleet reached the harbour, they were immediately weed by the people of the Winnes Duchy.

    Duke Winnes had personallye and enthusiastically weed the leaders of the fleet, which showed how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce were to the Winnes Duchy.

    Of course, what he cared most about was the other goods that were hidden under the rice, wheat, and wine that were on the transport fleet¡­¡­

    ¡°Your excellency duke, please take a look, this is ourpany¡¯s carefully developed Magic Cannon. Don¡¯t look at how little it is, each round that it fires is equal to the explosion of a Fourth Grade Fire Spell, with very shocking firepower. There are no conditions for using it, so as long as the soldiers train a bit, they will be able to grasp the method of using it.¡±

    Hearing the introduction of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet captain Garn Sauron, Duke Winnes¡¯ eyes lit up. He couldn¡¯t help reaching his hand out to touch the sparkling and smooth barrel of the Magic Cannon. There was a very smooth andfortable feeling that came from his hand.

    ¡°Good, very good! This thing really isn¡¯t bad.¡± Duke Winnes praised before turning to ask Garn Sauron, ¡°Captain Sauron, I wonder when your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be willing to transfer the technology for this Magic Cannon to us?¡±

    Garn Sauron revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency duke, as for this, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already given your country the ranking list for magic machine industries. You have to at least grasp a fourth grade magic machine industry ranking to build Magic Cannons, so your country doesn¡¯t meet this requirement right now.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Although he already knew this, when he heard this answer, Duke Winnes was a bit disappointed. After touching the Magic Cannon for a bit longer, he asked, ¡°If you can¡¯t give us the technology, at least you can sell a bit more high grade military magic machines to us, right?¡±

    Garn Sauron shook his head, ¡°Your excellency Duke, I urge you to give up this idea. Ourpany has strict rules for military magic machines. The reason why we sold this batch of military magic machines to yourpany this time was because your country was the first to achieve the second grade ranking, so we gave you a bit of special support. As for therge Magic Cannons¡­¡­that is something a sixth grade magic machine industry can have. If your country wants them, you still need to work a bit harder.¡±

    Duke Winnes was silent for a bit before giving a long sigh. He reached his hand out to Garn Sauron, ¡°Alright, then first give me the thing that we earned.¡±

 Volume 6 150 Restless Winnes Duchy

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 150 Restless Winnes Duchy</h4>

    The ¡°thing that we earned¡± that Duke Winnes mentioned was the military magic machine technology that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer to the Winnes Duchy, which they would get once they had reached the level of a second grade magic machine industry.

    Other than the research, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also send some technical staff to help the Winnes Duchy digest this research material, allowing them to independently produce military magic machines.

    Of course, with the Winnes Duchy¡¯s current magic machine industry, they would at most be able to make low grade military magic machines like the Magic Repeating Crossbows and the small Magic Trebuchets.

    What Garn Sauron had just said wasn¡¯t wrong at all. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave high grade military magic machine technology like the Magic Cannon to the Winnes Duchy, they wouldn¡¯t be able to grasp it.

    It had to be known that they could barely grasp the most basic foundations, so they were far from being at the level where they could produce Magic Cannons.

    Not to mention anything, there weren¡¯t even enough skilled production magic machine workers in the Winnes Duchy.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had another task ining here. Working with the Winnes Duchy, they would be opening a magic machine industry vocational academy in the Winnes Duchy, helping them train as many skilled workers as they could as soon as possible.

    Of course, these standards were all drawn by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Strictly speaking, there were several screw bolts on each magic machine and they all strictly followed the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was something that Xu Yi had clearly stated when they were drawing up the cooperation contract.

    For a qualified industrial system, the biggest problem was not having a single standard because this would lead to ipatibilities, which would create many problem that would waste more manpower and resources.

    On earth, Xu Yi had suffered quite a bit from different standard, but he couldn¡¯t change the industrial system that had already formed on earth. On the Sines Continent, he was the only leader of the magic machine industry, so of course he could stipte these standards.

    Or perhaps, it was that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have enough influence, although this was still a very important issue to Xu Yi, he couldn¡¯t enforce this measure. There were even several magic machinepanies that thought that they could create their own standard.

    But the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence couldn¡¯t bepared to, so Xu Yi naturally was able to implement this uniform standard.

    Especially for a small country like the Winnes Duchy that was working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t let their domestic magic machine industry develop in a different manner.

    Even if the standards that he set weren¡¯t the best, as long as there was a single standard, it would be easier to revise in the future.

    For the Winnes Duchy, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conditions were strict and even inflexible, for a country like them that was building a brand new magic machine industry, it was better for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have more strict requests. This was because it would save them quite a bit of effort.

    Of course, the Winnes Duchy being this passionate and even respectfully following the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guidance in developing their magic machine industry was not just for the benefits it brought. The main reason was because of the military magic machines.

    After obtaining the batch of high level military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Duke Winnes immediately sent these high level military magic machines to the guards of the Winnes Duchy with the help of the technical staff sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Then with the Magic Repeating Crossbows and the small Magic Trebuchets that they bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Winnes Duchy¡¯s guards had increased their battle strength.

    The Winnes Duchy that had an increase in battle strength quickly became restless.

    When the spring breeze spread across every inch of the Winnes Duchy, this piece ofnd that wasn¡¯t that wide had a trace of green that everyone could be excited about. The Winnes Duchy suddenly attacked another duchy to their northeast border, a duchy called the Samarant Duchy.

    The Winnes Duchy equipped with the military magic machines far surpassed the army of the Samarant Duchy that still used swords and bows. In less than a single week, they had eliminated all resisting forces in the Samarant Duchy, even taking care of Duke Samarant and hisst few loyal subordinates in Duke Samarant¡¯s manor.

    The Samarant Duchy had been destroyed.

    At the same time, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that was around a thousand kilometers to the east of the Samarant Duchy, six months after eliminating the Kaki Duchy, had started attacking the Tamiz Kingdom even further north.

    Compared to only taking three days to eliminate the Kaki Duchy, this time the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom chose to fight a kingdom, so naturally it would take them much longer.

    However, from when the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom dispatched their troops to when they destroyed the Tamiz Kingdom, they had only taken twenty three days.

    When this news was spread, it created an even bigger stir than the Winnes Duchy taking only a week to destroy the Samarant Duchy.

    The Tamiz Kingdom wasn¡¯t considered that strong among the southeast countries, but it was still a kingdom in the end, it wasn¡¯t on the same scale as a duchy.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom being able to easily destroy the Kaki Duchy wasn¡¯t something strange, but to easily destroy the Tamiz Kingdom as well was shocking.

    It had to be known, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a country with a strange structure, so the people of the southeast countries had never thought that they were that powerful.

    Those merchants might have money, but it was impossible for this strange country to be strong with the personality of these merchants because they couldn¡¯t centralize themselves.

    Facts proved that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had not centralized themselves, which could be seen by the fact that it was only a fewpanies that had sent out forces to deal with the Kaki Duchy and the Tamiz Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t the entire nation mobilizing their troops.

    However, just this was enough to make people afraid of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s power.

    Just the guards of a fewpanies were enough to destroy a kingdom, then if those thirteenpanies all came together, how terrifying would they be?

    All the countries in the southeast corner of the continent started to panic.

    They weren¡¯t afraid of the Winnes Duchy, but they were deeply afraid of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    With the military power the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had disyed, as well as the powerful finances supporting them, if they were determined to continue invading other countries, there wasn¡¯t a single country that could stop them.

    The southeast corner of the Sines Continent could be considered peaceful, but it had suddenly be tense because of the actions of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the Winnes Duchy.

    But many people were confused why these countries had suddenly attacked this fiercely.

    If it was just because they obtained arge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why couldn¡¯t they wait a bit longer until they were stronger to make a move?

    Especially the Winnes Duchy, they had clearly just started working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not even a year had passed yet, but they were this impatient in invading other countries. Could it be that they weren¡¯t worried that other countries would be vignt and might destroy them before they had built up their strength?

    Anyway, in the strategic contracts that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had signed with the Winnes Duchy, it had never stated that they would support them in fighting wars with other countries.

    Then again, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to support them, with their main base being several thousand kilometers away, how could they support them?

    ¡°Che, a bunch of naive fellows. They really think that just because it¡¯s several thousand kilometers that we can¡¯t help?¡±

    Garn Sauron looked at the information in the few sheets of paper in his hands and his eyes filled with disdain.

    This was his third time in the past month transporting goods to the Winnes Duchy. He had only stayed in the Winnes Duchy for three days and he had already gotten this much news.

    This included the reactions of many different powers after the Winnes Duchy invaded the Samarant Duchy.

    His vice captain Quincy Rachel on the side shook his head with a smile.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, you can¡¯t expect a bunch of hicks to know what kind of power ourpany has right now. Of course, it isn¡¯t strange that they are thinking like this. Even if ourpany wanted to provide support, it would be hard with the distance of several thousand kilometers. Then again, this Winnes Duchy had attacked this suddenly, so sir chairman definitely isn¡¯t happy and it would be a problem of if he would help them or not.¡±

    ¡°Why would sir chairman be unhappy? If it was me, sir chairman would be very happy after he learned about this.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Quincy Rachel asked in a surprised voice, ¡°This Winnes Duchy isn¡¯t focusing on developing their magic machine industry and are in a rush to invade other countries, sir chairman definitely won¡¯t like this.¡±

    ¡°Look carefully¡­¡­¡± Garn Sauron tapped on the spread map on the table, ¡°The Winnes Duchy has carefully chosen their target this time, haven¡¯t you noticed that? Although this Samarant Duchy is smaller than the Winnes Duchy and it may appear to be a poor duchy on the surface, if you look carefully, you will find that they have plenty of value.¡±

 Volume 6 151 Attacks on the sea

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 151 Attacks on the sea</h4>

    Quincy Rachel knitted his brows to look at the map.

    ¡°It¡¯s because of the iron mines in the Samarant Duchy?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Garn Sauron nodded with a smile, ¡°In my opinion, this Duke Winnes actually is quite perceptive and decisive. He can determine that steel will be the most important material in the magic machine industry in this short period of time before decisively using the military magic machines we gave him to attack the Samarant Duchy, this really is admirable.¡±

    Quincy Rachel carefully looked at the map for a bit before slowly nodding.

    ¡°You¡¯re right. The Winnes Duchy almost has no iron mines at all and they even only have a few Magic Crystal mines. If they want to develop their magic machine industry, they will be very limited by these natural conditions. The Samarant Duchy is very rich in these resources and the Winnes Duchy had risked it all to attack the Samarant Duchy, so you can really say that Duke Winnes is decisive.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just this, I suspect that he took this chance to show his determination to sir chairman, even¡­¡­forcing sir chairman to express his stance¡­¡­¡± Garn Sauron said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Un? Why do you think this?¡± Quincy Rachel was instantly surprised.

    Garn Saurojn tapped on the Winnes Duchy on the map and said in a thoughtful voice, ¡°Quincy, you¡¯ve also met Duke Winnes, do you think that he¡¯s an impulsive person?¡±

    ¡°No, he should be a very capable man no matter how you look at him.¡± Quincy Rachel shook his head, ¡°Of course, this is what he should have as the duke.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right.¡± Garn Sauron nodded, ¡°Although I appreciate that he can see that the core of the magic machine industry lies in seizing various resources and has such shocking willingness to act, if you think carefully about how he had attacked the Samarant Duchy, he wouldn¡¯t choose to do this with the Winnes Duchy¡¯s current situation.¡±

    ¡°The safer way is to keep working with ourpany and increasing the level of their magic machine industry, getting more and better military magic machines from ourpany. Once he has built up his strength, then he should move. After all, with the Winnes Duchy¡¯s situation, it hasn¡¯t reached the point where they need to wage war to steal resources just yet, right?¡±

    Quincy Rachel was silent for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, but Garn, why do you mean by forcing sir chairman to express his stance?¡±

    ¡°The Winnes Duchy is one of the first partners that we announcedst time, while also being the first country to reach a second grade magic machine industry ranking. When ites to sir chairman¡¯s n, they are a very good representative country. Look, sir chairman even awarded them with some high level military magic machines as encouragement, which shows that they are viewed differently for him. So Duke Winnes daring to take such a risk should be deliberate because as the representative country for ourpany¡¯s n, sir chairman would be biased towards them.¡±

    ¡°Then you mean¡­¡­sir chairman will support him?¡± Quincy Rachel knitted his brows to ask, ¡°I feel that with sir chairman¡¯s normal temper, he might teach this restless fellow a lesson that he would never forget.¡±

    Garn Sauron gave a bitterugh and slowly shook his head.

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t think so. I feel that¡­¡­sir chairman had already expected this, so he deliberately sent this batch of high level military magic machines as a reward to the Winnes Duchy. It¡¯s to support Duke Winnes in doing this.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right?¡± Quincy Rachel was stunned, ¡°Hasn¡¯t sir chairman always been a firm supporter of peace? Why would he¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Who told you that sir chairman is a supporter of peace?¡± Garn Sauron red at him, ¡°You think that someone who supports peace would provoke the Magicians Guild¡¯s headquarters?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Quincy Rachel¡¯s face twitched, ¡°It can¡¯t be said that sir chairman provoked them, right? It¡¯s clearly the Magicians Guild headquarters forcing ourpany, so sir chairman had no choice but to fight back.¡±

    ¡°But if sir chairman acted peacefully enough, this matter would haven¡¯t gone this far, right?¡± Garn Sauron spread his hand, ¡°Look, the Magicians Guild has already torn all face with ourpany and many countries that are deeply involved with the Magicians Guild have put ourpany on the do not wee list. Actually, there are times that I feel that I don¡¯t understand, it¡¯s impossible that sir chairman doesn¡¯t understand the consequences of doing this, so why is he so determined to do this?¡±

    Quincy Rachel was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking his head, ¡°We shouldn¡¯t be trying to guess what sir chairman is thinking. As subordinates, we should just do our own work.¡±

    Garn Sauron stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Quincy Rachel before saying whileughing, ¡°Don¡¯t assume that I¡¯m ming sir chairman behind his back. Actually, I appreciate sir chairman¡¯s methods very much. If we can¡¯t face the Magicians Guild, how can ourpany steal the important magicians from the control of the Magicians guild? Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Quincy Rachel rolled his eyes at Garn Sauron, ¡°Alright, before you go crazy, I still urge you to study the safety of our route first. Thepany headquarters gave thetest warning, ording to thetest information, the Magicians Guild is working with some countries and organizations in secret to cause trouble for ourpany. People like us who wander outside should be more vignt.¡±

    Garn Sauron curled his lips in disdain, ¡°No matter how powerful the Magicians Guild is, can they take care of us on these vast seas? I don¡¯t believe that there is a fleet that can resist the powerful attack of our guard fleet on these wide seas in this world.¡±

    Quincy Rachel wanted to refute him, but he felt that he was right because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet were invincible on the seas, so there was nothing to worry about.

    So he shook his head and didn¡¯t say anything else.

    The Winnes Duchy was at least three thousand kilometers away from the Stantine Duchy in a straight line, a sea route would be over four thousand kilometers.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Ships were fast, a single trip would take a week.

    After leaving the Winnes Duchy harbour, the fleet went deeper into the seas and headed west when they were around seventy kilometers away from the shore.

    The sea route the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed with the Candra Empire¡¯s navy was limited to the southern seas of the Candra Empire, it hasn¡¯t developed to the deep seas yet, so the fleet needed to sail around a thousand kilometers before they could reach where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the signal, where they could contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and the Candra Empire¡¯s navy.

    Before this, they weren¡¯t that different from normal ships. On the endless seas, they could only sail westward like a blind person.

    This wouldst for around two days and was always the danger area marked by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sea transport division. One had to have all their ships be on high alert during this time.

    But relying on the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet encountered pirates, they could easily take care of the other side without any danger.

    As time passed, there were no pirates that dared to provoke the Frestech Chamber ofmerce¡¯s ships and these fleets could easily navigate through the seas.

    Now that Quincy Rachel was reminding Garn Sauron to be careful was only out of habit, he wasn¡¯t that vignt either.

    In fact, he didn¡¯t care about the threat of the Magicians Guild towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After all, these were the endless seas. Could it be that the Magicians Guild could send arge number of magicians to attack them?

    However, early the next morning, facts had proven that everything was possible in this world¡­¡­

    ¡°Damn! Why are there so many magicians ahead? And they are all High Grade Magicians!¡±

    Seeing the strange looking giant wooden ships in front of them releasing different glowing magic that were very powerful, there was a vein that popped out on Garn Sauron¡¯s forehead.

    ¡°These fellows aren¡¯t normal pirates!¡±

    ¡°Hong¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, there were several spells that hi=t the hull and made deafening explosions.

    Even if they were separated by several cabins, Garn Sauron could feel the power of these spells and he couldn¡¯t help being even more annoyed.

    He thought that it was a bunch of blind pirates, but who would have known that the other side would send out all these High Grade Spells right away.

    It was clear that there were High Grade Magicians on the other side and it wasn¡¯t just one of them, but rather more than ten or even several dozen of them!

    Magicians weren¡¯t that rare on the Sines Continent, but High Grade Magicians who could use High Grade Spells were rare.

    Normally, it would be good if a pirate group had several Low Grade Magicians and it was impossible for them to have a High Grade Magician, not to mention several dozen of them.

    So Garn Sauron was certain that these weren¡¯t pirates and most likely the army of some country.

    Quincy Rachel on the side had a serious look as he said in a deep voice, ¡°Garn, do you think¡­¡­they are people sent by the Magicians Guild headquarters?¡±

    Garn Sauron was surprised, ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? The Magicians Guild headquarters wouldn¡¯t be this shameless, right? They¡¯re actually attacking a merchant vessel like us? If this was known, wouldn¡¯t the entire Magicians Guild lose face?¡±

    ¡°If we all die here, wouldn¡¯t no one know about this?¡± Quincy Rachel said with a serious look.

    ¡°Pei! Who would die here!¡± Garn Sauron spat out forcefully, ¡°It¡¯s just a few High Grade Magicians. Although our fleet isn¡¯t abnormal enough to even beat down a Great Magician, we can take care of a few High Grade Magicians. Hei, hei, those fellows of the Magicians Guild who don¡¯t know the heights of heaven and hell, do they really think that they can solve everything with magic? This time we will clean them up!¡±

    Quincy Rachel thought about it before giving a nod as his expression rxed.

    ¡°Un, with the speed of our fleet, they won¡¯t be able to catch us. If they send out a few magicians to attack with the firepower that we have, there¡¯s no need to worry. Moreover, our hull is much harder than they can imagine, so as long as there isn¡¯t a Great Magician, we shouldn¡¯t be in any¡­¡­¡±

    Quincy Rachel¡¯s voice suddenly stopped as his eyes opened wide, looking into the distance with a look of fear.

    Garn Sauron was surprised and also looking into the distance, seeing a figure slowly rising from the ship.

    Around this figure were ripples in space, which made one dizzy to look at, but they couldn¡¯t help being deeply drawn in and being unwilling to look away.

    This strange phenomenon was the sign of Spatial Magic!

    The two were stunned for a bit before they looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 152 Anger

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 152 Anger</h4>

    Xu Yi¡¯s face was dark as he looked at the documents on the desk in front of him, unable to hide the anger in his eyes at all.

    These documents were reports from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branches over the past month. There were a total of thirteen of them and they were all reporting on idents that happened to subordinates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    These idents included caravans being robbed, offices being ransacked, and people dying in idents¡­¡­

    Among these things, what concerned Xu Yi the most and created the most loss was the report of the transport ships being attacked three times on the seas.

    Strictly speaking, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was argepany with offices in countless countries on the Sines Continent, so it wasn¡¯t strange for idents to happen each month.

    After all, this continent was equal to the feudal society stage of earth. Whether it wasmunication, public security, or social order, it couldn¡¯tpare to a modern civilization like earth.

    But before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never had more than ten idents in a month, so this really was too dense.

    If it was before when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t famous on the continent, so their caravans would be attacked and some idents would happen to their subordinates, it wouldn¡¯t be strange. But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was arge and famouspany on the continent, who would provoke them?

    Moreover, what really caught Xu Yi¡¯s attention and raised his vignce was the three consecutive attacks on the transport ships.

    Although most of the pirates on the endless seas had already been eliminated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet and the Candra Empire¡¯s navy, the endless seas were boundless. To protect against these idents, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent out their guard fleet to patrol the seas to provide a certain amount of defenses. Even therge transport Magic Ships would be equipped with some military magic machines so they could defend themselves.

    With the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, as well as the steel hull of the Magic Ships, a normal boat was unable to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport Magic Ships at all.

    However, from these three reports, it clearly indicated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had suffered heavy losses in these three attacks. There were even tworge transport Magic Ships and five guard ships that sank because of these attacks.

    This information came from the crew that could barely escape. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard ships couldn¡¯t block the attack of the other side because not only did they have arge amount of High Grade Magicians, there were even Great Magicians!

    ¡°Great Magicians¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi gritted his teeth which made a crackling sound as his eyes filled with endless rage, ¡°Good! Very good! Those damn fellows, I thought that they would have some scruples, but I never thought that I had underestimated them. Those fellows are ten times more shameless than I thought!¡±

    Still and Arch Magus Cami sitting in front of Xu Yi looked at each other and didn¡¯t know how tofort Xu Yi.

    After a while, Still hesitantly said, ¡°Xu Yi¡­¡­You shouldn¡¯t be in a rush to draw conclusions. This might not be the work of the Magicians Guild headquarters, they¡­¡­shouldn¡¯t be this shameless, right?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± It wasn¡¯t Xu Yi who refuted this, but rather Arch Magus Cami beside her.

    He looked at Xu Yi before turning to Still with a serious and dark look on his face.

    ¡°Still, you are still young, so you don¡¯t know that those fellows are a bunch of shameless people who only care about their own greed, so they can do any shameless thing. This time Xu Yi had shaken their foundation, so it isn¡¯t strange that they would fight back at all. Moreover, I think that this is just them giving Xu Yi a warning.¡±

    ¡°Just a warning?¡± Still¡¯s mouth opened wide in surprise as she pointed at the thick documents on the table. Just in these thirteen reports, there were over four hundred casualties and losses as high as seven hundred thousand gold coins for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this was just a warning, then what would a real attack be like?

    Thinking of this, Still couldn¡¯t help being a bit worried. After hesitating a bit, she turned to Xu Yi, ¡°Xu Yi¡­¡­Actually I feel that¡­¡­it isn¡¯t impossible to cooperate with the Magicians Guild headquarters, just that you¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the expression Xu Yi looked over with, Still immediately closed her mouth.

    Xu Yi silently looked at Still for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking his head.

    ¡°Still, do you still not understand, this isn¡¯t a private grudge between me and the Magicians Guild, it isn¡¯t even a conflict of interests, it¡¯s a foundation sh of ideals, so there¡¯s no room for negotiations at all.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Even if you want all the magicians on the continent to join the magic machine industry, the Magicians Guild would be happy to work with you on that, so why do you have to go against each other?¡± Still had a confused look, ¡°I feel that as long as both sides are willing to cooperate, it will even benefit everyone.¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips and turned to Great Magician Cami.

    ¡°Grandfather, do you think there is a possibility of cooperating?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami shook his head without any hesitation.

    ¡°Impossible, unless you give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to them.¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hand, ¡°It¡¯s clearly impossible for me to give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to them. It¡¯s not because I¡¯m not willing, but I¡¯m not assured in giving it to them. I don¡¯t believe that they will properly develop the current magic machine industry that is on the right path, so you see¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi turned back to Still, ¡°This is an irreconcble difference, so there¡¯s no true possibility of cooperating.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­I feel that there is still hope, as long as both sides are willing to take a step back¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I already gave them the chance, but you¡¯ve already seen the response of the Magicians Guild. They will not allow their thousands of years old control over the magicians of the continent to weaken at all, they already take all magicians as their private property, so there is no possibility of cooperating at all.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi looked down at the documents on the table and his face became darker.

    ¡°If it was said that I had some hope about them before, then now¡­¡­I finally understand that with these fellows, to peacefully steal the bone from their mouth is impossible. Now that they¡¯ve made us pay blood¡­¡­I must also let them taste some blood!¡±

    Still¡¯s eyes jumped up as she couldn¡¯t help crying out, ¡°Xu Yi, it can¡¯t be¡­¡­that you want to dere war on the Magicians Guild, right? This¡­¡­This is too dangerous! How about you calm down first and think about it?¡±

    This time Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t support Xu Yi as he knitted his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, I understand your feelings and understand your ideas, but¡­¡­are you certain you want to do this? Could it be that you¡¯ve forgotten about what I reminded you of recently?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to Arch Magus Cami and his smile became a bit strange.

    ¡°Grandfather, pleasee see a thing with me. After you see it, you shouldn¡¯t be that worried.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi in surprise, thinking that this kid should clearly know about the threat of Arch Magi.

    But now he wanted to bring him to see something?

    What could take care of the threat of an Arch Magus?

    Seeing Xu Yi and Arch Magus Cami go out together, heading towards the training base in the northwest corner of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, Still deeply knitted her brows.

    She had known Xu Yi for over ten years, but this was her first time seeing Xu Yi truly angry.

    ¡°I hope that nothing terrifying happens¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    The Sunset Mountains were the several hundred meter long mountain range in the Candra Empire¡¯s northeastern Tagna Province, which was also the border between two provinces in the north.

    This mountain range only had a single path that could lead from the Tagna Province to the northeast province, so there were two human cities on both sides of the mountain range.

    The Larul Town was located in the Tagna Province. Although it was only a small town, since it was on the transport line, there were many merchants and tourists that passed by here, so there were many people that went through this ce each year.

    Because there were many caravans that went through this ce, there were many bandits who were gathered outside of Larul Town in the Sunset Mountains, who frequently attacked these trade routes.

    Although the Candra Empire¡¯s government, the Governor Manor of the Tagna Province and Larul Town¡¯s guards frequently attacked these bandits, the terrain of the Sunset Mountains wereplicated, so these bandits could easily hide in the mountains and they couldn¡¯t be chased at all, so they could only let them go each time.

    As time passed, the Candra Empire government could only turn a blind eye to these bandits. Other than reminding merchant caravans to be careful, they couldn¡¯t do anything else.

    Half a month ago, when a caravan had entered the Sunset Valley, they were attacked by bandits and there wasn¡¯t a single person who survived.

    This was a normal thing for the people of Larul Town and other than talking about it during their meals, they wouldn¡¯t care that much.

    But this time, everyone¡¯s attention had been captured.

    There was only one reason, the caravan belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When this Frestech Chamber of Commerce caravan was delivering magic machines to the northeast province, before they even entered the Sunset Mountains, there were many bandits that attacked them.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce caravan had quite a few guards that were also strong, there were just too many bandits, so they were all defeated in the end.

    The attack this time was very confusing.

    For bandits, they robbed caravans for profit. Even if it wasn¡¯t for the daily necessities that these caravan had, they could sell the precious products that they had for money.

    There was no need to mention how expensive the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were, but they were only transporting agricultural magic machines to the northeast province, which was useless to the bandits. Because of how special the products were, there was no way to sell them, so there was no meaning in robbing them at all.

    Not to mention that bandits weren¡¯t bloodthirsty maniacs, so they didn¡¯t kill people unless there were special circumstances.

    However, this time the bandits had killed everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan, not leaving a single person which was a bit overboard.

    In short, there were many doubts with the bandits¡¯ actions this time, so even after half a month passed, it was still a hot topic in the taverns of Larul Town.

    Moreover, because of what happened after this robbery, even more people¡¯s attention was grabbed¡­¡­

 Volume 6 153 Attitude towards bandits

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 153 Attitude towards bandits</h4>

    Normally speaking, if a caravan was robbed in the Candra Empire and they werepletely eliminated, the proper flow of matters was to report this matter to the Candra Empire¡¯s government.

    If this caravan was apany of the Candra Empire, the procedure was very simple. First they would report in and then see if the Candra Empire government would want to pursue this matter and how serious they would take it.

    If it wasn¡¯t a Candra Empirepany, then the procedure would be a bit moreplicated.

    If it belonged to a country that wasn¡¯t that strong and wasn¡¯t a famouspany, the final result would be that this caravan would be forgotten and thepany that it belonged to could only take it as bad luck.

    If thepany was a bit stronger, the Candra Empire government would treat this case differently. It would depend on how strong thepany or the country behind thispany is to decide the process.

    For example, if the caravan was from the Marlow Empire or one of the big threepanies with the Marlow Empire¡¯s support, then once this matter urred in the Candra Empire, even if the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire had never gotten along, in terms of diplomacy, the Candra Empire would fully investigate this matter and give the Marlow Empire and exnation.

    However, the situation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan was a bit special.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce came from the Stantine Duchy and the Stantine Duchy was the smallest country on the entire continent, so naturally there wouldn¡¯t be any pressure on the Candra Empire in terms of country backing.

    However, this caravan belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very specialpany on the Sines Continent. With the special magic machines or rather the military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany that was regarded highly by many countries.

    Even if the Candra Empire¡¯s rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t good on the surface, there were plenty of private deals that had gone through.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was quite important to the Candra Empire government and they cared about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s activities in the Candra Empire.

    This time, it was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan that had beenpletely wiped out by the bandits, which was definitely not a normal matter.

    Not to mention that the cargo the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan was delivering was a batch of agricultural magic machines, which was the batch that the northeast province had ordered, so it was very important.

    Now that the caravan had been attacked, all the members had been killed, and there were two hundred thousand gold coins worth of agricultural magic machines that had disappeared, this naturally caused a great stir.

    After this matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had first reported this matter to the Candra Empire government, strongly requesting them to find the perpetrators. To not only track down these agricultural magic machines, but also to punish these arrogant bandits.

    The Candra Empire government also took this matter seriously and immediately ordered the Tagna Province¡¯s governor manor and Larul Town¡¯s guards to investigate this matter.

    However, after a week of investigating, as well as Larul Town sending over two hundred guards, along with a group of mercenaries to enter the Sunset Mountains to search, they didn¡¯t find any clues.

    So the Candra Empire government was forced to give up searching since the bandits had already fled into the Sunset Mountains.

    As long as one wasn¡¯t a fool, they would know that this meant that the Candra Empire government was giving up the search and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only treat it as bad luck.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t willing to give up. Rather, they had used various channels to express to the Candra Empire¡¯s government, which was the governor¡¯s manor of the Tagna Province and the Larul Town¡¯s mayor manor to continue this investigation, as well as telling them that they weren¡¯t allowed to let this go.

    Doing this naturally made them displeased and although they stated that they would continue to investigate, they had already given up on this matter.

    The people of Larul Town and the merchants who passed by who discussed this couldn¡¯t helpughing at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The continent was filled with bandits and even the powerful Candra Empire couldn¡¯t investigate every robbery.

    The Candra Empire government giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce an official response was already treating this seriously, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t ept this. They simply couldn¡¯t tell good from bad.

    ¡°Hei, don¡¯t you think that Frestech Chamber of Commerce is treating themselves as too important? Isn¡¯t it just relying on these new magic machines to make a bit of money, do they really think that they are at the same level as our Candra Empire?¡± In thergest tavern in Larul Town, among the soldiers and merchants, there was one mercenary who was drinking whileughing.

    Hearing these words, the other patrons all beganughing.

    Most of the people had experience with this trade route, so they were already familiar with something like bandits and it wasn¡¯t that big of a deal.

    Not to mention the Candra Empire, even in other ces, when a bandit attacks, the first and most important thing was to ensure your life. As for counting on the local countries to track down these bandits and find the stolen goods, that would only happen when one exploded with luck.

    So most of the people here believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should just count this as bad luck and stop harassing the masters of the Candra Empire government.

    Otherwise if they became unhappy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan wouldn¡¯t be able to safely pass through the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Che, it¡¯s just a bunch of newly rich from a small ce like the Stantine Duchy, they really don¡¯t have any eyes.¡± Another mercenary startedughing. When he found that he was the center of attention, he suddenly revealed a mysterious look, ¡°I heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just lose this caravan. Other than this ce, they lost three other caravans in our Candra Empire. All the people were killed and there wasn¡¯t a single item left.¡±

    Most of the other voices in the tavern fell silent and everyone looked at each other, as several other people started trying to confirm this mercenary¡¯s rumour.

    ¡°Right, I also heard that this matter has been happening in other countries recently.¡±

    ¡°Un, I also heard that two of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s offices have been attacked and it was quite serious.¡±

    ¡°Not only that, I also know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sea fleet has been attacked and suffered even heavier losses.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? Even our Candra Empire navy might not beat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, who could take care of them on the sea?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not sure, but I heard that a very powerful Great Magician personally made a move. No matter how strong the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet is, when meeting a Great Magician¡­¡­Oh, not even a Great Magician, it would be useless even if they met a few High Grade Magicians, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The tavern was suddenly filled with discussion.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was considered a miracle for thepanies of the continent.

    Before this, they had been a smallpany in the Lampuri Kingdom and in just ten years, they had be a famousrgepany on the Sines Continent. Moreover, they grasped the military magic machines that all countries wanted, bing a pivotal part of the continent.

    During this process, they never encountered any problems, developing very smoothly the entire time.

    This was something that the otherpanies were very envious of.

    Of course they didn¡¯t have the ability to do anything to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but hearing that something happened to them, they couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of schadenfreude.

    ¡°Ai¡­¡­This really isn¡¯t a good thing, right?¡± The calm voice of a middle aged man rang out, ¡°Even a famouspany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is being robbed and those masters are disregarding this matter, so if small merchants like us are robbed, then no one will care if we die or not.¡±

    Hearing this voice, the tavern instantly fell silent.

    The people in the tavern were small merchants and mostly mercenaries, so it was very likely they would encounter bandits on the way.

    The mercenaries might earn some extra ie when meeting these bandits, but the merchants didn¡¯t want to meet these damn bandits at all.

    Something happening to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made them feel schadenfreude, but thinking of the attitude the empire¡¯s government had towards these bandits, they couldn¡¯t help feeling a chill in their eyes.

    RIght, if even argepany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was ignored, who would care about small merchants like them?

    When the tavern fell into a difficult silence, there was a shadow that appeared outside that filled the door of the tavern and filled it with darkness.

    Everyone turned in surprise and gave surprised cries.

    In the skies above the tavern, there wererge clouds slowly floating by. They were clearly very close to the ground and looked very powerful.

    The mercenaries with good vision found that these things in the sky weren¡¯t clouds, but ratherrge steel monsters and they couldn¡¯t help opening their mouths wide in shock.

    ¡°Gods! What are these things?¡±

    A mercenary looked at the sky and suddenly cried out.

    ¡°I know! Those are Magic Airships! It¡¯s the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships!¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships? Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent people here?

 Volume 6 154 Invading the Candra Empire?

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 154 Invading the Candra Empire?</h4>

    After being dazed for a while, it was unknown who called out first, but then everyone ran outside.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship, everyone had heard of it before, but there were few that had seen it.

    Now the legendary master of the sky had appeared in this small town of the Candra Empire, which made them curious.

    In the tavern, people could only see therge clouds passing by in the sky and when they came out to look up, everyone saw the power that belonged to the legendary Magic Airships.

    The Magic Airships passed by several hundred meters above their heads which wasn¡¯t considered that high, but it also wasn¡¯t considered low. It was a height that normal people couldn¡¯t reach, but it had allowed them to clearly see the Magic Airships and even some people with good eyesight could see what they looked like.

    This kind of giant flying over their heads had naturally put pressure on the people on the ground, even making people mistakenly feel that the sky was closer.

    ¡°Gods! This thing was really made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± A shocked cry came out of the crowd of people looking up at the sky.

    ¡°Right, such a terrifying thing, isn¡¯t it something that only gods can ride? Are there really humans up there?¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could really make such a shocking thing, this is too terrifying!¡±

    ¡°No, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce must have received the inheritance of the devils! This isn¡¯t something that belongs to humans!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The Magic Airship didn¡¯t seem to be flying fast, but it was actually moving very fast. After appearing above Larul Town, it didn¡¯t take them long to fly over.

    When people thought that the Magic Airships would fly by, the ten Magic Airships had suddenly stopped and slowly descended from the sky.

    Seeing this, everyone was a bit surprised.

    This was the Candra Empire, part of its central territory, so what was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sending these shocking Magic Airships here for?

    There were the sounds of horse hooves clopping that came from behind them. Everyone was surprised to see a team of cavalry running over from the west along the east path, heading in the direction of the Magic Airships that had justnded.

    This team of cavalry belonged to the light cavalry team that guarded Larul Town, the one who led them was the mayor Viscount Sox¡¯s nephew Morey.

    After the cavalry team led by Morey disappeared, there were several hundred fully equipped guards that were surrounding a luxurious horse carriage that came from the west, also heading in the direction that the Magic Airships hadnded in.

    This horse carriage had the mark of the Sox Family, so it was clear that it was Viscount Sox¡¯s private vehicle.

    After a while, the dust had settled and the light cavalry team led by Morey and Viscount Sox¡¯s heavily surrounded horse carriage had disappeared into the distance, leaving the merchants and mercenaries who came to watch the fun to look at each other in a daze.

    This was just too curious.

    Based on how rushed Morey¡¯s light cavalry team and Viscount Sox¡¯s heavily armed soldiers looked, they clearly weren¡¯t prepared for the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships, so they were panicking.

    This means that those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had visited without even informing Larul Town¡¯s government.

    This was just too surprising.

    It had to be known that this was the heart of the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a Candra Empirepany. For them to suddenly bring a bunch of people here, in the strictest sense, this could simply be considered an invasion of the Candra Empire!

    It was no wonder Viscount Sox was that worried. As the highest noble here, if he allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships that no one believed wasn¡¯t armed to invade this ce without even doing anything, he would have to wait for his head to be cut off.

    Viscount Sox¡¯s reaction was very strong, he had brought out all the armed forces of Larul Town, which showed that this was the highest reaction that he could have.

    The light cavalry and the soldiers disappeared and the crowd was just left there looking at each other. Several mercenaries suddenly got on their horses and headed off in that direction.

    As expected, something big was happening today and it would be wrong to not take a look.

    With some people leading the way, almost all the mercenaries of the town followed.

    After the merchants thought about it, they also went along.

    As merchants, they cared very much about anything that happened on the continent and the possible hidden opportunities there may be.

    Not to mention that this might be a direct conflict between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire, which made it even more valuable.

    So after a while, most of the people in Larul Town had headed off on the northeast path to the Sunset Mountains, raising plenty of dust into the air.

    Among these people, the first that arrived was naturally the light cavalry team led by Morey.

    Looking into the far off Sunset Mountains, Morey was finally able to find where the ten Magic Airships hadnded.

    The doors to the ten Magic Airships were open and there were people wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking stuff out.

    Seeing the strange things that he didn¡¯t recognize that these people had and seeing the fierce looking machine that was brought down from the Magic Airship, Morey couldn¡¯t help feeling a chill in his heart.

    He and his uncle Viscount Sox had only made guesses before, but now that he was seeing these strange machines, he was certain about one thing.

    These people were definitely from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and the things that they had with them were definitely the powerful military magic machines.

    As for the steel pipe looking thing that was in the open field, that was most likely the famous Magic Cannon.

    But the problem was, why did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards suddenlye here? Why did they also bring along this iparably powerful Magic Cannon for?

    After hesitating a bit, Morey calmed himself and led his horse over.

    However, when he took two steps, two of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards suddenly turned and raised the cylinders in their hands to point at Morey as they said in a low voice, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are carrying out official business here, unrted people are not allowed to approach.¡±

    Morey was surprised before being filled with rage.

    This was the Candra Empire¡¯snd and people from other ces came here to say that ¡°unrted people were not allowed to approach¡±!

    After looking over these people, Morey forced down his anger and cleared his throat before saying to the two Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in a low voice, ¡°I am the Candra Empire Tagna Province¡¯s Larul Town¡¯s guardmander Morey Sox, the highest ranking military officer here. You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards? Why did you suddenlye here? Do you have the authorization from our empire?¡±

    Those two guards still pointed the weapons in their hands at Morey and didn¡¯t say a thing.

    Morey was filled with even more anger and pointed at the two of them as he roared out, ¡°I¡¯m warning you! This is the empire¡¯s territory and if you enter without authorization while holding weapons, under thews of the empire, I will regard you as invaders and will have to arrest you. If you dare resist, you will be cut down on the spot!¡±

    Those two Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards still didn¡¯t move, almost as if they couldn¡¯t hear him at all.

    Morey deeply knitted his brows and raised his right hand, preparing to give the order to attack.

    He had to do this as per the empire¡¯s orders, but seeing the military magic machines these people had, as well as the terrifying Magic Cannon that was in the open space, he couldn¡¯t help hesitating.

    If these people really were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards and their battle strength was as terrifying as he had heard from the other nobles, charging in with the hundred light cavalry he had brought was just giving up his life.

    But if he didn¡¯t do anything, then as the local highest ranking military officer, he would be the first to be beheaded by the army headquarters.

    ¡°Damn, I don¡¯t believe that these Frestech Chamber of Commerce fellows will dare attack the empire¡¯s army in our territory!¡± Morey hesitated for a long time before gritting his teeth and preparing to lower his hand to give the order to attack, but there was a rushed set of footsteps that came from behind him.

    Morey¡¯s expression suddenly rxed. He turned around to see Viscount Sox rushing over with the guards that he had brought.

    Viscount Sox¡¯s luxurious horse carriage came to Morey¡¯s side and the door opened to let Viscount Sox¡¯s slightly chubby body jump out of the carriage, raising dust from the ground.

    Looking in front of him and then looking at Morey, he gave a nod before fixing his expression. With a faint smile, he walked towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The two guards holding weapons saw Viscount Soxing over and raised their weapons again.

    Viscount Sox stopped and looked around before asking with a smile, ¡°I am Larul Town¡¯s mayor, may I ask who is in charge this time?¡±

    The two Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards still had no expressions, but there was a person who came out of the Magic Airship behind them.

    Seeing this reaction, Viscount Sox¡¯s heart rxed.

    As long as the other side was willing to negotiate, everything else was easy to handle.

    However, after he saw the person who came out, his expression couldn¡¯t help changing as it became a bit uglier to look at.

 Volume 6 155 Destroying bandits

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 155 Destroying bandits</h4>

    When Viscount Sox received the news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships had suddenly appeared, he knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was here to cause trouble.

    The normal citizens didn¡¯t know this, but he as the Larul Town mayor was very clear how much pressure the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was putting on the Candra Empire over their caravan beingpletely wiped out in the Sunset Mountains.

    Actually, if it was a normalpany or evenpanies of other countries that had an ident in the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire officials would just give them a perfunctory notice and wouldn¡¯t care about this.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a normalpany.

    Even if the Candra Empire¡¯s rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always been a bit awkward, even being a bit hostile, in the past two years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines showed even more and more power. The Candra Empire had no choice but to face the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and actively work with them.

    After they started cooperating, the Candra Empire found that it wasn¡¯t just the military magic machines that were important. The civil magic machines apart from the military magic machines, the various magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invented had many uses which had helped the Candra Empire solve many important problems.

    So as time passed, even those the one who had opposed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce the most, which was the southern province¡¯s governor Duke Windsor had put down his face and started cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in secret.

    Everyone in the Candra Empire realized the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought the Candra Empire, so there was more and more demand to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the empire.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan had an ident in the Sunset Mountains, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had immediately started putting pressure on the Candra Empire. Most of this pressure had fallen onto Viscount Sox.

    However, when it came to the bandits of Sunset Mountain, Viscount Sox couldn¡¯t do much. This time he didn¡¯t even have a single clue as to the attack on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan, so it was basically a fantasy to have hime up with an answer in a short period of time.

    As time passed, the higher level members of the empire learned of this situation and didn¡¯t force Viscount Sox as they gave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a perfunctory response.

    It was said that to satisfy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the upper strata had given them favourable conditions.

    It could be seen just based on this how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to the Candra Empire.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was never willing topromise, as they insisted on the Candra Empire giving them results.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strong stance had angered the higher level members and both sides had parted on bad terms in the end.

    Viscount Sox thought that this matter would end there because whether it was the Candra Empire or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they clearly needed to cooperate with each other, so this small issue wouldn¡¯t hinder their cooperation.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered a loss this time, they could only ept it in the end since the Candra Empire was one of the two empires. For apany, they wouldn¡¯t be willing to give up this market.

    However, when Viscount Sox thought that he was finally out of this situation and had rxed for a few days, he received the shocking news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships were heading over!

    Viscount Sox was certain that he didn¡¯t receive any notice ahead of time, which meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t report this matter to the Candra Empire officials and were working alone!

    But for apany from another country like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, to send their people to the Candra Empire¡¯snd was a big offense, which was not something that the Candra Empire would ept.

    But Viscount Sox was also very clear that this matter couldn¡¯t be made bigger, otherwise the weak rtionship between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire might just copse.

    One could imagine the influence this would have on the entire Candra Empire, it was not something that a small town¡¯s mayor like him could withstand.

    So even if he had sent out the guards as soon as he received this news, he didn¡¯t have any n of really fighting at all.

    First, it was because he didn¡¯t dare ept the responsibility of starting this fight. Second, it was because he definitely couldn¡¯t win¡­¡­

    Just a few hundred trivial guards definitely couldn¡¯t fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards equipped with the most advanced military magic machines, this was something that Viscount Sox was aware of.

    When he saw the fierce looking Magic Cannons in the open space, he was even more certain of this.

    So his goal was to properly discuss this matter.

    But when the person from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came out, all his thoughts disappeared.

    Because this person¡­¡­wasn¡¯t a human, but rather an elf.

    All the humans of the Sines Continent, or rather all the races knew that the elves were the most stubborn race on the continent and no one could match them.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent a humanmander on this surprise task, then Viscount Sox would have a hundred ways to negotiate with them, but themander was an elf, so he most likely couldn¡¯t use his hundred ways.

    Viscount Sox forced out a smile as he looked at the male elf in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard uniform. After giving a dry cough, he forced himself to say in a sharp tone, ¡°You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards? Why did you suddenlye here?¡±

    He didn¡¯t raise the problem of ¡°illegal entry¡± or ¡°privately carrying weapons¡± at all.

    The male elf looked over Sox and didn¡¯t n on replying at all as he coldly said, ¡°Human, this matter isn¡¯t rted to you. I hope that you will leave this ce with your subordinates immediately.¡±

    Viscount Sox took a deep breath and thought that this elf was just like the elves he had heard about, there was no chance of talking to him normally at all.

    After a pause, Viscount Sox asked with a serious look, ¡°Did chairman Xu approve of your actions this time?¡±

    The elf had the same expressionless look on his face, ¡°This is unrted to you. Human, quickly leave this ce, this is your final warning.¡±

    Viscount Sox¡¯s expression scrunched up. After taking a few breaths, he quickly said, ¡°No matter what, I must remind you that you are on the Candra Empire¡¯s territory. If you take action rashly, as an official of the empire, I must deal with this. Although my subordinates might not be your match, this is my responsibility. As well, your actions will all be reported to the empire, so please consider this carefully.¡±

    The elf coldly looked at Viscount Sox for a bit before finally speaking.

    ¡°We have received the chairman¡¯s orders to exterminate the bandits here, this is unrted to you.¡±

    Seeing that he was finally willing to talk, Viscount Sox let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°You are here to investigate the matter of yourpany¡¯s caravan being robbed before?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± The male elf gave a nod, ¡°Sir chairman said that since your Candra Empire isn¡¯t willing to give us an exnation, ourpany can only solve this problem ourselves.

    Viscount Sox gave a bitterugh in his heart. It wasn¡¯t that the empire didn¡¯t want to solve this problem, rather the empire couldn¡¯t¡­¡­

    The Sunset Mountain hadplex terrain and many bandits, so they were unable to get enough information.

    The only useful information was that the agricultural magic machines had been stolen by the bandits.

    But the agricultural magic machines seemed like they had vanished and there were no other clues which was unexpected.

    Thinking of this, Viscount Sox was surprised.

    Because he suddenly remembered that this male elf had said ¡°exterminate the bandits¡± and not ¡°hunt them down¡±¡­¡­

    Viscount Sox thought about it before asking with a bit of disbelief, ¡°Could it be that you already know where the bandits are?¡±

    The male elf carefully looked at Viscount Sox for a bit as if he was deciding whether to give him more information or not.

    After a while, he gave a nod, ¡°Yes. We¡¯ve already found the precise location of these bandits and this time we¡¯re here to exterminate them.¡±

    ¡°Impossible!¡± Viscount Sox couldn¡¯t help shouting.

    If this male elf said that they knew the general location of the bandits, he might be able to barely believe it, but he had said that they had the precise location which was just too unbelievable.

    Those bandits were no doubt still in the Sunset Mountains, but the Sunset Mountains were that big and had suchplex terrain. When he had sent out troops with the elite troops of the governor¡¯s manor, they couldn¡¯t find a single clue, so how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards find the precise location?

    Of course, this didn¡¯t rule out that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used some special methods, such as putting some special magic mark on the agricultural magic machines.

    However, that would be even more surprising.

    Why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this? The agricultural magic machines were products for the northeast province, what would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gain from doing this?

    Thinking of the hidden implications, Viscount Sox couldn¡¯t help falling silent.

    At this time, there was a beeping sound that came from the male elf.

    Viscount Sox looked at him in surprise to see him raise his right hand, holding a metallic box which he brought to his mouth.

    ¡°Number three, did something happen?¡±

    ¡°Number three reporting, the target is still in the previous mountain range that we investigated, they haven¡¯t moved yet.¡±

    ¡°Very good, what is the surrounding situation?¡±

    ¡°ording to our observations, there aren¡¯t any other people in the surrounding mountains.¡±

    ¡°Good, give me the range and coordinates.¡±

    ¡°ording to the survey, the target is at a ten o¡¯clock direction, six degrees north, being around 3.7 to 3.9 kilometers away.¡±

    ¡°Received. Continue monitoring and if anything changes, immediately report in.¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡±

    Viscount Sox looked at the male elf in a daze and turned to give his order, but he stopped turning when he saw the ten Magic Cannons turning, aiming in a northwest direction.

    ¡°You¡­¡­Are you nning on exterminating the bandits?¡±

    The male elf ignored Viscount Sox and after being silent for a bit, he suddenly raised his right hand as he roared, ¡°Fire.¡±

    The ten Magic Cannons released a dazzling magical glow at the same time and then ten glowing fireballs came from the barrels of the Magic Cannon, vanishing in the northwest horizon.

    Viscount Sox was in a daze as he watched these glowsnd in the mountains and after a while, there was an iparably powerful glow that came from the Sunset Mountains like a giant sun.

    After a while, there was a roar like thunder that surrounded them and even the ground under them was trembling.

    Viscount Sox, Morey, and their subordinates all looked at the distant Sunset Mountains in a daze. They were shocked to find that the light had suddenly covered several mountain tops and theypletely disappeared.

 Volume 6 156 Incapable of dealing with

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 156 Incapable of dealing with</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions in Larul Town had been spread to the countries of the continents by the countless mercenaries and merchants.

    Most people¡¯s first reaction to this news was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was crazy!

    Where was Larul Town? That was the territory of the Candra Empire!

    Gods! The Candra Empire was one of the two most powerful empires and strictly speaking, the Marlow Empire was a bit weaker than the Candra Empire. It was because of this that the Candra Empire had always been aloof when dealing with the other countries of the Sines Continent. It would always be them that had created storms in other countries, when had other people gone to the Candra Empire¡¯s territory to cause trouble?

    Not to mention that the ones who caused this trouble was only a singlepany!

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received the attention of the continent recently, as well as being important to all the countries, the Frestech Chamber ofmerce sending out their guards to fight in the Candra Empire without even getting approval of the Candra Empire¡¯s government was simply not putting the Candra Empire in their eyes!

    For the Candra Empire that had existed for close to a thousand years, who was one of the strongest countries, this was without a doubt shaming them and definitely not something they could endure.

    Of course, other than paying attention to how the Candra Empire reacted to this, what most people care about more was the details of this situation.

    ording to the rumours, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had moved this time to exterminate the bandits that had attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan.

    This was a fact that couldn¡¯t be disputed. However, ording to the reports, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce exterminated the bandits, they had attacked with a terrifying might that had even forcefully stripped ayer of the Sunset Mountains away, which was even more terrifying.

    Although there were already rumours about the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, based on the fights with military magic machines before, it had never been this crazy.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom had these terrifying military magic machines back then, the Sack Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have any chance of resisting the Lampuri Kingdom. Perhaps they might have already been wiped by the Lampuri Kingdom if they had dered war?

    There were many people who doubted these rumours because they didn¡¯t believe the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were this powerful.

    Among these people, that didn¡¯t include the high level members of the Candra Empire who knew about the facts.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s honourable emperor was looking at the detailed incident report in his hand, which clearly described the actions the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had taken without missing a single detail. They had also investigated the Sunset Mountain terrain after the attack, so the terrifying might of the Magic Cannons that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had used was ced in front of emperor Alphonse Candra¡¯s face.

    ¡°I have a question.¡± Emperor Candra looked away from the report to look up at the people in front of him and asked, ¡°Where did the Magic Airships that came to Larul Towne from?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in a daze.

    After this matter, everyone had focused on the terrifying might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ Magic Cannons that they hadpletely neglected the Magic Airships.

    With the reminder of his majesty, everyone realized that this was indeed a very important issue.

    Larul Town was on the border of the Tagna Province and the northeast province, so it could be considered in the center of the empire. It was over a thousand meters from the nearest border of the empire and was over two thousand kilometers away from the southern countries that shared a border with the empire.

    If it came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy, that was a distance of over three thousand kilometers.

    The actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards this time definitely wasn¡¯t organized with the people of the empire, so it should be said that the Magic Airships came from other ces.

    There was no doubt about this, but¡­¡­How was it that the Magic Airships were able to fly into the empire and were only discovered when they began descending near Larul Town?

    Seeing the dazed looks on everyone¡¯s faces, Emperor Candra gave a cold snort, ¡°None of you know? Doesn¡¯t this mean that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do so, they could even use the Magic Airship toe to my royal pce and then attack the royal pce?¡±

    Everyone was stunned as they couldn¡¯t help feeling a cold sweate over them.

    Although the situation the emperor had described was a bit extreme, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was bold enough, they could do such a terrifying thing.

    ¡°Your majesty, there¡¯s no need to worry.¡± The Candra Empire¡¯s Magicians Association president, who was also the chief of the empire¡¯s magic research facility, Great Magician Mavey Wiscontin said in a serious voice, ¡°The royal pce has a protection array that has been built by the magic research facility over several hundred years, so it can take all possible attacks. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dared to send a Magic Airship to attack the royal pce, they couldn¡¯t threaten it at all.¡±

    ¡°He¡­¡­Protection array?¡± Emperor Candra gave a chuckle, ¡°Very good, the royal pce does indeed have the protection array, but what about other than the royal pce? Can you guarantee that every inch of the empire¡¯snd can be protected by a protection array?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­Great Magician Wiscontin revealed a bitter look before shaking his head, ¡°Your majesty, this is impossible¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So that means that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship were to attack us from the sky, we would have no way of defending against it?¡± Emperor Candra said with a cold look.

    Everyone looked at each other as they revealed ugly expressions.

    His majesty was right. Because the sky had always been the territory of magicians, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really used Magic Airships to attack, they really couldn¡¯t defend against it.

    ¡°We can assemble the magicians to directly attack them in the sky.¡± A minister suggested.

    ¡°But how many magicians can we move?¡± Emperor Candra asked back.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± That minister was stunned and couldn¡¯t say a thing in response.

    Although the Candra Empire was the country with the most magicians, that was no more than fifty thousand based on their statistics.

    Among them, there were less than five thousand of them that could fly in the sky to fight.

    Just relying on those five thousand magicians to protect the giant territory of the empire? That was nothing more than a fool¡¯s dream.

    Not to mention that among those five thousand magicians, there were less than three thousand of them that were willing to listen to the empire¡¯s orders¡­¡­

    There was no other way, magicians were the rarest upation on the Sines Continent and High Grade Magicians were even rarer. Even if the Candra Empire was the strongest nation on the continent, the power of magicians was still the greatest and it was impossible for there to be ample magicians.

    After thinking this through, everyone in the hall suddenly fell silent.

    They were clear on the hidden danger in the emperor¡¯s question, but they couldn¡¯t think of any solutions at all.

    ¡°Your majesty, I think¡­¡­¡± After a while, a minister hesitantly said, ¡°I think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce shouldn¡¯t be that bold as to dere war on our empire, right?¡±

    The others all turned to look at that minister with strange looks.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t this bold, would they have sent out their guards this time?

    Facts proved that this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi was a maniac and there was nothing he didn¡¯t dare do.

    Not to mention their Candra Empire, would he still care about anyone else?

    ¡°Your majesty, your worries are reasonable and I think that we should ce importance on them.¡± The Candra Empire¡¯s armymander, the marshal Campbell Sudman said in a deep voice, ¡°We definitely can¡¯t ignore the existence of this hidden danger, so I suggest that we strengthen the detection on the skies of the borders. We definitely can¡¯t allow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships toe and go as they please like this time!¡±

    ¡°It sounds good, but it¡¯s meaningless.¡± Emperor Candra had a smile that was filled with ridicule on his face, ¡°How are you nning on strengthening detection of the sky on the borders? It¡¯s impossible for normal soldiers to detect the Magic Airships that are over a thousand meters in the sky and as for magicians¡­¡­can you find all those magicians?¡±

    Marshal Sudman had nothing to say to this.

    This returned to the beginning issue.

    In front of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t have a way to deal with them.

    The sky was not a ce that normal people could reach, but now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has reached it with these Magic Airships. As for other people, they couldn¡¯t do the same.

    Although magicians could also fly in the sky, the Magic Airships could be mass produced and it was impossible to mass produce magicians, not to mention High Grade Magicians.

    Could it be¡­¡­that they really didn¡¯t have a way to solve this problem?

    Everyone had serious looks on their faces because they couldn¡¯t think of a way to solve this.

    After a while, there was a long sigh that rang out.

    ¡°Your majesty, I feel¡­¡­that we should give up this senseless restraint and openly cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The one who said this was the oldest minister and the person with the highest position. He was the most trusted speaker of the parliament and also the crown prince of the empire, Cruze Candra.

    He was the emperor¡¯s blood rted uncle and since helping the emperor take the throne, he rarely had any opinions on the empire¡¯s internal affairs. This time, he had unexpectedly spoken up.

    Seeing that everyone including Emperor Candra looked at him with doubtful gazes, Crown Prince Candra spread his hands with a bitter smile, ¡°Your majesty, it¡¯s very clear that we don¡¯t have any ways to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shocking magic machines. Moreover, we clearly don¡¯t have the ability to eliminate this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the only choice left for us is to cooperate with them.¡±

    Everyone slightly knitted their brows.

    Although Crown Prince Candra was stating facts, it sounded very ufortable for the people listening.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the continent, could it be that they could only bow their heads to apany?

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, we need to put down this senseless restraint and pride. The empire could stand on the continent for all these years without falling because we didn¡¯t rely on these meaningless things, but rather we chose to pursue benefits. Since we cannot deal with the problem of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then we should actively pursue cooperation. Take the Magic Airship, as long as we can get enough Magic Airships by cooperating with them, there¡¯s no need to worry about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But if we make the wrong choice, not to mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we will be thrown behind by ourrgest enemy, the Marlow Empire. When that timees, the empire will face a true crisis.¡±

    Hearing the words ¡°Marlow Empire¡±, everyone¡¯s eyes turned cold.

    Different from the Candra Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation with the Marlow Empire had always been smooth.

    ording to the reports, the Marlow Empire had even ordered a batch of Magic Airships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Marlow Empire had enough Magic Airships in the future, with arge amount of military magic machines, the danger that the Candra Empire would face if the Marlow Empire dered war on the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be small.

    After being silent for a bit, Emperor Candra gave a soft sigh. He paused for a bit before saying in a clear voice, ¡°Send out an announcement. Praise the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for their sessful elimination of the bandits in the Tagna Province. This was our empire¡¯s first cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of military magic machines and represents the fact that we have started entering into an agreement¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 6 157 Forcing me to get angry

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 157 Forcing me to get angry</h4>

    ¡°Candra Empire¡­¡­They really did something unexpected¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the official document from the Candra Empire parliament in his hand and there was a surprise that couldn¡¯t be hidden that appeared in his eyes.

    This official document didn¡¯te from the official channel of the Candra Empire, but all the markings on the official document matched that of the Candra Empire, so it was impossible that this was fake.

    This meant that this official document represented the will of the Candra Empire and there was no fabrication.

    However, the content of the official document had surprised Xu Yi a bit.

    Because in this official document, there was the Candra Empire¡¯s first official proposal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to see if they could cooperate.

    Thispared to the previous vague attitude of the Candra Empire towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very big change.

    Although they didn¡¯t openly cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like the Marlow Empire, this official document was filled with sincerity.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent their guards to Larul Town in the Candra Empire to exterminate the bandits, Xu Yi was prepared for all the responses that the Candra Empire might have. He never expected that the Candra Empire would react in a way that hepletely didn¡¯t expect.

    A few days ago, the Candra Empire¡¯s government took the initiative to announce that the military action taking by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in Larul Town was a cooperation with the Candra Empire government.

    This event was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce demonstrating to the Candra Empire the uses of the military magic machines in attacking the bandits. The Candra Empire was very satisfied and also had high praise for the excellent disy of use of the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    The Candra Empire government also stated that through this mission, the Candra Empire¡¯s army and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had a deeper understanding of each other. Both sides would cooperate even further when it came to the new method of fighting with military magic machines. The Candra Empire army was also much more interested in the military magic machines¡­¡­

    In short, the Candra Empire hadpletely swept away the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards acting on their own. Not only did they not me the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards for freely entering the Candra Empire, they also didn¡¯t me them for taking this military action inside the Candra Empire. Rather they covered up desperately for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, while also showing that both sides had a good rtionship.

    This reaction really was too surprising.

    Xu Yi thought that the Candra Empire as an established empire of the continent would always be arrogant. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards heading into their territory and causing trouble this time would definitely anger them.

    The Candra Empire not dering war on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already surprising enough, but now they were even looking to cooperate. This simply made Xu Yi felt like he was in another world.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t strange. The Candra Empire was able tost on the continent for this long and has always been one of the strongest empires, so they know how to adapt to different situations and have their own uniqueness.¡± Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t react with disdain towards Xu Yi, ¡°If the people of the Candra Empire are all idiots, they would have been destroyed countless times by other countries.¡±

    ¡°But isn¡¯t this shameful for them? Can they really swallow this anger?¡± Xu Yi still didn¡¯t dare believe it.

    ¡°What can they do if they don¡¯t?¡± Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Could it be that they could send their armies to dere war on ourpany? Unless they are crazy, how could it be possible that they can¡¯t see the difference in battle strength between these two armies? Kid, don¡¯t think that I can¡¯t see it, you had no fear in provoking the Candra Empire this time, right?¡±

    ¡°Ha¡­¡­¡± Xu Yiughed into the sky, ¡°I was just using this mission to secretly send a warning to the fellows that want to make a move against ourpany. If they want to move against us, they have to see if they are good enough.¡±

    ¡°This means¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus Cami thought for a bit before suddenly pping his hand, ¡°I think that this should be described as the Candra Empire being shot while lying down, right?¡±

    [Note: This is an online Chinese idiom which means feeling helpless.]

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    ¡°Getting shot while lying down¡± was a phrase that he had only used a few times when talking to Still, he never thought that Arch Magus Cami would also learn it.

    ¡°It¡¯s not right to call it that because I chose to act inside of the Candra Empire this time, I wanted to give the Candra Empire a warning.¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°I want them to know that the military magic machines of ourpany is this strong and if they can¡¯t see this, then they can¡¯t me me.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise, ¡°Hey, kid, didn¡¯t you always shout about peaceful development and to make everyone gradually ept the change brought by the magic machines? Why did you suddenly be so radical?¡±

    Xu Yi tapped on the thick pile of reports from thepany on the table in front of him and his expression turned cold.

    ¡°I always felt that if people don¡¯t offend me, I won¡¯t offend them. Everyone could see the benefits brought by the magic machines and I wouldn¡¯t need to do anything, they would just slowly develop on the continent. But now I can see that¡­¡­for some fellows, if you speak of peace with them, they will think that you are easy to bully. Humph! If they must make me angry, I will properly teach them a lesson so they know to be good.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°Then what do you want to do next? Actually, it isn¡¯t just a single person or a single organization that wants to deal with ourpany.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Since the Candra Empire understands, then I won¡¯t have to waste more effort with them. As for those people who still don¡¯t understand¡­¡­the actions taken in the Candra Empire aren¡¯t the first and they won¡¯t be thest.¡±

    Seeing the sharp look that Xu Yi had in his eyes, Arch Magus Cami revealed a bitter smile.

    He never thought that this kid would have a day when he would be forced to be serious.

    Those fellows that don¡¯t know anything about Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they might really feel fear this time.

    ###

    Find Ind was an ind that was approximately less than twenty kilometers off the southern shore of the Candra Empire, with a total area of around ten hectares. It could be considered arge ind in the surrounding sea area.

    The vegetation on the ind was dense and there weren¡¯t many other resources, so although it was close to the shore, it was in a very remote ce. It was also just off the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sea route, so it was always very deserted.

    But for the Blue Beard Pirates, Find Ind was a very good hideout.

    Since the damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with the Candra Empire navy to clean out the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas, as well as wiping out the surrounding pirates, piracy on the seas had been dead. They were very scattered and there weren¡¯t many pirates left.

    The Blue Beard Pirates could stay intact because captain Blue Beard had already expected this. He had already pulled out of the Candra Empire¡¯s southern seas and came to this remote ind that didn¡¯t have any special resources.

    By catching fish, as well as relying on the fruits and prey on the ind, the Blue Beard Pirates had been able tost here for a long time.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire navy eased up on their hunting, Blue Beard even led some people to the shore to be robbers.

    These days for the Blue Beard Pirates that had been able to move through the waters unhindered wasn¡¯t considered good, but they could still live on.

    However, this peaceful lives for the pirates had suddenly stopped when Blue Beard led his subordinates to the shore one time.

    This time, Blue Beard and his subordinates had bumped into a bunch of magicians.

    In front of these powerful magicians, naturally they couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    But what surprised them was that these magicians didn¡¯t kill them, but rather they left a magic mark on each of them and made them swear an oath of loyalty.

    So Blue Beard and his two hundred remaining subordinates had strangely be the subordinates of these magicians.

    What was even stranger was that after these magicians took them in, it was like they had forgotten about them as they had vanished for a long time.

    Until Blue Beard had almost forgotten about this matter when another magician came looking for them, ordering them to prepare to head out to sea.

    Blue Beard and all his subordinates were very confused.

    These magicians had noble statuses, why did they suddenlye here to be pirates?

    However, they couldn¡¯t go against the orders of these magicians at all, so they could only follow the powerful magicians out to sea as they went back to their old profession that they had almost forgotten about.

    But when they saw who they were attacking, Blue Beard almost urinated himself out of fear.

    Gods! He wouldn¡¯t forget the unique g of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even if he was beaten to death!

    Blue Beard knew that pirates like them definitely weren¡¯t a match for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet.

    But when he urged the magicians to retreat, they had ignored him and had chosen to act personally.

    There was no suspense when it came to the ending.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet was terrifying, with twenty High Grade Magicians being led by a Great Magician, they had annihted them in the end.

    After attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet three times with these powerful magicians, there was no fear towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet left in Blue Beard.

    He believed that being led by this powerful Great Magician and working with these twenty High Grade Magicians, there was no one that could match them!

    The only fear that he had left was that he still didn¡¯t know what the goal of these mysterious and powerful magicians were.

    Why did they target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet?

    Could it be that they had some grudge with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    It was a pity that no matter how much doubt he had, Blue Beard still chose not to question these magicians.

    He knew that the more he knew, the faster he would die.

    Of course, even if he didn¡¯t know anything, he couldn¡¯t avoid being silenced by these magicians in the end.

    He believed that the magicians must be doing something that couldn¡¯t be revealed and he as a trivial pirate was no different from an ant in the eyes of the powerful magicians.

    In order to keep their secrets, he could only die in the end.

    With this kind of thought, when Blue Beard went out with the magicians to steal, he had already made his preparations.

    As long as there was a chance, he would immediately leave these magicians.

    As long as he could escape into the seas, with his many years of experience on the seas, he had a 40% chance of living.

    Although it was less than half, it was still better than dying at the sides of these mysterious magicians.

    Blue Beard who hade up with this secret nmanded his subordinates to sail the several dozen broken wooden ships and several steel ships they had stolen from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It didn¡¯t take long before they met another fleet on these endless seas.

    This fleet was madepletely of giant steel ships and there was a g that had half a wing fluttering on the deck.

    There was no doubt this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet.

 Volume 6 158 Naval battle

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 158 Naval battle</h4>

    When they saw the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, Blue Beard immediately gave the signal to his subordinates to secretly move to the side.

    He knew that with the broken and old wooden ships that his subordinates had, there was no chance of fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful steel beasts.

    At the same time, those mysterious magicians were also clear on this. So in the three attacks on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, Blue Beard and his subordinates were only responsible for sailing the boats and when it came to attacking, it was all left to the powerful and mysterious magicians.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had powerful firepower, when facing twenty High Grade Magicians and a Great Magician, they couldn¡¯t resist.

    This time, it was clearly the same.

    Seeing Blue Beard and his subordinates retreat, the twenty three High Grade Magicians on the boats all moved out together.

    In the blink of an eye, there were countlessrge fireballs that flew through the air from the boats, aimed in the direction of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet in the distance.

    The Seventh Grade Fire Bullet, it was even strong enough to kill an elephant.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had thick steel hulls, they couldn¡¯t resist this kind of powerful spell.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    This Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet with tworge transport Magic Ships and eight small guard ships surrounding it were suddenly hit with these dense Fire Bullets. Other some aimed at the smaller eight guard ships that were mobile enough to dodge it, the remaining Fire Bullets were all concentrated on the tworge transport Magic Ships, immediately creatingrge explosion sounds.

    Blue Beard who had moved to the side saw the explosions and there was a pleased feeling in his heart.

    Those turtles from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were acting so strong when they attacked the pirates, but now they could only be beaten like they had been in front of these powerful magicians.

    Hei, no matter where these mysterious magicians came from or why they attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, if they were willing to do this and drive those damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleets out of the sea, he and his subordinates would be able to return to past happy lives!

    Blue Beard looked at the sea in front of him with wide eyes, waiting to see thoserge transport Magic Ships sink into the sea because they were damaged.

    In the past three attacks, he had seen eightrge transport Magic Ships and more than ten guard ships sink.

    Every time, his heart was filled with joy.

    After the mes disappeared, Blue Beard was surprised to find that it was a bit off this time¡­¡­

    The tworge transport Magic Ships were both covered in a faint blue glow which had wrapped up the giant hull, just like they were wrapped up in a light blue coat.

    When those Fire Bullets hit, although there was the powerful explosion, they couldn¡¯t break through the blue glow at all.

    The tworge transport Magic Ships that were covered in this blue glow wasn¡¯t damaged at all, they didn¡¯t even seem shaken as they were steadily floating on the sea.

    ¡°My god! It¡¯s actually a Deep Blue Barrier Array!¡±

    The High Grade Magician standing in front of Blue Beard looked at the strange scene of therge transport Magic Ships with a stunned look and he couldn¡¯t help shouting out.

    ¡°It really is the Deep Blue Barrier Array! Are those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce crazy?¡± Another High Grade Magician on the same ship called out in shock.

    Blue Beard naturally didn¡¯t know what this Deep Blue Barrier Array meant, but it sounded like it was rted to the blue barrier that was around the tworge transport Magic Ships.

    He looked at the two ships in the distance, but he wasn¡¯t that surprised.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had been attacked three times, if they didn¡¯t think of a way to defend themselves, that would be too dumb.

    He didn¡¯t know why these two High Grade Magicians who always acted high and mighty were so surprised.

    Of course he didn¡¯t know that this Deep Blue Barrier Array was a Ninth Grade Magic Array and it was a Magic Array that was said to be the strongest defensive array other than Forbidden Spells.

    In front of the Deep Blue Barrier Array, not to mention that the Seventh Grade Fire Bullet was two grades lower, it was even subdued in terms of attribute, so of course it was impossible for it to break the defenses of the barrier.

    But toy down a Deep Blue Barrier Array which was considered one of the strongest Ninth Grade Magic Arrays, even a normal Ninth Grade Magician would find it hard to do so.

    To put such arge Deep Blue Barrier Array on such arge transport Magic Ship, it required a shocking amount of magic. It was not something that a normal Ninth Grade Magician could endure, only someone who had be a Great Magician could do something like this.

    And in front of everyone were tworge transport Magic Ships that had Deep Blue Barrier Arrays. This meant that facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet, there might be two Great Magicians hidden there!

    Blue Beard heard some soft and very quick footsteps from behind him.

    If Blue Beard wasn¡¯t always vignt and had good hearing, he might have missed these footsteps.

    Hearing these footsteps, Blue Beard knew that the leader of these mysterious magicians had finally appeared.

    Turning around, Blue Beard saw a man with a jet ck robe that didn¡¯t hide the badge that represented the status of a Great Magician on his chest walk over. He came over to the mast and looked at the opposing tworge transport Magic Ships with a serious gaze.

    The two High Grade Magicians both looked at him with doubtful gazes.

    ¡°Great Magician Groven, look¡­¡­¡±

    Great Magician Groven gave a soft snort, ¡°It¡¯s impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to send two Great Magicians to escort this single fleet, it must be something new that they made. Increase the attacks, they definitely won¡¯tst much longer.¡±

    The two High Grade Magicians looked at each other with a bit of worry in their eyes, but they still gave the signal to attack and also sent out attacks at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet again.

    However, when they raised their hands, they found that there were countless red lights above the sea that turned into countless giant fireballs.

    The expression of the two High Grade Magicians changed as they quickly released their magic, creating a light green wind barrier under the ship.

    ¡°Peng, peng, peng, peng.¡±

    The countless fireballs hit this barrier and there were ripples on the barrier, but not a single fireball had broken through and were all blocked.

    Great Magician Groven revealed a smile of disdain as he said with a cold snort, ¡°I thought that after those Frestech Chamber of Commerce fellows would learn to be obedient after being attacked several times, but I never thought that are still using these fireballs that can¡¯t evenpare to a Fifth Grade Spell.¡±

    He crossed his hands behind his back and looked as carefree as tending sheeps, but the two High Grade Magicians in front of him responsible for the barrier wereining in their hearts.

    Although the attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleets couldn¡¯tpare to a Fifth Grade Fire Spell, there were just too many of them¡­¡­

    It was unknown what kind of medicine the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had eaten. It was fine if they didn¡¯t counterattack, but once they did, they released this dense attack that didn¡¯t seem like it would stop.

    Once the fireballs started, they never stopped firing. It was like a rain of mes falling down on the sea.

    Even if the fireballs weren¡¯t that strong, it had a terrifying attack frequency. The magic inside them kept decreasing and in just a few breaths, they had used half their magic reserves.

    Great Magician Groven was clear on their situation and nodded to them, ¡°Prepare to counter attack.¡±

    After saying this, Great Magician Groven incited his magic and raised his hands.

    In the attacks on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet, because of their powerful attacks, Great Magician Groven had to make a move as a Great Magician to take care of them and it seemed like this time wasn¡¯t an exception.

    Endless elemental magic energy gathered in Great Magician Groven¡¯s hand and came above his head. After a while, there was a ck vortex that had formed above his head.

    This was the most powerful Forbidden Spell that Great Magician Groven had, which was a very special special that used spatial magic called Dark st. Its power was not something that a normal Ninth Grade Magician couldpare to.

    If one was attacked by this spell, even if they had the protection of the Deep Blue Barrier Array, it was no use.

    Even with the power that Great Magician Groven had, it took him quite a bit of time to condense this spell.

    However, when he was about to finish condensing it, on arge transport Magic Ship in the distance, there was a white light that appeared that turned into an iparably giant white ball.

    This ball was strangely bright and even though they were two thousand meters away, people thought that it was bright. However, the strange thing was that it wasn¡¯t dazzling.

    Seeing this ball of light condense, Great Magician Groven¡¯s hands couldn¡¯t help trembling and he almost lost control of his magic.

    He was shocked as he looked at this ball of light as a strong sense of danger filled his heart.

    Then the ball of light suddenly exploded, as a giant white beam of light that was several meters wide shot out from therge transport Magic Ship. It crossed the distance of two thousand meters in an instant and was aimed right at a wooden ship beside the one that Great Magician Groven was on.

    When the light disappeared, the sea was like farnd that had just been plowed, as a twenty meter wide and several meter deep gully had appeared.

    The ship that had just been there had disappeared without a trace.

 Volume 6 159 Sir chairman is very angry

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 159 Sir chairman is very angry</h4>

    All the members of the Blue Beard Pirates and the magicians were stunned by this one attack. When they were speechless, there was the same silence on therge transport Magic Ship two thousand meters away that had sent that attack.

    After a while, the sound of a gulp rang out across the silent deck and broke the silence.

    ¡°Gods¡­¡­Did we really just send out that attack?¡±

    A high ranking looking military officer and several crew members on the deck of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet looked at each other with strange looks in their eyes.

    After a while, Garn Sauron who was wearing the high ranking guard uniform and was also themander for this operation gave a cough before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ve already seen the might of this cannon back in training, what is there to be curious about? Stop standing there in a daze and get into your groups! Prepare for the fight, our enemies haven¡¯t disappeared yet!¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    With these responses, the people wearing military uniforms all busied themselves.

    Garn Sauron gave a cough and when he wanted to say something, a middle aged man beside him in a white robe knitted his brows to say, ¡°Commander Sauron, I must remind you that it takes three hundred and thirty Evs of magic per minute to maintain this shield. Since it has been released, it¡¯s already been over ten minutes and it has consumed close to four thousand Evs of magic. The cannon that you fired just now also took one thousand and eight hundred Evs of magic. Right now, the ship¡¯s max Magic Crystal supply left is sixteen thousand Evs of magic, please pay attention to your consumption.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s still sixteen thousand Evs of magic in Magic Crystals?¡± Garn Sauron stroked his chin and calcted it in his heart before breaking out inughter, ¡°Isn¡¯t there still quite a bit left? Alright, it¡¯s enough. Pass down the order, the tworge transport Magic ships will maintain their barriers, but we won¡¯t use the cannons anymore. The other eight guard ships will be responsible for attacking. Brothers! Today is the day that we feed these fools to the fishes! Understood?¡±

    There was a roar that came from themunication tower that was in front of the bridge.

    However, the middle aged man in the white robe said in a cold voice, ¡°Commander Sauron, I must remind you again that sir chairman has requested that we bring back living witnesses this time.¡±

    Garn Sauron helplessly rolled his eyes before turning to another man in a ck robe who was lying back in a chair with his eyes closed.

    ¡°Great Magician Juna, it seems like we still need you to make a move.¡±

    Great Magician Juna opened his eyes and suddenly revealed a dangerous smile.

    ¡°Hei, hei, that¡¯s good. It¡¯s been a long time since I¡¯ve had some exercise. Since we¡¯ve already collected enough data today, I can have some fun now.¡±

    He gave a snap after saying this and there was a dark energy that surrounded him before he disappeared.

    ###

    Great Magician Groven was floating in the air with more than ten High Grade Magicians floating with him.

    Everyone looked down at the sea that hadn¡¯t calmed down yet and they all revealed shocked looks.

    What was that white light just now?

    After the light passed by, the giant ship had actually disappeared without a trace?

    This kind of terrifying might, it was on par with a Forbidden Spell!

    But if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ship could release a terrifying attack that was on the same level as a Forbidden Spell at will, that would be too terrifying.

    This kind of attack could even be considered unreasonable. Not to mention these small wooden ships, even these High Grade Magicians wouldn¡¯t be able to resist it.

    Even Great Magician Groven would be a bit helpless in front of a Forbidden Spell.

    Perhaps he could easily escape from this Forbidden Spell, but if he were to face it head on, it was basically impossible.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, should we¡­¡­continue attacking?¡± A High Grade Magician hesitantly asked.

    Sensing the surprised looks that the other High Grade Magicians had, Great Magician Groven turned to look at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet in the distance.

    Therge transport Magic Ship that had released that terrifying attack didn¡¯t keep attacking and the otherrge transport Magic Ship was also stopped in ce. Only the other eight guard ships were quickly moving across the sea, while also sending attacks at the Blue Beard Pirates¡¯ ship.

    Without the support of these magicians, the pirates couldn¡¯t do a thing. In a single breath, severalrge pirate ships were set alight by giant fireballs, or were directly sunk by them.

    Great Magician Groven focused on therge transport Magic Ship that had just attacked and seeing that it wasn¡¯t moving, he secretly let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°Keep attacking! The other side definitely can¡¯t release the same attack and the attack isn¡¯t that terrifying. We can easily avoid it, we just need to pay attention.¡±

    When Great Magician Groven gave the order to let his subordinates keep attacking, he felt a strong magic fluctuation appear around him which surprised him. His figure immediately moved over a hundred meters away.

    The other High Grade Magicians had weaker sensespared to Great Magician Groven and when they sensed this, there was already arge ck magic vortex that appeared in the air.

    The two High Grade Magicians closest to it didn¡¯t even have time to call out in surprise as they were swallowed by the magic vortex,pletely disappearing.

    The remaining High Grade Magicians used all their magic to quickly fly away.

    After a while, a person came out of the ck magic vortex like he was walking on tnd.

    Beside him were the two unmoving bodies of the two High Grade Magicians who were swallowed by the ck magic vortex. It was unclear if they were alive or dead.

    Great Magician Juna looked at the shaken looks of the magicians in front of him before finally turning to Great Magician Groven and giving augh, ¡°You are the Great Magician who sank the eightrge transport Magic Ships and the thirteen guard ships of ourpany?¡±

    Great Magician Groven felt a sense of extreme danger from this magician who had suddenly appeared.

    That ck vortex was simr to the Forbidden Spell, Dark st that he was most familiar with, but it was clear that the other side¡¯s grasp of spatialws was far above his own. At least he could freely control the magic vortex to appear out of it at will.

    If nothing was wrong, the other side was at least a Great Magician and he was far stronger than him.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Groven immediately understood.

    Attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet today was definitely a carefully nned trap of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Otherwise, it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Ships to have the Deep Blue Barrier Array or this kind of terrifying weapon.

    The most important thing was that they wouldn¡¯t have such a terrifying Great Magician following the fleet.

    Meeting gazes with Great Magician Juna, Great Magician Groven could feel the killing intent in the other side¡¯s eyes. His heart skipped a beat and he suddenly took a deep breath as he activated all his magic, causing the surrounding space to tremble.

    Then his body had disappeared from midair.

    The other High Grade Magicians were all shocked.

    Great Magician Groven had actually disappeared!

    Great Magician Juna had a yful smile and he didn¡¯t use his magic. He raised his hand and brought the small Magic Communicator on his left wrist up to say, ¡°That fellow wants to run, stop him for me.¡±

    He didn¡¯t lower his voice, he even purposefully raised it.

    When these words fell onto the ears of the surrounding High Grade Magicians, they were surprised.

    Could it be that Great Magician Groven wasn¡¯t nning on using spatial magic to attack, but rather to escape?

    As for the mysterious and powerful magician in front of them, what did he mean by ¡°stop him for me¡±?

    When this doubt appeared in everyone¡¯s mind, the guard ships on the sea suddenly released several strange looking dark blue balls of light.

    These balls of light flew into the air before exploding in the air.

    The space in the air suddenly started to shake and these High Grade Magicians felt the wild shaking of the space that had been bombarded by the magic, making the entire space very unstable.

    Great Magician Groven¡¯s figure came out of this space with a shocked look that also looked a bit distressed.

    Great Magician Juna looked at him with a yful look, ¡°Hei, hei, this space is in the range of the spatial magic detector, not to mention trash like you, even I wouldn¡¯t be able to escape this ce with spatial magic.

    ¡°Spatial magic detector?¡± Great Magician Groven looked at Great Magician Juna with a doubtful look.

    He could tell that he wasn¡¯t a match for the Great Magician in front of him, so he had immediately decided to use spatial magic to escape.

    Even if the other side was a Great Magician, as long as he didn¡¯t be an Arch magus, it was impossible to surpass him in terms of spatial magic, so he had a great chance of escaping.

    But now the other side clearly hadn¡¯t made a move, so why did he feel the intense trembling of the space around him that had forced him toe out?

    ¡°Alright, stop wasting time thinking about why this is.¡± Great Magician Juna looked at him like he found this funny and shook his head before his eyes gradually turned cold, ¡°Because you and the trash you brought have made ourpany suffer losses of over twenty million gold coins. Sir chairman is very angry, so¡­¡­you can die.¡±

 Volume 6 160 A bunch of maniacs

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 160 A bunch of maniacs</h4>

    As the capital of the Candra Empire, Wimbledon City had always been known as thergest city on the Sines Continent, so naturally it had arge poption that surpassed other ces.

    ording to the rough stats, there was over two million and three hundred thousand people in Wimbledon City and there were over three million transient poption, which added together was a shocking five million people.

    With this kind of giant poption, if it was ced in a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom, it would be equal to the entire country¡¯s poption.

    It was because there were this many people that Wimbledon City always seemed like it was very lively, being filled with people all over. It was very different from the other calm and peaceful cities of the continent.

    For Wimbledon City, the most lively ce was naturally the Candra Royal Square right in the center of the city.

    This ce had all the shops, well known restaurants, and entertainment areas in Wimbledon City. Other than attracting the small andrge nobles of Wimbledon City out to y, there were many citizens that had decent finances that also came here, hoping that they could meet some of the aloof nobles.

    Of course, if one were to talk about poption as well, it was the Candra Royal Square that had the most.

    This square had been here since the founding of the Candra Empire. It had been reconstructed many times and it still had the same giant area as when it was founded, taking up arge part of Wimbledon City.

    Thetest reconstruction wasst autumn, when the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been invited topletely rebuild it.

    After half a year of construction, the entire square¡¯s floor had been rebuilt with smooth marble and all kinds of flowers and nts were ced all over, making it look even more beautiful. There were many that people had never heard of and it was said that it was a gift from the elves.

    The most noticeable change in the entire square was without a doubt the Magic Lamps that were all around the square.

    When night came, the Magic Lamps would release a light that wasn¡¯t too bright and light the square like it was day time.

    These Magic Lamps designed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were weed by everyone.

    Other than these changes in design, there were a few changes that weren¡¯t as noticeable at first, but then became the most loved thing for people who came to the square. It was therge scale Magic Illusion Projector that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had installed for free.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just provide the equipment, they also provided many entertainment programs.

    Among them were the several dramas that were very popr in the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, which was also quickly weed by the people of Wimbledon City.

    In just a few days, the countless people of Wimbledon City had formed a habit. It was toe to this square once it turned dark and wait for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s drama to start.

    It was the same tonight. Before it even turned dark, this giant square was filled with people. With a single look, one could estimate that there were over twenty thousand people standing in the area in front of therge Magic Illusion Projector.

    Everyone was staring at the space above therge Magic Illusion Projector with expectant looks.

    When it reached night time on the Magic Clock high above, therge Magic Illusion Projector suddenly released a light blue glow. Then there was the symbol of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce that appeared before turning into the words ?Weekly News Report?.

    Everyone in the square was stunned when they saw this, but then they realized something.

    Right, it was Sunday and the one day of the week that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce broadcasted ?Weekly News Report?.

    People weren¡¯t happy with this ?Weekly News Report? when it first broadcast, feeling that it cut into their drama watching time, but the more ?Weekly News Report? was broadcast, the more people enjoyed the program.

    After all, the ?Weekly News Report? talked about all the important things of the continent, so even if they didn¡¯t have anything to do with these normal people, they were still interested since it satisfied their need to gossip.

    This week¡¯s ?Weekly News Report? was the same as thest few week¡¯s. What came first were news reports that were about the Candra Empire.

    One of them was about the actions the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had taken in Larul Town in the Tagna Province.

    Before this, the rumours about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ actions was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had acted alone. They hadn¡¯t received the approval of the Candra Empire, so this could be considered an invasion.

    Even if the Candra Empire¡¯s parliament had announced that this was a joint operation that was approved by the Candra Empire, it wasn¡¯t an invasion, there were still many that doubted this.

    Because there were too many witnesses to this operation and they didn¡¯t see any of the Candra Empire officials working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, so naturally there were many doubts.

    However, in this ?Weekly News Report?, there was a detailed report on this matter now. It not only emphasized that the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked together to attack the bandits in the Candra Empire, in order to make the Candra Empire safer and guarantee the safety of the caravans of thergepanies, they would even give some concrete data.

    This image revealed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guardmander personally leading his troops into Wimbledon City, meeting with several generals of the Candra Empire army. They were very friendly with each other and the atmosphere was very good, it didn¡¯t seem like they were against each other at all.

    ¡°The highestmander of the Candra Empire army, marshal Campbel Sudman indicated that through this joint operation, the Candra Empire army has realized the important might and role that the military magic machines can y, which has broadened the views of the high level members of the army. In the future, the army will change all their weapons to military magic machines and invest in this new method of fighting. Marshal Sudman said that the Candra Empire army would continue to have joint operations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to promote exchange and discussion between both sides.¡±

    The host of the ?Weekly News Report? used a few words to summarize this matter.

    After hearing this news, the doubts in the hearts of the people listening in the square disappeared.

    Look, even the great marshal came out to prove that this was a joint operation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could this still be false?

    After the Candra Empire¡¯s news was broadcast, the ?Weekly News Report? started broadcasting the foreign news.

    The first piece of news immediately attracted everyone¡¯s attention

    ¡°Two days ago, tworge transport Magic Ships and eight Magic Guard Ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fifth transport fleet were ambushed when returning from the Winnes Duchy to the Stantine Duchy. The reports show that the pirates that ambushed the fifth transport fleet were the same pirates that had attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleets three times now.¡±

    With a sh, the image turned to the endless seas.

    Everyone gave a shocked cry when they saw this scene.

    Because in the illusion, there were countless balls of light that were flying above the sea. It was clear from a single look that there were many magicians fighting.

    ¡°These pirates that attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet had twenty High Grade Magicians and one Great Magician¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as the voice fell, the image went closer and focused on the ck vortex that condensed in the air.

    Everyone was stunned.

    A pirate group had over twenty High Grade Magicians? As well as a Great Magician? What kind of joke was this!

    However, the terrifying spells in the image proved that this report was all true.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had an intense battle with the pirates on the sea and obtained victory in the end, killing the Great Magician, along with over ten High Grade Magicians and several hundred pirates. Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has also captured three High Grade Magicians and several dozen pirates.

    ¡°ording to the testimonies of the three High Grade Magicians and the several dozen pirates, this strange group of pirates came from the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Great Magician killed named Groven was also one of the Great Magicians registered in the Mana Magic Kingdom.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone couldn¡¯t help revealingpletely shocked looks.

    Some pirates who didn¡¯t know death daring to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet were already astonishing enough, the fact that this group had all these powerful magicianspletely went againstmon knowledge.

    What was the most shocking was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had won and they had even killed a Great Magician!

    Gods! That was a Great Magician!

    Then the ?Weekly News Report? revealed a scene thatpletely wiped away all their doubts.

    It showed the battle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet with the enemy. Both sides had been at a deadlock, both attacking and defending when arge transport Magic Ship had suddenly released a strangely bright glow before sending out that thick beam of light through the air, directly annihting one of the pirate boats caught in that beam of light.

    Seeing this giant beam of light that cut through the world that people felt dizzy looking at, everyone didn¡¯t know what to say.

    With this kind of terrifying attack, even a Great Magician definitely couldn¡¯t resist¡­¡­

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO Kennards stated that since the twenty High Grade Magicians and the Great Magician named Groven came from the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will report this matter to the Mana Magic Kingdom, while holding the rights to investigate.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone was stunned again.

    Although the Mana Magic Kingdom wasn¡¯t a super empire like the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, it had a very special ce on the continent because it was the kingdom with the most magicians.

    As for why this kingdom would have the most magicians¡­¡­

    The Mana Magic Kingdom was a country formed by the Magicians Guild in secret. It was because of the support of the Magicians Guild that the Mana Magic Kingdom could have such a terrifying number of magicians.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to cause trouble for the Mana Magic Kingdom, it was simply challenging the Magicians Guild.

    There was no doubt that doing this was crazy.

    But everyone thought of how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care about the Magicians Guild at all before and felt that this wasn¡¯t that strange.

    That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi was a maniac and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was filled with maniacs.

 Volume 6 161 Controlling the public opinion

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 161 Controlling the public opinion</h4>

    ¡°Du, du, du.¡±

    This soft knocking with a special pattern rang out in the Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce.

    Emperor Alphonse Candra put down the document in his hand and gave a sigh.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    The door was softly pushed open and a middle aged man who looked normal came in.

    Emperor Candra watched him give a respectful bow before casually asking, ¡°What are the results?¡±

    The middle aged man looked up at the desk in front of the emperor and didn¡¯t dare look at the emperor as he said in a respectful voice, ¡°Your majesty, after the broadcast of the ?Weekly News Report?, we¡¯ve checked with twenty people who have watched this broadcast. They have all said that they trust the news in the ?Weekly News Report? very much and are no longer as doubtful that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted alone before.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then that means¡­¡­this ?Weekly News Report? really is quite powerful. They weren¡¯t even willing to believe the two official documents that we released and now this ?Weekly News Report? that doesn¡¯t have any authority has made them believe it so easily?¡± Emperor Candra said with a trace of self ridicule in his voice.

    ¡°Your majesty, I think that the main reason for this was because before talking about this news, the ?Weekly News Report? had shown some images rted to this piece of news. ording to our investigations, many people chose to believe this because they saw the image of marshal Sudman.¡± The middle aged man exined.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t important why they chose to believe it.¡± Emperor Candra waved his hand, ¡°The most important thing was that they chose to believe it.¡±

    Speaking of this, Emperor Candra fell silent for a bit before continuing in a deep voice, ¡°Tell me¡­¡­If this ?Weekly News Report? were to report something that wouldn¡¯t be beneficial to our empire or to me, do you think that these people would choose to believe it?¡±

    The middle aged man was surprised before saying with a serious look, ¡°Your majesty, please be assured! Every program the New Moon Chamber of Commerce broadcast each day has been examined by this lowly one ahead of time, so there wouldn¡¯t be anything that would be detrimental to your majesty or the empire shown!¡±

    ¡°You can guarantee that it would be shown here, but if there were these Magic Illusion Projectors installed in other parts of the empire, can you guarantee there wouldn¡¯t be a problem in other ces?¡± Emperor Candra looked at him with a teasing look.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± The middle aged man was silent for a bit before slowly shaking his head, ¡°This little one wouldn¡¯t dare guarantee this, but your majesty can simply give the order to not allow these Magic Illusion Projectors to be installed, or just chase out the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°No, these thoughts are too shortsighted.¡± Emperor Candra shook his head, ¡°I learned a lesson from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. You mustn¡¯t think that since we are thergest empire on the continent, we should refuse to ept changes. Our response should be more positive and active, otherwise it might be like Xu Yi had said before, we will be eliminated by the era.¡±

    The middle aged man couldn¡¯t help looking at Emperor Candra with a surprised look before quickly lowering his head.

    He was a bit confused, why would the honourable emperor seem a bit¡­¡­like he was swayed by personal gains?

    Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had really made his majesty a bit nervous?

    Thinking of the reports on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the ?Weekly News Report?, especially how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet had fought against twenty High Grade Magicians and a Great Magician on the sea and won, the middle aged man suddenly had some understanding of the emperor¡¯s thoughts.

    ¡°Murdoch, you and your subordinates are responsible for controlling the empire¡¯s public sentiment and now that this thing has shown this strong ability to control public sentiment, I want you to learn how to control it as soon as possible. If we can use this, I feel¡­¡­that it will save you quite a bit of effort in the future.¡±

    The middle aged man named Murdoch silently thought for a bit before giving a heavy nod.

    ¡°I understand.¡±

    ¡°Good, then you can go. Remember, no matter what method you use, I want this thing to cover all of the empire¡¯snd and you must be able to control it.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    Murdoch replied before turning to leave.

    Watching Murdoch head out the door, Emperor Candra hesitated a bit.

    He had authorized the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to install this Magic Illusion Projector back then first, because he was curious and second, it was out of consideration of the rtionship between the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Still and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi, so it was giving Xu Yi face.

    He never thought that after some time, while this Magic Illusion Projector itself wasn¡¯t anything, the shows that it broadcast had an influence that people didn¡¯t expect.

    As the emperor of the Candra Empire, Alphonse Candra who had been strictly guided since he was young knew the terrifying influence this thing had on the hearts of the people.

    But he also knew that it was very simple to ban it, but it wouldn¡¯t have any meaning.

    Once this kind of attractive thing was invented, it would be popr and it would be impossible topletely ban it.

    So he had to guarantee that he could control this thingpletely and then use it to influence the ignorant people of the empire.

    If he used it well, it would be hard to quantify the uses that this normal looking thing could have.

    After thinking about the function of the Magic Illusion Projector for a while, Emperor Candra focused on something else

    This matter was also rted to the Magic Illusion Projector, or rather the ?Weekly News Report? that was just shown. It was the matter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet¡¯s battle on the sea.

    There were many parts of the ?Weekly News Report? that had been vague, letting people know the main points, but not much else.

    But Emperor Candra had received news from other channels, so he knew much more about this matter than normal people.

    He knew that the Great Magician named Groven wasn¡¯t killed by that terrifying giant beam of light, but rather another Great Magician from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had been hidden.

    But this didn¡¯t make him feel more rxed at all.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had another Great Magician that people didn¡¯t know about, which made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s hidden power even more terrifying.

    Next, even if that Great Magician wasn¡¯t killed by that beam of white light, there was no need to demonstrate that power hidden in that beam of white light since it was clear to all.

    A single attack could destroy a giant ship and not leave a single trace behind, that was enough to show how terrifying that attack was.

    The problem was that this kind of terrifying attack, how could arge transport Magic Ship release it? And how many rounds could it fire?

    Although based on the report, there was only a single attack that wasunched by therge transport Magic Ship, Emperor Candra didn¡¯t believe that they could only fire it once.

    If he wasn¡¯t mistaken, this should be a new kind of military magic machine developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Since it was a military magic machine, that meant it could be mass produced.

    If such a terrifying weapon could be mass produced, this kind of terrifying attack would be the norm. What kind of terrifying scene would that be?

    Emperor Candra rubbed his head before shaking it.

    Although the Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce had spent close to a thousand years umting thisrge defensive barrier, with this kind of terrifying light beam attack that didn¡¯t lose out to a Forbidden Spell, it definitely wouldn¡¯tst.

    Moreover, since this military magic machine could be installed on arge transport Magic Ship, it could also be installed on a Magic Airship.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent a Magic Airship with this military magic machine equipped to attack the royal pce, who could stop them?

    Emperor Candra thought for a while and found that unless an Arch Magus came to help, there was no other way.

    Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    As the honourable emperor of the Candra Empire, he found that relying on the protection of an Arch Magus to survive was an unpleasant feeling.

    ¡°Du, du.¡±

    There was a knock on the door again.

    Emperor Candra put aside his thoughts and took a deep breath to regain the calm on his face.

    ¡°Come in.¡±

    A person who looked to be a servant came in.

    ¡°Your majesty, the Magicians Guild¡¯s president Great Magician Gryffindor and Master Great Magician Nador of the Mana Magic Kingdom are here to see you.¡±

    Emperor Candra couldn¡¯t help giving augh.

    ¡°Those two fellows came quickly. Let theme in then.¡±

    The servant left after receiving this order and after a while, there were two old men in ck robes with the badge of a Great Magician on their chest that followed him in.

    ¡°Your majesty, I hope the power of magic is always with you.¡± The Candar Empire¡¯s Magicians Guild branch¡¯s president Great Magician Gryffindor on the left gave a respectful bow to Emperor Candra.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Great Magician Nador who was the ambassador as well also gave a respectful bow, but his bow was only a formality unlike the bow that Great Magician Gryffindor gave.

    Seeing this difference, Emperor Candra narrowed his eyes before asking with a smile, ¡°Ambassador Nador, are you here on behalf of the Mana Magic Kingdom this time?¡±

    Great Magician Nador immediately said with a smile, ¡°Your majesty truly is wise. Yes, I came as the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s ambassador to meet your majesty. There are some things between our countries that I need to ask your majesty about.¡±

    Emperor Candra took a deep look at him before raising his hand to wave it.

    ¡°If it¡¯s about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then let¡¯s not talk.¡±

    Great Magician Gryffindor and Greata Magician Nador were both stunned. They looked at each other with looks filled with doubt.

    The emperor had already guessed that Great Magician Nador was here because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this wasn¡¯t the strange thing.

    But why did he stop Great Magician Nador from talking about this?

    Thinking of one possibility, Great Magician Nador¡¯s expression became uglier.

 Volume 6 162 Battle begin

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 162 Battle begin</h4>

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Magicians Guild had torn away all face before, making it impossible for them to cooperate and even starting topete in terms of Low Grade Magicians, everyone had thought that it was just in terms of words and wouldn¡¯t end in action.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered the most poprpany on the continent and even the powerful Candra Empire and Marlow Empire cooperated with them. The Magicians Guild could be considered one of thergest organizations on the continent, but they would still have scruples and wouldn¡¯t start conflicting with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But no one thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be so bold.

    It was fine if the Magicians Guild didn¡¯t cause trouble for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went to cause trouble for the Magicians Guild!

    This was simply unbelievable!

    After announcing that their transport fleets had been attacked, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had questioned the Mana Magic Kingdom through official channels.

    However, the results were as everyone expected. The Mana Magic Kingdom stated that they didn¡¯t know anything about this and didn¡¯t know that Great Magician Groven had led twenty three High Grade Magicians to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet, casting this matter asidepletely.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that they already had enough evidence to prove that Great Magician Groven and the High Grade Magicians he led received orders from the Mana Magic Kingdom. They received orders to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleets, with the intention of destroying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s marine transport lines.

    When this remark was sent, it immediately created a stir in all the countries of the continent.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s usations were true, the meaning behind this would be too shocking.

    Everyone knew that the Mana Magic Kingdom was a country that was founded with the support of the Magicians Guild and could be considered the Magicians Guild¡¯s power on the continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce used the Mana Magic Kingdom of sending a bunch of magicians to attack their transport fleets, which was very likely toe from the instructions of the Magicians Guild.

    Like this, it would mean that the grudge between the Magicians Guild and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached an irreconcble level, so they were using this method to directly attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom naturally refused to ept the usations of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, stating that they were ndering the Mana Magic Kingdom and had some hidden goal.

    Therefore, the Mana Magic Kingdom announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was an enemypany. They refused all contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also stopping all products rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from entering the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    For apany, this was a very serious punishment.

    Everyone thought that this matter would end there.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything to a country. Not to mention a country that clearly had the number one organization of the continent, the Magicians Guild behind them.

    However¡­¡­the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did the unexpected once again.

    After the Mana Magic Kingdom refused tomunicate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had issued a final warning to the Mana Magic Kingdom through official channels. They stated that if the Mana Magic Kingdom refused to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in investigating the ambush on their transport fleets, they would take action.

    What was a bit surprising was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s final warning wasn¡¯t just sent through an official channel, they had also reported it through the various newspapers and all the various Magic Illusion Projectors installed in the various cities.

    This naturally caused everyone tough at them.

    Everyone thought that everything must have been too smooth for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recently, which inted their egos and they didn¡¯t even know their own positions.

    Sending a final warning to a country in the name of apany?

    What a joke!

    But¡­¡­While everyone thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just nning on talking, they actually took action.

    ###

    In May of year 3793, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard fleet¡¯s first and second fleet arrived in the southern harbour of the Winnes Duchy.

    After these two fleets arrived, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first, second, and third guard regiments also arrived, totaling a number of six thousand guards.

    The three regiments spent five hours after disembarking to travel through the Winnes Duchy and the Abra Duchy to the north to arrive at the border of the Mana Magic Kingdom, officiallyunching an attack on the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    At the same time, there were a total of thirty Magic Airships which had the fourth regiment and a team of special operatives to the border of the Mana Magic Kingdom, attacking at the same time as the three other regiments.

    With the powerful attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s border guards weren¡¯t even able tost half an hour before they copsed.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards continued forward, using less than two days to cut right through the kingdom, reaching the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s capital, which was called the capital of magic, Sorcery City.

    It was this ce that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards finally met the first piece of real resistance.

    They fought against the only armyposedpletely of magicians, the Glorious Regiment that guarded Sorcery City.

    ###

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard leader Hart looked at the spells that flew in the sky in the distance. After thinking for a bit, he turned to his assistant and asked, ¡°Meiken, tell me the equipment the various regiments have, especially in terms of their Magic Shields.¡±

    Meiken nodded. He pressed on the Magic Airship control panel in front of him a few times and there was an illusion that appeared in front of them.

    Seeing the countless glows in the illusion, Meiken replied with a smile, ¡°Reporting to the leader, based on this, all the various regiments are doing good. There hasn¡¯t been a single Magic Airship or Armoured Magic Vehicle that has had their Magic Shield broken. Moreover, based on the energy report, as long as the other side keeps attacking with the same intensity, we canst at least another hour.¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Hart nodded before turning to look at Lucari who was sitting at another control panel a bit further away, ¡°Give the orders to the variousmanders, they are free to fire at will. I want you to knock down some of those flies in the air for me.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Lucari quickly sent down Hart¡¯s orders.

    After a while, the two hundred Armoured Magic Vehicles on the ground and the twenty Magic Airships released the glowing of magic at the same time. Countless Magic Shells flew out at the Glorious Regiment that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were currently facing.

    The Glorious Regiment was almostpletely made up of magicians, so naturally they attacked with spells which looked very dazzling.

    But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fought back, the magicians of the Glorious Regiment were shocked to find that the other side had sent countless times more attacks at them.

    Seeing the countless balls of magical light that flew through the air, the magicians of the Glorious Regiment could easily feel the terrifying magic fluctuations that came from them.

    Facing this kind of terrifying attack, even the powerful High Grade Magicians didn¡¯t dare face it head on and chose to dodge.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ attack was very dense and very fast, so flying through the sky, they couldn¡¯t dodge them.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    Countless Magic Shells rained down on the Magic Barriers of the magicians of the Glorious Regiment, causing many small andrge explosions to fill the air.

    This was just the first wave of attack and half of the Glorious Regiment¡¯s magicians were shocked to find that arge part of their magic had been consumed.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards didn¡¯t stop their attacks as countless Magic Shells flew out.

    Since the Glorious Regiment had been established, no matter which enemies they had faced, they had relied on the absolute advantage of having more magicians than the enemy to never taste defeat before.

    But now facing the guards sent from apany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the many magicians of the Glorious Regiment felt a kind of shock and fear in their hearts.

    Seeing the quick and dense balls of light flying at them, the magicians that felt that their magic power couldn¡¯t take two hits from them turned to run without any hesitation.

    The magicians that were in aplete formation had countless holes in them because of the magicians that ran, causing their entire formation to fall apart.

    When Hart saw this, he was first a bit surprised before he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort filled with disdain.

    ¡°Hei, these honoured magicians, they¡¯ve always felt that they were more important and wouldn¡¯t be unwilling to escape on the battlefield like true soldiers.¡±

    There was a voice that was filled with ridicule that came from beside Hart, but this was the leader of the dwarves Omar who had been sent to themand ship with him.

    Hart looked at him before turning to look at the elf leader Furio who was at a panel watching over the situation of the battlefield. He thought that Furio was a powerful magician who was close to bing a Great Magician, so isn¡¯t Omar¡¯s words also scolding him?

    The sharp ears of the elf Furio twitched and had clearly heard Omar¡¯s words, but he chose to ignore him as he turned to Hart and said with a serious expression, ¡°The real battle is about to begin.¡±

    Hart and Omar looked at each other before nodding and their expressions also became serious.

 Volume 6 163 Guards vs Great Magicians

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 163 Guards vs Great Magicians</h4>

    To others, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quicklyunching an official attack after the Mana Magic Kingdom ignored their final warning was considered very decisive, but it could also be considered a little senseless.

    But in reality, officially attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom wasn¡¯t that easily passed among the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Or in reality, there were many high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who firmly opposed this idea.

    This wasn¡¯t strange because no matter how one looked at it, it was crazy for apany to start a war with a kingdom.

    Not to mention that Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Compared to normal kingdoms like the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, the Mana Magic Kingdom had the Magicians Guild behind them. They had more magic resourcespared to any other country of the continent, so the army of the Mana Magic Kingdom was much stronger than a normal kingdom like the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Most of the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce thought that choosing to wage war on the Mana Magic Kingdom was simply seeking death.

    Even if the Magicians Guild had really incited the Mana Magic Kingdom to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the most appropriate response was to defend against this and prevent it from happening again. It wasn¡¯t toe here and dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    After all, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set a trap, it had solved this problem.

    Even if the Mana Magic Kingdom had many magicians, they couldn¡¯t disregard the loss of twenty three High Grade Magicians and a Great Magician.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce prepared their defenses, the Mana Magic Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    Of course, the main issue that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce high level members had wasn¡¯t this. They felt that now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was developing at a stable and fast pace, the highest priority thing was to maintain this kind of steady development and not take risks, such as going to attack a country.

    But¡­¡­It didn¡¯t matter if the high level members opposed this because there were two people in thepany who always supported this.

    The first was naturally Xu Yi.

    A crazy idea like attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom, of course it was Xu Yi who everyone called a lunatic who raised this idea and he was the person who supported this the most.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, as well as being the uncontestedrgest shareholder, and with his high prestige in thepany, when Xu Yi made this proposal, even if the other high level members were against this, he could have forced this decision.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were strictly controlled by Xu Yi alone and only obeyed his orders. As long as he insisted, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards would have moved out without any hesitation.

    But what made the other high level members agree to this decision was the support of another person.

    That person¡­¡­was Arch Magus Cami.

    Everyone was surprised that Arch Magus Cami supported Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    Because Arch Magus Cami was the most powerful Arch Magus and was a Great Magician for several decades, so the Magicians Guild had always been important to him.

    Even with his rtionship with Xu Yi, it would be fine if he didn¡¯t support the Magicians Guild, but it was surprising to see that he wanted to attack the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Moreover, he should be the one that understood the power of the Magicians Guild and the Mana Magic Kingdom the most, so he should be convincing Xu Yi to give up this idea.

    But he had supported Xu Yi and even personally sat in on the high level member meeting, emphasizing his stance to the high level members.

    So with the support of Arch Magus Cami, the other high level members chose to ept Xu Yi¡¯s idea and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were sent to attack the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Before this battle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had made a detailed analysis of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s power.

    In this report, the guards didn¡¯t care about the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s normal army at all.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, they were equipped with thetest military magic machines.

    After countless exercises and navalbat scenarios that people didn¡¯t pay attention to, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were certain of one thing, with the appearance of this new method of fighting with military magic machines, the traditional method of using swords and bows couldn¡¯t resist. It was just as easy as an adult bullying a child.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom didn¡¯t have any military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so their traditional armed forces wouldn¡¯t pose any threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    The only thing they needed to care about and be wary of was naturally the magician army that far surpassed the armies of other countries.

    The normal attack from cold weapons posed no threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, but the magic that magicians used were still able to pose a threat to them.

    Of course, if this was before, it might have been a big problem for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards. However, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility worked with the military machine development center to develop the Military Magic Armour, this problem had been solved.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fourth fleet worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to attack Great Magician Groven and the twenty three High Grade Magicians that he led, that was the first test of this Military Magic Armour.

    Facts proved that the tworge transport Magic Ships and the eight guard ships using the Ninth Grade Deep Blue Barrier Array could perfectly guard against all the attacks of these magicians.

    Then all the Magic Airships and Armoured Magic Vehicles under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were all equipped with this Military Magic Armour.

    This time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce attacked the Mana Magic Kingdom with thirty Magic Airships and two hundred Armoured Magic Vehicles, all equipped with this barrier.

    So even if the Glorious Regiment¡¯s magicians had sent those wild attacks, they couldn¡¯t damage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards at all, other than a few people who fainted from the explosions.

    But this didn¡¯t make Hart¡¯s group let down their guard.

    Because they knew that the true battle the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to face would begin now.

    And the people they were facing were actually the Great Magicians that surpassed the strength of these High Grade Magicians.

    The reason for calling them ¡°magicians¡± was mainly because of the Great Magicians in the Mana Magic Kingdom, which reached thirty seven and in this Glorious Regiment, there were twenty one of them.

    These Great Magicians didn¡¯t make a move before was clearly because they cared about their status, but now that these normal magicians couldn¡¯t resist the attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, these Great Magicians couldn¡¯t not make a move.

    As expected, when Furio¡¯s voice fell, there were five figures that flew out of the Glorious Regiment¡¯s camp. Each figure had clear spatial fluctuations around them, making it clear that they were Great Magicians.

    Seeing them, Hart gave an order, ¡°Follow the n immediately. Everyone should aim for their targets, don¡¯t give them a chance to fight back at all!¡±

    As soon as the order was given, the magicians of the Glorious Regiment that had escaped took advantage of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards¡¯ pause in attacks to start fighting back.

    First the Magic Cannons on the two hundred Armoured Magic Vehicles began firing into the air. The air was filled with the glow of the Magic Shells fired from the Magic Cannons into the air, looking iparably dazzling.

    The five Great Magicians of the Glorious Regiment were a bit surprised, but they were Great Magicians after all and they didn¡¯t escape like this magicians from before. With a wave of their hand, a powerful magic barrier appeared.

    The countless Magic Shells fell onto the magic barrier around them and created powerful explosions.

    The sound of the explosions rang out and countless glows appeared, however, the five Great Magicians didn¡¯t move at all, like they weren¡¯t affected by this at all.

    Seeing the five Great Magicians standing there in the mes, the magicians of the Glorious Regiment were filled with morale and couldn¡¯t help bursting into cheers.

    However Hart, who was on the control ship couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    ¡°These magicians really are as dumb and arrogant as always. They could clearly avoid wasting their power by dodging this attack, but they refuse to dodge. Do they really think that it won¡¯t take magic to defend against these Magic Cannons? Hei, Meiken, what is the situations with those five honourable Great Magicians in front of us?¡±

    Meiken looked at the illusion that came from the panel in front of him and said with augh, ¡°Compared to before, the magic fluctuations around these five Great Magicians have weakened. The lowest drop is 9% and the greatest drop is 17%. ording to the magic fluctuation calcting form, their magic power should have dropped from between 5% to 20%.¡±

    ¡°Although those fellows are Great Magicians, they are clearly weaker than Great Magician Juna.¡± The dwarf leader Omar shook his head, ¡°If Great Magician Juna faced these same attacks, he would only lose at most 3% of his magic power.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the same. Great Magician Juna is a Fifth Grade Magician and only a single step away from the Arch Magus Realm, his strength is much greater than theirs. Moreover, he frequently conductsbat exercises with us, so of course he is clear on how to fight us.¡± The elf leader Furio said in a calm voice, ¡°As for these Great Magicians, they don¡¯t have the same experience, so of course they would suffer.¡±

    ¡°Since they don¡¯t have the experience, then we¡¯ll just let them get some precious experience!¡± Hart waved his hand and gave augh, ¡°Of course, it will be a painful lesson.¡±

 Volume 6 164 Magic data analysis module

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 164 Magic data analysis module</h4>

    The battle between Great Magicians was different from a battle between normal magicians.

    Normal magicians would throw all kinds of elemental magic to attack with, but when they hit the barriers of the Magic Airships and the Armoured Magic Vehicles, they couldn¡¯t do a thing. Rather they werepletely routed by the attacks of the military magic machines.

    However, the biggest difference between Great Magicians and them was that Great Magicians could control spatial magic.

    So the Great Magicians didn¡¯t need to be like those normal magicians, foolishly floating in the sky and throwing magic at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards. Rather they could use their advantage with spatial magic to easily avoid these normal attacks, even using the powerful spatial magic to directly attack them.

    When the five Great Magicians started attacking, there were different sized spatial fluctuations that appeared all over the battlefield.

    This was the normal characteristic of spatial magic. It wasn¡¯t using elemental magic energy to influence space, but rather directly using magic to influence space and twist it to attack enemies.

    Spatial magic was fundamentally different from normal elemental magic. Great Magicians with spatial magic when facing normal magicians, with the strength of their spatial magic, they couldpletely suppress the normal magicians who wouldn¡¯t even have a chance to fight back.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had surprisingly easily defeated the magicians of the Glorious Regiment, the five Great Magicians were still very confident.

    It should be said that sending out five Great Magicians to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards was already treating them seriously, which was on ount of Great Magician Groven¡¯s death before.

    However¡­¡­when the real fight began, the five Great Magicians of the Glorious Regiment were surprised to find that their spatial magic that had gone smoothly in the past, actually didn¡¯t have the effect that they expected on the Magic Airships and the Armoured Magic Vehicles.

    The spatial magic that was terrifying for normal people, whether it was therge Magic Air or the many small Armoured Magic Vehicles, they were covered in the bright glow of this strange magic. When they were wrapped up in this, it even resisted the trembles of the spatial magic.

    Although it seemed like these Magic Airships and Armoured Magic Vehicles were being swallowed by the spatial magic, with the protection of this strange magical glow, they were the same as before, not showing any signs of damage at all.

    From the five Great Magicians of the Glorious Regiment to the normal magicians who had already escaped, they were all stunned as they watched these strange changes with the battlefield.

    This had already gone past themon senses of these magicians!

    When facing spatial magic, for normal magicians, they should try all they could to escape. If it was a Great Magician of the same rank, they would be able to use their own spatial magic to fight back.

    But no matter what, they had never heard of spatial magic being resisted and not having any effect at all.

    This was simply too unbelievable.

    ¡°Hei, those idiots, don¡¯t they know about the profoundness of the Magic Space Stabilizer?¡± The dwarf leader Omar pointed at the five stunned Great Magicians in the sky above them and gave a coldugh filled with ridicule.

    Hart also looked over and gave a cold snort.

    ¡°These magicians always boast of how mysterious their magic is, only a few talented people can grasp it and they¡¯ve always remained aloof. They never thought that in front of the magic data analysis sir chairman came up with, it isn¡¯t mysterious at all. All magic¡­¡­is just a bunch of data.¡±

    The elf leader Furio gave a helpless look at the two of them and shook his head before giving a sigh, ¡°I know that you two are warriors and can¡¯t stand how the magicians always look down on you, but the magic data analysis was proposed by sir chairman who is a Great Magician. As for the research, it was mainly done by the magicians of the magic research facility, so can you not have such a look of schadenfreude?¡±

    Omar and Hart looked at each other before breaking out inughter.

    Hart pped Furio on the shoulder and said with a wide smile, ¡°Of course I know that this thing was developed by sir chairman and the magicians of thepany, but this doesn¡¯t stop me from feeling schadenfreude over these idiots. Furio, to be honest, you¡¯re close to bing a Great Magician, what do you think of the magic data analysis that sir chairman came up with?¡±

    Furio couldn¡¯t hide the look of admiration on his face as he said in an emotional voice, ¡°I can say for certain that in the history of magic research, this is the most innovative and significant idea. Before sir chairman proposed this idea, there had never been a magician who had thought that we could use concrete data to measure magic with.¡±

    ¡°All the magicians thought that magic was a very mysterious and special thing, one can only grasp magic based on continuous practice andprehension. If you can grasp it, it means you¡¯re talented enough and if you can¡¯t, it means you don¡¯t have the talent.¡±

    ¡°But now¡­¡­the ideas that sir chairman proposed can break this tradition. The mysterious magic has been analyzed with data, so it is no longer as mysterious. I even feel that¡­if there were enough conditions, with this magic data analysis, we could even mass produce magicians.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman said that, but Arch Magus Cami also said that magicians that train in magic like this would have too rigid of an understanding, so they wouldn¡¯t have goodbat power.¡± Hart said with a shrug.

    ¡°Whatbat power do you need?¡± Omar waved his hand, ¡°Look at the people we have, other than Furio, there are barely any magicians, but we can still fight those magicians in front of us. If I had to call it, what sir chairman is doing is pulling out the foundations of the damn Magicians Guild. Think about it, ourpany can even mass produce Low Grade Magicians, who would still care about the Magicians Guild?¡±

    Furio and Hart were silent for a bit before nodding along.

    Based on this perspective, perhaps when sir chairman had proposed this, he had already considered this.

    Otherwise, why would he insist on attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom?

    ¡°Alright, we don¡¯t need to consider these questions and now isn¡¯t the time. The most important thing now is to tidy up these fellows.¡± Hart gave a strong p and pulled their attentions back before turning to shout at Meiken, ¡°Meiken, is there anything to report from the data analysis of the five Great Magicians?¡±

    ¡°Wait a minute!¡± Meiken shouted out as he continued to stare at the illusioning from the panel in front of him.

    Hart didn¡¯t wait and directly came to themunication panel, pressing on the button.

    ¡°All teams pay attention, prepare to counter attack! All of you think about what we did in our usual training with Great Magician Juna and don¡¯t make a single mistake!¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡±

    ¡°Received!¡±

    ¡°Leader Hart, rx. Those fellows can¡¯tpare to Great Magician Juan, we can casually take care of them.¡±

    ¡­¡­

    There were responses filled with morale that came back.

    Hart gave a satisfied nod. He turned to Meiken and found that he was still looking at the screen in front of him, knowing that it would take some time for him to finish analyzing the data. After thinking about it, he gave the order, ¡°All Magic Airships, first stop attacking and take evasive actions, don¡¯t use hard resistance. Our store of energy is the most important thing in this battle, it isn¡¯t that time now.¡±

    There were responses of orders received from themunicator and the thirty Magic Airships in the air began to move, quickly flying around in the sky.

    Because there was a new breakthrough in the Magic Engine, the Magic Airship¡¯s max speed had already broken one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour.

    Flying at full speed, if one looked up from the ground, they would see a bunch of ck shadows dancing around the sky at full speed, which looked quite impressive.

    Of course, even at this high speed, they couldn¡¯t evade all the attacks of the magicians. There would still be some spells that would hit the Magic Airships and would be blocked by the barriers.

    After flying like this for a bit, the one who was in charge of the supplies on thismand Magic Airship turned to look at Hart with a strange look.

    ¡°Leader Hart¡­¡­I feel¡­¡­that we should just stay there and take the hits.¡±

    Hart was surprised, ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Because¡­¡­I¡¯ve found that¡­¡­with the current situation, our magic consumption rates are 20% higherpared to before¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this response, not just Hart, Omar and Furio were both stunned.

    ¡°Why? Can¡¯t we evade many spells by dodging like this? Why would it consume more energy?¡±

    The person in charge of supplies had a helpless bitter smile as he replied, ¡°To be honest¡­¡­when ites to our Magic Airships¡¯ energy consumption, the highest consumption is flying around which is around five hundred and seventy Evs per minute. When we use this kind of high speed, it consumes up to a thousand Evs per minute. If we only maintain the magic barriers, it would only consume two hundred and forty Evs per minute¡­¡­¡±

    Hart, Omar, and Furio all looked at each other.

    Hart felt his face suddenly be warm.

    He was the one who gave the order, he never thought that he would make this mistake.

    But he felt that this wasn¡¯t right and asked in a curious voice, ¡°This isn¡¯t right. When we were training with Great Magician Juna, we also used this high speed dodging method and there was no report that it had a higher consumption¡­¡­¡±

    The person in charge of supplies spread his hands and gave a more helpless look.

    ¡°That is because Great Magician Juna is a Fifth Grade Great Magician. If we resist his attacks, we have to coordinate with our Magic Space Stabilizers, which would increase the consumption needed. But the threat of these five Great Magicians¡­¡­their spatial magic isn¡¯t as strong as Great Magician Juna¡¯s, so we don¡¯t need to use the Magic Space Stabilizers, which decreases the consumption.¡±

    Hart¡¯s group was speechless.

    In the end, it was just that the five Great Magicians they faced were too weak¡­¡­

    ¡°Alright, this can be considered getting some realbat experience¡­¡­¡± Hart had an awkward look as he unwillingly gave the order into themunicator, ¡°Alright, all of you stop. You just need to avoid the spatial magic of the other side, you don¡¯t need to keep dodging around¡­¡­¡±

    When his order was sent, Meiken suddenly turned around.

    ¡°Leader, the data collection isplete!¡±

    Hart¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Great! Immediately send the data to the other teams. Brothers! Take care of those five fellows for me!¡±

 Volume 6 165 Terrifying Frestech Chamber of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 165 Terrifying Frestech Chamber of Commerce</h4>

    At the end of May in year 3793, the news from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Mana Magic Kingdom was what everyone paid attention to.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had surprised everyone in the middle of May by attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom. Everyone had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would suffer a loss before being defeated.

    But by the end of May, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced through various official channels that they had obtained a satisfying result in their operation in the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    This military action was aimed at those with hostility towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Mana Magic Empire, the magicians that attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce believed that this would be a serious warning to the magicians who were targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so this wouldn¡¯t happen again in the future.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was warning the Mana Magic Empire, hoping that they would be able to control their magicians. If this happened again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would retaliate again without a doubt.

    Just based on this statement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had without a doubt obtained sess in their actions in the Mana Magic Empire, that way they would be confident enough to warn the Mana Magic Empire.

    However, many people were doubtful of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official statement.

    In the end, the Mana Magic Empire was different from any other country on the continent. With therge number of magicians that they had, the Mana Magic Empire should be the best country to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, even better than the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were able to easily defeat the Mana Magic Empire, wouldn¡¯t that mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were invincible on the continent?

    While countless people expressed their doubt, the Mana Magic Kingdom sent back a statement to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had audaciously invaded the Mana Magic Kingdom, attacking the army of the Mana Magic Kingdom, which was a clear invasion. This was trampling the most basicws of the continent and the Mana Magic Kingdom expressed extreme protest towards this, retaining the right to fight back at any time.

    At the same time, the Mana Magic Kingdom firmly denied the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s usations about Great Magician Groven.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom stated that this was nder from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finding a shameless excuse to attack the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shameless act, the Mana Magic Kingdom stated that once they gathered their strength, they would teach the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a lesson in blood.

    When the Mana Magic Kingdom made this statement, the Magicians Guild headquarters also released a public announcement.

    The Magicians Guild stated that the Mana Magic Kingdom was the Magicians Guild;s long time partner and also a special kingdom designated by the Magicians Guild to have special treatment for magicians.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invaded the Mana Magic Kingdom without reason, this was equal to provoking the Magicians Guild, challenging and insulting all magicians on the continent.

    The Magicians Guild stated that for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s excessive actions, the Magicians Guild would be applying full sanctions on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Starting from the day of the announcement, the Magicians Guild would forbid all magicians from contacting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They wouldn¡¯t be allowed to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or they would be designated an enemy of the Magicians Guild and an enemy of all magicians on the continent.

    Other than this, the Magicians Guild gave their full support to the Mana Magic Kingdom, calling for the other countries of the Sines Continent to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It had to be said, the Magicians Guild¡¯s statement was very serious and their measures were very decisive and ruthless.

    With the authority the Magicians Guild had in the minds of the magicians of the continent, if they prohibited all magicians from contacting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not to help them, most magicians would feel plenty of scruples about this matter.

    The core of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were magic machines, so the most important staff that they had were magicians.

    If these magicians listened to the Magicians Guild and left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only would it be a heavy blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it might even paralyze them.

    Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might copse.

    People didn¡¯t understand why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gone against the Magicians Guild and even tore off all face.

    But at the same time, many people knew that the Magicians Guild¡¯s ban on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have any effects.

    Facts proved this.

    After the Magicians Guild made their announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t influenced at all. Rather, there were many powerful magicians in various regions that stated that the Magicians Guild was an organization that served the magicians of the continent, they had no rights to forcefully ban something for magicians.

    This ban against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only went against the founding objective of the Magicians Guild, it also vited the dignity of magicians.

    There were many powerful and famous Great Magicians that requested the Magicians Guild to take back this ban.

    Suddenly, the Magicians Guild had fallen into chaos because of the opposition of each nation¡¯s Magicians Guild branch.

    For normal people, the dispute between magicians wasn¡¯t rted to them. What they cared about the most was the facts of the war between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Based on the statements of both sides, even if the Mana Magic Kingdom wanted to sound strong with their statement, it was clear that they were only acting tough.

    Because ording to some of the results that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced, the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t fight back at all. Rather, the statement that they released made it sound like they were aggrieved.

    Didn¡¯t this mean that they had suffered a clear loss in the battle between the two sides?

    So everyone was very curious since the Mana Magic Kingdom had many magicians, even twenty Great Magicians, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could win against them which really seemed unbelievable.

    Just how did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards won? What were the concrete results?

    This was what everyone cared about.

    These two questions, only several days after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Mana Magic Kingdom, and the Magicians Guild had released their statements, were gradually exined.

    ording to various reports, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards attacked the Mana Magic Kingdom, there wasn¡¯t much to talk about because when facing the normal armies of the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had steamrolled through them without any resistance.

    The real battle between the two sides and what could even be considered the only battle was the one outside the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s capital. It was when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards fought against the Glorious Regiment that was famed on the continent.

    The results of this battle were a bit unbelievable for people.

    The Glorious Regiment had beenpletely defeated and lost two hundred and eighteen Grade Five or higher magicians.

    This result was already surprising enough.

    However, the most shocking thing was that the Glorious Regiment had actually lost four Great Magicians!

    Gods!

    Great Magicians in the minds of normal people were already experts that were like gods and people could only bow down in worship to them.

    If any Great Magicians fell, that would be a shocking matter.

    But this time, there were four Great Magicians that fell!

    Thest time a Great Magician fell was a hundred and thirty years ago when the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had fought an all out war.

    However, in this entire battle, there had never been a situation where more than one Great Magician was lost in a battle.

    After all, Great Magicians were powerful people who could use spatial magic, so even if the battle wasn¡¯t going well, they could run without a problem when they wanted to escape.

    So everyone had thought that it was a joke when they heard this the first time.

    However, when this result was confirmed, everyone was speechless.

    How was this possible!

    Why? Why did these four powerful Great Magicians all fall in this one battle?

    Could it be that they couldn¡¯t even escape?

    It had to be known that on the continent, there wasn¡¯t a single country that requested a magician to fight to the death.

    After confirming this result, everyone found that the name Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be ¡°terrifying¡± in their hearts.

    It was only apany, but it had the power to fight a country head on.

    Moreover, this country was more than three thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and was filled with magicians, being called the third strongest nation after the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire.

    What was most terrifying was that there were four Great Magicians that had been killed in this one battle!

    This meant that the Great Magician that normal people couldn¡¯t reach and would be an important character in any small country, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was someone that they could easily kill.

    Then¡­¡­other than Great Magicians, would the only thing that could threaten the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be Arch Magi that were at the peak of all magicians?

 Volume 6 166 Rigorous and scientific magic research

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 166 Rigorous and scientific magic research</h4>

    Arch Magus Cami watched the thirty Magic Airshipsnd from the sky and narrowed his eyes as he revealed aplicated look.

    Xu Yi standing beside him was exceptionally silent. He turned to look at him and saw the strange expression on his face. After thinking for a bit, he asked, ¡°Grandfather, do you think that this military action on the Mana Magic Kingdom is wrong?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°No, this one time is when I supported you the most, there is nothing wrong about it. Only¡­¡­when I think about how five Great Magicians fell because of ourpany¡¯s attack, this really is a bit surprising¡­¡­and hard to ept for me.¡±

    ¡°Hard to ept?¡± Xu Yi looked at the sad look in Arch Magus Cami¡¯s eyes and had a thought. After being silent for a bit, he asked, ¡°Grandfather, ¡°Do you think that¡­¡­people like Great Magicians shouldn¡¯t fall that easily?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami gave a bitterugh, ¡°The term fall isn¡¯t used to describe the death of a normal person.¡± After giving another sigh, he said, ¡°You have to know that just a few years ago, I was only a Great Magician.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile, ¡°Grandfather, are you sympathizing with their fate? Rx, there¡¯s no way that thepany¡¯s guards would move against you, not to mention that you are now an Arch Magus and much stronger than a normal Great Magician. Then again, I¡¯ve never felt that a Great Magician is that great. Look, aren¡¯t I a Great Magician as well?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami rolled his eyes and gave a cold snort, ¡°Kid, you¡¯ve never treated yourself as a magician, so what if you¡¯re a Great Magician? Speaking of this, I really feel like worthless for the other magicians of the continent. Kid, you clearly don¡¯t care about magicians, but there are countless magicians who chase after the mystery of magic, spreading their entire lives on magic and still being unable to be a Great Magician. This really does make one feel that destiny isn¡¯t fair.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You can¡¯t me me. Things like talent aren¡¯t fair to begin with. Then again,pared to talent, I feel that the magicians of the Sines Continent have a misunderstanding of magic. I always felt that everything in this world could be analyzed in a concrete method and nothing should be described as ¡®mysterious¡¯ and ¡®profound¡¯. Although magic is indeed amazing, as long as you properly study it, it is nothing more than a useful tool in my eyes.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami fell silent.

    As someone who started studying magic before he was ten and had been in the magic world for fifty years, who had be a powerful Arch Magus in the end, he was very unwilling to admit that he had been on the wrong path, even having made some mistake with his magic research.

    He also wasn¡¯t willing to admit that magic was something that one could simply analyze with data because that was equal to admitting that everything he said about the mysteriousness and profoundness of magic was useless.

    However, he did have to admit that Xu Yi¡¯s words were a bit right.

    When Xu Yi proposed that all magic could be analyzed with data, he and all the magicians in thepany had thought that Xu Yi was joking.

    But when Xu Yi used the data analysis method to exin most of the First to Third Grade Spells, all the magicians of thepany had to acknowledge Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    Once they acknowledged it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had already been influenced by Xu Yi started collecting arge amount of magic research data. These magicians had the same rigorous spirit as the scientists one earth, which opened a new world into the magic that they knew.

    However, they found that Xu Yi¡¯s method and concept really was too easy to use!

    With this detailed data, any kind of magic would turn into a pile of data and wouldn¡¯t be as mysterious as before.

    Even the most simple First Grade Fire Spell, the Magic Fireball which was considered the most basic spell on the continent.

    Before this, when magicians came in contact with magic and learned this Fireball Spell, their teachers would just tell them to use their magic power to induce the fire magic elemental energy around them. Then they should gather that fire magic elemental energy and congeal it into a sphere.

    When you gathered enough fire magic elemental energy and there was enough concentration, the Fireball Spell would form.

    Of course, if you couldn¡¯t aplish this, it meant that you didn¡¯t have enough talent and wasn¡¯t suited to being a magician.

    Or to put it more urately, you weren¡¯t talented in fire magic and wasn¡¯t suited for being a fire attributed magician. Just to be safe, you could try the other kinds of magic.

    With this kind of study method, most of the time one had to depend on themselves to figure things out.

    The teacher would just tell you how to move your magic power, but they wouldn¡¯t tell you how to gather fire magic elemental energy, how to congeal this fire magic elemental energy into a sphere, what kind of sphere it should be, or what the density of the fire magic elemental energy inside should be¡­¡­

    In short, one had to figure everything out themselves.

    So like this, it was very important for one to have talent when studying magic.

    The magicians with greater talent found it very simple to grasp this and the magicians without talent had to spend a lot of time in hopes of grasping this magic.

    Even like this, even when it came to the simplest Fireball Spell, the effects were different based on the different magicians who used them.

    When Xu Yi saw this, it made him criticize the study of magic on the Sines Continent as not being rigorous and scientific.

    Xu Yi felt that this vague method of studying magic simply didn¡¯t bring out the tremendous use that this amazing tool like magic had.

    Arch Magus Cami and the other magicians of thepany didn¡¯t understand what Xu Yi meant by ¡°unscientific¡±, but they did agree to Xu Yi¡¯s appraisal of ¡°not rigorous¡±.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been focusing on magic machines since the beginning, these magicians in their years of development had suffered from quite a bit of unrigorous magic research.

    For example, when they were developing the Magic Airships. Although everyone knew that by putting a flying array on the Magic Airship, it would allow the giant Magic Airship to easily fly in the sky.

    During their research, no one knew what kind of flying array to use and what the size of the array should be. They also didn¡¯t know how to make it so that the flying array would only have a floating effect¡­¡­

    In short, because they didn¡¯t have urate data on the flying arrays, when they were developing the Magic Airship, just to determine which flying array to use, the magicians of the magic research facility had spent quite a bit of effort.

    Moreover, this wasn¡¯t just when they were developing the Magic Airship. When they were deciding which Magic Arrays to use for the other magic machines, they also faced many simr problems.

    When Xu Yi first proposed using data analysis to study magic, the magicians of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t understand it at first, but once he exined it to them and they epted it faster than anyone, while also supporting it.

    If you went to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility now, you would find that what the magicians were most passionate about wasn¡¯t magic research. Rather they were all studying the Intermediate Mathematics that Xu Yi personally wrote.

    It was to improve their foundation in data based magic research. ording to what Xu Yi said, once they had reached a certain level, he would teach them the higher level Advanced Mathematics.

    With this knowledge, they would be able to understand and grasp the fine points of data based magic research.

    But even if they hadn¡¯t grasped these fine points yet, just based on them analyzing the low grade spells with data, they had already understood the benefits brought from using this method.

    Take the same Fireball Spell.

    After analyzing the Fireball Spell, Xu Yi had created a model for the Fireball Spell. It proved that there was a best ratio for the shape and size of the fireball based on the amount of fire magic elemental energy gathered.

    As long as there was the best ratio, the Fireball Spell would release the most stable explosive power.

    It wasn¡¯t the strongest it could be because to make it the strongest, one had to increase the ratio, but that didn¡¯t help with the stability of the Fireball Spell, which made it easy to fail in using it.

    Or going a grade higher than the Fireball Spell, jumping to the Second Grade me Spell, the Scorching mes Spell.

    Other than this, through his own research, Xu Yi had decided the best shape for the First Grade Fireball Spell.

    This shape wasn¡¯t a circle like all magicians had thought, but rather it was a bit of an oval shape.

    Because if it was like this, it would ensure that the fire magic elemental energy inside the Fireball Spell as it flew was in the most stable condition, which would create the strongest power.

    In order to prove his research, Xu Yi had found a hundred First Grade Magicians from the Frestech Academy, letting them train in the Fireball Spell based on Xu Yi¡¯s theory.

    In less than a week, the First Grade Magicians had already fully mastered this Fireball Spell.

    Although there was a difference in strength in their Fireball Spells, the difference was very small.

    The weakest Fireball Spell that they used was already far stronger than the Fireball Spells that they had used before.

    Compared to the introduction of the Fireball Spell in the books that Low Grade Magicians used, their Fireball Spell was several times stronger.

    This proved that Xu Yi¡¯s research was a great sess.

 Volume 6 167 Letting normal people learn magic as well

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 167 Letting normal people learn magic as well</h4>

    Thinking of how in thest year and a half, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gone from being doubtful to understanding and supporting Xu Yi¡¯s proposed magic data analysis method before the magicians all began wildly investing in this process, Arch Magus Cami couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional.

    When he met this kid Xu Yi, he had only caught the attention of Arch Magus Cami because of the strange piano model that he made.

    Now after more than ten years, this kld had not only built the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had developed the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, even bing strong enough to influence the entire continent. Now he even created this magic data analysis method which had already caused the magic research method that hadsted ten thousand years on the continent to go in a new direction.

    Although this theory was only in its initial state, Arch Magus Cami expected that as time passed, this new magic research method would definitely create waves in the magicians circle before creating a new revolution.

    It would take long before the mysterious and aloof magicians in the hearts of people wouldn¡¯t be as mysterious and aloof anymore.

    In other words, magic would be more popr and understood by normal people, so it would be grasped by even more people.

    Because a long time ago, there was an Arch Magus who said.

    There isn¡¯t anything like talent for magic in this world. Every person can grasp magic, the only difference in the depth of the magic grasped.

    The reason why there were so few magicians waspletely because magic research wasn¡¯t developed enough. The people who didn¡¯t have as much talent with magic couldn¡¯t truly grasp magic.

    Arch Magus Cami had disdained this view before, but after seeing Xu Yi¡¯s experiments and letting those one hundred First Grade Magicians grasp what could be considered the world¡¯s strongest Fireball Spell, he now had the same view.

    If this was true, wouldn¡¯t it mean that everyone on the continent would have a chance to be a magician?

    That way, magicians wouldn¡¯t be such a rare upation.

    Thinking of this, Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi again.

    This kid Xu Yi, he had always tried to bring magic closer to normal people and integrate it into the lives of normal people.

    If the magic machines that he developed before were to let magic be a tool that made people¡¯s lives better, then this magic data analysis method was taking it a step further, letting magic be something that even normal people could grasp.

    Arch Magus Cami always hoped that more people would want to study magic, but he never thought that something he couldn¡¯t do as an Arch Magus was something that Xu Yi could do.

    Once it was finished, Xu Yi would definitely be able to be the one that represented magicians the most on the continent.

    However¡­¡­what made Arch Magus Cami unsure whether to cry or not was that he understood that for this kid Xu Yi, whether it was the magic machines or the magic data analysis, he never had these ideas at all.

    Magic in the eyes of this kid was purely a tool that was easy to use.

    When Arch Magus Cami was lost in thought, the thirty Magic Airships had alreadynded. Hart, Omar, and Furio who led the attack on the Mana Magic Kingdom and the first batch of Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards came out.

    Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman came forth to meet them.

    After the short talk, Xu Yi collected the information from Meiken and the others in charge of collecting data before heading back to the magic research facility with them and Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is the data from the battle between us and the five Great Magicians, please take a look.¡±

    After entering the data analysis department that was just created in the magic research facility, Meiken¡¯s group gave Xu Yi a bunch of thick data reports, as well as some Magic Illusion Discs.

    Xu Yi waved his hand for them to set it down.

    ¡°Leave this data for the others to study. Tell me first, was there a lot of pressure fighting five Great Magicians at once?¡±

    Meiken¡¯s group looked at each other before revealing rxed smiles.

    ¡°Of course there was pressure, but it really wasn¡¯t as dangerous as we thought.¡± Meiken said, ¡°Those five Great Magicians were weaker than Great Magician Juna and we¡¯ve already hadbat training with Great Magician Juna, so there wasn¡¯t much pressure when we faced them.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before turning to Arch Magus Cami.

    Arch Magus Cami touched the thin beard on his chin before shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    Even if he as an Arch Magus faced five Great Magicians at once, he would feel some pressure, but the fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards said that there wasn¡¯t much pressure¡­¡­

    If this was known, perhaps the other magicians on the continent would find it hard to believe.

    Although in the rumours, there were four Great Magicians that fell in the battle between the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Glorious Regiment and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all five Great Magicians had fallen in reality. The reason why it was four was because Xu Yi had released false information.

    However, whether it was four or five, the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had taken down a Great Magician was already surprising enough.

    This made all the other magicians on the continent be wary.

    Even Great Magicians couldn¡¯t escape the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and were killed, then ordinary magicians wouldn¡¯t be wild enough to fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    Arch Magus Cami was one of the strongest Arch Magi and had been in the magician circle for several decades, but he knew that magicians all cared about their own lives and wouldn¡¯t easily send themselves to their deaths.

    So through the battle with the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had shocked all the magicians on the continent, which would guarantee that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had obtained some defense against the Magicians Guild.

    And this would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promote their magic machines and magic data analysis method in the future, so it could be considered a strategic move.

    It was because of this reason that Arch Magus Cami had surprised everyone by supporting Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion to attack the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Of course, he was clear that was on the premise that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were strong enough to defeat the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    ¡°Alright, put down the data and let this kid Xu Yi take care of it. You alle with me, I¡¯m free today, so I¡¯ll y with you kids from the guards today.¡± Arch Magus Cami suddenly said.

    Meiken¡¯s group was stunned before revealing bitter looks.

    ¡°Lord Cami, we just came back from the battlefield, can¡¯t you let us rest a bit?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami red at them, ¡°It is because you just came back that the training effect would be better! Stop wasting words ande with me.¡±

    Watching Meiken¡¯s group following Arch Magus Cami in a depressed manner, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    It was clear that Arch Magus Cami wanted to spar with those fellows from the guards.

    This had happened many times before and the guards had been thrashed by Arch Magus Cami each time, which had left a trauma in the hearts of Meiken¡¯s group.

    But Arch Magus Cami wanted to spar again and although Meiken¡¯s group seemed depressed on the surface, there was an excited feeling that was in their hearts.

    Being able to train with an Arch Magus, this was a high ss treatment that not any army on the continent could have.

    Of course, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, there wasn¡¯t another group that could resist an Arch Magus.

    Actually, when Xu Yi proposed to Arch Magus Cami to train with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, he had rejected this.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards became stronger, Great Magician Juna was already unable to gain any advantages against them, so Arch Magus Cami suddenly agreed to train with them.

    Xu Yi guessed that Arch Magus Cami did this to maintain his prestige as a magician.

    But the reason why he wanted to train today was most likely for another reason¡­¡­

    Thinking of this reason, the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face gradually disappeared.

    After thinking for a bit, he came to the magic research facility¡¯s chief¡¯s office.

    ¡°Hey, Evita, how are the preparations?¡±

    Evita was focused on something and hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, she didn¡¯t waste any words and pointed at the wall.

    There was a giant map that was hanging on the wall.

    Looking carefully, one would find that this map wasn¡¯t one of the continent that could be found in every part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather a map of thends surrounding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Compared to the map of the Sines Continent, this map was much more precise and one could see thebel of each individual building.

    The reason for this high precision was because they had surveyed it bit by bit with the Magic Airship from the air.

    Before this, the people who made the map of the continent didn¡¯t have this to support their work.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look, we¡¯ve alreadypleted 80% of the nodes and we just need to add it here¡­¡­and here¡­¡­There¡¯s still a total of thirteen nodes before we can connect them together.¡± Evita pointed at the map a few times, ¡°Once it¡¯s all connected, we can transfer the power stored in the High Concentration Magic Crystals in all the nodes into a single node. The power that can be gathered in five minutes would be over five hundred thousand Evs.¡±

    ¡°Five hundred thousand Evs?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at the map before asking, ¡°Then Evita, has your magic research facility run tests before? How strong would the detonation of these five hundred thousand Evs be?¡±

    Evita had a surprised look in her eyes.

    What was five hundred thousand Evs?

    It had to be known that when Arch Magus Cami had used a Forbidden Spell, the data had shown that the magic contained within was just six to eight thousand Evs at most.

    Five hundred thousand Evs, that was equal to casting sixty Forbidden Spells!

    Thinking of this, Evita gave a light gulp before replying with a bit of difficulty, ¡°If we instantly detonate five hundred thousand Evs, even with the most basic detonation method, it would¡­pletely wipe out the main base¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this response, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    ¡°Although I hope that we will never have to use this, but¡­¡­this is very good.¡±

 Volume 6 168 Magicians recruitment wave

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 168 Magicians recruitment wave</h4>

    When the sunlight that fell down made people feel warm, it was the middle of summer that came each year.

    Every year at this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be at their busiest because with the arrival of this heat, the demand in each region for summer rted household magic machines would surge.

    Whether it was the most basic Magic Fan or the high end Magic Air Conditioner, as long as people could use it to cool down during this summer heat, it would be wee by all.

    For things like the Magic Refrigerator and the Magic Freezer that could let people enjoy cold foods during the summer, even allowing them to enjoy the refreshing chilled ale, it was even more weed.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became more and more famous on the continent and more countries cooperated with them, the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became even more well known. The various useful household magic machines began entering the various countries of the continent.

    Among them, the most popr kid was the summer household magic machines.

    As soon as July came, before it was the hottest time of the year, ording to the stats of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had already sold a shocking over two million and seven hundred thousand Magic Fans, four hundred and thirty Magic Air Conditioners, and six hundred and sixty thousandbined Magic Refrigerators and Magic Freezers this year.

    Just with these four kinds of household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold over nine million gold coins worth of products.

    Even with thepetition from otherpanies and the increase in sales costs from therge quantity of sales, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always had a high profit.

    From this nine million gold coins in sales, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over four million in profits which was margin profits of close to 50%.

    This was just the sales after entering the middle of summer. As summer continued, the sales of these household magic machines would continue to grow.

    Based on the old trends, the final sales number would be one and half times more than what they were now, reaching sales of twenty million and profits of at least ten million.

    Although there were some people that thought that since many things happened to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, such as breaking off from the Magicians Guild and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ military actions in the Mana Magic Kingdom, which would affect their sales.

    In reality, it didn¡¯t impact their sales that much. Rather because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce faced the Magicians Guild, their fame on the continent had increased and had promoted their products.

    Of course as the sales increased, naturally the demand for production for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also increased.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept increasing their production capacity each year, they were limited by the number of magicians who could draw Magic Arrays, so it was hard for them to quickly increase their production capacity.

    This was the important reason why Xu Yi wasn¡¯t afraid of going against the Magicians Guild.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed the support of the Low Grade Magicians and the Magicians Guild headquarters wanted topete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for this resource, which was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t tolerate.

    Although going against the Magicians Guild had shocked the continent, based on the results, it was a very good choice for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just as Xu Yi had calcted, for most Low Grade Magicians, it was just a dream to be a High Grade Magician, a Great Magician, or even an Arch Magus. What they really cared about was being able to make a living.

    The Magicians Guild wasn¡¯t able to help them with this, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could, which made this decision easy.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Magicians Guild had a falling out, although the Magicians Guild had forbidden all magicians registered with the Magicians Guild from joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, working for them, there were few Low Grade Magicians that cared about this ban.

    After thisrge mess, there were more people who understood that joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought high wages and good benefits. So in the past few months, there would be magicians that came from all over the Sines Continent that came to the Stantine Duchy each day, hoping to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were also some High Grade Magicians who went to work for the magic research facility in the end.

    For the lower level Third to Fifth Grade Magicians, they directly started working on engraving Magic Arrays after some training.

    For the even lower First and Second Grade Magicians, most of them signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would first study at the Frestech Academy for a year or two before working for thepany after graduating.

    So in less than half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went from having less than two thousand magicians to over four thousand magicians.

    As for the ban of the Magicians Guild?

    Who cared about them¡­¡­

    ###

    Today was a normal hot day in July and when the sun was above, the cement of the road was boiling and one could even see some steam appearing from the ground with the naked eye. There was arge passenger Magic Car that was slowly entering the newly built Frestech Magic Car Station that was in the northeast of Frestech City.

    When the car stopped and the door opened, there was a group of people that came out.

    If one looked carefully, one would find that of the several dozen passengers, other than ten who were wearing short clothes and looked like normal people, there were more than twenty of them wearing the different coloured robes of magicians that had badges of different grades on their chests!

    If this was any other ce on the continent, for all these different magicians of different grades to appear, it would attract the attention of everyone around.

    But after this group of magicians came out of the car, other than a few people who took a look, there weren¡¯t any curious gazes that looked over.

    The reason was very simple, it was because this was too normal¡­¡­

    In the past few months, there would be groups of magicians that arrived and it was all to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention the staff of the Magic Car Station being used to this, even the people whomuted from this ce were used to this scene.

    After getting off the Magic Car, this group of magicians who were clearly new looked around themselves with curious gazes.

    Seeing how big this Magic Car Station was, they couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised looks on their faces.

    For this Magic Car Station that was close to ten meters tall, took up two thousand square meters, and had arge space inside that was only supported by a few pirs, not to mention seeing it before, they had never even heard of it before.

    Such an astonishing building, how had it been made?

    Even the royal pce of the Candra Empire might not be this grand¡­¡­

    While the magicians were surprised, a young man and woman with the symbol of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce embroidered on their arms came forward.

    ¡°All you magicians, hello.¡± The young man greeted this group with a wide smile, ¡°Allow me to introduce myself, I am part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reception staff. You may call me Logan and this is my colleague Sarah.¡±

    The young woman also smiled at everyone.

    ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce sends out staff to wee magicians who are here to work for us when theye here for the first time. If you have any questions, please ask me.¡±

    The magicians looked at each other before a male magician who seemed to be around thirty years old asked, ¡°You are from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Tell me, if I want to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, who should I go looking for?¡±

    Logan revealed a faint smile, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce warmly wees any magicians. If you¡¯re here to join ourpany, we have prepared a car that leads right to thepany. You can board the car with us and Sarah and I will bring you to ourpany¡¯s headquarters. After a simple tour, the person in charge of weing you will give you the details for working for ourpany.¡±

    ¡°This means that I just need to follow you?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    The man looked over Logan and Sarah and gave a nod before not having any doubts.

    The other magicians who came together whispered in low voices before a magician who had a Third Grade badge, a head of half white hair, and looked to be around fifty asked in a loud voice, ¡°Hey, kid, let me ask you, does yourpany want magicians that are at our age?¡±

    Logan turned to look at him and after looking over hispanions, he found that they all seemed to be around fifty years old and the badge on their chests showed that they weren¡¯t high leveled. His smile became even warmer as he replied, ¡°Ourpany wees all magicians. As long as your magic level is high enough, age isn¡¯t important.¡±

    The middle aged magician gave a satisfied nod before asking, ¡°I heard that as long as we work for yourpany, we can get at least twenty gold coins a month. Is that true?¡±

    Seeing their expectant gazes, Logan shook his head with a smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t like this¡­¡­¡±

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    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 169 Wage and benefit issue</h4>

    Hearing this response, the magicians created a stir.

    One that seemed to be around forty years old quickly said in a loud voice, ¡°I clearly heard others say that you can get at least twenty gold coins a month, that was why I came all the way here. Now you¡¯re telling me that it¡¯s not like this, is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce lying to people?¡±

    ¡°Right! If it wasn¡¯t for twenty gold coins a month, why would Ie this far?¡±

    ¡°I say¡­¡­if it¡¯s not twenty gold coins a month, it¡¯s at least fifteen gold coins a month, right? I heard that the costs in this ce are quite high, so if the wages aren¡¯t high, I might not be able to live here¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Logan had the same smile as he silently listened to theirints. Once they calmed down, he said in a clear voice, ¡°Everyone, I think that you¡¯re mistaken, I never said that it isn¡¯t like this, I just said that the wage might not be twenty gold coins a month. Rather, if you work for ourpany and do your work for the month properly, you¡¯ll easily earn more than twenty gold coins. Of course, if the work isn¡¯t good¡­¡­I¡¯m very sorry, you might only get the most basic wage of ten gold coins.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡±

    The magicians let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°Hei, it¡¯s at least ten gold coins, then I don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°Right, ten gold coins. It might be good if I were able to earn that much in a year back home¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Hey, isn¡¯t that too bad? I do some work for those lords back home and I can get at least twenty or thirty gold coins a year¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Sarah standing beside Logan who never spoke couldn¡¯t help giving augh.

    Before doing this work, she always felt that magicians who studied magic were mysterious and powerful people. Now that she had done this for a few days and met more magicians, she found that magicians weren¡¯t that different from normal people. Other than knowing some magic, they also cared about their livelihoods.

    Seeing these magicians talking about only earning several dozen gold coins back home andining how hard life was, she never would have imagined this before. Now that she had seen it quite a bit during this time, the image of magicians in her mind had long copsed.

    However, every time she saw this, she still found it a bit funny.

    Hearing Sarah¡¯sugh, Logan quickly red at her before turning back to the magicians with the same smile on his face.

    ¡°Other than basic wages, ourpany will also provide some benefits for our staff. The treatment for magicians is better than that of normal people. For example, the magicians thate from afar will have a living area arranged for them, as well as guaranteeing their daily necessities. We will make sure that any magician that joins ourpany will be able to live a stable life.¡±

    ¡°Yi? You actually even take care of living arrangements?¡±

    ¡°Really? It¡¯s that good?¡±

    ¡°Wa, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce really is good. It¡¯s no wonder than fellow Ikeman kept boasting in front of us¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Logan silently listened for a bit. When everyone calmed down again, he asked in a loud voice, ¡°Then everyone¡­¡­if you¡¯re willing to work for ourpany, please follow Sarah to the car that we¡¯ve prepared ahead of time. When the car is filled, we will immediately set off to ourpany¡¯s headquarters.¡±

    The magicians looked at each other before the fifty year old magician from before led severalpanies to where Sarah was.

    The other magicians hesitated a bit before also following along.

    These magicians hade all this way, naturally it wasn¡¯t just for a vacation. Rather they heard of the high ss treatment the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave magicians and came here to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that they had more details from Logan who worked from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally they were even more moved.

    Of course, not all the magicians chose to listen to Logan and followed them.

    There were a total of twenty seven magicians that came out of therge passenger Magic Car. Neen of them had walked over to where Sarah was and there were still eight that stood there without moving.

    Logan wasn¡¯t surprised by this because not all magicians believed what he said and many magicians were introduced by other magicians working for thepany, so they would find their acquaintances first.

    Logan asked one more time and seeing that these eight magicians didn¡¯t move, he turned around and gave the order for Sarah to bring the neen magicians to the reception area.

    At this time, one of the eight remaining magicians suddenly asked, ¡°Young man, you just said that the monthly wage will be at least ten gold coins after joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it can be up to twenty gold coins, but this isn¡¯t correct, right?¡±

    Logan was surprised, ¡°Why isn¡¯t it correct?¡±

    The magician who seemed quite old shook his head, ¡°It should be the wage for magicians that only do basic work, right? But you still haven¡¯t talked about the wage for the magicians in the magic research facility.¡±

    ¡°Magic research facility?¡± Logan was surprised again as he finally seriously looked over this magician.

    He didn¡¯t pay that much attention early, but looking seriously now, he found that although this magician didn¡¯t have a badge on his chest, his aura was different from the other magicians.

    Moreover, there was another magician standing close to him which seemed to be hispanion who had the same aura. He could tell with a single look that they weren¡¯t normal people.

    He never thought that someone would ask him about the wage for the magic research facility. Logan had a thought and understood that he might have met two rare High Grade Magicians today.

    Compared to the hundreds of low Grade Magicians that swarmed here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did care more about were the High Grade Magicians.

    Because the magicians with a higher level of magic were rare, so it was one more for them if they could lure one in.

    Logan revealed an even friendlier smile as he seriously exined to that magician, ¡°Thepany¡¯s magic research facility naturally wees powerful magicians. But the recruitment for the magic research facility is handled by chief Evita, so if you¡­¡­and yourpanion are interested in joining, how about youe back to the headquarters with us and then we¡¯ll find someone to bring you to see chief Evita. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°You still haven¡¯t told me the wage for a magician in the magic research facility.¡± That magician said.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Logan gave a dryugh. After hesitating a bit, he replied, ¡°The magicians of the magic research facility naturally earn more, bu8t I¡¯m not certain of the actual amount. ording to what chief Evita has told us, I¡¯m certain that the members of the magic research facility earn no less than thirty gold coins a month. If you add in the various bonuses from the research projects, it should be a conservative annual revenue of over five hundred thousand. It isn¡¯t even hard to earn a thousand gold coins.¡±

    Hearing this response, whether it was the neen magicians by Sarah or the nine magicians who stood still, they were all surprised.

    Five hundred gold coins a year!

    This was a high ie that countless people dreamed of.

    If they could reach a thousand gold coins, they would suddenly be living the rich life!

    It had to be known, the Magicians Guild only gave One Star Great Magicians a trivial one hundred gold coins per year!

    The magician who asked this and hispanion were also a bit surprised by this. After being surprised, that magician couldn¡¯t help nodding and saying with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s no wonder the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can attract so many magicians to join them and they don¡¯t even care about the Magicians Guild¡¯s ban.¡±

    A magician who was wearing the badge of a Fourth Grade Magician standing not far away looked at him and gave a cold snort, ¡°Nonsense. If the Magicians Guild could give me several hundred gold coins a month, of course I would listen to them.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± That magician revealed a smile and didn¡¯t refute it. He went towards Logan and said with a smile, ¡°Mypanion and I are interested in yourpany¡¯s magic research facility. If you don¡¯t mind, can you take us to have a look?¡±

    Logan was filled with joy and quickly nodded, ¡°Of course, of course! Please!¡±

    Watching these magicians follow Sarah to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s car waiting outside the Magic Car Station, Logan turned to look at the remaining six magicians. He found that all of them had their own ns and didn¡¯t force them.

    After giving these six magicians a pamphlet for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Logan thought about it before going back to the gathering point. He found two of his subordinates to take over and went to the receiving car.

    Seeing hime over, Sarah who was introducing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the magicians was surprised.

    ¡°Why are you here?¡±

    Logan nodded to the magicians in the car with a smile before replying in a low voice, ¡°The next bus will take some time, so I think that it¡¯s better if I personally lead them.¡±

    After saying this, he said to the driver, ¡°Start driving. The car is filled anyway, there¡¯s no need to wait for the next batch.¡±

    The driver looked at Sarah and seeing that she had no opinions, he started thisrge transport Magic Car that was used to receive magicians and quickly headed towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to the west of Frestech City.

    Although these magicians hade on the Magic Cars of the Fersen Chamber of Commerce, riding thisrge transport Magic Car was still a very novel experience to them. Not to mention that there were many new scenes that passed by the window in Frestech City, so they were very interested in looking out the window the entire way, asking a few questions from time to time.

    Those two High Grade Magicians also couldn¡¯t help looking out the window, but they were always quiet.

    When therge transport Magic Car reached the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, all kinds of factories appeared around the car and the two High Grade Magicians revealed interested looks.

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    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 170 The enemy are Arch Magi</h4>

    After looking for a bit, the High Grade Magician who had spoken before suddenly asked Logan about the surrounding factories, ¡°Are the ones that you introduced all normal household magic machine factories? Where are the military magic machine factories?¡±

    Logan and Sarah were surprised, even the other magicians in the car looked at him in surprise.

    An important thing like the military magic machines would definitely be a secret for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could it be in such an obvious ce?

    Moreover, what was this fellow suddenly asking this for?

    Logan slightly knitted his brows. After pausing for a bit, he said with a forced out smile, ¡°The military magic machine factories are in a different ce, they aren¡¯t here.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Is that so?¡± That magician then asked, ¡°Can you bring me to see them?¡±

    Logan knitted his brows even more and slowly shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m sorry. The military magic machine factories are in a secret location for ourpany and without authorization, people aren¡¯t allowed to go there.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I understand.¡± That magician didn¡¯t keep asking and turned to look out the ss. He pointed at a shiny cylinder in the distance that was letting out smoke and asked, ¡°What is that ce?¡±

    Logan looked at where he was pointing, ¡°Oh, that is one of ourpany¡¯s steel mill. The steel mills are used for¡­¡­¡±

    Logan wanted to exin the use of the steel mill, but that magician¡¯s finger pointed in the direction of the steel pill suddenly released a bright glow.

    The other magicians in the same care were shocked and they all looked at his finger with terrified looks.

    After a while, there was a sea of mes that filled the sky above the steel mill in the distance. In the smoke, there was an iparablyrge fireball that appeared and fell like a meteor, mming down on the steel mill.

    The several dozen meter tall steel mill was hit by the fireball and exploded, causing countless terrifying shockwaves to spread in all directions.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The giant sound and powerful shockwaves were heading in the direction of therge passenger Magic Car that Logan¡¯s group was in, but then there was an invisible barrier that cut it in half.

    After the smoke disappeared, Logan looked at where the steel mill was and found that there was only t ground. There wasn¡¯t a single trace of the steel mill left.

    Logan turned back in a daze to look at that magician¡¯s glowing fingertip. He opened his mouth, but he was so shocked that he couldn¡¯t say a single thing.

    The other magicians in the car also looked at this magician in shock, as their eyes filled with terror.

    Although they were only Low Grade Magicians, they had a basic understanding of magic.

    That earth shaking spell that destroyed the grand looking steel mill wasn¡¯t a normal spell, but rather a certain Fire Forbidden Spell.

    To be able to use a Forbidden Spell, one had to be at least a peak Ninth Grade Magician or even a Great Magician.

    And this magician had been so rxed in releasing this spell, just like taking a single breath and not wasting any effort. He must be stronger than a normal Great Magician, even possibly being¡­¡­an Arch Magus!

    When the word Arch Magus appeared in the minds of these magicians, all of these people couldn¡¯t help stop breathing.

    Arch Magus? That was an expert that was at the peak of all magicians on the continent!

    Why would an Arch Magus suddenlye here?

    Why would he suddenly use a Forbidden Spell to destroy one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mill?

    While everyone had gazes of doubt, there was a sharp cry that suddenly rang out in the car.

    Everyone turned in a daze to see that Sarah was already on the ground, covering her head. She was shaking while sobbing, looking like she was panicking.

    Logan was awakened by Sarah¡¯s scream. After looking at Sarah, his face quickly recovered his calm from before and he turned to that magician from before as he asked, ¡°Your excellency, just who are you?¡±

    The magician looked at Logan and there was a look of praise that appeared in his eyes as he gave a nod, ¡°Not bad, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s subordinates have this kind of courage and wisdom, it¡¯s no wonder you can develop so well in just a few years. But it¡¯s a pity that your chairman doesn¡¯t understand the depths of heaven and earth.¡±

    After saying this, he patted the shoulder of hispanion and the two stood up before waving his hand at Logan, ¡°Young man, I can see that you¡¯re not bad, so you should hurry and leave while you still have the chance. Don¡¯t be buried with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    After saying this, he didn¡¯t care about their reactions as the two of them flickered together. When they appeared again, they were already flying in the sky.

    ¡°Cami,e out and receive the guests. With such a loud move, I don¡¯t believe that you can¡¯t hear me.¡±

    A clear voice rang out in the sky, it was the magician who had just made a move.

    As soon as his voice fell, there were several spatial vortexes that appeared in the air before several figures appeared.

    Arch Magus Cami looked at the steel mill that was in a sea of mes and turned to angrily look at the magician as he asked, ¡°Who are you? Why would you suddenly do this?¡±

    Xu Yi beside Arch Magus Cami had a calmer look. He just looked at the steel mill beforending on the ground, listening to the reports of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff.

    That magician looked down at Xu Yi who was managing things on the ground and asked in an interested voice, ¡°That is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi? He really is young. He could be a Great Magician at his age, I have to say that he really is talented when ites to magic. I think¡­¡­that as long as he has enough time, he should be able to be an Arch Magus? He might even have a chance of challenging the border and bing a Great Magus that no one has reached in a thousand years.¡±

    Hispanion beside him gave a cold snort, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that he will die today and will have no chance to be a Great Magus.¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s a pity that he will die today.¡± That Arch Magus gave a long sigh, ¡°Ai, if possible, I want to see this kind of talented magician continue on the path of magic and see where he ends up. But¡­¡­who told him to seek the path of death?¡±

    As soon as he said this, he pointed at Xu Yi on the ground.

    There was a thin ck line that came from his finger, already reaching Xu Yi¡¯s back.

    That ck line was about to reach Xu Yi¡¯s back when there was a strange spatial fluctuation that appeared. It created a small ck hole that swallowed the ck line and disappeared.

    This process didn¡¯t evenst a second and Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff standing with Xu Yi didn¡¯t even notice a thing. Xu Yi acted like he didn¡¯t notice it as he didn¡¯t look back at all, talking to the staff members still.

    The magician and hispanion looked at each other before revealing surprised looks.

    That thin ck line that he shot out looked normal, but it was the spatial distortion magic that he had developed himself that he was most proud of, which was also the strongest magic that he could control.

    But against this normal looking, but actually terrifying magic, Xu Yi acted like it didn¡¯t exist which was really surprising to him.

    ¡°It seems like chairman Xu¡¯s level of magic isn¡¯t boasted.¡± That magician turned to look at Arch Magus Cami and his expression became serious.

    He could tell that Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t make a move at all.

    This meant that Xu Yi had relied on his own power to deflect the Spatial Distortion Beam.

    Topletely resist his magic like this, it meant that Xu Yi had a deep understanding of spatial magic. This meant that as a Great Magician, he wasn¡¯t like this ¡°fake¡± Great Magicians that everyone praised.

    Arch Magus Cami stared at them and narrowed his eyes even more.

    When that magician acted, he was certain that this fellow he was facing wasn¡¯t a Ninth Grade Magician, or even a Great Magician. He was without a doubt an Arch Magus who was at the same level as him.

    But he felt that this was right after thinking about it.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already proved that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards could kill Great Magicians, there was no need to mention that Arch Magus Cami was also here. If it was a Great Magician, they wouldn¡¯te here to cause trouble because that was seeking their own death.

    So since the other side dared toe and make a move, it meant that they would be a powerful magician at the Arch Magus rank.

    The problem was that other than this Arch Magus, there was apany beside him who never made a move. Was he also an Arch Magus?

    It was fine if it was a single Arch Magus, but it really would be troublesome if there were two Arch Magi.

    Like he could see the doubt in Arch Magus Cami¡¯s heart, that magician said with a faint smile, ¡°Right, I forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Cami, this is our first time meeting. I am Levin Hasko and the one beside me is mypanion Sarandal y. I think that¡­¡­you should have heard of our names before.¡±

    Hearing these two names, the eyes of Arch Magus Cami instantly shrank.

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    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 171 Fighting one on one</h4>

    Arch Magus Cami had definitely heard these names before.

    It should be said that as long as it was someone who had some understanding of magicians on the continent, they should have heard these two names before.

    Even a few years ago, these names represented idols for Arch Magus Cami.

    The reason was very simple, it was because both of them were Arch Magi.

    Arch Magus Cami took a deep breath and forced down the waves in his heart before asking Levin Hasko, ¡°Did you twoe here this time because of the Mana Magic Kingdom matter?¡±

    The Mana Magic Kingdom was called the third strongest country after the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire because other than having the most powerful magician army on the continent, they also had five Arch Magi. They were second to the nine Arch Magi of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, but it far surpassed any other country of the continent.

    It had to be known that on the entire continent, there were only a total of twenty eight Arch Magi including Arch Magus Cami.

    Putting aside the eighteen in the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, of the remaining ten, the Mana Magic Kingdom took up half of them.

    Then with the powerful magician army, it meant that the Mana Magic Kingdom was the strongest country after the two empires.

    And of the five Arch Magi of the Mana Magic Kingdom, it included the names Levin Hasko and Sarandal y.

    So when he heard these two names, Arch Magus Cami¡¯s first reaction was that it was rted to the Mana Magic Kingdom matter.

    ¡°It can be considered this and also not.¡± Levin Hasko said with a faint smile, ¡°The magicians of the continent have always had a rule, which is that Arch Magi can¡¯t interfere with wars between countries. So we didn¡¯te this time because the Mana Magic Kingdom was attacked by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but¡­¡­it is rted to this matter.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami couldn¡¯t help revealing a cold smile, ¡°The Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t send an army to fight back, so they could only depend on the strength of you Arch Magi to destroy our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I already said it, we didn¡¯te because of the request of the Mana Magic Kingdom, but purely for person reasons and as for that personal reason¡­¡­¡± Levin Hasko¡¯s voice turned ice cold, ¡°When your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards fought the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Glorious Regiment, two of my disciples and seventeen of my grand disciples died in the hands of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. With this reason, I think that¡¯s enough for me to seek revenge with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami was silent for a bit before pointing at Sarandal y who was beside Levin Hasko and had never spoken, ¡°This means that he is here for the same reason?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I had a nephew die in that battle. Other than that, there were several disciples that died at the hands of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I came this time not as an Arch Magus of the Mana Magic Kingdom, but to seek revenge as an individual.¡± Sarandal y said.

    Arch Magus Cami looked over the two of them before revealing a smile of ridicule.

    ¡°The fellows that stay with the Magicians Guild really be as fake as them. Alright, no matter what your reasons are, since you are here this time, you want to attack our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then what do you think we should do? If you want to destroy the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, your actions will definitely be condemned by all magicians on the continent.¡±

    ¡°Of course we wouldn¡¯t do this. Destroying that whatever steel mill just now was only a warning.¡± Levin Hasko said with a smile, ¡°As for what we¡¯ll do¡­¡­it¡¯s very simple. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom was on Xu Yi¡¯s order, so just hand him over to us to take care of and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will give us somepensation. Don¡¯t you think that this is very reasonable?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami¡¯s lips twitched twice before revealing a cold smile.

    ¡°Hei, reasonable? Can you really say this!¡±

    Xu Yi had already taken care of everything and flew back into the sky. After looking at the two Arch Magi, he slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Two excellency Arch Magi, I can understand you seeking revenge on our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I can understand you wanting to take care of me, but when you destroyed the steel mill, there were at least three hundred deaths, one thousand heavily injured, and two thousand lightly injured. Isn¡¯t that cruel enough?¡±

    Levin Hasko looked at the sea of mes in the distance with an indifferent look.

    ¡°It¡¯s just some normal people, it¡¯s fine if they die. Not to mention, chairman Xu, this is the mistake that you have caused, so you can only me yourself.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Alright, I understand your purpose ining here this time, it¡¯s to attack me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Since the two of you came together, you must have some scruple with grandfather who is an Arch Magus being here, so you had to send an Arch Magus to take care of him.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re very smart.¡± Levin Hasko nodded with a faint smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, it is like this, but what are you nning on doing?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t do anything since ourpany doesn¡¯t have two Arch Magi.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and paused for a bit before continuing, ¡°How about this, Arch Magus Hasko, whether you admit it or not, I am very interested in you and the people behind you who are targeting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there¡¯s no benefits from destroying you and thempletely. So how about we change to a ce that won¡¯t cause a mess? At least a ce where we won¡¯t injure innocent people?¡±

    ¡°I never thought that you would be such a caring person.¡± Levin Hasko revealed a faint smile, ¡°But that¡¯s fine. Although I don¡¯t care if these normal people die, it¡¯s good to cause a little less trouble. Speak, where do you want to fight?¡±

    ¡°In order to stop us from affecting others, I suggest that we both have our respective duels.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°It will be me against one of you and the other person will face grandfather, what do you think?¡±

    Levin Hasko couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows, ¡°You really want to do this? If you¡¯re with Cami, he might be able to help you, but if you challenge us alone, do you really think you have a chance of winning?¡±

    ¡°It was my order to attack the Mana Magic Kingdom, so I should bear the consequences.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Is Arch Magus Hasko not willing, or are you afraid?¡±

    Levin Hasko gave a coldugh, ¡°Young man, you want to anger me with such a crude method? Alright, since you insist on doing this, I¡¯ll go along with you. Anyway, this is your final request before your death, there¡¯s no harm in agreeing to this.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your understanding.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Then which one of you will duel me?¡±

    Levin Hasko looked at Arch Magus Cami, ¡°Although I want to see how Arch Magus Cami broke through the Great Magician Realm after all these years, I will ept your challenge. Sarandal, how about you go y with Arch Magus Cami?¡±

    Sarandal nodded before pointing at the sea behind him with his thumb.

    ¡°Come, let¡¯s fight over there. No one will be affected there.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi and the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face made him feel assured.

    ¡°Be careful.¡± Arch Magus Cami patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder before disappearing from the air.

    At the Arch Magus level, one was much more sensitive towards magic fluctuations than normal magicians. One could immediately sense any small magic fluctuations from the other side.

    Sarandal y felt this and then disappeared along with Arch Magus Cami.

    ¡°Very good, now there¡¯s only the two of us left. Chairman Xu, where do you think we should fight? How about the sea as well?¡± Levin Hasko asked with a smile. Xu Yi pointed to the north, ¡°Let¡¯s not disturb grandfather and Arch Magus Sarandal, there¡¯s a barren hill over there.¡±

    Levin Hasko¡¯s lips curled slightly. He looked at Xu Yi like a cat that had caught a mouse, wanting to tease it.

    ¡°Alright, lead the way.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s magic released and with a flicker, he appeared at a barren hill that was ten kilometers to the north of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s maIn base.

    When he appeared in the air, Levin Hasko closely followed behind him.

    Whether it was distance or position, the two of them were the same as before.

    Just based on this, one could see that Levin Hasko was worthy of being an Arch Magus. His grasp of spatial magic had already reached such a high level.

    ¡°This ce?¡± Levin Hasko looked around before giving a satisfied nod, ¡°Un, the scenery isn¡¯t bad here, it works as a ce to bury your bones.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled and didn¡¯t seemed move. He just moved a bit away and raised his right hand.

    ¡°Then senior, shall we start?¡±

    Levin Hasko gave a yawn and waved his hand, ¡°This is seeking personal revenge, not a duel. You can do whatever you want, you don¡¯t need to tell me. But I can tell you that I¡¯m very interested in how you became a Great Magician at such a young age and want to see what level your magic is at, so I¡¯ll give you some time to attack me so I can see what your magic level is at. As for the time¡­¡­let me think¡­¡­let¡¯s set it at five minutes.¡±

    After saying this, Levin Hasko revealed a dark smile as he continued, ¡°Xu Yi, grasp your final five minutes of life! One second has already passed¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    This Levin Hasko was a respected Arch Magus, why did he seem like a homicidal maniac?

    After looking into Levin Hasko¡¯s gaze filled with violence, Xu Yi took a deep breath and raised his left hand, saying into the Magic Communicator on his wrist, ¡°Begin!¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi wildly released his magic power and disappeared, moving three kilometers away.

    Suddenly, there were countless fireballs and beams of light that flew out, aimed at Levin Hasko who was three kilometers away.

 Volume 6 172 â€“ Xu Yiâ€™s Forbidden Spell

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 172 - Xu Yi¡¯s Forbidden Spell</h4>

    The countless fireballs and beams of lightnded on Levin Hasko¡¯s magic barrier without surprise, turning into explosions that almost lit up the entire sky.

    Inside the mes, there was a cold voice.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, didn¡¯t you say that you wanted to challenge me alone? I thought that since you could be a Great Magician at such a young age, you would have some abilities, but I never thought that you would be trash that would rely on external force to challenge me! You really have disappointed me!¡±

    Although the Magic Shells and Magic Beams kept shooting at Levin Hasko without stopping and explosions filled the air, his voice was able to prate through the sounds of the explosions, not being affected by them at all.

    Xu Yi looked at the sky that was lit up and slightly knitted his brows. He raised the Magic Communicator on his left wrist again and said, ¡°Continue monitoring his magic fluctuations. If there is any change, prepare to use the spatial disturbance. Pay attention, the other side is very sensitive to changes in magic, so he can easily move four to five meters in an instant.¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡± There was a voice that was kept low on the other side, ¡°Sir chairman, you have to be careful. We need some time to collect data from him.¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡± Xu Yi lowered his wrist and took a deep breath. He focused his magic and created a magic channel with spatial magic which also allowed him to clearly send his voice through.

    ¡°Senior Hasko, you just said that you were very interested in my level of magic, but I¡¯m not interested in studying magic like normal magicians and I focus on studying magic machines. I believe that you should have heard this before, right?¡±

    ¡°Humph, what about it?¡±

    ¡°Look, the normal magic machines can¡¯t demonstrate the might of the magic machines I research, so I transferred ourpany¡¯s strongest military magic machines to give you a demonstration. What do you think?¡±

    Levin Hasko in the explosions was silent for a bit before a soft sigh came out.

    ¡°I must admit that the military magic machines you¡¯ve developed are very interesting. Although they aren¡¯t worth mentioning to me, each attack has the might of a Sixth or even a Seventh Grade Magician, which is equal to countless Sixth or Seventh Grade Magicians as helpers. If it was against normal people or normal armies, it would be effective, but Xu Yi, did you forget something¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    With a loud sound, the explosions around Levin Hasko were suddenly stopped by a blue light that was visible to the eye.

    The Magic Shells and Magic Beams could still reach Levin Hasko before. But now that he had opened up his magic barrier, the Magic Shells and Magic Beams were kept a full hundred meters away from him.

    Although there were still explosions, but it didn¡¯t look as threatening as before even though it looked even more beautiful.

    Levin Hasko¡¯s coldugh came from inside the magic barrier.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I admit that your small tricks are useful in dealing with lower grade magicians or even against Great Magicians, but don¡¯t you forget, I am an Arch Magus! To be honest, you want to break my magic barrier with attacks of this level of attack? That is far from enough!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the magic barrier that didn¡¯t give way. Levin Hasko was able to block these Magic Shells and Magic Beams just with his powerful magic. He couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Of course he knew that it was impossible to break an Arch Magus¡¯ magic barrier with this kind of attack, but this wasn¡¯t his goal to begin with. Rather, what he wanted to do was collect data.

    ¡°Xu Yi, two minutes have already passed, you still have three minutes left.¡± Levin Hasko¡¯s voice rang out again.

    But this time his voice wasn¡¯t filled with taunting like before, there was a bit of a slur and wasn¡¯t as clear as before.

    Xu Yi looked at Levin Hasko in the distance and after thinking for a bit, he raised his right hand and gathered all his magic.

    The clear sky was suddenly filled with thick clouds and electricity appeared among them, looking very powerful.

    Levin Hasko looked up and revealed an interested smile.

    ¡°Wild Thunder Snake Dance? Ha, that is more like it. No matter what you are the youngest Great Magician in the history of the continent, if you couldn¡¯t even release a single Forbidden Spell, that would be too much. Although this Wild Thunder Snake Dance is only a basic Wind Forbidden Spell, you could make it take shape in such a short period of time, so that means your grasp of it isn¡¯t bad. You are worthy of the title Great Magician.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say a thing, looking like he was focused on his spell while also saying into the Magic Communicator on his wrist, ¡°When the magic falls, open up the spatial disruption.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, we need forty seconds to release the spatial disruption, please hold on during this time.¡± Evita¡¯s voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    Based on her voice, one could tell that Evita was clearly worried.

    ¡°Forty seconds?¡± Xu Yi looked at the clouds in the sky and nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll restrain him.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi looked at Levin Hasko in the distance and said in a clear voice, ¡°Senior Hasko, this is the Forbidden Spell that I am most confident with out of the three Forbidden Spells I know, please have a look.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Xu Yi released his magic. There was a strong churning in the clouds in the sky as an exceptionally thick bolt of lightning fell from the clouds, mming into Levin Hasko¡¯s magic barrier.

    ¡°Chi! Peng!¡±

    The lightning turned into countless snakes after hitting the magic barrier as the sound of the bolt of lightning hitting the magic barrier was heard.

    Such terrifying lightning, such a terrifying sound, it was even scarier than natural lightning during thunderstorms.

    However, there was only a blue twinkle that came from Levin Hasko¡¯s magic barrier and nothing else happened.

    But Levin Hasko inside the magic barrier revealed a serious look for the first time.

    He looked at the clouds in the sky and narrowed his eyes as he muttered to himself, ¡°Hei, this kid can actually cast the Wild Thunder Snake Dance so well, it¡¯s no wonder he could be a Great Magician at such a young age. His talent for magic really is shocking. Based on this, in less than ten years, he might be able to break through to be an Arch Magus.¡±

    Thinking this, there was a trace of killing intent that appeared in Levin Hasko¡¯s eyes.

    He would kill Xu Yi no matter what today. If he could escape and hide away to practice, when he became an Arch Magus, he might not be his match.

    Turning to look at Xu Yi in the distance who was focused on releasing the Wild Thunder Snake Dance, Levin Hasko had made a decision.

    Once the five minutes he had said were up, he would immediately make a move and kill this fellow.

    Although he did feel a bit of pity from making a Great Magician with this kind of promise fall.

    Who told this fellow to challenge the silent authority of all the magicians on the Sines Continent?

    A talented magician wasn¡¯t terrifying, the order that the magicians of the continent had observed for thousands of years was terrifying.

    ¡°Chi.¡±

    After the first bolt of lightning, the clouds in the sky kept churning as countless bolts of lighting fell like rain. They filled the sky like strips of light thatpletely dyed the sky white.

    Each bolt of lightning fell down on Levin Hasko¡¯s magic barrier without missing, causing a sh of blue light.

    Levin Hasko suddenly found that opening up a magic barrier of several hundred meters was a bit rash.

    This would force him to face all the attacks of the Wild Thunder Snake Dance.

    However, the Wild Thunder Snake Dance was a Forbidden Spell in the end. Even if he didn¡¯t put a single Forbidden Spell in his eyes as an Arch Magus, forcefully taking it was a bit hard for him.

    But no matter what, he wasn¡¯t willing to pull back his magic barrier in front of Xu Yi because that was too embarrassing.

    Carefully sensing how much magic it would take to maintain this magic barrier, Levin Hasko felt assured.

    Although the might of this Wild Thunder Snake Dance Xu Yi released was stronger than he imagined, it still wasn¡¯t enough to pose any threat to him.

    ¡°I really can¡¯t underestimate this kid.¡± Levin Hasko muttered in his heart as he finally became serious. He took back the focus he had on Xu Yi and focused on maintaining his magic barrier.

    There was still two minutes left of the five minutes that he promised Xu Yi.

    No matter how shocking this kid¡¯s talent was, it was impossible for him to maintain this powerful Wild Thunder Snake Dance for two full minutes.

    This meant that once his spell stopped, Levin Hasko could easily kill him.

    However, Levin Hasko watched the wild explosions of the countless bolts of lightning and suddenly felt a powerful and strange magic fluctuation from far away.

    With how powerful this magic fluctuation was, even he as an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    When he looked in the direction of that magic fluctuation, he was surprised to find that Xu Yi¡­¡­was actually gone!

 Volume 6 173 â€“ Chaos Magic Space Blockade

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 173 - Chaos Magic Space Blockade</h4>

    Levin Hasko¡¯s expression sunk.

    He had been focused on the Wild Thunder Snake Dance that Xu Yi had released, but he never thought that Xu Yi would take this chance to escape!

    ¡°This fellow, he simply brings shame to magicians!¡± Levin Hasko was angry deep down. With a wave of his hand, there was a powerful magic fluctuation that brought along a column of blue energy to hit the thick clouds in the sky.

    The clouds that were filled with thunder had power that seemed like it brought the end of the world.

    But after a while, the clouds had already scattered and the sky cleared again.

    Perhaps this Forbidden Spell was terrifying for normal magicians, but for an Arch Magus like Levin Hasko, it was just a special spell that he could easily dispel with a wave of his hand.

    When Xu Yi disappeared, the Magic Shells and Magic Beams that had been attacking Levin Hasko without stopping had also disappeared, so he released his magic barrier. Looking in the direction that Xu Yi had disappeared in, he used his magic to sense where Xu Yi had escaped.

    He thought that with his methods as an Arch Magus, he could easily find the traces of magic power that Xu Yi had left behind to find where he escaped, but when he investigated with his magic, he found that the elemental magic energy in the air was inplete chaos.

    The chaotic elemental magic energy in the air was so strong that when his magic power went through, it wasn¡¯t able to continue forward.

    Not to mention finding Xu Yi based on the traces of magic power that he had left when he ran, he wasn¡¯t even able to control the elemental magic energy that was fluctuating in the air.

    Levin Hasko couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    This situation was very rare for an Arch Magus like him. It could be seen that Xu Yi had already prepared something before escaping, making him unable to find a trace of his magic power.

    ¡°Humph, this kid has some skills.¡± Levin Hasko turned to look at therge buildings in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the distance and gave a coldugh, ¡°I want to see if you can watch as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is slowly destroyed by my hands.¡±

    With a thought, Levin Hasko disappeared from midair.

    After a while, he appeared around four kilometers away in the air.

    ¡°Yi?¡± Levin Hasko looked at the space in front of him with an expression filled with doubt and surprise.

    As a powerful Arch Magus, he was very skilled in spatial magic.

    He had nned to directly go back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and then destroy it to force Xu Yi toe out, but he never expected that when he approached, he would find the elemental magic energy in the space around to fluctuate this intensely, which could even be considered chaotic.

    Although spatial magic seemed like magicians went directly from one ce to another, in reality it was using elemental magic energy to move at high speeds, not instantly appearing in another ce.

    So when the elemental magic energy was unstable, spatial magic wouldn¡¯t have any effect.

    But there were few ces that could have this kind of unstable elemental magic energy that would affect spatial magic. Levin Hasko only knew three ces like this and they definitely weren¡¯t close to this ce.

    After knitting his brows to think, he decided to put aside this issue and activated the magic in his body before disappearing again.

    However, in just the blink of an eye, he appeared only several hundred meters away in the air.

    ¡°What is this?¡±

    Levin Hasko looked at the space in front of him with a surprised look.

    He had only moved several hundred meters, but he found that the space in front of him was extremely unstable, making him unable to move forward with spatial magic.

    After knitting his brows to think, Levin Hasko closed his eyes and released all his magic, investigating the area around him.

    After around five minutes, he opened his eyes again, but it was hard to hide the shocked look that he had.

    Through investigating with his magic, he was surprised to find that the chaotic elemental magic energy wasn¡¯t just in a single ce, but rather they were linked together to form a sphere which was wrapped up around him!

    This chaotic space not only included the air above him, but also the ground beneath him, not leaving a single crack.

    This meant that it was basically impossible for him to use spatial magic to leave this space.

    After Levin Hasko used his magic to investigate, he was certain that there wasn¡¯t a single crack in the chaotic elemental magic energy around him, so he couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    As an Arch Magus, of course he was a master of spatial magic. He was clear that it wasn¡¯t hard to create chaos with the elemental magic energy in a space, but to create such arge area of chaotic elemental magic energy, it was something that was almost impossible to do.

    Even an Arch Magus like him couldn¡¯t do this.

    What made him even more surprised and confused was that this area of chaotic elemental magic energy was created because when he and Xu Yi used spatial magic toe here, they weren¡¯t affected at all.

    If it was as expected, this strange space should be arranged by Xu Yi.

    However, this was a bit unbelievable for him.

    Such arge space, even for an Arch Magus like Levin Hasko, he couldn¡¯t do it. Not to mention it not dispersing after all this time.

    It had to be known, space tended to move towards stability, so to make this space maintain this kind of state, you had to keep using magic to influence it.

    To maintain this state with such arge area, it required a hard to imagine amount of magic power.

    Even Levin Hasko as an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t do this with all his power.

    ¡°Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has other Arch Magi helping them?¡± When this thought appeared in his mind, Levin Hasko immediately shook it out.

    Although there were rumours that there were hidden Arch Magi, magicians that had be Arch Magi were very clear that this was impossible.

    Any Arch Magus that broke through would create an anomaly that definitely couldn¡¯t be hidden.

    So all the Arch Magi on the continent had been found and it was impossible to hide.

    Moreover, since they had already be an Arch Magus, there was no need to hide.

    Then was there another Arch Magus secretly helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    But this didn¡¯t make sense.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the support of another Arch Magus, he and Sarandal y would have left without any hesitation, they wouldn¡¯t need to take the risk of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce base being destroyed.

    So the only exnation was that this was a carefully nned trap used to deal with the two of them.

    But how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce know they wereing today? And how could they have set the trap just right?

    Levin Hasko thought about it before shaking these thoughts out of his head.

    These questions weren¡¯t important, the important thing was how to leave this trap.

    He had already tested it, after entering this chaotic magic space, he couldn¡¯t control the chaotic elemental magic energy in the air, which meant that he couldn¡¯t use spatial magic and couldn¡¯t even use flight magic.

    So to leave this ce, he only had a single choice which was to walk out.

    Levin Hasko looked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base that was several kilometers away. After thinking about it, hended on the ground and walked into this strange chaotic magic space.

    When he came in, he couldn¡¯t help shaking.

    Although this chaotic magic space didn¡¯t look that different from normal space, as an Arch Magus who was more sensitive to elemental magic energy in the air, his senses were terrifying.

    So when the chaotic elemental magic energy met his senses, he couldn¡¯t help being a bit affected.

    After taking a few steps with difficulty, Levin Hasko had to withdraw the barrier around him and let the chaotic elemental magic energy around him go wild.

    Because he had given up affecting the elemental magic energy around him, he wasn¡¯t affected by this space and was no different from a normal person walking on the ground.

    However, when he had gone twenty meters, Levin Hasko suddenly felt a strong sense of danger above him.

    He didn¡¯t have time to think and released all his magic, surrounding his body in a magic barrier.

    There were mes that appeared in the distance, instantly appearing in front of Levin Hasko in the blink of an eye.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With a powerful explosion, Levin Hasko was blown into the air by the powerful shockwaves, flying backwards several dozen meters and rolling several times on the ground before stopping.

    Because he left that space, the elemental magic energy around him stabilized again, so Levin Hasko was able to instantly control the elemental magic energy around him and create another firm magic barrier, which had allowed him to stop himself from being heavily wounded by this shockwave.

    However, after he stabilized himself, there was a sweet taste in his mouth before he spat out a mouthful of blood.

 Volume 6 174 â€“ Arch Magusâ€™ Final Struggle

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 174 - Arch Magus¡¯ Final Struggle</h4>

    Levin Hasko looked at the patch of bright red on the ground and couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    How long had it been since he had been injured to this extent?

    If he remembered correctly, since he became a Two Star Great Magician, he had never been injured once.

    After bing an Arch Magus, not to mention being injured, there was no one that had dared to challenge him who had been able to leave a trace on him.

    Being injured, even to the point of spitting out blood, it was something that hadn¡¯t happened in several decades, so he had already forgotten what kind of feeling this was.

    Now that it happened this time, it was very strange for him and he even panicked a bit.

    However, what he felt the most was anger.

    ¡°This little scoundrel, you actually dare to injure me with a trap!¡±

    Levin Hasko slowly stood up and looked at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the distance with anger in his eyes, but his face was very calm.

    Although his heart was filled with rage, after that investigation just now, he knew that he was in a very awkward state.

    All around him, perfectly covering all the directions around him was a space formed from the chaotic elemental magic energy.

    If he entered this chaotic space, even with his power as an Arch Magus, he wouldn¡¯t be able to maintain control over the elemental magic power and wouldn¡¯t be able to use spells. So if he wanted to go through this barrier, he couldn¡¯t just rely on magic, he also had to rely on physical strength.

    But this attack that had caused him to be hurt made him understand that Xu Yi had carefully set this trap, so he definitely wouldn¡¯t let him leave that easily.

    Once he entered the chaotic magic space, the other side would attack him when he couldn¡¯t use his magic.

    If his reaction hadn¡¯t been good enough just now, that powerful attack might have destroyed his barrier. Just with the powerful explosion of the attack, it would have been enough for him to be blown to pieces.

    In the end, his magical abilities as a Arch Magus was powerful, but his body was still just that of a normal person.

    If the elemental magic energy in this chaotic space was a bit stronger, if he was hit with another attack, just the elemental magic energy in this space would have been enough to tear him to pieces.

    So he didn¡¯t dare enter this space again.

    ¡°This fellow clearly has the ability to put down this strange space, so why doesn¡¯t he put this space around me and then attack me with the attacks that aren¡¯t affected by the chaotic magic space?¡±

    Levin Hasko had this thought, but then he received his answer.

    Xu Yi clearly had scruples because of his ability as an Arch Magus, so if he had forcefully changed the stability of the elemental magic energy around him, he would immediately notice it and react.

    But this chaotic magic space was formed from five kilometers away, just out of the range of his magic senses.

    This made Levin Hasko doubtful.

    How did Xu Yi know that the limits of his magic senses was this range?

    It had to be known that even if Xu Yi used Arch Magus Cami as a reference, the magic sense range of each Arch Magus was different because they had different understanding of magic, so there were some with wider magic senses.

    Levin Hasko excelled in spatial magic and was always excelled in magic senses, surpassing even other Arch Magi.

    If Xu Yi wanted to calcte his strength from Cami who had just be an Arch Magus in the past few years, it would be impossible.

    After knitting his brows to think for a bit, Levin Hasko shook his head. He no longed considered this and narrowed his eyes to look at the chaotic magic space that looked no different from normal space, but was much more dangerous and gave a coldugh.

    ¡°You want to use this small trap to keep me here? Xu Yi, you¡¯re underestimating an Arch Magus too much!¡±

    Levin Hasko released all his magic and it was like the space around him had suddenly copsed, as all the space around him twisted, creating a very strange scene around him. With him as a center, it gathered all the power around him.

    This was the spatial magic that Levin Hasko was the best at, Spatial Copse.

    There was no need to discuss the might of this spatial spell. Once it was activated, all the elemental magic inside Levin Hasko would start turning with him as the core.

    Relying on the powerful magic power and powerful control of elemental magic energy that he had as an Arch Magus, as long as he continued increasing the range of this Spatial Copse, Levin Hasko was confident that the elemental magic energy in the chaotic space would fall under his control and he would take care of the blockade that it had created.

    Although this method would consume quite a bit of magic power, this was without a doubt the safest method.

    Because Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would keep attacking, not letting him have a chance to stabilize himself.

    This Spatial Copse would integrate the elemental magic energy around him into his control, which was equal to creating an alternative magic barrier that could resist all powerful attacks.

    As expected, when the space around Levin Hasko started to copse, several balls of mes lit up in the distance. It went over a thousand meters, passing through the chaotic magic space to fly right at him.

    ¡°Humph! The toys of kids!¡±

    Levin Hasko gave a cold snort and didn¡¯t care about it.

    When the several dozen balls of mes entered his Spatial Copse, they couldn¡¯t help exploding one by one before turning into ashes, which didn¡¯t pose any threat to him at all.

    ¡°Hei, hei, Xu Yi, when I get out of here, I will destroy your Frestech Chamber of Commerce bit by bit. I will let you see the slow destruction of your preciouspany and let you suffer the deepest pain!¡±

    Levin Hasko gave two wildughs before continuing to send out more magic power, speeding up the spread of the Spatial Copse.

    At this time, there were several dozen strange magic fluctuations that came from all around him.

    Levin Hasko was stunned.

    He was clearly surrounded by the chaotic magic space, so there shouldn¡¯t be any magic fluctuations that could prate through.

    Moreover, this space was five kilometers wide and he was at the edge, so there should be a distance of ten kilometers between them.

    But with such a long distance, he could still feel the magic fluctuations and could feel them clearly.

    His magic senses weren¡¯t that good, so there was only one exnation which was that they were just too strong. Even the chaotic magic space wasn¡¯t able to block it and Levin Hasko could sense it even though it was out of his magic sense range.

    But this powerful magic fluctuation wasn¡¯t something that even a normal Forbidden Spell could match.

    To release this kind of terrifying magic fluctuation, there wasn¡¯t a single magician that could control it, even an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t do it. Only natural power could be this powerful.

    However, there were several of them that came from all around him, which was just too strange.

    ¡°Could it be some trick that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is using?¡±

    Levin Hasko had this thought, but then he immediately rejected it.

    Impossible!

    This kind of terrifying magic fluctuation was not something that humans could control.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strongest magician was Arch Magus Cami and even if he used all his power, it was impossible to release this kind of terrifying magic fluctuation, not to mention several dozen of them.

    Thinking of this, Levin Hasko no longer cared about it and continued focusing on his spell, speeding up the copse of the space around him.

    Seeing that the Spatial Copse was about to meet the chaotic magic space, Levin Hasko also suddenly felt that the several dozen strange magic fluctuations around him were getting stronger.

    ¡°What is that kid Xu Yi up to?¡± Feeling the terrifying power held within those magic fluctuations, even Levin Hasko couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit surprised.

    If these magic fluctuations continued to develop, it might cause all the elemental magic energy in the surrounding several kilometers to explode at the same time. It would be like causing an iparablyrge space made of magic to copse, which would create an effect that was hard to predict.

    With optimistic estimates, the chaotic elemental energy in the surrounding several kilometers would turn this ce to nothing and there would be no humans, or any living beings that could exist in this space.

    Compared to this, the Spatial Copse that he was using was just like a kid¡¯s toy!

    ¡°Is this fellow crazy?¡± Levin Hasko was anxious and angry, ¡°To kill me, this kid would make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce perish with me?¡±

    While thinking about this, Levin Hasko was fully focused on gathering his magic power.

    His Spatial Copse was able to link up to the chaotic magic space and as he had expected, the chaotic magic space¡¯s elemental magic energy was affected by his powerful magic power, as it started turning bit by bit.

    Based on this, if he had some more time, he could easily pierce through this barrier with the Spatial Copse and escape from this ce.

    But when there was a bit of pleasant surprise in Levin Hasko¡¯s heart, there were several dozen bright white beams that came from all around him.

    The speed of the light beams didn¡¯t given Levin Hasko any time to react and as soon as they appeared, they were all aimed in the direction that Levin Hasko was in.

    Levin Hasko only had time to feel how terrifying the beams of light were and didn¡¯t even have time to resist. The Spatial Copse around him was instantly burned away by the power of the white beams of light.

    Then what was burned away was his body.

 Volume 6 175 â€“ This World No Longer Belongs To Magicians

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 175 - This World No Longer Belongs To Magicians</h4>

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    After the iparably bright white lights exploded, there was a mushroom cloud that appeared. Even being ten kilometers away, Xu Yi and everyone around him could feel the clear vibrations in the air.

    After a while, the giant explosion sound reached them.

    Even if it was ten kilometers away, this sound was still deafening.

    Xu Yi waited for a bit before putting down the glowing ss lens that was at his nose and said to Akali beside him, ¡°Expand the chaotic magic space range and search for signs of life and magic at the site of the explosion, determine if Levin Hasko is dead or not.¡±

    Everyone looked at the mushroom cloud that slowly rose in the distance in a daze, but after Xu Yi said it again, Akali turned over in a daze to look at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir¡­¡­Sir chairman, you¡­¡­you said that that Arch Magus¡­¡­is dead?¡±

    Hearing this question, everyone looked at Xu Yi with the same stunned expression.

    Seeing their reactions, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    These fellows still weren¡¯t willing to believe that an Arch Magus could die?

    But it was right when he thought about it. Arch Magi had always been experts that were like gods on the continent and in the minds of normal people, other than dying of old age, there was no other reason they would die.

    ¡°Wouldn¡¯t you know if you scanned for signs of life and magic?¡± Xu Yi snappily said.

    ¡°Ah? Oh¡­¡­¡±

    Even if it was Akali who was normally lively, she was stunned at this time.

    Hearing Xu Yi give this order again, she turned to the panel in front of her in a dace and pressed two buttons.

    An illusion came from this panel and it showed them the area where Xu Yi had brought Levin Hasko for their duel before.

    Everyone came around and they were all focused on this illusion.

    There were two ripples that went one after another going slowly from left to right, showing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Life Survey Array and Magic Fluctuation Survey Array were working.

    Everyone kept watching those two ripples, following it from the far left of the screen to the far right.

    After the first ripple that represented the life search swept through, there weren\\\''t any dots on the screen that represented signs of life.

    After the second ripple that represented the magic fluctuation search swept through, other than some messy lines on the screen, there wasn¡¯t a single dot that appeared.

    Based on these two scans, they were certain that in this region, there wasn¡¯t a living person left.

    Of course, the ce where that terrifying explosion was, it was clear that no one could live through that.

    However, everyone still wasn¡¯t willing to believe and urged Akali to search two more times, but there were no changes.

    Akali looked up at Xu Yi with a look of disbelief.

    ¡°Sir chairman¡­¡­could¡­¡­could it be¡­¡­could it be that that Arch Magus¡­¡­is really dead?¡±

    ¡°What? You can¡¯t ept that an Arch Magus can die?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Everyone nodded.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t uneptable.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug with a rxed look, ¡°Arch Magi are still people in the end, they aren¡¯t gods. When receiving an attack that goes beyond the scope that he can take, it isn¡¯t strange for him to die.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡± Akali couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva and not knowing what to say.

    Although she had been involved in the n against the Arch Magus the entire time and she had controlled how everything would work, even pressing the button tounch that final attack against Levin Hasko, even now she still couldn¡¯t ept that the other side would really die.

    That was an Arch Magus!

    Gods, what kind of people were Arch Magi? They were the very peak of all magicians! The people closest to gods!

    Although it wasn¡¯t as if there weren¡¯t any Arch Magi that fell, thest time that an Arch Magus fell was nearly a thousand years ago!

    As the Great Magus disappeared from the continent, the Arch Magus were the ones at the top. Not to mention them falling, there wouldn¡¯t even be anyone other than an Arch Magus that would want to fight them, alright!

    However, this time, other than Xu Yi, not a single one of them was a Great Magician. Even Xu Yi hadn¡¯t truly made a move, but they had killed an Arch Magus?

    This was simply too unbelievable!

    Seeing the looks of disbelief on the faces of the people around him, Xu Yi helplessly shook his head.

    He was someone who transmigrated from earth, so he wasn¡¯t like the locals of the Sines Continent, thinking that Arch Magi were people that no one could offend.

    Although that final blow was indeed very powerful, Xu Yi felt thatpared to the ultimate weapons of earth, the nuclear bombs, it was still farcking.

    Levin Hasko was a powerful Arch Magus, but he couldn¡¯t even withstand this kind of attack which made Xu Yi a bit disappointed.

    Of course, this result had already been confirmed with countless experiments, so there was no surprise.

    Akali and the others had participated in this experiment with Arch Magus Cami, but they were never willing to ept this fact since it had challenged their normal thoughts too much.

    Turning to look at the mushroom cloud that was already disappearing in the distance, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    This time he had seeded in killing Levin Hasko, this Arch Magus. Not only did it simply prevent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base from being destroyed, it represented something much more important.

    For everyone on the Sines Continent, Arch Magi were the top people who couldn¡¯t be challenged. If a country had an Arch Magus, it was equal to a country on earth who had a nuke.

    However, now that Xu Yi had crushed that myth with facts, showing everyone that Arch Magi aren¡¯t that terrifying, it was equal topletely subverting the cemented thoughts in the minds of people.

    Xu Yi could imagine once this news was spread, what kind of uproar it would cause.

    For example, the fellows in front of him, it would take them a long time just to digest this news¡­¡­

    When he thought about the influence of this and how to handle it, Xu Yi felt magic fluctuations from beside him.

    Xu Yi and Akali¡¯s group who were in a daze focused at the same time before rxing again.

    From the ck hole that was releasing the magic fluctuations, Arch Magus Cami appeared in front of everyone.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s serious expression, Arch Magus Cami waved his hand before asking Xu Yi, ¡°What¡¯s the situation?¡±

    Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Grandfather, why are you back? Where¡¯s that other Arch Magus? Did you decide it with him?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami knitted his brows, ¡°When we were in the middle of fighting, he suddenly ran and I couldn¡¯t stop him. Did something happen here? Why do you all look like this?¡±

    Xu Yi turned back to look at Akali and the others who still hadn¡¯t reacted and gave a shrug, ¡°it¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s just that these fellows find it a bit hard to ept that an Arch Magus has died.¡±

    ¡°Died?¡± Arch Magus Cami came to Xu Yi¡¯s side with a speed that didn¡¯t match his age and grabbed his cor, ¡°Did you say that he died?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Arch Magus Cami with a surprised gaze. He thought that his reaction was greater than Akali¡¯s group. Perhaps it was because he was also an Arch Magus that he had some sympathy for him.

    ¡°Un, he should be dead.¡±

    ¡°He really died? Are you joking? Where¡¯s the corpse?¡± Arch Magus Cami kept asking.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m only 90% sure that he¡¯s dead. As for the corpse¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°It should be blown to pieces, so there shouldn¡¯t be any corpse.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked up at where the explosion had been and with a thought, he already disappeared from this space.

    After a while, he appeared again and there was a strange ring in his hand.

    ¡°What is this thing?¡± Seeing Arch Magus Cami look at ring with aplicated look, Xu Yi asked this in a curious voice.

    Arch Magus Cami gave a sigh, ¡°This should be the famous Doomsday Elf Ring, which is said to be one of the treasures of the elf royal family, which Levin Hasko was said to have had. Such a previous treasure, Levin Hasko definitely wouldn¡¯t throw it away, so¡­¡­he should really be dead¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi casually said before the final bit of worry in his heart also disappeared.

    He wasn¡¯t an Arch Magus in the end, so he didn¡¯t know what kind of special life saving methods they would have. However, now that even Arch Magus Cami said that Levin Hasko was dead, he could feel assured.

    Arch Magus Cami gave a sigh before giving the Doomsday Elf Ring in his hand to Xu Yi.

    ¡°You can take this ring. The Doomsday Elf Ring is said to contain a big secret of the elves and it is a very powerful magic item, it can help you increase your magic level if you keep it. Other than that, the existence of this ring would make it more credible if you spread the news that Levin Hasko is dead.¡±

    Hearing Arch Magus Cami¡¯s final words, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like that, I know what you are thinking kid.¡± Arch Magus Cami turned to look at the area of the explosion in the distance with a bit of sadness in his eyes, ¡°From this day forth, the position of magicians will experience an earth shaking change. This world¡­¡­already no longer belongs to magicians¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this a good thing?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Magicians will still be special, but people will no longer need to feel awe, just respect. The value and status of magicians won¡¯t change, it¡¯s just that¡­¡­the area will change.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami took a deep look at Xu Yi and gave a slight nod, ¡°I hope so.¡±

 Volume 6 176 â€“ Newly Born Empire

    <h4>Volume 6 Chapter 176 - Newly Born Empire</h4>

    Year 3793, it was a year that was destined not to be peaceful.

    First at the beginning of the year, the Magicians Guild dered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany that they wouldn¡¯t wee, listing it as one of thepanies all magicians on the continent should avoid.

    This had only happened four times in the thousands of years of history of the Magicians Guild and eachpany had performed a great evil, bingpanies that were besmirched on the entire continent, so the Magicians Guild¡¯s actions were justified.

    But this time the Magicians Guild was targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, apany that had never done anything wrong and had good rtionships with many countries, which everyone praised, so naturally countless people on the continent had questioned this.

    What really shocked everyone was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯ster actions.

    Normally speaking, if apany is being targeted by the Magicians Guild like this, their first choice was to think of a way to reconcile because the Magicians Guild influence was just too big, there weren¡¯t any advantages in going against them.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give the Magicians Guild any face. They announced that they would break off from the Magicians Guild and even invaded the Mana Magic Kingdom, a special country that had the backing of the Magicians Guild.

    Moreover¡­¡­they had won!

    When people still hadn¡¯t digested all these shocking pieces of news, there was another one that made everyone of the continent lose their voice from their cries of shock.

    Levin Hasko and Sarandal y, two Arch Magi who had been famous on the continent for a long time worked together to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, but they were repelled in the end.

    Arch Magus Sarandal y had been repelled, returning to the Mana Magic Kingdom and had been hiding in his magic tower, healing himself the entire time.

    As for Levin Hasko who had gone with him¡­¡­he had died!

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement, when Arch Magus Levin Hasko attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, he received the counter attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and finally died.

    When this news was spread, not only all the magicians, all the normal people of the continent were shocked.

    He was an Arch Magus! How could he die?

    But after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce release the recordings of Arch Magus Levin Hasko and Arch Magus Sarandal y attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, as well as showing the Doomsday Elf Ring that had always been kept by Arch Magus Levin Hasko, the doubts in the minds of most people had changed to confirmation.

    Arch Magus Levin Hasko was indeed dead, otherwise with his power as an Arch Magus, who could steal the Doomsday Elf Ring from his hands?

    Butpared to the Doomsday Elf Ring, everyone cared about another issue.

    Had Arch Magus Levin Hasko really been killed by the countless white beams in the recording that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released?

    Although based on the recording, the countless white beams had immense power, Levin Hasko was an Arch Magus in the end. Even if he couldn¡¯t resist this terrifying attack, at least he could dodge it, so why was he killed by them?

    This didn¡¯t seem to make sense.

    However, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this, whether it was Arch Magus Sarandal y who had gone with him to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base or the Mana Magic Kingdom, neither of them had released a response.

    So most people understood that this information was most likely real.

    However, once people had confirmed this, the entire Sines Continent fell into an uproar again.

    Thest time that an Arch Magus had fallen was already a thousand years ago.

    They never thought that a thousand yearster, there would be another Arch Magus that would fall.

    What shocked people even more was that the one this Arch Magus faced wasn¡¯t the legendary Great Magus or even another Arch Magus, rather it was a Great Magician and a bunch of his subordinates!

    It was known that the higher the difference in rank between magicians, the greater the disparity.

    The gap between a Great Magician and normal magicians already couldn¡¯t be crossed and an Arch Magus, it was even on a higher scalepared to the Great Magician.

    In theory, not to mention a Great Magician leading a bunch of subordinates, even ten Great Magicians wouldn¡¯t be able to pose any threat to an Arch Magus.

    Even if it was a hundred Great Magicians, they could suppress an Arch Magus, but it was basically impossible to kill one.

    Or perhaps to put it more simply, with the fact that there was no Great Magus on the continent, unless an Arch Magus wanted to kill himself, there was no one who could kill him.

    This was why Arch Magi were what every country on the continent wanted to win over, as well as the most powerful weapons that countries used to deter other countries.

    Although Arch Magus couldn¡¯t participate in invasion wars, that didn¡¯t limit them to moving personally.

    This time Levin Hasko and Sarandal y could attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base because of this.

    They were two Arch Magi of the Mana Magic Kingdom and if it wasn¡¯t for the Mana Magic Kingdom being attacked by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could theye and attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, as well as try to kill the chairman Xu Yi without any reason?

    It was clear that the Mana Magic Kingdom pulled the strings, or rather the Magicians Guild that was behind the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    However¡­¡­Sarandal y was repelled and Levin Hasko was killed.

    No one believed that Levin Hasko would kill himself, so the only exnation was that he couldn¡¯t escape the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attack.

    This fact¡­¡­was something that no one could believe.

    How did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this?

    If this was true, didn¡¯t that mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could also kill other Arch Magi?

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really could kill other Arch Magi, the meaning behind that¡­¡­would just be too terrifying.

    There were some people who remembered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    People had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was too stupid, not considering the consequences of this at all.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had defeated the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s powerful Glorious Regiment, the Mana Magic Kingdom had five Arch Magi.

    These five Arch Magi wouldn¡¯t follow the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s armies to invade other countries, but they could take action to retaliate against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in secret and no one would say anything about this.

    But now that the news that Arch Magus Levin Hasko had been killed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone noticed that the actions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invading the Mana Magic Kingdom was most likely a n!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already prepared to kill an Arch Magus which was why they did this, causing the retaliation from the Mana Magic Kingdom which led to Arch Magus Levin Hasko falling.

    So now the problem was, what method had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used to kill Arch Magus Levin Hasko? They could kill one Arch Magus, did that mean that they could kill other Arch Magi?

    Or perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had the ability to kill one Arch Magus and couldn¡¯t withstand another one?

    However, no one was willing to confirm this.

    Only Arch Magi were qualified to confirm this and there were only twenty eight of them on the continent. Now that Arch Magus Levin Hasko had fallen, there were only twenty seven of them left and one of them was Arch Magus Cami who would stand with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of the remaining twenty six Arch Magi, which one of them would risk their lives to confirm this? Also who could force an Arch Magus to risk to live to confirm this?

    No one knew the answer to this question, they only knew that after the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce killing Arch Magus Levin Hasko spread, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had signed new agreements with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    No one knew the specifics, but it was was clear that in the two agreements that the two empires signed with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they gave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many favourable conditions.

    Because after this, there were countless Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff and magic machines that entered the two empires in waves.

    After the two empires, all the countries on the continent had submitted an application to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This time, it wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discussing terms with these countries, but rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce inspecting each of these countries and deciding whether to cooperate with them, as well as how to cooperate.

    Aside from these countries, the normal people responded even faster.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine sales kept increasing each year, once this news was spread, orders came from all over the continent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With all these orders, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce maintained their original production rate, so these orders were enough to keep them producing for three years.

    In the countries that had started their magic machine industries, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the products of the otherpanies that came with them were also very popr. However, after this news was spread, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products became the most popr.

    To everyone, being able to buy something from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn\\\''t just to satisfy their needs, but also it became an honour.

    Apany that could kill an Arch Magus, their skills in magic machines would far surpass the otherpanies.

    There wasn¡¯t much logic behind this, it was just the thoughts that many normal people had.

    So after the news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce killed Arch Magus Levin Hasko spread, in just thetter half of year 3793, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been like a wave that couldn¡¯t be stopped that quickly spread across the entire continent.

    Some people were happy about this, some people were worried, and most people were helpless.

    For many people, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, they were already like a new empire that couldn¡¯t be stopped.

    There would be a day where they would be a true empire and rule over the continent.

    (Volume 6 ?How to refine the empire? End)

 Volume 7, Our Goal Is The Sea Of Stars, 1: Brother In Law

    <h4>Volume 7, Our Goal Is The Sea Of Stars, Chapter 1: Brother In Law</h4>

    Arafat Town was a normal town in the Falk Kingdom. It was situated in the kingdom¡¯s southeast region and no matter how one looked at it on the map, it was a very normal ce.

    If one went three hundred kilometers southwest of this town, they would be able to reach the Drake Duchy that bordered the Falk Kingdom.

    If one went five hundred kilometers north or six hundred kilometers northeast, one would be able to enter one of the two empires of the continent, the Marlow Empire.

    If one went directly south, they would be able to enter the Anzu Church Duchy that was between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom.

    With this kind of geographical location, naturally it wasn¡¯t that special and one couldn¡¯t see anything important about it.

    So although Arafat Town¡¯s history was even double that of the Falk Kingdom, it had been obscure on the Sines Continent for several thousand years and the people of the town had lived peaceful lives.

    However, this peaceful life had changed five years ago.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Falk Kingdom signed a cooperation agreement five years ago, in these five years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had led many magic machinepanies into the Falk Kingdom to invest, building all kinds of factories all over the Falk Kingdom.

    Although Arafat Town didn¡¯t have any geographic advantages and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t take a liking to this ce, as the Falk Kingdom started investing in roads and finally built a road through Arafat Town, a magic machinepany from the Lampuri Kingdom noticed this town. They then invested in a household magic machine factory in this town.

    This factory only produced two products, one was the Magic Fan and the other was the Magic Stove. They could be considered low end products when it came to household magic machines, but this suited the needs of Arafat Town and the surrounding area.

    So this year, this factory¡¯s ie was quite good.

    Moreover, although this factory wasn¡¯t big, it still recruited three hundred workers from Arafat Town which had solved the worker issue in Arafat Town, so it was greatly weed by the people of Arafat Town and the surrounding area.

    When they talked amongst themselves, the people of the town were very grateful to the Lampuri Kigndom¡¯s Santis Chamber of Commerce.

    If it wasn¡¯t for thispany choosing to build this factory in Arafat Town, the people of Arafat Town could only live the same poor lives as before and wouldn¡¯t see any hope of change.

    Kompany was one of those people.

    He was a very normal citizen of Arafat Town and normally would rely on workingbour in some ces, while also being a servant to the nobles to make a living.

    Although he wouldn¡¯t starve to death each year, he could only maintain the most basic lifestyle and couldn¡¯t improve his living standard at all.

    But after this factory was built, Kompany responded to the recruitment and now earned at least ten gold coins a month, as well as some benefits that couldn¡¯t be considered good, but also couldn¡¯t be ignored. It had caused the lives of him and his family to greatly change.

    Although Kompany¡¯s family wasn¡¯t as luxurious as the nobles and merchants, at least they didn\\\''t need to care about their basic necessities and could even eat meat from time to time.

    Adding in the magic machine that he bought with the money he saved, he felt like his current life was just like living in a dream.

    What he hoped was that thepany could keep smoothly operating, letting him and his family to always live afortable life like this.

    So Kompany had gone all out in working at the factory.

    Not only did he receive the praise of his manager, which made his job even more stable, he had also received a bonus of two gold coins whenever he was paid his monthly wage.

    Today was the day the factory paid their wages and based on tradition, they would work the morning shift and then after lunch, they would give the workers their pay and they could have the rest of the day off.

    After eating lunch, the workers all excitedly took their wages and they gathered in groups to head off to the taverns.

    However, when the co-workers that he had gotten close to invited Kompany, he had rejected their invitation.

    ¡°There¡¯s a guesting to my house today, so I have to go and receive them.¡± Seeing the disappointed looks around him, Kompany revealed a smile and took out a gold coin from his wages, giving it to the person that he was the closest to, ¡°Although I can¡¯te today, the same rules. I¡¯ll take out a gold coin from my bonus and you can call it my treat.¡±

    Everyone looked at that gold coin and curled their lips, not saying anything else.

    Kompany waved his hand to bid them farewell before leaving the factory in the suburbs and quickly walking back to his house in the town.

    Because the factory was set up in a suburb, it was five kilometers away from the town. Just by walking, it would take him twenty minutes to get back.

    Normally Kompany didn¡¯t care about this distance and would even leisurely walk home after work.

    But today because there was a guesting, he was in a bit of a rush. He had run along the way and hade home as soon as possible.

    When he came to the edge of the town where his home was, he was surprised to find that there was a ck and slender Magic Sedan that was sparkling under the sun, which looked quite high end parked in the space in front of his house.

    A group of children, including his youngest son Sai were going around this Magic Sedan with curious looks on their faces.

    When he saw Sai reaching out his dirty little hand to touch the Magic Sedan, Kompany immediately called out.

    ¡°You little brat! Put your hand down!¡± Kompany came over to pick up Sai and pped his butt, ¡°Don¡¯t you see what this even is? What if you break it?¡±

    Sai pursed his lips and looked like he wanted to cry, but he didn¡¯t dare.

    The other children scattered, but they didn¡¯t go far as they looked at the Magic Sedan with curious gazes.

    It wasn¡¯t like the people of Arafat Town hadn¡¯t seen Magic Sedans before. The mayor Viscount Razor had one and the Santis Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman who Kompany worked for also had one, which he drove here for inspections from time to time.

    But Viscount Razor¡¯s Magic Sedan was rarely driven out and it was even rarer to see it parked outside. The Santis Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman rarely came to Arafat Town was well, so these people rarely had a chance to see a Magic Sedan.

    Now that there was a Magic Sedan that was parked in front of a normal family¡¯s house in the residential area, it naturally attracted the attention of countless people.

    Not only the kids, even many of the adult neighbours of Kompany were looking at this Magic Sedan from a distance while pointing at it, with many of them having looks of admiration.

    Kompany looked at the surrounding people. Thinking that there was still guests at home, he didn¡¯t go talk to them and brought Sai into the house.

    When he came in, there was someone who walked out.

    ¡°Brother inw, you should just let the kids y with it if they want. The Magic Sedan won¡¯t break that easily.¡±

    Kompany looked closely and found that this person was a young man who seemed to be in his early thirties.

    He was wearing a set of light blue clothes that were perfectly tailored for him that looked quite expensive, with a pair of leather boots that looked simple, but were very finely made. Based on his clothes, this fellow looked even more high sspared to Viscount Razor who was a noble.

    Kompany was surprised to see this middle aged man who had a gentle smile who didn¡¯t seem like amoner and his heart was filled with doubt.

    What did he call him? Brother inw?

    When he was surprised, there was a young woman who came out and revealed a sweet smile to Kompany.

    ¡°Brother inw, you¡¯re back.¡±

    After seeing this girl, Kompany finally reacted.

    This girl was his wife¡¯s little sister Winnie. Kompany had known her for over ten years, so he was very familiar with her.

    Since it was like this, then this young man was¡­¡­

    Seeing Kompany turn back to look at the young man, Winnie held his arm with a smile.

    ¡°Brother inw, let me introduce you. This is my husband, Joshua. Joshua, this is my brother inw. Brother inw and big sister have always been good to me, so you have to treat them well.¡±

    The young man named Joshua revealed a faint smile and gave a slight bow to Kompany, ¡°Brother inw, hello, this is our first time meeting. I am Winnie¡¯s husband Joshua, I¡¯m from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Banta City. Winnie has often mentioned you and big sister, saying that you¡¯ve taken care of her since she was younger and she has never forgotten it.¡±

    Kompany quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, what are you saying? Winnie is Millie¡¯s little sister, of course we would take care of her.¡±

    When he said this, Sai, who had been held by Kompany,ined to Winnie, ¡°Little aunt, dad hit me!¡±

    Kompany red at him and wanted to teach him another lesson, but Winnie took Sai from his hand and patted Sai¡¯s shoulder as she said in a gentle voice, ¡°Alright, your dad is afraid that you would cause trouble. Be good and go inside, I took out some candied fruit just now.¡±

    Hearing the words ¡°candied fruit¡±, Sai¡¯s eyes lit up. After giving a cheer, he charged inside.

    Kompany helplessly shook his head, ¡°Winnie, you¡¯ll spoil that child.¡±

    ¡°I only have him and Harvat as my nephew, it¡¯s natural if I spoil them a bit.¡± Winnie giggled before suddenly asking, ¡°Right, brother inw, where¡¯s Harvat? Isn¡¯t he already ten years old? What do you n on doing with him?¡±

    Kompany¡¯s heart skipped a beat and he looked at Joshua who had been smiling the entire time on the side before pointing at the door, ¡°Let¡¯s go in and talk.¡±

 Volume 7 2 â€“ The Importance Of Literacy

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 2 - The Importance Of Literacy</h4>

    Although Kompany¡¯s small hut was as small and crowded as before, the decorations inside werepletely different from before.

    Not only had the wall been repainted, there were also new nks above their heads. It seemed quite decent and didn¡¯t seem as poor as before.

    After entering the room, Kompany looked at Sai who was gnawing at the sweet on the table and after knocking him to the side, he invited Winnie and Joshua to sit down.

    ¡°Where¡¯s your big sister?¡± Kompany sat down as he asked Winnie this.

    ¡°Big sister said that she wanted to prepare a delicious meal for us, so she went to get some groceries.¡± Winnie replied.

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Kompany knitted his brows, ¡°Leaving the guest at home and going out to buy groceries? Doesn¡¯t she know to wait for me toe back before going?¡±

    Winnie waved her hand with a smile, ¡°Alright, brother inw, it isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know big sister¡¯s personality. No one can stop her if she wants to do something. I already told her that Joshua and I aren¡¯t guests and there was no need to be this polite, but she insisted on going even though there¡¯s no need.¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s your first time back after several years and this time, it¡¯s brother inw¡­¡­It¡¯s Joshua¡¯s first time here, so we have to properly take care of you.¡± After saying this, Kompany looked at Joshua¡¯s high end clothes and he revealed an awkward look, ¡°Only¡­¡­our ce doesn¡¯t have anything to treat you with, so I hope that Joshua doesn¡¯t mind.¡±

    ¡°Brother inw, you¡¯re too polite.¡± Perhaps it was because it was their first time meeting or they had the same status, Joshua stopped talking in that polite tone and spoke in a more friendly tone, ¡°Winnie and I don¡¯t care about what we eat. Then again, you and big sister are Winnie¡¯s closest family members, so you¡¯re my family members as well. Between family, there¡¯s no need to be this polite.¡±

    Kompany scratched his head and gave a fewughs, not knowing what to say.

    Seeing him like this, Winnie couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Alright, brother inw, let¡¯s not waste words. Answer my question, what are you nning on doing with Harvat?¡±

    Hearing that the topic went back to his eldest son, Kompany gave a sigh in his heart. He thought for a bit before saying, ¡°There¡¯s nothing to arrange, right? That kid can¡¯t be a magician, so I¡¯ll have him study some magic machine skills and he¡¯ll enter the factory I¡¯m working at once he grows up, that¡¯s good enough.¡±

    ¡°That won¡¯t do.¡± Winnie shook her head, ¡°I talked to big sister earlier. Brother inw, your idea doesn¡¯t seem that bad, but you can¡¯t guarantee that this factory willst in this town, so you can¡¯t ce your hopes on it.¡±

    Kompany was surprised, ¡°Why wouldn¡¯t this factory be here anymore?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Winnie knitted her brows to think for a bit before poking Joshua beside her, ¡°I can¡¯t exin it properly, you can tell brother inw.¡±

    Joshua revealed a smile. After thinking for a bit, he said, ¡°Brother inw, I heard that this factory only produces the Magic Fan and the Magic Stove and it hasn¡¯t changed in the past few years. Is that right?¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s always been these two. What is it? Is there a problem?¡± Kompany asked back.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem right now, but that isn¡¯t certain in the future.¡± Joshua seemed to be considering what he should say and after hesitating a bit, he continued, ¡°The Magic Fan and the Magic Stove are two of the lowest end products of the household magic machines, so while it can sell well in the area around Arafat Town right now, it might not be able to do the same in a few years.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s because all the countries of the continent are working hard to develop their magic machine industry, the Falk Kingdom isn¡¯t an exception. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be more and more factories andpanies that produce household magic machines. For low end household magic machines like the Magic Fan and the Magic Stove that aren¡¯t thatplex, there will be many factories producing them. That means that there will be a lot ofpetition for this factory in the future, so it would be hard for it to maintain the same profits as it is making now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You mean¡­¡­the factory won¡¯t be able to sell its products in the future?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not certain, but there is this possibility because there will only be more and morepetition.¡± Joshua said with a nod, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s chairman said that there will be morepetition on the continent in the future, so it will be apetition when ites to technology. If there¡¯s nothing special about your technology that suppresses the others, it will be eliminated in the end.¡±

    ¡°Your chairman?¡± Kompany was surprised.

    ¡°Oh, I forgot to tell you. Brother inw, Joshua works for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The chairman that he¡¯s talking about is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°Oh, oh, it¡¯s Xu Yi, I know him, I know him.¡± Kompany kept nodding, ¡°Since an important person like chairman Xu is saying this, it must be right.¡± After saying this, Kompany knitted his brows again, ¡°But Joshua, based on what you said, this factory might go out of business¡­¡­What do I do¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I never said that it would go out of business, there was only this chance.¡± Joshua gave a cough, ¡°Of course, it¡¯s better to be prepared ahead of time. This goes back to the problem of nning for Harvat that Winnie was talking about earlier. Brother inw, you wanting Harvat to learn some skills rted to magic machines is the correct idea, but you can¡¯t ce your goal on a factory in Arafat Town, you should go a bit further.¡±

    ¡°You mean¡­¡­¡±

    Joshu turned to Winnie and seeing her give a nod, he turned back to Kompany with a serious look, ¡°Brother inw, Winnie and I discussed this with big sister earlier. I have a better arrangement for Harvat that I hope you can agree to.¡±

    ¡°Tell me.¡±

    ¡°Brother inw, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has set up a Magic Practical Use Academy for normal people, specializing in teaching people the foundations of magic, while also teaching them how tobine magic and machines. Students that graduate from this school will be able to directly enter our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If they work hard, they can even be a new generation of Magic Engineers. So I think that if we let Harvat enter this school, it¡¯s very likely that he¡¯ll work for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future. No matter what, it would be better than staying here and working for apany, right?¡±

    ¡°It would naturally be countless times better if he could go to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but¡­¡­you¡¯re talking about magic¡­¡­Harvat doesn¡¯t have any talent with magic at all, alright?¡± Kompany had a doubtful look.

    ¡°No, based on the research of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce four years ago, everyone has talent with magic, it¡¯s just that some people have more of it and it is easier to manifest, so they have a chance to be magicians. Most people¡¯s magic talent isn¡¯t that clear and need some guidance to disy it. Ourpany has created a special academy just to prove this theory. Perhaps Harvat doesn¡¯t have as much talent as other magicians, but that doesn¡¯t matter in the face of the research of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that Harvat can learn magic?¡± Kompany¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°There¡¯s the possibility, but the magic that he learns won¡¯t be the same magic that brother inw knows.¡±

    ¡°I know, it¡¯s the new type of magic that¡¯s used for the new magic machines that the newspapers talked about, right?¡± Kompany asked.

    Joshua revealed a surprised look.

    ¡°Brother inw, how did you know this¡­¡­Ah, I didn¡¯t mean to offend you¡­¡­¡±

    Kompany gave augh and waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I know what you mean. For a crude person like me to know this is indeed strange. Moreover, this is what I¡¯ve heard from other people reading the newspaper. If you want me to read the newspaper, I wouldn¡¯t even recognize the words, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Joshua¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Brother inw, speaking of not understanding the words¡­¡­Sai is six years old, right? Does he know how to read?¡±

    Kompany shook his head, ¡°No one taught him, so of course he doesn¡¯t.¡±

    ¡°Then there isn¡¯t a ce in Arafat Town to learn how to read?¡±

    ¡°Of course there is, but it¡¯s a private school that mayor Viscount Razor had set up for the children of nobles. Other than the children of nobles, ifmoners want to study there, they have to pay three hundred gold coins a year and I don¡¯t have that much money.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­brother inw, if there was a school that was opened in this town that specialized in teaching kids to read and only cost ten gold coins a year, do you think people would be willing to go?¡±

    Kompany was stunned, ¡°Only ten gold coins a year? Not to mention ten, even if it was twenty, as long as there was this kind of school, I would definitely send my two boys there! Damn, because I couldn¡¯t read, I suffered quite a bit. Even learning the higher grade magic machine skills and getting a higher grade certification is hard enough. I don¡¯t want my two kids to suffer the same!¡±

    Seeing the look of suffering on Kompany¡¯s face, it seemed like he almost couldn¡¯t help swearing.

    Joshua didn¡¯t mind at all and rather his smile became even brighter.

    ¡°Brother inw, tell me first, do you agree with me and Winnie taking Harvat with us to let him enter our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s academy?¡±

    Kompany looked at Joshua with a bit of doubt, ¡°You can work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating from this school, is it that easy to enter?¡±

    Joshua revealed a faint smile, ¡°I have a special quota, so you don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡±

    Kompany knitted his brows for a while to think before giving a strong nod.

    ¡°Alright! It¡¯s a rare chance, so of course I would agree! But¡­¡­wouldn¡¯t Harvat need to go to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this? That ce is that far away¡­¡­¡±

    Winnie on the side grabbed Kompany¡¯s arm to shake, ¡°Brother inw, you don¡¯t need to worry about this. The school will prepare special lodgings for him and Joshua and I will look after him, so there won¡¯t be any problems. If you miss him, then when New Yearses, we can send him back or you and big sister can juste and see him. It¡¯s only two days by car to reach ourpany¡¯s main base, so it¡¯s very convenient.¡±

    Kompany was silent for a bit before giving a slight nod, ¡°Alright, when your big sisteres back, I will discuss this with her.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then let¡¯s put it aside for now.¡± Joshua said, ¡°Brother inw, I¡¯ll be meeting Viscount Razor early in the morning tomorrow, are you willing toe with me?¡±

    Kompany looked at Joshua in a daze. He thought that the two of the were just talking about that kid Harvat, how did the topic suddenly jump to meeting the lord mayor?

    The gap between this was just too big.

    Moreover¡­¡­it was fine if Joshua wanted to see the mayor, but why was he dragging him along?

 Volume 7 3 â€“ Promoting Infrastructure

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 3 - Promoting Infrastructure</h4>

    Viscount Razor looked at the business card in his hand and was confused.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s infrastructure promoting department? What kind of ce is this?¡±

    Turning the card over and seeing the mark of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the other side, Viscount Razor hesitated a bit before asking the housekeeper beside him, ¡°You said that the one who came with him was someone who worked here as a servant before?¡±

    The housekeeper nodded, ¡°Yes, Lord Viscount. This servant is called Kompany and was very earnest when he worked here, as well as having a good character, so I have some impression of him. He is someone from our town, so I think there shouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Viscount Razor looked at the card two more times before waving his hand, ¡°Invite them in.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    After a while, Joshua and Kompany were led into Viscount Razor¡¯s little manor in the suburbs of Arafat Town.

    Seeing Viscount Razor sitting in the main seat, Kompany immediately gave him a respectful bow.

    ¡°This little one greets the Lord Viscount.¡±

    Joshua had an interested look as he looked over Viscount Razor before giving a slight bow.

    ¡°Greetings to the Lord Viscount.¡±

    Viscount Razor looked at Kompany and immediately lost interest in him as he turned to look over Razor. Seeing his neat clothes and his noble attitude, as well as the confident smile on his face, it could be seen that he wasn¡¯t a normal person. He reached out his hand to gesture at the seats beside him, ¡°Please sit.¡±

    While Joshua sat down, Kompany hesitated a bit before carefully sitting in the chair beside him. However, he had his head lowered and didn¡¯t dare look up at Viscount Razor.

    In his mind, Viscount Razor was someone who was at the peak. He never thought that there would be a day where he would be a guest of the lord mayor.

    Seeing the two sit down, Viscount Razor was silent for a bit before raising the business card in his hand and asking Joshua, ¡°You say that you are a manager from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s infrastructure promoting department, but why have I never heard of this department?¡±

    Joshua revealed a faint smile, ¡°Because this department was just createdst August. It only operated on a trial basis in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom and it has only entered the Falk Kingdom this year. It isn¡¯t strange at all that the Lord Viscount has never heard of it before.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Viscount Razor looked at Joshua with a doubtful gaze, ¡°Then this whatever¡­¡­infrastructure promoting department, what does it do? This name really does sound strange.¡±

    Joshua took out a document from the bag he brought and gave it to Viscount Razor.

    ¡°The so-called infrastructure promoting department is the department that is responsible for infrastructure work. I am one of the managers of this department, mainly responsible for the work in the Drake Duchy and the Falk Kingdom.¡±

    Viscount Razor looked at the document, but he didn¡¯t look closely as he knitted his brows to ask, ¡°Then tell me, what kind of infrastructure do you mean? Why is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoting it?¡±

    ¡°Infrastructure is a very wide subject and if you want to divide it, it should be divided into transportation, energy use, education, health, and sports. If you divide it again, it would be¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Alright, alright, stop.¡± Viscount Razor knitted his brows and waved his hand, ¡°I say, why does my head get blurry when you say all these things? I can understand transportation, isn¡¯t it what your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Amrit Chamber of Commerce always say in your advertisements? Right, ¡®if you want to be rich, first pave roads¡¯?¡±

    ¡°Right, but transportation isn¡¯t just about building roads, it also includes river transport and sea transport, as well as the air transport that ourpany is currently studying and the railroad transport that ourpany is hoping to implement in the future. Moreover, in order to ensure that this transport isn¡¯t impacted, there is all kind of maintenance and logistics that needs to be considered, so¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Stop!¡± Viscount Razor cut off Joshua once again, ¡°All the things that you¡¯re saying, how is it rted to youing to see me?¡±

    Joshua pointed at the document he gave Viscount Razor with a smile.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, this is a cooperation n that our department has drawn up, please take a look.¡±

    Viscount Razor knitted his brows to look at him before seriously looking through this document.

    Although this document wasn¡¯t thick, Viscount Razor took a full half an hour to finish reading it.

    After he finished reading, he thought for a bit before saying to Joshua, ¡°I have two problems.¡±

    ¡°Please ask.¡±

    ¡°The first is that based on this n, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will help the other side construct these infrastructures, such as roads, hospitals, schools¡­¡­Where does the moneye from? Even if it is just for our small town, it would take several hundred thousand gold coins for all these things, right? Based on what you said, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t just doing this in our ce. Even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has money, you wouldn¡¯t be able to afford all this, right?¡± Viscount Razor asked.

    ¡°Lord Viscount¡¯s worries are reasonable. Indeed, it¡¯s impossible for ourpany to have the finances to pay for all of this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Could it be that you want me to pay?¡± Viscount Razor looked at Joshua with a vignt look, ¡°Let me tell you, even if I¡¯m a mayor and a viscount, don¡¯t think that I can take out several hundred thousand at once¡­¡­this is forcing someone into a difficult situation.¡±

    ¡°Of course we wouldn¡¯t make the Lord Viscount bear this yourself.¡± Joshua didn¡¯t find Viscount Razor¡¯s response strange. When he had been promoting this in various ces, he had seen this many times, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will pay for a part of the funding and the other portion wille from other ces. Moreover, your country¡¯s parliament will provide a certain amount of support. As for the Lord Viscount, you just need to provide some support when necessary.¡±

    Viscount Razor was stunned, ¡°You¡¯re saying the parliament will pay? You¡¯ve received authorization from them?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Joshua dug around in his bag before taking out another document for Viscount Razor.

    Seeing that this document had the seal of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s parliament, Viscount Razor¡¯s expression became serious. He took the document from Joshua to carefully look over and after confirming that it wasn¡¯t fact, he looked at Joshua with a dissatisfied look.

    Since this fellow had an official document from the parliament, why didn¡¯t he take it out right away? He caused him to doubt him all this time.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Since the parliament has expressed their support, of course I will follow them. But¡­¡­¡± Viscount Razor deliberately stretched out his voice, ¡°Joshua¡­¡­Manager Joshua, how will you do this? Based on what you said, we need to make that transportation, energy¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Energy usage.¡± Joshua gently reminded him.

    ¡°Right, energy usage, as well as those other things, it can¡¯t be done in just a day or two, right? There must be an order to handle things, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Joshua nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Viscount, based on my inspection of Arafat Town over the past two days, I feel¡­¡­that since Arafat Town is already connected with a road, there¡¯s no rush in terms of this. The first problem that needs to be solved is in terms of education.¡±

    ¡°Education?¡± Viscount Razor looked at Joshua with a bit of doubt, ¡°What do you mean exactly when you talk about education?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple.¡± Joshua pulled up Kompany who had been sitting beside him without talking the entire time, ¡°Look, this is wife¡¯s brother inw Kompany, he has two kids now, one is ten and the other is six, but they¡¯ve never gone to school before. They¡¯ve never had an education or any vocational training.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this normal?¡± Viscount Razor said in a confused voice.

    This Kompany was amoner from a single nce, how could he let his children have private education?

    First, not to mention if he had the money, he didn¡¯t have that qualification at all.

    Being educated was a right that only the nobles had!

    ¡°No, this is not normal.¡± Joshua revealed a serious look for the first time and shook his head, ¡°Viscount Razor, a person who has been educated since childhood and a person who has never been educated before, the value of these two people arepletely different after they grow up. If you want Arafat Town to develop well in the future and make the lives of the people better, then it¡¯s necessary for you to invest in education.¡±

    Viscount Razor was confused when he heard this.

    Letting the children of themoners be educated would allow Arafat Town to develop in the future? It would make the lives of the people better?

    How could it be that exaggerated?

    Viscount Razor didn¡¯t hide his thoughts at all, so Joshua could naturally tell what he was thinking when he saw his expression.

    But he wasn¡¯t nning on using words to convince Viscount Razor. His goal this time was only to obtain his approval.

    ¡°Lord Viscount, you might not understand the meaning behind this now, but I believe that you¡¯ll understand it in the future. Other than this, ourpany has already signed an infrastructure promoting agreement with the Falk Kingdom parliament. After my inspection, we¡¯ve decided that Arafat Town will be ourpany¡¯s first test in the Falk Kingdom. I hope that as the mayor of Arafat Town, you can provide enough support for this n.¡±

    Viscount Razor looked at the document that was signed by the parliament and after thinking about it, he gave a helpless nod.

    ¡°Alright, after I read through this document from the parliament, I¡¯ll talk to you again.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Joshua stood up with a faint smile, ¡°Then Lord Viscount, I wille back in another half a month and we can discuss the details then.¡±

 Volume 7 4 â€“ Are You Kidding Me?

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 4 - Are You Kidding Me?</h4>

    After leaving Viscount Razor¡¯s manor, Kompany couldn¡¯t help pulling Joshua aside.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you have the document from the parliament, why did you bring me to see the lord mayor?¡± Kompany had a bit ofint in his eyes, ¡°I almost couldn¡¯t hold on, that¡¯s how nervous I was.¡±

    ¡°Couldn¡¯t hold on?¡± Joshua was a bit surprised. He looked at Kompany¡¯s lower half and revealed a smile, ¡°Brother inw, you¡¯ll be seeing Viscount Razor a lot in the future, so it¡¯s best that you get used to talking to him as an equal.¡±

    ¡°Ah? Why?¡± Kompany was surprised.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Come, brother inw, let¡¯s talk in a different ce.¡±

    Joshua brought Kompany into the Magic Sedan they came in and came to the river that was beside Viscount Razor¡¯s manor.

    After getting out, Joshua took out a paper carton and opened it, taking out a white thing that was as thick as a finger that was wrapped up in paper which he gave to Kompany.

    ¡°What is this?¡± Kompany looked at it with a surprised look. Smelling the fragrance that came from it, he couldn¡¯t help revealing a refreshed look.

    ¡°This is the new Hanru Grass Cigarette from the elves, doesn¡¯t it smell very good? Come, you do it like this¡­¡­¡±

    Joshua hinted for Kompany to put the thin end of the Hanru Grass Cigarette into his mouth before taking out a little metal box. He touched the little metal box and a small me came from it.

    Then he brought the me to the other end of the cigarette and let the me ignite it, causing the front part of the cigarette to start burning.

    With the small sparks that burned, the refreshing fragrance from before became even stronger. Kompany just took a single whiff before feeling much more awake.

    Joshua lit one for himself and took a deep puff before letting out a long breath with a satisfied look on his face. Then he turned to Kompany, ¡°Take a puff of it.¡±

    Kompany looked at the thing in his mouth and after thinking about it, he took a test puff. He felt a cool breath enter his mouth and flow right into his throat.

    ¡°Ke, ke, ke.¡±

    Kompany was caught off guard and choked on it as he began coughing.

    Joshuaughed as he patted Kompany¡¯s back, helping him recover his breath.

    ¡°Brother inw, you can¡¯t rush with this thing. Do it slowly, do it slowly.¡±

    Kompany coughed for a while before finally catching his breath. He looked at the cigarette in his hand before taking a small puff.

    Because he was prepared this time, the cool breath didn¡¯t sweep through his throat and only a wisp went down. As the cool feeling filled his air pipe, it reached every part of his body, making him much more rxed.

    ¡°This is a good thing!¡± Kompany couldn¡¯t help calling out in surprise, ¡°Joshua, just a single one must be expensive, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that expensive. It¡¯s twenty in a pack and I bought in bulk, so it was thirty silver coins a pack.¡±

    ¡°Thirty silver coins?¡± Kompany was startled before he choked on his breath and couldn¡¯t help coughing again, ¡°Ke, ke, ke¡­¡­this¡­¡­it¡¯s this expensive? Based on this, isn¡¯t one¡­¡­It¡¯s thirty silver coins per pack and twenty of them in a pack¡­¡­one¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s only one and a half silver coins, it¡¯s alright.¡± Joshua said with a smile.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­One and a half silver coins¡­¡­¡± Kompany seriously looked at the cigarette in his hand for a while before turning to look at the Magic Sedan parked behind them. After a bit of silence, he took the half burnt cigarette out of his mouth and threw it to the ground before stomping on it.

    Seeing him do this, Joshua couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°Brother inw, what are you doing? This is a good thing, it¡¯s hard to buy even if you have money.¡±

    ¡°I know that it¡¯s a good thing, but¡­¡­¡± Kompany shook his head and took a deep breath before calming down, ¡°This thing is too gold, I¡¯m afraid that I¡¯ll be addicted if I finish it. With how expensive this thing is, I won¡¯t be able to enjoy it.¡±

    Joshua looked at Kompany with a surprised look before patting his shoulder and pointing at the river, ¡°Come, brother inw, let¡¯s sit and talk over there.¡±

    Kompany was a bit surprised, but he still sat down beside the river with Joshua.

    Joshua was silent for a bit before saying, ¡°Brother inw, do you know what my goal ining here this time is?¡±

    Kompanyughed, ¡°I do, you came for what you just talked to the lord mayor about, right? Although I don¡¯t understand, I know that it¡¯s an important matter. Compared to this, you just came to see your rtives on the way.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­this is right, but if it wasn¡¯t for Winnie, I wouldn¡¯t havee to inspect this small town, so you can¡¯t say that it¡¯s on the way.¡± Joshua paused for a bit before pointing at the Magic Sedan parked by the road, ¡°Brother inw, do you also want a Magic Sedan?¡±

    Kompany was stunned, ¡°Magic Sedan? No, no, no, doesn¡¯t that thing take over a thousand gold coins? How could I possibly afford it?¡±

    ¡°Even if you can¡¯t afford it now, that doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t afford it in the future. Brother inw, are you willing to remain a normal worker in the factory?¡± Joshua asked.

    Kompany was silent for a bit before giving a bitterugh.

    ¡°I¡¯m not willing, but what can I do? I can only read a few words, so I can¡¯t pass the higher grade skill tests. What can I do if I\\\''m not a normal worker?¡±

    ¡°So this is the reason why when I was talking to Viscount Razor about promoting infrastructure, I suggested building a school first.¡± Joshua looked to the southwest and had a bit of admiration on his face, ¡°Sir chairman already proposed ten years ago that manpower is more important than anything else, but dumb people like us only realized the meaning of these words two years ago.¡±

    Kompany was a bit surprised. He thought that with how indifferent Joshua was in front of the lord mayor, even acting a bit aloof, it could be seen that he was a person with pride.

    However, when he mentioned that sir chairman, he couldn¡¯t hide the look of admiration on his face.

    ¡°That¡­¡­your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman is called Xu Yi, right? Is he really that incredible?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Joshua said in a very certain voice, ¡°Sir chairman is the most amazing person I¡¯ve ever seen, no one canpare to him! Not to mention anything else, doesn¡¯t brother inw know about the matter of Arch Magus Levin Hasko falling from the sky?¡±

    ¡°I have heard about this.¡± Kompany quickly said, ¡°But I only heard about Arch Magus Levin Hasko being killed by your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I don¡¯t know the details.¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­I¡¯m not that clear on the details either, but think about it, sir chairman was only a Great Magician then and he was able to lead his subordinates to kill an Arch Magus, isn¡¯t that incredible enough? Because of this matter, the entire continent¡¯s understanding of magicians had changed. The magic machine industry could develop this quickly on the continent over the years ispletely because of this matter, otherwise¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡± Kompany nodded in a daze.

    He was only a normal citizen of a small town in the Falk Kingdom, he didn¡¯t know much news so when he heard how excited Joshua was, he couldn¡¯t sympathize with him.

    Joshua said this and finally noticed this, so he gave a cough and didn¡¯t continue.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­In short, sir chairman is very incredible, there is no doubt about that. The infrastructure promoting department that I¡¯m currently working for was personally established by sir chairman two years ago. Not many people understood it at first, but after the trials in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom, people realized the importance of the work I¡¯m currently doing. Not to mention anything else, sir chairman really does have foresight¡­¡­¡±

    Kompany had a dazed look.

    Joshua could only stop and after thinking about it, he said, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about sir chairman. Brother inw, you just said it, because you haven¡¯t been educated, it¡¯s very hard to pass the higher grade skill tests, right?¡±

    Kompany nodded.

    ¡°Then do you want Harvat and Sai to be like you in the future?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Kompany immediately shook his head, ¡°But¡­¡­Harvat being taken away to school by you and Winnie is already troubling you, as for Sai¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not a problem if it¡¯s just the two of them, but my goal isn¡¯t just the two of them, but rather all the children in Arafat Town. If they can be educated, after they be adults, they will be very useful talents. So my first goal is to build a school in this town so that all the children can be educated.¡±

    ¡°It was what you just told sir mayor¡­¡­the education and training?¡±

    ¡°He, basic education is only a part of it. Of course, you have to start from the basics with anything, so your understanding of this isn¡¯t wrong.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­how is that rted to me?¡± Kompany pointed at himself and asked.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Joshua patted Kompany¡¯s shoulder with a smile, ¡°Brother inw, you want to be able to afford a Magic Sedan, right? You also want to be able to smoke this cigarette every day, right? You also want to let big sister and the kids have a better life, right? As long as you listen to my arrangements, that isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    Kompany scratched his head in a confused manner, ¡°What do you want me to do?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. Ourpany will be investing in a primary school in Arafat Town and you will be the principal of this school.¡±

    ¡°Ha?¡± Kompany looked at Joshua with wide eyes, ¡°Are you kidding me?¡±

 Volume 7 5 â€“ Hitchhiker

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 5 - Hitchhiker</h4>

    Two dayster, there was a Magic Sedan that quickly left Arafat Town.

    Winnie looked out the window and seeing her brother inw and big sister disappearing in the distance, there was a bit of unwillingness in her eyes.

    After being in a daze for a bit, she turned to look at Harvat beside her. She found that although there was the same unwillingness with a bit of fear on his face, there was more excitement and anticipation.

    Winnie couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile as she patted his head and asked in a gentle voice, ¡°Harvat, you¡¯re this old already, but this should be your first time leaving home, right?¡±

    Harvat thought about it before nodding and saying in a loud voice, ¡°Un, the furthest I went before was Moro City with dad before.¡±

    ¡°Moro City? That ce is only thirty kilometers away from your home, but this time you¡¯re going to a ce that¡¯s over a thousand kilometers away. Are you scared?¡± Winnie asked.

    Harvat thought about it before shaking his head.

    ¡°No, with little aunt looking after me, I¡¯m not afraid.¡±

    Winnie gave augh and patted his head again before taking out some snacks that she had prepared for Harvat. Seeing how happy he was eating it, she finally turned to Joshua who was in the front seat driving the Magic Sedan and said with a worried look, ¡°I¡¯ve thought about it and I feel that it isn¡¯t reliable to let brother inw by the principal of the elementary school.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Joshua kept looking forward and didn¡¯t turn back.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know brother inw, he only knows a few words and now you¡¯re letting him be in charge of a school that will teach kids how to read. It doesn¡¯t seem right no matter how you look at it, right? Moreover, brother inw is an honest person, I think that it¡¯s not a problem to let him do simple work, but to suddenly make him the principal of a school¡­¡­I¡¯m afraid he can¡¯t do it.¡±

    ¡°Rx, this work isn¡¯t as hard as you think it is.¡± Joshua replied with a faint smile, ¡°When we really need to organize the school, we will send some specialized people. When ites to operating the school and the most important teachers, there¡¯s no need for brother inw to personally do this. In fact, I chose him as the principal because the position of principal just needs someone in it, it isn¡¯t that important to begin with.¡±

    ¡°But I¡¯m still worried¡­¡­I¡¯m worried that brother inw won¡¯t know anything and will be tricked by the merchants and nobles, so that the school won¡¯t be able to operate.¡± Winnie had a worried look.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about this. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose Arafat Town as the first ce for this n which is Arafat Town¡¯s blessing. I believe that whether it is Viscount Razor or the Falk Kingdom¡¯s parliament, they are aware of this, so they will definitely support this and ensure its smooth progress. You don¡¯t need to worry that people will trick brother inw.¡±

    Winnie silently thought about it before she couldn¡¯t help giving a nod, feeling that Joshua was a bit reasonable.

    Since five years ago when Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the position of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the continent hadpletely changed.

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did everything they could to cooperate with the other countries, in the past five years, the countries of the continent all fought with each other to find a chance to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although the Falk Kingdom could be considered a kingdom with decent strength, they still weed the opportunity of cooperation the Frestech Chamber of Commerce offered them.

    Although the infrastructure promotion department that Joshua represented wasn¡¯t a production department of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce graded magic machine industries, they ced great importance on infrastructure and gave it high points, many countries began cing importance on this.

    Now that Joshua had personallye on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s infrastructure promoting department for this reason, hoping to promote the infrastructure of the Falk Kingdom, it was naturally a good chance for them.

    So the Falk Kingdom had ced great importance on this, even giving Joshua a document that had the highest seal of approval, enabling him to freely inspect the Falk Kingdom. Moreover, he had the right to choose where to increase the infrastructure at will.

    Joshua had chosen Arafat Town of course because of Winnie¡¯s rtives.

    But in reality, Arafat Town was also a very suitable choice.

    This town had a road connecting it and a magic machine factory that had been built there for several years, allowing the people of the town to have a certain understanding of magic machines, so Joshua wouldn¡¯t need to start from the beginning.

    Adding in the fact that there was a magic machine factory, there was a certain foundation of finances in Arafat Town, which gave it the ability to support infrastructure growth.

    Then there was the fact that this town was close to the center of the Falk Kingdom, which made it just the right fit.

    The reason why Kompany was chosen as the principal right away was like what Joshua had said, but it was also purely because they needed a local as the principal.

    Compared to letting those nobles of the small town be the principal, Joshua was more assured in having Kompany who was ¡°on his side¡± take the position.

    Because this elementary school was the first trial, Joshua needed someone from the town as a connection to make everything go smoothly.

    Putting these two together, Kompany was the best intermediary.

    Although Kompany was what Winnie thought he was, because he was educated or experienced, there were many things that he wascking in, that didn¡¯t mean that Kompany was dumb though. Joshua could see when he refused the cigarette that he was a very principled and clear minded person, who was very suited for this job.

    As for the operation of the school, Joshua wasn¡¯t worried.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s infrastructure promoting department had been working in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom in the past two years, they had gained quite a few talented people in this aspect. Joshua himself has also gained quite a bit of experience, so there wouldn¡¯t be a problem.

    Kompany as the principal had more of a symbolic value than a practical value, so he didn¡¯t need to do much.

    Moreover, like this, he could increase Kompany¡¯s prestige in Arafat Town and increase his ie, so it could take care of Winnie¡¯s request to help her big sister¡¯s family.

    Thinking of this, Joshua couldn¡¯t help feeling proud of himself.

    Solving a problem that was both public and private, it really was hard to do.

    Joshua¡¯s group didn¡¯t directly leave the Falk Kingdom and drove the Magic Sedan for three hours,ing to the Falk Kingdom¡¯s capital Fernandez City that was two hundred kilometers away from Arafat Town.

    Although he had already talked to Viscount Razor in Arafat Town, he still had to continue down the official procedure, so Joshua had toe here first to report in with the Falk Kingdom¡¯s parliament.

    After obtaining the support of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s parliament, it would save quite a bit of effort with the Arafat Town¡¯s elementary school.

    When they were five kilometers away from Fernandez City, Joshua could already see the familiar looking sharp tower in the sky in front of them.

    As soon as that tower appeared, there was a crisp ring that came from Joshua.

    Harvat who had been staring out the window heard this sound and suddenly jumped up, hitting his head on the roof and wincing in pain.

    ¡°Be careful!¡± Winnie looked at him. She pulled him back down before reaching her hand out to take out a small Magic Communicator from Joshua¡¯s right pocket and pressed the button on it.

    ¡°Hey, Joshua, Winnie, are you here?¡± There was a clear female voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Un, Taylor, we¡¯re already here. Where are you now?¡± Winnie asked back with a giggle.

    ¡°We¡¯re still assembling the fourth signal tower. If you look to the front right side, you should see us.¡±

    Winnie poked her head out of the window and looked into the distance, being able to see the sharp tower that was there.

    The Magic Signal Towers around Fernandez City was the first step in the magicmunicationwork the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was building with the Falk Kingdom in the Falk Kingdom.

    If this Magic Signal Tower was finished, the first step would be done. The magic signal would cover the entirety of Fernandez City, as well as eight kilometers out.

    Anyone who entered this range could use the Magic Communicator tomunicate from a long distance.

    ¡°Since we can connect, that means that the Magic Signal Tower is already finished?¡± Winned asked the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Un, we¡¯re just on the final review step. Where¡¯s Joshua?¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s driving the car. What is it?¡±

    ¡°Give themunicator to him, I have to tell him something.¡±

    Winnie gave a sound of understanding before putting the Magic Communicator by Joshua¡¯s ear.

    ¡°Hey, Taylor, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Are you and Winnie going back today or tomorrow?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I want to go back as soon as possible, but we have to report to the Falk Kingdom parliament first. It should be tomorrow if nothing goes wrong. What is it?¡±

    ¡°That¡­¡­¡± Taylor on the other side hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Can you help me bring someone back? Someone wants to get a ride, will that work?¡±

    Joshua knitted his brows. He turned to look at Winnie who also knitted her brows, but then she gave the hand signal for him to keep asking.

    ¡°Bring who?¡± Joshua asked.

    ¡°A magician, he wants to join ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Then why don¡¯t you tell him to take the bus and go by himself? It only takes two transfer in the Drake Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom to get to ourpany¡¯s main base from Fernandez City, it¡¯s not that hard.¡±

    ¡°Hey, Joshua, do you want to do it or not? If you don¡¯t, I¡¯ll find someone else.¡±

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡± Joshua clearly wanted to say that he didn¡¯t, but he changed his tone, ¡°I just find it very strange. When otherpanies look for magicians, they all go by themselves. Why do you want me to bring them back with me?¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­He is rted to our project manager and he hasn¡¯t gone out that far yet, so he doesn¡¯t know the way and they asked me to help them. Joshua, can¡¯t you just help me with this? I¡¯ll treat you and Winnie to a meal after we go back.¡±

    Joshua helplessly looked at Winnie who rolled her eyes before giving a nod.

    Seeing that Winnie agreed, Joshua let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go to the parliament first and we¡¯lle to your department tomorrow. Have him wait there for us.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll see you tomorrow.¡±

 Volume 7 6 â€“ Fragile Guest

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 6 - Fragile Guest</h4>

    At nine the next day, Joshua¡¯s Magic Sedan came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce infrastructure promoting department¡¯s engineering department¡¯s temporary base by the east gate of Fernandez City, meeting Taylor as promised.

    When they came out, they saw that there was a middle aged man who was around forty years old with a ck robe and rather dark skin who looked to be in a slight daze standing beside Taylor.

    ¡°Let me introduce you. Magician Sodak, these two are the colleagues I mentioned yesterday. This is Joshua, this is Winnie, and this is¡­¡­¡± Taylor¡¯s eyes fell onto Harvat.

    ¡°This is my nephew.¡± Winnie exined, ¡°Come, Harvat, greet aunt Taylor.¡±

    ¡°Hello aunt Taylor.¡± Harvat obediently called out.

    ¡°Call me big sister, I¡¯m not that old.¡± Taylor immediately revealed a happy smile and pinched Harvat¡¯s face before turning back to Joshua, ¡°Joshua, this is the one I told you about. This is magician Sodak who wants to get a ride with your back to thepany.¡±

    Joshua reached his hand out towards Sodak with a smile, ¡°Hello, magician Sodak. I heard Taylor say that you want to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I represent ourpany in weing you.¡±

    Sodak was a normal magician who was bad at interacting with people, so he only reached his hand out to quickly shake Joshua¡¯s hand before pulling it back. He forced out a smile as he said with a nod, ¡°I don¡¯t know if I¡¯ll be epted by yourpany.¡±

    Joshua casually looked at Sodak¡¯s chest and found that there was only a Third Grade Magician badge there, so he couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    Based on his appearance, Sodak was at least forty years old and people might even believe it if it was said that he was fifty. But he was only a Third Grade Magician at his age, it meant that his talent for magic was far from being outstanding.

    Normally speaking, he wasn¡¯t qualified to enter the magic research facility at his level.

    But if it was just as a worker who engraved Magic Arrays, there wouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem.

    But everyone knew that it was much better to work for the magic research facility than to be a normal worker, so even if Joshua wasn¡¯t optimistic about Sodak¡¯s prospects, he didn¡¯t directly tell him that it was impossible to join the magic research facility.

    He just said with a smile, ¡°Rx, ourpany wees all magicians to join the magic machine industry. I think that magician Sodak will definitely find your ce in ourpany.¡±

    Taylor on the side was also clear on Sodak¡¯s level of magic and she revealed an understanding smile when she heard this. Then she asked Winnie, ¡°Since you¡¯re here, how about I treat you to lunch before you go?¡±

    Winnie shook her head, ¡°That won¡¯t work. It¡¯ll take more than ten hours to return to the main base from here. If we set off now, we might be able to get back tonight. If we stop and eat lunch, we won¡¯t be able to make it today.¡±

    ¡°Why are you in such a rush? You can definitely stay in Anvilmar City for a night so you won¡¯t be too tired on the way. Then again, Winnie, I remember that you don¡¯t have a driver¡¯s license, right? Joshua will definitely be driving by himself the entire way, so you should rest along the way so that he won¡¯t be too tired.¡± Taylor said in a curious voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m used to it.¡± Joshua shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve been driving all over in the past two years, it¡¯s normal to drive for over ten hours, it isn¡¯t anything.¡±

    Taylor looked at him and couldn¡¯t help shaking her head, ¡°In order to promote infrastructure in the past two years, you really have gone all over. It¡¯s been hard on you, but there are also benefits. Look, if it wasn¡¯t for your work, how could thepany give you the newest high end Magic Sedan? This car costs over two thousand and three hundred gold coins, if you had to buy it yourself, it would take you several years to buy it.¡±

    ¡°Several years? I can¡¯t afford it even in several dozen years.¡± Joshua shook his head with a smile, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this, Winnie and I should go. Magician Sodak, have you prepared all your luggage?¡±

    Sodak raised the bag in his hand, ¡°It¡¯s just this, I prepared it yesterday.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then put the bag in the trunk and then let¡¯s head off.¡±

    Joshua helped Sodak put his simple luggage into the trunk of the Magic Sedan and then had him sit in the front before waving goodbye to Taylor with Winner.

    After the Magic Sedan started, it didn¡¯t take long before they drove out of Fernandez City, heading off in a southwest direction.

    It seemed like it was Sodak¡¯s first time in a Magic Sedan, so once the car started, his expression was tense as he sat there, not daring to move.

    When the Magic Sedan came out of Fernandez City, he finally rxed a bit as he began looking around the Magic Sedan with a curious look, asking Joshua a few questions from time to time.

    Joshua had been driving this Magic Sedan all over in the past two years, so he was already quite good at driving. The roads outside of Fernandez City weren¡¯t as crowded as the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy, so it was quite spacious. He stepped on the gas pedal and pushed the Magic Sedan to its max speed.

    When Sodak saw the scenery around the car fly by, he couldn¡¯t help being a bit worried again.

    Harvat, who was riding a Magic Sedan for the first time in the back, actually became more excited as the car picked up speed, watching the scenery fly by with wide eyes while cheering from time to time.

    In just an hour, the Magic Sedan was already a hundred kilometers away from Fernandez City.

    As soon as the Magic Sedan entered a patch of trees, Sodak sitting in the passenger seat suddenly had a pale look and he covered his mouth.

    Joshua noticed this while driving and immediately understood what was happening when he saw his face.

    This really was Sodak¡¯s first time riding in a Magic Sedan and now he was¡­¡­car sick¡­¡­

    Joshua slowed down the Magic Sedan before stopping at the side of the road.

    With a single word, Sodak opened the door and charged into the woods. He held a tree branch as he lowered his head to throw up.

    Harvat looked at Sodak with a surprised look from a distance before asking Winnie, ¡°Little aunt, what is wrong with him?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing. He¡¯s just car sick and wants to throw up.¡±

    ¡°Then why am I not car sick?¡±

    ¡°Each person is different. Some people will get car sick and some won¡¯t. Moreover, you¡¯re a child, so your body is better than his.¡± Winnie exined.

    Harvat made an oh sound before revealing a proud look and he couldn¡¯t help flexing his arms in front of Winnie.

    Joshua saw that Sodak didn¡¯te back for a while, so he opened the door toe out before going to the side of the road, taking out a cigarette from his chest pocket to light up.

    After a while, seeing that Sodak had stopped vomiting, he took out a bottle of warm water and a pill that he had prepared and walked over.

    ¡°Here, magician Sodak, this is medicine that will help with the car sickness. Rinse your mouth first and then use the pill, you¡¯ll feel much better.¡±

    Sodak turned to look at the bottle of water and pill in Joshua¡¯s hand with a weak look. He didn¡¯t even have the strength to reveal a doubtful look as he reached out to take the water to rinse his mouth with before swallowing the pill, then letting out a long sigh of relief.

    ¡°We¡­¡­¡± Joshua wanted to say something else, but he suddenly heard a gurgle sound from Sodak¡¯s stomach and was surprised.

    Sodak revealed an awkward smile and pointed further into the woods.

    Joshua could only force down a smile that he almost couldn¡¯t hold back and give a nod.

    ¡°Go ahead, we¡¯ll wait for you.¡±

    It was like Sodak was trying to escape as he charged into the woods.

    After a while, he had already disappeared and he couldn¡¯t be seen anymore.

    Joshua looked in the direction he ran off in with a surprised look before taking out another pill from his chest pocket, looking it over before he couldn¡¯t help muttering, ¡°Strange, does the car sickness pill of the elves have a side effect of causing diarrhea? I¡¯ll go ask the Night Song Tribe about this after going back.¡±

    To avoid it being awkward, Sodak had gone far away, so far that Joshua couldn¡¯t hear a sound.

    Of course he wasn¡¯t interested in those sounds, so he turned to head back to the Magic Sedan. He took out some food from the trunk that he had already prepared and gave some to Winnie and Harvat.

    ¡°It seems like we still have to wait some time, so we might as well take care of lunch.¡±

    Winnie was doubtful as she received this and asked, ¡°Didn¡¯t we say that we would have lunch in Filios City?¡±

    Joshua gave a shrug, ¡°Something has happened to our guest. I think that not to mention eating lunch, he won¡¯t want to eat for the rest of the day.¡±

    ¡°What happened to him?¡± Winnie looked into the woods with knitted brows, but she couldn¡¯t see Sodak at all.

    She wanted to keep asking, but there were sudden rustles that came from the woods. After a while, there were twenty people with various weapons that came out, surrounding the Magic Sedan.

    The man who was in charge looked at the Magic Sedan and Joshua standing beside it before looking at Winnie and Harvat in the car. He gave a fierceugh and raised the giant de in his hand as he loudly said, ¡°Hei, the two of you, if you don¡¯t want to die, you should obediently listen to me!¡±

    Joshua and Winnie looked at each other in surprise.

    This¡­¡­did they encounter a bandit?

 Volume 7 7 â€“ Personal Magic Shield Equipment

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 7 - Personal Magic Shield Equipment</h4>

    ¡°Hey, you two and that child, all of you get out of the Magic Sedan for me!¡± Thatrge man brandished hisrge de as he shouted this. At the same time, the other twenty subordinates also approached.

    However, other than Harvat who revealed a terrified look, Joshua and Winnie weren¡¯t worried at all, rather they had smiles on their faces.

    ¡°Hey, Winnie, have you met bandits before?¡± Joshua was calm as he asked Winnie this question.

    Winnie looked at the twenty men approaching with an interested look before shaking her head.

    ¡°Do you think that bandits would dare attack me?¡±

    Joshua gave augh, ¡°That is right. Alright, Winnie, we¡¯ll leave these fellows to you. Harvat,e with me to the side and watch your little aunt show off her might.¡±

    Winnie red at Joshua, ¡°What show off my might, you make it sound like I¡¯m so fierce.¡± After saying this, she patted Harvat¡¯s head and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Be good and watch with you uncle. Watch me take care of these fellows who don¡¯t want to live anymore.¡±

    Harvata nodded and went to the side with Joshua. His eye were opened wide as he looked at Winnie with a curious and interested look.

    Back at home, he had heard his mother mention this before. The kind little aunt who treated him well had a very incredible identity¡­¡­

    Seeing Joshua and Harvat move to the side, Winnie turned to face the twenty bandits as her lips curled into a dangerous smile before raising her right hand.

    ¡°Hu.¡±

    There were several fireballs that size of human heads that gathered around Winnie before flying at the bandits.

    ¡°Peng, peng, peng, peng, peng.¡±

    Half the fireballs hit the ground and created powerful explosions. The other half had hit some bandits and had blown them away while also lighting them on fire.

    The bandits that had been lit on fire screamed out as they all fell to the ground rolling. The remaining bandits who hadn¡¯t been lit on fire all scattered as they looked at Winnie with looks of panic.

    ¡°Magician! She¡¯s actually a magician!¡±

    Winnie looked at the bandits with disdain and gave a cold snort, ¡°You want to steal from a magician just with you fellows? Simply seeking death!¡±

    After throwing this down, Winnie raised her hand and sent another round of fireballs at the bandits.

    As a third grade researcher of the magic research facility, Winnie had been a Fourth Grade Magician when she entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that she had been at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for five years, she had raised her magic level from the Fourth Grade to the Sixth Grade with her countless magic research projects.

    Not to mention bandits that didn¡¯t know any magic, even if it was a group of twenty elites from a country¡¯s army, she wouldn¡¯t put them in her eyes.

    However, when she threw the fireballs at the bandits this time, the leader and three other bandits suddenly had three light blue magic barriers appear in front of them.

    Winnie¡¯s fireballs hit this magic barrier and only created weak ripples on the magic barrier before disappearing without a trace. It didn¡¯t cause any damage to the bandits at all.

    Winnie was surprised before narrowing her eyes.

    ¡°Personal Water Magic Barriers? How did you get this thing?¡±

    The bandit leader gave augh, ¡°Little miss, don¡¯t think that you¡¯re that incredible because you¡¯re a magician. Father has the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯stest military magic machines, so it¡¯s quite easy to take care of a little Low Grade Magician like you!¡±

    Winnie ignored him and turned to look at Joshua who also had a surprised look.

    Joshua shook his head, showing that he had no idea.

    Winnie waved her hand at him, telling him to move a bit further with Harvat before turning around, looking at the bandits with a serious look.

    Although she wasn¡¯t a researcher in the military magic machine department, as a researcher of the magic research facility, she would naturally understand more about the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce military magic machinespared to normal people.

    The bandit leader and the three subordinates had items that released a light blue Water Magic Barrier, which was one kind of personal Magic Barrier that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed three years ago. It used Water Magic to create a barrier, which was effective against Fire Magic, so even though she released a Fourth Grade Fire Spell, it didn¡¯t have any effect.

    There wasn¡¯t a problem with this. What made Winnie curious was, how had this group of normal bandits gotten their hands on this?

    It should be known that although this thing was developed three years ago by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was only announcedst year to be sold to the public.

    Until now, only the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the two empires, and four countries that had been deemed third grade countries by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been able to buy these.

    Not to mention normal bandits having these things, even most of the armies on the continent didn¡¯t have these.

    How had the bandits gotten them?

    Moreover, they had these powerful Water Magic Barrier items that were the strongest against Fire Magic, which made people even more curious.

    ¡°Hey, it doesn¡¯t matter where we got these. Little miss, you should just care about yourself. If you go along with us, I can spare your life, but if not, don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡± The bandit leader roared out.

    Winnie narrowed her eyes and she felt that this was a bit off.

    Bandits that could even take out these high end military magic machines definitely weren¡¯t normal bandits, so these fellows didn¡¯t juste here to rob them, but had another goal.

    But why did they want her and Joshua toe with them?

    Unless they were here for Sodak?

    Winnie immediately denied this guess.

    If they were here for Sodak, it was impossible that they wouldn¡¯t ask about him until now, like they knew that Sodak wasn¡¯t in the car.

    Then why were they here?

    While Winnie was thinking about this, the bandit leader and his three subordinates were already moving closer with the Magic Barriers.

    ¡°Winnie, be careful, they might have other military magic machines!¡± Joshua suddenly called out from behind her.

    Winnie¡¯s heart turned cold and she couldn¡¯t help taking a step back.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been attacked by the two Arch Magi, causing the first steel mill to be destroyed and causing mass casualties, as well as economic loss, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been studying how to use military magic machines to attack magicians on the order of sir chairman.

    After five years of development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines had made great strides and it could be said that they had reached a crazy level when it came to defending against magician attacks.

    In these years of development, there were two categories and seventeen types of machines that could target attacks. The personal Magic Barriers in the hands of these bandits were one of these.

    If they only had this, Winnie wasn¡¯t afraid, but if they had other military magic machines that targeted magicians, while Winnie would be fine herself, it would be hard for her to protect Joshua and Harvat.

    Thinking of this, Winnie no longer hesitated and gathered all her magic, creating a wall of fire in front of her which she sent at the bandits.

    The bandit leader and the three subordinates had their Magic Barriers up in front of them. When the fire wall came forward, it was stopped by the Magic Barriers and didn¡¯t deal any damage to them.

    But they could only protect themselves and in the ces not protected by the Magic Barrier, the fire wall had burned away everything else, causing the rest of the bandits to scatter.

    After chasing off the bandits, Winnie focused on these four bandits asrge amounts of data quickly flowed through her mind.

    ording to the data that the military magic machine research department had released, the personal Magic Barriers had an upper limit of damage in theory. It was around three thousand Evs, which was the upper limit of a Ninth Grade AoE Spell.

    In terms of single target spell, a normal Sixth Grade or Seventh Grade Magician¡¯s upper limit was also around there, but that was decided by the level of the magician.

    Winnie was a Sixth Grade Magician and she was an outstanding Sixth Grade Magician, so her magic power wasn¡¯t weak.

    But this also meant that she could only release Sixth Grade Spells, which would find it hard to reach the upper limit of the personal Magic Barriers.

    This meant that she couldn¡¯t rely just on her spells to destroy the barriers and kill these four bandits.

    But this doesn¡¯t mean that she didn¡¯t have the means to deal with it.

    The Magic Barrier was not a living thing, it depended on how a person used them.

    These four bandits shouldn¡¯t have had them for long, so they clearly wouldn¡¯t understand how to effectively use them.

    After Winnie calmed down, she took a step back before stomping down with her right foot.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a column of me that shot into the sky under the feet of one of the bandits.

    This bandit was covered in mes and they let out a pitiful cry before running into the woods covered in mes.

    Seeing the shocked looks the bandit leader and the other two bandits had, Winnie gave a coldugh in her heart.

    ¡°You didn¡¯t even bring a magic power detector and you dare to attack a magician? You really think that you¡¯re invincible with military magic machines?¡±

 Volume 7 8 â€“ Allowing Yourself To Be Caught

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 8 - Allowing Yourself To Be Caught</h4>

    Winnie patiently waited for a bit to see if these three bandits would take out more military magic machines or rted equipment. When they didn¡¯t, her heart rxed and she prepared to take care of these fellows.

    Of course, she couldn¡¯t kill them all.

    The enemy was just a few bandits and they had these high grade military magic machines, so their backing definitely wasn¡¯t simple.

    But putting all that aside, just investigating how these four high end personal Magic Barriers ended up in the hands of these bandits was very important. As a researcher of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Winnie was bound by her duty.

    But when Winnie was nning on making a move, she heard a voice from above.

    ¡°Humph! Putting hope on you pieces of trash really was a waste of time.¡±

    As soon as the voice fell, there were magic fluctuations that followed.

    Winnie was shocked and didn¡¯t hesitate to fly back.

    With how powerful these magic fluctuations were, she could instantly tell that it was a spell released by an Eighth Grade Magician or higher, which far surpassed the level that she could handle.

    However, the speed that she flew at was not the same as the speed of the spell. Before she flew that far, there was a powerful light that fell down in front of her.

    With the sparks in front of her, Winnie could tell that this was a High Grade Wind Spell, the Eighth Grade Wind Spell, Electric de.

    This spell was one of the most powerful single target spells among Eighth Grade Spells. With Winnie¡¯s level as a Sixth Grade Magician, even if she could take it, her injuries wouldn¡¯t be light.

    But this magician was iparably fast and she couldn¡¯t dodge it.

    Out of desperation, Winnie pulled out a thread of magic from her body and quietly activated something that she had on her.

    There was a light blue screen of light that spread over Winnie,pletely covering her.

    When that swift and sharp lightning hit that light blue screen of light, it caused it to ripple many times, but it couldn¡¯t shake the screen in the end. It didn¡¯t prate the screen, so naturally it didn¡¯t deal any damage to her.

    If one looked at it from the side, one would find that the light blue screen of light that Winnie released was simr to the Water Magic Barrier released by the four bandits. But when one looked even closely, they would find that it was clearly much stronger, which was how it had resisted an Eighth Grade Spell.

    This item that Winnie had hidden the entire time was one of the personal Magic Barrier items, but it was specially made to work with a magician to increase their own barrier¡¯s power.

    Compared to simple Magic Barrier items that normal people used, this one made for magicians could work with their own Magic Barrier, which would make it much stronger than the personal Magic Barriers.

    Also because it had the support of a magicians¡¯ magic power, it would be influenced by their level of magic. The Magic Barrier released by this item would also be stronger.

    To put it simply, this was an item that worked with a magician¡¯s power, which allowed the Magic Barrier that a magician released to be stronger.

    Otherwise, just with Winnie¡¯s level as a Sixth Grade Magician, it was impossible to block the attack of an Eighth Grade Magician.

    The only problem was that Winnie specialized in Fire Magic, but the Magic Barrier item that she had only strengthened Water Magic Barriers, otherwise the barrier that she released now would be able to block peak Eighth Grade Spells or even Ninth Grade Spells.

    After confirming that she had blocked the other side¡¯s spell, Winnie let out a sigh of relief and looked forward.

    But as soon as she calmed down, her heart shook once again.

    By the road, Joshua and Harvat who had been watching her take care of the bandits had been caught by fully armed men who had suddenly appeared. There were two des at their neck and they were even careful when breathing.

    ¡°Let them go!¡± Winnie wanted to charge forward as she angrily roared out.

    But as soon as she moved, there was another bolt of lightning that flew out. She was forced to use her Magic Barrier again to block this bolt of lightning.

    ¡°Winnie Spencer, if I was you, I would choose to not move right now. Otherwise, there¡¯s no way to guarantee that your husband and nephew will be fine.¡± There was a sinister voice that came from the other side.

    Winnie was surprised as she turned in the direction of the voice.

    There was a middle aged man in normal clothes and had a normal appearance who was no different from a bystander floating in front of her, looking at her with a smile.

    ¡°How do you know my name?¡± Winnie asked with knitted brows.

    This fellow not only knew her name, he even knew that Joshua was her husband and that Harvat was her nephew. This meant that the other side was prepared and hadid this ambush for the three of them.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to know this.¡± This middle aged man with a normal appearance, but was on the level of an Eighth Grade Magician shook his head, ¡°The only thing you need to do now is obediently listen to me ande with us. Rx, you and your husband Joshua have your uses, we don¡¯t want your lives. Of course, if you don¡¯t listen to us¡­¡­I can¡¯t guarantee the life of your little nephew¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this open threat, Winnie took a deep breath as she looked at Joshua who had a de at his neck.

    Although Joshua had a de at his neck, his face was only a bit pale and he didn¡¯t look afraid. He looked at Winnie and calmly said, ¡°Winnie, listen to them, we can¡¯t fight back right now.¡±

    Winnie was silent for a bit before looking at Harvat who looked like he wanted to cry, but didn¡¯t dare cry. After thinking about it, she released the Magic Barrier around her andnded on the ground.

    The middle aged magician was a bit surprised at how easily Winnie surrendered, but he reached into his chest and took out something that he threw to Winnie.

    ¡°Put it on.¡±

    Winnie looked at it and found that it was a kind of bracelet.

    This bracelet released magic fluctuations and when she put it on her wrist, she felt the magic inside of her being suppressed and it didn¡¯t flow as smoothly as before.

    It was clear that this was a magic suppressing item.

    This kind of item that suppressed the magic of a magician was rare on the continent, but the other side had taken one out, so it was clear that they had been prepared.

    But this meant that they didn¡¯t have any thoughts of harming her, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t need to waste all this effort.

    Thinking of this, Winnie calmed down before looking at Joshua, exchanging gazes with him.

    ¡°Right, also take out all the strange things that you have on you for me.¡± Seeing the exchange between Winnie and Joshua, the middle aged magician seemed to have thought of something as he gave this order.

    Two of the men started moving towards Winnie. Winnie knitted her brows and said in a sharp voice, ¡°I¡¯ll do it myself! If you let these mene close to me, do you believe I won¡¯t kill myself?¡±

    The two men could only stop and turned to look at the middle aged magician.

    The middle aged magician hesitated a bit before nodding, ¡°Alright, do it yourself. But you need to know that I am clear if you have anything on you, so if you dare to hide anything, don¡¯t me me if Ipletely strip you to find these things!¡±

    Winnie gave a cold snort and turned around. She reached into her chest and took out the small items that worked with her magic power.

    The middle aged man flew over and took those things before looking over Winnie. He gave a nod before waving his hand, ¡°Bring her along!¡±

    Two men detained Winnie and Joshua while another man carried Harvat who struggled from time to time. Their group headed right into the forest on the side.

    After traveling some distance in the forest, they came to a clearing.

    There were five horse carriages parked there. The two men detaining Winnie and Joshua put them in thergest horse carriage with the middle aged magician before it headed off.

    ¡°The two of you, I can see that you¡¯re smart people, so I¡¯ll be straight with you.¡± The middle aged magician narrowed his eyes to look over them before saying in a low voice, ¡°As long as you cooperate with us, then nothing will happen to you and you will even be treated well. But if you don¡¯t work with us, we don¡¯t mind letting you suffer a bit, even¡­¡­letting you suffer a pain that you are not willing to suffer¡­¡­¡±

    When he said this, the middle aged man looked at one of the horse carriages.

    Harvat, who had his mouth stuffed, was put in that horse carriage, so it was clear what the meaning of the middle aged magician¡¯s words were.

    ¡°I have a question.¡± Joshua suddenly spoke, ¡°What value do the two of us have that you would spend all this effort to deal with us?¡±

    ¡°Right, we don¡¯t have any special identities. We are just twomoners, we aren¡¯t even nobles, so why are you spending all this effort to catch us?¡± Winnie also asked.

    The middle aged magician gave a cold snort. He looked at the two of them before saying in a low voice, ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because you are from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Winnie and Joshua looked at each other with surprised looks.

    ¡°Just because we¡¯re from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, is it worth all this effort? We¡¯re not important people like sir chairman¡­¡­¡± Winnie couldn¡¯t help saying.

    The middle aged magician impatiently waved his hand, ¡°Nonsense, if we could catch Xu Yi, would we need to waste all this effort? Alright, just be good. Once we arrive, you will naturally know what you need to do.¡±

    Winnie and Joshua looked at each other again, thinking that this was just too confusing.

    What importance did the two of them have?

 Volume 7 9 â€“ You Are More Valuable

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 9 - You Are More Valuable</h4>

    Winnie and Joshua were limited to the horse carriage, they couldn¡¯t see what was happening outside. However, based on the sunlight that came into the horse carriage, they could tell a few things.

    The horse carriage was naturally not as fast as the Magic Sedan, so once it started moving, it shouldn¡¯t have gone north first, but rather to the northwest.

    As well, the horse carriage only moved at twenty to thirty kilometers per hour and it had never stopped since they boarded. The sunlight that came from outside the window kept getting dimmer and soon they couldn¡¯t see any light at all, which was when they made their first stop.

    ¡°Get out, we¡¯re resting here first.¡±

    The middle aged magician coldly said before looking at the two men who were keeping Joshua and Winnie in the horse carriage.

    After the two got out, they found that they were at the foot of a barren hill and there weren¡¯t any signs of civilization around them.

    Even a road¡­¡­they should have left the road at least two hours ago.

    It was clear that the other side needed to keep their actions hidden, so they avoided ces with many people and choosing to rest in this barren mountain was very normal.

    Joshua looked into the west at the setting sun before looking at the stars that were in the sky above them, confirming that it was around seven at night.

    As for where they were¡­¡­Based on the estimate along the way, they should be already two hundred kilometers from where they had been kidnapped.

    Based on the direction they had gone on, they should be close or at the border of the Falk Kingdom.

    The only other country that bordered the Falk Kingdom in this direction other than the Ant Kingdom was a small duchy called the Yash Duchy.

    As for where they were exactly, he couldn¡¯t make that judgement.

    Perhaps it was because they were a bit further away, the middle aged magician seemed to rx a bit. He indicated for the two of them to find a ce to sit and after they sat down, they waited for the other men to cook dinner.

    The men that the middle aged magician brought along seemed well trained and had experience camping, so it didn¡¯t take them long to set up a small camp.

    What surprised Joshua and Winnie and what they also found funny was that these two people didn¡¯t build camp fires as they had expected. Rather they took out two Magic Stoves from another horse carriage and used the Magic Stoves to quickly make a simple dinner.

    The fragrance spread all around them. When they had this meal that tasted decent, Winnie and Joshua couldn¡¯t help mistaking that they weren¡¯t kidnapped, but they hade here for a camping trip.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the people threatening them with des, this might have been a good trip.

    ¡°Now can you tell me why you kidnapped us?¡± After Joshua had a few bites, he asked the middle aged magician this.

    The middle aged magician looked at him before looking at Winnie beside him and gave a cold snort, ¡°Kid, our main target is her, you¡¯re not that important.¡±

    Joshua was surprised. Winnie couldn¡¯t helpughing before asking, ¡°Why is my value higher than his?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. It¡¯s because you are a researcher of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and this kid isn¡¯t.¡±

    Hearing this answer, Joshua and Winnie looked at each other before finally having some ideas in their hearts.

    ¡°This means that you are after her identity as a researcher. Then if my guesses aren¡¯t wrong, you have ideas about the technology that she grasps?¡± Joshua asked.

    The middle aged magician gave a snort, but he didn¡¯t reply.

    But based on the fact that he didn¡¯t deny this, it meant that Joshua¡¯s guess was right.

    Joshua couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°Since it¡¯s for technology, you clearly aren¡¯t normal bandits and you even have a powerful magician here. You should have been sent by some country, right?¡±

    ¡°Stop guessing. When we get there, you¡¯ll know.¡± The middle aged magician said in a deep voice.

    Joshua couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, ¡°If it¡¯s just for technology, your approach isn¡¯t right. Winnie is only a normal researcher in the magic research facility, she only has a small part of the technology. It¡¯s impossible to get the technological data that you want from her.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Winnie also said, ¡°There are over one thousand and five hundred researchers at the magic research facility and each researcher only participates in certain projects. Even if you wanted me to hand you the data that I have, it won¡¯t be of any use, not to mention that it wouldn¡¯t help you manufacture any magic machines. Oh¡­¡­what you want the most is naturally the military magic machines and I¡¯ve never worked on any projects rted to the military magic machines before, so it¡¯s no use if you catch me.¡±

    The middle aged magician looked at Winnie without any expressions before taking out a small item from his chest.

    ¡°If you haven¡¯t participated in them before, how did you get this thing?¡±

    The small thing that he took out was the Magic Barrier Booster item that Winnie had before.

    Winnie gave a shrug, ¡°This was something that I got through internal channels to defend myself, that doesn¡¯t mean that I participate in this project. Not to mention that even if I did, I wouldn¡¯t be able to give you any valuable information. You might not know this, but in any research project, there would be at least several dozen or even several hundred researchers working on the same project. The role that a single person can y is limited.¡±

    The middle aged magician focused on Winnie, trying to tell if she was telling the truth.

    After a while, he shook his head and put the item back into his chest.

    ¡°No matter what, we¡¯ll take what we can get.¡±

    Winnie and Joshua looked at each other before giving nods at the same time.

    They didn¡¯t count on the other side letting them go with a conversation because they already spent that much effort in catching them, so it was impossible for them to be easily released.

    But through this conversation, they had confirmed the other side¡¯s goal.

    Since they knew that the other side was definitely after the magic machine rted material that Winnie as a Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher had, they were much more relieved.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that they were nning on just epting it.

    After they reach the goal of these people, although their lives wouldn¡¯t be in danger, they would lose their freedom.

    That was not something they were willing to ept.

    Winnie softly held Joshau¡¯s hands, making it seem like the two of them wereforting each other and snuggling up together, but in reality, she had reached out a finger to tap Joshua¡¯s palm.

    If one looked carefully, they would find that her finger was tapping on Joshua¡¯s palm in a very orderly manner and it wasn¡¯t random at all.

    This was a little game that was popr in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility.

    The reason for this game was the ¡°morse code¡± that sir chairman had mentioned to chief Evita before. It was said that they could pass on information based on the frequency of the tapping.

    Sir chairman had only just casually mentioned it, but chief Evita had remembered it. When she was free, she studied if this tapping could actually be used.

    Although it wasn¡¯t as amazing as the ¡°morse code¡± that sir chairman had mentioned, it wasn¡¯t a problem to pass on some simple information.

    Chief Evita had promoted this game in the magic research facility and had attracted the attention of many researchers.

    Winnie was one of the best among them and she had taught Joshua this, letting it be a small game that they used to flirt with each other.

    She never thought that she would be able to use it now.

    ¡°Did you leave behind the signal device?¡± Winnie asked.

    ¡°I did, but I put it on a dy to avoid it being discovered.¡± This was Joshua¡¯s reply as he tapped on Winnie¡¯s palm.

    ¡°How long is the dy?¡±

    ¡°Around half an hour.¡±

    ¡°Then if nothing goes wrong, we should be found soon.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Feeling the three stable taps that Joshua put on her palm, Winnie felt much more calm and couldn¡¯t help revealing a faith smile.

    The middle aged magician was surprised as he looked at her. He didn¡¯t know how this little girl who was only around twenty years old could still smile in this situation. Could it be that she wasn¡¯t afraid?

    Then he remembered that although she was around twenty, she was already a Sixth Grade Magician and was only two grades away from him.

    With the military magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made, she could even face him in a fight.

    Then adding in her status as a researcher for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the value hidden on her was far beyond a normal Eighth Grade Magician like him.

    This made the middle aged magician feel very dissatisfied.

    Since Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell five years ago from attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prestige on the Sines Continent had swelled. It also let everyone have a new understanding of magic machines, or rather the might of military magic machines.

    This caused all the countries of the continent to see the importance of the military magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led.

    As the magic machine industry developed on the continent over thest five years with the cooperation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the countries of the continent and all the people who had enjoyed the benefits of the magic machine industry had a new understanding of magicians.

    If it was said that the magicians were the most powerful and most feared before, then as the magic machine industry developed and gained more influence, the current demand that people had now was to have magicians contribute in developing the magic machine industry.

    Compared to when magicians were feared, people respected magicians with outstanding research results with magic machines even more.

    So in just five years, the position of magicians on the continent had undergone a great change.

    It didn¡¯t mean that the positions of magicians dropped, but instead of magicians having a high position because they were powerful, there was now another type of magician that had a higher position because of their great research results.

    This was not big enough to affect the aloof Great Magicians and Arch Magi, but it affected normal magicians like him very much.

    With his and Winnie¡¯s power, he was an Eighth Grade Magician while Winnie was a Sixth Grade Magician. If it was the Sines Continent of the past, he would definitely be more respected by people because of his power.

    But on the current continent, there was no doubt that Winnie was more respectedpared to him.

    It wasn¡¯t for anything else, it was just because she was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the leader in the magic machine industry, so as a Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher, her research results naturally surpassed other magicians.

    It was because of this status that the people behind the middle aged magician had thought of every way to kidnap Winnie.

    Thinking of how important Winnie was to those important people and how he was only treated as a goon, the middle aged magician couldn¡¯t help feeling dissatisfied.

    It was just developing this little thing, could it really give this little girl a higher position than me?

    But reaching into his chest to touch the item there, the middle aged magician¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help sinking.

    That was right, it was because of this little thing that Winnie as a Sixth Grade Magician had the ability to resist the attacks of an Eighth Grade Magician like him.

    Thinking of how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had even more powerful military magic machines that could kill Arch Magi, the middle aged magician couldn¡¯t help feeling a deep helplessness.

    Perhaps¡­¡­continuing to increase the power of his own magic had already changed its meaning?

 Volume 7 10 â€“ Easily Rescued

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 10 - Easily Rescued</h4>

    The next day, their group left the camp. Joshua and Winnie were forced back into the horse carriage and they continued heading northwest.

    After around half a day, when it came to the time when the sun was at its strongest, the horse carriage stopped again.

    Joshua and Winnie came out of the horse carriage and were surprised to find that although this ce couldn¡¯t be considered a wastnd, it wasn¡¯t that far from it.

    Because all around them, the two of them could see that other than a manor, there were only hills and woods in front of them. There wasn¡¯t a trace of any other people at all.

    Winnie slightly knitted her brows and asked the middle aged magician, ¡°Hey, didn¡¯t you capture me to do magic machine research for you? Are you telling me that this is the ce I¡¯m doing research in?¡±

    The middle aged magician looked at her and didn¡¯t say a thing, but he pointed at Harvat who was being sent into the manor by two people.

    Winnie asked a few more questions, but he didn¡¯t say a word. It waspletely different from on the road when he said a few things from time to time.

    Not long after the entered the manor, a group quickly came over.

    The middle aged man who looked dignified and was dressed in noble clothes looked at Winnie and his face had a trace of joy on it. He then asked the middle aged magician, ¡°Musher, she is the target this time?¡±

    The middle aged man who had been called Musher gave a slight bow before replying in a serious voice, ¡°Replying to the lord, this girl is the target this time. She is a third grade researcher from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce named Winnie Spencer. The young man beside her is her husband Lerno Joshua. This little boy is her nephew Harvat.¡±

    The serious middle aged man looked over Joshua and Harvat without caring about them, but when he turned to Winnie, he revealed a very friendly smile.

    ¡°Researcher Winnie, I warmly wee you to our secret research facility. I hope that you will be happy here in the future and can fully invest yourself into our work.¡±

    Winnie looked at him before coldly saying, ¡°You had people kidnap us like this and you hope that I will be happy here?¡±

    The middle aged man gave augh, ¡°Although the method of inviting you here was a bit rough, I hope that you will not doubt my sincerity. I promise you that you will definitely live the best life here, while also giving you the best working conditions. There are countless people dispatched here for you and countless magic materials for you to use at will. I believe that working here will definitely be morefortable and convenient than working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Winnie gave a soft snort, ¡°If I want to leave?¡±

    ¡°Of course that isn¡¯t allowed.¡±

    ¡°Then if I ask you to release my husband and nephew, will you let them leave this ce?¡±

    ¡°Of course that also isn¡¯t allowed.¡±

    ¡°Then can I contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and tell them that I will be working here?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very clear that also isn¡¯t allowed.¡± The middle aged man said with a smile.

    ¡°Then isn¡¯t everything you said a waste of words?¡± Winnie gave a sigh, ¡°That¡¯s why I always never liked how you nobles do things. You clearly kidnapped me and are forcing me to work here, so just say it directly. There¡¯s no need to beat around the bush by saying a bunch of pompous words. Is there any meaning to this?¡±

    The middle aged man¡¯s lips twitched and his smile became a bit stiff. Only after a cough did he reply, ¡°Researcher Winnie, I¡¯ve said it before, although there will be some limitations to your freedom, the conditions I will provide you here will be superior and I guarantee that you will be happy working here. As long as you¡¯re willing to cooperate, I can guarantee that neither you or your family members will be hurt.¡±

    ¡°That means that if I don¡¯t cooperate, you will harm them?¡± Winnie asked back.

    The middle aged man¡¯s smile was suddenly filled with danger, ¡°Of course I don¡¯t hope that it will reach that extent. You wouldn¡¯t want it to reach that extent either, right?¡±

    ¡°Humph! What false words!¡± Winnie said with a cold snort.

    The middle aged man gave a shrug and spread his hands, ¡°No matter how you see me, I only need your answer now. Researcher Winnie, are you willing to work with us?¡±

    ¡°You spent all this effort to capture us and you still act this way, could it be that I would be allowed to say now?¡± Winnie asked with a cold smile.

    The middle aged man said with a faint smile, ¡°If there is a chance to sincerely cooperate, it¡¯s clear that I don¡¯t want our rtionship to be too stiff. You are a smart person, you should know how to choose.¡±

    Winnie looked around before giving a sigh, ¡°It seems like I have no choice?¡±

    The middle aged man smiled without saying a thing.

    Winnie looked at him for a bit and when the middle aged man thought that she would agree with a nod, she suddenly shook her head and revealed a naughty smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that I¡¯m still not willing.¡±

    As soon as her voice fell, Winnie raised her hand and sent out two fireballs at the men who were holding Joshua and Harvat captive.

    The two dodged unconsciously and Winnie flew right over, taking Joshua and Harvat in one hand respectively before lying off into the air.

    The three of them had been silent the entire way and didn¡¯t fight back at all, so for them to suddenly make a move had naturally caught them off guard.

    Especially the middle aged magician who was called Musher.

    He had clearly put the magic sealing bracelet on Winnie, so how could Winnie use magic this easily now? Shye could even fly into the sky with two people?¡±

    The dignified looking middle aged man reacted the quickest and angrily said to Musher, ¡°What are you standing in a daze for? Quickly get them back!¡±

    Musher quickly said, ¡°Lord, please be assured. She¡¯s carrying two people, she can¡¯t get far. This subordinate will bring her back right now.¡±

    His magic surged after saying this and the other two High Grade Magicians the middle aged man brought also flew out at the same time.

    Seeing Winnie¡¯s group of three that was already halfway in the air, Musher wasn¡¯t that worried.

    With Winnie¡¯s ability as a Sixth Grade Magician, she wouldn¡¯t be able to fly far with two people.

    Moreover, they were surrounded in mountains and forests, so it was impossible for her to find a ce to hide in a short period of time.

    Although Winnie¡¯s actions were surprising, he could tell that it was only ast ditch struggle and wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    When he was thinking about how he would deal with Winnie, although he couldn¡¯t touch her, he could warn her with her husband and nephew, Musher suddenly felt a powerful magic fluctuation in the distance.

    He and the other two magicians turned in surprise and saw that in the air, there was a red glow that was flying at them.

    The three of them couldn¡¯t react in time and could only release their Magic Barriers.

    Hong!¡±

    The red glow first hit Musher¡¯s Magic Barrier and created a giant explosion.

    Musher felt like his Magic Barrier was like snow being exposed to the summer sun and it instantly evaporated, before he was blown away by the giant force of the explosion.

    The other two magicians were no different from Musher. The three of them fell from the sky in a parab like kites that had their strings cut, falling into the distant rear of the manor.

    The middle aged man on the ground looked in the direction the red glow hade from in show and found arge ck shadow that was quickly moving over, already arriving in the space above the manor not before long.

    After seeing the real appearance of this ck figure, the middle aged man¡¯s face was like dying ashes.

    ¡°It¡¯s actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ Magic Airships! How did they find this ce so quickly?¡±

    Winnie who was carrying Joshua and Harvat had already flown to the side of the Magic Airship that had suddenly appeared, flying into the door to the cabin that had been opened.

    When they came in, Winnie¡¯s legs gave up and she fell to the ground, taking deep breaths.

    ¡°Hu, that scared me to death. If you came a bitter, we would have been caught by them again.¡±

    A girl in the Magic Airship cabin who was wearing the uniform of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and was around the same age as Winnie came over, saying with a smile, ¡°You¡¯re quite good Winnie, weren¡¯t you afraid at all on the way? If it was up to me, this was just you and Joshua enjoying an unexpected vacation.¡±

    After saying this, she patted the head of Harvat who was in a daze the entire time and said in a gentle voice, ¡°Your little nephew should have been scared enough. Hei, Harvat, are you afraid?¡±

    Harvat looked around the Magic Airship in a daze before revealing an excited look. His eyes were glowing as he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not afraid! Auntie, this is the legendary Magic Airship, right?¡±

    The young girl rolled her eyes, ¡°Call me big sister! I¡¯m not that old! Right, this is the Magic Airship. You haven¡¯t been in one before, right?¡±

    ¡°Un! It was even my first time riding in a Magic Sedan! This is too much fun!¡± Harvat gave a strong nod.

    The young girl helplessly gave a facepalm, ¡°Alright, Winnie, it seems like I was worried for nothing. Your nephew¡¯s guts is simply too shocking.¡±

    Winnine gave a snort. When she wanted to say something, a young man who looked to be around thirty years old in the same Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard uniform cut her off.

    ¡°Joshua, Winnie, we could have saved you earlier, but in order to draw out the one pulling the strings, we had you suffer a bit more.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything.¡± Winnie took a deep breath before standing up and pointing downwards, ¡°How will you take care of the fellows below?¡±

    The young man came to the window and looked at the giant manor below before revealing a cold smile filled with contempt.

    ¡°These fellows dared to touch our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people, they simply don¡¯t want to live! I guarantee that they and the people behind them will regret it this time.¡±

 Volume 7 11 â€“ Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 11 - Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference</h4>

    October in the year 3898 wasn¡¯t that different from previous years. Banta City, which was in the south of the continent, had just left thest bit of heat from summer as it entered the cold of early fall, making the weather of the city quite pleasant.

    During these bright and refreshing fall days, it was naturally fitting for people to hold gatherings.

    There were many ces on the continent were people would go on a fall outing with their families, watching the scenery of the green leaves turning red and yellow.

    For the people of Banta City, it was time for the annual bicycle race around the city, which had been turned into a festival for Banta City.

    Countless people loved the bicycle race and would find some free time to practice, trying to get a good result in thepetition.

    It had to be known that this year was the tenth anniversary, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had greatly increased the grand prize of this race.

    ording to the ?Banta Times?, the champion of this year¡¯s bicycle race would be receiving a thousand gold coins alone!

    Although the average wage of Banta City had increased over time, a thousand gold coins was still a high prize that was very enticing.

    Moreover, even if they couldn¡¯t win, second ce was also five hundred gold coins and third ce was three hundred gold coins.

    Even fourth to tenth ce was a hundred gold coins and eleventh to one hundred had a constion prize of twenty gold coins.

    Even if they couldn¡¯t get the prize for the top ten, wasn¡¯t getting twenty gold coins from being in the top hundred equal to a month of wages for many people?

    While the people of Banta City were getting excited over the Frestech Bicycle Race, there was another group of people who were getting excited about another event Banta City was holding.

    The Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference. This was a strange sounding name, but it was actually a gathering that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held for the magic machine industry.

    The ones that were invited were representatives of various countries and variouspanies. What they would be discussing and negotiating was rted to the magic machine industry and nothing else.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hosted this for the first time five years ago, they invited less than ten countries and twentypanies. The otherpanies didn¡¯t know what this conference was, so they didn¡¯t ce importance on it.

    After four years, all the countries andpanies of the continent knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would announce some important things about the magic machine industry through this conference. They would also discuss further cooperation with the representatives that came to this conference, so all the countries andpanies wanted to send representatives to this conference.

    However, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce increased the number of participants each year, there was still a limit.

    And to be invited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it depended on one¡¯s skills.

    So until now, being invited to this conference had be the dream of all the countries and all the magic machinepanies of the continent.

    The countries andpanies that weren¡¯t invited would send their representatives to Banta City, hoping that they could get to know some of the other representatives and get some opportunities from them.

    Based on convention, the convention was held from the third to the tenth of October,sting for a whole week and ending just before the Frestech Bicycle Race began.

    So once October came, Banta City would be filled with people from different countries. This extremely prosperous Banta City would be even more lively.

    Even if severalpanies led by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already built thirteen hotels in the new part of the city that were at least seven floors tall, it was already filled with guests that came from all over and one couldn¡¯t get a room even for double the price.

    So the citizens would open up their homes every year, letting these guests stay overnight in amoner¡¯s home which solved most of the problems.

    However, it still couldn¡¯t handle therge number of people who came each year because of the Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference. When this time of year came, the Banta City¡¯s City Lord Manor had to put aside a new space to the northeast of the city that hadn¡¯t been developed yet, building some simple arrangements.

    It could be said that this only temporarily solved the problem. As the conference expanded each year, there would be more and more people that came to participate.

    They could deal with it this year, but that didn¡¯t mean they could deal with it next year.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when ites to this time each year, I don¡¯t know whether to thank you orin to you¡­¡­¡±

    The current Banta City¡¯s City Lord Count Seline had a bitter smile as he looked at Xu Yi who was sitting in front of him leisurely drinking tea and he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°Although there are many people thate which greatly helps the prosperity of our Banta City, when this timees each year, I have to rack my brain just to think about how to deal with the guests. It really is a headache.¡±

    Xu Yi put down his tea and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord Count, this is your honour as the Banta City City Lord. Think about it, other than Banta City, would there be another city that would have peoplee in swarms like this?¡±

    Count Seline clearly didn¡¯t think the same, ¡°If you had put the conference somewhere else in the beginning, I guarantee I wouldn¡¯t have these worries.¡±

    ¡°Then we¡¯ll change the location next year, what do you think?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°Anyway, there are many people who have talked to me about this. They said that Banta City is too far from their kingdoms and it isn¡¯t convenient, so they hope that we can change the venue of the conference.¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s forget about it¡­¡­¡± Count Seline quickly waved his hand and said with a full smile, ¡°Although it is troublesome,pared to the benefits our Banta City gains, this trouble isn¡¯t considered anything.¡±

    ¡°You really think so?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at Count Seline.

    ¡°Un! Of course!¡± Count Seline gave a strong nod, looking very sincere.

    What a joke! If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really changed the venue, then what would the magic machinepanies of Banta City that depended on therge orders during the conference do?

    If they lost this conference, Banta City would lose at least a million gold coins in yearly tax revenue!

    Xu Yi looked at the expression on Count Seline¡¯s face and suddenly shook his head, as he gave a sigh.

    ¡°Actually to be honest, Lord Count, even if you didn¡¯t say it, the venue of this conference might need to be changed next year.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Count Seline was shocked, ¡°Why? Chairman Xu, could it be that there¡¯s something wrong with our Banta City? Why would you change the venue? Myints just now were just purely jokes, don¡¯t misunderstand!¡±

    ¡°No, it isn¡¯t rted to you and there¡¯s nothing wrong with Banta City. It¡¯s just because¡­¡­it should change a bit.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°When I held this conference at first, it was to promote the development of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, so always holding it in the same ce doesn¡¯t fall in line with this. As for why it was held in Banta City for the past few years, I think¡­¡­Lord Count should know the reason.¡±

    Count Seline was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°I understand, chairman Xu is a sentimental person.¡±

    ¡°Right, Banta City is where our Banta City was formed and it has a special ce in my heart. When I decided to hold the conference here a few years ago and not near our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than to show that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to cooperate with everyone, it was mainly because I had special sentiment towards this ce.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­can¡¯t it always be held here?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t impossible, but this isn¡¯t the best choice.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Count Seline slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Does her majesty know about this?¡±

    ¡°I told her about this first.¡±

    ¡°Then her majesty¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you receive any orders?¡±

    Count Seline was silent as he thought for a bit before letting out a sigh and his expression returned to normal.

    ¡°Alright, since this is chairman Xu¡¯s decision, I don¡¯t have anything to say. But chairman Xu, can you tell me ahead of time where next year¡¯s conference will be held?¡±

    ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, it should be in Wimbledon City.¡±

    ¡°The Candra Empire Wimbledon City? I thought that it would be the Marlow Empire¡¯s capital Angelo City.¡±

    ¡°That should be the year after.¡±

    Count Seline thought about it and when he was about to speak, there was a knock on the door.

    Count Seline couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows. He had told everyone that he was having a private conversation with chairman Xu and no one was allowed to interrupt.

    But thinking about it, if someone came during this time, it must be for something important.

    Thinking of this, he first looked at Xu Yi with a look of inquiry. Seeing Xu Yi nod, he said in a loud voice, ¡°Come in.¡±

    The door opened and the City Lord Manor¡¯s manager Czech led an elf in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform in.

    Seeing that person, Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°Cindy, did something happen?¡±

    The female elf named Cindy gave Count Seline a bow before quicklying to Xu Yi¡¯s side, taking out a document from her bag for him.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is a report that just came in, please take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi doubtfully took the document and after reading it a few times, he deeply knitted his brows.

    But when he finished reading it, his expression had returned to normal.

    ¡°Lord Count.¡± Xu Yi turned to Count Seline, ¡°The Yash Duchy seemed to have been invited to the conference this time, right?¡±

    Count Seline was surprised. He took a document from his table and looked over it before giving a nod, ¡°Yes, the Yash Duchy has indeed been invited and they sent a delegation of seven people.¡±

    ¡°Good. Please send someone to inform them that they have lost the right to participate in the conference and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will cut off all cooperation with their Yash Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Count Seline looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, not knowing what was happening.

 Volume 7 12 â€“ Sentenced To The Death Penalty

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 12 - Sentenced To The Death Penalty</h4>

    This year¡¯s Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference was an event that all the countries of the continent, even everyone on the continent paid attention to.

    ording to the list announced, there were fifty seven nations and three hundred and twenty sixpanies that had been invited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Just with this, there were over two thousand people who attended.

    The ones that didn¡¯t receive the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invitation and didn¡¯t appear on the list far surpassed that number.

    At the same time, the various newspapers had sent reporters to cover this conference, so everyone¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help being gathered on this event.

    With this much attention, the day before the conference began, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced something that quickly spread and caught everyone¡¯s attention.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s organizingmittee had announced that the Yash Duchy had lost the right to attend. At the same time, the Yash Duchy would lose all rights to attend any conference held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When this news spread, it immediately created an uproar.

    The Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference was already in its fifth year. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always wanted to promote the development of the magic machine industry with this conference, so they invited more and more representatives each year, hoping to wee any country orpany that was interested in joining the magic machine industry.

    With this goal, there were more and more participants and naturally the scale of the conference also became bigger. It could be said that everything was developing well.

    However, this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had directly stripped a country of their right to participate, even judging that this country would no longer have the right to participate which was shocking.

    Although the Yash Duchy was only a small duchy, it was still a country no matter what.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi had firmly expressed that he hoped the countries of the continent could put down their old concepts and actively join the new magic machine industry, using this new industry to improve the lives of their citizens.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always had a positive attitude towards towards any country that wanted to cooperate, not discriminating against any of them.

    So why did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly give this death sentence to the Yash Duchy?

    Right, for most people, this statement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a death sentence for the Yash Duchy and it wasn¡¯t exaggerated at all.

    Since Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell while attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce five years ago, all the countries and all the people of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have any doubts about the influence of the magic machine industry. They started actively investing in developing the magic machine industry.

    Even the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had put down their attitudes, going to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on their own initiative to cooperate with them on various projects.

    After several years of development, all the countries fully realized the changes brought by the magic machine industry.

    Everyone was certain that the magic machine industry was already the most important thing on the continent. If there were countries that weren¡¯t involved, they would fall far behind and would perish.

    In these years, all the countries did all they could to build rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hoped that they could receive technical support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, developing their own magic machine industries.

    But at this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had dered that the Yash Duchy had lost the right to participate in this important conference, which was losing the opportunity to develop their magic machine industry.

    The fate awaiting this small duchy was only death.

    But why was this?

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu always had a strong stance, he supported developing the magic machine industry very much, always being willing to provide help to other countries. He had never discriminated against any countries orpanies, so why did he target a small duchy like the Yash Duchy?

    People¡¯s questions were exined by the ?Banta Times? that came out the same day.

    The Yash Duchy being kicked out of the conference was big news, so naturally the ?Banta Times? would base their headlines on this.

    ording to the information from the ?Banta Times?, the Yash Duchy had been treated like this by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because they had secretly sent people to kidnap two staff members from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with one of them being a researcher. They wanted that person to do research work for them, as well as giving up the magic machine rted materials that they had.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu flew into a rage at this and immediately deemed the Yash Duchy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s enemy. Not only did the Yash Duchy lose their right to participate in the conference, they were cut off from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi even said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have the right to investigate the Yash Duchy over this matter.

    This meant that it was possible the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might take military actions against the Yash Duchy¡­¡­

    At the end of this report, the ?Banta Times? had indicated that the Yash Duchy could only me themselves. The reactions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be understood. No one should think about moving against their staff or stealing their technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would definitely retaliate to this.

    After reading this article, everyone understood the reason behind this matter.

    Most people had the same response to what the Yash Duchy did.

    The Yash Duchy was too stupid!

    They were only a small duchy and they dared to kidnap staff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Didn¡¯t they know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu always acted wildly?

    When the Mana Magic Kingdom sent two Arch Magi to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, although the main base had suffered great losses, Arch Magus Levin Hasko had also fallen.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce implemented a strong counter attack on the Mana Magic Kingdom, using only three months to rout all their armies. The Mana Magic Kingdom went from the third strongest country to a very normal country.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Glorious Regiment, which was their pride, couldn\\\''t take a single hit from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The only chance that they had of defeating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were the four Arch Magi, but they chose not to fight after the matter of Levin Hasko falling.

    In the end, the Mana Magic Kingdom was helpless when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, having no choice but to surrender and engage in peace negotiations.

    Although the Mana Magic Kingdom had developed to one of the countries with the most developed magic machine industry because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s investments and havingrge amounts of magicians and mineral resources, they were still farckingpared to when they were the third strongest country under the two empires.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to attack the Mana Magic Empire five years ago, so there was no need to mention a small duchy like the Yash Duchy.

    To everyone, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to send out their guards, there wouldn¡¯t be any surprise if they easily destroyed the Yash Duchy.

    So after seeing this article, everyone had already given the Yash Duchy the death sentence in their heart.

    Of course, some people weren¡¯t willing to ept this result.

    The ones most unwilling to ept this was the leader of the Yash Duchy¡¯s representative to this conference, who was also Duke Yash¡¯s younger brother, Count Birmingham.

    ¡°CEO Kennard, please help me with this. Can you let me see chairman Xu? I will exin to him that this is all a misunderstanding! It really is all a misunderstanding!¡± Count Brimingham looked at Kennard with an anxious look, with his voice almost going hoarse pleading with him.

    He had made careful preparations for the conference tomorrow as the leader of the Yash Duchy¡¯s delegation, nning to seize this chance to meet some of the other important people who came to this conference. The most important thing was to build a better rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, building a solid foundation for the Yash Duchy¡¯s future development.

    He never thought that he would receive an official notice from the conference¡¯s hostingmittee, telling him that he had lost the right to participate in the conference!

    Then after he learned the whole story from the ?Banta Times?, the first thing he did was look for Xu Yi to exin.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to see him, so he could only beg Kennard.

    ¡°Misunderstanding?¡± Kennard gave a soft snort and raised a report in his hand, ¡°I just received a detailed report of this matter and it clearly states how two employees of ourpany were captured by your duchy. Now you¡¯re telling me that it¡¯s a misunderstanding? Do you take me for a child?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, no, I definitely wouldn¡¯t dare to offend you.¡± Count Birmingham quickly waved his hand, ¡°But this really is a misunderstanding! Sir Kennard, think about it, our Yash Duchy is only a small duchy, how could we be bold enough to kidnap staff from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Moreover, we even sent a representative to this conference, which clearly shows that we want to cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so how could we use these plots? This doesn¡¯t add up, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°One appearance on the surface and a different appearance beneath, this isn¡¯t a strange thing.¡± Kennard coldly said.

    ¡°No! Definitely not!¡± Count Brimingham raised his hand and loudly said, ¡°Sir Kennard, on the gods, I swear on my reputation that this isn¡¯t rted to my big brother at all! I¡¯m certain that this is the private action of some scheming viin in our duchy! My big brother and I werepletely unaware of this!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Kennard looked over him before shaking his head, ¡°But how is this rted to me? I only know that ourpany¡¯s staff were kidnapped by people of your duchy and you even threatened their lives. Sir chairman is very angry, so you must pay the price.¡±

    Hearing Kennard¡¯s harsh words, Count Birmingham was not only not worried or depressed, rather he was stunned. His eyes opened wide as he looked at Kennard.

    ¡°Sir Kennard, your¡­¡­No, chairman Xu, his meaning is¡­¡­¡±

    Kennard waved his hand, ¡°Sir chairman¡¯s meaning is very clear. Ourpany holds the rights to retaliate against your Yash Duchy and as for how we will retaliate¡­¡­that will of course depend on what your Yash Duchy does¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the look of deep meaning on Kennard¡¯s face, Count Birmingham thought for a bit before taking a deep breath to calm the expression on his face. He gave Kennard a bow and carefully asked, ¡°Then¡­¡­Can I exin this misunderstanding to chairman Xu personally?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman is very busy.¡± Kennard casually replied.

    Cunt Birmingham thought for a bit before giving a strong nod.

    ¡°Alright, sir Kennard, please tell chairman Xu that I will go back to discuss this with the duke. We will definitely give chairman Xu an answer that he will be satisfied with!¡±

    Kennard nodded before watching as Count Birmingham turned to leave.

 Volume 7 13 â€“ Most Successful Business Gathering

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 13 - Most Sessful Business Gathering</h4>

    After watching Count Birmingham enter his Magic Sedan from the window, Kennard took the report in his hand and went down two always,ing to this room that the City Lord Manor had specially prepared for the organizingmittee of the conference.

    When he opened the very normal looking doors, he saw Xu Yi sitting at arge table with his head down, looking over some documents.

    Xu Yi¡¯s new secretary, the female elf Cindy from the Night Song Tribe was on the side with some other documents in her hands.

    ¡°Did you send off the people of the Yash Duchy?¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t even look up as he asked this.

    ¡°Un, Count Birmingham just left.¡± Kennard replied beforeing over to hand the documents over, ¡°He said that he will talk to Duke Yash after he gets back and will give sir chairman an answer that you will be satisfied with.¡±

    ¡°It seems like he¡¯s not that dumb.¡± Xu Yi looked up with a faint smile, ¡°To be honest, I said that I would retain the right to retaliate against the Yash Duchy purely just to scare them. The Yash Duchy is separated from us by several other countries, so going that far to attack them doesn¡¯t benefit us at all.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Kennard also revealed a smile, ¡°This time it¡¯s just to give a warning to the people who have ideas towards us. But sir chairman, through this matter, I feel that we should focus on something. After receiving this report, I¡¯ve made some rough statistics. In thest five years, the number of researchers who have resigned has clearly increased. Justst year, there were thirty seven researchers who resigned.¡±

    ¡°How many researchers does the magic research facility have?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°A total of one thousand three hundred and seventy four.¡± Kennard replied.

    ¡°Then the proportion of these thirty seven isn¡¯t that high.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to cut Kennard off, ¡°I know what you want to say. You¡¯re worried about the serious situation of ourpany losing researchers, but in reality, this outflow isn¡¯t that serious, it¡¯s actually very small. It even¡­¡­makes me very disappointed because those other countries andpanies still don¡¯t see the true specialty of the magic machine industry, so they don¡¯t attach importance to the very precious research staff of ourpany.¡±

    ¡°No, they definitely attach importance or they wouldn¡¯t have tried to kidnap our researcher this time.¡± Kennard refuted.

    ¡°Alright, even if they do put importance on it, it isn¡¯t enough.¡± Xu Yi touched his chin as he thought for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Un, at the conference over the next few days, I have to emphasize these things.¡±

    Kennard didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re reminding otherspanies to kidnap our researchers?¡±

    ¡°No, of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before turning to Cindy, ¡°Cindy, record this. Let the magic research facility work with the military magic machine development center to create a sharper magic signal device and give one to each researcher. I want to guarantee that if ourpany¡¯s researchers encounter any problems, they will be able to report as soon as possible so we can organize a rescue as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Cindy took out her notebook and wrote down his exact orders without missing a word.

    ¡°Other than this, Kennard¡­¡­as for the n to distribute ourpany¡¯s guards, you have to hurry up. This time Winnie and Joshua were lucky that there was an equipped Magic Airship that was passing by that received their rescue signal, which allowed us to save them on time. If it was somewhere else, they might not have been this lucky and we would have never seen them again.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­this is indeed a big problem.¡± Kennard knitted his brows to think for a bit before saying in a difficult voice, ¡°But sir chairman, we can send the guards to patrol in the countries that we are cooperating with, but for the ratherrge countries like the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire, they definitely wouldn¡¯t be willing to ept an army that they can¡¯t control being stationed there.¡±

    ¡°So I want you to count the various countries and regions first, then we can start with a broader n. Of course¡­¡­the best way to solve this is to increase the distance of the magic signal, but this is a problem with our technology and can¡¯t be solved quickly¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi thought about it and could only wave his hand, ¡°Forget it, just worry about what you need to do now and we¡¯ll take everything else slowly.¡±

    ¡°Un. Then sir chairman, as for the Yash Kingdom, what are your ideas?¡± Kennard asked, ¡°What price do you want the Yash kingdom to pay? How should I reply to them?¡±

    ¡°Remember three things.¡± Xu Yi raised three fingers, ¡°First, I want the Yash Kingdom toe forth with a proper stance. You¡¯re more clear on this than me. Second, as for the exactpensation, separate into a part for Winnie and Joshua and a part for thepany. Third, as for how to deal with this in the future, we¡¯ll change our ns based on the situation, there¡¯s no need to rush.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Kennard nodded as he recorded this.

    After telling him this, Xu Yi fell into silence once again.

    Kennard patiently waited for a bit before Xu Yi suddenly tapped the table, saying something as if he was asking Kennard, while also seeming like he was talking to himself.

    ¡°Tell me¡­¡­Even a small duchy like the Yash Duchy dares to take risks like this. In this conference, should I be a bit more generous¡­¡­¡±

    Kennard and Cindy looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

    ###

    A weekter, the fifth Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference had sessfully finished.

    The conference this time was without a doubt a sessful business gathering because based on the data after, at this conference, after the various representatives from countries andpanies discussed with each other, there were over four thousandrge and small deals made. The value of the various orders surpassed a shocking one billion and six hundred million gold coins and the value of the deals were estimated to surpass four billion gold coins.

    In the history of the continent, although there had been business gatherings like this before, there wasn¡¯t a single one that had this many countries andpanies participating, as well as never having one that involved business deals of such shocking numbers.

    When the conference endedst year, the value of the deals were only around five hundred million gold coins. After a single year, this value had increased by more than ten times.

    Just based on this alone, everyone understood how powerful the business meeting that was this Magic Machine Industry Conference held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, from another angle, it also showed the giant potential hidden in the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After all this data on the conference was announced through the various newspapers, there were countless morepanies rted to magic machines that appeared on the continent.

    Even the aloof Chimera Chamber of Commerce that was considered the number onepany on the continent announced that they would be investing in the magic machine industry in the Candra Empire, representing that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce finally couldn¡¯t help but enter the most popr industry.

    For those countries andpanies that had participated in this conference, the biggest harvest wasn¡¯t the deals that they had made, but rather the ns the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced at the conference.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu announced on behalf of thepany that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be releasing a series of magic machine technology over the next two years, which included the agricultural magic machine that many countries andpanies wanted, as well as the production magic machines.

    Xu Yi promised that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will publicly announce a price for these two types of technology and any country,pany, or even individual would be able to buy them.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce followed the old traditions, ensuring that they would provide technical support for anyone that bought this technology, so that they would be able to make these agricultural magic machines and production magic machines.

    Of course, based on past conventions, the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold was only the low end technology and wouldn¡¯t sell the higher grade technology.

    Xu Yi gave this announcement to make the other countries andpanies want to invest in research, so they could develop their own technology.

    Through everyone¡¯s shared research, the magic machine industry would develop even better on the Sines Continent.

    There were many people who snorted in contempt when they heard Xu Yi¡¯s announcement.

    Pei! What everyone work hard on research. Isn¡¯t it just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce being afraid of releasing your high end technology and letting others catch up, so your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to sell their products?

    This was the most basic foundation ofpetitive business, but this fellow Xu Yi was saying it in such a pompous manner that it really was disgusting!

    But no matter what they thought, everyone cheered loudly for Xu Yi¡¯s decision.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the most magic machine technology. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t share it, for the other countries andpanies to develop it themselves would mean spending an unimaginable amount of time, energy, and funds.

    Sopared to that, even if it wasn¡¯t cheap buying this technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was still much more cost effective.

 Volume 7 14 â€“ Arch Magus Joining

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 14 - Arch Magus Joining</h4>

    Other than transferring the civilian magic machine technology, what everyone cared about the most was Xu Yi announcing on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that they were releasing the military magic machine technology.

    However, when it came to the military magic machines, Xu Yi¡¯s announcement wasn¡¯t as generous as with the civilian magic machines.

    ording to the strategic cooperation ns the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set seven years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only release military magic machines to nations and it was limited in what they would release, divided into categories.

    Only when the magic machine industry of a country reached a certain level, receiving the grading of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would they receive the appropriate military magic machine technology.

    However, at this conference, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that there were three countries that had a third grade magic machine industry, so the Frestech Chamber ofmerce would open up personal Magic Bazookas, seventy five millimeter Magic Cannons, low grade Magic Barriers, and other military magic machines to them. At the same time, they would also start selling high end military magic machines to these three countries, helping these three countries modernize their military with military magic machines.

    When announcing this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only announced on country¡¯s name which was the Rudson Kingdom and didn¡¯t announce the other two countries.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that it was those two countries that asked for this not to be shared, but when it fell onto the ears of others, there were all kinds of guesses.

    After several disys of strength, in front of an army with military magic machines, a normal army couldn¡¯t take a single hit. So when the army of countries were equipped with military magic machines, their battle strength would surge. It would even allow a small country that everyone ignored before to be a powerful military force.

    So which countries other than the Rudson Kingdom had these military magic machines was very important information.

    Because after they learned this, they could adjust how to treat these two countries and what to do against them.

    Otherwise, if one side became much stronger, then it would be toote to regret it.

    The Rudson Kingdom chose to announce this to the public clearly to prevent the possibility of the Candra Empire invading them.

    As for the other two countries choosing not to announce this, their goals became questionable¡­¡­

    But this wasn¡¯t something that was very secret. After all, to reach an evaluation of a third grade magic machine industry from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many things needed which were hard to hide from people.

    If they wanted the military magic machine technology, as well as the high end military magic machines, it would be very hard to hide.

    As long as they increased their investigations, it wasn¡¯t hard to find out which two countries these were.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing this at the conference was clearly to give the other countries a warning.

    If they didn¡¯t follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s arrangements to increase their own magic machine industries, they might be thrown behind by the other countries.

    It would be hard to predict the consequences of this.

    So after the fifth Sines Continent Magic Machine Industry Conference was over, the entire continent became lively again.

    Whether it was for the deals that were made at the conference or out of consideration for their own survival, all the countries andpanies of the continent began investing into the magic machine industry.

    The magic machine industry created unrest across the continent in the years after Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell, already sweeping across the entire continent.

    When he thought of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help secretly thanking Arch Magus Levin Hasko.

    If it wasn¡¯t for him and Arch Magus Sarandal y attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, falling to the trap that he had set, the people of the Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t have recognized the giant influence of the magic machine industry that quickly, investing into the magic machine industry.

    When he thought of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at Arch Magus Sarandal y who was standing by him without any emotions.

    If even this Arch Magus had fallen five years ago, would the people of the continent have been even more shocked?

    Perhaps he could see the evil will in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and Sarandal y stopped moving, looking at Xu Yi with a confused look, seeing that strange look that he was looking at him with.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, is there something wrong with me?¡± Sarandal y couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Ah, no¡­¡­It¡¯s nothing.¡± Xu Yi quickly gave a fewughs before changing the topic, ¡°Your excellency y, I¡¯m just very curious, you have very good conditions in the Mana Magic Kingdom, so why did you choose to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility?¡±

    Sarandal y had attended the Magic Machine Industry Conference held by Xu Yi and five days after he came back to the main base, he had suddenly appeared here.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was worried when they noticed him, afraid that this Arch Magus who had run away five years ago hade back to take revenge for what happened five years ago.

    Who would have known that Sarandal y would not only not have any hostility, but going against everyone¡¯s expectation, he stated that he wanted to join the magic research facility to study magic machines!

    After receiving this report, Xu Yi met with Sarandal y. He had felt his sincerity in the talks he had with him, so he felt even more strange.

    He was a respected Arch Magus!

    Even if he had attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base with Arch Magus Levin Hasko five years ago, which had damaged his reputation, he was still an Arch Magus in the end. He wasn¡¯t someone that a normal person or even a normal magician couldpare to.

    From Xu Yi¡¯s personal point of view, he naturally wanted another Arch Magus to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a researcher, but from an objective perspective, he really was a bit confused.

    Even if Arch Magus y¡¯s views had changed in these five years and wanted to study magic machines, he would stay in the Mana Magic Kingdom to do so. There was no need for him toe to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, who should be his enemy in theory, to do so.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think¡­¡­If I stay in the Mana Magic Kingdom, how long would I need to let the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s magic machine technology, or more urately, the military magic machine technology surpass that of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Arch Magus y asked back.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and spread his hands, ¡°I can¡¯t guarantee this, but I think that it would take at least several decades, but you still most likely wouldn¡¯t catch up.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m seventy three this year, how long do you think I can keep living?¡± Arch Magus y asked.

    ¡°Seventy three?¡± Xu Yi muttered. He thought that this Arch Magus y only looked to be around fifty or sixty, he never thought that he would already be around the same age as Arch Magus Cami.

    It seemed like one¡¯s life expectancy really would increase after bing a Great Magus. Even bing an Arch Magus could increase it by this much, it really wasn¡¯t a joke.

    ¡°Most Arch Magi can live to a hundred years, so I think you shouldn¡¯t be an exception. Like this, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem for you to live another thirty years.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before replying.

    ¡°Then do you think that in those thirty years, it would be enough to let the Mana Magic Kingdom surpass your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Arch Magus y asked again.

    ¡°Impossible.¡± Xu Yi immediately shook his head, ¡°The foundation of a magic machine industry needs to be umted bit by bit, the technology needs to keep increasing from testing. So even if I gave all the technical data that ourpany has to the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Mana Magic Kingdom would need some time to grasp this. As for surpassing ourpany¡­¡­it would take several generations of effort for it to be possible.¡±

    ¡°So that means, if I stay in the Mana Magic Kingdom, I have no chance of defeating you in my entire life.¡± Arch Magus y gave a sigh.

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Defeat me? Your excellency y, you¡­¡­want to defeat me? With your strength as an Arch Magus, this should be very easy.¡±

    ¡°Levin and I thought that five years ago, but Levin died and I could only run away. Five yearster¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus y took a deep look at Xu Yi before his expression became moreplicated, ¡°Chairman Xu, if I¡¯m not wrong, your should be a Five Star Great Magician right now, only a step away from bing an Arch Magus, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°I haven¡¯t gone to the Magicians Guild to assess my rank, so I don¡¯t know what my strength is right now.¡±

    ¡°Magicians Guild? Humph!¡± Arch Magus y gave a cold snort of disdain, ¡°Are those fellows qualified to evaluate Arch Magi? I can feel your strength, so you have this strength.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Alright, if you say that I have the power of a Five Star Great Magician, I have it. But this isn¡¯t rted to you saying that you won¡¯t be able to defeat me in this life, alright?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Arch Magus y said with a serious look, ¡°I don¡¯t know what method you used to kill Levin five years ago, but I¡¯m certain that I¡¯m not stronger than Levin. If it was me, I might have died in the end as well. Five yearster, not only are you stronger, but your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research has also progressed since then. I haven¡¯t made any progress in thest five years, so there¡¯s no chance that I could defeat you.¡±

    ¡°So?¡± Xu Yi asked as he felt that this was a bit funny.

    ¡°So I want to join your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I want to focus on studying those things you used to kill Levin five years ago and then¡­¡­defeat you!¡± Arch Magus y looked into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and said this with a serious look.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t look away and matched his gaze, revealing a faint smile.

    ¡°This means that you want to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to research the power that we used to kill Arch Magi. Then you want to use this research to defeat me¡­¡­Wait, is it to defeat me or to kill me?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t have any intentions of killing you. Levin is not my friend and I don¡¯t have any grudges with you. I just want to¡­¡­defeat you.¡± Arch Magus y shook his head.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s just consider it as you wanting to defeat me. But Arch Magus y, why do you think that I would agree to letting a powerful Arch Magus like you grasp the high level secrets of ourpany and then use it to defeat me? Although you say that you won¡¯t kill me, do you think that I would believe you?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Arch Magus y and Xu Yi silently looked at each other for a bit before he gave a slow and determined nod.

    ¡°You will. Xu Yi, you are a maniac, I can see that.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving augh.

    ¡°Alright, Arch Magus y, you win.¡±

 Volume 7 15 â€“ Advantages And Disadvantages

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 15 - Advantages And Disadvantages</h4>

    If it was said that Xu Yipletely trusted Sarandal y, that would definitely be a joke.

    After all, this fellow had attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base with Levin Hasko. Although he had only fought Arch Magus Cami the entire time and ran away after Levin Hasko fell, not causing any big damage to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was without a doubt considered an enemy of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to others.

    Facing a powerful enemy of the Arch Magus rank, it was already confusing if they didn¡¯t raise their guard against him, but Xu Yi epted his request to join the magic research facility. For everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this was simply considered crazy.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that Arch Magus y would be like Arch Magus Cami, wholeheartedly working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He was also worried about Arch Magus y like other people, that he was trying to infiltrate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and take the important magic magic machine technology before using it to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after considering it, Xu Yi had still agreed.

    To Xu Yi, taking Arch Magus y into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would without a doubt have its hidden problems, it might even cause a high end technology leak for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but this could be avoided and if it really did happen, it was within the eptable range.

    Compared to the benefits of Arch Magus y joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and working for them, the risks and possible losses were smaller.

    What benefits did Arch Magus y bring?

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had Arch Magus Cami before, but everyone thought that Arch Magus Cami working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was because of his personal rtionship with Xu Yi. It wasn¡¯t because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was enticing enough to an Arch Magus like him.

    Now that Arch Magus y had chosen to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could entice an Arch Magus to join on their own.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt famous on the continent, but no matter what, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only been established for ten years and it was based in a small country like the Stantine Duchy, no matter how famous they were, everyone thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasckingpared to the oldpanies of the continent.

    Now that Arch Magus y joined them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s feeling will not just go up by a single rank.

    It had to be known that in the history of the Sines Continent, although there had been Arch Magi that had worked forpanies before, that was only in name and thepanies they did this for were the peakpanies of the continent.

    Arch Magus y wasn¡¯t just joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in name, but he was really going to work for the magic research facility, which went far beyond what those other Arch Magi did.

    Therefore, it would greatly increase the backing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    Second, even if one didn¡¯t mention the fame that the Arch Magus y would bring to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Arch Magus y himself was a very rare peak talent in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needed to study normal low grade magic for most of their magic machines, that was only for normal civilian use magic machines. In order to poprize the magic machine industry, he could only choose these low grade magic machines to let normal magicians participate in the research.

    But Xu Yi was clear that as the magic machine industry developed, he couldn¡¯t avoid the demand for high grade technology.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had three Great Magicians in Xu Yi, Juna, and Teli, as well as the support of a peak magician in Arch Magus Cami, which allowed them to have some breakthrough in the high grade magic machine research, but this was far from being enough for Xu Yi,

    The biggest separation was that when it came to the peak magic research, even Xu Yi and the other two Great Magicians couldn¡¯t participate, so Arch Magus Cami had to do everything himself.

    Now that Arch Magus y was joining, they would have another researcher who was on the same rank as Arch Magus Cami.

    If the two of them could work together, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to make great breakthroughs in their high end magic machine research.

    ¡°But you¡¯re really not worried that after Arch Magus y masters these high end technologies, he will bring the data back to the Mana Magic Kingdom?¡± Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi with slightly knitted brows, looking confused.

    ¡°Would you believe me if I said that I really wasn¡¯t worried?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    Elder Illusia seriously thought about it for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know. The thoughts of you humans is already alreadyplicated and the ideas of chairman Xu are even moreplicated, I can¡¯t guess what you are thinking.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing before waving his hand, ¡°Elder Illusia, you don¡¯t need to be this serious, I was just joking. But to be honest, I really am not worried about this.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Elder Illusia was very confused, ¡°Didn¡¯t you always stress that technology is the foundation of industry? Also you stressed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have this advantage because you had the position of the leader. If Arch Magus y leaks the most important and highest grade technology, wouldn¡¯t that be a serious blow to yourpany?¡±

    ¡°Think about it¡­¡­how many kinds of magic machine technology does ourpany grasp?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Elder Illusia was a bit surprised before shaking her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know this.¡±

    ¡°Then let¡¯s change the question. Elder Illusia, how many kinds of unique technology does your Night Song Tribe currently grasp?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Elder Illusia thought about it for a bit, ¡°I¡¯ve never counted it before, but it should be around over a hundred.¡±

    ¡°Then do you think that if a bystander was thrown into your Night Song Tribe and he had some time, he would be able to grasp all one hundred kinds of technology?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Elder Illusia shook her head, ¡°Each piece of technology is filled with many kinds of magic knowledge that only our Night Song Tribe knows among all the elves, as well as our many years of research. Each one contains the blood and sweat of our many nsmen. Even if we gave it all to a single person, it is impossible for him to grasp it alone.¡±

    ¡°That means¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s magic machine technology far surpasses that of your Night Song Tribe and the data for each type can fill up several rooms. Even if I open it all to Arch Magus y, could he grasp that many? Then again, with his current level, whether he can understand it or not is a problem¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°He is an Arch Magus, why wouldn¡¯t he understand it?¡± Elder Illusia couldn¡¯t help refuting.

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing.

    Elder Illusia thought for a bit beforeing back to her senses.

    Although Arch Magi were the peak of magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines weren¡¯t just rted to magic, but rather theybined machine and magic together.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s many years of breakthroughs and development, the magic machine theory had already be a separate topic from normal magic theory.

    Even if Arch Magus y was at the peak of magic theory, that didn¡¯t mean that he would be familiar with magic machines.

    Elder Illusia was also a Great Magician and after being close with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce all these years, she knew this better than most people.

    Even if it was her, if Xu Yi were to take out some of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research data for her, she might not understand it.

    This was a fact that excited Xu Yi. As the magic machine research developed, all the various types of magic machines had more subdivisions and there was even more specialization.

    In the end, it was very likely that it would be the same industry as earth.

    Researchers that were specialized, even if they were talented, were still limited to their own research. They only had superficial knowledge about fields other than their own.

    ¡°But¡­¡­Since you¡¯re letting him join the magic research facility, he cane in contact with the data. You can¡¯t just have him work on some superficial stuff, right?¡± Elder Illusia asked.

    ¡°Of course, this is an Arch Magus, he is the peak of magic research, how could I have him work on something superficial?¡± Xu Yi said in an excited voice, ¡°I¡¯ve already thought it through, I will give him half a year to first build up his foundations. When he has built up some basic magic machine knowledge, I will have him take on the countless high grade projects that I¡¯ve already thought of. Un, I already wanted people working on this, it¡¯s just a pity that Arch Magus Cami is too busy. Now that we have Arch Magus y, it will be much easier, ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Xu Yiughing in a wild manner, elder Illusia shook her head in a speechless manner.

    She had already known Xu Yi for more than ten years, but she found that she still wasn¡¯t able to understand Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts yet.

    Although humans were moreplicated than elves in the first ce, Xu Yi was even moreplicated than normal humans.

    Elder Illusia gave up on trying to understand what Xu Yi was thinking. Anyway, this fellow had done all those crazy things over the years, but there had never been any big problems, so he didn¡¯t need others to worry about him.

    As the elder of the Night Song Tribe, she should worry about her own tribe first.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, let¡¯s discuss business. About the matter of preparing manpower for the open sea voyage, have you already considered this?¡±

 Volume 7 16 â€“ Era Of Open Sea Exploration

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 16 - Era Of Open Sea Exploration</h4>

    Hearing this question, Xu Yi¡¯s smile disappeared. After thinking for a bit, he replied, ¡°It¡¯s already been basically determined. Elder Illusia, have you taken care of choosing the people from your side?¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve already picked a small team of ten people. They will set out with you when the timees, I hope that you can make arrangements for them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s easy, bring them over and I¡¯ll take them to meet Narvil. Narvil is themander in chief of this sea exploration, so he will take care of everything.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Elder Illusia gave a nod before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, our Night Song Tribe has received your help over all these years and we can¡¯t repay you for everything, so it really is a bit embarrassing.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised before his eyes opened wide in disbelief. He looked at elder Illusia and then he carefully looked over her a few more times.

    Elder Illusia felt weird being looked at like this by him and couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, did I say something wrong?¡±

    ¡°No¡­¡­It¡¯s not wrong¡­¡­Only¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression became very strange, ¡°Elder Illusia, this is only standard pleasantries among us humans, but when you say it, I really feel that it is a bit strange¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Pleasantries?¡± Elder Illusia shook her head, ¡°This isn¡¯t just pleasantries, but words thate from the bottom of my heart. Our elf race advocates bnce and nature, so if we keep receiving someone¡¯s kindness without being able to repay it, it will make me feel very awkward.¡±

    Xu Yi was helpless as he put his hand to his face before waving his hand, ¡°Alright, elder Illusia, it¡¯s better if you¡¯re not this serious. I have discussed this with you a long time ago, I chose to help your Night Song Tribe to integrate the elves into the magic machine industry. After all these years, you have developed so well and have be an irreceable part of the magic machine industry. To me, this is already enough. As for any other repayment¡­¡­do you think I¡¯mcking anything?¡±

    Elder Illusia tilted her head to think before helplessly shaking it, ¡°You don¡¯tck the things that we have, which is the main question of how we can¡¯t repay you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, deciding to end this topic.

    He was clear on the stubborn nature of the elves and if he really kept discussing this with elder Illusia, she might really have some kind of idea.

    ¡°If we really need to talk about it, I¡¯m actually curious why you¡¯re insisting on sending these elves to participate in the open sea exploration trip this time.¡± Xu Yi thought about it and said, ¡°This is ourpany¡¯s first exploration trip and there are many unknown dangers. If we send people rashly, they might be lost.¡±

    This was indeed the question that Xu Yi had been pondering during this time.

    After learning that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning on sending out a deep sea exploration fleet, not only elder Illusia, but even elder Lisanya and elder Undine had said that they wanted to send people from the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Azshara Tribe respectively.

    Xu Yi was very curious about this. He didn¡¯t know why these three elf tribes were this passionate about the deep sea exploration.

    If it was the halfling Lumi who was so excited that she couldn¡¯t sleep for several days after hearing about Xu Yi deciding to organize this deep sea exploration fleet, that made sense since she had always been hoping to find her nsmen who were rumoured to have gone to another continent.

    But the elves weren\\\''t a race that had left the Sines Continent, so why were they so passionate?¡±

    ¡°We just want to verify something.¡± Elder Illusia revealed a smile as she gave this vague answer, clearly not wanting to exin this further.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows. He knew that if elder Illusia wasn¡¯t willing to talk about this, he wouldn¡¯t get an answer no matter how he asked, so he just gave up.

    Anyway, the open sea exploration fleet had fiverge transport Magic Ships with fifteen guard ships, so having several dozen extra elves wouldn¡¯t affect anything.

    Compared to this, Xu Yi ced great importance on the open sea exploration trip itself.

    There were many rumours on the Sines Continent and Xu Yi was certain that the underneath his feet wouldn¡¯t only have a single continent, there should be other continents out there.

    If he could find these continents, it would further develop Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of this world.

    Other than satisfying his demand for exploring, the more meaningful thing was morends meant more resources, as well as more poption that he could pull into his magic machine industry.

    Building aplete magic machine industry didn¡¯t just take time, it also took a lot of manpower.

    If he could get more people involved, it would naturally develop even faster.

    Other than that, considering it from a more realistic perspective, the Sines Continent was more or less stable and thend had been taken by the various countries, so the resources were being controlled by them.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had relied on their advantageous position in the magic machine industry to build good cooperation rtionships with most of these countries, enabling them to gainrge amounts of resources to support their own development.

    If they couldn¡¯t control these resources, they weren¡¯t reliable in the end.

    Although Xu Yi could do what Seveni had suggested before, constantly dering war to get more resources andnd for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong enough that no country wanted to attack them, it wasn¡¯t enough for them to attack other countries.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany and not a country.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it wasn¡¯t hard to rout the army of a country, but topletely upy a country was something that was close to impossible.

    So in this situation, exploring morends and finding more resources was one of the best choices.

    Actually, Xu Yi already had this idea when he first met Lumi and confirmed that there wasn¡¯t just a single continent in this world, but it took several years of umtion and preparation to prepare a fleet that could do this, to allow him to officially start exploring the open seas.

    It wasn¡¯t only Lumi who was so excited that she couldn¡¯t control herself, Xu Yi was also excited.

    Because this was simply the equivalent of opening the era of open sea exploration!

    ###

    Half a monthter, after half a year of preparations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet finally set sail.

    For such a meaningful matter, all the major newspapers on the Sines Continent had written detailed reports.

    All the newspapers had the same shocking view on this matter.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration trip this time might be arge matter that would change the history of the Sines Continent.

    Before this, the Sines Continent had made rumours that there was another continent, but it had never been confirmed.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet could really find another continent, not only would it prove this fact, it would change the world view of everyone on the Sines Continent.

    Before this, the people of the Sines Continent all thought that there was only one continent in this world, as well as endless seas.

    Even if there were some inds in the surrounding endless seas, they weren¡¯t worth mentioning whenpared to the Sines Continent, so the Sines Continent had been considered the center of this world.

    But if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet found another continent, wouldn¡¯t that mean that the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t the only continent and not the center of this world?

    Facing this possibility, people were expectant and worried.

    They were expectant since they wanted to find another continent, finding legendary beings existing on that continent, as well as finding the halflings that had lived on this continent that had disappeared.

    They were worried because if this Sines Continent wasn¡¯t the center of the world, where would be the center of the world?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet left the harbour of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base with countless people¡¯s attention, heading off towards the western endless seas.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s years of observations and calctions, he could tell that the stars in the skies above the Sines Continent were the same as the ones on earth, so the radius of the was around the same, so the basic geographic knowledge from earth could apply here.

    Then with the fleet¡¯s speed of over five hundred kilometers a day, if everything went smoothly, they would only need three months to go around the.

    Of course, the maiden voyage wouldn¡¯t be that smooth, so Xu Yi gave them an estimate of a year.

    But that didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t confident in them, rather he was very confident that this voyage would be a sess.

    After all, when Magen on earth set off on his first voyage, he was only on a worn down wooden boat, which was much worse than this open sea exploration fleet.

    Magen could do it with this boat, so it was impossible that this voyage wouldn¡¯t go smoothly.

    His only worry was that if they did find the other continent, there might be some idents waiting there.

    But Xu Yi threw these worries to the back of his mind as he watched the fleet disappear on the horizon.

    The fleet had already set sail, so he couldn¡¯t do anything about this.

    Rather, what he should focus on was the Magic Machine Industry Standard Setting Conference that wasing up.

 Volume 7 17 â€“ Magicians Guild Headquarters Who Couldnâ€™t Take It Anymore

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 17 - Magicians Guild Headquarters Who Couldn¡¯t Take It Anymore</h4>

    Although this was also held by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was rted to the magic machine industry, this waspletely different from the Sines Continent Magic Machine Conference.

    At the Magic Machine Conference, the countries andpanies that participated would talk about the magic machine industry, finally reaching some cooperation deals and it was mainly focused on the business side.

    At this Magic Machine Industry Standard Setting Conference, the ones participating were also representatives from the various countries andpanies, but it was more focused on the standards, industry rules, and regtions of the magic machine industry, as well as some discussion when it came to research.

    As opposed to the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that cared about the Magic Machine Conference, Xu Yi cared more about this Magic Machine Standard Setting Conference that came a monthter.

    Because during this conference, they would set the standard of the magic machine industry on the continent, promoting this to all the countries and magic machinepanies on the continent, requesting that they follow this standard.

    Of course, these standards were all drawn by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The other countries andpanies didn¡¯t have any qualifications to raise standards just yet.

    So Xu Yi attached great importance to this conference because he needed to carefully set the standards while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in a dominant position like this. This would make it easier to control the development of the magic machine industry, avoidingrge wastes of manpower, resources, and time because of differing standards.

    Moreover, when forming these rules and standards, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t set everything alone by ruling over everything.

    After all, each country on the Sines Continent had their own situation. So when unifying the standards, they needed to consider the specialty of different ces.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had established a Magic Machine Industry Management Committee, specializing in creating standards, while also strengthening the rtionships between thepanies of the magic machine industry on the continent.

    This was something simr to what the Business Union and the Magicians Guild did on the Sines Continent. Only because of the quick development of the magic machine industry, once this Magic Machine Industry Association was created, it became very influential.

    Also at the proposition of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magic Machine Industry Association proposed a new standard of measure for all personnel participating in the magic machine industry.

    Take a normal skilled worker, they were separated from the first to fifth grade before reaching expert and specialist.

    At the same time, there were some special personnel in the magic machine industry, which were the magicians that were also ranked.

    Only it was different from the workers who were separated into grades based on techniques. The magicians were separated into two kinds, one was for the magicians who worked on drawing Magic Arrays and the other was for the magicians who were in charge of researching.

    Among these two kinds, the workers were separated into five grades. It depended on the grade of Magic Arrays the worker could draw and how well they could draw those Magic Arrays.

    As for the researchers, they were separated into low, medium, and high ranks. Then there were experts and masters. They were separated based on how profound their magic machine research was.

    In short, this grading came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce evaluating their own staff, so there wasn¡¯t much of a deviation.

    But once this grading came out, there was a strange phenomenon.

    It was that even if your magician grade wasn¡¯t that high, when it came to your magic machine industry grading, it might be higher or lower than your magician grade.

    Because the magic machine industry was developing quickly on the Sines Continent, people¡¯s attitude towards magicians had greatly changed.

    Before this, to determine if a magician was strong or not, they would look at whether their rank was high.

    If the magicians rank was high enough, it would mean that this magician could use higher rank spells and naturally would be more powerful, while also being more respected at the same time.

    But now if a magician wanted to be respected by people, it would depend on their magic machine industry rank.

    Otherwise, what use was a high magician rank?

    Unless you were an Arch Magus, what use would that have?

    Then again, even if you were an Arch Magus, they would still be taken out by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines¡­¡­

    With this change in attitude, some things that people took as natural had gradually changed.

    And some people who had always acted aloof had no choice but to lower their heads¡­¡­

    On the fourth day of the Magic Machine Industry Standard Setting Conference, as soon as he finished participating on protecting differing standards for different countries, Xu Yi weed a special guest.

    ¡°Hei, your excellency Ferguson, it¡¯s been several years, but you still look quite energetic. It really is a pleasure to see.¡± Xu Yi smiled as he greeted Great Magician Christopher Ferguson.

    Great Magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi for a while before he couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile and shaking his head.

    Since Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base five years ago, the Magicians Guild who had broken all rtion with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and called all magicians to oppose the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gone silent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used their advantage to develop the magic machine industry across all the countries during these five years, but the Magicians Guild had never made a sound. Other than some normal things and grading magicians, they hadn¡¯t done anything else.

    Many people thought that the Magicians Guild had easily recognized a fact from Arch Magus Levin Hasko falling and the Mana Magic Kingdom being easily routed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, which was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t something that the Magicians Guild could threaten.

    So they had chosen to conceal their abilities, which was a very wise choice.

    Now that five years had passed, the Magicians Guild¡¯s prestige on the continent fell as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the magic machine industry. They were even losing control over the branches of the Magicians Guild in each country.

    The reason was that with the great benefits brought by the magicians entering the magic machine industry, since the Magicians Guild headquarters had always been hostile towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was hard for the Magicians Guild to interfere.

    So the Magicians Guild branches in many countries secretly worked with magic machinepanies and ignored the orders of the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    Seeing this situation developing, the council of the Magicians Guild headquarters finally couldn¡¯t sit still.

    They knew that if this continued, the Magicians Guild that had several thousand years of history on the Sines Continent might really be eliminated by the era.

    If they didn¡¯t want to be eliminated, they had to make changes.

    So Great Magician Ferguson was sent to meet Xu Yi again after five years.

    But when he saw Xu Yi, Great Magician Ferguson could tell with a single nce thatpared to Xu Yi of five years ago, the current Xu Yi¡¯s level of magic had progressed by leaps and bounds.

    Xu Yi five years ago was around the same level as Great Magician Ferguson and now, the aura that Xu Yi released slightly and the magic fluctuations around him showed that his magic power had reached a deep level,pletely surpassing Great Magician Ferguson.

    Great Magician Ferguson had heard rumours that Xu Yi was already a Five Star Great Magician beforeing here, only being a single step from bing an Arch Magus.

    He didn¡¯t believe it at that time because Xu Yi was only a Two Star Great Magician five years ago. He became a Five Star Great Magician after just five years? That was too exaggerated.

    But seeing it now, he had no choice but to believe.

    So he could only reveal a bitter smile.

    In five years, not only did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be a giant that the Magicians Guild headquarters couldn¡¯t do anything to, even Xu Yi had almost be a peak magician that everyone could only look up to.

    When the current Great Magician Ferguson faced Xu Yi, he couldn¡¯t look down on him like five years ago because he had the Magicians Guild headquarters behind him.

    He even¡­¡­had to reveal a humble look on his face.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, after five years, you¡¯ve be more and more mature.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said with a smile, ¡°I thought that you would refuse to meet me, but I never thought that you would agree so easily.¡±

    ¡°Why would I refuse?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s an old friend who is willing to see me after five years, why would I keep them out?¡±

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a dryugh and after a pause, he continued, ¡°Alright, I know that chairman Xu isn¡¯t someone who likes wasting time, so I¡¯ll be direct. Chairman Xu, as for the skill assessment for magicians participating in the magic machine industry that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed yesterday, I want to put forth a proposal from the Magicians Guild headquarters.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Ferguson with a ghost of a smile.

    It seemed like the Magicians Guild headquarters finally couldn¡¯t take not doing anything anymore.

 Volume 7 18 â€“ Absolute Dominance

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 18 - Absolute Dominance</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, our Magicians Guild came up with the magician ranking one thousand and three hundred years ago. After one thousand and three hundred years of umtion, we have much experience and powerful preparations, so I feel that if we work together to carry out assessing the magic machine industry skills of magicians, it would save quite a bit of effort. Don¡¯t you think so?¡± Great Magician Ferguson said with a serious look.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Great Magician Fergsuon, I think that you¡¯ve gotten something wrong? The magic machine industry skill evaluation is mainly evaluated the skills that the magicians have grasped rted to magic machines, so this evaluation ispletely different from the magician ranking evaluation that the Magicians Guild gives.¡±

    ¡°But isn¡¯t it rted to the level of magic that these magicians have grasped?¡± Great Magician Ferguson refuted, ¡°Chairman Xu, you have to believe that our Magicians Guild has over a thousand years of experience with this, so we¡¯re very experienced with evaluating things rted to magic, with detailed divisions. If we work together, I can guarantee that you will have the most precise measurements right away, so you won¡¯t have to slowly figure it out.¡±

    ¡°Un, I agree that the Magicians Guild is specialized in magic, but its knowledge with magic machines isn¡¯t as good, right?¡± Xu Yi picked up a document from the table which he gave Great Magician Ferguson, ¡°This is a study on how a Magic Array works with thirteen different kinds of steel alloys, it¡¯s used by us to determine the proficiency of the Magic Array drawn. I think that¡­¡­not only Great Magician Ferguson, there wouldn¡¯t be that many people in the Magicians Guild headquarters who would understand this.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that we wouldn¡¯t understand?¡± Great Magician Ferguson slightly knitted his brows as his expression became a bit ugly.

    Although he didn¡¯t have any experience with researching magic machines, as a Great Magician, how could he not understand something that was rted to Magic Arrays?

    He wasn¡¯t convinced as he took this document and carefully looked it over.

    However, after just seeing the first page, the look of anger and unwillingness on his face turned to confusion.

    When he finished reading the document that wasn¡¯t that thick, his face waspletely covered in a stunned look.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson held the document in his hand, not knowing what to say.

    He had to admit that he really couldn¡¯t understand this document.

    Not to mention the strange terms like steel alloy model, toughness, magic conductivity, magic resistance, and other terms that he couldn¡¯t understand at all, even the effects and the principle behind the Magic Array that he should have known was something that he couldn¡¯t understand.

    This simply far surpassed his expectations.

    ¡°The Magicians Guild headquarters being willing to change and cooperate with ourpany is a good thing which I wee.¡± Seeing the expression on Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face, Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°But Great Magician Ferguson, please tell the other people at the Magicians Guild headquarters that although magic is rted to the magic machine industry, it¡¯s a whole new domain. If you can¡¯t put down your pride to properly study it, do not think that you can casually enter it.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s words didn¡¯t hold back at all, but while Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s face turned white and blue, he couldn¡¯t say a thing to refute this.

    Even a Great Magician like him couldn¡¯t understand this normal looking research report. There was no need to mention those other magicians who looked down on the magic machine industry back at the Magicians Guild headquarters.

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t easily give up on his task. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I admit that we don¡¯t have enough understanding of magic machines, but I think that there is still some possibility of us cooperating. At the very least, our Magicians Guild has aplete magician grading evaluation system, so if you borrow our people for the magic machine industry skill assessment, it can save you quite a bit of manpower and funds, as well as time.¡±

    ¡°Yes, I won¡¯t deny this.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°But I still have to say the same thing. It¡¯s fine to cooperate, but you have to lower your attitude and properly learn about the magic machine industry beforeing back. Other than this, even if we cooperate, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce needs to be in absolute control. Can you agree to this?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson hesitated once again.

    Before this, why did the Magicians Guild have such a high prestige on the continent?

    Other than having a long history, the most important thing was that the Magicians Guild controlled the magician ranking evaluation, so they obtained the approval of all the countries.

    So if a magician wanted to stand out, they needed to go to the Magicians Guild and receive a ranking first.

    Like this, it was equal to the Magicians Guild controlling the lives of all the magicians on the continent, so they had to listen to the Magicians Guild.

    The Magicians Guild was so hostile towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not even hesitating to break all rtions with them because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leading the magic machine industry. They were trying to establish themselves as a separate entity from the Magicians Guild evaluations.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this was digging out the foundation of the Magicians Guild, so how could the Magicians Guild ignore this?

    However, the Magicians Guild failed in all their actions against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even failing when they sent Arch Magi to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they had lost the ability topete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So after ceasing all activities for five years, the Magicians Guild realized that the magic machine industry couldn¡¯t be stopped on the continent, so they had no choice but to lower their heads to ask the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to cooperate.

    The Magicians Guild headquarters proposing to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the evaluation was already taking arge step back, but Xu Yi actually proposed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be in absolute control of this. This was equal to treating the Magicians Guild headquarters as a subordinate, so how could Great Magician Ferguson agree to this?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, as for who is in control, we can discuss this in the future. What we should determine first is, are you willing to cooperate with us?¡± Great Magician Ferguson didn¡¯t directly deny it and avoided the topic.

    ¡°I¡¯m willing, I¡¯ve said so since the beginning.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, looking very confident.

    ¡°Good, then I will bring your stance back. As for how we will cooperate, I think that we can slowly discuss this in the future.¡± Great Magician Ferguson gave a nod before suddenly changing the topic, ¡°But before this, I think I have another cooperation request that you won¡¯t deny?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Tell me about it.¡±

    ¡°This is our letter of intent, please have a look.¡± Great Magician Ferguson was clearly already prepared, taking out a thick document from his bag.

    ¡°Letter of intent?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, but then he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The Magicians Guild sending a letter of intent to another organization, it¡¯s already been several hundred years since thisst happened, alright?

    Xu Yi took the letter of intent to look over and saw that the Magicians Guild wanted to buy some foundational magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They also hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would work with them, using therge amounts of magic resources that the Magicians Guild had to create a specialized research facility for researching magic machines.

    There wasn¡¯t a problem with the first requests since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already publicly released many foundational magic machine technology, so anyone could buy them if they had money since there was a price tag already attached to them.

    However, the second request was worth discussing.

    That¡¯s right, although the Magicians Guild¡¯s prestige on the continent couldn¡¯tpare to before, they did have arge amount of magic resources.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could cooperate with the Magicians Guild to build a specialized research facility, as long as both sides worked hard, it would greatly help develop magic machine technology.

    But Xu Yi could tell even if he used his toe to think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t thinking like this, wholeheartedly investing magicians to study magic machines.

    Their biggest desire was to crush the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with technology and rece them.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t against any other organization exceeding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of magic machine technology, he even hoped that this would happen.

    But it wasn¡¯t this current Magicians Guild that he couldn¡¯t feel assured about.

    But after considering it, Xu Yi still gave a slow nod.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s not a problem to buy these technologies, but there are a few that ourpany isn¡¯t willing to sell right now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°We can definitely pay enough.¡± Great Magician Ferguson immediately said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you have to believe that with our Magicians Guild¡¯s history on the continent, we have funding. For example¡­¡­this¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Ferguson take out a small book from his chest, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    This fellow, he didn¡¯t say everything at once and revealed it bit by bit. It really was a waste of time.

    However, after opening this small book that didn¡¯t have much weight to it, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sitting straight as his eyes opened a bit wider.

    If what this book was describing was true, it really was worth quite a bit!

 Volume 7 19 â€“ Sincere Partner

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 19 - Sincere Partner</h4>

    The book was very thin, only having a few pages, so there wasn¡¯t much recorded on it. It should be said that other than being a table of contents, there wasn¡¯t much substantial information here.

    However, seeing what was recorded in the book, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help focusing on it.

    There were only around five things recorded here and the first three were rted to magic.

    But it wasn¡¯t normal magic, it was only a simple introduction, or it could even be considered a legend.

    For example, the first description was talking about two hundred years ago, there was a Great Magician who wasn¡¯t that famous who was studying Fire Magic. He suddenly had an idea of putting a Magic Crystal on his waist and then drawing in the Fire Elemental Magic Energy around him into the Magic Crystal, resonating the magic inside him and the Magic Crystal together.

    The result was¡­¡­although that Great Magician wasn¡¯t blown up because of his powerful magic energy, his magic power was disrupted and he was heavily injured, causing his level of magic to greatly drop. In the end, he was only able to recover to the level of an Eighth Grade Magician.

    This Great Magician who regretted it after recorded this and shared it with the Magicians Guild headquarters, hoping that the Magicians Guild would publish this so there wouldn¡¯t be another magician who made this mistake.

    The second introduction was rted to a normal magician that wasn¡¯t famous.

    This magician loved to study Wind Magic and loved to try other methods when studying Wind Magic.

    When a normal magician used Wind Magic to fly, they would use Wind Elemental Magic Energy to surround their bodies before using it to fly.

    However, this magician had a different idea and thought of a different method. When he flew, not only did he surround himself in Wind Elemental Magic Energy, he also used Wind Magic to create a vortex behind him that propelled him.

    Like this, he was able to fly much faster than normal magicians.

    But this consumed a lot of magic power, so he couldn¡¯t fly as far as normal magicians.

    The third introduction was a diagram.

    From this diagram, one could see that it was a magic flying item.

    Based on the writing on the side, it seemed to be a Magic Battleship.

    ¡°Is this Magic Battleship simr to the Magic Battleship that the elves used several thousand years ago?¡± Xu Yi pointed at this diagram as he asked Great Magician Ferguson.

    ¡°During the race wars, our human magicians developed this Magic Battleship to resist the Magic Battleships of the elves. It seems simr, but there are quite a few differences.¡± Great Magician Ferguson said.

    ¡°This means¡­¡­that there are materials for this Magic Battleship at the Magicians Guild headquarters?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Great Magician Ferguson nodded as he revealed a bit of pride in his eyes, ¡°The headquarters even has a prototype from two thousand years ago left. Chairman Xu, you must be very interested in this, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and found it a bit funny.

    If it was for the three kinds of magic described in this book, the least important one to him was the Magic Battleship that Great Magician Ferguson was so proud about. Rather, it was the other two kinds of magic introduced that gave him inspiration.

    ¡°I am indeed very interested, but¡­¡­that is only based on its value as an antique¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°Antique?¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi in surprise, ¡°Chairman Xu, this is a Magic Battleship! You are only treating it as an antique?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s an antique. It¡¯s already been three thousand years, if it isn¡¯t an antique, what do you want me to take it as?¡±

    ¡°It is the crystallization of our human magicians¡¯ wisdom during the race wars! It is the greatest magic masterpiece in the thousands of years of history of our Sines Continent! You¡­¡­You¡¯re actually treating it as an artifact!¡± Great Magician Ferguson waved around his hands in an agitated manner as his face turned red in anger.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Great Magician Ferguson, I must remind you that the current level of magic on the continent not being able topare to the race wars three thousand years ago is a tragedy. Strictly speaking, it is the dereliction of duty from your Magicians Guild.¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Ferguson couldn¡¯t help angrily pointing at Xu Yi, but after his lips trembled for a bit, he forced down his arm and could only give a very dissatisfied cold snort.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He picked up the small book and went to the final page, ¡°Compared to this antique Magic Battleship, I want to ask, does your headquarters really have these two things?¡±

    There were only two diagrams on the final page. It was the diagram of a Magic Array and what seemed to be a very strange looking magic item.

    This Magic Array was very strange because it didn¡¯t guide only one kind elemental magic energy like other Magic Arrays, rather it gathered four different kinds of elemental magic energy. It seemed like it was a Magic Array that could use all four kinds of elemental magic energy to create a special effect.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s level as a Five Star Great Magician, he could of course tell that this Magic Array was feasible. It was just that this diagram didn¡¯t have any of the data for this Magic Array, so he wasn¡¯t able to imitate it and experiment with it.

    Then there was the strange looking magic item. One would notice that this magic item had the same strange looking Magic Array, but there were also countless smaller and different Magic Arrays on this magic item.

    Xu Yi thought about it and found that if all the Magic Arrays on this magic item were activated at the same time, the most possible result would be that the magic space at the center of this magic item would copse from the various elemental magic energy shing with each other.

    The copse of the magic space would be very powerful. Although the range of the magic space copsing inside this magic item would be quite small, once it was released, the might of it wouldn¡¯t be worse than a normal Forbidden Spell.

    So that meant that this strange looking magic item could be taken as a terrifying bomb.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was interested in these two things, Great Magician Ferguson pushed down the anger from Xu Yi devaluating the Magic Battleship and calmed his nerves before shaking his head to say, ¡°These two things were listed as dangerous magic research by headquarters, so they were forbidden and headquarters doesn¡¯t have the actual material. Of course¡­¡­the rted research data is currently at headquarters¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi reached a finger out to trace the Magic Arrays on the two diagrams and after thinking about it, he asked Great Magician Ferguson, ¡°That means that if ourpany is willing to transfer the technology listed in that letter of intent, you are willing to trade these things?¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi had the intention of making a deal, Great Magician Ferguson was filled with joy. He revealed a constrained smile and replied, ¡°That depends on what kind of technology chairman Xu is willing to offer. You have to know that the things recorded here are the secrets of our Magicians Guild headquarters¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Secrets?¡± Xu Yi gave augh and threw the small book back to Great Magician Ferguson, ¡°Since they are secrets, then forget it.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Great Magician Ferguson looked at the small book in a daze, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, if you were sincere, we can discuss this. If you¡¯re not, please go back.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand.

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± The anger that Great Magician Ferguson had just suppressed came up again.

    However, he was smart enough to suppress that anger once again.

    Great Magician Ferguson took a deep breath and forced himself to regain his calm before saying to Xu Yi in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, we shouldn¡¯t waste our time with this. I can see that you are very interested in these things and I firmly believe that these things will be useful to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Since it¡¯s like this, I¡¯ll be direct. Our Magicians Guild headquarters is willing to use these secrets to exchange for the magic machine technology that we have listed in that letter of intent. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the letter of intent he had thrown on the table and casually gave a nod.

    ¡°We can make a deal, but there are certain pieces of technology in that letter of intent that I can¡¯t give you. For example, any military magic machine technology is strictly regted by ourpany and we can¡¯t destroy those regtions for a deal, so I can¡¯t transfer it.¡±

    ¡°Then what about the others?¡±

    ¡°The others¡­¡­they can be considered.¡±

    ¡°That is good.¡± Great Magician Ferguson thought about it for a bit before asking, ¡°Then chairman Xu, what if we wanted to obtain the military magic machine technology?¡±

    ¡°I think that since you¡¯vee, you¡¯ve already asked about ourpany¡¯s rules for transferring military magic machines. It¡¯s not hard to acquire this, you just have to increase your magic machine industry ranking first. Oh, right, your Magicians Guild isn¡¯t a country, so you can¡¯t directly obtain it, but that doesn¡¯t matter since you still have the Mana Magic Kingdom.¡±

    Hearing this response, Great Magician Ferguson¡¯s eyes lit up.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you mean¡­¡­the Mana Magic Kingdom can also cooperate with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Ourpany wees all sincere partners.¡± Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Ferguson with a look of deep meaning.

    Great Magician Ferguson gave a cough and calmed the excitement in his heart before saying with a nod, ¡°Very good, chairman Xu, this talk with you has been very sessful. I will transfer your ideas back and if everything goes smoothly, it won¡¯t take long before our Magicians Guild headquarters will begin negotiating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll wait for your good news.¡±

 Volume 7 20 â€“ True Value

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 20 - True Value</h4>

    After sending off Great Magician Ferguson, Xu Yi looked at the small book that Great Magician Ferguson had left on the table. After a bit of silence, he couldn¡¯t help breaking out in happyughter.

    Those old fools at the Magicians Guild headquarters, they didn¡¯t know what kind of value the things in this small book had hidden.

    If they knew the true value of these things and that they sold it to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for such a low price, their intestines would turn green from regret.

    Of course, this couldn¡¯t be med on them. After all, they didn¡¯t have the modern knowledge that Xu Yi had from earth, so it wasn¡¯t strange that they didn¡¯t understand this.

    These fellows thought that the Magic Battleship was the most valuable thing in this small book, but to Xu Yi, it was the lowest value item out of all five things in the small book.

    Compared to this, every single one of the other four items had magic theories that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce urgently needed.

    For example, in the first description. That Great Magician had caused arge explosion when he put Fire Elemental Magic Energy into the Magic Crystal, which almost killed a Great Magician.

    But if one looked at it from another angle, whether it was normal Fire Magic or a normal situation where the magic inside a Magic Crystal lost control, they wouldn¡¯t be able to harm a magician of the Great Magician rank.

    But when the two werebined together, they had such a terrifying effect.

    This proved that after Fire Elemental Magic was put into a Magic Crystal, it would have a powerful might that surpassed the norm.

    If this energy could be properly guided, it would be a very promising channel of energy.

    Most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines mainly used Fire or Wind Magic Arrays.

    In the beginning, this wasn¡¯t a problem.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed more and more magic machines, making them bigger and bigger, there was more demand for power.

    Take the Magic Sedan and the Magic Airship. The max speed of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Sedan and Magic Airship were one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour and two hundred kilometers an hour respectively, but it had been a year since that had been improved on.

    The main reason for this was that the core of the Magic Sedan and the Magic Airship, the Magic Array, was already being limited.

    Because for a normal Magic Array, whether it was fire attributed or wind attributed, the amount of power that it could produce was limited by the grade of the Magic Array. The higher the grade, the more power released.

    If the grade of the Magic Array was increased too much, there would be problems. The magicians that were responsible for drawing the Magic Arrays wouldn¡¯t be able to do so because this grade of Magic Array surpassed their level of magic by too much.

    So considering this, when the magic research facility develops magic arrays, they would try to control the grade of the Magic Array as much as possible. They would try to make it as easy as possible for the lower grade magicians to draw these Magic Arrays.

    At the same time, the magic research facility was trying to increase the output of these low grade Magic Arrays, making it so that they could replicate the effects of higher grade Magic Arrays.

    But this research was very difficult because there had been ten thousand years of history on the Sines Continent, it was impossible for such arge loophole in the grades of Magic Arrays to appear.

    With the failure of this Great Magician, Xu Yi came up with a new idea. It was to let the Magic Array and the Magic Crystal work together to strengthen each other. If they coulde together, increasing the output of the Magic Array, it would allow them to achieve their demand for higher energy output.

    If the Magicians Guild gave the data from this Great Magicians failure to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would without a doubt greatly help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research.

    As for the second example, which was the wind attributed magician using a whirlwind to boost his own flying speed, this was in line with Xu Yi¡¯s idea of using a jet to increase the speed of the Magic Airship.

    Only this research was even more difficult because there had been no research into this strange flight magic before.

    If he could obtain the date from this magician, it would greatly help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research in this field, which might give them a breakthrough in the speed of the Magic Airship.

    As for the other two things in the book, they had an even greater value.

    This Magic Array thatbined the four elements seemed like a concept, but if there were enough materials in the Magicians Guild headquarters, this idea could be proven to work. This would greatly help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their research on Magic Array energy output.

    For example, ording to the research of the magic research facility, any single element Magic Array had a natural w. It was that it would be more and more unstable the longer it ran. That meant that for most of the magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, it had to be fixed after a certain period of time so that the Magic Array could be stabilized, to avoid an ident happening from the umtion of chaotic elemental magic energy in the Magic Array.

    This was without a doubt very inconvenient when it came to the use of magic machines, which also greatly limited the service life of magic machines.

    So the magic research facility had already started researching Magic Arrays with multiple elements. They wanted to stabilize the elemental magic energy inside the Magic Arrays, increasing the use time and the lifespan.

    If the four elemental Magic Array in this book was feasible, then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would experience a qualitative leap in terms of their magic machine research.

    As for the final strange magic item¡­¡­

    Xu Yi looked at this diagram for a bit before slowly raising his right hand. He made a gesture at empty air and then started using his magic.

    After a while, there was a small ck sphere that appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s palm. The space around this ck ball seemed to have copsed as the light around it began getting warped.

    This was the effect created once a magician had a certain understanding of spatial magic, which couldpress a bit of space which caused it to copse.

    Don¡¯t look down on the fact that this ck ball was smaller than Xu Yi¡¯s fist. Xu Yi knew that if he released this magic, if the elemental magic energypressed in this small ball were released, in a hundred meter range around him, this building would bepletely ttened.

    This kind of might was equal to a normal guided missile.

    If this thing was ced in the Magic Shell and shot from the Magic Cannon, it would be without a doubt several dozen times stronger than it currently was.

    Even if it wasn¡¯t used in the military, if this kind of might could be controlled to slowly release, it would be a very useful longsting energy source.

    But Xu Yi could only create this small spatial copse because he was a Five Star Great Magician who was only a step away from bing an Arch Magus.

    On the entire Sines Continent, there were no more than a hundred magicians who were at his level.

    Moreover, the magic that magicians could use was very hard to use in magic machines, so although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had research in this domain, they hadn¡¯t made much progress.

    Xu Yi never thought that when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t make any progress, the Magicians Guild headquarters would take out things that would give them a very feasible direction of development.

    If his guesses were wrong, the magic tool in the final entry was very likely something that could create spatial copses.

    If they could research this magic tool, they might be able to use therge power thates from the spatial copse to meet the energy demands of their magic machines.

    If the Magicians Guild headquarters had someone else from earth, they would naturally be able to see the great value of this thing.

    But it was a pity that they didn¡¯t, so even if the Magicians Guild headquarters knew that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be interested in these things, they didn¡¯t know their true value.

    Right now the Magicians Guild headquarters was only asking for a few pieces of technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t released yet.

    To Xu Yi, not to mention these pieces of technology, even if it was several dozen more or even a portion of the military magic machine technology, he would find it worth it to exchange for these things.

    Of course, from the perspective of a transaction, he wouldn¡¯t be dumb enough to reveal his longing for these things to give the Magicians Guild headquarters a chance to raise the price.

    In order to guarantee that the Magicians Guild was willing to make this deal, he pointed out the Mana Magic Kingdom. He indicated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to work with the Mana Magic Kingdom, which meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could give the Mana Magic Kingdom military magic machine technology step by step.

    The Magicians Guild was the backer of the Mana Magic Kingdom, so naturally they were happy to cooperate.

    ¡°Hei, there are many people and countries that want the military magic machine technology on the continent, it doesn¡¯tck your Magicians Guild and your Mana Magic Kingdom. It¡¯s a pity that even if I really gave it to you, do you really think that you can make it just like that?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the giant map of the Sines Continent on the wall and shook his head.

    ¡°It seems like I should teach these fellows what an ¡®industrial system¡¯ really means¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 21 â€“ Candra Infrastructure Committee

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 21 - Candra Infrastructure Committee</h4>

    It was the end of the year in the blink of an eye. The various parts of the Candra Empire were already preparing for the new year, so there was no exception in the capital Wimbledon City.

    It was like the previous years, the emperor would announce the benefits of the policies next year to the citizens before the new year, rousing their spirits, while also preparing for the new year.

    But different from before, in this year¡¯s announcements, other than the normal issues, as well as reducing tax rates for several cities, opening granaries for refugees, and other matters, there were two policies that had attracted the attention of many people.

    The first was that the Candra Empire had reached an official agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Starting in march of next year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be officially investing in the Candra Empire.

    ording to the contract they signed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would first build a Frestech Chamber of Commerce production base outside of Wimbledon City first. They would set up an agricultural magic machine factory, a construction magic machine factory, a household magic machine factory, and a giant steel mill.

    Although before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already invested in two bases in the Candra Empire and opened many factories, these two bases didn¡¯t belong to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in name. They were built by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the Candra Empire¡¯s localpanies or were build by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce using the name of the localpanies.

    No matter how much power the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, it belonged to the Candra Empire¡¯spany in name.

    However, this time, the new production basepletely belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was recognized by the Candra Empire government. It was a base that belonged only to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Based on this, it meant that the Candra Empire had finally let go of their restraint. They no longer ¡°acted difficult¡± with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chose to follow the tide to cooperate with them.

    Once this news spread, naturally many people were excited.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was currently the most poprpany on the continent and the magic machine industry they led was the most promising industry, it was praised by many people as an industry that could change the entire continent.

    If the Candre Empire really wasn¡¯t willing to lower themselves down and invest, they might be eliminated in the future.

    The second piece of news was that the Candra Empire would form a new branch of government next year. It was named the Candra Empire Infrastructure Promoting Committee, or simply the Candra Infrastructure Committee.

    Thismittee belonged to the Candra Empire parliament and their main business was to develop the various infrastructure across the empire.

    The concept of infrastructure was proposed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce four years ago and has spread all over the continent in the past two years.

    Everyone was clear that infrastructure was mainly divided into the five categories of transport, energy, education, medical, and exercise. Last year the Frestech Chamber of Commerce added the new category ofmunication at the Magic Machine Industry Conference.

    In the most recent years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been promoting the concept of infrastructure across the continent. They had announced that they had improved these six categories in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom, with great results.

    Now the Candra Empire was announcing this Candra Infrastructure Committee and announced they would be improving infrastructure, it was clear that they had taken this concept from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the decree from the emperor, the Candra Infrastructure Committee would start working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce next year to improve infrastructure. They had an initial goal of connecting all the key cities of the Candra Empire by roads within three years.

    After this decree was announced, some people with inside knowledge calcted it. If they really did connect all the key cities with roads as per the decree, then with the area of the Candra Empire and how the cities were distributed, to achieve this goal, they would need to build at least one hundred and sixty thousand kilometers of road.

    ording to the estimates that the famous road buildingpany Amrit Chamber of Commerce gave, each kilometer of road would cost around three thousand gold coins.

    If they built one hundred and sixty thousand kilometers of road, it would cost close to five hundred million gold coins!

    Even if the Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the continent, five hundred million gold coins was a shocking figure.

    It had to be known that the Candra Empire¡¯s tax revenuest year was only two hundred thousand gold coins.

    It would cost five hundred thousand gold coins to build these roads within three years, could the Candra Empire finance department do anything else?

    Not to mention that in the decree the emperor gave, it wasn¡¯t just to build these roads within three years, but also to build a preliminary magicmunicationwork between Wimbledon City and all the province capitals. As well, they would also build enough Magic Power Stations within all the cities of the empire within ten years.

    Then again, even without talking about infrastructure, the empire had many ces to spend money on.

    So everyone guessed that the Candra Empire must have reached a secret deal with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, receiving preferential terms.

    Everyone even guessed that with the Candra Empire¡¯s position on the continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce were even willing to suffer a loss to open up therge market in the Candra Empire.

    Because by doing this, they could improve their business in the Candra Empire.

    From a long term perspective, this choice was very smart.

    ¡°Smart my butt!¡±

    Chairman Cruise angrily gave a snort before throwing the ?Candra Weekly? in his hands to the side, rolling his eyes at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is that big, it¡¯s fine if you lose money, but our Amrit Chamber of Commerce doesn¡¯t have that much money. This is one hundred and sixty kilometers of road, a total of five hundred million gold coins! If I was dumb enough to build these roads, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce might go bankrupt.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°This is what the ?Candra Weekly?, what are youining to me for?¡±

    ¡°I just can¡¯t stand those Candra Empire people looking up with their noses high up. They really think that the current Candra Empire is the top empire that other countries can only look up to like before? Pei! From what I can see, if our Lampuri Kingdom had a fight with their Candra Empire, we would definitely win!¡±

    ¡°Fighting a war or ten, I can say that the Lampuri Kingdom would win, but if we¡¯re talking about total victory¡­¡­I don¡¯t have a favourable view of the Lampuri Kingdom.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and wanted to curse, but he gave a sigh in the end.

    ¡°Right, our Lampuri Kingdom is too small in the end and the most important thing is that our history is too short. If we went all out with the Candra Empire, even if we won the war, it would be impossible to swallow such arge empire. But, Xu Yi, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce fully supported us, I think that wouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°Were you sent by the queen?¡± Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°First not mentioning why our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t just work hard to earn money and would support the Lampuri Kingdom, even if we did, do you really think that you would be able to defeat the Candra Empire that easily?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Chairman Cruise stuck out his head and said in an unconvinced voice, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are that strong, there¡¯s no army on the continent that can stop you. If you work with our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army who are basically fully equipped with military magic machines, it wouldn¡¯t take much to break all resistance from the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°If you invade a country, the most difficult problem isn¡¯t defeating their armies, it¡¯s whates after.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯ve discussed this with her majesty many times and even she had to acknowledge my analysis, so you shouldn¡¯t try to refute it.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was silent for a bit before his expression became very strange and he hesitantly asked, ¡°Xu¡­¡­Xu Yi, have you heard about a rumour from the Lampuri Kingdom recently?¡±

    ¡°Rumour?¡± Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows, ¡°I¡¯m very busy, I don¡¯t have time for rumours.¡±

    He looked at chairman Cruise after saying this and seeing how strange his expression was, he couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°What rumour?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s¡­¡­ke¡­¡­this¡­¡­¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s expression became even more strange and after hesitating a bit, he finally made his decision and gritted his teeth to say, ¡°Her majesty only has prince Kain as her sessor and if nothing unexpected happens, prince Kain should be the heir to the throne.¡±

    ¡°Un, it should clearly be like this, so what? Could it be that there are people in the Lampuri Kingdom who dare to spread rumours that prince Kain isn¡¯t worthy of the throne?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­This rumour has spread all over the kingdom and many people believe it¡­¡­They feel that it¡¯s a bit off.¡±

    ¡°So what is this rumour that¡¯s taking you this long to say?¡± Xu Yi finally couldn¡¯t take it as he asked this.

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and after a cough, he lowered his voice to say, ¡°Look, prince Kain¡¯s mother is definitely her majesty, but her majesty has never gotten married, so everyone is curious who the father of prince Kain is. This rumour is rted to prince Kain¡¯s father¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes trembled a bit, but he still calmly said, ¡°What does the rumour say?¡±

    ¡°The rumour says that¡­¡­prince Cain¡¯s father is¡­¡­is you¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 22 â€“ Health Care Issue

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 22 - Health Care Issue</h4>

    Until the Magic Sedan reached their destination, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t said a single thing along the way.

    Chairman Cruise who wanted to talk saw the calm look on Xu Yi¡¯s face and felt that the atmosphere in the Magic Sedan was strange, so he tactfully knew to close his mouth.

    When the Magic Sedan stopped, Xu Yi got out first. Chairman cruise followed him and after a pause, he decided to change the topic.

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, you are argepany¡¯s chairman now, why do you like driving the Magic Sedan yourself? You should learn from the other important people and get a personal driver, shouldn¡¯t you? This would save quite a bit of effort.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at him and casually threw down a few words.

    ¡°If there was a driver, you wouldn¡¯t have been able to say what you just said, right?¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi had already turned around to leave, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    Why did he have to raise that rumour in front of Xu Yi?

    But based on Xu Yi¡¯s reaction, this rumour was¡­¡­most likely true.

    This would mean that the rtionship between Xu Yi and her majesty was closer than anyone had imagined. There was even a crystallization of their love, which was prince Kain.

    This also exined why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always supported the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as why her majesty had always had a special fondness for Xu Yi.

    All the questions could be answered if this was the answer.

    Chairman Cruise thought about it and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a faint smile.

    If this was true, there was no need to worry that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will give up on the Lampuri Kingdom and go to another country.

    Because Prince Kain will definitely inherit the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne, so why would Xu Yi give up supporting the country where his son was the king?

    As long as they had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s prospects were good. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce who was from the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t need to worry about the otherpanies, especially thosepanies that came from the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire.

    Of course, even without this rtion, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had always been close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He believed that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t give up on him as a partner.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise quickly went forward. He caught up to Xu Yi and moved into therge building with a sign up in front of them.

    The sign read ¡°First Wimbledon Architectural Material Production Base Workshop¡±, which was the main workshop in this architectural material production base.

    ording to the contract the Candra Empire and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had reached, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would be paving one hundred and sixty thousand kilometers of road in the Candra Empire in three years. The amount of cement, steel bars, concrete, and other materials would reach an astronomical figure.

    Although it wasn¡¯t impossible to transport these materials from the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom that was over a thousand kilometers away, this would without a doubt greatly increase the price.

    So after the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discussed this, they decided to build a production base to produce these materials outside of Wimbledon City, only providing construction materials for paving the roads.

    This production wasn¡¯t under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name. Rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only provided initial guidance and technical support, with the main control being held by the Candra Empire.

    ording to the initial contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire signed, the Candra Empire had 60% of the stocks while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had 40% of the stocks. However, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce stated that since they would be the ones using this material, in order to guarantee the quality of the road, they had to participate as well to guarantee the quality of the building materials.

    Although the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t satisfied with the reason the Amrit Chamber of Commerce gave, based on the situation, they had to agree to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s request. So the final stock shares were redivided, with the Candra Empire having 50%, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce having 30%, and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce having 20%.

    This was the first day this production base was in operation, which was the first day the workshop mainly producing cement would start working. Xu Yi and the chairman Cruise as the representatives of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce came for an inspection. Naturally the Candra Empire side had also sent important people to inspect.

    Seeing the two walk over, the Candra Empire¡¯s Magic Machine Industry Department chief, Count Raphael Irvine and the speaker of the Candra Infrastructure Committee, Count Thatcher Mardoff were already waiting for them in front of the workshop with a bunch of subordinates.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, chairman Cruise, wee, wee.¡± Count Irvine reached his hand towards Xu Yi with a smile.

    Xu Yi and chairman Cruise both shook hands with the two of them and then they quickly introduced their subordinates before the group walked into the factory.

    When they came in, they heard the soundsing from in front of them.

    Looking up, they saw a row of new machines all lined up, making up a cement production line that was around a hundred meters long.

    The Magic Grinder at the very far end that was in charge of crushing started working.

    Powder dust came from the exit hatch and seemed to be collected by an invisible power before being fed into a tube that was on the side.

    In this way, the most toxic dust pollution that came from producing cement on earth had been minimalized.

    At the same time, there were coniferous nts ced all over the factory. Even if there was still dust in the air, they would be filtered out by these special nts of the elf tribe, making the workshop look very neat. One couldn¡¯t tell that it was a cement factory at all.

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, I forgot to talk to you about this. Were these nts made by those elves? Sell some to ourpany, our workers have been coughing all day because of all the dust at the work site and it affects our efficiency.¡± Chairman Cruise pointed at the nts around the factory.

    ¡°I already told you many times that you need to care about the health problems of your workers and I gave you a solution, did you not pay attention?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows as he looked at him.

    Chairman Cruise gave a dryugh and turned his head over, ¡°The workers found it troublesome and not many people followed it¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort. He thought, it isn¡¯t just your Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers who don¡¯t care, it¡¯s your Amrit Chamber of Commerce who doesn¡¯t care about the health of your workers.

    In the end, the Sines Continent had a society that was a mix of ve society and feudal society, so no one care about human rights and they wouldn¡¯t care about the benefits this brought.

    In the eyes of apany chairman like chairman Cruise, even if the workers die, he wouldn¡¯t feel anything.

    Moreover, even if a worker did die, it was just considered bad luck. There wouldn¡¯t be things like on earth where apany would need to take responsibility and paypensation¡­¡­

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned to Count Irvine and Count Mardoff on the side and asked with a serious look, ¡°Two Lord Counts, in the development of the magic machine industry, talented workers are of the highest demand. So I hope that you can remind the magic machinepanies of your Candra Empire to take care of your worker¡¯s health and safety.¡±

    Count Irvine and Count Mardoff nodded with faint smiles, but their expression clearly showed that they didn¡¯t care.

    Xu Yi secretly shook his head. He knew that his words were nothing more than words to them and without suffering, they wouldn¡¯t understand it.

    Chairman Cruise had suffered a bit at Xu Yi¡¯s hands and he shook his head. He turned to look at the finished products at the end of the cement production line and grabbed some cement powder, rubbing it first before putting it up to his nose and then looking at it. He then walked over to a bucket of water in the corner of the workshop and scooped up some water.

    Xu Yi saw his movements and couldn¡¯t help ring at him. He pped the cement that had already mixed with the water out of his hands and said, ¡°Do you not want your hand anymore?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised before waving his hand with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s fine, I do this normally and it¡¯s just a bit harder to wash my hands afterwards.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes. He thought that these fellows really had a weak understanding of safety.

    As for the safety guides that he gave out with the magic machines sold, these fellows definitely didn¡¯t look at them many times.

    ¡°Do this less in the future.¡± Xu Yi said to chairman Cruise again before looking at the mixed cement on the floor and asking chairman Cruise, ¡°How is it? What is the quality?¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Very good! The quality of the cement isn\\\''t worse than your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s. Un¡­¡­urately speaking, it¡¯s even better than the cement that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce had produced in the beginning several years ago.¡±

    After saying this, he turned to give a signal to Count Irvine and Count Mardoff to show his approval.

    Count Irvine and Count Mardoff both immediately revealed wide smiles.

    ¡°Chairman Cruise, please be assured, this three year road n is very important to his majesty and this production base is the most important facility, so of course we would pay great attention to it and the quality of the products.¡±

    ¡°Un, very good. If all the materials have the same quality in the future, then the most important thing is guaranteeing production capacity so that ourpany can efficiently pave roads. If this is true, we will definitely be able to easily aplish this n in three years.¡± Chairman Cruise said with a smile.

    Count Irvine revealed a smile as well before suddenlying closer to Xu Yi, pointing at the production line that was thundering away, ¡°Chairman Xu, look, this cement factory is already starting production and everything has gone smoothly. The other factories in this production base will start operating soon, but¡­¡­if it is only this base, it might be hard to satisfy all the demand of the empire in the future¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a ghost of a smile, ¡°Lord Count, what do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Chairman Xu, all the equipment is shipped from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce which is so far away, don¡¯t you think that this is inconvenient?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a meaningful smile, ¡°Lord Count¡¯s meaning is¡­¡­you want to make these production magic machines?¡±

    Count Irvine gave augh, ¡°If chairman Xu is willing to transfer the technology, we would be deeply grateful.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a smile, thinking that it was going as he had expected.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the continent, naturally they wouldn¡¯t be willing to ept the arrangements of others like certain smaller countries.

    But if they wanted to do everything themselves this quickly, they were overestimating themselves¡­¡­

 Volume 7 23 â€“ Come Make A Bet

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 23 - Come Make A Bet</h4>

    ¡°Regarding the production magic machine technology¡­¡­I do indeed have the intention of transferring it.¡±

    Hearing this from Xu Yi, Count Irvine and Count Mardoff who was secretly listening from not far away had their eyes light up at the same time.

    ¡°Then¡­¡­Chairman Xu, how about we take the chance to properly discuss this?¡± Count Irvine immediately invited Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    The two didn¡¯t deliberately lower their voice, so not only Count Mardoff on the side, even chairman Cruise had heard what they were saying.

    Chairman Cruise was a bit confused as he looked at Xu Yi, not understanding why he agreed this easily.

    It had to be known that when the Lampuri Kingdom wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transfer the production magic machine technology, they had spent quite a bit of effort to get the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to agree.

    Then they used several years to master this technology and had only been able to make some low grade production magic machines in the past two years.

    Now the Candra Empire had just asked and Xu Yi had agreed right away.

    Didn¡¯t this seem like he was favouring them?

    Then thinking of the rumour he had mentioned to Xu Yi, chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit dissatisfied.

    This Xu Yi, he was this generous to the Candra Empire, but he had many strict conditions for the Lampuri Kingdom that he was so close to. This really was hard to justify.

    However, this thought only appeared in chairman Cruise¡¯s mind for a bit before he threw it away.

    He and Xu Yi had known each other for ten years now so it could be said that he understood Xu Yi very well.

    He knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that fickle and wanted to curry favour with important people, he must have some special reason for this decision.

    Thinking of this, chairman Cruise pressed down the questions in his heart and said to Count Mardoff with a smile, ¡°Lord Count, about the two roads that will be around Wimbledon City, ourpany has already started exploring the area and made a n. Please look¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    After two days of discussions, Xu Yi represented the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to sign a new technology transfer agreement with Count Irvine representing the Candra Empire Magic Machine Industry Management Department.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer a portion of the production magic machines needed to produce road paving material to the Candra Empire, while also sending technical staff to help the Candra Empire master grasp this technology.

    This agreement involved one hundred and twenty seven different pieces of technology, which had a value of seven million and six hundred thousand gold coins.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire would provide some preferential policies to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. For example, Count Irvine on behalf of the Candra Empire Magic Machine Industry Management Department would list the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as one of the most important cooperatingpanies, giving them many benefits.

    For example, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines entered the Candra Empire, they had to be inspected by the Magic Machine Industry Management Department before being sold.

    Now that the had been listed as one of the important cooperatingpanies, all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products would be exempt from inspection after entering the Candra Empire. At the same time, they would be specially rmended products recognized by the Magic Machine Industry Management Department.

    The first condition meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products wouldn¡¯t have to go through all those procedures when entering the Candra Empire, saving quite a bit of time and manpower.

    For the second condition, although it didn¡¯t mean much with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame, the Magic Machine Industry Management Department promised that if the Candra Empire government needed any magic machines, they would definitely use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products. Just this alone was enough to bring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce plenty of profit.

    If one looked at it purely from a financial perspective, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transferring the production magic machine technology to the Candra Empire was a very lucrative business deal.

    But to chairman Cruise who had witnessed everything, he was very confused about this.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why did you hand over this precious technology so easily? If it was me, you could definitely keep it in your hands and not care about those Candra Empire fellows. Since they want to develop, they definitely need the production magic machines, so wouldn¡¯t you earn more by having them buy it from yourpany?¡±

    ¡°If I just cared about money, your idea is the best choice.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But it should be clear that I don¡¯t care about that.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I know that you have long term goals and don¡¯t care about this bit of money. But have you ever thought, the Candra Empire isn¡¯t a small country and if you give this technology to them, as long as they are willing to invest into it, they might not need yourpany for these production magic machines. When that timees, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be as important to them as you are now, don¡¯t you think that¡¯s very dangerous?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at chairman Cruise and the smile on his face had a bit of teasing to it.

    ¡°Do you really think¡­¡­that if I give the technology to them, they will really be able to build qualified production magic machines?¡±

    ¡°I know what you mean, it is impossible for them to grasp it in a short period of time, but the Candra Empire is still a big empire. If you give them a bit of time, they will definitely be able to grasp it.¡± Chairman Cruise waved his hand as he said this.

    ¡°Cruise, you can be considered a veteran in this industry with many years of experience, you still don¡¯t know how important aplete magic machine industry is?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Rx, even if the Candra Empire can grasp the production magic machine technology to a certain degree from ourpany, they won¡¯t be able to make a single production magic machine themselves.¡±

    ¡°How is that possible?¡± Chairman Cruise had a look of disbelief.

    ¡°You don¡¯t believe it?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°How about we make a bet? If the Candra Empire can make a single production magic machine with their own power in three years, I will give the same technology to your Amrit Chamber of Commerce for free. If they can¡¯t, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce must finish a project for ourpany.¡±

    Chairman Cruise knitted his brows, ¡°Xu Yi, the stakes aren¡¯t correct, right? Even if we don¡¯t bet, if you want us toplete a project for you, would I say no?¡± After saying this, he gave augh, ¡°Of course, if you¡¯re saying that you won¡¯t give a single copper coin, then I can really consider it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s impossible that I won¡¯t give any money, let¡¯s follow the normal arrangements. But¡­¡­this project might not be something that you¡¯re willing to do. How about it? Do you want to ept this bet?¡±

    ¡°I might not be willing to do it?¡± Chairman Cruise muttered with knitted brows. He thought that no matter how outrageous the project Xu Yi gave, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce still did it in the end.

    What was Xu Yi making a bet with him for? Could it be just to make him believe that the Candra Empire can¡¯t make a single production magic machine in three years?¡±

    ¡°How about it? Will you bet?¡± Seeing that chairman Cruise was still hesitating, Xu Yi urged him on.

    Chairman Cruise thought about it for a bit before finally giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s make the bet then! It¡¯s three years. Of course, the Candra Empire¡¯s progress might go smoothly and you might lose next year.¡± Chairman Cruise deliberately stopped acting hesitant and said with a smile, ¡°The production magic machines, although it isn¡¯t the main focus of our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s fine to take out a bit of money for it.¡±

    ¡°You have to be able to get it first.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He pointed at the Magic Sedan that he had driven here and said to chairman Cruise, ¡°Since you¡¯ll be staying in Wimbledon City for a bit, you can use this Magic Sedan for now. You can just leave it at ourpany¡¯s branch location here once you¡¯re done with it.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°Where are you going now?

    Xu Yi waved his hand and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce subordinates gathered around.

    ¡°Since I gave the production magic machine technology to the Candra Empire, do you think the Marlow Empire will let me off?¡±

    ¡°That means that you¡¯re going right to the Marlow Empire now?¡±

    ¡°Right.¡±

    ¡°How will you go if you¡¯re giving this Magic Sedan to me?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a word before looking up at the sky.

    After a while, there were ck figures that appeared to the west.

    Chairman Cruise suddenly understood, ¡°Hei, so you¡¯re using the Magic Airship. This is indeed much faster than the Magic Sedan and it¡¯s much morefortable. Right, Xu Yi, speaking of this¡­¡­how about you sell me a Magic Airship? I have to run around more than you do and if I had a Magic Airship, it would save me quite a bit of effort.¡±

    ¡°The current consumption and maintenance cost of a Magic Airship is more than a hundred times more than that of a Magic Sedan, are you certain you need it?¡± Xu Yi found it funny as he looked at him, ¡°Moreover, just the price¡­¡­A single Magic Airship is five hundred thousand gold coins, are you really willing to buy it?¡±

    ¡°Five hundred thousand gold coins?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s lips twitched and looked a bit pained. However, after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth, ¡°Alright! Five hundred thousand it is! If you¡¯re willing to sell, I¡¯ll buy!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Airship slowly descending in front of him and then said, ¡°Don¡¯t me me for not reminding you. The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s parliament has already passed an airfield restrictionst month, banning all unapproved flying vehicles in their kingdom¡¯s airspace, which includes the Magic Airship.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised before waving his hand like he didn¡¯t care.

    ¡°This is also normal since this thing can fly in the sky and is very threatening, it¡¯s normal to restrict it. Anyway, with the status of our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it isn¡¯t that hard to get a special pass.¡±

    ¡°The reason I¡¯m telling you this is¡­¡­since the Lampuri Kingdom has passed this restriction, it¡¯s very likely the other countries will imitate it. This means that to fly around with the Magic Airship in the future might not be as freeing as it is now. Do you still want to buy it?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi say this, the decision that chairman Cruise had just made faltered.

    He wanted to buy the Magic Airship to make it easier for him to go around the continent, but if every country had the same restrictions, that convenience would be greatly reduced and there was less meaning in buying it.

    Seeing chairman Cruise hesitate again, Xu Yi gave augh before patting him on the shoulder, ¡°When you¡¯ve thought it through,e find me again.¡±

    After saying this, he went through the cabin door of the Magic Airship that his subordinates had opened. Not long after the cabin door closed, it disappeared into the sky.

    Chairman Cruise looked in the direction the Magic Airship disappeared in in a daze before turning to look at the Magic Sedan that Xu Yi left behind. Then he helplessly shook his head.

 Volume 7 24 â€“ Producing Under A Brand

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 24 - Producing Under A Brand</h4>

    Different from the Candra Empire, because of Marquis Southgate, the Marlow Empire had always wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, after nearly ten years, the two sides were very close and they had a happy cooperation.

    Sopared to the Candra Empire whose magic machine industry were still only in the initial stages, the Marlow Empire with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had alreadyid down the foundation of their magic machine industry.

    The current Marlow Empire could not only produce many kinds of household magic machines by themselves, they industrialized the production of manymon necessities.

    Several years ago, because of flooding in of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and other magic machinepanies, the Marlow Empire¡¯s citizens had been swept away. The citizens of the Marlow Empire even chose the wash basins of the southwest corner because they were easier to use. The cheap stic or the stainless steel was basins that didn¡¯t rust at all.

    Now the Marlow Empire had many pieces of technology and were boldly investing in the magic machine industry, so the stainless steel products and other products produced in the empire were also epted by the citizens.

    Even the stic products that had been monopolized by the Night Song Tribe. Under the negotiations between the Marlow Empire and the Night Song Tribe, the Night Song Tribe finally agreed to build some stic processing factories in the Marlow Empire, which allowed the empire to produce local stic products.

    It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that the current Marlow Empire¡¯s magic machine industry was already self-sufficient.

    Although many of the products couldn¡¯tpare to that of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or even the products of the Lampuri Kingdom magic machinepanies, it was still cheap and easy to use. Not to mention that it was produced locally which had many advantages, so it had quite arge market as well.

    But when it came to the medium and high end magic machines, the Marlow Empire had nothing.

    They couldn¡¯t manufacture the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Sedan, and other household magic machines, they also couldn¡¯t producerger magic machines like the production magic machines or the construction magic machines.

    The only thing that was considered good was that they had been able to produce agricultural magic machines. Although this was based on receiving parts from otherpanies.

    So when Xu Yi came to the Marlow Empire on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to state that they were willing to transfer some production magic machine technology, the Marlow Empire greatly weed this.

    After three days of initial discussion, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Marlow Empire had reached a technology transfer agreement.

    It was simr to the one that they had signed with the Candra Empire. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would transfer production magic machines that would make construction material to the Marlow Empire and nothing else.

    But since the Marlow Empire had always had a good attitude and since the Marlow Empire¡¯s magic machine industry was more developed than the Candra Empire, Xu Yi signed another contract with the Marlow Empire.

    This agreement was rted to magic machine research.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Marlow Empire would include Arch Magus ster in the research of the other two Arch Magi, deepening their study into magic machines.

    The research results would be owned by both the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Marlow Empire.

    This contract was without a doubt good news for the Marlow Empire.

    Because it was well known that in terms of magic machine research, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt in the lead.

    So even if the contract was one of cooperation, the Marlow Empire would be earning much more out of this.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had stated that he was willing to provide technical staff to help the Marlow Empire create a magic machine theory school for normal people, helping the Marlow Empire let more people enter the magic machine industry.

    The Marlow Empire was naturally very satisfied and invested into building fifty schools across the Marlow Empire over the next two years.

    After this discussion, Xu Yi¡¯s schedule in the Marlow Empire seemed to be finished.

    Other than some parts where they couldn¡¯t agree on, there weren¡¯t any objections that were raised during the negotiations.

    After several days, the Magic Airship carrying Xu Yi and several Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff arrived in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory.

    When Xu Yi came out of the cabin, Marquis Southgate who had already received the news brought Baron Franklin with him to wee them.

    The reason for Xu Yiing here was mainly because of Marquis Southgate¡¯s request to improve the infrastructure in his private territory.

    In terms of roads, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies had invested in this ce early, after several years of construction, this entire territory was already filled with aplete roadwork. The initial public roadwork of the Marlow Empire started here, so it could be said that it was already quite good.

    So this time they were mainly here to discussmunication. Among the people that Xu Yi brought, naturally it included Akali and her team that were in charge of magicmunication.

    After giving Marquis Southgate a simple greeting, Xu Yi waved his hand and Akali came forward with her subordinates who were looking around.

    Seeing their appearances, Marquis Southgate couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, aren¡¯t you working too hard? You just arrived, how about we let them rest first and get used to the environment here before they start working?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and rejected Marquis Southgate¡¯s goodwill.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was promoting the magicmunicationwork in many countries, so Akali had many tasks and didn¡¯t have the time to take it slow.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, is it like this every day?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the small magic machine production base in the distance. Seeing the Magic Cars and the horse carriages entering and leaving it, he asked Marquis Southgate this.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s like this every day.¡± Marquis Southgate replied with a smile, ¡°Actually because it¡¯s only October, it isn¡¯t the peak selling season right now, so there are less than usual. If you came during summer or winter, you would find that it would be more than double the number of vehicles.¡±

    It was clear that the goal of these Magic Cars and horse carriages was to send out products for this small magic production base, transporting them to various parts of the Marlow Empire to sell.

    Based on the contracts thepanies that came here signed with Marquis Southgate when they arrived, the more profits they made, the more taxes Marquis Southgate received. So seeing business being this good, naturally Marquis Southgate would be in a good mood.

    ¡°Oh? The Marlow Empire has many household magic machinepanies right now, it hasn¡¯t affected the sales here?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Marquis Southgateughed and shook his head before saying with a confident look, ¡°Chairman Xu, thepanies here are from the Lampuri Kingdom. In our Marlow Empire, they make the most high scale magic machines. They¡¯re much more famous than our Marlow Empire¡¯s ownpanies, so naturally they are more popr. Not to mention that there¡¯s your Frestech Chamber of Commerce here.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Baron Franklin on the side said, ¡°Chairman Xu, you don¡¯t know just how popr the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products are in our Marlow Empire. Not to mention citizens being able to have one Frestech Brand magic machine, there are many nobles who don¡¯t use any otherpany¡¯s magic machines and only use the Frestech Brand. It¡¯s because using any brand other than the Frestech Brand is just too embarrassing!¡±

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s that exaggerated?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    Although he knew that the Frestech Brand was the most famous brand in the minds of the people of the continent, he never thought that it would have reached this extent.

    But thinking about it, when China on earth had just opened, the citizens saw many household appliances and other products flooding in from other countries that were just as weed. It wasn¡¯t hard to understand how the people of the Marlow Empire felt about the Frestech Brand magic machines.

    ¡°He, he, it¡¯s just that exaggerated.¡± Marquis Southgateughed before signaling Xu Yi with his eyes.

    Xu Yi understood and went to the side with him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, there are many household magic machinepanies in our empire and they earned quite a bit. Ke¡­¡­Actually I want to join the business as well, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not a problem.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile, ¡°The Lord Marquis has the funds and the people, not to mention the more important foundation here. If you want to join the industry, I feel that it would be quite easy.¡±

    ¡°Un, I think the same, but there¡¯s a problem¡­¡­¡± Marquis Southgate looked at Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before continuing, ¡°If I set up a household magic machinepany now, I wouldn¡¯t have any advantagespared to the other brands since I don¡¯t have any fame. So I was thinking¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If the Lord Marquis wants to cooperate with ourpany, I wee it.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as you announce that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce supports thispany, I believe that you will gain quite a bit of fame. Don¡¯t you think so, Lord Marquis?¡±

    This was without a doubt a special privilege that Xu Yi gave Marquis Southgate.

    In light of Marquis Southgate¡¯s helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the Marlow Empire, Xu Yi felt that this kind of special privilege should be enough.

    Marquis Southgate didn¡¯t seem too satisfied. After hesitating a bit, he shook his head and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, I hope that it can go a step further. I will provide the funds and the people for thispany, you and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce don¡¯t need to care. But I want the produced household magic machines to have the Frestech Brand on it, what do you think?¡±

 Volume 7 25 â€“ Communication Coverage

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 25 - Communication Coverage</h4>

    Xu Yi slightly narrowed his eyes while looking at Marquis Southgate with a strange look.

    This proposition from the Lord Marquis seemed quite reasonable. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t need to do anything and just needed to let them use their brand, so there were no losses to them at all.

    But if one looked at it closely, this was the fake brand that many factories on earth hated or it could be considered a knock off. The consequences created by this could be big or small, but there wouldn¡¯t be any advantage to the brand being faked at all.

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything, Marquis Southgate seemed to have thought of something as he added with a smile, ¡°I forgot to mention. Chairman Xu, out of the magic machines produced from this, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will receive 30% of the profits. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi paused before slowly and firmly shaking his head.

    ¡°No.¡±

    Marquis Southgate was surprised.

    He thought that he could discuss this with Xu Yi and even giving 30% of the profits to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already giving Xu Yi enough face.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fame that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had on the continent, as well as the strong influence that they had in the Marlow Empire, he wouldn¡¯t have considered discussing this with Xu Yi and have already started producing.

    In the end, it was just using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s brand, would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really dare to cause trouble with him?

    But he never thought that Xu Yi would reject him directly, not even having a moderate tone that would leave room for discussion.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why not?¡± Marquis Southgate knitted his brows to ask, ¡°It¡¯s just using your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s brand, it won¡¯t have any effect. If you fear that the quality isn¡¯t good and will affect your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prestige, you can send people to supervise the production to ensure the quality.¡±

    Seeing Marquis Southgate¡¯s doubtful look, Xu Yi almost couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    This Lord Marquis really nned on taking advantage of him. Not only did he want to use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s brand to increase his sales, he even wanted Xu Yi to send technical staff to help him.

    That way Marquis Southgate¡¯s produced household magic machines couldpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products, while also having the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s brand. It would sell extremely well and one wouldn¡¯t even need to think to imagine the profits.

    The price that Marquis Southgate would pay was just 30% of the profits and some manpower that meant nothing to him.

    ¡°No, Lord Marquis, this is impossible.¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s tone became even more firm and he revealed a look that left no room for discussion, ¡°Only household magic machines factories that arepletely controlled by our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can have our brand, other simr products can¡¯t have it.¡±

    Marquis Southgate knitted his brows even more, ¡°It¡¯s really not possible?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s really not possible.¡±

    Marquis Southgate looked into Xu Yi¡¯s eyes and Xu Yi didn¡¯t turn away at all.

    After a while, Marquis Southgate suddenly gave augh.

    ¡°Alright, since chairman Xu doesn¡¯t agree, then forget it. Un, thinking about it now, I¡¯ve been thinking too simply. Chairman Xu, please don¡¯t mind.¡±

    Xu Yi also revealed a smile, ¡°It¡¯s nothing. Since we¡¯re partners, we can just say whatever ideas we have. If we can¡¯t reach an agreement, it won¡¯t affect our cooperation, right?¡±

    Marquis Southgate nodded, ¡°Un, that¡¯s right, we still cooperate on many things, so even if it doesn\\\''t work this time, there¡¯s still the next time.¡±

    Seeing Marquis Southgate¡¯s simple smile, while Xu Yi had a smile, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh deep down.

    Marquis Southgate suddenly making this request was clearly a probe.

    And Xu Yi not giving any room for discussion would definitely affect their rtionship in the end.

    But Xu Yi couldn¡¯t do anything since Marquis Southgate¡¯s request had touched one of his principles and it was impossible for him to agree.

    Being ambiguous might create a misunderstanding, so it was better to be direct and state his bottom like. It¡¯s better to let the other side recognize this point sooner thanter.

    ¡°Right, Lord Marquis, you said that other day that your private guards wanted some Magic Repeating Crossbows, right?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    Marquis Southgate looked at Xu Yi and he nodded with a smile, ¡°Right, butst time you said that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already reduced the production of the Magic Repeating Crossbows, changing to producing higher grade military magic machines, so you couldn¡¯t supply it.¡±

    ¡°Un, it is like this. Butst month the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army reced their equipment and there are some Magic Repeating Crossbows that were scrapped. If you want, with my rtionship with the northern army, I can have them transfer that batch of scrapped Magic Repeating Crossbows to you.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Really?¡± Marquis Southgate¡¯s eyes lit up, but then he said in a worried voice, ¡°Since they are being scrapped¡­¡­it can¡¯t be that they are all broken, right?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s only a small part that is broken, the rest can still be used. This is just a normal recement and not a real scrapping of equipment.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°Oh? This doesn\\\''t sound bad. Chairman Xu, can you really get these for me?¡±

    ¡°As long as the Lord Marquis really wants them, you can leave this to me.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Marquis Southgate thought about it before giving a nod with a serious look, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll leave it to chairman Xu.¡±

    The two looked at each other before smiling at the same time.

    Marquis Southgate knew that Xu Yi suddenly raising this matter was to provide somepensation for rejecting his request just now.

    Actually, the Magic Repeating Crossbows weren¡¯t important, but the attitude that Xu Yi was disying through this matter was something that made Marquis Southgate very satisfied.

    This showed that Xu Yi still wanted to have a good cooperation with him. As long as this was determined, this small setback wasn¡¯t considered anything.

    Over the next three days, Xu Yi stayed on Marquis Southgate¡¯s private territory. Through rtions with Marquis Southgate, there were many Marlow Empire nobles that had contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before that came to have negotiations.

    Including Duke Makaros who was the closest to Marquis Southgate, there were seventeen Marlow Empire nobles with titles higher than count and seventy six smaller nobles who had titles lower than count that wanted to sign the contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to set up amunicationwork.

    After this, they would make their final decision based on the magicmunicationwork that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up in Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory, to decide whether to install the samemunicationwork in their own territories.

    The territories of these nobles were in the same province and weren¡¯t that far away from each other. In addition to this, they took up more than a fourth of the entire province¡¯s area.

    Akali and her small group had already investigated those territories and drew the conclusion that if there was a magicmunicationwork set up in those territories, with the current breakthrough in magic signal tower technology that gave it a range of eight kilometers, the magicmunicationwork wouldn¡¯t just cover a fourth of the province, but rather close to half the entire province¡¯s area!

    Then as long as they put up magic signal towers in the nk spaces between these territories, they would be able to have seamless transmission across the territories of these nobles and allow them to talk to each other with the magicmunicationwork.

    Once this goal was achieved, this magicmunicationwork would cover half the province, which wasn¡¯t that different from covering the entire province.

    Of course, the reason why these nobles wanted to build this magicmunicationwork was other than Marquis Southgate taking the first step, the most important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached an agreement with the Marlow Empire¡¯s upper strata. They decided to attempt to promote the magicmunicationwork in the entire Marlow Empire.

    Marquis Southgate¡¯s territory was chosen as a test spot. As for the other nobles, a part of them were convinced by Marquis Southgate and the other part were the ones that chose to participate.

    It was different from several years ago, with the advertising of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most countries and people on the continent knew about the use of the magicmunicationwork. It was different from the evil magic towers that were used to control people several thousand years ago.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t say anything, there were still many people who were willing to try installing these mysterious things that could let you talk to people far away from you.

    ording to the initial n, the magicmunicationwork would be installed in the territory of these nobles first. If the Marlow Empire was satisfied with this, they would promote it across the entire province before ultimately having the magicmunicationworkpletely cover the entire Marlow Empire.

    For Xu Yi, his first goal was to develop the magicmunicationwork in both the Marlow Empire and the Falk Kingdom. Once the magicmunicationwork of these two countries were built, they would connect it to the Drake Duchy¡¯s magicmunicationwork.

    In the end, they would be able to connect to thework the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already set up in the Stantine Duchy, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Rudson Kingdom.

    If they could aplish this goal, these countries would be able tomunicate with each other regardless of distance, which would be much more convenient.

    Just for Xu Yi himself, at least he wouldn¡¯t need toe to the Marlow Empire that was three thousand kilometers away for every little small thing.

    If he had more time, he might as well spend it with the kids at home¡­¡­

 Volume 7 26 â€“ First Class Company

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 26 - First ss Company</h4>

    It quickly came to the end of December and there were less than ten days before the start of the new year.

    Just like before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had half a month off during the New Years, a week before and a week after.

    So now that it was only three days before the vacation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was filled with a tense feeling that came before the vacation.

    Although all the staff in thepany were looking forward to the year¡¯s end, in order to enjoy this longest vacation, they had to finish all the work that they had before the vacation.

    Otherwise, if they went on vacation while still having work, they wouldn¡¯t be able to enjoy it as much.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very efficient during this time, it could even be considered the most efficient it had been all year.

    In just the first twenty days of the month, the factories all had production capacities that matched the entirest month. There were even some departments that had surpassed their stats fromst month.

    When Xu Yi saw this, he couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh.

    If thepany could be this productive all year, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about the production capacity of thepany.

    ¡°Hei, sir chairman, perhaps the efficiency is good, but if we¡¯re like this all year, people might die from exhaustion in just two months.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department¡¯s manager Ankhto looked at Xu Yi and shook his head, not knowing whether tough or cry.

    ¡°Moreover, even if we were this efficient all year round, the production capacity still wouldn¡¯t be able to meet the demand. In the end¡­¡­our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products will never fall short of demand, we will sell however many we can produce.¡±

    After saying this, Ankhto turned to look at the other people in the conference room and spread his hands with a smile.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you all think so?¡±

    The room was suddenly filled withughter.

    ¡°Right, ourpany\\\''s products have always been snatched by people, the production is never enough.¡±

    ¡°Of course. Our department still has over a hundred thousand orders and even if we don¡¯t receive any more orders, we¡¯ll have things to do for the entirety of next year.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, the otherpanies have to worry that their things won¡¯t sell, but ourpany is worrying about how to make them¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi looked at the people in the room and seeing that they all had rxed looks, he was silent the entire time. When he saw that even the strict looked financial department manager Sebas had a smile on his face, he couldn¡¯t help smiling as well.

    Indeed, the otherpanies of the continent had to worry that their products wouldn¡¯t sell and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to worry about not having enough to sell.

    Moreover, from the stats that Kennard had given him, until now, there wasn¡¯t a single department that had fulfilled all their orders and they were strictlycking in production capacity.

    Even the most serious household magic machine department. They had over three thousand orders on hold, orders that added up to a total of over twenty million gold coins.

    Even if the household magic machine department kept working at the same efficiency as this month, it would take them at least half a year to finish all these orders.

    The household magic machine department could be considered one of the oldest, most well managed, and thergest department in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even they couldn¡¯t do a thing about their orders, so there was no need to mention the other departments.

    But no matter what, the orders not being filled versus not being able to sell products were two different matters. This kind of not having enough production capacity to meet demand was more of a happy worry.

    If it was any otherpany on the continent, they would be filled with jealousy towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, there were manypanies that couldn¡¯t be jealous even if they wanted.

    The magic machine industry was bing more and more important on the continent, with each magic machine product being weed by every country.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was thepany that led this industry. First not mentioning that there were special magic machines that could only be produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even with otherpanies producing household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were the highest quality, far surpassing the products of otherpanies.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products being snatched off the shelves wasn¡¯t strange. This was aplete suppression in terms of technology and experience, so the otherpanies couldn¡¯t do anything but ept it.

    Because of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly ie would always greatly increasepared to previous years. In thest five years since Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell, when the magic machine industry swept across the continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits had increased at a shocking speed with each passing year.

    At the end ofst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit had surpassed a shocking eighty million gold coins.

    And this year, based on the annual financial report that Sebas had just given Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales had reached a shocking two hundred and seventy million gold coins.

    As for gross profit, it was three million seven hundred and forty thousand past one hundred million!

    It was over a hundred million!

    Although before he had received this report, Xu Yi was already a bit mentally prepared.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still developing well this year, so it wasn¡¯t strange if there was another breakthrough in overall annual profit.

    But when he saw that the figure was over a hundred million, Xu Yi still couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    It should be known, the current strongest country on the Sines Continent, the Candra Empire which had the greatest tax revenue on the entire continent only had an annual tax revenue of less than two hundred million gold coins!

    This meant that just the yearly profits of apany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already equal to half the annual tax revenue of arge empire like the Candra Empire!

    Thinking about it, if there was apany one earth that had the same revenue as half a country¡¯s yearly tax revenue, how strange would that be?

    However, it was basically impossible for this situation to happen on earth.

    Because the society on earth was different from society on the Sines Continent. Each country on earth would have a strong control of their country¡¯s possessions, so the effects thatpanies would have would be limited.

    But it was different on the Sines Continent. This continent was under a half ve and half feudal society, so all the countries were just gatherings ofrge noble ns.

    Even if there was a king or an emperor ruling the country, they were only the strongest noble in that country. Although they had powerful control over the country, it wasn¡¯t like theplete control that governments had on earth, but of course this wasn¡¯t something that every country on earth had.

    So it wasn¡¯t strange to see a private organization surpass even a super powerful country on the Sines Continent.

    For example, the number onepany, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. Their yearly ie far surpassed the yearly tax revenue of the Candra Empire and it couldn¡¯t be estimated

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce existed before the Candra Empire, having a history of over a thousand years.

    In history, there were two Candra Empire emperors who had tried taking the Chimera Chamber of Commerce under the empire, but in the end, those two had met terrible deaths and the Chimera Chamber of Commerce stood firm.

    On the entire continent, other than the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, there were three otherpanies that could be considered peakpanies alongside the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, having a yearly profit that was hard to estimate.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit being half the tax ie of the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t considered anything strange.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came from a small country like the Lampuri Kingdom and their current headquarters was in the even smaller Stantine Duchy. Thispany that had been formed for less than fifteen years had an annual profit of over a hundred million gold coins, this really could be considered a miracle or even a work of god.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the magic machine industry that had iparable influence that was founded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this would have been impossible.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce could already be considered a first sspany of the continent!

    When Sebas had announced the financial report to the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone had broken out in wild cheering.

    The high level members at this year end conference, they had all worked for at least over ten years for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It could be said that every person had watched the Frestech Chamber of Commerce grow every step of the way, seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be stronger bit by bit with their own strength.

    Now that they had seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached this scale, other than wild joy, there were many of them that couldn¡¯t believe it.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been founded for too short of a time. It wasn¡¯t even long enough for a baby to be an adult.

    In this short period of time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gone from nothing to such a giant organization, it really was hard to believe.

    However¡­¡­these were the facts.

    Moreover,pared to the powerful annual ie of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their influence, their potential, and the most important thing which was their ability to survive, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was on a higher levelpared to an oldpany like the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.

    As the magic machine industry kept developing on the Sines Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would only be stronger. They would be so strong that no one could shake them!

    So after recognizing this fact, Xu Yi made the decision to carry out the reform n that he had already wanted to carry out for a long time.

 Volume 7 27 â€“ Reorganizing Company

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 27 - Reorganizing Company</h4>

    After each department¡¯s manager gave their report and after Kennard gave the general report, everyone turned back to look at Xu Yi.

    Although it had been several years since Xu Yi managed thepany, only managing thepany¡¯s general direction of development, in the minds of the people, he was still the irreceable chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. At each year end meeting, only after he gave the year end summary could the meeting end.

    At the end of the meeting, when Xu Yi gavest year¡¯s summary, he would also give directions for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development in the new year. It was considered setting some goals that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had toplete.

    Therefore, for the high level members of thepany, Xu Yi¡¯s year end summary was always the most important thing.

    However this time, when Xu Yi spoke, he didn¡¯t summarize thepany¡¯s business like before. He looked at Kennard and after exchanging looks, he looked at everyone and slowly said, ¡°Thepany¡¯s current development has reached the standard that I expected and it even surpasses it, so I feel that it¡¯s time for restructuring.¡±

    When the word ¡°restructuring¡± was said, the meeting room fell silent.

    After a while, everyone finally reacted and looked at each other as they couldn¡¯t help whispering to each other.

    Xu Yi patiently waited for a bit before tapping the table and bringing back everyone¡¯s attention.

    ¡°I¡¯ve already proposed this two years ago, so I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to be this surprised.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°As for ourpany¡¯s restructuring, it is something that has to happen, so it isn¡¯t strange.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡± Although Ankhto wasn¡¯t even forty yet, he could be considered a veteran among the high level members, so he spoke first, ¡°Sir chairman, I think that thepany is developing very well right now and is operating smoothly, there¡¯s no need for a restructuring, right? What if¡­¡­What if the restructuring doesn¡¯t go well and harms us instead?¡±

    With Ankhto taking the lead, the others all followed along.

    ¡°Right, sir chairman, everyone is working well together, why do we need to separate them with restructuring?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, if we¡¯re all gathered together, it¡¯s easier to work with each other. After the restructuring, everyone will be taking care of their own matters, so if there¡¯s anything that takes a lot of processing from many people, it will be very troublesome.¡±

    ¡°Hei, Nasus, you say that like it wasn¡¯t troublesome to cooperate between departments before?¡±

    ¡°That was because of sir chairman¡¯s high standards, you can¡¯t me that on our department, right?¡±

    ¡°Che¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi tapped on the table again and cut everyone¡¯s arguments off, ¡°I¡¯ve already announced the restructuring two years ago and gave you two years to adapt. Based on the current situation, it seems like you¡¯ve adapted quite well.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the two who were arguing and their faces turned red as they gave dryughs.

    ¡°The reason we must restructure is because thepany is bing bigger and bigger. If we maintain the current organization structure, it will seriously impact ourpany¡¯s development. Not mentioning anything else, to let Kennard manage the matters of each department will make him die of exhaustion sooner orter.¡±

    Kennard on the side revealed a grin, ¡°Dying of exhaustion for thepany is a good way to die, I don¡¯t mind.¡±

    Xu Yi could only roll his eyes at him, ¡°You don¡¯t have a problem, but if Count Emma and Sophia knew that I caused you to die from exhaustion, they would definitelye here to kill me.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at the others after he said this and continued, ¡°I know what you are worried about, you don¡¯t have the confidence in taking care of your own departments, right?¡±

    The managers all revealed embarrassed smiles when Xu Yi looked at them.

    It was indeed as Xu Yi had said.

    As managers of departments, to let them be responsible for various things in the department was something that they were familiar with. However, sir chairman¡¯s restructuring was to separate those departments from thepany and create a branch under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was equal to creating a whole newpany that they would manage themselves, so they weren¡¯t confident.

    But other than these few people, the other managers had glowing eyes that were filled with excitement and eagerness.

    Although managing apany by themselves was a big challenge for them, it was also a very big opportunity.

    If they could grasp it well, they would without a doubt gain many benefits. Even as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, they would be able to match the truly powerful people, not just being the manager of one department in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that they currently were.

    Seeing the reactions of these people, Xu Yi gave a secret nod.

    He wasn¡¯t against the ambitions in the hearts of his subordinates, rather he supported them very much.

    During this fast period of development for the magic machine industry, he needed these talented people who could take responsibility, had ambition, and had courage.

    These department managers had proven their skills over the years and as long as they adapted to their new identities, they would definitely y a bigger role.

    ¡°I don¡¯t care if you¡¯re confident or not, the restructuring must happen.¡± Xu Yi said in a loud voice, ¡°I will give you a choice. If you admit that you can¡¯t handle this responsibility, you can choose to retire and I will find someone else to rece you.¡±

    Xu Yi silently waited for three minutes, but not a single person in the room spoke.

    ¡°Very good, it seems like you¡¯re confident in the end.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But I must warn you that this means you will be stable in your new positions. If any of you cannot do this, then I will definitely rece you, understood?¡±

    The people in the room looked at each other before giving strong nods.

    ¡°Good. Kennard, announce the initial restructuring n.¡±

    Kennard nodded and stood up with a thick document. He cleared his throat and said in a clear voice, ¡°ording to sir chairman¡¯s proposal, thepany will now carry out the following restructuring. The initial n is to separate thepany¡¯s departments into their own branchpanies. There will be the ¡®Frestech Household Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯, the ¡®Frestech Steel Alloy Chamber of Commerce¡¯, the ¡®Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce¡¯¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    ¡°¡­¡­¡¯Frestech Magic Car Chamber of Commerce¡¯, ¡®Frestech Heavy Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯, ¡®Frestech Transport Chamber of Commerce¡¯¡­¡­¡±

    The Candra Empire¡¯s Magic Machine Industry Management Department¡¯s chief Count Raphael Irvine held a ?Candra Times? in his left hand and a ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? in his right hand,paring the two. After confirming that the two were exactly the same, he revealed a look of doubt.

    ¡°What about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and the military magic machine department? They weren¡¯t separated?¡±

    The middle age man sitting to his right who looked to be around fifty years old, clean cut, and had a pair of bright eyes took a sip of his tea before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Lord Count, this is normal. Xu Yi always ced importance on research and called it the foundation of the magic machine industry, of course he wouldn¡¯t separate it from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the military magic machines¡­¡­I think you can already guess the reason, right?¡±

    Count Irvine gave a sigh and threw the ?Candra Times? and the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? onto the table.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not hard to guess. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being something that can¡¯t be offended is because they have the powerful military magic machines. How could Xu Yi throw away such important things? But I¡¯m very confused, why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly reorganize themselves? Why would they throw out all these departments and create so many newpanies?¡±

    The middle aged man said whileughing, ¡°Lord Count, this isn¡¯t strange at all. Once an organization reaches a certain extent, they will definitely have to restructure their organization. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already big enough and if Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would copse in a few years from internal conflicts.¡±

    ¡°But now that he¡¯s separated all these departments, isn¡¯t that breaking himself into pieces?¡± Count Irvine was still confused.

    ¡°No, Lord Count, you should notice that there¡¯s the word ¡®Frestech¡¯ in front of all thesepanies. This means that although they are newpanies, they are still controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It¡¯s no different from before, there¡¯s just some restructuring in name.¡± The middle aged man said.

    ¡°Un, I can imagine this, but Xu Yi isn¡¯t worried that his control over thosepanies will weaken in the future.¡± Count Irvine was still confused.

    The middle aged man slightly knitted his brows and thought for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°This¡­¡­I don¡¯t really understand it either. Properly speaking, if Xu Yi wanted to restructure, he could have done it internally and there was no need to do all this. ording to what the report said, thesepanies that were separated would be in charge of their own finances, so there will be good and bad. It¡¯s fine if it¡¯s good, but what if it¡¯s bad? Does Xu Yi n on not caring?¡±

    Count Irvine and the middle aged man thought about it for a bit before shaking their heads.

    ¡°What Xu Yi has done this time really is confusing. Anyway, no matter what happens, what happens in the future will decide if his choice was right or not.¡± Count Irvine gave a sigh before focusing his mind again, ¡°But this time, he will have made a mistake. rence, has your Chimera Chamber of Commerce figured out what to do?¡±

    The middle aged man who was called rence revealed a dangerous smile.

    ¡°Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has broken themselves apart, of course we won¡¯t be polite.¡±

 Volume 7 28 â€“ Girl Talented In Magic

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 28 - Girl Talented In Magic</h4>

    ¡°Hu.¡±

    Xu Yi let out a soft breath and there was a white mist that appeared in the air.

    This year¡¯s winter was colder than previous years.

    In the beginning of the year in the past, the countries of the Sines Continent would fall into deep winter. For a northern ce like the Marlow Empire, its most northern part was covered in snow and didn¡¯t have any footprints.

    But for a southern ce like the Stantine Duchy, the weather was quite warm most of the year and it wouldn¡¯t be that cold when it came to winter.

    Not to mention snow, even breaths condensing in the air was something that was rarely seen.

    Looking up at the distant broad sea, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    The transport fleet setting out for the Marlow Empire¡¯s northern point had set outst month. ording to the n, because they were stopping at several countries along the coast, they would only arrive in the Marlow Empire next spring.

    The reason for such a long travel time was to deepen rtions with the countries along the way, as well as promoting the magic machine industry and evaluating the magic machine industries set up in a few of the countries, so it would mean spending at least a month in each country.

    ording to the n, the fleet should be in the Ant Kingdom that was to the north of the Sack Kingdom.

    Based on past experience, the sea of the Ant Kingdom shouldn¡¯t be frozen in this season, but this year¡¯s winter was colder than normal. The Ant Kingdom should be colder than normal that might make the water freeze, dying the schedule of the northern transport fleet.

    But thinking about it, there hadn¡¯t been a single report from the northern transport fleet to headquarters that there were any incidents. That meant that it should be going smoothly and there shouldn¡¯t be any problems.

    What Xu Yi was really worried about was the unknown open sea exploration fleet.

    Since they set out, it had already been half a year. ording to the travel speed of the open sea exploration fleet, they should be over ten thousand kilometers away, so naturally they couldn¡¯t maintainmunications.

    Although the conditions of the transport fleet were far better than that of Magen¡¯s fleet from earth, any kind of idents could happen on the open seas, so it couldn¡¯t be avoided even if they had better conditions.

    Because of theirck ofmunication, even if Xu Yi was worried, he couldn¡¯t do a thing and let nature take its course.

    Thinking about this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at the sky above him.

    On earth, because of the invention ofmunication satellites, people on earth had been able to establish a real long rangemunicationwork and could even use the satellites for tracking.

    If it was a fleet on earth, they just needed a satellitemunication system and people could easily contact them, so there wouldn\\\''t be any worries.

    On the Sines Continent though, not to mentionmunications of over ten thousand kilometers, evenmunications of a thousand kilometers was only limited to the southwest corner where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built magic signal towers.

    But he could solve themunication problem on the continent by promoting the magic signal tower and building aplete magicmunicationwork, but what about the endless seas?

    On this continent, could he solve the problem using something like a satellite like on earth?

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and thought about all the magic knowledge in his mind, carefully searching for any possibilities.

    ¡°Dad, look, look!¡±

    When he was thinking, there was a young girl¡¯s voice that suddenly came from in front of Xu Yi and cut through his thoughts.

    Xu Yi looked over and revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°Hei, Freya, what do you want me to see?¡±

    Freya was already twelve years old and because she had the genes of Xu Yi who was from the Orient on earth, she developedterpared to other girls on the continent. However, she had already entered puberty now and had finished developing. She was not only one meter and sixty centimeters, reaching Xu Yi¡¯s chin, her figure had already started growing and she was a big girl now.

    Adding in the fact that she had almost perfectly inherited Still¡¯s beauty, her features had already started developing since she was young and she was very beautiful. She was just like the mixed race beauties that Xu Yi had seen before on earth.

    People that saw her couldn¡¯t help praising her. Perhaps when she grew up, she might not even lose to Still when it came to beauty.

    ¡°Look at this!¡± Freya had a proud smile on her face as she ced her right hand in a fist in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Oh? What good thing are you hiding?¡± Xu Yi looked at her fist with a smile, deliberately thinking for a bit before opening his hand, ¡°I know! You must have caught some bug from somewhere, right?¡±

    Freya had always been an active girl and had an open personality, so she was sometimes just as mischievous as a boy.

    Normally girls would be scared of bugs, but she was very brave and would grab all kinds of strange looking bugs for fun.

    Although Xu Yi was happy to see her this open and active, he was speechless as how she would like to y with bugs.

    Of course, he wouldn¡¯t put down Freya¡¯s interests.

    ¡°Hei, hei, it¡¯s not a bug this time.¡± Freya raised her right hand a bit higher, ¡°Dad, look carefully!¡±

    Freya opened her hand when she said this and there was a thing inside. It was a small fireball.

    Xu Yi had actually already felt the magic fluctuations from her hand, but he didn¡¯t reveal it and acted surprised as he said, ¡°Wa, Freya, you can already create this small fireball, you¡¯ve really made progress!¡±

    Who would have thought that Freya wouldn¡¯t ept this and curled her lips before giving a soft snort, ¡°Dad, who told you to look at this small fireball? You should focus on the elemental magic energy around it.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Freya in surprise and focused his mind as he tried to sense the elemental magic energy around the small fireball in Freya¡¯s hand. When he did, he revealed a truly surprised look, ¡°Freya, you¡­¡­actuallypletely stabilized the magic space around it?¡±

    When he used his magic to check the space around the small fireball, he found that while this fireball in Freya¡¯s hand didn¡¯t look that different from a normal fireball, the surrounding magic space waspletely different.

    Normally speaking, when a magician released a spell, they would gather the elemental magic energy around them with their magic, forming the spell.

    Like this, once the spell was formed, it would have some effect on the surrounding magic space which would destabilize the elemental magic energy.

    If it was a powerful magician, they could use the magic space to directly affect space itself.

    The principle behind spatial magic was based on this.

    But the fireball that Freya made was different from a normal fireball.

    First, this fireball was just too small, it was only around the size of a tennis ball.

    And if one looked carefully, they would find that this fireball¡¯s colour and brightness were very stable, there wasn¡¯t a single fluctuation at all.

    This meant that Freya was perfectly controlling the elemental magic energy inside this fireball, far surpassing the level of a normal magician.

    For Xu Yi, what caught his attention the most was that there was an extreme stability between the elemental magic energy in the fireball and the magic space around this fireball.

    The elemental magic energy around this little fireball flowed as normal, like it wasn¡¯t affected by the fireball at all.

    To be able to do this, it couldn¡¯t be described as just having precise elemental magic energy control.

    Seeing the surprised look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Freya looked up with a proud look and said, ¡°How about it? Dad, am I powerful?¡±

    ¡°Powerful! Very powerful!¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t hold back as he gave a thumbs up to praise Freya.

    This praise came from the bottom of Xu Yi¡¯s heart because Freya was worthy of this praise.

    Reducing the effect of spells on the stability of the surrounding magic space was something that was proposed in the magic research facility half a year ago, only recently did they have initial sess.

    This meant that with only half a year of research on this topic, Freya was already able to release a spell of this standard, which could only be said that her talent for magic was shocking.

    ording to Arch Magus Cami, he even thought that his great granddaughter Freya¡¯s talent for magic even surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s!

    However, for Xu Yi, the so-called talent for magic was an unclear definition in the magicians circle of the continent.

    In the traditional sense, ¡°magic talent¡± was just how fast a magician could grasp spells and increase their own magic power.

    But in thest four years since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility started promoting using data for magic research, after several years of research, the mysterious magic in the minds of people was no longer as mysterious. It became something that even a normal person could learn.

    On the continent, even the people who didn¡¯t have magic talent, as long as they were willing to work hard to understand the magic data curriculum that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce taught, they would be able to learn magic.

    Because of this, the research of Xu Yi and the magic research facility had been named hearsay by the magicians of the continent, which created a wave of resistance.

    However, when there were more and more normal people who learned magic at the Frestech Academy, this wave of opposition gradually subsided.

    In just three years, many people¡¯s understanding of magic on the Sines Continent had undergone an earth shattering change.

 Volume 7 29 â€“ Elementary Magic Training Curriculum

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 29 - Elementary Magic Training Curriculum</h4>

    Of course, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research reduced the scale of magic learning so that even normal people coulde in contact with it, just like the basic subjects on earth, different people had different aptitudes. After the standard for studying magic was reduced, there was still a difference in aptitude, which was a new kind of ¡°magic talent¡±.

    For example, Freya was one of the most outstanding magicians in this new era of magic study.

    Because her great grandfather was an Arch Magus, her father was the youngest Great Magician, and her mother was powerful Ninth Grade Magician who was only a step away from bing a Great Magician, with Freya being born in this kind of family, it was impossible that she wouldn¡¯te in contact with magic.

    Moreover, Freya had been very interested in magic since she was young, so since she was six, Arch Magus Cami, Xu Yi, and Still would find time to teach her magic.

    But different from most magicians on the continent, when Freya studied magic, she always epted the redefined magic study method that Xu Yi made. She would always analyze the data of the magic before trying to grasp the spells.

    Because of this, Freya¡¯s understanding of magic was different from other magicians from the beginning. She didn¡¯t treat it as a fuzzy concept, but rather she finely analyzed the magic that she learned before grasping it.

    The problem with that was for Freya to learn any new spell, it would take much more effort and timepared to other magicians.

    For example, when learning the most basic Fire Spell, the Fireball Spell, Freya used an entire week to sessfully release a Fireball Spell. Compared to many of the Primary and Second Grade Magicians in the Frestech Academy that only took an average of three days, this was much slower.

    As for talented magicians like Arch Magus Cami, Xu Yi, and Still, she was farcking.

    But the benefits of this was that after Freya mastered this Fireball Spell, the first fireball that she sent out had reached the pinnacle of what this Fireball Spell could do. In terms of elemental magic energy stability, the shape of the fireball, and magic power and elemental magic energy ratio, it could all be considered nearly perfect.

    Moreover, once she shot out this first fireball, it meant that Freya had already grasped all the rted knowledge to this Fireball Spell, which would increase the speed at which she would learn all other Fire Spells in the future.

    For example, when a normal magician learned Fire Magic, the first spell that they would learn is the Fireball Spell since it was the foundation of Fire Magic.

    Normally speaking, magicians with a certain amount of talent would learn it in two or three days.

    The second spell that they would learn would be a bit moreplicated. They could choose the me Spell, the Continuous Fireball Spell, or other spells. Magicians with a normal amount of talent would take a week or two to grasp it.

    However, after Freya spent a week learning the Fireball Spell, the second spell that she learned was the me Spell and from the time she started to when she released it, she used less than half an hour!

    Then in just three days, she had learned all the First Grade Fire Spells that were released by the Magicians Guild.

    After learning this news, Arch Magus Cami was so excited that he flew around in the sky a few times while shouting, ¡°There¡¯s another super magic genius in our family now.¡±

    Xu Yi was calm because he wasn¡¯t surprised by Freya¡¯s performance at all.

    To him, a thing like magic was just using the magic power in a magician¡¯s body to draw in the corresponding elemental magic energy in the air. Then arranging those elemental magic energy before releasing the energy that was contained within it with a certain method.

    This was no different from lighting a piece of firewood.

    Although Freya had spent a week learning the Fireball Spell, what she had grasped in that week wasn¡¯t just for the Fireball Spell. She had grasped how the characteristics of Fire Elemental Magic Energy, as well as how to arrange that Fire Elemental Magic Energy.

    So she was that fast in learning new Fire Spells because for her who had grasped the essence of Fire Magic, she was just learning how to arrange the Fire Elemental Magic Energy in new ways.

    If she wasn¡¯t limited by her own magic power, Freya would have been able to release even higher grade spells.

    But speaking of magic power¡­¡­

    ¡°Freya, how has your magic power increase been goingtely?¡± Xu Yi asked Freya.

    Freya slightly knitted her brows and looked a bit depressed.

    ¡°It¡¯s been very slow over the past few months. Dad, have I reached my bottleneck like great grandfather and grandfather Turner said?¡±

    ¡°What bottleneck, there¡¯s nothing like that.¡± Xu Yi curled his lips in disdain.

    The magicians of the continent had always thought that there was a ¡°bottleneck period¡± when they increased their magic power. The meaning was that once a magician¡¯s magic power reached a certain extent, they would find it harder to increase which meant that they had reached their bottleneck. Only when they broke through this bottleneck would they be able to greatly increase it again.

    But for Xu Yi, this was just nonsense.

    Because this so-called ¡°bottleneck¡± didn¡¯t conform with scientificw at all.

    The magic power of magicians was actually just magicians absorbing and transforming the elemental magic energy around them. It would allow them to resonate more with the elemental magic energy around them and control even more elemental magic energy.

    It could be said that there was no limit to this transformation and if one proceeded in an orderly manner, there was no bottleneck. As long as one continued on it, it would always increase.

    Those Low Grade Magicians that could never increase their own level before, it was because they were limited by their own physiques and limited by their methods of increasing their magic power, so they were unable to increase their magic power and could never be a High Grade Magician.

    But Freya had inherited the good genes from Xu Yi and Still, as well as having a bunch of powerful magicians creating a magic cultivation method for her, so there wasn¡¯t this problem. She shouldn¡¯t have anything like this bottleneck appearing in her body.

    ¡°Come, let me take a look.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and ced his hand on Freya¡¯s shoulder, sending a trace of magic into her body.

    After this trace of magic went through Freya¡¯s body, Xu Yi took his hand back, not knowing whether tough or cry.

    ¡°Hei, Freya, when was thest time you measured your height?¡±

    Freya blinked in a daze, feeling a bit confused why Xu Yi would suddenly ask this question.

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­It should be half a year ago¡­¡­¡± Freya said in an uncertain voice.

    ¡°How tall were you then?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I remember that it was one meter and forty seven centimeters.¡±

    ¡°One meter and forty seven centimeters?¡±

    Xu Yi had been sitting in the chair and when he heard Freya¡¯s answer, he stood up and pulled Freya in front of him. He measured the top of her head to his body and found that Freya¡¯s body was just under her lips.

    ¡°Freya, I¡¯m certain that you¡¯re taller now. Look, you¡¯re already at my chin. I think that you should be over one meter and sixty centimeters now.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Freya excitedly raised her little fist, ¡°Great! It seems like it won¡¯t take long before I¡¯m taller than you, dad!¡±

    ¡°You want to pass me?¡± Xu Yi tapped her head with a smile before giving a cough and saying with a serious expression, ¡°Freya, I know what¡¯s the issue of your magic power increase slowing down.¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°Actually it¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because of your height.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Freya blinked her eyes in a daze, ¡°How is growing taller rted to my magic power increase slowing down?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°The cultivation of magic power is to let your body adapt to elemental magic energy, so it makes it easier for your mind to resonate and control the elemental magic energy inside you and around you to use them. The magic cultivation technique that you were using before was made by your great grandfather and several Great Magicians when you were starting to learn magic at the age of six, so it fitted your body then. But you¡¯re much taller than when you were six and your body has changed quite a bit, so if you use the same magic cultivation method as before, it wouldn¡¯t work.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s no wonder I felt it slow down over the years, I thought that this was normal¡­¡­¡± Freya muttered before asking, ¡°Then the slowing down over the past few months, is it because I¡¯ve been growing faster recently?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi patted Freya¡¯s head with a smile, ¡°Our Freya is a big kid now, you¡¯ve been growing exceptionally fast in the past two years. Un¡­¡­How about this, I¡¯ll go find your great grandfather over the next two days and we¡¯ll create a new magic cultivation method for you, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Freya excited jumped onto Xu Yi and hugged him, ¡°Dad, I really love you!¡±

    Xu Yiughed and looked down at Freya rubbing her head against his chest. He thought that if the magic cultivation technique that Freya was using before could be considered an elementary school curriculum, then the new magic cultivation technique made for her should be a middle school curriculum.

    Freya had Arch Magus Cami, him, and a bunch of powerful magicians in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as her backing, so they could tailor make a magic cultivation technique for her.

    But the other magicians of the continent didn¡¯t have this kind of backing and when they study magic, they would naturally be slower.

    However, this wasn¡¯t what Xu Yi wanted to see.

    ¡°Then should I promote Freya¡¯s method of studying magic?¡±

    Xu Yi fell into deep thought.

 Volume 7 30 â€“ I Want To Learn Magic!

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 30 - I Want To Learn Magic!</h4>

    Rodman looked at Enrique who had a stubborn look on his face and gave a helpless sigh.

    Once his youngest son grew up, he began going against his father¡¯s words.

    ¡°You really aren¡¯t willing to go?¡± Rodman anked in a deep voice.

    ¡°I won¡¯t!¡± Enrique loudly said, ¡°What meaning is there learning carpentry from uncle? I want to learn magic!¡±

    ¡°But you don¡¯t have a talent for magic, didn¡¯t magician Musuto tell you in townst time?¡± Rodman kept trying to change his mind.

    ¡°Humph! He was lying!¡± Enrique waved the newspaper in his hand again, ¡°It even says on here that anyone can learn magic! Why can¡¯t I?¡±

    Rodman looked at the ?Candra Times? in Enrique¡¯s hand with a headache and he gave a bitterugh deep down.

    This damn Xu Yi, this damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why did they have to give that damn opinion that ¡°everyone had a talent for magic¡±. Enrique who had lost his passion for magic, now wanted to study magic again.

    Magician Musuto had clearly said that Enrique didn¡¯t have any talent for magic at all. He couldn¡¯t even learn the most basic spell in a week, so how could he be a powerful magician?

    However, after Enrique had read the report in this newspaper, it was like he had received a decree from god. He wouldn¡¯t change his mind and kept shouting that he wanted to learn magic, not changing his mind about not going to learn carpentry from his uncle like Rodman had arranged.

    In Rodman¡¯s eyes, was studying magic useful?

    Even if Xu Yi and his Frestech Chamber of Commerce was right, that Enrique really had the hope of learning magic, since magician Musuto had said that he didn¡¯t have any talent for it, then even if Enrique insisted on learning magic, he couldn¡¯t be a powerful magician.

    If he couldn¡¯t be a powerful magician, Rodman thought that there was no use learning it at all.

    Instead of wasting time on this, it was better to learn carpentry. If he could learn it well, he might not be able to be rich, but at least he wouldn¡¯t have to worry about food and shelter.

    However, Enrique still had a look of disdain after hearing what Rodman told him.

    ¡°Dad, you¡¯ve fallen behind! Who told you that it¡¯s useless if you can¡¯t be a High Grade Magician?¡± Enrique patted the newspaper in his hands, ¡°Look, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is recruiting a bunch of Low Grade Magicians and the requirements aren¡¯t high at all. Moreover, look at what it says. After you enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, your lowest wage is twenty gold coins a month, isn¡¯t this much better than learning carpentry from uncle?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Rodman narrowed his eyes as he looked at the newspaper, but since he couldn¡¯t read, naturally he couldn¡¯t tell if what Enrique said was true or not.

    But he had heard people say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always gave their workers a high wage. If it was for magicians, it was natural that their wages would be a bit higher than normal workers, so it isn¡¯t strange at all if it was more than twenty gold coins a month.

    ¡°Alright, of course it¡¯s good if you can work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after graduating. However, Enrique, it¡¯s a problem if you can learn or not. The more important question is, where will you learn?¡±

    ¡°To¡­¡­¡± Enrique was stunned and he couldn¡¯t reply.

    Although he had heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up a Frestech Academy, specializing in teaching normal people magic and magic machine theory, the Stantine Duchy that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was based in was two thousand kilometers away from this small vige in the Candra Empire. How could Enrique go all the way there to learn?

    After thinking a bit, Enrique clenched his fists and loudly said, ¡°I¡¯ll go to the Stantine Duchy!¡±

    Rodman didn¡¯t say anything as he looked at him.

    After a while, Enrique lowered his head again.

    Because he knew that this was impossible.

    Rodman¡¯s family was only a normal family of peasants in the Candra Empire. Although because the empire was focused on developing the magic machine industry, Rodman, his wife, and Enrique¡¯s big brother had all found jobs in factories, their wages couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s. It was only a total of twenty gold coins when it was all added up together.

    This money had greatly changed the lives of their family. They no longer needed to worry about food and they could even have some savings, but these savings weren¡¯t enough to support Enrique going to the Stantine Duchy two thousand kilometers away to study.

    Then again, Enrique was only thirteen years old. Although he was considered smart, how could Rodman feel assured in letting him go that far away alone?

    If someone went with him, it would cost even more and Rodman¡¯s family wouldn¡¯t be able to afford it.

    ¡°It would be good if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in our Candra Empire¡­¡­¡± Enrique couldn¡¯t helpining.

    Rodman gave a sigh and gave a bitterugh in his heart.

    Right, it would be good if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in the empire.

    He heard that because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the people of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy had lives that were countless times better than before. The normal people didn¡¯t need to worry about their daily necessities and even had extra ie to pursue a better life.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared in the Candra Empire or somewhere close, how good that would be. Perhaps their lives would already be much better because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    And Enrique would be able to easily enter the Frestech Academy, perhaps he might even have a chance to be a magician like he dreamed.

    However¡­¡­the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t here and was over two thousand kilometers away, so it was only a dream¡­¡­it could only be a dream.

    Rodman patted Enrique¡¯s shoulder and said with a sigh, ¡°Enrique, dad doesn¡¯t have the ability to send you that far to learn magic, dad is sorry. You¡­¡­be good, alright?¡±

    Enrique pursed his lips and looked at the tired looking Rodman before the stubborn look on his face disappeared. He could only give a slight nod.

    Seeing the disappointed looking Enrique, Rodman helplessly shook his head and turned to leave.

    Although there was still another hour before he had to go in for the afternoon shift, he didn¡¯t want to stay at home with Enrique, so he could only escape.

    When he came out, he found that there were three peopleing over.

    ¡°Elder Adonis, vige head Bradley, why are you here?¡± Rodman asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What is going on?¡±

    After saying this, he looked at the stranger beside the elder and the vige head. He saw that this person wasn¡¯t from the vige and looked to be around thirty years old with a capable feel to him. He looked to be some kind of official from a town.

    Elder Adonis who was sixty seven this year, but still looked healthyughed as he waved his hand at Rodman, ¡°Come, let¡¯s go in and talk.¡±

    Rodman doubtfully went back in with the three of them.

    Enrique, who was in the room with his head down in a daze, saw that Rodman was back, as well as bringing the two highest ranking people in the vige along with a stranger, so he couldn¡¯t help being surprised.

    ¡°Hey, Enrique, stop being in a daze and bring some water for the guests. Quickly.¡± Rodman waved his hand as he said this.

    ¡°No need,e back.¡± Elder Adonis called Enrique back and then had him stand in front of him. He looked him over before asking with a smile, ¡°Enrique, you¡¯re in your teens now, right?¡±

    Enrique looked at him with a confused gaze before turning to look at Rodman.

    ¡°Just answer if the elder is asking you a question.¡± Rodman said.

    ¡°Oh, elder, I¡¯m thirteen this year.¡±

    ¡°Thirteen? Un, the age isn¡¯t bad.¡± Elder Adonis turned to look at the stranger, ¡°Your excellency Sandy, what do you think?¡±

    The stranger who was called Sandy looked over Enrique with a faint smile before asking, ¡°Are you willing to learn magic?¡±

    Enrique and Rodman were both stunned.

    They had just been discussing this, so why did someone suddenly arrive to ask this?

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Elder, vige head, what is going on?¡± Rodman cut Enrique off and asked the two people he was familiar with.

    ¡°He, he, it¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Vige head Bradley said whileughing, ¡°Rodman, do you know the Chimera Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Of course I do, that is thergestpany in our empire!¡± Rodman immediately replied, ¡°But¡­¡­how is it rted to Enrique?¡±

    ¡°It is.¡± Vige head Bradley nodded, ¡°The Chimera Chamber of Commerce is choosing to set up some foundational magic academies in our empire, one of which is being ced in Elnoy City. This academy isn¡¯t just recruiting students from the city, but also the viges outside the city. Our vige has been given five spots, so elder Adonis and I remembered that your kid always wanted to learn magic, so we came to see if you¡¯re willing.¡±

    ¡°The Chimera Chamber of Commerce wants to open a foundational magic academy?¡± Rodman scratched his head and felt confused, ¡°Why did youe looking for our kid? Could it be that he has a high talent for magic?¡±

    ¡°No, this is unrted to magic talent. The Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundational magic academies are for teaching normal people magic, it¡¯s unrted to their magic talent.¡±

    ¡°Yi?¡± Rodman looked at Enrique with a surprised look.

    Enrique was stunned before bringing over the ?Candra Times? that he had thrown to the cab.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always said? Could it be that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce is doing the same thing?¡±

    ¡°Right, this is the project that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was promoting together in the Candra Empire, so you don¡¯t need to be doubtful.¡± Sandy said with a serious look, ¡°Mister Rodman, I am the person who the Chimera Chamber of Commerce has sent to be in charge of the foundational magic academy in Elnoy City for now. If you have any questions, you can ask me.¡±

    Rodman hesitated a bit and looked at Enrique who had an expectant and excited face. After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he asked Sandy, ¡°I have a very important question to ask.¡±

    ¡°Please do.¡±

    ¡°Does it take money to enter the school?¡±

    ¡°Of course, we aren¡¯t doing this free of charge, so it¡¯s normal to receive tuition.¡± Sandy replied with a smile.

    Rodman¡¯s heart sunk and after pausing for a bit, he hesitantly asked, ¡°Then¡­¡­Can I ask how much it¡¯ll cost?¡±

    Sandy revealed a smile like he was very clear on what Rodman was thinking.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry that much about this because ourpany is working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this project to increase the number of talented people in our empire¡¯s magic machine industry. So while there is tuition, because there is support from our Chimera Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s very cheap.¡±

    Rodman and Enrique looked at him with sparkling eyes.

    Sandy raised three fingers with a smile.

    ¡°It¡¯s only thirty gold coins per year, what do you think? Mister Rodman, do you think this is eptable?¡±

    Rodman¡¯s eyes lit up and while Enrique nervously looked at him, he loudly said, ¡°Of course! Of course I can ept this!¡±

 Volume 7 31 â€“ No Need To Be That Nervous

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 31 - No Need To Be That Nervous</h4>

    Enrique wasn¡¯t the only one who was invited to enrol in the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foundational magic academy because this time, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had built forty three of these magic academies across the Candra Empire. Each one would be recruiting over two hundred students, so the total number of students was over ten thousand.

    Moreover, ording to the n the Chimera Chamber of Commerce announced, they would be working with the Candra Empire government to promote the foundational magic machine industry knowledge represented by this foundational magic academy across the empire.

    With the huge territory of the Candra Empire, this n would clearly require a shocking amount of funds and manpower to be invested.

    ¡°Why is the Chimera Chamber of Commerce suddenly so enthusiastic?¡± Kennard felt that this was very strange, ¡°Those fellows had always treated us neither coldly or looked down on us, but this time they took the initiative to cooperate with us and were this willing to spend money. This is just too strange.¡±

    ¡°Perhaps they might have suddenly thought this through.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course, if we have to talk about it, I think that it¡¯s the upper level of the Candra Empire not willing to see ourpany go even further in. Things like elementary education are very important for apany, so it¡¯s not strange that the Candra Empire wants to grasp it in their own hands.¡±

    ¡°Un, that makes sense.¡± Kennard nodded. After being silent for a bit, he took out another document for Xu Yi, ¡°The elementary education can be exined, but I feel that there¡¯s still a problem with this.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡±

    Xu Yi took the document and found that it was an official letter from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. It contained a cooperation agreement sent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce about a lumber business that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce operated.

    The content of the contract was that the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce hoped that the Frestech Heavy Machine Chamber of Commerce would be able to make some new heavy magic machines for them, which would be used to transport lumber.

    ¡°What problem is there?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard with a surprised look, ¡°Isn¡¯t it normal to design a custom made magic machine for anotherpany?¡±

    ¡°The problem is the following part.¡± Kennard calmly flipped to thest page for Xu Yi and pointed at a paragraph in the middle.

    Xu Yi looked at it and knitted his brows.

    It seemed that in this contract, the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce had proposed that in order to build rtions, both sides would exchange 5% shares in theirpany to further their rtionship.

    Just based on this, it was the Frestech Heavy Machine Chamber of Commerce that got a cheap deal.

    Because the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was the biggestpany on the continent. The Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce was a superrgepany that monopolized the lumber industries of many countries, including the Candra Empire. Whether it was scale or output, they all far surpassed the Frestech Heavy Machine Chamber of Commerce.

    It was the same 5% shares, but they represented different values.

    But if one looked carefully, they would find that the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce had also added another condition behind this. In order to guarantee that the magic machines specially designed for them would suit their needs, the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce wanted to participate in the development process of these magic machines.

    This condition made it very clear what they were up to.

    It was clear that the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce wanted to participate in the development process to get the technical data, or rather to umte some research experience.

    ¡°Hei, this Chimera Chamber of Commerce really is willing to pay.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Just for some experience, they¡¯re actually willing to offer 5% of their shares. If we were willing to give them all the heavy magic machine technology, do you think they would be willing to give the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce to us?¡±

    ¡°Of course they would.¡± Kennard said without any hesitation, ¡°Even if we took all their shares, that wouldn¡¯t mean that the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce would be able to operate as smoothly as before. It might even cost us quite a bit in the end. They can also obtain the technical data that they want the most, so in the long term, it¡¯s effective for them no matter what.¡±

    ¡°Why do you think so?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard.

    Kennard was surprised, ¡°Could it be that sir chairman doesn¡¯t think the same?¡±

    ¡°Me?¡± Xu Yi looked at the document in his hand before throwing it onto the table and stretching out his waist, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter what I think because¡­¡­this isn¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    Kennard was stunned before anxiously saying, ¡°Sir chairman, how can you say that it isn¡¯t rted to you? I think that this is a plot that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce is using against our Frestech Chamber of Commerce! The Chimera Chamber of Commerce excels in swallowing otherpanies bit by bit like this! They¡¯ve done this countless times!¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Since you know, you will let it happen?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Kennard thought about it before shaking his head, ¡°Of course I wouldn¡¯t let them take our hard work that easily! I will definitely stop them!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Kennard, I just want to remind you that sometimes, you need to look a bit further. As for other suggestions¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hand, ¡°Since the Chimera Lumber Chamber of Commerce is proposing this to the Frestech Heavy Machine Chamber of Commerce, then the decision shouldy in their hands. You as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO should only give suggestions and shouldn¡¯t do unnecessary things, you should let them handle this themselves.¡±

    ¡°How could that work? If they face the Chimera Chamber of Commerce alone, they will be swallowed sooner orter!¡± Kennard said in an agitated voice.

    ¡°Then let them be swallowed.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s smile suddenly disappeared as his face turned ice cold, ¡°Cut them off, this is a test that they have to take alone. If they can¡¯t cut it, then they are not qualified.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­But sir chairman, if the Chimera Chamber of Commerce seeds this time, they will make moves in other ces. I¡¯m worried¡­¡­that if we don¡¯t deal with them properly our entirepany might be swallowed by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Rx, even if the Chimera Chamber of Commerce swallows the other divisions of ourpany, as long as we control the magic research facility and the military magic machine department, or rather as long as I¡¯m here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will exist.¡±

    Hearing the confident tone in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Kennard was silent for a bit before slowly nodding.

    Sir chairman was right. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was countless times biggerpared to before, their core was their technology, or rather just sir chairman himself.

    As long as sir chairman was here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be here.

    This was something that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t swallow.

    Thinking of this, the worry in Kennard¡¯s heart faded quite a bit. He looked at the document in his hand before saying with a smile, ¡°Alright, sir chairman, I will take care of this matter at my own discretion.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, thinking that Kennard still hadn¡¯t broken free of his set ways.

    Perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had risen too quickly and developed too fast, so even Kennard as the CEO couldn¡¯t change his own thoughts. He always put himself in a lower position and when facing the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, which was the number onepany on the continent, he would be unnecessarily nervous and careful.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi felt that Kennard¡¯s judgement was wrong. Rather he felt that Kennard¡¯s judgment was very urate, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce definitely was trying to plot against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current position on the continent, with the momentum of the magic machine industry, not just the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany or a single country on the continent that could plot against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    They could be discrete, but dying their own development wasn¡¯t worth it.

    For example, although the Chimera Chamber of Commerce obviously had other ns, to Xu Yi, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce trying to get closer to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, taking the initiative to increase the magic machine industry foundational knowledge in the Candra Empire, investingrge amounts of money and manpower into setting up these foundational magic academies actually helped Xu Yi quite a bit.

    The industrial revolution on earth had proved one thing, it was that talented people didn¡¯t forget to climb higher.

    Even if there were many magic machine industry talents in the Candra Empire in the future, the Candra Empire¡¯s magic industry system wasn¡¯t perfect and wasn¡¯t at a high enough level. These talented people would flow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the end.

    So in the end, it would be very likely that the Candra Empire would be fostering talents for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was something that had been clear in the magician circle.

    Since Arch Magus Levin Hasko fell to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce five years ago, the attention of all magicians on the continent had turned their way. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s number of magicians had surged and now the magic research facility had over ten thousand Low Grade Magicians.

    Even Arch Magus Sarandal y took the initiative to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already started building rtions with thirteen of the other twenty five Arch Magi, letting those thirteen Arch Magi cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in researching magic.

    Even if they didn¡¯t have clear rtions with the other twelve Arch Magi, they still paid attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was even said that more than half of them were already secretly researching magic machines.

    So that meant that the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the organization with the best magic resources on the continent, even surpassing the Magicians Guild.

    Xu Yi believed that this trend wouldn¡¯t just appear in the magician circle, it would also be the same with the talents of the magic machine industry.

    Of course, that premise was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would always have their technological lead.

 Volume 7 32 â€“ Three Matters

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 32 - Three Matters</h4>

    It was June in the blink of an eye.

    The heat from the first month of summer spread across the continent. All the markets of the various countries were filled with demand for the various summer household magic machines.

    In the past years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department would receiverge orders from various countries. They would be prepared two months in advance to wee the peak sales during the summer period.

    This year was no exception.

    In just June, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce household magic machine department that was separated into the ¡°Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡± received many orders for Magic Fans, Magic Refrigerators, Magic Freezers¡­¡­and all kinds of household magic machines. The total surpassed a hundred thousand and the orders reached an amount of over two million gold coins.

    Adding in therge number of orders they receivedst month which had a price of over three million gold coins, it was estimated that the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce would set a new high this year, breaking through sales of ten million gold coins.

    Compared tost summer where their total over four months of summer was seven million and three hundred thousand, this Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales had greatly increased this year.

    However, there were three things that happened after June came which made all the people in the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce unable to feel any happiness.

    The first thing was that there was an ident that happened with the Frestech Magic Fan in the eastern province of the Candra Empire.

    In the shipment that went to the Candra Empire¡¯s eastern provincest month, there were a bunch of them that had their covers fall off because of loose screws.

    The most serious thing was that it wasn¡¯t just the cover that came loose. There were even some fan des that came loose, so when the high speed fan des came off, many people were injured.

    When this matter happened, it was covered by the ?Candra Times? and most of the major newspapers in the Candra Empire, instantly shocking the entire continent.

    Before this, although there had been issues with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines before, they were normal issues and had happened rarely.

    Compared to the household magic machines of otherpanies, the Frestech Brand magic machine had always been the representative of high performance and high quality.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Fan had caused such arge ident, which was the first time in history.

    When this matter was reported, most people didn¡¯t believe it right away.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines had always had a stable position in the minds of people, so people didn¡¯t believe that such a thing could happen.

    But with the details of the ?Candra Times? and the other major newspapers, these people had to believe it.

    Moreover, the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had announced that this incident had happened. They didn¡¯t deny it and stated it had happened.

    But while the Frestech Household Magic Machine Company did admit to this happening, they also stated that all the Frestech Brand household magic machines were strictly inspected to ensure that such a thing wouldn¡¯t happen, so therge amount of failed products was from something else. The Frestech Household Magic Chamber of Commerce was going to investigate with the Candra Empire government to confirm this reason.

    Moreover, the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had stated that no matter what the reason was, the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce would take responsibility for this incident. They would be payingpensation to all families that had been involved in an ident from buying their products.

    When this statement was sent, it caused countless people to praise them.

    Before this, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany like the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, taking such serious responsibility for products that they had already sold.

    Since they had already bought them, the problems that happened were their own problems. This was the attitude that almost all thepanies on the continent had.

    This time the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s method had opened a new precedent on the Sines Continent.

    Because of this statement, the people who started to mistrust the Frestech Brand household magic machines from this ident began to trust the Frestech Brand household magic machines even more.

    The second matter wasn¡¯t just rted to their products, but rather the technology in the products.

    Before each summer, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s household magic machine department would release some news about household magic machines. They would talk about how there would be certain breakthroughs with the Frestech Brand household magic machines or new uses for them.

    For example, during May of this year, the newly formed Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had made an announcement in many major newspapers andrge scale Magic Illusion Projectors in cities. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made a breakthrough with the Magic Air Conditioner, adding in a brand new ¡°timed use function¡± to it.

    This function would allow the user to set the time the Magic Air Conditioner was one. When the time came, it would automatically shut off and stop operating.

    This function was without a doubt very popr because the Magic Air Conditioners consumed a lot of magic power. Moreover, it didn¡¯t help decrease the temperature even if it was on the entire time. So if there was a time setting function, they wouldn¡¯t need to get up every night to turn it off.

    After the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce announced this, all the newspapers had praised this. They stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was worthy of being the leadpany in the magic machine industry, always developing new technology that drove the development of the magic machine industry.

    The chairman Xu Yi had always stressed that technology was the most important thing in the magic machine industry. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce under his lead had kept demonstrating this, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had great prospects for future development.

    Everyone had thought that this summer would be the same and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products would monopolize the household magic machine market. They would continue dominating all the other brands with their performance, quality, and technology.

    However, once June came, the situation had changed.

    On the third day of June, there was a household magic machinepany in the Lampuri Kingdom that specialized in producing Magic Freezers that announced that they had made a breakthrough with the freezer technology. They could increase the freezing efficiency of the Magic Freezer by up to 20% and they could decrease the temperature even further, allowing the food items stored inside to be frozen even more widely which would increase the freezing effect.

    This was something that had surprised everyone.

    Because before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released the household magic machine technology to everyone, so most of thepanies on the continent focused on producing household magic machines.

    But thesepanies only used the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided, so they could only follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s footsteps, doing everything they could to copy the Frestech Brand.

    Even if there were innovations, they were only innovations to the basic structure.

    There hadn¡¯t been a single innovation when it came to the technology.

    Now there was apany from the Lampuri Kingdom that had increased the freezing efficiency and lowered the temperature, which meant that they had a deep grasp of the core technology of the Magic Freezer, so they could make a product that surpassed the Frestech Brand Magic Freezer when it came to performance.

    In the fifteen years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, this was the first time another magic machinepany had surpassed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in technology, so naturally it attracted the attention of countless people.

    Chairman Xu had always stated that he hoped that otherpanies would start investing in developing magic machine rted technology, jointly developing magic machine technology. Now that there was apany that had made advancements in technology, how would he react?

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t react to this at all. The Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had made a special statement to congratte thispany.

    But while congratting them, the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had also stated that they hoped that thispany would be careful using this technology because it would require arge amount of testing to use any technology. Otherwise, it was likely there would be problems.

    The Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had stated that if thispany had any problems with the technology, they could contact the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce at any time. The Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce would be willing to provide technical support and develop this technology together.

    After this, in just three days, on the sixth of June, apany from the Rudson Kingdom also announced a breakthrough. They stated that they had made a breakthrough with the Magic Water Heater.

    Their Magic Water Heater had a newly developed cyclic thermodynamic system that would maintain the heat of the water that entered the tub. The tub wouldn¡¯t get too cold after leaving it for a while and there was no need to heat it up again.

    This was without a doubt a very convenient system because it solved the biggest problem for people who liked to stay in their baths.

    This technology was something that the Frestech Brand Magic Water Heater didn¡¯t have.

    Then after another day, apany from the Lampuri Kingdom announced that after a long period of development, they had made a breakthrough with the Magic Stove.

    Their newly developed Magic Stove would let you adjust the power of the mes and it could have two different heat sources at the same time. This means that you can use the Magic Stove to cook two dishes at the same time.

    There was no doubt that would save a lot of time and greatly increase the effectiveness of cooking.

    This technology was also something the Frestech Brand Magic Stove didn¡¯t have.

    In less than a week, there were threepanies that announced new technology that the Frestech Brand household magic machines didn¡¯t have. People even thought that the technological superiority that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always had over other magic machinepanies, did they no longer have it anymore?

    However,pared to this, the third matter attracted everyone¡¯s attention the most.

 Volume 7 33 â€“ Riot

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 33 - Riot</h4>

    The third matter was rted to a country named the Drow Race Kingdom to the east of the Candra Empire.

    This country was called the Drow Race Kingdom because over 90% of the citizens in this kingdom came from the Drow Race.

    Because of this, the Drow Race Kingdom always had a higher unity. Although their national strength was average, there were few countries on the continent¡¯s east that dared to offend them.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the magic machine industry in the Drow Race Kingdom, everything had gone smoothly.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce conducted their magic machine industry standard gradingst year, because of how fast the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry had developed, they received a third grade rating from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They were top ranked on the entire Sines Continent.

    Therefore, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transferred some military magic machine technology to the Drow Race Kingdom as per their agreement. They also sold some high grade military magic machines to the Drow Race Kingdom, which greatly increased their military power.

    Perhaps it was because of this that the Drow Race Kingdom was much more confident.

    Last fall, the Drow Race Kingdom suddenly attacked the Provence Kingdom and the Safina Duchy that was neighbours with them and had total victories. They only used three months to swallow the Safina Duchy and the Provence Kingdom into a single province which shocked the eastern countries of the Sines Continent.

    The Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s two sessful invasions shocked these countries while also giving them a warning.

    It was very clear that the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s power was normal before, but after bing a cooperator of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after several years of development, there had been a terrifying increase. They were now one of the main military powers on the eastern Sines Continent.

    If the other countries didn¡¯t want to face the same fate as the Safina Duchy or the Provence Kingdom, it was clear that they had only one choice. They had to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and work hard to increase their country¡¯s magic machine industry level, obtaining military magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention invading other countries, at the very least they wouldn¡¯t be defeated by the Drow Race Kingdom.

    So after the Drow Race Kingdom seeded in their two conquests, the biggest benefactor of this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the first half of the year, the countries in the eastern part of the Sines Continent that didn¡¯t cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before raised proposals on their own ord, asking to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So the Sines Continent settled into peace again because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. All the countries worked hard to develop their countries¡¯ magic machine industry, turning it into prosperity.

    If the situation didn¡¯t change, it would keep on like this. Even if the countries of the eastern part of the Sines Continent couldn¡¯t catch up to the countries of the southwest corner, they wouldn¡¯t fall behind the countries of the southeast corner which included the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    But¡­¡­nothing in this world never changed.

    In early March, there was an internal struggle in the Drow Race Kingdom. The Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s current king¡¯s younger blood rted brother prince Wacker created a traitor army under the tag ¡°The Drow Race¡¯s fate cannot be decided by outsiders¡±. He had the support of many of the armies in the Drow Race Kingdom and overthrew the king, putting himself on the throne.

    Once he took the throne and controlled the Drow Race Kingdom, with the slogan of ¡°The Drow Race¡¯s fate cannot be decided by outsiders¡±, he seized all things rted to the magic machine industry in the Drow Race Kingdom which he ced under the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s government.

    At the same time, the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s citizens began opposing foreign powers.

    To the citizens, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the leader, thepanies that came from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the other southwest countries became known as the ¡°southwest corner¡¯s vampires¡±. They wanted to chase out all the vampires that were sucking on the blood of the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s citizens after fattening them up.

    This wave was small at first, but it started gaining momentum once May came and in the beginning of June, it erupted.

    The Drow Race Kingdom had many different riots against thepanies of the southwest country. It wasn¡¯t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stores and factories that were smashed, it was even their workers that were treated harshly.

    The data wasn¡¯t clear, but ording to the information the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced, out of the seven hundred and thirty six staff that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had in the Drow Race Kingdom, three hundred and forty two staff had been killed in the riots and they lost contact with one hundred and seventy five staff. Only the remaining two hundred and neen staff had escaped ahead of time.

    ording to the described escape of the two hundred and neen staff members, during the riots, the Drow Race Kingdom hadmitted many brutal atrocities to them that they couldn¡¯t recount.

    When this news was spread, the entire continent was shocked.

    People didn¡¯t care about the internal struggles of the Drow Race Kingdom because the people targeted weren¡¯t rted to most people.

    What most people cared about was the response of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the southwest countries, especially the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Since Arch Magus Levin Hasko had fallen after attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no one on the continent had dared to offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But now the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s government had not just taken arge number of assets from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, their citizens had evenmitted these atrocities. It was clearly impossible that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t react.

    But¡­¡­the Drow Race Kingdom was over four thousand kilometers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy, so how would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce take revenge?

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, please look, this is the curve of different magic elemental energy reactions that I recently developed¡­¡­¡± Sancheli pointed at theplicated drawing on therge ckboard and looked at Xu Yi with a gaze of anticipation, ¡°Through this curve, we¡¯ve found that the elemental magic energy in the air and the elemental magic energy in the Magic Crystal follow a certain rule. If we can use this rule, we can definitely precisely control it¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Sancheli who couldn¡¯t help back his excitement and suppressed the shock in his heart as much as possible.

    This fellow Sancheli really was worthy of being a talented magician who could create his own method of controlling elemental magic energy. Just with the vague concept that he gave himst year, he used a single year to create the basic foundation of this system already.

    It was as Sancheli said, if they could define the rule of change for different elemental magic energy, then it wouldn¡¯t be far for them to control it.

    If they could control elemental magic energy, the very crude and rough magic machine research would be able to enter the new stage and they would be able to study it in even more detail.

    Or to put it in other words, what the magic research facility and the magic machine development center did was just trying to find applications for magic machines, but what Sancheli was doing was researching true magic machine theory.

    Don¡¯t look down on theory research, all practical application was based on basic theory.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could develop all those magic machines because of the basic mechanical engineering theory that Xu Yi had brought from earth, the role that the magic yed was just to provide energy for the machines.

    Until now, the only two things where the magic was more important were the magicmunicationwork and the Magic Illusion Projectors.

    Compared to this, the research that Sancheli was doing was even closer to the essence of magic research than those two things.

    When the Frestech Academy taught normal people magic in the past two years, they mainly used the magic theory that Sancheli had developed.

    With his brand new magic theory, all kinds of magic was no longer mysterious and had be something that could be exined with enough analysis.

    Adding in the improvements that Arch Magus Cami and Xu Yi made, this turned magic into something that even normal people could grasp.

    ¡°Stop!¡± Xu Yi suddenly raised his hand to cut Sancheli off, ¡°Sancheli, do you still remember the magic item you had when we first met? If I remember correctly, you have already utilized the theory that you mentioned earlier on that item, right?¡±

    Sancheli revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman, you still remember. Right, it does indeed use that theory, but I only had a vague concept of this theory then. After studying the magicmunicationwork with Akali untilst year, I was able to restructure this concept and formed aplete conclusion, which is what you are seeing now.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Then based on what you described, can I understand it like this? Un¡­¡­Let¡¯s put it this way. Snacheli, if I were to make you design some equipment that could connect to the Magic Illusion Projector, can you make it so that the Magic Illusion Projector can project one plus one equals two in a single second?¡±

    Sancheli knitted his brows and had a hidden bitterness in his eyes.

    ¡°Sir chairman, aren¡¯t you looking down on me too much? Linking something to the Magic Illusion Projector isn¡¯t hard at all, alright? As for one plus one equals two¡­¡­do you need to disy such simpleputations? The automated magic machine technology that I developed for thepany several years ago already has more technology than this, alright?¡±

    ¡°That is right, one plus one isn¡¯t a problem, but can you do thisputation ten times in a second? A hundred times? A thousand times, ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times, or even more than a million times?¡±

 Volume 7 34 â€“ Dona??t Worry About The Consequences

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 34 - Dona??t Worry About The Consequences</h4>

    Seeing Sancheli lost in thought, Xu Yi stood up with a faint smile and left Sancheli¡¯s personalb.

    The research on elemental magic energy and the microscopics of magic was a very big topic. With the current rough magic theory level of the continent, it was far from being able to reach such a fine tuned degree.

    He requested this research from Sancheli to give him a new direction of study, but he didn¡¯t think that he would have results for a long time.

    On the other hand, Xu Yi wanted to shift the study of magic from ¡°feelings¡± to urate data, to theoretical analysis which wasn¡¯t an easy thing to do.

    It wasn¡¯t enough with Sancheli alone, it would be best if all the magicians on the continent could change their ideas and study this together.

    But that was very difficult.

    The magicians with high achievements on the continent were deeply influenced by this old magic theory system, so it wasn¡¯t easy to change their thoughts.

    Take Arch Magus Cami, even if he had been with Xu Yi over ten years and was always influenced by Xu Yi¡¯s data analysis method, he still had many traditional thoughts about magic. This had affected him quite a big with his high end magic research.

    And Arch Magus y who had joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not long ago, this problem was even more serious with him.

    Arch Magus y had already been with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for close to a year, but he still was adapting. He couldn¡¯t change his thoughts and couldn¡¯t full integrate himself into the research.

    This caused him to spend close to a year to grasp this new method of magic research, he hadn¡¯t even been able to contribute much to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, this couldn¡¯t be rushed.

    Xu Yi was clear that if he really wanted to change the model of magic for the magicians on the continent, it would take the efforts of an entire generation or several generations.

    Whether it was Arch Magus Cami or Arch Magus y, they needed to build their basic theory first.

    The ones that really yed a role would be those children who had joined the magic research facility and had grown up with this new magic theory.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh.

    To get some achievements, it would take at least ten or twenty years.

    When that time came, he would already be an old man¡­¡­

    ¡°Sir chairman, are you worried about the colleagues in the Drow Race Kingdom?¡± A voice suddenly sounded that cut through Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts, ¡°Be assured, the guards are already prepared. As long as you give the order, they can immediately set off.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi came back to his senses and looked at the human Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ vice leader Dulus in front of him. Then he turned to the guards that had assembled at the training base and gave a nod.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had developed during these years and now it was arge army with over twenty thousand troops.

    Adding in the newest high end military magic machines they were equipped with, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were much stronger than any country¡¯s army.

    Although they were only sending three thousand people to the Drow Race Kingdom this time, Xu Yi believed that they could easily aplish this task.

    ¡°Dulus, repeat your mission objective to me again.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Yes! Sir chairman!¡± Dulus gave a bow before standing up straight and loudly saying, ¡°The mission this time is to save themerce¡¯s staff who are trapped in the Drow Race Kingdom, as well as provide support for the staff of otherpanies in the same industry, whileunching an attack on the Drow Race Kingdom to suppress the riots!¡±

    ¡°Very good, you remembered the objective very clearly, but do you know what you need to do?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Dulus was silent for a bit before looking at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, please exin!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a dangerous smile.

    ¡°What you need to do is very simple, while guaranteeing the safety of our people, you will teach those b*stards of the Drow Race Kingdom as much of a lesson as you can! Don¡¯t worry about the consequences, understand?¡±

    Dulus trembled before he revealed an excited look.

    ¡°Sir chairman, can we really not care about the consequences?¡±

    ¡°This is my order, you just have to follow it.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    ¡°Alright! We will listen to sir chairman¡¯s orders!¡± Dulus immediately replied in a loud voice.

    ¡°Good. Since you¡¯re prepared, then set off. The colleagues stranded in the Drow Race Kingdom are waiting for you to save them.¡± Xu Yi patted his shoulder.

    Dulus agreed before turning to give a strong wave to the guards waiting in the field. The three thousand guards in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform all headed into the tenrge transport Magic Airships waiting for them.

    Therge transport Magic Airship was a new kind of Magic Airship developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce three years ago. This Magic Airship was five times bigger than the first generation and had ten times more carrying capacity. Each Magic Airship could transport over twenty tons of cargo and there was more than enough room to spare to carry a hundred guards each.

    Then with the thirty small guard Magic Airships around them, the tenrge transport Magic Airships flew off at the same time, heading off in a eastern direction.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was over four thousand kilometers away from the Drow Race Kingdom, so whether it was bynd or sea, it would take a week to arrive safely.

    So this time Xu Yi had sent half of therge transport Magic Airships that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce owned. He nned on sending the guards to the Drow Race Kingdom through the air as quickly as possible toplete this mission.

    ¡°Sir chairman, do we really not need to care about the consequences?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader Hart came up from behind. Looking at the Magic Airships in the sky turning into ck dots, he had a bit of worry in his eyes, ¡°You should be clear how destructive they are, so if you don¡¯t care about the consequences at all, I¡¯m worried¡­¡­that the results will be very serious.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to him and couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    ¡°Hart, I remember that you used to have the strongest attitude in the entirepany and you even said that you would start a war with the Candra Empire. Why do you now care about the consequences of fighting a single Drow Race Kingdom? This isn¡¯t like you.¡±

    Hart revealed an awkward smile, ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s because ourpany is much bigger than before and I have more people under me, so I¡¯ve be more cautious.¡±

    ¡°No, I can see that you¡¯re older, so you will think more.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I know what you are worried about, you¡¯re worried that these kids will be too brutal in the Drow Race Kingdom. But you need to understand that this time, this is the result that I want to see.¡±

    Hart looked at the fierce look in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes that he wasn¡¯t hiding and after being silent for a bit, he gave a nod.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you want to give these people a warning through this?¡±

    ¡°It can be considered this and it can be considered not.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Those fellows in the Drow Race Kingdom dared to make a move against ourpany, if we don¡¯t give them a deep enough lesson, how can others know not to have ideas towards ourpany? As for the other considerations¡­¡­it can be considered a whip for those hesitant people to make them move faster.¡±

    ¡°A whip?¡± Hart looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    Xu Yi gave augh and didn¡¯t reply.

    After talking about some other arrangements for the guards, Xu Yi left the training field and returned to the main office building.

    When sat down in his office, the door was suddenly pushed open and Ankhto came in with an anxious look.

    ¡°What is it? Why are you so rushed?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Ankhto mmed the documents in his hands on the table in front of Xu Yi and loudly siad, ¡°Sir chairman, those fellows in the Candra Empire are simply going too far!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi picked up the document to look over and found that this was an official report from the Candra Empire¡¯s eastern province¡¯s Governor Manor, ¡°What is it? You¡¯re not satisfied with how the eastern province¡¯s Governor Manor is handling this matter?¡±

    ¡°How could I be!¡± Ankhto raised his voice, ¡°I even suspect that they caused this mess and then they med it on ourpany!¡±

    The incident that the two of them were talking about was naturally the ident caused by the Frestech Brand Magic Fans in the Candra Empire¡¯s eastern province a few days ago.

    After this matter, Ankhto who was the chairman of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had been in contact with the Candra Empire the entire time, taking care of this matter with them.

    He never thought that Ankhto would suddenlye here and propose such a shocking guess.

    However, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised. He looked at the document again and after being silent for a bit, he asked, ¡°Do you have evidence?¡±

    Ankhto¡¯s expression froze and he cursed in a low voice.

    ¡°If I had evidence, I would have gone to them already¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Since you don¡¯t have evidence, you can¡¯t randomly say things like this.¡± Xu Yi warned him with a serious look. Then he picked up the document on the table and gave it to Ankhto, ¡°Moreover, you don¡¯t need to find me for these small matters. You are the household magic machinepany¡¯s chairman, not me. If you need toe to me to solve things like this, what¡¯s the point of having you as the chairman?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡± Ankhto scratched his head and said in a bitter voice, ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m used to listening to your orders¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then you have to get used to taking care of this yourself.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°If you can¡¯t do this, I will consider recing you.¡±

    Ankhto was scared by this and quickly took the documents as he waved his hands, ¡°I will take care of it!¡±

    After carefully receiving the documents, Ankhto looked at Xu Yi and after hesitating a bit, he spoke again.

    ¡°That¡­¡­Sir chairman¡­¡­can I ask you for something?¡±

 Volume 7 35 â€“ Conducting Research Themselves

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 35 - Conducting Research Themselves</h4>

    ¡°Speak if you have words, fa¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi paused and swallowed the words ¡°fart if you have to¡± back into his stomach.

    ¡°That¡­¡­This¡­¡­Sir chairman, can you let the magic research facility open up more technology to us?¡± Ankhto asked.

    ¡°What? You¡¯re feeling the danger?¡± Xu Yi looked at him with a smile.

    Ankhto gave a cough and looked even more awkward.

    After pausing, he gave a sigh before giving an honest nod, ¡°Yes. Sir chairman, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t been surpassed by any otherpanies in terms of technology in all these years, but look at it now. Our household magic machine department has just gone off on our own and three differentpanies surpassed us in terms of technology. I¡­¡­I¡¯m not willing¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So you want to recover your position in terms of technology?¡±

    ¡°Un!¡± Since he had already said it, Ankhto no longer hesitated and gave a strong nod, ¡°Sir chairman, those third gradepanies have just made a few small innovations and they act like they will steamroll our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally I¡¯m very displeased. Moreover, from a realistic perspective, it has also affected the sales of ourpany¡¯s household magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Tell me about it.¡±

    Ankhto was clearly prepared as he took out another document from his chest which he ced in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please take a look. These are the current orders for our household magic machinepany. If wepare it tost year, you can say that it has risen by 17% overall, but if you look carefully, you will find that the increase is lower than previous years. Here is the same time period for this year andst year, you can see thatst year it increased by as high as 31% and this year, it only increased 17%. You can see that there¡¯s a problem no matter how you look at it.¡±

    ¡°So you think that it¡¯s because those threepanies announced their new technology, which affected the sales of ourpany¡¯s household magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­It isn¡¯tpletely this reason, but I feel that it is the most important reason!¡± Ankhto said in a certain voice, ¡°Moreover, what I am most worried about is that this will affect ourpany¡¯s image of always cing technology first. Sir chairman, you¡¯ve always stressed that technology is the most important thing, but if anotherpany surpassed us when ites to technology, how can we still be justified in saying that?¡±

    ¡°So you are nning to steamroll them again to once again prove ourpany¡¯s technological lead?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that natural?¡± Ankhto looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, not understanding what the issue behind Xu Yi¡¯s question was at all, ¡°Sir chairman, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to develop this quickly, isn¡¯t it because of ourpany¡¯s technological lead? If we lost this lead¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If we lose this lead, you think that ourpany won¡¯t be able to keep operating?¡± Xu Yi cut him off.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Ankhto opened his mouth before shaking his head, ¡°No, no, no, I wasn¡¯t thinking this. I just felt that¡­¡­since we¡¯ve always been in the lead in terms of technology, we should keep that lead. So¡­¡­what do you think about letting the magic research facility release some more technology?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply to this and looked at the report for a while before finally saying, ¡°I¡¯ve been paying attention to the new technology developed by those threepanies. To be honest, they aren¡¯t really any technological innovations. The magic research facility has already developed them before, but we just never used them.¡±

    ¡°Then that means¡­¡­¡± Ankhto looked at Xu Yi with a look of hidden bitterness, ¡°Sir chairman, why didn¡¯t you let us use those new technologies? If you were willing to open up more technology to us, it would be impossible for those fellows to catch up and they wouldn¡¯t act so arrogantly in front of me.¡±

    ¡°So arrogantly in front of you?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, finding it a bit funny. Ankhto just went to the Household Magic Machine Technological Exchange Conference that was held in the Lampuri Kingdom twice a yearst week, he was onlyining to him now because he couldn¡¯t take their attitudes anymore.

    ¡°If I told you that I intentionally stopped those technologies from being implemented, other than these technologies taking time to implement, with the most important reason being that I wanted those otherpanies to catch up to us, what would you think?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Ankhto¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°Sir¡­¡­Sir chairman, you¡­¡­didn¡¯t you always say that we need to be in the lead for technology to guarantee the authority of ourpany? Why¡­¡­Why would you deliberately do this?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    The reason for this was for the healthy development of the industry.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always had the technological advantage, creating a gap that was like a natural moat, then it would be arge blow to the otherpany¡¯s enthusiasm in investing. It wouldn¡¯t help the sustained development of the industry at all.

    Xu Yi was clear that with just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, it was impossible to drive the development of the magic machine industry of the continent.

    So all the things he did was in hope that all the people of the continent would join the industry, developing the industry together.

    However, he couldn¡¯t say this to Ankhto. After all, he was the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, from his position, he didn¡¯t need to consider this.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi turned to Cindy who had been on the side the entire time, ¡°Record this, have the magic research facility make a technology grading system and then consult with the household magic machinepany to decide what technology is appropriate to share with them.¡±

    After hearing this, Ankhto¡¯s heart was filled with joy.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I still have an idea that I hope that you can listen to.¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­You see, since our household magic machine department has gone out on their own, it wouldn¡¯t be appropriate to look for help from the magic research facility and the magic machine development center, right?¡±

    ¡°You want to set up your own development department?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes as he asked this.

    Ankhto was surprised before saying with augh, ¡°Sir chairman truly is wise. Yes. I want to set up a research department, one that will focus on developing household magic machines. There are too many things that the magic research facility needs to develop, so it isn¡¯t good to always bother them, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    ¡°You can just say it if you don¡¯t want to be limited by the magic research facility, why are you beating the bush like this? Do you think I would believe you?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort.

    ¡°Ha¡­¡­Sir chairman, I am also considering the future development of the household magic machine department.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Do it if you have the idea. You already have your independence, you don¡¯t need to ask for my opinion.¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­I¡¯m not just asking for your opinion, rather it¡¯s mainly because I was hoping to get your support¡­¡­¡± Ankhto carefully looked at Xu Yi, ¡°If possible, can you assign a few people from the magic research facility to help us?¡±

    Xu Yi immediately felt joy.

    ¡°He, you really do have ideas, you want to dig out the foundations of the magic research facility? Do you know how much effort we had to put in to win over the researchers one by one? Now you want to take them away?¡±

    Ankhto gave augh, but he didn¡¯t back down at all.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯re all part of the samepany, how can you call it digging out the foundations? If our household magic machinepany¡¯s research department develops well, it can share some of the pressures of the magic research facility.¡±

    ¡°You make it sound quite pleasant.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. He leaned back in his chair to think for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, I have to agree that your idea is good. Since you¡¯re willing to take some responsibilities, I will help you. I agree with you forming this research department and will have the magic research facility provide some help, but as for how much, that will depend on how you convince chief Evita.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Ankhto excitedly jumped out of his chair and gave a strong pat to his chest, ¡°Sir chairman, please be assured, I will definitely run this department with all my power. We won¡¯t need to rely on the magic research facility, we will even be able to help the magic research facility in the future!¡±

    ¡°Good.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a smile. He thought that Ankhto really was smart enough, understanding what he thought was important.

    After watching Ankhto leave the office, Cindy suddenly gave an emotional sigh.

    ¡°I feel more and more that it was natural that us elves lost to the humans during the race wars.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Why do you suddenly say this?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Because there has never been a vibrant and creative person like him among our race, one that will bravely put his requests to his superior. It could even be considered¡­¡­a bit shameless and impudent.¡±

    ¡°Impudent and shameless?¡± Xu Yi looked at where Ankhto was sitting and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    If Ankhto knew that Cindy had just called him ¡°shameless¡±, it would be hard to know what he would think.

    ¡°We elves are too conservative, we like to follow a pattern when doing things and very few of our nsmen will have their own ideas. It¡¯spletely different from humans, they all have their own thoughts and creativity, this allows the humans to develop very quickly. Even if we had won the race wars three thousand years ago, we would have definitely lost afterwards.¡± Cindy continued to give her emotional sighs, ¡°I never felt this before leaving the tribe, but after working with sir chairman for a while now, this feeling has be deeper and deeper.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°This problem isn¡¯t just with you elves, it¡¯s the same with us humans. If there is a day where us humans lose our spirit of exploration and innovation, we will also have to wait to be eliminated.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Cindy gave a nod.

    Xu Yi looked at the closed office door and thought about everything that happened today before suddenly revealing a bitter smile.

    ¡°But Cindy, there are times where excessive energy and creativity will not bring along good things¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 36 â€“ Hell On Earth

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 36 - Hell On Earth</h4>

    There were sharp screams that came through the wooden nks and entered the dark basement, entering Balk¡¯s ears that made him unable to stop his trembling. The sleepiness that he felt suddenly disappeared as he became tense.

    He turned to the side to find that his youngest daughter Huica was still asleep, not being woken up by these screams and he let out a sigh of relief.

    However, seeing the dark bloodstain that still didn¡¯t fade from Huica¡¯s face, his expression couldn¡¯t help bing much darker again.

    These riots had alreadysted for five days.

    When he knew that something was off four days ago, Balk had carried his two year old daughter Huica to hide in this hidden basement and they hadn¡¯t stepped out in thest four days.

    He knew that the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s capital Drow City had fallen into chaos. The damn Drow Race were hunting down all foreigners, so if they were caught by them, he and Huica wouldn¡¯t be able to escape a pitiful end.

    But¡­¡­was there a use in hiding here?

    The preserved goods in this hidden basement wouldn¡¯tst long and the most important thing was that there was no medicine here.

    Huica had been showing signs of having a cold yesterday and now she had a fever. Although this let her fall asleep, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about her making noises that would attract the Drow Race outside, she was still only a two year old child in the end. If she didn¡¯t get treated, she couldn¡¯tst any longer.

    Balk put his hand to Huica¡¯s forehead and feeling the heat there, he secretly made a decision.

    No matter what, he had to think of a way to go out today.

    Other than getting some medicine to treat Huica, he had to verify what was going on outside and find a way out of this hell.

    Although Balk was clear that now that even the capital Drow City had fallen into chaos like this, then the situation outside of Drow City wouldn¡¯t be any better.

    The entire Drow Race Kingdom for an outside like him would be like hell.

    He was only a normal person and carrying a two year old child to escape the Drow Race Kingdom that wasn¡¯t small would be an impossible mission.

    However, he didn¡¯t have a choice.

    Compared to staying here waiting for death, he had to make a bet.

    Balk took the only bottle of clean water left and carefully used a small cup to feed Huica a few mouthfuls. Then after thinking about it, he took the remaining food and swallowed it with the remaining clean water.

    The stench that came through the floorboards and the musky odor of the basementbined which created a scent that made one want to vomit. The things in his hands had already turned hard and didn¡¯t have the taste of food at all.

    However, he still ate it inrge mouthfuls, doing his best to stuff them into his stomach.

    He knew that he had to have enough strength for this task that he was about to take.

    While eating to build up strength, Balk also looked at the light that came through the floorboards above him.

    When this light gradually dimmed before fading, Balk took a deep breath. He gave Huica a few mouthfuls of water and after confirming that she wasn¡¯t in danger even though she was unconscious, he focused his mind and moved towards the exit.

    After listening for a bit and confirming that there was nothing outside, Balk silently pushed open the floorboards.

    The moonlight filled the room and Balk narrowed his eyes as he looked around. The first thing that he saw was a pure white body.

    This body that had lost all signs of life was Balk¡¯s wife.

    Four days ago, when the Drow Race hoodlums came into Balk¡¯s home, although Balk saw that the situation was bad and carried Huica into the basement ahead of time, because of something that happened, his wife and his eldest son Roman had fallen into their hands.

    Balk¡¯s wife was r*ped by the hoodlums before being killed. His son Roman was also killed by them.

    Looking at Roman¡¯s iplete corpse that he couldn¡¯t recognize near his wife¡¯s corpse, Balk¡¯s dead heart couldn¡¯t help trembling.

    If it was possible, when he heard the screams of his wife and son four days ago, he would have already charged out to go all out with those thugs.

    But for Huica, he had endured it.

    He didn¡¯t know how he had survived these days. If it wasn¡¯t for Huica, he would have already copsed.

    However, right now even Huica was in danger, which forced this man who his wife scolded for being weak into taking this risk.

    After taking a deep look at his wife and his son¡¯s corpse, Balk didn¡¯t touch them as he carefully went over to the firece and took the ash from it to put on his face and hair.

    He was someone from the Lampuri Kingdom and was born with naturally red hair. The people of the Drow Race had natural gray hair, so if he went out, he would be easily recognized.

    After carefully putting on his camouge, Balk looked down at himself. After confirming that he didn¡¯t smell too much, he looked outside before silently heading out the door.

    It was already the middle of the night, so there was already no one on this remote street.

    But he could still see the mes in the sky in the distance and he could hear the wildughter and screams from time to time.

    It was clear that the Drow Race thugs were stillmitting murder and having fun.

    Balk didn¡¯t know how many outsiders like him were in Drow City, but he was certain that there weren¡¯t many that had lived through these riots.

    The medicine shop was on the other end of the street, so Balk had to go down the entire street.

    It was a good thing that this was a remote street and no one was there, so Balk was able to safely make it to the medicine shop.

    This medicine shop was opened by someone who also came from the Lampuri Kingdom. Because they had the special medicine provided by the Moon Shadow Tribe, which was very effective, their business had always been good.

    However, this shop had clearly been ransacked. Not only was the door blown away, the inside was aplete mess.

    With the moonlight and his memories, Balk was finally able to find some herbs in a medical kit in the corner of the store.

    He was very happy at this time that he picked up some basic knowledge from chatting with the owner of this store, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t know what to do with the herbs in front of him.

    After obtaining the medicine, Balk didn¡¯t immediately go back home. Rather he left this street and began exploring outside.

    He had another mission which was to find out the situation in the city to prepare to leave Drow City.

    Balk¡¯s home was in the western part of Drow City and was only three blocks from Drow City¡¯s west gate. It wasn¡¯t considered far, but it couldn¡¯t be considered close.

    The most important thing was the road that led to the west gate, it wouldn¡¯t be as remote as the street that he was currently on.

    As expected, after Balk went down another two streets and came to the main street, he bumped into a group of Drow Race nsmen.

    Balk¡¯s heart was tense and he tried to stay as calm as possible as he moved forward.

    ¡°Hey, brother, it¡¯s thiste, where did you juste from?¡±

    The group looked at Balk and a young man loudly greeted him.

    From the bottles that they had and the scent of alcohol, he could see that these fellows had clearly been drinking.

    Balk replied with a forced smile and saw the things that two of the Drow Race nsmen were holding, causing his eyes to open wide and he couldn¡¯t say anything else.

    The two Drow Race nsmen were holding round things and when he looked carefully, he saw that it was two heads!

    With the me on the street and the moonlight, Balk could see the expression on their faces and he felt his stomach churn, almost vomiting the food that he had just forced himself to eat.

    Seeing the ugly look on Balk¡¯s face, the one who greeted him patted him on the shoulder and loudly said, ¡°Hey, brother, do you still have something you¡¯re unhappy about? Rx, if you¡¯re unhappy, we¡¯ll go find another outside to make you happy. Brothers, do you all agree?¡±

    ¡°Alright!¡±

    The Drow Race nsmen behind them loudly cheered out.

    Balk forced down the urge to throw his fist in this person¡¯s face and said with a smile, ¡°There¡¯s nothing I¡¯m unhappy about, I was just about to¡­¡­¡±

    Before he finished, two Drow Race nsmen came over and one of them raised arge cask of wine to his mouth. He shouted in a stuttering voice, ¡°No matter what the unhappiness, it¡¯ll be better with wine. This is fine wine from the dwarves, it¡¯s beautiful.¡±

    How could Balk dare to drink at this time? He quickly dodged out of the way.

    But the drunk wouldn¡¯t let someone refuse his drink. He had two other Drow Race nsmen hold Balk down as he brought the cask to his mouth to force Balk to drink.

    Balk turned his head and hit the arm of that Drow Race nsman, causing the cask in his hand to fly away and wine spilled all over.

    That Drow Race nsman wasn¡¯t angry, rather he broke out inughter.

    ¡°Good, brother, so you¡¯re this wild in drinking your wine! I like it! Come,e, let¡¯s do this again¡­¡­¡±

    But then his voice suddenly stopped and he pointed a finger at Balk in shock.

    Balk was stunned and noticed that there was a cold feeling from his head. His heart was shocked and he roared out deep down that this was bad.

    ¡°He has red hair! He¡¯s not one of us! He¡¯s an outsider from the west!¡± The one who was forcing Balk to drink suddenly shouted out.

    Balk no longer had any scruples and used all his strength to break free of the two Drow Race that were holding him. Then he kicked out at the stomach of the Drow Race that called out before turning to run.

    The Drow Race nsmen reacted after being stunned and they all chased after him while shouting.

    Balk knew that it was impossible to escape on the main street, so he turned to go down a side street.

    But as soon as he turned the corner, he saw another group of Drow Race nsmening at him.

    Balk¡¯s heart turned cold.

    This was the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s capital and the Drow Race were all over the city, him as an outsider could only face them alone.

    But how could he face them alone when he faced countless enemies?

    Seeing the Drow Race nsmening from behind, Balk felt like he was in an abyss as deep despair welled up.

    Could it be that he couldn¡¯t find a way to escape this hell on earth with Huica?

    But at this time, there was a strange howl that came from the sky before a pir of mesnded in the Drow Race nsmen ahead of him.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With a powerful explosion, that group of Drow Race nsmen in front of him were sted away.

 Volume 7 37 â€“ The Drow Race Kingdom Is Doomed

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 37 - The Drow Race Kingdom Is Doomed</h4>

    The Sines Continent was a half ve half feudal society, so there was no doubt that it would be more backwardspared to earth.

    At the same time, the Sines Continent didn¡¯t just have multiple ethnicities, there were also many races that lived with each other.

    Other than the humans, there were the elves, the dwarves, the beastmen, as well as the halflings that had already disappeared in legend.

    There were many civilized races and they could be consideredpletely different creatures, so it was natural that there would be conflict between them.

    Because of the difference in species, in the long history of the Sines Continent, many terrifying things had happened before.

    For example, two thousand years ago, during the struggle between the beastmen and the humans, it wasn¡¯t strange for entire tribes to be eliminated.

    Even putting aside battles between different races, even the battle between human races had quite a few ughters.

    It could even be said that the history of humans on the Sines Continent was one filled with blood.

    So like this, the Drow Race Kingdom suddenly targeting outsiders, especially those from the southwest countries wasn¡¯t considered that shocking for many people.

    Compared to the cruel things that had happened in the past, this wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    However, the things of history have already faded away with time. Moreover, it had been a rare peaceful period on the Sines Continent over the past decades, so there were few things like this that had happened. There were even fewer people who had seen such a brutal thing before.

    So when the newspapers of the various countries reported on the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom, many people were shocked by the cruel scenes described in the Drow Race Kingdom.

    Especially after the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had used theirrge scale Magic Illusion Projectors to disy these scenes in the various cities. The people who saw these cruel scenes all felt anger in their hearts.

    Whether it was the female corpses that had been strewn naked in the streets after being vited, the decapitated corpses where one couldn¡¯t even see an inch of skin, or the corpses of young children that had been ced atop the pile of corpses, it was enough to show how crazy and cruel these riots had been.

    The Drow Race people were actually this crazy!

    So with the entire Sines Continent shocked, almost all countries had the same stance, strongly denouncing and showing outrage over the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom.

    The newspapers also appealed that they must meddle to stop the riots. Even countless citizens in many countries grouped together, carrying out demonstrations to show their anger.

    Suddenly the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom had caught the attention of the entire continent.

    The key thing was how to solve these riots and save the ¡®outsiders¡¯ who had been caught up in them.

    The Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the other countries whose citizens had been caught up in these riots made their stances clear. They would do their best to save their citizens in the Drow Race Kingdom, striving to reduce their losses.

    But speaking of influences that made their stances clear, the one that everyone paid attention to was without a doubt the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ording to the major newspapers, the one that had suffered the biggest losses was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the Drow Race Kingdom.

    It was said that the losses they suffered from the riot wasn¡¯t just from the factories, but rather many Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff had been killed and had been killed in a very cruel manner.

    Countless people wanted to know how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would react.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t disappoint people.

    The day after therge scale Magic Illusion Projectors showed the scenes of the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi made a statement on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In that statement, Xu Yi stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards the moment they received the news of the riots, they will be aiding all the ¡®outsiders¡¯ who have been trapped in the Drow Race Kingdom because of the riots.

    The ones that they are helping at nor just the staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but all the ¡®outsiders¡¯ that were suffering.

    This statement was instantly met with praise.

    Almost all the newspapers stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, but they were willing to take this risk that normal people weren¡¯t willing to take. They really were apany with a strong sense of responsibility and kindness, which the otherpanies of the continent could learn from.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t just state this.

    He also stated that after the staff trapped by the riots were saved, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would investigate the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s riots this time.

    The Drow Race Kingdom had done such a wild and shocking thing, so they must pay the price!

    If it was any otherpany¡¯s chairman who made this statement, they would definitely be mocked without any hesitation.

    Because in the end, apany was only apany and it was apletely different thing from a country.

    The riots in the Drow Race Kingdom had not just been approved by the government, it had also been secretly fueled by them.

    If they were to investigate them, they would mean facing off against the Drow Race Kingdom.

    Apany facing a country, they would definitely be overestimating themselves in a normal situation.

    However¡­¡­the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t normal.

    After Xu Yi made his statement, everyone had confirmed one thing in their hearts.

    The Drow Race Kingdom was doomed.

    What happened next was what everyone had expected.

    On fourteenth of June, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had entered the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s capital Drow City through their Magic Airships.

    In just two days, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards hadpletely controlled Drow City.

    During this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had killed over two thousand thugs. There was one time where the thugs had grouped up to attack them, but it was reported that over five hundred thugs were easily dealt with by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    Five dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards shed with the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s royal guards. In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guardspletely exterminated the royal guards, seizing control of the royal pce and King Wacker.

    Then in the following ten days, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that had controlled Drow City began fighting the reinforcements that came from the other parts of the Drow Race Kingdom. There were a total of seven battles and they had annihted twenty thousand troops from the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s army and from the nobles¡¯ private armies.

    Twenty dayster, the allied forces of eight thousand people from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Drake Duchy, as well as two thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards from the Wales Duchy to the south went through the borders of three countries to enter the Drow Race Kingdom.

    A monthter, King Wacker announced on behalf of the Drow Race Kingdom that they would give up resisting and officially surrendered.

    From when the first batch of guards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce entering the Drow Race Kingdom to when King Wacker announced their surrender, it had only taken a single month.

    During this month, the only ones that had shown their might was the first batch of three thousand guards sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the allied forces and the two thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that came after, they just came to stabilize the situation and didn¡¯t officially fight.

    When King Wacker announced his surrender, no one on the Sines Continent was surprised.

    Six years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had easily defeated the Mana Magic Kingdom, even causing Arch Magus Levin Hasko to fall after he attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The Drow Race Kingdom that was considered average on the continent, how could they withstand the attack of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    In the reports of all the major newspapers of this matter, they didn¡¯t describe the results of this battle because everyone was certain that it would be aplete victory for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone was more interested in what kind of shocking military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made after five years of development.

    They wanted to see if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that defeated the Mana Magic Kingdom and killed an Arch Magus six years ago would be even more terrifying after five years of development.

    So everyone cared about the report on the fight between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s army, to see if there was anything new.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t disappoint them. Not only did they allow the reporters from the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, and the other major newspapers to follow them, they had even recorded their battles with the Magic Illusion technology and then they had broadcasted it on therge Magic Illusion Projectors installed in many cities.

    Through these illusions, people realized that the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was much strongerpared to six years ago.

    First, the first batch of three thousand guards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used the Magic Airships to traverse the four thousand kilometers between the Stantine Duchy and the Drow Race Kingdom. They had used only two days to arrive in the skies above Drow City.

    This terrifying speed was something that the other countries of the continent didn¡¯t dare imagine.

    The reason for this were the ten new giant Magic Airships that were several times bigger than the normal Magic Airship.

 Volume 7 38 â€“ On The Same Level As The Two Empires

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 38 ¨C On The Same Level As The Two Empires</h4>

    ording to the information the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released, these giant Magic Airships were the rumouredrge transport Magic Airships. It was said that it had a carrying capacity equal to the two tonrge transport Magic Car.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that as they developed it more, the carrying capacity of this transport Magic Airship would continue to increase.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards also took out many new looking very small military magic machines.

    Although these magic machines looked very small and were suited for personal use, their might wasn¡¯t small.

    Based on the recorded images of the battle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had shown no mercy in suppressing the rioters. They used these military magic machines that looked like long tubes in their hands on the rioters and they fell dead from the mes that came out of them, unable to resist at all.

    There were even some rioters that had all their limbs broken by this strange looking military magic machine, so it could be seen how strong it was.

    In theter battle between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s army reinforcements, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had shown even more terrifying battle strength.

    In these battles, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t have a single guard enter the battle, they just sent out the Magic Airships to wildly bombard the enemies that came. Whether it was the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s army or the army of the nobles, they couldn¡¯t evene close before copsing.

    Although this entire warsted a month, from beginning to end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ casualty¡­..was zero!

    When the real time and final battle report came, even if many people were already prepared mentally, they were still shocked.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much stronger than six years ago and they were stronger than everyone imagined!

    It had to be known that the Drow Race Kingdom was one of the kingdoms that received the third grade magic machine industry grading from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They had received some military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which had given them quite good battle strengthpared to the other countries.

    However, when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it was like an unarmed child facing a fully armed adult, they couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    So everyone was certain that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had their current strength six years ago, the Mana Magic Empire would have stood even less of a chance against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Arch Magus Levin Hasko might not have even dared to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­

    Although many people were focused on the strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, they still had to handle the Drow Race Kingdom.

    King Wacker had announced their official surrender and had abdicated after this announcement. They were brought back by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards on the crime of ¡°instructing and epting the riots¡± to the Stantine Duchy. They would be put under public trial in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the other countries.

    At the same time, the previous king¡¯s son, who was also King Wacker¡¯s nephew, prince Philip who was four years old took the throne and became the new king of the Drow Race Kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce also set up a base in the Drow Race Kingdom where they stationed three thousand guards, which would be considered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foothold in the Drow Race Kingdom.

    In the public announcement, it was said that this base would be used to ensure the safety and smooth operation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories in the Drow Race Kingdom, but everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was setting up a nail in the Drow Race Kingdom. It was most likely that they would control the Drow Race Kingdom in the future.

    But all the newspapers of the continent remained silent towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which also meant that none of the countries had any objections.

    Even the two empires didn¡¯t raise any objections. The Candra Empire even supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in doing this, while also stating that they would be setting up military bases in countries where the situation allowed them to do so, ensuring the safety of that country¡¯s citizens.

    Although the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t do the same, they also expressed support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this. They even stated that they would be willing to deepen their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping that they could be strategic partners.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s statement stunned the continent.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their cooperation n, although countless countries looked to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the chance to cooperate, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire had some cooperations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they never talked about bing strategic partners.

    Everyone spected that with the status of the two empires, they weren¡¯t willing to cooperate as equals with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was only apany.

    But now that the Marlow Empire made this request and changed their attitude, naturally it wasn¡¯t a small shock.

    Because like this, it meant that the Marlow Empire was finally treating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as an equal, someone they could cooperate with.

    If one expanded on this, they would notice a terrifying fact.

    On the current Sines Continent, other than the two empires, there were no other countries that dared to go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Because the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Drow Race Kingdom that had gone against them had been taught a painful lesson.

    Even the Marlow Empire acknowledged the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as apany had the same standing as the two empires?

    This was apany!

    But thinking about it, everyone thought that it wasn¡¯t right.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was indeed only apany, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different from any otherpany on the Sines Continent, even different from any otherpany in history.

    Because before this, there wasn¡¯t a singlepany that had such a shocking and terrifying military force.

    In front of the powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, even the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s army which was considered the third strongest army had copsed at the first sh.

    Although the two empires hadn¡¯t officially fought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, no one doubted that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would win.

    The reason was very simple, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the powerful military magic machines that far surpassed people¡¯s imaginations.

    These powerful military magic machines could even kill an Arch Magus!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had absolute military power and powerful finances, controlling the magic machine industry that was the most promising that no country could reject. The number of magicians that they had wasn¡¯t even inferior to the two empires.

    With all of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could naturallypare to the two empires, or even surpass them.

    There were many people who thought that the only thing stopping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from ruling the continent was time, as well as¡­¡­Xu Yi¡¯s strange thoughts¡­¡­

    ###

    ¡°So I said it before, those fellows are a bunch of boneheads.¡± Xu Yi looked at the several official documents and invitations in his hand before slowly shaking his head, ¡°I told them all those times the benefits of developing their magic machine industry, but they wouldn¡¯t believe me. Now that we¡¯ve taught the Drow Race Kingdom a lesson, those fellows areing on their own.¡±

    Kennard on the side gave augh, ¡°Sir chairman, wasn¡¯t this what you were expecting in the beginning?¡±

    ¡°Un, I expected that teaching the Drow Race Kingdom a lesson would make those fellows straighten out, but I never thought¡­¡­Even the two prideful fellows, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire would also bow their heads.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°Especially the Candra Empire. I thought that they would have the arrogance of an ancient empire and never give up.¡±

    ¡°Although they are prideful, they aren¡¯t stupid.¡± Kennard said with a faint smile, ¡°When the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t lower themselves, they could still keep going. However, now that even the Marlow Empire have lowered themselves, they can¡¯t keep being stubborn.¡±

    ¡°Hei, in the end, the Marlow Empire has a better analysispared to the Candra Empire.¡± Xu Yi threw away all the official documents and invitations in his hand before saying to Kennard, ¡°I won¡¯t see those fellows. Just schedule a time to bring all the ambassadors of those countries together and we¡¯ll talk to them all.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Kennard nodded in response.

    Since he took the position of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO, Xu Yi had never taken care of any business like this.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reorganized itself, separating the departments into variouspanies, Xu Yi just waved his arms like the boss and didn¡¯t care about anything. He just put all his time and effort into the few things he was interested in.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards taking care of the Drow Race Kingdom was one of the rare things where Xu Yi had participated the entire way.

    Thinking of Xu Yi¡¯s ugly expression when he heard about the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom, Kennard couldn¡¯t help looking at Xu Yi with a doubtful look.

    Although he had been very angry when he had seen those brutal things, his reaction hadn¡¯t been as intense as Xu Yi¡¯s.

    When the high level members discussed how to handle this matter, Xu Yi even wanted to send out the entire guards to level the Drow Race Kingdom which had shocked all the high level members.

    In the many years that Kennard had known Xu Yi, this was his first time seeing Xu Yi being this angry.

    He believed that if it wasn¡¯t for the other high level members working together to dissuade him, Xu Yi might have really done this.

    Thinking of this, Kennard suddenly had an idea.

 Volume 7 39 â€“ How About Destroying The Drow Race?

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 39 - How About Destroying The Drow Race?</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, how do you n on taking care of the Drow Race Kingdom in the future?¡± Kennard asked.

    ¡°Drow Race Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and twisted his head, trying to throw out those terrifying scenes from his mind.

    Before this, although he lived for more than ten years on the continent, when he met others, he would always have the mentality of an observer and would rarely invest himself into things.

    However, when he witnessed the cruel scenes from the riots in the Drow Race Kingdom, it was his first time feeling true hatred in his heart.

    If it was from his own personal feelings, he would want topletely eliminate the Drow Race.

    However, his ration told him that even if there were countless Drow Race that participated in the riots, that didn¡¯t mean that all the Drow Race were evil.

    From an objective angle, if he destroyed the entire Drow Race because of this, he was no different from the Drow Race that participated in the riots.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi replied, ¡°Right now thepany¡¯s guards are in the Drow Race Kingdom, so as long as we tighten our control over the Drow Race Kingdom, those despicable Drow Race won¡¯t be able to cause any trouble in the future.¡±

    ¡°So my question is¡­¡­¡± Kennard revealed a bit of a dangerous look in his eyes, ¡°Sir chairman, how do you want to tighten our control over the Drow Race Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. He looked into Kennard¡¯s deep gaze and asked, ¡°What do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Drow Race Kingdom is over four thousand kilometers away from ourpany¡¯s main base. Even with the Magic Airships, it would take two days to arrive. With such a distance, it would be hard for us to rely on just three thousand guards topletely control the Drow Race Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°So?¡±

    ¡°So I think¡­..how about we do it more thoroughly?¡±

    ¡°Oh? What do you consider thorough?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard with an interested look.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was interested, Kennard focused his mind. He stood up to walk over to the map of the Sines Continent on the wall and pped his hand on where the Drow Race Kingdom was on the map.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look, the Drow Race Kingdom has the Candra Empire to the west and several other countries to the east, then only a thousand kilometers to the south is the endless sea. It can be said to be in the most prime position on the continent¡¯s north. If ourpany¡¯s products want to go to the eastern or northeastern part of the continent, we have to go through the Drow Race Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Un, I know this, so I directly send thepany guards into the Drow Race Kingdom. It¡¯s to make it easier for ourpany to operate in the future.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod.

    ¡°Sir chairman is taking the long range approach, so you can see the importance of the Drow Race Kingdom, but I feel¡­..that this isn¡¯t enough.¡± Kennard said with a serious look.

    ¡°Tell me, what isn¡¯t enough?¡±

    ¡°You should know that the Drow Race Kingdom is a nation filled with the Drow Race. This country has the greatest cohesive force of all the countries, so they are the most dangerous. Although we can use military force to stop the resistance of the Drow Race, I¡¯m certain that one we rx, they will sh with the outsiders in the Drow Race Kingdom again. Ourpany¡¯s guards will be their prime targets.¡±

    ¡°Your worry is correct and this is what I¡¯m always worried about.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°If it¡¯s just three thousand guards, it isn¡¯t a problem to control the base or even a region, but it¡¯s a bit difficult topletely control the Drow Race Kingdom. But ourpany¡¯s guards only have twenty thousand people, so we can¡¯t send all those people there.¡±

    ¡°So we should do this more thoroughly. Since it¡¯s impossible topletely control the Drow Race, then we should just exterminate them so we don¡¯t need to worry about this in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise before knitting his brows, ¡°I thought that you would give some constructive feedback. It isn¡¯t difficult for us to exterminate the Drow Race, but we can¡¯t take the consequences of this. Exterminating their race will have a serious impact on anyone¡¯s fame, not to mention apany like us that everyone pays attention to.¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, sir chairman, you¡¯ve misunderstood. I said exterminate the Drow Race, but that doesn¡¯t mean exterminate their bodies, rather exterminate them mentally.¡±

    ¡°Exterminate them mentally?¡± Xu Yi looked at Kennard with a confused look, ¡°How will you do this?¡±

    ¡°The cohesiveness of the Drow Race causes them to be against foreigners, but the main reason for this is because the Drow Race has always lived in the Drow Race Kingdom and has not gone anywhere else. If we can spread them out, their cohesiveness will naturally weaken. If we can increase the number of outsiders in the Drow Race Kingdom, in the long run, there will be less and less Drow Race in the kingdom, so there wouldn¡¯t be this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Kennard who was speaking in such eloquent words and he couldn¡¯t helpughing deep down.

    He had to admit that Kennard¡¯s idea was very creative, but the feasibility of this was zero.

    If one wanted to split up a nation¡¯s citizens on earth, there had been many simr cases of spreading out the citizens. However, each case hade with a bitter price and the results had always been a mess.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t dare say that he knew everything about the humans on the Sines Continent, based on the history of earth, it was almost impossible to solve the problem of the Drow Race with Kennard¡¯s method.

    Of course, he wouldn¡¯t directly tell him what he thought. After thinking for a bit, he gave a nod to Kennard, ¡°You can try this, but I have to remind you that this will take a lot of time and effort. Are you certain you want to do this?¡±

    Kennard thought about it and didn¡¯t reply right away, rather he asked, ¡°Then sir chairman, there¡¯s still another easier method. We can directly destroy the Drow Race Kingdom and integrate it under the name of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the ray of hope in Kennard¡¯s eyes and was silent.

    This was not his first time hearing this proposition.

    During this time, there were many high level members that had mentioned this to Xu Yi when discussing the Drow Race Kingdom riots. Arch Magus Cami had even said ¡°might as well make that country disappear¡±.

    He had to admit that this proposition was feasible and enticing.

    For the people of the Sines Continent, in wars between countries, it wasn¡¯t strange for entire countries to be exterminated.

    In the several hundred years of expansion for the two empires, they had destroyed countless small kingdoms.

    In the tradition of the Sines Continent, the powerful people were the kings and the people that were killed by the powerful just didn¡¯t have the ability to keep themselves alive, they couldn¡¯tin to anyone.

    If one sent out troops to destroy an entire country on the Sines Continent, they wouldn¡¯t be criticized and be under social pressure like on earth, rather people would be in awe of your strength.

    In this kind of space, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany and couldn¡¯t be considered a country, as long as they were capable of destroying the Drow Race Kingdom, no one on the continent would say a thing.

    Not to mention that in terms of public opinion, the newspapers and the most effective Magic Illusion Projectors were mainly controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there was no need to worry.

    Even Xu Yi himself had considered this method before because it really was the most simple and crude method.

    However, this was an issue that was hard to solve that made Xu Yi unable to use this method.

    Right now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany and not a country.

    The biggest difference between apany and a country was that apany could freely operate and didn¡¯t need to care about other things.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was countless times bigger than before, having close to two hundred thousand staff, with branch offices in all the countries on the continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needed to care about the matters of their ownpany.

    Compared to a country that needed to care about the economy, people, politics,nd, and defense of a country, apany needed to care about much less.

    Even the smallest Stantine Duchy, the parliament had to handle many things that were veryplicated.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s resources, it wasn¡¯t even enough to develop a Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there was no need to mention a country.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had his own understanding.

    It was already hard enough for him to manage apany and he gave most of the administration to Kennard to take care of. If he were to be the head of country, it would be good enough if he didn¡¯t be a foolish leader.

    Then again, he wasn¡¯t interested.

    He had loved machines since he was young and had been a mechanical engineer in his past life, so his biggest interest was studying machines.

    After transmigrating, his dream was to integrate magic which didn¡¯t exist on earth into everything, creating a perfect magic machine industry on the continent.

    The reason he developed the military magic machines was to give some backing to realize his dream.

    It wasn¡¯t hard to destroy the Drow Race Kingdom with the powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but to manage them after destroying them, that was the biggest problem.

    After Xu Yi considered all of this, he turned to shake his head at Kennard, ¡°It¡¯s too troublesome to directly destroy the Drow Race Kingdom. If you¡¯re willing to spend this much energy, I can give you some limited resources from thepany to let you take care of your first idea.¡±

    Kennard revealed a smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, as I expected, you really chose this.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile which could be considered silent acknowledgement.

 Volume 7 40 â€“ Different Ideas

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 40 - Different Ideas</h4>

    Watching the door to his office slowly close, Xu Yi tapped a finger from his right hand on the table. While tapping on the table, he slightly knitted his brows as he fell into deep thought.

    He had known Kennard for over twelve years, Kennard had worked as his subordinate for twelve full years now.

    In these twelve years, Kennard had always been an outstanding CEO for thepany. He took care of all the administration and external affairs for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It had to be said, Kennard really was worthy of the sessor trained by the Emma Family. With such strong abilities, he was very suited for a management position. In the twelve years that he had managed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had saved Xu Yi quite a bit of time and effort.

    If possible, Xu Yi hoped that he could keep working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce until he died of old age.

    But from Kennard¡¯s words just now, Xu Yi smelled something unnatural.

    It was ambition.

    Yes, ambition.

    In the twelve years Kennard had been working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had always followed Xu Yi¡¯s development n for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, never going his own way.

    However, his proposition today had finally revealed his ambition.

    Or it could be said that it represented the ambition of many people in thepany.

    Xu Yi was always willing to operate the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as just apany, developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this.

    But Kennard and many high level members didn¡¯t think the same.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still small and not strong, they couldn¡¯t have this ambition.

    But six years after the war with the Mana Magic Kingdom and after the sh with the Drow Race Kingdom this year, everyone had noticed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be incredibly strong. Even the two empires had to be worried about them.

    This made people¡¯s thoughts change, which included Kennard.

    Kennard¡¯s second proposal of ¡®directly destroying the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯, even if he had said it in a different tone, Xu Yi could tell that these were his real thoughts.

    Different from the Stantine Duchy, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really sent out their troops to destroy the Drow Race Kingdom, ording to the tradition of the continent, all the countries on the continent would silent approve of the Drow Race Kingdom entering under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce name with their current power.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t doubt this and didn¡¯t doubt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had the ability to do this.

    But if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really took the Drow Race Kingdom under them, then it would be impossible for it to be like the Stantine Duchy. They wouldn¡¯t be able to just secretly control the congress and would have to form a controlling organization that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If they really did this, the nature of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would change. It would change from apany to a country.

    This was without a doubt arge change, but this was what the CEO Kennard and the high level members wanted to see.

    After all, for the people of the continent, especially those nobles affected by tradition, they regarded control ofnd to be very important.

    To them, no matter how much power merchants had, they couldn¡¯t control anynd, so they were below nobles in status.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could officially control the Drow Race Kingdom, then this would be arge leap for Kennard.

    This was something that in the years of working together, Kennard had hinted at to Xu Yi more than once.

    But this time, he was very open with it.

    It could be said that this was a probe into what Xu Yi was thinking.

    If Xu Yi was willing, then with the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t hard for them to destroy the Drow Race Kingdom and bring them under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Once this goal was aplished, Xu Yi could imagine that the path of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would go further and further, bing the path of dominating the entire continent.

    When that timees, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have a choice even if he wasn¡¯t willing.

    ¡°But I¡¯m not willing right now¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    At this time, he really wished that he was the kind of main character that would want to dominate the world after transmigrating, but he knew that this wasn¡¯t his type and he really wasn¡¯t interested in doing this.

    If he forced himself, he might not get any good results.

    Moreover, establishing a kingdom and trying to take over the continent sounded simple, but it was very hard.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t interested and didn¡¯t have the time.

    So for the ambition that Kennard and quite a few of the high level members had, Xu Yi could only apologize.

    ¡°Perhaps Kennard will regret that he followed the wrong person in the future?¡± Xu Yi gave a smile of self ridicule. After thinking for a bit, he stood up to leave the office.

    After leaving the main office building, Xu Yi drove his Magic Sedan down to the seashore.

    It was already mid August and was the hottest time of the year.

    With the bright sun above him, it was very hot and dry inside the Magic Sedan.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t turn on the car¡¯s Magic Air Conditioner and opened the windows as he drove at high speeds. Feeling the hot wind hitting him, he quickly drove by the sea.

    It didn¡¯t take long before he arrived under the observation deck that was set up by the cliff.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re here again.¡±

    There was a clear voice that came from above him.

    Xu Yi looked up at the young man wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce uniform looking down from above and waved his hand with a smile. Then using his magic, he flew right up.

    ¡°Bensack, how is it? Has there been any noisetely?¡± Xu Yi came up to the observation post by the sea while asking the young man this.

    ¡°There¡¯s no noise at all.¡± The young man named Bensack shook his head, ¡°If there really was anything, I would have contacted you immediately.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded, neither agreeing or disagreeing.

    Coming up to the observation post, Xu Yi looked at the distant sea with the telescope that was specially set up here. He found that because it was the afternoon, there was a bit of red in the sunlight being reflected from the sea and wasn¡¯t as white as it was at noon.

    Looking at the horizon for a bit, Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    The open sea exploration fleet had already been gone for close to ten months and there wasn¡¯t a single bit of news, so he couldn¡¯t help being a bit worried.

    Although it was agreed that it would take a year, based on the speed of the Magic Ship and even if the under them was twice as big as earth, ten months would have been enough for this fleet to go around the two or three times.

    Even if something happened along the way, ten months was more than enough time to spare.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help looking at the sky.

    When he considered this issue, if he could have made several satellites like one earth, then he wouldn¡¯t have to worry about not being able to contact the fleet.

    But for the current Sines Continent, this technology was too far away, so he could only ept reality.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are you worried about something?¡± Bensack nearby saw that Xu Yi was knitting his brows as he looked at the sky, so he couldn¡¯t help asking this in a curious voice.

    Xu Yi turned back and waved his hand with a smile.

    He was worrying about many things, but whether it was Kennard and the other high level members having different ideas than him or being unable to contact the exploration fleet, this young man who was manning the observation fleet wouldn¡¯t be able to help him.

    Looking into the horizon again, Xu Yi patted Bensack¡¯s shoulder and praised him a few times before flying down to leave.

    ¡°Sir chairman, when will youe again?¡± Bensack suddenly asked in a loud voice.

    Xu Yi waved his hand at him, ¡°When I feel like it, I¡¯lle. Just watch properly.¡±

    Bensack mumbled something and was a bit dejected as he went back.

    He thought that sir chairmaning every other day was to see him and nned on giving him a special promotion, but based on sir chairman¡¯s current attitude, it didn¡¯t seem like this was the case.

    ¡°Could it be that I have to stay in this boring ce?¡±

    Hearing the sounds of the Magic Sedan from under the observation deck, Bensack gave a sigh and turned back to look at the horizon.

    ¡°What is there to see? Why does sir chairman care so much? Isn¡¯t it just the sea? It isn¡¯t strange at all. I¡­¡­¡±

    Bensack¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked into the horizon in the distance before he quickly reacted, immediatelying to the side of the observation deck.

    ¡°Sir chairman! There¡¯s something! There¡¯s something!¡±

    Xu Yi who had just finished turning the Magic Sedan around and prepared to leave suddenly heard Bensack¡¯s shouting before stopping in a daze.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi reached his head out the window to ask.

    ¡°That¡­¡­The sea¡­¡­The sea, there¡¯s¡­¡­There¡¯s¡­¡­¡± Bensack waved his hand and didn¡¯t know what to say, ¡°There¡¯s¡­¡­There¡¯s something flying over here!¡±

    ¡°Flying over?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    His first reaction was a sea bird, but if it really was a sea bird, Bensack wouldn¡¯t be this agitated.

    Then he thought of a possibility.

    ¡°Could it be a Magic Airship that the open sea exploration fleet sent back?¡±

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi opened the door and used his magic to fly up to the observation deck again.

    ¡°Over there! Over there¡­¡­¡± Bensack pointed at the sea for Xu Yi in an anxious manner.

    Xu Yi quickly came to the telescope and focused it to look into the distance.

    After a while, Xu Yi¡¯s mouth opened up and he let out a shocked cry.

    ¡°Dragon¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 41 â€“ Dragon That Came From Afar

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 41 - Dragon That Came From Afar</h4>

    The Sines Continent was a continent with many races.

    With the current situation of the Sines Continent, there was no doubt that humans were the main race of the continent, making up over 90% of intelligent life on the continent in total.

    In the less than 10% left, the race with the highest poption were the beastmen followed by the dwarves and the elves.

    But other than these races, a long time ago, there were even more intelligent races on the continent.

    Among them included the halflings that Xu Yi had met before, as well as the legendary goblins, lizardmen, ents, and other races that he hadn¡¯t met before.

    But among all these races, if one was to mention the most legendary and the most powerful race among all these legendary races, it was without a doubt the dragon race.

    Yes, there had once been dragons on the continent before.

    ording to the legends that Xu Yi had read, it was said that the dragons were still very active three thousand years ago, but they gradually disappeared. After the race wars, there hadn¡¯t been a trace left by them.

    It was said that the dragons had lost interest in the Sines Continent after the elves lost control, so they had found some other ce that was more suited for them.

    It was also said that the dragons had a powerful body, as well as naturally powerful magic. It was said that they had gone to another ce and were no longer on this world.

    In short, there were already few dragons on the continent and then they disappeared without a trace.

    Moreover, the dragons were very big and would attract attention no matter what they did. Everyone had thought that they would be noticed eventually and with the pride of the dragons, they wouldn¡¯t hide from humans forever.

    Xu Yi had gone through countless materials and could only confirm that dragons were legends. They hadn¡¯t left behind any sparks like the halflings did with Lumi, so he might not be able to meet them in his entire life.

    But now, through this specially made telescope, Xu Yi could clearly see that it was a dragon!

    The two wings that were like bat wings pped as it carried itsrge lizard body through the air. The long and sharp head had a pair of giant sharp horns on them and with the fierce looking teeth in its slightly opened mouth, it gave off a very fierce feel.

    It was just like the dragons from the legends, so Xu Yi could recognize it with a single look.

    ¡°Is it really a dragon?¡± When Bensack on the side heard Xu Yi¡¯s surprised cry, he couldn¡¯t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty before saying in a shocked voice, ¡°Gods! It¡¯s actually a dragon! Sir chairman, what do we do now? That is a dragon! Will it attack us?¡±

    Xu Yi focused his attention on the dragon quickly flying over and after making sure that he didn¡¯t make a mistake, he said to Bensack in a deep voice, ¡°Immediately report this back and send down my orders. Have the guards prepare themselves to attack the enemy at any time, but they are not to make any rash moves, understand?¡±

    ¡°Understood, understood.¡± Bensack kept nodding before suddenly reacting, ¡°Sir chairman, you want me to pass down the orders, what are you nning to¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m going to take a look.¡±

    After Xu Yi said this, he disappeared.

    Bensack was stunned before quickly looking through the telescope. He found that Xu Yi was already in the air and wasn¡¯t that far away from the dragon quickly flying over here.

    ¡°Sir chairman, he¡­¡­¡±

    Bensack was stunned, but then he remembered Xu Yi¡¯s orders and quickly picked up a Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Emergency situation! Emergency situation! Observation post number thirty seven has discovered a dragon flying over here! Attention, it¡¯s a dragon! Sir chairman has already gone to meet the enemy personally and has given the orders¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    The dragon had already noticed Xu Yi when he appeared and had vited allmon sense as it stopped in midair.

    Feeling Xu Yi¡¯s gaze on it, the dragon¡¯s giant eyes looked right at Xu Yi without blinking.

    Without knowing what it was, Xu Yi could feel a bit of curiosity from its eyes as if it was observing him.

    But no matter what, at least the dragon didn¡¯t attack Xu Yi as soon as it saw him, so he was much more assured.

    The human and dragon stared at each other for a bit. After thinking about it, Xu Yi wanted to wave his hand to greet the dragon.

    But who would have thought that as soon as he raised his hand, the dragon¡¯s wings would p to move back a bit. Then there was a bit of change in its eyes as it stared at Xu Yi, letting Xu Yi feel a bit of vignce from them.

    Xu Yi was surprised, while also finding it a bit funny.

    Wasn¡¯t this a dragon? How could he see so much from just a single nce? It was no different from a human.

    Moreover, they were the legendary most powerful dragon race. Why would it be this alert after seeing a human raise his hand?

    Looking at the giant dragon several hundred meters away, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how to deal with it.

    There were many legends about the dragon race and no one knew what to do after meeting a dragon.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi used a bit of magic to amplify his voice as he shouted to the dragon in front of him, ¡°Hey, hello, friend from the dragon race!¡±

    He was speaking in themon tongue of the Sines Continent.

    It was said that the dragons were one of the most powerful and most intelligent races. When they lived on the Sines Continent, they had a good grasp of the humannguage, the elvennguage, the dwarvennguage, and several othernguages.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t sure if this dragon could understand him since the dragons had already disappeared for several thousand years.

    When that dragon heard Xu Yi¡¯s voice, it looked at Xu Yi with a bit of doubt before opening itsrge dragon mouth.

    Then it spoke in the mostmonnguage of the continent¡­¡­

    ¡°Human, do you know the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the dragon with quite the astonished look on his face.

    My god! Forget about how there was a dragon that suddenly appeared and how it was speaking in themon tongue of the continent¡­¡­but why would it suddenly say the words ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡±?

    ¡°Hey, human, I¡¯m asking you a question. Do you know the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Or do you know a human from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? I have to tell them something.¡±

    Xu Yi still hadn¡¯t recovered from his shock yet, so he could only nod in a daze.

    ¡°Ah¡­¡­I do, I¡¯m from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°Very good, since you¡¯re from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then you can call your chairman. It should be a human named Xu Yi, right? Tell him that yourpany¡¯s fleet needs help.¡±

    Hearing the word ¡°fleet¡±, Xu Yi trembled beforeing back to his senses.

    ¡°You said fleet? How do you know ourpany¡¯s fleet? Did you meet them? Did you learn about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce from them? What happened to them? Why do they need our help? Where are they now?¡±

    ¡°Human, you¡¯re asking too many questions.¡± The dragon seemed a bit impatient. After pping its wings a few times, it headed to the cliff that was behind Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t dare neglect it and quickly followed it.

    That dragon flew very fast and wasn¡¯t slower than the fastest Magic Airships. It forced Xu Yi to use several spatial spells just to keep up with it.

    Very soon, a human and a dragon arrived at the cliff, which was also the beach that was under Bensack¡¯s observation post.

    When Xu Yi¡¯s feet met the sand, he felt several magic fluctuations around him.

    Arch Magus Cami, Arch Magus y, Great Magician Turner, Great Magician Teli, and the other powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce magicians appeared.

    Seeing the giant dragon that was five stories tall, everyone revealed shocked looks before going on alert.

    Xu Yi quickly stopped them.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be impulsive, this dragon doesn¡¯t have any hostility.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami and the others carefully looked at this dragon and found that it was also looking at them. It indeed didn¡¯t have any hostility, so they rxed a bit, but they didn¡¯t lower their guard.

    ¡°Human, they¡¯re also from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± The dragon turned its head to ask Xu Yi.

    ¡°Yes. Right, let me introduce myself, I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi. May I ask¡­¡­what you are called?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami and the others looked at Xu Yi with strange looks.

    This fellow, he was this calm in front of a dragon and could even start a normal conversation with it?

    ¡°I also have a name. If you use your humannguage, you can call me Cassandra.¡±

    ¡°Cassandra?¡± Xu Yi had a surprised look and couldn¡¯t help muttering, ¡°This sounds like a girl¡¯s name¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Because I am a girl.¡± The dragon named Cassandra said.

    Xu Yi, Arch Magus Cami, and the others all had even stranger expressions.

    Alright, it was hard enough for a dragon to appear, but it was also female¡­¡­Alright, it was a girl from the dragon race.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Then Cassandra¡­¡­Miss, you were saying that our fleet needed help, what does that mean?¡±

    ¡°Something happened to the fleet?¡± Arch Magus Cami and the others were surprised.

    Xu Yi pointed at Cassandra, indicating for them to listen first.

    ¡°It¡¯s too troublesome to exin, you¡¯ll understand faster if you look at this.¡± The space in front of Cassandra distorted and a small box appeared in that space, floating in the air, ¡°Did any of you bring a Magic Illusion Projector?¡±

 Volume 7 42 â€“ A Dragon That Loved Watching Dramas

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 42 - A Dragon That Loved Watching Dramas</h4>

    Xu Yi and the others all looked at each other in nk dismay.

    There was this female¡­¡­Alright, this young dragon girl from legends who not only knew themonnguage of the continent, she also knew about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and could even mention the ¡°Magic Illusion Projector¡±!

    Were the dragons that advanced?

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi reacted quickly. He thought that this dragon should have met the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet, so she learned about this from them.

    ¡°Great Magician Juna, can you please go back to thepany for a Magic Illusion Projector?¡±

    Great Magician Juna gave a nod before disappearing.

    Xu Yi turned back to Cassandra and carefully looked over this legendary dragon.

    ¡°Miss Cassandra, I have something to ask you. Your dragon race¡­¡­are you the only one left?¡±

    ¡°Why do you think this?¡± Cassandra looked at Xu Yi and there was a strange look in those dragon eyes, ¡°Our dragon race is the most powerful among all the intelligent races. If you humans haven¡¯t been exterminated yet, how could there only be me left?¡±

    ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, then after your dragon race left the continent two thousand years ago, you should have been living in another ce? Does that mean that there is another continent in this world?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Cassandra¡¯s giant nostrils let out two plume of smoke as her tone was filled with ridicule.

    ¡°The world of you humans really is small. Could it be that you thought that there was only the Sines Continent in this world? Let me tell you, other than this Sines Continent, there are several other continents. The Sines Continent isn¡¯t even the biggest continent. You¡¯ve always been on this continent that you think that controlling the Sines Continent means controlling the entire world. It really isughable.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami and the others behind Xu Yi all revealed shocked looks.

    Although they had always guessed that there were other continents, there had never been anyone that had confirmed this.

    But now that there was a dragon that suddenly appeared that confirmed that there was another continent, it was a strong hit to their hearts.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel that different.

    Based on his observations since transmigrating that this was like earth, he was already certain that there wasn¡¯t only the Sines Continent alone on this.

    The humans of the Sines Continent couldn¡¯t explore the endless seas because they were limited by technology. The appearance of Xu Yi had brought the rapid development of magic machines on the continent, which had enabled humans to explore the seas, to explore the world.

    But Xu Yi never would have thought that after the first exploration fleet went out, before they even came back, there would be a legendary dragon that would be sent back first.

    ¡°But you humans really were courageous enough to explore the seas this time and found the habitat of my race, it really is worthy of praise.¡± Cassandra continued, ¡°After not seeing each other for two thousand years, you humans have also made many strange and fun things, it really is unexpected.¡±

    ¡°Strange and fun things?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused. He thought that the steel Magic Ships that made up the exploration fleet, were nothing more than fun things in the eyes of a dragon?

    ¡°Right, miss Cassandra, since you have met our fleet, have you seen that halfling on that fleet?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re talking about that little halfling girl?¡± Cassandra asked.

    ¡°Little girl¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s lips twitched. Lumi was several hundred years old, but she was only a little girl in Cassandra¡¯s eyes.

    But thinking of how the legendary dragons had lifespans of over ten thousand years. Although this Cassandra called herself a little girl, she was at least over a thousand years old, so it wasn¡¯t strange for her to call Lumi a little girl.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s her. Actually ourpany organized this open sea exploration fleet just to confirm for her if the halfling race had left the Sines Continent and gone to another continent several thousand years ago. Now that the fleet has met your dragon race, does that mean that the legend of the halflings migrating to another continent is true?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what your legends say, but as for the halflings¡­¡­they are all over the Magic Cloud Continent. As for whether they came from the Sines Continent or not, I¡¯m not certain.¡±

    ¡°Magic Cloud Continent?¡± Arch Magus Cami¡¯s expression changed as he cut in, ¡°Dear miss dragon, may I ask if the name Magic Cloud Continent is tranted by you to our continent¡¯snguage, or does its name already sound like that?¡±

    ¡°Is there a difference?¡±

    ¡°Of course there is.¡± Arch Magus Cami gave a serious nod.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the original pronunciation. Mymon tongue was learned from the humans of your fleet and they didn¡¯t teach me the words for the Magic Cloud Continent, so I sounded it out from thenguage of us dragons for you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­Thank you for your response.¡± Arch Magus Cami nodded before knitting his brows to think.

    Xu Yi was a bit curious as he looked at Arch Magus Cami. He didn¡¯t know why he cared this much about the name ¡°Magic Cloud Continent¡±.

    After asking Cassandra a few more questions, the magic space by them fluctuated as Great Magician Juna appeared again with a Magic Illusion Projector in his hands.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give this to you and you can watch for yourself.¡± The small box that had been floating in front of Cassandra the entire time was thrown to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi grabbed it and opened it to find that there was a Magic Illusion Disc inside, immediately understanding what was happening.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t convenient to watch this here. Miss Cassandra, are you willing to¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Cassandra and wanted to invite her back with them to slowly talk, but he found that the giant body was already prepared to leave.

    ¡°I¡¯ve already finished my mission, you don¡¯t need to care about me.¡± Cassandra pped her wings, preparing to take off.

    Xu Yi quickly flew up to stop her.

    ¡°Miss Cassandra, please stay a bit longer. There are still many things that we have to ask you about the fleet. As well, we might need to send another fleet, so we hope that you can guide them to meet up with the previous fleet.¡±

    Cassandra looked at Xu Yi before looking at the Sines Continent behind him. After thinking for a bit, she asked, ¡°You said that you were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, right?¡±

    ¡°Right.¡±

    ¡°Then I want to ask you, did theter episodes of the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?e out?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi and the rest were all stunned by this.

    They never thought that this dragon would ask them about this.

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t even know about the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?? The humans of your fleet said that it was very popr in your human world, you don¡¯t even know about it?¡±

    ¡°Of course I do.¡± Xu Yi nodded without knowing whether tough or cry.

    ¡°Then tell me, how many episodes havee out?¡±

    Xu Yi calmed himself and thought about it before understanding what was happening.

    The open sea exploration fleet¡¯s journey would be long, so to prevent them from being bored, before setting off, they had prepared several Magic Illusion Projectors. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had also given them several discs for films, which would be considered entertainment during the long voyage.

    When the fleet met this dragon, he didn¡¯t know what happened between them, but the dragon seemed quite interested in the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?¡­¡­

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­I remember that when the fleet set off, the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty? had just begun broadcasting.¡± Xu Yi had a strange look. He never thought that a dragon would be interested in a drama about the rise and fall of a human dynasty, ¡°It has already finished broadcasting. If you¡¯re interested, I can bring out the entire collection for you to watch.¡±

    ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡±

    There was an excitement that wasn¡¯t hidden in Cassandra¡¯s voice.

    She pped her wings a few times before saying, ¡°Alright, find a ce where I won¡¯t be disturbed and give me a Magic Illusion Projector, as well as theplete ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?. If you have any questions, you cane and ask me.¡±

    She had instantly forgotten about going back at this time.

    Xu Yi gave a speechless nod. When he was thinking about how to take care of this, Arch Magus Cami flew over.

    ¡°I¡¯ll take care of her, you take care of the fleet¡¯s matter.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Arch Magus Cami and seeing his serious look, he became even more curious.

    But he understood Arch Magus Cami¡¯s personality and didn¡¯t keep asking as he gave a nod. He took the Magic Illusion Projector and the Magic Illusion Disc, then with a sh, he appeared at his personal manor on the cliff.

    After entering his study, Xu Yi put the Magic Illusion Disc into the Magic Illusion Projector and an illusion appeared.

    When the illusion appeared, it showed Narvil who had been in charge of the open sea exploration fleet.

    Narvil¡¯s expression in the illusion had an excited look, but he was also nervous.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I am Narvil. I am currently reporting to you from an ind that is ten thousand kilometers away from the Sines Continent.¡±

    The illusion changed to an overhead angle shot and showed just how big the ind was. There were few nts on the ind and Xu Yi even saw a giant volcano, showing that this ce wasn¡¯t a veryfortable ce to live on.

    ¡°We¡¯ve already seen inds like this countless times on our journey, so it isn¡¯t strange, but¡­¡­on this ind, we actually met the legendary dragons!¡±

 Volume 7 43 â€“ New Giant Market

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 43 - New Giant Market</h4>

    Xu Yi blinked in a daze.

    If it was before meeting Cassandra, he would have been very shocked hearing this news.

    However, after talking to Cassadra for a while, he didn¡¯t feel any excitement when hearing this news.

    ¡°This fellow Narvil¡­¡­he clearly knew that the Magic Illusion Disc was brought by this dragon Cassandra¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi muttered before he continued to watch.

    Through Narvil¡¯s descriptions in the illusion, Xu Yi had a rough understanding of the situation.

    The exploration fleet that Narvil led hadnded on the ind that the dragons inhabited four months ago. Before this, while they were heading west on the endless seas, although they had encountered many inds and had even encountered many inds inhabited by humans, there was nothing that happened that was worthy of mentioning.

    When they arrived at this ind and found the legendary dragons, they were terrified.

    But what they didn¡¯t expect was that the fierce looking dragons weren¡¯t as ferocious as in the legends, rather they were deeply interested in them, even exchanging with them in a friendly manner.

    Through this month of exchange, the fleet had learned many things they didn¡¯t know about previously from the dragons.

    For example, there were several continents on this world. For example, the Magic Cloud Continent that was the closest to the ind, the Magic Cloud Continent where halflings lived all over¡­¡­

    After obtaining this basic information, Narvil had decided that the fleet would explore the Magic Cloud Continent after this.

    But he felt that the information that he obtained now was very valuable, so he should report to the sir chairman first.

    When Narvil was considering whether to send back people to make the report, there was actually a dragon from the ones that they had contacted who had volunteered to do this for them.

    The dragon had powerful vitality and could even fly for a month without any problems. They also flew much faster than the Magic Airships, so if this dragon did this for them, it would save them quite a bit of time.

    ¡°Sir chairman, with the existence of the illusion technology, I think that you should be able to ept this kind of report. As for the dragon that sent this report, she should be more persuasive, so I agreed to her suggestion. When you see this report, you should have seen Cassandra already and have talked to her.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    There was no problem with Narvilmanding the fleet, but he still hadn¡¯t changed his bad habit of chattering along every time he made a report. He would train him well once he got back.

    But Xu Yi felt that this was a bit strange.

    ording to the what Narvil had said in the illusion, Cassandra should have set off three months ago.

    But with the speed of the dragon that surpassed the Magic Airship, ten thousand kilometers wasn¡¯t considered far. Why did Cassandrae so slowly?

    ¡°ording to the dragons, the Magic Cloud Continent is less than a thousand kilometers away from this ind, so I¡¯ve decided that before exploring the Magic Cloud Continent, it¡¯s best to create a base nearby which will give us a ce to retreat to if anything bad happens while exploring.¡±

    Hearing Narvil¡¯s words, Xu Yi gave a nod of approval.

    Narvil could be considered quite prudent, but for the fleet that was ten thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, he was correct no matter how prudent he was.

    ording to Narvil¡¯s n, the open sea exploration fleet would have a few ships and a few crew members go on a preliminary exploration of the Magic Cloud Continent. The rest of the ships and personnel would try to find an ind near the dragon ind with a good environment to build a base first.

    When Cassandra had said that ¡°the fleet needed help¡±, it was just that Narvil needed more manpower and goods.

    ¡°Sir chairman, with the good rtionship we¡¯ve built with the dragons, as long as we finish a base on an ind, we will have a firm foothold on the Magic Cloud Continent which will be a good foundation for when ourpany enters the Magic Cloud Continent. This subordinate thinks that we should increase our investment here, while also keeping contact with the dragon race. I¡¯ve found that the dragon race have some special needs for goods¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is a great opportunity!¡± Kennard pped the table as he looked at Xu Yi with eyes glowing with excitement, ¡°This is apletely new continent! This means that it¡¯s a brand new giant market! If ourpany can control this market, it would mean giant development chances for ourpany!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t be excited first.¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to hint to Kennard to calm down, ¡°There¡¯s two problems right now. One, we can¡¯t guarantee the authenticity of this report.¡±

    Kennard was stunned, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be¡­¡­that you¡¯re doubting Narvil?¡±

    ¡°I am unable to determine if this illusion is real or false.¡± Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°You should know that the illusion is based on the Illusion Array, which means that there¡¯s the possibility of creating fake illusions.¡±

    ¡°But the Narvil in the illusion was very urate, I don¡¯t think that a forgery could reach this degree.¡± Kennard said.

    ¡°Right, there¡¯s still another possibility, which is that Narvil is ying some tricks. Of course, this is only my inference because Narvil didn¡¯t send back a subordinate and had this dragon Cassandrae back to report, which doesn¡¯t make sense.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡± Kennard was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°This indeed doesn¡¯t make sense, it shouldn¡¯t be possible that Narvil wouldn¡¯t have thought of this.¡±

    ¡°The second problem is, even if the illusion is real, what kind of support would be appropriate to give?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡±

    Kennard took longer to think this time.

    After lowering his head to think for a bit, he said in a certain voice, ¡°As much as we can! Sir chairman, for apany, apletely new market is rare. Ourpany has been able to develop this quickly over the past few years because there wasn¡¯t a magic machine industry market on the Sines Continent. We were about to seize this chance and were able to develop quickly.¡±

    ¡°But now that the other countries have started cing importance on the magic machine industry, ourpany will no longer be able to monopolize the markets like before. So from now on, the most important problem for us is finding new markets. If this news brought by the dragon is true, then she is bringing us a giant new market. If we don¡¯t seize this chance, we might as well kill ourselves!¡±

    Seeing the excited look on Kennard¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He was certain that Kennard was a true merchant.

    There was a small difference from what he thought about.

    ¡°But Kennard, since we know about this, we definitely won¡¯t be able to hide it from others. Eventually other people and other countries will learn of this. If there are several other continents other than the Sines Continent, wouldn¡¯t they also think of this?¡±

    ¡°So what if they do?¡± Kennard gave a soft snort before saying in a confident voice, ¡°Only our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the Magic Ships that can undertake this kind of voyage. Even if they knew that they are other continents, without the Magic Ships, they won¡¯t be able to reach them.¡±

    ¡°Did you forget that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main body is still on the Sines Continent? It¡¯s impossible topletely abandon it.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°Of course, I also agree with you. A new continent means a new market and no matter what aspect you¡¯re thinking of, we must seize this opportunity. Un¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit and picked up a piece of paper which he drew a circle on before he marked it as the Sines Continent. He drew a long line that went to the left and created a point where he wrote Narvil¡¯s name above. Then he went even further left to create another circle which he marked as the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ¡°First we must confirm the authenticity of this information.¡± Xu Yi tapped on the point with the name Narvil on it, ¡°Then based on the situation, we need to decide how to operate this outpost while at the same time¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the line separating them and knitted his brows.

    ¡°The biggest problem now ismunication. Whether it¡¯s the ind or the Magic Cloud Continent, they are too far away. It takes a long time to transmit any information and any trip would take at least a month. With such a long time in between, many things could change during this time.¡±

    Kennard looked at the dots on the line that Xu Yi drew and knitted his brows, ¡°Sir chairman, it can¡¯t be that you want to link them one by one with magic signal towers, right? This kind of investment would be terrifying and even our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be able to afford it. Moreover¡­¡­the environment of the endless seas wouldn¡¯t allow it.¡±

    ¡°Un, so that¡¯s why it¡¯s the biggest problem right now.¡± Xu Yi tapped a few times on the paper before giving up on this problem, ¡°Forget it, we can only solve themunication problemter. The first thing we need to do is confirm the authenticity of this information. Kennard, I want you to make a detailed n for this right away. Once we¡¯ve decided to send reinforcements, I need you to organize a fleet with enough power to make this voyage as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°No problem!¡± Kennard replied without any hesitation. Then his expression changed as he asked, ¡°Right, sir chairman. That dragon said that there are several other continents other than the Magic Cloud Continent. Should we also try to find the other continents?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t think that you can be fat with just a single bite.¡± Xu Yi reprimanded him, ¡°The most important is that ourpany isn¡¯t strong enough to support all these exploration voyages right now.¡±

    Kennard blinked in a daze before only being able to give a dejected sigh.

 Volume 7 44 â€“ Abyss Demon Race

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 44 - Abyss Demon Race</h4>

    When Xu Yi came out of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main office building, it was already dark outside and there weren¡¯t many lights around.

    When he looked up, he found that while there were still stars, there wasn¡¯t the moon at all.

    Seeing the starry night that was brighter than the one on earth and the dense amount of stars, Xu Yi was certain that the under his feet wasn¡¯t the earth of another dimension, but rather another out in the sea of stars.

    Xu Yi raised his hand to look at the stars that seemed close to hand, but were actually thousands of light years away before giving a sigh.

    He came to this world and wanted to build aplete industrial system, other than satisfying his interests, there was another important reason. He hoped that he would be able to break the atmosphere one day and reach the starry skies.

    Although he didn¡¯t know what happened when he transmigrated and could be considered confused, his entire body had transmigrated which meant that there should be a way to go back.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how he transmigrated, so he could only go into outer space. Through space exploration, he hoped that he could find earth again.

    However, Xu Yi knew in his heart that this possibility was close to zero.

    Even if he could smoothly build a magic machine industry that was equal to earth¡¯s in this world, it would still take a long time to build a spaceship that could leave the atmosphere.

    Even if he reached the same level of technology on earth, he wouldn¡¯t be able to freely travel through space.

    To achieve this dream in this backwards world was simply a fool¡¯s dream.

    Of course, with enough time to develop, this world might really be able to develop this kind of advanced technology.

    But when that timees, Xu Yi might have already been dead for many years.

    So in the end, it was only a dream and it waspletely impossible to achieve.

    Xu Yi was a very intelligent person and he was very clear on this matter. So when he thought about this again, he couldn¡¯t help feeling sad and a bit helpless.

    After leaving earth for fifteen years, his friends and family from earth had already faded away from his memories.

    In his mind, it was his family like Still that was the most important right now.

    What he needed to do was apany them while also working hard towards his dream.

    Even if he couldn¡¯t achieve his dream of traveling through space, it wasn¡¯t bad to leave it to his descendants.

    ¡°But before this, let¡¯s understand the world underneath me a bit better first.¡± Xu Yi gave a self deprecating smile as he thought that he shouldn¡¯t try to fly before learning to run.

    Turning back to see the lit windows in the building behind him, Xu Yi thought that Kennard was more anxious than him. He really wanted to bring the other continents under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, this couldn¡¯t be rushed. Xu Yi had discussed this with Kennard for two hours and they just determined the scale and the main candidates of the people to send on the second fleet.

    There were many decisions that still required more details.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi reached into his chest to take out the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, are you asleep yet?¡±

    When the Magic Communicator connected, Arch Magus Cami¡¯s slightly exhausted voice came out.

    ¡°Grandfather, you¡¯re not asleep either.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°That¡­¡­Ke, how is miss Cassandra doing now?¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s doing well, but I¡¯m not good.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±

    There was silence from the Magic Communicator for a bit before Arch Magus Cami asked, ¡°Kid, where are you now?¡±

    ¡°I just came out of the main office building, what is it?¡±

    ¡°Come to the old ce on the north side, I have something to talk to you about.¡± Arch Magus Cami hung up after saying this.

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Communicator with a surprised look. He didn¡¯t know what was happening to Arch Magus Cami, he had been acting strange since he met Cassandra.

    ¡°Could it be that he was too shocked after seeing the legendary dragon?¡± Xu Yi wondered as he used his flying magic. He kept thinking as he flew to the north side of the main base.

    After around twenty minutes, Xu Yi left the main base and quickly felt the magic fluctuations that Arch Magus Cami released.

    ¡°Grandfather, what are you doing here?¡± Xu Yi arrived at a mountain and asked Arch Magus Cami who seemed to be thinking about something.

    ¡°Look, that dragon is watching the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?.¡± Arch Magus Cami pointed to the left.

    Xu Yi looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a bunch of lights shing in the valley. It was the bright glow that came from the Magic Illusion Projector.

    Under the light, one could see the figure of the dragon in the center of the valley that waspletely focused on watching the illusion.

    Xu Yi felt a bit speechless.

    A dragon was this enamoured by a drama, it really felt strange no matter how you looked at it¡­¡­

    ¡°I¡¯ve already watched it for several hours and it has been watching the drama the entire time. Other than a break for a meal, it hasn¡¯t even moved once.¡± Arch Magus Cami then said, ¡°The way it¡¯s acting, it really makes me doubt if it¡¯s the legendary dragon.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°It isn¡¯t just you, I¡¯m also doubting it as well. It¡¯s said that the dragons are ferocious, so why does Cassandra have such a temperate personality? It even likes to watch our human dramas?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re wrong, not all dragons are ferocious.¡± Arch Magus Cami shook his head, ¡°ording to my research on the dragons, this dragon should be from the red dragon tribe with thergest members, who have a famous calm personality. Narvil¡¯s luck is good, he met this red dragon. If he met the most evil ck dragon, the results might be different now.¡±

    ¡°Oh? The dragons are divided between red and ck dragons?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just these two, there are many other kinds, but there aren¡¯tplete records, so I¡¯m not too clear on this.¡±

    ¡°Then didn¡¯t you ask Cassandra about this earlier?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I had more important things to ask, so I didn¡¯t ask this.¡± Arch Magus Cami shook his head.

    ¡°More important things?¡± Xu Yi looked at the serious look on Arch Magus Cami¡¯s face and had an idea, ¡°Grandfather, you seem to know something?¡±

    Arch Magus Cami looked at Xu Yi and his expression became strangely serious.

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you know what race ruled the continent before the elves?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°I don¡¯t.¡±

    ording to the historical records that Xu Yi read, they only said that the elves ruled the continent before the humans, but they never mentioned who came before the elves.

    ¡°It¡¯s the legendary Abyss Demon Race.¡± Arch Magus Cami said in a deep voice, ¡°ording to legends, the Abyss Demon Race are a powerful race that are on par with the dragons and had reproductive abilities that were worse than the elves. So before the elves, the Abyss Demon Race ruled the continent and perhaps the entire world. Then close to ten thousand years ago, for an unknown reason, the Abyss Demon Race suddenly disappeared from the continent and the elves took over.¡±

    ¡°Oh. And then?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused by this.

    Even if the Abyss Demon Race was as terrifying as the legends, it had already been ten thousand years, so how was it rted to what was happening now?

    ¡°Legends say that the Abyss Demon Race didn¡¯tpletely disappear and retreated to another ne. They will appear in this world again after ten thousand years and rule all the continents again, at which time all other races will be exterminated. Legends say that will be the apocalypse.¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips and almost broke out inughter.

    Although Arch Magus Cami had a serious look and tone when he said this, no matter how Xu Yi looked at it, it was nothing more than an old trick¡­¡­

    Perhaps he could see what Xu Yi was thinking, so Arch Magus Cami red at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Kid, don¡¯t be so quick to judge. This legend isn¡¯t just passed down among us humans, it¡¯s also passed down among the elves. If you don¡¯t believe me, you can ask elder Illusia and the others. I didn¡¯t believe the legends of the dragons before and now? Now there¡¯s a living dragon that appeared in front of me.¡±

    Xu Yi quickly revealed a serious look and gave a nod, ¡°Un, I will ask. But grandfather, you said that the Abyss Demon Race will appear in this world again¡­¡­how will they appear? Will theye through from another dimension?¡±

    ¡°No one knows. There are few records on the Abyss Demon Race and I only identally found some, so I don¡¯t know much more than you. But I¡¯m certain that the elves have more records on this, so I¡¯ll go ask elder Lisanya about this tomorrow.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and didn¡¯t approve or deny this.

    As a mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi was very doubtful about these ten thousand year old legends.

    Several hundred years was already enough to distort facts, not to mention ten thousand years.

    This Abyss Demon Race was expelled from the continent ten thousand years ago, so even if they appear in this world again, after close to ten thousand years, the other races, especially the humans had all be especially strong.

    Even if the Abyss Demon Race appeared again, what threat could they pose?

    Seeing that Xu Yi didn¡¯t think the same, Arch Magus Cami didn¡¯t bother saying anything else since he understood his personality.

    ¡°Alright, I was just reminding you of this matter. Whether you believe it or not, it¡¯s best to be prepared.¡±

    Arch Magus Cami pointed at Cassandra in the valley after he finished talking.

    ¡°I know that you have something to talk to her about. Remember, although red dragons have a temperate personality, it is still a dragon in the end, so you should be careful.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    Seeing Arch Magus Cami disappear, Xu Yi kneaded his face to focus. Then he flew over to where Cassandra was focused on watching the illusions.

 Volume 7 45 â€“ So What If They Come Back?

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 45 ¨C So What If They Come Back?</h4>

    ¡°Hey, Cassandra, how is it?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand to greet Cassandra who was watching the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?, ¡°I heard that you watched it all day today.¡±

    Cassandra didn¡¯t even look at Xu Yi and other than giving a casual reply, she didn¡¯t say anything else.

    Seeing her act like this, Xu Yi thought for a bit before sitting down beside her to watch it with her.

    Strictly speaking, Xu Yi could be considered one of the screenwriters for this ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?.

    When Still was preparing to film these shows, she got many suggestions from Xu Yi and many stories that Xu Yi pulled from earth. He had made many revisions to make the stories that Still made simpler, which would be more attractive.

    But Xu Yi had never watched a single episode, so this was his first time watching it today.

    The reason was very simple, he didn¡¯t have the time.

    Now that he had been watching for a bit, he found that this ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty? was actually quite good.

    Although the rhythm of the plot wasn¡¯t as good as the ones on earth, with the illusion projection technology, it created a 3D broadcasting effect that made it seem very realistic. It was much easier for people to integrate themselves into the story.

    Adding in the fact that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had worked with the elves from the Azshara Tribe skilled in illusion magic for many years, they had added several new special effects in the illusion.

    The coordination was very realistic, so people could experience the image in the illusion. It made these special effects even more beautiful and even more eye catching.

    When filming this ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had negotiated with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom. They had worked with the two armies of the kingdom which made the filmed battle scene even more magnificent.

    When armies in full armour were moved, fighting an all out war, it far surpassed those dramas on earth that had only been able to create those giant armies with a few real actors and a bunch of special effects.

    To put it simply, although this ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty? was only a drama, it had reached the level of the top films on earth when it came to cinematography.

    Seeing the powerful armies in the illusion, even Xu Yi who normally didn¡¯t have any interest in things like this couldn¡¯t help feel his blood boil.

    But thinking about it, the method of fighting on the Sines Continent had already changed. The old method of fighting in close range had already been eliminated with the new method of using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines. The battle that he was watching would only happen in illusion films now.

    The ¡°main culprit¡± for this change was Xu Yi.

    ¡°So this has be a historical drama......¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say a word as he watched this. Cassandra on the side was also focused, so the two of them watched the entire thing beforeing back to their senses after it ended.

    Cassandra¡¯s eyes that had never moved finally turned to notice that someone was beside her. She turned to look at Xu Yi and spoke in a surprised tone.

    ¡°Hey, human, when did you get here?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her in a speechless manner, ¡°Cassandra, is your awareness that low? If I were to attack you just now, wouldn¡¯t you be in trouble?¡±

    Cassandra pped her wing and didn¡¯t bother hiding the contempt in her eyes.

    ¡°Human, I can see that you are a magician, but don¡¯t think that magicians can pose any threat to me. Let me tell you, even if I don¡¯t move at all, I can block Seventh Grade Spells just with my body. As for spells above the Seventh Grade......Do you think that I wouldn¡¯t detect it when you start casting the spell?¡±

    ¡°Then if I prepare a Forbidden Spell ahead of time?¡± Xu Yi asked in a curious voice, ¡°How would you stop it?¡±

    ¡°Forbidden Spell? That is a bit troublesome, but it won¡¯t be enough to truly hurt me. Other than this, I can see that you¡¯re quite young, so can you even cast a Forbidden Spell?¡±

    ¡°Young......¡± Xu Yi had an awkward look. His daughter was already over ten years old, how could he still be considered young?

    But thinking of how long dragons could live, he had nothing to say in response to this.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not waste time on this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Cassandra, I have a few questions to ask you and I hope that you can answer them.¡±

    Cassandra gave a longing look at the Magic Illusion Projector that had stopped and gave a sigh.

    ¡°Ai, you humans really are troublesome. Alright, quickly ask your questions and stop dying me from watching ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?.¡±

    ¡°It seems like you really like watching it.¡± Xu Yi turned to look at the Magic Illusion Projector. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°How about this, Cassandra, before you leave, I will give you a Magic Illusion Projector and give you all the films that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce has released. Then even after you go home, you can watch it whenever you want. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Oh? Human, you¡¯re this generous?¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice had a surprise that couldn¡¯t be hidden.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything big.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Also, I am called Xu Yi. If you only call me human, you won¡¯t be able to differentiate me from other humans.¡±

    ¡°You humans all look the same in our eyes.¡± Cassandra muttered. Then she suddenly leaned down and ced the giant dragon head in front of Xu Yi, being only less than half a meter away from him.

    Seeing those two giant eyes staring at him and feeling the hot breath that came from those tworge nostrils, Xu Yi felt his scalp tingle.

    It wasn¡¯t fear, rather it was because this was too strange.

    Cassandra stayed like this for a while before taking back her giant dragon head.

    ¡°Alright, human.....Oh, no.....you¡¯re called......¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi.¡±

    ¡°Un, Xu Yi, I remember that you¡¯re the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, right? I have remembered your smell, so I won¡¯t mistake you for another human.¡±

    ¡°Then I really have to thank you......¡± Xu Yi weakly thanked her, ¡°Right, there¡¯s also the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s special rare collection among the illusion films I¡¯m giving you. Other than the films, there will bementary, which should be more interesting to watch.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± You humans really are creative.¡± Cassandra¡¯s eyes filled with pleasant surprise, looking very pleased with this gift.

    Perhaps she was very satisfied with this gift, so Cassandra leaned down so her head was in front of Xu Yi, so he wouldn¡¯t have to look up to talk to her.

    ¡°Very good, human.....Xu Yi, ask whatever questions you have. Since you have given me a gift, I will properly answer your questions.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. The dragons were no different from other intelligent beings, they could also be approached with ttery.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi asked, ¡°The first question, do you know about the Abyss Demon Race?¡±

    For Arch Magus Cami, the Abyss Demon Race was very mysterious and terrifying. It was even treated as an ancient and cursed legend by him, which was why he was so careful when talking about it.

    But to Xu Yi, as long as the truth of the legend was revealed, it wouldn¡¯t be as mysterious or terrifying.

    To know the truth of the Abyss Demon Race, of course it was the most simple method to ask this dragon who knew about this world¡¯s history the best.

    ¡°Abyss Demon Race?¡± Cassandra was a bit confused, ¡°Why are you asking about those damn fellows?¡±

    ¡°Damn fellows?¡± Xu Yi immediately perceived some information from Cassandra¡¯s words.

    ¡°Un, those fellows could be considered to have ruled the world in the past, only the few powerful races like our dragon race weren¡¯t controlled by them. So those fellows always wanted to conquer our dragon race and had fought many times with our dragon race.¡±

    ¡°Did you participate in the wars?¡± Perhaps you¡¯ve seen the Abyss Demon Race before?¡± Xu Yi immediately asked.

    ¡°How could I have seen it? I¡¯m not even two thousand years old this year and the Abyss Demon Race hasn\\\''t appeared for more than nine thousand years. I¡¯ve heard the elders of the tribe mention them before.¡±

    ¡°Less than two thousand years old?¡± Xu Yi was secretly surprised. He thought that Cassandra was several times older than elder Illusia and humans couldn¡¯t even bepared to her, but she was in the younger generation among the dragons. It could be seen how powerful the vitality of dragons were.

    ¡°Then do you know about the legend concerning the Abyss Demon Race? It¡¯s said that the Abyss Demon Race disappeared from this world and would return in ten thousand years to reim the whole world?¡±

    ¡°Che, them?¡± Cassandra gave a coldugh of disdain, ¡°Those fellows were expelled by the elves a long time ago, it can be seen that they weren¡¯t a match for the elves at all. Then those elves were reced by you humans, so it can be seen that you humans are stronger than the elves. So what if those fellowse back? Could it be that after hiding for several thousand years, they would be several times stronger?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised.

    Based on how serious Arch Magus Cami had been, he thought that the Abyss Demon Race were terrifying beings.

    However, after being reminded by Cassandra, he found that those fellows had been driven out by the elves who weren¡¯t a match for the humans in the end. Based on this, even if the Abyss Demon Race stayed on the Sines Continent, they wouldn¡¯t be able topare to humans.

    Of course, this was considered a straightforward inference and the true difference in strength wasn¡¯t this simple.

    But no matter what, through Cassandra¡¯s answer, the bit of nervousness that had been in Xu Yi¡¯s heart because of Arch Magus Cami had instantly calmed down.

 Volume 7 46 â€“ Recreational Activity

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 46 - Recreational Activity</h4>

    After confirming that the Abyss Demon Race wasn¡¯t like the legends described them to be, that they wouldn¡¯t be arriving like the demon king and ending the world, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became much more rxed.

    ¡°Hey, Cassandra, do you know how many of your dragon race are left?¡± Xu Yi asked another question he cared about.

    Cassandra let out a breath like she wasn¡¯t very interested in this question.

    ¡°You humans always like to ask this. To be honest, I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡±

    ¡°Of course, why would I care about something boring as how many of my race is left?¡± Cassandra asked back, ¡°Is there any meaning?¡±

    ¡°Of course, knowing how many of your nsmen are left, doesn¡¯t that help you strengthen your understanding of your race?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    ¡°So that¡¯s something that you humans care about because you like to group together. As for us dragons, we are a naturally strong race, so we don¡¯t need to group together to live well. Why would we need to care about how many people are in our race?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly felt that Cassandra was being reasonable and couldn¡¯t refute it.

    Indeed, every dragon was strong, with good vitality and power, so they could live well even if they lived alone. They weren¡¯t like humans who grouped together at all.

    ¡°But based on the information you brought back, our fleet shouldn¡¯t have just met you alone on that ind, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t strange because that ind is very suited for us red dragons to live on and it¡¯s very big. So after many of our nsmen found that ind, they didn¡¯t want to find somewhere else to live and decided to settle there.¡± Cassandra lowered her head to look at Xu Yi, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for yourpany¡¯s fleet suddenly arriving, I might not have left even after several thousand years.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Illusion Projector. This dragon kept saying that she waszy, but she flew over ten thousand kilometers toe here. Could it be that she was interested in the Magic Illusion Projector?

    ¡°Cassandra, other than you, were there other dragons interested in this thing?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Illusion Projector as he asked this.

    ¡°Of course. Un¡­¡­urately speaking, all of our nsmen liked the novel things that your fleet brought, I just liked them a bit more than the others. So I took this task to bring the message from your fleet¡¯s manager because I couldn¡¯t wait to see the rest of the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?. I never thought that other than the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty?, there would be so many other interesting illusion films to watch. I¡¯m very happy.¡±

    Hearing Cassandra¡¯s response, Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    In the legends of the Sines Continent, the impression of dragons was strong, ferocious, and almost impossible to interact with.

    However, this Cassandra that had suddenly appeared wasn¡¯t ferocious at all and was very easy to interact with. She was almost just like a normal human girl. She was just a bit more infatuated by this ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty? which was like an idol drama for Xu Yi which was quite unexpected.

    Moreover, Cassandra had said that other than her, almost all the dragons were interested in this which was surprising.

    Even if the ?Records of the Pollock Dynasty? was good, it was just a story that had humans as the main characters. Would a bunch of dragons find this interesting to watch?

    ¡°Could it be that these fellows have lived too long and are too bored?¡±

    Xu Yi had this idea before asking, ¡°Cassandra, I¡¯m very curious. What does your dragon race do normally? Do you have any special activities that you do?¡±

    ¡°Special activities?¡± Cassandra looked up and seemed to think about it seriously before shaking her head, ¡°There¡¯s nothing special. Other than looking for food, most of the time we¡¯re just sleeping.¡±

    ¡°As expected¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as his guess was confirmed.

    It seemed like these dragons had too few recreational activities and saw the Magic Illusion Projector after being bored, which was why they liked it so much.

    This difference was the biggest difference between dragons and humans, even with most of the other races.

    Among the known intelligent races, the humans were without a doubt the ones with the most recreational activities.

    Among the other races, including the elves with a highly advanced society that had ruled the continent for several thousand years were well below the humans when it came to recreation because of their personalities.

    Before Xu Yi came to the continent, even the recreation in human society was much more monotonouspared to earth.

    So when Xu Yi made the Magic Illusion Projector which copied a form of entertainment that was popr on earth, it was epted by all the races.

    Even the dragon race was interested in this form of entertainment.

    It could be seen that all intelligent races wanted to be entertained, but they couldn¡¯t show it because of the limitations from before.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked up at Cassandra and had a bold idea.

    ###

    The burning heat of summer gradually left in an unwilling manner and when there was a slight chill in the wind, it was a sign that this year¡¯s autumn had arrived.

    Every year at this time, it would be when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Frestech Touring Tournament of the Frestech Magic Car Racing Circuit would begin.

    It waster than the previous two years by two days, but that didn¡¯t affect the people who cared about this event.

    When the Frestech Touring Tournament started, the arena that was specially made for this outside Frestech City was filled with people. Even if they couldn¡¯t enter the arena, they stood outside the arena to watch the Magic Illusion Projectors set up there, not even blinking as they watched.

    After several years of being held, the Frestech Magic Car Racing Circuit had be the most watchedpetition in the countries of the southwest corner.

    What people cared about wasn¡¯t the event itself, but rather the lotteries and the various private bets that were being held.

    ording to some iplete reports from a certain newspaper, after each Frestech Magic Car Racing Circuit tournament was held, the amount of money that was being gambled would be at least a shocking five million gold coins. This was even as good as the annual tax revenue of a small country.

    For the sporting event, just from this Frestech Touring Tournament, the ie from tickets reached one million and four hundred thousand gold coins.

    Because each ticket cost a hundred gold coins and could even be sold for a higher price by scalpers, so for most people, being able to watch thispetition had be a symbol of their status.

    Out of all the seats in the arena, the best ones would be the most expensive. It wasn¡¯t without a doubt the seats that were closest to the main podium, which would cost at least five hundred gold coins per ticket.

    As for the main podium?

    The ones that could sit there were truly important people that were specially invited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Not to mention normal citizens, even normal nobles and merchants didn¡¯t have a chance to sit there.

    So normally speaking, there were quite a few seats left in the main podium and would rarely be filled. There were many times where not even half the seats were filled.

    However, for thispetition today, it waspletely filled. It was also surrounded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and they were tightly guarding it.

    It could be seen that there was someone truly important that came to watch thepetition today.

    When everyone saw that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi was also sitting in the main podium, it confirmed their guesses.

    Chairman Xu rarely came to thispetition and each time it was to apany a special guest.

    With chairman Xu¡¯s current position, for him to personally apany a guest, it would definitely be a very important guest. It would be a very important person that people could rarely meet.

    But no matter how hard the people around tried to look in, they could only see a young woman who was rtively smallpared to Xu Yi and couldn¡¯t see her face.

    This made everyone very confused.

    It was normal that they couldn¡¯t see the young girl¡¯s face because everyone knew that there were special Magic Arrays around those seats. Chairman Xu was also a powerful Great Magician, so if he didn¡¯t want people to see who the guest beside him was, he would have his own methods.

    But the problem was, why did he treat this guest so seriously that he wouldn¡¯t even let others see her face?

    ¡°If the people knew that I, as the ruler of a country, personally came to watch a Magic Car race, they would definitely be very surprised, right?¡± Seveni looked around the main seats and found that there were many curious gazes in the crowd looking over, she couldn¡¯t help giving a self deprecating smile.

    Xu Yi beside her gave a shrug, ¡°Actually, I think you¡¯re thinking too much. Even if you openly told everyone that you came to watch this race, I think that no one would say anything.¡±

    Seveni gave a sigh, ¡°Who told them to have so many newspapers in the country pay attention to every one of my moves, reporting everything that I do? You should know this, Xu Yi, not everyone in the kingdom supports me.¡±

    ¡°Then let them talk, what is there to be worried about?¡± Xu Yi had an uncaring look on his face, ¡°If they just report on your daily life, it might raise your exposure and increase your poprity in the Lampuri Kingdom, which is a good thing. If they go too far, it¡¯s very simple, just take care of them.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that it isn¡¯t as easy as you think.¡± Seveni gave an exhausted sigh before revealing a smile again, ¡°Alright, I came to watch the race today, let¡¯s not mention these unhappy matters. Tell me, which car is Cassandra in?¡±

 Volume 7 47 â€“ Developing The New Continent

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 47 ¨C Developing The New Continent</h4>

    ¡°There, from the right, the third car should be hers.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the twelve Magic Race Cars that were prepared on the starting line and had a strange look on his face.

    Cassandra had already been here for close to a month now.

    During this time, through meeting her many times, Xu Yi had confirmed that Cassandra was a dragon who loved human recreational activities. He had presented all the recreational activities that he knew about to her to let her choose among them.

    However, Cassandra had spent the entire first half of the month watching the Magic Illusion Projector. She stayed in that valley all day and watched the Magic Illusion Projector without even blinking.

    Until half a month ago, she finally finished all the films that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce releasedst year and left the valley for the first time, having the idea of moving around.

    Then she tried out all the recreational activities that Xu Yi had prepared one by one. After trying them, to Xu Yi¡¯s surprise, Cassandra had disyed a great fondness for racing Magic Cars.

    ¡°That little girl is the legendary dragon?¡± Seveni raised the telescope in her hand to look at the car that Xu Yi pointed out for a while before looking at the illusion that was introducing the drivers in real time. She looked at Cassandra¡¯s face for a while before slightly knitting her brows, ¡°She¡¯s clearly a human girl, how is she a dragon?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s her, but she¡¯s changed into a human appearance.¡± Seeing the look of doubt from Seveni, Xu Yi gave a shrug and exined, ¡°This is one of the racial skills of the dragon race, they can change their forms at will. Of course, it can¡¯tst that long.¡±

    ¡°But......aren¡¯t dragons supposed to be very big? How could she be so small? She could even fit herself into the car?¡± Seveni was still very doubtful.

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this for now. But does she......have a driver¡¯s license? Can she drive a Magic Race Car? How can you let her join such a high level race this quickly?¡±

    ¡°Do you remember how Arch Magus Cami learned to drive a Magic Sedan back then?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Seveni¡¯s expression changed and there was a bit of worry that appeared in her eyes.

    ¡°Arch Magus Camipletely forced it, it isn¡¯t something that normal people can do.¡±

    ¡°Right, but Cassandra is clearly not a normal person.¡± Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands, ¡°Her body is very strong and she has a very strong vitality, so even if the Magic Sedan that she drives explodes, nothing will happen to her at all. So.....she learned just like that.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi as her lips twitched, as if she wanted tough, but found it awkward tough.

    ¡°Xu Yi......you have so many monsters by your side, it really is hard on you.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. He thought that whenparing them, at least Arch Magus Cami was human so he had some understanding.

    But Cassandra was a dragon and many humanmon sense didn¡¯t work on her, so he had suffered quite a bit because of Cassandra.

    But a dragon really was worthy of being known as the most intelligent race, Cassandra really had a shocking ability to learn. She had been here for less than a month and she already grasped many things she was interested in, which included driving the Magic Sedan.

    If she entered a human city in the form of a human girl, she definitely wouldn¡¯t be discovered.

    ¡°So she thought that if she as a hum.....Oh, no, as a dragon drove a Magic Sedan alone it would have no meaning, so she came to this human Magic Car race? Why do I feel that it sounds strange when I listen to this......¡± Seveni slightly knitted her brows, revealing a strange look.

    ¡°I also feel that it¡¯s strange, but it¡¯s a reality that has to be epted.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands and helplessly said, ¡°That¡¯s right, she wanted to see if she could contend with the best drivers among us humans. She wanted to see what level her driving skills were at currently.¡±

    ¡°So you agreed?¡± Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, ¡°She is a dragon and you threw her into apetition with people, don¡¯t you think that the others would find it strange?¡±

    ¡°The others don¡¯t know the truth.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°We just announced to the public that she was a driver that was recing ourpany¡¯s driver and was only attending this race.¡±

    ¡°But the form that she took is a young girl in her teens, how did you make others believe that she was a professional driver?¡±

    ¡°We just announced it, I don¡¯t care if others believe it or not.¡±

    Seveni could only roll her eyes in response to this response.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, you¡¯re that certain that this dragon won¡¯t cause any problems? Moreover, are you sure that you can unearth enough value from her? She is a dragon in the end and although I¡¯ve heard you say that she has been very temperate aftering here, I¡¯m still worried......would she suddenly be angry?¡±

    ¡°Rx. I¡¯ve been talking to her during this time and I¡¯ve found that she¡¯s quite easy to get along with. She¡¯s not that different from a human girl who is curious about this world most of the time, so there¡¯s no need to be vignt. As for her getting mad.....although her power isn¡¯t known, she can¡¯tpare to me, so you don¡¯t need to worry.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Seveni doubtfully looked at the red Magic Race Car that was prepared to head out and after thinking about it, she gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. Although the legendary dragons are powerful, she is still a young dragon and wouldn¡¯t be stronger than a human Five Star Great Magician like you. Then, Xu Yi, have you confirmed that the information you¡¯ve gotten from her is true?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t be 100% certain, but I feel that there shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Then what are you nning to do?¡±

    ¡°We have prepared a reinforcement fleet and they are nning to set out next week with Cassandra.¡±

    ¡°And then?¡±

    ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, the fleet should arrive at the ind of the dragons in a month and converge with the open sea exploration fleet. Then based on the information they send back, I will make my decision. But I¡¯m certain that as long as the Magic Cloud Continent exists, there will be a need to build an advanced outpost over there.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡±

    Seveni nodded before falling silent.

    Seeing Seveni lost in thought, Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing.

    About the dragon Cassandra who had suddenly appeared, Xu Yi had imposed a strict lockdown on this information.

    Until now, other than a few people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only Seveni knew about this.

    Seveni was very shocked when she learned of this, but then she quickly grasped the even more important information that was hidden.

    Seveni attached great importance to this and even ran all the way here from the Lampuri Kingdom just to see Cassandra to decide her next moves.

    The reason Xu Yi disclosed this information to Seveni was to let the Lampuri Kingdom work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, participating in the development of the new continent.

    For Seveni as the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, it was impossible that she couldn¡¯t see the benefits hidden in this, so Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried that she wouldn¡¯t be willing.

    The only problem was how determined Seveni would be.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t push her and turned back to the racetrack.

    The pre-race warm up had finished. The crowd that had been focused on this main podium had already turned their attention back to the race and were watching the start with rapt attention.

    On the real time screen in the middle of the racetrack, there were twelve cars letting out low roars, indicating that they could start at any moment.

    On the side of the illusion, there was a giant number that kept changing.

    It was the countdown to the start of the race.

    ¡°Ten, nine, eight......¡± The entire audience shouted as they watched the number, ¡°.....Three, two, one!¡±

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The twelve Magic Race Cars let out loud roars and rushed off the starting line at the same time. The entire audience burst out in deafening cheers when this happened.

    The entire arena was suddenly bing wild.

    Seveni trembled as if she had been awakened by that giant sound.

    She stood up and focused on the number twelve car that rushed out like the wind, focusing on Cassandra¡¯s fire red race car. After silently thinking for a bit, she gave a nod to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I am very interested in jointly developing the new continent, but I have a problem. Our Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t have a fleet capable of making this voyage, so how should we participate in this n?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, you can providemodities and personnel, helping us construct the advanced outpost. I believe that the residents of the new continent will have arge demand for our products and they will definitely wee the magic machines.¡±

    Seveni slightly knitted her brows, ¡°But I¡¯m very interested in that Magic Cloud Continent......¡±

    ¡°Then it¡¯s very simple, you can build your own fleet and go with ourpany¡¯s fleet.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Of course, you won¡¯t make it this time, but you can do it in the future.¡±

    ¡°Build a fleet?¡± Seveni knitted her brows even more and there was a bit ofint in her voice, ¡°You make it sound so simple, but where would we get the ships from? Where would we get the money?¡±

    ¡°I can sell you the ships and you can put the money in an ount which you can pay with deductions from your profits from the Magic Cloud Continent. What do you think?¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look, ¡°Doesn¡¯t that mean that I would be able to enjoy the fruits without thebour?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that simple. Although there are many opportunities in developing a new continent, the risks are equally big. If you want to take this chance, you have to bear the risks as well.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi¡¯s serious face for a bit before giving a low sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, why are you this good to our Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Xu Yi turned and was silent for a bit before saying in a low voice, ¡°I am a merchant, I¡¯m just looking for a trustworthy partner.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s face turned dark as a bit of disappointment appeared before she revealed a smile again, reaching her hand out to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright then, congrattions on finding an absolutely trustworthy partner.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out his hand to shake hers. The two looked at each other before they both gave augh.

    However, there wereplex meanings behind both of their smiles.

 Volume 7 48 - Doing business with dragons

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 48 - Doing business with dragons</h4>

    The tenth Frestech City Magic Car Race had just ended and the results were as expected, it was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce car that took first ce.

    However, what they didn¡¯t expect was that there were two drivers in these cars and with the power of the Frestech Team, since they were racing in Frestech City this time, they should have taken the first two ces. But only one of them received the championship and as for the other¡­¡­they were inst ce.

    Thisst ce wasn¡¯t because of an ident that happened, but rather it had been inst ce the entire time.

    When everyone saw this result, they all felt that it was unbelievable.

    This was the newest Magic Race Car developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so how could it getst ce?

    This was just too strange!

    Because of this surprising result, there were many people who suffered losses with their bets during this race. No one had thought that a driver from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would getst ce which was unbelievable.

    However, no matter how disappointed people were, they couldn¡¯tpare to the person who drove¡­..oh, no, the dragon who drove this car¡­¡­

    ¡°Xu Yi, you didn¡¯t give me the best car at all, did you?¡± Cassandra angrily looked at Xu Yi with eyes that almost popped out.

    If she wasn¡¯t in human form, Xu Yi didn¡¯t doubt that she would be spitting out mes.

    ¡°How could that be?¡± Xu Yi quickly raised his hand to show his innocence, ¡°We prepared the best cars for our team and they were specially maintained just so they would be in the best condition for the race.¡±

    ¡°Then why did I getst ce?¡± Cassandra was still angry.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi blinked in a daze. He couldn¡¯t just say that her driving was so bad that it was natural that she would getst ce.

    It was a good thing that Cassandra just thought that it was embarrassing gettingst ce and was only venting herself. Actually, she knew that her driving skills weren¡¯t that good and she had been shown that in thepetition.¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi, other than the Magic Illusion Projector, also give me a Magic Race Car.¡± Cassandra paused before saying, ¡°Of course, I don¡¯t mean for you to give it for free. I guarantee that I will help yourpany¡¯s people as much as possible.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s eyes lit up as his heart filled with joy.

    Getting a promise from a dragon wasn¡¯t easy. If he could get a promise from Cassandra with some illusion films and a Magic Race Car, that was considered too cheap.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi quickly agreed. After thinking for a bit, he deliberately knitted his brows, ¡°But there¡¯s a problem. Cassandra, you¡¯ve used the Magic Car from some time, so you should know that they have a chance to break and you need to maintain them and service them when they break. So even if I give you a Magic Sedan, you won¡¯t be able to use it for that long.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Cassandra knitted those two red brows that were like tiny swords above her head, ¡°What do I do?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s two ways to solve this. Once is when something happens to the Magic Car, you can bring it to our ce to repair it.¡±

    ¡°That is too troublesome.¡± The ce I live is over ten thousand kilometers away, it would take ten days even if I flew at full speed.¡± Cassandra immediately shook her head to reject this idea.

    ¡°Then we can only use the second method. Ourpany can open a Magic Car repair shop at your ce that will maintain this Magic Race Car in the future.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then it¡¯s this.¡±

    ¡°But Cassandra¡­..do you know how much we would need to invest to cross ten thousand kilometers of seas and go over to your ce to open a Magic Car repair shop?¡± Xu Yi looked at Cassandra with a strange look.

    Cassandra pursed her lips, ¡°You humans like you go around in circles. I understand what you mean, you just want money. How about this, I¡¯ve been alive for this long, so I have some treasures that are considered valuable to you humans. I¡¯ll take some out to pay you with, that will work, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I can¡¯t deny that you have the finances, but Cassandra, for ourpany, just running over there to build a magic repair shop for you alone isn¡¯t worth it.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    Seeing that Xu Yi rejected him, Cassandra couldn¡¯t help getting angry.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, why are you humans so troublesome? I just want you to give me a Magic Race Car and you bring out all these things? You can just not give me one if you want, do you think that our dragon race craves your human products that much?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no, I didn¡¯t have this meaning at all.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s just thatpared to this, I have a better proposition. It can solve the problem of giving you a Magic Race Car, while also bringing plenty of profit to ourpany.¡±

    ¡°Oh? You have a good idea?¡±

    ¡°Cassandra, do you like illusion films very much?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡±

    ¡°Then do the other dragons of your dragon race like watching them as well?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about the other nsmen, but the nsmen on Fire Rock Ind all seem to like it.¡±

    ¡°Un, do you like driving the Magic Race Cars very much?¡±

    Cassandra red at Xu Yi, ¡°Nonsense, didn¡¯t you see it?¡±

    ¡°Then do you think¡­..your nsmen will also like it?¡±

    Cassandra looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look before shaking her head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. What are you asking this for?¡±

    ¡°Since you don¡¯t know now, let¡¯s give it a try.¡± Xu Yi revealed an enticing smile, ¡°Cassandra, when you embark with ourpany¡¯s fleet, other than giving you a Magic Race Car, I will give your nsmen another fifty Magic Sedans and a hundred Magic Illusion Projectors, as well as threerge Magic Illusion Projectors. As for how to divide this, it¡¯ll be up to you. What do you think?¡±

    Cassandra was stunned before looking at Xu Yi with a look of doubt.

    ¡°Why are you doing this? Xu Yi, I know that you humans have a phrase that says ¡®there are no meals that fall from the sky¡¯. For you to suddenly do this, you must have some kind of plot!¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°How could there be so many plots? I just want to run an experiment.¡±

    Seeing the vignt look on Cassandra¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh and spread his hands, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be direct. I want you to help us test something for ourpany, we want to see how receptive you dragons are to these two things. If there are many dragons that like them, we can definitely continue trading with them in the future and everyone will get what they need. Could it be that this kind of simple business deal is considered a plot by you?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. You humans are always deceitful and when making deals with you humans, the other races will always suffer.¡± Cassandra had a look of disdain as she said this.

    ¡°Hey, not every single one of us humans are bad, alright? It¡¯s just that there are a few more people with sly intentions when doing business. Then again, the decision is in your hands, so do you think that I would make you suffer a loss?¡± Xu Yi said in an aggrieved voice.

    Cassandra tilted her head like a naughty little girl to think before giving a nod.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. Alright, I promise you, but I can¡¯t guarantee that they will like it. When they don¡¯t like it, I won¡¯t give back the things that you give me.¡±

    ¡°Of course. Since I¡¯ve already given it as a present, how could I take it back?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    Cassandra waved her hand and was about to leave when she suddenly thought of something. She turned around to look at Xu Yi with a grin, ¡°Xu Yi, since you¡¯re giving a gift, why not be more generous? Other than those Magic Sedans and Magic Illusion Projectors, how about you give me some of the things that I¡¯ve been ying with in the past few days as well? Perhaps my nsmen will also be interested in them?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help blinking before reevaluating Cassandra.

    Who said that this dragon only had the intelligence of a little human girl?

    That smile was just as sly as a human merchant¡¯s!

    After looking at Cassandra for a bit, Xu Yi could only grit his teeth and give a helpless nod.

    ¡°Alright, I promise you. As long as you¡¯re interested in it, I¡¯ll let you bring back a few things¡­¡­¡±

    Cassandra immediately revealed a smile and stood on her tiptoes to pat Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you are a very good human, I like you very much. Alright, I¡¯ll go test out the Magic Race Cars now,e look for me when you¡¯ve prepared the rest!¡±

    After throwing this down, Cassandra ran off without leaving a trace.

    Xu Yi could only watch her run off with a bitter smile, thinking that he couldn¡¯t look down on the other intelligent races.

    Especially the dragons that were considered the most intelligent race, it wasn¡¯t easy to cheat them.

    ¡°Xu Yi¡­..you really are powerful.¡± Seveni came from the side. She looked in the direction Cassandra had run off while saying in an emotional voice, ¡°When you made deals with the elves, the dwarves, and the halfling, I felt very surprised. I never thought that you would n to do business with the dragons as well¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°This isn¡¯t anything strange. The dragons have their own demand and as long as there is demand, wouldn¡¯t it be possible to make a deal?¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a strange look.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you have emphasized before that your status as a merchant is more important than your status as a magician, but now I feel¡­..that you really are clear on your status.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°That is called staying true to oneself. What? Seveni, are you interested in doing business with the dragons? You can take it as a test of the future development on the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    Seveni looked at the fire red Magic Race Car running along the track and there was a bit of hope that appeared in her eyes as she gave a slow nod.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯m looking forward to it very much.¡±

 Volume 7 49 - The desire for living space

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 49 - The desire for living space</h4>

    Once Seveni left, elder Illusia, elder Lisanya, and elder Undine arrived at the Stantine Duchy together.

    The day after Cassandra had appeared, Arch Magus Cami had already told the three elven elders about this dragon because of the legend of the Abyss Demon Race.

    The three elders had already been here twenty days ago and had a long conversation with Cassandra.

    From Cassandra, the three elders learned that the legend of the Abyss Demon Race was real, but they also learned that the Abyss Demon Race wasn¡¯t as terrifying as the legends. They wouldn¡¯t arrive in this world to bring the end of the world and destroy the entire world¡­¡­

    Although this was only information from Cassandra alone, since she was a legendary dragon that was at the same level as the Abyss Demon Race, it seemed credible when she said this.

    So after talking to Cassandra, whether it was Arch Magus Cami or the three elven elders, they all let out a sigh of relief.

    But the three elders couldn¡¯tpletely rx, so they hoped that they could send people to the Fire Rock Ind where the dragons lived with Cassandra, so they could ask the other dragons and the other races of the Magic Cloud Continent about the Abyss Demon Race.

    They came back again to bring the people that they had selected with them.

    ording to the agreement, the three elf tribes would choose twenty elves each to go with the fleet this time.

    Other than meeting the dragon race and the other races, they would also reinforce the elves that were sent on the first open sea exploration fleet.

    But when Xu Yi met these three elders, he found that there were over fifty elves behind each elder.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia with a surprised look, ¡°Elder Illusia, the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Azshara Tribe have bigger poptions, so it¡¯s fine if they send more people. Why are you sending this many people? Isn¡¯t your tribe short on manpower?¡±

    Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, ¡°The secret of the Abyss Demon Race is an important matter, it¡¯s reasonable even if we sent everyone from our tribe.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at elder Lisanya and elder Undine who had serious looks before turning back to elder Illusia. He couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°I say, elder Illusia, I acknowledge that you¡¯ve learned how to hide yourself in human society, but to hide yourself in front of me¡­..you¡¯re still too early.¡±

    Elder Illusia blinked before asking, ¡°Is my acting really that bad?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just that bad.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look. He looked at elder Lisanya and elder Undine before asking in a deep voice, ¡°Alright, just tell me what you want to do. We¡¯ve been friends for many years, what is there that can¡¯t be said?¡±

    The three elders looked at each other and after hesitating a bit, elder Lisanya said with a smile, ¡°Alright, we won¡¯t hide it then. Chairman Xu, I heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning on developing this new continent?¡±

    ¡°Un, we do have this n. What? You¡¯re interested?¡±

    ¡°We are very interested.¡± Elder Undine took over as she had a serious look on her face, ¡°Chairman Xu, as you can see, the Sines Continent ispletely controlled by you humans and there isn¡¯t much space to develop for us elves. Now that there¡¯s a whole new continent, I feel that this is a very good chance for all of us elves.¡±

    ¡°This means¡­..that you want to get some territory that belongs to you elves on the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows to ask, ¡°Three elders, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m looking down on you, but with your current power¡­..do you really think that you can do this? It isn¡¯t like the Magic Cloud Continent doesn¡¯t have any living beings, perhaps there are more powerful races than us humans there?¡±

    ¡°So don¡¯t we need to explore it first?¡± Elder Lisanya replied, ¡°Now that we¡¯ve had this idea, as for how to implement it, naturally it would depend on the circumstances. Of course, the most important thing in my opinion is the support of chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the three elders and he could see that they weren¡¯t joking at all.

    It had already been fifteen years since he met the Night Song Tribe led by elder Illusia.

    In these fifteen years, Xu Yi had always been close to the elves and even married Agnes and Tvisti. It could be said that his rtionship with the elves was quite close.

    He knew better than anyone the desire that the elves had for living space.

    Just like elder Undine had said, the Sines Continent was already controlled by the humans, so there were few ces to live for the elves.

    So now that there was a brand new continent in front of them, it was like a delicious piece of meat that was ced in front of people that had been starving for several days. It was very enticing and they couldn¡¯t resist it at all.

    Xu Yi thought about it for a bit before giving a sigh.

    ¡°Alright, three elders, I understand what you are thinking. However, before this, I have to remind you that after several years of development, your three tribes have already set up a decent foundation in our human society. So even if you want to go to the new continent to find a bigger living space, I feel that you shouldn¡¯t give up the foundation that you¡¯ve worked so hard to build here.¡±

    ¡°Who said that we¡¯re giving it up?¡± Elder Lisanya looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes, ¡°We¡¯re earning several million or even up to ten million gold coins a year now, it would be a pity to give all that up. We are also counting on buying military magic machines from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce with that money, so we can prepare to enter the new continent in the future.¡±

    ¡°Right.¡± Elder Illusia nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, if our exploration of the Magic Cloud Continent goes smoothly, it is very likely we¡¯ll need your support in terms of military magic machines. I hope that you will support us when the timees.¡±

    ¡°Well¡­..It¡¯s too early to say anything, so let¡¯s wait and see what the situation of the Magic Cloud Continent is first.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right.¡±

    The three elders naturally understood that this would take a long time and there were many things to prepare. It would be impossible to decide everything now.

    So the three elders left the hundred and fifty elves they¡¯ve brought to Xu Yi, to let him sort out their ces on the reinforcement fleet that would be leaving in a few days before heading off to meet Cassandra again.

    As the oldest intelligent race on the Sines Continent, although they were still much younger than Cassandra, because they received many inheritances from the elf race, they knew more about the ancient legends of the continent better than normal people. There were quite a few things that they could confirm from Cassandra.

    However, when Xu Yi brought them to the valley that Cassandra hid in all day, there wasn¡¯t a sign of this giant dragon.

    ¡°Did that fellow run off somewhere to y again?¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit of a headache.

    Cassandra was very important to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now, whether it was leading the reinforcement fleet or the new continent, she was very important.

    However, she was a legendary dragon and they couldn¡¯t prevent her from running around like she was a prisoner.

    But she was very curious about the novel things in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, so she would run around when she wasn¡¯t watching illusion films.

    It was a good thing that she had remembered Xu Yi¡¯s order and always changed into human form when she went out to y.

    Otherwise, she would have already caused a big mess.

    Looking around, after confirming that Cassandra wasn¡¯t ying nearby, Xu Yi reached into his chest for a Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Hey, Hart, where did Cassandra go?¡±

    Because it was impossible to treat Cassandra like a prisoner and it was impossible to let her run around, Xu Yi had the guard leader Hart personally lead a team to follow Cassandra around.

    Other than letting them meet Cassandra¡¯s request and to prevent her from causing any trouble, it also allowed him to know her location.

    After a while, there was a clear voice from the Magic Communicator. It wasn¡¯t the anticipated voice of Hart, but rather Akali¡¯s familiar voice.

    ¡°Sir chairman! We seeded! We seeded!¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°What did you seed with? Is it your recent project? Let me think¡­..is it the magic signal cross transmission?¡±

    ¡°Un! Oh, no¡­¡­it isn¡¯t this¡­¡­but it can be considered this¡­¡­¡± Akali said in words that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand. She seemed so excited that she couldn¡¯t organize her words.

    Xu Yi was confused while also feeling a bit of excitement.

    Akali¡¯s current project was rted to the magicmunicationwork. If they could obtain a major breakthrough, they would be one step closer to creating a magicmunicationwork that could cover the entire world.

    If they could have this perfectmunicationwork, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t need this dragon Cassandra to bring him news, but rather he could contact the open sea exploration fleet that was ten thousand kilometers away. There was no doubt that this would be much more convenient.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi finally reacted. He didn¡¯t call this time to ask about Akali¡¯s research progress even though it was important, he called to find out Cassandra¡¯s location.

    ¡°Wait, Akali, why did you pick up? Where¡¯s Hart? Also where¡¯s Cassandra?¡±

    ¡°Leader Hart is with me and as for Cassandra¡­¡­¡± On the other side, Akali seemed to be quickly talking to someone on the other side before saying, ¡°Sir chairman, we really have to thank miss Cassandra for the breakthrough this time!¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised.

    How was Cassandra rted to Akali¡¯s research?

 Volume 7 50 - All for research

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 50 - All for research</h4>

    Xu Yi and the three elven elders rushed to the experiment site set up outside the main base. They saw that Cassandra was in her dragon form and was flying in the air. The magic power wrapped around her and various types of different elemental magic energy flowed back and forth, looking very powerful.

    ¡°What is she doing?¡± Xu Yi looked at the figure floating in the sky before asking Akali who was writing down notes on the side in a nervous voice, ¡°Moreover, how can you have her change back into her dragon form? Didn¡¯t I say that we can¡¯t reveal this?¡±

    ¡°Ah? Sir chairman, you¡¯re here.¡± Akali looked at Xu Yi before turning to look at Cassandra. Then she casually told her subordinates to do some things.

    Seeing that she was busy, Xu Yi shook his head and moved to the side.

    The three elders that came with Xu Yi flew over. Elder Undine looked at Cassandra before saying in a doubtful voice, ¡°It seems like she¡¯s using some kind of special Dragon Word Magic?¡±

    ¡°Dragon Word Magic?¡± Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya looked at each other before shaking their heads.

    The Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe didn¡¯te from the elven royal family like the Azshara Tribe, so they didn¡¯t have that many inheritances from the elves. They had heard of the Dragon Word Magic, but they didn¡¯t understand it that much.

    Now that they had seen it, they found that this magic was different from the elven magic or the magic improved by the humans, so it was very likely that this magic was the legendary Dragon Word Magic.

    But the problem was¡­¡­why was Cassandra using this Dragon Word Magic here?

    The three elders stood with Xu Yi as they watched Cassandra condense more and more elemental magic energy. After condensing it, it created a giant sphere around her dragon form.

    Then this giant sphere that was made of different elemental magic energy separated from her body, slowly floating there in the air.

    The researchers on the ground pulled out a weird looking machine from an unknown ce and the tip of it was pointed at the elemental energy ball in the air. After a dazzling disy, there was a light blue magic glow that appeared at the tip that was injected right into the elemental energy ball.

    The elemental energy sphere reacted and a glow that contained the aura of different elemental magic energy shot back. It followed the light blue glow that had been shot out earlier andnded right at the tip.

    All the researchers including Akali revealed looks of wild pleasant surprise. They came closer to the strange machine and then kept discussing it in loud voices.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, what are they doing?¡± Elder Lisanya couldn¡¯t help asking Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I don¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡± The three elders looked at Xu Yi in disbelief, ¡°You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, how do you not know the research of your subordinates?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t strange.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°There are many categories of magic machine research right now. Although I have been driving this research, it is impossible for me to know every part of it. But¡­¡­they should be conducting research into magic signal feedback. This is a very important project for the magicmunicationwork.¡±

    The three elven elders were confused when they heard this. After looking at each other, they gave up asking about this.

    At this time, Cassandra found that Xu Yi was standing on the side and with a p of her wings, she flew over.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, you found me this quickly. Is it because you¡¯ve already prepared the things that you want to give me?¡±

    ¡°How could it be that quick?¡± Xu Yi shook his head before pointing at the three elven elders, ¡°It¡¯s the three of them that have something to discuss with you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s you three again.¡± Cassandra looked at the three elders and didn¡¯t hide the look of impatience in her eyes, ¡°Didn¡¯t I already answer your questionsst time? What else is there to ask? I¡¯m busy watching the illusion films, I still have the ones from yesterday to watch.¡±

    Seeing looks asking for help from the three elders, Xu Yi gave a cough before saying to Cassandra, ¡°Right, Cassandra, I forgot to introduce you. This is elder Undine, ourpany¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector was based on the rted Illusion Magic developed by elder Undine¡¯s Azshara Tribe. Also, although the illusion films that you watched were mainly filmed by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, the Azshara Tribe has yed arge role in making them.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Cassandra revealed a look of interest as she looked at elder Undine, ¡°Then you cane with me. I¡¯ll talk to you while watching the films.¡±

    She pped her wings after saying this and flew towards the valley that she hid in.

    The three elders revealed helpless bitter looks as they followed along shaking their heads.

    After the team led by Hart also followed them, Xu Yi came over to where Akali and the researchers were.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, exin to me now, just what was going on here?¡±

    Akali looked at the researchers discussing among themselves and after hesitating a bit, she brought Xu Yi to the side.

    ¡°Sir chairman, do you remember how you proposed that we build something like the magic signal tower in the sky, so we can avoid the limitations of terrain and send magic signals to any ce more conveniently?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi nodded.

    This concept without a doubt came to Xu Yi when he thought of those man made satellites on earth.

    In his opinion, if this world had something simr, then it wasn¡¯t a problem tomunicate over tens of thousands of kilometers.

    ¡°Could it be that you had some sess?¡±

    ¡°How could that be possible?¡± Akali stuck out her tongue before pointing at the elemental magic energy sphere floating in the sky as she said in an excited voice, ¡°But with Cassandra¡¯s help, we¡¯ve made a very important breakthrough in this matter!¡±

    ¡°You want to use that thing as a magic signal transfer station?¡± Xu Yi looked at the strange elemental magic energy sphere and knitted his brows, ¡°This thing clearly isn¡¯t stable, so it¡¯s feasibility is close to zero.¡±

    ¡°That doesn¡¯t matter. The main process of creating this elemental magic energy sphere is using Dragon Word Magic to gather elemental magic energy, so its essence is still magic. As long as it¡¯s magic, we can use a Magic Array to simte it in theory. Isn¡¯t this what sir chairman told us before?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­that is right. But the Dragon Word Magic is very different from the magic that we humans and the elves use, so are you certain you can develop this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No problem!¡± Akali gave a fist pump, ¡°But sir chairman, can you have Cassandra stay for a bit longer? Our research is at a critical point and we need her.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t possible.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The schedule has already been set, you can¡¯t make her stay because of this research. Don¡¯t forget, the countless people in the fleet that we sent outst year are waiting ten thousand kilometers away.¡±

    ¡°Right¡­¡­¡± Akali revealed a depressed look, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s finally hope of making a breakthrough in my research and I¡¯m certain that this will change the history of magicmunication on the continent! If you let Cassandra leave like this, wouldn¡¯t there be no hope for this research?¡±

    ¡°Who told you there was no hope? Can¡¯t Cassandrae back after leaving this time?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Akali was surprised, ¡°She¡¯sing back? Why? Didn¡¯t the dragons already leave the Sines Continent a long time ago?¡±

    ¡°But she came back this time. Since she came back once, there will be a second time and other times. After all, it¡¯s very likely that ourpany will be business partners with the dragons in the future. When that timees, not to mention Cassandra, I might even be able to invite several dragon experts to help with your research. How about it? Are you satisfied?¡±

    ¡°It would be great if it was like that!¡± Akali immediately became excited, ¡°Sir chairman, you have to invite those dragon experts as soon as possible! The dream of nomunication barrier that you mentioned before will depend on them!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t be excited. It¡¯ll take at least two months to go back and forth from the habitats of the dragons and it¡¯ll take time to negotiate with the dragons. I think¡­..that it will be at least next year when this happens.¡±

    ¡°Next year?¡± The happy look that Akali had immediately fell, ¡°Sir chairman, can you go a bit faster?¡±

    ¡°You want to go faster? Only if you go to the dragon race to invite them, otherwise¡­¡­¡±

    When he was halfway done, Xu Yi¡¯s heart skipped a beat. Seeing the excited look in Akali¡¯s eyes, he knew that he made a mistake.

    As expected, after Akali was in a daze, she suddenly waved her hands.

    ¡°Right! We¡¯ll do this! Sir chairman, since the dragons can¡¯te here, then we¡¯ll just go to them! My research is at a critical stage right now and it can¡¯t be dyed! Sir chairman, I¡¯ve decided, I want to lead my team to go with the reinforcement fleet!¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly covered his face and said with a sigh, ¡°Akali, are you crazy? That ce is ten thousand kilometers away, you want to run that far?¡±

    ¡°For research, distance is no issue!¡± Akali said in a fervent voice.

    ¡°But if you go, what about your research work here?¡±

    ¡°Just leave the basic research here to others. I¡¯m only responsible for the most cutting edge theoretical research and now that I¡¯ve finally found a way to break through, how could I let it go? Sir chairman, don¡¯t try to convince me, I¡¯ve already made my decision!¡±

    Seeing Akali¡¯s two glowing eyes, Xu Yi who knew her personality knew that she wouldn¡¯t listen to anyone¡¯s persuasion at this time.

    But thinking of how the reinforcement fleet would now have this magicmunication research team, he felt a deep sense of absurdity from it.

    It was clearly only a fleet that was providing materials to the first open sea exploration fleet, why were there all kinds of different things mixed up with it now?

 Volume 7 51 - Legend confirmed

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 51 - Legend confirmed</h4>

    Five dayster, there were fiverge transport Magic Ships, thirty guard ships, ten Magic Airships, one hundred small Magic Speed Boats, and two thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that left the harbour outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    This fleet could be considered thergest and most heavily armed fleet that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had established in their history.

    Other than the two thousand guards, there were also reinforcements from each department. The ship also had three hundred people from the Lampuri Kingdom and one hundred and fifty elves from the three elf tribes, which made the member distribution veryplicated.

    For this fleet, their core duty was to bring goods and manpower to reinforce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet, helping them explore the local area, building an advance base, and also creating an appropriatemunication channel.

    Other than this, the extra people that came with the fleet had different missions.

    For example, the people sent by the Lampuri Kingdom and the three elf tribes would be there to explore the Magic Cloud Continent. Akali¡¯s small team was there to see if they could cooperate with the elves on their research. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction force was to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set up an outpost, while also inspecting the conditions of Fire Rock Ind¡­¡­.

    In short, this fleet had many different missions. So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent this fleet, they used half of the Magic Ships that they had built over the years, as well as squeezing out two thousand troops from their guards that were already short handed. It was all to make sure that this mission would go as smoothly as possible.

    ording to the information that Cassandra provided, this fleet should arrive at Fire Rock Ind in a month if there were no idents and meet up with the open sea exploration fleet.

    Then they would stay on Fire Rock Ind for half a month before sending people to explore the Magic Cloud Continent that Cassandra said wasn¡¯t far away.

    Because it was only preliminary exploration, they wouldn¡¯t go too deeply. They would just learn a few things about the Magic Cloud Continent.

    For example, the terrain, the weather, the society, and other things¡­¡­

    The main thing was to figure out the distribution of forces on the Magic Cloud Continent, making it easier tond in the future.

    Because the dragon race didn¡¯t care about this, they couldn¡¯t provide any information and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to gather it themselves.

    The most important hindrance to them gathering information was that ording to Cassandra, there were no humans on the Magic Cloud Continent. So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s group that was mainly made of humans stepped on the Magic Cloud Continent, they would attract the attention of the locals and it would be hard to predict how they would react.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about this.

    Based on the level of technology on the Sines Continent previously, the Magic Cloud Continent that was in the same world shouldn¡¯t have been much better.

    Otherwise, Cassandra wouldn¡¯t have found the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines so new and strange.

    The only thing that they needed to worry about was if there was a local race of the Magic Cloud Continent that had powerful battle strength.

    But Cassandra had stated that there wasn¡¯t an intelligent race on the Magic Cloud Continent that could threaten their dragon race. Even if there was such a race, they wouldn¡¯t be so strong that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards loaded with military magic machines couldn¡¯t deal with them.

    Because knew nothing about the Magic Cloud Continent, it was unknown how long this would take.

    But Xu Yi had ordered the two fleets to send back reports on the first of every month so he could understand the general situation.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi could direct them from long range.

    Because it would take a month for Xu Yi to receive the reports, it was impossible to direct them with this information.

    So most of the main things on the Maglc Cloud Continent would rely on the people of the fleet to handle.

    Although Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel relieved about this, he was forced into this situation.

    Thinking of this helpless situation, he could only hope that Akali¡¯s team would make a breakthrough and create the long distancemunication signal as soon as possible.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi was a bit happy that Akali was bringing her team to Fire Rock Ind to work with the dragons.

    With Cassandra as an intermediary¡­¡­Eh, intermediary dragon, the dragon race should have a reason to have peaceful contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then with the novel magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a good rtionship with the dragons, this would be very helpful to Akali working with the dragons.

    But no matter how smoothly Akali¡¯s research went, it was impossible to build this hightitudemunicationwork that quickly.

    So Xu Yi had no other choice.

    There was no shortcut in developing technology.

    He had brought the mechanical engineering theories from earth, but he had already used them all. If he wanted to depend purely on this mechanical engineering knowledge to quickly develop magic machines on the continent, that would be nothing more than wishful thinking.

    In the beginning, he had yed a huge role and the magic machine industry had developed very quickly, but the reason for that was because before he appeared, the Sines Continent was like a nk te.

    Now after ten years of development and research, the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent gradually became more specialized and had distinct ssifications, so there were various kinds of experts appearing.

    Even Xu Yi wasn¡¯t able to be familiar with every aspect of the magic machine industry.

    He was still the most knowledgeable person when it came to mechanical engineering theory, but when it came to magic, that wasn¡¯t necessarily true.

    In the end, even if he was a powerful Five Star Great Magician, he wasn¡¯t an Arch Magus in the end. He wasn¡¯t able to participate in the peak research like those true Arch Magi.

    But when it came to the foundational and most essential magic research, Xu Yi surpassed all other magicians.

    Seven years ago, Xu Yi had proposed analyzing magic with data and had turned the mysterious magic in the eyes of the people into a data driven study subject.

    After two years of working with Arch Magus Cami, the theory of magic data analysis method that Xu Yi proposed four years ago had officially been epted by the magicians circle of the Sines Continent.

    After many sessful experiments, the Frestech Academy had allowed many normal people who had been deemed to not have any magic talent be capable of learning magic, so the magicians of the Sines Continent had gradually epted this new theoretical knowledge.

    On the current Sines Continent, this theory was being promoted which created a new method of researching magic.

    Like the team that Akali led, they paid great attention to data when it came to their magic signal research. With Akali as their leader, all the magicians of this research team couldn¡¯t take the vague concepts like ¡°feeling the magic fluctuations¡± or ¡°gathering more and more elemental magic energy¡± like they had heard when they learned magic.

    This time, they were nning on working with the dragons. Akali would definitely have to put in quite a bit of effort to understand the even more vague concepts of the Dragon Word Magic.

    ¡°But¡­..this doesn¡¯t matter to me.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug. He took onest look at the horizon before heading back into the room.

    The fleet had already set off and because themunication wasn¡¯t established, he could only wish them well in his heart and couldn¡¯t do anything else.

    Compared to this, he should pay more attention to the matters of the Sines Continent.

    The third day after the fleet departed, the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? announced a piece of news that had attracted the attention of everyone on the continent.

    This news was reported as major news on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but just the title was enough to shock everyone.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s second open sea exploration fleet sets out! Goal, the new continent!¡±

    New continent!

    Gods!

    Was there actually a new continent?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had actually found a new continent?

    When people read the content of this report, they found something even more shocking.

    The one that brought the information of the new continent was actually a dragon!

    Gods!

    It¡¯s the dragon race!

    It was the dragon race that only existed in legends!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet had actually met a dragon!

    New continent and dragon, these two phrases were like two daggers that had stabbed everyone¡¯s hearts.

    These two things had already be legends on the Sines Continent and no one had believed that they existed.

    But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has confirmed these two things at once!

    Everyone¡¯s first reaction was that¡­¡­this was a joke!

    However, when they thought of how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no reason to y this joke and not to mention that the news published in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? was usually true, instead of being published in the ?Banta Times? which people thought was the mouthpiece of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this should prove that they weren¡¯t joking at all.

    Then¡­..this was true?

    But even if the dragon race and the new continent truly existed, the implications hidden would be too much¡­¡­

    So after this news was posted in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, there were countless people on the Sines Continent that made their moves.

 Volume 7 52 - New world

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 52 - New world</h4>

    A cold wind blew past and Russell, who was moving fast, felt a chill. He couldn¡¯t help shivering and digging deeper into his clothes, while also moving faster towards the deepest part of the royal pce.

    Seeing his majesty¡¯s exclusive study that was several hundred meters away, Russell gave a secret sigh.

    On such a cold day, he wanted to stay in his room and enjoy the warmth of the Magic Air Conditioner. He wanted to drink some hot ck tea while enjoying the scenery of the newest ?Overlooking the Sines Continent? produced by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, but now he had been forced toe to the royal pce that was several kilometers away from his house. He really did suffer for this.

    It was a good thing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed the warm and fast Magic Sedan, so he didn¡¯t need to spend that much time on the road and he wouldn¡¯t make his majesty unhappy by waiting too long.

    But when he entered the royal pce, he didn¡¯t have a convenient tool to use and could only rely on his legs to walk over.

    The Candra Empire royal pce was the biggest building on the continent. To show off the power of the empire, any ce in the royal pce had a distance of several hundred meters or even a kilometer between them. Russell had taken a full twenty minutes toe from the entrance to the emperor¡¯s private study that he had been called to, which could even be considered a small jog.

    Thinking of this, Russell suddenly thought of something else.

    It was said that the manager of the royal pce had once suggested that if the royal pce had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Elevators installed, it would save quite a bit of time when moving through the royal pce. It would also save his majesty quite a bit of effort from moving around the royal pce.

    But this clearly very practical and easy to use suggestion was denied by his majesty.

    Although his majesty had given the reason that this would cost too much and it wasn¡¯t worth it, after Russell had seen theplex terrain of the royal pce, he suddenly felt that this wasn¡¯t the real reason why his majesty had rejected this suggestion.

    In order for the Candra Empire¡¯s emperor to remain aloof, the royal pce was built on a mountain that was very high up, which meant that there were differing levels in the royal pce. For example, from the main hall to his majesty¡¯s personal study, it was over several hundred meters, but there was also a height difference of several dozen meters.

    This kind ofplex terrain made it difficult for people to go through the royal pce, but it also made it very easy to defend and it was quite good when it came to security.

    His majesty refused to ce Magic Elevators that would go up and down mainly because he was considering this.

    Of course, perhaps there was also another reason. The emperor had been stressing to the ministers in court that they had to develop the Candra Empire¡¯s own magic machine industry, trying their best to decrease their reliance on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Him refusing to install the Magic Elevator that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, wasn¡¯t this considered setting an example?

    But Russell could understand the emperor¡¯s ideas and he felt that the Candra Empire as one of the two empires, having such arge country rely on a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce for many things was uneptable. But when it came to certain things, he had to admit that they had no choice but to rely on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, the urgent matter that his majesty had summoned him to discuss, it was impossible to avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When he met the emperor, he was currently standing by a wall in the study, looking at a giant map of the Sines Continent that was hanging there, as if he was considering something.

    Hearing Russelle in, the emperor didn¡¯t turn back as he directly said, ¡°Russell,e and take a look.¡±

    Russell quickly gave his coat to a maid before heading over.

    ¡°Your majesty, I¡¯veete. Please forgive me.¡±

    Emperor Candra shook his head and picked up a thin stick before pointing at where the Candra Empire was on the map.

    ¡°Russell, do you see this? Our Candra Empire can only upy this amount of space on the Sines Continent.¡±

    Russell looked up at the giant map. The piece that represented the Candra Empire, which was clearly thergest country on the Sines Continent, took up one fourth of thend on the continent. His majesty still felt that this was small?

    Of course, as the emperor, he would never feel that thend under his name would be too much.

    Perhaps his majesty wanted to incorporate the entire Sines Continent under his rule.

    ¡°Your majesty, as long as we keep up our efforts and increase our national strength, our Candra Empire will be stronger and stronger.¡± Russell said in a deep voice.

    Emperor Candra gave augh. He moved the stick in his hand and pointed at the white space to the left that represented the endless seas.

    ¡°You might think that our Candra Empire is big enough, but if you think about it, the empire only has a small piece ofnd on the Sines Continent. There is still the Magic Cloud Continent and three other continents that haven¡¯t been proven yet. When ites to the world, our Candra Empire isn¡¯t worth anything.¡±

    Russell¡¯s heart trembled. He looked at the emperor and seeing the sad look on his face, he also felt emotional.

    ¡°Your majesty, you¡¯ve also seen the newest issue of ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly??¡±

    ¡°Right.¡± Emperor Candra gave a nod, ¡°The newest issue of ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? announced the newest report of their open sea exploration fleet. The report said that they had already proven the existence of the Magic Cloud Continent and based on the survey results of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this Magic Cloud Continent is even bigger than our Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Other than the Magic Cloud Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also reported that there might be the existence of three other continents. If they could verify this, then there would be four more continents in this world, it wouldn¡¯t just be our Sines Continent.¡±

    After saying this, Emperor Candra gave augh filled with self ridicule.

    ¡°We had thought that the continent was the entire world, but now it seems like those things of legends were true and we had stayed on the Sines Continent like trash!¡±

    Russell knew that his majesty was only venting his feelings and there was no need for him to speak, so he remained silent.

    As expected, after Emperor Candra was emotional for a bit, he suddenly hit the map with his stick and raised his voice.

    ¡°Russell, after learning this, do you still think that our empire is very big?¡±

    There was a strange look that appeared in Russell¡¯s face.

    After thinking about it, he said in a low voice, ¡°Your majesty, if you wish to conquer the broader world, this minister is willing to fight to the death on your order.¡±

    Emperor Candra gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°Your ideas are good, but they are only ideas right now. Even if we wanted to conquer the new continent, we don¡¯t even have a ship that can reach it, so talking about it now is just nonsense.¡±

    Russell raised his head as a sparkle appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°Your majesty, as long as you give the order, the empire¡¯s navy won¡¯tin even if we have to sail tens of thousands of kilometers!¡±

    Emperor Candra revealed a smile before turning back to sit down and hinting for Russell to sit in front of him.

    ¡°I am very happy with the royal navy¡¯s loyalty to me, but as I¡¯ve said before, the navy doesn¡¯t even have a single ship that can sail ten thousand kilometers to the new continent. Even if you are loyal, it doesn¡¯t mean that you can do anything for me.¡±

    Hearing this, Russell had confirmed his majesty¡¯s intentions. He was filled with excitement as he kept asking, ¡°Your majesty, are you¡­..¡±

    Emperor Candra raised his hand to cut Russell off as he asked, ¡°Russell, tell me, do you think that it¡¯s possible that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would sell their seafaring Magic Ships to our royal navy?¡±

    Russell¡¯s heart was filled with joy, but he revealed an awkward look. After knitting his brows to think for a bit, he shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m afraid that it would be difficult. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has only started mass producing these seafaring Magic Ships in recent years. Until now, as far as I know, there are only a hundred and no more than a hundred fiftyrge transport Magic Ships and Magic Guard Ships that can sail the seas. They don¡¯t even have enough of those ships to use themselves, so they wouldn¡¯t have any extras to sell to us.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing in this world that can¡¯t be bought.¡± Emperor Candra said in a very certain tone, ¡°The reason that it wouldn¡¯t sell is because the starting price isn¡¯t high enough.¡±

    ¡°But your majesty¡­¡­the royal navy doesn¡¯t have that much money¡­¡­¡± Russell deliberately revealed a helpless look.

    Emperor Candra revealed a faint smile and raised a finger to wave at Russell before saying with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t act like that in front of me, I¡¯m very clear on the situation of the royal navy. I called you here this time was to have you test the Frestech Chamber of Commerce first to see what kind of price they¡¯re willing to sell the seafaring Magic Ships for. If the price is good, I wouldn¡¯t mind proposing to the empire¡¯s parliament that we increase the navy¡¯s budget next year.¡±

    After finally getting the answer that he wanted from the emperor, Russell was filled with joy. He quickly stood up to give him a bow before respectfully saying, ¡°This minister represents the entire navy to thank your majesty!¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m doing this for the future of the empire.¡± Emperor Candra turned to look at the giant map on the wall and gave a sigh, ¡°When the legends were still legends, we could still sit here watching them. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has put a whole new world in front of us, if we still act the same as before, it would be impossible to guarantee the empire¡¯s future.¡±

 Volume 7 53 - Five Year Cushion

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 53 - Five Year Cushion</h4>

    Because it wasn¡¯t just the Candra Empire that was stirred by this news of a new continent.

    In the year 3800, based on the views of earth, this should be considered a new century.

    When the first breeze of wind came across the Sines Continent, the second fleet that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent to the Magic Cloud Continent sent back their tenth report to headquarters.

    Then after screening this report, they chose a part to send to the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, the ?Banta Times?, and the other newspapers to report, which once again lit up the enthusiasm of everyone on the Sines Continent.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reported on the new continentst year in September, there has been information on the new continent being released each month.

    The people of the Sines Continent followed each report from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as they became more and more interested in the new continent.

    The legend of the new continent had spread on the Sines Continent for thousands of years, so now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had discovered this new continent, while exploring its mysteries bit by bit, it made everyone want to understand this new continent. There were even people who wanted to go to the new continent personally to experience this new world.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reports, there were very few inhabitants on this Magic Cloud Continent. Other than the dragon race that they had met outside of this continent, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration team reached the Magic Cloud Continent, during the ten months of exploring in a five hundred square kilometers area, they had only found a few locals.

    What many people were surprised by was that among the Magic Cloud Continent locals, the one with the biggest poption were the goblins that existed in the legends of the Sines Continent as being a notorious race.

    Other than this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also found the halfling race that was said to have migrated from the Sines Continent.

    As for the rest, they hadn¡¯t found anything else yet.

    In the tenth exploration report, the main thing announced was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finished their first outpost on an ind near Fire Rock Ind.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber ofmerce would first invest more into this ind outpost, while also choosing a location near Dawn Ind where the outpost was on the Magic Cloud Continent to build a true outpost,ying foundations to explore the Magic Cloud Continent.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this, they also announced that to better explore the Magic Cloud Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was sincerely inviting people from all walks of life to explore this new world together.

    With this announcement, many people were confused.

    The value of a new continent was incrediblyrge and everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should have monopolized this news once they found the new continent, then slowly digest the value that was hidden on this new continent.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released this valuable information to the entire Sines Continent since the beginning. Now they were even inviting others to explore this new continent with them.

    Why was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this? What benefits would they get from this?

    Could it be that this was a lie from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    It was no wonder people doubted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because this just went againstmon sense too much.

    The most important thing was that from the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement of the dragons and halflings were all based on the ounts of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There weren¡¯t many people who had personally seen them.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reputation, people would have used the Frestech Chamber of Commerce of deceiving the public.

    But while some people had doubts, there were people who believed them.

    Compared to the people who half doubted them, the ones that believed them more were the high level members of each country.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released their tenth report, there were many cooperation applications regarding the Magic Ships that came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters.

    They hoped that they could work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to explore the new continent.

    The orders for the Magic Ships revealed an even deeper thought.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are we really selling the Magic Ship?¡± The past Frestech Chamber of Commerce shipyard manager and now the chairman of the Frestech Shipping Chamber of Commerce, Ike Kruger looked at the orders in his hands and deeply knitted his brows, ¡°We don¡¯t even make enough ships each year to use ourselves, how can we sell them to others?¡±

    ¡°That is why we need to urgently increase production and increase our output. My n is to let you work with several otherpanies and let them produce some of the parts of the ship. You can even let anotherpany take care of creating the hull, which should relieve most of the pressure for you. Other than this, you can also train one or a few of thepanies you are working with to grasp the ship building technology, increasing the production capacity. Headquarters will support you on this, so you don¡¯t need to worry too much.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi say this, Kruger knitted his brows even more as his face filled with unwillingness.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯re handing over our precious technology?¡± After hesitating a bit, Kruger gritted his teeth and continued, ¡°Sir chairman, if this was before, as long as it was one word from you, I would have obeyed even if I was willing. But now that the shipyard has separated from thepany and you want us to create our own paths, taking care of our profits and losses, I feel that¡­¡­your proposition¡­..might¡­..might not be a good thing for us¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So you want to reject my proposal?¡±

    Kruger scratched his head, looking very awkward.

    ¡°If sir chairman insists, of course I¡¯ll listen to you. But¡­..But¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder with a smile, ¡°If you¡¯re really not willing, I won¡¯t force you. But Kruger, you should seriously consider this. Does my proposition have more benefits or disadvantages for the shippingpany? Don¡¯te up with an answer yourself too quickly. Think more of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s history and perhaps you¡¯ll find an answer.¡±

    Seeing Kruger deeply knit his brows, slowly leaving while thinking about it, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s departments were released into their ownpanies, although it saved the higher level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially Xu Yi quite a bit of trouble, while also giving more prospects to each department and strengthened thepany as a whole, this also caused each department to have their own ideas. They wouldn¡¯t just listen to his orders as the chairman without thinking about it like before.

    If this was before, with a single order from Xu Yi, any technology could be released and the others would only question it, but they definitely wouldn¡¯t refute it.

    But now that he wanted the shippingpany to release some ship building technology and develop the ship building industry on the Sines Continent, especially developing the seafaring Magic Ship industry, Kruger had hesitated.

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t force Kruger because this was something that he had to experience after going from a manager to a chairman.

    If Kruger could liberate his thoughts, then he could continue in this position.

    If he couldn¡¯t, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be lenient.

    Of course, even if Kruger had suddenly be bold and developed the ship building industry with the otherpanies, with the current foundation of the steel Magic Ship industry on the continent, it would take several years to reach the scale that Xu Yi wanted.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received many orders forrge seafaring Magic Ships, they wouldn¡¯t be able toplete them in a short period of time.

    It was a good thing that all the customers recognized this and other than urging them to go faster, they could only wait.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, they would have to wait at least five years before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldplete the first order.

    This meant that in at least five years, the Sines Continent could have another seafaring fleet other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s.

    In these five years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to monopolize the information and resources of the new continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to achieve enough in these five years to have an advantage when the era of exploration came to the Sines Continent in five years.

    As for the worries of the people in thepany, after the other countries and powers had the ability to sail the seas, there would be many people who could participate in the development of the new continent. The problem that it would affect the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi didn¡¯t doubt it, but he also didn¡¯t worry about it.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany.

    Based on the current exploration of the Magic Cloud Continent, the Magic Cloud Continent was even bigger than the Sines Continent and also had much more resources.

    Just with a Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, it would be impossible to develop the entire Magic Cloud Continent.

    Because whether it was manpower or resources, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would becking.

    So the better way was to pull in investors and develop it together.

    This wasmonly seen on earth.

    For Kruger who grew up on the Sines Continent, this wasn¡¯t easily understood.

    To them, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t swallow it all at once, they could do it slowly.

    With the ability and high speed development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would be able to control the Magic Cloud Continent sooner orter.

    However, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to do this.

    The reason was very simple, it was because he had reached forty years old this year¡­¡­

 Volume 7 54 - Rise In Cost

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 54 - Rise In Cost</h4>

    The news of the new continent naturally stirred the appetites of all the countries, but they also understood that without the ability to travel on the seas, all discussion was meaningless.

    Compared to this, consolidating their own development was more important because only by doing this would there be a chance to grasp the chance to develop the new continent.

    If they fell behind before this, then there was no need to mention anything.

    So once the news of the new continent was released bit by bit by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other countries started investing more and more into developing their magic machine industries.

    Thepanies under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received many applications to cooperate every day from the variouspanies and countries of the continent. It had caused all the workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be swamped.

    Actually, the busiest and the most popr was without a doubt the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce led by Ankhto.

    Household magic machines had already entered the hearts of the people, so everyone understood that household magic machines would make their lives more convenient andfortable. There was more and more investment into household magic machinepanies being made.

    Just in the first four months of the year, there were over a hundredpanies that made applications to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to purchase household magic machine technology. Among them included applications for all the current technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released.

    In order to satisfy thisrge demand, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed with the appeals of countless people and announced at the beginning of the year that they would be releasing another thirty seven household magic machine technologies. Among them would include technologies like the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Refrigerator, and other high end magic machines that they had never released before.

    Like this, all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current household magic machine technologies were released. This made it so that all the otherpanies could produce the household magic machines that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce before, causing them to lose their monopoly.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still led all the otherpanies when it came to technology and craftsmanship. Even if they had the same things, the quality of the Frestech Brand was still better than the brands of the otherpanies.

    Then adding the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already be the symbol of magic machines in the minds of the people, having a high fame and prestige, so no matter which country it was, the Frestech Brand was always the most popr product and nevercked sales.

    Once June came, this advantage had shown itself just like in the past years.

    ording to the report from the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, their sales had increased once againpared tost year. Just in the month of May alone, their sales had reached one million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    But through detailed reports, they found thatpared tost year, while the profit of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had increased, it didn¡¯t increase as much as their sales.

    The reason for this was that as more and more household magic machinepanies appeared, the price of raw materials kept increasing, as well as the cost in manpower. It had increased the base cost of these household magic machines, which had decreased their profits.

    In the years that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been formed, the profit margins of the Frestech Brand household magic machines were at lowest 50% and were as high as a shocking 80%.

    But as the household magic machines became more and more popr, the Frestech Brand household magic machines¡¯ profit margins kept dropping.

    Based on the stats this year, among the Frestech Brand household magic machines, the one with the highest profit margins, the Magic Air Conditioner only had 30% profit margin. As for the lowest, the Magic Lamp, it only had less than 10% profit margins.

    Based on this, one could say that the period of explosive profits from household magic machines had already passed.

    Although Xu Yi had already expected this, he never thought that it woulde so quickly.

    It had to be known, on earth, the household appliance industry had to develop for several decades to reach this level.

    On the Sines Continent, it had only been sixteen years since the household magic machines had appeared.

    But if he thought about it, Xu Yi could only admit that he was the one that created this situation.

    Because he always had the idea of promoting the magic machine industry, he didn\\\''t keep the household magic machine technology at all. There were manypanies that could produce household magic machines, so they shared the market with the Frestech Brand, creatingpetition that reduced the profits of the Frestech Brand.

    And when it came to the increase in materials and manpower, it couldn¡¯t be said that it was unrted to him.

    First when it came to manpower.

    Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although there wasn¡¯t a fixed value for thepanies hiring their staff, for most staff, mostpanies wouldn¡¯t give them a high wage.

    Seventeen years ago, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was formed, the highest wage in Banta City was only around ten gold coins a year.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was formed, they actually started off by giving their workers five gold coins a month.

    This was over sixty gold coins a year!

    This sry for most people in the Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom that could barely fill their stomachs was an extremelyrge amount. Almost all the people of Banta City had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi were crazy.

    But it was also because of this that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to quickly recruit enough workers at that time, quickly increasing their production capacity. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the beginning didn¡¯t even face the problem of not having enough production capacity.

    At the same time, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sharp rise in fame, it indirectly helped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s speed of growth.

    From this perspective, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

    But for thepanies that entered this industry after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the sry standard that Xu Yi had set in the beginning was the biggest crime.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had cast pearls before swine and set the standard, the otherpanies couldn¡¯t give a lower wage when they wanted to enter the magic machine industry. Otherwise, it was impossible for them to recruit people and it was even more impossible for them to poach skilled workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So after all these years, because the variouspaniespeted with each other, the sry kept increasing.

    Right now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sry wasn¡¯t the highest and could be considered low among the magic machine industrypanies. The sries that the otherpanies gave were much higher.

    This had affected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in turn.

    Before the household magic machine department separated, they still followed Xu Yi¡¯s standard and no oneined.

    After the Frestech Household Chamber of Commerce was formed, Ankhto wanted to increase the morale of the workers, establish his fame, and because of other considerations, he had raised the standard sry. The standard sry of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce had been raised to a rtively high srypared to the otherpanies.

    So the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯sbour costs had increased. In just the month of may, thebour costs had reached six hundred and thirty thousand gold coins. This was arge increasepared to before and it had greatly increased the costs of the Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    And then there were raw materials.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed, no one on the Sines Continent attached importance to the raw materials needed to produce magic machines. So out of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s material costs, the biggest were the magic materials needed by the magicians to draw the Magic Arrays.

    As for the iron ore that they used the most, although the Falcao Chamber of Commerce controlled it, their price wasn¡¯t that high.

    As the most important Magic Crystal, because it was all over, it didn¡¯t take any money at all.

    As the magic machine industry became more and more important, the countries all cared more and more about the magic machine industry rted materials in their borders.

    Naturally, the price of these materials kept increasing.

    Take the highest demand iron ores. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce bought them for two gold coins a ton from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in the beginning, even the smelted iron only took ten gold coins a ton.

    Now, based on the Falcao Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest June price.

    The iron ore had gone to six gold coins a ton and the smelted iron was suddenly raised to twenty seven gold coins a ton.

    Compared to before, it was more than double!

    Even the Magic Crystals that were worth nothing unless they were special products that no one cared about, now because they had be the energy source of all magic machines, their prices had soared.

    Take the standard medium sized Magic Crystal the Frestech Chamber of Commerce bought from the Candra Empire, its price had reached ny three silver coins per ton.

    Moreover, because of the high demand of Magic Crystals, this price continued to quickly grow.

    Last year, it was only seventy six gold coins a ton and now it reached ny three gold coins a ton this year.

    With this speed, there was no doubt that it would reach one gold coin a ton within the year.

    The demand for these materials increased with the price which naturally created a series of problems.

    First, the countries of the Sines Continent strictly controlled the resources in their country. Headed by the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, most of the countries no longer exported materials.

    Even the Candra Empire only exported materials to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone. The only reason was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were the only ones that could smelt the steel, the non-ferrous metals, and refine the Magic Crystals.

    Then adding in the fact that the Candra Empire had many cooperation deals with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to buy materials from the Candra Empire without limits.

    However, even if they had received preferential treatment, the prices of the raw materials still increased, which had increased the cost of their magic machines.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already like this, so one could imagine what it was like for the otherpanies and countries.

    It was fine for the countries that had enough materials, but the countries that didn¡¯t have the materials had to find another way to solve this problem.

    The mostmon and the most frequent method of this was warfare.

 Volume 7 55 - Turbulent Continent

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 55 - Turbulent Continent</h4>

    Year 3800, the first year of the new century wasn¡¯t a peaceful year.

    Or it could be said that the second half of this year wasn¡¯t peaceful.

    As soon as July came, when it was so hot that one couldn¡¯t resist the heat anymore, the first bit of turbulence happened in the southeast corner.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that had been peaceful for several years after invading their northern neighbours had suddenly started to wage war on their northern neighbours again.

    This time, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom used the excuse of a very normal conflict at the northern border.

    However, when the war started, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom didn¡¯t try to resolve this small conflict, but rather they started an all out war.

    With therge amount of military magic machines they had obtained from working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s army was the strongest among the surrounding countries.

    Adding in the powerful finances that they had, in just a month and ten days, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdompletely upied two small duchies to the north. They also swallowed half of a kingdom that they had waged war on.

    The two duchies dissolved themselves and the kingdom that had lost half theirnd had been greatly damaged and couldn¡¯t recover.

    At the same time, to the south of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Wales Duchy that was less than a thousand kilometers away didn¡¯t stay still.

    In the middle of July, the Wales Duchy didn¡¯t even dere war as they invaded the Tomor Duchy to the east.

    In half a month, the Tomor Duchy announced their dissipation and fell under the Wales Duchy¡¯s name.

    At the end of July, the Marlow empire gave the pretense of a border conflict to send an army to invade the Durain Kingdom to the southwest.

    Although the Durain Kingdom was a country with a third grade magic machine industry ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, having arge amount of military magic machines, they couldn¡¯tpare to arge empire like the Marlow Empire.

    After resisting with great difficulty for a month and a half, the Durain Kingdom surrendered to the Marlow Empire. They announced that they would cede one thousand and three hundred square kilometers of territory at the border to the Marlow Empire, while opening up all their domestic mineral resources to the Marlow Empire.

    In mid August, the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t willing to fall behind and started moving.

    But the Candra Empire didn¡¯t start a war. They announced to the public that the Norton Duchy would be integrated into the Candra Empire, bing part of the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province.

    When this news spread, it shocked the countries of the southwest corner.

    Although the Norton Duchy was only a small duchy, it had a very special position. It was just between several countries and the Candra Empire.

    If the countries of the southwest corner wanted to go east or north, they would either have to go over a thousand kilometers from the southern sea or go through the other two paths in the Norton Duchy.

    Because of this, the Norton Duchy had been regarded as the gateway to the continent¡¯s southwest by these countries. It was one of the main gates in stopping the Candra Empire from invading the southwest countries.

    The other one was naturally the Rudson Kingdom.

    After the Norton Duchy joined the Candra Empire, the most nervous was the Rudson Kingdom.

    Because before this, the only border between the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire was to the east of the Rudson Kingdom, which was a small part of the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest region.

    When the Candra Empire invaded the Rudson Kingdom twice before, although the main reason the Rudson Kingdom resisted this invasion was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, having many military magic machines to gain the advantage on the battlefield, the geography also yed a very important role.

    Now that the Norton Duchy had been annexed by the Candra Empire, it meant that the border between the Norton Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom had be the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom. It meant that the northern part of the Rudson Kingdom had been exposed to the Candra Empire.

    Even if the Rudson Kingdom had the advantage when it came to military magic machines, it was already hard to resist an invasion from the Candra Empire before.

    Now that the gate to the north had been opened, the Rudson Kingdom had lost their geographical advantage. Then with how the Candra Empire had also been working closely with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during the past few years, gaining quite a bit of military magic machines, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s advantage had grown much smaller.

    So the news of the Norton Duchy joining the Candra Empire was very dangerous news for the Rudson Kingdom.

    If the Candra Empire wanted to invade, with the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s current strength, their fate would be troubling.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry. The Candra Empire shouldn¡¯t have any ideas about you right now.¡± Xu Yi looked at the worried look of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s parliament speaker, Duke Boris and shook his head.

    This time the Rudson Kingdom had sent Duke Boris who was the most important person under King Teruc to meet Xu Yi, which showed that the Rudson Kingdom really was worried about this issue.

    ¡°They don¡¯t have any ideas about us?¡± Duke Boris was surprised before shaking his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, our Rudson Kingdom has had conflict with the Candra Empire before and even waged war with them, so there is a deep grudge. If the Candra Empire had a chance, they definitely wouldn¡¯t hesitate to invade.¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, you should know better than me that the essence of war is benefits. If it was said that the Candra Empire had invaded the Rudson Kingdom before just to guard the honour of the empire, even you wouldn¡¯t believe it, right?¡±

    Duke Boris nodded with a calm look, ¡°Of course. The Candra Empire naturally wants our Rudson Kingdom¡¯s territory.¡±

    ¡°So you think that they have the same idea now?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Duke Boris slightly knitted his brows as he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, isn¡¯t it very normal if it¡¯s for territory? Any country will have this idea, not to mention a giant empire like the Candra Empire.

    ¡°That was before, but it isn¡¯t certain now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head. After pausing for a bit, he said with a serious look, ¡°Lord Duke, I¡¯ll say something that you won¡¯t like to hear. Do you think¡­¡­that your Rudson Kingdom¡¯s territory has any value that the Candra Empire would want?¡±

    Duke Boris looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your question is a bit¡­..strange. Isn¡¯t it normal for a country to want territory?¡±

    ¡°But if the territory can¡¯t bring any benefits and would cost arge price, would there be a person or a country that would be willing to do this?¡±

    Duke Boris deeply knitted his brows and thought for a long time, but he still had a confused look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your meaning is that our Rudson Kingdom has no value to the Candra Empire right now, so they wouldn¡¯t pay arge price to invade us?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not 100% certain, but it should be like this.¡± Xu Yi said with a nod, ¡°From my perspective, your Rudson Kingdom¡¯s mineral resources are far from rich and your other products are normal. The only thing of value is your southern connection to the seas. The Candra Empire isn¡¯tcking this, so for them, your Rudson Kingdom doesn¡¯t have enough value for them to pay this price.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..the territory itself is valuable¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing that Duke Boris couldn¡¯t understand his thoughts, Xu Yi felt a bit helpless.

    This was the biggest difference in thoughts between someone like him who transmigrated from earth and a local of the Sines Continent.

    For the people of the Sines Continent, territory was the most important thing becausend could produce grains. Naturally morend meant more grains, which could support more people.

    So the people of the Sines Continent wanted as muchnd as they could get, so all countries wanted to increase their territory.

    This concept was natural for an underdeveloped era, it had been like this on earth before and the Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t be an exception.

    But since the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with therge amount of agricultural magic machines developed and working together with the elves to develop the fertilizer, as well as the other crop enhancing chemicals, the grain yield of the countries on the Sines Continent had increasedpared to before.

    Even this most important issue had been solved, but Duke Boris still had the same traditional thoughts, so Xu Yi couldn¡¯t say anything.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi gave up the idea of debating with Duke Boris if territory was important to a country and instead said, ¡°How about this? Lord Duke, please tell his majesty that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom are close partners. If the Rudson Kingdom is facing any problems, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce naturally wouldn¡¯t ignore them.¡±

    Hearing this, Duke Boris¡¯ eyes lit up and they filled with joy.

    His goal ining here this time was to win the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But he never thought that Xu Yi would promise this quickly. The most important thing was that he wasn¡¯t vague about it and had been very clear.

    ¡°Being able to get this promise from chairman Xu, his majesty will be very happy.¡± Duke Boris grasped Xu Yi¡¯s hands and forcefully shook them, ¡°Chairman Xu, the Rudson Kingdom will always be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s best partner!¡±

    Xu Yi had the same smile on his face, but he gave a sigh deep down.

    If it wasn¡¯t to maintain a strategic buffer zone between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and the Candra Empire, he wouldn¡¯t have given such an explicit agreement.

 Volume 7 56 - Dona??t Offend The Frestech Chamber Of Commerce

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 56 - Dona??t Offend The Frestech Chamber Of Commerce</h4>

    Xu Yi promising to support the Rudson Kingdom wasn¡¯t just empty talk.

    A week after he met with Duke Boris, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom announced together that two iron mines and four Magic Crystal mines in the northeast of the Rudson Kingdom had been sold to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This statement didn¡¯t seem that special at first because with the finances of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t a problem for them to buy several mines.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been wildly collecting mineral resources over the past few years. ording to an iplete data report, the iron mines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled whether openly or secretly numbered over three hundred. It could even be said that they were thepany with the most iron ore and other mineral resources on the continent.

    But in theter statement released by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it revealed the truth behind this matter.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that in order to better develop these mines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be sending a division of their guards to guard these six mines. They would work with the local Rudson Kingdom army to protect these mines.

    In order to provide support for the guards, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also be building a base right in the center of these six mines.

    Just based on this, it didn¡¯t seem that special.

    But if one looked at the map carefully, they would notice that the base that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was building was less than fifty kilometers away from the previous border with the Norton Duchy.

    Because the Norton Duchy had already been annexed by the Candra Empire, once this Frestech Chamber of Commerce base was built, it would only be fifty kilometers away from the border with the Candra Empire.

    The people who understood the situation of the continent could easily see that once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base was built, it would be a nail ced in front of the Candra Empire.

    Although the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s border wasn¡¯t short, the only ce that the Candra Empire could easily enter the Rudson Kingdom was the east border and the northern border.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up this base at the border and stationed their guards there, that was telling people that anyone who entered this area without the agreement of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was an enemy. It was equal to setting up a forbidden zone.

    If the Candra Empire tried to invade the Rudson Kingdom this way, they would definitely enter the range of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.

    Anyone could see that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this was giving a warning to the Candra Empire.

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    ¡°It¡¯s just apany and they dare to act this arrogantly!¡±

    Emperor Candra had a dark look on his face as he read the report in his hand. There was a cold look in his eyes and he gave a snort that was filled with rage.

    ¡°This Xu Yi, he really thinks that he can act like this just because of a few military magic machines?¡±

    Themander in chief of the Candra Empire army, the imperial marshal Campbell Sudman, gave a sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity, but your majesty, this is the truth. Even Arch Magi can¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, it¡¯s even more possible for a normal army to resist them. So just based on military might, it isn¡¯t just our Candra Empire, but the entire continent that no one can deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.¡±

    ¡°But they are still only apany in the end, aren¡¯t they?¡± Emperor Candra asked, ¡°Could it be that we can¡¯t slowly wear down apany with absolute superiority in poption?¡±

    ¡°That is impossible.¡± Marshal Sudman shook his head, ¡°Your majesty, the army headquarters has performed a detailed calction into this and the final results are that the possibility of doing this would be close to zero.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°First, I¡¯ve mentioned it before. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has powerful military magic machines that people can¡¯t even imagine, so a normal army can¡¯t face them at all. The only thing that can resist them would be military magic machines of the same level. No matter how many soldiers our empire has, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards still have supplies, they would only send themselves to a meaningless death.¡±

    ¡°You mean that the empire army can¡¯t even harm the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards at all?¡±

    Hearing this question, Marshal Sudman was silent for a bit before giving a long sigh with a deste look.

    ¡°Your majesty, I am very unwilling to admit this, but this is the case.¡±

    Emperor Candra also fell silent this time.

    After several minutes, he finally spoke again.

    ¡°You said that this was the first reason, are there other reasons?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Marshal Sudman continued with a nod, ¡°Your majesty, you just said that you want to slowly wear down the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with our advantage in poption and supplies. I just told you that there would be no meaning in having an advantage in poption¡­¡­.¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re telling me that we don¡¯t have the advantage in supplies? How could that be possible? We¡¯re a giant empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only apany!¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, it is because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only apany that they are more flexible when ites to supplies, so they have the advantage over us. Of course, the main reason isn¡¯t this, rather it¡¯s that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s¡­¡­advantage in supplies is even bigger than the disparity in military magic machines between us.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Emperor Candra deeply knitted his brows as he revealed a bit of disbelief.

    ¡°Your majesty, what do you think supplies refers to?¡± Marshal Sudman asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Emperor Candra was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°I¡¯m not a soldier, so I can¡¯t describe it well. But the so-called supplies should be preparing enough supplies and then sending those supplies to the soldiers.¡±

    ¡°Your majesty is wise. What you just said is the essence of logistics.¡± Marshal Sudman gave a slight nod of praise before continuing, ¡°But if you think about it, you will find that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has exceeded all the countries on the Sines Continent when ites to these two aspects.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that bad?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just that bad.¡± Marshal Sudman said with a serious look, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many factories under them, so they have a strong production capacity for any products. Just in terms of military provisions, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce can rely on a single bread processing factory that they built with the elves to provide a day¡¯s worth of rations for five hundred soldiers in a day. When ites to the most essential military magic machines, although I¡¯m not clear on the specifics, I imagine that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce spends even more effort in maintaining the production capacity of these.¡±

    Emperor Candra was silent with thought for a bit before slowly giving a nod.

    ¡°Then when ites to transportation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the Magic Cars, the Magic Ships, the Magic Airships, and all other kinds of magic vehicles. Whether it is bynd, sea, or air, they have a method of transporting goods at high speeds. Although our empire has purchased arge amount ofrge transport Magic Cars, it is far from being enough. Most of our resource transporting is still done with the old method of using horse carriages. Not to mention the security and carrying capacity, we¡¯re several times slower than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when ites to speed alone.¡±

    Emperor Candra was silent for even longer this time. Seeing the heavy look on Marshal Sudman¡¯s face and after knitting his brows to think, his face also became heavy.

    In fact, as the Candra Empire¡¯s emperor, he naturally understood the important matters of the Candra Empire to a certain extent.

    However, before this, he always thought that while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had advantages that the other countries and even the Candra Empire couldn¡¯tpare to, they were still only apany in the end and there was nothing to worry about.

    So before this, he had the attitude of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They could gain advantages through this cooperation, but they would never treat them as a true equal.

    As for whether the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would dare overestimate themselves to take the Candra Empire as an enemy, even if they did, they would only lose a few benefits and would teach thispany a good lesson.

    But after hearing Marshal Sudman¡¯s clear analysis and answer that had no hesitation, he finally realized that he couldn¡¯t treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a normalpany.

    Thispany really had an overwhelming advantage in military force that made it hard for others to imagine.

    ¡°So that means, Sudman, your conclusion is that we can¡¯t directly fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now?¡± Emperor Candra thought for a bit before asking this.

    ¡°Yes, your majesty.¡± Marshal Sudman nodded with an iparably serious look, ¡°We should try to avoid directbat with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as much as possible.¡±

    ¡°So we can¡¯t even move against the Rudson Kingdom right now?¡± Emperor Candra then asked.

    Marshal Sudman revealed a bitter smile, ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce have already made their statement. Although I¡¯m very unwilling, considering the perspective of the empire, it¡¯s better to reconsider this matter.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll ask you one final question.¡± Emperor Candra¡¯s voice sunk as he asked, ¡°We cannot fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly because you think that it is impossible for our empire¡¯ army to be a match for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards. Then I want to ask, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invaded the empire, would our armies be unable to resist?¡±

    Marshal Sudman¡¯s bitter smile disappeared and he said with a serious look, ¡°Your majesty! Even if we have to pay with the lives of all our soldiers, we won¡¯t let anyone invade even a single inch of the empire¡¯snd!¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not questioning your loyalty, I just want to ask you, can we defend or not?¡± Emperor Candra raised his voice as he asked this again.

    Marshal Sudman was silent for a bit before slowly giving a strong nod.

    ¡°Please be assured, your majesty, attacking and defending are two different matters. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be strong enough to invade the empire and Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t be that stupid.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Emperor Candra gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Since we can¡¯t beat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the battlefield, then we¡¯ll think of some solutions from other angles. In the end, we have the giant Candra Empire behind us and there¡¯s only a singlepany behind Xu Yi.¡±

 Volume 7 57 - Stepping On The New Continent

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 57 - Stepping On The New Continent</h4>

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    Akali had justnded on the continent when a cold wind hit her. She couldn¡¯t help shrinking her head back as she took a soft breath.

    If it was ording to the calendar of the Sines Continent, it would be the 4th of January right now.

    That¡¯s right, on the Sines Continent, today was the fourth day after the new year and it should be when New Years was being celebrated.

    If she had stayed on the Sines Continent, she would be spending New Years at home with her family and she wouldn¡¯t havee to this deste ce where cold wind blew all over.

    However, she wasn¡¯t on the Sines Continent right now and was currently standing on the new continent of legends named the ¡°Magic Cloud Continent¡±.

    When she had been on the ship, she had seen this continent from a distance and found that other than it being a bit deste, there was no other difference from the Sines Continent. It was a very normal coast and it wasn¡¯t a hellish world filled with demons or poisoned gas like the legends said.

    Of course, since she started working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she had been gradually influenced by Xu Yi. She already fostered the attitude of ¡°questioning with science¡±, so she no longer believed those legends.

    Of course, that also meant that after shended on the legendary continent, she wasn¡¯t as excited as she thought she would be before.

    Turning to look at her colleagues who were excited aboutnding on the new continent, Akali gave a p that pulled their attention back to her again.

    ¡°Alright, stop being in a daze and start working! Sena, you can lead some people to build a small magic signal station and test to see if the magic signal is affected by anything nearby. Ofuko, you and the engineers can take a look around at the surrounding geography, find at least five different ces suitable for building magic signal towers. Mondo, you¡­¡­¡±

    After a series of diverse orders came from Akali, the people she called on immediately started to move without any hesitation.

    Cassandra standing on the side watching Akali giving out orders with an interested look came over and said with a smile, ¡°Hey, Akali, I normally don¡¯t see this kind of imposing manner from you.¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes at her and snappily said, ¡°Nonsense, when you normally see me, I¡¯m facing a bunch of you dragons, so how could I have an imposing attitude?¡±

    Cassandra gave augh, ¡°What? You feel a lot of pressure in front of us?¡±

    ¡°Hey, don¡¯t act like you don¡¯t know the words ¡®dragon prestige¡¯, alright?¡± Akali muttered, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what it is with you dragons, why do you have this strange ¡®dragon prestige¡¯ thing? It isn¡¯t scientific at all.¡±

    ¡°Scientific?¡± Cassandra tilted her head to think, ¡°I keep hearing this from you, but what does it mean?¡±

    ¡°Scientific¡­¡­¡± Akali hesitated a few times and thought for a while before she could only wave her hand, ¡°This word is too difficult to describe, I need to exin many things and it would be hard for you to understand. It\\\''s like how I don¡¯t understand the principle behind ¡®dragon prestige¡¯.¡±

    ¡°Actually, you humans always say that we dragons have a natural ¡®dragon prestige¡¯ that scares you, but to me, isn¡¯t it just the natural fear that you feel from seeing our giant bodies?¡± Cassandra tentatively exined, ¡°For example, if you were facing a bigger and fierce looking¡­..life form, you would be afraid. Isn¡¯t that just human nature?¡±

    ¡°Wu¡­¡­what you say makes sense. For example, when you transform into human form, the pressure that I feel bes much smaller.¡± Akali thought for a bit before pping her hands, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this right now and start getting down to business. Cassandra, can you fly up to see if there¡¯s an appropriate area of tnd that¡¯srge enough?¡±

    ¡°No problem.¡±

    Cassandra replied before slowly flying into the sky and turning back to dragon form. She pped her wing and flew off into the distance in an instant.

    ¡°It would be good if our Magic Airships could be as flexible as the dragons.¡± Akali couldn¡¯t help muttering this as she looked at Cassandra in the sky before shaking her head to get rid of this absurd idea.

    Even if the Magic Airship were as flexible in the air as the dragons, it would be very impractical because there would be too much pressure on the people sitting inside it.

    Akali had been curious and Cassandra had invited her, so she had sat on Cassandra¡¯s back and gone around a few times in the air.

    While in the air, Akali was so dizzy that she almost fell off.

    When she came to the ground, the first thing she did was throw up.

    Akali¡¯s physique had always been considered good and since she couldn¡¯t take it, it meant that most humans wouldn¡¯t be able to withstand this method of flying.

    After Akali threw this strange idea out of her mind, she focused back on her work.

    Akali and the team she led hade to the Magic Cloud Continent to build a magic signal tower by the coast. Then they would connect it to Frestech Ind that was seven hundred kilometers away.

    ording to the n, they would build this magic signal tower to link up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base on the Magic Cloud Continent. Then they would build more and more magic signal towers after this first one, spreading out the magicmunicationwork, while also increasing the sphere of influence for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this continent.

    This huge project¡¯s first step was the most difficult, so Akali had personally led her team to step onto the continent.

    In the past half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration team had sent back reports that the coast was quite t and there weren¡¯t many intelligent races living here, so it was a very suitable ce to build an outpost.

    Although this ce was over ten thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base, the fleet woulde each month to provide them with plenty of resources. So they were already prepared and now that they hadnded on the Magic Cloud Continent, they were ready to start working.

    As for the work of erecting the magic signal tower, Akali and her team were already familiar with this and there was no need for her orders as her subordinates had already started working.

    After a while, Sena had led her team to already erect a small magic signal station.

    Based on the preliminary tests, there were no changes to the magic signal within five kilometers. The magic signal test data was almost exactly the same as the data on the Sines Continent.

    This proved without a doubt that the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t that mysterious and was very much like the Sines Continent. It could even be considered a continent that wasn¡¯t fundamentally different at all.

    This result made Akali¡¯s team much more rxed.

    They were most worried that the magic signal was different on the Magic Cloud Continent and they would need to decode it with someplicated work before they could do the rest of what they needed to do.

    Now that they proved the magic signal was the same, their following work became much easier.

    In an instant, there was a small camp that was built.

    Thanks to the many goods brought by the fleet each month, they were able to build a very crude looking, but solid simple room here. Then after installing the Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Stove, and other heating sources, as well as putting a nket down, they were able to create several warm bunks.

    Because they were facing the sea, Akali¡¯s group only needed to use the Magic Sea Water Purifier that used Fifth Grade Water Magic as a core that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only developedst year to get an endless supply of fresh water.

    After building their dorm and with the Magic Stove and Magic Water Heater, they could even build a bathing facility that didn¡¯t seem in line with living in the wild.

    Akali had been running all over the continent to aplish Xu Yi¡¯s goal of ¡®spreading the magic signal all over the Sines Continent¡¯, so she would frequently camp outside and it became very normal for her.

    There were many times where she came up with many ideas that made camping much morefortable.

    It could be said that most of the things in camp were requested by her from Xu Yi and then Xu Yi had the magic research facility and the magic machine development center make them for her.

    Because of this, Xu Yi would tease her for not being able to suffer and was someone who liked to enjoy herself.

    However, Akali felt that this was natural.

    Working in the field was hard, how could she not be good to herself?

    Moreover, they were working on a new continent that was ten thousand kilometers away from the main base, which was much harder than normal people could imagine.

    Thinking of this, Akali suddenly cursed in her mind.

    She had been in too much of a rush that she had forgotten to bring a Magic Illusion Projector.

    She couldn¡¯t kill time at night by watching Illusion Films and she couldn¡¯t pull Cassandra in to research the magic signal, right?

    Thinking of Cassandra, Akali was a bit curious.

    Cassandra had flown off for an hour now and with her speed, it was enough to fly fifty kilometers away and back. Why wasn¡¯t she back yet?

    When she looked up, she saw a ck dot in the sky that quickly became bigger.

    ¡°Hei, I thought that she went off to y.¡± Seeing the dragon, Akali shook her head as her heart rxed.

    However, she was then surprised and felt that something was off.

    When she looked up again, she found that this dragon wasn¡¯t Cassandra at all.

    Because this dragon¡¯s skin was ck!

 Volume 7 58 - Childhood Friends

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 58 - Childhood Friends</h4>

    Akali had been spending time with dragons every day for the past half a year, so she no longer felt that these legendary dragons were mysterious and she knew quite a few things about dragons.

    Dragons were the same as humans. Although they looked like aplete race, the dragons were split into several categories and the mostmon differentiation was skin colour.

    Cassandra¡¯s dragon skin was dark red, so she was a part of the red dragon tribe which was the dragon tribe that had the most temperate personality among all dragons.

    Compared to this, the most tyrannical and the ones that had caused the most damage in the legend of humans were the ck dragons.

    The dragon that was flying over waspletely dark and had sharp horns on his head, it was a fit for the ck dragon description that Cassandra had told her before.

    ¡°It¡¯s a ck dragon, be on guard!¡± Akali quickly shouted while also sending a message to the team that was scouting out the area with the Magic Communicator.

    Hearing this warning, the people in the camp all quickly stopped what they were doing and gathered in the center of the camp.

    In order to be safe, there were a hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that came with Akali and the researchers, bringing along quite a few high grade military magic machines. Then with the Magic Barrier Armour that they had, it was impossible for this dragon to harm them,

    So, including Akali, when these people saw the ck dragon flying over, they weren¡¯t that nervous. Quite a few people had stretched their heads out in excitement as they looked at the dragon with curious looks.

    They had met the red dragons on Fire Rock Ind, but this was their first time seeing the legendary ck dragon.

    After a while, the ck dragon was already flying over the camp.

    It just seemed like it was casually flying, like it hadn¡¯t noticed the camp at all.

    When it finally noticed the camp, it flew around twice in the air before quickly diving towards the camp.

    ¡°Prepare for an attack!¡±

    Seeing that this ck dragon was heading right at the camp, the leader of this Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard group, Xerax called this out as the hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that were lined up raised their thick Magic Bazookas that they held in both hands.

    Xerax silently watched the ck dragone closer before his raised right hand came down.

    ¡°Fire!¡±

    With this order, over a hundred Magic Rockets were shot out, all aimed at the ck dragon.

    The ck dragon¡¯s giant body in the air slowed down as it let out a roar of rage.

    In his opinion, the insects on the ground dared to attack him which was simply too bold!

    However, when those small Magic Rockets that the ck dragon didn¡¯t pay any attention to approached him, the ck dragon found that the might of these things had far surpassed his expectation.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    With several balls of me in the sky, the ck dragon shook in the sky a few times from the explosion before falling to the side. He mmed onto a hill that was several hundred meters away and caused the entire hill to shake.

    Seeing this, Akali was a bit surprised.

    Cassandra and the other red dragons all had thick skin and with their dragon form, they could resist Seventh Grade and below spells just with their bodies.

    The Magic Bazookas that Xerax and the others had were the new ones developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commercest year and although they were powerful, they could only match a Sixth Grade Spell.

    Why did this ck dragon copse at a single blow?

    It had to be known that when Cassandra suddenly had an impulse to train with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guardsst month, she was far from being blown away at the first strike.

    However, Akali and Xerax didn¡¯t let their guard down. Dragons had a strong vitality and even if they were heavily injured, they were still very powerful.

    If a dragon was really forced into a helpless situation, the power that it could erupt with would be terrifying.

    After a while, that dragon crawled out of the ground and shook off the thick dust on its scales.

    He no longer had the same stance of looking down from above like before, acting arrogantly, but rather he released his rage.

    As a noble ck dragon, he was actually knocked out of the sky by some trivial humans!

    This was simply a great shame to him!

    The ck dragon let out a roar that was like a bolt of thunder before opening its mouth to shoot a giant fireball that was close to ten meters wide at the camp.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards faced High Grade Magicians and even Great Magicians when they were training, so naturally they knew how to face magic.

    Seeing this giant fireball, there was no need for Xerax to give the order. There were several guards that took Magic Rockets that had been painted sky blue from the side and put them in their Magic Bazookas which they shot at the fireball.

    This action was very smooth and it was all done in less than two seconds.

    After these Magic Rockets were shot out, they were different from the Magic Rockets before as they created several bright blue trails behind them.

    In an instant, the special Magic Rockets collided with the fireball.

    The Magic Rockets quickly exploded, but they didn¡¯t burst into the same balls of me as before, but rather they created several cold mists in the air.

    The giant fireball shot by the ck dragon was swallowed by that cold mist and disappeared without a trace.

    The ck dragon was clearly surprised, but then it pped its wings and wanted to fly over again.

    ¡°Everyone, careful!¡± Xerax roared out. When he wanted to point at the enemy to attack, there was another giant figure that quickly fell down in front of that ck dragon.

    The ck dragon was stopped as soon as it wanted to fly up and it flew into a rage. It opened its mouth to spit out mes again, but seeing who this figure was, he closed his mouth.

    ¡°Leon, why are you fighting with them!¡± Cassandra¡¯s angry voice came from the distance and Akali¡¯s group clearly heard it, ¡°I just had youe here first to find them, now look at what you¡¯re doing? Is fighting the only thing that¡¯s on your mind? If you keep acting like this, do you believe I won¡¯t beat you whenever I see you in the future!¡±

    Akali watched Cassandra scold this ck dragon with a surprised look before her expression became strange.

    If this happened between two humans, it would be a very normal scene.

    But now it was a dragon scolding another dragon, this situation couldn¡¯t be even more unnatural if it tried¡­¡­

    Cassandra kept scolding him for several minutes before stopping and then flying back over.

    As soon as shended, she turned into human form.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, are you alright?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m fine¡­¡­¡± Akali shook her head and then looked at the ck dragon that looked aggrieved as it squatted on the small hill with an interested look, ¡°Cassandra, you know that ck dragon? Didn¡¯t you tell me that ck dragons had the worst temper among dragons? Why does it look so obedient in front of you?¡±

    ¡°Humph! I beat him up since we were young, would he dare act up in front of me?¡± Cassandra said with a cold snort.

    Akali and the others looked at each other with strange looks.

    Based on Cassandra¡¯s words, if she and that ck dragon¡¯s rtionship were to be described with human words, perhaps it would be called¡­¡­childhood friends?

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll call him over here to introduce himself and get to know you.¡± Cassandra turned to the hill where the ck dragon was to give a signal and that ck dragon flew over, carefullynding in front of everyone.

    ¡°Hey, you¡¯re still not transforming into human for? Your head is this big, do you want me to raise my head to talk to you?¡± Cassandra scolded the ck dragon without holding back at all.

    The ck dragon made a deep sound which could be considered an answer. Then he changed forms and turned into a young human man.

    ¡°It¡¯s a male dragon¡­..¡± Akali muttered in her heart. She reached her hand out to the ck dragon who had turned into a human man, ¡°Hello, I am Akali. I am Cassandra¡¯s friend, I¡¯m very happy to meet you.¡±

    The ck dragon looked at Akali¡¯s hand and gave a snort as his eyes filled with disdain.

    ¡°Lowly human, who would shake hands with you?¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Cassandra had already pped his head.

    ¡°Do you believe that I won¡¯t force you back? Speak properly for me!¡±

    The ck dragon revealed an aggrieved look and after looking at Cassandra with hidden bitterness, he very reluctantly reached out his hand to casually shake Akali¡¯s hand.

    ¡°I am Leon.¡±

    Akali didn¡¯t mind his attitude at all. She looked between him and Cassandra several times before asking in a curious voice, ¡°Hey, Cassandra, can you tell me what¡¯s going on? You are a red dragon and he is a ck dragon, why do you look so close? Moreover, you said that you beat him up since you were young, could it be that you grew up together?¡±

    Cassandra waved her hand, ¡°It¡¯s something from a thousand years ago, I¡¯ve almostpletely forgotten it. Anyway, you just should know that my rtionship with him isn\\\''t bad. Actually, I only contacted him before and told him that you had many fun things here, I never thought that he woulde here today. If I didn¡¯t bump into him earlier, he would have already headed off to our ind.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Fun things?¡± Akali looked at Leon with a surprised look, ¡°You¡¯re also interested in the Magic Sedans and Magic Illusion Films?¡±

    Leon said in a deep voice, ¡°I don¡¯t know what you are talking about, but Cassandra said that these things were fun, so of course I came to take a look.¡±

    Akali thought about it before revealing a smile.

    If even a ck dragon like Leon was interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products, this really would be great.

 Volume 7 59 - High Altitude Signal Tower

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 59 - High Altitude Signal Tower</h4>

    Leon¡¯s appearance didn¡¯t disturb Akali¡¯s group¡¯s progress and work proceeded as normal.

    But Leon, who had been nning to fly right to Fire Rock Ind had met Cassandra along the way, so he stayed and helped Cassandra finish her work.

    Cassandra hade with this team from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Magic Cloud Continent, other than guiding them was to find a suitable empty spot that could be used to build a big enough race track.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet had arrived, the red dragon tribe that Cassandra came from had beenpletely sucked in by the Magic Race Cars and the Magic Illusion Projectors.

    After several months of getting used to them, the red dragons that were already used to racing weren¡¯t satisfied with racing on Fire Rock Ind anymore. They wanted to find a bigger ce to drive around in.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used this chance to make a proposal to the red dragons. They wanted the red dragons to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to build a base on the coast by Fire Rock Ind and Frestech Ind.

    The base would include a giant race track which the dragons could freely drive around in.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce even stated that they could help the red dragons create a specialized tournament to let them race each other.

    Cassandra loved the race cars very much and she was very familiar with the people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so she became the person in charge of this from the red dragon side.

    This ck dragon Leon who suddenly appeared followed behind Cassandra, following her as she went around looking for a proper spot and followed her to talk with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s people. It didn¡¯t take long before he became very familiar with Akali¡¯s group.

    So it didn¡¯t take long before Leon made a request.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, since yourpany can cooperate with Cassandra¡¯s tribe, then can you cooperate with our tribe?¡±

    Akali looked at him with a smile as she thought that she had been waiting for this for several days now.

    ¡°This¡­..It isn¡¯t that we can¡¯t, but ourpany has justnded on this continent and we have many things we need to prepare first. The most important thing is that we don¡¯t know what the attitude of your tribe is, so it¡¯s hard to say¡­¡­¡± Akali deliberately revealed an awkward appearance.

    ¡°There¡¯s definitely no problem with our tribe!¡± Leon patted his chest to guarantee, ¡°As long as I go back to tell them what Cassandra¡¯s tribe is doing, they definitely won¡¯t be against it.¡±

    Cassandra on the side gave a cold snort, ¡°Don¡¯t boast too early. There¡¯s a bunch of fellows who are as stubborn as stone in your tribe, they won¡¯t ept new things that easily.¡±

    Leon lowered his hand and didn¡¯t refute what Cassandra said.

    Seeing his appearance, Akali was a bit curious.

    Whether it was in the legends or from Cassandra¡¯s description, the ck dragons were famous for being violent. Why did Leon not show any of this violent nature and why was Cassandra only worried that the ck dragon tribe would be stubborn?

    This proud fellow Leon wasn¡¯t even able to refute this, so it could be seen that the ck dragons were stubborn to a certain extent.

    ¡°Let¡¯s put the matter of them epting or not on the side because we can test this before anything happens.¡± Akali said with a faint smile, ¡°Leon, we can give you some Magic Sedans and Magic Illusion Projectors to take back. You can see if your nsmen will ept them or not. If they do, then we can cooperate.¡±

    ¡°Then if they don¡¯t?¡± Leon asked back, ¡°There¡¯s no possibility of cooperating?¡±

    ¡°No, it just means that our products weren¡¯t good enough. You and your nsmen can give suggestions based on these things and then we can make changes based on your suggestions.¡± Akali revealed a wide smile, ¡°Our sir chairman has said that there¡¯s nothing that can¡¯t be sold in this world, it just hasn¡¯t found the right buyer yet.¡±

    Leon looked at Akali in a daze, ¡°Your chairman really is strange.¡±

    Akali gave a shrug. She thought that if the sir chairman who was ten thousand kilometers away knew that a ck dragon had given him this evaluation, he might not even bat an eysh.

    After all, everyone on the Sines Continent thought that sir chairman was very strange, there were even quite a few that thought he was a maniac.

    Perhaps he could feel the sincerity in Akali¡¯s voice, Leon seriously considered this and then indicated that he would properlymunicate with his nsmen, trying hard to create a sessful cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Akali was very satisfied with this.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could cooperate with even the most violent ck dragon tribe, then there was meaning in developing on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ¡°Right, Akalin, since you are human merchants, why are you not doing business with humans anding here to do business with us dragons? Isn¡¯t this very strange?¡± Leon suddenly asked.

    Akali was stunned.

    Although Cassandra had said that humans existed on the Magic Cloud Continent, because the exploration team hadn¡¯t been able to find humans in the thousand square kilometer range and because Cassandra¡¯s information wasn¡¯t certain, they could never confirm this.

    For Leon to suddenly say this, doesn¡¯t that mean that he had confirmed information on the humans of the Magic Cloud Continent?

    ¡°You¡¯re asking if this continent has humans? Of course there are.¡± Leon was a bit surprised by Akali¡¯s question, ¡°Although humans have always been weak, they are the fastest developing race on this continent. I remember that a thousand years ago, there was only a small tribe of humans near our tribe that only had a few hundred people, but now it¡¯s be arge human gathering. I estimate that there are at least tens of thousands of them now.¡±

    ¡°Tens of thousands?¡± Akali¡¯s eyes opened wide in joy.

    If there were tens of thousands of humans, then it meant that the humans on the Magic Cloud Continent had reached a considerable scale. They might have even developed a decent culture, so they should formally contact them.

    Although sir chairman had always emphasized that a merchant shouldn¡¯t care about race,pared to other races, Akali liked contacting humans more.

    If there wasn¡¯t a single human on this continent, then Akali would have felt a bit lonely.

    After learning that it took Leon three days of flying just to reach his tribe, Akali gave up on this idea of contacting this human tribe for now.

    Although she was very willing to contact the same race as her, they hadn¡¯t truly taken root on the continent just yet and it wasn¡¯t a good thing to rashly contact the locals of this continent.

    It had to be known that they were outsiders for this continent.

    Even if they were from the same race, it would be a question of whether the local humans would ept them or not.

    After confirming the possibility of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Leon didn¡¯t stay any longer. The next morning, there were two Magic Illusion Projectors and several Magic Illusion Films tied to his back as he headed back to his tribe.

    Akali and the other Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff continued to work on preparation work for the base.

    After a month, Akali¡¯s subordinates had built a Magic Signal Tower on a small mountain that was a hundred meters tall and two kilometers away from the coast, allowing the magic signal to cover this area.

    Their next job was to connect the magic signal here to the magic signal of Frestech Ind and Fire Rock Ind, guaranteeing that the two sides couldmunicate with each other.

    Even if Akali had made a new breakthrough in the magic signal transmission technology, allowing the magic signal tower to have a range of fifteen kilometers, to have this signal reach all the way to Frestech Ind and Fire Rock Ind that were several hundred kilometers away was still impossible.

    At this time, it was time for the high altitude magic signal transmission station that Akali had developed over the past half a year with the Cassandra and several red dragons to appear.

    Akali¡¯s first experiment was to have Cassandra create a magic signal source with Dragon Word Magic and then after processing it, they put it inside a machine and ced it on a Magic Airship. They brought it up to a kilometer into the air and then kept it ten kilometers away from the magic signal tower on the shore.

    Like this, the magic signal tower could be transmitted to the Magic Airship, then it would be transmitted from the magic signal source inside the machine.

    To put it simply, it was a magic signal tower in the sky that was made from Dragon Word Magic, which would ry the magic signal across the sea.

    In fact, they didn¡¯t need to use the Magic Airship. They just needed to put a floating array on the machine to let it float in the air.

    However, when testing this, when the machine was affected by the currents in the air, it couldn¡¯t maintain stability. It was very hard to stay in one ce, so Akali had to use a Magic Airship to keep it in ce.

    Of course, the Magic Airship was a very valuable resource.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cloud Continent exploration team only had ten of these, so they couldn¡¯t leave it here.

    So the key thing that Akali¡¯s team had to do was develop a machine that could float in a stable manner in the air.

    If they could solve this problem, Akali was certain that it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to establishmunication between the Magic Cloud Continent and the Sines Continent.

    However, this problem wasn¡¯t for Akali¡¯s team to solve, but rather they needed help from the magic machine development center.

    So Akali had sent back this problem to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce headquarters through the reinforcement fleet without any courtesy.

    And she started to build the second magic signal tower with her subordinates.

    Xu Yi had told her before that any ce that the magicmunication signal could cover was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s territory!

 Volume 7 60 - Multi Thread Magic Synchronization

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 60 - Multi Thread Magic Synchronization</h4>

    Compared to the hard work that Akali¡¯s group was putting in to build the new magicmunicationwork on the Magic Cloud Continent, it was much better on the Sines Continent.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finished building their magicmunicationwork in the Stantine Duchy, after ten years of development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicmunicationwork not only covered every inch ofnd in the southwest countries, but also most of the other countries were connected to thework.

    After realizing the potential of remote real timemunication, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Communicator and portable Magic Communicator that people didn¡¯t care about before suddenly started to sell well.

    Because of the ws of the current magicmunicationwork, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on letting normal people use this thing, so he had set the prices of the Magic Communicators very high.

    The price of setting up the receiver cost one hundred and thirty gold coins, while the Magic Communicator itself sold for eighty gold coins each. It was far from something that normal people could afford.

    But that didn¡¯t stop the big merchants and the nobles who always cared about their image from buying them.

    Before April even came, the receiver had sold eighty four thousand units while the Magic Communicator had sold fifty six thousand units.

    Just with these two products, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned fifteen million gold coins in sales.

    Then adding in the fact that these two products were still in their period of high profit margins, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had earned a shocking twelve million from them.

    Compared to the household magic machines that had lower profit margins, these products rted to the magicmunicationwork had high profit margins, broad prospects, and near infinite potential.

    So the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce in charge of these two products were filled with energy that they put into producing these two products.

    In early April, the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce had signed contracts with the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire at the same time.

    ording to the contract, the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce would work with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, helping these tworge empires develop the magicmunicationworks in their borders.

    ording to estimates, it would take five years to finish the first phase.

    The goal of the first phase was to guarantee that all the major cities of the two empires would be connected by the magicmunicationwork, making it easier for the two empires tomunicate within themselves.

    At the same time, ording to the appraisal given by the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it would take three thousand six hundred to three thousand eight hundred magic signal towers in the Candra Empire and around three thousand magic signal towers in the Marlow Empire for the first phase.

    Then when it came to maintenance and other expenses, the total investment of the first phase would be over three hundred million gold coins.

    This was without a doubt a giant project and even with the finances of the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire, it would be very hard for them to pay for it alone.

    So the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce signed another contract with the two empires. There would be amunication management department opened up for these two empires which would control themunicationwork in these two countries.

    In this department, the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any management rights, but they had operational rights.

    This meant that the main things would be decided by the two empires, but the specific operations of the magicmunicationwork in the two empires would be controlled by the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, if there was a profit earned from operating the magicmunicationwork, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive a share.

    To put it in moremon terms, the two empires were contracting the magicmunicationworks in their countries to the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce. They had the right to manage it, but all other aspects would be given to the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce and they wouldn¡¯t interfere.

    From another angle, this contract meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had truly entered the two empires.

    This was very important for Xu Yi.

    The other people of the continent didn¡¯t understand the hidden value of this contract, but he was clear thatmunication technology would develop in the future and it couldn¡¯t be stopped as it swept over the continent.

    If themunicationwork of this world could reach the same level as earth¡¯s, he believed that in his lifetime, he would be able to see a Magic Communicator in everyone¡¯s hands.

    Of course, before this, he had to solve a very important issue.

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, look, this is the multi thread magic synchronization research that Arch Magus Cami contributedst year.¡± Sancheli held a metal disc in his hand that didn¡¯t have a normal shape, cing it in front of Xu Yi like it was a treasure.

    Xu Yi was curious as he took it and after looking at it for a bit, he asked, ¡°What is the specific function of this thing?¡±

    Sancheli gave augh before pointing at the metal te, ¡°Sir chairman, you can try injecting some magic.¡±

    Xu Yi paused for a bit before activating his magic, sending a wisp of it into the metal disc.

    As soon as the magic went in, there was a light blue glow that came from the metal disc. Then there was a faint wind that came from the disc that quickly turned into a small cyclone.

    ¡°Did you put the Whirlwind Spell in this?¡± Xu Yi asked Sancheli in a confused voice, ¡°If it¡¯s just this simple thing, why would you bring it all the way here to show me?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not that simple.¡± Sancheli raised his hand with a smile and stretched out a finger to tap the magic disc.

    Xu Yi felt a different source of magic power enter the metal disc and he couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting his brows.

    If the magic power of different magicians came together, the consequences were unpredictable. It could cause the magic power to go wild which made people ufortable if it was light, or it couldpletely scatter one¡¯s magic power if it was heavy.

    But Sancheli had dared to do this, so he must be confident. Xu Yi didn¡¯t pull back his own magic and carefully observed it.

    After Sancheli¡¯s magic entered the metal disc, it clearly went to the other side and didn¡¯t sh with the magic that Xu Yi sent in.

    Then there was a small me that appeared on the metal disc, floating right beside the little cyclone that had been made with Xu Yi¡¯s magic.

    The wind from the cyclone shook the me, like a candle that had been ced outside which made people think that it would be extinguished at any moment.

    Seeing this and feeling that the metal disc had his and Sancheli¡¯s magic flowing in it at the same time, Xu Yi had an idea as he asked, ¡°Sancheli, this thing can allow different sources of magic power to guide different elemental magic energy to form spells?¡±

    ¡°Yes, this is the multi thread magic synchronization theory that Arch Magus Cami proposed. What do you think?¡± Sancheli asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°Although this is novel, it¡¯s only at this level. I¡¯m afraid it isn¡¯t even at the same technological level as the magic toy that you showed me when we first met.¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not just this. Sir chairman, please watch.¡±

    Sancheli had Xu Yi stop his magic power and then took back the metal disc. He went over to his personalb where there was a strange looking metal instrument sitting there.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is just the control core. To see its true functions, you need to use this.¡±

    After saying this, Sancheli put the metal disc in his hand into a groove on the metal tool and then pressed a button on the side.

    Xu Yi immediately discovered that there were over a hundred different magic fluctuations of different elements, frequencies, and specifications that suddenly filled theb.

    The over a hundred magic fluctuations came from around the metal instrument before finally gathering in the metal disc that Sancheli had inserted.

    This metal instrument released all colours of light as it released over a hundred different low level spells at the same time, which was quite dazzling to look at.

    These spells didn¡¯t just appear, they even interacted with each other.

    For example, there was an ice cone that fell from the ice spell up top that went into a pool of water, creating a bit of mist in that water. Then there was a me spell that appeared that quickly heated up that water.

    So that water had been turned into mist and then floated up, being wrapped up inside a pocket of air.

    After a while, the pocket of air turned into a cloud that slowly let down rain.

    As the rain fell, itnded on some dirt condensed by an earth spell. This hard dirt quickly softened and turned into mud.

    Seeing this small ecological simtion, Xu Yi¡¯s first thought was that Sancheli must have been very bored while doing his research that he would make spells that could do this kind of stuff.

    However, after that though, Xu Yi began to carefully observe each of the spells that the metal instrument released. At the same time, he was focused on the magic power and the elemental magic energy contained within.

    After several minutes, Xu Yi took a deep breath and looked at Sancheli with a shocked look.

    ¡°These spells are all operating in sync? Moreover, they alle from a single Magic Array?¡±

    Sancheli nodded with a smile, ¡°Yes, sir chairman. There are one hundred and seven different spells here and they are all from the Magic Array that you just saw on the metal disc. Of course, what is providing the magic power is the Magic Crystal.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the metal instrument with an astonished gaze.

    If Sancheli wasn¡¯t lying to him, this meant that the metal disc that Sancheli had just shown him was capable of releasing one hundred and seven different spells at the same time!

    For a normal Magic Array, as long as it was drawn, it would only be able to use a single spell.

    Even if the might of the spell varied, one spell meant one spell. It was impossible for it to have two different spells at the same time.

    Sancheli¡¯s research results had broken this old concept.

    If he continued this research, not only would there be a chance to solve the urgent multi-line problem that the magicmunicationwork was facing, they even¡­..had the chance to create aputer in this world!

 Volume 7 61 - I Want To Be Chairman

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 61 - I Want To Be Chairman</h4>

    It was the 7th of May and whether it was the Stantine Duchy or the Sines Continent, it wasn¡¯t a special day because there wasn¡¯t a holiday on this day or any special events, it was no different from a normal day.

    But for Xu Yi, this was a day that was somewhat special.

    Because¡­¡­It was the day that he had transmigrated to this world.

    Moreover, this year¡¯s May 7 was the twentieth anniversary of the day he came to this world.

    Remembering this day from ten years ago, it was after Xu Yi had been in this world for ten years. He had gone to a quiet ce by himself to calm himself down while using that time to remember his memories of earth.

    On the day of the twentieth anniversary, he didn¡¯t have much to recall.

    After being in this world for so long, when he thought of his time on earth, other than missing his rtives, he didn¡¯t feel any pain or emotions at all.

    The current him was a person thatpletely belonged to the Sines Continent. His family, his business, and his ideals were here.

    Every so often he would feel thatpared to being an ordinary researcher on earth living a stable life, aftering to this world and working hard to build aplete industrial system in this world gave him more of a sense of achievement.

    Look, if you walked on the street now, you could find Magic Cars racing down the road, which had greatly changed the method of transportation for the people of this world.

    By the roads, there were giant buildings that were more than ten stories tall. With rooms that were filled with household magic machines, it had changed the way that people lived in this world.

    The people in the streets were filled with happiness and health, which was clearly an increase in their diets.

    Even their clothing became more colourful and diverse. It waspletely different from the grey clothes that they wore when Xu Yi first came to this world.

    It could be seen that these people had also had a great change in terms of clothing.

    Clothes, food, shelter, and transportation, the four basic needs of humanity, have greatly improved over the years.

    What created these improvements was without a doubt the magic machine industry that Xu Yi drove.

    At the very least, in the Stantine Duchy and the southwest countries, people would only have praise. They thanked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for greatly increasing their lives.

    Xu Yi was very satisfied, so he decided that this was a special day and he would stop his forward momentum for today.

    ¡°Dad, look, it¡¯s mom!¡± Freya pointed to the right as she shouted loudly.

    Xu Yi followed where Freya was pointing and saw a giant illusion that was broadcasting Still¡¯s image.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s mom. Freya, let me test you, do you know where mom is right now?¡±

    Freya tapped her chin while tilting her head to think before suddenly giving a loud p.

    ¡°I know! Mom went to the Lampuri Kingdom three days ago and she had aunt Seveni with her, so she must be in Anvilmar City right now, right?¡±

    ¡°Right, your thinking is quite good.¡± Xu Yi praised her with a smile. He looked up at Still in the illusion who was reading a statement.

    Still had gone to the Lampuri Kingdom three days ago. She went to the Lampuri Kingdom this time to discuss increasing the coverage of the Magic Illusion Projectors in the Lampuri Kingdom, working hard to cover not only all the cities, but also all the viges with Magic Illusion Projectors.

    From her statement with Seveni, it seemed like her discussion with the Lampuri Kingdom had gone very smoothly.

    Of course, all the Magic Illusion Projectors in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s major cities received unanimous good evaluations. Now that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce was willing to increase their coverage, the Lampuri Kingdom naturally didn¡¯t have a reason to reject this.

    After all, this thing could increase the entertainment of the citizens while also allowing the Lampuri Kingdom to announce new policies to the people through regrly timed ?Weekly News Report?. This was much more efficient than sending out official documents and having the various City Lord Manors announce them to the citizens.

    ording to what Still said before she left, because the Magic Illusion Projectors the New Moon Chamber of Commerce installed showed their tremendous uses, not only the Lampuri Kingdom, there were many other countries that wanted to discuss cooperation with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    Even the two empires had sent olive branches to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, warmly weing them to invest in the two empires.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had been weed by the countries because other than the Magic Illusion Projector making it easy to make announcements, the most important reason was that the countries didn¡¯t need to do anything. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce took care of everything when installing Magic Illusion Projectors, so there was no need for additional investments.

    This seemed silly to many people because even putting aside therge expenditure needed to install the Magic Illusion Projectors, it required quite a bit of money to manage and operate the Magic Illusion Projectors in each city.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce doing this seemed like they were just throwing away money.

    There were even people who guessed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, otherwise it was impossible for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to invest this much alone.

    As the New Moon Chamber of Commerce became bigger and bigger, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only throw more money into this bottomless hole.

    But there was no other way. Who told the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman miss Still to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi¡¯s most beloved wife.

    However, Xu Yi was clear that these people were all wrong.

    In terms of investment, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce not only not lost money, but rather earned quite a bit.

    For most people, apany¡¯s method of earning money was just earning profits from selling products.

    For the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s method of only investing manpower and not taking any ie, it seemed like they were burning money.

    But they didn¡¯t know that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce did sell products, which were the various Magic Illusion Film Discs.

    As the New Moon Chamber of Commerce made more and more Magic Illusion Films, their ie kept increasing along with their production costs.

    ording to Still, duringst year, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie from this had already surpassed seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    Although this number didn¡¯t seem big, the ie from this was very stable. Moreover, as the Magic Illusion Projector became more and more popr, its prospects would also be better which made it a good source of ie.

    Moreover, this was only a small part of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie. Actually duringst year, all of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ie added up to a total of eight million and seven hundred thousand gold coins.

    Although this was far from being able topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s terrifying profit of one hundred and forty million fromst year, one couldn¡¯t say that this was a failing business no matter how they looked at it.

    Among these eight million and seven hundred thousand gold coins, the biggest revenue earner was the advertising ie.

    That¡¯s right, it was advertising.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge Magic Illusion Projectors would broadcast an illusion film each night at a set time, but apart from this, it wasn¡¯t idle as it kept showing different advertisements.

    These advertisements were short films produced by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce at the requests ofpanies, organizations, or special individuals. Because it was quite interesting to watch, the advertising effects were quite good.

    When the New Moon Chamber of Commerce revealed this advertising service, only Xu Yi had requested several advertisements from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He paid three hundred thousand gold coins to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to advertise the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the otherpanies noticed the great effectiveness of this advertisement, they all copied them.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had already signed seventy six advertising contracts and covered every industry.

    Through these advertisements, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce earned a profit of six million one hundred and seventy thousand gold coinsst year.

    Now that Still had signed this new contract with the Lampuri Kingdom and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce would be installing morerge Magic Illusion Projectors, they would increase their ie even more.

    Xu Yi believed that when the New Moon Chamber of Commerce installed arge Magic Illusion Projector in each city on the Sines Continent, just their advertising revenue each year would be shocking.

    ¡°Dad, mom is so beautiful!¡± Freya suddenly praised Still as she looked at the illusion film.

    Xu Yi gave augh before patting her head, ¡°Of course, she is your mom. But Freya isn¡¯t bad either, you¡¯re also very beautiful.¡±

    Freya seriously shook her head, ¡°No, dad, I only look good right now, I¡¯m not beautiful.¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why do you say that you look good and not beautiful? Doesn¡¯t it mean the same?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Freya shook her head again. There were several strands of dark brown hair that danced in the wind as she shook her head, making her look even more vibrant.

    She was already fourteen years old, she had finished growingst year and had turned into a big girl.

    With the genes she inherited from Still, Freya could be considered a little beauty from any angle and she would definitely turn all heads when she walked down the street.

    However, she said that she only looked good and not beautiful which really was strange.

    ¡°Then tell me, how is it different?¡± Xu Yi asked back as he found it a bit funny.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡± Freya tilted her head to think, ¡°Mom is beautiful because¡­¡­because her qualities are good. Un, it¡¯s all about qualities. Dad, look, mom seems confident and charming with just a single look, people definitely can¡¯t help but listen to her, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still in the Magic Illusion and didn¡¯t find anything special.

    Perhaps it was because he and Still were an old couple and couldn¡¯t be more familiar with each other, so there weren\\\''t any special feelings anymore.

    It was because Freya had be a sensible girl that she was sensitive in this matter.

    ¡°I understand why!¡± Freya suddenly gave a p as she revealed a look of understanding, ¡°Dad, mom looks this beautiful¡­..Oh, no, she has this making because she¡¯s the chairman! So, dad, I also want to be the chairman!¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi looked at Freya in a daze as if he couldn¡¯t understand what was in her head, ¡°Why did you suddenly have this idea?¡±

    ¡°Because I¡¯ve wanted to be the chairman since I was young.¡± Freya said in a natural manner, ¡°Dad, I felt that you were imposing since I was young and now seeing mom like this, I¡¯ve decided that I want to be the chairman! Dad, didn¡¯t you ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up? I¡¯ve decided now! I want to seed you, I want to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression became very strange.

    He had asked Freya about this many times before and she gave a different answer every time.

    However, he didn¡¯t ask today and Freya suddenly had this kind of answer.

    He hoped that this wasn¡¯t just an impulse that she had¡­¡­

 Volume 7 62 - Work Experience

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 62 - Work Experience</h4>

    Even for a normal household, for their meagre family property, they would need to train a talented person to take over.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had be a first sspany on the Sines Continent, with assets in the billions and yearly profits in the hundred millions, a leader was the most important thing and naming a sessor was just as important.

    So even if Xu Yi was only just forty years old and could live several more decades if there weren¡¯t any idents, the topic of his sessor had already been raised in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If this was earth and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany, the sessor would be trained from the interior and would be determined based on their abilities.

    But on the Sines Continent, in this half feudal half ve society, the person that could take over for Xu Yi in the eyes of others was naturally his child.

    Because the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have the same bias against women as on earth and Xu Yi had already named Freya his sessor when she had been born, everyone had thought that Freya would be the sessor to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But although Xu Yi had determined that she would be the sessor to his family property, he had never named her the sessor of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because Xu Yi always felt that family property was his personal property and it wasn¡¯t a problem for him to determine his sessor.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this big now and it wasn¡¯t just Xu Yi¡¯s matter alone. It connected to countless things and determined many important matters for countless countries.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was this important, the leader should have enough abilities to lead the Frestech Chamber of Commerce down the right path.

    Freya had the right to inherit this, but Xu Yi was never certain if she had the abilities to do so.

    Then again, Xu Yi never wanted his child to follow the path that he set for them, he always wanted his daughter to choose her own path.

    So although he didn¡¯t spare any effort when it came to educating Freya, he had always let her study what she wanted and had never forced her to study business management or other things that would be needed to run apany.

    Still had opposed Xu Yi doing this a bit, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t budge. He let Freya do whatever she wanted, so she couldn¡¯t do anything.

    With this educational method, Freya had been like many other children, being interested in many different things and went to learn about them. However, the only thing that she kept doing was studying magic.

    Of course, Freya was talented in magic and adding in the new data analysis method that Xu Yi created, Freya¡¯s ability to study magic far surpassed all other magicians. She was only fourteen years old and was already a Sixth Grade Magician which was considered very shocking.

    But other than magic, Freya¡¯s interests had neversted that long. So when she announced to Xu Yi that she wanted to be the chairman after growing up, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care that much and felt that she just had this sudden impulse after seeing Still.

    But the facts proved that Xu Yi had been wrong about Freya¡¯s determination.

    After dering that ¡®she wanted to be the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯, Freya hadpletely invested herself into learning various topics about managing thepany that she didn¡¯t like to study before. She was in high spirits when facing thisrge amount of boring data and didn¡¯t seem impatient at all.

    Seeing that she hadsted three months like this without giving up, Xu Yi was finally certain that she might be serious this time.

    Since Freya was serious, Xu Yi put aside the thoughts of just watching the fun and began to seriously n for her.

    After three months of learning theory, Xu Yi gave Freya a goal. He wanted her to learn about the framework of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before growing up, so he wanted her to experience all kinds of jobs under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To put it in other words, since she wanted to be the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she had to understand the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So¡­..she needed work experience.

    After considering it, Freya had decided that her first work experience would be at a factory under the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce! She was running off to be a normal assembly line worker!

    ¡°Freya, are you¡­..certain that you want to do this?¡± Still looked at Freya who had already changed into the uniform of a normal worker with a look of worry, ¡°Even if you want to get work experience, there¡¯s no need to be a worker, right? I think that it¡¯s better if you go to the magic research facility for some time. Anyway, you¡¯re already at the level that a researcher should be at and then again, technology is the core of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it¡¯s best if you go there. Don¡¯t you think so, Xu Yi?¡±

    Seeing Still looking at him for help, Xu Yi revealed a smile before shaking his head.

    ¡°We should respect Freya¡¯s choice, but¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at Freya and his expression became serious, ¡°Freya, I have to remind you again that this is work experience and you¡¯re not going to y. The work of a normal worker is much harder than you can imagine and if you¡¯re not prepared, you will definitely suffer.¡±

    Freya gave augh and then gave a strong nod, ¡°Rx, dad, I want to see what the workers working in the factory are like. I admit that that environment isn¡¯t easy, but I will definitely endure it!¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll remind you again that when you¡¯re working at this factory, don¡¯t count on any help from us. There will be no preferential treatment in the factory, your mother and I won¡¯t give you a single copper coin either. This means that you have to take care of your own living expenses and you have to depend on your wage from the factory, understood?¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡± Freya loudly said as she didn¡¯t show any fear on her face.

    Xu Yi shook his head.

    Although Freya was confident, she had never suffered before, so she could never imagine what kind of troubles she would encounter.

    Whether she could endure them or not when the time came, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t certain.

    ¡°Freya, you¡­¡­¡± Still opened her mouth and wanted to say a few things, but after looking at Xu Yi, she swallowed them back, ¡°.....Take care of yourself.¡±

    Freya gave a giggle and hooked Still¡¯s arm. She also rubbed her face against Still¡¯s and then said with a naughty smile, ¡°Mom, you don¡¯t need to worry about me. I¡¯m almost fifteen, I¡¯m not a child anymore. Look, I¡¯m almost taller than you.¡±

    Still patted the hand Freya used topare the two of them and softly reprimanded, ¡°We¡¯ll talk once you really grow up.¡±

    She gave a sigh after saying this, ¡°Forget it, since this is your own choice, then I will be the same as your dad and respect your wishes. Go, if you can really do this, then you really are sensible.¡±

    Still and Freya talked for a bit before finally unwillingly separating from each other.

    Before leaving, Xu Yi took out a small hair tie.

    ¡°This is a magic item that elder Lisanya specially made for you. It contains an Illusion Spell and can change your appearance.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s such a fun thing?¡± Freya was curious as she tied it to her hair. She followed Xu Yi¡¯s instructions to inject magic into it and with a faint light blue glow, Xu Yi and Still noticed that Freya¡¯s appearance had changed slightly.

    After half a minute, Freya¡¯s appearance finally stopped changing.

    Still took a look and couldn¡¯t help knitting her brows.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t this¡­..a bit too ordinary?¡±

    Freya, who was standing in front of them, had a very ordinary appearance. No matter how one looked at her, she would be a normal young girl when thrown into a crowd. She didn¡¯t have the same beauty and aura that she had when she had her original appearance.

    ¡°It¡¯s good to be normal. If she goes to the factory with her normal appearance, even putting aside her status, her appearance would cause unnecessary problems for her.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Freya didn¡¯t care at all when she saw her appearance. After looking at her face with interest in the mirror for a bit, her expression became excited.

    After asking about what she needed to take care of when using this, Freya waved her hand to bid farewell to the two of them.

    For the next while, she would act as a young girl who came from the Lampuri Kingdom to the Stantine Duchy to find work. She would enter a factory under the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce to work on simple assembly, working there for three months to half a year.

    It was impossible for this work to increase her magic level or her level of management, so she couldn¡¯t stay there for too long.

    But Xu Yi and Freya both firmly believed that this work experience would give her rich life experience that would help herter growth.

    What made Xu Yi the most happy was that this was a request from Freya, so it could be seen that she had seriously considered this matter.

    If she had this same attitude in the future and kept improving herself, then she might have the ability to take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    But for Still, she still had many questions about this matter.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why did you agree with Freya? Didn¡¯t you always hope that she and the other children could have a happy childhood?¡±

    Xu Yi watched Freya leaving and gave a sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s because¡­¡­Kennard is about to leave¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 63 - Kennarda??s Departure

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 63 - Kennarda??s Departure</h4>

    Kennard was about to leave.

    This wasn¡¯t a recent matter and in the past few years, Kennard had mentioned this possibility to Xu Yi before, but this fact became more and more real during thest two years.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO, Kennard had already been in this position for over ten years now.

    During these ten years, the major development strategies came from Xu Yi, but when it came to operating thepany, it was all controlled by Kennard alone.

    It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that if Xu Yi was the soul of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Kennard was the brain. The importance that he had was self-evident.

    If Kennard left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the effect on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was also clear.

    Xu Yi wanted Kennard to stay in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce until he passed of old age and Kennard wanted the same, but Kennard was the sessor to the Emma family and he had to take responsibility for his family.

    Several years ago, the Emma Family had already urged Kennard to go back to help develop the family, but Kennard had rejected this.

    However, in thest two years, Kennard¡¯s father, Count Emma had suddenly fallen ill and his condition was getting worse.

    So Count Emma and the Emma Family¡¯s people hoped that Kennard could go back to manage the family, performing his responsibilities.

    With such a righteous reason, Kennard couldn¡¯t reject.

    Since that time, Xu Yi had already made preparations for sessors after Kennard left while Kennard had gradually started transferring the work that he had.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce reorganized two years ago, establishingpanies under them mainly because they wanted to give these departments more opportunities to develop, but Kennard¡¯s departure was also one of the main reasons.

    Of this, this wasn¡¯t the main reason why Xu Yi supported Freya in learning how to manage apany. What made him decide to do this was because of Freya¡¯s own choice in the end.

    But Kennard leaving was a fact and one that had always troubled Xu Yi.

    Several years ago, Xu Yi had already started looking for recements for Kennard and had tried training a few of them.

    However, Kennard was not only outstanding, the post that he had was one that had appeared on the Sines Continent for the first time. Other than him, there was no one else that could take this post, so it was hard to find a sessor for him.

    Xu Yi¡¯s current n was to train some people for management from thepanies under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and then choose from them.

    As for Freya¡­¡­Her idea was good and she was willing to work hard, but she was still far from being able to take over such argepany.

    ###

    A month had passed in the blink of an eye and it was the first month of the zing summer again.

    Every year at this time, it was the busiest time for household magic machinepanies.

    Because when summer came, people¡¯s demand for household magic machines greatly increased. Especially those household magic machines that could help them fight off this summer heat.

    Every year at this time, the various household magic machinepanies would do all they could to sell their products.

    In the past, advertising was just handing out leaflets, having people run around advertising, and other methods that were inefficient and cost a lot.

    When the newspapers appeared in each country, thepanies all learned to advertise through the newspapers.

    In the past two years, because the New Moon Chamber of Commerce started installing therge Magic Illusion Projectors in each major city, thepanies all started epting the advertising method of using illusion films that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce pushed.

    Compared to previous years, as long as thepanies were willing to invest, their advertising would be countless times better.

    Therefore, when summer came each year, it would often be whenpanies fought with advertising.

    Simrly, when this time came, the otherpanies would all be envious of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The reason was very simple, they needed to spend all that money to advertise in the various newspapers and in the Magic Illusion Projectors the New Moon Chamber of Commerce set up, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to do anything. They didn¡¯t even need to spend money and they would advertise better than them.

    The various newspapers reported on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and then as for the Magic Illusion Projectors?

    Don¡¯t forget that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce was basically one family with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the Magic Illusion Projectors were produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally they would advertise the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With this kind of advertising, how could the otherpaniespare?

    However, it was no use if they envied them. Among the magic machinepanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the goal that every otherpany looked up to and nopany expected to catch up in a short period of time.

    So there was no difference fromst year when it came to the advertising war this year. All thepanies had set their opponents as thepanies other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with no one daring to challenge the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position.

    But at the end of June, there was a piece of news that suddenly caused trouble for the otherpanies.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current CEO, who had held the position for fourteen years, Kennard was about to leave thepany!

    If it wasn¡¯t for this news appearing in the ?Banta Times? that was the closest to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which most people considered the official newspaper of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no one would have believed it.

    Who was Kennard? That was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO!

    Other than Xu Yi, Kennard could be considered the person with the highest and most important position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that he was suddenly leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they couldn¡¯t imagine how serious this would impact them!

    The day after the ?Banta Times? reported this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest issue of ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? also reported the same, which could be considered the official announcement.

    Everyone was certain that this wasn¡¯t a joke, which caused a giant stir on the Sines Continent.

    Everyone¡¯s first reaction was that since Kennard was leaving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where would he go now?

    This question was quickly answered.

    Three days after this news was officially announced in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, Kennard appeared in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital Anvilmar City and then announced that he would be holding a press conference to address his future ns.

    After five days of arrangements, Kennard¡¯s personal press conference started in Anvilmar City.

    At this press conference, Kennard answered the many questions from all the reporters.

    For the question as to why he left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Kennard seriously denied the allegations that there was some kind of conflict between him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He stated that this was a normal resignation after clearly discussing it with Xu Yi.

    As for what he would do after resigning, Kennard gave the answer that he would open his ownpany which would also be rted to the magic machine industry.

    This answer came as a surprise for many people, but after thinking about it, they realized that it was expected.

    Kennard had been the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO for fourteen years, so it could be said that he was very intimate with various aspects of the magic machine industry. He had resources and connections that normal people didn¡¯t have.

    Now that he had left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to form his ownpany, he would have a greater advantagepared to the other magic machinepanies.

    When the reporters asked Kennard if his new magic machinepany would bepetitors with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Kennard replied that thispany wasn¡¯t nning on directlypeting with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Rather, he would try to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as much as possible and develop with them.

    Kennard¡¯s attitude was sincere and the reporters didn¡¯t keep asking about this.

    Moreover, when the reporters interviewed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they asked the same question to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi¡¯s answer wasn¡¯t that different from Kennard¡¯s.

    Xu Yi stated that Kennard had normally resigned from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no conflict between both sides.

    As a colleague of Kennard for many years, he sincerely blessed Kennard on his future development. He also stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already signed several private contracts with Kennard, so they will be developing together with Kennard¡¯s new magic machinepany.

    Because Kennard and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s replies were airtight, the reporters couldn¡¯t unearth anything else.

    But after this, the news spread that the backer behind Kennard¡¯s newpany was actually the Emma Family that he was from.

    This meant that thispany was in fact set up by the Emma Family and Kennard was just taking the post of chairman on the surface.

    This news made people begin to think.

    When Kennard took the post of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO, people had thought that with Kennard¡¯s position as the Emma Family¡¯s sessor, it was far beyond the position of a CEO of a smallpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. When he took this position, it was bringing himself down.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quickly developed, people gradually changed this thinking and had another thought.

    Could it be that the Emma Family had seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s potential, so they sent Kennard? They wanted to see if he could find a way to reach the top of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s management, even bing the CEO that was just under Xu Yi to steal the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from him?

    Now that Kennard was leaving this job, it might be that the Emma Family had found that they couldn¡¯t aplish this goal, so they could only back off. They made Kennard leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bringing his years of experience, connections, and resources in the magic machine industry with him.

    Although it was impossible topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce now, with Kennard¡¯s resources and the strong support of the Emma Family, thispany¡¯s future development potential was quite considerable.

    On the contrary, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly losing a high level management personnel like Kennard could be considered a big loss.

    What measures would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce take in response to this?

 Volume 7 64 - Chimera Chamber Of Commerce Stirring Up Trouble

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 64 - Chimera Chamber Of Commerce Stirring Up Trouble</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s countermeasures¡­..There weren¡¯t any countermeasures.

    At least to an outsider, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should have taken some sort of action after losing someone as important as Kennard, that way they could guarantee that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be too impacted.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t make any special moves after Kennard¡¯s press conference. They just announced that they had several projects that they were working on with Kennard¡¯s newly formed Dawn Chamber of Commerce and everything else went along as usual.

    The variouspanies under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce name continued producing and selling their products normally. Their products were weed all over the Sines Continent and sold all over.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce itself, other than Xu Yi announcing an unknown person named rus taking over Kennard¡¯s position as the second CEO of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were no other visible changes.

    This phenomenon surprised many people.

    Kennard¡¯s importance to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was clear. Now that he had suddenly left, it was impossible to say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t be affected at all.

    Perhaps¡­..there was no effect now, but they would be able to see it in the long term?

    The people who had these guesses started to care more about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the beginning of October, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce suddenly sent a cooperation agreement to the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce, hoping for all three sides to work together. They would work together on the household magic machinework n that the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce proposed three years ago to the southwest province.

    This n would be to use the magicmunicationworkid down by the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce to link all the Frestech Brand household magic machines, creating a household magic machinework.

    The foundation of thiswork would be the breakthrough that Akali¡¯s team had just made in themunicationwork technology.

    The magicmunicationwork was only developed formunication, but after Akali¡¯s team had worked on it for a long time, they found that the magic signal wasn¡¯t just used formunication and could be used in many different ces.

    After studying the magic fluctuations going through magic space and then being changed by the Magic Array many times, Akali¡¯s team had already been able to send images through magic signals.

    If they went further with this, it might be possible to create a whole new magicwork that was just like themunicationwork on earth.

    With this foundation, it was simple to pass down some simple orders with the magicmunicationwork.

    So the actual role of this household magic machinework was to connect all Frestech Brand household magic machines in an enclosedwork, allowing it to draw on a single energy source. This would help the family save a lot of space, while also saving on their consumption.

    At the same time, if the house was equipped with magicmunication equipment, they could connect to the Frestech Magic Network with this equipment. Then they could rely on this magicwork to obtain many new functions.

    The most simple of this was long distancemunication. For moreplicated functions, they could directly receive magic illusion signals from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, watching the Magic Illusion Films on their family¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector.

    It sounded very troublesome, but to exin it simply, it would be like installing a telephone and a TV in a household, allowing them to make calls and watch programs through the magicwork.

    Of course, because this household magic machinework was only designed to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would only work for the Frestech Brand household magic machines.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also announced that as their research in this field developed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to provide a simple transfer box. It would allow the other brands of household magic machines to connect to the magicwork without any obstructions.

    Of course, that was on the premise that the other brands would use the same standard as the Frestech Brand.

    Before Akali¡¯s team finished developing this, in the past three years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been trying to promote the construction of the magicwork in the Stantine Duchy.

    So far, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested twenty three million gold coins. They had sessfullypleted building the household magic machinework in all the cities and towns of the Stantine Duchy.

    In theory, for anyone in the Stantine Duchy, they could talk to anyone else in the Stantine Duchy.

    The households that were connected to thiswork could watch the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯stest works at home. With the Magic Illusion programming that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided, it reached the same level of entertainment in a normal household on earth.

    However, before Sancheli made a major breakthrough in the multi thread magic synchronization research, the magicwork was limited and wasn¡¯t very convenient, so Xu Yi had controlled its speed of development.

    Until about six months ago when Sancheli made another breakthrough in the technology that Xu Yi finally authorized him in applying his technology to the magicwork. The current magicmunicationwork in the Stantine Duchy could take over ten thousand magic signal requests at the same time.

    Although it was far from being able topare to the standard on earth, it was truly arge increase in the foundational capacity.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started promoting it in the Stantine Duchy and after a month, the magicwork in the Stantine Duchy had already started taking shape.

    It was at this time that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce suddenly asked to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which was quite surprising.

    Because even for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Stantine Duchy, they were only in the experimental stage, they weren¡¯t able to confirm if the magicwork was stable or not.

    If they were to promote this in the southwest province of the Candra Empire that was over ten times bigger than the Stantine Duchy, it was just too risky.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce stated that they were willing to provide 70% of the funding and take all the risks in this project, they just need ourpany to provide the technology and manpower. We wouldn¡¯t need to manage anything and they would be in charge of building this magicwork. Do you think¡­..this is good?¡± Ankhto knitted his brows as he asked Xu Yi this.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s conditions were so good that he almost felt like they were cheating them. So he didn¡¯t hold back at all and came to ask for Xu Yi¡¯s advice.

    Following him was chairman Kakaro from the Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce. Once he heard that Ankhto was finished, he added, ¡°Un, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce gave very good conditions when they came to discuss this with ourpany. Moreover, they promised that they would greatly invest in ourpany installing the magicmunicationwork in the Candra Empire, guaranteeing that we canplete this as soon as possible.¡±

    ¡°In short¡­¡­the Chimera Chamber of Commerce just told you that you don¡¯t need to care about anything else, you just need to help them build this magicwork?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Ankhto and Kakaro nodded at the same time.

    ¡°Then did you tell them that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already spent twenty three million gold coins to install this magicwork in the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    ¡°We did, but¡­¡­¡± Ankhto and Kakaro looked at each other with helpless looks, ¡°The Chimera Chamber of Commerce stated that money isn¡¯t a problem, it wouldn¡¯t even be a problem if they had to invest several more times than this¡­¡­.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that they have the money¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help saying in an emotional voice. Then after being silent for a bit, he asked, ¡°Then what do you think?¡±

    Ankhto and Kakaro looked at each other again. They knew that the sir chairman never wanted his subordinates to be hesitant and wanted them to have their own ideas, so this time was clearly not an exception.

    After Ankhto thought about it for a bit, he said with a serious look, ¡°Sir chairman, I think that this is a good chance. Although our Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already signed the contract toy down the magicmunicationwork in the two empires, because of how big the project was and how much it cost, the progress in the two empires has always been slow. Now that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, thispany with enough finances wants to invest, it will definitely be a great help in promoting the magicwork across the two empires.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before turning to Kakaro.

    ¡°What about you? Do you think the same as Ankhto?¡±

    Kakaro was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Sir chairman, although I have my doubts about the goals of the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and that they don¡¯t have good intentions, after carefully considering it, I feel that this is a golden opportunity that¡¯s very hard toe by. If we miss this, it will be very difficult toy down the magicwork in the two empires just with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone, so¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So you also approve of working with the Chimera Chamber of Commerce?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Kakaro didn¡¯t hesitate this time and gave a nod.

    Xu Yi immediately beganughing.

    ¡°Since you two have already decided on this, what are you asking me for? I¡¯ve already said it, now that you are your own individualpany, you should make the decisions yourself and you don¡¯t need to ask me.¡±

    ¡°But¡­..But this matter was too important, so Kakaro and I felt that we should get sir chairman¡¯s approval.¡± Ankhto said.

    ¡°Actually,pared to sir chairman¡¯s approval, we wanted sir chairman¡¯s guidance more. Sir chairman has already taken the long approach and the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s methods are just too strange that Ankhto and I don¡¯t feel confident. As long as sir chairman agrees, then we will be more assured.¡± Kakaro said.

    ¡°Alright, stop ttering me, there¡¯s no benefits.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°As for this matter¡­..of course it¡¯s a good thing. Your judgment is correct, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce investing in erecting this magicwork will be of great help. After the magicwork is built, the various products of ourpany will find it easier to enter the Candra Empire, so this is a very good project to cooperate on.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Ankhto and Kakaro¡¯s expressions rxed.

    ¡°But¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice suddenly sank that made their rxed expressions be tense again, ¡°You have to remember, you have to find what it is that attracted the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, you have to determine what is the most appealing to them. Remember to hold onto that thing, it will be the core for your own long term development. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Ankhto and Kakaro slightly knitted their brows as they fell into deep thought.

 Volume 7 65 - Old Elven Clansman

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 65 - Old Elven nsman</h4>

    After Kakaro and Ankhto left, Xu Yi pulled out a pile of documents from his desk to look over one by one.

    These documents were submitted by thepanies under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the past few months and in each of these documents, there was the same name, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, two months ago, the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce received a cooperation request from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. They asked the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce to provide some mining magic machines for the Chimera Chamber of Commerce¡¯s mines in several countries.

    This was a very normal request and before the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce went out alone, there were many miningpanies that had the same request.

    Normally speaking, the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce would design the final magic machines based on their inspection of the conditions and the requirements of the client, but this time the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had directly given four kinds of magic machines to the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce to develop.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce even provided detailed blueprints and had strict requirements, so they didn¡¯t give the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce much space to add their own designs.

    This kind of research wasn¡¯t hard, but because there wasn¡¯t much space to deviate, the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce rarely epted this kind of research request.

    Moreover, because the proposal came from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, the chairman of the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce who wasn¡¯t used to his role yet came to find Xu Yi to ask his opinion.

    Xu Yi treated him the same way as Ankhto and Kakaro, letting him make his own decision on whether to ept this or not.

    ording to the report from the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commercest month, the four magic machines had been finished and the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had approved of them.

    The Chimera Chamber of Commerce had expressed that they were satisfied with this cooperation and would propose more projects in the future, hoping that the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce could give them more preferential treatment.

    The Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce was naturally very happy to do so.

    Because other than the Chimera Chamber of Commerce being a bit strict with their requirements, causing some trouble during the development process, everything else had gone smoothly. Especially when it came to payment, they didn¡¯t dy at all and paid a high price. They really were a good partner to cooperate with.

    Other than the Frestech Construction Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce in thest half a year alone had proposed over seventy projects to the variouspanies under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thirteen of them had already finished, forty five of them were currently underway, ten of them were currently being negotiated, which included the project that Ankhto and Kakaro had just brought.

    Based on this, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the most important partner of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce as the biggestpany on the continent with powerful finances, strong resources and manpower, as well as having a special ce in the Candra Empire with their powerful connections who all had their own resources was the best partner for developing the Candra Empire with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There was no one that couldpare.

    However, to Xu Yi, the reports that were currently in his hands disclosed a fact that made one have to raise their vignce. It was that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had some plot against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this at all.

    More than ten years ago, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just appeared, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had directly tried to purchase the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But after Xu Yi had decisively rejected them, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had never mentioned this after.

    Then as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed faster and faster, bing stronger and stronger, with their strength evening close to the same level as the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce had lost all chances of buying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be this powerful, even posing a bit of threat to the Candra Empire, the Chimera Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire naturally became greedy.

    With the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for the Chimera Chamber of Commerce to swallow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in one bite. They could only nibble away at them from other aspects.

    There seemed to be no problems with these cooperation projects and there was no problem if one looked carefully, but in the end, when one thought about it, they would find that the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was trying to build rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from every angle.

    As for their goal¡­¡­.it was something that every bigpany had to experience, so there was no need to be surprised.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi gathered those reports together before tapping on his table twice.

    Cindy immediately came in.

    ¡°Sir chairman, may I ask what your orders are?¡±

    ¡°Contact elder Illusia and elder Lisanya, it¡¯s about time. Ask them to gather at the harbour.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Cindy immediately took out a small Magic Communicator and called elder Illusia and elder Lisanya.

    Xu Yi stood up to walk out while Cindy followed him while still being on themunicator.

    The two entered a Magic Sedan and in less than twenty minutes, they arrived at the Frestech Harbour outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    After a while, elder Illusia and elder Lisanya brought some elves under them to the harbour.

    Elder Lisanya looked at the distant sea and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, where¡¯s the fleet? Why can¡¯t I see them at all?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at the person in charge of the harbour on the side.

    That manager gave a respectful bow before replying, ¡°Sir chairman, the fleet just passed by Landori Ind half an hour ago. They should arrive a bit if nothing unexpected happens.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Xu Yi nodded before exining to elder Lisanya, ¡°Landori Ind is less than fifty kilometers from here. If they passed by it half an hour ago, they should be a few kilometers out still. You should be able to see them in around ten minutes, so just wait a bit.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi and the two elders took a seat in the spot prepared by the manager. Xu Yi looked at the calm sea and suddenly asked with a smile, ¡°Two elders, you¡¯re feeling excited?¡±

    Elder Illusia and elder Lisanya looked at each other before revealing smiles.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if you humans saw a family member that you haven¡¯t seen in several years and they hade from over ten thousand kilometers away, would you be calm?¡± Elder Illusia asked with a smile.

    ¡°Of course not, but I wouldn¡¯t be this excited.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Based on the reports from the exploration squad, the Magic Cloud Continent should have humans as well, but they are just as scarce as the elves on the Sines Continent. They haven¡¯t even met a real human just yet. I think¡­¡­that if they brought back some humans, I might be more curious than excited.¡±

    ¡°We are the same, more curious than excited.¡± Elder Lisanya said, ¡°Although in the legends of the elves, it stated that after the race wars, there were quite a few nsmen who crossed the seas to find a new continent to live on, no one had confirmed whether that other continent existed or not or if the nsmen had ever safely reached the continent or even if they had survived there. Now that we¡¯ve confirmed this, of course we¡¯re very curious. Just what kind of experience did they have before?¡±

    ¡°Compared to history, I care more about their current situation.¡± Elder Illusia said, ¡°ording to the report from yourpany, those nsmen are living quite well on the Magic Cloud Continent. They could be considered one of the big races of the Magic Cloud Continent, which means they are much better off than us on the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°What? Elder Illusia, you want to bring your nsmen to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Elder Illusia immediately shook her head, ¡°Our nsmen have already obtained a very good life on the Sines Continent and have already integrated ourselves into human society, so we have no problems at all. As long as we can continue smoothly cooperating with chairman Xu and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I think that our Night Song Tribe will definitely be able to continue developing smoothly. No matter what, it¡¯s much better than going to the new continent.¡±

    ¡°Then elder Lisanya, what about your Moon Shadow Tribe?¡± Xu Yi turned to ask elder Lisanya this.

    ¡°It¡¯s not like we can¡¯t maintain our living conditions, why would we take the risk of going to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± Elder Lisanya¡¯s reply was even more straightforwardpared to elder Illusia¡¯s, ¡°Our n is cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so we are much better offpared to before and we don¡¯tck anything, as well as receiving attention from you humans. It¡¯s much better offpared to the Magic Cloud Continent. Speaking of this¡­..chairman Xu, you only told us that there were elves living there, but you didn¡¯t tell us what kind of living conditions they had.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, there were only so many things written on the report and I don¡¯t know even if you ask me.¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°But they will be here in a bit, so you can just ask them.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s good too.¡±

    Elder Lisanya gave a nod before looking down to organize her cor.

    Although elder Illusia on the side didn¡¯t do this, she did tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing deep down.

    It seemed like elves were no different from humans, when meeting old rtives, they would care about their appearance.

 Volume 7 66 - Guests From The New Continent

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 66 - Guests From The New Continent</h4>

    Ten minutester, there were a row of shadows that appeared on the horizon.

    ¡°They\\\''re here.¡±

    Xu Yi and the two elders stood up, moving to the harbour to calmly wait.

    After another ten minutes, the steel fleet had slowly pulled into the harbour from the western seas.

    When the firstrge transport Magic Ship docked at the harbour, there was a small figure that jumped out andnded in front of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m back!¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before squatting down to be in the line of sight of the other side.

    ¡°Hey, Lumi, should I congratte you first on finding your nsmen?¡±

    Lumi¡¯s eyes turned into crescents from her smiling and she gave a strong nod.

    ¡°Un! Sir chairman, I really have to thank you! I never thought that there would be a day when I would finally meet my nsmen!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile before looking up at the deck of therge transport Magic Ship.

    ¡°Then where are your nsmen? Have they arrived?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll go call them down.¡± Lumi waved her hand and flew back onto the ship.

    Xu Yi stood up and watched the flying Lumi with a smile, as he truly felt happy for Lumi in his heart.

    Since she had been left behind by her race, Lumi had been living alone on the Sines Continent as the sole halfling, so one could imagine just how lonely and sad she felt.

    Now that she had finally reached the new continent with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s open sea exploration fleet, even finding the existence of the halflings on the new continent, one could imagine how much joy she felt.

    When Xu Yi received this news from the Magic Cloud Continent two months ago that the exploration team had found the halflings on the Magic Cloud Continent, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    After all, the halflings leaving the Sines Continent and going to the new continent was only a legend. No one was certain that the new continent existed and no one was certain that the halflings had survived their trip there.

    So although Lumi had insisted on going with the exploration fleet because of the rumours left by her tribe, even after finding the Magic Cloud Continent, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have that much hope.

    He never thought that they would really find the other halflings. It had let Lumi aplish the hope of finding her race that she had held in her heart for several hundred years, it also made Xu Yi very happy.

    From a personal perspective, Xu Yi had talked to Lumi about magic research and the history of the halflings many times. He liked this cute halfling girl who was like a little human girl on the outside with a bright and open personality.

    From a business perspective, every member of the halfling race was a master of magic. They had formed their own system of magic theory, while also being especially fond of magic machine research.

    Just Lumi alone had helped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quite a bit and now that they had found a bunch of halflings, if they could take them all in and have them work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would greatly increase their magic machine research power.

    So no matter how one looked at it, Xu Yi was very happy with this result.

    Of course, in addition to Lumi and the halflings that she found on the Magic Cloud Continent, the main guests of this fleet were the widespread elves of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    After waiting for a bit, therge transport Magic Ships entered the harbour. There was a group of elves that had simr appearances to the elves of the Sines Continent, but with slight differences that followed behind the sailors of the ship.

    When elder Illusia and elder Lisanya beside Xu Yi saw these elves, they were stunned before going over to greet them.

    However, it wasn¡¯t like what Xu Yi imagined. The two sides were like close acquaintances when they met, looking very calm as they greeted each other. After making sure that they couldmunicate, they were very friendly as they talked to each other.

    Xu Yi had known the elves for a long time and knew of the personality of elves. They wanted themselves to look calm, noble, and graceful whenever they could, not letting themselves show the slightest bit of panic.

    This kind of personality wasn¡¯t good or bad, but Xu Yi was never used to it. So he left elder Illusia and elder Lisanya to talk to the elves that came from the Magic Cloud Continent. He turned to the halflings that followed behind the elves that looked like a bunch of human children.

    Different from the calm elves, these halflings started making noise before they even came off the deck. If it wasn¡¯t someone who knew the situation, they would have thought that it was a bunch of restless human children.

    When they came off the deck and stepped onto the harbour, they began making even more noise.

    Some halflings directly flew into the air, flying all around, looking like they were discovering a new world.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is the representative of my nsmen, you can call him Tnd.¡± Lumi brought over a halfling that was the same height as a human child, but had a white beard that reached his calves, with facial features that were like a human old man.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, the old halfling named Tnd gave a slight bow before saying with a wheezing voice, ¡°Dear human leader, hello, I am Tnd. Because I¡¯m the oldest, I have been elected by my nsmen as the representative. If you have anything you want to say to us, you can juste look for me.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, thinking that these halflings didn¡¯t seem as unreliable as their appearances, even knowing to select a representative to negotiate on their behalf.

    ¡°Hello, elder Tnd, I am Xu Yi. I believe that Lumi has already introduced me on the way.¡±

    ¡°Yes, Lumi said that you are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and I also know that yourpany produces something called magic machines?¡± Tnd looked over Xu Yi and his small eyes covered by his facial hair revealed a curious glow, ¡°I¡¯ve already experienced several of the magic machines produced by yourpany from your exploration team. I must admit that they really have amazing effects.¡±

    ¡°Many thanks for your praise.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°But elder Tnd, your halfling race has a long history of researching magic machines and magic tools, I think that you will have your own unique understanding about these things. If we can work together on researching this, it will definitely help both our sides.¡±

    Tnd gave augh, ¡°It seems like you humans are still the same. Rx, Lumi and the people of yourpany have already told us everything on the way. I know what you want to obtain from us, but don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s a bit too early?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Of course. I invited you here through Lumi this time to let you make your inspection first. As for whether you want to help us or work with ourpany, that can be discussedter, right?¡±

    Tnd looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look.

    ¡°You are quite frank for a human, you¡¯re different from the other humans I¡¯ve seen before.¡±

    Xu Yi immediately understood the main point of his words.

    ¡°Elder Tnd, you mean that you¡¯ve seen other humans before? That means that humans exist on the Magic Cloud Continent? Are there many humans on the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Tnd shook his head, ¡°Thest time I saw you humans was already a hundred years ago. The humans are already scarce enough on the Magic Cloud Continent, I¡¯m not clear on how they are now.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration team had already gone a thousand kilometers ind from the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s west coast. Other than finding the halflings and the elves, they also found the mostmon goblins and even the rarest lizardmen, but they had never met a single human.

    However, whether it was from the dragons, the halflings, or the elves, they all said that humans existed on the Magic Cloud Continent, but they didn¡¯t upy arge part of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    This discovery made Xu Yi¡¯s n of contacting the human kingdoms on the new continent and then seizing the human market first impossible.

    The humans had no controlling power on the Magic Cloud Continent, so how could the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discuss how to develop the Magic Cloud Continent with the human kingdoms?

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi quickly revealed another smile and asked another question.

    ¡°Elder Tnd, my subordinates should have mentioned to you and your nsmen. Your arrival from the Magic Cloud Continent this time, ourpany wants to announce this and let the entire Sines Continent know about you. The answer that you gave before was that you needed some time to think about this, but now I want to ask you for your answer.¡±

    Tnd stroked his long beard as he fell into deep thought.

    After a while, he gave a slow nod and said with a sigh, ¡°We¡¯ll follow your idea and publish this news. Our halfling race does not need to hide and we also want to know how many of our nsmen exist on this continent. Lumi was never willing to believe that she was the only one left and I don¡¯t believe it either. Perhaps with the power of you humans, we will be able to confirm this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Lumi on the side and seeing her give a strong nod, he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh in his heart.

    Actually, in order to investigate if there were other halflings on the Sines Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been announcing the news of Lumi over the past few years.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s growing fame on the continent, this news had spread all over the human world and should have reached the ears of the other races on the Sines Continent.

    However, after all these years, there had never been a second halfling that appeared. Even if there were news about halflings from time to time, they had confirmed that it was all fake news in the end.

    It could be seen that Lumi being the only halfling on the Sines Continent was the only exnation.

    Lumi and Tnd, this halfling from the Magic Cloud Continent didn¡¯t give up hope, but Xu Yi was certain that the result that they would obtain was not the result that they wanted.

 Volume 7 67 - Revealing The Secrets Of The New Continent

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 67 - Revealing The Secrets Of The New Continent</h4>

    For Xu Yi, whether it was finding the halflings or the elves on the Magic Cloud Continent, it was all expected and wasn¡¯t that strange.

    After all, since Cassandra¡¯s sudden appearance to now, a year had already passed. During this year, Xu Yi had kept receiving news on the Magic Cloud Continent from the exploration fleet, so he didn¡¯t find anything strange.

    Moreover, the elves and the halflings sending their representatives toe back to the Sines Continent with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleet was something that Xu Yi proposed, so naturally he wasn¡¯t surprised by their arrival at all.

    But for the people of the Sines Continent who didn¡¯t know a thing, this was apletely different concept.

    On October 11th of the year 3800, on this very peaceful day, there was a piece of news that quickly spread across the continent that attracted the attention of all humans, as well as other races.

    The ?Banta Times? headline announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be holding a press conference, revealing the situation they had discovered while exploring the new continent over thest year.

    This wasn¡¯t considered much, what attracted everyone¡¯s attention was that at the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that there were guests from the Magic Cloud Continent who would be appearing at the press conference.

    Around the same timest year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced the news of the new continent and the dragon race which had shocked the entire continent.

    Now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was announcing that there was a guest from the Magic Cloud Continent, which shocked everyone even more.

    If it was said that people had doubted the new continent before because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had never presented any evidence, now that there were guests that came from the Magic Cloud Continent, wasn¡¯t that considered the best proof?

    Three dayster, on the morning of the 14th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s press conference started in Frestech City.

    This press conference had reporters from every newspaper on the continent and countless countries had sent their representatives.

    Everyone wanted to see if the new continent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce spoek of existed and what the residents of that new continent looked like.

    At ten in the morning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foreign affairs department¡¯s manager, miss Sorel announced the press conference was starting. When Lumi and ten other halflings came up to the press conference stage, the crowd became even more enthusiastic.

    At the same time, in a conference room in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s general office that was ten kilometers away from the square the press conference was being held in, there was a different scene.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I still can¡¯t believe it, are they really from the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± The Sack Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry department¡¯s chief Sacha knitted his brows as he looked at the dark skinned elf that was a bit different from the elves he was used to, along with the halfling sitting beside him as he asked this question in a voice filled with doubt.

    Hearing this question, the invited representatives from the other countries sitting beside Sacha all looked at him with strange expressions.

    This fellow, was he really questioning Xu Yi to his face?

    Did he forget how Xu Yi had already reacted to the questions of doubt before?

    As expected, Xu Yi looked at him and tapped on the table before raising his voice to say, ¡°I¡¯ll repeat this again, the people invited this time are all potential partners for developing the new continent. If you have any doubts on this matter, please leave immediately. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce does not wee any partners that are not sincere.¡±

    Sacha¡¯s expression immediately changed as he said with a smile, ¡°No, no, no, chairman Xu, I didn¡¯t mean this. I was just curious, just curious¡­¡­Un, it was just curiosity.¡±

    After saying this, Sacha deliberately looked at the elf and halfling in front of him with an interested look, trying to reveal a smile that seemed as friendly as possible.

    Seeing his appearance, the other representatives couldn¡¯t help revealing looks of disdain.

    This fellow, everyone was clearly trying to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and no one dared to offend him. You dared to question him like this, this was clearly seeking death.

    Even if he had admitted his mistake, there was most likely some ill will between Xu Yi and him, or rather the Sack Kingdom he represented.

    Of course, because of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi¡¯s rtion with the Sack Kingdom had always been bad. It was already surprising enough that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invited a representative from the Sack Kingdom, but then he insulted them again.

    ¡°Does anyone else have any questions?¡± Xu Yi suddenly gave a p as he looked around himself.

    Of course no one had questions.

    ¡°Very good, then let¡¯s get into the main topic.¡± Xu Yi turned to give a nod to Cindy.

    Cindy and three Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff members were holding a bunch of papers that they passed out.

    ¡°This is the preliminary n to develop the new continent that ourpany has made. Everyone can take a look first, you can just tell me if you have any opinions or suggestions.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Chairman Xu.¡± A representative didn¡¯t even look at the n as he raised his hand.

    Xu Yi looked at him and recognized that this was the representative from the Marlow Empire, so he asked with a smile, ¡°Do you have a question?¡±

    ¡°I¡­..Before reading this n, can I ask a few questions to the other race friends from the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± The Marlow Empire representative said.

    ¡°As you wish.¡±

    Receiving Xu Yi¡¯s approval, the Marlow Empire¡¯s representative was a bit surprised. He turned to look at the elf and halfling in front of him as he carefully looked them over.

    The elf and the halfling from the Magic Cloud Continent were also curiously sizing them up.

    On the Magic Cloud Continent, humans were a race without arge poption. It was so bad that there were only a few people in the elf and halfling race that had seen humans before.

    Aftering to the Sines Continent, they found that not only were there humans everywhere, the development of humans had far surpassed their imaginations which really opened their eyes.

    They had epted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invitation toe to the Sines Continent mainly out of curiosity, but after seeing the prosperity of the Sines Continent, they couldn¡¯t help having other ideas.

    Xu Yi proposing that they work together to develop the Magic Cloud Continent at this time really was what they wanted.

    ¡°The first question that I want to ask our guests.¡± The Marlow Empire representative thought for a bit before asking the first question, ¡°Has your two races been living on the Magic Cloud Continent the entire time or did you migrate over from our Sines Continent?¡±

    Hearing this question, the representatives who were going through the n put them down as they focused themselves to listen.

    The elf and halfling representative from the Magic Cloud Continent confirmed the meaning of the Marlow Empire representative¡¯s question through Lumi¡¯s trantion, then after discussing it for a bit, it was Tnd who answered.

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­This human friend, as for the answer to this question, we¡¯re not clear either because while the history of the Magic Cloud Continent is long, the recorded history is only five thousand years old. But because too few ounts have survived, we dont¡¯ know that much about the history of five thousand years ago. But what I can confirm is that the ancestors of our halfling race dide from the Sines Continent more than two thousand years ago.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your answer. Then what about the elf friends?¡± The Marlow Empire representative asked, ¡°I¡¯ve noticed that these elf friends¡­¡­are a bit different from the elf race of our Sines Continent?¡±

    The elves from the Magic Cloud Continent whenpared to the three elf tribes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was closest to, had visibly darker skin, were much taller, and their ears weren¡¯t as sharp. They also didn¡¯t believe in the Moon Goddess like the elves of the Sines Continent, so they didn¡¯t have the markings of the Moon Goddess on them like the elves of the Sines Continent. It confirmed that they did look different.

    But as for this question, when they had just arrived on the Sines Continent, they had already answered it when meeting elder Illusia and elder Lisanya. To answer it now was quite easy for them.

    ¡°Elves already existed on the Magic Cloud Continent before. Of course, there were elves from other continents that came over, so the elf race is divided into different tribes on the Magic Cloud Continent. As for our tribe, based on the history that we¡¯ve inherited, we should be locals of the Magic Cloud Continent.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s this distinction?¡± The other representatives were surprised.

    The Marlow Empire representative thought for a bit before asking, ¡°I¡¯ve heard that there are humans on the Magic Cloud Continent as well. Then did humans exist on the Magic Cloud Continent before or did they migrate over at some unknown time from our Sines Continent?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry.¡± The elf that replied shook their head, ¡°We rarely contact humans on the Magic Cloud Continent, so we can¡¯t answer this question.¡±

    The various representatives looked at each other.

    Based on this information, it seemed like the influence of humans on the Magic Cloud Continent was very weak and was nothing to worry about.

    This was a very good condition for them entering the new continent and seizing the resources and market of this new continent.

    ¡°Alright, thank you for your answer. I want to ask a second question now.¡± The Marlow Empire¡¯s representative then asked, ¡°On your Magic Cloud Continent, which race is the dominant race? Is it the elves or the halflings?¡±

    Hearing this question, the elf and halfling on the other side revealed awkward looks.

    After a while, Tnd said with a bitterugh, ¡°The dominant race on the Magic Cloud Continent isn¡¯t their elves or our halflings. The dominant race should be the goblins¡­..¡±

    ¡°Goblins?¡± The representatives were all surprised as they turned to look at Xu Yi.

    There wasn¡¯t this information in the information that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them before.

 Volume 7 68 - Goblins Are Unreasonable

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 68 - Goblins Are Unreasonable</h4>

    ¡°When ites to the investigation of the Magic Cloud Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still in the middle of investigating, so we don¡¯t know everything about the Magic Cloud Continent.¡± Xu Yi faced all their gazes and calmly said, ¡°But when ites to the goblins, we do have some information and have made a judgement. It¡¯s that¡­¡­they are a race that are almost impossible to exchange with.¡±

    ¡°Un?¡±

    This conclusion surprised everyone.

    ¡°Almost impossible to exchange with?¡± The Marlow Empire representative asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, what does this mean? Do you mean that those goblins are hostile towards us?¡±

    This question was very important because based on the situation that elder Tnd had revealed, the dominant race of the Magic Cloud Continent were the goblins. If these goblins had hostility towards outsiders and wouldn¡¯t cooperate, it would be a big barrier for their development n of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t urate, but you can understand it like this.¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a bitterugh in his heart when he replied.

    Based on the report the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration team had sent back, the goblin race that were dominant on the Magic Cloud Continent had a very primitive society. But because they were very strong and they had strong reproductive capabilities allowing their poption to surpass any other race, they could be considered the most dominant race on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    In fact, the elves and halflings of the Magic Cloud Continent were willing to risk sending their representatives to go to the Sines Continent that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was from ten thousand kilometers away because they wanted help from them. They wanted to attack the goblins that kept increasing their poption and took living spaces from other races.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration fleet had shown them abat power that far surpassed their exnation, so they thought that they would be a very powerful helper.

    Of course, whether it was halflings or the elves, they also had their worries. They were worried that by bringing outsiders to the Magic Cloud Continent, even if they suppressed the goblins, they might also push out the other races just like the goblins had been doing.

    But the goblins were more threatening to them now, so they had no choice.

    After arriving on the Sines Continent, the halflings gained some understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through Lumi and the elves gained some understanding from theirpatriots on the continent. They were certain that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other humans wouldn¡¯t be in a rush to kill other races like the goblins, so this was much better than their current conditions.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry after exining this.

    On the Sines Continent, after the humans had taken control of the continent, they had taken away their living space and many races had been forced to flee through the endless seas.

    On the other continent ten thousand kilometers away, these other races had also been pressured by another race and had faced the same result.

    He really didn¡¯t know if he should feel sorry for these other races which included the elves and the halflings or find this situation funny.

    The humans were a race that were filled with creativity and infinite potential to develop, so it was fine to say that the other races were surpassed by the humans. But ording to the report from the exploration team, other than having strong reproductive capabilities and being good at gathering, the goblins had no other specialties and were still able to push out the other races.

    It could only be said that the other races were a bit too useless¡­¡­

    But there were also humans on the Magic Cloud Continent and they were much weaker than the elves, the halflings, and the other native races. Xu Yi could only put this little bit ofint deep in his heart.

    ¡°Then that means that if we go to the Magic Cloud Continent, it is very likely we¡¯ll sh with the goblins?¡± After the room was silent for a bit, the Marlow Empire representative asked the question that everyone cared about the most.

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded as he admitted it, ¡°In fact, the representatives of the Sansa Elf Tribe and the Chrome Halfling tribe havee here this time to ask for our help.¡±

    All the representatives looked at the elf and the halfling before knitting their brows.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, with all due respect, if we must find someone to work against, why would we choose the goblins that dominate the Magic Cloud Continent and not the weaker halflings and elves? Why do we need to take this risk in fighting the goblins?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and motioned for the two Frestech Chamber of Commerce subordinates who were acting as trantors to trante this for the elf and halfling. Then he faced the gazes of the Marlow Empire representative and the gazes of the other representatives.

    ¡°Everyone, I¡¯ve said it just now, the goblins are a race that we cannot exchange with. Do you understand what that means?¡±

    The representatives knitted their brows to think for a bit before the Marlow Empire representative asked, ¡°You mean¡­..those goblins won¡¯t ept negotiating and cooperating at all?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Ourpany¡¯s exploration team has met six goblin tribes and have been directly attacked by these goblins each time. ording to the reports that they have sent back, the goblins didn¡¯t give them any chance to make any exchange, so there¡¯s no need to mention cooperating.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡±

    The representatives fell silent.

    If what Xu Yi said was true, then this really was a difficult problem.

    Normally speaking, since the goblins could dominate the Magic Cloud Continent, they could be considered an intelligent race and should have the foundation of exchanging with other races.

    But based on what Xu Yi said, these goblins were maniacs that attacked on sight and wouldn¡¯t exchange with you at all, so this gave people headaches.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, what do you think¡­¡­How should we enter the Magic Cloud Continent under the threats of these vicious goblins and¡­..cooperate with these guests from the Magic Cloud Continent to develop the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± The Candra Empire representative who had never spoken finally spoke up at this time.

    ¡°That is the reason why I called everyone here today.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce hase up with a preliminary n for now that is in your hands right now. If everyone is willing to cooperate with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop the Magic Cloud Continent together, then we can enter further discussions. If you feel that this is too dangerous or have some other considerations, so you¡¯ve chosen to give up, I won¡¯t force you either. As for the specifics, please make a decision after reading the n.¡±

    The representatives lowered their heads to read the n in their hands.

    Most people had only read the beginning and then had their attention pulled in by the question the Marlow Empire representative had asked the elf and halfling from the Magic Cloud Continent, so no one had carefully read it.

    After being reminded by Xu Yi, everyone immediately looked down to carefully read it.

    Seeing that the room was silent, with only the rustling sound of pages being turned, Xu Yi gave a look to Cindy beside him before standing up to leave the room.

    Outside the conference room, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new CEO rus was waiting with a report in his hands.

    Seeing Xu Yie out, this ordinary looking middle aged man who seemed to be in his fifties came over.

    ¡°Sir chairman, what is the situation inside?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re all still hesitating.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°As for how it will go, it depends on how many countries will be bold enough.¡±

    rus revealed a smile of understanding.

    ¡°Sir chairman, there aren¡¯t many people who are as bold as you. Not to mention that we are only a singlepany, but they have countries behind them, so they have more to worry aboutpared to us.¡±

    ¡°This is understandable. If it wasn¡¯t too hard to develop the Magic Cloud Continent just with ourpany alone, I could just do it without them. But right now¡­..it¡¯s still better to find some helpers first. Right, since you are here, is the press conference over? How did it go?¡±

    ¡°With sir chairman¡¯s blessings, the press conference went very smoothly. Everyone was very excited about the guests that came from the new continent. I believe that in less than three days, this news will spread all over the continent.¡± rus replied.

    ¡°I don¡¯t just need everyone to know about it, I also want everyone to participate in it.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before continuing, ¡°rus, starting today, we need to adjust the development n of ourpany.¡±

    rus¡¯ expression immediately became serious, ¡°Sir chairman, please give your orders.¡±

    ¡°The Sines Continent is the foundation of ourpany, so we can¡¯t rx here and everything needs to develop smoothly. But starting today, I want to separate a portion of our energy and resources into developing the new continent. I want to build a strong enough outpost on the new continent that can fend for itself in three years. When you go back, prepare everything so that we can aplish this.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± rus said with a nod.

    Xu Yi looked at rus and gave a satisfied nod.

    Although this new Frestech Chamber of Commerce CEO wasn¡¯t as good as Kennard when it came to handling matters, he was very obedient and worked even harder, so he was a very good subordinate.

    But of course he couldn¡¯t discuss the major projects like Kennard had done with Xu Yi. If it was Kennard, he would have asked Xu Yi why he requested for it to be finished in three years and would have a bunch of his own ideas which he would go into further details with Xu Yi.

    It can¡¯t be said that this was bad or good, but Xu Yi had to go into further details with Kennard before, so he had to spend more energy with him.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was silent, rus had been silently waiting on the side, not saying a thing.

    After a while, Xu Yi came back from his thoughts and waved his hand.

    ¡°Alright, go and prepare the follow up work for the press conference.¡±

    rus left after giving a salute and Xu Yi turned to face the conference room door again.

    The representatives would learn his ideas through the ns he presented them, so what choices would the countries behind them make this time?

 Volume 7 69 - Competition For Mineral Resources

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 69 - Competition For Mineral Resources</h4>

    Two monthster, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce reinforcement fleet that was much bigger than the previous fleets slowly left the Frestech Harbour.

    Other than therge number of personnel and resources that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent, this fleet also included people and resources from the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, as well as other countries for a total of eleven countries.

    After the discussionst time, there were only these eleven countries that had decided to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on developing the new continent. It was less than one fourth of the total number of representatives that hadest time.

    This was very normal. After all, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other people all knew very little about this new continent, so it was impossible for them to invest arge amount of resources.

    These eleven countries had only sent a simple investigation squad, as well as some resources to support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in name, they didn¡¯t send anything significant.

    So in fact, the reason for this bigger fleet was mainly because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce themselves.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t as hesitant as those countries. Through the efforts over thest year by the advance scouting party, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some understanding of the situation on the Magic Cloud Continent, so Xu Yi had alreadye up with a n to develop this new continent.

    Among this fleet, not only was there arge number of personnel and resources, there were also three thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, as well as tworge transport Magic Ships that were filled with military magic machines. It was all to smoothly build the outpost on the new continent.

    Of course, to take root on the new continent, this task that this outpost had to undertake was very arduous.

    Because the two continents were separated by over ten thousand kilometers, it would take at least a month for a fleet toplete a trip. So the base on the Magic Cloud Continent couldn¡¯t rely on supplies sent by the Sines Continent, they had to achieve self sustainability as much as they could.

    So ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, this base must be built like a small industrial base, which could satisfy the various demands of the base.

    The most basic demand was daily necessities, as well as materials for military magic machines.

    To satisfy these two demands, it meant that the base had to be able to obtain enough local resources from the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Of course, it was impossible for these resources to fall down from the sky.

    ording to the agreement that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reached with the Sansa Elf Tribe and the Chrome Halfling Tribe, the two tribes would help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtain resources in the beginning that would satisfy their early needs.

    But the power of these two tribes were limited, it was impossible to satisfy the increasing demand of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So in the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to get it themselves.

    But to obtain resources, they had to face the expected and unexpected dangers of the Magic Cloud Continent, which meant that they had to have enough military force. To put it simply, they needed enough guards and military magic machines.

    It was impossible for them to depend on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters on the Sines Continent to solve this, so they had to solve this problem themselves.

    So to put it bluntly, to build aplete base that was ten thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was a very hard matter. Xu Yi wasn¡¯t 100% optimistic about their future at all.

    But he had no other choice because if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted space to develop, this new continent was much more suitable than the Sines Continent.

    The deeper reason was that the Sines Continent was already an established continent, so thend and resources had already been divided by the other countries.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted them, it would be very hard, especially with the development of the magic machine industry. The other countries were starting to ce more and more importance on these resources.

    A month after the fleet departed, including the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, forty sixpanies that managed mineral resources on the Sines Continent announced that they would form a Mineral Resource Business Union. It would manage the mineral resources under them while allowing them all to work together.

    It was the first time this kind of organization had appeared on the Sines Continent. When this Jino Mineral Resource Business Union, or simplified to Jino Union was announced, many people didn¡¯t understand what they were trying to do.

    However, the series of matters in the following half a month gave everyone the answer to this question.

    The Jino Union announced that they would integrate all the management of the mineral resources under them into one entity. This was to guarantee the stability of mineral resource avability, while also unifying the price of all thepanies under the Jino Union.

    After some market research, the Jino Union announced their price.

    Everyone realized thatpared to the prices from before, the Jino Union had increased the price of every mineral. The iron ore that had the biggest demand had experienced a 15% increase in price!

    The Magic Crystal that also had a high demand and had a low price before because no one cared about them also experienced a price increase of 10%. It had finally broken through to one gold coin per ton.

    With this price increase, the ones that were affected the most was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was the leading magic machinepany and had the highest demand for these mineral resources.

    Although there were only increases of around 10%, this was arge increase in production cost for the magic machinepanies and had weakened their profits.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profit margins had always been high and this wasn¡¯t fatal to them, but for the smallerpanies, their profit margins that weren¡¯t high to begin with had dropped even more, which directly affected the survivability of many smallerpanies.

    In order to maintain low costs, many smallpanies had started buying mineral resources from outside the Jino Union.

    However, the Jino Union controlled almost all the mineral resources in the Candra Empire and the countries in the southern and middle parts of the continent. Most of the small magic machinepanies were situated in the countries of the southeast corner, so it was hard for them to obtain mineral resources from other channels.

    So the establishment of the Jino Union was announcing the death of many small magic machinepanies.

    Xu Yi was very unhappy with this.

    February of year 3781, which was three months after the Jino Union was formed and had announced their new price, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s own demand, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be forming another newpany under them named the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce.

    As the name suggested, the main business of this newpany was mineral resources.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this, they stated that the goal of creating thispany was because as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s scale increased, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had more and more demand for mineral resources. It wasn¡¯t suitable for them to purchase these mineral resources from other channels, so they¡¯ve decided to solve this problem themselves.

    But as long as it wasn¡¯t a fool looking at this, they could understand that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce creating the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce was to deal with the Jino Union.

    Before this, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some mineral resources under them, most of their mineral resources were purchased from otherpanies.

    In the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce mainly purchased from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Falcao Chamber of Commerce.

    Then as they grew and had more demand for mineral resources, adding in the fact that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s own magic machine industry grew, which increased their own demand for mineral resources, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to look for other channels.

    Among these channels, most of them werepanies that were now under the current Jino Union.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was suddenly announcing that they were forming this Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce, it was clear that they wanted to go against the Jino Union. Didn¡¯t this mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to break off from thepanies under the Jino Union?

    However, the Jino Union controlled arge portion of the mineral resources in the south and middle of the continent. If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t cooperate with them, where would they get enough mineral resources?

    In the middle of February, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce announced their formation, while also announcing that they currently had seventeen mines producing ores under them. They stated that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce had more than enough mineral resources and weed all orders.

    When this was announced, the outside world was in an uproar.

    Everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce tried to control their own mineral resources, but it really was surprising that they had this much under them.

    What surprised everyone even more was when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their prices for each mineral.

    Take iron ore for instance. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s price was seven gold coins and forty silver coins per ton. This price was the same as the otherpanies from before, which was also the same price that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always purchased iron ores from thesepanies.

    But whenpared to the price of the Jino Union¡¯s iron ores, the price was close to 20% lower!

    If it was said that people thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce forming this Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce was to go against the Jino Union, it was mainly the guesses that people had.

    Now that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce had announced their prices, it was clearly telling everyone that they were going against the Jino Union!

    Everyone was very surprised by this.

    Why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this?

    If it was in the magic machine industry, no one doubted that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the strongestpany.

    However, in the mineral resource industry, where did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce get this confidence?

    It had to be known, the Jino Chamber of Commerce not only included the forty sixpanies which included the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, behind them might even be a bunch of countries that included the Candra Empire.

 Volume 7 70 - Dona??t Get Involved

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 70 - Dona??t Get Involved</h4>

    The matter didn¡¯t end there.

    After four months of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce being formed, the Marlow Empire¡¯s biggest mineral resourcepany, the Vale Chamber of Commerce worked with thirty six other mineral resourcepanies to announce that they had formed a mineral resource organization just like the Jino Union. It would be called the Valley Mineral nning Association, or simply put, the Valley Association.

    The Vale Chamber of Commerce controlled the most mineral resources in the Marlow Empire. Then adding in the other thirty six mineral resourcepanies, they controlled almost all the mineral resources in the northern continent.

    Although they had less mineral resourcespared to the Jino Union, it wasn¡¯t thatcking.

    This Valley Association¡¯s goal was even more obviouspared to the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce, it was simply to contend with the Jino Union.

    It was different from the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce that everyone thought was weaker. The Valley Association had gathered all the mineral resources in the northern countries, which was strong enough to match the Jino Union.

    Moreover, behind these two organizations, there was no doubt that there was a sh between the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire.

    But before this, if the two empires shed with each other, the other countries and organizations could only choose a side to support and couldn¡¯t make a single sound. But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had stood out to form the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce, which really was a different voice.

    For many people, they hoped that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce could contend with the Jino Union and the Valley Association, which would greatly help many small countries.

    But for most people, they didn¡¯t favour the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce at all.

    Even if there was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce behind the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce who were very powerful on the Sines Continent, with even the two great empires being wary of them.

    Being wary didn¡¯t mean they were afraid. The two empires had scruples before because they wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they weren¡¯t willing to break rtions with them.

    So that didn¡¯t mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was more powerful than the two empires.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany. The various resources that they controlled couldn¡¯tpare to the resources of the two empires.

    Even if the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce grasped more resources than people expected, topete with two organizations that had the two empires and many countries behind them, they were far from being able to do so.

    People had to wait to see how long the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce wouldst.

    July of year 3781, it was the hottest season of the year again and the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that with the new breakthrough in automation smelting, the output of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mills would greatly increase. It would break through to six hundred thousand tons a month.

    This output was close to double that of the three hundred to four hundred thousand tons per month from before!

    The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce had also announced that with this increase in output, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce would be able to sell even more steel products. They weed all otherpanies that needed steel products to order from them.

    Half a month ago, the Jino Union had just announced that through the efforts of thepanies under them, through their own research, they had developed a new series of steel refining equipment. It was expected to be spread across thepanies under the Jino Union which would greatly increase the steel product production capacity of the Jino Union.

    ording to estimates, once thepanies under the Jino Union had reced their steel refining equipment, the Jino Union would be able to break through to thirty million tons of steel products a year.

    Comparing this, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s six hundred thousand tons of steel products was tiny.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the firstpany with a steel mill and the firstpany to implement steel refining, so they had already developed many different kinds of steel products. They currently had seventeen different kinds of steel products under them which could satisfy all special requirements for steel.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had transferred parts of the steel refining technologyter on, as well as selling steel refining equipment, everyone had to acknowledge that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel products were the best and had the highest quality.

    So even if the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s production capacity couldn¡¯tpare to the Jino Union¡¯s, it was still very popr and countless orders came in.

    It had to be known, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel products were mainly used by themselves to satisfy their magic machine production needs, it was rarely ever sold to others.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to sell these steel products, people rushed to snatch them up.

    In the beginning of September, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce published some data.

    ording to their stats, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel product production capacity had broken through to eight hundred thousand tons in August, which was a 30% increase.

    Of these eight hundred thousand tons, three hundred thousand tons had been used to satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯spanies and then the other five hundred thousand tons were sold to the public.

    At the same time, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce also announced that they had reached an agreement with seven countries including the Nozdormu Business Union and the Wales Kingdom to buy a total of twelve mines. There were four iron mines, three non-ferrous metal mines, and five Magic Crystal mines.

    When this news came out, there was another uproar.

    Everyone thought that with the control of the Jino Union and the Valley Association, there wouldn¡¯t be any other minerals to fight for on the continent. However, the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce had made a move and they had gotten twelve mines at once.

    Although they still couldn¡¯tpare to the two big mineral resource unions, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t powerless to fight back. It meant that the two mineral resource unions didn¡¯tpletely control the Sines Continent.

    Once this news was published, everyone began feeling more confident about the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce.

    However, the Jino Union and the Valley Association quickly fought back.

    At the end of September, the Jino Union once again raised the price of iron ore, breaking through to four gold coins per ton.

    This price increase was quite subtle.

    Because even if the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce controlled several iron mines, their main business was steel products and refining non-ferrous metals. When it came to mineral collection, theycked the manpower and previous umtion, so it wasn¡¯t enough to satisfy the demand of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce themselves.

    So the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce actually bought many of their ores for smelting from other channels. The biggest channel was from thepanies under the Jino Union.

    So now that the Jino Union had increased the price of iron ores, it would increase the cost of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel products.

    Moreover, four gold coins a ton would mean that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits from refining iron ores would be very small, or it could even considered without profits at all.

    At the same time, the Jino Union had adjusted the price of their steel products. They had decreased the price by 20%, so that the price of each ton was less than twenty gold coins.

    With this price, it could be said that the Jino Union¡¯s profits from refining steel were very slim.

    The most important thing was that there was a clear advantage whenpared to the steel products prices of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which were between twenty seven and thirty gold coins.

    Three days after the Jino Union announced this price adjustment, the Valley Association had announced their price adjustment n that followed the price adjustment of the Jino Union.

    This wasn¡¯t something that the two organizations had discussed, it was just that after the Jino Union made this adjustment, the Valley Association could only follow along or they would be put in the passive situation.

    But everyone knew that the Jino Union¡¯s price change wasn¡¯t to force the Valley Association to follow along, but rather it was to target the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce, or rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the same umted resources, so they were weaker when it came to mining ores. So when the ores provided was controlled by others, the Jino Union would change the ore price.

    The advantage that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce had was in steel smelting. The Jino Union didn¡¯t hesitate to decrease their price even if it meant cutting down their profits. It was clear that they wanted to force the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce to lower their price, which would suppress their profits.

    This wasn¡¯t a plot, it was quite an open n. It was to use their bigger scalepared to the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce and their deeper foundations to beat them.

    The goal was to expel the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce from the mineral resource industry.

    To the Jino Union, the appearance of the Valley Association wasn¡¯t a surprise, but this Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce was an unexpected variable.

    Moreover, the strength of the Valley Association and the Jino Union were around the same, so this deadlock wouldn¡¯t be solved for a while. The more urgent matter was to drive out the pest of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce before dealing with the Valley Association.

    This goal was very clear and the Jino Union had even stated it publicly at one of their press conferences. They stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should honestly stay in the magic machine industry that they excelled in and not get involved in other industries that don¡¯t belong to them.

    The response of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to this¡­..There was no response this time.

 Volume 7 71 - Steal Customers

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 71 - Steal Customers</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I really regret it now.¡±

    The Anke Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Anke Eren looked at the steel te that was as thick as a finger in his hand and gave a sigh.

    ¡°I really shouldn¡¯t have tried to get these small advantages by buying steel products from the Jino Union. In the end, there¡¯s different levels of problems with a third of ourpany¡¯s Magic Refrigerators, we really lost quite a bit this time.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without saying a thing. The people beside chairman Anke also gave sighs with different levels of emotions.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just your Anke Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s also our Thunder Chamber of Commerce. The steel products from the Jino Union really have been a big pit for us this time. We¡¯ll be losing seven to eight thousand gold coins which is even more than what we spent to buy the steel products.¡±

    ¡°He, you all bought the Jino Union¡¯s steel products, I bought from the Valley Association and isn¡¯t it the same? I haven¡¯t counted my loss yet, but I would lose at least ten thousand gold coins and it¡¯ll take a long time to earn this back.¡±

    ¡°Actually, losing money is only a small problem. The real problem is that there are too many products with quality issues, which decreases the reputation of ourpanies and will affect our future business. This isn¡¯t something that can be solved with thousands of gold coins.¡±

    Hearing this, most of the people here let out sighs.

    Seeing their appearances, Xu Yi felt it was a bit funny.

    These fellows had been greedy for petty profits, so they ordered steel products from the Jino Union and the Valley Association. They even cancelled their orders with the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce. Now that because the quality of the steel products wasn¡¯t good that there were quality issues with the magic machines of theirpanies, it was what they deserved.

    Of course, Xu Yi only thought this and didn¡¯t say it out loud.

    The various magic machinepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom had suffered from magic machine quality issues because of the steel product quality problem, which had caused great damage to their economy and their reputations. This was very important for the Lampuri Kingdom, so Seveni had contacted Xu Yi privately and hoped that he could help thesepanies.

    Although Xu Yi was very unhappy with the decision thesepanies made, to give Seveni face and because thesepanies were an important part of the magic machine industry he wanted to develop, he decided to help them through this problem.

    After arranging it with Seveni, the Lampuri Kingdom sent a delegation to the Stantine Duchy to request the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s assistance.

    This matter only needed them to sign another contract with the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce so they could obtain steel products again, but to show his sincerity, Xu Yi personally met with this group.

    ¡°As for the issue of rebuilding reputation and brand, I won¡¯t remind everyone anymore about it.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying, ¡°I want to tell everyone that you have to be serious when approaching the magic machine industry. To produce good quality magic machines, it begins with being serious with the materials and you have to be serious with each part, otherwise the final product won¡¯t turn out like you want it to.¡±

    The chairman of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s major magic machinepanies looked at each other before revealing ashamed looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what you say makes sense. We were discussing it and we want to propose a strict quality standard for each magic machine rtedpany in the kingdom, urging eachpany to follow this standard. We will even only sell products that surpass this standard. Only this will allow our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine products maintain their current advantage which will help our future development.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine management department¡¯s chief Lewinkel who said this and gave a nod.

    ¡°Your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s idea is very good. Un¡­¡­I can give some work standard for you to look at in the future, I hope that will help you.¡±

    Lewinkel revealed a look of joy.

    ¡°That is good! If we can reference the standards of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I think that it will greatly increase the quality of our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine products.¡±

    The other chairman all nodded as they expressed their gratitude with a smile.

    ¡°Then we¡¯ll leave it like this.¡± Xu Yi turned to the chairmen, ¡°As for the issue of product reputation, I don¡¯t have any good ways to help you, you just need to rebuild it slowly yourself. But as for the lower quality products that you produced, I think I can help you solve this problem.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± The chairmen were surprised, ¡°Chairman Xu, you have a method?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it can¡¯t be that you want us to sell them with a different brand, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t n on having you sell them on the Sinse Continent because that will hurt your reputations. But if you can¡¯t sell them on the Sines Continent, it doesn¡¯t mean you can¡¯t sell them in other ces.¡±

    ¡°Could it be¡­..chairman Xu is talking about the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Ourpany has contacted quite a few local races on the Magic Cloud Continent and many of them are interested in magic machines, so they want to obtain a few to experiment with them. If you¡¯re willing to take out those lower quality products, I can transport them to the Magic Cloud Continent and give them to the locals.¡±

    ¡°Wait, chairman Xu, you just said¡­..give?¡± A chairman asked with knitted brows.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi looked right at him, ¡°Could it be that you¡¯re nning on selling it to them?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Although that chairman didn¡¯t dare refute Xu Yi, it was clear that he was hesitating.

    Although there was a high percentage of this batch that had quality issues, as long as they were able to fix them, they could still sell them with the other products in the end. That way it would make their losses much smaller.

    But if they gave them to the other races on the Magic Cloud Continent like Xu Yi said, that would mean suffering aplete loss¡­¡­

    Seeing the hesitant looks on the faces of these chairmen, Xu Yi gave a shrug with a smile, ¡°I won¡¯t force you, you can choose for yourself. If you¡¯re not willing, then there¡¯s nothing else to say.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, a middle aged man with conspicuous red hair suddenly raised his hand.

    ¡°I¡¯m willing! Chairman Xu, our Sarkozy Chamber of Commerce is willing to hand out products with problems to you to handle.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at him and seeing his determined look, he nodded with a smile.

    This Sarkozy Chamber of Commerce came from Banta City.

    Compared to thepanies of other ces, thepanies of Banta City trusted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more.

    With the chairman of the Sarkozy Chamber of Commerce taking the lead, after the otherpany chairmen considered it, they all agreed.

    Even the chairman who asked the question just now agreed to Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion in the end, deciding to send this batch of products to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ¡°Everyone, you will not regret this choice.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The return that these other races of the Magic Cloud Continent will give you will surpass your imaginations.¡±

    After a pause, Xu Yi raised his voice, ¡°Of course, this won¡¯t solve the big problem that everyone is currently facing. So our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will use some other measures to deal with this.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi took a step back and the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the dwarf Lithorp gave a nod.

    Lithorp came up and waved his thick arm as he said in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, sir chairman is very generous and has decided not to haggle with you over previous matters, so we will continue to provide you with steel products. At the same time, we will also provide an installment payment service to you. This means that if you can¡¯t take out the money, you can use the steel products first and you can pay when you have the money. Of course, the steel price will be the same as before.¡±

    The eyes of the chairmen lit up when they heard this.

    Their first worry this time was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would me them for trying to get cheap benefits by not buying from them, so they would cut them off. Their second worry was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would increase the price of steel products, which would make it even worse for them.

    Lithorp¡¯s promise had dispelled their worries and had even allowed them to take the goods first before paying for them which really surprised them.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are generous! Thank you very much!¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu truly is generous. We will only buy raw materials from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future and definitely won¡¯t care about the benefits the Jino Union offers.¡±

    ¡°Right, right, right, that Jino Union and Valley Association have those poor steel products, but they still want topete with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They really don¡¯t know anything¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi looked at them giving praise with a smile as he thought that these people only represented the attitude of a small Lampuri Kingdom.

    Not to mention that the Lampuri Kingdom had always been the kingdom closest to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it was right for thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom to favour the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, when facing the price attack of the Jino Union, thesepanies didn¡¯t hesitate to go into the bosoms of the Jino Union.

    It was a good thing that the Jino Union¡¯s smelting technology was far inferior to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s so the quality of their steel products were much lower, as well as having few types of steel products. It caused thepanies of the Lampuri Kingdom to suffer thisrge loss which made theme back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce again.

    Thepanies of the other countries were still working with the Jino Union and the Valley Association.

    If the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce wanted to steal thesepanies from the tworge organizations, it couldn¡¯t be done in a single day.

 Volume 7 72

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 72</h4>

    They were also by the shore, but the eastern shore of the Magic Cloud Continent gave people a different sea breezepared to the one from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Feeling the sea breeze bringing a chill to her clothes, Akali tightened her cor. She looked at the vast seas behind her and let out a sigh.

    Without knowing it, she had already spent a year on this continent.

    In the beginning, she thought that she would learn Dragon Word Magic as soon as possible so that she could make a breakthrough with the magicmunication technology. That was why she had ignored Xu Yi and Evita¡¯s advice on noting to this unknown continent.

    Now that she had spent a year here, she was already starting to get used to living here.

    Although this continent was far more backwardspared to the Sines Continent and life wasn¡¯t asfortable as in the main base, because of the close rtionship with the dragons, her understanding of the Dragon Word Magic had be much deeper and she had finally made gradual progress with her research.

    The more important thing was that because this continent was backwards, she had the feeling like she was developing a new world. It allowed her to enjoy building the base here, enjoying the step by step progress.

    Three days ago, thepany¡¯s transport fleet arrived again with arge amount of resources, as well as a bunch of people. It also included the representatives from the other countries and otherpanies from the Sines Continent.

    So Akali knew that sir chairman must have finally decided to roll up his sleeve and go all out on this continent.

    ording to Bat who was leading the construction team for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base, sir chairman wanted to build this base in two years and make this base self sufficient in five years so that they could take root on this continent.

    Akali knew how difficult it was to achieve this, the amount of resources and manpower required would be terrifying.

    However, sir chairman had made this decision which meant that he was very confident in developing this new continent.

    ¡°Sir chairman¡¯s vision has always been urate, so I believe there won¡¯t be a mistake this time.¡± Akali let out a sigh which congealed into mist in the ice cold air.

    Thinking of Xu Yi¡¯s face that she should be familiar with, but she couldn¡¯t see clearly anymore because they hadn¡¯t been together for a year, Akali revealed a bitter smile.

    Actually, part of the reason she decided toe to this Magic Cloud Continent that was ten thousand kilometers away was to hide from Xu Yi.

    Since she and Evita first met Xu Yi after being introduced to him by Still, it had almost been twenty years.

    Not only was Xu Yi in his forties, even she and Evita were about to reach their forties.

    During this time, there wasn¡¯t ack of suitors for her and Evita, but the two of them were still alone.

    Akali didn¡¯t know what Evita was thinking, but she knew that the reason she did this was all because of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was the first man who moved her heart, but Xu Yi was already with Still since she had met him. To no surprise, they had gotten married and had a child, living a happy life now which made others envious.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t just have Still as his wife, Akali wasn¡¯t willing to cut in now.

    This was the pride that she had, she wouldn¡¯t let herself vite it.

    However, if she stayed by Xu Yi¡¯s side, it would be more and more painful for herself, so Akali chose to go away.

    On this continent, although she would feel lonely because she missed her hometown, it was far enough from Xu Yi that it helped Akali with many problems.

    Moreover, her work was meaningful and she liked it very much, so she was willing to throw herself into it.

    So being here wasn¡¯t painful for Akali, it even made her very satisfied.

    ¡°If there is a chance, should I try to persuade Evita to have here here as well?¡± Akali had this thought as there was the sound of wings pping that appeared above her.

    Looking up, she saw a giant red dragon flying down andnding in front of her. It suddenly turned into a human girl and slowly moved to Akali¡¯s side.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, what are you in a daze for? I¡¯ve been looking for you for a while now.¡± Cassandra asked in a direct manner.

    If she had to mention one thing she gained from being here for a year, Akali would definitely choose ¡°bing friends with Cassandra¡±.

    Actually, it was a very strange fate.

    Akali had wanted to use Cassandra for her research, but she never thought that after being with Cassandra for a year, the rtionship between the human and dragon gradually became better. They could definitely be considered truly good friends now.

    There were many times where the rtionship between Akali and Cassandra had be the tie between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s humans and Cassandra¡¯s red dragon tribe.

    ¡°I was thinking of some things, I was also looking at the condition of tower number three.¡± Akali pointed at the magic signal tower that sat on the cliff by the coast, ¡°Cassandra, we have to quicklye up with more floating magic signal devices as soon as possible. Ourpany will be building a base on the coast, but it has to be connected to the base on the ind.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s no problem, I¡¯ve already selected some nsmen and have stepped up production.¡± Cassandra replied with a smile, ¡°In order to see theter episodes of ?Legend of the Louvre? as soon as possible, they are working very hard.¡±

    Seeing the proud smile on Cassandra¡¯s face, Akali couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile before giving augh.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t understand why you dragons are so interested in our human films. They¡¯re clearly stories about the matters between us humans.¡±

    ¡°But it¡¯s very good to watch.¡± Cassandra blinked in a daze as she said with a face that seemed like this was natural, ¡°Actually, it¡¯s because the stories between you humans are good, if it were stories between us dragons¡­¡­I think that it would be very boring and there wouldn¡¯t be anything to tell.¡±

    Akali thought about it and gave up on this topic.

    ¡°Right, Cassandra, did that ck dragone?¡±

    ¡°They came. I came looking for you because he contacted me.¡± Cassandra gave a nod.

    ¡°They came? Where is he?¡± Akali looked up at the sky before looking around, but she didn¡¯t find a trace of the ck dragon.

    ¡°That fellow isn¡¯t willing to be seen by many humans, so he only permits you alone to see him.¡± Cassandra curled her lips, ¡°I beat him up, but he¡¯s still not willing to change his thoughts. There¡¯s no other way, I can only take you to see him.¡±

    Akali¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help twitching.

    These two fellows should be fighting in dragon form. Thinking of how a dragon was punching another dragon to the ground, it really was strange.

    ¡°Alright, where is he? Bring me to see him.¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s form changed and she turned back into dragon form, moving her head over to Akali as she said, ¡°Get up.¡±

    Akali jumped onto Cassandra¡¯s broad back without any hesitation and then Cassandra pped her wings before flying into the sky.

    After around twenty minutes, Cassandranded on one of the taller surrounding mountains.

    Akali saw the ck dragon standing on the peak who was the ck dragon Leon that she had met before.

    Seeing Akali jump down from Cassandra¡¯s back, Leon¡¯s wide dragon eyes suddenly became even wider.

    ¡°Cassandra, you¡­..you¡¯re actually letting a human ride on your back!¡±

    Feeling therge plume of smoke that came from Leon¡¯s giant nostrils, Akali took two steps back as she looked at him with a confused look.

    Wasn¡¯t it just riding on Cassandra¡¯s back while flying? Why was this fellow making such a big deal out of it?

    This was something that she did quite often, what was strange about it?

    Cassandra first changed into human form and shouted at Leon, ¡°Change into human form first before we talk! Don¡¯t you know how to respect others?¡±

    Akali almost broke out inughter.

    For a red dragon, being in dragon form was natural for them. Changing into other shapes was a skill that they mastered naturally, but they rarely used it.

    After Cassandra had been contacting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in order tomunicate more efficiently, she would frequently change to human form.

    But most of the time she was still in her dragon form.

    As for the ¡°respect¡± she mentioned¡­..for a naturally powerful dragon, this word should never be used on a human.

    Leon was surprised by Cassandra¡¯s words and only slowly came back to his senses after a while. He looked at Akali, but he still obediently changed to human form and changed into the young man form that Akali had seen before.

    ¡°Hey, Leon, hello.¡± Akali waved her hand at him, ¡°Why did it take you so long toe back? Did something happen along the way?¡±

    ¡°Long time?¡± Leon and Cassandra looked at Akali with surprised looks, ¡°Is it a long time?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not a long time?¡± Akali was even more surprised, ¡°It¡¯s already been half a year since Leon came back, right? Could it be that it takes half a year to go to the region that you ck dragons live in?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s not that far, I only used ten days to fly back and forth.¡± Leon waved his hand.

    ¡°Then why did it take you half a year toe back?¡± Akali asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Leon scratched his head, looking a bit embarrassed, ¡°Didn¡¯t you ask me to investigate the humans that live near our tribe? I¡­¡­Because it¡¯s been several decades since I met those humans, I forgot where they were and spent a bit of time looking for them¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 73

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 73</h4>

    Without a single word, Cassandra kicked Leon¡¯s butt.

    ¡°You can¡¯t even find the humans, what use are you?¡±

    Leon didn¡¯t dodge at all and took this kick before saying with an aggrieved look, ¡°How could I know that in just a few decades, those humans wouldpletely change. Now their poption is several times bigger and they have even gone several dozen kilometers away to build a city. It seems like they¡¯re living quite well.¡±

    ¡°Oh? There are already human cities?¡± Akali was pleased before asking, ¡°Then did you contact those humans? How are they living right now?¡±

    Leon shook his head, ¡°Humans are afraid of us dragons, how could I contact them?¡±

    ¡°Can¡¯t you change into human form?¡± Akali couldn¡¯t help saying.

    Leon gave a snort as he looked at Akali with eyes filled with disdain.

    ¡°I am an esteemed dragon, how can I change to human¡­..¡± After saying this, Leon looked down at his current human form and swallowed the rest of his words. He gave a cough before continuing, ¡°In short, don¡¯t hope that I¡¯ll go to the human ce asking around for you, I won¡¯t do it.¡±

    Akali stopped Cassandra from kicking him again and said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s good enough knowing about the humans. Let¡¯s not talk about the humans, let¡¯s talk about you ck dragons. How was the reaction to the things you brought backst time? Did your nsmen like it?¡±

    Hearing Akali ask this, Leon immediately revealed an excited look.

    ¡°Hey, you¡­..Human, what are you called?¡±

    ¡°Akali, just call me Akali.¡±

    ¡°Oh, Akali. Do you still have more of the Magic Illusion Projectors that you had me bring backst time? Are there more episodes to those films as well? Quickly tell me, I can¡¯t wait anymore!¡±

    Seeing this expression from Leon, Akali and Cassandra couldn¡¯t help looking at each other with smiles.

    It seemed like the ck dragon tribe was the same as Cassandra¡¯s red dragon tribe, they liked the Illusion Films very much. It seemed like Akali really did the right thing having Leon bring those things backst time.

    ¡°Of course I do. If you¡¯re interested, you can have Cassandra rmend some to you, she¡¯s very familiar with them.¡± Akali said.

    ¡°Really? Cassandra, quickly tell me, what happened to that Prince Tusk after? Did he die? Also, his father, that beautiful king is a bad person, right? Also¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Leon and Cassandra start to discuss Illusion Films, Akali shook her head, not knowing whether tough or cry.

    The dragons really were strange.

    They were a naturally powerful race and they should see humans like bugs, but whether it was the red dragons or the ck dragons, they were very infatuated by the Illusion Films that described human stories. It really was something that people couldn¡¯t understand.

    Seeing their chat fire up, Akali felt that she should wait even if she did have questions. She told Cassandra that she was nning on heading back to camp first.

    Cassandra waved her hand to show she didn¡¯t care. However, when Akali was about to fly into the sky, Leon seemed like he had suddenly remembered something.

    ¡°Right, Ah¡­..Akali, when I was flying over, I saw some humans being surrounded by goblins. Do you know those humans?¡±

    Akali looked in the northwest direction Leon was pointing in and after thinking about it, her expression changed.

    Just this morning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent a transport team to the Chrome Halfling Tribe. They were sending some of the new household magic machine that arrived to the halflings to let them know the convenience that the household magic machines brought.

    Calcting the time, they should still be on the road.

    Moreover, there weren¡¯t any humans in several hundred kilometers around this ce. If Leon saw a group of humans, it should be the transport group from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, Akali didn¡¯t receive a distress signal from the transport team which meant that either Leon was mistaken, or the transport team had reached a ce where the magicmunication signal didn¡¯t reach.

    Akali believed it was thetter, so after thinking for a bit, she pulled a Magic Communicator out of her chest. She called the person in charge of the camp defenses, team leader Reinhold from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and reported the situation.

    ¡°Team leader Reinhold, I¡¯ll go verify the situation, you should follow right away. We need to maintainmunications at all times.¡± Akali said.

    ¡°Wait! Akali, since the transport team can¡¯t contact us, then they are outside ofmunication rage. You¡¯ll be the same if you go there, so how will we contact you?¡± Team leader Reinhold said in an urgent voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, I have two dragons with me, I can create a few temporary floating magic signal devices along the way to create a temporarymunicationwork. That way you can contact me at all times.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Team leader Reinhold still hesitated, but he chose to believe in Akali¡¯s specialty, ¡°Alright, then please maintainmunication. I will immediately organize a group right now.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Akali didn¡¯t hang up and held it in her hand as she nodded to Cassandra.

    Cassandra and Akali had researched the floating signal for over a year now, so of course she understood Akali¡¯s meaning. She quickly turned back into dragon form and slowly floated into the air before chanting some Dragon Word Magic to create a white ball of magic in the air.

    This was the floating magic signal that Akali and Cassandra had developed together. It could rece the basic functions of a magic signal tower and act as a transmission medium for the magic signal.

    But if this thing waspared to the stable magic signal towers that were ced on the ground and formed from Magic Crystals and Magic Arrays, it was much less stable, so it was very hard to use it topletely rece magic signal towers.

    But it had one advantage over magic signal towers which was that it could float, so it wasn¡¯t limited by the topography. At the same time, it was less affected when acting as a transmission medium for magic signal, so it had a longer range and a stronger signal.

    Akali researched this thing mainly to create a magicmunicationwork that stretched across the seas, finally connecting the Magic Cloud Continent and the Sines Continent.

    Seeing that Cassandra had finished the temporary floating magic signal device, Akali tested the Magic Communicator in her hand and confirmed that there wasn¡¯t a problem with the signal. Then she turned to Leon to say, ¡°Go, bring me to where you found the humans just now.¡±

    Leon was staring at the Magic Communicator in Akali¡¯s hand with a curious look.

    ¡°What is this thing? It seems very fun.¡±

    ¡°Fun your head!¡± Cassandra flew down and pped her wing to p Leon, causing him to roll twice on the ground, ¡°Stop wasting words and lead the way.¡±

    Leon pulled his head out of the ground and didn¡¯t dare refute her. He just changed back into his dragon form and flew off in the northwest direction he had pointed in.

    ¡°Come, get on.¡±

    Cassandra let Akali jump onto her back before pping her wings to follow him.

    After flying for around four to five kilometers, Akali had Leon and Cassandra stop before having Cassandra create another temporary floating magic signal device. After confirming that the signal was fine and that they could contact team leader Reinhold, they continued flying northwest.

    Repeating this seven times, flying over forty kilometers, they finally heard sounds from in front of them.

    Leon flying ahead roared out, ¡°It¡¯s over there.¡±

    Akali looked in the direction the sounds came from and saw a sh of bright blue light before a loud sound rang out that seemed very scary.

    ¡°They even used the Magic Bazookas, are the goblins really that powerful?¡± Akali couldn''t wait anymore and jumped off Cassandra¡¯s back as she flew off in that direction.

    With her power as a Ninth Grade Magician now, it didn¡¯t take her long to fly this distance.

    After a while, she went to where the light and sounds came from.

    Looking down, Akali felt her scalp tingle.

    There was a patch of grasnd under her that looked very open.

    However, there was a group of humans right in the center and all around them were goblins that werepletely green.

    Looking down, it was like seeing a group of ants spread out. With a rough estimate, there were over ten thousand of them.

    ¡°Cassandra, Leon, you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Cassandra who was flying beside Akali shook herrge head. She could tell what Akali was thinking as she said, ¡°Akali, our dragon race has sworn to the Dragon God that we can¡¯t interfere in the matters of the other races, so we will not participate in their battles. I can¡¯t help you.¡±

    Leon on the side also said, ¡°There¡¯s no other way, human, this is the pledge passed down in our dragon tribe, I can¡¯t help you either.¡±

    Akali looked at the two dragons and felt a bit surprised.

    However, this wasn¡¯t the time to think about this. Akali nodded and then took out the Magic Communicator as she called team leader Reinhold again.

    ¡°Over ten thousand goblins?¡± Team leader Reinhold¡¯s voice took a deep breath in the Magic Communicator, ¡°What¡¯s the situation with the transport team?¡±

    ¡°They can still hold on for now, but I don¡¯t know how long they can hold on.¡±

    ¡°Good, Akali, you are a Ninth Grade Magician, I hope that you can help them fight for some time. We are on the way. It¡¯ll take¡­..at least twenty minutes before we can get here, so help them hold on!¡±

    ¡°Good, the transport team and I will be waiting for you.¡±

    After saying this, Akali took a deep look at Cassandra and Leon and then she flew towards the group of humans encircled by the goblins without any hesitation.

 Volume 7 74

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 74</h4>

    Akali¡¯s talent for magic wasn¡¯t considered outstanding. When she had been in school, her teacher had told her that she would at most be a Seventh Grade Magician in her life or an Eighth Grade Magician if she was lucky.

    However, since she joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, through studying magic machines, it increased Akali¡¯s understanding of magic. It had allowed her to greatly increase her level of magic.

    After ten years, Akali had gone from a Fourth Grade Magician when she joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to a Ninth Grade Magician, being only a step away from bing a Great Magician.

    This could already be considered very good for her who wasn¡¯t forty yet.

    The transport team had relied on the thirty guards who had brought some military magic machines along to block the goblins, but because they had limited ammo, they were weakening before Akali had arrived and didn¡¯t seem like they couldst that long.

    Now with the inclusion of a powerful Ninth Grade Magician like Akali, the transport team had a chance to catch their breath.

    The most important thing was that not only had Akali joined the battle, she brought news of the reinforcement team that wawaing which greatly increased their morale. It had actually forced the goblins that were getting closer to move back a bit.

    Leon in the air who was watching the fierce battle below turned to Cassandra to ask, ¡°Hey, Cassandra, do you know what those humans are holding in their hands? It seems like they are quite strong. Although those goblins are very weak, they are being dropped in waves by the humans. Isn¡¯t this a bit too much?¡±

    ¡°This is the military magic machine that they developed. Don¡¯t ask me about it, I can¡¯t understand it either.¡±

    Cassandra closely observed the battle below, not shifting her attention at all.

    Although she was limited by the pledge of the dragons, so she couldn¡¯t enter the battle between humans and goblins, if Akali was in danger, she would have immediately gone down to save her.

    This was her first female friend from another race, she treasured her quite a bit.

    Seeing that Cassandra only gave a perfunctory answer, Leon felt a bit bored. He looked down before shaking his head to say, ¡°Although the things in their hands are strong, how could they block all the goblins with just the few people that they have? I think that this human named Akali really is dumb, what did she charge down there in this situation for? To die?¡±

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Cassandra angrily turned to roar at Leon, ¡°Haven¡¯t you noticed that Akali is a powerful human magician? How could she be killed by these weak goblins? Moreover, she just requested reinforcements and when theye, these goblins will face a terrible fate!¡±

    Leon looked at Cassandra with a surprised look, ¡°Hey, Cassandra, you really are confident in these humans. There are at least ten thousand goblins here, how many humans do you think need toe to take care of them? From what I can see, the other humans will give up on this group.¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s gaze looking at Leon had a trace of anger and disdain.

    ¡°Leon, I¡¯ve learned a very important advantage that humans have from Akali, which is cohesion. Their race will never give up on theirpanions. I¡¯m certain that their reinforcements will be here soon!¡±

    Seeing that Cassandra really was angry, Leon didn¡¯t dare say anything else, but he couldn¡¯t help muttering in a low voice.

    ¡°They are so far away and it even took us that long to fly here, how could the humans get here in time¡­¡­¡±

    Before his voice fell, there was a humming sound that came from the air behind them. Looking around in a daze, he found that in the air behind him, there were several giant ck figures flying over.

    ¡°What are these things?¡± Leon looked at theserge ck steel monsters that were even several times bigger than him quickly flying over here.

    ¡°These are Magic Airships, they are powerful war machines that were invented by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that Akali is from. Move a bit further, I¡¯m afraid that you¡¯ll be scared by them.¡± Cassandra said in a low voice.

    ¡°What a joke! How could I be scared by this broken thing¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There were several beams of light that suddenly came from the Magic Airships that fell onto the ground, creating a series of deafening explosions.

    Leon swallowed the rest of his words and even forgot to p his wings. He tilted in the air and almost fell down.

    ¡°Dragon God! What are these damn things! When did the humans create such powerful weapons?¡±

    Leon called out in shock as he looked down to see the light fade and the dust settle. In the ce where the goblins had been, after therge explosions, there were severalrge holes in the ground. The goblins weren¡¯t even left withplete corpses.

    Leon quickly calcted it in his heart and found that the attack from the Magic Airship just now was as powerful as a Dragon Word Magic Spell that he released, even far surpassing it when it came to area of effect.

    This had greatly shocked him.

    In his mind, humans were the smallest and weakest race. They asionally had a few experts that could match the other races, but most of the races couldn¡¯t even take a single sh of his ws.

    However, the humans could now release this kind of powerful attack which really had amazed him.

    But Leon also had his doubts.

    Since the humans had such powerful weapons, why did they stay silent on this continent and give the other races the impression that they were weak?

    ¡°Right¡­¡­Cassandra said that these humans were from another continent and were different from the humans of the Magic Cloud Continent. But how did the humans of that other continent be this strong?¡±

    Ignoring the doubts in Leon¡¯s heart, the battlefield hadpletely changed with the arrival of the thirteen Magic Airships.

    Although there were many goblins, each goblin wasn¡¯t that strong and they didn¡¯t have any powerful weapons. When facing the attacks from the air of the Magic Airships, they couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    It didn¡¯t take long before the ten thousand goblins had lost over a thousand lives from the constant bombardment of the thirteen Magic Airships. There were severalrge gaps that had been created in their formations.

    The goblins weren¡¯t fools and naturally knew that they were facing an enemy they couldn¡¯t beat, so after a bit of chaos, they started running off in every direction.

    Since the thirteen Magic Airship led by team leader Reinhold had finished their rescue mission, naturally they didn¡¯t keep chasing. Two of the Magic Airships separated from the group and went to where Akali and the transport team were.

    ¡°Team leader Reinhold, thank you for the rescue. I thought that we would die here today.¡± When he saw team leader Reinhold, the transport team leader Gluer let out a long sigh of relief.

    Team leader Reinholdughed as he waved his hand, ¡°We¡¯re all brothers from thepany, there¡¯s no need to thank us. Then again, it would be against the duty of us guards if we put you in danger. If sir chairman knew about this, he would definitely reprimand us.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine, no one would have thought that all these goblins would appear here. If it wasn¡¯t¡­¡­right, miss Akali, how did you know that we were stuck here? We couldn¡¯t even send a distress signal.¡± Gluer turned to ask Akali this.

    ¡°It was one of my dragon friends who noticed that you were stuck here and told me, that¡¯s how I know.¡± Akali pointed out the window, ¡°It¡¯s that ck dragon over there.¡±

    ¡°Dragon friend?¡± Gluer and the people of the transport team looked at the two dragons flying in the sky with strange expressions.

    The red dragons had always had a good rtionship with them and Akali had been very close to that red dragon named Cassandra, this was what everyone knew.

    But why did she suddenly have a ck dragon friend?

    ¡°Speaking of the distress signal¡­..Akali, I hope that you and yourmunication team can quickly build aplete magicmunicationwork in the surrounding area. If we can maintainmunications, we could react to matters like todays as soon as possible, so that our brothers of the transport team wouldn¡¯t be in danger.¡± Team leader Reinhold suddenly said.

    ¡°Un, we are working on this problem, but team leader Reinhold, I think that you should know that building the magicmunicationwork is arge project and we need time. We can only do this step by step and can¡¯t rush this.¡± Akali said.

    Team leader Reinhold naturally understood this, so he could only give a helpless nod.

    Then he remembered what had just happened.

    ¡°How were you able to maintain contact with us just now? This ce is over forty kilometers away from the base.¡±

    ¡°This was a temporary measure that I used with the dragon friend, it won¡¯tst long. Look, we can¡¯t maintainmunication with the base now.¡± Akali waved the Magic Communicator in her hand as she answered.

    Team leader Reinhold tested it and found that he couldn¡¯t contact the base.

    ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s like this, let¡¯s hurry back to the base. Manager Bat cares about this rescue mission very much and we need to report to him as soon as possible. Moreover, as for this matter, we need to discuss an appropriate solution, otherwise our movement here will be very limited in the future. Akali, it¡¯s best if you send some people from yourmunication team to participate in the meeting.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯ll talk after we get back to the base.¡± Akali gave a shrug, looking like she didn¡¯t care.

 Volume 7 75

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 75</h4>

    Because this ce was over ten thousand kilometers away from the Sines Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the right to manage most things themselves with Xu Yi¡¯s permission.

    Suddenly being attacked by such arge number of goblins was without a doubt a very serious matter. However, it was clearly impossible to report to the headquarters and wait for their response.

    So the manager Bat had gathered representatives from the various branches for an emergency meeting to discuss this issue.

    After a day of discussion, the branch had decided their preliminary actions.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to build a stable base here, so the first thing they had to take care of was the base¡¯s safety.

    Before themunicationwork was perfect, they had to avoid going too far from the base to avoid any unexpected dangers.

    The headquarters had already sent six thousand guards here and with therge amount of military magic machines, the guard team leader Reinhold estimated that they could guarantee the safety of no more than twenty kilometers out from the base.

    Next, while building the base, the branch also had a task of understanding the Magic Cloud Continent as much as possible, trying to build good rtions with the locals to facilitate future trading.

    So they couldn¡¯t break their current rtions with the Sansa Elf Tribe and the Chrome Halfling Tribe, while at the same time, they had to develop rtions with the other locals.

    The branch had to send teams out regrly to achieve this goal.

    But because of the besiegement of the goblins this time, they had decided that the exploration teams would take the Magic Airships out in the future.

    Because based on their current understanding of the continent, there were only the dragons and the few experts of the various races that could attack from the air right now.

    With the Magic Airships setting out as a unit, even if they can¡¯t win, they could run in most situations.

    Of course, the branch only currently had twenty Magic Airships.

    Deciding on this n meant that the branch would send out far fewer exploration teams and it would seriously affect their exploration rate.

    But sir chairman had always stressed that ¡°safety was number one, people were the most important thing¡±, so choosing the safest way in this situation was something that had no doubt.

    Moreover, manager Bat would hand an application to the headquarters on behalf of the Magic Cloud Continent branch to get as many more Magic Airships as soon as possible.

    Next, they would ask for more support when it came tomunication equipment and personnel.

    Because this event had exposed the serious w in theirmunication, causing the branch to be passive in many matters.

    Other than these two major decisions, the high level members of the branch discussed some other issues and decided on proper methods to deal with them.

    Other than this, team leader Reinhold had given a very bold idea.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s exploration fleet hadn¡¯t found any goblin tribes around here, which meant that the influence of the goblins hadn¡¯t spread here yet.

    Now that there were over ten thousand goblins that surrounded the transport team, it meant that the goblins that the elves and halflings said ruled the continent were noticing the unusualness of this region, so they started taking action.

    Team leader Reinhold felt that since it was impossible to hide, then instead of waiting for the goblins toe, it was better to attack the goblins instead. They couldunch a fierce attack that would make the goblins fear them. They might even clean up the area around the base to guarantee the safety of the surrounding area.

    When it came to his suggestion, manager Bat and the other high level members of this branch had different ideas.

    Although the goblins had appeared and attacked the transport team, that didn¡¯t mean that the goblins would attack this base and had hostility towards this base.

    If this was just a coincidence, if the branch¡¯s guards took action against the goblins and angered them, it might mean bringing danger to this base.

    The goblins could dominate the Magic Cloud Continent because one, there were many of them and two, they were united.

    If they provoked the goblins, it would mean many goblins woulde to attack them and they would be forced to fight to the death with the goblins.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence on the Magic Cloud Continent wasn¡¯t strong yet. Although they weren¡¯t afraid of the goblins'' attack, it wasn¡¯t possible for them to initiate an attack.

    ¡°So? What did yourpany decide in the end? Will they stay like this and wait for the goblins toe?¡± Cassandra asked Akali with a curious look.

    Akali gave a sigh and shook her head, ¡°No one could convince the other, so they haven¡¯t decided yet. But there is something that is certain, it¡¯s that no matter what, we have to cultivate public roads first.¡±

    ¡°Public roads?¡± Cassandra was surprised as she quickly searched her mind before reacting, ¡°It¡¯s those very smooth roads that I saw on the Sines Continent before?¡±

    ¡°Right?¡±

    ¡°Why do you need to pave roads?¡±

    ¡°Because it will be very convenient after the roads are paved.¡± Akali answered without any hesitation, ¡°Not to mention anything else, it wouldn¡¯t take more than a day to reach the Sansa Elf Tribe in the future at least. If we can build a road to the Sansa Elf Tribe and userge transport Magic Cars, it would only take three hours to go there and back. Don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s much more convenient?¡±

    ¡°Is it?¡± Cassandra thought about the situation on the Sinse Continent and nodded without really understanding, ¡°But aren¡¯t you worried that the goblins will attack even if you build roads? Will there be a difference?¡±

    ¡°Un, we don¡¯t have enough people now, so we can only take our time. Right now we¡¯ve decided what to do, which is toy down the roads and the magicmunicationwork. The bigger the area of these two things, the more range we have to move in.¡± Akali thought about it before suddenly saying, ¡°Cassandra, do you really think it¡¯s impossible for us to negotiate with the goblins? If the goblins are willing, ourpany is willing to discuss with them so that both sides can get what we want, it would be beneficial to them too.¡±

    ¡°I urge you not to think like this.¡± Cassandra shook her head, ¡°The goblins are famous for not trusting other races, they don¡¯t even trust people of the same race. The reason for their unity is because of other races. But it isn¡¯t impossible for you to negotiate with them, but it¡¯s very simple, you just have to beat them until they submit to make them think that they can¡¯t defeat you, so they will ept negotiating with you. For example, our dragon race, the goblins don¡¯t have any ideas when they see us. Of course, our dragon race doesn¡¯t have any ideas towards those lowly goblins either.¡±

    ¡°Completely beat them¡­¡­¡± Akali knitted her brows to think for a bit before suddenly revealing a smile, ¡°It¡¯s probably not that difficult.¡±

    Cassandra wanted to refute Akali, but thinking of seeing the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships two days ago, she fell silent again.

    Although Cassandra was certain that if she was facing a Magic Airship, there was no doubt she would have an advantage.

    But Akali had said before that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could keep making Magic Airships, they could have as many as they wanted.

    The dragons had a limited poption, so they couldn¡¯t take losing even a single one.

    With this contrast, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s potential far surpassed the dragon race¡¯s.

    Thinking of this, the way that Cassandra looked at Akali changed slightly.

    She was willing to contact these humans before mainly because they gave her interesting things, for example, the rich Illusion Films.

    However, after seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards easily repel the attack of over ten thousand goblins, Cassandra suddenly felt that these humans weren¡¯t just better at dragons than having interesting things.

    Compared to the small poption and weak humans of the Magic Cloud Continent, the humans from the Sines Continent that Akali and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented were countless times stronger.

    If the humans of the Sines Continent came to the Magic Cloud Continent, would they be able to rece the goblins?

    Cassandra thought about it and found that there should be no doubt about this.

    Just the battle strength of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce surpassed that of the goblins by several times.

    If more of them came, the goblins might not be able to resist them even with numbers.

    Then if the Magic Cloud Continent were ruled by these humans, how would it affect it?

    Cassandra seriously considered this for a bit and couldn¡¯t find a certain answer.

    She had gone to the Sines Continent and seen the lively society the humans built there, as well as experiencing the various entertainment that the humans had shown her.

    But she hadn¡¯t been on the Sines Continent for long and couldn¡¯t tell if there was a difference between humans ruling the continent and goblins ruling the continent.

    But after thinking about it, Cassandra felt that perhaps this was a good thing for the Magic Cloud Continent.

    After all, the goblins had ruled this continent for several thousand years and the Magic Cloud Continent had always been listless and boring.

    Rather, the humans from the Sines Continent were more interesting.

    If Cassandra had to choose, of course she liked the humans from the Sines Continent more.

    A human and dragon thought about their own things and fell into silence.

    After a while, this silence was broken by arge gust of wind.

    Leon pped his wings above them and after falling for a bit, he suddenly realized something as he quickly changed into human form before continuing to fall.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, I¡¯ve decided. Give me a set of those military magic machines and it¡¯s best if you give me a Magic Airship as well. I¡¯ll go back and convince our nsmen to cooperate with yourpany, what do you think?¡±

 Volume 7 76

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 76</h4>

    The report from the Magic Cloud Continent arrived in Xu Yi¡¯s hands twenty dayster.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any opinions on the countermeasures the high level members of this branch hade up with.

    The Magic Cloud Continent and the Sines Continent were separated by ten thousand kilometers, it would take at least a month for both sides to contact each other. Even if Xu Yi wanted to modify the decisions of the branch, it would be dyed by a month, so he couldn¡¯t keep up with the developments on that side.

    So unless there was a clear and serious mistake with the ns of the branch, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t send an order from ten thousand kilometers away.

    Not to mention that although the n of the branch was a bit passive, they didn¡¯t know enough about the Magic Cloud Continent, so being discreet like this wasn¡¯t a problem at all.

    As for team leader Reinhold¡¯s suggestion of attacking the goblins, Xu Yi rejected it.

    Whether it is from the ounts of the dragons, the elves, or the halflings, it was clear that goblins far surpassed the other races on the Magic Cloud Continent, so they were an enemy that was very hard to deal with.

    Without being prepared to provoke the other side, they were just looking for trouble.

    But since the goblins had appeared less than a few dozen kilometers away from the base, then with the characteristic of the goblins of expanding wildly, they would soon discover the location of the branch. It was inevitable that there would be conflict, so there wasn¡¯t much time to prepare to outpost.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi took his pen to sign his name on the resource request application from the branch and gave it to Cindy beside him.

    ¡°Take this to the logistics department and have them take care of it first.¡±

    Cindy looked at the report and knitted her brows. After hesitating a bit, she said in a low voice, ¡°Sir chairman, there was already opposition from the logistics departmentst time. They said that the resource requests of the Magic Cloud Continent branch were getting bigger and bigger, so the pressure on them is also getting bigger¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Cindy, ¡°Did they tell you this directly?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Cindy gave a nod.

    ¡°Got it.¡± Xu Yi paused for a bit before waving his hand, ¡°Take this to them and tell them that the construction of the base on the Magic Cloud Continent is for the future development of ourpany, so they have to endure even if there is pressure.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Watching Cindy turn to leave, Xu Yi leaned back and knitted his brows as he fell into thought.

    It was no wonder the people of the logistics department felt that there was a lot of pressure. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had started sending personnel and goods to build the outpost on the Magic Cloud Continent for less than two years, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already invested thirty million gold coins in resources.

    Compared to the resources, the more important thing was personnel.

    It was fine for the other departments, but in order to guarantee the safe construction of the Magic Cloud Continent base, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent six thousand guards.

    Just these guards had a value that was hard to measure. Then adding in the various military magic machines as well as the refills they received, the cost was astronomical.

    Moreover, because they had sent six thousand guards to the Magic Cloud Continent, to fill the gap on the Sines Continent side, they had to train another group of guards.

    In the past half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already invested over ten million gold coins in this.

    The newly trained guards were clearly not as strong as the old guards that had been sent out, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military strength on the Sines Continent had droppedpared to before.

    But the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t stable right now and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to widen their sphere of influence, so they needed more military strength.

    So the investment in the guards would continue to increase.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the next two to three years would expect to invest over twenty million gold coins in the guards.

    With this, because of the Magic Cloud Continent base, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would need to pay at least thirty million gold coins a year on average. Naturally this would make the logistics department that was now in charge of logistics for the entirepany feel a great amount of pressure.

    This situation was only until the base could be self sufficient and the situation would improve as it started producing products, but it would take at least several years based on the current situation of the base.

    So for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, these few years were the most important years and they couldn¡¯t make any mistakes.

    Xu Yi thought for a while before standing up toe to the map of the Sines Continent on the wall, slowly looking it over.

    Although there was a lot of pressure on the logistics department right now, for the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, thirty million gold coins a year was not something that they couldn¡¯t withstand. After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already earned a shocking one hundred and fifty million gold coins in profitsst year.

    Putting aside their other investments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also had giant profits, so putting out thirty million gold coins a year to invest into the new base wasn¡¯t a big problem.

    But that was on the premise that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could keep developing smoothly. This would guarantee that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have higher profitspared to all the otherpanies of the continent.

    In a normal situation, this wasn¡¯t a problem at all.

    Through the drive and influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, almost all the countries of the Sines Continent started investing desperately into the magic machine industry, but they were far from being able topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So their developing the magic machine industry was just creating a market for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With this foundation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales were currently soaring.

    However, because of the drop in profit margins, their profits didn¡¯t soar along with their sales and could only be considered steadily growing.

    The main reason for this was that the countries of the continent were starting to restrict the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, trying to suppress their quick growth.

    The Jino Union and the Valley Association was one example ofpanies targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi was already prepared for this. More than ten years ago, he didn¡¯t care what price he paid, but he did everything he could to get mineral resources and he had gained quite a bit because the other countries didn¡¯t care at that time.

    Although the current mineral resources the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled couldn¡¯tpare to the Jino Union or the Valley Association, there was no need for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce if they used it for themselves for a hundred years.

    The most important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s smelting technology far surpassed the tworge organizations, so that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s steel mills and non-ferrous metal smelting factories upied the majority of the market. The tworge organizations had no choice but to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, taking out a portion of their mineral resources for the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce to smelt.

    Like this, the tworge mineral organizations couldn¡¯tpletely stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the effect on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was close to zero. Rather, it let the magic machinepanies that needed these steel and non-ferrous metal alloys recognize the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technological superiority, increasing the profits of the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce.

    However, Xu Yi was clear that all of this was temporary.

    The major countries of the continent still had scruples with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so while their technology still couldn¡¯tpare, they would try to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and wouldn¡¯t limit them as much.

    But once their technology became bette and their dependence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dropped, they would use every method they could to limit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Hei, it¡¯s no wonder grandfather and Still keep saying that I¡¯m suffering the consequences of my own actions.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and gave a sigh.

    He always dreamed about developing aplete industrial system on the Sines Continent, so he had always spread his technology to other countries andpanies.

    But once the other countries andpanies improved their technology, their dependence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would naturally decrease.

    Even swallowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after their technology surpassed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a normal thing.

    So this was a difficult choice. If he wanted to quickly develop the magic machine industry, Xu Yi had to share the technology that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce monopolized so that everyone could develop together.

    But the more he shared, the more the other powers would catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the more troubles the Frestech Chamber of Commerce faced.

    How to control the sharing of technology was something that was very hard for Xu Yi to determine.

    If he wasn¡¯t careful, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be forced into a passive position.

    Of course, there was one thing that he could confirm. It was that Xu Yi had to firmly keep the military magic machine technology.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could cause the other countries to have scruples because they had the absolute superiority when it came to military magic machines, making the other nations worry about the military might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce lost their advantage, Xu Yi was certain that the first thing the other countries would do would be to carve up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So Xu Yi had always been careful when other countries and powers asked them to share the military magic machine technology. He had strictly followed the cooperation n that he had set out before, not allowing himself to cross any borders.

    But¡­..when a special party asked for the transfer of the military magic machine technology, Xu Yi hesitated.

 Volume 7 77

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 77</h4>

    This special party was Viscount Leslie.

    Viscount Leslie had led the remainder of the Stagg Family to Heaven Ind for over ten years now, so he hadpletely integrated the entire ind under his control.

    With the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Heaven Ind had already developed a good magic machine industry. Moreover, because of Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, Viscount Leslie had mainly focused Heaven Ind¡¯s development in the direction of building ships and fishing.

    Now Heaven Ind had four harbours and three shipyards. They would be able to produce at least fiverge transport Magic Ships and over twenty guard ships a year, which was the same production capacity as the shipyards in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Most of the ships produced were supplied to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with a few being kept for Viscount Leslie¡¯s personal use.

    Then after equipping the ships with the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, after several years of development, Viscount Leslie already had a huge fleet under him with eightrge transport Magic Ships and twenty seven guard ships.

    These eightrge transport Magic Ships worked with other small transport Magic Ships to be a fleet with powerful shipping capacity. Not only did it allow trade between Heaven Ind and the Sines Continent, it also received several shipping requests from severalpanies and countries on the continent.

    The Leslie Chamber of Commerce¡¯s marine transport, its reputation was just after the Frestech Transport Chamber of Commerce¡¯s. Even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired the Leslie Chamber of Commerce to help with their transport sometimes.

    It could be said that after Lesiely came to Heaven Ind, he found a new world in which he could fully disy his power, with space to expand his reach.

    Moreover, he had done very well to manage Heaven Ind.

    Last year, Xu Yi had gone to Heaven Ind on Leslie¡¯s invitation and found that Heaven Ind waspletely different from the wastnd that it had been when he found it.

    Although it was only an ind that was no more than twenty square kilometers, Leslie had constructed aplete roadwork on the ind, as well as creating a road along the coast that made transportation on the ind much more convenient.

    At the same time, he had also strictly divided the various parts of the ind, separating the industrial and living sectors so that they wouldn¡¯t interfere with each other. All the buildings were built ording to n, looking very neat and beautiful.

    He also invited several elves in the past to rent the vegetation on Heaven Ind, which made the ind look much more lush and green. No matter where you looked down from, the ind looked very refreshing.

    Xu Yi even felt that settling on Heaven Ind was a type of enjoyment.

    Moreover, ording to the information that Leslie provided, not only did the citizens of Heaven Ind solve their food and shelter problem, the average yearly sry had already surpassed a hundred gold coins. Everyone had plenty of food and was living a good life, it was simply a different world from what it was before.

    Because of this, although Leslie and the Stagg Family he led had be the rulers, they were supported by the people of the ind and had great fame.

    When Xu Yi saw the situation on Heaven Ind, he couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional. The life here really could match its name, it was simply like heaven.

    The other reason why he felt emotional was that he had worked hard on the Sines Continent for twenty years and although he had made changes to the living conditions on the Sines Continent, like in the Stantine Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom, what was truly like his ideal was the Heaven Ind that had been developedter.

    Of course, Heaven Ind had a small area and poption, so as long as they chose an industry to develop, it would be easier to see changes.

    Moreover, because Heaven Ind was too small, there were limits to its growth and it was very weak.

    If they lost their superior ship building industry, Heaven Ind might return to how it was before.

    Xu Yi knew this and Leslie was even more clear on this.

    So Leslie had always been trying to find other paths of development for Heaven Ind. He had visited Xu Yist month and requested him to share some of the military magic machine technology just for this.

    Leslie wasn¡¯t willing to only make the Magic Ships for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he had tried to develop a new Magic Ship and Magic Battleship independently.

    Xu Yi approved of his idea very much, but as for how to support it¡­¡­Xu Yi was hesitant.

    It was clear that if Heaven Ind could build Magic Ships independently, they would have a stable long term job which would mean that there was no need to worry about Heaven Ind running out of money in the future.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have a more powerful partner which would also increase their supply of Magic Ships in the future, greatly helping them in their future development of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But Xu Yi was worried that while Heaven Ind was under Leslie¡¯s control, they would be able to have a close cooperative rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even being able to cooperate for a long time with them, if the situation were to change and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had some friction with Heaven Ind, even breaking apart, this partner could be a powerful enemy.

    Based on his personal feelings, Xu Yi was very happy to help Viscount Leslie, but when it came from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, treating Heaven Ind as a contractor gave them more benefits.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger, there were more and more difficult choices for him.

    He could do what he wanted in the beginning, sharing technology and letting everyone develop together.

    However, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became bigger and bigger, developing to a superpany that had over three hundred thousand employees, his decision could affect the fate of three hundred thousand people and he couldn¡¯t be willful anymore.

    ¡°Is there a way to let Heaven Ind develop better while also not stepping on the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows to think.

    Actually, if Leslie was willing to ept continuing to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s partner, helping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with work, Heaven Ind would prosper for a long time.

    But Leslie had the ability and his ambition wasn¡¯t small, so he wasn¡¯t willing to ept this.

    His request just now was clearly for a bigger goal.

    He even said to Xu Yi that for this request, he would open all of Heaven Ind¡¯s manpower and resources to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it could be seen how determined he was.

    ¡°But the resources of just a single Heaven Ind, how could it be enough topare to the important military magic machine technology?¡±

    Xu Yi thought for a bit and still felt conflicted.

    If he agreed, it would be bad for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the long term.

    But if he didn¡¯t agree, he would foster some dissent with Leslie that would also harm the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If he could grasp the difficult problem that was at the heart of this.

    ¡°Du, du, du.¡±

    There was a rhythmic knocking that came from the door.

    ¡°Cindy,e in.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t even turn his head as he called out.

    The door opened and Cindy came in. Seeing Xu Yi looking at the map on the wall, she revealed an understanding smile.

    Sir chairman would look at this map when considering some important problems, so she wasn¡¯t surprised by this.

    ¡°How did it go? What did those fellows at the logistics department say?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    ¡°They said that since it was sir chairman¡¯s orders, they would strictly follow them.¡± Cindy said.

    ¡°Nothing else?¡±

    ¡°Nothing else.¡±

    ¡°He, they know what to do. It¡¯s fine toin or have your opinions, but things still have to be done, that¡¯s the iron creed of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi said this with a smile. Then he turned around and looked at the thick stack of documents in Cindy¡¯s hands before saying in a surprised voice, ¡°What is this?¡±

    Cindy gave the documents to Xu Yi.

    ¡°This is the report from the southern Magic Airship exploration team, please take a look, sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Oh? They sent back news this quickly?¡±

    Xu Yi took the documents and then he saw therge title on it.

    ¡°The southern continent has already been confirmed!¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock as he kept reading through it carefully.

    This southern Magic Airship exploration team was one of the few teams that were formed after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce confirmed the existence of the Magic Cloud Continent. They were in charge of exploring to the south of the Sines Continent.

    In order to be efficient and safe, these teams had all been equipped with Magic Airships.

    Although they couldn¡¯t keep sailing as long as the boats, with the abilities of the current Magic Airships, they could travel a distance of over five thousand kilometers in one trip.

    If they couldn¡¯t find a new continent within five thousand kilometers, there was no meaning in going any further because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have the manpower and resources to develop another continent right now.

    What surprised Xu Yi was that in less than two months of sending out these exploration groups, the first news report that they sent back had such important information.

    In this report, the exploration team described the ount of their exploration in the south.

    In the first month, they followed Xu Yi¡¯s arrangement. They kept going around the southern seas of the Sines Continent, trying to widen the range of their exploration as much as possible.

    However, they had only seen endless sea water in the first month, as well as the scattering of small inds.

    Although there were some inds that were quite big, it was far from being able topare to a continent.

    Only in their second month did they go three thousand kilometers away from the Sines Continent, finding a continent that they couldn¡¯t see the ends of.

    After another week of exploration, they were certain that it was a continent and wasn¡¯t just an ind that was rather big because they couldn¡¯t find another coastline even after flying for a week.

    After confirming this, the exploration team sent back the report that detailed their journey up to this point.

    They would continue exploring that continent and would write an even more detailed report.

    Xu Yi noticed a few words on this report.

    ¡°We don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on, but this continent seems very hot, like it¡¯s summer. After wended the Magic Airship, we were all forced to wear light clothing. If the winter here is already this warm, then when summeres,it will be hard to imagine. This might not be a ce that humans can live in.¡±

    Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The southern continent wasn¡¯t in winter right now, but rather it was in summer.

    The reason the Sines Continent is in winter and that continent is in summer was very simple, it was because the continent was under the equator, so the seasons were the opposite of the Sines Continent that was north of the equator.

    After he read this report, he also saw that there was a map that the exploration team had sent.

    Xu Yi looked at the map and revealed a smile.

    ¡°Alright, I finally found a method.¡±

 Volume 7 78

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 78</h4>

    Wolfman Ottoman stood in the middle of the crowd, trying to hold his back up as tall as possible. He looked forward and tried as hard as he could to not look to the side, looking as spirited as possible.

    The people around him were all holding the same posture, butpared to Ottoman, the other wolfmen were thinner than Ottoman and didn¡¯t seem as strong as him.

    Because of this, Ottoman was very confident that he would be picked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, bing one of the guards that everyone in his tribe envied!

    ¡°Hey, that fellow over there, what are you smiling at! Be more serious for me!¡± A roar came from the right hand side in front of him. Ottoman quickly hid his happy smile and forced himself to reveal a serious expression.

    However, the wolfman face that didn¡¯t have as many facial muscles as humans naturally couldn¡¯t show many expressions. With his expression copsing like this, it really looked a bit strange.

    It was a good thing that the tigerman wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard uniform that had shouted out earlier didn¡¯t really care. His eyes had been sweeping over the beastmen as he shook his head in a disappointed manner.

    ¡°What is it? Taiga, is there something wrong?¡± The human miss Calimont who was the manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard recruitment who hade with the third squad leader Taiga looked at him with a curious look.

    ¡°These fellows are just too thin, I can¡¯t see a beastman warrior that can satisfy me at all.¡± Taiga gave a cold snort, ¡°I really think that these fellows have been living a peaceful life for too long that they¡¯ve forgotten even the most basic things. They are losing face for our beastmen race.¡±

    Miss Calimont looked at the beastmen who looked fierce and buff, with arms that were as thick as her waist. She thought that if she hadn¡¯t been working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time, having met beastmen quite a bit, her legs might have crumbled under her from seeing these beastmen.

    However, this couldn¡¯t satisfy this leader Taiga. Wasn¡¯t his request for body figure just a bit too high?

    ¡°It¡¯s not bad¡­¡­¡± Miss Calimon forced out a smile, ¡°Anyway, ourpany guards won¡¯t be fighting enemies at close range most of the time, so they just need to be a bit stronger than normal humans.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right.¡± Taiga nodded, ¡°I just can¡¯t help feeling emotional. The warriors of our beastman race used to have majestic physiques and any one of them could take care of ten of these fellows, but look at how weak they are now. It really does hurt my heart.¡±

    Miss Calimont looked at Taiga and found that she couldn¡¯t see any special expressions from this tigerman¡¯s face, so she gave up.

    ¡°Actually, you can¡¯t me them. To build a good body, you have to have good living conditions. The beastmen recruitede from other parts of the continent, they aren¡¯t from the ck Rice Wastnd, so their living conditions are much worse. I¡¯ve heard that it¡¯s already good enough if they can eat their fill in their tribes, so for them to maintain their physiques is already quite hard.¡± Miss Calimont said.

    ¡°Humph! If it wasn¡¯t for sir chairman requesting that we expand our guards, I wouldn¡¯t have recruited these pieces of trash.¡± Taiga gave a very dissatisfied snort.

    Miss Calimont shook her head with a bitter smile.

    Indeed, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were equipped with more and more high level military magic machines, causing the guards themselves to be physically weaker, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had never lowered their recruitment requirements, always having the same strict requirements.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only recruited the most elite elf, dwarf, and beastmen warriors. Any one of them could fight ten people alone and if this standard was lowered, people would think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had be weaker.

    But because of sir chairman¡¯s strong request to expand the guards, the guards had to lower their standards and recruit from outside sources.

    The beastmen in front of them were introduced by the beastmen that were already in the guards, so their physiques could be considered quite good among the beastmen of the continent.

    Butpared to the current beastmen guards, these beastmen were without a doubt much weaker.

    There was no other way. Even if beastmen were physically gifted, being naturally stronger than humans, they had to be nurtured with food to develop a good physique.

    The beastmen of the continent had already been pushed out of their living spaces by humans, so it was hard for them to get this food.

    It could be said that other than the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd, the other beastmen of the continent could all be considered poor.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards lowered their standards and started mass recruiting, these beastmen hade in droves even if they were very far away.

    For these beastmen, if they could join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, not only could they fill their stomachs, they could also receive good wages and benefits. It would let their family members back home live better lives.

    This was something that had been spread to all the beastmen of the continent through the beastmen that worked in the various departments of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the beastmen of the ck Rice Wastnd, no beastmen doubted this.

    Look, this mighty looking and powerful tigerman with smooth fur was proof of this.

    ¡°All of you listen!¡± Taiga took a step forward and raised his voice to roar out, ¡°Kids, to have the chance to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it is your honour! But remember, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards don''t take pieces of trash! If you want to join, show me all your skills!¡±

    Hearing this, the beastmen under the stage called out together, raising their arms as they tried to show their might to Taiga.

    ¡°Silence!¡± Taiga roared out to stop them, ¡°I¡¯ll tell you first that the most basic principle of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards is discipline! If you can¡¯t listen, then even if you can join, you can still be kicked out at any time! Understood?¡±

    The beastmen under the stage looked at each other before falling silent.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Taiga gave a satisfied nod, ¡°Then listen to me. The test is about to begin. The first test is¡­¡­ke¡­¡­the intelligence test¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡± The beastmen under the stage were all stunned.

    Intelligence test?

    What a joke!

    Weren¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards mainly in charge of fighting? Don¡¯t they need physical strength, wasn¡¯t martial might enough?

    What was this intelligence test for? Could people who were stupid evene here?

    Seeing the confused looks of the beastmen from under the stage, Taiga gave a cough before he waved his hand, ¡°Listen well, just follow the arrangements and enter your testing area. Remember, the number one requirement of our guards is discipline! Discipline! Understand? Even when you take the test, you have to remember this! Do you hear me!¡±

    The beastmen looked at each other. Although their hearts were filled with doubt, with the enticement of joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, there wasn¡¯t a beastmen that dared to raise an objection. They all obediently followed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff to the test site.

    Seeing these beastmen all go into the exam, Taiga let out a sigh of relief before wiping off the sweat on his forehead. Then he turned to miss Calimont beside him with knitted brows and said, ¡°Hey, miss Calimont, why do you think that the headquarters added this intelligence test? We are recruiting guards, not researchers.¡±

    ¡°In fact¡­..I¡¯ve heard that sir chairman only wanted to hold a written exam at first, but since the other races aren¡¯t that fluent with our humannguage, he changed it to an intelligence test.¡± Miss Calimont said.

    ¡°Why? What did sir chairman add this test for? Is there any meaning?¡± Hearing that sir chairman was the one that added this test, Taiga didn¡¯t dare object, he could only keep asking questions.

    ¡°Leader Taiga, do you think¡­..that ourpany¡¯s guards will sh directly with the enemy? Is there a high chance of close rangebat?¡± Miss Calimont asked.

    ¡°This¡­..it should be very little¡­..un, very little.¡± Taiga hesitantly replied.

    ¡°In light of the fact that ourpany¡¯s guards mainly fight with military magic machines, although the guards still need to have good physical qualities, the more important thing is how easily they can master the military magic machines. So conducting the most basic intelligence test is necessary. Otherwise if they can¡¯t use the military magic machines after being recruited, wouldn¡¯t they be at the lowest level among all the guards?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..that is a bit reasonable.¡± Taiga scratched his head before saying with a bitter smile, ¡°Actually I¡¯ve had the same problemtely. The beastmen under me are all dumb, so when there is a new military magic machine, they need a long time to learn how to use it which is a headache for me. If you look at the elf and human guards, they can easily learn how to use it. Especially the dwarf guards, they can use it as soon as they touch it, which ispletely different from us beastmen. If this continues, I¡¯m afraid that our beastmen race can only do the lowest level work in the guards in the future.¡±

    Miss Calimont revealed a faint smile, ¡°Leader Taiga, it¡¯s good that you can recognize this. Sir chairman has always stressed that knowledge is power. It¡¯s fine if your intelligence is low, but as long as you work hard to learn, you can learn more and won¡¯t fall behind others. So¡­..he hopes that you and your beastmen subordinates can work harder to not be eliminated.¡±

    Taiga was surprised, ¡°Sir chairman said this?¡±

    Miss Calimon just smiled without replying.

 Volume 7 79

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 79</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ recruitment this time was the third time being held in the March of year 3802.

    In thest two recruitments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had recruited two thousand seven hundred and thirty nine people which was a strong supplement.

    However, in the third recruitment, they only recruited three hundred and ny eight people.

    Compared to thest two recruitments, the number of people recruited this third time had greatly dropped.

    There were many reasons for this, but most people thought that the most important reason was that in this third recruitment, there was an extra test which was the intelligence test.

    With just this intelligence test, more than half of the applicants had been eliminated, which caused the number of guards recruited to drop greatly.

    Countless people were confused by this test and were confused by the result of this test.

    An intelligence test really was strange, but if it was a simple intelligence test, it wouldn¡¯t have been able to drop all these applicants.

    ¡°Actually, the reason is very simple. The reason why we recruited so few people this time is because we¡¯ve already recruited most of the people we can recruit in thest two recruitments.¡±

    Xu Yi waved the report from the recruitment in his hand and his expression wasn¡¯t as serious as the guard leader Hart who was in front of him.

    ¡°But sir chairman, in these rounds of recruitment, there were very few people who came. There were less than five thousand people who came for the third round. Is the enticement of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that low?¡± Hart had a confused look, ¡°But out of the people that came, only a small portion of them were humans, which added up to less than a thousand people. This really is too strange.¡±

    ¡°You have to understand something, it isn¡¯t that ourpany¡¯s guards aren''t enticing enough, rather our requirements are too high.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°To be honest, how many do you feel would meet the requirements?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­There really aren''t many of them.¡± Hart gave a bitterugh before looking at Xu Yi with a strange look, ¡°But sir chairman, it¡¯s because your requirements are too high. Otherwise, I feel that if we loosened some of the requirements, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to recruit ten times the number of people.¡±

    ¡°And then? What would be the use in recruiting these fellows that we can¡¯t use?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°To be honest, I¡¯m very dissatisfied with the fellows that you just recruited. If we weren¡¯t in a rush to get more people, I would want to get rid of those fellows.¡±

    The smile on Hart¡¯s face became even more bitter.

    ¡°Sir chairman, not to mention you, I even want to get rid of many of them. I didn¡¯t understand why you added this intelligence test in the beginning, but Ipletely understand now. I¡¯ve been training those fellows who just joined the guards and I¡¯m about to die of exhaustion from having them learn how to use the military magic machines.¡±

    ¡°Ha, now do you understand why I kept telling you to find more time to train the guards? Let me tell you, thepany will be developing more and more military magic machines that will be more and moreplicated to operate. If you don¡¯t find the time to train them, you might not even be able to use the good things that we give you.¡± Although Xu Yi was smiling, his tone was serious.

    Hart gave a slow nod as he agreed to this.

    ¡°I understand. Sir chairman, I also feel that I can keep up less and less recently, so¡­..I wanted to ask you a favour¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What? You want me to send some researchers to the guards?¡± Xu Yi looked over as he asked this.

    Hart was stunned, ¡°Sir chairman, how did you know? Did people mention this to you already?¡±

    ¡°No, it¡¯s just based on my inference, you would need to make this request. Alright, you don¡¯t need to say anything, I already have my ideas. While expanding the guards this time, I will transfer some of the interested researchers from the military magic machine development team over to help you guys understand and operate the military magic machines.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand as he said this.

    ¡°Great!¡± Hart was filled with joy, ¡°Sir chairman, I never thought that you cared this much about our guards, this really is¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Why do you make it sound like I never cared about the guards before? To be honest with you, the guards will be the most important department of ourpany and as the head of the guards, you have to be mentally prepared.¡±

    Hart suddenly stood at attention and gave a salute.

    ¡°Sir chairman, please be assured. The guards will all be prepared and will be willing to sacrifice everything for thepany!¡±

    Xu Yi felt it was a bit funny as he looked at Hart.

    ¡°Hey, Hart, where did you learn this from?¡±

    Hart gave augh, ¡°I saw it in the ?Legends of the Setting Sun Empire? and felt it was quite good, so I took it to use.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. He thought that Hart could be considered someone he worked with for many years and he had only seen a bit of humour from him today.,

    The ?Legends of the Setting Sun Empire? was the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new series. It was a story about the building of a fictional Setting Sun Empire and their final decline. Because of how grand and majestic the story was, it was very popr as soon as it was broadcasted.

    He never thought that Hart would watch it and even learn this pose from it, it really was surprising.

    But if Hart knew that the words and pose that he had learned were all written by Xu Yi, how would he feel?

    After Hart discussed the matter of the guards with Xu Yi, he left.

    Xu Yi took the recruitment report that he had left and there was a bit of hesitation in his eyes.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recruited too few people this time, with the main reason being that the standard of the guards were too high, there was a still a problem that couldn¡¯t be ignored which was theck of troops.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany in the end and the guards of apany were only normal members of thepany.

    Although Xu Yi had tried to train a sense of belonging and camaraderie in the guards which had worked quite well, apany was still apany and it couldn¡¯t be a country.

    If a country wanted to recruit an army, they could adopt conscription and force all the people who met the requirements in the country to join the army.

    But apany could only use their conditions to entice people to join.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the most enticing conditions out of all the races, it was limited to apany, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s troops were very limited.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a good rtion with the other races, which allowed them to supplement from other races, then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards might only be a few retired soldiers from the Stantine Duchy and some other countries.

    The quality of the soldiers recruited from this could be imagined.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high requirements, so there would be very few that would pass in the end.

    This would make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce set their requirements even higher which would further limit their supply of troops.

    So don¡¯t look at how great the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reputation was and how good the benefits of the guards were, there weren¡¯t as many people who came to join the guards as one would imagine.

    For example, in this third recruitment, there were less than five thousand people who came and there were less than a thousand humans. The rest were all from other races.

    One, it was because most humans weren¡¯t willing to leave their home toe to the Stantine Duchy to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards. Two, most of the human warriors that came were veteran mercenaries and could be considered a scrap army, so they couldn¡¯t meet Xu Yi¡¯s requirements and would be eliminated, so less people would be willing toe.

    Of course, it wasn¡¯t that they couldn¡¯t solve theirck of troops.

    For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built branches and factories in many countries of the continent, as well as building good strategic rtions with most countries.

    If Xu Yi was willing, he could set up military bases in those countries and recruit guards locally, which would expand the scale and range of influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    But like this, it would naturally change the nature of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the eyes of many countries.

    If it was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered a normalpany now and many countries were willing to cooperate with them, once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started establishing military bases, it would pose a threat to their countries.

    This waspletely different from before.

    Xu Yi was hesitating about this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development on the Sines Continent had reached a bottleneck and to break through, they required powerful military force to allow them to obtain room for development from other countries.

    But if they increased their military force, it would mean that the rtions with other countries would be tense and that would limit their room for development.

    Moreover, investing in expanding their military force was like a bottomless hole.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in a crucial period of development and there were many ces where they needed to use money. It wasn¡¯t that they couldn¡¯t increase the investment on the guards, but this will create quite a bit of pressure, so it wasn¡¯t rmended.

    As for the proportion, that was decided by Xu Yi, the chairman alone and the others couldn¡¯t share this burden with him.

    So Xu Yi had a rare moment of hesitation.

    Because he knew that his decision wouldn¡¯t just affect the lives of the three hundred thousand people in thepany, it could even affect the fate of the entire Sines Continent.

 Volume 7 80

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 80</h4>

    A motorcade of twentyrge transport Magic Cars was moving through the Drow Race Kingdom to the Namco Mines in the northeast province.

    This mind had been controlled by the Drow Race before, but after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce entered the Drow Race Kingdom, they started investing in the mines. Now there was a cooperation between the two sides which had greatly increased the amount of minerals mined from this mine.

    However, when the riots appeared in the Drow Race Kingdom a few years ago, the local Drow Race had imed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had stolen this mine from them. They had carried out extremely bloody retaliation against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff and had stolen this mine back.

    But this didn¡¯tst. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent their guards into the Drow Race Kingdom and suppressed the riots with force.

    The local Drow Race that had retaliated against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff had all been caught without a single exception, with a small part of them being executed directly. The control of this mine had of course fallen back into the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After several years, the mine had greatly improved under the management of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The production capacity of minerals had gone from a few dozen tons a month to close to a thousand tons.

    Of the ores mined, other than a small portion that was left for thepanies of the Drow Race Kingdom, the other portions were all packed into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport convoy. They were brought south to the southern harbour and then transferred to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to be refined.

    This was one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s several dozen mines on the continent, as well as being one of the mines that the Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t disclose.

    The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce was able to meet therge demand for steel and non-ferrous metal products mainly because of the output from this Namco Mine.

    After the convoy entered the mine, they entered deep into the mines without a single question and came to where the ores were being stacked.

    The manager of the mine, Aback, had already prepared everything. When the convoy arrived, he immediately ordered therge Magic Bulldozer waiting there to start loading it up.

    Eachrge transport Magic Car could be loaded with around twenty tons and twenty of them could only carry five hundred tons.

    Thest time this convoy came was already four months ago, so there had been over three thousand tons of ores that had umted in this mine.

    This convoy would have to keep working for at least three days before they could transport all the umted ores.

    The convoy leader Zeberto had already led this convoy several times, so he was familiar with this process. After stopping, he jumped out from the passenger seat.

    ¡°Hey, Zeberto. Let the brothers rest first. You¡¯vee this far, how about we have a meal and drink some wine first?¡± Aback greeted Zeberto in a very friendly manner.

    Zeberto¡¯s rough face from the years on the road revealed a frank smile and he patted Aback¡¯s shoulder. He said in a loud voice whileughing, ¡°Of course we have to eat and we have to eat well. Tell me, Aback, did you prepare a lot of meat?¡±

    ¡°Of course, of course. I¡¯ve always prepared well each time, it isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know that.¡± Because Aback worked in the mines, his smiling face was even darker than Zeberto¡¯s face, ¡°Rx, I¡¯ve had people buy two of the best goats from the surrounding area ahead of time, you¡¯ll definitely be satisfied.¡±

    ¡°Un, great!¡± Zeberto gave a satisfied nod, ¡°The taste of themb from this area¡­..Ze, my mouth can¡¯t help but water. It¡¯s this could outside, being able to gather around a hotpot to eatmb really is enjoyable. But it¡¯s a pity¡­..we can¡¯t drink the wine. You should know that our brothers will be delivering the goods this afternoon and it¡¯ll dy the matter if we drink.¡±

    ¡°Wu¡­..That¡¯s right. But even if you can¡¯t drink while eating, when the brotherse home tonight, I can entertain them then. Drinking before sleeping, it wouldn¡¯t affect your work the next day, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that this assignment is very rushed, so most of the brothers won¡¯t be able to stay the night, so let¡¯s just forget about the alcohol.¡± Zeberto patted Aback¡¯s shoulder and said with a sigh, ¡°I decline your goodwill on behalf of the brothers. You just have to take care of the food, we¡¯ll have a chance to drink in the future.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? That really is a pity.¡± Aback curled his lips. His expression suddenly changed as he asked ,¡±Tell me¡­¡­why are you in such a rush this time? Is it¡­¡­¡±

    Zeberto looked at Aback, ¡°Don¡¯t guess at what upper management is thinking, we just need to finish our work.¡±

    Aback was surprised as he silently gave a nod.

    The two looked at the ores being loaded for a bit before Zeberto waved his hand at Aback, ¡±Come, let¡¯s go see the mine and see if everything is fine here.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Aback knew that other than being in charge of transporting ores, Zeberto was also in charge of inspecting the mines. He would conduct an inspection of each mine he was transporting ores from and then he would report it up, which could be considered an inspection from the upper management.

    It was also because of this that he tried so hard to build a good rtionship with Zeberto.

    Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t bother ttering a simple transport team¡¯s leader like this.

    The two went around the mine and Zeberto kept looking around, asionally asking a few questions, but not saying much else.

    But seeing that he didn¡¯t have any notes after walking around, Aback felt more rxed.

    Without any special notes, it didn¡¯t mean that the inspection was good, but at least it meant that there weren¡¯t any problems.

    The upper management would be satisfied with his work, which would increase Aback¡¯s own evaluation and would help him get promoted earlier so he could leave this damn ce.

    After the two inspected the mines, they chatted as they prepared to head to the living quarters of the mine.

    Aback already had someone prepare a delicious lunch and was nning on entertaining Zeberto and his convoy.

    But halfway there, there was suddenly a loud sound from outside the mine that seemed like people were charging over.

    Aback¡¯s expression suddenly changed.

    Zeberto on the side looked in the direction of the noise and then seeing Aback¡¯s strange expression, he asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What is going on?¡±

    Aback waved his hand with a forced smile, ¡°Nothing, nothing important¡­¡­¡±

    Zeberto¡¯s expression sank as he knitted his brows, ¡°Aback, don¡¯t me me for not reminding you that the important people of thepany don¡¯t mind incidents, but they can¡¯t stand things not being reported. I urge you to not hide anything. I can tell that this isn¡¯t a small matter.¡±

    Aback¡¯s expression changed a few times before he finally gave a dejected sigh.

    ¡°I know¡­¡­Ai, it really isn¡¯t anything big, it¡¯s just¡­..some defiant people causing trouble.¡±

    ¡°Defiant people?¡± Zeberto was even more surprised, ¡°What defiant people?¡±

    Aback pointed at the entrance to the mine, ¡°You¡¯ll understand if you take a look.¡±

    Zeberto was confused as he came to the entrance with Aback, but looking out, he was surprised.

    Namco Mine was like most other mines, it was based in the wilderness and there weren¡¯t many people around it.

    However, at the foot of the mine, there was a crowd that was gathered there. If one looked at it, they would see that there were over a thousand people here.

    There were only fifty guards recruited locally that were in charge of the mine¡¯s safety. Although they had received the Magic Repeating Crossbows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were very weak when facing thisrge crowd of a thousand people.

    Zeberto looked over and found that these people came with purpose because there were several banners among the crowd.

    Seeing what was written on the banners, Zeberto¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    ¡°Namco Mine belongs to us Drows, outsiders should get out!¡±

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce should scram out of Namco! Give us back our peace!¡±

    ¡°Pledge to fight to death for our homnd!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    ¡°Aback, where did these peoplee from?¡± Zeberto pointed at the crowd in front of him as he asked this.

    Aback spread his hands and gave a sigh, ¡°I don¡¯t know either. Startingst month, there were over a few dozen of them that came here asking us to give the mines back, but then more and more people came. Then you can see¡­..how many people gathered here in the end.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t right.¡± Zeberto knitted his brows as he said in a confused voice, ¡°Didn¡¯t these fellows learn a lesson from the riotsst time? Could it be that they didn¡¯t see the fate of the Drow Race who had participated in the riots? If they keep doing this, are they really not afraid of angering ourpany?¡±

    Aback revealed a bitter smile, ¡°The problem is that they¡¯ve only been protesting the entire time and haven¡¯t made a move. We don¡¯t have a reason to make a move against them likest time.¡±

    ¡°Then just drive them away, are you going to keep them here?¡±

    ¡°That depends on if we can drive them away.¡± Aback gave a bitterugh, ¡°They haven¡¯t just caused trouble once or twice. I couldn¡¯t take it two times before and asked the guards situated near Drow City to drive them away, but they just came right back. I can¡¯t just ask the guards to catch them all, can I?¡±

    ¡°What are the guards of the mines doing then? Why are they just standing there?¡± Zeberto asked.

    ¡°These guards are locals and there¡¯s so few of them, so there¡¯s no use depending on them.¡± Aback said in a helpless voice.

    Zeberto looked at the guards at the entrance of the mine, standing there in a daze without any intentions of driving this crowd off. He knew that Aback was right, there was no use depending on these local guards.

    ¡°Then did you talk to them? What do they want?¡±

    ¡°I have, but it¡¯s no use.¡± Aback shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°These fellows want the mine, how could I agree to hand the mines over to them?¡±

    ¡°Then did you give them some money?¡±

    ¡°It didn¡¯t work, they wouldn¡¯t negotiate at all.¡±

    Zeberto deeply knitted his brows. Looking at the crowd shouting at the entrance to the mine, he understood something.

    These fellows clearly had someone behind them that was targeting this mine.

    It might even¡­..be the person behind them was targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°How did you drive them off before? I¡¯m talking about when you didn¡¯t get the guards toe?¡± Zeberto asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, we can only wait for them to scatter after they get tired.¡± Aback said with a bitter smile.

    ¡°You have to wait for them to scatter?¡± Zeberto turned to look at the severalrge transport Magic Cars filled with ores that had been blocked by the crowd at the entrance to the mine, so they were forced to stop there.

    ¡°No, it will dy matters too much if this happens.¡±

    Zeberto knitted his brows. He prepared to go over and negotiate with those people.

    However, when he took a few steps, there was suddenly the sound of crossbows being fired that rang out.

    Looking over in a daze, he saw the crowd at the door scatter as a spot opened in between them.

    In that open spot, a middle aged man was lying back with eyes bulging out as disbelief covered his face.

    There was a crossbow bolt in his left chest and endless blood spurted from that spot, instantly covering the ground beneath him in red.

    The crowd that had been making noise suddenly fell silent.

    After half a minute, this deathly silence was broken by a sharp and loud voice.

    ¡°Murder! The Frestech Chamber of Commerce are killing people!¡±

 Volume 7 81

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 81</h4>

    There was a chill that filled Zeberto¡¯s heart that made his scalp start to tingle.

    Some locals causing trouble wasn¡¯t scary since as long as they made demands, it meant that there was room to negotiate.

    But once someone died, it was apletely different matter.

    The Drow Race had always been famous for being anti foreigners and now that there was a murder at this mine, with the murder weapon being the Magic Repeating Crossbow of the guard, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had killed someone first!

    In this situation, there was no need to guess how the Drow Race would react!

    As expected, once that sharp voice called out, the crowd that had been silent started seething. The restrained looks that countless people had was now being reced with looks of rage.

    ¡°Kill those foreign b*stards!¡±

    ¡°Kill them all!¡±

    ¡°Kill¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The people who had been thrown into a frenzy lost all reasoning. Although the fifty guards stood at the entrance with the Magic Repeating Crossbows, they didn¡¯t dare shoot them at all. So when the thousand people charged forward, they didn¡¯t even stop them for a second as the flood of people broke through the blockade, charging into the minds.

    ¡°That fellow over there is the one in charge of the mines, kill him!¡±

    There was a voice that came from the crowd and the flood of people who were like headless flies turned to look in Zeberto and Aback¡¯s direction. After pausing for a second, they charged over at them.

    Aback¡¯s face turned pale before he pulled on Zeberto.

    ¡°Quickly leave!¡±

    Zeberto was pulled back by Aback by two steps before he came to his senses and threw off Aback¡¯s hand as he roared out, ¡°You are in charge of this mine, how can you run now!¡±

    Aback looked at Zeberto with a surprised look before anxiously saying, ¡°Do you think that you can talk to those lunatics? First run! At worst we can just have the guards reim the mine, so let¡¯s leave now! If we don¡¯t leave, we won¡¯t make it in time!¡±

    Zeberto angrily threw off Aback¡¯s hand again.

    ¡°As staff of thepany, we¡¯re letting down the trust of thepany if we run now!¡±

    Zeberto ignored Aback shouting at him and headed in the direction of the crowd charging over.

    While walking, he raised his hand and shouted, ¡°Everyone, please calm down! I am¡­..¡±

    ¡°Sou!¡±

    There were several crossbow bolts that flew out from an unknown direction. One of them pierced Zeberto¡¯s neck and forced down the rest of his words.

    Zeberto held his neck with a look of shock as he fell to the ground.

    ###

    Before the chill of the winter of year 3802 passed, a piece of shocking news spread across the Sines Continent that made the continent even colder.

    In mid March, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce mine in the northwest of the Drow Race Kingdom had a sh between the Drow Race and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This wasn¡¯t just a normal sh.

    In this sh, three local Drow Race had died, ten were heavily injured, and more than a hundred people had light injuries, so it could be considered quite serious.

    However,pared to the loss of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the loss of the local Drow Race wasn¡¯t considered anything.

    In the conflict, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s mine had been seized by the Drow Race and all the mining equipment had been damaged to varying degrees. The direct and indirect financial loss was over ten thousand gold coins.

    Butpared to this financial loss, the serious loss was their loss of personnel.

    In this conflict, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff had been attacked by the Drow Race. It caused more than ten Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff to be killed on the spot and forty other Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff had been injured to varying degrees, as well as going missing afterwards.

    The most serious casualty was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ore transport team leader in the Wales Duchy and the surrounding area, as well as the inspector of the mines in that area, Zeberto.

    This was the highest ranking Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff that had died in this conflict and the highest ranking staff from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had died in twenty years.

    When this matter happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave a statement that strictly condemned the local Drow Race nsmen and issued a serious warning to the Drow Race Kingdom.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards situated near Drow City immediately mobilized. They were to sort out the matter on site, while also trying to save the forty Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released this news, everyone¡¯s first reaction was that the Drow Race Kingdom was dead.

    During the riots several years ago, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered heavy losses, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent out their guards without hesitation and took over the Drow Race Kingdom.

    Now that this had happened in the Drow Race Kingdom, it was giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a good excuse to tighten their control over the Drow Race Kingdom.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted, they could even eliminate the Drow Race Kingdom.

    With the battle power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, no one doubted that they could do this.

    However, what happened next came as a surprise for everyone.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement and warning to the Drow Race Kingdom, the Candra Empire made a statement in their official newspaper.

    In this statement, the Candra Empire stated that during the bloody Namco Mine conflict, it wasn¡¯t the Drow Race that made a move first. It was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s local mind guards that had killed someone first which had caused the riot. It should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that took responsibility for this matter.

    Moreover, the person that was killed wasn¡¯t a Drow Race nsman, but rather someone from the Candra Empire!

    When the Candra Empire made this statement, everyone was shocked.

    Everyone wasn¡¯t shocked by the Candra Empire¡¯s so-called ¡°truth of the matter¡±, but rather they were shocked by the Candra Empire making this statement.

    Although this conflict was serious, it was between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Drow Race Kingdom.

    With the ability of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the previous riots in the Drow Race Kingdom, no one thought that the Drow Race Kingdom would be able to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would bow their heads and let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce handle this matter.

    But now that the Candra Empire was jumping it and stated that the first person killed was from the Candra Empire, what did this mean?

    Could it be¡­¡­that the Candra Empire wanted to meddle in this matter. Even¡­¡­shing with the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce?

    If this matter was just between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Drow Race Kingdom, it didn¡¯t matter who made a move first since the Drow Race Kingdom couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But if that person was from the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce killed them first, it would give the Candra Empire a good excuse to cut in.

    Moreover, the Candra Empire had really cut in which was unexpected, which shocked people.

    Properly speaking, there was no problem with the Candra Empire doing this.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s people had been killed by the guard of apany, so as their homnd, they shoulde in and verify the truth.

    But in reality, the Candra Empire had been working closely with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their rtionship was almost inseparable, with the Candra Empire even making concessions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Everyone thought that even if the first one killed was from the Candra Empire, they wouldn¡¯t do anything.

    Even if the Candra Empire had some opinions, they would discuss this with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in secret and reach an agreement. It was enough for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pay somepensation for this matter.

    But the Candra Empire had made this matter public, even using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce of distorting the facts. They weren¡¯t giving the Frestech Chamber of Commerce any face at all.

    Could it be¡­¡­there was a fissure in the cooperation between the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    On the 2nd of April, half a month after the Namco Mine matter, the Candra Empire announced that they would be sending an investigation team into the Drow Race Kingdom to investigate the details of this conflict.

    Just a day ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards near Drow City had sent out a team of five hundred people to Namco Mine. They would be investigating this matter, while also taking back the mine that was being controlled by the Drow Race.

    At the same time, the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s government gave a statement that they would work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire to investigate this matter.

    The Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s government stated that they were willing to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce find the truth, while also doing all they can to guarantee the safety of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff.

    But if the results of the investigation were as the Candra Empire stated, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being at fault, the Drow Race Kingdom would raise a seriousint to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the justice of the local Drow Race.

    The Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s official announcement drew all kinds of doubt from the outside world.

    Since the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s riots several years ago and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suppressed it, although the Drow Race Kingdom wasn¡¯t destroyed, they had beenpletely suppressed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hadn¡¯t dared to make a single sound in the several years since then.

    However, at this important moment, the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s government had suddenly stood up and imed that they wanted justice for the Drow Race from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­..

    Who gave them this courage?

    Was it the Candra Empire?

    With these questions in mind, the entire Sines Continent started focusing on the small Namco Mines.

 Volume 7 82

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 82</h4>

    ¡°Pei!¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ third team leader in the Drow Kingdom, the human soldier Lesas spat out on the ground in front of him. He turned to his adjutant, the elf soldier Floyd who was the vice team leader.

    ¡°Hey, Floyd, if we really did start fighting, how long do you think it¡¯ll take us to take care of these idiots?¡±

    Floyd looked at the spit on the ground and knitted those slender brows that Lesas had always teased for being like that of a girl¡¯s. He reached his foot out to kick dirt over it while looking at the camp that was around three hundred meters in front of them.

    ¡°If they aren¡¯t prepared, one minute is enough. But if the other side is prepared and we face them head on¡­..the result would be hard to say.¡±

    ¡°Hard to say?¡± Lesas suddenly raised his voice and pointed at the camp as he roared out, ¡°What is hard to say about them? Even if those pieces of trash dared to face us head on, we would destroy them!¡±

    Floyd looked at the unhappy Lesas and then looked at the unmoving camp before giving a shrug.

    ¡°Team leader, don¡¯t waste your energy. It seems like the other side has received strict orders not to sh with us, so it¡¯s useless to provoke them like this.¡±

    Lesas¡¯ expression changed a few times before he put down his hands and waved his hand in front of his face as he regained his calm.

    ¡°Tell me¡­..what are those Candra Empire fellows thinking? They¡¯ve sent these people all the way here, is it just to have them stare at us without doing a thing? Are they really that bored?¡±

    Floyd rubbed his head as he had a bit of headache.

    ¡°Team leader, your habit of asking the obvious isn¡¯t good. It¡¯s clear that both our sides are waiting for the upper ranks to finish negotiating. Before they finish their negotiations, how could we as subordinates act rashly?¡±

    Lesas mumbled something before looking at the camp with the Candra Empire g in front of him and knitting his brows.

    Four days ago, he led his team of five hundred guards to Namco Mine. They had easily driven off the Drow Race hoodlums that had upied the mines and had taken the mines back from them.

    However, when they are preparing to rally in the mines, the Candra Empire had sent this team here.

    When this team with the Candra Empire g met with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce team led by Lesas, they had stated that they were a team that hade to investigate.

    But this ¡°investigation team¡± had two thousand fully armed soldiers. There were even some soldiers that were equipped with quite a few military magic machines.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been working with the Candra Empire for many years, so the Candra Empire had bought arge number of military magic machines to arm their army, the Candra Empire had over six hundred thousand soldiers, so it was impossible for them to arm their entire army by buying military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So in the Candra Empire, the ones that could have military magic machines were the elites of the Candra Empire. They weren¡¯t a normal squad.

    The Candra Empire had suddenly sent two thousand elites here. If this was just for a ¡°normal investigation¡± as they stated, no one would believe it.

    However, the day before Lesas¡¯ team had arrived, he had already received the order from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce headquarters sent by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard camp in Drow City. The order had included the Candra Empire¡¯s sudden statement, stating that the Candra Empire would send people to investigate and requested their cooperation.

    In the order, although the high level members of thepany had allowed the guards to act ording to the circumstances, they had to try to avoid conflict with the Candra Empire as much as possible and not escte the situation.

    So although there had been friction between the two sides over the past few days, Lesas had always suppressed his subordinates and had them not conflict with the Candra Empire army.

    However, Lesas¡¯ anger kept building and he felt that the other camp was very piercing to the eye, feeling very unhappy.

    It was a pity that it was as Floyd had said, the Candra Empire army clearly had their orders and had deliberately restrained themselves. So although there was friction between the sides, there wasn¡¯t any big conflict. Even if Lesas wanted to teach the other side a lesson, he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    ¡°Actually I¡¯ve been thinking over the past few days. We¡¯re just taking back this mine and teaching a lesson to the local Drow Race, so they won¡¯t dare to cause any more trouble. But why did this group of Candra Empire fellowse here? Why are they suddenly cutting in?¡± Lesas suddenly asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Floyd gave a sigh, ¡°Although I¡¯ve been researching the behaviour and form of your human society over the past few years, I still can¡¯t understand all the ideas of you humans. But I think¡­..based on the principle of you humans needing a goal to do something, the Candra Empire must have some kind of goal.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Lesas looked at Floyd, ¡°If they didn¡¯t have a goal at all, why would the Candra Empire send out two thousand people? Do you really think that they¡¯re that bored?¡±

    Then he knitted his brows, ¡°But I just can¡¯t understand what benefits the Candra Empire would gain from this, could it be that they want a part of this mine? But the Candra Empire is that big and they have so many mines, why would they fight ourpany for a small mine like this? This just doesn¡¯t make sense¡­¡­¡±

    Floyd shook his head, ¡°Team leader, you shouldn¡¯t think about this anymore. Don¡¯t you always say that we are just the guards of thepany, we just need to follow orders and not think about anything else.¡±

    Lesas knitted his brows to think for a bit before suddenly giving a p and rxing his facial expression.

    ¡°You¡¯re right! This doesn¡¯t matter to me, what am I thinking about it for? Whatever the upper ranks want us to do, we just need to do it. Speaking of this, what do they want us to do?¡±

    Floyd looked at him not knowing whether tough or cry, ¡°The orders are to rally in the mine to guarantee the safety of the mine. We are to wait for other people sent by thepany to reorganize the mine.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just this, there¡¯s also¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Team leader, your old problem ising back again¡­¡­¡± Floyd gave a helpless sigh, ¡°Our other mission is to rescue the members of ourpany who have disappeared, but now¡­..¡±

    Lesas raised a hand to cut him off and fixed his clothes before saying in an energetic voice, ¡°Very good, we¡¯ll carry out that other mission now. Those colleagues of thepany are still missing, we can¡¯t just stand here doing nothing. We should go and ask some witnesses to figure out the situation.¡±

    Floyd reached a hand out, but he couldn¡¯t even catch the hem of Lesas¡¯ clothes.

    Seeing Lesas marching over towards the camp of the Candra Empire, Floyd didn¡¯t dare dy and waved his hand, calling for the twenty guards who had been following them toe along.

    The people in the camp on the other side wearing the armour of the Candra Empire saw Lesas¡¯ grouping over and they became nervous as they revealed vignt looks.

    ¡°Stop! This is the Candra Empire¡¯s military camp! No one is allowed in without permission!¡± A soldier shouted.

    Lesas curled his lips in disdain and said in a loud voice, ¡°Stop wasting words, go tell your leader Uther that I¡¯vee to get people. I¡¯ll give you five minutes to hand them over, otherwise don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    ¡°Impolite?¡± An effeminate voice came from the Candra Empire camp. There was a middle aged man who wasn¡¯t wearing the armour of the Candra Empire, but rather the clothes of a normal noble that came out, ¡°Team leader Lesas, how do you want to be impolite?¡±

    Lesas looked at him before turning to say in a cold voice, ¡°Scram to the side! I¡¯m looking for leader Uther, not a girly fellow like you.¡±

    The middle aged man was filled with rage as he pointed at Lesas and cursed.

    ¡°Who are you calling a girly? You are only a trivial team leader of apany¡¯s guards, you dare make such impertinentments to a noble lord count of the Candra Empire! Soldiers, take him down!¡±

    The two soldiers at the entrance of the Candra Empire camp looked at each other with awkward looks on their faces.

    Not to mention the strict orders they received to not conflict with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, even without the order, would the two of them dare to move against the twenty people in front of them.

    Seeing that these two soldiers didn¡¯t react, the lord count angrily stomped his foot. He pointed at Lesas and was about to scold him, but he actually didn¡¯t dare say a thing.

    Although he had only made contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards for three days, in these three days, this Count Zidal from the Candra Empire¡¯s southeast province understood that this team leader from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards was rude and unreasonable. There was no talking to him and there was no use cursing him.

    It was a good thing that there was a strong young man wearing the armour of a Candra Empire army officer that came to help Count Zidal.

    ¡°Lesas, what are you doing here?¡± Leader Uther knitted his brows to look at Lesas and the male elf Floyd beside him who had a helpless smile on his face.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I just suddenly thought of something. The orders from above said that you could interrogate these people first for three days. Now that three days have passed, shouldn¡¯t you hand them back to us?¡± Lesas said.

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 83</h4>

    Leader Uther looked at Count Zidal beside him without an expressionless look and then gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll give them to you.¡±

    Lesas and Floyd gave each other surprised looks.

    In the Namco Mine incident, other than the ten Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff members that were killed on the spot and the remaining forty that had disappeared, the most important people were the fifty mine guards that had been present.

    Because those fifty guards were local Drow Race, they had survived the conflict and even several of them had joined in with the riot.

    When Lesas led his subordinates to Namco Mines and drove out those rioters, they had caught six guards that had joined in the riots and were prepared to interrogate them.

    Then Lesas received an order from above to hand over the witnesses that they caught to the Candra Empire¡¯s investigation team first to let them question them first.

    Although Lesas wasn¡¯t willing, he was forced to hand it over because of the order from above and scheduled it so that he woulde back three dayster to pick them up.

    Because those witnesses were ones that knew that situation, they were very important and Lesas didn¡¯t think that the Candra Empire side would give them over so easily.

    But he never thought that leader Uther would agree right away when he asked for them.

    After being surprised, although Lesas felt that something was off, he said with a now, ¡°Alright, then hand them over. We still have some things to ask them.¡±

    Leader Uther turned to his subordinate to tell him something and that subordinate ran into the camp, clearly having been prepared.

    Lesas kept staring at leader Uther with his wooden face and the indifferent looking Count Zidal, feeling that something was off.

    However, he was at the Candra Empire¡¯s military camp right now and he couldn¡¯t do much, so he could only patiently wait.

    After a while, two Candra Empire soldiers came out of the camp driving a horse carriage.

    Lesas saw several figures sticking out of the back of the horse carriage with rags covering them and his face fell.

    When the horse carriage came over, he walked over. He lifted the rags and saw the six corpses inside the horse carriage that were already rotting, like they haven¡¯t had any life for a long time.

    These six corpses were naturally the six mine guards that had been caught.

    Lesas looked over the six corpses and after confirming that not a single one was alive, he turned to leader Uther with a face as deep as water.

    ¡°What is the meaning of this?¡±

    ¡°What meaning? Didn¡¯t you want me to give them back to you? I gave them back.¡± Leader Uther had no expression as he calmly replied.

    ¡°Return your ass!¡± Lesas flew into a rage, ¡°I gave you six living people three days ago and now you¡¯re giving me six corpses? How can you call this giving them back to me?¡±

    ¡°Team leader Lesas, please mind your words.¡± Leader Uther¡¯s expression didn¡¯t fluctuate at all, ¡°Three days was the agreed upon time, we never said whether we would be giving you living or dead people, so it doesn¡¯t go against the agreement.¡±

    ¡°You¡­..¡± Lesas angrily pointed at leader Uther, but he saw Count Zidal on the side secretlyughing. After thinking about it, he put his hand down and took a deep breath as he forced himself to calm down, ¡°Alright, then tell me, how did they die?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, we just used a small method to get some evidence, but they died from it, it¡¯s just that.¡± Leader Uther said.

    ¡°Small method? Good¡­..Very good¡­¡­¡± Lesas¡¯ hands trembled from rage. He wished he could throw a fist into leader Uther¡¯s wooden face.

    These six guards were clearly important witnesses, but now that they were all dead, wouldn¡¯t that mean that the truth of the matter was hidden?

    Moreover, their final testimonies were in the hands of the Candra Empire, so the Candra Empire could make whatever testimonies they wanted which would be very bad for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, that was on the basis that the Candra Empire wanted topete on the truth with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on this matter.

    Although this wasn¡¯t too likely, the result would be bad for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would easily affect their fame, which could be considered a blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of how he had suffered all these grievances after these Candra Empire fellows came and now such a result had happened, Lesas¡¯ heart was filled with rage.

    However, he knew that without orders from above, he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    So after ring at leader Uther for a bit, he turned to leave.

    Floyd, who was left behind, gave a cough before waving at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards behind him. He had them bring along the carriage before giving a nod to leader Uther and turning to leave.

    When they returned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s camp, Lesas was waiting for Floyd in his private tent.

    Lesas didn¡¯t look angry at all, his expression was very calm. He only slightly knitted his brows as if he was thinking of something.

    ¡°Floyd, don¡¯t you feel that this is off?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Floyd gave a nod, ¡°It wasn¡¯t like we didn¡¯t expect them to kill all six witnesses, but for them to do it this openly without hiding a thing is a bit strange.¡±

    ¡°Right, based on how they¡¯ve acted in the past few days, I even think that they want to anger us on purpose. But they are clearly holding back and not conflicting with us. Could it be¡­..that they are waiting for us to make the first move? But what benefits are there for them?¡±

    Floyd thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know. There¡¯s too little information to tell.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Lesas thought for a bit before suddenly saying to Floyd, ¡°How confident are you to go in without being spotted?¡±

    ¡°If the enemy camp doesn¡¯t have an Eighth Grade Magician or above, I¡¯m 100% confident.¡±

    ¡°Good, then give it a try tonight. See if you can find anything.¡±

    ¡°What if there is an Eighth Grade or above magician¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re found, just retreat right away. If it really looks bad, just reveal yourself. I don¡¯t believe that they will dare to do anything to you.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    ###

    That night.

    There was a faint current of air that appeared in the Candra Empire¡¯s camp outside Namco Mine that headed towards the center.

    This fluctuation came to a tent that was clearly bigger than the surrounding tents before stopping.

    In the shadow of the tent, there was a very faint figure that no one would have discovered which was Floyd.

    Aftering beside the tent that should belong to themander, Floyd slowed down and suppressed the magic fluctuations around him as much as possible, even almost stopping his breathing.

    As a high grade elf warrior, Floyd¡¯s abilities were something that the other guards couldn¡¯tpare to, which was the unique skill of the elves.

    Because of this skill, when the guards needed people to sneak in, they would always send elf guards.

    But this mission was special and more important, so Lesas asked Floyd to go personally.

    After calming himself for a bit and confirming that no one had noticed him, Floyd started slowly condensing magic in his ears to strengthen his hearing.

    After a while, he could hear the various sounds from the camp.

    However, after listening for a while, Floyd found that he couldn¡¯t hear any sound from this tent at all.

    Floyd couldn¡¯t help being a bit surprised.

    It wasn¡¯t strange for a human noble like Count Zidal to do things at night, but that leader Uther would stay in the camp at night no matter what, so why wasn¡¯t there any movement at all?

    Floyd thought about it and reached out a finger as he carefully sent in a bit of magic.

    However, when his magic touched the tent, he couldn¡¯t feel any changes at all.

    This confirmed that there wasn¡¯t any instion magic that was on this tent.

    ¡°Strange, if those fellows aren¡¯t in the camp, what are they doing?¡±

    Floyd condensed even more elemental magic energy in his ear and strengthened his magic so that he could hear the sounds from the entire camp.

    But even so, he couldn¡¯t hear leader Uther or Count Zidal¡¯s voices.

    What surprised him even more was that this camp was much quieter than he thought.

    Although there wasn¡¯t ack of noise, it was much quieterpared to another camp with two thousand people.

    But it wasn¡¯t the time to question this now. After listening for a bit, after confirming that there weren¡¯t the voices of leader Uther or Count Zidal, he hesitated a bit. Heid down and reached a hand into the tent, trying to peek inside.

    It was arge tent that was lit up by a Magic Lamp, so he could clearly see everything that was inside.

    There wasn¡¯t leader Uther or Count Zidal in the tent, but rather there was an old man who looked to be around sixty years old wearing a dark robe sitting on the ground.

    When Floyd¡¯s eyes fell onto him, that old man reacted and turned his head. His eyes seemed to be glowing as they met Floyd¡¯s eyes.

    ¡°Damn!¡±

    Floyd¡¯s heart tensed and he gathered his magic without hesitating as he entered the darkness and turned to leave.

    With just a single look, he was certain that this old man in the tent was at least a Ninth Grade Magician or even higher. He wasn¡¯t his match at all.

    However, when he had just moved, he felt the magic around him start to fluctuate. There was a column of mud that came up from under him that trapped his legs, making him unable to move at all.

    Then the old magician appeared beside him with an interested look on his face.

    ¡°An elf? This kind of experimental subject really is hard to find¡­..¡±

    Floyd was shocked, but before he could make a sound, he had already lost consciousness.

    When he closed his eyes, there was a me that suddenly shot out into the sky.

    It was shot out in the direction of the mine¡­¡­

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 84</h4>

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a giant explosion that woke Lesas who had been staring at the Candra Empire camp through the window.

    However, before he could react, he could feel the waves of air hitting him.

    The buildings the miners built in the mines weren¡¯t reliable already and now that there was this powerful wave of air, the window was shattered to pieces and Lesas was sent flying by the wave of air that came through the window.

    Lesas gave a cold grunt as he revolved his aura, blocking the fragments. He came out of the room that was already shaking like it would copse at any time.

    Looking over, Lesas was shocked.

    The living quarters of the mine was already in a sea of mes and there were explosions all around. He could even see several blown up corpses on the ground.

    The guards had been sleeping when they were woken up by this explosion, running out of the barracks.

    It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were strictly trained. Even when facing this sudden situation, they were fully armed. They only panicked a bit in the beginning before quickly calming down and gathering together.

    Lesas didn¡¯t know what was happening, but in this situation, he began disying his use as the leader.

    However, when he was about to give the order for his gathered subordinates to engage the enemy, there was a shrill sound that came from the right side behind him.

    Turning around, he saw that there was an iparably bright glow quickly flying towards them from the sky.

    ¡°Everyone scatter!¡±

    Lesas couldn¡¯t give any orders, he just turned to shout this at the guards gathered and then flew to the side.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With arge explosion, there was a terrifying wave of air that passed by that caused Lesas to roll twice on the ground.

    When Lesas stood up again, his body was covered in small wounds and there were two bloodstains on his face which looked quite terrifying.

    But he didn¡¯t care about this. Looking around, he found that this attack was further awaypared to the first attack and the guards had been prepared before the explosion, so there weren¡¯t any losses.

    ¡°Get up and gather. Retreat outside! Retreat! Do you hear me!¡±

    Lesas roared out before grabbing the cor of one of his adjutants that had run over.

    ¡°Go and start the transport cars in the warehouse for me! We need to escape quickly!¡±

    After giving this order, Lesas looked at the Candra Empire camp in the distance, but he saw that it was very peaceful like it wasn¡¯t rted to them at all. There wasn¡¯t even a soldier who came out to watch the fun.

    Lesas knew that this was strange, but he didn¡¯t have time to care about it. Compared to this, what he was more worried about was Floyd who had snuck into the Candra Empire camp.

    With such arge sound, Floyd should have noticed it and he should have alreadye back with his speed.

    But he couldn¡¯t see him at all, so it can¡¯t be¡­..that something had already happened, right?

    ¡°Team leader, the rest of our brothers are still here, what should we do?¡± A voice pulled Lesas out of his worries.

    He turned to look at his several hundred remaining subordinates and waved his hand.

    ¡°Retreat!¡±

    When everyone was about to move, there was another blinding red light that cut through the night sky, falling down over here.

    This time, the light fell down right on the barracks.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With a fierce explosion, the several buildings were blown to pieces and the situation in the mine was ugly.

    ¡°Stop watching and go!¡± Lesas roared out as he waved his hand at his subordinates, leading the way to the warehouse with the Magic Cars.

    Halfway there, the adjutant ran out of the warehouse with a look of panic.

    ¡°Leader, all the Magic Cars in the warehouse have been tampered with and we can¡¯t start them!¡±

    ¡°What!¡± Lesas¡¯ eyes popped out, ¡°Weren¡¯t the brothers watching them the entire time? How could they be tampered with?¡±

    The adjutant had a bitter look, ¡°I don¡¯t know either¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Lesas really wanted to throw a punch, but he knew that now wasn¡¯t the time for this. After calming down to think, he turned to look at the Candra Emp[ire camp before turning back to head to the back of the mine, ¡°Follow me.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards quickly followed Lesas to the back of the mine and they climbed over the mountain before circling around to the woods behind the mines.

    This secondary route had been discovered by Floyd as per their regtions and had been secured four days ago when they made camp. Lesas had mocked Floyd for being too careful and that they wouldn¡¯t need to use it, but he never thought that he would be forced to use it in the end.

    ¡°Leader, what about vice leader Floyd? Why can¡¯t I see him?¡± One of the elf guards suddenly asked in a low voice.

    Lesas looked at him and said in a sharp voice, ¡°Don¡¯t ask anything right now, focus on running!¡±

    The elf warrior had a sad look on his face before he calmed down.

    Lesas could feel that the atmosphere was getting tense, but he wasn¡¯t good with words like Floyd and didn¡¯t know how to change the attitude. They could only hurry along in low spirits.

    ¡°Team leader, where are we going?¡± After a while, an adjutant on the side asked in a soft voice.

    ¡°Focus on hiding and converge with the branch base.¡± Lesas said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    After receiving a goal, the team suddenly became serious.

    Although the ambush in the middle of the night was a surprise to them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards received very strict training and each of them were elites from different races. Even without the military magic machines, they were very powerful with their own strength, so there was no need to panic.

    There were even some guards who were confused why team leader Lesas chose to escape right away. To them, even if the enemy was ambushing them with powerful Magic Cannons, they could still fight back.

    This optimism was quickly attacked.

    When the team came out of the woods and were about to pass through the back of the mines, there were two dazzling lights that appeared.

    ¡°Hong, hong!¡±

    Two big explosions rang out in the center of the team and the four hundred guards remaining were blown away.

    Lesas even spat out a mouth of blood in the air.

    If he wasn¡¯t wearing the Magic Armour and opened up the magic shield, he might have been blown up by that one attack.

    However, therge shock had injured his organs which hurt him very much.

    When he was about to twist his body to fall down, there were bright beams of light in the air that covered the area where the rest of the guards were.

    Lesas¡¯ magic barrier was being drained quickly by these beams of light and it was about to run out.

    This had surprised him.

    It had to be known that he was wearing the third generation Magic Armour, with a magic shield that could block an Eighth Grade Magician¡¯s attack once when it was fully charged.

    This meant that this attack wasn¡¯t weaker than an Eighth Grade Spell!

    After thinking this through, Lesas didn¡¯t hesitate a bit as he twisted and turned twice in the air. After rolling on the ground a few times, he was back in the woods and hid behind a tree.

    However, he quickly turned on themunication equipment in his armour and gave an order to the team.

    ¡°Brothers, everyone retreat on your own and find a chance to return to the base.¡±

    After giving this order, Lesas didn¡¯t even look back as he dove deeper into the words without any hesitation.

    The enemy was prepared with this ambush, not only having powerful Magic Cannons, but even more than one High Grade Magician. It was not something that a team that had been dispatched with only personal military magic machines could deal with.

    In this urgent situation, it was how many could escape would escape.

    The order of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards was that when they couldn¡¯t resist, they would try their best to preserve their strength as much as possible.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were equipped with many military magic machines and they had been trained for a long time, so each one had at least ten thousand gold coins invested in them.

    Losing even a single guards was a heavy loss that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t ept.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were made up of elites from different races. Although they had been hit with this powerful attack, with their own abilities and the powerful defenses of the Magic Armour, although they were in a bad situation, there weren¡¯t many of them that had died.

    After reacting to this situation, they followed Lesas¡¯ order and quickly judged the situation before running off into the woods without any hesitation. After a while, they all disappeared into the woods without a trace.

    After another explosion outside of the woods, it finally stopped.

    As the light of the magic disappeared, a group of at least a thousand people who came surged into the woods to start searching, leaving only four people standing at the edge of the woods.

    Under the mes, the appearances of these four people were revealed.

    Two of them were Count Zidal and leader Uther who Lesas had been meeting with over the past few days.

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 85</h4>

    Leader Uther and Count Zidal both had ugly expressions on their faces.

    ¡°They all escaped?¡± Count Zidal couldn¡¯t hide the shock in his eyes, ¡°With such a powerful attack, we couldn¡¯t keep them all here? This¡­..Isn¡¯t this too unbelievable!¡±

    Uther looked at him before turning to the only person wearing a magician¡¯s robe among the four of them.

    ¡°Master Jonah, what do you think?¡±

    The old magician being called master Jonah also had an ugly look. He looked around before replying in a deep voice, ¡°It was my mistake. I thought that an Eighth Grade Spell would be enough to keep them here, I never thought that they could actually block it.¡±

    ¡°But you¡¯re a Great Magician! Why not just cast a Forbidden Spell? Now that they are all gone, this is equal to us failing! Do you know that?¡± Count Zidal roared out in an angry voice.

    Master Jonah coldly looked at him, ¡°Do you think that it doesn¡¯t take time to prepare a Forbidden Spell? Moreover, a forbidden spell makes quite a bit of noise, so they would definitely notice it and it would have been useless.¡±

    ¡°Then can¡¯t you at least use a Ninth Grade Spell! What¡¯s with the Eighth Grade Spell? Why are you saving your magic power? Don¡¯t you know how important this mission is? Do you know¡­¡­¡±

    Leader Uther knitted his brows and reached a hand out to stop Count Zidal. He looked at the only person left who was a normal looking middle aged man in the clothes of a noble.

    ¡°Duke Roman, this group of Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards will definitely return to their base near Drow City. I need your Drow Race Kingdom to help us block them along the way.¡±

    The middle aged man called Duke Roman gave a nod, ¡°No problem. It¡¯s five hundred kilometers from Drow City here and they don¡¯t have any Magic Cars. It will take them at least several days traveling on foot, so we will have enough time to catch them.¡±

    After saying this, Duke Roman gave augh, ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to worry too much. Although we¡¯ve let them escape this time, they won¡¯t be able to escape our Drow Race Kingdom. Then again, even if they could, what could they do? When they arrive, the base might already be in our hands?¡±

    ¡°Un.¡± Leader Uther gave a nod before saying to master Jonah and Count Zidal, ¡°We can¡¯t dy this matter, we need to take action now. Master Jonah, you will move with us. Count Zidal, I have to ask you to go back and report on the situation here. As for how we¡¯ll move after this, it will depend on the empire¡¯s side.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go now.¡±

    After the four of them discussed this, they all left separately.

    When silence filled this ce again, about a hundred meters away from them in arge tree, there was an elf warrior that had appeared.

    He looked down at the Magic Illusion Recorder in his hand and after confirming that he had recorded what had just happened, he carefully put it away before disappearing into the trees.

    ###

    The Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City was around two thousand kilometers away from Namco Mine, but because it was in the northwest, based on thetitude of the location, it was in a different time zone.

    So when the sun was just starting to rise over Namco Mines, the sun had already risen over Wimbledon City.

    Xu Yi had already gotten out of bed at this time.

    After some exercise, the two maids came in and prepared to help Xu Yi get ready.

    Xu Yi waved his hand and sent them away before going into the lobby.

    After waiting for a bit, he was told that the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry management department¡¯s chief Count Raphael Irvine was about toe.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really do get up early. I thought that you would be used to the rxing life and wouldn¡¯t get up until the sun rose.¡± Count Irvine said with a smile that looked very friendly.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have the same habit as the old nobles.¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Irvine and stood up, ¡°Come, let¡¯s make the best use of our time and solve this matter today.¡±

    Count Irvine was a bit surprised, ¡°Chairman Xu, there¡¯s no need to be in this much of a rush, right? It¡¯s hard enough for you toe to Wimbledon City, you might as well y for a few days. I¡¯ve prepared many things today. Look, let¡¯s have some breakfast first and then¡­..¡±

    ¡°If this matter isn¡¯t solved, I¡¯m not in a mood to y.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and rejected Count Irvine¡¯s goodwill without any courtesy, ¡°Or does your Candra Empire not n on solving this matter at all?¡±

    These words could be considered very impolite. The smile on Count Irvine¡¯s face froze for a second before he said with an awkward smile, ¡°How could that be? We invited chairman Xu over this time just to discuss how to solve this problem.¡±

    Xu Yi looked right into Count Irvine¡¯s eyes and said word for word, ¡°Lord Count, I¡¯ve already wasted two days here, I can¡¯t waste anymore time here. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°Actually, even if chairman Xu didn¡¯t mention it, we also want to solve this problem. We¡¯ve just made some preparations over thest two days and now that it has been prepared, pleasee with me, chairman Xu.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and followed Count Irvine into a Magic Sedan which drove out of Wimbledon City, quickly heading to the east of the city.

    ¡°Lord Count, where are you going?¡± Xu Yi asked with knitted brows.

    ¡°I¡¯ll reveal a bit to chairman Xu.¡± Count Irvine lowered his voice, ¡°The conflict this time is rted to a certain important person in the army, so before we continue with our negotiations, it¡¯s best to talk to the military first. After hearing that chairman Xu wasing to Wimbledon City, this important person in the army wanted to see you first.¡±

    ¡°Important person in the army?¡± Xu Yi was confused.

    Could it be that the Candra Empire insisting on interfering with the Namco Mine incident and even sending two thousand troops was because of the Candra Empire army?

    With this thought in mine, the Magic Sedan drove for around an hour, entering some ins to the north of Wimbledon City before finally arriving at a giant manor.

    When Xu Yi came out, he was surrounded by several dozen soldiers.

    Just based on this, it showed that the owner of this manner wasn¡¯t normal.

    The other nobles would just have some private guards, but this manor actually had soldiers that were wearing the uniform of the Candra Empire army.

    Count Irvine who came out the other side saw the soldiersing over and raised his hands, letting the soldiers pat him down.

    Seeing the surprised look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Count Irvine said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s the rules here, I ask chairman Xu to forgive us.¡±

    Xu Yi was even more surprised.

    Count Irinve was the chief of the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry management department, so he could be considered an important person. He had to ept this body search when he came to this manor, so could it be that the owner of this manor was someone that even he couldn¡¯t match?

    Even seeing the Candra Empire¡¯s emperor wouldn¡¯t be like this¡­¡­

    Thinking about it, Xu Yi raised his hands to y along.

    But when the soldiers were about to pat him down, there was an old and strongugh that suddenly rang out.

    ¡°Alright, all of you can leave. Chairman Xu is a powerful Great Magician, weapons don¡¯t mean anything to him.¡±

    Xu Yi turned in the direction of this voice and he saw a powerful old man with white hair and a glowing face in a military uniforming over.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this is our first time meeting. You really are so young that it surprises me.¡± The old man in the military uniform gave a loudugh as he said this, ¡°I am Campbell Sudman, I think that you¡¯ve heard my name before.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s brows jumped up, ¡°The Candra Empire¡¯s marshal, how could I have not heard of the famous war god of the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, what war god, that is all in the past. Since I took over this useless marshal title, I haven¡¯t gone to the battlefield in twenty years.¡± Marshal Sudman waved his hand whileughing loudly.

    Xu Yi nodded.

    Based on the information he read, this marshal who had a high prestige, even not losing out to the emperor in the hearts of many people hadn¡¯t set out to the battlefield since thest battle with the Marlow Empire neen years ago.

    But that didn¡¯t matter to him. After a pause, Xu Yi knitted his brows to ask, ¡°Lord Marshal, I wonder what you¡¯ve summoned me here for this time?¡±

    ¡°Good! Refreshing!¡± Marshal Sudman gave Xu Yi a thumbs up to praise him and then took Xu Yi with his arm, pulling him into the manor, ¡°We have to go in to talk if we want to talk. Although I am a crude person, I still understand basic hospitality.¡±

    Marshal Sudman was very strong and when Xu Yi was caught by him, he could only move forward.

    Turning back, he saw that Count Irvine wasn¡¯t following them.

    It seemed like Marshal Sudman had prepared just to meet Xu Yi alone this time.

    Xu Yi was still very confused.

    He was only a merchant in the end, his fame couldn¡¯t reach the same level as the famous Candra Empire army¡¯s Marshal Sudman. Why did Marshal Sudman specially arrange this meeting between them?

    The two quickly entered the living room of the manor.

    After sitting down, Marshal Sudman looked over Xu Yi before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t like wasting words. I have a question for you this time and I hope that you will answer honestly.¡±

    ¡°Please.¡±

    ¡°Will your Frestech Chamber of Commerce never transfer the military magic machine technology to our Candra Empire?¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned.

    He never thought that Marshal Sudman would ask such a sensitive question.

    After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t like this. Lord Marshal, based on the strategic cooperation agreement we¡¯ve signed, we will transfer the military magic machine technology based on how the magic machine industry develops in the empire. There isn¡¯t a problem transferring it at all.¡±

    ¡°Pei! There¡¯s no use in these kinds of things. For our empire, it¡¯s the same as not having anything.¡± Marshal Sudman said in a voice filled with disdain.

    ¡°Lord Marshal, you can¡¯t say it like this. This matter needs to progress step by step, especially the military magic machines. You need to umte resources for a long time to grasp them. Even if I transferred them to you now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So you¡¯re not willing to transfer it to us in the end, right?¡± Marshal Sudman cut Xu Yi off without any courtesy.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows, ¡°Lord Marshal, I think that I¡¯ve already made it clear. Moreover, ourpany has cooperated with your country for a long time, so our side has already said this many times. I don¡¯t believe that you don¡¯t already know this.¡±

    ¡°I do, so I wanted to give you onest chance.¡± Marshal Sudman¡¯s gaze turned sharp as he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°But it¡¯s clear that you don¡¯t n on seizing this chance. I will ask you one more time, are you willing to give our Candra Empire the military magic machine technology or not?¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit of danger and knitted his brows as he looked at Marshal Sudman.

    ¡°Lord Marshal, what do you mean by this?¡±

 Volume 7 86

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 86</h4>

    Marshal Sudman looked at Xu Yi as his voice sank, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you know what I was famous for when I was unparalleled on the battlefield?¡±

    Xu Yi slowly shook his head as he felt more and more unsettled.

    Marshal Sudman had suddenly summoned him, it wasn¡¯t a good thing.

    Marshal Sudman acted like he didn¡¯t notice Xu Yi¡¯s expression at all and said to himself.

    ¡°When this old man was on the battlefield, what I mainly relied on wasn¡¯t powerful military force or things like logistics, but rather I relied on this ce.¡±

    Marshal Sudman pointed at his head.

    ¡°Strategy, that was what was most important to this old man and the most reliable weapon. It¡¯s much more useful than how many soldiers one can have. However, chairman Xu, do you know what is the most important thing when ites to strategy?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t reply as he began revolving the magic power inside of him.

    ¡°Strategy is just seeing through everything on the battlefield and to obtain the most urate judgement, that depends on knowing everything about this battlefield and grasping it all, allowing you to make the best decision. This old man has always liked to control everything before a battle, that way I can control the situation. So what this old man hates the most are unstable factors because they can cause this old man to make mistakes.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    Could this unstable factor be referring to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather more urately, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines are the biggest unstable factors stinging the eyes of this old man. They are the biggest unstable factors to our Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°So? What does the Lord Marshal want to do?¡± Hearing that Marshal Sudman finally said this, Xu Yi calmed down and asked this back.

    ¡°This old man only has one solution for unstable factors. It¡¯s to either control them so that they be stable factors or¡­¡­¡± Marshal Sudman suddenly looked at Xu Yi with killing intent that he didn¡¯t hide at all, ¡°Directly destroy them!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Xu Yi felt the magic space around him solidify and the elemental magic energy in the air congealed. It didn¡¯t flow as fast as normal and stopped right away.

    Xu Yi activated his magic and found that he couldn¡¯t influence the elemental magic energy at all.

    In other words, he couldn¡¯t use any magic at all right now!

    ¡°Anti Magic Space?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s brows jumped up as he looked at Marshal Sudman with a surprised look, ¡°Lord Marshal, you really think highly of me. Just to take care of me, you¡¯re actually using such a high level magic trap.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve long heard that chairman Xu¡¯s magic talent is excellent, even bing a Great Magician before forty, so of course I have to be careful. Not to mention that since I¡¯ve decided to make a move against you, naturally I have to think of all possibilities. Otherwise, if you ran away, the consequences would be serious.¡± Marshal Sudman said with a serious look.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Lord Marshal, can I ask if the emperor knows about you doing this?¡±

    Marshal Sudman matched Xu Yi¡¯s gaze, but he didn¡¯t answer. He just waved his hand to say, ¡°You¡¯re about to die soon, there¡¯s no need for you to know this much.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? I don¡¯t think so.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled and with a wave of his hand, there was a strange magic fluctuation that came from him. The elemental magic energy around them seemed like they had been revived as they regained their liveliness.

    There was a chill that quickly attacked Marshal Sudman and had entered halfway into his body in the blink of an eye.

    There was a wisp of fire that appeared at Marshal Sudman¡¯s chest that quickly turned into a dark me.

    When the chill hit the me, it was like two strange air currents hitting each other. They bnced each other out before there was only mist left in the air.

    When the mist disappeared, an old man in a red magician robe appeared in front of Marshal Sudman.

    Xu Yi looked at this old man and his eyes narrowed.

    ¡°Arch Magus Laduca?¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca, one of the Candra Empire¡¯s nine Arch Magi. Because he excelled in me magic, he even received the title of me Dragon Arch Magus.

    Xu Yi never thought that in order to deal with him, Marshal Sudman had not only lured him to his manor, but also invited an Arch Magus.

    Seeing the surprised look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Marshal Sudman gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve already said it. I don¡¯t like things that I can¡¯t predict, so in order to keep you here, it¡¯s normal to invite a respected Arch Magus.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Marshal Sudman and Arch Magus Laduca in front of him with a teasing look before shaking his head with a smile, ¡°Marshal Sudman, if this is how your Candra Empire decides to treat your business partner, I can only say that I am very disappointed.¡±

    Marshal Sudman¡¯s smile froze before he gave a cold snort, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if you¡¯re disappointed because after today, you will be a dead man.¡±

    ¡°Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be split between the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like that. If you didn¡¯t reach an agreement with the Marlow Empire, how could your Candra Empire think to use such an underhanded method to deal with me?¡±

    Marshal Sudman was silent.

    Xu Yi shook his head before saying with a sigh, ¡°I thought that establishing rtions with both the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire would mean I could use your two empires to distract each other, but I underestimated how shameless your two empires are. Yes, instead of cooperating with ourpany passively and waiting for us to be willing to transfer the technology to you, it¡¯s better to take care of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and discuss how to split the goods, right?¡±

    Xu Yi looked over Marshal Sudman¡¯s ugly expression and he gave a taunting smile.

    ¡°This idea is good, but Lord Marshal, can you¡­..or rather your Candra Empire¡­..do this?¡±

    Marshal Sudman¡¯s face turned cold and he gave a snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, since you are about to die, I¡¯ve let you say a few more things. I never thought that you would waste your words like this, it really has disappointed me. Since you¡¯re not willing to treasure this time, then¡­..Arch Magus Laduca, please send chairman Xu off.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s expression focused and Xu Yi felt the elemental magic energy around him condense again. Moreover, it was much strongerpared to before.

    There was a dark purple ball of me that appeared.

    ¡°Ai, Arch Magus Laduca, you might have never heard this before, but you can¡¯t use the same move twice against a saint.¡±

    [TL Note: It¡¯s a Saint Seiya reference.]

    As soon as his voice fell, Xu Yi disappeared and then he appeared outside the door of the room.

    ¡°He, there really is an Anti Magic Array. I have to say that the Lord Marshal really is prepared.¡±

    Xu Yi reached out a finger to poke what seemed to be empty space outside the door with a smile. There was a pitch ck thing that seemed to be a crack in space that was sucking at the void appeared which seemed to be covering the entire door.

    These cracks couldn¡¯t be seen with the naked eye, but Xu Yi could see that each crack was a dangerous crack in space.

    A crack in space was very terrifying. If one fell in, their body would be ripped apart.

    There were all these dense cracks at the door. If Xu Yi had rushed out, his body would have been ripped to countless pieces.

    Moreover, these spatial cracks prevented Xu Yi from using spatial magic to escape. It could be considered the strongest prison for a magician, so Xu YI couldn¡¯t immediately escape.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if you¡¯re willing to give up without fighting, I can have Arch Magus Laduca destroy the source of your magic and let you keep your life. After all, you have value and it¡¯s a pity to kill you like this.¡± Marshal Sudman suddenly said.

    ¡°Lord Marshal, you should know what my answer is.¡± Xu Yi replied.

    ¡°Un, so I didn¡¯t have this idea in the beginning.¡± Marshal Sudman gave a nod, ¡°Not to mention that I don¡¯t like unstable factors and you are the most unstable factor of them all. Killing you is the safest choice for me. Arch Magus Laduce, do it.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca had been silent the entire time, but now he gave a nod to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you are a very talented magician. I shouldn¡¯t be making a move against a magician with as much talent and prospect as you, this would go against the basic principle of the Magicians Guild, but¡­..Now that even the Magicians Guild has been half ruined by you, then there¡¯s no meaning in these principles.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Alright, Arch Magus Laduca, just make a move, what are you making an excuse for yourself? It sounds quite funny if you put it like this.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s expression sunk. He raised his right hand and he pointed at Xu Yi.

    There wasn¡¯t any threat from this finger, but Xu Yi¡¯s expression became serious.

    But he didn¡¯t move and stood there as he looked at Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s finger.

    ¡°Si.¡±

    A spatial crack that was twisting came out of Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s finger and instantly spread in front of Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took a light breath and released his magic, condensing it all in his right index finger. He tapped out and created a dark crack in space that didn¡¯t seem too terrifying.

    The space around Xu YI¡¯s finger surged and shrank, surged and shrank¡­¡­

    After doing this for an unknown amount of times at high speeds that the naked eye couldn¡¯t keep up with, the space exploded.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a powerful wave of air as all the surrounding elemental magic energy exploded. It was like detonating a powerful bomb.

    The air wave spread for several hundred meters and it ground everything in the surrounding area to powder.

    Other than the space under Xu Yi and the space behind him, there was only the space under Arch Magus Laduca and the space around Marshal Sudman that was still in one piece. The floor of the hall could still be seen, but all the other ces had been turned into a desert.

    What was even more strange was that other than the desert that had appeared in this space of several hundred meters, the flowers and nts of Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor were still in one piece. There was a very clear boundary with the desert that was made which looked very strange.

    But the strangeness of this situation couldn¡¯tpare to the shock on Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s face.

    He looked at Xu Yi with shock and disbelief.

    After a while, he lowered his right hand that was slightly trembling and said in a shocked voice that was a bit hoarse.

    ¡°You¡­¡­You¡¯re already an Arch Magus?!¡±

 Volume 7 87

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 87</h4>

    For the magicians of the Sines Continent, there was a very clear difference in strength between normal magicians and Great Magicians. The most important part of this difference or the most clear difference was that Great Magicians had spatial magic and normal magicians didn¡¯t.

    Then above that, there was a clear difference between Great Magicians and Arch Magi. This difference was also manifested in spatial magic.

    Although normal Great Magicians could control spatial magic to a certain degree and use it, which was the teleport spell that most Great Magicians used, it couldn¡¯tpare to truly controlling space.

    Only when one became a powerful Arch Magus, they would be able to use their elemental magic energy to control space and magic space, allowing them to freely control magic space and even forming their own magic space.

    This magic space was called a domain by most magicians and was the domain that only belonged to the Arch Magi.

    Before Arch Magus Laduca appeared and after he appeared, he made a move against Xu Yi twice. He had solidified the elemental magic energy around them so that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t control it or use spells, but Arch Magus Laduca could. That was because he had turned that magic space into his domain.

    However, it had been easily taken care of by Xu Yi twice which made Arch Magus Laduca a bit doubtful.

    Although his attack was eye catching this time, it had condensed quite a bit of magic power and even condensed all the magic in the magic space in his domain into a powerful attack.

    This kind of attack was impossible to block for magicians who didn¡¯t have a high enough understanding of spatial magic.

    It could even be said that it was impossible for magicians under the Arch Magus rank to block this attack, they could only dodge it.

    But the surrounding magic space had been integrated into Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s domain, so lower level magicians couldn¡¯t escape at all.

    So for Arch Magus Laduca, since he had used this magic, Xu Yi could only dodge it or die, there was no other possibility.

    However, he never thought that not only would Xu Yi not dodge it, he would block it!

    Seeing Xu Yi standing there with a smile on his face like nothing had happened, Arch Magus Laduca couldn¡¯t help being shocked deep down.

    This fellow Xu Yi, did he actually be an Arch Magus!

    If he wasn¡¯t an Arch Magus, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to block his attack just now!

    But¡­¡­Xu Yi had just entered his forties this year?

    For a magician, there wouldn¡¯t even be one in ten thousand magicians that could be a Great Magician in his early forties. This was already considered a shocking talent.

    However, Xu Yi had be a Great Magician when he had just turned thirty ten years ago and now¡­.he had actually be an Arch Magus!

    In the history of the Sines Continent, there had never been an Arch Magus who was forty years old!

    The most talented magician in the history of the Sines Continent, one of the few Great Magi in history who was called the pride of human magicians, Arch Magus Kohler had only be an Arch Magus when he was fifty three years old!

    Arch Magus Laduca suddenly had a trace of regret in his heart.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s shocking talent for magic, as long as he continued down the path of magic, he might even break through the limits of magic for humans during the most recent years. He would be a new legend on the continent, bing a new Great Magus who would leave his mark in history!

    If this happened, it would be a very inspirational and rousing matter for all the magicians on the Sines Continent.

    Because this meant that human magicians hadn¡¯t degraded like many people had said, they could still be a Great Magus that sat at the top, bing the god of magic that everyone respected!

    But after turning to look at Marshal Sudman¡¯s livid expression, Arch Magus Laduca calmed down again.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s shocking magic talent was good news for all the magicians on the continent, he was still the enemy of the Candra Empire in the end.

    As a person of the Candra Empire and one of the few Arch Magi that everyone respected nurtured by the Candra Empire, Arch Magus Laduca had to think about the interests of the Candra Empire even if he wanted to follow the principles of the Magicians Guild.

    Not to mention that he had already signed a contract with the Candra Empire army, bing one of the two Arch Magi affiliated with them. This time Marshal Sudman had personally nned andmanded this operation, even giving it the highest grading in the most recently years, so failure couldn¡¯t be tolerated.

    So even if he was surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s talent, he couldn¡¯t give up the idea of killing Xu Yi.

    Moreover, the greater the talent Xu Yi demonstrated, the more difficult this mission was.

    ¡°Marshal, have Ofalian also make a move.¡± Arch Magus Laduca gave a sigh before turning to Marshal Sudman to say this.

    Marshal Sudman was surprised, ¡°What? You can¡¯t handle it alone?¡±

    ¡°Although I¡¯m not willing to admit it¡­¡­Yes, I¡¯m not 100% confident in doing this because this Xu Yi¡­..has already be an Arch Magus.¡± Arch Magus Laduca said in a deep voice.

    Marshal Sudman looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look.

    He had heard what Arch Magus Laduca had shouted earlier, but he still didn¡¯t believe it.

    Now that Arch Magus Laduca had confirmed it, he had to believe it.

    Xu Yi had already be an Arch Magus! This was too surprising to him, this was also too surprising for everyone.

    ¡°This fellow, he really is the biggest unstable factor.¡± Marshal Sudman gave a snort before raising a hand and sending a signal.

    Although Xu Yi had blocked Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s close to full power attack, he wasn¡¯t doing that well.

    Just that single attack had consumed close to half of his magic power.

    So he knew that even if he had already broken through to be an Arch Magus at the end ofst year, it was impossible for him to stay here and contend with Arch Magus Laduca who had be an Arch Magus twenty years ago.

    Not to mention that this was the enemy¡¯s territory, so he couldn¡¯t stay any longer.

    So while Arch Magus Laduca was surprised, he looked for a way to escape.

    But Marshal Sudman had clearly prepared for this and hadid down several magic barriers in the manor. They had been activated after he entered the manor and he wasn¡¯t able to escape with spatial magic.

    Not to mention that Arch Magus Laduca was still watching him. It wasn¡¯t easy for him to escape under the watch of an Arch Magus.

    While he knitted his brows and pondered this, the magic space around him suddenly changed.

    When the elemental magic energy of the magic space isn¡¯t affected by external forces, it would flow steadily and slowly interact with each other.

    When Arch Magus Laduca had interfered with his domain, it caused the magic space around Xu Yi to stop, which could be considered a powerful external force.

    Now the magic space around Xu Yi was changing again, but the elemental magic energy around him was wildly flowing around at high speeds.

    The elemental magic energy wasn¡¯t stable, which meant that the magic space around Xu Yi also wasn¡¯t stable.

    Around Xu Yi was a wisp of me, an arrow of water, a floating stone, a bolt of lightning¡­..

    There were different spells that had appeared around Xu Yi.

    However, the only thing that posed a threat to Xu Yi was the elemental magic energy going wild which destabilized the surrounding magic space.

    So in this space, there would be unstable spatial cracks that would appear from time to time.

    If you were unprepared, the spatial cracks would fly out and cut your body in half.

    But this wasn¡¯t the most surprising.

    What surprised Xu Yi the most and made him more vignt was that for this phenomenon to appear, it meant that other than Arch Magus Laduca, Marshal Sudman had prepared another Arch Magus!

    ¡°Sending out two Arch Magi at once, you really want me to die¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep breath and knew that this was the biggest crisis that he had ever faced.

    It was a good thing that he had the power of an Arch Magus now, so his understanding of spatial magic already surpassed the understanding of normal magicians.

    Although the surrounding space was chaotic, he didn¡¯t panic, but rather was calm. He gathered all his magic power and also began exerting force on the elemental magic energy around him.

    At this time, they were alreadypeting in terms of control over magic space, which was also aparison of domains.

    Based onmon sense, the Arch Magus that Marshal Sudman brought had to be one of the nine Arch Magi of the Candra Empire. Even the youngest one had been an Arch Magus for thirteen years.

    Compared to this, Xu Yi, an Arch Magus who just broke throughst year wouldn¡¯t be able to match them when it came to his domain.

    But whenparing, the magic space around Xu Yi quickly stabilized and it didn¡¯t take long before everything had disappeared.

    There was a ck vortex beside Arch Magus Laduca and a person came out before a sigh rang out.

    ¡°Xu Yi, why are you the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 88

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 88</h4>

    ¡°Arch Magus Cami often said that to me before, but I never thought that you would feel the same, your excellency Arch Magus Ofalian.¡±

    Xu Yi had the same smile as he saw this person appear, but his heart sunk even more.

    Another Arch Magus!

    Moreover, it was Arch Magus Ofalian who could be considered the most powerful out of the nine Candra Empire Arch Magi!

    It had to be said that the Candra Empire really had gone all out this time. They had deployed two powerful Arch Magi who could be considered the strongest on the Sines Continent, which showed that they didn¡¯t want to give Xu Yi any chance of escaping.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was already eighty seven years old, but he looked even younger than Arch Magus Laduca. People would even believe it if it was said that he was only around fifty years old.

    After hearing Xu Yi¡¯s reply, he took a deep look at Xu Yi before giving a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you¡¯re willing to take a Magic Vow now and announce that you will dissolve the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, auctioning off all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s assets and never stepping foot in the magic machine industry again, Laduca and I can guarantee that there will be no threat to your life. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Many thanks to your and Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s evaluation of my magic talent, but¡­..your excellency Ofalia, do you know something? When I introduce myself to others, I always stress that I am the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and a merchant. As for my status as a magician, that is secondary.¡± Xu Yi replied with a faint smile.

    Arch Magus Ofalian silently looked at Xu Yi for a bit before letting out a long breath and giving a nod.

    ¡°Alright, I understand. Actually, I know that you would answer this way since all the people who can be an Arch Magus are stubborn and wouldn¡¯t be easily persuaded by others. But I still feel that it is a pity. Chairman Xu, do you know that with the talent you have demonstrated, as long as you¡¯re willing to focus on studying magic, you might be the first magician to be a Great Magus in the past several hundred years?¡±

    ¡°Arch Magus Cami has said this to me many times, but¡­..I don¡¯t care.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug before saying with a rxed look, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it,pared to my status as a magician, I care more about my status as a merchant. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce represents my ideas and I will not give them up no matter what.¡±

    ¡°But if you were a Great Magus now, the two of us¡­..No, even if all nine Arch Magi of our Candra Empire work together, we wouldn¡¯t be your match? Do you understand this?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression suddenly turned sharp.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that I¡¯m not.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°So¡­..your two excellency Arch Magi, you shouldn¡¯t try to convince me with words, there¡¯s no meaning to this.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a slow nod before raising his hand.

    The magic space that had just calmed down went wild again as endless elemental magic energy moved back and forth in this space. The several hundred meter area that had just been destroyed became a purgatory once again.

    Arch Magus Laduca on the side also started making a move. The magic space condensed and it became deathly still, forming a sharp contrast to the magic space that Arch Magus Ofalian controlled, looking very strange.

    Magicians under the Arch Magus realm relied on their spells to fight each other, but once one reached the Arch Magus level, what decided who won would be their understanding towards domains.

    Because for a magician that can control domains, magic was just controlling the elemental magic energy and didn¡¯t have any meaning.

    As long as they controlled the magic space with their domain, any spells could be easily dealt with.

    So a fight between Arch Magi were simpler than lower grade magicians because there weren''t any shy spells shing, rather the entire battle process seemed a bit boring.

    However, under this boring appearance, there was a danger hidden that normal people couldn¡¯t imagine.

    Once the magic space was controlled by the other Arch Magus, it meant that all the elemental magic energy in this space was controlled by the other side, which also meant that they could be torn to pieces at any time.

    So in a battle between Arch Magi, there was also an extreme danger.

    And Xu Yi was currently facing the attack of two Arch Magi at once.

    This wasn¡¯t Xu Yi¡¯s first time facing an Arch Magus.

    Nine years ago, Xu Yi had already faced Arch Magus Levin Hasko sent by the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    But Xu Yi had still been a Great Magician, so he didn¡¯t have the idea of fighting the Arch Magus head on.

    This confrontation was nothing more than luring Arch Magus Levin Hasko into the trap that had been set.

    Then Arch Magus Levin Hasko had been hit by the super powerful Magic Cannon that had gathered hundreds of thousands of Evs of magic, causing him to die. It wasn''t rted to Xu Yi at all.

    From beginning to end, Xu Yi had barely made a move himself.

    However, now he wasn¡¯t at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not only did he not have a trap for an Arch Magus, Xu Yi himself had fallen into a trap and was being attacked by two Arch Magi that had reached this realm a long time ago.

    For any magician, this would be a certain death scenario.

    Even if Xu Yi had broken through to be an Arch Magus, he didn¡¯t have any hope of escaping.

    Marshal Sudman had already drawn back a safe distance and narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi.

    Countless people in the empire had headaches over the threat of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and when they didn¡¯t know what to do, only he had the key to solving this question.

    That¡¯s right, the key was Xu Yi.

    Although many people felt that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already be a giant that even the Candra Empire had difficulty dealing with.

    Marshal Sudman knew that Xu Yi, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman who appeared less and less in front of the public, was the unquestionable core of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For any otherpany on the continent, perhaps the death of the chairman would affect it, but it wouldn¡¯t be that serious. Most of the time, they could just change the chairman.

    However, for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t just the chairman, but rather their soul and backbone.

    Marshal Sudman was certain that once Xu Yi died, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be without a leader. They would be torn to pieces and wouldn¡¯t be able to gather again.

    This kind of Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much easier for the Candra Empire to deal with.

    So even if the Candra Empire had made many secret preparations this time, the most important part of the n was still Xu Yi.

    As long as they killed him, the n could be considered half finished!

    In order to guarantee Xu Yi¡¯s death, Marshal Sudman had used his identity as the empire¡¯s marshal to even persuade the emperor to act, which had finally moved these two noble Arch Magi to move at the same time.

    This kind of treatment had only happened a few times before in the history of the Candra Empire.

    Just based on this, even if Xu Yi died, he could die without any regrets.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to die at all.

    Although he was being attacked by two Arch Magi at once, which could be considered a hopeless situation for anyone else, Xu Yi¡¯s expression didn¡¯t change. He even casually used his magic to seize control of the magic space around him with his domain, while also having time to size up Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca.

    These two Arch Magi naturally didn¡¯t have any expressions on their faces¡­¡­

    Xu Yi gave a sigh. He knew that no matter what these two Arch Magi had just said, in front of national interest, it meant nothing.

    Of course, he wasn¡¯t someone who could me others.

    No matter how lofty his ideals were, he was also the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and before anything else, he still considered the overall benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So¡­¡­how could he die here!

    Xu Yi slowly raised his right hand and gathered all his magic power. There was a ck glow that appeared at the tip of his right index finger that immediately turned into a barrier of light that quickly spread out.

    Whether it was the wild elemental magic energy of Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s domain or the frozen elemental magic energy of Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s domain, once this ck light passed by it, it was like boiling water meeting an ice cube or a fish returning to the sea as everything had returned to normal.

    The ck light quickly spread over several hundred meters with Xu Yi as a center.

    The strong control of the two Arch Magi¡¯s domains over the elemental magic energy in the magic space was lost under this glow. The strange space instantly turned to normal as if nothing had just happened.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at Xu Yi in surprise as their faces were covered in disbelief.

    Since the two of them had be Arch Magi, there were fewer and fewer people who dared to fight them.

    But in the few fights that they had been in, as long as they released their domain and the enemy wasn¡¯t another Arch Magus, they would be suppressed and wouldn¡¯t be able to make a move.

    Even if the enemy was an Arch Magus, with both sidespeting in the strength of their domains, the battle would be dangerous and wouldn¡¯t be easy.

    But when Xu Yi faced the attack of both of them, he just lifted his hand and strangely broke the effect of their domains. It was as if he had destroyed the weapons they were most proud of which they couldn¡¯t believe.

    To the two of them, even if Xu Yi had shocking talent, having a strong understanding of domains right after bing an Arch Magus, he still wouldn¡¯t be able to contend with their domains.

    However, Xu Yi had directly broken the influence of their domains which went against theirmon sense!

    This young brat, how had he done it?

 Volume 7 89

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 89</h4>

    ¡°Two dear your excellency Arch Magi, it seems like you haven¡¯t paid attention to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi who had taken care of the attacks of the two Arch Magi shook his head with a smile, ¡°If you had paid attention, you would have known that at the beginning of the year, the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? had an article that talked about some issues with the magic space.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at each other, both knitting their brows.

    The two of them were very traditional magicians and followed the traditional path of studying magic to increase their power, so they looked down on external things like magic tools.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was famous, they thought that it was just a twisted path of using objects and wasn¡¯t something that a true magician should study.

    So they had indeed not paid any attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before.

    Even after Arch Magus Sarandal y went to research magic machines at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, in the eyes of these two traditional magicians, he was like Arch Magus Cami who was willing to fall into degeneracy.

    So although they thought that Xu Yi¡¯s magic talent was outstanding and already knew that he was a high level Great Magician, they had never truly cared.

    To them, someone who invested everything into irrelevant side path like magic tools and cared more about his status as a merchant wouldn¡¯t be that strong.

    But now Xu Yi had refuted this with facts.

    This fellow who hadn¡¯t been an Arch Magus for long had actually blocked the attacks from two Arch Magi at once.

    He had even offset the influence of their domains this easily!

    Just based on this, Xu Yi was already worthy of talking to them at the same level.

    So when Xu yi said that he had published an article on magic space before, it meant that he had a unique understanding of magic space. Otherwise, there would be no exnation as to how he had easily taken care of their domains.

    ¡°In that article, I pointed out that magic space at all times tended to maintain stability. This means that if there was an anomaly in magic space, that magic space would very quickly return to normal from the influence of the surrounding magic space. I call this power the magic space stability force.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a nod, ¡°This is no doubt about that, but we Arch Magi can use our domains to break this principle and rely on our powers to control magic space. Chairman Xu, since you are already an Arch Magus, you should understand this very well.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°So in this article, I also pointed out that any actions that forcefully manipte the behaviour of magic space would face the interference of this magic space stability force, so it requires arge price to be paid to counter it out.¡±

    ¡°Is there something wrong with this?¡± Arch Magus Laduca who had been silent the entire time also had a confused look, ¡°The reason only Arch Magi can create a domain that belongs to them isn¡¯t it because lower grade magicians don¡¯t have enough magic power? Or rather that their control over elemental magic energy isn¡¯t strong enough?¡±

    ¡°It is like this, but this also means that forcefully manipting magic space is much harder than restoring it to normal. Using the situation from earlier to exin, when the two of you interfered with magic space with your domains,pared to attacking me, it¡¯s much easier for me to restore the magic space to normal.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°This is impossible.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian firmly shook his head, ¡°Although this point of view is correct, you¡¯ve forgotten a key aspect which is time. That¡¯s right, the magic space will always move towards stability, even if we use our domains, it will move towards stability in the end. As a mortal, to force the magic space to always stay in a state of chaos or abnormal state is not possible. But, the magic space needs time to return to normal and no matter what, it is impossible to do what you just did and easily return the magic space to normal.¡±

    ¡°Then you¡¯re saying that my magic power is stronger than yours?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and shook his head with a smile, ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible. So in reality, what I just did was speed up the magic space¡¯s ability to return to normal. Does this exnation clear the doubts in the hearts of your excellency Arch Magi?¡±

    ¡°That is even more impossible.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian shook his head again, ¡°If you could affect the speed of returning to normal of magic space, doesn¡¯t that mean that your control over magic space has already far surpassed our imaginations? If this was true, you wouldn¡¯t only be an Arch Magus, you would be a Great Magus!¡±

    ¡°Of course I¡¯m not a Great Magus.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°But why do your excellency Arch Magi think that I can do this?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at Xu Yi with knitted brows, still feeling confused.

    ¡°If you don¡¯t understand, then I suggest that you read the article I wrote in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?. It was written in the third issue of February of this year, the article is called ?Research into the influence of magic space on the stability of magic machines?. After you read this article, perhaps you will understand that what I did just now isn¡¯t that hard to believe.

    Arch Magus Ofalian knitted his brows and fell into deep thought, but Arch Magus Laduca shook his head and coldly said, ¡°We can study the articleter, but right now it¡¯s more important to take care of you. Ofalian, don¡¯t be affected by this kid, the most important thing now isn¡¯t magic research, but to kill him.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian was surprised as he came back to his senses.

    He looked at Xu Yi and gave another long sigh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your talent for magic really is shocking to me. If it wasn¡¯t for this situation, I would be very willing to explore the mysteries of magic with you, but as for now¡­..I can only apologize.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Don¡¯t apologize because there¡¯s no need. I say, your excellency Arch Magi, you still don¡¯t understand what I mean after everything that I¡¯ve said?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I mean that you can¡¯t kill me at all, right?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands with a rxed look on his face.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression sunk, ¡°Chairman Xu, I admit that you are a person with shocking magic talent, but don¡¯t be too arrogant. Even if you have a special understanding of magic space, do you really think that you can escape from both me and Laduca?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it, it¡¯s a fact.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile before suddenly reaching his hand into his chest, taking out some strange looking metal parts. He scattered them around and these metal parts were covered in different coloured lights as they flew around him.

    Feeling the weak magic fluctuations from these metal parts, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca were surprised.

    This Xu Yi, he wanted to use these small things to evade the attacks of the two of them?

    Then when the small metal parts were around ten meters above Xu Yi, they released several light blue glows that linked each of the metal parts.

    These seventeen lines of light linked the metal parts and formed a strange looking rhombic polyhedron in the air.

    Seeing this polyhedron, Xu Yi looked past the two Arch Magi to Marshal Sudman who was observing from a distance.

    ¡°Marshal Sudman, you said that when you handled matters, you liked to control all factors in your hand to guarantee that nothing would go wrong. Then that means that if your n to kill me fails, you should have a n to ount for this failure, right?¡±

    Marshal Sudman heard this voice and he gave a cold snort.

    ¡°Humph, Xu Yi, I¡¯ve prepared everything this time, you have no chance of escaping. I never needed to think of this kind of n at all.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Then I urge you to start thinking of one now.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi looked back at the two Arch Magi and waved at them.

    ¡°Your excellency Arch Magi, if you¡¯re interested in studying magic machines or magic space construction theory, you cane find me. As for now¡­..goodbye.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi¡¯s figure shed as he entered the rhombic polyhedron formed by the beams of light.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca both had premonitions that something was off. They released their magic power and didn¡¯t hesitate at all to release a bunch of terrifying small Forbidden Spells at Xu Yi.

    However, when these spells approached the polyhedron and were about to touch it, all the magic disappeared. They couldn¡¯t affect the space inside of the polyhedron at all.

    Then after that, Xu Yi inside of the polyhedron just vanished without a trace while Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca watched on.

 Volume 7 90

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 90</h4>

    At a hill that was around twenty kilometers southwest of Wimbledon City, there were seventeen beams of light blue light that connected in the air to form a strange looking rhombic polyhedron.

    After shing twice, there was a figure that appeared in the polyhedron that slowlynded on the ground.

    It was Xu Yi.

    When his feet touched the ground, Xu Yi looked to the north.

    This ce was over thirty kilometers away from Marshal Sudman¡¯s private manor. No matter how Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca overestimated his magic power, they never would have thought that he woulde to such a far away ce.

    It had to be known, even if an Arch Magus used teleportation magic, they could only move several kilometers at once.

    A distance of over thirty kilometers was something that was hard to imagine for an Arch Magus.

    Because it was over thirty kilometers away, even if Marshal Sudman had blocked the surrounding area, he wouldn¡¯t have covered such arge range. So it could be said that Xu Yi had escaped the trap and was safe for now.

    Thinking of what happened just now, Xu Yi gave a light exhale.

    The entire process hadn¡¯t been long. It was only him exchanging a few moves with the two Arch Magi and to an outsider, other than that one powerful explosion, everything else was normal and wasn¡¯t that exciting.

    But Xu Yi knew that Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca really wanted to kill him. Each attack was very dangerous and if he had been careless, he would have died already.

    The reason he could be that calm was because he was already prepared, he could have escaped at any time.

    What was underneath him were seventeen metal pieces that were just like the metal pieces that he had taken out earlier.

    Before Xu Yi had appeared, these seventeen metal pieces had been scattered and buried in the ground, not looking special at all.

    When Xu Yi had brought out the other seventeen metal pieces at Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor, these hidden seventeen metal pieces also activated. They formed a special magic domain with the polyhedron that was floating in the air.

    Through these two special magic domains, Xu Yi was able to ignore the Magic Arrays and traps that wasid down in Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor and was directly transported to such a remote ce.

    This was the Magic Transport Unit. It was the newest state of the art technology developed by the magic research facility using the peak of spatial magic research, which could be considered the highest level magic machine that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently made.

    When Xu Yi used it this time, it was the first time that it hadn¡¯t been used in an experimental environment. The effects had been quite shocking.

    This transport array was personally put down by Xu Yi before he had entered Wimbledon City, guaranteeing that if anything happened to him in Wimbledon City, he would be able to leave at any time.

    This was just an experiment that Xu Yi was doing out of convenience, it was just to see if this new Magic Transport Unit was as easy to use as it was in the experiments.

    As for preventing any dangers, although Xu Yi had considered this, it was just some small details and he didn¡¯t attach any importance to them.

    But he never thought that this casual thing had allowed him to escape from such a dangerous situation.

    Although Xu Yi was confident that he could escape from the attacks of Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca, this Magic Transport Unit had without a doubt saved him quite a bit of effort.

    Not to mention that Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca had been famous for a long time, they might have some special spell that they could still use.

    If there was a mistake, Xu Yi would fall at their hands which would be a disaster for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi took out a Magic Communicator from his chest and sent in a bit of magic.

    After a while, the Magic Communicator had a red glow over it which was even brighter than the normal red glow.

    This was an ability that Xu Yi¡¯s personal Magic Communicator had, it was used to send his chairman¡¯s order.

    In a normal situation, as long as Xu Yi sent a message in the magicmunicationwork, they would be able to recognize him as the chairman and he could send his orders.

    But this time, the red light had appeared for a while and there wasn¡¯t any sign of the Magic Communicator connecting, not to mention any sounds being send from his side.

    As time passed, Xu Yi¡¯s heart sank bit by bit.

    It seemed like Marshal Sudman¡¯s words weren¡¯t empty. Although the trap to kill Xu Yi at Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor was the key part of the n, it wasn¡¯t their entire n.

    It was clear that since the Candra Empire nned on killing Xu Yi, it meant that the Candra Empire would be dering war on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    While dealing with Xu Yi, it was natural for them to target the other branches of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The various branches, stores, factories, and other facilities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Wimbledon City might have already fallen under control of the Candra Empire.

    Xu Yi patiently waited for five minutes and after confirming that there was no connection, he no longer waited. He turned off the Magic Communicator and released a wisp of magic that covered himself, creating a very special magic domain.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s domain would make the elemental magic energy in the magic space go wild while Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s domain would free the elemental magic energy, making it so only he could control it.

    After Xu Yi be an Arch Magus, the domain he gained was different from these two Arch Magi.

    When he opened his domain, the magic space around him was suddenly separated from the rest of the magic space. When the elemental magic energy around this area approached this domain, they would go around it, but it didn¡¯t affect their normal flow.

    So even without the naked eye, even when using magic induction on this, they would find that there was no difference in the magic space at all.

    And Xu Yi¡­¡­seemed to vanish like this magic space.

    Want to find Xu Yi with the naked eye? That was even more impossible.

    Xu Yi could already easily use the illusion magic that he learned from Elder Undine on himself. He applied an illusion to himself and made him look like a normal middle aged person of the Candra Empire.

    Afterpleting his preparations, Xu Yi flew to the northwest.

    After half an hour, Xu Yi sessfully entered Wimbledon City.

    Wimbledon City looked to be as normal as always. The Candra Empire suddenlyunching an attack on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t seem to affect most of the citizens in Wimbledon City.

    But when Xu Yi arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch in Wimbledon City¡¯s west street without anyone noticing, he found that there was something off here.

    The west street was one of Wimbledon City¡¯s most important business streets, so there would always be many people walking through and it would be very lively.

    Although the street was still filled with people now, they were all centralized in one ce and didn¡¯t walk around. They weren¡¯t as loud as usual and they were all looking in one direction, with each person having a strange look on their face.

    The direction that they were all looking in was a very big and conspicuous store on this street.

    This store¡¯s sign had been taken down at an unknown time, but through the half wing symbol carved into it and pasted on the window, one could easily tell that this store belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branches in the Candra Empire and its biggest branch.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s biggest symbol in the Candra Empire, but now not only had this store¡¯s sign been taken down, the front door was in pieces. There was a team of soldiers standing outside who were all wearing the armour of the Candra Royal Guards.

    There was a big seal that was ced on the door and with the soldiers standing there, it made the fate of this Frestech Chamber of Commerce branch clear to everyone.

    It¡­..had been sealed.

    Xu Yi mixed into the crowd and after seeing the situation at the branch, he turned to leave.

    Walking around the city a few times and passing by several streets, Xu Yi came to a very normal looking and very quiet street where he knocked on a worn out wooden door several times.

    With a ¡°zhiya¡±, the door opened and a confused face appeared.

    Xu Yi gave a fewplicated hand gestures and that person¡¯s face revealed an excited look as he opened his mouth to shout something.

    ¡°Chair¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi covered his mouth and looked around before going in with him, closing the door behind him.

    Behind the wooden door was a worn down residence that could be found all over Wimbledon City.

    After Xu Yi and that person entered the residence, Xu Yi raised the bed and revealed a cave entrance.

    The two went in and there was a spacious cave under there.

    When theynded, that person fell down in front of Xu Yi and began crying.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s over! It¡¯s over! All of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses in Wimbledon City are done for!¡±

 Volume 7 91

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 91</h4>

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows as he shook that person.

    ¡°Stop crying. Tell me, what is going on right now?¡±

    That person wiped his eyes a few times and only calmed down after a while. He replied in a sobbing voice, ¡°Chair¡­..Sir chairman, when you left this morning, the Candra Empire¡­..the Candra Empire¡¯s people came. They didn¡¯t even say anything as they sealed up all the businesses under ourpany. The people of thepany couldn¡¯t take it and shed with them, but they brought many soldiers and the brothers couldn¡¯t stop them. Then¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then it was all sealed?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s expression was still calm, ¡°Is it all the stores under ourpany? What about the workers in thepany? Was anyone hurt?¡±

    ¡°Some brothers tried to resist and were injured by the soldiers, but¡­..no one should have died.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good if no one died.¡± Xu Yi nodded as his expression became more rxed, ¡°It seems like those fellows of the Candra Empire aren¡¯t fools after all. They know that even if they take these things from ourpany, they can¡¯t use them. They still need the staff of ourpany to operate them.¡±

    That person anxiously looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, what do we do now?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°Before we understand the Candra Empire¡¯s goal and their reason for this, we don¡¯t have that much that we can do. Your current task is to try to contact the staff of ourpany that were lucky enough to escape, try your best to gather them all. I will think of a way to send you all back to the Stantine Duchy.¡±

    ¡°Un, but sir chairman, I think¡­¡­that the brothers in the Candra Empire might¡­..might already all have been caught¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile as he thought that they were only caught, I was almost killed just now.

    Of course, there was no need to tell this to the secret information and liaison officer that was ced here.

    Xu Yi gave him a few orders and urged him to only secretly contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff that he could contact. He should try to make sure that he himself was safe and could put down other work for now.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was turning to leave, that person stopped him.

    ¡°Chair¡­..Sir chairman, you¡­..can¡¯t you think of a way to save the brothers?¡±

    Seeing that person¡¯s pleading gaze, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been working with the Candra Empire, that was only on a business level.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce employed some guards in the Candra Empire, it was impossible for them to station their guards here.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no armed forces in the Candra Empire at all.

    If he had to mention something, it could only be said that he was the only person with power right now.

    But the enemy was the Candra Empire. Even if Xu Yi was already a very powerful Arch Magus, it was impossible for him to fight the Candra Empire alone.

    He would have no problem safely returning to the Stantine Duchy, but if he was to save the other members of thepany, then that was beyond his reach¡­..

    That person could see the answer on Xu Yi¡¯s face and was disappointed as he let go of Xu Yi¡¯s arm.

    ¡°Sorry, sir chairman, I was asking for too much. Compared to the brothers of thepany, you are much more important. I know that as long as you are alive, the Candra Empire fellows wouldn¡¯t do anything to our brothers, but if you weren¡¯t here¡­..¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and patted his shoulder before leaving.

    When he came out of the back door, he heard that person calling out to him.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and turned to look at him, seeing that person running over with an excited look on his face.

    ¡°Chair¡­¡­Ke, that¡­..¡± That person called out before suddenly remembering. He quickly lowered his voice and came to Xu Yi¡¯s side, ¡°Sir chairman, I suddenly remembered that I know someone in the city guards. Through him, I might be able to find out where the brothers are being held.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That¡¯s very good. If you can find where they are or even how the Candra Empire is handling them, that will be very helpful to what we have to do next.¡±

    ¡°Un, then I will go find that person. Sir chairman, you¡­¡­do you want to wait for me here? I can still ask about the current defenses of Wimbledon City which will help you get out.¡± That person asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, there¡¯s no problem for me to get out of the city.¡± Xu Yi patted his shoulder with a smile, ¡°Quickly get the information and when you have concrete information, contact the headquarters with ourpany¡¯s channels. This information is very important, so you need to treat this seriously.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    That person looked at Xu Yi again and after hesitating, he gave Xu Yi a bow and left this ce.

    Xu Yi waited for a bit after he left and after confirming that no one else was around, he left and headed towards the south gate.

    When he came to the street outside, Xu Yi could feel that the atmosphere in the city was much more tensepared to before.

    There were armoured soldiers walking around the street, looking all over, almost blocking every pedestrian on the street to question them.

    Such strict interrogation was rarely seen in the Candra Empire¡¯s capital city.

    Xu Yi saw this and knew that if he went forward, he wouldn¡¯t be able to avoid the questioning of the soldiers.

    Although his illusion magic and his special magic array could make it so that no one could recognize him, if he bumped into a magician who was sensitive to the flow of elemental magic energy, it would be very easy to find a problem if he got close.

    Xu Yi thought about it and decided not to take a risk, turning to find a more hidden street to go by.

    He had nned to go out the city gate with the same route, but now it seemed like it wasn¡¯t possible, so he had to use a more direct method which was to teleport out.

    After finding a hidden corner, Xu Yi pulled out the several metal pieces and threw them into the air.

    After a while, the same light blue rhombic polyhedron appeared in the air.

    Xu Yi was about to use this Magic Transport Unit, but he found that the rhombic polyhedron didn¡¯t have the same glow that meant that it was connected to the other side.

    ¡°What is going on?¡± Xu Yi was confused as he looked over the various metal parts, letting them search for the other Magic Array outside the city, but they couldn¡¯t find it at all.

    Even when he changed it each time, there were no results.

    Finally Xu Yi had to admit that he couldn¡¯t use this Magic Transport Unit anymore.

    The most important thing was that he couldn¡¯t tell what the reason was.

    He didn¡¯t know if the Magic Array outside the city had been destroyed, or if it was because this ce wasn¡¯t as stable as theb, or if there was something that was hindering the connection between the Magic Arrays.

    In short, the safest method for Xu Yi was one that he couldn¡¯t use.

    But this naturally didn¡¯t baffle someone like Xu Yi who was an Arch Magus.

    He looked up at the tall walls of Wimbledon City in the distance and he carefully moved towards the walls.

    Once he reached the walls, Xu Yi moved all his magic power with a thought and he disappeared.

    Xu Yi hit the Wimbledon City wall and fell down from midair.

    Xu Yi staggered back a few steps and finally stabilized himself. He looked at the walls with a surprised look.

    He had nned on using teleportation magic to get out of Wimbledon City, but he never thought that he would hit the magic space in the wall which would stop him.

    After stabilizing himself, he found that there was the Wimbledon City wall that was in front of him.

    Xu Yi was very confused.

    This was clearly a normal wall made of stone, so how could there be a magic barrier in the magic space around it?

    There was a loudugh that came from the city walls and thisugh was filled with pleasant surprise and ridicule that couldn¡¯t be hidden.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, when we thought that our n had ended in failure and that you would return to the Stantine Duchy, bing an enemy who would be a headache to face in the future, I never thought that you would actually return back to Wimbledon City for some normal staff members. Should I admire your moral character? Or should Iugh at your stupidity?¡±

    Xu Yi looked up, but the sun was so strong that he had to narrow his eyes.

    After calming down, he used spatial magic to slowly fly up into the air.

    When he was horizontal with Wimbledon City¡¯s tall walls, he saw that it was the important person who he had just talked to two hours ago, before suddenly wanting to kill him.

    ¡°Lord Marshal, I have to admit that you do move fast.¡± Xu Yi said in a deep voice, ¡°I¡¯m very curious, how did you know that I woulde back to Wimbledon City?¡±

    Marshal Sudman revealed a smile filled with ridicule and disdain.

    ¡°Think about it, who did you see during this time?¡±

    Xu Yi thought of that information dealer from hispany and after thinking about it, he understood.

    ¡°No wonder¡­..I felt that it was off. Your subordinates had sealed off all the businesses of ourpany less than two hours ago, so how could he know everything and even be familiar with all the details. So it turned out that he was already bought out by you.¡±

    Marshal Sudman gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can use money to get all those people to work for you, so of course we can use gold coins to buy them back. You should be clear that you are only apany that was established less than twenty years ago, how could people be willing to die for yourpany?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right. Yes, we are only apany, so all rtions are business rtions, but I still don¡¯t understand why your Candra Empire isn¡¯t willing to cooperate with ourpany. Everyone was developing well together, so do you need to do something like this that would hurt both sides?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it, we are an empire and you are apany, there are basic differences. If you can¡¯t think this through, then¡­..I¡¯m not interested in exining this to you. In short, chairman Xu, you have stupidly wandered back into the cage again, so don¡¯t think of escaping.¡±

    Marshal Sudman looked at Xu Yi with a fierce look like he wanted to swallow Xu Yi in one bite.

    ¡°It was already my life¡¯s biggest failure when you escaped earlier. Now, you will not escape no matter what!¡±

    After saying this, Marshal Sudman took a step back and two people appeared where he had been standing. It was Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca who Xu Yi had fought against earlier.

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 92</h4>

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we meet again.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression when seeing Xu Yi again was more serious than back at Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor.

    He had acted with Arch Magus Laduca just now , but Xu Yi had been able to easily escape which was simply pping their faces.

    If he looked down on Xu Yi slightly before, feeling that Xu Yi¡¯s strength was weaker than him even after he became an Arch Magus, he now treated Xu Yi seriously.

    This fellow¡¯s talent was shocking, being able to make those strange things. He also had a special understanding of magic space and domains, so he wasn¡¯t easy to deal with.

    If he wasn¡¯t dumb enough to walk into the trap this time, perhaps it would have been wishful thinking to have a chance to kill him again.

    Xu Yi gave a bitterugh and shook his head. The pointed at the city wall under the two of them and asked, ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, before we start, can you answer a question first?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave augh, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t try to stall for time to do something. Since you have entered the city, don¡¯t be presumptuous to think that you can escape.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t want to answer, I can find the answer myself.¡±

    After throwing this down, Xu Yi suddenly flew out into the sky, shooting upwards like a bullet that had been shot.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca had nned on making a move before Xu Yi started moving, but after seeing the direction he was going in, they stopped at the same time. They had a calm look and even Arch Magus Laduca had a teasing smile on his face.

    They watched Xu Yi rush into the air, but it was like he had suddenly hit something and his body that was quickly flying stopped.

    In the space above his head, there was something that was sparkling that appeared. They were wrapped up together and they created a spider web that stopped Xu Yi from going forward.

    Xu Yi floating in the air trembled and stabilized himself with difficulty. He could taste a bit of sweetness and he opened his mouth to spit out blood.

    When he had been flying at high speeds, he suddenly felt that the magic space at this high altitude was strange.

    When he reacted, he couldn¡¯t stop himself from hitting it. There was a powerful and strange magic fluctuation that came from this space and it was even as strong as a Forbidden Spell.

    Of course, Xu Yi was now a powerful Arch Magus, so even hitting a Forbidden Spell head on wasn¡¯t that dangerous for him.

    But this elemental magic energy fluctuation that hit him was very strange. It could even affect his own body¡¯s magic fluctuations, which had caused him to suffer a strong rebound, causing the magic in his body to temporarily go wild.

    For a magician, their magic going wild was a very terrifying thing. It would create internal injuries and it could even cause a magic bacsh if it was serious, which could take their lives.

    The stronger the magician, the stronger the magic power they had. Once it went wild, the consequences would be even more serious.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi was only flying fast and didn¡¯t use too much magic. So even if his magic power had gone wild, it wasn¡¯t serious and he was able to quickly react to control the magic power inside of him.

    But this made him understand something.

    The strange magic barrier that stopped him from leaving Wimbledon City, other than hiding in the city walls, had even blocked the space above him.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if your question is about the Magic Domain Sealing Array, then I can give you an exnation.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s low voice came from below.

    Xu Yi looked down to see that he and Arch Magus Laduca were still standing on the wall, they didn¡¯t look like they were going to fly up after him at all.

    It seemed like the two of them knew that he would be stopped by this Magic Domain Sealing Array.

    ¡°Please.¡± Xu Yi replied in a deep voice. Then he slowly raised his right hand and slowly moved a finger towards it.

    ¡°This Magic Domain Sealing Array is an array that covers all of Wimbledon City. It¡¯s use is as chairman Xu has experienced twice, which is to stop all effects of magic from entering. Of course, with a little adjustment, it¡¯s very easy to stop all magic from exiting the array as well. ¡°

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s voice slowly came from below.

    ¡°Speaking of this, this Magic Domain Sealing Array had been ced for five hundred years and it was the first time that it was used against something in the city. Chairman Xu, it has to be said that the treatment you are receiving isn¡¯t normal.¡±

    ¡°I would rather that you didn¡¯t take me that seriously.¡± Xu Yi replied with a bitterugh.

    At this time, his right index finger had touched the invisible magic barrier that he had hit just now.

    With the weak magic power gathered in his finger, Xu Yi could sense the terrifying danger that was hidden in this magic barrier.

    He was certain that if he charged at it, there wouldn¡¯t be a good ending.

    Moreover, just based on the small part of the array that he could see here, the Magic Array that covered the entire city that Arch Magus Ofalian mentioned was much more powerful than he could imagine.

    Unless he destroyed the Magic Array¡¯s core, he wouldn¡¯t be able to forcefully destroy this magic barrier.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I urge you to give up. This Magic Domain Sealing Array isn¡¯t as simple as the crude magic barrier that weid down at the Lord Marshal¡¯s ce. Not to mention you, even if all the Arch Magi of the continent came together, they wouldn¡¯t be able to break this magic barrier.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s actions had been caught by Arch Magus Ofalian, so there was a trace of ridicule that appeared in his voice, taunting Xu Yi for overestimating himself.

    ¡°Ofalian is right.¡± Arch Magus Laduca who had been silent the entire time suddenly said, ¡°This Magic Domain Sealing Array has been constantly strengthened after it wasid down in our Candra Empire. It has been enhanced by countless peak magicians over five hundred years, it¡¯s already not something that a normal magician can contend with. So, chairman Xu, I urge you to give up without a fight.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Arch Magus Laduca with a surprised look, ¡°You want me to surrender? Or are you nning on killing me?¡±

    ¡°Whether it is your magic talent or your magic machine knowledge, they all have value. So if you take the initiative to surrender and let us take care of you, we naturally will want to keep your life.¡± The one who said this was Marshal Sudman who had retreated to an unknown ce at this time, ¡°Of course, that is on the premise that you cooperate.¡±

    ¡°That means that as long as I surrender and cooperate with you, I can keep my life?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Yes. I¡¯ve already said it to you in my manor earlier and the two excellency Arch Magi have spoken for you many times. Chairman Xu, give up, there is no chance of escaping at all.¡± Marshal Sudman said again.

    ¡°Let me think about it. If I surrender, then out of your safety, you will limit my magic power or even destroy my magic foundation, making me unable to use magic again. That way you would feel assured in controlling me and would make me hand over my magic machine knowledge, fully serving you. Am I right?¡±

    Marshal Sudman and the two Arch Magi were all silent.

    ¡°Ha, I must say that this is indeed the best solution, but¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at the sky above him and let out a sigh, ¡°I¡¯ve always liked my freedom and I don¡¯t like being locked up to work for others. Then again¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi paused before looking down at Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca on the city walls below, as his eyes became sharp.

    ¡°Do you really think that you can make me surrender before you even beat me? That is impossible!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, Xu Yi raised his right hand and gathered arge amount of magic power. With himself as a center, there wererge amounts of elemental magic energy that wildly gathered at his right hand. It even caused magic barrier formed by the Magic Domain Sealing Array to be influenced by the gathering elemental magic energy, as countless streaks of light began sparkling in the sky.

    If one looked at it from below, it would be like seeing countless streaks of lightning flowing through the sky.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s action, Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort and raised his voice to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, I¡¯ve already said it, there is the Magic Domain Sealing Array above your head and you can¡¯t break it with just your power alone. I urge you not to act rashly to avoid being attacked by the Magic Domain Sealing Array, or when the timees, you might not have aplete corpse.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a grin, ¡°Who said that I was aiming at that whatever array? I said it just now, we haven¡¯t truly fought yet. Your excellency Ofalian, take this!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, the powerful elemental magic energy around Xu Yi¡¯s right hand condensed and lit up. It looked like there was a small sun in the air as a ball of electricity appeared above Xu Yi¡¯s right hand.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s right handing down, the ball of electricity fell down with a bolt of lightning, aimed right at Arch Magus Ofalian on the city wall.

    With such a shocking attack, no one noticed that when Xu Yi threw the ball of lightning, his left hand that had been behind him came up slightly and a metal box was thrown out.

    When it touched the magic barrier above Xu Yi, this metal box didn¡¯t cause any magic fluctuations, so it didn¡¯t activate the Magic Domain Seal Array when it touched it.

    Then after the magic box went out of the barrier, it stopped and floated in the air.

    The Magic Domain Sealing Array seemed to have sensed something at this time and there were faint bits of light that surrounded the box, gathering more and more. Finally it became a small ball of light thatpletely surrounded the metal box.

    The metal box inside of the ball of light wasn¡¯t affected by it at all, there were just a few dots of light on one side of the box before quickly spreading.

    After a while, this one side was covered in different dots of light with different meanings.

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 93</h4>

    The ball of lightning fell down and it instantly approached the city walls.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca had a bit of surprise on their faces.

    Back at Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor, although they had fought Xu Yi, they had onlypeted with domains the entire time before Xu Yi had unexpectedly escaped. So other than seeing that Xu Yi had some unique understanding towards domains, it was clear that he wasn¡¯t that strong.

    So based on the normal situation, since Xu Yi hadn¡¯t been an Arch Magus for long, even if he had a strong talent for magic, there was a limit to his power.

    But the casual spell that Xu Yi threw out allowed the two of them to feel the powerful might contained within this spell. It wasn¡¯t weaker than a Forbidden Spell, which had really surprised them.

    After being surprised, the two of them revealed serious looks.

    Xu Yi¡¯s magic power far surpassing their expectations meant that it was more difficult to capture him alive or to kill him.

    Moreover, although Xu Yi was trapped by the Magic Domain Sealing Array, there was still a serious problem. They were in Wimbledon City, the capital of the Candra Empire!

    A battle between Arch Magi was very destructive for normal people, so if three Arch Magi fought in Wimbledon City, they might cause terrifying destruction in Wimbledon City, which would create a loss that would be hard to estimate.

    So before they made a move, Emperor Candra even personally came to ask Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca to try to limit the range of their fight as much as possible so they wouldn¡¯t seriously affect Wimbledon City.

    If they fought normally, Arch Magus Ofalian would have used teleportation magic to avoid this electric attack from Xu Yi, but the Wimbledon City wall was underneath him and underneath that was most of the citizen residences in the southern part of Wimbledon City.

    If this lightning fell, the city wall might not be damaged because of the Magic Domain Sealing Array, but the might of the lightning would be demonstrated. Once it fell, perhaps the range of several hundred meters up to a kilometer would be affected.

    Even if the city guards had already evacuated the people in the city, who knew how many people were unwilling to go.

    Even if people didn¡¯t die, if this district was ruined, it would generate a giant loss.

    Arch Magus Ofalian had these thoughts in an instant and then he gathered his magic power, raising his hand to create a giant magic barrier with Arch Magus Laduca.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The ball of lightning hit this magic barrier and created a shocking explosion.

    The sound spread and there was a burst of wind that spread from the city walls. It directly blew off the roofs of many residences, which showed how terrifying it was.

    There were ripples that appeared on this magic barrier. The ball of lightning formed a bolt of lightning with 30% of its power and fell down again, creating wisps of electricity that covered the entire magic barrier.

    After a while, the final wisp of electricity finally disappeared.

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked up to say something, but he saw that Xu Yi had his hand raised and another ball of lightning fell down again. However, this time it wasn¡¯t aimed at the two Arch Magi on the city walls, but rather it was aimed at the city.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was shocked as he immediately disappeared from where he had been standing. He appeared where the ball of lightning was falling and created another giant magic barrier.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t condense too much elemental magic energy this time, so this ball of lightning was much weaker than thest one and Arch Magus Ofalian was able to easily block it.

    But before he could catch his breath, Xu Yi had sent out another ball of lightning.

    This ball of lightning was in the opposite direction of Arch Magus Ofalian and was thrown even further away.

    ¡°Laduca, don¡¯t let him throw another one!¡± Arch Magus Ofalian only had time to say this to Arch Magus Laduca before using teleportation magic again, appearing under the ball of lightning.

    Actually, even if Arch Magus Ofalian hadn¡¯t said anything, Arch Magus Laduca had already started moving.

    When Xu Yi threw this ball of lightning, Arch Magus Laduca raised his hand and countless little balls of purple mes flew into the air, shooting at Xu Yi flying there.

    These fireballs seemed as small as low grade fireballs, but Xu Yi knew in his heart that the might they contained waspletely different.

    He didn¡¯t choose to resist them, but rather his figure disappeared and reappeared in the distance, heading deeper into Wimbledon City.

    When he appeared, Xu Yi raised both hands and very casually threw out two balls of lightning.

    This time, not only did Arch Magus Ofalian move, even Arch Magus Laduca had to use his teleportation magic to block one of the balls of lightning each.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was filled with rage at what Xu Yi was doing and couldn¡¯t help looking up to curse him.

    But when he looked up, he saw that the clouds above them had suddenly turned into mes and the look of rage on his face had turned into shock.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you¡¯re crazy! You¡¯re actually using Meteor Fall! Quickly stop! You¡¯re already breaking all the rules of magicians, you will be the mortal enemy of all magicians on the continent!¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca also had a shocked look, but he had always been a silent person, so he didn¡¯t curse like Arch Magus Ofalian. He could only point at Xu Yi as he angrily said, ¡°Xu Yi, you¡­..are despicable!¡±

    ¡°Despicable?¡± Xu Yi in the air gave a coldugh, ¡°Your Candra Empire broke our agreement one-sidedly and then you sealed up all the businesses of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even the marshal worked with two honourable Arch Magi to trap me alone. Comparing this, who is more despicable?¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca was at a loss for words.

    Indeed, the things that they did today couldn¡¯t be considered righteous at all.

    Not to mention that he and Ofalian, two Arch Magi had worked together to ambush Xu Yi. If this was known, everyone would look down on them even more.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Marshal Sudman personally telling him how important this was for the Candra Empire, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have done this.

    Arch Magus Ofalian on the side didn¡¯t think too much. Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s rebuttal, he gave a cold snort and angrily pointed at Xu Yi as he said, ¡°Xu Yi, you actually dare to cast this kind of Forbidden Spell in Wimbledon City! You¡¯ve given up on any hope of living!¡±

    Xu Yi gave an uncaringugh.

    ¡°I say, your excellency Ofalian, you¡¯ve said this countless times first. Can you first kill me before saying this?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian was filled with rage, but he couldn¡¯t refute him at all.

    At least up to this point, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t wrong.

    He and Laduca, two Arch Magi, worked together, but they were passive when facing Xu Yi.

    Although there were many reasons, the facts were that they couldn¡¯t do anything to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi¡¯s hands didn¡¯t stop as he said this.

    The red cloud became bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter, representing that thergest area of effect Forbidden Spell, Meteor Fall was getting closer and closer to being finished.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t have time to scold Xu Yi anymore, both of them tactfully used their full power to send out their domains.

    As long as they could change the magic space around Xu Yi, he wouldn¡¯t be able to gather more elemental magic energy from around him and he wouldn¡¯t be able to release this Forbidden Spell.

    However, as soon as their domains approached Xu Yi, Xu Yi smiled at the two of them and took back his right hand. The red cloud in the sky disappeared and the red sky had turned back to normal.

    Xu Yi released his magic power again and released his domain. It was like when the three of them had been in Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor earlier, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s domains couldn¡¯t do a thing to Xu Yi.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have the ability to invade their domains, so the three of them were stuck in ce.

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort, ¡°Xu Yi, you won¡¯t have a chance to escape likest time. Just ept your death.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you would let me keep my life if I surrendered?¡±

    ¡°That was earlier! But since you nned on using Meteor Fall, that option no longer exists!¡± Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s face turned dark.

    ¡°This¡­¡­then I know.¡± Xu Yi nodded and said nothing else.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca thought that he would do something shocking, so she quickly strengthened their domain to suppress Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi just floated in the air and looked at the space above him. It was unknown what he was thinking, but he didn¡¯t do anything else.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca doubtfully looked at each other.

    What was Xu Yi nning on doing?

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t do anything, so the two didn¡¯t n on doing anything special.

    Actually, the stronger the magician, the more boring their fight was for bystanders.

    When one reached the level of Arch Magi, a fight really wasn¡¯t that spectacr.

    It was because Arch Magi¡¯s understanding of magic reached the realm of domains, so normal magic couldn¡¯t pose a threat to an Arch Magus. So when they fought against each other, they would face off with domains.

    The final deciding factor was their understanding of domains and whose magic power was greater.

    From their previous exchange, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca were certain that Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of domains wasn¡¯t below theirs, he might even be stronger in certain ces. So it was impossible to defeat Xu Yi with domains.

    The only other method was to crush Xu Yi with magic power.

    No matter how great Xu Yi¡¯s talent was, he was still only just forty years old.

    There were no shortcuts in cultivating the magic power of a magician, so his magic power couldn¡¯tpare to the two of them. In this stalemate, the only possibility was that Xu Yi¡¯s magic power wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on and he would be defeated.

    It was impossible that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know this. Now that he wasn¡¯t doing a thing, could it be that he was giving up?

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    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 94</h4>

    Time passed bit by bit and Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca could feel the power of Xu Yi¡¯s domain weakening bit by bit, which caused their serious expressions to change into faint smiles.

    Based on this, it wouldn¡¯t take long before Xu Yi used up all his magic power. Not to mention resisting, he wouldn¡¯t even have the magic power to run away with.

    However, Xu Yi had stayed in the air the entire time without making another move which really was confusing for the two of them.

    Even if mXu Yi knew that he wasn¡¯t a match for the two of them, he should at least put up some resistance, right?

    epting fate like this, no matter what, it wouldn¡¯t be something that Xu Yi, the famous chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do.

    ¡°The two of you, can you answer a few more of my questions?¡± Xu Yi suddenly said.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca were both surprised. After looking at each other and thinking about it, Arch Magus Ofalian asked in a deep voice, ¡°What else do you want to ask?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t move at all, which was what they wanted to see.

    Otherwise if Xu Yi ignored everything and wildly threw spells down on Wimbledon City like before, the two of them would have to run around.

    If they were careless, there might be a giant loss in Wimbledon City.

    Now that Xu Yi was not doing a thing, they would be happy to talk to Xu Yi to waste time.

    ¡°Based on what Marshal Sudman said, I can tell that the goal of your Candra Empire is just to kill me and throw our Frestech Chamber of Commerce into chaos, giving you the chance to swallow our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But I¡¯m very curious, where do you have the confidence to swallow our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°This is something for his majesty and Marshal Sudman to consider, it isn¡¯t rted to us.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian shook his head before saying this in a deep voice.

    ¡°Is that so? Oh, that¡¯s right, you two are honourable Arch Magi, you only need to make a move when necessary, so of course you wouldn¡¯t care about these trivial things.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°Then Arch Magus Ofalian, let¡¯s talk from the perspective of the magic world. Do you think¡­..that if your Candra Empire swallows our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the magic machine technology will develop as quickly as before?¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t rted to me.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian replied with a cold look, ¡°The things that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce made are nothing more than cheap tricks in my eyes, they have already lost the true meaning of magic research. Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce as well, you¡¯re luring magicians and making them study things that don¡¯t have any use.¡±

    ¡°So your thoughts were like this, no wonder¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi gave a nod before turning to Arch Magus Laduca, ¡°Arch Magus Laduca, do you think the same as Arch Magus Ofalian and feel that ourpany¡¯s research is just unorthodox research?¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca was silent for a bit before slowly giving a nod, ¡°Magic tools are only ornaments for magic research, how could you research important things like this? It will only lower the level of magic on the continent, so I don¡¯t like it.¡±

    ¡°He, he¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Your two excellency Arch Magi, I have to say that your thoughts are really too behind¡­..Could it be that you can¡¯t see that so-called magic is more powerful than just seeing whose spells are stronger and using it to kill people?¡±

    ¡°No, we only care about the essence of magic, we don¡¯t like wasting time and effort on useless things like magic machines.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Arch Magus Laduca, do you think the same?¡±

    Seeing Arch Magus Laduca giving a nod, Xu Yi gave a nod before saying with a smile, ¡°Alright, I understand. The two of you are magicians who care about important theoretical magic research and I am someone who cares more about practical magic research. The tradition of the Sines Continent cares more about theoretical magic research, so it isn¡¯t strange for you to think this way. After all, Arch Magus Cami was the same before, but¡­..do you really think that the magic theory that you are studying is correct?¡±

    Hearing the slight tone of ridicule in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression became a bit darker as he said with a cold snort, ¡°Xu Yi, don¡¯t think that just because you are talented in magic, you have the rights to question our achievements in magic research. Don¡¯t forget, the two of us have been Arch Magi for many years, so the things that we have studied are much stronger than the things someone who has just be an Arch Magus like you studies!¡±

    ¡°Is that so? But why don¡¯t I think the same?¡± Xu Yiughed at this, ¡°If the two of you were stronger than me at magic research, then how could I escape from you before? Why are the two of you only confident in trapping me with the Magic Domain Sealing Array? Why is it that when the two of you work together, you can only barely keep me at a stalemate?¡±

    With this series of ¡°whys¡± being asked, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca both had flushed expressions as a trace of shame appeared on their faces.

    Because Xu Yi¡¯s questions were right. If they really surpassed Xu Yi in terms of magic research, they would be able to easily take care of Xu Yi based on the current situation. They wouldn¡¯t have to wait until Xu Yi depleted his magic power, using the most crude method to suppress Xu Yi.

    ¡°The two of you and when many other magicians see me, they would praise my magic talent.¡± Xu Yi then said, ¡°I don¡¯t deny this, my talent is indeed not bad, but if it¡¯s unmatched like you say it is, I can¡¯t ept that. Because this view of yourspletely ignores my hard work, as well as the more important point which is that I have a deeper understanding of magic theory from studying magic machines.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian knitted his brows again, ¡°What do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°What I want to say is that practical magic machine research isn¡¯t your traditional magic tool research. In fact, because of the high requirements of magic machines, researching magic machines always has a high requirement and very precise study of magic theory. In my opinion, the magic knowledge gained from studying the magic theory rted to magic machines is much better than just forcing yourself to study magic.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that you gained your magic power through studying magic machines? What a joke!¡± Arch Magus Ofalian refuted him without any courtesy.

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s not all because of studying magic machines, but it is the main factor.¡± Xu Yi paused before continuing, ¡°I know that you wouldn¡¯t agree to this, then I¡¯ll just give you an example. How do you think¡­¡­I escaped from your domains so easily before? This isn¡¯t a coincidence.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s expression sank.

    When Xu Yi had easily escaped from the two of them working together, it was simply shameful for them.

    Now Xu Yi was even repeating it again and again which was simply like pping their faces.

    ¡°I¡¯ll let you see something.¡± Xu Yi reached into his chest and took out a small metal part, throwing it to the two Arch Magi.

    The two Arch Magi looked at each other before silently controlling their domains to create a path for that metal part to go through.

    ¡°This thing is the key to how I easily escaped earlier. If you can study it thoroughly, I believe that your understanding of magic space will improve again.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s tone was like a teacher talking to their student, however, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca knew that Xu Yi had indeed demonstrated that his understanding of magic space was above theirs.

    This made them very confused. Now that Xu Yi had actually given the key to this problem to them, then it wasn¡¯t a problem if he spoke with a bit of disrespect.

    ¡°Right, it¡¯ll be a bit hard to study this with this thing. I suggest that you read the seven hundred and sixty third issue from October ofst year to the seven hundred and eighty sixth issue from February of the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, there¡¯s a series that I published on Magic Space there. After you read it, I believe that you will have apletely new understanding.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was silent for a bit before putting that little metal part into his chest and looking at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Have you finished your final words? Is there anything else you want to say?¡±

    ¡°Final words?¡± Xu Yi blinked before revealing a smile, ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, I¡¯m afraid that you¡¯ve made a mistake. I just felt that it would be very unlikely we would have a moment to talk in the future, so if I didn¡¯t take this chance to give you some new magic concepts, there wouldn¡¯t be a chance in the future. As for my final words¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and looked at the sky above him. He reached out his right hand and there was a strange glow of varying colours that fell from the sky above him into his hand, turning into a metal box.

    This was the metal box that Xu Yi had thrown out of the Magic Domain Sealing Array before. After it had been on the magic barrier for some time, now that it had returned to Xu Yi¡¯s hand, there was aplicated pattern with varying different glows that were on it.

    Xu Yi looked down at it and then he tightened his hand, sending a wisp of magic power in.

    The wisps of magic on the metal box created different coloured beams of light, which all came together to form different patterns on the surface of the box.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca in the distance knitted their brows when they saw Xu Yi doing this before getting a bad premonition.

    When they had been in Marshal Sudman¡¯s manor, Xu Yi had suddenly taken out those strange metal parts before disappearing in front of them.

    Now that he had pulled out another strange metal box, could it be¡­..

    Thinking of this, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca released their magic power at once and strengthened their domain attack on Xu Yi.

    However, this didn¡¯t have much effect. Xu Yi just strengthened his own magic power and easily blocked their attack.

    After a while, the light on the metal box in Xu Yi¡¯s hand dimmed and he put it back into his chest before looking up.

    ¡°The two of you, I¡¯ve already finished speaking, I don¡¯t care if you¡¯re willing to listen or not. As for killing me¡­..I¡¯m sorry, that is impossible, so¡­..I¡¯ll say goodbye once again.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi suddenly flew up.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at Xu Yi with surprised looks.

    There was the invisible magic barrier above him and he had been injured when he had hit it before. Now that he was flying up like this, did he want to die?

    However, while the two of them watched, there was a strange faint glow that suddenly appeared around Xu Yi. Then as if there wasn''t a barrier at all, he flew right into the sky. With a sh of his figure, he disappeared from above Wimbledon City, not leaving a single trace.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca both had their looks of surprise turn into looks of shock.

    Then as they reacted, they flew into the sky.

    However, after flying for a bit, there were two strange glows that appeared before they bounced back like they had suddenly hit a wall.

    The two of them stabilized themselves with difficulty before looking up at the fading glow of the magic barrier with eyes that were filled with doubt.

    The Magic Domain Sealing Array was clearly still there, so how could Xu Yi pass through?

 Volume 7 95

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 95</h4>

    Year 3782, May 6th, there was a piece of news that blew up the Sines Continent.

    The Candra Empire announced that because they had verified that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had engaged in many illegal activities in their territory, even secretly supporting organizations that wanted to rebel against the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family, they would list the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as one of the bannedpanies in the Candra Empire.

    At the same time, in order to pursue the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s crimes and to protect the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire would dere the Frestech Chamber of Commerce an enemy. They cut off all corporations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and sent an official request to the Stantine Duchy for them to ban all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s activities in the Stantine Duchy.

    After this statement, the Candra Empire¡¯s government had clearly stated that if the Stantine Duchy didn¡¯tply with the Candra Empire¡¯s request, the Candra Empire would take action against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When this statement came out, the entire Sines Continent was stunned.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the most famouspany on the Sines Continent right now, having magic machine technology that countless countries and organizations wanted, as well as the powerful military magic machines that many countries feared. They had already be the most overall powerfulpany on the continent.

    The Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent, it could even be said that they were the most powerful country on the continent.

    The two sides had clearly been working well together, so why did they suddenly break their rtionship?

    Some people thought of the Namco Mine incident in the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s northeastst month.

    The Candra Empire interfering with this matter had already confused many people.

    Now that the Candra Empire was dering war on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this, many people couldn¡¯t help guessing that there was some kind of irreconcble difference that was formed during the Namco Mine incident, which caused the Candra Empire to tear all face with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But this created even more doubts.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a normalpany. Because they had the military magic machines that many countries viewed as important, not only did countries have scruples about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, almost all the countries tried to build rtions with them to get the military magic machine technology from them.

    Bing enemies with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, wasn¡¯t that cutting off all hope of getting the military magic machine technology from them?

    Everyone knew that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the military magic machines, what decided victory in wars was who had the better military magic machines.

    The Candra Empire breaking off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, first not mentioning if they were even capable of ¡®eliminating an evil organization like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went to support the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be able to take it.

    However, the next day, which was May 7th, the Marlow Empire announced that since they had discovered that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had participated in activities that rebelled against the Marlow Empire, they would be listing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a bannedpany and would ban them from entering the Marlow Empire.

    There were only a few words that were different, but the content was the exact same as the one the Candra Empire had announced a day ago.

    When everyone saw this statement, they were shocked while alsoing up with a guess.

    The Candra Empire and Marlow Empire had discussed something in secret? They were going against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce together?

    But if it was like this, it would exin the strange actions the Candra Empire had taken before.

    If they hadn¡¯t reached a secret deal with the Marlow Empire who could match them beforehand, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t take such arge risk to break off all face with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or even dering war on them.

    Otherwise, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire would have lost more than they gained.

    But why would the Marlow Empire agree to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the Candra Empire?

    Such a good chance, why didn¡¯t the Marlow Empire try to build rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? They would have gained the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and defeated the Candra Empire in one fell swoop, right?

    Without the Candra Empire who were their biggest enemies, the Marlow Empire would be able to dominate the continent.

    After the Marlow Empire made this statement, in the following days, there were a total of forty seven countries which included the Drow Race Kingdom, the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Sack Kingdom, and the Falk Kingdom, as well as sixty threerge and small organizations that included the Magicians Guild, the Jino Union, the Valley Association, the cksmith Guild that announced the various crimes of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They had decided to break off all rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, listing them as enemies.

    In just a single week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that seemed to have spread all over the continent and was always weed had be a target that everyone hated.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s factories and branches in these countries had been damaged to varying degrees, even falling into the hands of these nations and organizations.

    It could be said that in a short amount of time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered arge loss that was hard to imagine. It was like having countless limbs cut off at the same time.

    To countless people, no matter how strong the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was or how strong their military magic machines were, facing all these countries and organizations, which could be considered a gathering of the most resources on the Sines Continent, they wouldn¡¯t have any hope.

    Thispany that was was considered the fastest developing and had the most prospects, which had only been formed for twenty three years and had brought the magic machine industry to the continent, changing the lives of many people would most likely fade into history.

    ¡°Do you all think the same?¡± Xu Yi looked at the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the conference room. He had a smile on his face and his eyes were rxed, ¡°Do you think that ourpany is finished this time? There¡¯s no saving us?¡±

    ¡°Pei!¡± The Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Ankhto spat out beside him, ¡°They want to end ourpany with just these fellows? In their dreams!¡±

    ¡°Right! These idiots don¡¯t know what kind of strength ourpany has and they want to scare us like this, what a joke!¡± The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the dwarf Lithorp had a look of disdain on his face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, just give the orders. How should we kill these b*stards?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard leader Hart pped his chest and loudly said, ¡°The brothers of us guards have already been itching. Now that there are idiots who are sending themselves to their deaths, we brothers can¡¯t be more happy!¡±

    ¡°Right. What use is all their people? In front of ourpany¡¯s guards, they are all just a bunch of trash. They¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and raised his hand to stop everyone¡¯s excitement.

    ¡°It seems like everyone¡¯s confident, I am assured. But I must remind everyone that ourpany is facing the entire world this time, is it really good that you are this confident?¡±

    ¡°Che, so what if we fight the whole world? Those fellows clearly wanted to swallow us already, but they never had the guts. Now that they¡¯ve finally grouped together, they think that they swallow us which is why they dare to make a move. If they really are this strong, would they need to do this?¡± Ankhto curled his lips as he revealed a look of disdain.

    ¡°This is right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°These fellows don¡¯t seem that strong, or it should be said that we are much stronger than they thought. So even if we really fight the world, it isn¡¯t anything to be afraid of. Of course, there is an old proverb that says that you must look down on the enemy when fighting, but you have to respect them when strategizing. Sebas!¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s finance manager Sebas who was sixty seven years old, but still looked lively stood up and gave Xu Yi a bow before asking with a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman, may I ask what are your orders?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m announcing that ourpany is now entering a state of alert. We have to maintain our logistics as per wartime standards. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    ¡°I will follow your instructions.¡± Sebas gave a slight bow.

    ¡°Very good! Camby!¡±

    The dwarf Camby jumped up and stood on his chair as he pped his chest, letting out a dull sound.

    ¡°Sir chairman, just give your orders! Even if us dwarves go through a mountain of des or a sea of mes, there¡¯s no problem at all!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°If we sent your magic machine development center dwarves to a mountain of des or a sea of mes, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would really be over. Alright, I¡¯ll give you your task. It¡¯s to change your directives and speed up the production of military magic machines, as well as guaranteeing the production of certain civilian magic machines. You can discuss this with rus.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡± Camby loudly replied as his eyes lit up. He rubbed his hands together and asked with an excited look, ¡°Sir chairman, are we nning on going all out this time?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Of course, or do you think that those fellows woulde to drink with us?¡±

    After a pause, Xu Yi turned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard leader Hart on the side.

    Hart stood up and stood at attention as he looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, please give you orders!¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and left the table, moving to arge map on the wall. He pped the map and said in a deep voice, ¡°If nothing unexpected happens, the enemy will be attacking shortly. Hart, I hope that you can give them a painful blow right from the beginning. Can you do that?¡±

    Hart¡¯s lips curled as he revealed a faint smile before saying with augh, ¡°Sir chairman, I will definitely give those fellows a lesson that they will never forget.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a heavy nod before turning to the others in the conference room.

    ¡°Everyone, starting from now, it will be the most crucial and most dangerous time for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Do you have the confidence to get through this with me?¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, we will always listen to your orders!¡±

    ¡°Destroy those b*stards!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Everyone in the room angrily roared out.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The people around him were all subordinates that had been with him for at least twenty years. In this dangerous time, there wasn¡¯t a single person that had revealed a trace of fear, which he was very grateful for.

    ¡°Pa.¡±

    Xu Yi pped the map once again.

    ¡°Everyone, starting now, let us dere war on this world!¡±

 Volume 7 96

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 96</h4>

    Count Antsol was riding his beloved pure white warhorse ¡°Pineapple¡± as he quickly went up a hill. Looking up, he could see the people in front of him and he curled his lips as he revealed a look of disdain.

    ¡°These fellows are the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s armies? Look at them, they have less than five thousand people, so where do they have the courage to go against me?¡±

    ¡°Lord Count, you can¡¯t look down on them. Look, the Rudson Kingdom army is equipped with all those military magic machines, they have much more than us. We have to be carefulter.¡±

    ¡°Military magic machines?¡± Count Antsol gave a cold snort, ¡°You fellows keep mentioning these things, as if we can¡¯t go to war without them. In my opinion, they aren¡¯t anything great. Just with the few people they have, my elite cavalry can take care of them with a single charge.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­Lord Count, I feel that it¡¯s better to be more careful. What if¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no what ifs!¡± Count Antsol impatiently waved his hand, cutting off his loyal adjutant¡¯s advice, ¡°Send down the order, have the mounted brigade prepare to charge. We will give these fellows a lesson of blood from the beginning for daring to go against our Candra Empire!¡±

    The adjutant looked at the scattered Rudson Kingdom army that only had a few thousand troops without a single warhorse and he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He thought that there shouldn¡¯t be any worries facing these military magic machines, so he didn¡¯t try to persuade Count Antsol again and sent down his orders.

    Count Antsol was leading one of the ten elite regiments of the Candra Empire, the Shining Regiment. Their mission was to attack the Rudson Kingdom first as the vanguard.

    Half a month ago, because the Stantine Duchy had rejected the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s request to ban the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire had dered war on the Stantine Duchy.

    Then because the Rudson Kingdom denied the Candra Empire¡¯s request to enter theirnd, the Candra Empire had also dered war on the Rudson Kingdom.

    The Shining Regiment that Count Antsol was leading was the first army to enter the Rudson Kingdom, which was the vanguard regiment.

    ¡°Hei, I worked hard to get this vanguard position. This battle will be the time for me, Romance Antsol to shine!¡±

    Seeing that the cavalry was already prepared and in formation, Count Antsol raised the sabre in his hand.

    ¡°Charge!¡±

    ¡°Glory shines in my heart!¡±

    The three thousand heavy cavalry that were fully armoured in thick armour let out an angry roar before their three thousand horses charged forward at the same time.

    Just the soldier and the warhorse weighed a ton and adding in the armour and weapons that they had, they could easily reach a shocking weight of two tons.

    When this kind of heavy cavalry charged, their momentum was shocking.

    With three thousand of them charging at once, naturally their momentum was powerful.

    The ground trembled from the charging warhorses and the thuds on the ground came together, sounding like thunder that was roaring through the air.

    Seeing his heavy cavalry unit charging at the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s lines like a flood, Count Antsol roared withughter.

    ¡°Ah, such a beautiful formation, such a beautiful sound! A small Rudson Kingdom dares to be this arrogant, daring to fight our great Candra Empire! Today is the day of your burial!¡±

    ¡°Sou!¡±

    There was a strange sound like something had quickly flown through the air.

    Count Antsol turned in the direction of the sound with a surprised look and saw a red glowing from the Rudson Kingdom army, flying over at them.

    ¡°Humph¡­¡­A little toy¡­¡­¡±

    Before Count Antsol could finish, he saw the fire red glownd among the charging heavy cavalry unit.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a bright me that suddenly exploded, creating an iparably powerful explosion.

    Countless heavy cavalry soldiers and their warhorse were blown into the air. There were even some severed limbs that flew into the sky.

    With just a single attack, there was a giant hole in the tightly knit formation of the heavy cavalry.

    However, it wasn¡¯t finished.

    Then with several more fire red glows that flew out from the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s formation and thennded among the heavy cavalry unit¡¯s formation.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There was a series of intense bursts of me followed by the sounds of explosions. Countless heavy cavalry soldiers and their horses were blown away, as countless limbs filled the sky.

    In an instant, the powerful unit of three thousand heavy cavalry soldiers that were like an unstoppable flood had been shattered, leaving only less than a thousand heavy cavalry units. There was no way for them to continue their charge, not to even mention maintaining their formation.

    Count Antsol looked at the scattered heavy cavalry troops in the distance, not daring to believe what he saw.

    Gods! This was three thousand heavy cavalry soldiers!

    This was the pride of the Shining Regiment, the most elite Candra Empire troops that even the Marlow Empire couldn¡¯t stop!

    But now before they had even reached the enemy, the majority of this unit had been lost!

    ¡°This is impossible¡­¡­This is impossible!¡± The deep fear and shock filled Count Antsol¡¯s heart and he couldn¡¯t help roaring out in a voice filled with rage, ¡°How could trash like the Rudson Kingdom have this kind of power! This must be a dream!¡±

    The adjutant on the side gulped with difficulty before turning his eyes away from the pitiful battlefield and anxiously shouting to Count Antsol, ¡°Lord Count, we should quickly retreat. They even have Magic Cannons, we aren¡¯t a match for them at all!¡±

    ¡°Retreat?¡± Count Antsol turned to look at his adjutant, ¡°Retreat where? We are the vanguard! Do you understand what being the vanguard means?¡±

    ¡°But Lord Count, we definitely aren¡¯t a match for them. If we don¡¯t retreat¡­¡­most likely¡­¡­¡±

    Count Antsol coldly looked at him before shaking his head, ¡°Impossible. Since I¡¯ve taken on the position as the vanguard, there is no chance of retreating. Send down my order, all troops will attack!¡±

    ¡°Lord Count, you can¡¯t do this!¡± The adjutant was shocked as he roared, ¡°Even the heavy cavalry were finished off like this, how can we beat them? You should listen to me and retreat. We should request some military magic machines from headquarters beforeing back, then it won¡¯t be a problem at all!¡±

    Count Antsol turned to see that the Rudson Kingdom army was already moving.

    Although they didn¡¯t have warhorses, they entered strange looking things which should be the Armoured Magic Vehicles. These things were very strange and they caught up to the heavy cavalry that were escaping in the blink of an eye.

    There were mes that came out of these Armoured Magic Vehicles, which swept through the remaining heavy cavalry like a sickle through wheat, giving them no chance to resist.

    Count Antsol took a deep breath.

    He had relied on his family¡¯s power to snatch the position of vanguard in this battle, it was to gain some military contribution to help increase his own position in the future.

    However, now that he had seen the terrifying might of the Rudson Kingdom army¡¯s military magic machines, he couldn¡¯t move at all.

    Seeing a red glow fall and blow away a group of heavy cavalry soldiers, Count Antsol couldn¡¯t stop his eyes from twitching.

    ¡°This must be the power of a devil¡­¡­¡±

    After being silent for a bit, he raised his hand and pulled on his reins. ¡°Pineapple¡± under him understood what he meant and turned in a circle before turning around.

    ¡°Retreat!¡± Count Antsol said in a low voice.

    Although they only had a single engagement with the Rudson Kingdom army, he could tell that he had underestimated the might of the military magic machines. Even the Shining Regiment¡¯s most powerful heavy cavalry had beenpletely annihted.

    In front of these powerful military magic machines, he was certain that his subordinates wouldn¡¯t be able to resist, so he could only choose to retreat.

    Seeing that Count Antsol had finally decided to retreat, the adjutant was filled with joy and quickly sent down the order.

    But it was hard for the Shining Regiment to organize their formation right now. As soon as they made preparations to retreat, there were several dozen lights that fell down from the sky andnded among them.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The mes were impartial and fell down less than two meters away from Count Antsol.

    Count Antsol only had time to open his eyes wide and reveal a look of shock as the exceptionally bright me created a shockwave that was irresistible, hitting him and ¡°Pineapple¡± that he was sitting on.

    ###

    Year 3802, June 4th, the Candra Empire fought with the Rudson Kingdom army. The Candra Empire had sent the Count Antsol to lead the Shining Regiment which was one of the ten elite regiments. They were sent into the Rudson Kingdom as the vanguard and had met the Rudson Kingdom army in battle.

    After a single day, it was a total defeat for the Shining Regiment.

    ording to the stats from after the war, the Rudson Kingdom had suffered zero casualties.

    As for the Shining Regiment, the most elite three thousand heavy cavalry had been destroyed and a total of fifteen thousand light cavalry, heavy infantry, and archers equipped with Magic Repeating Crossbows had suffered over 70% casualties. In the end, there were less than five thousand people who had barely escaped.

    Themander Count Antsol had died in battle, not even leaving a corpse.

 Volume 7 97

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 97</h4>

    The mes of war were not just ignited in the Rudson Kingdom.

    When the Count Antsol died in battle, in a ce that was two thousand and four hundred kilometers north, where the Drake Duchy bordered the Falk Kingdom, there was a giant army that wasposed of soldiers from the Marlow Empire and the Falk Kingdom, which faced a smaller army of several thousand people. This army that was several timesrger faced this smaller army in an intense fight.

    However, the battle had favoured the army of several thousand. The army from the Marlow Empire and the Falk Kingdom had been suppressed since the beginning, having very few chances to resist.

    The one in charge of this allied army, general Marquis Raven from the Marlow Empire army had a dark look on his face. Seeing the lights in the air representing the Magic Cannons and hearing the explosions that followed, he couldn¡¯t stop his heart from being filled with rage.

    ¡°Where¡¯s our Magic Cannon troop? Why aren¡¯t they here yet?¡±

    The deputymander, Marquis Goodall gave a sigh and shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. The Magic Cannons can¡¯t keep up and they are at least twenty kilometers away still.¡±

    ¡°Then why can those fellows prepare their Magic Cannons? Why can¡¯t we?¡± Marquis Raven angrily said.

    Marquis Goodall said with a bitter smile, ¡°Rave, those fellows were waiting to meet us in battle here, so of course they¡¯ve prepared their Magic Cannons. We had to go several hundred kilometers from the empire toe here, how could we have better preparationspared to them? If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that there¡¯s aplete road, we might not even know how to transport the Magic Cannons.¡±

    Hearing this, Marquis Raven knitted his brows even more.

    ¡°Why are our Magic Cannons that heavy? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannons can easily go anywhere and while they are lighter, they are also much stronger.¡±

    Marquis Goodall¡¯s bitter smile was filled with helplessness.

    ¡°It¡¯s already good enough that those people at the military magic machine research department could even develop these Magic Cannons, how could they make them the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s? If we really had this ability, we wouldn¡¯t need to start this war at all, right?¡±

    Marquis Raven thought for a bit before slowly giving a nod.

    ¡°Speaking of this, I always thought that the Drake Duchy¡¯s Duchess Caroline was a smart woman, so she should listen to us or at least remain neutral. I never thought that she would actually stand on the side of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this really is confusing.¡±

    Marquis Goodall¡¯s lips curled into a smile of deep meaning.

    ¡°I heard¡­..that when Duchess Caroline was still a princess, she had been with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu for a long time and they seemed very close. Perhaps it¡¯s because of this that she supported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°Hei, women, they¡¯re easily swayed by emotions.¡± Marquis Raven shook his head and revealed a look of disdain, ¡°Did she not think that even if the Drake Duchy received support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they are only a small duchy in the end? How could they resist our Marlow Empire?¡±

    ¡°But aren¡¯t we being kept here right now?¡± Marquis Goodall spread his hands, ¡°Moreover, don¡¯t forget, even if we take care of Duchess Caroline, there¡¯s a more troublesome and harder to deal with woman in front of us.¡±

    Marquis Raven¡¯s expression changed slightly, ¡°Queen Seveni? It was said that fellow was even closer to Xu Yi and that even her only son was born from Xu Yi. The Lampuri Kingdom is much stronger than the Drake Duchy and their magic machine industry had been developing for much longer, so it¡¯s more mature. If she receives firm support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she really will be troublesome.¡±

    ¡°This was what we already expected, there¡¯s nothing surprising.¡± Marquis Goodall said, ¡°Compared to this, what I care more about are what those fellows from the Sack Kingdom are doing.¡±

    ###

    One thousand and three hundred kilometers to the west, at north border of the Lampuri Kingdom with the Sack Kingdom.

    Instead of the Muerto Mountains, this new border was close to a hundred kilometers to the north. It was part of therge piece ofnd that the Sack Kingdom had given to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Therefore, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army were guarding a hundred kilometers further north, which could be considered deep into the Sack Kingdom.

    But like this, they had lost the natural barrier of the Muerto Mountains. The northern army¡¯s northern defenses were always filled with problems and weren''t as thorough as the Muerto Mountain defenses previously.

    It was a good thing that the Sack Kingdom had been honest over the past few years and had never caused any problems that they were able to continue this.

    But today, there were people that had intentions for thesex defenses.

    A group of three thousand people secretly moved through the woods outside Randy Town, heading to the northern army base to the west of Randy Town.

    This guard base usually only had five hundred soldiers stationed there that were responsible for protecting a ten kilometer area with Randy Town at its center.

    Relying on five hundred people to protect such arge area, naturally not everything could be covered.

    So these three thousand soldiers from the Sack Kingdom were able to smoothly reach the base, not encountering any hindrances.

    Looking at the lights of the army base in the distance that shined in the night, this troop from the Hungry Wolf Regiment surrounded this area.

    Their goal was to wipe out the five hundred soldiers in this base and then capture all the military supplies in this base.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had always been supported by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, havingrge amounts of military magic machines.

    Although there were only five hundred people, the military magic machines they had could evenpare to the equipment of the entire Hungry Wolf Regiment.

    If they faced them directly, these three thousand people might not be their match.

    But if they used an ambush, the military magic machines yed a much smaller role.

    As long as they could get close, what decided victory was the number of troops.

    Three thousand Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers were less than two hundred meters away from this base when there was a whistle that rang through the night. All the soldiers came out of their hidden ces and charged at the base.

    They had to charge in before the northern army could react and fight them at close range, that was their only hope of winning!

    However, when the three thousand Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers charged over the walls, there wasn¡¯t any response at all.

    There were no northern army soldiers and no cries from inside, it was like this base was already dead.

    After hesitating a bit, themander in charge of these three thousand people gave a secret signal and they charged into the base.

    However, when the first soldier climbed the wall and prepared to jump over, there was a bright red light that came from inside.

    There was also a bunch of red lights that appeared outside of the walls.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    A series of explosions filled the air and the explosions had caused the dark night to suddenly be filled with a red glow.

    There were already half of the three thousand Hungry Wolf Regiment soldiers that had dropped and the remaining half had lost their battle strength from the explosion.

    In a short period of time, there were only less than five hundred people who could still fight from the original three thousand soldiers.

    But the remaining five hundred people knew that they had fallen in a trap and heard countless arrowsing from behind them.

    In just a few breaths, these several hundred soldiers were shot down by arrows. There wasn¡¯t a single Hungry Wolf Regiment soldier that was left standing outside the walls of this base.

    ¡°Humph, a bunch of viins. Do you really think that you could evade our surveince?¡±

    The one in charge of Randy Town¡¯s garrison, the northern army¡¯s third regiment¡¯s fourth squad leader Denpuru came out of the darkness outside the walls. He disdainfully spat at a Hungry Wolf Regiment soldier¡¯s corpse before turning to the northwest and taking out a small Magic Communicator.

    When he was about to dial, he saw a red light on the Magic Communicator which was someone trying to contact him.

    Denpuru gave augh before pressing a button and epting the call.

    ¡°Hey, Denpuru, how is it going on your side? Did the Sack Kingdom micee looking for you?¡± There was a straightforward voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    If they knew them, just from this voice, they could tell that the person on the other side was Ryan whomanded the garrison at Tadon Town that was twenty kilometers away from here.

    ¡°They did, but we just took care of them. What about your side?¡± Denpuru asked.

    ¡°Ha, ha, I already said that they were a bunch of mice, there¡¯s nothing to be worried about. We killed them all, it¡¯s fine.¡± Ryan said.

    ¡°Good then.¡± Denpuru gave a nod, ¡°I don¡¯t need to tell you what we need to do next, right?¡±

    ¡°Hei, is there a need for you to say anything? They already passed down the orders. Alright, you just quickly tidy up your side and we can converge when I tidy up my side. Then we can teach those brats from the Sack Kingdom a good lesson!¡±

    ¡°Alright, remain in contact.¡± Denpuru hung up before looking up at the calm sky and letting out a sigh.

    Since fighting the Sack Kingdomst time, it had already been close to ten years of peace.

    The Sack Kingdom idiots wanted to dere war by taking advantage of the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire dering war on the Stantine Duchy and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They wanted to attack the Lampuri Kingdom, they really were thinking too much.

    ¡°Hei, we want to let you idiots know that the current Lampuri Kingdom is more than ten times stronger than you!¡±

 Volume 7 98

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 98</h4>

    The mes of war were lit across the entire Sines Continent.

    In the beginning of June, the Candra Empire¡¯s army entered the Rudson Kingdom.

    Then following that, the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom invaded the Drake Duchy, fighting thebined armies of the Drake Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom at the border.

    At the same time, the Sack Kingdom assembled their armies to attack the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army.

    Linking these three together, they would find that the three armies were aimed at the same ce, which was the Stantine Duchy on the southwest corner of the continent.

    Or urately speaking, it was aimed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, these mes of war wasn¡¯t limited to just the southwest corner. When these mes of war were lit, the forty seven countries that had listed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as an enemy started pressuring the surrounding countries. They requested these countries to expel the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from their borders, or they would be used of supporting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would also be listed as enemies.

    With this pressure and the benefits that mighte from it, many countries that hadn¡¯t stated their stance banned the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Theypletely sealed up the production bases, factories, and stores of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their borders.

    Of course, there were some countries that ignored this warning and continued to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    These countries were sixteen countries that were close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which included the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the Wales Duchy.

    So after the mes of war were lit in the southwest corner, these sixteen countries were also attacked by their surrounding countries.

    The preferred target of these attacks were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s bases.

    Since the war between the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire forty years ago, this could be the biggest war that involved the most countries on the continent in the past few decades.

    The cause of this wasn''t a country, but rather apany. This was definitely the most unusual war on the Sines Continent.

    For most people, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was strong and even if they had the powerful military magic machines, it was impossible for them to fight arge empire like the Candra Empire.

    Not to mention that this was the first time that the Candra Empire was working with the Marlow Empire, as well as adding in the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Drow Race Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, and many other countries. It could be considered a gathering of most of the power on the Sines Continent.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the support of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the other countries, how could they face such a terrifying force?

    So most people thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, thispany that led the magic machine industry wave on the continent would be ending soon.

    However, when the mes of war were lit, everything that happened caused the continent to lose their voice.

    The first one to light the mes of war were the Candra Empire.

    But the Candra Empire¡¯s vanguard, the Shining Regiment which was one of their ten elite regiments had fought for only half a day with the Rudson Kingdom army before getting close to being annihted. The regiment¡¯smander Count Antsol had even died on the battlefield.

    Then the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom¡¯s allied empire of sixty thousand had been stopped at the border between the Drake Duchy and the Falk Kingdom by the Drake Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army of twenty thousand.

    The two sides had fought for two days and the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom¡¯s logistics department had been bombed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Ariships, causing them to lose their supplies and their Magic Cannons.

    After losing most of the Magic Cannons that would support them, they were forced out of the Drake Duchy, but they also met the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships bombing them as they retreated.

    Although the army had two Great Magicians and several High Grade Magicians, the two Great Magicians had been killed on the scene and twenty six out of the thirty seven High Grade Magicians had also been killed, leaving only eleven who could barely escape.

    Finally after the bombing from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships, their army were attacked by the Lampuri Kingdom and Drake Duchy army, suffering heavy casualties. In the end, only twenty thousand soldiers were able to return to the Falk Kingdom, which could be considered a disastrous defeat.

    However,pared to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s losses, the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire¡¯s losses couldn¡¯t be considered anything.

    To coordinate with the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire¡¯s attack, the Sack Kingdom that was deeply cooperative with them agreed to attacking the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army at the same time, to divert the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army.

    However, of the six brigades sent out in the sneak attack, for a total of thirty thousand people from the Hungry Wolf Regiment, they had all been counter attacked by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards. There were only less than four thousand people who returned from the thirty thousand who went out.

    The most important thing was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards had then attacked the Sack Kingdom.

    If one was to talk about military magic machines, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, the most well equipped army on the Sines Continent was the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards.

    Since twenty years ago, the Lampuri Kingdom had been building up their northern guards with their good rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After twenty years of building them up, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards had be an army that waspletely armed with military magic machines.

    The northern guards already had fifteen fully equipped Magic Airships and it was hard to estimate all the other military magic machines that they had.

    This army with fifty thousand troops, it was hard to estimate their battle power.

    Even if the Sack Kingdom had been working hard to develop military magic machines, it was impossible for them topare to the military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army had.

    So in a single battle, the Sack Kingdom had been defeated again and again.

    In just half a month, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern guards had already routed all of the Sack Kingdom¡¯s defenses and broke through to the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital of Nordham City.

    The Sack Kingdom¡¯s king and his ministers had fled the city before it was broken into and the Sack Kingdom¡¯s capital fell into enemy hands.

    At the same time, the Lampuri Kingdom and Drake Duchy¡¯s army after defeating the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom army didn¡¯t slow down. They invaded the Falk Kingdom and were unstoppable the entire way, even repelling the three regiments of the Falk Kingdom and the reinforcement army from the Marlow Empire, finally reaching the Falk Kingdom¡¯s capital. However, they chose to retreat and rebuild their fortifications on the Drake Duchy border.

    Through this fight, the Falk Kingdom had lost most of their army and had been severely damaged, so they couldn¡¯t participate in the war with the Drake Duchy any longer.

    And the Marlow Empire never expected them to be defeated this quickly and this badly. Their reinforcement army was still being organized, so they couldn¡¯tunch another attack in a short period of time.

    So the Drake Duchy¡¯s northern border had reached a temporary peace.

    But¡­¡­in the southern Rudson Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t peaceful at all.

    After the Shining Regiment was destroyed and even themander Count Antsol was killed, the Candra Empire had been enraged and sent arge army into the Rudson Kingdom.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom had the support of some military magic machines, the Candra Empire was prepared. They sent an army of one hundred and eighty thousand soldiers to invade from many different directions.

    During this time, they showed therge influence of integrating the Norton Duchy into the Candra Empire.

    To enter the Rudson Kingdom from the Candra Empire, there was only the east and northeast route that could be taken. However, after integrating the Norton Duchy, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s north was open to invasion for the Candra Empire. The Candra Empire had divided their army of one hundred and eighty thousand troops to six different routes that invaded at the same time.

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s entire army had less than fifty thousand troops, so to resist the invasion of one hundred and eighty thousand troops was just a pipe dream.

    However, at this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made an announcement. This was their first time denying the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire¡¯s usations towards them and even refuted them.

    In this announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always wanted to cooperate with the two empires, with the goal of developing the magic machine industries in these two empires. They wanted to improve the lives of their citizens and develop with the two empires.

    But these two empires had turned ck to white and ndered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, sealing up the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses in the two empires without any reasoning or basis. Not only did this causerge economic loss for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it even caused quite serious personnel casualties.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t ept this and seriously condemned them.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t the main point.

    The main point was that in thetter half, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that the Drake Duchy and the Rudson Kingdom had been long term partners of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so now that the two empires had started invading them with armies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t stand by. They would act ording to their strategic cooperations and support these two countries, helping them fight back the invasion of the two empires.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that they wouldn¡¯t only offer support withmodities, but they would also provide direct military support.

    This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were officially going to war.

 Volume 7 99

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 99</h4>

    On the morning of June 28th, there was a row ofrge transport Magic Cars that rolled across the ins of the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s northern borders, slowly making their way to a t area outside of the valley in front of them.

    Themander of one of the Candra Empire¡¯s ten elite regiments, Commander Roman Lagar jumped down from the passenger seat of one of therge transport Magic Cars in the middle. He patted his butt out of habit, but he found that his butt didn¡¯t ache at all and he couldn¡¯t help turning to look at the padded seats of the passenger seat, curling his lips.

    ¡°This thing really is much morefortable. It¡¯s a pity that those stubborn old fools aren¡¯t willing to ept this fact, it really is a shame.¡±

    After muttering to himself, Lagar waved his hand and called an adjutant over.

    ¡°Scout out the valley in front of us and make sure that there¡¯s no ambush.¡±

    The adjutant followed this order and not long after, there was a small team of horses that quickly went out.

    Although they had suffered two defeats at the hands of the Rudson Kingdom previously, the Candra Empire¡¯s army had been reflecting on themselves. They had attached importance to the military magic machines that many people looked down on before, but the Candra Empire army¡¯s traditions were deeply set, so all equipment was linked with the benefits of many people. There was a lot of pressure to change their equipment, so changing military equipment was always a troublesome issue.

    Moreover, the Candra Empire army alone had five hundred thousand troops, so topletely change their weapons was impossible.

    Then adding in the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never had enough production capacity, they had strictly controlled the sales of military magic machines. The Candra Empire had never been able to purchase enough military magic machines to arm their giant army.

    In the most recent years, the Candra Empire had obtained some technology for military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they took the path of independence. They had created a series of military magic machines based on the foundation received from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which they had started mass producing.

    With these things, the Candra Empire was confident in breaking all rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But it was still far from being able to satisfy therge demand of therge army, so there was a strange situation that appeared in the Candra Empire army. It was that they still used traditional weapons along with horses, but the new military magic machines and therge transport Magic Cars were mixed in with them, which looked very chaotic.

    There was no other way. The headquarters couldn¡¯t match all their needs, so they could only give supplies based on the situation.

    ¡°Hei, it was because that idiot Antsol never changed his views that he had died without even leaving a corpse¡­¡­¡±

    Thinking of this, Lagar revealed a smile of disdain.

    In the Candra Empire army, there were quite a few people like Count Antsol who couldn¡¯t ept these new things and kept holding on to the old method of fighting. Lagar called these people who were unwilling to change the old faction and he regarded himself as the new faction.

    Before this, the old faction had a bit of edge over the new faction.

    But after the Shining Regiment led by Antsol was almost annihted, the old faction had lost their voice and the new faction had quickly taken over. In the army sent to attack the Rudson Kingdom this time, most of themanders were from the new faction.

    Lagar was one of the most active among the new faction. He had volunteered for this mission this time, leading the Sacred Regiment under him to be the main attacking force in the third direction, attacking the Rudson Kingdom from the north.

    If the traditional old faction was sent, although they would still be vignt whening across this valley, sending out scouts to investigate if there was an ambush, they wouldn¡¯t have been as careful as Lagar. He had sent scouts to the valley while still being two kilometers away.

    If the old factionmanders knew about this, they wouldugh at Lagar for being a cowardly person.

    However, Lagar knew that the distance he chose wasn¡¯t cowardly, rather it was because the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army hadrge amounts of Magic Cannons.

    The attack range of the Magic Cannon was easily over two kilometers, even reaching three kilometers.

    Even at this distance, they weren¡¯t 100% safe.

    So in order to make sure there weren¡¯t any problems, Lagar had to be more careful.

    Looking at the scout climbing up the cliffs on both sides, Lagar couldn¡¯t help shaking his head and scolding them in a low voice.

    ¡°Damn, that stingy headquarters, why weren¡¯t they willing to buy some Magic Airships? If we had a few dozen of them¡­..Oh, no, even if we had one, that would be good. That way we can send the Magic Airship out to scout and don¡¯t need to go through all this trouble. The scouts can just go¡­¡­¡±

    Lagar suddenly looked at the center of the army where there was a luxurious horse carriage that was very conspicuous as it was surrounded by a group of soldiers, looking very striking.

    In the horse carriage was the Sacred Regiment¡¯s magician force leader, Great Magician Yale who was a Fourth Grade Great Magician.

    Lagar hesitated a bit beforeing up beside the horse carriage.

    ¡°Your excellency Yale, can you make a move?¡± Lagar asked this horse carriage with a respectful look.

    Although he was the Sacred Regiment¡¯smander, the magicians had always been separate from the military, so they didn¡¯t listen to the orders of themanders.

    Not to mention that Great Magician Yale was a Fourth Grade Great Magician. He was one of the peak magicians other than the nine Arch Magi of the Candra Empire, his position was much higher than Lagar¡¯s.

    The horse carriage¡¯s curtain was lifted and Great Magician Yale¡¯s wrinkled face was revealed.

    ¡°Make a move?¡± Great Magician Yale slightly knitted his brows as he revealed a look of doubt, ¡°We still haven¡¯t encountered the enemies yet, what do you want me to do?¡±

    Lagar revealed a smile and exined, ¡°It¡¯s like this, your excellency Great Magician, I¡¯m worried that the enemy has put down an ambush in front of us and there might be magic traps. I hope that you can check it out with your magic, to see if there are any magic traps in the valley in front of us.¡±

    Great Magician Yale came out of the horse carriage and looked at the valley in the distance before knitting his brows again.

    ¡°Did you not send scouts?¡±

    ¡°The scouts can only see if there are people waiting in ambush, they can¡¯t detect magic traps.¡± Lagar shook his head.

    ¡°Then there¡¯s no need for me to go personally still, right?¡± Great Magician Yale waved his hand in an impatient manner. He flicked a finger and a red ball of light flew out, falling onto a normal looking horse carriage in the formation.

    After a while, a young magician wearing a magician¡¯s robe who looked to be around thirty flew over.

    ¡°Master Yale, do you have any orders?¡± The young magician said in a very respectful manner to Great Magician Yale.

    Great Magician Yale pointed at the valley in the distance, ¡°Go and see if there are any magic traps. Our sirmander doesn¡¯t feel too assured.¡±

    Lagar¡¯s expression changed slightly before he still gave a nod and said to the young magician, ¡°Yes. I also hope that you can investigate the area around the valley, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Facing a young magician who was only a Seventh Grade Magician, Lagar didn¡¯t need to be that polite.

    The young magician naturally didn¡¯t reject him like Great Magician Yale and after agreeing, he flew towards the valley.

    ¡°Sirmander, I understand your caution, but aren¡¯t you being a bit too careful right now?¡± Great Magician Yale suddenly said.

    Lagar cursed in his heart, but he still had a smile on his face as he replied, ¡° In the army, there¡¯s nothing wrong with being a bit more careful.¡±

    Great Magician Yale shook his head, ¡°You really aren¡¯t as aggressive as the other soldiers I¡¯ve seen, they¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a powerful explosion in the distance that cut Great Magician Yale off.

    The expression of the two changed at the same time as they looked in the direction of the explosion sound, but they saw dust, smoke, and mes rising from the valley in the distance like there had been an explosion.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Yale¡¯s expression was a bit ugly.

    He had just used Lagar of being too careful, but now the explosion in the valley was like a p to his face.

    Lagar didn¡¯t have time to care about what Great Magician Yale was thinking, he carefully looked at the valley in the distance as his expression changed.

    After the explosion, there were rocks that fell from the two sides of the valley. There were a few more explosions that rang out that caused even more rocks to fall down.

    In the blink of an eye, the ten meters path in the valley had been filled with countless giant rocks and the way forward had been blocked.

    ¡°Great Magician Yale, we might really need you to act this time.¡± Lagar said with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Un?¡± Great Magician Yale didn¡¯t dare reject him this time, he just raised a brow.

    ¡°Other than you acting, we don¡¯t have a way of clearing a path. Moreover¡­¡­I¡¯m worried that there are other traps.¡±

    Great Magician Yale looked at the valley in the distance and silently gave a nod.

    He went forward to where the valley had been blocked. In the surrounding fifty kilometers area, there was only this valley that they could go through, so if they couldn¡¯t go through her and had to take a detour, it would cost them several hours which would seriously dy them.

    To clear a path through this copsed valley, a normal magician wouldn¡¯t do and only he who was a Great Magician could do this.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go investigate the situation. If there are no traps, you can send people along, I still need them to clear out the rubble.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Great Magician Yale said this before flying into the sky, quickly flying towards the valley in the distance.

    Halfway there, there were fire red glows that cut through the sky on both sides, flying right towards the Sacred Regiment.

 Volume 7 100

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 100</h4>

    Great Magician Yale in the sky noticed the powerful magic energying from these fire red glows and he was shocked.

    If he wasn¡¯t wrong, these terrifying fire red glows should be the glow of the Magic Shells.

    If any of these Magic Shells fell on the Sacred Regiment, the consequences would be unimaginable.

    Thinking of this, Great Magician Yale didn¡¯t dare hesitate as he used all his magic power to send out several bolts of lightning from his hand, which were aimed right at the Magic Shells.

    However, when the bolts of lightning reached these fire red glows, there was a faint light blue glow that appeared around them. They blocked all of the bolts of lightning and they couldn¡¯t do anything to them.

    Great Magician Yale was stunned.

    Don¡¯t look down on how normal these bolts of lightning look, they were the Eighth Grade Spell Thunderp Fury. Each one of these bolts of lightning contained a terrifying might.

    He thought that he could destroy these Magic Shells with this spell, but he never thought that the Magic Shells themselves would have defensive magic on them which could even resist a powerful Eighth Grade Spell!

    However, he didn¡¯t have time to be surprised or ponder this. Seeing that the Magic Shells were about to fall, Great Magician Yale didn¡¯t dare hesitate at all as he released all his magic, creating a giant magic barrier in the sky that covered the Sacred Regiment soldiers underneath.

    Great Magician Yale excelled in Wind Magic, so he released this Wind Magic Barrier that was strong enough to resist Ninth Grade Spells and even some weaker Forbidden Spells. He created a light green light barrier in the sky that caused the sky to turn light green.

    The Sacred Regiment soldiers had been panicking when they saw the glow of the Magic Shells falling, but seeing Great Magician Yale release his magic barrier, they let out a sigh of relief.

    However, that smile on their faces had just appeared when they found that after the fire red glows hit Great Magician Yale¡¯s magic barrier, they didn¡¯t slow down at all as they prated through the magic barrier and continued to fall.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    With these fire red glows falling, it created several iparably powerful explosions.

    When the mes appeared, countless Sacred Regiment soldiers were also blown away and they fell into chaos.

    Lagar¡¯s eyes opened wide as he watched this chaos with iparable shock. Then he suddenly looked at Great Magician Yale in the sky as his heart turned cold.

    Great Magician Yale was considered their biggest advantage against the Rudson Kingdom army and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that might appear, but the facts proved that Great Magician Yale couldn¡¯t actually protect them. Then how was the Sacred Regiment supposed to fight the enemy?

    Great Magician Yale in the sky was even more shocked than Lagar.

    This magic barrier was something he had developed himself, a High Grade Wind Magic Barrier that he had been proud of. He never thought that he couldn¡¯t stop these Magic Cannons, they hadn¡¯t even been able to hinder them at all.

    Thinking of how his bolts of lightning had been easily taken care of by those Magic Shells, Great Magician Yale¡¯s heart turned cold again.

    If it was fighting between magicians, he could think of another way to deal with them.

    But now his primary mission was to support and protect the Sacred Regiment under him and he actually couldn¡¯t do that, so wasn¡¯t there no meaning for him to be here?

    Great Magician Yale couldn¡¯t help looking down and seeing the chaotic and tragic scene, he couldn¡¯t help feeling shame.

    Turning over, he met the gaze of Lagar who was looking up.

    The two looked at each other and immediately understood what the other person was thinking.

    Lagar gritted his teeth before loudly calling his adjutant and giving him an order, ¡°Reorganize the army and retreat!¡±

    The adjutant was surprised, ¡°Retreat? Lord Count, are you¡­¡­telling us to retreat?¡±

    They had just entered the Rudson Kingdom and they hadn¡¯tpleted their mission yet, they hadn¡¯t even met the enemy yet, but themander was already giving the order to retreat? This was just too much, right!

    ¡°Stop wasting words!¡± Lagar angrily grabbed the cor of his adjutant and roared out with fierce eyes, ¡°Immediately send down the orders and have the entire army retreat! Do you understand?¡±

    The adjutant¡¯s heart turned cold and he quickly nodded before turning to pass down that order.

    But as soon as he turned, before he could even take two steps, there were several dozen more fire red glows that appeared in the sky from both sides.

    Great Magician Yale who hadn¡¯t recovered from thest attack took a while before he noticed this attack.

    In his shock, Great Magician Yale didn¡¯t have time to think as he activated all his magic, using all the protective magic that he had grasped.

    There were variousyers of light that appeared above the Sacred Regiment, dying in the sky in different colours, making it look very pretty.

    However¡­..it wasn¡¯t any use.

    Those several dozen fire red glows were like before, prating these magnificent looking magic barriers without any issues and then falling on the Sacred Regiment.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    With a series of fierce explosions, each one created a burst of me that also createdrge holes in the Sacred Regiment.

    After these explosions, the Sacred Regiment¡¯s formation that had barely been kept had been blown away.

    In fact, there were only several thousand soldiers that had been blown up in the explosions and they couldn¡¯t affect the Sacred Regiment at all.

    But this enemy could attack them without even seeing them and the key thing was that the iparably powerful Great Magician couldn¡¯t stop them. The morale of the Sacred Regiment had been seriously attacked and all the soldiers had hearts that were filled with fear.

    Lagar¡¯s mouth was opened wide. Seeing the corpse that had been mangled beyond recognition under him, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.

    This corpse was the adjutant that he had just sent to pass down the orders.

    A Magic Shell had fallen on the road in front of him and he had been blown up in front of Lagar.

    If this Magic Shell had been slightly closer and hadnded on Lagar, he was certain that he would have died without leaving a corpse.

    Thinking of this, Lagar¡¯s heart was ice cold.

    When he heard that the Shining Regiment had been close to annihted and even themander Count Antsol had been killed, he kept ridiculing Count Antsol in his heart.

    Even if he couldn¡¯t win, couldn¡¯t he escape?

    However, after entering the battlefield himself, he found that Count Antsol was the same as him, he must have wanted to run right away.

    But facing this iparably strange attack, how could he run?

    ¡°Hu!¡±

    There was a sudden gust of wind as Great Magician Yale hadnded beside Lagar.

    ¡°Count Lagar, give the order to retreat.¡± Great Magician Yale didn¡¯t have a single trace of the calm look from before as he had eyes filled with anxiety. There was even a bit of panic that couldn¡¯t be hidden on his face.

    Lagar looked at him and he felt a bit pleased.

    This Great Magician Yale had always been aloof since they had met, but now that he saw that his magic wasn¡¯t useful, he was even more afraid than him.

    ¡°Un, we must retreat¡­¡­¡± Lagar nodded, not denying Great Magician Yale¡¯s suggestion, ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, please help me with something. Please use voice amplifying magic to transmit the order.¡±

    Great Magician Yale saw the chaotic situation around him and knew that it would be hard to pass down the order to every part of the army, so he gave a nod. He flew into the sky again and used his magic to increase his voice.

    ¡°The Lord Count¡¯s orders are for a full retreat!¡±

    Lagar underneath him almost fell over.

    Did he give this kind of order?

    As expected, after hearing Great Magician Yale¡¯s voice, the Sacred Regiment¡¯s soldiers that had been in chaos were surprised before they all turned and ran off in that direction.

    Lagar was stunned by the soldiers running away like a wave as his heart was filled with regret.

    He really shouldn¡¯t have had Great Magician Yale who didn¡¯t have the least bit of military knowledge give this retreat order.

    What the soldiers were doing now wasn¡¯t considered a tactical retreat, but rather they were running away!

    This was the worst scenario for a battlefield. It meant that the soldiers had lost all sense of organization and even lost their sanity, they wouldn¡¯t listen to any orders anymore.

    Seeing the panic that most of the soldiers had, Lagar gave a bitterugh deep down.

    Was this still the Sacred Regiment that he was proud of?

    But he didn¡¯t have a right to me his soldiers because even he as themander had lost all reasoning under this strange attack. He had even gone against protocol by having Great Magician Yale pass down this order to retreat.

    Great Magician Yale saw the soldiers running away under him and didn¡¯t really care about them.

    After thinking for a bit, he flew to the magicians under him that could only fly in the sky in a panic since they didn¡¯t know what to do. After saying a few things to them, he turned to fly back to Lagar¡¯s side.

    ¡°Count Lagar, I¡¯ll cover your retreat.¡±

    Lagar looked at him and gave a nod.

    The two of them were very clear that without the protection of Great Magician Yale, it was unknown if Lagar would be able to retreat safely even if he was themander.

    If themander Lagar were to die here, Great Magician Yale as the highest ranking magician here would definitely be held ountable to a certain degree by the army headquarters.

    As long as the two of them could survive, even if the Sacred Regiment was wiped out, there would still be a chance.

    After Lagar agreed, Great Magician Yale took Lagar¡¯s arm and activated his magic as a ck crack in space appeared in front of the two of them.

    Great Magician Yale used his magic to create a magic barrier around Lagar before bringing him into the spatial crack.

    After a while, the two of them appeared in a t area that was around two to three kilometers away from the battlefield.

    Turning around to look at the distant sky, they saw countless blurry fire red glows flying out before falling onto the battlefield they had just been on.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Hearing these non stop explosions, Lagar and Great Magician Yale had sunken expressions.

    The two of them had safely escaped, but as for how many of the Sacred Regiment would be able to escape, that would be hard to tell¡­¡­

 Volume 7 101

    <h4>Volume 7 Chapter 101</h4>

    Above the battlefield, there was a Magic Airship that had been flying at an altitude of eight hundred meters since the beginning of the battle. Neither Lagar or Great Magician Yale had noticed it.

    There was no other way because it was flying too high. If one looked up from above, this Magic Airship that was around a hundred meters long and several dozen meters wide was only a small ck dot in the sky.

    This Magic Airship was from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, its job was to locate and keep an eye on the enemy.

    Before the Sacred Regiment had even entered the Rudson Kingdom, they had already found the Sacred Regiment¡¯s trail and had been following in the air the entire time.

    The Sacred Regiment¡¯s movements had been watched by them the entire time before being sent to a mountain that was five kilometers south of here.

    On this mountain, there were twenty Repeating Magic Rocket Launcher Vehicles that were lined up in two neat rows.

    This area was no longer filled with the sounds of Magic Rockets being sent out, silence had returned.

    The muzzles of the twenty Magic Rocket Launchers still had wisps of smoke and the heat from the muzzles filled the air.

    ¡°Hey, have those fellows from the Sacred Regiment escaped our range yet?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ second artillery team¡¯s leader Bronc shouted in an unsatisfied voice into the Magic Communicator in his hand, ¡°Those cowardly fellows, I haven¡¯t even satisfied myself and they¡¯ve all run off.¡±

    A helpless voice came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°I say, Bronc, are you really nning on killing them all? Do you know how many rounds of Magic Shells that will waste? Not saying anything else, didn''t you already exceed your quota just now? When you report this back, it would be strange if leader Hart doesn¡¯t scold you.¡±

    ¡°Hei¡­..Hei, hei¡­..¡± Bronc scratched his head and gave two dryughs, ¡°This can¡¯t be med on me, who told them to make these things so easy to use. When you shoot these Magic Shells, you can¡¯t stop at all. This isn¡¯t anything yet, it¡¯s just one hundred rounds that I fired¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°One hundred?¡± The voice from the Magic Communicator sounded very strange, ¡°Ze, ze, you¡¯re quite good Bronc. Leader Hart gave you one hundred rounds and you hit it perfectly, not leaving a single one. I¡¯m telling you, your next batch of supplies will onlye tomorrow, so you can just take care of yourself.¡±

    ¡°Anyway, we already aplished our mission and now I¡¯ll bring my brothers back to rest. Reblo, you still have quite a few things to do, so you can¡¯t go and rest like me.¡±

    After saying this, Bronc hung up and waved his hand.

    ¡°Brother, let¡¯s pack up!¡±

    The second artillery team began moving and after a bit, the twenty new Repeating Magic Rocket Launcher Cars were packed up. With a truck pulling them in front, they quickly disappeared.

    On the other side, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ scouting team¡¯s sixty seventh Magic Airship leader Reblo looked at the Magic Communicator in his hand before helplessly shaking his head.

    ¡°This Bronc, wait and see how leader Hart will scold you.¡±

    After a sigh, Reblo turned his head to look at Kandishek who was in charge ofmunications.

    ¡°Hey, how is it looking on the other sides?¡±

    Kandishek raised his hand and gave a sign of victory to Reblo.

    ¡°The other sides are all sending good news. The Candra Empire¡¯s three other armies have already been defeated and the other two are about to enter the attack range. If nothing expected happens, they won¡¯t be able to escape.¡±

    ¡°Very good. Send thebat reports we received back and then we¡¯ll follow the n¡­¡­¡±

    Reblo came in front of a giant table in the center of the Magic Airship.

    There was a giant map of the surrounding area in the Rudson Kingdom. Reblo looked down and pointed at a spot in the upper right corner.

    ¡°Go to area eleven and try to arrive within two hours. We¡¯ll meet up with airships thirteen, seventeen, thirty six, and forty seven before waiting for our next orders.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    There were the sounds of agreement that filled the Magic Airship. This Magic Airship turned in the sky and flew off in a northeast direction.

    After a while, the Magic Airship had already disappeared and left this battlefield far behind them.

    ###

    Two hundred and fifty kilometers to the northeast of the battlefield the Sacred Regiment was on, it was thergest part of tnd in the northern Rudson Kingdom, the Indra ins.

    This great ins upied the entire north of the Rudson Kingdom, with a length of over five hundred kilometers from east to west and a width of over three hundred kilometers from north to south.

    To enter the Rudson Kingdom, they had to go past these ins.

    ording to the n that the Candra Empire army headquarters came up with this time, since the Rudson Kingdom had a serious disadvantage when it came to number of troops, then they would give up these ins that had no cover and defend the more secure mountain ranges to the south of the Indra ins.

    But after the two main regiments of the Candra Empire entered the Indra ins, before they could even go fifty kilometers in, they had discovered the traces of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ¡°Are those Rudson Kingdom people insane?¡± The left regiment¡¯smander, the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment¡¯smander Gerald knitted his brows as he revealed a confused look, ¡°This is a in without any cover, why would they want to resist our army here?¡±

    The right regiment¡¯smander, the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯smander Narolov had a serious look and shook his head, ¡°Gerald, you can¡¯t look down on those Rudson Kingdom people too much. Don¡¯t forget, the Shining Regiment was almost annihted by them and even that fellow Antsol had died in battle, so it¡¯s better if we¡¯re careful.¡±

    ¡°Che, the trash Antsol only took advantage of the three thousand heavy cavalry his ancestors left him to show off, but he forgot that heavy cavalry doesn¡¯t mean everything. Now that he¡¯s dead and even those three thousand heavy cavalry are finished, his family is most likely done for in the future.¡±

    Narolov looked at Gerald with a dissatisfied look.

    Although he also looked down on Antsol and didn¡¯t have a favourable impression of this fellow, Antsol was already dead and even the Shining Regiment under him were destroyed. As a fellow young and also high ranking general of one of the Candra Empire army¡¯s regiments, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit sad.

    ¡°No matter what, we should be a bit more careful. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army has always had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I think that they¡¯ve prepared quite a few military magic machines. So we shouldn¡¯t look down on them just because they have less soldiers or we will suffer.¡±

    ¡°Alright, alright, I will be serious. Rx, I¡¯m not joking.¡± Gerald raised his hands and indicated that he really was thinking, ¡°I¡¯ve experienced the might of the military magic machines more than you. Even those things that the fellows at the army headquarters made from copying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines are that strong, how could I possibly look down on the Rudson Kingdom equipped with the Frestech Brand military magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..it¡¯s good that you know.¡± Narolov gave a nod.

    He and Gerald were the same, they were both from the new faction. They were part of the military officers who understood the military magic machine and supported the military magic machine reforms.

    When it came to the influence of the military magic machines, where they could even change the entire method of wars, they understood this better than many of the oldmanders back at the army headquarters and epted it more easily.

    Through their insistence and investment, the two of them were able to lead the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment on the invasion of the Rudson Kingdom. These were the two regiments that were equipped with the most military magic machines.

    Take Gerald¡¯s Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    Although their name had the word knight, other than a few horse carriages that were still used to carry supplies, there wasn¡¯t a single horse in the battle formation of the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    The current Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had sixty sevenrge transport Magic Cars and one hundred and three Armoured Magic Vehicles transformed fromrge transport Magic Cars. They had thirty sixty millimeter Magic Cannons, as well as one hundred sixty millimeter Magic Cannons that the Candra Empire had made themselves.

    Then with three thousand Magic Repeating Crossbows and eight hundred individual Magic Bazookas, it could be said that in terms of firepower, there wasn¡¯t a single regiment that could match the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    This was shown during the military drills at the beginning of the year.

    The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had demonstrated their powerful might in the drills and most of the other regiments couldn¡¯t resist them at all.

    This Scarlet Sun Regiment was one of the few regiments that could go against the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    Compared to the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment, the Scarlet Sun Regiment had far fewer Magic Cannons. They only had sixty Magic Cannons that were produced by the Candra Empire.

    But the Scarlet Sun Regiment had a shocking five hundredrge transport Magic Cars!

    With eachrge transport Magic Car being able to fit fifty people, the Scarlet Sun Regiment was able to move at high speeds by putting all twenty thousand people in therge transport Magic Cars.

    It was because of this that the Scarlet Sun Regiment and the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment were considered the vanguards of the third army. It was all because they were the regiments with the best firepower and the best mobility.

    Narolov and Gerald were confident about their regiments and how the results of facing the Rudson Kingdom would depend on the actualbat situation.

 Volume 7 101

    Volume 7 Chapter 101 New faction generals

    Above the battlefield, there was a Magic Airship that had been flying at an altitude of eight hundred meters since the beginning of the battle. Neither Lagar or Great Magician Yale had noticed it.

    There was no other way because it was flying too high. If one looked up from above, this Magic Airship that was around a hundred meters long and several dozen meters wide was only a small ck dot in the sky.

    This Magic Airship was from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, its job was to locate and keep an eye on the enemy.

    Before the Sacred Regiment had even entered the Rudson Kingdom, they had already found the Sacred Regiment¡¯s trail and had been following in the air the entire time.

    The Sacred Regiment¡¯s movements had been watched by them the entire time before being sent to a mountain that was five kilometers south of here.

    On this mountain, there were twenty Repeating Magic Rocket Launcher Vehicles that were lined up in two neat rows.

    This area was no longer filled with the sounds of Magic Rockets being sent out, silence had returned.

    The muzzles of the twenty Magic Rocket Launchers still had wisps of smoke and the heat from the muzzles filled the air.

    ¡°Hey, have those fellows from the Sacred Regiment escaped our range yet?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ second artillery team¡¯s leader Bronc shouted in an unsatisfied voice into the Magic Communicator in his hand, ¡°Those cowardly fellows, I haven¡¯t even satisfied myself and they¡¯ve all run off.¡±

    A helpless voice came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°I say, Bronc, are you really nning on killing them all? Do you know how many rounds of Magic Shells that will waste? Not saying anything else, didn¡¯t you already exceed your quota just now? When you report this back, it would be strange if leader Hart doesn¡¯t scold you.¡±

    ¡°Hei¡­..Hei, hei¡­..¡± Bronc scratched his head and gave two dryughs, ¡°This can¡¯t be med on me, who told them to make these things so easy to use. When you shoot these Magic Shells, you can¡¯t stop at all. This isn¡¯t anything yet, it¡¯s just one hundred rounds that I fired¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°One hundred?¡± The voice from the Magic Communicator sounded very strange, ¡°Ze, ze, you¡¯re quite good Bronc. Leader Hart gave you one hundred rounds and you hit it perfectly, not leaving a single one. I¡¯m telling you, your next batch of supplies will onlye tomorrow, so you can just take care of yourself.¡±

    ¡°Anyway, we already aplished our mission and now I¡¯ll bring my brothers back to rest. Reblo, you still have quite a few things to do, so you can¡¯t go and rest like me.¡±

    After saying this, Bronc hung up and waved his hand.

    ¡°Brother, let¡¯s pack up!¡±

    The second artillery team began moving and after a bit, the twenty new Repeating Magic Rocket Launcher Cars were packed up. With a truck pulling them in front, they quickly disappeared.

    On the other side, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ scouting team¡¯s sixty seventh Magic Airship leader Reblo looked at the Magic Communicator in his hand before helplessly shaking his head.

    ¡°This Bronc, wait and see how leader Hart will scold you.¡±

    After a sigh, Reblo turned his head to look at Kandishek who was in charge ofmunications.

    ¡°Hey, how is it looking on the other sides?¡±

    Kandishek raised his hand and gave a sign of victory to Reblo.

    ¡°The other sides are all sending good news. The Candra Empire¡¯s three other armies have already been defeated and the other two are about to enter the attack range. If nothing expected happens, they won¡¯t be able to escape.¡±

    ¡°Very good. Send thebat reports we received back and then we¡¯ll follow the n¡­¡­¡±

    Reblo came in front of a giant table in the center of the Magic Airship.

    There was a giant map of the surrounding area in the Rudson Kingdom. Reblo looked down and pointed at a spot in the upper right corner.

    ¡°Go to area eleven and try to arrive within two hours. We¡¯ll meet up with airships thirteen, seventeen, thirty six, and forty seven before waiting for our next orders.¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡°Yes!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    There were the sounds of agreement that filled the Magic Airship. This Magic Airship turned in the sky and flew off in a northeast direction.

    After a while, the Magic Airship had already disappeared and left this battlefield far behind them.

    ###

    Two hundred and fifty kilometers to the northeast of the battlefield the Sacred Regiment was on, it was thergest part of tnd in the northern Rudson Kingdom, the Indra ins.

    This great ins upied the entire north of the Rudson Kingdom, with a length of over five hundred kilometers from east to west and a width of over three hundred kilometers from north to south.

    To enter the Rudson Kingdom, they had to go past these ins.

    ording to the n that the Candra Empire army headquarters came up with this time, since the Rudson Kingdom had a serious disadvantage when it came to number of troops, then they would give up these ins that had no cover and defend the more secure mountain ranges to the south of the Indra ins.

    But after the two main regiments of the Candra Empire entered the Indra ins, before they could even go fifty kilometers in, they had discovered the traces of the Rudson Kingdom.

    ¡°Are those Rudson Kingdom people insane?¡± The left regiment¡¯smander, the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment¡¯smander Gerald knitted his brows as he revealed a confused look, ¡°This is a in without any cover, why would they want to resist our army here?¡±

    The right regiment¡¯smander, the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯smander Narolov had a serious look and shook his head, ¡°Gerald, you can¡¯t look down on those Rudson Kingdom people too much. Don¡¯t forget, the Shining Regiment was almost annihted by them and even that fellow Antsol had died in battle, so it¡¯s better if we¡¯re careful.¡±

    ¡°Che, the trash Antsol only took advantage of the three thousand heavy cavalry his ancestors left him to show off, but he forgot that heavy cavalry doesn¡¯t mean everything. Now that he¡¯s dead and even those three thousand heavy cavalry are finished, his family is most likely done for in the future.¡±

    Narolov looked at Gerald with a dissatisfied look.

    Although he also looked down on Antsol and didn¡¯t have a favourable impression of this fellow, Antsol was already dead and even the Shining Regiment under him were destroyed. As a fellow young and also high ranking general of one of the Candra Empire army¡¯s regiments, he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit sad.

    ¡°No matter what, we should be a bit more careful. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army has always had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I think that they¡¯ve prepared quite a few military magic machines. So we shouldn¡¯t look down on them just because they have less soldiers or we will suffer.¡±

    ¡°Alright, alright, I will be serious. Rx, I¡¯m not joking.¡± Gerald raised his hands and indicated that he really was thinking, ¡°I¡¯ve experienced the might of the military magic machines more than you. Even those things that the fellows at the army headquarters made from copying the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines are that strong, how could I possibly look down on the Rudson Kingdom equipped with the Frestech Brand military magic machines?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..it¡¯s good that you know.¡± Narolov gave a nod.

    He and Gerald were the same, they were both from the new faction. They were part of the military officers who understood the military magic machine and supported the military magic machine reforms.

    When it came to the influence of the military magic machines, where they could even change the entire method of wars, they understood this better than many of the oldmanders back at the army headquarters and epted it more easily.

    Through their insistence and investment, the two of them were able to lead the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment on the invasion of the Rudson Kingdom. These were the two regiments that were equipped with the most military magic machines.

    Take Gerald¡¯s Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    Although their name had the word knight, other than a few horse carriages that were still used to carry supplies, there wasn¡¯t a single horse in the battle formation of the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    The current Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had sixty sevenrge transport Magic Cars and one hundred and three Armoured Magic Vehicles transformed fromrge transport Magic Cars. They had thirty sixty millimeter Magic Cannons, as well as one hundred sixty millimeter Magic Cannons that the Candra Empire had made themselves.

    Then with three thousand Magic Repeating Crossbows and eight hundred individual Magic Bazookas, it could be said that in terms of firepower, there wasn¡¯t a single regiment that could match the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    This was shown during the military drills at the beginning of the year.

    The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had demonstrated their powerful might in the drills and most of the other regiments couldn¡¯t resist them at all.

    This Scarlet Sun Regiment was one of the few regiments that could go against the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    Compared to the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment, the Scarlet Sun Regiment had far fewer Magic Cannons. They only had sixty Magic Cannons that were produced by the Candra Empire.

    But the Scarlet Sun Regiment had a shocking five hundredrge transport Magic Cars!

    With eachrge transport Magic Car being able to fit fifty people, the Scarlet Sun Regiment was able to move at high speeds by putting all twenty thousand people in therge transport Magic Cars.

    It was because of this that the Scarlet Sun Regiment and the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment were considered the vanguards of the third army. It was all because they were the regiments with the best firepower and the best mobility.

    Narolov and Gerald were confident about their regiments and how the results of facing the Rudson Kingdom would depend on the actualbat situation.

 Volume 7 102

    Volume 7 Chapter 102 Decisive battle on the ins

    Twenty minutester, the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment went ten kilometers south on the Indra ins, meeting the Rudson Kingdom army that was already in formation.

    Gerald looked ahead with the telescope and immediately knitted his brows.

    The dense army ahead seemed to have around ten thousand people and the main g was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s g, but what Gerald paid attention to was the rather simply designed g that had a half wing embroidered on it.

    On the current Sines Continent, there wasn¡¯t anyone who didn¡¯t know what this g meant.

    It was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are also fighting?¡± Gerald¡¯s expression became a bit serious, ¡°When we set out, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have a clear stance, so why are they joining in now?¡±

    ¡°Is there anything to be surprised about?¡± Narolov rolled his eyes, ¡°We¡¯re clearly going against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time, if they didn¡¯t send their guards out, could it be that they would have to wait until we reached the Stantine Duchy and attacked their main base before they joined the war?¡±

    Gerald shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I didn¡¯t mean that. I was just saying that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are joining in, this won¡¯t be an easy fight.¡±

    ¡°We have to meet them sooner orter. We can understand them better if it¡¯s sooner and cane up with ns forter much easier.¡±

    Narolov also raised his telescope to look at the other side and also knitted their brows.

    ¡°All the countries on the continent say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are strong, but in all these years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had only acted a few times. Who knows how strong they really are?¡±

    ¡°So that means, I hate those fellows who can¡¯t get all the details. But the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army has obtained some support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they are already this strong, so you can imagine the battle power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards.¡±

    Gerald gave a sigh as his expression became a bit worried.

    ¡°Then again, it isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know the might of the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold us. Just with those old things, we can¡¯t stop them at all. Moreover, I¡¯m certain that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold us some low grade military magic machines that they aren¡¯t even using anymore. The real good things were definitely kept by them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s obvious.¡± Narolov spread his hands with the same helpless look, ¡°Who let only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have these things in this world.¡±

    The two silently looked at each other for a bit before Gerald wiped his face and spat onto the ground.

    ¡°Pei! We haven¡¯t even started fighting, what are the two of us lowering our own morale for? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are definitely very strong, but we have much more soldiers than them and we also have military magic machines. They are this arrogant to fight a battle with us on these open ins, we will use people to smother them to death.¡±

    ¡°Un, based on the information from the Shining Regiment, the Rudson Kingdom should have some super long range attack abilities. Right now we¡­¡­¡± Narolov looked up and estimated the distance before raising his right hand.

    The leaders in the Scarlet Sun Regiment behind him sent down the order and it didn¡¯t take long for the entire Scarlet Sun Regiment to stop.

    Gerald and Narolov had known each other for many years, so seeing his actions, he knew what he meant and also ordered the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment to stop.

    ¡°Alright, this distance should be five kilometers from the other side and should be out of their range. We will organize our formation here and prepare to attack.¡± Narolov said.

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Gerald and Narolov came together with the leaders of their regiments and held a short pre battle meeting. They decided on having the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment provide support while the Scarlet Sun Regiment would rely on their high mobility to attack from both nks.

    These two regiments were elite regiments in the Candra Empire and adding in the skills of Gerald and Narolov, after the n was set, it didn¡¯t take them long to get into formation.

    What the two were surprised about was that after they had determined their battle n and entered their formation, the Rudson Kingdom and the unknown number of Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards hadn¡¯t moved at all. It was as if they were waiting for them to attack.

    However, even if they found it strange, since their armies were already here, they couldn¡¯t back down.

    Gerald fixed his clothing before jumping onto the roof of arge transport Magic Car, pulling out the saber at his waist and raising it into the sky.

    ¡°Attack!¡±

    The twenty three thousand troops of the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment began moving towards their enemy in an orderly fashion.

    In the very front, there were heavy cavalry that held giant shields and following right behind them were archers with Magic Repeating Crossbows and long range bows.

    Then scattered among their formation, there were the hundred and thirty Magic Cannons.

    Actually, the single barrel Magic Cannons made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a Magic Car in front pulling it. On ins like these, it could go at a speed of forty kilometers per hour.

    But although the Candra Empire made Magic Cannons also had Magic Cars pulling them, they couldn¡¯t solve the problem of the coordination between the two and because of the limitations of the material, the fastest it could go was less than thirty kilometers an hour, with a more realistic speed of twenty kilometers an hour. This seriously impacted the speed of the entire formation.

    Of course, since there was less than five kilometers between the two sides, the difference between twenty kilometer an hour and forty kilometers an hour wasn¡¯t big. The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment just needed to pull the Magic Cannons into the firing range of two kilometers.

    After the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment set off, Narolov also gave his order.

    The Scarlet Sun Regiment split into three groups and each group had one hundredrge transport Magic Cars with five thousand soldiers each that were working with the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment. There were also two different groups of hundredrge transport Magic Cars that went to the two nks, trying to wrap around the Rudson Kingdom army.

    In fact, although the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and Scarlet Sun Regiment reced most of their old equipment with military magic machines, their strategies were still the same as before.

    For example, the tactics that the two regiments were using now, it was the same tactic that the Candra Empire army used when they had greater numbers.

    It had to be said, there wasn¡¯t anything wrong with these tactics since it could bring out the specialty and the numbers advantage of these two regiments.

    However¡­¡­this battle waspletely different from any battle they had fought before.

    When the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment was only three kilometers away from the Rudson Kingdom army, the Rudson Kingdom army that had been still the entire time finally moved.

    Not only did they move, they exploded like thunder.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    A series of dull sounds came from the Rudson Kingdom army before countless red lights appeared in the sky, quickly heading over.

    Gerald was shocked by this.

    They were clearly still three kilometers away, so why was the Rudson Kingdom side using Magic Cannons?

    Didn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannons only have a range of around two kilometers?

    However, the brutal facts showed Gerald how wrong his judgement was.

    The red lights that were in the sky crossed the distance of three kilometers in a few breaths and fell right on the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    ¡°Scatter!¡±

    Gerald only had time to shout this, he didn¡¯t have time to give any other orders.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    The dull thuds and the sounds of explosions filled Gerald¡¯s ears and he almost became deaf from the sound.

    Among the explosions were the shocked cries and painful screams of the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment¡¯s soldiers.

    With just a single round of bombing, the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment¡¯s tight formation had beenpletely blown apart.

    Gerald forced down the shock in his heart and grabbed a magician beside him, having him cast voice enhancing magic on him.

    ¡°Don¡¯t panic! Maintain formation and continue moving forward for me! All who retreat will be executed!¡±

    Gerald instantly understood that while they were the same Magic Cannons, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannons were much stronger and fired further than theirs. They even had a greater range of one kilometer.

    Since they had arrived in the firing range of the enemy, they could only take their attacks and couldn¡¯t fire back.

    At this time, going forward was the only choice since the consequences of retreat would be even worse.

    Gerald¡¯s voice spread across the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment instantly with the voice enhancing spell.

    Hearing theirmander¡¯s voice, the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment soldiers that had panicked because of the attack quickly regained their calm and reorganized themselves before charging at the Rudson Kingdom army at max speed.

    The two Scarlet Sun Regiment troops that had wrapped around the nks hadn¡¯t been attacked by the Rudson Kingdom.

    Seeing that the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment was unexpectedly being bombarded, Narolov didn¡¯t hesitate to give the order for the Scarlet Sun Regiment to speed up.

    The Rudson Kingdom army clearly had a striking distance that surpassed theirs, so they could only cross this distance as soon as possible and disrupt the enemy lines.

    But when he had this thought, there were mes that suddenly soared into the sky on the ins in front of them.

    Then with several explosions, therge transport Magic Cars that were in the front of the formation seemed like they had been flipped by an invisible giant. They all flew into the air and even flipped several times before mming into the ground.

    One of them was the one that had been right in front of Narolov. After flipping on the ground several times, it hit therge transport Magic Car that Narolov had been sitting in.

    With the intense shaking of the car, Narolov, who had been caught off guard, mmed his head into the car in front of him and instantly started bleeding.

 Volume 7 103

    Volume 7 Chapter 103 Strange looking Magic Car

    Gerald didn¡¯t know that Narolov was in this kind of danger, but when he noticed that the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯s ten Magic Cars on the right nk were blown into the sky and he saw that the soldiers were being thrown around like straw, he knew that the situation was bad.

    The Rudson Kingdom fellows weren¡¯t just waiting for them to attack, rather they hadid down traps in the surrounding area and were waiting for them to charge to their deaths.

    Gerald looked at the much closer Rudson Kingdom army and there was a bit of hesitation in his heart.

    Since the enemy had ced traps on their two nks, it was very likely that there were traps in front of them. If he were to continue forward with the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment, they might run right over those traps.

    But after Gerald looked at the distance between them and the Rudson Kingdom army, the vignce in his heart became helplessness.

    Although they had advanced quite a bit in those few minutes, they still weren¡¯t in the striking range of the Magic Cannons.

    If they stopped here out of fear of the traps, then the Rudson Kingdom army would use their longer range Magic Cannons to wildly blow them up.

    Retreat was even worse because this would be equal to losing and they would be attacked while retreating.

    If the Rudson Kingdom army chased them, the consequences would be hard to imagine.

    Thinking this through, Gerald could only feel pain in his heart.

    Because the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannons had a longer range of one kilometerspared to their Magic Cannons, he had fallen into this difficult position.

    It was impossible to retreat, it was even more impossible to stop, and going forward meant possibly running over traps.

    ¡°Damn, it would be better if those fellows had developed Magic Cannons with a longer range¡­¡­¡±

    Gerald cursed in a low voice before shaking his head and getting the magician beside him to amplify his voice with magic again.

    ¡°Brothers! Charge with me! Speed up!¡±

    After shouting this, Gerald patted the shoulder of the driver beside him and indicated for him to go faster.

    At this time, he suddenly regretted not bringing his beloved warhorse with him. If he did, he could have led the charge as usual and would have greatly increased the morale of his subordinates.

    However, he knew that if he had been riding his warhorse, just based on the sounds of the Magic Cannons, it would have scared his warhorse and it wouldn¡¯t have been able to do anything.

    Not to mention that the Magic Shells were iparably powerful and any random explosion wouldpletely destroy a range of ten meters.

    He could wear his silver armour and ride his horse through the arrows of the enemies before, but facing these powerful Magic Shells, if he dared to ride a horse, he might have died without leaving a corpse if one of themnded on him.

    In the end, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made these military magic machines, the traditional method of war had already been eliminated.

    This was something that Gerald as part of the new faction was very clear on.

    So although he wasn¡¯t willing, he had been vigorously promoting the military magic machines among the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment. He worked hard to learn and train with these military magic machines so that they could catch up to this new trend.

    But now that they were on a battlefield, he realized just how weak he was.

    They hadn¡¯t even shed with the Rudson Kingdom army, but just based on the longer range of their Magic Cannons, the enemy had caused several thousand casualties with the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    But he had no other way, he could only lead his soldiers with low morale forward.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There was another round of Magic Shells that fell and the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment was in a panic.

    A Magic Shell fell right beside therge transport Magic Car that Gerald was sitting in and the strong shockwave from it caused the Magic Car to start lurching, making people feel like they had been thrown to the side.

    It was a good thing that it was able to return to normal and continue forward.

    Three kilometers and two kilometers, it was only a difference of one kilometer. Not to mention arge transport Magic Car being able to clear this in one to two minutes, one could clear that distance even in around three to four minutes by running.

    However, this short distance was like a moat for the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    Each step forward would mean a Magic Shell falling, sweeping away many soldiers of the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment.

    The Scarlet Sun Regiment that was on the two nks wasn¡¯t that much better off.

    It was unknown how many traps the Rudson Kingdom army had ced on the nks, but as the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯srge transport Magic Cars continued forward at high speeds, there would be explosions that rang out from time to time.

    Therge transport Magic Cars would be blown away and the Scarlet Sun Regiment soldiers would die in the explosions.

    The most important thing was that after the first trap, the Scarlet Sun Regiment had lost themand of theirmander Narolov.

    Although the vicemander was still giving orders, he didn¡¯t have any other methods. Seeing that the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment was still charging forth, he could only work with Gerald and give the order to continue forward.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    The explosions kept ringing out from the two nks. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s northern armymander Fenrir raised his telescope to observe the situation and although his expression was serious, there was a trace of a smile on his lips.

    ¡°Chief Furio, it seems like those Candra Empire people already don¡¯t have any other tricks.¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guard¡¯s elf team leader Furio was standing atop arge transport Magic Car beside him and he didn¡¯t echo those words. After looking with rapt attention for a while, he said to Fenrir, ¡°They are about to enter their own striking distance. Commander Fenrir, you can start the second battle n.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Fenrir nodded with a faint smile before bending down to give a few orders to the officers.

    After a while, after a single round of shots from the northern army¡¯s Magic Cannons, they packed up and got into the Magic Cars as they began to uniformly withdraw.

    ¡°Chief Furio, we¡¯ll leave it to you now.¡± Fenrir took Furio¡¯s hands and seriously grasped them, ¡°The future of our Rudson Kingdom will depend on this one battle.¡±

    Furio wasn¡¯t used to Fenrir¡¯s sudden close contact and his serious tone.

    But after being with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was already used to dealing with humans. Hearing this, he revealed a smile and said with a nod, ¡°Please be assured, we will buy enough time for you.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Fenrir gave a strong nod.

    Furio jumped off therge transport Magic Car and then the northern army¡¯s troops all got intorge transport Magic Cars and Armoured Magic Vehicles as they started to retreat like a flood.

    Furio turned to look at the approaching Candra Empire army¡¯s troops that he could even clearly see the faces of and quickly took two steps, entering a strange looking Magic Car.

    Gerald was surprised to see the Rudson Kingdom army retreating and he felt confused.

    Although they were about to enter their own striking distance, was there a need for the Rudson Kingdom fellows to run away like this?

    Did they not know that retreating meant showing their backs and he could chase after them, paying them back for this grudge?

    ¡°Charge for me! Don¡¯t let them run!¡±

    Gerald couldn¡¯t think of a reason why, so he followed his most basic judgement and waved his arm, giving the order to chase.

    However, the Rudson Kingdom army¡¯s retreat was nned and it went very smoothly. Before he could enter the striking range, most of the other side had already retreated, leaving only a few scattered troops on the ins.

    Gerald raised his telescope to take a look and as far as he could see, it seemed like they didn¡¯t leave therge transport Magic Cars, the Armoured Magic Cars, nor were they dumb enough to leave behind the Magic Cannon firing squad. Rather they had left behind square shaped vehicles that looked t with a sturdy steel pipe sticking out the front of it. It looked very fierce and very ugly, like it was something that was made from a Magic Car.

    ¡°Gods, what is that damn thing?¡±

    Seeing this thing that looked strange no matter how you looked at it, Gerald actually felt that the situation wasn¡¯t good.

    He hadn¡¯t forgotten that he had seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gs among the enemies earlier.

    And this strange squad that had been left had the g of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Damn, there¡¯s only a few of them no matter how strange they look, there¡¯s no need to fear them.¡± Gerald impatiently waved his hand and gave the order to charge.

    After the Rudson Kingdom army had retreated, the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯s two nking forces were no longer being hit with traps, so they had finally formed twoplete formations again.

    But they didn¡¯t care about this strange looking squad, instead they chased after the fleeing Rudson Kingdom army.

    But while they didn¡¯t look for the strange looking squad, the other side went looking for them.

    That squad was suddenly divided in half, with fifty two of those strange looking Magic Cars going left and right to face the nking Scarlet Sun Regiment.

    Gerald was surprised.

    Although the firepower of the Scarlet Sun Regiment couldn¡¯tpare to the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment, it wasn¡¯t weak at all.

    Would these fellows that should be from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce be dumb enough to face them head on with just these few troops?

    Although the Scarlet Sun Regiment had lost their highestmander because Narolov had been knocked unconscious, the vicemander was still able to bring them together.

    Seeing that the enemy was actually overestimating themselves and charging them, they attacked without holding back.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong!¡±

    From the beginning, the Candra Empire¡¯s Magic Cannons let out their first angry roars.

    Countless red lights shot out from the Scarlet Sun Regiment and flew out at the two teams heading at them.

    However,pared to the Rudson Kingdom army¡¯s Magic Cannons, the uracy of the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯s Magic Cannons were terrible.

    They sent out fifty rounds at once and more than half of them were off mark, posing no threat to the enemies at all.

    Although the remaining half fell among the enemy formation, there were only a few that actually hit.

    When they fell near these strange looking Magic Cars, they blew up the dirt on the ins, but it didn¡¯t affect these strange looking Magic Cars at all. It couldn¡¯t even shake them at all.

    The few shots thatnded very close or even directly hit the strange looking Magic Cars weren¡¯t able to do a thing to them.

    All the Candra Empire army soldiers were stunned by this, seeing those strange looking Magic Cars release a light blue glow around it.

    The Magic Shells hit those light barriers and then bounced off them. Even the soil that flew up couldn¡¯t prate those light barriers.

    The Candra Empire army soldiers were stunned by this when the very crude steel pipes at the front of the strange looking Magic Cars suddenly lit up with dots of red light. It congealed into a countless fire red light that shot out the front.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

 Volume 7 104

    Volume 7 Chapter 104 We should retreat

    The Candra Empire¡¯s expedition forcemander Duke Makaros looked at thebat report in his hand. His face that already had skin waspletely ck because of the dark look on his face and the overcast skies.

    The atmosphere in the tent was frozen and everyone was silent, not even daring to let out their breath. They were afraid of catching Duke Makaros¡¯ attention and causing the volcano to explode.

    However¡­..the volcano would explode still whether you wanted it to or not.

    After a while, Duke Makaros put down thebat report and narrowed his eyes to look over the other Candra Empire army officers. Seeing them all lower their heads, he let out a snort.

    The officers in the tent couldn¡¯t help tremble.

    In the Candra Empire¡¯s army, other than the Marshal Duke Campbell Sudman, Duke Makaros was the one with the highest position and prestige.

    This time the Candra Empire army had him personally lead this expeditionary force into the Rudson Kingdom, there was no doubt how important this battle was to them.

    Now at the first step, the Candra Empire¡¯s army had mmed their heads.

    They had divided into six forces that attacked the Rudson Kingdom from six directions, but they had suffered a serious loss in just three days.

    The smallest loss was the Saint Regiment who took the fourth front, but they were still ambushed by the Rudson Kingdom army. They had lost four thousand troops and there were ten thousand lightly and heavily injured troops. Out of the thirty thousand troops of the Sacred Regiment, they had lost close to half of their battle power.

    The most serious losses were the third front¡¯s Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment.

    The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had lost ten thousand troops who had either died or were seriously injured, which cut their numbers in half.

    The Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯s losses were a bit lower. They only had seven thousand casualties and not that many heavily injured people, only ounting for around two thousand troops which proved how brutal the battlefield they were on was.

    Moreover, inparison, the losses in terms of troops wasn¡¯t as serious as the loss in equipment for these two regiments.

    The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had lost a total of sixty threerge transport Magic Cars and eighty nine of the most important Magic Cannons. The strongest firepower that the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment had been known for had basically been destroyed.

    The Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯s losses were simpler. One hundred of the five hundredrge transport Magic Cars that they had were destroyed in the battle and there were two hundred that couldn¡¯t operate anymore because of issues caused by the battle.

    This caused the Scarlet Sun Regiment that relied on therge transport Magic Cars to be known as the most mobile regiment to lose their reputation.

    The most awful thing was that since the Candra Empire had broken rtions with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had taken back many services for the Candra Empire.

    When it came to therge transport Magic Cars, there wasn¡¯t a single Frestech Chamber of Commerce maintenance department in the Candra Empire.

    Theserge transport Magic Cars were all bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and now that they were broken, they couldn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commercee fix them, so they could only fix them themselves.

    But even if the Candra Empire had somepanies study therge transport Magic Cars in secret and they had some sess, it was impossible for their technology to match the level of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover, even if they could repair them, the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t find anyponents to repair them with.

    With the current magic machine industry standard of the Candra Empire, they couldn¡¯t make theseponents themselves.

    So like this, the Scarlet Sun Regiment had lost most of their battle power.

    Summarizing the battles of the six different fronts, they had sent one hundred and thirty thousand people, but in just a single battle, they had lost forty thousand troops and various different equipment. This was close to losing half their battle power.

    This caused the Candra Empire¡¯s army to be shocked.

    Even if they didn¡¯t expect this battle to be easy because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was certain to support the Rudson Kingdom.

    They never thought that it would be this difficult. In just the first exchange, the Candra Empire had suffered such a serious loss.

    The most important thing was that the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s losses were close to zero!

    Because from beginning to end, out of the six armies with a total of one hundred and thirty thousand people, not a single person had had a real sh with the Rudson Kingdom army.

    In other words, the Candra Empire army¡¯s side had been passively beaten from beginning to end, not able to find the Rudson Kingdom army at all.

    This matter had shocked everyone on the Candra Empire side and even created a bit of rm.

    But this wasn¡¯t what surprised them the most.

    The thing that the Candra Empire army cared about the most was with the third army.

    The Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment hadn¡¯t been ambushed and had faced the Rudson Kingdom army on the ins, but they had still suffered such a heavy casualty.

    This result meant that the greatest advantage of the Candra Empire army had be useless.

    The Rudson Kingdom army didn¡¯t send that many people and could beat the Candra Empire army that was several times bigger, but the Candra Empire army wasn¡¯t able to cause them any losses.

    This meant that the battle power of the two sides weren¡¯t on the same level and it didn¡¯t matter how many soldiers there were.

    If the Rudson Kingdom could maintain this kind of battle power, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t have any hopes of aplishing anything.

    Duke Makaros thought with a dark look for a bit before suddenly turning to look at the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment¡¯smander Gerald to the left of him.

    ¡°Gerald, tell me, what was with the strange looking Magic Car that you encountered?¡±

    Hearing this question, Gerald could clearly see those monsters that he met on the battlefield and he couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of terror.

    Even if the battle was three days ago, he could still feel a deep helpless feeling when he thought about it now.

    When he first saw the strange looking Magic Cars, Gerald only had a bit of doubt and ordered his Magic Cannons to attack.

    But the strange looking Magic Cars used facts to tell him that they weren¡¯t on the same level.

    Even with the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment firing their personal Magic Bazookas and Magic Cannons at them, the light barrier of those strange looking Magic Cars had easily blocked all their attacks before firing back at them. This was what caused the heavy casualties with the Golden Eagle Knight Regiment and the Scarlet Sun Regiment.

    With such a difference in battle power, Gerald even suspected that those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were devils from another world!

    However, this was just an illusion. The facts were that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had these terrifying military magic machines that were like devils that no one knew how to defeat.

    Hearing Duke Makaros asking him about this matter, Gerald opened his mouth in a daze for a while and he still didn¡¯t know how to describe them after a while.

    Seeing Gerald sitting there in a daze, Duke Makaros gave a dissatisfied snort.

    ¡°What? Gerald, have you be a fool after being beaten by the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s people? If you¡¯re afraid, then scram back to the empire for me right now, don¡¯t stay here and embarrass yourself!¡±

    Gerald trembled before waking up and quickly shaking his head, ¡°No, no, no, Lord Duke, I wasn¡¯t¡­..It¡¯s just that when you asked about those strange looking Magic Cars¡­..I didn¡¯t know how to describe them, but¡­¡­I really can¡¯t think of way to deal with them.¡±

    ¡°You mean that it¡¯s impossible for us to win if we encounter those things?¡± Duke Makaros raised a brow and asked this.

    Seeing the dark meaning in Duke Makaros¡¯ gaze, Gerald could only give a bitterugh and a nod.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Duke. I feel that if we encounter these things, we really don¡¯t have a way to resist those terrifying things.¡±

    Hearing this response, the other regimentmanders couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised looks.

    Although most of the othermanders had fought against the Rudson Kingdom and had also suffered heavy losses, they knew that the Rudson Kingdom had those powerful military magic machines that they were helpless against.

    For Gerald to say that they couldn¡¯t resist this ¡°strange looking Magic Car¡± at all, wasn¡¯t this just too much?

    Could it be that this kid Gerald wanted to exaggerate the enemy¡¯s power because of his tragic loss to conceal the fact that the battle was lost because of his own ipetence?

    If the Scarlet Sun Regiment¡¯smander Narolov wasn¡¯t still unconscious and unable to participate in this meeting, would he have said the same thing as Gerald?

    Duke Makaros was clearly very unhappy with the response Gerald gave him and after giving a strong snort, he said, ¡°Gerald, based on your words, shouldn¡¯t we retreat immediately? We can¡¯t beat the enemy anyways, right?¡±

    Everyone could hear the taunting tone in his voice. However, after Gerald thought about it for a bit, he gave a strong nod and replied with a serious look, ¡°Yes, Lord Duke. I feel¡­..that we don¡¯t have the ability to deal with this situation, so it¡¯s a wise choice to retreat right now.¡±

    Duke Makaros was filled with rage as he pped the table beside him. He pointed at Gerald and scolded, ¡°Gerald, if you hurt the morale of the troops again, do you believe I won¡¯t execute you as per militaryw?¡±

    Gerald still wanted to say a few things, but another officer beside him pulled at his arm and stopped him.

    Seeing that Gerald lowered his head and didn¡¯t say anything else, Duke Makaros gave a cold snort before looking over everyone. He said with a dark look, ¡°We are the Candra Empire¡¯s army. Since we havee on the offensive, if we don¡¯t aplish anything, we can¡¯t retreat! If anyone else wants to lower the morale of the troops, don¡¯t me me for showing no mercy!¡±

    All the military officers agreed to this.

    ¡°Now we¡¯ll talk about our next ns. Look at this¡­¡­¡±

    Duke Makaros walked over to a map on the wall of the tent and was about to say something when the tent p suddenly opened. One of Duke Makaros¡¯ personal guards who was in charge of sending messages rushed in with a look of panic on his face.

    Before Duke Makaros could even ask him anything, that personal guard fell onto one knee in front of Duke Makaros and said with a panicked look, ¡°Lord¡­¡­My lord, we¡¯ve just received news that Severn City has just been attacked by an unknown army¡­¡­¡±

    Everyone in the tent revealed shocked looks.

    Severn City was their logistics depot, which was the foundation of their expeditionary force. Now that Severn City had been ambushed, that meant¡­..

    ¡°What about the supply depot?¡± Duke Makaros quickly asked.

    ¡°The supply depot¡­..During the ambush¡­..the depot waspletely destroyed¡­¡­¡±

    When the personal guard gave this answer, the tent fell intoplete silence.

 Volume 7 105

    Volume 7 Chapter 105 Early warning from the Magic Radar

    ¡°Report, the second Magic Airship team has finished their task and are returning now.¡±

    ¡°The second Magic Airship team, send your report and then return to the base in the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s northern province to await your next orders.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Reblo put down the Magic Communicator and patted the shoulder of themunication officer Kandishek beside him.

    ¡°Did you hear chief Hart¡¯s orders? Send back the battle report that I wrote back to them.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Kandishek gave a nod as he replied before his hands quickly moved across the panel of themunications station, causing the sounds of keys cking to ring out through the cabin.

    ¡°Can¡¯t you go a bit slower? It¡¯s so noisy!¡± Reblo¡¯s assistant who helped him with the document, as well as the one who was in charge of logistics for this Parrot Magic Airship, Karen red at Kandishek.

    Kandishek pushed his bangs out of the way and revealed a natural pose before saying whileughing, ¡°This young master is happy, I like going fast. I say, Karen, I¡¯ve found that your temper has been badtely, is it that time of the month?¡±

    Karen knitted her brows and didn¡¯t hesitate to kick Kandishek¡¯s calf.

    Kandishek held his calf and cried out in pain, looking very funny.

    ¡°Stop arguing, finish your work first.¡±

    Reblo scolded, but he couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Because they had finished a very important mission, everyone in the cabin was feeling very happy and it wasn¡¯t a problem if they wanted to joke around a bit.

    Even the serious Reblo was in a good mood since in the mission this time, the Magic Airship he was in charge of and nine other Magic Airships formed a special group that crossed the borders of the Rudson Kingdom and the Candra Empire, going two hundred kilometers into the Candra Empire andunching a special attack on Severn City, destroying the Candra Empire army¡¯s supply depot.

    The importance of this mission was clear and the merit that they earned from it was very big.

    Moreover, they had been able to enter the Candra Empire¡¯s borders tounch a sneak attack. In the close to a thousand year history of the Candra Empire, this was the first time that another country¡¯s army had dared to do such a thing.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could be considered to have made history like this.

    Thinking of this, Reblo took the Magic Communicator again and called the entire Magic Airship team.

    After a while, the voices of themanders of the other nine Magic Airships came out.

    ¡°Hey, Reblo, what is it?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that another task hase from above, right?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? We just went all out against the Candra Empire, they should let us rest first no matter what.¡±

    ¡°Che, it¡¯s not a problem to go all out again. Rather our airship still has unused ammunition, so it¡¯s not a problem to bomb them again.¡±

    ¡°The supply depot of those Candra Empire fellows was blown up by us, is there anything else to explode? Could it be that we¡¯re going to bomb Wimbledon City?¡±

    ¡°Hei, that is a good idea, let¡¯s go!¡±

    ¡°Leis, stop joking around, do you know how far Wimbledon City is from here? It¡¯s two thousand kilometers! With the remaining Magic Crystals we have on our airships, if we don¡¯t resupply along the way, we won¡¯t be able to get there. How could you still think of blowing it up?¡±

    ¡°I was just talking¡­..Right, Reblo, you still haven¡¯t said what it is, right?¡±

    Reblo couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°You fellows are all boasting, how could I say a thing? It¡¯s nothing, I just wanted to ask if you finished your routine inspections? If you¡¯re done, then we can go back to the base to report.¡±

    ¡°Che, I thought that it was something important, but we¡¯re just going back the same route.¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s a waste of my emotions¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I still have something to say.¡± Reblo intentionally stopped here to keep them in suspense, ¡°When we get back to the base, I will make an application to the team leader to invite you all to a feast in the city.¡±

    There was a moment of silence before cheers came out.

    ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°Reblo, are you joking?¡±

    ¡°Are you really inviting us to a feast? Great! I had to eat in the base for several days and I almost can¡¯t taste anything!¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, Reblo, you¡¯re so generous! If you be the leader in the future, I have no objections!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Reblo revealed a faint smile.

    The reason why he came up with this n to invite his colleagues to a feast on the spot was because he wanted to win them over.

    However, since chief Hart had already chosen him as the team leader this time, it meant that he was already nning on training him.

    The other Magic Airshipmanders were also aware of this, so they wouldn¡¯t show their objections at this time.

    Of course, not everyone would agree, so he could only give it a try now.

    At least on the surface, it seemed good.

    ¡°Alright, before we arrive at the base, you should all think about what to eat. Don¡¯t wait until we get there to argue all day about what to get.¡±

    Reblo hung up with augh before turning to walk around the Magic Airship cabin.

    The mission of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship team was to enter the enemy territory and destroy their supply depot.

    This was a first for them, but also a first for the enemy.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, there were midair raids on enemy¡¯s supply depots, but the ones who implemented them would be powerful magicians, or even a team of High Grade Magicians. This was the first time that there was an ambush carried out by a Magic Airship piloted by normal people like this.

    This experience was very valuable to Reblo.

    Actually, when he thought about it now, he found that there were many details that were properly nned.

    For example, they could have been even higher when bombing Severn City. That would have been more hidden and they would have been able to continue the bombing a bit longer.

    Of course, this would mean that there would need to be a higher uracy with the Magic Bombs.

    The ten Magic Airships that he led this time were of different levels, some were very urate and some were just average, creating different effects when carrying out the bombing.

    Then for example, they didn¡¯t need to throw out most of their Magic Bombs at once beause this supply depot wasn¡¯t that big. If one was to talk about uracy, just five rounds of bombs would have been enough to set the warehouse in a sea of mes.

    Of course, to be safe and to be more precise, ten or twenty rounds would have been enough too.

    Also for example¡­¡­

    Reblo was a person who liked to think after the fact and he hoped to get a summary as soon as possible which was his habit.

    When he sat down at the table in the cabin, before he even picked up his pen, Karen quickly came in.

    ¡°Something happened!¡±

    Seeing the serious look Karen had, Reblo threw down his pen and walked back into the cockpit.

    ¡°Boss, look, there¡¯s troubleing soon.¡± Hearing Reblo¡¯s footsteps, Kandishek turned to look at him before pointing at the magic illusioning from themunication station as he said this in a loud voice.

    Reblo came over and knitted his brows to find that there was red dot letting out a bunch of ripplesing from the left side of the illusion,ing towards the center of the illusion.

    Seeing this, Reblo¡¯s heart tensed.

    This magic illusion used the magic detection system on the Magic Airship, sending out magic surveying signals around them. They would analyze the change in magic space around the Magic Airship, investigating special circumstances.

    Using the name sir chairman came up with, this was called the Magic Radar.

    Now that the Magic Radar was showing this dot of light quickly approaching, the situation clearly was off.

    ¡°Based on the vibration frequency and the strength, this should be flight magic creating magic ripples. Then with the dot of light quickly approaching, it means that there¡¯s a magician flying over towards us.¡± Kandishek said.

    ¡°A magician?¡± Reblo was a bit doubtful, ¡°Then it shouldn¡¯t be an enemy. After all, it¡¯s only a single magician, it can¡¯t pose any threat to us. Perhaps it¡¯s just a magician passing by.¡±

    ¡°No, boss, look¡­¡­¡± Kandishek pointed at the special symbols in the bottom right corner of the illusion with a serious look, ¡°Based on the intensity of the magic fluctuations, it isn¡¯t the low grade flight magic that some lower grade magicians use. I¡¯m even certain that this magician is at least a Great Magician. Also I need to remind you that we are currently flying at one hundred and thirty kilometers an hour¡­¡­¡±

    With Kandishek¡¯s reminder, Reblo reacted.

    Right, the Magic Airship under him was currently going at one hundred and thirty kilometers an hour, but this magician was able to quickly approach them. It meant that he was flying at a speed that was over one hundred and thirty kilometers an hour.

    This was not something that a normal magician could aplish.

    Even among Great Magicians, if it wasn¡¯t a Great Magician that excelled in Wind Magic, they wouldn¡¯t be able to move this fast.

    ¡°The most important thing is that he¡¯s clearly charging at us.¡± Kandishek said as he pointed at the illusion.

    Reblo looked at it and found that the red dot with ripples was already much closerpared to before, it wasn¡¯t far from them now.

    ¡°How far is he still from us?¡± Reblo asked.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Still around three kilometers, but based on his speed, I think that it won¡¯t take more than five minutes for him to catch up. Boss, what do we do?¡±

    Reblo thought for a bit before giving an order, ¡°Keep monitoring him. Everyone else, prepare for battle.¡±

    After saying this, Reblo took the Magic Communicator and contacted all the Magic Airships in the team again.

    ¡°Yi? Reblo, why is it you again? Are you regretting it?¡± Amander teased.

    ¡°You can¡¯t do that. Reblo, you are the leader of this mission, you can¡¯t just not keep your word. Isn¡¯t that right, everyone?¡±

    ¡°Right, right!¡± The others echoed.

    Reblo didn¡¯t have time to talk with them and he said in a deep voice, ¡°Everyone, there¡¯s an unusual situation behind us. Based on our judgement, it should be at least a Great Magician grade magician chasing after us. Everyone make your preparations, I feel that this magician doesn¡¯t have any good intentions.¡±

    There was silence for a bit before the sounds of chaos came from the Magic Communicator.

    Because the ten Magic Ships were together, only themand ship that Reblo was on had the Magic Radar on and the others didn¡¯t notice anything.

    After a while, the other Magic Airshipmanders all reported that they noticed this abnormality.

    Reblo looked at the Magic Illusion again and found that the red dot was even closer. It was clear that it was charging at them, so he gave the order, ¡°Everyone, prepare for battle. The enemy this time is at least a high grade Great Magician!¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, he heard Kandishek call out.

    ¡°Boss, there¡¯s a powerful magic energy reaction from behind us!¡±

    Before Kandishek could finish, it was like something hit the Magic Airship and it started to sway.

    Reblo stabilized himself as his heart filled with shock.

    The Magic Airship had the Magic Barrier System around it, so it could easily resist all Ninth Grade and below spells. It could even counter most of a Forbidden Spell.

    This attack had made the Magic Airship shake this much, it was clear how shocking the power of the attack was.

    Just who was this magician that had chased after them?

 Volume 7 106

    Volume 7 Chapter 106 Pursuit battle

    Arch Magus Laduca knitted his brows as he looked at the Magic Airship in the distance that had quickly stabilized itself and kept flying at high speeds, as if it hadn¡¯t been affected by his magic and his heart sank.

    Although the Thunderp Fury that he released just now was only a Ninth Grade Spell, with his special attainments in Wind Magic and his powerful magic power as an Arch Magus, the might of this spell far surpassed the might of a normal Ninth Grade Spell.

    Even if it wasn¡¯t as powerful as a Forbidden Spell, it wasn¡¯t that far off.

    But this powerful spell had directly hit the Magic Airship and it had been blocked by the light barrier that had appeared around it. In the end, it had only shook the Magic Airship in the sky and hadn¡¯t caused any damage to it.

    This was just too unbelievable!

    But no matter how surprised he was, Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s hand didn¡¯t stop. He kept flying fast while opening both hands, gathering magic power for a real Forbidden Spell.

    Since a Ninth Grade Spell couldn¡¯t pose any threat to the Magic Airship, he would use a higher grade Forbidden Spell!

    No matter what, he had to make sure that these Magic Airships stayed here!

    As the Arch Magus that the Candra Empire army had sent out to protect the backlines of their expedition force, not being able to stop the Magic Airships from ambushing the supply depot was already a mistake on his part and a great shame. If he wasn¡¯t able to keep the other side that only had a wisp of magic on them even after catching up to them, then he really wouldn¡¯t be able to face other people in the future.

    ¡°The magic fluctuations from behind keep getting stronger!¡± Kandishek shouted out, ¡°It keeps increasing¡­¡­gods! This magic fluctuation is definitely above a Ninth Grade Spell!¡±

    ¡°Above Ninth Grade Spell? Isn¡¯t that a Forbidden Spell?¡±

    Reblo was shocked. He looked at the red light on the Magic Radar that was getting brighter and he took the Magic Communicator without hesitation to give his orders.

    ¡°Everyone listen, the enemy is preparing a Forbidden Spell. Prepare to dodge it and also raise the power of the Magic Barriers to max. Leiz and Noveli, your two ships must be prepared to immediately release magic space countermeasures behind us right away.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Received.¡±

    Leiz and Noveli¡¯s voices came from the Magic Communicator in response. After a while, another response came from them.

    ¡°Thunder Eagle is ready.¡±

    ¡°Dawn is also ready.¡±

    ¡°Very good, listen to my order¡­..¡± Reblo said as he watched the Magic Radar while also listening to the nervous report from Kandishek.

    ¡°The magic fluctuation is still surging¡­..it¡¯s over ten thousand Evs which can be considered a Forbidden Spell¡­¡­The magic space is already starting to copse, the Forbidden Spell will be ready soon!¡±

    ¡°Leiz, Noveli, listen to my countdown¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Received.¡±

    ¡°Good. Countdown started, three¡­¡­two¡­¡­one¡­¡­release!¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca suddenly noticed that there were tiny dots of light that came from the Magic Airships that he was chasing that covered the entire sky.

    But these dots were very small and he didn¡¯t care about them.

    Moreover, he was already almost ready to cast the Forbidden Spell, so he didn¡¯t have the time to care about all this.

    With his magic power wildly surging, Arch Magus Laduca focused his mind. The sparkling Lightning Forbidden Spell, Thunder God¡¯s Fury that had condensed was thrown out.

    But at the final step, he suddenly felt the magic space around him fluctuate. It caused the elemental magic energy gathered in the iparably powerful Thunder God¡¯s Fury that he had gathered to suddenly have a strange fluctuation.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he had a strong control over Wind Magic and the Lighting Magic that was derived from that, just this would have been enough to make his spell fail.

    But because of this interference, although he was able to release his Thunder God¡¯s Fury, the might wasn¡¯t as good as he would want it and it wasn¡¯t considered a perfect spell.

    Of course, no matter how much it was influenced, this Thunder God¡¯s Fury was the Lightning Forbidden Spell that he was the most confident with, so its might was above a Ninth Grade Spell.

    Seeing the thick bolt of lightning that seemed like it could cut the sky in half, Arch Magus Laduca revealed a faint smile.

    Those mice from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that overestimated themselves, they would be turned to dust by the Thunder God¡¯s Fury!

    But then the smile on his face turned into shock.

    As soon as the lightning was sent out, there was a thick azure glow that came from the ten Magic Airships. Then the ten Magic Airships sped up and flew off in eight different directions.

    The Thunder God¡¯s Fury flew right by them and it actually couldn¡¯t hit a single Magic Airship.

    ¡°Humph, you think you can hide with just this?¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s eyes turned cold and he started using his magic power, activating the magic mark that he had left inside of the Thunder God¡¯s Fury. The Thunder God¡¯s Fury exploded in the air and scattered into many bolts of lightning that densely filled the sky.

    The Magic Airships couldn¡¯t dodge this at all and each Magic Airship was hit with countless bolts of lightning.

    However, the magic barriers around the Magic Airships were able to block these bolts of lightning. They only rocked in the sky a bit, there wasn¡¯t any substantial damage that was dealt to them.

    Arch Magus Laduca wasn¡¯t that surprised by this since the Thunder God¡¯s Fury was stronger than any of these scattered bolts of lightning, but it also couldn¡¯t do anything to the Magic Airships.

    After thinking about it, Arch Magus Laduca raised his hands and prepared his next attack.

    ¡°Gods! That fellow is preparing another Forbidden Spell!¡± Kandishek shouted in a loud voice.

    Reblo¡¯s expression sank as he confirmed his guess.

    This magician that had just appeared wasn¡¯t a normal Great Magician. He was able to easily cast these powerful Forbidden Spells and he could cast them again and again, which showed that he was at least a peak Fifth Grade Great Magician or even an Arch Magus that stood at the peak of all magicians!

    Thinking of this, Reblo no longer dared to hesitate as he grabbed the Magic Communicator again.

    ¡°Everyone listen to my order. Immediately push it to the second drive and do not limit your speed, escape with all your might!¡±

    This time the othermanders didn¡¯t say anything in response and just simply agreed before heading off to do their own things.

    The actions of this magician after he appeared was too shocking, making them understand that they were not in a good situation and it was hard to fight back. Of course the first choice that they had was to escape as quickly as possible.

    After a while, the Magic Communicator had replies from the othermanders that they were ready.

    ¡°Very good. Charles, Chekov, ycud, you three will release the magic space interference. After releasing it, you have to escape at full speed, do you understand?¡±

    There were replies from the Magic Communicator chain before Reblo gave another simple countdown, preparing for the three Magic Airships that he named to release their magic space interference.

    Seeing the strange glowsing from the Magic Airships in front of him, Arch Magus Laduca raised his guard.

    He was certain that when he released the Thunder God¡¯s Fury, it must have received interference from these strange things which caused it to be weaker when it was released and he couldn¡¯t hit the Magic Airships.

    Now that the other side was using the same trick, he wouldn¡¯t fall for it.

    Arch Magus Laduca released a bit of magic power to investigate and was preparing before the strange change in the magic space appeared.

    But when the wisp of magic power went out, the ten Magic Airships all released a bunch of bright azure lights before quickly speeding up. They instantly threw Arch Magus Laduca behind and changed into ten small ck dots in the distance.

    Arch Magus Laduca was surprised before finally reacting.

    The other side knew that the situation was bad and had escaped!

    ¡°Humph, how could it be that easy to run away from me!¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s expression changed as he released his magic power, suddenly disappearing on the spot.

    When he appeared, he was in the air two kilometers away, right in front of the ten Magic Airships.

    Seeing that the ten Magic Airships were quicklying over, Arch Magus Laduca raised his hand and a stone wall that was close to ten meters thick appeared in the air.

    If the ten Magic Airships continued flying like this, they would m into the stone wall.

    At the same time, Arch Magus Laduca gathered his magic power again to start gathering the elemental magic energy around him, preparing to cast another Forbidden Spell.

    But he hadn¡¯t even finished half of his preparations when the ten Magic Airships had already flown over.

    When they were about to hit the stone walls, there were mes that appeared in front of the ten Magic Airships at the same time that mmed into the stone wall.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    The ten meter thick stone wall was sted apart by this attack and then the ten Magic Airships charged forward with their light barrier, not stopping at all.

    Arch Magus Laduca clearly couldn¡¯t cast a Forbidden Spell at this time, so he could only silently watch those ten Magic Airships fly off again.

    ¡°How can I let you go like this!¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t give up as he used spatial magic to appear in front of the ten Magic Airships again.

    But this time he still didn¡¯t have enough time to prepare a Forbidden Spell, he could only use normal spells to attack the light barriers around the Magic Airships, but he couldn¡¯t do anything to them at all.

    Arch Magus Laduca used spatial magic to appear in front of the ten Magic Airships again and again, but he could only helplessly watch them fly by again and again.

    After repeating several times, Arch Magus Laduca saw those ten Magic Airships fly away while also seeing a mountain range that was covered in green forest and red wood in front of him.

    He knew that this mountain range was the border between the Candra Empire and the Rudson Kingdom.

    If he kept chasing, it would mean entering the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s borders.

    After hesitating for a bit, Arch Magus Laduca could only helplessly give a sigh and give up chasing them.

 Volume 7 â€“ 108 Magic City Defense System

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 108 Magic City Defense System</h4>

    A Magic Airship slowly came down from the sky.

    Once itnded, Princess Caroline¡­¡­Oh, no, the now Duchess Caroline led a group of her subordinates toe forward.

    The door of the Magic Airship opened and Xu Yi came out.

    ¡°Hey, dear Xu Yi, you¡¯re finally here. I was already getting anxious waiting for you.¡± Duchess Caroline came over and took Xu Yi in a big hug. She didn¡¯t even care about the eyes of everyone around her as she pursed her lips and moved it up towards Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    Xu Yi quickly moved to the side and avoided her lips from touching his lips, letting her kiss his cheek. Then he kissed her cheek in return, finishing what could be considered an intimate greeting.

    ¡°Hey, Caroline, you are someone who¡¯s getting married next month, how can you still be this bold?¡± Xu Yi whispered beside Duchess Caroline¡¯s ear.

    ¡°Bold? Am I?¡± Duchess Caroline gave a proudugh before breathing out on Xu Yi¡¯s ear, ¡°If you give me a promise, I can immediately back out of my wedding. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Xu Yi reprimanded before letting go, gently pushing Duchess Caroline aside. He gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°Is everything prepared?¡±

    Duchess Caroline gave a shrug, ¡°There isn¡¯t much to prepare on my side, we¡¯re just mainly waiting for the people you¡¯re sending over.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before beckoning behind him. A group of people wearing the uniforms of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came out of the Magic Airship.

    ¡°These are the personnel that I¡¯ve chosen for this preliminary test. Come, let me introduce you. This is manager Gustalo who is in charge of Dole City¡¯s Magic City Defense System this time.¡±

    A tall middle aged man walked out and gave a bow to Duchess Caroline.

    ¡°Greetings to the duchess.¡±

    Duchess Caroline looked over him before reaching her hand out with a smile.

    ¡°Since chairman Xu sent you here, I fully trust you. Manager Gustalo, I¡¯ll have to entrust you with the defense of Dole City.¡±

    Gustalo hesitated a bit before cing a gentle kiss on Duchess Caroline¡¯s outstretched hand and replying in a respectful manner, ¡°I am at your service.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Duchess Caroline took a quick look at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff behind Xu Yi before giving them an inviting gesture, ¡°I have already prepared a banquet in the city, I invite chairman Xu and everyone to follow me.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head before turning to Gustalo, ¡°Time is short, you won¡¯t have much time to participate in this banquet. Gustalo, make the best use of your time and inspect the city walls, try to get the general data out by the end of the day. The development center on the other side is still waiting.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Gustalo replied with a nod before saying to Duchess Caroline, ¡°Your excellency duchess, I have to ask you to send some people familiar with Dole City to work on this project with us.¡±

    Duchess Caroline was a bit surprised, ¡°Is there a need to be this anxious? You have juste here, you should at least have a meal first, right?¡±

    ¡°No need. We actually don¡¯t have much time, we don¡¯t know when the next attack from the Marlow Empire wille. Moreover, if theye again, it will be with a fierce wave of attacks. You wouldn¡¯t want the preciousnd that you just received to be snatched away by the Marlow Empire, right?¡± Xu Yi said.

    Duchess Caroline gave a sigh before beckoning behind her. The two Drake Duchy officials who came with her quickly came forward.

    ¡°Manager Gustalo, these are two officials who are in charge of our Dole City¡¯s defenses. If you have any questions, you can just ask them.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Manager Gustalo didn¡¯t continue with the small talk and started talking with the two officials.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m very curious many times, how did you train yourpany¡¯s staff to be like this? It¡¯s like they only have work in their eyes, nothing else.¡± Duchess Caroline looked at Gustalo and the other Frestech Chamber of Commerce staffs¡¯ enthusiasm and couldn¡¯t help giving an emotional sigh.

    Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s not as exaggerated as you think. Ourpany¡¯s staff know how to y when they are rxing, it¡¯s just that they are very serious when working. These are my strict demands for them, of course they are able to achieve this mainly because of the sense of achievement they have from their work.¡±

    ¡°Sense of achievement?¡± Duchess Caroline slightly knitted her brows, ¡°What kind of sense of achievement?¡±

    ¡°Think about it, because of their hard work, Dole City and those small cities could resist the attack of therge Marlow Empire. Could it be that there isn¡¯t a sense of achievement?¡±

    Duchess Caroline was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Xu Yi, answer me seriously. After this Magic City Defense System is set up, will Dole City really be able to resist the attack of arge army from the Marlow Empire?¡±

    ¡°The defense of a city can¡¯t be solved with just a single system, but I can tell you that as long as nothing else happens with Dole City, it¡¯s not a problem to keep Dole City from falling for a month with this defense system. No matter how many troops the Marlow Empire sends.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°What if the Marlow Empire sends their Arch Magi?¡± Duchess Caroline asked.

    ¡°Arch Magi?¡± Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°Hei, if the Marlow Empire is willing to break the taboo of all magicians on the continent, viting the tradition to send an Arch Magus to attack another country, it would already be considered half a loss for them. As for the Arch Magus¡­¡­I acknowledge that an Arch Magus is very strong, but you have to remember that a person¡¯s role in a war is limited. Even if the Marlow Empire sends an Arch Magus, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything to the carefully developed Magic City Defense System that ourpany has developed over a long period of time.¡±

    Duchess Caroline looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze, not understanding why he was this confident.

    An Arch Magus had always been the top power on the continent and in the wars throughout history, as long as one side was able to have arge number of Great Magicians, they would win.

    But once an Arch Magus appeared, the bnce of victory and defeat would reverse to the side with the Arch Magus.

    The Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire could stand at the peak of the Sines Continent for this long mostly because of their strong national power, but when they experienced a dip, there would be Arch Magi supporting them that kept the other countries from truly hurting them.

    The Magicians Guild stipted that Arch Magi wouldn¡¯t participate in wars against other countries when they were established. Although this made sure that the two empires couldn¡¯t easily invade other countries, it also allowed the two empires to stand firm without falling.

    But this tradition was only an unwritten rule of the continent. If the Marlow Empire really broke this tradition, other than the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom that had the third greatest number of Arch Magi, the other countries and forces weren¡¯t qualified to fight back.

    This time it was a rare cooperation between the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, as well as the Mana Magic Kingdom and the other countries going against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. What the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should be most worried about was if the other side sent out an Arch Magus to participate in the war.

    Although the other side hadn¡¯t broken this tradition up to now, no one could guarantee that they wouldn¡¯t in the future.

    After all, even the two empires cooperating was an almost impossible matter, so it wouldn¡¯t be impossible for more impossible things to happen.

    However, Xu Yi was telling Duchess Caroline that the Arch Magus'' role in wars was very limited. It wouldn¡¯t matter even if the Marlow Empire really sent out an Arch Magus. This was something that Duchess Caroline couldn¡¯t understand right away.

    ¡°To be honest with you, Caroline, ourpany¡¯s main goal in developing this city defense system was just in case that the Arch Magi appeared. When ites to the normal armies of the two empires, even without our Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, your Drake Duchy¡¯s troops wouldn¡¯t be afraid of them, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡± Duchess Caroline gave a nod.

    When the Drake Duchy worked with the Lampuri Kingdom to fight the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire, the other side wasn¡¯t able to fight back at all.

    With this vast gap in battle power between the two sides, the number of troops didn¡¯t matter at all.

    Actually, even without the Lampuri Kingdom, while just the Drake Duchy¡¯s army wouldn''t be able to wipe out the Marlow Empire¡¯s army, they would at least wouldn¡¯t feel any pressure facing the Falk Kingdom¡¯s army.

    ¡°So my building the Magic City Defense System in Dole City that¡¯s not far away from the Marlow Empire¡¯s border was to defend against possible attacks from the Marlow Empire, even guarding against the possibility of an Arch Magus appearing.¡± Xu Yi continued, ¡°Think about it, if even an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t defeat this city, what do you think the Marlow Empire would think? What would the other countries think?¡±

    Duchess Caroline thought about it before revealing a smile.

    ¡°If even an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t do anything to us, it would mean that thisnd would truly be in the hands of our Drake Duchy and no one could take it away.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. When that timees, you won¡¯t just be the Drake Duchy¡¯s duchess, you will be the Drake Kingdom¡¯s queen.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

 Volume 7 â€“ 109 Must make full use of our technological superiority

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 109 Must make full use of our technological superiority</h4>

    Dole City was in a very specific ce.

    This city had belonged to the Falk Kingdom and was in the north of their territory, being close to the border between the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire.

    Because there was a mountain range on the border of the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire and Dole City was in the valley that connected to many exits of this mountain range, it could be considered to be in the key position that blocked the main road between the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire.

    The Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire had always been close and they could be considered allies, so Dole City had yed a role of a transport hub between the two countries.

    Now that the Falk Kingdom had been destroyed and the Drake Duchy had taken Dole City, the meaning of Dole City had changed and the strategic value was clear.

    If the Marlow Empire were to invade again, Dole City was not something that could be ignored.

    So Xu Yi worked with the Drake Duchy to prepare a Magic City Defense System. If the Marlow Empire were to invade, Dole City was the best choice for them to invade from.

    As Xu Yi had said, the goal of this system was to create a magic defense system for this city with military magic machines, allowing them to easily defend against the attack of the Marlow Empire¡¯s army.

    The final goal was topletely defend against them even if they sent an Arch Magus, making Dole City impregnable.

    But there was a very serious problem with this system which was that the price was too high.

    Just toy down the system in Dole City which wasn¡¯t considered a big city, ording to the estimates from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would take at least eight million gold coins.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted, they couldn¡¯t build this same system in all the cities the Drake Duchy controlled. They could only choose to set these up in certain cities.

    Dole City was one of them. They would also set up these defense systems in cities on the Drake Duchy¡¯s northern border with the Marlow Empire,pletely blocking the Marlow Empire¡¯s route to invade south into the Drake Duchy.

    Therefore, the estimated cost for the Drake Duchy reached a giant price of seventy million gold coins.

    Although the Drake Duchy had been vigorously developing their magic machine system over the years and had increased their finances, they couldn¡¯t afford such arge expenditure.

    Based on their agreement, the Drake Duchy would give a third of the mineral resources from the one hundred and seventy square kilometers ofnd that they received from the Falk Kingdom to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the remaining mineral resources, they would develop them together with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which would be considered payment.

    Because this involved a giant amount of mineral resources, there were voices of dissent that came from the Drake Duchy. They imed that Duchess Caroline was using the mineral resources that they had fought hard to earn to appease the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which could even be considered betraying the Drake Duchy!

    But from a realistic perspective, with the current power of the Drake Duchy, they wouldn¡¯t be able to develop these mineral resources at all. It was better to give them to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop together to use them.

    The most important thing was that the Drake Duchy couldn¡¯t separate themselves from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

    If they lost the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for the Drake Duchy to develop to this point. It was also impossible for them to fight a giant like the Marlow Empire.

    Sopared to the voices of opposition, most of the Drake Duchy still supported Duchess Caroline.

    This time the Drake Duchy had annexed a giant one hundred and seventy kilometers ofnd from the Falk Kingdom, causing the Drake Duchy¡¯s territory to expand by over twenty times. It could be said that this was something that the previous dukes had dreamed about in their three hundred years of history, but had never dared to imagine.

    With this sess, Duchess Caroline¡¯s prestige was without doubt.

    It was also because of this that there were many nobles in the Drake Duchy that hoped that Duchess Caroline could be queen, but this request was denied by Duchess Caroline.

    ¡°How could I not understand what those fellows are thinking?¡± There was a smile of disdain that appeared on Duchess Caroline¡¯s gorgeous face, ¡°They want me to be the queen and then redistribute thend. Humph, those fellows all want the new territory. Those inexperienced fellows, they are all thinking about obtaining arger piece ofnd right now.¡±

    ¡°That is very normal since they are nobles. Obtaining morend is the tradition of nobles and represents the glory of a noble.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Che, even if I gave them a bigger piece ofnd, would they be able to defend it?¡± Duchess Caroline¡¯s look of ridicule became even stronger, ¡°Just like you. Xu Yi, don¡¯t you still only have a title of count in the Stantine Duchy? You have all thatnd under your name, has it influenced you at all? Could it be that you¡¯re still not good enough because yournd isn¡¯t big enough?¡±

    ¡°I have always stressed that I am a merchant. Whether it is a noble or a magician, it is only secondary.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug before saying with a rxed look, ¡°There¡¯s no meaning inparing territory sizes with me, it¡¯s better topare who makes more money each year.¡±

    ¡°Who makes more money each year?¡± Duchess Caroline looked over Xu Yi and slightly knitted her brows, ¡°Xu Yi, can you tell me how much money your Frestech Chamber of Commerce makes each year?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn''t help smiling, ¡°This isn¡¯t a shameful secret, you don¡¯t need to ask like that. To be honest, ourpany earned around one hundred and fifty millionst year.¡±

    ¡°One hundred and fifty million!¡± Duchess Caroline took a cold breath, ¡°Gods! I always knew that yourpany earned a lot, but I never thought that it would be this much! Our duchy¡¯s entire yearly ie is less than twenty million gold coins!¡±

    ¡°That is because you were only a small duchy. Now that you have thisrge territory, as long as you manage it well, I think that your ie will easily surpass ours in a few years.¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°I also have to tell you something, ourpany¡¯s financial report this year will be very ugly to look at.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t strange since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards entered the war this year. Going to war is a costly matter and if it wasn¡¯t for the fact that your military magic machines gave you a battle power advantage, if you fought for a long time, whether it is our duchy or yourpany, we would be burned down by the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right, so we can¡¯t dy and must finish this war as soon as possible.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°How do we do that?¡± Duchess Caroline knitted her brows, ¡°The foundations of the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire are too deep and they have all those Arch Magi. We can only be passive when facing them, it¡¯s up to them when this war is over.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. As long as you can hit them where it hurts, letting them know that they will be injured even more if this warsts, they will choose to end the battle.¡± Xu Yi revealed a dangerous smile, ¡°First, I need to tell them that just the Arch Magi won¡¯t be enough to guarantee their safety.¡±

    Duchess Caroline looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze.

    Over the years, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t cared about Arch Magi more than once, even disdaining them which made her very confused.

    Properly speaking, Xu Yi was already an Arch Magus, so he should know better than anyone how terrifying an Arch Magus was.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were powerful, the most terrifying thing about an Arch Magus was that they were more flexible than military magic machines, so it was hard to truly deal with them.

    Moreover, Arch Magi don¡¯t find it as hard to cast Forbidden Spells as Great Magicians. Once an Arch Magus revealed their full power, their destructive might was quite terrifying.

    Perhaps there were ways to defend against it, but to fight back, the destructive might of an Arch Magus was something that created headaches.

    This was why even though they had easily defeated the armies of the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire, and the other countries, Duchess Caroline still thought that they were at a disadvantage.

    They could easily defend against the attacks of the two empires with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, but there was no hope of countering their attacks.

    Not to mention Arch Magi, there was too much of a difference just between their foundations.

    ¡°Our best choice right now is to consolidate what we have won and absorb them to increase our own power. That way we would have the qualification to truly face the two empires. If we move rashly, I don¡¯t think that it¡¯s a good choice¡­¡­¡± Hearing the wild ideas contained in Xu Yi¡¯s words, Duchess Caroline couldn¡¯t help trying to convince him otherwise.

    ¡°This is the correct choice for you as the ruler of a country, but¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi patted her shoulder with a smile, ¡°Haven¡¯t you thought of something? What are we relying on to easily defeat the armies of the two empires?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s the military magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided, is there anything else?¡± Duchess Caroline asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°It is like this, but it isn¡¯tpletely urate.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°In fact, in the battles against the two empires, we have found that the two empires have done some research on military magic machines and have quite a few military magic machines that they use. We can easily defeat them because of the technological superiority of ourpany. Have you thought that if there is enough time, if ourpany loses our technological superiority, what would happen?¡±

    Duchess Caroline¡¯s expression changed slightly, ¡°It can¡¯t be¡­¡­Yourpany¡¯s military magic machines are much stronger than theirs, how could it be possible that they could catch up to you?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing that¡¯s impossible in this world. So we need to seize the time when we have the technological superiority to get as many benefits as we can for ourselves.¡±

    ¡°Could it be that you¡¯re nning¡­¡­¡± Caroling looked at Xu Yi with a stunned and uncertain look.

    Xu Yi patted her shoulder with a smile again, ¡°Wait for my good news.¡±

 Volume 7 â€“ 110 Their territory was being attacked

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 110 Their territory was being attacked</h4>

    When he received the report from his subordinates that an enemy was invading, Mero City¡¯s City Lord, Count Dean Denpusy couldn¡¯t believe his ears.

    Enemy invading?

    As the head of the Denpusy Family, Dean Denpusy had been the City Lord of Mero City for twenty six years and this was his first time hearing the words ¡°enemy¡±.

    Even in the four hundred years that the Denpusy Family had been given this territory, there had never been a case of enemies invading Mero City before.

    It had to be known that they were the biggest city by the border of the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province! They were known as the pearl of the southwest province border!

    This famous city was actually being invaded by reckless people?

    Or it should be said that these people were daring enough to invade the Candra Empire?

    In the near thousand year history of the Candra Empire, other than the few rare periods where they had been in a decline, other than the Marlow Empire, which other country had the guts to invade the Candra Empire?

    This was simply not knowing how they died!

    ¡°Where did the enemiese from? Have you verified it? What is the border army doing? They actually didn¡¯t stop these fellows?¡± Count Denpusy asked with a dark look on his face as he walked out to give his orders.

    He wasn¡¯t a trash noble City Lord, naturally he understood that since the other side had the guts to invade Mero City, they would be confident in their power.

    If they didn¡¯t deal with it well, while Mero City wouldn¡¯t fall, he would still be unable to ept it if Mero City suffered even a bit of loss from the mes of battle.

    Hearing his question, the subordinate who came to report had a very ugly expression. After giving a gulp, he finally replied with a bitter smile, ¡°It has already been verified. Based on the information the scout sent back, the enemy came from the southwest and they¡­¡­had the g of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­¡±

    Count Denpusy suddenly stopped as his eyes opened wide to reveal a look of shock.

    ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Is there a mistake! Why is it them? No, where did they get the courage to invade our Candra Empire? They are only apany!¡±

    The subordinate just gave a bitter smile without saying a thing.

    He was also filled with doubt when it came to this question, how could he answer Count Denpusy¡¯s question?

    ¡°No¡­¡­¡± Count Denpusy suddenly gave a shiver as he suddenly thought of some rumours on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce among the empire¡¯s nobles.

    Just half a month ago, most of the nobles¡¯ understanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was that they had various convenient household magic machines.

    When the nobles talked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they mainly talked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high end Magic Sedans. They would all boast about how they had been able to buy a custom Magic Sedan from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military force, although the nobles of the Candra Empire had heard rumours, they only knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made some powerful military magic machines that were very easy to use on the battlefield.

    As for how easy they were to use or how strong they were, other than the nobles under the army headquarters, most people didn¡¯t understand.

    Now that half a year passed, with the Candra Empire trying to invade the Rudson Kingdom during the past few months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had truly demonstrated their unparalleled power.

    Fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards had caused the Candra Empire¡¯s army of one hundred and eighty thousand troops to lose in less than two months. They announced their failure and had no choice but to return to the empire.

    Later the Frestech Chamber of Commerce created storms in other ces on the continent, but the empire had always been silent, not making a single sound.

    This made all the nobles of the empire recognize a fact. It was that the army headquarters had clearly admitted that they didn¡¯t have the ability to fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was why they had remained silent.

    So the nobles of the empire truly recognized the might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the first time. When they discussed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they mainly talked about the strange military magic machines they produced.

    Count Denpusy was only a remote noble in the southwest corner, but he was still a noble in the end and was very sensitive about this information.

    So he already knew about the military might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from various news sources, but he had never thought that there would be a day where he would face their power.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany. No matter how strong their military power was, no matter how unstoppable their guards were, how could they invade the Candra Empire?

    Count Denpusy¡¯s heart was filled with doubt, but this wasn¡¯t the time for that.

    He knitted his brows to seriously think for a bit before waving his hand for his subordinate toe closer.

    ¡°Send people to the Governor¡¯s Manor to ask for reinforcements.¡±

    The subordinate was surprised.

    Reinforcements? Mero City was the most important city on the southwest province¡¯s border, there were over thirty thousand troops stationed here and they would be provided with many military magic machines produced by the army headquarters. Just in terms of defenses, they could be considered the strongest army in the southwest province aside from the Governor¡¯s Manor.

    Why did the Lord City Lord immediately think of asking for reinforcements as soon as he heard about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards were rumoured to be very strong, how strong could they be?

    Seeing that his subordinate was in a daze, Count Denpusy red at him and angrily roared, ¡°What are you standing in a daze for? Why aren¡¯t you going!¡±

    The subordinate was surprised before quickly agreeing and turning to run off.

    Count Denpusy didn¡¯t stop at all as he left the City Lord Manor. He sat down in the Magic Sedan that he had just bought four months ago and quickly headed to the garrison outside the city.

    However, before he even made it out the city gates, he heard shocking explosionsing from outside the city. It was so strong that he could even hear it in the Magic Sedan and it made his scalp itch.

    Count Denpusy looked up in shock and saw that the sky outside the city was already dyed red by mes, as if even the clouds were being burnt away.

    After being in a daze for two seconds, Count Denpusy suddenly realized something as he instantly reacted.

    The direction that the mes were in, wasn¡¯t that the direction of the garrison outside the city!

    Count Denpusy suddenly opened the car door and rushed onto the city wall by the gate, looking outwards.

    Around three kilometers away from the city was the garrison near Mero City with close to thirty thousand troops.

    Looking over now, the garrison was already surrounded in mes. He could only hear the explosions that were like thunder and the screams that followed in the distance.

    Count Denpusy was stunned before suddenly grabbing Mero City¡¯s defense officer who had rushed over after hearing the news.

    ¡°Immediately send people to investigate, as soon as you can! Understood?¡±

    The defense officer¡¯s fat face was covered in a cold sweat as he quickly nodded and turned to send people.

    Count Denpusy turned to look in the direction of the garrison in the distance as his heart turned cold.

    Although he had heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards only had less than twenty thousand people, he didn¡¯t doubt that with their power, they could easily take care of these thirty thousand troops.

    What made him fearful was that he had just received news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was invading before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce destroyed the garrison near Mero City, which was even considered their biggest advantage.

    This speed was simply unheard of.

    He could tell that before the Governor¡¯s Manor even sent reinforcements, the other side would have already taken care of this garrison.

    If they came to attack Mero City next, how would he block them?

    Just like Count Denpusy had guessed, several minutester, there were strange Magic Cars that suddenly came out of the smoke and mes that filled the garrison, quickly heading towards Mero City in an imposing manner.

    Looking at it, he could tell that this was a team made of several hundred Magic Cars, but with the mes of the garrison behind them, it made them seem like demons who came from hell which was truly terrifying.

    Count Denpusy took the telescope from the defense officer and saw the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s half wing g hanging over the Magic Cars.

    ¡°It really is those fellows!¡± Count Denpusy gritted his teeth as a dark look appeared on his face.

    He couldn¡¯t count on the garrison of thirty thousand outside the city. Right now Mero City only had five thousand city guards and two thousand guards from the City Lord Manor for a total of seven thousand soldiers.

    Although there were some Magic Cannons that the army headquarters made on the wall, they were imitations of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannons. How could they match the real goods from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    However, as Mero City¡¯s City Lord, he could just give up.

    Otherwise when he was held ountable by the army headquarters, he would lose his title as a noble just from this and might even spend the rest of his life in jail.

    ¡°Damn! No matter what this is our Denpusy Family¡¯s domain, how can we give it up so easily!¡±

    Count Denpusy cursed in his heart before turning to the officer in charge of the city guards to give an order in a deep voice, ¡°Close all the city gates and prepared to defend the city!¡±

    The defense officer looked at the Magic Cars with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ging over here in an imposing manner with a look of shock. He thought that even the thirty thousand troops from the army couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could they resist with their several thousand guards?

    ¡°What are you in a daze for?¡± Count Denpusy kicked the defense officer¡¯s butt, ¡°I¡¯m telling you, if you dare to think about giving up, do you believe I won¡¯t cut you down right now!¡±

    The defense officer¡¯s face turned cold. All the expressions on his face quickly faded as he gave a salute to Count Denpusy and turned to prepare the city¡¯s defenses.

    But as he turned around, before he even took two steps, there were whistling sounds that came from the distance.

    Turning to look, he found that several fire red lights came up from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s formation. It instantly crossed the span of two kilometers and mmed right into Mero City¡¯s tall city walls.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Countless explosions rang out in Count Denpusy and the defense officer¡¯s ears. Then they revealed an amazed look as they found that the city wall¡­¡­had copsed¡­¡­

 Volume 7 â€“ 111 Crushing traditions

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 111 Crushing traditions</h4>

    ¡°Count Denpusy, I am very happy that you are a smart person.¡±

    Chief Hart¡¯s tall figure stood in front of Count Denpusy who wasn¡¯t even one meter and seventy centimeters. It was like a mountain in front of him which ced pressure on him.

    ¡°Because of your wise decision, the citizens of Mero City don¡¯t need to suffer from the mes of war. They should thank you, the City Lord, for your wise decision. I also represent sir chairman to express admiration for your correct judgement. Before setting off, sir chairman kept stressing that we should reduce the casualties as much as possible, especially civilian casualties. Now that you¡¯ve chosen to open the city and surrender, it is very satisfying for us.¡±

    Count Denpusy didn¡¯t show any expression, but he was secretly gritting his teeth. Looking at this chief Hart, he wanted to bite this fellow to death.

    If it was possible, who would want to open the city gates!

    However, as soon as these Frestech Chamber of Commerce fellows appeared, no one expected that with a single explosion, they would cause the wall by Mero City¡¯s west gate to copse!

    Gods, Mero City was the most important city on the southwest border and the city walls had received special allocation from the Candra Empire army headquarters, along with the Denpusy Family¡¯s several hundred years of careful nning. It was already thirteen meters tall and close to ten meters thick, with even the thinnest parts being at least five meters thick.

    Because of this city wall, Mero City was even famous for being one of the top ten hardest cities to attack and capture on the Sines Continent.

    But this wall that all enemies were helpless against, with a single attack from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had copsed without evensting a single moment!

    With the copse of the city wall, the confidence of Count Denpusy and the guards in Mero City also copsed.

    Even this exaggerated city wall couldn¡¯t stop the Magic Cannons of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, so what could Mero City use to defend against an even stronger attack from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    So Count Denpusy only spent less than two minutes thinking before deciding to open the city gates.

    Of course, now that Mero City¡¯s western wall had been blown up by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, even if they didn¡¯t open the city gates, would there be any meaning?

    As for what chief Hart had said, surrendering this easily would save the people of Mero City from being baptized by the sea of mes from the artillery, although Count Denpusy had considered this, the main reason he had surrendered this easily was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had attacked with a terrifying power that even surpassed Count Denpusy¡¯s imaginations.

    Even if the army headquarters investigated this, when they saw the copsed city wall, they wouldn¡¯t be able to pick out any faults.

    ¡°Alright, Count Denpusy, you can just remove all the guards from the city. Then you can do what you want, you don¡¯t need to care about us.¡± Chief Hart suddenly waved his hand.

    Count Denpusy was stunned.

    What was this ¡°do what you want¡±? Wasn¡¯t the current situation Mero City being captured by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and them upying the city?

    Why was it that based on chief Hart¡¯s words, they weren¡¯t nning on doing anything and Mero City could still remain the same as before?

    ¡°We¡¯ll take care of Mero City¡¯s defenses, but as for the others¡­¡­we¡¯re not interested.¡± Chief Hart could see Count Denpusy¡¯s doubts and exined, ¡°We are only seizing Mero City, this is the only task sir chairman gave us. As for the others, we¡¯ll consider itter.¡±

    Count Denpusy thought about it and felt that it was reasonable.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were only in charge of military action. As for how Mero City would be arranged after it was seized, it would depend on the other departments of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. These soldiers wouldn¡¯t care about this.

    But¡­¡­

    ¡°Could it be that you really think you can hold our Mero City?¡± Count Denpusy gave a coldugh. He looked at chief Hart with a look of contempt, ¡°I admit that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards is very strong, but if your chairman Xu thinks that you can upy our Mero City with just a few thousand people, he really is naive!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Chief Hart looked at Count Denpusy andughed several times. Then he waved his hand and several Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards took Count Denpusy away.

    ¡°Chief, I feel that to be safe, we should take care of this fellow. I¡¯m worried that he will stir up resistance in the city in secret which will cause trouble for us.¡± The vice leader of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s human guards Noons came over and said in this in a small voice.

    ¡°No.¡± Chief Hart shook his head, ¡°Based on the report, Mero City is the Denpusy Family¡¯s territory and the Denpusy Family¡¯s influence is deep rooted here. We can cause people to feel scruples by detaining him, but if we really kill him, that would cause a lot of trouble instead.¡±

    Noons thought about it and felt that this was right. Then he said, ¡°Then at least we should think of a way to control him?¡±

    ¡°Of course, those elf fellows have already prepared for those and can guarantee that he won¡¯t be able to do anything.¡±

    ¡°Mind control?¡± Noons immediately revealed a smile.

    Seeing that chief Hart had already prepared everything, he felt assured. He started looking at Mero City¡¯s north wall that hadn¡¯t been damaged at all.

    ¡°Chief, do you think that we have time to prepare before the Candra Empire reinforcementse?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Chief Hart gave a shrug, ¡°No one knows when the Candra Empire reinforcements wille, but we are certain that as long as theye within fifty kilometers of Mero City, we will be able to discover them. Since the airship team hasn¡¯t sent back any news yet, it means that the reinforcement army isn¡¯t here yet.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­No matter what, we have to hurry up.¡±

    Chief Hart looked at Noons and knitted his brows, ¡°I say, Noons, you aren¡¯t some young kid who hasn¡¯t seen blood before, why are you so nervous this time?¡±

    Noons awkwardly scratched his head.

    ¡°When I think about how we¡¯re invading the Candra Empire, I can¡¯t help being a bit nervous. Chief, think about it, this is the Candra Empire. In the history of the continent, other than the Marlow Empire, has there been anyone else who has dared to invade the Candra Empire?¡±

    Chief Hart curled his lips in disdain, ¡°Aren¡¯t we invading now? Sir chairman had said countless times, what Candra Empire, what Marlow Empire, they were all just seemingly powerful paper tigers. In fact, the strength that we have has already cast them behind the times, but they aren¡¯t aware of this and still think they are strong. Back in the Rudson Kingdom, we fought with the Candra Empire army many times and you saw the disparity between us many times, so why are you afraid?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not afraid, I¡¯m just worried¡­¡­¡± Noons licked his lip as his expression became a bit nervous, ¡°The Candra Empire is the strongest country on the continent and we are only apany, but we¡¯re fighting the Candra Empire. This¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this, chief Hart¡¯s expression suddenly turned fierce and he looked at Noons with a dark look while saying in a sharp voice, ¡°Noons, if you¡¯re afraid, then you can go back now!¡±

    Noons quickly waved his hands, ¡°No, no, no, chief, you¡¯re mistaken, I¡¯m really not afraid. Only¡­¡­Only I¡¯m not that confident¡­¡­Look, we only brought five thousand people this time and the Candra Empire can easily send out fifty thousand or five hundred thousand. I feel that¡­¡­there will be some things that don¡¯t seem appropriate¡­¡­¡±

    Chief Hart gave a cold snort and strongly waved his hand before saying in a deep voice, ¡°Sir chairman has already said it countless times, it is no longer an era where poption can decide everything, so why can¡¯t you still understand?¡±

    ¡°Of course I don¡¯t feel that sir chairman is wrong, but¡­¡­But I am just a bitcking in confidence.¡±

    Seeing the difficult look on Noons¡¯ face, chief Hart gave a secret sigh and helplessly shook his head.

    If even a senior officer of the guards like Noons was like this, there must be quite a few thoughts spreading among the guards.

    It seemed like it really was like what sir chairman had told chief Hart in secret. Even if it had been proven many times through actualbat that the modern fighting method with military magic machines had already surpassed the era, far surpassing the traditional method of war and even breaking the traditional concepts, countless people of the continent still held these traditional ideas and didn¡¯t have enough confidence in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°So our goal this time isn¡¯t to upy the entire Candra Empire, this isn¡¯t realistic. With ourpany¡¯s current power, even if we could eliminate all the armies in the Candra Empire and rout all opposition forces, we wouldn¡¯t be able to truly control the Candra Empire. This is decided by the difference in scale between the two sides.¡±

    Chief Hart thought about what Xu Yi had said and couldn¡¯t help secretly nodding.

    Sir chairman¡¯s mind was truly clear, he wasn¡¯t confused by the many battles the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had won.

    ¡°Our real goal is to crush the traditional ideas on everyone¡¯s mind and let them know that the current era has changed, making them ept the changes brought to the world by the magic machine industry and epting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce in leading the development of this era. To achieve this goal, we have to crush the strongest power in everyone¡¯s mind, which is the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°As for how to crush it¡­¡­we need to do it bit by bit through this operation. The first step is¡­¡­to crush the thing that represents invincibility in everyone¡¯s minds¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 â€“ 112 Playing with fire

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 112 ying with fire</h4>

    Although the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor had reacted fast and had sent reinforcements to Mero City as soon as they received the report, they were still limited by how fast the report was sent. When the reinforcements arrived at Mero City, it was already four days after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had captured Mero City.

    This reinforcement army was made of three regiments that had been in the southwest province for a long time, with a total of fifty thousand troops. It was clear that the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor had attached great importance to this invasion.

    For this army of fifty thousand to march from the southwest province¡¯s capital to Mero City that was three hundred kilometers away, it was because of the strict orders from the Governor¡¯s Manor. They were to recapture Mero City from the enemies as soon as possible.

    After all, the Candra Empire hadn¡¯t been invaded by anyone other than the Marlow Empire for several hundred years, they had never even lost a city before. Now that such a serious matter had happened in the southwest province, the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor was feeling a lot of pressure.

    Of course, when this fifty thousand reinforcement army arrived in Mero City, they couldn¡¯t even approach the city walls. They were forced to make cap three kilometers away from the city walls because of the heavy cannon fire and they couldn¡¯t approach at all.

    ¡°How the f*ck are we supposed to fight this!¡± The reinforcement army¡¯smander in chief Marquis Dynatale saw therge holes in front of them and looked at the distance Mero City that he could only see vaguely before angrily throwing his sword to the ground.

    After bringing the reinforcement army here, he had already attacked Mero City four times.

    However, whenever he made a move, he would suffer from the fierce Magic Cannon fire that came from Mero City that blotted out the sky. After suffering heavy casualties, he still wasn¡¯t able to break the strict lines and enter Mero City.

    During this entire fight, not to mention engaging the enemy, they hadn¡¯t even seen a trace of the enemy!

    As for achieving the goal of capturing Mero City as soon as possible, that was a fantasy.

    ¡°Sir, it seems like we can¡¯t attack from this direction. Based on the reports, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only sent five thousand troops this time. We should use our superior numbers to attack Mero City from different directions. As long as we can enter Mero City, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful military magic machines won¡¯t be able to demonstrate their power.¡± The apanying staff officer suggested to Marquis Dynatale.

    Marquis Dynatale thought about this for a bit before nodding in agreement to this suggestion.

    Then he called the othermanders of the reinforcement army over to hold a meeting to discuss their battle n. He split the fifty thousand army into four groups, with one group having twenty thousand people that would be led by Marquis Dynatale toy pressure on Mero City¡¯s northern walls.

    The other three groups would be split into three different directions to attack Mero City from those directions at the same time.

    With the number of troops the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had, it would be very hard for them to defend against simultaneous attacks from four different directions.

    As long as the reinforcement army could enter Mero City and fight in the streets, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would find it hard to disy the might of their military magic machines. It would allow the numbers advantage that the reinforcement army had to fully demonstrate itself.

    However¡­¡­while the n was good, reality was cruel.

    Marquis Dynatale led the twenty thousand troops to attack in the same manner, waiting for the signal from the other three armies. However, there was arge cloud that came from the southwest that suddenly blocked out the sky.

    Marquis Dynatale and the other leaders all looked up as their expressions changed at the same time.

    The cloud in the sky was another Magic Airship unit!

    To create such arge shadow in the sky, it would be at least fifty airships with a rough estimate!

    Marquis Dynatale didn¡¯t have time to think about where those Magic Airships came from at all, he immediately ordered the magicians that came with the army to meet them.

    Everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships could remain in the air and upy the high ground, so they could attack them however they wanted.

    The only thing that could threaten the Magic Airships were magicians who could fly in the sky.

    But the magicians that came with this army had only flown halfway when they saw the dazzling beams of light that were shot from those Magic Airships.

    Those beams of light were very thick and strangely fast. The magicians that were flying up didn¡¯t have time to dodge, so they could only block them.

    However, in front of everyone¡¯s eyes, those High Grade Magicians that came with the army released their magic barriers, but they popped like bubbles.

    Seeing the magicians falling out of the sky like kites with their strings cut, Marquis Dynatale¡¯s heart sank.

    Even magicians couldn¡¯t deal with those Magic Airships, could they only let them fire at them?

    However, what Marquis Dynatale didn¡¯t expect was that after those Magic Airships shot down the magicians, they flew over the reinforcement army, but they didn¡¯t do anything. They just silently floated there in the air, like they were watching a y.

    Marquis Dynatale and the othermanders were confused by this.

    With the absolute air superiority the Magic Airships had, if they wanted to take care of them, it wouldn¡¯t take any effort at all. However, those Magic Airships acted like this after showing up, what did they want to do?

    Marquis Dynatale took a telescope and looked up to observe them. After confirming that the Magic Airships above them were from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was even more confused.

    Thinking about it, he turned to look at Mero City in the distance and suddenly became aware of something.

    After throwing the telescope to his adjutant, Marquis Dynatale turned around his beloved warhorse and then waved at his subordinates to tell them not to follow him before slowly heading towards Mero City.

    As expected, seeing that he wasing alone, the Magic Cannons on Mero City didn¡¯t fire and allowed him toe under the Mero City city walls.

    ¡°Is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ leader above? Can youe down for a talk?¡± Marquis Dynatale raised his head to shout at the high Mero City city walls.

    After a while, three figures jumped off the city walls andnded right in front of Marquis Dynatale.

    Two of the figures fell slowly, falling down without a sound like a leaf.

    The other figure dropped like a rock, mming down with arge sound which was very shocking.

    Marquis Dynatale calmed himself and dismounted as he looked over the three of them. He found that the two slender figures were two elven males and the shocking person was a human male.

    ¡°Let me introduce myself, I am Marquis Dwayne Dynatale, themander of this reinforcement army. May I ask whichmander from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this is?¡± Marquis Dynatale asked.

    ¡°Oh? I never thought a Lord Marquis woulde personally, this really has surprised me.¡± The human maleughed before pointing at himself, ¡°I am themander here and also the leader of the Freestech Chamber of Commerce guards, Hart.¡±

    ¡°Chief Hart?¡± Marquis Dynatale looked at the two elven males wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ uniform and tactfully knew not to ask anything. After a pause, he said, ¡°I want to ask, what is your goal this time?¡±

    ¡°Lord Marquis, your question is a bit strange. Isn¡¯t it obvious what we want to do? We are invading your Candra Empire. Look, Mero City is the first city that we¡¯ve captured, next we¡¯ll capture more cities before finally capturing your capital, Wimbledon City.¡±

    ¡°Lies!¡± Marquis Dynatale looked at chief Hart with a calm look before pointing at the Magic Airships in the sky, ¡°If that was your goal, why are those fellows not moving at all? You don¡¯t have any intention of destroying us at all.¡±

    Chief Hart gave a shrug, ¡°No, you¡¯re mistaken. Lord Marquis, we just don¡¯t want to waste our precious ammunition, you aren¡¯t worthy of being our opponent at all. Of course, if the Lord Marquis is dumb enough, we wouldn¡¯t mind teaching you and your subordinates a deep lesson.¡±

    Marquis Dynatale took a deep breath before he was able to force down the anger in his heart.

    He led an army of fifty thousand elites and they weren¡¯t worth being an enemy in the eyes of this fellow?

    This was simply the greatest insult to him!

    But he had to admit that this was a fact.

    Whether it was the setbacks he suffered when he first attacked Mero City or the loss he suffered after the Magic Airships appeared, they all showed that even if the army he led had an advantage in numbers, they wouldn¡¯t be able to resist in a real fight at all.

    It was as chief Hart had said, if he really was willing, just with the fifty Magic Airships in the air, it was enough to make him unable to resist and he might not even be able to escape.

    But the other side clearly had a goal if they didn¡¯t do this.

    As chief Hart had vaguely hinted at with his words, if their reinforcement army wasn¡¯t worthy of being their opponent, who was worthy of being called their true opponent?

    ¡°Lord Marquis, you can go, we aren¡¯t interested in annihting you. You can either retreat or stay outside Mero City to watch the y, you can do what you want. But I must warn you that you shouldn¡¯t attempt to approach Mero City, otherwise I wouldn¡¯t mind teaching you a lesson.¡± Chief Hart suddenly said with a cold look.

    Marquis Dynatale was surprised before taking a deep breath and looking at chief Hart with a dark look.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what you want to do, but I¡¯m warning you, you¡¯re ying with fire!¡±

    ¡°ying with fire?¡± Chief Hart gave augh, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯re right, but ying with fire doesn¡¯t always mean you get burned, right?¡±

    After saying this, chief Hart gave a gesture to send him off.

    Marquis Dynatale took a deep look at him before giving a snort. He got back on his horse and quickly rode off.

 Volume 7 â€“ 113 High energy response

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 113 High energy response</h4>

    Inside the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor that was in Baberel City which was three hundred kilometers northeast of Mero City, the atmosphere was much more tensepared to usual.

    Five days ago, the news from Mero City falling had been sent back to Baberel City. No one cared at first and had thought that this rash enemy would be easily stomped by the armies of the empire.

    However, just yesterday, there was a shocking piece of news that came back. The army of fifty thousand that had been sent by the Governor Manor to Mero City had been captured by the enemy and there was only themander Marquis Dynatale who had escaped.

    This news had filled the people of Baberel City with panic.

    Mero City¡¯s fall could be considered the empire¡¯s soldiers underestimating the enemy, but the army of fifty thousand sent by the Governor Manor were all elite troops of the southwest province, but now they had been captured at Mero City.

    This enemy, just how strong were they?

    ¡°No, Lord Duke, the enemy this time is even more powerful than you can imagine.¡± Marquis Dynatale looked at the southwest province governor Duke Charles in front of him and added with a serious look, ¡°Not to mention the army of fifty thousand that I led not being a match for them, I believe that even if all the armies in our southwest province was sent, we wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything to them.¡±

    Duke Charles looked at Marquis Dynatale with a deep look for a bit as his eyes couldn¡¯t help revealing a surprised look.

    If he hadn¡¯t been close to Marquis Dynatale for many years and he understood his personality, knowing that he wasn¡¯t someone that spoke carelessly or trash that hid their failures by exaggerating the enemy¡¯s power, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have believed it.

    What a joke!

    Even if the thirty thousand garrison in Mero City was annihted, even the fifty thousand elite troops had been defeated and sent packing¡­¡­Oh, no, they didn¡¯t evene back.

    Based on the report from Marquis Dynatale, the damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t even care about their fifty thousand troops to begin with! They even thought that it was a waste of ammunition to attack them!

    Marquis Dynatale not only could not refute it at all, he even said to him that they wouldn¡¯t be a match even if all of the southwest province¡¯s armies were gathered?

    ¡°Then based on what you said, shouldn¡¯t we just surrender to those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡± Thinking of this, Duke Charles couldn¡¯t help adding a cold taunting tone to his voice.

    How could Marquis Dynatale not hear this? However, he gave a helpless bitterugh before saying, ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal is just to defeat all resistance within our southwest province, I believe that they can aplish this, but¡­¡­their goal doesn¡¯t seem to be this.¡±

    Duke Charles deeply knitted his brows, ¡°Then what do you think their goals are? At least it isn¡¯t fake that they upied Mero City, right?¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, with all due respect, if they were to attack Baberel City, we wouldn¡¯t be able to resist. They really are too¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Enough!¡± Duke Charles angrily pped the table and cut Marquis Dynatale off, ¡°I¡¯ve already heard enough of you praising the enemy! The enemy has now already upied Mero City, do you want me to wait here and watch them act however they want?¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, the fact is that we don¡¯t have the ability to resist them¡­¡­¡± Marquis Dynatale helplessly spread his hands, ¡°I think that we must admit that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has many powerful military magic machines that we don¡¯t have, the battle power of our two sides aren¡¯t even at the same level. If we were to insist on fighting them, we would only be sending our troops in to die.¡±

    ¡°So we have to wait for them to annex Mero City first before annexing the other cities of our southwest province and then finally annexing Baberel City, annexing the entire southwest province before moving on to the entire empire?¡± Duke Charles said in a cold voice.

    ¡°Of course not. I just¡­¡­just feel that¡­¡­Lord Duke, we should report the situation here to the army headquarter and let those important people decide what to do?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for you to worry about this, I already sent the report up as soon as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invaded. I believe that in a few days, the army headquarters will react.¡± After saying this, Duke Charles then angrily cursed in a low voice, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for the hindrance of those damn fellows, we would have already been connected to Wimbledon City through the magicmunicationwork with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It wouldn¡¯t take several days just to send a single report.¡±

    Marquis Dynatale opened his mouth before deciding against reminding Duke Charles that among the people who hindered the magicmunicationwork, he was one of them.

    ¡°Then Lord Duke, right now, we¡­¡­¡±

    Duke Charles looked at him before giving a cold snort, ¡°Of course we can¡¯t wait here for the news from the headquarters and do nothing with Mero City. Dynatale, in three days, you will bring ten thousand people from the fifth regiment to support Mero City.¡±

    Marquis Dynatale was stunned.

    ¡°Fifth regiment? Ten thousand people?¡±

    Marquis Dynatale almost thought that Duke Charles was joking.

    This fifty regiment was the most bottom ranked regiment in the southwest province¡¯s army. It was called a regiment, but they were mainly in charge of supplies, construction, and other misceneous work. They didn¡¯t have any fighting experience at all and they were soldiers that didn¡¯t even haveplete sets of equipment.

    Not to mention ten thousand, even if the entire fifty regiment¡¯s forty thousand troops were sent to Mero City, they would be in a much worse situation than the fifty thousand reinforcement army from before.

    ¡°What? You don¡¯t understand?¡± Duke Charles narrowed his eyes to ask Marquis Dynatale, ¡°Do you need me to repeat it?¡±

    Marquis Dynatale opened his mouth and wanted to ask Duke Charles why he was only sending ten thousand people from the fifth regiment, but seeing the strange expression on Duke Charles¡¯ face, he suddenly had a thought and understood what he meant.

    ¡°Yes, Lord Duke, I understand. But you¡¯re only giving me three days, isn¡¯t that a bit too rushed? I feel that it should take at least five days¡­¡­No, at least a week to prepare. After all, the enemy is too strong and the odds of sess aren¡¯t high.¡±

    Duke Charles revealed a satisfied smile and shook his head before replying, ¡°No need. The people of Mero City can¡¯t wait and the people at headquarters are even more anxious. Three days will be fine, I believe that the army headquarters will react in three days.¡±

    How could Marquis Dynatale not understand what Duke Charles meant? He gave a nod and agreed.

    ###

    A weekter, the ten thousand troops led by Marquis Dynatale couldn¡¯t even maintain formations as they arrived five kilometers away from Mero City, stopping there to set up camp. When they converged with the fifty thousand troops that had been there for ten days, the news immediately spread to Mero City.

    ¡°Heil, it seems like those nobles from the Candra Empire really aren¡¯t fools, they know exactly what they should do.¡±

    Chief Hart looked over the report and immediately moved his focus aside.

    ¡°What about the other movements? Has there been no reaction from the Candra Empire army?¡±

    ¡°Hey, just three days ago, those idiots from the Candra Empire army were still arguing with each other. I don¡¯t believe that they will be able to finish their argument in another three days.¡± The vice leader Noons said with a look of disdain from the side.

    ¡°That¡¯s why a country being too big isn¡¯t an advantage. Look at them now, it¡¯s this hard just for them toe up with a casual decision. It¡¯s a pity that we want some boldness from them and take some countermeasures as soon as possible. Otherwise, I still have to stay here and wait for my body to rust.¡± Chief Hart said with a sigh.

    ¡°It¡¯s not just you, even I¡¯m so bored that I¡¯m about to die.¡± Noons alsoined.

    They had already upied Mero City for several days and because the City Lord Count Denpusy had fallen under their control, there was no resistance from Mero City. The citizens had been good the entire time and didn¡¯t have any thoughts, so that the ns that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards hade up with couldn¡¯t even be used on them.

    Of course, based on their information, the Denpusy Family had never been good to the citizens of the territory they governed. There was even a small rebellionst year that caused over a thousand civilian casualties.

    In this situation, perhaps the Candra Empire citizens of this city might even think it was a good thing that Count Denpusy fell into the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Chief Hart believed that if they didn¡¯t just want to achieve their goal and wanted to upy this city, as long as they could repel the tens of thousands of Candra Empire troops outside, they wouldn¡¯t need to spend that much effort to grasp Mero City.

    After all, when it came to buying the hearts of the citizens, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a natural advantage that others couldn¡¯tpare to.

    It was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily develop the economy of an area, visibly improving most people¡¯s living conditions and letting them live better lives.

    The citizens of the Candra Empire were far from being loyal to their lords, they even cared less about the concept of the Candra Empire.

    If someone could give them better lives, naturally they would easily obtain their loyalty.

    This was something that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done in Banta City and even more times in the Stantine Duchy.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff were all very loyal and were willing to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to live much better lives.

    Compared to being under the hands of the royals where they couldn¡¯t even feed themselves, who wouldn¡¯t be able to think this kind of decision through?

    Of course, before considering these issues, they had to solve a big hindrance which was also the main goal that sir chairman had personally set for this operation.

    As if they could feel chief Hart¡¯s thoughts, one of his personal guards that was in charge ofmunications quickly came over and reported to chief Hart in a loud voice.

    ¡°Reporting to the chief, there¡¯s a high energy response to the northeast!¡±

 Volume 7 â€“ 114

    <h4>Volume 7 - Chapter 114</h4>

    Tragic magicians

    Around ten minutester, there were a bunch of ck dots in the sky to the northeast of Mero City. They stopped in the sky three kilometers away from Mero City to the northeast and didn¡¯t continue any further.

    Chief Hart looked with his telescope and saw the magicians in their long magician robes flying in the air.

    ¡°Hei, it seems like those fellows from the Candra Empire are finally making a move? But they think that it¡¯s just enough with these fellows?¡± Chief Hart gave a coldugh before turning to say to Noons, ¡°Let the brothers greet the honoured magicians.¡±

    ¡°Alright!¡± Noons quickly replied before turning to pass down the order.

    After a while, there were ten bright light blue glows that came from Mero City¡¯s walls, aimed at the magicians floating in the air to the northeast of the city.

    These magicians had just stopped when they were shocked to see the ten beams of light shooting at them.

    The magicians all opened their hands and different coloured glowing shields appeared around them.

    These ten glowing beams hit the magic barriers and all exploded.

    Different from the eye catching explosions that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s normal Magic Shells, although the explosions of these ten light blue beams of light weren¡¯t small, they created light blue ripples in the sky that could be seen with the naked eye after exploding that surrounded arge area.

    Feeling the influence of these light blue ripples, it was as if the space became turbulent like disturbed water.

    The magicians in the air were surprised to find that they had lost the control of the elemental magic energy, they couldn¡¯t even maintain their flight magic anymore. There were many magicians that had fallen right out of the sky.

    It was a good thing that halfway down, when they were about to hit the ground, they regained their control over elemental magic energy and could quickly stabilize themselves.

    Otherwise, just with this one attack, quite a few magicians would have fallen to their deaths.

    The magicians in the air were all shaken.

    If quite a few magicians were to fall to their deaths under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ attack, that really would have been a joke.

    However, after recalling the experience just now, there were many magicians who obedientlynded on the ground.

    This was the first time that since these magicians learned how to fly that they felt the ground was more assuring than being in the air.

    Chief Hart saw the reaction of these magicians through the telescope and couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    ¡°Ha, these magicians thought that their greatest advantage was that they could fly and others couldn¡¯t. Now we have to let them know that flying in such a high ce is not as safe as they thought.¡±

    Noons who had juste back to chief Hart¡¯s side also broke out inughter, ¡°The magic theory of these fellows have long been eliminated. Sir chairman has announced this many times, but no one was willing to believe it. Now that we¡¯ve beaten them this bad, they should believe it.¡±

    ¡°Just these fellows can¡¯t convince all the traditional magicians. Have you gotten any response from Arch Magi?¡± Chief Hart asked.

    ¡°Temporarily there hasn¡¯t been anything, but even if Arch Magi were here and used the same flight magic, the magic fluctuations would be the same and it wouldn¡¯t be strange that we couldn¡¯t detect them.¡± Noons replied.

    ¡°Un, that is true.¡± Chief Hart nodded, ¡°Alright then, since the other side isn¡¯t willing to show themselves, then we¡¯ll force them out. Order the Magic Tank team to prepare to attack and carry out the first n.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Ten minutester, the Candra Empire magicians that came as reinforcements recovered from their shock to find that the north gate of Mero City had opened. There were strange looking Magic Cars that were like giant iron boxes that came out of Mero City, quickly setting out towards the reinforcement army to the west of Mero City.

    Half of these magicians immediately prepared to fly over to the reinforcement army¡¯s camp, preparing to catch those strange things that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce called ¡°Magic Tanks¡±.

    However, when this half of the magician group flew up, there were several dozen more light blue beams of light that came from Mero City¡¯s walls and exploded in the air above them.

    With the experience from before, they knew that the space wrapped up in the light blue light were areas where they lost control of elemental magic energy. If they were to fly up, they might fall down again or they might even be seriously wounded by the chaotic elemental magic energy.

    Feeling helpless, the magicians could only stay on the ground. They relied on this low altitude flight to quickly chase the Magic Tanks that came out of Mero City.

    However, before they could approach, the upper half of these Magic Tanks turned around and the steel pipes were now aimed at the magicians flying over.

    Seeing the dark end of these steel pipes, the magicians had a bad premonition.

    As expected, there were different coloured lights that exploded from these steel pipes and instantly approached them.

    The ones in front were ten light blue beams of light.

    The same colour and the same effect.

    As the light blue light exploded, the magicians felt that they couldn¡¯t control the elemental magic energy around them and couldn¡¯t stop themselves from falling out of the sky.

    When they were still falling out of the sky, the several dozen red and white beams of light had already reached them.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    There were dazzling mes that appeared in the sky. The magicians in the air couldn¡¯t even use elemental magic energy to maintain their flight magic, so it was impossible for them to release a magic barrier.

    So after this series of terrifying explosions, there were only around ten magicians who were of the highest grade and had the fastest reaction that had escaped. Not a single one of the remaining magicians were spared.

    Seeing this result, the magicians who had remained in their original positions were deathly silent.

    They were the magician squad that received orders from headquarters to support the army that was attacking Mero City.

    They thought that with their team of over a hundred magicians that were mostly High Grade Magicians, they would be able to easily reim Mero City.

    But they never thought that they wouldn¡¯t even be able to approach Mero City before they had lost close to half their numbers in just a few exchanges!

    The remaining magicians looked at these Magic Tanks that were like steel monsters and Mero City in the distance, feeling a chill fill their hearts.

    In previous battles, arge number of magicians appearing was enough to change the tide of a fight. What decided who won was usually which side had more magicians or higher grade magicians.

    Becausepared to normal soldiers, magicians couldpletely crush them.

    But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t even sent out a single magician. They were the elite magicians of the Candra Empire army and they had suffered this serious loss without even being able to cause any harm to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    This result was something that no one had expected.

    The most important thing was that the power the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had just demonstrated was too terrifying.

    They didn¡¯t know what those light blue beams of light were, but they could disrupt the surrounding magic space and make them unable to control the elemental magic energy around them. This was equal topletely eliminating their abilities as magicians.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards weren¡¯t limited by this at all and could still release this kind of terrifying attack.

    With this reversal, the magicians were as weak as chickens in front of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    It was their first time seeing this situation since they enrolled in the Candra Empire army, it really made them iparably shocked.

    After being shocked for a bit, the magicians couldn¡¯t help looking at the center of their group.

    Their biggest advantage was their and the most powerful final trump card that they had.

    Seeing that everyone was turning to them, Arch Magus Ofalian slightly knitted his brows as he turned to ask Arch Magus Laduca beside him, ¡°Hey, Laduca, don¡¯t you think that the attack just now was simr to my magic domain¡¯s ability?¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca looked up at the sky before closing his eyes to think and then giving a nod.

    ¡°It is a bit simr, but it isn¡¯tpletely the same. Your magic domain makes elemental magic energy go wild, so only you can control it. The attack we just encountered only made the elemental magic energy around us hard to control, but it didn¡¯t have any attack power or destructive might. To put it simply, it was only creating a small Magic Sealing Domain.¡±

    ¡°But this is the perfect weapon for these lower grade magicians, right?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Mero City in the distance and took a deep breath, ¡°I even suspect that kid Xu Yi stole some of the special characteristics of my magic domain in thatst fight, then he changed it into a military magic machine for their Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca looked at Arch Magus Ofalian with a shocked look.

    ¡°Why do you think this? Although there¡¯s no doubt that Xu Yi is talented with magic, being able to figure out the characteristics of your magic domain with a single fight, isn¡¯t that too unbelievable?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression sank as he said, ¡°You should have studied those strange metal things that you got from that kid Xu Yist time, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I¡¯ve been studying it the entire time recently and it¡¯s harder to believe the more I study it. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡­¡­or rather how did Xu Yi develop this kind of precise magic item? Moreover, I can¡¯t understand the principle behind it at all.¡±

    ¡°If you listened to that kid Xu Yi and read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, perhaps you would understand a bit more.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian said.

    ¡°You¡¯ve read it?¡± Arch Magus Laduca was surprised again.

    He thought that with Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s disdain towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn¡¯t have gone to read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? before him.

    It seemed like not being able to stop Xu Yist time even when working together was a very big blow to Ofalian.

    ¡°Yes. I seriously read through all the issues of ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that I could find, but I found that¡­¡­I couldn¡¯t understand it at all.¡±

 Volume 7 â€“ 115 The big fish that took the bait

    <h4>Volume 7 ¨C Chapter 115 The big fish that took the bait</h4>

    ¡°I¡¯ve seriously read each word that kid Xu Yi wrote in that article and I could understand what each word meant, but the meaning of the article itself, I couldn¡¯t understand it no matter how I looked at it.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian raised his hand to stop Arch Magus Laduca from talking.

    ¡°But even if I can¡¯t understand it, I know in my heart that what the article was talking about is very logical and wasn¡¯t something thoughtless that kid Xu Yi came up with. In light of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s achievements over the years, I must admit that what that kid Xu Yi said to us before makes a bit of sense.¡±

    ¡°What Xu Yi said before?¡± Arch Magus Laduca was surprised before remembering that when Xu Yi fought with the two of them, he had said that their magic theories had fallen behind.

    Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t feel that way and Arch Magus Ofalian had snorted with contempt.

    However, in less than half a year, Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s attitude had changed. Not only did he take the initiative to study the new magic theory that Xu Yi mentioned which he had looked down on, he had even acknowledged that his magic theory had fallen behind.

    ¡°Then you mean¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus Laduca looked at Arch Magus Ofalian with a doubtful gaze.

    Arch Magus Laduca had always worked with the Candra Empire army headquarters, listening to their orders most of the time.

    When the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards invading the Candra Empire and capturing Mero City reached the headquarters, it immediately created a stir.

    The army headquarters attached great importance to this. Not only did they send the most elite magician squad, they had even asked Arch Magus Laduca to personally act immediately.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was different from Arch Magus Laduca. He had worked with Arch Magus Laduca to deal with Xu Yi before all because he wanted to give Marshal Sudman face.

    When the army headquarters wanted Arch Magus Laduca to fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it was unknown where he received this information, but he took the initiative to join the battle.

    Naturally the army headquarters couldn¡¯t ask for more, so they had the two of theme together as the core of this magician squad.

    However, as soon as they made contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, Arch Magus Ofalian had said these words that hurt their own morale and raised the might of the enemy. This really was something that Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t expect.

    ¡°Don¡¯t misunderstand. I was just feeling emotional, there¡¯s no other meaning.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian let out a sigh as his face became calm, ¡°What we need to do right now is simple, we just need to take care of those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It¡¯s best if we can capture some of those Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards alive while also seizing some military magic machines to study, this would be very helpful to us.¡±

    ¡°Un, the headquarters had the same idea.¡± Arch Magus Laduca gave a nod, ¡°In thest fight against the Rudson Kingdom, the difference in performance between the empire¡¯s Magic Cannons and other military magic machines and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were clear. The headquarters isn¡¯t happy with this, so they need some of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest military magic machines to study.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian suddenly gave augh, ¡°Laduca, if you read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, you wouldn¡¯t be saying this. That kid Xu Yi said several years ago that military magic machines aren¡¯t that simple to imitate, it¡¯s rted to the entire magic machine industry. Without a good enough technological base, it¡¯s impossible to make military magic machines that can contend with the ones from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca knitted his brows to look at Arch Magus Ofalian.

    ¡°Ofalian, why do I feel¡­..that you are more and more on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s side?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m only on the side of logic.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian softly replied, ¡°Of course, this doesn¡¯t hinder me as one of the Candra Empire¡¯s citizens. Alright, stop wasting words, let¡¯s go. Based on the current situation, the normal magicians won¡¯t be of any use, so how about we bring along some Great Magicians first?¡±

    ¡°Un, I had the same idea.¡± Arch Magus Laduca nodded in agreement before picking some people out.

    Arch Magus Laduca was one of the Candra Empire¡¯s nine Arch Magi and was themander of the headquarter¡¯s magician squad, so he had a very high ce in the hearts of the magicians of the squad.

    With his order, thirteen Great Magicians were picked out to form a small squad with him and Arch Magus Ofalian that flew off towards Mero City.

    The rest of the magicians were left behind by them. After they retreated a bit, they grouped up with the reinforcement army.

    The small squad with the two Arch Magi and the thirteen Great Magicians quickly caught the attention of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    As soon as they flew out, there were several dozen light blue beams of light that came from Mero City¡¯s city walls.

    However this time, the rippling light blue light that came from the explosion of these beams didn¡¯t affect the fifteen magicians that much. They still maintained the same speed as they headed towards Mero City.

    ¡°It seems like we finally caught some big fish.¡± Chief Hart on the wall revealed a faint smile, ¡°Noons, send down the order. We¡¯re moving on to the second n.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    There were countless weak sparkles that came from Mero City that filled the sky like stars, looking quite beautiful.

    However, when Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca saw these, they instantly became wary.

    They had seen these sparkles when they fought Xu Yi before.

    Xu Yi had released these sparkles from those strange shaped magic parts to create a strange magic domain. Not only had he been able to escape from the two of them working together, he had even prated through the Magic Domain Sealing Array of Wimbledon City. It really had a strange effect.

    When Arch Magus Laduca had chased the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship squad, he had encountered something simr.

    But those Magic Airships had used these things to stop him from releasing Forbidden Spells.

    Although they had also escaped, the principle behind this was very different.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in Mero City also released these things, what would they be used for?

    ¡°Everyone be careful, prepare to react at any time.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca had just warned the thirteen Great Magicians beside him when he saw the two Great Magicians at the very front m into something before being sent flying back.

    The other Great Magicians behind them made their move and helped the two of them stabilize themselves. They looked forward in a daze and saw that there were faint lights that were glowing in front of them.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at each other with stunned looks.

    This was clearly the exact same phenomenon as the Magic Domain Sealing Array around Wimbledon City!

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that kid Xu Yi has already learned the principle behind the Magic Domain Sealing Array after seeing it once and now he can even copy it?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s eyes couldn¡¯t help popping out as he said this.

    ¡°That is impossible!¡± Arch Magus Laduca immediately shook his head to deny this guess, ¡°The Magic Domain Sealing Array around Wimbledon City was carefully built by many Arch Magi over several hundred years. Even if Xu Yi is talented enough to understand the principle, it isn¡¯t that easy to imitate it and it¡¯s impossible toy it down outside Mero City in such a short period of time.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­..that¡¯s right.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian thought about it before flying forward and releasing a wisp of magic power to test it. As expected, the feeling of the change in the magic space in front of him was a very simr feeling to the one that the Magic Domain Sealing Array in Wimbledon City gave him.

    After thinking about it, he wildly released his magic power and activated his unique magic domain, attacking the magic space in front of him.

    When his magic domain touched this strange magic space, the magic space in front of him was like a pot of boiling oil that had water sshed over it, causing the elemental magic energy to be even wilder.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was caught off guard and almost lost the control of his magic from this wild elemental magic energy.

    It was a good thing that he had very precise control of his magic and once he felt that something was off, he immediately pulled back his magic power.

    Arch Magus Laduca and the other thirteen Great Magicians weren¡¯t normal people. Naturally they could feel the strangeness with the magic space in front of them and their expressions changed.

    A casual move from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could create such terrifying changes in the magic space, it was something that far exceeded their expectations.

    ¡°What do we do now?¡± The thirteen Great Magicians all turned to Arch Magus Laduca.

    Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t say a thing, he just raised his head to release his magic power and investigate all around him.

    After a while, with him as a core, his magic power had already gone two kilometers away from him.

    The investigation showed that there were no problems with the other directions, there was just this strange magic space that was in an arc in front of them, covering all of Mero City. It was clearly to stop them from approaching Mero City.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way for now. Everyone, use all your power and attack this strange magic barrier.¡± Arch Magus Laduca thought about it before saying, ¡°As long as we break this barrier, I don¡¯t believe that Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in Mero City will have a way to stop us.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    The Great Magicians all agreed.

    When they were about to make a move, a Great Magician suddenly pointed to the air to the right in front of them.

    Everyone looked up and saw that in the southern skies of Mero City, there was a cloud made of several dozen Magic Airships that was flying towards them.

    When everyone¡¯s eyes had just fallen on these Magic Airships, there were countless dazzling milky white lights that came from the Magic Airships, instantly appearing in front of them.

    Feeling the terrifying power contained in these lights, not only the thirteen Great Magicians, even Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expressions had changed.

 Volume 7 â€“ 116 Great Magicians were also burdens

    <h4>Volume 7 ¨C Chapter 116 Great Magicians were also burdens</h4>

    There wasn¡¯t any time to dodge, so Arch Magus Ofalian, Arch Magus Laduce, and the other thirteen Great Magicians could only release their magic barriers at full force to cover themselves with.

    When the several dozen white lights hit the magic barrier, it didn¡¯t create an intense explosion like they had expected. Rather the sound was very small and it was like several balloons popping as the milky white light create milky white sparkles that spread across the area.

    ¡°Damn!¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca only had time to shout this before the magic space around them became very unstable.

    With their great control over magic, they were able to maintain their magic barriers with great difficulty, but for the weaker thirteen Great Magicians, they started swaying in the sky. Not to mention keeping up their magic barriers, even being able to stay in the sky was hard for them.

    It was clear that the attack that they took was simr to the light blue glows that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had shot from Mero City¡¯s city walls and their Magic Tanks. They were able to greatly disturb the magic area around them.

    This kind of attack seemed to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s way of targeting magicians because normal soldiers wouldn¡¯t even be able to feel the elemental magic energy around them, so there was no need to mention then being affected by disruptions in magic space.

    But the difference was that the lights that came from these Magic Airships were clearly at a higher level.

    With the previous attacks, the Great Magicians were able to remain rxed and unaffected, but with this attack, even Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca were greatly affected by it. It could be seen how powerful this attack was.

    ¡°Ofalian, it seems like your guess before isn¡¯t right. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s toys aren¡¯t like your magic domain at all. At least when facing your magic domain, I wouldn¡¯t suffer that much.¡± Arch Magus Laduca knitted his brows.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s face was as still as water as he looked at the Magic Airships in the distance with eyes filled with doubt.

    Hearing what Arch Magus Laduca said, he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, perhaps that kid Xu Yi has his own understanding or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed something that belongs to them recently. In short¡­..our situation isn¡¯t that good. We should find a way to solve our problems first.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca nodded. He took a deep breath and released all his magic power, trying to use his unique magic domain to see if he could calm down the chaotic magic space around him.

    However, as soon as he made a move, those Magic Airships also made a move.

    This time, the Magic Airships no longer released those milky white lights, but rather several balls of me in their direction.

    The fifteen magicians, including the two Arch Magi saw this and their expressions changed.

    There was no need to check it with their magic power, just based on their eyes alone, they could see the terrifying might contained in these balls of mes.

    But because they had been affected by that earlier attack, the magic space around them was still in chaos and they couldn¡¯t control the elemental magic energy around them at will. Naturally they weren¡¯t able to release the magic barrier like before to protect themselves.

    If they lost the protection of this magic barrier, their defenses weren¡¯t that much stronger than a normal person¡¯s.

    This kind of terrifying attack, if they couldn¡¯t avoid it, there was only death.

    The attacks from these Magic Airships were very fast. As soon as it was released from the Magic Airship, it was already in front of them in the blink of an eye.

    This time, only the two Arch Magi had the power to resist.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca didn¡¯t dare hold back. They released all their magic power and released their magic domain, covering themselves and the thirteen Great Magicians around them.

    Although the attributes of their two domains were different, with the two silently working together and with their full strength released, they were able to regain control over the magic space in arge area around them. It made the chaotic magic space from before controble once again.

    The several dozen balls of me containing terrifying might was already in front of them.

    The two Arch Magi didn¡¯t have time to think as they released all their magic power again, gathering the elemental magic energy in the magic space they controlled with great difficulty to open up two magic barriers, protecting themselves and the thirteen Great Magicians behind them.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    This attack wasn¡¯t as silent as the one from before and instantly exploded into countless giant balls of mes, turning the sky a dark red colour.

    The sound of the explosions spread far, causing the reinforcement army from the southwest Governor Manor and the magicians that had been left behind to start worrying.

    Although they were confident in the two excellency Arch Magi and the thirteen powerful Great Magicians, the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships seemed so terrifying that they couldn¡¯t help feeling worried.

    After around a minute, the explosions stopped and the mes faded, gradually revealing the figures in the air.

    The people of the Candra Empire stared on and seeing that there weren¡¯t any figures missing, adding up to fifteen, they let out a sigh of relief.

    It was good. Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships had terrifying attacks, they couldn¡¯t do anything to the iparably powerful excellency Arch Magi!

    Subconsciously, they had already excluded the thirteen Great Magicians.

    However, hearing the cheers from the army and the magicians left behind in the distance, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at each other before revealing bitter smiles.

    Although they had stopped this terrifying attack and could maintain their magic barrier, which looked quite easy, just using their magic domains to take back the magic space around them had used up quite a bit of magic power.

    Then when they resisted these terrifying attacks, their magic power consumption was even more terrifying.

    With just a single move, this huge amount of magic power that seemed bottomless to other magicians had already been reduced by a third.

    If they had to do this several times, even they weren¡¯t confident in stopping it.

    Arch Magus Laduca had a thought before letting out a sigh and turning to the thirteen Great Magicians to say, ¡°Alright, you can go back.¡±

    The thirteen Great Magicians were all stunned.

    Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s meaning was¡­..they were useless here?

    But thinking about it, they felt that Arch Magus Laduca wasn¡¯t wrong at all.

    That attack just now, it had already taken all their power just to remain in the air.

    Then in the following attack, if it wasn¡¯t for the two Arch Magi protecting them, even if they weren¡¯t directly blown up, they would be on the edge of death.

    So to be honest, they wouldn¡¯t help at all if they remained here. Rather, they would burden the two excellent Arch Magi and force them to consume magic power to protect them.

    Thinking of this, the thirteen Great Magicians lost their spirit.

    They were respected Great Magicians!

    Even in the Candra Empire, they were respected people no matter where they went. They were in the upper level of the magician circle¡¯s pyramid, but now, they had be burdens!

    But no matter how unwilling they were, they had to acknowledge this fact.

    Not to mention there were two excellency Arch Magi in front of them, it wasn¡¯t their time to be disappointed.

    So the thirteen Great Magicians could only give nods in agreement before turning to leave.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships didn¡¯t stop at all. As soon as they wanted to move, there was another attack.

    This time, there were two attacks being released at the same time.

    First was the several dozen milky white lights before several dozen red balls of mes followed them.

    ¡°Humph! You want to keep us all here?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort. He induced all his magic power and spread his magic domain in front of him, controlling the magic space in front.

    ¡°We¡¯ll protect you, you leave first.¡± Arch Magus Laduca waved his hand at the thirteen Great Magicians. Then he also followed Arch Magus Ofalian as he used his magic domain to control the magic space.

    They had some experience after dealing with the attack earlier. They knew that before the milky white lights destroyed the magic space around them, they had to gain control of the magic space so they could deal with the attack that followed.

    As expected, the milky white lights in front mmed into Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic domain that had been spread first and immediately exploded like before.

    Then Arch Magus Ofalian felt like his magic domain had been seriously attacked, almost making him lose control of his magic domain.

    This caused him to be shocked.

    As an Arch Magus who could control magic domains, he had already exceeded the understanding of other magicians on magic space.

    Normally speaking, only when he met another Arch Magus would there be a situation where his magic space would be unstable.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t sent out a single magician, not to mention an Arch Magus. They attacked with these Magic Airships and they could match the power of an Arch Magus. It really was terrifying.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Following the milky white light came the several dozen balls of me. Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic barrier that had been prepared ahead of time was hit with a series of powerful explosions.

    Arch Magus Ofalian could feel that his magic power was dropping significantly with each explosion and knew that he couldn¡¯t continue like this.

    ¡°Laduca, we can¡¯t just let ourselves be hit like this, let¡¯s¡­¡­¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian had just turned and said half his words to Arch Magus Laduca before he stopped.

    He was surprised to see that the thirteen Great Magicians who they had ordered to leave just now were still behind them. Not a single one of them had retreated.

    Arch Magus Ofalian knitted his brows and wanted to shout out a question, but one of the Great Magicians gave a gulp before saying with an ugly look on his face, ¡°Your excellency Arch Magi, we¡­¡­we can¡¯t leave at all¡­¡­¡±

 Volume 7 â€“ 117 Magic cage

    <h4>Volume 7 ¨C Chapter 117 Magic cage</h4>

    ¡°Can¡¯t get out?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian was stunned, ¡°What does this mean?¡±

    The Great Magician who was the furthest away from Arch Magus Ofalian stretched his hand out in the air and there were thin traces of electricity that suddenly appeared. It quickly spread and covered an area of several dozen square meters in the air.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression changed, ¡°Magic Domain Sealing Array? Wasn¡¯t this supposed to be in Mero City? How did it suddenly get behind us?¡±

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There was another series of powerful explosions, but Arch Magus Laduca had made a move to stop these attacks from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships.

    ¡°Hu¡­¡­Ofalian, I investigated it earlier and this Magic Domain Sealing Array changed its range when we were focused on those Magic Airships just now. It¡¯s currently surrounding us. It seems like those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already nned this and baited us into this trap.¡± Arch Magus Laduca said while panting a bit.

    ¡°How is this possible? The Magic Domain Sealing Array needs a long time toy down. It¡¯s already good enough that those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could defend Mero City, how could they change it at will during battle? How could they even precisely trap us inside of it?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian shouted with a look of disbelief.

    ¡°This is fact.¡± Arch Magus Laduca flew up with a sunken expression and reached a finger out. There was a wisp of magic that appeared at the end of his finger and he poked up with it.

    This seemingly normal space, when it made contact with Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s finger, it was like a stone had been thrown into calm water. The countless coloured streaks of electricity appeared in the air and wildly spread before covering the entire sky.

    Looking up, they would see that the electricity formed a half circle that curved downwards. It was around fifty meters high and covered a diameter of a hundred meters, wrapping up the fifteen magicians, including the two Arch Magi.

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked around as his expression changed.

    ¡°Laduca, are you certain that this barrier is the same as the Magic Domain Sealing Array in Wimbledon City?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Arch Magus Laduca floated back down and shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s clearly not the same. Once the Magic Domain Sealing Array in Wimbledon City is released, it will cut off all magic, whether it¡¯s inside or outside of the array, so it stops all spells. What is around us now¡­..it shouldn¡¯t be called a Magic Domain Sealing Array, it should just be a magic cage that was prepared for us. We can¡¯t leave, but the attacks from outside can stille in. Look¡­¡­¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian knitted his brows as he released all his magic power to create a magic shield, blocking off another round of attacks from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships.

    But this time, his expression wasn¡¯t as rxed as before.

    Just three rounds of attacks and he found that half of his magic had already been drained.

    The Magic Airships didn¡¯t seem like they would stop, so he wasn¡¯t confident that he could keep blocking them.

    ¡°Is there a way to get out?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian asked.

    Arch Magus Laduca thought for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°I¡¯ll give it a try with them, you block the attacks and buy us some time. Of course, if you can¡¯t hold on, switch out with me.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian let out a breath, ¡°It¡¯s fine for now, but if those fellows keep maintaining this kind of attack, I might not be able to hold on for long.¡±

    ¡°I know.¡± Arch Magus Laduca patted Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s shoulder. He turned to wave at the thirteen Great Magicians and they gathered them near this strange magic cage as they started studying it.

    Arch Magus Ofalian saw the mes being gathered by the Magic Airships in the distance again and took a deep breath. He focused his mind and released all his magic power.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    The explosions rang out, but when they fell onto the ears of others, it invoked a different reaction.

    The southwest province¡¯s reinforcement army were apprehensive when they watched. Although the magicians left behind were also worried, they weren¡¯t that worried because they knew that with the two Arch Magi, it was impossible for any problems to happen.

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s group back in Mero City, they didn¡¯t feel any worry, but they were a bit nervous.

    This wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first time meeting an enemy at the Arch Magus rank. Eight years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been attacked by two Arch Magi, but they had killed one of them which had greatly increased the reputation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But that situation was different from how it was now.

    That time, Arch Magus Levin Hasko had walked the path of his own death, running to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters to trap himself.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to attack, arranging a trap for an Arch Magus in the Candra Empire. The difficulty of the two matters weren¡¯t even on the same scale.

    Although these fellows had been trained countless times, each Arch Magus was different, they were all experts that couldn¡¯t be measured.

    To kill an Arch Magus was an impossible matter for most people.

    Although everything was going smoothly, there were two Arch Magi on the other side, so it was hard to tell if anything would change.

    So even if the other side was passively taking their attacks, chief Hart didn¡¯t let down his guard at all and kept in touch with the Magic Airship squad the entire time.

    ¡°There¡¯s still half of the ammunition left. Based on this attack frequency and intensity, it¡¯s estimated that it will be consumed in seventeen minutes.¡±

    Hearing the report from the Magic Airship, chief Hart thought about it before saying into another Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Magic Tank squad, listen to your orders. Immediately attack the Candra Empire¡¯s reinforcement army and drive them five kilometers away from Mero City. We can¡¯t let them enter this range. If this mission fails, retreat to the southwest as quickly as possible, don¡¯t dy at all.¡±

    ¡°Chief, do you mean that we shouldn¡¯t care about you?¡±

    ¡°Stop wasting words, listen to my orders.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Chief Hart cut this Magic Communicator off and turned to say to Noons, ¡°Have the logistics team load up some ammunition and go out the south gate to prepare to support the Magic Airship squad.¡±

    Noons picked up the first Magic Communicator and contacted the Magic Airship squad.

    ¡°Magic Airship squad, prepare for a resupply of ammo outside of the south gates. However, during this time, you must maintain firing on the Great Magician and Arch Magi team, you can¡¯t let them rx at all. Understood?¡±

    ¡°Received!¡±

    ¡°Willrod, lead the elf team into the city and maintain the city¡¯s stability. If you see any changes, don¡¯t be polite, understand?¡±

    ¡°Understood.¡±

    ¡°Good, go.¡±

    The elf team leader Willrod immediately led another two elf guards down the city walls.

    After a while, the elf guards disappeared like shadows into Mero City.

    After giving these orders, chief Hart let out a sigh of relief. He turned to look at the Great Magicians and two Arch Magi being wildly bombed by the Magic Airship squad.

    This mission, or rather this fight, would decide the fate of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire. It might even decide how the entire Sines Continent developed in the future.

    If they seeded, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future development would be bright.

    If they failed, the consequences would be hard to imagine.

    Thinking of this, chief Hart who had been through hundreds of battles couldn¡¯t help feeling nervous.

    Of course,pared to chief Hart, the most nervous were the two Arch Magi and the thirteen Great Magicians.

    If they failed, it would be rted to their lives, so this was more important than anything.

    However, Arch Magus Laduca and the thirteen Great Magicians had studied it for a while and still couldn¡¯t understand the principles behind the strange magic barrier around them, not to mention being able to break free of this cage.

    Although they didn¡¯t know why, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships¡¯ attacks were a bit slower than before, but based on Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic domain, Arch Magus Laduca knew that he wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on for much longer.

    ¡°Alright, let me do it.¡± Arch Magus Laduca gave a sigh before flying in front of Arch Magus Ofalian, ¡°The characteristics of this thing is closer to your magic domain, so you should have an easier time studying it.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Arch Magus Laduca and knew that he was just making an excuse, but he also knew that his magic power was running out. If they didn¡¯t switch, he might not even be able to hold on for three more attacks. He gave a nod and switched ces with Arch Magus Laduca.

    Flying over to the Great Magicians, he asked them a few things and understood what they had just studied, causing Arch Magus Ofalian to knit his brows.

    Time was too short, the environment wasn¡¯t good, and they didn¡¯t have any magic materials here. They didn¡¯t have the conditions to slowly research this strange magic barrier, so naturally they couldn¡¯t break it.

    Thinking of this, Arch Magus Ofalian waved his hand to have the thirteen Great Magicians move back. He focused his mind and raised both his hands, wildly releasing all the remaining magic power in his body. He reached his hands out again and created a ck crack in space that he sent into the strange magic barrier.

    Since it was impossible to break it by studying it, then he would use brute force to break it!

 Volume 7 â€“ 118 Final move

    <h4>Volume 7 ¨C Chapter 118 Final move</h4>

    Countless different coloured ripples of light came from Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s hands. It was like a brilliant rainbow coloured silk was wrapped around it that instantly spread into the air around them, extending out downwards until it reached the ground.

    If it was said that Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian only used their magic power to see the general range and shape of the magic cage around them before, the strange ripples of light that appeared now was showing everyone theplete form of the magic cage.

    Looking at it from a distance, the magic cage really came from below. It went from left to right,pletely trapping the two Arch Magi and the thirteen Great Magicians.

    Although the light couldn¡¯t be seen after it extended into the ground, Arch Magus Ofalian didn¡¯t need to investigate it to be certain that the magic cage that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards built so carefully would have arge defect. It would be a spherical shape that hadpletely surrounded them and didn¡¯t give them a single chance to break out.

    Of course, Arch Magus Ofalian didn¡¯t have this kind of optimistic thoughts. He wanted to rely on his powerful magic power and powerful understanding of magic to forcefully destroy this magic cage.

    Although the characteristics of this magic cage was stronger than the Magic Domain Sealing Array in Wimbledon City, it was still a temporary Magic Array. Its strength and thickness couldn¡¯t match the Magic Domain Sealing Array in Wimbledon City at all.

    But when the magic power that came from Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s hands met the strange magic space of this magic cage, the change that happened waspletely unexpected to him.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s n was just to use his powerful magic power to interfere with this magic space, restoring the normal state of this magic space. This would create a gap in the magic cage that would allow the people stuck inside to leave through this gap.

    If the other side was the Magic Domain Sealing Array of Wimbledon City, he definitely wouldn¡¯t do this.

    It was because the Magic Domain Sealing Array had been strengthened by the countless powerful magicians of the Candra Empire over several hundred years, so its power came from the iparably powerful Magic Array in the royal pce.

    That Magic Array was supplied with an endless supply of Magic Crystals at any time, as well as having five Great Magicians guarding it at all times.

    If Arch Magus Ofalian used the forceful method to deal with the Magic Domain Sealing Array, it would be equal to going against the giant Magic Array that had been strengthened by countless magicians over hundreds of years, as well as the five Great Magicians guarding it.

    Even if he was a powerful Arch Magus, this was not something that he could do.

    But this magic cage around them was something that was quicklyid down, so it wouldn¡¯t be that terrifying and he was confident in breaking it.

    However, after he released his magic power, he found that he had touched nothing.

    This unusual magic space was the same as normal magic space, being filled with elemental magic energy. Because of the unusual parts of the magic space, it was very easy to perceive it.

    However, no matter how much Arch Magus Ofalian used his magic power, he couldn¡¯t affect this elemental magic energy and it still flowed in that chaotic manner. It was like Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s incredibly powerful magic power that far surpassed normal magicians didn¡¯t exist at all.

    Since Arch Magus Ofalian came in contact with magic at the age of six to now where he was already seventy years old, he would contact the elemental magic energy in the air all the time, even ¡°exchanging¡± with it. This was his first time encountering a type of elemental magic energy that wasn¡¯t affected by magic power at all.

    Arch Magus Ofalian tried to adjust the frequency and the power of his magic power, but the elemental magic energy did its own thing and wasn¡¯t affected by it at all.

    After testing it for a bit without seeing any results, Arch Magus Ofalian put his hands down and pulled himself from the strange magic space. He waved his right hand and created a small fireball in his palm.

    This was only a normal fireball, but it proved that there was no problem with Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic power.

    The only problem was still the strange magic space.

    After thinking about it, Arch Magus Ofalian gathered magic power in his right hand and integrated a small area with his unique magic domain.

    Then he carefully controlled his magic power, making this magic domain slowly approach the magic space in front.

    As soon as the magic domain touched the magic space, Arch Magus Ofalian could feel that the elemental magic energy being controlled in his magic domain was affected by that magic space. All the elemental magic energy in his domain was pulled out of his control in the blink of an eye.

    A magic domain was a very profound topic for an Arch Magus. It represented the perfect control that a magician had over the elemental magic energy in magic space.

    But with just a single touch, Arch Magus Ofalian had lost the control of his magic domain. This situation only happened when another Arch Magus used a magic domain that had higher attainments than his own to suppress his magic domain.

    Being attacked by a strange magic space like this and losing control of his magic domain, it was the first time this had happened for Arch Magus Ofalian.

    ¡°Ou!¡±

    Because he lost control of his magic domain, Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic power also became out of control. It caused a magic power bacsh which caused heavy internal injuries to him.

    Seeing Arch Magus Ofalian spit up blood, the thirteen Great Magicians around him were shocked.

    ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, are you alright?¡± A Great Magician flew over to support Arch Magus Ofalian as he asked this in a worried voice.

    Arch Magus Laduca who had blocked another wave of attacks from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Magic Airships saw what happened and was shocked. He couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Ofalian, can you keep going? How about you rest first before trying again.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no time for me to rest.¡±

    He raised his head to look at the Magic Airships in the distance after saying this and gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°I never thought that even after you and I, two Arch Magi went out at the same time, we would be forced into this situation by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. No one would believe it if it was spread.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca also shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°This Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always been creating miracles and now they can even do this, so I¡¯m not surprised. You have to know that a few days ago¡­¡­¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca opened his mouth before shaking his head and giving a sigh, ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s not talk about this now. Ofalian, I shouldn¡¯t be able to resist more than five more attacks, what about you?¡±

    The expressions of the thirteen Great Magicians changed.

    Arch Magus Laduca could only resist five more attacks and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attacks showed no signs of weakening.

    This meant that after five more attacks, they wouldn¡¯t be able to escape or block the attacks, so wouldn¡¯t they just be waiting for death?

    Arch Magus Ofalian knitted his brows to think before taking a deep breath like he had made up his mind.

    ¡°Laduca, hold on a bit longer. Everyone else,e over.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian waved his hands at the thirteen Great Magicians, indicating for them toe closer.

    Seeing this from him, Laduca raised a brow and said in a surprised voice, ¡°Ofalian, could it be¡­..That is very dangerous, you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, we can only give it a try.¡± Arch Magus Ofalian waved his hands and turned to the thirteen Great Magicians as he said with a serious expression, ¡°Everyone, I need to rely on your power and give it everything we have.¡±

    The thirteen Great Magicians looked at each other before giving nods.

    ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, please give your order.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. It¡¯s already like this, there¡¯s nothing to have scruples over. You can just tell us what you want to do.¡±

    ¡°Yes, please instruct us.¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a nod of praise before raising his hands.

    ¡°Rx yourselves and don¡¯t resist.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Ofalian released all his magic power and spread his magic domain, surrounding the thirteen Great Magicians.

    The thirteen Great Magicians felt the change in the surrounding magic space and wanted to release their magic power to resist out of reflex, but they immediately remembered what Arch Magus Ofalian had said and rxed themselves immediately, letting the magic domain surround them.

    ¡°Very good. Now you can release all your magic power and follow my guidance, gather it all together¡­¡­¡±

    With Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s exnation, the thirteen Great Magicians released their magic power. Then with the influence of the magic domain, they slowly gathered it together.

    In a normal situation, there would be differences in the magic power of different magicians. So if the magic power of two different magicians came into direct contact, there would be serious consequences most of the time.

    The powerful magic power of thirteen different Great Magiciansing together like this was very dangerous because it would bring the magic power of the thirteen Great Magicians into direct contact, then causing a powerful bacsh to the thirteen Great Magicians.

    But with the guidance of Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic domain, the thirteen different magic powers came together and melded together as one under the guidance of Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic power.

    After finishing these preparations, Arch Magus Ofalian started releasing a very powerful magic power that could even be considered terrifying that wildly gathered the surrounding elemental magic energy, wildlypressing this elemental magic energy.

    Then as the elemental magic energy in the small space became more and more dense, the space in front of Arch Magus Ofalian began to change bit by bit.

    In the beginning, the space only twisted and then some things began falling into that space, which even included the light around it. It seemed more terrifying than a crack in space that normal spatial magic created.

    Then the space seemed to have congealed as it floated in space as a sphere, like it came from a different world.

    The thirteen Great Magicians held their breaths as they nervously looked at this ck sphere.

    They could sense that this ck sphere contained a terrifying might. Once it was released, not to mention destroying the world, it might even destroy space itself.

    It was clear that Arch Magus Ofalian was making this strange ck sphere to attack the magic cage that had trapped them inside.

    But¡­..would it have an effect?

 Volume 1 - 1

    <h4>Volume 1 - Chapter 1</h4>

    <h4>My goal isn¡¯t to kill you all</h4>

    When Arch Magus Ofalian was about to push the ck sphere containing iparably powerful magic into the strange magic space around them, there was a sigh that came from the space behind them.

    ¡°Ai, Arch Magus Ofalian, if I was you, I wouldn¡¯t do that.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian was surprised as he stopped. He turned to look in the direction the voice came from with the other thirteen Great Magicians.

    A figure slowly floated down and stopped around five hundred meters away from the magic cage.

    Everyone turned to look and immediately recognized the person who had suddenly appeared.

    Xu Yi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    His figure would appear in the major newspapers of the various countries, so it had already spread across the entire Sines Continent. Even normal citizens would be able to recognize him, not to mention peak magicians like them.

    Not to mention that Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca had gone against Xu Yi together not that long ago, so Xu Yi had left a deep impression on them and they recognized him with a single nce.

    ¡°Chairman Xu? Why are you here now? Are you here tough at me and Laduca?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian gave a coldugh, but his heart sank.

    He and Arch Magus Laduca were now in a difficult situation and had already consumed most of their magic power.

    Even in a normal situation, they wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything to Xu Yi, not to mention in this situation.

    If Xu Yi made a move now, the two of them might not even be able to keep their lives.

    If Xu Yi didn¡¯t make a move and only stopped them from breaking the magic cage, they wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on if those hateful Magic Airships continued bombing them.

    ¡°No, I¡¯m just not willing to see you and Arch Magus Laduca, as well as the important thirteen Great Magicians being buried here.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°You don¡¯t want to see us buried here?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s eyes opened a bit wider as he looked at Xu Yi. He couldn¡¯t helpughing as he said, ¡°If you don¡¯t want to kill us, why would you go to all the trouble to trap us here?¡±

    ¡°My goal isn¡¯t to take your lives. To me, you, Arch Magus Laduca, and the thirteen Great Magicians are all precious talents. Losing even a single one is a pity, so I never nned on killing you.¡±

    ¡°Then what did you waste all that effort doing all this for?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian said with a cold snort, ¡°Could it be that it¡¯s fun trapping us like this?¡±

    ¡°Of course not. I only had a single goal, which is to show everyone that magicians can no longer decide the fate of a battlefield, even an Arch Magus can¡¯t do it either. To put it more directly, I want to make all magicians withdraw from the battlefield and return to the ce they should be.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Arch Magus Laduca, Arch Magus Ofalian, and the other thirteen Great Magicians looked at Xu Yi in a daze with confused expressions.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what.....what do you mean?¡± Arch Magus Laduca couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows as he asked this.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before flying over and waving his hand. The magic cage that was visible because Arch Magus Ofalian had been using his magic to interfere with it suddenly disappeared.

    A Great Magician reached out his hand to test it after being surprised. He let out a wisp of magic power where the strange magic space had been and he found that the magic space had returned to normal.

    He carefully and slowly flew over, finding that there was nothing hindering him and he was able to fly normally like any other part of the sky.

    Recovering the feeling around him, his spirits were lifted instantly.

    Seeing the actions of this Great Magician, the other twelve Great Magicians also made their moves, flying off in different directions.

    After a while, facts proved that the strange magic cage that had surrounded them earlier had disappeared and they weren¡¯t confined to that small space like before.

    This filled the hearts of all the Great Magicians with joy.

    In that situation just now, not to mention the thirteen Great Magicians, even the two honoured Arch Magi couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Even if Arch Magus Ofalian wanted to use a strange spell that they had never seen before in the end, gathering all their magic power together which had a terrifying might, no one certain that this would have been able to break the cage.

    Not to mention that based on what Xu Yi had just said, even if Arch Magus Ofalian really did this, it might not have worked and it would have even created terrifying consequences.

    So based on the facts, they had fallen into a desperate situation.

    However, now that the magic cage had disappeared with a wave of Xu Yi¡¯s hand, they had regained their freedom and the sky had cleared.

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca weren¡¯t as rxed as the thirteen Great Magicians. Rather the two of them deeply knitted their brows and looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, just what do you want to do?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian asked in a deep voice.

    ¡°I already told you my goal just now.¡± Xu Yi replied, ¡°In fact, I¡¯ve spent all this time just to trap an Arch Magus from your Candra Empire, but I never thought that it would be the two of you.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort, ¡°Laduca is the Arch Magus hired by the Candra Empire army, so naturally he woulde. With my rtionship with Marshal Sudman, of course I woulde as well. You should have known this fromst time.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded to show he understood.

    ¡°The other thing that I didn¡¯t expect was that your excellency Ofalian would master such a terrifying method of using magic. It really exceeded my expectations and I had no choice but toe out.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked up with a bit of pride on his face, ¡°How about it? Did you think that your trap couldn¡¯t stop me and thoseughable Magic Airships wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything to us, so you had to personally make a move?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, if I were to use all my power right how, how likely it would be that you and Arch Magus Laduca would be able to return alive?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression changed.

    Although he still showed Xu Yi an arrogant expression, he knew in his heart that most of his magic power was already gone.

    If Xu Yi used all his power, with his power as an Arch Magus and his strong understanding of magic, even if they hadn¡¯t used all their life saving methods yet, Xu Yi would still be able to keep them here. Their chances of escaping from Xu Yi would be very low.

    Arch Magus Ofalian didn¡¯t say anything, but Arch Magus Laduca thought for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°You¡¯re right, my magic has already been consumed and if you did make a move, then I wouldn¡¯t have a single chance of escaping.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Laduca gave a bitterugh and continued, ¡°I never thought that after almost dying in countless battles in this life, there would be a situation where I would use up all my magic power in a situation where there isn¡¯t a single magician. I wouldn¡¯t even be able to escape from a single spot. Chairman Xu, I have to admit that the power of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines has exceeded my expectations.¡±

    ¡°This isn¡¯t just the might of the military magic machines. The more important thing is that ourpany has exceeded your imagination in terms of understanding of and research in magic.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Arch Magus Ofalian couldn¡¯t help giving a snort, ¡°Chairman Xu, are you joking? Perhaps you have surpassed my and Laduca¡¯s understanding in certain aspects, but as for yourpany......do you think that¡¯s possible?¡±

    ¡°Of course it is. No, not only is it possible, it¡¯s a fact.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, you weren¡¯t able to break through the barrier that surrounded you just now, right?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at each other and both their expressions were a bit ugly.

    They had researched magic for several decades and this was the first time that they had encountered magic that they couldn¡¯t understand or do anything to.

    If this was developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then at least they couldn¡¯t match them in this aspect.

    Seeing that the two of them were silent, Xu Yi turned to Arch Magus Ofalian and said, ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, do you know why I stopped you?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort, ¡°Isn¡¯t that you were worried that I would break yourughable barrier and then you couldn¡¯t trap us?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and spread his hand, ¡°But now I¡¯ve already taken the initiative to open it.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression changed slightly, ¡°Who knows what kind of damn ideas you have.¡±

    Arch Magus Laduca thought about it for a bit before asking, ¡°Chairman Xu, your meaning is.....if Ofalian had gone through with it, we might have lost our lives?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just a possibility, it would have been certain!¡± Xu Yi replied with a serious look.

    Arch Magus Ofalian immediately gave a coldugh with a look that showed he didn¡¯t believe it.

    ¡°Your excellency Ofalian, how about we make a bet?¡± Xu Yi suggested.

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Xu Yi with a cold smile without saying anything.

    ¡°I can simte the current situation and let you give it a try, you can judge the result for yourself. If you feel that the consequences wouldn¡¯t be anything to worry about, it will be my loss and I will have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards withdraw from Mero City.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s expression changed.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards withdrew from Mero City on their own initiative, it would save them quite a bit of effort.

    ¡°Then if we lose?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian asked.

    ¡°If you lose, then you and Arch Magus Laduca will no longer interfere with the conflict between our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Arch Magus Ofalian was silent for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°I can agree, but I can¡¯t represent Laduca......¡±

    ¡°I can also agree.¡± Arch Magus Laduca interrupted him.

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Arch Magus Laduca with a surprised look.

    Arch Magus Laduca said with a smile, ¡°If it really is as chairman Xu said, then you might have killed us all here which means that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already has the ability to kill us. If I keep participating in this conflict, wouldn¡¯t that be seeking my death?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Arch Magus Laduca with a frown for a bit and after thinking about it, he reached out his hand to pat Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s shoulder.

    ¡°Alright, if Marshal Sudman dares to cause trouble for you, I will stand with you.¡±

    ¡°Rx, Marshal Sudman isn¡¯t a fool.¡± Arch Magus Laduca said with a smile.

    Arch Magus Ofalian turned to look at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, Laduca and I ept your best. How are you nning on simting our situation from earlier?¡±

    ¡°Wait a bit.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile as he reached for a small Magic Communicator.

 Volume 1 - 1 (2)

    <h4>Volume 1 - Chapter 1</h4>

    <h4>Admitting defeat</h4>

    After a while, Xu Yi ended his call and gave Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca a hand signal to wait.

    After another while, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca felt at the same time that there was another strange change to the magic space near Mero City in front of them.

    When they felt this familiar change, the two of them looked at each other and gave a nod.

    The unusual condition of this magic space was exactly like the magic cage that had surrounded them. It was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used an unknown method to change the magic space in front of them.

    But when they checked with their magic power, they could tell that this time it was a twenty meter tall and ten meter wide rectangr prism that they couldn¡¯t see how thick it was because their magic power couldn¡¯t go in. It wasn¡¯t like a perfect sphere like the one that had trapped all of them inside previously.

    The two of them felt assured because this meant that Xu Yi just wanted them to give it a try and didn¡¯t want to trap them again.

    Of course, with their current conditions, if Xu Yi worked with the powerful Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, they could easily take care of them. They wouldn¡¯t need to waste all this energy toy down this trap.

    ¡°Alright, Arch Magus Ofalian, you can give it a try like you just did before. Of course, I must remind you to stay away from that space because the consequences of magic space copsing are more terrifying than you imagined.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi moved back a bit and gave an inviting gesture.

    ¡°This fellow moved that far away, is he not afraid of us turning and running?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Xu Yi who had moved a hundred meters away and knitted his brows in doubt as he said this.

    ¡°What is he worried about? With our tiny bit of magic power left, even if we could barely escape, we wouldn¡¯t be able to escape his pursuit. Moreover, he doesn¡¯t have any intentions of killing us, so why would we run away? Then again, Ofalian, aren¡¯t you curious?¡± Arch Magus Laduca asked back.

    ¡°I wouldn¡¯t have said that much if I wasn¡¯t curious.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort. He waved at the helpless thirteen Great Magicians on the side for them toe over before telling them his conversation with Xu Yi. He told them that he wanted to gather their magic power together again to break through this special magic space.

    The thirteen Great Magicians naturally didn¡¯t have any objections. They had been ordered to follow the instructions of the two Arch Magi, not to mention that they were curious about what Xu Yi said.

    This was Arch Magus Ofalian using a secret method to gather the magic power of thirteen Great Magicians, it would naturally be terrifyingly strong. How could it not break through this barrier? Even if the barrier hadpletely trapped them before.

    Xu Yi in the distance curiously watched Arch Magus Ofalian and the thirteen Great Magicians floating in the air. He felt the surrounding magic space being influenced by Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s magic domain before the thirteen Great Magicians released all their magic power, which was gathered bit by bit by Arch Magus Ofalian.

    The method that Arch Magus Ofalian used really was a surprise to him.

    This special magic cage¡¯s highest setting was aimed at Arch Magi, so it wasn¡¯t a problem to trap Arch Magus Ofalian, Arch Magus Laduca, and the thirteen Great Magicians.

    But now, Arch Magus Ofalian gathered the magic power of thirteen Great Magicians together. It exceeded the limits of an Arch Magus and even exceeded the tolerance of the magic cage.

    So this meant that if Arch Magus Ofalian had released that ck sphere, it was very likely that it would have broken the magic cage, but that would have created a terrifying aftereffect. They wouldn¡¯t have been able to escape from this aftereffect.

    Xu Yi had been hidden among the Magic Airships and had been watching thebat situation the entire time, but he never thought that there would be this ident that would force him out.

    He knew that whether it was Arch Magus Ofalian, Arch Magus Laduca, or the thirteen Great Magicians, they would be the same. To be the powerful magicians that they were, they would have a strong curiosity and desire for knowledge.

    It was impossible to convince them with just his words alone.

    Only using iron like facts to show them the result would make them realize the significance hidden in this matter.

    Very soon, Arch Magus Ofalian had already gathered the magic power of the thirteen Great Magicians together and there was the ck ball representing thepressed space in front of him.

    Arch Magus Ofalian suddenly turned to look at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and gave an ¡°inviting¡± gesture.

    Arch Magus Ofalian gave a cold snort and used his magic power, quickly sending out that ck ball in front of him at the strange rectangr prism shaped magic space in front of him.

    Everyone was focused on the ck ball that instantly passed through over two hundred meters.

    The ck ball quickly came into contact with the strange magic space.

    As soon as it touched it, the strange magic space that couldn¡¯t be seen with the naked eye released countless multi coloured lines, while also letting out a high pitched ¡°zi, zi¡± sound.

    The ck ball demonstrated the might of all the magic power of the thirteen Great Magicians gathered by Arch Magus Ofalian, as the countless lines of various colours created by that magic space were all sucked in.

    However, when one line disappeared, there would be more that appeared.

    In an instant, there were countless lines that represented that magic space that appeared in front of everyone.

    Seeing that the lines were limited to the rectangr prism space, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca shared a surprised look.

    Normally speaking, powerful magicians could use their control over elemental magic energy to forcefully create a special magic space. For example, the magic domains that the two of them had as Arch Magi was a concrete example.

    But the magic space that magicians created were in the shape of a perfect sphere and wouldn¡¯t take any other shapes.

    It was because magicians used their magic power to control the elemental magic energy around them to form this magic space. The range would be affected by the strength of the magic power and their control over elemental magic power, but because the range was limited, it was centered around the magician themself and would take the shape of a sphere.

    Unless there was a special situation, there wouldn¡¯t be a magician who would create a magic space with a special shape because it was much more difficult and they wouldn¡¯t be able to demonstrate their full power.

    But after Xu Yi said a few words into the Magic Communicator, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in Mero City actually created a rectangr prism and it looked to be a standard magic space, which was quite impressive.

    Just based on this magic space, the Mero City¡¯s Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ grasp of magic space already surpassed all Great Magicians, it wasn¡¯t even weaker than Arch Magus Ofalian or Arch Magus Laduca.

    Then based on the fact that the two of them were even trapped in that magic space, it wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attainments in magic space surpassed the two of them.

    However, this was the strangest thing.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards definitely had magicians, but they didn¡¯t even have Great Magicians, so there was no need to mention Arch Magi.

    In this situation, how were they able to create such a powerful magic space?

    Could it be that it was done with the strange military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had?

    These questions had floated in the mind of the two Arch Magi, but what they were more focused on was the collision of the ck ball and the magic space.

    The ck ball kept sucking in the colourful lines from the magic space, looking like light flowing into the void as it kept going into the ck ball. This scene truly looked gorgeous and strange.

    But no matter how much the ck ball sucked away, the colourful lines kept appearing. There were more and more of them appearing and they were appearing at faster speeds.

    The ck ball that was absorbing the colourful lines was also getting bigger bit by bit as a rate that could be seen with the naked eye.

    In less than two minutes, the ck ball had already doubled.

    What they needed to pay more attention to was that the magic space was getting stranger.

    As the lines kept appearing and were sucked into the ck ball, the magic space started to dim, as if all the colour was being sucked away into the ck ball.

    As the ck ball became bigger and bigger, the colour of the space became darker until it finally turned ck. It was like the entire space had been affected by the ck ball.

    In the space surrounding the strange rectangr prism magic space, there were signs that the space was getting unstable. One could even see that the elemental magic energy around the area was gathering in a strange method, creating a strange magic phenomenon.

    ¡°Ofalian, this is¡­¡­¡± Arch Magus Laduca looked at the magic space that seemed like it could copse at any moment and his expression became a bit nervous.

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s expression sank and he was no longer as unconvinced by Xu Yi as before, revealing a serious expression.

    Hearing Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s words, he opened his mouth, but he wasn¡¯t able to say anything.

    Arch Magus Laduca looked at him and gave a sigh. He turned to look at Xu Yi in the distance and raised his voice to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, we¡¯ve lost.¡±

 Volume 1 - 121

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 121: Confidence</h4>

    The surrounding thirteen Great Magicians who had seen the situation with the magic space heard Arch Magus Laduca admitting defeat and they were all surprised before they hung their heads in low spirits, but no one refuted it.

    Even if their level of magic wasn¡¯t at the same level as the two Arch Magi, since they were already Great Magicians, they had done a certain amount of research on magic space.

    At their levels, they could easily see that if this magic space kept developing like this, the magic space would undergo the magic space copse phenomenon that all magicians had talked about before.

    Once this happened, it meant that the magic space had entered its most wild and dangerous state, one that couldn¡¯t be controlled at all.

    In this situation, whether you were a normal magician, a Great Magician, or even an Arch Magus or the legendary Great Magus, you would only have one choice which was to escape far away.

    The only way to solve this was to let the copsed magic space be slowly affected by the stable magic space around it, returning to normal bit by bit.

    If Arch Magus Ofalian had done this while they had been trapped in the magic cage like earlier, based on the current situation, the entire space inside the magic cage would have copsed.

    As for those who were trapped in the magic cage, they would be caught up in it without a doubt.

    Thinking of this, everyone understood that Xu Yi stopping Arch Magus Ofalian just now was actually saving their lives.

    Hearing Arch Magus Laduca¡¯s words, Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything and just silently watched Arch Magus Ofalian, waiting for his response.

    Arch Magus Laduca and the other thirteen Great Magicians could understand Xu Yi¡¯s stance from this silence, so they also turned to look at Arch Magus Ofalian.

    Everyone knew that from the perspective of the bet, Arch Magus Ofalian had already without a doubt lost.

    But they were hostile towards each other. If Arch Magus Ofalian didn¡¯t acknowledge this bet, then Arch Magus Laduca and the other thirteen Great Magicians would stand on his side.

    Moreover, after having some time to rest, Arch Magus Laduca and the thirteen Great Magicians had already recovered a bit. They had the power to fight, so they weren¡¯t worried about Xu Yi.

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at the rectangr prism magic space that was getting more and more serious that looked like it would copse at any time. After being silent for a while, he gave a long sigh.

    When everyone thought that he would be the same as Arch Magus Laduca and admit his defeat, Arch Magus Ofalian pointed at the special magic space and said, ¡°Chairman Xu, if you have a way to return that magic space to normal, I will admit my defeat.¡±

    Everyone was surprised.

    It seemed like Arch Magus Ofalian had admitted to his failure, but he didn¡¯t directly admit defeat and added another condition. What was he trying to do?

    It had to be known that the copse of magic space was something that all magicians were helpless against. Arch Magus Ofalian raising this condition, wasn¡¯t it clearly trying to go against his word?

    Thinking of this, Arch Magus Laduca slightly knitted his brows. The thirteen Great Magicians focused their minds and prepared to move at any time.

    They were very worried that Xu Yi would be angry after hearing Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s condition and would break off all face.

    However, after Xu Yi heard this, he was just surprised before giving a shrug and revealing a rxed smile.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t hard at all.¡±

    After throwing these words down, Xu Yi flew a bit closer towards that strange magic space and raised his hand before stretching out a finger.

    With the naked eye, one could see a transparent ripple that came from Xu Yi¡¯s finger. It was like he was using his finger to poke calm water.

    When the ripple flew out and touched that strange magic space, the magic space that was about to copse instantly calmed down.

    Then as the ripple went past, the giant ck ball in the center of the magic space became smaller and smaller. The surrounding magic space that seemed to be copsing also stopped and recovered its colour and stability.

    Everything seemed like it was returning to the magic space from before until it finally returned to normal. Even the ck ball disappeared without a trace.

    The two Arch Magi and the thirteen Great Magicians stared at this in a daze, as if they couldn¡¯t believe their eyes.

    Even something that was considered impossible to solve and something that magicians couldn¡¯t touch like magic space copse was dealt with this easily by Xu Yi?

    Arch Magus Ofalian looked at the magic space that returned to normal in daze before releasing some magic power to investigate it. After confirming that the magic space was no different from the surrounding space, he couldn¡¯t help turning his head to look at Xu Yi with astonishment.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­¡­¡±

    He opened his mouth, but he didn¡¯t know what to say.

    What happened today hadpletely gone beyond anything that he had understood.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn¡¯t even have the help of a Great Magician to create a perfect Magic Domain Sealing Array, trapping two Arch Magi like him and Laduca, as well as the thirteen Great Magicians, making them unable to stop the attacks of the Magic Airships. Then Xu Yi had solved a problem that couldn¡¯t be solved like the magic space copse just by raising his hand¡­¡­

    He didn¡¯t believe that this was something the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could develop, the root of this had toe from Xu Yi, the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But Xu Yi was clearly just a fellow who had just be an Arch Magus not that long ago, how could he have such a terrifying understanding of magic?

    He even had to admit that just based on what happened today, Xu Yi¡¯s understanding and research of magic might have even surpassed his own.

    After drawing this conclusion, the expression on Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s face turned even darker.

    He looked at Xu Yi for a while before giving a long sigh and saying with a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve lost. At the same time, I¡¯ll admit that you were rightst time. Laduca and my ideas of magic might really have fallen behind the times¡­¡­¡±

    The surrounding thirteen Great Magicians were stunned.

    Xu Yi had even said these words to Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca? This was just shameless boasting! How was he qualified to say these¡­¡­

    This thought had just appeared in the minds of the thirteen Great Magicians out of reflex, but then they suppressed it.

    Xu Yi was of course qualified to say this because the disy he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given today was the iron like proof that proved this fact.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Then your excellency Ofalian, your excellency Laduca, those that are willing to bet need to ept their losses. Since you two have already admitted your defeat, then based on our agreement from before, you will no longer meddle in the future conflict between our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire.¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca looked at each other before giving nods.

    ¡°Alright. But chairman Xu, I¡¯m very curious, just what are you nning on doing?¡± Arch Magus Ofalian looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, ¡°Although Laduca and I have agreed to withdraw, not interfering in the business between your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire doesn¡¯t just have us two Arch Magi. The foundation of the Candra Empire is much firmer than you can imagine. Do you really think that¡­..just with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, you will be able to conquer the Candra Empire?¡±

    ¡°The facts are that I can indeed do this.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s smile was filled with confidence.

    Arch Magus Ofalian couldn¡¯t help giving another coldugh.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are too confident.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°If I don¡¯t even have this confidence, how could I have the courage to be enemies with the entire world?¡±

    Arch Magus Ofalian¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked over Xu Yi¡¯s body twice with eyes filled with disbelief, like he was meeting him for the first time.

    In the end, he shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, you really are a maniac that surpasses my expectations.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your praise.¡±

    After this short exchange, Arch Magus Ofalian and Arch Magus Laduca directly withdrew.

    The remaining thirteen Great Magicians and other magicians couldn¡¯t just arrogantly withdraw like they did. They were sent by the Candra Empire to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that had invaded Mero City, so if they were to leave like this, they would be held ountable by the army headquarters.

    But with the strength that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had demonstrated that surpassed their level, where even the two strongest Arch Magi couldn¡¯t do anything, there was no meaning if they stayed here.

    So they were ced in a very awkward situation.

    After the thirteen Great Magicians discussed it, they could only lead the magicians squad to group up with the army of fifty thousand that the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor had sent before. They set up camp five kilometers away from Mero City and created a deadlock with Mero City from this distance.

    So the area around Mero City had fallen under a very strange situation.

    Mero City had been seized by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and there was an army of fifty thousand from the Candra Empire outside the city, along with the magicians squad that had thirteen Great Magicians and over a hundred powerful High Grade Magicians, but they didn¡¯t attack Mero City at all. It was like they didn¡¯t have any intentions of taking back Mero City from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, but rather they were here for a training exercise.

    What was even more strange was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards in Mero City didn¡¯t even put the Candra Empire army in their eyes, not having any intentions of attacking them.

    Both sides calmly watched each other as if they were waiting for something.

 Volume 1 - 121

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 122: It¡¯s best if there wasn¡¯t a direct confrontation</h4>

    The Candra Empire¡¯s daily morning court meeting, it had never been as quiet as it was now.

    Since the emperor who was in charge of the meeting announced that the main topic would be how to deal with the Mero City situation, the entire hall fell into a strange silence. Not a single person said a thing and almost everyone tried to breathe as quietly as possible.

    One could even hear the sound of a pin dropping in this situation.

    Emperor Candra¡¯s expression was dark as he looked at the faces of the ministers lined up in front of him, but he found that they all had their heads down. Not a single person had their head up as if they were about to speak.

    After patiently waiting for a bit, the situation didn¡¯t seem like it would change.

    This made the mes of rage in Emperor Candra¡¯s heart burn even stronger. He gave a strong snort and coldly said, ¡°Very good, not a single one of you is willing to take the initiative? Then I¡¯ll point you out. Marshal Sudman, the situation in Mero City is something your army headquarters is in charge of. Tell me, what is your army headquarters nning on doing?¡±

    Marshal Sudman who was standing in the first row of ministers trembled before raising his head. He took a step forward and respectfully gave a bow to Emperor Candra before saying, ¡°Your majesty, the army headquarters is still analyzing the situation in Mero City and there are no detailed ns currently.¡±

    ¡°Still analyzing the situation?¡± Emperor Candra gave a coldugh, ¡°Then you might as well say that you don¡¯t have a method at all.¡±

    Marshal Sudman¡¯s lips twitched and he revealed a bitter smile that wasn¡¯t easy to detect.

    He wanted to say that he had no methods, but how could he say that in front of the emperor?

    One of the empire¡¯s important cities had been invaded and captured by enemies, so of course the army headquarters would be in charge of this.

    However, the report from the frontlines had shocked everyone, they could even be considered at a loss as to what to do. Even Marshal Sudman wasn¡¯t able to find a better method to solve this problem.

    The reason was very simple, even an Arch Magus was defeated!

    As the highest battle power that the Candra Empire army was most proud of, Arch Magi were the symbol of the Candra Empire¡¯s strongest military force. It was the final card that the army headquarters depended on.

    In a normal situation, the Candra Empire army wouldn¡¯t even need to send out an Arch Magus and they would be able to dominate the enemy.

    But this time they directly invited Arch Magus Laduca mainly because the enemy was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had two Arch Magi, which was rarely seen on the continent, so to be cautious, the army headquarters had invited Arch Magus Laduca. They hoped that they could take back Mero City as soon as possible to avoid important cities of the empire from falling into the hands of the enemies.

    It had to be known that this was the first time this had happened in the recent decades.

    Each day Mero City remained in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the more shame the Candra Empire army felt.

    As for Arch Magus Ofalian, the army headquarters didn¡¯t invite him to make a move. However, Arch Magus Ofalian had requested to participate on his own ord, so the army headquarters naturally wouldn¡¯t reject him.

    So that was why this time they sent out two Arch Magi at once, leading the most elite magicians squad under the army headquarters. It was to take back Mero City in one fell swoop and ensure that there weren¡¯t any mistakes.

    Everyone at the army headquarters believed that since two Arch Magi were participating, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had powerful military magic machines, it was impossible for them to resist with their guards alone. Mero City would be easily taken back by them.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dared to vite the unwritten rules of the continent, letting theirpany¡¯s two Arch Magi join the Candra Empire invasion war, the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t worried at all.

    Moreover, it would have been a good thing for the Candra Empire.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce vited this rule first, then the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t need to abide by it anymore. They could let the nine Arch Magi of their empire attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    At the same time, the Marlow Empire that had signed a secret agreement with the Candra Empire also had nine Arch Magi. Even the three Arch Magi in the Mana Magic Kingdom would have an excuse to move against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    When the Candra Empire invaded the Rudson Kingdom, although they had suffered a heavy loss, because no Arch Magi had been involved, the Candra Empire was still filled with confidence.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce broke this rule, the two empires and the Mana Magic Kingdom could make a move and that would be the path of seeking their own destruction.

    However¡­¡­the facts had been a surprise to everyone.

    The two Arch Magi had led the elite magicians squad to fight in Mero City, but they had actually been defeated. Not to mention taking Mero City back from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they hadn¡¯t even been able to reach Mero City.

    Moreover, it would have been fine if they had lost because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s two Arch Magi which included chairman Xu might have acted. But ording to the report that the two Arch Magi had brought back, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Arch Magi hadn¡¯t even made a move. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t even send out a magician and had forced the two Arch Magi along with thirteen Great Magicians into a desperate situation.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu making a move to save them, including the two Arch Magi, they might not even have left corpses!

    Everyone was shocked by this result.

    They didn¡¯t need magicians to force two Arch Magi and thirteen Great Magicians into a desperate situation? They could even kill them all?

    This hadpletely subverted their general knowledge.

    In the traditions of the Sines Continent, magicians were the key to deciding victory in a battle.

    Whichever side had more magicians or high grade magicians would be the side with the absolute advantage on the battlefield.

    This was something that had been confirmed countless times in the history of the Sines Continent and no one doubted this.

    However, now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used solid facts to crush the concepts that everyone recognized.

    Not only could Arch Magi be defeated, they could be defeated without even facing a single magician!

    This fact had sent the Candra Empire army into a panic.

    If they couldn¡¯t even deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards with an Arch Magus, what would they do?

    The Candra Empire army held countless strategic meetings to discuss a method of dealing with this, but the news that the two Arch Magi brought back had shocked everyone. They had fallen into chaos, so they hadn¡¯t reached any conclusions in their meetings at all.

    Marshal Sudman was the marshal of the Candra Empire army, but he also couldn¡¯t do a thing.

    He lived his life on the battlefield and had participated andmanded over a thousandrge and small battles, but this was his first time encountering this situation.

    Even the Arch Magi couldn¡¯t be relied on, how were they supposed to fight this battle?

    ¡°Marshal Sudman, I¡¯m asking you again.¡± The aloof emperor didn¡¯t care about the bitterness in Marshal Sudman¡¯s heart at all. Seeing that he was silent, he was filled with even more rage as he coldly asked, ¡°Your army headquarters really doesn¡¯t have a solution? If this is true, there¡¯s no need for you as the marshal anymore and you can be reced with anyone who has a solution.¡±

    Hearing the final words of the emperor, everyone at the meeting was shocked. They looked up at the emperor and Marshal Sudman with shock.

    Marshal Sudman was considered the war god of the Candra Empire army, he had a very high prestige in the army and the empire. If they lost a marshal like him at this time, it would definitely create arge disturbance in the empire.

    Marshal Sudman was silent for a bit before giving a sigh. He bowed to the emperor and seriously said, ¡°Your majesty, it isn¡¯t that I¡¯m struggling to keep my position, but at this time, I hope that your majesty can still give this old minister another chance. Let me continue as the marshal of the army and deal with this crisis.¡±

    Emperor Candra gave a cold snort, but he still leaned back and his expression calmed a bit.

    For the stability of the Candra Empire, naturally he couldn¡¯t remove Marshal Sudman from his position. He only said this as a way to force Marshal Sudman into action.

    ¡°Then tell me, is there really no way to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? If we can¡¯t even deal with them after they¡¯ve seized Mero City, if they continue invading further into the empire and evene for Wimbledon City, what should we do?¡±

    Marshal Sudman was silent for a bit before saying with a heavy voice, ¡°Your majesty, with the current situation, we can only determine one thing. It¡¯s that we should avoid direct confrontation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards as much as possible.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone at the meeting was in a bit of a panic.

    The other ministers all exchanged astonished looks as they made it clear that they were scared by what Marshal Sudman had said.

    The Lord Marshal actually said that we couldn¡¯t directly engage the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards?

    What a joke!

    The empire had hundreds of thousands of troops and they had the best equipment and supply chains. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards added together had less than twenty thousand guards.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had some powerful military magic machines, so what? Could it be that they could still face the Candra Empire¡¯s elite army that was countless times bigger than them?

    Emperor Candra wasn¡¯t too surprised as he just asked, ¡°If we can¡¯t face them directly, how should we chase those fellows out of our empire¡¯s territory?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, what decides a war isn¡¯t just direct conflict, it also includes many other things. In a direct conflict, there is a big disparity between the empire¡¯s army and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, but in other aspects, the empire is countless times better than a small Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Of course, to do this, it won¡¯t just be with our army headquarters¡­¡­¡±

    As he said this, Marshal Sudman turned his head to look at the other ministers as his expression became much more solemn.

    ¡°Your majesty, during this special time, we must adopt some unusual methods.¡±

    The other ministers all felt a chill fill their heart and all of them couldn¡¯t help turning to look at Emperor Candra.

    However, the emperor also looked over the ministers before giving a nod.

    ¡°What you said is very reasonable.¡±

 Book 7: 123: Counter attack of the two empires

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 123: Counter attack of the two empires</h4>

    Since the two Arch Magi had been repelled from Mero City, Mero City¡¯s situation became a bit strange.

    After half a month, the Candra Empire hadn¡¯t made any moves at all.

    There were no armies that came to recapture Mero City and the Candra Empire didn¡¯t send any more reinforcements. Even the elite magicians squad that the Candra Empire army had sent had mysteriously disappeared without a trace one morning.

    There was only the army of fifty thousand sent by the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor that conscientiously stayed five kilometers away, but they didn¡¯t show any intentions of attacking Mero City.

    If they ignored the fifty thousand people, the current Mero City seemed like it had been forgotten by the Candra Empire and was exceptionally tranquil.

    But outside Mero City, the situation of the continent wasn¡¯t calm and was bing more and more intense.

    On October 13th, the first cold wind that represented the winter came from the north. The Marlow Empire gathered the Falk Kingdom¡¯s remnant army in the Marlow Empire to attack thend that the Drake Duchy had seized from the original Falk Kingdom.

    In this battle, three Arch Magi of the Marlow Empire had directly entered the war.

    The three Arch Magi gave the reason that the Drake Duchy was invading them and they would only help the Falk Kingdom reim their territory, restoring their nation, so this would be considered a ¡°righteous war¡±.

    Because of the three Arch Magi, even if the Drake Duchy¡¯s armies were equipped withrge amounts of military magic machines, they couldn¡¯t stop the powerful attacks of the three Arch Magi and were pushed back again and again.

    At the same time, the Marlow Empire army also attacked thend that used to belong to the Falk Kingdom to the east, thend that was currently being held by the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This army was even stronger than the one that attacked the Drake Duchy. There were over two hundred thousand troops that had a total of five hundred High Grade Magicians, along with twenty eight Great Magicians, as well as having four Arch Magi leading them.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military was stronger than the Drake Duchy¡¯s, under the terrifying offense of the Marlow Empire, they found it hard to resist. They were pushed back a hundred meters in just three days and gave up arge piece ofnd.

    October 15th, two days after the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom armies attacked the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Kingdom, the Candra Empire suddenly sent out arge army that went in three different paths. There were a total of one hundred and fifty thousand troops that entered thend that used to belong to the Falk Kingdom, but was currently controlled by the Lampuri Kingdom to the west.

    They coordinated with the further north Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom army. There were over three hundred and fifty thousand troops that entered this area and among them were arge number of magicians from both the Candra and Marlow Empires, even having a total of six Arch Magi.

    The difference in troops was too much and the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t put up much resistance as they were pushed back three hundred kilometers in just five days.

    Adding in thend that they had ceded to the Marlow Empire and Falk Kingdom army previously, in less than ten days of fighting, the Lampuri Kingdom had already lost close to half of thend they had seized from the Falk Kingdom.

    Another two armies from the Candra Empire went from the south, invading the Rudson Kingdom again.

    This time, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t send their full army and advance steadily into the Rudson Kingdom like the previous two times, rather they only sent out fifty thousand elite light cavalry. They didn¡¯t have the goal of seizing territory or cities, but rather they targeted the mines in the Rudson Kingdom.

    Because the light cavalry was as fast as the wind and was very flexible, and since the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t have enough guards, the fifty thousand light cavalry used less than a week to hit thirteen mines in the Rudson Kingdom,pletely crippling the operation of those mines.

    Among those mines, five of them belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Among the remaining eight, six of them were mines that the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed together.

    The final Candra Empire army went from the southeastern corner of the Candra Empire and invaded the Drow Race Kingdom controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the appearance of thisrge kingdom, the Drow Race all over the Drow Race Kingdom erupted in riots.

    Almost all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s facilities in the Drow Race Kingdom were wrecked and other than the capital Drow City being protected by the nearby Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard base, all the other regions of the Drow Race Kingdom fell into chaos and broke free of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s control.

    However, the Candra Empire army didn¡¯t attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard base near Drow City like many people expected. Instead they headed south and invaded the Wales Duchy.

    Although the Wales Duchy had received many military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were only a weak duchy. They had few troops and weak backing, so they couldn¡¯t resist the Candra Empire army at all.

    With the attack of the Candra Empire army, the Wales Duchy army was defeated. Most of their territory was seized by the Candra Empire army, only the southern port hadn¡¯t fallen to the enemy yet.

    While the west and middle parts of the Sines Continent were bustling, the east wasn¡¯t idle.

    October 27th, when the Candra Empire army invaded the Wales Duchy in the east, the Mana Magic Kingdom and the other thirteen countries that had signed the agreement with the two empires united under the slogan ¡°restoring the order of the continent¡±, and ¡°reiming the seized territory of invaded countries¡± sent out an army of three hundred thousand troops to invade the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the southwest countries.

    In this allied army, not only did the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s three Arch Magi join the war, there were even two recluse Arch Magi who announced that they were joining the war.

    These five Arch Magi with over a hundred Great Magicians and arge number of High Grade Magicians joined the war. Working with the army of three hundred thousand troops, the Nozdormu Business Union¡¯s army of less than one hundred and thirty thousand troops seemed much weaker.

    Even if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had been buying many military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the years, only one third of their army was fully equipped, so their overall power couldn¡¯t match the enemy.

    After the fight started, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was defeated again and again.

    Until they finally withdrew to their own territory and with the help of the Magic City Defense System the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up, they were able to stop them from pushing forward.

    But based on the power of the two sides, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom already didn¡¯t have a chance to fight back.

    Once the enemy Arch Magi tore away all face and broke the unwritten rule that ¡°no Arch Magi could invade another country¡±, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom would definitely be in danger.

    Two months ago, the continent had been shocked by the news that the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had been repelled after invading the Rudson Kingdom and the Drake Duchy respectively.

    A month and a half ago, the continent had been filled with fear over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sharp counter attack, causing disastrous defeats for the two empires and causing the Falk Kingdom, the Drow Race Kingdom, and the other allied kingdoms of the two empires to fall. They were shocked by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power and many people had thought that the continent would change, falling under the control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But now that the two empires had actually caught up in strength, obtaining these magnificent victories and pushing back the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s camps, not allowing them to show any strength.

    The public opinion once again changed directions.

    Almost everyone was singing praises for the two empires, stating that the two empires represented tradition on the continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had a bit of an advantage because of some new things, but because their foundation wasn¡¯t as good as the two empires, they couldn¡¯t shake the two empires.

    People thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new influence would be crushed by the two empires and the Sines Continent would return to traditions.

    ¡°Hei, those fellows are going stupid with ttery.¡± Xu Yi put down therge pile of newspapers in his hand and couldn¡¯t help shaking his head as he revealed a smile.

    Among them were some from the Candra Empire, some from the Marlow Empire, and some from the other countries in the camp of the two empires. There was a unified point of view among them which was that the two empires represented tradition on the continent. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just a clown, they couldn¡¯t change the general situation and would be crushed by the two empires eventually.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t even spare a single nce to this point of view, but he also knew that most of the people on the continent believed this. Even many people in the countries under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s camp believed this.

    The reason was that the two empires hadunched a fierce counterattack in the past two months which caused heavy setbacks for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp, so people naturally had their confidence shaken.

    To change the ideas of the people, there was only one method which was to use facts, or rather to use force.

    As long as he could smash the two empires, then the public opinion of the Sines Continent would change again.

    ¡°Kid, what are you nning to do?¡± Arch Magus Cami looked at the newspapers that Xu Yi threw down and asked this with a serious look.

    Hearing this question, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    ¡°I wanted to use the most gentle methods to tell the people that the world had changed, but it¡¯s clear that I was wrong. Grandfather, you and Still were right, I¡¯m still too idealistic at times, or I could even be considered naive. The most useful thing to talk with in this world will always be the fist.¡±

    Xu Yi paused before pping down on the newspapers as he revealed a determined look.

    ¡°Since they want a war, I¡¯ll give them a war.¡±

 Book 7: 124: Occupied forever is good

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 124: upied forever is good</h4>

    The cold wind came from the north and entered lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s clothes by the neck. He couldn¡¯t help giving a shiver before tightening his clothes and shrinking in.

    Looking up, the cloud that was over their camp had already be much bigger and hung over their heads like a patch of cotton that hadn¡¯t been harvested yet.

    ¡°It seems like it¡¯s about to snow.¡± Lieutenant Nokomo let out a breath that created a patch of mist in front of him.

    It was already the middle of November and for the central region of the previous Falk Kingdom, which was in the north of the middle of the Sines Continent, for Greenweit Town, it wasn¡¯t strange to snow.

    Lieutenant Nokomo was a local from a vige near Greenweit Town and had lived here for more than a decade since he was young, only leaving to join the Falk Kingdom army, so of course he was used to the weather here.

    ¡°Hei, team leader, it¡¯s this kind of damn weather, why do we still need to patrol?¡± A Falk Kingdom soldier following behind lieutenant Nokomoined, ¡°Even rabbits aren¡¯t willing to leave their homes in this cold, I don¡¯t believe that those Lampuri Kingdom people will attack us in this weather.¡±

    Lieutenant Nokomo turned to re at him before giving a cold snort, ¡°Close your damn mouth Makan. This is an order from above, do you have the courage to not follow it?¡±

    The soldier who was called Makan spat out before muttering, ¡°It¡¯s not our Falk Kingdom chief¡¯s orders, why do we have to listen? Those fellows from the Marlow Empire only send us out to do these dirty jobs, they can do it themselves if they have the skills.¡±

    Lieutenant Nokomo knitted his brows as he looked at the other members of the patrol squad. He found that they all had the same looks as Makan, having looks of discontent on their faces. He couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    This wasn¡¯t strange.

    Not to mention his subordinates being discontent, even he wasn¡¯t feeling happy.

    Although with the help of the Marlow Empire, their Falk Kingdom government in exile and the army under them were able to reim somend that was captured by the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy, because the Marlow Empire had an overwhelming position in their allied army, the Falk Kingdom soldiers were always sent to do dirty work. Moreover, they didn¡¯t exist when it came to calcting military merit, so naturally the Falk Kingdom soldiers were dissatisfied.

    But lieutenant Nokomo, as a military officer, knew more than these normal soldiers, so he understood that there was no other way to deal with this situation.

    If if wasn¡¯t for the help of the Marlow Empire, the Falk Kingdom would have been destroyed a few months ago and there wouldn¡¯t have been a chance to fight back.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Marlow Empire breaking the unwritten rule to send out the Arch Magi, the Marlow Empire wouldn¡¯t have been able to do anything to the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy. There was no hope for the Falk Kingdom to reim their country with their own power.

    So in the end, it was the Falk Kingdompletely depending on the Marlow Empire, so how were they qualified to talk about their positions?

    Lieutenant Nokomo could understand theints of the soldiers, but on the other hand, although he was a bit dissatisfied, he was also grateful.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the help of the Marlow Empire, it might have been very hard for him to return to this familiarnd in his life.

    Since a few months ago, after Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire armies were repelled by the attack of the Lampuri Kingdom and Drake Duchy armies and Greenweit Town had been given over, Lieutenant Nokomo hadpletely lost contact with his family in the nearby vige.

    But half a month ago, after the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army took Greenweit Town back from the Lampuri Kingdom, lieutenant Nokomo was able to take a trip back in his free time and reconnect with his family.

    It was because of this that lieutenant Nokomo had a bit of gratitude to the Marlow Empire.

    But thinking of what happened after he met his family, lieutenant Nokomo felt that the gratitude he felt for the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯t as strong¡­¡­

    After seeing his family again, he didn¡¯t expect that his family not only was not tortured under the Lampuri Kingdom army, but rather they were glowing with health and looked very spirited. Other than being a bit worried because they lost contact with him, their lives were betterpared to before.

    When mentioning the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s upation, his family didn¡¯t have anyints about the Lampuri Kingdom and they were even filled with praise. After the Lampuri Kingdom upied this ce, they eliminated most of the heavy taxes that the normal vigers would pay each year and sent out a team of agricultural magic machines to help them with the fall harvest. It made their fall harvest this year exceptionally easy.

    Because of this, lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s parents and his little brother who had be an adult had time to go work for a few months in the businesses the Lampuri Kingdompanies had set up in Greenweit Town, earning more than thirty gold coins during this time because of it.

    This situation came as a surprise to lieutenant Nokomo and he even had a bit of doubt in his heart.

    Greenweit Town used to be the private territory of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s Count Green. When thisnd had been governed by the Falk Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom citizens had to payrge amounts of taxes to Count Green, leaving just some food to fill their stomachs with.

    Even if Count Green was one of the few lords that was a bit kind and willing to care for his citizens, almost all the people in his territory, including lieutenant Nokomo lived very worrisome lives and it was normal that they would starve.

    After the area around Greenweit Town fell under the control of the Lampuri Kingdom, they got rid of most of the taxes that the citizens would pay and the lives of the citizens had greatly changed.

    Not to mention anything else, just lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s family had harvested around one thousand and three hundred pounds of wheat this fall harvest.

    If this was before, eight hundred pounds of this would be turned over to Count Green and then putting aside another part to nt, they would only be left with around four hundred pounds.

    Other than lieutenant Nokomo who had enrolled in the army, his family had five people and to rely on this four hundred pounds of wheat to survive until spring of next year would definitely be difficult.

    But after this ce was seized by the Lampuri Kingdom, based on the new policies that the Lampuri Kingdom announced, only three hundred pounds of this one thousand and three hundred pounds were taken away. The rest was all left for Nokomo¡¯s family to use.

    A thousand pounds of wheatpared to a trivial four hundred pounds, this was more than double. Naturally the lives of Nokomo¡¯s family were much better than before.

    Moreover, after Lampuri Kingdom upied Greenweit Town, there were severalpanies from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom that came along and started developing Greenweit Town. They hired a lot of the locals and helped many people find jobs. These citizens were able to earn several dozen gold coins that they never imagined before.

    With these gold coins, Nokomo¡¯s family lived veryfortable lives.

    Because there was ack of food, each winter was the hardest for Nokomo¡¯s family. But this winter, Nokomo¡¯s family was not only able to eat their fill, they were able to buy two new cotton coats from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Armani Chamber of Commerce for each member of the family with the wages his parents and little brother earned, so they were no longer as cold as before.

    Thinking of how his little brother and little sister showed off their new coats to him, lieutenant Nokomo couldn¡¯t help looking down at his own clothes.

    As an officer, the clothes that he had been provided with was much better than a normal soldier¡¯s, but it was only a light padded leather coat that was almost worn down.

    There was no need to touch it to feel how light this jacket was. He could even feel the cold wind prating the jacket, which showed howcking the quality of this jacket was.

    However, even if it was this poor jacket, when he was provided with it, three gold coins were taken from his officer¡¯s wages.

    It had to be known that as a lieutenant, his yearly wage was only fifteen gold coins.

    Thinking of this, lieutenant Nokomo couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    In the past, his yearly wage of fifteen gold coins was a big supplement to his family and could make his family¡¯s lives a bit better than the other families in the vige. It also gave him preferential treatment when he went home each time.

    But now, just his brother going to work for the businesses the Lampuri Kingdom had set up in Greenweit Town had earned more than ten gold coins.

    Adding in the ie of his parents, his fifteen gold coins weren¡¯t that important.

    When he talked to his little brother about this, he even said with a look of disdain that he shouldn¡¯t be a soldier, but rather he should work for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s factories.

    Because he heard that if you did well, it wasn¡¯t strange to earn fifteen gold coins a month in those factories.

    Other than this, there was still something else where there was a clear difference.

    The clothes that his little brother and little sister wore were very warm and good looking, it only cost them forty silver coins for one jacket when they bought it from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.

    If they bought two, there was even a ten silver coins discount.

    Compared to this, the light jacket that he wore wasn¡¯t worth anything.

    But lieutenant Nokomo found it hard toin because whether it was in the past Falk Kingdom or in the Marlow Empire over the past few months, the price of cotton goods were still very high.

    Just this thin cotton jacket could be sold for two gold coins without any problems.

    Only god knew how that damn Armani Chamber of Commerce could sell it for this cheap. Were they not afraid of losing money?

    But thinking about it, it was reasonable that the Falk Kingdom rejected the Armani Chamber of Commerce¡¯s request to enter their markets.

    If the Armani Chamber of Commerce entered, the merchants of the Falk Kingdom who relied on selling cotton jackets to get rich each winter would have gone broke.

    However¡­¡­how was this rted to the normal citizens?

    As amoner who couldn¡¯t even help carefully spending even one silver coin, who wouldn¡¯t want to buy the cheaper, warmer, and even more attractive new cotton jackets?

    ¡°Big brother, it would be good if this ce was forever upied by the Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    Thinking of the naive words his eleven year old little sister had said with big wide eyes, the bitter smile on lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s face had be wider.

    These words were naive, but wasn¡¯t it the innermost thoughts of his little sister? Wasn¡¯t it even the thoughts of his parents, his little brother, and even all the citizens that lived around Greenweit Town?

 Book 7: 125: Luxurious Lampuri Kingdom army

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 125: Luxurious Lampuri Kingdom army</h4>

    The patrol team followed their route and left Greenweit Town, marching southwest by around five kilometers until there was a mountain range that appeared.

    This mountain range was thergest mountain range in the Falk Kingdom, it was called the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    Going south from Greenweit Town, if they didn¡¯t want to take the small valley from Greenweit Town, then they could only go several hundred kilometers to the east or west to bypass the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    So this mountain range became a natural barrier between the north and south of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s east side.

    Around a month ago, under the attack of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army, the Lampuri Kingdom army had fallen back to the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range. They had relied on the fortifications they had built in the only passage through the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, in Dawn Valley to repel the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    It had to be said, the fortifications of the Lampuri Kingdom really were too firm.

    In this month, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had attacked fourteen times and there were times where four Arch Magi led the strongest magicians to attack, but they couldn¡¯t break through these fortifications.

    Under the counterattack of the Lampuri Kingdom army, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army even suffered heavy casualties. In less than a month of fighting, there were twenty thousand soldiers that had died in battle and there were over forty thousand heavily injured soldiers, as well as countless lightly injured soldiers.

    But this really wasn¡¯t anything. The real loss was that during these fourteen battles, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had lost over a hundred High Grade Magicians and even two Great Magicians.

    Even the four Arch Magi attacking together couldn¡¯t do a thing. This mountain range became a barrier that the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army couldn¡¯t pass, stopping them from obtaining more victories and taking back the rest of the Falk Kingdom¡¯snd from the hands of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    In the recent week, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had given up on attacking Dawn Valley temporarily. They decided that it was better to stabilize the parts of the Falk Kingdom that they had taken back from the Lampuri Kingdom beforeing up with more ns.

    So the two armies were currently in a stalemate near the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    Of course, this didn¡¯t mean that the peace between the two sides would trulyst.

    Whether it was the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army or the Lampuri Kingdom army, they would attack again if there was a chance.

    So the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire allied army had strengthened their patrols around the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range. It was to prevent the sudden attack of the Lampuri Kingdom and also to see if there was a way to break through the Lampuri Kingdom army lines.

    The squad of seventeen Falk Kingdom soldiers that lieutenant Nokomo led were one of the many teams responsible to reconnaissance.

    Lieutenant Nokomo and his subordinates had patrolled the surrounding area many times in the past few days. They could find their way even with their eyes closed, so there was no need to explore.

    Now that they¡¯ve entered a ce where they could see the distant Gregory Hughes Mountain Range with their eyes, this was a ce that they needed to be vignt.

    Based on the information that they had gotten from fighting the Lampuri Kingdom army before, the Lampuri Kingdom army was equipped with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest model Magic Cannon that had a firing range of four kilometers.

    If they fired from atop the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, that range would reach five kilometers.

    So once lieutenant Nokomo and his subordinates entered this area, they could be attacked by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannons at any time.

    Of course, that was only in theory.

    The Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t waste their precious ammo on these investigation teams. These precious resources would normally be saved to be used during direct confrontations.

    When it came to reconnaissance and counter surveince, other than sending out Magic Airships to survey below them, they would send out small teams to scout out the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    As he thought of the undefeatable giant Magic Airship, lieutenant Nokomo looked up at the sky. He found that there wasn¡¯t a single ck spot there before giving a nod and calming down.

    The Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied armies had suffered quite a bit since their ns had been easily seen through because of the surveince from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Airships.

    Just two days ago, three reconnaissance teams had been attacked by the Lampuri Kingdom army near the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range. Not a single person had returned.

    So even if lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s team hadn¡¯t seen a trace of the Lampuri Kingdom army in a week, he was still cautious at all times and avoided attracting any attention.

    After leading his team two kilometers into the forests around the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, lieutenant Nokomo indicated to his team to stop. He raised his hand and everyone took their stations as they raised their guards.

    While prepared, lieutenant Nokomo believed that his team could eliminate any Lampuri Kingdom team that wasn¡¯t prepared.

    But if the other side was prepared¡­¡­there wasn¡¯t a need to think too much, it was better to escape with their lives.

    The countless skirmishes with the Lampuri Kingdom had proved it. Even if the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had several times more troops than the Lampuri Kingdom, their only advantage was the help of the four Arch Magi.

    If they didn¡¯t have the help of the four Arch Magi, in a direct confrontation, traditional soldiers that were equipped with swords like lieutenant Nokomo could easily be taken care of by the Lampuri Kingdom troops that were armed with the military magic machines.

    ¡°Hei, it¡¯d be good if we could get one Lampuri Kingdom soldier. If we can take care of them while they¡¯re unprepared, then we can take their equipment.¡±

    Thinking of the various magical and powerful personal military magic machines the Lampuri Kingdom soldiers had, lieutenant Nokomo couldn¡¯t help giving a gulp.

    If he had that equipment, perhaps he even had hopes of challenging a magician alone.

    Of course, he knew that even if he met a lone Lampuri Kingdom soldier and he was able to take their military magic machines, it would still be taken by his superiors.

    The Marlow Empire had a high demand for the military magic machines the Lampuri Kingdom army was equipped with, it was to conduct some research to see if they could imitate it.

    It¡¯s said that in the Marlow Empire, there was a giant team of magicians and craftsmen gathered that were fullymitted to studying military magic machines. It was to close the gap between them and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp as much as possible.

    But it was clearly impossible that there would be any achievements in a short period of time. At least lieutenant Nokomo hadn¡¯t seen the Marlow Empire army gaining any new military magic machines during this time.

    Seeing that his subordinates were all in their positions, lieutenant Nokomo climbed a tree and hid behind the tree trunk. He took out a telescope and through the gaps in the branches and leaves, he looked into the distance.

    Actually, there was nothing to see.

    During this week of investigations, each time lieutenant Nokomo had led his team for reconnaissance, he would find the Lampuri Kingdom army staying in their camp up on the mountain range and they didn¡¯t poke their heads out at all.

    Even if he could see a few people from time to time, it was just a sh and there weren¡¯t any concrete movements.

    But lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s mission was to see if the Lampuri Kingdom side would make any strange movements, so as long as he watched here for a day, his mission would beplete.

    After watching for a while and confirming that there was nothing happening with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s camp in the distance, lieutenant Nokomo gave a yawn and prepared to put away his telescope to rest for a bit.

    But as soon as he had this thought, there was a ck spot that appeared in his telescope.

    Lieutenant Nokomo was surprised before quickly looking over and seeing that it was a Magic Airship.

    This Magic Airship came from the south of the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range and then slowlynded in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s camp.

    Because there was a fenze, lieutenant Nokomo couldn¡¯t see who or what was inside of the Magic Airship.

    But based on the information the other teams had provided, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s camp would frequently have these Magic Airships that came from the south. They guessed that they were providing goods from the south to the Lampuri Kingdom army stationed in the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    When he heard this report, lieutenant Nokomo didn¡¯t believe it because the Magic Airship was something that even the Marlow Empire only had twenty of. They had all been divided by the important people of the Marlow Empire, so the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army only had one, so it could be seen how precious it was.

    Moreover, based on what lieutenant Nokomo knew, the Magic Airship had a high consumption when it flew and it wasn¡¯t effective to transport goods with this thing.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom had quite a few Magic Airships, they wouldn¡¯t be this wasteful.

    But as if they were pping lieutenant Nokomo¡¯s face, as soon as he had this thought, there was another Magic Airship that appeared in his field of view.

    Before he could react, there were Magic Airships that appeared in the south one by one. They quickly created a ck cloud in the sky that almostpletely covered the entire Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    Seeing this unusual situation, even if lieutenant Nokomo didn¡¯t know anything, he knew that something was about to happen.

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 Book 7: 126: Lampuri Kingdomâ€™s counter attack

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 126: Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s counter attack</h4>

    The Lampuri Kingdom army had arge number of Magic Airships arriving for three days, so the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army knew that something was different.

    Instead of holding the fortifications on the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range to resist the attacks of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army, they went against the norm and initiated an attack!

    However, when the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army saw the attack of the Lampuri Kingdom army, they couldn¡¯t help being stunned.

    When they faced the Lampuri Kingdom army before, although the military magic machines of the Lampuri Kingdom army were iparably strong, at least the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army could understand the military magic machines that they used.

    For example, the main firepower was the Magic Cannon that all other countries on the continent had already developed. The one that could keep firing the powerful Magic Shells.

    Or for example, if they could prepare it ahead of time, there would be some people that would get caught by Magic Landmines.

    Or for example, the Magic Repeating Crossbow that each Lampuri Kingdom soldier was equipped with¡­¡­

    In short, although these military magic machines were powerful, far stronger than the traditional swords, they weren¡¯t hard to understand.

    The other countries had studied the military magic machines that they had bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they could imitate quite a few of them. Even the Magic Cannons and Magic Repeating Crossbows of the two empires could be brought into battle.

    Of course, the military magic machines that the two empires developed themselves were farckingpared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines, whether it was in terms of quality or firepower.

    Then adding the fact that their production capacity was far from being enough, it couldn¡¯t y that important of a role in the two empires. They had to depend on their powerful magicians and their greater number of soldiers to suppress them.

    However, when the Lampuri Kingdom armyunched an attack, they found that they couldn¡¯t recognize many things that the Lampuri Kingdom army had.

    For example, the steel Magic Cars that were in front that looked like bricks. Just a single look had stunned all the officers of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    What were these things? Could it be that the Lampuri Kingdom was nning to use these Magic Cars to charge into the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army¡¯s formation?

    Only the high levelmanders of the army had vignt and calm looks.

    Although they¡¯ve never seen these things before, based on the information that the Candra Empire had shared previously, these strange things should be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Tanks that had appeared when the Candra Empire invaded the Rudson Kingdom.

    ording to the reports, these Magic Tanks were made with steel and had very firm bodies. Then with the magic shield technology that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, not to mention a normal soldier not being able to damage them, even normal magicians wouldn¡¯t be able to damage them with their attacks. They were considered a military magic machine that could dominate the battlefield.

    Moreover, not only were these Magic Tanks strong, they also hit hard.

    The steel pipes in the front of the Magic Tanks weren¡¯t for decoration, but rather they could shoot out Magic Shells that rivaled Magic Cannons.

    This meant that these Magic Tanks hadpletely solved the mobility defect of the Magic Cannons and could freely move through the battlefield, while releasing an iparable explosive might.

    To let normal soldiers resist these Magic Tanks was basically a dream.

    General Phil from the Marlow Empire¡¯s army headquarter that was in charge of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army thought of what he had read in the reports, then without any hesitation, he asked the four Arch Magi who came with the army to act.

    The four Arch Magi didn¡¯t hesitate and immediately led the magicians under them to attack together.

    If it was said that in the beginning, the Four Arch Magi had looked down on the powerful military magic machines of the Lampuri Kingdom that the Marlow Empire army headquarters had described, after a month of fighting with the Lampuri Kingdom, these Arch Magi at the peak of magicians had no choice but to care about them.

    Although with their powerful magic, they could suppress the Lampuri Kingdom army and make them retreat again and again, they could only put the Lampuri Kingdom army at a disadvantage and could never defeat them.

    Even if the four Arch Magi personally used Forbidden Spells to attack, the Lampuri Kingdom army could resist with their magic barrier and withdraw after suffering minor losses.

    Moreover, the Lampuri Kingdom army could hold out until the four Arch Magi and the magicians under them ran out of magic power, so they couldn¡¯t even chase after them.

    This battle had allowed the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army to chase the Lampuri Kingdom army to the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, but they didn¡¯t have any confidence beyond that.

    Then adding in the fact that they hadn¡¯t been able to take the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range even after more than ten attacks, it had seriously damaged the confidence of the high ranking officers.

    Even the four Arch Magi personally acting couldn¡¯t destroy the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s defenses, which was something that really was surprising to people.

    In past wars, as long as Arch Magi made a move, that would mean that the battle was close to over.

    Whichever side had more Arch Magi would be able to win the fight.

    However, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side didn¡¯t have a single Arch Magi and the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had four Arch Magi, but the battle wasn¡¯t one sided at all. This really went against everyone¡¯smon sense.

    Now the Lampuri Kingdom army was finally willing toe out from their defensive position that was harder than a damn tortoise shell, which meant that it was a good chance for the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army to defeat them.

    So when the four Arch Magi came out, they didn¡¯t hold back at all as they prepared their four strongest Forbidden Spells.

    The sky that was covered in snow suddenly turned a bright blood red colour.

    This was the sign that the Fire Attributed Forbidden Spell Doomsday Cmity was about to be released.

    There were countless bolts of lightning that shed in this blood red sky, like it would fall at any moment.

    This was the Wind Attributed Forbidden Spell Thunder God¡¯s Descent gathering.

    Thend in front of them suddenly turned into boiling water that kept churning.

    This was the Earth Attributed Forbidden Spell Unstoppable Ground Net starting to churn.

    There were countless drops of water that appeared in the air that suddenly gathered together. They formed a giant water drop that turned to ice, forming a giant icicle that had a cold glow to it.

    This was the Water Attributed Forbidden Spell Icicle Chaotic Dance being prepared and it could fall at any moment.

    Such powerful Forbidden Spells, even seeing one on the battlefield was rare, but now there were four of them that had appeared. Moreover, it was four Arch Magi personally acting, so the might contained could be imagined.

    However, whether it was the four Arch Magi or the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied armymanders, down to all the normal soldiers, not a single person¡¯s expression changed. It was as if they didn¡¯t have confidence in these four Forbidden Spells.

    The Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army and the Lampuri Kingdom army had fought more than ten times and they had attacked the Lampuri Kingdom army with over a hundred Forbidden Spells, but the Lampuri Kingdom army had blocked them each time. Even the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army couldn¡¯t help starting to doubt the power of the Forbidden Spells.

    But if they didn¡¯t use the Forbidden Spells, the normal spells did nothing to the Lampuri Kingdom army, they couldn¡¯t even scratch them.

    As for the normal soldiers¡­¡­

    What a joke! You were counting on the normal soldiers with des and spears to use their flesh bodies to go all out against the Lampuri Kingdom army equipped withrge amounts of military magic machines?

    It wasn¡¯t that the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army hadn¡¯t done this before.

    In the first few battles with the Lampuri Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army hadmanded their soldiers to attack the Lampuri Kingdom army formation. However, under the intense Magic Cannon barrage of the Lampuri Kingdom army, they had lost over ten thousand troops. Themanders of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army no longer dared to send their soldiers to death after this.

    It wasn¡¯t exaggerated to say that in this battle, it all depended on the four Arch Magi.

    If the four Arch Magi could suppress the Lampuri Kingdom army, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army could win.

    Once¡­¡­

    General Phil shook his head and cleared his mind of all worries.

    Impossible! How could Arch Magi possibly lose!

    Seeing that arge number of Lampuri Kingdom troops were in the range of the four Arch Magi¡¯s Forbidden Spells, General Phil¡¯s heart filled with joy and doubt at the same time.

    It wasn¡¯t the Lampuri Kingdom army¡¯s first time fighting them, it can¡¯t be that they couldn¡¯t see it. Why would they send their troops into the range of the Forbidden Spells to die?

    Could it be that they were confident enough to use the Magic Tanks to block the Forbidden Spells?

    The doubts had just appeared in General Phil¡¯s heart when there were clouds that appeared above the Lampuri Kingdom army¡¯s camp on the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range that suddenly flew over.

    General Phil didn¡¯t need the telescope at all to know that this should be the Magic Airships that came to reinforce the Lampuri Kingdom the day before yesterday.

    But the number of Magic Airships surpassed his expectations. With a single look, he could tell that there were at least thirty of them.

    But based on their reports, the Lampuri Kingdom side only had a total of fifty Magic Airships, so this meant that they had sent more than half of them here.

    But¡­¡­with the four Arch Magi attacking with Forbidden Spells, what could these Magic Airships do?

    The Magic Airships gave an answer right after that.

 Book 7: 127: No longer invincible

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 127: No longer invincible</h4>

    The several dozen Magic Airships suddenly spread out in all directions and flew off very far away from where the battle was currently happening.

    Then under the doubtful gazes of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army, the Magic Airships in these different directions released a sparkling light that created a beautiful light barrier in the sky, covering an entire area.

    This thing really was too small, General Phil couldn¡¯t even see it clearly with his telescope.

    But with his experience from many battles, his instincts told him that these small things weren¡¯t anything good. He immediately turned to give the order to the magicians squad to have them intercept the Magic Airships, stopping them from continuing their arrangement with these small glowing things.

    But before the magicians squad could make a move, the Lampuri Kingdom army camp on the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range suddenly released countless red lights that densely covered the sky.

    Seeing this, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army was stunned.

    Of course they could see that this attack should be from the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Cannons, but wasn¡¯t this attack too terrifying?

    There were over a hundred Magic Shells shot into the sky at once, which meant that the Lampuri Kingdom had fired over a hundred Magic Cannons at the same time!

    The Lampuri Kingdom had never shown this kind of terrifying firepower before.

    Moreover, this would consume a considerable amount of Magic Shells. With this consumption, how long could the Lampuri Kingdom armyst?

    If they didn¡¯t have the support of this firepower, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army could even send normal soldiers to attack.

    Was the Lampuri Kingdom going insane?

    But it wasn¡¯t the time to consider this now. Seeing the dense cannon shots flying through the sky, the magicians of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army didn¡¯t even wait for General Phil¡¯s order as they released their magic barriers, covering the entire surrounding army.

    After fighting over a hundred times with the Lampuri Kingdom army, they were already very proficient in doing this. Even the normal soldiers were already used to this and they all grouped together, hiding under the magic barriers of the magicians.

    There were no magicians who tried to intercept the Magic Shells in the air with spells because they had attempted this countless times before, but it didn¡¯t work a single time. So when facing this attack, all the magicians only had the thought of defending.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong¡­¡­¡±

    There was a series of deafening explosions. With the defenses of the magicians, they didn¡¯t suffer a single casualty.

    However, the magicians didn¡¯t even have a chance to catch their breath as over a hundred mes appeared in the sky again. Itpletely covered the up the mes of the me Attributed Forbidden Spell.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong¡­¡­¡±

    The Magic Shells kepting from the Lampuri Kingdom army¡¯s position on the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, falling onto the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army like rain.

    The terrifying explosions kept ringing out in General Phil¡¯s ears, causing the doubt to build on his face.

    What were the Lampuri Kingdom fellows thinking?

    If they used these Magic Shells like they didn¡¯t care about money, they wouldn¡¯t have enough to use.

    After knitting his brows to think, General Phil suddenly thought of a possibility.

    ¡°Could it be that these Lampuri Kingdom people want to use these Magic Shells to consume the magic power of our magicians and then attack with other military magic machines? But¡­¡­¡±

    General Phil¡¯s eyes turned to the four Arch Magi who were preparing Forbidden Spells.

    Because the might of those four Forbidden Spells were terrifying, even an Arch Magus needed time to prepare it, so that was why it still wasn¡¯t prepared yet.

    But once it was prepared, the Magic Tanks that hade down from the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range would definitely be caught up in the four Forbidden Spells.

    Was the Lampuri Kingdom side not aware of this?

    General Phil was still deeply thinking about this when he discovered that Arch Magus Nagan who was preparing the Fire Attributed Forbidden Spell suddenly swayed in the air. Then he was like a kite with its strings cut as he fell from the sky.

    General Phil was shocked and without even thinking, he pushed his horse in the direction that Arch Magus Nagan was falling in.

    But before he even took two steps, he found that the magicians in the air who had prepared the magic barriers for the soldiers started falling one by one.

    There was a magician who fell in front of him. If General Phil didn¡¯t react fast enough to move his horse aside, he might have been stomped to death by his horse.

    However, even if he wasn¡¯t stomped to death, the fellow who had the badge of an Eighth Grade Magician on his chest fell from ten meters up and spat out a mouthful of blood. Then after taking a breath, there was no longer any life left in his eyes.

    General Phil looked around in shock. He saw that there were quite a few magicians who were caught by the soldiers and their lives weren¡¯t in danger, but they couldn¡¯t move because they had been hit too hard.

    As for the ones that weren¡¯t caught, just one look could tell that they had lost their lives.

    Three figures suddenly came down from the air andnded beside General Phil.

    General Phil took a look and saw that it was the other three Arch Magi. He immediately let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°Then three of you, what is happening? Why are you all¡­¡­¡± General Phil asked in an anxious voice.

    ¡°Sir general, immediately retreat. This ce is already¡­¡­¡±

    An Arch Magus had only quickly finished half his words when a me suddenly fell less than ten meters in front of General Phil.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a fierce explosion and everything turned dark in front of General Phil. There was a wave of dirt and stone that suddenly exploded that even blew his horse into the air.

    When hended ten meters away, he had already passed out.

    ###

    Inte November, most of the northern countries would start snowing, which meant that the Sines Continent had entered the coldest winter season.

    However,pared to the news that shocked the entire continent, this snow didn¡¯t matter at all.

    In November, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had started a fierce battle with the Lampuri Kingdom army in the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    During this battle, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had one hundred and sixty thousand troops, while the Lampuri Kingdom only had forty thousand troops. However, in the end, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had suffered arge loss and the Lampuri Kingdom had achievedplete victory.

    If it was just a single victory, it wouldn¡¯t be enough to surprise people.

    But in this battle, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had lost sixty thousand people, with countless heavily wounded and missing troops. In the end, there were only less than fifty thousand people who had escaped.

    Among these losses, what had truly shocked everyone was that one of the Marlow Empire¡¯s four Arch Magi had died in the battle!

    Nine years ago, Arch Magus Levin Hasko had fallen after attacking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters. This news had already shocked the entire continent.

    Because in the history of the continent, there were few Arch Magi that fell and there hadn¡¯t been a case in several centuries.

    But Arch Magus Levin Hasko falling could be exined as him being too arrogant. He attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters, that was why he had fallen into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s trap.

    Then again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had Arch Magus Cami who was at the same level as Arch Magus Levin Hasko, as well several Great Magicians. They were able topete with Arch Magus Levin Hasko and Arch Magus Sarandal y in theory.

    But this time, the Marlow Empire¡¯s Arch Magus Nagan who had fallen had fallen in a fight with the Lampuri Kingdom Army. The Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t even have a single Arch Magus, they barely had any Great Magicians, but they could kill Arch Magus Nagan which no one could believe.

    What was even more unbelievable was that the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army didn¡¯t just have Arch Magus Nagan, but also three other Arch Magi.

    With four Arch Magi working together, one person had died and the other three were seriously injured. In the history of the entire Sines Continent, this had never happened before!

    After everyone was shocked, their hearts were filled with doubt.

    How had the Lampuri Kingdom army done it?

    No one was surprised that they could beat the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army because they had therge amount of military magic machines provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But how had they defeated the four iparably powerful Arch Magi working together?

    In this panic and doubt, many people also started panicking.

    For the people of the Sines Continent, Arch Magi had always been special people that were far above normal people.

    Arch Magi were the peak among magicians, they were like gods to be worshipped for normal people, they couldn¡¯t be resisted.

    But now the Lampuri Kingdom army had used facts to tell everyone that Arch Magi weren¡¯t invincible, they could also be killed like normal people.

    For many people, this destroyed the images of these gods in their hearts, which was naturally hard for them to ept. They even started panicking because of this.

    This attack wasn¡¯t that serious for the other countries of the continent, but for the citizens of the Marlow Empire, it was fatal.

    This was also a powerful blow for the citizens of the Candra Empire because the Candra Empire also had nine Arch Magi like the Marlow Empire. They had always been considered gods of protection by these citizens.

    Now that these gods of protection weren¡¯t as invincible as everyone thought, did that mean that the two empires were no longer invincible?

 Book 7: 128: Defense lines collapsing

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 128: Defense lines copsing</h4>

    Time passed and December came. It entered the period of deep winter where snow filled the air and chills came from the north.

    During this season, the traditional idea of the continent was to not engage in any military operations.

    Because not to mention fighting in this cold weather, soldiers might even die from marching in this snow, not to mention that it would be much harder to march on the slippery mud roads.

    So winter had always been a season of peace in the traditions of the Sines Continent, no country would choose to make war during this time.

    But¡­¡­the traditions were broken this winter.

    In mid November, the Lampuri Kingdom had defeated the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army at the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range. They had annihted close to two thirds of the two hundred thousand soldiers, even shocking everyone to kill one of the symbols of invincibility in the eyes of countless people, an Arch Magus.

    With just this one battle, the tide hadpletely turned around.

    Before this, the Lampuri Kingdom army had been repelled under the attack of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army. When they fell back to the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, they had almost lost half of the territory they had taken from the Falk Kingdom.

    At that time, everyone felt that the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to resist and would be chased out of the Falk Kingdom by the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    If the Marlow Empire was a bit bolder to break the tradition of not allowing Arch Magi invade other countries, the Falk Kingdom and the Marlow Empire allied army could even invade the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Moreover, this was very likely.

    Because in the war that swept over the Sines Continent, the ones fighting were one of the major representatives of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp and the other was one of the two empires. At the same time, with the powerful Mana Magic Kingdom joining in, this included all the Arch Magi other than the two at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Then adding in the Magicians Guild that had existed on the Sines Continent for thousands of years supporting the camp of the two empires, with their powerful support, it wasn¡¯t that strange if they broke the tradition.

    After all, one could think of countless reasons for the battle.

    If it really happened, the Lampuri Kingdom army would find it hard to resist the attack of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army. In the end, the Lampuri Kingdom might even be destroyed.

    However¡­¡­this battle at the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range had changed everyone¡¯s predictions.

    Perhaps some people had guessed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to help the Lampuri Kingdom deal with the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army, but no one had guessed that the Lampuri Kingdom wouldpletely rout them with a single battle.

    What yed the most decisive role was that the Lampuri Kingdom army had actually killed an Arch Magus and heavily injured the other three Arch Magi.

    Gods! This was the result that came from facing an army of two hundred thousand along with several hundred High Grade Magicians, several dozen Great Magicians, and four Arch Magi!

    With the lineup of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army, everyone had thought that they wouldn¡¯t even know how to lose, but they never thought that they would copse from a single blow by the Lampuri Kingdom army!

    This result had caused everyone to start doubting the battle power of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    Everyone no longer believed that the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army could defeat the Lampuri Kingdom, everyone even started to doubt if the two empires could win.

    There were two main reasons why the camp of the two empires couldpletely suppress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp during this time.

    One was because they had the absolute numbers advantage when it came to Arch Magi, this allowed them to suppress the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp in a direct conflict.

    The second was that they had greater foundations and more people, allowing them to attack in different directions, forcing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp to meet them.

    However, after this battle in the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, everyone found that Arch Magi weren¡¯t as invincible as they imagined. Even four Arch Magi working together couldn¡¯t resist the attack of the Lampuri Kingdom army. One of them even died while the other three were injured, causing the biggest advantage of the two empires¡¯ camp to disappear.

    It also brought up a major issue of the war. It was that the normal army of the two empires were like children in front of fully armed men when facing the armies of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp, they couldn¡¯t resist at all and could only wait to be beaten.

    In this battle, after the death of one Arch Magus and wounding of three Arch Magi, the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army still had one hundred and sixty thousand troops with quite a few military magic machines produced by the Marlow Empire, so it could be said that they were still quite strong.

    But under the attacks of the Lampuri Kingdom, this army of one hundred and sixty thousand couldn¡¯t resist at all. They had suffered massive casualties in just an hour, losing over half their troops and almost being annihted.

    Compared to this, the Lampuri Kingdom had announced that they suffered almost no casualties!

    Even if the copse of the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army was a major reason, this casualty report hadpletely flipped everyone¡¯s general understanding.

    After this battle, no one believed that the traditional armies of the two empires would be able to pose any threat to the new armies of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, with theirrge amounts of new military magic machines.

    Then adding the fact that High Grade Magicians, Great Magicians, and even Arch Magi couldn¡¯t change the tide of battle like everyone imagined, the results were obvious.

    The two empires couldn¡¯t face the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in directbat. The only way to change this situation was to use their greater foundations and greater use of strategy to stall until they burned out the other side.

    The battle of Gregory Hughes Mountain Range had happened in early winter which was good news for the two empires.

    Because once winter came, even if the Lampuri Kingdom had a great advantage, they would still temporarily stop all their operations and stop moving forward, giving the Marlow Empire time to breathe.

    If they could rebuild during winter, it would be hard to predict what would happen in the battles next year.

    However¡­¡­the Lampuri Kingdom surprised everyone by not giving the Marlow Empire this chance to breathe.

    December 6th, when heavy snow filled the piece ofnd south of the Marlow Empire that once belonged to the Falk Kingdom, the Lampuri Kingdom surprisinglyunched an attack. In just half a day, an army of thirty thousand with several hundred Magic Tanks and Magic Combat Vehicles had arrived in Saint Ros City that the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had retreated to from the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range.

    After fighting for half a day, Saint Ros City was broken into and the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army only had twenty thousand people escape.

    December 9th, the Lampuri Kingdom army chased down these twenty thousand troops to Slow Valley in the north of the original Falk Kingdom.

    The Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army couldn¡¯t resist, so General Phil took the initiative to surrender and the army was destroyed.

    Three dayster, the Lampuri Kingdom army invaded Nn City that was on the border of the original Falk Kingdom, integrating it back into their control after it was taken by the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    Everyone believed that since the Lampuri Kingdom had taken back all the territory that they had captured from the Falk Kingdom, they would stop there.

    After all, ahead of them was the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory and if they continued forward, they would be invading the Marlow Empire.

    Fighting back against the Marlow Empire and invading the Marlow Empire were twopletely different concepts.

    In the hundreds of years since the Marlow Empire had been founded, all the countries that had invaded the Marlow Empire had been seriously defeated, even the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t an exception.

    No one believed that the Lampuri Kingdom, which had only been a small country on the continent more than ten years ago, would invade the Marlow Empire, even if they had beaten the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom had crushed everyone¡¯s guesses with a single fact.

    On December 23rd, the Lampuri Kingdom army that had rested for ten days moved out and crossed the Marlow Empire¡¯s south border, officially invading the Marlow Empire.

    Although the Marlow Empire hadn¡¯t expected the Lampuri Kingdom to dare invade, they had already prepared their defenses. After the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army had been defeated at Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, they called back the army that attacked the Drake Duchy and assembled the border guards from other ces.

    Putting importance on the Lampuri Kingdom army¡¯s battle power, the Marlow Empire had gathered almost all the power of the empire. They had five Arch Magi alone and there were over three hundred and sixty thousand troops.

    However¡­¡­this didn¡¯t mean anything.

    From December 24th to December 30th, after a week of fiercebat, the Marlow Empire army had suffered one hundred thousand casualties, eighty thousand troops were heavily wounded, and four hundred High Grade Magicians, nine Great Magicians, and two Arch Magi had died in battle. After suffering these heavy losses, they couldn¡¯t resist the Lampuri Kingdom army any longer and suffered a disastrous loss.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s defense line copsed and the Lampuri Kingdom army pushed in.

    On January 1st of year 3783, the first day of the new year, it was an important celebration of a new year for many others on the Sines Continent.

    But for the important people of the Marlow Empire and the camp of the two empires, it was a day where they were filled with fear and apprehension.

    Because starting that day, from this year on, as the Lampuri Kingdom invaded the Marlow Empire, it meant that the traditions that the two empires represented would copse like the Marlow Empire¡¯s defense lines¡­¡­

 Book 7: 129: Financial loss

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 129: Financial loss</h4>

    When the Lampuri Kingdom destroyed the Marlow Empire¡¯s defense lines and marched into the Marlow Empire with a momentum that countless people feared, there was a different scene in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base in the Stantine Duchy.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was one of the protagonists among the two camps, the worries of the outside world and the war that made the entire continent tense didn¡¯t really have an effect on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Because it was the new year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the usual week off before the end of the year. The main base wasn¡¯t as busy as normal because of this and even the sounds of the production magic machines in the factories were much more silent.

    But that didn¡¯t mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t affected at all.

    As a leader in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp, as well as providing the various countries with military magic machines to defend against the attacks of the two empires. They also helped the Lampuri Kingdom fight back and were the main reason that they could invade the Marlow Empire. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt a main part of the war that swept over the continent this time.

    Not mentioning anything else, just to provide ammunition and other military magic machines to the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to build a new production base just for military magic machines.

    The new base had been finished at the start ofst year and as the situation on the Sines Continent became worse, finally evolving into all out war, this new production base had gone full power in the second half ofst year, making military magic machines without rest.

    It was because of Xu Yi¡¯s strong foresight that allowed the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, and the other allies to have enough military magic machines. This allowed them to demonstrate their powerful might in the battles against the two empires.

    Through Xu Yi luring in Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian, sessfully testing the newly developed anti magic domain developed to counter magicians, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had solved the most serious problem for those allies, the threat of the Arch Magi.

    This was demonstrated in the battle between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army.

    The Marlow Empire lost an Arch Magus in the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range and then they lost another two Arch Magi at the border. This was equal to telling everyone that Arch Magi were no longer invincible like everyone had thought and could no longer decide the results of battle.

    This meant that through the Lampuri Kingdom killing three Arch Magi from the Marlow Empire, everyone understood that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines could decide the fate of battle.

    Normal magicians couldn¡¯t do this and even the most powerful Arch Magi couldn¡¯t do this!

    In order to firmly make everyone recognize this, although the other departments of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were let off for the New Years, the military magic machine department unexpectedly was forced to work overtime during the New Years for the first time.

    Of course, because it was special overtime, workers were paid three times their usual wages, so the workers that were kept for the overtime were all very happy about it.

    Then again, there was war all over the continent right now. Instead of going out to face danger, it was better to stay in the safest Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base instead.

    Even the staff of the other departments weren¡¯t willing to leave during their vacation and many chose to stay.

    There were also many staff that brought their family over to the Stantine Duchy using this chance, deciding to settle down here.

    Of course Xu Yi weed this very much.

    The one thing he was most discontent with was theck of food on the Sines Continent, causing the poption to be scarce evenpared to just China on earth. It made it forever difficult for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recruit enough manpower to develop with.

    If the Stantine Duchy could have more people, he could create talents that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed the most right by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the long run, this was beneficial no matter how he looked at it.

    He even wished that he could kidnap a bunch of people to work in the military magic machine production base, going all out to supply the Lampuri Kingdom and the other kingdoms with military magic machines.

    However, this wasn¡¯t practical.

    The military magic machines were powerful, but they had a high requirement to make.

    Especially the anti magic domain equipment that was needed the most to counter magicians, there couldn¡¯t be a single mistake. It required a deep understanding of many magic fields and only those that had a deep understanding of Magic Arrays could work on it.

    These talents couldn¡¯t be trained in the short term.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t even keep up by bringing in new batches of graduates one by one, training them as they worked, so how could he find enough talented people in a short period of time?

    Every time he thought of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    Although the proportion of magicians on the Sines Continent was low, if one had to put a number on it, it was still over a hundred thousand and wasn¡¯t considered that low.

    If he could even get half of those hundred thousand magicians¡­¡­No, even if he could get a third, a fourth, or even a fifth of those magicians to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn¡¯t have to worry about talented people all the time.

    Among these magicians, what Xu Yi regretted the most were the three Arch Magi who had fallen fighting the Lampuri Kingdom army.

    To Xu Yi, Arch Magi represented the deepest understanding of magic on the Sines Continent and were the strongest magicians. As long as they could be trained a bit, they could greatly help the magic machine industry.

    Three Arch Magi falling was equal to losing three top talents for Xu Yi.

    When he received this news, although Xu Yi didn¡¯t say it, his heart was filled with pain.

    If these three Arch Magi didn¡¯t fall in this war that Xu Yi considered meaningless and worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they definitely would have helped the magic machine industry develop faster and could help Xu Yi get a step closer to his ideal.

    So although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards could have killed Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian outside of Mero City, Xu Yi took the risk of letting them go.

    This was just to protect the top talent of Arch Magi.

    However¡­¡­the contradiction was that Xu Yi had to let the side that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented demonstrate the powerful ability to eliminate Arch Magi, only then would other people understand.

    So in the end, the Arch Magi still fell and three of them fell at once.

    Xu Yi was very hurt by this, but there was no other choice.

    ¡°Ai, how good it would be if everyone could develop with one heart, but it¡¯s a pity¡­..¡± Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh and shaking his head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, what is it? Did we do something wrong?¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machine department manager Lawns saw the strange expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face and quickly asked this.

    ¡°No, I was just thinking that these military magic machines are being sent to the various armies to be used to take countless people¡¯s lives, so I couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit emotional.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he said this.

    This time it was Lawns¡¯ turn to reveal a strange expression.

    Why was sir chairman feeling emotional now?

    Could it be that sir chairman was actually a very sensitive person?

    How could that be possible¡­¡­

    As these thoughts passed through his mind, Lawns, who wasn¡¯t affected, said with a smile, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s no other way. We never had any thoughts of conquering anyone, but those fellows from the two empires aren¡¯t willing to ept this. If we don¡¯t teach them a proper lesson, we will have to live with endless trouble in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi smiled as he understood Lawns¡¯ misunderstanding, but he was toozy to exin it to him. He waved his hand and said, ¡°It was just a bit of emotion, it won¡¯t affect my decision. Alright, the inspection is done here, you¡¯ve done very well. Keep up this efficiency and don¡¯t make any mistakes. This year will very likely be the most important year for ourpany and the entire Sines Continent. What will decide the final oue will be your department, so¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a strong pat on Lawns¡¯ shoulder and looked at with a sincere look as he said, ¡°Your responsibility is very serious, are you confident in doing it?¡±

    Lawns immediately replied in a fearless voice, ¡°Sir chairman, please be assured! I guarantee that there won¡¯t be any mistakes here!¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi patted Lawns¡¯ shoulder again before having him go back to work. The other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who came to inspect the military magic machine production base with him all left together.

    The group returned to the conference room in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main office building. After taking their seats, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager Sebas took out a document for Xu Yi.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is ourpany¡¯s preliminary financial budget for this year. Based on the estimates¡­..it doesn¡¯t look good.¡± Sebas had a very serious look on his face.

    This expression was quite rare for him.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial situation had always been good since it had been established, so Sebas¡¯ expression had always been quite rxed.

    However, his expression looked very serious. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help sitting up a straight when he heard these words and picked up the document.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s budget for this year. Sebas had listed all the funds that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would use and then drew a final estimate.

    This estimate could make Sebas show this kind of serious expression because this estimate, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various nned investments for the year, if there wasn¡¯t any changes or any sudden ie, it would mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be suffering a serious deficit for the first time in history this year.

    The deficit was as high as twenty to forty million gold coins!

    As forst year¡¯s financial report, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s close to two hundred million gold coins yearly profit had dropped to a trivial fifty million gold coins. This difference wasn¡¯t small.

    And this year Sebas even estimated that there would be a deficit!

    This was the first time this happened in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s twenty years of operation and the first deficit wasn¡¯t a small number.

    It was no wonder Sebas had such a serious look. After all, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s financial manager, he was the person that was most closely rted to these numbers.

    Moreover, he was clear on what the reason for this deficit was.

    ¡°Sir chairman, with all due respect.¡± Seeing that Xu Yi had finished reading the report and looked up again, Sebas seriously looked at him and said, ¡°We should immediately stop providing free aid to the Lampuri Kingdom and the other countries. Otherwise if we continue like this, in less than two years, ourpany will face serious financial burdens and might even go out of business!¡±

 Book 7: 130: Becoming legends

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 130: Bing legends</h4>

    Everyone in the conference room was shocked.

    The CEO rus knitted his brows and said in a heavy voice, ¡°Manager Sebas, please don¡¯t say things to scare people. Although ourpany has seriously invested in the war over the past two years and it has created arge financial burden, saying that ourpany will go out of business is too much.¡±

    ¡°Right, ourpany isn¡¯t foolish, would we really help those countries for free? Don¡¯t forget that we got quite a few mineral resources from them.¡± The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Lithorp also added, ¡°Although we don¡¯t have time to get those mineral resources now, they¡¯ll be more valuable if we leave them there, so we will slowly earn back our money instead of losing it.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just mineral resources.¡± The Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Ankhto also said, ¡°Other than those things, as long as ourpany wins this war, we can force the two empires and the other countries to reduce the high tariffs they¡¯ve set against us. Even if we put aside everything else, we can earn enough just with this alone. When the timees, not to mention a few million, do you not believe that just our household magic machine department would be able to make over a hundred million gold coins a year?¡±

    ¡°Hey, you fellows have said all this, but haven¡¯t you forgotten the most important thing? It isn¡¯t that we wanted to fight, but weren¡¯t we forced by those fellows from the two empires? If we didn¡¯t help those countries, could it be that we should wait for the empires to reach us and wipe us out?¡±

    When this was said, the entire conference room fell into silence again.

    That¡¯s right, with the current high speed development trend of the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goods would have spread to all the countries on the continent without waiting long.

    With the high quality, high performance, and convenience of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines, it was impossible for them not to earn a profit.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, steady development was the best way, there was no need for them to start a war.

    This war had been started by the two empires and it kept expanding, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only ept it.

    It wasn¡¯t hard to guess what the two empires were thinking.

    They clearly saw therge influence the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, as well as the benefits hidden in it. They weren¡¯t willing to let a normalpany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce control it, so they made an exception to ally themselves against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was all to snatch the benefits of the magic machine industry into their own hands.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were scruples for them, otherwise with the power of the two empires, they wouldn¡¯t need to work together and coulde alone.

    In this situation, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t retaliate, then the two empires would have taken care of their allies and then swallowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was a matter rted to the survival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there shouldn¡¯t be any hesitation at all.

    As for whether there was money or not¡­¡­if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t exist, what meaning did money have?

    Many people looked at Sebas with dissatisfied looks.

    Today was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s important first meeting of the year, it was to discuss the policies of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in this new year.

    At this crucial moment, everyone wanted to unite and solve these problems together.

    However, Sebas had thrown out this bucket of cold water, so naturally people were dissatisfied.

    Sebas didn¡¯t care about the people looking at him, he just looked at Xu Yi, waiting for him to speak.

    Everyone looked at Sebas for a bit before also turning to Xu Yi.

    In the end, the strategies of thepany would be decided by sir chairman, so there was no meaning if other people said anything.

    Xu Yi looked around before patting the report and saying with a smile, ¡°Sebas was only giving his opinion from his perspective as the finance manager, what are you all getting so excited for?¡±

    Everyone was surprised. Lithorp immediately asked, ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that you share Sebas¡¯ opinion and want to reduce or stop supporting the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    ¡°No, of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s the most crucial moment in the war and we¡¯ve seen the light of victory, so it¡¯s the most important moment of our counterattack, how could we give up on our allies at this time?¡±

    Everyone let out a sigh of relief.

    Sebas¡¯ expression also didn¡¯t change as if he wasn¡¯t surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s answer at all.

    ¡°Sir chairman, thepany¡¯s finances are in a tight situation, please put importance to this.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Xu Yi nodded before turning to ask Ankhto, ¡°Ankhto, ¡°What is the situation with your household magic machinepany this year?¡±

    Ankhto was surprised, clearly not expecting that Xu Yi would change the topic to him.

    After thinking about it, he shook his head with an awkward bitter smile, ¡°It¡¯s not that good. There are already fifty three countries that have banned ourpany¡¯s products and the rest of the countries have decreased their orders with us because of the war. Then there¡¯s the fact that we¡¯ve lost cargo and it¡¯s hard for us to safely transport goods for orders because of the war. We lost over a million gold coins worth of goods on the roadst month, which cut ourst month¡¯s profits by half¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing Ankhto¡¯s words, the managers and other department heads in the room all let out sighs.

    This situation wasn¡¯t just happening in the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce.

    Because half of the continent had been caught up in the war, most of the trade routes had been blocked. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s business had all seriously dropped in thest half a year, which caused the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s overall profits to drop.

    Even if there were still manypanies willing to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the two empires and the countries in their camp were deeply rooted on the continent, so they represented most of the economy of the continent. So once the war began, this was equal to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being cut off from the biggest market.

    The biggest reason why the two empires had dered war on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was because they thought that they could grasp the lifeline of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, slowly dragging them to their death.

    But in fact, the ending was different from what they expected.

    Since the splitst year, in just a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits had greatly dropped.

    Then when it came to war support, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to invest a lot of funds, which might even cause a deficit for the first time.

    If this situation continued for several years or several decades, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their allied countries would be worn down by the two empires and wouldn¡¯t be able to resist.

    ¡°So the key is to end this war as soon as possible, the sooner the better.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s conclusion, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce high level members looked at each other in nk dismay.

    Sir chairman had put it simply, but how would they end it quickly?

    The two empires weren¡¯t that easy to beat, so how could they make them end the war as soon as possible?

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had destroyed the image of the invincible Arch Magi, causing the two empires to no longer have the advantage in a direct conflict, the two empires were still giantspared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Even if they worked with the Lampuri Kingdom and other countries, they weren¡¯t that easy to swallow.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin to them and just asked about the situation of each department and their ns for next year. After giving some simplements, he announced that this meeting was over.

    When they left, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members had different degrees of confusion on their faces.

    When they couldn¡¯t predict the results of the war, they naturally couldn¡¯t predict the prospects of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was different from before when thepany was quickly developing, so they could easily make these decisions.

    It could be said that in the twenty years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, this was their first time encountering this situation.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only been formed for twenty years and they could be considered a first ss power that could even fight the two empires. This was with precedent in the history of the Sines Continent.

    If the war ended with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯splete victory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be a legend on the continent. Not only would they be a precedent, they would be unmatched in the future.

    The high level members hadplicated feelings when they left, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t even stop for a second. He came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ training base that was situated not far away to the northeast by the coast.

    When he entered the base, he saw a Magic Airship slowlynding.

    Xu Yi looked at it and knew that he was here right on time.

    The Magic Airshipnded and the cabin door opened. Chief Hart had just walked out and wasn¡¯t surprised to see Xu Yi outside. He came over in front of Xu Yi and gave a bow before loudly saying, ¡°Reporting to sir chairman, the guard team has alreadypleted the mission and has safely returned.¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder with a smile as he asked, ¡°How does it feel to fight the Arch Magi?¡±

    Chief Hart¡¯s lips twitched and his expression was strange. Only after a while did he reply, ¡°Sir chairman, to be honest¡­¡­I didn¡¯t feel anything. We just set up everything based on the tests from before and then took care of those Arch Magi. To be honest, although I was watching it, my mind felt a bit confused, almost as if I was in a dream. Tell me¡­¡­was someone as important as an Arch Magus really killed that easily by us?¡±

 Book 7: 131: Province capital has fallen

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 131: Province capital has fallen</h4>

    ¡°It¡¯s not like you weren¡¯t at the tests in Mero City.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug with a rxed look on his face, ¡°Didn¡¯t you trap two Arch Magi then? It wasn¡¯t hard for you to kill them, so why do you still look like you can¡¯t believe it?¡±

    ¡°After all, we didn¡¯t really kill them then.¡± Chief Hart shook his head, as if he still couldn¡¯t ept that an Arch Magus would fall from fighting with his subordinates.¡±

    ¡°Alright, you¡¯ll get used to it in the future.¡± Xu Yi then asked, ¡°You should already know your next mission, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I already received the orders on the way back.¡± Chief Hart gave a nod as his expression became a bit more strange. He couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, didn¡¯t you personally let off the two Arch Magi from the Candra Empire before, why are you having us kill them now?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, who told the two empires to not cooperate?¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°If possible, I really want to settle this without any wounds and let the two empires know that the Arch Magi can¡¯t y the role that they imagined. If everyone can sit down and talk about how to cooperate, how to develop together, how good that would be. But¡­..you can see it as well.¡±

    Chief Hart gave a bitter smile.

    He had been in contact with Xu Yi many times during the recent days. He was very clear on the fact that Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to start an all out war with the two empires, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have let the two Candra Empire Arch Magi leave back in Mero City.

    But facts proved that sir chairman really was too¡­..ke, too naive.

    The two empires had stood on the continent for close to a thousand years, how could they put down their arrogance as empires just because of a single setback? How could they honestly discuss cooperation like sir chairman wanted?

    Then again, the two empires were against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of the giant benefits hidden in the magic machine industry.

    Countless people could see this and the two empires were also aware of this. Naturally they wanted this benefit to be held in their hands and didn¡¯t want to be restrained by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It could be said that this war was inevitable, the only factor was just when it would happen.

    ¡°ording to the n, you will set off in two weeks. During this time, I need you to continue training on how to deal with magicians in the base. With the battle experience from before, I believe that the other side will definitelye up with a way to fight back, so you need to be more skilled during this time so you can keep the initiative and continue suppressing the Arch Magi. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Understood!¡± Chief Hart gave a strong nod, ¡°Actually, if it wasn¡¯t for the other side being too negligent before, they might not have fallen into the anti magic domain so easily. With the agility of Arch Magi, once they can react to it, it won¡¯t be that easy to handle them.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s also why I had the development center take this into consideration during this time. The first handbat data that the guards have brought back is very important and we can adjust based on this information. Hart, you might have to stay with me in the development center during this time. How about it? Can you hold on?¡±

    Chief Hart gave augh before patting his chest.

    ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s no need for you to worry about my body. But as for you¡­..It¡¯s the first day of the new year, don¡¯t you need to be with madame Still?¡±

    ¡°Still ran to the Magic Cloud Continent a week ago, so there¡¯s no one to be with even if I wanted to be with her.¡± Xu Yi helplessly spread his hands.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Chief Hart was stunned, ¡°Why did madame Still suddenly¡­..run off to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°The dragons over there have some feedback about the Illusion Films, so Still decided to personally go over once she heard about this. Other than solving a few problems, she¡¯s also going there to develop the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s market.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Speaking of this, I haven¡¯t even gone to the Magic Cloud Continent yet and she¡¯s already gone there first.¡±

    Chief Hart looked at Xu Yi with a strange look. After a while, he said, ¡°Sir chairman, I think that¡­..you and madame Still are a natural couple¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± Xu Yi looked at him with a strange look.

    ¡°You¡¯re both workaholics¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    The first half a month of year 3803 was a rare period of peace in thest two years.

    However, this peace was very short.

    On January 16th, the Rudson Kingdom army hadunched arge scale invasion into the Candra Empire¡¯s borders.

    After a fierce exchange between both sides, the Candra Empire border army was forced to retreat.

    The Rudson Kingdom army pushed right into the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province, marching to Mero City. They converged with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards that had been in Mero City the entire time.

    On January 26th, eight thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards came as reinforcements withrge amounts of military magic machines to break the Candra Empire¡¯s defensive lines. They sessfully arrived in Mero City and converged with the Rudson Kingdom army and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards already there.

    The next day, the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ allied army, simply called the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces attacked the southern province¡¯s army that had been stationed five kilometers to the southwest for several months.

    The southwest province army couldn¡¯t resist at all and directly chose to surrender.

    On February 4th, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces that had rested for some time left Mero Cifty and pushed towards the capital of the southwest province, Baberel City.

    The southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor that received this news immediately started organizing the entire southwest province¡¯s forces to stop them halfway, however it was the southwest province¡¯s loss in all six engagements.

    The Rudson Frestech Allied forces triumphantly advanced, reaching Baberl City on February 13th. Theyunched a fierce attack on the final defenses of the southwest province, as well the supporting forces from the Candra Empire.

    In this battle, the Rudson Frestech Allied forces had forty seven thousand Rudson Kingdom troops and twelve thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    The Candra Empire side had one hundred and thirty thousand troops that the southwest province¡¯s Governor Manor had gathered, as well as three regiments from the Candra Empire army headquarters totaling seventy thousand troops. There were also arge number of magicians, which were led by five Arch Magi, so it could be considered a substantial amount of forces.

    This kind of terrifying power, in the history of the Sines Continent was already enough to destroy all enemies.

    But when fighting the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, the Candra Empire¡¯s army had beenpletely trapped in Baberel City by the attacks of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces. With their powerful Magic Cannons, they couldn¡¯t even leave the city gates.

    To the surprise of everyone, this battle didn¡¯t end quickly andsted an entire month.

    During this time, the Candra Empire army headquarters kept sending reinforcements to Baberel City, almost transferring half of the armed forces of the Candra Empire over.

    However, these reinforcements had been ambushed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships and Magic Tanks. They were unable to fight back and suffered heavy losses. When they finally arrived in Baberel City with great difficult, most of them werepletely defeated and couldn¡¯t support Baberel City at all, rather bing burdens to them.

    On the contrary, the Candra Empire also attempted to ambush the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ supply route, but they were quickly defeated by the Magic Airship squad each time, not being able to do anything to the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    Moreover, even if the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces were deep in the Candra Empire, causing their supply line to be very long, with the high speed transportation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯srge transport Magic Cars, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces didn¡¯t have any problems receiving supplies.

    The Rudson Frestech Allied Forces surrounding Baberel City also didn¡¯t have any ammunition problems. They were even able to form a decent looking camp outside Baberel City in just a single month at a shocking rate.

    A monthter, the Candra Empire garrisoned troops in Baberel City had reached the end of their supplies and couldn¡¯t hold on any longer.

    Even with the five Arch Magi and the two hundred thousand troops, they didn¡¯t have the ability to fight without any supplies left, so they had lost all courage to continue fighting.

    In this month, the Candra Empire army in the city used all their means, even attacking the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces with the five Arch Magi, but they hadn¡¯t seeded a single time.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the precedent of the three Marlow Empire Arch Magi dying, causing the five Arch Magi in the city to be more vignt, perhaps they would have already fallen during this past month of continuous fighting.

    A monthter, the Candra Empire army in Baberel Cityunched their final andrgest counter attack.

    After two days of fierce fighting, the Candra Empire army had lost fifty thousand normal troops, as well as over a hundred High Grade Magicians and six Great Magicians to finally break free.

    The five Arch Magi, the remaining magicians, and the tens of thousands of soldiers had abandoned the city and fled.

    Baberel City had finally fallen.

    As the capital of the Candra Empire¡¯s southwest province and where the Governor Manor was, the fall of Baberel City meant that the final resistance of the southwest province was over and the southwest province had fallen.

    In the near thousand year history of the Candra Empire, although their national strength had declined because of invasions, they had never had an entire province fall into enemy hands before.

    Once this news spread, the entire continent lost their voice.

    If the Falk Kingdom and Marlow Empire allied army falling at the Gregory Hughes Mountain Range, then losing again at the Marlow Empire border, even losing three Arch Magi was considered the Marlow Empire not having enough battle experience, then what could the Candra Empire¡¯s loss be exined by?

    The southwest province had resisted with full force and the Candra Empire army headquarters had supported them with everything. Not only had they sent many reinforcements, they also sent five Arch Magi, assembling most of the Candra Empire¡¯s power to surround the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    However, the Candra Empire side had beenpletely routed and they weren¡¯t capable of resisting the attacks of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces even with five Arch Magi, finally even losing their provincial capital.

    This result made things very clear for everyone.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards truly were invincible in a direct battle!

 Book 7: 132: Initiating peace talks

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 132: Initiating peace talks</h4>

    Three Magic Sedans that looked very luxurious pulled into Baberel City¡¯s west gate. Then they slowly stopped in front of a fully armed Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard team.

    The back door opened and the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce¡¯s chief Marquis Descartes came out.

    As soon as he came out, there was a breeze that made Marquis Descartes not feel any cold at all, but rather it warmed him a bit.

    Marquis Descartes couldn¡¯t help looking at the sky. He found that the sun was in the sky and the light it gave was bright, but not dazzling, warm, but not hot. It was the beginning of spring that had the weather that people felt mostfortable in.

    It was already the end of April and it would be May in a few days. This kind of good weather was considered quite natural.

    But with this warm andfortable spring breeze, Marquis Descartes¡¯ heart didn¡¯t feel any warmth at all. Rather it was like winter couldn¡¯t leave as there was a trace of coldness in his heart.

    As the chief of the department ofmerce for the continent¡¯s strongest Candra Empire, he was leading a diplomatic mission to initiate peace talks this time. How could he not feel a chill?

    Marquis Descartes looked over at the other members of the diplomatic party and found that their faces weren¡¯t cheerful at all. It could be seen that they were feeling as unhappy deep down as he was.

    The powerful Candra Empire had only forced others to initiate peace talks with them, why had they ever initiated peace talks?

    This time, after half a month of discussion between the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family and the senior ministers, they finally decided to drive peace talks with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This had stirred arge controversy in the Candra Empire and there were countless voices of opposition for this.

    Almost everyone believed that initiating peace talks was a sign of weakness and was the greatest shame for the empire.

    In the history of the Candra Empire, although there were a few times where they had been forced to initiate peace talks, the other side was the Marlow Empire or another empire on the same scale. So it wasn¡¯t considered shameful to initiate peace talks in those situations, rather the Marlow Empire had initiated peace talks many more times than the Candra Empire.

    But this time, the Candra Empire was initiating peace talks with the trivial Rudson Kingdom.

    To be more precise, everyone was clear that the real other side was only a smallpany called the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Lowering their heads to a trivialpany, how could the prideful Candra Empire people be happy?

    However, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family and senior ministers had made a decision, which meant that the idea to initiate peace talks had reached a consensus with the upper strata.

    At the same time, it meant that the upper strata had already lost confidence in fighting the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s armies, so they had no choice but to use these peace talks to temporarily stop the war.

    Because one of the other side was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was just apany, Marquis Descartes as the department ofmerce¡¯s chief was sent out as the leader of this diplomatic force, being in charge of the peace talks.

    For an official who was in charge ofmerce to be in charge of peace talks, this was the first time that this had happened in the history of the Candra Empire or the entire Sines Continent.

    Of course, being forced to this extent by apany¡¯s guards was also the first time for the Candra Empire and the Sines Continent.

    Marquis Descartes looked over the fully armed Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and couldn¡¯t help secretly giving a sigh.

    Even if people said that he knew nothing about military matters, just based on the equipment that the guards had, he could tell that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had far surpassed the Candra Empire army in terms of military equipment.

    The Candra Empire army soldiers mainly wore leather armour that copsed with a single blow, or at best they wore half a set of proper armour. The swords that they had were made of iron and other than having some wooden shields, they didn¡¯t have much else equipped.

    The sparkling armour the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards wore were definitely made from the steel alloys that they produced themselves. The weapons that they had weren¡¯t the normal swords, but rather strange looking things that were said to fire small and powerful Magic Bullets.

    These weapons named the Magic Repeating Guns, not to mention their might, it was said that their firing distance was over two hundred meters that surpassed most bows.

    This meant that in a direct conflict, before the Candra Empire soldiers could even reach the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, they were all killed andpletely routed.

    Not to mention those things that looked like steel pipes on the back of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ backs, they were a terrifying weapon named the ¡°Individual Magic Bazookas¡±.

    Once these things were used, the Magic Rockets could even be shot a shocking five hundred meters!

    Moreover, the might of these Magic Rockets were shocking, just a single round could create a giant crater in the ground. It was enough to destroy an entire Candra Empire army squad.

    In a direct conflict, the Candra Empire soldiers had to first face the baptism of the Magic Rockets before facing the repeated fire from the Magic Repeating Guns before finally having hopes of facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards with their swords.

    Then because of the special armour the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards wore, even if they didn¡¯t activate their magic barriers, normal swords weren¡¯t able to prate their powerful armour. They really couldn¡¯t do any damage to these guards at all.

    However, what made Marquis Descartes and the generals at the army headquarters face despair was that none of this had included therge amounts of Magic Cannons that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had. Not to mention the Magic Tanks nearby and the Magic Airships firing down from above.

    If these things were added in, even without the Magic Rockets and the Magic Repeating Guns of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, the Candra Empire soldiers weren¡¯t even able to approach them.

    This had been confirmed countless times in battle already.

    The army headquarter¡¯s generals knew that they didn¡¯t have a way to take care of them at all.

    The emperor was also aware of this and also didn¡¯t have a way to deal with them.

    Before this, the emperor had initiated a special policy in the empire to entire wartime management, using the Candra Empire¡¯s advantage in natural resources to slowly wear down the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give the Candra Empire the chance to stall.

    No one would have imagined that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would work with the Rudson Kingdom army to invade the Candra Empire, using only two months to capture the southwest province.

    Moreover, in this battle, the Candra Empire army couldn¡¯t stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom¡¯s armies even with the help of the powerful Arch Magi.

    This proved that the Candra Empire didn¡¯t have the ability to stall at all.

    So the emperor and the senior ministers had considered it and were forced to initiate peace talks with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To put it bluntly, this was another tactic to dy.

    The Candra Empire required arge amount of time to let their military magic machine research catch up to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only then would they be able to fight the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Otherwise, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom¡¯s armies kept going further into the Candra Empire, then the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be able to stop them at all. They could only watch as they swallowed the Candra Empire¡¯s territory bit by bit, finally even taking down Wimbledon City.

    The emperor and the senior ministers couldn¡¯t allow such a thing to happen, so Marquis Descartes was sent.

    The encouraging thing was that when the Candra Empire side requested the peace talks, the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce side had agreed to it. They didn¡¯t strongly oppose it like many people had thought.

    After all these thoughts crossed his mind, Marquis Descartes took a soft breath to calm the sadness and coldness in his heart. He revealed a warm smile and walked towards the group that hade to greet him.

    ¡°Marquis Descartes, wee to Baberel City.¡±

    The one who came to greet the diplomatic party was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foreign affairs department manager, miss Sorel who was specially sent for these peace talks. When she saw the Marquis Descartes get out of the Magic Sedan, she came with the Rudson Kingdom officials to greet them. It was clear that the one in charge was miss Sorel.

    Whether it was the Candra Empire or the Rudson Kingdom, they knew in their hearts that whether it was in this war or the peace talks, the one in charge was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Miss Sorel, it¡¯s been all these years and you¡¯re still as beautiful. You¡¯re just like a flower that¡¯s in full bloom.¡± No matter what Marquis Descartes thought, his appearance was the good behaviour of a noble.

    Miss Sorel had apletely different style. She just gave a simple nod to Marquis Descartes before giving an inviting gesture.

    ¡°Marquis Descartes, pleasee this way. Sir chairman is already waiting for you.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Chairman Xu is already here?¡± Marquis Descartes¡¯ eyes twitched as he couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of joy.

    The one in charge of the peace talks was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the leader of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt chairman Xu.

    For Xu Yi to personallye here, it was enough to show that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce attached great importance to these peace talks and were very sincere.

 Book 7: 133: Attitude

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 133: Attitude</h4>

    Xu Yi watched as Marquis Descartes talked to the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s representative, the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s foreign affairs department¡¯s chief Count Didamans with eyes that didn¡¯t hide his scrutiny.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s peace talks were within his expectations and also outside of his expectations.

    As the war continued, the Candra Empire had suffered loss after loss, even realizing from these defeats that their powerful army and most powerful Arch Magi were no use at all. They would surely think that it would be difficult for them to win this war.

    Since it was like this, in order to guarantee the territorial integrity of the Candra Empire and to prevent further loss, the Candra Empire would take the initiative to propose peace talks so they could stall because if the peace talks were sessful, the Candra Empire would be able to gain arge amount of time.

    What Xu Yi didn¡¯t expect was that the Candra Empire had recognized that they couldn¡¯t directly face the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this early, so they had proposed peace talks much earlier than Xu Yi had expected.

    This showed that the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t like the rumours said,pletely holding onto the idea that they were ¡°the number one in the world¡±. They at least had people that could understand the situation.

    So Xu Yi had personallye on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s behalf to these peace talks.

    If the Candra Empire could understand the situation and bring out a n that satisfied Xu Yi, he wouldn¡¯t mind having real peace talks.

    In the end, the Candra Empire was one of the two empires on the continent and with the current power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even if they worked with several countries, they couldn¡¯t swallow all of the Candra Empire.

    Using war to throw the Candra Empire into chaos was not what Xu Yi wanted to see at all.

    In the history of earth, this happened quite a few times.

    There was the ancient Mongolian army that was invincible, allowing their warhorses to sweep through all of Eurasia, almost building an empire that hadpletely covered all of Eurasia.

    But this empire was only upying the territory in name and the Mongol Empire didn¡¯t actually have any control over their territories. It didn¡¯tst long before they split apart and the Mongol Empire was destroyed.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had countless military magic machines that were ahead of the time and were invincible on the battlefield.

    If Xu Yi was willing, he could have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce work with these countries to seize all of the Sines Continent without any resistance.

    But there was no meaning to this.

    Xu Yi¡¯s ideal was to build aplete magic machine industrial system on the Sines Continent, greatly increasing the production force and production level of the continent. This would improve the state of civilization and improve everyone¡¯s lives.

    War was only a method, but it wasn¡¯t the goal.

    The reason for this war with the traditional force represented by the two empires was because the two empires wanted to seize control of the magic machine industry from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for the benefits hidden within.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind splitting the benefits, but when it came to control, Xu Yi didn¡¯t allow it to fall into anyone else¡¯s hands.

    Other than himself, Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that there was another person on the continent that had the same understanding and experience when it came to building a magic machine industrial system.

    ¡°If these peace talks seed, we will definitely give your country a certain amount ofpensation that will surely satisfy your country.¡±

    At this time, Marquis Descartes and Count Didamans had finished their initial negotiations and turned to look at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, does your Frestech Chamber of Commerce have any opinions?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The peace talks were proposed by your Candra Empire, so you should be the ones to propose conditions first.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu is right.¡± Marquis Descartes gave a nod and gave a signal with his hand.

    Two people from the Candra Empire delegate behind him came forward, moving in front of Xu Yi and Count Didamans respectively, giving two documents to the two of them.

    ¡°These are the preliminary terms drawn up by the parliament, please have a look.¡±

    Xu Yi and Count Didamans looked at each other before taking the document and carefully reading it before slightly knitting their brows.

    In this document, the Candra Empire proposed that after the armistice, the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would remove their forces from the Candra Empire. The Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t pursue the losses that they caused for the Candra Empire in this war.

    This was considered normal since this was the foundation of truce between the two sides.

    But in this treaty, the Candra Empire¡¯s words were all aloof, making people feel ufortable.

    Of course, the tone wasn¡¯t important, what was important were the conditions.

    The treaty that the Candra Empire proposed stated that after the truce, the Candra Empire wouldpletely open themselves up to the Rudson Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also providing a series of preferential policies.

    For the Rudson Kingdom, the main thing was to alleviate the hostility at their borders, allowing the Rudson Kingdom citizens and merchants to freely enter the Candra Empire. While also give them preferential treatment that was almost equal to the Candra Empire citizens.

    At the same time, the Candra Empire would remove the armies at their borders, while also choosing ten cities at the border to be trade zone cities. The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s citizens wouldn¡¯t have to pay any taxes in these ten cities and etc¡­¡­

    In short, although the policies that the Candra Empire gave the Rudson Kingdom looked good, there wasn¡¯t much to them and the Candra Empire¡¯s side wouldn¡¯t actually invest that much resource into them.

    It even¡­..seemed a bit like charity.

    Compared to this, the Candra Empire¡¯s conditions for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much better.

    The Candra Empire promised that after the truce, the Candra Empire would treat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like a localpany.

    This meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t need to pay a separate tariff when bringing goods into the Candra Empire, they would just need to pay the normal business tax like any other local Candra Empirepany.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive protection from the Candra Empire locally. In the event of disputes or idents, the Candra Empire officials would provide support to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than this, the Candra Empire also promised that they would further their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They promised that any cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive the highest priority and would receive many preferential policies.

    At first sight, these conditions were very tempting because for apany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could be considered very beneficial.

    Just cancelling tariffs alone, would greatly increase the amount of products the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could import into the Candra Empire, greatly increasing their profits.

    If there was anotherpany that received these conditions, they would be grateful and even feel honoured towards the Candra Empire.

    But when Xu Yi saw these conditions, he couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    ¡°Marquis Descartes, these are the conditions your Candra Empire is proposing?¡± Xu Yi raised the treaty in his hand and asked Marquis Descartes this question.

    Marquis Descartes replied with a faint smile, ¡°These are only the preliminary conditions. If there¡¯s anything chairman Xu is dissatisfied with, we can still discuss this.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing I¡¯m dissatisfied with.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and threw the treaty in his hand. It was like the treaty had gained wings andnded right on the table in front of Marquis Descartes. Then Xu Yi raised his voice and said with a serious look, ¡°I¡¯mpletely dissatisfied with this entire treaty! Marquis Descartes, if your Candra Empire has this attitude in a peace talk, then please go back. We will meet again on the battlefield.¡±

    Marquis Descartes looked at the treaty on the table, but he didn¡¯t show any panic on his face. After a bit of silence, he said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, we can slowly discuss terms in a peace talk. If you¡¯re not satisfied with the conditions, we cane up with new conditions. Or perhaps you can just propose the conditions your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has and we can look it over. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him and stood up, leaving the conference room.

    The other Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff didn¡¯t hesitate at all as they followed behind Xu Yi.

    Marquis Descartes and the other members of the Candra Empire delegate were all stunned.

    They never thought that Xu Yi would have such a big temper, directly leaving the scene in anger.

    This waspletely different from the various scenarios they had in mind.

    If you were dissatisfied with the conditions, they could slowly discuss them like Marquis Descartes had said, but what was with leaving right away without even saying a thing?

    Marquis Descartes was stunned for a while before turning to ask Count Didamans in a stiff manner, ¡°Lord Count, chairman Xu¡­¡­isn¡¯t he being a bit too callous? Since your side has already epted these peace talks with us, isn¡¯t it a bit too excessive to show this kind of attitude?¡±

    Count Didamans had a rxed smile on his face as he looked at Marquis Descartes. After casually taking a sip of tea, he slowly said, ¡°Marquis Descartes, you still can¡¯t understand? Your Candra Empire was the one who proposed the peace talks this time, but you¡¯re stating conditions like a willful child like this. Don¡¯t you find it funny? You said that chairman Xu¡¯s attitude isn¡¯t good, but do you think that your attitude is good?¡±

    Marquis Descartes¡¯ expression sunk, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, we can discuss any conditions that are dissatisfactory. Isn¡¯t negotiations just to find a result that everyone is satisfied with?¡±

    Count Didamans gave augh and shook his head. He put the teacup in his hand down and slowly turned to walk out.

    The other members of the Rudson Kingdom delegate also left.

    In the blink of an eye, there was only the Candra Empire delegate left in thisrge conference room. Even the waiters who were in charge of pouring water had left.

    Marquis Descartes and the other members of the delegate looked at each other in nk dismay, not being able to say anything for a long time.

 Book 7: 134: Being at a loss

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 134: Being at a loss</h4>

    Marquis Descartes had thought that Xu Yi¡¯s unexpected strong stance was just a negotiation method, trying to force the Candra Empire to give more benefits.

    This method was consideredmon, so he was only surprised at first and wasn¡¯t that worried. He had reported the initial negotiation situation to the Candra Empire higher ups while also preparing how to further negotiate with the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce side.

    However, what he didn¡¯t expect was that whether it was the Rudson Kingdom or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they kept rejecting his request to meet. He and the delegate had stayed in Baberel City for an entire week and didn¡¯t even see any management people from the Rudson Kingdom or the Frestech chamber of Commerce, not to mention Xu Yi who had the power to decide.

    A weekter, there was a piece of news that reached Marquis Descartes that had shocked him and the entire delegate.

    The Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had two days ago, which was May 3rd, broken through the defensive lines of Mobican City in the south of the Tman Province and now they were approaching the capital of the Tman Province.

    ¡°Lord Marquis, these fellows seem¡­¡­like they really don¡¯t have any intentions to negotiate with us¡­¡­¡± A member of the delegate said to Marquis Descartes in a stunned voice.

    Marquis Descartes couldn¡¯t keep the calm look on his face and he revealed a weak smile that was filled with bitterness.

    He never would have thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom really wouldn¡¯t give them a chance to negotiate, directly attacking with their armies.

    Could it be that they really thought that they could defeat the powerful Candra Empire?

    ¡°Lord Marquis, what do we do now?¡± Another member of the delegate asked.

    Marquis Descartes shook his head as he revealed an expression that was a bit vacant.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s strength had surpassed his expectations and he didn¡¯t know how to handle them.

    After thinking for a long time, Marquis Descartes gave a long sigh.

    ¡°Wait, all we can do is wait. No matter what happens, it depends on the performance on the battlefield. So all we can do now¡­..is just hope that themanders in the empire don¡¯t disappoint us¡­¡­¡±

    The other members of the delegate looked at each other, seeing the smiles filled with bitterness on each other¡¯s faces.

    If themanders of the empire didn¡¯t disappoint them, how could they havee this way and endured the arrogance of those fellows from the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    ###

    From another perspective, themanders of the Candra Empire army really didn¡¯t disappoint the members of the delegation.

    Because¡­¡­just as everyone had suspected, they couldn¡¯t resist the attack of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces at all.

    With the Rudson Frestech Allied Forcesunching an attack that was even fiercer than before, the Tman Province fell even faster than the southwest province.

    In less than twenty one days, the Tman Province¡¯s capital had fallen. The Tman Province¡¯s governor Duke Lager had promised to fight to the death, so he had died in the battle.

    The five Arch Magi that came from the Candra Empire army headquarters weren¡¯t lucky enough to escape this time, with one of the Arch Magi falling. Out of the other four, two of them had been heavily injured and the other two had been forced to retreat.

    After the province fell, the Tman Province¡¯s five northern cities directly surrender to the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    With this, the entire Tman Province had fallen.

    On May 29th, the southern province¡¯s governor Duke Elman Windsor had announced that the southern province was seeding, separating from the Candra Empire.

    When this news spread, not just the Candra Empire, the entire continent was shocked.

    On June 7th, the Candra Empire southernmost province, which was the Torea Province that held the most coastline, had also announced they were separating from the Candra Empire. They didn¡¯t dere their independence, but rather they were joining the Stantine Duchy.

    The Torea Province was the province that cooperated the most with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of the Candra Empire¡¯s provinces. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had finished around a hundred projects in the Torea Province over these years, almost bing rted to every part of the Torea Province¡¯s operation, so it could be the province that they had infiltrated the deepest.

    When the Candra Empire announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had be a bannedpany, although some of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses in the Torea Province had suffered some kind of damage, most of them had been preserved through other means. The influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still deeply rooted in the Torea Province.

    So the Torea Province announcing their separation from the Candra Empire and joining the Stantine Duchy, although it was shocking for countless people, it was still something that most people had expected.

    But it was different from the southern province¡¯s deration of independence. The Torea Province¡¯s separation had caused very serious damage to the Candra Empire.

    Because when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed a cooperation agreement with the Candra Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invested magic machine industry projects were concentrated in two areas of the Candra Empire.

    The first was the product base near Wimbledon City which was mainly just a demonstration, so the scale wasn¡¯t that big.

    Compared to this, the true cooperation project between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire was in the Torea Province.

    Just the magic machine industry in the Torea Province was enough to upy over 70% of the entire Candra Empire magic machine industry.

    So now that the Torea Province had separated from the Candra Empire, it seriously impacted all of the Candra Empire and caused a nationwide panic.

    The most important thing was that after losing the Torea Province, the Candra Empire lost their southern coastline, losing all their connections to the sea.

    The current Candra Empire had be andlocked country.

    Of course, most people on the Sines Continent didn¡¯t have a strong understanding of this.

    What most people cared about was the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces that were still pushing into the Candra Empire.

    After capturing two provinces, the Candra Empire army hadn¡¯t seen any hope of victory in directbat, which seriously hurt the morale and confidence of the Candra Empire.

    Although the Candra Empire didn¡¯t give up and wanted to find a way to turn the tides, they didn¡¯t have a chance of winning in direct conflict. Even trying to ambush them was a joke because the Fresteech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships that were everywhere had turned all ambushes into jokes.

    As the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces pushed towards Wimbledon City step by step, the people of the Candra Empire didn¡¯t feel much, but the higher level nobles were feeling more and more terrified.

    After the southern province and the Torea Province, there were thirteen provinces that separated from the Candra Empire and announced that they were willing to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to certain extents.

    Just like this, the Candra Empire had already lost close to half their provinces.

    In the near thousand year history of the Candra Empire, there had been chaos that had urred for many reasons. Wimbledon City had even been broken into and the entire empire had fallen into war,ing very close to the entire empire being destroyed.

    During those critical times, the Candra Empire had been able toe back and restore itself into a giant empire.

    But this time¡­..it was different from all the crises in the past.

    When the Candra Empire fell into crisis, it was mostly because of internal strife.

    But this time, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t have any internal strife and was at the most stable position it had been in the past hundred years, which could be considered a golden age of development.

    Normally it would be impossible for this kind of Candra Empire to be defeated.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they broke through all the defensive lines of the Candra Empire and had forced the Candra Empire into chaos.

    August 16th, it could be considered the hottest day of the entire year.

    On this day, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces took the southernmost San Antonis City of the Candra Empire¡¯s central province, officially stepping into the central province and threatening the heart of Candra Empire, Wimbledon City.

    Five dayster, Marquis Descartes led the delegate once again to head to San Antonis City, appearing in front of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces again.

    However, it waspletely different from the confidence with a bit of arrogance from four months ago. When Marquis Descartes saw the fully armed Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards again, he was no longer feeling the same superiority in his heart as one of the Candra Empire¡¯s Lord Marquis, rather there was a strong bitterness and dispirited feeling.

    Through the countless battles with the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, everyone had learned that the powerful Candra Empire army in their minds copsed at a single blow.

    Starting fromst year, it had been a year of continuous defeats. Itpletely crushed the confidence of the nobles, including Marquis Descartes, while also destroying their pride.

    No matter how much they cursed in their hearts, they had to admit that the empire was at a loss when facing these ¡°devil¡± military magic machines.

    Even Marquis Descartes felt a bit of joy in his heart.

    In these four months, the Candra Empire had asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for peace talks many times. Marquis Descartes had risked danger toe to the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces many times, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had never given any response.

    But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had given a formal response and agreed to another round of peace talks with the Candra Empire, so naturally Marquis Descartes was filled with joy. The entire upper strata of the Candra Empire was also filled with joy.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce were willing to have these peace talks, which meant there were hopes of moderation.

    As for how the Candra Empire would look like after the peace talks, that was something to consider afterwards¡­¡­

 Book 7: 135: Actually still benefitting

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 135: Actually still benefitting</h4>

    ¡°Marquis Descartes, we meet again.¡± Count Didamans looked at Marquis Descartes with a smile which had a deep meaning to it.

    Marquis Descartes could only give a bitterugh in his heart. After greeting Count Didamans, he turned to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I am representing the empire this time with absolute sincerity. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom have any conditions, we can definitely discuss this. Even¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi raised a hand to cut him off and then nodded to miss Sorel standing beside him.

    Miss Sorel took a document from her bag and ced it in front of Marquis Descartes.

    ¡°These are the terms of ourpany.¡± Xu Yi looked at Marquis Descartes who was staring at the document in a daze and exined.

    Marquis Descartes reached out to take it and with just a single look, he immediately said in a shocked voice, ¡°This is impossible!¡±

    On the ceasefire treaty, it requested the Candra Empire topletely open themselves to the Frestech Chamber ofmerce. It didn¡¯t allow the Candra Empire to interfere with any of the financial activities of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not even giving them any management rights.

    If the Candra Empire agreed to this, it would be like letting a monster enter the Candra Empire.

    With the strongmunications and development potential of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long the Candra Empire did this, then Marquis Descartes was certain that it wouldn¡¯t take long before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled every part of the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry.

    For the current Sines Continent, the magic machine industry was important for any country.

    If the magic machine industry was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would mean the Candra Empire would be controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    How could the Candra Empire agree to this condition?

    However, when Marquis Descartes kept reading, he found that the first one was actually the only one that they could barely ept.

    Not to mention the third condition.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce actually proposed that the Candra Empire would stop all studies into the military magic machines!

    Gods! All the countries on the continent knew that the military magic machines were the key to deciding battles.

    If the Candra Empire gave up on researching military magic machines, wouldn¡¯t that mean that they would be passively attacked on the battlefield in the future? Just like how they were when they fought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom¡¯s allied army?

    This would mean that the Candra Empire would forever lose the hope of standing up again, losing the right to be an empire!

    ¡°Chairman Xu, these conditions are going too far.¡±

    Because of the experience fromst time, even if Marquis Descartes was trembling in anger from these conditions, he did all the could to control his tone and not directly refute them.

    ¡°Not to mention our Candra Empire, I¡¯m afraid not a single country on the continent would ept these terms.¡±

    ¡°Just the opposite.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Before you all came, ourpany had already signed the same treaty with seventeen different countries. Including the Windsor Kingdom and the Torea Dominion.¡±

    Hearing the two terms ¡°Windsor Kingdom¡± and ¡°Torea Dominion¡±, the faces of all the Candra Empire delegate members including Marquis Windsor turned red as their eyes filled with rage.

    The so-called ¡°Windsor Kingdom¡± and ¡°Torea Dominion¡± were the southern province and the Torea Province of the Candra Empire.

    After the southern province dered their independence, Duke Windsor had announced that he had established the Windsor Kingdom and he would be the first king of the Windsor Kingdom.

    Although the Torea Province had merged with the Stantine Duchy, after the Stantine Duchy national assembly convened, they agreed on making the Torea Province an autonomous dominion, turning it into the Torea Dominion. It was under the Stantine Duchy in name, but it was actually governed by an assembly formed within the Torea Dominion.

    Almost all the members of the assembly were very close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, one could even say that they were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representatives. So everyone knew that it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who controlled this assembly.

    To put it in other words, it wasn¡¯t a problem to call the Torea Province territory under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had mentioned the Windsor Kingdom and the Torea Province at this time to p the faces of the delegates and Marquis Descartes, so naturally it put them in a poor mood.

    But even then, Marquis Descartes did all he could to suppress his anger and forced himself to say to Xu Yi in a calm tone, ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t think that the emperor and the senior ministers will agree to these terms. I hope that you can be more serious and propose some more realistic terms so that everyone can have some leeway to discuss, right?¡±

    Xu Yi blinked, ¡°This means that you¡¯re not willing to agree?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be said like that, everyone can slowly discuss this.¡± Marquis Descartes could hear the unkind tone in Xu Yi¡¯s voice and immediately added, ¡°If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce insists on these terms, then I have no way of making a decision. I can only pass these conditions to the emperor and the senior ministers to let them discuss this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Marquis Descartes with a ghost of a smile, ¡°You can do that. But Marquis Descartes, I must remind you that I will only give you a week to consider this. I can¡¯t guarantee anything if you exceed this time.¡±

    Marquis Descartes looked at the peace treaty in his hand and after a moment of silence, he gave a nod before turning to Count Didamans.¡±

    ¡°Count Didamans, I think that you should have the peace treaty proposed by your Rudson Kingdom as well, right?¡±

    Count Didamans revealed a faint smile. He gave a p and a Rudson Kingdom official gave the document in his hand to Marquis Descartes.

    Marquis Descartes didn¡¯t even look at this treaty. Anyway, no one would dare to agree to any of the conditions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s peace treaty, so there was no meaning in discussing the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s peace treaty.

    Everyone was clear that the key was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If they couldn¡¯t take care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there would be no value in reaching an agreement with the Rudson Kingdom.

    No matter what, he had to take these two peace treaties back to the emperor and the senior ministers to read over before they made a decision.

    Although Marquis Descartes knew in his heart that the emperor and the senior ministers wouldn¡¯t agree to these conditions, being able to dy for a weak was still good enough.

    The empire needed time to arrange a counter attack and even a single day would make their resistance much stronger.

    As long as they stalled for long enough, the empire had a chance to fight back.

    The Candra Empire delegate remained in the upied San Antonio City for a short two days before leaving with a bit of unwillingness.

    Marquis Descartes had said that after he returned to Wimbledon City, the first thing he would do was give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom¡¯s peace treaties to the emperor and the senior ministers. He would do all he could to give them a clear answer in a week and he hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom would keep the peace during this time, that they would patiently wait for the good news from the Candra Empire.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, this Marquis Descartes really knows how to cling on for dear life. With this move from him, we¡¯ve given the Candra Empire another three days.¡± Seeing the Candra Empire delegate disappearing in the distance, Count Didamans curled his lips as he said this to Xu Yi beside him with a look of disdain, ¡°Do you believe that in a week, he will bring the two treaties back in apletely different shape and then try to stall for as long as he can?¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t strange.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The Candra Empire definitely wants to stall for as long as they can, they are still holding confidence in the foundation of their empire. They think that they can wear us down, but they don¡¯t know that by stalling, we¡¯re actually bing stronger and they are bing weaker.¡±

    Count Didamans gave augh, ¡°These idiots aren¡¯t willing to ept the earth shaking changes of the magic machine industry, they still think that they could rely on the advantages of this ancient and backwards empire to suppress us. They really are too stupid. They definitely wouldn¡¯t think that although we¡¯ve spent quite a bit of money on this war, we¡¯ve earned even more.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He thought that not only could the traditional nobles of the Candra Empire not understand this, even before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s higher ups couldn¡¯t understand this. They had been worried about the enormous financial pressure brought upon the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from this war.

    However, facts proved that this didn¡¯t happen.

    At the beginning of the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested a terrifying amount. They had even invested liquid assets and resources totalling two hundred millionst year, which had almost affected the normal operations of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But as the war progressed, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Rudson Kingdom had defeated the two empires more and more, the situation had greatly changed.

    The main reason was that through these countless victories, fissures had appeared in the camp of the two empires.

    After realizing that the armies of the two empires couldn¡¯t defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s armies even with the help of the powerful Arch Magi, the countries that had belonged to the camp of the two empires had started expressing their willingness to cooperate again with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in secret.

    The countries that had remained neutral, but took up close to half of all countries on the continent had changed their attitudes, leaning towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom¡¯s allied army took San Antonio City, there were representatives from twenty four countries that reached out to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to express their intent to cooperate.

    Like this, the trend of the continent waspletely different from when the two empires had steamrolled the entire continent at the beginning of the war. Rather, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp had gained support from two thirds of the continent¡¯s countries.

    Just with this support, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s trade activities that had been greatly affected by the war had almostpletely recovered.

    Outside of the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still using their powerful magic machines to earn arge amount of gold coins.

    Moreover, through the victories in the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled arge number of valuable resources that had belonged to the Candra Empire, so the value that was held was hard to estimate.

    So when calcting it, whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Rudson Kingdom, they had benefited greatly from the war.

    On the side of the two empires, other than the two empires, there was only the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Drow Race Kingdom that didn¡¯t reconcile with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally they weren¡¯t as powerful as before.

    In this situation, Xu Yi had plenty of patience and confidence to leave some space for the Candra Empire.

    If the Candra Empire was tactful, it would save quite a bit of effort for him.

 Book 7: 136: Thereâ€™s no benefits to capturing them

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 136: There¡¯s no benefits to capturing them</h4>

    After the Rudson Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce allied armies captured San Antonis City, almost everyone thought that they would make one single push like with the other Candra Empire provinces. They would advance on Wimbledon City and capture it in one fell swoop.

    Because Wimbledon City was the capital of the Candra Empire and if Wimbledon City fell, it would be a very serious attack on the entire Candra Empire, even being enough to announce that the Candra Empire was close to being destroyed.

    However, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces didn¡¯t act as everyone had expected. They chose to stop at this time and didn¡¯t advance forward, instead choosing to conduct peace talks with the Candra Empire.

    Since the split between the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce two years ago, the continent had been filled with turbulence. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suddenly chosen to enter peace talks with the Candra Empire, it allowed the continent to enter a rare peace.

    The entire continent started focusing on the peace talks.

    No matter how the peace talks ended, everyone was certain that the result would affect the following situation on the continent.

    If the peace talks seeded, the Candra Empire would pay a heavy price to make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom stop.

    How deep the price and what it was would determine how the other countries and powers would treat the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the future.

    If the peace talks failed and they fought again, it would depend on if the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces could take Wimbledon City, pushing the Candra Empire to the brink of destruction.

    Even if the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had swept all obstacles and had defeated the Candra Empire again and again, Wimbledon City was the capital of the Candra Empire after all, representing the entire Candra Empire. The Candra Empire would definitely do all they could to protect it.

    When this ancient giant empire was forced into a corner, the strength that it would have would be terrifying.

    Even if the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had a powerful battle power, it wouldn¡¯t be easy to capture Wimbledon City.

    So all the other countries and powers had to wait for the final result to make their decision.

    So there had been many mes of war lit on the continent, but because the Candra Empire and the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had stopped aggressions due to the peace talks, they had also stopped temporarily. They were all patiently waiting for the results of the peace talks.

    However, as everyone expected, what could be considered the two strongest powers on the continent, the peace talks between them wouldn¡¯t reach an end that easily.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom gave their terms, the Candra Empire side was given seven full days to consider this by Xu Yi. On the afternoon of the final day, Marquis Descartes came to San Antonio City with the Candra Empire¡¯s decision, meeting with the representatives of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces again.

    This time, he didn¡¯t even get to meet Xu Yi.

    The Rudson Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce representatives firmly rejected the terms the Candra Empire gave them, then engaged in five full days of intense negotiations with Marquis Descartes. Only then did theye up with a new peace treaty that they had Marquis Descartes bring back to the Candra Empire upper strata again.

    This time the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces gave a muchrger window, giving the Candra Empire half a month to discuss this.

    Like this, when the Candra Empire came up with new terms for the third round of peace talks, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces would have been in San Antonio City for a month now.

    Many people felt that this situation was a bit strange.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t feel confident in attacking Wimbledon City, they wouldn¡¯t just wait in San Antonio City for a month after capturing it, right?

    At the very least¡­¡­they would continue advancing towards Wimbledon City to put more pressure on the Candra Empire. Only then would it be easier to make the Candra Empire agree to their terms, right?

    But the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces never moved their troops, as if they were satisfied in just capturing San Antonio City which made people confused.

    The more sharp minded people noticed that during these peace talks, the one who had the most right to decide was Xu Yi, but he hadn¡¯t been in San Antonio City during this time.

    Then¡­..during this crucial moment, where had Xu Yi run off to?

    ###<i> [  ]</i>

    September 11th, when the autumn chill came from the continent¡¯s north, in the south of the Candra Empire which was the Torea Province, which was now called the Torea Dominion, by the southernmost coast, the weather was still burning hot.

    But because it was by the sea, there would be breezes that came from the sea, so it didn¡¯t feel as ufortable.

    One could even put chairs on the beach with a parasol, enjoying the sun that shined down and the sea breeze that blew across them. It would feel veryfortable.

    This was what Xu Yi and Still were currently doing.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you thinking?¡± Still opened her eyes. She felt that the sun that came from the edge of the parasol was still a bit dazzling, so she leaned in against Xu Yi. She slightly knitted her brows and revealed a confused look, ¡°Why are you giving the Candra Empire this much time to build up their strength? You¡¯re simply ying with fire.¡±

    ¡°Hey, Still, didn¡¯t you say that it was tiring going twenty thousand kilometers to the Magic Cloud Continent? That was why I brought you to rx on the beach, don¡¯t mention work.¡± Xu Yi looked at Still, finding it a bit funny.

    ¡°It¡¯s not like you don¡¯t know my temper, I can¡¯t keep any questions in my heart.¡± Still angrily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Then again, this question is rted to the fate of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the entire Candra Empire, even the situation of the entire Sines Continent. How could it be described simply as work?¡±

    ¡°Actually, to me, this is just a bit of work.¡±

    Xu Yi stretched himself out. He knew that once Still started something, it wouldn¡¯t end unless she was satisfied. He sat up and leaned back in the chair, taking afortable position before he spoke.

    ¡°Still, I¡¯m certain that it isn¡¯t just you who has this question. There are many people who are curious why we don¡¯t just capture Wimbledon City in one fell swoop with the Rudson Kingdom, but rather choose to engage in peace talks with the Candra Empire at this time.¡±

    ¡°Of course, this is something that is very strange, alright? With your performance before, I feel that Wimbledon City can¡¯t stop your attacks, so why are you not attacking Wimbledon City?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Then¡­..have you ever thought, what happens after we attack Wimbledon City?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    ¡°After you attack? Of course¡­¡­Of course¡­¡­¡± Still opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say anything else.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°It seems like you understand. Although I am very confident in capturing Wimbledon City by having ourpany work with the Rudson Kingdom, there are no benefits to us capturing Wimbledon City. Rather it will be a serious burden to us. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Still thought about it before shaking her head in a lost manner, ¡°I can think of a few things, but I can¡¯t fully understand it.¡±

    ¡°Alright, let me exin. Although on the surface, Wimbledon City is the capital of the Candra Empire and there is a serious symbolic meaning in capturing Wimbledon City. People would even agree that us capturing Wimbledon City would mean the demise of the powerful Candra Empire, but in reality? Would the Candra Empire really be destroyed?¡±

    ¡°Of course that¡¯s impossible.¡± Still shook her head without any hesitation, ¡°The Candra Empire is an empire with a thousand years of inheritance, how could it be destroyed that easily? Even if Wimbledon City was captured, the Candra Empire¡¯s power would still remain. Even the emperor could escape if he felt that the situation wasn¡¯t good. To really destroy all resistance from the Candra Empire is almost impossible.¡±

    ¡°Right, that is the key thing. To truly destroy the Candra Empire, even the Marlow Empire that¡¯s at the same level couldn¡¯t do it in a short period of time. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only apany and the Rudson Kingdom is only a small country that isn¡¯t that powerful, so neither of us could do it. To be honest, destroying the Candra Empire actually goes against the benefits of ourpany and the Rudson Kingdom. Still, what do you think is the biggest benefit for me?¡±

    Still revealed a smile and reached her hand out to pinch Xu Yi¡¯s face.

    ¡°You, you wanted to promote your magic machine industry across the continent your entire life to make people¡¯s lives better, how could I not know that? Un, from that angle, destroying the Candra Empire isn¡¯t a good thing for you because once the Candra Empire is destroyed, it would be impossible for you to annex the Candra Empire using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone and would just create manyrge and small countries. It would make it harder for you to promote the magic machine industry, am I right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and reached his head to give Still a deep kiss.

    ¡°You really are my most beautiful and intelligent wife. That¡¯s right, that is what I¡¯m worried about. Look, the Candra Empire¡¯s south is in a mess right now. Although including Duke Windsor¡­¡­Oh, no, it should be King Windsor now. Although this former enemy is willing to cooperate with ourpany, if I want to promote our standards among thepanies, it would be more difficult than cooperating with the Candra Empire.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t it? I wanted to take this chance to promote our New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector, but the conditions that each ce gave were different and I¡¯m so tired from negotiating with them all.¡± Stillined.

    ¡°That is why I told you not to focus your attention on this ce, but rather focus on the Magic Cloud Continent for now.¡± Xu Yi reached out his hand to rub Still¡¯s exposed shoulder to help her with her weariness, ¡°Speaking of this, you haven¡¯t told me yet, how is the Magic Cloud Continent going?¡±

    Hearing this question, Still¡¯s eyes immediately lit up.

    ¡°It¡¯s great over there!¡±

 Book 7: 137: Advantages and disadvantages of the Magic Cloud Continent

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 137: Advantages and disadvantages of the Magic Cloud Continent</h4>

    ¡°Xu Yi, do you know? When Inded on Fire Rock Ind and I saw more than ten dragons lining up in front of me, you don¡¯t know how nervous I was! But after knowing them for less than half an hour, all my nervousness was gone. You never would have guessed how wonderful the scenic shots the dragons took me to looked!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not just the dragons, the local elves and halflings also liked the Illusion Films very much. I was actually very surprised by this. Although Lumi and the elves of our Sines Continent liked watching Illusion Films as well, they couldn¡¯tpare to the elves and halflings on the Magic Cloud Continent¡­..how infatuated they were.¡±

    ¡°You said that goblins? Of course we met them and we met them quite a few times, but the base has been finished and there are manypany guards there, so it¡¯s very easy dealing with those backwards goblins. To be honest, those goblins only have their numbers as an advantage. They were only using weapons that were made of polished stones, so not to mention ourpany guards, they couldn¡¯t evenpare to the elves or the halflings.¡±

    ¡°We made contact with the humans of the Magic Cloud Continent at the end ofst year through the ck dragons and at the beginning of the year, the base sent a Magic Airship to meet a few local humans. These things should have been reported to you. They are very interested in what¡¯s happening on our Sines Continent and towards our magic machines, especially the Magic Illusion Projectors that I brought. I think that when the time is right, it wouldn¡¯t be a problem to promote magic machines to them at all.¡±

    ¡°To be honest, I feel that although the Magic Cloud Continent is more backwardspared to the Sines Continent, the development potential is bigger because the local market is empty¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Seeing Still speaking without stopping, Xu Yi had a smile the entire time.

    It should be said that other than a few details that weren¡¯t urate because there wasn¡¯t enough information, Still¡¯s ount of the Magic Cloud Continent was very correct.

    The Magic Cloud Continent was more backwardspared to the Sines Continent, but it was because of this that the Magic Cloud Continent was like a piece of white paper. They could develop it how they wanted and it was in theory easier to developpared to the Sines Continent.

    At least the Magic Cloud Continent was currently controlled by the goblins and the goblins were a very backwards race, so backwards that they couldn¡¯t even create a proper country.

    This race had relied on their poption that far surpassed other races to obtain domination, so their control of the Magic Cloud Continent was very weak. It created many loopholes for the other races, so they could find a ce to survive.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to build a base on the Magic Cloud Continent and quickly developing it was also because of these loopholes.

    In the beginning, although the goblins had discovered this human base that appeared out of nowhere and organized attacks against it, with the powerful firepower of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, the goblins were easily repelled.

    Then the goblins attacked again and again, being repelled repeatedly. The situation didn¡¯t develop like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had worried about, drawing in arge amount of goblins to attack them. Instead they withdrew and allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to freely develop.

    If this was the Sines Continent and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this, they would cause the local country to attack them and it would be hard to create a strong foothold.

    So if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could take advantage of this and work with the other races of the Magic Cloud Continent, then they could truly take root on the Magic Cloud Continent and be the first to seize those rich resources.

    This was something that was hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to do on the Sines Continent.

    All the resources on the Sines Continent had been carved up by the human countries, so if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted them, they had to pay arge price.

    In fact, in the war between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the two empires, other than the two empires wanting to seize control of the magic machine industry from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other important reason was seizing resources.

    If they had invested the price that they paid on the Magic Cloud Continent, they would receive a harvest that was countless times greater.

    Of course, that was the premise that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could build a solid foundation on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Moreover, the Magic Cloud Continent had a big disadvantagepared to the Sines Continent, which was ack of poption.

    Although there were many goblins, because their society was basic, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would find it hard to turn them into customers and they had zero value as a market.

    There were few intelligent races other than the goblins, so the market on the Magic Cloud Continent was much smaller than the Sines Continent.

    This was the most difficult thing to develop since it required arge amount of time and effort.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had discoveries after searching in other directions, finding two other continents and manyrge inds, but the intelligent life on those two continents and inds were even smaller and couldn¡¯t be relied on.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only treat the Magic Cloud Continent as an important ce to develop, with their main market still being on the Sines Continent.

    In the end, the war with the two empires would decide everything.

    After Still told him about everything she had experienced on the Magic Cloud Continent, she still brought the topic back.

    ¡°Although you¡¯ve told me to care about the Magic Cloud Continent right now, ourpany¡¯s Magic Illusion Projector production line, our actors, scenery, and even the main audience is based on the Sines Continent, so it¡¯s impossible for me not to care about this ce.¡±

    Still paused and after hesitating a bit, she still asked, ¡°Xu Yi, tell me, how long will it take before this war ends?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t know that because it depends on the Candra Empire. If they choose to fight with us to the end, I can only tell you that this war might take a long time to end.¡±

    ¡°They won¡¯t be that dumb because there¡¯s no need for this. Then again, the nobles of the Candra Empire aren¡¯t fools, they wouldn¡¯t die with the Candra Empire.¡± Still pursed her lips as she spoke in a voice filled with disdain.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    This was the drawback of this world.

    The human society of the Sines Continent was still a half feudal and half ve society, so most countries were influenced by therge nobles, which was a bunch ofrgendowners andrge ve owners.

    In a normal situation, the country had a certain degree of control and binding force on these nobles, but in times of danger, therge nobles could choose to escape with the lives of their family or their own lives. They wouldn¡¯t be loyal enough to die with the country.

    When the southern province dered their independence, it proved this point.

    Then almost half of the Candra Empire¡¯s provinces had dered their independence, with one province even splitting into several smaller countries. This was also the reason for that.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom allied armies took Wimbledon City, maven destroying the power of the Candra Empire royal family, the other nobles of the Candra Empire definitely wouldn¡¯t be angry or sad, but rather most of the nobles would be filled with joy.

    But like this, the giant Candra Empire would fall into chaos.

    This was not what Xu Yi wanted to see because this did not favour him developing the magic machine industry.

    A stable and obedient Candra Empire was his desired result.

    As for how to keep the Candra Empire stable and obedient, that was a difficult matter that took a lot of effort.

    Xu Yi agreed to these peace talks during this time to intentionally give some time to the Candra Empire royal family, letting them make a few attempts.

    Of course, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t truly submit to apany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Before this, they would still try to make some moves.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about this.

    After all, the power that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had right now was much greater than the Candra Empire or the other countries of the continent. It was even countless times greater than the power that the Mongols had when they were at their peak on earth.

    Because this was a modern civilization going against a backwards ancient civilization, so they would be beaten in all aspects.

    With the advantage of absolute power, no matter what the Candra Empire did, it would be hard to create a wave.

    On October 2nd, the Candra Empire had their third round of peace talks with the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but they couldn¡¯t reach an agreement.

    Three dayster, on October 5th, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces finally moved from San Antonio City. They headed to the northeast and in less than a week, they had captured three cities in the Candra Empire¡¯s central province. They advanced two hundred kilometers closer to Wimbledon City, only being less than three hundred kilometers away now.

    At this distance, they could even call out to the soldiers of Wimbledon City.

    On October 16th, after several days of rest, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces set out again. They stopped at the biggest Tara ins in the Candra Empire¡¯s central state that was two hundred and fifty kilometers away from Wimbledon City, meeting a powerful force that they didn¡¯t expect.

    It was a giant army of two hundred thousand that blocked the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    With two hundred and fifty troops from the Marlow Empire, totaling four hundred and fifty thousand. The sixty thousand Rudson Frestech Allied Forces troops had beenpletely surrounded on the Tara ins.

 Book 7: 138: Final battle (1)

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 138: Final battle (1)</h4>

    The chief of the Candra Empire army¡¯s staff officer department¡¯s chief Boroger put down the telescope in his hand as a bit of doubt appeared in his eyes.

    ¡°Strange, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has so many Magic Airships, they should have detected thisrge army waiting for them here. Why did theye and let us surround them like this?¡±

    One of the Candra Empire¡¯s generals, General Soros gave a cold snort, ¡°What is there to be surprised about? I think that these fellows have won too many times and think that we are easy to bully, so they¡¯re looking down on the enemy. Then again, this was in our strategy, so it isn¡¯t strange that they were caught.¡±

    ¡°Of course, there¡¯s also another exnation. They knew that this was a trap and knew that we had an army here, but they thought that they could easily defeat us and deliberately entered the encirclement.¡± Another Candra Empire general on the side, General Talenmill said in a deep voice.

    ¡°Pei! We even have reinforcements from the Marlow Empire, that¡¯s four hundred and fifty thousand troops! Those fellows from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom added up are less than fifty thousand, how do they think they can win? Look, they have beenpletely surrounded by us, I don¡¯t believe that they can fly into the sky!¡± General Soros gave a cold snort before saying this in a disdainful voice.

    ¡°Hei, they have so many Magic Airships, if they have enough time, they really could fly into the sky.¡± Another general on the side made a joke as if he was trying to ease the tension between the two generals.

    However, when this was said, everyone¡¯s expression changed.

    Especially General Soros who revealed a very ugly expression.

    Although this general didn¡¯t have any intentions when he said this, this was a hard fact.

    That¡¯s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many Magic Airships and each Magic Airship could load several hundred people.

    If they had enough time, it wasn¡¯t impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could use those Magic Airships to airlift the encircled Rudson Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce armies.

    The Candra Empire really wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    In the battles before, it proved that even an Arch Magus couldn¡¯t really pose a threat to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships. They could even be severely wounded or even killed by the attack of the Magic Airship squad.

    ¡°All of you, stop wasting words.¡± Marshal Sudman who had been observing the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces put down his telescope and said in a heavy voice, ¡°Whether this was intentional or not, this is a battle that we must fight. No matter what, the enemy has been encircled by us, which does give us a certain advantage.¡±

    Everyone fell silent before giving nods.

    For them, this was indeed a clear advantage.

    The Rudson Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce allied army had fierce firepower, but they had few people. Being encircled by the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire allied armies, they would have to face elite troops no matter which direction they wanted to break out from.

    The two empires couldunch attacks from all around, so with their absolute advantage in terms of troops, they would definitely make the other side run all around.

    If they could even make the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces show weakness during their strong offensive, once the elites of the two empires reached their camp, they would enter close rangebat. They wouldn¡¯t be able to disy the long range andrge area powerful attacks of the military magic machines, so they would at least be at the same starting line.

    When it came to close rangebat, the elites of the two empires would rely on their advantage in troop numbers to crush the less than fifty thousand Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    ¡°Everyone, I believe that I don¡¯t need to say much, you should all be aware of how important this battle is for our Candra Empire.¡± Marshal Sudman looked at the generals in front of him with serious expressions, ¡°If we lose this battle, perhaps our Candra Empire might no longer exist. So no matter what, I hope that everyone will abandon all distractions and focus only on winning this battle.¡±

    All the generals agreed to this order.

    The Lord Marshal was right.

    This battle had the n that the Candra Empire had spent all that effort ining up with. Now that the Marlow Empire reinforcements had finally arrived and they had found the ideal ce to attack the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, everything seemed perfect.

    If they still lost like this, it meant that the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t have the power to resist the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces at all.

    Not to mention Wimbledon City that wasn¡¯t that far away behind them, even the entire Candra Empire could only surrender under the oppression of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡­..No, it should be under the firepower.

    ¡°Contact the Marlow Empire side and tell them that if nothing unexpected happens, attack as per the n.¡± Marshal Sudman gave an order to the officer on the side before raising the telescope again to look at the surrounded Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    Seeing the fierce looking tanks of among the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ lines, Marshal Sudman deeply knitted his brows.

    Until now, he still couldn¡¯t think of a way to deal with the Magic Tanks.

    Although they had proven that digging holes would deter those Magic Tanks to certain degree in previous battles, their main goal this time was to eliminate the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    If those Magic Tanks didn¡¯t advance and went backwards to break the blockade, then neither the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire armies could stop them.

    Their only hope was to move the magicians squad or directly have the Arch Magi take action.

    But if they moved the Arch Magi, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a special and terrifying way to deal with them that even Arch Magi couldn¡¯t escape from.

    Thinking of the Arch Magi that had fallen from the two empires in this war, Marshal Sudman¡¯s heart was filled with annoyance.

    The two empires could act how they wanted before other than their powerful national strength, it was because they had nine Arch Magi each as trump cards.

    With them, the two empires had never feared that they would be invaded by enemies.

    However, now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had killed more than one Arch Magus in battle, they caused the Arch Magi to no longer be the protective gods of the two empires, but rather something weak on the battlefield.

    If they didn¡¯t send the Arch Magi, it would be very hard to deal with the powerful military magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If they did send them, it would be hard to ept the loss of even a single Arch Magus.

    Feeling helpless, although the Candra Empire army was still able to invite the Arch Magi out to battle, whether it was the Candra Empire army headquarters or the Arch Magi, they weren¡¯t willing to directly sh with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Rather their main duty was now to help the Candra Empire army withstand the powerful firepower of the enemy.

    For example, this time the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire¡¯s n was just to rely on the powerful magicians to protect their troops. They wanted to help their troops charge the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, reducing the casualties from the enemy attacks as much as possible.

    Moreover,pared to when the Candra Empire had nine Arch Magi in the beginning of the war, because two had fallen, Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian refusing to join the battle, and two other Arch Magi locking themselves up, the Candra Empire army headquarters were only able to invite three Arch Magi. So they couldn¡¯t rely on them tounch a fierce attack like before.

    Turning to look at the Magic Array that had beenid down by the magicians squad under the leadership of the three Arch Magi, Marshal Sudman let out a soft sigh. He ignored the generals arguing around him and turned to look at the Marlow Empire army in the distance that also surrounded the enemy on the other side.

    The Marlow Empire had given up the grudge between the two empires, sending out two hundred and fifty thousand troops. They certainly must perceive the danger that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce posed to them¡­¡­

    ###

    Among the Marlow Empire formation, the Marlow Empire¡¯s Marshal Senri also had a serious expression.

    His eyes swept over the uncertain expressions of his subordinates and he said in a heavy voice, ¡°I know that many of you are puzzled as to why we are here supporting the Candra Empire, but I don¡¯t need you to understand what we¡¯re doing this right now. Rather I request that as the most elite generals of the Marlow Empire, since you are here, you will fight with all your might and achieve certain victory! Do you understand?¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡± The Marlow Empire military officers pped their chests and roared out.

    ¡°Very good.¡± Marshal Senri gave a strong nod before looking at the encircled Rudson Frestech Allied Forces in the distance, feeling a bit of anxiety. Then his eyes went past the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces to look at the Candra Empire army. He thought that if it wasn¡¯t for the higher ups understanding that this was the only chance to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Marlow Empire would have never entered the Candra Empire¡¯s central province and they never would have worked with the Marlow Empire¡¯s sworn enemy to face amon enemy.

    Yes, this was very likely the two empires¡¯ only chance to defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the army they supported.

    If the two empires with their four hundred and fifty thousand elite soldiers still couldn¡¯t defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Rudson Kingdom allied army, then the two empires wouldn¡¯t be qualified to contend with the other side anymore.

    There was no need to mention the Candra Empire. Once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took care of the Candra Empire, their goal would change to the Marlow Empire and the Marlow Empire¡¯s fate would be uncertain.

    This fight wouldn¡¯t just decide the life and death of the Candra Empire, it even decided the future fate of the Marlow Empire.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s higher ups had decided to ept the Candra Empire¡¯s request this time, sending reinforcements all for the chance of obtaining victory.

    If they seeded, everything would be good.

    If they failed, then there was nothing to say.

    So it wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that this battle was a final battle for the two empires.

 Book 7: 139: Final battle (2)

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 139: Final battle (2)</h4>

    The Rudson Kingdom¡¯s northern armymander and kingdom general Count Darcy turned his head to look at the dense Candra Empire and Marlow Empire army that had surrounded them, as a trace of worry appeared in his heart.

    He didn¡¯t fully approve the battle n that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi had personally proposed because there was no need at all.

    With the powerful might of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, they could steadily fight each battle and advance step by step. Unless there was a big surprise, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t have been able to resist them.

    But ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, they would fall into the encirclement of the two empires¡¯ armies, leaving them no ce to escape.

    Even if Count Darcy was confident in their battle power, being surrounded by troops that were countless times greater couldn¡¯t help but make him nervous.

    ¡°Chief Hart, are the Magic Airships prepared?¡± Count Darcy couldn¡¯t help asking Chief Hart beside him.

    The Magic Airships squad could be considered the final trump card of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    With them, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces could suppress the enemy¡¯s magicians and the two empires could only fight with traditional methods.

    But with traditional methods, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces with their powerful military magic machines and the powerful Magic Tanks would have the absolute advantage in battle.

    Even if there was arge difference in troop count, Count Darcy was still confident.

    ¡°It¡¯s already been prepared.¡± Chief Hart¡¯s reply made Count Darcy assured, but then he added a few more words that made him feel anxious again, ¡°But in this battle, we can¡¯t count on the Magic Airships too much.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Count Darcy asked him in an anxious voice.

    ¡°Because the two empires are both here.¡± Chief Hart pointed at the Candra Empire army in front and then the Marlow Empire army behind them, ¡°The two empires have clearly ced great importance on this battle, so I¡¯m certain that they would send out all their magicians. I don¡¯t know about others, but there must be at least seven or eight Arch Magi. With the current abilities of the Magic Airships, we can only barely deal with these Arch Magi and can¡¯t provide too much support.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Hearing this answer, Count Darcy felt assured again, ¡°It¡¯s good enough to suppress the enemy¡¯s Arch Magi. The other magicians shouldn¡¯t pose too much threat to us. Chief Hart, how should we coordinate once the battle begins?¡±

    In the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, the Rudson Kingdom army only had less than fifty thousand troops and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, putting aside the ones in the Magic Airships only had around nine thousand troops.

    But in the battle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had always been the one in the lead. The Rudson Kingdom army¡¯s fifty thousand troops had only coordinated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing special, we¡¯ll just do it like normal.¡± Chief Hart shook his head like he didn¡¯t care at all.

    ¡°Like normal?¡± Count Darcy looked at the dense armies of the two empires around them that he couldn¡¯t see the end of and he thought that it would be good if it was this rxed.

    This battle was without a doubt a showdown with the two empires, so the battle power of these two armies would be much stronger than the Candra Empire armies they had faced before. If they weren¡¯t careful, they might just fall into a trap.

    But¡­¡­

    Count Darcy picked up a telescope to observe the armies of the two empires and he rxed again.

    Estimating from a distance, although there were many soldiers in the army of the two empires, most of them were armed with traditional swords and were riding traditional warhorses.

    Although there were a few Magic Cannons and other military magic machines, there were only very few of them and they weren¡¯tmon.

    Moreover, when they had been fighting before, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had already experienced the might of the ¡°Candra Empire¡¯s independently developed¡± Magic Cannons. Un¡­..they really weren¡¯t much.

    In the previous battles, the Candra Empire had brought out a shocking amount of their independently developed Magic Cannons. They took out a hundred or several hundred at once, but the might of these Magic Cannons were far from being able topare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s and their stability was even worse.

    The Candra Empire army could release a powerful firepower in the beginning of the battle, fighting against the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, but it wouldn¡¯t take long for that firepower to drop.

    Based on the confession they got out of a Candra Empire captured soldier, they knew that the Candra Empire¡¯s independently developed Magic Cannons couldn¡¯t fire too many rounds or there would be many problems.

    Some of the support stands would break and they wouldn¡¯t be able to fire. There were even cases where the cannon muzzle melted.

    Even if some could maintain themselves for some time, the cannon muzzle would still overheat with repeated fire and couldn¡¯t keep firing, which greatly reduced the frequency of their attacks.

    Compared to the Frestech Brand Magic Cannon that could even fire ten rounds in a minute without having its stability and uracy affected, the Candra Empire¡¯s independently developed Magic Cannons didn¡¯t have a way to greatly boost their battle power on the battlefield. It might even implicate them because they could break.

    So putting aside the military magic machines the two empires bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, the army of the two empires facing the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces was only a traditional army of the Sines Continent.

    Thinking of this, Count Darcy¡¯s heart quickly filled with confidence again.

    It was like chairman Xu had said, in front of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces armed with military magic machines, traditional armies were like kids without any weapons. There was no need to care about them at all.

    ¡°Chief Hart, we can definitely send out a team of Magic Cannons to initiate the attack and disrupt the enemy¡¯s lines. It will build the foundation for our future attacks.¡± Count Darcy suggested to Chief Hart.

    ¡°It¡¯s a good suggestion.¡± Chief Hart gave a nod. When he was about to discuss this with Count Darcy, they heard the sound of hoofbeats all around them.

    Looking up in a surprised manner, they found that the armies of the two empires had actually started to attack all around them.

    ¡°Hei, they¡¯re charging with heavy cavalry, it really is quite terrifying. But as for the results¡­¡­¡± Chief Hart gave augh before taking out a Magic Communicator from his chest and loudly ordering, ¡°Brothers, prepare to meet them head on!¡±

    The loudest hoofbeats and the ones that approached the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces came from the northwest.

    The one in charge of the Candra Empire royal guards¡¯ first cavalry division, which was the most elite heavy cavalry in the entire Candra Empire, Baron Ramos stared right at the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces in front of him through the slits of his helmet with eyes that were filled with hatred.

    Two months ago, his younger brother had died in a battle with the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    Since that day, he already regarded these fellows who dared to invade the Candra Empire as the greatest enemy.

    But before this, the Candra Empire had suffered disastrous losses whenever they faced the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, so the anger in Baron Ramos¡¯ heart could never be vented.

    But today, the two empires were working together and the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces were surrounded like this, so Baron Ramos¡¯ will to fight surged in his heart.

    He would definitely massacre these intruders without leaving a single one alive!

    Only then could his little brother in heaven rest at ease!

    ¡°Brothers! Kill!!!¡±

    Although there were still three kilometers between them and the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, Baron Ramos couldn¡¯t take the rage in his heart and roared out.

    ¡°Kill!¡±

    The first cavalry division¡¯s five thousand elite heavy cavalry angrily roared out into the sky, spreading across the battlefield.

    ¡°Kill!¡±

    These were from the heavy cavalry that had charged from different positions at the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces responding to the first cavalry division, also letting out this shocking roar of rage.

    With the hoofbeats all around, it truly was terrifying.

    Facing the most elite heavy cavalry of the two empires, if it was any army in the past, they would have panicked. However, when this scene that most people would be so shocked by that they couldn¡¯t say a word, when Chief Hart saw this, he just raised a brow before calmly giving his order.

    ¡°Magic Cannon squad, give these fellows who don¡¯t know life and death something to look at first.¡±

    As soon as his voice fell, countless lights sprayed out of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ formation like a foundation, flying out in all directions.

    When Baron Ramos leading the charge saw the beautiful lights that contained a terrifying might arrive in front of him, he took a deep breath and loudly shouted.

    ¡°For the glory of the empire!¡±

    ¡°For the glory of the empire!¡±

    The five thousand elite heavy cavalry of the first cavalry division roared out at the same time.

    The warhorses in that heavy army running across the Tara ins, each step was like a drum that was beating.

    Five thousand warhorses charging together was like five thousand war drums.

    Their war cry filled the sky.

    However, at that time, countless lights fell down on them andnded among the charging heavy cavalry.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There was a series of explosions that rang out. The grass that had turned a bit yellow on the Tara ins because of the autumn weather was sent flying into the sky along with the dirt by the explosions.

    With the dirt and grass that flew up, there were also countless elite knits and the horses that they sat upon.

    The roar that had reached the heavens stopped and the first cavalry division that had been in perfect formation was now in a mess.

 Book 7: 140: Final battle (3)

    Book 7: Chapter 140: Final battle (3)

    Although this was already expected, after seeing the horses and people getting sent flying by the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ Magic Cannons, causing the cavalry squad to fall into chaos, the generals of the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire armies had ugly expressions.

    The heavily armoured soldiers sitting on these warhorses were considered the strongest forces among the two empires and in past battles, as long as these heavy cavalry were sent out, there wouldn¡¯t be an enemy that could stop them on open ins like these.

    The enemies couldn¡¯t even slow down their advances, they would be steamrolled under their charge.

    But now, with a casual round of Magic Shells, there was a wide hole that was created among the cavalry. With just a single round of attacks, the cavalry that had been using a systematic group charge had been scattered.

    Even the soldiers that had two tons of armour on them, they could face that endless crossbow bolts before, they could charge the enemy with their spears. However, facing the Magic Cannons and the iparably powerful explosions, they weren¡¯t able to disregard everything to charge the enemy.

    As the Magic Cannons sted out, countless heavy cavalry were thrown into the air like scarecrows, as if that two ton weight of theirs didn¡¯t matter at all.

    There were even many cavalry that had limbs missing as they flew out, as they had stopped breathing.

    They had started their full charge when they were three kilometers away from the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, but when they had pushed to two kilometers after great difficulty, the twenty thousand heavy cavalry that charged from all four sides had less than 30% that were still charging.

    Scattered along therge Tara ins, it was clear that they were scattered.

    Seeing this scene, Marshal Sudman gave a long sigh.

    ¡°It seems like it¡¯s time for us traditional soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield.¡±

    The other Candra Empire generals around him all had dark looks.

    Even if it had been clear in the countless battles before that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines had changed the method of war on the continent, the concepts of these veterans with many years of war under their belts were hard to change. They couldn¡¯t ept the new things like military magic machines ruling the battlefield, so they had always resisted these military magic machines from the bottom of their hearts.

    But the countless battles attacked their determination and today¡¯s battle, these heavy cavalry that easily demonstrated their might had been destroyed this easily. It had made the final bit of determination in their hearts copse.

    ¡°Sir Marshal, let those two new regiments go out. As for us old fellows¡­..we¡¯ll do our best to cooperate with them.¡± The army¡¯s staff officer department¡¯s chief Boroger put down his telescope as he revealed a serious look, ¡°This is our final chance, I think that we shouldn¡¯t have any more scruples.¡±

    ¡°It should be as such.¡± Marshal Sudman gave a nod before giving an order, ¡°Send the signal to the Marlow Empire, tell them our ns.¡±

    Seeing the officer run off, a general said in a worried voice, ¡°Sir Marshal, we¡¯re already ying our cards this early, if the Marlow Empire were to hold back¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Marshal Sudman waved his hand, ¡°This is our Candra Empire¡¯s final battle, we don¡¯t have a choice. If the Marlow Empire is smart, they will know what to do.¡±

    ¡°I think that you don¡¯t need to worry. Since the Marlow Empire was willing to send reinforcements, it means that they are clear on the situation. So I feel that they should know not to hold back.¡±

    Boroger¡¯s words were approved by the generals.

    So the order was quickly sent and the Candra Empire¡¯s army closed their encirclement of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    ¡°Count Darcy, your Rudson Kingdom and our allied army has always been attacking, but this is our first time defending, right?¡± Chief Hart in the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ line suddenly spoke.

    Count Darcy was surprised, but thinking about the fights over the past few months, he was surprised to realize that Chief Hart was right.

    Since their allied army invaded the Candra Empire, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had always been attacking and had won each fight.

    The Candra Empire found it very hard to defend against the attacks of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, so naturally they couldn¡¯t force them into defending.

    After several months of battling, this was the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ first time defending against the attacks of the Candra Empire.

    Thinking of this, Count Darcy couldn¡¯t help revealing a strange look.

    He never thought about it before, but now that he was thinking about it, he realized that it was a bit unbelievable.

    Their enemy was the Candra Empire, one of the two strongest empires on the continent!

    They were only a small Rudson Kingdom with apany, it was unthinkable that they were able to force the Candra Empire into this situation.

    But thinking about it, the facts were in front of him, so he had no choice but to believe.

    But¡­¡­why did Chief Hart suddenly say these words?

    Seeing the doubt in Count Darcy¡¯s eyes, Chief Hart gave augh and pped Count Darcy¡¯s shoulder as he said, ¡°You might not know this, but while ourpany¡¯s military magic machines are powerful on the attack, they are even more powerful when defending.¡±

    Count Darcy forced out a smile. Although he believed that the military magic machines were more powerful when used to defend, there were four hundred and fifty thousand armies, which was the elite army of the two empires. How could it be that easy to defend against them?

    Chief Hart ignored the strange look on Count Darcy¡¯s face and grabbed the Magic Communicator as he shouted, ¡°Magic Cannon squad, pay attention! I want you to fully open fire! If there¡¯s an enemy cavalry that gets within one kilometer of us, I will write a report when we get back that will deduct everyone of one month¡¯s pay and bonus!¡±

    Count Darcy¡¯s lips twitched.

    Gods, he had seen generals threatening to behead their subordinates on the battlefield, but he had never seen anyone threaten their soldiers with wage and bonus deductions like Chief Gart was doing.

    But thinking of how even the lowest wage of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards was twenty gold coins, which would be over thirty gold coins with the bonus, Count Darcy felt that this threat was very terrifying.

    If it was a Rudson Kingdom soldier and you gave them thirty gold coins, they wouldn¡¯t hesitate to give up their lives.

    After all, although the lives of the Rudson Kingdom citizens had greatly improved over the past few years, thirty gold coins was still very important for many families. It was more than enough to buy a life and to have some left over.

    Perhaps they were affected by Chief Hart¡¯s threat, but the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards Magic Cannon squad released countless mes that were like fireworks.

    These countless Magic Shells rained down all around them and instantly submerged the Tara ins around the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces in explosions and mes.

    There was less than 30% of the first wave of heavy cavalry from the two empires left after the first strike, but after this second strike, they had all been turned into ashes.

    Behind these heavy cavalry, the two empires had sent a bunch of light cavalry. They had nned on using the time that the heavy cavalry drew out the firepower of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces to find some space to charge into thief formations.

    However, under the dense firepower of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, they weren¡¯t able to find a chance at all.

    They could rely on their high mobility as light cavalry to avoid the cannon fire at first, so their casualties were lower than the heavy cavalry.

    But now that the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had gone crazy with these terrifying cannon shots, covering all the space around their formation, they couldn¡¯t evade them at all.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    There were endless explosions that filled the entire Tara ins and as far as the eye could see, there were mes all around as well as people and horses flying away.

    In less than two minutes, most of the forty thousand light cavalry were injured and there wasn¡¯t a single regiment that could maintain formation.

    In the Candra Empire lines, the generals all had pale faces as they watched this situation, not being able to say anything for a long time.

    They had expected the fight to go poorly, but they never expected that the fight would actually go this badly.

    The fight had only been going for less than twenty minutes and the strongest heavy cavalry unit had been destroyed. The most mobile light cavalry that they had ced their greatest hopes on had mostly been destroyed and had almost lost all theirbat power.

    On the other hand, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces hadn¡¯t suffered a single loss yet.

    Even¡­¡­all these heavy and light cavalry units couldn¡¯t even break through their lines.

    ¡°Sir Marshal, how about¡­¡­we have the light cavalrye back¡­¡­¡± A general couldn¡¯t help suggesting in a low voice.

    ¡°No. Send down my order, let them keep charging! Whoever dares to flee will be executed on the spot!¡± Marshal Sudman¡¯s face was dark, but there wasn¡¯t any hesitation in his voice as he said, ¡°All of you remember for me, to win this fight, we have to be ruthless! The sacrifices of these knights won¡¯t be wasted because they have consumed a lot of the enemy¡¯s ammunition for us.¡±

    The generals all looked at each other with dispirited looks.

    The light and heavy cavalry that had always been regarded by them as the strongest force had only been able to y a role in consuming the enemy¡¯s ammunition.

 Book 7: 141: Final battle (4)

    Book 7: Chapter 141: Final battle (4)

    No matter how hurt the Candra Empire and Marlow Empire generals were, they had to ept a fact.

    It was that in front of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful military magic machines, their most precious and powerful cavalry were nothing more than high ss cannon fodder.

    Right, cannon fodder was something that came from the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces. It was said that because of the emergence of Magic Cannons, this word came about to describe being turned to ashes under the attacks of the Magic Cannons.

    Of course, it was like Marshal Sudman had said, although these knights had been cannon fodder, it wasn¡¯t meaningless.

    Although it seemed like they Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had destroyed the cavalry without any effort, in reality, they must have consumed quite a bit of their ammunition.

    For the Rudson Frestech Allied Armies, there was no doubt that they would steamroll the Candra Empire in a direct battle, but that was on the basis that they had enough supplies.

    Any military magic machine would need ammunition to show off their might and if there was no ammunition, they would just be useless steel shells.

    This was where the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces were no different from a traditional army.

    Because the ammunition was very important for military magic machines, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces guarded their supply line very seriously.

    This was a lesson that the Candra Empire had learned many times facing the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces. Although they had suffered a lot, it was very effective.

    The Candra Empire and Marlow Empire armies surrounded them just to force the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces to consume their ammunition, giving them a chance.

    Even if the price that they paid was terrifying, there was no other choice at this time.

    Although the cavalry army had fallen, the two empires showed no signs of stopping. The elite soldiers kept charging the surrounded Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    On the other hand, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces kept shooting the mes of the Magic Cannons, causing giant sounds to continuously ring out across the Tara ins.

    Because they had found the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces many times, the Candra Empire gradually found a way to deal with the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ powerful firepower. They no longer used the same dense formations of traditional warfare, but rather depended on their numbers to beat the enemy, spreading themselves as much as possible. This guaranteed that each Magic Shell would cause as few casualties as possible.

    Although this would make their overall battle power drop, the two empires did what they could to consume as much of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ ammunition while also approaching their lines, trying to charge their lines to confuse their formation.

    Once the two sides shed, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ advantage wasn¡¯t worth mentioning in front of the powerful soldiers of the two empires¡¯ armies.

    The Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ situation appeared in front of Count Darcy¡¯s eyes and his expression changed.

    ¡°Chief Hart, if we continue like this, we won¡¯t be able to maintain our supplies of Magic Shells.¡±

    Chief Hart gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right. Based on this speed, we will only be able to maintain this firepower for less than half an hour.¡±

    ¡°Less than half an hour?¡± Count Darcy was shocked, ¡°Then¡­¡­shouldn¡¯t we execute our next battle n?¡±

    Chief Gart looked at the watch on his wrist and shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s still ten minutes left, we can¡¯t rush now. Count Darcy, have your Magic Combat Vehicle squad work with our Magic tank squad, try to stall out the enemy¡¯s attacks.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Count Darcy replied before immediately turning to send down the orders.

    Two minutester, five hundred specially designed Magic Combat Vehicles from the Rudson Kingdom army worked with two hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce tanks to swarm out of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces lines. They were like a flood as they charged at the Marlow Empire army¡¯s lines to the southwest.

    The reason they didn¡¯t choose the Candra Empire army¡¯s lines to the northeast was mainly because they were worried the enemies had dug trenches ahead of time, which would hinder the advance of the Magic Combat Vehicles and the Magic Tanks to a certain extent.

    After the Magic Combat Vehicles and Magic Tanks charged out, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces also changed their Magic Cannon fire. They focused their firepower on the Candra Empire soldiers charging from the north, no longer firing on the Marlow Empire army lines.

    Seeing the several hundred Magic Combat Vehicles and Magic Tanks charging out from the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces lines like tigers, the generals of the two empires became more spirited.

    In this battle, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had used their Magic Cannons to protect their formation and they couldn¡¯t advance at all. This was the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ first counterattack.

    Although it was a bit threatening, if they thought about it, they would realized that the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces weren¡¯t confident in their ammunition stock, so they could only initiate an attack to slow down their consumption.

    The Marlow Empire quickly reacted to this.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s Marshal Senri waved hisrge hand and ten thousand light cavalry in two groups that had been prepared charged forward like two sharp des from the nks of the battlefield.

    Their task wasn¡¯t to sh with the Magic Combat Vehicles and the Magic Tanks, but rather to use their high mobility to harass them, while maintaining a threat on the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces lines. This would guarantee that the Magic Combat Vehicle and the Magic Tank squad wouldn¡¯t dare charge into the Marlow Empire army lines.

    At the same time, the Marlow Empire¡¯s Magic Cannons that hadn¡¯t been touched could finally let out their angry roars.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    Five hundred independently developed Magic Cannons and one hundred Magic Cannons they purchase from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce previously let out attacks at the same time, releasing countless beautiful sparkling mes onto the battlefield.

    It had to be said, the Marlow Empire really didn¡¯t have a grasp of the Magic Cannon technology.

    The uracy of their Magic Shells in this battle was just too terrible to look at.

    It was clearly aimed at the Magic Combat Vehicles and the Magic Tanks, but only a small part was able tond in their formation. Most of them had nted and gone off to who knows where.

    As for the ones that hit? That would depend on luck.

    So although those Magic Cannons seemed powerful when they were shot, the damage that they had caused was minimal.

    Whether it was the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Magic Combat Vehicles or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Tanks, with their thick hulls, they didn¡¯t care about the strong impact of these Magic Shells at all.

    There were some Magic Combat Vehicles or some Magic Tanks that were unlucky enough to be hit, but they were safe under the protection of their magic barriers.

    But the Marlow Empire¡¯s barrage of Magic Cannon fire wasn¡¯t in hopes of actually damaging the Magic Combat Vehicles or the Magic Tanks.

    This had already been proven countless times in the battles between the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp, these horrifying monsters were simply invincible on the battlefield.

    Their real goal wasn¡¯t the Magic Combat Vehicles or the Magic Tanks, but rather the ground beneath them.

    Under the dense Magic Shell barrage, the smooth ins had suddenly been filled withrge holes from the explosions.

    These greatly hindered the advance of the Magic Combat Vehicles and the Magic Tanks, even causing some Magic Combat Vehicles and Magic Tanks to fall into the holes, bing unable to get out.

    At this time, the Marlow Empire¡¯s light and heavy cavalry relied on their mobility to charge across the Tara ins that had already beenpletely changed. In the blink of an eye, they crossed the distance between them and the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces.

    Because there were many Magic Combat Vehicles and Magic Tanks out there, the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces wouldn¡¯t use their Magic Cannons to attack or they would hurt their own allies.

    It seemed like the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces couldn¡¯t stop the advance of the Marlow Empire.

    ¡°Humph, do they really think that we only have the same move with the Magic Cannons?¡± Chief Hart in the distant Rudson Frestech Allied Forces line saw this and gave a coldugh. He picked up the Magic Communicator and gave his order.

    After a while, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Magic Tanks that couldn¡¯t move fast because of the hindrances in thend suddenly moved together. They quickly spread horizontally and formed a row, as if they were forming a wall to block the charge of the Marlow Empire light cavalry.

    The Marlow Empire light cavalrymander saw this and didn¡¯t hesitate to give the order to charge.

    These two hundred Magic Tanks seemed like they were blocking the way, but there was quite arge space between the Magic Tanks that they could easily go through.

    As for how to take care of these Magic Tanks, that was for the heavy infantry behind them to take care of.

    However, as soon as they had charged the front cannon of the two hundred Magic Tanks roared out at the same time.

    Although it was different from the normal Magic Cannons, with the Magic Cannons of the Magic Tanks being smaller and having smaller Magic Shells, because they were so close and it was on t ground, they were actually much stronger than the normal Magic Cannons.

    With just a single round of shots, the ten thousand elite light cavalry was sent flying and almost half the knights couldn¡¯t stand up anymore.

    The remnants of the Marlow Empire¡¯s light cavalry naturally knew that they couldn¡¯t retreat at this time and gritted their teeth to charge in.

    However, under a second round of fire from the Magic Tanks, almost a third of the knights evaporated.

    In the blink of an eye, there were only less than a thousand knights left of the ten thousand light cavalry.

    At this time, the roofs of the five hundred Magic Combat Vehicles from the Rudson Kingdom opened. Each Magic Combat Vehicle had two fully armoured Rudson Kingdom soldiers appear that shot down the Marlow Empire light cavalry around them.

    Like this, the thirty thousand light cavalry that came from the Marlow Empire waspletely destroyed.

 Book 7: 142: Final battle (5)

    Book 7: Chapter 142: Final battle (5)

    Marshal Senri didn¡¯t even have time to feel hurt because without caring about the price, after ten thousand light cavalry were destroyed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Tanks had gathered together again and worked with the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s Magic Combat Vehicles to approach the Marlow Empire lines.

    After taking a deep breath, Marshal Senri turned to the four magicians in Arch Magi robes and said in a serious voice, ¡°For masters, we¡¯ll have to depend on you and the honourable magicians.¡±

    The four Arch Magi from the Marlow Empire who came to this war looked at each other and they all had bitter looks in their eyes.

    In the past, whenever there was a fight, as long as a single Arch Magi appeared, it would be enough to decide the battle.

    Now there were four Arch Magi working together and they had the most elite magicians of the Marlow Empire under them, but they weren¡¯t confident in winning this battle at all.

    Until now, they still didn¡¯t understand what methods the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used to kill their fellow Arch Magi.

    Although the three Arch Magi that had been injured fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had given them the details, they still didn¡¯t understand the reason, so naturally it didn¡¯t help them.

    So for the four Arch Magi, the battle with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still filled with mystery and danger.

    However, they were already here.

    Not to mention the Marlow Empire, just to explore the magic, they had toe.

    ¡°Prepare to attack.¡±

    The four Arch Magi nodded at the same time and wildly released their magic power, creating various phenomena above them.

    A Forbidden Spell released right away!

    The other magicians weren¡¯t idle and all released their magic power, opening magic barriers with all their strength andpletely surrounding the Marlow Empire soldiers.

    To stop the powerful attacks of the Magic Cannons, it was impossible with the flesh bodies of the soldiers and it was only barely possible with the magic barriers.

    But the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces clearly didn¡¯t have enough Magic Shells, so using their magic barrier and the armours that the elite soldiers had, it wasn¡¯t a problem to defend against normal Magic Repeating Crossbows.

    But when they were ready, there were clouds that appeared in the western sky.

    Marshal Senri looked up and his face sank.

    It was the Magic Airship squad that had never appeared that was finally appearing.

    Moreover when they appeared, it wasn¡¯t just thirty to fifty like the two empires had expected. Just with a rough look at the patch of ck, one could tell that there were over a hundred of them!

    Seeing the Magic Airships quickly approaching in the sky, Marshal Senri felt a bit of hesitation.

    To deal with these Magic Airships high up, normal soldiers wouldn¡¯t work and they could only rely on magicians that could fly into the sky.

    However, in the countless battles before, it had been proven that the Magic Airships had a very special method to deal with magicians. Even Arch Magi might not survive.

    When the two Arch Magi of the Marlow Empire fell, it was because they had been fighting the Magic Airships.

    Since these Magic Airships could even kill Arch Magi, then normal magicians naturally couldn¡¯t survive.

    But if they ignored these Magic Airships, then with their air superiority, not to mention winning the fight, it would be hard to say if they could even defend against beingpletely wiped out.

    ¡°Sir Marshal, let us go.¡± An Arch Magus looked at the Magic Airships in the sky before saying to Marshal Senri, ¡°We¡¯ve already prepared for a long time, we can give it a try.¡±

    Marshal Senri hesitated before giving a nod, ¡°Then be careful.¡±

    That Arch Magus gave a nod before flying out with another Arch Magus and seven Great Magicians.

    When they flew halfway up, there were several figures that appeared from the Candra Empire lines. It seemed that the Candra Empire had taken the same action after seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships appear.

    There were a total of four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians between the two sides. They had already contacted each other beforehand and without any words, they quickly gathered together.

    ¡°These Magic Airships have the Magic Domain Sealing Array, but this array has a limit to its range and there are clear signs when it is being released. There will be small sparkles that will appear, so it is very easy to detect.¡±

    A Candra Empire Arch Magus quickly told them the information he had received from Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian.

    ¡°As long as we pay attention to these signs and keep changing our position, we shouldn¡¯t be affected by the Magic Domain Sealing Array. As for how to attack them¡­..as long as we can break the magic barrier around them, they should just be some normal steel frames.¡±

    The four Arch Magi quickly confirmed their battle n and then spread out,unching attacks at the dense group of Magic Airships from a distance.

    The attacks of four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians were naturally terrifying.

    In the blink of an eye, the sky was filled with countless lights that represented high grade spells.

    However, when those spells approached the Magic Airships, the Magic Airships suddenly released a light blue glow that disappeared with those spells, making it seem like nothing had happened.

    The four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians in the sky, as well as the camps of the two empires who had been watching were all stunned by this.

    How was this possible!

    If these Magic Airships had used their magic barriers to block these spells, no one would be surprised.

    But before these spells had even touched the Magic Airships, the Magic Airships didn¡¯t even release their magic barriers and had made those spells disappear without a trace. This¡­..went against theirmon sense too much.

    But there was no time for them to react as the hundred Magic Airships quickly dispersed in the sky, instantly upying the upper ground in this battlefield.

    Then all the Magic Airships suddenly released bright glows.

    The four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians in the air knew that this was bad in their hearts and released all their magic power, going all out to attack the Magic Airships.

    But it was the same as before. When their spells approached the Magic Airships, the Magic Airships just released that same blue glow before their spells disappeared.

    At the same time, the Magic Airships attacked.

    Countless white lights came from the Magic Airships, directly flying out to surround the camp of the two empires.

    Magic barriers of different colours appeared above the camps of the two empires, as the magicians of the two empires went all out to resist these attacks.

    However¡­¡­it was a meaningless resistance.

    The white lights seemed like theypletely ignored the full force magic barriers of the magicians and fell down without any hindrance,nding right on the countless soldiers of the two empires.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong, hong!¡±

    The four Arch Magi and the sixteen Great Magicians were stunned as they saw the camps of the two empires fall into chaos, not knowing what to do.

    Before this, the two empires had carefullye up with a n, considering almost everything that was possible.

    The Arch Magi that were considered the peak of the two empires had put aside all prejudice and discussed countless methods of dealing with the strange military magic machines, as well as a n to deal with the Magic Airships.

    However, they found that all the ns that they had discussed had be a joke in front of the unreasonable attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships!

    Their spells didn¡¯t pose any threat to these Magic Airships and they couldn¡¯t deal with the attacks of those Magic Airships at all.

    They even¡­.pletely ignored their final magic barrier. So how were they supposed to resist the attacks of these Magic Airships?

    The camps of the two empires below werepletely stunned by this surprising situation, not being able to react for the longest time.

    Everyone just started at the hundred Magic Airships that were like clouds in the sky in a daze, as their hearts filled with despair.

    They hadsted this long and were about to enter the final battle as per their ns, even seeing some hope for victory, but they never thought that once these Magic Airships appeared, it would crush their hopespletely.

    Among them, the Arch Magi of the two empires felt even more despair.

    They had always relied on their great power as Arch Magi to turn the battle around.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had powers that surpassed their understanding, they were Arch Magi after all. They were powerful people at the peak of this world, so as long as they were willing, they could definitely change everything.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used hard facts to give them a hard p.

    So what if they were Arch Magi? In front of the unbelievable power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships, no matter how strong their spells were, they couldn¡¯t do anything. Then what difference was there between them and normal magicians, or even normal people?

    The Candra Empire¡¯s Arch Magus in the sky who had told everyone the n suddenly thought about what Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian had told them before.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu has told us that Arch Magi will no longer decide battles, so we should withdraw from the battles of the continent.¡±

    Thinking of this, he felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

    As a powerful Arch Magus, if he couldn¡¯t disy his use on the battlefield, where would he show his value?

 Book 7: 143: Letâ€™s stop here

    Book 7: Chapter 143: Let¡¯s stop here

    It wasn¡¯t just the powerful Arch Magi who were stunned.

    The two empires had done everything, even using their precious heavy and light cavalry as cannon fodder, just to consume the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces¡¯ ammunition. They had found a chance and they could even see a hope, but the moment the hundred Magic Airships had appeared, they had crushed the mes of hopes in the hearts of the people of the two empires with their dominating might.

    It was clear that the powerful Arch Magi at the peak of the two empires¡¯ army couldn¡¯t deal with these Magic Airships. They weren¡¯t even able to deal any damage to the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces on the ground. Just a single attack from them was able to crush the defensive lines that the two empires had gone all out to build, which turned the efforts of all the magicians into waste.

    It wasn¡¯t aparison of who was stronger anymore, they weren¡¯t on the same scale.

    After recognizing this fact, the armies of the two empires lost all their courage to continue fighting.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships stopped attacking, the camps of the two empires stood there in a daze. They couldn¡¯t attack, they didn¡¯t have the courage to attack, and they didn¡¯t even have the courage to run.

    Because they knew that if the Magic Airships wanted to kill them, with their speed marching on the ground, they would be unable to escape.

    Seeing the roaring battlefield suddenly fall into a strange silence, Count Darcy couldn¡¯t help curling his lips.

    ¡°It would be good if the Magic Airships could appear sooner, then we wouldn¡¯t have had to spend all this time here.¡±

    Chief Hart looked at him and gave a grunt, ¡°The Magic Airships had to rush several hundred kilometers to get here, how could they appear that early? Then again, this was the strategy that sir chairman came up with, you heard it yourself.¡±

    ¡°Un, I was just curious. Since yourpany¡¯s Magic Airships are this strong, then why did chairman Xu want us to fight here for all that time? In my opinion, that was aplete waste of time. It would be better to directly bombard them with the Magic Airships.¡±

    ¡°How much money do you think it takes to move the Magic Airship squad once?¡± Chief Hart red at him, ¡°Then again, sir chairman did this to crush the thoughts of resistance of the two empires, to make them not dare to presumptuously think that they could defeat us. If we don¡¯t teach them a strong enough lesson on the battlefield, the two empires won¡¯t be convinced.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Count Darcy stroked his chin as he revealed a confused look, ¡°I still don¡¯t understand why chairman Xu has to do it like this. With the current abilities of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if you work with our Rudson Kingdom, while we couldn¡¯tpletely upy the Candra Empire, it isn¡¯t hard to defeat the Candra Empire. Why are you going through all this trouble?¡±

    ¡°We don¡¯t need to understand. Sir chairman has his own thoughts in doing this.¡± Chief Hart coldly said.

    Count Darcy shook his head. He thought that Xu Yi¡¯s prestige among the subordinates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was high, it was even to the point that they didn¡¯t question him.

    But with the abilities that Xu Yi had demonstrated over the years, he was worthy of this kind of prestige.

    The four Arch Magi and the sixteen Great Magicians in the air didn¡¯t give up and kept attacking the Magic Airships with spells. The four Arch Magus even saw that normal spells had no use, so they flew up to the Magic Airships and released their Magic Domains, covering the Magic Airships and looking for a chance to destroy them.

    This was without a doubt a risky move.

    Because whether it was from the past reports or from the current fight, the abilities of the Magic Airships had already surpassed their magic knowledge. They still had space to dodge when they were far away, but when they were close, it would make their room to dodge very small and it would be very easy to fall into danger.

    However, what made them despair was not that the ordinary spells of the Great Magicians and the powerful Forbidden Spells being erased by the blue light that came from the Magic Airships, not having any effect on them. It was that even when they released their Magic Domains, once it touched the blue barrier, it would disappear and wouldn¡¯t affect anything.

    With the blue light, it was like all magic was snow on a hot summer¡¯s day.

    When the four Arch Magi wanted to continue using their Magic Domains to keep attacking the Magic Airships, there was a gentle voice that came from above. Not only did the four Arch Magi clearly hear it, it also spread to the ears of the four Great Magicians, as well as the entire battlefield.

    ¡°This fight is over now.¡±

    Following that calm voice, there was a figure that appeared in the air, appearing in front of the four Arch Magi and the sixteen Great Magicians.

    Xu Yi!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Xu Yi!

    Anyone whose eyes were good enough could recognize him with a single nce.

    The hearts of the four Arch Magi in the air tensed and they immediately sent their Magic Domains at Xu Yi.

    With four Arch Magi working together, even if Xu Yi himself was an Arch Magus, he couldn¡¯t easily deal with it!

    This fellow dared to present himself in front of everyone like this, it was seeking death!

    As long as they killed him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would be in chaos and they would win this battle!

    Seeing Xu Yi appear, these thoughts appeared in the mind of the four Arch Magi.

    They didn¡¯t think at all as they released their full power attack at Xu Yi.

    Those sixteen Great Magicians behind them hesitated even less as they worked with the four Arch Magi to release their most powerful attack.

    Facing this terrifying attack, not to mention a new Arch Magus like Xu Yi, even a veteran Arch Magus wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a trace of panic on his face, rather he revealed a rxed smile.

    He didn¡¯t make any moves at all as a light blue light appeared in front of him.

    Seeing this familiar light blue light, the four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians let out a sigh in their hearts.

    As expected, whether it was the Magic Domain or the powerful spells, they all disappeared without a trace after touching this light blue light.

    Xu Yi faced the four gloomy looking Arch Magi and said with a smile, ¡°Everyone, let¡¯s not waste our time, alright? In front of this high frequency magic particle stabilization barrier, your low frequency elemental magic energy vibrations won¡¯t have any use at all.¡±

    The four Arch Magi and sixteen Great Magicians looked at each other in nk dismay.

    They could tell that their spells were useless, but what were the words that Xu Yi had just said?

    What was this high frequency magic particle stabilization barrier? What were these low frequency elemental magic energy vibrations?

    This fellow¡­¡­was he even speaking themon tongue?

    Seeing their confused looks, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He looked down before giving a sigh.

    ¡°If possible, I wanted to settle this peacefully, but now that it¡¯s be like this¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s figure suddenly disappeared and when he appeared again, he was in front of the Candra Empire army.

    Seeing Xu Yi suddenly appear, the Candra Empire soldiers were all shocked. The first row of soldiers couldn¡¯t help firing the bows in their hands.

    Of course, these wouldn¡¯t pose a threat to Xu Yi at all.

    He looked over the dense Candra Empire army with at least a hundred thousand soldiers left and raised his voice to say, ¡°Your excellency Arch Magi from the Candra Empire, pleasee out. I have something to discuss with you.¡±

    The remaining Candra Empire Arch Magus looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look before looking at Marshal Sudman beside him.

    Marshal Sudman looked at Xu Yi with aplicated look and wanted to have someone make a move to kill Xu Yi very much.

    However, he knew that there wouldn¡¯t be any use in giving this order.

    He had seen the actions of the four Arch Magi and the sixteen Great Magicians in the air. He knew that for the current Xu Yi, there wasn¡¯t anything any magicians could do to him.

    And it was impossible for his soldiers to pose any threat to an Arch Magus.

    So even if Xu Yi stood there in front of the army, he couldn¡¯t do anything to him.

    After a moment of silence, he slowly gave a nod to the Arch Magus.

    ¡°Go and have a talk with him, see what he wants to say.¡±

    The Arch Magus lowered his head to think before giving a nod and flying out.

    Seeing that Arch Magus fly away, an exhausted feeling filled Marshal Sudman¡¯s heart and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    He didn¡¯t know what Xu Yi wanted to say to the Arch Magi, but he had a very clear premonition.

    From this day forth, the Sines Continent really would change.

    After Xu Yi invited the only Candra Empire Arch Magus out, he went to the Marlow Empire¡¯s side and also invited the two Marlow Empire Arch Magi out.

    After that, the seven Arch Magi from the two empires that came to this war were gathered by Xu Yi.

    It had to be said, in this small ce, there were eight Arch Magi gathered when Xu Yi was included. This was already one third of all the Arch Magi on the entire Sines Continent.

    If it was said that this represented the highest level of magic on the continent, no one would disagree.

    However, after Xu Yi gathered these seven Arch Magi, he said this.

    ¡°Everyone, do you know what magic is?¡±

 Book 7: 144: Scientific view of magic

    Book 7: Chapter 144: Scientific view of magic

    The faces of the seven Arch Magi sank at the same time.

    What was magic?

    This question was only said by those magicians who had just started learning magic ormon people who didn¡¯t understand magic at all, but now Xu Yi was asking this to the seven Arch Magi that represented the peak of the magic world. This was no different from shaming them.

    They thought that Xu Yi gathering them was to make peace, discussing it with the Arch Magi that represented the magicians of the two empires first, but they never thought that this would be the first thing that Xu Yi said to them. It instantly filled their hearts with displeasure.

    If they didn¡¯t have scruples on this battlefield, the seven Arch Magi would have left without a single word.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean by this?¡± A Marlow Empire Arch Magus said in a cold voice with a dark look, ¡°Do you think that you can act this wild because your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has some small tricks?¡±

    ¡°Small tricks?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°Everyone, if you still have these ideas now, then I can only say that I¡¯m very disappointed.¡±

    ¡°Enough, chairman Xu, just say what you have to say, there¡¯s no need to beat around the bush.¡± Another Marlow Empire Arch Magus impatiently waved his hand, ¡°I admit that with the current situation, even us Arch Magi can¡¯t do anything to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but there¡¯s no meaning in shaming us like this.¡±

    The expressions of the Marlow Empire Arch Magi were ugly and the expressions of the three Arch Magi from the Candra Empire were dark. They all had pensive looks, but they didn¡¯t join in the reprimanding of Xu Yi.

    ¡°Why do you think that this is shaming you?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t think so, I¡¯m just honestly asking you a question. The understanding of magic is rted to the true difference between our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research and your magic research. If you don¡¯t understand this, you will never understand why we can easily repel all your magicians, including Arch Magi without even sending out a single magician.¡±

    The Arch Magi fell silent together.

    If didn¡¯t matter if they were willing to admit it, the facts of the battle were that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to send out a single magician to defeat these Arch Magi, even causing several of them to fall.

    This matter had never happened even in the most intense race wars three thousand years ago.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had grasped powers that these Arch Magi couldn¡¯t understand, which caused them to be at a loss.

    So even if Xu Yi¡¯s words were arrogant, they couldn¡¯t refute them at all.

    Strength was the foundation of all words.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this power, so Xu Yi had the rights to say these words.

    After being silent for a while, a Candra Empire Arch Magus said with a sigh, ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, although I don¡¯t understand your goal, since you want to have a sincere discussion, then I¡¯ll tell you my view. Speaking of what magic is¡­..I don¡¯t care what other magicians think, but to me, the so-called magic in the end is just a magician using their magic power to create a phenomenon with the elemental magic energy around them. Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    The other six Arch Magi all nodded along.

    Magic had already existed for over ten thousand years on the Sines Continent, even humans as the youngest race had grasped it for three thousand years.

    After all these years of evolving, the foundational concept of magic had already reached a uniform concept that no one doubted.

    Although each magician had a difference in their understanding of magic, as well as having their unique thoughts, the most basic concept of magic was something that no magicians doubted. It had already be amon fact on the Sines Continent.

    Now that this Candra Empire Arch Magus had taken out the most standard and impregnable answer, they wanted to see if Xu Yi could give a different exnation.

    ¡°Un, I admit that this view of magic isn¡¯t wrong¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s first words had disappointed these Arch Magi.

    ¡°But, this view is superficial and too general, so there¡¯s no practical meaning at all. The so-called magic is just using magic power to control elemental magic energy, so where does the magic powere from? What changes happen during the production of this magic power? Using magic power to control elemental magic energy, how will it be controlled? What about the speed and the quantity of the elemental magic power controlled? What about the shape and the various data sets of the shape? For example, the exact shape, the volume, the density, the vibrational frequency, the resonating intensity, how should that data be measured? If you don¡¯t know any of this¡­¡­¡±

    If they could barely understand the first half of Xu Yi¡¯s words, the second half hadpletely confused them.

    What density, what vibrational frequency, what resonating intensity¡­..What was all of this?

    ¡°Wait, chairman Xu, what are you saying?¡± A Marlow Empire Arch Magus couldn¡¯t help cutting Xu Yi off, ¡°What do all these things that you¡¯re saying mean?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes swept over everyone and he gave a sigh before shaking his head, ¡°As expected, you haven¡¯t read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that ourpany publishes.¡±

    The Arch Magi looked at each other with embarrassed looks on their faces.

    The Arch Magi had paid some attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after their rise.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce mainly focused on those magic machines and in the eyes of these Arch Magi, the magic machines were just at best magic tools. Even if the designs were ingenious, they were still crude and couldn¡¯t enter their eyes.

    As for the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that was rted to magic machines, of course they wouldn¡¯t care about it.

    ¡°If you read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, you would have a concept of the things I¡¯ve mentioned. What I said aren¡¯t strange things, but rather the foundational concepts of a theory that ourpany has developed in our research of magic. I call it¡­¡­the scientific view of magic.¡±

    ¡°Scientific view of magic?¡± The seven Arch Magi all knitted their brows.

    They understood magic, but what was this science?

    They had never heard of the word from Xu Yi¡¯s mouth before, they had never even heard of this word in themonnguage of the Sines Continent before.

    Xu Yi was helpless towards the expressions on their faces.

    That was right, there wasn¡¯t the word ¡°science¡± in all thenguages of the Sines Continent, so Xu Yi had tranted it ande up with a new term.

    He could only simply exin what the word ¡°science¡± meant to everyone.

    After hearing this, everyone was even more confused.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, based on what you said, this science is to refine every aspect of a piece of knowledge and thoroughly study each aspect before finally bringing it together topletely grasp this piece of knowledge. Then the studies of the countless magicians on the Sines Continent over ten thousand years, is that not refined enough, not thorough enough?¡±

    ¡°Based on the view that you just gave, it is indeed refined enough, but from my personal perspective, it is far from being enough. For example, what I am most surprised at is that magic research has been on the continent for this long, but there has been no magician that has conducted a study into elemental magic energy. You have to know that elemental magic energy is the foundation of all magic.¡±

    The seven Arch Magi looked at each other in nk dismay, still not understanding what Xu Yi meant.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh. He knew that to exin the scientific view to these seven Arch Magi with just words in a short period of time was impossible to do.

    The magicians of the Sines Continent had studied magic for over ten thousand years and there were still many things they didn¡¯t understand. The reason was the the magicians of the continent had treated magic as work, so their path of research was to use elemental magic energy to create stronger spells, as well as using these spells more proficiently.

    To put it in earth terms, the magic research of the Sines Continent was focused on practical application and it was more focused on the practical application of deadly magic, so naturally they didn¡¯t pay attention to the theoretical side of magic.

    Although the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be considered part of the practical application side, because Xu Yi was someone who came from earth and was someone influenced by the science of high level mechanical engineering, he naturally studied magic from the beginning with a scientific view.

    In the twenty years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, Xu Yi had always requested the magic research facility to study how to use magic better, but also why they could use it better.

    To put it simply, it was to know the reason why the things they did did what they did.

    It was because of this request that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s researchers would gradually train in the scientific view of magic after working there long enough. They would have a deeper and more urate view of magic, which greatly increased their level of magic.

    Xu Yi as their leader naturally had the most profound understanding of magic, so his level of magic increased the fastest.

    Otherwise, if he followed the traditional views of the Sines Continent, Xu Yi never would have be an Arch Magus just after turning forty.

    But these things were things that definitely couldn¡¯t be understood by the seven Arch Magi who had the traditional view of magic carved into them.

    So Xu Yi thought about it before deciding to do a small experiment.

 Book 7: 145: Just what is magic

    Book 7: Chapter 145: Just what is magic

    ¡°Everyone please watch.¡±

    Xu Yi turned his hand and a small fireball appeared in his palm.

    The seven Arch Magi looked at the fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hands with confused looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, is there something special about this fireball?¡± A Candra Empire Arch Magus asked.

    ¡°No, there¡¯s nothing special about it, it¡¯s just a normal fireball.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Now, can the seven of you also release a fireball as well?¡±

    The seven Arch Magi looked at each other, but they still released a fireball each.

    For the eight Arch Magi including Xu Yi, this lowest grade Fire Spell wasn¡¯t hard at all. Each person could be said to have a high grasp of this fireball spell.

    However, when the eight fireball spells came together, it was quite clear that there were differences between them.

    For example, the fireballs of the Marlow Empire¡¯s four Arch Magi were around the size of a human head. The fireballs in the hands of the three Candra Empire Arch Magi were much more round, just being a bit bigger than the size of a human fist.

    As for Xu Yi¡¯s own fireball, it was right in the center. It wasn¡¯t as big as a head, but it wasn¡¯t as small as a fist.

    Putting the size difference aside, each Arch Magi¡¯s fireball had a different glow to them. Some were very bright, some were dark, some were a shocking red, and some even had a trace of purple among the dark red mes.

    ¡°Everyone, this is just the most simple fireball, but each person has a different fireball. Do you still think that the traditional view of magic of the Sines Continent is correct?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the fireballs in everyone¡¯s hand and asked without any courtesy.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t anything, right?¡± A Marlow Empire Arch Magus knitted his brows to say, ¡°Each magician has a different understanding of magic, so it¡¯s normal for the spells they use to be different.¡±

    ¡°But wouldn¡¯t this affect the effects of the spell?¡± Xu Yi asked back. He pointed at the fireball in the hand of this Marlow Empire Arch Magus, ¡°Look, the fireball in your hand is the brightest and has the deepest colour, so it should be focused on explosive might, right?¡±

    The Arch Magus gave a slight nod, ¡°That can be easily seen.¡±

    ¡°Then do you know how you did this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°How it was done?¡± The Arch Magus looked at Xu Yi and felt that Xu Yi¡¯s question was a bit unreasonable, ¡°I transferred my magic power and summoned the Fire Elemental Magic Energy, so it naturally became like this. As for why¡­..this is my understanding of the fireball spell, so is there something wrong?¡±

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s wrong.¡± Xu Yi was strangely certain as he said, ¡°You only understand gathering elemental magic energy to form the fireball, but you don¡¯t know how it¡¯s done. Don¡¯t you find this strange?¡±

    The seven Arch Magi looked at each other in nk dismay.

    What was strange about this?

    Didn¡¯t the magicians of the Sines Continent all learn magic like this?

    ¡°I¡¯m not the same.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I have a habit which is whenever I¡¯m studying anything, I have to understand everything about it before I¡¯m satisfied. Just like with this fireball spell, although it was very easy to learn how to gather elemental magic energy to use this spell at first, I wasn¡¯t satisfied. That is because I don¡¯t know why it was like this. Why was the elemental magic energy affected by my magic power and then gathered together? Why did the elemental magic energy in the space around me without any special form be a fireball when it was gathered by me? Why did this fireball be like this? Why¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi gave a series of why questions that stunned the surrounding seven Arch Magi.

    It was just a fireball, but Xu Yi had thought of so many issues which really was astounding.

    Of course, it was because he had this serious attitude that he was able to be an Arch Magi in his early forties.

    ¡°In the first few years, I didn¡¯t have a way to rify these issues, but after founding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, ourpany started gathering magicians of different grades from different ces. Then after many years of research, I finally had some slight understanding of what the so-called magic truly is.¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡± A Candra Empire Arch Magus couldn¡¯t help asking.

    ¡°Look carefully.¡±

    Xu Yi hinted at everyone to look at the fireball in his hand and then with a thought, he started using his magic power to cause this fireball that was between the size of a head and a fist to suddenly start swelling. It suddenly became as big as the fireball in the hands of the four Marlow Empire Arch Magi.

    The expressions of the other seven Arch Magi didn¡¯t change.

    Although strengthening the spell and increasing the size after the spell was formed was a bit hard, it wasn¡¯t much for an Arch Magus.

    As soon as they had this thought, the fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hand suddenly shrank, bing very small. It was even smaller than a person¡¯s fist and became as small as the tip of a finger.

    The seven Arch Magi couldn¡¯t help revealing surprised expressions at this.

    It wasn¡¯t that hard to make a normal fireball bigger, but to make it smaller wasn¡¯t that easy.

    To make a spell that had already been formed smaller, there were two methods.

    One was topress the elemental magic energy that this spell was formed from to reduce the size of this spell.

    This was very hard for normal magicians, but it wasn¡¯t that big of a problem for Arch Magi.

    But afterpressing this spell, because there was too much elemental magic energy gathered together, it would be very unstable and would be hard to control.

    Moreover, the appearance of the spell would definitely change because of this.

    But they could clearly see that other than bing smaller, the fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hands had the same colour as before. It just seemed like it had be smaller and there weren¡¯t any other changes.

    Although this meant that the fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hand had be smaller, the density of the elemental magic energy didn¡¯t greatly increase. It was as if the outeryer of the fireball had been cut off and evaporated in the air.

    To do this, it required very precise control to scatter the condensed elemental magic energy of the spell. At the same time, one had to focus to guarantee that the elemental magic energy in the center didn¡¯t disperse.

    This was without a doubt a very hard thing to do and even an Arch Magus wouldn¡¯t be able to easily achieve this without practicing for a long time.

    ¡°This, Xu Yi, isn¡¯t this meaningless?¡± The other seven Arch Magi looked at Xu Yi with faces covered in doubt.

    Very soon, Xu Yi¡¯s following actions had changed the doubt on their face to stunned looks.

    The small fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hand that was only the size of a thumb maintained this form for around five seconds before slowly bing bigger and bigger at a rate visible to the naked eye, like it was being blown up like a balloon.

    When this fireball became three times asrge as a normal person¡¯s head, everyone felt the magic fluctuations released by Xu Yi change. This superrge fireball suddenly disappeared without a trace and turned into a giant ball of water.

    The seven Arch Magi stared at this giant ball of water in shock, not daring to believe their eyes.

    The fireball had turned into a ball of water. In theory, it could be done by dissipating the fireball and then instantly creating a ball of water.

    But the seven of them had been watching Xu Yi the entire time and they never saw him undergo this process. Rather the fireball had directly changed into a ball of water, like the Fire Elemental Magic Energy had suddenly turned into Water Elemental Magic Energy.

    How had he done this?

    Without waiting for them to ask questions, Xu Yi¡¯s magic fluctuations changed again. The ball of water disappeared and was reced with a tornado that quickly spun in Xu Yi¡¯s hand.

    The seven Arch Magi were stunned once again as the tornado was reced by a giant sphere shaped stone.

    For the next period of time, Xu Yi kept alternating between the four basic elements in his palm. The shape kept changing, sometimes being a sphere and sometimes being a cube¡­¡­

    The seven Arch Magi were dazzled by this and after a while, a Marlow Empire Arch Magus raised his hand.

    ¡°Stop! Chairman Xu, just how are you doing this?¡±

    The other six Arch Magi looked at Xu Yi with questioning gazes.

    They didn¡¯t believe that Xu Yi was bored enough to just show this spell to them since Xu Yi was still an Arch Magus, so how could he y this kind of trick like a child.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile before bringing his hand down, causing that spell to disappear.

    ¡°I just wanted to tell you that the so-called magic is just using magic to make elemental magic energy take a form. But there¡¯s no actual set form for the spell and the four elemental magic energy method doesn¡¯t have any meaning. Magic elemental energy itself doesn¡¯t have an attribute, nor does the magic power. The reason why it takes different forms is because the grains of the elemental magic energy is being influenced by different frequencies to take different forms.¡±

    The other seven Arch Magi looked at Xu Yi in a daze.

    This fellow was saying something that they couldn¡¯t understand again.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t wait for them to respond and continued, ¡°In short, the so-called magicians are just using mental force to affect the elemental magic energy grains through vibrations with their magic power. Actually, as long as you can find the appropriate method, even if you aren¡¯t a magician, you can still control elemental magic energy into forming spells. The Magic Array is a clear example of this.¡±

    Speaking of the Magic Arrays, the seven Arch Magi came back to their senses.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines and your military magic machines, don¡¯t they depend on the Magic Arrays?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research into Magic Arrays is different from other magicians of the past. For us, Magic Arrays are tools used to control elemental magic energy and to create spells. The theory isn¡¯t that different from most of the spells developed by magicians, but in reality, ourpany¡¯s Magic Arrays are more refined, more thorough, more¡­..scientific.¡±

 Book 7: 146: Fist

    Book 7: Chapter 146: Fist

    Xu Yi used eloquent words to speak to the seven Arch Magi for half an hour, but they couldn¡¯t understand what the concept of ¡°scientific view of magic¡± was.

    Xu Yi was very helpless towards this.

    These seven Arch Magi had always lived on the Sines Continent, they weren¡¯t like the children on earth who had adopted the concept of science since they were young, so naturally they didn¡¯t feel anything towards science.

    Moreover, they had studied the traditional concept of magic for decades now, so it was normal that they couldn¡¯t ept this new concept like the kids who went to the Frestech Academy.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on making them ept this concept in a short period of time. He had spent all this time in this situation exining these things to the seven Arch Magi to make them recognize a fact.

    That fact was that the traditional concept of magic had already fallen behind. In the two empires, all the magicians, including the seven Arch Magi couldn¡¯t stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore.

    Although the seven Arch Magi were still a bit unwilling, they had to admit that Xu Yi was right because this was a fact.

    ¡°Actually, if possible, I wasn¡¯t willing to fight this war.¡± Xu Yi said with a sincere look, ¡°The destruction brought by war is too terrifying and in my opinion, there¡¯s no meaning to it at all. However, if there wasn¡¯t this war, there would have been many hindrances to me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. For example, if there wasn¡¯t this war, it would have been very difficult to have a chance to talk to you all as equals.¡±

    ¡°No, with your status as an Arch Magus, you definitely would have had the chance to talk to us as equals.¡± The Candra Empire Arch Magus who had a deep talk with Arch Magus Laduca and Arch Magus Ofalian before gave a sigh as he shook his head, ¡°But if there wasn¡¯t this war, without your Frestech Chamber of Commerce showing their power, you definitely wouldn¡¯t have been able to convince us of what you said.¡±

    ¡°Actually, I still don¡¯t somewhat believe you now.¡± A Marlow Empire Arch Magus said with a sunken expression, ¡°Chairman Xu, I admit that the concepts you¡¯ve proposed are very novel, but without having enough examples as proof, I still have my doubts.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, showing he didn¡¯t care.

    They didn¡¯t need to believe him, it was enough if these Arch Magi were interested.

    Establishing the new scientific theory of magic, he couldn¡¯t leave aside these Arch Magi if he wanted to spread it across the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi not only needed their rich knowledge of magic, he also needed their high prestige in the circle of magicians.

    As long as these Arch Magi at the peak of magic were interested in this new theory and were involved in the research, they would lead the other magicians of the Sines Continent to participate in the research.

    ¡°Alright, chairman Xu, I admit that we can¡¯t do anything to your Magic Airships and the army below most likely won¡¯t be able to win this fight.¡± The Candra Empire Arch Magus said with a sigh, ¡°But if you want us to admit defeat, that isn¡¯t realistic. This is our Candra Empire¡¯s final battle of honour, we can be defeated, but we can¡¯t surrender.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile that was a bit strange, ¡°The reason that you can¡¯t surrender is because we haven¡¯t hit you hard enough, right?¡±

    The Candra Empire Arch Magi gave bitterughs, neither refuting it or admitting it.

    Xu Yi looked at the two armies that had stopped before using his hand to signal for the seven Arch Magi to wait and the flying over to the Candra Empire lines.

    ¡°Marshal Sudman, can youe out to talk?¡±

    Marshal Sudman in the lines looked at Xu Yi for a bit before riding his warhorse forward. He ignored the generals around him and came out of the formation.

    The Candra Empire soldiers made way for him and soon Marshal Sudman appeared in front of Xu Yi.

    Seeing Marshal Sudman jump off his horse, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir marshal, we meet again.¡±

    Marshal Sudman narrowed his eyes to seriously look at Xu Yi for a bit before giving a cold snort.

    ¡°It really is a pity I couldn¡¯t kill youst time.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to talk about the past.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Sir marshal, I think that you should be clear on the present situation. I don¡¯t want this fight to continue because there¡¯s no meaning. What do you think?¡±

    ¡°What? Are you here to ask for our surrender?¡± Marshal Sudman revealed a sharp look and said in a deep voice, ¡°Xu Yi, I¡¯m telling you, even if our Candra Empire soldiers die in this battle, we will not surrender to you. If you want to end this battle, speak with your fists!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head. He thought that from Marshal Sudman¡¯s perspective, of course he wouldn¡¯t surrender.

    Marshal Sudman was the Candra Empire¡¯s marshal, the highest representative of the Candra Empire army. Now that he was leading the most elite army of the Candra Empire, if he were to surrender, that would mean theplete surrender of the Candra Empire.

    This was clearly not something that Marshal Sudman could decide, so he couldn¡¯t ept this.

    ¡°Alright, you want me to use a fist, right? Then I¡¯ll show you my fist now.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh before taking out a small Magic Communicator from his chest.

    ¡°Rocker, as per the n, fire the Magic Particle Beam.¡±

    Marshal Sudman looked at Xu Yi with a strange look.

    What was this Magic Particle Beam? Could it be the ¡°fist¡± that Xu Yi said that he would show him?

    ¡°Sir marshal, please look up. The thing that you will see will definitely leave behind an impression that you will never forget.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Marshal Sudman looked into the sky. He saw ten Magic Airshipse out from the group and gather in the western part of the battlefield, forming a circle.

    This strange action caught the attention of everyone on the battlefield. They all looked up curiously at Magic Airships.

    The ten Magic Airships got in formation and then after a while, there was a bright white light that appeared in front of them, in the center of their circle.

    The expression of the seven Arch Magi in the air changed at the same time.

    They could feel the strange magic fluctuationsing from the white light of these ten Magic Airships. It waspletely different from any magic fluctuation that they had encountered before.

    Thinking of hw Xu Yi had told them about elemental magic energy frequency and how different frequencies would change the final form of the elemental magic energy, the magic fluctuations of this white light being so special must mean that the final spell would also be special.

    As soon as they had this thought, their expressions changed again.

    This time, it wasn¡¯t just the seven Arch Magi, but also the sixteen Great Magicians and the magicians in the camps of the two empires that all had their expressions change.

    All the magicians could clearly feel that in the center of the circle of those ten white lights, the magic fluctuations became clearer and more powerful. It surpassed the level of magic fluctuations of normal spells in the blink of an eye.

    However, when the intensity of the magic fluctuations reached the level of a Forbidden Spell, they didn¡¯t stop, but rather continued to quickly grow.

    The magic elemental energy in the surrounding magic space wildly gathered around the ten white lights and in the blink of an eye, the magic space in the surrounding thousand meters was drained.

    In the center of the ten white lights was a very bright white ball. The more it absorbed the elemental magic energy, the bigger the white ball became, gradually turning to a pale light colour that had ck stripes along it.

    When the seven Arch Magi who had retreated to the ground to avoid being affected by the white ball looked at the white ball, their expressions were serious.

    They could easily feel the shocking amount of elemental magic energy contained within the white ball. Once this white ball was released, the might would be terrifying.

    Even a Forbidden Spell would be far from being able topare to it.

    When two of the Arch Magi turned to look at Xu Yi standing in front of the Candra Empire army, they suddenly felt it was a bit strange.

    Suddenly turning back, they saw the white ball in the sky fly out. It became a dazzling beam of light in the air that flew out towards the mountain range to the west.

    The speed of the white light was shocking, reaching the mountain range in an instant.

    Everyone stared at the mountain where the white lightnded before it released a bright and dazzling explosion of light that was like the sun. It forced everyone to tightly close their eyes.

    Some people couldn¡¯t react in time and their eyes were blinded by this dazzling light, unable to stop the tears froming out.

    After a while, there was shaking like the ground was copsing that came from the west. It shook everyone¡¯s legs and quite a few people even fell to the ground.

    After several minutes, the sound gradually faded and the shaking also slowly stopped.

    Only then did everyone open their eyes with difficulty, looking at the mountains to the west.

    However¡­¡­where were those mountains?

    Everyone looked and found that the mountain range had been split in half. The left side extended to the south and the right side extended northeast, but there was a giant hole that was in the middle.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s central province¡¯s most famous Tang Mountain Range had been blown up!

    Xu Yi turned back to look at the stunned Marshal Sudman with a smile.

    ¡°Lord Marshal, is this fist big enough?¡±

 Book 7: 147: Final acts of war

    Book 7: Chapter 147: Final acts of war

    On November 1st, when the chill of early winter arrived in the air, there was a piece of news that spread across the continent.

    The Candra Empire along with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom, after a month of negotiations, had reached a ceasefire treaty.

    When this news was spread, not many people were surprised.

    Since the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire¡¯s allied army had lost to the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces on the Tara ins, this was already decided.

    Or it could be said that this was the best result for the Candra Empire.

    Because if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t n on stopping, working with the Rudson Kingdom to continue attacking the Candra Empire, then the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t be able to stop them at all.

    If the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were more cruel, they could even split up the entire Candra Empire and destroy them.

    No one believed that the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the ability to actuallypletely upy the Candra Empire, but no one also doubted that they could.

    So when the news that both sides had signed the ceasefire treaty, many people let out a sigh of relief for the first time.

    Since the two sides started the war at the beginning ofst year to when they signed the ceasefire treaty at the end of this year, the war had alreadysted around a year and a half, but it had affected countless countries and more than half the people on the continent.

    The daily lives of most people on the continent had been affected the most.

    The clearest example was that because of the war, the countries of the southwest corner that belonged to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce camp suffered heavy setbacks when it came to their foreign trades.

    Although this greatly affected these countries, it also greatly affected the countries that they traded with.

    For example, these countries had already poprized using agricultural magic machines to farm and using the fertilizer from the elves, which greatly increased their grain output. So they always had plenty of grains to export and it was sold at a low price.

    Many countries relied on the grains that these countries exported, so in the two years of the war, the import of grains from these countries had been affected. There were even many countries that showed signs of a famine.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire had signed the ceasefire treaty, the merchants that couldn¡¯t hold back reorganized their trade routes as soon as possible. They kept securing grains and products to transport, quickly helping with the famine in these countries.

    Of course, this was only a small part of the ceasefire treaty. What people really cared about was what conditions had been set by both sides in the ceasefire treaty.

    Properly speaking, the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had clearly won, forcing the Candra Empire to sign the ceasefire treaty. Then the ceasefire treaty should be very favourable towards the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But considering the fact that the Candra Empire was arge empire with a thousand years of history, with a deep foundation, even if the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce relied on the military magic machines to obtain the advantage on the battlefield, it would be impossible for them to force the Candra Empire to sign excessive terms.

    So everyone was very curious about the contents.

    It didn¡¯t matter with the Rudson Kingdom since it wasn¡¯t the first time war had happened on the Sines Continent. The ceasefire treaty signed between the two countries should be normal.

    What people were truly curious about was how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as apany would sign a ceasefire treaty with an empire like the Candra Empire. This was the first time this was happening in the history of the Sines Continent.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just apany in the end. They didn¡¯t have many conditions that could be guessed like with the Rudson Kingdom, so what kind of conditions would they give?

    However, whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Candra Empire, they didn¡¯t discuss the ceasefire treaty. They didn¡¯t reveal any conditions that were agreed upon in this treaty.

    But based on the spection of how the Rudson Frestech Allied forces quickly withdrew from the Candra Empire¡¯s territory after the ceasefire treaty was signed, the Candra Empire must have agreed to conditions that the Rudson Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were very satisfied with. Otherwise, they wouldn¡¯t have retreated that quickly.

    However¡­¡­for the Candra Empire, signing the ceasefire treaty was just the beginning.

    Because of the defeats from the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, even if the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t being affected by them, their territory had fallen into chaos.

    Not mentioning anything else, just the more than ten provinces that dered their independence was a headache for the Candra Empire royal family.

    Although the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces had withdrawn, it wasn¡¯t that easy for them to stabilize the chaotic condition that the Candra Empire was currently in.

    Most people thought that even if the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯t holding a knife to the Candra Empire¡¯s back at this time, the Candra Empire would have to spend a lot of effort to pacify its internal situation.

    On November 9th, the Marlow Empire along with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy announced that they had signed a ceasefire treaty.

    This meant that after the Candra Empire had been forced to sign the ceasefire treaty, the other backbone of the camp of the two empires, the Marlow Empire had also been forced to end the war.

    Although it was different from the Candra Empire being forced to sign the ceasefire treaty after a disastrous defeat, everyone could tell that the Marlow Empire had paid a heavy price.

    After all, in the fight on the Tara ins, the Marlow Empire had sent arge reinforcement army to resist the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces with the Candra Empire. However, they had also suffered a disastrous defeat with them.

    It was clear that the Marlow Empire side had realized that they couldn¡¯t defeat the army that was receiving support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of military magic machines, so they would be defeated just like the Candra Empire. Instead of letting them break through to their capital, it was better to recognize this situation and pay a price earlier for peace.

    As for the details of the ceasefire treaty, the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Drake Duchy didn¡¯t announce a thing.

    But based on what happened after, they could see quite a few clues.

    The most clear example was that the Falk Kingdom government that had been in exile in the Marlow Empire had announced their dissolution, formally announcing that the Falk Kingdom had perished.

    At the same time, the Sack Kingdom royal family that had been in hiding with the support of the Marlow Empire had disappeared without a trace.

    This meant that the Sack Kingdom had also vanished into history.

    Based on the agreement the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy hade up with beforehand, they carved up the territories that once belonged to the Falk Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom.

    Of course, the Lampuri Kingdom received the bigger part, which was most of the Sack Kingdom and a bigger half of the Falk Kingdom. The Drake Duchy only upied twenty thousand square kilometers of the Sack Kingdom near their border and a smaller half of the Falk Kingdom¡¯s territory.

    Like this, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s territory had expanded by more than two times. They had jumped up from a normal country in the southwest to a super country that was only second to the two empires.

    The expansion of the Drake Duchy was even more exaggerated. A small duchy that only had ten thousand square kilometers ofnd had suddenly be arge country with over two hundred thousand square kilometers ofnd.

    With such arge territory, naturally they couldn¡¯t be considered a small duchy anymore.

    On November 17th, on the founding anniversary of the Drake Duchy, Duchess Caroline announced that she would take the throne, bing the Drake Kingdom¡¯s first queen.

    From that day forth, the Drake Duchy had be the Drake Kingdom.

    The Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t show the same clear clues, but they fully worked on absorbing the new territory, encouraging the Lampuri Kingdom merchants to start investing in products in the new territories.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had always been doing this, but they had been limited because they had been investing in other countries.

    Now that the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom no longer existed, the hindrance had been removed and the Lampuri Kingdom worked even faster.

    On November 23rd, the Wales Duchy with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards broke through the Drow Race Kingdom¡¯s capital Drow City. King Wacker died while protecting the royal pce and Drow City fell, causing the Drow Race Kingdom to announce their dissolution.

    On the same day, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that had been calmly defending suddenly attacked.

    With therge amount of military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had achieved victory in thirteen battles and repelled all the enemies sieging them.

    Then the southeastern countries responded to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s call, signing the ?Sines Continent Southeastern Countries Trade Cooperation Treaty?, or simply known as the ?Southeast Treaty?.

    ording to this ?Southeast Treaty?, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s thirteenpanies were givenplete trade rights in the southeasternpanies.

    Some people with discerning eyes could see that with the strong mercantile power of the thirteenpanies of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, as well as the powerful magic machine industrial system developed from cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, once they were free to trade in those countries, the entire southeast of the continent would be the world of the thirteenpanies.

    However¡­¡­it depended on one¡¯s strength. If the southeastern countries weren¡¯t willing to sign this treaty, they would have no other choice.

    On November 29th, the Mana Magic Kingdom also announced that they signed a ceasefire treaty with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Hence the war between the camp of the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce thatsted a year and half, enveloping the entire Sines Continent had officially ended.

    In the history of the Sines Continent, a war of this scale ending in just a year and a half had never been heard of before.

    When two empires had fully gone to war before, it hadsted twenty three years before it was finally over.

    Of course, everyone understood that the reason it ended this quickly was all because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines were just too strong. It meant that there was no suspense in a direct conflict at all.

    Then¡­¡­while the countries involved in the war announced the end of the war, what was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing?

 Book 7: 148: Want more things

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 148: Want more things</h4>

    At least in the two to three months after the two empires signed the ceasefire treaty, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything.

    Although since the end of the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been restoring their major operations in each region that had been seriously damaged because of the war, these things in the minds of most people were considered trivial. It couldn¡¯t be considered that important at all.

    No one believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would take such arge risk, going to war with the two empires and then obtaining victory just to return to the state that they had been in before.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really didn¡¯t do anything. They just restored their operations bit by bit as per their n.

    But people could easily see that the footholds the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were restoring were in much more important positionspared to before.

    Not to mention the small countries, even in the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received more preferential treatment from the local officials. There were many times where they were treated even better than the localpanies of the two empires.

    This was naturally the benefit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received from the war, but to many people, this was far from being enough.

    Look, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy received all that preciousnd and had already stabilized their situation.

    Although the Rudson Kingdom didn¡¯t obtain that muchnd, they had integrated the territory of the Norton Duchy into their fold. They also received reparations of over two hundred million gold coins from the Candra Empire, as well as other benefits that couldn¡¯t be estimated.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany and shouldn¡¯t be looking for territory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the leader of this war. Whether it was the Lampuri Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, or the Rudson Kingdom, the main reason they could fight the two empires was because of the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Since it was like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should receive the most benefits.

    So many people were doubtful about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not doing anything during this time because it didn¡¯t make sense.

    ¡°Is it really that hard to understand?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug and revealed a rxed smile, ¡°For ourpany, letting everything return to normal is the biggest benefit. Look, because of this war, ourpany invested a total of three hundred million gold coins. This isn¡¯t even adding in the serious losses that we suffered during the two years of the war, which would add up to at least two hundred million gold coins. So letting everything go back to normal is the biggest benefit to us.¡±

    Seveni slightly knitted her brows to look at Xu Yi for a while before shaking her head with a sigh.

    ¡°I believe that this is the truth for you, but Xu Yi, this isn¡¯t what everyone in yourpany wants. So if you say that yourpany really isn¡¯t nning to benefit from this at all, not even a single finger of mine would believe you.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t believe me, could it be that you want me to exin it one by one?¡± Xu Yi smiled and decided to put aside this topic, ¡°If you want to talk about benefits, on the surface, most people believe that your Lampuri Kingdom was the one that benefited the most from this. As the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, what do you think?¡±

    Seveni revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Alright, stop taunting me. It¡¯s not like you don¡¯t know how busy I am. I already had to do everything I could just to free up time to see you today.¡±

    ¡°Then does that mean I¡¯m disturbing you?¡± Xu Yi gave augh. He acted like he was about to leave, but Seveni stopped him after a few steps.

    ¡°Stop joking.¡± Seveni reprimanded, ¡°You should be clear what I am here to discuss.¡±

    Seeing that Seveni couldn¡¯t hide the exhaustion on her face, Xu Yi gave a sigh before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop joking. Seveni, you should be worried about how to digest therge territory from the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom, right?¡±

    ¡°More urately, it should be how to digest all the people that lived in those territories.¡± Seveni deeply knitted her brows, ¡°Although obtaining all this territory is a good thing, even making countless people in the kingdom think of me as the greatest queen in history, those people don¡¯t know how hard it is to really make those people living on thosends be part of our Lampuri Kingdom.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s that difficult.¡± Xu Yi said with a rxed smile, ¡°To be honest, in the countless countries of the Sines Continent that I¡¯ve inspected, I¡¯ve found that all countries have something inmon. It is that whichever country it is, the citizens don¡¯t have any sense of belonging or loyalty to the country.¡±

    Seveni blinked before looking at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that natural? Are you just discovering that now?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression froze.

    He thought that this was a profound insight that hade from many years of observation, but he never thought that Seveni would address it as ¡°natural¡±.

    ¡°Hey, as a queen, you think that your citizens not having any loyalty towards you is natural?¡±

    ¡°Of course. The citizens only give loyalty to the nobles that own thend they live on, as for the country¡­¡­There¡¯s no meaning in showing loyalty to the country, so why would they do this?¡±

    Xu Yi then understood that Seveni had treated ¡°loyalty¡± as ¡°being loyal to their territory¡± which was what wasmon on the Sines Continent.

    But to speak of this, Seveni wasn¡¯t wrong.

    Perhaps it was because of this tradition on the Sines Continent that caused the people of the continent to not have any loyalty towards their country.

    When Xu Yi had studied the history of the Sines Continent, he found that in the three thousand years the humans ruled over the continent, there were countless countries that had changed history, causing countless wars, but there wasn¡¯t a single battle where themoners were the protagonists.

    Strictly speaking, the rise and fall of nations on the Sines Continent was unrted to the normal citizens. It was just a game between the nobles.

    If it continued like this, how could the citizens have a sense of belonging and loyalty towards their country?

    But there were also benefits to this. It was when a country seized the territory of another country, they didn¡¯t need to spend that much time to make them change their minds, to make them a part of the new country.

    ¡°So isn¡¯t this very simple? As long as you can let the new citizens live a good and prosperous life, with each person having enough food to eat and clothes to wear, I think the citizens wouldn¡¯t cause that much trouble for you.¡± Xu Yi said with an indifferent look.

    ¡°You make it sound so simple.¡± Seveni red at Xu Yi, ¡°Not mentioning anything else, it¡¯s already hard just to let everyone eat their fill, alright?¡±

    ¡°Is it that hard?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°Just take out the experience of promoting the agricultural magic machines that you have and promote it here as well. Those things were spread across the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom before, so it wouldn¡¯t change after your Lampuri Kingdom takes over.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s the problem.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°There was only your Frestech Chamber of Commerce selling agricultural magic machines to the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom before, they had to take what you sold them. Even if the agricultural magic machines you sold were a grade lower than our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s and were a bit older, there was no problem. They couldn¡¯tin and even if they could, it would still go to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°After they¡¯ve be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s citizens, they want to obtain simr treatment as your Lampuri Kingdom citizens and want the same grade of agricultural magic machines?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°That is just one part. Other than the agricultural magic machines, the people of the new territory want the fertilizer, the agricultural magic machine preferential treatment, as well as maintenance, and all the other benefits¡­¡­¡± Seveni spread her hand, ¡°I want to agree to these things, but I can¡¯t make that decision and they don¡¯t believe that I can make that decision.¡±

    Seeing the helpless look on Seveni¡¯s face, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°So you want something from me that can let you make that decision?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Seveni openly gave a nod in response to this.

    After knowing Xu Yi for this long, she was clear on how to talk to Xu Yi.

    There were many times that being direct was what Xu Yi liked.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­then what do you want specifically?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Seveni turned around to pick up a document that she had already prepared from the desk behind her to give to Xu Yi.

    ¡°It¡¯s all written here.¡±

    Xu Yi took the document and after casually taking a few looks, his mouth opened in surprise.

    ¡°He, Seveni, your appetite isn¡¯t small, you want to take away all these things at once? Not mentioning anything else, you actually want the production magic machine technology. You should know that ourpany hasn¡¯t transferred this technology before.¡±

    ¡°It hasn¡¯t been transferred before, that doesn¡¯t mean you won¡¯t transfer it.¡± Seveni said with a serious look, ¡°Xu Yi, your ideal is to let the magic machine industry cover the entire continent, so your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t keep this production magic machine technology forever. Otherwise, the other countries will always only be able to make the most simple household magic machines and this can¡¯t be considered developing the magic machine industry. So other than household magic machine technology, you have to transfer the technology sooner orter.¡±

    ¡°Your words are very reasonable.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, ¡°But why do you think that I will choose the Lampuri Kingdom as the first ones to transfer this technology to?¡±

    ¡°Would you believe it if I said that it was because of the good rtionship I have with you?¡± Seveni asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°You aren¡¯t a fool like this.¡±

    ¡°So what I am relying on is the magic machine industry foundation that the Lampuri Kingdom already has, as well as the relevant experience with crafting magic machines that is deeper than any other countries, along with years of cooperating with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. How about it? Is that enough?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the document in his hand and looked at Seveni¡¯s sincere expression before revealing a faint smile.

    ¡°It seems like there will be a new page in the Sines Continent¡¯s history of the magic machine industry.¡±

 Book 7: 149: Buy if you want, scram if you donâ€™t

    Book 7: Chapter 149: Buy if you want, scram if you don¡¯t

    The New Years of year 3804 passed silently. When everyone thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t make anyrge moves and gradually turned their eyes away from them, a piece of news came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that exploded the continent.

    On February 17th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced on the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that after internal discussions, they had decided to share some of the magic machine technology outside of the household magic machine technology.

    This news immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only released mainly household magic machine technology. When it came to the other magic machines, they only cooperated with the countries that they were closest to in terms of a few military magic machines and there were no other technology that was released.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this announcement with their official channel, naturally there would be many people paying attention to it.

    After this, for two consecutive weeks, the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? continued mentioning this matter. On March 4th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly held a press conference in Frestech City to make a formal announcement. They announced that they would be releasing arge amount of technology rted to the production magic machines, as well as other magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    This news spread across the entire Sines Continent like it grew wings. In just a single week, the representatives of countless countries andpanies, as well as some unknown organizations rushed to Frestech City to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce created a list of the technology they would be releasing, clearly stating the price tag of each piece of technology and each piece wasn¡¯t cheap.

    For example, the semiautomatic Magic Lathe, the price was set to three hundred and forty thousand gold coins.

    Or the blueprint for the design of the Wind Magic Engine, the price was set for six hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

    Or for example¡­¡­

    It had to be said, the price really was excessively high and many peopleined that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just robbing them.

    But even if they didin, countless people still bought the rare technology released by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In just a single week after the press conference, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finalized three hundred and seventy six technology transfer agreements, reaching an amount of two hundred and sixty four million gold coins.

    Of course, other than the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire, or the Lampuri Kingdom that had rich resources, orpanies that were even richer than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, there weren¡¯t many organizations that could swallow all this technology at once.

    Due to financial limitations, many countries and organizations had to carefully choose the technology they bought. It was clear that they were nning to specialize in one kind or several kinds of magic machines.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported this view, even making several ¡°technology bundles¡±. It was selling the technology rted to that magic machine together, so they would earn some discounts from buying it.

    These discounts weren¡¯t just discounts in sale price, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also provide technological support and follow up services for those who bought these ¡°technology bundles¡±, guaranteeing that those who bought these bundles would be able to digest the technology.

    This service wouldn¡¯t be provided to customers who bought the technology alone.

    So because of this added service, as well as considerations of the countries and organizations that bought this technology, the ¡°technology bundle¡± was warmly weed.

    Of the three hundred and seventy six cases of technology transfer, over half of them were those that bought that ¡°technology bundle¡±.

    Of course, some people raised questions about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this.

    The people who raised questions stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t put that much useful technology in this ¡°technology bundle¡±. So while it seemed like buying the bundle was enticing, in reality, the bundle wouldn¡¯t give much technology to you, but rather you would lose some.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s response to these doubts were very simple.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce trades in the spirit of equal and mutual benefits, we do not take any measures to coerce customers into buying our products. If you are dissatisfied with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales strategies, you can give your suggestions and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will sincerely listen. At the same time, customers have the right to choose not to buy.¡±

    These words seemed a bit troublesome and it seemed quite important if you listened to it, but there was a simple exnation to this.

    But if you want, scram if you don¡¯t.

    This attitude made many people unhappy, but they could only keep this unhappiness in their heart for a bit before throwing it away.

    At such a crucial period, who would have time to vent their displeasure with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? It was better to take this time to buy their technology.

    In the end, no matter how arrogant the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was or how they bullied their customers, making people want to curse them, they were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They were the onlypany that had control of all this magic machine technology.

    To get that technology, they had no other choice.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t a normalpany. They were a powerful organization that had forced the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire to sign a peace treaty with them.

    Even the two empires couldn¡¯t do anything to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so how could other people have anyints?

    From the sale of this technology, one could see the future trend.

    Organizations with strong finances like the two empires and the Chimera Chamber of Commerce naturally hoped to get as much technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as possible, then they would work hard to build their own magic machine industry, so they were no longer restrained by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As for the weaker and smaller countries andpanies, they knew that even if they had their own ambitions, without enough strength, they could only try to reach the pinnacle of several types, or even a single type of magic machine. Being able to develop this type of magic machine would be the result of receiving guidance from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So on the future Sines Continent, there was no doubt of the focus of developing the magic machine industry. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had defeated the two empires to tell everyone that if they didn¡¯t develop their magic machine industries, they would be eliminated.

    But there were clearly different paths of development. Some could develop in a broad sense and some would develop in a refined sense.

    This was just like the modern industry on earth, which was what Xu Yi wanted to see the most.

    Of course while Xu Yi was happy, it also meant that many people were unhappy.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, about these three production magic machine technology, our Candra Empire has made an application to buy them three times, but why aren¡¯t you willing to ept it?¡±

    The Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce¡¯s chief and Xu Yi¡¯s old acquaintance Marquis Descartes knitted his brows as he read the list in his hand, looking very dissatisfied.

    ¡°You¡¯ve said that you wanted to develop the magic machine industry on the sines Continent, so that was why you transferred yourpany¡¯s unique magic machine technology. But¡­..even if you do transfer it, shouldn¡¯t you pick the best recipient?¡±

    ¡°Marquis Descartes is right.¡± The Marlow Empire¡¯s representative on the side, the Marlow Empire¡¯s foreign trade department¡¯s chief Marquis Seans knitted his brows as well, ¡°There¡¯s no doubt that the power of our two empires are much greater than the smaller countries and unknown small organizations. If you transfer this technology to us, I can guarantee that it will have a better effect on future development, so why aren¡¯t you willing?¡±

    ¡°The two of you, didn¡¯t I say it before? Didn¡¯t you already buy all the technology that you wanted?¡± Xu Yi said with a faint smile.

    ¡°But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support staff is limited and technological support is limited, it¡¯s impossible to give that many people support and follow up services at once. If you just give this technology to us, or centralize the support around us, I think that these technologies will quickly show their use in our hands. No matter how you look at it, it would be better than those small countries and unknownpanies, right?¡± Marquis Descartes continued.

    ¡°Then based on your words, wouldn¡¯t it be better if I focused the support to these small countries andpanies?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°They aren¡¯t like your two empires, wanting to swallow all the technology at once and just want to specialize in a few or even one type of technology. Compared to this, I believe that they will be easier to develop.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t right, right?¡± Marquis Seans shook his head, ¡°Our two empires, whether it is strength or finances, are better than them. No matter how you look at it, our conditions are better and easier to develop. Not to mention anything else, just in terms of magicians, our two empires are much better than any other country or organization.¡±

    Marquis Descartes nodded in response. When he wanted to say something, Xu Yi raised his hand to stop him.

    ¡°Speaking of this, when ites to the magicians, what are the thoughts of your two empires?¡±

    The two were stunned before looking at each other and falling silent.

    Seeing the response from the two of them, Xu Yi understood. It was clear that the two empires hadn¡¯t made a decision in the proposal he made two months ago.

    ¡°This means that you aren¡¯t willing to agree?¡± Xu Yi revealed a cold smile, ¡°You¡¯re not willing to agree to my request and you¡¯re making this kind of unreasonable request, how do you want me to respond?¡±

    The two of them quickly squeezed out a smile and Marquis Descartes said, ¡°Chairman Xu, don¡¯t misunderstand, these are two different matters. As for the magicians issue, the empire is still discussing this. You should know that this will require the agreement of the magicians in the empire and without their agreement, how could we¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about the magicians.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°I¡¯ve already spoken to the people of the Magicians Guild and the Magicians Survival Job Security Union, they have already agreed to my suggestion. Moreover, I have talked to the Arch Magi of your two countries in secret and they all agree as well. So¡­..there is only your two empires that are left.¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Their expressions became a bit ugly, ¡°Even if our two countries agree, there are many countries on the continent¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°If your two empires agree, the two major magician organizations agree, and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce agrees, who would dare to go against it?¡± Xu Yi raised his voice a bit as he asked this back.

    Seeing the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Marquis Descartes and Marquis Seans looked at each other before revealing bitter smiles.

    Actually, Xu Yi¡¯s words were already giving them as the representatives of the two empires plenty of face.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s prestige on the continent, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a certain request, which country or organization on the continent would dare oppose it.

    As for the opinion of the individual magicians?

    Didn¡¯t they hear what Xu Yi had just said? He had already reached an agreement with all the Arch Magi of the two empires, so which magician would be blind enough to go against him?

    ¡°Then¡­¡­Chairman Xu, if our two countries agree to this matter, can you consider the request that we were just talking about?¡± Marquis Descartes asked again.

    Xu Yi looked at the two of them and revealed a faint smile, ¡°Marquis Descartes, you said it just now, these are two different matters. How could they be discussed together?¡±

    Marquis Seans and Marquis Descartes exchanged helpless looks as they had nothing to say in response to this.

 Book 7: 150: Magicians Peace Convention

    Book 7: Chapter 150: Magicians Peace Convention

    The release of technology other than the household magic machines was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first major move after the New Years.

    On April 1st, it was a bit special in another world, but it was a peaceful and normal day on the Sines Continent. The Magicians Guild and the Magicians Survival Job Security Union, the tworgest magician organizations on the continent came together with the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, for a total of eighty three other countries to make a public announcement.

    The two magician organizations and over four fifths of all the countries on the continent signed a ?Magicians Peace Convention?, which created a new rule on the magicians of the continent.

    The main text of this strange sounding ?Magicians Peace Convention? was long, but what truly caught everyone¡¯s attention was one line.

    From the day this convention was signed, all magicians that were registered with the two great magician organizations would no longer be able to enter wars. The offenders would be removed from the records of the two magicians organizations and would be dered a public enemy of all magicians on the continent.

    There was no need to mention the Magicians Guild, but the Magicians Survival Job Security Union through the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already developed into a powerful organization that wasn¡¯t weaker, and was even stronger than the Magicians Guild.

    If the tworge magicians organizations wanted to restrain the magicians of the continent at the same time, the rule that they came up with would be an irond rule for most magicians.

    In other words, starting today, if the magicians of the continent wanted to remain on the continent, they would no longer be able to enter the battlefield anymore.

    At the same time, the eighty three countries, including the two empires stated that they would no longer be recruiting magicians into their armies and wouldn¡¯t let any magicians directly enter the battlefield.

    This meant that even if some magicians went against the rules of the tworge magician organizations, wanting to join the battlefield, there would be no coutnry¡¯s army that would recruit them, making their efforts useless.

    It had to be said, this ?Magicians Peace Convention? was simply breaking the traditions of the Sines Continent.

    When humans grasped magic three thousand years ago, the human magicians realized their value on the battlefield.

    Whether it was the race wars three thousand years ago, or the fights between humans and other racester, orter when human countries fought against each other after taking control of the continent, magicians could be considered the leads and darlings of the battlefield.

    In everyone¡¯s mind, the magicians that had powerful and destructive spells could only show their value on the battlefield.

    The reason why magicians were respected and even worshipped was because Arch Magi had the power to determine battle by themselves.

    This concept hadsted three thousand years in the human society of the Sines Continent, it was already deeply ingrained in everyone¡¯s minds.

    Now the tworge magician organizations and all the countries on the continent were telling everyone that magicians couldn¡¯t enter the battlefield anymore?

    What a joke!

    If magicians didn¡¯t enter the battlefield, how could they disy their value?

    Could it be that magicians could do something other than fighting?

    Wait¡­¡­

    These words made sense on the past Sines Continent, but on the current Sines Continent, they didn¡¯t make that much sense¡­¡­

    The difference was that the past Sines Continent didn¡¯t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the magic machine industry.

    After everyone was depressed after hearing this news, they realized an important issue.

    Among those that signed this ?Magicians Peace Convention?, other than the two great magician organizations, all the countries including the two empires, there was another name that was different because it was the name of apany.

    Thispany was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone that seriously read the ?Magicians Peace Convention? would notice that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name had appeared many times in the convention. It even explicitly stated that this ?Magicians Peace Convention? was suggested by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that the two great magician organizations and the eighty three countries including the two empires came to an agreement.

    There was no need to guess, everyone understood that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce put all this effort into passing this convention for their own benefits.

    But what benefits would this convention bring to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    One could easily understand as long as they weren¡¯t a fool.

    Because of the restrictions of this convention, magicians could no longer go to war and can¡¯t receive the special treatments from joining the armies of the two empires.

    Then what would the over a hundred thousand magicians of the continent do?

    They couldn¡¯t just go to the variouspanies to be guards, right?

    At this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would provide another outlet for these magicians. They could enter the magic machine industry and study magic machines.

    In the past twenty years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used facts to prove to the magicians that studying in the magic machine industry would mean they could also receive great benefits, showing their value.

    In the warst year where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the several countries on their side defeated the two empires, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines could even kill Arch Magi. They had even made all magicians, including Arch Magi lose their use.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the ones that developed these powerful military magic machines were the researchers of the magic research facility. There was only a single Great Magician among these researchers and the rest were all High Grade Magicians.

    Just with the strength of a Great Magician and normal magicians, they could kill Arch Magi. This had never happened before in the history of the Sines Continent.

    So after this war, the magicians of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility became gods among the other magicians of the continent.

    Even if they ignored the fame, ording to the data that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released, these researchers would earn a fix ie of over fifty gold coins a month and they could even earn over two thousand gold coins a year!

    Not to mention that the Great Magicians the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hired several years ago were already making over ten thousand gold coins a year!

    This kind of ie would be in the top bracket on the entire Sines Continent.

    Compared to working for the armies of the countries or guarding otherpanies, the rewards for working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were much greater.

    The most important thing was that you didn¡¯t have to risk your life with this work¡­¡­

    So when the news was spread by the various newspapers or the news report on the Magic Illusion Projectors, everyone found that the appearance of this ?Magicians Peace Convention? wasn¡¯t making the magicians lose their value. Rather it was something that opened a brand new world for them.

    After the things the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released developed for a while, they had always been fiercely disputed by the magician circle.

    Some magicians thought of themselves as aloof magicians. They should demonstrate their destructive might in battles and show that they were above normal people.

    Some magicians were more practical and felt that as long as they could earn money, there wasn¡¯t much else to consider.

    Before this ?Magicians Peace Convention? came out, the faction that supported magicians entering wars was bigger because this was a tradition that hadsted for several thousand years.

    But after this ?Magicians Peace Convention? came out, the practical magicians faction tok over and crushed the militant faction.

    In the end, this was also because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce demonstrated an unparalleled might in the warst year, making the two empires unable to fight back and had to ask for peace.

    On the current Sines Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented absolute power.

    Since this matter was led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was approved by the two great magician organizations and most of the countries including the two empires, even supported by the well known Arch Magi of the continent, the normal magicians didn¡¯t have anything else to say.

    Not to mention that after this was announced, the two empires also announced a series of statements that they would be fully developing their internal magic machine industries. They would fully support the development of the magic machine industry in their borders and would be working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, striving to poprize the magic machine industry internally as soon as possible.

    To achieve this, the two empires were working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to found new magician schools. They would teach magicians about how to work in the magic machine industry, with the purpose of letting those magicians who weren¡¯t familiar with the magic machine industry quickly gain the skills that they needed, allowing them to better enter the magic machine industry.

    The two empires were even willing to give benefits to the magicians who joined the magic machine industry. For example, your school fees would be exempt when studying at the new school, your taxes would be reduced when you worked in the magic machine industry, you could even receive a special citizen status if you received a Magic Mechanical Engineer qualification issued by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, and more¡­¡­

    In short, it could be described in one phrase.

    Are you a magician? Quickly join the magic machine industry!

 Book 7: 151: Stable situation

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 151: Stable situation</h4>

    Stripping the magicians from the battlefield and half forcing them into the magic machine industry, that was only the first step in Xu Yi¡¯s n to develop the magic machine industry.

    The magic machine industry was a very broad industry and to develop itprehensively, other than magicians, they couldn¡¯t miss out on other aspects.

    After announcing this ?Magicians Peace Convention?, Xu Yi¡¯s next goal was to develop therge number of workers that the industry needed.

    Being restrained by production before, although the humans on the continent had ruled it for several thousand years, they could never develop their poption. Right now the total poption of the entire continent is only less than two hundred million people.

    Compared to the vast Sines Continent, this poption seemed a bit sparse.

    For Xu Yi who wanted to develop aprehensive and mature magic machine industry, thebour provided from this sparse poption was far from enough.

    Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t greatly increase the poption of the Sines Continent at once because that would require a lot of time as a foundation.

    So under the existing conditions, Xu Yi chose two means to solve this matter.

    The first was starting from the root.

    Around a month after the ?Magicians Peace Convention? was announced, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a big move.

    May 3rd, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held another press conference, announcing that they would be cooperating with twenty six countries in terms of agricultural magic machines.

    This wouldn¡¯t just provide them with agricultural magic machines, it also included the new and mature farming method that the Lampuri Kingdom had already developed. They would help them grasp this ¡°modern¡± farming method which would greatly increase their country¡¯s grain yield.

    After this news was analyzed by the newspapers, people found that the twenty six countries chosen by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all carefully chosen.

    These twenty six countries, all of them had one thing inmon. It was that they were all on tnd and mainly had ins on their territory, which provided plenty of farming area.

    This meant that these countries were most suited for the new farming method the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was promoting. This would make it easier to implement the new farming method and greatly increase the grain yield.

    Many countries had many opinions about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s choices.

    They stated that their countries also had simrnd and needed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support to increase their grain yield.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make different decisions based on the situation of the countries. They chose these twenty six countries to promote the new farming method because they had suitable conditions, but that didn¡¯t mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give up on the different countries.

    After this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will provide different agricultural magic machines based on the differentnds of each country, doing their best to satisfy their needs.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stated that their goal was to increase the overall grain yield on the continent, allowing everyone to have enough food, which was also the goal of every country and person on the continent. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hoped that all the countries and organizations would work with them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t state how the countries and organizations would work with them, but no one asked this question¡­¡­

    So this first method of starting from the root was to increase the overall grain yield on the continent, increasing the poption of the continent.

    As for the second method, that was to work with existing conditions.

    The manpower on the Sines Continent was limited and effectivebour was even more limited. To develop the magic machine industry, naturally they had to increase the quality of the existingbour force as much as possible.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed cooperation agreements with the two empires and most of the countries, nning to build over five hundred magic industry vocational schools in these countries.

    These schools would be the same as the Frestech Academy, they would help students master the magic machine industry rted skills and building a foundation for them, allowing them to quickly start working in the magic machine industry.

    This n was naturally warmly weed by all the countries on the continent. However, because the investment these schools required wasn¡¯t small and many countries had limited finances, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to pay for most of the school funds.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t investing in them for free.

    No country wanted to give up the controlling power of these schools, so many countries had signed other cooperation agreements with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s suggestion to keep this controlling power.

    These agreements involved various resources in these countries. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build vocational schools that these countries controlled and they would gain the rights to these resources, so it was considered a trade.

    ording to the estimates the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave, because the schools would take three to five years to set up and the countries would need to invest a lot of time to develop their magic machine industries, it would take three to five years before these measures were set in ce.

    During these years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had something else important to do. It was to stabilize the situation of the continent, creating a peaceful environment on the continent to invest in the magic machine industry.

    Although most of the two empires¡¯ camp had been forced to sign peace treaties with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, meaning that the war on the continent hade to an end, it didn¡¯t mean that the continent had truly returned to peace just yet.

    The clearest example was the Candra Empire.

    Because of the invasion of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom allied army, causing continuous defeats for the Candra Empire, even approaching Wimbledon City, the Candra Empire¡¯s situation had been thrown into chaos.

    When they signed the peace treaty with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, close to half of the Candra Empire¡¯s provinces had already dered independence.

    After the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed their peace treaty and the war ended, even after the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces withdrew from the Candra Empire, of the provinces that rebelled, only a small part returned to normal and returned to the Candra Empire.

    Most of them were still in chaos or had dered their independence.

    The reasons why the Candra Empire agreed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s peace treaty were, one, their allied army with the Marlow Empire had been defeated and two, their domestic situation was in chaos and they couldn¡¯tst any longer.

    After making peace with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family worked with the major nobles that were still loyal to start stabilizing the domestic situation.

    However, the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family¡¯s power had mainly been crippled by the fights with the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, so they weren¡¯t confident in taking care of the rebellions.

    Although they made some progress at first, making half of the provinces that rebelled return under the control of the Candra Empire, there were some bones that were too hard to grind down.

    Among these bones, the hardest one was the southern province.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal family had tried to regain control of the southern province since the beginning of the year, spending four months without achieving anything. Rather they had suffered defeats instead and the Candra Empire¡¯s people started feeling worried.

    With no other choice, the Candra Empire requested reinforcements from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi was surprised after he had received the Candra Empire¡¯s request for reinforcements.

    But after considering the pros and cons, Xu Yi quickly made a decision.

    Half a monthter, at noon on May 24th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship squad flew over the past capital of the southern province and the current capital of the Windsor Kingdom, Dor City.

    Seeing the appearance of the Magic Airships, the Windsor Kingdom¡¯s king and the past southern province governor Duke Windsor gave up any thoughts of resisting. He quickly reached an agreement with the envoy the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent and announced his surrender.

    The Windsor Kingdom onlysted half a year before disappearing, returning back to the Candra Empire and bing the southern province again.

    After regaining the southern province, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t behead Duke Windsor¡¯s entire family as everyone had expected. Rather they let Duke Windsor continue as the southern province¡¯s governor and take care of all of the southern province¡¯s matters.

    It was like Duke Windsor had never rebelled.

    Everyone knew that this unbelievable result must be because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As expected, after the Candra Empire regained the southern province, they quickly announced a new policy which was to open a new trade area in the southern province for the entire Candra Empire. It would be open to all of the Candra Empire¡¯spanies and to all foreignpanies. Anypany could engage in free trade and investment here, enjoying the preferential treatment provided by the Candra Empire.

    Although this policy wasn¡¯t directed at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone understood that the Candra Empire did this at the request of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, all thepanies greatly weed this, even the Candra Empire¡¯s localpanies weren¡¯t an exception.

    After all, what businesses liked the most was free and the stronger the merchants, the more they enjoyed it.

    Even the weaker merchants andpanies would alsoe to find their own opportunities.

    So countless people praised this after this policy was announced.

    In this joyful atmosphere, whether it was intentional or not, everyone had forgotten the ce that was called the ¡°Torea Dominion¡± that had once belonged to the Candra Empire¡­¡­

 Book 7: 152: Long term plan

    Book 7: Chapter 152: Long term n

    ¡°Xu Yi, I feel that I can understand what you¡¯re doing less and less.¡± Chairman Cruise slightly knitted his brows as he looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    ¡°What?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile that was so rxed. No one would have ever imagined that this would be the ¡°deep¡± and ¡°cruel¡± chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, seeing this smile, chairman Cruise actually felt more depressed.

    ¡°You wouldn¡¯t discuss how to handle the Torea Dominion with the Candra Empire, so everyone thought that you would bring this ce under your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or even be a king for fun. This was something that the Candra Empire already silently approved, but you haven¡¯t made a move after all this time. Just what are you thinking? How are you nning to handle this ce?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not interested in bing a king.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You¡¯ve known me for this long, you should know this.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know that you aren¡¯t interested in bing a king, otherwise the Stantine Duchy would already be called the Frestech Duchy.¡± Chairman Cruise waved his hand, ¡°But you forcefully took the Torea Province from the Candra Empire, are you really nning on not managing it at all?¡±

    ¡°Who says I¡¯m not? Isn¡¯t the dominion¡¯s congress running it properly?¡±

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes popped out, ¡°Stop joking! The Torea Pro¡­..Alright, the Torea Dominion is such arge ce, do you really n on letting this autonomous congress run it forever? This is too absurd!¡±

    ¡°What is absurd about it?¡± Xu Yi strangely red back at chairman Cruise, ¡°Do you really think it has to be a country for this ce to be governed properly?¡±

    ¡°Shouldn¡¯t it?¡±

    Seeing the certain tone that chairman Cruise had, Xu Yi thought about it and was toozy to refute him.

    He wasn¡¯t interested in forming the ¡°Torea Kingdom¡± like many people in thepany suggested, bing the first king, but the Torea Province that was taken from the Candra Empire was an important ce, so Xu Yi naturally couldn¡¯t just give it back to the Candra Empire.

    When the Candra Empire asked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for help in regaining the southern province, they also had intentions for the Torea Province, but Xu Yipletely ignored it. The Candra Empire couldn¡¯t do anything, so they could only recognize the situation for now.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never had the Torea Province dere their independence. They operated under the name of a dominion and smoothly operated under the autonomous congress under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which many people were confused by.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t bring thisnd under their name and didn¡¯t give it back to the Candra Empire, so what were they nning on doing?

    Chairman Cruise was also very confused by this, but he wasn¡¯t like other people. He was a close partner of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over many years, so he could directly ask Xu Yi this question.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s n for this Torea Dominion was just tooplicated, so he was disinclined to exin it to chairman Cruise.

    For example, in his n, the Torea Province would operate as the Sines Continent¡¯srgest southern harbour region. With the vast coastline and the special geographical position, it would be the most important area in the southern seas, as well as bing the major marine transport hub for the east and west of the continent.

    When the magic machine industry developed properly on the Sines Continent, with the seas in the north being frozen half of the year, the Torea Dominion could control half of the Sines Continent¡¯s marine transport.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled this Torea Dominion, they would control marine transport.

    Then with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s naval forces that no one could match, the entire Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry would be greatly influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just this idea was something that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t exin to chairman Cruise, not to mention that in his n, the Torea Dominion would be the gateway to the southern hemisphere of this. It would fulfill an important role in being the window of exchange between the Sines Continent and the other continents.

    Although the Stantine Duchy had developed well under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the years, it was in a remote position. Although it was convenient to cooperate with the Magic Cloud Continent from this position, it was a bit troublesome tomunicate with the other two continents that they had confirmed.

    Moreover, the Stantine Duchy was very small and it bordered the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom. It was impossible for Xu Yi to invade those two countries, so he could only find another new ce to develop.

    The Torea Dominion was the ce that had the most developed magic machine industry infrastructure because of the previous cooperation between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire.

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to care what I¡¯m nning to do. Anyway, your Amrit Chamber of Commerce just needs to build aplete roadwork in the Torea Dominion in three years. How about it? Can you do it?¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before saying this to chairman Cruise.

    Chairman Cruise curled his lips, ¡°What do you take our Amrit Chamber of Commerce for? Such a simple job, do you need to contact me like this? Tell me, there must be another matter, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and patted chairman Cruise¡¯s shoulder. Revealing a look that said ¡®you still understand me¡¯, he continued, ¡°That¡¯s right, I still have another bolder and more difficult task, are you interested?¡±

    Chairman Cruise revealed a shocked look before asking with wide open eyes, ¡°What n do you have? Tell me about it?¡±

    Ater cooperating with Xu Yi for over twenty years, chairman Cruise knew that Xu yi would often have ideas that many people considered bold and even inconceivable, but facts always showed that Xu Yi¡¯s ideas were great and very beneficial.

    So whenever chairman Cruise heard that Xu Yi had some new idea or new n, he would be very excited.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­you should know that ourpany has always been investing in the Magic Cloud Continent, right?¡±

    Chairman Cruise was stunned. He never thought that Xu Yi would suddenly bring the topic to the Magic Cloud Continent that was over ten thousand kilometers away.

    ¡°Ah¡­¡­I do, but what about it? Is this n rted to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°Right. Cruise, I¡¯m nning on further developing the Magic Cloud Continent, so first I have toy down roads on the Magic Cloud Continent and I need the help of your Amrit Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Chairman Cruise slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Hasn¡¯t ourpany already been doing this? The two construction crews that we sent before haven¡¯t been back in a year, there are many subordinates that wereining about this.¡±

    ¡°No, not enough, far from enough.¡± Xu Yi stressed, ¡°This time the n to develop the Magic Cloud Continent isn¡¯t like before, it¡¯s not just a probe, but rather it¡¯ll be true development. Two construction crews is far from enough to satisfy my need, I need twenty construction crews or more!¡±

    Hearing the determined tone in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, chairman Cruise knew that he wasn¡¯t joking and he revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°I say, Xu Yi, it isn¡¯t like you don¡¯t know the situation with ourpany. All the countries on the continent are responding to the call from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. To develop their own magic machine industries, they need to build roads first. Ourpany has received orders for over thirty thousand kilometers of roadst month and ourpany is alreadycking construction crews. How do I find twenty construction crews to give you?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care about that. You can think of a way, I¡¯m just in charge of giving the request.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°As for the benefits your Amrit Chamber of Commerce would gain, I can¡¯t make a promise now, but I can guarantee that you will be satisfied in the future.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in a daze for a bit and then he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    ¡°If it was anyone else, they would definitely leave right away, but I believe in you. Alright, I will do my best to satisfy your request, but can you first tell me around what time you need them? If you want me to give you twenty construction crews now, I can¡¯t do it even if you beat me to death.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile that revealed his white teeth.

    ¡°There¡¯s no rush right now, it has to wait until the situation on the continent is stable.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right.¡± Chairman Cruise gave a nod before his expression changed, ¡°Right, Xu Yi, you only tested the Magic Cloud Continent before. You did that before because the Sines Continent situation made you uncertain, but now you actually feel relieved by it?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. If I reassigned the main forces to the Magic Cloud Continent before, the fellows from the two empires might have ruined this ce. As for now¡­..there¡¯s no need to worry about this.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave augh.

    After the war that enveloped the entire continent between the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone on the Sines Continent realized that they couldn¡¯t easily offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even the two empires couldn¡¯t resist the attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, how could the other countries do anything.

    If it was before, there were still some countries that wanted to take the magic machine industry from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which was what caused this war. All the countries, including the two empires wanted to cut off the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to leaverge amounts of guards to protect the Sines Continent before. Now that no country dared to offend the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s forces had been freed and they could move it to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    So Xu Yi had the idea of fully developing the Magic Cloud Continent, it was supported by the foundation of having enough military forces.

    Thinking of this, the ideas in chairman Cruise¡¯s mind started to clear.

 Book 7: 153: Busy people

    Book 7: Chapter 153: Busy people

    As the weather became warmer and warmer, the Sines Continent¡¯s situation became more and more stable.

    After the Candra Empire easily regained the southern province with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help, the other ten provinces that announced their independence quickly came back to the Candra Empire. As for the other provinces that had fallen into the chaos, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t need to send any forces. With the powerful army of the Candra Empire royal family, it didn¡¯t take long before they returned to peace.

    Very soon, the civil strife of the Candra Empire was suppressed. On the surface, other than the Torea Province that became the Torea Dominion, being treated ambiguously by the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire was no different from before the war, but their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much closer.

    Compared to this, the Marlow Empire was affected even less.

    Even if they had suffered heavy losses fighting the Lampuri Kingdom army and the Drake Duchy army, with support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as well as losing the army that helped the Candra Empire fight the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t suffer any foundational losses.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s provinces had seized the chance to dere their independence because of the invasion of the Rudson Frestech Allied Forces, but the Marlow Empire¡¯s internal situation had always been very stable and there wasn¡¯t even a single voice of opposition.

    After the war, the Marlow Empire was restored faster than the Candra Empire, not even taking half a year to recover to how they were before.

    Of course, the Marlow Empire was already close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before and after the war, their rtionship became even closer.

    After signing the peace treaty with the Lampuri Kingdom and the Drake Duchy, the Marlow Empire received many technologies from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The magic machine industry sprung up all over the Marlow Empire and in almost every city and the territory of every noble, there were various factories that appeared, looking very lively.

    The two empires returned to normal and the entire Sines Continent had gone back to how it was before.

    Compared to before the war, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received more fame and the magic machine industry became more important to the various countries, but everything else was the same.

    Of course, the Sack Kingdom and the Drow Race Kingdom that had been eliminated from the annals of the Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t think so.

    But they had already been eliminated, so no one would care about them.

    What most people cared about was still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For the Frstech Chamber of Commerce, what defeating the two empires brought, other than the fame, was naturally the most important benefit.

    Regardless of preferential treatment and resources that they received from the two empires, the greatest benefit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received was that their businesses had returned to normal.

    After the news that the two empires had signed the peace treaty with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the orders that had been cut off by the war poured into the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In just a month after the peace treaty was signed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received 80% more orders than they did in past years.

    As the situation on the continent stabilized and the two empires made their attitudes clear, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s orders kept pouring in.

    When June came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce conducted a sales statistic and found that in the first five months of the year, just the sales of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce was already far beyond what it was in previous years. It was even 40% more than before.

    This meant that after this war, not only did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not suffer any heavy losses, but rather their business swelled.

    Of course, this was a very easy to understand matter.

    After all, through the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame had spread to everyone on the continent and left a deep impression of indestructibility in their minds.

    Just with a singlepany, they destroyed the allied armies of the two empires and forced them to surrender!

    Just this was countless times better than any advertisement they could make.

    So although this impression was a bit off from the real situation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had without a doubt be the strongestpany on the continent with no match.

    Since they were the strongestpany, their products would be the best.

    So even the people that had suspicions towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and towards novel things like the magic machines couldn¡¯t help being curious about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines.

    The production magic machines weren¡¯t things that normal people could use, but the household magic machines were very useful.

    So this caused the sales of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce to soar.

    Other than the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, the sales of the other departments also increased at differing rates.

    The biggest increase was without a doubt the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce.

    In just May alone, the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales broke seventeen million gold coins!

    Of these seventeen million gold coins, five million came from agricultural magic machines. The remaining over ten million gold coins came from other magic machines.

    The reason why these production magic machines were so popr was because the other countries of the Sines Continent were trying to develop their own magic machine industries, so they neededrge amounts of production magic machines.

    And this was just the beginning of their tests. Once they had some understanding and truly wanted to develop their magic machine industries, their need for production magic machines would increase even further.

    ording to the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s estimates, they would break through sales of four hundred million gold coins this year.

    If this was true, then just with the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce alone, their annual profits would be over fifty million gold coins a year!

    With the current trend of the Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, along with the other branches, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s annual profit this year would be very terrifying. It might even be possible that it would double all of the profits fromst year.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members were happy and sad about this result.

    They were happy since the Frestech Chamber ofmerce had suffered losses from the war over the past two years, so they were happy that their profits had suddenly surged.

    They were sad because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had signed many cooperation agreements with over a hundred countries, including the two empires, so it required a lot of funds, which would put quite a bit of pressure on thepany.

    Not to mention that sir chairman also proposed an even more terrifying n. It was likely the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits for the next few years would all be invested in this and they wouldn¡¯t see any profits.

    If there was another major war, it would be an issue of whether the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had enough power to handle it.

    However, just like there was no country that dared to go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the current Sines Continent, no one in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dared to go against sir chairman.

    As for the new n sir chairman gave, not a single member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members had the energy to be surprised. They could only execute this without any hesitation and do their best.

    First not mentioning howplicated the parts of the n were, it was already hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to recover after the war.

    During the war, most of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s manpower was used to support the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards. After the war, not only could the guards not be reduced, they even had to be expanded.

    Other than ensuring that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had enough deterrent force, it was also used for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future development.

    So after the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started recruiting again.

    The terrifying battle power demonstrated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards during the war caused countless people to see it as an honour to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    So in this recruitment, there were over three hundred thousand people who came.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only recruited five thousand, which was a recruitment rate of one in sixty.

    However, don¡¯t see it as just five thousand people. There was a lot of work needed for these five thousand people, so the staff members associated with the guards were very busy during this time.

    Other than expanding their guards, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also needed to rebuild their important trade rtions.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could restore their businesses in this short period of time because they already had these businesses before, as well as the hard work of their staff members.

    Other than that, it wasn¡¯t just enough to restore it. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to do quite a bit to help the other countries build their own magic machine industries.

    To do this work, even more manpower was required, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to recruit more staff for each department, which had thrown the human resources department into chaos.

    After recruiting all these workers, they also had to train them to help them adapt to these jobs quickly, so there were many problems to deal with.

    It wasn¡¯t just the upper management and management staff that was busy, even the normal workers were busy.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to dy orders because of the war and all the new orders that came in after the war, even the normal staff had to keep working overtime.

    Of course, this was a good thing for the normal workers since they had raised the overtime pay.

    So after the war was over, all over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone became very busy.

    But while everyone was working hard, doing all they could, Xu Yi announced a decision that didn¡¯t seem normal that went against everyone¡¯s expectations.

    He actually¡­¡­wanted to hold a personal press conference.

 Book 7: 154: Superstar

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 154: Superstar</h4>

    Banta City in June was very warm and with the bright sunlight, the roads of Banta City that were covered in cement started to release steam from being baked. It made people traveling on these roads start to sweat not long after, which didn¡¯t feel that good.

    However, this didn¡¯t change Banta City¡¯s market at all as it was still as lively as ever.

    As the ce the Frestech Chamber of Commerce originated from, the source of the magic machine industry on the continent and the ce where goods transferred between the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Stantine Duchy, Banta City was the most prosperous city in the entire Lampuri Kingdom and among all the countries of the southwest corner.

    After being expanded several times, the range of the city was already more than twenty times bigger than the old Banta City. The poption had gone from just fifty thousand people to over six hundred thousandst year, bing the most popted city in the Lampuri Kingdom. It even had over a hundred thousand more people than the capital, Anvilmar City.

    If one added the massive number of transient poption, it was possible for Banta City to have a poption of over a million people.

    This kind ofrge city would naturally be very lively and very prosperous.

    But today, this liveliness and prosperity was even more clearly demonstrated.

    Especially in the block near the old part of Banta City. There were more than double the amount of people walking through the streets, filling up all the streets of the old part of the city without leaving a single crack.

    This was without a doubt a very strange scene.

    Since the new parts of Banta City had been constructed, under the guidance of the Banta City City Lord Manor, the new magic machine industry infrastructure and poption had been shifted to the new parts of the city. Even the people that used to live in the old parts of the city, because the new city had better infrastructure and better facilities, they gradually shifted over to the new city.

    In the current old parts of Banta City, there were far less people living there. There was only around thirty thousand people who still lived there and that wasn¡¯t enough to create such a scene.

    The only reason that this was happening was because there was an activity that attracted people¡¯s attention happening in the old part of the city.

    However, when this kind of activity was being held, one would normally choose to hold it in the new part of the city.

    After all, the new part of the city was spacious and was easy to travel to, so it was much better than the old parts of the city.

    So normally, the old part of the city would always be very peaceful, having the opposite feel of the lively appearance of the new parts of the city.

    Only today, whether it was the residents of the old city or the residents of the new city that all specially came here, they weren¡¯t surprised by this situation at all.

    Because the ?Banta Times? had already given an announcement about today¡¯s activity several days in advance.

    On June 18th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi would be holding a personal press conference in Banta City.

    If one had to talk about a city that was close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most people would think of Frestech City that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built, but they would also think of Banta City.

    As the city the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was founded in, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been synonymous with Banta City in their beginning.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the strife in the Lampuri Kingdom, causing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be chased out of Banta City, leaving the Lampuri Kingdom, perhaps the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base would have been in Banta City.

    The Falling Rain Valley outside of Banta City was still one of the most important magic machine industrial bases in Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom. Most of the things there were left by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Banta City locals still remembered after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, the various changes that they had brought to Banta City. Moreover, even now they still enjoyed the benefits that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had left behind for them, so naturally they were grateful towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So when they heard that Xu Yi wanted to hold a personal press conference in Banta City, the people of Banta City were all filled with excitement.

    When the day of June 18th came, there were people that flooded the old parts of Banta City early in the morning. It was for nothing else other than to attend Xu Yi¡¯s personal press conference, to personally see Xu Yi again.

    Since the press conferences in Banta City many years ago, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t appeared in the public¡¯s eyes for over ten years now.

    Although he had appeared on the battlefield in the Candra Empire, most normal people hadn¡¯t been able to see what he looked like. They could only see part of his appearance through the various Magic Illusion Projectors that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had installed all over the ce.

    Even without gratitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi, just with the fact that Xu Yi could be considered the most famous person on the continent, along with being a powerful Arch Magus, countless people had wanted to see what he really looked like.

    Among the people that flooded the old parts of Banta City, other than normal citizens, there were countless reports from newspapers from various countries.

    Xu Yi holding a personal press conference was definitely the biggest piece of news in the six months after the peace treaty between the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no newspaper was willing to miss this chance.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done many press conferences and product release press conferences, it was the first time they were holding a personal press conference.

    Not to mention that it was Xu Yi¡¯s personal press conference, so everyone was very excited. What did he want to announce through this press conference?

    So as soon as the news spread, all the newspapers had sent reporters toe to Banta City.

    There were even reporters from many newspapers that hade to the old parts of Banta City many days in advance, waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s personal press conference to begin.

    Facts proved that the reporters that hade ahead of time were smart.

    In the old parts of Banta City on June 18th, the roads had beenpletely blocked by people. It was incredibly hard just to get to the Banta City square where the press conference was being held.

    It was a good thing that the Banta City City Lord Manor had already expected this, so they had sent many guards to the various streets to maintain order.

    But even so, the streets of the old parts of the city werepletely blocked in the morning and each street leading to the square was filled with agitated crowds.

    But outside the old parts of the city, there were still people heading in and they didn¡¯t show any signs of stopping.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you really have caused quite a bit of trouble for me this time.¡± The City Lord Count Belmo looked at the crowds that were in chaos andined to Xu Yi with a bitter smile, ¡°I spent quite a bit of effort to keep the old parts of the city peaceful, but now you¡¯ve wasted all my hard work.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and spread his hands in a helpless manner towards Count Belmo.

    ¡°I also never expected that it would have such arge reaction. I thought that only some reporters would be excited by this personal press conference, but I never thought that the citizens would be this interested as well.¡±

    Count Belmo had the same bitter smile as he said, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you not know how famous you are among the citizens? Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce defeated the two empires, I dare say that in the minds of themoners, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce might not even be lower than gods. Tell me, if a god were toe to Banta City and announce that he would be meeting everyone, how could the people not go crazy?¡±

    ¡°Your words are too exaggerated.¡± Xu Yi slowly shook his head, ¡°First, it¡¯s not our Frestech Chamber of Commerce that defeated the two empires, but rather the armies of your Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom that defeated them. Second, this isn¡¯t my personal merit, but the merit of everyone from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Count Belmo pointed at the noisy crowd and said, ¡°You should tell this to them and see if they¡¯re willing to listen.¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes. He thought that he came from earth, he was far more aware of how crazy fans could bepared to him.

    It was clear that because of the war with the two empires, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman had be the most famous person on the continent. He could even be considered a superstar.

    In this world where the spread of information wasn¡¯t as developed, if a superstar like him announced that he would appear in front of everyone, naturally he would cause arge stir.

    Xu Yi had expected this, but he never thought that the people of this world would chase after stars in a manner that wasn¡¯t evenckingpared to the fans on earth. Perhaps they were even a bit more wild.

    ¡°It won¡¯t work like this. Count Belmo, issue a notice. Tell them that my personal press conference will only be open to the reporters of various major newspapers that received invitations and the others can¡¯t participate, so please ask them to leave.¡±

    Count Belmo looked at Xu Yi with a strange look before shaking his head.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you believe that if I were to tell them this, I would be beaten to death by the angry crowd?¡±

    ¡°Is it that bad?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s just that bad!¡± Count Belmo said in a firm voice.

    ¡°So you mean¡­¡­you want me to say it?¡± Xu Yi pointed at himself.

    Count Belmo¡¯s expression softened, even having a trace of begging in his eyes.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, if I could do this, how could I ask you to go? But you can also see that these people have already lost their sanity and I really don¡¯t have the confidence to control this situation without anyone getting hurt. So¡­¡­I can only trouble you for this.¡±

    Xyu Yi looked at the crowd in the square that was going crazy and he gave a bitterugh.

    ¡°Alright, this can be considered taking the consequences for my own actions.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi opened the window and flew into the Banta City square.

 Book 7: 155: Solving the riot

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 155: Solving the riot</h4>

    Based on his experience from earth, Xu Yi knew that if he directly appeared in front of everyone like this, he would cause a riot.

    If it was more serious, it was even possible to cause injuries from people getting trampled.

    So he wasn¡¯t in a rush to make an appearance. Rather he contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff in the square with his Magic Communicator and passed down his orders.

    After a while, there were fourrge Magic Illusion Projectors that were set up in the four directions of the square, as well as up to a hundred smaller Magic Illusion Projectors that were set up around the streets of the old part of Banta City, along with many more Magic Illusion Projectors all over Banta City. They suddenly started broadcasting the same image.

    Which was a full body shot of Xu Yi.

    As the Magic Illusion Projectors suddenly started broadcasting Xu Yi¡¯s image, it attracted the attention of the crowd.

    Everyone was surprised to see the Magic Illusion Projectors, but then it was unknown who started it, but there was a cheer that came from the crowd.

    The voices even shook the buildings around the square, causing Xu Yi who was flying in the air to be shocked.

    He never thought that his appearance through the Magic Illusion Projector would create such arge response.

    It was a good thing that he didn¡¯t appear in front of everyone, or even more serious consequences would have urred.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first time being cheered by this many people, so he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of self satisfaction.

    But he quickly calmed down and after a pause, he raised his hands.

    Then following this action, in the hundreds of projectors in the square and around the city, the projected image of Xu Yi also performed the same action.

    That¡¯s right, it was a live broadcast.

    Under Xu Yi¡¯s guidance, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had made breakthroughs in the Magic Illusion Projector. The live broadcast that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce kept trying to push had be a reality.

    Although this live broadcast required the target to be in the live broadcast environment to be broadcasted, because Xu Yi was an Arch Magus, he just needed to create an illusion array with the same frequency to allow him to create a live broadcast environment around himself.

    It was like the live broadcasts on earth. Xu Yi¡¯s every action was now linked to the disy of the hundreds of Magic Illusion Projectors set up.

    ¡°Hello everyone, I am Xu Yi. I am currently talking to you all through the Magic Live Broadcast set up by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.¡± Xu Yi greeted everyone with a smile.

    His voice was sent through every Magic Illusion Projector, reaching the ears of everyone in Banta City.

    After the crowd was stunned, they immediately reacted and cheered even louderpared to before.

    Xu Yi waited for around two minutes before the crowd gradually fell silent.

    ¡°Everyone, I¡¯m very happy for your support and willingness to join my personal press conference.¡± Xu Yi paused before continuing, ¡°But I think that everyone can see that since too many people havee, the small Banta City square can¡¯t hold everyone. I have even noticed that many people don¡¯t even have the space to stand up properly.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and found that they were in extreme positions because of the crowds, so they couldn¡¯t help revealing smiles.

    They didn¡¯t notice it since they were all trying to push into the square, but once Xu Yi reminded them of this, everyone realized how crazy they had been.

    ¡°I¡¯m very happy about everyone¡¯s love and care towards me, but since we¡¯re restricted by the current situation, it¡¯s impossible for me to allow everyone toe to my personal press conference.¡± Xu Yi paused before continuing, ¡°So, I¡¯m very sorry to tell everyone that for this personal press conference, only the invited reporters from the various newspapers will be allowed to attend. As for everyone else, please follow the instructions of the city guards and leave the old parts of the city.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone was first stunned before creating an uproar. Almost everyone revealed dissatisfied looks.

    ¡°Based on what!¡±

    ¡°Right! Why can these reporters participate and why can¡¯t we? We also want to see chairman Xu and hear what chairman Xu has to say!¡±

    ¡°Right, right, the square doesn¡¯t belong to the reporters, can¡¯t we just go in and listen?¡±

    ¡°I definitely won¡¯t leave!¡±

    ¡°Me too!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Seeing how agitated the crowd was, Count Belmo who was observing the situation from the City Lord Manor couldn¡¯t help being covered in a cold sweat.

    This chairman Xu, couldn¡¯t he be a bit more tactful with his words?

    Doesn¡¯t he know that if he was this direct, he would make everyone unhappy?

    When Count Belmo was about to send the guards to calm the crowd, Xu Yi spoke again.

    ¡°In order to make up for everyone¡¯s losses, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has set up live broadcast areas in the various squares outside of the old city. After everyone leaves the old city, not only can you still watch my personal press conference through these live broadcast Magic Illusion Projectors, you can also receive some gifts from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff. The gifts will be divided into several levels. The lowest will be a Frestech Brand Magic Fan and the highest will be a new generation Magic Sedan. Because the gifts are limited, those that arrive first will have a greater chance of winning a bigger prize.¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi with the fox¡¯s smile on his face in a daze, not knowing what to say in response to this.

    This was their first time hearing about this prize event. Moreover, the smallest prize was a Frestech Brand Magic Fan and the biggest price was actually a Magic Sedan!

    Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce this generous?

    Everyone¡¯s hesitation onlysted less than half a minute before they were all filled with desire for the prizes.

    It was about to enter the middle of summer and if they could win a Magic Fan, there was no doubt that it would make their summer much better.

    Even if they didn¡¯t use it and sold this Frestech Brand Magic Fan, they could at least earn a gold coin or two.

    If their luck was a bit better, they could win a better prize or even the biggest prize, the Magic Sedan¡­¡­

    The crowd immediately stirred, but this time they didn¡¯t head towards the square, but rather they poured out of the old city.

    Count Belmo looked at Xu Yi who flew back in a daze and only after a while was he able to speak.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, did you already n this ahead of time?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°If this was already nned, it wouldn¡¯t have be this bad.¡±

    ¡°Then the prize event that you mentioned¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This was the event that ourpany had prepared ahead of time for our summer sales event. I just had the staff use the prizes prepared for that event for this event, so it wasn¡¯t that hard. You can be assured.¡±

    ¡°I believe in the ability of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, only¡­¡­¡± Count Belmo licked his lips as he didn¡¯t know how to express what he really felt, ¡°Only chairman Xu was able to defuse this dangerous situation this easily and could advertise your Frestech Chamber of Commerce like this, it really fills me with admiration.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh and waved his hand, ¡°It¡¯s just a small matter, it can¡¯t be considered much.¡±

    ¡°This might be only a small matter for chairman Xu, but to me, this is a good example to learn from. I thought that you could only use violence to deal with a crowd that had lost their sanity, but I never thought that you could cheat them all with a few benefits like chairman Xu did¡­¡­Oh, I mean urge them to leave. It really has opened my eyes.¡±

    Xu Yi was toozy to deal with the ¡°cheating¡± that Count Belmo used because this method was in truth not that different from cheating them. The only difference was that cheating them meant not paying a price at all, but he had paid a small price that wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning.

    As for Count Belmo¡¯s admiration, he didn¡¯t dare take it.

    In the end, this was the experience that he gained from the events that had been held on earth.

    Count Belmo had never seen this method before because to the nobles of the Sines Continent, themoners weren¡¯t worth taking seriously, so they could naturally suppress them with violence.

    Although the crowd outside had been pushed away by Xu Yi¡¯s small gifts, there were still too many of them and it took quite a bit of time for them to all leave.

    Only when it was eleven in the morning, an hour and a half after the scheduled time for the press conference did the people outside finally leave and it returned to normal.

    However, this normal state didn¡¯t include the square.

    In this square that was over ten thousand square meters, it was still filled with people. With a rough estimate, one could tell that there were over ten thousand people here.

    ¡°It seems like not everyone is willing to leave.¡± Count Belmo looked at the crowd and gave a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, do we not need to drive these people away?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need, we can just hold the press conference normally.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he looked at Count Belmo.

    Count Belmo understood what he meant and gave Xu Yi an inviting gesture. The two of them went down at the same time,ing out of the City Lord Manor and heading to the square that was around five hundred meters away from the City Lord Manor.

    When the two of them came out, they attracted the gazes of countless people.

    The eyes of over ten thousand people in the square all gathered on Xu Yi, so it could really be considered being the center of attention.

    At this time, there was a tall figure that came from the square and arrived in front of Xu Yi with a wide smile.

    Xu Yi spread his arms and gave him a big hug.

 Book 7: 156: Reminiscent

    Book 7: Chapter 156: Reminiscent

    ¡°Hey, old partner. Calling you all the way here today, did sister inw Ria me me?¡± After letting go, Xu Yi said this whileughing.

    The person that could be called old partner by Xu Yi, other than Heinz who founded the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, who else could it be?

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Heinz broke out inughter.

    ¡°Ria was already bored of me being at home bothering her, so she sent me out early in the morning.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Then doesn¡¯t that mean you don¡¯t have a home to return to today?¡±

    Xu Yi joked as his eyes swept over Heinz.

    Because Heinz had gone to live with Ria in a remote valley outside of Banta City after retiring from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not willing to be disrupted by others and adding in the fact that Xu Yi was busy, rarelying to Banta City, thest time he saw him was already two years ago.

    After meeting again after two years, Xu Yi found that although Heinz¡¯s hair was much whiter and he had more wrinkles on his face, his face looked not bad and he seemed quite healthy which made him quite relieved.

    Heinz was already close to seventy years old, which was already quite a high age for the Sines Continent that had a low lifespan expectancy.

    To maintain this body and mind at this age, the biggest reason was because he was richer than normal people and could take care of himself better.

    Of course, this was the money that came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stocks.

    After the two talked for a bit, they went to the stage that had been built in the square together.

    Countless reporters in the square saw this and immediately lowered their heads to start writing.

    This was Xu Yi¡¯s first personal press conference in history, it was certainly a very historical event. During this event, the true veteran and major shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Heinz had also appeared which was very meaningful and worthy of being noted.

    The appearance of Heinz had actually made these reporters more curious about this press conference.

    If it was really just Xu Yi¡¯s personal press conference, why did he have to invite Heinz?

    Everyone focused on Xu Yi who had sat down on the tall stage and waited for him to speak.

    Xu Yi looked around and confirmed that his figure was being projected to the fourrge Magic Illusion Projectors on the sides of the square before revealing a faint smile. Then he waved his hand to use a sound amplifying spell.

    ¡°Hello everyone, I am Xu Yi. I wee everyone to this press conference that I¡¯m holding in my name.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi pause deliberately, the reporters suddenly broke out in a thunderous apuse.

    Xu Yi¡¯s heart filled with joy.

    Although he had held the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s product release press conferences before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never received this much attention and their influence was far below what it was now.

    After the apuse stopped, Xu Yi looked at the citizens that hadn¡¯t left the square and continued, ¡°To be honest, I knew that people would care about today¡¯s press conference, but I never thought that it would receive this much attention. I just wanted to hold this press conference in my name to express a few of my views, as well as to chat with everyone.¡±

    The reporters under the stage were shocked.

    Chat?

    Even if Xu Yi just wanted to chat, with his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, just a few words would have a veryrge impact.

    Especially in the magic machine industry domain. Any action from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would affect the development of the continent¡¯s magic machine industry. Countless countries and people focused on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, observing their every move.

    Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman, if he said anything at all, it would be analyzed by the people of many different countries to see if there was any meaning behind these words.

    So even if Xu Yi was just saying that he wanted to chat, in the eyes of others, they didn¡¯t think the same.

    ¡°But before expressing my views, I first want to reminisce a bit.¡± Xu Yi then said.

    The reporters all revealed smiles as no one was surprised.

    When Xu Yi announced that he would be holding a personal press conference, many newspapers had done their own analysis and they had quickly inferred certain things.

    Why did Xu Yi choose today and why did he choose to hold this press conference in Banta City?

    The reason was very simple. It was because June 18th was the day the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was founded.

    And Banta City was where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was founded.

    Xu Yi had invited Heinz who had lived in istion for all these years out, it was clearly tomemorate this.

    As expected, Xu Yi turned to Heinz and continued with a smile, ¡°Twenty three years ago, Heinz and I founded the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Banta City together and now twenty three years has passed. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce has already be apany of some fame on the continent, which I am very pleased by. I chose this day and chose to hold this press conference in Banta City just to take this chance to reminisce about these twenty three years.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi revealed a smile like he wasughing at himself.

    ¡°Some people say that once humans start to reminisce, it means that they are old. Indeed, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been founded for twenty three years and I¡¯m already close to fifty years old, so I am indeed old.¡±

    The people under the stage looked at Xu Yi with strange looks.

    Xu Yi¡¯s hair was still dark ck and there wasn¡¯t a single wrinkle on his face. His eyes were still bright, his skin was still glossy, and his lips were still full of energy. No matter how one looked at it, he seemed like a young man in his early thirties.

    Compared to Heinz beside him with his silver hair and face covered in wrinkles, Xu Yi was so young that it didn¡¯t make sense.

    If it wasn¡¯t for him mentioning it, no one would have thought that he was a middle aged man who was about to turn fifty.

    Of course, this was all because Xu Yi had already broken through to be an Arch Magus.

    It was said that when a magician bes an Arch Magus, they will hold the truth of magic in this world and greatly increase their lifespan, even preserving their youth.

    But when most magicians became Arch Magi, they were already in their fifties, sixties, or seventies, so they would look like an old person even after bing an Arch Magus.

    But Xu Yi was different. He had be a Great Magician when he was just thirty and became an Arch Magus when he was forty. Adding in the fact that he had maintained his body, he had always had this youthful appearance.

    It was even said that Xu Yi had good rtions with the elves, so he received special blessings from the elves. It was even said that he had received a part of the elves¡¯ secret to longevity and could live even longer than normal Arch Magus, as well as remain youthful even longer.

    This was something that was confirmed by how youthful and beautiful Xu Yi¡¯s wifes were still.

    If it wasn¡¯t for these special conditions, Xu Yi would have appeared much older even if he didn¡¯t look like a fifty year old middle aged man, he wouldn¡¯t be this excessively young looking.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t something that people could envy.

    Not mentioning anything else, just bing an Arch Magus was something that only twenty two other people on the continent had done.

    ¡°Although I¡¯m already old, my heart will not be old.¡± Xu Yi ignored the strange expressions under the stage and continued with a smile, ¡°For a person, twenty three years is a long time, it¡¯s a third of an entire life. But for apany, this is only just the beginning. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only twenty three years old, but in my eyes, it is only just beginning and it will have a long life. Perhaps a hundred years, perhaps several hundred years, or perhaps¡­¡­a thousand years.¡±

    The reporters under the stage all looked at each other with a bit of hesitation, but they still recorded Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current condition, most people wouldn¡¯tin that it was the number onepany on the continent.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a very youngpany. It was like Xu Yi had said, twenty three years was just a beginning for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development had been very good, no one could guarantee that it could develop in such a stable manner in the future.

    For it tost a hundred years, several hundred years, or even a thousand years like Xu Yi said, it was still unknown.

    There were many factors that affected the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, but the most important one to most people was whether Xu Yi will truly age and one day die of old age.

    When Xu Yi wasn¡¯t here, would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still be able to develop on the most correct path and steadily develop like the past twenty three years?

    Seeing Xu Yi getting a bit emotional talking about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development and hearing him talk about the difficulties that Frestech Chamber of Commerce faced over the years, the reporters under the stage had many different thoughts.

    Most reporters weren¡¯t interested in the twenty three years of history for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because countless people had already studied this, so there weren¡¯t any secrets left.

    There were even some people who had published books analyzing this before.

    The conclusion drawn was that for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop to this extent, it was mainly because of Xu Yi.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi having knowledge that no one could match, leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce definitely wouldn¡¯t have reached this level.

    Therefore, what most people cared about the most was still Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi had just talked about how he was already old, then did he consider what to do with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after he really had be old?

 Book 7: 157: One of the main topics

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 157: One of the main topics</h4>

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t reminiscent that long.

    He pulled Heinz in to talk about some trivial things about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the past twenty three years. After leaving plenty of room for the reporters to use their imagination, he stopped this period of fond reminiscence.

    ¡°Alright, the old people¡¯s time has passed.¡±

    The reporters under the stage let out a wave ofughter before focusing their eyes on Xu Yi.

    They knew that they were finally about to get to the main topic today.

    ¡°Next, let¡¯s get into the main topic of this press conference today. Eh¡­¡­actually, it¡¯s like I just said, I¡¯ll be chatting with everyone.¡±

    Xu Yi stopped as he swept his gaze over everyone under the stage, looking at all the reporters andmoners that were focused on him and he gave a satisfied nod.

    ¡°My teacher used to tell me that when talking with people, it¡¯s best to gather your thoughts and know what you want to talk about, so you can get your point across. So, before we start talking, I want to first gather my thoughts to share with everyone.¡±

    All the reporters raised their pens and prepared to write at any second.

    ¡°There is only one thought, which is to discuss with everyone what magic is in my mind. But as for this, we have to split them into several topics. First, are the magicians.¡±

    ¡°I think that in your minds, or perhaps the minds of most of the people of the continent, the understanding of magicians is the traditional mold of those who can wield strange magic. People that have powerful destructive might or something like that¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and everyone felt a strange feeling. They all looked up to see a dazzling me in the sky, as if the mes would fall down at any moment.

    Most of the reporters were experienced people, so some reporters quickly shouted out.

    ¡°Heavenly Fire Fall!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a Fire Attribute Forbidden Spell!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Hearing the shocked cries, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He took his hand back and the cloud of mes in the air disappeared as everything returned to normal.

    ¡°Magicians grasp great power and great destructive might, even being able to determine the results of battles. So in the eyes of many people, magicians bring fear, which isn¡¯t a strange thing at all.¡±

    ¡°But to me, this is apletely different matter.¡±

    Xu Yi flipped his hand again and a small fireball appeared in his palm.

    ¡°Magicians do indeed have great power, but this power can¡¯t just be used for destruction only, right?¡±

    At this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff on the side took out a pan and ced it over the fireball in Xu Yi¡¯s hand.

    The fireball was very hot and it didn¡¯t take long before smoke came from the bottom of the pan.

    Then another staff brought some oil and two eggs over. He first put a bit of oil in before cracking the two eggs.

    After a while, there were two fresh eggs that were cooked, releasing a bit of fragrance from the stage.

    The reporters under the stage were all confused by this situation.

    What was Xu Yi doing?

    In front of everyone, he used magic to cook eggs?

    Xu Yi took a bowl from another staff member and put the two eggs in before raising them for everyone to see.

    ¡°You must be curious why I¡¯m doing this. Actually, if you¡¯ve ever gone to school and felt hungry in the middle of the night, but you didn¡¯t have a stove and couldn¡¯t make anything, you would know why I¡¯m doing this.¡±

    Everyone had strange looks on their faces.

    In the end, how was this rted to Xu Yi¡¯s experience when he went to school?

    Where had Xu Yi gone to school before?

    It seemed to be an unknown school called the Senkaiser School¡­¡­

    ¡°Don¡¯tugh at this. The first time that I realized that magic didn¡¯t need to be used to destroy and could be used for other matters was when I had the inspiration to use it to cook eggs in my school dorm. It isn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that the appearance of the first Magic Fan and the formation of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, along with all the other magic machines was all because of these two eggs.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s exnation, the people under the stage finally understood what he meant.

    The reporters quickly wrote this down.

    This was a very worthy topic rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to report on, it was enough to write a full article with.

    ¡°Through this matter, I¡¯ve realized that magic could be used for other meaningful things and this allowed me to make other associations which allowed me to do more research. It allowed me to create many strange magic tools when I was still in school. But no one took those things seriously until I came to Banta City and made my first Magic Fan.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for me to say anything else about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce since I think that everyone should already know. I wanted to say that through this matter, as well as the magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce created, it proved my point that magic didn¡¯t just need to be used to destroy. Magicians didn¡¯t only have value in destroying and threatening others and they shouldn¡¯t be used on the battlefield.¡±

    A reporter suddenly raised his hand.

    Xu Yi looked over and saw that it was a reporter from the ?Banta Times?, so he gave a nod.

    That reporter quickly stood up and asked in a loud voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, is this the reason why yourpany along with the two empires and the two great magician organizations released the ?Magicians Peace Convention??¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Yi nodded with a serious look, ¡°In my opinion, magicians that grasp the strange thing known as magic being used to destroy is a waste of our natural resources. So I don¡¯t want to see magicians acting this way anymore and we should be using our natural resources for more beneficial things.¡±

    ¡°Then do you think that the more beneficial thing is to enter the magic machine industry and study magic machines?¡± The reporter asked.

    ¡°No, benefiting others isn¡¯t just limited to studying magic machines, there are many other things that can be done. But right now, studying magic machines is the most effective way and has the most achievements, don¡¯t you think?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    That reporter and all the other reporters fell into deep thought, but they had to admit that Xu Yi was right.

    The magicians on the Sines Continent might not have considered this matter before, so naturally they didn¡¯t know how they could use their magic to benefit others.

    Now that Xu Yi and his Frestech Chamber of Commerce had provided the new magic machine industry, it could be said that it had solved the problem perfectly and was naturally the best method.

    Seeing the reporter sitting down, Xu Yi continued, ¡°Let¡¯s bring this topic back to the understanding of magicians. In the opinion of most people, magicians represent destruction, but for me, each magician is a precious talent that has the hope of bing a researcher or engineer for ourpany. For other people, what decides the value of a magician is their grade and the might of their magic, but for me, the real value is their understanding of magic and their creativity in practical applications. Speaking of this, I will start with the second topic. What is magic?¡±

    When it came to the first topic, the people under the stage were a bit confused, but when it came to the second topic, the people under the stage focused their minds and attentively listened.

    Xu Yi was now one of the strongest Arch Magi on the continent and ording to the rumours, he had defeated several Arch Magi from the two empires. He was even called the strongest Arch Magus on the continent.

    An analysis of magic that came from him was without a doubt a valuable reference.

    ¡°Actually, this topic is aimed at the magicians of the continent. Of course, it¡¯s impossible to gather all the magicians on the continent together and have them listen to me, so I gathered all the reporters here in hope that through the major newspapers, my words will be passed down to all the magicians on the continent.¡±

    The reporters under the stage revealed proud smiles.

    Xu Yi cing this kind of importance on their newspapers naturally made them feel honoured.

    Thinking of how the first newspaper on the continent, the ?Banta Times? was personally created by Xu Yi, the reporters felt quite close to Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi¡¯s expression suddenly became serious.

    ¡°Because the following words are for the magicians of the continent, I want to seriously request to you all that you will not change these words at all. You must not omit a single word when you publish this and cannot have any errors, do you understand?¡±

    The reporters under the stage focused their minds and their smiles quickly disappeared.

    Although Xu Yi¡¯s words were a bit domineering, with his power and prestige, as well as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s position that was far above all the newspapers, no newspaper dared to go against his request.

    However, the reporters were excited about Xu Yi¡¯s request not to change a single word.

    For Xu Yi to be this serious, it meant that his following words had to be very important.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had pointed out that these words were for all the magicians on the continent, so as long as these words were published, it would attract the attention of all the magicians.

    If even those noble magicians paid attention, naturally the normal people would be even more curious.

    Would they have to worry about their sales numbers then?

    After thinking this through, all the reporters looked at Xu Yi with glowing eyes.

 Book 7: 158: I look down on all of you

    Book 7: Chapter 158: I look down on all of you

    ¡°To not hold back at all, for most of the magicians on the continent, they don¡¯t understand what magic is at all.¡±

    When Xu Yi said this first sentence, the entire audience fell silent.

    Whether it was the reporters of themoners watching, they all looked at Xu Yi with eyes of shock and faces filled with disbelief.

    This Xu Yi¡­¡­did he know what he was saying?

    Even if he was the top Arch Magus on the continent and could defeat other Arch Magi, being called the most powerful magician on the continent, could he be this arrogant?

    Saying that most magicians didn¡¯t understand what magic was? Could it be that he didn¡¯t understand?

    After this shock, the crowd immediately filled with an uproar.

    The reporters whispered to each other, giving different interpretations of Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    However, no matter who it was, they felt that Xu Yi¡¯s words were going too far. He really shouldn¡¯t be saying something like this in front of everyone.

    The reporter from the ?Banta Times? didn¡¯t even wait for an answer to his raised hand as he stood up to loudly ask Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you mean by this?¡±

    ¡°What do I mean? It means what it means.¡± Xu Yi replied in a natural manner.

    The crowd fell silent once again.

    That reporter was also suffocated by Xu Yi¡¯s words and after a pause, he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, can I take that as you looking down on the other magicians of the continent?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    The newspaper media industry had developed on the Sines Continent for over ten years, but it was farckingpared to earth¡¯s. However, these reporters had learned quite a bit about digging holes, even this reporter from the ?Banta Times? that should be close to him didn¡¯t hold back at all.

    However, it was like he didn¡¯t understand the meaning in this reporter¡¯s words at all as he nodded with a smile, ¡°Yes, I look down on them.¡±

    This answer was like throwing oil into the pot as the restlessness under the stage suddenly exploded.

    There were countless voices that rang out and therge city square had turned into a chaotic pot.

    Xu Yi looked at the chaotic reporters under the stage with a smile. He thought that these people really were as he expected, they reacted this fiercely.

    Heinz on the side looked at Xu Yi with an astonished look. Although he had been working with Xu Yi for many years, knowing fully that this fellow would have strange ideas and said things that filled people with disbelief, the words that he said just now had surprised him very much.

    He knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t an arrogant person. On the contrary, he was normally very calm and could see through various situations before slowly judging them.

    So in this unnecessary situation, he wouldn¡¯t be the kind of person that would say these words that would make many people unhappy.

    But¡­¡­why did he have to say these words?

    As if he could sense Heinz looking at him, Xu Yi turned to reveal a faint smile before patting his shoulder, signaling for him to calm down.

    Heinz felt his heart calm down immediately.

    Xu Yi had this kind of charm, he could give people confidence that would make them believe that his choices were the most urate.

    In all these years, his choices had always confused people in the beginning, but they had never disappointed once.

    So Heinz sat back down and calmly watched the reporters in chaos, silently waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s next move.

    After a while, the reporters finally reacted. Several dozen reporters stood up at the same time and even more reporters raised their hands.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your words¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I think you¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    There were a bunch of questions asked, but Xu Yi just calmly waited for a bit. Then he revealed a smile and raised his hand for the crowd to calm down.

    ¡°I know that you have many questions about what I said, this is understandable, but I¡¯m not nning on answering each question, so everyone please sit down. Please calmly listen to what I have to say.¡±

    The reporters who were standing looked at each other before sitting down.

    The reporters who had raised their hands also brought them down one by one.

    Everyone focused their eyes on Xu Yi again, patiently waiting for his exnation.

    ¡°Perhaps you as reporters will not understand, but I think that after hearing my words, the magicians of the continent will not feel confused, they won¡¯t even feel displeased.¡±

    The reporters under the stage couldn¡¯t help rolling their eyes at Xu Yi.

    Nonsense. You¡¯re opening stating that you look down on other magicians and they won¡¯t feel displeased?

    ¡°But no matter how displeased the fellow magicians on the continent are, I stand by my view. Most magicians don¡¯t understand magic, that is just a fact.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s strong tone made the reporters tremble.

    They knew that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a maniac, so he must have some reason for saying this.

    ¡°When ites to understanding magic, on the battlefield, I had a discussion with several Arch Magi from the two empires. Later I drew a conclusion that the several thousand years of magic theory passed down on the Sines Continent is already obsolete and not applicable to this new era. Starting now, we need to create a new system of magic theory and have a new way of studying and understanding magic.¡±

    Hearing that Xu Yi had actually discussed this with Arch Magi from the two empires on the battlefield, the reporters were stunned before understanding what happened.

    It was no wonder Xu Yi was willing to say these words in front of everyone. It turned out that he had already shared his views with the Arch Magi of the two empires and it seemed like he had received the approval of those Arch Magi.

    If it was like this, adding in Xu Yi, his views had already received the approval of almost half of the Arch Magi on the continent.

    At the same time, other than Xu Yi, there was also Arch Magus Cami and Arch Magus Sarandal y at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so Xu Yi¡¯s views would naturally be approved by the two of them.

    Like this, Xu Yi had obtained the approval of over half of the Arch Magi.

    The Arch Magi were without a doubt the guiding light for the magicians of the continent.

    If the Arch Magi approved of this view, even if the other magicians weren¡¯t convinced, they wouldn¡¯t have the courage or skills to go against it. At most they could curse it in their heart, but they would also have to study the views that the Arch Magi had proposed.

    ¡°Changing methods isn¡¯t just as simple as changing magic materials, magic equipment, or magic properties, rather¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi pointed at his head, ¡°It has to start with changing one¡¯s thoughts about magic. What is magic? It sounds very mysterious and it feels mysterious to study, but magic is a tool in the end. It¡¯s no different from a shovel or scissors in the hands of a normal person.¡±

    The people under the stage had strange expressions again.

    Comparing magic to shovels and scissors? Wasn¡¯t this pushing magic too far down¡­¡­

    ¡°Understanding what forms magic and how it can be used, that is the mentality that we as magicians studying magic should have. As for making things concrete, we can¡¯t use things like ¡®sense¡¯, ¡®feel¡¯, or ¡®general¡¯¡­¡­or other terms like that to describe it. We should use more concrete terms like how much elemental magic energy is in a spell, how dense it is, what is the tension of the elemental magic energy¡­¡­As long as we can understand this, we can truly understand magic.¡±

    ¡°As for this new method of studying magic, after discussing it with the Arch Magi of the two empires, we¡¯ve created a new name, which is the scientific method of researching magic. It means studying magic with a scientific attitude and not studying it based on feelings alone. As for what is science? I won¡¯t exin it here, but if you want to know, you can learn a bit about it if you look at the magic machines ourpany produces.¡±

    ¡°As for studying magic with a scientific attitude, it¡¯s to study magic just like how ourpany produces magic machines. urate, precise, and fine tuned, without a single error or fuzzy definition, that is the true way of researching magic.¡±

    ¡°But this is still far from enough. On the current Sines Continent, other than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there isn¡¯t a single true set of magic theory. So I hope that all the magicians on the continent will learn how to study magic with science and learn how to scientifically use spells.¡±

    ¡°Remember, my magic research isn¡¯t to let everyone study how to increase their destructive might because there¡¯s no meaning to that. I hope that everyone can research magic that will make people¡¯s lives more convenient. ording to the analysis of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s magic that is used in the lives of civilians.¡±

    ¡°To be honest, I¡¯ve always thought that the many magicians on the continent were dumb or selfish. There¡¯s clearly all these people who can¡¯t even fill their stomachs, but these magicians that have power that far surpass that of normal people only know how to study magic all day to ughter or insult normal people. Could it be that you don¡¯t feel ashamed?¡±

    ¡°I disliked this, so I spent a lot of effort driving all magicians from the battlefield. I wanted to force everyone to study things that would improve people¡¯s lives, I wanted to force everyone to enter the magic machine industry.¡±

    ¡°As for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather what the magic machine industry should be like and what it should do, that is our third topic of the day. The topic is, what is our goal?¡±

 Book 7: 159: Even higher pursuit

    <h4>Book 7: Chapter 159: Even higher pursuit</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal?

    The reporters were all a bit confused, but then some realized something.

    This topic could be big or small, it all depended on what Xu Yi would say.

    ¡°As for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s goal, perhaps to many people, it is something that doesn¡¯t need to be discussed. Because in the end, we are only apany. As apany, our goal should naturally be to make money. That¡¯s right, I admit that the original intention of creating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just to make money and even now, I emphasize that I am only a merchant.¡±

    The reporters couldn¡¯t helpughing at this.

    When it came to Xu Yi¡¯s status, it had always been a controversial topic on the continent.

    In the beginning, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t have any fame, so naturally no one cared what status Xu Yi had.

    Butter one, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gradually became more famous, everyone found that this chairman Xu was actually quite a famous magician.

    When Xu Yi¡¯s grade wasn¡¯t that high, people would feel emotional that such a noble magician like Xu Yi would go create apany. This was lowering his own status, which was a pity.

    When Xu Yi¡¯s talent as a magician was gradually revealed and his grade quickly increased, even bing a High Level Magician in a few years before bing a Great Magician in his early thirties, the dispute about Xu Yi¡¯s status became even bigger.

    The Magicians Guild and the other magicians all thought that since Xu Yi was a powerful Great Magician, then his primary status was as a magician and his status as a merchant was only secondary.

    Magicians always looked down on merchants, this was something that people had taken as a fact.

    But this Xu Yi always stressed that he was a merchant and that his status as a magician was secondary.

    This without a doubt displeased the Magicians Guild and the other magicians.

    You, Xu Yi are a Great Magician and you are insisting that you are only a merchant. Where did the face of the magicians go? How would you let the magicians feel their sense of superiority?

    So the magicians had always insisted that Xu Yi was a powerful magician. His opening the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just to study the special magic tools known as the magic machines.

    Most of the normal people easily epted Xu Yi¡¯s status as a merchant as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman because the various magic machines produced were linked to the lives of the normal people. Most of the normal people would rather see Xu Yi working as a merchant rather than a magician.

    In the beginning of this dispute, there was no doubt that the magicians had the high ground since magicians had a higher position on the continent. This was what everyone knew.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame grew and they gained more influence, when the continent talked about Xu Yi, their first thought was his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. They would often ignore the fact that he was a powerful magician.

    Until the news about Xu Yi bing an Arch Magus was spread, then the dispute about Xu Yi¡¯s status started again.

    There were still over a thousand Great Magicians on the continent and Xu Yi as a Great Magician not caring about his status as a magician could be ignored, but there were only around twenty Arch Magi on the continent.

    Xu Yi as an Arch Magus, if he kept insisting that he was only a merchant and ignored his status as a magician, what kind of position would that put the magicians of the continent? What would they do about it?

    However, Xu Yi still insisted that he was a merchant. It was as if in his eyes, even bing an Arch Magus wasn¡¯t worth mentioning.

    This view was demonstrated even more in the war against the two empires.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards used cold facts to tell everyone that magicians could no longer decide battles anymore.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce signed the ?Magicians Peace Convention?,pletely pulling magicians from the battlefield.

    So everyone understood that the status of magician didn¡¯t mean anything to Xu Yi. What he really cared about was his status as a merchant, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    ¡°I won¡¯t hide it from everyone, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made quite a bit of money. Even in the past few years, our yearly profit has broken the hundred million gold coins mark.¡±

    There was a cold breath that came from beneath the stage.

    Although everyone knew that the magic machines were popr on the Sines Continent, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would earn quite a bit of money, no one had thought that they would be this rich!

    A hundred million gold coins!

    This was a terrifying number that most people wouldn¡¯t even dare think about, not to mention that it was only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit.

    ¡°So that means that from the perspective of a merchant, I am very sessful. I have enough money that I can live my life without any worries. The problem is that after making this money, what should I do?¡±

    Everyone under the stage suddenly revealed a look of understanding.

    Xu Yi¡¯s topic had without a doubt reached the level of his life goal.

    With his status and his wealth, it was normal to consider these questions.

    This means that just what was his personal goal that he wanted to realize through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    ¡°After a long time considering this, I thought of why I started the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I started the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the first ce because I wanted to make a Magic Fan to cool down from the summer heat. Then our Frestech Chamber of Commerce started developing various magic machines that helped people solve many problems that hadn¡¯t been solved for a long time. Among them, what has made me the most satisfied was the agricultural magic machines.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention the agricultural magic machines, whether it was the reporters or themoners, they couldn¡¯t help revealing a look of respect as they looked at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was right. Among all the magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invented, the ones that everyone weed the most and changed their lives the most were without a doubt the agricultural magic machines.

    Because of the agricultural magic machines, the Lampuri Kingdom hadpletely changed their method of farming and had greatly increased their grain yield. It allowed countless people to no longer starve to death, so it could be said that it hadpletely changed the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Then as the agricultural magic machines spread, there were now countless countries on the continent that used the agricultural magic machines. Then with the fertilizer from the elves, it solved the food crisis of many countries, allowing the Sines Continent to not have arge scale famine in many years.

    To countless people, not mentioning anything else, just this action from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had surpassed all other countries. Many people even dered Xu Yi as their saviour.

    ¡°The agricultural magic machines are very good, but I still think that it¡¯s far from enough. In my opinion, the people of this world shouldn¡¯t just be satisfied with filling their stomachs and having warm clothes. Other than this, we should have a higher pursuit.¡±

    Everyone under the stage looked at each other in nk dismay.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were a bit too much. For many people on the Sines Continent, being able to fill their stomachs and have warm clothes was already hard enough.

    Even on the current Sines Continent, many people starved to death and froze to death in the cold wind.

    Xu Yi could use the agricultural magic machines to increase grain yield, which solved the hunger problem for countless people which was a great merit, but now he was saying that humans should have even higher pursuits. This was simply being irresponsible.

    ¡°I know that you have doubts about my words.¡± Xu Yi could see the thoughts of the people under the stage and continued with a faint smile, ¡°Indeed, to solve the problem of everyone¡¯s basic needs isn¡¯t an easy matter, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and I have been working hard and will continue working hard on this matter. I took the magicians from the battlefield in hopes of investing them in industries that would benefit the development of humanity. Believe me, as long as there is enough time, it isn¡¯t hard to solve the problem of basic needs.¡±

    The reporters all had strange looks, not knowing what to say in response to this.

    In theory, Xu Yi was right.

    But reality wasplicated. For most people on the Sines Continent, would they follow his wishes and develop themselves?

    ¡°We should talk about the topic that I mentioned before.¡± Xu Yi suddenly looked up at the sky and was lost in thought.

    Everyone under the stage looked at the sky with curious gazes, but they only saw the bright sky without any clouds.

    After a while, Xu Yi lowered his head and said, ¡°Everyone, do you know what thend under your feet is like?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before the reporter from the ?Banta Times? tentatively raised his hand.

    Xu Yi nodded in response.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I remember that in an article you published in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, you discussed this before. You said in that article that under our feet, there was a giant sphere and the Sines Continent was only one piece ofnd on this giant sphere. As for the sphere itself, most of it was covered in endless seas. Am I right?¡±

    Before Xu Yi answered, the crowd was in an uproar.

    Among the reporters, there were many people who read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, but there were few people who had read this article from Xu Yi.

    Even if they had seen it, they thought that Xu Yi¡¯s brain was too crammed full of thoughts and would spout nonsense from time to time.

    What a joke!

    There was a giant sphere under our feet? If it really was like this, wouldn¡¯t the people in the north fall off?

    Xu Yi noted the various expressions the people had and revealed a faint smile. He thought that it really wasn¡¯t easy to make people of this world ept basic astronomy and geography.

    But his advantage was that with his position, people would seriously listen no matter what he said and analyze it.

    ¡°Yes, I have published this article before and it did say this.¡± Xu Yi nodded at the reporter from the ?Banta Times? and indicated for him to sit down, ¡°As for the under our feet, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be conducting a sea voyage across the world to prove this to everyone.¡±

    The crowd was in an uproar again.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to sail across the world?

    Although they couldn¡¯t fully understand what that meant, they could tell from the name that it was arge event that would require quite a bit of funding.

    Could it be that Xu Yi was going to invest all that much to prove that they were on a and that was round?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about everyone¡¯s reaction and continued, ¡°As for today, we¡¯re about to discuss something even deeper. If everyone raises their head, they should be able to see the sun in the sky. Then if I were to tell everyone that the sun is just a giant star that releases light, which is countless times bigger than the under our feet, what would you think?¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi in a daze, not reacting to his words at all.

 Book 7: 160: The goal is the sea of stars (End of volume seven)

    Book 7: Chapter 160: The goal is the sea of stars (End of volume seven)

    It had to be said, spreading the knowledge of astronomy among people who didn¡¯t have any foundational knowledge really was a very hard thing to do.

    Xu Yi had spoken on the stage for a while and the reporters and themoners all had stunned looks, as well as confused gazes. No matter how one looked at it, it was clear that they didn¡¯t understand.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any hopes that they would understand now. He said all this was just to give these people a foundational concept of this.

    After half an hour, Xu Yi stopped his exnation.

    After a period of silence, the reporter from the ?Banta Times? suddenly stood to his feet.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as he spoke, he closed his mouth again and revealed a hesitant look.

    Xu Yi nodded at him with a smile, ¡°You can ask about anything you don¡¯t understand.¡±

    The reporter hesitated for a while before shaking his head. It was as if he had made a decision as he asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, you said that we are standing on a and there¡¯s a bigger star, the sun above our heads. The that we are on is revolving around the sun and the stars in the night sky are also balls of fire just like the sun. Although I don¡¯t understand these things, I feel that what you said is very reasonable. Only¡­¡­Only, how did you learn all this?¡±

    This question attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Right, although the things that Xu Yi described were very powerful and it opened everyone¡¯s eyes, understanding that the world they were in was this mysterious and colourful, where did Xu Yi learn all this from?¡±

    ¡°If I said that I obtained an ancient inheritance and gained this knowledge, would you believe me?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    The reporter from the ?Banta Times? and the other reporters, as well as themoners in the area all looked at Xu Yi with a look that said ¡°you¡¯re kidding me¡±.

    If there was this ancient inheritance, it would have been impossible that there wasn¡¯t a trace of this on the Sines Continent.

    Then again, Xu Yi never mentioned it before, so why would he say it now?

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe that these hopeless people would believe his exnation and before they could ask questions, he said, ¡°As for how I obtained this knowledge, I can¡¯t disclose, but I can guarantee to you all that this knowledge is real and can be proven with research.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and no one had any opposition to this.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current status, there was no need for him to make this joke.

    Moreover, his description had been very enticing that it made peoplepletely change the way they looked at this world.

    If this world really was as wide as Xu Yi had described it and there was a boundless universe above them, just how moving that would be.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the things that you just mentioned¡­..how is it rted to the goal you mentioned?¡± A reporter suddenly asked.

    Everyone was stunned before finally reacting.

    Right, Xu Yi talked for all this time, but how was it rted to the topic that he mentioned?

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Everyone, think about it. Twenty years ago, people had thought that this world only had the Sines Continent, thinking that there were only endless seas other than the Sines Continent. But since our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet have proved that the rumoured other continents are real, people have found that the world is much bigger than we imagined.¡±

    ¡°Next, I want to show everyone that there is a sphere under our feet and there are several continents on this sphere. Each continent will have different living beings and different cultures.¡±

    ¡°When we have enough understanding of the under us, what I want to do next is bring everyone to experience the stars above us. I want to let everyone know that other than the under us, there are countless worlds out there for us to explore.¡±

    Everyone followed Xu Yi¡¯s gaze to look at the sky, but they could only see the clear sky that was blue and they didn¡¯t see the endless universe hidden in the sky that Xu Yi had mentioned. They couldn¡¯t even see a star.

    The reporters of the major newspapers found that they couldn¡¯t keep up with Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts at all.

    In the end, just what did he want to say?

    Xu Yi looked at the sky for a while before looking back down at the thousands of reporters under the stage. He looked at the stunned civilians, he looked at the shocked Heinz before taking a deep breath and spreading his hands.

    ¡°The world is this big, but why do we need to be stuck on a small ce like the Sines Continent and fight over small benefits. Do you think that this¡­¡­has any meaning?¡±

    The reporters were all stunned before they gave bitterughs.

    They had to admit that Xu YI¡¯s description of this world was very beautiful and his questions were strong, but for the people of the Sines Continent, especially those that controlled the most resources in this human society, Xu Yi¡¯s words didn¡¯t have any meaning at all.

    Right, there wasn¡¯t just the Sines Continent and even if they were only on a, what did that matter to them?

    They could only control the resources of the Sines Continent.

    With the human technology of the Sines Continent, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no other country or organization that could go the legendary new continent. So how could they gain the resources of that new continent?

    Xu Yi on stage revealed a smile as his eyes showed his understanding.

    ¡°In order to let the people of the Sines Continent understand the true face of the under us, I want to announce something. Before conducting the voyage around the world, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be opening all our Magic Ship technology to every country and organization. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to go to the new continents of this together, inviting everyone to explore the under our feet together.¡±

    The uproar that had been under the stage suddenly calmed down and the entire square fell into silence.

    However, this silence onlysted a few seconds before there were deafening sounds that erupted.

    Themoners didn¡¯t react that much, but the various reporters all revealed shocked expressions.

    Out of all the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, if what every country and organization wanted the most was the military magic machine technology, what ranked second was the Magic Ship technology.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they found the new continent, the Sines Continent had been stirred.

    Everyone hoped that they could go to the new continent, but other than the Frestech Chamber ofmerce, no one had ships that could go on this voyage. So they could only watch as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started exploring the new continent.

    Now that Xu Yi was announcing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was releasing the Magic Ship technology, didn¡¯t that mean that other countries and organizations, or even other people could organize fleets and go to other continents?

    This press conference, this could be considered the first big piece of news. After their initial shock, all the reporters immediately raised their hands or stood up to ask their questions.

    Xu Yi replied to the reporters¡¯ questions about the Magic Ship technology with a smile on his face while also silentlyining.

    He had spent all this time exining and pouring out his emotions, but these fellows didn¡¯t know any limits and didn¡¯t show any interest in the world he described, only being interested in the technology he released.

    But this couldn¡¯t be med on them since they didn¡¯t transmigrate like Xu Yi did, so they didn¡¯t have the same set of knowledge from earth.

    Their understanding of the world, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, was only the small Sines Continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce discovering the new continent was already shocking enough for them.

    To have them ept the new world view that Xu Yi gave them was clearly too hard for them.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t disappointed by this.

    The reporters under the stage were only megaphones for him, they were only responsible for transmitting the concepts that he spoke about today.

    As long as the people of the continent could know what Xu Yi said today and slowly ept it, then half of Xu Yi¡¯s goal for today would be aplished.

    He believed that after they learned what he said today, the people of the continent will have people of foresight that will understand Xu Yi¡¯s attention, working hard as Xu Yi nned.

    When the reporters¡¯ questions about the Magic Ship technology slowly calmed down and peace had been restored, Xu Yi looked around before saying with a smile, ¡°Everyone, I think that since I¡¯ve said all this, everyone should understand what our goal is, right?¡±

    The reporters all looked at each other with uncertain looks.

    They could guess what Xu Yi wanted to say, but not a single person really believed it.

    ¡°Our goal is very simple, it¡¯s the sea of stars above our head!¡± Xu Yi pointed at the sky and said in a loud and clear voice, ¡°The current us are limited to the under our feet, but there will be a day when we will break through the sky above us and enter the endless universe!¡±

    The reporters all looked at Xu Yi in a daze, not knowing how to respond to this.

    It was said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was a maniac, but no matter how crazy he was, he wouldn¡¯t say thispletely unrealistic goal, right?

    Break through the sky above them? Enter the endless universe?

    No one knew how far the sky was, so no one really knew how far away the goal that Xu Yi mentioned really was¡­¡­

    (Volume seven ?Our goal is the sea of stars? end)

 Book 8: 1: Iâ€™m not willing

    Book 8: Chapter 1: I¡¯m not willing

    It was the beginning of June, the beginning of summer. The sun was shining over the streets of Dor City and it was already too hot to resist.

    Lucian looked down at the resume in his hand as drops of sweat went from his forehead to his chin before falling onto his resume. Itnded right on therge words ¡°Philip Academy¡±, causing the words to be blurred.

    After looking at these words on the resume for a bit, Lucian couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    When his parents had let him study at the Philip Academy, it had used up all their savings over the past ten years.

    Then after this, to pay for his fifty gold coins fees each year and his high living expenses, as well as other expenses, his parents had gone from morning to night, sparing no effort to find work all day.

    It was all in hopes that after he graduated from the Philip Academy, he would be able to find a good job.

    But after he had graduated and came to Dor City alone to find work, he hadn¡¯t been able to find a single job that had satisfied him.

    It wasn¡¯t that he couldn¡¯t find work.

    For someone like Lucian who graduated from a magic machine industry specialized school like Philip Academy, he was a product that was in high demand. After passing his resume around for three days, he had received warm invitations from more than ten differentpanies.

    However, Lucian wasn¡¯t satisfied with working for thesepanies because most of these jobs involved going into the factory, being responsible for engraving Magic Arrays.

    To Lucian, this work could be done by any magician that had a decent control over magic and it wouldn¡¯t allow him to show off his specialty.

    The most ideal work for Lucian was naturally to enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. He wanted to be one of those noble researchers who worked with the most advanced magic machines and technology every day.

    Only that would be worthy of his five years of studying in the Philip Academy.

    Of course, Lucian knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility was the highest level magic research facility on the continent. His current level was far from being enough.

    However, even if he couldn¡¯t join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, he still wanted to join the magic research facility of the otherpanies, alright?

    So Lucian had spread his resume around and he found that this method didn¡¯t work. Then he focused on thergepany and focused on applying for jobs with thesergepanies.

    However, even if thosergepanies had room in their magic research facilities, they all had very high requirements. They didn¡¯t look for someone like Lucian who had just graduated from school.

    Lucian wasn¡¯t an outstanding student who graduated from a top school like the Frestech Academy, so he didn¡¯t draw their attention. So he had achieved nothing even after several days.

    ¡°If I can¡¯t find any work, this might be a wasted trip.¡±

    Lucian gave a sigh before reaching out to touch his pocket, finding that he only had two gold coins and ten silver coins left.

    This money was enough to spend for some time in a small mountain vige like his hometown, but in the capital of the southern province, Dor City, which was called the most prosperous city in the empire, it wasn¡¯t even enough for a few days.

    ¡°Two days! If I can¡¯t find any suitable work in two days, I will even work in the most boring factory assembly lines!¡± Lucian secretly gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

    If possible, if he couldn¡¯t find anything good, he wouldn¡¯t keep looking. He might as well go back to the Philip Academy to keep learning.

    Anyway, his results at school weren¡¯t bad and his teacher told him that if he was willing to study a few more years to get the high level graduate certificate, he could choose anyrgepany¡¯s magic research facility when he came out. He might even be able to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility.

    But reality gave Lucian no other choice.

    The reason was very simple, he had no money.

    The higher education courses cost even more than the normal courses and Lucian¡¯s family already had a hard time putting him through the normal courses, so of course they wouldn¡¯t be able to let him keep studying.

    Not to mention that Lucian¡¯s little brother was already ten years old and was at the age to enter the basic courses at the school, so he also needed money.

    Lucian came out to work not only to save up for hisrge school fees, but also to make some money to help his little brother go to school and lighten the burden for his parents. No matter how he looked at it, this was the better choice.

    Although his parents had never said anything, Lucian himself also hoped that his twelve year old little sister could go to school. He didn¡¯t want her to be like those other vige girls who found someone to marry after reaching a certain age and then living a normal life.

    These things all needed money, so Lucian couldn¡¯t continue with his own education and could only find a job after he graduated this year.

    Although inscribing Magic Arrays in the factory assembly line was a bit boring, the ie was much higher than normal workers.

    For example, Lucian¡¯s parents worked for a household magic machine factory near their vige and were the simplest workers. They only earned around ten gold coins a month, no more than fifteen gold coins at times.

    As for the five workers in this factory that were in charge of inscribing Magic Arrays, they earned at least thirty gold coins a month and the benefits they received were even greater.

    Lucian¡¯s current thoughts were that if he couldn¡¯t find a suitable job in two days, he would first return to the Philip Academy to finalize his graduation before going to that factory to work.

    His parents had already told the factory owner about his situation and the owner was very interested in Lucian. He immediately gave a starting sry of twenty five gold coins and as long as Lucian agreed, he could start working at any time.

    But¡­..did he really have to do this?

    Lucian raised his head and narrowed his eyes to look at the bright sun in the sky as his heart filled with a trace of unwillingness.

    He had worked incredibly hard every day at the Philip Academy, not daring to waste even the slightest bit of time. He even turned down the confessions of two of his female ssmates. Would it all be to go back to his small hometown to live out the rest of his life after graduation?

    ¡°I¡¯m not willing!¡±

    Lucian clenched his fists and took a deep breath.

    Although he had given himself two days, he wouldn¡¯t give up that easily.

    He was already luckier than most people, having parents that were enlightened enough to suffer to put him through school. Then why couldn¡¯t he be lucky enough to find work that he was satisfied with in his final two days?

    As long as his performance was good and he revealed his excellent grades from his school, there would be apany that would appreciate him!

    Lucian took a deep breath as he threw away the disappointment and depression in his heart. He roused his spirit and lowered his head again as he prepared to keep moving forward.

    But when he lowered his head, he saw a group of peopleing towards him.

    Being caught off guard, Lucian didn¡¯t have the time to dodge and could only lean to the side as much as possible.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    The two shoulders hit each other and that person was pushed back two steps before stabilizing themself.

    Lucian focused his eyes and found that it was a short middle aged man that he hit. It seemed like the hit wasn¡¯t light, it took him a while to stand up.

    When he wanted to apologize, that person looked over and red at Lucian.

    ¡°Kid, are you blind? Do you know how to walk?¡±

    Lucian admitted that he was wrong for looking up while walking. He apologized to this person with a smile after hearing this and couldn¡¯t refute him.

    That person looked over Lucian and seeing that Lucian was taller and bulkier than him, he gave a snort and turned to leave.

    Lucian just gave a bitterugh as he thought that his luck today really wasn¡¯t good.

    At this time, there was a faint sound that came from his stomach.

    He didn¡¯t even have breakfast this morning since he had been going to variouspanies all morning. Now it seemed like he couldn¡¯t hold back his hunger anymore.

    Lucian rubbed his stomach before looking around. He chose a noodle shop in the corner that wasn¡¯t high scale that looked rather clean and walked in.

    ¡°Three days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility announced that they had made a new breakthrough with the magic signal pattern research. ording to chief Evita¡¯s announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the possibility of breaking through the distance limit of the magic signal and might be able to reach infinite transmission. If this is true, then that means that the magic signalwork across the continent will be entering a new stage. As for this, there are many nations andpanies that have expressed¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as he came in, the sound from the small Magic Illusion Projector on the side attracted Lucian¡¯s attention.

    Seeing chief Evita from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility in the illusion, Lucian couldn¡¯t help praising her beauty and there was a joy that filled Lucian¡¯s heart.

    God! The Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility has actually developed the infinite distance magic signal transfer technology!

    If this was true, it would have a great influence on the entire magic machine industry of the continent.

    It was like the news report had said, it meant that the magic signalwork on the continent would undergo earth shattering changes and would be entering a new stage!

    Lucian specialized on magic signal transmission in his studies at the Philip Academy, so he cared very much about this piece of news.

    He knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and the magic research facilities of many countries andpanies had been studying this, but it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had developed it first in the end.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t a surprise.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a deep foundation in magic machine industry knowledge, so it would be strange if they didn¡¯t develop it first.

    Seeing chief Evita in the illusion talking to the reporters, seeing that gentle and noble appearance, Lucian couldn¡¯t help secretly praising her in his heart.

    ¡°If there is a day that I could reach chief Evita¡¯s position, I would be willing even if I were to die¡­¡­¡±

 Book 8: 1: Iâ€™m not willing

    Book 8: Chapter 1: I¡¯m not willing

    It was the beginning of June, the beginning of summer. The sun was shining over the streets of Dor City and it was already too hot to resist.

    Lucian looked down at the resume in his hand as drops of sweat went from his forehead to his chin before falling onto his resume. Itnded right on therge words ¡°Philip Academy¡±, causing the words to be blurred.

    After looking at these words on the resume for a bit, Lucian couldn¡¯t help revealing a bitter smile.

    When his parents had let him study at the Philip Academy, it had used up all their savings over the past ten years.

    Then after this, to pay for his fifty gold coins fees each year and his high living expenses, as well as other expenses, his parents had gone from morning to night, sparing no effort to find work all day.

    It was all in hopes that after he graduated from the Philip Academy, he would be able to find a good job.

    But after he had graduated and came to Dor City alone to find work, he hadn¡¯t been able to find a single job that had satisfied him.

    It wasn¡¯t that he couldn¡¯t find work.

    For someone like Lucian who graduated from a magic machine industry specialized school like Philip Academy, he was a product that was in high demand. After passing his resume around for three days, he had received warm invitations from more than ten differentpanies.

    However, Lucian wasn¡¯t satisfied with working for thesepanies because most of these jobs involved going into the factory, being responsible for engraving Magic Arrays.

    To Lucian, this work could be done by any magician that had a decent control over magic and it wouldn¡¯t allow him to show off his specialty.

    The most ideal work for Lucian was naturally to enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. He wanted to be one of those noble researchers who worked with the most advanced magic machines and technology every day.

    Only that would be worthy of his five years of studying in the Philip Academy.

    Of course, Lucian knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility was the highest level magic research facility on the continent. His current level was far from being enough.

    However, even if he couldn¡¯t join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, he still wanted to join the magic research facility of the otherpanies, alright?

    So Lucian had spread his resume around and he found that this method didn¡¯t work. Then he focused on thergepany and focused on applying for jobs with thesergepanies.

    However, even if thosergepanies had room in their magic research facilities, they all had very high requirements. They didn¡¯t look for someone like Lucian who had just graduated from school.

    Lucian wasn¡¯t an outstanding student who graduated from a top school like the Frestech Academy, so he didn¡¯t draw their attention. So he had achieved nothing even after several days.

    ¡°If I can¡¯t find any work, this might be a wasted trip.¡±

    Lucian gave a sigh before reaching out to touch his pocket, finding that he only had two gold coins and ten silver coins left.

    This money was enough to spend for some time in a small mountain vige like his hometown, but in the capital of the southern province, Dor City, which was called the most prosperous city in the empire, it wasn¡¯t even enough for a few days.

    ¡°Two days! If I can¡¯t find any suitable work in two days, I will even work in the most boring factory assembly lines!¡± Lucian secretly gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

    If possible, if he couldn¡¯t find anything good, he wouldn¡¯t keep looking. He might as well go back to the Philip Academy to keep learning.

    Anyway, his results at school weren¡¯t bad and his teacher told him that if he was willing to study a few more years to get the high level graduate certificate, he could choose anyrgepany¡¯s magic research facility when he came out. He might even be able to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility.

    But reality gave Lucian no other choice.

    The reason was very simple, he had no money.

    The higher education courses cost even more than the normal courses and Lucian¡¯s family already had a hard time putting him through the normal courses, so of course they wouldn¡¯t be able to let him keep studying.

    Not to mention that Lucian¡¯s little brother was already ten years old and was at the age to enter the basic courses at the school, so he also needed money.

    Lucian came out to work not only to save up for hisrge school fees, but also to make some money to help his little brother go to school and lighten the burden for his parents. No matter how he looked at it, this was the better choice.

    Although his parents had never said anything, Lucian himself also hoped that his twelve year old little sister could go to school. He didn¡¯t want her to be like those other vige girls who found someone to marry after reaching a certain age and then living a normal life.

    These things all needed money, so Lucian couldn¡¯t continue with his own education and could only find a job after he graduated this year.

    Although inscribing Magic Arrays in the factory assembly line was a bit boring, the ie was much higher than normal workers.

    For example, Lucian¡¯s parents worked for a household magic machine factory near their vige and were the simplest workers. They only earned around ten gold coins a month, no more than fifteen gold coins at times.

    As for the five workers in this factory that were in charge of inscribing Magic Arrays, they earned at least thirty gold coins a month and the benefits they received were even greater.

    Lucian¡¯s current thoughts were that if he couldn¡¯t find a suitable job in two days, he would first return to the Philip Academy to finalize his graduation before going to that factory to work.

    His parents had already told the factory owner about his situation and the owner was very interested in Lucian. He immediately gave a starting sry of twenty five gold coins and as long as Lucian agreed, he could start working at any time.

    But¡­..did he really have to do this?

    Lucian raised his head and narrowed his eyes to look at the bright sun in the sky as his heart filled with a trace of unwillingness.

    He had worked incredibly hard every day at the Philip Academy, not daring to waste even the slightest bit of time. He even turned down the confessions of two of his female ssmates. Would it all be to go back to his small hometown to live out the rest of his life after graduation?

    ¡°I¡¯m not willing!¡±

    Lucian clenched his fists and took a deep breath.

    Although he had given himself two days, he wouldn¡¯t give up that easily.

    He was already luckier than most people, having parents that were enlightened enough to suffer to put him through school. Then why couldn¡¯t he be lucky enough to find work that he was satisfied with in his final two days?

    As long as his performance was good and he revealed his excellent grades from his school, there would be apany that would appreciate him!

    Lucian took a deep breath as he threw away the disappointment and depression in his heart. He roused his spirit and lowered his head again as he prepared to keep moving forward.

    But when he lowered his head, he saw a group of peopleing towards him.

    Being caught off guard, Lucian didn¡¯t have the time to dodge and could only lean to the side as much as possible.

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    The two shoulders hit each other and that person was pushed back two steps before stabilizing themself.

    Lucian focused his eyes and found that it was a short middle aged man that he hit. It seemed like the hit wasn¡¯t light, it took him a while to stand up.

    When he wanted to apologize, that person looked over and red at Lucian.

    ¡°Kid, are you blind? Do you know how to walk?¡±

    Lucian admitted that he was wrong for looking up while walking. He apologized to this person with a smile after hearing this and couldn¡¯t refute him.

    That person looked over Lucian and seeing that Lucian was taller and bulkier than him, he gave a snort and turned to leave.

    Lucian just gave a bitterugh as he thought that his luck today really wasn¡¯t good.

    At this time, there was a faint sound that came from his stomach.

    He didn¡¯t even have breakfast this morning since he had been going to variouspanies all morning. Now it seemed like he couldn¡¯t hold back his hunger anymore.

    Lucian rubbed his stomach before looking around. He chose a noodle shop in the corner that wasn¡¯t high scale that looked rather clean and walked in.

    ¡°Three days ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility announced that they had made a new breakthrough with the magic signal pattern research. ording to chief Evita¡¯s announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has the possibility of breaking through the distance limit of the magic signal and might be able to reach infinite transmission. If this is true, then that means that the magic signalwork across the continent will be entering a new stage. As for this, there are many nations andpanies that have expressed¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as he came in, the sound from the small Magic Illusion Projector on the side attracted Lucian¡¯s attention.

    Seeing chief Evita from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility in the illusion, Lucian couldn¡¯t help praising her beauty and there was a joy that filled Lucian¡¯s heart.

    God! The Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility has actually developed the infinite distance magic signal transfer technology!

    If this was true, it would have a great influence on the entire magic machine industry of the continent.

    It was like the news report had said, it meant that the magic signalwork on the continent would undergo earth shattering changes and would be entering a new stage!

    Lucian specialized on magic signal transmission in his studies at the Philip Academy, so he cared very much about this piece of news.

    He knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility and the magic research facilities of many countries andpanies had been studying this, but it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had developed it first in the end.

    Of course, this wasn¡¯t a surprise.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a deep foundation in magic machine industry knowledge, so it would be strange if they didn¡¯t develop it first.

    Seeing chief Evita in the illusion talking to the reporters, seeing that gentle and noble appearance, Lucian couldn¡¯t help secretly praising her in his heart.

    ¡°If there is a day that I could reach chief Evita¡¯s position, I would be willing even if I were to die¡­¡­¡±

 Book 8: 2: News

    Book 8: Chapter 2: News

    No matter how envious he was, it wouldn¡¯t solve the issue with his stomach.

    Lucian watched the illusion for a bit before casually finding a ce and ordering the cheapest noodles.

    While waiting for the noodles to be finished, he kept watching the news on the Magic Illusion Projector.

    After the news report from earlier, the illusion changed and it revealed a scene from up in the air.

    Looking down, there was a grand city that upied arge area below.

    Lucian recognized it immediately, this city was the Candra Empire¡¯s capital, Wimbledon City.

    Lucian had never personally gone to the empire¡¯s great capital city, but he had seen it often on the news, so he was naturally very familiar with it.

    Recognizing a ce that he had never gone to with a single look, it would have been impossible for people in the generation before Lucian¡¯s parents.

    Even Lucian¡¯s parents, the furthest ce that they had ever gone was the thirdrgest city in the province that was fifty kilometers away from their hometown. Not to mention Wimbledon City, they had never even gone to the provincial capital before.

    If this world hadn¡¯t changed, they would have been like Lucian¡¯s grandparents¡¯ generation, never leaving their hometown their entire lives and not knowing a thing about the world.

    However, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invented the magic signalwork and the Magic Illusion Projector, with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s various programs, even people who had never left their hometowns wouldn¡¯t be confined at home without understanding anything about the world.

    It was because of these ¡°educational¡± programs that Lucian¡¯s parents had made their decision. Even if their family couldn¡¯t get new magic machines like the family next door or even if their lives were a bit harder, they would send Lucian to study at the Philip Academy.

    So Lucian was very grateful towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. They gave him the opportunity to leave that small town and see the world with his own eyes, giving him the opportunity to change his life.

    Along with the image of the overhead shot of Wimbledon City, there was also a voice from offscreen.

    ¡°The royal family¡¯s guard will be demonstrating the small Magic Attack Ships that they bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce today. These small Magic Attack Ships were developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce three years ago and are the most advanced Magic Airships. They can fly at a maximum speed of four hundred kilometers per hour, while being very flexible and having decent firepower. With this new group of small Magic Attack Ships, the royal guards¡¯ aerial battle power has been increased without a doubt. This will increase the safety and defense of Wimbledon City¡­¡­¡±

    The people in the restaurant suddenly broke out in a cheer.

    Lucian was surprised as his eyes swept over the restaurant. He found that whether it was the boss or the people eating, they were all watching the Magic Illusion Projector on the wall with excited looks.

    ¡°Ha, ha, great! With this thing, the royal guards will be much stronger than before.¡±

    ¡°Right, I¡¯ve heard about this thing before. It¡¯s said to be the Frestehc Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most advanced Magic Airship and it flies very fast. You won¡¯t even be able to see its shadow in the blink of an eye.¡±

    ¡°Really? But the news only said that the firepower isn¡¯t bad, this might¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Are you dumb? How could the news report the whole truth? This is rted to the secret power of our empire¡¯s army, can it be known by anyone?¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right. ording to this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Hearing the discussions around him, Lucian¡¯s lips twitched as he revealed a bitter smile.

    These fellows didn¡¯t know anything, was there anything to get excited about?

    The news clearly said that this small Magic Attack Ship was developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce three years ago.

    Then in these three years, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn¡¯t finished developing a new generation of Magic Airships, there would be other technologies that would appear that would allow them to easily surpass these small Magic Attack Ships.

    Then again, these things weren¡¯t the strongest andtest things among the Magic Airships that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had. Like that Thunder God ss Heavy Magic Airship that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never sold that had the strongest aerial battle power, that was the true overlord of the sky.

    ording to the rumours, in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s internal drills, the Thunder God ss Heavy Magic Airship could easily control the air. All otherbat Magic Airships couldn¡¯t do a single thing to it.

    So as long as there wasn¡¯t another power that had the Thunder God ss Heavy Magic Airship, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would always have air supremacy.

    Everyone on the continent now knew that in the new method ofbat, having air supremacy was having the initiative and was an important factor in deciding the oue of a war.

    Of course, this only existed in the imagination andbat exercises.

    On the current Sines Continent, there wasn¡¯t a country that that would be dumb enough to face the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or even start a war with them.

    Because that was seeking their own death. ?????? ???? ????????????.???.

    So as Lucian looked at the surrounding people who had been excited by the royal guards being equipped with the small Magic Attack Ships, he felt a bit speechless.

    Even if the royal family or the entire Candra Empire army increased their battle power, giving the important people in the empire the courage, would they really dare to start a war with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Not to mention fighting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would they dere war on other countries?

    Stop joking! Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had released the ?Banta Deration? in Banta City ten years ago, setting the goal as heading into the sea of stars, as well as setting the goal of the Sines Continent on developing the magic machine industry, there wasn¡¯t a single country that thought about starting a war.

    The most important reason was that once there was a country that did this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards would intervene and wouldn¡¯t let the war be bigger.

    The second reason was that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released the various magic machine technology, helping all the countries develop their magic machine industries, if there was a country that was crazy enough to start a war at this critical moment, they would be swept away by the tides of time and fall far behind other countries.

    No country would dare take this risk, even the Candra Empire didn¡¯t dare.

    So the royal guards announcing that they had suddenly been equipped with these small Magic Attack Ships seemed like it would mean that they and the Candra Empire army was getting stronger to many people, people with some understanding of the situation of the magic machine industry like Lucian would know that this was just to maintain the internal stability of the Candra Empire.

    After all, the news had mentioned that there were several areas of unrest in the empire that had attracted the attention of the empire parliament.

    The royal guards releasing this news was most likely to shock those people who had dissident ideas.

    As the surrounding people kept discussing this, the owner of the noodle shop didn¡¯t stop his hands and quickly brought over Lucian¡¯s noodles.

    Lucian was already quite hungry and he didn¡¯t care about theughable discussion that the surrounding people were having as he started to eat.

    While eating, he raised his head from time to time to watch the Magic Illusion Projector or listened to the sound that came from it.

    After reporting on some current news, the following program was mainly about local news.

    Lucian didn¡¯t care about the local news because it wasn¡¯t rted to him and he wasn¡¯t interested in this.

    But when the entertainment news came on, he couldn¡¯t help raising his head to watch for a bit because the entertainment news had news about the elven star miss Lenoya that he loved the most.

    Seeing the miss Lenoya in the illusion that was as pretty as a flower, with a noble aura that seemed like she wasn¡¯t from this world, Lucian couldn¡¯t help revealing an enamoured look.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce had created many stars through the various entertainment programs, but Lucian didn¡¯t care about these so-called stars. Only when he saw miss Lenoya would his heart be moved and he couldn¡¯t help paying attention.

    But Lucian was clear that his world was very different from miss Lenoya¡¯s world. It was likely that they would never intersect in this life, so as long as he could see her through the Magic Illusion Projector, that was enough for him.

    When the news about miss Lenoya was over, Lucian came back to his senses. He lowered his head to find that the human uncle across from him was looking at him with a smile and his face couldn¡¯t help turn red. He quickly lowered his head to eat his noodles.

    Because he ate too fast, he didn¡¯t notice that the noodles were too hot and he choked on them. He spat out spit on the table and looked very sorry.

    Lucian finally calmed himself down and found that he was covered in soup while the table was a mess. His face couldn¡¯t help turning even more red.

    The uncle on the side didn¡¯t mind and just shook his head. He revealed a kind smile and handed a napkin over to Lucian.

    Lucian quickly thanked him before wiping the mess off the table.

    ¡°Look at you, you should be a student from some school?¡± After Lucian sat back down, the uncle asked him this with a smile.

    ¡°Un? How can you tell?¡± Lucian was surprised.

    The uncleughed, ¡°After experiencing a lot, naturally you can easily recognize some things. This isn¡¯t strange at all.¡±

    After saying this, the uncle lowered his head to eat his noodles and didn¡¯t seem like he wanted to keep talking.

    Lucian scratched his head, not understanding what happened.

    Because of that small ident, Lucian realized that he couldn¡¯t keep eating those noodles and called the boss to pay the bill.

    ¡°This customer, it¡¯s fifteen gold coins for one bowl. Thank you.¡±

    The boss¡¯ smile fell into Lucian¡¯s eyes and he couldn¡¯t help cursing in his heart.

    It was just a bowl of noodles and it cost fifteen gold coins, this was just too much.

    The same bowl of noodles would only cost two silver coins in his hometown!

    But thinking of how this was Dor City, Lucian could only give a helpless sigh and reach his hand into his pockets.

    Then his expression changed.

 Book 8: 3: Doing part time labour

    Book 8: Chapter 3: Doing part timebour

    This pocket should have had his final two gold coins and ten silver coins, but it waspletely empty at this time without a single thing in it.

    Lucian dug around in his pockets a few more times and even pulled it out to look carefully, but he couldn¡¯t even see a trace of a silver coin, causing him to start panicking.

    This was the final bit of money he had left. If he didn¡¯t have it, he wouldn¡¯t be able to stay in Dor City to find a suitable job, he wouldn¡¯t even have the money to go back home.

    The most important thing was that he wouldn¡¯t be able to pay the ten gold coins that he owed for his meal!

    The boss of the noodle restaurant naturally had experience. When he saw Lucian¡¯s appearance, how could he not know what was happening? The smile on his face instantly turned cold.

    ¡°This customer, please pay for your meal.¡±

    Lucian pinched his pocket as a cold sweat appeared on his forehead while his mind kept turning.

    What to do?

    What to do!

    Seeing that Lucian didn¡¯t say a thing, the expression of the boss turned colder and he raised his voice a bit.

    ¡°This customer, you wouldn¡¯t be nning on dining and dashing, right?¡±

    The other customers in the restaurant heard themotion and all turned to look over.

    Seeing the look of panic on Lucian¡¯s face and seeing his worn out clothes, everyone started tough.

    ¡°Ha, ha, this little beggar came here to eat, boss, it¡¯s your bad luck.¡±

    ¡°Boss, you should know that he didn¡¯t have any money just by looking at him, I think that your bowl of noodle should be given for free!¡±

    ¡°Hei, this kid looks quite honest, but how can he not feel embarrassed to do such a disgraceful thing? It can¡¯t be that he was forced into it by hunger, right?¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Hearing the whispers from the crowd, Lucian¡¯s face turned red, but he couldn¡¯t say anything to refute them.

    The fact was that he didn¡¯t have money to pay the bill, so he could only endure the cold look of the boss and the taunting of the people around him,

    He knitted his brows to think before bravely saying, ¡°Boss, I¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as he spoke, the uncle sitting across from him suddenly pped the table.

    ¡°Here¡¯s a gold coin, settle the bill of the young man in front of me with my bill.¡±

    Lucian was stunned. The boss looked at the uncle before his hand came out to take the gold coin and then he left.

    The others saw that there wasn¡¯t a show to watch anymore, so after giving a fewughs, they turned their attention away.

    ¡°Thank¡­..Thank you¡­¡­¡± Lucian had an awkward look, but he also quickly expressed his gratitude to the uncle.

    The uncle waved his hand before his eyes swept over him, ¡°Based on how you look, you shouldn¡¯t be someone who tries to dine and dash. What¡¯s wrong? Did you encounter some problems?¡±

    Lucian calmed down and carefully thought about it, quickly thinking it through.

    It had to be the fierce looking short person that bumped into him on the road!

    He must have seized that chance to steal his money!

    Lucian¡¯s heart was filled with regret. His parents had warned him several times before he left that he had to watch out for thieves, but he never thought that he would still fall for it.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this kind uncle helping him solve his problems, he could only work off his bills with the boss.

    ¡°I¡­..might have met a thief¡­¡­¡± Lucian exined with a bitter smile.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­There are many people in Dor City, so there are also many thieves. I was hit when I first came here, so it isn¡¯t strange.¡± The uncle nodded with a smile. Then sweeping his eyes over Lucian again, he asked, ¡°You should be a magician, right?¡±

    Lucian was surprised, ¡°How could you tell?¡±

    ¡°I can feel the magic fluctuationsing from you.¡± Seeing the surprised look Lucian had, the uncle pointed at himself, ¡°Don¡¯t be surprised, I¡¯m also a magician, but my grade isn¡¯t high. I¡¯m only a Third Grade Magician even now.¡±

    Lucian only said ¡°oh¡± while finding this a bit strange.

    He didn¡¯t find it strange that this unknown uncle knew that he was a magician, but rather the uncle called himself a ¡°Third Grade Magician¡±.

    Since the ?Magicians Peace Convention? was announced ten years ago, the magicians of the continent no longer measured themselves with individual strength. Rather, they now evaluated themselves with their abilities in the magic machine industry and their knowledge.

    The evaluation of a ¡°Third Grade Magician¡± was already thrown away by the Magicians Guild that had created it. There was no magician that evaluated themselves with this standard anymore.

    Moreover, with the guidance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, working hard to develop a new magic system on the continent, the traditional evaluation method had already fallen behind. It wasn¡¯t urate to describe a magician¡¯s abilities with it anymore.

    For example, with Lucian¡¯s current level, because he rarely studied spells that focused on destructive might, if Lucian were to take the traditional assessment, he would only be categorized as a Second Grade or Third Grade Magician.

    But with the new magic theory system taught at Philip Academy, his understanding and grasp of magic far surpassed those traditional magicians.

    If he was willing, his battle power wouldn¡¯t be worse than a Fifth Grade or Sixth Grade Magician.

    But things like battle power were very boring for the current magicians of the continent, so there were few magicians that would focus on studying it.

    After all, with the limitations of the ?Magicians Peace Convention?, magicians couldn¡¯t go to war, so they couldn¡¯t manifest their destructive might.

    Moreover, even if they participated in wars, in front of the powerful military magic machines, the individual might of magicians wasn¡¯t enough and wouldn¡¯t y much of a role.

    As for the traditional role of joiningpanies as guards, they were already reced with guards that were equipped with light military magic machines, so there was no need for magicians.

    Not to mention thatpared to joining apany as a guard, it was better to join as a researcher or be engaged in other magic research work. You would make much more money than being a guard and it would be much easier, as well as being less dangerous.

    In short, describing oneself as a ¡°Third Grade Magician¡± like this uncle did was rarely seen.

    At least this was the first time that Lucian had encountered it.

    ¡°What? You¡¯re not familiar with the concept of Third Grade Magician?¡± The uncle seemed like he could see through Lucian¡¯s thoughts and revealed a smile, ¡°A young magician like you, you definitely aren¡¯t familiar with it.¡±

    Lucian revealed an awkward smile and didn¡¯t know how to respond.

    It was a good thing that the boss came over and handed the change to the uncle, alleviating the awkward atmosphere.

    The uncle took the money before standing up and waving his hand at Lucian.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±

    Lucian was surprised as he looked at the uncle with a confused gaze.

    The uncle said with a smile, ¡°Didn¡¯t your money get stolen by a thief? It seems like you aren¡¯t a native, so how are you nning on living here?¡±

    Lucian gritted his teeth, ¡°I can look for some part time work and earn some travel expenses to go back.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why I said it was just right. I needed some part timebourers with magical knowledge. Three days, it¡¯s one gold coin a day. If you¡¯re willing, you cane with me.¡±

    Lucian hesitated a bit before standing up while gritting his teeth.

    The uncle smiled at Lucian and said with a sincere look, ¡°Young man, it isn¡¯t anything to encounter problems, there¡¯s always a way to solve it.¡±

    Lucian gave an ¡°un¡± sound. After following him for a bit, he couldn¡¯t help asking in a curious voice, ¡°Uncle, can I ask what the work is? Right, I still haven¡¯t asked your name yet.¡±

    ¡°Just call me Rondo. As for the job¡­..I opened a small workshop and we received a new order to make the Magic Rotor for a batch of Magic Fans, so I needed to recruit some people to make the Magic Arrays. You can draw some simple Wind Magic Arrays, right?¡± The uncle suddenly asked.

    ¡°Ah? Ah. No problem¡­¡­This Magic Array is rather simple¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s fine.¡± Uncle Rondo nodded, ¡°The other side urgently needs it and I was thinking about recruiting some interim workers in the city, but I met you while I was having a meal. You don¡¯t need to thank me, if you can finish thisrge batch of goods without any dy, I should be the one thanking you.¡±

    Lucian quickly waved his hand, ¡°No, no, no, not only did you pay for my meal, you also gave me a job. No matter how you look at it, I should be thanking you.¡±

    Uncle Rondo revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t bother arguing about this with Lucian. He brought him out of the noodle restaurant and turned a corner to head to a bus stop before getting on a public transportation Magic Car.

    The bus drove out of Dor City and when it was several kilometers out of the city, it stopped by a small stop by the road.

    Uncle Rondo got off the bus with Lucian and after walking along the road for a bit, they arrived in front of a small manor.

    ¡°We¡¯re here.¡±

    Lucian looked at the somewhat old manor and felt it was a bit strange.

    Why did uncle Rondo open up his small workshop here?

    This ce was so far away from Dor City and wasn¡¯t even in the industrial district outside Dor City. It wasn¡¯t convenient to transport theponents or the finished products, so it¡¯s clearly not a good ce.

    ¡°This is a manor that my ancestors left me. If I were to find such arge ce in the city or the industrial district, it would cost much more money.¡± Seeing the doubt in Lucian¡¯s eyes, uncle Rondo gave an exnation.

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡±

    Lucian indicated he understood before following uncle Rondo through the gates of the manor.

    There were two guards at the gate. Seeing the two of them, they smiled at uncle Rondo before waving their hands to let them head in.

    Aftering in, Lucian saw how dpidated the manor was and he felt even more doubtful.

    Since this was uncle Rondo¡¯s small workshop, he should at least hear the sounds of some production magic machines at work, right?

    At least¡­¡­the manor shouldn¡¯t have ayer of dust and spider webs everywhere, right?

    After talking another two steps, Lucian suddenly felt vignt and he stopped moving.

    ¡°Uncle Rondo, I¡­¡­I suddenly thought of something, so I can¡¯t do this job anymore. As for the money that I owe you, I guarantee that I will pay you back.¡± Lucian hesitantly said.

    Uncle Rondo took a deep look at Lucian as the gentle smile on his face gradually disappeared. It was reced with a strange smile that made Lucian¡¯s heart turn cold when he looked at it.

    ¡°What? You owe me fifteen silver coins and you want to leave like that? How could that be?¡±

    Lucian couldn¡¯t help taking a step back.

    ¡°Uncle Rondo, you¡­¡­¡±

    Uncle Rondo suddenly waved his hand and Lucian felt a strange magic fluctuationing from his side.

    ¡°Magic fluctuation disturbance?¡± Lucian was shocked. He had wanted to release his magic power and stabilize the magic space around him, but two men had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

    One of them used the de in his hand to hit the back of Lucian¡¯s neck. His vision turned dark and he fainted.

 Book 8: 4: This is a kidnapping

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 4: This is a kidnapping</h4>

    Lucian woke up with a violent shaking.

    When he opened his eyes, he found that there was only darkness in front of him.

    After being in a daze for a bit, he suddenly remembered what happened before he passed out.

    He had followed uncle Rondo to his small manor outside Dor City. He thought that he was a part time worker invited by uncle Rondo and he would make some money, but he was suddenly knocked out by that strong man?

    This¡­¡­

    Even if Lucian wasn¡¯t that familiar with worldly matters, he knew that he had fallen into a trap. That kind looking uncle Rondo was most likely not a good person.

    He even helped him out with his problems just to make him let down his guard and gain his trust.

    Thinking of this, Lucian could only reveal a bitter look.

    Beforeing out, many people had warned him not to go to Dor City alone. There were good and bad people here, a student like him who had just left school would be easy prey.

    But he thought that he was just a poor student and people wouldn¡¯t get anything from him even if they did trick him, so they wouldn¡¯t target him.

    As long as he was a bit careful, there shouldn¡¯t be a problem.

    But this matter told Lucian that he was too naive.

    First his little bit of money was stolen by a thief and then he was tricked by someone, falling under their control¡­¡­

    Wait!

    Lucian knitted his brows as a bit of doubt appeared in his heart.

    The sound of metal shing came from beneath him and he could tell that he was in a Magic Car that was moving at high speeds. It was most likely that they weren¡¯t traveling on a smooth path.

    Based on this, he could tell that he had been kidnapped by someone.

    But this confused Lucian. Why would they kidnap him?

    He was just a poor student and his family didn¡¯t have any money, so he didn¡¯t have anything that people would want. What were the benefits in kidnapping him?

    Even if these were human smugglers, they wouldn¡¯t care for his body. It couldn¡¯tpare to the normal children in the viges that were much prettier, right?

    Lucian suddenly felt a bit of fear in his heart.

    Based on the current situation, he was being transported to another ce and it was hard to tell where they were going.

    If it was like this, he might never be able to see his friends and family ever again!

    Lucian took a deep breath, but he let out a loud cough when the muddy air filled his nose. This still made him calm down a bit.

    After moving his body, he found that he wasn¡¯t tied up. Lucian moved his hands around him and forced himself up.

    At this time, his eyes were gradually adapting to the darkness around him.

    With the few wisps of light that came from an unknown ce, he found that there were a bunch of other people ced in the back of thisrge transport Magic Car that didn¡¯t have much space with him.

    Lucian thought about it before raising his right hand to release his magic power.

    There was a faint light that appeared on his right index finger that acted like a candle being blown in the wind before being put out.

    Lucian was surprised before trying to gather his magic power again.

    However, it was no different fromst time. The light only appeared for an instant before disappearing.

    Lucian felt that this was very strange, but he didn¡¯t give up as he tried to gather his magic power several more times. It all ended the same way in the end.

    After trying several times, there was an exhausted voice that rang out.

    ¡°Alright, stop wasting your effort. There¡¯s a Magic Sealing Array ced in this trunk, otherwise do you think they could lock up all these magicians?¡±

    Lucian looked in the direction this voice came from and saw a fuzzy figure.

    ¡°You¡¯re also a magician?¡±

    ¡°What also? Everyone here is.¡± Augh came from the corner, ¡°Otherwise you think those fellows would just capture a bunch of normal people?¡±

    Lucian could tell that this person¡¯s voice was very young and became even more confused.

    ¡°You¡¯re also a student?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re also a student?¡± That person asked back.

    ¡°I¡¯m from the Philip Academy, I graduate this year.¡± Lucian replied.

    The person was silent for a bit before suddenly breaking out inughter, ¡°You¡¯re this so casual about where youe from, it¡¯s no wonder you were tricked this easily.¡±

    Lucian knitted his brows, ¡°Aren¡¯t you the same?¡±

    That person fell silent and no longer spoke.

    Lucian wasn¡¯t interested in bickering with that person. He patted his body and found that other than his clothes, everything else had been taken.

    This wasn¡¯t surprising. After thinking about it, he gathered his magic power again.

    This time, he didn¡¯t use the elemental magic energy for illumination. He carefully used his magic power to induce the situation of the elemental magic energy around himself.

    Through this check, he found that the surrounding elemental magic energy really wasn¡¯t normal. The elemental magic energy in the air had their flow restricted and was almost stagnant, so it would be very hard to gather it to form a spell.

    This should be the Magic Sealing Array that the other person had mentioned before.

    This thing was clearly to limit a magician¡¯s ability to use spells. A normal magician wouldn¡¯t be able to gather elemental magic energy with their magic power in this situation, so they would be no different than a normal person.

    But after Lucian closed his eyes to carefully sense it, he stretched out a finger to start drawing on the ground.

    A bit of light prated the line that he drew before disappearing.

    There was augh from the corner as if it was mocking Lucian for overestimating himself.

    Lucian ignored it and gathered his magic power again, drawing another line on the ground.

    As the bits of light appeared in the trunk before disappearing, after a while, Lucian had already formed a rough Magic Array with many different lines on the ground.

    After finishing his preparation, Lucian put his hand on the Magic Array. He sent the magic power in his body into the Magic Array while carefully adjusting the magic vibration, carefully fine tuning this Magic Array.

    The light of the Magic Array flickered at first, but after a while, it slowly stabilized. In the end, it released a stable and bright light that wasn¡¯t dazzling, lighting up the dark trunk.

    Lucian kept sending his magic power into the Magic Array before lifting up his head, looking around with the light. He saw the young faces looking at him with surprised looks.

    This trunk wasn¡¯t big, but looking around, he saw that there were more than twenty people here. They were all young people who were around the same age as Lucian, with males and females mixed in, but there were more males.

    Lucian looked at everyone¡¯s faces before raising his voice to ask, ¡°Are you all magicians?¡±

    The question surprised everyone before a young boy suddenly said with a nod, ¡°I¡¯m from the Carmen Academy. Did you say that you¡¯re from the Philip Academy just now?¡±

    The boy looked over Lucian¡¯s body with a bit of doubt in his eyes.

    ¡°When did the Philip Academy be this strong?¡±

    ¡°Right. You can actually break this Magic Sealing Array?¡± A young girl with a round face came over with a curious look, lowering her head to look at the Magic Array that Lucian drew. After thinking for a bit, she shook her head, ¡°I can¡¯t understand it. How did you do this?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t much, I just adjusted the magic vibrational frequency to the elemental magic energy around and then forcefully drew this Magic Array with the resonance. This won¡¯tst long, so it can¡¯t be considered me breaking the Magic Sealing Array.¡±

    ¡°That is still incredible!¡± The girl looked at Lucian with a surprised look, ¡°You seem like you¡¯re around the same age as me and you can adjust the magic vibrational frequency at will. Even our school¡¯s top students find it hard to do that.¡±

    Lucian revealed a smile, wanting to say that your school was just too weak.

    At the Philip Academy, Lucian¡¯s abilities wouldn¡¯t even be able to be ranked in the top ten.

    ¡°Hey, you said that you can¡¯t break this Magic Sealing Array?¡± Another boy on the side cared about the main issue as he asked, ¡°Since you can draw this Magic Array, then you should be able to break it, right? If you can, perhaps we might be able to break out of this car.¡±

    Hearing this, everyone¡¯s eyes gathered on Lucian.

    ¡°Yes, if we¡¯re transported to an unknown ce, it will all be over.¡±

    ¡°Right, think of a way. As long as you can break this Magic Sealing Array, we can all fly away.¡±

    ¡°Quickly give it a try¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Lucian waved his hand with a bitter smile.

    ¡°The Magic Sealing Array is one of the mostplicated research topics, how could I be that powerful that I could casually break it.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not a problem to give it a try.¡±

    ¡°Right, you can clearly draw this Magic Array.¡±

    ¡°You have to try before we arrive or there won¡¯t be a chance anymore¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Lucian wanted to reject, but the boy in the corner suddenly stood up and walked over, pping his hand down on Lucian¡¯s Magic Array.

    ¡°Stop wasting words. Everyone¡¯s telling you to try, so just try. Anyway, we can¡¯t do anything, so you wouldn¡¯t lose anything if you tried.¡±

    Lucian could tell that this was the first person who spoke to him. After being surprised, he wanted to say something, but that person pushed him and his left hand on the Magic Array was pushed off.

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡±

    Lucian wanted to say something, but he found that the light of the Magic Array only flickered twice before bing stable again.

    Seeing the thread of magic power that wasing from the boy¡¯s right hand, Lucian was surprised.

    This fellow could actually activate the Magic Array that Lucian drew this easily. It meant that he had a certain understanding of Magic Arrays that wasn¡¯t weaker than Lucian¡¯s.

    Seeing him maintain the effects of the Magic Array, Lucian fell into deep thought. While everyone was staring at him, he walked to the side of the trunk and pressed his hand on the wall.

    As he sent out his magic power, Lucian deeply knitted his brows.

 Book 8: 5: Not seeing the light of day from now on?

    Book 8: Chapter 5: Not seeing the light of day from now on?

    The Magic Sealing Array was just to put the elemental magic energy in the surrounding magic space in an unstable condition, causing magicians to be unable to affect it with their magic power, not allowing them to control the elemental magic energy and being unable to use spells.

    To destroy this influence, there were two methods.

    The first was to obtain the data of the Magic Sealing Array, especially the data about how it affected the surrounding magic space. Then one would have to use their own magic power to counter this change and then regain control of the elemental magic energy.

    This method was simr to the method that Lucian had used to draw this Magic Array, but Lucian¡¯s method was just using some small loopholes, so it couldn¡¯t be considered breaking it.

    The second method was to use pure physical destruction. It was to destroy the actual Magic Sealing Array, which would naturally destroy the effects of the Magic Sealing Array.

    In the current environment of Lucian¡¯s group, the only possibility was that the Magic Sealing Array was atop the Magic Car that they were currently standing in.

    But when Lucian touched the wall of the trunk, he felt the inference of another type of magic.

    He could quickly tell that no matter which wall he touched or if it was the floor that he was standing on, there was a Firmness Magic Array that was affecting it.

    This Firmness Magic Array was very simple, it would make any object tougher and make it hard to change its shape.

    So to break through the trunk that they were in, they would have to first break this Firmness Magic Array.

    However, Lucian had made just a single attempt and he found that this Firmness Array was much moreplicated than he imagined. It wasn¡¯t at a level that he could understand at all.

    ¡°It¡¯s very clear that the other side is prepared, so that¡¯s why they dare to let us act freely in this trunk.¡± Lucian gave a sigh as he gave the results of his investigation to the others in the trunk.

    No one was surprised by his answer, they just had slightly disappointed expressions.

    They were the same as Lucian, they were all students of the various magic machine industry academies of the Candra Empire. They were all considered decent magicians, so they could easily see through the situation.

    They had instigated Lucian because he could force out a Magic Array in this situation, which gave them a bit of hope towards him.

    Now that Lucian said that he didn¡¯t have a way, although they were disappointed, they understood that Lucian was a student that was around the same as them. Although he was better than them at certain things, he wouldn¡¯t be that much better.

    The boy who helped Lucian maintain the illumination array gave a sigh and took his hand back as the trunk fell into darkness again.

    Everyone¡¯s heart fell back into darkness along with the trunk.

    Lucian naturally wasn¡¯t willing to give up, but no matter how he checked it, he couldn¡¯t find a way out of their predicament.

    In the end, he was only a student that was about to graduate. Even if his results in school could be considered outstanding, whether it was experience or abilities, he was limited, so how could he possibly deal with this?

    The jolting of the trunk continued which indicated to them that this Magic Car was quickly heading to its destination.

    They didn¡¯t know how long passed in that darkness, but after jolting for a bit, the Magic Car suddenly slowed down.

    The people in the darkness looked at each other as they knew that they had reached their destination.

    After some faint voices from outside, the trunk suddenly opened and the strong sunlight came in. It was so dazzling that the people who hadn¡¯t seen light in a while in the truck all closed their eyes.

    ¡°Alright, all of you get out.¡± A rough voice rang out, ¡°I¡¯m warning you, don¡¯t try anything or you will suffer!¡±

    Lucian narrowed his eyes and looked out. He saw that there were two strong men outside the door and a few eaves could be seen outside, but he didn¡¯t know where this ce was.

    ¡°Don¡¯t act dead. Quickly get up, these masters don¡¯t have time!¡± The two strong men impatiently hit the trunk.

    The giant sound reverberated in the trunk and everyone couldn¡¯t help covering their ears.

    Lucian looked at the two strong men and was about to make a move when a ck figure in the corner suddenly charged out. This figure jumped into the air before pausing as if it was about to fly away.

    However, when this figure was in the air, it was like it had lost all support and fell right to the ground.

    The two men were surprised before reacting. Seeing the person lying on the ground unable to move from the pain, they beganughing.

    ¡°Ha, kid, you want to escape from this ce? Stop dreaming! Let me tell you, this ce is covered by the Magic Sealing Array, so don¡¯t think that you can escape with just you kids! Even a Great Magician couldn¡¯t escape!¡±

    Lucian¡¯s expression changed slightly.

    When that uncle Rondo introduced himself, he called himself a ¡°Third Grade Magician¡±. Now these two men were also using the term ¡°Great Magician¡±.

    This was a magician grading system that had been eliminated on the continent, so why were they still using it? Could it be rted to something?

    The two men ridiculed him for a bit before one of them grabbed the person on the ground by the hair and lifted him up.

    Lucian was a bit surprised. This person who had tried to escape was the boy who had talked to him and then helped him maintain the Magic Array.

    The man who grabbed him punched him right in the stomach without another word.

    The man was quite strong and this boy wasn¡¯t that strong, so with this one punch, he bent over and spat out blood.

    The two men saw this and revealed proud smiles.

    ¡°Hei, you bunch of magician brats. Us brothers used to fear you, but now¡­..you¡¯re just trash without any strength!¡±

    The other man waved his hand at the others in the trunk.

    ¡°Do you see this? All of you get out now or you¡¯ll be the same as him!¡±

    The other people in the trunk looked at each other before helplessly getting out.

    When each person came out, the man would put a set of handcuffs on their hands, clearly not giving them any freedom at all.

    When it was Lucian¡¯s turn, he didn¡¯t fight back at all and allowed him to cuff his hands.

    When the handcuffs were put on, he could clearly feel the magic fluctuations that came from them. Then he felt that the flow of magic inside him encountered a strong disturbance that made it very erratic, even causing him to lose the ability to control the magic power inside his body.

    Lucian was shocked by this.

    Disrupting the magic inside a magician, this was something that had caught the interest of the magician circle in the past two years and these people in front of him had already created a working product.

    With the special made Magic Car that they transported their group in and therge scale Magic Sealing Array that they put, it could be seen that the backer behind them was very powerful.

    Only until now, Lucian still didn¡¯t understand why they would kidnap a bunch of students like them.

    But these two men weren¡¯t interested in exining. After cuffing each person, they pushed them into the depths of the manor.

    After taking a few steps, two girls in this group suddenly broke out in tears.

    ¡°We¡­¡­We won¡¯t go¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Please¡­¡­Please let us go¡­¡­I don¡¯t want to go¡­¡­I want to see my mom¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing the cries of the two, the ten boys including Lucian all had dark looks as they turned their heads away, not daring to look at the two girls looking at them asking for help.

    They were only normal students and in this situation, what could they do against these enemies that clearly had a solid backing?

    The two men were already used to seeing this and pushed the two crying girls as they said whileughing, ¡°Alright, we won¡¯t sell you to a brothel. What are you crying for?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s just a bit of illegalbour. Rx, for treasures like you, we won¡¯t do anything to you. Of course, that is on the premise that you are good. If you¡¯re not¡­¡­¡±

    Lucian¡¯s heart turned cold.

    Illegalbour?

    Could it be that these people were the legendary evil organization that appeared in the past few years and traded in Low Grade Magicianbour?

    This organization was very strict and if one fell into their hands, they might never see the light of day again.

    The other people had clearly also heard the rumours and their expressions changed as they started to stir.

    However, these two men didn¡¯t hesitate to beat them and didn¡¯t hold back, so they quickly suppressed them.

    ¡°Pei! I already told you, as long as you are good and don¡¯t make trouble, would these masters need to do anything?¡± One of the strong spat out at one of the people he just finished beating before rubbing his fist, ¡°I¡¯m warning you, if you keep talking like this, I won¡¯t be so gentle next time!¡±

    The group stuttered, but no one dared to refute him and could only walk along with the two men.

    Lucian looked at the entrance of the manor in the distance and his heart sunk.

    He knew that if he went there, it would mean that he would be forced into illegalbour and would never see the light of day again.

    Not to mention joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility like he dreamed, he might not even have a chance to go home and see his parents ever again.

    What to do?

    At this time, there was a clear and powerful voice that suddenly rang out.

    ¡°Hei, the game ends here!¡±

 Book 8: 6: Strange girl

    Book 8: Chapter 6: Strange girl

    Everyone turned in the direction of this voice in a daze, seeing one of the girls slowly stand up and meet everyone¡¯s gaze.

    This girl never did anything before this and had always had her head down, so she didn¡¯t attract any attention. Now that she had suddenly spoken, she had shocked everyone.

    ¡°What are you looking at me for? I said that the game is over, everyone can go now.¡±

    The girl¡¯s voice sounded very naughty, but there was no change in her expression which made people feel very strange.

    The two men looked at each other before one of them came over and angrily roared, ¡°Hey, little girl, what nonsense are you saying? Are you looking to be beaten?¡±

    The girl tilted her head before sweeping her eyes over this man. Then with augh, she suddenly threw out a fireball that appeared in her hands, throwing it right at that man.

    The other man was stunned as he watched hispanion fly away. It took him a while to react as he shouted with a shocked look, ¡°Impossible! How can you possibly still use magic!¡±

    ¡°The Magic Array was filled with holes, is it worth being called a Magic Sealing Array?¡± The girl¡¯s voice was filled with disdain that couldn¡¯t be hidden, ¡°It¡¯s still not as strong as the Magic Sealing Array that was in thebyrinth I yed in when I was younger.¡±

    Therge man raised his fists and looked like he wanted to punch the girl, but he didn¡¯t dare do it.

    The girl pointed behind him.

    ¡°Hei, didn¡¯t you see yourpanion? If you don¡¯t take care of him, he¡¯ll be burnt to death.¡±

    The man turned around in a daze and found that hispanion that had been sent flying by this girl¡¯s fireball was covered in mes, screaming out in pain as he rolled on the ground.

    He quickly took off his jacket and started pping him with it.

    However, the mes on hispanion didn¡¯t weaken at all. He just red at the girl before running into the manor.

    The other young people including Lucian looked at the man rolling on the ground in a daze before turning to the girl with the wooden expression, not knowing how to react to this.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll help you undo your handcuffs first.¡± The girl suddenly thought of something as with a soft p, the cuffs that were on her hands automatically fell off.

    Lucian was stunned.

    After putting on the handcuffs, he had tried many times in secret to break free of their effects on his magic power, finding a way to break free of their control.

    However, the magic in the handcuffs was veryplicated. While he was being affected by them, he couldn¡¯t even gather his magic power, not to mention breaking free of them.

    But this girl didn¡¯t do anything special and easily broke free of the handcuffs. It meant that her understanding and grasp of magic was far beyond Lucian¡¯s.

    After breaking free of the handcuffs, the girl stretched her hands beforeing to each person¡¯s side. She tapped on their handcuffs and they immediately opened.

    When it was Lucian¡¯s turn, he focused his mind to sense the strange magic power that came from that girl¡¯s finger. Then the magic fluctuationsing from the handcuffs that controlled his magic power disappeared without a trace.

    At the same time, the strange magic power entered the handcuffs, affecting their mechanism to automatically open the handcuffs.

    Lucian looked at the handcuffs on the ground before looking at the girl who was helping the next person as his heart filled with shock.

    This girl looked to be around the same age based on her appearance, but not only could she use magic while being under the Magic Sealing Array, she could even easily break through theseplicated handcuffs. It really was too unbelievable.

    But what Lucian was most confused by was why was such an outstanding girl caught like the rest of them?

    With her abilities, she shouldn¡¯t have fallen for this trap.

    ¡°Hei, everyone, run quickly! That fellow will definitely call for help!¡±

    A boy who had just broken free of his handcuffs quickly shouted out.

    Everyone looked at each other with worried looks in their eyes.

    It was clear that the man who ran into the manor would definitely call for help. If they stayed here any longer, they might be caught again.

    ¡°I suggest you don¡¯t do that.¡± The girl who saved them gave a chuckle before waving her hands at everyone, ¡°With your power, you can¡¯t run that far. Moreover, this ce is very remote, so even if you left this ce, you wouldn¡¯t be able to find the way home.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in nk dismay.

    Another girl from the group couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Then what do we do? If we wait for their helpers toe, wouldn¡¯t we be caught again?¡±

    The girl who saved them gave a shrug, ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry. If they can call for help, why can¡¯t we?¡±

    After saying this, she pulled out a small Magic Communicator out of an unknown ce.

    Everyone saw this and revealed shocked looks.

    These were all students from magic rted schools, so they could tell that this girl had just taken this Magic Communicator from some external Magic Space.

    To have this external Storage Magic Space, one either had to have the corresponding magic item or they had to have very powerful magic, as well as a deep understanding of spatial magic.

    This girl clearly didn¡¯t have any special items on her, so the only exnation was that she was a powerful magician with a deep understanding of spatial magic!

    If this was ten years ago, someone who was familiar with spatial magic like this would definitely be a Great Magician.

    But now, although with ten years of modern magic theory developed, making spatial magic no longer as mysterious and hard to grasp, to grasp it to the point where one could create a personal Storage Magic Space, those magicians were all elites.

    Any magician with this ability would have a high level of spatial magic knowledge, they were even qualified to go study at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility.

    While they were all confused why such a young girl had such a powerful ability, everyone also felt much more assured.

    With this kind of powerful magician present, they might really have a hope of escaping.

    However, everyone¡¯s expression quickly changed.

    There was a rumble that came from outside the manor. When they turned to look, they saw three fierce looking Magic Cars rushing over.

    Magic Combat Vehicles!

    For these young people who had spent a long time study magic machines, which one of them didn¡¯t recognize the Magic Combat Vehicle that countless people panicked at on the battlefield?

    In front of this kind of terrifying military magic machine, just with these young magicians alone, not mentioning how they were being restrained by the Magic Sealing Array, they wouldn¡¯t have been able to fight it even if they were in their normal conditions.

    Even powerful Great Magicians couldn¡¯t do anything when facing these Magic Combat Vehicles. In the war against the two empires ten years ago, as well as other disputes on the continent in the past few years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made this clear.

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help turning back to that strange girl again.

    Even if she was strong, how could she resist three Magic Combat Vehicles by herself?

    Then¡­..what about the helpers she mentioned?

    The girl saw that everyone was looking at her and gave a shrug.

    ¡°It¡¯s just three obsolete Magic Combat Vehicles that were eliminated, what are you worrying about?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other in nk dismay.

    Another girl couldn¡¯t help saying in a worried voice, ¡°This¡­..ssmate, that is a Magic Combat Vehicle! We definitely can¡¯t beat it! You should quickly call for your helpers!¡±

    ¡°Yes, yes, we¡¯ll all be dead if you wait any longer!¡±

    ¡°Quickly! I don¡¯t want to be caught by them again¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Their group kept urging her.

    The girl had no expressions as she gave a sigh and shook her head.

    ¡°You all really aren¡¯t calm enough.¡±

    She said this, but she raised the strange Magic Communicator in her hand and pressed the button.

    However¡­¡­under everyone¡¯s hopeful gaze, the light on the Magic Communicator that represented that it connected kept shing, not showing any signs that it was connecting.

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that it¡¯s broken?¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that you don¡¯t have any helpers and you were just lying to us, right?¡±

    ¡°Are you kidding! You¡¯re still joking in this situation!¡±

    ¡°Gods, please save us¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The young people saw that their hopes were dashed and they couldn¡¯t help panicking.

    The girl looked at the Magic Communicator in her hand and shook it.

    ¡°Strange¡­¡­could it be broken? It can¡¯t be¡­¡­¡±

    Everyone looked at her with tearful looks, thinking that they might have been yed by this fellow.

    At this time, the boy who talked to Lucian the most in the beginning and had rushed out of the trunk before being beaten said to the girl in a deep voice, ¡°Before they¡¯re here, you get out of here. Since you can use your fireball in a ce like this, then you should be able to escape. As long as you escape, you can contact others and we have a chance to be rescued.¡±

    The others were stunned before thinking that this was a good idea.

    However, thinking of how only this girl would escape, some people were a bit unwilling. The expressions on the faces of some people became strange.

    Lucian didn¡¯t care about any of this, he had been staring at the Magic Communicator in the girl¡¯s hand with his brows deeply knitted in thought.

    Hearing this boy¡¯s voice, he suddenly had an idea. He came over and reached his hand out to the girl.

    ¡°Can you let me see the Magic Communicator?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 7: Charge with me

    Book 8: Chapter 7: Charge with me

    Everyone knitted their brows as they looked at Lucian.

    Everyone was thinking about how to escape, but he was focused on this small Magic Communicator. He really didn¡¯t understand what was happening.

    The girl was surprised before her stunned look quickly changed as she said with a smile, ¡°What? You have a way to solve themunication problem?¡±

    ¡°I specialized in magicmunications, so I can give it a try.¡±

    ¡°Good, then you can give it a try. I¡¯ll block these fellows.¡±

    The girl put the Magic Communicator in Lucian¡¯s hands and then to everyone¡¯s shock, she charged forward at the three Magic Combat Vehicles in front of them.

    ¡°You should escape alone!¡± The boy who had urged her earlier shouted out, ¡°If you¡¯re caught, we¡¯re all finished!¡±

    Hearing this, the others who had been in a daze came back to their senses. They all called out to let the girl escape first.

    However, when the girl turned back to look at everyone, she let out a crispugh. Then raising her hand, there was a long steel tube that appeared.

    Seeing this, the students behind her were all stunned.

    This thing¡­¡­If they weren¡¯t mistaken, it was a personal Magic Bazooka!

    It was barely eptable that this girl could take out things from a personal Storage Magic Space, but no one would have thought that in this situation, she would take out a personal Magic Bazooka!

    With stunned looks, everyone watched as the girl skillfully put the personal Magic Bazooka on her shoulder. There was a ¡°peng¡± sound that came from the muzzle as a dazzling red light came out of the tube of the Magic Bazooka.

    In the blink of an eye, that me had already reached one of the three Magic Combat Vehicles.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    With arge explosion ringing in their ears, the Magic Combat Vehicle was sted away and fell to the ground like a toy. It bounced around twice before bursting into mes, not moving anymore. The look of shock on everyone¡¯s face became even stronger.

    This¡­¡­

    Wasn¡¯t the Magic Combat Vehicle the strongest thing on the battlefield aside from the Magic Tank? Wasn¡¯t it said that it was even capable of resisting Great Magicians?

    Why¡­¡­Why was it blown up by a single personal Magic Bazooka?

    The more important thing was that the one who shot the personal Magic Bazooka was a young girl who didn¡¯t even seem like she was twenty years old yet!

    The enemies had clearly been scared by the might of this Magic Bazooka, so the two surviving Magic Combat Vehicles quickly separated, approaching from different sides.

    They charged forward while moving in a zigzag pattern, clearly being afraid that the girl would fire another shot from the Magic Bazooka.

    But after the girl looked at the two Magic Combat Vehicles, she gave augh and threw the Magic Bazooka on her shoulder to the ground. She reached out and pulled out another one.

    The students behind her looked at her in a daze, not knowing what expression to show.

    This fellow¡­..Could it be that her personal Magic Storage Space was just an arsenal for her¡­¡­

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was another me that was shot out. No matter how the Magic Combat Vehicle tried to dodge, the Magic Rocket created a beautiful arc in the sky before urately hitting it.

    Seeing this Magic Combat Vehicle bursting into mes, the only remaining Magic Combat Vehicle made a big circle as it didn¡¯t hesitate to turn back into the manor, losing the courage to charge forward.

    The girl threw the Magic Bazooka she fired to the side and pped her hands. She shook her head and said with a dissatisfied sigh, ¡°Ai, these human smugglers really don¡¯t have anyone with courage at all, I even thought that I would get a big fight.¡±

    The others stared at her in a daze as she turned to head to Lucian¡¯s side.

    ¡°Hey, did you figure out what the problem is yet?¡±

    Lucian had been focused on studying the Magic Communicator the whole time. When he heard this, he replied without even looking up, ¡°It should have been affected by the Magic Sealing Array, so the signal was impeded and doesn¡¯t have a way to connect to thework.¡±

    ¡°Then do you have a way to fix it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s possible, but I need time.¡±

    ¡°You need time?¡± The girl turned back to look at the manor.

    After the Magic Combat Vehicle escaped, there was a sudden grating rm that came from the manor. Dust could be seen being raised in the manor as figures ran around. It was clear that the other side had reacted and after learning that the issue wasn¡¯t simple, they wouldn¡¯t treat it that easily.

    ¡°Hurry up, I can¡¯t block them for too long.¡±

    ¡°Alright, but¡­..can you give me some data first?¡± Lucian looked up at the girl.

    ¡°Oh? What data?¡± The girl asked.

    ¡°Since you can use magic here, you should be clear on the data of the Magic Sealing Array¡¯s influence on the magic space, right? Give it to me, I can make it so that this Magic Communicator will be able to connect to thework with it.¡±

    The girl¡¯s big and bright ck eyes turned as if she was looking over Lucian for a bit before she said with a smile, ¡°I can¡¯t give you detailed data right now, but I think that you only need the most crucial data set. The elemental magic energy frequency here is between 27.6 and 29.3 hertz.¡±

    ¡°You know this, then¡­¡­¡± Lucian was surprised. When he wanted to keep asking, the girl turned to leave with a smile on her face.

    Lucian was stunned for a bit and knew that he couldn¡¯t keep asking, so he turned his head down to focus on fixing the Magic Communicator in his hands.

    Because he didn¡¯t have any tools, he could only use his magic power to fix it, so it was much slower than in ideal conditions.

    The only hope was that the girl would be able to resist the enemy.

    After the girl left Lucian¡¯s side, she waved her hand at the others.

    ¡°You should all move a bit further, or you¡¯ll be caught in our exchange of fire.¡±

    The other students looked at each other before a portion moved back.

    The boy who proposed that the girl run away alone took a step forward and reached his hand out to her.

    ¡°You should have many military magic machines, right? Give me some, I¡¯ll fight the enemy with you. Moreover, you should tell us how you can use magic. We¡¯re all magicians here and although we¡¯re not that strong, we can still help you.¡±

    The girl was a bit surprised as she looked at him.

    ¡°What is your name?¡±

    ¡°Just call me Danson.¡± The boy shook his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t the time to talk about this. Give me the weapons and tell me how you broke free of the Magic Sealing Array¡¯s influence.¡±

    ¡°With your current abilities, you won¡¯t be able to master this method quickly. But if you stand beside me, I can change the magic space around me and you should be able to manipte the elemental magic energy again.¡± The girl said.

    The others were surprised.

    Change the magic space around her? Wasn¡¯t that in the realm of domains!

    Could it be that this girl had actually reached such a terrifying realm? That was too unbelievable!

    Seeing their surprised expressions, the girl could clearly guess what they were thinking. She said with a shrug, ¡°I¡¯m not as powerful as you think, it¡¯s just a coincidence. You should know that with the current magic theory, the domains that used to only belong to Arch Magi aren¡¯t that mysterious anymore, right?¡±

    Right¡­..your head!

    Although with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu proposing the ¡°scientific view of magic¡±, the magicians of the continent had established a different magic systempared to before, analyzing the magic that many magicians thought was impossible to do before and making the domains that people thought were the peak of magic not be a secret anymore, it was still very hard to understand the theory and it was even harder to actually put that theory into use.

    Even now there were some powerful young magicians who could grasp a part of the domains, but no matter what, it wouldn¡¯t be a young girl like you, right?

    ¡°Alright, the enemies areing. If you want to fight the enemies with me, stand by my side. At the very least you can use some elemental magic energy to create magic shields and I can protect you all. If you¡¯re not willing, then you can just go to the side.¡± The girl waved her hand and gave her orders.

    The students looked at each other. Three girls and six boys moved to the side and ten students including Danson remained at the girl¡¯s side.

    ¡°Very good, it seems like most young people still have some courage.¡± The girl gave a satisfied nod in a self important manner.

    Then she waved her hand as military magic machines were pulled out of her Storage Magic Space, piling up in front of her.

    ¡°Alright, take what you like, see if you can find anything good.¡± The girl waved her hands like she was holding a big sale, causing the lips of the students that remained to twitch.

    After a moment of hesitation, they chose the military magic machines that they had some impressions of.

    For these students, they had heard about the military magic machines many times in the news, but this was their first time actually holding them.

    Everyone was nervous and excited, as all of them didn¡¯t know what to do.

    The girl looked over everyone and found that other than Danson who looked decent holding the Magic Machine Gun, the rest all looked like novices.

    However, she wasn¡¯t worried at all. She just looked at Danson and then waved her hand before shouting out.

    ¡°Very good! Now, everyone, charge with me!¡±

    Everyone prepared to charge out of reflex before they suddenly reacted.

    Charge? Charge where?

    Seeing their hesitant appearances, the girlughed like she didn¡¯t have a care.

    Everyone couldn¡¯t help revealing stiff looks. They wanted to know what kind of fellow this girl was, actually making this kind of bad joke in this situation!

    Seeing that everyone had unkind looks, the girlughed without any emotions while waving her hand.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s just a joke, don¡¯t mind it. Everyone follow me closely and don¡¯t get too far, we¡¯ll teach these human smugglers a good lesson!¡±

    These words were more like it and the hot blooded boys learned from her as they roared out a few times.

    But while these people were nervous and excited to meet the enemies, Lucian¡¯s voice called out from behind them.

    ¡°The signal connected!¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 8: Why did you play us?

    Book 8: Chapter 8: Why did you y us?

    As soon as the green light indicating it was connected lit up, the Magic Communicator in Lucian¡¯s hand let out an anxious middle aged man¡¯s voice.

    ¡°Hello, young miss, where are you? Are you all right?¡±

    ¡°Young miss?¡± Lucian was surprised. He turned to look at the girl who had turned back after hearing his cry and he understood.

    ¡°Hello, I am¡­¡­¡±

    As soon as Lucian spoke, there was a crude voice that interrupted from the other side.

    ¡°Who are you? Where¡¯s the young miss? Where did you take her? Let me warn you! If you dare touch a single hair on the young miss¡¯ head, I guarantee that you and the people behind you will die terrible deaths!¡±

    Lucian knitted his brows as he thought that these words seemed simr to the words he read in novels before?

    Although from the moment that the girl pulled out the personal Magic Bazooka, he knew that she definitely wasn¡¯t a normal girl, hearing the anxious and breathless voice from the other side, he was a bit surprised.

    This girl¡­..her backing wasn¡¯t simple. She might even be from one of therge noble families of the empire.

    But based on the actions of the girl, she didn¡¯t seem like a strictly trained daughter of a noble family¡­¡­

    ¡°Your young miss is fine, she¡¯s currently¡­¡­¡± Lucian looked up, ¡°She¡¯s heading over here, you can talk to her.¡±

    Lucian handed it over like a hot potato, giving the Magic Communicator to the girl who walked over.

    ¡°Hello? Is this uncle Harris? Rx, I¡¯m very good right now. Un? Oh, I¡¯m fine, I¡¯m really fine. This group of human smugglers got a bunch of old weapons from an unknown ce, but it isn¡¯t any threat to me. Of course, you don¡¯t believe in my abilities? Un¡­¡­I never said that I didn¡¯t want you toe, rather I hope that you cane as soon as possible¡­¡­Don¡¯t misunderstand, I¡¯m not in danger, but these kids here need to be protected. Moreover, there should be quite a few more that should be locked up, so you shoulde as soon as you can¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing the girl talking on the Magic Communicator, the expressions of the others around her became even more strange.

    This strange girl who suddenly appeared seemed to have a very deep backing. Moreover, it seemed like she knew that the enemies were here and based on her tone, she was deliberately caught so she coulde here¡­¡­

    With the strength she showed before and her current backing, perhaps she could have taken care of the enemies, but why did she have to put herself in danger?

    If she had strong enough helpers, why not just get them toe?

    The girl¡¯s conversation didn¡¯tst long. She ended it with a few more words and then gave the Magic Communicator back to Lucian.

    ¡°Keep the signal connected.¡±

    Lucian nodded in response. With the method he tested with just now, he used his magic to create a special wave for the Magic Communicator.

    The girl gave a shrug to the others before spreading her hands. Her expression didn¡¯t change, but she clearly showed her helplessness.

    ¡°Ai, I thought that I could make a mess with you, but now we can¡¯t. There¡¯s no other way, since my helpers have already found me, then there¡¯s nothing for us to do. Alright, everyone can find a ce to hide with me and when the helpers arrive, you¡¯ll be safe.¡±

    A girl with a round face couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Your helpers should be very far away, right? How could they get here so quickly?¡±

    ¡°Right, unless they have the newest Magic Airships, it¡¯s impossible for them to catch up that quickly¡­¡­¡±

    The boy who spoke had only finished half his words before stopping, looking up in the sky with everyone else.

    There were two shadows that had appeared in the sky, covering the space above them.

    With the bright sunlight, everyone could tell that these two giant shadows were clearly two Magic Airships.

    Everyone looked on in a daze as the two Magic Airships quicklynded. One of them appeared in front of them while the other onended on the grass near them.

    The Magic Airship¡¯s cabin opened and a middle aged man in a military uniform was the first one out as he rushed to the girl¡¯s side.

    ¡°Young miss! I finally found you!¡± When the middle aged man saw the girl, he yelled in an exaggerated voice, ¡°Do you know, when I lost contact with you, I was almost scared to death!¡±

    The girlughed, ¡°I already said that nothing would happen to me. Uncle Harris, if you keep scaring yourself like this, you might not live that long.¡±

    The middle aged man called uncle Harris patted his chest before knitting his brows to say with a cold snort, ¡°Which time was I not scared by you? You¡¯re not embarrassed saying this.¡±

    The girl pulled his arm before pointing at the students around her and then pointing at the manor.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Uncle Harris, look, this was the group that was brought with me. From the news that I obtained, they are students from the various major academies. As for the manor, it should be the den of the smugglers. You should know what to do, you don¡¯t need me to say anything, right?¡±

    Harris looked at therge number of Magic Combat Vehicles that came from the manor and gave a cold snort. His expression turned extremely cold as he released his killing intent.

    ¡°I wanted to catch all these pieces of trash already. Young miss, since you risked yourself and found their den, then it¡¯s easy to take care of. Our Fresh¡­..Ke, they only have some obsolete military magic machines, so it¡¯s impossible for them to face us.¡±

    After saying this, Harris looked at the confused students before saying to the girl, ¡°Young miss, the Candra Empire¡¯s people are right behind and will be here soon. You should go into the Magic Airship with these students, we¡¯ll take care of the rest.¡±

    The girl rolled her eyes, ¡°I got it, there¡¯s no chance for me to perform once you¡¯re here. But forget it, I had some fun just now, so I¡¯m satisfied. Uncle Harris, there will definitely be other captives in the manor, so you have to take care of them.¡±

    Harris gave her a hand signal to be assured. He waved his hand and he headed into the manor with the other fully armed soldiers that came out of the Magic Airship with him.

    ¡°Alright, it¡¯s uncle Harris¡¯ job from now on. You should all evacuate with me.¡± The girl waved her hand at the others and then headed to the Magic Airship that stayed behind.

    The students finally saw the hope of escaping and didn¡¯t dare dy as they quickly followed the girl into the Magic Airship.

    This Magic Airship only seemed to be a medium sized Magic Airship on the outside, but it was fifty to sixty meters long and ten meters wide. They found that the space inside was very big, easily fitting all of them.

    For these students, it was their first time in a Magic Airship, so they curiously looked around.

    After looking around, they found that the inside of the Magic Airship was a bit different from the Magic Airships that they saw in the Magic Illusion Projectors before.

    Compared to the Magic Airships used for passenger transportation, this Magic Airship was much more simple. There were no decorations and the interior even seemed a bit cold.

    These students knew that this Magic Airship wasn¡¯t used for civilian use, but rather this was a military Magic Airship.

    The way that everyone looked at the girl changed again.

    When that Harris called her young miss, it meant that the girl should be a descendant of arge noble family that should have had a high position.

    Then with this Magic Airship that was aplete military Magic Airship, could it be that this girl was a descendant of arge noble from the Candra Empire army?

    But that Harris had just said ¡°the Candra Empire people are behind us¡±, which meant that they were from another country.

    They were even more curious as to what this girl¡¯s status was.

    Just who was she?

    After Lucian got on the Magic Airship, he didn¡¯t look around like the others and lowered his head in silence.

    After a while, he suddenly stood up and walked over to that girl.

    ¡°Here, this is your Magic Communicator, I¡¯m giving it back.¡± Lucian gave the Magic Communicator the girl had given him back to her.

    ¡°Oh, thanks.¡± The girl replied before asking in a curious voice, ¡°Right, what is your name? To be able to ensure that the Magic Communicator wasn¡¯t impeded and maintain the connection, it seems like your skills in terms of magicmunications aren¡¯t bad.¡±

    Hearing this girl¡¯s praise, the surrounding students couldn¡¯t help revealing envious looks.

    This girl had a deep backing and if one could catch her eye, that would be a good opportunity.

    However, Lucian stared at this girl for a bit before taking a deep breath. He shook his head before saying in a cold voice, ¡°Why did you y us?¡±

    When this was said, the Magic Airship cabin erupted in an uproar.

    The other students looked at Lucian in a daze. What was wrong with this fellow?

    He actually dared to use this girl to her face, could it be that he couldn¡¯t tell that the other side¡¯s status wasn¡¯t normal?

    ¡°I yed you?¡± The girl had the same expressionless face, but her tone was rxed. It was like she didn¡¯t care about Lucian¡¯s usation at all, but rather there was augh that was hidden in her voice.

    Lucian pointed at the Magic Communicator in the girl¡¯s hand.

    ¡°You told me that area¡¯s elemental magic energy frequency, which allowed me to change the wave band of the Magic Communicator, allowing it to ignore the magic space and send out themunication.¡±

    ¡°Un, I did tell you. What about it?¡±

    ¡°Since you knew this value and knew the value to solve the magic signal, then with your abilities, I¡¯m certain that you could have solved the problem. You also would have been much faster than me, which would have been better. Why didn¡¯t you do it yourself?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 9: Weak self respect

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 9: Weak self respect</h4>

    The other students who had been looking around the Magic Airship all turned to look at that girl.

    If what Lucian said was true, this girl had just put them in more danger just now.

    Why would she do this?

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I could do it.¡± The girl didn¡¯t have any intentions of hiding it and openly admitted it.

    ¡°Then why did you let me do it?¡± Lucian kept asking.

    ¡°Because you said you could try, so I let you try.¡± The girl gave a shrug as she spoke in a rxed tone.

    Lucian was enraged by the girl¡¯s uncaring attitude.

    ¡°Then what if I couldn¡¯t do it? Wouldn¡¯t that mean that we would have been in more danger just now? If something happened, someone might have died!¡±

    The girl was a bit surprised that Lucian had really lost his temper. After blinking for a bit, she looked over him and revealed a faint smile.

    ¡°He, he, you really are an interesting young man. What if you couldn¡¯t do it? It¡¯s very simple, then I would have taken over and sent the signal. As for the ident you mentioned¡­¡­¡± The girl pointed at the people in the Magic Airship, ¡°Isn¡¯t everyone safe now?¡±

    Seeing that the girl didn¡¯t care at all about his usations, Lucian felt even more rage in his heart.

    ¡°Now is now, but what if something had happened earlier? How could you guarantee that everyone would have been safe?¡±

    The surrounding students saw the angry Lucian and felt that this situation wasn¡¯t good, so two boys came over to pull Lucian back.

    ¡°Hey, kid, what are you doing? We were rescued by her, what kind of attitude is this?¡±

    ¡°Right, if it wasn¡¯t for her, we wouldn¡¯t have been able to get out. How can you be like this?¡±

    Lucian threw off their arms. Although he didn¡¯t keep talking, he looked at that girl with an angry look, clearly feeling unconvinced.

    The other students were anxious as they looked at Lucian and that girl. They knew in their hearts that they had been saved by this girl and this girl clearly had a strong backing. If Lucian were to offend her, they might even suffer because of it.

    The girl looked at the angry Lucian and slowly gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, there was no need for me to exin, but this time I was acting willfully, so I have some responsibility. Yes, I could have immediately sent the distress signal to have uncle Harris find me as soon as possible, while also rescuing you all.¡±

    After saying this, the girl pointed at Lucian.

    ¡°But since you said that you could solve the magic signal issue, I was willing to create an opportunity to let you try it. As for the idents that you mentioned¡­¡­perhaps you won¡¯t believe it, but I could have protected all of you just with my alone, so there wouldn¡¯t have been an ident.¡±

    ¡°To be honest, you being able to solve the magic signal problem that quickly surprised me. I thought that you would take a while or wouldn¡¯t be able to solve it,s o Iw ould have to reveal my skills. To be honest, I have to me you for having abilities that surpassed my expectations.¡±

    Everyone looked at the girl with strange looks.

    It wasn¡¯t a problem that she was confident, but based on what could she say that she could protect all these people by herself?

    It had to be known that that ce was a den of human smugglers and just with what they had seen before, when the three Magic Combat Vehicles came out, it was clear that their strength wasn¡¯t normal.

    But thinking about how this girl had easily destroyed two Magic Combat Vehicles by herself before chasing off thest one, showing off a shocking amount of strength, everyone couldn¡¯t help believing in her.

    Even Lucian couldn¡¯t refute this, so he could only remain silent.

    The girl paused before saying, ¡°As for why I let you solve the magic signal problem, it was because of my father¡¯s words of guidance. My father said that you have to give people a chance to show off their abilities, that way you can find enough talented people, seeing the talents of people that I normally don¡¯t see. Look, through this matter, I¡¯ve found that you have an ability of magicmunications that far surpasses that of normal people. Right, you said that you were from the Philip Academy, then the fact that you aren¡¯t in school and were caught by these people, it should mean that you were out looking for work, right?¡±

    The girl suddenly changing the topic to this surprised everyone.

    Lucian nodded in a daze.

    ¡°Yes, I was looking for work in Dor City and then was tricked, which was why I was caught.¡±

    ¡°Un, very good. I think that with the ability you just demonstrated, you have a chance to work as a research assistant in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s magicmunication department. Are you interested?¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    Lucian and the other students looked at the girl with surprised looks.

    She actually said that Lucian was able to apply for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility?

    Although it was only a research assistant position in the magicmunication department, this was something that normal students like them could never dream of!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, it was the holy ground for these students who studied magic theory!

    If they could enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, it would be simply their ultimate dream!

    But¡­¡­how could she say something like this?

    Even if she had a deep backing, how could she forcefully send someone to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility?

    That ce was famous for being very strict and even rtions weren¡¯t easy to use.

    ¡°If you¡¯re interested, I can give you a rmendation spot. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility will be holding their annual public recruitment next year, so you can take this rmendation spot to apply. Of course, this rmendation can only get you to the second round and as for whether you can be a research assistant or not, that will depend on your own abilities.¡± The girl said.

    Everyone was stunned once again.

    What this girl said was the truth!

    She actually had a rmendation spot for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility!

    Gods!

    Although this rmendation spot wouldn¡¯t let one directly join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, with it, one could directly enter the second round of testing, saving quite a bit of time and effort. Not to mention that they would receive special attention because of this rmendation, so their chances of seeding would be higher than a normal applicant!

    No one would have thought that after Lucian impolitely used this girl, not only would she not care, she would give him such a big benefit!

    For Lucian, this was simply a pie falling from the sky!

    In front of everyone¡¯s envious gaze, Lucian¡¯s expression was a bit excited, but after a while, he became hesitant. After his expression changed a few times, he gave a sigh and shook his head in the end.

    ¡°No, I can¡¯t ept this gift. With my current ability, it isn¡¯t worthy of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Everyone fell into an uproar.

    This idiot!

    This was clearly a good thing falling on your head and you rejected it!

    What was he thinking!

    Only that boy named Danson looked at Lucian with wide eyes that had a trace of admiration.

    The girl was a bit surprised by Lucian¡¯s response, but then her voice turned cold for the first time.

    ¡°You think that this is a gift? If your self respect is that boring and weak, then I really think that you aren¡¯t suitable for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility. Father said that only people with strong hearts could truly have strong abilities. You aren¡¯t qualified.¡±

    After saying this, it was as if the girl had lost interest in talking to them. She closed her eyes and leaned back in her seat, taking a nap.

    The other students looked at Lucian with different expressions, but no one said a thing.

    Lucian¡¯s expression changed a few times, but he sat down in the end and lowered his head, clearly not nning on saying anything.

    The Magic Airship fell into an awkward silence.

    After a while, this silence was interrupted by the clear sounds of music.

    Everyone looked in the direction of this sound in surprise, finding that it was the girl who had taken a nap who took out that small Magic Communicator from her chest, pressing the button to ept the call.

    ¡°Hello? Uncle Harris, un. I¡¯m still waiting above. Did you solve it? There were some captives that were injured? No one died? It¡¯s good that no one died. Un, we¡¯ll leave the rest to the Candra Empire to deal with, our mission is over. As for the ones behind the vers¡­¡­we¡¯ll let lord father deal with them, it¡¯s not my job yet. Alright, I¡¯ll go back in a bit. Rx, I promise that I won¡¯t sneak off again. Did you forget? It¡¯s aunt Agnes¡¯ birthday. Although she¡¯s had over a hundred birthdays, we will still need to celebrate it¡­¡­¡±

    Everyone listened to the girl as she recovered her rxed tone and talked to that person called uncle Harris on the phone, as the doubt in their hearts became even stronger.

    The aunt Agnes that she mentioned already had over a hundred birthdays, didn¡¯t that mean she was a hundred years old?

    She was still being called an aunt at this age¡­¡­it really was too strange.

    But the mysteries of this girl wasn¡¯t just this. No one would mind if she became a bit more mysterious.

    After a while, she ended the call with uncle Harris.

    After hanging up, she looked over at the students and said, ¡°This Magic Airship will take you all to the nearest city. The officials of your Candra Empire will take care of what happens to you next, it isn¡¯t rted to me. So, we will now say goodbye to each other. Right¡­¡­¡±

    The girl gave a p and dug in her chest before taking something out. She walked over to Lucian and pulled out his hand, pping that thing down in his palm.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s open recruitment will start on the fifteenth of next month. If you¡¯re interested, you can take this token to join. With it, you will receive the rmendation spot that I mentioned.¡±

    ¡°I¡­¡­¡±

    Lucian wanted to say something, but the girl red at him.

    ¡°Even if you want to throw it away, you should do it after I get off this Magic Airship!¡±

    Lucian opened his mouth, but he could only give a sigh. He didn¡¯t even look at what this little thing was and put it into his pocket.

    The other students looked at Lucian¡¯s pocket with envy, how they wished they could take this rmendation spot for themselves.

    ¡°Alright.¡± The girl gave another p and drew everyone¡¯s attention back. She waved her hand at everyone, ¡°I should leave now. Take care of yourselves and don¡¯t be tricked again. Goodbye.¡±

    After saying this, the girl¡¯s figure disappeared.

    Everyone was shocked.

    This was clearly spatial teleportation magic!

    This girl¡¯s powers really were shrouded in mysteries.

 Book 8: Chapter 10: Magic Surveillance System

    Book 8: Chapter 10: Magic Surveince System

    After the girl disappeared, everyone looked at each other and lost interest in speaking.

    After silently waiting for around ten minutes, the Magic Airship started moving again. After around two hours of flying, they had returned to Dor City.

    When the Magic Airshipnded, the official from the Dor City City Lord Manor, representing the Candra Empire, took away the kidnapped students.

    They were questioned about the kidnapping by the City Lord Manor official before being sent off.

    Before setting them free, the Dor City City Lord Manor official not only reissued their identification documents, but also gave them expenses as per their requests to go home with.

    For example, Lucian was given two gold coins. It was enough for him to take the fastest long distance Magic Car back home and there would still be some left.

    Of course, his luggage wasn¡¯t found and the Dor City City Lord Manor wouldn¡¯tpensate him for the things he had in it.

    But for Lucian,pared to getting kidnapped and then being sold to an unknown ce, this result was already very satisfying.

    What made him truly regretful was that because this matter took two days, which meant he didn¡¯t have time to stay in Dor City to find employment. He could only go back to school to graduate for now and thene up with new ns.

    For Lucian and the other kidnapped students, this matter seemed like it ended there.

    But for the officials of Dor City and special dispatched officials of the Candra Empire, this matter was just beginning.

    There was such a serious kidnapping incident in the Candra Empire and based on the reports, this organization hadn¡¯t only existed for a few days. So after the major newspapers of the Candra Empire exposed this matter, there was serious bacsh.

    The first target was the officials of Dor City,

    So many young students were kidnapped this easily in Dor City, so naturally the Dor City City Lord Manor couldn¡¯t avoid responsibility.

    Second was the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor.

    Ignoring all the personnel that this group of kidnappers had, the most terrifying thing was that they had heavy military magic machines like the Magic Combat Vehicle. It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to call them a small army!

    Such a powerful organization had been in the southern province for so long without being discovered. Just what was the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor doing?

    The current Sines Continent was no longer as misinformed as before. As the newspapers and the Magic Illusion Projectors became popr, news cirction far surpassed the level that it was at before, so any piece of news would be quickly known by countless people.

    So once this matter was revealed, from the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor to Dor City City Lord Manor, they all felt enormous pressure.

    In response to this matter, the Candra Empire royal family even sent a document, ordering the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor to thoroughly investigate this matter and not allow it to happen a second time.

    The emperor had even personally given a decree in this document, stating ¡°they definitely couldn¡¯t allow the empire to lose future talents this easily because of this¡±.

    ¡°That is the key issue.¡± The new governor, the young Duke Windsor who had reced his father three years ago looked at the official document with the seal of the royal family in his hand and gave a sigh, ¡°The emperor wouldn¡¯t care about thesemoners being kidnapped. What he cares about is that the people kidnapped were the students from the various academies, who are the key future talents of the magic machine industry. If they were kidnapped, this would have indeed been a huge loss for the empire.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± The official on the side gave a nod, ¡°Lord Governor, for this matter, I think that we should strengthen the security in Dor City. Dor City is the most lively city in the southern part of the empire and the biggest city in terms of traffic. Although this is a glorious matter for us, it¡¯s also a form of pressure.¡±

    ¡°Look, each year at this time, there are many students from the various academies thate looking for jobs, so they are very easy targets. If we can¡¯t protect them, simr events will happen again in the future.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­this is indeed a problem¡­¡­¡± The young Duke Windsor thought about it for a bit before giving a nod, ¡°Alright, write a detailed proposal for me first. Right, speaking of this, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce rmended a¡­..a what to me?¡±

    ¡°The Magic Surveince System, Lord Duke.¡± The official said.

    ¡°Right, this whatever Magic Surveince System. The fellow from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce said that with this thing, we can use Magic Illusions to record what happens in certain ces. If something happens, we can use this Magic Surveince System to easily investigate it and it would save us quite a bit of effort.¡±

    ¡°Un, this is indeed a very novel system. When the New Moon Chamber of Commerce demonstrated itst month, I went to take a look. The results are very good, the Magic Illusions are very clear and it perfectly replicated everything that happened. It was very amazing.¡± The official said in a voice of praise.

    ¡°Then do you think¡­¡­if Dor City had this Magic Surveince System, it would solve many of the problems?¡± The young Duke Windsor asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± The official knitted his brows, ¡°It might not be proper¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, this Magic Surveince system is good, but if it was set up in Dor City, wouldn¡¯t that mean that the actions of every person in Dor City would be under the surveince of this system?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that what I want to see?¡± The young Duke Windsor red at him, ¡°If we can control every action of every person in the city, who would dare cause trouble? As for kidnapping, there¡¯s no need to even think about it!¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­Forget about themoners, but the nobles and therge merchants will not be willing to let their every action be monitored¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Idiot, do you really think that I would set this up in every ce? Clearly it only needs to be set up in the streets, we can¡¯t just install these things in people¡¯s homes, can we?¡± After saying this, the young Duke Windsor¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Yi? Speaking of this, we canpletely cover the City Lord Manor and make the City Lord Manor much safer.¡±

    The official¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help twitching. He thought that if the City Lord Manor had this Magic Surveince System, wouldn¡¯t his affair with the big breasted maid in the City Lord Manor be exposed?

    He wanted to persuade him against this, but he couldn¡¯t say it. After thinking about it, he gave a cough and reminded him, ¡°Lord Duke, we can talk about the City Lord Manorter. We should first talk about arranging the Magic Surveince System in the city. Un¡­..I¡¯ve considered it and as for the monitoring range, we can seriously consider it so that it won¡¯t offend the important people in the city. As for monitoring the entire city, it isn¡¯t that hard. As for the difficult part¡­¡­how can we ensure that this giant system will be effective?¡±

    ¡°The issue with the technology is for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to consider.¡± The young Duke Windsor waved his hand as he said in an uncaring voice, ¡°If the New Moon Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t solve this issue, they aren¡¯t qualified to sell this Magic Surveince System to me.¡±

    ¡°Un, that is right. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce has the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so this request won¡¯t be difficult.¡± The official gave a nod before revealing a bit of worry, ¡°But Lord Duke¡­..there¡¯s still an important problem that needs to be solved¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What problem?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the finances.¡± The official spread his hands and said in a helpless voice, ¡°For such arge Magic Surveince System, if we want toy it down, it will take a lot of money. Moreover, this system has to be maintained, so we have to continue spending money. If you are really nning on doing this, you have to be prepared.¡±

    ¡°Money¡­¡­¡± The young Duke Windsor stroked his chin and seriously considered this. He looked down at the official document in his hand and gave a slow nod, ¡°Since it¡¯s the Magic Surveince System of Dor City, naturally it will be Dor City paying for it.¡±

    The official let out a sigh.

    The Lord Duke had said all this and in the end, when it came to the money, he still pushed it to Dor City.

    Although the finances of Dor City and the southern province were linked, Dor City and the southern province¡¯s expenditures were two different matters.

    Constructing this Magic Surveince System was the idea of the Lord Duke, representing the will of the southern province and the Governor Manor, but now that he wants Dor City to pay for it, the Dor City City Lord Manor would certainly have their opinions.

    ¡°Lord Duke, I feel that¡­¡­shouldn¡¯t our Governor Manor take the lead on this matter? This is also good for promoting this on arge scale. Think about it, if each city in the southern province had this same Magic Surveince System in the future, then the public safety of the entire southern province would greatly increase. Not only will a simr incident never happen again, your control over the southern province would be greater.¡±

    The young Duke Windsor knitted his brows to think for a bit before slowly giving a nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s also good. Anyway, it¡¯s impossible to immediately install this Magic Surveince System over arge area, so we have to do our experiments. Let¡¯s just let the Governor Manor first¡­..what was that phrase called again? Right, let us be the first to eat crab! Contact the New Moon Chamber of Commerce in a bit and tell them our requests!¡±

    The official let out a sigh before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Alright, Lord Duke.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 11: Committing murder in broad daylight

    Book 8: Chapter 11: Committing murder in broad daylight

    That afternoon, young Duke Windsor¡¯s official arrived at the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch in Dor City, proposing the Lord Duke¡¯s request for the Magic Surveince System in person.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce attached great importance to this and immediately designed a set of Magic Surveince System as per the young Duke Windsor¡¯s request. They said that since this was the Lord Duke¡¯s request, the New moon Chamber of Commerce could give the young Duke Windsor preferential treatment, by letting them use this first set for a free trial, which was basically giving this set to the young Duke Windsor for free.

    The official was very satisfied and expressed gratitude on behalf of the young Duke Windsor. He also tactfully mentioned the new Magic Illusion Drama that his wife loved and immediately received a free set of Magic Illusion Discs that contained this drama for free, as well as thetest small Magic Illusion Projector. Only then did he leave.

    When he went out the door, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Dor City branch manager immediately contacted the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters two thousand and three hundred kilometers away.

    With the magicmunicationwork that covered all of the southwest corner¡¯s countries and the two empires, although they were over two thousand and three hundred kilometers away, they could still instantly contact each other. They could even use the Magic Illusion technology with the magicmunication system to have a face to face meeting, which naturally made things quick and convenient.

    The Dor City branch manager repeated the request that came from the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters moved immediately.

    The next day, an order for a Magic Surveince System that met all the requirements was sent to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s Magic Illusion department started the research immediately.

    At the same time, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff in Dor City went to the area set by the Governor Manor for the test to start their onsite inspections.

    Two dayster, the detailed data was passed to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.

    Four dayster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility¡¯s Magic Illusion department had finished all their research.

    A weekter, the corresponding first set of Magic Surveince System equipment was made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As per the requests of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, this equipment wasn¡¯t sent bynd transportation like normal products, rather they sent it by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s special air transport through a Magic Airship. It arrived at the Magic Airshipsnding base outside of Dor City that very night. Then in the afternoon, it was rushed to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce headquarter¡¯s engineers who had arrived that afternoon by Magic Airship.

    After that night, which was the morning of the eighth day after the young Duke Windsor had made his request, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff were already setting up this equipment in Dor City.

    As soon as noon passed, the young Duke Windsor who had received the news came to the control room for the final test.

    ¡°Lord Duke, look, this is the real time image of the current situation at the Dor City west gate.¡± The New Moon Chamber of Commerce engineer responsible for this pointed at the illusion in front of them and exined to the young Duke Windsor, ¡°Through this real time image, we can observe everything that is happening in the region that is being monitored. Even if we miss something, there¡¯s still this thing¡­¡­¡±

    He pointed at a ck box that was on the side.

    ¡°This will store the Magic Illusions that are caught for a day. If there¡¯s anything that you missed during this day, you can y this recording through any Magic Illusion Projector, finding out anything that happened a day ago.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that amazing?¡± The young Duke Windsor looked at the normal looking ck box and stroked his chin in a thoughtful manner, ¡°Un¡­¡­this is a very good function. Even if I send people to guard this ce, they can¡¯t be vignt all the time, so there will be some mistakes. With this recording function, it will be much more convenient. But I still have a question¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Lord Duke, please ask.¡±

    ¡°This thing can only record for a day, isn¡¯t this time a bit too short? What if I want to investigate something that happened two days ago or several days ago, wouldn¡¯t it be useless?¡± The young Duke Windsor asked.

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± The New Moon Chamber of Commerce engineer revealed an awkward look, ¡°Lord Duke, this is the current technological limit. We don¡¯t have a way to make an illusion module that will store more than thirty hours of data, so to be cautious, we¡¯ve set it for a day, which is twenty four hours.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­That means it can¡¯t be longer?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that it can¡¯t be longer.¡± A person on the side suddenly cut in.

    This person was the engineer from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in charge of technical support. Now that the question asked was a question about the Magic Illusion technology, naturally it was his turn.

    ¡°We can put the standard illusion modules into a storage box to form a small module group that will enhance the storage capacity, increasing the recording time.¡±

    ¡°Can it increase to ten¡­..No, ten days might be a bit too long. A week, how about a week?¡± The young Duke Windsor asked.

    ¡°There¡¯s no problem on the technology side.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce engineer replied with a nod, ¡°But Lord Duke, each increase of the standard illusion module will double the specifications of the technology. Naturally that will also increase the cost, so¡­¡­¡±

    The young Duke Windsor turned to the official in charge of this.

    ¡°How much does this set of equipment cost in total?¡±

    ¡°The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current price is twenty four hundred gold coins per set.¡±

    The young Duke Windsor knitted his brows, ¡°It really isn¡¯t cheap. Then if we increase the recording time to a week? How much more will it cost?¡±

    Everyone turned to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce engineer.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce engineer looked at the person from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. After thinking about it, they said, ¡°We haven¡¯t tested this before, but it should increase the construction cost by at least 40%.¡±

    ¡°Then it¡¯ll be over three thousand gold coins per set?¡± The young Duke Windsor took a cold breath before asking, ¡°If we wanted to use this thing to monitor the entire city, how many sets would we need?¡±

    ¡°We can¡¯t give an urate estimate now, but based on the area of Dor City, it should be around one hundred to one hundred and fifty sets.¡±

    ¡°This means a total of three hundred thousand or even four hundred thousand?¡± The young Duke Windsor couldn¡¯t help revealing a pained look before turning to the Dor City City Lord Count A beside him.

    Count A¡¯s heart bled, but he still had a righteous look on his face.

    ¡°Lord Count, in order to increase the safety of Dor CIty and to maintain its prosperity and stability, this price is worth it!¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± The young Duke Windsor narrowed his eyes as he asked this.

    Count A didn¡¯t immediately reply. He turned his head to look at the clear Magic Illusion of Dor City¡¯s west gate and hesitated a bit.

    Of course he knew how helpful it would be to Dor City if this thing was installed.

    But to let him take out hundreds of thousands of gold coins from Dor City¡¯s finances, he really couldn¡¯t help feeling pain.

    After hesitating a bit, he turned to the person from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°This¡­..Can we discuss the price¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Look!¡±

    An official from Dor City¡¯s City Lord Manor called out, cutting Count A off.

    Count A red at him with a dissatisfied look and when he wanted to reprimand him, he saw that everyone¡¯s gaze was on the Magic Illusion, so he also turned to look.

    As soon as he looked at it, his eyes popped out before he revealed a shocked look.

    The Magic Illusion was clearly showing that in a remote corner to the left of the west gate, a short young man was slowly pulling a dagger out of the waist of another man.

    This was clearly a serious case of assault!

    While Count A was in a daze, the young Duke Windsor had already reacted and angrily red at Count A.

    ¡°What are you watching for? You¡¯re still not catching this fellow for me!¡±

    Count A trembled before finally reacting and he gave orders to the two guards behind him.

    ¡°Quickly catch that fellow! If you can¡¯t even catch him after seeing his face, don¡¯te back to me!¡±

    The two guards quickly ran off.

    Everyone¡¯s eyes were on the Magic Illusion, looking at the face of the young man who had injured the other person.

    It clearly wasn¡¯t this young man¡¯s first time since he didn¡¯t have a panicked look. After he cleaned the de on the clothes of the person he stabbed, he put it into his chest and walked off.

    However, before he could even take a few steps, the two guards led some city guards from the west gate to surround him.

    When he was surrounded by all these people, naturally he couldn¡¯t resist and was quickly detained.

    Seeing the young man being caught, Count A let out a sigh of relief before giving a cold snort, ¡°Such boldness! In broad daylight, he dares murder someone on the streets! See how I take care of himter!¡±

    In front of the Lord Governor and the representatives from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, there was such an evil deed that had beenmitted in Dor City. It really made him as the City Lord feel ashamed.

    It could be imagined what kind of fate the young man would face.

    ¡°Lord City Lord, what were you saying before?¡± The person from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce suddenly asked this with a smile.

    Count A carefully looked at the young Duke Windsor before revealing a righteous look once again.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing. I just wanted to ask, how long will it take for this Magic Surveince System to be set up in Dor City?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 12: Application

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 12: Application</h4>

    Three dayster, the news of the Dor City City Lord Manor ordering a hundred Magic Surveince System units from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce spread across every major newspaper in the Candra Empire.

    When people saw this piece of news at first, they were all a bit confused by it.

    Magic Surveince System? What was that?

    Why did the newspaper say that this was the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor¡¯s and Dor City¡¯s City Lord Manor¡¯s response to the kidnapping incident?

    After seeing the newspaper¡¯s exnation of the Magic Surveince System, everyone gradually started to understand.

    It was like this. With this thing, the entirety of Dor City would be monitored, so evil wouldn¡¯t be able to hide. Naturally it would be hard for a simr kidnapping incident to happen.

    Even if it really did happen, it would be easily tracked down with this surveince system.

    No matter how you look at it, this surveince system would have a great effect on reducing crime.

    Of course, not everyone supported this.

    When this report was released, there were many newspapers that had a different point of view. They stated that this Magic Surveince System would take away the privacy of people, which vited the basic morality of humans.

    However, there were others that immediately refuted this.

    If you didn¡¯t do bad things, why would you fear this Magic Surveince System?

    Then again, the Dor City City Lord Manor had clearly stated that this system would only be used to monitor public areas in Dor City. This would not include the private residences of people, so the others wouldn¡¯t need to worry about their privacy being vited.

    If you still feel like your rights were being vited, you should first see if you had a guilty conscience or not.

    The increasing rate of arguments for both sides in the newspapers would be a very fiercely discussed topic in the Candra Empire in the future.

    Because of these fierce discussions, the Magic Surveince System quickly spread across the Candra Empire and even became popr in countries other than the Candra Empire.

    After the Dor City City Lord Manor ordered a hundred Magic Surveince System units from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, not long after, there were ten different cities in the Candra Empire that ordered the same Magic Surveince System.

    These orders added up to over a thousand units, reaching a value of over two million gold coins.

    Even for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce that had developed strongly in the magic entertainment industry and spread to countless countries, this was still arge order.

    So after taking this order, the entire New Moon Chamber of Commerce became much more busy.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce even created a new Magic Surveince department to deal with this business.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was also involved, this order didn¡¯t affect them that much.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce only needed to send out a single research team to develop the various technologies needed for this Magic Surveince System. Other than that, they would just need to add a single production line for the various magic machines needed for this Magic Surveince System.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that was already a giant, for a business that didn¡¯t touch their core industry, there was no need for them to spend that much effort in managing it.

    Compared to this, their annual recruitment was what the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce cared about the most.

    ###

    July 7th, it was the day before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s annual recruitment started. Lucian had just gotten out of the long distance passenger Magic Car and as he looked up, his eyes lit up.

    The city in front of him was different from any city he had ever seen before.

    Therge and tall buildings all around him, the broad streets that intersect with each other, the street lights and traffic signals all around him, the different kinds of Magic Cars passing by on the street, the different races wearing different styles of clothing walking along the street¡­¡­

    Although he had seen these things in therge cities of the Candra Empire, it was far from being the norm like in this city in front of him.

    Lucian stared on in a daze for a bit before slowlying back to his senses. He couldn¡¯t help taking a deep breath.

    It was no wonder countless people said that only Frestech City had the true charm of the new era.

    It wasn¡¯t wrong at all!

    Just with a single look, Lucian felt like he was in a whole new world. Even the air he breathed felt like it was from a whole new world.

    Even if he had heard various descriptions of Frestech City and seen illusions of it many times, only after personally seeing the city could he understand what was different about this city. How¡­¡­modern it was.

    Just seeing the building on the other side having an entire wall covered by a giant Magic Illusion Projector, Lucian felt a bit dizzy.

    Such a giant screen, it was even several times bigger than the one he had seen outside Dor City before and looked much more magnificent. He couldn¡¯t help feeling shocked by it.

    As if responding to Lucian¡¯s thoughts, the Magic Illusion projected on this giant screen suddenly changed to a figure that he was very familiar with.

    Miss Lenoya!

    The Lenoya projected was as big as that building, but she was still iparably beautiful. That sweet smile and that pure and noble aura, every action she gave made one fall.

    Lucian stared at her in a daze for a long time and only came back to his senses when Lenoya disappeared.

    Perhaps it was because it would be holding a recruitment over the next few days, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had clearly marked out the buses heading to the application area.

    Lucian followed these instructions and after asking several people, he easily arrived at the special area that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up for the recruitment after two bus transfers.

    This ce was arge stadium outside Frestech City, covering several dozen hectares, so it could be considered veryrge.

    But even such arge space was currently filled with people, not leaving a single space at all.

    Looking around, one could see many young people who were around the same age as Lucian.

    Of course, there wasn¡¯t ack of older people and there were even people with white hair.

    These people had clearlye for the recruitment and their goal was to pass and be an official staff member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For the people on the current Sines Continent, being able to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the highest honour.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s pay wasn¡¯t the highest, but the prestige that it gave was very high.

    If one was an official staff member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was something worth showing off in any small ce.

    If one could be a Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility researcher, they would be a powerful person that countless people bowed down to.

    In small countries, any Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher could be a guest of the country¡¯s king!

    Even in the two empires, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchers were important people who wouldn¡¯t be treated worse than nobles.

    So for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s annual recruitment, especially for the magic research facility, countless people from all over the continent came to participate.

    Every year at this time, students that graduated from the magic industry academies like Lucian all came here to try their luck.

    If they could be employed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, it would be like soaring into the sky!

    Lucian saw the dense crowd around him and felt a bit nervous.

    He heard that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility only recruited less than fifty people each year, but there were over ten thousand people here fighting for these fifty positions.

    With his abilities, would hee out above ten thousand people?

    Thinking of this, Lucian reached into his pocket to touch the thing with a fine carved pattern and his heart calmed down.

    This thing was what the mysterious girl had given him before, she said that it was her token.

    The mysterious girl had said that as long as Lucian took out this thing, he would be able to receive a special rmendation to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility¡¯s recruitment, directly entering the second exam.

    Lucian had been very dissatisfied with the girl¡¯s attitude and even wanted to reject her good intentions.

    But after they separated and Lucian calmed down, he couldn¡¯t help feeling shameful about his response.

    The twopanions who had stopped him were right. No matter what, this girl had saved them from their crisis.

    If it wasn¡¯t for her, they might have been sold to some unknown ce by the human smugglers and lived very tragic lives.

    So based on this, even if the girl wasn¡¯t honest with them, even if her attitude was bad, Lucian wasn¡¯t qualified to say anything about her.

    Not to mention that this girl didn¡¯t mind giving space to Lucian. Anyway, because of the small amount of talen he showed, she gave him this token and a precious rmendation spot.

    ¡°This really is shameful¡­¡­¡±

    Lucian secretly let out a sigh. He pushed through the crowd and reached the ce to register.

    After he filled out the form as per the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff¡¯s instructions, Lucian hesitated a bit before taking out the small thing from the mysterious girl out of his pocket.

    He thought that since the mysterious girl told him to take this out, he wouldn¡¯t need to exin what this was.

    With the people watching, Lucian was embarrassed to say that he could get a special rmendation spot with this token.

    However, the staff member had a confused look when they saw this small thing in Lucian¡¯s hand.

    ¡°May I ask¡­¡­this thing that you¡¯re showing me¡­¡­what is it?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 13: Still taking the first exam

    Book 8: Chapter 13: Still taking the first exam

    Seeing the doubtful look of this staff member, Lucian felt a bit of bitterness in his mouth.

    Could it be that that mysterious girl was lying to him?

    She didn¡¯t have the right to give him a special rmendation spot at all?

    But thinking about it, this was a natural thing.

    No matter how deep the backing of this mysterious girl was deep, how could she possibly have the ability to give a rmendation spot for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruitment? This didn¡¯t make sense at all!

    Then again, why did that girl think he was important?

    Thinking of this, Lucian revealed a bitter smile. He gave a sigh and shook his head, preparing to take back this small thing.

    Although he didn¡¯t get the rmendation spot that he was expecting, he hade here with great difficulty, so he couldn¡¯t go back with nothing.

    Even if it was a hard recruitment, he still had to give it a try.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I¡­¡­¡± Lucian said this as he was about to put the small thing back in his pocket.

    But before he could put his hand in, there was another person who grabbed his hand.

    Lucian turned his head in a surprised manner and saw a serious looking middle aged man staring at his right hand.

    ¡°Young man, can you let me see the thing in your right hand?¡± The middle aged man asked.

    Lucian looked at him with a confused look. When he was about to shake his head, the staff member who was taking care of Lucian suddenly stood up and gave a respectful bow to this middle aged man.

    ¡°Manager Harley, are you here to inspect our work?¡±

    The middle aged man called manager Harley waved his hand, ¡°Just do your work, I¡¯m just here for a casual look.¡± After saying this, he used more force to pull Lucian¡¯s hand out of his pocket and then he pointed at his right hand.

    Lucian had a thought and then opened his palms, revealing the small thing he was holding.

    Manager Harley¡¯s eyes shrank when he saw this and then he looked over Lucian several times with a look of doubt in his eyes. After that, he waved his hand at Lucian.

    ¡°Come with me, let¡¯s change ces to talk.¡±

    The people around saw Lucian leaving with manager Harley. Some people expressed doubt while some expressed envy.

    After several minutes, Lucian was brought to a separate room in the stadium by manager Harley.

    ¡°Sit.¡± Manager Harley pointed at a seat for Lucian to sit down before stretching his hand out, ¡°Can you let me have a proper look at this small thing?¡±

    Lucian hesitated a bit before putting this small thing in manager Harley¡¯s hand.

    Manager Harley looked at this small thing for a while before asking, ¡°How did you get this thing?¡±

    Lucian hesitated a bit before telling him about running into the mysterious girl a month ago.

    After he finished, manager Harley thought in silence for a bit before giving a nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, that did happenst month. Then that means¡­¡­the young miss wanted you to take this token to register with and promised you a special rmendation spot?¡±

    ¡°Yes, that was what she said.¡± Hearing the meaning in manager Harley¡¯s voice, Lucian couldn¡¯t help being a bit excited as he looked at manager Harley with a look of expectation.

    Manager Harley looked over Lucian again.

    ¡°Since it¡¯s the rmendation of the young miss, your abilities should have caught her attention. Alright, since the young miss wants to give you a special rmendation spot, I won¡¯t do anything unnecessary.¡±

    Manager Harley took out a Magic Communicator from his chest and said a few things into it in front of Lucian.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve already given the order. Go back to the registration and they¡¯ll take care of it. As for this thing¡­¡­¡± Manager Harley looked at the small thing and hesitated a bit before giving it back to Lucian, ¡°Since this is a gift from the young miss, then you should keep it. I hope that you will treasure it and take care of it.¡±

    After saying this, manager Harley¡¯s face that had always been serious revealed a smile.

    ¡°Young man, you¡¯re very lucky. Someone that can catch the eyes of the young miss will have a bright future. I hope that you will cherish this opportunity.¡±

    Lucian saw the smile of deep meaning on manager Harley¡¯s face and a bit of doubt appeared in his heart.

    It was fine if that Harris called the mysterious girl ¡°young miss¡±, but why did this manager Harley call her young miss as well?

    Was there a rtion?

    After bidding farewell to manager Harley, Lucian came back to the registration.

    As expected, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff treated Lucian even more warmly this time. They personally helped him fill out the form and pulled him to the side to say a few things in secret.

    ¡°Lucian¡­¡­Mister Lucian, since you have a special rmendation spot, you won¡¯t need to take the first exam and can enter the second exam the day after tomorrow. About the second exam¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait.¡± Lucian cut him off, ¡°Can I take the first exam?¡±

    The staff member was stunned, ¡°But you have a rmendation spot, you don¡¯t need to take the first exam.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I just want to test my own abilities.¡± Lucian said.

    The staff member knitted his brows as he looked at Lucian with a confused look.

    ¡°If you insist on taking the first exam, it¡¯s not impossible. But your special rmendation spot will be wasted like this. If you can¡¯t pass the first exam¡­¡­of course, I am saying that there is this possibility, you won¡¯t be able to take the second exam¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I understand. If I can¡¯t even pass the first exam, then there¡¯s no meaning in being able to directly enter the second exam, right? It means that I¡¯m not worthy of this special rmendation spot.¡± Lucian said with a nod.

    Seeing the determined look on Lucian¡¯s face, the staff member helplessly gave a nod.

    ¡°Alright, if you¡¯re insisting on doing this, I will arrange it for you.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll have to trouble you.¡±

    After getting the details of the recruitment from the staff member, Lucian finally left this stadium.

    The first exam would be starting tomorrow, so there was no meaning in staying here. It was better to find a ce to sleep for the night while it was still early.

    Frestech City was called the most modern and luxurious city without equal, so when it came to lodging, there were luxurious hotels that reached the sky everywhere.

    Just outside the stadium, there were three hotels like this that were all imposing and luxurious.

    But Lucian could only enviously look at these three buildings before going to find a more remote ce.

    He couldn¡¯t afford those luxurious hotels, remote ces were his true home.

    ###

    The first exam the next day seemed calm to Lucian.

    He specialized in magicmunications when he studied at the Philip Academy, so in this recruitment, just like the girl had said before, he was here for the lowest research assistant position in the magicmunication department.

    The first test of many different difficult topics wasn¡¯t hard for an outstanding student from Philip Academy like him. Although the questions were a bit harder than what the school taught him, with his solid foundation, he was able to easily answer them.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very efficient. The test was in the morning and the results were announced in the afternoon.

    Lucian unsurprisingly was on the list that passed the first exam and he was a forerunner.

    This was a happy matter for Lucian, but for the other applicants who had failed, it was without a doubt sad news.

    After the results were announced, countless people had depressed looks and there were even people who broke out in tears.

    Lucian couldn¡¯t help feeling emotional seeing this.

    If he had failed the first exam as well, while he wouldn¡¯t have broken out in tears, he definitely would have been disappointed.

    Losing the chance to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have been arge blow to him.

    He wasn¡¯t confident in joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before, but after meeting that mysterious girl and receiving the token from her, he was strangely filled with confidence.

    Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t even have had the courage toe to this exam.

    After the results of the first exam were announced, manager Harley specially found Lucian to congratte him.

    This made Lucian feel surprised.

    Manager Harley clearly had a high position in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he cared this much about a boy from the countryside like him. It was clearly because the mysterious girl had given him her token.

    Just who was that mysterious girl?

    Manager Harley didn¡¯t answer Lucian¡¯s doubts. He just said that since the young miss didn¡¯t reveal her identity, she had her reasons and he couldn¡¯t reveal it.

    If Lucian wanted to know, it would be best to find some time to ask her face to face.

    Lucian couldn¡¯t do anything about this.

    It seemed like he could only find the truth when he met this mysterious girl again.

    But thinking of the mysterious girl¡¯s special identity, Lucian felt that it would be very hard to have a chance to meet her.

    In the end, they were people of two different worlds.

    Just like the goddess Lenoya in his heart, if nothing unexpected happened, it would be very hard for them to ever meet in this life.

    The matter fromst month, it was better for Lucian to treat it like a dream.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruitment was verypact.

    There was only a day of rest after the first exam and then the second exam came.

    Compared to the thirty thousand people that came for the first exam, after being screened out by the first exam, there were far less people here. There were only a total of less than three thousand people, which was a passing rate of less than 10%.

    Among these three thousand people, there were two hundred that were applying for themunication department.

    There were only three spots for these two hundred people, so one could imagine how difficult it was.

    Lucian wasn¡¯t confident about his chances of passing the second exam, but since he was already here, he couldn¡¯t back down.

    But when he anxiously came to the second exam with the other two hundred applicants, he saw someone that he never expected to see.

 Book 8: Chapter 14: Master Akali

    Book 8: Chapter 14: Master Akali

    ¡°Gods, isn¡¯t that master Akali!¡±

    ¡°It really is! It really is master Akali! Why is she here?¡±

    ¡°Idiot! Master Akali is the manager of themunication department, is there anything strange about her being here?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not right. Master Akali has been working with the dragon race on an outer spacemunicationwork, so why would she be here?¡±

    ¡°Could it be that she¡¯s here to conduct the second exam for us?¡±

    ¡°What a joke! Would master Akali need to personallye to our exam?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Lucian didn¡¯t discuss this like everyone else. His focus, his eyes were all on the person who had juste out.

    It really was master Akali!

    In some sense, master Akali was the same as miss Lenoya in Lucian¡¯s heart, they were both idols.

    However, the meaning of this idol was different from miss Lenoya.

    Lucian only liked miss Lenoya, but it wasplete worship when it came to master Akali!

    Master Akali, she had single handedly created the magicmunicationwork andid down the foundation for modern magicmunications. She was one of the people that stood at the peak of this era!

    Before her, if the people of the continent wanted to contact each other, they would have to rely on manual mail.

    After master Akali and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce covered the Sines Continent in the magicmunicationwork, people could instantly transfer information from several hundred kilometers or even several thousand kilometers away!

    Compared to before, the currentmunication method was like sending people into a new world.

    It was because of theprehensive application of the magicmunicationwork that the Sines Continent was able to enter the era known as the ¡°information boom¡± in recent years.

    People were no longer like before, only staying in their hometowns their entire lives and not knowing anything about the world.

    The people of this era could sit in their homes and know about anything that was happening on the Sines Continent. They could even contact people who were thousands of kilometers away without any hindrances.

    This amazing method ofmunication was something that the people of the continent could never dream about before. For it to be popr in all these countries, other than the hard work of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the various countries, master Akali¡¯s hard work couldn¡¯t be ignored.

    It was said in recent years that master Akali had been working hard on an outer spacemunication method. She was trying to break the current limitations of the magic signal and achieve infinite distance transfer.

    If they could make this technological breakthrough, it would mean that people could contact the Magic Cloud Continent that was over ten thousand kilometers away!

    Of course, this was also the main reason master Akali and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were researching this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and many countries had been developing the Magic Cloud Continent and the other continents they found with full force. If they could solve this long distancemunication problem, it would be countless times easier.

    Lucian had an excited look as he watched master Akali walk onto stage, his heart was unable to calm down.

    Even if he couldn¡¯t pass this second exam, just being able to see master Akali made this trip worth it!

    Akali on stage heard all the discussions from below and looking down to see all the excited expressions they had, she couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Even though she was a middle aged woman who was over the age of fifty, because of the help of the elves and her own powerful magic power, her face was no different from a thirty year old girl.

    This smile still had the same naughty look from the past.

    ¡°Everyone, calm down.¡± Akali lifted her hand as she spoke in a loud voice.

    Everyone quickly fell silent and they all focused their gazes on her.

    ¡°I know that you must be very surprised to see me here.¡± Akali revealed a faint smile before continuing, ¡°That¡¯s right, normally I wouldn¡¯te here because this isn¡¯t my work. But this time is special. I need to recruit some research assistants, so I came all the way here.¡±

    ¡°Ah?¡±

    The crowd fell into an uproar.

    Master Akali needed to recruit some assistants? Moreover, it seemed like she wanted to recruit from their group?

    Gods!

    This was simply a cake that fell from the sky!

    Everyone looked at Akali with glowing eyes, wishing that they could run up to volunteer.

    Lucian also felt his heart beating much faster as he looked at Akali on stage with eyes filled with hope.

    If he could be chosen by master Akali, it would be worth it even if he died!

    No, no, no, he definitely couldn¡¯t die. He still needed to stay by master Akali¡¯s side and contribute to the magicmunicationwork!

    Akali had no choice but to raise her hands again to quiet everyone down.

    ¡°There was a test already prepared for the magicmunication department, but because of my special needs, I¡¯ve also prepared some other questions for you. If you can pass, then you are qualified to be my research assistant. If you don¡¯t pass, then you can try the test that was already prepared for you all. If you can pass that, you can still be a researcher or a research assistant of our department.¡±

    This exnation was very clear, but everyone still had some doubts.

    Based on what master Akali said, wouldn¡¯t it mean that her requirements for her research assistants be different from the magicmunication department¡¯s requirements?

    ¡°Alright, our staff will first give you the question that I¡¯ve prepared and lead you to the exam site. The people who pass will be having an interview with me.¡± Akali gave a p and the two Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff that were already prepared started handing out the thick exam papers one by one.

    Lucian took a deep breath and gathered his focus. When he was about to give his entire focus to this test, Akali on stage suddenly spoke again.

    ¡°Is there someone among you called Lucian? Where are you?¡±

    Lucian was stunned as he looked up, seeing Akali¡¯s eyes sweep over him.

    ¡°It¡¯s me¡­¡­Master Akali, were you calling me?¡± Lucian doubtfully pointed at himself.

    The other applicants all looked at Lucian with eyes filled with shock.

    ¡°You are Lucian?¡± Akali asked, but she had been looking at the person behind her the entire time. After receiving confirmation from that person, she gave a nod to Lucian, ¡°Do you best.¡± Then she turned to leave.

    Lucian was stunned.

    The surrounding applicants all looked at Lucian with shocked looks. There were also looks of doubt, envy, and jealousy¡­¡­

    ¡°Master Akali knows me? How is this possible¡­¡­¡±

    For a long time, even when the exam paper was in his hands, Lucian still had a stunned look.

    After being in a daze for a bit, he finally came back to his senses.

    ¡°Forget it, I need to do this test first and not think about random things.¡± Lucian pped his face to wake himself up before focusing on the exam in front of him.

    Lucian thought that since master Akali was the highest authority in magicmunications, all the questions would be very hard.

    But when he took the test, he found that these questions didn¡¯t involve high level theory, but rather focused on the most foundational concepts. Although the requirements were very precise, it wasn¡¯t considered that hard.

    The only thing that was special was that it focused on application, so without a certain degree of foundation in practical application, it would have been very hard to answer.

    It was a good thing that when Lucian was studying at the Philip Academy, in order to relieve the burden for his parents, improve his own living conditions, and strengthen his practical application skills, he would find work in the magicmunication sector, so he was very experienced with this.

    So the questions that would have been very hard for normal students were considered quite easy for Lucian.

    After the written exam was over, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff quickly prepared the practical application test.

    In the previous test, there weren¡¯t that many people eliminated, but in this second stage practical application test, the disparity in abilities quickly manifested and many people were quickly eliminated.

    There were still over a hundred people after the written exam, but after the practical application exam, including Lucian, there were less than twenty people left.

    ¡°The remaining people wille with me to see manager Akali. Manager Akali will personally interview you all and if the manager is satisfied, you can remain.¡± A Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff brought the twenty of them to therge transport Magic Car that had clearly been prepared ahead of time.

    Thisrge transport Magic Car brought them away from the exam site and headed west. It actually entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base headquarters that was located to the west of Frestech City.

    Lucian looked at the factories through the window and his heart was filled with excitement.

    Although he had seen the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters many times in the Magic Illusions, this was his first time seeing it in person and entering it.

    This ce was considered mysterious and even sacred by countless people of the continent.

    Because this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s headquarters. It was called the ce of origin for the modern magic machine industrial age, as well as the heart of the current Sines Continent.

    Everything done here would affect the entire continent.

    Lucian looked at the worn out factories outside the window and his heart was filled with respect.

    The current magic machine industry that covered and changed the entire continent had developed from here.

    Seeing this, it was like seeing part of history that would make one¡¯s blood boil.

    But Lucian didn¡¯t have that much time to visit. Therge transport Magic Car went through several streets in the main base before quickly entering arge building and stopping there.

    ¡°This is thepany¡¯s magic research facility.¡±

    Hearing the introduction from the staff, everyone revealed looks of admiration.

    This was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility which represented the peak of technology on the continent!

    Lucian stood there in a daze for a bit before being led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff into a seven story tall building.

    Finally everyone was led into arge conference room on the third floor of this building.

    Other than seeing master Akali that everyone expected sitting there, Lucian saw a person that he couldn¡¯t help being surprised by sitting in the conference room as well.

 Book 8: Chapter 15: Working far from home

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 15: Working far from home</h4>

    Seeing the girl sitting beside master Akali, Lucian shook his head to confirm that his eyes were right.

    That¡¯s right, this girl was that mysterious girl that he metst month!

    Lucian had thought that it would be very hard to see her again, but he never thought that he would meet her again here.

    When he wanted to raise his hand to greet the girl, she looked over and shook her head at him.

    Lucian suppressed the questions in his heart and looked at master Akali with everyone else.

    ¡°Everyone can just sit.¡± Akali casually said. After everyone sat down, her gaze swept over them and she gave a nod, ¡°Since you¡¯ve all passed my test, that means that your abilities already satisfy my needs. Then I have nothing to test you on and I just wanted to tell you some things.¡±

    Everyone focused on Akali as even their breathing slowed down.

    ¡°The research assistants that I¡¯ve recruited this time will be dispatched to work outside of the Sines Continent for a long time. The shortest period will be half a year and the longest period will be a year before you cane back. So if any of you can¡¯t ept this arrangement, you can choose to back out now.¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and several of them revealed awkward looks.

    Although bing master Akali¡¯s personal assistant was a once in a thousand year chance, to leave the Sines Continent for half a year to a year, this request was hard to ept for some people.

    After being silent for a bit, two people stood up. They gave Akali a respectful bow before indicating that they couldn¡¯t ept this arrangement.

    Akali didn¡¯t mind and waved her hand as she said, ¡°You can go participate in the normal exams then. If you can pass them, then you can still work for ourpany.¡±

    The two looked at each other before giving sighs.

    But the two of them didn¡¯t leave right away. One of them hesitated for a bit before asking Akali, ¡°Master Akali, can you tell us what the treatment is if we be your personal assistants? If it¡¯s good enough, I think that it wouldn¡¯t be impossible for me to ept this arrangement.¡±

    Everyone¡¯s expression changed as they turned to Akali again.

    That¡¯s right, this was what they really cared about.

    Although Akali was everyone¡¯s idol and bing her research assistant was a dream for them.

    What they really cared about were the actual benefits.

    In the end, they wanted to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of the good treatment they would receive here.

    Akali revealed a smile, not looking surprised by this question at all.

    ¡°The specific treatment¡­¡­If you ept this job, you will be a first grade research assistant for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility, along with all the treatments that a first grade assistant would get. I think that you should have already researched this beforeing, so there¡¯s no need for me to tell you about them.¡±

    Quite a few people nodded in response to this.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced their recruitment, they had made the sries for each position clear and had published them in the major newspapers ahead of time.

    As long as one wanted toe, they could easily obtain this information and had some ideas in their hearts.

    ¡°Because of the specialty of this work, you will also receive benefits other than that of a first grade research assistant, as well as some subsidies. The amount will be decided by me and for now, it will be five gold coins a month per person, but this can be adjusted based on future circumstances. Of course, if your performance is good, I won¡¯t be petty with bonuses. Moreover, because you are researchers being assigned outside of thepany, all your boarding and living fees will be taken care of by thepany, so you don¡¯t need to worry about them. How about it? Isn¡¯t this treatment good?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other before giving nods.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s primary research assistant¡¯s sry was already twenty five gold coins a month. With the five gold coins a month subsidiary, that was thirty gold coins a month.

    Although this ie wasn¡¯t considered the highest on the continent, it was considered among the top earners.

    The most important thing was thatpared to the otherpanies, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always had the best prospects for development. If they entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no doubt they would have a bright future.

    This was more important than several gold coins a month.

    Not to mention that Akali also said that their boarding and living fees would be taken care of by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This would save them quite a few expenses and quite a bit of effort, which was another form of ie.

    In short, the treatment was already good enough.

    The person who had asked this question lowered his head to think for a bit before sitting down again.

    Everyone looked at him and he exined with a red face, ¡°With this treatment, my wife should agree to me leaving home for half a year¡­¡­¡±

    Everyone was surprised before they couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    In the end, this fellow was a pecked husband.

    Lucianughed along while he couldn¡¯t help looking at the others who had passed the exam with him.

    He didn¡¯t pay that much attention before, but looking at them now, he found that among the twenty people, there weren¡¯t only students that had just graduated from school. There were quite a few of them that were quite old and even one person had a white head of hair.

    Hearing this person¡¯s exnation, Akali couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    ¡°Alright, as long as you think that you can ept this arrangement, of course I would wee you. This job requires a lot of manpower, so the more qualified assistants, the better.¡±

    There was only the other person who had chosen to reject this offer left.

    Everyone turned to look at him. That person gritted his teeth and took a while to make his decision, but he still said with a sigh, ¡°Sorry, master Akali, my parents are old and I can¡¯t be away from home for long.¡±

    Akali gave a nod, ¡°There¡¯s no need to apologize to me. You¡¯re willing to care about your parents, that is something worthy of praise.¡± After saying this, she turned to the others, ¡°Even all of you, I suggest that you seriously consider this and see if you are really willing to ept being away for half a year or even a full year. You have to know that this isn¡¯t a ce that is several hundred kilometers or a thousand kilometers away, this is a ce that¡¯s several thousand kilometers or even ten thousand kilometers away, so you have to think this through.¡±

    Everyone fell silent at this.

    That person¡¯s reason had shaken them.

    Indeed, although transportation had be much smoother on the Sines Continent and they didn¡¯t need to remain in their homes their entire lives like before, finding it hard to travel long distances.

    Going several thousand kilometers or even ten thousand kilometers away wasn¡¯t something that was easy to ept.

    ¡°Alright, I don¡¯t need you to agree right away. The official list will be determined next week, so you have a few days to consider this.¡±

    Akali waved her hand at a Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff member who had been standing behind her and that person handed out some documents to everyone.

    ¡°This is a brief introduction of this job, as well as the requests that I have. You should look over this over the next few days and see if you can ept my requests, then you can give me a clear answer in a few days. If you can¡¯t¡­¡­Un¡­¡­it¡¯s better to decide early so you don¡¯t miss ourpany¡¯s recruitment this time.¡± Akali said.

    After saying this, Akali gave a sign that this meeting was over.

    Everyone stood up and gave Akali a bow before taking these documents to leave the room.

    When Lucian was nning on leaving, Akali suddenly called out again.

    ¡°Right, Lucian, you stay.¡±

    The others looked at Lucian with looks of envy and jealousy before leaving.

    There was only Lucian and Akali¡¯s group left in the room. The mysterious girl who had been sitting beside Lucian with her head down without saying a thing looked up at Lucian.

    ¡°I never thought that you woulde. I thought that you would be unwilling like those spiteful children.¡±

    It was like when he had met her before. There was a bit of happiness in her rxed tone and her eyes had a hidden smile, but her face didn¡¯t reveal a smile at all which seemed strange to look at.

    Lucian looked at her with aplicated look for a bit and after hesitating, he came over to give her a bow.

    ¡°Sorry and¡­¡­thank you.¡±

    The girl seemed surprised by Lucian¡¯s action. After a pause, she gave a quick and strongugh.

    ¡°It seems like you¡¯ve finally thought it through. Very good, I like young people who know when they¡¯re wrong.¡±

    Lucian looked up at her with a strange look.

    This girl didn¡¯t seem that much older than him, why did she call him and the students fromst time young people like she was much older than them?

    ¡°Freya, if you call others young in front of me, are you secretly saying that I¡¯m old?¡± Akali suddenly said from the side.

    The girl gave a chuckle, ¡°Aunt Akali, you¡¯re the one who said it, not me. Then again, he¡¯s several years younger than me, so of course I would call him a young man.¡±

    ¡°You, stop learning from your father. Acting all old when you¡¯re this young, what will you do in the future?¡±

    ¡°Alright, you called my father old fashioned, I¡¯ll tell him when I go back.¡±

    ¡°He won¡¯t care about you.¡± Akali shook her head and turned to look at the stunned Lucian with a smile, ¡°Sorry, it¡¯s just the two of us talking. Lucian, Freya mentioned youst time, so I paid attention to you this time. Based on the test, you have a very solid foundation and good practical skills, as well as good creativity, which is rare. I hope that you will keep this up in the future.¡±

    Lucian quickly nodded.

    ¡°Thank you for your instructions, I definitely will.¡±

    ¡°Un, I don¡¯t have anything else to say, but Freya seemed very happy to see you here, so I hope that you will stay. See if she has anything else to say to you.¡±

    Lucian looked at the mysterious girl who was called Freya with a surprised look.

    Freya waved her hand with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have anything else to say. I found that you had good abilitiesst time, so I didn¡¯t want you to be buried away and rmended you to ourpany¡¯s recruitment. Since you are here and have passed aunt Akali¡¯s test, that¡¯s very good. I hope that you will work hard as aunt Akali¡¯s subordinate. Un¡­¡­don¡¯t me me for not warning you. Aunt Akali only seems gentle, but she¡¯s quite strict, so you should be careful.¡±

    ¡°What nonsense are you saying!¡± Akali red at Freya before turning to Lucian with a smile and shaking her head, ¡°You have several days to consider this, I hope that you can give me a satisfactory answer.¡±

    Seeing that Akali indicating the end to this meeting, Lucian gave a nod. He stood up to give the two a bow before leaving the room.

    After leaving, Lucian walked along while thinking about the conversation just now, feeling that something was off.

    After a while, he suddenly stopped as his eyes popped out and his face was covered in shock.

    ¡°Gods! Freya? Isn¡¯t that¡­¡­¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 16: Choice

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 16: Choice</h4>

    Seeing the door to the conference room close, Akali turned to Freya beside her with a smile.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, could it be that you like him?¡±

    Freya immediately red at Akali.

    ¡°Aunt Akali, this joke isn¡¯t funny at all. If lord father were to hear this, he might be angry with you.¡±

    Akali gave a shrug, ¡°I don¡¯t think so. No matter how much he loves his daughter, you should get married sooner orter. Look at it, you¡¯re twenty something this year?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll be twenty four in a bit.¡± Freya gave a soft snort, ¡°Who said that I have to get married, you and aunt Evita aren¡¯t married.¡±

    ¡°The two of us are different. Who told the person we like not to ept us.¡± Akali reached her hand out to pat Freya¡¯s head as she said with a smile, ¡°Freya, if sir chairman had epted me back then, perhaps I might have a daughter who is as old as you now.¡±

    Freya gave a giggle, ¡°That is something between you, don¡¯t drag me into it. If you want a daughter, I can be your daughter.¡±

    ¡°Un, Evita and I watched you grow up and many times we treat you as our daughter.¡± Akali paused before her smile disappeared, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s stop joking and talk seriously. Freya, you¡¯re about to turn twenty four, it¡¯s almost the agreed upon time you set with sir chairman. Have you made your decision?¡±

    Freya revealed a bitter expression and knitted her brows to think for a bit before slowly shaking her head.

    ¡°I still haven¡¯t thought it through yet.¡±

    ¡°What? You¡¯re not interested in taking over thepany?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t say that I¡¯m not interested. I¡¯ve already started with some of the work with thepany over the past two years and I¡¯ve found that it¡¯s quite interesting. But¡­¡­I think that deciding my future this early makes me a bit¡­¡­a bit unwilling.¡±

    ¡°Unwilling to be fettered?¡± Akali asked, ¡°I understand this. I wanted to be free when I was young too, I wasn¡¯t willing to be restricted to one ce. After I found magicmunicationwork, something I was willing to put my life towards, I finally settled down.¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t just being fettered. I just feel that¡­¡­father has many things to consider and he is very exhausted, I don¡¯t like seeing him like this.¡± Freya said.

    Akali gave a long sigh.

    ¡°Sir chairman does need to consider many things, but there¡¯s no other choice. Who told him to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman? There were the fates of many people riding on him and every one of his actions could decide the development of the continent. So he has to consider many things and not make a single mistake. But if you say that he¡¯s very exhausted, I wouldn¡¯t agree.¡±

    ¡°Could it be that he isn¡¯t exhausted? He has to consider all kinds of things all the time, just thinking about it gives me a headache.¡± Freya pursed her lips.

    ¡°He¡¯s used to it.¡± Akali revealed a faint smile, ¡°Or perhaps it should be said that he enjoys it. Sir chairman has always had a very big ideal and this ideal was said very clearly in the Banta Deration ten years ago. He worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce all these years because he was working hard towards this ideal. Freya, you might not understand it now, but when a person works hard for their ideal, they won¡¯t feel tired.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Freya looked at Akali, but her eyes had already fluttered to some unknown ce.

    ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no need for you to worry about this.¡± Akali patted Freya¡¯s shoulder, ¡°I understand sir chairman¡¯s personality very well. Although he wants you to take over thepany, he wants you to live your own life more. If you¡¯re not willing to take thepany, he won¡¯t force you. Then again, you still have another year to consider this, so think well.¡±

    Freya thought about it before giving a p and saying with a rxed voice, ¡°Right, I still have a year. Then again, I have several younger brothers and sisters, even if I¡¯m not willing to do it, lord father can just train one of them to do it. Hei, hei¡­¡­¡±

    Akali couldn¡¯t help reaching out a hand to tap Freya¡¯s head before reprimanding, ¡°What nonsense are you saying? Sir chairman already announced that you were his only sessor when you were born. I understand sir chairman, if you¡¯re not willing to take thepany, he won¡¯t let any of your younger brothers and sisters take the Frestech Chamber ofmerce. So do you understand how important your choice is?¡±

    Freya stuck out her tongue, ¡°Aunt Akali, I think that you wereforting me, but it turns out that you were reprimanding me like my mother.¡±

    ¡°I just hope that you can take some more time to think about this. Although sir chairman shouldn¡¯t care, Still still cares about this very much. Not to mention that your decision isn¡¯t just about you, it is rted to the millions of people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Don¡¯t look at me like that, your choice is very important, so you can¡¯t be that casual about it.¡±

    Hearing the tone of Akali¡¯s voice turning strict, Freya stopped being naughty and after a moment of thought, she gave a heavy nod.

    ¡°Alright, aunt Akali, I will definitely seriously consider this. If I feel that I¡¯m not willing to ept it, I will definitely have a proper talk with lord father. I believe that he will understand me and support me. If I choose to ept it, I will firm my heart and ept my responsibilities.¡±

    Akali gave a sigh and patted Freya¡¯s head with a loving look.

    ¡°You, although many people think that you¡¯re the luckiest girl in the world, you also have to shoulder a pressure that no one could imagine. It¡¯s a good thing that your father is the most wise father in the world, or you wouldn¡¯t have been able to have such a happy childhood and it would have been impossible for you to live such a rxed lifestyle. So Freya, thank your dad. His greatness isn¡¯t just measured by the changes of the world, but rather by every part of life.¡±

    Freya looked up with sparkling eyes.

    ¡°Of course! Lord father is the greatest person in my heart, no one canpare to him!¡±

    ¡°What about Still?¡±

    Freya hesitated a bit before giving a firm nod.

    ¡°Even mother can¡¯tpare! Humph, who told her not to be at home all the time¡­¡­¡±

    Akali couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°I can¡¯t help Still on this. She¡¯s busy with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, so she spends less time with you.¡±

    Speaking of this, Akali looked over Freya¡¯s body and said, ¡°Actually, I¡¯ve had my doubts many times that because sir chairman is too big in your heart, is that why you can¡¯t find any boyfriends?¡±

    Akali was just joking, but she never thought that Freya would actually nod without hesitation and say with a cold snort, ¡°Why would I be attracted to those normal boys? They¡¯re all annoying like flies, I don¡¯t like them at all.¡± After saying this, she looked at Akali and asked, ¡°Isn¡¯t aunt Akali the same? Because of lord father, you¡¯re not willing to ept any other men.¡±

    Akali could only give a bitter smile, ¡°Then we were both harmed by sir chairman? But I can say that it¡¯s not the same for you since you are his daughter.¡±

    After saying this, Akali stood up.

    ¡°Alright, I still have to prepare for the foreign base, I don¡¯t have time to chat with you. Freya, think about what I just said, but don¡¯t hope that I¡¯ll give you any advice. Sir chairman clearly told us that he doesn¡¯t want anyone interfering with your decision.¡±

    After saying this, Akali walked out.

    When she opened the door, it was like she had suddenly thought of something and turned around to look at Freya with slightly knitted brows.

    ¡°I say, can¡¯t you change your illusion skin? Although I understand that you had to hide yourself as a teenage kid to hide among the students, don¡¯t you think that you¡¯re too ugly?¡±

    Freya gave a giggle, ¡°I had to be ugly not to attract attention. If I had my original face, how could I have snuck in?¡±

    Akali thought about it and rolled her eyes.

    ¡°Alright, you do make sense.¡±

    Seeing Akali leave the room, Freya wave her hand and with a sh of faint blue light, there was a mirror of water that appeared in front of her.

    Freya¡¯s facial features were clearly reflected in the mirror and Freya looked at her face for a bit before muttering, ¡°Is it really that ugly? I feel that it¡¯s quite good. Of course, it¡¯s too young, so it doesn¡¯t fit my age at all.¡±

    After a while, Freya released her magic power as from head to toe, there was a faint magic fluctuation that appeared.

    With this sh of light, Freya started changing from head to toe.

    Before long, she had turned into apletely different person.

    The current Freya was no longer the very normal looking girl who didn¡¯t have any special features at all and couldn¡¯t attract any attention. She had turned into a beautiful girl who had a gentle and noble look, with eyes that were filled with spirit who looked to be around twenty years old.

    This girl would be the center of attention no matter where she went, she waspletely different from the normal girl from before.

    Freya looked at the familiar features in the mirror and touched her face, moving it a bit before revealing a smile that was a bit unnatural.

    The illusion skin that she received from elder Lisanya was very easy to use, the only w was that it couldn¡¯t perfectly show facial emotion, which could be considered a very serious w.

    ¡°It seems like I have to tell grandma Lisanya about this when I see her next time.¡±

    Freya touched her face and fixed her expression before walking out of the conference room.

 Book 8: Chapter 17: Iâ€™m not wrong

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 17: I¡¯m not wrong</h4>

    When Freya came out after restoring her appearance, she immediately attracted the gazes of everyone around her.

    Everyone didn¡¯t go up to greet her because she had suddenly appeared, they just nodded at her.

    This was what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had requested over all these years. He wanted everyone to treat Freya as normally as they could, letting her grow up like a normal child.

    Of course, this was one of Xu Yi¡¯s desires that was called ¡°naive¡± by Still. No matter what, Freya was Xu Yi¡¯s sole heir, which made her special, so it was impossible for anyone to treat her normally.

    Then again, even putting aside Freya¡¯s identity, just with the fact that she inherited Still¡¯s beauty, it was enough to attract people¡¯s attention wherever she went and receive special treatment.

    Freya had already be used to this and didn¡¯t think much about it.

    But she didn¡¯t like being surrounded by people, which made her feel not as free as she wanted.

    So she liked the elf¡¯s secret treasure, the Illusion Skin that elder Lisanya gave her when she was younger. It could let her change her appearance and be a normal person.

    Seeing the warm smiles on the people around her, but not daring toe close because of her father and trying to stay as calm as possible, Freya was a bit interested by this. However, she still had a perfect smile on her face and didn¡¯t react in a way that people could say anything about.

    Whether it was her expression, actions, or manner, they were all perfect for her status and people couldn¡¯t find one problem with.

    Her being able to do this was because of the strict teachings of her mother Still since she was young.

    Maintaining this perfect appearance, Freya came out of the magicmunication department¡¯s building and got into a fire red new generation Magic Sedan.

    When she closed the door, she let out a long sigh. The polite smile on her face immediately became a naughty one.

    ¡°Hey, Lenoya, did you figure out where we¡¯re going?¡±

    If Lucian was here, he would jump up in shock.

    Sitting in the passenger seat of this Magic Sedan was the young elf girl who had a perfect face and noble appearance with a hint of mystery. It was the brightest star of the elf race, miss Lenoya that had stolen the hearts of countless men on the continent!

    Lenoya looked at Freya with a smile before shaking her head.

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that we don¡¯t have time to y.¡±

    ¡°Why?¡± Freya was surprised.

    Lenoya raised the small Magic Communicator in her right hand to shake it.

    ¡°Because I just received news that miss chairman is back.¡±

    Freya was stunned as her eyes popped out.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be? Mother is back?¡±

    Lenoya wasn¡¯t a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she was a star under the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, so the ¡°chairman¡± she talked about wasn¡¯t Xu Yi, but rather the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, Freya¡¯s mother Still.

    Seeing the stunned look on Freya¡¯s face, she couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ¡°Are you that afraid of miss chairman?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not that I¡¯m afraid¡­¡­Alright, I¡¯m afraid.¡± Freya leaned on the steering wheel and gave a long sigh, ¡°If she knew what I didst month, I¡¯m definitely dead¡­¡­¡±

    Lenoya reached a hand out to grab Freya¡¯s ear as she said with augh, ¡°You deserve it. Who told you to go take that risk? What if something had happened? Not to mention miss chairman scolding you after finding out, perhaps even chairman Xu wouldn¡¯t let you go.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that serious, right?¡± Hearing Lenoya mention her father, Freya suddenly sat up from the steering wheel. After thinking about it, she shook her head, ¡°It can¡¯t be! Lord father wouldn¡¯t scold me, he¡¯s always encouraging me to experience new things.¡±

    ¡°That doesn¡¯t mean getting into danger.¡± Lenoya rolled her eyes, ¡°If something really happened to you, I¡¯m certain that chairman Xu would be hurt.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I¡¯m also certain of that, but nothing happened to me¡­¡­¡± Freya pursed her lips. She knitted her elegant brows to think for a bit before looking at Lenoya and giving a soft snort, ¡°Humph! I knew that you wouldn¡¯te y with me for nothing. Be honest, you¡¯re my mother¡¯s spy, aren¡¯t you!¡±

    Lenoya couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Whether I¡¯m a spy or not, miss chairman is summoning you. What are you nning to do?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ll see her, it¡¯s not like I¡¯ll die¡­¡­¡± Freya muttered. She skillfully started the Magic Sedan and drove out the magic research facility¡¯s gate in an instant, driving towards the seashore.

    After around ten minutes, the Magic Sedan became a red blur as it charged towards Xu Yi¡¯s manor by the shore.

    When the car stopped, Freya opened the door and ran through the main doors, jumping into the embrace of a beautiful woman.

    ¡°Mother, you¡¯re back! I¡¯m really happy to see you!¡±

    The beautiful woman was naturally Still.

    She looked down into her chest at Freya who was smiling and gave a cold snort.

    ¡°Are you really happy to see me?¡±

    Freya¡¯s expression changed, turning into a brighter smile as she hugged Still¡¯s arm.

    ¡°Of course! How could I not be happy to see you? You rarelye back. I remember¡­¡­thatst time I saw you¡­¡­was at least two months ago, right?¡±

    Hearing this, Still¡¯s expression revealed a trace of sadness that wasn¡¯t easy to detect.

    Because of the various work she had to do for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce, she was rarely home and she was rarely with her son and daughter.

    This caused Freya and her little brother to be more respectful than intimate when meeting Still.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, I warned youst time not to use your mother¡¯s guilt to avoid your punishment. I don¡¯t like seeing this.¡±

    There was a voice that didn¡¯t have too many characteristics, but was low and clear, as well as full of energy that came from the door.

    Hearing this voice, Freya¡¯s brows jumped up. After a cheer, she ran past Still and turned back.

    Xu Yi gave a soft snort and released a faint blue glowing barrier around him, keeping Freya out.

    Freya gave augh and used her magic power. The surrounding elemental magic energy in the magic space around her started to flow and in an instant, Xu YI¡¯s magic barrier disappeared.

    Xu Yi gave a yi sound before curling his lips. He used his magic power again to create another magic barrier.

    Freya wasn¡¯t surprised at all. Her hands moved as she tried to figure out a new way to make the elemental magic energy around her flow.

    She took a bit longer this time and after around eight seconds, she broke Xu Yi¡¯s barrier.

    ¡°Not bad.¡± Xu Yi praised before creating another barrier in front of him.

    Freya tried a few times, but she couldn¡¯t break this magic barrier so she knitted her brows to think.

    Still who had been thrown behind saw this and couldn¡¯t help shaking her head.

    ¡°Alright, this father and daughter can y your games, but can you find the right time?¡±

    Xu Yiughed and made the magic barrier disappear. He patted Freya¡¯s shoulder and pointed at Still.

    ¡°Go, apologize to your mother.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡± Freya replied. She turned to look at Still and took a deep breath beforeing in front of her and giving a deep bow.

    ¡°Mother, I¡¯m sorry!¡±

    Still had a smile on her face, but her tone was still low.

    ¡°Why are you sorry?¡±

    ¡°I shouldn¡¯t have mentioned something that hurt you to avoid being punished. Sorry!¡± Freya replied in a loud voice.

    ¡°Oh? It¡¯s just this?¡±

    Freya trembled before suddenly standing up to look at Still.

    ¡°If you think that what happenedst month was wrong, you can punish me, I don¡¯t mind. But¡­¡­I don¡¯t think that I was wrong!¡±

    Still looked at her, ¡°You¡¯re not willing to admit your mistake?¡±

    ¡°Yes. Sneaking in was something I discussed with uncle Harris and uncle Harris approved of this. Moreover, because I had the Illusion Skin, I could sneak in while others couldn¡¯t. Facts proved that this was very useful to us solving this matter and we protected those students.¡± Freya said without fear.

    ¡°You¡­¡­¡± Still¡¯s knitted her brows. She wanted to reprimand Freya, but seeing the determined look on her face that wasn¡¯t willing to give up, she could only turn to Xu Yi behind her.

    Xu Yi gave a cough before saying with a serious look, ¡°Freya, I agree with your view, but I don¡¯t like how you¡¯re talking to you mother.¡±

    Freya stuck out her tongue before revealing a smile again and running over to hug Still.

    ¡°Mother, I know that it was dangerous and I made you worry, but you didn¡¯t need to worry at all. I¡¯m very strong now, those fellows couldn¡¯t hurt me at all. Then again, I still had uncle Harris backing me, so there was no need to be afraid at all.¡±

    ¡°What if something happened?¡± Still red at her.

    ¡°Who can talk about what ifs? If you¡¯re afraid of what ifs, I could even have a boulder fall on me if I¡¯m sitting at home.¡± Freya said with a giggle.

    ¡°Only knowing how to quibble.¡± Still looked at Freya and gave a sigh. She turned to Xu Yi and shook her head, ¡°If you keep letting her do what she wants, you¡¯ll have a headache in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed a bit as he didn¡¯t refute Still. His eyes looking at Freya gradually became serious.

    Freya was a bit surprised by the sudden change in Xu Yi¡¯s expression.

    In her memories, her father rarely ever became serious like this.

    Could it be¡­¡­something big had happened?

    Thinking of this, Freya immediately became nervous.

 Book 8: Chapter 18: Elf harem

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 18: Elf harem</h4>

    ¡°Freya, Harris told me everything about what happenedst month. You¡¯re willing to take responsibility and take risks to solve the problem, I¡¯m very proud of that. But¡­¡­you have to finish your work. If you run away after taking the risk and leave the other things to others, I think that you¡¯re just ying around. If it¡¯s like this, I¡¯m not happy.¡±

    Seeing the serious look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Freya became a bit nervous. Her big eyes turned in thought before she understood what Xu Yi meant.

    ¡°Father, you mean¡­¡­the kidnapping incident fromst time¡­¡­isn¡¯t over yet?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head.

    ¡°Since you asked this, you clearly participated just to y around. Freya, go and ask your mother for your punishment, I don¡¯t have a reason to protect you this time.¡±

    Freya¡¯s expression changed before bitterly turning back to look at Still. However, seeing that Still looked at her without any expression, she could only obedientlye to Still¡¯s side and lowered her head.

    ¡°Mother, please punish me.¡±

    ¡°I just think that it¡¯s wrong for you not to treasure yourself and risk falling into danger, making us worry, so I want to punish you a bit¡­¡­You¡¯ll properly study spatial magic with your great grandfather for a week and you can only stop when you receive your great grandfather¡¯s approval, understood?¡±

    Freya looked up and revealed a smile again.

    ¡°I understand. Mother, you want me to study more so I can protect myself, so I will seriously study.¡±

    Still shook her head with a smile and patted her head, ¡°Alright, go to your father, he still has other things to tell you.¡±

    ¡°Understood!¡± Freya gave a mischievous salute beforeing back to Xu Yi¡¯s side, ¡°Father, I¡¯ve received mother¡¯s punishment and am here to report!¡±

    ¡°You think that it¡¯ll end there?¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t show any expressions, ¡°Your mother thinks that you making us worry is only a bit wrong, but to me, your biggest mistake is not finishing your work and only ying around. You didn¡¯t care about handling what came after and didn¡¯t care about the consequences of you participating at all. This is the biggest mistake that you made, understand?¡±

    Freya scratched her head, looking a bit confused.

    ¡°Father, is there still something to handle after this? Didn¡¯t we already clean up the den of human smugglers and save the kidnapped people?¡±

    ¡°So you thought that the things that came after should be my headache and is unrted to you?¡± Xu Yi said with a cold snort.

    Freya stuck out her tongue and gave a soft snort, ¡°Uncle Harris betrayed me¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi tapped her head, ¡°What betrayal? He just truthfully reported to me. Let me tell you, the matter of handling the people behind the kidnapping, that is what is a headache for me. However, when it came to rescuing the kidnapped people, I handed all authority on this matter to you. Because this issue came from this matter, it¡¯s up to you to handle it.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­then is there a problem? Uncle Harris said that this was just a matter of handling the procedures, so there shouldn¡¯t be a problem, right?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, I don¡¯t know.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Freya looked at Xu Yi with a stunned look, ¡°Father, are you¡­¡­are you teasing me?¡±

    Xu Yi went from a serious look to a cunning smile.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know because the Candra Empire delegate is aksin for you. They want to talk about cooperating with you, so it¡¯s not rted to me.¡±

    Freya was stunned before suddenly understanding.

    ¡°Alright! Father, you did this on purpose, right?¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips into a smile, ¡°Whether it was on purpose or not, because you caused this matter, you have to take responsibility for it. There¡¯s no need for me to say anything else, right?¡±

    Freya gave a helpless sigh before giving a dejected nod, ¡°I understand. Then I should go and meet with the Candra Empire¡¯s peopleter?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t ask me, this is your matter.¡± Xu Yi revealed a hateful look like this didn¡¯t concern him which made Freya unable to stop her lips from curling.

    Still who had been watching on the side couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°Alright, you father and daughter, can you not y this kind of childish game in front of our guests all the time? Lenoya,e and sit. I have to talk to you about a new program.¡±

    Lenoya who had been silently waiting on the side, watching Freya interact with her parents came over with a smile. She gave Still and Xu Yi a bow before seriously looking at Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the elder wants me to ask, when are you nning on marrying me?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°I say, Lenoya, can you not ask this every time you see me?¡±

    ¡°Because you¡¯ve never given me a concrete answer.¡± Lenoya still had the same smile, not feeling anything wrong with her question.

    If the diehard fans of Lenoya all over the Sines Continent heard this, countless people would feel dejected.

    Of course, no one would feel angry.

    Because¡­¡­the one Lenoya was asking this to was Xu Yi.

    ¡°But I already clearly told you many times that I won¡¯t agree to this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Go back and tell elder Undine that I¡¯m already a sixty year old old man, marrying a young girl like you is wasting natural resources. Then again, I already have all those wives, I don¡¯t want another.¡±

    ¡°But chairman Xu, I¡¯m already ny eight years old, I¡¯m almost forty years older than you.¡± Lenoya said with a smile.

    ¡°You are an elf, can youpare ages with humans?¡± Xu Yi refuted.

    ¡°But chairman Xu, you¡¯ve already received the life essence of our elf race and with your own magic power, even if you are sixty years old, your body is better than most thirty year old humans. So this isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    Seeing that Lenoya wasn¡¯t willing to give up, Xu Yi could only helplessly roll his eyes again.

    ¡°Lenoya, I won¡¯t agree no matter what. Look, my daughter looks like she¡¯s around the same age as you, how could I marry a young elf girl like you? Then again, you and Freya are good friends, so if I were to marry you, what would Freya call you?¡±

    Freya who was having fun watching Lenoya ¡°proposing¡± to Xu Yi suddenly heard herself being mentioned and she couldn¡¯t help giving augh. After blinking for a bit, she gave a serious nod, ¡°Un¡­¡­this is indeed a problem. But¡­¡­father, this doesn¡¯t conflict with you marrying Lenoya, right? I support you marrying Lenoya very much, then we can all be one family. Don¡¯t you think so, Lenoya?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Lenoya gave a firm nod.

    Xu Yi could only look at Still with a gaze asking for help.

    Still gave a shrug and said with a faint smile, ¡°You know that I don¡¯t care about this, you can marry Lenoya if you want. I won¡¯t oppose it.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and tapped his head before waving his hand at Freya and Lenoya.

    ¡°You can leave first.¡±

    Freya gave a giggle before pulling Lenoya to her room. She waved her fist at Xu Yi while running, looking like she was encouraging him.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling. When Freya and Lenoya disappeared, the smile on his face also disappeared as he said with a sigh, ¡°It seems like the Azshara Tribe isn¡¯t willing to live under the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe.¡±

    ¡°Of course. Elder Undine has seen the many benefits the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe has received from working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce over the years. Although the Azshara Tribe is cooperating closely with our New Moon Chamber of Commerce, it can¡¯tpare to the benefits of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it¡¯s normal that she has these thoughts.¡±

    ¡°But why do they have to marry an elf girl first to aplish this?¡± Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile.

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°Who told you to marry Agnes?¡±

    ¡°Is Agnes the same? She was the first elf I met and the one who was closest to me, as well as the elf girl who had the deepest feelings with me. Moreover, even if it was Agnes, I hesitated a long time before marrying her. Now that elder Undine wants to push Lenoya onto me, how can I ept this?¡±

    ¡°But since you married Agnes, you set a precedent. So in order for elder Lisanya to bnce things out, she married Tvisti to you. Now that the Azshara Tribe wants the same treatment as the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, it¡¯s clearly more convenient to start with you as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman. So it isn¡¯t strange at all that they want to marry an elf girl from their tribe to you.¡±

    ¡°Your analysis is very reasonable, but Still, why do I find it strange?¡± Xu Yi had a strange expression, ¡°Based on your words, if there is an elf tribe that wants to work with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, wouldn¡¯t they have to marry an elf girl to me? Not to mention the Magic Cloud Continent, there are more than ten elf tribes on the Sines Continent alone. Wouldn¡¯t that mean that I would have arge elf harem in the future?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi and revealed a faint smile, ¡°That isn¡¯t a bad thing. Anyway, the elf girls are all beautiful, so you¡¯re not suffering a loss.¡±

    ¡°What a joke!¡± Xu Yi red at her. After knitting his brows to think for a bit, he shook his head, ¡°No, I have to think of a way to solve this problem or it¡¯ll be troublesome in the future.¡±

    Still looked at the door and said with a sigh, ¡°If you want to firmly reject it, you should make this decision as soon as possible. Otherwise, I¡¯m worried that this little girl Lenoya really won¡¯t be able to pull herself out.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned, ¡°It can¡¯t be, I haven¡¯t even met her that much.¡±

    Still revealed a smile and pinched Xu Yi¡¯s face, just like she had done when they were younger.

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, who told my husband to be this charming.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 19: Trapped

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 19: Trapped</h4>

    An hourter, when Freya appeared in front of the Candra Empire delegate, she had already changed into a long dress thatplimented her nobility and beautiful figure. There wasn¡¯t a single bit of naughtiness from when she was with Xu Yi and Still, rather there was a perfect faint smile.

    Looking over, the Candra Empire delegates immediately stood up with smiles.

    ¡°Young miss Freya, it truly is an honour seeing you.¡±

    The leader of the delegate group was the vice chief of the Candra Empire¡¯s department of foreign affairs Marquis Mufara, who was in charge of discussing this matter with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, gave a bow to Freya with a bright smile on his face.

    ¡°When young miss Freya came to our Candra Empirest time, I didn¡¯t have a chance to meet you. The first time meeting you, I really can¡¯t help praising your beauty. Young miss Freya, if you¡¯re willing to appear on the Magic Illusion shows, I think that you might be as popr as miss Lenoya.¡±

    In order to protect Freya and also because she wasn¡¯t willing, Xu Yi and Still hadn¡¯t allowed Freya¡¯s true appearance to appear in any newspaper or Magic Illusion broadcast.

    The people of the continent knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi¡¯s daughter was in her twenties and was an extreme beauty, but there were few people who had actually seen her face before.

    So in many newspapers, the name Freya had already been assigned as the most mysterious girl on the Sines Continent.

    Freya revealed a faint smile, ¡°Thank you for your praise. Marquis Mufara, I wonder, why did you designate that you wanted to meet me? I¡¯ve never had any contact with you before, right?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Marquis Mufara was a bit surprised before his expression returned to normal and he said with a smile, ¡°This time we came to cooperate with yourpany to deal with the human smugglers fromst month in our empire. Young miss Freya, I heard chairman Xu mention that you participated in this action with yourpany¡¯s guards, right?¡±

    Freya was surprised before suddenly understanding what happened.

    The Candra Empire didn¡¯t know that she had participated inst month¡¯s mission at all!

    It wasn¡¯t strange since it was an internal secret that she was participating. She had even used the Illusion Skin the entire time and never showed her true appearance, so she shouldn¡¯t have been revealed.

    Hearing Marquis Mufara say this, she understood that she had been sold out by her lord father!

    Freya gave a snort in her heart, but she still maintained the perfect smile on her face as she gave a nod.

    ¡°Yes, I participated as per lord father¡¯s instructions, but I was only an observer the entire time and never directly participated. Lord father wanted me to be more familiar with the actions of thepany¡¯s guards so I could contact them more easily in the future.¡±

    Marquis Mufara gave augh, ¡°Young miss Freya, as the sessor of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s natural that you would have contact with thepany guards ahead of time. Chairman Xu¡¯s arrangements aren¡¯t strange at all.¡±

    Freya couldn¡¯t help slightly knitting her brows.

    When she had just been born, Xu Yi had announced to everyone that she was Xu Yi¡¯s only heir. The other children could inherit some material goods, but they couldn¡¯t inherit anything else.

    Everyone understood that if nothing unexpected happened, Freya would inherit Xu Yi¡¯s position and be the next chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was not only something that everyone in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recognized, everyone outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also recognized this.

    So when people met Freya, they would treat her as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sessor and would be respectful to her.

    Freya didn¡¯t really hate this, but she didn¡¯t like it either.

    Before she had made her decision, she didn¡¯t want her destiny to be decided like this.

    Marquis Mufara naturally didn¡¯t understand what Freya was thinking. For him, being able to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman was something that everyone dreamed of.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently controlled over 50% of the magic machine industry on the continent and the other half couldn¡¯t leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, being heavily influenced by them.

    With the importance of the magic machine industry in all the countries of the continent, it wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled the fates of everyone on the continent.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, Xu Yi¡¯s position on the continent wasn¡¯t low, he was even higher than the emperors of the two empires.

    If Freya inherited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even if she couldn¡¯t have the same position as Xu Yi, she would be one of the top people on the continent.

    So even if he was the vice chief of the Candra Empire¡¯s foreign affairs department and was an important person in the Candra Empire, when he met Freya, he didn¡¯t dare be negligent.

    ¡°I just had a look on the side and didn¡¯t handle anything, that is too early.¡± Freya gave a casual wave of the hand before changing the topic, ¡°Let¡¯s get down to business. Marquis Mufara, you said that it¡¯s rted tost month¡¯s actions, but what are the specifics?¡±

    Marquis Mufara gave a small cough before exining, ¡°Young miss Freya, althoughst month¡¯s mission could be considered perfectly done, with us capturing the evil smugglers with the help of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and rescuing a bunch of kidnapped people, the empire¡¯s performance in this matter is a bitcking.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    ¡°Look, whether it¡¯s dealing with the enemies or information about the kidnapped people, the empire¡¯s actions couldn¡¯tpare to the actions of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, it was rather slow. When the emperor saw this report, he was very angry with this and immediately requested us toe up with a solution for this. So¡­¡­we came to yourpany for help.¡±

    ¡°Then what kind of help do you need?¡± Freya asked.

    ¡°First, it¡¯s the information exchange. The empire hopes that we can work with your Frestech Communication Chamber of Commerce to strengthen the magicmunicationwork in the empire, allowing us toy down an entire magicmunicationwork in the entire empire and allowing real timemunication in any ce.¡±

    ¡°Shouldn¡¯t you be looking for ourpany then?¡± Freya said in a surprised voice, ¡°We have always been promotingying down the magicmunicationwork and have spared no efforts in this. The main issue is that you and the other countries aren¡¯t willing to invest. If you want to achieve this dream of aplete magicmunicationwork, you should first bring out the funds before talking about it.¡±

    ¡°The empire already had the idea of investing in this, but¡­¡­there¡¯s a small worry¡­¡­¡± Marquis Mufara said in a hesitant voice.

    ¡°Worry?¡± Freya understood in her heart, but she didn¡¯t nod and looked at Marquis Mufara with a questioning look.

    Marquis Mufara gave a cough and after some thought, he continued, ¡°The empire attaches great importance to the construction of the magicmunicationwork, but since the magicmunicationwork is mainly led by yourpany and all the technology is in the hands of yourpany, with the empire only being able to participate in its operation, but not actually interfere with the magicmunicationwork itself¡­¡­Oh, no, without having a detailed understanding of it, it¡¯s very disadvantageous when ites to operating the magicmunicationwork. Once something happens, we have to look for yourpany for help which really isn¡¯t convenient¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So you want all the rted technology and control the magicmunicationwork yourself? You want toy it down and then kick us out?¡± Freya interrupted him without any courtesy.

    ¡°No, no, no¡­¡­¡± Marquis Mufara quickly waved his hands, ¡°Young miss Freya, you¡¯ve misunderstood. My meaning is that we don¡¯t want to always trouble the technical staff of yourpany. We want to solve the small problems by ourselves as much as we can. Wouldn¡¯t this be beneficial for you? As for kicking you aside, how could that be¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°So in the end, you want the magicmunicationwork technology?¡±

    ¡°He, he¡­¡­This¡­¡­If yourpany is willing to sell the rted technology, the empire is willing to pay a price that will satisfy you.¡± Marquis Mufara still confidently stated his goal.

    ¡°A satisfactory price?¡± Freya looked over Marquis Mufara and thought for a bit before asking, ¡°You should have already seen lord father, right? What did he say?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu said that he had already handed this matter to young miss Freya to handle and your opinion is his opinion.¡± Marquis Mufara and the other Candra Empire diplomats all looked at Freya with expectant looks.

    Xu Yi¡¯s sly smile appeared in Freya¡¯s mind.

    Good, lord father dug a hole for me.

    Freya closed her eyes and seriously considered this.

    Seeing her reaction, Marquis Mufara¡¯s group revealed pleasantly surprised looks.

    Before this, the Candra Empire had made the same request several times and had been rejected each time.

    They hade looking for Xu Yi because of this matter, but Xu Yi had acted differently. Although he didn¡¯t give a clear answer, he told them to talk to Freya instead.

    This attitude was a favourable turn for them.

    Now that young miss Freya had closed her eyes to seriously consider this, didn¡¯t that mean that she might agree to their request?

    Everyone anxiously waited for a bit before Freya slowly opened her eyes.

    ¡°Young miss Freya, what do you think?¡± Marquis Mufara quickly asked.

    Freya¡¯s lips curled slightly, revealing a bright smile that also hid a trace of cunningness.

    ¡°Before discussing this, shouldn¡¯t you at least show your sincerity?¡±

    Marquis Mufara¡¯s group was stunned before being filled with joy.

 Book 8: Chapter 20: Full authority

    Book 8: Chapter 20: Full authority

    ¡°Based on the stats, thirty six provinces of the Candra Empire already has a full magicmunicationwork and the magic signal already covers 83% of the Candra Empire. It could be said that the initial goal of ¡®being able to conduct long distancemunication in any part of the Candra Empire¡¯ has already been aplished¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Wait¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi raised his hand to stop Freya¡¯s report, ¡°Area coverage of over 83%, this means that there¡¯s 17% where there¡¯s no magic signal coverage. How could this be considered aplishing the goal of ¡®being able to conduct long distancemunication in any part of the Candra Empire¡¯?¡±

    Freya couldn¡¯t help rolling her eyes before fixing her expression and saying with a cough, ¡°The remaining ces that don¡¯t have magic signal coverage is either because of geographical limitations where we can¡¯t put down the magic signal towers, or because we¡¯re hindered by the locals and the workers have been dyed, or can¡¯t even start the work.¡±

    After saying this, Freya paused as she knitted her brows.

    ¡°It really is strange speaking of this, why would this happen? There are still people not willing to ept the magicmunicationwork? Could it be that they don¡¯t know how convenient it would be for them?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a bit of helplessness in his voice, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. Even now, there¡¯s still the rumour that the magic signal tower will be able to control people¡¯s minds. When we put up the magic signal towers, not only in the Candra Empire, we¡¯ve encountered this hindrance many times in other countries.¡±

    ¡°It can¡¯t be, right? What age is it that people still believe these things?¡± Freya¡¯s eyes opened wide as she revealed a look of disbelief.

    ¡°Remember, don¡¯t overestimate the understanding of the public.¡± Xu Yi seriously said to Freya, ¡°They are easily agitated and riled up, so it isn¡¯t strange at all that they would believe this. Other than this, I¡¯ve seen even more unbelievable things. You¡¯ll encounter them in the future, so don¡¯t be surprised.¡±

    Freya tilted her head to think, but she still found it a bit hard to ept.

    But she knew that Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t lie to her about this matter and didn¡¯t continue this topic. With a thought, she asked, ¡°Father, based on what you just said, does that mean that there are people using these people?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I never said this. You can investigate the facts yourselfter.¡±

    Freya gave a soft snort, knowing that this was a test that her lord father was giving her.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not talk about this. Theying down of the magicmunicationwork in the Candra Empire, based on the data, could be considered a project that already has initial sess and it can be considered a basic magicmunicationwork. If ourpany stays in the Candra Empire, because of various circumstances, there aren¡¯t many things that we can change.¡±

    ¡°So you feel that it¡¯s a good time to hand over the business of installing and maintaining the magicmunicationwork to the Candra Empire now?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°When ites to profits, it¡¯s not the best time, but rather the worst time.¡± Freya shook her head, ¡°Ourpany has been working with the Candra Empire for ten years and have finallyid down the magicmunicationwork in the Candra Empire. Now that the magicmunicationwork has spread among the public, it¡¯s the most crucial period of makingrge profits from the magicmunicationwork. If we back out now, that would mean giving this giant profit to the Candra Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile of praise as he said with a nod, ¡°Right. Then what are you giving me this report for? Could it be that you n on epting the Candra Empire¡¯s request?¡±

    Freya gave a giggle, ¡°I didn¡¯t promise anything to the Candra Empire¡¯s people, I just said that we can discuss this.¡±

    ¡°So after considering this, what are you nning on discussing with them?¡± Xu Yi revealed a look of interest as he asked this.

    Freya gave a cough before fixing the serious look on her face.

    ¡°Sir chairman, through serious considerations, I feel that ourpany certainly can¡¯t withdraw from the management of the Candra Empire magicmunicationwork, but we can consider handing over the work ofying down the rest of the magicmunicationwork to the Candra Empire side.¡±

    ¡°Un, continue, tell me your thoughts.¡±

    ¡°When ites toying down the rest of the magicmunicationwork, I made it very clear in my report. Currently, there are still ces where we can¡¯ty down the magicmunicationwork, with most of them being in bad locations or the locals opposing us. No matter how we look at it, if we continue working on this, we¡¯ll encounterrge problems. In this battle where it¡¯s hard to get results even if we investrge amounts of funds and manpower, if we transfer this to the Candra Empire, only only would ourpany be able to pull ourselves out, we can also better advance the construction of the magicmunicationwork in these ces.¡±

    Freya revealed a sly smile.

    ¡°Since the people of the Candra Empire are opposed to this, it¡¯s a problem that should be solved by the Candra Empire. No matter what, it¡¯s not something that ourpany should meddle in, don¡¯t you think?¡±

    ¡°From this perspective, you are right.¡± Xu Yi nodded before asking, ¡°But if we have the Candra Empire take care of the work, does that mean you are agreeing to the Candra Empire¡¯s request and giving them the magicmunication technology? Do you know the consequences of doing this?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Freya fearlessly said, ¡°By transferring the magicmunicationwork technology to the Candra Empire, it would mean that we would be releasing ourpany¡¯s hold on this technology. The other countries will react to this and we will have to release all the technology in the end.¡±

    ¡°This means that other than ourpany, the other countries andpanies will be able toy down the magicmunicationwork. It means that ourpany will no longer be able to solely control the magicmunicationwork like we are doing now.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°Do you know how much impact that will have on ourpany?¡±

    ¡°Will it have a lot of impact? Why don¡¯t I see it?¡± Freya said with a rxed smile, ¡°Sir chairman, many years ago, you¡¯ve listed installing the magicmunicationwork at the same level asying down roads when ites to country level infrastructure. So doesn¡¯t that mean that this thing should have already been promoted by the various countries themselves?¡±

    ¡°Then do you understand why I didn¡¯t release the technology and let the countries of the continent spread this themselves?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. One, it¡¯s because the countries didn¡¯t have the ability and two, they didn¡¯t have the determination.¡±

    ¡°Then you feel that they have it now?¡±

    ¡°Of course. Through ten years of high speed development, all the countries have made great progress in the magic machine industry. Arge empire like the Candra Empire already has a basicplete magic machine industry, so they only need the corresponding technology. They can very quickly and easily grasp the method ofying down the magicmunicationwork.¡±

    ¡°Then you feel that they will properly promote it after grasping this technology?¡±

    ¡°Of course they will. They will be more willing to promote it than ourpany, I can guarantee this.¡± Freya¡¯s expression was filled with confidence.

    ¡°Why are you this certain?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Because of profit.¡± Freya immediately replied, ¡°I just said that as the magicmunicationwork spreads, there will berge profits from operating this magicmunicationwork. The Candra Empire wants these profits. If they want a part of it, they have to be able to grasp a part or all of being able toy down the magicmunicationwork, so they are even more anxious than us.¡±

    Xu Yi leaned back on the sofa, looking at Freya with a faint smile as he felt very satisfied.

    After meeting with the Candra Empire delegate, Freya used two days to thoroughly analyze this matter. Although she had some help from the other high level members of thepany, this still showed how splendid her abilities were.

    If she was willing to settle down as the chairman, with her intelligence and some training, she really would be an excellent candidate.

    It was a pity that she couldn¡¯t make a decision, letting the stone in the hearts of many people in thepany fall down.

    Of course, because Xu Yi had already made an arrangement with Freya that he would wait until she was twenty five before having her make a decision, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t push her about this. He would only guide her as much as possible, letting her handle the affairs of thepany to pique her interest.

    Based on the current result, she didn¡¯t hate handling this business, but rather she was quite interested.

    If she could be interested through handling the request of the Candra Empire, it would be worth it.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi made a decision.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Freya, your analysis is very reasonable, I don¡¯t have any opinions. Now, with my identity as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, I give you the full rights to handle this matter and all rted matters. As long as it¡¯s rted to this matter, you don¡¯t need to ask for my opinion. Your decision will represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Freya blinked in a daze. She didn¡¯t show any happiness or excitement at being handed such responsibility or great power. Rather she looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful look and only gave a snort after a while as her expression became a bit dissatisfied.

    ¡°You clearly know how troublesome this matter is, it won¡¯t be handled in just a few months. Moreover, the following matters can¡¯t be settledpletely even in more than ten years or even in a few decades. This arrangement of yours, you¡¯re just trying to tie me up, right?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°I don¡¯t have any intentions of trapping you. If you¡¯re not willing to handle this, as long as the following matters are arranged properly, you can leave at any time. Rx, I don¡¯t n on using this method to hold you past the age of twenty five.¡±

    Freya thought about it before suddenly revealing a smile.

    ¡°Alright, since you¡¯re handing all rights of this matter to me, you can¡¯t scold me if I cause any problems.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 21: Black technology

    Book 8: Chapter 21: ck technology

    Seeing Freya leave with a spring in her step, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    Would Freya cause trouble?

    Perhaps since she didn¡¯t have enough experience. Being given the full right to this matter, it was normal for some mistakes to appear.

    But Xu Yi gave the full rights to this matter to her to train her, so it was natural to learn from her mistakes.

    Then again, with her intelligence, it was impossible for her to do everything alone and she would make a decision after listening to people¡¯s suggestions.

    With the help of the experienced veterans in thepany, even if Freya wanted to, she wouldn¡¯t be able to cause that much trouble.

    Not to mention that even if Freya¡¯s ability to cause trouble surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations and she messed up the whole thing, Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care that much.

    The magicmunicationwork was rted to the magic machine industry and was an important part, with great prospects. However, with the current scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would only have some losses if they lost this industry and it wouldn¡¯t cripple them.

    Not to mention that with Xu Yi¡¯s original intentions, the magicmunicationwork was something that the countries should grasp themselves, it was unreasonable for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to control it themselves.

    Xu Yi had deliberately had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce control this mainly to give the magicmunicationwork a standard, so it would be easier to spread and develop in the future.

    In these ten years, the crazy development of the magicmunicationwork on the Sines Continent had proven that this idea was correct.

    Although the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t the same as earth where everyone had a cell phone and they could contact each other from long distances at any time, just from the million Magic Communicator units sold by the Frestech Chamber of Commercest month showed that this was a crazy trend.

    In the end, when faced with the temptation of being able to contact their distant rtives at any time, no one could resist.

    Moreover, with the development of transportation and the development of the magic machine industry, people were starting to leave their hometowns for work. They went to further ces to work and the need for long distancemunication increased.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce expanding the magicmunicationwork suited these needs.

    With these factors, the development of the magicmunicationwork far surpassed Xu Yi¡¯s expectations. In just ten years, it had already turned into a raging me.

    It also forced an explosive development of the magicmunication technology, which greatly surprised Xu Yi.

    In the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magicmunicationwork ryed signals with the signal towers to connect two sides. It wouldn¡¯t even allow a third person to join in.

    But now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest signal tower could ry a hundred thousand magic signals synchronously.

    Although this couldn¡¯tpare to the ry towers from earth, it still satisfy the currentmunication needs.

    Xu Yi believed that as the magicmunicationwork became more popr, the demands would increase and the technology would also develop or it wouldn¡¯t be able to keep up with the demands.

    The other thing that had always surprised Xu Yi and even caught him off guard was that, different from the electric wavemunication of earth, the development path of the magicmunicationwork was different.

    Xu Yi had followed themunication method of earth to develop the magicmunicationwork at first, butter on, the researchers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a breakthrough in technology that was simply like ck technology.

    The most clear example of this was videomunication.

    On earth, in the most recent decade, long distance videomunication technology has started to be popr.

    From when the first phone was invented to the first phone with video call functions, an entire hundred years was needed.

    But on the Sines Continent, the magicmunication department led by Akali only needed less than two years. They had already made a breakthrough in videomunication technology which really surprised Xu Yi.

    The reason for this was that the magic signal transfer technology was already included in the over ten thousand years of magic research of the Sines Continent. Akali¡¯s group just used the concept that Xu Yi proposed and used this destructive magic, repurposing it for civilian use.

    There were simr examples of this all over.

    So in the past ten years, it could be said that the Sines Continent had experienced an explosion of magic technology. All kinds of novel and interesting magic technology appeared one after another, many things that Xu Yi never even thought about.

    For example, justst month, there was apany in the Marlow Empire that had announced that they had made a new breakthrough in magic technology.

    This new technology was focused on the medical field. It was called the microscopic visualization of illness.

    ording to the announcement of thatpany, with this technology, they could find any illness in a patient¡¯s body no matter how small it was. Even those hard to detect illness would be found while they were still developing, preventing them from developing into something that was hard to cure.

    This technology would definitely win a Nobel Prize if it was ced on earth.

    However, after Xu Yi learned the truth, he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    Because this breakthrough was based on Dark Magic that wasn¡¯t thatmon, but wasn¡¯t that rare on the Sines Continent.

    This Dark Magic named ¡°Extreme Attraction¡± had the effect of making a person fall under an abnormal state, not being able to resist anything the caster made them do.

    With the guidance of this technique, even the lowestyers of a person¡¯s mind and flesh would be revealed, not being able to hide a thing.

    ording to the current magic theory that Xu Yi led the creation of, magic was the resonance of elemental magic energy and the brain waves that a person had. Using the brain to give an order to control the other person¡¯s body wasn¡¯t considered that profound.

    But the research of thispany was to use the characteristics of magic to make the body give off in depth responses to different magic fluctuations, revealing all the weak and recessive symptoms that they might have.

    With their support techniques, they could judge the condition of their illness and easily prevent it.

    It had to be said, thispany¡¯s research really was creative. Xu Yi even proposed to the Magicians Guild that thispany would receive this year¡¯s greatest magic breakthrough reward.

    But thispany had forgotten a very important issue which was ethics.

    Because this technology was based on Dark Magic, people had doubts about this breakthrough.

    People doubted that when they epted being inspected by this magic, they might be influenced by the Extreme Attraction to reveal all their secrets, or even fall under the control of thispany.

    So there were many newspapers and people who cast their usations, causing thispany to not only suffer losses from this technology, but also forcing them to give a public apology. They indicated that they would seal this technology and never use it.

    Two weeks ago, the chairman of thatpany came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, hoping to sell this technology to them.

    In their opinion, with the same technology, countless people will question it if a small and unknownpany like theirs announced it, but this wouldn¡¯t happen if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced it.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reputation on the continent was very good and they had unparalleled credibility.

    Xu Yi was very interested in this technology, so he had already sent people to discuss this with thatpany. He was nning to buy this technology and even headhunt the research team who had developed it.

    Researchers that had this kind of uniqueness could be considered valuable resources.

    Instead of wasting their time in this smallpany, it was better to develop at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Based on the feedback, it seemed like thatpany had basically epted the conditions of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He believed that it wouldn¡¯t take long before the technology and the research team would fall under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce name.

    Situations that were simr to thispany had happened quite often in the past ten years.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t take away the technology and research team most of the time and even helped them when necessary, allowing them to continue their research.

    It was because thepany¡¯s technology had be the center of criticism this time that Xu Yi had made this move, which was also to protect the research team and their findings.

    In short, because of the lead of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were various ck technology based on magic that appeared. In just ten years, the entire continent hadpletely changed.

    Many newspapers even named thest ten years the ¡°Golden Decade¡±.

    The start of the Golden Decade was Xu Yi¡¯s ¡°Banta Deration¡±.

    Everyone was certain that with Xu Yi¡¯s deration, the Golden Decade had appeared on the Sines Continent.

    Of course, in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, just ten years was far from being enough. He hoped that this era could continue for twenty years, thirty years, or even longer¡­¡­

    But he knew that to maintain this situation where everyone focused on developing wasn¡¯t that easy.

    For example, he was currently facing a very important issue.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave a sigh. Through his private lion, he dialed Seveni¡¯s magicmunication signal in the royal pce of Anvilmar City.

 Book 8: Chapter 22: Is this a warning?

    Book 8: Chapter 22: Is this a warning?

    As the illusion of the call gradually cleared, it wasn¡¯t Seveni that appeared, but rather a youth who seemed to be around seventeen or eighteen years old.

    Xu Yi was surprised before raising his hand to greet him.

    ¡°Hey, Raymond, how have you beentely? Where¡¯s your mom?¡±

    The youth in the illusion that Xu Yi called Raymond was the crown prince of the Lampuri Kingdom, Seveni¡¯s only heir, Prince Raymond.

    Seeing Xu Yi, Raymond gave a respectful bow before saying with a perfect stance, ¡°Hello uncle Xu, thank you for your care. Lady mother is currently discussing something important with the ministers and can¡¯t leave. She knew that uncle Xu would be contacting her today and was worried that she might not have the time, so she had me wait here.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sank a bit before returning to normal.

    Every time he had a private call with Seveni, Xu Yi would contact her three days in advance to make sure that Seveni would have time to talk to him. This time wasn¡¯t an exception.

    Even if it was like this, Seveni still had an important meeting with her ministers and couldn¡¯te. It really surprised Xu Yi, while also casting a shadow in his heart.

    It seemed like Seveni understood what he wanted to discuss with her.

    This arrangement was trying to hide her intentions¡­¡­

    Xu Yi looked at the respectful looking Raymond in the illusion and gave a sigh.

    If Seveni sent Raymond to talk about this matter with him, he had to reevaluate the importance of this matter in Seveni¡¯s heart.

    ¡°Raymond, did your mother tell you anything?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Lady mother said that if uncle Xu had something important to discuss with her, you can talk to me about it first and I¡¯ll pass it to her. If there is a need for further discussion, she will find ater time to contact you.¡±

    ¡°He¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing.

    ording to Seveni¡¯s intentions, she could look for Xu Yi, but it was very hard for Xu Yi to look for her.

    If it was said that Xu Yi only had some doubts earlier, he was certain now. Seveni was deliberately avoiding him.

    Xu Yi looked at Raymond¡¯s face that was still immature with age, but was slowly maturing and he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit disappointed.

    Although he knew a long time ago that Seveni as the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom and him as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, no matter how close they were, there would be some conflicts in benefits eventually, so their rtionship wouldn¡¯t be as close as before one day.

    From an objective perspective, he had already known Seveni for thirty years. It was already good that they could maintain good rtions for this long, it was already considered a miracle.

    Based on the present situation, it couldn¡¯t be considered a conflict between them yet, but Seveni no longer followed Xu Yi¡¯s suggestions like before. She now had her own ideas.

    Moreover, with her current position, those ideas were understandable.

    Only¡­¡­the things that these ideas involved were the military magic machines that had always been Xu Yi¡¯s taboo¡­¡­

    ¡°Raymond, it seems like your mother is very clear on why I¡¯m looking for her. Since that¡¯s the case¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi fell silent for a bit before saying with a sigh, ¡°Then help me pass on a few words to her.¡±

    Raymond¡¯s expression was a bit surprised, but he didn¡¯t ask anything and just respectfully said, ¡°Please.¡±

    ¡°Tell her that I hope that she knows where to stop and not touch my bottom line. I understand that she is considering the Lampuri Kingdom and ask her to think of my standpoint. The Sines Continent has had peace for many years and I don¡¯t want to ruin that peace.¡±

    Raymond¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi in shock.

    Since he was young, his mother had kept telling him about his uncle Xu Yi, leaving a deep impression of Xu Yi on him since he was young.

    When he slowly grew up and gradually knew more about Xu Yi, he knew that he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and knew that he had done many things to change the continent, causing the admiration in his heart towards Xu Yi to grow deeper.

    In his mind, his mother and Xu Yi had always been very close, surpassing the normal rtionship between man and woman.

    He had never heard of his mother and Xu Yi going against each other before, having any contradictions.

    But based on Xu Yi¡¯s current words, there was a very strong scent of a warning.

    Why was this?

    Could it be that his mother had done something to make chairman Xu angry?

    Raymond knitted his brows to think for a bit, but he couldn¡¯t think of a single thing.

    Xu Yi saw that Raymond was full of doubts and knew that he shouldn¡¯t have known about the main details of this meeting with Seveni, so he didn¡¯t understand this.

    He didn¡¯t reveal anything and just said in a serious voice, ¡°Just pass these words on to her, I believe that she will understand what I mean.¡±

    Raymond only gave an oh sound before giving a nod.

    The two looked at each other for a bit before Raymond couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Uncle Xu, has mother done anything to make you angry?¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°Not right now, but who knows in the future. That will depend on your mother¡¯s choice.¡±

    Raymond fell into thought again before carefully asking, ¡°Then¡­..If mother doesn¡¯t want to change her idea, what¡­¡­what will happen?¡±

    ¡°If your Lampuri Kingdom is stronger than our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then nothing will happen. But¡­¡­you should understand.¡±

    Raymond immediately gave a nod.

    What a joke! Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany, the facts had proven that in a real fight, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stronger than the two empiresbined.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom had been vigorously developing in the past few years, increasing their national power by several dozen times, they were just asking for trouble if they wanted to do anything to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi¡¯s few words were enough to prove how serious this matter was.

    Raymond was filled with doubts.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always had a happy cooperation with the Lampuri Kingdom, the rtionship between them was better than most other countries with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There were even many people who said that the Lampuri Kingdom was the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they couldn¡¯t be separated.

    Although these words were a bit much, it proved just how close they were.

    But now he didn¡¯t know what his mother had done to make chairman Xu say these words.

    Could it be that there was a fissure in their rtionship?

    Raymond didn¡¯t even dare think about what the Lampuri Kingdom would be like if they lost their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Xu¡­¡­Uncle, I think that my mother will definitely understand your meaning and will give you a satisfactory answer. I ask that you¡­..forgive her as much as you can based on your many years of friendship.¡±

    Seeing Raymond¡¯s sincere look, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head.

    ¡°If it was something normal, I would do what I can for her as my friend, I¡¯ve already proven this many times in the past decades. But this time she is touching my bottom line and I hope that she won¡¯t destroy my efforts of all these years.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s serious tone, Raymond knew that there was no chance of convincing him and could only give a silent nod.

    ¡°Alright, uncle Xu, I will pass your words and intentions to mother.¡±

    ¡°Alright. Also help me tell her that because ourpany will be conducting severalrge projects and arecking people, I n on bringing back the two teams of experts that I sent to your Lampuri Kingdom. I hope that you can prepare yourselves.¡±

    Raymond¡¯s young face revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Uncle Xu, before you even hear my mother¡¯s answer, you¡¯re already nning to give a punishment?¡±

    Xu Yi said with a faint smile, ¡°If she thinks it is, it can be considered one.¡±

    Raymond could only continue with that bitter smile.

    ¡°Alright, I only wanted to say this and nothing else.¡±

    Raymond gave Xu Yi a respectful bow and nned on sending him off.

    Xu Yi¡¯s hand came to the button to turn off the magicmunication equipment before his expression changed. He looked at Raymond in the illusion and asked, ¡°Right, Raymond, you¡¯re about to be an adult, right?¡±

    Raymond was surprised before suddenly giving a nod, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°I remember that your mother once told me that in order to guarantee that you smoothly take the throne, after you be an adult, she will let you handle all government affairs. Are you ready?¡±

    Raymond revealed aplicated smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already made all my preparations.¡±

    ¡°Un, not bad. Then¡­¡­Raymond, let me ask you a personal question. If you find it inconvenient, you don¡¯t need to answer.¡±

    ¡°Please.¡±

    ¡°As the crown prince, are you happy taking over government affairs to prepare for taking over the throne?¡±

    Raymond was stunned as if he was very surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s question.

    After thinking for a bit, he said with a serious look, ¡°I am my mother¡¯s only heir and it was set that I would take the throne when I was born, so it is my responsibility. There¡¯s no happiness to feel about this, I just know that as the only sessor to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne, I have a future responsibility to be an outstanding king and lead the Lampuri Kingdom to glory!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him for a bit before slowly giving a nod.

    ¡°It seems like your mother has taught you well. Although I don¡¯t¡­¡­Alright, we¡¯ll leave it at this. Raymond, I hope that you will be an outstanding king.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your blessings.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­¡­goodbye.¡±

    ¡°May the goddess¡¯ light forever shine on you. See you next time.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 23: Need power

    Book 8: Chapter 23: Need power

    When the illusion faded, Xu Yi¡¯s form gradually disappeared from in front of Raymond.

    Raymond just stood there with his head down, silently thinking about something.

    After a while, he was woken up by the footsteps that came from behind him.

    When he looked up, he saw the familiar face of his mother.

    ¡°Lady mother, why didn¡¯t you personally meet chairman Xu? Could it be¡­¡­that you really did something that made him angry?¡± Raymond couldn¡¯t help asking the question that had been in his heart.

    ¡°Perhaps¡­¡­¡± Seveni¡¯s eyes looked at where the illusion had been and she gave a sigh, ¡°But whether it is for me or the Lampuri Kingdom, this matter is very important, so it can be considered something that has to be done.¡±

    ¡°What is this thing?¡± Raymond knitted his brows.

    Seveni took a deep look at Raymond.

    ¡°Raymond, chairman Xu asked if you were prepared to start handling government affairs, I want to ask you know, are you prepared to offer everything that you have for the Lampuri Kingdom?¡±

    Raymond threw out his chest and said without any fear, ¡°Of course! I can offer everything to the kingdom at any moment!¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Seveni gave a nod, ¡°Then I want to ask you, what is required the most for the Lampuri Kingdom to be truly powerful?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Raymond was surprised.

    This question was a bit too big that he didn¡¯t know how to reply.

    After thinking for a bit, he hesitantly said, ¡°I think that it should be¡­¡­unity and hard work. As long as the people of the kingdome together and work hard, we can increase our nation¡¯s strength and the kingdom will naturally be stronger.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not asking you for a social political answer, I¡¯m asking you for something more concrete.¡± Seveni shook her head.

    ¡°Something more concrete?¡± Raymond¡¯s expression became one of serious thought.

    After a while, his expression suddenly changed. He looked up at Seveni and replied with a confident smile, ¡°I know! It¡¯s power! Lady mother, you often taught me that whether it¡¯s people or a country, they have to have enough power to be considered strong.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Seveni revealed a faint smile, ¡°A country needs power more than a normal person. If they don¡¯t have enough power, a country can only wait for its destruction.¡±

    Raymond had a confused look.

    ¡°Lady mother, but what is this power you speak of? Based on the situation of the current Sines Continent, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which country would be destroyed? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t allow it?¡±

    ¡°What if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t there?¡± Seveni asked, ¡°Or rather, what if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power could no longer suppress the other countries?¡±

    Raymond fell silent.

    He had already pondered this when he started studying the politics of the continent.

    But in all these years the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always controlled the situation of the continent, making the countries no dare go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also making people unknowingly neglect this point.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce being able to have their current position and make the two empires not dare go against them is because they have the power to surpass everyone. This power is manifested in those military magic machines.¡± Seveni then said, ¡°If one day the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines can no longer suppress the other countries, then the situation of the continent will instantly change.¡±

    Raymond thought about it before turning to Seveni with a look of shock to ask, ¡°Lady mother, could it be that the thing uncle Xu mentioned earlier is that you¡¯re secretly studying the military magic machines?¡±

    Seveni was silent for a few seconds before finally giving a very slow nod.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, the country has been researching military magic machines. Don¡¯t be surprised, this has been happening over the years and it isn¡¯t just our Lampuri Kingdom. I¡¯m certain that in the two empires and all the countries that have some ability, they are all secretly conducting research.¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­But the ?Continent Peace Convention? clearly states that all countries are forbidden from researching military magic machines.¡± Raymond said in an anxious voice, ¡°It¡¯s no wonder uncle Xu is angry, you¡¯ve been hiding the truth from him all this time!¡±

    Seveni revealed a smile, ¡°You think that he doesn¡¯t know about this?¡±

    Raymond was stunned, ¡°He knows? Then why is he angry?¡±

    Seveni looked at where the illusion had been, as if she could still see Xu Yi.

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s like he said, we touched his bottom line¡­¡­¡±

    Raymond had a confused look.

    After all, he was still young and even if he had been trained by Seveni since he was young, it was hard for him to have the ¡°tacit understanding¡± that important people had.

    ¡°Alright, you don¡¯t need to care about this. Raymond, you¡¯re about to be an adult soon and you have to truly take care of the kingdom¡¯s affairs. You told chairman Xu that you were ready, then let me see whether you¡¯re truly ready or not, alright?¡±

    Raymond gave a silent nod, but his eyes were burning.

    He had always longed for the aloof throne.

    ###

    After ending the short call with Raymond, Xu Yi sat there for a bit before leaving his manor.

    Ten minutester, he arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility, stepping into the magicmunication department.

    When he walked through, he heard the noisesing from inside.

    Looking over, he saw a bunch of young people in new clean white uniforms standing together, discussing something.

    When Xu Yi came in, he immediately attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    Everyone was stunned before there was a cheer and he was surrounded.

    ¡°Chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°My god, it¡¯s chairman Xu!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I am your idol¡­¡­Oh, no, that¡¯s wrong, you are my idol! I really am too happy to see you!¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you here? Could it be¡­¡­¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi was already used to this and dealt with it with a smile. Looking around, he caught Akali who was hiding in the crowd secretlyughing.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡± Xu Yi asked Akali.

    ¡°I¡¯m just giving simple training to the new assistants.¡± Akali gave a shrug before replying with a smile, ¡°At least I have to tell them where they are going or they might think that we¡¯re selling them off.¡±

    ¡°Stop joking.¡± Xu Yi red at her before looking at the excited people. Seeing their youthful and vibrant appearances, he felt the bit of gloominess that he had been affected by the call with Seveni disappear.

    ¡°They are the assistants you chose?¡± Xu Yi roughly counted them and knitted his brows, ¡°Are these few people enough?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, time is short so we can¡¯t recruit that many people. There are many people that want talented people, so it¡¯s impossible for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to get everyone. Moreover, my requests are very high and there aren¡¯t many who can satisfy them. I¡¯m already satisfied with being able to recruit this many.¡± Akali said in a helpless voice.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­that¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Then have you set your schedule? When are you leaving?¡±

    Akali red at him, ¡°What? I only came back for a few days and the sir chairman already wants to chase me away?¡±

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°If you¡¯re willing to stay and not run outside, I would be more willing than anyone. But are you willing?¡±

    Akali waved her hand, ¡°No, I don¡¯t want to stay here all day looking at you and feeling sorry for myself, it¡¯s too much. I¡¯m used to running around after all these years and I¡¯m not used to it if you make me stay in one ce.¡±

    ¡°That seems about right.¡±

    Seeing the two of them talking without shame in front of them, the group of assistants that Akali had recruited seemed like they had found a new continent and revealed excited looks.

    A young girl suddenly asked in a loud voice, ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, master Akali, are you¡­..Are you two like the rumours say and are actually lovers?¡±

    Akai and Xu Yi looked at each other and couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Akali took Xu Yi¡¯s arm with a smile and made it look intimate.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, what about it?¡±

    Everyone became excited and the young boys even gave whistles, making it very lively.

    ¡°Alright, stop ying.¡± Xu Yi helplessly shook his head, but he didn¡¯t push Akali away. He just said to everyone, ¡°You all wait here, I have some things to discuss with Akali.¡±

    ¡°Oh.¡±

    Everyone gave a response that had a different meaning as they revealed ambiguous looks.

    Xu Yi ignored them and indicated to Akali to follow him into an office.

    When the door closed and confirming that there was no one in the office, Xu Yi¡¯s smile disappeared and his expression became serious.

    ¡°Akali, the project this time, can you give me an urate time estimate?¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi with a bit of a confused look.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t I say it before? Without going to the spot for a while, I can¡¯t give you a clear estimate of the work, so I can¡¯t give you a clear time estimate. Moreover, you should know what it¡¯s like over there and it¡¯s very likely that idents will happen, which can affect the progress, so it¡¯s hard to give an estimate.¡±

    After saying this, Akali knitted her brows to ask, ¡°You¡¯re suddenly asking this¡­¡­could it be that there¡¯s a problem?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if it¡¯ll be a problem right now, but I have to give you a reminder. ording to thetest news I received, including the two empires, there are many countries that are nning their deep sea voyages, so there will be other fleets entering the seas. They have set their eyes on the same area as we have, so you need to be more careful.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 24: Big development in the east

    Book 8: Chapter 24: Big development in the east

    Akali was surprised before giving a disdainful cold snort.

    ¡°What? Would they dare fight us? Do they have the courage?¡±

    ¡°They don¡¯t on the Sines Continent, but it might really be possible if they were forced into it.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s serious tone, Akali put away the contempt and a bit of doubt appeared in her heart.

    ¡°Why are those fellows suddenly interested in expanding into the endless seas? With their current situation, shouldn¡¯t they be focused on developing the magic machine industries in their countries?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Perhaps they think that maintaining the status quo will make it hard for them to surpass ourpany, so they want to head into the endless seas to find more opportunities and resources.¡±

    ¡°Just with them?¡±

    ¡°You can¡¯t look down on those established countries. They have bided their time for ten years and have constantly developed themselves, so their progress is far beyond what I could imagine. Although they can¡¯tpare to ourpany when ites to technology, it isn¡¯t like ten years ago where they couldn¡¯tpare to ourpany at all.¡± Xu Yi said.

    Akali was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you mean¡­¡­Could it be that those countries haven¡¯t been honest?¡±

    Xu Yi thought of his call with Raymond and there was a bitter smile that appeared on his lips. He shook his head and gave a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s still fine now, but I¡¯m afraid that in the near future, when they think that they are strong enough, they won¡¯t be honest anymore.¡±

    ¡°Che, then we¡¯ll just teach them another lesson.¡± Akali raised her fist and said with a cold snort, ¡°Those fellows have been calm for ten years, they might have already forgotten the lesson from ten years ago. We should deepen the impression that we¡¯ve made on them.¡±

    ¡°Where did this violencee from?¡± Xu Yi snappily rolled his eyes at her, ¡°Our current goal is steady development and when it¡¯s not necessary, I won¡¯t allow people to destroy the current situation. So unless it¡¯s necessary, I won¡¯t act that easily.¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi with a bit of helplessness in her eyes.

    ¡°Sir chairman, your biggest weakness is your soft heart. Look, if you steeled your heart a bit, the Sines Continent would have already entered a stage of full development.¡±

    ¡°That depends on if I have enough power.¡±

    Akali still wanted to say something, but Xu Yi patted her shoulder to stop her.

    ¡°Alright, I just wanted to tell you this. As for the others, I will arrange another fleet to guard your team of researchers. The leader of this fleet is someone you should be familiar with, it¡¯s Schuster who¡¯s gone to the Magic Cloud Continent several times.¡±

    ¡°Un, I¡¯ve met him a few times, so I¡¯m familiar.¡±

    ¡°Good, you can see him tomorrow. I still have other things to take care of, so I won¡¯t go with you. Other than that¡­..I might be taking a trip in a few days and won¡¯t be back quickly. If you¡¯re going to set off in these few days, I won¡¯t be able to send you off.¡±

    Akali revealed a faint smile and waved her hand, acting like she didn¡¯t care at all.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve already gone to the Magic Cloud Continent several dozen times and you¡¯ve sent me off no more than five times? I¡¯m already used to it. Not to mention that I¡¯m not Still, so why would you need to send me off?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a helpless smile. After saying a few more things, he bid farewell to Akali.

    ###

    Six dayster, Akali¡¯s team of researchers along with arge fleet of twenty six Magic Ships departed from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base¡¯s harbour, leaving the continent.

    This time, her goal wasn¡¯t the Magic Cloud Continent, but rather an area in the sea that was between the Magic Cloud Continent and the Sines Continent.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be setting up a research base on the few inds in this area.

    The function of this research base wasn¡¯t just to study outer space magic signal transmission like they had announced, but rather to directly build the outer space magic signal ry station.

    Akali¡¯s team had already made their real breakthrough in outer space magic signal transmissionst year and had obtained sess in their secret experiments.

    The reason they were building this magic signal ry station on the sea, other than moving forward with the next step of their experiments, was to realize the goal of connectingmunications between the two continents within a year.

    If this n went smoothly, Akali estimated that they would be able to build and debug all the problems with the ry station in half a year and then connect the two continents in a year.

    This was a very important project, whether it was for the Sines Continent or the Magic Cloud Continent, it was very meaningful. So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had attached great importance to this, sending out Akali as the magicmunication department¡¯s manager and having her personally lead the team.

    While Akali was leading her research team out, at the same time, Xu Yi went over six thousand kilometers to a small country named the Curani Kingdom to the east of the Sines Continent.

    This Curani Kingdom wasn¡¯t that big and was only double the size of the Stantine Duchy, so it was considered a very small kingdom among the various kingdoms of the continent.

    The poption of this country wasn¡¯t big and based on iplete stats, it was around five hundred thousand people. This poption could be ced at the bottom ranking of the entire Sines Continent.

    This country wasn¡¯t rich in resources either and over half of this small country was covered in deserts, with the other half being barrennd.

    The Curani Kingdom could exist in this environment all these years, other than not having anything of value to invade for, was because they Curani Kingdom¡¯s people had developed a strong ethnic culture in this harsh environment, so it was hard for others to dominate them.

    But this also caused the Curani Kingdom to be neglected or even treated with hostility by the surrounding countries. This made it harder for them to get various resources and made the lives of the Curani Kingdom¡¯s people hard, causing them to be in a famine half the time.

    Xu Yi suddenlying to this small country without any value was not because of the country, but rather because of hisrge n.

    Since Xu Yi made the Banta Deration ten years ago, requesting all countries of the Sines Continent to focus on magic machine industry development, most of the countries on the continent had started developing the magic machine industry in their countries.

    But because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base was in the southwest corner and most of their influence was in the southwest, the countries in the southwest corner, the two empires, and the surrounding countries had developed to a certain degree, but the other countries weren¡¯t able to obtain good conditions and developed much slower.

    The most clear difference was how much slower the eastern countries had developedpared to the western and central countries. This created a phenomenon on the continent where the west became stronger than the east and for the citizens of eastern countries, they started heading west for better lives.

    The stats were precise, but in these ten years, the poption of the western countries had greatly increased. Other than the high birth rate brought on by the increase in grain yield, there was also therge number of people migrating over.

    Most of these people that migrated came from poor countries to the east.

    This caused the poption in the east to fall instead of rising, which created a clear contrast to the western countries.

    The only exception was the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    But the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was made up of thirteenpanies and was different from the system of a traditional country. Their influence wasn¡¯t enough to cover the entire eastern part of the continent, so naturally they couldn¡¯t change the trends in the eastern countries.

    In order to changed this unbnced phenomenon and to tap into the potential of the eastern countries, as well as using the various resources hidden there, Xu Yi had proposed a n of big development in the east.

    The goal of this n was to let the eastern countries enjoy the benefits of the magic machine industry, changing their environment, making sure that they didn¡¯t fall behind the western countries and one day even catch up to them.

    It had to be said, this n really was big. It involved over thirty countries in the east and over a hundred million people.

    When Xu Yi had proposed this n in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s internal meeting, almost all the high level members had rejected this.

    However, when Xu Yi gave a careful analysis to the giant benefits of this n, he had convinced them to agree in the end.

    Xu Yi even convinced the two empires and the countries of the southwest corner to participate. So this time, in his first stop in the Curani Kingdom, other than the investment team from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were the representatives from the two empires, the various countries, and over thirtypanies that came with him.

    When it came to the n that Xu Yi proposed, whether it was the two empires, the other countries, or thepanies, they didn¡¯t have much confidence.

    The only reason they had agreed in the end was because of Xu Yi himself.

    But the first target that Xu Yi chose was the Curani Kingdom that was famous for being the poorest, most chaotic, and most backwards country in the east, which had surprised everyone.

    But they still came along with him.

    But no one, not even Xu Yi would have thought that as soon as they arrived in the Curani Kingdom, this small country would give them a show of power.

 Book 8: Chapter 25: Another rebellion

    Book 8: Chapter 25: Another rebellion

    One could see the thick smoke when looking down, as well as the flickering mes. Seeing this city in chaos, everyone looked at Xu Yi with shocked looks.

    Count Gandal who had just been promoted to the chief of the Candra Empire¡¯s department ofmerce couldn¡¯t help speaking after a moment of silence.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I think that the Curani Kingdom is at least showing off a battle formation to properly wee us¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows. After thinking for a bit, he waved his hand behind him and called themander of this Magic Airship over.

    ¡°Send down my orders. Have a small squad investigate below. Based on this situation, the perpetrators shouldn¡¯t be far away. Catch those fellows for me.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Themander left after receiving this order and quickly sent down Xu Yi¡¯s order through the Magic Airship¡¯smunication equipment.

    After a while, eight airships separated in groups of two, heading off in four different directions.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for it to be like this, should we¡­¡­¡± Seeing that Xu Yi¡¯s expression wasn¡¯t good, Count Gandal¡¯s tone became cautious.

    ¡°Just wait for now, I¡¯ll go down and see.¡±

    After Xu Yi threw these words down, he suddenly disappeared from in front of everyone.

    Count Gandal and the other representatives from various kingdoms andpanies were shocked to see this.

    The meaning of Xu Yi¡¯s words¡­¡­Could it be that he was personally going down to the city to investigate?

    Wasn¡¯t that too dangerous!

    But then everyone suddenly reacted.

    Xu Yi had already be a powerful Arch Magus ten years ago, so how could it be dangerous?

    Thinking of this, everyone put down their worry for Xu Yi¡¯s safety.

    But seeing the chaos in the city below, everyone was filled with worry towards the prospect of this task.

    When it came to investing in the Curani Kingdom, the representatives of the various countries andpanies were already very worried. The reason that they had been sent was all because of Xu Yi and not because they had any confidence in the Curani Kingdom.

    They had thought that Xu Yi must have arranged everything, which was why he had brought them all here.

    They never thought that as soon as they arrived, they would see the capital city of the Curani Kingdom in chaos like this. No matter what, it didn¡¯t seem like a ¡®stable and suitable investment¡¯ situation.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi, their first response would have been to leave as soon as they saw this situation.

    A country that couldn¡¯t even preserve their own capital city, what value was there in investing here?

    This question had also appeared in Xu Yi¡¯s mind, but then he threw it away.

    He had chosen the Curani Kingdom as the first target of the great east development n not because this ce was good enough, but rather because this ce was bad enough.

    He had already decided on this n two years ago and when he was choosing the first ce, he settled on the Curani Kingdom. Xu Yi had already started investigating at that time and was very clear on the situation in the Curani Kingdom.

    This Curani Kingdom¡­¡­it was never a perfect state strictly speaking, so it was already a stretch to call it a kingdom.

    Although the Curani Kingdom had always been a kingdom, since it was founded three hundred years ago, the royal family had changed surnames eleven times and no family had ruled the kingdom for more than thirty years.

    This kind of unstable country that frequently had rebellions was clearly not a good ce to invest in.

    But Xu Yi insisted on choosing this ce.

    His thoughts were very simple. If he could even integrate this kind of country into the magic machine industrial system, letting it be a stable country that focused on developing their magic machine industry, the countries of the east would know that there wasn¡¯t a single country that couldn¡¯t have its problems solved.

    If one looked at it from another angle, this choice wasn¡¯t logical.

    After all, if he chose a country with a better environment, it would be easier and quicker to aplish things.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s goal was topletely develop the continent¡¯s east, so he intentionally chose the most difficult ce as the first goal so that he could advance more quickly in the future.

    Only¡­¡­based on the current situation, it was hard for him to even take his first steps.

    ¡°Save!¡±

    There was a cry that came from the left, but then it stopped.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows. His figure shed before he appeared where the voice came from.

    Severalrge men in leather armour with big des had surrounded a girl who had been mostly stripped. One of the men had already taken off the lower half of his clothes and was approaching the girl with a fiendish smile.

    The girl¡¯s mouth had been covered by another man and her hands were held by another man. She couldn¡¯t move at all and she would be defiled soon.

    Xu Yi gave a cold snort. He sent out several wind des and urately cut the necks of these men.

    The men all felt a cold feeling at their necks before their blood spurted out. They didn¡¯t even have time to make a sound before falling to the ground.

    Xu Yi picked up a coat to put over the girl before pulling a Magic Communicator from his chest.

    ¡°Send the guards and keep the order in the city.¡±

    After giving this order to the guards, Xu Yi suddenly flew up. He looked around in the sky and very soon found a structure that was on a hill in the city¡¯s north.

    This was the Curani Kingdom¡¯s royal pce, but there were mes and smoke that came from it, so it was clear that it had been caught up in this disaster.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi immediately understood what happened. He had coincidentally bumped into another rebellion of the Curani Kingdom.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi¡¯s form disappeared and he arrived above the royal pce in the blink of an eye.

    Looking down, he heard the sounds of fighting from all over the pce, as well as ruined corpses and blood scattered all over the ground. It seemed like the rebellion wasn¡¯t over yet.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have much hope for this situation because when he had attempted to contact the Curani Kingdom¡¯s king earlier with the Magic Communicator, he hadn¡¯t received a response.

    It was either the king had thrown away the Magic Communicator that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave him before, or he was dead.

    Xu Yi looked around and flew over to a team of soldiers who were wearing the same leather armour as the men that he killed before waving their des around.

    Those soldiers saw this person flying over and after being surprised, they didn¡¯t hold back as they attacked Xu Yi.

    Of course, their crude weapons wouldn¡¯t be able to pose any threats to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi easily killed these soldiers and only left a fellow who seemed to be their leader.

    Through his studies with elder Undine and some research into the Magic Illusions, Xu Yi was able to easily get the information that he wanted from this leader.

    As he had guessed, there was another rebellion in the Curani Kingdom.

    Based on the information from this leader, the one who led the rebellion was the Curani Kingdom¡¯s general Leifaro.

    With the absolute military power that he had and the arrangements he made ahead of time, he had started this rebellion. He had already killed the king and seized the chance to kill many of the ministers and generals that opposed him, already controlling the capital city.

    As for why he chose tounch his rebellion at this time, this small group leader didn¡¯t know.

    Xu Yi knew that he couldn¡¯t get anything else from him, so he asked for general Leifaro¡¯s location and went looking for him.

    A few minutester, Xu Yi directly entered arge throne room that was in the center of the royal pce.

    Looking over, he saw a tall figure sitting on the throne, but it wasn¡¯t the Curani Kingdom¡¯s king who had met with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce several times that Xu Yi had also met, but rather arge and rough looking man.

    When he saw Xu Yi appear, that person was stunned before calling out to stop his subordinates from attacking Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu! You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu, right?¡± The man¡¯s eyes opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi. It wasn¡¯t a look of fear, but rather a look of pleasant surprise.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised that the other side recognized him because his image would frequently appear in the major newspapers and the Magic Illusion programs, most people on the continent already knew what he looked like.

    ¡°You are general Leifaro?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    The man broke out inughter and pped his chest.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, I am general Leifaro! Chairman Xu, your arrival this time was to bring people to invest in our Curani Kingdom, right?¡±

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised that the other side knew about this since he was a great general that had control over the Curani Kingdom¡¯s military.

    But he knitted his brows and didn¡¯t n on answering the other side¡¯s question as he asked, ¡°You killed King Simpson?¡±

    General Leifaro was surprised as he never thought that Xu Yi would ask this question.

    After looking over Xu Yi, he said with a loudugh, ¡°That¡¯s right, I killed him. This fellow Simpson, he was secretly nning to remove me, so how could I let him do that!¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t care about your grievances with King Simpson, but general Leifaro, King Simpson was a recognized partner of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. By killing him and creating chaos in the Curani Kingdom, you have hindered the investment n of ourpany. How are you nning onpensating us?¡±

    General Leifaro narrowed his eyes to look at Xu Yi, ¡°What? Are you nning on taking revenge for that old fellow Simpson?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say a thing.

    General Leifaro gave a snort as rage filled his eyes, but they were quickly suppressed.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I don¡¯t think that this has hindered yourpany¡¯s investment n at all. Although that old fellow Simpson is dead, our Curani Kingdom is still here. As long as your Frestech Chamber of Commerce supports my control over the kingdom, then I will give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce even better conditions than Simpson. What do you think?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him before looking at the soldiers that were preparing to cause trouble. He revealed a faint smile and shook his head.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I don¡¯t like cooperating with people like you. Moreover, you reminded me of something just now. King Simpson is dead and you can control the Curani Kingdom to cooperate with us. Since it¡¯s like this, then why wouldn¡¯t we just control the Curani Kingdom ourselves?¡±

    General Leifaro¡¯s expression greatly changed.

 Book 8: Chapter 26: Chapter 26

    Book 8: Chapter 26: Chapter 26

    [TL Note: There¡¯s no name for this chapter, author forgot to write one.]

    General Leifaro died like that.

    This person who had raised a rebellion in the Curani Kingdom, after killing the king, he had only been on the throne for an hour before he was personally taken care of by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards easily routed general Leifaro¡¯s rebel army and didn¡¯t need to spend that much effort to stabilize the Curani Kingdom.

    The Curani Kingdom was after all a small kingdom and with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, as well as the powerful Xu Yi personallymanding them, there weren¡¯t any further disturbances.

    After taking care of the rebel army, Xu Yi quickly found the twelve year old heir of the dead king who had luckily survived. He supported him to take the throne and then announced that general Leifaro wasbeled as a great rebel, so he would be sentenced to death along with the rebel army as per the Curani Kingdom¡¯sws.

    Like so, this new rebellion in the Curani Kingdom was easily eliminated. This small country was stabilized on the surface from the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    After this, the Curani Kingdom¡¯s government announced that they would carry out the will of the previous king. They would start cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and developing the Curani Kingdom.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, along with the various countries andpanies they gathered started acting together, bringing countless amounts of manpower and resources into the Curani Kingdom.

    The Curani Kingdom started building roads, a magicmunicationwork, and various magic supply stations all over the kingdom¡­¡­

    In short, just like with the developed western countries, the Curani Kingdom was changing bit by bit.

    If the Curani Kingdom didn¡¯t have this rebellion, then based on the contract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce previously signed with the Curani Kingdom¡¯s previous king, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have united the countries andpanies to develop the Curani Kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t have developed this quickly.

    But because there was this rebellion in the Curani Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suppressed it, propping up a new king, it gave them control of the entire Curani Kingdom. This made it so they didn¡¯t need to worry about any of their actions and it became very smooth.

    In just three months, the Curani Kingdom had a basis of a magic machine industrial system and it was almost changing with each passing day.

    Although not everyone in the Curani Kingdom would obey, with the few attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, the dissidents hiding in the Curani Kingdom werepletely destroyed. No one in the Curani Kingdom dared to go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing them to take action without any opposition. They were able to build various buildings much faster than in the other countries.

    The representatives of the various countries andpanies, although they were a bit hesitant, feeling worried about the methods the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used on the Curani Kingdom, after seeing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce put down factories one after another and bringing almost all the people of the Curani Kingdom to work in their factories and producing the first batch of goods, they couldn¡¯t hold back any longer and they all took action.

    Suddenly, the Curani Kingdom became arge work site. Buildings were raised from the ground and every part of the kingdom became busy.

    Even in the desert that covered half the Curani Kingdom that no one visited had began changing because of the Moon Goddess Environmental Protection Chamber of Commerce.

    This Moon Goddess Environmental Protection Chamber of Commerce was something that Xu Yi suggested. In the end, the Night song Tribe, the Moon Shadow Tribe, and the Azshara Tribe all sent manpower to form thispany.

    Thispany was like the name suggested, it mainly worked in preserving and improving the environment and one of their biggest targets was deserts.

    With the tradition of spreading nts that the elves had and the unique life magic of the elves, the elves could nt vegetation even in the bad environment of the deserts. They could let these nts grow strong and finally turn into forests.

    This ability had been a big problem for the humans who had taken over the continent after the race wars.

    Because the elves had taken control of the continent for over ten thousand years, almost the entire Sines Continent was covered in thick forests.

    The humans found it hard to live normal lives in the forests, so after taking control of the continent from the elves, whether it was out of their own benefits or out of their hatred for the elves, humans started cutting down the trees.

    There wererge pieces of territories that were suitable for humans that appeared, but because of serious soil corrosion, there were alsorge deserts that appeared on the Sines Continent.

    Humans couldn¡¯t control these deserts, so this situation became worse and worse.

    With the specialpany established by the three elf tribes under Xu Yi¡¯s suggestion, there was hope of controlling these deserts. It was also Xu Yi¡¯s contribution to preserving the environment of the Sines Continent.

    Of course, thispany wouldn¡¯t work for free.

    ording to the agreement Xu Yi had with them, for each ten hectares ofnd they purified, thepany would gain a hectare ofnd that they would control.

    For the three elf tribes that wantednd that they could control, naturally these were great conditions.

    So although the Moon Goddess Chamber of Commerce had only been formed for less than five years, they had improved the deserts in many countries already.

    Of course,pletely controlling the deserts couldn¡¯t be done in a single day.

    With the desert of the Curani Kingdom, ording to the estimates of the Moon Goddess Chamber of Commerce, it would take at least a hundred to two hundred years to see any real achievements.

    For the elves that had far longer lifespans than humans, a hundred to two hundred years wasn¡¯t that long, so they could wait.

    And for Xu Yi, as long as he could stop the deterioration of these deserts, it would be enough.

    Anyway, the current poption of the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t that big and thend they had now was more than enough for the poption.

    The period of considering using the improved deserts to satisfy the growth in poption would take at least several decades or even centuries, not to mention that it depended on if the Sines Continent was still at peace then.

    So Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about the situation in the Curani Kingdom.

    The eastern development n was a very big n and the Curani Kingdom was just the first step.

    Based on his estimates, he wouldn¡¯t be able to finish this n in his lifetime.

    All he had to do now wasy down the foundations.

    But the method that he used were a bit intense¡­¡­

    ###

    There was a thick document that was ced in front of the Candra Empire¡¯s Emperor Alphonse Candra.

    He seriously looked over this thick document and spent over an hour doing so.

    When he finally finished reading the document, he calmed himself and after thinking about it, he spent another half an hour reading it again.

    It could be seen how important this report was to him.

    When he finished reading it a second time, he looked up and closed his eyes to think. Then he turned his head to the empire¡¯s prime minister Duke Giarbot who had been standing on the side the entire time.

    ¡°Why did Xu Yi demonstrate such arge battle lineup in the Curani Kingdom? He isn¡¯t nning on swallowing the Curani Kingdom.¡±

    Before this report had been given to Emperor Candra, Duke Giarbot had carefully read it over, so naturally he knew what the emperor meant.

    After thinking, he carefully said, ¡°Although Xu Yi has never been interested innd, based on his achievements this time, he really might want to swallow the Curani Kingdom.¡±

    Emperor Candra knitted his brows to think for a bit before shaking his head, ¡°He shouldn¡¯t want to. If he really wantednd or even found his own kingdom, there were chances for him before and he wouldn¡¯t have to wait until now. Moreover, the Curani Kingdom is over six thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, so he wouldn¡¯t be dumb enough to choose this ce.¡±

    Duke Giarbot seriously thought about it for a bit before shaking his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I really don¡¯t know what he is thinking. If it¡¯s to realize the eastern development n that he mentioned, there¡¯s no need to use such an intense method.¡±

    ¡°Yes¡­¡­What I¡¯m most confused about isn¡¯t how he handled this matter, but rather the method that he used.¡± Emperor Candra patted the report and revealed a bit of an anxious look, ¡°The method he used to take care of the Curani Kingdom was the most intense one, so this isn¡¯t like his usual very gentle method of handling things. This makes me¡­¡­feel a bit anxious.¡±

    Duke Giarbot¡¯s heart trembled as his expression changed.

    Of course he understood why the emperor was unsettled.

    Ten years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard and the Rudson Kingdom¡¯s army had defeated the allied army of the two empires. This made everyone think that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to, they could have defeated the two empires and ruled the continent.

    With the scale of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at that time, it would have been very difficult to control everything, but with the absolute military might of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t hard to make the continent obey Xu Yi.

    However, Xu Yi had surprisingly at the most crucial time chosen to start the peace talks. He kept two empires andter on, he didn¡¯t change the continent too much.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom, the Drake Duchy, and the Rudson Kingdom receivedrge benefits, for the two empires and the Sines Continent, these changes were very small.

    No matter what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did, at least the two empires still existed and still had absolute power over the other countries like before.

    The Xu Yi of the past wasn¡¯t willing to be the ruler of the continent and gave the two empires a path of escape.

    After ten years, what if his thoughts had suddenly changed?

 Book 8: Chapter 27: Confident in Xu Yi

    Book 8: Chapter 27: Confident in Xu Yi

    Duke Giarbot silently thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°Your majesty, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to be worried. Xu Yi¡¯s actions this time were a bit more intense than before, but I don¡¯t believe that it¡¯s because his ideas have changed. Or rather, it¡¯s just¡­¡­that he¡¯s a bit anxious this time?¡±

    Emperor Candra looked over at Duke Giarbot and said with a smile, ¡°You seem very confident in Xu Yi.¡±

    Duke Giarbot was silent for a bit before standing up straight and saying with a serious look, ¡°Your majesty, with Xu Yi¡¯s achievements in the past ten years, of course I¡¯m confident in him.¡±

    Seeing the firm look on his most trusted official, Emperor Candra fell silent.

    If it was said ten years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had their greatest momentum, when the armies of the two empires couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, when people said that Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any ambition, no one believed it.

    But when Xu Yi passed what everyone considered was the best chance, rejecting the temptation of having the greatest authority, instead focusing on having all the countries of the continent invest in developing the magic machine industry. When he showed a stance of peaceful development, everyone was a bit surprised.

    Then in these ten years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led by Xu Yi had really done what he had said in the Banta Deration. They had focused on helping each country on the continent develop their magic machine industry, changing the lives of the epople of the continent and never changing their actions.

    Not to mention the other countries, just in the Candra Empire, in these ten years, they had greatly improved themselves with the help of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Emperor Candra had already been on the throne for thirty years now, but in the first twenty years he was in power, even if the Candra Empire was one of the two empires of the continent and was considered the strongest country on the continent, they couldn¡¯t even have ample crops to provide peace to its citizens.

    Even if they didn¡¯t talk about external threats, just in the giant Candra Empire alone, there would be all kinds of natural disasters. There would even be somerge disasters every few years that caused the empire to be filled with chaos and refugees.

    As the emperor, Emperor Candra had been beaten up quite a bit trying to solve these matters in his first twenty years of ruling.

    However ten years ago, when they were forced to put down their resistance and cooperate fully with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was a shocking period of great change and improvement in the Candra Empire with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the magic machine industry that they brought.

    First was the most important problem of crops.

    Because they worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the new method of farming that had been effective in the Lampuri Kingdom had been introduced in the Candra Empire.

    Withrge amounts of magic machines, fertilizers from the elves, and other things, the Candra Empire¡¯s grain yield had greatly increased every year in the past ten years.

    In less than four years, the Candra Empire had already achieved the goal of being perfectly self sufficient that they hadn¡¯t aplished in a thousand years. From the fifth year forward, the empire no longer had a famine and it was even rare for anyone to starve to death.

    When it came to disasters, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce working with the governors of each region, they had finished many road and hydraulic projects, along with many prevention projects. Other than a singlerge flood in the second years, in the past eight years, there hadn¡¯t been a singlerge flood in the Candra Empire.

    As for draughts, with the water system in ce and other supporting facilities, they could easily be handled. Even if they appeared now, it wouldn¡¯t be a real disaster.

    Of course, there wasn¡¯t a way to stop all natural disasters in this world.

    But in the Candra Empire, even if there was a natural disaster, because of theprehensive roadwork and the fast methods of transportation, they could easily deliver relief supplies to any disaster area and give them to the victims. They could minimize any disaster in the shortest amount of time, making it so that it wouldn¡¯t be arge disaster.

    Of course, what Emperor Candra considered the most important was the magicmunicationwork that had covered the entire Candra Empire.

    With this, it mademunication very convenient, far surpassing themon sense of the Candra Empire¡¯s people.

    Before this, because the Candra Empire was just too big and hadplicated terrain, it wasn¡¯t easy to transmit any information.

    Once something happened, it would take ten days to half a month before the information was transferred to Wimbledon City at the center of the empire.

    But with the magicmunicationwork, if something happened in any part of the Candra Empire and they were under the coverage of the magicmunicationwork, they could report to Wimbledon City at any time and could even report to the emperor.

    Just take the flood that had appeared in the northeast province in the first half of this year. As soon as it started, the northeast province¡¯s Governor Manor had reacted as soon as they received the news.

    Then in less than half an hour, the empire¡¯s parliament received this news and immediately contacted the northeast province¡¯s Governor Manor for more information, as well as to give them detailed instructions.

    Then the next morning, there was arge amount of relief supplies that set out from Wimbledon City, reaching the northeast province in just three days. They were then sent to the disaster areas on the fourth day and working with the Governor Manor, they easily controlled the situation.

    This process was very quick and there wasn¡¯t any chance of this disaster spreading. There was no turmoil for any of the victims and it was all considered very efficient.

    If this matter had happened in the first twenty years of Emperor Candra¡¯s reign, by the time that the news arrived from the northeast province¡¯s Governor Manor and they reacted, the disaster would have already been out of their control.

    Then it would take at least another half a month before the parliament received the news. It would have been hard to estimate when they would have sent the relief supplies.

    It would have already been good if they could be sent at all.

    Now with this quickmunication system, it was hard for the northeast province to hide this matter even if they wanted to. That was because the parliament and even the emperor could learn about the disaster through themunicationwork right away.

    Not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recentlye up with the remotemunication method. Even if the center of the empire was several thousand kilometers away, they could immediately analyze the situation of the disaster. They couldn¡¯t hide it as easily as before.

    To be even more exaggerated, if Emperor Candra wanted to personally go to the disaster area, he could take the Magic Airship and reach any part of the empire in less than a day.

    If it was before, if the emperor left the pce, it would create arge stir and cause countless problems.

    Now with the convenience of transportation, the emperor could go wherever he wanted to go.

    Anyway, he coulde back at any time and could be contacted whenever, so nothing important would be dyed.

    As for safety¡­¡­the Candra Empire¡¯s royal guards had the military support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They had bought some military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so their battle power far exceeded that of any other army in the empire.

    With these loyal guards, only if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards attacked them, the emperor wouldn¡¯t have to worry about his safety.

    So with this convenient long distancemunication method and transportation method that surpassed all previous methods, Emperor Candra could sit in the pce and easily learn about anything that happened in the Candra Empire.

    After reigning for thirty years, only these few years made him feel like he truly controlled the Candra Empire.

    Because before this, he knew that even if he was the emperor, he didn¡¯t have any solid control over the nobles of the various areas.

    The reason was very simple, he couldn¡¯t manage them,

    So from an objective perspective, whether it was the citizens or controlling the empire, Emperor Candra had to thank Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was because of the magic machine industry that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought that the Candra Empire had changed this greatly, letting the entire empire take a great leap forward.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had always followed themitment he made in the Banta Deration. He and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always helped the Candra Empire develop their magic machine industry. Other than the military magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t hold back in any aspect and gave the Candra Empire whatever they needed.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never released all their technology, they had disclosed quite a bit in the past ten years. The Candra Empire had also developed when it came to technology and they were no longer like ten years ago, they had some understanding of the magic machine industry.

    The current Candra Empire, even without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could be said to have a near perfect magic machine industry which satisfied theirrge internal demands.

    No matter how one looked at it, Xu Yi had kept his word in these ten years and never had any demand for excessive power. He didn¡¯t do anything like the countless people in the Candra Empire had been worried about, meddling in the internal affairs of the Candra Empire.

    So even someone as important as Duke Giarbot couldn¡¯t help admiring Xu Yi and didn¡¯t hesitate to disy his confidence in Xu Yi in front of Emperor Candra.

    He was right, if Xu Yi had this ambition, he would have done it ten years ago. He had countless opportunities to do it over the past ten years, so why would he suddenly have this idea ten yearster?

    However, Emperor Candra wasn¡¯t fully at ease.

    He looked at Duke Giarbot before saying with a sigh, ¡°Duke, you should understand what I mean. My worry isn¡¯t whether Xu Yi is willing to do it or not, but rather whether he can or can¡¯t¡­¡­¡±

    How could Duke Giarbot not understand the emperor¡¯s meaning? After looking at the emperor, he could only give a bitterugh.

 Book 8: Chapter 28: Building a new city

    Book 8: Chapter 28: Building a new city

    That¡¯s right, perhaps Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any hopes of taking over, perhaps it was like he said and he wanted to change the lives of everyone on the continent with the magic machine industry, perhaps he really didn¡¯t n on recing the two empires, perhaps¡­¡­

    But this was only the spection that others had about him. No one was certain if he would do this and they weren¡¯t certain that he would keep these ideas.

    If someday his ideas changed and he wanted more power, who could stop him?

    As the emperor of the Candra Empire, of course he couldn¡¯t pin all his hopes on Xu Yi¡¯s will and hoped that he could control this in his hands.

    So whether Xu Yi was willing or not wasn¡¯t important, the more important thing was what he could do about it.

    Only if he had power, then other people, especially people like Emperor Candra who stood at the peak wouldn¡¯t be able to calm down.

    But this was something that they couldn¡¯t do anything about.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was countless times stronger than ten years before after developing for ten years. Just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had surpassed a hundred thousand people, with seventeen naval fleets and thirteen Magic Airship fleets.

    No one knew the specifics, but they were certain that they had the best military magic machines. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a battle power that could crush all other countries.

    So even if Emperor Candra was worried, he couldn¡¯t do anything to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi for now.

    With the Candra Empire¡¯s current military power, perhaps they could be above the other countries of the continent, but they were helpless against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Your majesty, I feel that¡­..we shouldn¡¯t consider this question for now.¡± After Duke Giarbot hesitated a bit, he said, ¡°No matter what Xu Yi chooses to do, it isn¡¯t much of a difference for us. Moreover, I don¡¯t think that his ideas would change this suddenly. Not to mention that his current goal is only the Curani Kingdom and if he really had this idea, he wouldn¡¯t need to waste this time, right?¡±

    Emperor Candra gave a long sigh and slowly shook his head, throwing out all the chaotic thoughts that this news brought.

    Indeed, no matter what Xu Yi wanted to do, he couldn¡¯t do anything right now. The most important thing wasn¡¯t to care about what Xu Yi was doing, but rather finding a way to do his own things.

    ¡°Duke, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people have already arrived at the Troll Valley. Find some time to take a trip and pass down my ideas.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°Other than that, I want to increase next year¡¯s investment budget for Troll Valley by 30%. What do you think?¡± Emperor Candra asked.

    ¡°30%?¡± Duke Giarbot knitted his brows, ¡°Your majesty, we¡¯ve already invested over seventy million gold coins into the Troll Valleyst year. If we increase it by another 30%, wouldn¡¯t that be close to a hundred million gold coins? This amount¡­..I¡¯m worried that the parliament and department of finance will have their objections.¡±

    Emperor Candra waved his hand and gave a cold snort, ¡°Based on the financial report, the empire¡¯s financial revenue this year will be over six hundred million gold coins. A trivial hundred million spent on an important matter isn¡¯t that big at all. Could it be that they don¡¯t understand this? Without this thing as a backing, even if the empire is magnificent now, it¡¯s just an empty disy. Couldn¡¯t we be overthrown at any time?¡±

    Duke Giarbot gave a bitterugh as he clearly knew what the emperor was referring to.

    From the perspective of the empire, the emperor wasn¡¯t wrong at all. Otherwise, the prime minister, the parliament, and the department of finances wouldn¡¯t have agreed to his increase in funds and manpower over the years.

    ¡°Alright, I will properly discuss this matter with the parliament and work out the numbers. As for Troll Valley¡­¡­I have some time in four days and I¡¯ll go see them. Your majesty, is there anything you want to pass down to them?¡±

    Emperor Candra shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s nothing special to say, you just need to represent me.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡±

    The two discussed some other policies for the Candra Empire before Duke Giarbot left.

    After leaving the royal pce, Duke Giarbot entered a pure ck luxury Magic Sedan, but he didn¡¯t go to the parliament. Rather, he slowly headed out the west gate of Wimbledon City.

    Today was the eighth anniversary of Wimbledon City¡¯s first steel mill and also the day when the ten millionth ton of steel products would be produced.

    On this memorable day, the first steel mill had invited Duke Giarbot who had put the steel mill n in action back then, which obtained his happy approval.

    He had been dyed because he had been summoned by the emperor, so the people at the steel mill should have been waiting for quite a bit.

    Thinking of this, Duke Giarbot told the driver to drive a bit faster.

    However, it was ten in the morning, when Wimbledon City was quite busy. There were many cars moving along the road and no matter how good the driver was, he couldn¡¯t move through the stream of vehicles and could only slowly drive along.

    Seeing the crowded street outside, Duke Giarbot knitted his brows. He thought about the discussion the parliament had startedst year about reconstruction in Wimbledon City and he felt that they should speed that up.

    With the continued growth of the industrial district outside Wimbledon City, there were already many people from the area that had been absorbed into Wimbledon City. Then adding in the grain increase over the ten years and the stable situation, causing the birth grate to go up, Wimbledon City¡¯s poption had increased by more than double in the past ten years.

    In this situation, Wimbledon City, which was already crowded, couldn¡¯t take this load anymore.

    So several years ago, the empire had already considered rebuilding Wimbledon City. There were even some people who thought that they should build a new city.

    Comparing it, Duke Giarbot leaned towards thetter proposition.

    Because not only would there be great resistance to changing the old city, it would be very hard, and the effects wouldn¡¯t be good. It would be very hard for them to solve the current problem with this.

    Constructing a new city on the other hand might seem a bit exaggerated and would cost a lot, but whenparing it, this investment wasn¡¯t as high as reconstruction of the old city.

    Not to mention that building a new city had a great benefit, which was that they could change the ns. It would allow them to meet many more needs, so it was much more convenient than rebuilding the old city no matter how you looked at it.

    It had to be known that with the constant development of the magic machine industry, the lives of the people of the continent had already greatly changed. Wimbledon City, which was a city that hadsted for several hundred years, couldn¡¯t keep up and was even deemed behind the times by countless people.

    To take a simple example, when Wimbledon City was founded, although it had been made as big as possible and the city streets could hold six horse carriages from side to side, which was considered spacious all over the Sines Continent.

    In the current Wimbledon City, there were private Magic Sedans everywhere. One could see streets that werepletely filled with Magic Sedans.

    Then adding in the bus system, the streets of the old city seemed very narrow and wasn¡¯t good enough for transportation.

    Duke Giarbot had suffered from this. Even if he was the duke that was at the peak of the empire, he couldn¡¯t avoid these traffic jams.

    It was also because of this that many of the nobles and richmoners in Wimbledon City moved out of the city, it was to avoid the crowds and the various inconveniences.

    If they built a new city, they could avoid this situation from the nning phase and could solve many problems that bothered countless people.

    Moreover, when it came to constructing a new city, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already experimented with this back in Banta City. Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a new Frestech City that had be the model of a city on the Sines Continent.

    With this precedent, if Wimbledon City wanted to build a new city, it wouldn¡¯t be that hard.

    At least the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had clearly stated that they would be willing to provide technology and personnel to the empire. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce even stated that they would be willing to ept a contract to build the new Wimbledon City from the empire parliament. As long as the Candra Empire provided the funds, they wouldn¡¯t need to care about anything else.

    Of course it was impossible for the empire parliament to agree to this. So right now, the empire was contacting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while nning on building the new city themselves.

    Duke Giarbot as the prime minister had explicitly supported the construction of the new city in front of the parliament, even requesting that the parliamente up with a solution as soon as possible.

    The parliament and the department of finances had stated that because of problems with funding and technology, it would be hard toe up with a concrete n in a short period of time, so it was trapped for now.

    Duke Giarbot looked at the surrounding crowd and hoped that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make concessions as soon as possible. That way the construction n for the new Wimbledon City could start and it would solve their problems sooner.

    Of course, there was still another solution. It was to move out the imperial facilities and even the royal pce. That way, they wouldn¡¯t need to be in the crowded Wimbledon City anymore.

    It was a pity that while moving the facilities out was easy, it wasn¡¯t as easy to move out the royal pce.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce had been fixed since the foundation of the Candra Empire, so it had been there for close to a thousand years.

    The royal pce with this kind of historical and symbolic significance, if the emperor didn¡¯t decide to move it, it was impossible to move it.

    Thinking of this, Duke Giarbot couldn¡¯t help looking out the window and gave a sigh.

    Although this ancient empire was powerful because of its age, it was also rotten because of its age. It would always bind people when it came to certain aspects.

 Book 8: Chapter 29: Who is the successor

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 29: Who is the sessor</h4>

    After around an hour, Duke Giarbot¡¯s Magic Sedan finally slowly reached the first steel mill of Wimbledon City.

    The people who had been waiting for over two hours quickly came forward with smiles on their faces, but no one dared to look impatient at all because they had been waiting for a long time.

    The first one toe over wasn¡¯t the manager of the steel factory or one of its leaders, it was the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry department¡¯s chief Marquis Askander.

    The celebration of this first steel mill didn¡¯t need a Lord Marquis who was as powerful and had a high ranking like him to personally attend, but after learning that Duke Giarbot would be participating, he didn¡¯t hesitate to attend.

    So with him and Duke Giarbot attending, this celebration became the most important event in Wimbledon City and even the entire Candra Empire during this period. There were countless people who paid attention to this event.

    Although Duke Giarbot had beente, which slightly dyed the event, no one dared to me the Lord Duke. So after a slight dy, the event immediately progressed as normal.

    After Duke Giarbot came out and greeted everyone, he had nned on following the flow and giving the stage that had been prepared. However, before he could get onto the stage, he saw a guest that he didn¡¯t expect.

    ¡°Oh, dear young miss Freya, I never thought that you woulde to this event as well. It really is surprising.¡± Duke Giarbot gave a smile that was much warmer than any he had given to anyone else, walking over to Freya who was already standing.

    Freya also revealed a perfect and bright smile, giving a graceful bow to Duke Giarbot.

    ¡°Lord Duke, I am temporarily representing our Frestech Chamber of Commerce to attend this event, so it isn¡¯t strange that you didn¡¯t know about this.¡±

    Duke Giarbot gave augh, ¡°Young miss Freya, for this event to even attract someone like you, the people of the first steel mill must be dying of happiness, right?¡±

    The manager of the first steel mill, Count Reddingale, who had been following behind Duke Giarbot quickly came forward. He nodded as he said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s right. Young miss Freya participating in this event is our first steel mill¡¯s honour. It means that our first steel mill¡¯s friendship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is unshakeable.¡±

    Hearing this, Duke Giarbot looked at Count Reddingale before revealing a smile and turning back to give an inviting gesture to Freya.¡±

    ¡°Young miss Freya, since you are here, then how about saying a few things with me?¡±

    Freya waved her hand, ¡°I already said my fill as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative. Now we¡¯re just waiting for the Lord Duke¡¯s speech before starting the lunch feast.¡±

    After saying this, Freya revealed a naughty smile and there was a bit ofint in her voice.

    ¡°To be honest, Lord Duke, I¡¯ve already waited here for a long time and I¡¯m already a bit hungry.¡±

    Duke Giarbot broke out inughter again.

    ¡°To make young miss Freya wait this long really is my mistake. Be assured, I will just casually say a few things. At the lunch feast, I hope that young miss Freya can sit with me. I have a few thing that I want to consult young miss Freya about.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t dare consult. The Lord Duke can ask whatever you want to ask, as long as I can answer it, I won¡¯t hide it.¡± Freya said with a sweet smile.

    The smile on Duke Giarbot¡¯s face turned a bit stiff.

    This Freya, she wasn¡¯t even willing to give the pleasantries?

    What ¡°won¡¯t hide anything¡±? Did that mean that there were many things she wasn¡¯t willing to answer?

    But thinking of how Freya acted the same as her father Xu Yi, Duke Giarbot immediately rxed.

    As Xu Yi¡¯s oldest daughter and Xu Yi¡¯s only sessor, it was natural that Freya¡¯s actions were very close to Xu Yi¡¯s.

    After exchanging a few more words with Freya, Duke Giarbot headed onto the stage alone and began the speech that everyone was waiting for.

    Although he had said that he would only say a few words, with his status, since he came to this event, he would have to act in the y and naturally couldn¡¯t only say a few words.

    The speech on the stagested close to half an hour and after reviewing the history of the steel smelting industry in the Sines Continent over the past ten years, he finally ended his speech.

    At this time, it was already close to one in the afternoon and everyone was clearly starving.

    But it was a good thing that Duke Giarbot was the final act. Once he finished his speech, the morning events were over and everyone was led by the leader of the steel mill to the lunch feast.

    During the feast, Duke Giarbot was naturally sitting at the head of the table with his status.

    Other than Duke Giarbot, there was the first steel mill¡¯s manager Count Reddingale and the magic machine industry department chief Marquis Askander.

    Of course, there was also Freya.

    ¡°Young miss Freya, since you¡¯vee to our Candra Empire this time, is it because of the magicmunicationwork matter?¡± After drinking for a bit, Duke Giarbot asked Freya sitting beside him this question.

    ¡°Yes.¡± Freya nodded.

    ¡°Then¡­¡­since chairman Xu has sent young miss Freya, does that mean that he¡¯s nning to ept the empire¡¯s request?¡±

    Freya revealed a smile, revealing a pair of tiger teeth and slowly shook her head.

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain, but I can tell the Lord Duke a good piece of news. Ourpany does have the intention of transferring the magicmunicationwork technology to your country, but before that¡­¡­it will depend on if your country can give us some satisfying conditions.¡±

    Duke Giarbot broke out inughter, ¡°As long as you¡¯re willing to transfer, it¡¯s good. As for the conditions¡­¡­of course they can be discussed.¡±

    Duke Giarbot raised the cup of wine in his hand after saying this and gestured to Freya.

    ¡°Come, let us give a toast to our future cooperation!¡±

    Freya raised her cup, but there was only normal fruit juice inside.

    However, she didn¡¯t touch sses with Duke Giarbot and just raised it before drinking it down. Then she said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Lord Duke. Lord father is very strict with me and doesn¡¯t permit me to drink wine before I turn twenty five.¡±

    Seeing Freya¡¯s actions, Duke Giarbot had a dark look that flickered on his face, but the smile instantly reappeared.

    ¡°Chairman Xu must be strict with his education or he wouldn¡¯t be able to raise an outstanding daughter like young miss Freya. Speaking of this¡­¡­Young miss Freya, I¡¯ve heard some rumours that you and chairman Xu have an agreement. When you turn twenty five, you will be deciding on whether you will take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°There is this agreement.¡± Freya gave a nod.

    The others at the table had been listening to their conversation, but hearing this topic, everyone focused their attention. They even forgot their wine and all turned to look at them.

    The matter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sessor wasn¡¯t just an important problem for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was a very important problem for the entire Sines Continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sessor would determine their long term development ns, so there couldn¡¯t be a single mistake allowed.

    So countless people of the continent cared about whether Freya would take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or not.

    This wasn¡¯t a problem in the first ce because although Xu Yi had many children, when Freya was born twenty years ago, he had already designated her as his only sessor. So everyone had already recognized the fact that Freya would receive the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from him in the future.

    But after Freya grew up, there was this rumour that appeared that stated that Freya might not take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she might even give up the position of the next chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Almost everyone didn¡¯t believe this rumour at first because no one thought that Freya would give up an important position like the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But over the years, the rumours about Freya kepting out and gradually proved this point.

    This fellow Xu Yi, he actually gave Freya the right to choose and allowed her to not take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    ¡°Then young miss Freya, if I remember correctly, you will be turning twenty five next year, right? Have you already made your decision?¡± Duke Giarbot asked the question that everyone cared about.

    Freya¡¯s eyes opened wide as she thought that she had already thought about this question many times.

    ¡°I still haven¡¯t decided yet.¡± Freya shook her head, ¡°I currently am not interested in bing the same kind of person as lord father, but I can¡¯t guarantee that I will think the same next year.¡±

    The people around looked at each other in nk dismay.

    What kind of answer was this? It was like she didn¡¯t answer at all¡­¡­

    Marquis Askander couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Young miss Freya, I can see that you¡¯re already taking care of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s matters over the years. This time chairman Xu gave you the full rights to handle this magicmunicationwork matter, so he must¡­¡­already be preparing for you to take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Freya pursed her lips and snappily said, ¡°That is a hole that lord father dug for me, I have no interest in handling this matter.¡±

    Everyone could only look at each other in nk dismay again.

    It seemed like the interaction between Xu Yi and Freya was already beyond everyone¡¯s spections.

    But they did hear a good piece of news. Xu Yi clearly had the intention of making Freya take over.

    Since Xu Yi had this intention, if nothing unexpected happened, Freya would respond to his intentions and take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This meant that the candidate for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s next chairman was decided, which was this young and beautiful young miss Freya in front of them.

    Thinking of this, everyone became even more friendly towards Freya.

 Book 8: Chapter 30: Fighting for control

    Book 8: Chapter 30: Fighting for control

    Freya was a bit impatient.

    She didn¡¯t like this kind of banquet because with her status, or even purely because of her beauty, she would always be the center of attention. It would make her deal with countless people and wouldn¡¯t give her the chance to eat her food.

    She had been a very active person since she was young and other than learning magic, she also exercised quite a bit because of Xu Yi. So her body was actually much more healthypared to what she looked like and she needed to eat quite a bit.

    This kind of banquet wasn¡¯t just troublesome, she also couldn¡¯t eat her fill, so naturally she didn¡¯t like it.

    She didn¡¯t want toe to this banquet, but there was a piece of news from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce headquarters that came in today that gave her no choice. She reced the Wimbledon City branch manager that had been nning toe.

    The reason was just to have a talk with Duke Giarbot at this banquet.

    Although she could directly meet Duke Giarbot, conveying the news from her lord father at the headquarters directly to Duke Giarbot, Frey preferred meeting Duke Giarbot casually at this kind of event instead of paying a visit to a great noble.

    Moreover, she represented the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce on her trip to the Candra Empire, so she couldn¡¯t just meet anyone or it would cause suspicion.

    Casually meeting Duke Giarbot at this event and talking a bit wouldn¡¯t cause much worry.

    Not to mention that Wimbledon City¡¯s first steel mill was the first steel mill the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helped the Candra Empire build. It represented the ten years of close cooperation between the two sides, so it had a great significance.

    As the daughter of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, her personallying represented the importance the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ced on this, which created another meaning.

    It was a good thing that because Duke Giarbot sat by Freya, people couldn¡¯t easilye talk to Freya. It allowed her the rare chance to enjoy the food on the table and not have to talk to anyone.

    As she ate while chatting with Duke Giarbot, the banquet came to an end. Duke Giarbot then invited Freya to the side to take a short break together.

    Freya happily agreed.

    After a while, the two of them led representatives from the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to a small room.

    After taking their seats, Duke Giarbot and Freya casually exchanged a few words before getting to the main topic.

    ¡°Young miss Freya, as for the magicmunication technology, our empire must have it. Even if yourpany isn¡¯t willing to transfer it, our empire has already started researching this technology and I believe that it won¡¯t take long before we make a major breakthrough. When the timees, even if yourpany wishes to transfer the technology, it wouldn¡¯t be that important to our empire.¡±

    Freya revealed a faint smile, thinking that this was their threat.

    ¡°I just said it, as long as the conditions are good enough, ourpany wouldn¡¯t mind transferring the technology.¡±

    ¡°But the conditions of yourpany are¡­¡­¡± Duke Giarbot looked at Marquis Askander sitting on the side who shook his head, ¡°They are very hard to ept. Yourpany is requesting to remain involved with the management of the empire¡¯s magicmunicationwork, that is a condition that we can¡¯t ept. I think that yourpany should understand that a magicmunicationwork holds many secrets and has great influence on the empire. If a foreignpany is involved, the empire would find it hard to be assured.¡±

    ¡°I understand, but I¡¯ve clearly stated in the proposal that I submitted to you that when ites to the magicmunicationwork, it can be separated into different systems. Ourpany will not be involved in the secrets of your empire and you can independently build a secret magicmunication system.¡±

    ¡°But it¡¯s very easy for this system to be ovepped with the normal magicmunicationwork.¡± Marquis Askander cut in, ¡°Moreover, it¡¯s very hard to guarantee its secrecy, so we don¡¯t dare take this risk.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s actually very easy to solve these problems from a technological standpoint.¡± Freya said with a serious look, ¡°I think that your empire already has qualified people when ites to the magicmunicationwork, so I don¡¯t need to say anything else.¡±

    Duke Giarbot looked over at Marquis Askander. Marquis Askander thought about it for a bit before nodding in agreement to what Freya said.

    ¡°As for your worry that ourpany will steal the secrets of your empire, you can be assured about this. First, ourpany doesn¡¯t have any ideas about this and second, just like I said, this problem is easy to solve from a technological standpoint. As long as you obtain the corresponding technology, I believe that with the ability of your empire, you will quickly understand it. Other than this, out of the conditions that ourpany proposed, the most important one isn¡¯t this. Rather it¡¯s the one condition of merging it with the continent¡¯s magicmunication system that you¡¯ve never opposed.¡±

    Marquis Askander was silent for a bit before saying, ¡°Realizing long distancemunication on the Sines Continent is a benefit for our empire, so we are not opposed to merging into this system. Of course, we request that our empire¡¯s magicmunicationwork will keep its independence, so that it can be separated from the continent¡¯s magicmunicationwork at any time.¡±

    ¡°That is only still a technology issue, so it isn¡¯t hard at all.¡± Freya paused before continuing, ¡°Since the Lord Duke is also here, I¡¯ll make it clear. In fact, what ourpany desires is that your Candra Empire will go all out inying down the magicmunicationwork.¡±

    Marquis Askander revealed a displeased look, ¡°Young miss Freya, do you think that our empire isn¡¯t already doing this? The magicmunicationwork is this important, how could we not treat it as such?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Freya revealed a smile and didn¡¯t refute this.

    In fact, in these ten years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been vigorously promoting the magicmunicationwork in every country of the continent. However, up to this point, not a single country had reached the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s initial goal.

    There were many different reasons, but the main reason was that the countries weren¡¯t that enthusiastic.

    Even in the two powerful empires, they never ced importance to this and there would be contradictions in many ces that caused dys.

    The reason for this was rted to the issue that the Candra Empire¡¯s people had just mentioned.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerceying down the magicmunicationwork was a good thing, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always kept control over these magicmunicationworks that made the countries dissatisfied, so they never ced importance on them.

    Not to mention that even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested manpower, funds, and technology, the main investment for these magicmunicationworks came from the countries themselves.

    For these countries to investrge amounts of manpower and funds, but they were unable to control this magicmunicationwork, naturally they didn¡¯t find any enthusiasm for it.

    So in fact, the Candra Empire¡¯s request from an objective view was a very reasonable request, which was something that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already expected.

    Xu Yi gave Freya the full rights to handle this matter, which also meant that he was already willing to give the control of this magicmunicationwork to the Candra Empire.

    But Freya didn¡¯t n on giving the Candra Empire their wishes that easily. Without getting enough benefits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she wouldn¡¯t ept that easily.

    She had contacted the Candra Empire side many times over the past few days and had never relented on giving up control, which was to force the Candra Empire to give better conditions.

    Duke Giarbot looked at Freya and thought that while the parliament and the magic machine industry department weren¡¯t prepared, there was no meaning in dying this matter.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the absolute advantage when it came to technology, so the Candra Empire didn¡¯t have the rights to ask for many conditions.

    ¡°Young miss Freya¡­¡­since this magicmunicationwork is beingid down in our Candra Empire, there should be no doubt that it should be controlled by our empire. We can¡¯tpromise on this point.¡± Duke Giarbot¡¯s expression remained stern and his voice was firm, ¡°Of course, yourpany has paid arge price to help our empirey down this magicmunicationwork, so the empire should give you a suitable form ofpensation.¡±

    Freya looked at Marquis Askander before looking at Duke Giarbot. After a period of silence, she gave a sigh and shook her head.

    ¡°Lord Duke, Lord Marquis, actually I don¡¯t understand. Your Candra Empire has the confidence to develop military magic machines without the help of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so why aren¡¯t you confident that you¡¯ll be able to protect the privacy of your magicmunicationwork after you receive the technology from ourpany?¡±

    Duke Giarbot and Marquis Askander¡¯s expression changed at the same time.

    After a while, Duke Giarbot narrowed his eyes and shook his head with a smile, ¡°Young miss Freya, I¡¯m afraid there are a few problems with your example. Our Candra Empire has already signed the ?Continent Peace Convention?, how could we be developing military magic machines independently?¡±

    Freya revealed a smile, ¡°Are you really not?¡±

    After saying this, Freya took out two sheets of paper from her bag and handed them over to Duke Giarbot.

    When Duke Giarbot took it, his expression changed.

    Marquis Askander took a look and found that there were two images on these two pieces of paper.

    The first one was a beautiful girl¡¯s image who looked to be around twenty years old.

    The second was andscape portrait which showed a valley.

    After seeing these two images, Marquis Askander¡¯s expression also greatly changed.

    The faces that had turned red because they were acting angry had already turned pale when they looked at Freya again.

    Freya found it very interesting seeing the changes in expression of the two Candra Empire senior ministers. After a while, she asked with a smile, ¡°The two of you, has big sister Teresa been living well?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 31: Over ten thousand years of accumulation

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 31: Over ten thousand years of umtion</h4>

    There was arge pir of me that burst forth, standing on the horizon. The small hill that was over a hundred meters tall had copsed from the center.

    Countless stones mixed with the dirt, as the trees and grass on the hill all rolled down. The giant sound spread in all directions, even causing Xu Yi¡¯s ears to ring even when he was two kilometers away.

    Seeing the hill that had copsed in an instant, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help curling his lips as he felt a strange feeling.

    Before this, the only thing that could create this kind of powerful destruction were the powerful Forbidden Spells.

    But now, the scene was created with a single group of engineers and didn¡¯t need a single magician.

    The promotion of the magic machine industry had been very good, but through the scientific research of magic, the Forbidden Spells that had been considered hard to grasp before had now bemon, no longer being that rare.

    Therefore, the magicians from before had been stunned by this might.

    It was because of this that there were voices of opposition against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the Sines Continent.

    The people stated that Xu Yi always talked about how he wanted to maintain the peace between the countries of the continent, focusing on development. However, studying magic science had created this kind of hidden power that created arge destabilizing factor to this world which was like pping his own face.

    Xu Yi disdained this kind of view.

    Was the world peaceful when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t conduct scientific study of magic?

    Then again, no matter how strong it was, the role that it yed all depended on the person who controlled it and didn¡¯t correspond to the power itself.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had found many new applications through their studies of magic, which had created many benefits for the Sines Continent.

    Just take the current project.

    On the past Sines Continent, if they wanted to build a road through a mountain, it would be considered impossible.

    Even if the mountain range in front of them was less than a hundred meters and didn¡¯t have that many peaks, for the past backwards Sines Continent, it was a natural moat that couldn¡¯t be crossed.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, through their modified Fire Magic and with Earth Magic, they could blow arge hole in this mountain range and force out a path.

    After the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s engineers moved aside the rock and dirt left by the explosion, then reinforced the two sides with Earth Magic, they would be able to build a road that would connect through the mountains.

    When this road that passed through the north and south of the Curani Kingdom was finished, it would greatly improve the traffic conditions between the north and south.

    This was unthinkable if it was the past Curani Kingdom.

    Once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came, they used only two to three months to easily solve the problem that had puzzled countless people for thousands of years in the Curani Kingdom.

    This was the benefit brought by the scientific study of magic, which was also a demonstration of the new power of magic.

    Of course, the people of the Sines Continent couldn¡¯t be med for not understanding these new things and even resisting it.

    Even someone like Xu Yi who came from a technologically developed world like earth would feel strange when he saw something like this.

    In the beginning, when Xu Yi started his magic machine research, he was just using magic as a new energy source. He directly applied it to the mechanical engineering knowledge that he brought from earth and created various magic machines from this.

    These magic machines were just variants of the machines from earth, the power supply had just been changed to magic.

    But as the study of magic continued, especially in the ten years after Xu Yi proposed the ¡°scientific view of magic¡±, the magic research on the Sines Continent had exploded in the past ten years. There were countless pieces of ck magic technology that Xu Yi never would have thought of that had even caught him off guard.

    Take this mountain repair work in front of him.

    If this was earth, there would be two methods for this project. One was to build a mountain road that would slowly wrap around the mountain, which required little investment.

    The other method was to dig through the mountain by creating a tunnel.

    This method would take more investment, but once it was finished, it would save quite a bit of time, so it had more benefits than the first method.

    However, through the magic research of the Sines Continent, Xu Yi decided to st out the middle part of the mountain, which would even save timepared to building a tunnel.

    Compared to the two methods of earth, this method was more crude, but it also had lower costs.

    Even because of the specialty of magic, this project could be implemented much faster. This project only needed a single month to bepleted.

    If the same project was ced on earth, it would take at least two years to finish this project.

    Whenever he thought about this, Xu Yi would feel very strange.

    Since he came to this world, Xu Yi¡¯s impression of the Sines Continent was a civilization that was much less developed than earth. The technology here was even worse, so it could be considered iparably backwardspared to earth.

    But as more and more research was done into magic, the Sines Continent¡¯s very special magic did more than earth¡¯s technology, making it more outstanding in certain ces.

    Xu Yi was surprised at first, but the more he saw of this, the more he started to consider the reason for this.

    Just the exnation that ¡°magic is mysterious¡± was not something that he as a top magic engineer or a top scientific worker could ept.

    Through observing it for a long time, Xu Yi finally came to a conclusion.

    In fact, the technology wasn¡¯t different from what was seen on earth because it was just the utilization of energy in the end.

    Compared to earth that had only developed for several thousand years, with the modern scientific era onlysting around two hundred years, the people of the Sines Continent had been studying magic for over ten thousand years.

    Even if it was the humans who controlled the continent now and three thousand years had passed since the race wars, they had never stopped studying magic.

    With this long term umtion, while the Sines Continent could never set up a scientific system of studying magic, they had reached a high proficiency of using various kinds of magic.

    But before this, the Sines Continent¡¯s people had backwards concepts and had only treated magic as a weapon.

    Even if a magician wanted to use magic for something else, there wasn¡¯t aplete system, so this thought would disappear without any concrete results.

    Until Xu Yi arrived. Using the scientific knowledge he brought from earth, as well as his high level mechanical engineering theories, he was able to unify magic and science, developing useful magic machines.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines started demonstrating their uses, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gained more and more influence on the Sines Continent. The people of the continent gradually officially recognized that magic could be used in other ces.

    So in the past ten years, the Sines Continent had been led by Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to start researching magic from a different angle. Naturally it would be easy to yield all kinds of new research results.

    However, these research results didn¡¯te from nothing. It was just that the ten thousand years of umtion of magic on the Sines Continent was being led in another direction by Xu Yi.

    To put it simply, the magicians of the Sines Continent already had this kind of ability, but they took thepletely wrong path.

    Only in the past ten years did the Sines Continent catch up to earth in terms of applying technology, even surpassing earth in certain aspects.

    This had greatly surprised Xu Yi.

    He thought that it would take a long time to develop the technology, so he would never be able to see the technological standard of the Sines Continent catching up to earth. He might never be able to realize his dream of heading into space.

    But based on the current situation, with the explosive speed of developing technology on the Sines Continent, he might be able to achieve his dream in his lifetime.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it seems like it¡¯s going very smoothly. You should feel relieved.¡± The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s engineering department¡¯s vice chief Djokaf standing beside Xu Yi put down his telescope and turned to Xu Yi with a smile.

    Xu Yi pulled himself out of his thought and gave augh before shaking his head, ¡°Your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is in charge of this project, there¡¯s nothing for me to worry about.¡±

    After a pause, he said with a serious look, ¡°Of course, this road is rted to the development n of the Curani Kingdom, so there can¡¯t be any mistakes. I hope that you will treat this seriously.¡±

    Djokaf kept nodding, ¡°Of course, of course. This is a project that chairman Xu personally gave us, so our Amrit Chamber of Commerce will naturally do all we can. We wouldn¡¯t dare be a single bit careless.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before turning to look to the southwest.

    Once this road wasid down, not only would it connect the Curani Kingdom¡¯s north and south, it would also extend to the southwest, connecting to the countries in the central part of the Sines Continent. It would connect to the former Drow Race Kingdomnd that had now been annexed by the Wales Duchy and then link up to the roadwork of the continent.

    Like this, it would connect the central and western countries to the continent¡¯s east. This would y a very big role in the n to develop the east.

    However¡­¡­even on the Sines Continent that was exploding with technology, to put down a road that would run from east to west on the continent that currently wasn¡¯t connected, it would take at least a year or two before this road that was over three thousand kilometers long would be finished.

    It would also take a simrly long time to develop the Curani Kingdom.

 Book 8: Chapter 32: Amrit Chamber of Commerce was moved

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 32: Amrit Chamber of Commerce was moved</h4>

    To be honest, even if it took a long time to develop the Curani Kingdom, it wasn¡¯t hard at all.

    After helping the Curani Kingdom settle a rebellion and after setting up a new king, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had easily gained control of the Curani Kingdom.

    Sopared to before where they were nning to invest in the Curani Kingdom with the help of the king, gradually developing it, it was much easier for Xu Yi to promote his n in the current Curani Kingdom.

    With the strong control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there weren¡¯t any major hindrances to their ns and they quickly carried out their ns in the Curani Kingdom.

    Adding in the representatives of the other countries andpanies sendingrge amounts of manpower and resources into the Curani Kingdom, the Curani Kingdom was changing almost every day, changing at an extremely fast rate.

    In just a few months, the Curani Kingdom hadid down ten different roads and linked up the north and south roads. It could be said that there was already aplete roadwork in the Curani Kingdom.

    At the same time, the various factories had been gradually built and only needed some time to set up. Once they started functioning in the Curani Kingdom, the Curani Kingdom would be able to produce all kinds of magic machines locally.

    For the n to proceed smoothly, Xu Yi had spent most of his time in the past three months here. This had clearly shown how important this n was for him.

    Moreover, it was because of this attitude that the representatives of the other countries andpanies were willing to invest this much. It greatly increased the development of the Curani Kingdom.

    Of course, it was impossible for Xu Yi to stay here forever. It would take the Curani Kingdom several years or several dozen years to implement this n.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, there were countless other important things he needed to take care of. It was impossible for him to work on only a single project.

    ording to his schedule, after the mountain opening project today, he would be leaving the Curani Kingdom.

    The next time he came would be when the Curani Kingdom¡¯s development had reached the second stage.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we are nning to build a quarry nearby. Look, these mountains are stone mountains and the resources are very rich. The Curani Kingdom is having construction done all over and it requires arge amount of stones. Then adding in the roads that are beingid down all over, they also require a lot of stone, so a quarry here should be very popr.¡± Djokaf suddenly pointed at a mountain in the distance.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°That is your Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n, there¡¯s no need to tell me. But this idea isn¡¯t bad, you could even build a cement factory nearby and satisfy the needs of the Curani Kingdom, along with the other surrounding kingdoms.¡±

    Djokaf broke out inughter, ¡°That is indeed our n. But chairman Xu, to build this factory and mine, we needrge amounts of construction magic machines, so we¡¯ll need the support of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. So telling you ahead of time is something that I should do.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°You can go look for the person from the construction magic machinepany, it¡¯s not rted to me. Anyway, as long as you pay, they will sell it to you.¡±

    Djokaf¡¯s eyes flickered and after a pause, he lowered his voice to ask with augh, ¡°Actually, we only need to look for them if we¡¯re buying the magic machines, but if we¡¯re talking about the technology to manufacture them¡­¡­we can only look for chairman Xu, right?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi turned to look at Djokaf with a bit of surprise in his eyes, ¡°What? Your Amrit Chamber of Commerce wants to dabble in the construction magic machine business?¡±

    Djokaf gave augh before rubbing his head, ¡°You see, ourpany¡¯s getting more and more projects in various regions and there is more and more demand for construction magic machines. Although it¡¯s fine if we honestly buy them from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it¡¯s not convenient. Not to mention that we often have special demands and we can¡¯t look for yourpany for help all the time, right? It¡¯s better to solve it ourselves.¡±

    Djokaf made it sound nice, but he just wanted to buy the technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that surprised about this.

    Over these years, as the magic machine industry developed on the Sines Continent, everyone had more demands for technology rted to the magic machine industry.

    To satisfy their own demands, some people chose to develop their own technology while others chose to buy from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know how many times he had heard this request and he was already a bit numb to this.

    But before this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had been focused on their own construction industry and had never proposed buying technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that Djokaf had suddenly proposed this, Xu Yi felt it was a bit strange.

    What Xu Yi felt was the most strange was why it wasn¡¯t chairman Cruise who was meeting him, but rather a project manager like Djokaf who raised this issue.

    With his good rtionship with chairman Cruise and over thirty years of close cooperation between their twopanies, chairman Cruise could casually raise this request with Xu Yi and wouldn¡¯t have any scruples.

    ¡°Is this your intention or chairman Cruise¡¯s intention?¡± Xu Yi was toozy to think about it and directly asked.

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­Sir chairman hasn¡¯t given any special instructions, but we subordinates feel that if we can develop our own construction magic machines, it would be more convenient.¡± Djokaf replied.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He thought that since Djokaf replied like this, this should be chairman Cruise¡¯s idea.

    But he was worried that his request would be denied by Xu Yi and it would hurt their rtionship, so he had his subordinate test Xu Yi first.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi shook his head and waved his hand, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, tell chairman Cruise toe find me.¡±

    Djokaf was surprised, but he was filled with joy when he heard the rxed tone that Xu Yi had and quickly nodded.

    ¡°Yes, yes, I will definitely tell sir chairman! He will be very happy after hearing this!¡±

    Seeing the relieved look that Djokaf had, Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce never held back transferring their technology, especially in recent years. In order to promote the development of magic machine rted skills on the continent, Xu Yi transferred even more technology that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

    However, there were only a few people who could truly absorb the technology they received. When it came to people who could do their own research and make their own breakthroughs, obtaining technology that wasn¡¯t inferior to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, there were even fewer of them.

    Even if the Amrit Chamber of Commerce obtained this technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, since they never had any foundation in buildingrge magic machines, they might be able to build their own construction magic machines, but it would be hard for them to develop the special use construction magic machines.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t stop chairman Xu from doing this.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce focused on construction and was already a first sspany of the Sines Continent. They had plenty of funds, so they should invest a bit into research and development.

    Perhaps they might be able to develop something new and might even contribute to promoting the development of science on the Sines Continent.

    After saying a few more words, there was a musical ring that came from Xu Yi¡¯s chest.

    Djokaf who was halfway through his words tactfully stopped and pointed at the mountain the distance before leaving.

    After he left, Xu Yi took out his Magic Communicator before revealing a smile.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, why do you have free time to talk to me today?¡±

    Freya¡¯s lively voice came from the other side of the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Father, the matters here have been solved. What about your side?¡±

    ¡°My side?¡± Xu Yi looked at the mountain with arge hole in it, ¡°There¡¯s nothing for me to do here, so I¡¯ll be leaving in the afternoon.¡±

    ¡°Great!¡± Freya immediately shouted in an excited voice, ¡°I was nning on going home today. If everything goes smoothly, will we be able to see each other at home tomorrow?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that I have to disappoint you. Although I¡¯m leaving here this afternoon, I¡¯m not going home, but rather I¡¯m going to another ce to handle some matters.¡± Xu Yi could already guess Freya¡¯s reaction to this answer.

    As expected, Freya let out a loud ¡°ah¡± sound that was filled with disappointment.

    ¡°You¡¯re not going home¡­¡­¡± But then Freya became excited again, ¡°Where are you going? What are you doing?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it and felt that this didn¡¯t need to be kept a secret, so he replied, ¡°I¡¯m going to Sorcery City to participate in a magic research conference there.¡±

    ¡°Sorcery City? Isn¡¯t that the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s capital?¡± Freya paused before excitedly saying, ¡°How about this, father? I¡¯ll go to Sorcery City as well. I still have many things to ask you and it¡¯s not convenient to talk about them here. Let¡¯s meet and talk, what do you think?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re certain that everything is taken care of on that side?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    ¡°It¡¯s all taken care of! There are only a few trivial matters that I can let them handle, there¡¯s no need for me to stay here.¡± Freya replied in a loud voice.

    ¡°Un, alright.¡± Xu Yi thought about it before replying.

 Book 8: Chapter 33: Main topic

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 33: Main topic</h4>

    That afternoon, Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Airshipnded at a certain manor outside of Sorcery City.

    When Xu Yi came out, there were over several dozen magicians in robes of different colours who all looked to be at least forty years old that came forward to wee him.

    The one in front of was the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild branch president, who was also the chief of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s scientific magic research facility, Great Magician Forex.

    The ones following behind him were also researchers from the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s scientific magic research facility.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for you to personallye to our magic research conference this time, it really is an honour for me. Wee, wee!¡± Great Magician Forex was very passionate as he greeted Xu Yi, even leading the other magicians to give Xu Yi a bow.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. His eyes swept over Great Magician Forex and the other magicians behind him. He thought that these people were respectful on the surface, but it was hard to say what they were actually thinking.

    ¡°President Forex is too polite. Actually, Arch Magus Cami wanted to attend this conference as well, but he hasn¡¯t been well recently and it¡¯s not convenient for him to travel far, so I came on his behalf.¡±

    ¡°Not well?¡± Great Magician Forex was a bit surprised, ¡°Then is Arch Magus Cami¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, ¡°It¡¯s nothing big, it¡¯s just that he has a bit of a cold since it¡¯s getting colder.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this, that¡¯s good, that¡¯s good¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Forex let out a sigh of relief before revealing a smile and leading Xu Yi into the manor.

    Xu Yi walked along as he casually asked, ¡°Right, president Forex, although I epted your invitation toe to this conference, I forgot to ask since I was busy. What is the main topic of this conference?¡±

    Great Magician Forex looked at Xu Yi with a deep look and replied, ¡°The main topic was decided yesterday, it¡¯s to discuss resuming the magician grade evaluation.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes twitched, but he didn¡¯t reveal a surprised look. His voice just turned a bit cold as he continued to ask, ¡°Oh? Who decided this topic?¡±

    Great Magician Forex gave a cough, ¡°This was proposed by Arch Magus Gascione.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an oh sound before nodding and not saying anything else.

    The Arch Magus Gascione that Great Magician Forex mentioned was the former president of the Magicians Guild, Arch Magus Rodderick Gascione.

    Ten years ago, after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce defeated the two empires with the Rudson Kingdom, the Magicians Guild was forced into choosing to work with the Magicians Survival Job Security Union, governing the magicians of the continent together.

    Then two yearster, the former Magicians Guild chairman Great Magician Rodderick Gascione had made a breakthrough and became an Arch Magus.

    ording to the regtions of the Magicians Guild, Arch Magi magicians couldn¡¯t have any actual posts in the Magicians Guild, so he had withdrawn from his position as the chairman.

    But even if he withdrew from his position, that didn¡¯t mean that he didn¡¯t care at all.

    Before bing an Arch Magus, Rodderick Gascione had been the Magicians Guild¡¯s chairman for three terms, for a total of fifteen years. He had umted quite a solid foundation and plenty of connections.

    So even if he withdrew from the position, he still had a firm grasp of the Magicians Guild from behind the scenes.

    Even if the Magicians Guild didn¡¯t have the same influence over the continent¡¯s magicians like before because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild had thousands of years of history, so they still had quite the influence on the continent¡¯s magicians.

    In the first few years, Arch Magus Gascione didn¡¯t make any special moves. It was as if he had truly retired and was peacefully doing his own thing as an Arch Magus.

    But in the past three years, he gradually began making more moves.

    The moves that he made were mainly rted to increasing the influence the Magicians Guild had on magicians, trying to strengthen the Magicians Guild.

    There was nothing wrong with this.

    As long as he didn¡¯t ruin Xu Yi¡¯s n, Xu Yi was toozy to care about his actions.

    But based on his current moves, he clearly had a n and this was not something that Xu Yi could tolerate.

    Xu Yi continued heading into the manor and had no intentions on answering Great Magician Forex¡¯s words. Great Magician Forex wasn¡¯t able to to take it and after a pause, he asked Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, what do you think about this topic?¡±

    Ah, he was trying to find some information.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have any opinions. As long as most of the magicians of the continent agree to this, I won¡¯t object.¡±

    Great Magician Forex¡¯s expression stiffened. He thought that Xu Yi would directly oppose this matter or even angrily use Arch Magus Gascione, but Xu Yi was very calm right now like he didn¡¯t care about this topic at all. This was just too unnatural for him.

    The magicians following behind the two of them heard this and they revealed different degrees of shock on their faces.

    It was clear what Arch Magus Gascione was trying to achieve by proposing this.

    The magician grading system was something that the Magicians Guild had used for several thousand years. It was also their weapon for controlling the magicians of the continent.

    But with the rise of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi¡¯s achievements, the magicians of the continent no longer valued the grading system and paid more attention to their magic machine industry rted skill evaluations instead.

    This was not something that Magicians Guild controlled, it was mainly something that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Magicians Survival Job Security Union controlled together.

    Therefore, losing the influence of the magician grading system, the Magicians Guild¡¯s influence on the magicians of the continent had been getting weaker and weaker. Many magicians didn¡¯t even care about the Magicians Guild, treating it as if it didn¡¯t exist.

    Arch Magus Gascione was naturally unwilling to see this, so he had proposed resuming the magicians grading system at this conference. It was clear that he wanted the approval of the magicians present and take back control over the continent¡¯s magicians.

    But Xu Yi had been promoting the reform of the view of magic and had changed the thoughts of all the continent¡¯s magicians. As a leader of the magic machine industry, he would definitely oppose this topic if he joined the conference.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t show opposition on the surface, no one believed that he would turn a blind eye to this.

    This group quickly entered the giant manor that had been prepared for this conference. After heading over thergewn, they met another group of magicians in their magician robes.

    The one leading them was Arch Magus Gascione that Xu Yi and the Great Magician Forex had just been talking about.

    Seeing Xu Yi in the distance, Arch Magus Gascione quickly came over with a wide smile and shook Xu Yi¡¯s hand before saying in a friendly voice, ¡°Chairman Xu is able to find some free time to attend this conference, this really is rare.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and pulled back his hand.

    ¡°Your excellency Gascione says it like this, but I am one of the Arch Magi of the continent and a magician, so it¡¯s natural that I woulde to attend this important magic research conference. Then again, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s policy has always been to support magic research, so how could I not find some time to take this opportunity to share research results with everyone?¡±

    Arch Magus Gascione broke out inughter again, ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s right, chairman Xu has always been so passionate about magic research, otherwise you wouldn¡¯t have been able to be a powerful Arch Magus at the age of forty.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°No, the magic research I¡¯m talking about isn¡¯t researching on how to be an Arch Magus, but rather the scientific study of magic.¡±

    Arch Magus Gascione¡¯s expression changed. After a pause, he said with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you think that there is a conflict between bing an Arch Magus and the scientific study of magic?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The so-called scientific study of magic includes all magic study. Naturally that includes the research that is needed to be an Arch Magus. Only¡­¡­in my opinion, there isn¡¯t much significance to magic research needed to be an Arch Magus. Bing an Arch Magus is just getting an empty title, there¡¯s no need to ce any importance to it.¡±

    When this was said, not only Arch Magus Gascione, the expression of everyone around them changed.

    The people gathered here, other than Xu Yi and Gascione who were Arch Magi, the weakest among them were powerful Great Magicians. Bing an Arch Magus could be considered their dream.

    However, Xu Yi said that the research needed to be an Arch Magus wasn¡¯t significant. This was like saying that everything they had done in the past few decades was meaningless.

    If it was anyone else, they would have definitely refuted it or even cursed them.

    But when it as Xu Yi who said this, they could only remain silent.

    Because Xu Yi was an Arch Magus himself and most people even believed that he was the continent¡¯s strongest Arch Magus. He had been promoting the scientific study of magic and had built a whole new system of magic over the past few years, so he was the most qualified person to say this.

    Arch Magus Gascione narrowed his eyes. After a while, he said in a deep voice, ¡°This means that chairman Xu thinks that the magician grading system is meaningless as well?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile when he saw everyone looking at him, but he shook his head in the end.

    ¡°No, I feel that it is very meaningful.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 34: Striving for Arch Magus

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 34: Striving for Arch Magus</h4>

    Everyone was confused as they looked at Xu Yi.

    He had said all this just to deny Arch Magus Gascione¡¯s words, but why did he suddenly contradict himself by saying that the main topic was meaningful?

    Arch Magus Gascione slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Chairman Xu, may I ask where you think there¡¯s significance?¡±

    ¡°The significance¡­¡­is naturally in splitting the magicians of the continent into different grades, giving them a goal to struggle towards. To be honest, it¡¯s simr to the magician grading system that the Magicians Guild used previously.¡±

    Hearing this answer, Arch Magus Gascione¡¯s expression changed again.

    Everyone revealed the same expression.

    If Xu Yi were to have the same thoughts as Arch Magus Gascione and the Magicians Guild, that really would be unbelievable.

    This reaction was considered normal.

    ¡°Then chairman Xu, the magician grading system that you mentioned, what should it look like?¡± Arch Magus Gascione kept asking.

    Xu Yi looked at him and shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°Isn¡¯t this the main topic of this conference? We should wait until the conference to discuss this.¡±

    Arch Magus Gascione¡¯s expression sank, but then his smile came back as he gave a nod, ¡°That¡¯s right, the conference hasn¡¯t started yet, so this is a bit hasty.¡±

    After saying this, Arch Magus Gascione changed the topic as their group entered the manor while talking to each other.

    The manor this time had gathered the famous magicians of each region on the Sines Continent. It included over ten of the top Arch Magi and over four hundred Great Magicians, so it could be considered the greatest gathering of magicians in the past several years.

    The reason for this was closely rted to Xu Yi.

    When Xu Yi didn¡¯t decide toe to the conference, although because this conference was sponsored by the Magicians Guild and held by the Mana Magic Kingdom, so four Arch Magi and over a hundred Great Magicians came, once the news that Xu Yi was attending this conference, this number increased by several times.

    It could be seen what kind of position Xu Yi had in the hearts of the continent¡¯s magicians.

    So even if there were more than ten Arch Magi at this conference, once Xu Yi came in, he immediately became the center of attention.

    Countless people came over to greet Xu Yi.

    At this time, there was another thing that was different between Xu Yi and other magicians that appeared.

    When the magicians greeted each other, they would address each other by their magician grade. However, when they greeted Xu Yi who was an Arch Magus, they would all call him ¡°chairman Xu¡±.

    On one hand, it was because his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman surpassed his status as an Arch Magus. On the other hand, because Xu Yi had kept emphasizing that he was a merchant and insisted on his status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, everyone knew his intentions and didn¡¯t address him with the wrong title.

    Seeing everyone¡¯s enthusiasm, Xu Yi nodded at the Great Magicians and would only greet the other thirteen Arch Magi, just exchanging a few words with them.

    There wasn¡¯t a single magician who felt his attitude was strange.

    Even putting aside Xu Yi¡¯s status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, just with his status as an Arch Magi, he was qualified to act this arrogantly.

    Everyone took their seats. The ones that were qualified to sit with Xu Yi were naturally the Arch Magi. Even the Great Magicians could only sit in the distance and not disturb them.

    However, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t satisfied with this situation.

    Breaking the authority of the Magicians Guild and copsing the structure of magicians, giving magicians a better chance to evaluate their own uses was something that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done ten years ago.

    But through ten years of change, although with the strong guidance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most magicians started joining the magic machine industry, the thoughts of most magicians still couldn¡¯t be changed.

    For example, normal magicians didn¡¯t really care about their grades anymore and cared more about their magic machine research and application skills. But once one became a Great Magician or an Arch Magus, every magician still cared about their grades.

    Great Magicians would receive special treatment in every country of the continent. If they were willing to work for apany, they would receive payment that was far greater than a normal magician.

    As for Arch Magi, their positions weren¡¯t worse than before and after several of them were lost during the war between the two empires and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ten years ago, causing their poption to decrease, their standings of the remaining Arch Magi had even be higher.

    But these Arch Magi weren¡¯t like normal magicians, being willing to join the magic machine industry.

    Out of the thirteen Arch Magi present, five of them had clearly expressed that they would not join the magic machine industry. They stated that the new scientific magic system that Xu Yi proposed was evil and had always opposed it.

    Out of the eight remaining Arch Magi, only four of them supported the new concepts that Xu Yi had proposed, but not a single one of them was willing to join the magic machine industry.

    Including Xu Yi, out of the remaining twenty two Arch Magi, there was only Xu Yi, Arch Magus Cami, and three Arch Magi from the two empires, a total of five people that were willing to invest in magic machine industry research.

    Xu Yi was very dissatisfied with this situation, but he knew that the concepts that hadsted thousands of years on the Sines Continent wouldn¡¯t be that easy to change.

    Especially the Arch Magi that stood above all magicians. Because of their powerful strength, they wouldn¡¯t easily change the opinions that they always had.

    It was a good thing that Xu Yi never really cared about them.

    Although the scientific research system required the participation of top experts, the true foundation and the future would be the tens of thousands of low grade researchers.

    It was these people who did the research bit by bit that gradually improved the system, making it better and better.

    So Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to waste that much time with these peak magicians, he would rather invest in training those magicians that hadn¡¯t had much contact with traditional magic theory.

    Because these people hadn¡¯t been infected by the fetters of the past magic system, they could easily ept the new magic theory that Xu Yi proposed.

    When they grew up, the system would truly be healthy.

    At the same time, it would be much easier changing the thoughts of the tens of thousands of low level magicians.

    For example, the ?Continent Peace Convention? that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and all the countries signed, wouldn¡¯t allow magicians to join the army or participate in wars. Although there was some chaos at first, after two years, the tens of thousands of normal magicians on the continent joined the magic machine industry and they had be its backbone.

    The development of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent over these ten years, one couldn¡¯t forget about the contributions of these people.

    Compared to this, these Arch Magi that everyone worshiped had contributed the least.

    But no matter how little he cared, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t truly ignore them.

    The Arch Magi were at the top of all magicians and their understanding of magic far surpassed normal magicians. If they were willing to do research for the magic machine industry, of course they could easily contribute more than normal magicians.

    Not to mention that these Arch Magi were important people in any country and were all famous.

    As long as they joined the magic machine industry, it would be like a wind that would blow more magicians to join.

    So Xu Yi still tried to build a good rtionship with these people, trying all that he could to make them join the magic machine industry.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, for you toe to this conference, you must have some shocking views to share, right?¡± Sitting beside Xu Yi was the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Arch Magus Hilbert. After exchanging a few idle words, he asked Xu Yi this question.

    This question immediately attracted the attention of the other ten Arch Magi sitting nearby.

    Xu Yi had rarely attended the magician conferences, but every time he did, he would raise a very different view from the past magic system. It would often shock the magicians that participated and would make them doubtful.

    But after several years of experience, the views that Xu Yi proposed each time had been proven and were recognized by all magicians.

    So as time passed, the other magicians would often ask Xu Yi this question and would be expectant of his new views.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°I came this time not to publish a new theory, but rather to discuss the situation of the continent¡¯s magicians with everyone.¡±

    Everyone revealed doubtful looks.

    The situation of the continent¡¯s magicians?

    What was this?

    Arch Magus Gascione deeply knitted his brows at this.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words and his past performance, it made him sense that something was very unusual.

    Xu Yi¡¯s trip this time might not be as simple as he said it was.

 Book 8: Chapter 35: Mana Magic Kingdomâ€™s ambiguous attitude

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 35: Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s ambiguous attitude</h4>

    Before the conference began, the small talk that was exchanged before didn¡¯t have any meaning.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have that much time to waste here. His trip to the Mana Magic Kingdom this time wasn¡¯t just for this conference, but also something else.

    After sitting for a bit and talking to the other magicians at this conference, Xu Yi left.

    When he left, there was the High Grade Magician that the Mana Magic Kingdom had sent to organize this conference that left with him.

    Since he was a high level member of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s Magicians Guild, he was also a high ranking official of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    This magician with dual duties wouldn¡¯t appear in any other country, but it was normal in the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Other than being responsible for organizing this important conference, his biggest responsibility was to wee honoured guests.

    Someone like Xu Yi could be considered the most important guest, so the Mana Magic Kingdom would assign someone to take care of him.

    Xu Yi had contacted the Mana Magic Kingdom beforeing, so there was no need for any dy.

    After leaving this manor, the two of them entered a Magic Sedan that was used to pick up honoured guests and drove to the south of Sorcery City.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the location of the new factory has already been set and the basic foundations have been built. It¡¯s next to the Maya River to the south of the city. There¡¯s also a road that was recently widened right next to it. Once the products can be made, there will be no problems whether it is transporting them by sea ornd.¡±

    After getting in the vehicle, the magician responsible named Fanhorn gave Xu Yi an introduction of their destination.

    ¡°I don¡¯t doubt your side¡¯s management skills, but¡­¡­has his majesty thought through the n for this factory?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Fanhorn revealed a hesitant smile as he replied, ¡°His majesty and the parliament have been discussing this these days and were waiting for chairman Xu to arrive toe up with the final decision.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡±

    Xu Yi asked in a calm voice as a bit of disappointment filled his heart.

    The new heavy magic machine production base between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Mana Magic Kingdom had already started discussionsst year. They had finallye to an agreement in the first half of the year, but he never thought that in half a year, they would onlye up with the foundations of the factory. There wasn¡¯t even an answer about building the entire base. This kind of efficiency really was too low.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreeing to the Mana Magic Kingdom and transferring the heavy magic machine technology was already Xu Yi being very generous. However, the Mana Magic Kingdom didn¡¯t seize this chance and dragged it out, which made Xu Yi unable to not feel disappointed.

    Fanhorn could see the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face and quickly said with a smile, ¡°Actually, his majesty and the lords of the parliament have reached amon view and only wish to discuss this a bit with chairman Xu. Chairman Xu, please be assured, since this base has already started its preparations, the kingdom will not give up halfway.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded, neither showing approval or disapproval.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce cooperated with countless countries over the years. Among these projects, there were enthusiastic disys, but also unenthusiastic disys from these countries.

    There were many reasons for this, but Xu Yi had never paid attention to each one of them.

    After all, there were many countries andpanies that asked to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they didn¡¯tck one or two. If he cared about all of them, he would have tired himself to death.

    But the cooperation with the Mana Magic Kingdom this time was different. This was a rare personal project that Xu Yi managed, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had ced great importance on this.

    Even if the project wasn¡¯t considered that big, it was a rare project grade.

    However, the Mana Magic Kingdom kept dying this and didn¡¯t seem like they wanted to cooperate at all, which made Xu Yi a bit dissatisfied.

    The reason he had taken this project seriously was to take the Mana Magic Kingdom seriously.

    This kingdom with magic in its name was the third biggest country after the two empires, which was all because of therge amount of magicians that they had.

    Xu Yi had wanted to change the entire Sines Continent¡¯s view of magic and its uses, so the Mana Magic Kingdom was naturally an important person. He had always hoped that he could have a good cooperation with the Mana Magic Kingdom, making them fully integrate themselves into the magic machine industry.

    But since Xu Yi in the ?Magicians Peace Convention? that Xu Yi raised, magicians were limited from joining the army and from going to war, the Mana Magic Kingdom that had relied mainly on the battle power of magicians had suffered a heavy blow.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept suppressing the continent like this, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s national power would drop from this.

    So the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always beenplicated. They wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to increase their national power, but the hearts of many magicians in the Mana Magic Kingdom were filled with hatred towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they weren¡¯t willing to cooperate.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had smoothly promoted the magic machine industry in other countries, but they often ran into a wall when it came to the Mana Magic Kingdom. Even the project that Xu Yi was personally handling was hard to advance.

    ¡°I n on having an audience with his majesty in two days, help me inform him of this.¡± Xu Yi thought for a bit before saying this to Fanhorn.

    Fanhorn immediately gave a nod, ¡°His majesty was already hoping to meet with chairman Xu. Knowing that you are here, he will definitely be happy.¡±

    Xu Yi gave an un sound and didn¡¯t ask anything else.

    The Magic Sedan quickly ran across the t road with the two of them and in less than half an hour, they had arrived at the base that Fanhorn had mentioned.

    After getting out of the vehicle, Xu Yi looked out and he couldn¡¯t help deeply knitting his brows.

    This base that Fanhorn had mentioned, looking at it now, there was only a primitive and empty riverbank!

    Other than a few piles of sand and crushed stone in the distance and some people that seemed to be working, it could be considered deste. How could this be considered a base?

    ¡°This is the base that you built in half a year?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s voice turned cold when he saw this.

    Fanhorn naturally knew that Xu Yi would be dissatisfied with this scene. He wiped off his sweat and pointed at the piles of sand and crushed stone as he said, ¡°The first workshop is already in ce and as long as we move fast, it can be done by the start of next year.¡±

    ¡°As long as we move fast?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help giving a coldugh.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s appraisal would always be ¡°fast work and good quality¡±, but that was built on the foundation of many workers and their construction magic machines.

    The base in front of him, other than a few people, didn¡¯t even have a single construction magic machine. So no matter how you looked at it, it wouldn¡¯t be fast.

    What made Xu Yi even more dissatisfied and even a bit angry was that even if the Mana Magic Kingdom didn¡¯t care that much about this project, since they knew that he was personallying to inspect this ce, they would try to make it look a bit better for the sake of their own reputation. Shouldn¡¯t they at least pretend like they¡¯re doing construction if they knew that he wasing?

    But now the Mana Magic Kingdom wasn¡¯t even willing to act this out for him, or they simply didn¡¯t have this idea. This meant that the Mana Magic Kingdom was very conflicted on this matter that no one even tried to put on an act.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave a cold snort and turned to Fanhorn to say in a low voice, ¡°If your Mana Magic Kingdom isn¡¯t interested in this project, you can just state it clearly. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t a smallpany that begs others to work with us. If you say it clearly, I promise that we won¡¯t meddle in the future.¡±

    Hearing the true anger in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Fanhorn¡¯s head was covered in a cold sweat. He quickly said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, please don¡¯t misunderstand, please don¡¯t misunderstand! Our kingdom is naturally willing to cooperate with yourpany, but it¡¯s just that in the kingdom¡­¡­ke¡­¡­there are a few hindrances. Now that chairman Xu hase personally, I believe that these small hindrances won¡¯t be a problem at all and will be quickly solved. Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    ¡°I hope so.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand with a cold look in his eyes.

    Since there was no need to inspect this so-called base, Xu Yi was toozy to stay here.

    He looked at the people cking off and shook his head before turning to head back to the Magic Sedan.

    When he took two steps, he suddenly heard sounds from behind him.

    Turning back, a group of people who had appeared out of nowhere suddenly charged onto this construction site, beating and cursing the workers.

    Xu Yi was shocked.

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    Fanhorn carefully looked at Xu Yi before saying with a forced smile, ¡°It seems like people are causing trouble¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, I can see that.¡± Xu Yi looked at him as he found the scene a bit strange.

    Among the people that attacked the workers were actually a few magicians!

    This made him very surprised.

    Although the position of magicians had fallen over the past few years, no longer being as aloof as before, normal people still respected magicians, so their positions were still higher than normal people.

    Normal magicians wouldn¡¯te to attack and curse workers like this, this would be letting down their status.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look for a bit. Fanhorn beside him didn¡¯t make a sound, as if he was nning on watching this matter.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, Fanhorn understood his meaning and shook his head with a bitter smile.

    ¡°I¡¯m not in charge of the matters here, so it¡¯s not convenient for me to do anything. I ask chairman Xu to forgive me.¡±

    Of course Xu Yi didn¡¯t believe him.

    Since he was in charge of bringing him here to watch this farce, how could he not have the right to meddle?

    This meant that he intended to sit back and watch.

    Xu Yu watched the people making a mess and knitted his brows.

    What was the Mana Magic Kingdom nning? Putting on a stance of wanting to chase them out, what benefits were there?

 Book 8: Chapter 36: Are you discouraged?

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 36: Are you discouraged?</h4>

    The trouble caused here should be taken care of by the Mana Magic Kingdom, so Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to meddle in this. He could only shake his head and prepare to leave.

    He didn¡¯t want to cause trouble, but trouble came to find him.

    That group of people causing trouble saw that there was someone over here and charged over as a group.

    ¡°Hei, look, this fellow seems to be Xu Yi!¡± After the group came over, one person pointed at Xu Yi and called out in a loud voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s really him!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right! It¡¯s Xu Yi!¡±

    ¡°Brothers, this fellow actually dares toe here, we definitely have to teach him a proper lesson!¡±

    ¡°Right, this fellow has caused all over us to have nothing to do, it¡¯s the greatest crime!¡±

    ¡°Right! Teach him a lesson! Let him know our power!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes to look at the group shouting, but he didn¡¯t prepare to head over. He gave a coldugh and turned to Fanhorn, ¡°If this was arranged by you, I can only say that it is toocking.¡±

    Fanhorn¡¯s expression changed and he quickly waved his hands, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯ve misunderstood! How could this be arranged by us? I also don¡¯t know where these fellows came from¡­¡­¡±

    After saying this, as if to prove his words, Fanhorn came forward and shouted at these people, ¡°Hey! What are you doing here! Chairman Xu is the distinguished guest of our kingdom and you dare to be rude to him! Do you believe that I won¡¯t send people to arrest you all?¡±

    ¡°Hei,e and arrest us if you have the skills?¡±

    ¡°Right! Anyway, we can¡¯t make a living, so what is there to fear?¡±

    ¡°Father didn¡¯t even fear dying on the battlefield, how could I be scared of you?¡±

    ¡°What a joke, we were army magicians. What kind of thing are you that you dare to arrest us?¡±

    ¡°Army magicians?¡± Xu Yi looked over this group and had a bit of understanding, ¡°Fanhorn, were these the army magicians that were eliminated from your kingdom¡¯s army because of the ?Magicians Peace Convention??¡±

    Fanhorn awkwardly gave a nod, ¡°Yes.¡± Then he immediately exined, ¡°Actually, most of the magicians that were dismissed have already found work in variouspanies and research facilities, but some people aren¡¯t willing to do this. They preferred being in the army, so¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Oh, I understand.¡± Xu Yi looked at this group, ¡°It seems like it¡¯s just a bunch of beaten dogs, they aren¡¯t that important at all.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t lower his voice, so naturally these people had heard him.

    Everyone¡¯s expression changed and they started roaring out again.

    ¡°Who are you calling a beaten dog?¡±

    ¡°How are you qualified to call us this? If it wasn¡¯t for your Frestech Chamber of Commerceing up with that damn ?Magicians Peace Convention?, how could we be like this?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s all your fault! You¡¯re not embarrassed saying these random things in front of us, do you really think that we don¡¯t dare make a move?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at them with a smile, ¡°After shouting all of this, if you want to make a move, I won¡¯t stop you.¡±

    The group angrily red at Xu Yi, but not a single person dared to make a move.

    Since they recognized Xu Yi, they were clear on Xu Yi¡¯s status and knew that Xu Yi was a powerful Arch Magus.

    With their group that didn¡¯t even have anyone past the Seventh Grade, how could they dare make a move against an Arch Magus like Xu Yi?

    Xu Yi gave a smile of contempt before being toozy to pay attention to them. He turned to Fanhorn and said, ¡°Please pass on your majesty that if your country doesn¡¯t take care of these minor matters, then I will doubt your country¡¯s attitude and ability to cooperate. I¡¯m afraid that this will greatly affect our future cooperation.¡±

    He was toozy to care about Fanhorn after this as he flew into the sky.

    Fanhorn and that group looked up in a daze and found that there was a Magic Airship that had suddenly appeared. It weed Xu Yi and Xu Yi entered it.

    After watching the Magic Airship fly away, Fanhorn and that group of people were all stunned.

    After a long while, one person looked at Fanhorn with a confused look.

    ¡°Sir Fanhorn, this fellow¡­¡­why didn¡¯t he y along at all?¡±

    Fanhorn red at them and was speechless.

    After a long time, he gave a long sigh and shook his head.

    ¡°This chairman Xu really is unpredictable¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    The Magic Airship could fly at a speed of two hundred kilometers per hour. It had already passed Sorcery City not long after and soonnded in a town that was forty kilometers southeast of Sorcery City.

    When Xu Yi came out, there was a slender figure that charged forward and jumped into his embrace.

    ¡°Father, you¡¯re finally here!¡±

    Freya tightly hugged Xu Yi and rubbed her face in his chest with a happy look on her face.

    Xu Yi gave augh and reached his hand out to pat her head before moving her away.

    ¡°Alright, you¡¯re already such a big girl, how can you still act spoiled like a little girl?¡±

    ¡°In front of you, I will always be a child.¡± Freya replied with a giggle before revealing a doubtful look, ¡°Right, didn¡¯t you say that you would have some things to discuss with the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s people and would take some time? I thought that I would only see you tonight, I never thought that you woulde this early.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about what had just happened and knitted his brows as he shook his head.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s expression, Freya was shocked and quickly kept asking.

    Xu Yi thought about it and described what happened just now to Freya in detail.

    ¡°Freya, if you were in my ce, what would you do?¡±

    Freya blinked in a daze, knowing that this was Xu Yi taking this chance to test her.

    But after thinking for a bit, she knitted her brows and said without any politeness, ¡°Father, you¡¯re being emotional.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi found this funny as he asked, ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    ¡°You can certainly sense that those Mana Magic Kingdom fellows not only are not willing to cooperate, they don¡¯t even want to care about it. They¡¯re using these small tricks, so you are angry and want to break it off with them, right?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­It should be like this, but how is this considered being emotional?¡±

    ¡°Of course it counts! Didn¡¯t you always tell me that no matter what you do, you have to know your goal and work hard to achieve it? You shouldn¡¯t let other things affect your judgement? You clearly want to cooperate with the Mana Magic Kingdom, but you are giving up because of these small tricks. Isn¡¯t this getting emotional?¡± Freya used him without holding back at all.

    Xu Yi broke out inughter, ¡°You¡¯re right, but Freya, you still haven¡¯t understood my real goal yet.¡±

    ¡°Real goal?¡± Freya tilted her head with a confused look, ¡°Isn¡¯t it to cooperate with the Mana Magic Kingdom and to promote the magic machine industry?¡±

    ¡°That is only the short term goal.¡± Xu Yi turned his head to look in the direction of Sorcery City before giving a sigh, ¡°If we can smoothly develop the magic machine industry in the Mana Magic Kingdom, I¡¯m willing to put in the effort. But based on the clear facts, the Mana Magic Kingdom has a serious internal problem and they can¡¯t unify their opinions. They are even using these dumb little tricks in front of me. So I feel that it is better to let them go first.¡±

    ¡°But when the other countries did this before and they caused many problems, you never mentioned giving up, right?¡± Freya was still very confused.

    ¡°The past was the past, but now¡­¡­I have alreadypleted my task on the Sines Continent and they should solve the rest themselves. If they¡¯re willing to follow the trend, then that¡¯s good, but if they¡¯re not¡­¡­they can just be eliminated.¡±

    Freya deeply knitted her brows as she looked at Xu Yi with doubt.

    The lord father in her memories was always filled with power and vitality. He would always head towards his goal without stopping, never flinching andpromising his ideas.

    Why was it that he had decided to give up because of a small setback this time?

    Even if it was temporary, it was different from his style before.

    Thinking of this, Freya grabbed Xu Yi¡¯s hand with a worried look and asked, ¡°Father¡­¡­could it be that you are discouraged because of all these things happening?¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised. Seeing Freya¡¯s concerned look, he knew that she had misunderstood.

    ¡°He, he, there are some things that have greatly disappointed me, but I¡¯m not discouraged. Un¡­¡­do you think that I¡¯m working differentlypared to before?¡±

    Freya gave a strong nod.

    ¡°There is a reason.¡± Xu Yi was silent for a bit before suddenly asking, ¡°Freya, how did the Candra Empire reply to your question about Teresa?¡±

    Freya was stunned, not understanding why Xu Yi changed the topic to this.

    But after thinking for a bit, she suddenly gave a clearugh.

    ¡°Ha, ha, father, you never would have imagined it. When I took out the two pieces of paper and asked Duke Giarbot and Marquis Askander about Teresa, their expressions were that amazing!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I can guess. This is after all a closely guarded secret of the Candra Empire and they thought that no one knew. But now that you¡¯ve revealed it, it would be strange if they weren¡¯t shocked.¡±

    Freyaughed for a while longer before slowly restraining herself and saying, ¡°When I left, Duke Giarbot personally sent me off. He wanted me to tell you that he hoped you coulde to the Candra Empire when you have time, he had some things to discuss with you.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s about this matter, I¡¯m not interested.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Anyway, you¡¯ve already given them the two pictures and you¡¯ve already asked the questions, there¡¯s no need to care about anything else.¡±

    Freya was shocked, ¡°This means¡­¡­that you aren¡¯t nning on pursuing this? But they were secretly researching military magic machines!¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Let them research it. As long as it¡¯s not public research, I¡¯m toozy to care.¡±

    Freya deeply knitted her brows as she looked at Xu Yi with a very confused look.

    Why¡­¡­did lord father¡¯s method of handling this suddenly be so gentle?

    Could it be because¡­¡­he was old?

    Freya looked at Xu Yi¡¯s young face that seemed no more than thirty that didn¡¯t have any wrinkles. No matter what, she wasn¡¯t willing to believe her own guesses.

 Book 8: Chapter 37: Protest demonstration

    Book 8: Chapter 37: Protest demonstration

    The seventh continental magician conference held by the Mana Magic Kingdom smoothly progressed.

    This conference¡¯s main topic was about restoring the magician grading system.

    Most of the magicians who attended supported this suggestion.

    After all, for the magicians of the continent, the magician grading system had be the standard of judging a magician¡¯s grade since it had been established by the Magicians Guild, so it had a glorious history.

    Although recently because of the drive of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, many magicians didn¡¯t care about this grading system and even quite a few magicians didn¡¯t take it, causing the Magicians Guild to stop offering it in recent years.

    For most magicians, especially high level magicians, this grading system had a very important meaning.

    So after this subject was raised, it received arge amount of approval.

    But everyone was very clear that the traditional magician grading system had lost its meaning.

    With the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and because the magic machine industry had greatly developed on the Sines Continent, the thoughts of the continent¡¯s magicians had greatly changed.

    For most of the current magicians, an individual¡¯s magic power wasn¡¯t that important. What was important was how they could apply their understanding of magic into the magic machine industry, getting them a better job.

    So although the Magicians Guild had spent quite a bit of effort to set this main topic, the core discussion was about how to give the magicians of the continent a ranking system that was more detailed and closely rted to the magic machine industry.

    Out of the ones that attended this conference, there was no doubt that Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman had the most rights to speak about this matter.

    As the chairman of the continent¡¯s greatest and most perfect magic machinepany, also as the continent¡¯s top Arch Magus, Xu Yi had the deepest understanding ofbining magicians with the magic machine industry.

    So when the main topic came up, Xu Yi became the center of the discussion.

    But Xu Yi unexpectedly didn¡¯t give that many opinions from the beginning. He just gave everyone the research grading system that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had used for twenty years as a reference.

    He didn¡¯t say anything else when it came to other matters.

    Even when this discussion was over, when most of the magicians had supported the Magicians Guild resuming the grading system, Xu Yi didn¡¯t oppose it like many people had expected, but he also didn¡¯t approve of it.

    When the topic changed to topics other than the main topic, Xu Yi became very active in his participation.

    Not only did he participate in the hot topics at this conference, he even took out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research results to share with everyone to their surprise.

    This act had filled the magicians that hade to this conference with joy.

    With the brand new scientific view of magic that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed, all of the magicians that started using this system realized the benefits brought by this new system.

    Among this new system, the most important thing was sharing knowledge because this allowed everyone¡¯s understanding of magic to deepen even faster.

    But because of the past limits, even if the magicians of the continent had results with their research, they liked to hide it for themselves.

    The biggest exception was Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi would frequently publish various new research results in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would also publish their research results from time to time.

    This method allowed the magicians of the continent to quickly develop their understanding of the scientific research of magic, greatly increasing their understanding of magic.

    So no matter what the magicians of the continent thought of Xu Yi, there was a bit of gratitude towards Xu Yi in their hearts.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi, there would be many magicians who would never touch a new height in their lives.

    Now that Xu Yi had released all these new research results at this conference, naturally he gained themendation and respect of the other magicians.

    Of course, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t just publish these results to these magicians alone, he would publish it to the entire continent.

    So any magician and any country could share these results.

    As for what they obtained in the end, that would depend on the skills of the people.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s generosity and enthusiasm, as well as him not opposing the main topic as expected, the seventh continental magician conference went very smoothly and could be considered aplete sess.

    But another matter involving Xu Yi lookedpletely different.

    On the day that Xu Yi left Fanhorn alone, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government had sent people to apologize to Xu Yi, as well as inviting Xu Yi to have a discussion with the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s king.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything like he didn¡¯t receive an invitation at all.

    Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channel gave the Mana Magic Kingdom an ultimatum. They stated that the Mana Magic Kingdom would have a year to propose aplete and effective n to cooperate, determining the progress of their cooperation or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would terminate their agreement from before. This would mean that the termination between the two sides would be invalid.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current power on the continent, even the two empires had to be cautious if they acted like this, not to mention that Mana Magic Kingdom.

    So after receiving this ultimatum, the Mana Magic Kingdom government immediately responded to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channel. They indicated that they were sincere about cooperating and would give an appropriate n as soon as possible.

    But when Xu Yi thought that the Mana Magic Kingdom would take this seriously, there was arge-scale protest that happened in Sorcery City.

    There wasn¡¯t an exact count for the number of people, but based on what Xu Yi saw, it was at least over thirty thousand people. There were also quite a few of them that were wearing magician robes, showing their identity as magicians.

    The slogan of the protest was very surprising, they were shouting ¡°the Frestech Chamber of Commerce should scram from the Mana Magic Kingdom¡±¡­¡­

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was cooperating with the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government and when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu was in Sorcery City, this kind of protest had erupted, which caught countless people¡¯s attention.

    The reporters of the major newspapers gathered in Sorcery City, covering the protest for five whole days.

    The major newspapers had analyzed the protest and came up with different conclusions.

    But the unified consensus was that the Mana Magic Kingdom was filled with hostility towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It wasn¡¯t like the other kingdoms that had warmly weed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone cared about the reaction of Xu Yi who was in Sorcery City at this time, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t ept any interviews at all and never expressed his views in a public setting.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce indicated that this was a misunderstanding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s citizens. This wouldn¡¯t ept their cooperation with the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom also indicated that this protest was held by the citizens and was unrted to the government. It wouldn¡¯t affect the cooperation between the two sides.

    On the surface, both sides didn¡¯t seem to treat this matter seriously, like it was just a small breeze.

    But in reality, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s interior opposition towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became even stronger.

    After finally calming down the demonstration in Sorcery City with great difficulty, the Mana Magic Kingdom had seventeen cities that erupted with simr demonstrations that had the same slogan as the Sorcery City protest.

    Other than this, there was a wave of rumours inside the Mana Magic Kingdom that stated ¡°resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, refuse to buy any of their products¡±.

    During this unrest, there were various bad rumours that spread about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Some said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s quality was only boasting and it wasn¡¯t that good.

    Some said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products sold in the Mana Magic Kingdom took the hard earned money of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s people, which was draining the blood out of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Some said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to secretly control the Mana Magic Kingdom through their investments. After they grasp control, they would enve the people of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Some even said that there were hidden control mechanisms in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products that would be used to control¡­¡­

    Some even said¡­¡­

    ¡­¡­

    All kinds of rumours spread across the Mana Magic Kingdom and even spread to other countries through various newspapers. This caused some other countries to get caught up in this wave and boycott the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products.

    It was a good thing that outside of the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had much more influence in other countries. They were able to dispel these rumours through the major newspapers and Magic Illusion Projector broadcasts.

    But in the Mana Magic Kingdom, the situation was already out of control.

    However, while everyone¡¯s eyes were on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, waiting to see how they would solve this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made a shocking announcement.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would bepletely withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom.

 Book 8: Chapter 38: Complete withdrawal

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 38: Complete withdrawal</h4>

    With therge improvement of transportation andmunication brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was unknown how many times faster information transfer had be on the Sines Continent.

    As soon as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they were fully withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, the news had already spread all over the continent in just two days.

    When everyone heard this news, their first reaction was shock and their second reaction was doubt.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce actually announced that they were fully withdrawing from a kingdom?

    Why was this?

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established, chairman Xu had dered that he wanted to develop the entire continent and he and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he led had done that.

    Especially in the most recent ten years. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a high position and strong prestige on the continent after defeating the two empires, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce rarely meddled in other matters. Theypletely focused on developing the magic machine industry.

    Therefore, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had cooperated with every country on the continent in terms of the magic machine industry in the past ten years. They kept sharing their new research results and allowed the other countries to develop smoothly.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this, it was impossible for the Sines Continent to have the same explosive growth in the past ten years.

    But now, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was announcing they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom?

    Why were they doing this?

    Could it be because of the wave of opposition against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Mana Magic Kingdom, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose to retreat?

    What a joke!

    With the current position of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the continents, as well as their powerful influence and battle power, there wouldn¡¯t be a problem even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to destroy the Mana Magic Kingdom. How could they choose to retreat just because of opposition from some civilians?

    This not only went against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current position, but also went against chairman Xu¡¯s personality.

    It had to be known that in the history of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as someone went against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi would choose to meet it head on with a strong response.

    Not to mention that this time it was only the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s citizens. The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government had never gone against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and had solved many public disys, showing that this was only the acts of the citizens. It shouldn¡¯t affect the rtionship between the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although no one believed the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government¡¯s response, since they had shown this attitude, it meant that they were willing to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course, many people guessed that this internal wave of opposition in the Mana Magic Kingdom had angered Xu Yi, causing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to make this decision.

    When the wave of opposition happened, Xu Yi had been attending the seventh continental magician conference in the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    For such a strong wave of opposition to appear in the Mana Magic Kingdom at this time and for it to continue growing in strength, if someone said that people of power from the Mana Magic Kingdom weren¡¯t involved, no one would believe it.

    Many people even thought that the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government were the ones pulling the strings.

    As for their goal, it was to gain the right to lead or some other goal in their cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through the kingdom¡¯s internal opposition.

    But no matter what the goal was, it was clear that Xu Yi had seen through this. So he decisively announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, while also showing his anger.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really withdrew from the Mana Magic Kingdom, they would naturally lose many benefits from the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Butpared to this, it was clear that the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s government would suffer losses that were countless times bigger.

    On the current Sines Continent, every country wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and receive help from them to develop their country¡¯s magic machine industry.

    Without the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible to develop it just by themselves.

    If a country¡¯s magic machine industry didn¡¯t develop well, it meant that the country was falling behind on the current Sines Continent.

    Even if the Mana Magic Kingdom was considered the third strongest country on the continent before, having a very powerful national strength, if they couldn¡¯t keep up with the era, they would suffer in the end.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, many eyes focused on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Everyone wanted to know how far the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was going to go.

    No one believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldpletely withdraw from the Mana Magic Kingdom since not only did it go against Xu Yi¡¯s deration of ¡°fully developing the continent¡¯s magic machine industry¡±, it would mean the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would lose the giant Mana Magic Kingdom market and would suffer heavy losses.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement was just a threat to the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    But¡­¡­what happened next had surprised everyone.

    After the announcement was made, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t hesitate at all as they started carrying out this announcement.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branches all over the Mana Magic Kingdom were closed and then the factories shut down or were sold.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses were top ss in the Mana Magic Kingdom, so the factories and stores were quickly sold. Then therge number of Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff in the Mana Magic Kingdom were transferred out.

    After that, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped all cooperation with the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    They either withdrewpletely or left what they controlled to otherpanies. In short, they cleanly pulled out, without leaving a single thing.

    Normally speaking, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already infiltrated every part of the Mana Magic Kingdom and were rted to many different things. If they wanted to pull out, it should have been a very difficult matter.

    But it was as if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already nned for this and prepared everything. Their withdrawal was very methodical and progressed at a speed that no one had imagined.

    Even though it wouldn¡¯t be that easy for such argepany topletely pull out. If they really wanted to fully leave, it would take at least a year or two.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions had already shown everyone their stance.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was indeed fully pulling out of the Mana Magic Kingdom. It wasn¡¯t a joke or an empty threat.

    Other than the Mana Magic Kingdom, everyone on the continent lost their voice.

    Why was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing this?

    ###

    ¡°Father, why are you doing this?¡± Freya shook the pile of newspapers in her hand and slightly knitted her brows as she asked Xu Yi in a confused voice, ¡°Why are you being so decisive this time?¡±

    ¡°Is it decisive?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile, ¡°Since the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s citizens don¡¯t wee ourpany and want ourpany to leave, then we might as well follow their wishes.¡±

    Freya snappily looked at Xu Yi, ¡°Father, can you stop joking? I don¡¯t believe that you would act like a child like this.¡±

    ¡°You think that I can¡¯t do it?¡± Xu Yi raised a brow, ¡°You should ask your mother and let her tell you if I¡¯ve acted childish before.¡±

    Freya was surprised. After thinking about it, she shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t believe it. Even if you act like a child in front of mother, that is only ying with mother. I don¡¯t believe that you would do the same with an important matter of thepany.¡±

    ¡°He, you are quite confident in me.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile and took the newspapers from Freya¡¯s hand. He took out a few to look at before throwing it to the side.

    ¡°It seems like no one understands my true intentions. Very good.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words with hidden meanings, Freya¡¯s eyes lit up. She quickly came over and said with a grin, ¡°Father, you really have a deeper meaning to this, right? Tell me, why are you doing this? I¡¯ve thought about it for several days and I can¡¯t find any benefits to ourpany.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s benefits to ourpany¡­¡­Perhaps the only one that can be found is pulling out the manpower we had in the Mana Magic Kingdom and sending it elsewhere.¡± Xu Yi said with a rxed look.

    ¡°What kind of benefit is that?¡± Freya had a look of disbelief, ¡°Compared to the losses we have suffered in the Mana Magic Kingdom, is this worth mentioning? Then again, most of the people were unwilling to leave the Mana Magic Kingdom and directly left ourpany. The loss of personnel this time alone is already very serious, alright?¡±

    ¡°Un, it is like that. So I decided that in the short term, there are no benefits to ourpany.¡±

    Freya knitted her brows even more.

    ¡°What about the long term benefits?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t answer as he asked, ¡°Freya, have you ever thought about why I had you expose the Candra Empire developing military magic machines in secret, but why I never followed up on that?¡±

    Freya was surprised. She tilted her head to think before hesitantly saying, ¡°I¡¯ve thought about it and I thought that it should be intentional. Or rather¡­¡­you were tolerating them.¡±

    ¡°Right, your guess is correct.¡±

    ¡°Then I¡¯m even more confused.¡± Freya looked at Xu Yi with a bit of confusion, ¡°Didn¡¯t you always say that a stable environment was best for the development of the magic machine industry? So you wanted the Sines Continent to maintain its peace? Why are you now¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°The Sines Continent has had ten years of peace, but that was based on the deterrent of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. But Freya, do you think that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can maintain this deterrent and make all the countries of the continent obedient forever?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 39: Be a bit more selfish

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 39: Be a bit more selfish</h4>

    Freya thought about it for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking her head.

    ¡°That is impossible. Not to mention that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is only apany. Even if father was willing to rule over an empire, it is impossible to make everyone listen to you and not dare have any other thoughts.¡±

    ¡°So there¡¯s no need to insist on things that don¡¯t matter. I¡¯ve already forcefully maintained the peace on the continent for ten years and through these ten years, I¡¯ve achieved my basic goals. I¡¯ve already greatly improved the lives of everyone on the continent.¡±

    Freya gave a slow nod as she looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with admiration.

    If one had to talk about the person that themoners of the continent should thank, it wasn¡¯t any of the leaders in their countries, but rather Xu Yi.

    Because of the new farming pattern from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it greatly increased the grain yield all over the Sines Continent. Now most countries weren¡¯t bothered by matters like famine like they were before.

    In just ten years, the poption on the Sines Continent had doubled and then doubled again. The reason for this was all simply because there was enough food for everyone.

    At the same time, because of the magic machine industry created by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, countless people had found suitable jobs. They earned quite a good wage and had improved their lifestyle with this wage.

    Also because of the various household magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed, the monotonous lives of people became much more colourfulpared to before.

    People no longer had to struggle for survival each day and no longer had to work all day in the fields. They no longer had to put their nose to the grindstone, but rather could enjoy the various entertainment programs at their leisure.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce also gave them roads and Magic Cars, greatly changing transportation on the continent. People were able to travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, so they no longer had to stay in their vige their entire lives like before.

    Also there was the magicmunicationwork which allowed people to instantly contact people far away.

    There was also the Magic Airship which realized the normal person¡¯s dream of flying into the sky.

    Also¡­¡­

    ¡­¡­

    In short,pared to twenty or thirty years ago, the Sines Continent hadpletely changed.

    The people of the Sines Continent had only used more than ten years to enjoy a life that they never imagined before.

    The one that created all these changes was Xu Yi who was standing in front of Freya.

    Every time she thought of this, Freya¡¯s heart would fill with pride.

    She always firmly believed that her father was the greatest person in the world.

    As for the ¡°emperors honoured by ten thousand people¡± of the two empires, they weren¡¯t even worthy of holding Xu Yi¡¯s shoes in Freya¡¯s mind.

    ¡°Father, are you nning on resting?¡± Freya thought about it before asking this.

    ¡°No, I can¡¯t rest, I¡¯m still young.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, ¡°I just¡­¡­feel that I¡¯ve already done enough for the people of the continent, so I n on being a bit more selfish. I want to put a bit more effort into the dream that I¡¯ve always had.¡±

    ¡°Your dream?¡± Freya thought about it before pointing at the sky with an excited look, ¡°Is it the flying into the universe that you¡¯ve always talked about?¡±

    ¡°Yes. What, Freya, are you also interested?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Freya nodded without any hesitation, ¡°You¡¯ve always told me since I was young that outside of the sky, there was a universe that was countless times wider than this world. Your dream is to explore this universe and my dream is to explore it with you!¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡­It¡¯s best if you¡¯re not too rushed.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°You¡¯re still young and this world is already enough for you to explore for a long time.¡±

    ¡°Humph, you really want me to stay here and take over thepany.¡± Freya gave an unhappy snort.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°I never said that, this is what you wanted. I just want to tell you that until now, you haven¡¯t even explored this world enough, so there¡¯s no rush to explore the universe. For example¡­¡­have you gone to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s you who never let me go, alright!¡± Freya rolled her eyes at Xu Yi before opening her eyes wide with excitement, ¡°Could it be that¡­¡­you¡¯re allowing me to go to the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°There isn¡¯t this n for now.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and then seeing Freya¡¯s disappointed look, he added, ¡°But before you turn twenty five, I will find some time to bring you to the Magic Cloud Continent for some experience. I¡¯ll also take you to the other continents to explore as well. I might even¡­¡­bring you to the extreme north and south poles of this world to let you experience the ciers, let you understand the coldest climates. How about it? Are you afraid?¡±

    Freya gave augh, ¡°Afraid of what!¡±

    After chatting with Xu Yi for a bit, Freya didn¡¯t forget her initial question and asked, ¡°Father, you still haven¡¯t exined it. It¡¯s not a problem if you want to work towards your dream, but this doesn¡¯t seem rted to your ideas during this time, right?¡±

    ¡°I just said it, I don¡¯t want to continue with meaningless things. I¡¯ve already built a foundation for the people of the continent and now it¡¯s their choice. I won¡¯t forcefully interfere anymore.¡±

    ¡°This means that you are not going to do anything? What about thepany?¡± Freya asked.

    ¡°I never said that I wouldn¡¯t care about thepany. Rx, with our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current position on the continent, unless we make the absolute worst decisions again and again, ourpany will always be the toppany on the continent.¡±

    Freya looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze. She thought that wasn¡¯t choosing to withdraw from the Mana Magic Kingdom this time one of those worst choices?

    ¡°Actually, this is also to show the people of the continent how important the magic machine industry is.¡± Xu Yi had a dangerous smile that shed on his face, ¡°Those that want to stubbornly resist, those fellows that want to go against the ages, they will suffer serious consequences.¡±

    ###

    Just based on the surface, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdrawing wouldn¡¯t influence the Mana Magic Kingdom that much. Other than hurting their image, it wasn¡¯t really that serious.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, they had left the Mana Magic Kingdom an almost perfect magic machine industry, so they could be self sufficient in most industries.

    Even in the ces where they couldn¡¯t leave the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, there werepanies from other countries that came in to take over the market.

    Because of this intense struggle, the Mana Magic Kingdom had earned quite a few benefits.

    This phenomenon was deliberately promoted by some people with intentions inside and outside of the Mana Magic Kingdom, making it seem like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdrawing had no significance.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom even internally had a wave of sessful resistance, stating that it was the right choice to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They allowed the Mana Magic Kingdom to have the most important thing, autonomy over their resources and avoided it from falling into the grasp of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This theory seemed reasonable at first and received the support of many people.

    However, not long after, the Mana Magic Kingdom received a blow to the head.

    In early February of year 3815, the Mana Magic Kingdom and the neighbouring Ensfan Kingdompeted over a Magic Crystal mine at the border and there was a sh between the two sides.

    It was only a small border conflict at first and there were only a few casualties.

    But because the conflict kept growing due to various reasons, it evolved into a direct conflict between the border armies of both countries.

    The fight caused some damages, but they weren¡¯t serious.

    Because when this normally happened, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give a warning and hope that both sides would start negotiating.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t say a word like this matter hadn¡¯t happened at all.

    People were shocked, but then they realized something. When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, they stated that they wouldn¡¯t care about anything that happened in the Mana Magic Kingdom anymore.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce naturally wouldn¡¯t care about the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s border conflicts.

    After fighting for half a month, the Ensfan Kingdom¡¯s border army suddenly made a move and attacked the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s border.

    Although the Mana Magic Kingdom responded quickly and organized a counterattack, after fighting for three months at the border, the Mana Magic Kingdom showed signs of being pushed back.

    This result had surprised many people.

    Because normally people would think that the Mana Magic Kingdom was clearly much stronger than the Ensfan Kingdom.

    The Ensfan Kingdom might earn a few benefits, but if the war dragged on, it was clear that they couldn¡¯t beat the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    But it was the Mana Magic Kingdom that couldn¡¯t hold on. Finally, after the two sides fought for four months, they were the first to retreat and they gave the Ensfan Kingdom the Magic Crystal mine that they were fighting over.

    The Ensfan Kingdom didn¡¯t choose to push any further and chose to engage in peace talks with the Mana Magic Kingdom. Finally, the Mana Magic Kingdom agreed to pay the Ensfan Kingdom somepensation and they announced a truce.

    This short war had caused quite arge discussion on the continent.

    People were very surprised, why was the Mana Magic Kingdom unable to defeat the Ensfan Kingdom.

    After all, other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most countries had the same level of military magic machines, so the battle power of their armies were around the same.

    After carefully analyzing it, everyone gradually came to the same conclusion.

 Book 8: Chapter 40: Mana Magic Kingdom in chaos

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 40: Mana Magic Kingdom in chaos</h4>

    Duke Nasusis was ring at Count Joshua in front of him who had the same sunken expression.

    If eyes could kill, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have minded killing Count Joshua eight or ten times.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this fellow who was in charge of the logistics department not being able to meet the needs of the troops on the frontline in this war, how could he have been repelled, finally forcing the kingdom to ept that shameful peace treaty with the Ensfan Kingdom?

    Count Joshua could naturally feel the hatred in Duke Nasusis¡¯ eyes, but he could only remain silent as he had a bitter look on his face.

    As the one in charge of the Mana Magic Kingdom army¡¯s logistics department, not being able to supply the frontlines was something that he couldn¡¯t avoid responsibility for and couldn¡¯t refute.

    But this time¡­¡­he really couldn¡¯t do anything.

    No one would have expected that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left the Mana Magic Kingdom, it would have such arge impact on the Mana Magic Kingdom. It far surpassed his expectations and everyone¡¯s expectations.

    Their loss to the Ensfan Kingdom this time, the main reason was because their logistics couldn¡¯t keep up. There were many reasons why their logistics couldn¡¯t keep up.

    To give the most clear example.

    During the battle, in order to transportrge amounts of supplies to the frontlines, many roads of the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t take the sudden increase in traffic and were overloaded.

    This overloaded traffic caused many problems.

    For example, there would be breaks in the road and would seriously impact the speed of transport.

    For example, a certain bridge had even copsed and caused tworge transport Magic Cars to fall into the river, which also blocked several other supply lines.

    For example, in the transport squads of the logistics department, there were transport Magic Cars that broke down because of the rushed transport. However, because they didn¡¯t have the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff, they weren¡¯t able to fix these vehicles.

    Even because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯splete withdrawal, there was no way to get proper parts to fix these transport Magic Cars with since they were all produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Or for example¡­¡­

    There were just issues with the transport of supplies alone.

    When it came to producing the supplies, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s withdrawal, many problems had urred.

    For example, the factory that was a cooperation between the Mana Magic Kingdom and the Armani Chamber of Commerce which produced cotton jackets for the soldiers.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯splete withdrawal didn¡¯t seem like it was rted to this factory.

    But during the actual production process, there were some parts that were affected.

    The most clear example was that the production lines of this factorycked maintenance from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so breakdowns of various degrees happened. This greatly decreased the production efficiency and affected the quality of clothing sent to the soldiers.

    This war had been fought during winter, so whether the soldiers had enough clothing or not would naturally affect their battle power.

    Other than this, from the military magic machines they were equipped with to the canned food that the soldiers ate each day, there were varying degrees of shortages.

    Even if Count Joshua could solve the transportation problem, he couldn¡¯t do anything about the production problem.

    Just letting the border army hold on for four months before dering their defeat had cost him quite a bit of effort, there wasn¡¯t any intention of shirking his responsibilities at all.

    However, Duke Nasusis who was in charge of leading the soldiers and suffered the pressure of losing absolutely didn¡¯t care about this.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom, who was also the only Great Magician out of all the Sines Continent¡¯s rulers, Great Magician Constantine lowered his head to look at the angry Duke Nasusis and Count Joshua with his bitter smile before feeling an ache in his head.

    As the king who had a full grasp of the total situation, he naturally knew that the reason they lost to the Ensfan Kingdom was because of their logistics.

    But the logistics problem couldn¡¯t be med on Count Joshua.

    Because in the recent months, other than problems with the army¡¯s logistics, there were also countless issues with the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s economy and livelihoods of the people that popped up. It made it so that he didn¡¯t have a single day of peace.

    Just now, the kingdom¡¯s agricultural department had submitted a report. They indicated that ording to their stats, the kingdom needed to buy at least three thousand agricultural magic machines to be able to barely meet their demands for this year¡¯s spring plowing.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom, which caused the Mana Magic Kingdom to lose their main channel for buying agricultural magic machines.

    Although in the recent years, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce selling their technology that countlesspanies had grasped the ability to manufacture variousrge magic machines, including the agricultural magic machines,pared to the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines, the quality and stability of the agricultural magic machines from otherpanies were farcking. They couldn¡¯t rece the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines at all.

    Moreover, because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced that they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, the otherpanies started raising their prices. It caused the low price of agricultural magic machines to increase by several times. This caused the agricultural department to be filled withints, but it also increased their budget for next year by more than double.

    However, this wasn¡¯t the main problem.

    They could find substitutes for the agricultural magic machines outside of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but the fertilizer that was also deeply rted to nting couldn¡¯t be reced. Only the Moon Shadow Tribe produced it.

    Properly speaking, the Moon Shadow Tribe was the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom shouldn¡¯t be rted to the Moon Shadow Tribe at all.

    But after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Moon Shadow Chamber of Commerce who were the main sellers for the Moon Shadow Tribe announced that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude showed the untrustworthiness of the Mana Magic Kingdom. This action was what the elves hated the most, so the Moon Shadow Tribe had also decided to cut off all cooperation with the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Naturally that meant that the fertilizer was no longer being sold to the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    After the Moon Shadow Tribe made this announcement, the Night Song Tribe, the Azshara Tribe, and the other elf tribes that appeared over the years gave the same announcement as the Moon Shadow Tribe.

    After the elves, the dwarf tribes and beastmen tribes joined the fun and showed the same distrust towards the Mana Magic Kingdom. They stated that they wouldn¡¯t deal with this untrustworthy human kingdom and would break off all trade with the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Of course, other than the fertilizer, the Mana Magic Kingdom didn¡¯t rely on the unique products that the other races produced, so it didn¡¯t affect them that much.

    But as the otherpanies withdrew, the Mana Magic Kingdom was greatly affected. It caused them to be unable to recover the strong development of their magic machine industry and even caused great impact to the other industries in the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    In recent months, the Mana Magic Kingdom was filled with resentment that had created an unstable situation.

    Every time he received this kind of news, King Constantine¡¯s heart was filled with waves of regret.

    The wave of opposition towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the Mana Magic Kingdom, naturally he as the king couldn¡¯t avoid being connected.

    In fact, the reason why there was this wave of opposition and even thisrge scale demonstration was because the upper strata had tolerated it. There were even somerge nobles that had pulled the strings from behind the curtains.

    The reason for this was first because the Mana Magic Kingdom did have some opposition towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which came from the Magicians Guild. Second, it was because the Mana Magic Kingdom wanted to use this matter to indicate their attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, gaining more rights in their cooperation.

    However, King Constantine and the other higher level members of the Mana Magic Kingdom never thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reaction would be this decisive. They actually announced that they werepletely withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom!

    This was something that the Mana Magic Kingdom never expected.

    But even when King Constantine personally acted to restart negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was met with Xu Yi¡¯s firm rejection, not giving him any room to exin.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom for half a year, the enormous influence of this matter started showing bit by bit. It made the entire Mana Magic Kingdom fall into a tough situation.

    The influence was already big in the war against the Ensfan Kingdom, butpared to the influence it had on the entire Mana Magic Kingdom, it was considered the tip of the iceberg.

    ¡°Nasusis, you shouldn¡¯t me Joshua too much.¡± After thinking of this, Constantine waved his hand in a tired manner andforted Duke Nasusis, ¡°Joshua has already made his contributions, but with all these different issues, he really can¡¯t do anything.¡±

    Duke Nasusis turned to look at him, ¡°If he can¡¯t solve it, that is his fault! I don¡¯t care how many problems there are, but since he is the head of the logistics department, it¡¯s his job to solve these problems! If he can¡¯t, change the person!¡±

    Count Joshua¡¯s eyes had a trace of anger.

    This Duke Nasusis had never seen eye to eye with him. It seems like he was nning on using this opportunity to push him out of his position.

    When he was about to refute this, King Constantine red at him and used his eyes to stop him.

    ¡°Nasusis, I¡¯ve already said it, this defeat can¡¯t be med on the logistics department and it can¡¯t be med on your frontline soldiers¡­¡­¡±

    Duke Nasusis was stunned.

    If it can¡¯t be med on the logistics department or the frontline soldiers, who would it be med on?

    ¡°Your majesty, I¡­¡­¡±

    When Duke Nasusis was about to speak, everything suddenly turned dark.

    The hall was suddenly filled with voices of surprise and panic.

    ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡± King Constantine asked in a deep voice.

    ¡°Your¡­¡­Your majesty¡­¡­it¡¯s¡­¡­it¡¯s the Magic Crystals for the Magic Lamps, they¡¯ve all been used up¡­¡­¡± A panicked voice came from a corner of the hall.

    ¡°Then why haven¡¯t they been refilled?¡± King Constantine angrily said.

    ¡°But¡­¡­All the Magic Crystals in the royal pce have all been used up¡­¡­¡± The servant¡¯s voice filled with even more panic.

    King Constantine was truly angered this time.

    ¡°If you knew they would be used up, why didn¡¯t you stock up on them earlier?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty¡­¡­that¡­¡­there¡¯s no more Magic Crystals for sale in the kingdom¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Why can¡¯t you buy¡­¡­¡±

    Halfway through his words, King Constantine suddenly thought of something.

    Although there weren¡¯t many exclusive products that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold other than the military magic machines, there was one that seemed unimportant, but was actually very important that only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced.

    It was the standardized Magic Crystal that all magic machines used.

    Thinking of this, King Constantine fell into silence.

    For a while, there was only the heavy breathing of King Constantine¡¯s group of three in the dark hall, but no one knew what the three of them were thinking.

 Book 8: Chapter 41: Letting go

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 41: Letting go</h4>

    A letter from the ¡°Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce¡± arrived in Xu Yi¡¯s hands.

    Normally speaking, letters from otherpanies, even official documents, wouldn¡¯t be sent to Xu Yi¡¯s hands.

    Although he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he didn¡¯t really care about the general business of thepany.

    These letters would be taken care of by the subordinates responsible for this, even the CEO rus wouldn¡¯t be alerted.

    But this time, because there was the Magicians Guild behind the Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce, the subordinates didn¡¯t dare process this and handed it to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes just swept over the contents before he threw it to the side,pletely ignoring it.

    This letter from the Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce seemed like it conveyed the intentions of the Magicians Guild, but really it was the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s intentions being conveyed to Xu Yi.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had fully withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom, if they tried contacting them through the Mana Magic Kingdom channels, they would definitely be ignored. Then having the Magicians Guild who was the greatest supporter of the Mana Magic Kingdom contact them was very normal.

    In this letter, the Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce only mentioned one matter. It was that they hoped to cooperate deeper in terms of agricultural magic machines, buying higher end agricultural magic machine technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They also indicated that they would pay a high enough price for this.

    This letter seemed very normal from a first nce.

    There were hundreds ofpanies that wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t strange if there was an extra Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce.

    But in reality, Xu Yi knew that the Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce, or rather the Magicians Guild was standing up for the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    The Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce had the Magicians Guild behind them and they didn¡¯t have much territory to begin with, so why would they care about the agricultural magic machines?

    Of course it was for the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Xu Yi was very clear that in a month, it would be the spring plowing for most countries on the Sines Continent.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom had lost the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so now thisrge gap was very hard to rece and it would greatly affect their spring plowing.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom wanted to use the Magicians Guild to solve this problem, while also expressing the intention of reconciliation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t care at all. He didn¡¯t go back on his promise, but he would let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce return to the Mana Magic Kingdom in several months.

    Although Xu Yi had exined how he would handle the Mana Magic Kingdom to Freya, he didn¡¯t exin everything.

    In fact, his strong reaction to the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s strong opposition of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, while also tolerating the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom secretly developing military magic machines had all been intentional.

    His grand announcement of withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, first it was to target the strong stance that the Mana Magic Kingdom wanted to show and second, it was because he already had this n, but the Mana Magic Kingdom made a move first.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadpletely withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom, he believed that everyone would notice therge influence this would have on the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Through this matter, the other countries of the continent would have a more profound and direct understanding of the magic machine industry. They wouldn¡¯t be like before where even if the Frestech chamber of Commerce helped them, they would develop slowly because it wasn¡¯t important to them.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom could be considered an ¡°example¡± that Xu Yi made.

    Right now, in less than half a year, the Mana Magic Kingdom had suffered a loss to the Ensfan Kingdom, which gave the other countries a perfect ¡°example¡±.

    As for tolerating the Candra Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom¡­¡­It was like he had exined to Freya. It was because he couldn¡¯t suppress the ambitions of the other countries forever, so he wouldn¡¯t suppress them.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on taking over the world, he didn¡¯t have this ambition nor was he interested.

    But even if he didn¡¯t want to, others did.

    All the countries on the Sines Continent wanted to unite the continent and be one of the great empires of history.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t suppress their ambitions, so he could only let nature take its course.

    He had already helped the continent gain ten years of development and as for what happened after, he didn¡¯t care and was toozy to care.

    Not to mention that war was a catalyst for technology development. In the two world wars on earth, there were tworge technological booms.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t guarantee that there would be a technological boom in this world after a war, but he was certain that if there was a chance to study military magic machines, the countries of the continent wouldn¡¯t hold back in investing in magic technology.

    This was the real reason for Xu Yi telling Freya that he wanted to be a ¡°bit more selfish¡±.

    Letting therge countries develop military magic machines will make it impossible for the peace to remain, it would create turbulence and even disaster for the people of the continent.

    However, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a saint or a god, he couldn¡¯t live forever and couldn¡¯t make the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suppress the other countries with absolute power forever.

    So he only had the ability to control the situation and rx the limitations.

    He wasn¡¯t certain if this matter would develop as he expected, but he would try to protect the rights of making a living for the people of the continent as much as possible.

    That was the only thing he could guarantee and the only thing he could do.

    ¡°Ai,pared to this, the situation on the Magic Cloud Continent is more pure.¡± Xu Yi turned his eyes away from the letter and looked to the west.

    Compared to the Sines Continent that was already carved up by the various countries, because the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s society hadn¡¯t developed as well and because they had been dominated by the rather backwards goblin race, it was much easier to handlepared to the Sines Continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been developing the Magic Cloud Continent for over ten years now and after all these years of investing, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power, they had shattered the control of the goblins and had created arge area of control on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    The local races of the Magic Cloud Continent couldn¡¯t resist the goblins like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally they couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Moreover,pared to the goblins that only brought destruction, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought better lives and greater prospects for development for the locals.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had received the full support of almost all the locals of the Magic Cloud Continent. They had obtained the rights to their governing region and had full control.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ¡°doing what they wanted¡± was just developing the magic machine industry on the Magic Cloud Continent, depending on it to take root.

    With the absolute control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and absolute support of the local races, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development speed on the Magic Cloud Continent far surpassed that of the Sines Continent.

    In just ten years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built the same perfect magic machine industry as the Sines Continent on the Magic Cloud Continent, which could be considered a shocking speed.

    Although the Magic Cloud Continent was less developed, the resources they had weren¡¯t worse than the Sines Continent. So after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took root, they were about to be self sufficient.

    If it was a few years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still needed to transportrge amounts of resources from the Sines Continent to the Magic Cloud Continent. However, in recent years, it was the Magic Cloud Continent side that kept transporting resources for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the Sines Continent.

    It could be said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s investments on the Magic Cloud Continent had already givenrge returns.

    It was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already obtained this solid foundation on the Magic Cloud Continent that Xu Yi chose to let go of the Sines Continent.

    When there was a broadnd where it was easier for him to aplish his dream, if he wanted to be a bit more selfish, choosing to no longer interfere with the Sines Continent was the best choice.

    As for what the Sines Continent would turn into, he could just coldly watch from the side.

    ¡°Of course, that is the premise that I have enough power.¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and turned to leave his manor.

    Half an hourter, he appeared on a barren hill to the north of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base.

    Looking around the barren hill, there wasn¡¯t anything here and it was no different from any other hills.

    But aftering here, one would notice that there was a giant magic barrier around this hill that had an illusion property to it. It hid everything that it covered.

    This special magic barrier naturally was a unique magic barrier made by the elves, os it could perfectly block all peeking from the outside world.

    To enter this magic barrier, one would either need to be strong enough break through the barrier, but that was impossible since this was a magic barrier that had over a hundred thousand Evs of magic in it, so it was impossible for a single person to reach that level.

    Or they needed the special method of entering the magic barrier which was entering a magic password.

    The ones that had this magic password were only Xu Yi and the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the normal staff members didn¡¯t know this password.

    It had to be known that without authorization, normal staff members would never be able to enter and exit this ce at will.

    It could be seen how strict security was here.

    But after Xu Yi went through several procedures and finally entered the magic barrier, seeing the valley standing tall and the buildings inside that valley, as well as the thing that looked like a giant bullet, he once again affirmed that these strict security measures were necessary.

 Book 8: Chapter 42: Nuclear Magic Energy

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 42: Nuclear Magic Energy</h4>

    Eleven years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the Rudson Kingdom army defeated the Marlow Empire and Candra Empire armies on the Tara ins of the Candra Empire central province, crushing the resistance of the two empires and forcing them to sign the ceasefire treaty.

    In this battle, the most decisive thing was the single attack from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s airship squad.

    Just a single attack had ttened a mountain, even destroying the ground in a several mile range, so it could be seen how terrifying the might was.

    After witnessing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship squad releasing this attack, the two empires gave up all thoughts of resisting, agreeing to Xu Yi¡¯s requests.

    It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that this one attack had changed the situation on the entire continent. It had established the peace of the past eleven years, so it had aplishedsting achievements.

    What created that powerful attack with its destructive might was the predecessor of this giant bullet, the Magic Space Chain Copsing Guiding Bullet.

    Eleven years ago, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just touched this domain. So although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this terrifying attack before, they could only really use it three times.

    If the will of the two empires hadn¡¯t been destroyed by this attack, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could only depend on traditional weapons to win that battle.

    But after eleven years, not only had the Frestech Chamber of Commercepletely grasped that terrifying attack, they had even improved on it. The research of this domain reached a deeper breakthrough.

    Xu Yi looked up at this thing that looked like a terrifying warhead and he couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh in his heart.

    He never thought that in this world ruled by magic, he would be able to make something as terrifying as the nuclear bombs on earth.

    Yes, this was called the ¡°Magic Nuclear Fission Warhead¡± and it wasn¡¯t just that the name was simr to the warheads from earth.

    ¡°Sir chairman, for the detonation experiment of this new warhead, we¡¯ve already drawn up a n. Please take a look.¡± Lamasia, who was in charge of the magic research facility¡¯s military magic machine department, handed a n to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi took a look while listening to his exnation.

    ¡°ording to the n, we will transport this warhead to an ind seven hundred kilometers away for a secret detonation test. In order to maintain secrecy, we hope to transport this warhead to the ck Rice Harbour and then set off, taking a detour before reaching the destination. At the same time, I hope that sir chairman can send a team of Magic Airships that will not only protect us, but also give us early warning.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Xu Yi replied. He roughly looked over Lamasia¡¯s n before saying with a smile, ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t need to be this secret. Even if it is revealed, it isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    Lamasia looked at Xu Yi with a shocked look.

    Sir chairman had always wanted their department to maintain absolute secrecy. They weren¡¯t allowed to reveal any information, which was even the reason why they had this magic barrierid down on this mountain.

    But now, he suddenly acted like he didn¡¯t care at all. This was just too much of a chance.

    Seeing the doubt in Lamasia¡¯s heart, Xu Yi didn¡¯t bother exining to him. He looked around before changing the topic.

    ¡°Have you made any progress with the study into the side effects of Nuclear Magic Energy?¡±

    Nuclear Magic Energy was a technology that the magic research facility had identally discovered sixteen years ago.

    To be specific, they found that because elemental magic energy had different attributes, the natures should have been different.

    After researching it for a long time, they found that elemental magic energy was made of fine particles. These particles revolved around the core of the elemental magic energy in different rotations which created different properties.

    This special characteristic was simr to the atomic theory from earth.

    But naturally there were differences.

    The elemental magic energy particles didn¡¯t have form and were only a form of energy in space, so normally it would be very hard to disrupt them.

    The reason magicians could use different kinds of magic was because through cultivation, they raised their mental force and then used different brain waves through what the Sines Continent called magic power to affect the elemental magic energy. In the end, the elemental magic energy was forced into different forms that would create different kinds of magic.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility ced this result in front of Xu Yi, he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry.

    He had always thought that the Sines Continent was much less civilizedpared to earth and had a sense of superiority, so he always had an aloof attitude when dealing with the people of this world.

    But these research results told Xu Yi a shocking fact.

    The people of this world were behind the people of earth when it came to science and technology, but through over ten thousand years of magic research, they had found a method to grasp energy that far surpassed the technology of earth. It could even be said that they could grasp the essence of energy.

    Xu Yi had always found it difficult to understand the concept of elemental magic energy.

    It was because energy particles didn¡¯t have any shape, but could be condensed into various forms of magic that could be controlled at will. This seemed like something that was unbelievable for Xu Yi.

    But this research had given Xu Yi a shocking fact. It was that the elemental magic energy was void energy, made from the very basic particles of this world. It could be said that it was everywhere and couldn¡¯t be exhausted.

    Magic was just a method of extracting void energy to perform a function.

    This ability was something that couldn¡¯t be reached with the technology on earth, but it was used to easily on this seemingly backwards Sines Continent.

    What really made Xu Yi unsure of whether tough or cry was that the people of the Sines Continent had never noticed this in the beginning.

    Because there wasn¡¯t the scientific concept, the people of the continent viewed magic like the people of earth had viewed witchcraft. Only certain people could grasp it and it had mysterious effects, but no one knew the principle behind it.

    So even if the people of the Sines Continent didn¡¯t know how they had developed this magic society, using the most powerful way of harnessing energy, they had gone down the wrong path. They only used this energy in the most meaningless way in Xu Yi¡¯s opinion, which was destructive force.

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t me the people of the continent. They didn¡¯t know how they developed magic and without basic theories, they could only focus on the most mystical parts of it, which created this situation.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s current task was to use his scientific view of magic to study the fundamentals of magic. He would make it so that magic was no longer just something mysterious that only the magicians knew, but a sharp weapon in the hands of the people of the world.

    Nuclear Magic Energy was one of those idental discoveries. When the elemental magic energy was disturbed by a high frequency magic wave, there would be the phenomenon where the elemental magic energy core and the particles would separate, which caused the core to stop rotating.

    When this core stopped rotating, it would release a terrifying energy.

    When this happened the first time by ident, it was only a very small pause of the rotation, but it had turned theb to ashes.

    Then after multiple careful experiments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce found the principle of this energy and started being able to control it at will.

    But the eruption of energy from the core would create side effects.

    The biggest side effect was that after the magic core erupted, the surrounding magic space would be inplete chaos for a long time. It almost created a sealed chaotic magic space.

    This magic space was seriously damaged and even an Arch Magus like Xu Yi couldn¡¯t enter it at will.

    To dispel this chaotic space, if they didn¡¯t use external force, they could only let the surrounding magic space slowly digest it over a long period of time.

    But if they used external force, it would take arge price and it would be very dangerous.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do many experiments into Nuclear Magic Energy. Even if they did, they would pick a remote ce that wouldn¡¯t affect anything.

    If they kept experimenting in the magic research facility, it wouldn¡¯t take long before the magic research facility was destroyed.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we¡¯ve already made quite a bit of progress.¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Lamasia revealed a confident smile, ¡°Through the magic space data after each magic core eruption, we have already grasped the principle. Justst month, we¡¯ve already eliminated the strange space with a special elemental magic energy frequency.¡±

    ¡°Oh? That¡¯s quite good.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod of praise, ¡°If you can promptly eliminate the side effects each time, then we would be able to fully grasp this thing.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Lamasia replied before hesitating a bit and then revealing a look of doubt, ¡°But¡­¡­we have found a problem in our research.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 43: Whose hand holds this power

    Book 8: Chapter 43: Whose hand holds this power

    ¡°What problem?¡± Xu Yi looked at Lamasia with an interested look.

    A scientist was never scared of finding problems, they were just afraid that there weren¡¯t problems.

    Lamasia was silent for a bit before pointing at the tall warhead in the distance and saying in a hesitant voice, ¡°Sir chairman, do you think¡­¡­if this warhead is really detonated, how big of a range would it destroy?¡±

    ¡°I should ask you this question, how would I answer it if you ask me?¡± Xu Yi found this a bit funny as he asked this back.

    Lamasia shook his head. He didn¡¯t deny Xu Yi¡¯s views and didn¡¯t know how to respond.

    After a period of silence, he said with a sigh, ¡°If this warhead was detonated here, this entire mountain might be blown to ashes and no one here would be able to escape.¡±

    Lamasia looked at Xu Yi and after a pause, he added, ¡°Perhaps only Arch Magi like sir chairman or Arch Magus Cami would have a chance to live, the others wouldn¡¯t have a chance to escape at all.¡±

    This mountain was over five kilometers west of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base and covered over sixty hectares.

    If it could destroy this entire mountain, then the explosion range of this warhead was close to one square kilometers.

    This terrifying might might even be on par with the first nuclear bombs developed on earth.

    If there weren¡¯t measures taken to deal with the chaotic magic space left behind, this ce would be and of death that people couldn¡¯t enter for a long time.

    Compared to how the atomic bombs would leave radiation damage to the people that survived it, this warhead was a bit more terrifying.

    Understanding what Lamasia meant, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became serious.

    ¡°What do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°I wanted to say¡­¡­¡± Lamasia shook his head and gave a bitterugh, ¡°Sir chairman, did we make a terrifying monster?¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t answer this question. He was silent for a bit before pointing at himself.

    ¡°Lamasia, if I were to use all my strength, how much destructive power could I create?¡±

    Lamasia was surprised before answering without any hesitation, ¡°With your current might, the destructive power you could create would only be more terrifying than this warhead.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile again, ¡°Look, no matter how terrifying this warhead is, it is only equivalent to the destructive might of an Arch Magus or even slightly inferior. But the Arch Magi have been on the continent for over ten thousand years, so what are you afraid of?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­There are only at most a few dozen Arch Magi and this Nuclear Magic Warhead¡­..as long as the experiments are sessful, we can make hundreds or even thousands of them!¡±

    ¡°I need this.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°I want to expel magicians from the battlefield, even Arch Magi aren¡¯t an exception. So to do this, I have to surpass the power of an Arch Magus. These warheads suit my needs. As for your worries, I can understand them. However, Lamasia, what creates disaster isn¡¯t the weapons themselves, but rather the people who hold the weapons. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Lamasia silently thought about it for a bit before turning to look at the warhead. He gave a slow nod as if he understood what Xu Yi meant.

    But from his expression, it didn¡¯t seem like he fully believed this.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel strange seeing this at all.

    The warhead was a terrifying thing that could match Arch Magi. Now that it was in the hands of normal people, naturally it would make a normal person like Lamasia feel strange.

    In fact, this was what he felt as the one who knew the most. Rather, the subordinates and normal researchers under him didn¡¯t think about it that much.

    ¡°Studying Nuclear Magic Energy isn¡¯t just to make this warhead and it isn¡¯t just for making weapons.¡± Xu Yi patted Lamasia¡¯s shoulder andforted him, ¡°In fact, if the Nuclear Magic Energy was used for the civilians, it could y a major role.¡±

    ¡°Civilian use?¡± Lamasia looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.

    Starting from the beginning, he had studied the Nuclear Magic Energy just to make this warhead, he had never considered civilian use.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Nuclear Magic Energy is too wild and it¡¯s very hard to release slowly. It wouldn¡¯t work for civilian use, right?¡±

    ¡°That is only right now. As long as we keep developing it, I believe that we will definitely be able to control this energy.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Lamasia gave a nod as he suddenly felt a bit better.

    After talking to Lamasia about a few things to take note of during the experiment, Xu Yi left this valley.

    After walking out of the magic barrier, Xu Yi looked back at the valley that didn¡¯t show any strange signs and slowly shook his head.

    After Lamasia took the warhead away, everything here would be moved out.

    The Nuclear Magic Energy research was very dangerous and it wasn¡¯t suitable to leave at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base, so Xu Yi wanted to move it out a long time ago.

    Seizing the chance provided by this experiment, Xu Yi nned on moving this entire department to arge ind on the endless seas, treating that ce as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Nuclear Magic Energy development center.

    When he looked back at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base in the distance, Xu Yi fell into deep thought.

    It wasn¡¯t just the Nuclear Magic Energy research department that needed to be moved out, there were also some of the major departments that needed to be moved out.

    But there was no rush in relocating this part, or it could be said that it wasn¡¯t urgent.

    If by chance the news of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was leaving the Sines Continent spread, it might cause the continent to immediately fall into chaos.

    ###

    The spring progressed as normal.

    When the warm wind came across the continent, all the countries started their annual spring plowing.

    If it was several decades ago, the spring plowing was something that everyone on the continent had to participate in because they wanted to nt the best crops during this time, it wasn¡¯t just a single important thing that had to be done.

    Tilling the fields, sowing the seeds, spreading the fertilizer, and so on, all of that requiredrge amounts of people.

    Even at times, the aloof nobles and even the most prestigious kings would have to go to the fields. They would have to adopt a stance of focusing on growing to act as a model which would show the importance of this spring plowing.

    This was inevitable when production was low. If there wasn¡¯t enough of a harvest, most people would starve during the year.

    However, because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their various agricultural magic machines, the people of the Sines Continent no longer felt rushed when it came time for the spring plowing.

    Whether it was tilling the fields, nting the seeds, or spreading the fertilizer, the agricultural magic machines could do that job.

    The civilians withnd just needed to pay a bit of money and get those specializedpanies to do those things. They didn¡¯t need to care about it at all.

    Moreover, there weren¡¯t that many civilians that were willing to work on farming. After all,pared to working hard all day in the fields, it was better to work in the factories where a single day of ie was much higher than working in the fields.

    In the past Sines Continent, farming was most of people¡¯s lives and there was no division.

    But now, if the farmers weren¡¯t people from specializedpanies, they would be looked down on by others.

    Because only someone without any skills would reduce themselves to being a farmer. Doing that kind of work was very tiring and the ie wasn¡¯t high.

    With the development of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, there were countless jobs created.

    Every person on the continent, as long as they had the mindset, they could find work that was suitable for them.

    Even those that didn¡¯t know anything could be a worker on a production line.

    If they knew a bit of magic machine knowledge, they could be a skilled worker that received better treatment.

    If they had a certain understanding of magic, they could even enter the research department of variouspanies. Perhaps they might have a sh of genius that could bringrge benefits to thepanies.

    As for the aloof magicians, they no longer looked down on others waiting for the subsidies from the Magicians Guild or even starving to death. They actively studied the new magic theories and diligently acquired knowledge about magic machines, working hard to be a high grade magic mechanical engineer.

    No one was willing to bezy and no country was willing to ck off.

    However¡­¡­the Mana Magic Kingdom wasn¡¯t cking off because they had been forced into this situation.

    When the other countries were busy with their spring plowing, the Mana Magic Kingdom wasn¡¯t an exception.

    But with theck of agricultural magic machines, the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t figure out a way to fill the gaps even after racking their brains. Even when April was about to end, there were stillrge parts of the kingdom that hadn¡¯t been tilled.

    The civilians with other jobs disdained doing fruitless work like farming. The civilians without jobs that wanted to farm found that after they lost the agricultural magic machines, they didn¡¯t even know how to do farm work anymore.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s agricultural department were naturally worried about this because they knew that if there wasn¡¯t enough food, there wouldn¡¯t be any stability in their kingdom.

    But the agricultural department couldn¡¯t grab people to do farm work. Even if they took measures, they wouldn¡¯t be able to solve this problem.

    While the agricultural department and the parliament were having headaches over worrying about the spring plowing issue, there was a new cmity that came to the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    At the end of April, there wererge scale riots that appeared in three provinces of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    The riots directly attacked the government buildings, calling for the kingdom to give them back the rights to work.

    The reason was very simple, it was because a bunch of people lost their jobs¡­¡­

 Book 8: Chapter 44: Buying a ship

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 44: Buying a ship</h4>

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s full withdrawal, as time passed, the effects became more and more serious.

    In the beginning, there were just some factories and mines rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that closed. The Mana Magic Kingdom had already prepared for this ahead of time, so it didn¡¯t affect them that much.

    But because the various other races withdrew, as well as a bunch ofpanies from other countries, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s various factories that hadsted for several years also stopped production.

    Even if the Mana Magic Kingdom had made plenty of preparations, having thepanies of the country take over while also recruitingpanies of other countries to invest, losing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other heavy investingpanies, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry had been seriously damaged. It had even affected the other industries to varying degrees.

    The biggest influence and the most clear representation was the household magic machine industry.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies withdrew, the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t even produce the most basic Magic Fan. They eithercked aponent orcked a part for it.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom thought that they could rely on their own power to improve this system, but while these things seemed simple, they needed umtion of technology over a long period of time and an umtion of talented people. So no matter how hard the Mana Magic Kingdom tried, they found it hard to fill these gaps.

    Moreover, with the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdrawing, the magic machine industry rtedpanies in the Mana Magic Kingdom even found it hard to importponents from other countries.

    At the same time, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving the Mana Magic Kingdom thebel of ¡°untrustworthy¡±, the products of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯spanies had be untrustworthy products in the eyes of the people of the continent.

    This view wasn¡¯t limited just to magic machines, but also all the other products of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Even the several famous ssic products of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s thousand year history had been affected, with sales plummeting.

    As the matter stood, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯spanies couldn¡¯t produce products and found it hard to sell their products, so naturally it was hard to keep their business. Most of them announced that they were closing up shop.

    As a result, therge number of workers that had been recruited by thesepanies had suddenly be unemployed.

    If it was several decades ago or even ten years ago, the word ¡°unemployed¡± was a very new word for most people of the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Most people didn¡¯t have jobs in the first ce and were farmers that relied on theirnd to survive. How could they lose their jobs?

    But in the recent decade, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted the magic machine industry on the continent, the Mana Magic Kingdom had many magic machine industry rtedpanies pop up. This allowed the people who only knew how to till thend previously to enter factories and mines, gaining an ie that far surpassed anything they had before and allowing them to improve their lives.

    But now, they lost their jobs.

    There was a saying on earth about this. It was easy to go from being frugal to extravagance, but it was hard to go from extravagance to being frugal.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s people through these jobs had already gotten used to a much better life. Now that they had lost these jobs and their ie, they suddenly lost the foundation to a better life.

    They were naturally unwilling to go back to the field and even if they were willing, because most of thend under nobles had been booked by the specialized agriculturalpanies, there wasn¡¯t a share for them.

    So these people had suddenly lost all their sources of ie.

    So it was natural that riots urred.

    In the beginning, there were onlyrge scale riots in three provinces.

    But as the Mana Magic Kingdom failed to take effective countermeasures, the riots became bigger and bigger until it affected half their territory.

    It could be said that the current riots were as big as the wave of opposition towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it could even be considered bigger.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom had been considered stable and even prosperous, but now it was filled with turmoil.

    When the foreign newspapers reported on this, quite a few urately pointed out that the Mana Magic Kingdom had be like this because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s withdrawal.

    There were even some smaller newspapers that wrote that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was secretly pulling the strings. That was why the Mana Magic Kingdom was experiencing this kind ofrge scale riots.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce official channel didn¡¯t give a response to these usations.

    But in private¡­¡­

    ¡°They deserve this!¡± Chairman Cruise gave a disdainful cold snort, ¡°Who told these fellows not to obediently cooperate with you and have these small thoughts. The consequences that they are tasting now are all what they deserve. Don¡¯t you think so, Xu Yi?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head and found it a bit funny.

    In fact, he had chosen to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce withdraw from the Mana Magic Kingdom, other than some deeper considerations, was just to let them suffer.

    It wasn¡¯t wrong to say that the Mana Magic Kingdom got what they deserved since they didn¡¯t deliberately dy things, as well as taking small actions, even inciting the waves of opposition to negotiate terms with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t have made this decision.

    But chairman Cruise¡¯s appearance of schadenfreude and righteous indignation was taking it a bit too far.

    After he finished cursing the Mana Magic Kingdom, chairman Cruise gave a cough before asking, ¡°Speaking of this¡­¡­Xu Yi, are you really nning on not caring about the Mana Magic Kingdom? As long as you are willing, the Mana Magic Kingdom side would agree to any conditions you have.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him, ¡°Ourpany has publicly announced that we are fully withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, how can we go back on that?¡±

    Chairman Cruise pursed his lips as he revealed a look that showed he clearly thought otherwise.

    The announcement ofpanies was just like the words of the important people in politics, it was no different from nonsense.

    As long as there were enough benefits, those things could be flipped instantly. No one would find it strange at all.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce re-entered the Mana Magic Kingdom in the name of helping the citizens, it wouldn¡¯t be considered as going against their previous announcement. The Mana Magic Kingdom could just make a statementter and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be invited back. No one would even use the Frestech Chamber of Commerce of anything.

    It was impossible that Xu Yi didn¡¯t think of this, so why was he insisting on his previous decision?

    ¡°Don¡¯t look at me. Since I¡¯ve already decided to withdraw, I will withdraw.¡± Xu Yi could see what chairman Cruise was thinking and exined, ¡°Actually for your Amrit Chamber of Commerce, this is a good chance topletely dig into the Mana Magic Kingdom. Cruise, you can¡¯t miss it.¡±

    Chairman Cruise revealed an awkward smile, ¡°I never thought of this. Don¡¯t forget, our Amrit Chamber of Commerce was the first one to leave the Mana Magic Kingdom after your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. Although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had withdrawn after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement, they never stated that they would leave forever. They also didn¡¯t state that they would fully leave, they were just setting an example.

    If chairman Cruise wasn¡¯t tempted, the idea of putting one foot into the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s matters would be strange.

    ¡°Alright, the Mana Magic Kingdom matters aren¡¯t rted to me, so let¡¯s not waste time talking about this. Cruise, is your side prepared?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hearing that Xu Yi was asking about business, chairman Cruise¡¯s expression became serious as he said with a nod, ¡°It¡¯s already prepared and can set out at any time.¡±

    After a pause, he came a bit closer and asked with augh, ¡°That¡­¡­Xu Yi, our people are already prepared, but I¡¯m afraid that we don¡¯t have enough ships. Just relying on your Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport fleet might be a bit too much trouble for you, so how about¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°How about selling you a few ships?¡± Xu Yi finished his words with a smile.

    ¡°Ha¡­¡­Ha, ha¡­¡­If it¡¯s possible, naturally that would be best.¡± Chairman Cruise gave a few dryughs as he didn¡¯tpletely deny this.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he shook his head. He took a document from beside him to ce in front of chairman Cruise.

    ¡°Take a look. If you¡¯re satisfied, then you can sign it.¡±

    Chairman Cruise took it to take a look and found that it was a contract about sellingrge Magic Ships.

    After carefully looking it over, he found that this contract actually involved tenrge transport Magic Ships!

    Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with a look of pleasant surprise, ¡°This¡­¡­You¡­¡­You¡¯re actually nning on selling me ten ships at once?¡±

    Xu Yi reached out a hand and turned the contract to thest page before pointing at the final line.

    ¡°If you want it, sign. Stop wasting words.¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at it and without any hesitation, he signed his name on the final line.

    He had already worked with Xu Yi for thirty years, he didn¡¯t need to doubt that Xu Yi wouldy a trap for him in the contract.

    ¡°It¡¯s only ten for now, so you shouldn¡¯t think about getting more.¡± Xu Yi pulled out two more of the same contracts for chairman Cruise to sign, ¡°If you want more, wait until we finish our new shipyard. Perhaps then we can give you a bit more.¡±

    Chairman Cruise had a wide smile as he nodded, ¡°It¡¯s already enough for now to get ten. In the future¡­¡­of course it would be best if we could get more. As long as you¡¯re willing to sell, I¡¯ll take them all.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re thinking too much.¡± Xu Yi gave a snort, ¡°Even these ten were pulled from the Marlow Empire, Candra Empire, and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s quota for you. Do you really think there are that many?¡±

    Chairman Cruise¡¯s smile became even wider as it filled with deeper meaning.

    ¡°Xu Yi, I will always remember your care for our Amrit Chamber of Commerce. After we go to the Magic Cloud Continent, I will definitely make my subordinates go all out and make sure that they don¡¯t hinder you.¡±

    ¡°Actually, the situation on the Magic Cloud Continent is much simpler than the Sines Continent, so it¡¯s easier to do things. There aren¡¯t any hindrances at all.¡± Xu Yi stopped for a bit before continuing, ¡°After I arrive on that side, I might need to make some changes based on the situation. You should prepare yourself.¡±

    Chairman Cruise nodded in response and when he wanted to say something, he suddenly reacted by looking at Xu Yi with wide eyes.

    ¡°You¡¯re going as well?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 45: Leaving the Sines Continent

    Book 8: Chapter 45: Leaving the Sines Continent

    Speaking of it, it was a bit unbelievable and a bitughable.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had discovered the Magic Cloud Continent over ten years ago. They had continued to develop the Magic Cloud Continent over the years and even controlled arge area on the Magic Cloud Continent, so they could be considered deeply rooted there.

    But Xu Yi as the chairman had never once gone to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Seeing the surprised look on chairman Cruise¡¯s face, Xu Yi gave a nod and a soft reply.

    ¡°I should go and take a look. Ourpany has invested so much into the Magic Cloud Continent and if I as the chairman don¡¯t go take a look, it wouldn¡¯t be right.¡±

    Chairman Cruise shook his head.

    There didn¡¯t seem to be any problems with Xu Yi¡¯s logic, but it really wasn¡¯t rted to his sudden decision to go to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    He wanted to hear Xu Yi¡¯s true reasoning.

    ¡°Actually, the reason is¡­..that thest ten years was important for the development of thepany and the Sines Continent. I didn¡¯t want any changes to happen because I left for some time.¡±

    ¡°Then you feel that there¡¯s no problem leaving now?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°No problems.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with doubt.

    He didn¡¯t believe Xu Yi¡¯s exnation.

    If it was said that in the past ten years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in an important period of development, that wasn¡¯t wrong.

    But to say that it was so important that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t even leave the Sines Continent was a little exaggerated.

    Moreover, even if this was true, thetter half of Xu Yi¡¯s words weren¡¯t true.

    The current Sines Continent seemed calm on the surface and everyone was focused on development during these ten years.

    But chairman Cruise had already heard about the waves underneath.

    Just take the Mana Magic Kingdom that everyone cared about now, many things had happened because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯splete withdrawal.

    Any changes in the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t avoid being rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But for Xu Yi, the important decision maker of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to leave the Sines Continent now, that wasn¡¯t a good choice for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi decided to go to the Magic Cloud Continent now, but Xu Yi clearly didn¡¯t exin his idea, so he had no other choice.

    After a moment of silence, chairman Cruise threw out the doubt in his mind and turned his attention to a more important matter rted to him.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you said that you got these ten ships from the two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom. This¡­..does that mean that they are slowing down their development of the seas and the new continent? Otherwise, they wouldn¡¯t give up the chance to get even a single Magic Ship, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, although they didn¡¯t clearly state it, based on their actions, it should be like this.¡± Xu Yi gave a certain answer.

    Chairman Cruise was filled with doubt again.

    ¡°Why? Didn¡¯t they want to participate in developing the new continent the entire time? Why would they actually back down at such a good chance?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because they feel it¡¯s more worth it to pay attention to the Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Sines Continent?¡± Chairman Cruise knitted his brows to think for a bit, but he couldn¡¯t think of a single thing.

    But seeing the teasing smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, chairman Cruise had a bad premonition.

    After working with Xu Yi for all these years, chairman Cruise naturally knew that Xu Yi had his own goal in doing all this.

    But this time, starting from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing that they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom, Xu Yi had done a series of things that chairman Cruise couldn¡¯t understand.

    Xu Yi clearly had his own considerations. If he couldn¡¯t guess his real ideas, it would be a hindrance to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s future development.

    But after thinking for a bit, chairman Cruise suddenly calmed down.

    Why would he care about what Xu Yi wanted to do?

    After all these years, didn¡¯t he understand one thing?

    It was that as long as he hugged Xu Yi¡¯s thigh and followed him, he would gain the biggest benefits and would never miss out on anything.

    Although he didn¡¯t know what Xu Yi was thinking this time, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly decided to invest in the Magic Cloud Continent and Xu Yi was even personally going, what was there to hesitate over?

    He would just follow Xu Yi to the Magic Cloud Continent!

    Thinking of this, the doubt and anxiety vanished from chairman Cruise¡¯s face. Heughed as he said, ¡°The two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom have such short sight and shallow eyes, staring at the Sines Continent all day. They¡¯ve forgotten that this world doesn¡¯t just have a single continent. They will definitely regret missing this chance.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°That¡¯s their matter, it¡¯s not rted to me.¡±

    ###

    A monthter, a fleet of five Magic Airships quickly flew across the endless seas at a location that was six thousand kilometers away from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    Xu Yi looked at the distant sea through the window and he felt a bit emotional.

    When he was still on earth, because he often traveled for business, it was normal for him to ride on airnes. He would regrly travel across the ocean and would see the scene of the sea underneath him often.

    However, aftering to this world, even after he had developed the Magic Airships and he rode on the Magic Airships many times, traveling over the seas in a Magic Airship to another continent like this was the first time for him.

    It was no wonder chairman Cruise would be surprised that he would suddenly go to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    After all, in the past ten years, he was confident in going to the Magic Cloud Continent, but he had never gone. Now that the situation on the continent was this tense, he as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman had decided to go to the Magic Cloud Continent ten thousand kilometers away. It would have shocked anyone who heard it.

    For example, after Seveni received Xu Yi¡¯s message, she immediately contacted Xu Yi and anxiously questioned Xu Yi on what he wanted to do.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s answer was very rxed and ambiguous. Seveni couldn¡¯t get any real answers, but she couldn¡¯t do anything.

    The two empires also sent people to contact the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after learning this news. Although they didn¡¯t state it clearly, it was clear that they cared very much about Xu Yi suddenly leaving the Sines Continent.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this through the ?Frestech Times?, countless countries and powers came looking for them to ask about this situation.

    The major newspapers even put the news of Xu Yi leaving the Sines Continent and heading to the Magic Cloud Continent on the front page, showing just how much influence this matter had.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s team being sent to the Magic Cloud Continent held a press conference, representatives from countless newspapers came to attend.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce went against the norm and announced their itinerary ahead of time. They invited everyone toe and watch as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airship squad departed.

    With countless people watching, Xu Yi boarded this Magic Airship and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s team left the Sines Continent.

    When he thought of the lively scene, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Even if he boarded the Magic Airship in front of all those people and flew away from the Sines Continent, he was certain that in the hearts of many people, he didn¡¯t really leave.

    Of course, these guesses would only be temporary.

    After a while, when Xu Yi didn¡¯t make any appearances, the doubt in the hearts of these people will fade.

    When that timees, these people will start making moves.

    Thinking of the matter of the Mana Magic Kingdom half a month ago, the smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face became deeper.

    Half a month ago, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s riots became even more intense. There was a province that had its governor killed and the people who took over the government announced that they would be separating from the Mana Magic Kingdom, bing self governing.

    When announcing their independence, the new rulers of this province attacked the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s previous policies. They stated that the kingdom¡¯s rulers were fools which led to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leaving the Mana Magic Kingdom, which also caused the current problems in the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    So the new ruler stated that his new self governing state would greatly wee the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and otherpanies woulde back to build a better country¡­¡­

    Naturally, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t express any views.

    Rather, it was the other countries that supported this view and reprimanded the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s approach.

    These fellows were anxious to stir up trouble.

    After such a serious event happened in the Mana Magic Kingdom, even more oil was added into the mes of chaos.

    When Xu Yi left, thetest news was that the Mana Magic Kingdom had already stopped the rebel army and was about to quell the rebellion.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have a chance to see this battle, but he could guess putting down this rebellion wouldn¡¯t be that easy.

    Because of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s previous policies, they had lost the support of their citizens. Moreover, it was clear that many countries wanted to see the Mana Magic Kingdom fall into even more chaos, so they would manipte things from behind the curtain.

    Of course, Xu Yi had decided to stay out of this matter and not care about it.

    On a even deeper level, the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s current situation was deliberately caused by him.

    Even him announcing on a grand scale that he was leaving the Sines Continent was something that he had long nned out.

    Of course, now that he was several thousand kilometers away from the Sines Continent, even Xu Yi couldn¡¯t guarantee what kind of things would happen after he left.

 Book 8: Chapter 46: High altitude experiment

    Book 8: Chapter 46: High altitude experiment

    After around half an hour, there was arge piece ofnd that appeared on the sea under the Magic Airships.

    When one came closer, they would find that it was a giant ind. It was more than ten times bigger than all the smaller inds they had seen along the way.

    Moreover, it was different from the scattered inds on the seas that showed no signs of being inhabited. On this giant ind, one could see buildings and a small harbour by the shore, which showed that this ce was ruled by someone.

    In the northeast corner of the ind, there was arge area that was leveled. The Magic Airshipnded in this area after arriving at the ind.

    Xu Yi and his group came out of the Magic Airships, but he saw that it wasn¡¯t a familiar person that came to greet him.

    ¡°Where¡¯s Akali?¡± Xu Yi asked the overseasmunication research department¡¯s vice chief Doron who came to greet him and his group.

    This ind was the overseas base that Akali had chosen to study outer space magicmunications on.

    Sinceing back to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to recruit some research assistants and bringing them here, half a year had already passed.

    Because there wasn¡¯t any real outer space magicmunications yet, Akali had only been able to pass information to the fleet that came once a month to bring supplies during her half a year here and hadn¡¯t left this ind.

    ording to the information she sent, through half a year of research, she had already solved most of the difficult problems. She would soon be able to build an outer space ry station and allow real time magicmunication between the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Of course, before Akali brought the team here, this overseas base had already been prepared two years in advance. Otherwise, the buildings on this ind couldn¡¯t have been built in just half a year.

    The other research had already beenpleted.

    Akali brought her team here just for the final experiments.

    However, these final experiments took up a lot of time, effort, and money.

    Just in this half a year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already invested over six million gold coins of materials on this ind.

    ¡°Chief Akali and the dragon friends are at the final stage of experiments and debugging above here.¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, vice chief Doron carefully looked at Xu Yi¡¯s expression and asked, ¡°Do you need me to tell her that sir chairman is here?¡±

    ¡°Above?¡± Xu Yi looked up at the sky, but he only saw the clear sky and couldn¡¯t see a single trace of Akali.

    After thinking about it, he shook his head and gave an order, ¡°No need, I will go find herter. Take care of the guests first.¡±

    ¡°Guests?¡± Doron looked behind Xu Yi with a surprised look.

    There were several female elves that came out of the Magic Airships. There were also several dozen fully armed male elves who looked like guards.

    It seemed like the guests Xu Yi mentioned should be them.

    Doron was a bit confused.

    Although thest supply fleet had told them that sir chairman would be personallying soon, they never mentioned any elven guests.

    This overseas base should be considered a secret base for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Why would sir chairman bring outsiders here?

    Of course, while Doron had doubts in his heart, he didn¡¯t show it on his face at all. He waved his hand and had his subordinatese to wee them.

    After some greetings, the elves went to settle down as per Doron¡¯s arrangements. Xu Yi didn¡¯t follow Doron¡¯s arrangements and after asking a few things, he used his magic to fly into the air.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current strong level of magic, in an instant, he already reached a thousand meters in the air.

    Looking down, the giant ind had already turned into a small dot.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t stop as he continued flying upwards while taking out a Magic Communicator and calling Akali¡¯s personal number.

    ¡°Hey¡­¡­Hey¡­¡­Sir¡­¡­Chairman¡­¡­Are you¡­¡­Are you here?¡±

    Akali¡¯s unclear voice came in a broken manner from the Magic Communicator.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows, but he wasn¡¯t that surprised.

    Akali had already told him that the current magic signal method had already fallen behind and would be limited.

    For example, being at a high altitude. Because the density of elemental magic energy at high altitudes was different from below, it would affect themunication signal and the quality of the call would be affected.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t rely on this to contact Akali. He sensed the magic signal waves that came from the Magic Communicator and easily located Akali¡¯s current position.

    After using his magic power, Xu Yi appeared at an altitude that was even further away from the ground.

    In front of Xu Yi, other than Akali who had a proud smile were several gigantic dragons.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, I was just nning on sending a dragon friend to pick you up.¡± Akali expanded the magic barrier around her to cover Xu Yi as well, so the two of them could talk without any hindrances.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need for that.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and looked at the dragons that were circling around in the sky before asking, ¡°What are they doing?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re testing the elemental magic energy fluctuations in this area and gathering data.¡± Akali pointed at the dragons, ¡°Look, there¡¯s a giant ck sensor on their backs. We can collect data with that.¡±

    Xu Yi focused his eyes and saw that there really was arge metallic box on the back of each dragon. There were also an ugly looking antenna that came from it which really looked strange whenbined with their giant bodies.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi¡¯s lips couldn¡¯t help twitching as he wanted tough.

    Whether it was the fantasy novels from earth or the legends of different races on the Sines Continent, the dragons had always been described as terrifying creatures.

    They were naturally powerful and had strong tempers, so they only represented destruction in the minds of other races and never left any good impressions.

    However, these dragons were now carrying strange machines on their backs and flying around in the sky as per Akali¡¯s directions.

    If the people of the Sines Continent knew about this, their impression of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be filled with even more fear?

    Seeing Xu Yi looking at the dragons with a strange look on his face, Akali misunderstood what Xu Yi was thinking and exined, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. If we humans go, our flight magic would be disrupted by the elemental magic fluctuations in the air and it would be hard to obtain precise data. That is why we can only let the dragons go. If they fly around with their naturally talented bodies, it isn¡¯t a problem.¡±

    ¡°Naturally talented bodies?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the extremely fat bodies of the dragons and thought that these fellows didn¡¯t fit the ideal flight form that he had learned about in biology ss. Moreover, they hardly pped their wings during flight, so how could they remain flying?

    ¡°Actually, there¡¯s no need for our dragon friends to work this hard. You can just use the aerostat first and then improve on the gathered data. The results would be better than what they are now.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°If that was possible, that would be good. But the aerostat hasn¡¯t been finished yet and my research has already reached this step, so our group can¡¯t just stay here doing nothing, right?¡± Akali had a bit ofint in her voice.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°The aviation department is working very hard. Look, didn¡¯t I bring the aerostat for you this time?¡±

    Akali¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°It¡¯s done? Great! Where is it? I want to test it immediately! I can¡¯t wait¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Calm down.¡± Xu Yi pressed her down, ¡°It¡¯s already been transported, so don¡¯t be in a rush to use it. First call the dragon friends back. With the aerostat, there¡¯s no need for them to work this hard.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Akali replied before flying over.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    Akali was already close to fifty, but she was still like a little girl. She really wouldn¡¯t change no matter what he said.

    Not long after, the dragons stopped and flew with Akali back in front of Xu Yi.

    One of the dragons wasn¡¯t carrying a metal box on her back. She changed after flying in front of Xu Yi, turning into the form of a human girl. It was the first dragon that Xu Yi met.¡±

    ¡°Hey, miss Cassandra, hello.¡± Xu Yi greeted her with a smile.

    Cassandra tilted her head to look at Xu Yi for a bit before asking Akali with a confused look, ¡°Who is this?¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes, ¡°This is our sir chairman, didn¡¯t you meet him before?¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­Sorry, you humans are all the same in my eyes and I couldn¡¯t recognize you.¡± Cassandra replied without any hint of apology. After hesitating a bit, she reached out to Xu Yi, ¡°Hello, chairman Xu, I¡¯m very happy to meet you again.¡±

    Xu Yi took her hand with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

    ¡°Miss Cassandra, after not seeing each other for several years, you seem much more skilled in our human formalitiespared to before.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 47: Illusion Films about dragons

    Book 8: Chapter 47: Illusion Films about dragons

    Cassandra gave a shrug, ¡°Of course, I¡¯ve always been with humans during these years, so it would be strange if I wasn¡¯t.¡± After saying this, she turned to Akali, ¡°Don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Akali gave augh, ¡°Yes. Cassandra is with me all day long, so I¡¯ve taught her some of the necessary formalities between humans.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Cassandra. He thought that after Akali arrived on the Magic Cloud Continent, it really was a surprise that she was able to be good friends with this red dragon Cassandra.

    Looking at the two of them, their rtionship was even better than some human best friends.

    Moreover, because of Akali¡¯s rtionship with Cassandra, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to slowly build a cooperation with the red dragon tribe Cassandra was from and the ck dragon tribe the ck dragon Leon was from.

    ¡°Miss Cassandra, this ce is several thousand kilometers away from where you live. You and your nsmen are here to help Akali, don¡¯t you find it¡­¡­troublesome?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°What is troublesome about it?¡± Cassandra revealed a confused look, ¡°There¡¯s good food here, good things to y with, and your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is paying us. Even if we want to go back, it¡¯s just flying for a few days, so why would it be troublesome?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the other dragons and found that it was impossible to see any emotions for their dragon faces. He gave a cough before turning to Akali, ¡°How are you paying these dragon friends?¡±

    Akali gave augh, ¡°It¡¯s very simple, I just make sure that they have Illusion Films to watch.¡±

    Xu Yi was speechless.

    This was considered paying them?

    However, Cassandra kept nodding with glowing eyes.

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s enough as long as there are good films to watch! Moreover, because this ce is closer to the Sines Continent, we can see the new films earlier than those fellows back at home. Every time we go back, they are filled with envy. Ha, ha¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Cassandra who wasughing and the dragons who seemed like they wereughing even though it seemed like roaring, Xu Yi suddenly understood what they meant. This caused his world view to copse¡­¡­

    ¡°Miss Cassandra, I came with good news this time that I¡¯m sure that you will like.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡±

    ¡°Ke¡­¡­Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is nning on increasing our investment in the Magic Cloud Continent and are preparing to build a Magic Illusion Projector factory on the Magic Cloud Continent.¡±

    Cassandra gave a blink, but she didn¡¯t seem that happy.

    ¡°Our nsmen already have your Magic Illusion Projectors, so how is your factory rted to us?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°The Magic Illusion equipment isn¡¯t just the Magic Illusion Projector, but also therge Magic Illusion Projector, the real time projection equipment, and many other Magic Illusion functions. With these things, if your nsmen want, you could even film your own Magic Illusion Film.¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s eyes popped out, clearly showing how excited she was.

    ¡°Really? We can also make Illusion Films?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands with a smile, ¡°My wife¡­..Oh, she¡¯s the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. I think that there¡¯s no need for me to introduce the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Seeing Cassandra give a nod, Xu Yi continued, ¡°She always wanted to promote the Magic Illusion Films on the Magic Cloud Continent and even came for an inspection before. Onlyst time she thought that the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s conditions weren¡¯t good enough yet, so there wasn¡¯t much she could do. But this time, she thinks that the time is right. She is nning on promoting the Magic Illusion Film on the Magic Cloud Continent now. If your dragon race is interested, you can participate in this n and learn how to produce Illusion Films.¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s willing to teach us?¡± Cassandra doubtfully asked, ¡°Don¡¯t you humans like to hide your good things and not share it with others?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her and thought that dragons cared more about collecting treasures than humans.

    ¡°If it¡¯s beneficial to everyone, we humans are naturally willing to share. How about it? Cassandra, are you interested?¡±

    Cassandra thought about it before giving a strong nod.

    ¡°Of course. Although the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Illusion Films are good to watch, most of them are stories between humans and the other races rarely appear, but we¡¯ve never seen us dragons before. If we also know how to make Illusion Films, I would definitely make an Illusion Film about a story about us dragons!¡±

    ¡°If there was such an Illusion Film, I think that it would definitely be very popr in our human world.¡± Xu Yi said whileughing.

    By discussing Illusion Films, Xu Yi quickly became closer with the dragons.

    Moreover, Cassandra was a dragon without any plots. With Akali as an intermediary, Xu Yi quickly became closer to her.

    When he and Akali returned to the ind with the dragons, they were happily talking to each other.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, after the New Moon Chamber of Commerce arrives on the Magic Cloud Continent, you have to contact me immediately.¡±

    Before leaving, Cassandra gave a special reminder to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Alright, no problem.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile. After watching Cassandra and the other red dragons who had turned into human forms return to their residences on the ind, he looked at the vast sky before asking Akali, ¡°I¡¯ll be here for around a month, can you take care of it by then?¡±

    Akali gave a hand gesture to assure him.

    ¡°A month is more than enough time. Actually, I¡¯ve already prepared everything, I was just waiting for the aerostat. I just need to get some data and then I can definitely get it done.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Then that¡¯s good.¡±

    Actually, Xu Yi didn¡¯t think that a single month was enough to take care of this work that seemed simple but was actually veryplicated. Still, since Akali was confident, he wouldn¡¯t pour a bucket of cold water on her.

    ¡°Actually¡­¡­if it wasn¡¯t for the energy department not making much progress, we wouldn¡¯t need to use this method of using high altitude magic signals.¡±

    Akali gave a helpless sigh, ¡°There¡¯s no other way. It¡¯s like sir chairman normally says, the magic machine industry is aplete system. It relies on one part clicking into another part. Look, if we can achieve outer space magic signal transfer, wouldn¡¯t we be able to watch the Magic Illusion programs from the Sines Continent at any time?¡±

    After saying this, Akali had a thought and looked up at the sky.

    ¡°Speaking of this¡­¡­sir chairman, was what you said before true? As long as we reach a certain speed, we could leave the under us and fly off into the universe?¡±

    ¡°Of course. As long as your speed meets or passes the first escape velocity, you can leave the under us. But this still requires us to study the under us to get the data about this to urately calcte that value. This is a veryplex project, so even if the energy department made a breakthrough, it isn¡¯t something that can be done in a short period of time.¡±

    ¡°As long as I think of your description of looking at this from outer space, I feel excited.¡± Akali had a charmed look, ¡°That experience must be very mysterious! I must personally experience it in this lifetime!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯ve been in the sky these past few days, you should have already seen half the, right?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s far from enough.¡± Akali pursed her lips, ¡°Sir chairman told us before that there¡¯s a giant sphere under our feet, but I still don¡¯t believe it. Although the fleet that sailed around the world proved this, without personally seeing it, it really is a concept that is hard to understand. But I¡¯ve been working at that high altitude these past few days with the dragon friends and looking around, I saw that thend under us really was round, which really was strange.¡±

    After saying this, Akali had a look of doubt appear on her face.

    ¡°You said that¡­..there should have been many magicians that flew into the air before and clearly saw what I saw, so why didn¡¯t any of them discover that there was a sphere under our feet and not a t piece ofnd?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, it¡¯s because they never thought of this before. Moreover, why would a magician fly that high for no reason?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­That is right, only sir chairman who has nothing better to do would consider this question.¡±

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry as he shook his head, ¡°Alright, we can consider the matter of flying into the skyter. My staying here for a month isn¡¯t just to help you build this signal ry, but also for other important things, so I can¡¯t always stay on this ind. But since I¡¯m here, you can raise any questions or issues that you have, I will do my best to answer them.¡±

    Akali gave a nod and didn¡¯t really care about Xu Yi¡¯s promise.

    Anyway, even if Xu Yi didn¡¯te, the research team that she led had always been treated well by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But she did care about the ¡°other important matters¡± that Xu Yi mentioned.

    ¡°Is it rted to the elves that came this time?¡±

    ¡°Pretty much.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh, ¡°The matter this time isn¡¯t just rted to just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It might be rted to all humans and all other races.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s that important?¡± Akali¡¯s eyes opened wide in shock, ¡°Just what is it?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Akali and after thinking of how she was always with Cassandra, he felt that he didn¡¯t need to hide this matter from her.

    ¡°Akali, have you ever heard Cassandra mention the Abyss Demon Race before?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 48: Ruins

    Book 8: Chapter 48: Ruins

    Six dayster, Xu Yi appeared at a normal looking ind that was two hundred kilometers northwest of the foreign base.

    ¡°Where are the ruins?¡± When the Magic Airship stopped, Xu Yi asked Santander, who was in charge of this Magic Airship squad, this question.

    This ind was that big and one couldn¡¯t see anything special about it when one looked down from above.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look over there¡­¡­¡± Santander pointed at a spot on the ind through the window of the Magic Airship, ¡°Do you see that? There are some very big trees over there and that¡¯s where we discovered the ruins. It¡¯s just under those trees.¡±

    ¡°Un, then prepare to move.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He turned to look around himself, seeing the excited looking Akali and elder Undine who had a more serious expression than usual, ¡°Elder Undine, you are more familiar with these ruins, is there anything you need to say?¡±

    Xu Yi had led the Frestech Chamber of Commerce team out of the main base with the expressed goal of leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But the secret goal was one toe to the base that Akali was at to ask about their research progress, while two, it was to explore the Abyss Demon Race ruins that were in this area.

    The Abyss Demon Race, Xu Yi¡¯s first time hearing it was from Arch Magus Cami, but he learned more about them from Cassandra.

    But his true first understanding of them came from elder Undine.

    The Azshara Tribe inherited the mostplete inheritance out of all the elf tribes of the Sines Continent and had inheritances from the elven royal court. Naturally they knew more about the history of the continentpared to others.

    When Xu Yi asked elder Undine about the Abyss Demon Race, the information he received far surpassed his expectations.

    ording to the information elder Undine provided, the Abyss Demon Race was a powerful race that ruled the continent before the elves.

    Because of internal problems, the Abyss Demon Race was seriously injured and their poption drastically decreased, evening close to going extinct.

    It was said that for the survival of the Abyss Demon Race, they arrived in the endless seas with their powerful abilities and opened a passage to another world. They left this world and since then, not a single trace of them had been found.

    As for the possibility of the Abyss Demon Race returning to this world that Arch Magus Cami mentioned, elder Undine said that the possibility was very low.

    Because the Abyss Demon Race had already left this world for ten thousand years and if they had the ability or were willing toe back, then they would havee back already.

    Since there hasn¡¯t been any news of the Abyss Demon Race appearing in this world after all this time, it could be said that they hadpletely vanished.

    Xu Yi was very disappointed with this answer.

    Through the rumours he heard about the Abyss Demon Race and the records of the Abyss Demon Race the elves had, Xu Yi was certain that the Abyss Demon Race was a very developed race that had powerful technology.

    Just the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s ¡°Apocalypse War¡± recorded in elven legend was enough to prove this.

    In the descriptions of this ¡°Apocalypse War¡±, quite a few text stated that the Abyss Demon Race used their most powerful weapons on themselves in their civil war, which caused most of the Abyss Demon Race to be destroyed, greatly decreasing their poption.

    It was for this reason that the Abyss Demon Race went to another world through the passage.

    In the few records and legends, it all stated that the Abyss Demon Race felt that this world wasn¡¯t suited for their survival, so they left.

    The so-called ¡°Apocalypse War¡± made Xu Yi think of the end of the world scenarios described in the novels of earth.

    The legendary ¡°most powerful weapon¡±, it wouldn¡¯t be the same as the nukes from earth, right?

    The novels and movies of earth always described a nuclear war starting on earth before the world ended. Humans lost all their space to live in and could only do their best to survive.

    Were the records of the Abyss Demon Race like this?

    So Xu Yi became even more interested in the Abyss Demon Race.

    It was a good thing that elder Undine provided Xu Yi with a pleasant surprise. The elves actually knew about ruins that the Abyss Demon Race had left!

    ording to elder Undine¡¯s exnations, the elves appeared over ten thousand years ago on the continent, but after they appeared, they were enved by the Abyss Demon Race. They were used as the lowest form ofbour to survive.

    After the Apocalypse War, when the Abyss Demon Race felt that it wasn¡¯t suitable for them to continue living on the continent, it was the elves that helped them build the passage. So the ancestors of the elves had left a record of this.

    But these records had been passed down verbally and weren¡¯t urate.

    But some could be confirmed since the descriptions in the legends were simr.

    Most of them were about the Abyss Demon Race leaving this world.

    In these records, the most important ones were the records from the elven ancestors on where the location of the transmission passage was.

    After elder Undine spent a long time studying this, Xu Yi confirmed that the location of the transmission gate that the Abyss Demon Race left by was near Sky Ind.

    Akali chose Sky Ind as a research base, other than it being a suitable ce to do high altitude tests, was mainly because of Xu YI¡¯s personal request.

    Xu Yi hadn¡¯t exined to Akali why he chose to do this, but after Xu Yi told Akali about the ¡°Abyss Demon Race¡± six days ago, he had told her everything else.

    Akali was a person that liked to search for novel things and after learning about this matter, naturally she wouldn¡¯t let go even if she was beaten to death.

    ¡°There¡¯s not much to say.¡± Elder Undine shook her head, ¡°The Abyss Demon Race has already left this world for ten thousand years. Even if there is such a thing, it would have lost its effects by now. Of course, it isn¡¯t wrong for everyone to be a bit more careful.¡±

    ¡°Un, that¡¯s right.¡± Xu Yi thought about it and found that there wasn¡¯t anything else good to add, so he just waved his hand, ¡°Let¡¯s set out. But remember my orders, act carefully.¡±

    The group all agreed to this before carefully leaving the Magic Airship as a small squad.

    There were two elven warriors and two Frestech Chamber of Commerce magicians in the front. With the strong senses of the elves and the human magicians, if anything happened, they would be able to react immediately and they would be able to find if anything unnatural was in front of them.

    Xu Yi and elder Undine, who were the strongest in this team, focused their minds and controlled the magic space around them. Once anything happened, they would be able to react immediately.

    However, facts proved that they had been a bit too careful.

    Coming from the beach where the Magic Airships were to the trees at the center of the ind, other than meeting some small beasts, they didn¡¯t see anything else, let alone any danger.

    Of course, if there really was any danger, it would have been impossible for the team that sent before to find the ruins so easily.

    After a while, the team safely arrived under the thick trees.

    Xu Yi looked over and found that there was a special open space under the trees that was different from the surrounding areas.

    The open space was in a square shape and was built from special stone tes,pletely cutting off the grass on the side, which looked very jarring when one looked at it.

    In this stone area that was around the size of a basketball field was a thick pir.

    This pir was even thicker than the trees that were as thick as two people. It seemed like it was made of stone, but it also seemed like it was made of metal. One couldn¡¯t tell what it was made of with just a single look.

    The pir was very smooth and didn¡¯t have a single seam, which immediately indicated that it was manmade.

    This pir was around ten meters tall and had a sphere in a perfect shape on top that was made of a different material from the pir. It looked like it was more metallicpared to the pir.

    Other than this, there wasn¡¯t anything special about this sphere.

    ¡°Elder Undine, do you know what this is?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Elder Undine shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know. In the records passed down, it only said that there were ruins here and it didn¡¯t say anything else. I¡¯m guessing that¡­¡­the elven ancestors weren¡¯t clear on what this thing was or the principles behind it.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded to show his agreement.

    The elven ancestors from ten thousand years ago had just appeared on the continent and had been used asbour by the Abyss Demon Race, naturally they didn¡¯t have the same knowledge as the Abyss Demon Race. It was natural that they didn¡¯t know what this was for.

    ¡°There isn¡¯t even a single trace of magic on it, just what is it for?¡± Akali patted the pir, but the pir didn¡¯t move at all.

    ¡°What the Abyss Demon Race used might not be magic.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a smile. Then he had a thought and came up to the pir, suddenly pping it.

    Akali rolled her eyes at him, ¡°You¡¯re saying that the Abyss Demon Race didn¡¯t use magic, but you¡¯re also checking with magic at the same time. Don¡¯t you feel that you¡¯re lying to yourself and everyone else?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°That might not be true.¡±

    As he used his magic power, he started gathering the elemental magic energy around him.

    Although the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s technology might not be rted to magic, no matter what, they still utilized energy.

    Magic was just a special energy application method, with the biggest advantage of being flexible.

    Of course Xu Yi didn¡¯t know what this pir was used for, but he had a bit of hope when he used magic to investigate it.

 Book 8: Chapter 49: Precise machinery

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 49: Precise machinery</h4>

    On the current Sines Continent, the understanding of magic was no longer as simple as using magic power to gather elemental magic energy and forming spells.

    With the scientific view of magic that Xu Yi proposed, the magicians of the Sines Continent were getting deeper and deeper into the essence of magic.

    The most clear example was that any kind of magic would now be supported by countless precise data sets. They no longer used fuzzy concepts such as ¡°feelings¡± and ¡°seeing what was most suitable¡±.

    Take the most simple fireball spell. When it came to the fireball spell, one would need the elemental magic energy concentration, the method of forming the fireball, the speed of concentrating energy to form the temperature of the fireball, the size, the shape, etc¡­¡­Differentplicated and precise data that was necessary.

    Moreover, this data would be adjusted for different magicians, so it was much harder to study fireballspared to before.

    But the benefit was that as long as you grasped this method, it would be equal to grasping the fireball spell. It would even give you a deeper understanding of Fire Magic which would make studying other magic much easier.

    Of course, there were few magicians on the continent that would be like before, learning these ¡°fireballs¡±, ¡°water arrows¡±, or ¡°rock throw¡± elemental spells because they yed no use in the magic machine industry.

    What everyone needed to study was much moreplicated than this.

    Like now, if it was the past, Xu Yi would have used his magic power to affect the elemental magic energy around him if he wanted to use magic to check this pir, getting a response from it. This would be nothing more than a feedback in terms of magic.

    However, after Xu Yi decided to check with magic, he had Akali pull out a machine first before putting several probes on the pir. Then he put his hand on the pir and slowly and urately started releasing his magic power.

    In fact, this work could be done with the magic alone.

    But because they didn¡¯t know anything about the pir and it was something left by the Abyss Demon Race, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t assured in using the machine alone and decided to personally do the investigation.

    As a powerful Arch Magus, his ability to control elemental magic energy wasn¡¯t as strong, urate, or as flexible as the machine, but once something happened, he would be able to react immediately.

    Xu Yi¡¯s magic power was strictly speaking a mental force that was released that affected the elemental magic energy around him, which gathered around the pir.

    After this elemental magic energy reached a certain point, Xu Yi stopped. He started changing the frequency of the magic and trying to get different reactions from it.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research from eight years ago, changing the frequency of magic power could change the frequency of the elemental magic energy. The different elemental magic energy fluctuations would create different energy waves which also created different forms of energy.

    To go even deeper, it was rted to the Nuclear Magic Energy.

    But there was no need to go that deep right now. Xu Yi just needed to use another special characteristic of this theory.

    Through his studies, Xu Yi found that elemental magic energy of different frequencies could actually take all forms of energy that he was aware of.

    For example, the electricity that was used on earth was actually magic that came from the higher grade Wind Magic, Lightning Magic.

    The only issue was that when magicians used Lightning Magic in the past, they didn¡¯t pay any attention to the voltage or the current. Only after Xu Yi noticed this and requested that the magic research facility investigate this that they had be able to control the current like on earth.

    He could even use this electric current to light up a tungsten fment.

    Of course, in front of the simpler and more convenient Magic Lamp, an electricmp was more inefficient and cost more, so Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t waste time with this.

    But through this research, Xu Yi had a deeper understanding of magic.

    He believed that as long as they maintained this deeper research, magic that seemed very backwards could biome as advanced as modern technology on earth.

    Now going back to the topic of Xu Yi¡¯s investigation.

    ording to previous research, he could rely on his super precise control of elemental magic energy to create countless forms of energy.

    His thought was to use these different forms of energy to incite the pir and see if there were any responses.

    In the beginning, there wasn¡¯t a single response from the pir. It was like it was made of ordinary stone and it wouldn¡¯t move no matter what Xu Yi did.

    However, when Xu Yi increased the elemental magic energy to the third magnitude and used electricity again, there was a faint glow that appeared around the pir.

    Akali who was a bit bored, elder Undine, and the others on the side all called out in surprise as their eyes popped out.

    Akali quickly looked at the data on the machine and loudly said, ¡°The elemental magic energy is at 3.7 Evs, frequency 25.391 hertz, 193.37 degrees, wave band¡­¡­¡±

    A bunch of confusing data came out, but Xu Yi quickly understood what it meant. He adjusted his magic power and released the same elemental magic energy form from before.

    As expected, there was the same faint glow around the pir.

    But this glow was too weak and if everyone hadn¡¯t been staring at it, they would have missed it.

    Akali knitted his brows to think before asking Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, should we increase the intensity?¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod before gathering more elemental magic energy to inject into the pir.

    As he condensed more and more elemental magic energy, the glow became brighter and brighter.

    When the glow became a bit dazzling, Xu Yi stopped.

    However, everyone who was looking at the pir found that other than glowing, there were no changes with the pir.

    ¡°Sir chairman, should we increase the voltage again?¡± Akali suggested.

    Xu Yi hesitated.

    If this pir was hiding a precise instrument that needed electric energy, if they kept increasing the voltage, it might damage the internal structure.

    After thinking for a bit, he decided to change his method.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t increase the voltage, but rather scattered some elemental magic energy and decreased the voltage. Then he carefully controlled the elemental magic energy to form a wisp of weak electricity that he sent into the pir.

    Xu Yi controlled this wisp of electricity as it ran through the pir.

    Through the various hindrances the electricity met, Xu Yi was able to quickly figure out the situation of the pir.

    This pir was made of a metal that was outstanding at conducting electricity and it was veryplicated. His guess that it was a precise machine wasn¡¯t wrong.

    But after verifying this, he didn¡¯t dare keep investigating it.

    The level of technology of the Abyss Demon Race should be high, so the machine that they left behind should be very precise. If he identally broke it, the gains wouldn¡¯t cancel out the losses.

    After thinking for a bit, he asked elder Undine, ¡°Elder Undine, I heard Still say that your Azshara Tribe knows a special investigation magic?¡±

    Elder Undiner looked at the people around her before giving a nod, ¡°Yes. What about it? Are we using it now?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no other way, but it should improve the situation.¡± Xu Yi turned to Santander, ¡°Quickly go back to the Sines Continent with your subordinates and find Still. Tell her that I need the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to send a small investigation team for support.¡±

    Everyone looked at Xu Yi with a strange look.

    Akali couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Sir chairman, it can¡¯t be that you want to use the investigation equipment to see what the situation is inside, right? I don¡¯t think that will work, right? If it was possible, elder Undine would have used it already.¡±

    Elder Undine nodded in agreement, ¡°Yes, I just used investigation magic and couldn¡¯t find anything.¡±

    ¡°What about now?¡± Xu Yi reached out again to send out his magic power and light up the pir.

    Elder Undine looked over and a trace of shock filled her eyes.

    ¡°It seems like¡­¡­I can see some things¡­¡­¡±

    Akali asked in a surprised voice, ¡°Why is it like this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple. I heard from Still that this investigation magic could only be used on living beings and it was useless for non living beings. So I guessed that this magic wasn¡¯t actually investigation magic, but rather it¡¯s just reactive magic to the flow of special liquids in living beings and giving an effect that was simr.¡±

    Elder Undine looked at Xu Yi in shock as her tone filled with a trace of praise.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you truly are a super genius in terms of magic. That¡¯s right, the principle of the investigation magic is as you said.¡±

    ¡°This is just a simple spection.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand. He took back his hand and looked at the pir before giving a sigh, ¡°The current conditions aren¡¯t right, so we can only give up for now. When Santander brings back reinforcements, we¡¯lle and investigate this again.¡±

    Akali was a bit disappointed, ¡°Then didn¡¯t we just waste these past few days?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Being in a rush won¡¯t give us any solutions.¡±

    Since Xu Yi had already made his decision, they didn¡¯t stay here to waste more effort.

    After leaving a mark on the map, everyone left the small ind via the Magic Airship.

    After around an hour, the Magic Airship had returned back to Sky Ind. Santander led his group as per Xu Yi¡¯s instructions back to the Sines Continent.

    With the speed of the Magic Airships, they only needed a day and a half to travel the six thousand kilometers.

    Then adding in the time that it took for Santander to contact Still and time needed for Still to prepare, it would take them at least a week beforeing back.

    ¡°Of course, we can¡¯t waste our week here, so we should expand the range of our investigation. The Abyss Demon Race wouldn¡¯t just leave behind a single ruins.¡±

    After Xu Yi made these arrangements, his eyes fell onto the excited looking Akali.

    ¡°You shouldn¡¯t be happy since this isn¡¯t rted to you. Your main job right now is to build the ry station.¡±

    Akali was stunned.

 Book 8: Chapter 50: Stepping onto the Magic Cloud Continent

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 50: Stepping onto the Magic Cloud Continent</h4>

    It wasn¡¯t just a single ruin.

    Over the next few days, the Magic Airship squad that had searched the surrounding seas found two more smaller inds that held ruins.

    It was the same as the first time, these two ruins both had stone pirs.

    Xu Yi¡¯s group checked these two ruins and the results were the same as the first time.

    After waiting for several days, Santander came back from the Sines Continent with a New Moon Chamber of Commerce team with the investigation equipment and a small research team sent by Evita.

    After they arrived, Xu Yi gave them their orders.

    Akali still focused on the magic signal ry station that she was responsible for. As for the other two teams, they worked with elder Undine and the elven magicians of the Azshara Tribe skilled in investigation magic, as they began studying the pirs with the investigation magic equipment.

    As for the Magic Airship team that Xu Yi brought, they kept searching the surrounding seas.

    Xu Yi believed that it wouldn¡¯t just be these three ruins.

    If they could find all the Abyss Demon Race ruins in this area and then solve the mystery behind them, they might be able to solve the ancient puzzle of whether the Abyss Demon Race left this world or not.

    Of course, whether it was finding these ruins or investigating them, they all required arge amount of time.

    Akali¡¯s work couldn¡¯t be finished in a short period of time either, so after giving some initial guidance, Xu Yi followed his schedule from before and left Sky Ind.

    Xu Yi took the Magic Airships to span the four thousand kilometers gap between Sky Ind and the Magic Cloud Continent. When hended, he arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base on the east coast of the Magic Cloud Continent. The huge fleet that had left at the same time as Xu Yi had already arrived and had started their work already.

    When Xu Yi came out of the Magic Airship, he saw in the distance that there were two glowing silver parallel lines that were in the distance.

    If there was another person who transmigrated from earth here, they would have immediately recognized that these two silver lines were actually train tracks!

    In fact, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly steel output exceeded five million tons, Xu Yi had thoughts ofying down rail tracks and introducing trains into this world.

    But rail tracks were different from roads.

    Roads could beid down at will and it was easy to connect them, so they could allow one to travel across the Sines Continent without being impeded.

    But the rail tracks cost much more and they were more limited since they had to operate on the tracks themselves.

    With the current situation of the Sines Continent, to connect a single track or multiple tracks across countries was nothing more than a fool¡¯s dream.

    So Xu Yi hadn¡¯t promoted the railroad on the Sines Continent yet. After all, the steel production on the Sines Continent hadn¡¯t reached a point where it was abundant, so there weren¡¯t many countries on the Sines Continent that had the ability and courage to invest in building railroads.

    But there was no need to worry about this on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce through ten years of hard work already controlled a giant area of over forty thousand square kilometers on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    In this area they controlled, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could do what they wanted and didn¡¯t need to report to other powers.

    So Xu Yi had decided to conduct the first railroad experiment here without any hesitation.

    After three years of development, this ce that was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only had several roads, but also two railroads that connected the north and south.

    Then with the air channels provided by the Magic Airships, transportation was very well developed in this region.

    When Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the tracks, there was a passenger Magic Train with thirteenpartments that slowly came out of the station before gradually picking up speed. It didn¡¯t take long before it disappeared into the horizon.

    ¡°Where is that going?¡± Xu Yi turned back and asked Bat who was in charge of the Magic Cloud Continent base that hade out to greet him.

    ¡°It¡¯s transporting a batch of steel arrows to the Green Water Tribe.¡± Bet didn¡¯t even turn his head as he immediately replied, ¡°The Green Water Tribe is nning on expanding their territory to the southwest and ordered a bunch of weapons from us to deal with those annoying goblins.¡±

    The Green Water Tribe was a local elf tribe that was near the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base. They had sent a representative to the Sines Continent to see cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In these years, the Green Water Tribe and the neighbouring elf, dwarf, halfing, and other other tribes had greatly increased their battle power through cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Not only did they stabilize their situation, they could coordinate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to attack the goblins who had humiliated them before.

    In this current region, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the strongest. The goblins couldn¡¯t do anything to them.

    With the silent agreement of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the local tribes didn¡¯t hesitate as they did all they could to expand their territories.

    It was because of their efforts that in this region, there wasn¡¯t a single goblin tribe that could live here.

    Bat even sent a report before that said that they couldn¡¯t find a single goblin in this region.

    ¡°Oh? If they want better arms, why not just buy military magic machines from us? Although we won¡¯t sell them high grade products like Magic Cannons and such, we still do sell the normal Magic Repeating Crossbows and stuff. No matter what, it¡¯s much stronger than their traditional bows.¡± Xu Yi said in a confused voice.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you don¡¯t know anything.¡± The smile on Bat¡¯s face became more bitter as he didn¡¯t know whether tough or cry, ¡°I have rmended the Magic Repeating Crossbows to the local elves many times, but they refuse to use them. They say that the Magic Repeating Crossbows goes against their traditions, so they aren¡¯t willing to use them.¡±

    ¡°What going against traditions?¡± Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Don¡¯t tell me that the elves are still insisting on sticking to their traditions after being bullied by the goblins all these years?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about that. Anyway, they very much dislike the Magic Repeating Crossbows.¡± After a pause, Bat didn¡¯t wait for Xu Yi to continue asking as he said, ¡°As for the other military magic machines¡­¡­even the low grade ones, they don¡¯t have the money¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips. He thought of the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s local tribes and he felt a bit of absurdness in his heart.

    Although the elves of the Sines Continent had most of theirnd taken by the humans, they had ten thousand years of history, so they had rich heritages and could never be considered poor.

    But the local elves of the Magic Cloud Continent, Xu Yi had felt sympathy for them from the first moment he met them.

    As an elf, they were so poor that they didn¡¯t even haveplete clothing. This really was too miserable¡­¡­

    Even the batch of steel arrow that Green Water Tribe bought, it must have made their tribe bleed to buy them.

    ¡°This is wrong¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi suddenly knitted his brows, ¡°Didn¡¯t I always tell you that you shouldn¡¯t just look for humans, you should also work with the other tribes of the Magic Cloud Continent? It doesn¡¯t matter if these elves don¡¯t have money, as long as you prepare some work for them, they should be willing to ept this. Why are they still so poor?¡±

    Bat revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you don¡¯t know anything. The other races of the Magic Cloud Continent have a much deeper prejudice against us humans than on the Sines Continent. I have tried working with them for several years and wanted to take them in, but there are only a few tribes that actually agreed to this.¡±

    ¡°Prejudice?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused, ¡°The other race tribes sent their representatives to the Sines Continent to sign cooperation agreements with us. If they were prejudiced against humans, why would they do this?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­Saying that it¡¯s prejudice isn¡¯t that urate. It should be said¡­¡­that they are vignt towards us.¡± Bat replied.

    ¡°Vignt?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and swept them across the base. He found that in thisrge base, there were only a few people from the other races.

    From some details, he could tell the local other race of the Magic Cloud Continent apart from the Sines Continent other race that came with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Based on the situation here, there weren¡¯t many local other races that were willing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°The tribes of these other races werepletely destroyed by the goblins, so they are just remnants. They are different from the other race tribes that are still vignt towards us.¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s gaze fall onto the local other races that were recruited, Bat added this exnation in.

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled and he revealed a taunting smile, ¡°It seems like they aren¡¯t that mighty, they still know to lower their heads in critical moments. That is good, as long as they can recognize reality, there¡¯s a way to deal with them.¡±

    Bat felt a chill run through his heart.

    Could it be that after hearing his exnation, sir chairman was about to use a n where he would turn the other race tribes of the Magic Cloud Continent into ¡°remnants¡±?

    Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°Sir chairman, the poption of the other race is much higher on the Magic Cloud Continentpared to the Sines Continent. Moreover, our priority target right now are the goblins, if we also wipe out the other races¡­¡­Just with the small human poption of the Magic Cloud Continent, we won¡¯t be able toplete our mission of developing this continent.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at him with a strange look, ¡°When did I say that I would wipe out the local other races? They are an importantbour force for ourpany, why would I be willing to give up on them?¡±

    Bat was stunned, ¡°Then sir chairman, your meaning is¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi patted his shoulder and said with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t have a method yet, but since these other race tribes aren¡¯t gods who don¡¯t need food or shelter, since they have their own needs, then¡­¡­everything is easier to take care of.¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 51

    Volume 8 Chapter 51 Cultivation

    Xu Yi brought arge fleet with many personnel and supplies. It was to strengthen the development of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    The development naturally wasn¡¯t just all talk.

    After the fleet arrived before Xu Yi, they had already started working.

    The Amrit Chamber of Commerce that came with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought arge construction team of three thousand people.

    Their task was to widen the roads and build more factories and residences to increase the size of this base. They would try to make this base as close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base on the Sines Continent, maybe even surpassing that scale.

    The Magic Cloud Continent was very important to Xu Yi and the main reason is that the Magic Cloud Continent wasn¡¯t like the Sines Continent. Not every inch ofnd was already carved out by the various powers.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to obtain a mine on the Sines Continent, they would need to pay a high price.

    If they wanted other benefits, they would sh with the other powers of the Sines Continent most of the time.

    Compared to that, the Magic Cloud Continent could be called a ce without an owner.

    This continent was dominated by the goblins.

    But the goblins had a very underdeveloped society. Even now, they were a backwards race that didn¡¯t have aplete country.

    So even if the goblins were much stronger than the other races, they didn¡¯t fully control the continent.

    As for the various resources of the continent, they weren¡¯t using them at all.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a base here, just by casually scouting out their surroundings, they found several mines that hadn¡¯t been developed yet.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had spread to over forty thousand kilometers, just the mineral resources that they controlled in this area were already very rich. It even surpassed the amount of mineral resources the Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently controlled on the Sines Continent.

    It was because of this that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s high level members had always agreed to investingrge amounts into the Magic Cloud Continent, as well as unanimously agreeing to increase their investment this time.

    It had to be known, in this mission that Xu Yi led, the amount of investments they made surpassed a hundred million gold coins and they were even willing to invest more in this mission. It could be said that this was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s greatest investment.

    Of course, the investment needed to yield returns.

    While the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s engineer team built the main base for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because Xu Yi brought another five thousand guards with him, they could increase the speed at which they developed their own territory.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleetnded on the Magic Cloud Continent, before Xu Yi arrived, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards underwent a sweep of goblins in the surrounding territories. In just a short thirteen days, they had fought the goblins over fifty times. They wiped out tenrge and small goblin tribes and killed over seven thousand goblins.

    While expanding their territory, they obtained an iron mine and a non-ferrous metal mine.

    After Xu Yi arrived, under his personal n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept expanding.

    In just two months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gone from forty thousand square kilometers ofnd to fifty thousand square kilometers ofnd.

    During this expansion, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards eliminated the goblins while the Amrit Chamber of Commerce construction group spread the road and railroad tracks. At the same time, they kept building sentry posts along the way.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built more and more magic signal towers to maintainmunications in their new territory.

    With this convenient transportation andmunications, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce firmly controlled their new territories.

    Even if a goblin tried to attack in retaliation, they would encounter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and wouldn¡¯t have time to cause any destruction.

    The goblins were a backwards race that had only relied on their numbers to dominate the Magic Cloud Continent, so the weapons that they used were stone weapons that couldn¡¯t even be considered sharp. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had military magic machines that surpassed the level of this world, so it was like having an adult beat up a child.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards fought the goblins many times and they didn¡¯t feel any threat even once.

    Although the goblins weren¡¯t that intelligent, they weren¡¯t fools either. After fighting all those times, they found that they couldn¡¯t win no matter how many they sent, so they knew that they couldn¡¯t beat them.

    So as time passed, the goblins treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s territory as a forbidden area and didn¡¯t dare encroach it.

    After suddenly expanding ten thousand square kilometers, in order to stabilize the situation and to let the guards get some rest, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopped their expansion and started to focus on development.

    ###

    Sweat seeped out from Xu Yi¡¯s forehead and converged into beads. It formed a line that fell down his cheek until it reached his chin.

    Xu Yi narrowed his eyes as he looked up at the scorching sun. He thought that the summers here were even more unbearable than in the Stantine Duchy, could it be because they were at a lowertitude and were closer to the equator?

    If it was possible, he would be enjoying the cool breeze of a Magic Air Conditioner in a room at the base right now.

    But he couldn¡¯t, or at least he couldn¡¯t do that today.

    Today was a verymemorative day.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cloud Continent base on Xu Yi¡¯s decision decided to cultivatend near the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s base, so they could stop relying on grains from the Sines Continent and be self-sufficient.

    In order to demonstrate how important this was, Xu Yi had to personallye to till the soil and sow the seeds.

    Since it had been a long time since he did this kind of physical work, in just half an hour, Xu Yi was already covered in sweat.

    Actually, there was no need for him to do this.

    This was after all a farm that was reimed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. With the various agricultural magic machines, there really wasn¡¯t a need to have someone personally till thend.

    Xu Yi doing this was just to put on a show.

    After he finished this show, the agricultural magic machines that had already been prepared headed into the fields. It didn¡¯t take them long before they finished ploughing the several dozen hectares ofnd.

    Xu Yi could onlyugh at himself.

    Xu Yi had led the development of the agricultural magic machines, but now these fellows were being used to shame him in front of all these people.

    ording to the n, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first cultivation of the year would open up thirty thousand hectares ofnd.

    After thisnd was filled with wheat, ording to the calctions from the Sines Continent using the agricultural magic machines and fertilizer, the minimum grain yield would be around a hundred thousand tons of wheat. It was enough to support the needs of the sixty thousand people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a year and it would save the grain transport team quite a bit of effort.

    Of course, they could only barely meet their demand.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, this base still had plenty of room to grow. It wouldn¡¯t just be sixty thousand people who lived here, it might be six hundred thousand or even six million.

    As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce controlled more and morend on the Sines Continent, it wouldn¡¯t be strange if the poption under them grew to over sixty million.

    So this was only just the beginning. The final goal was to promote the agricultural magic machines on the Magic Cloud Continent and let the base be truly self-sufficient.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked to the side at the various local other races that were stretching their necks to look at the fields.

    Speaking of this, it was a bit funny.

    Whether it was the Sines Continent or the Magic Cloud Continent, out of all the different races, other than humans, no matter how developed the other races were, there wasn¡¯t a single other race that engaged in farming.

    These other races mainly relied on nature for survival and had never thought of harvesting crops.

    Xu Yi had considered this question and had found that this was the reason why the other races¡¯ poptions never matched the human poption on the Sines Continent.

    There were only the goblins that were an exception on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But the goblins couldn¡¯t be used as a reference since they were a backwards race that even ate human meat.

    The reason their poption was so high was mainly because of their strong reproductive abilities, which were like that of mice from earth.

    But the goblins had very short lifespans. They would be adults at ten years old and the ones that lived to twenty years old could be counted on one¡¯s fingers.

    So Xu Yi would rarely treat the goblins as a truly intelligent race.

    These fellows were like locusts or mice. If they could freely develop, they might even swallow the entire Magic Cloud Continent.

    Of course, the races other than the goblins were another matter.

    Just the elves, dwarves, and halflings that Xu Yi saw here, they all had rather developed civilizations. If they were guided properly, they would be very helpful.

    So Xu Yi had deliberately performed thisrge scale remation ceremony, it was all for these three races.

    At the same time, he had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s other race members that came from the Sines Continent tell these local other races about the benefits of farming, trying to pull them in.

    If Xu Yi wanted to control the Magic Cloud Continent, he couldn¡¯t allow these locals to separate themselves from them. He wanted to integrate them so that they could be used by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    In the end, what the Frestech Chamber of Commercecked the most was manpower.

 Volume 8 Chapter 52

    Volume 8 Chapter 52 Local humans

    ¡°Sir chairman, the Fire Dragon Tribe¡¯s representative is here.¡± With Bat leading, three slim human men walked into the room.

    Xu Yi looked at the three and gave a nod.

    In the report that Bat had sent, he knew that because of ack of food on the Magic Cloud Continent, the local humans were rather short and thin.

    These three representatives could already be considered tall among the Fire Dragon Tribe, but if they stood with Xu Yi, the top of their heads wouldn¡¯t even reach Xu Yi¡¯s nose.

    ¡°Havaci.¡± Xu Yi greeted the three of them with a smile.

    In thenguage of the Fire Dragon Tribe, this meant ¡°hello¡±. Xu Yi had asked Bat about the Fire Dragon Tribe¡¯snguage before, but it was impossible for him to learn the entirenguage in a short period of time, so he was only able to learn a few greetings.

    But what surprised Xu Yi was that after responding with a ¡°Havaci¡±, the leader of the Fire Dragon Tribe group actually spoke in fluent Sines Continentmon tongue.

    ¡°Dear chairman Xu, it is an honour to meet you.¡± The middle aged man revealed a smile and greeted Xu Yi with the standard noble greeting of the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi looked at him with a surprised look before turning to Bat.

    Bat revealed a smile before pointing at the middle aged man to exin, ¡°Sir chairman, these three are the representatives that the Fire Dragon Tribe specially chose. They are all proficient in our Sines Continentmon tongue, so you can talk to them freely.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked at the three representatives with surprised looks.

    This Fire Dragon Tribe was a human tribe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had identally found in their expansionst year.

    Because they were all humans, after finding the Fire Dragon Tribe, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them special care. They quickly formed a cooperation with the Fire Dragon Tribe and recruited arge number of members from the Fire Dragon Tribe to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi never thought that in less than a year, the Fire Dragon Tribe could send three representatives that were fluent in the Sines Continent¡¯smon tongue. It could be seen how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to them.

    ¡°Since you can use the Sines Continentmon tongue, this makes it much more convenient.¡± Xu Yi nodded at the three with a smile, ¡°Only, other than speaking ournguage, can you also read the writings of the Sines Continent?¡±

    The three revealed awkward looks and the middle aged man named Ganmo who spoke earlier shook his head.

    ¡°Our tribe doesn¡¯t have a writtennguage, so learning writing is very hard for us. The three of us have no problem speaking, but we have problems with reading and writing.¡±

    Seeing Xu Yi knit his brows, Ganmo immediately added, ¡°But we are seriously learning. I can recognize around two hundred characters now and I believe that if you give me some time, I won¡¯t have a problem learning how to read and write.¡±

    ¡°Very good.¡± Xu Yi looked at Ganmo with a look of praise.

    Of course he knew that it was hard for someone without any previous foundations to learn how to read and write. This Ganmo being able to learn how to speak the Sines Continentmon tongue in less than a year was already good enough, not to mention that he had learned to recognize over two hundred characters. Other than his talent for learningnguages being high, he must have also put in quite the effort.

    ¡°But without knowing how to read, how will you sign a contract with us?¡± Xu Yi raised a question.

    Ganmo¡¯s eyes lit up as he revealed an excited look, but he shook his head to say, ¡°Chairman Xu, as long as you¡¯re willing to help us, this written contract doesn¡¯t really matter.¡± After a pause, he added, ¡°Moreover, even if you go against the contract, we can¡¯t cause any trouble for you.¡±

    Xu Yi was stunned before revealing a smile.

    ¡°It seems like you do understand. Since you know this, then are you still willing to work with us?¡±

    ¡°Of course!¡± Ganmo nodded without any hesitation, ¡°Chairman Xu, with your power, you could force us to anything you wanted, but you are proposing to cooperate with us. I don¡¯t know what your thoughts are, but I do know that there aren¡¯t any disadvantages to cooperating with you.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re that certain that there aren¡¯t any disadvantages?¡± Xu Yi found it a bit funny as he looked at him.

    Ganmo calmly looked at Xu Yi, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for you, our Fire Dragon Tribe would have been killed by the goblins sooner orter. Do you think that we still need to worry about any disadvantages of cooperating with you?¡±

    Ganmo had a very natural look on his face when he said this and the expressions of hispanions didn¡¯t change at all. It could be seen that for them, there wasn¡¯t anything surprising about this matter.

    Xu Yi turned to look at Bat.

    Bat gave a cough, ¡°Sir chairman, when thepany guards found the Fire Dragon Tribest year, they were surrounded by over ten thousand goblins. If the guards didn¡¯t help them, the Fire Dragon Tribe would have already been exterminated.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded as he confirmed that what Ganmo had said was true.

    He looked at the three small Magic Cloud Continent local humans and couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit emotional.

    They were all humans, but the Sines Continent humans had already be the masters of the Sines Continent. They had built countless countries and had built a good civilization. However, these local humans of the Magic Cloud Continent had remained at such a low level because of their weakness.

    Even being surrounded by over ten thousand goblins would be enough to destroy a tribe of over two thousand humans. It could be seen how hard it was for humans to survive on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But Xu Yi was also very happy about this.

    He had worried that because of how backwards the local human civilization was, their intelligence would be just as low and they would be no different from primates.

    But now that he had met them, he found that just in this small Fire Dragon Tribe, there was a person with such a nimble mind like Ganmo.

    If his twopanions were at the same level as him, then the level of intelligence of the Fire Dragon Tribe was something that he could look forward to.

    Xu Yi needed to recruit a lot of local manpower on the Magic Cloud Continent, his main objective would naturally be the local humans.

    But if the level of intelligence of the local humans were low, Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t throw people that would hold back thepany into thepany. This wouldn¡¯t help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But what he found now made him feel more confident in the Fire Dragon Tribe and the local Magic Cloud Continent human poption.

    As long as these local humans had normal intelligence quotients, then after some training, they would be able to do the simple work. This would greatly help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    ¡°Ganmo, do you understand what the cooperation between us and your Fire Dragon Tribe will detail?¡±

    Ganmo thought for a bit before replying, ¡°You need people to do work for you and we need you to protect our tribe.¡±

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s like this.¡± Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod, ¡°As long as your Fire Dragon Tribe is willing to follow our arrangements, ourpany will protect you. Other than this, if you do well, I wouldn¡¯t mind giving your tribe some extra help.¡±

    Ganmo¡¯s eyes lit up.

    He had been working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for half a year. Other than learning thenguage of the Sines Continent, he also had some understanding of the strange products from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    He knew that the humans that imed to be from another continent were very strong.

    This power wasn¡¯t just shown by the dozens of times they easily repelled the goblins, but also in their lifestyle.

    In this half a year, he had seen countless strange products that he would never have even dreamed of. Many things that yed many different functions, it could even be called a miracle!

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to protect the Fire Dragon Tribe, the people of the tribe wouldn¡¯t need to be worried about the threat of the goblins. They might even get enough food to no longer fear the cold and their hunger.

    Being able to get this was already arge benefit for the entire Fire Dragon Tribe.

    Not to mention that this peak person that was called ¡°sir chairman¡± had even said that could give them even more help.

    If he could give the Fire Dragon Tribe those strange products, Ganmo felt that any price would be worth it!

    Xu Yi could naturally see the expectation and desire in Ganmo¡¯s eyes.

    The humans of the Magic Cloud Continent were even below the elves, the dwarves, and the halflings.

    Even the elves, the dwarves, and the halflings were worried about the threat of the goblins, so there was no need to mention these humans.

    With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce giving them the security and allowing them to be more powerful, it was impossible for them not to feel expectation and desire.

    Of course, Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on teaching them too much.

    One, it was very hard to grasp with their level of civilization and two, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want these local humans to be too strong.

    In the end, he needed manpower to help develop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he didn¡¯t want to cause trouble for himself.

    ¡°Right, Ganmo, you currently have a job for ourpany, right?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Ganmo immediately nodded, ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t need to do that job anymore. Ourpany needs an intermediary with your Fire Dragon Tribe, so you can take that job. Other than that, I hope that you can be my special advisor. There are some things about the Sines Continent that I need to ask someone.¡±

    Ganmo didn¡¯tpletely understand what Xu Yi meant. For example, he didn¡¯t know what ¡°advisor¡± meant.

    But he knew that Xu Yi must have a favourable impression of him.

    This was very good news for him, so without any hesitation, he kneeled down and bowed his head to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t used to this big gesture, but he didn¡¯t avoid it. He just knitted his brows slightly and epted this.

    If it was possible, he hoped that all the local humans of the Magic Cloud Continent could respect him like this.

    Only then would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development n be even smoother.

 Volume 8 Chapter 53

    Volume 8 Chapter 53 Goblins are also manpower

    Around fifty thousand square kilometers, that was the territory the Frestech Chamber of Commerce base controlled on the Magic Cloud Continent. After calcting it, that was the maximum territory they could control.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current power on the Magic Cloud Continent, they could easily increase their territory by attacking the goblins.

    But if they expanded their territory even more, it would be very easy for problems to ur and that wasn¡¯t beneficial to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So after Xu Yi considered it, he decided to stop their expansion and stabilize the territory they already controlled.

    Other than buildingrge amounts of roads, railroads, and guard stations all over this territory to make it easier to control, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also recruited arge amount of manpower on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already started recruiting the local elves, dwarves, halflings, and other other races.

    But these other races were different from the other races of the Sines Continent that had already cooperated with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for decades. It was hard for the two sides toe together.

    Compared to this, it was easier to use the local humans of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Even if these local humans had lower intelligence because of their backwards society, they weren¡¯t that bad since they had the creativity and learning capacity that came naturally to humans.

    For example, the Fire Dragon Tribe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discoveredst year. They had recruited five hundred adults that had barely qualified for their jobsst year, but these people had adapted in a short period of time and there were outstanding talents like Ganmo that appeared.

    If the same work was given to the local elves, it would take them several times longer to grasp.

    After personally meeting the representatives of the Fire Dragon Tribe, Xu Yi decided to win over the local humans of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Although they couldn¡¯t keep expanding, that didn¡¯t stop the attacks of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    ording to some information from the Fire Dragon Tribe, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards investigated privately a bit and found three more human tribes a bit further away.

    Adding in the Fire Dragon Tribe, there were over ten thousand people.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce directly moved the three human tribes into the area they controlled. With the Fire Dragon Tribe, they gave them a piece ofnd and then sent specialists to teach them how to farm thatnd.

    For the human tribes that had relied on hunting and harvesting just to get by previously, the farming for food that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce described was like a myth and almost no one believed them.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just give themnd, they also built them houses and provided them with safety. How could they refuse the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    So no matter what, they didn¡¯t dare go against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s arrangements for them.

    Just like what Ganmo had said to Xu Yi, their tribes were on the brink of elimination, so now that they could live peaceful lives, it was like a dream for them and how could they have other requests.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtained two thousandbourers from these ten thousand people to do basic jobs for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. This had allowed them to make great progress with the n that they hade up with before.

    Perhaps they were inspired by Xu Yi, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce also started recruiting manpower to work for their construction teams.

    But there weren¡¯t many workers to begin with and most of the workers were taken by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there wasn¡¯t much left for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    After several days of futile effort, it was unknown where chairman Cruise came up with the idea, but he sent out the guards under hispany to catch three thousand goblins. Then he sent those goblins to their work sites to force the goblins to do the most simple jobs.

    Although the goblins had decent physiques, their intelligence wasn¡¯t that high, so they could only barely do the most simple jobs.

    With the goblins joining them, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce¡¯s construction projects greatly increased their speed. Every time that chairman Cruise saw Xu Yi, he would have a happy look that was also filled with pride.

    ¡°See, Xu Yi, I already told you that no matter how dumb the goblins are, they can still do the most simple work. The work of carrying the gravel, cleaning up the ground, and other simple jobs are all given to the goblins. The workers that I brought only need to do the technical work, so it¡¯s much fasterpared to before.¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°If you catch all these goblins at once, aren¡¯t you afraid of causing trouble?¡±

    Chairman Cruise curled his lips, ¡°What are you afraid of? These goblins are very timid and don¡¯t dare to cause trouble if you scare them a bit. Moreover, I¡¯ve left a fully armed group of guards at each work site, so they can¡¯t do anything even if they want to.¡±

    Xu Yi slightly knitted his brows.

    He had actually thought about catching some goblins and throwing some of the easy physicalbour to them.

    But the specs of the goblins were too low and there was no room for improvement.

    The goblins were notw abiding fellows and to stop them from rebelling, you had to arrange a lot of manpower to watch them. If you weighed it out, there weren¡¯t that many benefits.

    Of course, the advantage of using goblins for work was that goblins could be found all over the Magic Cloud Continent. They had terrifying numbers, so there was no worry that you would run out of manpower.

    Chairman Cruise had only brought five hundred guards this time. If he had brought more people, Xu Yi was certain that he would have caught even more goblins.

    ¡°No matter what, be more careful.¡± Xu Yi warned chairman Cruise with a serious look, ¡°These goblins don¡¯t have a concept of loyalty and as long as you show any weakness, they will cause trouble. You should be careful so that nothing happens.¡±

    ¡°What is there to worry about?¡± Chairman Cruiseughed before patting Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Xu Yi, you weren¡¯t like this before, you were even more radical than me. If it was the you from the past, without my saying anything, you would have already caught a bunch of goblins, right?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He thought that even if he was radical, he wouldn¡¯t have done this.

    Goblins didn¡¯t work honestly and to make them behave, you could only use pressure.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to waste the best guards of thepany on this, so he hadn¡¯t even considered using the goblins before.

    After the two talked for a bit, chairman Cruise suddenly asked, ¡°Right, Xu Yi, when are you nning on going back? I¡¯ve already arranged everything here. If you don¡¯t have any other ns, there¡¯s no need for me to stay here any longer, so I was nning on going back next month. What about you?¡±

    ¡°Me......¡± Xu Yi looked around before giving a nod, ¡°I don¡¯t have any ns right now, but I¡¯m not nning to go back immediately.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was surprised, ¡°Since you don¡¯t have anything to do here, why aren¡¯t you going back? What are you staying here for? If you leave the Sines Continent for this long, you aren¡¯t worried about what will happen over there?¡±

    ¡°What is there for me to worry about?¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug with a rxed look on his face, ¡°Could it be that if I¡¯m not there, people will look for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce for trouble?¡±

    Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, ¡°Of course you don¡¯t need to worry about that, but aren¡¯t you worried that yourpany will make errors in judgement without you there?¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t possibly be there forever. For thepany, this is a chance to ept a test. If they can do well, then I can enjoy the beauties of life in the future.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you are that free.¡± Chairman Cruise gave a disdainful snort before having an idea, ¡°Right, your ¡®test¡¯ should be for Freya, right? She¡¯s almost twenty five years old, it¡¯s about time for her to start preparing to take over for you.¡±

    ¡°No, I didn¡¯t have this idea.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°It would be good if Freya was willing to take over, but it¡¯s fine if she¡¯s not. I¡¯ll listen to her. In fact......our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is already a stablergepany, so even if I don¡¯t do anything, it will still operate the same way. Moreover, I can say that as long as there isn¡¯t arge problem with ourpany, then it will remain as powerful as it is now. Do you believe this?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense.¡± Chairman Cruise rolled his eyes, ¡°It isn¡¯t that you can¡¯t see all the industries yourpany monopolizes. As long as the magic machine industry remains, yourpany will always be powerful.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    Although chairman Cruise¡¯s words were a bit of an exaggeration, they weren¡¯t that far off from the truth.

    The magic machine industry on the Sines Continent had been started by Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce far exceeded anypany in terms of influence. Because of Xu Yi¡¯s strong insistence, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never weakened when it came to technology, they even became stronger and stronger as time passed.

    The current Frestech Chamber of Commerce might not be the strongest in one aspect, but they far surpassed others in different aspects. When it all came together, there was no doubt that they were the strongest.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a very reliable brand image on the Sines Continent. When everyone talked about the magic machine industry, they couldn¡¯t avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So as long as the magic machine industry existed on the Sines Continent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would always have a ce to stand.

    ¡°I¡¯m nning on leaving the Magic Cloud Continent next month, but I¡¯m not going back to the Sines Continent. I¡¯m going to another ce to take care of some matters.¡±

    Chairman Cruise was about to ask Xu Yi where he was going and what he was going to do, but there were urgent footsteps that came from outside.

    The two turned with surprised looks as the door was thrown open. Bat rushed in with a nervous look and handed a document to Xu Yi. He looked at chairman Cruise on the side and after a bit of hesitation, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Sir chairman, there¡¯s news from the Sines Continent. The Candra Empire has dered war on the Mana Magic Kingdom!¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 54

    Volume 8 Chapter 54 No opinions

    Roman put down the newspaper in his hand and focused on the writing as the voices around him rang in his ears.

    ¡°Hey, I heard that the Candra Empire¡¯s armies have already pushed three hundred kilometers into the Mana Magic Kingdom. Just a couple days ago, they already broke into Fitlin City.¡±

    ¡°Che, what day¡¯s news is that? Aren¡¯t you afraid of being seen as uncultured by talking about it now?¡±

    ¡°Right, who isn¡¯t in a rush to hear thetest news? The Candra Empire is much stronger than the Mana Magic Kingdom, so it is normal that they would beat them.¡±

    ¡°You only know that the Candra Empire won, but do you know how they won?¡± The person that was refuted didn¡¯t seem convinced.

    ¡°How else could they win? Isn¡¯t it that the Candra Empire army has more soldiers and better equipment? What other reason is there?¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, you¡¯re just talking about more people and better equipment. Forget about more people, do you understand what better equipment means?¡±

    ¡°Better equipment naturally means......¡± The person who spoke hesitated a bit before awkwardly saying, ¡°Naturally the Candra Empire has more military magic machines, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t have been able to invade three hundred kilometers into the Mana Magic Kingdom in such a short period of time.¡±

    ¡°Then tell me, why would the Candra Empire have more military magic machines than the Mana Magic Kingdom? You have to know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold the same amount of military magic machines to each country, there isn¡¯t much of a difference.¡±

    ¡°This......¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, you don¡¯t know this, right? I¡¯m telling you, I heard that the Candra Empire has been developing military magic machines in secret over the past few years......¡±

    When this was said, the voices that had filled this small tavern suddenly fell silent.

    Roman secretly looked over and saw the strange expression of understanding, but not being able to say anything on everyone¡¯s faces and he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    The rumours that the Candra Empire had been secretly developing military magic machines had already been public for several years now, but that was only rumours spread by people in casual conversation and no one really believed it.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been limiting the development of military magic machines over the past ten years. There was no country on the continent that would take the risk of offending the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by openly developing military magic machines, but it was a different matter if they did it in secret.

    In recent times, or more urately half a month ago, there was a rumour that had spread across the Sines Continent. Moreover, it had be a fact that most people recognized, so it couldn¡¯t be considered a rumour anymore.

    The reason was very simple. When the Candra Empire dered war on the Mana Magic Kingdom and the two countries shed, they took out an amount of military magic machines that far surpassed what others had expected. There were even many kinds of military magic machines that weren¡¯t on the list offered by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was simply announcing to everyone that they had been secretly developing military magic machines.

    It was even clear that the Candra Empire had invested quite a bit in this, so their research results were deep. They might have even taken the first step in this research.

    So the Candra Empire army had much more military magic machines than the Mana Magic Kingdom and adding in the fact that their army was already much stronger, naturally they had the advantage. In just half a month, they had defeated the Mana Magic Kingdom several times and captured such arge piece of territory.

    In the minds of the Sines Continent citizens, people naturally felt worried to see war starting out after eleven years of peace. But if it wasn¡¯t rted to them, they would watch the fun like in the past and not care about it that much.

    For these normal citizens of the Marlow Empire, it was even more so like this.

    The Candra Empire choosing to start a war with the Mana Magic Kingdom, whether they won or lost, the Marlow Empire would gain benefits.

    Naturally there was no need to discuss them losing, but even if they won, because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t really be able to expand after the war. The Candra Empire might even be disciplined by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after revealing that they were secretly studying military magic machines, which would cause losses that would cancel out their gains.

    However, while the citizens of the Marlow Empire could maintain a stance of watching the fun, Roman wasn¡¯t feeling that rxed.

    As someone who worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had been very confused by the reaction of thepany¡¯s upper management after the war broke out between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Normally speaking, with the attitude the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had demonstrated in the past ten years and because of sir chairman Xu Yi¡¯s insistence, the Candra Empire rashly dering war on the Mana Magic Kingdom would have been met with a warning from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which would have forced a truce.

    Even if the Mana Magic Kingdom had angered sir chairman before, causing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to withdraw from the Mana Magic Kingdom, with sir chairman¡¯s personality, they wouldn¡¯t act ambiguously towards this important matter at all.

    But facts proved that even after the two sides had fought for half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did the opposite of what they normally did and didn¡¯t react at all.

    Even if several newspapers came to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce give an official response, they obtained the same answer. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was apany and they wouldn¡¯t interfere with the matters between countries, so they had no opinions on this matter.

    No opinions? What a joke!

    If that was true, what had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce been doing in the past ten years?

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had remained aloof and didn¡¯t make any statements.

    Many people thought that this was simply giving their silent approval.

    Many people even suspected that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had reached a secret deal with the Candra Empire, allowing the Candra Empire to invade the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Otherwise, why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announce that they were withdrawing from the Mana Magic Kingdom previously?

    Moreover, the most important thing was that why did Xu Yi as the chairman suddenly decide to leave the Sines Continent a few months ago, running to the Magic Cloud Continent ten thousand kilometers away?

    Everything might have already been nned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Thinking of the discussions he heard yesterday, Roman¡¯s face sank.

    He was from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and was in a management position that wasn¡¯t too high or too low, so he naturally knew more about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce than outsiders.

    Thepany didn¡¯t have any special responses to the Candra Empire suddenly dering war on the Mana Magic Kingdom. All business continued as usual, as if there wasn¡¯t any effect on them at all.

    But when the people of thepany discussed it in private, they were also very curious about the reaction of thepany.

    No matter what, thepany didn¡¯t make any statements about the war between the two countries which really was strange.

    Everyone knew how much influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had on all the countries of the Sines Continent, they even had more power when it came to military affairs.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took a stance or even acted, the Candra Empire could only stop. They would no longer expand and invade into the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    ¡°Perhaps it really is because sir chairman isn¡¯t here?¡± Roman suddenly had a guess in his mind.

    He suddenly thought of something.

    This time, sir chairman personally led the group to the Mana Magic Kingdom. He didn¡¯t just take personnel and resources, but also led five thousand elitepany guards.

    Although taking away five thousand out of forty thousand guards was only a fraction, it still had influence and would weaken the armed forces of thepany.

    But the most important thing was that after sir chairman took away the guards, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude had weakened and even their suppression of other countries had weakened.

    Xu Yi as the core sir chairman wasn¡¯t there, didn¡¯t that mean that the other countries would seize this once in a thousand year chance to do something?

    This was wrong! What if sir chairman hadn¡¯t done this unintentionally?

    Roman¡¯s mind suddenly thought of this and his face turned even more pale.

    If sir chairman hadn¡¯t been unintentional and did this on purpose......the consequences would be too serious......

    Roman shook his head, throwing out this dangerous thought.

    No, as long as there was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other countries wouldn¡¯t dare act rashly.

    After all, it wasn¡¯t as if sir chairman wasn¡¯ting back. As long as he came back and said something, the Candra Empire troops would have to retreat and would have no other choices.

    But......Sir chairman had gone for close to half a year, so when will he being back?

    Roman looked out the window to the west.

    Sir chairman was now over ten thousand kilometers away from him. Even with the speed of the Magic Airships, it would take him two and a half days toe back, so how could it be that easy?

    Then again, the upper management had revealed that sir chairman would be staying on the Magic Cloud Continent for some time and hadn¡¯t decided on his return date yet.

    When he was thinking about this, there was a tall figure that appeared at the door to the tavern. He blocked the light that came in and the tavern became darker.

    The figure stood at the entrance for a bit before suddenly turning and walking in Roman¡¯s direction.

    It didn¡¯t take long for him to approach and Roman recognized him with a single look. He was his most capable assistant, the one who was in charge of the school expansion n, Aryo.

    Aryo came over and pulled the wine from Roman¡¯s hand before mming it on the table. Then he reprimanded him, ¡°I knew that you were cking off here! Alright,e with me, the Lord City Lord is looking for us!¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 55

    Volume 8 Chapter 55 About to be chaotic

    Roman and Aryo came to the Marlow Empire¡¯s southern central province¡¯s capital Watend City for a very simple reason. They were here to promote the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s academy. They had nned on working with the Governor¡¯s Manor to build some more schools in the southern central province.

    These new schools would follow the style of the Frestech Academy. They wouldn¡¯t be traditional magic schools, but would teach all kinds of foundational knowledge, building a foundation for the students.

    If you had topare it, it was like elementary schools and junior highs on earth.

    The biggest difference was that the schools on earth would be teaching the scientific theory that was rted to earth, but these schools would be teaching magic scientific theory.

    As the Sines Continent began putting more and more research into the magic machine industry, the research on the magic scientific theory became deeper and more refined.

    If a child wanted to be a magician, they would directly start learning magic, but rather would start with the most basic subjects of math, physics, chemistry, etc. After they had a general concept of science, they would then start truly learning magic.

    The disadvantage of this was that the students could learn for several years before finally being able to grasp magic.

    But the benefits of this was that when each student finally learned magic, they wouldn¡¯t be like magicians from before where they could only release spells that they learned. They would know other rted knowledge from their studies and would find the right jobs for themselves.

    With the vigorous development of the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent right now, there was no need to worry about not having that opportunity.

    This kind of education was only being promoted in the Frestech Academy right now. Although other countries were also learning from them, the effects naturally weren¡¯t as good as the Frestech Academy.

    So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed sharing this new education method, the other countries greatly weed it.

    The Marlow Empire was one of the main targets of cooperation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Three months ago, the two sides had reached an agreement and signed the contract.

    So Roman and Aryo came to Watend City not to get the agreement of the southern central province¡¯s Governor Manor, but rather to work out the details of the cooperation.

    With the status of the two, it wasn¡¯t enough for the governor toe personally, but the Governor Manor had sent a representative that would work with the Watend City City Lord Manor to reach an initial n. They would first create a trial school in Watend City.

    Because the general n had already been decided, there wasn¡¯t much for the two sides to discuss. They just had to have a simple discussion about some details and they would quickly decide this matter.

    Only after they were finished, the representative from the Governor Manor vaguely mentioned the Candra Empire invading the Mana Magic Kingdom matter to Roman, trying to ask about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude towards this matter.

    Roman naturally couldn¡¯tment on this.

    The Governor Manor representative also couldn¡¯t keep asking, so they parted after a few words.

    On the way back to their dwelling, Aryo actually brought this matter up with Roman.

    ¡°Say......what is sir chairman thinking?¡± Aryo deeply knitted his brows. This matter had puzzled him for a long time, ¡°Even if he didn¡¯t expect the Candra Empire to be this bold to dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom once he was gone, this news could be delivered with the quickest Magic Airship and sir chairman should already know about this matter. Why hasn¡¯t there been any response at all?¡±

    Roman looked at him and after a bit of silence, he lowered his voice to say, ¡°I received a message before leaving headquarters that sir chairman already sent back a message a week ago.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What did it say?¡± Aryo immediately revealed a shocked look, ¡°Was it to have thepany warn the Candra Empire and have them stop?¡±

    ¡°If it was, do you think the Candra Empire would still be attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom?¡± Roman asked back.

    Aryo thought about it before knitting his brows again, ¡°What does sir chairman want to do? Could it be that it really as people said and that he already made an arrangement with the Candra Empire to destroy the Mana Magic Kingdom?¡±

    Roman red at him, ¡°How could you say such nonsense?¡±

    Aryo carefully looked around before giving a cough and asking, ¡°Then what did it say?¡±

    Roman shook his head as he still had a confused look.

    ¡°ording to the information I received, sir chairman¡¯s meaning was.....there¡¯s no need to care about anything.

    ¡°No need to care about anything?¡± Aryo¡¯s voice became a bit louder, ¡°How can that be! We¡¯re the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!¡±

    Roman gave a helpless sigh, ¡°Lower your voice a bit. How could we know what sir chairman is thinking? But since he gave his orders, he must have deeper considerations.¡±

    ¡°Deeper considerations?¡± Aryo shook his head as the doubt on his face made it clear that he didn¡¯t believe this, ¡°Sir chairman has always stressed that he hopes the Sines Continent can maintain its peace, that way the magic machine industry can smoothly develop. Now that the Candra Empire has dered war on the Mana Magic Kingdom, how could the continent be at peace with these top countries fighting?¡±

    ¡°Are you saying that this should be med on sir chairman?¡± Roman rolled his eyes at him.

    ¡°This......¡± Aryo clearly didn¡¯t dare me Xu Yi, so he could only fall silent.

    Roman gave a sigh and shook his head.

    In fact, he felt that what Aryo said made a bit of sense.

    Sir chairman¡¯s previous decisions, as well as his choice to go to the Magic Cloud Continent, really seemed different from his usual behaviour.

    But this brought him back to that terrifying conclusion.

    If sir chairman had done this on purpose, then the eleven years of peace on the continent would disappear without a trace.

    Speaking of this, would the continent......be chaotic again?

    ###

    ¡°To put it impolitely, how is it rted to us if the Sines Continent is chaotic?¡± Ankhto tapped the table in front of him. He had a very spirited look, but the words he spoke were chilling, ¡°We are only just a singlepany and the countries can go fight whoever they want. As long as they don¡¯t disrupt our business, it isn¡¯t rted to us.¡±

    The words fell onto the years of the other members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s upper management and they all knitted their brows.

    ¡°Ankhto, can you not say it like that?¡± The Frestech Mineral Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Lithorp said in a deep voice, ¡°The other countries fighting wars will definitely affect our business. Like this time, although the mes of far are focused on the Mana Magic Kingdom, they are affecting more than ten mines that have some rtions to the Mana Magic Kingdom. If the war continues, the amount of minerals we produce next month will drop.¡±

    ¡°Yes, Ankhto, don¡¯t tell me that your household magic machine department isn¡¯t affected. Anyway, our Magic Car department has already been affected. The Candra Empire¡¯s previous orders have been cancelled and they didn¡¯t even give us a reason for this.¡±

    ¡°Then that means that your Magic Car department doesn¡¯t have a strong enough attitude, otherwise how could the Candra Empire side not give you an exnation?¡± Ankhto gave augh, ¡°As for our household magic machine department......we have been affected, but it isn¡¯t worth mentioning.¡±

    ¡°That is only for now. If several other countries start fighting, do you think that you still won¡¯t be affected?¡±

    Ankhto looked over at the people around him and said with augh, ¡°You¡¯re already certain that the other countries won¡¯t stay still?¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that an obvious thing!¡± Lithorp as a dwarf had a strong temper, so he pped the table when he heard this and roared, ¡°Those fellows have been secretly developing military magic machines, we don¡¯t even know how many countries have been doing it. Sir chairman was here to suppress them, so no one dared to cause trouble, but now that sir chairman has left the Sines Continent, they definitely won¡¯t let this chance go. Look, didn¡¯t the Candra Empire cause trouble?¡±

    Everyone looked at each other and gave nods.

    When it came to the other countries of the continent secretly developing military magic machines, it wasn¡¯t a secret for the high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi never said anything before, so they didn¡¯t care about it either.

    But now that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t here and the Candra Empire jumped out, there was no guarantee that the other countries would still remain suppressed.

    ¡°So what are you nning on doing? Are you going to send out the guards to force back the Candra Empire army and make them stop fighting?¡± Ankhto asked.

    Everyone fell silent.

    If it was before, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might really have done that.

    But with Xu Yi¡¯s current ambiguous attitude and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing that they had withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom before, doing this would be hard for people to ept, not to mention the Candra Empire.

    Then again, with Xu Yi not here, not a single high level member had enough authority to assemble the guards.

    Moreover, Xu Yi had sent a message back with a reply to the matter between these two countries. He had said that this was unrted to thepany, which made his stance clear.

    Ankhto paused for a bit before asking, ¡°Do you still not understand sir chairman¡¯s idea? Suppressing the countries of the continent for ten years with just the power of ourpany alone is already long enough, we can¡¯t keep suppressing them like this. Eventually they will have their ideas and create chaos, we can¡¯t stop them. Then again, this isn¡¯t something that a singlepany like ours would normally do, right?¡±

    Everyone understood this logic, but they had already been used to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce dominating the countries of the continent for ten years, so they couldn¡¯t truly ept it.

    ¡°But......why did he choose this time?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s already long enough that you forgot about it.¡± Ankhto revealed a smile, showing that he had clearly understood everything, ¡°The ?Continent Peace Convention?, there was a time limit added when it was signed......¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 56

    Volume 8 Chapter 56 Striving to conquer the continent?

    The war between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom continued.

    But even if the Candra Empire had the advantage on the battlefield, facing the Mana Magic Kingdom that was only second to the two empires, it was impossible topletely destroy the Mana Magic Kingdom through this war. So how long the warsted and how it would end would depend on what goals the Candra Empire had.

    Most of the countries on the Sines Continent watched from the side and many people were waiting for the true stance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    No one believed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would act as their official statement,pletely ignoring the war between the two countries.

    If it really was like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be giving up the strong influence they had over the countries over the past ten years, which would not be beneficial to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Even if this time the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, especially Xu Yi, had a vague stance, people still wanted to see how thispany would react.

    So without the expectations of countless people, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finally reacted.

    But it was different from what everyone expected. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reaction wasn¡¯t to interfere in the war between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom directly, but through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channels, they dered that they would be protecting the citizens affected by this war. Then they organized arge rescue crew that headed into the battlefield between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    This decision was a bit strange and everyone was confused by it.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really wanted to get involved in the war, why didn¡¯t they just give a warning to both sides? Or even send the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and force them to stop?

    They were sending this rescue crew with an unclear meaning, so what did they want to do?

    So while everyone paid close attention, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sent out their rescue crew and really followed what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced previously. They only rescued the Mana Magic Kingdom citizens who had suffered in the war, providing various forms of aid to them. They helped them stabilize their livelihoods and didn¡¯t do anything unnecessary for them.

    This action received a ¡°false¡± usation in the eyes of many people.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really wanted to help the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s citizens, why didn¡¯t they just force the two sides to settle a truce?

    If they weren¡¯t willing to meddle, why would they send a rescue crew?

    This was simply self contradictory!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give any response to these usations.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rescue crew really yed arge role.

    There were many Mana Magic Kingdom citizens that were forced to escape because of the war that were saved by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rescue crew. This had filled them with gratitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Whether it was the Candra Empire side or the Mana Magic Kingdom side, they tactfully didn¡¯t say a word towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions. They allowed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s rescue crew to act freely, letting them save the citizens.

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, what benefits are there for ourpany in doing this?¡± Bat looked at the report that came from the headquarters on the Sines Continent in his hands and felt confused, ¡°If you don¡¯t want the citizens to suffer because of kindness, you can just have the Candra Empire make peace. If you want to discipline the Mana Magic Kingdom, you can just ignore this situation and you wouldn¡¯t be med like this.¡±

    Bat still had some words that he didn¡¯t say.

    In his opinion, Xu Yi¡¯s current methods were simply indecisive. It waspletely different from how he handled matters previously.

    Xu Yi turned to him and said with a faint smile, ¡°Do you think.......ourpany can make the countries of the Sines Continent obedient?¡±

    Bat fell silent.

    He had thought of this question before and clearly knew the answer since he knew that Xu Yi had asked many of his colleagues before.

    But when Xu Yi said it, he still felt a bit awkward.

    ¡°This......we can¡¯t make them obedient, but at least they should have scruples about our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°No, you¡¯ve gotten something wrong.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve said it many times, we are only apany and I am only a normal merchant. With ourpany, we definitely can¡¯t make the countries of the continent obey us. As a merchant, it¡¯s also impossible for everyone to listen to my orders.¡±

    ¡°That is because you¡¯re not willing......¡± Bat couldn¡¯t help muttering.

    For most people, they thought that as long as Xu Yi was willing, with the battle power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the even more terrifying influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi had the opportunity to be the duke of the Stantine Duchy twenty years ago. Then he could use that to keep expanding and elevating his position.

    After twenty years, even if he couldn¡¯t unite the continent, Xu Yi would have been able to be an emperor that wouldn¡¯t have been inferior to the emperors of the two empires.

    However, he never had the desire for power. Not only did he not take over the Stantine Duchy, he had given up countless opportunities to be the ruler of the continent.

    This made everyone quite confused.

    In this world, it was impossible for someone not to desire power.

    Xu Yi clearly had the ability and opportunity, so why did he let them go?

    Of course Bat¡¯s words couldn¡¯t escape Xu Yi¡¯s ears. He was familiar with the thoughts of his subordinates, but he just revealed a faint smile when he heard this.

    He had already made his desire clear to many people, but no one had been able to understand himpletely.

    Yes, he had the opportunity and the ability to dominate the Sines Continent.

    However, there was no meaning in doing this for him.

    Of course he was interested in power, but to him, even if he controlled the Sines Continent, what meaning was there in controlling this backwards society that was still in the half ve and half feudal era?

    As a person who transmigrated from a modern earth, Xu Yi still wasn¡¯t able to adapt to how backwards this world was even after all these years.

    So he had continued to develop the magic machine industry, hoping that one day, civilization would be able to catch up with the earth¡¯s civilization.

    This thought had just been a thought at first, Xu Yi had felt that it was impossible for him to achieve this in his life.

    But in the past ten years, the magic machine industry changed every day on the Sines Continent. In just ten years, the civilization on the Sines Continent had already increased by arge margin, letting the lives of normal people catch up to the 60-70¡¯s of the 19th century on earth.

    In the past two years, with the development of Nuclear Magic Energy, Xu Yi even found the possibility of surpassing earth¡¯s technology.

    In this situation, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t willing to waste time on a thankless job. How could he be willing to let the Sines Continent¡¯s civilization regress because of the conqueror¡¯s path?

    If he had this time, it was better to develop magic technology and try to fly into outer space sooner.

    Then again, even if he really wanted to take over something, wasn¡¯t there a piece ofnd that was much simpler and more vastpared to the Sines Continent?

    Of course, he couldn¡¯t just exin these thoughts to Bat.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying to Bat, ¡°If the countries of the Sines Continent want to fight, let them fight. In any case, no matter how restless they are, it won¡¯t affect ourpany¡¯s development on the Sines Continent. No matter what the Sines Continent bes in the end, no matter how many countries are destroyed or created, it won¡¯t affect ourpany.¡±

    Bat seriously looked at Xu Yi¡¯s expression and after confirming that he wasn¡¯t joking, he was even more confused.

    Without knowing why, since Xu Yi came to the Sines Continent, Bet felt that whenever sir chairman mentioned the Sines Continent, it felt like he didn¡¯t care. It was almost as if it wasn¡¯t rted to him.

    Could it be that since he was far away from the Sines Continent that his heart was also distant?

    Impossible!

    Bat immediately shook his head.

    The Sines Continent was where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came from. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that sir chairman worked hard to build, so no matter what, sir chairman wouldn¡¯t be willing to give up on the Sines Continent.

    Bat didn¡¯t keep asking and naturally Xu Yi didn¡¯t keep exining.

    The main topic of his conversation with Bat this time wasn¡¯t rted to the Sines Continent, but rather how to effectively use the manpower of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over a hundred thousand workers from the people the recruited and the people the sent.

    It was still too little for the giant fifty thousand square kilometer area that they controlled.

    So they had to increase their manpower.

    It wasn¡¯t realistic to bring people from the Sines Continent because this ce was too far from the Sines Continent, so there weren¡¯t that many people willing to leave their hometowns toe here.

    Not to mention that many people considered the Magic Cloud Continent a barbaric and backwards ce, so no one was willing toe here to suffer.

    So to solve the manpower issue, they had to start from the Magic Cloud Continent itself.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had recruited the local other races and then they took in the local human tribes that they found.

    But the less than ten thousand people poption was far from enough.

    So Xu Yi was nning on exploring even further into the Magic Cloud Continent, nning on drawing in intelligent races from other ces to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    To solve this problem, he first had to find these local tribes and build rtions with them.

    Xu Yi had been in charge of this job during this period of time.

 Volume 8 Chapter 57

    Volume 8 Chapter 57 Call spanning over ten thousand kilometers

    Xu Yi¡¯s methods were not that unusual.

    He used two different methods at the same time. The first was to use the local tribes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce recruited to contact the other tribes that they had rtions with.

    Although the degree of civilization was low with the destruction of the goblins, so each tribe had a small range that they could build rtions in, they were linked to each other like a spider web, so they could contact more and more tribes this way.

    As for whether they were willing toe after contacting these tribes?

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t worried about this problem at all.

    The local tribes of the Magic Cloud Continent suffered from the problems of the goblins and adding in the fact that they had low production force, even finding it hard to secure basic food and shelter, how could they be willing to give up a good chance to obtain safety, food, and shelter?

    Even if there were some doubts, with these opportunities in front of them, they would send people to investigate first.

    Once they verified it, it was impossible that they wouldn¡¯te.

    The first method was a bit passive, but the second method was more active.

    Xu Yi sent out almost all of the Magic Airships, letting them investigate the outside world from above.

    Once they found traces of intelligent local tribes and verified these traces, after the report came back, Xu Yi sent out a group of Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards to wipe out the threats along the way before contacting them.

    Whether it was using benefits to tempt them or to threaten them, they would find a way for the tribe to move.

    In just the past three months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had gone out twenty times. The furthest one was going to a pce that was seven hundred kilometers away from the base to bring back a human tribe.

    With these two methods going at the same time, in the past three months, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already brought in twenty thousand local workers.

    But the more people they brought in, they faced arge issue.

    Of the various intelligent life on the Magic Cloud Continent, whether they were humans, elves, or dwarves, they showed signs of civilization and used their ownnguages. It wasn¡¯t that much better than the level of the Sines Continent from before and was farckingpared to the current level of the Sines Continent.

    Every time a new local tribe arrived at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce base, they were shocked by the various scenes that appeared.

    Even the most simple Magic Fan would make them call out in shock.

    With thisrge difference in culture, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtained manpower, it was hard for them to use them.

    Just solving themunication issue caused by differingnguages required a lot of time.

    So while he was recruiting more manpower, Xu Yi made the Sines Continent¡¯smon tongue themonnguage of the base, forcing these locals to learn it.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, after he solved the most basic issue ofmunication, he nned on having these locals learn magic machine rted skills.

    That way, they would be able to y a better role.

    Otherwise if they only wanted some simplebourers, it was much easier to learn from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and capture goblins to force them to work.

    Different from the goblins, these local other races could be considered truly intelligent races. Even if their culture wasn¡¯t as developed, that was only because they couldn¡¯t develop it since they had been suppressed by the goblins.

    For example, there was a local elf tribe that could even use crude magic.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that the elves¡¯ poption was too low, Xu Yi believed that they could have driven off the goblins and controlled this continent. There wouldn¡¯t have been a ce for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce toe in and manage everything.

    Of course, this crude magic wasn¡¯t even worth mentioning in the face of the powerful magic the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought. This elf tribe that had hopes of bing the ruler of the Magic Cloud Continent had be staff members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    As time passed, the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cloud Continent base also progressed each day with the help of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

    Factories were quickly being built one by one before entering production.

    Xu Yi had arrived on the Magic Cloud Continent for close to a year and the base hadpletely transformed from how it looked when Xu Yi had just arrived.

    The current base had factories for every industry built.

    Although the scale wasn¡¯trge, with thisplete industry, there was no need for supplies from the Sines Continent and they could be self sufficient.

    Of course, Xu Yi¡¯s final goal was to expand these industries across the entire Magic Cloud Continent.

    But that took a lot of time, so it wasn¡¯t good to be impatient.

    Xu Yi had already been on the Magic Cloud Continent for close to a year, so naturally he couldn¡¯t stay here any longer.

    On a normal day, an idental call made Xu Yi realize that it was time for him to leave the Magic Cloud Continent and return to the Sines Continent.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, can you guess who I am?¡±

    Hearing the energetic voice that came from the Magic Communicator that was also a bit naughty, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile before being surprised.

    ¡°Akali? You¡¯ve already finished the signal ry station?¡±

    Akali was naturally still on Sky Ind and Sky Ind was over four thousand kilometers away, but Akali was able to contact him. The only possibility of this was that the outer space magic signal ry that she had focused on developing had finally beenplete!

    ¡°Ha, ha......¡± There was a proudugh that came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°It¡¯s already done! How about it? Sir chairman, isn¡¯t this very quick?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s very quick.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°I thought that it would have been impossible without several more years. I never thought that it would only take you.....eh......a total of less than two years to actuallyplete it! This really is a pleasant surprise! Akali, when we get back, I have to give you a generous reward!¡±

    ¡°Che, I don¡¯t care about any generous rewards, I just need sir chairman to fulfill your promise to me.¡±

    ¡°Promise? What promise?¡± Xu Yi was surprised.

    ¡°You really forgot.¡± Akali gave a snort, ¡°You said before that as long as Iplete this task, you would choose an ind to give me as a vacation spot. What? Are you going against your promise now?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s mind turned and he remembered that he had promised Akali this back then.

    Akali and Evita liked being guests in Xu Yi¡¯s house back then and when they were talking about vacations with Still, Xu Yi had said that the scenery on the endless seas were good and the air was clear. It was better than any vacation spots.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t remember what they talked about afterwards, but Akali mentioning it now meant that she must have used her words to trap him back then.

    Of course, this was only a small matter. With the current finances of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t that hard to develop a small ind for Akali.

    ¡°No, who dares go back on their promise. Alright, you can randomly pick out a small ind on the endless seas and I will give it to you!¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, sounding very domineering when he replied.

    The inds on the endless seas weren¡¯t all owned like the inds on earth.

    If Akali liked one, Xu Yi could just take it without any problems.

    ¡°Then that¡¯s decided. Un......Sir chairman, since you are so decisive, I won¡¯t keep bothering you. You must be looking forward to talking to Still very much, right?¡±

    Xu Yiughed.

    Sinceing to the Magic Cloud Continent, since it wasn¡¯t convenient tomunicate because it was over ten thousand kilometers away, he could only send letters by ship to Still. He wasn¡¯t able to call her at any time like on the Sines Continent, so naturally he missed Still and his family.

    When he received Akali¡¯s call, he unconsciously realized that since Akali was able to contact him from Sky Ind four thousand kilometers away, she would also be able to contact the Sines Continent that was six thousand kilometer away from Sky Ind.

    The magic signal ry that she researched had the ability to transfer magic signals, so there was clearly no problem connecting Xu Yi to the Sines Continent.

    Allowing formunication between the two continents was the original goal of the outer space signal ry that Akali was researching.

    ¡°Can it connect?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Of course it can, just wait a bit.¡± Akali replied before static came through the Magic Communicator. It was clear that Akali was changing the signal.

    After a while, there was more static that came from the Magic Communicator before a voice asking a question rang out.

    ¡°Hey? Is this Xu Yi?¡±

    Although this voice wasn¡¯t clear, Xu Yi recognized it right away and his heart filled with joy.

    ¡°Hey, Still, it¡¯s me!¡± Xu Yi wasn¡¯t able to suppress the excitement in his heart and his voice even trembled a bit.

    ¡°It really is you!¡± Still¡¯s voice couldn¡¯t hold back her excitement either, ¡°This is great! Xu Yi, I can finally hear your voice! You.....are you alright over there?¡±

    Xu Yi took a deep breath before saying whileughing, ¡°I¡¯m very good, there¡¯s no need to worry. What about you? What about the family? How is it going over there?¡±

    As soon as Xu Yi¡¯s voice fell, there was a very energetic and clear voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Dad! It¡¯s really great that I can hear your voice again! I¡¯ve missed you to death! When are youing back? I¡¯m about to turn twenty five, you have toe back before then!¡±

    ¡°Freya?¡± Hearing this voice, Xu Yi¡¯s smile became even brighter, ¡°Rx, I will definitely be back before your birthday. But......have you already thought about your reply for me on that day?¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 58

    Volume 8 Chapter 58 Circuit board

    There was silence from the Magic Communicator for a bit before Freya gave a soft snort, ¡°I¡¯ll tell you when it¡¯s my birthday!¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh before suddenly changing the tone of his voice and asking, ¡°Akali, stop secretly listening. Tell me, can you do video calls? I want to see Still and Freya right now.¡±

    There were surprised gasps from three people that rang out at the same time.

    After a while, Akali¡¯s awkward voice rang out.

    ¡°This......Sir chairman, being able to do voice calls is already good enough. As for video calls.....you still have to wait a bit.¡±

    Xu Yi acknowledged this and wasn¡¯t surprised.

    After chatting with Still, Freya, and his other family members for a bit, this first transcontinental call with a very significant meaning finally came to an end.

    But as soon as Xu Yi hung up, the Magic Communicator rang out again.

    ¡°Sir chairman.¡± Akali¡¯s voice rang out again, ¡°About the ruins, we¡¯ve made some new discoveries, so you should find some time toe and see it.¡±

    ¡°Oh? You made new discoveries this quickly?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Un, we¡¯ve found......¡± Akali paused before saying, ¡°It¡¯s not convenient talking like this, we¡¯ll talk when youe over.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    After putting down the Magic Communicator, there was a bit of expectation that shed in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes.

    A part of why he was researching the Abyss Demon Race was because he was curious about this legendary past civilization, but the other part was that Xu Yi wanted to understand why they had left this world.

    Since the Sines Continent had many different legends from different races that confirmed the method that they used to leave the Sines Continent, even with the dragons and elves knowing quite a few details, this confirmed that this wasn¡¯t a legend and had actually happened.

    But the various races didn¡¯t have an exnation for why they ¡®left this world¡¯ in the first ce.

    Xu Yi guessed that this wasn¡¯t because the records werecking, but rather the ancestors of the various races didn¡¯t know what happened. They only understood a few fuzzy details about the Abyss Demon Race leaving this world.

    The reason wasn¡¯t hard to guess, it was because these ancestors had been lower ss citizens in that society. They naturally wouldn¡¯t understand what the Abyss Demon Race wanted to do.

    Based on the ruins that were found before, the level of civilization of the Abyss Demon Race was quite high. Perhaps their ¡®leaving this world¡¯ was the hyperspace jump that even earth technology was far from achieving.

    Actually, speaking of hyperspace jump, even earth¡¯s technology couldn¡¯t do it. Rather the Sines Continent already had this ability because any magician above the Great Magician Grade was able to use spatial magic.

    Spatial magic could allow a magician to teleport themself and the objects connected to them a long distance, so it could be considered very simr to a hyperspace jump.

    But the magicians of the Sines Continent only have superficial knowledge about teleportation magic. They only knew how to use it, but they didn¡¯t grasp the principle behind it, so at most they could only teleport themselves several kilometers away and couldn¡¯t do more than that.

    Only in the most recent years, they gradually understood more about it with the scientific view of magic Xu Yi proposed.

    Butpared to teleporting to another world like the Abyss Demon Race, they were far fromparing.

    Xu Yi wanted to research the Abyss Demon Race ruins to find the secrets hidden within and then see if he could grasp the true hyperspace leap technology.

    As for the goal of getting this technology......

    Xu Yi looked up at the sun that was in the sky that was much bigger than the one from earth, but wasn¡¯t burning as bright and revealed a faint bitter smile.

    ¡°If I could really achieve hyperspace jump and explore the boundless universe, how will I be able to find earth?¡±

    ###

    Half a monthter, Xu Yi¡¯s Magic Airship slowlynded on Sky Ind.

    As soon as the cabin door opened, Akali charged in first and blocked Xu Yi who was about toe out.

    ¡°Start flying again! Here, these are the coordinates, fly there.¡± Akali casually gave some coordinates to the driver and then pulled Xu Yi back into the cabin.

    Xu Yi was confused as he looked at Akali. Why did she seem even more excited than him?

    ¡°Hei, sir chairman, do you know what we discovered these past few days?¡± Akali asked with an excited look.

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°I haven¡¯t seen it yet, how can I know what you discovered?¡±

    Akali gave augh as she already expected Xu Yi to say this. She swept the things on the table aside and took out several diagrams from her bag, spreading them over the table.

    ¡°Look, these are the first ruins that we discovered, right?¡± Akali pointed at the first piece of paper.

    Xu Yi looked down and found that on the diagram, there was the pir of the first ruins that they discovered, so he gave a nod.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you sayst time that this pir was a precise instrument?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s nod, Akali pulled away the first diagram and revealed the one underneath, ¡°Look, this is what the inside of the pir is like based on our investigations.¡±

    ¡°The Investigation Magic equipment was finished?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice as he looked down at the diagram.

    After taking a look, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help standing up in shock.

    ¡°This......¡±

    Seeing the shocked look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Akali¡¯s proud smile became even wider.

    ¡°Were you scared by it?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the diagram on the table and couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    This diagram had a drawing of what was inside the pir.

    Through the diagram, he could tell that this pir was made of finely made tes of an unknown material. These tes were densely packed together, but they were also neatly arranged, not showing any traces of disorder at all.

    Seeing this diagram, he suddenly thought of a word that he had almost forgotten.

    Circuit board!

    Yes, the things in the diagram were simr to the circuit boards from earth that Xu Yi was familiar with.

    As a high level mechanical engineer that had always been interested in electric appliances since he was young, Xu Yi was very familiar with this thing. Back when he was on earth, he had already seen it countless times since he was four years old.

    But he never would have thought that he would see a circuit board here.

    This was wrong!

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and after carefully looking at it for a bit, he slowly shook his head.

    This thing looked like a circuit board, but there were many ces that were different. It wasn¡¯t the same as the circuit boards that he was familiar with.

    But still couldn¡¯t answer the question in Xu Yi¡¯s heart.

    Why would there be a circuit board?

    Even if the ruins left by the Abyss Demon Race had precise instruments, but for this thing to be made up of circuit boards, this really was too shocking.

    Moreover, based on the reaction that Xu Yi received when he used electrical energy on the pirs before, this made Xu Yi feel that this was all even more strange.

    Could it be......This Abyss Demon Race had actually reached a simr level of civilization as the people from earth?

    ¡°Sir chairman, what¡¯s wrong?¡± Akali saw that Xu Yi had looked at the diagram for a while without saying a thing, even looking a bit stunned, so she couldn¡¯t help calling out to him.

    ¡°Ah?¡± Xu Yi came back to his senses. He took a breath and shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m fine, I just felt that the things inside the pir are a bit too surprising.¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful gaze.

    The things inside this pir were indeed very strange, but who was sir chairman? Why did he have such arge reaction towards these strange things?

    But since Xu Yi didn¡¯t exin anything, Akali didn¡¯t have any intentions to keep asking these questions. She patted the diagrams on the table and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, do you know how many ruins we¡¯ve found during this time?¡±

    ¡°How many?¡±

    Akali gestured with both her hands.

    ¡°A total of thirty seven.¡±

    ¡°That many?¡± Xu Yi said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Un. Moreover I¡¯m certain that there are still many ruins nearby, we just haven¡¯t discovered them yet.¡±

    ¡°Why are you so certain?¡± Xu Yi was a bit confused.

    ¡°You¡¯ll understand after you see this diagram.¡± Akali pulled away the second diagram to reveal the third diagram.

    Xu Yi looked down and found that it was a map.

    ¡°This......is a map of the surrounding seas?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you truly are wise.¡± Akali immediately gave Xu Yi a thumbs up before pointing at the map, ¡°Look, this is Sky Ind.¡±

    Then she moved her finger to the upper left corner, where there was a clear mark made.

    ¡°This is where we found the first ruins.¡±

    Xu Yi calcted the distance and gave a nod.

    ¡°Then all these marked ces were where you found ruins?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Akali nodded in confirmation, ¡°Until now, we¡¯ve found thirty seven of them and they are all marked on this map.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the thirty seven marks and didn¡¯t find anything special about them.

    ¡°This was what you discovered recently?¡±

    ¡°Not just this.¡± Akali pulled out the fourth diagram from below and put it together with the third diagram, ¡°Can you see it now?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at this fourth diagram which had aplicated pattern on it. It seemed like a diagram of a Magic Array.

    After looking at the third diagram again, Xu Yi fell into deep thought. He reached a finger out to trace along the third diagram, drawing several connecting lines that hepared with the fourth diagram before suddenly understanding something.

    ¡°These ruins actually form a Magic Array when theye together?¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 59

    Volume 8 Chapter 59 Origin of magic

    ¡°Sir chairman truly is powerful.¡± Akali praised. She pointed at the fourth diagram that seemed like the diagram of a Magic Array, ¡°Then sir chairman, do you see anything from this diagram?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the fourth diagram for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

    ¡°No, this diagram isn¡¯tplete.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Akali revealed an excited look.

    Xu Yi looked at her andughed, ¡°You are also a Great Magician now, you can¡¯t see that this diagram is iplete? Look, here, here, and here, it¡¯s clear that the lines aren¡¯t linked and that something is missing.¡±

    Akali revealed a smile, ¡°As expected, we can¡¯t fool sir chairman. That¡¯s right, elder Undine and I have studied this diagram for a long time and have confirmed that there are parts missing. If we had to make an inference, it should be because we haven¡¯t found all the ruins, so this array diagram isn¡¯tplete.¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and pointed at the diagram, ¡°Since you¡¯ve found this array diagram, isn¡¯t it easy to infer where the corresponding ruins are? Why haven¡¯t you found them yet?¡±

    Akali helplessly shook her head, ¡°We have confirmed that there are seven ruins that haven¡¯t been found yet, but after we¡¯ve looked in the area, we¡¯ve only found that there was seawater there. There aren¡¯t any signs of any inds, let alone ruins.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before suddenly realizing something.

    The Abyss Demon Race had already left this world for ten thousand years.

    Life changed as time passed, ten thousand years was enough to greatly change this world.

    The sea where the ruins should be changing wasn¡¯t that strange at all.

    ¡°Elder Undine also said the same.¡± Akali agreed with Xu Yi¡¯s inference, ¡°But like this, we can¡¯t find the remaining ruins at all. There¡¯s still an even more important problem......¡±

    ¡°What is it?¡±

    ¡°Ten thousand years is already enough to make the small inds with the ruins disappear, so it isn¡¯t strange if the location of the other ruins have changed. How are we certain that this array diagram is urate?¡±

    Xu Yi looked down at the fourth diagram and gave a sigh.

    Akali was right.

    It wasn¡¯t strange if an ind with the ruins shifted during ten thousand years. This diagram that represented the array didn¡¯t have any real meaning.

    ¡°No, there is something.¡± Akali shook her head, ¡°At the very least, we know that the Abyss Demon Race used magic. Elder Undine also said that ording to the legends passed down by the elves, the magic of the elves wasn¡¯t developed by them and learned from somewhere else. We didn¡¯t know this before, but it seems like it was learned from the Abyss Demon Race.¡±

    Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

    ording to the history of the Sines Continent, the magic that humans and other races grasped was secretly learned from the elves and then developed to have the characteristics of their race.

    But no one had thought about where the magic of elves came from.

    If Akali and elder Undine¡¯s research was real, the discovery that the elves learned magic from the Abyss Demon Race was enough to change the entire history of the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi¡¯s thoughts were even deeper than this.

    Just what was magic?

    To Xu Yi, it was just an application method of energy.

    If the elves learned magic from the Abyss Demon Race, this magic shouldn¡¯t be called magic, but rather an advanced energy conversion method from the Abyss Demon Race.

    The ancestors of the elves only learned some knowledge from the Abyss Demon Race and didn¡¯t understand the principles, but this had evolved into the mysterious and amazing magic that was used on the Sines Continent.

    The scientific view of magic that Xu Yi proposed was bringing out the principles hidden in magic, going back to the source.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt his heart clear. It was as if he had received an answer for the question that had been in his heart the entire time.

    Why could the humans of the Sines Continent grasp something as amazing as magic even though they had such a backwards society?

    Why was it that after years of studying magic, Xu Yi found principles that far surpassed the level of technology from earth?

    Why was it that the people of the Sines Continent had such slow development even having something as amazing as magic? Why did they only start developing after Xu Yi guided them?

    Xu Yi had thought that these questions went against the principles of society development, but he finally knew that this magic was stolen by the elven ancestors from the Abyss Demon Race. This exined everything.

    ¡°Sir chairman, what are you thinking about now?¡± Akali saw the changing expressions on Xu Yi¡¯s face and waved her hand in front of his face with a bit of worry.

    Xu Yi took a deep breath and forced the ripples in his heart to calm down.

    If this was the truth of the world, it really was shocking.

    After calming down, he suddenly realized a problem.

    ¡°Akali, do you know why the Abyss Demon Race was called that name?¡±

    Akali shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know this, you should go ask elder Undine.¡±

    ¡°Un.....Right, where¡¯s elder Undine?¡±

    ¡°She¡¯s waiting ahead of us.¡±

    After around two hours, the Magic Airships had gone north around four hundred meters before stopping over the seas.

    ¡°We¡¯re here.¡± Akali stretched herself out as she finished discussing the Magic Array of the ruins with Xu Yi and stood up.

    Xu Yi looked out the window and revealed a doubtful look.

    ¡°There isn¡¯t an ind below.¡±

    ¡°You will know in a bit.¡±

    Akali gave augh as she had the Magic Airship descend. They stopped when they were a bit over ten meters from the sea and then she opened the cabin door.

    ¡°Sir chairman, let¡¯s go down. Elder Undine is waiting for us below.¡±

    ¡°Below?¡± Xu Yi looked down at the dark seas with a strange look, ¡°You¡¯re not telling me that she¡¯s in the water right now, right?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Akali gave augh and jumped out the cabin door.

    When she reached the surface of the water, she stopped and looked up to wave her hand as she shouted, ¡°Sir chairman, quicklye down!¡±

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head. He turned to give an order to his subordinates in the Magic Airship before jumping out.

    Akali was already at the level of a Great Magician and there was no need to mention Xu Yi. The seas were a forbidden ce for normal people, but for the two of them, it didn¡¯t hinder them at all.

    When he came to sea level, the two of them used their magic power to push away the sea water before wrapping themselves up in a magic barrier. Then they entered the sea with arge air bubble around them.

    Akali kept diving deeper with Xu Yi following behind her. Not long after, they were already several hundred meters below the surface.

    These deep seas werepletely dark and the two casually made some light from their magic.

    After going down around another hundred meters, there was suddenly a bit of light that appeared below.

    Akali pointed at the direction of the light for Xu Yi before moving faster.

    Xu Yi also started moving faster as he followed behind her.

    When they came close, Xu Yi found that this light seemed very weak from a distance, but he could clearly see everything in these deep seas, so it was actually quite bright.

    When he came close, he found that this light was actuallying from a cave entrance.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised by this at all.

    With the terrain that the seabed had, it wasn¡¯t strange to find underwater caves at all.

    But it was a bit strange that this cave would release light.

    Akali waved her hand at Xu Yi before entering the cave.

    Xu Yi followed along and found that the light was actuallying from the depths of the cave.

    After going in a bit deeper, Xu Yi felt the water pressure around him rx, almost as if the water pressure around him was disappearing.

    ¡°Sir chairman, let¡¯s go down. There isn¡¯t any water here already.¡± Akali hadnded on the ground under the cave and she waved her hand at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi doubtfullynded. After hended, he stepped down hard and found that the ground was quite hard, as well as making some deep thud sounds. This didn¡¯t seem like the normal bottom of the sea no matter how he looked at it.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you can release your barrier. We can breathe here, it¡¯s no different from the outside.¡± Akali said.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked at Akali before checking with his magic power. He found that this space really was the same as any space above the seas.

    After releasing his magic barrier, there wasn¡¯t any water that surged forward. Taking a deep breath, he could smell the very fresh air.

    Xu Yi looked behind him and revealed a look of surprise as he saw some kind of invisible barrier keeping out the seawater.

    ¡°This ce......does it have a natural magic barrier?¡± Xu Yi wanted to say oxygen mask, but that didn¡¯t seem appropriate.

    ¡°It might not be natural......¡± Akali revealed a mysterious smile.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before reaching his hand out towards the invisible barrier that kept out the seawater. He found that there was a strange energying from this barrier and although it was like a magic barrier, it was very different.

    But no matter what, it didn¡¯t seem like something that was natural.

    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go in first.¡± Akali pulled Xu Yi along as she headed deeper into the cave.

    After passing around the first corner, there was light that appeared in front of them.

    Xu Yi looked forward and saw two slender figures standing in front of a wall in the distance.

 Volume 8 Chapter 60

    Volume 8 Chapter 60 Are you from the Abyss Demon Race?

    ¡°Chairman Xu.¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu.¡±

    Other than elder Undine, the other figure was Cassandra in her human form.

    Xu Yi looked at Cassandra and didn¡¯t ask why she was also here.

    With the good rtionship between Akali and Cassandra, it wasn¡¯t strange that she told Cassandra about this ce.

    Then again, this was rted to the Abyss Demon Race. If the dragons that had an even longer history than the elves were to participate, it might help them.

    ¡°Have you been waiting long?¡± Xu Yi casually asked as he turned to look at the wall in front of them.

    He only needed a single nce to know that this wall was made from the same material as the pirs they found before.

    But it was different from the pirs where the pirs only looked like normal pirs unless they were incited with electricity. The wall in front of him was actually releasing a bright and gentle glow that could even be seen outside.

    The light in the passage here should havee from this.

    ¡°We¡¯ve been here for a bit, but we haven¡¯t found a way to get in yet.¡± Elder Undine replied.

    ¡°Actually, we found this cest month, but we¡¯ve never been able to get in.¡± Akali added in.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi looked up and found that this was a very open space. Only after more than ten meters above him could he see ayer of rock and the wall in front of him actually reached that roof. It created an arc shape on the roof that separated itself from the wall by quite arge space.

    It seemed like the magic barrier outside of this wall not only kept the water away, but also the impurities.

    The seabed outside had already covered this ce with a thickyer of rock over ten thousand years, but this wall was able to maintain its original design.

    ¡°If these are ruins from the Abyss Demon Race, then the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s technology really is shocking.¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh before asking Akali, ¡°Did you not use the Investigation Magic equipment to look inside?¡±

    Akali shook her head, ¡°We tried, but the magic signal couldn¡¯t prate the wall, so we couldn¡¯t see inside.¡±

    Xu Yi felt a bit surprised, ¡°Couldn¡¯t you see what was inside the pirs before? Why can¡¯t you see through this wall?¡±

    ¡°How should I know?¡± Akali said in a snappy voice.

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before turning to ask elder Undine and Cassandra a question, ¡°Your elf and dragon drees don¡¯t have any records about this ce?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Elder Undine shook her head.

    ¡°This is my first time learning about these ruins.¡± Cassandra knew even less than elder Undine.

    Xu Yi knew that he couldn¡¯t depend on the representatives of these races that had a longer history to help him, so he walked in front of the wall and carefully examined it.

    The wall in front of him wasn¡¯tplete. Whether it was the left or right or above, there was a space that separated it from the rock walls around it.

    Xu Yi walked around this wall and flew up to look over it, finding that this wasn¡¯t a wall at all, but rather a semicircr vault of some sort.

    This building was around twenty meters tall and its biggest diameter was even over two hundred meters.

    If it was hollow, the space inside should be shockingly big.

    After Xu Yi flew around, he could only give up after not finding anything different.

    Of course, Akali¡¯s group had already found thisst month. If there was anything different, they would have already noticed it.

    ¡°Sir chairman, have you thought of how to get in?¡± Akali looked at him with an expectant look.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s no way, I can¡¯t even find a slit in it. This is simply like an egg shell. But I feel that this ce should be rted to the pirs that we found before. As long as we can properly study the pirs, we might be able to find a way to open this thing.¡±

    Akali was a bit disappointed, but she knew that Xu Yi was right.

    ¡°Could it be that we can only look at this thing after spending all that effort to find it?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s nothing. It¡¯s here, it won¡¯t run away.¡± Xu Yi reached his hand to pat the wall and feeling the thickness from it, he turned to Akali with a smile, ¡°We still have time, so we can slowly study this. There¡¯s no need to......¡±

    Xu Yi suddenly noticed that Akali, elder Undine, and Casssandra all had shocked looks like they had just seen ghosts.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you......you......¡± Akali¡¯s eyes opened wide as she pointed behind Xu Yi.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Xu Yi was confused as he turned around, but then he was also stunned.

    In the seamless wall behind him, there was a rectangr gap that was three meters tall and four meters wide!

    ¡°It can¡¯t be......¡± Xu Yi looked at this gap in shock. He could only see a tunnel leading in, but he couldn¡¯t see anything else.

    ¡°Sir chairman, could it be that you¡¯re from the Abyss Demon Race?¡± Cassandra said with a shocked look.

    ¡°Nonsense!¡± Xu Yi immediately shook his head, ¡°The Abyss Demon Race already disappeared ten thousand years ago, how could I be from that race?¡±

    Cassandra had naturally only been joking, so Akali and elder Undine didn¡¯t think about this any further.

    Elder Undine pointed at the passage revealed and said, ¡°What do we do now? Do we go in?¡±

    Everyone was a bit hesitant.

    This ce was very strange and if something dangerous was inside, they wouldn¡¯t know how to deal with it.

    Akali thought about it before gritting her teeth and walking in.

    ¡°Since we¡¯re already here, how could we be afraid!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and followed Akali in. At the same time he gathered his magic power and raised his vignce.

    Elder Undine and Cassandra looked at each other before following them.

    Facts proved that they were too cautious.

    The passage wasn¡¯t long, only going for around ten meters. The scene in front of them lit up and an iparablyrge space appeared in front of the four of them.

    Xu Yi looked up and confirmed that this space was around the same as the building outside, so they should be inside this semicircr building.

    In terms of volume, this was around the size of a basketball court.

    However, this giant space was actually empty.

    The only thing that caught everyone¡¯s attention was the giant pir that was in the center.

    Akali didn¡¯t hesitate to fly over and after circling the pir for a bit, even flying up to the peak of the pir, she came back down and said with a strange look, ¡°This pir......it should be the same as the ones outside, but why is it encased this much?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the same.¡± Cassandra looked at this giant pir that was over twenty meters tall and two to three meters in diameter and denied Akali¡¯s thoughts, ¡°It¡¯s at least bigger than the ones outside.¡±

    ¡°If I¡¯m not wrong, this pir should be the core, so it has to be protected.¡± Elder Undine gave a guess.

    ¡°Un, I agree with this spection.¡± Xu Yi also said.

    Akali thought about it before taking out some equipment from her storage space.

    This equipment was the Investigation Magic equipment that she and elder Undine had developed with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    Akali pointed it at the giant pir and arge Magic Illusion came out of the equipment.

    Akali, elder Undine, and Cassandra looked at the illusion and spoke at the same time.

    ¡°It really is the same!¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s the same as the pirs outside?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°No......notpletely the same.¡± Akali shook her head. She seriously looked over the illusion before giving a certain nod, ¡°Yes, there are some details that are different.¡±

    The four looked at the illusion for a bit before sharing a look.

    ¡°Sir chairman, I¡¯m certain that this pir should be left by the Abyss Demon Race and it¡¯s part of the giant Magic Array that they used to go to another world. As for the biggest pir in front of us, this should be the core of the Magic Array.¡±

    ¡°This means that......as long as we start from these pirs, we can activate the Magic Array and go to another world like the Abyss Demon Race?¡± Cassandra asked with a shocked look.

    ¡°This......¡± Akali and Xu Yi looked at each other with bitter smiles before shaking their heads, ¡°It won¡¯t be that easy. First, the Abyss Demon Race going to another world is just a legend and no one knows if they seeded or not. If they failed, then starting this Magic Array will be seeking our own deaths. Second, even if they did seed, how.....should we activate this Magic Array?¡±

    ¡°Of course......¡± Cassandra opened her mouth, but she couldn¡¯t say anything else.

    Although they had explored all those ruins rted to the Abyss Demon Race and guessed at some secrets, they still didn¡¯t know anything about these pirs. How were they supposed to activate the Magic Array that they had only spected at?

    ¡°Actually, it¡¯s very simple.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Since the equipment can see what the situation is like in the pirs, then we can just copy it and then do our own experiments. One day, we should be able to learn the secrets hidden in these pirs.¡±

    Akali looked at the illusion before saying in a stunned voice, ¡°Sir chairman, although it¡¯s not clear, the inside of the equipment should be very advanced. How can we possibly copy this?¡±

    ¡°How would you know if you don¡¯t try?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile.

    ¡°In the eyes of sir chairman, any problem isn¡¯t a problem at all.¡± Akali rolled her eyes, ¡°But I still have a very important problem with this. Sir chairman, we¡¯ve been here for over a month and tried many methods, but we still couldn¡¯t get it. Why did it suddenly open after you came? Could it be that you¡¯ve been here before?¡±

    Elder Undine and Cassandra also looked at Xu Yi with doubtful looks.

    This question was a bit too unbelievable for them.

 Volume 8 Chapter 61

    Volume 8 Chapter 61 Xu Yi is back

    There was no answer for Akali¡¯s question.

    Xu Yi naturally wasn¡¯t from the Abyss Demon Race and this was his first time here.

    As for why the door opened for him, even Xu Yi himself didn¡¯t know, so how could he answer this question.

    After Akali asked a few more questions and confirmed that Xu Yi didn¡¯t know anything, she could only give up.

    But the core of the array that they had found with great difficulty, naturally Akali wouldn¡¯t give up on that so easily.

    After going back and forth several times, they realized that only Xu Yi could open it. Once he left, it would close automatically. Naturally Akali wanted Xu Yi to stay to help with the study.

    But Xu Yi decisively denied this request.

    He didn¡¯t have time to stay here to do these studies. Whether it was the Sines Continent or the Magic Cloud Continent, there were a bunch of things for him to take care of.

    So the final decision was that Akali would lead a small team to work with elder Undine to study the outside ruins. Xu Yi woulde over when necessary and help them open the door to this core.

    ording to Xu Yi¡¯s n, with the normal speed of research, Akali and elder Undine wouldn¡¯t make any progress without several years of work.

    To truly solve the secret hidden in the ruins left by the Abyss Demon Race, it might not even be aplished during his lifetime.

    He naturally wanted to imitate the Abyss Demon Race and use this powerful technology to cross into another world, but there was no need to aim that high.

    It would be good if they could find something, but there was no loss to him if they couldn¡¯t.

    Compared to this, the real problems in front of him were the most important.

    After being kept here by Akali to help with her research for half a month, Xu Yi finally left and returned to the Sines Continent that he had left for a year.

    ###

    With a soft breeze, there was a heat that filled the air. This signifie that it was alreadyte spring and they were heading towards summer.

    Yerogan looked like he had already entered summer. He was covered in sweat and even if he wiped it with a towel, he would be covered in sweat again not long after.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    There was a me that shot into the sky that almost covered Yerogan.

    It was a good thing that Yerogan had done this raising the temperature of the mes experiment over two hundred times. He was already experienced with this, so after sensing the magic fluctuations from the Magic Array, he moved aside and dodged this explosion of mes without any harm.

    But even so, a few strands of hair on his forehead were singed.

    If it wasn¡¯t for soaking it in water beforehand, his hair might have been burnt by the mes.

    ¡°Damn!¡± Seeing that his experiment failed again, Yerogan couldn¡¯t help cursing. Then he wiped his sweat off again before chugging down therge cup of salt water with a bit of sugar in it that had been prepared ahead of time on the side.

    He kept filling up on water like this. If he didn¡¯t fill up on salt and sugar like this, he would have already fainted from dehydration. How could he have had the energy to continue this experiment?

    Looking at the high power Magic Air Conditioner that he had boughtst month on the wall, Yerogan hesitated a bit before giving a sigh. He took the remote control and turned on the Magic Air Conditioner.

    After a while, there was a cool breeze that came from it that made Yerogan much morefortable.

    ¡°Achoo!¡±

    With the cold hitting him, he gave a strong sneeze.

    Yerogan knew that the best thing to do now was to take a warm bath so that he didn¡¯t catch a cold.

    But he still needed to do his experiment. Even if he took a bath, he would be covered in sweat again and it would all be a waste.

    It was a good thing that he chose to exercise. His body was stronger than a normal magician¡¯s, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about these small problems.

    Using a towel to carefully wipe off the sweat from his body, he wrapped a towel around himself and picked up the Magic Communicator he had thrown on the side before dialing a number.

    ¡°Hey, Yerogan, if you¡¯re calling me now, does that mean that the experiment was a sess?¡± There was an excited voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Sess your butt!¡± Yerogan cursed at him, ¡°Damn it Dior, your theory was wrong! I did the experiment over two hundred times and I didn¡¯t seed once!¡±

    ¡°Impossible!¡± The voice in the Magic Communicator became much louder, ¡°My theory was carefully calcted! It has been checked countless times, how could it be wrong! There must be something wrong with your experiments!¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re saying that my skills are bad? Then you can go find someone else!¡± Yerogan said with a cold snort.

    Dior on the other side immediately turned soft as he said with a chuckle, ¡°No, no, no, I was just joking. You are the empire¡¯s leading expert in the Magic Heating Array, how could you make a mistake? Un......I feel that......there definitely might be some small mistakes. Actually, you were very close to seeding with the experiment, right?¡±

    Yerogan gave another snort.

    Although he had failed again and again, the effects were getting better and better each time.

    Moreover, after two hundred experiments, he could confirm that this heat inducing theory that Dior had wasn¡¯t normal. He could easily increase the temperature of strong me Magic Arrays by over 10%.

    If it was the past magic system, that would be increasing the might of a Fireball Spell by 10% or even more, which was naturally not normal.

    Hearing that Yerogan didn¡¯t refute him, Dior became excited again as he asked, ¡°Hey, Yerogan, how long......do you think it¡¯ll take before it seeds?¡±

    ¡°What? You can¡¯t wait?¡± Yerogan asked in a cold voice.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that I can¡¯t, but the army......Ke, the employer side can¡¯t wait. If we can¡¯t give them results by the end of the month, the money that they¡¯ll give us will decrease by a third.¡±

    Yerogan slightly knitted his brows.

    Although Dior had only said half of it, he could guess that the employer should be the army headquarters.

    But why would the army headquarters care about this high temperature array?

    Although it was said that the army headquarters had been secretly developing military magic machines over the years, how was what he was researching rted to the military magic machines?

    ¡°Even if they stopped funding everything, I can¡¯t do what I can¡¯t do.¡± Yeroygan replied, ¡°Tell the other side that if they want the results, they have to be patient. How could it be easy with just me alone, I¡¯m not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Dior was silent for a bit before suddenly lowering his voice to ask, ¡°That.....Yerogan, are you interested......¡±

    ¡°Not interested!¡± Yerogan cut Dior off without the slightest bit of courtesy.

    He had already heard that the army headquarters was recruiting magicians to study military magic machines. Now that Dior was being this mysterious, it was most likely rted to what he said before.

    Yerogan wasn¡¯t interested in working for the army headquarters.

    First, not to mention the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild, and the Magicians Survival Job Security Union closely monitoring the army headquarters of each country, if he did something wrong and were banned by the two associations, he would be in great danger. Even if there wasn¡¯t any danger, Yerogan wasn¡¯t interested in working for the army headquarters.

    Compared to being limited after entering the army headquarters, it was much morefortable being able to choose what he researched.

    Not to mention that once he entered the army headquarters, he would definitely be conducting research rted to the military magic machines. He wouldn¡¯t be allowed to do any easy and fun research that was rted to the magic machines that otherpanies wanted to develop, which also paid quite well.

    No matter how he looked at it, it was much better than joining the army headquarters.

    Hearing the strong tone that Yerogan had, Dior tactfully no longer mentioned this and changed the topic.

    ¡°Right, Yerogan, about the matter of investing in the Tinifex Mine before, there might be a few problems......¡±

    Yerogan knitted his brows, ¡°What problems?¡±

    The Tinifex Mines weren¡¯t in the Candra Empire¡¯s territory, but rather in the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s territory.

    As for investing in the Tinifex Mines that Dior mentioned, after the Candra Empire seized thends around the mine, they actually auctioned off the mine which attracted quite a bit of attention.

    Dior had mentioned to Yerogan that he knew an outsider that could get some shares of the mine for them, so he invited Yerogan to invest with him,

    But the situation hadn¡¯t stabilized at that time, so they hadn¡¯t settled this matter previously.

    He never thought that in less than a month, there would be a problem.

    ¡°I¡¯ve received the news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman ising back.¡±

    Yerogan was stunned, ¡°How is it rted to the mine that we¡¯re investing in?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand?¡± Dior gave a bitterugh, ¡°Why would the empire dare to start a war with the Mana Magic Kingdom? Isn¡¯t it because Xu Yi left the Sines Continent so that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t do anything? Now that he¡¯s back, the empire will have scruples about continuing the war with the Mana Magic Kingdom. If Xu Yies back and decides to get involved, they might not even be able to keep fighting. Based on what that fellow Xu Yi has always done, the empire might have to give back thends they seized to the Mana Magic Kingdom. As for the Tinifex Mines......¡±

    Yerogan finally understood.

    If the Candra Empire received pressure from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and returned their seizednd, the Tinifex Mines would naturally also be returned.

    Then his and Dior¡¯s investments would naturally be for nothing.

    ¡°This damn Xu Yi, why did he have toe back now? If he came back a bitter, the empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom might have already signed the peace treaty. Even if he wanted to interfere, the empire could just ignore him.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain. If he forced the empire to return thend, what do you think the empire would do?¡±

    Yerogan fell silent.

    Based on the examples over the years, if Xu Yi really pressured the Candra Empire using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire might have to agree in the end.

    After thinking for a bit, Yerogan¡¯s expression became a bit strange.

    ¡°Hey, Dior, do you think......the important people of the empire can really keep enduring this?¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 62

    Volume 8 Chapter 62 True stance

    Emperor Candra looked at the document on the table in front of him and was silent.

    This document only had a single piece of information, but it was ced above all the other reports. This meant that out of all the things that he had to take care of today, this was the most important.

    But this thick report of over ten thousand words was only describing a single matter.

    Xu Yi wasing back.

    ¡°This fellow......why couldn¡¯t he stay on the Magic Cloud Continent and note back? Or rather.....why couldn¡¯t he just die on the Magic Cloud Continent?¡± Emperor Candra revealed a bitter smile.

    Actually, for him, he always hadplicated thoughts about Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    If it was purely from the stance of the Candra Empire, he should thank Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he represented.

    FIrst, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought the agricultural magic machines, as well as opening cooperation with the elves, obtaining the fertilizer that they never shared with any other races.

    With the help of these two things, the current Candra Empire¡¯s grain yield had greatly increased. Compared to thirty years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t here, it had increased by over ten times.

    This wild grain yield made it so that the Candra Empire didn¡¯t need to worry about any famines. The empire had be much more stable and there was no need to worry about riots because of disaster victims.

    Even if there was arge famine, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t have a problem with the grain reserves that they saved each year.

    If this was the past, that was something that was unimaginable.

    Of course, there were even more things that were unimaginable in the past.

    Among them that Emperor Candra cared about wasn¡¯t just the grain yield, but also the change in transportation.

    The Candra Empire was a very big empire.

    From the empire¡¯s north to the south, it spanned over four thousand kilometers.

    Even with the quickest horse and it ran without resting, it would take at least three days in theory to cross from the furthermost northern point to the furthermost southern point.

    But in reality, because of the problem of manpower and horsepower, as well as the hindrances of the road, it would take at least half a month to travel this distance.

    This made it so that if anything happened anywhere in the empire, it would take at least several days before it was reported to the emperor. This greatly influenced the control and influence the emperor had over the Candra Empire.

    In the current Candra Empire, with countless roads filling it, there was a roadwork that connected every city and every vige in the empire.

    Then with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s new form of transportation, the Magic Cars, it would only take a day or two to go anywhere in the empire.

    Even ignoring all the conveniences this brought the citizens, just because the army that controlled the central region could reach any part of the empire in just one or two days, it greatly increased the emperor¡¯s control over the empire.

    Thinking about it, if you dared to rebel, then it would only take the empire¡¯s army a day or two to reach you.

    With this kind of threat, how could there still be a noble that risked death to rebel?

    Then again, the current Candra Empire was developing their various magic machine industries. Because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperation and many magic machine industry rtedpanies depending on the empire¡¯s government, the government was able to have great influence over the empire¡¯s internal magic machine industry.

    If the nobles wanted to participate in the magic machine industry, they had to be close with the empire¡¯s government to obtain better opportunities and development chances.

    Participating in the magic machine industry yielded profits that far surpassed the profits that they could gain from theirnds previously, so how could the nobles be dumb enough to rebel?

    Other than these two things, the one that Emperor Candra liked the most out of the changes the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought was the magicmunicationwork.

    After the magicmunicationwork wasid down in the entire empire, he was able to learn about anything that happened in the empire at any moment. Moreover, through the Magic Illusions, he could grasp everything that happened in any matter.

    Just this was much better than sitting in the pce and waiting several days for a report. It also gave him the sense of joy of ruling over thisrge empire.

    To put it more directly, for the past Emperor Candra, he knew that he was the noble emperor of the Candra Empire, but his status made it very hard for him to contact all the parts of this giant empire. Even if he sat on the throne, it didn¡¯t really feel like he was the ruler.

    But now, with thergework of roads, the convenient method of traveling, and the even more convenient magicmunicationwork the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, he felt a rich feeling of governing the empire. He was able to truly feel the feeling of being the emperor.

    Based on this perspective, he naturally had to thank the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi who brought all this to him.

    But from another angle, as the Candra Empire¡¯s emperor, he absolutely hated Xu Yi.

    That¡¯s right, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce he represented created this earth shaking change to the Candra Empire and allowed him to be called the greatest emperor in history by countless people, but Emperor Candra felt that his power was greatlyckingpared to before.

    The reason was very simple, it was because there was a Frestech Chamber of Commerce suppressing them from above.

    Yes, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire were the two strongest empires on the continent. It wasn¡¯t even an exaggeration for the Candra Empire to be considered a bit stronger than the Marlow Empire, being called the strongest country on the continent.

    But because of the existence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, whether it was the Candra Empire or the Marlow Empire, they had to worry about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce no matter what they wanted to do.

    If the two empires wanted to do something, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t agree, the two empires had to follow the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and give up in the end.

    There were even many times where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t even need to make things clear. The two empires had to consider the possible stance the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would take when they did things.

    This feeling wasn¡¯t good.

    As the noble emperor of the Candra Empire, Emperor Candra had to consider many things before makingpromises over certain things.

    But that was based on a culmination of benefits and it was a decision that he made.

    But when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was only worry or even......fear.

    Even if Emperor Candra never admitted it, he was very clear on this matter in his heart.

    In the war against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce allied with the Rudson Kingdom eleven years ago, there was a mark that couldn¡¯t be erased left in his heart.

    The power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s military magic machines had made the two empires unable to resist at all at that time.

    Especially the terrifying attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used at the end to destroy a mountain. It had crushed all their fighting spirit and made countless people unable to imagine being a match for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards when discussing them.

    So Emperor Candra had to endure, had to worry, and had to respect and even listen to Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    This was simply a form of shame for a powerful emperor like him!

    Now eleven years had passed since that battlefield that had destroyed everyone¡¯s fighting spirits.

    In these eleven years, the Candra Empire had been cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, wildly developing their own magic machine industry. With the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and their own efforts, it could be said that they had built aplete magic machine industry.

    In secret, the Candra Empire had also wildly researched military magic machines and already had some results.

    ording to the results of the army headquarters, the military magic machines that the Candra Empire had now wasn¡¯t weaker than the military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce demonstrated eleven years ago.

    But no one had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would stagnate over the past eleven years. So Emperor Candra had been careful and waited for his opportunity.

    Last year, that opportunity finally came.

    The time limit of the ?Continent Peace Convention? was ten years and when the ten year time limit came, this fellow Xu Yi who single handedly formed the ?Continent Peace Convention? had left the Sines Continent!

    Without Xu Yi there, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had lost their heads. After Emperor Candra carefully considered it, he decided to take action.

    Attacking the Mana Magic Kingdom was just a probe and a gamble for him.

    He wanted to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s real stance towards the Mana Magic Kingdom and wanted to gamble on what kind of response they would have if the Candra Empire started a war.

    Facts proved that his gamble was correct.

    Since the war with the Mana Magic Kingdom startedst year, almost a year had passed.

    During this year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only sent aid to the citizens caught in the war and had never taken a stance on the war itself.

    This reaction in the eyes of Emperor Candra and many people in the empire was without a doubt a bright signal.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really couldn¡¯t control the situation of the entire Sines Continent.

    If they even went a step further, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might actually be afraid?

    In fact, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power could no longer suppress all the countries of the continent and couldn¡¯t suppress the two empires anymore? So they didn¡¯t meddle in the war of the Candra Empire?

    If this was true, didn¡¯t that mean that the Candra Empire would have hope of bing the most powerful empire that ruled the Sines Continent?

    However, Emperor Candra still wasn¡¯t able to make a decision.

    He was still waiting for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s true stance.

    With Xu Yi as the chairman not there, it was impossible for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s actions to represent their true stance.

    Now that Xu Yi was back, what kind of reaction would he have?

 Volume 8 Chapter 63

    Volume 8 Chapter 63 You did it intentionally?

    The entire Sines Continent¡¯s attention was focused on Xu Yi who had left for a year. Countless people guessed that there would be a change with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even more people were waiting for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to meddle in the war between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom. There were also many people waiting to see what kind of shocking military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would take out this time.

    However......Xu Yi disappointed everyone.

    A yearter, Xu Yi who hade back from the Magic Cloud Continent didn¡¯t hide himself. He took his Magic Airship andnded in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, appearing in front of everyone like he was announcing that he was back.

    When countless people were waiting for his shocking decision, Xu Yi didn¡¯t make any special moves at all. It was like a year ago before he left the Sines Continent, he took care of some business in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was as if nothing had changed because of his year-long absence.

    Alright, it was wrong to say that there weren¡¯t any changes at all.

    After Xu Yi came back, it was as if he wasn¡¯t interested in the general affairs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Countless things that he did before had turned down and gave them all to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s CEO rus.

    Even the internal affairs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something he rarely meddled with.

    If people didn¡¯t often see him in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, they would have thought that he left as soon as he came back.

    What about the changes with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    It was the same as before. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce followed their n, doing their business and not making any special changes.

    Of course, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already a super first sspany on the continent that was second to none. Not only did they have businesses in many industries, they had close cooperations with various countries andpanies.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t make any special moves, the business that they handled was rted to every part of the Sines Continent.

    Every action of this giant would involve the lives of most people on the continent, or even their destinies.

    Countless people were expectant or worried that after Xu Yi came back, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would change. However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce remained the same, as if they wouldn¡¯t change their steps.

    The only difference was that two months after Xu Yi came back, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started recruiting workers to head to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channel, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed many workers and talented people who were willing to go to the Magic Cloud Continent to develop this new continent.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to offer a high sry and simrly good benefits to attract these talents.

    But for the people of the Sines Continent, even if transportation had be more convenient, going a thousand kilometers away from their hometown wasn¡¯t anything. For them to go to another continent that was over ten thousand kilometers away was something that they were worried about.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave very good conditions, there weren¡¯t that many people willing to ept them.

    Or it was more urate to say there weren¡¯t that many ¡°talents¡± that were willing to go.

    It had to be known that on the current Sines Continent, as long as they were a talented person in the magic machine industry, they would be invited by thergepanies or countries. It was easy to obtain a good job with good pay, so there was no need to take the risk of going to a continent ten thousand kilometers away.

    Even if it was a normal person without any skills, with the magic machine industry developing on the Sines Continent, there was no need to go that far to find a good job, so naturally they wouldn¡¯t take this risk.

    So two to three months after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this announcement, the reaction they got wasn¡¯t that good. There were a total of less than a thousand people recruited, which was countless times lower than the lowest goal of twenty thousand people.

    But three monthster, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they had recruited three thousand workers that had greatly increased the progress of their recruitment.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that there were many people who were responding to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruitment, nning to head to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    This sudden change was naturally a surprise for everyone.

    There were some newspapers that even questioned this. Could it be that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was releasing false information because they couldn¡¯t recruit anyone, so they were trying to tempt people into following the trend?

    But many newspapers were asking another question.

    Where did the people that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly recruite from?

    ###

    ¡°Xu Yi, is this intentional?¡± Seveni waved the ?Banta Times? in her hand as she questioned Xu Yi in the illusion with a serious look.

    ¡°Oh? What is intentional?¡± Xu Yi tilted his head and revealed a confused look.

    Seveni gave a sigh. She thought that if they were meeting in real life, she would have pped the ?Banta Times? down in front of Xu Yi and loudly questioned him.

    The ?Banta Times? headline was using such arge font, it was impossible that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see it.

    For him to act like this, it was clear that he didn¡¯t want to give Seveni a real answer.

    However, Seveni had to ask since this was very important to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s future decision.

    ¡°The ?Banta Times? says that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing their withdrawal from the Mana Magic Kingdom and your leaving the Sines Continent was just to give the Candra Empire space. It was to let them dare dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom. Is it like this?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°The ?Banta Times? is thinking too much. Why would I do this? What benefits are there for me and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    I can¡¯t see any benefits, that is why I¡¯m confused!

    Seveni angrily roared out in her heart, but she maintained a calm look as she asked, ¡°Benefit? For example, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking many workers and talents from the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry and sending them to the Magic Cloud Continent. Is that considered a benefit?¡±

    Xu Yi stroked his chin before nodding with a faint smile.

    ¡°This is a benefit, but it was just a coincidence. After all, I can¡¯t just incite the Candra Empire to dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom. Then again, I¡¯ve always wanted the Sines Continent to be at peace, don¡¯t you know that?¡±

    Seveni kept staring at Xu Yi in the illusion and tried to find his true intentions from the smile on his face.

    ¡°Do you really want this?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s smile slowly disappeared before his expression became serious.

    After looking at Seveni for a while, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Seveni, you shouldn¡¯t be asking me this question. You should be asking the leaders of the various countries, including you.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s heart trembled and there was a bit of panic that shed in her eyes. She instantly calmed down and shook her head with a bit of a forced smile, ¡°I don¡¯t understand what you mean.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a meaningful smile and didn¡¯t ask anything else. After a pause, he continued, ¡°If you contacted me because of the guesses in the ?Banta Times?, I can only tell you that I¡¯m not interested in thinking that much about those conspiracy plots. But I can admit that I did expect the Candra Empire to dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom.¡±

    Seveni¡¯s eyes opened wide, ¡°Why? Since you knew about this, why didn¡¯t you stop it ahead of time?¡±

    ¡°Why would I stop it?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°Does the Sines Continent belong to me alone? Will the people of the continent obey my words? Not mentioning anything else, would you ignore the Lampuri Kingdom and listen to me? Your majesty Seveni?¡±

    Hearing the chill in Xu Yi¡¯s voice, Seveni fell silent as the forced smile on her face became bitter.

    In the five months that Xu Yi had returned to the Sines Continent, she had invited Xu Yi many times. She hoped that Xu Yi woulde to Anvr City to discuss some important matters with her, but Xu Yi had rejected her every time.

    Although Xu Yi said that he wanted to spend more time with his family, Seveni knew that Xu Yi was alienating her.

    She had known Xu Yi for over thirty years and they had always been close partners. She had only settled the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s civil war because of the support of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, allowing her to take the throne.

    Properly speaking, Xu Yi was her benefactor and even had a close personal rtionship with her.

    But now there was a fissure that had appeared between the two.

    Seveni knew what this fissure was. The reason was that the Lampuri Kingdom was secretly developing military magic machines.

    Xu Yi always opposed the countries of the continent investing funds and manpower into researching military magic machines because he felt that this was a waste of manpower and resources. So he even forced the countries of the continent to sign the ?Continent Peace Convention? and the ?Magicians Peace Convention?, taking a strong stance to force peace on the continent for eleven years.

    But Seveni as his closest partner had actually gone against his ideas and secretly developed military magic machines, so of course he would be angry.

    Seveni understood Xu Yi¡¯s anger, but she couldn¡¯t do anything.

    After all, she was the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom and had to consider the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t want development of military magic machines on the continent, but if the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t develop it, would the other countries not develop it?

    If the Lampuri Kingdom really did this, after a few years, the Lampuri Kingdom would have fallen behind if they noticed that the other countries had done research in secret all along. This was very dangerous for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    She could of course look for support from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and guarantee the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s power.

    But what if she wasn¡¯t there anymore?

    Or even if Xu Yi wasn¡¯t there anymore?

    Who could guarantee that the Lampuri Kingdom would maintain a good rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Relying on other people wasn¡¯t reliable. The most reliable thing would always be oneself.

 Volume 8 Chapter 64

    Volume 8 Chapter 64 Alienating

    Seveni knew this, so even if she knew that Xu Yi would be angry after learning of this, she still chose to secretly develop military magic machines.

    Even ten years ago, she had this thought when she took Teresa from Xu Yi.

    Over the years, the Lampuri Kingdom had made good progress with the military magic machines.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army could suppress the other countries because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s support, not even losing to the two empires.

    But the current Lampuri Kingdom, even without the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have a very strong battle power with the military magic machines that they developed themselves.

    Seveni knew that the two empires and many countries were also secretly developing military magic machines. She wasn¡¯t certain on what level they had reached, but she was certain that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s own military magic machines had surpassed all other countries.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military magic machines had already surpassed the military magic machines that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided ten years ago.

    Even if they couldn¡¯tpare to the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they still surpassed the other countries.

    After all, the Lampuri Kingdom was the first country to invest in the magic machine industry, so they were the country that had assembled the most military magic machines and had the most experience with them.

    Then adding in their close cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they received many magic machine technology and the Lampuri Kingdom had a natural advantage.

    However......because of this, there was a fissure between Seveni and Xu Yi.

    The Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t be able to obtain the full support of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore, but Seveni didn¡¯t regret this.

    It was still more reliable to rely on yourself. As long as the Lampuri Kingdom became stronger, they would stand firm on the continent and would even have the ability topete with the two empires.

    After these thoughts quickly passed through Seveni¡¯s mind, she took a deep breath and looked at Xu Yi with a calm look.

    ¡°This means that Xu Yi, you aren¡¯t nning on caring about this matter? Even if the Candra Empire reallypletely upies the Mana Magic Kingdom, you won¡¯t care?¡±

    ¡°If the Candra Empire has the skills to do so.¡± Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Of course, as long as the Candra Empire doesn¡¯t hurt the benefits of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Seveni nodded before shaking her head and asking, ¡°Then if our Lampuri Kingdom also makes our own moves?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes in the illusion suddenly turned sharp.

    ¡°Seveni, have you already made your preparations?¡±

    Seveni slightly knitted her brows, ¡°I don¡¯t understand what you mean, what preparations?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her for a bit before giving a sigh and waved her hand, ¡°Forget it, this isn¡¯t rted to me anyway. It¡¯s your Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s matter, it¡¯s unrted to me.¡±

    Seveni opened her mouth, but she didn¡¯t say anything. After a while, she asked with a smile, ¡°Speaking of this, I contacted you this time mainly because I wanted to ask, has your Frestech Chamber of Commerce made great progress on the Magic Cloud Continent? Is that why you¡¯re recruiting all those people?¡±

    Actually, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discovered the Magic Cloud Continent, they had been developing it the entire time.

    It was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that took the lead in this development and other countries andpanies had joined in the beginning.

    But because of how backwards the Magic Cloud Continent was and the fact that it was dominated by the goblins, making it hard to develop, the powers other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce reduced their investments before fully pulling out.

    Even the Lampuri Kingdom that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been closest to had chosen to withdraw several years ago.

    After all,pared to the Magic Cloud Continent that was ten thousand kilometers away where it was hard to harvest and deliver resources, the Sines Continent was more important.

    It wasn¡¯t that people didn¡¯t recognize how important it was to develop the new continent, but with the quickly developing magic machine industry on the Sines Continent, once one fell behind, they would always be behind and might never even be able to stand up again. So no country had dare hold back their investments and didn¡¯t have any manpower or resources to invest in the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Now that Xu Yi had been on the Magic Cloud Continent for a year and came back to recruit people to head there, it was clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made progress on developing the Magic Cloud Continent.

    ¡°Un, there was some progress. But it¡¯s still far from fully developing it, so I need a lot of manpower. What? Are you interested?¡± Xu Yi asked back.

    Seveni shook her head with a bitter smile, ¡°I am interested, but I don¡¯t have any extra manpower to help you. The kingdom needs manpower all over right now, so I want to send some people to bring some ves back from the Magic Cloud Continent. How could I have people to send to the Magic Cloud Continent? Then again, when I asked you this in the beginning, I asked you whether you deliberately started the war between the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom to send the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s people to the Magic Cloud Continent.¡±

    ¡°No, this is only considered an unexpected benefit. After all, we can¡¯t obtain that much manpower from the Mana Magic Kingdom, right? If this was the goal, then the ie would be too low and the risks would be too high from inciting the Candra Empire to dere war on the Mana Magic Kingdom. As a merchant, this isn¡¯t a good choice.¡±

    Seveni nodded as she agreed with Xu Yi¡¯s exnation.

    It was also the consensus of most people on the Sines Continent.

    No one felt that Xu Yi¡¯s arrangements would be for this.

    Just like he said, this was a bit.....dumb. It wasn¡¯t his style at all.

    But everyone was still guessing at Xu Yi¡¯s true goal and Seveni wasn¡¯t an exception.

    Xu Yi definitely wouldn¡¯t do this for no reason, he must have a deeper goal, but no one could see it right now.

    Thinking of this, Seveni looked at Xu Yi who was clearly already fifty years old, but looked no different from that youthful face that she saw when she first met him. She couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh deep in her heart.

    If it was before, she could just directly ask Xu Yi this, but now it was impossible.

    ¡°Then how are you nning on solving this problem?¡± Seveni asked with a bit of interest.

    ¡°There¡¯s no good way for now, we can only slowly start with the locals of the Magic Cloud Continent. Did you know? The Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s human poption isn¡¯t small. Just ourpany has already found over fifty thousand people. If all the humans on the Magic Cloud Continent were gathered, I estimate there are around one to two million of them. Of course, those humans aren¡¯t as skilled right now and need a lot of training before they can be used, so......¡±

    Through the long distance Magic Communicator, Xu Yi exined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s arrangements on the Magic Cloud Continent to Seveni.

    As Seveni listened to Xu Y¡¯s words, she started sinking into her memories.

    In the past thirty years, she had discussed various ns with Xu Yi like this. Every time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would make a shocking development and the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn¡¯t lose any benefits.

    But this time, she could only listen and couldn¡¯t join in.

    Because the Lampuri Kingdom wasn¡¯t in Xu Yi¡¯s n.

    Even......all the countries on the Sines Continent weren¡¯t in Xu Yi¡¯s ns.

    Thinking of this, Seveni suddenly felt shocked.

    Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had put on such arge disy about the Magic Cloud Continent this time, but they didn¡¯t want any other countries or powers to join in.

    Could it be......that Xu Yi was nning on developing the Magic Cloud Continent alone? He was taking the Magic Cloud Continent as his own territory?

    Thinking of this possibility, Seveni couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit of danger.

    However, this feeling of danger turned into a bitter smile.

    Even if Xu Yi made his stance clear, so what?

    Now to mention the Lampuri Kingdom she represented being helpless, even the two empires couldn¡¯t do anything.

    Or it could be said that the two empires and even herself hoped that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would do this.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi focused their attention on the Magic Cloud Continent, it would be a good thing for most countries on the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi spoke for around an hour. He didn¡¯t just talk about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s n, but also about the conditions and customs of the Magic Cloud Continent locals, which could be considered chatting.

    To be honest, this call between them could be the longest call that the two of them had since the magicmunicationwork had been built.

    However, when they hung up, Seveni¡¯s face didn¡¯t show a trace of happiness.

    If this was before, although their calls were short, they would talk about many important things.

    Even if it was chatting, they would just talk about some things in their daily lives and wouldn¡¯t take that long.

    Now that the two of them had been on a call for over an hour, it seemed like it demonstrated that they had a close rtionship, but in reality......

    Seveni¡¯s lips had a bitter smile as she shook her head and she gave a sigh. When she turned around, her expression was calm again as her gentle smile had turned into a dignified smile.

    ¡°Lady mother, is your call with chairman Xu over?¡± Raymond had appeared behind Seveni at an unknown time.

    Seveni gave him a nod before waving her hand.

    ¡°Contact the two empires. Tell them that there¡¯s no need to worry about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Prince Raymond took a deep look at Seveni before agreeing and leaving.

    After he left, Seveni came back to her senses. Looking at the Magic Communication equipment that no longer showed the Magic Illusion, her expression became veryplicated before she gave a deep sigh.

 Volume 8 Chapter 65

    Volume 8 Chapter 65 Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty

    Because of Xu Yi¡¯s return, the Candra Empire slowed their attack on the Mana Magic Kingdom, evening to a stop. The Mana Magic Kingdom didn¡¯t take this chance to counterattack. Rather, it was almost as if both sides had tactfully chosen to stop the war.

    However, everyone knew that whether it was the Candra Empire or the Mana Magic Kingdom, they were both waiting for Xu Yi¡¯s response.

    But Xu Yi had returned to the Sines Continent for half a year in the blink of an eye, but he had never expressed any views on the war between the two countries.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channel was the same as before, handling their own matters and not meddling with the war between the two countries.

    This strange and peaceful situationsted for a long time and when everyone thought that the Candra Empire might choose to negotiate a ceasefire because of their scruples about Xu Yi, the Candra Empireunched an even fiercer attack on the Mana Magic Kingdom. They upied an evenrger piece of territory from the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    Countless people were shocked by the Candra Empire¡¯s sudden action.

    The Candra Empire doing this, were they not worried about angering Xu Yi and provoking arge response from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still didn¡¯t meddle in this as if it wasn¡¯t rted to them at all.

    As for Xu Yi......he never appeared in public, so of course no one knew what he was really thinking.

    So the Candra Empire kept increasing their offensive on the Mana Magic Kingdom. In just two months, the Mana Magic Kingdom couldn¡¯t take it anymore and chose to surrender to the Candra Empire.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that the Mana Magic Kingdom would cease to exist.

    Even if the Candra Empire was much stronger than the Mana Magic Kingdom, topletely eliminate arge country like the Mana Magic Kingdom was almost impossible for them.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s fate was just to ept the conditions of the Candra Empire before signing a ceasefire treaty.

    No one knew the contents of the ceasefire treaty, but based on what the Candra Empire official channel released, they could tell that the Mana Magic Kingdom had paid arge price.

    The most important condition was that the Mana Magic Kingdom had to allow the Candra Empire to put garrisons in thirteen cities of the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s northwest territories.

    This condition was equal to announcing that the Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s sovereignty had been greatly damaged.

    Other than the garrisons, the various resources of the Mana Magic Kingdom had to be opened to the Candra Empire, so it was hard to calcte the price of this.

    But what really surprised people was not therge price the Mana Magic Kingdom had to pay, but rather the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s name on the ceasefire treaty.

    The Mana Magic Kingdom¡¯s resources weren¡¯t just opened to the Candra Empire, but also the Lampuri Kingdom.

    When this piece of news was revealed, countless people were shocked by this.

    Why would the Lampuri Kingdom take part in this?

    Could it be that the Lampuri Kingdom was secretly working with the Candra Empire, ying arge role in the war against the Mana Magic Kingdom?

    Otherwise, with how strong the Candra Empire was, how could they give a piece of this fat meat to the Lampuri Kingdom?

    But what really shocked the people of the Sines Continent came after this.

    After the Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom signed the ceasefire treaty, it announced that this year long war after eleven years of peace on the Sines Continent was finally over. However, it also created anotherrge change on the Sines Continent.

    In the middle of May of year 3816, the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, and the Lampuri Kingdom announced that since the ?Continent Peace Convention? expiredst year, in order keep peace on the Sines Continent to guarantee the ¡°peaceful development¡± that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu had mentioned, they need to restart negotiations.

    In the beginning of June, the three countries invited the representatives of over a hundred countries to the Candra Empire¡¯s capital, Wimbledon City. They would participate in the ¡°Continent Peace Summit¡± held by the Candra Empire, which would discuss the future of the Sines Continent.

    After twenty six days of intense discussions, the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? proposed by the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, and the Lampuri Kingdom received the approval of most countries.

    Out of the one hundred and seventeen representatives that came, twelve of them explicitly rejected this and twenty six of them expressed their neutrality. The remaining seventy nine representatives all signed this treaty.

    Since the ?Continent Peace Convention? and the ?Magicians Peace Convention? that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce led twelve years ago, this was another treaty that was agreed upon by the entire Sines Continent.

    The ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? stated that in order to maintain the peace and development of the Sines Continent, powerful weapons like the military magic machines had to be limited.

    So since the day the treaty was signed, no country could freely transfer military magic machines technology that was described in the treaty that they grasped. Moreover, when it came to studying military magic machines, they had to do it at a controlled pace and couldn¡¯t outrun the others.

    Once they did, the country that vited this treaty would be condemned and sanctioned by the other countries of this treaty.

    Compared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ?Continent Peace Convention? which didn¡¯t allow any studying of military magic machines, this ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? was without a doubt much more loose.

    After all, this new treaty didn¡¯t strictly limit each country from developing their own military magic machines and didn¡¯tpletely restrict transfer of military magic machine technology, so the terms were much looser.

    Of course everyone understood that the ones who controlled this treaty were without a doubt the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that had the most military magic machine technology.

    As for the other smaller countries, other than taking orders, how could they resist?

    If they really resisted, their fate would be the same as the countries that didn¡¯t sign the treaty.

    As July came, the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Wales Duchy......and the other countries that signed the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? all announced sanctions against the twelve countries that didn¡¯t sign the treaty. They stated that they would no longer engage in economic exchange with those twelve countries, limiting their people from entering those twelve countries, and limiting the people of those twelve countries from entering the other seventy nine countries.

    When this news was spread, it immediately created a stir on the continent.

    The various newpapers easily recognized a major issue with this matter when they reported on it.

    The twelve countries that the seventy nine countries sanctioned were the twelve countries that didn¡¯t sign the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?st month.

    So everyone understood that this was clear retaliation against those twelve countries. It could be said that the seventy nine countries who signed the contract, or rather the two empires and the few powerful countries were demonstrating their might.

    It was clear that the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the other countries wouldn¡¯t let anyone oppose their treaty.

    But through the analysis of certain newspapers, this action showed an even deeper meaning.

    The two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom clearly wanted to use this treaty to set the rules of the game, forcing all the countries of the continent to y their game.

    It was clear that the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the countries with a strong foundation in military magic machines didn¡¯t want the other countries to catch up or even surpass them, so they wanted to use this treaty to limit the other countries.

    Like this, the other countries couldn¡¯t make progress in studying military magic machines and naturally wouldn¡¯t be able to match their military might, so they wouldn¡¯t be able to resist.

    So if nothing unexpected happened, only the two empires and the other countries like the Lampuri Kingdom with powerful military magic machines would have military force. The other countries would have to listen to them.

    If they didn¡¯t want to listen?

    Although the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the other countries had signed the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?, they didn¡¯t sign or renew the ?Continent Peace Convention?, so they had the right to start wars whenever they wanted.

    Which country would be blind when facing them?

    To be more direct, there were more than these twelve countries that opposed this treaty at the conference, but most of them chose to sign the treaty in the end. It was because they were afraid of the power that the two empires and other countries had.

    But some people were doubtful.

    The two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom were stirring up this storm, indicating that they wanted to take over the Sines Continent. Shouldn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had the most strength take a stand?

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opposed this treaty, wouldn¡¯t it just be a piece of scrap paper?

    However......when everyone turned their attention to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care at all since there was an even more important matter for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce approaching.

    This matter was......Freya¡¯s twenty fifth birthday.

 Volume 8 Chapter 66

    Volume 8 Chapter 66 Handing over the chairman position

    ¡°Freya, have you thought this through?¡± Xu Yi asked Freya with a serious look.

    Freya didn¡¯t hesitate as she gave Xu Yi a nod with the same serious look.

    ¡°Yes, lord father, I¡¯ve already thought this through.¡±

    ¡°Then what is your decision?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Freya took a deep breath and looked at Still on the side who had a worried look before looking at Agnes and the others who all had the same worried look. Finally she turned to Xu Yi and met his calm gaze as she replied, ¡°Lord father, I¡¯ve decided......to take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    When her voice fell, the surrounding people let out a sigh of relief at the same time as their expressions rxed.

    Although everyone recognized that Freya would take over as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, recing Xu Yi in leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Xu Yi had kept emphasizing that when Freya was twenty five years old, he would give her a chance to choose.

    This made many people worry.

    They weren¡¯t worried about Freya, but rather about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If Freya wasn¡¯t willing to take over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where would Xu Yi find a worthy sessor?

    Xu Yi had long stated that Freya was his only heri, so only Freya was qualified to take over as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    As for his other children, even his younger son with Still, weren¡¯t qualified.

    If Freya didn¡¯t take over, did that mean that the next chairman woulde from outside of the Xu Family?

    Although no one doubted that Xu Yi would have a powerful influence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this still made them worry.

    So for many people, it was logical that Freya would take over as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and it was something that they were happy about.

    But Xu Yi wasn¡¯t that happy because of Freya¡¯s decision. After thinking for a bit, he asked in a deep voice, ¡°Freya, are you certain that these are your true thoughts? Was this the decision that you¡¯ve made after your own thinking?¡±

    Freya revealed a smile as her eyes narrowed into beautiful crescents, showing that she should be quite happy right now.

    ¡°Lord father, I know what you are thinking. Be assured, this is indeed my decision and no one is pressuring me. Even mother......¡±

    Freya looked at Still and walked over, taking her arm.

    ¡°Even mother didn¡¯t mention this matter at all. Mother even said that she just wanted me to live a happy life.¡±

    Although Still was already over fifty years old, because of the secret techniques of the elves, she still looked like she was around twenty years old. She looked to be around the same age as Freya and when standing together, she looked more like her big sister than her mother.

    Hearing Freya¡¯s words, Still said with a sigh, ¡°Xu Yi, because you were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, you were rarely at home and had less time to spend with us. I don¡¯t want Freya to be the same as you, so busy that she even forgets about the people in her life.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes twitched as he couldn¡¯t helpining deep down.

    If he was to discuss being busy, Still as the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman wasn¡¯t worse than him as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman.

    When the New Moon Chamber of Commerce was in its period of fast development in the beginning, Still had many things to take care of, so she was at home even less than Xu Yi.

    Now that she was saying that Xu Yi had been with his family too little, Xu Yi found it a bit hard to ept in his heart.

    Of course, while he was thinking of this, Xu Yi thought of something else. He looked at Freya with a bit of curiosity and asked, ¡°Freya, I always thought that you would reject this position. After all, you¡¯ve always said to me that you want to live a free life. Now that you want to be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, do you understand the meaning of this position?¡±

    Freya gave a giggle and jumped forward to swing with Xu Yi¡¯s arm.

    ¡°Dad, do you think that I haven¡¯t done anything in the past few years? I understood this position a long time ago and I know about the pressure that the chairman faces. But I¡¯ve carefully thought about it and in life, if you don¡¯t do some hard things when you are young, you will definitely regret it.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re taking the position of chairman as a challenge?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°Un, at least for now.¡± Freya looked at the praise that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t hiding in his eyes, ¡°Lord father, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce became this powerful because of your leadership alone. You are naturally the greatest chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but my goal is to surpass you!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Very good! You have ambition!¡±

    After saying this, he took Freya by the shoulder and turned her around to face everyone under the stage before announcing in a loud voice, ¡°Everyone, I formally announce that I, Xu Yi, from this day forth will no longer be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. The chairman position will be held by Freya who I rmend temporarily. Are there any supporters of this decision? Are there any opposers?¡±

    Of course no one opposed this.

    Xu Yi waited for a bit before once again saying in a loud voice, ¡°Very good, I hereby announce that from this day forth, Freya will be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s acting chairman!¡±

    After a moment of silence in therge hall of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, there was a storm of apuse.

    The light blue glow of Magic Cameras lit up as pictures were taken one after another.

    It wouldn¡¯t take more than two days before this appeared in all the newspapers of the continent for everyone to read.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman position being passed down, this was even more important than the changing of rulers of the two empires!

    ###

    The news that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changing chairmen was spread across the continent at the quickest speed.

    No one was surprised that it was Freya who took this position.

    Because since Freya first started working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the public learned about her, all the newspapers started paying attention to this girl who was ¡®born with a golden key¡¯.

    Many rumours about Freya had been spread across the continent over the years.

    Everyone knew that she was Xu Yi¡¯s only heir, so it was a logical conclusion that she would take over as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. No one was surprised by this.

    Rather, what people cared about more was what Xu Yi would do after he resigned from the chairman position.

    Although no one doubted that Xu Yi would still have full control over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was no longer the chairman and wouldn¡¯tpletely direct the Frestech Chamber of Commerce like before.

    In the end, the sessor being Freya had benefits and disadvantages to Xu Yi.

    The benefit was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was led by his daughter, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was still firmly controlled by him.

    The disadvantage was that because Freya was his daughter, she would naturally take some power from his hand. Xu Yi couldn¡¯t have too many criticisms about her since he was the one that pushed her into this position.

    So after Freya became chairman, Xu Yi would have to reduce his influence on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to give Freya enough space to show her abilities.

    So what would Xu Yi do?

    This Xu Yi who everyone cared about didn¡¯t make people wait that long.

    He very quickly indicated to everyone what he was going to do.

    After Xu Yi resigned as the chairman, he hid himself from everyone for two months before suddenly appearing in the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City, participating in the annual continental magic machine industry conference.

    This was a very normal thing because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the leader of this conference. Xu Yi as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, as long as he participates, would be the core of this conference.

    But this because he resigned as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he was participating in the conference under his own name for the first time.

    However, it wasn¡¯t hard for Xu Yi to gain everyone¡¯s attention at the conference this time.

    But Xu Yi never discussed anything about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from beginning to end. Even when someone else mentioned it, he would just change the topic.

    Everyone could see that Xu Yi was making his current status clear to everyone, getting rid of the mark of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But whether anyone thought of it like that was something worthy of discussing......

    Of course, not mentioning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi had no reason toe to this conference.

    Rather he was quite active, even more active than all the times he had participated before.

    At the conference, Xu Yi indicated that he wanted to establish a continental magic machine industry foundation which would be used to promote breakthroughs in the magic machine industry.

    As long as someone made a breakthrough in the magic machine industry, they would receive arge award from this foundation.

    Even if you could prove that you had a chance to make an important breakthrough, you would receive a reward from this foundation.

    Everyone was confused at first.

    Researching magic machine technology was something that every country andpany on the continent enthusiastically participated in.

    Even if Xu Yi didn¡¯t make this foundation, everyone would still fully invest in it as per usual.

    Now that Xu Yi was making this foundation, what reasoning was there for this?

    But after carefully examining Xu Yi¡¯s exnation and after some people¡¯s analysis, everyone realized that Xu Yi¡¯s real n was much bigger than they imagined.

    Thinking about it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could represent the peak of technology in the magic machine industry.

    And as the chair.....Oh, no, the former chairman Xu Yi was the symbol of the magic machine industry in everyone¡¯s mind.

    The magic machine industry technology organization that he made would certainly be the greatest authority in the magic machine industry.

    This was......simply equal to the Magicians Guild from the past.

    But the Magicians Guild was only responsible for the evaluation of each magician¡¯s grade.

    The magic machine industry technology foundation that Xu Yi created was ranking the grade of technology itself, so it was on a much higher scale.

    Let alone that what he could do wasn¡¯t just grading technology......

 Book 8: Chapter 67: Foundation

    Book 8: Chapter 67: Foundation

    ¡°Your majesty, this is the report the magic machine industry department handed in today¡­¡­¡± The royal pce servant carefully ced the report in his hand in front of Emperor Candra before silently moving back.

    Emperor Candra had a dark look on his face as he looked at the report in front of him for two minutes before finally reaching out to open it.

    After just looking through for less than a minute, he threw it aside.

    The pages of that neatly stacked document went flying into the air. It looked quite beautiful, but because of the anger of Emperor Candra, it also looked quite fierce.

    ¡°Go and call Marquis Carmen!¡± After a while, Emperor Candra finally spoke in this low and deep voice.

    The servant quickly ran off.

    Not long after, a middle aged man who wasn¡¯t that all but looked very buff quickly came in with the servant.

    ¡°Your majesty.¡± The Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry department¡¯s chief Marquis Carmen gave a bow to Emperor Candra, ¡°You summoned me?¡±

    ¡°I summoned you?¡± Emperor Candra gave a scoff before he pointed at the pieces of paper scattered on the ground, ¡°Could it be that you didn¡¯t hand in this report?¡±

    Marquis Carmen fell silent before lowering his head and saying in a deep voice, ¡°Since it¡¯s something that happened in the empire, I didn¡¯t dare hide it from your majesty and naturally reported it.¡±

    ¡°If you report everything for me to handle, what is the point of having ministers like you?¡± Emperor Candra¡¯s face turned even colder, ¡°The great Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry department, you can¡¯t even take care of this small problem?¡±

    Marquis Carmen looked at the pieces of paper scattered on the ground and he couldn¡¯t help reveal a faint bitter smile.

    He knew what issue this report included and it definitely wasn¡¯t a small problem.

    He knew that his majesty also knew that this wasn¡¯t a small problem.

    His majesty was this angry because he couldn¡¯t think of any good solutions, which made him as the honourable emperor feel like he had suffered a setback which also angered him.

    Actually, it wasn¡¯t Marquis Carmen¡¯s first time giving this kind of report.

    Since two months ago, he would give a report like this from time to time and this one was already the seventh one.

    As for the contents of this report, it was that somepany of the Candra Empire wasn¡¯t able to pass the continent¡¯s primary magic machine industry evaluation.

    That damn Xu Yi!

    If it wasn¡¯t for that fellowing up with that continental magic machine industry technological foundation, as well as dering that all magic machine technology on the continent would be graded, how could there be such a troublesome thing?

    Although this fellow made it sound nice, saying that with these evaluations, it would help the overall growth and stability of the continent¡¯s magic machine industry, benefiting every country and person.

    At least in Marquis Carmen¡¯s eyes, this thing caused endless trouble for him right now.

    It had to be known that in the past two months, because of that damn evaluation, there were thirteen Candra Empire magic machine industrypanies that had gone out of business. The number ofpanies that suffered heavy losses and even came close to closing because of bankruptcy numbered thirty six.

    That fellow Xu Yi wasn¡¯t embarrassed to say that he wasn¡¯t targeting any country or anypany, saying that this was just an evaluation with an objective grading.

    Why were so many Candra Empirepanies affected? Not even half of the Marlow Empire¡¯spanies were affected by this?

    As for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    In the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s evaluations, they all reached at least a fourth grade evaluation. It was much higher than the average levels of the otherpanies!

    Of course¡­¡­calmly speaking, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already the benchmark of the continent¡¯s magic machine industry, so it was natural that they had leading technology.

    Even in terms of some smaller technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t the best and was just a bit lower than the outstandingpanies.

    It had to be known that this would have been impossible ten years ago.

    But even if Marquis Carmen knew this, he couldn¡¯t just stay calm.

    Xu Yi¡¯s actions had greatly affected the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry. As the chief of the empire¡¯s magic machine industry department, how could Marquis Carmen praise Xu Yi¡¯s actions?

    ¡°This Xu Yi, even when he isn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he is still this annoying!¡±

    Marquis Carmen looked up in surprise, seeing the unhappy look that Emperor Candra had.

    This was what he was thinking, but he never thought that the emperor would say it first.

    Marquis Carmen¡¯s mind quickly turned and he immediately understood.

    His majesty wasn¡¯t angry because he was dissatisfied with his work, but rather he was venting his anger at Xu Yi on him.

    Thinking of this, Marquis Carmen was much more calm. After thinking about it, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Your majesty, this isn¡¯t a small problem, so I hope that you can treat it seriously and ce great importance on it. Xu Yi can take out this standard casually and cause serious losses for our empire¡¯spanies. Then if we don¡¯t limit this, as long as Xu Yi wants, wouldn¡¯t he be able to hurt a bunch ofpanies at will? He might even¡­..be able to seriously affect the empire¡¯s entire magic machine industry.¡±

    ¡°Of course I know this.¡± Emperor Candra gave a cold snort, ¡°The problem is, how are you nning on limiting him? Could it be that you want to learn from the Mana Magic Kingdom and chase out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    ¡°No, of course not.¡± Marquis Carmen immediately shook his head, ¡°The limitations I¡¯m talking about isn¡¯t to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there¡¯s no benefits to the empire like this.¡±

    ¡°Humph, so you do know this.¡± Emperor Candra¡¯s expression rxed a bit before he asked, ¡°Then what do you want to say?¡±

    ¡°Your majesty, when the Magicians Guild was found, it wasn¡¯t just the Magicians Guild alone that evaluated the grade of magicians¡­¡­¡± Marquis Carmen tactfully expressed his opinion.

    ¡°You want us to make our own organization and resist Xu Yi¡¯s foundation?¡± Emperor Candra¡¯s eyes lit up, but then he knitted his brows again, ¡°Xu Yi has the Frestech Chamber of Commerce behind him and his own authority as a guarantee, what can we take out to resist him?¡±

    Marquis Carmen revealed a faint smile, ¡°Your majesty, we have all the countries of the Sines Continent behind us.¡±

    ¡°All the countries?¡±

    The smile on Marquis Carmen¡¯s face became a bit strange.

    ¡°Your majesty, I think¡­..that the people on the continent who think that Xu Yi is annoying isn¡¯t just you¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    The continental magic machine industry technology foundation that Xu Yi created had already yielded results in less than a year since it was founded.

    Because of Xu Yi¡¯s high prestige and his absolute authority in the magic machine industry, every time a standard was announced, it became the standard that everyone followed.

    Although there wasn¡¯t a strong method to support the methods of the Xu Yi¡¯s foundation, because of Xu Yi¡¯s authority, once the foundation announced that apany didn¡¯t reach a high enough level of technology or even the most basic level of technology, everyone would start looking down on thatpany.

    Not only wouldpanies cut off cooperation with thatpany, even the citizens would treat thatpany¡¯s goods as inferior goods and would refuse to buy them.

    It could be said that once the foundation gave an evaluation, it divided the magic machinepanies of the continent into clear grades.

    If apany received a high evaluation, naturally countless people would turn their eyes to it. They would receive many cooperation deals and their brand would be famous, so it was hard to estimate the profit that came from it.

    At the same time, this evaluation wasn¡¯t just limited topanies.

    Actually, when Xu Yi announced this evaluation, he was targeting technology itself.

    It was just that most of these patents were owned by thepanies. So thepanies that had high levels of technology were considered the highest rankedpanies.

    But there were some small research teams and even individuals that had made breakthroughs in technology. So once they received the recognition of the foundation, their single piece of technology would be considered high grade.

    Naturally what awaited them was fame and opportunity, as well as arge amount of gold coins.

    During this less than half a year, there were over twenty small research teams or researchers who weren¡¯t that famous before in the magic machine industry that were pulled out. Their evaluated technology quickly demonstrated excellent results which raised the authority of the foundation even further.

    On the current continent, studying magic machine industry technology was the most popr line of work.

    But because there were so many different kinds of technology, there weren¡¯t that many that were being used.

    Now that there was this foundation evaluating and rmending technology, there were more useful pieces of technology that were being promoted.

    Then adding in therge financial reward from the foundation for high grade technology, people became even more enthusiastic about their research.

    So in less than half a year, the level of technology on the Sines Continent had gone up a level.

    There would always be shock when the major newspapers reported on this matter.

    Xu Yi really gave people a pleasant surprise and his actions made his original intentions clear, wanting to develop the magic machine industry.

    If this trend continued, the foundation that Xu Yi created would be the same as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, bing an important organization that could affect the entire Sines Continent.

    However¡­¡­as this foundation developed, just like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible for there not to be any problems.

 Book 8: Chapter 68: Using Magic Air Conditioners will kill you?

    Book 8: Chapter 68: Using Magic Air Conditioners will kill you?

    Another new year went by.

    Before the festivities of the new year had gone, there was a piece of news that came from the Candra Empire that attracted everyone¡¯s attention.

    In early February, a small town near ra City in the Candra Empire¡¯s northern province suddenly blew up.

    The citizens of the town suddenly fainted one day and it took them three days before they woke up again.

    Although there weren¡¯t any problems with these citizens after they woke up, this matter had created a stir in the Candra Empire¡¯s northern province.

    The northern province¡¯s Governor Manor took this matter seriously and under the orders of the empire¡¯s parliament, they started a detailed investigation into this matter.

    Finally after various investigations, they found a surprising result.

    The northern province¡¯s Governor Manor had concluded that the reason for this mass fainting case were the Magic Air Conditioners that the families of the small town used.

    The findings showed that because those Magic Air Conditioners had been used by those families for a long time, they slowly affected their environment and even changed the air that they breathed.

    It was fine normally, but once it reached a certain level, people would temporarily lose consciousness because of it.

    The citizens of the town didn¡¯t use their Magic Air Conditioners to the point where they reached the degree before, but because it was a long winter this year that was much colder than usual, they used their Magic Air Conditioners even more. It quickly reached a level where it became a problem which caused this mass fainting event.

    Many people were still doubtful about this exnation.

    ording to the investigations, the citizens of the town all used the same brand of Magic Air Conditioners.

    Of course it wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather it was a Candra Empirepany named the ¡°Rita Household Magic Machine¡±.

    These Magic Air Conditioners were all Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioners.

    The doubts that people had was that the Rita Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce was one of the top three household magic machinepanies in the Candra Empire. ording to the information the Rita Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce released before, they sold over a hundred thousand Rita Brand Magic Air Conditionersst year alone, most of which were sold in the Candra Empire.

    Because the Rita Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce was a local Candra Empirepany, they naturally received special care. So in the Candra Empire, there were many ces where the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioner had a monopoly like this town.

    The problem was why did the other ces not have any problems? Why did only this ce have a problem?

    The northern province¡¯s Governor Manor had used an entire month to investigate this to give further details.

    It turned out that the reason why the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioners in this town caused problems was because this town used a new magic energy supply technology.

    In most household magic machines that people used before, the household magic machines were loaded with high concentration Magic Crystals to provide the magic energy needed to operate it.

    This had been set since the founding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even after thirty years, it was still the standard configuration for most magic machines on the continent.

    However, at the beginning ofst year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility had proposed a new type of power supplying technology.

    This technology usedrge Magic Crystals as supply stations and then through magic transfer technology, the magic energy would be directly connected to various magic machines through special methods.

    There were countless benefits to this new method.

    For example, by using this new magic energy supplying technology, people no longer needed to buy high concentration Magic Crystals to power their various household magic machines.

    Since the Magic Crystals were in solid form, for different household magic machines, they required different shapes and sizes, so it was quite troublesome to buy them.

    With this new energy supplying method, they could save themselves a bit of trouble. They just needed to pay a fee to the magic energy supply stations and they would be able to get magic energy at any time.

    Moreover, because the magic energy supply stations have a new method of handling these Magic Crystals, it allowed maximum use of the energy contained within which made Magic Crystals more efficient.

    So even if part of it was consumed when transferring the magic energy,pared to the magic energy that was wasted when magic machines weren¡¯t used, this new method was much more effective in consuming magic energy.

    Because of this and the fact that it was cheaper using this method, it would allow people to spend less money on these magic machines.

    Other than this, using this new method of magic energy transfer would also increase the operational stability of magic machines. It would avoid harming the lifespan and performance of magic machines because they bought non standard or inferior Magic Crystals.

    Although this method had its ws, such as the magic energy supplying equipment being fixed and wasn¡¯t as easy to transport as before, there were far more benefitspared to the ws.

    So after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed thisst year, they received praise by everyone like anything else the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done before.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose to cooperate with several countries and chose pilot spots in these countries, testing this new method of supplying magic energy.

    This small town was one of those spots.

    After this event, the northern province¡¯s Governor Manor found after their investigation that the main reason for the problem with the Magic Air Conditioners was this new magic energy supplying method.

    The investigations concluded that because of the magic energy supplies and the densely crossed magic energy supply lines, it created a special frequency in the magic space. This created thisrge effect on these Magic Air Conditioners which caused the mass fainting event.

    After the northern province¡¯s Governor Manor published this, there was an uproar.

    Most people¡¯s first reaction was that they didn¡¯t believe it.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invented the Magic Air Conditioner, over twenty years had already passed. In all these years, with countless people in countless countries using the Magic Air Conditioner, why did such a thing never happen and it only happened this time?

    So people began looking at the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioners with doubtful gazes.

    Over ten years ago, there was only the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioners. Other Magic Air Conditioners like the Rita Brand had only appeared in the most recent years.

    When the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioners were used by countless people, these problems never happened.

    Now that a problem had happened with the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioner, it had to be the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioner¡¯s fault!

    But the northern province¡¯s Governor Manor¡¯s results were published in the major newspapers and dispelled this guess.

    ording to the investigations, what caused the ident was the Magic Air Conditioner itself and was unrted to thepany that manufactured it.

    The reason was that the Magic Air Conditioner had a Magic Air Compressor unit in it. So whether it was used for heating or cooling, the magic energy provided by the Magic Crystals would affect the air, creating the cold breeze or the warm wind.

    So what affected the air in the environment was thispressor and not thepany that made it.

    Even if the town had used the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner, the same thing would have happened.

    This created a stir that had even shocked the entire continent.

    For most people, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were of the highest quality and had the best performance.

    Although they would hear about some small problems with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines from time to time, that was only individual cases and couldn¡¯t be med on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce itself.

    But this time, the biggest problem was the Magic Air Compressor in the Magic Air Conditioner!

    It had to be known that although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had long spread the technology for the Magic Air Conditioner, making it so that manypanies on the continent could also make Magic Air Conditioners.

    Until now, there was only onepany that could make the Magic Air Compressor which was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This meant that whether it was a Frestech Brand or Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioner, the Magic Air Compressor which could be considered the core came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But now this small part actually had such a hidden danger. There was no doubt that this would have arge effect on the prestige of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    People were naturally worried about this. If the Magic Air Conditioner made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this kind of hidden danger, would the other magic machines have the same hidden dangers?

    If it was like this, wouldn¡¯t that mean that they could be knocked out without knowing a thing by using magic machines?

    Moreover, ording to the results of the investigations of the northern province¡¯s Governor Manor, if this had be more serious, lives might have even been lost!

    You could lose your life from using Magic Air Conditioners?

    This terrifying possibility had changed the expressions of everyone who had received this news.

    It was only the Magic Air Conditioners that had problems now, but if other problems urred with other magic machines, what could they do?

    When choosing between the household magic machines that could make life morefortable and your own life, what would most people choose?

 Book 8: Chapter 69: The new chairman is also crazy

    Book 8: Chapter 69: The new chairman is also crazy

    ¡°Peng!¡±

    Ankhto heavily pped the table as he shouted out with an angry look, ¡°This is clearly a plot that¡¯s targeting ourpany!¡±

    Everyone in the conference room looked at him. After a bit, the Frestech Heavy Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the human Quiltoras shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Ankhto, everyone knows that this is some plot from the Candra Empire side that¡¯s targeting our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. However, the problem is¡­..how should we deal with it?¡±

    Sitting beside Quiltoras was the Frestech Energy Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the elf Rosador.

    If the one that was affected the most was Ankhto¡¯s Frestech Household Magic Machine Chamber of Commerce, the ones affected the second most was Rosador¡¯s Frestech Energy Chamber of Commerce.

    In the reports of the Candra Empire¡¯s northern province Governor Manor, what caused the fainting incident in the town was the magic supply station¡¯s magic supply lines.

    These things were the responsibilities of the Frestech Energy Chamber of Commerce.

    So after this matter exploded, the pressure that fell onto Rosador wasn¡¯t smaller than Ankhto¡¯s.

    Hearing Quiltoras¡¯ words, Rosador knitted his brows to think before asking Ankhto, ¡°Ankhto, have you investigated the Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioner¡¯s airpressor units? Are there any problems in the tests?¡±

    ¡°Bullshit!¡± Ankhto angrily gave a cold snort, ¡°The Candra Empire side imed that since these Magic Air Conditioners caused such arge problem, they¡¯ve collected them all to study to avoid this same event from happening. They won¡¯t let me send anyone to even touch them, so how can I investigate this?¡±

    Rosador shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you won¡¯t do anything at all.¡±

    Ankhto curled his lips before giving a sigh, ¡°I did send people to find some other Rita Brand Magic Air Conditioners to test, while also collecting the part from each brand of Magic Air Conditioners, doing high stress tests for these Magic Air Compressors. Facts proved that there were no problems at all. Those Candra Empire fellows were just speaking nonsense!¡±

    ¡°The problem is that no one will believe it even if you took out these results.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foreign affair department¡¯s manager Feven calmly said while sitting across from Ankhto.

    Ankhto immediately became dejected.

    ¡°Yes, even if I make people do these tests, no one will believe it even if we publish the results. Those fellows would rather believe the nonsense that the Candra Empire side is spewing. They aren¡¯t willing to believe the detailed test results that we published, so we really can¡¯t do anything about it.¡±

    ¡°This is normal.¡± Feven revealed a faint smile, ¡°Sir chairman told me many times before that the stupidity of themon folks will always break your lowest expectations. When ites to safety, they will always believe the side that talks about danger. They aren¡¯t willing to believe in the sense of safety at all. Their sense of crisis is inherent and it¡¯s much more serious than you can imagine.¡±

    Hearing the phrase ¡°sir chairman¡±, everyone couldn¡¯t help looking at the center position of the conference room.

    But what they saw wasn¡¯t Xu Yi¡¯s familiar face, but the beautiful face of Freya that had a smile on it.

    Everyone let out a sigh in their hearts.

    If it was Xu Yi sitting there, even if the problem was several times more serious, they wouldn¡¯t feel that worried. They believed that Xu Yi would definitely find a way to solve all their problems.

    But now that it was Freya, seeing her beautiful, but young face, everyone couldn¡¯t feel that much confidence.

    Freya had been the chairman for half a year now, so naturally she could guess what everyone was thinking based on their expressions.

    She didn¡¯t mind that her subordinates didn¡¯t trust her as the chairman because she certainly couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi right now. This was a fact and there was no way to change it.

    To have the same position and image as Xu Yi in everyone¡¯s mind, she had to put in countless effort.

    ¡°Manager Feven, chairman Ankhto, I think that you should know that to take care of the effect that this has had on ourpany, we can¡¯t just stop at ourpany¡¯s products, but we should solve the worries in everyone¡¯s minds.¡± Freya said with a smile.

    Although Freya¡¯s position in everyone¡¯s minds couldn¡¯tpare to Xu Yi¡¯s, since she had spoken, everyone pulled back their thoughts and looked at her with a respectful look.

    ¡°Yes, chairman.¡± Feven gave a nod, ¡°We must keep using advertisements to tell everyone that this event isn¡¯t rted to ourpany¡¯s product. Rather it¡¯s just an ident that has a very small probability of happening¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°No!¡± Freya cut Feven off, ¡°We must let everyone believe that this definitely wasn¡¯t an ident that has a small chance of happening, but rather it¡¯s something that is impossible!¡±

    Everyone looked at Freya with surprised looks.

    Ankhto couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°Chairman, ording to the investigation findings of the Candra Empire, this event indeed is a bit connected to our product. Although, the connection isn¡¯t that big¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman.¡± Feven also said, ¡°I understand that you want to pull ourpany out of this matter and not suffer any consequences, but that isn¡¯t very likely. After all, this Magic Air Conditioner is clearly rted to ourpany.¡±

    Freya looked at Ankhto and asked in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Ankhto, you just said that you did many stress tests?¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Then in these tests, how many times did the problem in the Candra Empire¡¯s report ur?¡± Freya asked.

    ¡°Not once.¡±

    ¡°Then do you think that if we continued the stress tests, simr problems would ur?¡±

    Ankhto hesitated a bit.

    But after a while, he replied with knitted brows, ¡°I don¡¯t dare guarantee it since the Magic Air Compressor does have some kind of influence on the surrounding air it is in operation. If some special circumstances happen¡­¡­¡±

    Ankhto spread his hands with a helpless look on his face.

    ¡°So you¡¯re saying that you think that this event is possible?¡± Freya asked.

    Ankhto was silent for a bit before nodding with a bitter smile.

    ¡°I can¡¯tpletely deny this possibility.¡±

    Freya nodded and no longer asked him anything. Instead, she turned to Evita who was sitting beside her.

    ¡°Chief Evita, in the research of the magic research facility, are there results that prove that changing the magic space will change the space around it and affect the human body?¡±

    Evita was a bit confused by what Freya meant, but she still gave a nod and said, ¡°Of course there is, it¡¯smon knowledge. Actually, all traditional magic can fit this description.¡±

    Everyone was surprised, but after thinking about it, they understood something.

    Indeed, magic was just using magic power to affect the elemental magic energy in magic space to change the surrounding area and create various spells. It could be said that it directly affected the human body.

    ¡°Then is there a defined limit in this research? For example, what level of energy would cause serious injuries to a human body or even make it faint? Or how low does the level of energy have to be to not affect human bodies at all?¡±

    Evita knitted her brows even more.

    ¡°This is very hard to urately define since the effects of each spell are different¡­¡­¡±

    After saying this, Evita¡¯s eyes lit up as she suddenly understood something.

    ¡°I understand. Fre¡­¡­Chairman, your meaning is to let us analyze the data of various spells and determine if they will seriously affect the human body, or even cause them to faint?¡±

    Freya revealed a sweet smile that was a bit serious and nodded.

    ¡°It is impossible to analyze all spells in a short period of time. I just hope that the magic research facility can assemble a small team that will conduct research rted to this to avoid this situation from happening again.¡±

    Evita revealed a faint smile, ¡°Alright, I understand.¡±

    Freya turned back to Ankhto and asked with a serious look, ¡°Chairman Ankhto, don¡¯t you have confidence in your own products?¡±

    Ankhto was stunned, ¡°Why are you asking this?¡±

    ¡°If you¡¯re confident, why would you think this way?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­¡± Ankhto knitted his brows along with the rest of the people in the conference room.

    Although Ankhto¡¯s words showed a few signs of weakness, it could be considered a safe statement. After all, no one could guarantee that there wasn¡¯t any problems with precise instruments like the magic machines.

    ¡°Continue the stress tests and make sure to reach extremes with each test. Not only will it give others a satisfying result, it will also make ourpany¡¯s products better in the future. As for whether people will believe our results our not. If they don¡¯t believe it a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times, what about a hundred thousand times or a million times? They can¡¯t not believe it.¡±

    Ankhto took a deep breath as he could see that Freya¡¯s eyes were turning serious.

    ¡°Chairman, I understand what you mean. Yes, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were able to withstand the longest and most severe tests. Those fellows that don¡¯t have confidence in us, we will make them unable to separate themselves from our products!¡±

    ¡°Good, it¡¯ll be like this!¡± Freya nodded at Ankhto with a smile before looking over at Rosador and Feven to say with a serious look, ¡°Since the long distance magic supply technology has shown stability in these test areas, then we should start expanding it. So¡­¡­Manager Feven, at the next duchy parliament, give the suggestion in our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s name to start promoting the long distance magic supply technology in the Stantine Duchy. Our initial n will be five hundred supply stations all over the duchy.¡±

    Everyone¡¯s eyes opened wide, looking at Freya with shocked gazes.

    When Xu Yi was the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, everyone thought that he was a lunatic and would frequently have crazy ideas.

    But now that Freya had taken over, she wasn¡¯t any bit less than Xu Yi and also did things in a bold and crazy manner.

    After they were stunned, they could only give helpless bitter smiles.

    It really was true, what kind of father gave birth to what kind of daughter.

 Book 8: Chapter 70: Different responses

    Book 8: Chapter 70: Different responses

    ¡°Sir chairman, the results are out. There are traces of a Magic Array outside of Zidanru Town, but the traces are very faint. There are over two hundred kinds of Magic Arrays that can be inferred from this, so we can¡¯t determine what kind of Magic Array it is.¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to know what kind of Magic Array it is, it¡¯s fine as long as you can find the traces.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°You¡¯ve done very well, but stop the investigation here. There¡¯s no need to continue.¡±

    The ck clothed person who was bowing in front of Xu Yi raised his head in surprise, ¡°No need to continue investigating? Sir chairman, this is clearly a plot targeting ourpany and it might be a plot targeting the foundation, so are you nning on letting those people go?¡±

    ¡°I never said that I would let them off.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°But I just need to confirm that these are the actions of certain people when ites to this matter. As for how to handle this matter, that is for Freya to decide and is unrted to me. After all, I¡¯m no longer the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, right?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, this isn¡¯t¡­¡­¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to cut him off.

    ¡°Rock, I¡¯m reminding you one more time, I¡¯m no longer the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman. Don¡¯t keep addressing me like this, it¡¯s easy to cause misunderstandings.¡±

    The person called Rock curled his lips. He agreed verbally, but he clearly thought differently.

    Even if chairman Freya was sir chairman¡¯s daughter, in his eyes, it was impossible for her topare to sir chairman.

    ¡°Then, chair¡­¡­Xu¡­¡­¡± Rock opened his mouth and suddenly found that if he didn¡¯t address Xu Yi with the familiar ¡°sir chairman¡±, he didn¡¯t know how to address him.

    ¡°You can also call me Lord Count. After all, I¡¯m still a count that is recognized by the Stantine Duchy, right?¡± Xu Yi could see his problem and solved it for him with a smile.

    Rock knitted his brows as his expression became a bit awkward.

    ¡°Alright. Chair¡­¡­Lord Count, since this matter is clearly a plot of the Candra Empire, are you really assured in letting young miss Freya deal with it alone?¡±

    ¡°Why not?¡± Xu Yi spread his hands, ¡°This is something that she has to experience and she will have to deal with many simr things in the future. It¡¯s good if she can get used to it early. Then again, is there something wrong with how she¡¯s handling it now?¡±

    Rock revealed a faint smile. Thinking of how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been moving recently, he felt that young miss Freya really did well this time.

    Being able to go against all of it when people were doubtful about the long distance magic supplying technology and magic machine in general to promote it in the Stantine Duchy, causing everyone to focus on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and then dispelling all their doubts with facts. This was without a doubt a very direct and effective method.

    The only problem was that it was likely that people with ulterior motives might seize this opportunity to make a move.

    If there were any problems with therge scale promotion, then the fame of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even the magic machines might leave arge doubt in the minds of people.

    How could Xu Yi not understand this? So he had already made his preparations.

    ¡°Rock, have you arranged everything on your side?¡±

    ¡°I ask chair¡­¡­the Lord Count to be assured. Everything has been prepared and there won¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°Good. Then speaking of this¡­¡­I should expect that some people wille and find us on their own?¡±

    Rock gave augh, ¡°I¡¯m also expecting this.¡±

    After giving Rock some instructions on how to deal with the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi waved his hand to have Rock retreat.

    Seeing Rock head out the door, Xu Yi let out a sigh.

    Rock was the one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s guards, but he actually led a special army under Xu Yi.

    Their duty was to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investigate matters. They could take care of discreet matters and also take some stealth actions.

    In the matter of the Candra Empire, with them refusing to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to investigate and hindering them from finding the truth, Xu Yi hadn¡¯t hesitated to send Rock.

    As a skilled elven warrior proficient in stealth techniques, Rock was also someone who had a deep understanding of magic.

    Sending him to investigate Zidanru Town¡¯s fainting incident was considered easy for him.

    But the truth that he found was something that Xu Yi didn¡¯t really care about.

    Magic machines having an effect on magic space and affecting the space around it was a known fact.

    But the influence seemed very small and couldn¡¯t hurt human bodies at all.

    It was like the dangerous forms of radiation that people on earth talked about. Other than the real intense nuclear radiation, normal forms of radiation were everywhere and wouldn¡¯t cause any harm to human bodies.

    Even the people of earth who lived in a modern society for so long would make this kind ofmon mistake, so there was no need to mention the people of the Sines Continent.

    It had to be known that since the founding of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry had only developed for thirty years. It had only been mass promoted in thest ten years.

    Before this, the Sines Continent was in a very backwards half ve and half feudal stage, so the level of technology was very low.

    So in the process of high speed societal change, this kind of fear and facy was something that Xu Yi had expected.

    Xu Yi approved of Freya¡¯s method this time very much.

    Since themon people were worried because of this long distance magic supplying technology and even the entire magic machine industry, then they should use facts to show them that their worries were baseless.

    Since the magic machine industry had developed, it was impossible to go backwards.

    People had already enjoyed the benefits to their lives that the magic machines brought, so how could they give it up?

    As long as Freya used facts to tell everyone that the matter of Zidanru Town was false, the doubts in people¡¯s hearts would also vanish.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about the influence of this matter and how Freya and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce she led would take care of this matter. What he really cared about was the intentions of certain people in this matter.

    Since Rock had found traces of Magic Arrays in Zidanru Town, the fact of this matter was that there was someone manipting this matter behind the scene, making it blow up. They used the Rita Chamber of Commerce to throw dirty water on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and even Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this dirty water, what he cared about was that they were trying to cause doubt towards magic machines in themon people through this matter.

    Xu Yi¡¯s ideal was to spread the magic machine industry in the world, increasing the level of technology in this world.

    But now that these fellows were targeting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi with these despicable methods, seriously impacting Xu Yi¡¯s n, he couldn¡¯t ept it.

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi gave a cold snort and left the room.

    ###

    The weather in May could be considered one of the mostfortable periods during the year.

    After the winter passed, the heat of summer was still far away. Although there was a bit of warmth in the air, it was a warmth that feltforting and not burning hot.

    This period was when people had the most strength and could easily do things.

    When May came, a series of matters on the Sines Continent proved this.

    On May 1st, the Stantine Duchy assembly approved a ¡°new energy n¡±.

    This new energy n was actually proposed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would be spreading the new energy supplying technology throughout the Stantine Duchy, covering the entire Stantine Duchy with awork that would allow any magic machine find a port at will, allowing them to work even without the hindrance of not having Magic Crystals.

    This n was called the new energy n and not the long distance magic supplyingwork n because the core of this n was to raise the effective rate of Magic Crystals through thiswork. Through this increased efficiency, it would be a way of saving on magic power.

    Quite a few people had doubts about this.

    It was fine to use Magic Crystals more effectively, but saving on magic power?

    Magic Crystals were all around and they couldn¡¯t use them all, so why did they need to save it?

    On May 3rd, the Candra Empire parliament made their final report on the Zidanru Town fainting event and confirmed the results of the investigations.

    It concluded that there was a hidden danger in the Magic Air Compressors of the Magic Air Conditioners, so the Candra Empire had already ordered the Magic Air Conditionerpanies to change this part so that there wouldn¡¯t be the same problem again.

    On May 4th, the Rita Chamber of Commerce was the first to respond to the Candra Empire¡¯s parliament.

    The Rita Chamber of Commerce stated that they would temporarily suspend sales of the Magic Air Conditioners made with Magic Air Compressors from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, they dered that they already had a breakthrough in the Magic Air Compressors that they had developed themselves. It was expected that by the end of the year, they would be able to make Magic Air Conditioners with brand new Magic Air Compressor units.

    On May 6th, the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry department announced that all magic machines in the Candra Empire would be investigated to avoid having the same hidden dangers like these Magic Air Compressors.

    In the following days, the household magic machinepanies of the Candra Empire indicated that they would coordinate with the investigations of the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry department.

    On May 10th, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave the first response to the various statements from the Candra Empire.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s official channel stated that through exhaustive internal testing, they had proved that there wasn¡¯t the hidden danger of causing people to faint with the Magic Air Compressors. The usations of the Candra Empire were all lies.

    In this statement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave many precise data sets, as well as experimental results that showed that in experiments conducted in the same environment as Zidanru Town, there wasn¡¯t a single simr situation that urred.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave some investigation data on the Zidanru Town fainting event.

    The data showed that in the few days after the Zidanru Town fainting event, the magic space around Zidanru Town was in an abnormal condition.

    However, this abnormal condition wasn¡¯t rted to the Magic Air Conditioners or the magic power supplywork at all.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t give a concrete answer with these findings, but everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stating that there was a plot behind this Zidanru Town event¡­¡­

 Book 8: Chapter 71: Making a choice for you

    Book 8: Chapter 71: Making a choice for you

    A normal looking Frestech Brand Magic Sedan slowly came to a stop. The door opened and Xu Yi came out of the driver¡¯s seat.

    The people walking by didn¡¯t pay any attention to Xu Yi or this Magic Sedan, not recognizing Xu Yi right away.

    Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    If it was ten years ago, because of how expensive the Magic Sedan was at the time and because the production rate wasn¡¯t high, even those that were rich weren¡¯t guaranteed to be able to buy one. So anyone that could have a Magic Sedan was without a doubt an important person.

    If a Magic Sedan had appeared at that time, even if you were only a driver, you would attract the attention of the people around you.

    But after more than ten years, although Magic Sedans didn¡¯t reach the level of cars on earth, they weren¡¯t that special anymore and naturally didn¡¯t attract people¡¯s attention like in the past.

    Of course, if Xu Yi came in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s newest Goddess Anvia Model Magic Sedan, he would attract everyone¡¯s attention.

    The Goddess Anvia Model was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most advanced Magic Sedan and was limited to only a thousand units. Each one had been sent to the most important people of each country, so it was impossible for a normal person to have one.

    When Xu Yi was still the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, if he went on business meetings, he would normally be taking his custom made Goddess Anvia Model.

    But since he retired, he had given this Magic Sedan to Freya. Because Freya didn¡¯t like the serious design of that model, long periods of time would pass before it was driven out.

    The Magic Sedan that Xu Yi had now was a very normal Carroll Model Magic Sedan. It had a price of around five hundred gold coins and was in the line of Magic Sedans for civilians, so it didn¡¯t have any special characteristics.

    This Magic Sedan wouldn¡¯t attract people¡¯s attention, so naturally Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t attract attention either when he came out of the Magic Sedan.

    For Xu Yi, this proved a fact that made him quite happy.

    It was that the Magic Sedans were no longer as rare as they were ten years ago. This also proved how fast the magic machine industry had developed in the past ten years that people were able to get used to this change.

    Looking around at the crowd passing by, there were several people holding small Magic Communicators by their ears, talking while walking.

    The portable Magic Communicator had only been released seven years ago, but now it was thismon.

    Other than this, the seven story building that was over fifty meters off the ground at its peak could be one of the biggest representations of the development of the magic machine industry.

    Thisrge building that reached the clouds would have been impossible twenty years ago.

    But now, with the help of therge construction magic machines and the increase in level of construction technology, these buildings were no longer fantasies and had be reality.

    Looking into the distance, in this Lamsia City, which was the secondrgest city of the Candra Empire¡¯s central Enzio Province, there were many buildings that were like trees that were just as tall or even taller all around him.

    Seeing the city that wasn¡¯t that different from the cities on earth, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling a sense of achievement.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the magic machine industry brought by him and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would have taken at least a thousand years before the Sines Continent looked like this.

    After appreciating the scenery around him, Xu Yi walked into the building with a faint smile.

    Because he came alone and he was wearing normal clothing, no one really cared about him and he smoothly came to the receptionist desk in the main hall of the building.

    ¡°Hello, sir, may I ask, how can I help you?¡± The receptionist looked at Xu Yi with a bit of doubt in her eyes.

    Why did this handsome looking young man seem that familiar?

    ¡°Is Great Magician Troussier here? I have some business with him.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Great Magician Troussier?¡± The receptionist¡¯s eyes swept over Xu Yi and her heart filled with even more doubt.

    Great Magician Troussier was the most famous Great Magician in Lamsia City. The people qualified to meet him were the most important people in the city or even the entire Enzio Province.

    Although this young man didn¡¯t have a normal aura, he was still too young. It wasn¡¯t very likely that he had a rtionship with Great Magician Troussier, right?

    She did think this, but the receptionist still politely asked, ¡°May I ask if you have an appointment?¡±

    ¡°No.¡± Xu Yi shook his head before saying with a smile, ¡°But I believe that Great Magician Troussier will be very happy to see me.¡±

    The receptionist¡¯s smile suddenly became awkward.

    There were many people that wanted to meet Great Magician Troussier, so she had also met quite a few confident people like Xu Yi.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, if you don¡¯t have an appointment, I¡¯m afraid that I can¡¯t let you see Great Magician Troussier.¡± The receptionist gave a firm shake of the head.

    ¡°Then report my name. If you contact Great Magician Troussier, he wille and see me.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s smile became even more confident.

    The receptionist knitted her brows.

    This young man didn¡¯t know what was good for him. She had clearly rejected him, so why was he so hard to take care of?

    But seeing the refreshing smile on Xu Yi¡¯s face, the receptionist hesitated a bit before asking, ¡°Then may I ask what your name is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Xu Yi.¡± Xu Yi replied with a smile.

    ¡°Xu Yi?¡± The receptionist blinked for a bit in a daze before her eyes opened wide and she realized something.

    It was no wonder he looked that familiar!

    It turned out¡­..It turned out that he really was Xu Yi!

    The receptionist looked at Xu Yi¡¯s face with wide eyes for a while. This face finally started to connect with the face that she had seen in the Magic Illusion News many times.

    ¡°Gods! You really are Xu Yi!¡± The receptionist didn¡¯t know what to do with her excitement. She kept going back and forth, not knowing what to do for some time.

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head before tapping on the table.

    ¡°Please help me contact Great Magician Troussier.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Oh¡­¡­Oh¡­¡­Alright, alright. I will contact his excellency Great Magician right now. He will definitely be happy to see you¡­¡­¡± The receptionist said this while also quickly turning on the Magic Communicator on the receptionist desk.

    Xu Yi¡¯s lips curled into a smile as he thought differently.

    When Great Magician Troussier saw him, he definitely wouldn¡¯t be happy.

    After a while, there was a raised voice that came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Xu Yi? Why is he here!¡±

    ¡°Great Magician Troussier, I am Xu Yi. If you have some time right now, can we have a talk?¡± Xu Yi raised his voice with a smile as he spoke into the Magic Communicator in front of the receptionist.

    After a moment of silence, Great Magician Troussier¡¯s calm voice came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Let hime up.¡±

    After a while, Xu Yi was shown to a very spacious office at the top of the building. He met the owner of this building who was also the owner of the Alturias Array Design Chamber of Commerce that this building belonged to.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, I never thought that your honourable self would pay me a visit. This really has surprised me.¡± When he saw Xu Yi, Great Magician Troussier came out from behind the desk and passionately weed him.

    While he said this, he looked around Xu Yi before asking in a surprised voice, ¡°Chairman Xu, did youe alone this time?¡±

    ¡°I came to discuss a rather private matter with you this time, so it wasn¡¯t convenient to bring too many people.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile, ¡°Or could it be¡­..that Great Magician Troussier prefers that more people know about this matter?¡±

    Great Magician Troussier¡¯s expression changed before he revealed a smile again.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you are quite humorous. What matters do I have that I would be ashamed about?¡±

    ¡°Of course there are. The things that you did in Zidanru Town, do you want everyone to know about that?¡±

    Great Magician Troussier¡¯s expression fell. After looking at Xu Yi for a bit, he was about to speak, but Xu Yi cut him off.

    ¡°Don¡¯t try avoiding it. Since I¡¯m here, I¡¯ve already done my investigations. Great Magician Troussier, during December ofst month, you epted amission from the Candra Empire army to develop a special Magic Array for them. Isn¡¯t that right?¡±

    Great Magician Troussier shut his mouth.

    ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t want to reply since you have signed a confidentiality agreement with the army headquarters. If you can¡¯t admit it, I won¡¯t force you to speak.¡± Xu Yi didn¡¯t mind as he continued with a smile, ¡°I came here this time just to give you a choice.¡±

    Great Magician Troussier was silent for a while before slowly saying, ¡°If you want me to betray the empire, please go back. I definitely will not agree to this.¡±

    ¡°How could I force you to do something like betraying your homnd?¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The choice I¡¯m giving you this time isn¡¯t as serious and terrifying as you think. Actually, the choice is very simple. The first choice is to continue working with the Candra Empire army headquarters and develop new military magic machines for them.¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t help them develop military magic machines!¡± Great Magician Troussier angrily said.

    ¡°Really?¡± Xu Yi looked at him with a smile.

    After a while, Great Magician Troussier lowered his head.

    I didn¡¯t know what they were doing in the beginning¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°This doesn¡¯t seem like something a Great Magician should say.¡± Xu Yi said with a sigh, ¡°But no matter what, since you¡¯ve already done this, there should be consequences. The second choice I¡¯m giving you is to work with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, solving the problem of magic machines breaking down because of external magic fluctuations.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi mention ¡°working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡±, Great Magician Troussier¡¯s face was like dying ashes. However, when he heard thetter part of Xu Yi¡¯s words, he looked up with a surprised look.

    ¡°You just want me to work with you on developing this?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°What else do you think?¡±

    Great Magician Troussier deeply knitted his brows as he looked at Xu Yi for a bit, but he couldn¡¯t see any clues from Xu Yi¡¯s expressions at all.

    Finally, he could only give a bitter smile.

    ¡°Can I not make a choice?¡±

    Xu Yi spread his lips to reveal a full smile that seemed very gentle.

    ¡°What do you think?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 72: New standard

    Book 8: Chapter 72: New standard

    With therge number of informationing from the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the news that the Alturias Array Design Chamber of Commerce famous in the Enzio Province assisting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in developing a Magic Array that could stop magic signal overflow wasn¡¯t as noticed by others.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce always cooperated with many differentpanies and one morepany wasn¡¯t that much.

    Compared to this, what people cared about more was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire¡¯s interpretation of the Zidanru Town matter, even conflicting over it.

    The Candra Empire insisted that the reason for the Zidanru Town matter was because of the Magic Air Conditioner¡¯s special magic fluctuations as well as the long distance magic power supplying technology. But the Frestech Chamber of Commercepletely overturned this by stating that this was only the Candra Empire¡¯s view and wasn¡¯t reliable.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce also used the Candra Empire of hastily processing the Magic Air Conditioners and personnel rted to this Zidanru Town incident, not letting others investigate this and find a more urate result. They were unable to get a more urate report and find out what really happened here.

    In between the lines of the announcements from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, although they didn¡¯t directly state that this was a plot from the Candra Empire, as long as one followed this matter and read the reports from both sides, it was very easy for this feeling to appear.

    Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done their own experiments and took out an exhaustive amount of data, it told everyone what didn¡¯t make sense with this matter.

    The Candra Empire side only insisted that their findings were correct, but didn¡¯t take out any supporting data at all. They also didn¡¯t give any answers to the questions from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so naturally people didn¡¯t find them credible.

    Comparing the two sides, as time passed, the effects of the Zidanru Town incident gradually faded and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s spread of the magic power supplywork in the Stantine Duchy had initial results. They had already folded over 70% of the Stantine Duchy¡¯s citizens into thework, making it so that they didn¡¯t need to worry about buying Magic Crystals.

    With such arge poption using it, there wasn¡¯t a single fainting incident like the incident in Zidanru Town.

    Like this, more and more people started doubting the Candra Empire¡¯s investigation results. There were more and more people that were interested in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic power supplywork.

    ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, based on the data from the Stantine Duchy, if a family had a full set of Frestech Brand household magic machines, they would have to spend three to five gold coins buying standardized Magic Crystals each month. Now with the new method of long distance magic power transfer, their monthly expenditure fell down to around one gold coin.

    Although it was just saving a few gold coins, for the ordinary family, this was a noticeable reduction in expenditure.

    So just with this, many citizens were looking forward to the spread of this technology.

    When August came, eight months after the Zidanru Town incident, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they had already signed cooperation agreements with seventh countries including the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, and the Rudson Kingdom. They would begin promoting the magic power supplywork in these seventeen countries.

    Once this announcement was made, it was equal to announcing that the Candra Empire¡¯s usations towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in Zidanru Town were shattered.

    If the Candra Empire¡¯s usations were true, then were these seventeen countries fools? Would they let their citizens fall into danger like this?

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this announcement, the Candra Empire fell into an awkward position.

    In the past, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that they were promoting a new technology, the first targets of cooperation were the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the other other countries. They first promoted in these countries before promoting across the entire Sines Continent.

    But this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had worked with only the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the other kingdoms and had left out the Candra Empire.

    Because of the Zidanru Town incident previously, the Candra Empire hadunched a massive attack campaign on the long distance magic power supplyworks, even calling them work of murderers¡±. Of course, it was impossible for them to turn back on this decision and cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So in the mass spread of technology this time, the Candra Empire could only watch on the side and couldn¡¯t participate.

    At the same time, in order topletely promote the long distance magic power supplywork, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Magicians Guild, and the continent magic machine industry technology institution announced a new magic machine industry standard.

    This standard stated that in order to cooperate with the long distance magic power supplywork that would be spread across the continent, all magic machines would be modified to include an ess port for this long distance magic power supplywork. This would allow them to ¡°ess thework¡± or what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce called ¡°joining the grid¡±.

    The various magic machinepanies of the continent responded to this new standard. For the Candra Empire¡¯spanies that had shown their support for the Candra Empire¡¯s parliament and magic machine industry department, they couldn¡¯t follow this new standard and naturally couldn¡¯t produce magic machines as per this new standard.

    So in just two months, the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machinepanies all sufferedrge drops in sales.

    Because thesepanies were involved in the Candra Empire¡¯s magic machine industry, with their drop in sales, it naturally affected the Candra Empire itself.

    The magic machine industry that had been developing strongly over the past ten years had been affected by this, withrge numbers of magic machine industrypanies shutting down.

    There was even a wave of unemployment for the first time.

    When the newspapers of the Candra Empire reported on this, everyone thought about the Mana Magic Kingdom in the past.

    Because the Mana Magic Kingdom had offended the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had withdrawn from the Mana Magic Kingdom, creating widespread chaos and waves of unemployment.

    Now that the Candra Empire had fractured from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because of the Zidanru Town incident, although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t announce that they were withdrawing from the Candra Empire like the Mana Magic Kingdom, just this small move from them was enough to cause unemployment in the Candra Empire.

    People naturally wondered if the Candra Empire would be like the Mana Magic Kingdom, falling into upheaval and then being attacked by the other countries because of this.

    One shouldn¡¯t look at the fact that the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire allied together to resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom twelve years ago, before ten more years of peace and working together. The two empires were never true allies and it could be said that they were mortal enemies most of the time.

    If the Candra Empire fell into chaos, the Marlow Empire definitely wouldn¡¯t mind taking a step forward.

    Looking at it from another perspective, this showed the strong influence the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had on the Sines Continent.

    If it was anotherpany, if they were targeted by the Candra Empire like this, they would be forced to give up the Candra Empire market and might even be destroyed.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a strong attitude since the beginning. Although they did lose some of the Candra Empire¡¯s market because of the Candra Empire parliament and magic machine industry department¡¯s policies, it didn¡¯t cause any decisive losses for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Rather, because the Candra Empire targeted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the other countries andpanies had lost faith in the Candra Empire and they were put in a tight position.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t send out their guards like twelve years ago and didn¡¯t even move a single soldier, but with just a few moves, they had greatly hurt the Candra Empire.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really wanted to target the Candra Empire, they would be in an even worse position.

    Of course, the Candra Empire was one of the two empires and they were much stronger than the Mana Magic Kingdom. Adding in the fact that they had developed their magic machine industry for ten years, it had already had a solid foundation.

    Although they had suffered arge loss because of the Zidanru Town matter, the Candra Empire had a thick skin and wouldn¡¯t suffer like the Mana Magic Kingdom, falling into upheaval or even chaos.

    Everyone thought that as long as the Candra Empire didn¡¯t target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t give up thisrge market in the Candra Empire.

    In the end, argepany like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t that different from a country.

    There were no grudges between countries, there were only benefits.

    As long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire recognized that the other side could bring them benefits, what problems couldn¡¯t be solved?

    However, idents would always happen in this world.

    On October 17th, a day that was very normal and didn¡¯t have any meaning.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s northeast province garrison attacked one of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Crystal mine in the Candra Empire¡¯s northeast province. They had a fierce exchange with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards defending the mine.

    In the end, the northeast province¡¯s garrison that was three times asrge as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were wiped out by their intense firepower.

 Book 8: Chapter 73: This is definitely a rebellion!

    Book 8: Chapter 73: This is definitely a rebellion!

    ¡°Who can tell me¡­¡­what is happening?¡±

    Emperor Candra had a very calm expression and tone, looking no different from his normal appearance.

    However, this calm tone made the entire hall fall into a deathly silence.

    These loyal ministers met with the emperor frequently, so they naturally knew that although the emperor had a calm look, his heart was already filled with extreme anger.

    The ministers all lowered their heads and didn¡¯t dare move, they didn¡¯t even dare breathe too loudly out of fear of attracting the emperor¡¯s attention.

    However, even if they didn¡¯t speak, that didn¡¯t mean that they could avoid it.

    Emperor Candra¡¯s eyes swept over the ministers and then he gave a cold snort. He looked at the current Candra Empire prime minister, Duke Rostov.

    ¡°Rostov, tell me, why did those b*stards in the northeast province have the courage to open fire on a mine in the empire¡¯s borders? Do they want to revolt?¡±

    Duke Rostov¡¯s eyes had a strange look.

    The main thing about this incident was that the mine that was attacked wasn¡¯t a normal mine, but a mine under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Now that the emperor had ignored this and even used the northeast garrison of treason, it was clear that the emperor had the same scruples in his heart.

    Of course, the emperor would never admit it and he, as the prime minister, couldn¡¯t reveal his thoughts in front of everyone.

    After thinking about it, Duke Rostov replied, ¡°Your majesty, I don¡¯t think that Duke Tim has that courage. This should be the decision made by the subordinates in the northeast province¡¯s garrison.¡±

    ¡°Decision made by them?¡± Emperor Candra suddenly raised his voice, ¡°Who gave that right? This is clearly a revolt!¡±

    Since the emperor had emphasized twice that the attack on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Crystal mine was a n for revolt by the northeast garrison, how could the loyal ministers not understand what he was implying? They quickly responded to this.

    ¡°That¡¯s right! Your majesty, these soldiers actually dared to attack a mine in the empire¡¯s borders without orders, they were clearly conspiring something. It¡¯s a good thing that¡­¡­they were all killed in the crossfire, saving the empire the effort of eliminating them.¡±

    Duke Rostov looked over at the parliament¡¯s speaker Duke Infinard and gave a coldugh in his heart.

    Duke Infinard was very close to the northeast province¡¯s Governor Duke Tim, so naturally he would help Duke Tim separate himself from this matter as much as possible.

    But the emperor didn¡¯t care about this. Duke Rostov also knew that it was best if they reduced this problem as much as they could and make peace with the parties involved as soon as possible.

    Although the empire had been in contact with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time, the emperor had expressed his impatience with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many times, it was still far from the empirepletely breaking off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If their rtionship was seriously damaged by this matter or even broke, it would be impossible for the empire to bear the losses.

    The emperor was clear on this point, so he stated that the soldiers that attacked the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Crystal mine were traitors.

    ¡°Ke, speaker Infinard is correct. As soldiers of the empire, they actually dare to initiate an attack without any orders. Regardless of their cause, this is equal to revolting. I hope that your majesty will quickly give an order to thoroughly investigate the northeast province and give the citizens an exnation.¡±

    Emperor Candra looked at Duke Rostov with a hint of praise in his eyes.

    Duke Giarbot had rmended Duke Rostov take over his prime minister position before leaving. He had been very keen on his own intentions and other than being a bitcking, he was a prime minister that made one feel quite relieved.

    Since the emperor, the prime minister, and the speaker had all agreed, as well as no one else disagreeing with this, this matter was considered settled. Even if others had other ideas, they could only suppress them in their hearts.

    While everyone was deciding how to quickly settle this matter, a messenger quickly came in.

    ¡°Your majesty, we¡¯ve already contacted Duke Tim.¡±

    Emperor Candra exchanged looks with Duke Tim before giving a nod to that messenger.

    ¡°Connect it here.¡±

    The messenger quickly withdrew.

    Not long after, on the desk in front of the emperor, the red light indicating a connected call lit up.

    Emperor Candra pressed the connect button and a screen appeared to the right of the hall as Duke Tim¡¯s Magic Illusion appeared on the screen.

    ¡°Your majesty.¡± Duke Tim clearly understood the situation and first gave Emperor Candra a bow before nodding at the other ministers.

    Seeing the lifelike image of Duke Tim and what seemed to be a mine in the distance behind him, Emperor Candra gave a sigh in his heart.

    Being able to directly talk to Duke Tim that was over two thousand kilometers away and being able to see Duke Tim, this was the convenience brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If it was before, he could only wait for a report from Duke Tim and the fastest it could get here was a week.

    Since he had enjoyed the convenience brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s technology, Emperor Candra wasn¡¯t willing to return to the previous backwards life, let alone the citizens of the empire.

    Thinking of how the newspapers had actually called for chasing out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Emperor Candra couldn¡¯t help giving a secret bitterugh.

    It would be good if it was that simple.

    Chasing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce out of the Candra Empire sounded simple, but to actually do it was impossible.

    The various industries of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had deeply infiltrated the lives of the people of the empire. From the various trades of the empire to the daily lives of the citizens, they were all rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to varying degrees.

    Even he as the emperor was annoyed that he had to ount for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when he did anything. If he wanted to target the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had to be careful and discreet, so how could he talk about chasing out the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Thinking of this, Emperor Candra¡¯s eyes looking at Duke Tim became more helpless and only showed a bit of anger.

    ¡°Tim, what are the results?¡±

    As soon as the matter happened in the northeast province, it had been immediately reported upwards and had reached the empire¡¯s leaders in just two days.

    On the day of the incident, Duke Tim as the governor of the northeast province had rushed to the Baimon Mine.

    It was the second day after the incident and the mine behind Duke Tim should clearly be the Baimon Mine.

    ¡°Your majesty, based on my initial understanding, the matter should be because of the Fres¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Duke Tim, is it not a rebellion by the soldiers and an evil attack on the Baimon Mines?¡± Duke Infinard quickly cut Duke Tim off.

    Duke Tim was surprised, but he immediately reacted and after silently thinking for a bit, he gave a nod.

    ¡°It is as sir speaker says. ording to the situation in the reports, it was a bunch of soldiers that were dissatisfied with the treatment in the army and chose to gather to cause trouble. They heard that the Baimon Mine was owned by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so they thought that there would be quite a bit of money gathered here and came up with the n to rob it. As for their intentions of rebelling¡­¡­I don¡¯t dare confirm this.¡±

    The emperor and the ministers could designate the soldiers as rebels at will, but as the northeast province¡¯s governor, if the soldiers really did have intentions of rebelling, he wouldn¡¯t be able to escape responsibility. So Duke Tim had decided that he would separate himself from this matter first.

    Emperor Candra knitted his brows as he looked at Duke Infinard. He was a bit dissatisfied with the close rtionship between this parliament speaker and the province¡¯s governor.

    But he didn¡¯t have time to haggle over this. After thinking about it, he asked Duke Tim, ¡°What are the losses of the Baimon Mines? What is their reaction towards this matter?¡±

    ¡°The losses of the mines¡­¡­Currently there are sixteen dead workers, thirty seven heavily wounded workers, and over a hundred workers with minor injuries. As for the losses in products¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ losses?¡± Emperor Candra cut off Duke Tim¡¯s words.

    Hearing this question, the other ministers in the hall all focused their minds and gathered their eyes on Duke Tim in the Magic Illusion.

    ¡°The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡­¡­¡± Duke Tim paused before revealing a strange and bitter look, ¡°There were only two guards lightly injured and there were no other losses.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing this response, the people in the hall all let out a sigh of relief as their expressions became more rxed.

    No matter how many workers died in the mine, it wasn¡¯t a problem for these important people because they were normal citizens and they didn¡¯t matter.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards stationed at the mine were apletely different matter.

    First, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They were different from the other workers that worked at the mine since they weren¡¯t direct subordinates of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    So no matter how many workers died, it wasn¡¯t rted to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards suffered heavy losses or even had deaths, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t let it go.

    Second, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards represented the armed forces of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, so they were different from normal staff of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Exchanging fire with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and even killing them, that would be equal to dering war on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which had apletely different meaning.

    It had to be known that the ones that had fought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had all paid heavy prices.

    The most injured was the Candra Empire from twelve years ago.

    However, after rxing, Emperor Candra and the other ministers all felt a sense of shame in their hearts.

    When did the great Candra Empire have to care about the losses of a singlepany?

 Book 8: Chapter 74: Reconciliation?

    Book 8: Chapter 74: Reconciliation?

    Half an hourter, after all the ministers that had been called left, there was only Duke Rostov who was still with Emperor Candra.

    The hall had been silent for a while before Emperor Candra finally spoke.

    ¡°Rostov, if three times the waste from the northeast province attacked the royal guards, what would be the casualties?¡±

    Duke Rostov was silent for a bit before shaking his head and replying, ¡°Your majesty, the battle situation is different, so it¡¯s hard to estimate. But in the previous exercises, the royal guards brought out three brigades and easily routed the two regiments with very few losses.¡±

    Emperor Candra gave a slight nod.

    The royal guards had five thousand troops in one brigade and three times that would be fifteen thousand troops.

    As for the regiments, they weren¡¯t fixed. The bigger ones had forty to fifty thousand soldiers and the smaller ones only had around twenty thousand.

    But Emperor Candra knew about the military exercise. The royal guards had only brought out three brigades and had defeated two regiments, which had a total of over eighty thousand troops.

    So the royal guards had actually defeated enemies that had five times their numbers.

    With this reference, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards defeating the northeast army with three times their numbers became less dazzling.

    But Emperor Candra knew that there were many things that couldn¡¯t bepared between the two examples.

    First, there was arge difference in numbers.

    In the military exercise the Candra Empire arranged before, the royal guards and the two regiments added up to over a hundred thousand people.

    In the Baimon Mine matter this time, there were two hundred to two hundred fifty troops from the northeast garrison and there were only around fifty Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards stationed at the mine. In total, that was less than three hundred people.

    With such arge difference in scale, there naturally wasn¡¯t any meaning inparing them.

    But through a roughparison, one could roughly see that although the battle power of the royal guards couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, at least they weren¡¯t that much worsepared to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards at the Baimon Mines.

    At least¡­¡­it wouldn¡¯t be like twelve years ago. When facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, they wouldn¡¯t be able to resist at all.

    ¡°How many troops does the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards currently have?¡± Emperor Candra suddenly asked.

    This question was sudden, but Duke Rostov understood what the emperor meant, so of course he wasn¡¯t surprised. After thinking about it, he replied, ¡°ording to the data they¡¯ve announced, it should be only eighteen thousand people. If we count in the hidden portion, I estimate it at around twenty five thousand, but no more than thirty thousand.¡±

    ¡°Less than thirty thousand?¡± Emperor Candra knitted his brows to think for a long time before asking, ¡°What kind of price would we have to pay if we wanted to get rid of those thirty thousand troops?¡±

    Duke Rostov shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°Your majesty, I can¡¯t answer your question. Although the empire has been investigating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in secret, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce strictly guards the information on their military magic machines, so we haven¡¯t been able to learn much. You should know that in current warfare, it doesn¡¯t matter how many people there are, it all depends on how strong your military magic machines are¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I know this.¡± Emperor Candra nodded to show he understood, ¡°But I want to know, how big is the current gap between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the empire? Can we dealrge casualties to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­we should have that opportunity¡­¡­¡± Duke Rostov¡¯s tone wasn¡¯t too certain, ¡°After all, the empire has invested quite a bit into military magic machines over the years and has had shocking results. I think¡­¡­that at least we wouldn¡¯t be at a level where we couldn¡¯t resist like before.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Emperor Candra finally revealed a faint smile, ¡°As long as we can resist, that¡¯s fine. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are strong, they have too few people.¡±

    Duke Rostov nodded in agreement.

    All the countries on the Sines Continent, although they were worried about the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, everyone knew that they had too little people in the end.

    Compared to the countries with over a hundred thousand soldiers or the empire with hundreds of thousands of troops, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s less than thirty thousand guards were stronger than otherpanies, but they were farckingpared to a country¡¯s army.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had powerful military magic machines, giving them battle strength that far surpassed any countries.

    They were limited by their numbers. It allowed the other countries to resist them.

    Moreover, the current Sines Continent was different from how it was twelve years ago.

    The Sines Continent of twelve years ago only had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the two empires that could face each other, the other countries could only watch and help from the sidelines.

    But if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did the same thing now, even if the other countries still helped, they would show far less support for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Becausepared to twelve years ago, the power bnce between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other countries were much smaller, so the other countries could resist them now.

    ¡°Speaking of this, what is the northeast province doing?¡± Emperor Candra knitted his brows.

    Although the Baimon Mines matter had already been designated as a rebellion by the soldiers, Emperor Candra was still wary of the truth of this matter.

    If it really was as Duke Tim said that the soldiers were unhappy with the treatment in the army and wanted to rob something, they wouldn¡¯t target the Baimon Mines in the end.

    Everyone knew that the Baimon Mines was under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so there were Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards stationed there.

    Even if these soldiers were dumb, they wouldn¡¯t be foolish enough to challenge the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    ¡°We have to wait for Duke Tim¡¯s next report.¡± Duke Rostov said, ¡°As for the most important thing right now¡­¡­it¡¯s how to deal with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    After his voice fell, the messenger from before suddenly ran in.

    ¡°Your majesty, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s representative, is asking for an audience.¡±

    Emperor Candra exchanged looks with Duke Rostov before both of them gave a nod.

    ¡°Let theme in.¡±

    ###

    A weekter, the Candra Empire¡¯s official channel held a joint press conference with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, making an announcement about the Baimon Mines incident.

    The announcement was that in the Baimon Mines incident, the squad from the northeast province¡¯s army had decided to rebel because they were unhappy with the treatment of the army, so they tried robbing the Baimon Mines. They tried stealing money and military supplies from the Baimon Mines, but they were repelled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards stationed there.

    The Candra Empire government stated that the soldiers that attacked the Baimon Mines were designated as traitors by the empire parliament.

    Under the empire¡¯sws where treason was a first grade offense, they were all given the death sentence.

    But since they had already died in the hands of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no need to further pursue this matter.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce side also stated that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already reached an understanding with the Candra Empire government. When it came to the heavily injured workers or the workers that died, the Candra Empire side would give them sincerepensation.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ losses were almost nothing, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce also agreed not to pursue this matter.

    After the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made this joint announcement, this matter seemed like it had passed and wouldn¡¯t have that much influence.

    But for everyone who read this announcement, their first reaction was that this was ¡°impossible¡±.

    Whether it was the Candra Empire or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they all had strong attitudes and would rarely let things go that easily.

    But this time, both sides had reached an agreement quickly and deescted this matter. If it was said that there wasn¡¯t a trick, no one would have believed it.

    So many people started having strange analyses about the truth of this matter.

    Out of all the possibilities, the one that everyone agreed one was that the Candra Empire had suffered a loss in this matter.

    Look, the Candra Empire had lost a squad from their army and had to offerrgepensations in this matter. But what about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s side? Other than two Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards suffering minor injuries and the Baimon Mines being shut down for some time because of injured workers, they didn¡¯t suffer any losses.

    Not to mention that the Candra Empire was clearly making concessions. Then in secret, the Candra Empire must have paid argepensation to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For example, at the press conference, the two sides had also announced a new project. The Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would work to set up a research facility outside of Zidanru Town, studying the strange phenomenon that had happened in the town.

    In the Candra Empire¡¯s description of this project, they didn¡¯t say the same thing as before that the Zidanru Town matter was rted to the Magic Air Conditioners, but clearly a different phenomenon.

    This stance told everyone that they had made some clear concessions.

    But not many people were surprised and confused by the Candra Empire¡¯s concessions.

    In the past ten years, all the countries of the Sines Continent, including the two empires, couldn¡¯t have a strong stance when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Just the Candra Empire had made many concessions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so it wasn¡¯t anything surprising.

    People were already used to this and they could understand why the Candra Empire had made concessions.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was too strong and the other countries couldn¡¯t resist. Then adding in the fact that they couldn¡¯t avoid the Frestech Chamber of Commerce when developing their magic machine industries, it was normal to make concessions to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This guess had turned into everyone¡¯s final judgement towards these two matters.

    But in the minds of people who knew certain things, the truth waspletely different.

 Book 8: Chapter 75: No different from a salted fish if you donâ€™t have a dream

    Book 8: Chapter 75: No different from a salted fish if you don¡¯t have a dream

    ¡°This honoured Emperor Candra, isn¡¯t this considered hitting his own foot with a stone?¡± Xu Yi put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Leslie sitting in front of him with a smile.

    Leslie put down the tea in his hand and gave augh.

    ¡°This idiot, he raised the idea of the Candra Empire opposing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but he never thought that his subordinates would be so dumb. They actually misunderstood his meaning and were more radical than him, actually choosing to start a war with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    After saying this, Leslie shook his head and gave a sigh before continuing, ¡°It seems like your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has suppressed the Sines Continent so much over the years that their minds aren¡¯t even right anymore. Otherwise, even if they are dumb, how could they do something like this?¡±

    ¡°No, I¡¯m actually not surprised by this at all.¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Anyway, opposing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had appeared many years ago, so it isn¡¯t strange that it¡¯s developing bit by bit right now. Moreover, I¡¯m certain that there will be more and more simr matters since after all, no one likes being suppressed by others, right?¡±

    Leslie knitted his brows, ¡°Since you already expected this, why didn¡¯t youe up with measures for them earlier? Moreover, based on the information I¡¯ve gotten over the past few days that I¡¯ve been back, you really aren¡¯t caring about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and are nning on handing it to Freya? Can you really feel assured?¡±

    ¡°Then can you feel assured about giving the entire southern continent to David?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile.

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°I¡¯m old now, I can¡¯t control these things sooner orter. I might as well have David rece me earlier so I can be more relieved.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Isn¡¯t that same as what I¡¯m doing now?¡±

    The David that these two were talking about was Leslie¡¯s eldest son.

    Because Leslie had marriedter than Xu Yi, even if Leslie was a few years older than Xu Yi, David was a bit younger than Freya. He was only twenty three years old this year.

    With the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Leslie had already expanded his influence from Heaven Ind to the new continent to the south.

    Compared to the Magic Cloud Continent, the southern continent that Leslie named the Levin Continent was half as big and had far fewer locals.

    With the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful army, in the past ten years, they had swept over the entire Levin Continent. He already controlled the entire continent and had already established a basic road andmunicationwork across the entire continent.

    It could be said that Leslie was the local emperor of the Levin Continent. Just the territory under him was far bigger than the two empires.

    And David could be considered the prince of the Levin Continent.

    So whenever Leslie and Xu Yi met, they couldn¡¯t avoidughing at the two continents and the other countries on the Sines Continent.

    There was clearly a much bigger world outside of the Sines Continent, but they kept fighting over the Sines Continent. Their eyes really were shallow.

    Of course, Leslie also knew thatpared to the other continents, the Sines Continent had a greater poption because their civilization had developed much longer. Then adding in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce leading them, they developed much faster than the other continents.

    Staying on the Sines Continent was much more attractive to the countries of the Sines Continent.

    Leslie hade back from the Levin Continent for the first time in three years just to obtain Xu Yi¡¯s support. He wanted to keep developing the Levin Continent.

    The most important reason was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had announced justst month that they hadpleted the long distancemunication with the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Leslie came back this time in hopes that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would support the Levin Continent, establishingmunications between the Levein Continent and the Sines Continent, making it easier for them tomunicate with each other.

    ¡°Like this, I won¡¯t have toe all the way here and I can just contact you with the Magic Communicator. It would be much more convenient.¡± Leslie said.

    Xu Yi nodded, ¡°Actually, even if you didn¡¯te, I would have thought of a way to solve this problem. When we built the magicmunicationwork, it was to connect the entire. Since the Magic Cloud Continent has it, the Levin Continent won¡¯t be missed.¡±

    Leslie gave augh, ¡°Xu Yi, I knew that you wouldn¡¯t reject it.¡±

    ¡°You shouldn¡¯t be happy too early. I¡¯m not the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman anymore, so even if I don¡¯t reject this, it doesn¡¯t matter. If you can¡¯t convince Freya and the others from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I can¡¯t help you.¡±

    Leslie pursed his lips, ¡°Humph, as long as you the chair¡­..Alright, former chairman agree, I don¡¯t believe that anyone from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would go against you.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain, Freya might have her own ideas. Moreover, she is new to this job as the chairman, so she has stages for things she wants to do. If you don¡¯t give her good enough reasons, she might just reject you.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    Leslie gave anotherugh. He knew that Xu Yi was giving him an off handed reminder that even if their rtionship was good, when it came to an important project like this, it couldn¡¯t be decided with personal feelings.

    If the Levin Continent couldn¡¯t give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enough benefits or if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t see the attraction of future profits, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t provide help for free.

    But this was an interaction that the two of them were already used to.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce kept supporting Leslie before, allowing him to upy Heaven Ind and then control the entire Levin Continent.

    Leslie knew that whether it was Heaven Ind or the Levin Continent,rge amounts of resources were given to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which could be consideredpensation.

    Although thispensation couldn¡¯tpare to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s investments right now, as long as the Levin Continent developed well in the future, a bnce would be reached sooner orter.

    Other than building a magicmunicationwork between the two continents, Leslie also hoped that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would build a railroad system on the Levin Continent.

    ¡°There might be a few problems with this.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with knitted brows, ¡°Leslie, how many steel mills do you have right now?¡±

    Leslie gave a snort and proudly raised his head, ¡°What? You think that we don¡¯t produce enough steel so we can¡¯t construct railroads? Let me tell you, I currently have seventeen steel mills under me and justst month, our steel production was over three million tons!¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised, ¡°I remember that when I asked youst time, you only had five steel mills and only produced around eight hundred thousand tons a month? If it¡¯s three million tons, then we can consider making the railroads¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°It was three years ago thest time I saw you, alright?¡± Leslie waved his hand in a dissatisfied manner, ¡°It seems like you don¡¯t care that much about the Levin Continent at all, you don¡¯t even know these important details.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°The Levin Continent is your territory, why should I care about it? Could it be that you¡¯re not worried that I will take your territory away?¡±

    ¡°Che, if you really cared about territory, the Sines Continent would have already been yours, would you still need to steal the Levin Continent?¡± Leslie curled his lips in disdain before suddenly giving a sigh and asked, ¡°Speaking of this, Xu Yi, are you regretting it?¡±

    ¡°Regret? What would I regret?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Regret that you didn¡¯t listen to my advice and conquer the entire Sines Continent.¡± Leslie had a serious look like he wasn¡¯t joking, ¡°You told me that you didn¡¯t have the time to waste on those things, but look at it now, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce far exceeds any nation and even if it was slow, you could have conquered the entire continent in these ten years. If you united the continent, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have so many problems now.¡±

    ¡°Leslie, it seems like you still don¡¯t understand what my true wishes are.¡±

    ¡°What don¡¯t I understand, isn¡¯t it just to promote the magic machine industry? Don¡¯t you find it troublesome having to deal with all those countries?¡±

    ¡°No, the current situation is better. Those countries arepeting with each other, so they focus more on developing the magic machine industry to increase their own technology.¡±

    ¡°I think that it¡¯s all being used on the military magic machine research, isn¡¯t it?¡± Leslie gave a cold snort, ¡°I won¡¯t hide it from you, I¡¯ve also been investing quite a bit on researching military magic machines and I¡¯ve quite the sess. After all, I¡¯ve always had you providing high end military magic machines that the other countries don¡¯t have. Not only me, the gap with the other countries in terms of military magic machines is much smaller. Otherwise, how could the Candra Empire have the courage to provoke you?¡±

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, ¡°They are willing to put their hearts into developing military magic machines, that is what I want to see. Since you are also developing military magic machines, you should know that military magic machines aren¡¯t things that can exist alone. You need aplete magic machine industrial system and enough support from powerful technology. The process of studying military magic machines is actually developing the magic machine industry.¡±

    Leslie knitted his brows to look at Xu Yi for a bit before he couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    ¡°To be honest, Xu Yi, I¡¯ve known you all these years and I still can¡¯t understand what you are thinking. Letting the other countries develop their magic machine industries and increasing their technology, are there any benefits to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce or you? Could it be that it¡¯s just for your dream that came out of nowhere?¡±

    ¡°If people don¡¯t have dreams, what difference is there between them and salted fish?¡± Xu Yi said the famous quote on the inte from earth with a faint smile, ¡°Moreover, don¡¯t you think that flying into outer space and exploring the universe is a very wonderful experience?¡±

    Leslie gave a sigh and still felt that he couldn¡¯t understand him.

    ¡°Alright, outer space and the universe, a mortal like me can¡¯t understand what that means. But I have to warn you that you can¡¯t y around too much or you might be swallowed by those fellows from the Candra Empire.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°Do you think¡­¡­I¡¯m someone that¡¯s that dumb?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 76: Explosion of achievements

    Book 8: Chapter 76: Explosion of achievements

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire released this joint statement, the Sines Continent that had be turbulent because of the Zidanru Town and Baimon Mines matter had finally returned to peace.

    On the surface, the Candra Empire had chosen to make concessions in front of the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was no different from how the Candra Empire faced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce twelve years ago. Same as twelve years ago, the other countries treated the Frestech Chamber of Commerce no differently.

    After these two matters, the Sines Continent¡¯s situation was the same as before. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce maintained their power and the other countries honestly developed their magic machine industries. There didn¡¯t seem to be any changes.

    But in the eyes of people with ambition, things were different.

    First, the most important thing was that the ?Continent Peace Convention? was gone. What reced it was the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? led by the two empires.

    This treaty included more than half of the countries on the Sines Continent, including the two empires. However¡­¡­it didn¡¯t include the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    It had to be known that twelve years ago, after the two empires had been routed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, all the countries on the continent knew that they couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that had a battle power that far exceeded their imaginations. So in the past twelve years, all the countries on the Sines Continent had tried to peacefully coexist under the suppression of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, letting the Sines Continent have a rare period of peace thatsted over ten years.

    This ?Continent Peace Convention? had a deadline of two years ago and everyone thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would take the lead again to sign another treaty, maintaining the situation for another ten years.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce never did this like they hadpletely forgotten about this matter.

    What surprised everyone was that with the two empires leading the way, the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? was created. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t say a word and didn¡¯t object to this, taking a stance of tacitly approving of this treaty.

    It had to be known that when the two empires worked with the other countries to make this treaty, they were telling everyone that these countries had been secretly developing military magic machines, which vited the ?Continent Peace Convention? from before.

    Even if the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the other countries all stated that their research of military magic machines had only started in the two years after the ?Continent Peace Convention? expired, no one believed this obvious lie.

    But even like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t make any objections and silently agreed to this situation.

    The change in attitude from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the biggest change to the current situation on the Sines Continent.

    Many people secretly guessed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was focused on the Magic Cloud Continent, so they didn¡¯t care about the Sines Continent and this was what created this change.

    Many people also guessed that the other countries weren¡¯t that far off from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in terms of the military magic machines, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn¡¯t suppress them like before. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wisely chose to make concessions to avoid being targeted by the other countries.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s businesses on the Sines Continent depended on the support of other countries.

    Secondly, although no countries announced it, after the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty? was signed, all the countries on the continent started investingrge amounts of manpower and funds into researching military magic machines.

    If it was because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s suppression that no country dared to openly develop military magic machines before, now that they have confirmed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t care, the countries didn¡¯t hesitate to go all out.

    Among them, the ones with the greatest achievements were the two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The two empires had powerful national strength and the Lampuri Kingdom had the deepest magic machine industry. The three countries had never stopped their research and after going all out, they naturally had achievements one after another.

    At the end of year 4316, the Candra Empire was the first to announce that the army headquarters had made a breakthrough with the Magic Cannon technology. They had created a Magic Cannon that could shoot thirty small Magic Shells at once.

    Half a monthter, the Marlow Empire announced that they had seeded with their long range Magic Cannon testing, reaching an effective range of over thirty kilometers.

    Then ten dayster, the Lampuri Kingdom announced that they were the first country to produce their own Fire Magic Engine.

    Compared to the two empires, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s achievements weren¡¯t that shocking, but when one looked closely, there was no doubt that it was more meaningful than the achievements of the two empires.

    The Magic Engine, it was already the most important magic machine project in the current magic machine industry.

    In the entire magic machine industry, there were countless ces that needed the magic engine.

    However, until now, only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce the Magic Engine. If the other countries andpanies wanted to produce magic machines that needed the Magic Engine, they would need to buy them from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    However, now that the Lampuri Kingdom had developed their own Magic Engine, it could be said that they had made a major breakthrough.

    Even if the power of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s self developed Fire Magic Engine wasn¡¯t that high and it was far less stable than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Engine, with this major breakthrough, it meant that the Lampuri Kingdom was far less dependent on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s announcement had without a doubt destroyed their monopoly on the Magic Engines, so it would have a great effect on their profits.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s reaction was very thought provoking.

    In the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? publishedter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce praised the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s development of the Magic Engine. They called it one of the most significant achievements in the history of the Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was filled with joy.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce indicated that they would be willing to share a portion of their Fire Magic Engine research with the Lampuri Kingdom. They wanted to support the Lampuri Kingdom into making a better and more effective Fire Magic Engine.

    If people had thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s praise was only just pleasantries, then they were shocked by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s announcement of transferring this technology.

    The Lampuri Kingdom developing this Fire Magic Engine meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suffered the greatest losses. Shouldn¡¯t they try to stop the Lampuri Kingdom and try to maintain their monopoly on the Magic Engine to give themselves the greatest benefits?

    Now that they were handing over the technology, wasn¡¯t that digging their own graves?

    But thinking about it, it wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first time doing this.

    When it came to the magic machine industry rted technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t like the otherpanies. They didn¡¯t block everything and not share a single detail.

    Rather, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce often shared their technology and even sold it to otherpanies. They even provided technical assistance to help thepanies grasp the technology better.

    When Xu Yi was the chairman, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this and now that his daughter Freya had taken over, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce still did this.

    This made countless people let out sighs of relief and calm down.

    People had been worried about the change in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s attitude during this time. Now that they found that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the same as before, keeping Xu Yi¡¯s promise and developing the continent¡¯s magic machine industry, people felt much more assured.

    After the two empires and the Lampuri Kingdom published their achievements, the other countries weren¡¯t willing to show any weakness.

    As soon as the new year came, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom announced that they had made a breakthrough, creating the continent¡¯s firstrge transport Magic Ship that could hold over a hundred thousand tons of cargo.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s transport Magic Ships had a maximum capacity of less than eighty thousand tons.

    Now that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had made a superrge transport Magic Ship that could hold over a hundred thousand tons of cargo, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finally had a strongpetitor in the shipbuilding industry.

    After that, the Marlow Empire announced two more achievements.

    These two weren¡¯t all rted to military magic machines. One of them was rted to military magic machines since it was about independently developing the Magic Tank, but the other was that they had developed a two wheeled Magic Vehicle for civilian use.

    Then two dayster, the Candra Empire announced three more achievements¡­¡­

    Then the Lampuri Kingdom¡­¡­

    ¡­¡­

    It was as if because they had been restrained by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for too long, now that the countries of the Sines Continent were freed, countless new magic machine industry rted achievements were being blown up.

    The Sines Continent had reached a state of a hundred different familiespeting with each other. It was as if the magic machine industry had entered a period of spring and signs of life bloomed.

    During this lively atmosphere, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was a bit quiet.

    Before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would announce their own achievements from time to time which people had already gotten used to.

    But during this time, or it should be said that in the two years that Freya had taken over as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had never taken out any important research results.

    Of course, that didn¡¯t mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research had stagnated.

    But it seemed like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was more focused on magic theory. When it came to practical application, they were no longer as dazzling as before.

    This situation even made people feel that the ¡°Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t as good as before¡±¡­¡­

    Until April of the year 4317 when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced something through the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? that had once again caught everyone¡¯s eyes.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was about tounch a satellite!

 Book 8: Chapter 77: Launching a satellite

    Book 8: Chapter 77: Launching a satellite

    ¡°You mean that¡­¡­this thing will be able to fly in a ce even higher than the sky and it won¡¯t fall down?¡±

    Chairman Cruise looked at the thing that looked like a Magic Shell that was countless times bigger that Xu Yi called a ¡°Magic Rocket¡± with a look of disbelief on his face.

    Xu Yi rolled his eyes filled with disdain.

    ¡°If you¡¯ve read thetest issues of the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, or did some research on the theory, you would know that as long as youunch something that exceeds the first cosmic velocity, it will escape the attraction of the. It will fly into orbit around the and with the¡¯s rotation, it won¡¯t fall down.¡±

    Chairman Cruise gave augh, ¡°I¡¯ve been very busytely, how could I have time to read the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?? Then again, you¡¯re talking about outer space, so it¡¯s not rted to ourpany. Of course I wouldn¡¯t care about it.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain that it¡¯s not rted?¡± Xu Yi pointed at the sky and asked, ¡°Let me tell you, the world under our feet isn¡¯t the only one in the endless universe. Actually, in a ce that can¡¯t be seen with the naked eye, there are still countless differents and some of them might even have people just like us. Could it be that you don¡¯t want to build houses on thoses?¡±

    ¡°Building houses in outer space?¡± Chairman Cruise¡¯s eyes lit up before he shook his head, ¡°Forget about it. You¡¯re just sending this thing into the stars right now. When you really go to another, who knows how long that will take. Perhaps¡­¡­I might be dead before that dayes.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He thought that although chairman Cruise didn¡¯t know what this rocket was, or even what the concept of outer space was, that didn¡¯t hinder his judgement.

    Indeed, it was as chairman Cruise had said. Even if they seeded inunching the satellite today, they were still far away from being able to send people into outer space.

    As for traveling through space, going on an interster cruise that Xu Yi dreamed of, who knew how long that would take.

    Even if technology on earth was far from reaching that point. Since theyunched the satellite, fifty years had passed before Xu Yi transmigrated and there was still no hope of traveling through space.

    With the current level of technology on the Sines Continent, to reach this point was a dream.

    But the Sines Continent was different from earth, this was a world of magic.

    Magic was something that the Abyss Demon Race with their brilliant society had left, so it could create many unbelievable possibilities.

    For example, if they followed normal development, with the level of technology on the Sines Continent, it was impossible to create a satellite.

    But with the power of magic, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to use a period of time that was countless times shorter than earth to develop this project.

    Of course, this was also because Xu Yi had brought the theory and basics of mechanical engineering from earth.

    After talking with chairman Cruise about a few things, Xu Yi turned to look at the rocket in the distance and he felt emotional.

    If people from earth transmigrated to this world and knew the truth of this rocket, they would definitelyugh themselves to death.

    Because this rocket did have what was considered a satellite, but this satellite was just an empty shell that didn¡¯t have anything in it at all.

    The satellitesunched on earth would do all kinds of things in the sky. There were meteorological satellites, surveince satellites,munication satellites, and etc¡­¡­

    But because of current technological limitations, this satellite couldn¡¯t do any of these. Even if it reached the sky, it wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything.

    But there was a Magic Illusion Camera with the highest video quality loaded in, so they could take some pictures from outer space.

    But no one could guarantee that these pictures would sessfully transfer back.

    When it came to the magic space of outer space, no one on the Sines Continent had any ideas.

    Even the dragons with the most powerful bodies could only barely remain in the highest part of the atmosphere with their dragon forms, but they couldn¡¯t break through it.

    So this first satelliteunch was also a test of the magic space above the atmosphere.

    There were many Magic Arrays carefully designed by the magic research facility on the satellite that could test the various reactions of the magic space, so it could investigate the magic space above the atmosphere.

    To put it simply, this satelliteunch was actually a test for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on many things, so it had a great significance.

    But¡­¡­

    Xu Yi turned to look at therge group behind and around him, seeing that all of them were focused on the Magic Rocket in the distance. They pointed and whispered to each other from time to time, all of them unable to stop themselves from showing looks of shock.

    It was clear that most people were focused on the same thing as chairman Cruise. Just putting something in a ce above the sky didn¡¯t really have any meaning to them.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s about time.¡± A middle aged person wearing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s uniform came over. They lowered their head as they said this in a low voice while also handing a Magic Communicator to Xu Yi.

    Seeing his excited expression, Xu Yi revealed a smile and took the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Hey, Freya, I¡¯m just attending the ceremony, you should be the one to give the orders.¡±

    Freya¡¯s voice that was filled with life and joy, but was a bit more calm and experienced after being the chairman for a while came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Lord father, this is a significant matter. Don¡¯t you want to give the order yourself?¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°I don¡¯t want to steal the spotlight from you as the chairman. Alright, don¡¯t worry about me, just take care of it yourself. I¡¯ll just watch from here.¡±

    Freya muttered something, but she still quickly replied.

    ¡°Alright, then I won¡¯t be polite.¡±

    Xu Yi put down the Magic Communicator with a smile before asking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff that gave it to him, ¡°The representatives from the other countries, are they currently in the main control room?¡±

    ¡°Yes. This time the two empires sent their top people and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Prince Raymond personally attended.¡± After a pause, the staff member continued, ¡°Sir chairman, they¡¯ve asked where you were several times. Are you really not nning on making an appearance?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, I don¡¯t want to steal Freya¡¯s spotlight. If Still knew about this, she would certainly scold me.¡±

    The staff member knew that Xu Yi had already made his decision, so they didn¡¯t say anything else and moved to the side.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, didn¡¯t you say that your dream is to fly into outer space? Although this satellite is still far from your dream, this should mean that you¡¯re a step closer. Do you really not want to be the host of this ceremony?¡± Chairman Cruise asked.

    ¡°No need. My dream is you fly to outer space, not hold a ceremony that doesn¡¯t have any meaning at all.¡± Xu Yi looked at the distant giant Magic Rocket before looking up at the iparably deep blue sky. It was as if he wanted to pierce through the sky and reach outer space.

    After around another twenty minutes, it was time tounch the rocket. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce side held a brief ceremony before officially announcing theunch of the satellite.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any objections, but because he had seen how solemn it had been when Chinaunched its first satellite into space as a child, he felt that doing this was a bit perfunctory.

    But he also knew that not only for the people of the Sines Continent, even for the people of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that participated in this experiment, although sending something into outer space was shocking, they didn¡¯t know how to process this or even deal with this matter since it far surpassed their understanding.

    ¡°There will be a day when you understand how important today was¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing the bright glow that came from beneath the Magic Rocket, Xu Yi gave a sigh.

    He had said to many people that his dream was to fly into outer space.

    Seeing the first step of his dream, he didn¡¯t feel that excited.

    Perhaps it was because he had to do many, many things just to reach this one point?

    Or was it because he knew that it was impossible to aplish his dream in his lifetime, so he was very calm watching this?

    But when he saw the light under the Magic Rocket bing brighter and then smokeing out, causing the Magic Rocket to slowly rise before picking up speed and soaring into the clouds, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help feeling excited.

    Butpared to the shock that everyone else had and the cheers that rang out after the rocket disappeared into the clouds, Xu Yi was much more calm.

    The Magic Communicator in his hand shook again.

    Xu Yi picked up the call and it was Freya¡¯s excited voice that came out.

    ¡°Dad! It worked! It worked! It really flew up! Gods¡­¡­Oh, no! God isn¡¯t above, it¡¯s ourpany¡¯s satellite that¡¯s there!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help breaking out inughter.

    Freya had been the chairman for two years and she always acted as a mature chairman, so she held back her excited nature as much as possible. Now that she had finally found a reason to let it all go, it was no wonder she was this excited.

    ¡°Alright, Freya, don¡¯t be that excited. This is just the first one, we will be sending even more satellites in the future, so you should get used to it. Compared to this, what is more important is to take care of our guests first.¡±

    Xu Yi looked up at the control tower in the distance and narrowed his eyes.

    The sess of this satelliteunch was an exciting matter for him, but for the guests that came to this ceremony, that wasn¡¯t necessarily true¡­¡­

 Book 8: Chapter 78: Entering outer space

    Book 8: Chapter 78: Entering outer space

    The nights in early May had a faint chill to them, butpared tost month, it was a much morefortable temperature.

    After having dinner, the people of Wimbledon City left their homes in groups of twos and threes, going out for a walk to help with their digestion while also rxing.

    In the squares inside and outside the city, there were already quite a few people gathered, creating a lively scene.

    In the beginning, some people just strolled over by themselves or gathered together to talk or did some simple exercises.

    But that changed when night came.

    When the statement came out, many people doubted it and felt that it was an excuse from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted the long distance magic power supplywork in the Stantine Duchy, those doubts slowly disappeared.

    Because of the matter in Zidanru Town, the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce both remained firm on their stances. The Candra Empire believed that there was a hidden danger in the long distance magic power supplywork, so the Candra Empire didn¡¯t n on introducing it to their territory, which caused some people to be dissatisfied.

    Whether it was the ?New Moon News?, the various newspapers, or the examples that many people provided, they all proved that the long distance magic power supplywork made people¡¯s lives much easier and made household magic machines more effective. Being able to save on household expenditures was definitely something valuable and was worth promoting.

    But because of the Zidanru Town incident, the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t introduce it to their territory and made many people dissatisfied.

    Because of the Rita Chamber of Commerce¡¯s performance before, many people vented their anger on thispany.

    So when the Rita Chamber of Commerce announced their new Magic Air Conditioner, very few people bought it.

    The discussion of this continued until people scattered from the squares yesterday.

    But it was unknown if today¡¯s ?New Moon News? would have simr news that could attract everyone¡¯s attention again.

    Therge Magic Illusion Projector in the square wasn¡¯t idle. They were broadcasting some advertisements or some Magic Illusion Films before this. However, once seven o¡¯clock came, all the Magic Illusion Projectors in the square changed to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s logo, signifying that the ?New Moon News? was about to start.

    When the ?New Moon News? started each day, they would give a short summary of what today¡¯s ?New Moon News? would entail. That way, people could have a general idea of what today¡¯s news would be about.

    Normally speaking, the short introduction would introduce a few pieces of important news before they would start their reports.

    However, the ?New Moon News? was different from usual today.

    ¡°All the viewers out there, do you really understand thend underneath you?¡± After the greetings, the male anchor¡¯s first words had shocked everyone.

    ¡°Do you really understand the world that we live in?¡± The female anchor said this which made everyone confused.

    ¡°Next, we would like to invite everyone to look at some images.¡±

    When the male anchor¡¯s voice fell, the Magic Illusion turned dark before lighting up again, showing the scene of some ins.

    The male anchor¡¯s voice narrated this.

    ¡°This is the scene of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first satelliteunch. Everyone can see that there are many people gathered in the distance, they are all guests that were invited to attend the ceremony.¡±

    Hearing this exnation, everyone understood.

    When the Frestech Chamber of Commerceunched their first satellite, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had live broadcasted the process through the Magic Illusion Projectors. Everyone had seen the scene of the Magic Rocket flying into the sky.

    People still couldn¡¯t forget the shock that they felt then, so hearing this exnation, they found that this scene was very familiar.

    But the angle of the Magic Illusion was a bit strange.

    When everyone watched the broadcast, they had the same angle as the crowd and watched the Magic Rocket flying into the sky.

    The current angle was looking at the crowd from a distance, almost as if¡­¡­as if they had the same view as the giant Magic Rocket that flew into the sky.

    The female anchor¡¯s voice rang out at this time.

    ¡°Viewers, the images that we are seeing now are the images sent to us from the Magic Illusion Camera from the Magic Rocket. So we can see that the angle that the crowd is looking at in the distance is in the direction of the Magic Rocket.¡±

    Even the people that didn¡¯t react yet understood at this moment.

    The image started to shake and there was a giant sound that came from the illusion.

    ¡°What everyone is seeing now is the Magic Rocket beginning its take off.¡±

    After a while, they saw the Magic Illusion gradually leave the ground which represented the Magic Rocket taking off.

    Very soon, the ground in the illusion became further and further and the people on the ground turned into ck dots beforepletely disappearing.

    Out of the people watching the ?New Moon News?, there were few people that had the chance to fly into the sky, so there weren¡¯t many people who had experienced being in the air.

    Although they could experience being in the air because of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Films, they never had a first person angle, so naturally it wasn¡¯t like this time where it felt like they were experiencing it personally.

    As the Magic Rocket quickly soared into the sky, the ground got further and the sky came closer.

    Some more intelligent people noticed that the ground was turning into a sphere, which proved the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s opinion of them being on a ¡°giant¡±.

    Many people nervously watched as the sky came closer and closer. They were looking forward to seeing what it would really look like to break through the sky.

    Very soon, after a group of clouds appeared in the image, people found that the image had turned ck and there were only some strange sounds from time to time.

    This darkness didn¡¯tst long as the image quickly lit up again with a light that was even brighter than sunlight.

    After another while, it turned dark again before quickly lighting up.

    After this happened several times, the image suddenly lit up and an endless ck sky appeared in the image.

    In the distance, there was a giant fireball.

    Based on the position, it should be the sun.

    But based on the image, people found that the sun was very different from the ground that they were standing on.

    ¡°The Magic Rocket has finally broken through the atmosphere and has officially entered outer space. What everyone is seeing now is the situation of outer space.¡± The female anchor¡¯s voice rang out.

    Everyone looked at the beautiful and shocking scene in the Magic Illusion in a daze, with no one being able toe back to their senses for a long time.

    After showing the image of outer space, the Magic Illusion changed again.

    ¡°What everyone is seeing now is the true appearance of the that is under our feet.¡±

    Everyone¡¯s eyes opened wide.

    A giant that was mainly covered in blue appeared in the Magic Illusion.

 Book 8: Chapter 79: Magic Computer

    Book 8: Chapter 79: Magic Computer

    ¡°This means¡­¡­that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s whatever Magic Rocket actually flew into outer space?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    ¡°This so-called outer space, how high up is it from the ground?¡±

    ¡°This subordinate does not know. But ording to the information the Frestech Chamber of Commerce released, their satellite will be at an altitude of around one hundred and thirty kilometers from the ground.¡±

    ¡°A hundred and thirty kilometers from the ground? How far is it from here to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base?¡±

    ¡°It should be over two thousand kilometers¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Tell me, since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could send something like the Magic Rocket to such a high ce, if they were to send it to a far ce, wouldn¡¯t it be able to fly to a very far ce as well?¡±

    ¡°Based on theunch data that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has released, there is this possibility.¡±

    ¡°Then¡­..isn¡¯t there a possibility of flying from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base to here?¡±

    ¡°This¡­¡­subordinate doesn¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Tell me, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t load a satellite on the Magic Rocket, but rather a Magic Missile, couldn¡¯t they justunch it from their main base to above our heads?¡±

    ¡°This subordinate doesn¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Doesn¡¯t this mean that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has a long range attack that can target any ce at any time?¡±

    ¡°This subordinate doesn¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted, wouldn¡¯t our most guarded ces be meaningless?¡±

    ¡°This subordinate doesn¡¯t know.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t know? You don¡¯t know this and you don¡¯t know that, what do you know then?¡±

    ¡°This subordinate¡­¡­This subordinate doesn¡¯t know¡­¡­¡±

    ###

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is the synchronous orbit based on altitude that I¡¯ve calcted. Do you have any problems with this?¡± Sancheli turned around and pointed at the number on the Magic Illusion in front of him as he asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°Thirty two thousand seven hundred and fourteen?¡± Xu Yi narrowed his eyes as he thought this over before giving a nod, ¡°Since your team has calcted this, then I don¡¯t have any problems with it.¡±

    Sancheli revealed a proud smile before patting the table to say, ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s just calcting a number. It¡¯s nothing for this Deity at all.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Xu Yi revealed a smile as his eyes fell onto the iparably monster in front of Sancheli, feeling an absurd feeling.

    Since Sancheli had been recruited by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he had always been focused on automation research. He had yielded great results, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s semi automated and automated production magic machines take over the entire continent¡¯s market.

    But Xu Yi never would have thought that Sancheli would make the monster in front of him.

    This thing called ¡°Deity¡± by Sancheli was without a doubt a precise machine. This metal monster that took up most of the space in the room, based on its function, was clearly aputer!

    That¡¯s right. Sancheli in the process of his automation research had created a thing that whether it was based on the principle or the function was no different from theputers on earth.

    Of course, this Magic Computer was still very primitive and had a performance no different from the firstputers of earth. It was just that the operational method was based on magic instead. It was slightly different from theputers on earth that relied on electronics.

    Moreover, for someone like Xu Yi who understood both sides, this ¡°Deity¡± was actually more advanced than the firstputer on earth.

    The firstputer on earth was made of countless electron tubes and relying on the simple signals of those electron tubes, it was able to perform moreplex calctions.

    But the Deity that Sancheli had developed actually worked on magic signals and could even directly performplicated calctions beforemunicating the results asmands. It was without a doubt much better than the firstputers on earth.

    The reason the performance was simr was because of the difference in craftsmanship and that Sancheli didn¡¯t have enough knowledge.

    If the level of craftsmanship on the Sines Continent was increased and Sancheli had more knowledge of math, this Deity¡¯s performance would certainly be increased and its performance would surpass the first generationputers on earth.

    But even so, when Xu Yi learned about the existence of this Deity, he still couldn¡¯t help being shocked.

    Of course he wanted to have aputer like on earth to help do all kinds of work and he thought that once the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent had developed to a certain extent,puters woulde naturally.

    But he never thought that the Deity would appear so early and so quickly.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t think of any exnation for this, he could only credit Sancheli as a talented individual.

    If it wasn¡¯t for this fellow with this monstrous level of talent, by Xu Yi¡¯s estimates, it would have taken at least twenty years before this Deity appeared.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are the synchronous orbits that you¡¯re making me calcte useful?¡± Sancheli asked in a curious voice.

    ¡°Oh, this thing is very useful. For example, if I want to cover the entire with magicmunication signals with satellites, it¡¯s necessary to have several dozen satellites in synchronous orbit.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? But hasn¡¯t thepany made the outer space magic signal ry and has already solved the long distancemunication between continents problem?¡±

    ¡°This is different.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Although the outer space magic signal rys have solved this problem, it isn¡¯t stable. It¡¯s very easy to be affected by high altitude currents or other phenomena. So when we contact the Magic Cloud Continent, the signal will be frequently interrupted. We won¡¯t need to worry about this with satellites in synchronous orbit and also because they are further from the ground, they will have a much wider range of coverage. In theory, we would only need three of thesemunication satellites to cover the entire. If we use the outer space magic signal rys, we would need at least four hundred of them based on our current estimates. You should be clear on the difference in costs.¡±

    Sancheli gave a nod, signaling that he understood.

    ¡°Other than this, the synchronous orbit satellites have some special uses. They aren¡¯t clear now, but you¡¯ll understand in the future¡­¡­¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi deliberately stopped talking.

    Sancheli looked at him with a curious look, but he didn¡¯t keep asking him about this.

    ¡°But sir chairman, based on my estimates, tounch a satellite into synchronous orbit, the Magic Rocket demands far surpass our current abilities. So we won¡¯t be able tounch this kind of satellite right now.¡±

    ¡°Did you secretly calcte this?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    Sancheli¡¯s face turned red, but he still gave a nod.

    ¡°Yes¡­¡­¡± Then he thought of something, ¡°What is it? Did I calcte it wrong? But I¡¯ve already imported all the data and have already calcted it many times? Tounch a Magic Rocket of several dozen tons to a ce that is over thirty thousand kilometers in the air, it requires a shocking amount of propulsion. Not to mention right now, I feel that it would be very hard for ourpany to achieve this even in the future.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t helpughing before patting Sancheli¡¯s shoulder, ¡°Sancheli, you shouldmunicate more with the researchers of the astronomy and physics department. Your calctions might be right, but before calcting this, you made a fatal mistake. Sending something into the sky isn¡¯t just as simple as throwing something into the sky. In fact, it requires much less propulsion than just throwing something into the sky.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Sancheli awkwardly scratched his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know too much about this and it seems that I really do need to learn a bit more.¡±

    ¡°No, the most important thing for you right now is not to learn about astronomy, but rather to progress your mathematical knowledge.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the giant Deity behind Sancheli, ¡°To me, Deity is more important thanunching the satellites. I hope that you will spend more time on it and do your best to increase its performance as much as possible.¡±

    Sancheli turned to look at Deity and felt a bit of doubt.

    This thing was just an automated magic machine that he made for himself to easily calcte things. It was nothing more than a convenient tool for him, but he never thought that it would be this important to sir chairman. This really was a pleasant surprise.

    ¡°Alright. Sir chairman, I will properly develop it. But¡­¡­how is this rted to you having me study math?¡± Sancheli asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°You don¡¯t understand now, but when your research has reached a certain level, you will find that math will be very important.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    Sancheli immediately agreed to this in a serious voice.

    After talking about a few things about Deity with Xu Yi, Sancheli suddenly thought of something and asked Xu Yi, ¡°Sir chairman, since we can send satellites into the sky, doesn¡¯t that mean we can send people into the sky in the future?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi gave a firm nod and then looked at Sancheli, ¡°What? You want to fly around in the sky?¡±

    Sancheli revealed a look of endless desire.

    ¡°Of course! I have a dream of seeing the under our feet from outer space, it must be beautiful!¡±

    ¡°Hasn¡¯t there been countless images sent down from outer space? Aren¡¯t you tired of it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not the same. How could looking at it from a Magic Illusion be the same as seeing it with my own eyes?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°Alright, I can only tell you that you can definitely send people into the sky in the future, but I can¡¯t tell you exactly when. When the timees, it¡¯s not certain that you¡¯ll be the one to go.¡±

    ¡°Flying to outer space is my dream!¡± Sancheli said in an earnest voice.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Flying to outer space had always been the slogan and dream that he told others.

    There weren¡¯t that many people who believed him in the past, but after theunch of the satellite, it became the most popr phrase on the Sines Continent.

 Book 8: Chapter 80: Magic is black technology

    Book 8: Chapter 80: Magic is ck technology

    Leaving Sancheli¡¯sb and stepping back on the streets of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, when he looked out, the absurd feeling that Xu Yi had because he saw Deity became even stronger.

    Just thirty years ago, this world had a very low level of technology and civilization was still in a half ve and half feudal society.

    However, in just thirty years, there were a bunch of products that could match the modern technology of earth.

    For example, the household magic machines in the stores by the street, the Magic Cars that ran across the roads, the Magic Airship flying in the sky, the giant transport Magic Ship that had just docked in the harbour¡­¡­

    If there was another person from earth that transmigrated at this time, they definitely wouldn¡¯t think that they were in another world and would have thought that they had passed through to another dimension.

    All of the things here could be considered a replica of an earth city.

    Of course, that depended on them ignoring the elves, dwarves, and beastmen that were all over the streets.

    The main reason for this was because of the scientific knowledge that Xu Yi had brought from earth. He had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce develop magic machines based on the technological development on earth, so naturally it would be like they were duplicating the technology of earth.

    Moreover, not just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base, but all the other countries were following the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or rather Xu Yi¡¯s path in developing their magic machine industries. So all the cities had followed the changes of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce main base and Frestech City.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted the long distance magic power supplywork, the cities on the Sines Continent became even more like the cities on earth. They became more and more¡­¡­modern.

    In just thirty years, the backwards Sines Continent had undergone a giant change and allowed the people of the Sines Continent to live a life that they could only dream of before. Xu Yi was naturally proud of this.

    But¡­¡­was this correct?

    Xu Yi felt a doubt fill his heart as he looked around himself.

    This wasn¡¯t the first time that he thought this.

    Last month, when the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and the Azshara Tribe worked together to promote a ¡®Magic Illusion Sleep Assistance System¡¯, Xu Yi already had these doubts.

    Three months ago when the Night Song Tribe worked with the Moon Shadow Tribe to promote the new crops that they had developed together, Xu Yi had the same doubts.

    Half a year ago when apany in the Marlow Empire had announced that they had developed a new Magic Water Purifier, which could turn any tainted water into pure drinking water when it was filtered through the machine, Xu Yi had the same doubts.

    Even ten years ago, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just started developing the image calls for the magicmunicationwork, Xu Yi had the same doubts.

    These doubts came together with the feeling in his heart and Xu Yi finally came to a conclusion that he had underestimated this world.

    Although he came from a technologically advanced world like earth, whichpared to this world seemed very developed, causing him to regard the Sines Continent was backwards, the Sines Continent had a special something called magic that had many possibilities that he had never expected.

    For example, the things that had surprised him before or the Magic Computer that Sancheli had developed himself¡­¡­

    The people of this world could depend on their own abilities and the shocking tool known as magic to make astonishing things.

    What they needed was just some inspiration.

    Now that Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave them enough inspiration, they exploded with a wave of creativity.

    The people of the Sines Continent weren¡¯t inferior to the people of earth when it came to this.

    As for magic itself, Xu Yi was already one of the top Arch Magi of the continent and even had the qualification to call himself the strongest magician on the continent that no one could match.

    But the deeper he went in his magic research, the more mysteries there were.

    After Xu Yi proposed the scientific study of magic andbined the scientific studies of earth with researching magic, he found that magic was far beyond the modern science of earth.

    The most simple example of this would be teleportation spatial magic.

    The concept of teleportation was only science fiction on earth with its modern technology. There was the possibility of teleportation, but they felt that it was very hard to achieve. Even if they kept researching for a hundred years, it wouldn¡¯t be certain that they could achieve it.

    But on this backwards Sines Continent, they had already mastered teleportation with science.

    What was even more shocking and made him unable to decide whether tough or cry was that the magicians of the Sines Continent had trained to the point where they could use magic to teleport their bodies, but they couldn¡¯t use it to teleport items.

    Xu Yi had found it hard to understand before, but after learning about the Abyss Demon Race, he finally found a part of the reason.

    If magic was something passed down from the Abyss Demon Race, starting from the elves of the Sines Continent, they only had superficial understandings of it. They were unable to grasp the principles of magic, which was something natural.

    The Abyss Demon Race of ten thousand years ago wouldn¡¯t go out of their way to teach elves how to use magic and the lowly elves of the time couldn¡¯te in contact with the core parts of the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s magic. They could only use their intelligence to grasp parts of how to use magic.

    After a long ten thousand years, the specific parts about magic had already faded in history.

    So while the magic on the Sines Continent was developed and was strong enough, to Xu Yi, there was a clearck of basic foundational knowledge. It was unknown when this split happened, but magic wasn¡¯t able to help the Sines Continent that much, which was why the world had been stuck in a backwards state.

    When Xu Yi arrived, with hisplete scientific knowledge and theories from earth, as well as the practicality of magic from his research, the people of the Sines Continent started to pay attention to this.

    Because of the inspirations from Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, people started to gradually diversify their study of magic. All kinds of achievements started growing like mushrooms and even novel inventions that Xu Yi never would have thought of started appearing.

    So Xu Yi felt that he had underestimated the people of the Sines Continent.

    Since transmigrating to this world, he felt that he was the protagonist of a novel, so he had taken care of everything himself. He wanted to take responsibility for all magic research and lead the world in the direction that he wanted.

    But he found in the past few years that once he set the people of this world free, the ability that they demonstrated filled him with shock and praise.

    As for this absurd feeling, it was because of the magic the Abyss Demon Race left behind. It was clear that the Abyss Demon Race had grasp of this state of the art technology, but it had been twisted by the people of the Sines Continent when it had been passed down.

    With the arrival of Xu Yi, the Sines Continent¡¯s view and study of magic had returned to practical application. However, because Xu Yi¡¯s technology was different from the magic technology of the Abyss Demon Race, the research didn¡¯t seem to conform to what Xu Yi had expected and it was a bit strange.

    For example, the Magic Computer that Sancheli developed. Although Xu Yi had once talked about this, after Sancheli had actually developed it, it had be something that was different from theputer that Xu Yi had in mind.

    Sancheli even couldn¡¯t understand all the principles himself, but he was still able to make the Magic Computer operate properly and use it quite easily.

    Based on the views of earth, this was a proper piece of ck technology.

    Or to put it simply, the entire magic machine industry of the Sines Continent, or just simply magic itself was considered ck technology.

    ¡°Is this really good?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help knitting his brows.

    As a former high level mechanical engineer from earth, he found it very hard to permit himself to use technology that he couldn¡¯t understand the principles of.

    Because there were many instabilities in using this and could even have the chance of creating unpredictable danger.

    However¡­¡­even if Xu Yi was an Arch Magus, he couldn¡¯t understand all the principles behind magic.

    This was because there was arge gap between the magic theory of the Sines Continent and the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s magic theory from ten thousand years ago, Xu Yi alone wasn¡¯t enough to solve this.

    Of course, ck technology didn¡¯t mean that it wasn¡¯t useful.

    Strictly speaking, there were many pieces of technology that couldn¡¯t be fully understood on earth because something like science was constantly improving because it kept contradicting itself. It kept improving the things that were contradicted and there was no true analysis.

    It was like this with science and it was also like this with magic.

    Moreover, in the end, magic was just like science, but it was different from the science of earth and wasn¡¯t that easy to differentiate.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi took a deep sigh. When he looked around him again, he suppressed the feeling and doubts in his heart.

    The current situation was the situation of the world. He couldn¡¯t forcefully change it and there was no need, let alone¡­¡­the fact that he didn¡¯t have this power.

    Xu Yi reached into his chest and pulled out a Magic Communicator he used for work.

    ¡°Cindy, help me contact the emperors of the two empires. Tell them that I have to meet them in private.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 81: Making oneâ€™s stance clear

    Book 8: Chapter 81: Making one¡¯s stance clear

    ¡°Your majesty, when was thest time we met like this?¡± Xu Yi sat there with a smile looking at Emperor Candra in front of him. Their eyes met and they both had calm expressions.

    ¡°It¡¯s been a long time since I met chairman Xu. If I¡¯m not mistaken, thest time should be when we signed the ?Continent Peace Convention? twelve years ago.¡±

    Emperor Candra also had a faint smile on his face, like he was talking to Xu Yi like an old friend that he hadn¡¯t met in a long time.

    If possible, how he wished he could just kill this despicable fellow in front of him.

    However, that was an impossible dream.

    If he were to kill Xu Yi here, the chaos that would follow was something that even he as the emperor of the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t take. It was even likely that the entire Candra Empire would fall into a desperate situation.

    Let alone the fact that even after putting aside his scruples, it was almost impossible to kill Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi was already known as the most powerful Arch Magus ten years ago and after ten more years of cultivating, with his shocking talent, his strength should have already surpassed all other Arch Magi.

    With such incredible power, it was almost impossible to assassinate him. It wasn¡¯t even possible to encircle and kill him.

    The Candra Empire had tried this more than ten years ago and had paid a deep price because of this. Now that more than ten years had passed, the Candra Empire didn¡¯t dare test Xu Yi¡¯s increased power.

    ¡°The ?Continent Peace Convention?¡­¡­.¡± Xu Yi revealed a meaningful smile, ¡°Speaking of this, your majesty, you were the first to propose the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?, right?¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s expression became a bit awkward.

    The ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?. If it was said in unkind words, this was simply a p to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s face.

    Now that Xu Yi was mentioning it, even if Emperor Candra had a deep mentality, it was hard to have a thick enough face to openly talk about this.

    ¡°This¡­¡­When the ?Continent Peace Convention? expired, our Candra Empire, as well as the Marlow Empire and the other countries were waiting for chairman Xu to take the lead to renew the treaty. We never thought that chairman Xu would never mention this matter and thought that you had forgotten or didn¡¯t care about this matter. But it is like chairman Xu said more than ten years ago, the Sines Continent needs stability and peace, an environment that can promote the development of the magic machine industry. As one of the two empires on the continent, our Candra Empire naturally needs to take responsibility. So I proposed this new treaty which was the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?.¡±

    Hearing Emperor Candra¡¯s exnation, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile.

    Actually, with Emperor Candra¡¯s noble status, there was no need for him to give such a detailed exnation.

    It was only in front of Xu Yi that he would make this exnation that was a clear concession.

    The reason was very simple, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was too big of a threat towards the Candra Empire. Even the emperor of the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t help but have scruples.

    Of course, the more important reason was because of Xu Yi.

    If it was Freya who was the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman here, Emperor Candra would have a much stronger stance than he had now.

    ¡°Your majesty, when ites to the ?Limited Spreading of Military Magic Machine Treaty?, I don¡¯t have any opinions. After all, the ?Continent Peace Convention? proposed before was to let the countries of the Sines Continent have a peaceful environment to develop their magic machine industries. Now that has been achieved, after more than ten years of development, most countries should have developed their magic machine industries to a certain extent, so there isn¡¯t really a meaning in having another treaty like this. Moreover, a simr treaty should be decided by the countries of the Sines Continent. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is after all only apany and shouldn¡¯t have the right to be involved in this.¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Emperor Candra suddenly realized something.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce really isn¡¯t nning on interfering with this treaty?¡±

    ¡°Of course not.¡± Xu Yi directly looked into Emperor Candra¡¯s eyes and said in a sincere tone, ¡°We are only apany and aren¡¯t qualified, nor are we interested in interfering in this matter.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± Emperor Candra slightly knitted his brows, ¡°Then how do you exin yourpany interfering in the conflict between our Candra Empire and the Mana Magic Kingdom?¡±

    The interfering that Emperor Candra spoke of was referring to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s organization that they made with otherpanies and citizens groups. When the Candra Empire and Mana Magic Kingdom were fighting, they took in the refugees from the Mana Magic Kingdom.

    The Candra Empire had protested to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce many times, so Xu Yi was clear on this matter.

    ¡°Your majesty, ourpany is just reducing civilian casualties, this doesn¡¯t count as meddling, right? If we really wanted to meddle, what do you think it would look like?¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s expression turned stiff and he couldn¡¯t refute this.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really meddled in the war between the two countries, whether the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Candra Empire or the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t have been able to receive as many benefits as they did now.

    So Xu Yi was right.

    But Emperor Candra couldn¡¯t believe Xu Yi that easily.

    This fellow had never shown a strong desire for power over the past few years, but as the emperor of the giant Candra Empire and one of the most powerful people on the continent, this Emperor Candra knew just how enticing power was.

    Xu Yi never demonstrated it before and still didn¡¯t demonstrate it now, but that didn¡¯t mean that it wouldn¡¯t happen in the future.

    ¡°Your majesty, I came to see you today was to openly tell you something.¡± Xu Yi suddenly said, ¡°The matter of Zidanru Town and the matter of the Baimon Mines, we all know what is happening. As well as the role that your Candra Empire has yed in those events¡­¡­¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s expression sank, ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t speak randomly. Although those two matters happened in the empire, the empire has shown its deep regret. What is the meaning of mentioning it now?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t be nervous. Your majesty, this is your Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce, I can¡¯t have put some kind of listening device here, right? I just came this time to tell you something clearly. I know that you, or perhaps your Candra Empire has scruples towards our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but I¡¯m telling you clearly now that I¡¯m not interested inpeting for control over the Sines Continent with your Candra Empire. What I¡¯m interested in will forever be developing the magic machine industry. So you and your Candra Empire don¡¯t need to be on guard against me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡±

    Emperor Candra looked at Xu Yi with deep eyes for a long time before slowly shaking his head. He said with a sigh, ¡°Chairman Xu, perhaps I can believe you, but how will you let me believe in your Frestech Chamber of Commerce? Even you can¡¯t possibly represent the intention of the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a sigh and a nod.

    ¡°Yes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has developed this much and even if I¡¯m the founder, I can¡¯t represent the will of over two hundred thousand people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce alone.¡±

    ¡°So what meaning is there in telling me this?¡± Emperor Candra looked at Xu Yi with a taunting look, ¡°We¡¯re not children, so there¡¯s no need to waste these words, right? I thought that you wanted to meet in secret to discuss a project that couldn¡¯t be revealed to the public, but now it seems like that isn¡¯t the case.¡±

    After saying this, Emperor Candra acted like he was sending a guest off.

    ¡°Your majesty, I didn¡¯t n on changing your attitude with this private meeting. This time, I just wanted to show you my stance and some of my thoughts. As for whether you believe them or not, that isn¡¯t for me to consider.¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s eyes had a sh of anger in them.

    ¡°Since my views aren¡¯t for your consideration, what did youe here for?¡±

    ¡°I just wanted to remind you that your Candra Empire¡¯s enemy has never been the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I think that you can understand what this means, so I still have to remind you of something else. Emperor Klein has expressed his willingness to believe me words and hopes to maintain a good cooperation rtionship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. As for the Lampuri Kingdom, I don¡¯t think I need to say anything else, right?¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi stood up and gave a nod to Emperor Candra before turning to leave.

    Emperor Candra watched Xu Yi leave and didn¡¯t call out to stop him.

    When Xu Yi disappeared from his vision, Emperor Candra let out a sigh as his expression rxed.

    Looking in the direction that Xu Yi left in, Emperor Candra rubbed his forehead as he felt the headacheing on.

    Based on his intuition, he felt that Xu Yi¡¯s intentions today were sincere and his words should have been sincere as well.

    But from an objective angle, he didn¡¯t dare believe what Xu Yi said.

    Although he had to admit that Xu Yi was right, the Candra Empire¡¯s true enemy was never the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather it should be the Marlow Empire who was at the same level.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s influence on the Sines Continent was huge and the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t ignore them.

    It wasn¡¯t an exaggeration to say that if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was more biased towards the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom, the Candra Empire would have already stopped existing.

    It was because of this that the Candra Empire had been desperately developing their magic machine industry, spending even more effort into increasing the level of their military magic machines technology. They hoped that they would be able to restrain the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a bit more.

    But he was clear that while the Candra Empire made great progress, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t stop progressing.

    The gap between the two sides was definitely smaller, but it wasn¡¯t so small that the Candra Empire didn¡¯t need to worry about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    This was what puzzled Emperor Candra.

    He was very willing to believe Xu Yi¡¯s words, but reality forced him to doubt it from every angle.

    He was the Candra Empire¡¯s noble emperor, he couldn¡¯t make a single mistake, so he could only have doubts.

    But¡­¡­Xu Yi had said that the fellow from the Marlow Empire believed him, what was that for?

    Was it just to threaten him?

    Emperor Candra felt that after close to forty years on his throne, he had never met a decision as hard as the one he was currently facing.

    He fell into a period of deep thought.

 Book 8: Chapter 82: All your children

    Book 8: Chapter 82: All your children

    Xu Yi never counted on just meeting and talking to the two emperors to make them believe his attitude.

    The most effective way was naturally to take action.

    After meeting the two emperors, Xu Yi prepared for three months to stabilize the basic foundation of the continent¡¯s magic machine industry technology foundation before announcing that he was resigning as the chairman of the foundation.

    The people of the Sines Continent were shocked, but they also were waiting to see what Xu Yi was nning to do next.

    When he stopped being the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he had founded this continent¡¯s magic machine industry technology foundation, which was something that all the countries had been worried about for a long time.

    Now that he had stepped down as the chairman of this foundation, what new thing was he nning on doing next?

    However, after people waited for around three months, there wasn¡¯t a single piece of news rted to Xu Yi.

    Whether it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the continent¡¯s magic machine industry technology foundation, Xu Yi never showed himself in public once.

    Even when many people and powers investigated in secret, they received very few pieces of information.

    It was as if¡­¡­Xu Yi had suddenly disappeared from the Sines Continent.

    If they couldn¡¯t obtain concrete information on Xu Yi, naturally people couldn¡¯t calm down.

    Because Xu Yi¡¯s influence on the Sines Continent was just too big. If he did things openly in front of everyone, although it would be a headache for many people, at least they would feel more assured.

    But now that there wasn¡¯t any information on him, people couldn¡¯t help guessing in secret that he was nning something.

    It was a good thing that this didn¡¯tst long.

    Three monthster, urate information about Xu Yi finally came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    It was as everyone had guessed, Xu Yi had indeed disappeared from the Sines Continent!

    Because¡­¡­he went to the Magic Cloud Continent again.

    After learning this information, countless people let out sighs of relief.

    Let this fellow go y on the Magic Cloud Continent, it was fine as long as he wasn¡¯t on the Sines Continent.

    Even if he wanted to rule over the Magic Cloud Continent, that was his right. It wasn¡¯t rted to the countries of the Sines Continent at all.

    Among these people, the ones that felt the most reassured by Xu Yi going to the Magic Cloud Continent were the emperors of the two empires. Especially Emperor Candra.

    Xu Yi leaving the Sines Continent again made him believe what he had told him in secret even more.

    Perhaps¡­¡­he really had no interest inpeting over the control of the Sines Continent¡­¡­

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    As the cool sea breeze came, there were the sounds of waves that rang out and the light scent of sea water that filled the air. There was also the sunlight that made people feel a bit warm, but wasn¡¯t too bright. This was the best experience that one could have on a beach.

    Xu Yi frequently went to overseas beaches because he had to go on business trips often on earth, but he had never seen such a perfect beach like this.

    Whether it was the fine and soft as silk sand that he stepped on or the water that was so clear that you could see the crabs under the water, all of this demonstrated a great charm on the guests.

    In this environment, sitting down on a deck chair and enjoying an afternoon nap was the peak of enjoyment.

    ¡°Hey, Still, after you retire, how about we just live in seclusion on this little ind?¡± Xu Yi gave a sigh before asking Still this with a smile.

    Still, who was lying on a deck chair beside Xu Yi turned over to look at him. Because of the tan that she had gotten after several days in the sun and because of her slender figure, she released a charm that was very moving.

    Every time he saw Still in her swimsuit, Xu Yi would thank elder Lisanya from the bottom of his heart.

    If it wasn¡¯t for her taking out the secret elven youth maintaining techniques, with Still¡¯s age that was close to sixty, she wouldn¡¯t be able to maintain this appearance even with how serious she was. She would have already looked much older and it was impossible for her to be as charming as she was when she was younger like she was now.

    Of course,pared to Agnes who was ying with sand castles in the distance with the children, she was still a bitcking.

    It had already been thirty three years since the first day that Xu Yi met Agnes, but her appearance hadn¡¯t changed a single bit and she was still as beautiful as a young human girl.

    Even her character was the same as before, she was still as lively as before. It didn¡¯t seem like she had given birth to a child at all.

    ¡°Retire?¡± Still turned to look at Xu Yi and her lips curled to reveal a smile filled with disdain, ¡°If you can really retire, then I¡¯ll be happy to live with you in seclusion. But¡­..can you really retire?¡±

    Xu Yi curled his lips and said nothing in return.

    He and Still had been together for over thirty years and with how familiar she was with him, how could she not see his true thoughts.

    ¡°You, being able to spend over three months with you and the children, I¡¯m already happy.¡± Still gave a sigh, ¡°But to let you truly remain idle is something that¡¯s impossible. Moreover, even if you¡¯re willing, there are many people who aren¡¯t willing.¡±

    Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a shrug and saying with a helpless voice, ¡°I can at least not care about the matters on the Sines Continent, that would save me quite a bit of effort.¡±

    ¡°Are you certain?¡± Still looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with doubt, ¡°The Sines Continent¡¯s current situation is something that was made with careful considerations from you, are you really willing to ignore it? If something happens on the Sines Continent, can you really not care?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a certain nod, ¡°Of course. I¡¯ve already helped build a solid foundation on the Sines Continent, so even without me, the Sines Continent can develop on its own based on its needs. It could even be said that if I stayed there, it would hinder the Sines Continent¡¯s free development. So my decision to leave was something that came from careful consideration and won¡¯t be changed.¡±

    Still took a deep look at Xu Yi before suddenly revealing a smile, ¡°What if something happens to Freya? Would you not care?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Still with an annoyed look, ¡°You know what I mean. Can you treat Freya as the same thing? If she¡¯s in danger, I can¡¯t ignore it as her father. But you have to remember that as long as she¡¯s not in danger, even if something happens to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I won¡¯t meddle. How the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will develop will depend on her skills.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re really willing to give up on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce? That is thepany that you built, it could even be called your other child.¡± Still said in an emotional voice.

    ¡°If it is my child, then this child has already grown up and will continue growing. As for how it will turn out in the future, that is its own matter and it isn¡¯t rted to me.¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look in the west direction of the Sines Continent before shaking his head.

    ¡°Actually, more than just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I even feel sentimental about the Sines Continent. But I¡¯ve already decided to let it develop freely, so of course I have to let go.¡±

    ¡°If those fellows from the two empires, as well as¡­¡­¡± After saying this, Still paused, ¡°As well as Seveni could understand what you were thinking, this matter would be much more simple. Right, speaking of Seveni, Xu Yi, do you¡­¡­really not have any special arrangements?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her with a surprised look, ¡°What special arrangements?¡±

    Still looked at Xu Yi and hesitated for a while before working up the courage to speak.

    ¡°You¡­..could it be that you¡­¡­still don¡¯t know that Prince Raymond is the child that Seveni birthed with you?¡±

    After saying this, Still looked at Xu Yi with a nervous look.

    Actually, Seveni had already told her this secret a long time ago, but she had never told Xu Yi. Now that she was suddenly telling Xu Yi this, she was a bit worried about how he would react.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any special reactions. He just gave a nod and a sigh.

    ¡°It seems like I wasn¡¯t wrong, it really was Seveni herself. As for Betty and Carol¡­..they were only supplementary.¡±

    Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi before giving a soft snort, ¡°Being able to have rtions with three girls in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce and one of them even being the honourable queen, chairman Xu, are you proud of yourself?¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling as he reached out to pinch Still¡¯s face.

    ¡°What? You didn¡¯t mention this even though you knew all along and now you¡¯re being jealous?¡±

    Seveni stretched herself out and sat up in her deck chair.

    ¡°I will never be jealous if you get more women, but I must remind you that Prince Raymond will take over the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s throne in the future and you are his father. Have you thought about what to do?¡±

    After saying this, Seveni stood up to leave, heading to the ocean.

    Seeing Seveni¡¯s slender and plentiful figure swaying, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help give a bitterugh.

    What else could he do?

    When Seveni didn¡¯t hesitate to drug him to do this, she must have already considered this.

    Since Prince Raymond was his and Seveni¡¯s son, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t just do nothing if Prince Raymond was in danger.

    But what Xu Yi was surprised by was even if he had guessed this matter in secret, before Seveni had revealed this, Still was the one that couldn¡¯t help saying it first.

    Could it be¡­¡­that Seveni was waiting for a critical moment to reveal this?

    Xu Yi leaned back in his deck chair. He thought of the scene back then when Seveni had held his hand while holding Prince Raymond in the other. He felt that this really felt like a drama.

    While he was daydreaming, there was a ck spot that appeared in the sky. It quickly turned into a bunch of ck spots thatnded right beside Xu Yi.

    There was a bunch of sand that was raised by this ck spot that flew right at Xu Yi.

    If Xu Yi hadn¡¯t reacted quick enough to raise his magic barrier, he would have been buried by this sand.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, outer space really is fun!¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 83: Breaking the atmosphere with a flesh body

    Book 8: Chapter 83: Breaking the atmosphere with a flesh body

    Xu Yi looked up and could only see the giant shadow blocking the sky above him, even the sun waspletely blocked off. He could only helplessly say, ¡°Hey, Cassandra, can you change into human form first? My head will snap off sooner orter if I have to talk to you like this.¡±

    ¡°Oh¡­¡­¡±

    With a sh of light, the giant shadow instantly disappeared and a human girl¡¯s figure appeared beside Xu Yi. It was Akali¡¯s good friend and the first dragon to appear on the Sines Continent, the red dragon Cassandra.

    ¡°Is outer space fun?¡± Xu Yi looked at Cassandra with a puzzled look, ¡°Other than stars, there¡¯s nothing else there. What is fun about that?¡±

    ¡°You know what outer space is like?¡± Cassandra blinked before suddenly understanding, ¡°Oh, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasunched the satellite, so you do know what it¡¯s like. But chairman Xu, outer space isn¡¯t that simple. Only when you experience flying in it will you know how interesting it is.¡±

    ¡°Just what is interesting about it?¡± Xu Yi was even more confused.

    Although he didn¡¯t have an opportunity to go into space on earth, based on the various scenes that he had seen on the news and in documentary films, he didn¡¯t feel like space was that meaningful.

    ¡°It lets me fly around without worrying about hitting anything, that¡¯s already fun enough!¡± Cassandra directly said, ¡°Moreover, flying in outer space is more rxing. There¡¯s no need to worry about pping my wings, so it¡¯s much faster than being in the air and it¡¯s very exciting!¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, there¡¯s no air in outer space, so it¡¯s no use if you p your wings.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°But speaking of this, even when you fly in the sky, don¡¯t you p your wings very little? I thought that your flying didn¡¯t rely on pping your wings to begin with.¡±

    ¡°That is correct, but is¡¯ a habit. Moreover, pping your wings lets you feel more rxed when flying.¡±

    ¡°Then why don¡¯t you p your wings more? Can¡¯t you fly even faster?¡±

    ¡°Because it¡¯s tiring.¡± Cassandra waved her arms and mimicked the action of pping her wings, ¡°Look, this wastes so much energy. How can it be as rxed as using elemental magic energy to fly?¡±

    Xu Yi could only roll his eyes again.

    The dragons really didn¡¯t conform to biological knowledge.

    They clearly had wings and should be a lifeform that relied on wings to fly, but because they grasped magic during their evolution, they evolved to no longer depend on wings. There was even a red dragon like Cassandra who said that pping her wings was a bit tiring.

    It was a good thing that dragons had long lifespans and there were only over ten generations of dragons. If it went on a bit longer, they might not even have wings anymore.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi gave up this question and started asking about the issue that he cared about the most.

    ¡°Cassandra, you said that it¡¯s more rxed flying in outer space. Putting aside the issue of no air resistance, are there any other reasons? Is it rted to the magic space in outer space?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡± Cassandra gave a firm nod, ¡°The magic space in outer space is more stable than below the atmosphere and on the ground. I flew around for several hours and flew over a thousand kilometers, but there weren¡¯t any changes in magic space at all.¡±

    ¡°Un, it is indeed much more stable.¡±

    Although magic space was a different space that was filled with elemental magic energy, it couldn¡¯t be separated from real space.

    In regions with an unusual atmosphere, the magic space would be influenced to varying degrees that would create instability.

    The most clear examples were near volcanoes. Because of the influence of volcanoes, the elemental magic energy in that space favoured Fire Attributed Elemental Magic Energy, which created instability.

    The magicians of the Sines Continent used to say that Fire Attributed Elemental Magic Energy around volcanoes were stable, so it was very dangerous.

    Although it was simr, the traditional view of magic was verycking when it came to exining the reasoning behind this.

    Because of this, all magic space on the would have varying degrees of instability and would create zones like this. They were called unstable magic spaces by the magicians.

    The more serious ones would be listed as forbidden areas by the Magicians Guild which they would warn magicians against approaching.

    Of course, no one in this world used to think what it was like above the sky. Naturally they wouldn¡¯t think about what magic space was like in outer space.

    After the Frestech Chamber of Commerceunched the satellite, because of the Magic Illusion Videos of outer space sent back by the satellite, it proved that Xu Yi¡¯s theory of them standing on a was true. At the same time, it also proved Xu Yi¡¯s outer guess that outer space was filled with elemental magic energy and had magic space. It wasn¡¯t like traditional magicians had thought that it was a forbidden area for life above the sky and a forbidden area for magic.

    After learning this, the first ones to react weren¡¯t the humans, but rather the dragons.

    Cassandra was Akali¡¯s good friend and could be considered among the first that learned of the news about the satellite.

    After learning about the satellite and the news from outer space, she immediately had the bold idea to fly into outer space!

    At first whether it was Akali or Xu Yi, they both strongly opposed this crazy idea.

    Because even if there were elemental magic energy in outer space that could allow the Magic Illusion Camera to send images back, without enough data supporting it, it was unknown what the magic space in outer space was like.

    If the magic space in outer space was different from the magic space on the ground, it could be very dangerous. Cassandra flying into outer space was no different from seeking her own death.

    Even without talking about the influence of the magic space, just flying up into outer space without anything protecting her body was looking to die.

    However, Cassandra was really interested and she was very confident in her body as a dragon, so she insisted.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t convince her, so he had no choice but to move his ns forward.

    During this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerceunched two more satellites.

    Compared to the first satellite, these two satellites carried much more equipment.

    Not only were there three high definition Magic Illusion Cameras, there was also a custom made magic space probe that would keep sending out magic fluctuations, testing the magic space in outer space.

    Other than this, there was a biological dummy made by the elves that would test the environment in space.

    With these precise instruments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce obtained much more detailed data about the various aspects of outer space.

    Based on this data, they found that the magic space in outer space was much more stable and in terms of magic, it was a ce more suitable for magicians than on the ground.

    At the same time, outer space above this star was simr to outer space around earth. Although humans couldn¡¯t survive there without any protection, for the dragons that had bodies that were countless times stronger than humans, it wasn¡¯t as if there wasn¡¯t a chance of them being able to survive.

    After obtaining this information, before Xu Yi and Akali could even react, Cassandra flew right into the sky.

    At first, she couldn¡¯t directly break the atmosphere and enter outer space.

    But once she grasped the right method, she easily broke through the atmosphere with her flesh body and entered outer space.

    Xu Yi still remembered watching Cassandra return safely after ying around in outer space.

    Although the others were also shocked like Xu Yi, they weren¡¯t as shocked as him.

    After all, Xu Yi¡¯s understanding of outer space surpassed everyone else.

    It was also because of this that he was more alert towards outer space, being extremely cautious.

    The others were locals of this world and didn¡¯t have much understanding of outer space. So although they felt that Cassandra was very strong for flying into outer space, they weren¡¯t that shocked.

    Because for all the humans and other races, the dragon¡¯s bodies were much stronger than their own and it shouldn¡¯t be a problem for them to fly into outer space.

    The dragons never did this before because they were wary about the ce above the sky.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had proven that there was magic space above the sky, this meant that there was a possibility for the dragons.

    This fellow Cassandra who didn¡¯t fear death had broken the window and allowed the fantasy of dragons flying in outer space be a reality.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, I can¡¯t wait to tell my nsmen the news.¡± Cassandra happily brandished her arm as she said to Xu Yi in an excited voice, ¡°If the nsmen knows that we can fly in outer space and it¡¯s more refreshing to fly therepared to in the sky, they will definitely be happy!¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a helpless and bitter smile.

    The dragons had long lifespans, so most of their lives, they would be bored.

    So when they discovered the novel Magic Illusion Films that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, they were infatuated with it because it gave them many new novel experiences.

    Now that Cassandra had found something that was even more novel and exciting, her nsmen would definitely go crazy.

    Thinking of how it might be possible seeing a bunch of dragons flying in outer space, Xu Yi felt very strange.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi¡¯s expression changed and he focused on Cassandra.

    ¡°Hey, Cassandra, be honest, don¡¯t you find those satellites troublesome?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 84: Make the dragons work for him

    Book 8: Chapter 84: Make the dragons work for him

    ¡°Satellites? Ah¡­¡­chairman Xu, what are you saying? Outer space is so wide, how could I possibly bump into the satellite? I¡¯m telling you, the magic space in outer space is stable to a terrifying degree and I could easily manipte the elemental magic energy. It really¡­¡­.¡±

    ¡°Cassandra.¡± Xu Yi cut Cassandra off, ¡°Akali has told me that the dragons disdain lying.¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s expression froze as she stood there blinking. After a while, she finally lowered her head.

    ¡°This¡­¡­chairman Xu, I just noticed that satellite flying by and felt that it was very fun. Then I chased it andpeted to see who could fly faster, I didn¡¯t do anything else¡­¡­¡±

    Seeing Cassandra finally admitting it, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and waved his hand.

    ¡°I know. I¡¯m just asking you and not looking for trouble with you, right?¡±

    Cassandra let out a sigh of relief. When she looked up again, she became high spirited again.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, since you already knew, why did you scare me like that?¡±

    ¡°The videos from thepany¡¯s satellites only showed a shadow, it wasn¡¯t certain that it was you. I was just asking, but I never thought that you would admit it so easily which saves me from any further guessing.¡±

    Cassandra was surprised before suddenly bing angry out of shame.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you humans are all swindlers! I¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you fly by the satellites? Then again, have you been harassing ourpany¡¯s satellites for a long time?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    Cassandra was stunned before giving an angry snort, ¡°So what? It¡¯s not like I destroyed them! I just felt that it wasn¡¯t fun being alone in outer space, so I let it apany me!¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head with a smile.

    If it was counting by years, Cassandra was already close to two hundred years old.

    But when it came to mental age, she was younger than Agnes who was a hundred year old elf.

    Other than dragons having a longer lifespan than elves, dragons were more pure. A young dragon like Cassandra didn¡¯t know about plots at all.

    If it wasn¡¯t like this, Cassandra wouldn¡¯t have believed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s first exploration fleet so easily and wouldn¡¯t have agreed toe to the Sines Continent to report for them. She also wouldn¡¯t have believed Xu Yi so easily and wouldn¡¯t have be such good friends with Akali.

    Of course, dragons were very powerful and there weren¡¯t many things that could threaten them, so there was no need for them to be that vignt.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that flying in outer space is very interesting?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    ¡°It wasn¡¯t that interesting after flying for a long time.¡± Cassandra shook her head, ¡°So I¡¯ve decided to go back to the nsmen and then have everyone fly together.¡±

    ¡°Un¡­¡­Cassandra, do you think that your nsmen all have the ability to fly in outer space freely?¡± Xu Yi suddenly asked.

    ¡°Of course. There are many nsmen that are stronger than me, so if I can do it, they definitely can as well.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t certain.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as his expression turned serious, ¡°Cassandra, before you broke through the atmosphere, we put in quite a bit of preparation to gather data to ensure that you wouldn¡¯t be in danger after flying into outer space. Only then did we agree to let you go into outer space. Although you can freely fly in outer space now, that is only in your case and that doesn¡¯t mean that everyone in your n can do the same. If something happens, do you want to see your nsmen die the moment that they break through the atmosphere?¡±

    Cassandra had an rmed look, ¡°It¡¯s not that terrifying, right? Didn¡¯t I fly for a long time without anything happening?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve said it before, that is only in your case.¡±

    ¡°Then what to do? I also want those fellows from my n to fly in outer space so we can see who¡¯s faster.¡±

    ¡°Do you really want this?¡± Xu Yi looked at Cassandra as he asked this.

    ¡°Of course.¡±

    ¡°Good. You can fly in outer space and although this is only one example, this shows the general situation of the dragons. I¡¯ve said that this is a separate case because our data on outer space isn¡¯t perfect, so we can¡¯t be certain, so we can¡¯t let your nsmen take this risk. But if we improve our data collection so that we know everything about the situation in outer space¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I understand.¡± Cassandra cut Xu Yi off, ¡°So you want me to help you gather data, right?¡±

    ¡°Smart.¡± Xu Yi said with a smile.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you have the satellites?¡±

    ¡°But the satellites aren¡¯t as flexible in outer space as you. Moreover, the satellites are satellites in the end and they aren¡¯t dragons, so it¡¯s very hard to have actual references for the data that they collect.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­then I understand.¡± Cassandra gave a nod. She stroked her chin for a bit before her eyes lit up. She reached a hand out towards Xu Yi with a smile.

    Xu Yi was surprised to see Cassandra reaching this slender and white hand towards him.

    ¡°What are you doing?¡±

    ¡°If you want me to work for you, won¡¯t you give me a wage?¡± Cassandra said while smiling, doing her best to reveal a sly look.

    Xu Yi looked at her with wide eyes.

    ¡°This was something that Akali taught you?¡±

    ¡°Do I need Akali to teach me this? Aren¡¯t all you humans like this?¡± Cassandra openly said, ¡°Since you humans need rewards to do work, then of course I also need it if I¡¯m doing work for you. Isn¡¯t this very fair?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very fair.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her before having a thought. After thinking about it, he continued, ¡°Since it¡¯s like this, Cassandra, go and help me ask around after you get back. Are there any of your nsmen who are willing to work for us? If there are, I will give you a satisfying reward.¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that it was dangerous for my nsmen other than me to fly into outer space?¡±

    ¡°We don¡¯t just need them to fly into outer space to collect data for us, there are still many other jobs for them.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Right, if you¡¯re willing to learn how to trade to get the things you want like the humans do, that would be better. I can just give you gold coins as a reward and it would be more convenient for both sides.¡±

    ¡°If it¡¯s gold, our n has a lot of it and there¡¯s no need for you to give us some.¡± Cassandra said with a rxed look, ¡°Rx, I just want you to give us some more fun things. Like more Magic Illusion Films. Our nsmen will definitely request the same things as me, so there¡¯s no need for you to worry about excessive requests.¡±

    ¡°No¡­¡­I hope that you can learn so you can adapt to our human trading method. Although gold coins are considered a universal currency, coins and gold are not the same. Perhaps¡­¡­in the future, we¡¯ll be trading with slips of paper.¡±

    ¡°Paper?¡± Cassandra looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes that showed her disbelief.

    Xu Yi naturally was toozy to exin currency to her. He changed the topic with a smile and then quickly reached a verbal agreement with Cassandra.

    Cassandra was willing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and would go back to convince her nsmen to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would give them an appropriate reparation in gold coins.

    As for the price¡­¡­Cassandra settled on half of Akali¡¯s current pay which was sixty gold coins a month.

    The other nsmen¡¯s sry will be decided on the work that they do.

    Seeing Cassandra turn into her dragon form with an excited look and flying off, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a happy smile.

    For just sixty gold coins a month, he could get a dragon to work for him. This was simply the most effective deal that he had made in history.

    Moreover, Cassandra¡¯s work was something that no one else could do. So not to mention sixty gold coins, even six hundred gold coins a month wouldn¡¯t be considered too much.

    It had to be known that after Cassandra did this work for a while, her operating range would increase.

    For example, with her ability to freely fly in outer space and easily catch up to the speed of satellites, she could undertake the work of maintaining, repairing, and even recovering satellites.

    Compared to earth where they couldn¡¯t do any follow up work on satellites at all, Xu Yi had a great weapon like Cassandra that would cause anyone who worked in a job rted to outer space on earth to die from envy.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, deceiving an innocent little dragon girl like this, don¡¯t you feel ashamed?¡± Seeing that Cassandra disappeared, Still came out of the water and came back to Xu Yi¡¯s side.

    ¡°How is this called deceiving?¡± Xu Yi wasn¡¯t surprised that Still had heard his conversation with Cassandra. With Still¡¯s current power as a Great Magician, as long as she was willing and the other side didn¡¯t put up a barrier, she could easily hear sounds that were hundreds of meters away, ¡°I clearly told her everything, I didn¡¯t hide a single thing.¡±

    ¡°Humph, you didn¡¯t tell her how special her work is.¡±

    ¡°The dragons are special to begin with.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look, ¡°This is a chance to get the dragons to cooperate with us, I can¡¯t ask for more. But after considering it, it¡¯s impossible for me to put too high of a price tag on this, right?¡±

    ¡°Un, I understand.¡± Still gave a nod. She sat down beside Xu Yi and after a bit of silence, she asked, ¡°Speaking of this, Xu Yi, it seems like you¡¯re really nning on putting your attention on the Magic Cloud Continent?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right. Compared to the Sines Continent, the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s situation is much simpler. As long as we take care of the goblin problem, I can build the Magic Cloud Continent however I want.¡±

    ¡°Then if something were to happen on the Sines Continent¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What could happen?¡± Xu Yi looked at Still with a smile. He reached his hand out to touch her face that was still smooth, ¡°To be honest, Still, have you ever considered retiring?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 85: Vigorously developing the Sines Continent

    Book 8: Chapter 85: Vigorously developing the Sines Continent

    Xu Yi had already disappeared from the Sines Continent for a long time.

    Other than the asional piece of news from the Magic Cloud Continent that had some information about Xu Yi, since the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent were ten thousand kilometers apart, everyone felt that the Magic Cloud Continent was like another world.

    So it didn¡¯t take long before Xu Yi¡¯s image in the minds of the Sines Continent people gradually started to disappear.

    Moreover, two years after Xu Yi disappeared from the Sines Continent, Xu Yi¡¯s wife Still stepped down as the chairman of the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and disappeared from the public eye.

    It was said that Still along with Xu Yi¡¯s other wives had all moved to an ind on the seas after retiring, living a life of seclusion and not caring about worldly matters.

    Like this, even the image that Still had left people had started to disappear.

    Of course, it was impossible for the mark that they had left on the Sines Continent to disappear.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce under Freya¡¯s leadership kept developing over the years and maintained its absolute dominating position in the magic machine industry. They still had an iparable influence on all the countries of the Sines Continent.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce also developed quickly.

    With the costs dropping, the price of the Magic Illusion Projectors for normal families also dropped. Right now, even the most basic model only costed eighteen gold coins.

    So in every household on the Sines Continent, it was normal for them to buy a Magic Illusion Projector.

    If there was a family that didn¡¯t have one, they would beughed at by their neighbours. There were even some fellows that couldn¡¯t get the girls they loved because of this.

    With the Magic Illusion Projector entering each household, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Network that had been promoted the entire time entered every corner of the continent.

    The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Illusion Film projects entered the hearts of the people with this Magic Illusion Network, attracting everyone¡¯s attention.

    Every day after work, people would turn on the Magic Illusion Projector to watch the Magic Illusion Film programming. It had already be a necessary part of every household.

    Moreover, justst year, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and the Azshara Tribe released the Magic Illusion technology. They signed cooperation agreements with one hundred and twenty three countries, starting a Magic Illusion department in each of these countries that would focus on making Magic Illusion programming unique to each of these countries.

    There were only one hundred and forty six sovereign states on the Sines Continent. The New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s move had allowed the Magic Illusion programming to enter almost every country on the continent at once.

    It was also because each country had their own Magic Illusion department that people were no longer just watching Magic Illusion programming from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce alone, they now had even more choices.

    Moreover, because smaller countries didn¡¯t have restrictions, in these small countries, just a single Magic Illusion Projector could broadcast programming from several dozen countries.

    Although the quality of these programs were inferior to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s, the more choices they were given, the greater it was for themon people.

    The most important was that by watching the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s shows, they could understand more about the continent and about other races.

    When they watched the shows of their country, they could understand a bit more about their country.

    When they watched the shows of other countries, they could understand more about other countries and no longer felt that other countries were likepletely different worlds.

    With how developed transportation was now, it wasn¡¯t that difficult to go to another country.

    So with the New Moon Chamber of Commerce¡¯s programs that had the slogan ¡°walk more and see more¡±, it became something that everyone on the Sines Continent agreed with.

    The rich people would travel around to see the ces that they had seen in the Magic Illusion programming.

    The people without money also went around or rather roamed around looking for better opportunities and jobs.

    The current Sines Continent wasn¡¯t like before, where each person went no further than fifty kilometers from where they had been born, never seeing the outside world.

    The movement of poption had never been this high on the Sines Continent before.

    There were even many people that didn¡¯t feel satisfied staying on the Sines Continent, so they chose to head to other continents.

    Most of them went to the Magic Cloud Continent and some went to the southern continent.

    There were even a few people who went to the extreme, organizing their own fleets to head into the endless seas, to the continents that had already been found, but weren¡¯t included on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s list for development.

    Those self proimed explorers stated that they would definitely create a new world on the new continent and be the king of the new continent.

    The explorers said this, but it was hard to tell what would actually happen.

    But ording to some newspapers, among these fleets, there were fleets that had been formed by some countries and somepanies.

    They wouldn¡¯t go to the Magic Cloud Continent topete with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they wouldn¡¯t go to the southern continent that was ruled by the Levin Dynasty, so they naturally chose to find their own continents.

    Actually, the countries of the Sines Continent were clear on the great benefits of developing a new continent, but because the Sines Continent was in a crucial period, no country was willing to dy their own development by deploying therge amount of manpower and resources needed to develop the new continent.

    Other than these changes, the biggest change over the past few years was in terms of poption.

    More than thirty years ago, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, although the Sines Continent had vastnds and many countries, the poption was only less than a hundred million.

    But with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the promotion of the agricultural magic machines and the fertilizer from the elves which greatly increased each country¡¯s grain yield, it gave more grains which could support a greater poption.

    Then in the most recent twenty years where there hadn¡¯t been a major war on the Sines Continent, the Sines Continent¡¯s poption had swelled like a balloon.

    ording to the Candra Empire¡¯s poption censusst year, just in the Candra Empire alone, there were over a hundred million people.

    The Marlow Empire also did the same census and found that it was close to a hundred million people.

    Adding in the poption of the other countries, the Sines Continent¡¯s total poption was already over one billion.

    This was a very shocking number.

    It had to be known that in the history of the Sines Continent, no matter which race was ruling over the continent, the total poption had never surpassed one hundred million.

    Now that it had surpassed one billion, this was simply a miracle.

    Regarding this phenomenon, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce worked with the major newspapers and the Magic Illusion department of each country to make a show named ?Poption Explosion? which detailed the reasons why.

    After a bunch of reasons that people didn¡¯t understand, they finally came to a single conclusion.

    The shocking growth in poption on the Sines Continent, the most basic reason was therge increase in grain yield.

    The deeper reason was the increase in production capacity.

    This ¡°production capacity¡± was a new term from the New Moon Chamber of Commerce.

    The core of this concept was that productive capacity determined the level of society. As technology increased productive capacity, people could have more food, more clothes, better houses, and a better life.

    So to make life better, they would work hard to develop technology and increase productive capacity.

    The show didn¡¯t state it, but everyone knew that this technology was the magic machine industry that had appeared on the Sines Continent.

    There was no need for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to spend all this time on a show to tell anyone this. No matter which country or which person it was, they all had a deep understanding of this.

    First, not to mention technology increasing productive capacity and making life better, if it was flipped around and they weren¡¯t careful, they would fall behind everyone else. Their families would fall behind other families and even entire countries would fall behind other countries.

    This lesson wasn¡¯t just seen in a single example.

    Three years ago, the Deyiz Kingdom and the Meca Kingdom had a dispute on their borders because of two mines that ended up in a war.

    The Deyiz Kingdom had depended on their greater military magic machine research andrge stores of military magic machines to have a greaterbat power, so they were at a great advantage in the beginning stages of the war.

    But because the Meca Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry was more developed than the Deyiz Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry, having a greater scale of production than the Deyiz Kingdom, once the war started, they erupted with a shocking strength and their supply chains were far superior to the Deyiz Kingdom.

    So a yearter, the Deyiz Kingdom gradually couldn¡¯t keep going anymore.

    In the end, the two sides signed a peace treaty after a year and a half of war. The Deyiz Kingdom army withdrew from the Meca Kingdom and were forced to sign a peace treaty with the Meca Kingdom.

    Not only did they hand over the two mines that started the war, they were forced to give several other mines near the border to the Meca Kingdom.

    At the same time, the Deyiz Kingdom was forced to open their domestic markets to the Meca Kingdom and couldn¡¯t charge extra tariffs on goods from the Meca Kingdom.

    Compared to the mines, thetter condition was the fatal one.

    The Deyiz Kingdom had focused on developing their military magic machines, so they had fallen behind when it came to civilian magic machines. Now that they had opened their domestic markets to the Meca Kingdom, once the products of the Meca Kingdom flooded in, they would take over the Deyiz Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry.

    In the long term, the Deyiz Kingdom wouldn¡¯t have the ability to fight back against the Meca Kingdom.

    Simr things like the war and aftermath between the Deyiz Kingdom and the Meca Kingdom had been happening all over the Sines Continent recently.

    Several countries rose and several countries deteriorated and even perished.

    But no matter what, the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent kept developing and never showed any signs of deteriorating.

    From another perspective, in the years after Xu Yi disappeared, the Sines Continent had taken a great leap forward towards his ideals.

 Book 8: Chapter 86: Peace talks with the goblins

    Book 8: Chapter 86: Peace talks with the goblins

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s the goblin¡¯s capital city in front of us.¡± The Frestech Chamber ofmerce¡¯s former guard leader and nowmander in chief of the Magic Cloud Continent Hart pointed at the ck shadow in front as he spoke to Xu Yi.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, we should immediately attack!¡± Before Xu Yi spoke, another elf that had darker skin than the Sines Continent elves who was a Magic Cloud Continent local named Varus spoke in an excited voice, clearly looking ready to fight, ¡°In front of our armies, the goblins definitely won¡¯t be able to resist!¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, since we¡¯re alreadye all this way, why are we still waiting? Those goblins only dared to hide in their capital city, they don¡¯t have the courage to face us.¡± The one who said this was the Magic Cloud Continent local dwarf representative, Maine Firehammer.

    ¡°Right, they are definitely scared after being beaten by us!¡± The small Magic Cloud Continent halfling representative Cowey said in a very clear voice, ¡°We should get rid of them all at once!¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, we can¡¯t give the goblins any chance to catch their breath. There are still at least ten million goblins on the Magic Cloud Continent and if we give them the chance to gather, it will be troublesome for us.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto the final one who spoke who was the Magic Cloud Continent local human representative Mence and he gave a nod.

    The surrounding local races of the Magic Cloud Continent had already been bullied by the goblins into a tragic state, so they were filled withints towards the goblins. Now that they finally saw the hope of exterminating the goblins and the chance to take over the Magic Cloud Continent, they were naturally impatient.

    But among these different races, only the human representative was thinking more clearly.

    It was unknown if it was because of the advantages that humans had as a race or the excellent qualities that this human representative Mence had.

    When he turned to look at the messy goblin capital city that upied arge area that couldn¡¯t be called a city at all, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and didn¡¯t agree to their request to immediately give the order to attack.

    After letting go of the Sines Continent side, most of Xu Yi¡¯s energy had been on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Topletely develop the Magic Cloud Continent, it was imperative that he got rid of the goblin hindrance.

    So after two years of preparations, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Magic Cloud Continent base started working with the locals to start arge scale sweep of the goblins.

    Therge scale sweep wasn¡¯t considered a war because Xu Yi felt that this couldn¡¯t be called a war.

    In front of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards equipped with advanced military magic machines, the goblins that relied on their own bodies and their crude weapons couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    The main reason the goblins could rule over the Magic Cloud Continent previously was all because of their terrifying number advantage.

    But with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards¡¯ wide area destructive military magic machines, it didn¡¯t matter how many of them there were.

    The goblins had gathered tens of thousands, but they couldn¡¯tst more than a few minutes under the bombardment of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards.

    So in the end, this was only a sweep.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi wanting to consolidate their territory, building defense, roads, and railroad tracks after each new piece of territory they conquered before taking new territory, with therge gap of power between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the goblins, the goblin capital city would have already fallen four years ago.

    After sweeping them for four years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s controlled area was no longer fifty thousand square kilometers, but several million square kilometers! This was an increase of several hundred times!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce working with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already covered half the Magic Cloud Continent with roads and railroad tracks. They fully controlled these areas and the goblins didn¡¯t dare do a thing.

    As long as they captured this goblin capital city and made the royal power that the goblins acknowledged disappear, the goblins wouldn¡¯t have a chance to fight back at all.

    But¡­¡­Xu Yi didn¡¯t n on doing this.

    ¡°Hart, have the guards act like they¡¯re about to attack the city, but don¡¯t actually attack.¡± Xu Yi gave the order.

    Hart looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful look, but he didn¡¯t ask any questions and epted this order.

    The representatives of the other Magic Cloud Continent races were all surprised and couldn¡¯t reveal doubtful looks.

    ¡°Sir chairman, do you¡­¡­have other ns?¡± The local human representative Mence could pick up some cues, so he tentatively asked Xu Yi this.

    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m prepared to hold peace talks with the goblins.¡± Xu Yi gave a nod.

    ¡°Peace talks?¡± Everyone around him revealed shocked looks.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why are you holding peace talks?¡± Although Maine Firehammer was a Magic Cloud Continent dwarf, his temper was the same as the Sines Continent dwarf. They were both very irritable and direct, so he directly asked, ¡°We can just take care of these goblins in one breath, why do we need to hold peace talks? Then again, the goblins aren¡¯t reliable to begin with, so what is there to discuss with them?¡±

    ¡°Yes, chairman Xu, is there any meaning in peace talks with the goblins?¡± Varus was very confused, ¡°Even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants something from the goblins, wouldn¡¯t you be able to take it if you destroy them?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s a pity that I want them.¡± Xu Yi¡¯s words stopped everyone¡¯s questions, ¡°Killing all the goblins naturally isn¡¯t a problem and it isn¡¯t that hard, but have you ever thought about where we¡¯ll find this much manpower after we kill all the goblins?¡±

    ¡°Manpower?¡± Everyone looked at each other in nk dismay.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it can¡¯t be that you want to let these goblins work for your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡± Mence carefully asked, ¡°This might¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°You think that the goblins aren¡¯t reliable so they can¡¯t be used?¡± Xu Yi asked with a smile.

    The local race representatives looked at each other before giving nods.

    In the eyes of the Magic Cloud Continent locals, the goblins had been their biggest foes for thousands of years.

    Now that they had a chance to eliminate the goblins, they wanted to get it over with right away.

    As for the goblins¡¯ unreliability¡­¡­wasn¡¯t this a natural thing!

    ¡°You might think so and I can understand why you would think this, but to me, this is something that doesn¡¯t matter. Goblins can¡¯t be trusted? That¡¯s not a problem, I never said that I would trust them, right? What I need is just them and not their trust. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce have many goblin workers under us, so from an objective perspective, if we don¡¯t care about the low intelligence of goblins and only use them as simple manualbour, these goblins are very good workers.¡±

    The people around him had seen what Xu Yi had described over the years, so they naturally understood this.

    ¡°But¡­¡­chairman Xu, that is only because there weren¡¯t enough goblins that they didn¡¯t dare revolt. If there were more of them¡­¡­that would be hard to say.¡± Varus did his best to convince Xu Yi otherwise.

    ¡°As long as we can suppress the goblins with absolute power, there¡¯s no need to worry about this.¡± Xu yi waved his hand before looking over the local race representatives, ¡°Or¡­..are any of you nning on secretly giving the goblins military magic machines?¡±

    Everyone shook their heads.

    No one would choose death. Would they give these advanced and powerful military magic machines to the goblins?

    It had to be known that even these races that had worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for years had only obtained some low grade military magic machines to help them resist the goblins.

    ¡°Sir chairman, your worry is unnecessary. Think about it, even if we give the military magic machines to the goblins, they wouldn¡¯t be able to learn how to use them, right?¡± After saying this, Mence broke out inughter.

    The surrounding local race representativesughed along withughter filled with ridicule.

    ¡°Right, the goblins are still eating uncooked meat, they might not even know how to cook their food with fire.¡± Maine Firehammer added which made everyoneugh even louder.

    The intelligence of goblins was always something that theyughed at and was one of the main things that would let them keep a sense of superiority over the goblins. Now that they wereughing at them together, they didn¡¯t hold back at all.

    However, Xu Yi didn¡¯t think the same.

    The intelligence of goblins was indeed low, but intelligence could be raised over time.

    Based on the goblins that had worked for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Amrit Chamber of Commerce over the years, the goblins had quite good learning capabilities.

    If they had enough training and education, even if they couldn¡¯t reach the level of the humans who were the smartest race, they could still do some normal work.

    As for mastering how to use military magic machines, that wasn¡¯t that hard either.

    From this perspective, Varus¡¯ worries weren¡¯t wrong.

    If the goblins still had their overwhelming poption and could use military magic machines, they would be much more threatening.

    But¡­¡­since Xu Yi nned on holding peace talks with these goblins, he had naturally considered this. It was just that it wasn¡¯t convenient to disclose this right now.

    Actually, after the local racesughed for a bit, seeing that Xu Yi still hadn¡¯t changed their mind, they could only give up their idea of trying to persuade him.

    They only had this chance to defeat the goblins because of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had easily defeated the goblins that they couldn¡¯t defeat for thousands of years, it wouldn¡¯t be hard for them to take care of them as well.

    So in front of Xu Yi, they didn¡¯t have any right to speak at all. Xu Yi could do what he wanted and they couldn¡¯t really resist at all.

    The local humans of the Magic Cloud Continent had long understood this, so the representative Mence was the one who ttered Xu Yi the most.

    But since he and Xu Yi were both humans, it was natural that he was closer to Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commercepared to the other races.

    This was the natural advantage of the local humans and the other races were filled with envy.

 Volume 8 Chapter 87 Need a large amount of labourers

    Volume 8 Chapter 87 Need arge amount ofbourers

    ¡°Chairman Xu, why do you need to take these goblins asbourers?¡± After giving up the idea of changing Xu Yi¡¯s mind, Varus quickly shifted to a new topic.

    ¡°Yes, if you needbourers, our nsmen are much better than the goblins.¡± Maine Firehammer said this as he flexed his arm, showing everyone his developed muscles, ¡°Whether it¡¯s in terms of strength or mind, those lowly goblins can¡¯tpare to us.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, there¡¯s only one reason.¡± Xu Yi stretched out a finger, ¡°It¡¯s because there are enough goblins. Maine, your nsmen are very outstanding, but I want to ask you, if you add up all the dwarves on the Magic Cloud Continent, how many of them are there?¡±

    Maine Firehammer¡¯s confident look was no longer as confident.

    As a dwarf, he wasn¡¯t good at lying and he wasn¡¯t good at speaking nonsense in front of everyone.

    After hesitating for a bit, he said in a low spirited voice, ¡°Around¡­¡­Probably around five hundred thousand¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Five hundred thousand?¡± Xu Yi turned to Varus, ¡°Varus, how many elves are there in total?¡±

    Varus gave a bitterugh, ¡°Chairman Xu, I understand what you mean. If it¡¯s in terms of poption, our races added up don¡¯t even have a tenth of what the goblins have. But the abilities of the goblins aren¡¯t that strong and can even be considered weak. Even if you use them asbourers, will they be useful?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want them to be that useful.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°You should know what many of the factories under ourpany make, so you should also know that a lot of work doesn¡¯t require intelligence or even that much physical strength. This work is just simple and repetitive work. However, no matter how simple it is, there are still people who need to do this. If we don¡¯t use the goblins, do you think that your races alone can support this scale?¡±

    The representatives of the local race all looked at each other with helpless looks.

    On the past Magic Cloud Continent, other than the dragons, the other races could only live under the suppression of the goblins. So they didn¡¯t have the ability to expand their poption.

    The races that were currently present were the races with the highest poption on the Magic Cloud Continent, but even the humans with the greatest poption only had a poption of around a million. They were farckingpared to the vast number of goblins.

    ¡°Think about it, just in terms of producing agricultural magic machines, I estimate that we need over a hundred thousand workers. Out of those hundred thousand workers, there are over eighty thousand of them that would be doing the most basic work.¡±

    ¡°However, even with all this, we¡¯ve produced no more than five thousand agricultural magic machines a year over the past few years. ording to the current survey of ourpany, it would take at least two hundred thousand agricultural magic machines to reim all the fertilend on the Magic Cloud Continent. This means that our production is far from being enough.¡±

    ¡°How many workers do you think that I¡¯ll need to satisfy this demand? Not to mention that other than agricultural magic machines, we still need arge number of other types of magic machines to change the Magic Cloud Continent. We also need lots of manpower to invest in transportation,munication, medical services, management, and all other aspects of life.¡±

    ¡°Adding it all together, even if we use the entire poption of all your races, it would be far from being enough.¡±

    After saying this, Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head.

    ¡°If possible, I don¡¯t want to keep the goblins since that creates a hidden danger, but I need people. For intelligent races like you that can easily learn new skills, I need you to work in more important ces. Do you understand what I mean?¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s final words, the eyes of these local race representatives all lit up.

    Actually, what they were worrying about was that if Xu Yi started using the goblins, it would threaten their future development on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    But Xu Yi¡¯s words told them that Xu Yi wasn¡¯t nning on using the goblins that much and would rely on their races much more.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is right. I¡¯ve gone to the Sines Continent and it¡¯s clear that there is arge difference between the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent. To make up for this difference, we need many people to push development.¡± Mence was the first to speak.

    ¡°That¡¯s right, letting the goblins do the most simple work is good. We dwarves are the same as the dwarves on the Sines Continent, we have the highest level of craftsmanship, so how could we be worse than them?¡± Maine Firehammer added on.

    Varus didn¡¯t say anything, but he nodded to indicate his thoughts.

    With everyone on the same page, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.

    He wasn¡¯t really worried that people would oppose him since the strength that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had gave them an unshakeable position on the Magic Cloud Continent, the other races couldn¡¯t resist at all.

    But since he wanted to use these local races, it was a good thing if they were all on the same page.

    After all, to properly develop the Magic Cloud Continent, he couldn¡¯tck the help of these local races.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi had a strange feeling in his heart.

    The situation of the Magic Cloud Continent reminded him of the history of America on earth.

    After discovering the new continent, the European people flooded North America and ughtered a bunch of native Indians. Then after controlling the North American continent, they imported a lot of ck ves from the African continent asbourers to build a solid foundation for America.

    If it waspared to the Magic Cloud Continent, the Indians should be the local races that were standing beside him.

    But Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any ideas of ughtering them because even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could do this, it would mean that they wouldn¡¯t have enough manpower to develop the Magic Cloud Continent.

    As for the ck ves, it should be the goblins.

    Their intelligence wasn¡¯t high and they could do basicbour, the goblins were the same as the ck ves. They were very suited for doing basic foundationalbour.

    Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could treat the goblins like the American forefathers had treated the ck ves, Xu Yi didn¡¯t feel any guilt from this.

    He had seen the goblins ughtering human viges and putting humans into cooking pots, so he didn¡¯t treat the goblins like intelligent beings at all.

    After talking with the surrounding local representatives for a bit, Hart came back.

    ¡°Sir chairman, we have already surrounded the goblin capital city and guarantee that not a single goblin can escape.¡± Hart paused before adding, ¡°A group of goblins tried to attack us just now, but I¡¯ve given the order to ughter them all.¡±

    ¡°I think that this group of goblins wasn¡¯t attacking, but rather trying to escape, right?¡± Xu Yi shot a look at Hart.

    Hart lowered his head, ¡°Sir chairman is wise.¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand and didn¡¯t question it. He turned to say to the representatives of the local race, ¡°You can work with Hart to surround the capital city. I will go see this so-called Goblin King.¡±

    Hart and the others were all stunned.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re nning on going alone?¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you can¡¯t take this risk!¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, you are very precious, how could you take this risk? Just let us break into the capital and capture the Goblin King for you, then can¡¯t you talk to him as you wish?¡±

    ¡°No need, the goblins are already afraid of us and have lost all courage to resist, how could I be in any danger. Then again¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi revealed a confident smile, ¡°Did you all forget who I am?¡±

    Everyone was stunned before they remembered Xu Yi¡¯s other identity as the Sines Continent¡¯s strongest magician other than being the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s previous chairman!

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about how they reacted. He patted Hart¡¯s shoulder and said ¡°be on guard¡± before disappearing from that spot.

    After that, Xu Yi already appeared in the goblin capital city.

    This goblin capital city was just arge goblin stronghold.

    There were no proper buildings here and no luxurious decorations. The goblins were scattered all around, either sitting or lying down, not having any order.

    After taking a sniff, he could smell all kinds of disgusting smells that made one want to vomit.

    Seeing this scene, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head.

    Although the goblins didn¡¯t have a high intelligence, it could be said that they were a giant race that had ruled the Magic Cloud Continent for several thousand years. The fact that they couldn¡¯t develop a proper civilization after all that time really filled one with regret.

    Of course, if the goblins had developed their civilization to a certain extent, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t have been able to develop on the Magic Cloud Continent that easily.

    Seeing that Xu Yi had suddenly appeared, after being surprised, the surrounding goblins let out ugly roars before charging at him.

    Xu Yi was toozy to deal with these goblins, so he used a bit of magic to release a magic barrier, keeping all the goblins away. Then he slowly flew into the air and increased the sound of his voice with magic.

    ¡°Goblin King,e out. I am the leader of the army outside, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu. I want to meet with you and have a face to face talk. I know that you understand and you should know that you don¡¯t have any other choices.¡±

    Xu Yi used themonnguage of the Magic Cloud Continent, which was actually anguage that evolved from the brokennguage of the goblins.

    As soon as the sound spread, Xu Yi patiently waited for around ten minutes before a group goblin that waspletely built differently from the other goblins, that were even wearing a set of clothes made from an unknown material came from the right hand side.

    All the other goblins created a path wherever they went to let them go as they pleased.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell to the center of this special group of goblins.

    There were four strong goblins that were lifting something that was like a sedan. In that sedan, there was a thin looking goblin that didn¡¯t look different or feel different from any other goblin.

    ¡°You are the Goblin King?¡± Xu Yi asked as he looked at him.

 Volume 8 Chapter 88

    Volume 8 Chapter 88 The Abyss Demon Race would return

    The negotiations with the Goblin King were very rxed.

    The Goblin King¡¯s intelligence was clearly higher than the other goblins. In Xu Yi¡¯s opinion, he could even be considered smart among humans.

    He clearly knew that the enemy the goblins were facing had arge difference in strength, so after knowing that Xu Yi was here to negotiate with him, he was first very surprised before quickly epting these negotiations.

    As for when Xu Yi gave his conditions, he didn¡¯t react at all. The only condition that he made was that his life would be spared and he would be allowed to survive.

    Xu Yi wasn¡¯t stingy about this. He guaranteed the safety of the Goblin King and he would give him afortable life that he never imagined before.

    As for the goblin race, the Goblin King guaranteed that they would work with Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. He would give the order to all the other goblins of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Of course, the Goblin King also explicitly stated to Xu Yi that the goblins were never a race that came together. His orders wouldn¡¯t make all the goblins obey and it would even be hard to pass his orders down to all the goblins.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t care about this. He just needed some goblins to work for him asbourers.

    With the news that the Goblin King had already surrendered, he believed that the other goblins wouldn¡¯t be foolish enough to go all out against the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It would save the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other races quite a bit of trouble.

    The surrender of the Goblin King meant that the several thousand year rule of the goblins on the Magic Cloud Continent was finally over.

    But that didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi could rx.

    epting the surrender of the Goblin King was just the first step. Next, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to work with the other local races to capture these goblins and train them into a proper work force.

    The work that needed to be done wasplicated and couldn¡¯t be solved with just a few words.

    After around four months, when Xu Yi was still in the process of taking care of the goblins and the new territory, there was a message from the endless seas that disrupted his work.

    Two dayster, Xu Yi appeared on Sky Ind.

    ¡°Sir chairman, look.¡± Akali, who had been waiting, immediately handed a stack of thick documents to him the moment she saw him.

    Xu Yi roughly looked over the documents and found that this was the data about the Abyss Demon Race ruins.

    ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Did something happen?¡± Xu Yi looked through it while he asked this.

    ¡°There haven¡¯t been any changes with the ruins in the past few years, but in thest half a year, there have been some inconspicuous changes. Look at this......¡± Akali flipped to a page in the report and pointed at the data for Xu Yi, ¡°This is the first stone pir that we discovered and based on the data, the surrounding magic space¡¯s elemental magic energy fluctuations have increased in the past half a year.¡±

    ¡°Elemental magic energy fluctuations have increased?¡± Xu Yi knitted his brows.

    Normally speaking, if there was this kind of change in the magic space, it meant that some magic phenomenon was about to begin.

    ¡°Can you calcte the possible direction of this change?¡±

    Akali¡¯s expression became serious.

    ¡°ording to the calctions that we made with all the various data, it can be seen that.....the way that the pir is affecting the magic space is very simr to Spatial Magic.¡±

    Xu Yi was shocked, ¡°Is it a sign of their return?¡±

    Akali gave a nod, ¡°Yes. If it¡¯s like this, just like the legends passed down by the elves ten thousand years ago, the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s return to this world will be very mild. Moreover, over the past years of research on these stone pirs, we are certain that in the three hundred square kilometers range of this stone pir formation, there is a giant transfer Magic Array.¡±

    ¡°This means......the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s ruins had already started changing at an unknown time and finally formed this giant transfer Magic Array that you spoke off. So the Abyss Demon Race will return like the legends say?¡± Xu Yi blinked before revealing a strange look, ¡°What kind of damn novel setting is this......What did elder Undine say?¡±

    ¡°Elder Undine naturally thinks that this is a confirmation of the legend.¡± Akali gave a shrug, ¡°To be honest, I don¡¯t know if she¡¯s happy about this or if she¡¯s afraid of this......¡±

    Xu Yi was surprised, ¡°Why do you say this?¡±

    ¡°Ask her yourself.¡± Akali pointed behind Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi turned to see elder Undine walking over with a clear trace of excitement on her face.

    In Xu Yi¡¯s mind, elder Undine had always had a calm appearance. Now that she showed this kind of clear excitement, it really was surprising.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the Abyss Demon Race areing back!¡± Elder Undine said right away, ¡°We should quickly prepare ourselves, otherwise once they return, all the living beings in this world will be in danger!¡±

    ¡°Why are you so happy that there¡¯s danger?¡± Xu Yi looked at her with a confused look. He thought that Akali really was right, this elder Undine was saying such terrifying words, but she had such a happy expression.

    What did she want?

    ¡°Elder Undine, how much do you know about the legend of the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s return?¡± Xu Yi asked, ¡°For example, do they have any ns after they return? What conditions will they return in?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Elder Undine just shook her head, ¡°The legends about the Abyss Demon Race was something from ten thousand years ago. The elves only passed down fragments, so we only know a few details.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......Elder Undine, I¡¯ve always felt that there was a problem. In your elven legends, the Abyss Demon Race was always said to be very strong, but just how strong were they?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I don¡¯t know either. But ording to the legends, the strength of the Abyss Demon Race couldn¡¯t be resisted. Because the legends said that any normal Abyss Demon was stronger than an Arch Magus of the elven race.¡±

    Akali¡¯s eyes popped wide open, ¡°Are you kidding!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her and shook his head, ¡°No, Akali, have you forgotten the essence of magic research over the years? The Abyss Demon Race might not be that strong physically, but they grapes a very high level of magic technology, so each person can demonstrate this kind of power with some kind of tool. Just like how a normal person can use military magic machines to demonstrate iparable destructive might.¡±

    ¡°Oh......that¡¯s right. If everyone was as strong as an Arch Magus, then what could have forced them to go to another world?¡± Akali let out a sigh of relief.

    ¡°No, chairman Xu, Akali, you¡¯re wrong.¡± Elder Undine shook her head with a serious look, ¡°The Abyss Demon Race left this world because they chose to leave this world. They wanted to look for a new ce and it wasn¡¯t because they couldn¡¯t stay in this world anymore.¡±

    Xu Yi and Akali looked at each other with ¡°so it was like this¡± looks.

    Elder Undine must know a lot about the Abyss Demon Race, but she wasn¡¯t willing to say it, so it was unknown what she was thinking.

    ¡°But no matter what, it doesn¡¯t seem like the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s return is something worth being happy about. Elder Undine, I have to ask you to collect more elven legends about the Abyss Demon Race so we can be prepared to deal with them.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Alright.¡± Elder Undine replied before saying, ¡°Chairman Xu, what are you nning on doing with these ruins? Are you......going to destroy them?¡±

    ¡°Why would I destroy them?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°These things are important tools for studying the Abyss Demon Race and they are hiding the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s secrets to going to another world, how could I bear to destroy them?¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Elder Undine looked at Xu Yi and seeing his firm look, she said with a smile, ¡°Alright. I will go back to the tribe tomorrow and see if there¡¯s any information on the ruins that was missed.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then I¡¯ll have to trouble elder Undine.¡±

    After elder Undine left, Akali suddenly created a small barrier that covered her and Xu Yi.

    ¡°Elder Undine is definitely hiding something.¡± Akali said with a heavy look.

    ¡°Perhaps......¡± Xu Yi gave a nod, ¡°But that doesn¡¯t matter. Akali, keep investigating these ruins. Moreover, how long will it take for you to investigate that giant Magic Array?¡±

    Akali rolled her eyes at Xu Yi, ¡°If sir chairman is willing to stay and help, perhaps I could finish studying it in three months.¡±

    Xu Yi fell silent for a bit before saying with a nod, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll stay and help you study it.¡±

    Akali had just said to casually and didn¡¯t expect Xu Yi to agree, but she was filled with joy.

    ¡°That¡¯s great! With a powerful Arch Magus like sir chairman here, I will have the best research materials.....Oh, no, research assistant. To begin with, an Arch Magus like you understands transfer magic much better than me. Then again, you are the best when ites to magic science theory, so with your help......¡±

    Akali was saying this in an excited voice, but then her expression changed and she stopped. She released the magic barrier around them and reached into her chest to pull out her exclusive pink small Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Un, Cassandra? Where are you ying right now? Why did you suddenly think about calling me? What do you want to talk about this time?¡±

    Thinking of how a dragon like Cassandra was used to calling Akali, Xu Yi¡¯s expression couldn¡¯t help bing a bit strange.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, I¡¯ve made a new discovery that might help your research with those ruins!¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice came from the Magic Communicator that caught Xu Yi¡¯s attention.

    Seeing that Xu Yi was paying attention, Akali raised the volume of the Magic Communicator so that both of them could hear it.

    ¡°Where did you find it? What is it?¡± Akali asked.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what this thing is, but it¡¯s rted to the ruins. Oh, right, I¡¯m currently on the moon. That¡¯s where I found it.¡±

    The moon?

    Akali and Xu Yi looked at each other as both of their expressions became even stranger.

 Volume 8 Chapter 89

    Volume 8 Chapter 89 On the moon

    Different from the earth, the Sines Continent had two objects above it, so there would often be two different moons in the night sky.

    But what surprised Xu Yi and Akali wasn¡¯t this, but rather that Cassandra had been on the moon!

    ¡°God......It¡¯s a good thing that there are no gods in the sky. Cassadnra, you¡¯re saying that you¡¯re on the moon? Do you mean the moon? Akali asked in an amazed voice.

    Seeing Akali¡¯s reaction, Xu Yi was certain that this was Cassandra¡¯s first time doing this.

    Butpared to Akali, the shock in his heart was greater.

    He still didn¡¯t know how far the two orbiting objects were, but the moon on earth was over three hundred thousand kilometers away, so these two orbiting objects should be closer. However, they should still be at least a hundred thousand kilometers away.

    Even if Cassandra could freely fly in outer space, why would she go all the way to the moon?

    ¡°Un, it¡¯s the moon!¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice quickly sounded out again and it was very clear, as if she wasn¡¯t affected by the distance at all.

    Xu Yi felt a bit doubtful about this.

    The endless transmission of magic signals was something that Akali had already developed with the new magic signal transfer method years ago. She had alreadypleted practical tests in outer space with Cassandra.

    But Cassandra was at a super far off ce that was at least a hundred thousand kilometers away, but the two sides were able tomunicate without any dy.

    Just what......was the upper limit of the magic signal transmission speed? What was itpared to the speed of light?

    ¡°How did you go all the way to the moon?¡± Akali asked in a loud voice, ¡°Don¡¯t tell me that you flew all the way.¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, I did fly all the way.¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice clearly had a bit of pride in it, ¡°Did you forget? I told you two months ago, I¡¯m going to a far away ce and won¡¯t be back for some time?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Akali who nodded in return.

    ¡°This did happen, but Cassandra......I never would have thought that you would go all the way to the moon! Right, is the moon a sphere just like the?¡±

    ¡°Of course. Didn¡¯t chairman Xu say that all the stars that we see in the sky, including the moon, are all spheres?¡±

    Xu Yi on the side gave a cough, ¡°It¡¯s not that all celestial objects are spherical. For example,ets normally have a long strip.¡±

    Cassandra on the other side clearly didn¡¯t expect Xu Yi to be there, so after a bit of silence, she continued, ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re also there.¡±

    ¡°Un, I came to discuss something with Akali. Cassandra, let¡¯s get back to it. First, how did you fly to the moon? How long did it take?¡±

    ¡°I just flew in the direction of the moon.¡± Cassandra¡¯s answer made Xu Yi very speechless, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for my being too tired and falling asleep which caused me to go in the wrong direction, I would have arrived in a month.¡±

    ¡°You only slept in the middle and didn¡¯t rest any other times?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°Un, our dragon race have strong bodies, so it¡¯s fine if we don¡¯t rest. I only slept to restore my magic power since I can only depend on magic power to fly in outer space.¡±

    ¡°How long did you sleep?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know because there¡¯s no concept of night and day in outer space. But based on the magic power that I recovered, it should be around three days.¡±

    Xu Yi calcted this in his heart.

    Cassandra had said that flying in outer space was faster than flying in the air. If she goes at full speed, she can fly faster than the current fastest Magic Airship, which is around three hundred kilometers an hour.

    If she kept flying at full speed, then she would travel around seven thousand kilometers a day. In two months, it would be around four hundred thousand kilometers.

    Putting aside the winding path that Cassandra took, the distance from this orbiting object to the ground should be around the same as the moon on earth.

    ¡°Right, Cassandra, which moon are you currently on? Alice or Tildis?¡±

    The names Alice and Tildis were the names of the Sines Continent¡¯s people for the moons in the sky.

    Therger one that normally appeared was called Tildis and the smaller one was called Alice.

    In the legends of the Sines Continent, Tildis and Alice were even called sister goddesses.

    ¡°I¡¯m on Alice.¡± Cassandra replied, ¡°Although I¡¯m not certain, Tildis should be much further away than this. I¡¯ll investigate when I have some free time.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    Even in the high tech society on earth, it was incredibly hard tond on the moon. There were only a few moonndings that had been done and it was something that many people doubted.

    But in this ce, Cassandra could not only break through the atmosphere with her body, she could even fly to the moon which really was unbelievable.

    ¡°Alright, the second question. You just said that you found things rted to the Abyss Demon Race ruins on the moon, what is that about?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Hearing this, Akali also focused.

    She had spent quite a bit of effort researching the Abyss Demon Race ruins over the past few years, so she was very sensitive about this matter.

    ¡°I¡¯m not clear. Akali, do you have a Magic Illusion Projector over there?¡±

    ¡°Un?¡± Akali was surprised before asking in a shocked voice, ¡°You brought a Magic Illusion Camera with you?¡±

    ¡°Hei, hei, what do you think? If I didn¡¯t bring this Magic Illusion Camera, how can I prove that I was on the moon?¡±

    Akali and Xu Yi could only be speechless.

    ¡°Then you mean that you¡¯ll send some videos for us to see?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡±

    ¡°Alright, wait a bit. Sir chairman, let¡¯s go to myb, there¡¯s a high definition Magic Illusion Projector there.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡±

    Xu Yi nodded before the two disappeared on the spot. They didn¡¯t slowly walk over, but directly went over with Spatial Magic.

    A few minutester, Xu Yi and Akali looked at the Magic Illusion in front of them and both nodded.

    ¡°They definitely are the same thing.¡±

    In the images that Cassandra sent back, there was a stone pir that was inserted into the empty ground.

    Although it was hundreds of thousands of kilometers away and they could only see it through the Magic Illusion, Xu Yi and Akali could tell that this thing was the same as the stone pirs on the endless seas.

    ¡°Cassandra, can you look around the area? There shouldn¡¯t be just a single pir.¡± Xu Yi said into the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll try looking.¡±

    ¡°Wait!¡± Xu Yi suddenly called out.

    ¡°What is it? Do you need me to do something?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the Magic Illusion for a bit before his eyes suddenly opened wide and he asked, ¡°Cassandra, when you¡¯re flying in outer space, how do you solve the breathing issue?¡±

    ¡°Breathing?¡± Cassandra was a bit surprised that Xu Yi would suddenly ask this, ¡°We dragons normally do need to breathe, that¡¯s right, but when we can¡¯t breathe, we can use the energy stored in our body along with magic power to solve this issue. Why are you asking this?¡±

    ¡°Then try taking a breath.¡±

    ¡°Breath?¡± Cassandra was clearly a bit confused, ¡°There¡¯s no air here, why are you letting me......Yi? Yi? There¡¯s actually breathable air here! How is this possible!¡±

    Akali had been listening to Xu Yi ask this question with a strange look, but seeing Cassandra¡¯s reaction, she was even more confused.

    ¡°Hey, sir chairman, is it very strange that there is air on the moon? Also, Cassandra, why are you also surprised?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at her and knew that it was very hard to exin how difficult it was tond on the moon because of the low amount of air in the moon¡¯s atmosphere, so he waved his hand to show that he wouldn¡¯t say anything else.

    ¡°I clearly didn¡¯t feel myself entering the atmosphere, so why would there be air here? Really strange, I can actually breathe freely.¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice sounded again, ¡°Chairman Xu, how do you know about this?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s very simple, in the images that you¡¯ve recorded, I can see the dust flying around which shows that there is an air current. This also means that there¡¯s air there.¡± Xu Yi said.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Akali looked at the Magic illusion with doubt and after carefully looking for a bit, she found that there really were dust particles flying around.

    ¡°Oh, chairman Xu, you really are sharp. Alright, I¡¯ll go take a look, perhaps I can find something simr nearby.¡±

    Cassandra threw out these words before hanging up.

    Xu Yi and Akali looked at each other before Akali said, ¡°Could this mean......that after the Abyss Demon Race left this ce, they went to the moon first?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a shrug, ¡°We don¡¯t know for now, we¡¯ll talk after Cassandra has finished investigating.¡±

    ¡°Un.¡±

    The two looked over the Magic Illusions again. When they were nning on leaving, there was a call that came from Akali¡¯s Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Cassandra?¡± Akali picked up in a doubtful manner before Cassandra¡¯s excited voice came out.

    ¡°Hey, Akali, chairman Xu, I¡¯ve made a new discovery! This ce doesn¡¯t have just a single pir, there are still many other pirs! Wait, the way that the pirs are arranged is like the design of the pirs on the sea. Let me take a look......Ah!¡±

    Cassandra suddenly let out an rmed call that scared Xu Yi and Akali.

    ¡°Cassandra, what happened?¡± Akali quickly asked in a concerned voice.

    ¡°I......I don¡¯t know what happened. I just moved a bit and those pirs are now glowing! No! I can feel the surrounding magic space starting to change. This......This is.......¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s voice suddenly stopped.

 Volume 8 Chapter 90

    Volume 8 Chapter 90 Crying dragon

    Akali and Xu Yi were both shocked. The two looked at each other with eyes wide with concern.

    ¡°Sir chairman, Cassandra......is she in some kind of danger......¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    There was no way to investigate the Abyss Demon Race ruins any deeper, so even he found it hard to give an exnation.

    Not to mention that Cassandra was on a moon that was over three hundred kilometers away. Even if something happened, he couldn¡¯t do anything.

    ¡°Be assured, Cassandra is a dragon and has a very strong body that can even fly in outer space. There shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡± Xu Yi could onlyfort Akali like this.

    Akali wasn¡¯t some young girl and naturally wouldn¡¯t believe Xu Yi that easily, but she couldn¡¯t do anything about this, so she could only force herself to ept Xu Yi¡¯s words.

    ¡°I hope that Cassandra isn¡¯t......¡±

    As soon as she spoke, Akali¡¯s expression suddenly changed and she looked up.

    ¡°Sir chairman......¡±

    Xu Yi had already looked to the northwest with a shocked look. After he heard Akali cry out, he knew that she was the same as him, feeling the powerful magic fluctuations that came from that direction.

    Moreover, he and Akali were both very familiar with these magic fluctuations. It was the same as the faint magic fluctuations that came from the stone pirs.

    ¡°Could it be......¡±

    The two looked at each other before giving nods. Their figure disappeared and soon they were in the northwestern sky of Sky Ind.

    ¡°Sir chairman, over there!¡± Akali pointed to the northwest at a spot on the sea that was several dozen kilometers away and called out in shock.

    The part of the sea that Akali was pointing at had a beam of light blue light that rose from the sea, hitting the clouds.

    Looking up with the beam of light, they would find that this beam of light didn¡¯t scatter. Even when it reached the air, it didn¡¯t turn lighter.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is going on?¡±

    The void beside them fluctuated and elder Undine appeared beside Xu Yi and Akali.

    She saw the distant pale blue pir of light and asked Xu Yi this in a surprised voice.

    ¡°I still don¡¯t know, but I think......We should be one step closer to understanding the secrets of the Abyss Demon Race.¡± Xu Yi shook his head as he said this.

    Akali didn¡¯t care that much. After looking at the pir of light for a bit, she suddenly asked in a nervous voice, ¡°Sir chairman, do you think......this is rted to Cassandra?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not certain, but let¡¯s go and take a look. There should be something happening over there.¡± Xu Yi pointed to the northwest and had Akali and elder Undine follow him.

    Akali and elder Undine nodded in agreement. When the three of them were about to use Spatial Magic, they found that the magic space around them was a bit strange. With their current strong abilities, they found it hard to control the elemental magic energy and use Spatial Magic.

    Xu Yi tried several times before knitting his brows.

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to try anymore. It seems like the magic space has been locked into a special state and only if we have power that surpasses this locking power can we use Spatial Magic.¡±

    ¡°Why is it like this?¡± Elder Undine asked in a surprised voice.

    ¡°If my guess isn¡¯t wrong, it should be rted to the Abyss Demon Race ruins.¡± Xu Yi turned to Akali, ¡°It might really be rted to Cassandra. I hope that after ten thousand years, the long distance transfer array that the Abyss Demon Race left behind can still operate normally.¡±

    After saying these words that confused Akali and elder Undine, Xu Yi tried using Spatial Magic. Although he couldn¡¯t use it, he found that he could still use flight magic normally. He used all his magic power and flew towards where the Abyss Demon Race ruins were at full speed.

    Akali and elder Undine followed behind him.

    The three of them flew for a bit and found that there were several other blue lights that appeared. There was clearly something off, it wasn¡¯t just the one spot like before.

    But when the three of them blew to the closest blue light, the blue lights on the sea suddenly disappeared at the same time.

    The three were all stunned as they stopped.

    ¡°Sir chairman, this......¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows to think before saying to Akali, ¡°Call Cassandra.¡±

    ¡°Will it connect?¡± Akali immediately replied, but she still took out the Magic Communicator and called Cassandra¡¯s number.

    The call immediately connected, but the voice from the other side didn¡¯te for a long time.

    When Akali¡¯s disappointed eyes gradually turned to despair, there was a sound that came from the Magic Communicator.

    Akali immediately became spirited and loudly shouted into the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Hey? Cassandra? Hey? Can you hear me? Cassandra? Can you hear me? Quickly respond if you can!¡±

    After a while, Cassandra¡¯s voice finally came from the Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Hey, is this......is this Akali?¡±

    Even if they were separated by the call, Xu Yi could easily hear the doubt and confusion in Cassandra¡¯s voice.

    It seemed like that this brave dragon girl had finally been scared by this incident.

    After confirming that it was Cassandra¡¯s voice, Akali was filled with happiness.

    ¡°It¡¯s me! Cassandra, where are you now? Did something happen? What happened just now? Right, right now.....are you on the moon or are you......¡±

    Elder Undine on the side revealed a strange expression.

    Cassandra was on the moon? What was going on?¡±

    ¡°I.....I seemed to.....be back?¡± Cassandra said in a very uncertain voice, ¡°Wait, I can see the stone pirs of the ruins! I......really seem to be back!¡±

    Akali looked at Xu Yi with a stunned look.

    Xu Yi had already guessed this possibility. Although he was also shocked, he calmly looked at Akali and said, ¡°Have her send a signal and don¡¯t move, we¡¯ll go and find her.¡±

    Akali passed on Xu Yi¡¯s instructions and Cassandra agreed.

    After a while, Xu Yi turned to look further northwest and Akali looked in the same direction.

    Elder Undine also felt the special magic fluctuationsing from there, but she wasn¡¯t as sensitive to the special magic fluctuations that Cassandra sent out like Xu Yi and Akali, so she reacted slower.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go take a look.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand before focusing his mind. After confirming that the magic space around them had returned to normal, he instantly went over with Spatial Magic.

    A few minutester, Xu Yi appeared in the sky about fifty kilometers away from his original position.

    Looking down, he saw Cassandra looking up with her giant dragon head.

    When she saw Xu Yi, Cassandra immediately flew over and turned into a human in the air, throwing herself at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi had nned on dodging, but seeing that there were a few tears on Cassandra¡¯s human face, he couldn¡¯t help being surprised. He couldn¡¯t dodge in time and was tightly held by Cassandra.

    ¡°Chairman Xu! Wu, wu......¡±

    After calling out, Cassandra actually hugged Xu Yi and cried like that.

    Hearing Cassandra crying like a little human girl, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became strange.

    This was a dragon! The strongest of all the races that could even fly into outer space, that could even fly to the moon!

    Now she was actually crying in his arms!

    After thinking about it, Xu Yi gave a sigh. He raised his arm and gently held Cassandra, patting her on the back to calm her down.

    After a while, Akali and elder Undine appeared. When they saw this situation, their eyes immediately popped out.

    ¡°This......Sir chairman, you......¡± Akali pointed at Xu Yi and Cassandra in a daze, not knowing how to react to this.

    When Cassandra heard Akali¡¯s voice, she raised her head from Xu Yi¡¯s embrace. Seeing Akali, she came out of Xu Yi¡¯s embrace and flew out at Akali.

    After crying in Akali¡¯s embrace for a bit, Cassandra gradually calmed down and stopped crying.

    ¡°Ke......Cassandra, are you alright?¡± Xu Yi asked with a cough.

    Cassandra looked at Xu Yi and then looked at Akali before turning to elder Undine on the side. Then there was a blush that appeared on her face.

    Her emotions had been too much that she didn¡¯t care about anything. When she saw familiar people, she didn¡¯t even think about it as she jumped into their embrace to cry.

    Thinking about it now, a noble dragon like her had actually revealed such a fragile appearance in front of two humans and an elf. This was simply embarrassing!

    Xu Yi and Akali looked at each other and there were smiles in each other¡¯s eyes.

    Actually, Xu Yi could understand Cassandra¡¯s strange reaction just now.

    Although Cassandra in terms of years was even older than elder Undine, the dragons had very long lifespans, so their mental growth was slow.

    The dragons need to be at least a thousand years old to be considered an adult.

    So Cassandra¡¯s current age if it was converted into human years was equal to a fifteen or sixteen year old girl.

    Moreover, lived most of her life on the red dragons¡¯ ind and had little contact with the outside world, so her thoughts were pure. Her mental age might even be lower than this.

    Now that she had experienced this kind of giant event, it was normal that she felt emotional.

    In order to not make it awkward for Cassandra, Xu Yi gave a cough and asked, ¡°Cassandra, weren¡¯t you on the moon just now? Do you know how you suddenly came back here?¡±

    Cassandra looked up again and after thinking for a bit, she revealed a confused look.

    ¡°I also don¡¯t know what happened. I had just found those stone pirs on the moon that are simr to the ones here and then after trying to inject some magic, they released a blue light at the same time. Then......Then I felt a strong change in the magic space around me and then everything turned dark. When I came back to my senses, I found that I was already here.¡±

    ¡°Blue light?¡± Xu Yi and Akali looked down at the same time as they thought of something.

    It seemed like what Cassandra had discovered on the moon really was rted to the Abyss Demon Race ruins.

 Volume 8 Chapter 91

    Volume 8 Chapter 91 Gift of Life

    They didn¡¯t get that much information from questioning Cassandra.

    It was just like Cassandra said, she had seen the Magic Array with the simr pir design on the surface of the moon and wanted to inject some elemental magic energy in. Then the pirs released this strange blue glow that had mysteriously sent her back.

    But when she followed Xu Yi and Akali¡¯s suggestion, doing the same thing with the stone pirs on the sea, there wasn¡¯t any reaction at all.

    Xu Yi and Akali were both very dissatisfied with this result.

    They had studied the stone pirs of the Abyss Demon Race ruins on the seas for very long, but they never made any progress. Now that they had finally found a new development, they hadn¡¯t found any new uses which really wasn¡¯t a good thing.

    Xu Yi wanted to have Cassandra fly to the moon and restart the pirs on the moon to gather some more concrete details.

    But thinking of how Cassandra had just been crying in his embrace, he wasn¡¯t cruel enough to say it.

    But Cassandra¡¯s trip to the moon had brought some useful information.

    For example, on Alice, not only were there ruins left by the Abyss Demon Race, there was also air.

    Xu Yi guessed that this was one of the ster bases that the Abyss Demon Race had left behind.

    Moreover, Cassandra had directly been sent back from the moon, which meant that the Abyss Demon Race had mastered teleportation to a shocking degree. They could even send things hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

    In the legends about the Abyss Demon Race, it all said that they went to another world.

    But Xu Yi was certain that the Abyss Demon Race didn¡¯t go to ¡°another world¡±, but rather through teleportation technology, their scale shifted to a much further ce.

    But it was unknown what level their teleportation technology had reached. If they really could use hyperspace teleportation that spanned over light years, the Abyss Demon Race might have immigrated to another ten thousand years ago.

    Of course, there was also the possibility that they were all dead from this journey into space.

    But that wasn¡¯t important. Based on the current situation, the legend that the Abyss Demon Race would return after a thousand years was just nonsense.

    The Abyss Demon Race had left with their entire race, so there was no chance that they would return.

    The legend passed down by the elves was most likely a misunderstanding by their ancestors.

    It was impossible that the Abyss Demon Race didn¡¯t know that ten thousand years could greatly change a. So they wouldn¡¯t leave such arge Magic Array on the endless seas that would be used for teleportation without thinking about how to make sure that this Magic Array wasn¡¯t made unusable by the natural changes in geography.

    Cassandra being able to activate the Magic Array on the moon and get sent back here was already a big surprise.

    So for the current Xu Yi, there was no doubt that it was necessary to study these ruins, but he also couldn¡¯t do anything right now.

    He had wanted to stay on Sky Ind and work with Akali to research this after Cassandra calmed down, but there was an unexpected piece of news that had interrupted his ns at this moment.

    Heinz was in critical condition.

    ###

    A Magic Airshipnded in a secluded valley outside of the suburbs of Banta City.

    When the door opened, Xu Yi came out and gave a nod to Alex who was waiting on the side. Without a word, he walked into the manor that was in this valley.

    When the manor door opened, there were several people who were already waiting inside. Seeing Xu Yie in, they all came forward.

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡±

    ¡°Chairman Xu......¡±

    Xu Yi impatiently waved his hand.

    ¡°Don¡¯t talk first, let me see Heinz.¡±

    Everyone knew that he was in a bad mood and quickly shut their mouth. They let Alex lead him into the manor.

    After passing a garden that wasn¡¯t small and after two corridors, Xu Yi finally arrived at Heinz¡¯s room in the manor.

    When he came in, the people who were gathered in the room all turned over.

    Xu Yi raised his hands to cut them off and walked to the side of the bed. He looked down at Heinz who clearly looked weak lying there in the bed.

    Looking at Heinz who had a yellow face and not a trace of blood, Xu Yi gave a sigh before calling out.

    ¡°Heinz, I¡¯m here.¡±

    Heinz¡¯s closed eyes slowly opened. After he looked at Xu Yi for a few seconds, he revealed a very forced smile.

    ¡°Xu Yi, you......you¡¯re here......¡±

    While saying this, he lifted his right hand with difficulty.

    Xu Yi quickly reached out to take his hand. He opened his mouth, but he didn¡¯t know what to say.

    Seeing the expression on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Heinz made an effort to smile before slowly saying, ¡°There¡¯s......there¡¯s no need for this. I.....I¡¯ve lived.....a long time already, it¡¯s about time......¡±

    Xu Yi agreed before turning to look at the doctor on the side.

    The doctor could understand what Xu Yi meant and shook his head with a serious look.

    Xu Yi¡¯s face sank. He turned to the crowd before his eyes fell onto an elven girl who was in the uniform of a care worker and he waved his hand at her.

    The crowd were surprised by Xu Yi¡¯s action, not understanding what he was doing.

    The elven girl also walked over with a confused look.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what orders do you have?¡±

    ¡°Wait a bit.¡± Xu Yi said before turning back to Heinz. He went beside his ear and said in a low voice, ¡°Oldpanion, if you can live well for a little bit longer, would you be willing?¡±

    Only Ria who was right by the bed heard what Xu Yi said and looked at him with shock.

    Heinz revealed a smile again before he said in a low voice, ¡°I......I know that after.....this period, I will.....I will die, right?¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod.

    ¡°Good......I......I still have many things to......say. I can¡¯t.....say it like this.¡±

    Seeing that Heinz agreed, Xu Yi turned to look at Ria.

    Ria of course understood what he meant and after looking at Heinz, she gave a sigh and nodded.

    Xu Yi stood up again and said to the elven care worker, ¡°You should know the Gift of Life, right?¡±

    ¡°Un......¡± The elven care worker nodded before revealing a surprised look, ¡°Chairman Xu, could it be that you want me to use the Gift of Life on him? His life force is very weak right now and once the Gift of Life is used, he might not live......live past......¡±

    She looked at Heinz¡¯s friends and family and didn¡¯t dare keep speaking.

    Xu Yi helped her finish.

    ¡°I know, if you use the Gift of Life, I think that Heinz won¡¯t make it past tonight.¡±

    Hearing this, there was an uproar that filled the room.

    Although Heinz seemed weak right now, the care he received was very good. It wouldn¡¯t be a problem for him tost another ten days or half a month like this.

    But now Xu Yi wanted to use this Gift of Life on him and make it so he can¡¯t even live past tonight. Naturally Heinz¡¯s rtives were unhappy about this.

    Although these people recognized Xu Yi, they didn¡¯t have any scruples at this time. This group started to reprimand Xu Yi and there were even people who cursed him.

    ¡°Everyone shut up!¡± Alex suddenly roared out and suppressed all the sounds around him, ¡°What are you doing? Showing this kind of disrespect to chairman Xu, do you want to die?¡±

    Although Alex was only Heinz¡¯s nephew, he had been introduced to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce by Heinz and can even be considered a senior in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he had a high position.

    Later when he left the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to open his own magic machinepany, he was able to drum up some business with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. Right now they were top ranked in the Lampuri Kingdom, so his position in the family was much higher than these rtives and friends that only came to get benefits when Heinz was dying.

    Now that he hadshed out in anger, the others had been shocked.

    Alex angrily looked at the surrounding friends and family, but he was very worried.

    He of course knew why these people were angry at Xu Yi¡¯s arrangements. It was because these fellows all depended on Heinz, it was even said that these people could enjoy good lives because of him.

    If Heinz died, their livelihoods would certainly be greatly affected and they wouldn¡¯t enjoy the benefits that Heinz gave them. They wanted Heinz to live even a single day longer so they could make more arrangements.

    These idiots never thought that even Heinz depended on the chairman Xu in front of them to get to the position that he was currently in.

    If they offended chairman Xu, it would all be over!

    Xu Yi looked at Alex and revealed a smile without saying anything.

    Ria stood up and looked around before saying with a sigh, ¡°We¡¯ll follow chairman Xu¡¯s arrangements.¡±

    Since Ria had spoken, Heinz¡¯s friends and family naturally didn¡¯t dare say anything else.

    The elven care worker confirmed this with Ria and Heinz again before gritting her teeth and reaching her hand out to Heinz¡¯s chest.

    There was a faint green glow that came from her hand that slowly entered Heinz¡¯s chest.

    Heinz was already withered and weak, but as the green light entered him, his pale skin suddenly became red again and the wrinkles on his face became less prominent.

    After a while, Heinz suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in bed. His face was glowing with health and his eyes were refreshed, looking like he was full of life.

    The elven care taker took her hand back and Heinz gave augh. He pulled back the nkets and jumped out of bed in front of everyone¡¯s eyes before grabbing Xu Yi.

    ¡°Ha, ha, oldpanion, let¡¯s have a good drink tonight!¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 92

    Volume 8 Chapter 92 Street racing

    The night was dark.

    There were bright lights lit up all over Banta City¡¯s new district and he could hear the sounds ofughtering from the streets in the distance. It fully demonstrated why this city was called the pearl and the entertainment capital of the southwest corner of the continent.

    Xu Yi looked at the bright lights in the distance and hearing the familiar noises in the air, he even felt like he was back in a city on earth.

    Banta City was where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been born and after many years of development, it had be a city that could match the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s capital Anvilmar City, even surpassing all major cities. It was a very important ce in the southwest corner of the continent and even the entire Sines Continent, being called the capital of the magic machine industry, so there was no doubt that it would be lively.

    But as Xu Yi walked through the streets of Banta City, there was a bit of sadness and loneliness in his heart. There was even.....a bit of emptiness.

    Yes, the sadness and loneliness in Xu Yi¡¯s heart wasn¡¯t strong.

    Heinz was already close to ny years old and passing away now, was already considered quite good for a normal human that wasn¡¯t a magician like him. It far surpassed the life expectancy on the Sines Continent and it could be said that he had lived long enough.

    Since he stepped down as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s vice chairman, he had been enjoying the retired life for over twenty years. With therge ie that came from his Frestech Chamber of Commerce stocks, not only was he and Ria able to live a luxurious life, he was even able to let his friends and rtives live the same luxurious life.

    So when Xu Yi left, Heinz patted Xu Yi¡¯s shoulder with a satisfied look. He said that it was worth it even if he died, but his only regret was that he wasn¡¯t able to see Xu Yi¡¯s dream for himself.

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t say anything and just bid farewell to Heinz before leaving Heinz¡¯s manor.

    He knew that Heinz wouldn¡¯t see the sun tomorrow.

    Although Heinz looked healthy and drank wine inrge mouthfuls, not looking like a ny year old man at all, Xu Yi knew that Heinz was only like this because of the elves¡¯ special Gift of Life magic. It allowed him to use all his stored vitality and look this healthy in such a short period of time.

    After he exhausted all that vitality, Heinz only had the choice to die.

    He didn¡¯t have much vitality left to begin with and after using the Gift of Life, it was impossible for him to make it past tonight.

    However, even so, Xu Yi had refused Alex¡¯s invitation to stay in the manor and chose to silently leave.

    Heinz already knew that he was dead, so he must have plenty of things to say to his friends and family. There was no reason for him to stay and he would just be disturbing them.

    Let alone that he wasn¡¯t willing to stay there and wait for the news of Heinz¡¯s death.

    But that didn¡¯t mean that Xu Yi was indifferent about Heinz¡¯s death. Rather, seeing Heinz reach the end of his life had made Xu Yi very emotional.

    He had already transmigrated to this world for thirty years and had deeply taken root here. He had a deep influence on this world and had already integrated himself into this world.

    But Heinz was the first person that he was close to that was dying in the thirty years since he came to this world.

    Xu Yi was only twenty seven when he transmigrated over. All his rtives had been in good health and his schoolmates were all living well. There had never been an ident, so this was the first time that this was happening.

    He had always thought that he was strong enough and would be indifferent about this matter, but he still felt empty when he was met with the first death of a friend.

    So after leaving Heinz¡¯s manor, he decided to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s branch in Banta City to find a ce to rest. But he found that his thoughts were a bit messy while walking along and he chose to get out of the car to walk by himself.

    He needed to be alone to sort out his thoughts.

    After taking two steps, Xu Yi looked at the night sky above him. He found that this was a rare night where the two moons of the Sines Continent were present.

    Alice and Tildis were in the upper left and lower right of the night sky respectively. They enhanced each other¡¯s beauty andplimented the night sky perfectly.

    Xu Yi¡¯s eyes fell onto Alice and he remembered the Abyss Demon Race ruins that Cassandra had discovered on it. He thought of the ability of the ruins to send Cassandra hundreds of thousands of kilometers back to the under them and he revealed a bitter smile.

    The reason why he wanted to go to outer space was because he wanted to return to earth.

    In the first few years he came to this world, his mind had been filled with thoughts of returning to earth.

    But in the beginning, he couldn¡¯t do that.

    Now he was able to see a ray of hope from the ruins left by the Abyss Demon Race.

    The Abyss Demon Race could send things hundreds of thousands of kilometers with these teleportation Magic Arrays, so it could be seen that they had the ability to travel the stars.

    If he could grasp this same technology, wouldn¡¯t he be able to travel the endless stars and return to earth?

    Even if there would be countless hardships, for example, not knowing where earth was in this boundless universe, not knowing what kind of danger was hidden in these stars, or......

    But since there was a chance of going back, Xu Yi didn¡¯t want to give up hope.

    However, when he saw Heinz today, he had to think of a thought that he had forgotten for a long time.

    He had already been in this world for thirty years and even if he returned to earth, there was no need to mention his grandparents, even his parents might have already passed.

    As for his ssmates, after disappearing for so long, he would have already been listed as a missing person or as dead, so they would have long forgotten about him.

    In this situation, was there a meaning in returning to earth?

    Xu Yi looked at Alice for a long time as countless thoughts filled his mind before turning into a sigh.

    No matter what, he had already lived in this world long enough, already building a family and even having children. There was no meaning in thinking about these foregone things anymore.

    After thinking this through, Xu Yi took a deep breath. He suppressed all the random thoughts that came up because of Heinz and his expression became calm again.

    When he looked down, he saw a young man and woman walking opposite to him. With how close they were, they should be a couple.

    The girl pointed at Xu Yi and said a few things in a low voice. When she saw Xu Yi suddenly look down, she quickly pulled her hand back.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He knew that he had forgotten to use the Illusion Magic to hide his face and it was likely the girl had recognized him, but because the streetmps here weren¡¯t bright, he wasn¡¯t certain.

    With a thought, Xu Yi¡¯s face changed a bit. He had an appearance simr to his original appearance, but no one would recognize him if they took a serious look at him.

    After doing this, Xu Yi walked towards the young couple with a smile on his face.

    As expected, when he appeared under the streetmp and the light illuminated his face, the girl revealed a disappointed look. She shook her head and quickly pulled the boy past Xu Yi.

    This small interlude didn¡¯t affect Xu Yi. He figured out where he was and started slowly walking towards where he would be staying tonight.

    After being busy for so many years, it was rare for him to be able to walk alone at night, so he might as well have a nice walk.

    But after taking a few steps, he suddenly heard a roaring sound.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows as he turned around. He saw several dazzling rays of lighting from behind him and then there were the louder sounds of engines roaring.

    Although Magic Cars had different principles from the gas powered cars on earth, since it was based on theories that Xu Yi brought out, the mechanisms weren¡¯t that different.

    The Magic Car engine would still let out sounds and Xu Yi even kept a few of the sounds when developing the Magic Sedan. He wanted to preserve the automobile culture from earth.

    Facts proved that the sounds were very appealing. Many people who bought Magic Sedans loved the roaring sounds, so the high end Magic Sedans sold by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were as popr as sports cars on earth.

    Just like on earth, there were young people that liked making their engines even louder, turning normal Magic Sedans into race cars.

    But when Xu Yi heard this sound, he was certain that this wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce Super Magic Race Car, but rather a counterfeit model.

    On this dark night and hearing this familiar sound on the street, the first thing that Xu Yi thought of was street racing......

    Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any good impressions of street racers and hated people who raced in the streets of the city like this.

    Seeing the quickly approaching lights, Xu Yi made an estimate that these Magic Sedans were racing at least a hundred kilometers an hour and he couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

    Although this street wasn¡¯t a busy one in Banta City, there would be people that woulde here from time to time. Moreover, this was only a twone street, so it could be considered quite narrow.

    These fellows actually dared to drive at such high speeds, they simply had no fear.

    In an instant, the lights approached.

    The couple that passed by Xu Yi hid at the sides of the street after hearing this sound, but when the first Magic Sedan came close, there was suddenly a screeching sound that was heard from its tires. The first Magic Sedan¡¯s lights suddenly swerved and it started charging at the young couple on the street.

 Volume 8 Chapter 93

    Volume 8 Chapter 93 Do Ick money?

    When the young couple saw the Magic Car losing control and flying towards them, their minds turned nk and they even forgot to dodge out of the way.

    When it was about to hit them, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them and the Magic Car that was racing at them at high speeds suddenly stopped.

    It could be seen that the front of the Magic Car had been crushed by a strong impact and had already be t. The tire wildly turned and even created smoke on the road, letting out a sharp sound, but it didn¡¯t move at all.

    The young couple were already standing there in a daze, with a look of disbelief on their face.

    The figure standing in front of them turned and revealed aforting smile.

    ¡°How is it? Are you hurt?¡±

    The young couple shook their heads in a daze, still not being able to react.

    But after the girl was in a daze, she suddenly recognized this figure that was standing in front of them who had saved them. It was that man who looked simr to the legendary chairman Xu that they passed by earlier.

    He......He was a magician?

    Seeing the surprised look on the girl¡¯s face, Xu Yi revealed a smile. He turned around and used a bit of magic to forcefully suppress all the magic fluctuations in the Magic Car, stopping itpletely.

    Looking through the window, he found that the one sitting in the driver¡¯s seat was a young man and there was a young woman sitting in the passenger seat beside him. They both had wide eyes as they looked at him in a daze.

    Seeing Xu Yi look over, the young man driving the car was surprised at first before being filled with rage. He opened the car door and came out as he pointed his finger at Xu Yi while cursing at him.

    ¡°Do you want to god damn die? Daring to block this young master, do you know how much this young master¡¯s car costs? Now that you¡¯ve ruined it, how will youpensate me?¡±

    Xu Yi shook his head. He thought that these street racers really were a bunch of dumb kids that didn¡¯t even know the wrongs that they had made, it was clear by how they spoke.

    Xu Yi was toozy to waste words with him and just waved his hand. That young man who was still cursing felt a strong wave of air hit him as he was raised up several meters into the air before being mmed down.

    He hadn¡¯t fainted in the crash just now, but this time he fainted from the pain.

    The young girl who was in the passenger seat saw this and let out a sharp scream. She came out of the care, but didn¡¯t dare to charge at Xu Yi. She just went to the side of the young man who fainted, checking his condition while shouting at Xu Yi.

    There were still several Magic Cars that followed this first car. Now that something had happened to the first car, they all stopped by the street and a group of young men and women came out.

    Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s actions, the group of young men and women circled him.

    One of the young man touched his waist and pulled out arge thing to hold in his hand.

    Xu Yi looked over and couldn¡¯t help giving a cold snort.

    This fellow was actually holding a small Magic Pistol!

    This wasn¡¯t something a normal magic machinepany could make, it was strictly controlled in every country and normal people wouldn¡¯t even be able to see one.

    Now that this young man was carrying one, it was unknown where he got it or stole it from, but it meant that his status wasn¡¯t normal that he was able to have one in secret.

    Xu Yi had heard about this before, but he didn¡¯t make a big deal out of it and didn¡¯t care about it, but he never thought that he would bump into this matter.

    But the young man pointed the gun and threatened Xu Yi a few times before one of them stopped him.

    ¡°Magician, where did youe from? Don¡¯t you know that Banta City has a ban on violence private affairs?¡± The person who blocked him asked this.

    Xu Yi was surprised as he looked at him. He thought that there were still some people who understood things among this group. He could see that he was a magician and wasn¡¯t easy to deal with.

    But Xu Yi was toozy to y the pig to eat the tiger with them. He took out a Magic Communicator and made a call.

    ¡°Hey, is this Count Vegan? I am Xu Yi. Un, I¡¯m currently in the new district of Banta City and something has happened. Can you send some people to take care of it?¡±

    ###

    Half an hourter, in the brightly lit City Lord Manor of Banta City¡¯s old district, there was a group gathered. They were all nervously looking at Xu Yi and the Banta City City Lord Count Vegan who was sitting in front of them.

    ¡°Speaking of this, chairman Xu, it¡¯s thiste at night, why are you interested in walking around the city?¡± Count Vegan asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi looked at him and thought that this new Banta City City Lord really wasn¡¯t as smart as his predecessors.

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing, I just wanted to walk around and see how Banta City has developed over the years.¡±

    ¡°Ha, ha, Banta City has always had stable development over the years. I think that chairman Xu should be proud after seeing the situation outside, right?¡±

    ¡°No, Banta City¡¯s development over the years isn¡¯t rted to me, this is the merit of your City Lord Manor and the people of Banta City.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, rejecting Count Vegan¡¯s attempt to get closer to him. He put down the cup of tea in his hand and his eyes turned to the group waiting to be punished, ¡°I don¡¯t have that much time to waste, so let¡¯s talk about how to handle this matter first.¡±

    The street racers who had acted arrogantly were now being honest. All of them had their heads down and they didn¡¯t even dare move.

    Standing beside them were their parents or rtives who hade after receiving the news from the City Lord Manor.

    These street racers really came from noble families of Banta City. The rtives that came were all dressed in luxurious clothing.

    Compared to the street racers beside them, their expressions were more serious, but they still revealed friendly smiles.

    Hearing Xu Yi speak, they immediately looked to Count Vegan for help.

    Count Vegan was silent for a bit before saying with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, these fellows have offended you tonight, it is definitely their fault. But since they didn¡¯t mean to do so, how about you forgive them?¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi looked at Count Vegan like he found this funny, ¡°You mean to say that we should forget this matter?¡±

    Count Vegan quickly shook his head, ¡°Of course not. As long as chairman Xu says something, I think that they wouldn¡¯t be against anypensation you want.¡±

    After saying this, Count Vegan signaled to the rtives with his eyes. Those rtives all started talking, saying that as long as Xu Yi was willing to forgive their children, they could pay any form ofpensation.

    Xu Yi looked at these people and after they stopped, he finally asked with a smile, ¡°Do you think......that Ick money?¡±

    Everyone was surprised before their expressions became ugly.

    Everyone knew that Xu Yi as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s former chairman and thergest shareholder of the Frstech Chamber of Commerce was already the richest person on the Sines Continent.

    Saying that hecked money? That was simply the biggest joke!

    But Xu Yi making this clear meant that he wasn¡¯t nning on epting theirpensation.

    Count Vegan¡¯s expression also changed.

    Before Xu Yi came to Banta City, he already knew about himing.

    Because he had long heard of the news that Heinz was in critical condition, he was certain that Xu Yi woulde.

    Before Xu Yi came, he was most worried about how to receive Xu Yi or it could even be said how to serve him. He wanted to let him spend a few good days in Banta City.

    Otherwise, if Xu Yi was unhappy, then his current position as the Banta City City Lord would be in danger.

    And now Xu Yi was clearly unhappy because of this matter.

    ¡°Chairman Xu.....You......How do you think this matter should be handled?¡± Count Vegan carefully asked.

    Xu Yi pointed at those street racers who shrunk back, ¡°When ites to street racing at night, does your Lampuri Kingdom have any regtions?¡±

    Count Vegan was in a daze before knitting his brows to think and shaking his head.

    ¡°There¡¯s nows right now. What about it? Chairman Xu, do you think that there needs to be aw about this matter?¡±

    ¡°Of course. If it wasn¡¯t for me, they might have been killed.¡± Xu Yi pointed at the young couple who had been trembling the entire time after being brought to the City Lord Manor, ¡°A matter that could kill people, isn¡¯t that worth making aw for?¡±

    Count Vegan didn¡¯t think the same, but he kept nodding, ¡°You¡¯re right. But right now there¡¯s now and because chairman Xu was there, no one was hurt, so do you think......¡±

    ¡°It was fine this time because I was there, but if I wasn¡¯t there, these two innocent bystanders would have been killed. Even the person who was in the car would have found it hard to survive.¡± Xu Yi said with a serious look.

    ¡°Impossible! I have the newest Boval Model Magic Car! Even if it¡¯s broken, the person inside would be fine! That is what your Frestech Chamber of Commerce said!¡± The street racer who was stopped by Xu Yi and was knocked out by him couldn¡¯t help shouting out.

    Count Vegan and the other rtives were all scared by this as they all red at him.

    His mother and father standing nearby quickly covered his mouth in fear before apologizing to Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi turned his gaze to them as his eyes turned serious.

    ¡°You mean that it¡¯s fine if you¡¯re alright? What about them? Do you know that you almost killed them just now!¡±

 Volume 8 Chapter 94

    Volume 8 Chapter 94 Worker riots

    The street racer didn¡¯t say anything, but it was clear by his eyes that he didn¡¯t ept this.

    The young street racers and even their rtives revealed looks that made it clear that they thought otherwise. It was clear that they thought that Xu Yi¡¯s question was just making a big deal of a small matter.

    Even the young couple that was almost killed were surprised by this, as if they didn¡¯t expect Xu Yi to be this angry for them.

    Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.

    Even if the Sines Continent had greatly changed with his arrival and had developed a powerful magic machine industry, even reaching earth¡¯s standards when it came to certain technology.

    This was only the material change and the minds of people still hadn¡¯t changed that much.

    In the countries of the Sines Continent, although very had basically been abolished, there was still a serious ss division.

    Nobles were nobles andmoners weremoners.

    In the minds of almost all the people, nobles were much higher thanmoners and there was noparison when it came to their status.

    This young couple were clearly normalmoners and the street racers that almost killed them were from traditional noble families of Banta City. The father that stood by his side was a viscount and because he was designated as the sessor to the family, he already had a baron title.

    So other than Xu Yi, in the minds of everyone, there was a heaven and earth gap in status between the two dies. Even if themoners were killed, it wouldn¡¯t have been considered anything in their minds.

    If it wasn¡¯t for Xu Yi, then they wouldn¡¯t have even needed topensate them with any money.

    What Xu Yi felt even more pity over was that the young couple felt the same.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, this was unintentional. He definitely wasn¡¯t willing to hit these people.¡± Count Vegan quickly tried to calm this mood and said with a smile, ¡°It was a good thing that chairman Xu was there to save their lives. So.....there¡¯s no need to make a big deal over this, right?¡±

    ¡°Big deal?¡± Xu Yi gave a cold snort before looking at the street racer with a cold look and then turning to Count Vegan, ¡°I am not an official of your Lampuri Kingdom and don¡¯t even belong to your Lampuri Kingdom, so I can decide how you handle this matter. It is unrted to me and I don¡¯t care. What I can care about is where our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is rted in this matter.¡±

    Count Vegan quickly said, ¡°Chairman Xu, please.¡±

    Xu Yi raised his hand to point at the street racer who wasn¡¯t convinced and suddenly asked, ¡°Do you have a driver¡¯s license?¡±

    Everyone was surprised as they looked at the street racer.

    The street racer¡¯s expression changed slightly as he hesitated to answer.

    His parents standing beside him became anxious.

    ¡°Chairman Xu is asking you a question, quickly answer him!¡±

    The street racer hesitantly opened his mouth and as soon as he said the word ¡°I¡±, he was coldly cut off by Xu Yi.

    ¡°Don¡¯t try lying. All the people who have passed the driver¡¯s license exam have been recorded, so I can check at any time.¡±

    The street racer¡¯s expression changed again and after a while, he lowered his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have one......¡±

    Everyone was stunned.

    ¡°Very good. Since you¡¯re driving without a license and drove on the city streets at over a hundred kilometers an hour at night, you¡¯ve already broken many rules of having a driver¡¯s license. ording to the rules, you have lost all rights to apply for a driver¡¯s license in the future and will no longer be allowed to drive a Magic Car. Do you have anything to say against this?¡±

    The expressions of the street racers changed. The rtives all let out a sigh of relief.

    If Xu Yi¡¯s punishment was just this, it really was considered light.

    So what if they didn¡¯t have a driver¡¯s license, who said that they couldn¡¯t drive cars still?

    As long as they weren¡¯t unlucky enough to be caught by Xu Yi again, with the status that their families had, it wasn¡¯t a big deal if they drove in Banta City.

    How could Xu Yi not see what these people were thinking? After another cold snort, he pointed at the young couple, ¡°Other than that, you almost killed them. Although they are fine because of me, you still have to give them some form ofpensation.¡±

    How could the parents of the street racer not understand what Xu Yi meant? They quickly came over to the young couple with warm expressions.

    The young couple were a bit helpless seeing this Lord Viscount being so humble tomoners like this. In the end, Xu Yi had Count Vegan act and thepensation was set at three thousand gold coins.

    Three thousand gold coins was a lot formoners like the young couple, but for a noble family that could buy the newest Magic Car, it wasn¡¯t considered much.

    So after the two sides had settled it and this obtained Xu Yi¡¯s approval, everyone let out a sigh of relief.

    Xu Yi¡¯s appearance had made everyone think that this would be arge matter. They never thought that this would be solved with three thousand gold coins, which really was unexpected to them.

    But when they were prepared to leave, Xu Yi suddenly gave a warning.

    ¡°Don¡¯t try to retaliate in secret, I will have someone follow up on this matter. If anything happens to them, don¡¯t me me for being impolite.¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s cold tone had shocked everyone. The parents of the street racer quickly made a promise to Xu Yi that they definitely wouldn¡¯t retaliate against this young couple in secret. Only then did Xu Yi let them leave.

    After everyone left, the City Lord Manor¡¯s hall fell to silence again.

    Count Vegan looked at Xu Yi who had his eyes closed as he took a sip of tea while thinking about something and felt confused.

    Although he wasn¡¯t like the past Banta City City Lords who had the chance to often meet Xu Yi, through the information that he obtained, Xu Yi wasn¡¯t a person that was easy to talk to.

    It had to be known that even if the Candra Empire offended him, they would have to pay arge price.

    Now that these dumb kids had ran into him and two of the kids even cursed him, he only gave them a light punishment which really was confusing.

    ¡°Count Vegan.¡± Xu Yi suddenly said.

    Count Vega was surprised, but then he quickly calmed himself and said with a smile, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you need something?¡±

    ¡°I¡¯ve heard that there were two worker riots in Banta Cityst month?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Count Vegan¡¯s heart trembled. After thinking about it, he replied with a nod, ¡°Yes. Chairman Xu, where did you obtain this information?¡±

    ¡°What was the reason for the riots?¡± Xu Yi asked without answering his question.

    ¡°This......It was because the workers weren¡¯t satisfied with their wages, so they chose to go on a strike. Then they had a sh with the management of the factories, so it became violent.¡±

    ¡°Then how did you take care of it?¡±

    Count Vegan slightly knitted his brows as he didn¡¯t understand why Xu Yi asked this question.

    But he knew that since Xu Yi was asking about this, he must know quite a bit about this matter and there was no use in hiding it. So he replied, ¡°Our City Lord Manor caught the people in charge of causing this trouble and we did nothing else.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? But I¡¯ve heard that the workers who led these riots died in prison?¡± Xu Yi¡¯s tone suddenly turned cold.

    Count Vegan was shocked. How did Xu Yi even know about this?

    ¡°This......The leader of the workers were caught in an internal sh in the prison and died fighting each other......¡±

    At this time, Count Vegan could only give the answer that he gave the newspapers.

    ¡°Is that so? Did you also report it to her majesty Seveni like this?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    ¡°It was indeed reported as such.¡±

    ¡°How did her majesty respond?¡±

    ¡°Her majesty hoped that I could maintain the order in Banta City and she didn¡¯t want to see a simr incident happen again.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this......¡± Xu Yi gave a nod as he fell silent again.

    Count Vegan was anxious as he looked at Xu Yi, not understanding why he would suddenly ask him this.

    When facing Xu Yi, he was even more nervous than facing her majesty Seveni.

    Because he knew that her majesty needed him to manage Banta City. As long as he didn¡¯t make a big mistake, on ount of his family, her majesty wouldn¡¯t do anything to him.

    But it was different with this Xu Yi in front of him.

    As long as Xu Yi wanted, with a single order from him, he could destroy the magic machine industry in Banta City through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the magic machine industry was destroyed, it was no different from Banta City being destroyed and he would naturally be destroyed as well as the City Lord.

    Others might not do this thankless job which could even be considered a matter of mutual harm, but Xu Yi was recognized as a maniac. He had countless crazy ideas and done countless crazy things before, so no one was certain what he would do.

    After a while, Xu Yi spoke again.

    ¡°Count Vegan, you said that the workers weren¡¯t satisfied with their wages, so they went on a strike. Then I want to ask, just how low is the minimum wage in Banta City that these people would choose to strike and even sh with the managers of the factories?¡±

    Count Vegan said with a serious look, ¡°Based on the orders of her majesty and thews of the kingdom parliament, based on the current situation of Banta City, the set minimum wage regardless of any job was at least eight gold coins a month. I think.....that there¡¯s no Banta Citypany that would go against this.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± Xu Yi revealed a taunting smile.

    Eight gold coins with the intion of the past several years, with the increasing costs of living for Banta City wasn¡¯t considered a high ie, but it was enough for a normal family to live on.

    If the workers of Banta City still chose to strike and sh with the factory managers even after receiving this wage, it really was confusing.

    But Xu Yi knew that the capitalists on the Sines Continent were the same as the capitalists on earth, or it could be said that they were even greedier than the capitalists on earth.

    So the eight gold coins a month was only the number on the surface.

    In fact, ording to the information that Xu Yi had, there were manypanies that would embezzle wages in Banta City. So the wage that the workers received in the end was even less than a half of the agreed wage, far below the eight gold coins.

    Moreover, the working hours of many factories were growing and the work was getting harder, so many workers couldn¡¯t keep up with this load.

    It was because of this that there were two worker riots that appeared in Banta City.

    It was impossible for Count Vegan as the Banta City City Lord not to know about this, but he clearly had deep rtions with the nobles andrge merchants of Banta City, so he naturally wouldn¡¯t drag these matters out.

    ¡°Count Vegan, I will give you some advice.¡± Xu Yi said as he slowly stood up.

    Count Vegan also stood up as his heart filled with confusion.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, please.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t look down on the power of the working ss. Also, help me pass these words to her majesty Seveni.¡±

    After leaving these words, Xu Yi left the City Lord Manor, leaving Count Vegan standing there in a daze.

 Volume 8 Chapter 95

    Volume 8 Chapter 95 Outer space program

    When the sun came up, Alex personally came to deliver news to Xu Yi.

    Heinz was dead.

    ording to Alex, Heinz had gathered all his family members and good friends in the manorst night to hold a grand banquet. He had drunk a lot and said many things, enjoying his final night. It was only when the first wisp of sunlight came up that he suddenly copsed in Ria¡¯s arms without any warning.

    ¡°Until the very end, uncle always had a smile on his face.¡± Alex recalled this scene, ¡°When the sun was about to rise, he seemed to have sensed that he didn¡¯t have much time left, so he pulled me to the side. The luckiest thing in his life was meeting you, sir chairman. If it wasn¡¯t for you, he would have been a general store owner for his entire life, living a verymon life. It was because he met you that he was able to enjoy a life that he never dared imagine before.¡±

    After a pause, Alex said, ¡°Uncle wanted me to pass on some final words to you.¡±

    ¡°Speak.¡± Xu Yi looked in the direction of Heinz¡¯s manor with a calm look on his face.

    ¡°Uncle wanted me to tell you......¡± Alex gave a cough before deliberately imitating Heinz¡¯s tone, ¡°Xu Yi, if I think about it carefully, it¡¯s better if you treat my words from before as nothing. You¡¯ve already done enough for Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom, it should be time to rest. As for the other things, don¡¯t worry about them if you don¡¯t need to worry about them.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Alex, ¡°Just this?¡±

    ¡°Just this.¡±

    Xu Yi thought about it before giving a nod, not saying anything else.

    Alex told Xu Yi about Heinz¡¯s funeral and asked Xu Yi if he would be attending.

    Alex didn¡¯t need to ask this question, but after Xu Yi leftst night, he was a bit uncertain about what Xu Yi was thinking and could onlye here to confirm them.

    ¡°Of course. Heinz is my old partner, how could I not go to his funeral?¡± Xu Yi thought about it before asking, ¡°I n on giving a speech at his funeral, so arrange it for me.¡±

    Alex was filled with joy when he heard this.

    Not only was Xu Yi willing to attend, he would even be giving a speech. That was equal to him supporting Heinz¡¯s family and would give great benefits to both him and his family members.

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Other than that, Heinz¡¯s funeral must be handled well. I don¡¯t want to see anything bad happening. Help me tell your good for nothing rtives that if they dare cause trouble, don¡¯t me me for teaching them a lesson on Heinz¡¯s behalf.¡± Xu Yi said in a cold voice.

    Alex¡¯s heart trembled when he heard this. He knew that this wasn¡¯t just Xu Yi¡¯s warning for his rtives, but also a warning for him, so he quickly gave a nod.

    Two dayster, Xu Yi appeared in public at Heinz¡¯s funeral and the speech that he gave quickly spread all over the Sines Continent.

    Xu Yi had already left the Sines Continent for six full years.

    Perhaps he might have returned to the Sines Continent in these six years, but he never appeared in public. Now that he was actually appearing in public like this, naturally many people¡¯s suspicions were raised.

    Could it be that Xu Yi had already finished conquering the Magic Cloud Continent with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and didn¡¯t feel it was enough, so he wasing back to take the Sines Continent as well?

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to mention this joke.¡± Xu Yi shook his head at Emperor Candra in front of him, ¡°Your majesty, I¡¯vee back this time to see how the Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry has developed. Although I¡¯ve received many reports from this side, it can¡¯tpare to seeing it personally.¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s smile disappeared and after a bit of silence, he asked with knitted brows, ¡°After you¡¯re done, what are you nning on doing?¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I have an outer space program, I wonder if your majesty is interested?¡±

    ¡°Outer space program?¡± Emperor Candra was surprised, ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°Specifically speaking, it¡¯s to make us no longer limited to the under our feet and spread our development to the wide outer space around us. The first step is tounch a lot of satellites and give everyone a deeper and more profound understanding of space. The second step is tounch manned spaceships to let people walk around in outer space. The third step is......¡±

    After saying this, he suddenly stopped and gave a bitterugh. He shook his head and said, ¡°The third step is to go to Alice and Tildis......¡±

    ¡°Wait.¡± Emperor Candra cut Xu Yi off, ¡°You¡¯re saying that we can fly to Alice and Tildis? That is the moon! How can people go up there? Is there even a ce to stand on?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi said in a certain voice, ¡°Whether it is Alice or Tildis, they are actuallys, but they are just smaller than the under our feet. As for going there......not long before this, there was a dragon that already flew to Alice and returned safely.¡±

    ¡°Flew to Alice?¡± Even Emperor Candra could only feel shock when he heard this news.

    In the traditional understanding of the world of the Sines Continent¡¯s people, Aliuce and Tildis were just two bright moons that would only appear in the night sky.

    Because they couldn¡¯t be reached, people had many fantasies about Alice and Tildis. They never thought that there would be a day that people could go to Alice and Tildis.

    It was because of astronomy that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce poprized in the past few years that people understood the sky above them more. They knew that they weren¡¯t just on a t piece ofnd, but rather a giant sphere. They learned that there was a vast space above their heads, they learned that the sun above them was a giant ball of fire, they learned that Alice and Tildis were actually twos......

    But no one ever thought of flying into outer space and experiencing it themselves, let alonending on the moon.

    ¡°Yes, the dragon¡¯s bodies are much stronger than us humans and the other races, so she could fly into outer space and could even fly to Alice. But we humans and other races can¡¯t do the same, so we have to rely on machine power.¡± Xu Yi exined.

    ¡°This means......that your outer space program is to start developing things that we can use to fly into outer space with? Isn¡¯t this......very difficult?¡± Emperor Candra said in a doubtful voice.

    ¡°It is very hard.¡± Xu Yi was very frank, ¡°But it isn¡¯t impossible. We already have the ability tounch satellites, so that means we¡¯re qualified to enter outer space. Now that the dragon race has collected some data about outer space for us, it will help us enter outer space sooner.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡± Emperor Candra thought about it for a bit before spreading his hands and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, it isn¡¯t that I don¡¯t believe you, but please tell me clearly, what benefits are there for me or our Candra Empire to participate in your outer space n?¡±

    Xu Yi took out a picture from his chest with a smile and ced it in front of Emperor Candra.

    Emperor Candra took the picture in a doubtful manner, but after taking a look, his face sank.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what is the meaning of this?¡±

    This picture looked to be a normal valley on the surface, but Emperor Candra could tell with a single nce that this was a certain military magic machine research base the Candra Empire had set up in the east province.

    This was the Candra Empire¡¯s top secret base, how did Xu Yi know about this?

    ¡°Your majesty, don¡¯t question who leaked this secret. Take a closer look at this picture, do you see any problems?¡±

    Emperor Candra was confused as he seriously looked over the picture. After a while, he noticed that the angle of the picture was very strange.

    It should be said that this picture of the valley was observed from a very far ce, it could even be said that it was seen from above.

    The angle of the picture was above, but it seemed very close. It clearly showed the scenery of the mountain, even clearly showing the leaves of the trees on the side of the valley.

    This really made one surprised.

    The valley seemed very normal, but it was strictly guarded. It was impossible for any person or flying machine to be this close above the valley without being detected.

    ¡°How did you do this?¡± Emperor Candra asked in a deep voice.

    Xu Yi pointed up.

    ¡°Your majesty, if I said that this was photographed by ourpany¡¯s satellite, would you believe it?¡±

    Emperor Candra looked at the sky high above them and he gave a cold snort.

    ¡°Nonsense! Yourpany¡¯s satellite is in outer space. Based on the data that yourpany released, it¡¯s over a hundred kilometers above the ground, so how could it possibly film things on the ground like this? And with such rity?¡±

    Xu Yi smiled without responding.

    Emperor Candra looked at Xu Yi for a while before taking a deep breath and rxing his expression.

    Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had done many shocking and unbelievable things, destroying themon sense of the Sines Continent¡¯s people many times. Even if Emperor Candra felt that this matter was absurd, he knew that it was very possible.

    Let alone the fact that Xu Yi didn¡¯t need to lie to him about this.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, your satellites can¡¯t just see this valley alone, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course.¡± Xu Yi acknowledged this without any hesitation.

    ¡°Then.....is there a way to make it so you can¡¯t see?¡±

    ¡°Of course there is.¡± Xu Yi paused before exining, ¡°If your Candra Empire also had the ability tounch satellites into outer space, along with the ability to take high definition pictures of the ground from outer space, naturally you¡¯ll know how to guard against it. Isn¡¯t this a very simple fact?¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s breathing became louder.

    Xu Yi¡¯s words were simply a threat.

    But he had no choice but to believe and listen to him.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s satellites could see every part of the Candra Empire, what secrets would they have?

    Seeing the changing expression on Emperor Candra¡¯s face, Xu Yi¡¯s smile became wider.

    He knew that Emperor Candra had already been moved and he would agree sooner orter.

    Then......after taking care of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire, which country should he focus on next?

 Volume 8 Chapter 96

    Volume 8 Chapter 96 He is my little brother

    Xu Yi had returned to the Sines Continent after six years, every one of his actions received the attention of countless people.

    People believed that his return to the Sines Continent this time definitely wasn¡¯t just to see Heinz onest time, he definitely had other ns.

    Facts were as everyone had expected.

    After going to Heinz¡¯s funeral, Xu Yi appeared in the two empires, the Rudson Kingdom, the Mana Magic Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, and the other important countries, meeting with the leaders of these countries.

    No one knew what the meetings were about, but after this, those countries announced at the same time that they would be entering a new cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. However, they didn¡¯t announce the details of this cooperation.

    While many people were feeling doubtful, Xu Yi went around the Sines Continent like this before disappearing from the public¡¯s eye again.

    People were very doubtful about this.

    What did Xu Yie back this time to do?

    ¡°Dad, is this enough?¡± Freya looked at Xu Yi with a doubtful look, ¡°Just giving them a bit of technical data is enough? Can they grasp it?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s enough.¡± Xu Yi nodded, ¡°The major countries of the Sines Continent currently have aplete magic machine industry and umted technology. The outer space program sounds very hard, but as long as there is a foundation and they are given a direction for their research, then it isn¡¯t that hard to develop it.¡±

    ¡°But to make them develop it themselves, wouldn¡¯t the progress be very slow?¡± Freya knitted her brows, ¡°Dad, didn¡¯t you want those countries to enter outer space as soon as possible?¡±

    ¡°No, if it¡¯s just entering outer space, we could do it ourselves. The reason that I want those Sines Continent countries to participate is to have them set their eyes on something higher. They shouldn¡¯t just limit themselves to this small Sines Continent or this alone.¡±

    Freya gave a shrug, ¡°They might not understand your intentions.¡±

    Xu Yi gave augh, ¡°It¡¯s beyond our control whether they understand or not. Knowing the benefits thate from the outer space program......or rather the threats, even if they aren¡¯t willing, they will still invest in it.¡±

    Freya couldn¡¯t help revealing a smile as she said, ¡°Dad, I really think that you are bad sometimes. The countries on the continent are always being led by the nose by you, they always have to worry about what you think if they want to do anything. Do you know? In the past few years, no matter which country I go to, they would always act cautious when meeting me, like they were afraid of offending me. I think that they aren¡¯t afraid of me, but rather they¡¯re afraid of you.¡±

    Xu Yi revealed a smile, ¡°That isn¡¯t certain, perhaps they¡¯re afraid of you? I¡¯ve heard many people talking in secret, saying that Xu Yi¡¯s daughter is like the father, she¡¯s someone that can¡¯t be offended.¡±

    Freya pretended to be angry as she said, ¡°Who said that! How am I that ruthless! Those fellows bullied me as the new chairman and think that I¡¯m young and don¡¯t understand things, so they try to trap me. If it wasn¡¯t for dad saying that you wanted everyone to develop together, I would have already taken care of them!¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the slightly angry Freya and revealed a smile before asking in a gentle voice, ¡°Freya, it¡¯s been hard being the chairman over the past few years, right?¡±

    Freya was silent for a bit before first nodding and then shaking her head. She said with a smile, ¡°It was quite hard in the beginning, but it wasn¡¯t that hard after I got used to it.¡±

    ¡°Then do you regret your decision? If you¡¯re not willing and want to step down, I will support you. Your mom has always told me that she wants you and Xu Zhuo toe to the ind so we can live a happy life together as a family.¡±

    Xu Zhuo, that was Xu Yi and Still¡¯s second son.

    He was different from Freya. He had a name that had the Chinese style from earth just like Xu Yi, so he was different just like Xu Yi.

    Xu Zhuo had a different personality from Freya. He was very calm and wasn¡¯t as lively as Freya, so he had always been interested in magic research.

    With the fine genes passed down by his parents and the excellent magic environment of his family, Xu Zhuo had shown a strong talent in magic since he was young. He entered the Frestech Academy at a young age and directly entered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility after graduating.

    Now that he was twenty eight years old, he was one of the project leaders and his current research project was rted to the loss of magic power during consumption.

    ¡°No, I don¡¯t regret it.¡± Freya still revealed the bright and carefree smile in front of Xu Yi, ¡°I was only working hard in the first two years to stick with my decision, but after getting used to it, I feel that being the chairman is quite good.¡±

    After a pause, Freya said very frankly to Xu Yi, ¡°Dad, I like the feeling of being able to decide all these important things. This makes me feel like I¡¯m in control of my own life and makes me feel free.¡±

    ¡°A position with such heavy responsibility makes you feel free?¡± Xu Yi was a bit surprised as he looked at Freya. He thought that this daughter of his was a natural ruler and was very different from him.

    ¡°Un.¡± Freya nodded, ¡°I like this feeling right now, so you don¡¯t have to worry that I won¡¯t do the work you throw at me.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling, ¡°It¡¯s certainly good that you¡¯re willing to do this. I¡¯ve said it before, you should decide your own life. As your father, I can only help you open a path, but whether you walk it or not depends on you. Now that you feel that this is good, then you might as well do it. But you have to know that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chairman has great power, but also great responsibility, you can¡¯t just do what you want based on your own intentions.¡±

    ¡°I know.¡± Freya hugged Xu Yi¡¯s arm with a smile, ¡°Dad, now that you already have control over the Magic Cloud Continent, have you ever thought of starting a country and taking over the Magic Cloud Continent as a king? I¡¯m sure that would be very cool!¡±

    ¡°Cool your head!¡± Xu Yi hit Freya¡¯s head without any courtesy before taking a deep look at her, ¡°I¡¯m not interested in that. If you¡¯re interested, then you can be the queen, I won¡¯t stop you.¡±

    Freya rubbed her head as she said with a smile, ¡°I¡¯m not interested either. Although I like the feeling of being in control as the chairman, I still feel that it is very troublesome. If you want me to be a queen like aunt Seveni, then I would be exhausted to death.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s good that you understand.¡± Hearing Freya¡¯s words that came from her heart, Xu Yi let out a sigh, ¡°Your aunt Seveni......When I met her in the beginning, she was just a little girl with affection in her heart,pletely different from how she is now......¡±

    Freya secretly looked at Xu Yi¡¯splicated expression and after thinking about it, she carefully asked, ¡°Dad, you and aunt Seveni......are you arguing right now?¡±

    ¡°No, there¡¯s no argument between us. This is the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s problem, we all know this, but we also know that it can¡¯t be avoided. This is something that we can¡¯t do anything about and no one canin about.¡±

    ¡°Then you going to the two empires, the Rudson Kingdom, as well as the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, but leaving the Lampuri Kingdom right after uncle Heinz¡¯s funeral......You haven¡¯t met aunt Seveni sinceing back at all, right? Raymond asked me about this yesterday.¡±

    ¡°Oh? Raymond asked you?¡± Xu Yi asked in a surprised voice, ¡°What did you talk about?¡±

    ¡°Raymond just said a few casual things and extended his regards to you. He didn¡¯t mention aunt Seveni at all. However, he did talk about you going to Banta City to go to uncle Heinz¡¯s funeral, but not going to Anvilmar City.¡± Freya paused before saying, ¡°Raymond seemed a bit unhappy......¡¯

    ¡°Unhappy?¡± Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°I was in Banta City for five days and didn¡¯t Seveni also go to Heinz¡¯s funeral?¡±

    Freya blinked before she couldn¡¯t help giving augh.

    ¡°Dad, why do I feel that......you and aunt Seveni are like a couple that is arguing?¡±

    ¡°Stop speaking nonsense!¡± Xu Yi reprimanded, ¡°Seveni is the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen and you have to give her respect no matter what. Moreover, if your mom heard this......¡±

    ¡°Mom won¡¯t say anything even if she heard it.¡± Freya said with a smile, ¡°Mom told me before that if you were willing in the past, perhaps you would have already be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king.¡±

    Xu Yi helplessly shook his head and said with a sigh, ¡°It¡¯s all in the past, don¡¯t mention it again. In short, when ites to differing opinions, Seveni and I indeed......have some ces that we can¡¯t agree on. But she is an old friend that I¡¯ve known for over thirty years and the Lampuri Kingdom is our Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s most important partner and ally, so personal contradictions don¡¯t mean anything. You don¡¯t need to worry about this.¡±

    ¡°Raymond and I have never had any issues, we¡¯ve always had a good cooperation. But in the outer space program that you raised, you¡¯ve deliberately left out the Lampuri Kingdom, so I wanted to know what your true feelings were.¡±

    ¡°My feelings aren¡¯t important.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°The Lampuri Kingdom has the most developed magic machine industry on the Sines Continent and has the most umted technology, so they can¡¯t be excluded from the outer space program.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡± Freya revealed a sweet smile, ¡°Then I understand.¡±

    Seeing Freya agreeing this easily, Xu Yi suddenly thought of a problem. He knitted his brows to ask, ¡°Freya, is your rtionship with Raymond very good?¡±

    ¡°Yes. We normally talk in private, so our rtionship isn¡¯t bad. What about it?¡±

    ¡°You......You wouldn¡¯t have any feelings towards him, right?¡± Xu Yi asked in a hesitant voice.

    ¡°Feelings?¡± Freya looked at Xu Yi with a surprised look. After thinking for a bit, she understood what he meant and revealed a wide smile, ¡°Dad, you......you¡¯ve made a......mistake. Ha, ha......Ha, ha, I¡¯m dying ofughter.......I know, so you......you don¡¯t need to worry. How could I love Raymond? I already knew that Raymond is......¡±

    Freya couldn¡¯t stand up straight fromughter and could only force herself to look up at Xu Yi with a mischievous smile.

    ¡°He¡¯s my little brother, right?¡±

    Xu Yi was filled with embarrassment.

 Volume 8 Chapter 97

    Volume 8 Chapter 97 Chaos of war

    After staying at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce base for a bit to discuss the outer space program with Freya, he met with some old friends before Xu Yi left the Sines Continent again.

    This time, from when he came back to the Sines Continent to see the critically ill Heinz to when he left, less than half a month had passed. It was considered quite a rushed trip.

    After receiving the news that Xu Yi boarded the Magic Airship and left the Sines Continent, countless people on the Sines Continent let out sighs of relief.

    These people had thought that Xu Yi hade back to the Sines Continent to bring arge change, but they never thought that Xu Yi would only promote the outer space program in some countries and do nothing else.

    Many people discussed this in secret and couldn¡¯t help making guesses.

    Could it be that what Xu Yi said was true? He really hadpletely handed over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to Freya and he wouldn¡¯t pay attention to what happened on the Sines Continent?

    No one was a worm in Xu Yi¡¯s belly, so no one could understand what Xu Yi was really thinking.

    But they didn¡¯t care about this since Xu Yi still left the Sines Continent in the end.

    Last time he left, he only returned after six years and he had only returned for half a month.

    Would he leave for even longer this time?

    Not everyone was this optimistic.

    There were many newspapers that pointed out that Xu Yi¡¯s rushed journey meant that there was arge improvement in transportation. Even if the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent are more than ten thousand kilometers apart, they were no longer like before where they were two different worlds that didn¡¯t have contact with each other.

    As long as Xu Yi was willing, he could evene back in just a day or two.

    There were also many fleets that weren¡¯t from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce going back and forth between the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent, closely linking the two continents together.

    In short, the world that people knew about was countless times bigger than before and from a sense, their world had be much smaller than before.

    If you looked at it, people didn¡¯t even need to go out to know what happened thousands of kilometers away. They could also see it with their own eyes and contact people that were thousands of kilometers away.

    If they really wanted to, they could take the most advanced Magic Airships and arrive in a short period of time.

    Like this, what was the difference between being separated by a few thousand kilometers and ten thousand kilometers?

    So although Xu Yi didn¡¯t leave the Magic Cloud Continent, as long as he wanted, he could still have an enormous influence on the Sines Continent.

    In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was the most powerful magic machinepany on the Sines Continent. They yed a tremendous pivotal role in all the countries of the continent, so who would dare ignore them?

    It had to be said, the analysis of these newspapers were very reasonable, but for the people who gave a sigh of relief after Xu Yi lef the Sines Continent, if Xu Yi stayed on the Sines Continent, there would be a pressure left in their hearts.

    Now that he was gone, making his stance clear to people, naturally these people felt much more relieved.

    So as Xu Yi left again, the thoughts of the Sines Continent¡¯s people started to brew.

    August of year 3124, three months after Xu Yi left the Sines Continent, the Marlow Empire sent their troops to invade the neighbouring Norman Duchy to the southeast.

    In just a single week, the small Norman Duchy waspletely upied by therge armies of the Marlow Empire and was destroyed.

    Duke Normal received news beforehand and had chosen to flee.

    With his bloodline rtions to the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family, Duke Norman escaped to Wimbledon City to seek the asylum of the Candra Empire.

    The Candra Empire issued a strict warning to the Marlow Empire, warning them to pull back their troops and give the Norman Duchy back to Duke Norman. However, the Marlow Empire sternly rejected this request.

    At the end of August, the Candra Empire chose to send out their troops, but they didn¡¯t go right for the Marlow Empire. Instead, they sent their troops to a small duchy between the two empires. Before the Marlow Empire could react, they used five days to capture this small duchy.

    This small duchy named Rogenstein was closely rted to the Marlow Empire and because it was between the two empires, upying a key geographical position, it had always been sheltered by the Marlow Empire.

    Now that the Candra Empire had suddenly sent troops to the Rogenstein Duchy, there was no doubt that it was rttion for the Marlow Empire taking the Norman Duchy.

    While the two empires condemned each other and called each other out through official and non-official channels, the southeast part of the province also started to stir.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom¡¯s first and second fleet were moved at the same time, conquering over ten inds that were along the continent¡¯s eastern coastline. Then they built up fortifications on these inds andpletely blocked off the southeast coastline, controlling it in their hands.

    The coastal countries in the southeast corner of the continent strongly opposed this, but the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdompletely ignored them all. Then after some time, in the middle of September, they invaded the northern Gino Kingdom.

    The Gino Kingdom was considered one of the countries that developed their magic machine industry first on the southeast corner of the continent, but because they didn¡¯t have as much research in terms of military magic machines and they weren¡¯t as close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, their military power was far inferior.

    In the battle between the two countries, the Gino Kingdom was pushed back again and again until the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom easily took half of their territory.

    While the southeast corner of the continent was stirring, there were movements in other parts of the Sines Continent.

    At the end of September, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army gave the pretext of missing soldiers to brazenly send troops into the Ant Kingdom that was north of the past Sack Kingdom, having a fierce exchange with the local garrison.

    The Ant Kingdom¡¯s garrison was routed and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s northern army used an excuse to invade the Ant Kingdom.

    At the same time, the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire¡¯s armies had already been at the border staring at each other for a month.

    On September 29th, a team sent out by the Candra Empire on a scouting mission was ambushed by the Marlow Empire andpletely destroyed.

    The Candra Empire was enraged by this and officially dered war on the Marlow Empire.

    On October 2nd, the two armies started a fierce war on the borders of the two countries.

    As the first sound of the Magic Cannon roared out, it symbolized that the over twenty years of peace on the Sines Continent was finally over.

    ###

    Different from the Sines Continent that had be unstable with war, the Magic Cloud Continent was very uneventful.

    After the goblin capital city fell, the Goblin King fell under the control of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the Goblin King working with them, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other local races didn¡¯t have to use that much effort to control the rest of the goblins on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Although countless goblins were killed in the fight, there really were too many goblins. The amount captured was shocking, with the rough estimate being over three million goblins.

    ording to the n that Xu Yi and the other races had alreadye up with, these goblins were scattered. They were split between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the local races to bebourers.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce received close to one and half million goblins.

    This terrifying amount, with just the previous number of people the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, it would have been very hard to control.

    But because they controlled the Goblin King and the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave the goblins enough food after capturing them, the goblins were very willing to ept orders from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After all, before this, the goblins had very low production skills and there were few goblins that could eat their fill. Not only would they be under threat from other races, they would even be under threat from others in their own race.

    Under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they could live their lives and fill their stomachs, so it was a great gift from the heavens to the goblins.

    As for resisting?

    What a joke!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had those terrifying things, what could they resist with?

    So after a bit of chaos in the beginning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce easily took care of the one and a half million goblins.

    Actually, adding in the manpower that came to the Magic Cloud Continent with Xu Yi this time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only deployed fourteen thousand guards to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    If the goblins wanted to resist, even if they didn¡¯t fear them it would be troublesome.

    But the goblins were very obedient and it only took a small team of around ten guards to make sure that tens of thousand of goblins wouldn¡¯t dare to make any moves.

    Moreover, Xu Yi implemented a system among the goblins. He picked some of the smarter goblins and gave them higher positions and better treatments. They would be in charge of the other goblins and would report to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If there was a problem with the group of goblins they managed, it would be their responsibility.

    Moreover, the teams of goblins could also monitor each other. If they reported another team and it was verified, they would receive extra rewards.

    With these methods, the simpleminded goblins didn¡¯t y any tricks.

    So the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly received one and a half million workers. Although these workers couldn¡¯t be used everywhere and their capabilities couldn¡¯tpare to humans and the other races, they could still do simple work.

    With them doing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s simple foundational jobs, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s development progress greatly increased.

    If people came to the current Magic Cloud Continent, they would find that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s controlled area changed with each passing day.

    In just half a year, various factories kept appearing in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base. Each region became bustling and it was a stark contrast with the Sines Continent filled with the chaos of war.

 Volume 8 Chapter 98

    Volume 8 Chapter 98 Like a little girl

    Prince Raymond stood straight and had a perfect smile on his face as he walked into the hall filled with people.

    He had a strong figure because of his constant exercise and with his magnificent formal dress, he fully demonstrated his elegant appearance. It attracted the passionate gazes of many Ant Kingdom noble girls, as if they would swallow Prince Raymond in a single bite.

    This was the Ant Kingdom¡¯s royal pce and Prince Raymond acted like he was in the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal pce, without any intentions of being a guest.

    Because this time he hade to attend the Ant Kingdom¡¯s surrender ceremony.

    As the representative from the Lampuri Kingdom, he had to show the stance of a master because this surrender ceremony represented the Ant Kingdom¡¯splete surrender to the Lampuri Kingdom, epting their integration into the Lampuri Kingdom.

    After two years of war, the Lampuri Kingdom hadpletely defeated the Ant Kingdom, forcing them to surrender. For the Lampuri Kingdom, this was without a doubt a magnificent feat.

    It had to be known that in the several hundred years of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s history, although they had a great achievement of destroying the Sack Kingdom and the Falk Kingdom, that was done with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and wasn¡¯t recognized by everyone.

    But this time, the Lampuri Kingdom had relied on their own power to defeat the Ant Kingdom.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been neutral during this entire war and never helped the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, the Ant Kingdom¡¯s people definitely didn¡¯t believe this.

    Prince Raymond looked in front of him at the Ant Kingdom¡¯s king and other high level representatives waiting for him. Seeing the forced smiles on their faces and the unconvinced and fierce looks in their eyes, he couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    So what if they¡¯re unconvinced? The facts were that the Ant Kingdom couldn¡¯t resist the Lampuri Kingdom and was conquered.

    Even if the Ant Kingdom could resist a bit, that was just some small problems not worth mentioning and couldn¡¯t affect the general situation.

    Thinking of this, Prince Raymond¡¯s smile became wider as he walked forward towards the Ant Kingdom¡¯s representatives.

    But before he took a few steps, he suddenly felt a special pair of eyes staring from the crowd that made him unable to not turn his head to look.

    However all he saw was a normal looking girl hiding in the crowd. Although her clothes were luxurious, she was very different from the beautiful young nobledies of the Ant Kingdom around her.

    But when this woman raised her hand to give a strange signal, Prince Raymond¡¯s eyes shrank.

    Then that woman gave Prince Raymond a nod before turning to leave.

    Prince Raymond stopped for a bit before he continued forward.

    Not many people noticed this small interlude and the entire ceremony continued as nned.

    The surrender treaty was smoothly signed.

    Even if the Ant Kingdom¡¯s ministers created some barriers with their words, Prince Raymond easily solved them all.

    In the end, the situation had been determined and the Ant Kingdom couldn¡¯t fight back at all.

    When night came, the ceremony and banquet that hadsted several hours finally came to an end.

    Prince Raymond declined everyone¡¯s invitations and directly left the Ant Kingdom royal pce.

    After leaving the royal pce, he took the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s motorcade, but he didn¡¯t go to the embassy prepared by the Ant Kingdom, but rather drove out of the Ant Kingdom¡¯s capital city.

    When he came to a ce around three kilometers outside the capital city¡¯s gate, he finally stopped by a small river.

    Prince Raymond came out and walked over to amon looking Magic Sedan by the river. He opened the passenger seat and sat down.

    ¡°Hey, Raymond, you weren¡¯t taken away by any of those Ant noble girls?¡± The person in the driver¡¯s seat turned over and asked Prince Raymond this with a bright smile.

    If anyone else was here, they definitely would have been shocked.

    Because this person was actually the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s current chairman, Freya!

    Prince Raymond gave a shrug, ¡°Since Freya was looking for me, even if they did invite me, I could only let them down.¡±

    In front of Freya, he didn¡¯t speak with the tone of the ¡°gentle without any dignity¡± and ¡°benevolent and fair¡± prince in the eyes of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people, rather he spoke very casually.

    Freya looked at him and shook her head, ¡°You shouldn¡¯t say that to me. Your son is already two years old, so you shouldn¡¯t y around that much.¡±

    Hearing Freya mention his son, Prince Raymond revealed a happy smile.

    ¡°He, he, Hasal can already run around now. I think that in a few years, I can bring him out to y.¡± After a pause, he revealed a bitter smile, ¡°Speaking of ying around, I¡¯m not that interested. Butdy mother wants me to find a few more and give birth to more children, so she always encourages me.¡±

    Freya gave a soft snort, ¡°Does aunt Seveni like having that many grandchildren?¡±

    ¡°She is just thinking about our Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s royal family bloodline, I can understand this.¡± Prince Raymond exined on Seveni¡¯s behalf.

    Freya looked at Prince Raymond and shook her head, ¡°Forget it, the thoughts of your royal families aren¡¯t things that normal people like us can understand, I¡¯m toozy to care about that.¡±

    Prince Raymond looked at Freya and thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman can¡¯t be considered a normal person.

    Then he also thought of another problem.

    ¡°Freya speaking of this, when......are you nning on getting married? You¡¯re already thirty......¡±

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Freya angrily reprimanded, ¡°You¡¯re a prince, don¡¯t you know that discussing a woman¡¯s age is rude?¡±

    Prince Raymond helplessly spread his hands, ¡°But can you say that this isn¡¯t a problem? I think that uncle Xu and aunt Still have always been worried about this, haven¡¯t you thought of that?¡±

    ¡°I say, you are an honoured prince and the future king of the Lampuri Kingdom, can you care about the important things that you should care about and not ask me these questions?¡± Freya red at him, ¡°You want me to get married? Alright, as long as you can find someone as outstanding as my dad or just a bit worse than him, then I¡¯ll agree. Can you find someone like that?¡±

    Prince Raymond revealed a bitter smile.

    Xu Yi had already be a legend on the Sines Continent.

    Whether it was as an Arch Magus or creating the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he was at the peak of this world. How could there be someone that is like him?

    ¡°Alright, time is precious, let¡¯s stop rambling and get to business.¡± Freya cleared her throat and continued, ¡°Raymond, is your Lampuri Kingdom still not nning on entering the outer space industry? ording to the news I received yesterday, the Candra Empire hasunched their sixth satellite and the Marlow Empireunched their fifthst month. If you give them some more time, I think that they will be able to set up aplete monitoring system and the countries that don¡¯t have these things at that time will suffer. Especially your Lampuri Kingdom. Don¡¯t look at the fact that you¡¯ve swallowed the Ant Kingdom, the gap between you and the two empires has actually increased. If you don¡¯t do something, the gap will only get bigger.¡±

    Prince Raymond was silent for a bit before asking, ¡°Are these your thoughts or uncle Xu¡¯s?¡±

    ¡°My thoughts. Lord father no longer asks about the matters of the Sines Continent, it¡¯s not like you don¡¯t know this.¡±

    ¡°Un......¡± Prince Raymond silently thought for a bit before giving a sigh and revealing a bitter smile, ¡°Actually, I already considered this issue and I also think that our Lampuri Kingdom should develop the outer space industry so we don¡¯t fall too far behind, butdy mother, she......¡±

    Freya and Prince Raymond looked at each other for a bit before she suddenly thought of something. She said with a smile, ¡°Tell me......Aunt Seveni not being willing to develop the outer space industry over the past few years, is it because she¡¯s being spiteful with my father?¡±

    Prince Raymond looked at Freya and wanted to refute this, but he couldn¡¯t when he opened his mouth.

    Since Xu Yi came to the Sines Continent three years ago and spread the outer space program, there were many countries that started to develop the outer space industry. The two empires were the first tounch satellites into outer spacest year.

    For the Lampuri Kingdom that didn¡¯t have a worse magic machine industry than the two empires and were even better in certain aspects, they should have developed quickly in the outer space industry.

    But the Lampuri Kingdom never seemed to catch on with the outer space industry. Not only did they not develop it, they even resisted it.

    All of this came from Queen Seveni¡¯s strange resistance of the outer space industry.

    No one knew why the wise Queen Seveni would be against the outer space industry, only Freya and Prince Raymond had some clues.

    When Xu Yi came back to the Sines Continent to promote the outer space program, he went to many countries, but chose to avoid the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even in the five days he stayed in Banta City, he didn¡¯t go see Seveni.

    So Freya and Prince Raymond guessed that Queen Seveni was a bit spiteful because of this and wasn¡¯t willing to develop the outer space industry.

    Prince Raymond wasn¡¯t willing to acknowledge this since in his mind, hisdy mother had always put her heart into the Lampuri Kingdom. She was a queen that never did anything for personal gain, so how could she decide the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s policies in a spiteful manner like a little girl?

    But the current situation didn¡¯t have any other exnation......

    However, what Prince Raymond was worried about was that even if hisdy mother chose not to develop the outer space industry because of this reason, he didn¡¯t have a way to solve it.

    He couldn¡¯t just have Xu Yi go admit his mistake in front of his mother, right?

    After thinking about it, he looked at Freya beside him.

    Freya had taken the initiative to find him about this matter, could it be that she had a way to solve it?

 Volume 8 Chapter 99

    Volume 8 Chapter 99 Abdicate

    It was a pity that Freya didn¡¯t have any solutions to this problem.

    But she gave a temporary solution to the outer space program which was to share the Frestech Chamber of Commerce satellite signals with the Lampuri Kingdom. It would let the Lampuri Kingdom not fall too far behind the two empires and the other countries in terms of outer spacemunication and surveince.

    Prince Raymond was very interested in this solution, but he couldn¡¯t give Freya a definite answer.

    ¡°I can¡¯t hide this matter fromdy mother and I¡¯m not confident that she¡¯ll agree.¡± Prince Raymond felt very helpless, ¡°But I can try talking withdy mother when I get back. If she doesn¡¯t stop me, then we can talk about it when the timees.¡±

    ¡°Alright, then we¡¯ll do this for now.¡± Freya gave a shrug.

    Prince Raymond gave a sigh. He looked at Freya¡¯s beautiful face under the night and had a thought as he asked, ¡°Right, I haven¡¯t asked, why did you suddenlye here this time?¡±

    ¡°Didn¡¯t the Ant Kingdom announce their surrender? This is an important matter, so of course I wanted to see it personally.¡± Freya replied with a rxed look.

    Prince Raymond didn¡¯t believe that Freya would run all the way to the Ant Kingdom¡¯s royal pce for this. Moreover, toe at this time, it wouldn¡¯t be that simple.

    As well, based on the appearance that Freya had earlier, it was clear that she had hidden her identity whening here.

    With her status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, she would be a distinguished guest in any country. For her to hide her identity like this, she was clearly nning something.

    But if Freya wasn¡¯t willing to say it, he couldn¡¯t keep asking.

    The two talked about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s projects for a bit longer. Freya then ended the meeting and had Prince Raymond get out of the car.

    Watching Freya¡¯s Magic Sedan drive off into the darkness of the river like a spirit, Prince Raymond touched his nose with a bitter smile. He thought that his half rted big sister was living better than him as a prince.

    With her status as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, she could do whatever she wanted. He had to wait for the agreement of his mother and was much more restrained.

    It was even said that Xu Yi had told Freya that if she didn¡¯t want to do it anymore, she could give up the position of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and Xu Yi wouldn¡¯t interfere.

    As for him? As the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s only prince, it was decided that he would be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s next king.

    This also meant that he wouldn¡¯t be able to hide from his heavy responsibilities.

    ¡°If I be the king, I would have great power and it would be fine to have such great responsibilities, but withdy mother controlling everyone, what can I do?¡±

    Prince Raymond gave a sigh. He fixed the expression on his face before turning back to his motorcade.

    ###

    Half a monthter, a Lampuri Kingdompany that wasn¡¯t that famous reached a not that public agreement with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    There weren¡¯t many people who knew the contents, but the contents were quite important.

    ording to the agreement, thatpany would rent a total of six satellites from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that they would share the signals with.

    Moreover, after this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would help thatpanyunch two satellites that would belong to them, while also renting some equipment that would allow thatpany to maintain those two satellites.

    Because this contract was signed in a very secret ceremony, it didn¡¯t attract that much attention.

    But a monthter, there was a piece of news from the Lampuri Kingdom that attracted the entire Sines Continent¡¯s attention.

    Queen Seveni who had been on the throne for thirty nine years had suddenly announced that she would be abdicating. She would be giving her throne to her only son, Prince Raymond.

    This news had made people very shocked and very confused.

    Although Queen Seveni was already over sixty years old which was considered old, she was still very healthy and there was no news of any serious illnesses. People still thought that she would be leading the Lampuri Kingdom for another ten to twenty years.

    But now that there wasn¡¯t any change in the Lampuri Kingdom and after they had conquered the Ant Kingdom, when they should be at their strongest, Queen Seveni was choosing to abdicate?

    There were many people who thought that Prince Raymond had rebelled in secret to force Queen Seveni to abdicate.

    But this was a guess that many people looked down on.

    Queen Seveni had ruled the Lampuri Kingdom for so many years and the Lampuri Kingdom went from a small country in the southwest corner to a country that controlled arge part of the southwest corner. This country had a pivotal role on the Sines Continent and was the strongest country under the two empires, so they had astonishing might. The Lampuri Kingdom could even be considered one of the greatest countries in history.

    Adding in the quick development of the Lampuri Kingdom in the many years she had been on the throne, raising the quality of living for the citizens which was a sharp contrast from when she wasn¡¯t in power, Queen Seveni had unparalleled prestige in the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Even if Prince Raymond had an idea of rebelling, who would be willing to follow him?

    Then again, he was Seveni¡¯s only son and without a doubt the sessor to the throne, so there was no need for him to worry that someone else would take his right to session. He could calmly wait for Queen Seveni to grow old before taking the throne, so why would he need to take a risk and rebel?

    Without caring for the guesses of the outside world, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s passing on of the throne went smoothly.

    After Queen Seveni abdicated, she still appeared in public for the first three months and participated in forming many of the kingdom¡¯s policies. However, she appeared less and lesster on, reducing her contact with politics.

    In the end, after around half a year of transition, Queen Seveni announced that she ¡°was assured in handing the Lampuri Kingdom to Raymond¡± and then disappeared from the public¡¯s eye. No one was able to find where she had gone.

    ###

    Xu Yu looked at Seveni standing in front of him with a strange look, not knowing how to respond to this.

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, what is this expression? You don¡¯t wee me here?¡± Seveni said with a rxed smile.

    ¡°How could I not wee you......¡± Xu Yi shook his head and pulled a chair over before indicating for Seveni to sit down, ¡°I was just very curious why you weren¡¯t properly taking care of the Lampuri Kingdom, why did youe all the way here?¡±

    Where Xu Yi and Seveni were right now was not the Sines Continent or the Magic Cloud Continent, it was the little ind that Xu Yi had chosen on the sea after Still had retired.

    This ind wasn¡¯t far from Sky Ind, being separated by around four hundred kilometers, but it was still over six thousand kilometers away from the Sines Continent.

    Seveni had crossed six thousand kilometers to appear in front of Xu Yi, so how could he not be surprised.

    ¡°What is there to be surprised about?¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°I don¡¯t believe that you didn¡¯t receive the news that I abdicated.¡±

    ¡°I do know, but this isn¡¯t rted to you suddenlying to such a far off ce, right?¡±

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s rted. I¡¯m already no longer the queen of the Lampuri Kingdom, so based on your words, I¡¯m unemployed and have nothing to do. Since I have nothing to do, isn¡¯t it normal toe and see an old friend?¡± Seveni said with a smile.

    ¡°If you really wanted to see me, it¡¯s not like you didn¡¯t have the opportunity in the past.¡± Xu Yi rolled his eyes, ¡°Now that you¡¯vee all the way here, you aren¡¯t afraid that I will chase you out as a freeloader?¡±

    Seveni couldn¡¯t helpughing, ¡°Xu Yi, after not seeing each other for so many years, you are still as charming.¡±

    ¡°Yes......It¡¯s been many years......¡± Xu Yi looked at Seveni before suddenly giving a sigh.

    Seveni also fell silent.

    The two of them not meeting for several years was not said casually.

    Actually, more than ten years ago, the two of them had reduced the number of times that they met.

    Later, even the long distance calls that they made were reduced.

    Xu Yi was always busy with the Magic Cloud Continent and didn¡¯t have any chance to contact the Lampuri Kingdom. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s cooperations with the Lampuri Kingdom was handled by Freya and the other Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff, it wasn¡¯t something that Xu Yi cared about.

    The best chance the two had to meet was three years ago when Xu Yi came back to the Sines Continent to participate in Heinz¡¯s funeral.

    However, during those five days, Xu Yi didn¡¯t have any intention of meeting Seveni and Seveni didn¡¯t act like before where she immediately went to find Xu Yi, so the two of them didn¡¯t meet.

    ¡°urately speaking, counting today, it¡¯s been eight years, seven months, and twenty one days since we¡¯ve met in person.¡± Seveni said in a soft voice, ¡°Last time we met, it was because of Arch Magus Cami¡¯s hundred year birthday celebration......¡±

    Xu Yi never thought that Seveni would remember the time so urately. After being surprised, he said with a sigh, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t because it was a big birthday for grandfather, I wouldn¡¯t have invited so many people. Perhaps we wouldn¡¯t have even met.¡±

    Seveni looked at Xu Yi and said with a sigh, ¡°You have to know that you didn¡¯t evene to Raymond¡¯s wedding four years ago, you just sent Freya as your representative.¡±

    Hearing the hidden bitterness in Seveni¡¯s voice, Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, ¡°There¡¯s no helping it, there was an important matter on the Magic Cloud Continent and I really couldn¡¯t leave.¡±

    ¡°So you couldn¡¯t evene to your own son¡¯s wedding?¡±

    Xu Yi was shocked before staring at Seveni with wide eyes.

 Book 8: Chapter 100: Creating a mess

    Book 8: Chapter 100: Creating a mess

    ¡°What is there to be surprised about? Didn¡¯t Still already tell you?¡± Seveni had a very rxed look, ¡°I¡¯m no longer the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, so there¡¯s no need to hide this matter. Actually, I should have told you a long time ago, but I¡¯ve kept stalling until now. Speaking of this, I was actually worried about this.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni in a daze as he could only unconsciously ask, ¡°What were you worried about?¡±

    ¡°Worried that you wouldn¡¯t acknowledge it.¡± Seveni looked right at Xu Yi, ¡°I¡¯m certain that Raymond is your and my child because I¡¯ve only had contact with you as a man my entire life. But I wasn¡¯t certain, would you have doubted it with your personality?¡±

    Xu Yi was silent.

    Actually, even now, he still didn¡¯t truly believe that Raymond was really his and Seveni¡¯s son.

    Although in the past few years, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce working with the elves, they had already created a soul magic that would test for blood rtions in blood samples to test parentage, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t just pull Raymond there to test it, so he was never certain.

    Seeing the look on Xu Yi¡¯s face, Seveni gave a sigh and continued, ¡°Xu Yi, when we became estranged, was it rted to this?¡±

    Xu Yi looked at Seveni and wanted to confirm that it was rted, but he couldn¡¯t bear to give a nod.

    After the clues showed that Raymond was most likely his child with Seveni, Xu Yi had felt a bit of prejudice towards Seveni.

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    In his opinion, Seveni didn¡¯t hesitate to drug him to have rtions just so she could have a blood rted child with him.

    That way, the child would be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s king and Xu Yi would definitely take care of his child, which would mean taking care of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    This was a very normal n and Xu Yi could understand why Seveni would do this.

    But he very much disliked this approach.

    After confirming this with his private investigation, Xu Yi gradually became estranged with Seveni.

    Of course, that wasn¡¯t the main reason.

    ¡°The reason we became estranged was more because of the difference in views.¡± Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°You are the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen, you have to consider the Lampuri Kingdom and I was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, so I also had to think of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. We had different views, so naturally we also had different opinions and contradictions would ur. I didn¡¯t want us to even stop being normal friends, so I reduced our contact and focused on doing business.¡±

    ¡°What about now? You¡¯re no longer the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and I¡¯m no longer the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s queen. Can we continue being normal friends like before?¡± Seveni asked.

    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, ¡°If I really wasn¡¯t willing, why would Still bring you here in the first ce?¡±

    ¡°Hei, Xu Yi, I spent quite a bit of effort to convince Seveni to have here see you. You¡¯re not thanking me and now you¡¯reining about me?¡± Still came out of an unknown corner.

    ¡°How could I beining about you, I don¡¯t even have time to thank you.¡± Xu Yiughed, ¡°Seveni is one of the few good friends that I have left and now that we have a chance to sit and talk, that is a beautiful thing.¡±

    ¡°You think so too?¡± Seveni revealed a smile. She looked around before giving a sigh, ¡°Actually, aftering here, I¡¯ve found that I¡¯ve woken up a bit toote. Life is really rxed here and if I gave the throne to Raymond earlier, I could have enjoyed the same rxed life as you and Still.¡±

    ¡°Right, Seveni, I still have a question. Why did you suddenly decide to give the throne to Raymond?¡± Still asked in a curious voice.

    Xu Yi also cared about this.

    He thought that Seveni would be the same as the British queen on earth, ruling over the Lampuri Kingdom until she died.

    Prince Raymond would be like the tragic prince on earth, being the crown prince for several decades without being able to take the throne.

    He never thought that Seveni would suddenly decide to abdicate, handing the throne and all the power in the Lampuri Kingdom to Prince Raymond.

    ¡°This isn¡¯t sudden.¡± Seveni shook her head, ¡°Actually when Raymond got married, I already had this idea. I¡¯ve been training Raymond over these years and had him get involved more in politics, as well as having him make decisions so that he could smoothly take this position. I felt that the time was right, so I gave the throne to him. Isn¡¯t this very normal?¡±

    ¡°No, Seveni, I know you. Even if you already had this idea, if it wasn¡¯t because something stimted this, you wouldn¡¯t have suddenly made this decision.¡± Xu Yi said in a firm tone.

    Seveni was silent for a bit before giving a bitterugh.

    ¡°Alright, I guess that there¡¯s only you, Xu Yi who understands me best in this world. Yes, I was indeed stimted. This stimtion is¡­¡­rted to you and Seveni.¡±

    Xu Yi and Still were surprised, ¡°It¡¯s rted to us?¡±

    ¡°Go and ask your good daughter Freya.¡± Seveni said with a smile, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t hering to tell me that Raymond had a different idea than me when it came to the outer space program andined that I was too stubborn, which made him have scruples when doing many things, how could I have suddenly had this thought?¡±

    Xu Yi and Seveni were even more surprised.

    ¡°Freya said this to you?¡± Still¡¯s expression became a bit angry, ¡°How could she say this to you! This is too much!¡±

    ¡°No, I seriously considered it and felt that she was being reasonable. Now that I¡¯ve left the Lampuri Kingdom to Raymond, I feel much more rxed and I can do what I want. I even came all this way to see Xu Yi.¡± Seveni¡¯s expression rxed, but it seemed like she thought differently.

    She turned to Xu Yi after saying this.

    ¡°Xu Yi, it seems like Freya isn¡¯t willing to live peacefully, so you should prepare yourself.¡±

    Before Xu Yi could speak, Still knitted her brows, ¡°What do you mean by this?¡±

    Xu Yi stopped Still from asking any other questions before shaking his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I know. That daughter of mine has had this personality since she was young, it would be strange if she wanted to settle down. Of course, with the current situation of the Sines Continent, living peacefully isn¡¯t a good thing, right?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re right.¡± Seveni gave a nod, ¡°So I gave the Lampuri Kingdom to Raymond. I¡¯ll let him and Freya, those young people handle the mess that is the Sines Continent.¡±

    ###

    Saying that the Sines Continent was a mess wasn¡¯t an exaggeration at all.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom had conquered the Ant Kingdom, the follow up work was far from over.

    After half a year, there would be rebel factions that appeared from time to time in the Ant Kingdom. They would mess with the peace of the Ant Kingdom, which caused trouble for the Lampuri Kingdom.

    However,pared to this, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation was considered peaceful as the other parts of the Sines Continent were much worse.

    The southeast corner.

    The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had been very sessful in their offense, not only did they break through the Gino Kingdom¡¯s capital, they also seized most of the Gino Kingdom¡¯s territory. They also continued their offense up north, almost quickly seizing most of the territory in the southeast corner of the continent.

    However, the other nations of the southeast corner formed a resistance alliance, gathering with the eastern countries and resisting the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom together.

    Over the past few years, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had been deadlocked with this alliance, so the mes of war kept burning in the southeastern and eastern part of the continent.

    In the center of the continent, the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire had officially dered war, spreading the mes of war to over half of the continent¡¯snds.

    The armies of the two empires justst year alone had fought battles of over a hundred thousand people four times and had fought over a hundred skirmishes.

    It was hard to count the number of smaller countries affected. The mes of war didn¡¯t just burn in the borders of the two empires, but in more than half of thend on the continent.

    But the two empires had a tacit understanding and didn¡¯t use all their national strength to start an all out war. They just fought battles with each other, but they never stopped their own development.

    When affected by the war, the magic machine industry on the Sines Continent inevitably slowed down, but there was remarkable growth in military rted industries.

    Especially military magic machines. The two empires would announce new military magic machines from time to time, demonstrating their breakthroughs in technology.

    It would take one or two years in the beginning, but in the past two years, it would take around a few months.

    Because of the pressure of war, the two empires and the other countries invested even more in developing military magic machine technology.

    During the ten years of peace, the Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry rted technology all developed quickly, but during the past few years of war, there was still a new boom of magic machine industry rted technology.

    On earth, historians would often say that war was the biggest driving force for the development of technology.

    This was perfectly demonstrated in this world.

    But no one realized just how the situation would develop.

    Seveni didn¡¯t know and Xu Yi didn¡¯t know either.

 Book 8: Chapter 101: Exiled expert

    Book 8: Chapter 101: Exiled expert

    Arge transport Magic Ship slowly docked at the harbour the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up on the east coast of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    As soon as it stopped, the gangnk came down and therge group of people on the deck impatiently came off.

    This was a ten thousand tonrge transport Magic Ship that came from the Torea Dominion, having sailed on the endless seas for thirteen days.

    The people on the ship had spent thirteen days on the sea, never seeing a trace ofnd.

    Now that they finally arrived at the Magic Cloud Continent, naturally they weren¡¯t willing to stay on the ship for another second.

    The reason why they chose to take this transport Magic Ship instead of the passenger Magic Ship was that other than there being too few passenger Magic Ships and the trip being expensive, was mainly because there were just too many of them.

    Just on this transport Magic Ship were over three thousand people.

    Great Magician Leman held the hand of his wife and children as they were surrounded by the waves of people. In the end, he had to use his magic power to create a small barrier around his wife and children to ensure that they weren¡¯t washed away by this wave of people.

    After their family finally made their way out of the wave of people, Great Magician Leman looked around with a strange look.

    This was arge square outside of the harbour and in the square wererge tents that were set up, withrge banners above them that made them seem like stalls.

    But therge banners were written with themonnguage of the Sines Continent. These were not stalls, but rather recruiting areas for thergepanies of the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Looking at them, he could see the names of various strangepanies.

    One thing that Great Magician Leman noticed was that in these names, there were the words ¡°elves¡±, ¡°dwarves¡±, ¡°halflings¡±, ¡°lizardmen¡±¡­¡­and other races. One would be able to tell immediately which race thesepanies belonged to.

    Of course, the humanpanies were the most populous.

    Almost everypany recruiting had arge group of people in front of them, making it seem very busy.

    However, Great Magician Leman looked around for a while and didn¡¯t see the banner of thepany that he cared about the most, so he couldn¡¯t help feeling a bit strange.

    After thinking about it, he went to the side and asked someone who looked like they worked at the dock, ¡°That¡­..Can I ask where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s recruiting area is?¡±

    The man looked at Great Magician Leman before giving augh, ¡°Are you kidding? Does the Frestech Chamber of Commerce need to set up a stall here? If you want to join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base. Of course, that depends on whether you¡¯re qualified or not.¡±

    After saying this, the man left.

    Great Magician Leman was a bit surprised. He looked down and found that his clothes were very dirty because he hadn¡¯t been able to change them over the past few days, which made him no longer look like a Great Magician. It was no wonder that man hadn¡¯t treated him with courtesy.

    It had to be known, in the Gino Kingdom, he had never received such cold treatment.

    But when he thought of the Gino Kingdom, Great Magician Leman couldn¡¯t help giving a sigh.

    The Gino Kingdom had already disappeared into history and could no longer be found.

    Three months ago, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom gathered their armies again and fought the alliance¡¯s army gathered in the northern Gino Kingdom. The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom won and the alliance¡¯s army was sent out of the Gino Kingdom, allowing them topletely seize the Gino Kingdom.

    The Gino Kingdom had officially been destroyed.

    Before this decisive battle, Great Magician Leman had led his wife and children to escape their hometown and he had hidden in the western Letuvin Duchy.

    He had hoped that the alliance¡¯s army would defeat the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and restore the Gino Kingdom, that way he could go home with his wife and children.

    But when he heard the alliance¡¯s army was defeated and the Gino Kingdom was destroyed he lost the final hope in his heart.

    It was already impossible for him to return to the Gino Kingdom upied by the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Although he as a Great Magician was a famous magic researcher in the Gino Kingdom and as long as he was willing, he could find a stable and high paying job in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, because his and his wife¡¯s parents were buried in the mes of war between the Gino Kingdom and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, he was filled with hatred for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. Naturally he wasn¡¯t willing to work for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    He also wasn¡¯t willing to go to any other countries.

    When he was hesitating, he saw in the newspaper that the Magic Cloud Continent was recruiting people, so he had the idea of bringing his entire family to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Anyway, the Sines Continent was filled with the mes of war and it wasn¡¯t safe staying here, so it was better to go to the Magic Cloud Continent over ten thousand kilometers away.

    He had already read about the Magic Cloud Continent in the newspapers. It said that the new continent was controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so the situation was stable there.

    Although that side clearly wasn¡¯t as developed as the Sines Continent, at least it would be much more peaceful there.

    So Great Magician Leman secretly contacted someone from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. After confirming that he could get a good job at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after arriving on the Magic Cloud Continent, he decided to bring his family across the seas ande to this ce.

    But after he came here with great difficulty, he found that because he had lost his Magic Communicator on the ship, he didn¡¯t have a way to contact the person from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it made things a bit hard.

    ¡°It seems like I have to go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base.¡± Great Magician Leman gathered his thoughts and looked up. He saw the very clear signs around him and found the way to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s base.

    When he was about to call his wife and children, there was arge voice that came through the square that covered all the surrounding sounds.

    ¡°Great Magician Leman, Great Magician Leman, pleasee to the dock passenger service center after hearing this. The staff there are currently looking for you.¡±

    After this repeated three times, the voice disappeared. The crowd only stopped for a moment before going back to their business, as if they were already used to this.

    Great Magician Leman¡¯s heart was filled with joy. This time he didn¡¯t have to ask anyone as with the clear signs, he was able to easily find his way to the dock passenger service center.

    When he came in, there was a figure that came forward.

    ¡°Great Magician Leman, I finally found you! I couldn¡¯t contact you, so I was almost worried to death!¡± The person that came forward was the person that Great Magician Leman had contacted before, who was also the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff responsible for picking him up after he arrived on the Magic Cloud Continent.

    It was a young girl.

    Great Magician Leman revealed an apologetic smile, ¡°My Magic Communicator was identally lost on the ship.¡±

    ¡°Lost?¡± The girl blinked, ¡°Was it stolen by someone?¡±

    Great Magician Leman revealed an awkward look, ¡°I don¡¯t know either. Anyway, I couldn¡¯t find it this morning.¡±

    As a Great Magician, it would have been shameful if his Magic Communicator was stolen, so he naturally wasn¡¯t willing to admit it.

    The girl thought about it before revealing a smile and not asking anything else. She turned to Great Magician Leman¡¯s wife and children beside him and she warmly greeted them. Then she led them out of the service center and brought them to a Magic Sedan that was waiting for them.

    After finally contacting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff, Great Magician Leman, his wife, and their children let out a sigh of relief.

    After getting in the car, they were finally in the mood to look around.

    When they were still on the ship, he had found that the dock was actually bigger than the dock in the Torea Dominion.

    After leaving the dock, he found that there were streets and tall buildings all over. There were cars and pedestrians all around, looking very prosperous.

    Beforeing to the Magic Cloud Continent, although he had a bit of information on the Magic Cloud Continent from various sources, because of the impression that he had in his heart, he had thought that the Magic Cloud Continent was a very poor ce. He was already prepared to live a difficult life aftering here.

    Who would have thought that aftering here, he found that before going to any other ce, the dock and the surrounding region were alreadyparable to the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City that he visited twice before.

    From another perspective, because there were many ancient things that were kept in Wimbledon City, it gave a very old feeling. But this ce was filled with new things that gave a very strong modern aura.

    Although Great Magician Leman was already over forty years old, his mentality was quite young.

    If he had to choose, he preferred a modern ce like this.

    Of course, this was rted to the industry he was involved in.

    The Magic Sedan kept going and the girl in charge of receiving them gave Great Magician Leman a simple introduction.

    Since Great Magician Leman was strong and had professional skills, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce treated him as a special expert from the Sines Continent. Not only did they give Great Magician Leman a job, they had also arranged a ce for his wife and children.

    For example, the most clear example of this was that after he was hired, they immediately gave him a separated vi. This vi was fully equipped which allowed him to live well.

    Great Magician Leman was already very satisfied with this.

    After the girl in charge of receiving him brought him, his wife, and his children to the vi, he was even more satisfied.

    The vi was very beautiful and it was ced in a pleasant area. The vi was filled with all kinds of household magic machines, as well as beingpletely furnished. His family could directly move in and they didn¡¯t need to prepare anything at all.

    This arrangement made Great Magician Leman feel that this trip wasn¡¯t wasted and he also felt willing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    After settling his wife and children, when his wife brought his children to take a bath, he couldn¡¯t help talking to the girl who received them and told her that he wanted to get to work as soon as possible.

    ¡°Your excellency Great Magician, you just arrived today, so you should rest up first. I wille pick you up tomorrow morning and help you get settled in at your job, as well as help you start your work. What do you think?¡±

    Great Magician Leman thought about it before not insisting.

    But he still had a question in his heart that he wanted answered.

    ¡°I saw a report in the Sines Continent¡¯s newspaperst month that said¡­¡­your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was nning some manned outer space flights. How is it going right now?¡±

    The girl revealed a faint smile, ¡°Those are the secrets of ourpany, it can¡¯t be discussed casually. But I can tell you some news that isn¡¯t secret. Just yesterday, the first group of astronauts returned.¡±

    ¡°Safely returned? All of them?¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    Great Magician Leman took a deep breath as he suppressed the shock in his heart.

    While the countries of the Sines Continent were fighting each other, stopping their research into outer space satellites, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was already sending people into outer space.

    Looking up at the sky that was gradually dimming, Great Magician Leman started to have a deep feeling that taking the risk toe to the Magic Cloud Continent was the right decision.

    As long as he was here, a rare specialist in studying magic space in outer space on the Sines Continent like him would have his opportunity!

 Book 8: Chapter 102: How about going to Alice again?

    Book 8: Chapter 102: How about going to Alice again?

    In the endless darkness, there were tiny spots of light that appeared.

    On the left side, there was a giant fireball that was releasing a dazzling glow.

    And in front, there was a giant sphere that was covered inyers of white in many different ces.

    Over half this sphere was covered in blue with a small part of it being covered in yellow, green, red, and other colours.

    If someone on earth saw this, the first thing they would say was that this was earth.

    But if they looked closely, they would find that this covered mainly in blue waspletely different from earth.

    Earth had threerge continents, which were Asian, American, and African continents, with the Oceania and north and south poles being smaller.

    But this only had two long continents that were very big, creating a long strip on the left and right side of the.

    In the middle were smaller pieces ofnd scattered throughout the blue. Other than these two continents, there were only small pieces ofnd that were scattered around.

    This scene in Xu Yi¡¯s eyes made him remember an online game that he had yed when he was in university.

    The continents of this simply reminded him of the from that game.

    ¡°It can¡¯t be that I¡¯ve crossed into Azeroth, right?¡± Xu Yi muttered in his heart. He turned to look at Cassandra who was floating in outer space with him not far away and said, ¡°We can see the dark side of the, which shows that the Sines Continent¡¯s west coast, the Magic Cloud Continent¡¯s east coast, and the Levin Continent are now in night time. But this is my first time here and I can¡¯t see everything. You normallye here, so is there anything that I need to pay attention to?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing special, or I would have told you already.¡± Cassandra¡¯s voice came from the magic fluctuations in the magic space of outer space.

    This was something that Xu Yi and Cassandra could do because their magic power was strong. Otherwise if a normal person came to other space, it would be almost impossible for them to survive, let alone look at the while chatting.

    It was ¡°almost impossible¡± and not pletely impossible¡±¡­¡­

    Xu Yi turned to look at therge metallic object that wasn¡¯t smaller than Cassandra in her dragon form to the right.

    This thing was the space shuttle that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sessfullyunchedst month.

    After the sess of theunch, the first batch of astronauts had all safely returned. This capsule part had remained in orbit, orbiting around the like a satellite.

    Based on Xu Yi¡¯s n, after a few moreunches, he would be able to build a space station in the sky.

    Thinking of this, Xu Yi looked at Cassandra with a somewhat strange look.

    When space technology was being developed on earth, if they wanted to do anything in space, it would be very difficult. They would have to invest arge amount and would have to carefully do things or they would risk arge disaster.

    In this world, because of the bug known as the dragons, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s space program had been very smooth and its progress far surpassed what Xu Yi had expected.

    Not mentioning anything else, just taking this space station n.

    When the most powerful countries on earth came together, they spent arge amount of money, manpower, and time to finally build an international space station that wasn¡¯t that big.

    Then each year after that, they had to invest arge amount of manpower and resources to maintain the international space station.

    But here, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only spent two years making a n and in just a year, the n had reached stage one.

    Next it would take them only half a year to create an operational space station.

    The reason for this exaggerated difference was the existence of the dragon Cassandra.

    The powerful bodies of the dragons and their powerful magic allowed them to freely fly in outer space.

    So the problems that the scientists faced on earth were a piece of cake for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With the help of the dragon Cassandra, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was able to easily obtain data from outer space. They could even test the values in outer space without sending up a rocket, just by sending a dragon up with testing equipment, which saved them quite a bit of time and money.

    Moreover, when satellites failed, it would be very hard for the countries on earth to fix them. However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could just have the dragons fly into outer space to fix them directly, which created a difference in terms of difficulty of repair and price.

    When the space station was built, the routine maintenance could also be given to the dragons which would make it faster, easier, and much quicker.

    This advantage was something that the experts on earth never would have thought of.

    ¡°Hey, Xu Yi, what are you looking at me for?¡± Seeing Xu Yi¡¯s strange gaze cast in her direction, Cassandra asked this.

    ¡°Nothing, I was just thinking, are you interested in creating a base in outer space? It¡¯ll be easier for you to y in outer space in the future.¡±

    ¡°A base in outer space?¡± Cassandra was surprised before an excited look appeared in thoserge dragon eyes, ¡°Alright, alright! Every time I fly up here, I still have to fly back, so it¡¯s so annoying! When we did an outer space flying contestst time, my nsmen said that it was too much trouble flying back and forth, so they aren¡¯t willing toe again. If there is an outer space base for us to stop at, then I think that they will be willing toe.¡±

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help rolling his eyes.

    The dragon race had this heaven defying powerful body and magic, but they weren¡¯t using it properly. This was simply a big waste.

    ¡°Then¡­¡­Cassandra, have you ever thought of building a base on the moon?¡±

    ¡°Moon? You¡¯re talking about Alice?¡± Even after a while, Cassandra¡¯s voice was still a bit strange when she mentioned Alice, ¡°Building a base there is more troublesome than building a base in outer space, right? Yourpany doesn¡¯t have the ability to go to the moon right now, so if our nsmen bring all that stuff there¡­¡­we¡¯ll die of exhaustion.¡±

    ¡°Of course we won¡¯t make you bring stuff over. Even if you were willing, do you know how to build the base after you arrive?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Cassandra was speechless.

    The dragons had strong bodies and magic, but there was nothing else worth mentioning about them.

    To make them go all the way there to build a base was just to torture them.

    ¡°My n is still mainly based on the transmission array on Alice¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s words, Cassandra unconsciously took a step back.

    Without knowing why, she felt that Xu Yi¡¯s following words weren¡¯t good.

    ¡°But ourpany can¡¯t fly to Alice and only you have gone out of the dragon race, so only you have experience. So¡­¡­Cassandra, are you interested in flying there again and performing a few tests on the Magic Array?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s tone was very enticing, but Cassandra flew far away when she heard this.

    Are you joking!

    When she was sent back from Alicest time, that was the biggest shock in her dragon life!

    If she was to go experience that again, she wasn¡¯t willing.

    However, no matter how far she flew, Xu Yi¡¯s voice was still sent to her ears through the magic fluctuations. They reached her hearts and she could hear him clearly.

    ¡°If you¡¯re willing to go, I might have the ability to let you ce a supporting role in the third season of ?Dragon Legends?.¡±

    Cassandra trembled and she stopped flying backwards. She looked at Xu Yi in the distance who had already be much smaller.

    After a while, she gritted herrge dragon teeth and asked, ¡°Chairman Xu, do you always keep your word?¡±

    Xu Yi¡¯s smile became very pure.

    ¡°Of course.¡±

    ###

    Great Magician Leman had already been working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for half a month.

    Over this half a month, he had been busy all day, but he didn¡¯t feel exhausted like he had on the Sines Continent. Instead, he felt that he was fulfilled by his work.

    Different from the Sines Continent, after he arrived here and joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s aviation research facility, his work had been rted to the magic space in outer space. He always researched the topic that he was the most interested in.

    There weren¡¯t any outsiders interfering in his work and there weren¡¯t any other people taunting him with their results. In this research facility, from the top researcher Arch Magus Sarandal y to the normal first grade researchers, everyone focused on their own research and wouldn¡¯t participate in boring things.

    This was the ideal working condition for Great Magician Leman and now he had obtained it at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Other than work, Great Magician Leman was also satisfied with living here.

    After he officially joined, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided him with many benefits which allowed his wife and children to live much morefortable lives.

    Moreover, his son and daughter had been arranged to study at the kindergarten and elementary school the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had set up, giving them a basic education, so he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about them.

    As for his wife, she quickly adapted to life here after a few days. Whenever she saw Great Magician Leman over the past few days, she would always be filled with praise for life here.

    Compared to when they were in the Gino Kingdom, life here was very peaceful. There wasn¡¯t any conflict between humans and even the other races were friendly. Adding the fact that living conditions here were good and it was easy to buy goods, as well as the many services that Great Magician Leman never even thought of, his wife quickly threw behind the Sines Continent and never mentioned returning there again.

 Book 8: Chapter 103: Worker riots

    Book 8: Chapter 103: Worker riots

    Whether it was his work or his life, Great Magician Leman was very satisfied, so naturally he was very spirited.

    When he was on a walk, he no longer looked as sorry as he did when he first arrived.

    No matter who he met, he would give a nod with a faint smile to the other side and he would obtain a friendly smile in response.

    Today was his day off. It had been a long time since he had been alone with his wife and since he didn¡¯t have to work overtime, he went to the dock with his wife for a walk.

    ¡°Do you think¡­¡­I should open a flower shop?¡± Great Magician Leman¡¯s wife beside him suddenly said this, ¡°I¡¯ve been looking aroundtely and there aren¡¯t many flower shops around here. If I pick a good ce, the business should be quite good.¡±

    ¡°You can decided for yourself, I don¡¯t have any objections.¡± Great Magician Leman waved his hand, saying in a generous tone.

    He was earning a fixed sry of eighty gold coins a month at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and adding in his bonuses, he was earning over a hundred gold coins a month. It wasn¡¯t much for him to support his wife¡¯s flower shop.

    But after his wife seriously thought about it for a bit, she shook her head.

    ¡°Forget it. We¡¯ve just arrived and if we open a store right away, it¡¯ll be bad if others find out. Then again, Henry and Helena need someone to take care of them, so it¡¯s better if I stay home.¡±

    Great Magician Leman revealed a smile as he gave a nod in approval of his wife¡¯s thoughts.

    Actually, he wanted his wife to stay at home to take care of the housework, but his wife had chosen to go into exile with him and had lived that life for half a year with him, which made him feel guilty. So it wasn¡¯t easy for him to go against her decision.

    But now that his wife had thought it through, it saved him the trouble.

    When he was about to talk to his wife about their children, he suddenly saw arge transport Magic Shiping from the distance.

    ¡°Ai, it¡¯s another group of refugees.¡± Great Magician Leman said with a sigh.

    His wife looked in the direction he was looking at before saying with a faint smile, ¡°Actually, they can¡¯t be considered refugees aftering here. It¡¯s easy to find work here and the benefits are good. The environment is also better. It¡¯s much better than the chaotic Sines Continent.¡±

    ¡°Un, but leaving your home toe to another continent over ten thousand kilometers away will make people feel ufortable.¡±

    ¡°They will get used to it after a while, there¡¯s nothing ufortable about it.¡±

    Great Magician Leman found it a bit funny as he looked at his wife.

    Beforeing to the Magic Cloud Continent, the one who was most worried was her. But now the tone that she had was like that of a veteran.

    Looking back at the dock, he found that therge transport Magic Ship had docked and there was a group of passengersing off.

    Seeing that crowd, Great Magician Leman couldn¡¯t help thinking of when he first came here and he gave a secret sigh.

    But suddenly his eyes focused as they fell onto someone that came off the boat and then his expression changed slightly.

    ¡°What is it?¡± His wife noticed the change with him.

    ¡°I seemed to have¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Leman¡¯s expression was a bit unstable, ¡°Found an acquaintance?¡±

    ¡°Acquaintance?¡± His wife was a bit surprised.

    The time after they left their home, left the Sines Continent toe to the Magic Cloud Continent, only half a month had passed. How could they have an acquaintance here?

    Great Magician Leman knitted his brows to think for a bit before waving his hand.

    ¡°I¡¯m going to take a look.¡±

    Seeing Great Magician Leman walking towards the dock, his wife quickly followed him.

    The two came to the wharf that therge transport Magic Ship had just docked at and they were met with the wave of refugees that came off the ship. They were almost pushed off bnce by the flow of people.

    Great Magician Leman saw that his wife was about to be pushed over, so he had no choice but to use his magic and fly up with his wife.

    Looking around, he didn¡¯t see that familiar figure.

    After hesitating a bit, Great Magician Leman used magic to enhance his voice as he shouted, ¡°Zebert! Zebert! I¡¯m Leman, answer me if you can hear me!¡±

    ¡°Zebert?¡± His wife beside him was surprised, ¡°Did you see him?¡±

    ¡°Un, I saw someone that looked very simr.¡± Great Magician Leman looked around before calling out again.

    As soon as his voice fell, there was someone that suddenly flew up to the left and quickly came in front of Great Magician Leman.

    ¡°You¡­..You are Leman?¡±

    Seeing this fellow who had a messy robe and hair from several days of not cleaning himself who looked no different from the other refugees, Great Magician Leman and his wife looked at each other for a bit before finally recognizing him.

    ¡°Zebert, it really is you!¡±

    Half an hourter, Great Magician Leman, his wife, and Zebert¡¯s group of six came to a cafe near the dock.

    ¡°Zebert, why¡­¡­did you decide toe here? Also you brought them¡­¡­¡± Great Magician Leman looked at Zebert who looked even more ragged than him when he arrived and Zebert¡¯s family members and felt a bit confused.

    When he was young, he studied at the magic academy in the Candra Empire. Zebert was his ssmate for four years and the two of them had been very close, bing very good friends.

    Even when he returned to the Gino Kingdomter and Zebert stayed in his hometown in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province, being separated by thousands of kilometers, the two had still remained in contact with the convenient transportation andmunication brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would meet at least once or several times each year.

    Because of the demise of the Gino Kingdom, he had to escape to the Magic Cloud Continent. This was something that Zebert knew very clearly.

    Zebert had invited Great Magician Leman to the Candra Empire at that time and said that he could help him settle down, but Great Magician Leman had refused this offer.

    Zebert had told Great Magician Leman at that time that although the Candra Empire was at war with the Marlow Empire, its internal situation was very stable. The southern province was far from the battlefield, so it wasn¡¯t affected at all, so life there was still quite good.

    In just a single month, why did Zebert run to the Magic Cloud Continent with his family?

    ¡°Ai¡­¡­.it¡¯s a long story.¡± Zebert gave a deep sigh as his eyes filled with exhaustion, ¡°I thought that even if the empire fought a long war with the Marlow Empire, it wouldn¡¯t affect the stability of the empire. I thought that it wouldst forever, but I never thought¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°What? Did your Candra Empire lose?¡± Great Magician Leman was surprised.

    ¡°It isn¡¯t that, the war with the Marlow Empire is still considered stable. This time, it was an internal incident.¡±

    ¡°That can¡¯t be?¡± Great Magician Leman was even more doubtful, ¡°Even if disaster happened in the empire, would it be enough for a Great Magician like you to escape to the Magic Cloud Continent with his family?¡±

    ¡°The problem is that it wasn¡¯t a small disaster¡­¡­¡±

    It turned out that there was a riot that suddenly happened in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province.

    This riot was different from any other riot in the history of the Candra Empire.

    The riots in history were all caused by nobles or branch members of the royal family.

    But this time, it was caused by the civilians!

    Or urately speaking, the workers!

    In the beginning, it was just the workers at a textile factory that were dissatisfied about their cut benefits and long overtime, so they decided to go on strike.

    Then the workers and the management shed and the guards of the factory killed two workers, provoking a worker riot.

    This riot quickly spread and in less than a week, it had spread across the entire southern province.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s two military magic machine factories in the southern province had also gotten caught up in this riot. The angry workers killed the management and nobles in charge of the factory, taking the weapons for themselves and then distributing them to other workers participating in the riots.

    So the workers with these weapons became much more powerful. It didn¡¯t take them long before they upied the southern province¡¯s capital and even attacked the army stationed in the southern capital.

    In just a single month, the southern province had fallen into chaos.

    Zebert as a Great Magician received news faster than normal people. So as soon as this happened, when the rioting workers were about to invade the city that he was in, he quickly escaped.

    He had nned to do the same as Great Magician Leman, finding a ce to hide to observe the situation before making a decision.

    After all, the Candra Empire had many riots in their long history and not a single one had shaken the foundation of the empire.

    However, the situationpletely surprised Zebert this time.

    Although the Candra Empire government quickly reacted, sending out an army to cate the riots.

    The riots had spread all over the entire southern province and the army sent had quickly fallen.

    ¡°Speaking of this¡­¡­there was no movement from the Governor Manor after this riot and even the army didn¡¯t move. I don¡¯t know if it was intentional or not.¡±

    After saying this, Zebert¡¯s face had a bit of hesitation and anger.

    If the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor had reacted quickly in the beginning of this riot, cating this matter, it wouldn¡¯t have evolved this far.

    However, the southern province¡¯s Governor Manor acted like they weren¡¯t involved in this matter from the beginning, not making a single move and allowing the situation to deteriorate.

    ¡°Zebert, did you forget?¡± The Windsor Family rebelled just a few years ago.¡± Great Magician Leman reminded him.

    ¡°You mean¡­¡­.¡±

    ¡°Actually, it isn¡¯t important.¡± Great Magician Leman shook his head, ¡°Now that you¡¯ve chosen to bring your entire family to the Magic Cloud Continent, you shouldn¡¯t think about the Sines Continent.¡±

    After saying this, Great Magician Leman reached his hand out to Great Magician Zebert with a smile on his face.

    ¡°Wee to the Magic Cloud Continent Zebert. How about you work at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with me? I guarantee that you won¡¯t regret it.¡±

    Zebert gave a bitterugh, ¡°At this point, do I have any other choices?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 104: Donâ€™t bother me with small matters

    Book 8: Chapter 104: Don¡¯t bother me with small matters

    The Candra Empire¡¯s situation was much worse than Zebert had described it.

    When he was still on the Sines Continent, the situation in the Candra Empire¡¯s southern province had been deteriorating. The worker riot spread across the entire province and even the army sent to pacify them had been defeated.

    This situation was regarded as quite serious by many people in the Candra Empire.

    However, in the twenty days Zebert escaped the southern province and decided to escape from the Torea Dominion harbour toe to the Magic Cloud Continent, the situation in the Candra Empire became several times more serious.

    After the worker riot in the southern province, there were simrrge scale riots that appeared in several other provinces of the Candra Empire.

    The most serious was in the Lamaske Province which was even worse than the southern province.

    The Lamaske Province¡¯s Governor Rockfield had actually lost his life in the riots.

    After the Governor Manor lost control of the Lamaske Province, it had fallen intoplete chaos.

    At the same time, the Marlow Empire had received news of the internal strife of the Candra Empire, so they immediately chose tounch an all out attack.

    The Candra Empire was already unstable from the internal strife and they didn¡¯t expect the Marlow Empire to strengthen their attack, so they were caught off guard as they were pushed back again and again. The two regiments in the north that had been skirmishing with the Marlow Empire army had beenpletely destroyed.

    This disastrous defeat made the Candra Empire¡¯s situation even worse.

    The Candra empire¡¯s southwest province Governor Manor announced that since the royal family and parliament were engaged in wanton war, making the civilians unable to live stable lives, the southwest province decided that they would no longer follow the leadership of the empire out of fear of being affected.

    To put it more directly, the southwest province was dering their independence.

    Before anyone else could react, another two provinces dered their independence.

    Adding in the seven provinces that were affected by the worker riots, the Candra Empire had lost control of ten of their provinces.

    This made people remember twenty years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invaded the Candra Empire with the Rudson Kingdom, causing defeat again and again for the Candra Empire.

    The Candra Empire had be chaotic during that time with many provinces announcing their independence.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announcing their support for the Candra Empire royal family afterwards, even if the Candra Empire had signed a peace treaty with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire would have been split apart.

    Right now, the Candra Empire fell into the same chaos as twenty years ago. Would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce show their support for the Candra Empire royal family again?

    ¡°Dad? Do we need to act?¡±

    Freya¡¯s voice crossed over ten thousand kilometers to reach Xu Yi¡¯s ears through the Magic Communicator, showing the bit of confusing in her voice.

    ¡°Why are you asking me this?¡± Xu Yi asked back, ¡°You are the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, only you can make this decision.¡±

    ¡°Aren¡¯t I hoping to get a bit of advice from the past chairman as the current chairman¡­¡­¡±

    Hearing the spoiled tone in Freya¡¯s voice, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help smiling.

    Freya hadn¡¯t been the chairman for a short period of time and she was already an important person on the Sines Continent. If others knew about how she acted in front of him, it would be quite the shock.

    ¡°My suggestion? My suggestion is to think about what you want to do first. Are there any benefits to you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in meddling with the Candra Empire¡¯s matters? If there is, then go do it. If there isn¡¯t, why would you do it?¡±

    There was silence for a bit from the other side before Freya agreed in a soft voice.

    ¡°I understand, but¡­¡­¡± Freya hesitated a bit before saying, ¡°Dad, if the way that I handle things is different from your ideas before, would you be¡­¡­angry?¡±

    ¡°Why would I be angry?¡± Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help shaking his head, but Freya couldn¡¯t see it. He said in a very serious tone, ¡°I¡¯ve already said it, the matters of the Sines Continent aren¡¯t rted to me. How the continent will turn out is already their choice. I have something else important to take care of, so don¡¯t bother me with these small matters in the future.¡±

    Freya, who was over ten thousand kilometers away, stuck out her tongue.

    This was an important matter about the life and death of the Candra Empire, but it was actually a small matter for lord father.

    Could it be that the only important thing for him was now outer space research?

    After hanging up the call with Freya, Xu Yi received another call that was from Akali.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s prepared over here. Come over quickly.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be there immediately.¡±

    Half an hourter, Xu Yi appeared on a small ind around thirty kilometers northwest of Sky Ind.

    This small ind was where Cassandra had been sent to after she had activated the Abyss Demon Race ruin on Alice.

    Akali, her research team, and elder Lisanya were already waiting here. Seeing Xu Yi arrive, Akali pointed at the Abyss Demon Race stone column that her researchers were surrounding.

    ¡°Sir chairman, the magic signal Cassandra is sending from Alice is already connected. Look, there is a pattern that appeared.¡±

    Xu Yi looked at it and found that there was a weak light blue glow around this stone pir.

    If he looked carefully, he would see that this light blue glow formed a veryplicated pattern.

    This glow was close to the glow that was released when he injected magic power into the stone column the first time, but Xu Yi didn¡¯t know if there were any fundamental differences.

    No one was injecting magic power into the stone pir right now, but rather Cassandra on Alice that was over three hundred kilometers away was injecting magic onto the Abyss Demon Race ruins on Alice, creating a resonance effect.

    They had done this experiment many times already and Cassandra had already flown to Alice over ten times.

    Akali and the others had already analyzed the exact pattern, even linking it to the current transfer arrays that magicians grasped, making the judgement that ¡®these ruins were just a giant transfer array¡¯.

    Akali had called Xu Yi here today to take it a step further, performing an even bolder experiment.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, are you really going?¡± Xu Yi turned to ask elder Lisanya this question.

    Elder Lisanya gave a firm nod.

    ¡°Of course. Being able to know which world the Abyss Demon Race went to will be very useful for our elven study of the ancestors¡¯ history.¡±

    ¡°That isn¡¯t the only goal¡­¡­¡± Xu Yi looked at her, but he didn¡¯t ask anything else as he nodded at Akali to start.

    Akali waved her hand and the equipment the other researchers had prepared activated.

    After a while, there was ayer of light blue light that appeared around the stone pir.

    Xu Yi focused on the special magic fluctuations that came from the stone pir,paring it to the magic fluctuations of the spatial magic that he grasped before making slight adjustments.

    ¡°Sir chairman, it¡¯s already been adjusted.¡± Akali suddenly said in a nervous voice.

    ¡°Alright, then I¡¯m going.¡± Xu Yi looked at her with a smile as he walked to the center of the stone pir and other equipment.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you¡¯re¡­..you¡¯re really going?¡± Akali suddenly asked.

    Xu Yi looked at her with a surprised look, but seeing her worried expression, he said with a smile, ¡°Rx, didn¡¯t we seed many times with our experiment before? Look, Cassandra is on Alice eating her favourite snacks while watching the new season of ?Dragon Legends? that she starred in, doesn¡¯t that already prove that there¡¯s no problems with our experiment?¡±

    ¡°But¡­¡­But we only transferred non living things before and now that we are transferring living things, I¡¯m afraid¡­¡­that it will be dangerous.¡± Akali paused before taking a step forward, ¡°At least¡­¡­it shouldn¡¯t be you taking this risk, right?¡±

    ¡°If I don¡¯t go, will you go?¡± Xu Yi asked back with a smile before waving his hand, ¡°Forget it, my magic is much stronger than all of yours, so if there is danger, it¡¯s clear that it¡¯s best that I go. Then again, Cassandra has sessfully gone back and forth several times, which means that this is at least possible.¡±

    Seeing that Xu Yi had already made his decision, Akali knew that there was no use trying to persuade him. She gave a sigh and moved off to the side.

    ¡°Elder Lisanya, wait until I send back the news that it¡¯s safe before you go there, alright?¡±

    Elder Lisanya gave a silent nod.

    After he finished giving his orders, Xu Yi nodded to Akali.

    Akali gritted her teeth before forcefully pressing a button on the control panel in front of her.

    The stone pir suddenly released a strong blue light thatpletely covered Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi could feel the magic space around him quickly changing, also changing the elemental magic energy around him.

    This change was very familiar to him, it was like when he used spatial magic.

    But there was a slight difference that he had felt many times during the experiments over the past period.

    Xu Yi carefully felt this difference while controlling his magic power, so that he wasn¡¯t affected by the changes around him.

    The experiments had seeded before because they were transferring non living things, so it wouldn¡¯t influence the magic space around it.

    But now that an Arch Magus like him who could easily affect the magic space around him was going, it would be very hard for him to be transferred ording to Akali¡¯s analysis.

    So he had to control his magic so that he was the same as a normal person, but he must also be prepared to use his magic power to protect himself at any time.

    After a while, Xu Yi had felt that the magic space around him had already changed to a certain degree.

    ¡°It¡¯s about time.¡±

    Xu Yi silently thought before he felt the magic space around him change into a special state that he had never felt before as everything in front of him turned dark.

    After less than two seconds, which felt like a very long time for Xu Yi, there was a faint glow that appeared in front of him.

    Then a familiar voice rang out behind him.

    ¡°Hey, chairman Xu, wee to Alice.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 105: Unknown danger

    Book 8: Chapter 105: Unknown danger

    Xu Yi focused his eyes and after seeing the scene in front of him, he was surprised.

    There was a carpet of green grass with traces of red, white, yellow¡­¡­and other coloured flowers mixed in. The grass and flowers swayed in the wind, looking quite lush like it was a scene of spring.

    Looking up, he could see the boundless blue skies with white clouds. There was even a sun in the sky that released warm sunlight.

    No matter how he looked at it, this seemed like a very beautiful grasnd.

    But Xu Yi had just clearly gone from the Sines to Alice through the transport array left by the Abyss Demon Race, so why would he be seeing something like this?

    Could it be that Alice was like this to begin with?

    ¡°This is impossible.¡± Xu Yi shook his head.

    Although he wasn¡¯t an astrophysicist, he knew that Alice was only a small orbiting object, so it was impossible for it to have the same atmosphere as arge like earth or the Sines. So the scenery in front of him shouldn¡¯t be real.

    ¡°What is going on here?¡± Xu Yi looked back down at Cassandra who had just greeted him.

    Cassandra wasn¡¯t in her dragon form, but rather her human form.

    She was lying on the grass with a thick cushion under her. Her upper half was lifted and her head was looking up at a Magic Illusion Projector in front of her. She was watching the drama being yed while eating therge pile of snacks beside her, looking quite rxed.

    ¡°Hei, hei, chairman Xu, were you scared?¡± Hearing Xu Yi¡¯s question, Cassandra replied with augh.

    ¡°Un¡­¡­I was indeed scared.¡± Xu Yi nodded. He looked around before closing his eyes to release his senses. When he opened his eyes, his expression became a bit strange, ¡°This should be an illusion?¡±

    ¡°Right, it¡¯s an illusion.¡± Cassandra stood up from the ground and pointed out. It was unknown what she did, but the scenery around them disappeared. What appeared around Xu Yi was dested ground covered in rocks.

    Xu Yi gave a nod and confirmed that this was the appearance of a small ster body without an atmosphere.

    ¡°This illusion came with this transport array, I found it by ident.¡± Cassandra exined, ¡°Actually, I was quite surprised, why would the Abyss Demon Race make this function? It doesn¡¯t have a use at all.¡±

    Xu Yi looked around and understood a bit.

    Ten thousand years ago, the Abyss Demon Race hadn¡¯t just built this transport array, but also aplete moon base.

    Since they were using it as a base, naturally they couldn¡¯t just leave it empty.

    The bleak environment of Alice didn¡¯t seem like it could provide long term housing, so the Abyss Demon Race made this illusion to make themselves feel better while staying here.

    Based on this, it seemed like the Abyss Demon Race were very simr to humans.

    Looking around, Xu Yi was able to easily find the stone pirs scattered around that were like the ones on the endless seas.

    Butpared to the transport array that was several hundred square kilometers on the sea, the one on Alice was much smaller.

    As Xu Yi looked around, he could see at least five or six of them that were spread out several kilometers around him.

    ¡°Hei, chairman Xu, this is your first time on Alice, doesn¡¯t it feel very novel?¡± Cassandra seemed very excited about Xu Yi¡¯s arrival, so she jumped over to point at something in front of her, ¡°There, if you look over there, you can see the Sines.¡±

    Xu Yi looked in the direction she was pointing in and there really was a giant sphere in the sky.

    Because he had seen the Sines from outer space before, Xu Yi recognized it with a single nce.

    Butpared to being in outer space, now that he was on Alice hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, he couldn¡¯t see the specifics of the Sines. He could only see tworge shadows that should have been the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent.

    As for the southern continent, he couldn¡¯t see a single trace.

    Even adding his time on earth, this was Xu Yi¡¯s first time seeing a from another ster body, so naturally this was a very novel experience.

    But this wasn¡¯t that interesting. After looking for a bit, Xu Yi focused his attention on the transport array again.

    ¡°Cassandra, have you found anything new after all this time that you¡¯ve been here?¡±

    ¡°If I did, I would have already told you.¡± Cassandra blinked before suddenly saying, ¡°But speaking of this, there is one thing. I just discovered it a few days ago, but I didn¡¯t know what it was, so I didn¡¯t tell you right away.¡±

    ¡°Oh? What is it?¡± Xu Yi was a bit curious.

    ¡°Come.¡±

    Cassandra pulled Xu Yi¡¯s hand and flew off in the opposite direction.

    The environment on Alice was naturally different from the Sines, but the magic space wasn¡¯t that different.

    This was different from the magic space in outer space being different from the Sines which Xu Yi felt was quite mysterious.

    He could only give a sigh in response to this. Magic really was a mysterious tool and looking at it from many angles, it was more convenient than science on earth.

    After flying for a bit, going around three to four kilometers, Cassandra stopped.

    ¡°Look, chairman Xu, there¡¯s another transport array there.¡±

    Xu Yi looked down and found that there were several stone pirs scattered on the ground.

    ¡°Yi? Isn¡¯t this the same transport array as the one from before?¡±

    ¡°ording to my studies, it¡¯s not.¡± Cassandra shook her head in a serious manner.

    Xu Yi saw her expression and asked, ¡°Did you try it?¡±

    Cassandra¡¯s expression became even more strange.

    ¡°I¡­..tried it and could get a reaction, but I didn¡¯t dare continue.¡±

    ¡°You didn¡¯t dare? Why?¡± Xu Yi was a bit curious.

    Cassandra was a dragon and he had seen how brave the dragons were, so there were things that she didn¡¯t dare do?

    ¡°It¡¯s because¡­¡­I don¡¯t know where I¡¯ll be sent and I don¡¯t know if I cane back.¡± Cassandra replied with a bitter smile, ¡°I can fly back if it¡¯s a ce as far as Alice, but if it¡¯s even further like light years away like you¡¯ve mentioned before, I won¡¯t be able to fly back. Then again, you can¡¯t tell directions in outer space, so how should I know which way to fly?¡±

    ¡°Eh¡­¡­that¡¯s true.¡±

    Xu Yi first flew around the newly discovered transport array beforending on the ground to carefully analyze it. He confirmed that this was a smaller version of the transport array on the endless seas and that it had the same properties.

    ¡°How did you start it? Give me the corresponding data.¡± Xu Yi said to Cassandra.

    Cassandra took out the data that she had gotten from the transport array before going into the center of the transport array. She took a deep breath and activated her magic power.

    Xu yi was reading over Cassandra¡¯s report while seriously feeling the change in the magic space around the area as Cassandra poured her magic power into the array.

    After a while, the stone pirs around Cassandra all released a light blue glow.

    Xu Yi flew into the air and after watching the pattern that this light blue glow formed, he confirmed that it was the same as the one on the endless seas.

    But there were some differences in some small ces.

    Looking up, he found that the light from the stone pirs gathered in outer space and created a light blue screen that fell down, covering the space inside of the transport array.

    This was something that Xu Yi hadn¡¯t seen with the transport array on the endless seas.

    But after looking at it carefully, perhaps that was because the one on the seas was too big and it was hard to notice it even if there was the same phenomenon.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, did you sense anything?¡± Cassandra suddenly asked.

    Xu Yi nodded as his eyes turned to the center of the transport array.

    There was a magic fluctuation that wasn¡¯t very strong, but was very special that wasing from there that extended into the vastness of outer space.

    With Xu Yi¡¯s current power, he could sense magic fluctuations that were even ten kilometers away.

    But his senses were very small whenpared to the vastness of outer space, so he wasn¡¯t able to sense where these special magic fluctuations were going at all.

    But he was certain that the direction that this special magic fluctuation was directed at was clearly not the Sines.

    Very soon, with the induction of Cassandra¡¯s magic power, the magic space in the transport array started to change.

    Xu Yi could clearly sense that this change was the same as when he experimented with the transport array on the ind near the Sines Continent.

    He was certain that once this transport array was activated, it would send the person or item inside to another ce.

    Seeing that the surrounding magic space was about to reach a critical point, Cassandra stopped and looked at Xu Yi in the sky.

    Xu Yi understood what she meant and signaled to her to stop.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, do you understand why I don¡¯t dare activate it now?¡±

    Xu Yi nodded and gave a sigh.

    ¡°Although the unknown universe is attractive, it¡¯s also filled with danger. Who would dare to take this dangerous risk in this unknown situation?¡± After a pause, he said, ¡°But Cassandra, I¡¯m certain that there should be another transport array left by the Abyss Demon Race on the other side. As for where, I¡¯m not certain.¡±

    ¡°So what? Are you certain that that transport array can send me back?¡± Cassandra asked.

    Thetest_epi_sodes are on_the ???????.???. website.

    Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter smile, ¡°I¡¯m not certain about that.¡±

    ¡°Anyway, I don¡¯t dare take this risk. Chairman Xu, do you dare?¡±

    ¡°Of course I don¡¯t, at least not right now.¡± Xu Yi gave a bitterugh. He took out a small item that he put in the center of the transport array before having Cassandra step back.

    Cassandra left the range of the transport array and Xu Yi used the method that Cassandra used earlier to start this array.

    The item ced in the middle of the array immediately disappeared from Xu Yi and Cassandra¡¯s gaze.

    ¡°What can that thing do?¡± Cassandra asked.

    ¡°This is a magic signal generating device.¡± Xu Yi exined, ¡°It will keep releasing a special magic signal after it is transferred. If we can receive this signal, we can guarantee that the other side is safe.¡±

    ¡°Then if we can¡¯t receive it? Then again, even if you can receive it, the universe is very big and if it¡¯s sent to a very remote ce, it will take a long time for the magic signal toe back. When will we be able to receive that magic signal?¡±

    Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile.

    ¡°That will depend on fate¡­¡­¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 106: The war was caused by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Book 8: Chapter 106: The war was caused by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

    Xu Yi still had worries in this world, so he wasn¡¯t willing to take the risk and go in this transport array.

    Cassandra had onlye to this new world for fun and because of the fun things the Frestech Chamber of Commerce brought, so she also wasn¡¯t willing to take this risk.

    But elder Lisanya was different from them.

    After exining the situation to elder Lisanya who was sent to Alice through the transport array, she clearly indicated that she and the entire Azshara Tribe had the responsibility to their elven ancestors. Even if she knew that there was danger, she was still willing to keep investigating.

    With how determined elder Lisanya was, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t oppose her, but he suggested to elder Lisanya to wait some time.

    At least wait until the magic signal device has been sent for a bit. If they could receive the magic signal from the magic signal device, that would mean that the transfer was safe.

    Elder Lisanya agreed with Xu Yi¡¯s views and indicated that she wouldn¡¯t mind waiting a year or several years.

    The elves had long lives and waiting a few years wasn¡¯t anything for them.

    But elder Lisanya strongly requested to join the research team. Xu Yi naturally didn¡¯t oppose this and directly agreed.

    Of course, they wouldn¡¯t be waiting here.

    Although no one was willing to risk taking the transport array, just the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s base on Alice was already worth researching.

    It was also rted to this unknown transport array.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s study of magic, they weren¡¯t like the past Sines Continent that could only make rough and not precise descriptions towards magic. They could carefully and thoroughly research magic, guaranteeing that they could find the principle behind phenomena.

    If the transport array on Alice was put on the past Sines Continent, it would have been considered a miracle that no one could understand. However, for the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce, because they¡¯ve already studied the transport array between the Sines and Alice, they had some understanding.

    Akali believed that as long as she was given enough time, she would certainly be able to uncover its secrets.

    Once the research wasplete, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be able to build these transport arrays for themselves.

    ording to Cassandra¡¯s research, the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s base on the moon had an environment that was suited for people to live in. So after Xu Yi¡¯s experiment, he decided to send a small research team to Alice to work with the base on Sky Ind to research the transport array.

    Without a single word, Akali had decided that she would lead this research team.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t persuade her, so he could only let her do what she wanted.

    After all, as a researcher, being able to go to a ster object for research was an exciting thing no matter how one looked at it.

    It had to be known that even on the technologically advanced earth, it was almost impossible to stay on the moon for research.

    Even the most simple moonnding was doubted by countless people and no other country had done it afterwards.

    Every time he thought of this, Xu Yi felt very strange.

    Ten thousand years ago, the Abyss Demon Race left this world and left behind this strange tool that could even be considered mysterious known as magic. Now that ten thousand years had passed, the people of the Sines under his and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s lead had started to unearth the true potential and use of magic, which should just be following the technical tree that the Abyss Demon Race had already unlocked in the past.

    But because of the appearance of Xu Yi, this technical tree should be different from the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s technical tree of the past.

    As for what the differences were¡­¡­unless they could find the Abyss Demon Race, they would never know.

    As Akali¡¯s team and elder Lisanya along with some subordinates from the Azshara Tribe started to investigate the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s base on Alice, the situation on the Sines Continent underwent some radical changes.

    Because of the worker riots in several provinces and provinces dering their independence from the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire had fallen into civil strife again. The entire empire was in chaos and it was even more serious than twenty years ago when they were invaded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom.

    At this time, countless people were waiting for a response from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted the same as twenty years ago, supporting the Candra Empire, the Candra Empire could stabilize themselves and ovee this crisis.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only stopped the Marlow Empire from attacking the Candra Empire, with the umted power of the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family, they would be able to gradually pacify their internal strife.

    However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ignored the Candra Empire¡¯s situation and didn¡¯t make any statements.

    Whether it was in public or in private, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s upper management had the same stance towards the Candra Empire¡¯s situation. They stated that this was the internal affairs of the Candra Empire and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only apany. They didn¡¯t have the power, the qualification, or the abilities to interfere.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Freya also replied to several newspapers in public that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn¡¯t willing to interfere in the internal affairs of countries. When it came to the situation in the Candra Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t take any action.

    But she also urged the Candra Empire¡¯s officials to refrain from affecting the citizens with the dangers of war.

    For this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce worked with otherpanies and organizations on the continent to form a rescue team, saving those citizens who were caught in the dangers of war.

    Quite a few newspapers condemned these actions.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce clearly had the ability, but they didn¡¯t stop the deterioration of the Candra Empire¡¯s internal situation and created this hypocritical rescue team.

    How were they saving the Candra Empire¡¯s citizens, they were just poaching the Candra Empire¡¯s people during this war!

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce was always saying that theycked manpower on the Magic Cloud Continent, but because it was too far away, there weren¡¯t that many people willing to go.

    But in recent years, during the war on the Sines Continent, there were more and more people choosing to go to the Magic Cloud Continent to avoid the chaos of war. Among them were more and more high level technical workers and magic research staff.

    Many newspapers stated that if the chaos of war continued, the talented people of the Candra Empire would be drained and all benefits would go to the Magic Cloud Continent.

    Or to put it simply, it would go to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Therefore, many newspapers even stated that the chaos of war on the Sines Continent was caused by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Because no matter how you look at it, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t suffer many losses and even gained thisrge benefit, so there were plenty of reasons for this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce strongly condemned this suspicion.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce published some data rted to this.

    The data showed thatpared to before the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales were down and it was more clear with each passing year.

    Thetest data showed that because of therge scale internal strife of the Candra Empire, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales had greatly dropped.

    Because of this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s profits had been dropping each year. It dropped to the same level as thirteen years agost year, only barely reaching three billion gold coins.

    It had to be known that before the wars, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s yearly profit had already broken through five billion gold coins, being second to none on the Sines Continent.

    The war had such serious effects on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce support war?

    Compared to any words, data was more direct and made it easier to convince people.

    So after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced this data, there were far less people using the Frestech Chamber of Commerce on the Sines Continent.

    After all, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s response was reasonable.

    For anypany, they would want a stable environment so that more people bought things and thepany would profit more.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce always held the idea of peace. The previous chairman Xu Yi had stated in public many times that he always wanted the Sines Continent to be at peace, that way it would greatly benefit the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Sines Continent¡¯s magic machine industry.

    In the end, as soon as Xu Yi resigned as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman and left the Sines Continent, the countries on the Sines Continent couldn¡¯t wait to start going to war. Could this be med on Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    Although there were people that stated that once war began, while other products were affected, military magic machines would be greatly weed. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could have secretly soldrge amounts of military magic machines to some countries and earned arge amount from this war.

    But this was immediately overruled.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to do this, they might as well support a country.

    With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power and their strong production capacity, if they supported either of the two empires, the other one would have already been destroyed.

    The benefits that they would gain from this, wouldn¡¯t it be far greater than just selling military magic machines?

    With the current situation of the Sines Continent, whether the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported the Marlow Empire or the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, they would be able to easily defeat their opponents and they would gain much more benefits from that.

    No matter how they looked at it, it would be greater than selling military magic machines.

    The various analysts couldn¡¯t understand why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had this attitude, so everyone was confused.

    What did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce want to do?

 Book 8: Chapter 107: The empire is destroyed

    Book 8: Chapter 107: The empire is destroyed

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything.

    Even when faced with everyone¡¯s questioning, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did their own thing without caring about the outside world.

    Although they were affected by the war, which caused the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sales to go down, they weren¡¯t affected as much by the war like everyone on the continent. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s products were still weed in countless countries and areas, so the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earnedrge profits just like before.

    Even in areas affected by the war, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic machines were still sold.

    Although for mostpanies, it was almost impossible to maintain normal sales in areas affected by the war.

    For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t that hard.

    On one hand, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fame on the Sines Continent surpassed all otherpanies.

    Wherever the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, very few people would have ideas of stealing from them.

    On the other hand, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s powerful guards, there weren¡¯t anyone that seeded even if they had this idea.

    So in those ces affected by the war, people anticipated the arrival of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s caravan.

    Because as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, it meant that the region would be peaceful.

    Even the armies of the two empires silently acknowledged this.

    As for the local forces that rebelled, they didn¡¯t have the courage to provoke the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With such arge rallying point, there were even more and more civilians and disced nobles that gathered around the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Other than most of them being normal people, there were also many people who were high level magic research staff or workers that had core techniques.

    These people were the talents that the newspapers had mentioned before.

    Compared to normal people, before the war happened, these people were all important people inpanies, factories, or regional governments. They enjoyed superior living conditions, so naturally they couldn¡¯t handle the effects of the war.

    When they gathered around the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were naturally enticed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They gradually started working with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and some even chose to join them.

    There was no other reason, it was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could guarantee their and their family¡¯s safety during this time.

    So even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t do anything, there were still countless refugees that flooded the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s safe zones. A portion of them headed to the Magic Cloud Continent to escape the Sines Continent.

    Based on this, the usations of many newspapers that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was stealing talents from the Candra Empire and other ces couldn¡¯t be considered baseless.

    But even so, what could they do?

    Whether it was the Candra Empire or the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that fought the eastern alliance, they couldn¡¯t do anything about this.

    Especially the Candra Empire. With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not supporting them, there was only misfortune that came one after another.

    In year 4329, the Marlow Empireunched a full out attack on the Candra Empire. They sent out an army of over two hundred thousand that attacked in three different directions, invading the Candra Empire at the same time.

    The Candra Empire was facing their internal strife while dealing with the Marlow Empire¡¯s attack, so they couldn¡¯t handle it anymore.

    With the full attack of the Marlow Empire, the Candra Empire couldn¡¯t hold on and was repelled.

    In just two months, the Candra Empire¡¯s northern border had fallen.

    With the threat of the Marlow Empire, the provinces in the northern Candra Empire were either seized by the Marlow Empire or dered their independence from the Candra Empire to join the Marlow Empire.

    In half a year, the Marlow Empire¡¯s armies had alreadypletely upied the Candra Empire¡¯s northern territories and their armies approached Wimbledon City.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s royal guards and army had been fighting for a long time, suffering defeats again and again.

    Emperor Candra knew that the situation was bad, so he took a group of loyal ministers with him to flee Wimbledon City in a Magic Airship.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s army took Wimbledon City and seized the Candra Empire¡¯s royal pce.

    Hence, the Candra Empire¡¯s capital had fallen. Out of the thirty seven provinces under them, thirteen surrendered to the Marlow Empire, sixteen announced their independence, and eight of them were seized by the organization in charge of the worker riots and no longer followed the Candra Empire royal family¡¯s leadership.

    At this point, although the Marlow Empire hadn¡¯t formally announced it, the Candra Empire had already been destroyed.

    ###

    Freya looked at Emperor Candra in front of him who was in luxurious clothes and had a serious look, but looked quite weary and distressed and gave a sigh in her heart.

    The Candra Empire that had been considered the strongest country on the Sines Continent with over a thousand years of history had actually fallen in just a single year, this no doubt made people feel emotional.

    When Freyast saw Emperor Candra, he still had an arrogant look like he ruled everything. He had gone from an emperor that held millions of lives to an emperor that had been exiled.

    It really wasughable when one thought about it.

    The Candra Empire always had a neutral attitude towards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, cooperating with them, but also holding their little ns. It made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s ns not go as smoothly in the Candra Empire, so the two sides had never been close.

    After Freya took over the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she had been unhappy with the Candra Empire many times because she received reports that the Candra Empire wouldn¡¯t work with them. She had even considered rejecting cooperation with the Candra Empire.

    But now, the Candra Empire had be like this. The Emperor Candra in front of her had nowhere else to go and could only run to the Stantine Duchy, running to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    The first thing he said was that he hoped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would help him.

    ¡°Chairman Freya, if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to help our country reim our lostnd, after our country recovers, I will give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce the best treatment in the empire. I guarantee that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will receive benefits that will satisfy you in the empire.¡±

    At this time, Emperor Candra knew that everything else was useless. The only thing that could move the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was benefits.

    Freya shook her head, ¡°Your majesty, even if the Marlow Empire takes everything, ourpany can still work with the Marlow Empire and receive enough benefits. Why would we take such arge risk to help you restore your country?¡±

    Emperor Candra¡¯s expression changed slightly.

    If anyone had dared to use such a tone in front of him before, even if it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman, he wouldn¡¯t have been courteous.

    But now, he could only endure and smile along with her.

    ¡°Chairman Freya, I think that you should know that if the Marlow Empirepletely upies our Candra Empire and stabilizes the situation, the Marlow Empire will be the most powerful country on the Sines Continent. There won¡¯t be any country that can threaten them, even your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can¡¯t do anything. When that timees, do you think¡­¡­your Frestech Chamber of Commerce will be able to obtain anything if you cooperate with the Marlow Empire? The Marlow Empire might even take it a step further and upy the Stantine Duchy, right?¡±

    ¡°Is this a threat?¡± Freya revealed a smile, ¡°Your majesty, I think that you don¡¯t understand your position right now. To be honest, you have no power to discuss any conditions. Is the power in your hand even worth mentioning?¡±

    This time, Emperor Candra¡¯s expression really changed.

    Freya¡¯s words had hit his sore spot.

    Half a year ago, he thought that with his Candra Empire¡¯s army of hundreds of thousands, even if there was some internal strife in the empire, it wasn¡¯t worth mentioning. It would just take some time to solve.

    But he never thought that in just half a year, everything that he had would disappear.

    Even the most loyal fifty thousand royal guards had already been destroyed in the final war with the Marlow Empire.

    When he fled Wimbledon City in the Magic Airship, he had also given up the final bit of power that he had.

    The current him, other than the title of Emperor Candra, only had two hundred loyal guards and some loyal ministers who weren¡¯t of any use at all. He really didn¡¯t have anything else.

    Compared to this, although Freya in front of him was only apany¡¯s chairman, no one know how many guards the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, no one knew what kind of military magic machines the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had, and no one knew the true power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    With such arge difference in power between the two of them, how could he be qualified to raise conditions in front of Freya?

    After thinking this through, Emperor Candra let go of his pride and restraint as the emperor. After a bit of silence, he said in a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Freya, since you chose to meet me, that means that I still have some value to you, right? So I think that there¡¯s still room to cooperate. Tell me, what are the conditions for you to help me?¡±

    Freya revealed a faint smile and spread her hands, making a gesture for Emperor Candra to look around.

    ¡°Your majesty, how much do you know about the Stantine Duchy?¡±

    Emperor Candra was surprised.

    When people mentioned the Stantine Duchy, they would first think of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and not care about the Stantine Duchy itself. When it came to the Stantine Duchy, there was no other impression other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Although he was the noble emperor with a view greater than normal people, when Freya suddenly asked this, he didn¡¯t know how to respond.

    ¡°Your meaning is¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m talking about the political system of the Stantine Duchy, does your majesty know of it?¡±

    Emperor Candra thought about it before his eyes shrunk and he guessed what Freya was thinking.

    ¡°The national assembly?¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 108: Have you thought about future arrangements?

    Book 8: Chapter 108: Have you thought about future arrangements?

    With the sun of summer shining down, the temperature of the business street increased and the people walking through it would feel a bit hot.

    But as very walked through, he didn¡¯t care about this heat at all. Instead, he undid the knot on his chest to reveal his chest, letting out a rxed look.

    Along with the smile that hid nothing on his face, it made him feel very spirited, or evencent.

    Of course there was a reason he looked like this.

    Justst year, he was an ordinary worker from an ordinary factory three hundred kilometers away from here.

    However, when the information of the northern riot poured in, he used this chance to lead a group of his friends who were also co-workers to start a riot and his position had also started to increase.

    The current him had be the leader of the biggest worker organization in the former Candra Empire¡¯s Lamaske Province. He had over three thousand rioters armed with weapons under him, so it could be said that he was most influential leader in the Lamaske Province.

    After the Candra Empire was destroyed, there was no one that could threaten him in the Lamaske Province. Even the army of the Lamaske Province¡¯s Governor Manor had been turned by him and had be part of his army.

    In the current Lamaske Province, not only did the citizens support him, even the nobles supported him.

    Every time he thought of how the previously aloof nobles acted humble when meeting him now, with full smiles and lowering their tone, very felt very happy.

    His current life was something that he never could have imagined before.

    Look, even therge Frestech Chamber of Commerce was sending people to discuss cooperating with him.

    This attitude showed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acknowledged his influence in the Lamaske Province, which showed his position in the Lamaske Province.

    ¡°President very, pleasee in.¡±

    Arriving at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce branch set up in front of the Governor Manor, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff member came out to wee him.

    Hearing how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff member addressed him, very revealed a wide smile as he followed him.

    The title ¡°president very¡± came from after he led the riots, in order to lead the rioters more effectively and not wanting to be called a marquis or a count like those nobles, so he called himself the Lamaske Province¡¯s worker union president. People just addressed him as ¡°president¡±.

    Today he had been invited to discuss cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s staff had addressed him like this, it meant that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce epted his position and these negotiations were sincere.

    As expected, when he entered the shop, he was weed by a medium sized middle aged man with a gentle appearance.

    very recognized him with a single look.

    This middle aged man was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Lamaske Province¡¯s branch manager, Madao Chuboyer.

    ¡°President very, for you toe, it truly is wee.¡± Manager Chuboyer reached his hand out as he revealed a wide smile.

    When very reached out to shake his hand, he felt emotional.

    Although manager Chuboyer was only apany¡¯s local manager, he was actually one of the top people in the Lamaske Province.

    Before this, the only people that could meet and even talk to him were all the most important people in the Lamaske Province.

    Now that he actually came to greet him.

    If it was before, he never would have imagined it.

    ¡°Manager Chuboyer, it isn¡¯t our first time meeting. Only I recognized you, but you wouldn¡¯t have recognized me.¡±

    Hearing very¡¯s words, manager Chuboyer was a bit surprised.

    ¡°Oh? I wonder where we met before that I wasn¡¯t able to recognize president very?¡±

    very gave augh, ¡°I was still a normal worker in the factory before and bumped into manager Chuboyer making an inspection, so I was lucky enough to see you. I recognized you at the time, but you didn¡¯t recognize me.¡±

    Manager Chuboyer suddenly understood as he said with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s all in the past. In the current Lamaske Province, who doesn¡¯t recognize president very?¡±

    very gave a very proud, but also restrained nod. He didn¡¯t wait for manager Chuboyer to say anything as he found a ce to sit down before pping the table.

    ¡°Manager Chuboyer, I wonder, what did you invite me here to discuss this time?¡±

    Manager Chuboyer smiled without saying a thing as he looked at the subordinates behind very.

    How could very not understand what he meant? He gave a soft snort and said, ¡°These are my most trusted partners, you can say anything you want in front of them.¡±

    Manager Chuboyer revealed a faint smile and didn¡¯t insist as he chose to sit down in front of very.

    After a bit of silence, manager Chuboyer asked, ¡°President very, I wonder, what do you have nned for the future of the Lamaske Province?¡±

    very narrowed his eyes and asked back, ¡°Manager Chuboyer, what do you mean by that?¡±

    ¡°I think that president very should be clear that the Lamaske Province can¡¯t stay like this. In the end, it has to return to normal. Then president very, as the president of the workers union, do you have any ideas?¡±

    very had a thought before looking at manager Chuboyer and tentatively saying, ¡°If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is willing to help us restore order in the province, we will return this favour in the future.¡±

    Manager Chuboyer shook his head.

    ¡°President very, it isn¡¯t hard to restore order in the province, it¡¯s difficult to maintain it. To put it bluntly, have you thought about how to manage the Lamaske Province?¡±

    very was stunned.

    Although he had considered this many times, he was still a normal worker in the end. He didn¡¯t have any experience, so even if people had mentioned this, he didn¡¯t have any ideas.

    Now that manager Chuboyer was asking this, he thought about it and could only think of the response that people had given him before.

    ¡°First we have to reinstate thews and then restore themunication, roads, water and electricity¡­¡­and other infrastructures. As long as we can satisfy people¡¯s basic needs, it¡¯s easy to manage them.¡±

    Manager Chuboyer gave a sigh, ¡°President very, it seems like you haven¡¯t seriously considered this problem before. Since it¡¯s like this, there¡¯s nothing for us to discuss. When you¡¯ve thought this through, we can continue this topic.¡±

    The expressions of very and the subordinates behind him all changed.

    ¡°What do you mean by that?¡± very asked in a sharp tone, ¡°Manager Chuboyer, could it be that you invited me here just to waste my time?¡±

    ¡°No, I definitely didn¡¯t have this idea.¡± Manager Chuboyer shook his head, ¡°I sincerely invited you here to discuss the future arrangements of the Lamaske Province, but it¡¯s clear that president very isn¡¯t prepared. There¡¯s no meaning continuing this discussion today, so let¡¯s end it here.¡±

    very had been very dominant in the Lamaske Province in the past year, so everyone had scruples when meeting him. Even the aloof nobles from before lowered their heads in front of him, but manager Chuboyer sent him off without any courtesy which caused some anger to stuff his chest.

    ¡°What? Manager Chuboyer, where do you think that I¡¯m unprepared?¡± very¡¯s tone couldn¡¯t help turning a bit darker, ¡°Or are you saying that I have to follow the arrangements of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?¡±

    Manager Chuboyer ignored the dark glows in the eyes of very and the subordinates behind him. He had the same smile as he said with a nod, ¡°Yes. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce already has a detailed n for the Lamaske Province, so I hope that president very can think this through and work well with us.¡±

    ¡°Oh?¡± very stretched out this word, ¡°May I ask manager Chuboyer how many guards your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has invested in the Lamaske Province for you to dare say these words?¡±

    Manager Chuboyer revealed a smile. He took a sip of his tea and didn¡¯t reply.

    very flew into a rage and pped the table. He suddenly stood up and angrily red at manager Chuboyer with his lips trembling, but he could only give a cold snort before turning to leave.

    His subordinates followed him. One of them came to very¡¯s side and asked, ¡°Big brother, this fellow dares to talk like this. Why didn¡¯t you just give us the order to chop him up?¡±

    ¡°Idiot!¡± very red at him, ¡°Do you know who he is? Chop him up? Do you believe that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t trample the Lamaske Province?¡±

    The subordinates nkly looked at each other as they were all speechless.

    The fame of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t just rely on their magic machines that spread all over the Sines Continent.

    What people really were afraid of was their iparable battle power.

    The past thirty years had shown that once the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported a country, that country would be iparably strong. Even the two empires couldn¡¯t avoid this.

    In front of this terrifying power, no matter how bold very became, he wouldn¡¯t believe that tens of thousands of workers with less than ten thousand soldiers from the past Candra Empire army would be able to stop the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But when very forced himself to calm down, he felt a bit of joy in his heart.

    No matter what, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invited him over to discuss the future of the Lamaske Province. This meant that they at least recognized that he had some status in the Lamaske Province.

    This really was helpful in him taking control of the Lamaske Province in the future. If he received the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it wasn¡¯t a fantasy that he would be the new governor of the Lamaske Province.

    Thinking of this, very took a deep breath and revealed a confident look as he continued walking forward.

    What was that nerd who helped him before called? It¡¯s time for him to ask him what to do next.

    What very didn¡¯t know was that at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce branch, manager Chuboyer had already taken out a small book and crossed out very¡¯s name. Then he gave an order to the subordinate beside him.

    ¡°Go and call the next one.¡±

 Book 8: Chapter 109: Candra United Federation States

    Book 8: Chapter 109: Candra United Federation States

    Four hundred kilometers south of the Lamaske Province, there was another province that once belonged to the Candra Empire, the Merinda Province.

    Like the Lamaske Province, the Merinda Province had announced early on that they were leaving the central leadership of the Candra Empire.

    But different from the Lamaske Province was that the Merinda Province didn¡¯t reach this point because of a worker riot, being forced to leave. The Merinda Province¡¯s Governor Manor announced that they would no longer follow the orders of the Candra Empire¡¯s parliament.

    Although they didn¡¯t formally announce their independence, it was no different from if they did.

    Now that the Candra Empire¡¯s capital Wimbledon City had fallen into the hands of the Marlow Empire¡¯s army, the Candra Empire could be considered destroyed. The Merinda Province didn¡¯t embrace the Marlow Empire like the northern provinces had and announced their self governance.

    Out of the Candra Empire¡¯s original thirty seven provinces, the Merinda Province¡¯s disy could be considered loyalty to the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family to most people.

    But the Merinda Province¡¯s Governor Manor never made a statement, so no one knew what the Lord Duke Governor was really thinking.

    After Wimbledon City fell and the Merinda Province dered their autonomy, the Merinda Province¡¯s Governor Manor had always focused on stabilizing the Merinda Province and didn¡¯t make much contact with others.

    With the efforts of Duke Vnt, the Merinda Province had been stable and was considered a peaceful paradise in the Candra Empire.

    This day, the Merinda Province¡¯s Governor Manor weed a guest.

    ¡°Sir prime minister, I really am happy to be able to see you again.¡± Duke Vnt stretched out his arms as he warmly hugged his guest. The full smile on his face showed that he truly was happy to see this guest.

    The Candra Empire¡¯s prime minister, Duke Rostov hugged Duke Vnt before revealing a happy smile.

    ¡°I¡¯m also very happy to see you, Duke Vnt.¡±

    After letting go, Duke Rostov¡¯s eyes swept over Duke Vnt before he said with an emotional sigh, ¡°For the Merinda Province to be as stable as it is, it really has been hard on you, Duke Vnt.¡±

    Duke Vnt revealed a faint smile, ¡°As the lord here, this is my responsibility.¡±

    Hearing the word ¡®lord¡¯, Duke Rostov¡¯s brows knitted a bit before he calmed down. He said with a smile, ¡°Being able to do this at this kind of time, it¡¯s no wonder that his majesty hadmended Duke Vnt as one of the few loyal ministers of the empire that could be depended on.¡±

    ¡°His majesty?¡± Duke Vnt¡¯s expression changed a bit before he revealed a smile and didn¡¯t continue this topic. He looked at the middle aged man who was beside Duke Rostov, ¡°Chairman Montier, the cooperation that you discussed with me yesterday, could it be rted to sir prime minister?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Merinda Province branch chairman Reese Montier gave a nod with a faint smile, ¡°I¡¯vee with sir prime minister today to discuss this new cooperation project with the Lord Governor. I wonder, is the Lord Governor interested?¡±

    Duke Vnt looked at Duke Rostov before turning back to chairman Montier and shaking his head with a smile, ¡°If I said that I wasn¡¯t interested, how would the two of you respond?¡±

    Of course, this was only a joke.

    After saying those words, Duke Vnt invited the two of them toe in and have a seat.

    ¡°Sir prime minister, I¡¯ve heard¡­¡­that after his majesty left Wimbledon City, he went to the Stantine Duchy. I didn¡¯t believe it at the time, but now it seems like it was true?¡± After taking a sip of his tea, Duke Vnt spoke first.

    ¡°Yes, his majesty went to the Stantine Duchy to ask for the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.¡± Duke Rostov spoke frankly, ¡°Right now, his majesty has already reached a preliminary agreement with chairman Freya. This time, chairman Montier and I came together to discuss cooperation with the Merinda Province.¡±

    ¡°Cooperation?¡± Duke Vnt looked at chairman Montier, ¡°Chairman Montier, I¡¯m very grateful to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s coordination with the Governor¡¯s Manor during this time to help stabilize the province¡¯s situation, but this cooperation that you mentioned now¡­¡­¡±

    Chairman Montier revealed a smile and took out a thick document from his bag that he gave Duke Vnt.

    ¡°Lord Duke, this is the n for the cooperation, please have a look.¡±

    Duke Vnt gave a nod. This was more like the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s style, which confirmed that this was something that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce agreed with and it wasn¡¯t just something that he was discussing in secret with Duke Rostov and chairman Montier.

    After picking up the packet, Duke Vnt was shocked by the first few words he saw.

    ¡°Abolishing the empire system and changing to the Candra United Federation States formed from various provinces?¡± Duke Vnt was shocked as he looked at Duke Rostov and chairman Montier, ¡°This¡­¡­what does this mean?¡±

    Chairman Montier signaled to Duke Rostov with his eyes.

    Duke Rostov gave a cough before exining, ¡°The Candra United Federation States is to have the provinces of the empire join up while having autonomy, forming a new country. It would have the same unity and power as the past empire, while also giving each province arge degree of autonomy, which would give each province their own power¡­¡­¡±

    With Duke Rostov¡¯s exnation, Duke Vnt finally had a good idea of what the Candra United Federation States was.

    ¡°This means¡­¡­that his majesty really isn¡¯t nning on restoring the honour of the empire and bing the supreme emperor again?¡±

    Duke Rostov gave a bitterugh, ¡°Duke Vnt, do you think¡­¡­that there¡¯s a chance now?¡±

    Duke Vnt was silent for a bit before shaking his head.

    ¡°Impossible.¡±

    ¡°Then that¡¯s that.¡± Duke Rostov said with a sigh, ¡°If possible, his majesty would naturally want to restore the glory of the empire, but his majesty is wise and can clearly recognize the reality, knowing that this idea is impossible to implement. So he knows how to back off and at least maintain the original unity of the empire.¡±

    Duke Vnt was silent for a bit before giving a deep sigh. He shook his head, but he didn¡¯t say anything else as he read through the n in his hand.

    After a while, he suddenly knitted his brows and looked up to ask, ¡°This united federation states needs a president?¡±

    ¡°It is a country in name after all, so it needs a unified leader that would represent the will of the united federation states.¡± Duke Rostov exined with a faint smile.

    ¡°Then is his majesty nning on taking this position?¡± Duke Vnt asked.

    ¡°No, after everything his majesty has experienced, he knows to retreat. He no longer wants to participate in this matter. The one who is interested in this position is his highness Frank.¡±

    ¡°His highness Frank?¡± Duke Vnt nodded to show he understood.

    If it was said that his majesty didn¡¯t care about face and ran to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for help in restoring the basic territory of the Candra Empire, but had no idea about the foundation of the Candra United Federation States, Duke Vnt definitely wouldn¡¯t have believed it.

    Now that his majesty had chosen to retreat and let his highness Franke forward, this was a very wise choice. It would obtain the approval of many people.

    After reading through the n again, Duke Vnt was silent for a long time before saying to chairman Montier with a deep voice, ¡°Chairman Montier, I can see the shadow of chairman Xu in this n.¡±

    Chairman Montier startedughing, ¡°That¡¯s right. When this n was being discussed, we solicited many suggestions from sir chairman.¡±

    ¡°Then what is chairman Xu¡¯s final opinion on this n?¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman¡¯s original words were¡­¡­I¡¯m just giving them a method, if the people of the Candra Empire aren¡¯t willing to ept it, that is their matter.¡± Chairman Montier imitated Xu Yi¡¯s tone as he said this.

    ¡°That means that chairman Xu hasn¡¯t made a clear statement?¡±

    ¡°If sir chairman didn¡¯t support this n, would he have given so many detailed suggestions?¡± Chairman Montier said, ¡°Sir chairman has already not cared about the matters of the Sines Continent for many years, but this time he put in his attention. He even held conference calls with the high level members many times, even giving them suggestions face to face.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s like this¡­¡­¡± Duke Vnt gave a nod. He was silent for a while longer before finally turning back to Duke Rostov, ¡°I have a rough understanding of your intentions, but sir prime minister, I can¡¯t give you a reply right now because I don¡¯t see any chance of sess from this n.¡±

    ¡°Even with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s help, you don¡¯t think it¡¯s possible?¡± Duke Rostov said in a surprised voice.

    ¡°Of course it¡¯s possible if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was willing to help with their full strength, but right now¡­¡­¡± Duke Vnt looked at chairman Montier and shook his head, ¡°I can¡¯t see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s sincerity right now.¡±

    Duke Rostov knitted his brows and wanted to say something, but chairman Montier took the initiative to say with augh, ¡°Lord Governor is correct, the objective of us merchants is to exchange money for goods. We haven¡¯t taken out enough valuable things, so naturally the Lord Governor wouldn¡¯t believe us that easily. Sir prime minster, don¡¯t you think so?¡±

    Duke Rostov looked at chairman Montier with knitted brows. After thinking about, he gave a nod.

    Chairman Montier continued, ¡°But I ask the Lord Governor to be assured, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t do anything without sincerity. Since we invited the Lord Governor to cooperate, we wouldn¡¯t just speak empty words. We will take some corresponding action that I believe will show the Lord Governor our sincerity.¡±

    Duke Vnt just gave an honest nod, ¡°I look forward to it.¡±

    Chairman Montier and Duke Rostov exchanged a look before standing up together and leaving.

 Book 8: Chapter 110: Reorganizing the government

    Book 8: Chapter 110: Reorganizing the government

    What happened in the Lamaske Province and the Merinda Province was happening in the other provinces that once belonged to the Candra Empire.

    Some went smoothly and some didn¡¯t go that smoothly.

    But whether it went smoothly or not, the situation started to change bit by bit.

    The Marlow Empire that had upied Wimbledon City for many months naturally noticed these small changes.

    If there were only movements in ces that once belonged to the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire wouldn¡¯t be as worried.

    But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was involved, even the Marlow Empire that had defeated the Candra Empire and had the potential of ruling the entire Sines Continent couldn¡¯t help being vignt.

    However, the ones that made a move first weren¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather the Lampuri Kingdom.

    When the winter of year 4330 passed, the Lampuri Kingdom dispatched troops into the Kalmar Province that bordered the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The Lampuri Kingdom announced that this was to protect the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s people who had been caught in the Candra Empire.

    However, after entering the Kalmar Province, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army and the Marlow Empire¡¯s army stationed in the Kalmar Province engaged in a fierce firefight.

    The Lampuri Kingdom was clearly prepared, having sent their elites, but the Marlow Empire were caught off guard, so they copsed with a single blow.

    Five hundred square kilometers ofnd from the Kalmar Province fell into the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s control in just a short week, including the most important magic machine industrial city in the Kalmar Province.

    The Marlow Empire reacted quickly.

    Half a monthter, the Marlow Empire made an official request for the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army to leave the Kalmar Province, or they would suffer the consequences.

    This stance was without a doubt strong.

    But with the momentum that the Marlow Empire had after defeating the Candra Empire, it was natural that they would act this way.

    But what no one expected was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s response was just as strong.

    The Lampuri Kingdom announced that the Kalmar Province wasn¡¯t the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory. The Marlow Empire had no right to request the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army to withdraw.

    Neither side backed down, so a war was set into action.

    In April of year 4330, the Lampuri Kingdom sent out two regiments, totaling sixty thousand to meet the three regiments sent by the Marlow Empire, totaling one hundred and ten thousand in the Kalmar Province.

    The results of the battle surprised everyone.

    The Marlow Empire was defeated, suffering twenty thousand casualties. Out of the ones that remained, eighty thousand escaped and they suffered another ten thousand casualties. They had lost thirty thousand troops just like this.

    As for the Lampuri Kingdom side, they only lost a few thousand people.

    Facing arger enemy and having such a gap in losses, this kind of battle result without a doubt shocked people.

    When analyzing the battle, people found that the Lampuri Kingdom could obtain such a magnificent result because they had better preparations. The most important reason was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military magic machines were more advanced than the Marlow Empire¡¯s magic machines.

    For example, both sides were well equipped and were in good positions. The Magic Cannons that were the main firepower in the war, the Marlow Empire had four thousand and six hundred of them while the Lampuri Kingdom only had three thousand and two hundred of them.

    At first nce, the Lampuri Kingdom had far less Magic Cannons, so their firepower should have been weaker.

    But the situation was that out of the Marlow Empire¡¯s four thousand and six hundred Magic Cannons, only eight hundred of them were ny mm caliber Magic Cannons independently developed by the Marlow Empire. The remaining three thousand and eight hundred Magic Cannons were all low caliber Magic Cannons.

    As for the three thousand and two hundred Magic Cannons of the Lampuri Kingdom, one thousand and two hundred of them were one hundred mm caliber Magic Cannons. There were even three hundred of them that were newly developed two hundred mm caliber Magic Cannons!

    Of the rest, one thousand were multi shot Magic Cannons that were far stronger than normal single barrel Magic Cannons.

    With such a difference, even if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side had a thousand less cannons, the firepower that they demonstrated far surpassed that of the Marlow Empire.

    So in this frontal fight, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army was passively being attacked from the beginning.

    At the same time, in the Magic Tank formations that were bing more and more important, the Lampuri Kingdom had the advantage.

    The Lampuri Kingdom only had two regiments, but they were equipped with five hundred Magic Tanks.

    Compared to the only three hundred Magic Tanks of the three regiments from the Marlow Empire, the Lampuri Kingdom not only had the numbers advantage, they also had the advantage in armour thickness, firepower, and speed.

    On the battlefield, the Marlow Empire was not only passively being hit, they also couldn¡¯t resist the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s attacks.

    Of course, after being baptized by military magic machines, thebat on the Sines Continent wasn¡¯t limited to the ground.

    The air was also an important battlefield for both sides that was bing more and more important.

    Air supremacy was a concept that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce came up with twenty years ago and it became more and more important with many countries.

    In the war between the Marlow Empire and the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire had relied on their air superiority to hit the Candra Empire, finally forcing them to retreat.

    But right now, in this battle, the Lampuri Kingdom had shown greater control of the airpared to the Marlow Empire.

    In the battle, the Lampuri Kingdom had invested three Magic Airships squads, which was a total of three hundred Magic Airships that could surpass three hundred kilometers an hour. Thispletely suppressed the Magic Airships that were made in the Marlow Empire

    Comparing them, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯sbat Magic Airship was faster, more reactive, and was equipped with stronger Magic Rifles, Magic Cannons, and five Magic Missiles. No matter how you looked at it, they surpassed the Marlow Empire¡¯sbat Magic Airships and were able to easily control the airspace.

    With the Lampuri Kingdom army controllingnd and air, it was natural that the Marlow Empire¡¯s army was repelled.

    After analyzing this victory, everyone was impressed to find that even if the Marlow Empire had defeated the Candra Empire and had destroyed this empire that had over a thousand years of history, they still weren¡¯t the rulers of the continent just yet.

    Now that the Lampuri Kingdom came out, it gave the Marlow Empire an even stronger enemy.

    The situation of the Sines Continent became even more confusing.

    After winning, the Lampuri Kingdom started attacking the Marlow Empire¡¯s army that had stayed to control the Kalmar Province. They used just a month and a half topletely control the Kalmar Province.

    At that time, a change that everyone was surprised by happened.

    The Kalmar Province under the control of the Lampuri Kingdom had the previous governor Duke Noipera hold a press conference. In front of all the reporters from the newspapers and the Magic Illusion broadcast station, he announced that the Kalmar Province would be renamed the Kalmar Dominion and would hold open elections to form the Kalmar National Assembly. Then they would elect the representative of the government who would be the controlling government of the Kalmar Dominion.

    The most important thing was that they would choose the president of the Kalmar Dominion, who would control the entire government.

    If it was before, this Kalmar Dominion President would be no different from the Kalmar Dominion Governor.

    But Duke Noipera announced that the Kalmar Dominion President would be managed and restricted by the Kalmar Dominion National Assembly. All orders had to be approved by the national assembly before it could be implemented.

    This was equal to tying up the arms of the president, which waspletely different from the governor that could do whatever they wanted.

    What people were more surprised by was that Duke Noipera didn¡¯t be the Kalmar Dominion President, but rather he had to participate in the election and be elected.

    This was the first time that this method had appeared in the history of the Sines Continent.

    Countless people were doubtful, just what was the Kalmar Province doing?

    The stranger thing was why did the Lampuri Kingdom let the Kalmar Province do this?

    While people were questioning this, the Kalmar Province¡­..Oh, no, it was now called the Kalmar Dominion quickly underwent its government restructuring.

    In just three months, the first national assembly had been formed and all the representatives of the government had been elected. The one thing that wasn¡¯t surprising was that Duke Noipera had taken the position of the Kalmar Dominion¡¯s first president.

    While countless people were shocked and confused by the changes in the Kalmar Province, the other provinces that used to belong to the Candra Empire also made shocking changes.

    First, it was three provinces in the south that announced that they would do the same as the Kalmar Province, bing dominions and reorganizing their governments.

    Then it was two provinces that had been affected by the worker riots that did the same.

    But there were some differences.

    The three provinces from before had simr changes to the Kalmar Province, but the other two provinces weren¡¯t the same.

    Because they had been affected by the worker riots, these two provinces had lost the control of the Governor Manor under the Candra Empire, so they could onlypletely restructure their governments.

    Compared to the Kalmar Province and the other three provinces, these two provinces were the least affected by the nobles in their territory and the national assembly was mainlyposed ofmoners.

    But this wasn¡¯t rted to most people on the Sines Continent.

    What most people cared about was the war between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire.

 Book 8: Chapter 111: Can it be defended?

    Book 8: Chapter 111: Can it be defended?

    General Darandel stood on the rock that jutted out of the mountain with a telescope in hand, looking at the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s camp under the mountain with a serious look on his face.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army had been camped at the foot of the mountain for two days and had never done a thing which was a bit confusing.

    But General Darandel didn¡¯t dare underestimate them since the army he led now was guarding the most important pass into the past Candra Empire¡¯s northern province. Once it was lost, the Marlow Empire¡¯s controlled Candra Empire northern region would be open to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    With theparison in power between the two, if they couldn¡¯t guard this easy to defend pass against the Lampuri Kingdom and let them enter the ins of the Candra Empire¡¯s north, this would mean that the territory that the Marlow Empire worked so hard to control would be lost.

    However¡­¡­could they defend it?

    General Darandel looked at the sky and revealed a bitter smile.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯sbat Magic Airship could be considered better than the Marlow Empire¡¯s in many aspects. When the two armies fought against each other, the Lampuri Kingdom would always have air supremacy and the Marlow Empire could only be restrained.

    In order tobat this disadvantage in the air, the empire had even discussed restarting the magician corps. They wanted to pull the Great Magicians that they had umted in the empire over the years back to the battlefield, relying on them to deal with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Airships.

    On the surface, this idea wasn¡¯t baseless.

    Although the Magic Airships were powerful, because they were too big, they weren¡¯t that nimble.

    If they used powerful magicians to deal with it, with the current understanding of magic space that magicians had, it wouldn¡¯t be the same as when they first met the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Airships. It would be like they wouldn¡¯t be able to do a thing when encountering the magic space freeze, having no chance to fight back.

    But in reality, the feasibility of this idea was very low.

    First, because of the ?Magicians Peace Convention?, very few Marlow Empire magicians were willing to go against this convention to rejoin the Marlow Empire¡¯s army. It was because they would lose all chances of taking skill evaluations in the future, which would mean losing all chances to work inpanies, research facilities, or taking other simr work opportunities.

    Defending their country was the duty of the Marlow Empire magicians, but no one was willing to lose their future for this.

    Second, even if the magicians were willing, the Marlow Empire wasn¡¯t willing.

    If they recruited the magicians again to join this war with the Lampuri Kingdom, this would be a clear vition of the ?Magicians Peace Convention?. It would be inevitable that the Marlow Empire would be recused by all the countries of the Sines Continent.

    This would only be more disadvantageous with the Marlow Empire¡¯s current situation.

    Unless it was absolutely essential, the Marlow Empire wouldn¡¯t be willing to adopt this approach that was filled with future problems.

    Then again, even if they did do it, at most they would take back some air supremacy. It would be hard topletely suppress the Magic Airship squad of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    As for wanting to rely on this to take advantage and defeat the Lampuri Kingdom, that was basically impossible.

    Otherwise, even if the Marlow Empire was recused by the other countries, they still would have done this.

    After destroying the Candra Empire, if they took care of the Lampuri Kingdom, the Marlow Empire would be the strongest country on the Sines Continent.

    When that timees, whether there was this convention or not, it wouldn¡¯t matter.

    But it was because they didn¡¯t have this confidence that the Marlow Empire couldn¡¯t make this decision.

    In the distant skies, there were several ck spots quickly flying over.

    General Darandel didn¡¯t need to look carefully to know that it should be the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s transport Magic Airships that were bringing in a new batch of supplies.

    The same thing had happened over the past two days, he had already seen it four times. It could be seen that the Lampuri Kingdom were transporting supplies quite frequently.

    But it was when he saw this that General Darandel felt even more doubt in his heart.

    Since the Lampuri Kingdom was willing to use the transport Magic Airships to quickly bring in supplies, shouldn¡¯t that mean that they would be putting up a fierce offense?

    But they had done nothing at the foot of the hill for two days. Just what was going on?

    The situation of the battlefield changed quickly, so doing anything was a race against time.

    Any bit of time was precious, but the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army had wasted two days here. This was simply a giant mistake in judgement.

    Unless¡­¡­they wereing up with some kind of plot.

    Thinking of this, General Darandel put down the telescope in an annoyed manner. He took arge Magic Communicator from his guard and made a call.

    ¡°Hey, Hannitch, how is it on your side?¡±

    ¡°There¡¯s nothing.¡± A calm and stable voice came from the Magic Communicator, ¡°What? Did something happen on your side?¡±

    ¡°It would be good if something happened!¡± General Darandel gave a snort, ¡°These damn Lampuri Kingdom people, they¡¯ve already been at the foot of the hill for two days and they haven¡¯t done anything. Just what are they thinking?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps they are just there to stop you.¡±

    Hannitch who was on the other side was the same as General Darandel. They were both regimentmanders of the Marlow Empire army, bothmanding a regiment and both of them were guarding ces in the former Candra Empire.

    Because the two were quite close and the ces they were guarding weren¡¯t far away, Darandel had frequently contacted Hannitch.

    ¡°What are they blocking me for? The empire isn¡¯t prepared to counter attack yet, unless they n on attacking us.¡± General Darandel muttered, ¡°But looking at them now, that doesn¡¯t seem to be the case.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s clear that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is doing something with the Candra Empire fellows in the south and west. The Lampuri Kingdom is working with them.¡± Hannitch¡¯s voice was quite calm.

    ¡°I really don¡¯t know what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is doing. If they really want to take the territory of the Candra Empire from the mouth of the empire, they could just take it with their guards, why would they need to do all this? This is simply so troublesome.¡± General Darandel¡¯s tone was filled with disdain, ¡°Everyone says that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu is the most brilliant person, but I think that he¡¯s going senile.¡±

    ¡°If you don¡¯t understand something, you should just shut your mouth.¡± Hannitch¡¯s tone finally changed as he reprimanded General Darandel without any courtesy, ¡°The things that someone like chairman Xu considers definitely are things that he has his own thoughts about, but we just can¡¯t understand it right now.¡±

    General Darandel gave a helpless sigh, ¡°Alright, you¡¯ve always been a loyal supporter of Xu Yi, I really shouldn¡¯t have talked about this with you. Speaking of this¡­¡­Hannitch, if you weren¡¯t from the Marlow Empire, you would have already been a part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, right?¡±

    ¡°If you understood chairman Xu, you would feel the same deep admiration as me for him.¡± Hannitch¡¯s tone was very serious, ¡°But that doesn¡¯t mean that I would join the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, this isn¡¯t the time to discuss this with you. The empire wants us to guard these two ces to keep the northern part of the Candra Empire stable. After the empire has digested the region, I believe that they will have further ns. As for right now, let the Lampuri Kingdom and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce y around in the south.¡±

    ¡°Of course I understand this, but just having someone blocking this mountain and not letting us out feels very ufortable.¡± General Darandelined.

    ¡°If you think that you can win, then I¡¯m not against you leading people to fight them.¡± Hannitch said in a cold voice.¡±

    ¡°I¡¯m not crazy.¡± General Darandel grumbled before decisively hanging up.

    That meaningless conversation with Hannitch was just to calm the annoying feeling in General Darandel¡¯s heart.

    Hannitch was already used to him doing this, so the two didn¡¯t talk about much and just simply chatted.

    Seeing General Darandel put down the Magic Communicator, one of the guards came over and gave him a report.

    ¡°General, this is thebat readiness report that just came in.¡±

    General Darandel knitted his brows, but he still took the report with a sigh.

    Although he was already prepared, after reading the report, General Darandel felt his head ache even more.

    Compared to yesterday¡¯s report, thebat readiness of their regiment had actually be worse.

    The report showed that just yesterday, there were two Magic Cannons that had problems. One of them had the firing array expire while the other had problems with the barrel, so it couldn¡¯t fire.

    At the same time, when it came to their stock of Magic Shells, in just a single day, they found that thirteen of them had expired.

    Adding in the thirty seven Magic Rifles that had various problems, the Magic Tank that had its tracks fall off, as well as over a hundred eggs that disappeared from the warehouse for no reason¡­..

    All kinds of problems appeared that annoyed General Darandel and he couldn¡¯t help kicking the tree beside him.

    ¡°Damn! Those fellows at the logistics department are all eating shit!¡±

    A small problem like a hundred eggs missing could be ignored, but when their new weapons broke down each day, General Darandel couldn¡¯t take it.

    His regiment¡¯s military magic machines were already inferior to the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s and with more failures each day each day, if this continued, without needing to fight the Lampuri Kingdom, they wouldn¡¯t be able to hold on.

    Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help cursing those fellows at the Marlow Empire¡¯s logistics department.

    Other than the five regiments that were under the royal family, the logistics department would always provide other regiments with failing armaments or even embezzle supplies.

    The military magic machines that were given to his subordinates, first not talking about how there weren¡¯t enough of them, there were even problems with the quality.

    But he knew that there were times that he couldn¡¯t me the logistics department.

 Book 8: Chapter 112: Shield and lance

    Book 8: Chapter 112: Shield andnce

    For example, the two Magic Cannons that had problems were made by the empire¡¯s second Magic Cannon factory. It was no different from the Magic Cannon that the royal guards were supplied with.

    But the factories of the army headquarters that produced the military magic machines never had stable quality. The quality was always worse than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Magic Cannons and there would be frequent problems, so the people of the army had already gotten used to it.

    There was even a clear difference with the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s independently produced military magic machines.

    General Darandel¡¯s regiment had fought the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army before, they had annihted a small group of Lampuri Kingdom scouts and had seized their military magia machines.

    Just using the normal Magic Rifles as aparison, the Magic Rifles that General Darandel¡¯s regiment was equipped with could only fire eighteen rounds, but the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s rifles could fire twenty four rounds. Although it was only changing the magazine, the firing rate was very different and there was a difference in might.

    When they destroyed the twelve scouts of the Lampuri Kingdom army, General Darandel had paid eight lives.

    It had to be known that he had five times the soldiers in that situation.

    Other than that, when you looked carefully and touched them, you would find that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s rifles were clearly much more refinedpared to the Marlow Empire¡¯s.

    What surprised General Darandel more was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s rifles were clearly made of a special steel alloy. It could withstand the high temperatures of being continuously shot for a minute and could still keep firing.

    If it was the Marlow Empire¡¯s Magic Rifle, with such a high rate of fire, the barrel would show signs of slight deformation that would affect the uracy and might even destroy the rifle.

    In terms of uracy, General Darandel had done a test. He had used the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s rifle and his regiment¡¯s rifle to fire at a target from the same distance.

    The final result was that the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Rifle was 20% more urate than the Marlow Empire¡¯s rifles.

    This was already a veryrge difference when it came to these personal military magic machines.

    After confirming this, General Darandel felt a sense of despair in his heart.

    When did the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s magic machine industry be this refined? It was actually greater than the Marlow Empire¡¯s?

    As a regimentmander on the frontlines, General Darandel¡¯s feelings about this situation was without a doubt deeper than other people¡¯s.

    When facing the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army, it didn¡¯t matter if they had more soldiers.

    With the clear difference in military magic machines between the two sides, once they exchanged fire, General Darandel would always feel like he¡¯s losing.

    So seeing the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s troops holding at the foot of the hill, he became even more anxious.

    With their strength, there was hope of victory even if they attacked his position. Instead holding their position below was clearly the safer approach.

    Thinking of this, General Darandel knitted his brows. He threw thebat readiness report to his guard and walked into the simple barracks behind him.

    ¡°General, is something the matter?¡± The several officers in the barracks saw General Darandel suddenly walk over and they were all surprised.

    ¡°Are there any instructions from above?¡± General Darandel asked in a deep voice.

    The officers looked at each other and shook their heads.

    General Darandel knitted his brows even more. He grabbed the Magic Communicator from the table and directly called the army headquarters.

    After saying a few things, General Darandel angrily pped the table and cut the call.

    The officers beside him were all shocked by this and looked at him with startled looks.

    General Darandel had a dark look on his face as he paced back and forth in the barracks.

    His request just now was that he wanted more supplies given to him to help him defend his position, but the army headquarters gave the excuses of his position being hard to reach, the Lampuri Kingdom not making a move¡­¡­and other excuses to reject him.

    ¡°Damn! Those fellows said all those fine words when they wanted me to head to the frontlines, but now they¡¯re refusing every little thing!¡± General Darandel cursed out. After thinking about it, he took the Magic Communicator and nned on negotiating with the logistics department again.

    However, after pressing it, he found that the Magic Communicator wasn¡¯t reacting at all.

    General Darandel looked down with a surprised look. He saw that there weren¡¯t any problems with the disy light on the Magic Communicator and it was still giving off the dial tone, but it just wasn¡¯t connecting.

    ¡°What is it? Is this thing broken?¡± General Darandel pped the Magic Communicator with a frown.

    The officers came over to look and they didn¡¯t know what was happening, so they could only call for people that were in charge of maintaining the equipment.

    General Darandel waited for a bit and seeing that it wasn¡¯t working, he took out his personal Magic Communicator. He was nning on directly contacting an acquaintance in the logistics department.

    However, when he made his call, he found that there wasn¡¯t a single response like before.

    ¡°What is going on?¡± General Darandel was a bit confused.

    When he looked up to see the camp¡¯s technical staff running over and he was nning on grabbing them to ask, there were a bunch of anxious looking people that ran over from all over the camp.

    After asking them, he found that these fellows had been using the Magic Communicators or were nning on using the Magic Communicators, but they couldn¡¯t connect.

    General Darandel¡¯s face sank.

    This strange situation created a bad premonition in his heart.

    At this time, there were several howling sounds that came from the distance.

    The expressions of General Darandel and the surrounding soldiers all changed as they scattered, nning on finding ces to hide.

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong.¡±

    Explosions kept ringing out as the camp fell into chaos.

    Seeing one of his guards hiding with him, General Darandel kicked his butt and angrily roared, ¡°What are you hiding for? Why haven¡¯t you passed down the order to open the barrier?¡±

    The guard quickly reacted, but before he could go out, there was a blue glow that came from the camp that formed a semicircle, covering their position.

    When the Magic Shells hit this blue barrier, it only created ripples and couldn¡¯t fall on their position like before.

    General Darandel let out a sigh of relief and stood up from his cover.

    When he received the order to guard this pass, the first request that General Darandel made was aplete set of this new Rock Magic Barrier System.

    Although it was stillckingpared to the highest grade Goddess of Protection series, this Marlow Empire independently developed Rock Magic Barrier System could defend against most military magic machines.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom army¡¯s firepower was greater than the Marlow Empire¡¯s, as long as they had enough Magic Crystals, their position would be secure.

    General Darandel could maintain this barrier system for over ten hours with his supply of high concentration Magic Crystals, which meant that he could stop the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s attacks for ten hours straight.

    But even if the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s arms were better than the Marlow Empire¡¯s it was impossible for them to maintain this high intensity attack for ten hours.

    So General Darandel believed that there shouldn¡¯t be a problem with their position for now at least.

    As for the long term¡­¡­that would depend on if the army headquarters could get supplies to them in time.

    ¡°Alright, what are you in a daze for? Quickly get in position and prepare to fire back!¡± General Darandel angrily roared out before starting to give his orders.

    They couldn¡¯t just get hit passively. If they didn¡¯t attack back, with the attacks of the Lampuri Kingdom, even if they had the barrier system, they wouldn¡¯t be safe.

    But when General Darandel was giving orders to his assistants and officers, nning on assigning attack duties, there was a subordinate who was in charge of monitoring magic space that looked up with a look of terror.

    ¡°Gen¡­¡­General¡­¡­There¡¯s¡­¡­There¡¯s a¡­¡­A¡­¡­.¡±

    ¡°What? Speak quickly!¡± General Darandel red at him.

    ¡°There¡¯s¡­¡­an ultra high energy response from¡­ing from the southwest.¡±

    ¡°Ultra high energy response?¡± General Darandel was shocked, ¡°How high?¡±

    ¡°It might¡­¡­It might surpass the limit of the barrier¡­¡­¡±

    ¡°Surpass the limit of the barrier? How is that possible!¡±

    ¡°Right, what kind of joke are you making!¡±

    ¡°How could there be something that exaggerated, it must be a mistake with your surveince system¡­¡­¡±

    The officers all started reprimanding this person.

    General Darandel waved his hand with knitted brows, ¡°Observe carefully and after confirming¡­¡­¡±

    Halfway through, there was a glow that suddenly fell.

    ¡°Hong!¡±

    The glow exploded and swallowed the entire regiment¡¯s headquarters.

    ¡­¡­

    Three kilometers from the Marlow Empire¡¯s mountain position, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s third regimentmander Count Link put down the telescope in his hand before giving a satisfied nod.

    When he saw the carefully arranged defenses of the Marlow Empire at this pass, he decided not to use a forceful assault.

    Now it seemed like the Marlow Empire had been prepared. They had actually put down such arge Magic Barrier System.

    If they attacked normally, they might not be able to win if they shot all the Magic Shells that they had stocked, so their casualties would have also been quite high.

    But now, he just used three of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s developed mid to long range Magic Missile, destroying the Magic Barrier System and revealing the enemy¡¯s position.

    As long as he hit them a bit more, it would be a cinch to take this position.

    Thinking of this, Count Link revealed a spirited look. He took a step forward and loudly gave an order to his regiment through his Magic Communicator.

    ¡°Fire at full force! I want to take care of this before the sun sets today!¡±

    ¡°Hong, hong, hong, hong¡­¡­¡±

    As if in response to Count Link¡¯s order, a series of loud booms suddenly rang out and shook the entire valley.

 Book 8: Chapter 113: Are there Magic Missiles flying around in space?

    Book 8: Chapter 113: Are there Magic Missiles flying around in space?

    The battle between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire had alreadysted four months and the results were shocking.

    Most people thought that while the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s power could be considered in the top three on the continent, it was stillckingpared to the two empires.

    Since the Marlow Empire could defeat the Candra Empire, how couldn¡¯t they take down a Lampuri Kingdom that was even more inferior?

    However, the facts were that the Marlow Empire had been beaten again and again. After fighting for four months, they could only give the territory that they seized from the Candra Empire to the Lampuri Kingdom.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Marlow Empire having arger army, using their numbers advantage to stop the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s assault, the Lampuri Kingdom would have gone even further.

    In this battle, the Lampuri Kingdom had disyed a battle power that had surpassed the Marlow Empire army.

    The key point in this was naturally the military magic machines.

    The Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s military magic machines, in terms of quality, power, uracy, failure rate¡­¡­and other aspects were all clearly much better than the Marlow Empire¡¯s military magic machines.

    With this, when the two armies fought, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s battle power was much greater.

    Other than this, what shocked people the most was that when the Lampuri Kingdom attacked an important pass into the northern part of the Candra Empire guarded by the Marlow Empire, they had demonstrated a new long range Magic Missile.

    This new military magic machine could attack from several hundred kilometers away and it had a very exaggerated uracy, as well as a might that people couldn¡¯t defend against at all.

    ording to thebat report, the Marlow Empire regiment guarding the pass had been equipped with a Rock Magic Barrier System, but they couldn¡¯t resist the attack of the long range Magic Missile. The Magic Missile prated it and destroyed the core of the Rock Magic Barrier System, paralyzing the entire system. Then the exposed position was bombarded by the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s intense firepower before falling.

    Putting everything else aside, just these Magic Missiles that could be fired from several hundred kilometers away and still be this urate had created a deep sense of fear in everyone.

    Thinking about it, even if you sat at home, there could be a Magic Missile that would suddenly fly towards you and you wouldn¡¯t have a way to defend or dodge it. You could only wait for death, which was a terrifying thing.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom had dered immediately that the Lampuri Kingdom had only made initial sess with the Magic Missile research, so they didn¡¯t have that many Magic Missiles stored and they couldn¡¯t be used that easily, there wasn¡¯t anyone who truly believed this.

    The Lampuri Kingdom had dared to use this in actualbat and the effects were this good, so it was clear that they had reached a certain degree with their research. How could it be like they had said, only having reached ¡°initial sess¡±?

    People more easily believed that the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have that many long range Magic Missiles stored.

    If they really had enough, the Lampuri Kingdom would have already bombarded the Marlow Empire¡¯s armies with these long range Magic Missiles. How would they need to face them head on?

    Others believed that with how strong the Magic Missiles were, they must also cost a lot to make.

    Even if the Lampuri Kingdom had enough long range Magic Missiles, they wouldn¡¯t be willing to use them.

    But no matter what, through this battle, the Lampuri Kingdom had announced that they had these long range Magic Missiles and the other countries were put on alert.

    Mangy people even secretly put the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire on the same level.

    The powerful Lampuri Kingdom was already enough to rece the destroyed Candra Empire, bing the otherrge empire on the Sines Continent.

    But this good outlook didn¡¯tst long.

    Two months after the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire had been locked in a stalemate in the northern part of the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire suddenly announced that they had already developed long range Magic Missiles. They also had the same long range Magic Missile technology.

    Everyone was stunned by this.

    The long range Magic Missile sounded like a very advanced piece of technology, so what did the Marlow Empire use to develop it in just two months?

    This was simply too much!

    But the Marlow Empire had destroyed the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s position with three long range Magic Missiles during one of their battles with the Lampuri Kingdom. Thai told everyone that there weren¡¯t any lies at all.

    Then a monthter, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom in the east during a battle with the eastern alliance also fired many long range Magic Missiles. They destroyed the Magic Cannon squad in the back of the alliance¡¯s formation, obtaining arge victory while also announcing that they had developed the long range Magic Missile technology.

    Everyone was stunned by this.

    Was the long range Magic Missile technology really that easy to develop?

    If it really was, didn¡¯t that mean that there would be many long range Magic Missiles that would be flying around the skies of the Sines Continent?

    The new issue of the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? answered everyone¡¯s questions.

    In the featured article in the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, it exined that the long range Magic Missile technology was based on the Magic Rocket technology used to send satellites into space.

    If one looked at it differently, if the Magic Rockets that were used to send satellites into outer space were carrying powerful bombs instead of satellites, wouldn¡¯t they be able to also deliver it a long distance?

    So just with some focused research, any country that had satellite technology would be able to easily develop the long range Magic Missile technology.

    This exnation helped everyone understand this.

    Indeed, just like the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? said, if they looked at it in terms of technology, there wasn¡¯t much difference between the long range Magic Missiles and the Magic Rocket technology.

    Since people had the ability to send satellites into space, then long range Magic Missiles weren¡¯t that strange.

    The only hard part was the ¡°missile¡± part.

    The long range Magic Missiles were called Magic Missiles and not Magic Rockets because these things could hit a target from several hundred kilometers away, hitting their goal without much deviation.

    This wasn¡¯t exined by the ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly?, but they did mention something called precision guidance technology. It was technology that was simr to magic signal detection technology. It was simr to what the satellites used in space to detect the area around it.

    Although they didn¡¯t make it clear, for most countries of the Sines Continent, that was already enough.

    Very soon, after the Lampuri Kingdom, the Marlow Empire, and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, several other countries with good foundations in the magic machine industry announced that they had developed the long range Magic Missiles.

    Many people felt doubtful about this.

    The ?Frestech Magic Machine Weekly? had clearly exined the long range Magic Missile technology, almost as if they were trying to let the countries of the Sines Continent develop the long range Magic Missile technology.

    But this was clearly something that the Lampuri Kingdom had developed first, so it was the biggest advantage the Lampuri Kingdom had over the other countries.

    Now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce did this, didn¡¯t they negate the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s advantage?

    Why would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce do this? Were there any benefits for them?

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to pay attention to these idiots. Freya, have you already prepared everything? The election of the Candra United Federation States is about to begin, are your people ready?¡± King Raymond asked Freya in the Magic Illusion.

    ¡°If you have time to worry about me, how about you worry about how to stop the Marlow Empire from seizing their opportunity to make chaos.¡± Freya rolled her eyes at King Raymond. She thought that this fellow wouldn¡¯t have spoken in this tone with her before, did his attitude suddenly change now that he¡¯s be the king for some time?

    Could it be like how it was with her lord father and aunt Seveni, their attitudes would change and they would no longer act normally?

    ¡°There¡¯s no need to worry about the Marlow Empire.¡± Raymond never thought that his question would make Freya think all these things. He said with a careful smile, ¡°I¡¯ve already arranged the army in the north, they will stop the attacks of the Marlow Empire. Moreover, if the Marlow Empire really dares to do something, our allies in the north definitely won¡¯t give them that chance.¡±

    Freya revealed a faint smile and gave a nod, ¡°The Marlow Empire shouldn¡¯t be that stupid. If nothing unexpected happens, the Candra United Federation States¡¯ elections will be held smoothly.¡±

    After saying this, Freya suddenly asked, ¡°Raymond, do you regret it?¡±

    ¡°Regret?¡± King Raymond was surprised, ¡°Regret what?¡±

    ¡°Regret working with me to form the Candra United Federation States and not convincing me to let your Lampuri Kingdom swallow the Candra Empire.¡±

    King Raymond knitted his brows to think before shaking his head.

    ¡°I don¡¯t. I know that our Lampuri Kingdom doesn¡¯t have the power to swallow the Candra Empire right now. If we do this, we throw ourselves into chaos and won¡¯t be able to quickly improve like we are doing now. Lady mother said that the foundation of any empire requires patience and a long period of time. I¡¯m still young, there¡¯s no need to rush.¡±

    Seeing the sincere look on King Raymond¡¯s face, Freya nodded with a smile, ¡°You make me think of my talk with lord father before.¡±

    ¡°What did uncle Xu say?¡±

    ¡°I asked him since the our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is so strong that even the two empires fear us, why don¡¯t we be an empire ourselves?¡±

    ¡°How did he respond?¡±

    ¡°He said that¡­¡­his life was limited and his time was precious. Building a country and forming an empire took too much time and effort that he didn¡¯t want to waste, so he wasn¡¯t willing.¡±

    King Raymond was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, ¡°Uncle Xu¡¯s world views far surpass ours. He treats the throne as dirt, I can¡¯tpare to him.¡±

    ¡°Nonsense, there¡¯s no man in this world that canpare to him.¡± Freya gave a soft snort before revealing a smile, ¡°But if you change his words, there is another meaning.¡±

    ¡°What?¡±

    ¡°He¡¯s already old and you and I are still young. He doesn¡¯t have the time, but you and I do.¡±

    Raymond¡¯s eyes lit up. He didn¡¯t say a thing as he revealed a faint smile.

 Book 8: Chapter 114: Opening the door to a new world

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 114: Opening the door to a new world</h4>

    ¡°Sir chairman, the spaceship has already passed the stratosphere.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Sir chairman, the spaceship has already crossed the atmosphere and entered space.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Sir chairman, the spaceship has entered orbit and is currently in geosynchronous orbit.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Sir chairman, the spaceship has already docked at the space station. Three astronauts have already entered the space station.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Sir chairman, the spaceship wreckage has been sessfully retrieved and the station on the ground has received contact.¡±

    Hearing his subordinate¡¯s report, Xu Yi gave a nod. He took the Magic Communicator that was specially made to receive signals from outer space.

    ¡°Hey, I¡¯m Xu Yi.¡±

    ¡°Sir chairman, this is the control center of the surface base. We have already contacted the three astronauts in the space station. Based on their response, they have already taken off their space suit and have lived normal lives for twenty four hours. There are temporarily no unusual signs.¡±

    ¡°Very good. What is the situation of the other lifeform experiment?¡±

    ¡°ording to the report, other than the ck rabbit hurting its foot when running away, everything is fine.¡±

    ¡°Did anything special happen to the ck rabbit that hurt its foot?¡±

    ¡°Temporarily not.¡±

    ¡°Very good, keep monitoring them and prepare to report at any time. If anything unusual happens, you have to contact the dragon race for support. If there is anything that you can¡¯t deal with, you can ask them for help.¡±

    ¡°Yes.¡±

    After cutting offmunication with the ground base, Xu Yi looked up at the sky and asked Lucian, ¡°Is everything prepared?¡±

    Even though he had seen Xu Yi many times and had worked together for quite some time, every time he was alone with Xu Yi, Lucian couldn¡¯t help feeling very nervous.

    Hearing this question, Lucian gave a strong nod out of fear that Xu Yi couldn¡¯t see it.

    Xu Yi revealed a smile. He didn¡¯t do anything else as he looked at Lucian before activating the transport array.

    After a while, everything lit up in front of them before they appeared on the Abyss Demon Race¡¯s base left on Alice.

    Compared to the first time that Xu Yi came here, this base had already greatly changed.

    Other than therge pile of equipment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had also built a small residence here for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers to live in.

    Including Akali, the moon base researchers had already lived here for over a year. They only had two days off each month to return to the Sines, the rest of the time, they were focused on studying the transport array on Alice.

    Nine months ago, the magic signal from the magic signal device that Xu Yi sent through the transport array hade back.

    This meant that not only was itplete after being transported, it could even send a magic signal back, which meant that the position wasn¡¯t that far away.

    Because ording to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s research, although they couldn¡¯t urately determine the rate of transfer of the magic signal, it clearly wasn¡¯t past the speed of light.

    Receiving the magic signal after nine months meant that the magic signal device wasn¡¯t over a light year away from Alice.

    Then after Akali¡¯s group of researchers did more research, they had sessfullypleted a transport array imitation experiment six months ago.

    This simtion transport array was based on the foundation of the ruins left by the Abyss Demon Race, it was a copied transport array made by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    Of course,pared to the transport array left by the Abyss Demon Race, the transport array developed by Akali¡¯s team was different. It used the ten thousand years of spatial magic research done on the Sines Continent, along with other ideas that Xu Yi had, so the transportation array was much safer and much easier to control.

    The first experiment was a sess, sending two ck rabbits from Sky Ind to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s main base.

    The second experiment was one that spanned over two continents, transporting elder Lisanya from the Magic Cloud Continent to the Sines Continent.

    In the fourth experiment four months ago, they were able to send someone from the Sines to Alice.

    Following Xu Yi¡¯s request, Cassandra had led two dragon racepatriots to go to the other moon Tildis to build another transfer array, connecting the Sines and the two moons with transportation arrays.

    The focus of their current research was the transport array on Alice that had sent off the magic signal device.

    Xu Yi and Lucian came here today to personally experience this experiment.

    When the two appeared on Alice, it wasn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers that met them, but rather two elves.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, the elder and miss Akali are waiting on the side for you.¡± An elf said.

    Xu Yi nodded and walked over to a transport array that was further away from the base transport array with Lucian.

    Akali, elder Lisanya, along with a group of Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers and a group of elves were waiting for them.

    Seeing Xu Yie over, the two greeted Xu Yi before Akali pped her hands and said, ¡°Since sir chairman is here, let¡¯s not wait any longer. Let¡¯s prepare to begin the experiment.¡±

    After saying this, she turned to elder Lisanya, ¡°Are you prepared on your side?¡±

    Elder Lisanya nodded, ¡°No problem, we can start at any time.¡±

    Hearing elder Lisanya¡¯s words, a male and a female elf from the Azshara Tribe came forward from behind her and went to the center of the transport array.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows and was about to say something to elder Lisanya, but elder Lisanya raised her hand to stop him.

    ¡°No need, chairman Xu. Tracking down the ruins of our ancestors is our tribe¡¯s ten thousand year old dream. Now that we finally have this chance, we won¡¯t let it pass.¡±

    Xu Yi could only shake his head with a bitterugh.

    Although the magic signal from the magic signal device showed that the location of this transport should be safe, this was still an unknown jump with unknown dangers. So Xu Yi had always been against elder Lisanya and the elves putting themselves in danger by letting a living person take this transport array.

    But elder Lisanys was this determined and the Azsharar Tribe elves participating in this experiment took it as their greatest honour, so Xu Yi creally couldn¡¯t stop them. Since he couldn¡¯t convince elder Lisanya otherwise, he could only agree to this.

    It was a good thing that they had already sent some living beings through before and with the Magic Illusion footage that they sent back, there shouldn¡¯t be any problems with these living beings. This meant that this transport array should be safe to take.

    ¡°Alright, sir chairman, if it wasn¡¯t for you stopping us, me and my subordinates would have personally participated in this experiment. How could elder Lisanya and her elves go first?¡± Akali on the sideined, ¡°When ites to scientific research, how could there be no sacrifice at all? We can only wait to receive the benefits of this research.¡±

    Xu Yi knitted his brows as he looked at her, but he found that Akali and the other researchers all looked like they couldn¡¯t wait to get started.

    These fellows, had they been brainwashed by Akali?

    ¡°Forget it, start the experiment.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand, indicating for them to start the experiment.

    All the preparations had been made before Xu Yi arrived. With Xu Yi¡¯s order, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers took their ce and turned on all kinds of instruments, preparing to monitor and collect the data.

    If something happened, they would be able to notice it immediately to warn or correct it.

    Elder Lisanya and the Azshara Tribe elves all focused on the two elves in the center of the transport array with eyes that were filled with excitement and envy.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t understand their fanatical appearance and could only shake his head. He turned to walk over to Akali and watched the various datae in with her.

    As Akali pressed the switch, the precisely regted Magic Crystal¡¯s magic power started to flow into the transport array, starting up the transport array.

    As the blue light became stronger, there was no need to look at the data. Just based on the elemental magic energy around them or even the light that they could see, Xu Yi could tell that there was a strong change happening in the magic space inside of the transport array.

    ¡°Warning! Spatial disruption has already surpassed 5%.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Warning! Spatial disruption has already surpassed 7%.¡±

    ......

    ¡°Warning! Spatial......¡±

    ......

    ¡°Warning! Spatial disruption has already reached 99%!¡±

    When they received this notification, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher in charge of supplying magic power turned to look at Akali.

    Akali turned to look at Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Lisanya and could see that she was looking at the transport array with an excited look, not even looking in his direction. He gave a sigh before giving Akali a nod.

    Akali carefully looked over the data from the transport array before saying in a steady and calm voice, ¡°Continue injecting the magic power and start the transport array.¡±

    The researcher in charge of controlling the magic power took a deep breath and tried hard to calm down their excited feelings.

    If this experiment seeded, that would mean that they would be opening a new world, which naturally had a great significance.

    Thinking of his fingers being able to open a new world, they found it hard to control their feelings no matter what they did.

    But that didn¡¯t affect anything as he lifted his finger to press down on the switch.

    When his finger fell down, there were several rms that rang out.

    But his finger had already fallen down and the magic power transfer light had lit up. When he looked up in a daze, he found that someone had suddenly rushed into the transport array.

    Then the blue light exploded as the space twisted. That person and the two elves that had been in the transport array disappeared at the same time.

 Book 8: Chapter 115: Founding of a nation

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 115: Founding of a nation</h4>

    When the light faded, everyone looked at each other as the area around the transport array fell into a strange silence.

    Xu Yi knitted his brows as he looked around and gave an order.

    ¡°Check right now, how many people are missing?¡±

    Elder Lisanya on the other side also gave the same order.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce group and the Azshara Tribe group checked at the same time before giving the report.

    The Azshara Tribe wasn¡¯t missing anyone, it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce group that was missing a person. It was Lucian who hade with Xu Yi from the Sines.

    ¡°What is that kid doing!¡± Akali angrily roared, ¡°Does he not want to live!¡±

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce researchers had worked with Lucian for many years and because Lucian had a good character, as well as a generous personality, everyone got along well with him. Now that he had suddenly charged into the transport array like this, they couldn¡¯t help being a bit confused.

    Lucian didn¡¯t seem like an impulsive person normally, so why would he do such a bold thing now?

    ¡°Alright, there¡¯s no meaning inining.¡± Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce group from discussing, ¡°Akali, go and find a book.¡±

    ¡°What do you need a book for?¡± Akali was surprised.

    ¡°To write on and send through the transport array.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°As for whether that side can send messages back, we can¡¯t worry about that now.¡±

    Akali understood immediately.

    This was the method of contact that she had discussed with Xu Yi before, but she had forgotten about it after Lucian had suddenly cut in.

    But when Akali was about to call her subordinates to get the book and pen that had been prepared, a Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher suddenly called out in a surprised voice.

    ¡°There¡¯s amunication signal!¡±

    ¡°Communication signal?¡± Everyone looked over at him.

    That researcher looked at the transport array with a shocked look before looking down at the magicmunication equipment he was in charge of. He pointed at the transport array in a daze and said, ¡°It¡¯s a magicmunication signal from there.¡±

    Xu Yi and Akali looked at each other before shouting together, ¡°Connect it immediately!¡±

    Everyone watched that researcher pressed the connect button before Lucian¡¯s excited voice came out.

    ¡°Sir chairman! Manager Akali! I seeded! I seeded!¡±

    Akali knitted her brows and roared, ¡°Seeded with what! Lucian, do you know how dangerous this is? Not only is it dangerous to you, the experiment might have failed and the two elves might have been in danger!¡±

    Perhaps he was scared by Akali¡¯s tone, Lucian was silent for a bit before lowering his voice to say, ¡°I, I just wanted to give it a try. You and sir chairman didn¡¯t agree, so I could only charge in like that.¡±

    Akali¡¯s eyes popped out and she wanted to shout at him a few more times, but Xu Yi raised his hand to stop her before asking, ¡°Lucian, tell me, what is the situation over there?¡±

    ¡°Ah, sir chairman. I¡¯m very good here and the two elf friends are also good. Come, you should greet them too.¡±

    After a while, the slightly hesitate voices of the two elves came from the magicmunication equipment.

    Elder Lisanya said a few things before turning to Xu Yi, ¡°Chairman Xu, facts have proven that this transport array is safe. I¡¯m going over now, you can¡¯t stop me!¡±

    Xu Yi waved his hand, ¡°You can¡¯t say it like that yet. At least right now they aren¡¯t able toe back from that side.¡±

    Elder Lisanya was surprised, but then asked the two elves and Lucian a few more things. She confirmed that although there was a transfer array on that side that was basically the same as the one on Alice, they couldn¡¯t activate it.

    Xu Yi looked at elder Linanya.

    He knew that the two elves elder Lisanya sent from the Azshara Tribe are elites of the tribe and their magic was quite good, but it was only not bad. They hadn¡¯t reached the Great Magician grade, so naturally they weren¡¯t familiar with spatial magic.

    Counting on their and Lucian¡¯s bit of magic power was impossible to activate the transport array, so it was clearly impossible.

    ¡°Akali, activate the transport array and send them some supplies. Include food, water, and all kinds of equipment.¡± Xu Yi said, ¡°Since they¡¯ve gone over, then have them build a small scale research base on that side. If they can copy this side, they might be able to start the transport array from that side and then we¡¯ll see if they cane back.¡±

    Akali was silent for a bit before nodding to agree to Xu Yi¡¯s idea.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, it won¡¯t be enough just with the three of them. How about we send some more people over?¡± Elder Lisanya said.

    Xu Yi shook his head, ¡°Just basic data collection doesn¡¯t need that many people, it needs equipment and time. As long as we keep giving them more supplies and maintain contact with them, we will be able to study this transport array eventually.¡±

    Akali said with a smile, ¡°Rx, since that kid Lucian can send themunication magic signal through the transport array, that means that the transport array is linked from both sides. It¡¯s just that Lucian hasn¡¯t found the way toe back yet.¡±

    After saying this, Akali turned to Xu Yi, ¡°Lucian is the one who understands themunication magicwork the best out of these fellows and will always have strange ideas, he¡¯s given me many ideas before. Him going this time and then opening up themunication line this quickly, it seemed like he was already prepared.¡±

    ¡°I also admire his courage, but I can¡¯t agree with his approach. Investigate it, see if this kid encountered anything that would make him take such a risk.¡±

    Akali gave a shrug and casually agreed, not caring about it that much.

    Although Lucian was an efficient assistant under her, she never interfered in his private life and didn¡¯t think that there was much to this.

    Lucian taking this risk might be because something happened, but the results were good, so it was fine.

    After talking to Lucian for a bit longer, they basically confirmed the situation of the other side.

    Xu Yi, Akali and elder Lisanya discussed this and then Xu Yi decided on their temporary strategy.

    But the situation here could be described with one word, wait.

    It took time to research the transport array and other than waiting, there was no other method.

    ¡°Rx, sir chairman. Based on the situation, I estimate that it¡¯ll take less than a few years for us to make a breakthrough. When Lucian and the others cane back from the other side, if you want to go, I won¡¯t stop you.¡±

    Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile, ¡°I hope so.¡±

    The Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom armies refused to budge in the Candra Empire¡¯s north, but to the south of these frontlines, the territory that had belonged to the Candra Empire underwent a shocking change.

    The provinces that once belonged to the Candra Empire all broke away from their control and dered independence after Wimbledon City fell. When the Lamaske Province, the Merinda Province, and Kalmar Province reorganized themselves into dominions, they other provinces followed them.

    After Wimbledon City fell, out of the thirty seven provinces that had once belonged to the Candra Empire, other than four that fell under the control of the Marlow Empire and three where the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire were fighting for control over, out of the remaining thirty, twenty four of them had restructured their government and had be dominions.

    Adding in the Torea Dominion that had withdrawn from the Candra Empire because of the pressure of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce twenty years ago, in the territory that once belonged to the Candra Empire, which was in the center and south of the Sines Continent, there were manyrge and small dominions that appeared.

    Although these dominions called themselves dominions, they were different in essence.

    Many of them were led by the previous province governors orrge nobles of the provinces. Although the name had changed, they weren¡¯t that different from the provinces of the Candra Empire.

    Then there were others that had to re-elect a dominion national assembly because the government had been destroyed during the worker riots.

    There were also some that were controlled bypanies where the order of the dominion was maintained by thepany guards.

    As well as.......

    Although there were many things, at the very least the dominions were using the same name as if they had already agreed on this.

    The other six that didn¡¯t be dominions had their order maintained by the Rudson Kingdom and Lampuri Kingdom troops after they had been requested by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    What shocked everyone happened after this.

    A year after Wimbledon City fell, an allied army between the Rudson Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom marched to Wimbledon City and took Wimbledon City back from the Marlow Empire.

    Two years after Wimbledon City fell, the leaders of the Candra Empire¡¯s past provinces that were now called dominions gathered in Wimbledon City, joining something called the Candra Federation Assembly.

    Through a month and a half of discussions, the twenty seven province representatives reached an agreement and founded the Candra United Federation States.

    In name, the past Candra Empire provinces that were now named dominions would be under the Candra United Federation States¡¯ name.

    The various dominions would be states under the Candra United Federation States and belong to them, epting the management of the Candra United Federation States.

    But in reality, the dominions and states would be given full autonomy. The Candra United Federation States would be just an alliance of all these dominions and states.

    After some serious discussion and study, the first representative of the Candra United Federation States, called the Candra President was decided. The person that was chosen was the Candra Empire¡¯s third prince, Frank Candra.

    So the Candra Empire fell to the enemy, was destroyed, before finally being reorganized as the Candra United Federation States.

    The head of it was still the Candra Empire¡¯s royal family.

    This made people feel emotional. Nothing in this world was permanent and it was hard to predict changes.

 Book 8: Chapter 116: Bombing refugee camps

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 116: Bombing refugee camps</h4>

    After the formation of the Candra United Federation States, it restored the peace of thend that once belonged to the Candra Empire.

    But for the entire continent, this was still far from true peace and stability.

    In the east of the continent, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom used their developed long range Magic Missiles to bombard the eastern alliance, causing heavy losses for them and advancing their own expansion.

    However, the eastern alliance was made up of several eastern countries, so even if they couldn¡¯t face them head on, with the backing of these eastern countries, they would still be able to hold on. They continued the intense battle with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

    Of course, if they reallypared it, what affected the situation of the Sines Continent the most was the battle between the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire.

    Although the Candra United Federation States had been formed, gathering the Candra Empire¡¯s provinces together again, it was impossible for them to be like the past Candra Empire. They couldn¡¯t reallye together and be a top nation.

    Therefore, on the current Sines Continent, the only real countries with influence were the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom.

    There was no need to talk about the foundation and power of the Marlow Empire.

    The Lampuri Kingdom in the past decades had first seized the Falk Kingdom, then the Sack Kingdom, and then swallowed the Ant Kingdom. Just in terms of territory, they had already reached the same level as the Marlow Empire.

    Then adding in the powerful magic machine industry of the Lampuri Kingdom, as well as the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which allowed their military magic machines to lead all other countries on the continent, their military power wasn¡¯t less than the Marlow Empire.

    In these two years, the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire had fought many times. Although there were victories and losses, the Lampuri Kingdom won more battles. They had already forced the Marlow Empire out of most of the Candra Empire¡¯s past territory.

    But the situation gradually changed over time.

    Although the Lampuri Kingdom swallowed several countries and increased their territory, it would take a long time to actually digest those countries.

    So in terms of foundation, the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t match the Marlow Empire with close to a thousand years of inheritance.

    Take the long range Magic Missiles. The Marlow Empire had developed this technology just two months after the Lampuri Kingdom, so they were able to resist the Lampuri Kingdom again.

    As time passed, the foundation of the Marlow Empire showed itself.

    As the war between the two countries became more intense, the Marlow Empirepletely let go of inhibitions and activated their entire country¡¯s military magic machine industry productive power, producing all kinds of military magic machines.

    In the several years of war with the Candra Empire, the Marlow Empire¡¯s military magic machines had always been at the same level as the Candra Empire¡¯s military magic machines.

    Now that they faced this pressure from the Lampuri Kingdom, the Marlow Empire¡¯s power was fully used and disyed a shocking ability.

    In just a single year, the Marlow Empire¡¯s army went from four thousand Magic Tanks to fifteen thousand and three hundred Magic Airships to two thousand and one hundred.

    As for the Magic Cannons and Magic Firearms, it was impossible to count.

    On the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s side, because it had only been a few years since they annexed the Ant Kingdom, they couldn¡¯t ess all of the Ant Kingdom¡¯s resources. They even had to spend energy and troops suppressing the Ant Kingdom.

    AS for the Sack Kingdom, it had been in turmoil for many yeast, so the Lampuri Kingdom had to spend effort there as well.

    So whenparing it, the only resources that the Lampuri Kingdom could mobilize came from the Lampuri Kingdom itself and most of the upied territory in the Falk Kingdom.

    When it wasn¡¯t full out war yet, these resources were enough for the one hundred and thirty thousand troops of the Lampuri Kingdom.

    But once the Marlow Empire used all their national power,unching an all out war with the Lampuri Kingdom, they were met with problems when it came to supplies.

    If the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t have a perfect magic machine industry and military magic machine technology that surpassed the Marlow Empire, they would have already broken down under the attack of the Marlow Empire.

    The Marlow Empire could make all kinds of military magic machines in just a single year, but the Lampuri Kingdom didn¡¯t even need to try to know that they couldn¡¯t match this kind of consumption.

    So as the war between the two countries progressed, the absolute domination of the Marlow Empire that the Lampuri Kingdom demonstrated slowly disappeared. The situation even turned to the Marlow Empire pushing them back a bit.

    When the Lampuri Kingdom was at its strongest, they had pushed the Marlow Empire out of the territory that once belonged to the Candra Empire and had even stepped on the Marlow Empire¡¯snd.

    But as the Marlow Empireunched their full scale attack, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army couldn¡¯t take a single step forward.

    Then after this, the Lampuri Kingdom started showing problems when the battlefronts increased, they had ack of soldiers, and it took them too long to bring in supplies, so they started showing signs of retreating.

    Two years after the war between the two countries started, the Lampuri Kingdom army showed the first signs of retreating.

    Once they retreated, it was like a dam that broke and they couldn¡¯t keep it up anymore.

    The Lampuri Kingdom army was defeated again and again, being pushed back again and again.

    In just three months, the two northern provinces that once belonged to the Candra Empire were given back.

    The Marlow Empire became stronger and stronger. Relying on the more abundant supplies and military magic machines, they kept advancing forward.

    Based on this trend, the Marlow Empire might seize the Candra Empire¡¯s territory again in a few years. They might even attack the Lampuri Kingdom and they might even be able to seize the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Of course, that was based on the premise that nothing happened.

    Wars were filled with surprises.

    On July 6th of year 4333, it was a very normal day.

    But an ident happened that made this day no longer normal.

    On noon of July 6th, the armies of the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom engaged in fiercebat in the northern Candra Empire.

    This was a normal fight that had happened many times during the past years, but because of a mistake by the Marlow Empire¡¯s Magic Airship squad, this fight was recorded in the history of the Sines Continent.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s third Magic Airship squad had moved to bombard the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s supply base, but because they weren¡¯t familiar with the terrain and because they encountered the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s Magic Airship squad that came as reinforcements, they could only throw out their prepared Magic Bombs in a hurry. They didn¡¯t blow up the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s supply base as intended, but rather they bombed a refugee camp that was a distance away from the battlefield.

    If it was just a normal refugee camp, the Marlow Empire would just be condemned by the other countries of the Sines Continent.

    But this refugee camp was set up by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. There were also three hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards that were stationed at this refugee camp.

    This bombing had not only resulted in five thousand refugee casualties, but many of the workers that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the otherpanies sent had died from these bombings. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards even suffered a hundred casualties from this.

    After this matter happened, the entire Sines Continent was in an uproar.

    Bombing a refugee camp was something that everyone looked down on and condemned, but the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t just bomb a refugee camp, they had even blown up a hundred Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards!

    This was simply provoking the Frestech Chamber of Commerce! It could even be considered dering war!

    In the past twenty years, although the Sines Continent had been filled with war and couldn¡¯t be considered peaceful, every country had a tacit understanding which was, do not provoke the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s past chairman Xu had already made his wishes clear, which was that he didn¡¯t want to manage anything for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore. This also made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s stance clear, which was that they wouldn¡¯t participate in any country¡¯s war.

    In the past twenty years, Xu Yi had always been on the Magic Cloud Continent and didn¡¯t meddle in the Sines Continent¡¯s matters.

    Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce ¡®not meddling in any country¡¯s affairs¡¯ could be debated, their principle of ¡®not interfering in any country¡¯s wars¡¯ had been strictly kept.

    Even if many people suspected that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was secretly supporting the Lampuri Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Kingdom, and the other countries they were close to, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t publicly supported them in the past few years. It wasn¡¯t like thirty years ago where they invaded the Candra Empire with the Rudson Kingdom.

    So even whether they believed it or not, there wasn¡¯t a country that was willing to provoke the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    No country would be dumb enough to provoke a powerful enemy for no reason.

    However......such an event had happened. Would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce insist on their policy from before and not interfere in the war between the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom?

 Book 8: Chapter 117: Peace talks failed

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 117: Peace talks failed</h4>

    ¡°Duke Yodel, Duke Masn, I propose to your two countries on behalf of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to stop this war and sign the ceasefire treaty.¡± The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s foreign affairs department¡¯s chief Feven pushed up the sses on her face and looked at the two people sitting there with serious looks, as she gave the reason for hering here.

    To bring these two dukes from the Lampuri Kingdom and the Marlow Empire in charge of the frontlines together and have them sit down for a talk, even if it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had to spend quite a bit of effort.

    It was fine for the Lampuri Kingdom side. The chairman Freya just had to talk to King Raymond about this.

    But the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t agree to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s request at first. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to go through many contacts and finally went to the Marlow Empire¡¯s finance minister Duke Southgate before the Marlow Empire agreed to meet.

    This meeting was the first meeting between the two frontlinemanders, so it was very significant, but the atmosphere wasn¡¯t good.

    Hearing Feven¡¯s words, the Marlow Empire¡¯s frontlinemander, Duke Masn gave a cold snort, ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants us to reach a truce? What a joke! Why should we listen to you?¡±

    Feven looked at him and wasn¡¯t surprised by his response at all.

    ording to the reports, Duke Masn was one of the representatives of the militaristic faction of the Marlow Empire that endorsed military action.

    To make him agree to a truce was harder than ascending to heaven.

    ¡°Your Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t embarrassed to say that you wouldn¡¯t meddle in the war of other countries? When the Marlow Empire was at a disadvantage, why didn¡¯t I see youe out? Now that we¡¯ve finally reversed the situation, you immediately jumped out to mediate a truce when the Lampuri Kingdom is at a disadvantage?¡±

    Duke Masn¡¯s face was filled with disdain. There was a clear aggression when he looked at Feven, not hiding it at all.

    ¡°Our Lampuri Kingdom is at a disadvantage?¡± Hearing his words, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s frontlinemander, Duke Yodel gave a coldugh, ¡°Don¡¯t think that just because you¡¯ve won a few insignificant battles that you can act this arrogantly. Do you really think that we can¡¯t beat you?¡±

    ¡°Can you?¡± Duke Masn red back at him, ¡°If you don¡¯t ept it, we can go back right now. Do you believe that I won¡¯t beat you until you run away in the mud?¡±

    After saying this, he looked at Feven and gave a coldugh, ¡°Don¡¯t think that now that you have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helping you, you can act arrogantly. Let me tell you, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards are a bunch of rookies that haven¡¯t seen blood in many years, so what if they join the war? I think that the people who say that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are scary are just scaring themselves, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn¡¯t been as strong for a long time, right? Otherwise, they would have directly sent troops to attack our empire like when the previous chairman Xu was in charge. Would there be a need for all this useless gib?¡±

    ¡°Duke Masn, take care of your words. The principle that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce has always followed is peace for everyone and mutual development. When there¡¯s no need, we won¡¯t easily use military force.¡±

    ¡°When there¡¯s no need?¡± Duke Masn gave a grating coldugh, ¡°When the Lampuri Kingdom fellows were about to reach our Marlow Empire¡¯snd, why didn¡¯t I see your Frestech Chamber of Commercee take any action? Now that we have defeated the Lampuri Kingdom, why do you feel there is a need? Hei, having a king as a son really is different......¡±

    Hearing the final words, Feven¡¯s expression greatly changed.

    Duke Yodel flew into a rage and stood up. He pped the table and pointed at Duke Masn as he roared, ¡°Shup up! You are only just a duke, don¡¯t you feel shameless saying such words?¡±

    Duke Masn narrowed his eyes to look at him before giving a coldugh, ¡°What? Are you afraid because I¡¯m right?¡±

    Duke Yodel angrily reached into his chest and took out a Magic Pistol that he pointed at Duke Masn.

    ¡°Immediately take back your words or don¡¯t me me for being impolite!¡±

    Duke Masn wasn¡¯t afraid, he even gave a shrug with a smile on his face.

    ¡°Fire then. See if I¡¯ll blink or not.¡±

    The guards behind the two of them took out their guns and pointed them at each other, causing the atmosphere to be even more tense.

    ¡°Please stop.¡± Feven¡¯s voice rang out.

    In such a tense atmosphere, her voice was very calm, instantly easing the tense atmosphere.

    ¡°The two of you, we¡¯ve invited you here today to discuss peace talks between your two sides, not to continue this war.¡± Feven turned to look at Duke Masn, ¡°Duke Masn, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce choosing this time to mediate a truce, I think you should be clear on the reason. If it wasn¡¯t for your Marlow Empire¡¯s excessive actions, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn¡¯t meddle in the dispute between your countries.¡±

    Duke Masn¡¯s expression froze a bit.

    Of course he understood.

    The reason the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted now was naturally because of the refugee camp incident.

    Whether the Marlow Empire¡¯s Magic Airships made a mistake or not, the fact is that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had lost a hundred guards and some workers, as well as thisrge scale refugee camp. It made the Frestech Chamber of Commerce lose their halo of being able to protect refugees which was like arge p to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s face.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t react at all, that would be strange.

    The Marlow Empire was most worried that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would use this excuse to join the war, allying themselves with the Lampuri Kingdom to fight the Marlow Empire.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce chose to do this, it would be a lot of pressure on the Marlow Empire.

    Although through many years of development, the Marlow Empire¡¯s magic machine industry was close to perfect, even being freed from the influence of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in most ces. It wasn¡¯t like twenty years ago where the two empires together couldn¡¯t resist the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. However, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power was one that people feared and it would be best if they didn¡¯t offend them.

    ¡°Ourpany is worried that if this war continues, with the scale of war between your two countries, there would be more and more simr incidents. Not only would it affect the peace of the entire continent, it would seriously hurt the interests of ourpany. So we seriously proposed this truce to your two sides.¡±

    Duke Masn gave augh. He thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was direct. They are saying that their interests were being hurt, so they requested that theye to a truce.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s interests were not the interests of the Marlow Empire.

    Duke Masn stood up, ¡°Manager Feven, the Marlow Empire definitely will not agree to the truce. If your Frestech Chamber of Commerce wants to ally with the Lampuri Kingdom, please act as you wish. Give your chairman Freya a few words for me. She is not her father, chairman Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce isn¡¯t the same Frestech Chamber of Commerce that the two empires can¡¯t do anything against. She should have some self awareness, that would be for the best.¡±

    After throwing these words down, Duke Masn left.

    Duke Yodel stared in the direction Duke Masn left in for a while before turning to look at Feven.

    ¡°Chief Feven, this......¡±

    He never would have thought that the Marlow Empire¡¯s attitude would be this strong.

    Could it be that they really weren¡¯t worried about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

    But thinking about it, Duke Masn¡¯s words were a bit reasonable.

    It was different from twenty years ago. The magic machine industry in each country of the continent had developed quickly, so the gap between them and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was very small.

    In terms of military magic machines, the powerful countries had put all their efforts into developing them and they cut the gap with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was even possible that there was no gap at all.

    Otherwise, why hadn¡¯t the Frestech Chamber of Commerce acted after all these years?

    Even if there was any military action, it was just bullying those primitives on the Magic Cloud Continent that hadn¡¯t experienced the magic machine industry before. ording to the reports, the battle power that they demonstrated was very normal.

    If this was true, then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s battle power really wasn¡¯t as great as it was in the past.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s current attitude could be understood.

    Duke Yodel¡¯s unstable expression was seen by Feven, so how could she not guess what Duke Yodel was thinking.

    But she didn¡¯t want to exin anything, so she just said to Duke Yodel with a nod, ¡°Rx, ourpany will not give up trying to broker a truce. Duke Yodel, I hope that your Lampuri Kingdom will cooperate with us.¡±

    Duke Yodel revealed a bitter smile.

    Cooperate? How?

    The negotiations between countries were only based on power.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with the Lampuri Kingdom couldn¡¯t suppress the Marlow Empire, it was considered a waste of time no matter how they negotiated.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s power was still a mystery, so not only did Duke Masn have his doubts, even Duke Yodel had his doubts.

    What if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards were already very weak, how could the Lampuri Kingdom depend on them?

    What Duke Yodel doubted even more was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s approach this time.

    If it was the past Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if a hundred of their guards were killed, chairman Xu would have directly dered war on the Marlow Empire without a single word. How could it be like now where they sent people first to waste effort on trying to broker a truce?

    To other people, this was simply a disy of weakness.

    Thinking of this, Duke Yodel couldn¡¯t help fondly remember the previous Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s chairman Xu Yi.

    If it was still Xu Yi who was in charge, no matter how bold Duke Masn was, he would have dared to be this arrogant, right?

 Book 8: Chapter 118: Returning to his hometown? (End of book)

    <h4>Book 8: Chapter 118: Returning to his hometown? (End of book)</h4>

    Duke Masn¡¯s attitude in front of Feven was very strong and it could even be considered arrogant, but he was only a frontlinemander and naturally couldn¡¯t represent the entire Marlow Empire.

    Compared to Duke Masn, the Marlow Empire¡¯s official channel¡¯s stance was more tactful.

    But no matter how tactful they were, the Marlow Empire¡¯s attitude was clear. They definitely wouldn¡¯t agree to the ceasefire treaty that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce proposed.

    Or to put it more urately, they wouldn¡¯t ept the terms the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave.

    For the Marlow Empire, they already had the absolute advantage. As long as they continued like this, they would defeat the Lampuri Kingdom eventually. If they really defeated the Lampuri Kingdom, they would be the only powerful empire on the Sines Continent that would dominate the Sines Continent.

    In this situation, to make them choose surrender was a joke.

    This was the direction that the Marlow Empire wanted to see.

    While they were stalling the peace talk matters with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Marlow Empire never stopped their movements. They strengthened their attacks on the Lampuri Kingdom.

    The Lampuri Kingdom actually had a serious internal strife that appeared at this time.

    In the territory of the Ant Kingdom, the restored Ant Kingdom army suddenly appeared and attacked the Lampuri Kingdom army stationed in the Ant Kingdom.

    Since it had happened so suddenly and there weren¡¯t many Lampuri Kingdom troops stationed in the Ant Kingdom, they had been annihted by the Ant Kingdom army.

    At the same time, in the Sack Kingdom territory, an army that imed to be the Sack Kingdom army started attacking the Lampuri Kingdom.

    Then adding in the Falk Kingdom gueri force that had been epting aid from the Marlow Empire the entire time intensifying their attacks, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s internal situation had be a mess.

    This naturally greatly affected the battle power of the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s frontline army, being defeated again and again by the Marlow Empire army and being chased back. They hadpletely given up all the Candra Empire territory that they had seized from the Marlow Empire.

    If the Marlow Empire took a step further, they would be invading the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯snd. The people of the Sines Continent were filled with doubts at this time.

    What was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing?

    Since they had failed at the first peace talks with the Marlow Empire, half a year had already passed.

    During such a long period, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only been talking about truce and had never taken any substantial action.

    This really made people doubtful.

    Could it be......that what the newspaper said were true? The Frestech Chamber of Commerce really was weak now and didn¡¯t have the courage to enter the war, so they didn¡¯t dere war on the Marlow Empire?

    Very few people were willing to ept this.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been founded for over fifty years and other than being weak in the first few years, in the other forty years, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had always had a strong attitude. While at the same time, they represented iparable power.

    It had to be known that twenty years ago, even the two empires working together couldn¡¯t defeat the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

    But now the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn¡¯t dare meddle in the war between the Marlow Empire and the Lampuri Kingdom?

    If the Marlow Empire really invaded the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s territory and even destroyed the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s invincible image over the past decades would be destroyed.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce that lost their invincible image would lose all their position on the Sines Continent, bing just a normalpany.

    Moreover, if the Marlow Empire destroyed the Lampuri Kingdom and unified the Sines Continent, they wouldn¡¯t give the Frestech Chamber of Commerce any room to survive.

    Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had built a strong foundation on the Magic Cloud Continent, if they had lost the Sine continent, would they still be as strong as before?

    The Marlow Empire might even invade the Magic Cloud Continent after they had built up their power.

    With such an analysis, people found that not just the Lampuri Kingdom, even the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was pushed to the border of life and death.

    If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce watched the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s situation deteriorate, then the consequences could be imagined.

    If they were to take action, did the Frestech Chamber of Commerce have enough power?

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce finally made a move when faced with the doubts of countless people.

    It wasn¡¯t just a single move, it was like a bolt of lightning.

    In April of year 3334, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced that since the Marlow Empire didn¡¯t agree to the peace talks, to preserve the peace of the continent and to avoid more civilians being harmed, they would adopt more intense actions to urge the Marlow Empire to choose peace.

    As for the intense actions......

    In April of year 3334, two Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleets invaded the Marlow Empire¡¯s northern coast. They destroyed three port cities in just half a month and then with two other Frestech Chamber of Commerce fleets, theypletely blockaded the Marlow Empire¡¯s northern coast.

    The Marlow Empire¡¯s northern fleet that fought the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s fleet werepletely destroyed and not a single ship returned.

    At the same time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards with twenty thousand soldiers, three thousand Magic Tanks, and five hundredbat Magic Airships sent out from the ck Rice Wastnd. In just a single week, they pacified the rebellions in the Sack Kingdom and the Ant Kingdom before heading northeast, entering the small Rodin Duchy to enter the Marlow Empire.

    In May of year 3334, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and the Marlow Empire¡¯s west garrison fought a fierce battle.

    In just a single day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards destroyed the Marlow Empire¡¯s defensive lines and approached the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory.

    In June of year 3334.

    The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards had fought the Marlow Empire¡¯s army twenty seven times without a single defeat. They had defeated seventeen Marlow Empire regiments and three royal guard regiments, suffering no more than 10% casualties. They pushed towards Duke Southgate¡¯s territory.

    Duke Southgate immediately announced that he was separating from the Marlow Empire to form the Southgate Duchy.

    At the same time, in the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory captured by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many rebellions by nobles. There were severalrge and small duchies that had been formed.

    On the other side, the Lampuri Kingdom¡¯s army coordinated with thirty thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards, routing the Marlow Empire army again and again. They took back the territory of the Candra Empire from the Marlow Empire army.

    This time, the Lampuri Kingdom and Frestech Chamber of Commerce allied army didn¡¯t stop at the Marlow Empire border. They smashed right into the Marlow Empire¡¯s territory with unstoppable force.

    At the same time, on another battlefield to the distant east, ten thousand Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards along with fifty thousand Levin Continent soldiersnded on the Sines Continent¡¯s east coast. They worked with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom army to quickly defeat the eastern alliance¡¯s army.

    In just a single month, the eastern alliance¡¯s army was destroyed and the alliance was disbanded.

    The eastern countries chose to sign a ?Peace Trade Cooperation Treaty? with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, ending the war thatsted many years on the Sines Continent¡¯s east.

    In February of year 3335, the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, the Drake Kingdom, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, the Candra United Federation States, and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards created an allied army to invade the Marlow Empire.

    Under the pressure of this allied army, Emperor Marlow dered that even if the jade seal was burnt, they would not allow their country to fall to the enemies. He stated that he would resist the allied army with all his nation¡¯s power.

    In April of year 3335, the allied armyunched a great attack on the Marlow Empire, finally defeating the Marlow Empire army who suffered a loss of over one hundred and thirty thousand casualties.

    In the end of April of year 3335, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce used two long range Magic Missiles with Magic Nuclear Warheads of unparalleled might to hit the two military industrial bases in the Marlow Empire¡¯s north. Destroying their final hope of resisting.

    In June of year 3335.

    After negotiations, the allied army finally epted the unconditional surrender of the Marlow Empire.

    In March of year 3336, Emperor Marlow announced his abdication and that the Marlow Empire would restructure themselves. They would change from being an empire to being the Marlow United Federation States, abolishing the monarchy.

    The first president of the Marlow United Federation States would be Duke Southgate.

    With this, the chaos of war that had filled the Sines Continent for twenty years had finally ended.

    ###

    Another twenty years passed in an instant.

    After twenty years of peace on the Sines Continent, the entire Sines had developed in peace for twenty years.

    During these twenty years, the magic technology of this world took another step forward.

    In the civilian field, many magic machines became popr and lives became much morefortable than twenty years ago.

    The biggest change was therge spread of the magicmunicationwork.

    The current magicmunicationwork wasn¡¯t like it was twenty years ago. Just when it came to sound and image transfer, almost anything could be transferred on the magicmunicationwork.

    People could even use the magicmunicationwork at any time to contact anyone else through it.

    With thiswork, all the people of the Sines had be connected, almost bing one entity.

    Another big change was the transformation of transportation.

    The Magic Airships had already spread to the point where many rich families could even buy small Magic Airships for personal use.

    When it came to public transport, although faster cars, Magic Airships, and ships kept appearing, they were no longer the main method of transportation.

    The transport array that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce promoted twenty years ago had already reced all personal andmercial transportation.

    With the transport array, people could even instantly go between the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent, a length of over ten thousand kilometers.

    Because of this new transportation method, many people no longer had a concept of distance.

    Wherever they lived, as long as they wanted to see someone else, they could contact them with the magicmunicationwork and then using the transport arrays, along with a short distance Magic Car, they would be able to get there.

    If it wasn¡¯t for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce restricting personal transport arrays, the rich people might even erect their transport arrays in their home. They could connect it to thework which would make traveling even easier.

    But even so, the rich families could buy small personal Magic Airships, so it was much more convenient than a normal person.

    With such a convenient method of transportation, people felt that the under them had be smaller and they turned their eyes to the endless universe.

    With the lead of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even if transport arrays could let them go to Alice and Tildis, to others, and to even further gxies, the countries still developed their own space industries.

    Because Xu Yi had said that although you could transport between the Sines Continent and the Magic Cloud Continent, you still have to travel a bit by yourself to reach your true destination.

    It was the same in space.

    Even if the transport array could send you to a that had been explored, if you needed to do something in space, the transport array wouldn¡¯t help and you could only do it yourself.

    With the lead of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were already countless outer space bases established aside from the Sines.

    Thetest spaceship could even reach hyperspace velocity because of new breakthroughs with transport magic.

    In thest sessful experiment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s Explore Spaceship had even left the gxy that the Sines was in through hyperspace travel.

    With this sessful experiment, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s magic research facility¡¯s chief Evita had said that the next step was, as long as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could determine gxy coordinates, they would be able to conduct true interster travel.

    No one doubted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and everyone was expectant of the true space age that Xu Yi had talked about before.

    ###

    Xu Yi was standing in the center of the transport array on Alice, feeling a bit nervous.

    It was a bit funny when he talked about it. Even if he was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s former chairman and the person with the most power, the researchers and even many normal people had experienced traveling through the stars before him. This would be his first time.

    Even if it was only once, Still and the others had protested, saying that they didn¡¯t want him to take this risk.

    If it hadn¡¯t been a rare loss of temper from him, he might not even be able to take this trip.

    ¡°Sir chairman, are you prepared?¡± A Frestech Chamber of Commerce staff member nervously asked Xu Yi.

    ¡°Yes, you can begin.¡±

    The staff member nodded with a head already covered in sweat. He pressed the button and activated the transport array.

    The scene in front of Xu Yi dimmed and lit up before he found that the scene in front of him hadn¡¯t changed much.

    There was a voice that sounded beside him that reminded him that he was no longer on Alice.

    ¡°Sir chairman, how is your first time leaving Alice?¡± Lucian asked with a smile.

    Xu Yi looked at him and gave a cold snort, ¡°A kid like you came twenty years earlier than me.¡±

    Lucian broke out inughter.

    As the first person to go through the transport array and arrive on an unknown, he had the qualifications to be proud.

    ¡°Sir chairman, let me go with you after this.¡± Lucian said as he led Xu Yi to another transport array.

    ¡°What is thetest report?¡± Xu Yi asked.

    Lucian¡¯s expression became serious.

    ¡°Based on thetest report yesterday, they¡¯ve discovered life on B339 and the exploration team even saw therge life form.¡±

    Xu Yi ignored the protests of everyone as he insisted on entering the transport array to go to B339 that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce discovered at the beginning of the year. It was because the exploration team had said that they had found traces of life on that.

    Now that he heard Lucian say that they had found arge life form, Xu Yi became excited.

    The Fresteech Chamber of Commerce could travel tos with transport arrays, but those were the ruins left behind by the Abyss Demon Race.

    The exploration was just exploring each one of these transport arrays.

    Since there were signs of life on star B339, it meant that the Abyss Demon Race might have stayed on that and he might finally be able to find the Abyss Demon Race.

    But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already discovered B339 for four months now and hadn¡¯t found a trace of the Abyss Demon Race which was strange to Xu Yi.

    Normally speaking, these transport arrays were left by the Abyss Demon Race, so they wouldn¡¯t miss out on the strange changes, right?

    ¡°Large life forms? What kind ofrge life forms?¡±

    ¡°They sent some blurry images, please take a look.¡± Lucian took out a picture from his pocket for Xu Yi.

    Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help being surprised when he took a look.

    Because there wasn¡¯t a frame of reference, the image wasn¡¯t too clear. But the sharp head and tail, along with the two fins on the side made it look......like a shark.

    There weren¡¯t sharks on the Sines, so this was certainly an alien life form.

    But seeing this familiar appearance, Xu Yi couldn¡¯t help revealing a strange look.

    ¡°What is it?¡± Lucian could see the strange look on Xu Yi¡¯s face and couldn¡¯t help asking this.

    ¡°Nothing.¡± Xu Yi shook his head and stood on the transport array to the next with Lucian.

    After twenty jumps, Xu Yi and Lucian appeared in another transport array, but the space around them had beenpressed.

    Xu Yi looked up to find through the light that came from around them, they werepletely covered in water.

    It seemed like they were at the bottom of the sea.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, you¡¯re here.¡± The first one toe over was elder Lisanya.

    After learning that B339 showed signs of life, she had rushed here immediately and had already been here for over two months.

    Behind her were the Frestech Chamber of Commerce¡¯s researchers who specialized in biology standing there with the assistance of life magic.

    Xu Yi looked up and asked, ¡°It seems like we¡¯re at the bottom of the sea?¡±

    Elder Lisanya shook her head, ¡°That isn¡¯t 100% urate. Although through some analysis, the water above us has the sameposition as sea water, this is an unknown, so we can¡¯t make that conclusion.¡±

    Xu Yi gave a nod of agreement.

    When conducting interster exploration, it wasn¡¯t too much to be careful.

    ¡°Sir chairman, you came right on time. We just tranted some words, you can take a look.¡± Elder Lisanya said.

    ¡°Words?¡± Xu Yi was surprised as he took the paper from elder Lisanya.

    ¡°It was the words that we found on a piece of stone after we arrived. Elder Lisanya said that these words were simr to the writing the Abyss Demon Race used ten thousand years ago, so we tried tranting them.¡± A Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher said from the side.

    ¡°Abyss Demon Race letters?¡± Xu Yi was shocked before quickly reading this paper.

    After looking at it, Xu Yi¡¯s expression became iparably strange.

    There wasn¡¯t anything special about the first part. The Abyss Demon Race just wrote that after several decades of exploration and adventure, they finally found a ce with an environment close to their hometown, a that was suitable for them to settle on. After countless tribtions, they were very happy to arrive in this ce.

    This was very normal, but when Xu Yi saw thest words, he found that it wasn¡¯t normal at all.

    ¡°We don¡¯t know if we can ever return to our hometown, but for people who have gone on self exile like us, since we are here, we should go all out and start a brand new life. We should give ourselves a new name. After the elders discussed it, in order tomemorate our hometown, we will call our race Antis.¡±

    The words that the Abyss Demon Race left behind weren¡¯t this and the letters that elder Lisanya tranted weren¡¯t like this, but the final words were definitely written as ¡°Antis¡±.

    ¡°Chairman Xu, what¡¯s wrong?¡± Seeing the strange expression Xu Yi had, elder Lisanya asked in a curious voice, ¡°Did you notice something from this?¡±

    Xu Yi turned to look at elder Lisanya, ¡°After arriving in this ce, did you go up for a look?¡±

    ¡°Go up? Go up where?¡± Elder Lisanya asked in a confused voice.

    ¡°It¡¯s just up.¡± Xu Yi pointed up. He looked at the very familiar life forms in the water and took a deep breath. He put a magic barrier around himself and with a thought, he disappeared from the transport array.

    Around two minutester, Xu Yi charged out of the water surface with a ssh and then quickly elerated above the transport array, passing through the atmosphere to reach outer space.

    When he arrived at the right position, he stopped and turned to look down at the blue in front of him.

    Seeing this familiar scene, the that he had dreamed about many times, Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile.

    ¡°Are you kidding me?¡±

    He suddenly started to fall towards one of the continents on the below.

    On the east coast of this continent, where two inds were close to each other like the feet that some kind of life form grew.

    Xu Yinded on the bottommost round feet.

    After a while, he appeared out of thin air on a beach.

    There were quite a few people sunbathing on this beach and the sea breeze made things very lively.

    When Xu Yinded on a tree, he didn¡¯t attract anyone¡¯s attention.

    He looked around and quickly came out of the tree to grab someone before asking, ¡°Can you tell me what year it is?¡±

    Xu Yi had spoken in standard Chinese that he hadn¡¯t used in decades now, so he wasn¡¯t fluent anymore.

    This person looked at Xu Yi with a strange look before cursing him with Chinese that had an ent.

    ¡°Insane person!¡±

    He left after saying this.

    After standing there in a daze for a bit, Xu Yi walked to a small beach shop.

    There was a small TV that was broadcasting the news there.

    ¡°On March 4th, the Central Committee¡¯s General Secretary participated in......¡±

    Xu Yi looked at the familiar figure in the TV and then looked at the calendar above the TV that clearly wrote ¡°2016¡± before suddenly revealing a smile.

    ¡°Good......It turned out that not only did I pass through space, I also passed through time. Then right now......Aftering back to my hometown after seventy years, what do I do?¡±

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